Chapter II: Part 2

At our annual church meeting, the reports showed that eighteen persons had been received on profession of faith during the year 1880, and $256 raised for church purposes. The Sunday-school reported 220 names on the roll, of whom 175 were present at one time, and the average attendance for the year was 115. Ten of the scholars united with the church, and the school has raised about $60 in weekly contributions. The pastor and wife gave away 8,500 religious and Sunday-school papers during the year. One of the papers has a story. It was given to a little girl in our infant class, who took it home and carefully preserved it. Her father, not a Christian man, was soon after arrested and confined in jail for several months for stealing. The little girl carried him her Sunday-school papers to read. One of these told the story of Joseph and the baker in the Egyptian prison, and suggested that every prisoner, and every sinner, had a divine intercessor at the throne, Jesus Christ, the Saviour, who would not forget his friends in trouble, as the baker did. So he began to pray, and when released from jail soon after, was a converted man.

We have received a great many papers from Northern Sunday-schools and other friends, and shall be glad to receive many more. Much good may be done by this means, as the above incident illustrates. From the incessant storms, floods and cold of this winter, the people need more help than ever by way of clothing for the destitute, and all other aids. All kinds of business have suffered, and the high prices of fuel and other necessaries have caused many to be perplexed as to the wherewithal of eating and putting on. Many of the country churches have hardly been able to keep up services at all, owing to storms and floods.

I have collected over 1,000 volumes for my “Lewis Public Library,” and it is doing good work. I expect soon to issue a little missionary paper. Our Lewis High School is increasing in numbers.

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ALABAMA.

Accessions to the Church.

REV. G. W. ANDREWS, TALLADEGA.

Twenty-three connected themselves with our College Church yesterday March 6th; twenty-two of them by confession, and one by letter: fruits of a revival scarcely yet ended. All but two of them are children or young people; twenty-one are members of the Sabbath-school and of the College. Twelve are children of church members, now a long time with us. Two are wives for whom faithful and godly husbands had hoped and prayed, lo! these many years; there had been the secret hope but never before the open confession. Two were baptized by immersion, the rest followed the better way, choosing less of the outward and formal, and more of the inward and spiritual. Of the thirty girls boarding at Foster Hall, all are Christians, as are the forty boys, with two or three exceptions. Very few of those who come under our Christian influences so far as to be members of our family and Sabbath-school, fail to indulge a hope in Christ.

We had meetings every night for three weeks, Pres. DeForest preaching with great tenderness and power, while all the teachers and workers did faithfully what they could. So far from interfering with regular school duties, these meetings quickened to highest endeavor in study, and led to the most careful and conscientious use of time. Never before have our pupils been so conscientious and so well-behaved. Among the thirty girls at the boarding hall there has been but a single case of discipline since the present school year has begun, and that grew out of a voluntary confession, a sign of a very tender conscience.

All the meetings have been unusually quiet; not a case of noisy demonstration, no great “sights,” no “dreams,” but a thoughtful surrender to Christ, very much, I think, as in the revival meetings I have been accustomed to all my life. In them God has honored preaching, which has been so plain, practical and tender that few could resist it. There were not many hard hearts or dry eyes when the sermon on the “Prodigal Son” was ended and the invitation given to all prodigals to return to an injured Father’s house.

Through all these meetings unusual honor was put upon the Spirit, and on prayer, and there was more than the usual amount of preaching to the church, and with excellent results. God has done great things for us, whereof we are glad.

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MISSISSIPPI.

Burning of Building at Tougaloo.

REV. A. HATCH.

Sunday, Jan. 23d, at half-past seven o’clock, the students of the University assembled as usual in the chapel for the evening worship. The pleasant afternoon had given place to a chilly night. In a warm but not overheated room all were attentive to the opening exercises. In the midst of the second hymn, which all had arisen to sing, one or two young men near the door were seen to pass out quickly from the room. Several others followed at their heels, when, immediately, as by a common instinct, both divisions of the assembly turned and pressed down the aisles toward the two front doors. Not a word of alarm was spoken by an individual and the order, “back!” “back!” which was given from the rostrum, checked for a minute this sudden movement, and some at the doors hesitated whether to pass out or to return. A moment more when a quantity of water fell from the ceiling through the thimble of the stove pipe, simultaneously with the cry of “fire” without, all in the room became aware of the real cause of alarm. The young men who first passed out ran to the hall above, and, with what water was found in three or four rooms which they burst into, attempted to put out the fire. It was found to have broken out, however, above them, beneath the roof and very close also to the open bell-tower. This tower, with the long, straight hall, which, at one end, opened into it, and at the other had an outside stair door—the only entrance—provided at the start a powerful, furnace-like draught to the flames, which had they not been out of reach, could have been with difficulty brought under control.

Within one hour our chapel was entirely consumed. During this time the young men managed to save a trunk, in some cases, a handful of clothes, a few books, or whatever else they could snatch out of their rooms the quickest. A number lost everything except what they were wearing at the time. In several instances what was thrown out of windows and carried to a safe distance from the burning building was stolen by enterprising neighbors.

No sooner was the chapel well in flames than the attention of everybody was centered in the effort to save adjacent buildings, and especially the mansion, the most valuable of all. This and the chapel stood broadside toward each other, 37 yards apart. We had, however, the advantage of a flat iron roof easily accessible to work upon. To keep the northern side of the building thoroughly wet with water thrown from the roof, from the ground, and from the second-story veranda, was the work of a long half hour, each moment of which we expected to see the building take fire. The working force of our institution was put to its utmost strain for the whole of this time. This and all the other buildings were saved.

The conduct of our students was truly admirable. Each young man worked with a will, wherever he was placed, or at whatever needed to be done at the moment, whether it was at the pumps or carrying water, guarding a roof, or taking out furniture and books. None worked harder than some of those who had rooms in the chapel building and were losing nearly all they had, forgetful even of the trunk or handful of clothing that lay somewhere scattered about in the yard—all that was left of their possessions. Many of the young women, also, showed much presence of mind and were of great service. One was found upon the roof of the mansion with a bucket of water.

We received much assistance, too, from friendly neighbors both white and colored. One old colored woman was the means of saving a great deal from the burning building, running in and out carrying away the books and loose furniture.

Previous to the fire every available room was occupied by our students, and many apartments which were barely comfortable for two had to accommodate three. At ten o’clock that Sunday night our main dormitory for young men was in ashes. Thirty were without a place to sleep. For that night fifteen were stowed away on the floor of one of the teachers’ rooms in the mansion, five were put similarly in one of the offices, and the rest managed to squeeze themselves into the ten beds at the “Barracks.”

It shows the earnest disposition of the class of students which are attracted to Tougaloo University that we were able the next morning, promptly at nine o’clock, to go on with the regular school work. The classes all recited as usual, though school books had been scattered upon the campus and our school room and two recitation rooms had been turned to ashes by the flames. The Monday writing-class, however, did not meet. Pens and desks were burnt.

The fire has indeed seemed to result in a moral blessing, softening the disposition of many, and teaching a lesson of unselfishness. It has served, we think, to attach our better class of students to the institution as perhaps never before.

Students have been arriving every week since the fire and we have sent none of them away. The very week following brought us half a dozen young men. In addition to this, about the first of March quite a number of young men as well as young women are expected to return to us from their winter schools.

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TENNESSEE.

Statistics of Teaching by Students now in Fisk University.

From reports carefully made out by students now in attendance on Fisk University, the following facts are ascertained:

Ninety have at some time been engaged in school teaching. Of these, sixty-two are members of the collegiate department and twenty-eight of the normal department. The time taught in all, including the past year, is 1,630 months, or reduced to school years of nine months each, 161 1-9 years.

It is found that during the year 1880, seventy-two have taught school, the sum of the months being 309. This reduced to school years of nine months each, gives 34⅓ years.

The sum total of salaries earned in 1880, is $9,129. From this must be subtracted for cost of board and travel, $3,236, leaving a net gain of $5,893.

The entire number of pupils taught during the year is 5,641, and the sum of average daily attendance is 3,717.

Of the seventy-two who taught these schools, sixty-seven did labor in Sunday-schools, forty-four as teachers, seven as superintendents and sixteen as both teachers and superintendents. The total attendance on these Sunday-schools was 3,963. Besides this, four did labor in preaching, twelve held prayer-meetings and one held Bible readings. The number of conversions reported is 151.

Thirty-two taught in Tennessee, twenty-two in Mississippi, eight in Texas, four in Alabama, four in Arkansas, two in Georgia, one in West Virginia, and one in Missouri.

Inferences drawn from these statistics:

1. Nearly all the students in Fisk University of sufficient age and advancement in scholarship, teach during their courses of study. It is found that eighty per cent. of the students in the collegiate department have taught. Those who have not taught are too young to take charge of a school. The per cent. of those in the Normal department who have taught, is less, because the advancement in scholarship is less, as is also the average age.

2. The average salary per month is $29.54. The average cost for board and travel, not calculating other expenses, is $10.47. This leaves the net gain per month of $19.07. This in reality is reduced somewhat by loss of time often incurred in securing a school, or in waiting for it to begin after it is secured.

3. It is seen that the students are making very praiseworthy efforts to gain an education, and that they earn annually a large sum of money to secure that end. Still, at a net gain of $19.07 a month, the student cannot entirely support himself. Parents should consider well this fact, not fully understood, as it would appear, by some of those able to assist their children. Those kind friends who have given to the Student Aid Fund of the University, will see that their benefactions are needed and well bestowed.

4. This condition of things, if the strain is not allowed to be too severe, has a compensating benefit to the student, who grows strong by contending with difficulties. He learns the value of education by its cost. He obtains that practical experience which students ordinarily have to acquire after graduation. He is also kept in sympathy with the people among whom his future labors are to lie.

5. These statistics show that, while in the midst of their own arduous labors as students, these young people are accomplishing a great amount of good in a field to which now, happily, the eyes of the nation are turned, the education of the colored people. During the last year, when, for reasons not necessary now to give, a less number of students than usual were engaged in teaching, they had under their training an army of between five and six thousand children, and performed the labor of more than the ordinary lifetime of a man; and, including former years, they have done the work of more than a hundred and sixty years.

6. But the whole good is not to be estimated in years. The great mass of the teachers among the colored people, as among the white, teach with little if any more preparation than what is gained in the common schools. The coming into a community of one who has enjoyed superior advantages, introduces a better idea to which others will seek to attain. One of the most threatening obstacles in the way of colored education has been the great lack of competent colored teachers. The paying of incompetent teachers is almost, if not entirely, a waste of the public money. Viewing from this standpoint, the long and expensive journeys necessarily taken by the students of Fisk University to reach their schools, may not be a loss but a benefit, by scattering further the good influence of the University. In a region where one good teacher is sent, ten schools will be made better.

7. In addition to the devotional exercises held in their schools by the greater majority of the students, much other religious work is done. During the last year six preached, twelve held prayer-meetings and one Bible readings, while ninety-six per cent. of all are now engaged in Sunday-school labor. A more accurate knowledge of the Scriptures and better idea of Christian living must be the result of these labors.

8. From a list of institutions of learning where some of those, now students in Fisk University, studied before coming to it, many of them of high standing and scattered over the land, it is seen that this University cannot claim these good results entirely as its own. It shows also that the University, situated as it is, midway between the gulf and the lakes, is becoming a great central school of learning.

9. No mention is made in these statistics of any students not now in attendance on the University. The exact number of those in that class who are now teaching, is not known. It is known, however, that many such are devoting their entire time to teaching and some of them are already occupying positions of honor and importance as educators. According to estimates derived from reports given by former students not now in connection with the University, the number of pupils taught annually by them cannot be far from 10,000, making a total, with those before mentioned, of more than 15,000.—_Fisk Expositor._

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THE CHINESE.

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“CALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION.”

Auxiliary to the American Missionary Association.

PRESIDENT: Rev. J. K. McLean, D.D. VICE-PRESIDENTS: Rev. A. L. Stone, D.D., Thomas C. Wedderspoon, Esq., Rev. T. K. Noble, Hon. F. F. Low, Rev. I. E. Dwinell, D.D., Hon. Samuel Cross, Rev. S. H. Willey, D.D., Edward P. Flint, Esq., Rev. J. W. Hough, D.D., Jacob S. Taber, Esq.

DIRECTORS: Rev. George Mooar, D.D., Hon. E. D. Sawyer, Rev. E. P. Baker, James M. Haven, Esq., Rev. Joseph Rowell, Rev. John Kimball.

SECRETARY: Rev. W. C. Pond. TREASURER: E. Palache, Esq.

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II.—HOW SPEEDS THE WORK?

In the February number we gave a brief chapter of replies to this question. We make no apology for giving a second chapter now. It is just what our readers want to know, and what we equally wish to tell. And—

1. _The Finances._—It was at this point our former chapter closed. I announced that we were laying out work with reference to raising, over and above the regular appropriation from the parent society, $5,000 this year, in place of $1,610.70 received last year. I am glad and grateful to be able to announce that of that $5,000, fully $2,600 are already in sight, either in cash or in reliable pledges. It has been made easy to raise this, because all except the hundreds (_i. e._, $2,000) has come in a single donation from the grand English house of Balfour, Gunther & Co., in this city. That is to say, $500 from the senior partner in Liverpool, Alfred Balfour, Esq., $500 from his Liverpool associate, Hon. Stephen Williamson, M. P., and $1,000 from the house as a whole, among the partners in which is a worthy son of Chalmers’ great successor in the Free Church of Scotland—that prince among preachers, Dr. Guthrie. This great gift is proffered in the hope and expectation that the balance of $3,000 will not be found wanting, and, God helping us, it _shall not_ fail. There has been a painful sense, all along these years, that we were reaching only the outer edge of the great necessity touching, so to speak, only the bare fringe of our great opportunity, though we have done the utmost possible for us, with the means at our command. I can with a clear conscience claim that not a dime has gone forth needlessly; that every minutest item of expense has been carefully scrutinized; and, while it would be “too good to be true” if we said that _no_ mistakes had been made, that every experiment had proved a success, or that no fields have been entered from which we were compelled to retire before the harvest came to view, still, I speak the simple truth when I say that I know of nothing that to-day I would extract, or, so far as _our endeavor_ is concerned, essentially change. The constant prayer has been for the Master’s guidance; is it vain or presumptuous to believe that the prayer has been answered, his _promise_ fulfilled, his guidance vouchsafed? It would be meanly ungrateful if I did not thus testify for Him.

But the point is that now we must go deeper. We cannot rest on the outer edge of the great work. We must avail ourselves to the utmost of our opportunity, and for this we must have a marked increase of means. Toward this, now that God has inclined these English brethren to give so largely, I cannot believe that American Christians will fail to make fitting response. And inasmuch as I cannot see how more than $1,500 out of the $2,400 remaining to be raised, can possibly be gathered in California, I venture to press it on the thoughts and hearts of Eastern friends, to furnish over and above their regular contributions to the parent society, at least $900 for its California auxiliary. Let the gifts be sent directly to me at 940 Copp Street, or to our treasurer, Deacon E. Palache, 218 Front Street, San Francisco.

2. _Our Schools._—In the February MISSIONARY I spoke of 13 schools in operation, a larger number than ever before. The first of March will see the number 14, a school being prepared to start on that date, at Tucson, Arizona. It will be, by far, our most distant out-post, but gives promise of being a very useful mission. Several of the pupils who had become Christians in connection with our Santa Barbara mission, work failing at that place, moved on towards the front, and were scattered among the villages of Arizona; one, at least, even crossing the line into Mexico. We had letters from them occasionally, such as encouraged us to believe that, though in exile from what had been to them a very house of God, and often standing alone, as Christians, among a crowd of ungodly and profane Americans, they were still walking in the truth. At length, from one of them who had settled at Tucson, came, in behalf of himself and eight or nine others, an urgent request for a mission there. At the suggestion of some excellent Christian ladies of that city, to whom I appealed for advice, and who kindly pledged their personal co-operation, the school is to be placed in the care of Rev. Mr. Messenger, once a missionary of the Episcopal Board in Africa. He is pronounced to be “a _good_ Christian, who can sing well, can play on the organ, and will work earnestly” in the liberty of Christ and not in bondage to any ritual or liturgy. The pupils attest their zeal by pledging contributions sufficient to pay the rent of the school-room, $15 per month, and, perhaps, the incidental expenses likewise. Pray for the success of the first Chinese mission in Arizona.

Among the new schools reported in my last was that at Oroville. Its teacher is a daughter of Rev. Alvin Ostrom, pastor of the Congregational Church in that place, who himself was once a missionary in China, and has, in his enforced return to this country, been hungry these many years for an opportunity to preach Christ again to the Chinese. I hardly need say that with such a spirit in the work tokens of a coming harvest begin to appear. Two or three of the pupils began to venture in, on Sabbaths, to the half empty church, and to sit in unoccupied pews. Whereupon an irate Caucasian vents himself in the village newspaper in this wise:

“ED. MERCURY—‘What are our places of divine worship coming to?’ is a question with many. Are we to give way our places in the pews to the long-tailed Mongolians, or shall we be obliged to take sides with them? We answer, ‘No!’ Better send them and our pretended leaders away together to their proper places. We have no objection to his teaching them, but for the sake of common decency and the respect due to us, let it be a separate matter.

“CHURCH-GOER.”

The community soon began to be astir. The pillars of the church began to tremble. Subscriptions began to be withdrawn. Families were reported as “going over to the other church.” The croakers rose to the ascendant, and the outlook grew dark. But silence and patience and gentleness, and pastoral diligence, having God and the right on their side, are winning the day; and fresh sunshine, gleaming through the whole church-work, already “puts to silence the ignorance of foolish men.”

Although the severe storms of the past two months have interfered with the attendance on our schools, and even made desirable the temporary suspension of one of them, yet there is much to encourage in the reports received. At Marysville three during last month “joined the Association,” professing thus their faith in Christ, and coming under probation with reference to reception to the church. At Sacramento the teacher writes, rejoicing over the return to the school, with heart apparently renewed, of one pupil for whom she had labored and prayed with great earnestness, but who first left our school for another, and then seemed to “go to the bad” with utter recklessness. But the Lord has brought him back, and he now applies to be received to the Association, and to be thus recognized as a believer in Jesus. This Sacramento school, as, also, the one in Stockton, that in Marysville, and those in this city, are a perpetual joy to me, in the spirit which pervades the work and the results vouchsafed. Indeed, I know not that I need except any of our schools from this statement, and I cease to mention them by name only because the list would be too long. The great lack just now is Chinese helpers trained for service. To select them wisely, to provide for their being trained, to put them into harness at the right point, where by teaching they can learn to teach and by preaching to preach, is the problem now before me.

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WOMAN’S HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.

Room 20, Congregational House, Beacon St., Boston.

MISS NATHALIE LORD, _Secretary_. MISS ABBY W. PEARSON, _Treasurer_.

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MONTHLY REPORT.

The Woman’s Home Missionary Association has made no new appointments during the past month under the American Missionary Association. From those already sent into this part of the field the reports are encouraging and interesting.

From Baxter Springs, Kansas, where are 1,000 refugees and 1,100 white inhabitants, Miss Wilson writes that she is getting her work systematized, and gives her plan as follows:

“A small unoccupied building, owned by the Hard Shell (colored) Baptists, has been offered me, on condition that I will put in window panes and a stove. To do this I shall use a sum of money now in Gov. St. John’s hands, and I hope this will be enough also for a ton of coal. In this building I am to open an afternoon industrial school for women. The different arts of housekeeping will be here taught in turn. Those who wish will learn to read, and especially mothers’ meetings will be held. This is the central point of all my work—_the women and their homes_. Around this will cluster several other departments, for I have already four or five co-workers. Two of these are good Quaker women, living in the place and already doing all they can. They will assist in the women’s school and in visiting at the homes. Another of the workers there will be John Smith, a colored minister, from Iowa, educated by the Society of Friends. This man has been on the ground three months. He is teaching a children’s school. There are three hundred children of the age to go to school, only about half of whom are provided for by the town schools. He will be ready to assist me in every way necessary, and will have one of the departments in the Sunday-school, of which we have arranged three, beside being the superintendent of the school. For the use of the Sunday-school we have three rooms in the public school building. The fourth assistant is Miss E. Cabell, also colored, a graduate of Hampton. Miss C. joined us from Virginia in October. She is proving a valuable assistant. She will open a children’s school, mornings, in our little building, and also have the Infant Department in our Sunday-school. One other service I desire to hold, a Sunday morning Bible reading in our little church. And if we can persuade the ignorant preachers around us, of whom there are several, to come to our rooms some evening in the week for a weekly study of the Sunday-school lesson, we shall have gained a great point with them.”

The work of Mrs. Steele, in Almeda, S. C., proves full of interest. This place takes its name from a daughter of Mr. Reuben G. Holmes, who bought this tract of land, 12,000 acres, for the purpose of giving employment to worthy colored men and enabling them to buy small farms for themselves at $5 per acre. He now has nearly 150 families, including more than 700 souls, on the place, and to instruct and care for these is the work of Mrs. Steele. She writes that she has more or less care of all, has already had more than 200 in her Sunday-school. Her day school occupies her from 9 A.M. to 12.30 P.M.; her evening school from 7 to 9.30 P.M.; and her afternoons she spends in “calling on the folks.” Having mentioned some touching cases of distress and how she was able to relieve them, she adds: “Now don’t think it is all out-go and no income. I called on another family—the mother had previously called on me and wanted me to cut out a calico dress for one of her little girls—when my little girl and I came away from that home, the mother brought me a _fresh egg_ as a present. Now that gift for her was more than ten dollars would be for some people to give. The good-will back of the gift made me feel _rich_.” “In my solemn talks,” she says, “with my pupils, I’ve found some who seem to me to be of the Lord’s noblemen, so conscientiously living up to the light and knowledge they have, and eager for more. I’ve formed a temperance and anti-tobacco society and have quite a number of names already.”

All who had a hand in filling or packing the barrel lately sent to Miss Carter, in Nashville, Tenn.—as well as those whose hands are filling or packing or are about to be filling or packing other such choice barrels or boxes—will be glad to hear of its welcome, and also to learn what are among the most acceptable things to send in such cases. She writes:

“The barrel arrived Saturday and delights my heart. Were I _a little darker skinned_ I should say, ‘_it will do me so proud_,’ but as it is I hardly know how to express my thanks and perfect satisfaction. Did I tell you so explicitly all my needs—I can’t remember—or did you guess them? Those test cards are gems: perhaps their value to others may be beyond price. The papers I’m so glad of, especially the children’s papers. The pictures cut out by some loving fingers, the picture cards, tracts, story books, Testaments, _all_ these things meet especial needs. The children’s clothes, especially the flannels and boys’ shirts, are most welcome. I know this moment the destination of each article.

“Perhaps that for which I’m most truly grateful, is the quantity of sewing materials. The Lord has not since I came here let me name a day for help, but just now I was counting my little funds and wondering—wondering if the time had come when I should be really obliged to halt. This supply of materials is a true blessing. Perhaps my Sunday-school stands highest in importance, but surely this sewing-school work, with all the influences of good which I strive to bring there to bear upon the girls, is next. I couldn’t willingly give it up. Through it the girls are clothing their bodies with their own honest efforts; are learning Christian gentleness and politeness, and having their minds stored with good thoughts out of good books. They let me come very close to them, tell me their needs, their troubles, and recognize me as their friend. So in furthering this work, you are setting many wheels in motion. I held a reception at the ‘opening’—opening of my barrel; how enthusiastic and happy we all were.”

The Association held public meetings in Boston, Mount Vernon church, morning and afternoon of March 3. The interest of these meetings indicates, we believe, increasing energy and delight in forwarding the work. The total receipts of the year, as announced there, have been $5,077.34. This is not a great sum, but neither is it a bad beginning, and as fast as it gives pleasure to the friends of the work to add to our pile, the present year, so fast shall we be eager to increase it by scattering.

Receipts from Jan. 1, 1881, to March 1, 1881:

From auxiliaries $818.65
From donations 188.89
From life members 40.00
From annual members 14.00
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Total $1,061.54

Donations from Cong. Pub. Soc., $25 worth of S. S. papers, lesson papers, books and cards, for Miss Julia A. Wilson, Baxter Springs, for use among refugees. From Mrs. C. A. Johnson, for Miss Wilson’s use, flannel, new cloth and sewing materials, valued at $25.00. Office chair, $10.00, from friends. Three chairs for office, from a friend.

The following boxes and barrels have been sent, valued at:

From Bradford Academy $180.00
From North Ave. Church, Cambridge, box, $90.21,
barrel, $48.90 139.11
From Providence Central Ch. Aux., barrel 475.00
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Total 794.11

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RECEIPTS

FOR FEBRUARY, 1881.

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MAINE, $841.69.

Auburn. High St. Cong. Ch. $0.75
Belfast. Rev. W. Parker (_part for Refugees_) 5.00
Biddeford. Second Cong. Ch. 15.44
Brownville. Hon. A. H. Merrill 100.00
Calais. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00
Deering. Mr. Bascomb 5.00
Dedham. Cong. Ch. 3.00
Foxcroft. Wm. W. Clark, to const. AXCEL M.
CAMPBELL, L. M. 30.00
Gardner. Sarah M. Whitmore, _for Student Aid.
Talladega C._ 5.00
Gilead. Rev. H. R. 1.00
Hallowell. Ladies, by Annie F. Page, Bbl. of
C., _for Refugees_
Holden. Cong. Ch. 4.50
Machias. Eliza G. Longfellow, Bbl. of C., _for
Wilmington, N. C._
Portland. Ladies in Maine, by Mrs. W. E.
Gould, _for Lady Missionaries at Selma, Ala.
and Wilmington, N. C._ 550.75
Portland. John M. Gould, Box of C., _for
Talladega, Ala._
South Freeport. Rev. H. I. 1.00
Thomaston. Cong. Ch. 5.00
Union. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Talladega
C._ 5.00
Waterford. “A Friend,” $4.50; Mrs. C. D., 50¢ 5.00
Woolwich. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $9; Mrs. J. P.
Trott, $2 11.00

NEW HAMPSHIRE, $426.92.

Alstead. Third Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.52
Atkinson. Cong. Ch., Box S. S. Books, _for
Macon, Ga._
Candia. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 40.00
Chester. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00
Colebrook. H. A. 1.00
Concord. Mrs. C. T., 50¢.; C. T. P., 50¢. 1.00
Dover. M. E. L. 1.00
Dunbarton. W. C. Stinson 10.00
Epping. Miss Hannah Pearson, $5; Mrs. John
Billson, $5; _for School House, Athens, Ala._ 10.00
Exeter. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. Ch., $20;
Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for freight_, $3; _for
Talladega C._ 23.00
Exeter. “A Friend” 2.00
Great Falls. Mrs. E. A. Tibbets, _for
Talladega C._ 3.00
Hanover. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student
Aid. Atlanta U._ 30.00
Hanover. Cong. Ch. at Dartmouth College 22.00
Hinsdale. G. W. 1.00
Keene. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., $81; Mrs. J.
A. G., 50¢.; J. P., $1; Mrs. N. R. C., 50¢ 83.00
Langdon. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.00
Lebanon. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 40.00
Lyme. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 29.20
Monroe. S. H. 0.51
Mount Vernon. J. A. S. 1.00
New Ipswich. A. N. Townsend, $2; Mrs. Dr. G., $1 3.00
Newport. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. A. B.
CHASE, L. M. 33.67
Orford. Miss A. E. 0.51
Peterborough. Mrs. E. H. 1.00
Piermont. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 8.00
Pittsfield. J. Merrill 1.51
Plainfield. Mrs. Hannah Stevens, to const.
MRS. SOPHIA R. BAKER, L. M. 32.00
Plymouth. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00

VERMONT, $201.38.

Andover. “Baldwin Family” 1.00
Bakersfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.25
Bethel. Mrs. Laura F. Sparhawk 5.00
Brattleborough. F. W. K. 1.00
Burlington. Third Cong. Ch. 53.25
Charlotte. Nettie A Parker 10.00
East Hardwick. Mrs. L. W. J. and Mrs. L. A. P. 2.00
Essex. “A Friend” 1.00
Fayetteville. M. K. 1.00
Marshfield. Lyman Clark 10.00
North Craftsbury. Ladies’ Miss. Soc. of Cong.
Ch., Bbl. of Bedding, val. $30, and $2 _for
freight_, by Mrs. Mary W. Boardman, _for
Atlanta U._ 2.00
Poultney. A. M. Knapp 2.00
Royalton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 19.00
Saint Albans. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 43.13
Saint Johnsbury. “A. I. R——y” 5.00
Saxton’s River. E. S. S. 1.00
Shelburn. “A Friend” 15.00
Underhill. E. S. Whitcomb 5.00
Vergennes. W. W. Pierce, $2; Mrs. H. S. and R.
T. B., 50¢. ea. 3.00
Wait’s River. J. F. W. 1.00
Wallingford. Cong. Ch. and Soc., Bbl. of C.
and $1 _for freight_ 1.00
Woodstock. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.75

MASSACHUSETTS, $5,599.11.

Allston. “A Friend” 2.00
Amherst. G. C. Munsell 2.00
Andover. Mrs. F. R. B. 0.50
Athol. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.
HORACE I. WHIPPLE. L. M. 30.00
Bedford. M. E. R. 0.50
Belchertown. Cong. Sab. Sch., $7; Miss S. C.
A., $1 8.00
Billerica. H. B. S. 1.00
Boston. Mrs. Nancy B. Curtis, $200; “P.,” $1;
Mrs. A. B., 50¢. 201.50
Boston. S. D. Smith, (6 organs) 1,000.00
Boston. “A Friend,” _for Kansas Refugee M._ 5.00
Boston. N. Willis Bumstead, paper hangings and
mouldings, _for guest rooms, Atlanta U._
Boston. “Friends,” Bbl. Books and Papers and
Bbl. of C., _for Macon, Ga._
Boston. Woman’s Home Missionary Ass’n Abbie W.
Pearson, Treas. (of which from Bradford,
Vt., $10; from Mrs. Hunnewell, Boston, _for
Almeda, S. C._, $9.10) _for Lady
Missionaries_ 179.51
Bradford. Mrs. S. C. Boyd, _for Student Aid,
Atlanta U._ 14.00
Bradford. Ladies, Bbl. of C. _for Wilmington,
N. C._
Brockton. Mrs. T. C. P. 0.50
Brockton. Mrs. Sanford, half Bbl. of C., _for
Tougaloo, Miss._
Cambridgeport. Pilgrim Cong. Ch. and Soc.,
$710; Mrs. E. K., 50c.; Mrs. J., 50c. 711.00
Cambridge. “F. C. S.,” _for Kansas Refugee M._ 5.00
Charlemont. “A Friend,” 3.00
Chelsea. Bbl. of C., _for Selma, Ala._
Clinton. First Evan. Ch. and Soc. 125.00
Clinton. “A Friend,” _for furnishing a room,
Atlanta U._ 25.00
Clinton. “A Friend” _for Kansas Refugee M._ 25.00
Colerain. Mrs. P. B. S. 1.00
Conway. “Friend of Missions” 2.00
Danvers. Maple St. Ch. and Soc. 39.00
Dedham. Individuals, by E. P. B. 2.00
East Braintree. J. N. L., _for postage_ 0.10
East Medway. Ladies’ Sew. Cir., 2 Bbls. of C.
East Longmeadow. Cong. Ch. 19.00
Edgartown. “A Reader of the Missionary” 1.00
Essex Co. “Howard,” _for Talladega C._ 500.00
Essex Co. “Howard,” _for Chapel at Wilmington,
N. C._ 100.00
Fall River. First Cong. Ch. 66.96
Gardner. G. A. W. 1.00
Gilbertville. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. _for
Student Aid, Fisk U._ 50.00
Goshen. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.15
Grafton. Mrs. Joseph A. Dodge, $25, _for
furnishing a room, Atlanta U._; Ladies Sew.
Circle of Second Cong. Ch., Bbl. of Bedding,
_for Atlanta U._ 25.00
Granby. Cong. Sab. Sch. 25.40
Granville Corners. C. Holcomb, $5; Mrs.
Clement Holcomb, $5 10.00
Haverhill. Bundle of C.
Hopkinton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for
Talladega C._ 25.00
Lakeville. Precinct Cong. Sab. Sch. 20.17
Lawrence. T. C. Whittemore, _for Student Aid,
Atlanta U._ 40.00
Lee. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $103, _for rebuilding
Chapel, Tougaloo, Miss._; Ladies of Cong.
Ch., Bbl. of C., _for Tougaloo_ 103.00
Linden. Young People’s Mission Circle, Bbl. of
C., _for Talladega, Ala._
Littleton. Woman’s Mission Circle, _for
Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 10.00
Littleton. Ladies of Cong. Ch., 2 Bbls. of C.,
_for Mobile, Ala._
Lowell. Leonard Kimball, _for Indian M._ 100.00
Lowell. Ladies’ Benev. Soc. of First Ch., Bbl.
of C., _for Wilmington, N. C._
Medfield. F. D. Ellis 100.00
Medford. “A Friend” 2.00
Merrimac. Miss H. W. 0.50
Middleborough. Mrs. Geo. H. Doane, Box of C.,
$2 for freight, _for Tougaloo_ 2.00
Natick. Rev. D. W. 0.10
New Bedford. M. M. 0.50
North Amherst. H. S. 1.00
Northborough. Mrs. H. B. D. 1.00
North Brookfield. “A Friend in Union Cong. Ch.” 5.00
Newburyport. “A Friend” 5.00
Newburyport. Ladies’ Freedmen’s Aid Soc., 2
Bbls. of C., _for Washington, D. C._
Newburyport. H. F. Tyler, 23 Bbls. of C. _for
Refugees_
Newton Centre. Ladies of Mrs. Furber’s Bible
Class, _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 50.00
Norfolk. Ladies’ Benev. Soc., Bbl. of Bedding,
_for Atlanta U._
Palmer. Second Cong. Ch. 20.00
Rockland. “A Friend” 30.00
Saundersville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.00
South Hadley. Mt. H. Sem., “A Friend,” _for
Kansas Refugee M._ 2.00
Southbridge. “A Friend” 50.00
South Wellfleet. “A Friend” 2.00
South Weymouth. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., to
const. LYSANDER HEALD, L. M. 42.00
Springfield. “M,” $800; First Cong. Ch.,
Coll., $83.39; “F. A. B.,” $200; South Cong.
Ch., $81.89; Miss Lizzie Bates, $3 1,168.28
Stoneham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.63
Taunton. Union Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.28
Tewksbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc., _for Indian M.,
Hampton N. & A. Inst._ 18.75
Townsend Harbor. Mrs. Ralph Ball, Box S. S.
Books, _for Macon, Ga._
Upton. “A Friend,” Bbl. of C., _for
Washington, D. C._
Wakefield. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for
Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 38.07
Watertown. Ladies, 4 Bbls. of C., _for
Tougaloo, Miss._
Waverley. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 13.04
West Dennis. S. S. C. 1.00
Westborough. Freedmen’s Mission Ass’n, Bbl. of
C., _for Talladega, Ala._
Westfield. Dr. H. Holland, _for Kansas Refugee
M._ 2.00
Westford. Rev. E. R. H. 0.50
West Medway. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for
Student Aid, Fisk U._ 25.00
West Boylston. “Willing Workers,” _for
furnishing a room, Atlanta U._ 25.00
West Roxbury. Sab. Sch. of South Evan. Ch. 20.00
West Springfield. “Mission Band,” by C. H.
Abbott, _for Talladega C._ 60.00
West Springfield. Park St. Ch., $30; First
Cong. Ch., $15 45.00
Wilmington. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for
Talladega C._ 25.00
Wilmington. J. Skelton 5.00
Woburn. Cong. Ch. and Soc., “A Friend” 25.00
Worcester. “A Friend,” $50; Old South Cong.
Ch. and Soc., $38.17; Hiram Smith and
Family, $30; H. W. Wheeler, $30, to const.
MRS. SARAH H. WHEELER, L. M.; M. F. W., $1 149.17
Wrentham. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for furnishing a
room, Atlanta U._ 6.00
—— “A Friend,” to const. MISS ABBIE ALLEN, L.
M. 30.00
—— Bbl. of C., _for Tougaloo, Miss._
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$5,499.11

LEGACY.
Whitinsville. ESTATE of E. W. Fletcher, by
Chas. P. Whitin, Ex. 100.00
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$5,599.11

RHODE ISLAND, $72.60.

Nayatt Point. R. W. S. 1.00
Peace Dale. Cong. Ch. 10.00
Providence. Union Cong. Ch., $35; “A Father of
Four,” $25; L. M. W., $1; Miss S. P. P., 60c. 61.60

CONNECTICUT, $3,237.92.

Ansonia. Wm. Terry, M. D. 5.00
Avon. Miss L. O. T. 1.00
Berlin. Rev. J. Whittlesey 10.00
Bloomfield. “A Friend,” to const. MRS. HARRIET
E. FISH, LEVI TILLOTSON, and JOHN BLACKWELL,
L. M.’s 87.50
Bristol. Cong. Ch., to const. R. A. POTTER, W.
F. BRAINARD, E. B. DUNBAR, and GEORGE L.
GOODRICH, L. M.’s 120.00
Chester. Cong. Ch. 19.40
Canton Center. W. G. Hallock 10.00
Cobalt. G. H. L. 0.50
Cornwall Bridge. Geo. H. Swift 10.00
Coventry. Mrs. B. T. Preston 5.00
Derby. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., for _Tillotson
C. and N. Inst._ 29.50
Durham Centre. A. P. C. 1.00
East Haddam. First Cong. Sab. Sch. 12.64
Farmington. Cong. Ch., FREDERICK C. JONES, to
const. himself, L. M. 30.00
Greeneville. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for
Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 33.44
Greenwich. Richard B. Carpenter, $100; E. M., $1 101.00
Groton. Cong. Sab. Sch. 11.02
Hartford. Geo. Kellogg, _for Student Aid,
Atlanta U._ 25.00
Hartford. “A Member of Asylum Hill Cong. Ch.,”
_for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 4.00
Hartford. “Member Asylum Hill Cong. Ch.” 20.00
Hebron. Mrs. Jasper Porter, _for Tougaloo U._ 25.00
Kensington. Mrs. M. Cowles 2.00
Litchfield. First Cong. Ch. 24.10
Lyme. T. L. Gilbert 2.00
Meriden. First Cong. Ch., E. K. Breckenridge 5.00
Middlefield. Cong. Ch., _for Kansas Refugee M._ 23.50
Middletown. First Cong. Ch., $29.94; Dea.
Selah Goodrich. $20; Miss E. T., 50c. 50.44
Milford. First Cong. Ch. 17.63
Morris. Cong. Sab. Sch. 15.00
Naugatuck. Cong. Ch. 27.00
New Hartford. Cong. Ch., Bbl. books, and
papers, $2 _for freight, for Macon, Ga._ 2.00
New Haven. Dr. W. B. DeForest, _for Talladega
C._ 50.00
New Haven. “A Friend,” _for Tillotson C. & N.
Inst._ 5.00
New London. Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Harris, _for
Talladega C._ 120.00
New London. “A Friend” 2.00
New Preston. Mrs. B. A. 1.00
New Preston Village. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 44.00
New Preston Village. “A Friend,” _for Hampton
N. and A. Inst._ 10.00
North Branford. J. A. Palmer 2.00
North Haven. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. 10.00
Norwich. Second Cong. Ch., $113.23; Second
Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., $65; First Cong. Ch.,
$10 188.23
North Woodstock. Cong. Ch. 15.00
Plantsville. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for
Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 60.00
Plymouth. Plymouth Cong. Sab. Sch., _for
Student Aid, Fisk U._ 95.00
Roxbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.70
Stafford Springs. Cong. Ch. 5.00
South Britain. Mrs. E. M. Averill 5.00
South Glastonbury. Cong. Ch. 5.26
Terryville. A. S. Gaylord, _for Student Aid,
Fisk U._ 70.00
Thomaston. David S. Cables 20.00
Thompsonville. D. P 1.00
Torrington. Cong. Sch. and Soc. 15.00
Trumbull. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $9.64; Cong.
Sab. Sch., $10.36 20.00
Vernon Depot. Sab. Sch., by C. D. Tucker, _for
Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 18.00
Washington. Henry S. Nettleton, _for
school-house in Ga._ 5.00
Waterbury. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., $399.86;
first Cong. Ch., $135.70 535.56
Waterbury. “A Friend,” _for Kansas Refugee M._ 5.00
Watertown. Dr. John De Forest, _for Talladega
C._ 100.00
Windsor. Cong. Ch. 10.00
Windsor Locks. Mrs. L. P. Dexter 5.00
Winsted. E. E. Gilman, $10; Mrs. E. W. C., $1;
Mrs. C. S., 50c. 11.50
Winthrop. Miss C. Rice, $1.50; Mrs. M. A.
Jones, $1.50 3.00
Woodbridge. Cong. Ch. 10.00
——“A Friend” ($150 of which _for Kansas
Refugee M._) 450.00
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$2,637.92
LEGACIES.

Avon. ESTATE of Maria Avent, by Oliver Gabriel 200.00
Eastford. ESTATE of Rozel S. Warren, by J. D.
Barrows, Ex. 400.00
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$3,237.92

NEW YORK, $1,096.96.

Albany. Mrs. Mary M. Learned 25.00
Arcade. Dea. P. H. Parker 5.00
Brooklyn. Central Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., Geo. A.
Bell, supt., _for Missionaries at
Fernandina, Fla., Ladies’ Island, S. C., and
Charleston, S. C._ 200.60
Brooklyn. Bedford Cong. Ch. 16.00
Cohoes. Mrs. I. Terry 3.00
East Bloomfield. Cong. Sab. Sch. 16.00
Franklin. Mrs. Isabel H. Penfield 5.00
Fredonia. “Friends,” _for School-house,
Athens, Ala._ 30.00
Fredonia. Miss Martha L. Stevens 5.00
Galway. Delia C. Davis and sister, _for
Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 10.00
Gloversville. Cong. Ch. (of which Alanson
Judson, $150, Mrs. Sarah B. Place, $70, $35
_of which for Tillotson C. and N. Inst._) 314.50
Goshen. Miss Martha Wisner, _for Student Aid,
Fisk U._ 10.00
Jefferson. Mrs. S. Ruliffson 4.00
Kinderhook. W. I. 1.00
Lenox. Amos S. Johnson 2.00
Lockport. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch., ad’l to
const. MRS. L. B. KING, MISS NETTIE MOODY
and GEORGE JENNINGS, L. M’s 56.04
Lima. Geo. Thayer, $5; G. W. Thayer, $3; Mrs.
E. W. Beadle, $2 10.00
Mount Sinai. Cong. Ch. 10.46
Mina. Mrs. A. T. 1.00
New York. William E. Dodge, _for Tougaloo U._ 100.00
New York. Broadway Tab. Ch., Mon. Con. Coll.,
_for Ch., McIntosh, Ga._, and to const. REV.
WM. M. TAYLOR, D. D., L. M. 30.00
New York. Sab. Sch. of Broadway Tab. Ch., $25;
Rev. H. C. Haydn, D. D., $10; Mrs. E.
Merritt, $10 45.00
New York. ——, _for Mendi M._ 5.47
Oswego. Cong. Ch. Mon. Con. Coll. 13.48
Rushford. W. W. 0.51
Saratoga Springs. Mrs. A. M. W., Sen., $1;
Mrs. S. S., $1 2.00
Smyrna. “A Friend” 10.00
Springville. Lawrence Weber 3.00
Success. Sab. Sch., by J. H. Benjamin, supt. 11.00
Tarrytown. “A Friend” 50.00
Troy. MRS. C. H. LADD, to const. herself L. M. 30.00
Walton. Union Miss. Soc. of Second Cong. Ch.,
$35.44; Second Cong. Sab. Sch., $19.66; J.
J. St. J., 50c. 55.60
West Farms. Ladies and Prof. Alphonso Wood,
Bbl. of Bedding and Books, by MRS. A. WOOD,
_for Tillotson C. and N. Inst._
West Winfield. Cong. Ch. 16.00

NEW JERSEY, $81.39.

Bernardsville. J. L. Roberts 25.00
Lakewood. Ralph Tyler and G. L. Hovey, Box of
Books, _for Tougaloo U._
Lyons Farms. “C.” 5.00
Newark. “A Friend” 0.39
Orange Valley. Ladies’ Sewing Soc. of Cong.
Ch., $26, and Bbl. of Bedding and C., by
Mrs. Austin Adams, _for furnishing rooms,
Tillotson C. and N. Inst._ 26.00
Salem. W. G. Tyler 25.00

PENNSYLVANIA, $7.00.

Cambridgeborough. Mrs. W. G. 1.00
Cross Cut. W. W. 1.00
Forest Grove. C. T. B. 1.00
Guy’s Mills. S. O. F. 1.00
Philadelphia. M. A. L. 1.00
Sewickley. “A Friend,” _for Mendi M._ 2.00

OHIO, $788.28.

Austinburg. First Cong. Ch. 11.00
Belpre. Cong. Ch. 13.03
Brookfield. Miss E. F. 0.50
Bucyrus. “Friends,” by Rev. J. Schull, _for
Tougaloo U._ 17.50
Burg Hill. Mrs. H. B., $1; J. M. J., $1; S. J.
B., 50c. 2.50
Cleveland. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch. of the Heights,
_for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 24.00
Cleveland. B. A. D., 50c.; M. P., 50c. 1.00
Dover. L. G. P. 1.00
Delaware. J. W. D. 0.50
Elyria. Heman Ely, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 40.00
Fredericktown. A. H. Royce 10.00
Geneva. “Cheerful Workers,” by Minnie Carter,
sec., _for Tougaloo U._ 15.00
Greenfield. William Smith 5.00
Harrison. John D. Bowles 5.00
Hartford. Mrs. F. and M. Brockway, $5; S. C.
B., $1; H. J., $1; Mrs. A. T., $1; H. B. T.,
$1; Others, $1 10.00
Huntington. Edward West 25.00
Kingsville. M. Whiting 20.00
Lorain. “Friends,” by Miss Kate Randall, _for
Emerson Inst._ 8.00
Martinsburgh. J. A. McFarland and Miss Emily
McFarland, $2.50 ea. 5.00
Metamora. Mrs. M. S. 1.00
Moss Run. M. B. F. 1.00
Mount Vernon. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for
Student Aid, Fisk U._ 50.00
Napoleon. Mrs. N. B. P. 1.00
Painesville. R. Hitchcock, _for Kansas Refugee
M._ 250.00
Painesville. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for
Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 25.00
Painesville. E. E. J. 1.00
Sandusky. J. G. 0.50
South Salem. Daniel S. Pricer, $3; Miss M. M.
M., $1; Mrs. M. S., $1 5.00
Springfield. Cong. Sab. Sch., $12.50, _for
Tougaloo U._, and $12.50, _for Fisk U._ 25.00
Sulphur Springs. “Friends,” by Rev. J. Schull,
_for Tougaloo U._ 22.50
Toledo. Mrs. Geo. L. Weed, $10; Mrs. M. A.
Harrington, $5 15.00
Willoughby. Mrs. J. M. Page, $5; Miss C. E.
Leonard, $5; _for Kansas Refugee M._ 10.00
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$621.03
LEGACY.

Cleveland. ESTATE of Chas. French 167.25
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$788.28

INDIANA, $15.00.

Indianapolis. Mrs. M. S. Pratt, _for
School-house, Athens, Ala._ 15.00

ILLINOIS, $585.66.

Aurora. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student
Aid, Fisk U._ 25.00
Batavia. Cong. Ch. 39.49
Belvidere. Mrs. M. C. Foote 3.00
Bristol. Mrs. S. J. Wheeler, $2; Mrs. H. S.
Colton, $2 4.00
Buda. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady
Missionary, Savannah, Ga._ 20.00
Chicago. Elisha Gray, _for Student Aid, Fisk
U._ 10.00
Chicago. J. Fairbanks, Box books and papers,
_for Macon, Ga._
Chicago. Dr. J. H. H., $1; Family Missionary
Box, $1.58 2.58
Lake Forest. Mrs. W. H. Ferry, _for Student
Aid, Fisk U._ 50.00
Moline. John Deere, _for Theo. Dept., Fisk U._ 100.00
Odell. Mrs. H. E. Dana 10.00
Payson. Cong. Sab. Sch. 20.00
Peoria. Mr. & Mrs. J. L. Griswold, _for
Student Aid, Fisk U._ 100.00
Port Byron. A. F. Hollister 5.00
Princeton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for
Student Aid, Fisk U._ 10.48
Princeville. Mrs. E. R. Auten 5.00
Providence. Cong. Ch. 22.61
Providence. Ladies’ of Cong. Ch., for _Lady
Missionary, Liberty Co., Ga._ 5.00
Saint Charles. Cong. Ch., Miss Abby Ward 3.00
Streator. Samuel Plumb, _for Kansas Refugee M._ 100.00
Tolono. Mrs. L. Haskell, _for Student Aid,
Talladega C._ 11.00
Tonica. “Friends” 8.00
Turner. Mrs. R. C. 1.00
Winnetka. Cong. Ch. 27.50
Wyoming. Rev. Wm. Walters 3.00

MICHIGAN, $198.62.

Adrian. C. C. Spooner 5.00
Ann Arbor. Cong. Ch. 46.00
Battle Creek. Presb. and Cong. Sab. Sch’s.,
_for Talladega C._ 6.00
Cooper. Cong. Ch. 12.93
Detroit. First Cong. Ch., “A Friend,” $2; F.
M., $1; S. Z., 50c. 3.50
Kalamo. Mrs. S. E. B. 1.00
Lowell. Mrs. E. A. Yerkes 5.00
Marshall. D. H. Miller 5.00
Milford. Mrs. W. O. 0.51
Olivet. “Young Men’s Christian Ass’n,” _for
Talladega C._ 60.00
Owosso. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student
Aid, Fisk U._ 35.00
Port Huron. H. W. C., 50c.; C. G. H., 50c. 1.00
Salem. Mrs. A. V. 0.51
Saint Johns. Rev. S. S. 1.00
Summit. Missionary Soc., by Mrs. F. G.
Terrill, Treas. 3.17
Traverse City. S. A. 1.00
Union City. Mrs. E. J. H., 50c.; Mrs. D. B.
W., 50c. 1.00
Vassar. J. G. Selden 2.50
Whitehall. B. H. 1.00
Whitehall. Mr. and Mrs. Byron Hammond, _for
Schoolhouse, Athens, Ala._ 5.00

WISCONSIN, $213.25.

Appleton. Miss A. E. Hutchinson’s Sab. Sch.
Class, Box of C., $2 _for freight, for
Macon, Ga._ 2.00
Appleton. First Cong. Ch., Box Books and C.,
_for Macon, Ga._
Beloit. Ladies of First Cong. Ch., _for Lady
Missionary, Talladega, Ala._, and to const.
MISS H. MARTINDALE, L. M. 44.50
Beloit. J. Bert, $10.75; Sab. Sch. of Second
Cong. Ch., $7.30; Ladies of First Cong. Ch.,
Bale of C., _for Talladega C._ 18.05
Beloit. “Friends,” 3 Boxes Books and Papers
and 1 Box C., _for Macon, Ga._
Beloit. Rev. Thomas Gillespie 5.00
Evansville. Cong. Ch., $5; Cong. Sab. Sch., $20 25.00
Milwaukee. Spring St. Cong. Ch., $95.60; Mrs.
Samuel Brown, $5 100.60
New London. First Cong. Ch., 3 Boxes Books and
Papers, Bbl. and Box of C., _for Macon, Ga._
Oshkosh. First Cong. Ch., Box of Books and C.,
and $2.75 _for freight, for Macon, Ga._ 2.75
Racine. Mrs. J. B. 1.00
Rosendale. Ladies’ Soc. of First Cong. Ch., 2
Boxes Books and Papers, 1 Box C. and
Bedding, $9.35 _for freight, for Macon, Ga._ 9.35
Ripon. First Cong. Ch., Bbl. Books and C.,
_for Macon, Ga._
Sheboygan. First Cong. Ch., Box of Books and
C., $5 _for freight, for Macon, Ga._ 5.00

IOWA, $366.14.