e-President of the United States, died to-day
at 5 o'clock p.m. at Indianapolis, and it becomes my mournful duty to
announce the distressing fact to his fellow-countrymen.

In respect to the memory and the eminent and varied services of this
high official and patriotic public servant, whose long career was so
full of usefulness and honor to his State and to the United States, it
is ordered that the national flag be displayed at half-mast upon all the
public buildings of the United States; that the Executive Mansion and
the several Executive Departments in the city of Washington be closed
on the day of the funeral and be draped in mourning for the period of
thirty days; that the usual and appropriate military and naval honors
be rendered, and that on all the legations and consulates of the United
States in foreign countries the national flag shall be displayed at
half-mast on the reception of this order, and the usual emblems of
mourning be adopted for thirty days.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

By the President:
T.F. BAYARD,
_Secretary of State_.

II. On the day next succeeding the receipt of this order at each
military post the troops will be paraded at 10 o'clock a.m. and this
order read to them.

The national flag will be displayed at half-mast. At dawn of day
thirteen guns will be fired. Commencing at 12 o'clock m., nineteen
minute guns will be fired, and at the close of the day the national
salute of thirty-eight guns.

The usual badge of mourning will be worn by officers of the Army, and
the colors of the several regiments, of the United States Corps of
Cadets, and of the Battalion of Engineers will be put in mourning for
the period of thirty days.

By order of the Secretary of War:

R.C. DRUM, _Adjutant-General_.

[Footnote 1: Sent to the heads of the Executive Departments, etc.]

SPECIAL ORDER.

NAVY DEPARTMENT, _Washington, November 25, 1885_.

The President of the United States announces the death of Vice-President
Thomas A. Hendricks in the following order:

[For order see preceding page.]

In pursuance of the foregoing order, it is hereby directed that upon the
day following the receipt of this the ensign at each United States naval
station and of each United States naval vessel in commission be hoisted
at half-mast from sunrise to sunset, and that thirteen guns be fired at
sunrise, nineteen minute guns at meridian, and a national salute at
sunset at e