INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



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71; commerce and shipping, 72; army, 72; action as 

 to Communist refugees, 72; religious troubles, 72; 

 labor-strikes, 72, 73; meeting of Chambers, 73; excite- 

 ment over appointment of M. de Decker as Governor 

 of Limburg, 73; resignation of ministry, 73; appoint- 

 ment of new one, 73; Count de Theux, life of, 73; 

 steamship- line to New York, 74. 



BEMAN, Rev. NATHANIEL. Birth, death, career, 74. 



BENEDEK, Field-Marshal LUDWIG VON. Birth, death, 

 career, 74. 



BENEDICT, GEORGE WYLLYS. Birth, death, 74; career, 



74, 75; professor in University of Vermont, 75; en- 

 gaged in extension of telegraph-lines, 75; editor, 75. 



BENTLEY, RICHARD. Obituary of, 601. 



BENTLEY, ROBERT. Birth, death, career, 75. 



BERG, Rev. JOBEPH FREDERICK. Birth, death, 75; career, 



75, 76. 



BEUST, FRIEDRICH FERDINAND, Count VON. Birth, edu- 

 cation, 76; career as Saxon diplomat, 76; position on 

 Schleswig-Holatein question, 76; Austrian minister, 

 76; Chancellor of the Empire, 77; position on German- 

 French War, 77; policy toward Czechs, 77; resigna- 

 tion, 77; policy toward Germany, 57, 58; speech on 

 foreign policy, 58, 59. 



BIBBINS, WILLIAM B., M. D. Obituary of, 567. 



BINGHAM, JOHN A. Representative from Ohio, 132; offers 

 an amendment to reconstruction bill, 137; on recon- 

 struction, 141; on the test-oath, 143; offers a substi- 

 tute to the bill to enforce the fifteenth amendment, 

 148; on the bill to enforce the fourteenth amendment, 

 149; on the bill to enforce the fifteenth amendment, 

 223. 



BIRD, Rev. MILTON. Obituary of, 581. 



BISMAIICK, Prince VON. Birth, education, 77; chosen to 

 German Diet, 77; early diplomatic career, 77; unfolds 

 his plans to the King, 78; appointed minister, 78; op- 

 posed by deputies, 78; opposes Austrian scheme for 

 representation in German Confederacy, 78; action on 

 Schleswig question, 79; in war of 1866, 79; popularity 

 at home, 79; position on Luxemburg question, 79; 

 in Customs Parliament, 79; difficulties with Liberals, 

 80; illness, 80; career of, in war of 1870, 80; demands 

 Alsace and Lorraine, 80; negotiations with South 

 Germany, 81; created prince, 81; course toward 

 Russia, 81; note to French Government on assassi- 

 nation of German soldiers, 81; speech on Alsatian 

 affairs, 16, 17; dispatch to Austrian Foreign Min- 

 ister, 57. 



BLAIR, FRANK P. Senator from Missouri, 168; on affairs 

 in Southern States, 177-182. 



BLAKE, Commodore GEORGE S., U. S. N. Birth, death, 

 career, 81. 



BOARDMAN, WM. W. Obituary of, 583. 



BOGGS, Rev. GEORGE W. Obituary of, 582. 



Bohemia. Relations in Austrian Empire, 59, 60. 



Bolivia. Government, 81; area, population, 82; army, 

 finances, commerce, 82; railroads, 82; revolution, 

 82; siege of La Paz, 82; defeat of President Melgarejo, 

 82; Morales assumes control, 82; geographical explor- 

 ations, 341 (see p. 18). 



BouET-WiLLAtjMEZ, Count. Obituary of, 600. 



BOITRBAKI, General CHARLES D. S. Career, 364. 



BOWEN, Major NICHOLAS. Obituary of, 579. 



BOYLE, General J. T. Obituary of, 581. 



BRACKENRIDGE, HENRY M. Birth, death, education, 82; 

 appointed judge, literary productions, 83. 



BRAGG, Major HENRY M. Obituary of, 574. 



Brazil. Government, 83; area, population, 83; finances, 

 83, 84; army, 84; slave insurrection in Minas Geraes, 

 84; visitof Emperor and Empress toEurope,84; open- 

 VOL. xi. 50 A 



ing of Chambers, 84; speech from throne, 84; pas- 

 sage of emancipation act, 18, 84; provisions of, 84, 

 85 ; compulsory education, 18. 



BRECKENRIDGE, Rev. ROBERT JEFFERSON. Life, death, 

 85; admitted to bar, 85; becomes preacher, 85; strong 

 Unionist in rebellion, 86. 



BRESTEL, Dr. RUDOLF. Birth, career, 61. 



British America, 336, 337. 



British-American Claims Commission. (See Great Brit- 

 ain.) 



British Columbia. Unites with Dominion of Canada, 267, 

 268 (see p. 337). 



BROOKS, JAMES. Representative from New York, 134; 

 on resolution relative to revenue reform, 134. 



BROWN, Rev. GEORGE. Obituary of, 586. 



BUCHANAN, MCKEAN. Obituary of, 571. 



Buenos Ayres. Commerce and shipping, 26; yellow fever 

 in, 27. 



Bulgarian Church. (See Eastern Churches.) 



BULLOCK, Governor RUFUS. Resigns as Governor of 

 Georgia, 351. 



BULLCS, OSCAR. Obituary of, 586. 



BURDEN, HENRY. Obituary of, 567. 



SURGES, Louis. Obituary of, 574. 



BURGOYNE, General Sir JOHN Fox. Obituary of, 601. 



BURLEIGH, WILLIAM HENRY. Birth, death, 86; literary 

 career, 86; political do., 86. 



BUTLEB, BENJAMIN F. Representative from Massachu- 

 setts, 134; reports a bill relative to reconstruction, 

 134-136; reports a bill relative to an oath of office, 

 142, 143; on committee to investigate Southern affairs, 

 180; on the bill to enforce the fourteenth amendment, 

 202; relative to the bill to enforce the fourteenth 

 amendment, 227. 



BTJXTON, CHARLES. Birth, death, 86; elected to Parlia- 

 ment, 86; author, 86, 87. 



Calendar Stone of the Aztecs, 340. 



California. Area, 87; statistics 'of census of 1870, popula- 

 tion, school attendance, 87; illiteracy, mortality, 87; 

 valuation, 87; agriculture, Indians, 88; finances, 88; 

 new capitol, 88; education, 88; charitable' institution?, 

 88; industry, wine-product, beet-sugar, 88, 89 ; silk-cul- 

 ture, 89; traffic on Pacific Railroad, 89; politics, 89; un- 

 popularity of Governor Haight, 89; Democratic nomi- 

 nations and platform, 90, 91 ; resolutions of Labor par- 

 ty, 91; nominees and platform of Republicans, 91, 92; 

 election returns, 92; Chinese testimony, 92; mobbing 

 Chinese in Los Angeles, 92; action of grand-jury on, 

 92, 93; meeting of Legislature, 93; valedictory of 

 Governor Haight, 93; election of U. S. Senator, 93; 

 legislative acts, 93, 94; revised code, 94; culture of 

 tea, olives, almonds, figs, and pomegranates, 6; 

 earthquakes, 339, 340. 



CAMPBELL, Lieutenant-Governor BENJAMIN. Obituary 

 of, 586. 



Camp Grant massacre, 40; action of grand-jury on, 40, 

 41. 



Canada. (See Dominion of Canada.) 



Cape Colony. Federation scheme, 1; annexation of dia- 

 mond-fields in South Africa to, 2. 



CARPENTER, Dr. Paper on ocean-currents, 334. 



CARPENTER, MATTHEW H. Senator from Wisconsin, 132; 

 on the bill to enforce the fourteenth amendment, 

 211. 



CARRERA, MARTIN. Obituary of, 596. 



CARROLL, Mrs. BRIDGET. Obitniry of, 591. 



CARY, ALICE. Birth, death, 96; literary career, 96, 97. 



