INDEX OF CONTENTS 



ABBOT, J. H. Birth, 1; death, 1; career as a scientist, 

 philologist, and teacher, 1 



ABD-EL-KADEB, SIDI-EL-KADJ! ULED MAHADDIX. Birth, 

 1: death, 1; education, 1 ; chosen King, 1 ; conflicts 

 with the French, 2; exile, 2; travels, 2. 



-4Syrinia. Area, 2 ; government, 2 ; Prince Kassa, 2 ; 

 contest with Gobazye, 2; Kassa made Emperor, 3; 

 rebellions, 3 ; Menelek, King of Shoa, 8 ; relations 

 between, and Egypt, 8. 



Acheen. Area, 4; character of the country, 4; popnla- 

 lation, 4; government, 4; difficulties with Holland, 4; 

 proceedings of the government, 5. 



ADALBERT, Prince HEINRICII WOJIELM. Birth, 5; trav- 

 els, 5; writings, 5; marriage, 6; death, 6; career as a 

 Prussian admiral, 0. 



ADAMS. SETH, manufacturer. Obituary of, 587. 



Admiral and Rear- Admiral. The grades abolished, 237. 



Adventlttt Evangelical Adventists, 6; American Evan- 

 gelical Advent Conference, 6; Seventh-Day Advent- 

 Ista, 6 ; meeting of Eleventh General Conference, 6 ; 

 tatUtics, 6 ; Advent Christians, 7 ; belief, 7 ; six- 

 teenth annual meeting, 7; Treasurer's report of the 

 Advent Christian Publication Society, 7; Life and 

 Advent Union, 7; receipt*, 7. 



Africa. Area, 7 ; population, 7 ; religions affairs, 7 ; 

 growth of Egypt, 7 ; Abyssinia, 7 ; treaty between 

 the Engllgh Government and Zanzibar, 8; South Af- 

 rica, 8. 



AOASSIZ. Loins JEAN RCDOLPHE.- Birth, 8 ; death, 8 ; 

 education, 8; scientific works, 8; Professor of Zoolo- 

 gy and Geology at Cambridge, 9; expedition to Bra- 

 zil, 9; Museum of Comparative Zoology, 9; plans for 

 school on Penikese Island, 9; character, 10; publica- 

 tions, 10. 



AOASSIZ, Mrs. ALEXANDER, daughter-in-law of Louis 

 Agassiz. Obitnary of, 588. 



Agriculture. Wheat, 10; Indian-corn, 10; rye, 10; oats, 

 10; barley, 10; buckwheat, 10; potatoes, 10 ; sweet- 

 potatoes, 10; hay, 11; tobacco, 11; cotton, 11; sugar- 

 cane, 11 ; flax. 13 ; beans and peas, 12 ; fruits, 12 ; 

 value of the agricultural interest In the United States, 

 12; experiments In regard to wheat, 12 ; number and 

 value of live-stock, 13 ; forest-culture, 14 ; National 

 Association of Swine-breeders, 14; reports in regard 

 to different American breeds, 14 ; silk-cnltr.re, 15 ; 

 National Congress, 876. 



Alabama. Meeting of the Legislatives, 15; acceptance of 

 the terms of compromise proposed by the Attorney- 

 General. 15; circumstances of the question, 16; pro- 

 ceedings of each House, 16; acts passed, 16; letter of 

 Attorney-General Williams, 16; a case made in court, 

 16; opinions of the judges, 17; acts passed after the 

 union, 17; restraining the county tax. 17; relative to 

 loant to railroads, 18; State finances, 18; schools, 19; 



penitentiary, 19 ; memorial of poor laborers to the 

 President, 19; Colored Labor State Convention, 19; 

 reports of committees, 19. 



ALLEN, A. G., journalist and politician. Obituary of 

 677. 



ALLEN, Hev. JOSEPH, Unitarian clergyman and author. 

 Obituary of, 562. 



AMADEO I. Abdication, 2SS; marriage, 383. 



America. Prosperity of the States of North America, 19; 

 relations of the United States with Spain. 19 ; diffi- 

 culties in Louisiana, 20; organization of " Granges," 

 20; revolutions in Central and South America, 20 ; 

 prepress in Brazil and republics of South America, 

 20; epidemics, 20; extradition treaties with European 

 states, 21. 



AMES, OAKES. Representative from Massachusetts, 137; 

 answer to the report of the Credit Mobilier commit- 

 tee, 222 ; birth, 21 ; death, 21 ; education, 21 ; career 

 as a manufacturer, railroad-builder, and member of 

 Congress, 21. 



Amnesty. General bill relative to, 140. 



ANDREWS, GARNETT. Obituary of, 577. 



Anglican Churches. Number of dioceses, 21 ; population 

 connected with the Church in Ireland, 21; in Austra- 

 lian colonies, 22; Church of England, 22; discussion 

 of the Athanasian Creed in the convocations at Can- 

 terbury, 22; declarations of the convocations of Can- 

 terbury and York, 29; report of Committee on Con- 

 fession, 23; discussion of the rubrics, 23; memorial 

 "against Romish teaching" in, 23; discussion of the 

 subject in the House of Commons, 24; provisions of 

 bill passed by Parliament in relation to a supreme 

 court of judicature, 24; consideration of a bishop for 

 Madagascar, 24; meeting of the Church Congress at 

 Bath, 25; meeting and report? of the Society for the 

 Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, 25: sum- 

 mary of statistics of the Chnrch Missionary Society, 

 26; Chnrch of Ireland, meeting of the General Synod, 

 25 ; amendments to the communion service, 26 ; to 

 the baptismal service. 26; debate on confession, 26; 

 financial affairs, 26; Free Church of England, annual 

 convention of, 26. 



ANSTET, THOMAS CHISHOLM, English jurist. Obitnary 



of, 699. 



APFELMAN. Colonel HIRAM. Obitnary of, 579. 

 Argentine Republic. Extent and boundary of, 26 ; map 

 of, 27; area, 28; population, 28; immigration, 28; Gov- 

 ernment of, 28; army of, 28; public revenue, 28; ex- 

 penditure, 28; condition of commerce, 29; export re- 

 turns, 80; national industries, 30; imposts, 30; pub- 

 lic education, 31 ; advantages of immigration, 31 ; rail- 

 ways, 32; telegraph-lines, 32; mining interests, 32: 

 plans for development of the province of C6rdoba, 32 ; 

 opening of the Argentine Congress, 83 ; improve- 

 ments in Buenos Ayres, 33; presidential election, 83: 

 assassinations and election disturbances, 34; Invaded 



