INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



Africa. General qniet, 1; Abyssinia, 1; Christianity in 

 Madagascar, 1; Liberia, 1; diamond-field* of South 

 Africa, 1; government for Cape Colony, 2; French 

 possessions in Algeria, 2; population of the divisions 

 and subdivisions of Africa, 2, 3. 



Agriculture. Crops of 1870, 8; products of the different 

 States in 1869, 4, 5; market-prices of farm products 

 for December, 1870, and January, 1871, 6, 7; crops 

 compared, 8; cotton crop, 8; Western "Plains," 8. 



Alabama. Commercial failures, 9; annexation of Florida, 

 9; State aid to railroads, 9; railroad legislation, 9, 10; 

 extent of railroads, 10; improvements in the Coosa 

 River, 10; Mobile, commerce of, 11; improvements in 

 bay and harbor of, 11; remarkable bill concerning 

 municipal offices thereof, 12; fraud concerning same, 

 12; illiterate members of the Legislature, 13; classifi- 

 cation of Senators, 13; political parties, 13; outrages, 

 14; schools, 14; school funds, 14; misapplication of 

 school moneys, 14; Republican Convention, 15; nom- 

 inations and resolutions, 15; Democratic Convention 

 nominations and resolutions, 15; results of election, 

 15; non-acquiescence by defeated candidates, 16; re- 

 sistance of Governor Smith, 16; United States troops 

 quartered in the capital, 16; resolution in the House 

 concerning the same, 16; message of Governor Lind- 

 say to the House, 17; message of Governor Smith to 

 the Senate, 17; State debt, 17; bonds Issued to rail- 

 roads, 17; charitable Institutions, 17; Federal cen- 

 eus, 18. 



Altace and Lorraine. History of, 18; general government, 

 10; religious sects, 19; population of cities, 19; area 

 and population, 20. 



AMADZTJS, PIUNCE. DUKE op AOSTA. Elected King of 

 Spain, 279, 415. 



America. Area and population of divisions, 20; annexa- 

 tion of San Domingo, 21 ; civil wars, 21 ; peace con- 

 ference between Spain and the South American re- 

 publics, 21. 



AXDERSON, Dr. ALEXANDER. Birth, death, 21; early 

 training, 21; engravings, 21. 



Anglican Churches. Statistical summary of the Protestant 

 Episcopal Church in the United States for 1869-'70, 

 22; table of clergymen, parishes, Sunday-schools, 

 missionary work, etc., 22; Church of England, 22; of 

 Ireland, 28; of Scotland, 23; in the colonies and de- 

 pendencies, 28; missionary and retired bishops, 23; 

 division of the Dioceses of Illinois and Pennsylvania, 

 23; resolution concerning the preaching of doctrines 

 not indorsed by the Church, 28; thirty-fifth annual 

 meeting of Board of Missions, 23; Low Church anni- 

 versaries, 23; increase of number of English bishops, 

 21; lay delegation in England, 84; measures for the 



revision of the Bible, 24; relations between the An- 

 glican and the Greek communions, 24; Free Church 

 of England, 25; disestablished Church of Ireland, 25; 

 Scotch Episcopal Church income, 25; question of dis- 

 establishment in India, 25; the Church in South Af- 

 rica, 26; in Sandwich Islands, 26. 



Argentine Confederation. President of, 26; area and pop- 

 ulation, 26; budget, 27; debt, 27; army, 27; navy, 27; 

 exports and imports, 27; value of exports, 27; agri- 

 cultural colonies, 27; rebellion in Kntre Rioe, 27; 

 Lopez Jordan appointed Governor, 28; capture of 

 Encarnacion by Jordan, 28; defeat of Jordan, 28; new 

 tariff law, 28; reception of Admiral Pctz, the Austrian 

 minister, 28; foreign immigration, 28. 



Arkansas. State lands, 29; homestead law, 29; immigra- 

 tion, 29; statement of finances, 29; school fund, 80 ; 

 State debt, 30; school statistics, 80; charitable and 

 penal institution?, 30; State aid to railroads, 31; rail- 

 road projects, 31; congressional campaign, 31; Dem- 

 ocrfttic resolutions, 31; Republican resolutions, 81; 

 registration, 32; election results, 32; Federal census 

 by counties, 82. 



Army of the United Stateg.Of&cen, 33; mustering out 

 of oflBcers unfit for duty, 88; strength of the army, 83; 

 recruiting, 83; reorganization of departments, 88; 

 West Point cadets, 33; appropriations, 34; debts due 

 from railways, 34; sales of arms and ordnance, 84; 

 sale of arsenals, 84; surveys for internal improve- 

 ments, 34; Indian outrages, 34; report of General 

 Sheridan, 34; letter of Sheridan to Sherman concern- 

 ing public criticism of the Indian war, 85; reply of 

 Sherman, 35; visit of Indian chiefs to Washington, 85; 

 Indian commissioners, 35; national asylum for dis- 

 abled soldiers, 35; number of soldiers from different 

 States, 36; condition of soldiers, 36; statistics, 36* 

 employment of soldiers, 36; workshops. 3C; farms, 86; 

 libraries, 36. 



ASHXTTN, GEOEOE. Birth, 36; death, 36; career, 87; char- 

 acter, 37. 



Asia. Relations of Russia, 87; outrages against foreign 

 residents in China, 87; Japan, 87; revolt of Toorkistan, 

 87; area and population of states and divisions, 88. 



Astronomical Phenomena and Progreu. Temperature 

 and physical condition of the sun, 88 ; sun-spots and 

 magnetic storms, 39; terrestrial temperature and solar 

 spots, 89; relations between the sun's altitude and 

 the chemical intensity of total daylight, 89; table of 

 results of observations according to the son's altitude, 

 40; spectrum, 40; the Kew heliograph, 40; a solar 

 phenomenon accounted for, 41; photograph of a solar 

 prominence, 41; solnr prominences easily seen, 41; 

 pinkish color of the sun, 43; utilizing the sun's heat 



