INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



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Btates, 839 ; the county and municipal debts In eleven 

 States, 889 ; valuation of property in them, 889 ; returns 

 from other Status, HW ; the agricultural season of 1879, 

 839; returns of the different crops, S89. 



VARROT, Hixi A. French Cabinet Minister, biographic*! 

 notice, 830. 



Vermont. The State officers, 840; finance statement, 840; 

 growth of the population during eighty years, 640 ; the 

 effect of through freight-rates from the West on Vermont 

 agricultural Interests, 840 ; relative cost and returns of 

 agriculture in Vermont and In the West, 840, 841 ; pos- 

 sibilities of sorghum-sugar production, 841 ; Grangers 1 

 protest against railroad monopolies, b41 ; a famous law 

 case, 842 ; an election case, 842. 



Virginia. Opposition to the adopted refunding bill, 842; 

 provisions of the bill, 812 ; platform of the Readjustment 

 party, 843 ; the amount funded under the act, 843 ; the 

 revenue, 843 ; statement of the debt, 843 ; the Govern- 

 or's message upon the advantage of the funding law, 

 844 ; election of a majority of Readjustee, 844 ; Colored 

 Convention. 844; convict-labor and prison statistics, 844; 

 educational statistics, 844; the law against miscegenation 

 tested, 845; a judge's answer on the colored juror ques- 

 tion, 845. 



VOORHEBS, I>. W. Senator from Indiana, 193, 249; on the 

 army appropriation bill In extra session, 263, 264. 



WADDINOTON. President of the French Cabinet, 836 ; his 

 Ministry resigns, 394. 



War Zy. The Southern States not liable, 429, 885. 



Wart. British war in Afghanistan, 8-14; Zooloo war, 15, 

 121-129. 



Wtft Virginia. State officers and strength of parties in the 

 Legislature, 845; law obliging lawyers to account for 

 trust-moneys, 845; law against adulterated fertilizers, 

 845; usury law, 845 ; laborers' lien act, 846; opposition 

 to normal schools, 845, 846; proposed constitutional 

 amendment to reform the judiciary, 846 ; report on Ille- 

 gal freight-charges, 846 ; industrial and commercial con- 

 dition of the State, 846; railroad extension, 846; account 

 of the Wetzel County disorders, 846, 847 ; decision re- 

 garding the estates of married women. 847 ; case relating 

 to the ferry privilege at Harper's Ferry, 847; case of the 

 colored convict Strander, 847. 



WmrrnoRNit, W. C. Representative from Tennessee, 193, 

 251 ; on the judicial appropriation bill, 238. 239. 



WBITTTNGIIAM, WILLIAM ROLLINSON. Episcopalian Bishop, 

 47 ; biographical sketch, 847, 843. 



WHITI, HAE*T. Representative from Pennsylvania, IW, 

 J.M ; on the army bill, 268. 



WIIYTE, W. P. Senator from Maryland, 198, 249 ; on resolu- 

 tions for Inquiry Into recent elections, 206. 



WILLIS, A. 8. Representative from Kentucky, 198, 280: 

 committee report on restricting Chinese immigration, 

 219, 220. 



Wiconin. Meeting of the Legislature, 843; tramp law, 

 848; revised-assessment act, 848; food-adulteration act, 

 843 ; receipts and expenditures, 948 ; the debt, 649 ; 

 local indebtedness, 849 ; tax-valuation, 849 ; taxes, 849 ; 

 estimates for 1880, 849; school statistics, 849; prison 

 statistics, 849, 850; State Institutions, 860 ; railroads, 850; 

 the public lands, 850; National nominations and plat- 

 form, 850, 851 ; Republican nominations and platform, 

 851 ; Democratic nominations and platform, 851, 852 ; 

 results of the election, 852. 



WITHERS, ROBERT E. Senator from Virginia, 193, 249 ; on 

 the army bill in extra session, 262, 263. 



Wool. European supply and manufactures, 172, 178; exports 

 ftvin California, 118. 



Teas and Nayg.ln the Senate, on amendments to resolu- 

 tions to investigate the freedom of the late elections, 202, 

 204, 206 ; on resolutions as amended, 207 ; on the bill to 

 regulate the counting of the Presidential vote, 218 ; on 

 the bill to restrict Chinese Immigration, 223, 224 ; on the 

 army appropriation bill, 230 ; on amendments to the ju- 

 dicial appropriation bill, 243, 241 ; on a motion to with- 

 draw its amendments, 249 ; in extra session, on the army 

 appropriation bill, 265; on the bill to prevent military 

 interference at elections, 271, 272; on the judicial appro- 

 priation bill, 289; on the substitute appropriation bill, 

 294. 



In the House, on the bill to restrict Chinese immigration, 

 222 ; on the President's veto of the same, 226 ; on amend- 

 ments to the judicial appropriation bill, 242 ; on the bill, 

 242 ; on the army appropriation bill In extra session, 259, 

 260 ; on the same after the President's veto, 268 ; on the 

 bill to prevent military interference at elections, 269, 270 ; 

 on the same after the President's veto, 273, 274 ; on the 

 judicial appropriation bill in extra session, 278 ; on the 

 same after the President's veto, 291 ; on the substitute 

 appropriation bill, 293, 294. 



r. Austrian Cabinet Minister, 60. 

 Zooloos. Their ethnological character, 852 ; their country, 

 852 ; origin and development of the Zooloo nation, 852, 

 853 ; its military system, 853 ; events of Chaka's reign, 

 853; Panda's reign, 853; Cetywayo, 858. 



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