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Title: Handy manual of useful information and world's atlas, for mechanics, merchants, editors, lawyers ... and all classes of workers in every department of human effort; also a compilation of facts for ready reference on 2,000 subjects, being an epitome of matters historical, statistical, biographical, political, geographical, and of general interest. A universal hand-book for ready reference
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Conklin, George W., comp
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: Chicago, Laird & Lee
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ches, reaching 50inches in the highlands, and falling to 40 inches at the south.Highlands and seashore healthy. Ague and malarial fevers inthe lowlands. Principal Cities.—Newark, Perth, Amboy,Great Egg Harbor, Tuckerton, Bridgeton and Lumberton areports of entry. Newark pop. 136,508, Jersey City 120,722, Trenton(capital) 29,910, Paterson 51,031, Elizabeth 28,229, Hoboken 30,999,Camden 41,659. Chief Industries.—Manufacture of fabrics,jewelry, clay wares and brick, flour, crystals, fishing, oyster fish-ing, gardening, agriculture, marl and iron ore digging, etc. Salaries of State Officers. Governor $5,000, Secretary of State $6,000, Treasurer $4,000,Comptroller $4,000, Attorney General $7,000, Superintendent ofPublic Instruction $3,000, Adjutant General $1,200, Librarian1,500, Chief Justice 7,500, Eight Associate Justices $7,000, Chan-cellor $10,000, Senators and Representatives ^500 a year. DistrictJudge $3,500, Superintendent of Life Saving Service $1,800^Thirty-nine Keepers $700.
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4i6 NEW MEXICO. Name supposed to be of Aztec god. Settled earlier than anyfttlier part U. S. Permanent settlement, 1596. Santa Fe, thenan Indian town, chosen as a seat of Spanish government. Thenatives were enslaved and forced to work in the fields and mines.Organized as Territory, 1850. Santa Fe captured by Confed-erates, 1862, but soon abandoned. Number counties, 13. Allelections, Tuesday after first Monday in Nov. Number senators12, representatives 24, sessions of legislature biennial, in evennumbered years, meeting first Monday in Jan., hold 60 days.Terms of senators and representatives, 2 years. Voters 34,076,native white 26,423, foreign white 4,558, colored, 3,095. Schoolage, 7-18 years. Legal interest rate, 6 per cent., by contract 12percent. Miles railroad, 1878 to 1885, 1,191. Population, 1880, 119,565. ^ Male 64,496, native 111,514, white108,721, Indians 9,772. Estimated increase, 1885, 21 per cent.Average length N. and S., 368 miles, width 335 m.iles. Area 122,-000 sq. mile

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