INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



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tie*, 974 ; minor art-work, 274 ; phot graphic annex, 274 ; 

 Machinery Hall, 274; sewing-machine*, 274, 27A; Ameri- 

 can textile machinery, 275; American prtutliig-pre***, 

 American wood-working machinery, 'J70; American 

 marine <-xlill.it, -JTtl; American motors, 270; British inu- 

 rliinrry exhibit, '116; Canadian machinery, 270; French 

 machinery, 270, 277; German do., 277 ; Belgian do., 277; 

 Swedish do., 277; Brazilian do., 277; hydraulic annex, 

 977; U. B. Government Building, 277; Post-Office ex- 

 hibits, 277 ; Agricultural Department do., 277 ; exhibit 

 of the Department of the Interior, 277, 278; Smithsonian 

 Institution exhibit, 278; Treasury exhibit, 278; Naval 

 do., 278 ; War Department do., 278 ; Signal Service do., 

 278; special Government buildings, 278 ; Horticultural 

 Hall, 278; horticultural exhibits, 278 ; Agricultural Build- 

 ing, 279; American State and private agricultural ex- 

 hibits, 279; British agricultural exhibit, 279: Canadian 

 do., 279 ; French, German, Austrian, and Italian do., 279; 

 Spanish. Portuguese, Belgian, Dutch, Norwegian, Swed- 

 ish, Danish, Russian, Japanese, Brazilian, Venezuelan, 

 Argentinian, and Llberlan do., 280 ; wagon annex, 280 ; 

 foreign Government buildings, 2SO; special buildings, 

 280 ; Stato buildings, 280, 281 ; American private exhibi- 

 tion buildings, 281 ; number of visitors, 281 ; live-stock 

 exhibitions, 281. 



FALLOWS. SAMTKI.. D. D. Reformed Episcopalian mission- 

 ary bishop, sketch of, 698. 



Family Bank, .4. Chartered by the Massachusetts Legls 

 lature, 509. 



FENYES, A. An Hungarian geographer, biographical sketch, 

 281, 282. 



FKRR.VRI. G. An Italian writer, biographical sketch, 282. 



FEBBT, THOMAS W. Senator from Michigan, 181 ; President 

 of the Senate, 181. 



Finances of tfie United States. Treasury receipts, first quar- 

 ter, 1875-'70, 282 ; Treasury expenditures, 282 ; estimates 

 for the rest of the year, 288 ; actual receipts and expendi- 

 tures for the rest of the year, 288; receipts for the first 

 quarter of 1870-'77, 288 ; expenditures for the same pe- 

 riod, 288, 234; estimates for the remaining three-quarters 

 of 1876-'77, 284 ; estimated reduction of public debt in 

 1876-77, 284; reduction of debt In 1875-'76, 284: Secre- 

 tary of the Treasury on specie-resumption law, 284, 285; 

 issue of new 4\ per cent, bonds, 285 ; schedule of the 

 public debt, 286 ; statistics of national banks, 286 ; move- 

 ment of currency in 1876, 286, 287 ; comparison of de- 

 posits and reserve In banks for three different years, 287; 

 capital, surplus, and earn ing 3 of banks in four divisions 

 of the country for 1876, 287 ; average rate of interest in 

 New York, 2S8; profit and loss debits of banks for 1870, 

 888; percentage of total taxation paid by banks in differ- 

 ent sections, 289; resources and liabilities of national and 

 other banks, October 2, 1876, 288; do. of New York 

 banks, December 22d, 288 ; New York clearing-house ex- 

 changes, 289 ; aggregate returns made to the Treasury 

 by banks of capital, deposits, and circulation, for the dif- 

 ferent States, 239 ; Secretary of the Treasury interprets 

 the resumption law to mean gold, 289 ; silver issued and 

 fractional notes destroyed up to October 30th, 289 ; growth 

 of savings-banks In different States, 290 ; coinage for 1870, 

 290; production of precious metals in 1870, 290; esti- 

 mated amount ana movement of coin In the country, 

 2DO ; Director of the Mint on the relative value of gold 

 and silver, 290, 291 ; revenue receipts from the different 

 sources, 1875 and 1870, 291 ; coin value of United States ex- 

 ports and Imports, 291 ; excess of exports. 291 ; variations 

 to the exportotlons and importations, 292 ; shipping sta- 



tUtic*. 999; act of Congress relative to sllrcr 

 202; senatorial commission on pedn-recuuipUon atid a 

 double standard created, 992, 2V8 ; price* of Government 

 securities In New York and London, and amount* oat- 

 standing, 998 ; range of prices In the stock-market of New 

 York, 298 ; range of the gold-market, 2M ; comparative 

 statistics of bankruptcy, 8V8, 294 ; comparative price* cf 

 leading securities at the end of the years 1875 and 1*70, 

 204. 



FISH, HAMILTON. Instructions relative to the English extra- 

 dition treaty, 283. 



Florida. Finances, 294 ; Jacksonville & Mobile Railroad 

 forfeited to the Stato, 294 ; dispute In the Republican Stato 

 Committee, 294, 295; Republican Convention, 205; nom- 

 inations, 295; resolutions, 295; Democratic Convention, 

 295 ; nominations, 295 ; platform, 295, 290 ; an opposition 

 Republican candidate for Governor, 296; declaration of 

 the Republican campaign committee, 290 ; proclamation 

 of Governor Stearns before the i lection, 290, 297; the elec- 

 tion, 297; law relative to the canvass of votes, 297; the 

 Board of Canvassers, 298 ; request to the canvassers from 

 the Democratic State Committee, 298 ; Democratic elec- 

 toral candidates apply for an injunction restraining tho 

 Governor from conducting the canvass. 298 ; their bill of 

 complaint,29S ; writ of mandamus to the Board of Canvass- 

 ers to proceed to the canvass, 298, 299 ; the Govemcr's an- 

 swer to the complaint. 299; meeting of the Board of Can- 

 vassers, 299; rules of action adopted, 299, 800; the count 

 of votes, 800, 801 ; returns of the Board of Canvassers, 

 801; letter of protest from Attorney-GcneralCocke, 801, 

 802; Injunction served on the board restraining them 

 from going behind the returns in the State canvass, 802 ; 

 mandamus ordering them to recount the votes according 

 to the returns, 802 ; opinion delivered by Judge West- 

 cott, 802, 808 ; the canvass of the particular counties re 

 viewed and pronounced upon by the court, 803 ; meeting 

 of tho board in pursuance of the writ, 804; the recount, 

 804 ; protest signed by Canvassers McLin and Cowgill, 

 804 ; the Supreme Court refuses to accept the second re- 

 turn of the canvassing board, and orders it to recount the 

 gubernatorial vote, 804; in the third count Drew is 

 again declared Governor, 804 ; Governor Drew's inaugu- 

 ral address, 304, 805 ; meeting of the electors to vote for 

 President, 305 ; proceedings of quo tcarranto against the 

 electors. 805 ; order of Judge White, 805 ; the electors 

 disqualified, and the Democratic candidates adjudged 

 elected, 305; a new canvassing board, constituted by an 

 act of the Legislature, count in the Tilden electors, 800 ; 

 an act passed for the State to establish the appointment 

 of electors, 806 : certificates of the election of the Dem- 

 ocratic electors forwarded to Washington, 806 ; congres- 

 sional committee investigate the elections, 300. 



FORSTEB, JOHN. An English author, biographical sketch, 806. 



France. The Government, 406; area and population, SCO; 

 vital statistics of departments, 806, 807 ; rate of decrease 

 of births and increase of deaths In different classes of the 

 population, 808 ; proportion of marriages to population, 

 808; illegitimate births, 808; number of voters in the 

 several departments, 808; percentage of the illiterate 

 among the married, 809 ; population of Paris, 809 ; budget, 

 809 ; public debt, 809 ; the new army law, 809 ; army sta- 

 tistics and organization, 809, 810; degrees of education In 

 the army, 810; navy, 810; Imports and export*, 1859- 

 '74, 810; comparative trade with foreign countries, 810; 

 commerce with the colonies, 811 ; Import* and exports In 

 1875, 811 ; movements of shipping In 1878, 811 ; commer- 

 cial marine, 311; postal statistics, 811; railroad*, 811; 

 telegraph*, 811 ; public Institutions, 811; area and popu- 

 lation of colonies, 812 ; ministerial difficulties, 812 ; Mac- 

 Mahon's proclamation before the general election, 812 ; 



