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recommended, 528 ; five great Institutions opened during 

 the year, 528 ; patients in the Insane Asylums, 528 ; penal 

 establishments in the State, 529 ; inmates, 529 ; the pau- 

 per population, how provided for, 529 ; number and sex, 

 529 ; full or partial support, 529 ; average increase, 529 ; 

 institutions aided by State grants, 529 ; unemployed 

 laborers in the State, 529 ; report of Labor Bureau there- 



on, 529 ; a requisition from the Governor of South Caro- 

 lina, 529 ; the State law on the subject, 529 ; reply of the 

 Governor of Massachusetts, 530 ; suit against the Boston 

 Beer Company, 580; decision of the United States Su- 

 preme Court, 580 ; appearance of Denis Kearney from 

 California, 530 ; resolutions adopted in Fanueil Hall, 530; 

 speech of General Butler in Maine, 530; requested by 

 voters in Massachusetts to become a candidate for Gov- 

 ernor, 531 ; answer to the request, 531, 532 ; the Prohibi- 

 tory State Convention, 532 ; resolutions, 582 ; nomina- 

 tions, 533; Independent Greenback Convention, 533; 

 resolutions, 533; nominations, 534; State Democratic 

 Convention called, 534; declaration of the Executive 

 Committee on the qualifications of delegates, 534 ; reply 

 of General Butler, 534 ; proceedings of the delegates at 

 Worcester, 534 ; address of Executive Committee post- 

 poning the Convention, 584 ; organization of the dele- 

 gates, 534; nominations and resolutions, 535; Republi- 

 can State Convention, 535 ; nominations and resolutions, 

 535; adjourned Democratic Convention, 536; nomina- 

 tions and resolutions, 536 ; election of members of Con- 

 gress, 537; do. of State officers, 537; do. of members of 

 the State Legislature, 537. 



MATTHEWS, STANLEY. Senator from Ohio, 135 ; offers a reso- 

 lution that the bonds of the United States be paid in sil- 

 ver dollars, 138. 



McCuNE, Rev. W. C. Case before the Presbyterian General 

 Assembly, 693. 



MACMAHON resigns as President of France, 338. 



MCMILLAN, S. J. E. Senator from Minnesota, 135 ; on the 

 army bill, 198, 207. 



Megaphone, combination of the speaking-trumpet and the 

 ear-trumpet, 537; details, 537. 



Memorandum between Russia and Great Britain on the 

 Eastern question, 254. 



Mennonites. Annual Conference, etc., 50. 



MEEBIMON, AUGUSTUS 8. Senator from North Carolina, 135; 

 on the army bill, 200. 



MESENTZOFF, General. A Russian chief of police, assassi- 

 nated, 745. 



Metallurgy. Exhibit at the Paris Exhibition, 807. 



Meteorology. What has been accomplished of late years, 587 ; 

 the present organization of meteorological work in Africa, 

 538; Algeria, 538; Argentine Republic, 538; Austria and 

 Hungary, 588; Australia, 538; Belgium, 538; Canada and 

 Newfoundland, 538; Cape Colony, 538; Ceylon, 539; 

 Chili, 539; China, 539; Costa Rica, 539; Denmark, 539; 

 Egypt, 539; Finland, 539; France, 539; Germany, 539; 

 Great Britain, 540; Greece, 540; India, 540; Italy, 540; 

 Japan, 541 ; Mauritius, 541 ; Mexico, 541 ; Netherlands, 

 641 ; New Zealand, 541 ; Norway, 541 ; Philippine Isles, 

 541 ; Portugal, 541 ; Russia, 541 ; South America, 541 ; 

 Spain, 542; Sweden, 542; Switzerland, 542; Syria, 542; 

 Turkey, 642; United States, 542; West Indies, 543; in- 

 ternational organizations, 543; ocean meteorology, 548 ; 

 meteorological instruments and methods, 544. 



Methodists. Methodist Episcopal statistics, 545, 546 ; Freed- 

 men's Aid Society, 546; Sunday School Union, 546; Gen- 

 eral Committee of Church Extension, 546 ; General Mis- 

 sionary Committee, 547; treatment of Chinese immi- 

 grants, 547; Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, 547; 

 Methodist Episcopal Church South, statistics, 547; the 

 Publishing House, 547; Board of Education, 548; General 



Conference, 548 ; Methodist Protestant Church, statistics, 

 648 ; Board of Missions, 548 ; Methodist Episcopal Church 

 in Canada, General Conference, 549 ; Methodist Church in 

 Canada, statistics, 549; General Conference, 549; Wes- 

 leyan Connection, statistics, 549 ; Conference, 549 ; Wes- 

 leyan Methodist Thanksgiving Fund, 550; Wesleyan 

 Missionary Society, 550 ; Australian Wesleyan Methodist 

 Church statistics, 550 ; General Conference, 550 ; Meth- 

 odist New Connection Conference, 551 ; Primitive Meth- 

 odist Church, statistics, 551; United Methodist Free 

 Church statistics, 551 ; Bible Christian statistics, 551 ; 

 Independent Methodist Churches, 551. 



Mexico. President and Cabinet, 551 ; Governors of States, 

 552; Mexican Ambassador, 552; army and navy, 552; 

 revenue and expenditures, 552 ; distribution of expendi- 

 ture, 552 ; national debt, 652 ; public-school system, 552 ; 

 foreign commerce, 552 ; American Manufacturers 1 Asso- 

 ciation of the Northwest, 553 ; Mexican tariff duties, 653 ; 

 cost and changes, 553 ; State taxes, 554 ; revision of the 

 tariff, 554 ; consumption of cotton fabrics, 554 ; imperfect 

 means of communication, 555 ; recognition of Diaz by the 

 United States, 555; condition of the republic, 555; the 

 President's remarks on the border difficulties, 555. 



Michigan. State of the Treasury, 556; receipts and dis- 

 bursements, 556 ; surplus specific taxes, 556 ; indebted- 

 ness to the trust funds, 556 ; value of real and personal 

 property, 656 ; acres of land held by the State, 556 ; the 

 new Capitol, 556; State paupers, 556; cost of main- 

 tenance, 557; condition of the State Prison, 657; the 

 State House of Correction, 557 ; the Reform School, 557 ; 

 the State Public School, 557; a charitable institution, 

 557 ; details of it, 557 ; Asylum for the Insane, 558 ; 

 Deaf and Dumb Institution, 558; statistics of the pub- 

 lic schools, 558 ; the Agricultural College, 53; legisla- 

 tive appropriations, 588 ; railroads in the State, 558, 559 ; 

 land reservation for a northern road, 659 ; insurance 

 companies, 559 ; aggregate of business done, 559 ; crop 

 of wheat, 659; yield in certain counties, 560; other 

 crops, 560 ; product of salt, 560 ; National Convention, 

 560; nominations and resolutions, 560 ; Republican State 

 Convention, 560 ; nominations and resolutions, 560 ; 

 Democratic State Convention, 561 ; nominations and 

 resolutions, 561; Prohibition State Convention, 561; 

 nominations, 561 ; election of State officers, 562 ; do. of 

 member of Congress, 662 ; vote on amendments to the 

 State Constitution, 562. 



Microphone. Description of the instrument, 562 ; statement 

 of Professor Hughes, 562. 



Microtasimeter. A measure of infinitesimal pressure, 563 ; 

 ' the modus operandi, 563; its uses, 563. 



MILLEB, Rev. JOHN. Charged with heresy before the Pres- 

 byterian General Assembly, 693. 



Minnesota. Condition of the State Treasury, 563; chief 

 items of expenditure, 563 ; defeat of the proposition to 

 settle the old railroad-bond debt, 564 ; provision of the 

 act, 564 ; assessed value of property, 564 ; rate of tax- 

 ation, 564 ; decrease of taxable value, 564 ; codification 

 of the tax laws, 564; act for the provision of uniform 

 and cheap text-books for public schools, 565 ; the Higher 

 School Board of Commissioners, 565 ; a public examiner 

 appointed of the books and accounts of the several pub- 

 lic educational, charitable, penal, and reformatory insti- 

 tutions of the State, 565; State Board of Immigration 

 created, 565 ; acquittal of Judge Page, 5C5 ; Democratic 

 State Convention, 566; nominations and resolutions, 

 666; Republican State Convention, 566; nominations 

 and resolutions, 566; election of State officers, 567; 

 election of Congressmen, 567; .do. of members of the 

 Legislature, 567 ; report of Prison Inspectors, 567 ; wheat 

 crop, 568 ; crop of oats, 568 ; culture of amber sugar-cane, 



