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INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



prognostication, 808 ; significance of barometric variations, 

 809 ; apparatus for the observations, 809, 810 ; the bar- 

 ometer, 809, 810; thermometers, 810; rain-gauge, 810; 

 anemometer, 810, 811 ; the international weather service, 

 811-814 ; absolutely simultaneous observations necessary, 

 811 ; adoption of General Myers project by the Vienna 

 Congress, 812 ; extent of the international observations, 

 812; the coast Signal Service, 814; the observed con- 

 ditions, 814 ; advantages to the Life-Saving Service, 815; 

 value of the danger-signals to vessels sailing along the 

 coast, 816; method of telegraphing the signals, 810; util- 

 ity of the frontier telegraph in announcing Indian opera- 

 tions, 816; langth of the lines, 817. 



Silk. Sources of the world's supply, 178. 



Silver. Statistics of Nevada mines, 658. 



SOUTHARD, M. I. Representative from Ohio, 193; amend- 

 ment to judicial appropriation bill, 284 ; remarks on the 

 bill, 241, 247. 



South Carolina. Governor chosen In place of Wade Hamp- 

 ton, elected Senator, 817 ; judges elected, 817; session of 

 the Legislature, 818; amendment of the Constitution 

 voted relating to the homestead laws, 818; prohibition of 

 miscegenation, 818 ; text-book law, 818; artificial limbs 

 for Confederate soldiers, 818 ; legislation upon the ques- 

 tioned debt, 818, 819 ; finances and taxation, 819 ; school 

 statistics, 819; criminal statistics, 819, 820; state of trade, 

 820 ; cotton-manufacture, 820 ; pardon of the convicted 

 defaulters of the Republican regime, 820. 



Spain. The royal family, 820; area and population, 821 ; 

 finances, 821 ; army and navy, 821 ; commerce by com- 

 modities, 821 ; area and population of the colonies, 821 ; 

 election for the Chambers, 821 ; opening of the Cortes, 

 821 ; speech from the throne, 821, 822 ; second session, 

 822 ; deliberations on the abolition of slavery in the An- 

 tilles, 822; royal marriage, 822 ; attempted regicide, 822; 

 new outbreak of the Cuban rebellion, 822 ; treaty with 

 ' China relating to the coolie-trade, 828. 



SPAKKS, W. A. J. Representative from Illinois, 193, 250; 

 explains the army appropriation bill, at extra session, 

 255-257. 



STEPHENS, ALEXANDER H. Representative from Georgia, 

 198, 250 ; speech in extra session on the army appropria- 

 tion bill, 251-258. 



Stock Exchange, the London. Parliamentary inquiry and 

 question of legislative supervision, 176. 



STREMAYR, Dr. VON. Austrian Cabinet Minister, 60. 



Sugar. The world's production and trade in cane and beet- 

 root sugar, 169. 



Sutro Tunnel. Opened to discharge the water from the 

 flooded mines, 658. 



Sweden and Norway. Royal family, 823; the Swedish 

 Ministry, 823; area and population of Sweden, 823; 

 finances, 823 ; trade and navigation. 823 ; the Norwegian 

 Ministry, 823; area and population, 823; finances, 823, 

 824; proceedings of the Swedish Riksdag, S24; session 

 of the Norwegian Storthing, 824. 



Switzerland. Are* and population, 824 ; finances, 824 ; the 

 army, 824; post-offices and telegraphs, 824; capital pun- 

 ishment restored, 824; President elected, 825; merging 

 of Catholic and Protestant primary schools decided con- 

 stitutional, 825. 



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TAAFPE, Count EDUARD. Austrian Minister-President, sketch 



of, 60. 

 TAYLOR, RICHARD. Confederate General, 825; early life, 825 ; 



services in the Mexican war, 825; in the war of secession, 



825, 826; subsequent life, 826. 

 Telegraph, Submarine. New cable lines, 346, 347. 

 Tennessee. Legislative session, 826 ; bill abolishing fees, 826; 



insurance legislation, 826 ; question of scaling the debt 

 827 ; committee report containing a plan of readjustment, 

 827 ; reasons for repudiating railroad bonds, 827 ; mi- 

 nority report against repudiation, 827; the passage of 

 the bill, 828; commission to confer with bondholders, 

 828 ; statement of the debt, 828 ; conditions under 

 which the railroad bonds were issued, 828; legal pro- 

 ceedings to determine if they are a lien upon the rail- 

 roads, 828; amounts of these bonds, 828; taxation, re- 

 ceipts, and outgoes, S29; repeal of the Memphis charter 

 and others, 829; debt of Memphis, 829; extra session to 

 take precautions against yellow fever, 829. 



TEVFIK, MOHAMMED. Khedive of Egypt, biographical ac- 

 count, 335. 



Texas. Legislative session, 829 ; constitutional amendment 

 relieving agricultural products from taxation, S29: act 

 permitting the Governor to displace charitable officials, 

 830 ; authorization of a loan, 830 ; interest and school 

 appropriations vetoed, 830; popular disapproval, 880; a 

 Sunday law, 830 ; the financial condition, 830 ; the ex- 

 tent, location, and prices of salable lands, 830, 881 ; land 

 frauds, 831 ; the schools, 881 ; State institutions, 831 ; 

 criminal statistics, 831 ; measures for the capture of fugi- 

 tive criminals, 881; permitting murderers to escape, 882. 



THEBAW. His elevation to the Burmese throne, 100 ; his 

 insane conduct, 101. 



THURMAN, ALLEN G. Senator from Ohio, 193, 250 ; speech 

 on resolutions to investigate the recent elections, 196-198. 



TIRARD, PIERRE E. French Minister of Commerce, bio- 

 graphical notice, 886. 



Tobacco. The world's production and international trade. 

 170. 



TOWNSHEND, R. W. Representative from Illinois, 193, 250; 

 on the army appropriation bill, 283. 



Tramp Acts. In Delaware, 806; military order of the 

 Governor of Iowa to arrest tramps, 516 ; legislation in 

 New York, 675; in North Carolina, 686; in Pennsylvania, 

 715; in Wisconsin, 848. 



Treaty Obligations not paramount to Congressional legisla- 

 tion, 219. 



Turkey. The reigning house, 882 ; area and population of 

 the empire, 832 ; receipts and expenditures, 832 ; the 

 financial situation, 832 ; army, 882; railroads, 882; evils 

 of a depreciated currency, 832, 883 ; changes in the Fi- 

 nance Ministry, 838 ; the office of Grand Vizier abolished, 

 833; ministerial crisis resulting from the disbandment of 

 troops, 833 ; composition of the new Cabinet, 833 ; sta- 

 tioning British ships in the Bosporus, 833 ; promised re- 

 forms, 833 ; decree of the payment of interest on the debt, 

 834 ; the Russian treaty of peace, 834 ; cessation of Cre- 

 tan disturbances, 834. 



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United States. Appointment of a new Secretary of War, 

 a34 ; sketch of the Secretary, 884 ; a new Minister to 

 Berlin, 834; the Attorney-General on the payment of fees 

 to deputy marshals, 884, 835; the action of Congress in 

 extra session, 835; the war-levy decided not to hold 

 against the States, 835; the constitutionality of legal- 

 tenders brought up in the courts, 835, 886 ; constitu- 

 tionality of the Thurman railroad act confirmed, 886 ; in- 

 crease of cases in the Supreme Court, 886 ; post-office 

 receipts, 836; changes in postal regulations, 836, 837; 

 ministers abroad instructed to enlist the aid of foreign 

 governments to suppress Mormon emigration, 887 ; the 

 decline of the American carrying-trade, 837, 838; pro- 

 posed measures to restore it, 838; attempt of the Na- 

 tionals to dictate the choice of a Speaker in Congress, 

 838, 839; increase of local indebtedness in the United 



