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INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



Burmah. Mandalay, the capital, 98; despotic character of 

 the government, 98 ; frequency of revolts, 99 ; the late 

 King and his commercial projects, 99 ; the first embassy 

 to Europe, 100 ; history of diplomatic relations with Eng- 

 land, 100; how Thebaw obtained the throne, 100; atro- 

 cious massacre of his relations, 101; death of the British 

 Resident, Mr. Shaw, 101 ; his career, 102 ; boundary dis- 

 pute with England, 102. 



BC-RRITT, ELIHTJ. His life, literary attainments, and philan- 

 thropic schemes, 102. 



BUTLER, M. C. Senator from South Carolina, 193, 250; on 

 resolutions to inquire into recent elections, 202-204. 



BDTT, ISAAC. Irish lawyer and political leader, 108 ; his life, 

 Parliamentary career, and connection with the Home-Rule 

 party, 103. 



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California. Provisions of the new State Constitution, 103- 

 107 ; optional juries and majority verdicts, 103 ; the Chi- 

 nese excluded from citizenship, 104; provisions relating 

 to the Legislature, 104 ; every act shall embrace but a 

 single subject, 104; sales of stock on a margin or for 

 future delivery made illegal, 104 ; no appropriations for 

 sectarian purposes, 104; gifts and subsidies forbidden, 

 104 ; legislative regulation of so-called monopolies, 105 ; 

 lobbying made a felony, 105; the executive and the judi- 

 ciary, 105 ; the school system, 105 ; local and municipal 

 debts abolished, 105, 106 ; liability of stockholders for cor- 

 porate debts, 106; regulation of railroads, 106; property, 

 income, and poll taxes, 106, 107 ; no bonded State debt, 

 107; restriction of Chinese labor, 107; duelists and bribe- 

 takers disfranchised, 107; laborers' lien and eight-hour 

 laws, 107; provisions for the vote on the Constitution, 

 108; the campaign, 108; Republican declarations, 108; 

 the returns of the election, 108, 109 ; diminished vote in 

 the mining districts, 109 ; jubilation of the workingmen, 

 109 ; changes in political divisions of the State, 109 ; Work- 

 ingmen's nominations and platform, 109-111 ; Republican 

 nominations and platform, 111, 112 ; reduction of railroad 

 rates demanded, 112; nominations and platform of the 

 New Constitution party, 112. 118 ; nominations and plat- 

 form of the Democratic party, 113, 114; nominations of 

 the Prohibitionists, 114, 115 ; election regulations in San 

 Francisco, 115; returns of the State election, 115; the 

 State debt, 115, 116 ; the tax levy, 116 ; school statistics, 

 116, 117; insurance do., 117; railroads, 117, 118; finan- 

 cial condition of the Central Pacific, 112, 118 ; results of 

 State surveys, 118 ; the wool-clip, 118 ; wheat and flour 

 export, 118 ; agricultural advantages of the climate, 119 ; 

 the lumber-trade, 119 ; the fruit-trade, 119; the question 

 of the injury to valleys from hydraulic mining in liti- 

 gation, 119, 120 ; judicial decision on cutting off the pig- 

 tails of Chinese' prisoners, 120. 



CALL, WILKINSON. Elected Senator from Florida, 871 ; bio- 

 graphical particulars, 371. 



Canals. Proposed Delaware and Maryland ship-canal, 810, 

 811, 589 ; projected barge-line across Florida, 377, 378 ; 

 Isthmus canal, 503-513. 



Cape Colony and British South Africa. Area and pop- 

 ulation, 121 ; religious statistics, 121 ; finances, 121 ; the 

 Zooloo war, 121-128; the alleged causes, 121; the boun- 

 dary commission, 121, 122 ; invasion of Zoolooland, 122 ; 

 Cetywayo's military system, 123 ; the Isandula disaster, 

 123; British reverse on the Intombi, 124 ; Cetywayo 

 sues for peace, 124; Pearson shut in at Ekowe, 1245 

 British victory at Ginglelova, 124 ; engagement at Kam- 

 bula, 125 ; Cetywayo's pacific efforts, 125 ; reorganization 

 of the British forces, 125 ; negotiations for peace, 125 ; 

 th battle of Ulundi, 126; dispersion of Zooloos and 



capture of Cetywayo, 126 ; text of the treaty with the 

 Zooloo chiefs, 126, 127 ; death of the Prince Imperial, 

 127 ; the Duke of Cambridge's letters and his explana- 

 tion, 128 ; trial of Lieutenant Carey, 128 ; disaffection of 

 the Transvaal Boers, 128 ; Secocoeni's outbreak, 128 ; the 

 question of a South African Confederation, 12S ; annexa- 

 tion of territory to Cape Colony, 129. 



Carbonate Ores. Mining at Leadville, 161. 



CAEEY, HENRY CHARLES. An American political economist, 

 129 ; his life and writings, 129. 



CASSAGNAO, PAUL DE. His violent language in the French 

 Chamber, 391. 



Cassequeres.A race of white negroes, 406. 



CAZOT, T. 3. J. French Cabinet Minister, biographical no- 

 tice, 886. 



Cereals. Production and exports of different countries, 165- 

 167. 



CHALMERS, J. R. Representative from Mississippi, 198, 250 ; 

 on the army appropriation bill in extra session, 253, 254 ; 

 on the judicial appropriation bill in extra session, 277, 

 278. 



CHANDLER, ZACHARIAH. United States Senator, 129 ; his 

 life, political career, and death, 129 ; speech against the 

 bill to prevent the presence of the army at elections, 270, 

 271 ; historical parallel with the repeal of the Missouri 

 Compromise, 271 ; on the judicial appropriation bill, 287, 

 288 ; a much-cited letter, 288 ; reminiscences of secession 

 times, 28S ; the South demands to rule or ruin, 2S8. 



Clie/mistry. Draper's discovery of oxygen in the sun, 130, 

 181 ; explosive gelatine, 181 ; its superiority to nitro- 

 glycerine, 132 ; its improvement by Abel, 182 ; aniline 

 salts, 182 ; the constitution of the elements, 138 ; former 

 doubts of their elementary character, 133; Lockyer's 

 spectroscopic evidence of their compound nature, 183 ; 

 the hotter a star the simpler its spectrum, 188 ; solar sub- 

 stances identified with hydrogen, 134; composition for 

 preventing iron from rusting, 134 ; spectrum of the sun's 

 corona, 134; nitric acid produced by the electric light, 

 135 ; water-analysis and sanitation, 135 ; nature of indigo 

 dye, 135; solubility of solids in gases, 136; detection of 

 organic matter in drinking-water, 186; discoveries of 

 new metals, 137 ; a new alkaloid, 187. 



CHEVALIER, MICHEL. A French political economist, 187 ; his 

 life, works, and doctrines, 137. 



Chili. The Patagonian question, 189 ; population statistics, 

 139 ; the system of administration, 139 ; army and navy, 

 139 ; revenue and expenditure, 139 ; inflation of the cur- 

 rency, 140; government issue of paper money, 141 ; com- 

 merce and shipping, 141 ; railroads and telegraphs, 141 ; 

 the system of public education, 142. 



China. Area and population, 142 ; commerce, 142 ; the 

 opium-trade, 142; Chinese supremacy in Nepaul and 

 Burmah, 143; steam cotton-milling introduced, 148; 

 diamond-mining in Shantung, 143 ; the rebellion of Li- 

 Tung-tsai, 143, 144 ; revolt on the island of Hainan, 144 ; 

 reasons for the Russian occupation of Kulja, 144 ; Hakim 

 Khan attempts to seize Kashgaria, 145 ; barbarous treat- 

 ment by the government of the sons of Takoob Beg, 

 145 ; Kuo-Tung-tao, the late ambassador to Great Brit- 

 ain, 146; General Grant in China, 146 ; improvements in 

 the diplomatic service, 146; the conquered rebels of 

 Yunnan offered allurements to change their religion, 146; 

 Protestant missions in China, 147. 



Chinese Emigration. Anti-Chinese movement in Austral- 

 asia, 58; Chinese disfranchised by the Californian Con- 

 stitution, 104; corporations forbidden to employ Chinese 

 labor, 107 ; vetoed bill to restrict emigrants to fifteen on 

 a ship, 218-224. 



Chloride of Methyl. A. remarkable refrigerating agent, ob- 

 tained from the sugar-beet, 75. 



