My heart leaps for joy at the prospect. I hasten to send my first earned money (by hard labor) since reading the last Missionary, to help build this John Brown memorial steamer. I send it with joy and thanksgiving.
In order that old and young may have a part in this work, we have arranged to issue four grades of shares, as follows: First Grade, $100; Second Grade, $10; Third Grade, $5; Fourth Grade, $1.
All donations for this purpose should be forwarded to H. W. Hubbard, Treasurer of the American Missionary Association, 56 Reade St., New York.
BENEFACTIONS.
—The late George G. Fogg bequeathed $5,000 to Dartmouth College.
—Mr. Reed, of Boston, has given $10,000 to Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute.
—The will of John Amory Lowell contains bequests to Harvard College amounting to $40,000.
—William Bicknell, of Philadelphia, has given $50,000 to the University at Lewisburg, Pa.
—Wells College, Aurora, N.Y., receives a bequest of $100,000 from the estate of Col. E. B. Morgan.