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mitted to all denominations during the year was 

 43,839. The salaries paid to the pastors of these 

 churches annually amount to $1,246,913, and 

 the other expenses aggregate $295,965. The 

 amount of money collected through the vari- 

 ous religious organizations and expended for 

 benevolent or charitable purposes amounted 

 last year to $187,227. There are 24,003 

 Sunday-school teachers, and they have 257,673 

 pupils. The average attendance on public 

 religious services reaches 428,812. The value 

 of church property is $10,825,553. The 

 Methodist Episcopal denomination leads, with 

 1,547 organizations and 118,949 members. 

 The Christians follow, with the Baptists third, 

 the United Brethren fourth, and the Catholics 

 fifth, with 286 organizations, but the latter 

 ranks second in number of members, having 

 86,872. 



A report made by the same bureau shows 

 the advance of manufactures in the State. 

 The statistics show 12,088 different establish- 

 ments, $50,169,061 as the capital employed, 

 and $167,067,443 as the value of manufactured 

 products. The value of the products is about 

 $19,000,000 more than reported by the census 

 of 1880. The value of raw material used was 

 $94,296,477. The average number of males 

 employed was 69,273, and of females 3,698, 

 making a total of 72,971. The aggregate amount 

 of the wages paid these employes was $28,944,- 

 894. 



THE KANKAKEE SURVEY. In December, 

 Professor John L. Campbell, appointed by the 

 Governor, submitted his report upon the 

 straightening of the channel of the Kankakee, 

 and the drainage of the swamp-lands. The 

 Kankakee region is chiefly within the counties 

 of St. Joseph, Laporte, Starke, Jasper, Porter, 

 Newton, and Lake. The number of acres 

 which may be recovered in the marshy re- 

 gion is estimated as follows: In St. Joseph 

 County, 39,633 acres; Laporte, 124,253; Por- 

 ter, 75,544; Starke, 153,625; Jasper, 90,459; 

 Newton, 79,854 ; Lake, 61,438 ; total, 624,806. 

 Estimating the increase in value at $20 an 

 acre, the aggregate addition to the wealth of 

 the State will be $8,000,000, while the general 

 increase of the entire section of the Kankakee 

 region will make it not less than $10,000,000. 

 There are 2,000 bends in the Kankakee River 

 between South Bend, Indiana, and Momence, 

 Illinois, and the length of the stream is 240 

 miles. The cost of drainage is estimated at 

 $600,000, and the national and State Legisla- 

 tures will be asked to undertake the work, so 

 far as straightening and lowering the bed of 

 the river is concerned, leaving to land-owners 

 the work of lateral drainage. 



PARTY CONVENTIONS. Two amendments to 

 the State Constitution were proposed by the 

 last Legislature, one for the prohibition of the 

 liquor - traffic, and the other to confer the 

 right of suffrage upon women. The prohibi- 

 tion amendment was adopted by the folio \ving 

 vote : 



Yeas Senators Eepublican 20 



Senators Democratic 626 



Representatives Republican 44 



Representatives Democratic 1166 



Nays Senators Democratic 17 



Senators Republican 320 



Representatives Democratic 28 



Representatives Republican 836 



This amendment formed the chief local issue 

 in the fall campaign, the Republicans pro- 

 nouncing in favor of its submission to the peo- 

 ple at a special election, while the Democrats, 

 pronouncing against it in principle, demanded 

 its submission at a general election. 



The Democratic State Convention, consist- 

 ing of 1,121 delegates, met in Indianapolis, on 

 the 2d of August, and adopted the following 

 platform : 



The Democratic party of Indiana ; in convention 

 assembled, renews its pledge of fidelity to the doc- 

 trines and traditions of the party as illustrated by the 

 teachings of Thomas Jefferson, its founder, and exem- 

 plified in the administration of the Government under 

 Democratic rule. And we insist upon an honest and 

 economical administration on the principles upon 

 which it rests conceding to the Federal Govern- 

 ment its just rights and full powers as delegated in 

 the Federal Constitution, and claiming for the States 

 and the people respectively the powers therein re- 

 served to them. 



^ We arraign the Republican party at the bar of pub- 

 lic opinion for its long ana continued course of 

 usurpation and misrule. It has disregarded the rights 

 of the people and the States. It has held on to its 

 ill-gotten power in defiance of the popular will, by 

 the corrupt use of money in the elections, and it has 

 corrupted the public morals by elevating to high 

 places men who are known to be dishonest. 



We condemn the Republican party for enacting and 

 enforcing laws designed to place the elections under 

 Federal control, in violation of the rights of the State. 



We condemn it for the fraud and perjuries of 1876, 

 by which the will of the people was set aside, and a 

 usurper placed in the presidential office for four 

 years. 



We condemn it for having kept up and maintained 

 in time of peace an onerous and unjust system of 

 taxation, by means of which large sums of money 

 have accumulated in the Treasury, which ought to 

 have been left in the pockets of the people ; and we 

 condemn it for its wasteful extravagance in the expen- 

 diture of the public money. 



We condemn it for its shameless disregard of its 

 pledges in favor of " civil - service reform," and its 

 corrupt use of the public patronage under the " spoils 

 system." 



We condemn it for its systematic levy of black-mail 

 upon the clerks and minor office-holders of the United 

 States, in violation of law, to raise a fund for the 

 corruption of the ballot-box ; and we call especially 

 upon the voters of Indiana to vindicate their honor 

 and to erase the stain that was placed upon them by 

 the " Dorseyites" in 1880. 



We demand that the present wasteful and unneces- 

 sary expenditure of the public money shall be stopped, 

 and that the surplus revenue shall be faithfully ap- 

 plied to the payment of the national debt. 



We demand that Federal taxes be reduced to the 

 lowest point consistent with the wants of the Govern- 

 ment under an honest and economical administra- 

 tion of its affairs, and that such taxes be so adjusted 

 as to secure an equitable distribution of these burdens. 



We demand that there shall be such reforms in the 

 civil service as will again result in the employment in 

 the public service of those only who are honest and 

 capable, and that no assessments or exactions of any 

 kind shall be required of them for political purposes. 



We demand protection to our citizens, native and 



