INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



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Maine. Financial report, 499 ; railroads, 499 ; their refusal 

 to pay taxes, 49U ; sales of public lands, 4M) ; saving- 

 banks, 499; public schools, 499; State institutions, 491), 

 000 ; meeting of the Legislature, MO ; projected railway 

 to Quebec, 000 ; selection of delegates to the Republican 

 National Convention, 500 ; Democratic Convention, 500 ; 

 nomination, 500 ; platform, 500 ; Republican Convention, 

 :>M>; platform, 600, 601 ; State election, 801 ; presidential 

 election, 601 ; J. O. Blalne chosen United States Senator, 

 501. 



MAJOR, J. R., D. D. A British teacher and writer, bio- 

 graphical sketch, 501. 



M vi.nKN, HENRY. A British scholar, biographical sketch, 501 . 



M AUTISE AT. HARRIET. A British authoress, biographical 

 sketch, 501, 502. 



Maryland. Arbitration of the North Carolina boundary, 

 502; award of the arbitrators, 502; principles of the 

 award, 60S ; session of the Legislature, 508 ; tax assess- 

 ment bill, 508 ; corporation act, 503 ; Baltimore elections 

 acts, 603 ; other legislation, 504 ; canal investigation, 604 ; 

 withdrawal of Harris's claims to the governorship, 504 ; 

 extra session of the Senate, 604 ; Treasury report, 604 ; 

 commerce of Baltimore, 604; Republican Convention, 

 604; Democratic do., 604; Democratic platform, 605; 

 presidential election, 605,506; establishment of the Johns 

 Hopkins University, 606 ; national banks responsible for 

 securities stolen from their custody, decision of the Court 

 of Appeals, 606; corporations bound to replace lost 

 bonds, being secured againt bona-Jlde purchasers, de- 

 cision of the Court of Appeals, 506. 



Matsadiusette. Assessment valuations, 606; public -debt 

 statement, 506 ; loans maturing, 506 ; receipts and expen- 

 ditures, 506; estimates for 1877, 606; railroads, 607; 

 lloosac Tunnel, 507; insurance statistics, 507 ; savings- 

 banks, 507; incorporated companies, 507; militia, 507; 

 public schools, 607 ; State Institutions, 607, 508 ; session 

 of the Legislature, 608; act relating to savings-banks, 

 608, 609; Wright's Family Bank scheme, 509; Eastern 

 Railroad Company relief act, 609; election regulation 

 acts, 509, 510; minor legislation, 610; vetoed bills, 510 ; 

 Republican Convention, 510 ; delegates elected, 510, 511 ; 

 resolutions, 611 ; Democratic Convention, 511; Prohibi- 

 tionist State Convention, 511; nominations, 611; plat- 

 form, 511; Republican State Convention, 611; nomina- 

 tions, 511 ; platform, 511, 512; Democratic State Conven- 

 tion, 612; nominations, 512, 518; platform, 518, 614; 

 Charles F. Adams's letter of acceptance, 614 ; Woman's 

 Suffrage Convention, address and resolutions, 514; Wom- 

 an's Suffrage, Labor Reform, and Greenback parties 

 unite with the Prohibitionists, 514 ; elections, 514, 615. 



MAXEY, 3. B. Senator from Texas, 181 ; relative to counting 

 the electoral vote, 163, 164. 



McCRARY, GEORGE W. Representative from Iowa, 131; pro- 

 poses an amendment to the Constitution, 137. 



McCfLLOM, SHELBY M. Governor of Illinois, biographical 

 sketch. 895. 



Improvements and Invention*. Survey of 

 mechanical progress. 515; French ferro-manganese steel 

 process, 515; Reuleaux's kinematics, 515; tramway mo- 

 tor-, 516; Rousseau's electric signal 516; Westinghouso 

 speed -indicator, 016; solid car- wheels, 516; English ice- 

 rink, 617; Lowe water-gas, 517 ; toughened glass, 617; 

 improvements In the piano, 617,618; now type-writer, 

 518; electric pen, 518; smoke-consumer, 518; fire-extin- 

 guishing apparatus, 618; ship's course indicator, 518; 

 two new sounding apparatuses, 518, 519 ; extractor of sll- 

 ver from lead ore, 519; electric machines, 519; sun- 



motor, 519, WO; electric flhmUMttoa, BIO; fcc-mite 

 telegraphy, 520, 5tl. 



MEISK-KE, K. E. A German geographer, btofrsphicaJ 

 sketch, 521. 



MELLIS, HENKIK. A Swedish novelist, biographies! sketch, 

 621. 



MEBKIXON, AUOUSTUS 8. Senator from North Carolina, 

 180; on the tenure of office of the President pro tern- 

 pore, 188-141 ; on the Joint rules, 160. 



MF.RKY, FRANCISCO. A Spanish naval officer, biographical 

 sketch, 521, WJ. 



Metals. Resonant alloys, 622 ; Lowthian Bell's new Iron pro- 

 cess, 522. 528 ; copper-welding, 528 ; manganese bronze, 

 628. 524; Ditmar's method of assaying chrome- iron, 524 ; 

 gallium, 524, 525. 



Meteorological Observation^ International, 525. 



MetkodisU. Statistics of the Methodist Episcopal Church. 

 625,526; amount of conference collections, 626; Board of 

 Church Extension, 626; Freedman's Aid Society, 526; 

 General Missionary Committee, 526, 527 ; estimated mis- 

 sionary expenses for 1877, 527; mission reports, 527; 

 Sunday-school Union, 528 ; Book Concerns, 528 ; meeting 

 of the General Conference, 528, 529 ; reports, 528 ; com- 

 mittee on a universal conference, 528 ; action for fraterni- 

 zation with the Southern Church, 529 ; union with outside 

 Methodist Churches, 529 ; limiting the number of elders' 

 districts, 529 ; separate white and colored conferences, 

 629; missionary conferences, 529. Southern Methodist 

 Episcopal Church : Statistics, 580 ; Board of Missions, 580; 

 statistics of missions, 580, 681 ; meeting of the commis- 

 sioners for union with the Southern Church, 581 ; address 

 of the commissioners to the churches, 531, 532. Methodist 

 Protestant Church : Call for a convention at Baltimore, 

 582. African Methodist Episcopal Church: Statistics, 

 582 ; General Conference, 532 ; reports, 582, 533 ; union 

 with the Independent Methodist Episcopal Church, 582. 

 African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church: General 

 Conference, 533 ; proposals for union with other colored 

 churches, 533 ; publications and education, 584. Meth- 

 odist Church of Canada : Missions, 584. Wesleyan Meth- 

 odist Connection of Great Britain : Statistics, 684 ; educa- 

 tion, 534; church extension, 584, 585; missions, 535; 

 the Church in Ireland, 535 ; session of the English con- 

 ference, 635, 586 ; lay representation voted, 585, 686; man- 

 ner and extent of the same, 586 ; qualifications of local 

 preachers, 536, 587. Primitive Methodists: Statistics, 

 587 ; finances, 637 ; Annual Conference, 587. Methodist 

 New Connection : Statistics, 587 ; Annual Conference, 

 587. Independent Methodists, 538. United Free 

 Churches: Increase, 538 ; missions, 588 ; Annual Assem- 

 bly, 688. Wesleyan Reform Union : Statistics, 588 ; An- 

 nual Conference, 688. Bible Christians, 688 ; Primitive 

 Church Methodists, 588 ; Irish Methodist Union, 53S. 



Mexico. Area and population, 58$, 589 ; population of classes 

 and cities, 589 ; decree for the encouragement of immi- 

 gration, 589 ; members of the Government, 589 ; State 

 Governors and other officials, 540 ; revenue and expendi- 

 tures In 1875, 640 ; education statistics, 540 ; school sys- 

 tem, 540, 541 ; art-school, 541 ; commercial statistics, 541 ; 

 articles of export, 542 ; trade with England, 186S-'75, 542 ; 

 the silver-trade, 549 ; industrial development needed, 

 542, 548 ; present manufactures, 548 ; state of agriculture, 

 548 ; principal crops, 548, 544 ; henequeo, 544 ; address of 

 President Lerdo. 544 ; the revolution, 544 ; political dis- 

 turbances in Mlchoacan, 545 ; General Escobedo's expe- 

 dition to suppress them, 545 ; revolutionary plan of Tux- 

 tepee, announced in the capital, proclaims the constitution 

 of 1867, 645 ; Dial announced as the military brad at the 

 provisional Government. 545; political antecedents of 

 Diaz, 546 ; other revolutionary programmes, 546 ; upris- 



