INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



855 



the principal exports, 748; do. of imports, 748 ; the Pacific 

 Mail Company, 748; inducements to immigrants, 749. 

 SASSULITCH, VERA. A Kussian young woman tried for at- 

 tempted assassination, 744. 



School Education. Views of the Governor of New Jersey 

 on the education given in public schools, 612 ; do. of the 

 Governor of New York, 621 ; do. of the Governor of 

 Pennsylvania, 680; do. of the people in Mine, 6. 

 SECOHI, PETER ANGELO. Italian astronomer and Jesuit- 

 birth and death, 738 ; his inventions and pursuits, 788. 

 Sectarian or nott How the question is decided by the 



Governor of Pennsylvania, 678. 

 SEE, Eev. ISAAC M. Case before the Presbyterian General 



Assembly, 693. 

 SEISMIT-DODA, Signer. Minister of Finance in Italy makes 



a financial statement, 457, 

 Senator from New Hampshire, the question of the election 



of, 606. 



Servia. Prince and family, 748 ; army, 748 ; opening of the 

 Skupshtina, 748 ; speech of the Prince, 743 ; legislative 

 proceedings, 748 ; the ministry, 748. 



Service, United States Life-saving. Only governmental 

 establishment of the kind in the world, 749 ; the first 

 regular attempt at organized succor, 749 ; pecuniary aid 

 given to it, 749 ; only occasional eiforts for the protection 

 of navigators for the last half century, 750; history of the 

 successive steps and methods for the aid of navigators, 

 750 ; action of Congress in 1854, 751 ; organization of the 

 present system in 1871, 751 ; the appropriation of 1871, 

 751 ; in charge of the Kevenue Marine service, 751 ; an 

 exploration and examination and reorganization of the 

 stations, 751; Kimball, Sumner I., put in charge the 

 work that was done and its successful results, 752 ; extent 

 of the stations and selection of the best available appa- 

 ratus, 752 ; code of regulations prepared, 752 ; details of 

 them, 752 ; continued success, 753 ; increase of the sta- 

 tions and districts, 753; reports and further legislation of 

 Congress, 753 ; further increase of stations and improve- 

 ments in apparatus, 753; attempt to subordinate the 

 service to local politics, 754 ; disaster of the British ship 

 Circassian, 754; number of stations in 1877, 754; im- 

 proved apparatus, telegraphs, and boats, 754; lives saved 

 and lost, 755; act of Congress of June, 1878, formally 

 organizing the service, 755 ; details of the act, 755 ; num- 

 ber of stations embraced, and their location and their 

 organization, 756, 757; oflicers of the service, 758; de- 

 scription of the duties of subordinates, 758 ; do. of the 

 house of the station, 759 ; do. of houses of refuge, 759 ; 

 equipment of the stations, 759; the surf-boat and its 

 carriage, 760 ; description, 761 ; manner of stowing gear, 

 761 ; description of the life-saving ordnance, 761 ; the 

 Lyle gun, 762 ; method of withdrawing frame and pins 

 from shot-line, 762; firing shot to wreck, 762; crotch, 

 hawser, and sand-anchor, 763 ; life-car with hawser and 

 hawling-lines, 763 ; rescue by breeches-buoy, 764 ; using 

 the buoy with hawling-line, 764; method of resuscitation 

 of those apparently drowned, 764, 765 ; evidences of vi- 

 tality heretofore considered as signs of death, 766; life- 

 saving dress, 766; cork life-belt, 766; the saved and lost 

 in six years, 76T. 

 Sewers, ventilation of, 722. 



SHEPLEY, GEORGE F. Birth and death, 767 ; career, 767. 

 SHERE ALT, ruler of Afghanistan. His answer to the ultima- 

 tum of the British Government, 437. 

 SHERMAN, JOHN, Secretary of the Treasury. Statements 



relative to the preparations for resumption, 325. 

 Ship Canal across Delaware, 239. 

 Side Lines of Mines. Decision of the Supreme Court of 



Colorado, 112. 

 Silk Goods, the practice of weighting of, 229. 



Silver Mines of Nevada. Their product, 602. 



Slaves in Brazil. Progress of emancipation, 60. 



SMITH, Professor ROBERTSON. Trial for heresy by Frco 

 Church of Scotland, 638. 



South Carolina. Legislative session, 707; robo of tho 

 Speaker of tho House, 767 ; resolutions on the remonctl- 

 zation of silver, 7C8; act to reduce the volume of the 

 State debt, 768; committee to Investigate the debt, 768; 

 proceedings and report, 768 ; Debt and Anti-Debt parties, 

 768 ; resolution of the Debt party, 763 ; substitute of the 

 Anti-Debt party, 769 ; its provisions, 769 ; substitute ac- 

 cepted, 769 ; a caucus called to prevent a split among tbo 

 Democrats, 769 ; a committee of conference appointed, 

 769 ; report of the committee adopted, 769 ; the report, 

 769; bill on joint resolution passed, 770; protest gainst 

 it, 770 ; oflicers of the special court elected, 770 ; Demo- 

 cratic State Convention, 770; nominations and resolu- 

 tions, 770 ; Republican State Convention, 771 ; resolu- 

 tions, 771 ; election of State officers, 771 ; do. of members 

 of the Legislature, 771 ; accident to Governor Hampton, 

 771; session of Legislature, 772; receipts and expendi- 

 tures, 772 ; progress of Public Schools, 772 ; jetties to be 

 constructed in the harbor of Charleston, 772 ; taxation 

 of city stock, 772; decision of 'United States Supreme 

 Court, 772. 



Spain. The King and ministry, 772 ; revenue and expendi- 

 ture, 772 ; public debt, 773 ; army and navy, 778 ; com- 

 merce, 773; commercial navy, 778; Cortes assembles, 

 773 ; message announcing tho royal marriage, 773 ; mar- 

 riage bill passed, 773 ; regular session, 773 ; speech from 

 the King, 773 ; financial condition, 774 ; Cuban loan, 774 ; 

 marriage of the King, 774; attempt to shoot the King, 

 774; insurrection in Cuba, 774. 



Spectroscopic Research. -Its bearings on the nature of the 

 elements, 91. 



Spindles. Increase in the number employed in the United 

 States from 1870 to 1878, 115. 



STAHL. His investigations injo the structure of lichens, 476. 



State Capitol, New. In Connecticut, 219 ; in Indiana, 440; 

 in Michigan, 556. 



State Public School. A charity peculiar to Michigan, 55T. 



States of the German Empire. Area, population, votes, 872. 



Steam-Engine, Wells Balance. Invention of the piston-rod, 

 774 ; two pistons in the same cylinder of the engine, 774, 

 775. 



Steering great steamships, 724. 



STEPHENS, ALEXANDER. Representative from Georgia, 185 ; 

 on the free coinage of silver dollars, 161. 



St. Gothard Railway Tunnel. Its construction, 2S9. 



Stock Exchange, New For*. Depreciation of values in five 

 years, 120. 



Sugar. Imports, exports, manufactures, and product, 129 ; 

 molasses product, 129. 



Sun, The. Students in Japan ridicule the assertion that it 

 moves round the earth, and are mobbed, 462. 



Sutro Tunnel, The. Its extent and construction, 283 ; drain- 

 age and temperature, 289. 



Sweden and Norway. The King and family, 775. Stcedtn. 

 Ministry, 775; area and population, 776; population of 

 the principal cities, 776; revenue and expenditure, 776; 

 debt, 776; army and navy, 776; imports and exports, 

 776 ; movement of shipping, 776. Norway. The Coun- 

 cil of State, 776; area and population, 776; debt, and re- 

 ceipts and expenditures, 777 ; navy, 777 ; railroads and 

 telegraphs, 777; post-offices, 777; the army bill, 777; 

 St. Bartholomew ceded to France, T77; Government 

 loan, 777. 



Swedish Arctic Expedition. Its results, 854. 

 Swing Bridge, the longest span crossed by, 232. 

 Switzerland.-The President and Council, 777; area and 



