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railroad commission bill postponed, 651 ; canal legislation, 

 651 ; telegraph consolidation attacked, 651 ; New York 

 street-cleaning legislation, 651 ; minor enactments, 651 ; 

 efforts to reorganize the Democratic party, 651, 652; the 

 County Democracy, 652 ; formation of the Anti-Monop- 

 oly League. 652; programme of the new party, 652; 

 Greenback Convention and resolutions, 652, 658; Republi- 

 can party divisions, 658; convention and nominations, 

 658; platform, 658, 654; County Democrats decline to act 

 with Tammany Hall, 654; State Convention, 655; plat- 

 form, 655, 656; nominations, 656; results of election, 656; 

 finances of the State, 656 ; debt, 656, 657 ; valuation of 

 property, 657 ; taxation, 657 ; canal revenue, 657 ; insur- 

 ance statistics, 657 ; banking statistics, 657, 658 ; salt in- 

 spection, 653 ; school statistics, 653 ; State Prisons, 658 ; 

 insane, 053; immigration statistics, 653 ; Capitol building, 

 658, 659; Police Commissioners, 659 ; elevated railroad 

 complications, 659, 660; population of the State by coun- 

 ties, 660 ; classified returns of New York city, 660 ; census 

 valuation of property by counties, 661 ; appointment of 

 Chief- Justice, 661 ; Tariff Convention, 661. 



Nicaragua. Area, 661 ; disputed boundaries, 661 ; form of 

 government, 661 ; members of administration, 662 ; mili- 

 tary census, 662; public instruction, 662; revenue and 

 expenditures, 662 ; debt, 662 ; commerce, 662 ; improve- 

 ment of means of transportation, 662 ; bill introduced in 

 Washington to guarantee a Nicaragua interoceanic canal, 

 662 ; advantages of the Nicaragua route, 663 ; revolution- 

 ary disturbances, 663. 



North Carolina. The Legislature, 663; the Governor on 

 railroad regulation, 663; educational improvement re- 

 quired, 663; provisions of new school law, 664; acts rela- 

 tive to school moneys, 664; new counties organized, 664, 

 665; text of prohibition law, 665 ; Anti-Prohibition Con- 

 vention, 665 ; resolutions adopted, 665, 666 ; Anti-Prohibi- 

 tion address, 666; rejection of prohibition by the people, 

 666; analysis of the vote, 667; industrial statistics, 667; 

 agricultural products, 667, 663; cotton product, 667; 

 tobacco-culture, 668; rice, 668; Treasury receipts and 

 disbursements, 663 ; commerce of Wilmington, 663, 669 ; 

 Cherokee Indians, 669; population by counties, 669. 



Noxiom Insects and Plant Parasites. Bacteria discovered 

 in pear-blight, 669; in the yellows of peach-trees, 669; 

 parasite of the sugar-beet, 670; hydrocyanic acid as an 

 insect-destroyer, 670 ; remedies against phylloxera, 670 ; 

 fatty insecticides, 670 ; Persian insect-powder. 670. 



Nutritive Ingredients of tfie Food ue eat. Study of nutri- 

 tion, 670 ; mode of experimentation, 670 ; nutritive con- 

 stituents of food, 671 ; functions of albuminoids, 671 ; of 

 carbohydrates, 671 ; of fats, 671 ; changes they undergo . 

 in the living body, 671 ; analysis of foods, 671 ; tables 

 showing the composition and nutritive value of all kinds 

 of food, 672; method of determining the actual food value 

 of substances, 673; percentage of nutrient material in 

 different food-fishes, 673; inferior qualities of foul or 

 spent fish, 673; fish as brain-food, 673, 674; analyses of 

 oysters from various beds, 674 ; proportions of nutritive 

 ingredients, 674; vegetable foods, 675; nutritive valua- 

 tions, 675; general conclusions regarding the analyses 

 obtained, 675; digestibility of food, 676; difficult of deter- 

 mination, 676; detailed results of experiments, 676, 677; 

 economical aspect of nutritive valuations, 677. 



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Obituaries, American. Abbott, Joseph C., 673; Adams, 

 John F., 673; Harbour, John M., 673; Barksdale, Harris, 

 678, 679; Beauregard, Augustine Toutant, 679; Benton, 

 James G., 679; Bidwell, Walter H., 679; Brown, Eev. 

 William Faulkner, 679; Butler, Benjamin Israel, 679; 



Chambers, William H., 679; Clark, Sarah, 6SO; Combs, 

 Leslie, 680; Condon, Samuel, 6SO; Cooke, Henry D., 

 680; Cox, Hannah, 680, 681; Cuthbert, John A., 6S1; 

 Davidson, George 8., 681 ; Diman, J. Lewis, 631 ; Dixon, 

 Nathan F., 631 ; Dupuy, Eliza, 681, 682 ; Fargo, William 

 G., 632; Fillmore, Mrs. Caroline, 6S2; Fitton, Eev. 

 James, 682, 6S8; Fox, Edward, 683; French, Virginia L., 

 688; Gobright, L. A., 688; Grigsby, Hugh Blair, 683; 

 Hayes, Isaac Israel, 684; Hosmer, George Washington, 

 684; Jackson, Timothy I., 684; Lane, Henry 8., 684, 635; 

 Lanier, Sidney, 6S5; Laveau, Marie, 685; McGrath, H. 

 Price, 686; Nutt, George Washington M., 686; Palfrey, 

 John Gorham, 637; Peck, Ebenezer, 637; Race, George 

 W., 637; Saulsbury, Eli, 688; Sheldon, Rev. George, 

 688 ; Smith, David M., 688; Snead, J. Timberlake, 688; 

 Spooner, Alden J., 688 ; Stilwell, Silas M., 689 ; Tappan, 

 H. P., 639; Thaxter, Edward P., 689; Vail, Aaron 8., 

 639 ; Vetromille, Eugene, 689 ; Wallace, William Ross, 

 689 ; Ware, Rev. John F. W., 639 ; Warner, Hiram, 690. 

 Obituaries, foreign. Adam, William Patrick, 690; Arri- 

 vabene, Count, 690; Benedek, General von, 690; Ber- 

 thaut, General, 691 ; Bonaparte, Prince Pierre, 691 ; 

 Borrow, George, 691 ; Bosco, General del, 691 ; Brestel, 

 Rudolf, 691 ; Burdberg, Baron, 691 ; Burgers, President 

 of the Transvaal Republic, 691 ; Caroline, Queen-Dowa- 

 ger of Denmark, 691 ; Caterini, Cardinal, 692; Clinchant, 

 General, 692 ; Dingelstedt, German poet, 692 ; Drouyn 

 de 1'lluys, 692 ; Dullert, Dutch statesman, 692 ; Dupre, 

 Vice- Admiral, 692; Eulenberg, Count Friedrich, 692; 

 Forster, Bishop, 693 ; Frias, Argentine diplomatist, 693 ; 

 Gamier, French economist, 693 ; Gholam Hussein, 693 ; 

 Hall, Mrs. S. C., 693 ; Hecker, Friedrich, 694 ; Heems- 

 kerk, Dutch statesman, 694 ; Hildebrandt, Theodor, 694 ; 

 Keller, Dr. Ferdinand, 694; Kutschker, Cardinal, 695; 

 Lafayette, Oscar de, 695; Le Faure, French publicist, 

 695; Lotze, Hermann, German philosopher, 695; Mac- 

 donald, Alexander, 695; Macedo, Brazilian statesman, 

 695; McHale, Archbishop, 695; Mannsfeld, Austrian 

 statesman, 696; Mariette Bey, Egyptian archa?ologist, 

 696; Mason, English philanthropist 690; Miall, Edward, 

 696 ; Street, English architect, 696 ; Uchatius, Austrian 

 Field-Marshall, 696; TThrich, General, 697; Verboeck- 

 hoven, Belgian painter, 6S7 ; Vieuxtemps, Belgian musi- 

 cian, 697; Weber, Max Maria von, German technicolo- 

 ist, 697. 



Ohio. State debt, 697, 698 ; funding operation, 697 ; local in- 

 debtedness, 698; issue of railroad bonds declared unconsti- 

 tutional, 698; Treasury statement, 696 ; valuation of prop- 

 erty, 693 ; banks, 698 ; railroads, 69S, 699 ; labor statistics, 

 699; militia, 699; insane, 699; crops, 699; live-stock, 

 699; session of the Legislature, 699; enactments, 699, 

 700 ; Garfield's resignation of the senatorship, 700 ; Sher- 

 man elected, 700 ; Republican State ticket and platform, 

 700 ; Greenback nominations. 700 ; platform, 701 ; Dem- 

 ocratic nominations and platform, 701 ; Temperance Re- 

 form Convention, 701; ticket, 701 ; platform, 701, 702; 

 Prohibition Reform nominations and platform, 702 ; re- 

 sults of the election, 702; population by counties, 703. 

 Opium- Traffic in India and China. Desire of the Chinese 

 Government to stop the importation of Indian opium, 

 703; origin of the opium-habit, 703; introduction in Chi- 

 na, 703 ; growth of the practice, 703 ; the Opium War, 

 T04; the Indian opium monopoly, 704; the culture and 

 manufacture, 704 ; value as a source of revenue to the 

 two countries, 704 ; prospect of the suppression of the 

 traffic, 704. 



Oregon. Woman Suffrage Convention, 704 ; resolutions, 704; 

 platform of the Temperance Alliance, 705 ; wheat ex- 

 ports, 705, 706; crop statistics, 706; population of towns 

 and cities, 706; gold product, 706; valuation and taxa- 



