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INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



BOND, Rev. THOMAS EMERSON, M. D. Birth, death, 68; 

 career, 68; character, 68. 



Books. (See Literature and Literary Progress in 1872.) 



BOREMAN, ARTHUR I. Senator from West Virginia, 119; 

 offers an amuesty bill, 171-173. 



BORGIA, ALEXANDER. Obituary, 642. 



Boston. Great fire in, 503, 504; peace-jubilee, 504. 



BOUTWELL, GEORGE S. Views on the tariff system and 

 financial affairs, 294, 295. 



BOWRING, SIR JOHN. Birth, death, 68; character and 

 abilities, 68; career, 68, 69; works, 69. 



BRACE, JOHN PIERCE. Birth, death, 69; career, 69; char- 

 acter, 69; works, 69. 



BRADFORD, Captain and Brevet-Major THOMAS C., Ord- 

 nance U. S. A. Obituary, 602. 



BRAGG, THOMAS. Obituary, 604. 



Brazil, 69 ; boundaries, 70 ; area, population, and cap- 

 itals of provinces, 70; character of the population, 

 70; colonies, 70; government, 70; government offi- 

 cers, 70; army, 71; navy, 71; exports and imports, 

 71; exports to the United States for a series of years, 

 71; imports from the United States, 71; amount of 

 coffee exported, 71; cotton, 71; trade with Great 

 Britain, 71 ; port movements, 72 ; expenditures for 

 a series of years, 72 ; sources of revenue, 72 ; ex- 

 penditures for 1871-'72, 72; debt, 72; banks, 72; pub- 

 lic education, 72, 73; educational institutions, 73; li- 

 braries, 73; highways, 73; railways, 73; lines of tele- 

 graph, 73; street-cars, 74; steam communication on 

 rivers, 74; text of the treaty of peace between Brazil 

 and Paraguay, 74, 75; return of the Emperor and 

 Empress, 75; prevalence of fevers, 75; reopening of 

 the Chambers, 75; insurrection near Rio de Janeiro, 

 75; contract for the transportation of northern mails, 

 75; contract for the introduction of immigrants, 75; 

 discovery of coal on the Amazon, 75; result of the 

 general elections, 75, 76; controversy with the Argen- 

 tine Government, 76; geopraph'cal explorations in, 

 339. 



BRENT, ROBERT J. Obituary, 605. 



BREWER, Rev. Josi AH. Obituary, 633. 



BRIGGS, JOSEPH WILLIAM. Obituary, 608. 



British Columbia. A transcontinental railway to, 264. 



British India. (See India.) 



BHITTAN, NATHAN. Obituary, 601. 



BROOKS, JAMES. Representative from New York, 119; 

 offers a resolution relative to the amendments of the 

 Constitution, 125. 



BROUGHTON, Rev. PETER. Obituary, 625. 



BROWN, B. GRATZ. Nominated for the vice-presidency 

 at Cincinnati, 778; ditto at Baltimore, 781. 



BROWN, DAVID PAUL. Birth, death, 76; career, 76; 

 works, 76. 



BROWN, JOHN A. Obituary, 637. 



BROWN, Rev. JOHN H., D. D. Obituary, 607. 



BROWN, JOHN PORTER. Birth, death, 76; career, 76; 

 works, 77. 



BROWN, Rev. THOMAS B. Obituary, 627. 



BROWNE, Rev. SAMUEL J. Obituary, 628. 



BROWNELL, HENRY HOWARD. Birth, death, 77; charac- 

 ter, 77. 



Brunswick. Government, area, population, 77; budget, 

 77; debt, 77; action of the Government in regard to 

 the succession, 77, 79; genealogy of the house of 

 Brunswick, Hanover, and Great Britain, 78; action 

 of the Diet on the succession, 79. 



BUCHANAN, McKEAN. Obituary, 613. 



BUCKINGHAM, WILLIAM A. Senator from Connecticut, 

 119; on political disabilities, 140. 



BULKLEY, ELIPHALET ADAMS. Obituary, 606. 



BULKLEY, HENRY DAGGETT. Birth, <leath, 79 



7!); works, 79. 

 BULWER, WILLIAM HENRY LYTTON EARLE, Baron DAL- 



LING AND. Birth, death, 232; career, 232; works, 232. 

 Burmah. Proceedings of the Lurmah Baptist Miss 



ary Union, 54. 



BURNS, JOHN. Obituary, 606. 

 BURNS, Colonel WILLIAM N. Obituary, 639. 

 BUTTLES, ALBERT BARNES. Obituary, 605. 



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232. 



California. Immigration, 79; area under cultivation, 79; 

 mining, 79; wool-crop, 79; grape-crop, 80; production 

 of wine and brandy, 80; production of wheat, 80; 

 wheat-farms, 80; cultivation of cotton, 80; irrigation, 

 80; means of transportation, 80; railroads, 81 ; earn- 

 ings and expenses of railroads, 81; rates of fare, 81; 

 taxes paid on railroad property, 81; contest about 

 Goat Island, 81; excitement in San Francisco, 81; 

 appointment of a Committee of One Hundred to pro- 

 tect the interests of the city, 82; resolutions adopted, 

 82; agreement between the contending parties, 83; 

 steps by the Committee of One Hundred in favor of 

 completing lines of communication with the Eastern 

 States, 84; connection with St. Louis, 84; Republican 

 Convention, 84; resolutions, 84; Democratic Conven- 

 tion and resolutions, 84; Republican electoral ticket 

 and platform, 84; mass meeting of German citizens, 

 85; resolutions adopted, 85; new proportionment 

 proposed, 85; Insane Asylum, 85; resolutions of the 

 Legislature concerning Indian outrages in Arizona, 

 85, 86; results of the election, 86; statistics of manu- 

 factures, 86; of churches, 86; of libraries, 86; of 

 newspapers, 86; the earthquake in, 267; beet sugar, 

 4, 5 ; irrigation in, 7. 



CAMPBELL, MCLEOD, D. D. Obituary, 641. 



Canada. (See Dominion of Canada.) 



Cape Colony. (Bee Africa.) 



Capital Punishment. Abolition of, in Iowa, 404. 



CARAPA, MICHAEL HENRY. Birth, death, 86; career, 86; 

 compositions, 86. 



CARDOZO, F. L. Secretary of State of South Carolina, 

 734; refuses to affix State seal to certain bonds, 734. 



CARPENTER, MATTHEW H. Senator from Wisconsin, 

 119; offers a resolution on civil-service reform, 125; 

 moves an amendment to the civil rights amendment, 

 165; on the habeas corpus, 210. 



CARRIGAN, ANDREW. Obituary, 628. 



CARTWRIGHT, PETER. Birth, death, 87; condition of 

 affairs in Logan County described in his autobiog- 

 raphy, 87; career, 87; character, 87. 



CASSERLY, EUGENE. Senator from California, 119; 

 the force bill, 175-179; opposes amendment of Appi 

 priation Bill, 184-188. 



CATLIN, GEORGE. Birth, death, 87; early education, 87; 

 career, 88; works, 88; character of his books 

 paintings, 88. 



Census of the United States. (For statistics of, see Unit 

 States, and respective States); recommended to 

 taken every five years, 702. 



Centennial Celebration. (See President's Message, 703.) 



Central America. Republics embraced, 88; meeting of 

 plenipotentiaries to establish the basis of the unic 

 of the Central American states, and their action, 68; 

 stipulations agreed upon, 88-90. 



Central Pacific Railroad. (See California.) 



CHAMBORD, COUNT DE. Riotous demonstrations caused 

 by his arrival in Antwerp, 62; manifesto claiming a 



