INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



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Candle, Electric, form of, 273. 



Cape Colony and British South Africa. Area and popula- 

 tion of the British possessions, 81 ; ruces, males' 1 and fe- 

 males, 81 ; religious denominations, 81 ; the Caffre war, 

 81 ; armistice at an end, 81 ; martial law declared, 81 ; 

 severe engagement with the Gaikas, 82 ; general plan of 

 operations, 82 ; captures of cattle, 82 ; decisive victory, 

 82 ; further operations, 82 ; the Zooloos, 82 ; their King, 

 88 ; ministerial crisis, 83 ; a new ministry, 83. 



Carbons, Homogeneous, how to obtain, 270. 



Cattle and Products of farms. Increase of, in the United 

 States, from 1870 to 1878, 114. 



Celluloid, the manufacture of. See IVORY, ARTIFICIAL. 



Central Asia, discoveries in, 360. 



Chemistry. Nitrification, 83 ; explanation, 83 ; practical tests 

 of the theory, 84 ; new compounds from carbon bisulphu- 

 ret, 84; new compounds of chromium and manganese, 

 85; the luminosity of flame, 85; alum in baking-powders, 

 85 ; estimation of alum in bread, 86 ; new elements, 86 ; 

 philippium, 86 ; chemistry of the grape, 87 ; economical 

 heating-gas, 88 ; the equivalent of gallium, 89 ; new com- 

 pound of palladium, 89; new process for the regeneration 

 of spent gas-lime, 89 ; hydrogen peroxide, 89 ; new dis- 

 covery of thermo-chemistry, 90 ; new method of sepa- 

 rating arsenic and antimony, 90; action of water on me- 

 tallic alloys containing carbon, 91 ; nature of the so- 

 called elements, 91 ; determination of organic matter in 

 water analysis, 91 ; the temperature of flames, 92 ; new 

 test for carbolic acid, 92 ; determination of the heat- 

 value of fuel, 92 ; a new explosive, 93 ; research of 

 Berthelot on the loss of oxygen in the electrolysis of 

 water, 93. 



CIIEN LAN TIN. Ambassador of China to the United States, 

 811; his reception, 811. 



Chili. Contest relative to its southern boundary, 93 ; area, 

 provinces, and population, 93 ; the President and Cabinet, 

 93; charge to United States, 93; army, 94; navy, 94; its 

 officers, 94 ; revenue, 94 ; foreign debt, 94 ; suspension of 

 the banks, 94 ; custom-house returns, 94 ; imports and 

 exports, 94 ; countries, 94 ; increase of mining exports, 

 95; foreign trade, 95 ; coasting trade, 95; total tonnage, 

 95; articles of the navigation law. 95; railroads, 96; con- 

 flict between state and church, 96 ; mixed marriages, 96 ; 

 the Patagonian territorial dispute, 96. 



China. The Emperor, 96 ; area and population, 9(5 ; diplo 

 matic relations, 96 ; military operations against Kashgar 

 96 ; battle at Khotan, 97 ; occupation of Kashgar, 97 ; re- 

 lations with Russia, 97; occupation of Kulja by the Rus- 

 sians, 97 ; a matter for diplomacy to settle, 98; situation 

 of Kulja, 98 ; conference of the British ambassador, 98 ; 

 advance of the Chinese against the Sungarians, 98; de- 

 struction of the Mohammedans, 98 ; famine in the north- 

 ern provinces of China, 98 ; sufferings of the inhabitants, 

 99 ; relief from abroad, 99 ; thanks of the Chinese Gov- 

 ernment, 99 ; relief hospital for refugees burned, 99 ; in- 

 crease in the production of opium, 100 ; prohibition of 

 cultivation disregarded, 100 ; efforts to curtail the traffic, 

 100 ; a vigorous voluntary organization in Canton, 101 ' 

 attacks' upon Protestant missions, 101 ; insurrection in 

 Kwangsi, 101 ; examination of the mining country of 

 Kaeping, 101 ; railways, 101. 



Chinese Question, The. Its agitation in California, 74. 



CHITTENDEN, S. B. Representative from New York, 135; on 

 the repeal of the Specie Resumption Act, 179-186. 



Christ Church. Property in Chicago, decision respecting, 

 431. 



Christian Connection. General Convention, 101 ; details of 

 its proceedings, 102. 



Christian Union. General Council, 102; position of the 

 Union, 102 ; doctrinal position of the Church, 102. 



CHRISTINA MARIA. Dowager Queen of Spain, 102 ; blrthi 

 102; connections, 102; career, 102 ; death, 108. 



Chufati.k new crop in Kentucky, 472. 



Church and State, conflict between, in Chill, 96. 



Church of God. Members, etc., 50. 



Cipher l>ispatches.liei>ort of the Investigating committee 

 717. 



Cimbria.A. German steamer, arrival off the coast of Maine, 

 518. 



Civil Damage Act. Question of Its constitutionality decided 

 by the New York Court of Appeals, 625. 



Clearing- Home of New York. Its transactions since its 

 organization, 118, 119. 



Cleopatra's Needle, the raising of, In London, 288. 



Coal. Monthly sales and prices in New York, 128. 



Codification. Action of New York on the subject, 615. 



Coffee. Extent of its culture in Brazil, 62 ; receipts and con- 

 sumption in the United States, 180. 



Coinage of Silver. Veto of the bill by President Hayes, 

 162. 



Colombia. Area and population, 103 ; principal centers of 

 population, 108 ; staple productions, 103 ; President and 

 Cabinet, 103 ; army, 103 ; educational interests, 108 ; rev- 

 enue and expenditure, 103; national debt, 103; efforts to 

 preserve the public credit, 104; value and destination of 

 exports, 104; value of imports, 104; principal articles of 

 export, quantities, and value, 104; shipping movements* 

 105 ; contract between the Government and the Chief of 

 the Scientific Exploring Expedition, 105 ; map of Colom- 

 bia, 106; political state of the country, 107; agricultural 

 appropriations, 107. 



Colonies and Possessions of Great Britain, complete list of, 

 392. 



Colorado. Democratic State Convention, 108 ; platform, 

 108; nominations, 108; Republican State Convention, 

 108; platform, 109; nominations, 110; Greenback Con- 

 vention, 110; nominations, 110; platform, 110; the dis- 

 puted election of member of Congress, 110; the question, 

 110 ; decision of Congress, 110 ; result of the State elec- 

 tion, 110; more important subjects of legislation, 111; 

 irrigation and mining, 111 ; the grain crop, 111 ; effect of 

 Irrigation, 111 ; State Convention to consider the subject 

 of irrigation, 111 ; a memorial to the Legislature, 111 ; the 

 mining interests, 112 ; production of the mines, 112 ; the 

 yield of counties in successive years, 112 ; placer mining, 

 112; mining of coal, 112 ; decision of the Supreme Court 

 relative to side lines of the mines, 112 ; extracts from the 

 decision, 113; school lands, 114; Penitentiary, 114; min- 

 eral springs, 114. 



Color-Blindness. Extent of its prevalence, 526 ; importance 

 of the subject, 526. 



COLQUTTT, ALFRED H. Governor of Georgia, asks an inves- 

 tigation of acts of his administration, 868 ; report, 869. 



Combination. Anthracite coal and railroad report on, in the 

 New York Legislature, 619. 



Commerce, Internal, of the United States. -Estimate of the 

 value of commodities transported by railroad in the inte- 

 rior of the United States, 114 ; the tonnage a hundred 

 times greater than that of the exports and imports, 114 ; 

 annual increment of national capital, 114; agricultural 

 wealth, 114; increase, 114; cause of the balance of trade 

 In favor of the United States, 115; excess of exports 

 over imports, 115; development of manufacturing Indus- 

 tries, 115 ; increase, 115; production beyond the power of 

 consumption, 115; exports of agricultural products, 116; 

 displacement of foreign manufactures, 116; articles of Im- 

 port showing the most remarkable falling off; 117; articles 

 of increased exportation, 117 ; aggregate increase, 11T ; the 

 depression of business, 118 ; transactions of the New York 

 Clearing- House, 118 ; statistics of bankruptcy, 119 ; Btatia- 



