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Synod, 463; correspondence with other bodies, 468; a 

 constitution for district synods, 468 ; Sunday Conven- 

 tion, 463 ; Synodical Conference, 464 ; General Council of 

 Evangelical Lutherans, 464; proceedings, 464-465; con- 

 ference of Lutherans of Germany, 465. 



LYCURGUS, ALEXANDER. Archbishop of Syra, 465; bio- 

 graphical sketch of, 465. 



LYELL, CHARLES. A British geologist, 465; biographical 

 sketch of, 465. 



LYNCH, JOHN K. Eepresentative from Mississippi, 158; on 

 the civil-rights bill, 158. 



LYON, CALEB. Decease of, 582. 



MAGILL, ANN T. Decease of, 571. 



Maine. Session of the Legislature, 466 ; acts of a public 

 character, 466 ; compulsory education, 466 ; amendments 

 to the constitution proposed, 467 ; the amendments, 467 ; 

 Republican State Convention, 467 ; nomination and reso- 

 lutions, 467; Democratic Convention, 468; nomination 

 and resolutions, 468; results of the election, 468; 

 finances, 468 ; debt, 468 ; tax-levy, 468 ; tax on railroads, 

 469; school statistics, 469; banks, 469; Eeform School, 

 469 ; Fish Commissioners, 469. 



Manitoba, Boundaries, 469 ; area and population, 469 ; pur- 

 suits, 470; government, 470. 



MAETIN, JOHN. An Irish politician, 470 ; biographical sketch 

 of, 470. 



Maryland. Public debt, 470; finances, 470; public schools, 

 470; Agricultural College, 470; Normal School, 470; In- 

 sane Hospital, 470 ; Inebriate Asylum, 470 ; Blind Asylum, 

 471 ; Temperance Convention and resolutions, 471 ; Dem- 

 ocratic Convention, 471; nominations and resolutions, 

 471 ; opposition movement, 472 ; Eepublican Convention 

 and proceedings, 472 ; reassembles, 472 ; platform, 472 ; 

 results of the election, 473 ; election of Attorney-General 

 contested, 473 ; statement of facts, 473 ; decision of the 

 Court of Appeals, 474; case relative to dividends in gold, 

 474 ; decision on the authority of the State to impose a 

 capitation tax, 474 ; decision on the State's right to im- 

 pose a tax on the gross receipts of a railroad, 474 ; case 

 of the State, 474 ; decision, 475 ; boundary-line with 

 Virginia, 475 ; biographical sketch of the Governor-elect, 

 475. 



MASON, CHARLES K. Decease of. 579. 



Massachusetts. Session of the Legislature, 475 ; the liquor- 

 traffic laws, 475 ; provisions, 475 ; Hoosac Tunnel, 476 ; 

 limit of municipal indebtedness, 476; State lands, 476; 

 election of Senator, 476 ; cause of the defeat of the Ee- 

 publicans, 476 ; canvass for the Eepublican nomination 

 for Governor, 477 ; convention, 477 ; nominations, 477 ; 

 resolutions, 477; Democratic Convention, 478; nomina- 

 tions and resolutions, 478 ; convention of the Prohibi- 

 tionists, 479 ; nomination and resolutions, 479 ; Labor 

 Eeform nominations and resolutions, 479 ; results of the 

 election, 480 ; the Governor, 480 ; State census, 480 ; 

 population of cities, 480 ; State debt, 480 ; sinking-funds, 

 481 ; insurance companies, 481 ; savings-banks, 481 ; 

 railroads, 481 ; Hoosac Tunnel, 481 ; militia, 481 ; school- 

 fund, 481 ; charitable and reformatory institutions. 481 ; 

 insane asylums, 482 ; county prisons, 483 ; centennial of 

 the battles at Lexington and Concord, 483 ; centennial at 

 Bunker Hill, 483 ; other anniversaries, 483. 



MATTCH, KARL. A German explorer, 484 ; biographical 

 sketch of, 484. 



MAYER, LEONARD. Decease of, 576. 



MAYNARD, HORACE. Representative from Tennessee, 138 ; 

 on the bill to improve the currency, 189. 



McCABB, JAMES D. Decease of, 580. 



MCJILTON, JOHN N. Decease of, 574. 



MoKBNNA, MICHAEL. Decease of, 576. 



MoKiNNBY, EGBERT J. Decease of, 584. 



MCMILLAN, SAMUEL J. E. Senator from Minnesota, 511 ; 

 biographical sketch of, 511. 



MEAUX, CAMILLB. French Minister of Commerce, 814. 



MEREDITH, SOLOMON. Decease of, 585. 



Metals. Gallium, 484; separation and purification of metals, 

 485; spectra of metallic solutions, 485; bronzes in- 

 crustes, 485 ; purification of quicksilver, 486 ; a new 

 steel, 486 ; new method of treating mixed copper, silver, 

 and gold ores, 486. 



METCALF, THERON. An American jurist, 487; biographical 

 sketch of, 487. 



Methodists. Methodist Episcopal Church statistics, 487; 

 missionary committee, 488 ; Church extension, 488 ; 

 Freedmen's Aid Society, 488; Methodist Episcopal 

 Church South statistics, 489; missions, 489; Vanderbilt 

 University, 489 ; General Conference, 489 ; the Methodist 

 Church statistics, 489 ; General Conference, 490 ; Union 

 Commissioners, 490; Wesleyan Methodist Connection, 

 490; Methodist Church in Canada, 491; Methodist Epis- 

 copal Church, 491 ; Primitive Methodists, 491 ; Bible 

 Christians, 491; Wesleyan Connection, 491 ; mission - 

 fund, 492 ; conferences, 492 ; proceedings, 498 ; missions, 

 494; Primitive Methodist Connection, 494; Methodist 

 New Connection, 495; United Methodist Free Churches, 

 496; "Wesleyan Eeform Union, 496; Australian Method- 

 ist Church, 496. 



Mexico. Boundaries, 497; divisions and population, 497; 

 Indians, 497 ; public affairs, 497 ; governors of States, 

 497; finances, 498; commerce, 498 ; shipping, 498 ; oppo- 

 sition to the Government, 498 ; statements of American 

 minister, 498 ; speech of the President, 499 ; speech of 

 the President at the opening of the fall session of Con- 

 gress, 500. 



Michigan. Election results, 501 ; legislation relative to in- 

 toxicating liquors, 501 ; agricultural college, 501 ; labor 

 system, 502 ; schools, 502 ; railroads and debt, 503 ; earn- 

 ings and expenses, 503 ; classes of freight carried, 503 ; 

 fire insurance, 503 ; details, 503 ; life insurance, 504; de- 

 tails, 504 ; financial transactions of the State Treasury, 

 504; minerals, 505; details of the State-prison, 505. 



MIGNE, JACQUES P. A French publisher, 505; biographical 

 sketch of, 505. 



MILES, JAMES. Decease of, 586. 



Minnesota. Details of the State census, 505; birth of popu- 

 lation, 506; agricultural productions, 506; lumber, 506; 

 Fish Commissioners, 506 ; white-fish, 506 ; Commission- 

 ers of Survey, 507 ; canal routes, 507; finances, 607; rail- 

 road bonds, 507; history of the question of, 508; consti- 

 tutional amendment, 508 ; arbitration, 509; State Eeform 

 Convention, 509; resolutions, 509; nominations, 510; 

 Democratic Convention and nominations, 510; resolu- 

 tions, 510; Eepublican Convention, 510; nominations 

 and resolutions, 510 ; results of the election, 511 ; amend- 

 ments to the constitution ratified, 511 ; officers of gov- 

 ernment, 511 ; division of the Legislature, 511 ; election 

 of Senator, 511. 



Jfimm^.-Tax-payers' organization, 512; proceedings, 

 512; petition and appeal to the Legislature, 512; busi- 

 ness of the Legislature, 518 ; Alcorn University, 518 ; 

 State finances, 513; charitable institutions, 514; Demo- 

 cratic Convention, 514; nominations and resolutions, 

 514; Eepublican Convention and nominations, 514 ; reso- 

 lutions, 514; disturbances of the peace, 515; letters of 

 the Governor to President Grant, 515; reply through the 

 Attorney-General, 516; outbreak in Coahoma County, 

 516; dispatch of Senator Alcorn, 516; remonstrance of 



