Not only has Rev. H. O. Ladd’s University of New Mexico at Santa Fe received $5,000 from the estate of the late Deacon J. C. Whitin, but other gifts are promised for the building now going up.
Bowdoin College has received $1,000 from Dr. Goodwin to found a commencement prize, $4,000 from the estate of Mrs. Noah Woods, of Bangor, to establish the Blake Scholarship, $1,000 from John C. Dodge, of Cambridge, for library purposes. $3,500 was pledged towards a new gymnasium and $1,000 for a new laboratory.
The man who gave the $20,000 named at this place in our last issue, calls it “stewardship.” The man who gave the $10,000 there indicated calls it not a donation, but an “investment.” We have some such investments to offer, with this indorsement, “He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord”—an investment of $1,000 for a scholarship, $10,000 for a library, or $25,000 for a professorship in any of our chartered institutions.
GENERAL NOTES.
—The Italian government will shortly send a messenger to the king of Abyssinia, charged with giving him presents from King Humbert, and renewing at the same time friendly relations between the two countries.
—M. Antoine, who has been some time in Abyssinia, reports that the natives endure with impunity the malaria of the lower regions, pernicious to Europeans, and attributes their freedom from sickness to the daily use of fumigations of sulphur.
—At the request of M. Price, founder of the establishment at Frere Town for the freed slaves, the Committee of the Church of England Missions has decided to send two new missionaries, a teacher, and, if possible, a physician. The agents of the society will endeavor to extend the work to the interior.
—The Universities’ Mission to Africa has now three great centres of operation—Zanzibar, the Usambara country north of Zanzibar, and the Rovuma District. It has about 1,000 natives under its care, has transformed the old slave-market of Zanzibar, where formerly 30,000 slaves were sold annually, into mission premises, with a church, mission-house and school, and established a chain of stations from the coast to Lake Nyassa. The income for 1881 was £11,000 and the mission has 34 European missionaries and 26 native evangelists. The mission was started in 1859 at the suggestion of Dr. Livingstone, and looks to the universities for its supply of clergy.