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INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



404 ; cumulative system of voting, 404; debt, 404 ; 

 equalized assessment of property, 404; finances, 405 ; 

 amendments of the school law, 405 ; statistics of edu- 

 cation, 406; public institutions, 406; cost, 406; regu- 

 lation of railroad freights, 406 ; suit against the Chi- 

 cago & Alton Company, 406; proceedings, 407 ; views 

 of the Governor on the State policy, 407; statements 

 of the Railroad Commissioners, 407. 



India, British. Area and population, 408; revenue and 

 expenditures, 408 ; imports and exports, 408; native 

 states, 408; area and population, 408; schools, 4C8; 

 total revenue, 409; budget, 409; railroad lines, 409; 

 telegraphs, 409 ; commerce, 409 : prevalence of fam- 

 ine. 409 ; methods of relief, 410; the Duma campaign, 

 410. 



Indiana. Value of taxable property, 410 ; assessment of 

 railroad property, 410; finances, 410; debt, 411; rev- 

 enue, 411; schools, 411; State University, 411 ; public 

 institutions, 411; penitentiaries, 411; House of Ref- 

 uge, 412; savings-banks, 412; railroads, 412; farmers' 

 convention, 412; platform, 413 ; nominations, 413 ; 

 Republican Convention, 413; nominations, 413; plat- 

 form, 414 ; Democratic Convention, 414 ; resolutions, 

 415; nominations, 415; results of the election, 415; 

 new party convention, 415 ; proceedings, 415 ; deci- 

 sion on the constitutionality of the school law sepa- 

 rating white and black children, 415; remarks on the 

 thirteenth and fourteenth amendments, 416. 



INMAN, WILLIAM. Decease of, 656. 



Inflation Bill. Vetoed by President Grant, 199. 



International Congress in Belgium on questions relating 

 to war, 90. 



International Postal Congress. Assemblies, 785; States 

 represented, 785. 



Iowa. Session of the Legislature, 416 ; resolutions re- 

 lating to railroads, 416; the railroad law, 416; its de- 

 tails, 416, 417; appropriations, 417; joint resolutions, 

 417; State Temperance Convention, 417; resolutions, 

 417; Anti-monopoly Party Convention, 418; nomina- 

 tions, 418 ; platform, 418 ; Republican Convention, 

 418; nominations, 418; platform, 419; results of the 

 election, 419. 



ISIDORE, President of the Holy Synod of Russia. Reply 

 to the Protestant House of Bishops in the United 

 States, 381. 



Italy. Reigning family, 419; ministry, 420; Parliament, 

 420; Council of State, 420; budget, 420; total debt, 

 420; education, 420; universities, 420; professors and 

 students, 420; percentage of illiteracy, 421; army and 

 navy, 421; commerce, 421; railroads, 421; questions 

 in Parliament put to the Government, 421; the liberal 

 educational bill, 422; anniversary of Victor Emman- 

 uel's accession, 422; general election, 422; opening a 

 new Parliament, 422; reception of the King, 422; his 

 speech, 422; ofllcers of the Chamber of Deputies, 423; 

 grants to universities, 423; insecurity of life and prop- 

 erty in some parts of the country, 424 ; outrage in Sici- 

 ly, 424; arrests in Italy, 424; donation to Garibaldi, 

 424; assembly of free Christian churches, 424; statis- 

 tics, 425. 



JACK, CHAKLES E. Decease of, 639. 



JACKSON, ABNER. Birth, 425; clergyman and scholar 



425; death, 425. 



JACOBY, L. S. Decease of, 642. 

 JANIN, JULES G. Birth, 425; critic and man of letters, 



425; death, 426; writings, 426. 

 Japan. Present Mikado, 426; his family, 427; ministry, 



427; divisions of the empire, 427; islands, 427; popu- 



lation, 427; treaties, 427; budget, 427; sources of reve- 

 nue, 427; commerce, 427; navigation, 427; army, 428; 

 railroad and telegraph, 428; post-office, 428; expedi- 

 tion against Formosa, 428; proceedings, 428; negotia- 

 tions with China, 428; further proceedings, 429; arti- 

 cles of convention, 430; evacuation of Formosa, 431; 

 schools, 431, missionaries, 431. 



JAUDON, SAMUEL. Decease of, 637. 



JEWELL, MABSHALL. Appointed Postmaster-General, 

 796; biographical sketch of, 796. 



JONES, ALEXANDER. Decease of, 625. 



JONES, J. P. Decease of, 628. 



JONES, JOHN P. Senator from Nevada, 150; letter to the 

 President on his financial views, 301. 



JONES, OWEN. Birth, 432; eminent career as an archi- 

 tect, 432, 433; death, 434. 



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Kansas. Meeting of the Legislature, 434; civil-rights act, 

 434; other measures, 434; destruction by grasshop- 

 pers, 434; State aid afforded, 434; bonded debt, 434; 

 acres of land in organized counties, 435; valuation, 

 435; tax, 485; railroads, 435; school districts, 435; in- 

 sane asylum, 435; Independent Reform Convention, 

 435; nominations, 435; platform, 435; Republican 

 Convention, 436; nominations, 436; platform, 436; 

 results of the election, 437; trouble with the Indians, 

 437. 



Kashgar. Empire in Central Asia, 437; expulsion of the 

 Chinese, 437 ; negotiations with England, 437 ; de- 

 tails, 437; English account of the country and its 

 ruler. 438; exploring expeditions, 438; negotiations 

 with Russia, 438; approach of Chinese armies, 439. 



KASSON, JOHN A. Representative from Iowa, 150; on 

 applying land-sales to educational purposes, 177. 



KAULBACH, WILHELM VON. Birth, 439; eminent career as 

 an historical and allegorical painter, 439; death, 439. 



KELLER, CHARLES M. Decease of, 654. 



Kentucky. Session of the Legislature, 440; proceedings, 

 440; acts passed, 440; further details, 441; the Cen- 

 tral Lunatic Asylum, 441; election for Clerk of Court 

 of Appeals, 441 ; vote, 441; members of Congress, 441. 



KERNAN, FRANCIS. Biographical sketch of, 618. 



KEHNOT, HENRY. Decease of, 656. 



Khokan. Boundaries, 441; reign of the present Khan, 

 441; civil disturbances and revolutions, 442. 



KIMBALL, JOSEPH. Decease of, 661. 



KIRK, EDWARD N. Birth, 443; career, 443; death, 443. 



KITCHEN, Miss BECKY. Decease of, 626. 



KNAPP, JACOB. Birth, 443; career as a revivalist, 443; 

 death, 443. 



KNOWLTON, MILES J. Birth, 444; missionary and author, 

 444; death, 444. 



LABON, GEORGE. Decease of, 659. 



LAIRD, JOHN. Birth, 444; pursuits, 444; death, 444. 



LAMAR, GAZAWAY B. Decease of, 653. 



LANMAN, JOSEPH. Birth, 444; naval career, 444; death, 



444. 



LAUNITZ, ROBEBT E. Decease of, 623. 

 LEDRU-ROLLIN, A. A. Birth, 444; death, 444; career as 



a politician and reformer, 445. 

 LEE, HENRY W. Decease of, 651. 

 LEE, JAMES. Decease of, 639. 

 LINECECUM, GIDEON. decease of, 660. 

 Literature and Literary Progress. Increase in literary 



works, 446; history, 446: biography, 447; poetry, 448; 



