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out the State, 402 ; formation of a third party dis- 

 cussed, 402 ; public opinion on the temperance ques- 

 tion, 402 ; meeting of the Republican State Conven- 

 tion, 402 ; Joshua L. Chamberlain nominated for 

 Governor, 402 ; the resolutions, 402 ; call for a State 

 Temperance Convention, 403 ; meeting of the conven- 

 tion, 403 ; nomination and resolutions, 403 ; Demo- 

 cratic Convention, 403 ; resolutions, 404 ; results of 

 the election, 404 ; improvement in the school system, 

 404; school statistics, 404; sanitary and reformatory 

 institutions, 404; statistics of the insane, 404; in- 

 crease of crime, 404 ; the State Prison, 404; finances, 

 405 ; public debt, 405 ; savings-banks, 405 ; views of. 

 Governor Chamberlain on the enforcement of the 

 liquor laws, 405. 



MARCH, ALDEN. Birth, 405 ; death, 405 ; early educa- 

 tion, 405 ; character, 405 ; pursuits, 405. 



Maryland. Financial condition, 406 ; rapid increase of 

 . crime, 406 ; prison statistics, 406 ; establishment of 

 an asylum for the deaf and dumb, 406; railroads and 

 canals, 406 ; views of the Governor thereon, 406 ; 

 neglect of the Baltimore and Washington road to pay 

 to the State the sums stipulated in its charter, 407 ; 

 reasons given by the directors of the Baltimore and 

 Ohio road, 407 ; progress of the Western Maryland 

 Railroad, 407 ; Baltimore and Potomac Railroad, 407 ; 

 other railroads, 407 ; school statistics, 408 ; oyster- 

 trade, 408 ; production of coal, 408; improvement in 

 the harbor of Baltimore, 408 ; meeting of the State 

 Convention of Colored Republicans, 408 ; resolutions, 

 408 ; resolutions adopted at a mass-meeting of col- 

 ored Republicans, 409; resolutions of the colored 

 Republicans of Frederick County, 409 ; Democratic 

 Convention, 410 ; meeting of the Republican Conven- 

 tion, 410 ; resolutions, 410 ; legislative appropria- 

 tions, 410 ; the election, 410. 



Massachusetts. Meeting of the Legislature, 410; sum- 

 mary of the legislation, 410 ; three important meas- 

 ures, 410; new school law, 410; appropriations for 

 educational purposes, 410 ; the prohibitory law, 411 ; 

 financial condition, 411 ; State debt, 411 ; Treasurer's 

 balance-sheet, 411; revenue receipts, 411; taxable 

 property, 412 ; State Reform School, 412 ; School for 

 Idiotic and Feeble-minded Youths, 412 ; State Alms- 

 houses, 412 ; State Lunatic Hospitals, 412 ; condition 

 of the State Prison, 413 ; State Industrial School for 

 Girls, 413; State Nautical School, 413 ; operations of 

 the State constabulary, 413; report of the State 

 agent at Washington, 413; births, marriages, and 

 deaths, 413; report of the commissioners on cattle- 

 diseases, 414; valuation of property, 414; report of 

 the State Liquor Commission, 414 ; work on the 

 Hoosac Tunnel, 414 ; enfranchisement of Indians, 

 414 ; landing of the French cable, 415 ; meeting of 

 the State Temperance Convention, 415 ; resolutions, 

 415; meetiug of the Democratic Convention, 415; 

 nominations, 415 ; resolutions, 415 ; Republican Con- 

 vention, 415 ; resolutions, 416 ; organization of the 

 Labor Reform party, 416 ; principles of the party, 

 416; election, 417; Legislature for 1870, 417; the 

 Peace Jubilee, 417 ; New England coast visited by a 

 hurricane, 417. 

 MASSIE, Rev. JAMES WILLIAM. Birth, 417 ; death, 417 ; 



career, 417 ; works, 417. 

 MEIGS, CHARLES D. Birth, 417 ; death, 417; career, 418; 



works, 418. 

 MENTSCHIKOPP, Prince ALEXANDER SERCHTWITSCH. 



Birth, 418; death, 418; career, 418. 



Metals. Making lead pipes with a tin lining, 418; re- 

 ducing aluminium from its ores, 418; platinizing 



copper, 419 ; preventing silver waste, 419 ; tinning 

 brass and copper vessels, 419; plating steel, etc., 

 with nickel, 419; alloys of copper and tin, 419; alloy 

 of iron and zinc, 420; fusibility and volatility of 

 metals, 420; bronze manufacture, 420; Whitworth 

 metal, 421 ; casting steel under pressure by use of 

 gunpowder, 421 ; the Ellerhausen process, 421 ; tho 

 Sieman's-Martin process, 422; Berard's process, 422; 

 Ponsard & Boyneval's process, 422 ; the Heaton pro- 

 cess, 423; Krupp's Bessemer rails, 424; Tungsten 

 Bessemer steel, 424; durability of steel rails, 424; 

 tests of steel and iron car- wheels, 424 ; chromium 

 and titanium in pig-iron, 425; malleable cast-iron, 

 425 ; special method of blooming, 426 ; smelting, 

 carburizing, and purifying iron, 426 ; iron analysis, 

 426 ; how to determine the carbon chemically com- 

 bined with iron, 427 ; chemical nature of cast-iron, 

 427. 



Meteors. Appearance of a brilliant meteor from the prin- 

 cipal points along the Atlantic coast, 428 ; observa- 

 tions of Prof. Loomis, 428 ; description of the appear- 

 ance of the meteor, 428 ; shower of meteors expected 

 in November, 428 ; account of Commander Gibson of 

 the meteoric display in Florida, 428 ; summary of ob- 

 servations of the November meteors on the continent 

 of Europe, 429; Dr. Smith's account of masses of 

 meteoric iron lately discovered in Mexico, 429; ex- 

 amination of the Wisconsin meteorites by Dr. Smith, 

 430 ; accounts of the meteoric stone that fell in Ala- 

 bama, 430 ; analysis of the same, 431 ; remarkable 

 meteorite in Western Ohio, 431 ; Prof. Smith's account 

 of the same, 431. 



Methodists. Statistics of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 

 432; correspondence between the bishops of the 

 church, North and South, in reference to a reunion, 

 432 ; proposition of the Northern bishops, 432 ; posi- 

 tion of the Northern Church, 432 ; reply of the South- 

 ern bishops, 433 ; proposed reunion of the Methodist 

 Episcopal Church and the African Methodist Episco- 

 pal Zion Church, 433 ; vote of the laity and clergy on 

 lay representation, 434 ; fiftieth anniversary of the 

 parent Missionary Society, 434 ; history of the same, 

 434; purchase of a building for the use of the Book 

 Concern, 434; the Church Extension Society, 424; 

 theological institutes, 435 ; organization of the Board 

 of Education. 435 ; annual meeting of the Tract Soci- 

 ety, 435 ; anniversary of the Sunday-school Union, 435 ; 

 investigation into the management of the Book Con- 

 cern, 435; report of the committee, 435; other Meth- 

 odist bodies in the United States, 436 ; Evangelical As- 

 sociation, 436 ; Methodist Episcopal Church in Cana- 

 da, 436; Wesleyan Methodists in Canada, 436; Wes- 

 leyan Methodist Connection of Great Britain, 436; 

 Methodist New Connection, 437; United Methodist 

 Free Churches, 437 ; Primitive Methodists, 437 ; Bible 

 Christians, 437. 



Mexico. President, Benito Juarez, his career, 437 ; area, 

 437; population of the different States, 437; schools, 

 437 ; population of principal cities, 437 ; budget, 437 ; 

 commerce and shipping, 437; telegraphs, 437; ses- 

 sion of Congress, 437; trial of distinguished officials, 

 437 ; passage of railroad bills, 438 ; recognition of 

 Cuban belligerency, 438 ; policy of the Government, 

 438 ; address of President Juarez to the Mexican Con- 

 gress, 438; reply of the President of the Congress, 

 448 ; claims of citizens of the United States against 

 the Mexican Government, 439 ; treaty with Prussia, 

 440; friendly note of the Prussian charge d'affaires to 

 the Mexican Minister of Foreign Relations, 440 ; reply 

 of the Mexican minister, 440 ; meeting of the fifth 



