INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



889 



BT7 ; nomination*, 677 ; platform, 677 ; vWctlon, 67S ; 

 electoral dlt&culty, oew elector chosen In place of Amaaa 

 Cobb, 578; r.nni-iiiinii of (iuwruur* to discuss ihu 

 locust plague, 57s ; resolutions adopted, 078 ; Burlington 

 A MlMourl lilvur Railroad Company'* luud-putviiU con- 

 nmu-d, 578, 670. 



NKIIKK, M. A Gorman painter, biographical sketch, 570. 



i H{/. Royal family, 579; area and population stall*- 

 tics, 579; do. of colonies, 579; colonial budgets, 571); 

 colonial commerce, 571); national budget for 137ti,6bOi 

 national debt, 5-4); foreign trade statistics, 1378, ls>74, 

 loading articles, 5S1; educational statistics, 681 ; 

 uruiy and navy, 5S1 ; railroads and telegraphs, 581 ; 

 change in tbo Wur Ministry, 6&1 ; gold-standard intro- 

 duced, 581 ; cabinet crisis, 51, 5s2 , session of the States- 

 (..-iicnil, :.vj; King's speech, 532; debates budget for 

 I'M", money law, national defense, 682; electoral law, 

 5*2, 583 ; the education question, present law, 583 ; theo- 

 logical instruction in the new university, 583 ; North Sea 

 I unal, 5S3, 584; riot in Amsterdam, 5s>4 ; dissatisfaction 

 with the crown-prince, 5S4; military opcratlous in tho 

 war with the Achinese, 584. 



j\V rmlii. Educational statistics, 534, 685; Treasury report, 

 ; property Valuation, 583; produce of the mines since 

 1-71, '><>; agricultural and industrial statistics, 585; elec- 

 tions, 5S5. 



NEW, JEPTHA D. A Representative from Indiana, 181 ; 

 against a third presidential terai, 184 ; proposes amend- 

 ment to the Constitution, 138. 



New Hampshire. Republican State Convention, 585 ; nomi- 

 nations, 580 ; platform, 586 ; nominations for State Coun- 

 cilors, 586 ; Democratic State Convention, 586 nomina- 

 tions, 536, 587 ; platform, 5S7 ; Temperance Convention, 

 537, 688 ; elections, 588 ; popular vote approves a con- 

 vention for constitutional amendment, 588 ; opening of 

 the Legislature, 588; State finances, 5SS; banks, 538, 

 589 ; schools and State institutions, 539 ; Governor Cheney 

 on the temperance movement, 539 ; E. II. Rollins elected 

 United States Senator, 589 ; State officers elected, 590 ; 

 legislation, 590; reorganization of the judiciary, new 

 judges of the Supreme Court, 590 ; Republican presiden- 

 tial Convention, 5'JO ; resolution and delegates, 530 ; Demo- 

 cratic presidential Convention, 590; resolutions and 

 delegates, 590 ; Constitutional Convention, 590; proposed 

 constitutional amendments, 590, 591. 



A T eu> Jersey. Finances, 591; State institutions, 591, 592; 

 session of the Legislature, 592 ; taxation bills, 592 ; acts 

 passed, defeated, and vetoed, 592, 693; Republican Na- 

 tional Convention, 598; resolutions, 598; Democratic 

 Convention, 593 ; resolutions, 598, 694 ; Republican Con- 

 vention for electors, 634; resolutions. 594, 595; Prohibi- 

 tion Convention, 595; resolutions, 595 ; Democratic Con- 

 vention, 695; resolutions, 595; elections, f95; John It. 

 MacPherson elected Senator, 595. 



New Jerusalem Church. Church Convention, 595 ; financial 

 condition, 595; revision of the liturgy, 695; reports of 

 committees and boards, 595, 596. 



New Mexico.- -Progress, condition, and statistics of educa- 

 tion, 696 ; Governor's message, 596, 597 ; receipts and ex- 

 penditures, 597; congressional election, 697; composi- 

 tion of the Legislature, 597. 



New York. Session of the Legislature, 597 ; amendments 

 agreed to. 597 ; new amendment forbidding the donation 

 of State funds for sectarian education proposed, 597; 

 amendment proposed restricting local loans to five per 

 cent, of the property valuation, 597 ; act for the equaliza- 

 tion of assessments, 597 ; act relating to convicts under 

 sentence of death when declared Insane, 597 ; acts relat- 

 ing to the testimony of husbands and wives, 597 ; act sup- 

 pressing acrobatic performances of children, 697 ; other 



legislation, 697; commission to examine Into UM condi- 

 tion of prisons, 6V7; its report, MM; 8UU debt, MM. 

 Treasury statement, 698 ; canal*, KM; school statistics. 

 698; thu National Guard, 6SW; Bute-primus, ftl/9 : UM 

 iiew Capitol, 8W ; immigration statistics, 699 ; UM Immi- 

 grant tax for the ComuilMioners of Emigration declared 

 unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court, 

 699; Convention of the Greenback party, 609; rr*olu- 

 tions, 5U9, 600; Republican presidential Convention, GOO. 

 platform, 600, 601 ; Democratic presidential Convention, 

 601; platform, 601, 602; second Greenback Convention, 

 602 ; Republican State Convention, 602 ; nominations, 602 ; 

 platform, 602, 608 ; Convention of Liberal Republicans, 

 608; Democratic State Convention, 608; platform, 608* 

 604 ; Seymour nominated for Governor, 604 ; false report 

 of his acceptance, 604 ; his dedication, 604 ; nomination 

 of Lucius Robinson, 604; other nominations, 604 ; Green- 

 back Slate ticket, 004; the elections, 604, 605; amend- 

 ments ratified creating the offices of Superintendent of 

 Public Works and Superintendent of Prisons, 605: 

 Lafayette Statue erected in New York, 605 ; theatre fire 

 in Brooklyn, 605, 606 ; sketch of Governor Robinson, 606. 



NICUOLLS, F. T. Governor of Louisiana, sketch of, 498. 



NIEBITZ, KARL G. A German juvenile author, sketch of 606, 

 607. 



NOBLE, MATTHEW. An English sculptor, biographical sketch, 

 607. 



North Carolina. Democratic Convention, 607; nominations 

 of State officers and electors, 607 ; congressional nomina- 

 tions, G07; Republican Convention, 607; nominations* 

 607; the canvass, 607; the election, 607, 603; elections 

 of Congressmen, 60S; meeting of the General Assembly, 

 603; financial statement, 60S; public-debt statement, 

 608 ; proposed compromise of the State debt, 60S, 609 ; 

 Governor Bragden on encouraging internal industries, 

 609; public-school statistics, 609; the University, 609 ; 

 State institutions, 609, 610; prisons, 610; anomalies in 

 the criminal law, 611 ; purchase and management of the 

 Western North Carolina Railroad by the State, 611; the 

 Legislature vote a reduction of their pay, 611 ; M. W. 

 Ransom elected United States Senator, 61 1 ; proposal of 

 a colored Assemblyman that his race be removed to the 

 Territories, 611. 



NORWOOD, THOMAS M. Senator from Georgia, 181 ; on the 

 tenure of office of the President pro tempore, 148, 



Obituaries, American. See alphabetical arrangement, 611- 

 627. 



Obituaries, Foreign. See alphabetical arrangement, 627- 

 644. 



O'BKIEV, WILLIAM J. Representative from Maryland, 181; 

 proposes an amendment to the Constitution, 188. 



Ohio. State debt, 646; local debts, 646; taxes for 1676, 645; 

 do. for 1S77, 645; assessment valuations, 645; decrease 

 of do., 645; school statistics, 645 ; charities, 645; mines, 

 646; militia, 646; Centennial Exhibition, 646; Inaugural 

 address of Governor Hayes, 646; session of the Legisla- 

 ture, 646 ; repeal of the " Geghan Law," 646 ; State offices 

 changed, 646 ; laws on local loans, public contracts. Juvenile 

 performances, 646; Prohibitionist Convention, 646; State 

 noralnatlons, 646; platform, 646. 647; Republican 8tat 

 Convention, 647 : nominations, 647 ; platform, 647 ; Demo- 

 cratic State Convention, 648 ; nominations, 648 ; platform. 

 648; State election, 643; congressional elections, 648; 

 presidential election, 649 ; strike riot, 649. 



Old Catholics.- Third Synod, 649 ; progress of the Church, 

 649 ; concerning the abolition of celibacy, 649 ; congress 



