BENEFACTIONS.
Wesleyan University has already received $550,000 of Mr. Seney, of Brooklyn, for endowment purposes.
—The late Stephen Whitney Phœnix bequeathed nearly $1,000,000 to Columbia College, New York City, part of it available at once, and the rest on the death of his brother and sisters.
—Mr. J. B. Hoyt, of Stamford, Conn., has subscribed $20,000 for the Connecticut Literary Institution at Suffield.
—The will of Mrs. Maria Cary, of Brooklyn, gives $5,000 to Antioch College.
—Mr. A. E. Goodnow, of Worcester, has presented Mount Holyoke Seminary with $5,000, to be invested as a fund for keeping in order the estate of Goodnow Park, presented by him to that institution.
—The Worcester Free Institute, of which Dr. Chas. O. Thompson is the Principal, has received during the past year, $26,000 from Mr. David Whitcomb, and $6,000 from Mr. Stephen Salisbury, both of Worcester, Mass. The Institute now has property amounting to $680,000.
—Mr. W. C. Jones, of Warrington, Eng., has given $10,000 to establish a preparatory institute at Hong Chow, China.
—We published the statement in the October American Missionary that endowments were needed at Talladega College, of $25,000 each for four professorships. We are happy to report that the late Benjamin De Forest, of Connecticut, provided by his will, $10,000 toward such endowment.