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er this sura, and the defaulter arrested and sub- 

 sequently tried and sentenced to the State- 

 prison for three years. 



The new Insane Asylum at Morristown will 

 be completed in the spring of 1876, and its 

 total cost will be about $2,000,000. It will ac- 

 commodate 800 patients. The deaf, dumb, 

 blind, and feeble-minded of the State are still 

 supported in the institutions of other States. 

 During the year $25,179.22 was paid for the 

 support of the deaf and dumb, $13,643.89 for 

 the blind, and $8,925.41 for the feeble-minded. 

 There was in the State-prison during the year 

 an average of 656 convicts. The contract for 

 the employment of all prisoners with certain 

 shoe-manufacturers has been relinquished, and 

 a new contract entered into with some Phila- 

 delphia parties. The income from the State- 

 prison during the year was $81,596.30, cost of 

 subsistence $57,941.69, leaving $23,654.61 as 

 the net profits. In this calculation are not in- 

 cluded salaries and other expenses paid out of 

 the State Treasury amounting to $66,215.40. 

 The Home for Soldiers' Children is to be closed 

 in April, 1876, the inmates being all provided 

 for. There were 164 in the Home during the 

 year. The Industrial School for Girls had 

 only 20 inmates in October. 



A suit was brought in the Court of Chancery, 

 at Trenton, in December, by the Attorney-Gen- 

 eral, to restrain the Delaware & Bound Brook 

 Railroad Company from constructing a bridge 

 across the Delaware River at Yardleyville. This 

 company was building the bridge in conjunc- 

 tion with the North Pennsylvania Railroad 

 Company, the two corporations having con- 

 structed their lines of road to the river on 

 either side, and expended a large sum for the 

 bridge. It was claimed on the part of the prose- 

 cution that no authority had been given to con- 

 struct the bridge, and that it would obstruct 

 navigation. On the other side it was contend- 

 ed that the companies were authorized to build 

 their roads to the boundary of their respective 

 States, and that this was in the middle of the 

 river, and that at this point the stream was 

 not navigable. A preliminary injunction was 

 denied, and the question decided in favor of 

 the railroad company. 



A case has been decided by the Court of 

 Errors and Appeals, which had been pending 

 in the courts of the State six years, and which 

 originated in a dispute about twenty -five cents' 

 worth of turnip-seed. The seed when sold was 

 represented to be a variety to produce early 

 turnips, and, as it proved, produced only late 

 turnips of a poor quality. The purchaser 

 brought suit for damages before a justice of 

 the peace, in Monmouth County, and recovered 

 $99, although the defendants proved that they 

 had believed the seed to be as represented, and 

 intended no fraud. The case was carried suc- 

 cessfully to the Court of Common Pleas, the 

 Supreme Court, and the Court of Errors and 

 Appeals, the original decision as to the liability 

 of the vender being confirmed at every stage 



of the proceedings. The case is regarded as 

 a leading one on the principle involved. 



NEW JERUSALEM CHURCH, THE. The 

 fifty-fifth annual meeting of the General Con- 

 ference of the Church of the New Jerusalem 

 was held in the city of New York, beginning 

 June 4th. Forty-two ministers and one hun- 

 dred and seventy-six lay-delegates were pres- 

 ent. The Rev. Chauncey Giles was chosen 

 President. A memorial was submitted by the 

 American Conference of New Church Missions, 

 in respect to the methods of disseminating the 

 doctrines of the Church, and giving greater 

 unity and strength to its work. It classified 

 the field of work into churches and associa- 

 tions which are self-sustaining, and able to 

 help others ; those which are simply self-sus- 

 taining, and not able to keep others; those 

 which are not self -sustaining, and need help ; 

 circles of New Churchmen not formed into 

 societies; isolated New Churchmen; "Old- 

 Church " ministers who are known to be read- 

 ing the new doctrines more or less and preach- 

 ing them; "Old-Church" members who are 

 reading and receiving the doctrines more or 

 less ; places where the doctrines are not known ; 

 seminaries, academies, and colleges; and the 

 secular press. It made the following recom- 

 mendations, which were adopted by the Con- 

 ference: that the several associations sustain 

 their superintendent or presiding minister in 

 the general work of the Church ; that if they 

 are unable to support a superintendent, the ad- 

 joining associations aid them in supporting him ; 

 that general ministerial work in each district 

 be placed in charge of its superintendent, and 

 the ministers residing in the district ; and that 

 the superintendents constitute a general Board 

 of Managers for raising and disbursing funds 

 for the work in their several districts. 



The report of the German Missionary Union 

 stated that there were seventeen German so- 

 cieties and active circles of readers, number- 

 ing 1,200 adults, in the United States and 

 Canada, of which ten societies were able to 

 support a pastor. They had thirteen Sunday- 

 schools, with 641 scholars, and supported a 

 German Sunday-school paper. A new trans- 

 lation of the Bible into German had been un- 

 dertaken by Dr. Leonhard Tafel, of New York, 

 and was nearly completed. 



A fund was established in 1872 by Mr. L. C. 

 Jungerlich, of Philadelphia, for supplying gra- 

 tuitously copies of Swedenborg's "True Chris- 

 tian Religion " to Protestant clergymen and 

 students of theology in the United States and 

 Canada. The trustees of the fund, to whom 

 the distribution of the work was intrusted, 

 had, in two and a half years, supplied be- 

 tween seven end eight thousand copies to ~bona- 

 fide applicants. In 1873, the American New 

 Church Tract and Publication Society offered 

 to supply to clergymen and students Emanuel 

 Swedenborg's "Heaven and Hell," and had dis- 

 tributed five thousand copies. Mr. Jungerlich 

 had also made provision for distributing Swe- 



