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INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



Hue-cutter service, commercial marine, remedies, etc., 

 584. 



Nebraska. Governor and State officers, 584 ; message of the 

 Governor to the Legislature, 584, 585 ; receipts and dis- 

 bursements, 585 ; taxation, etc., 585 ; schools and univer- 

 sity, 585; Insane Asylum, Institute for Deaf and Dumb 

 and Blind, 585 ; Eeform School and State-Prison, 586 ; 

 Fish Commission's work, 536; Governor's recommen- 

 dations, 586 ; special session of the Legislature, 586 ; Tem- 

 perance Convention and resolutions, 586 ; Kepublican 

 Convention and platform, 5S7; Democratic and other 

 conventions, 5ST ; results of election, 587, 588 ; Congress- 

 men-elect, 588. 



Netherlands, The, Legislative authority in the King and 

 two Houses of States-General, 588 ; King and Cabinet, 

 588 ; area and population, 588 ; posts and telegraphs, 588, 

 589; railroads, 589; exports and imports, 589; Dutch 

 East India colonies, area and population, 589 ; revenues 

 and disbursements, 589; the "culture system" in Java, 

 589, 590 ; foreign trade of Dutch East Indies, 590 ; army 

 and navy, 590; revenues and public debt, 590; foreign 

 relations, 590; home politics, etc., 590, 591. 



Nevada. Governor, etc., 591 ; Insane Asylum matters, 591 ; 

 public debt, depreciation of property, etc., 591 ; schools 

 and university, 591 ; Penitentiary, 591 ; Eepublican Con- 

 vention and resolutions, 592; Democratic Convention, 

 592; results of election, 592. 



New Hampshire. Governor and State officers, 592 ; receipts, 

 expenditures, State debt, 592 ; railroads and telegraphs, 

 taxes on, 592, 593 ; Prohibitionist Convention, 593 ; State 

 Temperance Union, 593, 5C4 ; Eepublican Convention, 

 594 ; resolutions of, 594 ; Democratic -Convention and 

 resolutions, 594, 595 ; results of election, 595. 



New Jersey. Governor and State officers, 595; session of 

 Legislature, chief acts, 595 ; condition of the State funds 

 for Agricultural College, schools, etc , 595, 596 ; receipts 

 and disbursements, 596 ; the riparian commission, 596 ; 

 valuation of ratables by counties, 596 ; railroad taxation, 



596, 597; State-Prison, Eeform Schools, Insane Asylum, 



597, 598; fishery products, 538; elections for Congress 

 and the Legislature, 598. 



New York. Long struggle in the Assembly over the speak - 

 ership, 598, 599 ; also, over election of Clerk in Senate, 599 ; 

 nearly two months wasted, 59C ; large number of bills 

 Introduced and acted on, 599, 600; Railroad Commission 

 act, 600 ; elevated railroad bills, 600 ; amendment of Con- 

 stitution abolishing tolls on canals, 601 ; other amend- 

 ments, 601 ; investigations numerous, 602 ; Judge West- 

 brook's case, 002, 603 ; minority report, 603 ; Governor's 

 vetoes, 603 ; canvass for governorship, 603, 604 ; com- 

 mittee meetings, 604; Greenback -Labor party Conven- 

 tion, 604; resolutions of Labor Convention, 604, 605; 

 Anti-Monopoly Convention and platform, 605 ; Eepubli- 

 can Convention, C. J. Folger nominated, 605, 606 ; plat- 

 form, 606 ; Democratic Convention and platform, 606, 

 607 ; Graver Cleveland nominated, C07, 608 ; Prohibitory 

 Convention, 608 ; acceptance of nominations, 608 ; Cleve- 

 land's letter, 608, 609 ; views on civil-service reform, 609, 

 610; New York city nominees, 610; results of election, 

 610; result in New York city, 611 ; funded debt, 611; 

 receipts and expenditures, 611, 612; canals, banks, in- 

 surance companies, 612, 613 ; charitable institutions, asy- 

 lums, State-Prisons, 613; public schools, 613; immigra- 

 tion, 613, 614; State Capitol, 614, N. M. Curtis's trial, 

 614 ; Judge Davis on power of courts to compel railroads, 

 614, 615 ; conclusion arrived at, 616; Court of Appeals 

 decides that owners of property can recover for injuries 

 done by elevated railroads, 61 6. 



Nicaragua. President and state officers, 616 ; army, 616 ; 

 schools, teachers, state library, etc., 616 ; revenues and 



expenditures, 617 ; national debt, 617 ; exports and im- 

 ports, 617; railroads, telegraphs, etc., 617 ; interoceanic- 

 canal route, 618. 



NICHOLSON, Commodore. At Alexandria, Egypt, 248. 



Non-Intervention among Nations, the Principle of. 

 Early writers on international law, 618; obligation of 

 such law, 618 ; its source of authority, 618, 619 ; 4i natu- 

 ral law," according to Grotius, 619 ; Wheaton's language, 

 619; Hobbes, Puffendorf, Bynkershoek, views of, 619; 

 Vattel and later authors quoted, 619, 620; Wheaton's 

 definition, etc., 620, 621 ; Italian school of writers on this 

 subject, 621, 622; beginning of the science (middle of 

 seventeenth century), 622 ; explanation as to what it is, 

 622 ; source of the principles, 622, 623 ; non-intervention 

 explained, 623 ; question, When is a nation responsible 

 for its acts ? case of France, 623 ; objections to the prin- 

 ciple considered, 624; Mamiani quoted, 624; doubtful 

 metaphors used, 624, 625; query, as to intervention when 

 asked for, 625 ; discussion as to views of nationality, 625, 

 626 ; intervention by treaty, or against mercenary troops, 

 626 ; query, as to union of states or annexations, 626, 

 627; case of succession, or religion, 627; the " Eoman 

 question," 627; course of Sardinia toward Papal sov- 

 ereignty, under Cavour and Eicasoli, 627, 628; further 

 steps, present position of matters, C2S; other cases of 

 Intervention named, 628, 629. 



North Carolina. Governor and State officers, 629 ; legal 

 question as to election of additional Congressman, 629, 

 630 ; extra session of Legislature decided not to be 

 necessary, 630 ; political questions agitated, 630 ; State 

 debt, action respecting, 631 ; the " public fund," etc., 

 631 ; taxation, estimated expenses, 631 ; dispute settled 

 with North Carolina Eailroad, 632 ; " special tax " bonds, 

 632 ; university and other colleges, 632 ; common schools, 

 632; Institution for Deaf and Dumb and Blind, 632, 

 633 ; Penitentiary, Insane Asylums, 633 ; railroads, 633, 

 634; Mecklenburg Declaration celebration, 634; fisher- 

 ies, 634 ; banks, 634 ; year in general prosperous as to 

 agriculture, mining, manufactures, exports, etc., 634, 635. 



Obituaries, American. Allen, Professor W. A., 635 ; Cole- 

 man, Lyman, 635 ; Crosman, G. H., 635, 636 ; Defrees, J. 

 D., 686; Dennison, W., 636; Dinsmore, S. P., 636; Gar- 

 diner, S. B., 6S6, 637 ; Gillette, Eev. Dr. A. D., 637 ; Gem- 

 mill, W. D., 6375 Goddard, D. A., 637 ; Gubert, Louise, 

 637, 638; Healy, J. P., 638; Hatzler, Elizabeth, 638; 

 How., Mrs. M. K., 638, 639 ; Kellogg, E. H., 639 ; Kim- 

 ball, E., 639 ; Leland, G. S., 639 ; Lincoln, Mary T., 639, 

 640 ; Maynard H., 640 ; McClay, W. B., 640 ; McCandless, 

 W., 640 ; Morrison, J. I., 640, 641 ; Nairn, C. M., 641 ; 

 Paine, E., 641 ; Pease, A. H., 641, 642 ; Pruyn, E. H., 

 642 ; Putnam, J. P., 642 ; Bobbins, Eev. Dr. C., 642 ; 

 Roberts, S. W., 642, C43, Eudersdorff, Emma M., 643 ; 

 Ryerson, A. E., 643 ; Sawyer, G. Y., 643 ; Schem, A. J., 

 C43 ; Smith, Ida G., 643, 644 ; Spotts, J. II., 644 ; Web- 

 ster, Mrs. C. LeEoy, 614. 



Obituaries, Foreign. Ainsworth, W. H., C44 ; Auerbach, 

 B., 644, 645 ; Blanc, C., 645 ; Burke, T. H., 645 ; Caven- 

 dish, Lord F. C., 645 ; Cissey, E. L. C. De, 645 ; Decaisne, 

 J., 645 ; Drake, F., 645, 646 ; Ducrot, A. A., 646; Du- 

 pre, G., 646 ; Grey, Sir G., 646 ; Kaufmann, C., 646 ; 

 Lanza, Signer, 646 ; Leslie, T. E. C., 646. 647 ; Manteuf- 

 fel, Baron, 647 ; Osborne, B , 647 ; Palmer, Professor, 

 647; Raff, J., 647 ; Eossettl, D. G., 647 ; Eussel, S., 647 ; 

 Schwami, T., 647 ; Thomson, Sir C. W., C47, 648. 



Obligation of Contracts. Cases before the Supreme Court, 

 64S ; the Virginia case, State debt, 648 ; action of Legis- 

 lature in 1871 ; proposed terms of settlement, 648; act 



