New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-12-17
NLEW-JERSEY ITEMS.

Cor mos Schools is HOBOKES-REPORT OF THE
SUPE nIsIESDExT.-Mr. Edmund Charles, Superin
tend srt of Schools for the City Of HObokeD, has made
his Report of the condition of the Public Schools Of
ibs city to the State Superintendent. His report
sbC rvs that by the taken by the School Trus
:es y in April last there COG boys aud 625 girls be-
~ feen five and eighteen years OF age in Hoo0ken W
se there now stend school Sc boss and girls 10 the
snaIy department, 100 girls in the girls gre nmat
choo and l52 boys out Of 246 on the register attend
OF an average the boys grammar school
fetal number Of children between and - years o sge Hl
humber attending pubic schools on an average daily 40
a. ,.,.,e ,,hOo. N, No, At .cbool ........... s55
The school rooms can accom- odate so more pupils,
and efforts are making TO inducs parents 10 send their
children 10 school, No charge 10 made for tuition or
. books
There is no school house belonging 70 the city. The
sohOol- building in is sitused ID Garden street near
Third street, which is a convenient location. 1t LIZ
owned by the HOboEen Land Improvement Company.
IL was bnt in 1854 by that Company, and is commo-
dious and convenient Ii comprises boys grammar
school, girls gTammar-scbOo and primary Depart
ment II has lust beef considerably enlarged For
tbe support of the schOo the Trustees have received
SAL "a from the State School Fund being the amount
due from that source up 10 October, 1888 The ap.
preparation to the schools for the present year voted
by the citizens of HobOken at the annual election, is
so 500. A poll tax OF one dollar upon each white
male inhsbitsn twenty-One years of age and upward,
he also imposed by authority of city ordinance, but
as that tax has not yet been collected it is impossible
Supent. ndent expresses his conviction that the Com
mon Sci ools of HOboken are attaining popularity,
ard that the day is not far distant when they will com
pare favOrably with any schools in the State.
THE CONTEMPLATING CAsE.-Edward and Leonard
Devoe sresed charge passing money
before Recorder saturday mob0g
animation tive proved that they Undertook the
counterfeit IS bills on the Mercantile Bank Of Salem Mass
bat efficient evidence ia tbs opinion Of the Recorder
produced that they knew the money good
him holding them fer trial. aud they dismissed from
custody.
PuzE F1GHr.-A party Of bruisers from New York
preceded TO the foot Of Paw jersey City FRI
where brief bloody
they escaped before the police learned the fact
Found DEAD.-The body Of man named Martin
Cor DOR found about O'Clock yesterday morning yss
Morris and Essex Railroad bridge 10 Esst
N,uark Ar ioyesfiga held BY Coroner bethuei y
Crane Hudson County He incorporate man ana
uppO.ed he either struck the head or fell sgsins the
sbutmsnts Of the bridge Nothing definite was ELECTED
concerning ths cause
The surviving soldiers Of the war OF 1872, residing
10 Monmouth County will no meeting on the lsh inst TO
male send u the Washnttn Con
ven ton which the 9Th Of next The object
of this Convention obtain from Congress TO those
their heirs smiar - those granted
20 the soldiers 10 the Mexican Delegates have been ap'
fr,nC rent IA and other New Jersey