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icnrg l̂iiiudcalcv I. VAN 8LYKE, Editor and Paktteher. HcHENRY, ILLINOIS. THE NEWS CONDENSED, THE EAST. J. THE New York firm of S. O. A O. <J. ward, agents for Baring Brothers, or Lon­ don, will be dissolved at the close of the year. Kidder, Penbody <fc Co. will be given die Baring agency. IN Workman's Cut*, near "Washington, Pa., two Baltimore and Ohjp freight trains came in collision, wrecking both engines and a number of cars. Two men were mangled and then scalded to death, while several others were wounded, three of them firobably fatally... .Henry J. Terry. Pro-essor of Law in the University of Tokio, Japan, has been elected Professor of Mu­ nicipal and International Law at Yale Col­ lege. He succeeds Mr. E. J. Phelps, now United States Minister to Great Britain. A Torso schoolmaster named Traher, at Nnmidn, Columbia County, Pa., is changed with punishing talkative pupils by gagging jrfiem with corn-cobs and making them stand on the fioor. It is said that when a child of Fanner George Snyder, thus treated, was relieved, the cob was covered with blood, and the boy was eo exhausted as to require assistance on the way home. Snyder went in search of Traher with a gun, but the young man had disappeared. It is feared that, the fcoy will not recover,.. .Mayor Grace, of New York, claiming to have been libelecl by the World, brought suit for^o'. 1.000 against Joseph Pulitzer. The latter was arrested, and gave bail in the sum of 85,000. ; . .A steam tug exploded at New York, the crew of six men being killed.... The glass in windows for squares around was shattered. the great lakes and passenger travel. He proposes a bill requiring passenger steam­ ers to leave a correct passenger list at every port afc^which they 6top. The object is to provide accurate information in case of disaster. The bill will make it a penal offense to neglect to leave a list correctly showing the number and names of per­ sons on board, the ports of embarkation, and the ports of destination.... General Atkins. Commissioner of Indian A flairs, urges that every step taken regarding the red men should be for the purpose of teaching them to abandon their tribal re­ lations. Outside of Indian Territory In­ dians are cultivating over a quarter million acres of land. TkE following is a recapitulation of tlie ^delit statement issued on the 1st: nrrEREST-BKAUDfO DEBT. Bonds at 4^ per cent $250,000,000 Bonds at 4 percent /.....' 737,742,850 Bonds at 3 per cent ...... .. 194,190,500 Refunding certificates at 4 per cent. 221,7.i J Navy pension fund nt :t per cent 14.000,00:) Pacific Railroad bonds at 0 pei cent. 01,(i'2H,r>l'_» Principal. Interest V " ..•1,360,776,61 -2 .. ' 11,853,CSS Total... 63,788,141 DKBT BKAMNO NO DFTKBEST. Old demand and legal-tendernotes. *ga40.7;!3.S0fl Certificates of. deposit Gold certilu-ates Silver certificates 'Fractional currency (leas $8,:t75,934, estimated as lost or destroyed).... Principal: .". Total debt-- j*. Principal Interest.................. 17..x>.>,000 4.00S !«,70y,&12 6,053,5*4 5C9.510.114 ......11,83: Total. THE WEST. THE Apache Indians have again broken loose in Arizona. A Tucson dispatch says: The Chiricahuas killed the driver of Gra­ ham's bullion team last evening, sixteen miles from San Carlos Agency, and drove off all the stock. The people of the Globe Agency are much alarmed, fearing further depredations. The Indians have killed, besides the driver mentioned, some Ameri­ can herders, nine White Mountain squaws, and several children. The reservation has been raided for sixty miles. The rene­ gades crossed the Gila, going south, at the sub-agency. Gen. Sheridan arrived at Fort Bowie, and is conferring with Gen. Crook. ONLY three mills are running at Minne­ apolis. Some southern wheat goes to Chi­ cago, but nearly all the northern crop is being roshed to Dulnth... The Supreme Court of Ohio rendered a decision declar­ ing the Cincinnati and Cleveland election registry law to be unconstitutional.... Upon charges of extortion and fraud the Bev. Father Kolasinski. pastor of St. Al­ bert's Polish Catholic Church at Detroit, was deposed by the Bishop, who appointed two priests to succeed him. The follow­ ing morning the church was thronged with Polish women, who assailed one of the new priests when he attempted to officiate at the altar, dragged him to the street, and locked the church doors. The women then engaged in battle with a number of police­ men, using umbrellas, stones, and clubs, bot after an hour's hard work the street •was cleared and the ringleaders were in custody. Father Kolasinski intends to make an appeal to Kome. THE Farmers' National Congress assem­ bled at Indianapolis, sixty delegates being present, representing eleven States. The address of the President, Robert Beverly, of Virginia, demands the creation of a Sec­ retary of Agriculture as a Government de­ partment, an extension of the benefits of the signal service, and the suppression of pleuro-pneumonia. THE business quarter of Chicago will on New Year's eve be lighted by electricity from the tower of the Board of Trade. The lamp will be of 40,000 candle-power. The cost is to be about $4,000 per annum, which amount has been subscribed by citizens di­ rectly interested.... A very large congrega­ tion was attracted to the First Methodist Church in Chicago to witness a test of di­ vine healing by anointing with oil. Nearly one hundred persons subjected themselves to the process, and.twice that number arose to testify that by faith and prayer they had been cured of various ailments. MB. BANKS, a lawyer at Culbertson, Neb., was notified by a vigilance committee to leave town within forty-eight hours. He is accused of frauds in accepting fees from contesting clients Tire in the Barnum Wire-works, at Detroit, Mich., caused a loss of between $200,000 and $250,000 The saw-mill of Barker & Birdsall, at Bay City, Mich., the largest in the United States, was destroyed by fire....Ex- Congressman William Aldrich, formerly of Chicago, died of apoplexy at the home of his brother in Fond du Lac, Wis. THE will of the late Vice President Hendricks has been probated at Indian­ apolis. It is in Mr. Hendricks' handwrit­ ing, and the paper is yellow with age.' It reads as follows: I, Thomas A. Hendricks, of Marion County, Ind., do make this .my last will and tes­ tament, hereby revoking any and all wills bv mo at any time heretofore made. I give, bequeath and devise to my beloved wife, Eliza M. Hen- d ricks, all my personal and real projierty of every description -whatever and wherever lo­ cated, to her and her heirs forever. In witness whereof I have hereunto sot- my band, and, if agreeable to her, I desire that she snail be the executrix thereof. THOMAS A. HENDKICKS. Less cash items available for" reduc­ tion of the debt Less reserve held for redemption of .U.S. notes....;.,.......... Total....... . .$1,845,927,95G 251,452,594 100,000,000 ¥331,452,594 Total debt less available cash itemsSl,514,475,361 Net cash in the Treasury 61,930,595 Debt less cash in Treasury Dec. 1, 1*85 51,452,544,766 Debt less cash in Treasurv Nov. 1, 1881..' i." 1,447,057,568 Increase of debt during the month.. 84,887,198 CASH IN THE TREASURY AVAILABLE FOR REDUC­ TION' OF THE DEBT. Gold held for gold certificates actu­ ally outstanding ...; 5105,554,092 Silver held for silver certificates act­ ually outstanding 92,702,642 U. S. notes held for certificates of deposit actually outstanding....... 17,555,000 Cash held for matured debt and in­ terest unpaid 15,639,229 Fractional currency i,C39 Total available for reduction of- the 4ebt $231,452,304 RESERVE FUND. Held for redemption of I*. S. notes, acts Jan. 14, 1875, and July 12, 1»2.., . $100,060,000 Unavailable for redaction of the debt:-- Fractional silver coin $27,990,309 Minor coin ..... .....^ 616,171 Total £28,536,480 Certificates held as cash..: 66,737,432 Net cash balance on band 61,930,595 Total cash in Treasurv as shown by the Treasurer's general account.. $489,657,102 A leading member of the Ways and Means Committee says: "Nearly even- member who comes to me has a tariff bill in his carpet-bag Tariff experts and peo­ ple with tariff nostrums of all sorts are go­ ing about with schedules already prepared, and three or four at least of the members of the old Ways and Means Committee have already been furnished with ready- made tariff' schemes, and two at least of the members of" that committee are known to have measures in preparation." POLITICAL. THE following Federal appointments are announced from Washington: Richard D. Lancaster to be Surveyor of Cus­ toms for the port of St. Louis, Mo. Oliver P. Itemick to be First Assistant Engineer in the marine service of the United States. M. L. Cormack, of Grand Forks. Dak., to be Secretary of Dakota Territory. To be Registers of Land Offices: Robert V. Yeakle, of Little Rock, Ark., at Little Rock, Ark. ; Henry C. Tipton, of Melbourne, Ark., at Harrison. Ark. ; Chester H. Warner, of Colfax. Washington Terri­ tory, at Walla Walla, Washington Territory. Bartholomew Coffey, of Salem, Oregon, to be agent for the Indians of the Umatilla agency in Oregon. Jacob Schoenhof, of New York, to be Consul of the United States at Tunstall, England. Frank 1'nrke, of West Virginia, to be Principal Clerk of the Public Lands. William K. Ram- eav, of Arkansns, to be Register of tlie Land Onice at Camden, Ark. John R. Thompson, of Arkansas, to be Receiver of Public Moneys at Camden, Ark. Postmasters: • Edward D. Porter, at Joi> lin, Mo.; James S. McGee, Paris, Mo. ; D. W. Scott; Galena, 111.; John Marcus. Hamilton, Mo. Lloyd >>. Lease, Tiffin, O. ; W. H. Cannon, Merrill, Wis.; Robert J. McNally, Keeseville, N. Y.; Frank White, Murfreesboro, Tenm ALBERT A. WILSON, of Washington, has been appointed United States Marshal for the District of Columbia. He will not be called on to act as Grand Chamberlain at the \\ bite House. The President has also made the following appointments: Frank L. Phillips, of New York, to be-Surveyor of Customs for the port of Greenport. N. Y.. and August Alers, of California. Special Examiner of Drugs, Medicines, and Chem­ icals in the District of San Francisco, Cal. GENERAL. THE SOUTH. Tftfi stallion Epaulet, worth $300 three years ago, was gold at Lexington, Ky., to Robert-Steele, of Philadelphia, for $22,500. Antoine Pellegrini was killed in a street duel at New Orleans by Charles Camp, who accused him of having insulted his family A death from yellow fever occurred at Galveston, Tex. A MOVEMENT has been inaugurated at New Orleans to erect a monument to John JameB Audubon. The distinguished orni­ thologist was a native of that city. The movement started among the children of the public schools, who propose to contrib­ ute a nickel a month to a fund for the mon­ ument. A FEARFUL accident occurred at the State Creek Iron-mines, near Olympia, Ky., in which eight men were badly hurt. John and Lafe Slater, John Mountjoy, and Charles Eeffett are supposed to be fatally injured. John Slater was blown fully twenty-five feet. Both of Reifett's eyes were blown out. CHARLOTTE WICKLIFFE (colored), who claimed to have handed Washington a cup of water at the battle of Yorktown, died at Louisville, aged 117. Of her seventv-five surviving children and grandchildren the is nearly one hundred years old. WASHINGTON. ABOUT two weeks ago the wife of the eelebrated Mr. John L. Sullivan, of Bos­ ton, got a divorce from him. Mr. Sulli­ van, being domestically free, went to Washington and entered into a domestic contract. The bride was Miss Annie Liv­ ingston, a young and pretty serio-comic ringer. REPRESENTATIVE CARLETON, of Michi­ gan, is preparing for introduction in the Souse at the earliest opportunity some bills imiKirtant bearing on the commerce of THE steamer Idaho, from Sitka, Alaska, has;arrived at Victoria, 13. C., and brings wonderful tales of the richness of the Cas- siar gold fields. Thereport of the Govern­ ment officer who visited the Granite Creek mines is published. He sjtates that he saw $400 taken out of a rocker in a,single after­ noon, and several claims are yielding from $250 to $400 a day. The steamer Idaho brought $70,000 in gold dust from Douglass Island. THE French half-breeds' of Manitoba have formed an association to receive the remains of Louis Iliel and superintend their interment at St. Boniface.5 Great difficulty has been experienced in the effort to get possession Of the body, which is guarded by two superstitions citizens, who believe that the spirit of 'the departed nightly walks the banks of the Ked liiver. .... President Iglesias, of Peru, surren­ dered to Caceres at Lima. Sanchez has been named Provisional President Montreal reports the small-pox epidemic as ended. 1 THE Fanners' National Congress, in session at Indianapolis, passed a resolu­ tion requesting the restoration of the tariff duty on wool, and asking Congress to create the Cabinet office of Secretary of Agriculture, Robert Beverly was re-elect- ed President. The next meeting of the congress will be held in St. Paul, Minn. NEWS has reached Washington that a fil­ ibustering expedition is fitting out at Key- West, Fla., with a view to a descent on Cuba. The • revolutionists think that the present unsettled state of affairs in Spain gives them the looked-for opportunity to gain a foothold in the coveted "pearl of the Antilles.".,.. .The latest advices from Lima are to the effect that Iglesis and Caceres both agreed to renounce executive power, and a provisional government will bo ar­ ranged by three commissioners from each side. FOREIGN. A London dispatch of the 2d inst. 6ays: "All the manufacturing districts in the counties contested to-day and yesterdav, so far as heard from, have returned liberals, and reduced the conservative gains to forty- seven, with nine constituencies to hear from, all of which are claimed" to have gone against th<j, conservatives. The actual corrected official returns give the liberal majority tip to mid­ night at thirty-one seats, sixtv-two votes on a division. The Conservatives 4v>tal : ." •1,272,631. DEBT ON WHICH INTEREST HAS CEASED SINCE* MATURITY. Principal, $3,509,105 Interest.. 217,035 require seventy-five more net gains to beat, as against forty-seven net gains in all since the election commenced^ Unless some­ thing extraordinary occurs the Tories, therefore, cannot possibly have a majority. A Liberal Cabinet is consequently assured if Gladstone will take office, unless a sud­ den revolution should take place in the on- polled constituencies," THE United States Consul to Samoa writes that a mew island, two miles in length, has appeared in the ocean forty miles off the Tonga Islands, bearing toward Fiji....The King of Burmah personally surrendered himself to Gen. Prendergast, commander of the British invading force, and has arrived in British territory.... Turkish troops are entering Eastern Iiou- melia. A council of Turkish Generals was held, and it advised the ]>ermanent occu­ pation of the Balkans by Turkey. Two VERY singular elections are report­ ed from Ireland. In Clare the Parnellite was Jeremiah Jordan, a Methodist attorney of Fermanagh, Ulster. He was elected by a majority of 7.595 out of a total of 8,167. In Fermanagh young Redmond, a Catholic Parnellite, was elected by a majority of 443 in a vote of 6,000. Clare is the most Catholic county in Ireland. The division of Fermanagh, where Redmond was elect­ ed, has a Protestant majority of 500 on the registry. REPORT OP COM 00TiMATffltb® surviving aoiffiers and sailors and UXiX ux will. VyUUIXl.tt.lN 43(823 by the widows of those who served Diseases of Stock--Chemiatry-- f&iitiOTWQtogical- Forestry. ADDITIONAL SEWS. HENRY B. HORTON, the inventor of the calendar-clock and the audiphone, died at Ithaca, N. Y.... A party of seven robbers blew open thi? safe in the banking-house of Benfel & Co., at Freedom,- Pa., obtaining .$12,000 in currency and ^bonds. Giant powder was used, shattering tlie windows and walls. Flames followed the explosion, by which several thousand dollars in money was burned. Citizens who Hocked to the scene were kept at bay by a fusillade from revolvers. ARSENIC sufficient to kill twenty men was placed in soup served at the Metropol­ itan Club-house at Montreal, by which five bimk officials came near losing their lives. .... Tlie total number of failures reported to Hrittlxlrrrt'n since January' 1. lHKo, is lO.H.'W, against 10.4IS7 during the corres­ ponding portion of 18K4--a decrease of 134. The total in a corresponding portion of l.SFVT was 0.0(12; in 18N2, 7.21)C., and in 1881, 5,605. .Last week tlie total was 247, against 22-~> in the preceding week, as com­ pared with in the first week of Decem­ ber, 1S84, 246 in 1883, and 247 in 1882. A HC'RRICANE swept over portions of Missouri, Nebraska, and Colorado, result­ ing in serious losses. The wreckiug of buildings at Kansas City, Omaha, and Lincoln, Neb., is reported. A woman was killed at River View, Mo., and a man was blown from a building and fatally injured at Kansas City. The Union Pacific re­ fused to dispatch trains across the bridge at Omaha. - „ MR. TILDEX has written a letter to Mr. Carlisle, making' a suggestion as to the use of the surplus revenue of the Gov­ ernment. He holds that seacoast defenses should be provided for. instead of reducing the revenue or applying the surplus on the public debt. The matter is discussed at some length in the letter, and a number of points of interest in connection with the subject are considered. .. The caucus of Republican Senators at Washington, Dec. 4, at the suggestion of >Ir. Edmunds, unanimously nominated Mr. Logan for President pro tempore. The latter re­ turned his sincere thanks for the honor, but positively declined it, because he thought he could be more useful on the floor and in the committee-rooms. , QUEEN* VICTORIA personally invested Lady Randolph Curchill with the insignia of the imperial order of the Crown of India. The recipient of the honor is a daughter of Leonard W. Jerome, a famous stock oper­ ator in New York in the days before the war. SOME of the most popular performances seen on a Chicago stage for. many a day are those given at McVicker's Theater by the Duff Company in its representation of Gilbert and Sullivan's delightful comic opera, "The Mikado." The management has secured the most capable and popular operatic artists available for the principal characters,- and lins*given the most careful attention to every detail. The perform­ ances are witnessed nightly by packed houses. The opera will be continued for another week. A Huge Business Finn. Tlie firm of Armour & Co., wlioliave houses in Chicago, Milwaukee, and Kansas City, did a business last year of $102,000,000. The amount of kill­ ing in Chicago, exclusive of the prod­ uct bought from other packers, was $42,000,000. The entire business of llie Pennsylvania liailroad Company, the largest in the country, was 81)8,- 001?,000 for the same period. Armour & Co. employ 5,500 laborers and over !200 clerks in Chicago, while their total force numbers over 10,000 men. ONE-FIFTH of all the coal produced iu the United States is found in four counties, of which Pittsburg is the business center. Nearly one-third of the product is converted into coke. There are 100 coke-makers, 12,000 ovens, and $13,000,000 invested. Six thousand men are employed. THE petty annoyances of life should be seized upon as occasion for the cul­ tivation of patience and forbearance. ° THE MARKETS. NEW YORK. BEEVES $4.50 C.25 Hoas 3.75 4.2.5 WHEAT--No. 1 White % <$ .98 No. 2 Red .93 (<§' .1)4 C(BN--No. 2 54 itii .55 OATS--White 38 £® .41 Pr -us--Mess 9.75 <y!i0 25 CHICAGO. BEEVES--Choice to Prime Steers. 5.73 @ 6;2.~ Good Shipping 4.75. m 5.5i< Common 3.50 (fk 4 25 EOGS 3.50 ct 4.25 I LOU11--Extra Korinfi 5.00 (I). fi.Tji) Choice Winter 4.50 t<i> 5.00 WHEAT-- NO. 2 Red Winter.......87 VU .88 C ORN--No. 2 iO'.jCS .41 !6 CATS--No. 2 29 <£ RVE--No. 2 GO (<<i X2 BAM,EY-"NO. 2 ; .64 M) M> Bui'TEIT--Choice Creamery 23 t'S; .25 Finn Dairy 10 (<? .18 CHEESE--full Cream, now OHWjC? .lo1... SkimnieU Flats.....00 of* .07 EOOH--Freah ..20 (JIL .21 POTATOES--Choice, per ,bu .50 c«l .58 1'OKK--Mess 8.5J fl.OU MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--No. 2 COKN--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 RVE--No. 1 PORK--New Mess TOLEDO. WHEAT--No. 2.: CORK--No. 2 OATS--No. 2 ; ST. LOUIS. WHEAT--No. 2 Red. CORN--Mixed OATS--Mixed PORK--New Mens CINCINNATI, WHEAT--No. 2 Red. CORN--No. 2 OATS--Mixed RYE--No. 3. PORK--Mess DETROIT. E BEEF CA HOOS SHEEP. . WHEAT CORN OATS--N ». 1 White.... 2.. 2. INDIANAPOLIS. WHEAT--No. 2 Red CORN--Mixed... OATS--No. 2 EAST LIBERTY. CATTLE--Best. Fair Common Hoos SHXBP I BUFFALO. WHEAT--No. 1 Red 717.1.... CORN CATZXS. .S3 C'TJ .85 .40 Ifi .42 .28 <<-< :'20 .CO C<« 9.50 (ttlO.Oo * .93 I? .94 .88 "in .40 .29 <$ .31 .92)4^ .93V. .38 l«! .35'.. ..27 ii .28 10.00 (S 10.25 .82 6® .93 '.46 i# .47 .30 m .81 .65 <8 .67 10.00 (<410.50 4.50 Ci 5.50 ••,.'25 «? 3.75 2.50 l«. 3.50 .91 («t .92 .43 «« *44 .33 & .35 .89 @ .91 .40 .42 .&> & .30 5.25 @ 5.7.5 4.50 (# 5.00 3.50 (d} 4.50 4.00 @ 4.50 2.50 & 3.50 .96 & .97 .46 & .48 4.50 S 5.50 Commissioner dolman, of the Agricftl tural Bureau, in his annual report, says the year which opened in gloom, threatening the destruction of -winter crops by the se- rerity of the temperature, is closing with bright prospects of abundance for man and beast, produced at a cost -which is not a burden to the producer and to be sold at a price which is not a barrier to the poor Jonsumer. For many years, he says, it has become more and more apparent that one great need of the agricultural interests of the United States is a better understand­ ing and a more intimate relation between the several agricultural and experiment stations, and a more practical co-operation between these in­ stitutions and the Department of Agri­ culture. These colleges were endowed by Congress. They are now separately carry­ ing on experiments at an expense of time and means, and yet without any central head through which to report and compare results with each other. He submits that the department should have full authority and ample means to avail itself of the pe­ culiar advantages offered *by those endowed institutions in order to test, in a manner and on a scale sufficient to determine all questionable points, the adaptability of new and rare seeds to the various sections ef our country. Ot the Bureau of Animal Industry he says: "The. law establishing the bureau does not authorize tho slaughter of animals af­ fected with contagious diseases, and it is. impossible for the department to maintain under it an effectual quarantine. The characteristics of pleuro-pneumonia make it a difficult disease to extirpate except by the slaughter of all effected animals and the slaughter or quarantine of all that have been exposed." * He describes the, serious effect upon our foreign trade in live stock resulting from the existence of contagious diseases among cattle, sheep and swine, and says that the restrictions upon our interstate commerce from the same cause have been a very great burden, and that the restriction in value of cattle in the affected States has been enor­ mous. Of the work of the Division of Chem­ istry he snys: "The investigation of the influence of climate and soil in the composition of cereals lias progressed far enough to scien­ tifically determine what parts of the country piodnce the best cereals." Ihe experiments are described which were undertaken with a purpose to cheek the present enormous waste of sugitr, fully one-half, iu the milling process, and with highly gratifying results. The division has also begun an important series of investi­ gations upon food adulteratiou. The work has so' far been cliieflv with butter and hotiey, but it is proposed to extend it until uniform methods of examination and stand­ ards of comparison are established. In the Entomological Division the work has greatly increased during the year, and Prof. Riley considers that under conditions the most favorable to grasshopper increase the injury can never be as widespread as it has been in the past, owing to the advance and increase in settlement in the North­ west. The annual report of Mr. Dodge, the statistician of the department, for the pres­ ent year, contains, the Commissioner says, a review of the course of agricultural pro­ duction during fifteen years, which shows an estimated increase in corn of 37,000,()(»() acres, or HO per cent.; in oats, of 13.000,000 .acres, or 142 per cent.; in all cereals taken together, 07,000,000 acres, or 5)7 per cent. The enlargement of the wheat area was ex­ traordinary during the period of partial failure of the crops of Western Europe; the extension of the breadth in maize was aided by the ftieWe of * the foreign trade in beeves and fresh meats and by the sud­ den enlargement of exports of pork products induced by the cheap- aess of corn, and the cultivation of oats has received special impetus from the seeding of rust-proof varieties in the South and from the necessity of less heating feed for horses than a too exclusive maize ralion.. The increase from 00,000,- 000 acres of cereals in 1870--a breadth nearly equal to the superficial area of Mis­ souri and Ohio--to 130,000,000 acres, an inciease of 07.00i»,000 acres since 1870, means the seeding and harvesting of an additional area equal <0 the entire surface of Iowa and North Carolina. The average estimated product of the principal food crops of the last five years is compared with the average of the ten years preceding, from 1870 to 1879, inclusive, showing an enormous annual increase in the aggregate as well as per acre in the war. Of this number (war of 1812) 59,868 have been allowed--25,676 to the survivors "and 34,192 to the widows. In the aggregate, since 1801, X8,840 claims have been filed, and 580,897 have been al­ lowed. The amount paid for pensions since 1861 is $744,040,541. Out of all army in- Valid claims filed prior to July 1, 1880, a little more than 66 per cent, have been al­ lowed, and at the close of the present year there remained pending of this class 73,415 claims. * The Commissioner suggest^ that an in* creased pension should be given in cases of total deafness and in those cases which in lesser degrees approximate total deafness, and recommends a rating of $30 for total deafness and proportionate ratings for lesser degrees of this trouble. He al­ so suggests that the benefits of the act of March 3, 1885, be extended to soldiers and sailors who, while in the line of duty, lost an arm above the el­ bow joint or a leg above the knee joint, and who in consequence thereof have been sub­ stantially disabled to the same degree as though amputation had been performed at the shoulder or hip joint. Gen. Black calls attention to the widespread feeling that the limitation impose.d by section 2 of the act of March 30, 1879, is unjust in its opera­ tions. If a soldier was entitled to a pen­ sion at any time prior to the first day of July, 1880, no good reason is known to ex­ ist why he should not now be allowed to make proof thereof. Regarding fraudulent and illegal claims, the Commissioner says extended inquiries are being prosecuted with a view to purging the pension rolls of the various agencies of the names of those fraudulently and illegally borne thereon, and great success is attending the work. At the sani'e time the greatest care is exercised not to disturb the rights of any worthy pen­ sioner. THi BUREAU OF STATISTICS. has pre- 1 he average yield of corn per acre been 23.9 bushels, against 27.1 for the ceding period; the average value has there­ fore been higher,' 44.7 cents per bushel, instead of 42.0, and the average value of an acre $10.07 instead of $11.54. The average .yields of wheat in the two periods are nearly identical, 12.3 and 12.4 bushels, respectively, but the price has averaged 90.1 cents instead of 104.9, the demand not being equal to the supply. There is perhaps, no subject in which the department can be used to* greater benefit than in its attention to forestry interests; and, considering the vast importance to the nation of a proper investigation of the sub­ ject, no 'branch has been more poorly en­ dowed by • Congress. Efforts should be made at once to arouse and enlighten the people to the dangers which threaten through the destruction of the forests. "Arbor days" should be instituted in all the States, the science of forestry should be taught in schools, and the organizatioif of local and State forestry societies should be encouraged. The Commissioner concludes his report with reference to the usefulness and grow­ ing importance of the department. Report on the Foreign Commerce of the Country for the Year 1885. Col. W. F. Switzler, Chief of the Bu­ reau of Statistics, in his annual report on foreign commerce, gives an analysis of our foreign trade, and, among other Things, shows the magnitude of our commerce as compared with the commerce of all other countries; the growth of our exports of pro­ ducts of agriculture, of manufactures, of mining, etc.; the condition of the imports and the carrying trade of the country, and other facts of interest. The report says the total value of our foreign commerce in merchandise, in­ cluding the in-ttnnsit trade, during the year 1885 was $1,388,588,165, of which the value of the exports was $742,000,000, of the imports $577,000,000, and of the in- transit and transshipment trade, 000,000. The imports and exports of gold and silver coin and bullion during the same period.amounted to $85,232,000. of which the value of the exports was $42,000,000, and of the imports $43,000,000. The value of our foreign commerce in merchandise, including the in-transit trade, during the preceding fiscal year was $1,481,840,086, showing a falling off in our foreign trade during the lust^fiscal year of $93,251,921. It appears that m the value of foreign com­ merce the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland stands first, Germany second, France third, and the United States fourth. The total value of the foreign trade in mer­ chandise of the nations during the year 1883 was as follows: Of the United King­ dom, $3,503,877,370; Germany, $2,450,- 428,745; France. $2,033,885,544; the United States, $1,547,020,316. The most notable features of our foreign trade during the last fiscal year, as compared with the trade of 1884, was a decrease in the imports of merchandise of $90,000,000, and a falling off in the exports of gold of $32,000,000. The report shows in detail the countries and the articles in which the decline in im­ ports of merchandise occurred. The de­ crease occurred mainly in the values of im­ ports of sugar and molasses, silks, wool, and manufactures of silk and wool, and iron and steel, and manufact­ urers of iron and steel. Among the - exports of our manufactured products which show the most rapid de­ velopments since 1866 are agricultural im­ plements, clocks and watches, manufactures of cotton, manufactures of iron and steel, including locomotives, sewing-machines, tools and hardware. Great Britain not only takes about tiO per cent, of our agri­ cultural and unmanufactured products, but also a larger share, amounting to twenty- seven pn' cent., of our manufactures than do Central America, the West Indies, and South America combined. Colonel Switzler says there li-is been, since I860, a very marked decline in the percentage of im­ ports of manufactured articles, and a cor­ responding increase iu the percentage of imports of crude or partially manufactured articles. .This is a significant fact, show­ ing a steady growth in the demand for crude articles to be manufactured at home. NO MORE ON EARTH. The Mortal Bemaina of Vioe-Prtti- dont Hendricks Consigned • to the Tomb. His Futoernl at Indianapolis Attended by an Immense Coocosne of ,7--• Many Distinguished,.Oitisens Present--A General Observance of the Day ere. tying in State. ' \ The remains of tho late Vice President Hendricks lay in state at tho City Hall in Indianapolis from 8unday forenoon to Monday afternoon, tbo aOth ult., and were viewed bvover 50,000 people. So great were the crowds at "times that the military and polieo were called into re­ quisition to keep the mans moving and to pre­ vent a blockade. When the doors of tho build- ing wero closed a waiting crowd, numbering thousands, Btood in line trying to take a last glance at the face of tho dead statesman. At 4 o clock p. m. Mondav the doors were closed and tho casket was borne through the south en­ trance to the street, where it was placed in tho hearse, and, escorted l>y the four Indianapolis military companies, was returned to the parlor of tlio homestead. All along the line of march the people flocked to see the sad spectacle. " Public Sorrow. On Tuesday, the 1st of December, the mortal remains of Thomas Andrew Hendricks, the fifth Vice President to die during his term of office, were conveyed to the tomb prepared for their re­ ception. The clergy of Indianapolis, without re­ spect to sect/ joined in the obsequies, the bells of all the churches tolled a requiem, and the presence of tho populace in the column which followed his funeral car, or stood as silent spec­ tators of the solemn spectacle, atte., U:d their fealty to his mei»ory. Tho early morning trains on all the railways " brought delegations from tho national capital and all tho leading cities of the Union, to gether with an influx of people from all the in­ terior cities and hamlets of Central Indiana and Illinois, The train arrivals swelled the multi­ tudes on the streets to an extent to impede the ordinary progress on all the chief thoroughfares. The emblems of mourning which began to ap­ pear on public and private buildings the day of the Vice President's death had grown in quality and design until tho whole city was in funeral garb. Washington street presented an almost unbroken liue of draped houses, while on every business street, and even along the residence streets, tho people -were lavish in their display of the signs of public sorrow. Portraits of the deceased, all shrouded in black, were profusely hung in windows. The general effect told in mute eloquence of the high re­ spect with which the pooplo of IndianapoliB re­ garded their fellow-townsman. SAYINGS BANK DEPOSITS. THE PENSION BUREAU. Nearly Forty Million Dollars Disbursed for Pensions During the , Past Year. The annual report of Gen. John C. Black, Commissioner of Pensions, for the year ending June 30, 1885, shows that there >vere nt the close of the year 345,125 pen­ sioners. During the year there were added 85,7<>7 new names and 1,835 reinstatements. During the same period the names of 15,- 233 pensioners were dropped from the roll for various causes, leaving a net increase of 22,300. The average annual value of each pension at ;lie close of the year is shown to be $110.30, and the nggregate annual value of all pensions is $38,000,985--an increase over like value forthe previous year of $;).<>3'M>84. The amount paid fikr pen­ sions during the year is $04.1)<8,435, an in­ crease in amount over the previous year of $8,(M>0,838. The amount paid to 37,830 new pensioners during the year upon lirst payments was $27,115,1)12, and there re­ mained in the hands of the several pension agents 83,077 of this class unpaid, on which there was due $2,243,507. It is shown that 555.038 claims have been filed on account of disability and 335,295 on account of death alleged to be due to causes originating in the service, claims for this latter class having been filed by the widow, minor children, or dependent rela­ tives of the soldier. Of the invalid claims 300,204, and of the widows and dependent relatives 220,825, a total of 521,029 claims on account of disability and death, have been allowed. The acts of 1871 and 1878 provided for a pension on account of service during the war of 1812. Since 1871, 78,500 claims of this class have been filed--34,673 by Interesting Figures from ComptroUer Can­ non's -lteport. An appendix to the report of the Comp­ troller of the Currency contains the follow- ; table by States .of the aggregate de­ posits of savings banks, with the number of their depositors and the average amount due to each in 1884 and 1885: Number of depositors. .. 101,822 105,680 117,317 1-21,210 38,574 iw.asi 800,010 8'2ti,008 States. Maine, 1883, 1H84-5 New Hampshire, 1883 1884-5...... Vermont, 1883 .... 1H84-5 *.. M a s s a c h u s e t t s , 188;$ 1881-5 Rhode Island, 1883 120,482 1884-5...... 115,75-2 Connecticut, 188). 240,(>52 J.884-5 252.245 New York, 1883.. .1,147,588 1884-5 .1,205,174 New Jersey, 1883, 08,700 1884-5... 87,350 Pennsylvania, 1883..'. 130,381 l«84-5 135.953 Maryland, 1883.... »77,212 1881-5 *78,101" District of Colum­ bia, 1883 f>,180 1881-5 (1,735 Ohio, 1883 34,o53 1884-85 :i4,83f> Indiana, 1883 *!t,131 1884-5... *9,402 Minnesota, 1884-5, 11,753 California, 1883... *J,48!» 1884-5 *82,000 Total, 1883.. 1884-5 'Estimated. Amount of deposits. 831,371,809 32,913,885 42,091,597 43,8-27,.'$50 11,061,050 11,218,283 252,607,593 272,720,147 50,127,806 51,079,161 88,098,384 90,014,023 431,080,010 437,107.507 29,323,128 24,015,917 34,031,154 35,362,000 28,336,934 28,063,083 022,304 731,733 ' 12,909,060 12,605,008 2,108,4ii8 2,171,009 3,195,926 59,404,720 58,943,903 Aver- ago to each. tfmio 311.44 358.77 301.56 286.75 285.57 313.40 318.00 410.07 414.29 ar»7.18 359. *23 375.64 375.14 296.92 274.94 261.01 260.11 367.00 367.00 100.70 108.46 375.33 301.84 230.91 230.91 271.92 738.79 718.83 SECOND-CLASS POSTAGE. Points from Mr. Hazen's Report. The report of A. D. Hazen, Third As­ sistant Postmaster General, shows that the reduction in postage 011 second-class mat­ ter has, thus far at least, not led to an ab­ normal- increase in the volume of matter committed to tjhe mails. The following is the report for the office at Chicago: "For the quarter ended September 30, 1885, increase 24.1 per cent.; for month ended October 31, decrease 3.5 per cent.; total for four months ended October 31, in­ crease 17.5 per cent.; for year 1885 over 1884, increase 10.02 per cent.; for 1884 over 1883, increase 24.50 per cent., for 1883 over 18H2, decrease 8 per cent.; for 1882 over 1881, increase 10.8 per cent.; and for 1881 over 1880, increase 21.2 per cent. Av­ erage annual increase for five vears from July 1, 1880, to June 30, 1885', 12.91 per cent. For the four months ended October 31, 1885, the increase over the average of the year ended June 30, 1885, was 16.5 per centv, and over the average of the vear ended June 30, 1884. it was 35.2 per eenV For the month of October, 1885, there was a decrease of 27.5 per cent, as compared to the average of the quarter ended Septem­ ber 30, 1885, and also a decrease of 9.2 per cent, as compared to the average of the year ended June 30, 1885. There was an increase of 5.2 per cent, for the month of October, 1885, as compared to the average of the year ended June 30, 1884." At the Modest Home. One of the central points of attraction for the visiting multitude was the modest home of the late Vice President, a plain, two-story brick structure. On the front door of the house was a black rosette, from which was pendent u strip of black crape, which constituted the only out­ ward emblem of mourning. The scene presented in tho interior of the house, however, carried with it all the evidenco of death. Emblems of mourning and memorial floral designs were at baud everywhere. The oil portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Hendricks were al­ most hidden in banks of flowers and trailing smilax. The most notable representation of the de­ signs in flowers was that of the loe cabin in which Mr. Hendricks was born in Ohio. It stood at the head of his coffined remains, and was the work of ladies of Shelbyville, where Mr. Hendricks had formerly lived. It wan six feet in lenytli, and four insheight, itn sides being composed of calla lilies, hyacinths, carnations, and roses. The roof was of English ivy and smilax, and the chimney of red and white car­ nations. On one side of the miniature struc­ ture, in purple immortelles, was tho inscrip­ tion • "The Home of My Boyhoodand be­ neath, "Shelbyville." On the end of the cabin was suspended a black satin banner bearing, in letters of gold : "God's fingers touched him and he slept;" and the sec­ ond inscription underneath: "Shelbyville mourns her distinguished and gifted son." At 9 o'clock Mrs. Hendricks entered tho room for her last leave-taking, accompanied only by her brother and Mrs. Morgan. The ordeal was most trying and the desolate woman seemed to be-utterly prostrated, clinging to the last to the clay so soon to bo hiddon forever from her view, and impressed with the placid and life-like ap­ pearance of tho dead, she desired , to preserve this last scene, and so, late as it was, she sent for a photographer to take a picture of the casket. Shortly after this the pall-bearers arrived. The draped hearse and the carriages for the family and friends were marshaled before the door, and preparations were made for the final removal of the body. This was done without further leave-taking. At the Church. The police and military kept the curious bnt always respectful mass of people out of the way, and the little cavalcado moved quietly with its military escort through tho densely lined streets to tho Cathedral of St. Paul. The casket was borne into the church at 11:40 o'clock, tho vast congregation having already been seated, with the exception of tlie immedi­ ate relatives and the church vestry. Tho officiating clergy, four iu num­ ber-- Bishop Knickerbocker, of tho In­ dianapolis Piocese; tho Itev. Dr. Stringfel- low, of Montgomery, Ala., tho first rector of St. Paul's, and under whose ministrations Mr. Hen­ dricks joined the church; the Rev. Dr. Fulton, of St. I jouis, a former rector of St. Paul's; and tho ltev. Dr. Jenekcs, the present rector--in their robes of ofliee, met the remains at tho main entrance of the cathedral on Illinois street. The body was borno up tho central aisle, the clergym-en and members of the vestry going in advance. Bishop Knickerbocker voiced the opening sentence of the burial service, "I am the resurrection and tho life." followed by tho Rev. Drs. Stringfellow and Fultoft iii their recitation of tho other verses used for tho dead, until the casket had been carried and i>laced outside tho chancel. The great audience stood while the impressive scene was enacted. After the bier came the widow, leaning on the arm of her brother, Mr. 8. W.&Iorgiin, followed by the other relatives, all in deep mourning.' When the casket had been placed in front of tho chancel rail the choir siing the anthem "Lord, Let Me Know My End." Tho lesson for the dead was then read by tho Bev. Dr. Jenckes. This was followed by the singing of the hymn "Lead, Heavenly Light," by the Q^oir, the au­ dience joining, The ltev. Dr. Jenckes, speaking from tho' lecturn, delivered an eloquent and touching funeral oration. "Mr. Hendricks'youth," said he, "has n. pro­ lific lesson for the youths of our land. In an adjoining county some fifty years ago his tute­ lage began. Tho days so often spent by thought- less boys in pointless diversions from hard study he, with energy and application, devoted to the acquisition of useful, permanent knowl­ edge, laying, with painstaking earnestness, and perseverance, and zeal, tho foundations of that sturdy, indomitable charactor which in later life carried him to the proud pinnacle of exalted success. The years of his early manhood \ wero years of trial and comparative privation. With the sturdy men who wero his co-laborers in the aggressive work, ho carved out iu tho wilder­ ness a great, and prosperous, and happy com­ monwealth. He was an honest, brave, ex­ emplary young man, who scorned to do a mean or unworthy action; who recognized the re­ straining influences of moral obligations, and by both precept and example inculcated probity and purity of life. 'Then in maturer years wo have this sturdy, hearty man, with a strong mind and a warm heart in a sound b<>dy, essaying an active, earnest, prominent part ~ in the affairs of his State and country. As the second officer in the administration of this great nation he was everywhere and always the same able, con­ servative, consistent, and conscientious charac­ ter. "No one who appealed to him for sympathy, counsel, or assistance ever turned away empty. Though his right and his left hands wero not in each other's confidence, istill there is a record somewhere of his open-handed liberality in numberless cases of destitution and suffering. He experienced in his daily life tho joy of faith and the patience of hope and the comfort of love. These were-with him ever: faith, hope, and charity--these three, but the greatest of these was charity. And the admirably organized charities of our city have long felt tho guiding impulses of his skillful hnnd and been cheered by the sympathetic throbbinga of his generous heart. "Dare we tread upon the vergo of hallowed ground and touch upon the conjugal relations of Gov. Hendricks and describe I10W for forty years and two months I10 passed along with dignified, steady, and faithful pace beside the noble and devoted woman whom he had chosen for better or for worse ; and how, through storm and sun­ shine, like Isaac and ltebecca, they lived faith­ fully together in perfect love and peace ? "Kminent citizen, faithful friend, Christian gentleman, honest man--farewell!" When the speaker had concluded. Mrs.. Doner, of Chicago, sang "Hock of Ages," the Bishop closing with prayers and benediction. The cas­ ket was then lifted and borne from the church, the audience remaining seated. To the Cemetery. The bells of all tho city churches began their tolling whsei the remains were taken from the house, and continued their pealing during the continuation of the church rites and while the procession was on its long march to Crown Hill Cemetery. The column moved in the following OllDEn OF PROCKSKION. Metropolitan police, mounted and on foot. Band. Chief Marshal Knefller and staff. Chief of Staff, Maj. C. L. Holstein. Aids of Chief Marshal. FIRST DIVISION, Adjt. Gen. George W. Koonts, commanding. Staff of Governor ot Indiana. All military organizations in positions assigned by Gen. Koontz. SECOND DIVISION, Edward Hawkins, United States Marshal, ooQ- !#«/... manding. Chief of Staff, Col. Charles E. Zollinger. ^ ' 4ids of Marshal of Second Division. Band. , Cpriage containing officiating elersy. , Pall-bearers. ,„•:*? • - Committee of ArrangemaniKi Police. Police. si Indianapolis Light Infantry, •Sbapt. J. Commanding, guard of hon<yr and special escort. Carriages containing family and friends. - Distinguished guests. uovernor of Indiana and State officers. TT , 8tato judiciary. United States military officers. United States civil officers. County judiciary. County officers. ' City officials?-- THIRD DIVISION. filaj. Jas. L. Mitchell, commanding. FOURTH DIVISION. William E, Christian, commanding. KINIANARONS FIHK DEPARTMKOTT Chief Webster, commanding. The carriages were driven three abreast. The movement was slow, the progress at times being almost imperceptible, until the column emerged upon Meredian street, a broad and very hand­ some avenuo leading to the entrance to the beautiful Crown Hill Cemetery. The cor- tage moved on by the handsome homes of the wealthy, whose windows and sidewalks were filled with great throngs. The broad thoroughfare stretched out into the country beyond the limits of the city, and when the head of the column came within sight pf the ceme- Jfry, a mile distant, the Indianapolis Light Ar­ tillery began to Are minute guns, which was continued until the hoarse "i'pr^a<i)ia<l " At the Tonib. Winding through a thick ertfxth of Itetfehahd riiaple trees, tbe .military division came upon & largo open view, and, approaching the open grave 011 the Hendricks family lot, which occu­ pies the most commanding view in the grcr.ads turned to the left and then again to th* right* finally completely encircling the tract of which the Hendricks plat forms a part. The most careful attention had been given to the matter of decoration at the cemetery. The monument of the deceased ftUtesjuan--a mas­ sive and beautiful shaft, of abo-it thirty feet in height, and built entirely of polished gray granite stands on probably the moBt at­ tractive as well as commanding ground in the inclosure. Immediately opposite is the exquisite chapel of the Cemetery Associa­ tion, white a little to the northwest is the bury- lng-ground of the Indiana soldiery. In the midst of this a tali flag-staff bore a superb garrison nag at half-mast, and another of the eauic charac­ ter was trained about the monument. Tho latter was covered to 9 suitable extent with smilax and choice flowers, and about the two sides of the base, on the interior,were ferns and potted plants in great profusion. The grave was closely walled up with mosses, smilax and cut flowers, and the casket was seemingly deposited in a chamber of floral beauty. A heavy marble vault, of size proportioned to that of the casket, was first placed in position, and, on the doposit of the latter, received its cap slab of like material, and this in turn was laden with flowers. The last glimpse of the sorrowing widow and mourners thus suggested nothing of the unpleasant fea­ tures of the ordinary interment. About the grave wide mats had been placed to protect the immediate participants from the dampness of tho turf, and they also extended down the in­ clining sward to tho carriage-way. The grave of little Morgan, tho idolized son and only child of the Vice President and his widow, lies immediately to the left of the rest­ ing place of his illustrious father, and on the west side of the monument. The singular affec­ tion entertained for the little one by his honored parents is known as a household word in the community where they lived. The utmost care had been taken by those in charge of tho mat­ ter to decorate the little one's grave and its sur­ roundings. V, hen the hearse had halted near the lot, the casket was borne to the grave. The venerable Bishop Knickerbocker preceded it and read a few verses for the dead, and after the lowering of the casket the Rev. Dr. Jenckes read the com­ mittal services, the Bishop closing with prayer and benediction. Only the widow and her supporters approached the grave, the remaining multitude standing off, silent sp.ctators. • Distinguished Mourners. It is rarely that a public man in this country has been followed to his last resting place by so many distinguished men as attended the funeral of the Vice President. The Congressional com­ mittees arrived early Tuesday morning. The Senate committee consisted of Senators G. F. Edmunds, W. B. Allison, J. L. Pugh, J. G. Har­ ris, O. D. Conger, H. W. Blair, J. N. Dolph, G. G. Vest, J. B. Beck, J, N. Camden, Z. B. Vance, J. K. Jones, and D. W. Voor- hees. They were accompanied by Gen. Anson G. McCook ar.d Col. W. P. Canaday, Sergeant-at- Arms. The House Committee consisted of Will­ iam B. Morrison, J. H. Blount, H: A. Herbert, W, S. Holman, W. M. Springer, W. P. Hepburn, S. B. Ward, W. W. Phelps, J. J. Kleiner, Thom­ as Ryan, P. Dunn. They were accompanied by Sergeant at-Arms Leedom. Besides the above distinguished gentlemen there were present Hecretarif > Bayard, Whitney, Lnmar, and Endi- rctt, and Postmaster General Vilas, of the Cabi­ net ; Associate Justices Matthews and Blatchford .representing tho Supremo Court; ex-President Hayes, Gen. W. T. Sherman, ex-Gov. B.Grate Brown, ox-Senator John B. Henderson and Congressman O'Neill, of Missouri; ex-Mayor Francis, and a large number of other men of note from St. Louis ; Gov. Oglesbv, and many well-known people from Springfield, 111.; ex-Gov. Bishop, of Ohio; Gov. Hoadly and staff, of Ohio; Senator Payne and party, Ohio; tho Mayors and members of tho City Councils of St. Louis, De­ troit, Cincinnati, and Cliioago; Major Genoral Scliofield, Major Sanford, S. Corning Judd, of Chicago; ex-Senator Graham N. Fitch, of Logansport; tho Gondola Club, Toledo: the Amerieus Club, Peoria; P. Henry Dagro and party of twenty men, from New York, tho Jefferson Club, Dayton; a delega­ tion of twenty-five from Tammany Hall, and others ; tho Jackson Club, of Columbus, Ohio; the Evansville City Council; the Jefferson Club, of Dayton, Ohio; Senator T. W. Palmer, of Michigan; L. D. Tlioinan, ex-Civil Service Com­ missioner; George W. Geddes, of Ohio; Col. R. W. Thonn>son, of Terro Haute; ex-Secretary Washburne, of Illinois ; Gov. Knott n-nd staff, of Kentucky; Senator Ben Harrison and ex-Senator Joseph E. McDonald, and hundreds of others of more or less note. Special trains were run into Indianapolis from every direction, to accommo­ date the public, and they were taxed to the utmost capacity. It is estimated that 30,000 strangers were in the city. .. . Honors for the Dead. • At Washington the Supreme Court met on Monday, the 3oth ult. On the opening of tho court Attorney General Garland made formal announcement of the death of the Vice President, and, after paying a tender tribute to his memory, moved that the court adjourn out of respect to the deceased. Chief Justice Waite responded, expressing regret at the sad event, and ad­ journed the court until Thursday, the 3d inst. The Indiana Bar Association met at Indian­ apolis, Judge Gresham presiding. A lengthy memorial was adopted and brief eulogistic ad­ dresses delivered by distinguished members of tljie association. At South Bend, Ind., memorial services were held in a large rink, which was completely packed. Business was generally suspended, and the services were participated in by u.11 classes, Republicans and Democrats alike. Tho New York Stock Exchange and Boards of Trade in nearly all the cities, the de­ partments at Washington, tho departments in the various State capitals, and all the post- offices were closed out of respect to the memory of the deceased. Incidents of the Day. Bells wore tolled during the afternoon in many of the cities of Virginia. President Cleveland sent an autograph letter of condolence to Mrs. Hendricks. At Pittsburg and Allegheny the day was gen­ erally observed. The arsenal guard fired the three regulation salutes. The Galveston bar adopted resolutions of re­ spect. All public places wero closed and busi­ ness was suspended general^. New York and Brooklyn were dotted with half- masted flags, and the public offices and ex­ changes were closed most of the <fay. All the offices of the General Government at Washington were closed. It was like Sunday at the White House. The building was never so well draped. Kergeant-at-Arms Leedom, of the House Of Representatives, had an attack of vertigo and sustained painful injuries by falling on t.hn church steps at Indianapolis. Public business was suspended at noon in Baltimore. The city bells were tolled. Mem­ orial services were held at the Grand Opera House. Judge Fisher was the orator. Among the cities which closed offices and suspended ^business at noon were: Phila­ delphia ; Oswego, N. Y. ; Montgomery, Ala.; Auburn, N. Y. ; Pouglikeepsie, N, Y.; Rich­ mond, Va.; Trov, N, Y., and Atlanta, Ga. Throughout New England tho observance*" were varied. I11 the larger cities the Govern­ ment buildings wero all closed, and bells were tolled at morning, noon and night. The munici­ pal -'ii'icos of Boston were closed. Guns were fired in the navy yard at sunrise, noon, and sunset. Iu Chicago business was suspended in the Federal offices, and in the city hall and court house. The courts, except Judge Smith's, were closed, and the mayoralty recount suspended its tedious operation. Tho postoffico was closed at noon, and no afternoon deliveries were made ex­ cept to the hotels. Some years ago, at the funeral of the first wife of ex-Senator McDonald, Miss Annie Gale, now Mrs. Doner, of Chicago, as leading soprano at St. Paul's, sang "Rock of Ages" in a voice so sweet and touching that Mr. Hendricks was deeply affected, and, after tho services, compli­ mented the lady and made tho request that if possible she should sing the same solo at his luneraK When she arrived to fulfill the Jiromise which the then made the vestry was lisinclined to change the programme previously arranged. By personal re-quest of Mrs Hen­ dricks, who recalled the circumstance, the de­ sired alteration was finally made, and the beau­ tiful hymn was exquisitely rendered.