AFRICA.
—W. F. Mieville has been appointed English consul at Khartoum.
—Ambassadors from Abyssinia have gone to Cairo to regulate the question of the frontiers and to seek the appointment of consuls of the two countries—of Egypt and of Abyssinia.
—After working with an indefatigable zeal to gather the means necessary to the establishment of a new mission, Mr. Coillard will set out with his wife in May to found a station between the Zambeze and Lake Bangueolo.
—Mgr. Taurin Cahaque, apostolic vicar, has made from Harrar an excursion among the Gallas and founded a station around which he hopes to gather a Christian colony.
—The council of ministers at Cairo has decided upon the complete abolition of slavery in Egypt. Abdelkader Pasha has been nominated Governor of Soudan. A special administration of the Soudan has been created at Cairo with the purpose of making out the statement of receipts and expenditures of that province and of re-organizing the military service with a view of maintaining order upon the Abyssinian frontier. It will take measures for the complete suppression of the slave trade.
—A company with a capital of 150,000 livres sterling has been formed under the name of River Gambia Trading Company, to develop commerce on the Gambia, which is navigable for 640 kilometers.
—The Church Missionary Society has established at Lokodja, near the confluence of the Niger and the Bénoué, a school to teach the native instructors the English language and the language spoken along the lower Niger.
—Mgr. Lavigerie, promoter of the missions of Algeria, has transferred to Malta the college which was formerly at St. Louis, to prepare a medical faculty for the Negroes of Equatorial Africa and the Soudan.
—A dispatch from Tripoli to the English Journal announces that 600 native Algerians of the Chambas tribe have proceeded to Ghadamès to demand the punishment of the Touaregs who assassinated the missionaries and ill-treated the Chambas.
—In a war between the tribe of the Paums and that of the Veys, sustained by the government of Liberia, the latter have been beaten and in part massacred, and the survivors have fled to Cape Mount, where help has been given them by the American missionaries. The government of the United States has sent the ship Essex to aid the troops of Liberia against the Paums who intercept communication between Monrovia and the northwest whence they obtain palm oil.
—Dr. Krapf, one of the pioneers of missionary work in Central Africa, has just died. Entering the service of the English missions in 1837, he sailed on the Tiger, the Choa and the Amhara. Not being able to enter the country of the Gallas by the north, he conceived the project of attacking the continent by the east, and in 1844 commenced with his friend Rebmann the mission of Mombas. His travels gave impulse to the discoveries of the last 25 years. Since 1856 he has been living at Wurtemberg, occupying himself with literary works upon the languages of eastern Africa.
INDIAN MEDICINE MAN.
THE INDIANS.
—The Superintendent of the Indian School at Caddo recently prepared a concert exercise with an illuminated Jacob’s Ladder. The sides and steps were covered with tissue paper of different colors. On each step were five wax tapers which lighted up cornucopias filled with candies. A lecture was given on Jacob’s Dream, accompanied with appropriate music, etc. Over 80 Indian children were in attendance. The occasion is said to have been a grand and beautiful one, cheering beyond thought to the heart of the Christian workers.
—Rev. S. G. Wright, of Leech Lake, Minn., writes: Our school was a real success. Several of our scholars began a life of prayer during the winter, and all were much improved. The Christian women who were converted when we were here before still regularly sustain a prayer meeting. We have just buried one of our staunch Christian men. His daily life in all places was a living testimony to the power of the Gospel to save even this poor despised people. In his long sickness of five months he exemplified the patience of the Gospel.
—Tindestak, Alaska, is a Chilcat village of 16 houses and 162 people. Each of the houses cost the Indian owners over a thousand dollars. Their desire, however, for the Gospel was so great that the whole population left the village last October and moved to the new mission station at Willard that they might have school and church privileges.