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INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



IV. Reformed Presbyterian Church (Synod). Statis- 

 tics, 704, 705; meeting of Synod, action, etc., 705. V. 

 Reformed Presbyterian Church {General Synod). 

 Statistics, meeting of Synod, 705. VI. Cumberland 

 Presbyterian Church. Summary of statistics, 705; 

 meeting of General Assembly, chief action revising- Con- 

 fession of Faith, 705, 706 ; observance of the Sabbath, 



706. VII. Presbyterian Church in Canada. Decision 

 of Privy Council as to dispute over the Temporalities 

 Fund, 706. VIII. Established Church of Scotland. Sta- 

 tistics, 706 ; meeting of General Assembly, 706 ; ques- 

 tion of disestablishment, African mission, etc., 706, 707. 

 IX. Free Church of Scotland. Statistics, 707 ; meeting 

 of General Assembly, 707; questions discussed, etc., 



707. X. United Presbyterian Church of Scotland. 

 Members, etc., 707 ; meeting of Synod, state of foreign 

 missions, 707 ; formula, etc., for mission-fields, 707, 708. 

 XI. Presbyterian Church in England. Summary of 

 statistics, 708 ; meeting of Synod, 708. XII. Presby- 

 terian Church in Ireland. Summary of statistics, 70S; 

 meeting of General Assembly, questions discussed, 708. 

 XIII. Reformed Presbyterian Church in Scotland. 

 Meeting of Synod, 708. XIV. Welsh Calvinistic Meth- 

 odist Church. Statistics, 708, 709. XV. Walloon 

 Churches. Annual Synod. 709. t 



Protestant Episcopal Church. Statistics, bishops, clergy 

 churches, etc., 709 ; Bishop Smith's fiftieth anniversary, 

 709 ; Assistant Bishop of Mississippi, 709 ; Church Tem- 

 perance Society, work of, 709 ; Society for the Increase 

 of the Ministry, 709, 710 ; Evangelical Knowledge Socie- 

 ty, 710 ; domestic missions, receipts, expenditures, work, 

 etc., 710 ; foreign missions, etc., 710 ; American Church 

 Missionary Society, 710 ; missions among the Jews, prog- 

 ress of, 710, 711 ; Church Congress, subjects discussed, 

 etc., 711. 



Prussia. (See GERMANY.) 



PCTSEY, EDWARD BOUVERIE, D. D., D. C. L. English clergy- 

 man and Oxford professor, 711 ; connection with Oxford 

 Tract movement, 711 ; chief works, 712. 



Railroads of the United States. Table of average cost, 

 value, etc., per mile, 712 ; table of incomes, assets, earn- 

 ings, 713; table of expense of transportation, 713, 714; 

 net earnings, 714; profit per cent, 714, 715; mileage sta- 

 tistics, 715 ; freight and passengers, equipment, summary 

 of accidents, 715. 



Red-Cross Societies and the Laws of War. Efforts to miti- 

 gate horrors of war, 715 ; conferences at Geneva, Switzer- 

 land, in 1863-'64, 715, 716; steps taken to ameliorate con- 

 dition of the wounded on battle-fields, 716 ; badge of the 

 red cross adopted, 716 ; international organization com- 

 pleted at Berlin, 1869, 716 ; objects sought to be obtained, 

 Von Moltke's views, 716; rights of volunteer corps, 716. 

 717 ; further propositions in 1874-'76, 717 ; good work of 

 the Bed-Cross Societies in late wars, 717 ; relations to the 

 state in different countries, 717 ; no national Bed-Cross 

 Society in United States, 717, 718 ; noble work of the Sani- 

 tary Commission during the rebellion, 718 ; subsequent 

 action and formation of " American Association of the 

 Bed Cross," 718. 



Reformed Churches. I. Reformed Church in America, 

 summary of statistics, 718 ; receipts and expenditures of 

 various boards, etc., 718 ; meeting of General Synod, 

 718, 719 ; matters considered and acted upon, 719. 

 II. Reformed Church in the United States, summary 

 of statistics, 719 ; institutions, missionary work, etc., 

 719. 



Rhode Island. Governor and State officers, 719; recom- 

 mendations of the Governor to the Legislature, 719, 720 ; 

 large number of acts passed, 720 ; resolutions, 720 ; amend- 

 ment to Constitution, 720 ; Eepublican Convention, 720 ; 

 Democratic Convention and platform, 720; results of 

 election, 720, 721 ; meeting of Legislature, appointment 

 of State officers, 721 ; other action, 721 ; congressional 

 nominations, 721 ; convention of colored voters and ad- 

 dress, 721, 722 ; result of elections, 722 ; State debt, re- 

 ceipts, expenditures, 722; Insane Asylum and other insti- 

 tutions, 722 ; railroads, 722. 



Rice Production of the United States. Table of average 

 yield to the acre, 722. 



EODGERS, JOHN, Bear- Admiral, U. 8. Navy. Sketch of life, 

 services to his country, 722, 723. 



Roman Catholic Church. Official acts of the Pope, 723 ; 

 Pope's encyclical quoted, 723; cardinals created, 724; 

 diplomatic relations unsettled, 724 ; case of Martinucci, 

 involving jurisdiction, 724 ; the Pope complains of per- 

 secution, 724; the Boman Catholic Church in Germany 5 

 724, 725 ; letters from the Pope to the Emperor, and reply, 

 725 ; adjustment of relations with Bussia, 7'26 ; French 

 Government hostile, 726 ; relations to Portugal, Belgium, 

 Chili, 726; church matters in the United States, 726 ; 

 foreign missions, pilgrimages, etc., 726. 



Roumania. Constitutional kingdom, 726, 727 ; the King and 

 Cabinet, 727 ; area and population, 727 ; religion, 727 ; 

 chief cities, 727; receipts and expenditures, 727 ; tabular 

 statement of public debt, 727; army, 727, 728; railroads, 

 posts, telegraphs, 728 ; imports and exports, 728 ; Danu- 

 bian Commission and work, 728; table of commerce of 

 the Danube, 728 ; Danubian question against Austria and 

 Germany, 728, 729; also against Bussian pretensions, 

 729; matters unsettled, 729; Eosetti's land-reform pro- 

 ject, 729; the Jewish question, 729, 730; Jews unjustly 

 treated, 730 ; change of ministry, 730 ; Eosetti's plan of 

 electoral reform, 730. 



EOBIE, FREDERICK. Governor of Maine, life and services, 

 498. 



Russia. The Czar and private cabinet, 730, 731 ; officers of 

 state, 731 ; area and population, 781 ; chief cities, 731 ; 

 table of imports and exports, 731 ; articles of export and 

 import, 731, 732 ; ships entering various ports, 732 ; pe- 

 troleum-wells, 732; railroads, telegraphs, post-offices. 

 732 ; agriculture in hands of the serfs, 732, 733 ; distress 

 and remedies tried, 733; army and navy, 733. Finland, 

 population, revenues, expenditures, 733, 734 ; receipts of 

 imperial Treasury and expenditures, 734; progress of 

 Bussian power in Asia, 734 ; Gortchakoflf resigns, Giers 

 new minister, 734 ; reforms of Alexander II given up, 

 734, 735 ; political disorders, huge debt, 735 ; proposed 

 revival of the Zemski Sobor, 735 ; persecution of the Jews, 

 cruelty and injustice, 735; efforts to obtain relief, large 

 numbers leave Bussia, 735, 736; IgnatiefFs measures, 

 736; religious difficulties met, 73C; schemes and plans, 

 736 ; Tolstoi successor, 736 ; new ministers measures, 

 736,737; Nihilist troubles, plots, etc., 737; societies to 

 combat Nihilism, 737. 



Russia, Religious Liberty in. Condition of Bussia as to 

 toleration, 737 ; complications of questions, 737; ''Ortho- 

 dox" or state Church, "uniats," 737, 738; Stundists 

 73S ; what seems best to be done, 738. 



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Salvador (See "Annual Cyclopaedia," 1SS1.) 



SCOTT, Eev. LEVI, D. D. Bishop in the Methodist Episcopal 



Church, sketch of his life and labors, 73S. 

 Sercia. The King and Ministry, 738 ; Milan Obrenovitch, 



present King, 738, 739 ; sketch of the dynasty of Obren, 



