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panics, 604; public instruction, 605; remarkable increase 

 of prison convicts, 605; insane paupers, 605; method of 

 keeping the poor, 605 ; an act to punish tramps, 606 ; 

 referee laws for small aauses, 606 ; geological survey, 606 ; 

 the question of the election of U. S. Senator, 606; re- 

 port of the committee of the Senate in Congress, 60T ; 

 biennial sessions and fall elections, 60S ; National State 

 Convention, 608; nominations and resolutions, 60S; Ee- 

 publican State Convention, 608 ; nominations and resolu- 

 tions, 608 ; Democratic State Convention, 609 ; nomina- 

 tions and resolutions, 609; Prohibition nominations, 

 610; election of State officers, 610; do. of Congressmen, 

 610 ; do. of members of the State Legislature, 610. 



New Jersey. Session of the Legislature, 610 ; act to prevent 

 the attempt to bribe delegates to political conventions, 

 610; an act to regulate caucus nominations and primary 

 meetings, 610 ; resolutions in opposition to the free coin- 

 age silver bill, 611 ; resolutions relative to the restoration 

 of the American commercial marine, 611 ; Bureau of 

 Labor Statistics established, 611 ; debt of the State, 611 ; 

 rate of taxation, 611 ; valuation tax and school tax in 

 each county, 611 ; rate of taxation in the principal cities, 

 611; railroad companies in the State and their taxes, 

 611; the National Guard, 611; the public schools, 612; 

 school property, attendance, and tax, 612 ; view of the 

 Governor on school education, 612 ; the Normal School, 

 613 ; feeble-minded children, 618 ; Insane Asylum at 

 Morristown, 613 ; investigation of cruel acts to prison 

 convicts, 613 ; instruments of punishment used, 613 ; 

 marriages, births, and deaths, 613 ; National Labor Con- 

 vention, 613 ; resolutions, 613 ; election of members of 

 Congress, 613 ; do. of members of State Legislature, 

 614. 



New Jerusalem Church. General Convention, 614; new 

 book of worship, 614; Theological School fund, 614. 



New York. Session of the Legislature, 614 ; the subject of 

 apportionment, 614 ; right of a succeeding Legislature to 

 make the apportionment, 614 ; opinion of the Attorney- 

 General, 614; proceedings in the Assembly, 615; code 

 of civil procedure, 615; action of New York on the sub- 

 ject of codification, 615 ; provision in the Constitution, 

 615; first Commission, 615; subsequent proceedings, 

 615, 616; charges of official misconduct against the Su- 

 perintendent of the Insurance Department, 616; the 

 charges, 616 ; trial and acquittal, 616 ; the question of 

 abandoning the canals, 616; expenditure and revenue, 

 616 ; inquiry of the Assembly as to the cost of main- 

 tenance after abandoning the tolls, 617; reply of the 

 State Auditor, 617 ; investigation of the revenues and 

 increase of commerce of the canals, 617 ; report of the 

 Commission, 617 ; valuation of the various classes of 

 charities and their receipts and expenses, 617; amount 

 required to complete the new Capitol, 618 ; act to pro- 

 vide for the incorporation of pipe-line companies, 618 ; 

 question of constitutionality, 618 ; opinion of the Gov- 

 ernor, 618; views of the Attorney-General, 618; a mar- 

 ried woman may execute a power of attorney, 619; 

 threats for the purpose of extortion punishable, 619 ; 

 report of the Bank Superintendent, 619 ; insurance com- 

 panies, 619 ; anthracite coal and railroad combination, re- 

 port on, 619 ; Fish Commissioners' views of food for 

 fishes, 620 ; financial condition of the State, 620 ; finan- 

 cial operations of the year, 620; tax levy, 620; canals- 

 tonnage, revenue, and expenses, 620; State Prisons, 

 620; expenses and earnings, 621; insane asylums and 

 patients, 621 ; Inebriate Asylum, 621 ; National Guard, 

 621 ; condition of common schools and number of pupils, 

 621 ; views of the Governor on common-school educa- 

 tion, 621; Women's Suffrage Convention, 621; resolu- 

 tions, 622 ; Prohibition State Convention, 622 ; nomina- 



tion and resolutions, 622; National Labor Convention, 

 622 ; nomination and resolutions, 622 ; Eepublican State 

 Convention, 623 ; nomination and resolutions, 623 ; 

 Democratic State Convention, 624 ; nomination and reso- 

 lutions, 624; election for State Judge, 624; do. for mem- 

 bers of Congress, 624 ; do. for members of the State 

 Legislature, 625; decision under the civil damage act, 

 625. 



Nihilists, the front rank of malcontents in Eussia, 745. 



Nitrate of Soda, export of, from Peru, 688. 



Nitrification, an entirely new theory of the process, 88. 



North Carolina. Debt of the State, 626; what shall be 

 done with this debt ? 626 ; embarrassed condition of the 

 current finances, 626 ; the penitentiary system the most 

 costly of its institutions, 626 ; convicts set to work on rail- 

 roads, 626; number of convicts, 627; conclusions rela- 

 tive to convict labor, 627; increased interest in popular 

 education, 627; the law relating to public schools, 627; 

 provision for the care of the insane, 627 ; efforts to carry 

 out a system of internal improvements, 627 ; the plan 

 of the system, 627 ; unrivaled railroad engineering in 

 the mountain section, 628; details of the work, 628; 

 wealth of eleven western counties, 628; statistics of 

 their productions, 629 ; agriculture throughout the State, 

 - 629; aggregate values, 629; animals and value, 629; 

 total real and personal property, 680 ; municipal elec- 

 tions, 630 ; State election, 630 ; conventions, 680 ; re- 

 sults, 630; the Chief Justice, 630; State Legislature, 

 630 ; instructions of Attorney- General Devens, 630; ex- 

 tract from the Federal statute, 630 ; election for mem- 

 bers of Congress, 631. 



Norwegian North Sea Expedition, its results, 353. 



Obituaries, American. See alphabetical arrangement of, 

 631, et seq. 



Obituaries, Foreign. See alphabetical arrangement of, 648, 

 et seq. 



Ohio. The State finances, 663; funded debt, 663; local in- 

 debtedness, 663 ; increase in the debts of cities, 663 ; taxes 

 levied in 1878, 663; amount of taxable property, 668; 

 railroads and telegraphs, 604; debt, earnings, expenses, 

 passengers, etc., 664; accidents, 664; agricultural statis- 

 tics, 664; production of wheat, oats, barley, hay, flax, 

 potatoes, tobacco, cheese, sugar, fruits, etc., 6C4 ; bees and 

 honey, 661; animals, 664; State charities, 664; inmates, 

 664; insane, blind, deaf and dumb, imbeciles, Peniten- 

 tiary, etc., 6G5 ; statistics of common schools, 665 ; labor 

 statistics, 665 ; military service of the State, 665 ; aban- 

 donment by lessees of public works, 665; receipts and 

 expenditures of, 666; acts of the Legislature, 666; ar- 

 rangement of Congressional districts, 666; charges against 

 a member of the Lower House, 666; State Prohibition 

 Convention, 666 ; nominations and resolutions, 666 ; Ee- 

 publican State Convention, 666 ; nominations and resolu- 

 tions, 667; Democratic State Convention, 667; nomina- 

 tions and resolutions, 667; National Labor Convention, 

 668 ; nominations and resolutions, 668 ; election of State 

 officers, 668 ; do. of Congressmen, 669. 



OKUBO, Minister of the Interior in Japan, assassinated, 462. 



Old Catholics. Their crisis in Germany, 669; question of 

 clerical celibacy, 669 ; points decided by the Synod, 669 ; 

 statistics, 670; the Synod in Switzerland, 670 ; question 

 of the reception of the Lord's Supper in both kinds, 670 ; 

 compromise, 670 ; statistics, 670 ; Old Catholics in Aus- 

 tria, 670; do. in Italy, 670; do. in France, 670. 



Oregon. Prosperity of the State, 670 ; revenue and expen- 

 ditures, 670 ; State debt, 670 ; payments on, 670 ; most 

 ample foundation for schools, 671 ; coal deposits of Coos 



