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INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



BKOQUEREL, ANTOINB C. Physicist, 53; birth, 53; discov- 

 eries, 53 ; death, 53. 



BEECHEE, CATHERINE E. Teacher and author, 53; birth, ca- 

 reer, and death, 53 



Belgium. King and family, 54; area and population, 54; 

 provinces, 54 ; population of principal towns, 54; move- 

 ment of population, 54 ; schools and pupils, 54 ; univer- 

 sities and students, 54 ; receipts and expenditures, 55 ; 



' public debt, 55; strength of the army, 55; imports and 

 exports, 55; length of railroads, 55; use of the Flemish 

 language, 55 ; increase in representation in the Chambers, 

 55; elections, 55; state of parties, 56; communal elec- 

 tions, 56 ; celebration of the King's marriage, 56 ; open- 

 ing the Chambers, 5C ; King's speech, 56 ; proceedings, 

 56 ; Belgian free churches, 57. 



BERARDI, GIUSEPPE. Cardinal and priest, 57; birth, 57; pur- 

 suits, 57 ; death, 57. 



Berlin, terms of the treaty of, 256. 



BERNARD, CLAUDE. Physiologist, 57 ; studies and public po- 

 sitions, 57 ; death, 53. 



Berries. Their cultivation in Delaware, 233; do. in Missis- 

 sippi, 573. 



BIGELOW, GEOEGE T. An American jurist, 58 ; birth, career, 

 and death, 58. 



BIGGS, ASA. Birth, 58; public positions, 58; death, 58. 



Si-Metallic Conference. Its failure, 809. 



BLATNE, JAMES G. Senator from Maine, 135; on the remon- 

 etization of silver dollars, 155; on the retirement of legal- 

 tender notes, 166; on the army bill, 196, 198, 200, 202. 



BLAIE, MONTGOMERY. Presents resolutions in the Maryland 

 Legislature relative to a judicial decision of the late Presi- 

 dential election, 516. 



BLAND, R. P. Representative from Missouri, 135 ; introduces 

 a bill to authorize the free coinage of the silver dollar, 

 145, 160. 



Blood, of yellow-fever patients, microscopic appearance, 320. 



Bolivia. Boundaries, 53 ; departments, areas, capitals, and 

 population, 58; subdivisions of departments, 58; Presi- 

 dent and Cabinet, 58; consul at New York, 59; Ameri- 

 can Minister, 59 ; finances, 59 ; railways, 59. 



Bookkeeping in the Connecticut State Comptroller's office, 

 217. 



Boston Beer Company. Suit against, 530 ; decision of the 

 United States Supreme Court, 530. 



BOUTON, NATHANIEL. Clergyman and author, 59; birth, ca- 

 reer, and death, 59. 



BOWLES, SAMUEL. American journalist, 59 ; birth, career, 

 and death, 59. 



BRADLEY, Mr. JUSTICE. His decision on the application for 

 removal of the Louisiana Returning Board case to the 

 Federal Court, 496. 



Braail.lts situation, 59 ; provinces, areas, and population, 

 60 ; capitals, 60 ; report of census, 60 ; disappearance of 

 slavery, 60; Government, 60; Cabinet, 60; Council of 

 State, 61 ; various branches of national revenue, 61 ; na- 

 tional debt, 61 ; statement of Brazilian finances, 61 ; value 

 of exports and imports, 61 ; commodities and values, 62; 

 duties, 62 ; coffee principal staple, 62 ; its culture and 

 increase, 62 ; primary schools in each province, 62 ; de- 

 grees, how conferred, 63; railroads, 63 : how constructed, 

 63; steamship line, 63; subsidy, 6=3; famine, 64; conse- 

 quences, 64. 



BBECKENBIDGE, JOHN C. Appropriation in the Kentucky 

 Legislature for a monument to, 470. 



Brooklyn and New York Suspension Bridge. Progress of, 

 2SO ; cut of the approaches, 281. 



BROWNE, Major-General F. 8. Commands the British force 

 in Afghanistan, 5. 



BRYANT, WILLIAM CULLEN. American poet, editor, and au- 

 thor, 64; birth, career, writings, and death, 64. 



Buildings and Grounds of the Paris Exhibition, 296. 



Bulgaria. Province of the Turkish Empire, 65; area and 

 population, 65 ; features of the country, 65 ; origin of the 

 race, 65 ; history, 65 ; education and religion, 66 ; news- 

 papers, 66; autonomy of the Bulgarian Church, 66; 

 manufactures and business enterprise, 66; boundaries 

 defined by treaty of San Stefano, 66 ; history of the pro- 

 ceedings, 67 ; details of the conclusions, 67 ; action of Rus- 

 sia, 68 ; army organization, 68 ; completion of civil organ- 

 ization, 68 ; the International Commission, 69 ; meeting 

 of the Bulgarian Assembly, 69. 



BUKOHARD, H. C. Representative from Illinois, 135 ; offers a 

 resolution on the President's title to office, 167. 



BUTLEE, BENJAMIN F. Representative from Massachusetts. 

 135 ; on the free coinage of silver dollars, 160 ; speech in 

 Maine, 530 ; requested by voters in Massachusetts to be- 

 come a candidate for Governor, 531 ; answer to the re- 

 quest, 531; votes for, 537; report on the Electoral 

 frauds, 717. 



Caffre War with England, 81. 



CAIROLI, Signer, forms a new ministry in Italy, 456, 457. 



California. Reassembling of the Legislature, 69; bill to 

 authorize the employment of two thousand laborers, 69 ; 

 speech in the Senate on their condition, 69 ; map of the 

 Yosemite Valley, 70 ; ten thousand would come to de- 

 mand work, 71 ; report on the condition of the Chinese, 

 71 ; their relations to the police in San Francisco, 71 ; act 

 to prevent the destruction of small fish by the Chinese, 

 71 ; an act to strike out the words " white male " from 

 the Code of Civil Procedure, 71 ; admission of a woman 

 as a member of the bar, 71 ; an act to provide for a State 

 Constitutional Convention, 72 ; details, 72 ; an act to pro- 

 vide a State Labor Bureau, 72 ; details, 72 ; the subject 

 of irrigation considered, 72 ; the disposal of debris from 

 hydraulic mining, 72 ; its effects, 72 ; close of the ses- 

 sion, 72 ; results of the adoption of a system of irriga- 

 tion, 72 ; four hundred miles of territory to be recovered, 

 72 ; its soil, climate, and products, 73 ; demonstrations 

 of workingmen, 73 ; an act of the Legislature relative to 

 the same, 73 ; letter of Kearney, President of the Work- 

 ingmen's pai-ty, to the State Senate, 73 ; Convention of 

 Workingmen, 73 ; declaration of principles, 73 ; immigra- 

 tion of the Chinese an absorbing subject, 74 ; first treaty 

 between the United States and China, 74 ; its provisions, 

 74 ; progress of the immigration, 74 ; anticipations, 74 ; 

 investigation by Congress of the nature and justness of 

 the objections against them, 75; results, 75; their per- 

 sonal and moral habits, 75; non-assimilation with the 

 American people, 75 ; details of their character, 76 ; rec- 

 ommendation to Congress, 76 ; abrogation of treaty stipu- 

 lations, 76 ; the question of their naturalization, 76 ; elec- 

 tion of members of the State Constitutional Convention, 

 76 ; its session, 76 ; report of the Committee on Chinese 

 Immigration, 76 ; disagreement of the Committee, 76 ; 

 plan agreed upon, 77 ; what power the State had to pro- 

 tect herself, 77 ; explanations of the plan, 77 ; remarks on 

 the plan, 77 ; a second plan of treating the subject pro- 

 posed, 77 ; a third plan, 77 ; objections urged to them in 

 the Convention, 78 ; adoption of the report, 78 ; view 

 taken by the Convention, 78 ; memorial to Congress, 78 ; 

 another view of the subject relating to the good qualities 

 of the Chinese, 79 ; the Chinese to be got rid of, because 

 they are feared, 80 ; the grape culture, 80 ; the demand 

 for California wines, 80 ; decision of the Federal Court on 

 a Mexican grant, 81 ; the Court will not set aside a judg- 

 ment because it was founded on a fraudulent instrument 

 or perjured evidence, 81. 



