INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



Abyssinia. Area, 1; population, 1; towns, 1; competi- 

 tors for the throne, 1 ; distinguished European resi- 

 dents, 2 ; English expedition, 2 ; works on, 3 ; Jew- 

 ish inhabitants, 3. 



Afghanistan. Area, 3 ; productions, 3 ; ruler, 3 ; rela- 

 tions with England and Kussia, 3 ; works on, 4. 



Africa. Suez Canal, importance of, 4 ; Egypt, 4 ; Ferdi- 

 nand de Lesseps, 4 ; Abyssinia, 4 ; Madagascar ac- 

 cepts Christianity, 4 ; conflicts between natives, 4 ; 

 peculation, 5. 



Agriculture.-CropB of 1868, 5 ; live-stock in 1869, 5 ; 

 wheat, 6 ; corn, 6 ; rye, 6 ; oats, 6 ; barley, 6 ; buck- 

 wheat, 6 ; potatoes, 6 ; tobacco, 6 ; hay, 6 ; cotton, 6 ; 

 roots, 6 ; fruits, 6 ; hops, 6 ; wool, 6 ; wine, 6 ; flax 

 and hemp, 6; hogs slaughtered, 6 ; crops and their 

 acreage in 1867 and 1868, 7 ; average yield per acre, 7 ; 

 average value, 7 ; farm products in each State in 1868, 

 7; diseases among live-stock, 7; grass as a material 

 for making paper, 8 ; fish and oyster culture, 8 ; 

 sugar-beets, 8 ; silk- worms, 9 ; agricultural colleges, 

 9 ; government lands, 9. 



Alabama. Election of Representatives to Congress, 

 10 ; annexation of Western Florida, contract for, 10 ; 

 immigration convention, 10 ; railroads, 10 ; in- 

 dorsement of railroad bonds, 11 ; penitentiary, 11 ; 

 finances, 11 ; school-lands, 11 ; State Fair, 11 ; meeting 

 of the Legislature, 11 ; Governor's message, 11 ; fif- 

 teenth amendment to Federal Constitution ratified, 

 11 ; bill presented to the Legislature for the reorgani- 

 zation of municipal government of Mobile, 11 ; physi- 

 cal and industrial features, 11; timber region, 12; 

 cotton region, 12; agricultural and manufacturing 

 region, 12; mineral region, 12; stock region, 12; 

 varieties of timber, 12. 



Alaska. Government, 12; game, 12; productions, 13; 

 visit and account of William H. Seward, 13 ; scenery, 

 13 ; forests, 13 ; animals, 13 ; ice, 13 ; coal, 13 ; char- 

 acter of natives, 13 ; visit of General G. H. Thomas, 

 13 ; his account, 13 ; character of Indians, 13 ; mili- 

 tary posts, 14; moral condition of the Aleuts, 14; 

 seals, 14 ; climate, 14 ; vegetables, 14 ; soil, 14 ; tim- 

 ber, 14. 



ALLEN, CHAELES. Birth and death, 14 ; political career, 

 14 ; appointed to the judiciary, 15. 



Alliance, Evangelical. Postponement of time for meet- 

 ing, 15; visit of Dr. Schaff to Europe, 15 ; resolutions 

 adopted by New York meeting, 15. 



ALMONTE, JUAN N. Birth, 15 ; career, 15 ; death, 15. 



America. Scheme for annexation of St. Thomas and St. 

 John, 16 ; San Domingo, 16 ; war in Cuba, 16 ; con- 

 solidation scheme in British North America, 16 ; war 

 in Paraguay, 16 ; civil wars in South America, 16 ; 

 Pacific Railroad, 16 ; trans-Atlantic cables, 16 ; immi* 



gration from Europe, 17 ; census in Mexico and Ar- 

 gentine Republic, 17 ; population, 17. 



Anglican Churches. Statistical summary of the Protes- 

 tant Episcopal Church in the United States, 17; num- 

 ber of clergymen, parishes, etc., in the United States, 

 17 ; statistics of bishops and clergy, 18 ; Board of 

 Missions, 18 ; anniversaries, 18 ; divisions of the 

 Church of England, 18 ; universities, 18 ; Church So- 

 cieties, 18 ; homes, missions, etc., 18 ; disestablish- 

 ment of the Irish Church, the bill and its amend- 

 ments, 19 ; proceedings in Ireland, 19 ; judgment in 

 Mackonochie's case, 20 ; Church Congress at Liv- 

 erpool, 21 ; case of Bishop Colenso, 21 ; Oriental 

 Churches, 21 ; cases of church discipline, 21 ; confer- 

 ences in 1869, 22 ; principles and objects of Low 

 Church, 22; circular in behalf of a revision of the 

 Prayer-Book, 22. 



Argentine Republic. Area and population, 23; provinces 

 and inhabitants, 23 ; imports and exports, 23 ; ad- 

 ministration of Sarmiento, 23 ; immigration, 24 ; tele- 

 graphs, 24 ; finances, 24 ; foreign policy, 24. 



Arkansas. History, 24 ; settlement, 25 ; Little Rock, 25 ; 

 meeting of the General Assembly, 26 ; opposition of 

 citizens to martial law, 26 ; resolutions adopted in 

 Crittenden County, 26 ; restoration of civil authority, 

 26; Legislature sustains action of the Governor in 

 declaring martial law, 26 ; losses sustained by citi- 

 zens on account of martial law, 27 ; Court of Claims 

 to adjudicate demands, 27 ; bill for funding the State 

 debt, 27 ; opposition thereto, 27 ; real-estate bank 

 bonds, 27 ; funding bill passed, 28 ; common schools, 

 28; internal improvements, 28; State aid to railroads, 

 29 ; taxation, 29 ; political excitement, 29 ; rupture 

 in the Republican party, 30 ; resolutions condemning 

 the policy of the State administration and Legisla- 

 ture, 30 ; ratification of the fifteenth amendment, 30. 



Army, United States. Changes in War Department, 30 ; 

 military departments, 30 ; military districts and di- 

 visions, 31; reduction of the army, 31 ; results of the 

 inspection service, 31 ; expenditures of Quartermas- 

 ter's Department, 31 ; Engineer Department, 32 ; 

 proposed modifications of sea-coast forts, 32 ; report 

 of Congressional Committee on ordnance, 33 ; signal 

 service, 33 ; operations of the Freedmen's Bureau, 

 33, 34 ; bounties, 34 ; proposed reorganization of the 

 Military Academy, 34 ; expenditures of the army, 34 ; 

 pensions, 34 ; Western Indians, policy of the Govern- 

 ment toward, 35 ; organization of Indian Bureau, 36 ; 

 appointment of " Friends " as Indian Commission- 

 ers, 36. 



Asia. The Central Asian question, 36 ; changes in Japan, 

 36; Chinese Government and the Burlingame trea- 

 ties, 36 ; commerce, 36. 



