INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



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MACBRIDE, JOHN D. Birth, 445 ; death, 445; pursuits, 

 445. 



Madagascar. Government, 446 ; Constitution, 446 ; meas- 

 ures against foreigners, 446. 



Magnetic Needle, Variations of. Commission appointed 

 under Maine Legislature, 446 ; report, 446 ; details 

 respecting variation, 446. 



Maine. Population, 447 ; real and personal estate, 447 ; 

 manufactures, 447 ; railroads, 447 ; State finances, 

 447; schools and scholars, 447 ; State Eeform School, 

 447; Maine liquor law, 447 ; the death penalty, 448; 

 views of the Governor, 448 ; Democratic Convention, 

 448; nominations, 448; resolutions, 448 ; Convention 

 of Conservative soldiers, 449 ; Republican Conven- 

 tion, 449 ; nominations, 449 ; resolutions, 449 ; Sol- 

 diers and Sailors' Convention, 449 ; election, 449. 



MANLY, BASIL. Birth, 450 ; death, 450 ; pursuits, 450. 



MANN, ABIJAH, Jr. Birth, 450 ; death, 450 ; pursuits, 

 450. 



MARSH, JOHN. Birth, 450 ; death, 450 ; pursuits, 451. 



Maryland. The Legislature, 451; subject of public 

 schools, 451 ; new system, 451 ; funds, 451 ; studies, 

 451 ; school year, 452 ; commissioners, 452 ; trustees, 

 452; Normal School, 452; taxes, 452 ; school fund, 

 452; acts of the Legislature, 452; Sunday law, 452; 

 protest relative to the case of Senator Thomas , 453 ; 

 Freedmen's Bureau, 453 ; letter relative to colored 

 people, 453 ; Republican State Convention, 453 ; reso- 

 lutions, 453, 454 ; its action repudiated, 454 ; a Bolters' 

 Convention, 454 ; Soldiers and Sailors' Convention, 

 454 ; Democratic Convention, 455 ; resolutions, 455 ; 

 nominations, 455 ; election, 455; finances of the State, 

 455 ; assessed value of property, 455 ; property of 

 the State, 455 ; damages by floods, 456. 



Massachusetts. A long Legislative session, 456 ; sale-of- 

 liquor regulation, 426 ; Governor's views, 456 ; act of 

 the Legislature, 456 ; message, 456 ; censure of the 

 Governor, 456 ; proceedings of the committee, 457 ; 

 Temperance Convention, 457; effect of the prohibitory 

 law, 457; State constabulary, 457 ; attempt at repeal, 

 457 ; failure, 457 ; suffrage for women, 457 ; resolu- 

 tions of Federal relations, 458 ; appropriations, 458 ; 

 Hoosac Tunnel, 458 ; railroads, 458 ; institutions of 

 reform and charity, 458 ; schools, 459 ; finances, 459 ; 

 Democratic Convention, 459 ; resolutions, 459 ; resolu- 

 tions of Republican Convention, 460 ; elections, 460. 



MATTISON, HIRAM. Birth, 460 ; death, 460 ; pursuits, 460. 



McCALL, GEORGE A. Birth, 461 ; death, 461 ; military ca- 

 reor, 461. 



McCARDLE. His case in Congress, 192. 



MOCARTHT, DENNIS. Representative from New York, 

 124 ; on the repeal of the cotton tax, 199. 



MCDOWELL, Major-General IRWIN. Takes command of 

 the Fourth Military District, 514 ; removes the State 

 officers, 514. 



McRAE, JOHN J. Birth, 461 ; death, 461 ; pursuits, 461. 



Mecklenburg. Government, 462; area, 462; population, 

 462 ; debt, 462 ; army, 462 ; change of old institutions, 

 462 ; Diet, its action, 462 ; complaints against the new 

 system, 462, emigration, 463. 



Melodeon, TJie Silent. By whom invented, 463 ; its fea- 

 tures, 463 ; its scope, 463. 



MERVINE, WILLIAM. Birth, 463 ; death, 463 ; naval career, 

 463. 



Metals. Rhodium, 464 ; vanadium, 464 ; molybdenum 

 and chromium, 465 ; niobium and tantalum, 466 ; 

 aluminium bronze, 466 ; magnesium, 466 ; effect of 



cold on metals, 466; science of alloys, 467; new mode 

 of toughening and refining gold, 467 ; desilvering lead 

 by zinc, 467 ; reduction of oxide of copper by sugar, 

 467 ; refining copper, 468 ; tinning copper vessels, 468 ; 

 crystallized tin foil, 468 ; the Heaton steel process, 468, 

 469 ; the Siemens-Martin steel process, 470 ; other new 

 steel processes, 470 ; Bessemer process and spectrum 

 analysis, 470; the Ellerhausen wrought -iron pro- 

 cess, 471 ; coating iron with copper, 472 ; purification 

 of iron, 472 ; decarbonizing cast iron, 473 ; alloy of 

 tungsten and iron, 473. 



Meteoric Iron. Description of a specimen, 474; analysis 

 of varieties, 474. 



Meteors. The November shower, 474 ; report of Professor 

 Newton, 474, 475; other reports, 475, 476; report 

 from Dudley Observatory, 476 ; from the National 

 Observatory, 477; from the Greene Spring School, 

 477 ; extraordinary meteor in Brazil, 477 ; explosion 

 of a meteoric body in Kansas, 478. 



Methodists. Annual Conferences and statistics of the 

 Meth. Epis. Church, 478; statistics of principal so- 

 cieties, 478, 479 ; appropriations, 479 ; General Confer- 

 ence, 479; report on lay delegation, 480; Church 

 South, 480 ; Methodist Protestant, 480 ; Wesleyan 

 Connection, 480 ; Free Methodists, 480 ; Evangelical 

 Association, 480 ; statistics, 481 ; African Episcopal, 

 481 ; Zion Church, 481 ; Methodists in Canada, 481 ; 

 Wesleyan Connection in Great Britain, 481 ; British 

 Primitive Methodists, 482 ; United Free Churches, 

 482; New Connection, 482; Bible Christians, 482; 

 Church Methodists, 482. 



Mexico. Area, 483 ; population, 483 j'States in their order, 

 483; surface of the country, 483; rivers and lakes, 

 483 ; geographical formation, 484 ; climate, 484 ; vege- 

 tation, 484 ; races of population, 485 ; aboriginal in- 

 habitants, 485 ; products of the soil, 485 ; mineral re- 

 sources, 485 ; manufactures, 486 ; education, 486 ; 

 insurrections during the past year, 487 ; plot to assas- 

 sinate the President, 487 ; revolutionary movements, 

 487 ; pretensions of Martinez, instructions to him, 

 487 ; his proceedings, 488 ; rebellion in Sinaloa, 488 ; 

 grounds of complaint, 488 ; address of Rivera, 488 ; 

 pronunciamiento, from Sierra Gorda, 489 ; other in- 

 surrections, 488 ; one cause of dissatisfaction, 490 ; 

 Congress, 490 ; judiciary, 490 ; Romero, 490 ; quiet in 

 the summer, 490 ; release of Ortega, 491 ; fate of Pa- 

 toni, 491 ; address of the President to Congress, 491 ; 

 finances, 491 ; treaties, 491. 



Michigan. Receipts and expenditures, 492 ; debt, 492 ; 

 receipts from taxes, 493 ; the domain granted by the 

 Federal Government, 493 ; Republican State Conven- 

 tion, 493 ; resolutions, 493 ; vote on the revised con- 

 stitution, 494 ; do. on biennial sessions, 494 ; do. on the 

 anti-license section, 494 ; Democratic Convention, 

 494; resolutions, 494 ; election results, 495 ; the Legis- 

 lature, 495 ; penitentiary, 496 ; allowance to prisoners, 

 496 ; House of Correction, 496 ; State Reform School, 

 497; Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Asylum, 497; Insane 

 Asylum, 496; wheat crop, 497; salt, 498; gypsum, 

 498 ; Sault St. Marie Canal, 498 ; iron-mining, 498 ; 

 copper-mining, 498; schools, 499; State University, 

 499. 



Military Commissions. Case of Surratt, 499 ; do. of Jef- 

 ferson Davis, 499 ; McArdle case, 499. 



MILMAN, HENRY H. Birth, 499 ; death, 499 ; career, 500. 



Minnesota. Population, 500 ; finances, 501 ; debt, 501 ; 

 war expenditures, 501 ; taxable property, 501 ; school 

 statistics, 501 ; university, 502 ; grant of Congress, 

 502; Historical Society, 502 ; Deaf and Dumb Asylum, 

 502 ; Reform School, 502 ; State Prison, 502 ; soldiers' 



