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dent of the United States. 221 ; letter to the Secretary 

 of War to remove the troops from Louisiana, 462 ; 

 inaugural address, 659-661 ; cabinet, 748 ; adminis- 

 tration, 748. 



HEIMANN, BASILB A. Birth, 377; military career, 877. 



HEWITT, ABBAM S. Representative from New York, 

 136; on the Electoral Commission bill, 159. 



HILL, BENJAMIN H. Senator from Georgia, 186 ; elected, 

 337; biographical sketch of, 337. 



HILI.IARD, HENBY. Minister to Brazil, 873 ; birth and 

 public career, 877. 



HOAB, GEOBGE F. Representative from Massachusetts, 

 136 ; member of the Electoral Commission, 164 ; on 

 presentation of evidence, 180 ; on receiving testi- 

 mony by the Commission, 200. 



HOBABT PASHA. Turkish admiral, 377 ; birth and naval 

 career, 377. 



Hungary. Crown lands, 878 ; ministry, 878 ; revenue 

 and expenditures, 378 ; public debt, 378 ; railways, 

 878 ; newspapers, 378 ; relations with Austria, 878, 

 379 ; administration of the bank, 879 ; reorganized 

 ministry, 379 ; interest in the Turkish war, 379 ; 

 efforts of Turkey to obtain sympathy, 879 ; interpel- 

 lations in the Diet on the Eastern question, 880 ; 

 discussions continued, 880 ; violence in Pesth, 881 ; 

 recent works on Hungary, 881. 



HCNTON, EPPA. Representative from Virginia, 136 ; 

 member of the Electoral Commission, 164 ; on re- 

 ceiving testimony, 200. 



', NICHOLAS P. Russian diplomatist, 881 ; 

 birth, 381 ; military and diplomatic career, 881, 382. 



Illinois. Legislative 'Session, 382 ; election of Senator 

 Davis, 882, 383 ; biographical sketch, 383 ; appropri- 

 ations, 884 ; fire insurance law, 384 ; silver coins 

 made a legal tender, 384; the act vetoed by the Gov- 

 ernor, 384; veto, 384; State Capitol question, 885; 

 value of property, 385 ; crops, 385 ; militia, 385 ; 

 penitentiary, 885 ; State Farmers' Association, 385 ; 

 resolutions, 885 ; tornado, 385 ; a decision of the Su- 

 preme Court on the Springfield debt, 885. 



Immigration. Decline, 386 ; total amount, 386 ; expla- 

 nation of fluctuations, 386 ; arrivals at New York in 

 thirty years, 386 ; new classes of immigrants, 887 ; 

 grouped by races, 387; diminution of female immi- 

 gration, 887 ; immigration of 1875-'76 classified by 

 occupations and countries, 387. 



India. Government, 388 ; officers, 388 ; area and popu- 

 lation, 388 ; receipts and expenditures, 388 ; budget, 

 889; value of articles of export, 389; shipping, 389 ; 

 railroads and telegraphs, 889 ; Lady Gore-Langton's 

 address on women in India, 389 ; change in India 

 during the last twenty years, 390 ; proclamation of 

 Queen Victoria as Empress, 890 ; legislative council, 

 391 : budget, 391 ; decentralization scheme, 391 ; de- 

 preciation of silver, 391 ; the famine, 892 ; pacifica- 

 tion of Kelat, 392 ; extent of the famine, 392 ; do. in 

 the territories of Nizam, 393 ; other districts, 393 ; 

 difference with the Afridis settled, 894 ; Calcutta 

 University, 394 ; sympathy with Turkey, 394. 



Indiana. Legislative session, 394 ; bills passed, 894 ; 

 investigation of the prisons, 395 ; amendments to the 

 Constitution, 395 ; deaf and dumb, 396 ; schools, 396; 

 workingmen's mass meeting, 396 ; resolutions, 396 ; 

 Democratic State Committee, 396; address, 396. 



Iowa. Financial record of the State, 897 ; school statis- 

 tics, 397; Soldiers' Orphans' Home, 397 ; value of real 



estate, 398 ; savings banks, 398 ; railroad property, 



398 ; canal at Eeokuk opened, 398 ; Republican Con- 

 vention, 898 ; nominations and platform, 398 ; Demo- 

 cratic Convention, 399 ; nominations and platform, 



399 ; Greenback Convention, 399 ; nominations and 

 platform, 399; Prohibition Convention, 400 ; election, 



400 ; biographical sketch of Governor Gear, 400 ; 

 Woman's Suffrage Convention, 400; resolutions, 

 400 ; State Grange, 400 ; resolutions, 400 ; decision of 

 the Supreme Court on the freight law, 400; sleeping- 

 car decision, 401 ; German socialists, 401. 



Iron and Steel. Production in the United States, 401 ; 

 puddling furnaces, 401; production of pig-iron by 

 States, 402; furnaces completed, 402; consumption of 

 pig-iron, 403 ; production of rolled iron, 403 ; Besse- 

 mer steel, 403; other steel, 403; imports and exports 

 of iron and steel, 404 ; consumption of American 

 iron, 404 ; pig-iron product of the world, 405; iron in 

 Brazil, 405. 



ISMAIL PASHA. Viceroy of Egypt, 405 ; birth, 405 ; civil 

 career, 405. 



Italy. Ruler, 406 ; ministry, 406; area, divisions, and 

 population, 406; budget, 406; revenue and expendi- 

 tures, 406; debt, 406; value of imports, 406; ship- 

 ping, 407; army, 407; navy, 407; railroads, 407; post- 

 offices, 407; telegraphs, 407; emigration, 407 ; Cham- 

 ber of Deputies, 408 ; penalties on priests attacking 

 the Government, 408 ; financial statement, 408 ; trea- 

 ties of commerce, 409; course of the Government on 

 the Eastern question, 409 ; action of Italy, 409 ; cleri- 

 cal abuse bill rejected, 410; change of policy in 

 France considered, 410; abolition of capital punish- 

 ment, 410; resignation of ministers, 411 ; new Cabi- 

 net, 411 ; a numismatic discovery, 411 ; anniver- 

 saries, 411. 



Japan. Ruling family, 412; ministry, 412; area of 

 islands, 412; receipts and expenditures, 412; public 

 debt, 412; army, 412; commerce, 412; foreign trade, 

 412; foreign residents, 418; railroads, 413; post- 

 offices, 413; newspapers, 413; a reactionary insur- 

 rection, 413; cause of the discontent, 413; conflicts 

 between the Government and insurrectionists, 414 ; 

 success of the Government, 414 ; the national exhibi- 

 tion, 414. 



Kansas. Population, 415 ; value of property, 415 ; culti- 

 vated and uncultivated lands, 415; farm products 

 and average yield, 415 ; yield and prices, 415 ; fruit- 

 trees and fruit, 416; railroad statistics, 415; lead de- 

 posits, 416 ; session of Legislature, 416 ; election of 

 Senator, 416; biographical sketch, 416; appropria- 

 tions, 417 ; election of Lieutenant-Governor and Chief 

 Justice, 417; law of libel, 417 ; remarks of the Chief 

 Justice, 417. 



Kashgaria. Area and population, 417 ; the Russian em- 

 bassy, 418; proceedings and results, 418 ; war with 

 China, 418; character of Yakub Khan, 418. 



KASSON, JOHN A. Representative from Iowa, 136; on 

 the case of Florida before the Electoral Commission, 

 174. 



Kentucky. Finances, 419 ; debt, 419 ; schools, 419 : col- 

 ored schools. 419 : Agricultural College, 419 ; Institu- 

 tion for Feeble-Minded Children, 419 ; Eastern Luna- 

 tic Asylum, 420 ; penitentiary, 480 ; resources of the 



