INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



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22 ; nominations for State officers, 22 ; resolutions, 22 . 

 no other party nominations, 23 ; election, 23 ; do. for 

 Congressmen, 23; decision of the Supremo Court on the 

 constitutionality of the levee bonds, 23 ; nature of the 

 bonds, 23; how used, 28; assertions of the bondholders, 

 24: reply on the part of the State, 24; the case of Hot 

 Springs, 24; location of the town, 24; population, visit- 

 ors, and business, 24; the Government title, 26; decision 

 of the Supreme Court, 25; act of Congress for settle- 

 ment of ownership, 25; commissioners appointed and 

 organized, 25 ; proceedings, 25 ; expiration of their term, 

 act to renew passed by Congress and lost, 25 ; new 



rings, 86; comets, 86; origin of comets, 36; meteoric 

 showers, 86; meteors of April 19th and 2*1,86; AngiiHt 

 meteors, 86; meteoric fire-balls, 86; binary stars 87- 

 new double stars, 88; Birmingham on red Mm, 88; re-' 

 ations between the colors and periods of variable stars 

 88; origin of nebula?, 88; researches of Profeaaor Chaco' 

 89; gold medal of the Royal Agronomical Society 89- 

 prizes of the French Academy, 89; gold medal of the 

 Vienna Academy, 89. 





bill introduced, 25 ; conflict of authority between Fed- Australia and Polynesia.- Area. and ponulatlon 

 eral and State courts, 25 : suits bv hondhnM K,J '' 



eral and State courts, 25 ; suits by bondholders against 

 counties, 25 ; proceedings of the Federal Courts, 26 ; 

 grounds for their proceedings based on the decision of 

 Biggs vs. Johnson County in the State of Iowa, 26 ; de- 

 tails of the decision, 26 ; decision in the case of Hew- 

 itt and Cooper, vs. Judge and Justices of Jefferson 

 County, 27 ; case of Pulaski County, 27 ; action of the 

 State Supreme Court and review of the jurisdiction of the 

 Federal courts, 27; its decision, 27; a Territorial govern- 

 ment over the Indian Territory proposed, 28 ; facts, 28 ; 

 case of Boudinot vs. United States, 28 ; a precedent, 28 ' 

 action of Congress, 28; proposal to remove the Indians' 

 28. 



Armed forces of France. Estimates of. 348. 

 Army of the United States. Its strength, 28 ; expenditures, 

 28; active service, 28; Indian disturbances, 23; then- ex- 

 tent, 29; corps of mounted Indian auxiliaries recom- 

 mended, 29 ; nature of the organization, 29 ; two propo- 

 sitions to be enforced by the Indian policy, 29 ; testimony 

 of Secretary Schurz before a joint committee on the 

 transfer of the Indians to the War Department, 29 com- 

 mittee on the reorganization of the army, 30; their re- 

 port, 30 ; amendment to the army bill forbidding the 

 use of the army as a posse comitatus, 30; its practical 

 operation described by the Secretary of War, 30 ; procla- 

 mation of the President on disturbances in Lincoln 

 County, New Mexico, 81 ; letter of the Secretary of War 

 to General Sherman on the same, 31 ; distribution of 

 tents and rations during the prevalence of the yellow 

 fever, 31; appropriation for rivers and harbors, 81 ; 

 Quartermaster's Department, 31 ; the seacoast defense, 31 ; 

 arms in store, 31 ; the Hotchkiss gun, 31 ; military con- 

 victs, 32 ; order for an inquiry in the case of General 

 Fitz John Porter, 32 ; condition of the Union and Con- 

 federate war records, 82. 

 Art Galleries in the Paris Exhibition, 304. 

 Articles of Import. Decrease of, in five years, 117 ; do. of 



export, increase of, 117. 



Asia. Area and population, 82 ; divisions and subdivisions, 

 82 ; conquest of Kashgaria, 33; war in Afghanistan, 83; 

 famine in India, 33 ; new Kussian expedition to Central 

 Asia, 33: famine in North China, 33; death of King of 

 Burmah, 33. 



Assassination, attempted, of German Emperor, 879; of 

 King Humbert, 458; do. of the King of Spain, 774; do. 

 of General Trepoff, chief of secret police in Eussia, 744 ; 

 assassination of Okubo, Minister of the Interior in Ja- 

 pan, 462; do. of Pardo, ex-President of Peru, 687; do. 

 of General de Mesentzoff, chief of secret police in Rus- 

 sia, 745. 



Assessment of Taxes. Manner of, in Kentucky, 830. 

 Astronomical Phenomena and Progress. Total eclipse of 

 the sun, 33 ; results of observations, 33 ; observations of 

 the corona, 34; relations between sun-spots and fre- 

 quency and change of the earth's atmosphere, 85 ; the 

 transit of Mercury, 35 ; relative brightness of Venus and 

 Mercury, 35; minor planets, 35; the mass of Saturn's 



nies, 40; population of Brit.sh colo 40 ,'nc'a of 

 births over deaths, 40 ; revenue, 40 ; debt, 40 /Imports and 

 exports, 40; telegraphs, 40; postal statistics, 40- live 

 stock, 40; population of New Zealand, 40; Legislative 

 Assembly of Victoria, 40; its proceedings, 40; Parlia- 

 ment of New South Wales, 41 ; South Australian minta- 

 try, 41 ; revolt in New Caledonia, 41. 



Austro- Hungarian Monarchy. Emperor, 41 ; ministry for 

 the Empire, 41 ; do. of cis-Leithan Austria, 41 ; area of 

 the monarchy, 41 ; civil population, 41 ; how distributed, 

 41; movement of population in 1877, 42; children, 42; 

 universities, professors, and students, 42; commercial 

 and customs treaty between Austria and Hungary, 42; 

 proceedings of the Reichsrath, 42 ; the Berlin Congress, 

 42; budget discussed, 42: extra credit authorized, 48: 

 difficulties anticipated, 43; Eastern affairs, 43; reasons 

 for the demand of a grant, 43; bill of credit passed, 44; 

 manner in which it is to be employed, 44; points of the 

 treaty of San Stefano incompatible with Austrian inter- 

 ests, 44; answer of Count Andrassy, 44; occupation of a 

 fortress on the Danube, 45; proceedings of the Austrian 

 army, 45; Eeichsrath reassembled, 45; reply of the Em- 

 peror to the Austrian and Hungarian delegations, 45. 



BACK, Sir GEORGE. Admiral and distinguished Arctic navi- 

 gator, 46; birth, 46; career and death, 46. 

 Bankruptcy, statistics of, in 1877 and 1878, 119. 

 Baptists. Statistics, 46 ; churches, ministers, and members. 

 46; anniversary of the Publication Society, 46; Home 

 Mission Society, 46; Missionary Union, 47; Women's 

 Missionary Society, 47; Southern Baptist Convention, 

 47; Colored Baptist Convention, 48; Free- Will Baptist 

 statistics, 48; Kentucky yearly meeting, 48; other asso- 

 ciations, 48; institutions, 49; benevolent societies, 49; 

 Seventh-Day Baptists, 49; statistics, 49; annual meet- 

 ings of the Missionary, Tract, and Education Societies, 

 49 ; Church of God, 50 ; statistics, 60 ; Mcnnonites, 60 : 

 annual Conference, 50 ; The Brethren, or Tunkera, 61 ; 

 annual Council, 51 ; Baptists of the British Provinces, 61 ; 

 statistics, 51 ; Regular Baptists in Great Britain, 61 ; sta- 

 tistics, 51 ; annual meeting of the Baptist Union, 52 ; 

 Missionary Society, 52 ; Zenana Mission, 62 ; Home and 

 Irish Mission, 52; Bible Translation Society, 62; Gen- 

 eral Baptists, 52 ; Union of Scotland, 52. 

 BARAGUAY D'HILLIERS, Count A. A French general, 58; 



birth, career, and death, 58. 



BAYARD, THOMAS F. Senator from Delaware, 185; on the 

 coinage of the silver dollar, 149 ; on retirement of legal- 

 tender notes, 164-166; on the army bill, 204-203. 

 BEACONSFIELD, Earl. English Plenipotentiary to Berlin, 401 ; 

 statement of the proceedings at the Borlin Congress, 402; 

 states the objects of the British interference in Afghan- 

 istan, 488. 



BECK, JAMES B. Senator from Kentucky, 185; on the army 

 bill, 193. 



