INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



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W7 ; debt, 687 ; Ux yalnatlon, 687 ; 

 disputed points settled regarding the classes of property 

 exempt from taxation, 687 ; tobacco Inspection, 687 ; pub- 

 lic institutions, 688; education, 688; colored teachers 

 demanded for colored schools, 689 ; insurance, 689 ; the 

 ship-canal scheme, 689 ; shipping and commerce of Bal- 

 timore, .V.'n ; attempt to Import beet-sugar, 690 ; mode of 

 obtaining shad- fry for fish-culture, 61W; artificial propa- 

 gation of the oyster, 691 ; resolutions directed against 

 Sunday-law enforcement, 691, 692 ; drinking In club- 

 houses not a violation, 692 ; loophole in the law against 

 drunkenness, 692 ; question of being drunk In the streets 

 is a common-law offense, 692 ; Democratic nominations 

 and platform, 698; Tax-payers' Convention and resolu- 

 tions, 693, 694 ; National Convention and platform, 694, 

 696; Republican nominations and platform, 696, 696; in- 

 dependent parties in Baltimore, 696 ; results of the elec- 

 tion, 696. 



tfastachitffttt. Session of the Legislature, 696; retrench- 

 ment, 696 ; simplified supervision of State institutions, 

 696; public-school statistics, 697; offices consolidated, 

 697; question of biennial sessions, 697; act to secure lib- 

 erty of worship to inmates of State institutions, 697 ; re- 

 duction of taxation, 697, 698 ; proposal to exempt mort- 

 gages from taxation, 698; agitation of woman suffrage, 

 698; act conferring suffrage for school officers upon wo- 

 men, 699 ; civil-damage act passed, 699 ; the convict- 

 labor question, 600 ; the three systems, 600 ; committee 

 report favoring the retention of the contract system, 600; 

 convict-labor in the United States and its effects on in- 

 dustry, 600 ; act prescribing uniform ballots, 601 ; work 

 of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 601 i 

 services of the Railroad Commissioners, 601 ; the Hoosac 

 Tunnel, 602 ; the rail system of electric signaling, 602 ; the 

 Harvard course for women, 602 ; reform in the Boston 

 schools, 602; National nominations and platform, 602, 

 603; Republican nominations and platform. 603, 604; In- 

 dependent Democratic, nominations and platform, 604 ; 

 Prohibitionist nominations and platform, 604, 605 ; Dem- 

 ocratic nominations and platform, 605 ; election returns, 

 605. 



Meat. United States exports of fresh, 168. 



MENDONI MKNO, the late King of Burmah, 99. 



Methodists. Statistics, 605, 606 ; meeting of the Freedmen's 

 Aid Association, 606; missionary societies, 606, 607; statis- 

 tics of the Southern Church, 607 : societies, 607; Wesley- 

 mi Connection, 607, 608; the new Methodist Church, 

 608; Canadian Methodists, 608; the British Wesley ans, 

 608, 609 ; statistics, 609 ; the Conference, 609 ; Indepen- 

 dent Methodist bodies, 609, 610. 



Mexico. Members of the administration and governors, 610 ; 

 the army, 610; religion, 610, 611; the new Episcopal 

 Church, 611; finances of the republic, 611; the debt, 

 611; question of readjustment, 611, 612; commerce, 612; 

 exports and imports for ten years, 612; leading commod- 

 ities, 612 ; list of exports from Vera Cruz to the United 

 States, 612; imports from the United States, 618; ex- 

 ports from Matamoros to the same, 618; do. from Mazat- 

 lan, 613 ; the silver crisis and commercial depression, 613, 

 614; the American deputation to promote commerce 

 with Mexico, 614 ; interoceanlc railway across Tehuante- 

 pec, 614 ; terms of the subsidy, 615 ; cable to the United 

 States, 615 ; complaint of United States military orders, 

 615; revolutionary attempts, 615; the candidates for the 

 next election, 615. 



Ifi-chiyan. Session of the Legislature, 615; proposed con- 

 stitutional amendments, 616; appropriations voted, 616; 

 the Senatorial election, 616; judicial election, 616; Fusion 

 party, 616; its convention and platform, 616; difficulty 

 with the currency question, 616; Republican Convention 



and platform, 616,617; the election returns, 617; I 

 statement, 617; debt, 617; business of the Land-Offlcr, 

 617, 018; cost of State Institutions, 618; their ffngato 

 expense from the foundation of the State, 618; apportion- 

 ment of taxes, 618; receipts from liquor-tax, 618; In- 

 surance, 619 ; detailed tabulated report of Railroad Com- 

 missioners, 619; tonnage of freight by classes, 620; divi- 

 dends, 620 ; banking statistics, 620 ; statistics of the lum- 

 ber trade, 620; the salt product, 621; iron production, 

 6->l ; crop returns for two years, 621 ; the University, 621 ; 

 the Agricultural College, 621 ; Normal School, 621 ; school 

 statistics, 622; public institutions, 621; criminal statis- 

 tics, 628. 



Minnesota. Session of the Legislature. 628 ; Investigation 

 of charges of cruelty to convicts, 628 ; rate of interest es- 

 tablished, 623; law establishing a standard measure for 

 wheat, 628; grading of wheat, 628, 624; Agricultural 

 Board of Trade created, 624 ; inspection of insane asylums, 

 624 ; penalty for grave-robbing, 624 ; attempted temper- 

 ance legislation, 624; various bills, 624; duties of the 

 public examiner, 625; cession of swamp-lands to the 

 States by Congress, 625 ; grants of da In Minnesota to 

 railroads, 626 ; grants except for purposes of drainage and 

 diking illegal, but only revocable by forfeiture to the 

 United States, 626 ; railroad construction, 627 ; earnings 

 and traffic, 627 ; railroad-land sales, 627 ; homestead law 

 for railroad lands, 627 ; proceedings against timber 

 thieves on Government lands, 627, 628 ; sanitary inspec- 

 tion of wells, 628; severe cold snap, 628; the climate of 

 Manitoba, 628; fertility of the Canadian northwest, 629; 

 school statistics, 629 ; numbered ballots unconstitutional, 

 629; National nominations and platform, 629, 630; Pro- 

 hibition nominations and platform, 629 ; Republican nomi- 

 nations and platform, 630, 681 ; Democratic nominations 

 and platform, 631 ; question of the eligibility of a member 

 of the Legislature for Lieutenant-Governor, 682 ; returns 

 of the election, 632. 



Mississippi. Constitutional reforms demanded, 682; tax 

 assessments, 632 ; school statistics, 638 ; improvement in 

 agricultural methods, 633; cotton production of the 

 United States, 638; the colored exodus, 684; effects of 

 the emigration on cotton-planting, 684, 635 ; fruit-raising 

 for the Northern market, 685 ; the Mississippi levees, 685 ; 

 improvement of the channel, 635 ; navigation on the river, 

 685, 636 ; commission for the Improvement of the river- 

 bed, 636 ; decision under the insurance laws, 636 ; female 

 notaries, 636 ; separate estate of a married woman, 686 ; 

 appropriations from the school fund for high schools un- 

 constitutional, 637 ; a scheme of spelling-reform, 687 ; pro- 

 posed constitutional amendment, 637 ; the Yazoo matter, 

 638 ; election for the Legislature, 688 ; colored education- 

 al appropriations, 638; process for making yarn from 

 seed-cotton, 688. 



Mississippi River. Navigation on the river. 685, 686; com- 

 mission appointed by Congress for the improvement of 

 the stream-bed, 636. 



Missouri. Session of the Legislature, 688 ; resolution In fa- 

 vor of retrenchment, 688, 689 ; election of United State* 

 Senator, 639 ; the rat bounty, 639 ; proposal to Introduce 

 the whipping-post, 639; failure of a compulsory educa- 

 tion bill, 639; ladles demand woman suffrage, 689; an 

 adulterant of white lead, 640 ; elections by acclamation 

 proposed, 640; financial reform and refunding, 640 ; finan- 

 cial statements, 640 ; changes In the tax-laws, 641 ; the de- 

 faulting State Treasurer, 641; a Labor Bureau, 641; Bureau 

 of Immigration, 641 ; advantages of the State for Immi- 

 grants. 641 ; change In the insurance laws, 644 ; a fish bill, 

 642 ; temperance legislation, 642 ; a Maine law to be sub- 

 mitted to the people, 648 ; protest against adjudication In 

 Federal courts upon local debts, 643 ; laws to prevent 



