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INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



PABEPA-EOSA, EUPHBOSYNE. Birth, 677; career as a vo- 

 calist, 677 ; death, 677. 



PABKEB, JAMES. Obituary notice of, 622. 



PABMELEE, THEODOBE N. Decease of, 643. 



PABBIS, VIRGIL D. Decease of, 639. 



PEARSON, ISAAC G. Decease of, 637. 



PELL, DUNCAN C. Obituary of, 623. 



PENDERGBAST, AUSTIN. Decease of, 656. 



Pennsylvania. Public debt, 678; revenue and expendi- 

 tures, 678; banks, 678; fish commissioners, 678 ; rail- 

 roads, 678; Legislature, how chosen, 678; law for 

 mixed schools lost, 679 ; State geologist, 679 ; Repub- 

 lican Convention, 680 ; nominations, 680 ; resolutions, 

 680; Democratic Convention, 681; nominations, 681; 

 resolutions, 681 ; results of election, 681 ; riot at Sus- 

 quehanna Depot, 681 ; letter of the Governor in 

 answer to a protest against military interference, 

 681. 



PEEKINS, HENBT A. Decease of, 643. 



PEBKJNS, JOHN. Decease of, 654. 



PEBLEY, ISA. Decease of, 626. 



Persia. Sovereign, 682 ; area and population, 682 ; reli- 

 gious divisions, 682 ; Protestant missions, 682 ; civil 

 divisions, 682; imports and exports, 682; riches of 

 the Shah, 682; political affairs, 683 ; opposition to re- 

 forms, 683. 



Peru. Boundaries, 683 ; area, 683 ; changes in the cabi- 

 net, 683 ; development and progress of the country, 

 684; Lima, 684; immigration, 685; schools, 685; 

 finances, 685 ; army, 685. 



POLAND, LUKE P. Representative from Vermont, 150; 

 on the repeal of the salary bill, 153 ; reports a bill to 

 confer jurisdiction on the Criminal Court of the Dis- 

 trict of Columbia, 239. 



POBTEB, JOHN. Decease of, 625. 



POETEB, Mrs. MEHITABEL M. Decease of, 653. 



POBTEB, SAMUEL. Decease of, 626. 



Portugal. Sovereign, 685 ; provinces, 686 ; area and pop- 

 ulation, 686 ; foreign possessions, 686 ; finances, 686 ; 

 budget of the colonies, 686; debt, 686 ; navigation, 

 686; army and navy, 686 ; commerce, 686 ; legislation, 

 687; Lisbon, 687. 



POTTEB, HOEATIO, Jr. Decease of, 646. 



Powers of Congress to enforce constitutional amendments, 

 797. 



PBATT, DANIEL D. Senator from Indiana, 150 ; relative 

 to the compensation of Senators, 164-169 ; on specie 

 payments, 180. 



Presbyterians. Statistics, 687; General Assembly, 688; 

 plan for consolidating the boards, 688; the declara- 

 tion and testimony synod, 688; Southern Presbyte- 

 rians, 689 ; statistics, 689 ; General Assembly, 689 ; 

 answer to the Northern overture, 689 ; relations with 

 General Synod of Reformed Church, 689 ; United Pres- 

 byterians, 690; statistics, 690; General Assembly, 690; 

 proceedings, 690; Cumberland Presbyterians, 690; 

 General Assembly, 690 ; proceedings, 691 ; Presbyte- 

 rian Churches in British America, 691 ; General As- 

 sembly, 691; basis of union, 691; votes, 691; resolu- 

 tions, 692; votes of the Church in connection with 

 Church of Scotland, 692; resolution, 692; Church of 

 the Lower Provinces, 692; reports, 692; basis of 

 union, 693 ; resolutions, 693 ; Free Church of Scot- 

 land, 694 ; General Assembly, 694 ; United Presbyte- 

 rians, 694; statistics, 694 ; Synod, 694; Federal Union 

 of the Presbyterian Churches, 695; plan of the con- 

 federation, 695, 696 ; another series of resolutions 

 adopted, 696, 697; further proceedings, 697. 

 " Press Gag-Law" so called, 240. 

 PBIIIE, Mrs. JULIA A. Decease of, 649. 



PEOCOPIOS, Archbishop. Chosen head of the Churcb in 

 Greece, 381, 382. 



PBOCTEB, BRYAN WALLEB. Birth, 697 ; career as a poet, 

 697; writings, 698; death, 698. 



Protestant Episcopal Church. First Church Congress, 

 698; proceedings, 698 ; statistics of the Church, 699 ; 

 General Convention, 699 ; Pan-Anglican Synod, 699 ; 

 resolution, 699 ; ratification of the election of bish- 

 ops, 699; votes on Dr. Seymour's election, 700; addi- 

 tion to Canon 20, 700; petitions relative to the Niceue 

 Creed, 700; amendment of Canon 8, 701; case of aban- 

 donment of communion, 701 ; canon in reference to 

 church music, 701 ; bishop in other dioceses, 701 ; di- 

 vision of dioceses, 701 ; ordination of ministers, 701 ; 

 resolutions relative to the Russian Greek Church, 

 702; primitive orders of deaconesses, 702; new dio- 

 ceses formed, 702 ; proceedings against Bishop Cum- 

 mins, 702. 



Prussia. Sovereign, 703 ; area of provinces, 703 ; popu- 

 lation and religious statistics, 703 ; non-German pop- 

 ulation, 703 ; budget, 703 ; appropriation to railroads, 



703 ; conflict between the Government and the heads 

 of the Catholic Church, 703 ; attack upon the Chancel- 

 lor for investigating the politics of Catholic teachers, 



704 ; Bismarck's reply, 704 ; salary given to the old 

 Catholic bishop, 704; new discussions of the ecclesi- 

 astical laws, 704 ; position of the Catholic clergy, 705 ; 

 exceptions, 705. 



PuolicDocuments.'M.ese&ge of the President to Congress, 

 December 7, 1874, 706-713. 



Report of the Senate select committee ou transpor- 

 tation routes to the seaboard, 713 ; resume of the 

 principal subjects of consideration, 713 ; water-lines 

 of transport, 714 ; proposed remedies, 714 ; competi- 

 tion between railways and its promotion, 715; direct 

 regulation by Congress 717; rates in various coun- 

 tries, 718 ; how revision of rates can be made, 719 ; 

 various rates, 720, 721 ; indirect regulation by double 

 tracks, etc., 723 ; improvement and creation of water- 

 routes, 723 ; conclusions and recommendations of the 

 committee, 725 ; the numerous routes, 726, 727 ; bene- 

 fits and advantages, 729, 730. 



The President's special message relative to Louisi- 

 ana, 730 ; documents accompanying the message, 734 ; 

 telegrams of General Sheridan, 735, 736. 



Action of the Congressional Committee, 736 ; report 

 of the sub-committee, 736-740. 



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QUACKENBOS, HERMAN J. Decease of, 658. 



QUETELET. LAMBERT A. J. Birth, 742 ; career as an 



astronomer, 742'; death, 742. 

 QUIMBY, JAMES M. Decease of, 646. 



Hallway Bridge. Novel construction, 742; length of 

 draws, 742 ; success, 743 ; security, 743. 



RAINEY, JOSEPH H. Representative from South Caro- 

 lina, 150 ; on the civil- rights bill, 04. 



RANDALL, HENBY. Decease of, 644. 



Reformed Churches. Statistics, 743 ; General Synod, 

 743 ; resolutions on union, 743, 744 ; Reformed Church 

 in the United States, 744; statistics, 745 ; institutions, 

 745 ; report on organic union, 745. 



Reformed Episcopal Church. General Council, 746; re- 

 port of the committee on canons and on revision of 

 the Prayer-Book, 746 ; details of the emendations rec- 

 ommended and adopted, 746-748. 



