INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



tlon, 788 ; tune of Treasury notes for currency purpose*, 

 768; legal-tender acts, 7(W; new IMUO, 763; fractional 

 currency, 768; third Issue of legal-tender notes, 764; 

 their convertibility Into bonds taken away, 764 ; limit set 

 to the amount to be circulated, 764 ; their depreciation, 

 764 ; Congressional resolution In favor of resumption, 764 ; 

 act of 1868 for gradual contraction, 764; suspension of 

 the canceling of notes in 1868, 764 ; the act to strengthen 

 the public credit, 765 ; reissue of retired notes during the 

 crisis of 1873, 76ft ; passage of the resumption act, 765 ; text 

 of the act, 765; the Inconveniences of the fractional cur- 

 rency, 7C5, 766 ; its replacement by subsidiary silver coin, 

 766; act of 1876 for additional silver coinage, 766; return 

 of subsidiary coins from abroad, 766 ; made exchangeable 

 for notes, 766 ; conversion of legal-tender into national- 

 bank notes until ls7S, 700 ; announcement of the purpose 

 to redeem notes in coin, 767 ; repeal of the resumption 

 act agitated, 767; silver-dollar coinage act, 767; bonds 

 sold to Increase the specie reserve, 767 ; measures and 

 precautions for carrying out the resumption act, 768 ; 

 accomplishment of resumption, 763 ; gold price of legal- 

 tender notes In each year during suspension, 768; de- 

 cisions of the courts on the constitutionality of the legal- 

 tender acts, 76S, 769. 



Rhode Island. Sessions of the Legislature, 769 ; legislation 

 on the liability of municipalities for damages done by 

 mobs, 769; compulsory education bill discussed, 769; 

 legislation on the liquidation of insolvent savings-banks, 

 769 ; Prohibitory Convention and platform, 769, 770 ; 

 Democratic Convention and platform, 770; nominations, 

 770 ; Republican Convention, 770 ; results of the election, 

 770 ; session of the Congressional commission to investi- 

 gate the removal of discharged soldiers from the Provi- 

 dence Custom-House, 770 ; Congressional commission to 

 investigate bribery In elections, 771 ; the Rhode Island 

 election laws, 771 ; attempts to abolish the limitations to 

 the franchise, 771 ; evidence before the committee, 771 ; 

 finances of the State, 771 ; educational statistics, 771, 772 ; 

 the State institutions, 772 ; vital statistics, 772 ; proposed 

 abolition of the Narragansett Indian tribal organization, 

 77.' ; banqueting with municipal funds declared illegal, 

 772. 



BOBESON, GEORGE M. Representative from New Jersey, 

 250 ; on the army appropriation bill in extra session, 257- 

 259 ; offers a substitute for the bill to prevent military 

 Interference at elections, 269 ; on the judicial appropria- 

 tion bill in extra session, 275-277. 



ROEBUCK, JOHN ARTHUR. English politician, 772; biograph- 

 ical sketch, 772. 



Roman Catholic Church Encyclical letter against ix>ciallstn, 

 778; schisms in the Eastern churches, 778 ; creation of 

 cardinal), 773 ; encyclical approving the teachings of St. 

 Thomas Aquinas, 778 ; opposition to the Ferry laws, 778; 

 operation of the Fulk laws, 773 ; the Italian civil-marriage 

 law, 774 ; the school conflict in Belgium, 774 ; the confra- 

 ternities question in Brazil, 774 ; the New York Cathe- 

 dral, 774 ; necrological notices, 774. 



BOON, ALBBEOIIT TIIBODOB KMII.. Count VON. German Gen- 

 eral, 774 ; life and career, 774, 775. 



Russia. Area and population, 775; foreign trade, 775; rail 

 ways and post-offices, 776 ; proposed mixed occupation 

 of Boumella, 775 ; war in Turkistan, 775 ; suspected de- 

 signs on Merv, 775 ; victories of the Tekke Turkomans 

 776 ; disastrous campaign in the desert, 776 ; turning the 

 course of the Attrek River, 776 ; SolorlefTs attempt on 

 the Czar's life, 776 ; military law proclaimed, 776 ; Nihil- 

 istic activity, 777; arrests and punishments, 777; decla- 

 rations of General Drenteln's assailant, 777 ; attempt on 

 the Ozar on the Moscow railroad, 778; Valuioffs pro- 

 posed reforms, 778. 



Salmon. Export trade of canned salmon from Oregon, 709- 

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Seed-Cotton. Enactment to suppress thefts of. In Alabama, 

 by forbidding its sale, 16, 17 ; method of spinning thread 

 from, 688. 



Service, United State* Marine IfottpUal.-A.ct of 1703 for 

 the relief of disabled seamen, 778 ; the Greenwich Hos- 

 pital, 778; hospital money in the colonies, 778; effort* of 

 the Boston Marine Society, 779 ; bills before Congress, 

 779; provisions of the seamen's relief bill, 779; letter of 

 the Secretary of the Navy concerning the hospital fund, 

 780 ; instructions to the Collector at Boston relating to the 

 same, 780; further communications, 7sO; appointment 

 of a physician, 7S1 ; the Washington Point hospital, 781.- 

 papers recommending a hospital at Now Orleans, 781; 

 report on the marine hospitals in 1802, 781, 782 ; a gen- 

 eral hospital fund created, 7S2 ; letter with reference to 

 acquiring a site in Boston, 782 ; letter relating to the Bal- 

 timore hospital, 782 ; plan of the Boston building, 788 : 

 advertisement for bids, 783 ; details of the New Orleans 

 hospital, 7S8, 784 ; settlement of minor regulations of the 

 service, 784 ; historical details, 785 ; position of the phy- 

 sicians in the Boston hospital, 785, 786 ; a separate naval 

 hospital called for, 786 ; number of patients in the Boston 

 hospital for seventeen successive years, 786 ; questions 

 as to the classes of sailors entitled to relief, 787 ; measures 

 for building a hospital at Boston, 787 ; the hospital at 

 Charleston, 787, 788 ; erection of the Boston hospital, 788; 

 the service in 1S36, 788; hospitals proposed for seamen 

 engaged in inland navigation, 788, 789 ; the Cleveland hos- 

 pital, 789, 790 ; the hospital at Ocracoke, 790 ; enactments 

 relating to the collection of hospital money, 790; the 

 hospitals in 1849, 790; changes recommended, 791 ; new 

 proposition for inland hospitals, 791 ; unsatisfactory con- 

 dition of the service In 1852, 791 . Its workings in 1858, 

 791 ; comparison of the cost of the regular service and 

 of the farming-out system, 792 ; list of hospitals in 1361. 

 792; appropriation in 1862, 792 ; collection of dues from 

 sales of vessels abroad, 792 ; solos of hospital property, 

 792 ; the structure at New Orleans, 793 ; stato of the hos- 

 pital fund In 1870, 798; a hospital at New York called 

 for, 793 ; provisions of the bill for reorganizing the ser- 

 vice, 798 ; the contract system abolished, 794 ; reorganiza- 

 tion, 794; the extent of the service in 1879, 794; medical 

 examination of seamen, 794 ; the New York hospital es- 

 tablished, 794; officers of the service, 794. 



SJiad. Mode of obtaining the spawn, 590, 591. 



SHAW, Mr. British Resident in Burmah, sketch of, 102. 



SHERMAN, JOHN. Secretary of the United States Treasury. 

 794; family and early life, 794, 795; political career, 795; 

 services on behalf of the public credit during and since 

 the war, 796. 



SHIELDS, JAMES. American General, 796 ; life and career, 796, 

 797. 



Signal Service, Meteorological Division of tt UniUd 

 States. Its duties in war-time, 797; storm-signaling and 

 other duties, 797; instruction and equipment, 797; the 

 Meteorological Division, 797; the plan of simultaneous 

 observations, 798; weather-maps, 79S ; the Myer system 

 of synchronous observations, 798, 799 ; earlier workings 

 of the method, 799; observations for the benefit of agri- 

 culture, 800 ; development of the Weather Bureau, 800; 

 obtaining the indications, 801 ; synoptic weather-map*, 

 SOI ; military organization of the service, SOI ; utilization 

 of the reports, 802: their dissemination, 808; mode of 

 preparing the daily synopsis and indications, 808, 806; 

 verifications of predictions, 805; river reports, 80S, 806; 

 cautionary signals, 806-SOS; sunset stations, 803; private 



