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INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



HAMPTON, WADE. Governor of South Carolina requisition 

 on too Governor of Massachusetts, 529. 



HAETRIDGE, JULIAN. Representative from Georgia, 135; 

 offers a report and resolution relative to the President's 

 office, 169. 



HAYES, R. B. President, proclamation on disturbances in 

 Lincoln County, New Mexico, 31 ; proclamation for an 

 extra session of Congress, 135 ; veto of the silver coinage 

 bill, 162; annual message, December, 2, 1878, 706. 



HENRY, JOSEPH. An American scientist, 419; birth, 419; 

 electrical experiments, 419 ; electro-magnets, 419 ; mag- 

 netic telegraph, 419 ; career, 420 ; writings, 420 ; portrait 

 420. 



Heresy .Trials for, among Presbyterians, 693, 698, 700. 



HEWITT, ABEAM 8. Representative from New York, 135; 

 on the army bill, 212. 



HILL, BENJAMIN H. Senator from Georgia, 135; on the 

 army bill, 201, 203, 204. 



HOAR, GEORGE F. Senator from Massachusetts, 135 ; on the 

 army bill, 208. 



HODGE, CHARLES. American theologian, birth, 420; pur- 

 suits and writings, 420. 



HOLLINS, GEORGE N. American naval officer, birth, 420 ; 

 career and death, 421. 



Holly System of Steam- Heating. Generating heat for 

 thickly settled communities in central localities, 421 ; 

 conducting it in steam through pipes into dwellings like 

 water and gas, 421 ; the inventor, 421 ; its application, 

 421 ; its operation, 421 ; average cost, 421 ; advantages 

 offered, 421; details of the invention, 422 ; boiler-house, 

 422; combined meter and regulator, 422; estimates of 

 capacity, 422. 



Honduras. Area and population, 423 ; President and Minis- 

 ter, 423 ; strength of army, 423 ; national revenue, 423 ; 

 debt, 423; indications of prosperity, 423; railway, 423; 

 commerce, 423 ; schools, 423 ; peaceful state of affairs, 

 423 ; triumphs achieved, 424. 



Hot Springs, in Arkansas, the case of, 24. 



Howard Association. Its activity against the yellow fever, 

 317. 



HOWE, TIMOTHY O. Senator from Wisconsin, 135; on the 

 army bill, 206. 



Hudson River Tunnel, its progress, 291. 



HUMBERT, King. Takes the oath of office in Italy, 456; at- 

 tempted assassination of. 458. 



Hungary. Area and population, 424 ; ministry, 424 ; receipts 

 and expenditures, 424; public debt, 424; length of rail- 

 ways, 424 ; telegraphs, 424 ; influence of the developments 

 of Eastern affairs on the future of Hungary, 424; state- 

 ments of the Prime Minister, 425 ; Emperor closes the 

 session of the Diet, 425; his speech, 425; elections, 425 ; 

 resignation of the ministry, 425 ; new ministry, 425 ; bills 

 passed, 425; policy with respect to the settlement of the 

 Eusso-Turkish question, 425 ; letter of Kossuth, 426 ; 

 manifestations of popular displeasure, 426. 



Hydrographical Knowledge, recent improvements in, 351. 



Ice. legislation to preserve in Maine, 508. 



Illinois. Funds in the Treasury, 426 ; funds, how disbursed, 

 426 ; chief items, 426 ; money required by taxation, 426 ; 

 the bonded debt, 426 ; the municipal debt of the State, 

 427; expense of railroad disturbances of 1877, 427; the 

 rate of interest, 427 ; amendment proposed to the State 

 Constitution, 427 ; its design, 427 ; amount of lands to be 

 reclaimed, 427 ; division of the State into small farms, 

 427 ; the yield of the crops, 427 ; total value, 427 ; hogs and 



their value, 427 ; yield of crops compared with former year. 

 428 ; butter and cheese factories, 428 ; Board of Agricul- 

 ture and its reports, 428; contents of State museums, 



428 ; complete series of fishes of the State, 428 ; the State 

 Library and contents, 428; fees and letters received by 

 Secretary of State, 428 ; licenses to business corporations, 

 428; patients in charitable institutions, 429; proposed 

 appropriations, 429 ; insane hospitals, 429 ; deaf and dumb 

 institutions, 429 ; average cost of pupils in several States, 



429 ; receipts from taxes, 429 ; school-fund receipts, 429 ; 

 receipts from Illinois Central Railroad, 429 ; balance in 

 Treasury, 429 ; penalties for non-payment of taxes, 429 ; 

 accumulations of back taxes, 430 ; fire, marine, and in- 

 land insurance companies, 430; the military force, 430; 

 decision of Supreme Court relative to admission of pupils 

 in High School, 431 ; opinion of State Superin tendent on 

 powers of boards of education, 430 ; case of the Christ 

 Church property in Chicago, 431 ; objects of the State 

 election, 431 ; convention on the remonetization of silver, 

 431; resolutions, 431; National Convention, 432; nom- 

 inations and resolutions, 432; Democratic convention, 

 432 ; nominations and resolutions, 432 ; Republican con- 

 vention, 433 ; nominations and resolutions, 433 ; results 

 of the election, 433, 484. 



Immigration, Chinese, memorial of the Oregon Legislature 

 to Congress on, 676. 



Implements, American Agricultural, at the Paris Exhibi- 

 tion, 811. 



Importation of Diseased Cattle. An act of the State of Mis- 

 sissippi, to forbid, declared unconstitutional by the U. S. 

 Supreme Court, 575 ; points decided, 575. 



India. British viceroyalty, 434; Governor-General, 434; 

 Executive Council, 434; lieutenant-governors of prov- 

 inces, 434; area and population, 434; presidencies and 

 provinces, 434 ; public debt, 434 ; revenue and expendi- 

 ture, 434 ; value of principal exports and imports, 434 ; 

 movement of shipping, 435; railroads, 435 ; post-offices, 

 435; telegraph lines, 435; details of the revenue, 435; 

 abstract of Indian finance, 485; bill for the better regula- 

 tion of the native press passed by Council, 435; addition 

 to the native army. 436 ; important dispatch in Govern- 

 ment policy relating to feudatory armies, 436 ; sufferings 

 from the great famine, 436 ; scheme of public works to 

 be instituted, 436 ; call of the British Government for 

 troops for Malta, 436 interest in the war with Afghanis- 

 tan, 437 ; further details of the war, 437 ; movements of 

 General Roberts, 437; the advance on Candahar, 487; 

 statement of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, 43S ; re- 

 port of the flight of Shere All, 438 ; trial of the Rajah of 

 Pooree for murder, 433 ; constitutional right of the Crown 

 to cede Indian territory, 488 ; occupation of the island of 

 Socotra, 488 ; new Order of the Indian Empire, 438. 



Indian Auxiliaries, a mounted corps proposed by the 

 Secretary of War, 29. 



Indian Territory, The. Federal encroachments on, 28. 



Indiana. The State debt, 438; amendments to the State 

 Constitution proposed, 439 ; hospital for the insane, 439 ; 

 daily cost of each patient, 439 ; enumeration of school 

 children, 439 ; school expenditure, 439 Deaf and Dumb 

 Institution, 489 ; Institute for the Blind, 489 ; increase of 

 crime, 439 ; convicts in the prisons, 439 ; house of refuge, 

 439 ; unemployed prisoners, 439 ; report of Secretary of 

 State, 440; provision for the erection of a new State 

 House, 440 ; the plan adopted by taxes, 440 ; style of ar- 

 chitecture, 440 ; details of the interior arrangement, 440 ; 

 the State election, 441; Democratic Convention, 441; 

 nominations and resolutions, 441 ; the National Labor 

 Convention, 441 ; nominations and resolutions, 442 ; the 

 Republican Convention, 442; nominations and resolu- 

 tions, 443 ; election of members of Congress, 443 ; do. 



