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INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



one third colored, 29, 30; yield of cotton, corn, etc., 80; 

 amount of live-stock, etc., 80; Democratic State Conven- 

 tion, 30 ; platform and ticket nominated, 30 ; Republican 

 State Convention, 30 ; platform and ticket, 30, 81 ; Demo- 

 cratic ticket elected, 31 ; destructive floods in the spring 

 of the year in the Mississippi Valley, 81. 



Army of the, United States. Expenditures of the year, 81 ; 

 enlistments and desertions, 31 ; Quartermaster's and Ord- 

 nance Departments, 31 ; the soldiers' deposit system, 31 ; 

 schools at Fortress Monroe and Fort Leavenworth use- 

 ful, 31 ; West Point Academy in good condition, 81 ; 

 guns tested and recommended, 31, 32; some troubles with 

 Indians in Arizona, 82 ; increase of army to 80,000 rec- 

 ommended, 32; other recommendations, to increase effi- 

 ciency of the army, etc., 32. 



Astronomical Phenomena and Progress. 18 evr theory of 

 Dr. Siemens as to conservation of solar energy, 82 ; quo- 

 tations from his paper on the subject, 32; principal 

 points in his hypothesis, 32, 33; increase in sun-spots 

 since 18T8, 33; brilliant aurora, 33; total eclipse of 

 the sun, May 17th, 38; solar phenomena observed at 

 Greenwich, 33; Mr. Christie's observations, 33; new 

 method of finding the sun's distance, 33 ; Langley's 

 observations on amount of heat radiated by the sun, 

 Mount Whitney, Southern California, 33. 34 ; quotation 

 from his paper on the subject, 34; auroral displays 

 numerous and brilliant, 34; magnetic disturbances at- 

 tending auroras, 34, 35; transit of Venus, December 6th, 

 35; action of Congress, eight stations appointed, 85; for- 

 eign arrangements for the observation, 35; determina- 

 tion of the earth's mean density, 35 ; M. von Jolly's ex- 

 periment, 35; eleven asteroids discovered during 1882, 

 orbits, names given, etc., 35; minor planets used to de- 

 termine solar parallax, 36 ; Hough's observations on Jupi- 

 ter, 36; spots watched and noted, 36; Burnham's ob- 

 servations on double stars, 36; comets of 1882, 36, 87; 

 observations on, 37; one at solar eclipse in May, 37; 

 third discovered, September 6th, 37 ; nearness to the sun, 

 velocity, disappearance, 37, 38 ; comparison with comet 

 of 1668, 88; Meyer's remarks, 38; spectroscopic exami- 

 nation, 88; length of tail, 88; comet of 1812 expected to 

 return in 1884, 88; search for and announcement of 

 comets, 89 ; meteoric showers, very numerous, 39, 40 ; 

 meteoric fire-balls numerous, 40; variable stars, 40; new 

 one discovered, 40; Espin's remarks on variables, 40, 41; 

 planetary nebula, 41 ; Washburn Observatory, Wiscon- 

 sin, McCormick Observatory, Virginia, publications, ap- 

 paratus, etc., 41 ; Princeton, Yale, and other observa- 

 tories, and instruments, 41 ; astronomical journals and 

 prizes, 41, 42. 



Australia and Polynesia. Revenues exceeding estimates 

 in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queens- 

 land, 42; severe drought at beginning of year, 42 ; pros- 

 perity, 42 ; proposed Australian Federation, 42 ; railroads 

 successful, 42; proposed great line across the continent, 

 1,900 miles in length, 42 ; policy as to public lands, encour- 

 ages agriculture, etc., 43 ; military and naval force and 

 spirit, 43 ; area and products, 43 ; in Victoria, disputes as to 

 the tariff, railroad competition, mining, 43, 44 ; census, 44 ; 

 land laws in New South Wales, 44; wages, population, 

 exports, mining, etc., 44 ; Queen sland, sugar-growing^ 

 coolie labor, 44 ; Western Australia fast developing, 44, 

 45 ; question as to the natives (Maoris), New Zealand, 

 45; how difficulties arose, 45 ; course of the Government, 

 45; Maori chiefs in England, 45 ; revenue of New Zea- 

 land, 45 ; population, public debt, etc., 45, 46 ; govern- 

 ment capital in railroads in North and South Islands, 46 ; 

 immigration, etc., 46; government land system, 46; 

 compulsory insurance proposed, savings-banks, trust 

 funds, 46; exports of wool, gold, wheat, etc., 46. 



Austrian Electoral System. Three parliamentary bodies in 

 Austria, 46; complicated electoral law, four sorts of 

 electors, 46; Reichsrath, 853 members, qualifications of, 

 46, 47 ; how suffrage becomes an article of traffic, 47 ; 

 Germans and Jews get most advantage, 47 ; great pro- 

 prietors have single vote each, and single electoral col- 

 lege (except Dalmatia with four, Galicia with six col- 

 leges), 47 ; Slavs mostly excluded from representation, 

 47 ; vote by proxy allowed, 47 ; the old citizens in busi- 

 ness and professions have 136 mandats, 47 ; population 

 of open country exceeds that of cities, yet less number 

 of mandats, 47; German party stronger than Slav ele- 

 ment, 47 ; division of mandats according to nationali- 

 ties, 47 ; German party have more than 200 out of 350 

 deputies in the House, 48; agitation for electoral reform, 

 48 ; Czechs bent on securing rights, 48 ; the Taafe Gov- 

 ernment and policy, 48 ; House of Lords, how composed, 

 48; Parliament meets at Vienna and Pesth alternately, 

 48 ; Centralists and Federalists, 49 ; former wish to Ger- 

 manise everything, latter to secure advantages to nation- 

 alities, and make the empire a federation of all the 

 states in it, 49 ; various parties and names, 49, 50. 



Austria-Hungary. Royal family, 50: Austrian and Hun- 

 garian Ministers, 50 ; area and population, 50 ; Slavs pre- 

 dominate in numbers, 50 ; population aacording to reli- 

 gious denominations, 50 ; increase in Jewish population, 

 51 ; army and navy, 51 ; difficulty of centralization in 

 army, 51, 52; exports and imports, 52; Government of 

 Austria and of Hungary, 52; expenditures and revenues, 

 52 ; deficiency in Hungarian revenue, 52, 53 ; estimated 

 expenditures and income, 53 ; the provinces occupied in 

 accordance with Berlin Treaty, population, expenditures, 

 revenue, 53 ; relation of Austria to new provinces, Ger- 

 many and Italy, 53, 54 ; political situation, 54 ; suffrage 

 and federalism as means of safety to the empire, 54; 

 conflicting parties, 54; new Liberal party, 54, 55; German 

 supremacy not maintainable, 55; finance in Hungary, 

 55 ; ill-success in added provinces, Austrian misrule, 55 ; 

 insurrections, 55, 56; conscriptions resisted, 56; Cri- 

 voscie revolts, 56; Herzegovina followed, 57; military 

 movements, 57, 58 ; insurrection suppressed, country de- 

 serted, 58, 59 ; expenses, dispute, Bosnian reforms, 59 ; 

 inundations in the Tyrol, 59 ; great devastations, 59. 



Baptists. Statistics of regular Baptist churches in United 

 States, 59, 60; regular Baptists in other countries, CO; 

 anniversaries of Northern Baptist societies, 60 ; Amer- 

 ican Some Mission Society, receipts, expenditures, work 

 done, etc., 60; Publication Society, receipts, etc., reso- 

 lutions as to Bible translations, etc., 60, 61 ; Missionary 

 Union, receipts, etc., 61; work in Asia and Europe, 61 ; 

 Historical, American, and foreign Bible Society, 

 Women's Foreign Missionary Society, brief reports of, 

 61; Southern Baptist Convention, home and foreign 

 work, 61 ; first Autumnal Conference, held in Brooklyn, 

 N. Y., papers read and discussed, 61, 62 ; Seventh-Day 

 Baptist Church, statistics of, 62; Sabbath Tract So- 

 ciety, Education Society, Missionary Society, abstract 

 of receipts, expenditures, etc., 62 ; Seventh-Day Baptist 

 General Conference, 62 ; the Brethren, or Tunkers, di- 

 vided into three branches, 62 ; causes of division, 62 ; 

 annual meeting of the old branch, 62, 63 ; exciting time, 

 refuse to confer with the progressives, 68 ; adverse ac- 

 tion of the latter, 63 ; convention, declaration of prin- 

 ciples, etc., 63 ; Mennonites, General Conference, 63,64; 

 Regular Baptists in Great Britain and Ireland, 64 ; Bap- 

 tist Union, annual meeting, 64 ; brief reports of receipts, 

 expenditures, etc., of Building Fund, Translation Society, 



