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INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



DEBBY, Earl. Eesigns his seat in the English Cabinet, 399 ; 

 explains his reasons, 402. 



DEVENS, Charles. Letter as Attorney-General to U. 8. attor- 

 neys in Alabama, Louisiana, and South Carolina relative 

 to elections, 10 ; instructions to the District Attorney in 

 North Carolina relative to elections, 630; extract from 

 the Federal Eevised Statutes, 630. 



Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States. Pay- 

 ment of the award of the Fisheries Commission, 242 ; a 

 protest, 242 ; views of the American Government on the 

 award, 242 ; historical attitude of the two Governments 

 in relation to the fisheries, 243 ; statistics of the value of 

 the privilege, 243 ; other proofs, 243 ; reply of Lord Salis- 

 bury, 244 ; difficulty between fishermen and the inhabi- 

 tants of Newfoundland, 245 ; naturalized citizens in Ger- 

 many, 245 ; treaty with the Chinese, 245 ; new Chinese 

 Minister, 245. 



Disciples of Christ. Statistics, 245 ; receipts, 245 ; Mission- 

 ary Convention, 245; foreign missions, 24G; Women's 

 Board, 246 ; convention of colored Christians, 246. 



Dock at Bristol, in the mouth of the Avon, 287. 



Doctrine, declaratory statement of, by the United Presby- 

 terian Church of Scotland, 699. 



Dominion of Canada. The political contest, 246 ; the new 

 ministry, 246 ; Governor-General retires, 246 ; his succes- 

 sor, 246 ; new vessels built in the provinces, 247 ; tonnage 

 of vessels, 247; school statistics, 247; report on the diffi- 

 culty of inhabitants of Newfoundland with American 

 fishermen, 247 ; the Canadian Pacific Eailway, 248. 



Douro River, in Portugal, viaduct over, 283. 



DUPAN'LOUP, FELIX A. P. A Catholic bishop, 248 ; birth and 

 career, 249 ; death, 249. 



Durbar, The, its efforts to relieve the famine distress in 

 India, 436. 



DTTTCKINCK, EVERT A. Birth, 249 ; literary career, 249 ; 

 death, 249. 



Earth. Comparative statistics, 247 ; area and population, 

 249; largest cities, 249, 250; statistics of sex, 251 ; rail- 

 roads of the world, 251 ; comparative increase, 251 ; pos- 

 tal and telegraph statistics, 251. 



Eastern Question. Negotiations between Eussia and Tur- 

 key, 252 ; joint conference of the Powers, 252 ; question 

 of a conference on Congress, 252 ; discussion of submit- 

 ting the entire treaty of San Stefano, 253; important 

 change in England, 253 ; note of Lord Salisbury to the 

 Powers, 253 ; reply of Prince Gortchakoff, 254 ; question 

 of withdrawal of forces, 254 ; mission of Count Shuvaloff, 

 254 ; an agreement concluded, 254 ; the first memoran- 

 dum, 254; the second, 255; all obstacles removed, 255; 

 Powers represented in the Congress, 255 ; terms of the 

 treaty of Berlin, 256, 257 ; treaty between England and 

 the Porte, 258; an annex of the same day, 259. 



Ecuador. Boundaries, 259 ; area and population, 259 ; prov- 

 inces, 259; the President, 259 ; army, 259 ; revenue, 259 ; 

 national debt, 260; commercial returns, 260; shipping 

 movement, 260 ; political affairs, 260 ; constitutional con- 

 vention, 260 ; legislative proceedings unpublished, 260; 

 subjects discussed in convention, 261. 



Eddystone Lighthouse. The new structure, 286. 



EDISON, THOMAS ALVA. American inventor, 261 ; birth, 261 ; 

 inventions and career, 262 ; analysis of his genius, 262. 



EDMUNDS, GEORGE F. Senator from Vermont, 135 ; offers a 

 resolution for a select committee to consider the state of 

 law for ascertaining the result of elections of President, 

 136; on the army bill, 199, 201, 203. 



Egypt. Us ruler, 263; territories annexed, 263; area and 

 population, 263 ; movement of population, 263; imports 



and exports, 264 ; their value, 264 ; movement of shipping, 

 264; the financial crisis, 263; investigation sanctioned, 

 264 ; report of the commission of inquiry, 264 ; three rad- 

 ical evils discussed, 264 ; summary of the floating debt, 

 265 ; necessary expenditures of state, 265 ; immediate 

 wants, 265; financial and administrative reforms pro- 

 posed, 265 ; new ministry formed, 266 ; Minister of Fi- 

 nance, 266; a new adjustment, 266; claims of the Italian 

 Government, 266; property ceded to the state by the 

 Prince and Princesses, 267 ; council of foreign bondhold- 

 ers, 267 ; contributions of railways, 267 ; resignation of 

 the Minisjter of Foreign Affairs, 267 ; the cause, 267 ; 

 Egyptian Parliament, 268; the viceregal speech, 268; 

 meeting of the shareholders of the Suez Canal, 268 ; con- 

 tributions to the Paris Exhibition, 268. 



Election, case of contested, for Congressman in Colorado, 

 110. 



Election, Judges of. Tried by Federal Court for disobedience 

 to U. S. Marshals, 521. 



Election of Members of Congress. The question in Iowa, 

 453. 



Elections. Instructions of U. S. Attorney-General relative 

 to, 10. 



Electoral frauds. Eeport of the Investigating Committee, 

 712; do. of the minority, 716. 



Electric Light. Lighting by electricity accomplished in dif- 

 ferent ways, 268 ; depend on the principle of resistance 

 to the electric current in passing through its circuit, 268 ; 

 resistance influenced by the size or thickness of con- 

 ductor, 269; light by the incandescence of a resisting 

 medium, 269 ; Davy's light, 269 ; this form of light, 269 ; 

 change in the carbon used, 269 : processes to obtain ho- 

 mogeneous carbons, 270 ; difficulty of adjustment of car- 

 bon points, 270; Foucault's lamp described, 270; the 

 Serrin lamp, 271 ; EapieflTs form of lamp, 271 ; Werder- 

 mamVs lamp, 272; Eeynier's lamp, 272; "Wallace's lamp, 

 272; Jablochkoflfs lamp, 273; electric candles, 274; in- 

 ventions for the production by incandescence, 274 ; Lody- 

 guine's method, 275 ; the Sawyer-Man lamp, 275 ; the 

 machines which supply the power to run the lamps, 275; 

 magneto-electric, 275; the alliance, 275 ; Siemens's form 

 of armature, 276 ; the Gramme machine, 276 ; other de- 

 scriptions, 276, 277 ; the economy and suitability of the 

 electric light for illuminating buildings, 279. 



Electro-magnet. The contribution of Professor Henry to 

 telegraphy, 420. 



Elevated Railways in New York. The construction of, 284. 



Engineering. Large works approaching completion, 279; 

 the East Eiver suspension bridge, 280; roadway, 280; 

 the main cables, 280 ; drawing of the bridge, 281 ; the 

 towers, 282 ; the caissons, 282 ; bridge over the Missouri, 

 282 ; swing bridge at Marseilles, 282 ; the Severn bridge, 

 283 ; the Britannia tabular bridge, 283 ; viaduct over the 

 Douro Eiver, 283; raising the Egyptian Obelisk, 283; 

 the New York Elevated Eailroads, 284 ; plan of the Met- 

 ropolitan, 285; east side New York elevated, 285; a mili- 

 tary railway, 286 ; new Eddystone lighthouse, 286 ; break- 

 water at the mouth of the river Tees, 287 ; the dock at 

 Bristol, 287; the Huelva pier, 287; new harbor at Ma- 

 dras, 287; the great Sutro Tunnel, 288 ; St. Gothard Eail- 

 way, 289 ; the adit for draining the silver mines of Peru, 

 291 ; the Hudson Eiver Tunnel, 291 ; new canal in Switz- 

 erland, 291; ship canal between the Hudson and East 

 Elvers, 291; Chinese Grand Canal, 291; English fen 

 drainage, 291 ; sewer outlets at Torquay, 291. 



Ericsson's submerged and armored vessel, 591. 



Europe Eastern war, 292; Berlin treaty, 292; occupation 

 of England abroad, 292 ; attempts on the life of the Ger- 

 man Emperor, 292 ; Austria and the Eastern question, 

 292 ; republican success in France, 292 ; Italy, relations 



