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INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



298; the bill passed, 294; passes the Senate, 294; the 

 President's veto, 294. 



CONKLING, lioscoE. American statesman, 295 ; life and 

 career, 295, 296; speech on resolutions to investigate 

 recent elections, 201, 202; amendment to Chinese im- 

 migration bill, 222 ; on the judicial appropriation bill in 

 extra session, 278-281. 



Connecticut. Governor and State officers elected by the 

 Legislature, 297; United States Senator elected, 297; 

 winter sessions unpopular, 298; laws recommended by 

 the Governor, 293 ; act to simplify legal processes, 299 ; 

 a tramp-law, 299 ; laws on behalf of women defeated, 299 ; 

 defeat of constitutional amendments, 800 ; election for the 

 Legislature, 800 ; State finances, 800 ; savings-banks, 300 ; 

 education, 800; public institutions, 800; militia, 800; 

 divorces, 301 ; the New York boundary difficulty, 801. 



COBONINI, Count FRANZ. President of the Austrian Reichs- 

 rath, 301 ; life and political career, 301. 



Corporations. Terms of an act passed in Pennsylvania for 

 the taxation of corporations, 715-717. 



Cotton. Tabulated survey of the world's production and 

 manufacture, 172 ; product of the United States, 633. 



Costa Rica. Members of the Government, 801 ; the militia, 

 801; revenue and expenditures, 801 ; favorable financial 

 condition, 8J2; the coffee-crop, 802; account of educa- 

 tion, 802. 



CUBBING, CALEB. American statesman, 803 ; legal, literary, 

 and political career, 803. 



D'ALBEBTIS, L. M. Italian explorer, his sojourn in New 

 Guinea, 403-410. 



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DANA, RICHARD H. American poet, 804; life and literary 

 career, 804. 



DARGAN, EDMUND 8. American politician and jurist, 804 ; 

 life and public career, 804. 



DAVIDSON, K. H. M. Representative from Florida, 193, 250 ; 

 on the judicial appropriation bill, 239, 240. 



DAVIS, HENRY G. Senator from West Virginia, 193, 250 ; on 

 resolutions to inquire into recent elections, 204. 



DAVIS, J. J. Representative from North Carolina, 198, 251; 

 speech on the judicial appropriation bill, 285, 286. 



DAZA, HILAEION. Bolivian soldier, 305 ; biographical sketch, 

 805. 



Debts, Local. Embarrassments of Mobile, 20, 21 ; bankrupt- 

 cy of Elizabeth and Rahway, 669 ; of Memphis, 829 ; 

 growth of local and municipal indebtedness in the United 

 States, 839; amount of the local debts in 1878, &39. 



Debts, Public. Of all countries, 164 ; principal of the various 

 loans of the United States in 1879, 866. 



DE KOVEN, Bishop JAMES. Life and clerical services, 805. 



Delaware. Meeting of the Legislature, 806; inauguration 

 of the Governor, 306 ; tramp-act, 806 ; gubernatorial vote, 

 806; legislative divorces limited, 807; an insurance law, 

 807 : refunding, 307 ; creation of railroad commissioners, 

 808 ; its constitutionality questioned, 308, 309 ; receipts 

 and .expenditures, 809 ; public schools, 310; the projected 

 ship-canal, 810 ; the different routes, 811 ; estimates, 811 ; 

 the fruit-crop, 811. 



Demonetisation of Silver. Its effects on international com- 

 merce, 164. 



Denmark. The royal family, 811 ; tho ministry, 811 ; area 

 and population, 311 ; revenue and expenditures, 312 ; the 



11 debt, 312; army and navy, 812; commercial statistics, 

 812; American missionaries, 312; Folkething election, 

 812; session of the Folkething, 813 ; appropriations for 

 the relief of industrial distress, 313 ; Rigsdag session, 313 ; 

 proposed reorganization of the army, 313 ; a famous po- 

 litical trial, 818; university centennial, 814; sessions of 

 the Icelandic Parliament, 314. 



DEVENS, CHARLES. Attorney-General, opinion on the pay- 

 ment of deputy marshals, 884, 885. 



Disciples of Cfirist. Missionary convention, 814; foreign 

 missions, 815. 



Dis, JOHN A. American statesman, 815; birth and death, 

 815 ; military education, 815 ; legal and political career, 

 815 ; services during the war, 816. 



DIXON, WILLIAM HEPWORTH. An English author, 816 ; life 

 and writings, 816. 



Dominion of Canada. Composition of the Government, 

 817; Parliamentary session, 317; the "national policy," 

 817 ; design of protection, 317 ; principal items of the 

 new tariff, 318 ; effect of its operation, 318; the Letellier 

 affair, 319 ; Quebec ministerial crisis, 319 ; Cabinet quarrel 

 in Manitoba, 820; legislative councils departing, 820; a 

 union of the maritime provinces agitated, 820 ; civil-ser- 

 vice reform movement, 320 ; the Ontario elections, 820 ; 

 ecclesiastical precedent, 820 ; cattle-quarantine, 820 ; the 

 Pacific Railway, 820 ; new railway connections, 321 ; the 

 Lachine Canal, 821 ; emigration to Manitoba, 321 ; de- 

 scription of the Red River country, 822 ; the, debt and 

 finances, 322 ; population movement, 822 ; religious sta- 

 tistics, 822; imports and exports, 322; shipping, 822; 

 fisheries, 828 ; railway statistics, 323. 



DORSET, Mrs. SARAH A. Life and literary works, 328 ; her 

 bequest to Jefferson Davis, 823. 



DURHAM, M. J. Representative from Kentucky, 198; on the 

 judicial appropriation bill, 246. 



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Eastern JRoumelia. Popular discontent at the partition of 

 Bulgaria, 324 ; Turkish diplomatic note on the treatment 

 of Mussulmans, 324; the question of administration, 

 824; political organization of the province, 824 ; details of 

 the constituent statute, 824; Mohammedan emigration, 

 825 ; entry of the Governor, 825 ; manifesto of the Gov- 

 ernor, 325 ; ministerial appointments, 826 ; the Porte 

 complains of tho Governor, 826 ; a hat question, 826 ; 

 the Russian evacuation, 826; Mohammedan wrongs, 

 826; understanding with the Porte, 826; cessation of 

 disturbances, 826. 



EATON, MARGARET L. Biographical sketch, 826, 827 ; mar- 

 ried to President Jackson's Secretary of War, 827 ; her 

 social ostracism occasions a Cabinet crisis, 327 ; her later 

 career, 827. 



EATON, WILLIAM W. Senator from Connecticut, 193, 249; 

 on bill to regulate the Presidential count, 21 G. 



Ecuador. The President and Ministry, 327; education, 

 827; the revenue, 328; the debt, 828; commerce, 328; 

 the President's railroad contracts, 828. 



EDMUNDS, GEORGE F. Senator from Vermont, 193, 250 ; on 

 resolutions to inquire into the late elections, 200, 201; 

 speeches on bill to regulate the count of the Presidential 

 vote, 207-212, 218. 



Egypt. Area and population, 82S; Finance Minister Wilson 

 makes a tour of inspection, 329 ; report on the debt, 829 ; 

 unpaid officers mob Ministers Rivers Wilson and Nubar 

 Pasha, 829 ; suspected complicity of the Khedive, 829 ; 

 resignation of Nubar, 329 ; apology to England, 380 ; the 

 crisis settled at the dictation of the English and French 

 Governments, 830 ; the new Ministry, 330 ; letter of the 

 Khedive on the Constitution, 330 ; the European minis- 

 ters dismissed, 330 ; Ismail supported in his position by 

 native public opinion, 831 ; the ulemas, the Legislature, 

 and the harems on his side, 331 ; debt commissioners 1 

 report suppressed, 331; English- French negotiations, 

 382 ; the French Government's desire to restore the 

 dismissed ministers, 332 ; the Governments call for tho 

 appointment of new European ministers, 832 ; German 



