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INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



Japan.. The Mikado, 452 ; area and population, 452 ; foreign 

 residents, 452 ; receipts ami expenditures, 452 ; debt, 

 452; social and political transformation, 453; the Dai- 

 mios,453; Samurais, 453; Shlntoism, 458 ; the University 

 of Tokio, 453, 454 ; system of telegraphy, 454 ; postal sta- 

 tistics, 454 ; agricultural department, 454 ; territorial di- 

 visions, 454; the system of government, 454, 455; su- 

 preme council, 454; political leaders, 454; senate, 455; 

 local assemblies, 455; currency, 455; military system, 

 455; strength of the army, 455; rural police, 455; naviga- 

 tion, 455, 456 ; commerce, 456. 



Tews, their Numbers and their Persecutions in Germany 

 and Russia. Jewish population of the world, 456 ; of 

 the various countries, 456 ; anti-Semitic agitation in Ger- 

 many, 456, 487; the class which is attacked, 456,457; 

 the faults they are accused of, 457 ; proposed restrictive 

 measures against them, 457 ; their replies, 457 ; an ti- Jew- 

 ish feeling in Russia, 453; outbreak at Elizabethgrad, 

 458 ; malicious proclamations, 458 ; disturbance at Smielo, 

 458 ; riots at Kiev, 458 ; various outbreaks, 458 ; disor- 

 der spreads through Great Russia, 459 ; riot at Odessa, 

 459 ; delusions of the peasantry, 459 ; orderly behavior of 

 the Poles, 459; extent of the disorders, 460; Warsaw 

 riots, 460; arson, 460; pillage, 460; measures taken by 

 the Government, 460 ; imperial proclamation, 460, 461 ; 

 arrests of rioters, 461. 



JOHNSON, ABRAM. Sketch of his life, 461. 



JONES, JOHN B. American soldier, 461 ; biographical sketch, 



461, 462. 



Jute. Botanical description, 462; industrial uses, 4C2; quan- 

 tity imported into the United States, 462 ; conditions of 

 the trade, 462; introduction of the culture in Louisiana, 



462, 463. 



KALXOKT, Count GUSTAV. Austrian Prime Minister, 433; 

 biographical account, 463. 



Hamas. Election returns, 463 ; the Legislature, 463 ; acts 

 of the session, 463-465; cattle-disease act, 463; act regu- 

 lating the reform school management, 463 ; claims against 

 the United States credited to the sinking fund, 464 ; reve- 

 nue bill, 464; act to enforce prohibition, 464; text of law, 

 464, 465; pay of county school superintendents, 465; 

 cereal product of the different counties, 466 ; live-stock 

 statistics, 466; cheese and butter, 466; various crops, 

 466 ; property assessment, 466 ; drought and chinch-bugs, 

 467; school fund, 467; public schools, 46T; State debt, 

 467; railroads, 467; decision of the Supreme Court on 

 the new liquor laws, 467 ; judicial decision on the status 

 of legislators from unorganized counties, 463 ; coal pro- 

 duction, 468 ; population by counties, 468. 



Kentucky. Election returns, 46S ; Constitutional Conven- 

 tion defeated, 468; difficulty of obtaining a revision, 468, 

 469; proposal to disregard the constitutional prescrip- 

 tions, 469 ; Prohibition party organized, 469 ; platform, 

 469 ; legislative session, 469 ; Treasury statement, 469 ; 

 temporary loans, 469 ; improvement in finances, 469 ; pro- 

 posed plan to meet deficit, 470; outstanding bonds, 470; 

 revision of school laws, 470 ; Agricultural College, 470 ; 

 normal school, 470; geological survey, 470; abolition of 

 the contract system in the Penitentiary, 470, 471; Peni- 

 tentiary, 471; railroad assessment, 471; property valua- 

 tion, 471 ; idiocy, 471 ; United States revenue, 471 ; navi- 

 gation improvements, 471; crop statistics, 471 ; popula- 

 tion of cities and towns, 471; of State by counties, 472. 



KILPATRICK, JUDSON, Minister. Note to the Chilian Minis- 

 ter contradicting Minister Hurlbut's statement of the 

 attitude of the United States, 740. 



Land Tenure in Europe. Enlightened laws of the United 

 States relating to land tenure, 472 ; feudal restrictions in 

 Europe, 472 ; the cause of the French Kevolution, 472 ; 

 Stein's reforms in Prussia, 472, 478 ; free sale established, 

 478 ; commutation of feudal dues, 478 ; transfer of the 

 fee from nobles to peasant proprietors, 473 ; establish- 

 ment of tenant rights in Austria, 473; creation of a 

 peasant proprietary, 478 ; origin of serfdom in Russia, 

 473 ; emancipation of the serfs, 473 ; abolition of the 

 feudal system in Spain, 473, 474 ; in Italy, 474 ; present 

 agrarian condition in European countries, 474; the land 

 question in England, 474, 475. 



LANE, JOSEPH. American general, 475 ; career and death, 

 475. 



LAI-HAM, EUGENE G. Elected Senator from New York, 648; 

 biographical notice, 648. 



Law, Constitutional: its Recent Progress. Expansion of 

 Federal authority since the war, 475 ; powers of Congress 

 enlarged by the post-bellum amendments, 475 ; interpre- 

 tation of the fourteenth amendment, 475, 476 ; decision in 

 Strauder against West Virginia, 475 ; Congress author- 

 ized to protect the colored race in the enjoyment of equal 

 civil rights, 475 ; definition of civil rights, 475, 476 ; right 

 to serve as jurors, 476 ; Virginia jury cases, 476 ; no 

 State can exclude negroes from juries by reason of their 

 color, 476 ; dissenting opinion of Justices Field and Clif- 

 ford, 476, 477 ; case of Judge Coles, 477 ; indicted on the 

 charge of excluding blacks from jury-panels, 477 ; decided 

 that Congress has power to punish State officers for offi- 

 cial acts, 477; the doctrine laid down in ex parte Vir- 

 ginia, 477 ; dissenting opinion of Justice Field, 477, 473 ; 

 Siebold and Clarke cases, 478, 479 ; Congress can punish 

 State election officers for violations of State laws affect- 

 ing congressional elections, 478 ; text of the opinion in 

 the Clarke case, 478, 479 ; dissenting opinion of Justice 

 Field, 479; case of Tennessee against Davis, 479; law of 

 Congress authorizing the transfer to Federal courts of 

 cases against revenue officers for acts done when in dis- 

 charge of their duties, 479 ; trial of Davis for murder 

 removed to Federal court under this law, 480 ; held that 

 the authority to carry out all powers granted by the Con- 

 stitution covered the act, 480 ; Justice Strong on the ab- 

 solute powers of Congress within the Constitution, 480 ; 

 minority opinion that murder within State jurisdiction is 

 a State offense, but not punishable by any Federal stat- 

 ute, 480, 481 ; same doctrine advanced in Virginia against 

 Eives, 481 ; categories of causes removable to Federal 

 courts by virtue of recent acts of Congress, 481 ; any 

 non-resident defendant allowed recourse to Federal 

 courts, 481 ; plaintiff or defendant given the right on 

 alleging prejudice or local influence, 481 ; the option free 

 at any time before final submission of the case, 482; 

 causes made removable when both parties are non-resi- 

 dents, 482 ; decisions declaring that all subjects affected 

 at all by United States statutes are within Federal juris- 

 diction under these laws, 482; agreement not to bring 

 suit in Federal courts unconstitutional, 482 ; construction 

 of the constitutional clause authorizing Congress to regu- 

 late commerce, 482 ; Federal cognizance of transportation 

 on navigable waters of the United States, 482, 483 ; case 

 of the Daniel Ball, 4S3 ; case of Lord against Steamship 

 Company, 483. 



LAWRENCE, WILLIAM BEACH. American jurist, 483-485; 

 death, 483; education, 483; diplomatic employments, 

 4S3, 484 ; writings, 484 ; services as an international 

 jurisconsult, 484, 485; personal characteristics. 485. 



LETELLIEB, Luc. Canadian statesman, 485; public career, 



