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county taxes from being levied to satisfy judgments of 

 Federal courts, 643, 644 ; discussion of their constitution- 

 ality, 644 ; contradictory decisions thereupon, 645 ; conflict 

 between the new law and decrees of the United States 

 courts in different counties, 646; question whether crops 

 are taxable, 646 ; public institutions, 646 ; agricultural 

 statistics, 646. 



Mohammedanism. The Mohammedan population of all 

 countries, 64T ; weakness of Mohammedan states, 647 ; re- 

 markable spread of the religion, 647; relation to the 

 Eastern question, 647 ; danger from Moslemism in India, 

 648. 



Money. The world's stock of gold and silver, 162 ; ship- 

 ments of silver to the East, 182. 



Montenegro. Keigning family, 648 ; area and population, 

 648 ; political reforms, 648 ; the first Montenegrin Minis- 

 try, 648 ; cession of the new territory by the Porte, 648 ; 

 the new frontier, 648; taking possession, 649; bloody 

 conflicts with Albanians, 649. 



Moravians Statistics, 649 ; the Synod, 649 ; the leading 

 doctrines, 650. 



MOBGAN, JOHN T. Senator from Alabama, 193, 249 ; speech 

 on bill to regulate the count of the Presidential vote, 212- 

 214. 



Mormons. Diplomatic circular on preventing Mormon im- 

 migration, 837. 



MUBOHISON, Dr. CHABLES. British pathologist, 650 ; life and 

 works, 650, 661. 



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Navigation. Decline of the American ocean carrying- trade, 

 837, 838; proposed legislation for encouraging ship- 

 building, 888 ; United States tonnage in 1879, 869. 



Nebraska. Session of the Legislature, 651 ; game law, 651 ; 

 failure of prohibition bill, 651 ; judicial election, 652 ; 

 Democratic nominations and platform, 652 ; Kopublican 

 nominations and platform, 652; results of the election, 

 652; valuation and assessments, 652; appropriations, 

 653 ; State institutions, 658; crop reports, 653; extermi- 

 nation of grasshoppers, 653 ; cattle-drives, 658 ; Poncas 

 released from military custody on habeas corpus, 653 ; 

 their arbitrary removal to Indian Territory, 654 ; return 

 to their reservation, 654 ; seized by the military, 654 ; 

 the proceedings for their release, 654 ; findings of the 

 court, 655. 



Nepaul. Relations with China. 143. 



Netherlands. Royal family, 655 ; area and population, 655; 

 revenue and expenditures, 655 ; debt statement, 655 ; 

 army and navy, 656; navigation, 656; railroads, tele- 

 graphs, and post-offices, 656 ; imports and exports by 

 countries, 656 ; population of colonies, 656 ; their finances, 

 656 ; their commerce, 656 ; their railroads, 656 ; changes 

 in the Cabinet, 656 ; ministerial crisis, 657 ; new Minis- 

 try, 657; extending the defenses, 657; sessions of the 

 Chambers, 657 ; free trade to be preserved, 657 ; royal 

 marriage, 657. 



Nevada. Session of the Legislature, 657 ; election of Sena- 

 tor, 657 ; legislation on the debt and taxation, 657 ; on 

 regulating railroad rates, 657 ; statistics of silver-mining, 



658 ; drainage of the mines by the Sutro Tunnel, 658; 

 the nut-pine tree, 658. 



ffew Hampshire. Senator appointed by the Governor ob- 

 jected to, 659 ; session of the Legislature, 659 ; Senator 

 i elected, 659; State officers elected by the Legislature, 



659 ; resolution upon the veto of the army bill, 659 ; fac- 

 tory act for children, 659 ; act to assume claims of citi- 

 zens against repudiating States, 659; railroad act not 

 passed, 660; correction of the Revised Statutes, 660; 

 finances, 660 ; valuation and taxes, 660 ; debt, 660 ; act 



requiring a sworn Inventory of taxable property, 660; 

 savings-banks statistics, 661 ; insurance, 661 ; State insti- 

 tutions, 661 ; the manufacture of artificial leather, 662. 



New Jersey. Sessions of the Legislature, 662 ; a special Tax 

 Commission created, 662 ; the Commissioners, 662 ; their 

 duties, 662 ; commission to prepare a system of laws for 

 cities, 662 ; its duties, 662, 663 ; industrial education 

 adopted, 663 ; manner of the same, 663 ; tramp act, 663 ; 

 Investigation of local expenditures on complaint of free- 

 holders authorized, 663; party dissensions on districting 

 the State, 663 ; judges nominated by the Governor under 

 a recent amendment, 663 ; his letter on a non-partisan 

 judiciary, 664 ; committee reports on the subject, 664, 

 665; bill to prohibit the manufacture of shoes in the 

 State Prison, 665 ; record of the contracts, 666 ; statistics 

 of prison shoe-making, 666, 667 ; commission to inquire 

 Into the subject, 667 ; Sunday-law agitation in Newark, 

 667; resolutions of an association for opposing the en- 

 forcement of the laws, 667 ; legal definition of a disorderly 

 house, 667; cattle-quarantine, 668 ; efforts to improve the 

 training of the militia, 668 ; mode of rifle -practice, 668 ; 

 fish-culture, 668 ; the black bass, 668 ; convictions under 

 the fish-preservation act, 669; bankrupt cities, 669; a 

 railroad manager in favor of national railroad regulation, 

 669, 670; newspaper statistics, 670; insurance, 670; 

 savings-banks, 670; cranberry-crop, 670; the oak and 

 pine districts, 670 ; salubrity of the white-oak bottoms, 

 670. 



New York. Session of the Legislature, 671 ; the new Capi- 

 tol, 671 ; election of a Senator, 671 ; protest on the ground 

 that the State is not properly districted, 671 ; inequalities 

 of the present division, 671, 672 ; bill to equalize repre- 

 sentation, 672 ; objections of the Governor to the appor- 

 tionment, 672; act altering the rate of interest, 672; 

 proposed law taxing mortgages, 672 ; total valuation and 

 expenses of State charities, 673; insane paupers, 678; 

 propositions for the financial control of charitable institu- 

 tions, 673 ; cost of maintenance per capita in the different 

 insane asylums of the country, 674; reasons advanced 

 for establishing a female reformatory, 674 ; comparative 

 cost of prisons under the new and under the old system, 

 674; financial benefits of the new system of canal man- 

 agement, 675 ; tramp act, 675 ; a case of false conviction 

 repaired by a money award, 675, 676; the State is not 

 liable for prospective profits in a breach of contract suit, 

 676, 677 ; the district system of common schools and its 

 proposed alteration, 677; railroad statistics, 677; persons 

 who have pecuniary relations with a savings-bank should 

 not be admitted into the management, 678 ; insurance 

 statistics, 678 ; discrimination against New York in 

 freight-rates charged, 678; towns obliged to pay their 

 bonds, however given, 678; National nominations and 

 platform, 678, 679 ; Republican nominations and platform, 

 679 ; Democratic Convention and platform, 680 ; an- 

 nouncement of the withdrawal of the Tammany dele- 

 gates, 680 ; retirement of the New York delegation, 681 ; 

 nominations of the Convention, 681 ; resolutions on the 

 secession of Tammany, 681 ; organization of the Tam- 

 many Hall delegation and nomination of an independent 

 candidate for Governor, 681 ; results of the election, 681. 

 Nihilists. Origin and application of the term, 681, 682 ; ear- 

 lier revolutionary movements and leaders, 682 ; causes 

 and elements of discontent, 682; discovery of Nihilist 

 conspiracies, 682; violence and assassination, 682, 688; 

 utterances of the revolutionary press, 683 ; influence of 

 materialistic literature, 683; the great number of un- 

 classed students in the movement, 683 ; sentiments of the 

 party, 6S3, 684 ; the secret organization, 684 ; its propa- 

 ganda and organs, 684 ; present purposes, 684 : menaces 

 toward the Czar, 684 ; list of grievances, 685 ; new organ 



