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INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



Public Documents. Message of President Hayes to Con- 

 gress on December 2, 1878, 706 ; report of the Commit- 

 tee of Investigation into the electoral frauds, 712 ; re- 

 port of the minority, 716 ; report of Benjamin F. Butler, 

 717 ; report on the cipher dispatches, 717 ; a card from 

 Mr/Tilden, 717. 



Public Schools, grounds of opposition to them in Maine, 

 511. 



Public Works in Costa Eica, 228. 



Quo warranto, to test the title to a seat in the Kansas Leg- 

 islature, decision of the Supreme Court, 466. 



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Railroad Construction. Unrivaled engineering In the 

 mountain section of North Carolina, 628. 



Railroad Foreclosures since 1S75, with length and capital, 

 121. 



Railroads of the world, 251. 



Railroad Tickets, the sale of, how regulated in Maine, 509. 



Rajah of Pooree, his trial for murder, 438. 



RANDALL, Chief Justice of Florida. An opinion in the case 

 of Drew, relator, against the State Canvassers, 835. 



REAGAN, JOHN H. Representative from Texas, 185 ; on the 

 Potter resolution, 173. 



Reform in City Governments. Report of a Commission in 

 Pennsylvania, 680 ; do. in New York, 680. 



Reformed Ch urches. General Synod. 719 ; Board of Direc- 

 tion, 719,; of Domestic Missions, 719; of Publication, 

 719 ; General Synod of Reformed Church, 719 ; Reformed 

 Church in the United States, 720 ; General Synod, 720. 



Reformed Episcopal Church. Statistics, 721 ; General 

 Council, 721 ; resolutions relative to popular amuse- 

 ments, 721 ; constitutional amendment, 721. 



Religious Bodies in France, two kinds of, 348. 



Researches and Experiments. Mouchafs solar boiler, 722 ; 

 ventilation of sewers, 722 ; the Danube and the Aach, 

 722 ; utilization of the blast-furnace slag, 722 ; utilizing 

 exhaust steam, 723 ; the paces of the horse, 722 : popu- 

 lation, density and death-rate, 723 ; steering great steam- 

 ships, 724 ; the paper manufacture. 724 ; substitute for 

 silk, 724 ; the Shotts of Algeria, 725 ; atmospheric elec- 

 tricity and plant-life, 725 ; a registering sounding ap- 

 paratus, 725 ; new photographic process, 725 ; composite 

 portraits, 726 ; an enemy of the coffee-plant, 727 ; the 

 phoneidoscope, 727. 



Resumption. Preparations of the Federal Government for, 

 825. 



Resuscitation of those apparently drowned. Method used 

 in the life-saving service at shipwrecks, 764. 



Returning Board. Decision of the Louisiana Supreme 

 Court in the case of the indictment and trial of, 495. 



Revolutionary manifestations in Russia, 745, 746. 



Rhode Island. Legislative session, 728 ; a limit fixed to the 

 indebtedness of towns and the taxes that may be im- 

 posed, 728 ; the act, 728 ; an act passed to prohibit the 

 wrongs of children under sixteen years of age, 728; 

 State Board of Health established, 728 ; convention of 

 the Prohibition party, 728 ; resolutions and nominations, 

 728; Republican State Convention, 728; nominations 

 and resolutions, 723 ; Democratic State Convention, 728 ; 

 nominations and resolutions, 729 ; minority resolutions, 

 729 ; election of State officers, 729 ; do. of members of 

 the Legislature, 729; insolvency act passed, 729; its 

 features, 730 ; amendment to the liquor law, 730 ; amend- 

 ment proposed to the State Constitution on the subject 

 f liquor legislation, 730 ; National Labor Convention, 



730; resolutions, 780 ; election of members of Congress, 

 731 ; receipts and expenditures, 731 ; savings banks, 

 731 ; school statistics, 781 ; State charitable and penal 

 institutions, 731 ; under the property qualification can a 

 man vote on the property of his wife ? 732 ; decision of 

 the Supreme Court, 732. 



Rice culture in Louisiana, 500. 



ROBERTS, General. His campaign in Afghanistan, 437. 



ROKITANSKY, Baron KABL VON. Austrian physiologist; 

 birth, 732 ; career and death, 782. 



Roman Catholic Church. Election of a new Pope, 732; 

 crowned, 732 ; proceedings, 732 ; Encyclical foreshadow- 

 ing his policy, 733 ; intercourse opened with the Emperor 

 of Germany and the republic of Switzerland, 736 ; arrange- 

 ment attempted with Russia relative to the Catholic 

 Poles, 736 ; no direct communication with King Humbert, 

 736; Catholic societies in Italy encouraged, 736; arch- 

 bishops and bishops appointed to vacancies, 736 ; perse- 

 cutions in Germany, 736; churches transferred to Old 

 Catholics in Switzerland, 736; escape of an exile from 

 Siberia, 786; modifying act of Norway, 737; death of 

 Bishop Conway, 737; instructions relative to clerical cases 

 in the United States, 737; the instructions, 737; opinions 

 of the meaning and effect of the act, 738 ; deaths by yel- 

 low fever, 738 ; affairs in the United States of Colombia, 

 788; persecution in Corea, 738; death of Dr. Alzog, 738; 

 death of the astronomer Secchi, 788. 



Ross, ALEXANDER MILTON. Canadian naturalist ; birth, 739 ; 

 classification of the fauna and flora of his native country, 

 739. 



Roumania Sovereign, 739 ; area, 739 ; budget, 739 ; army, 

 739 ; imports, 789 ; railroads, post-offices, and telegraphs, 

 739 ; dissatisfaction with the treaty of San Stefano, 789 ; 

 declaration of the Government, 789 ; secret session of the 

 Chambers, 739 ; message from the sovereign, 740 ; an- 

 nexation of the Dobrudja, 740; settlement, 740; the 

 ministry, 740. 



Royalty System of book publication, 224. 



RUSSELL, JOHN, Earl. A British statesman ; birth and death, 

 740 ; career, 740. 



Russia. Sovereign, 741 ; additions by the treaty of Berlin, 

 741; grand divisions, area, and population, 741; popula- 

 tion of Finland, 741 ; religious statistics,. 741 ; condition 

 of finances, 742; entire public debt, 742; nominal strength 

 of the various divisions of the army, 742 ; losses during 

 the war, 742 : Russian navy, 742 ; steps taken to obtain 

 sailors, 743; development of Russian commerce, 748; 

 value of imports and exports, 748 ; value of foreign com- 

 merce with different countries, 743 ; movement of ship- 

 ping, 743 ; tonnage, 748 ; railroads and post-offices, 744 ; 

 elementary schools and pupils, 744; decisions of the 

 Congress of Berlin, how received, 744 ; frauds committed 

 during the war in the commissariat, 744 ; internal condi- 

 tion of Russia, 744 ; continuous uneasiness, 744 ; trial of 

 Vera Sassulitch, 744; attempt to assassinate Trepoff, 

 744 ; a shock to the Government, 745 ; students, 745 ; 

 Nihilists, 745; description of the internal condition of 

 society, 745, 746. 



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SALISBUET, Lord. Reply to the views of the American Gov- 

 ernment on the fisheries award, 244; in a note to the 

 European Powers, defines the position of Great Britain 

 on the Eastern question, 253 ; English Plenipotentiary to 

 Berlin, 401. 



Salmon Canneries on the Columbia River in Oregon, C72. 



Sanitary Engineering at Torquay, 291. 



San Salvador. President and Cabinet, 747; army, 747; 

 revenue and expenditure, 747 ; spirit tax, 747 ; exports 

 and imports, and countries, 747 ; the crops, 748 ; value of 



