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INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



State finances, 484; decline in the valuation of prop- 

 erty, 484; State expenses, 484; new railroads, 484; 

 narrow gauge, 484; Hoosac Tunnel, 485; New York 

 & New England road, 485 ; savings banks, 485 ; State 

 prisons, 485; industrial schools, 486; cost of pauper- 

 ism, 486; persons in lunatic asylums, 486; revision of 

 public charities, 486; report, 486; statistics of labor, 

 487; statistics of mechanical industries, 487; educa- 

 tional statistics, 488; militia, 488; Greenback Con- 

 vention, 488; nominations and resolutions, 588; Pro- 

 hibition Convention, 489; nominations and resolu- 

 tions, 489 r Woman's Suffrage Party, 489; Democratic 

 Convention, 490; nominations and resolutions, 490; 

 Kepublican Convention, 491; nominations and reso- 

 lutions, 491 ; result of the election, 492; fires, 492. 



McCLELLAN, GEOBGE B. Birth, 492; military career, 492. 



MCCLOSKY, JOHN. Birth, 493; ecclesiastical career, 493. 



McCsABY, GEORGE W. Representative from Iowa, 136; 

 offers resolution relative to counting electoral vote, 

 137; Secretary of War, 493; civil and political ca- 

 reer, 494. 



Mechanical Improvements and Inventions. Merits of Eng- 

 lish and American railroad engines, 494; steam jack- 

 eting, 494; boiler corrosions, 494; forms of safety 

 valve, 494; mechanical stoking, 495 ; street-car trac- 

 tion, 495; tooth- wheel system of engines, 496; railway 

 brakes, 496; wire tramway, 497; overhead sewing- 

 machine, 497; lifting ships, 497; pneumatic postal 

 dispatch, 497; electrical candle, 497; new process of 

 electroplating, 498; a tidal pier, 498; soundings at full 

 speed, 498 ; new speed indicator, 499. 



MEHEMET ALI PASHA. Birth, 499; military career, 499. 



MERBICK, R. L. Counsel before the Electoral Commis- 

 sion, 178; presents his argument, 182. 



Metals. Allotropicgold, 499; crystallization of metals un- 

 der galvanic currents, 499; new method of obtaining 

 copper from copper pyrites, 500; increasing the elas- 

 ticity of metals, 500; new method of toughening and 

 hardening copper, 500; wearing qualities of alumin- 

 ium, 500; nickeliferons iron ores of Brazil, 501; melt- 

 ing points of metals, 501; new metal lavcesinm, 502; 

 determination of nickel, 502. 



Methodists. Methodist Episcopal statistics, 502; theo- 

 logical institutions, 503 ; missionary society, 503; 

 Freedmen's Aid Society, 503; church extension, 504; 

 Methodist Episcopal South, 504 ; statistics of mis- 

 sions, 505; Methodist Protestant, 504; origin, 504; 

 Methodist, 504; proceedings for union, 505; Metho- 

 dist Church Convention, 505 ; statistics of the two 

 branches, 506; missions, 506; Welsh Calvlnistic in 

 United States, statistics, 506; Methodist Episcopal 

 in Canada, 507; Wesleyan Connection, 507; confer- 

 ence, 507 ; Irish Wesleyans, 508 ; Methodists in 

 France, 608; Primitive Methodists, 508; conference, 

 508; Methodist New Connection, 509; United Free 

 Churches, 509; Bible Christians, 510; Independent 

 Methodists, 510. 



Mexico. Boundaries, 510; public officers, 510; cabinet, 

 510; Governors of States, 510; army, 610; the only 

 railroad, 511 ; summary of affair*, 511 ; beginning of 

 1877, 512; terminations of military operations, 512 ; 

 installments paid the United States, 512 ; inaugura- 

 tion of Diaz, 512 ; instruction relative to the Rio 

 Grande frontier, 513; memorandum of the American 

 Minister, 513 ; arrangements for the suppression of 

 raids, 513; peaceful condition of affairs, 513. 



MICHAEL. Russian Grand-Duke, 513 ; birth, 613; career, 

 513. 



Michigan. Session of the Legislature, 514 ; acts passed, 

 514, 515; only election of the year, 515; result, 515; 



finances, 515; apportioned taxes, 516; liquor-law 

 workings, 516 ; land sold, 516; constitutional amend- 

 ment, 516 ; insurance statistics, 516 ; bank statistics, 

 517; cut of lumber, 517; salt product, 517; coppe* 

 product, 517; iron ore, 517; crops, 517, 518; Fieh Com- 

 mission, 519; schools, 519; college students, 519; in- 

 sane asylum, 520; other asylums, 520. 



MILAN IV. OBRENOVITCH. Prince of Se.rvia, birth, 520; 

 career, 520. 



MELLEB, Judge SAMUEL J. Member of the Electoral 

 Commission, 164; on the evidence, 180, 181. 



Minnesota. The question of disputed bonds, 521 ; state- 

 ment of the case, 521 ; terms of exchange, 521 ; senti- 

 ment of the people, 522 ; valuation of taxable prop- 

 erty, 522; receipts of the treasury, 522; crop statis- 

 tics, 522 ; sugar cane, 523 ; vital statistics, 523 ; State 

 prisons, 523; railroads, 523; Republican Convention, 

 524; nominations and resolutions, 524; Prohibition 

 Convention, 524 ; nominations and resolutions, 524; 

 Democratic Convention, 525; nominations and reso- 

 lutions, 525; election, 525; constitutional amend- 

 ments, 525 ; others proposed, 526 ; election of Sena- 

 tor, 526. 



Mississippi. Session of the Legislature, 526; hills passed, 

 526; State tax, 526 ; debt, 526; educational statistics, 

 527; lunatic asylum, 527; State prison, 527; Demo- 

 cratic Convention, 527 ; nominations and resolutions, 

 527 ; election, 527 ; amendments to the constitution, 

 627, 528; mob in Kemper County, 528 ; letter of the 

 Governor, 528; affairs in Amite County, 528. 



Missouri. Census of the population, 528 ; other statistics, 

 529; taxable property, 529; insurance department, 

 629; session of the Legislature, 529; bills passed, 

 529; Southern Hotel fire, 530; suggestions of the 

 coroner's jury, 530; railroad strike, 530; decision on 

 township bonds, 530. 



Montana. Internal affairs prosperous, 531 ; increase of 

 county indebtedness, 531 ; insane, 531 ; educational 

 statistics, 531 ; value of property, 531 ; revenue, 531 ; 

 live stock, 531 ; gold yield, 532. 



M&ntenegro. Reigning family, 532; area and population, 

 532; revenue, 532; expenditures, 532; military ser- 

 vice. 532 : education. 532. 



Moravians. Statistics, 532 ; general statistics, 533; mis- 

 sions, 533 ; provincial synod, 533 ; reports. 533. 



MORTON, OLIVER P. Senator from Indiana, 136 ; on the 

 Electoral Commission bill, 144-158 ; on receiving 

 testimony by the Commission, 199 ; birth and death, 

 533: political career, 534. 



MOTLET, JOHN L. Birth and death, 535 ; literary and 

 diplomatic career, 535. 



MuHLENBEBa, WILLIAM A. Birth and death, 535 ; liter- 

 ary and clerical career, 535. 



MUKHTAB PASHA. Birth, 535 ; military career, 638. 



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Naty, United State*. Vessels, 536 ; squadrons, 536 : ac- 

 tive list, 536 ; do. retired, 536 ; appropriations, 536 ; 

 pensions, 536; estimates, 536; casualties, 536; tor- 

 pedo school, 536; enlistment of boys, 537 ; wreck of 

 the Huron, 537. 



Nebraska. Legislative session, 537 ; schools and school- 

 fund, 537 ; receipts of cattle, 538 ; area and popula- 

 tion, 588; face of the country, 538; geology, 538: 

 agricultural region, 638 ; products, 538 ; climate, 

 539 ; action of the Legislature, 539. 



NEPOKOITCHTTZKY, A. A. Birth. 539 ; military career, 

 539. 



