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INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



KAUFMANN, General. Commands a Russian expeditionary 

 force through Bokhara. 



KEARNEY, DENIS. Letter to the Senate of California, 73. 



KELLEY, WILLIAM D. Representative from Pennsylvania, 

 135; on the repeal of the specie resumption act, 187. 



Kentucky. Meeting of the State Legislature, 468; an act 

 relating to a call of a State Constitutional Convention, 

 468 ; six per cent, rate of interest adopted, 468 ; the sale 

 of spirituous liquors to inebriates and drunkards for- 

 bidden, 468 ; State Board of Health created, 468 ; features 

 of the act, 468; new county of Leslie, 469 ; mode of as- 

 certaining the value of the property of railroad companies 

 for taxation prescribed, 469 ; details of the act, 469 ; c 

 bill for the reestablishing of the whipping-post, 469; 

 reasons urged to show its necessity, 469 ; speech of one 

 of the advocates of the bill, 469 ; passed by the House, 

 and a tie vote in the Senate, 470; appropriation for the 

 erection of a monument to the late J. C. Breckenridge, 

 470 ; act in reference to carrying concealed deadly weap- 

 ons, 470 ; geological, topographical, and botanical surveys, 

 470; the State militia, 470; Agricultural College endow- 

 ment, 470 ; joint resolution relative to the yellow fever, 

 470 ; resolution relative to the reduction of the tobacco 

 tax, 471; resolution relative to the Texas and Pacific 

 Railway, 471 ; resolution relative to the repeal of the re- 

 sumption act, 471 ; value of taxable property in the State, 

 471 ; value of the same belonging to blacks, 471 ; State 

 Penitentiary, 471 ; report of the State Board of Equali- 

 zation of the value of railroad property, 471; present 

 rate of State taxation, 472 ; estimate of the production 

 of whisky in the State, 472 ; the crop of wheat, 472 ; do. 

 of barley, 472 ; corn, hemp, and oats, 472 ; tobacco, hay, 

 and grass, 472 ; acres of peach and apple orchards, 472 

 sheep and hogs, 472 ; poultry and its value, 472 ; bee 

 colonies, 472 ; a product of honey. 472 ; crop of chufas, 

 472 ; fish preservation, 478 ; disturbance at Jackson, 

 Breathitt County, 473 ; election of members of Congress, 

 473; do. of State Legislature, 473 ; change in the) Court 

 of Appeals, 473 ; a case in the Court of Appeals on the 

 right of a court to try an extradited prisoner for a non- 

 extraditable offense, 473 ; facts of the case, 478 ; decision 

 relative *o the dominant principle of modern extradition, 

 473-475. 



KERNAN, JPEANCIS. Senator from New Tork, 135; on the 

 coinage of silver dollars, 151 ; on the army bill. 197-199. 



KEY, D. M. Postmaster-General, 805 ; letter to the Southern 

 people, 805. 



KIMBALL, SUMNER I. Takes charge of the Revenue marine 

 service, and the life-saving stations, 751 ; appointed su- 

 perintendent of the service, 755. 



KIMPTON, HIRAM H. A requisition for, issued by the Gov- 

 ernor of South Carolina, 529. 



KIRKWOOD, SAMUEL J. Senator from Iowa, 135; on the 

 army bill, 205. 



LABORDETTE, Dr. Discovery of evidences of vitality that have 

 been considered signs of death in apparently drowned per- 

 sons, 766. 



Lamps for electric lights, forms of, 271. 



LEO XIII. Elected Pope, 732; communicates his election to 

 the Powers, 782 ; announces his policy, 733 ; correspond- 

 ence with the German Government, 881 ; refuses the an- 

 nual dotation of Italy, 454. 



LEOPOLD, King of the Belgians, celebrates his " silver wed- 

 ding," 56. 



Liberal League, organization of, in Iowa, 450. 



Lichens. Their position in the vegetable kingdom a subject 

 of animated controversy, 475; StahTs recent investiga- 



tions, 475 ; his greatest discovery, 475 ; the true repro- 

 ductive process, 477 ; final proof of the Schwendenerian 

 theory, 477; how classified, in Germany, 477. 



Life-saving Service, United States; see Service, United 

 States Life-saving. 



Light, the Electric, at the Paris Exhibition, 307. 



Lighting by Electricity. Diff erent wayo of accomplishment, 

 268. 



LINDSEY, Chief Justice. Decision in the Kentucky extradi- 

 tion case, 472. 



Literature and Literary Progress. Number of new publi- 

 cations not small, 477 ; poetry, works of Bryant, Taylor, 

 Longfellow, Helen Whitman, and others, 477; history 

 and biography, 478 ; science and philosophy, 479 ; reli- 

 gion and theology, 480 ; essays and criticism, 481 ; trav- 

 els, 481; fiction, 482; juveniles, 482; text-books, 483; 

 miscellaneous, 483. 



Literature, Continental, in 1878. In Belgium, 484 ; in Bo- 

 hemia, 485; in Denmark, 485; in France, 485; in Ger- 

 many, 486; in Holland, 487; in Hungary, 488; in Italy, 

 488 ; in Norway, 488 ; in Portugal, 488 ; in Russia, 488 ; 

 in Spain, 489 ; in Sweden, 489. 



Literature, English. History, 490 ; biography, 490 ; fiction, 

 491 ; theology and religion, 492 ; science and philosophy, 

 492 ; travel, 492 ; poetry, 493. 



LONG, CHARLES CHAILLE. Birth, 493 ; military career, 493 ; 

 explorations in Egypt, 494. 



LORNE, MARQUIS OF. Arrival as Governor of Canada, 246. 



Louisiana. An information filed against the Returning 

 Board, 494; its charges, 494 ; the trial, 494 ; the evidence, 

 494 ; verdict of the jury, 495 ; sentence, 495 ; case car- 

 ried to Supreme Court, 495 ; decision of Chief Justice 

 Manning, 495 ; verdict set aside and the prisoner dis- 

 charged, 495 ; views of the Court, 495 ; application to 

 Justice Bradley for removal of the case to the Federal 

 Court, 496 ; his decision, 496 ; meeting of the Legislature, 

 496; resolution relative to an investigation of the cor- 

 ruption of the State electoral vote, 497 ; substitute of- 

 fered, 497 ; debate on the resolution. 497 ; its adoption, 

 497 ; report of the Committee on Federal Relations on the 

 admission of W. P. Kellogg to a seat in the United States 

 Senate, 497; adopted, 498; resolutions relative to the 

 "Bland Silver Bill 1 ' adopted, 498; amendments pro- 

 posed to the State Constitution, 498 ; the retrenchment 

 of expenditures, 498; embarrassed condition of the State 

 finances, 499 ; the bonded debt of the State, 499 ; provi- 

 sions of the funding law, 499 ; its limiting features, 499; 

 the rate of taxation, 499 ; most important crops of the 

 State, 500 ; crop of sugar, 500 ; damage of it, 500 ; prod- 

 uct of sugar for forty-three years, 500 ; increase in 

 molasses, 500 ; remarkable extension of the rice culture, 

 500; amount of crop, 500; profits, 500; orange crop of 

 Louisiana, 500 ; receipts at New Orleans from the inte- 

 rior of the leading articles of trade with the increase or 

 decrease, 501 ; the yellow-fever epidemic, 501 ; a public 

 meeting to express thanks for aid contributed, 501 ; reso- 

 lutions adopted, 501 ; disturbance at Monroe, 501 : do. in 

 St. Charles Parish, 501 ; do. in Tensas and Concordia 

 Parishes, 501 ; statement of the affair by the Governor, 

 502 ; success of the efforts to increase the depth of water 

 on the bar at the mouth of the Mississippi, 502 ; the im- 

 provements under Captain Eads, 502 ; details of the con- 

 tract, 502 ; results, 502; demand for improvements of the 

 Mississippi, so that it shall become the outlet for the im- 

 mense crops on its banks and those of its tributaries* 

 503 ; area of the valley, 508 ; extent of the drainage, 503 ; 

 the fall of the water, 503; range between high and low 

 water, 508 ; crevasses in Louisiana levees, 503 ; manner 

 of their formation, 503 ; effect of the overflows, 503 ; cost 

 of repairing existing levees, 504 ; Democratic State Con- 



