New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-06-15
NEw-JERsEY STATE TOPICS.
nor ,xcppAsE INTHE POPULATION.

r,v crxsus-scHooL FUND-wATEH eoi.
pLY-PoLI1ICs.
, =, CORRESPONDENT THE TRIBUSE.l
rprxroS. June 14s--Returns from INC 81
..nsus have begun to come In 10 the COUNTY 1be
ehe figures show a decided increase Id Iov AZ
eepsus "a tasenDy the tax assessors III No" -s,ro
80, genera,ly intelligent body OF men, Po''0'
seas, ,,,,,, With the people and their ways anu
ssa,r,ao Familiarity which Is sometimes heon'ehie
tho.e who would deceive. The plan OF enumera'ion "
tbe simples; and Its only fault Is the me'h0u u
tion two cents per name. which may arouse sum
ION MS to accuracy. The nun'ber returheu "ii 80
80, ba smaller than the facts warrant Ihere mas oe
a large amount of building In nearly every Guy %
demand for houses has been unusually s'caaS' 49,. ,no
mia has poured into Camden aud New-lorK 'n'o '-0
counties OF Hudson Essex, .Passac and bergen
Tbe state school Fund has received more a'tenuoh
than usual OF late, owing TO some unusuaiy iaiso
mens by the commissioners The fund amounts 10 uieo
NY, -, ,,iuiops derived from the sale and lease
~ ,rarian lands and Is protected by the cohsutu""
from diversion to any purpose except the supper. Vi
public schools for which the increase alone may W
Heretofore the only charge upon IL was an annu'i p
propration OF 100000 for the Schools u's'r'uou "
the State Board of Education Last winter cn'
amounting TO nearly 100000 were adaca anu 'no N"
not likely TO increase for the preseht Inc orislha IL
fonton was TO pile up large the income OF "hcn
could he disposed OF to assist the schools IN poor
The readiness with which communities, amply aoio W
support their own schools, called upon the state or "
showed after time that the best policy 10 increase "
terest in education was not to DO onhu III 'no
charitable aid, aud the fund has lost favor.
IN MORTGAGES to the amount of million proven uhio
inmate and have been source OF difficulty ana az
the money is placed in Government pohus' o'"o
and the bonds of school districts
The water supply question is agitating Newark AGAIN
md Professor Cook the State Geoosst ieetreu
last week pcturing the condition OF the CITY he'h "
manner which the Newark people declare is not Wholly
iused by the facts. The death rate In Newark Is s
10 be "a per IO00 but it is also true that tue
tics are more carefully collected there thah III ano any
other city OF It's size, while the rate copueu o ~
basis of the census of 1880, whereas the popua'o ~
increased at least ten thousand since that tme'
over Newark is a manufacturing city, where the mori
ity is necessarily great The rate is-to the comfort VI
Newarkers-ower than in Jersey City or Paterson anu
not much greater than several places with oetocr ca
to sanitary situation 49,, o,o.
raee in maorityof cities Trenton has suereo
from surface drainage for years, Is moving Slow ,
Newark is spending thousands not millions anu e'en
Senator Mcpherson has taken TEST In tne .iu ih
trict Internal Revenue Coecorsp contest S erilnns
The democrats for time considered actual anu pellou
The suspicion that Congressman Alles f9ss
interested In retaining tine aSg oI weary Demo
crst who has until lately had hope tnat ,e ~ ,haf
might strike IN his neishborhood recently ns - me
fheeaders were no considering the consolidation OF .c
With and lid Districts as the Lest means y, cosder
complications. lnS Woulu NC Pof"-'N
able money to the Government A., ,,o, od,,orial
change the time Of starting the annual tnrtin1
excursion has been made. the pleasure s1S
on Monday of next week instead OF lnesa an Old
Point Comfort and Virginia NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ~"
The half-hoday agitation has little force N ms nte:
The mill workers have had altogether 100 nany ~ S
of late few given work after 0eiocK P Where
any day The duness in trade continues eyE.5 Una
and the summer will be hard one Tor many. Inc Ou
Ing trade however generally an exception naa himself
II is said that Judge Joel Parker recently hnou n,,
IS for hardness in reaching court In 0o''
Hhe money going TO the Mt. Holly CDiluien 3 hoiA''