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ing in Oajaea, 546 ; the plan of Tuxtepec accepted In the 

 States, 546; complaints and reforms embraced in the 

 plan, 546 ; extraordinary Government taxes on land and 

 capital, 646; the elections, Lerdo announced reelected, 

 546; advance of Diaz, Lerdo evacuates Mexico, 546; 

 manifesto of Iglesias claiming the presidency ex, officio, 

 546 ; plan proclaimed by Iglesias, 546 ; expulsion of Igle- 

 sias, 546, 547; biographical sketch of Diaz, 547; his 

 political and military career, 547, 548. 



Michigan. Treasury statement, 548; table of the equalized 

 and the preceding tax valuations for counties, 548 ; valu- 

 ation of State institutions, 549; State-debt statement, 

 549 ; public lands, acres, 549 ; statistics of State institu- 

 tions, 549, 550 ; Governor Bagley's message on the insti- 

 tutes for juveniles, 549 ; primary-school statistics, 549,550; 

 number of inmates in and cost of public institutions, 550; 

 amount of State tax, 550; total of city debts, 550 ; Gov- 

 ernor's message on the liquor-traffic, 550, 551 ; commerce, 

 551 ; fish-culture, 551 ; education, 551 ; unpopularity of 

 the homoeopathic course in the University, 551 ; Repub- 

 lican presidential Convention, 551 ; delegates chosen, 551 ; 

 resolutions, 551, 552; Democratic presidential Conven- 

 tion, 552 ; resolutions, 552 ; Republican State Convention, 

 552 ; nominations, 552 ; platform, 552, 653 ; Democratic 

 State Convention, 553 ; nominations, 553 ; platform, 553; 

 elections, 553 ; State officers elected, 553 ; votes for Presi- 

 dent and State officers, 558 ; do. for members of Con- 

 gress, 553; do. on constitutional amendments (abolish- 

 ing the liquor-prohibition clause, and allowing votes on 

 constitutional amendments in the spring, both adopted, 

 and one increasing salaries of circuit judge, rejected), 

 553, 554 ; Michigan at the Centennial Exhibition, 554. 



Micrometer -Telescope. Description of Rogers's portable 

 micrometer, 554. 



MIDHAT PASHA. Turkish Vizier, succeeds Mehemet Rushdi 

 Pasha, 773 , Turkish Constitution drawn up by him, 773, 

 774 ; sketch of his career, 774. 



MILAN, Prince, of Servia. See under TURKEY. 



MILMAN, ROBERT. Bishop of Calcutta, biographical sketch, 

 564. 



Minnesota. Agricultural statistics for 1875, 554 ; tax valua- 

 tion, 555; receipts and expenses, 555 ; railroad taxation,. 

 655; railroad statistics, traffic and earnings, 555 ; insur- 

 ance statistics, 555 ; State institutions, 555 ; public 

 schools, 555 ; session of the Legislature, 555 ; constitu- 

 tional amendments proposed, 555 ; act qualifying women 

 to vote for and to hold school-offices, 555, 556 ; limited 

 divorce law, 556 ; acts regulating grain storage, allowing 

 safety-funds to be reserved by insurance companies, etc., 

 556 ; Republican presidential Convention, 556 ; delegates 

 and electors chosen, 556; platform, 556; Democratic 

 Convention, 557 ; electors nominated, 557 ; platform, 557; 

 Prohibitionist Convention and resolutions, 557; elections, 



. 557; vote on constitutional amendments (one allowing 

 the Governor to veto separate articles of appropriation 

 bills, ratified ; one authorizing the Governor to assign 

 judges from District Courts to the Supreme Court upon 

 emergencies, ratified; and one limiting the liability of 

 stockholders, rejected), 557 ; legislative committees deny 

 the validity of the so-called railroad bonds, 558; popular 

 expressions asserting the State's liability for the same, 

 558; the Governor's message on the same, 558; the law 

 confining death-sentences to juries unsatisfactory, 558 ; 

 the locust depredations, 558; groin lost by the same, 

 558; Governor Pillsbury on preventing the same, 558; 

 biographical sketch of Governor Pillsbury, 558, 559. 



ATissione, Foreign. Table of statistics of Protestant Mis- 

 sionary Societies: American, British, Continental, and 

 local, 559 ; defects of the table, 560 ; the Basel Mission- 

 ary Society, 560. 



Mississippi. Meeting of the Legislature, SCO; composition 

 of the Houses, 560; important measures passed, 5CO; 

 impeachment and conviction of Lieutenant-Governor A. 

 K. Davis, 560 ; impeachment and resignation of Superin- 

 tendent of Education Cardozo, 561 ; impeachment pro- 

 ceedings against Governor Ames, 561 ; his offer to resign, 

 561 ; withdrawal of the impeachment, 561 ; amendments 

 to the constitution abolishing the office of Lieutenant- 

 Governor, and providing for biennial sessions of the Le- 

 gislature, 561 ; new registration law, 561, 562 ; new school 

 act, 562 ; new finance acts, 562 ; other legislation, 562 ; 

 financial reports, 562, 563 ; school statistics, 563 ; State 

 institutions, 568 ; Republican presidential Convention, 

 563 ; platform, 568, 564 ; Democratic Convention, 564 ; 

 platform, 564, 565 ; election, 565 ; senatorial election in- 

 vestigation, 565. 



Missouri. Finances, 565; penitentiary, 565; Republican 

 presidential Convention, 565 ; platform, 565 ; Democratic 

 presidential Convention, 565, 566 ; platform, 566 ; Demo- 

 cratic nominating Convention, 566; nominations, 566; 

 platform, 566 ; Republican nominating Convention, 560 ; 

 nominations, 566 ; platform, 566, 567 ; Greenback party, 

 567 ; elections, 567 ; railroads upheld by the United States 

 Court in refusing to pay taxes according to the new 

 equalization, 567, 568; township railroad bonds decided 

 illegal, 568. 



MOIIL, JULIUS V. A German Orientalist, biographical 

 sketch, 568. 



Moravian Church, American. Statistics, 568 ; meeting of 

 the Provincial Synod, 568 ; reports and proceedings, 568, 

 569 ; missions, 569. 



Morocco. Sultan, 569 ; area and population, 570 : statistics 

 of commerce, 570 ; shipping, 570 ; mission of Sherif El- 

 Hadsh to the rebellious tribes in Algeria, 570; account 

 of the Sherif, 570, 571. 



MORRIL, LOT M. Secretary of the Treasury, 571 : sketch 

 of, 571. 



MORRISON, WILLIAM R. Representative from Illinois, 131 ; 

 proposes an amendment to the Constitution, 137. 



MORTON, OLIVER P. Senator from Indiana, 131 ; proposes 

 an amendment to the Constitution, 182 ; offers resolutions 

 on the tenure of office of the President pro tempore, 

 138 ; on the tenure of office of the President pro tempore, 

 147; on the joint rules of Congress, 156; introduces a 

 bill for counting the electoral vote for President, 158 ; on 

 counting the vote, 162; on the school-fund constitutional 

 amendment, 176. 



Music. Modern tendencies, 571 ; new music In America, 

 671 ; in England, 571 ; in France, 571, 572 ; in Belgium, 

 572 ; in Italy, 572 ; in Germany, 572 ; the Wagner festi- 

 val, 572, 578; preparations in Baireuth, 572; the per- 

 formance, 572, 573 ; analysis of the " Ring des Nibelun- 

 gen," 578. 



NAKES, Sir GEORGE. Arctic exploration of, 826, 327. 



Navy of the, United States. Strength of the Navy, 574 ; 

 Secretary Robeson on training boys for the service, 574 ; 

 expenses in 1875-76, 574; estimates for 1876-'77. 574; 

 number and amount of pensions paid, 576. 



NEAL, JOHK. An American author, biographical sketch, 

 574, 575. 



Nebraska. Censuses for 1875 and 1876, by counties, 575 ; 

 tax valuations, 575 ; Treasury report, 575, 576 ; schools, 

 579 ; State institutions, 576 ; militia, 576 ; Lincoln Salt 

 Springs decision, 576 ; Democratic presidential Conven- 

 tion, 576; Republican presidential Convention, 576; 

 Democratic nominating Convention, 6Y7 ; nominations, 

 677 ; platform, 577 ; Republican nominating Convention, 





