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INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



roads, telegraphs, post-offices, 361, 862 ; table of exports 

 and imports for five years, 362 ; imports and exports of 

 specie, 362; chief imports and exports, 362; tonnage of 

 vessels, ships registered, etc., 362 ; number and strength 

 of the army, 362, 363 ; extent and power of the navy, offi- 

 cers, marines, etc., 363 ; revenues from customs, taxes, 

 etc., 363 ; table of expenditures in the three kingdoms, 

 363; English troops in Egypt, 863, 864; commercial 

 treaty with France, 364; session of Parliament, 364; 

 measures proposed, 364 ; question ofcloture, 364; debates 

 on Irish question, etc., 364, 365; the Bradlaugh difficulty 

 and result, 365 ; action on post-office matters, free trade 

 in land, married women's property, electric lighting, 365; 

 866; change of policy as to Ireland, 366; imprisoned 

 members released, 366; assassination of Cavendish and 

 Burke, 366; the crimes bill, 366, 367 ; stringent provis- 

 ions of, 367 ; Parnell's letter, 367 ; the arrears bill. 367 ; 

 Davitt's scheme for " nationalization of land " in Ireland, 

 368 ; American newspapers advocating Irish claims to in- 

 dependence, etc , 368 ; Ladies' Land League, 368 ; course 

 of the authorities, 86S, 369 ; arrest of High Sheriff of Dub- 

 lin a blunder, 369 ; attempt by a crazy fanatic to kill the 

 Queen, 869 ; marriage of Prince Leopold, 369 ; appropria- 

 tions for royal family denounced, 369. 



Greece, Kingdom of. The King and Ministry, 369 ; area and 

 population, 369 ; imports and exports, 369, 370 ; table of 

 trade with different countries, 870; army and navy, 370; 

 revenues from taxes, etc., 370; expenditures in excess of 

 revenue, 370 ; public debt, 370 ; changes in politics, 370, 

 371 ; Tricoupis, Prime Minister, 871 ; Turkish boundary 

 question, 371 ; some fighting, 371 ; the Greeks gain the 

 point, 371 ; possible future for Greece, 371. 



Gregorian Calendar. Tercentenary of introduction, 371 ; 

 a calendar, punctuation of time, 871, 372; the solar and 

 lunar year, 372 ; subdivisions, 372 ; civil and ecclesiastical 

 calendars, 372 ; the Julian year, 872, 373 ; reform needed, 

 373 ; Gregorian year, 373 ; lunar calendar for church pur- 

 poses, 373 ; Gregorian calendar adopted throughout Eu- 

 rope, 373 ; Eussia alone keeps the " old style," 373. 



Guatemala, Republic of, Population, 373, 874 ; President, 

 Cabinet, United States Minister, 374 ; educational im- 

 provement, 374; revenues, expenditures, national debt, 

 374 ; home-debt bonds, 375 ; exports and imports, 375 ; 

 railroads, telegraphs, etc., 875; question of limits with 

 Mexico, terms on which settled, 375. 



Harvests of the World in 18S2. Full report from France by 

 M. Estienne, 376 ; estimate of harvests in Great Britain, 

 876 ; tabular statements of chief cereal crops, 376 ; har- 

 vests in Spain poor, 877 ; in Belgium abundant, 377 ; in 

 Holland good, 377 ; in other countries of Europe, 377; in 

 Turkish provinces on the Danube, and Eussia, 377; 

 abundant harvests in the United States, 877, 378. 



HILL, BENJAMIN HAENEY. American statesman and jurist, 

 878; sketch of his life and career, 378, 379; joined seces- 

 sionists in Georgia, 379 ; election to Congress, 379 ; severe 

 suffering and death, 379 ; widely lamented, 379. 



Hungary. (See ATTSTRIA-HTTNGABY.) 



HUELBUT, Major-General STKPHEN A. American soldier and 

 publicist, 379, 380; brief sketch of his services, 379, 380; 

 United States Minister to Peru, 380. 



Illinois. Governor and other State officers, 3SO ; special ses- 

 sion of Legislature, 380 ; objects of session, 380 ; action 

 taken, 380 ; congressional districts, 880 ; provision of act 



for ceding Illinois and Michigan Canal to United States, 



880, 381 ; cost of State government, 881 ; receipts and 



disbursements, 881 ; amounts to be raised by taxation 

 for 1888- 1 84, 381 ; educational statistics as to schools, 

 teachers, etc., 381, 332; railroads, length, receipts, ex- 

 penses, profits, 382; Canal Commissioners' report, 382; 

 table of receipts and disbursements, 382 : increase in 

 number of deaf and dumb, blind, etc., 382, 883 ; Peni- 

 tentiary reports, 383 ; charitable institutions, 3S3 ; acre- 

 age and value of crops, tables of, 3S8; rye and wheat 

 crops, 383; live-stock, 383; Eepublican Convention and 

 platform, 384 ; Democratic Convention and platform, 

 384, 385; Liquor Dealers' and Manufacturers' Protective 

 Association, resolutions of, 385; State Temperance Union, 

 385 ; Prohibition State Convention and platform, 885, 386 ; 

 Anti-Monopoly State Convention, resolutions of, 886; 

 election returns for Treasurer, Superintendent, etc., 386, 

 887 ; congressmen elect, 386, 387. 



Immigration, Chinese. Provisions of the " Burlingame 

 Treaty," 387 ; act of Congress suspending it for twenty 

 years, 387; modified and fixed at ten years, 387; pro- 

 visions of the act, 387 ; section 4 quoted, 387, 388 ; cer- 

 tificates, penalties, etc., 388; case of Ah Sing, judgment 

 of the Supreme Court, 888, 889 ; case of Ah Tie, and Low 

 Yam Chow, 389, 890 ; case of Moncan and Ah Kee, judg- 

 ment of the Court quoted, 390, 391 ; case of Ho King, an 

 actor, decision of the Court, 391 ; transit of Chinese labor- 

 ers through the United States, 391, 892 ; Attorney-Gen- 

 eral Brewster's opinion, 892 ; other acts relating to immi- 

 gration, 892. 



Indebtedness of the United States, of the States, and of the 

 World. Proportion of indebtedness to population, 392, 

 893 ; origin, progress, etc., of the United States and other 

 countries' indebtedness, 898; first leans at date of the 

 Eevolution, 398 ; loans from France, 893 ; terrible de- 

 pression in finances, 393, 894 ; loan from Holland, 394 ; 

 further loans, 394 ; effects on the Government before the 

 Constitution was adopted, 394; system adopted on or- 

 ganization under the Constitution, 395 ; statement of the 

 debt of United States at date, also of States, 3G5 ; Jeffer- 

 son's statements, 395, 396; assumption by Government 

 of State debts, 396; complication of questions, Jefferson's 

 account, 396, 897 ; amount assumed, 397 ; United States 

 Bank established, 897; loans for war measures, in de- 

 fense of American commerce, etc., 897, 398; War of 1812, 

 increase of debt, 898; Treasury notes, 898 ; financial de- 

 pression, 398 ; State deposits, Government out of debt, 

 surplus paid back to States, 398 ; sub-Treasury contest, 

 Mexican War debt, Texas indemnity, 399 ; tabular illus- 

 tration of outstanding principal of the public debt from 

 1791-1881, 399; legal tenders for war of the rebellion, 



399, 400 ; action of Congress, 400 ; certificates, fractional 

 currency, etc., 400 ; incorporation of State national banks, 



400, 401 ; issue of 10-40 bonds, 401 ; holders of bonds and 

 amounts, 401 ; location, etc., of bondholders, 401 ; tables 

 of bondholders in different States, and amounts held, 

 402, 403; coupon bonds, 404; table showing amount of 

 each class of bonds, 405. 



Debts of the States, table of amounts, 1S20-'8S, 405 : 

 table of amount and purpose, 405 ; question of Govern- 

 ment assuming State debts, 406; table of debts of New 

 England States (1839-80), 406; table of Middle States 

 debts (!S39-'SO), 406; table of Southern States debts 

 (1839-'SO), 407 ; table of Western States debts (1839-'SO), 

 407; table of aggregate State and local indebtedness, 

 407, 408; debts in cities, towns, counties, etc., 408; table 

 of assessed valuation, 408, 409 ; total net debt by sections, 

 409 ; table of assessed valuation and taxation in the States 

 and Territories, 409, 410; amount for each person in the 

 United States, 410. 



National debts of the world in 1848, 410 ; accumulation 

 Bince, 410 ; debt of France the largest, 410 ; how in- 



