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creased during last thirty years, 410, 411 ; pictorial repre- 

 sentation of increase and decrease of national debts from 

 ISTO-'SO, 411; debt of England very great, 411, 412; 

 three wars, 412 ; debt of Russia (1853-'80), 412 ; debts of 

 other countries. Italy, Germany, Holland, etc. (1S48-'80), 

 412; statement as to certain other countries, 412; total 

 increase of national debts of the world (1848-'80), 413. 



India, Governor-General, council, governors of presidencies 

 and provinces, 413; area and population, table of, 413; 

 area and population of native states, 413 ; large number 

 of native s f ates, 413 ; European community, 413 ; census 

 of population as to creeds, 413; population of chief cities, 

 414; imports and exports, 414; total value of, 414 ; rail- 

 roads, extent, receipts, expenses, etc., 414; posts and 

 telegraphs, 414, 415 ; army, strength, cost, etc., 415; dis- 

 turbances among the natives, 415 ; Russian activity and 

 interest in India, 415, 416; the King of Burmah's posi- 

 tion, 416 ; revenues from land-tax, opium monopoly, and 

 salt-tax, 416; course as to the holders of land in large 

 estates, 416; village proprietorships, 416; estimate of 

 revenue and expenditure for 18S2-'83, 416; import duties 

 removed, 416, 417; duties retained on wines and spirits, 

 opium, etc., 417 ; reduction of salt-tax, 417 ; importance 

 of opium monopoly, 417 ; better prospects for finances 

 of India, 417. 



Indiana. Governor and officers of the State, 41 7 ; prosperity 

 of the State, 417; cash in the Treasury, State debt, ex- 

 penses, etc., 417, 418; table of railroads, with assess- 

 ments thereon, 418; education, schools, teachers, school 

 fund, etc., 418; Normal School and Purdue University, 

 419; Deaf and Dumb Asylum, House of Kefirge, Reforma- 

 tory for Women and Girls, 419, 420 ; table of agricultural 

 productions and values, 42,); the fourth coal-producing 

 State in the Union, 420 ; table of mineral resources, 420 ; 

 statistics of poultry, 420 ; churches, members, etc., 420, 

 421 ; manufactures, 421 ; the Kankakee survey, progress 

 thus far, 421; constitutional amendments (prohibition 

 and woman suffrage), 421; Democratic Convention and 

 platform, 421, 422; ticket nominated, 422; Republican 

 Convention and platform, 422, 423 ; ticket nominated, 

 423; Greenback Convention and ticket, 423; Woman's 

 Christian Temperance Union and platform, 423 ; Demo- 

 cratic ticket elected, 423, 424; question as to the pro- 

 hibitory amendment, 424. 



Insurance. Table of life-insurance companies in the United 

 States, 424, 425 ; capital, income, disbursements, etc., of 

 these companies, 425; fire and marine insurance com- 

 panies, 425, 426 ; aggregate assets, income, expenditures, 

 risks, 426 ; ratios of losses, dividends, expense, etc., 426. 



Iowa Governor and State officers, 426 ; session of the 

 Legislature, 426, 427 ; most important acts passed re- 

 specting taxation, etc., 427, 428 ; congressional districts, 

 423 ; joint resolutions, 428 ; prohibitory amendment, 

 42S ; State Convention, preamble and resolutions, 428, 

 429; brewers' annual meeting, resolutions of, 429, 430; 

 amendment adopted, 430; further legislation necessary, 

 430; decision of Supreme Court against the amendment, 

 480 ; railroads, stock, debts, earnings, persons employed, 

 etc., 480, 431 ; tonnage carried during the year, 431 ; 

 railroad land grants, 431, 432; Republican Convention 

 and platform, 432, 433; Republican ticket elected, 433; 

 tornado in Central Iowa, very destructive, 433. 



Italy, Kingdom of. Two Houses of Legislature, 433; the 

 King and Ministry, 433 ; area and population, 433 ; popu- 

 lation of chief cities, 4?4 ; emigration, marriages, births, 

 deaths, 434 ; Reman Catholic faith of the people, religious 

 houses, etc.. 434; confiscated property of monasteries 

 applied to education, 431; schools, teachers, etc., 434; 

 railroads, post-offices, telegraphs, 434, 435; imports and 

 exports, 435 ; table of values, 435 ; vessels engaged in 



commerce, 435; army and navy, 435, 486; force of the 

 standing army, 435; mobile and territorial militia, 436; 

 effective force, 436 ; deficits in finances, 436 ; budget esti- 

 mates of receipts and expenditures, 436; public debt, 

 436, 437 ; improvement in finances, 437 ; foreign relations, 

 as to Germany, Austria, the Pope, etc., 437; scheme for 

 commercial extension in Africa, 438 ; commercial treat- 

 ies, 438 ; electoral reform, 438 ; death of Garibaldi, Sicilian 

 Vespers anniversary, etc., 438; destructive floods, 43S. 



JAMES, HENBY. American scholar and writer, 43S. 



Japa n. Emperor or Mikado, 43S ; Council of Ministers, 439 ; 

 area and population, 439 ; population of chief cities, 439 ; 

 post-offices, telegraphs, railroads, 439 ; tables of imports 

 and exports, 439 ; strength of the army and navy, 440 ; 

 revenues and expenditures, 440; domestic and foreign 

 debt, 440 ; volcanic phenomena, 440, 441 ; mineral prod- 

 ucts, 441 ; climate of Japan variable, 441 ; schools, news- 

 papers, books published, etc., 441 ; foreign commercial 

 relations, 441, 442; case of O'Neil, 442. 



JEROME BONAPARTE, Prince NAPOLEON, 321. 



JKVONS, WILLIAM STANLEY. English economist and author, 

 442 ; brief sketch of his life and works, 442. 



Kansas. Governor and State officers, 442; general condi- 

 tion prosperous, 442 ; cash in the Treasury, 442, 443 ; 

 State debt, school fund, etc., 443 ; income for school pur- 

 poses, 443 ; State University, Normal School, Agricul- 

 tural College, 443 ; railroads, 443, 441 ; taxes paid by, 444 ; 

 taxes for all purposes, 444 ; live-stock, land under cultiva- 

 tion, taxable property, 444 ; trees planted, 444 ; Govern- 

 or's recommendations as to death-penalty, etc., 444, 445 ; 

 other recommendations, 445, 446; on the prohibitory 

 amendment, 446 ; Republican Convention and platform, 

 446, 447 ; Greenback Convention, 447 ; Democratic Con- 

 vention and platform, 447 ; results of election, 448 ; Su- 

 preme Court on prohibition act, 448. 



Kentucky. Governor and State officers, 443 ; session of the 

 Legislature, 448; acts passed, 443; congressional dis- 

 tricts, 448, 449 ; act to establish a Superior Court, 449 ; 

 act to prevent railroad extortion, etc., 449 ; chief pro- 

 visions, 449-451 ; commissioners appointed, 451 ; peni- 

 tentiary convicts, 451 ; sheep killed by dogs, 451 ; white 

 and negro voters, school-children, etc., 451 ; insurance 

 companies, 451, 452; whisky produced, 452; wheat and 

 other crops, 452 ; school districts and attendance, 452 ; 

 Democratic Convention and platform, 452 ; Temperance 

 Convention, 452 ; Prohibitionist meeting, 453; returns of 

 election, 453 ; attempted lynching, 453. 



Labor, Movements and Agitations of Increased cost of 

 living, low wages, strikes, etc., 453 ; " Knights of Labor," 

 organization and purpose, 453, 454 ; members of the order 

 in different States, 454; iron-workers' strike in Ohio and 

 West Virginia, 454, 455 ; course of manufacturers, 455 ; 

 extent of the strike, 455 ; Cleveland Rolling-Mil I case, 455, 

 456 ; strike lasted from June 1st to September 19th, 456 ; 

 failure, 456; freight-handlers' strike in New York, 456; 

 excitement, injury to business, etc., 456 ; Supreme Court 

 asked for mandamus against railroad companies, 456; 

 mandamus refused, 457; decision reversed in General 

 Term, 457 ; strike a failure, 457. 



Law, Constitutional. Supreme Court of United States pro- 

 nounces unconstitutional section 5,519 of Revised Statutes 

 (' Ku-klux law "), 457, 458 ; opinion of the Court quoted, 





