INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



protest, 889 ; the Porto threatens to depose tho Khedive, 

 888; the Powers dictate the course of the Porte and of 

 the Khedive, 88!) ; the hitter's abdication In favor of Tev- 

 flk, 888 ; the Porte recedes from Its designs on Egyptian 

 autonomy, 883 ; Tevflk't first unsatisfactory Cabinet, 

 888; he makes other appointments, 888; English and 

 French comptrollers apjMinted, 888; another Cabinet 

 change, 888; Abyssinian difficulties, 888; Gordon Pa- 

 ilia's mission to King John, 884 ; Abyssinian demands, 

 884 ; famine In Upper Egypt, 884 ; condition of the fel- 

 lah depleted, 884; cotton-crop, 885; Suez Canal statis- 

 tic*, 885; biographical sketch of the now Khedive, 885. 



Election Law*. Proposed abolition of numbered ballots In 

 Alabama, 18, 19; law to prevent bribery or Intimidation 

 in Ohio, 708. 



SUctions. Legislative measure to forbid tho presence of 

 troops at the polls voted down In Congress, 284; the 

 Maine election difficulty, 5S1-5S7, 743-747. 



EUctric Light, dion?s. Preceding electric-light inven- 

 tions, 885; tho incandescent system, 836; experiments 

 with platinum burners, 88C; degeneration of the plati- 

 num, 887 ; the vacuum globe, 887 ; adopts tho carbon 

 burner, 838; experiments with carbon, 838; final form 

 of the lamp, 888. 



Element*, The. Lockyer's arguments to prove them com- 

 pound substances, 188. 



Engineering. Severn bridge, 840, 841 ; description of the 

 sinking of the piers, 841 ; long bridge over the Volga, 

 842; remarkable progress in American bridge-building, 

 842 ; steel in bridges, 842 ; Iron bridge over the Nile in 

 Upper Egypt, 842; railroad across Tehuantepec, 848 ; tho 

 Canada Pacific, 348; the new Eddystone Lighthouse, 848 ; 

 Coney Island pier, 844; iron pier at Long Branch, 814; 

 the Mississippi jetties, 844; the great floating dock at 

 Bordeaux, 844 ; Antwerp Harbor improvements, 845; the 

 Panama ship-railway scheme described, 845; the Belgian 

 towing system on the Erie Canal, 845; new method of 

 street-car propulsion in San Francisco, 846; new ocean 

 cables, 847; underground telegraph insulator, 847. 



ESPABTEBO, BALDOMEBO. Spanish general, 848; life and 

 political and military career, 84S. 



Europe. Area of tho different countries, 848 ; their popula- 

 tion, 849; carrying out of the Berlin Treaty, 849; Aus- 

 trian events, 849 ; French affairs, 849 ; those of Belgium, 

 Great Britain, Russia, and Germany, 850. 



EUBTIS, J. B. Senator from Louisiana, 193; on resolutions 

 to inquire into the recent elections, 208. 



Evangelical Alliance. Its objects, 850 ; the seventh General 

 Conference, 850 ; accounts of the religious condition of tho 

 different Protestant countries, 850, 851 ; discussions and 

 papers, 851 ; report of police suppression of religious 

 meetings In Austria, 851 ; protest sent by the Alliance to 

 the Emperor of Austria, 852 ; intolerance In Greece, 852 ; 

 missions in pagan countries, 852 ; resolution stricturing 

 the opium-trade, 852 ; meeting of the Evangelical Alli- 

 ance of the United States, 852 ; meeting of the British 

 Organization of the Evangelical Alliance, 858. 



Evangelical Association. Statistics, 858 ; missions and pub- 

 lications, 858 ; meeting of the General Conference, 858 ; 

 the Association agrees to take part in an (Ecumenical 

 Conference of Methodist bodies, 854 ; it changes Its name, 

 854; rule for theological education, 854; Sunday-schools, 

 854. 



Eteodtu of Colored People. Eoving spirit of the colored 

 people of the South, 854 ; nature of slavery in America, 

 855; historical review, 855; different from Oriental sla- 

 very, 855 ; English, French, and American measures of 

 emancipation, 855; condition of the American slave, 855 ; 

 demoralized condition after emancipation, 855; gradual 

 return to orderly habits, 856; restless desires of the 



younger generation, 856 ; strict social regulation* in Hayti, 

 850 ; unreliable accounts of recent migrations, 856 ; the 

 various causes, 854 ; colored convention in New Orleans, 

 857; labor convention In Vlcksburg, 857; resolutions 

 adopted, 857 ; colored convention In Nashville, 85T ; the 

 refugees In Kansas, 858 ; appeal for the relief of immi- 

 grants in Kansas, 587 ; Mlsslsslpplan view of the exodus 

 and of its effects on the cotton-raising Interest, 684, 086. 



FALKENHAYX, Count JULIUS. Austrian Minister, 60. 



Famine*. In Upper Egypt, 884 ; in Cashmere, 404. 



FAKUK, GENERAL. French Minister of War, biographical 

 notice, 886. 



FBCHTBB, CHARLES A. French actor, 858; biographical 

 sketch, 858. 



FEBUY, JULES F. C. French Minister of Instruction, bio- 

 graphical notice, 887 ; his anti-Jesuit bills, 890. 



Fever, Ye How. Outbreak on the ship Plymouth, 859 ; spo- 

 radic case in New Orleans, 859 ; the fever appears again 

 in Memphis, 859 ; flight of the inhabitants, 859 ; ineffec- 

 tual efforts to stop the plague, 859 ; predatory acts of tho 

 negro population, 359; number who remained in the city, 

 860 ; table of cases and deaths, 860 ; sanitation of Mem- 

 phis, 860 ; the fever spreads to other towns, 860; sanitary 

 precautions in New Orleans, 861 ; cases of fever in June 

 and July, 861 ; daily barometrical readings in 1878 and 

 1879 for five months, 862; daily rainfall and average 

 temperature in New Orleans for the same periods, 862 ; 

 the infected district, 863 ; table of cases and deaths, 868 ; 

 outbreak in Morgan City, 868 ; the problems of the cause 

 and prevention of yellow fever, 868; efforts to solve them, 

 864. 



finances of the United Statet. Estimated receipts and ex- 

 penditures, 864 ; actual receipts and expenditures, 864 ; 

 comparison with 1878, 865; estimated receipts and ex- 

 penditures for 1879-'80, 865; state of the public debt at 

 the end of 1878- 1 79 shown in a tabular statement, 866 ; 

 statement of refunding operations since 1S70, 868 ; bonds 

 maturing in 1880 and 1881, 868; new style of bond-paper, 

 868; coinage for the year, 868; bullion statistics, 863; 

 banks in operation, 869 ; total receipts of the Government, 

 869 ; internal revenue receipts, 869 ; list of articles subject 

 to taxation for internal revenue, 869 ; total registered ton- 

 nage, 869 ; total port entries of shipping, 869 ; extraordi- 

 nary financial and commercial events, 370 ; tabular com- 

 mercial summary for three years, giving the condition of 

 tho banks, prices, and rates in New York on January 1st, 

 870. 



FraoTTi, JOSEPH M. American Catholic writer, 870 ; bio- 

 graphical notice, 870. 



FISH, ASA I. American jurist, 870; life and works, 870. 



Florida. Session of the Legislature, 871 ; protest against 

 Federal Interference with elections, 871 ; itemized rev- 

 enue from licenses, 871 ; election of Cnlted States Sen- 

 ator, 871 ; sketch of the Senator elect 871 ; resolution 

 regarding tho appointment of Presidential electors by 

 the Legislature, 871 ; proceedings for a revision of the 

 State Constitution, 871 ; inquiry into the regularity of 

 bond Issues, 871 ; report of the different Issues, 879 ; 

 fraudulent collusion with New York brokers charged, 

 872 ; estimated receipts and expenditures, 872 ; the tax- 

 rato raised, 878 ; new method of valuation, 878 ; certain 

 railroad sales declared unconstitutional, 878 ; bills to aid 

 railroad construction by land-grants vetoed, 878; the 

 swamp and overflowed lands thus granted declared to be 

 already hypothecated, 874 ; extent of this description of 

 lands, 874 ; claims of tho United States for erroneous 

 sales, 874 ; investigation of Congressional election frauds, 



