NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



to accept the club's proposition, and a perpetual 

 injunction will be issued against him. There 

 has practically been no defense by Mr. Welch in 

 these suits, and the injunction can not affect the 

 other cases brought by the club against persons 

 lishing that 1st of May on North pond. 



Forestry Association. The American For- 

 estry Association held a midsummer meeting in 

 the White mountains, Aug. 24-27. The asso- 

 ciation was joined by members of the Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science and mem- 

 bers of the Appalachian Mountain Club. They 

 rendezvoused at Plymouth, Aug. 24, whence 

 they went to the lumber camp near the village 

 of Lincoln and to that village, which has sprung 

 up since 1892, and now has a population of 400, 

 with car shops, mills, and other business. The 

 route then led through the. Francoriia Notch 

 and to Mount Washington and through the 

 Crawford Notch. The evenings were devoted to 

 sessions of the association. 



Memorials to New Hampshire Men. A 

 monument to Gen. John Sullivan was dedicated, 

 Sept. 27, at Durham. It is of Concord granite, 

 and is built on the site of the meeting house 

 under which was stored the gunpowder taken 

 from Fort William and Mary at Portsmouth, 

 the expedition against which fort was led by 

 him in 1774. The monument was built by the 

 State. Not far away is the family cemetery 

 where Sullivan was buried. 



On Dec. 20 the statues of Webster and Stark 

 were unveiled and presented to the Government 

 at Washington by the State of New Hampshire, 

 with appropriate ceremonies. 



Political. An election was held Nov. 6, to 

 choose a Governor, members of Congress, and a 

 Legislature. 



The People's party held its convention at 

 Manchester, June 14, and adopted resolutions 

 favoring annual State elections, reduction of 

 the hours of labor to eight, State control of the 

 liquor business, and a system of taxation bear- 

 ing equally upon corporations and firms; de- 

 claring that " interest-bearing bonds, bills of 

 credit, or notes should never be issued by the 

 Government, but that, when need arises, the 

 emergency should be met by issue of legal- 

 tender, noninterest-bearing money " ; also de- 

 nouncing " the methods by which the State has 

 been swindled out of its interest in the Concord 

 Railroad " ; and approving the Omaha platform. 

 The resolutions also favored the immediate 

 adoption of the principle of initiative and refer- 

 endum. George D. Epps was nominated for 

 Governor. 



The Republican Convention met at Concord, 

 Sept. 5. The platform criticised the foreign, 

 fiscal, pension, civil-service, election, and tariff 

 policies of the Federal Administration : in State 

 affairs it pledged the party to reduction of State 

 expenses, and legislation tending " to equalize 

 the public burdens, protect wage workers from 

 unjust exactions by employers, property owners 

 from the assaults of socialism and anarchy, and 

 the community from the manifold evils that fol- 

 low the use of intoxicating drinks." Charles A. 

 Busiel was nominated for Governor. 



The State Democratic Convention was held 

 Sept. 12. The resolutions commended the 

 course of the Administration in every particu- 



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lar; denounced all attempts to make religious 

 tests qualifications for office ; denounced the 

 course of the Republican State administration- 

 "their outrageous proceedings in recasting the 

 senatorial districts of the State, and creating 

 cities out of villages for the purpose of im-i 

 ing their representation in the Legislature, and 

 their continued interference with the right of 

 local self-government" ; and said further: 



The last Republican Legislature deliberately re- 

 fused to make plain the provisions of the ballot law, 

 and we demand that it be amended so that it shall 

 be certain what constitutes a legal ballot in every 

 city and town of the State. 



We denounce the present prohibitory law. It has 

 totally failed to prevent or curtail the evils of intem- 

 perance. It lias been used by the Republican party 

 solely for the purpose of coercing the saloon vote, de- 

 luding the temperance vote, and enriching Repub- 

 lican officials. We demand its repeal, and the en- 

 actment of a law that will more effectually control 

 and limit the use and sale of intoxicating liquors. 



Henry O. Kent was made the candidate for 

 Governor. 



Daniel C. Knowles was the candidate of the 

 Prohibition party for Governor. 



The vote for Governor stood as follows: 

 Busiel, Republican, 46,491 ; Kent, Democrat, 

 33,959; Epps, Populist, 832 ; Knowles, Prohibi- 

 tion, 1,750. Republicans were elected in both 

 congressional districts. The Legislature stands 

 as follows: Senate Republicans 21, Democrats 

 3; House Republicans 262, Democrats 101. 



The question, ' 4 Is it expedient that a conven- 

 tion be called to revise the Constitution If " was 

 submitted to vote. The vote on it was very 

 light, and the majority was in the negative. 



NEW JERSEY, a Middle Atlantic State, one 

 of the original thirteen, ratified the Constitution 

 Dec. 18, 1787. Area, 7,815 square miles; popu- 

 lation in 1890, 1,444,933. Capital, Trenton. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers during the year: Governor, George T. 

 Werts, Democrat ; Secretary of State, Henry C. 

 Kelsey ; Treasurer, until April 2, George R. 

 Gray, after that time, George B. Swain ; Comp- 

 troller, until April 2, William C. Heppenheimer, 

 after that time, William S. Hancock ; Commis- 

 sioner of Banking and Insurance, George S. 

 Duryee ; Attorney-General, John P. Stockton ; 

 Adjutant General, William S. Stryker; Super- 

 intendent of Public Instruction, Addison B. 

 Poland; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, 

 Mercer Beasley ; Associate Justices, Bennett 

 Van Syckel, Jonathan Dixon, David A. Depue, 

 Alfred'Reed, William J. Magie, Charles G. Gar- 

 rison, Job H. Lippincott, and Leon Abbett, who 

 died Dec. 4; Chancellor, Alexander T. McGill ; 

 Vice-Chancellors, Abraham V. Van Fleet, John 

 T. Bird, Henry C. Pitney, and Robert S. Green. 

 Vice-Chancellor Van Fleet died Dec. 25. 



Finances. From the reports of the Comp- 

 troller and Treasurer the following statements 

 are gathered : The State fund receipts during 

 the year ending Oct. 31, 1894, were: From tax 

 on railroad and canal corporations, $1,096,- 

 582.97; from tax on miscellaneous corpora- 

 tions, $669.460.33; from collateral inheritance 

 tax, $190,277.64 ; from official fees, $101,271.05 : 

 from judicial fees, $21.006.39; from interest and 

 dividends, $18.870; from other sources, $51,- 

 25605; total net receipts, $2.148.725.03. Ihe 



