INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



of tho railroad law, 419 ; report of Senate committee ap- 

 proving tho present law, 418 ; law passed making w OIIU-M 

 eligible to all offices connected with the public school*, 

 413 ; minority n-|Krt of a Senate committee favoring a 

 liijuur-IU-uuae taw, 413; resolutions of the House regard- 

 ing tho national financial policy, 413; Democratic Con- 

 vention, 413; platform, 413 ; Republican Convention, 418; 

 State nominations, 414 ; platform, 41 4; Democratic Con- 

 vention for State nominations, 414; nominations, 414; 

 platform, 414, 415; election, 410; women eligible to all 

 school-offices, decision of the Supremo Court, 415; In- 

 dustrial Exhibition at Dos Moines, 415; severe storm, 

 415. 



Italy. Koyal family, 415; the cabinet, 415; area and popula- 

 tion, 415, 416; vital statistics, 416; religious statistics, 

 416; educational statistics, 416; budget, 410; public debt, 

 416; railroads and telegraphs, 416; finances of com- 

 munes and provinces, 417; army, 417; navy, 417 , com- 

 merce, 41T; shipping, 417; tho Italian National Church, 

 417 ; session of Parliament, 417, 4 IS ; royal address, 417 ; 

 resignation of the Minghetti and formation of the De- 

 pretis ministry, 417; members of the new cabinet, 418; 

 its programme, 41 S; action regarding the purchase of 

 the railroads, 419, 419 ; establishment of free ports, 419 ; 

 unofficial expressions of tho members of tho cabinet, 419 ; 

 expressions of the late ministers Sella and Minghetti, 

 420 ; victory of the Progressive party In tho elections, 

 420 ; opening of the new Parliament, 420 ; royal address, 

 420 ; a parliamentary committee favors the abolition of 

 the death-penalty, 420 ; Government attitude to tho 

 Eastern question, 420, 421 ; popular feeling on tho bast- 

 em question, 420, 421 ; Garibaldi, 421 ; measures toward 

 the Church, 422 ; expressions of the Pope, 422; foreign- 

 ers exempt from taxation, 422 ; Montegazza's forgeries 

 of the King's name, 422; Sicilian brigandage, 422, 423; 

 the late Duke de Galliera, 423. 



JANES, E. 8. An American clergyman, biographical sketch, 

 428. 



Japan. Imperial family, 423; exchange of Saghallen for 

 the Kurile Islands with Russia, 428 ; area and population, 

 428; population of the different ranks, 428; population 

 of the political divisions, 428 ; character of the Govern- 

 ment, 424 ; revenue and expenditures, 424 ; public debt, 

 424; countries diplomatically represented, 424; military 

 laws, 424 ; the army, 424 ; railroads and telegraphs, 424 ; 

 educational system, 424, 425; the Mikado's address ou 

 the new military system, 425 ; embassy extraordinary to 

 Spain and Portugal, 425 ; difficulties with Corea settled, 

 425, 426; the embassy to Corea, 425, 426 ; purport of the 

 treaty with Corea, 426 ; Corean embassy to Japan, 426, 

 427; provisions of tho treaty with Russia exchanging 

 Saghalien for the Kurile Islands, 427; results of tho 

 transfer, 427 ; the pensions allowed to the nobles after 

 the confiscation of their lands to be capitalized and ex- 

 tinguished, 427 ; the scheme of amortization, 427, 428 ; 

 Insurrections incited by nobles dissatisfied with the capi- 

 talization law, 428; press laws, 428; number of new 

 Journals, 428 ; Journey of the Mikado through the north- 

 ern provinces, 428 ; restoration of the Buddhist temple 

 of Mondseki, 428 ; Sunday made a holiday, 428 ; modera- 

 tion toward missionaries, 428; commercial disturbance 

 from the hostility of the Chinese toward Europeans, 429 ; 

 commercial movements, 429 ; highways and a demand 

 for draught-animals, 429 ; railroads, 429 ; postal Improve- 

 ments, 429; coal-production, 429; wearing swords for- 

 bidden, 429; death-penalty for robbery abolished, 429; 



Protestant missions, 429, 480; the Russian Church la 

 Japan, 480. 



/MM. Meeting of the Board of Delegate* of American I* 

 raelltes, 480, 481 ; protection of the Jews In Koumania, 

 Morocco, Italy, etc., 480 ; Institution* for the benefit of 

 the Jews In Paleitlne, 431 ; union of American Hebrew 

 congregation*, 481 : a seminary for Hebrew girls to bo 

 established, 481 ; meeting of delegates of fifteen congre- 

 gations in New York, 482; a Theological Seminary As- 

 sociation started, 482; reports of different benevolent 

 organizations, 482 ; the Universal Hebrew Alliance, 493, 

 488 ; benevolent and educational operations of the Alli- 

 ance, 482 ; situation of the Jews In Koumania, Russia, 

 Turkey, Morocco, etc., 438 ; Intc-rrntioual Jewish Con- 

 ference In Paris on the improvement of the condition of 

 the Jews in Turkey, 488 ; presentation to Lord Derby of 

 the memorial adopted by the conference, 488 ; the me- 

 morial on the condition of the Jews in Roumnnia and 

 Servia, 484 ; approximate estimate of the Jewish popula- 

 tion of the world, 484. 



JOHN, Freiherr VON. An Austrian general, biographical 

 sketch, 434. 



JOHN, King, of Abyssinia. His war with Egypt, 8-5. 



JOHNSON, REVERDY. An American statesman, biographical 

 sketch, 484, 485 



JOHNSTON, JOHN W. Senator from Virginia, 181 ; on count- 

 Ing the electoral vote, 161. 



Joint Jtules.Tbe twenty-second, etc., 154. 



JONES, CHARLES A. Senator from Florida, 181 ; OE tha 

 tenure of office of the President pro temfore, 142. 



JUNO, Sir SALAB. Sketch of, 866. 



Kansas. Assessment valuations, 485; public debt, 485; 

 public schools, 435 ; State-prison, 485 ; meeting of the 

 Legislature, 435 ; legislative enactments, 485; Convention 

 of the Prohibition party, 486 ; resolutions, 486 ; Demo- 

 cratic Convention, 436 ; resolutions, 486 ; Republican Con- 

 vention, 486; Republican Convention for State officers, 

 486; nominations, 436; platform, 436, 487; Democratic 

 Convention for State officers, 487; nominations, 487; 

 platform, 437 ; Greenback nominations, 487 ; results of 

 the election, 437; Osage land case decided in favor of 

 the settlers, 487, 488. 



Kashgar.SM TURKISTAW. 



KATE, Sir JOHN W. A British historian, biographical 

 sketch, 438. 



KELLOGG, W. P. Governor of Louisiana, impeachment o 

 482,488. 



Kentucky. Session of the Legislature, 488 ; act creating a 

 Bureau of Agriculture, Horticulture, and Statistics, 486; 

 act for tho protection of food-fishes, 488 ; other enact- 

 ments, 438 ; explanation of Governor McCreary on veto- 

 Ing a special registration act for Louisville, 488, 489; 

 testimonial on the death of J. C. Brecklnridge, 489; Re- 

 publican Convention, 439; resolutions, 439 ; Democratic 

 Convention, 440 ; resolutions, 440 ; Prohibitionist Conven- 

 tion, 440 ; election, 440 ; Democratic Convention on the 

 disputed presidential election, 440; resolutions adopted, 

 440, 441 ; sketch of General G. Clay Smith, Prohibition 

 candidate for President, 441. 



KERNAN, FRANCIS. Senator from New York, 181 ; on th 

 school-fund constitutional amendment, 177. 



KERB, MICHAEL C. Representative from Indiana, 181; 

 chosen Speaker of the House, 18i ; biographical sketch, 

 441. 



KIBKWOOD, SAMUEL J. Governor of Iowa, biographical 

 sketch, 419. 



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