INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



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lebt, 566; its provisions, 566; bill for a. Constitutional 

 Convention, 567 ; its features, 567 ; convention assembles, 

 567 ; provisions of the new constitution, 567 ; school 

 census, 568; university, 568; State Hospital, 568 ; Deaf 

 and Dumb Asylum, 568 ; failure of the rice-product, 568. 



Northwest Territories. Territory comprised, 568 ; act to 

 provide a government, 568 ; its features, 568. 



Nova Scotia. Population and area, 569 ; executive govern- 

 ment, 569 ; provincial institutions, 570 ; mineral products, 

 570 ; fisheries, 570 ; public schools, 570 ; colleges, 570 ; re- 

 ligious statistics; 570. 



NUTT, CYBTTS. Decease of, 581. 



Obituaries, American. 571-589. 



Obituaries, Foreign. See alphabetical list of, 588-601. 



Ohio. Financial condition, 601 ; local indebtedness, 601 ; 

 taxes levied, 602 ; value of property, 602 ; acreage of 

 wheat, 602; corn, 602; other crops, 602; number and 

 value of sheep, 602 ; orchards and vineyards, 603 ; taxable 

 lands, 608 ; horses and hogs, 603 ; coal mined, 603 ; banks, 

 608; railroads, 603; passengers and earnings, 603; tele- 

 graphs, 603; casualties, 604; patients in infirmaries, 604 ; 

 prisoners, 604 ; school statistics, 604 ; deeds, leases, and 

 mortgages, 604 ; settlement with the United States, 604 ; 

 acts of the Legislature, 605 ; relating to schools, 605 ; 

 the Geghan bill, 605 ; Prohibition Convention, 605 ; nomi- 

 nations and resolutions, 605, 606 ; Eepublican Convention, 

 '606; nominations and resolutions, 606; Democratic Con- 

 vention, 606; nominations and resolutions, 607; results 

 of the election, 607 ; vote on constitutional amendments, 

 607; Legislature, 608. 



Old Catholics. Second. Synod, 608-; statistics, 608 ; presence 

 of Dollinger, 608 ; congregation in Switzerland, 608 ; 

 action of Austria, 608; Italy, 608. 



Oregon. Democratic Convention, 609; nominations and 

 resolutions, 609 ; Independent Convention, 609 ; nomina- 

 tions and resolutions, 609 ; Republican Convention, 610 ; 

 nominations and resolutions, 610 ; result of the election, 

 610 ; woman's rights movement, 610 ; resolutions, 610, 

 611; climate of Oregon, 611; soil, 611; products, 612; 

 rivers, 612 ; exports of wheat and flour, 612 ; State offi- 

 cers, 612; Legislature, 612. 



OSBOBN, SHEBABD. A British naval officer, 612; biographical 

 sketch of, 612. 



OSGOOD, SEW ALL M. Decease of, 579. 



PAGE, JAMES. Decease of, 574. 



PALMES, CHRISTIAN VON. A German theologian, 613 ; bio- 

 graphical sketch of, 613. 



PAPY, MABJANNO D. Decease of, 578. 



Paraguay. Boundaries, 613 ; state officers, 613 ; army, 618 ; 

 finances, 613 ; representations of the financial and com- 

 mercial condition, 613 ; foreign debt, 613 ; commerce, 

 614; articles imported, 614; the yerba mate, 614; culti- 

 vated products, 614. 



PARKER, JOEL. Decease of, 581. 



PAYNE, SMITH. Decease of, 587. 



PEDRO II. Emperor of Brazil, 615 ; biographical sketch of, 

 615. 



Pennsylvania. Finances, 616; debt, 616; sinking-fund, 

 616; public schools, 616; Eepublican Convention, 617; 

 nominations and resolutions, 617; Democratic Conven- 

 tion, 618 ; nominations and resolutions, 618 ; results of the 

 election, 618; Legislature, 619; mineral products, 619; 

 coal, 619; lumber, 619; railroads and canals, 620; Penn- 

 sylvania Railroad and branches, 620 ; canals in Pennsyl- 



vania, 621; agriculture, 622; dairies, 622; provisions of 

 the amended constitution, 622. 



Persia. Sovereign, 628 ; area and population, 628 ; army, 

 623 ; telegraph, 623 ; visit of the Shah to Europe, 628 ; its 

 effects, 623 ; relations with Russia, 628. 



Peru. Boundaries, 624; area, 624; territorial divisions, (524; 

 population, 624; State officers, 624; army and navy, 624; 

 revenue and finances, 624; foreign debt, 624; report of 

 foreign bondholders, 625; extraordinary session of Con- 

 gress, 625; speech of the President, 625; Congress of 

 American Jurists, 626; its objects, 626. 



PESCHEL, OSKAB F. A German geographer, 826 ; biographi- 

 cal sketch of, 626. 



PFYFFEB, CASIMIB. A Swiss lawyer, 627 ; biographical sketch 

 of, 62T. 



Philadelphia. Its situation, 627; first Continental Congress, 

 627 ; area, 627 ; Chestnut Street, 627 ; chief business 

 streets, 628; buildings, 628 ; Commercial Exchange, 628 ; 

 American Sunday-school Union building, 629 ; Masonic 

 Temple, 629 ; banks, 629 ; Continental Hotel, 629 ; Old 

 Swedes' Church, 629 ; other churches, 629 ; prominent 

 objects of historical interest, 680 ; Independence Hall, 630 ; 

 United States Arsenal, 630 ; City Hall, 681 ; exhibition 

 buildings, 631 ; Fine-Art Gallery, 682 ; cemeteries, 632 ; 

 bridges, 683 ; railroads and steam-lines, 638 ; commerce, 

 638 ; shipping, 633 ; wards, 633 ; courts, 633 ; bevevoleut 

 institutions, 634; reformatory institutions, 685; public 

 schools, 685 ; colleges, 635 ; professors and departments, 

 686; Divinity School, 687; medical colleges, 687; scien- 

 tific institutions, 637; Athenaeum, 637; libraries, 687; 

 theatres, 638 ; newspapers, 688 ; church organization, 638. 



PICKEBSQTLL. A British painter, 638; biographical sketch of, 

 688. 



PICKETT, GEOBGE E. A Confederate general, 638 ; biographi- 

 cal sketch of, 688. 



PIEBBEPONT, EDWABDS. United States Attorney-General, 

 742; biographical sketch of, 742. 



PIGOTT, GILLEKY. Biographical sketch of, C88. 



PLUNKKTT, JAMES L. Decease of, 584. 



PORTEOUS, GEOBGE B. Decease of, 583. 



Portugal. Sovereign, 639 ; area and population, 639 ; debt, 

 639 ; finances, 639 ; trade, 689 ; articles of import and ex- 

 port, 639 ; shipping, 689 ; navy and army, 640 ; speech of 

 the King to the Cortes, 640 ; its acts, 640. 



POTGIETEB, EVEBHABD J. A Dutch poet, 640 ; biographical 

 sketch of, 640. 



POTTEB, CLABKSON N. Representative from New York, 138 ; 

 offers a resolution fixing the term of the presidential 

 office, 206. 



PRATT, DANIEL D. Appointed Commissioner of Internal 

 Revenue, 743 ; sketch of, 743. 



Presbyterians, Statistics, 640 ; missions, 641 ; General As- 

 sembly, 641 ; report relative to union with the Southern 

 Church, 641 ; report on Federal Union, 642 ; rotary elder- 

 ship, 642; report relative to the Reformed Church, 642 ; 

 Presbyterian Church in the United States, 642 ; statistics, 

 648; General Assembly, 643; Federal Union, 643; United 

 Presbyterian Church, 644 ; General Assembly, 644 ; As- 

 sociate Reformed Presbyterians, 644 ; meeting of Synod, 

 644; Reformed Presbyterians, 645; General Synod, 645; 

 Cumberland Presbyterians, 645 ; Presbyterian Church of 

 Canada, 645 ; General Assembly, 646 ; Church of Scot- 

 land, 646; Free Church of Scotland, 646 ; Reformed Pres- 

 byterians, 646 ; United Presbyterians, 647 ; English Pres- 

 byterians, 647; Irish Presbyterians, 647; Alliance of 

 Presbyterian and Reformed Churches, 647; Churches 

 represented, 647; constitution for the Alliance, 647, 648. 



PRESCOTT, WILLIAM. Decease of, 584. 



Protestant Episcopal Church. Statistics, 648; details, 649; 

 General Convention, 649; selection of bishops, 649; the 



