INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



Ad it for draining silver mines in Peru, 291. 



Adulteration of cotton and silk goods how done, 229. 



Adventists. General Conference, 1 ; statistics of the denomi- 

 nation, 1 ; proceedings, 1 ; meetings of charitable socie- 

 ties, 1 ; receipts of associations, 2 ; reports of auxiliary 

 associations, 2. 



Afghanistan. Eeports of the internal condition, 2; evi- 

 dences of an unfriendly disposition, 2 ; the command of 

 General Kaufmann, 2 ; his expedition, 2 ; objects of the 

 Kussian expedition, 3 ; the mission of July, 8 ; object 

 represented, 3 ; mission appointed by the Indian Gov- 

 ernment, 4 ; its members, 4 ; its progress, 4 ; dispatch of 

 Lord Cranbrook, 5 ; object of the British Government 

 during a whole series of years, 5 ; change in the feelings 

 of the Ameer, 5 ; the British embassy appointed, 5 ; or- 

 ganization of the British forces, 5 ; movement of the 

 troops, 5; occupation of Sibi, 6; proclamation to the 

 Afghans, 6 ; advance continued, 6 ; position of the Kus- 

 sian embassy, 6 ; its answer to British inquiries, 6 ; 

 embassy withdrawn, 6 ; death of Shere All's youngest 

 son, 6 ; his five sons, 6 ; claimants to the throne, 6 ; fur- 

 ther advance of General Eoberts, 6; Afghan position 

 turned, 6. (See INDIA.) 



Africa. Divisions and subdivisions, 7 ; area, 7 ; population, 

 7 ; Caffre rising in Cape Colony, 7 ; revolution in the ad- 

 ministration of Egypt, 7 ; disordered condition of Abys- 

 sinia, 7 ; cholera and general distress in Morocco, 7. 



Agricultural Products. Exports of, in ten years, 116. 



Agriculture. (See COMMERCE, INTERNATIONAL, UNITED 

 STATES, and the States respectively.) 



AKHOOND OF SWAT, THE. A Mussulman saint -his influence 

 and career, 582. 



Alabama. Resources and expenditures of the year, 7 ; Is- 

 sue of new bonds under the debt compromise, 7 ; classes, 

 7; amount of the debt, 8; interest paid, 8; revenue from 

 taxes, 8 ; rate of taxation, 8 ; revenue from the peniten- 

 tiary, 8 ; insane patients, 8 ; Agricultural and Mechanical 

 College, 8 ; State Normal School, 8 ; association of fire- 

 insurance underwriters, 8; product of coal mines, 8; 

 gold, where found, 8 ; Democratic State Convention, 8 ; 

 nominations, 8 ; resolutions, 8 ; Republican State Con- 

 vention, 9 ; no nominations made, 9 ; address to the Re- 

 publicans, 9 ; resolutions, 9 ; result of the election for 

 State officers, 10; election of members of Congress, 10; 

 result, 10; letter of Attorney-General Devens to U. S. 

 Attorney in Alabama, Louisiana, and South Carolina, 10; 

 meeting of the State Legislature, 10; organization, 10; 

 internal condition of the State, 10; financial embarrass- 

 ment of many cities and counties, 10 ; proceedings of 

 bondholders, 10; case of the city of Montgomery, 10; 

 mandamus issued from a Federal Court, 10 ; resolutions 



of the State Senate, 10 ; election of Senator to Con- 

 gress, 11. 



ALICE MAUD MARY. Princess of England, 11 ; marriage and 

 death, 11. 



ALLISON, WILLIAM B. Senator from Iowa, 135; offers an 

 amendment to the bill for the coinage of silver dollars, 

 145. 



Alum. Estimation of, in bread, 86. 



AMAT DI SAN FILIPPO E SORSO, L. Cardinal Bishop, 11; 

 birth, 11 ; career, 11 ; death, 12. 



Amazon River. The survey of, 365, 589. 



Amber Sugar-cane. Culture of, in Minnesota, 568. 



America. Affairs in the Dominion of Canada, 12 ; depression 

 in the United States, 12 ; State elections, 12 ; Indian dis- 

 turbances, 12; yellow fever, 12; harvests, 12; South 

 American states, 12 ; quiet affairs, 12 ; Chili in financial 

 trouble, 12 ; Colombia, 12 ; political and commercial rela- 

 tions of Peru, 12 ; Diaz Administration in Mexico recog- 

 nized by the United States, 12. 



Anglican Churches. The Convocation of Canterbury, 13 ; 

 its proceedings, 13 ; Convocation of York, 13 ; its pro- 

 ceedings, 13 ; Church Missionary Society, 13 ; Society for 

 the Propagation of the Gospel, 13 ; Home Reunion So- 

 ciety, 14; Society for the Liberation of Religion from 

 State Control, 14 ; final decision in the case of Martin vs. 

 Mackonochie, 14 ; the Pan-Anglican Synod, 14 ; proceed- 

 ings, 15; subjects discussed and referred, 15; report on 

 the best mode of maintaining union, 15 ; concerning rit- 

 ualism, 15; concerning confession. 15; on Book of Com- 

 mon Prayer for natives in heathen countries, 16 ; sympa- 

 thy toward Old Catholics, 16 ; eighteenth Church Con- 

 gress, 16 ; subjects of papers, 16. 



Antarctic Regions. Resume of knowledge obtained, 352. 



Anti- Socialist Bill. In the German Parliament, 380. 



APPLETON, GEORGE SWETT. Birth, 16; pursuits, 16; suc- 

 cess, 17 ; death, 17. 



Argentine Republic Boundaries, 17; Government and 

 ministry, 17; Governors of pro vinces, 17; message of the 

 President, 17; expenses, 17; import and export trade, 

 18 ; national debt, 18 ; immigration, 18 ; post-office re- 

 turns, 18; public instruction, 18 ; new frontier line, 18; 

 railways, 18 ; foreign relations, 18 ; revenue and expendi- 

 ture, 19 ; do. for eight years, 19 ; relative financial posi- 

 tions of Chili and the Argentine Republic, 19 ; trade re- 

 turns and duties, 19 ; imports from and exports to the 

 United States, 19 ; cost and profits of Argentine rail- 

 ways, 20 ; Indian frontier, 20 ; grants of land for rais- 

 ing horses, 20 ; message on the frontier line, 20 ; means 

 of defense, 21 ; the new census, 21 ; disturbances, 21 ; 

 increase of immigration, 21; cattle and sheep in sev- 

 eral countries, 22 ; instructions to immigrants, 22 ; the 

 boundary question, 22. 



Arkansas. Meeting of the Democratic State Convention, 



