Industries of New Jersey. . —Mercer Beasley. Law Judge—William H. Morrow, 82. Lay Judges—Jehiel T. Kern, 83 ; James Somerville, 84. Prosecutor of the Pleas—Sylvester C. Smith, 86. Terms of Court—Fourth Tuesday in April, third Tuesday , and the first Tuesday after the fourth Tuesday inDecember. BlairstoTvn. Population, 500. PRESS (Biairstown), weekly. Estab. 1877. Jacob L. Bunnell,editor. Hackettstown. Population, 2502. GAZETTE (Hackettstown), weekly. Estab. 1856. Ziba-Ossmun, editor. HERALD (Hackettstown), weekly. Estab. 1871. A. , editor. Phillipshurg. Population, ?j\Za.


Industries of New Jersey. . —Mercer Beasley. Law Judge—William H. Morrow, 82. Lay Judges—Jehiel T. Kern, 83 ; James Somerville, 84. Prosecutor of the Pleas—Sylvester C. Smith, 86. Terms of Court—Fourth Tuesday in April, third Tuesday , and the first Tuesday after the fourth Tuesday inDecember. BlairstoTvn. Population, 500. PRESS (Biairstown), weekly. Estab. 1877. Jacob L. Bunnell,editor. Hackettstown. Population, 2502. GAZETTE (Hackettstown), weekly. Estab. 1856. Ziba-Ossmun, editor. HERALD (Hackettstown), weekly. Estab. 1871. A. , editor. Phillipshurg. Population, ?j\Za. DEMOCRAT (Phillipsburg), weekly. Estab. 1868. Charles-F. Fitch, editor. Washington. Population, 2142. REVIEW (Washington), weekly. Estab. 1877. John , editor. STAR (Washington), weekly. Estab. 1868. Richard Van-horn, editor. j^- FOR INFORMATION CONNECTED WITH THE NEWSPAPERS OF NEW JERSEY AND THE EDI-TORIAL ASSOCIATION OF THE STATE, WE REFER WITH PLEASURE TO CHAS. BECHTEL, SECRETARY,TRENTON. CITY OF NEWARK. THE METROPOLIS OF THE STATE, RANKING FIFTEENTH IN POPULATION IN THE UNITED STATES AND ELEVENTH IN THE PRODUCTION OF ITS MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES A RAPIDLY GROWING COMMERCIAL AND BUSINESS CENTRE. It is scarcely probable that the little band of adventurers who were the first settlers of Newark, intheir mostsanguine thoughts, ever contemplated that their efforts at that time would resultin a city of the pro-portions of Newark of to-day. Other localities in the New Netherlands (New Jersey) were more pro-pitiously situated for rapid growth and commercial importance than Newark and had also the influence andwealth of the seat of government, that brought together the wealthiest of the early settlers. Within thescope of this volume the subject is too full of interest to go into minute details of the early history ofNewark, interesting as it may be, and the writer of this sketch has been limited to space that seems as but anatom. We are compiling for the present and f


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