INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



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and fresh attempt against the life of the Czar, 6s5 ; later 

 acts, 778. 



NoaimjtsKJflLD. His voyago through the Siberian wsas and 

 Behring Strait, 411-417. 



Jforth Carolina. Session of the Legislature, 680; simplified 

 form of land conveyances, 6*3 ; tramp act, 686 ; changes 

 in taxation, 686 ; act to legitimate children of colored 

 people cohabiting as man and wife, 686 ; act constituting 

 court clerks commissioners at deeds, 686 ; statement of 

 the State debt, 686 ; act to scale the debt, 686 ; proposed 

 reductions, 6*8, 6s7: acceptance of the compromise by 

 bondholders, 6s7; supplementary refunding act>. 

 convict-labor authorized on internal improvements, 688; 

 penalty for abduction of children, 688; pension for 

 maimed Confederate soldiers, 688 ; law requiring outside 

 Insurance companies to deposit securities, 688 ; Inebriate 

 law, 688 ; question whether the presiding officers may and 

 must sign an enacted bill after adjournment, 688 ; deci- 

 sions on the question, 689; school statistics, 689; the 

 Governor elected a Senator, 689 ; sketch of his successor, 

 690 ; act for the redemption of lands sold for taxes, 690 ; 

 act defining consanguinity, 690; fish -culture, 690 ; judi- 

 cial election, 690 ; the harvest, 690 ; extent and value of 

 the forests, 691 ; the rich valleys, 691 ; geographical de- 

 scription of the State, 691 ; its resources, 691. 



Nut-Pine. Account of the tree and its utility, 658. 



NTOITNO Y AS. Burmese Prince, 100, 101. 



Obituaries, American (arranged In alphabetical order), 692- 

 r,'.<7. 



Obituarien, Foreign (in alphabetical arrangement), 697-702. 



Ohio. Debt statement, 70:2; revenue and expenditure, 702; 

 taxes and valuation, 702; agricultural statistics, 702; 

 live-stock, 708; text of proposed amendments to the 

 Constitution, 703; rejected by popular vote, 708; Repub- 

 lican nominations and platform, 70S, 704 ; Democratic 

 nominations and platform, 704 ; National nominations 

 and platform, 705 ; results of the election, 705. 



Old Catfiolics. Synod at Bonn, 705 ; relaxation of the move- 

 ment, 705, 706; Swiss Synod, 706; first Austrian Synod, 

 706; list of reforms advocated by Old Catholics, 706; a 

 body organized in France, 706. 



Opium. Import into China, 142. 



Oregon. Growth of population since 1868, 706, 707 ; increase 

 in grain exports, 707 ; Increase in shipping, 707 ; growth 

 of commerce, 708 ; advance in the price of land, 703, 709 ; 

 the canned-salmon trade, 709 ; agricultural progress, 709, 

 710 ; stock-growing, 710 ; manufacturing establishments 

 and ship-building, 710; coal-mines, 711; railroads, 711; 

 accumulation of capital, 711 : diminished gold and silver 

 shipments, 711 ; public buildings, 711 ; the crops of 1879, 

 711 ; salmon shipments in 1879, 711 ; religious statistics, 

 711; educational statistics, 711, 712; opposition to high 

 schools, 712; recent enlargement of the rights of wo- 

 men, 712; a law forbidding the employment of Chinese 

 laborers on street works decided void, 712. 



Oxygen in the Sun. Discovery of oxygen in the solar spec- 

 trum announced by Professor Draper, 180 ; his method 

 of investigation, 131. 



Oyster. Observations on embryologlcal development of the, 

 591. 



PACKER, ASA. An American financier, T12; early life, 712; 

 canal-boatman, 712; contractor, 718; starts the Lehlgh 

 Valley Railroad, 718; his great wealth, 718; political ca- 

 reer, 718 ; founds the Lehigh University, 718. 



PAGE, HORACE F. Representative from California, 198, 250; 



present* a petition and speaks on the bill to restrict Chi- 

 nese Immlgatlon, 220-222. 



.'l'bvlr character and customs, 408-410. 



PAKNKLL, Ci* AXLES STWAT. HU agitation in Ireland, 456. 



Ptnnnyleania. Session of the Legislature, 1 13 ; the GOT- 

 ernor recommends the arbitration system of settling labor 

 disputes, 714; Senator elected, 714; bill to encourage 

 tree-planting in highways, 714; bill to regulate municipal 

 governments proposed, 714; failure of an eight-hour bill, 

 714; bill proposed for restraining the adulteration of 

 liquor, 714; bill to relieve observers of seventh day from 

 the operation of Sunday laws tailed to pass, 715; bill al- 

 lowing women to become officers in charitable corpora- 

 tions, 715; tramp act, 715; bill to regulate the truck- 

 system vetoed, 715; fiscal deficit, 715; provisions of an 

 act for the valuation and taxation of corporation property, 

 715, 716; stringent precautions against avoidance of taxes, 

 716; application to different kinds of companies, 716; 

 proposed appropriation to indemnify the owners of prop- 

 erty destroyed in the riots, 717; objections urged against 

 the bill, 717, 718 ; charge of corruption made in the de- 

 bate, 718; investigation of the charges, 718; log-rolling, 

 718 ; members reported guilty of corrupt practices, 71s ; 

 motion to expel, 718; resolutions advocating industrial 

 education, 719 ; disappointing results of the State Agri- 

 cultural College, 719 ; railroad-freight discrimination, 719 , 

 oil monopoly, 719 ; the seaboard pipe line, 720 ; railroad 

 statistics, 720; a defaulting city, 720; held that a munici- 

 pality needs no legislative authorization to make a debt, 

 720 ; legal opinion that city bonds are not subject to the 

 law of negotiable paper, 721 ; the responsibility of a mu- 

 nicipality for the dangerous condition of its streets, 721 ; 

 a sectarian asylum liable to taxation, 721 ; Temperance 

 Political Convention, 721 ; National Convention and plat- 

 form, 722; Democratic Convention and platform, 722; 

 minority resolutions, 723; Republican Convention and 

 platform, 723 ; returns of the election for State Treasurer 

 and the Legislature, 723. 



PEBKINS, SAMUEL E. An American Judge, 723; life and 

 career, 728, 724. 



Persia. Reigning family, 724 ; statistics, 724: Persia's rela- 

 tion to the Eastern question, 724; her military resources, 

 724 ; the state of trade, 724. 



Peru. Members of the Prado Government, 725; the Cabinet 

 formed by La Puerta, 725; Plerola Government, 726; 

 destruction of the navy, 725; finances, 725; the debt, 

 725 ; terms of compromise offered by bondholders, 725, 

 726; commercial statistics, 726; trade through Callao 

 with the United States, 726; total exports by commodi- 

 ties, 726; statistics of the export trade in cubic niter, 

 726; origin of the war with Chill, 727; seizure of Anto- 

 fagasta, 727; allied Peruvians and Bolivians blockade 

 Iqulque, 727; sinking of the Esmeralda, 727; capture of 

 Pisagua, 727 ; the allies defeated at San Francisco, 727 ; 

 Chilian defeat at Tarapaca, 727; flight of Prado, 727; the 

 brave defense and capture of the Huascar, 727 : Peruvian 

 ports blockaded, 72S; Pidrola assumes the dictatorship, 

 728; change of generals, 728. 



PIXTO, SERPA. Portuguese explorer, his journey through 

 Central Africa, 405-408. 



Playue, The. The plague in Astrakhan, 728: terrible nature 

 of former epidemics, 723 ; the black death and the other 

 visitations of the plague in Europe, 72S; the plague In 

 the East, 723; sanitary neglect in Persia and Astatic 

 Turkey, 723 ; conjectures as to its transmission to Astra- 

 khan, 729 ; the outbreak at Wetliankn, 729 ; the spread 

 to other places, 729 ; stringent sanitary measures. 730 ; 

 its cessation, 780; quarantine against Russia. 780; the 

 form which it took In Astrakhan, 780; description of the 

 symptoms, 730. 



