INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



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Missionary Society, 64 ; annual meeting of General Bap- 

 tist Association, receipts, expenditures, etc., of the year, 

 64 ; Baptists of Germany, triennial convention, 64, 65 ; 

 members, work accomplished, etc., 65. 



BARNARD, JOHN GROSS. United States Army officer and au- 

 thor, 65 ; brief biography of, 65 ; graduated at West Point, 

 65 ; service in Mexico, engineering work, as chief-engineer 

 in the rebellion, 65; author of several valuable works, 65. 



BAYAKD, Senator T. F. Address at celebration of Meck- 

 lenburg Declaration, 634. 



Seer. Statistics of annual production, acccording to coun- 

 tries, 65; beer- tax in Great Britain, 65, 66; number of 

 breweries, result of tax, etc., 66. 



Belgium. Population by provinces, 66; area, 66; occupa- 

 tions of the people, mostly agricultural, largely in cloth- 

 ing trades, 66; education, marriages, births, etc., 66; 

 Chamber of Deputies and Senate, 66 ; political questions 

 as to education, the clergy, etc., 66, 67; legislative ac- 

 tion, 6T; financial questions, loans, revenues, expendi- 

 tures, etc., 67. 



BERESFORD, Lord CHARLES. In Egypt, 246-24S. 



BERRY, JAMES H. Elected Governor of Arkansas, 80. 



ELAINE, Hon. JAMES G. Oration before Congress on Presi- 

 dent Garfield, 127-134. 



BLANC, J. J. Louis. Biography of, 67, 68; active in politics, 

 popular journalist and writer, 67 ; socialistic theories, 67 ; 

 share in revolutions, etc., 67, 63; exile and return, mem- 

 ber of National Assembly, 68. 



Borneo, North. Largest island in the world after Australia, 

 68 ; Spanish sovereignty, 68 ; course of affairs which led 

 to British interference, 68; charter of the Dent & Co. 

 corporation, 68, 69. 



Brazil. The Emperor and his Cabinet, 69 ; Council of State, 

 69 ; presidents of provinces, 69 ; army, 69 ; navy, 69 ; 

 finances, 69 ; national debt, 70 ; the slavery question, 70 ; 

 productions of the country, 70 ; imports and exports, 70 ; 

 articles, 70 ; coffee exportation, 70 ; shipments to various 

 countries, 71 ; commerce with United States, 71 ; Brazilian 

 industries, 72. 



Bulgaria. Principality created by Berlin Treaty, 78 ; area, 

 population, language, etc., 73; virtually dependent on 

 Kussia, 73 ; Constitution suspended by reigning prince, 

 78; dissatisfaction of people, excitement, Eussian in- 

 trigue, 78 ; new election ordered, no good result, 73 ; 

 Prince Battenberg only a vassal of the Czar, 74. 



California. Officers of government, 74 ; tax levy, school 

 fund, 74 ; values of agricultural and mining products and 

 exports, 74; merchandise and produce exports by sea 

 from San Francisco, 74 ; arrivals and departures by rail 

 and sea, 75; population by counties (census of 1880), 75; 

 stock on farms, manufacturing establishments, yield of 

 barley, corn, and wheat, 75 ; the debris case in court, 75 ; 

 abstract of judge's decision, 75, 76; facts found by judge 

 and legal conclusions, 76, 77 ; decree, 77 ; Miners' Conven 

 tion and Anti-Debris Convention, 77, 78 ; resolutions, 78 ; 

 railroad taxation, vexed dispute, 78 ; case in court, 78, 79 ; 

 decision in favor of railroad company, 79 ; political issues, 

 79 ; Democratic Convention and platform, 79, 80 ; ticket 

 nominated, 80; Eepublican Convention, platform and 

 ticket, 80-82 ; other conventions and platforms, 82, 88 ; 

 Democratic ticket elected, 83. 



Cape Colony and British South Africa. Area and popula- 

 tion, 83 ; mixed character of population, 83 ; wool the chief 

 product, 83; exports besides wool, ostrich-feathers, cop- 

 per-ore, diamonds, 83 ; finances in good condition, 83, 84 ; 

 Natal, on east coast, products, exports, etc., 84 ; revenue, 

 expenditure, public debt, 84} policy in public afiairs, 84; 



non-interference practiced, 84; Basuto question, Dutch 

 squatters, unsatisfactory state of things, 84, 85 ; Cetewayo 

 and the Zooloo question, 85 ; sketch of the course of af- 

 fairs, and restoration of Cetewayo, 85. 



Cereal Production of the United States. Table of reports 

 for States and Territories, 85, 86. 



CETEWAYO, the Zooloo King, sent back to Cape Colony, 85. 



Chemistry. Progress and present condition, 86 ; oil obtained 

 by distilling leaves of California bay-tree, or laurel, 87 ; 

 peculiar properties, 86, 87 ; new fat acid from nut of same 

 tree, 87 ; named umbellulic acid, properties, etc., 87 ; new 

 manganese minerals found in Colorado, 87 ; new series 

 of bases for codeine, 87, 88 ; gum-galactine obtained by 

 Muntz, 88 ; new coloring-matter, ruberine, 88 ; Dr. Phip- 

 son's experiments, 88 ; carbon sulphobromide, 88 ; new 

 minerals, monetite and inonite, 88 ; anhydrous crystalline 

 hsematein and crystalline brazilein, 88, 89 ; other new 

 substances, 89 ; atomic weight of beryllium, 89; tests for 

 detection of oleomargarine and impurities in butter, 

 chemical analysis and specific gravity, 89, 90; experi- 

 ments as to arsenical poisonings derived from bismuth, 

 90; dyeing by electricity, 90; new process for extracting 

 sulphur, 90 ; process for determining sulphates in wines, 

 91 ; Folkard on analysis for determining organic matter 

 in potable waters, 91 ; tests for determining nitrites in 

 water, 91 ; Tichborne apparatus for estimating ammonia 

 in potable waters, 91 ; other apparatus, 91, 92; vegetable 

 chemistry, experiments in, 92 ; dispute as to plants ab- 

 sorbing noxious substances, 93 ; experiments on sources 

 of ash ingredients of plants, 93; source of carbon in 

 plants, 93, 94 ; animal chemistry, experiments in diges- 

 tive processes, 94 ; ptomaines, alkaloids, experiments re- 

 specting, 94; industrial chemistry, oils from the pine- 

 tree, 94, 95; artificial indigo, process of manufacture, 95; 

 improvements in manufacturing chlorates, 95; Barff's 

 new antiseptic compound, 95, 96 ; peroxide of hydrogen 

 antiseptic, 96; other antiseptics, 96; apparatus for test- 

 ing petroleum, 96 ; principles and methods 96. 



Chili. Officers of the Government, 97 ; army, 97 ; navy, 97 ; 

 finances, 97 ; national debt, 98 ; railroads, 93 ; posts, 

 telegraphs, 98; imports and exports, 98, 99; exports in 

 copper, wheat, etc., 99 ; physical condition, future pros- 

 pects, 99, 100. 



China. The Emperor and family, 100 ; area and popula- 

 tion, 100 ; army and navy, 100 ; financial condition, 100, 

 101 ; foreign commerce, 101 ; China Merchants' Steam 

 Navigation Company, 101; coal deposits, 101; agricul- 

 ture, 101 ; improvement, 101, 102. 



Christian Connection. Conferences, etc., 102 ; meeting of 

 Quadrennial Convention, 102. 



Civil-Rights Cases. (See LAW, CONSTITUTIONAL.) 



CLAY, CLEMENT C. United States Senator, sketch of, 103. 



Coal, Bituminous Statistics of production in eighteen 

 States east of one hundredth meridian, 103; production 

 west of one hundredth meridian total production, 104. 



Coal-mining with Caustic Lime.TSevr method, said to be 

 successful, 104. 



Colombia. Executive and State officers of the Confederacy, 

 104; revenue, debt, etc., 105; imports and exports, 105; 

 quinine production, 105 ; tables of exports, imports from 

 the United States, export from the United States to Co- 

 lombia, 106; railroads, 106, 107; Panama Canal project, 

 107 ; Lieutenant Rodgers's report, 107 ; post-office, tele- 

 graphs, etc., 107. 



Cldture in England, 203; in France, 208. 



Colorado. State officers, 108 ; taxable property, county 

 valuation, 108; items of property valued, 108; State tax, 

 108 ; bullion product, 108 ; mining industry prosperous, 

 108; population, 108, 109; yield of barley, com, wheat, 

 etc., 109; Senator Chilcott, brief biography of, 109; 



