INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



843 



unchanged, 292 ; the states of Europe In tho order of 

 their population, 293 ; relative position In point of area, 

 293. 



Eurydice training ship, her loss, 407. 



Evangelical A ssociation. Statistics, 293; Missionary Soci- 

 ety, 294 ; Board of Publication, 294. 



Evangelical Union of Scotland. Its formation, 294; its 

 objects, 294 ; its members, 294. 



EVARTS, WILLIAM M. Secretary of State, expresses the views 

 of the Government on the award of the Fisheries Com- 

 mission, 242. 



Evils in the legislative acd judicial departments of Connecti- 

 cut, 214. 



EWING, THOMAS. Representative from Ohio, 135: on the 

 free coinage of silver dollars, 160 ; reports a bill to repeal 

 the resumption act, 175, 193. 



Exploring Parties in Africa, 361. 



Exposition, Paris. Its announcement and progress, 294; 

 object of the first London Exhibition, 294; increasing 

 magnitude of successive exhibitions, 295 ; number of ex- 

 hibitors, 295; action of the German Government, 295? 

 buildings, cost, etc., 295 ; administrative corps, 295 ; 

 American directors, 296; preparations, 296; the open- 

 ing, 296; buildings and grounds; 296, 297; the captive 

 balloon, 298 ; the facades, 298 ; classification of exhibits, 

 299 ; American manufactures, 300 ; British manufactures, 

 800; Japanese exhibit, 301; other foreign exhibits, 302; 

 French exhibits, 302 ; the Indian collection, 803; the art 

 galleries, 804 ; retrospective art collection, 305 ; speciaj 

 classes, 305 ; metallurgy, 307 ; machinery, 308 ; com- 

 pound engine, 308 ; furnace-feeding apparatus, 808 ; type 

 of flour-mill, 309; fireless locomotives, 809; combined 

 traction and steam fire-engine, 809 ; French locomotives, 

 810; apparatus for making small screws, 810; wood- 

 working machinery, 310 ; type-setting-machine, 811 ; 

 agricultural implements, 811 ; mowers and reapers, har- 

 rows, and rollers, and binders, 811; hay-presses, 312; 

 plows, 312; drain-cutters, 312; threshing-machines, 313; 

 portable engines, 813 ; exhibition of animals, 813 ; live- 

 stock, 813 ; dog-show, 313 ; horse-show, 813 ; concerts? 

 313 ; congresses, 314. 



Extradition Case. Decision of the Kentucky Court of Ap- 

 peals, 473. 



Famine in Brazil, 64 ; in northern China, 98 ; in India, 436. 



Farming lands in extended city limits, decision of the 

 Supreme Court of Pennsylvania on the right to levy city 

 taxes on, 686. 



FAZY, JEAN J. A Swiss statesman, 314 ; birth and career, 

 814 ; death, 314. 



Fees exacted by Government employees, bad effects of, 369. 



FELTON, WILLIAM. H. Representative from Georgia, 135 ; 

 on the repeal of the specie resumption act, 188. 



Female lawyer, a, admitted to practice in California, 71. 



Fenian Prisoners. Release of, in England, 406. 



FERGUSON, Rev. FERGUS. Case of, involving questions of 

 doctrine before the Synod of the United Presbyterian 

 Church of Scotland, 760. 



Fver, Yellow. The fever in the Southern States, 315 ; de- 

 scription of yellow fever by Dr. Faget, of Paris, 315; Dr. 

 Nott's remarks on bilious fever, 315; complications of 

 the New Orleans fever, 315 ; variations between the types 

 in Memphis and New Orleans, 315; origin of the epi- 

 demic, 315 ; peculiarities of seasons, 315; decided by tho 

 New Orleans faculty to be a specific disease, 316; views 

 of Dr. Warren Stone, of New York, 816; influence of 

 miasma, 31 6; facts at New Orleans, 816; how the fever 

 was traced, 316; its prevalence in various places, 817; 



disinfectants in Now Orleans, 817; Its prevalence, 317; 

 Howard Associations, 817; Increase In tho city, JU7; re- 

 medial agents, 817; sums contributed, 818; total ex- 

 penditures, 318; quarantines, 818; earnings of railroads, 

 steamers, etc , decreased, 818; quarantines of cities, 81H ; 

 vagaries of the disease, 818 ; diversity of views, 818 ; 

 number of cases and deaths, 819; number In all places, 

 319 ; official figures of six epidemics In New Orleans, 

 820; rise and fall in different years, 820; a discovery 

 from investigations of the blood of patients, 820 ; Rich- 

 mond Public Health Association report, 820; topography 

 of New Orleans, 321 ; donation for an investigation, 8'J1 ; 

 opinion of a board of experts, 821 ; yellow-fever commit- 

 tee of the United States Senate, 822. 



Finances of the United States. Receipts and expenditures, 

 822; estimates, 323 ; actual receipts, 323; statement of 

 the outstanding principal of the public debt, 324; pro- 

 cess of refunding the debt, 325 ; measures in anticipation 

 of resumption, 325; action of the Treasury Department 

 in the way of fortifying itself, 325 ; conference of the Eu- 

 ropean Powers to fix an international ratio of gold and 

 silver coin a failure, 826; ratio fixed by Congress, 826; 

 monetary transactions of the Government, how conduct- 

 ed, 826; number of national banks, 327; details, 827; re- 

 port of the Director of the Mint, 327 ; production of bul- 

 lion from the mines, 327 ; gold values of exports and 

 imports of the United States, 327 ; specie and bullion 

 exports, 827 ; excess of exports over imports, 327 ; re- 

 ceipts from the several sources of taxation, 828 ; total 

 tonnage of vessels in the United States, 328; vessels 

 built, 328; do. during the year 1878, 829; entries and 

 clearances, 329 ; comparative prices of a series of articles 

 for eleven years, 829 ; New York money market, 329 ; 

 low prices of stocks, 329. 



Financial history of the country since the war, 158. 



Fish. Necessity for an abundance of food for them to streams, 

 620. 



Florida. Affairs during the year, 330 ; State indebtedness, 

 830; reduction of taxes made, 830; want of uniformity 

 in taxation, 330 ; plan of remedy adopted, 830 ; mode of 

 assessment adopted in Kentucky, 830; present condition 

 of public schools, 330; proposition to limit public-school 

 instruction, 330 ; leasing convicts of the Peniten tiary, 831 ; 

 their cost to the State, 831 ; sales of State lands, 881 ; 

 State Board of Health, 881 ; attractions to Immigrants, 

 331 ; West Florida, its climate, soil, and productions, 331 ; 

 Middle Florida, its climate, soil, and productions, 882 ; 

 East and South Florida, the climate, soil, and produc- 

 tions, 332; the sea-breezes, 882 ; temperature, 832; the 

 trade of Pensacola, 833 ; subject of a Constitutional Con- 

 vention, 833 ; nominations for Congress, 888 ; the regis- 

 tration law, 833; vote for Congressman in the First Dis- 

 trict, 834; do. in the Second District, 884 ; certificate of 

 the Board of State Canvassers, 884; certificate of the 

 Governor issued, 835 ; application for a mandamus to 

 control the Board of Canvassers, 835; the hearings, 885; 

 decision of the Supreme Court, 885 ; dissent of Justice 

 Westcott, 335, 836; powers of the State Board, 886, 887 ; 

 decision of the Court in the case of the State tas rel. 

 Drew, 838. 



FOOT, G. L. Representative from Illinois, 185 ; on the re- 

 tirement of legal-tender notes, 164. 



France. President and Ministry, 888; resignation of Mao- 

 Mahon, 888; election of M. Grevy, 838; legislative body, 

 838; area and population, 838; population by depart- 

 ments, 889; movement of population, 840; stillborn chil- 

 dren, 340 ; illegitimate, 840 ; deaths, 840 ; marriages, 84< 

 voters, 840 ; revenue and expenditures, 840 ; new army 

 law, 340; reorganization. 840; strength, 841; force of tl 

 navy, 841 ; commerce with foreign countries, 841 ; do. 



