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political campaign, 521; Democratic Convention, 521 ; 

 nominations, 521 ; resolutions, 521 ; Republican Con- 

 vention, 522; nominations, 522; resolutions, 522; re- 

 sults of the election, 522; congressional elections, 522; 

 women chosen as school committee in Boston, 523 ; 

 opposition to their admission, 523; Williamsburg 

 flood disaster, 623; State debt, 524; finances, 624; 

 completion of the Hoosac Tunnel, 524; receipts of 

 railroads, 525; number of insane persons, 525; chari- 

 table institutions, 525; Fish Commissioners, 525; 

 insurance companies, 525; savings-banks, 525; rail- 

 road corporations, 525; school-children, 526. 



MAT, Mrs. LEWIS. Deceased, 658. 



MELLISH, DAVID B. Decease of, 636. 



MENDELHALL, GEORGE. Decease of, 638. 



Mennonites. Board of Guardians, 526 ; its object, 526 ; 

 passages from Europe furnished, 527 ; places of set- 

 tlement by immigrants, 527. 



MEBIVALE, HEEMAN. Birth, 527; public career, 527; 

 death, 527. 



MEKBIMON, AUGUST S. Senator fromNorth Carolina, 150; 

 on the Louisiana bill, 238. 



Metals. Mechanical puddling, 527 ; effects of cold on iron 

 and steel, 528; silicon in pig-iron, 528; extraction of 

 iron from pyrites refuse, 529; strength of iron in- 

 creased by strain, 529; restoration of burned steel, 

 529 ; preservation of iron, 530 ; spongy iron as a water- 

 purifier, 530; unpressed tin-dressing machinery, 531 ; 

 nickel and cobalt ores, 531 ; precipitation of copper 

 with tin-scrap, 531 ; new method of welding copper, 

 532 ; purification of lead by steam, 532 ; assay of lead, 

 533 ; quicksilver, 533 ; origin of gold nuggets, 533 ; 

 gold assays, 534 ; alloys, 534 ; ornamentation of met- 

 als, 335. 



Methodists. Statistics of Methodists in the world, 536; 

 Episcopal Church statistics, 536; German Churches, 

 537; missions, 537 ; Freedmen's Aid Society, 538; 

 Episcopal Church South, 539; statistics, 539; institu- 

 tions, 539; missions, 540; General Conference, 540; 

 report of the Colored Church, 540; fraternal relations 

 with other bodies, 540; responses, 541; the Northern 

 Church, 541; reply to its communication, 541 ; reso- 

 lutions, 542; veto power of bishops, 543; Colored 

 Methodist Episcopal, 543; statistics, 543; Conference, 

 543 ; Methodist Protestant statistics, 543 ; General 

 Conference, 543; proposals for reunion, 544; Primi- 

 tive Methodists, 544; Western Conference, 544; East- 

 ern Conference, 544; Free Methodists, 545; Wesleyan 

 Methodists, 545; Conference, 545; proceedings, 545; 

 Methodist New Convention in Canada, 546; settle- 

 ment of differences, 546; Methodist Church of Can- 

 ada, 547; Conference, 547; Missionary Society, 547; 

 Methodist Episcopal Church in Canada, 548; Confer- 

 ence,548; Primitive Methodists in Canada, 548; Bible 

 Christian Church, 548; Wesleyan Methodist Conven- 

 tion, 548; Irish Wesleyan Conference, 549; Confer- 

 ence, 549; Methodist New Convention, 550; Primi- 

 tive Methodist Convention, 550; United Methodist 

 Free Churches, 550; Wesleyan Reform, 551; Bible 

 Christians, 551. 



Mexico. Boundaries, 551 ; divisions, 551; population, 551 ; 

 government, 551 ; finances, 552; public debt, 552; coin- 

 age, 552; product of mines, 552; silver mines of Sina- 

 loa, 553; Lower California, 553; articles of export, 

 553; agricultural products, 553; total exports, 553; 

 relative imports, 554; exports from Yucatan, 554; 

 shipping movement, 554; railways,.554; railway con- 

 tracts, 554; army, 555; public instruction, 555; Presi- 

 dent's message to Congress, 555; murder of the mis- 

 sionary Stephens, 556. 



MICHELET, JULES. Birth, 556; literary career, 556; writ- 

 ings, 556; death, 556. 



Michigan. Election, 557; State officers and Congress- 

 men, 557; vote on the amended constitution, 557; 

 Republican Convention and platform, 557 ; Demo- 

 cratic Convention and platform, 558; National Re- 

 form Convention and platform, 559; school statistics, 

 559; results of the State census, 560; copper-mining, 

 560; railroads, 560; fisheries, 560; salt, 660; lumber, 

 560; Land-office Commissioner, 560; statistics of the 

 State-prison, 561; inmates in Reform School, 562; 

 charitable, penal, pauper, and reformatory institu- 

 tions, 562; statistics, 562, 563; fiscal operations of the 

 State Treasury, 563. 



MILLEB, HENKY. Decease of, 625. 



MILLIGAN, SAMUEL. Decease of, 632. 



MILLS, Mrs. C. R. Decease of, 624. 



MILLSON, JOHN S. Decease of, 626. 



Minnesota. Legislation, 564; act creating a Board of 

 Railroad Commissioners, 564 ; powers and duties, 

 564; political campaign, 564; Republican Convention 

 and platform, 564; Democratic Convention and plat- 

 form, 564; results of election, 564; action relative to 

 the Commissioner of the Land-Office, 565; report of 

 committee, 565; State finances, 565; illegal bonds, 

 565; new tax law, 566; water-power, 566; pine-forests, 

 566; railroads, 567; differences with Wisconsin, 567, 

 568. 



Mississippi. Condition of affairs, 568; serious conflict at 

 Vicksburg between blacks and whites, 568; state- 

 ment of citizens, 568 ; proclamation of Governor 

 Ames, 569; address from the tax-payers of Warren 

 County, 569; extracts, 569, 570; Governor Ames's 

 statement, 570; proclamation against rioters in War- 

 ren County, 571 ; proclamations of the Mayor of 

 Vicksburg, 571 ; extra session of the Legislature 

 called by the Governor, 571; the Governor's mes- 

 sage, 672; reports of majority and minority of the 

 committee, 572; address by Conservative members, 

 573; congressional investigation, 574; finances, 574; 

 funding bill, 574; Equalization Board, 574; its duties, 

 574; State debt, 574; railroads in the State, 575. 



Missouri. Special session of the Legislature, 575; acts 

 passed, 575; punishment of bribery at elections, 576; 

 lawlessness in certain districts of the State, 576; 

 State debt, 576; State Grange Convention, 576; reso- 

 lutions, 577 ; Democratic Convention and nomina- 

 tions, 577; platform, 577; Reform or People's Party 

 Convention and platform, 578; nominations, 578; re- 

 sults of the election, 579; sketch of Governor Hardin, 

 579; details of the St. Louis bridge, 579. 



Montana,. A Territory, 580; tribal Indians, 580; numbers, 

 580; mining industry, 580; gold product, 581; princi- 

 pal towns, 581. 



MONTEBELLO, Due de. Birth, 581 ; diplomatic career, 

 581; death, 581. 



MONTGOMERY, HENRY E. Decease of, 655. 



Moravians. Statistics, 581 ; report of Unity Elders, 581 ; 

 further details, 582. 



MOBBILL, JUSTIN S. Senator from Vermont, 150; on the 

 salary law, 171, 172. 



MOBBIS, EDWARD. Decease of, 633. 



MOBBIS, THOMAS A. Birth, 582; career as a bishop, 552; 

 death, 582. 



MOBSE, HENBY B. Decease of, 642. 



MOBTON, OLIVER P. Senator from Indiana, 150; on the 

 redemption of notes in coin, 185. 



Music by Telegraph. Sounds conveyed by electricity, 

 682; distance, 583; details, 583. 



MYERS, FREDERICK. Decease of, 644. 



