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NEW BRUNSWICK. 



NEW JERUSALEM CHURCH. 



ing places. The vote for Governor was : Re- 

 publican, 6,493 ; Democratic, 5,869 ; majority, 

 594. For Survey or -General the vote was: 

 Republican, 6,945 ; Democratic, 5,429 ; major- 

 ity, 1,516. For Congressman, the Republicans 

 cast 6,700 votes and the Democrats 5,670 ; ma- 

 jority, 1,030. The Legislature has 14 Repub- 

 licans and 6 Democrats in the Senate, and 32 

 Republicans and 8 Democrats in the House. 



NEW BRUNSWICK. Government. The Lieuten- 

 ant-Governor is Hon. Sir Leonard Tilley ; Presi- 

 dent of the Executive Council, Hon. Thomas F. 

 Gillespie ; Attorney-General, Hon. A. G. Blair; 

 Provincial Secretary, Hon. David McLellan ; 

 Chief Commissioner, Board of Works, Hon. P. 

 G. Ryan; Surveyor-General, Hon. James Mitch- 

 ell ; Solicitor-General, Hon. R. J. Ritchie ; 

 members without office, Hon. A. Harrison 

 and Hon. Gaius S. Turner. 



The total exports from New Brunswick for 

 the fiscal year ending June 30, 1885, amounted 

 to $6,489,293. Of this amount, exports to the 

 value of $3,268,292 went to the United States, 

 and $2,644,681, including $4,000 bullion, to 

 Great Britain. The principal article of export 

 is lumber, of which Great Britain takes the 

 greater part; this year to the value of $2,396,- 

 471. Fish ranks next among the exports, the 

 United States being the best customer, this 

 year to the extent of $883,573 out of a total of 

 $1,111,498. The exports of the province com- 

 pare unfavorably with those of the three pre- 

 vious years. 



Polities. The old question of abolishing the 

 Legislative Council was revived once more in 

 the Legislative Assembly at the session of 1886. 

 A bill with that object was passed by the lower 

 house, being supported by both parties, but 

 was thrown out by the Legislative Council, 

 which in turn suggested the reduction of the 

 Executive Council to six members, and a re- 

 duction in the membership of both houses of 

 the Legislature. This proportion was rejected 

 by the Assembly. The lower house also re- 

 jected bills to hold only biennial sessions, and 

 to amend the franchise by adopting manhood 

 suffrage in provincial elections. At the close 

 of the session the Legislature was dissolved. 

 The elections, held in April, resulted in sus- 

 taining the Government of Mr. Blair (Liberal), 

 who had been in power three years. 



NEW JERUSALEM CHURCH. The following 

 associations made reports to the General Con- 

 vention of this Church in the United States: 

 Canada Association, 5 societies; Illinois Asso- 

 ciation, 11 societies, 496 members; Maine As- 

 sociation, 5 societies, 308 members ; Maryland 

 Association, 4 societies, 239 members ; Massa- 

 chusetts Association, 21 societies, 1,571 mem- 

 bers; Michigan Association, 5 societies, 185 

 members ; Minnesota Association, 2 societies, 

 126 members; New York Association, 13 so- 

 cieties, 751 members ; Ohio Association, 12 so- 

 cieties, 617 members ; General Church of Penn- 

 sylvania, 14 societies, 497 members ; and soci- 

 eties at San Francisco, Cal. (116 members); 



and the churches in Savannah, Ga., and Tope- 

 ka, Kansas. 



General Convention of the United States. The six- 

 ty-sixth General Convention of the New Jeru- 

 salem Church in the United States met in New 

 York, May 30. One hundred and seventeen 

 ministers and delegates were in attendance. 

 The Rev. Chauncey Giles presided, and deliv- 

 ered an address on " The Use of the General 

 Body of the Church, and the True Method of 

 performing it." The Treasurer of the General 

 Convention reported the total amount of the 

 various funds belonging to it in his hands to 

 be $17,267. The Board of Publication re- 

 turned the net assets of the Publishing-House 

 at $6,803, and its income for the year at $2,919, 

 showing a profit of $567. The board had pur- 

 chased from other publishers remainders of 

 the editions of the " Compendium," Parsons's 

 " Outlines of the Religion and Philosophy of 

 Swedenborg," and " The Infinite and Finite " ; 

 had published cheap editions of the work 

 "Among the Corn," Part I, and of " Nature of 

 Spirit, and of Man as a Spiritual Being," by 

 Chauncey Giles; besides church books and man- 

 uals; and was about to publish a translation of 

 Swedenborg's posthumous work, "De Anima." 

 The corporation of the New Church Theologi- 

 cal School returned total assets of $27,020, and 

 endowment funds amounting to $7,020. The 

 school had been attended by ten students. The 

 amounts of certain special funds were returned 

 as follow: New Church Building fund, $1,175 ; 

 Rice legacy, $7,889 ; Rotch legacy, $32,759 ; 

 Swedenborg Memorial fund, $1,077; lunge- 

 rich fund, $34,562. The scheme of distribut- 

 ing Swedenborg's works, which the last fund is 

 intended to aid, was going on in an encour- 

 aging way. Thirty-six hundred and seventy- 

 nine copies of different works had been dis- 

 tributed during the year, making a total from 

 the beginning of 78,497 copies. The Board 

 of Home and Foreign Missions had received 

 $1,837, of which $560 had been contributed 

 for the Italian mission. It reported concern- 

 ing missionary work in Tennessee, at Savannah, 

 Ga., in Canada, and Florida, and in the foreign 

 stations of Sweden (Stockholm and Gotten- 

 burg), Italy, and East Prussia. In Italy, Sig. 

 Scocia was translating the works of Sweden- 

 borg into the Italian language. The literature 

 of the New Church was also in course of publi- 

 cation and circulation in Sweden, Germany, and 

 S witzerland. Th e General Convention approved 

 plans for making central stations of missionary 

 work at Chattanooga, for Middle and East Ten- 

 nessee and Northern Georgia; at Savannah, for 

 the rest of Georgia and South Carolina; and 

 at Galveston, for Texas. The property of the 

 Southern Missionary Society, offered by it, was 

 accepted by the convention, for the promotion 

 of the same end, in missionary work, which 

 that society had in view. The formation of 

 local auxiliary missionary societies was recom- 

 mended. An amendment of the constitutional 

 provision respecting the office of General Pas 



