NEW JERSEY. 



NEW JERUSALEM CHURCH. 557 



80, 838; 80 and under 90, 466; 90 and under 

 100, 83 ; over 100, 6. 



The grants of lands under tide- water, exe- 

 cuted by the Riparian Commissioners during 

 the year up to December 1, 1877, amounted to 

 to $43,257.86 ; and the principal sums of the 

 leases of the same lands at a yearly rental of 

 7 per cent., to $43,529 ; making together $86,- 

 786.86. All of these grants and leases have 

 been executed in favor of riparian owners at 

 the respective localities. A disposition to avail 

 themselves of the State's title seems to be in- 

 creasing among them, as they have by law the 

 primary right of purchase or lease. The whole 

 amount of these grants made by both the Leg- 

 islature and the Commissioners since April 

 16, 1864, is $1,268,754.29; and of the leases, 

 in principal sums, $817,839.77; making a to- 

 tal of $2,086,594.06. 



In accordance with the joint resolution passed 

 by the Legislature on March 30, 1876, the State 

 Attorney-General filed a bill in the Supreme 

 Court of the United States against the State of 

 Delaware, to settle the question of the boun- 

 dary line between the two States on the River 

 Delaware. The case is in progress. 



The Geological Board has presented a final 

 report on the clay district of Middlesex County, 

 giving a full description of the rich deposits of 

 clay and other materials, for pottery and like 

 wares. It is estimated that New Jersey has 

 within its borders three-fourths of all the pot- 

 teries for making fine earthen-ware in the 

 United States, and the largest establishment for 

 manufacturing fire-bricks. 



By authority of an act passed by the Legis- 

 lature on March 29, 1872, the New Jersey His- 

 torical Society engaged in the work of compil- 

 ing a history of New Jersey as a colony and 

 as a State. With reference to the first part of 

 this compilation, the Society, in the year 1877, 

 has received from England 39 folio cases con- 

 taining copies of the correspondence passed be- 

 tween the home government and the province, 

 from 1703 to 1776; also copies of the minutes 

 of the council, both legislative and privy, and 

 of various miscellaneous documents previous 

 to 1776. Two of these cases have been left 

 with the State Librarian for examination. 



The extensive and costly improvements un- 

 dertaken by the Delaware, Lackawanna & 

 Western Railway Company, on its track be- 

 tween Newark and Hoboken, namely, the tun- 

 nel through Bergen Hill, the iron bridge on the 

 Hackensack Marsh, and the ship-canal at Ho- 

 boken, to facilitate and increase the shipping 

 of coal, after an uninterrupted work of above 

 three years, have been in 1877 almost entirely 

 completed. The total length of the tunnel's 

 bore, not including approaches, is 4,280 feet, 

 fully four-fifths of it being arched with brick, 

 to avoid the possibility of accident from the 

 falling of rock. There are in it seven shafts, 

 and four of these measure the full width of 

 the tunnel. The bridge across the Hackensack 

 is 600 feet long, its length of draw 200 feet. 



The three piers supporting it have foundations 

 of masonry 35, 32, and 25 feet under water, 

 respectively. The ship-canal at Uoboken is 

 8,000 feet in length, 100 feet in width, and of 

 sufficient capacity and depth to admit steam- 

 ships directly from the river to extensive 

 wharves and coal-chutes alongside. The facili- 

 ties for shipping coal were sufficient heretofore 

 for the delivery of 2,000 cars, or 10,000 tons, 

 per day. The enlargement caused by the said 

 canal, and the necessary works connected with 

 it, will increase that capacity to nearly 13,000 

 tons. The aggregate sums expended for these 

 improvements by the Delaware, Lackawanna 

 & Western Railway Company are reckoned at 

 about $3,000,000. 



An earthquake took place in New Jersey on 

 the 10th of September, 1877, within two min- 

 utes of nine o'clock in the forenoon. The shock 

 was felt, with a little difference in the degree 

 of its violence, in Burlington nnd a portion of 

 Mercer, Ocean, and Monmonth Counties. 



On January 3, 1877, the centennial anniver- 

 sary of the capture of Princeton by General 

 Washington, was celebrated at Princeton by a 

 mock fight, the Newark and Pennsylvania mi- 

 litia taking part in it. 



The memorable railroad strike, so called, and 

 the riots consequent thereon, which injuriously 

 affected so many States in July, 1877, produced 

 no serious disturbance or other evil effects in 

 New Jersey. This was owing to the precau- 

 tionary measures employed by Governor Bedle, 

 who ordered the whole of the military force 

 of the State to be put under arms, and timely 

 distributed for actual service at probable or 

 possible points of danger. 



The State military force was thus employed 

 from July 22d to August 9th, when the last do* 

 tachment was discharged. 



The whole amount paid for that service from 

 the Treasury was about $55,000. 



The State militia, under the name of Nation- 

 al Guard, has been reduced, in accordance with 

 the act passed for that purpose on March 9, 

 1877. As appears from the official inspection 

 made of it in October, it now consists of 198 

 officers and 2,865 enlisted men ; the whole be- 

 ing organized into 47 companies, and these 

 assigned to seven regiments, composing two 

 brigades and one division. The two cavalry 

 companies heretofore existing have been dis- 

 banded. The company of artillery remains. 

 The minimum of each company is now fixed 

 at 50 enlisted men, instead of 40, as it was 

 before. 



NEW JERUSALEM CHURCH. The Gen- 

 eral Convention of the New Church was held 

 at Cincinnati, Ohio, beginning June 8th. The 

 president, in his annual report, called attention 

 to the general diffusion of members of tho 

 Church throughout the country, there being 

 comparatively few localities where a represent- 

 ative of the Church could not be found. Tho 

 operations of the American Swdenborfr Pub- 

 lication Society, and of the American Tract and 



