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vention, 504; nomination and resolutions, 504; Republi- 

 can Convention, 505 ; proceedings, 505 ; registered voters 

 in the State, 505 ; vote on the constitutional amendments* 

 505 ; election of members of Congress, 505 ; State elec- 

 tion, 505. 



Lutherans. Statistics, 505 ; institutions, 506; Synodical Con- 

 ference, 506; subjects of discussion, 506; report on the 

 mission to the freedmen, 507 ; General Synod South, 507 ; 

 mission in India, 507 ; Lutheran free Diet, 507. 



LTTTON, Lord. Remarks on tho bill for the better regula- 

 tion of the native Indian press, 435. 



Machinery, American, at the Paris Exhibition, 803. 

 Maine. Meeting of the Legislature, 508; acts passed, 508; 

 subject of tramps, 508; convention of sheriffs and jailers, 

 508; resolutions on the subject, 508; action of the Legis- 

 lature, 508; a com mission to investigate the equality or 

 inequality of taxation, 508 ; passed the Senate and lost in 

 the House, 508 ; an insolvency bill passed, 508 ; its pro- 

 visions, 508 ; an act to provide against injury to ice in- 

 tended for market, 508 ; the manner of determining any 

 election by ballot prescribed, 509 ; the law governing the 

 sale of railroad tickets, 509; the lien on hemlock bark ? 

 509; the extensive tanning interest, 509; amount of 

 pickled fish inspected, 509 ; the military force, 509; the 

 State tax, 509 ; the Land Agent's report, 509 ; the Swedish 

 settlements, 510; the Agricultural College, 510; work- 

 shop instruction, 510 ; the Russian system, 510 ; length 

 of railroads, 510 ; the mercantile marine, 510 ; second in 

 extent of any State, 510; the funded debt, 510; receipts 

 from all sources, 510; investments in mortgages, 510; 

 savings banks, 510 ; assets as compared with last year, 

 511 ; deposits and depositors, 511 ; changes in the public 

 schools, 511 ; expenditure and the wages of teachers, 511 ; 

 some grounds on which opposition is made to them, 

 511 ; the Girls' Industrial School, 511 ; State Reform 

 School, 512 ; State-Prison convicts, 512 ; their earnings, 

 512 ; crimes committed, 512 ; operation of the abolition 

 of the death penalty, 512 ; the Insane Hospital and pa- 

 tients, 512 ; general paralysis a cause of death, 512 ; crops 

 In the State, 512 ; corn and wheat, 512 ; potatoes a fail- 

 ure, 512 ; apples and cider, 512 ; hay, barley, and oats, 

 513 ; the German steamer Cimbria, 513 ; State Temper- 

 ance Convention, 513; resolutions, 513; address to the 

 State Legislature, 513 ; remarks of Governor Connor, 

 514 ; the Greenback Convention, 514 ; organization, 514 ; 

 remarks of the President, 514 ; resolutions, 514; nomina- 

 tions, 514; Democratic State Convention, 515; resolu- 

 tions and nominations, 515 ; the Republican State Con- 

 vention, 515; resolutions and nominations, 515; election 

 of members of Congress, 516; do. of State officers, 516; 

 do. of State Legislature, 516 ; assembling of the Legisla- 

 ture and the choice of Governor, 516 ; vote on constitu- 

 tional amendments, 516. 



Mallow, Indian, yields a fiber equal to jute, 682. 



Mandamus cases in Arkansas, 26 ; opinion of the State Su- 

 preme Court on the right of the Federal Courts to enter- 

 tain suits, 27. 



MASKING, Chief Justice. -Decision in Louisiana Returning 

 Board case, 495. 



Manufactures, American, in the Paris Exhibition, 300. 



Maps.-Of Afghanistan, 3; of the Yosemite Valley, 70; of 

 the United States of Colombia, 106; of Turkey, 789. 



MAKKB, ALBERT 8. Elected Governor of Tennessee, 784. 



Marriages and Illegitimate Children. In France, 840. 



Married TTomen.-Law relative to the property of; in Ore- 

 gon, 676. 



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MARTIN <cs. MAoKoNOCniE. Decision In tho Queen's Bench, 

 14. 



Maryland. Report In Congress on tho resolution relative 

 to President Hayes's title, 168. 



Maryland. Meeting and organization of the Legislature, 

 516; resolutions and a memorial to Congress relative to 

 a judicial decision of tho lato Presidential election, 516; 

 referred to Committee on Federal Relations, 61T ; sixth 

 section of the bill providing for tho creation of an Elec- 

 toral Commission, 517 ; report of the majority of the com- 

 mittee unfavorable, 517; extract from tho minority re- 

 port, 517 ; subsequent report of one of the majority, 818; 

 reports considered, 518; substitute offered, 518 ; remarks 

 of Mr. Blair, 518; substitute adopted, 618; but reso- 

 lutions rejected, 518 ; another resolution offered and 

 adopted, 518; presented in Congress and referred, 518; 

 act to appoint a State Tax Commissioner, 518; his da- 

 ties, 519 ; appropriations to various charitable institu- 

 tions, 519; to other State objects, 519; an act for the 

 prevention of cruelty to animals, 519; commissioners to 

 settle the boundary line with West Virginia, 619; a 

 memorial in opposition to a local option law, 519 ; the 

 magnitude of the liquor-selling interest, 519 ; election of 

 United States Senator, 520 ; revenue from life insurance 

 companies, 520 ; public schools in Baltimore, 620 ; 

 teachers and expenditures, 520 ; State expenditure, 620 ; 

 total funded debt, 520 ; reduction of, 520 ; receipts from 

 all sources and disbursements, 520 ; Agricultural College, 

 520 ; Deaf and Dumb Asylum, 521 ; operations of the Fish 

 Commissioner, 521 ; a canal to connect Baltimore with 

 the ocean, 521 ; surveys and route, 521 ; coal shipments, 

 521; election for members of Congress, 521; do. for 

 members of the State Legislature, 521 ; trials of judges 

 of elections in the Federal Court for disregard of United 

 States marshals, 521. 



Massachusetts. Legislative session, 522; reduction of the 

 State tax, 522 ; increase since 1861, 522 ; extra appro- 

 priations, 522 ; interest and principal of the debt to be 

 paid in gold or its equivalent, 522; an act for the con- 

 tinuance of the State detective force, 522; proceedings 

 relative to the liquor question, 622 ; act relative to the 

 transportation of liquors, 528 ; street railway tickets in 

 Boston good on all roads, 523; is a bill appropriating 

 money a money bill? two Houses disagree, 528; argu- 

 ment of the Speaker of the Lower House, 523 ; decision 

 of the Supreme Court, 528 ; a loan of $6,000,000 to the 

 New York and New England railroad defeated, 523; 

 legislation relative to the Hoosac Tunnel, 524 ; statement 

 of one of the members of the House, 524; the employ- 

 ment of children under fourteen years in manufacturing, 

 mechanical, or mercantile establishments, while the pub- 

 lic schools are in session, forbidden, 524; a police com- 

 mission for Boston, 524 ; an effort to abolish the use of 

 the gag in penal institutions, 624; treatment of tramps, 

 524; a bill to afford temporary relief to savings banks, 

 525; details, 525; amendment to the Constitution to se- 

 cure woman suffrage reported, 525 ; views of the minority, 

 525; a bill rejected, 525; report of the Labor Bureau, 

 526; report of the Committee on Prisons, 52; report of 

 the State Board of Health, 62<J; color-blindness, its ex- 

 tent in public institutions, 526; rules for the preveDtion 

 of the spread of contagious diseases in schools, 6! 

 amount of the State debt, and its classification, 627 ; the 

 trust funds, 527 ; taxable property of the State, 57 ; de- 

 crease, 527; causes of the burden of taxation, 527 ; statis- 

 tics of municipal indebtedness, 527 ; gross Interest-tx 

 ing debt of towns, 527 ; aggregates of the several classe 

 of exempted property, 527; tons and passengers on i 

 roads, 528; expenses and earnings, 52? ; expense ol 

 State Board of Charities, 523; abolition of the Board 



