Mr. Thomas J. Semmes for plaintiff in error. and Mr. Henry C. Miller for defendants in error.

Mr. W. H. Rogers

THEBERATH V. RUBBER AND CELLULOID HARNESS TRIMMING Co. (Docket No. 108.) Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of New Jersey. July 10, 1886: Dismissed pursuant to the 28th Rule. Mr. Phillip W. Cross for appellant. Mr. J. C. Clayton for appellee.

ST. LOUIS IRON MOUNTAIN AND SOUTHERN RAILWAY v. SOUTHERN EXPRESS CO. (Docket No. 315.) Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Tennessee. July 13, 1886 Dismissed pursuant to the 28th Rule. Mr. R. J. Morgan for appellant. Mr. Geo. Gillham for appellee.

DEMPSEY V. MANISTEE RIVER IMPROVEMENT Co. (Docket No. 312.) Error to the Supreme Court of Michigan. July 22, 1886: Dismissed pursuant to the 28th Rule. Mr. M. J. Smiley for plaintiffs in error. Mr. Benton Hanchett for defendant in error.

ALLEN. HICKLING. (Docket No. 726.) Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois. August 6, 1886: Dismissed pursuant to the 28th Rule. Mr. L. H. Bisbee, Mr. John P. Ahrens, and Mr. Henry Decker for plaintiff in error. Mr. Lyman Trumbull for defendant in error.

THE STEAM TUG E. LUCKENBACK v. BEARD. (Docket No. 355.) Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of New York. September 15, 1886: Dismissed pursuant to the 25th Rule. Mr. William Allen Butler, Mr. T» E. Stillman, and Mr. T. H. Hubbard for appellants. Mr. W. W. Goodrich for appellees.

KEHLOR MILLING COMPANY v. JOHN T. NOYE MANUFACTURING COMPANY. (Docket No. 407.) Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Illinois. October 4, 1886: Dismissed pursuant to the 28th Rule. Mr. G. M. Stewart for plaintiff in error. Mr. Azel F. Hatch for defendant in

error.

CURRY v. MCCAULEY. (Docket No. 301.) Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Pennsylvania. October 8, 1886: Dismissed pursuant to the 28th Rule. Mr. Geo. Shiras, Jr., tor appellant. Mr. A. H. Clarke for appellees.

NEW YORK BELTING AND PACKING COMPANY v. SIBLEY. (Docket No. 109.) Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts. October 9, 1886: Dismissed pursuant to the 28th Rule. Mr. Thomas H. Talbot for appellants. Mr. Frederick P. Fish for appellee.

The following is a summary statement of the business of the Supreme Court of the United States for the October Term, 1886, which closed on May 27.

Number of cases on the docket at the close of the October Term, 1885, not disposed of, 900; number of cases docketed during October Term, 1886, 496; total, 1,396. Number of cases disposed of at the term just closed, 451; number of cases remaining undisposed of, 945. Number of cases continued under advisement from October Term, 1885, 11; argued orally, 213; submitted, 119; continued, 29; passed, 7.

Number of cases affirmed, 205; reversed, 95; dismissed, 47; cases in which questions were answered, 5; docketed and dismissed, 15; settled and dismissed by the parties, 84; total, 451.

III.

ASSIGNMENTS TO CIRCUITS FOR 1887.

MR. JUSTICE GRAY: 1st Circuit, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine.

MR. JUSTICE BLATCHFORD: 2d Circuit, Vermont, Connecticut, and New York.

MR. JUSTICE BRADLEY: 3d Circuit, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE: 4th Circuit, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.

MR. JUSTICE HARLAN: 5th Circuit, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas.1

MR. JUSTICE MATTHEWS: 6th Circuit, Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, and Tennessee.

MR. JUSTICE HARLAN: 7th Circuit, Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin.

MR. JUSTICE MILLER: 8th Circuit, Nebraska, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, and Arkansas.

MR. JUSTICE FIELD: 9th Circuit, California, Oregon, and Nevada.

1 May 27, 1887, THE CHIEF JUSTICE announced an order assigning MR. JUSTICE HARLAN to the 5th circuit, made vacant by the death of Mr. JusTICE WOODS, in addition to his assignment to the 7th circuit, to which he was already assigned.