INDF.X OF CON IF. NTS. 



775 



406; executive order thoroon, 400; Tehoantepec route, 

 499; railroad* and telegraphs, 490. 



Michigan. Election return*, 800; constitutional amond- 

 menU, 500; town, city, and county aid to railroads, 

 600; finances, 501; sources of revenue, 501; Items of 

 disbursement, 501; debt, 508; valuation of properly, 

 509; school statistics, 509; Normal School, 509; snper- 

 i in. 'ml. -iit V report on compulsory education, 503; uni- 

 versity, 503; railroad*, 508; vital statistics, 508; t'nl- 

 ted States census, 509; Institution for Deaf, Dumb, and 

 the Blind, 503; statistics of, for decennial period, 504; 

 causes of, 504; hereditary character, 504; nativity of 

 inmates, 504; salt, 505; lumber, 005; Iron and copper, 

 605; State-prison, 505; Reform School, 505. 



MILLER, WILLIAM ALLKN, M. D., LL. D., P. R. S. Birth, 

 505; death, 505; career, 606. 



JRitnttota. Political affairs, 506; Democratic resolutions, 

 506; tariff question, 506; election returns, 506; meet- 

 Ing and doings of Legislature, 506; liquor law, 506; 

 cooperative associations, 507; Internal-Improvement 

 lands, 507; woman suffrage, 507; finances, 507; agri- 

 cultural progress, 507; statistics, 608; t.mbcr-plant- 

 ing Governor's recommendation, 508; lumber, min- 

 erals, etc., 508; education, 508; school-fund, 508; 

 normal schools and university, 509; charitable Institu- 

 tions, 509; immigration, 509; enrolment of the organ- 

 ized militia, 510; railroads, 510; freight and passenger 

 tariff, 510; views of the people, 510; constitutional 

 amendments, 510; population, 511. 



Mississippi. State government commenced, 511; Gov- 

 ernor's message, 511; action of Legislature, 511; 

 chancery courts, 512; free schools, 512; act to provide 

 for issuing certificates of Indebtedness by State, 512; 

 militia law, 513; exemption law, 513; act in regard to 

 defence of insanitv,in cases of homicide, 513; tax-bill, 

 513; flnanoes, 514; lands sold for delinquent taxes, 

 514; charitable institutions, 514; question of color in, 

 514; railroads, 515; immigration, 515; constitution 

 of "Central Immigration Society," 515; population, 

 616; agricultural products of six counties, 516. 



jflssauri. Political history during 1870, 516; decision of 

 United States Supreme Court on test-oath, 517; Gratz 

 Brown movement, 517; constitutional amendments 

 enfranchising rebels, 517; sectarian appropriations 

 forbidden, 518; Democratic address, 518; Republican 

 Convention, 519; resolutions proposed, 619; split, 

 519; resolutions and nominees of radical wing, 520; 

 eame of "bolters," 520; action of President Grant, 

 520; resolutions of radical county convention, 621; 

 Governor McClurg's letter defining his position, 521; 

 result of election, 521; Brown's address after elec- 

 tion, 521; meeting of Legislature, 522; education, 622; 

 United States census, 522; commerce of St. Louis, 

 522; manufactures in the city, 523; mining interests 

 of the State, 523; railroads, 523; finances, 523; school- 

 fund, 523; penitentiary, 524. 



MltraUleur and GatUng Gun, The. Experiments of Brit- 

 ish War-Office, 524; superiority of Gatllng gnu, 524; 

 construction of, 524; working of, 525; photograph, 625; 

 Fosberry-Montigny mitrallleur, 526; description and 

 working of, 526; photograph, 526. 



MONTALEXBERT, CHARLES FORBES DE TTROW, Count 



de. Birth, 526; death, 526; early career, 596; liberal 

 In politics, 527; writings, 527; letters to Swiss stu- 

 dents on institutions of United States, 527; views on 

 papal Infclltbillty, 528. 



Mont Cents Tunnel. Completion of, 328. 



MORTON, OLIVER P. Senator from Indiana, 117; offers 

 an amendment to Georgia bill, 120; on Georgia bill, 

 120-125; on the bill to admit Georgia, 135-138, 147; 



on the admission of Virginia, 140, 150; on naturalizing 

 Chinese, 195. 



NADAL, Rev. BERNARD H., D. D., LL. D. Birth, SU; 

 death, 698; career, 688. 



NAPOLJEON I1L New- Year's speech, 808; note lo minis- 

 try on senatus consultnm, 809; proclamation con- 

 cerning plebiscite, 819; speech to Corp* Llgielatlf on 

 result of, 818. (See German- Frtnch. War.) 



Navy, Untied State*. General summary, 598; loss of 

 Onelda, 698 ; number of vessel*. 528 : marine corps, 

 629; expenditures, 699; divisions of navigable waters 

 Into crulsing-stations, 630; North Atlantic Station, 

 630; Pacific Station, 530; European Station, 530; de- 

 struction of the pirate Forward, 530; Naval Academy 

 at Annapolis, 531 ; submarine torpedo, 531 ; yacht- 

 race between the Cambria and Danutlcss, 581. 



Nebraska. Population, 531; State capital, 531; Federal 

 census, 531, 632; Immigration, 632; school funds, 639; 

 railroads, 532; election results, 638. 



Netherlandt.\rc& and population, 633; births, 533; 

 deaths, 538, marriages, 533; budget, 634; budget for 

 the colonies, 534; army. 534; marine, 534; imports 

 and exports, 634; railroads and telegraphs, 534; 

 colonial debt, 534; exports from Java and Sumatra, 

 534; measures passed by the Chambers, 534; visit of 

 the King to Amsterdam, 534; opening of the States- 

 General, 535; the King's speech from the throne, 585; 

 rupture of diplomatic relations with Venezuela, 535. 



Nevada. Area, 535; Federal census, 535; minerals, 535; 

 election results, 586. 



New Hampshire. Decrease in population. 535; Federal 

 census, 536; political parties, 536; nominations and 

 resolutions of Democratic Convention, 536; of Re- 

 publican Convention, 536; rupture in Temperance 

 party, 537; resolutions and platform of Temperance 

 party, 537, 538; convention of Labor-Reform party, 

 538; nominations and platform, 539; election results, 

 539; finances, 539; reduction of tax recommended, 

 539; claims against General Government, 539; sus- 

 pension of encampment of militia in May, 540; mili- 

 tia enrolment, 540; tax on foreign insurance compa- 

 nies, 640; sources of revenue, 540; savings-Danks, 

 640; charitable institutions, 540: State Reform School, 

 540; Penitentiary, 641; geological surrey, 541; legis- 

 lation, 541. 



New Jersey. Meeting of Legislature, 541; legislation, 

 641; refused to ratify fifteenth amendment, 541; Chi- 

 nese labor, 541; election for members of Legislature 

 and of Congress, 542; Bergen "Tunnel war," 542; 

 finances, 542; school fund, 542; public schools, 649; 

 public institutions, 342; militia, 642; pilot system, 

 548; Federal census, 543. 



New York. Political complexion of Legislature, 548; re- 

 peal of the ratification of the fifteenth amendment, 

 543; new excise law, 548; provisions of New- York 

 City Charter, 543; rapid transit through New- York 

 City, 544; public instruction, 544; finances of same, 

 644; canals, 544; resolutions concerning management 

 of canals, 545 ; contracting board abolished, 545 ; 

 length of canal, 545; tonnage of canals and railroads 

 compared, 545 ; work on canals, 545 ; Republican Ju- 

 dicial Convention, 545 ; resolutions and nominations, 

 545; Democratic do., 546; do. regular Convention, 

 646 ; do. Republican, 546 ; election, 547 ; funded debt, 

 647; taxable property, 548; insurance companies, 

 548; banks, 548; immigration, 648; census, 649. 



North Carolina. Reported disorders, 549; Governor's 



