INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



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County, 671 ; swamp lands, 671 ; State Penitentiary, 671; 

 Influx of tramps and vagabonds, 671 ; tho wheat crop, 

 671 ; salmon fisheries, 671 ; catch of the season, 671 ; tho 

 canneries, 672 ; how operated, 672 ; number of cases put 

 up, 672 ; export of wool, 672 ; manufactures, 672 ; mining 1 , 

 672 ; articles exported during the year and amount, 672; 

 assessment roll, 672 ; railroad connections, 672; Indian 

 disturbances, 672 ; State National Convention, 678 ; nomi- 

 nations and resolutions, 673 ; Democratic State Conven- 

 tion, 674; nominations and resolutions, 674; Eepublican 

 State Convention, 675 ; nominations and resolutions, 675 ; 

 election of members of Congress, 675 ; do. of State offi- 

 cers, 675 ; do. of members of the Legislature, 675 ; Legis- 

 lative session, 675 ; United States Senator elected, 676 ; 

 amendment to the libel law, 676; a separate Supreme 

 Court created, 676; the property of married women not 

 liable for husbands' debts-details of the law, 676 ; Fish 

 Commissioner appointed, 676; memorial to Congress on 

 the subject of Chinese immigration, 676. 



Paces of the horse, 722. 



Para, a city on the Amazon its population, etc., 590. 



Para guay. The President, 677; revenue and expenditure, 

 677; public debt, 677; value of imports and exports, 677; 

 chief staples, 677 ; the state railway, 677 ; boundary 

 treaty with the Argentine Republic, 677; details, 678. 



PABDO, DON MANUEL. His assassination in Peru, 687. 



PASSANANTE, GIOVANNI. Attempts to assassinate the King 

 of Italy, 453. 



Peach industry in Delaware, 233. 



Pennsylvania. Close of the legislative session, 678 ; its 

 business, 678; what institutions are sectarian in the 

 opinion of the Governor, 678 ; appropriation for military 

 expenses at Pittsburg, 678 ; uniform rate of interest de- 

 sired, 678 ; the rapid growth of the oil business, 678 ; a 

 resolution passed opposing any reduction in the Federal 

 army, 678; damages sustained by counties during the 

 late civil war, 678 ; resolutions relative to labor and in- 

 dustry, 679; revenue derived from indirect taxes, 679; 

 debt of the State, 679 ; annual receipts and expenditures, 

 679 ; decrease of revenues, 679 ; banks in the State, 680 ; 

 savings and trust companies, 680; views of the Governor 

 on public-school education, 6SO ; the subject of municipal 

 indebtedness, 680; municipal reform commission, 680; 

 report, 680 ; plan reported in New York, 680 ; details of 

 the Pennsylvania report, 681 ; remarks of the Governor 

 on this subject, 681 ; penal institutions of the State, 681 ; 

 rate of farm wages, 681 ; value of sheep and fleece in 

 western counties, 682; failure of attempts to acclimate 

 the jute-plant, 632 ; the fiber of the Indian mallow, 682 ; 

 the petroleum export, 682 ; difficulties of the Standard 

 Oil Company, 682; pipe-line companies, 682; National 

 State Convention, 682; resolutions, 682; nominations, 

 633 ; Republican State Convention, 683 ; resolutions and 

 nominations, 683; Democratic State Convention, 684; 

 resolutions and nominations, 684 ; election of State offi- 

 cers, 684 ; do. of members of the Legislature, 685 ; do. of 

 members of Congress, 685 ; decision as to statute regula- 

 tion respecting marriage, 685 ; a case involving the lia- 

 bility of the city of Pittsburg, 685 ; decision of the Su- 

 preme Court on taxing farming lands in extended city 

 limits, 686. 



Peru. Population, 686; President and Ministers, 686 ; navy, 

 686 ; army, 686 ; success of the Civil party in Congress, 

 686 ; national credit, 686 ; seizure of the Huascar by an 

 English ship, 686; annual sessions of Congress, 687; a 

 fine art institution, 687; assassination of Pardo, 687; pub- 

 lic debt, 687; failure to pay interest, 687; receipts and 



expenditures, 6S7; Import* and exports, 637; nltrat-of- 

 soda production in Peru, 688 ; export of guano, 6^ ; rail- 

 roads, 638 ; mines, 688. 



Petrole um. Prices and product, 128. 



PHILLIPS, WILLIAM A. Representative from Kansas, 185 ; on 

 tho repeal of the specie resumption act, 175. 



Pipe-line Legislation.- A. question of Its 'constitutionality, 

 618. 



Pius IX., Pope. Birth and death, 638 ; his career, CSS. 



Policy of Leo JY//. His Encyclical foreshadowing it, 733. 



Poppy-, The. Its cultivation in China, 100, 101. 



Population, density and death-rate, 723. 



Popular Representation. The cry in Japan, 468. 



Portraits, Composite, how produced, 726. 



Portugal. King and family, 690 ; area and population, 690 ; 

 do. of provinces, 690; movement of population, 690; 

 area and population of Portuguese possessions, 690; 

 budget estimates, 691 ; trade and movement of shipping 1 , 

 691 ; chief articles of export, 691 ; commerce, C91 ; mili- 

 tary and naval force, 691 ; Cortes opened, 691 ; new 

 ministry, 691 ; bill passed, 692 ; elections, 692. 



Posse Comitatus. Views of the Secretary of War, 33; 

 using the army for, 197. 



Postal and Telegraph statistics of the world, 251. 



POTTER, CLAEKSON N. Representative from New York, 135 ; 

 offers a resolution to investigate the alleged fraud in the 

 Presidential election, 169, 170, 172. 



Potter Resolution, The. Its adoption, 178. 



Power of School Boards to exclude children from public 

 schools, decision of Supreme Court of Illinois, 430. 



Presbyterians. Church in the United States, statistics, 692 ; 

 as shown by Synods, 692; Board of Education, 632; 

 Committee of Freedmen, 692 ; Foreign Missions, 692 ; 

 General Assembly, 693 ; case of Rev. Isaac M. See, 693 ; 

 do. of Rev. John Miller, 693 ; do. of Rev. W. C. Me- 

 Cune, 693 ; new basis of representation, 694 ; Presbyte-- 

 rian Church of the United States, 694 ; statistics, 694 ; 

 Publication Committee, 694; Sustentation Committee, 

 694; foreign missions, 695; General Assembly, 695; 

 United Presbyterian Church of North America, 695; 

 home missions, 695 ; foreign missions, 695 ; missions to 

 freedmen, 695; General Assembly, 696; Reformed Pres- 

 byterian Church, 696 ; General Synod, 696 ; Cumberland 

 Presbyterian Church, 696 ; statistics, 696; General As- 

 sembly, 696 ; Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, 

 696; Presbyterian Church of Canada, 697; General As- 

 sembly, 697; Church of Scotland, 698 ; Free Church of 

 Scotland, 698; case of Professor Smith, charged with 

 heresy, 698; United Presbyterian Church of Scotland, 

 699 ; declaratory statement of doctrine, 699 ; case of Rev. 

 Fergus Ferguson, 700 ; Presbyterian Church of England, 

 TOO; Presbyterian Church in Ireland, 701. 



Presidency, report in Congress on providing a mode to try 

 the title of President Hayes, 168. 



Prices of articles in New York for eleven years, 829. 



Probate System of Connecticut, radically defective, 215. 



Protestant Episcopal Church. Statistics, 701; Domestic 

 Committee, 701 ; Indian Committee, 702 ; Foreign Com- 

 mittee, 702; Woman's Board of Missions, 708; Evan- 

 gelical Education Society, 708 ; Christianization ol tho 

 Jews, 703 ; election of bishops, 703 ; Church Congwii, 

 704. 



Provisions, Increase In the export o$ 123. 



Prussia. King and ministry, 704 ; receipts and expenditure*, 

 704 ; provinces, area, and population, 705 ; branches of 

 expenditure, 705; public debt, 705; subject* before th 

 Diet, 705; resignation of the Minister of Finance, 705; 

 causes. 705; other resignations, 705; speech of the King, 

 706; law relating to religious orders and congregations, 

 706. 



