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INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



POETEB, General FITZ JOHN. Case of, 49. 



Portugal. The royal family, 730 ; area and population, 781 ; 

 revenue and expenditures, 731 ; debt, 731 ; army and 

 navy, 731 ; commerce with principal nations, 731 ; ship- 

 ping and navigation, 781 ; telegraphs and railways, 731 ; 

 postal statistics, 731 ; Parliamentary session, 731 ; Eng- 

 lish alliance in colonial affairs, 731 ; trouble with the na- 

 tives in Guinea, 731 ; treaty with England for suppress- 

 ing the slave-trade, 781. 



PBADO, MARIANO IGNACIO. Peruvian General, 781 ; bio- 

 graphical sketch, 731. 



PRAZAK, Dr. A. Austrian Minister, 60. 



Presbyterians. Presbyterian Church in the United States 

 of America: Statistics, 731; amounts ol the trust-funds, 

 781 ; investment of do., 781 ; the General Assembly, 781, 

 782 ; rules for forming presbyteries in missionary fields, 

 732 ; validity of Koman Catholic baptism, 782. Pres- 

 byterian Church in the United States : Statistics, 788 ; the 

 General Assembly, 788, 734 ; the disciplinary question ol 

 worldly amusements, 734. United Presbyterian Church 

 of North America : Statistics, 734 ; the General Assem- 

 bly, 784 ; questions of discipline and government, 735. 

 Cumberland Presbyterian Church : Statistics, 735 ; the 

 General Assembly, 735. Canadian Presbyterian Church : 

 Statistics, 785. Presbyterian Church of England : Sta- 

 tistics, 735 ; the Synod, 785. Established Church of Scot- 

 land : Statistics, 785; the General Assembly, 735. Free 

 Church of Scotland : The General Assembly, 786 ; heresy 

 trial for denying the authenticity of Deuteronomy, 786. 

 United Presbyterian Church of Scotland : Statistics, 786 ; 

 the Synod, 737; trial for the denial of the doctrine of fu- 

 ture punishment, 737. Irish Presbyterian Church : Sta- 

 tistics, 738; General Assembly, 788. 



Prison Labor. System of leasing convicts in Georgia, 487 ; 

 statistics on prison labor in the United States, collected 

 by the Massachusetts Labor Bureau, 600 ; discussion of 

 a bill to prohibit shoe-manufacturing in the New Jersey 

 State Prison, 665 ; statistics of the manufacture in prisons 

 in the United States, 666, 667 ; law in North Carolina, 688. 



Protection. In Canada, 317, 318 ; in Germany, summary of 

 the new tariff, 180, 181 ; debates on it. 487, 438. 



Protestant Episcopal Church. Statistics, 738 ; election and 

 consecration of bishops, 739 ; meetings of missionary so- 

 cieties, 739 ; the Church Congress, 738. 



Prussia. The Ministry, 740 ; resignation of Liberals and ap- 

 pointment of Conservative ministers, 740; notices of the 

 new ministers, 740 ; retirement of the Minister of Justice, 

 740; notice of his successor, 740; area and population, 

 740 ; receipts and expenditures, 741 ; the debt, 741 ; the 

 Diet, 741 ; speech from the throne, 741 ; the budget, 742 ; 

 debate on the purchase of railroads, 742 ; the railroad 

 bill passed, 742 ; the General Synod, 742 ; the synodal 

 organization of the Church, 742. 



Provisions. International trade in food-products, 167, 168. 



Public Docum ents. Statement of the facts of the Maine 

 election presented to the Supreme Court of Maine by 

 the Republican Legislature, 743 ; statement of the facts 

 relating to the organization of rival Legislatures, 748, 744; 

 answers of the Supreme Court to questions submitted 

 to it, 745-747. 



Public Lands. Bill to grant swamp and overflowed lands in 

 Florida to railroads vetoed, 373 ; account of the lands, 

 873, 874. 



PUTTKAMMER, ROBERT VICTOR VON. Prussian Minister of 

 "Worship, biographical notice, 740. 



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Railroads. Progress of the Canada Pacific Railway, 820, 

 821 ; the Guatemala railroad, 463, 464 ; Interoceanic 

 railway across Tehuantepec, 614, 615. 



Railroads, Legislative Regulation of. In Delaware, 808, 

 809 ; in Georgia, 420 ; of sleeping-car companies in Illi- 

 nois, 485 ; railroad taxation in Illinois, 481. 482 ; the Rail- 

 road Commission in Illinois, 488, 4*4 ; Kansas legislation, 

 535, 636 ; the Massachusetts Commissioners, 601, 602 ; 

 law in North Carolina, 689 ; the question in Pennsylva- 

 nia, 719, 720 ; constitutionality of the Thurman act, 836. 



Railroad War. Contests between the Atchison, Topeka 

 and Santa Fe, and Denver and Colorado companies, 158- 

 160. 



It AMSE Y, ALEXANDER. United States Secretary of War, 834 ; 

 biographical notice, 834. 



RANDALL, SAMUEL J. Speaker of the House of Representa- 

 tives, 750; biographical sketch, 750, 751 ; adjournment 

 speech to the House of Representatives, 247, 248. 



Reformed Churches. Reformed Church in America : Sta- 

 tistics, 749 ; session of the Synod, 749. Reformed Church 

 in the United States : Statistics, 749 ; framing of a dec- 

 laration of faith, 749 ; the essential points, 749 ; articles 

 agreed on, 749, 750. Reformed Church of France : Ad- 

 herence to tha Confession of Faith adopted in 1872, 750 ; 

 organization of a regular synodal government postponed, 

 750. 



Reformed Episcopal Church. Statistics, 750, 751 ; the Gen- 

 eral Council, 751 ; action relating to the division in the 

 English Church, 751 ; session of the English General 

 Synod, 751 ; secession and organization of a Reformed 

 Church in Canada, 751. 



Refunding the National Debt. Former efforts to consoli- 

 date the debt of the United States Government, 751, 752 ; 

 the state of the debt in 1789, 752 ; adoption of Hamilton's 

 proposition in 1790, 752 ; the amounts of the foreign 

 loans issued under the act, 752 ; mode of settlement of 

 the domestic debt, 752, 753 ; loans issued, 753 ; the State 

 debts assumed, 753; market value of new loans prior to 

 1795 (funding act of 1795X758 ; redemption of the foreign 

 debt, 754 ; state of the debt in 1806, 754 ; mode of read- 

 justment adopted in 1807, 754 ; the refunding operation 

 of that year, 754 ; new loan and conversion of the old six 

 per cents in 1812, 754 ; provisions of the act, 755 ; at- 

 tempt to refund at 5 per cent, in 1822, 755 ; basis of the 

 operation, 755 ; amount subscribed, 755 ; financial situa- 

 tion and proposal of redemption in 1823, 756; 4J per 

 cent, refunding loan of 1824, 756 ; state of the debt in 

 1825, 756 ; refunding act of 1825, 757 ; failure of the 

 operation, 757 ; extinction of the old debt, 757 ; the Mex- 

 ican war debt, 757 ; the contraction of the present debt, 

 757 ; the debt at its highest point, 757 ; partial conver- 

 sion, 757 ; act to strengthen the public credit passed in 

 1869, 757 ; refunding act of 1870, 757 ; text of the act, 

 757, 758 ; amendment of 1871, 758 ; statement of the 

 debt in 1871, 758 ; table showing the market quotations 

 of the different loans for the ten years before resumption, 

 759 ; 5 per cent, refunding loan of 1871, 760 ; plan of the 

 operation, 760 ; transactions under the act in America 

 and in Europe, 760 ; contract with a syndicate for the 

 sale of 4| per cents, 761 ; placing of the 4 per cent, loan 

 in 1877, 761 ; unfavorable effects of inflation agitation and 

 silver remonetization, 761 ; effect of resumption on re- 

 funding transactions, 761 ; act for exchanging new bonds 

 for six per cents, 761 ; ten-dollar certificates, 761, 762 ; 

 the sales stopped after the conversion of the five-twenty 

 bonds, 762; subsequent issues, 762; statement of the 

 sales of the certificates, 762 ; tabular view of the refund- 

 Ing transactions, 762 ; reduction in the interest charge, 

 763. 



Representation. Senatorial debate on the comparative, 194- 

 201. 



Resumption of Specie Payments. The suspension of specie 

 payments, 763 ; Treasury notes replace coin in the circu 



