BENEFACTIONS.
The late Hannah G. Russell, of Boston, willed $2,000 to the Boston University, to be used in clothing poor students of theology.
Mrs. Sarah B. Jacobs, of Boston, has given $5,000 to the University of Vermont, for the endowment of five scholarships.
Columbia College gets $500,000 from the estate of Stephen Whitney Phenix, making its aggregate endowment $5,300,000.
Roanoke College, Va., is to receive $1,000 from the estate of Rev. Andrew Bigelow, D.D., of Southboro, Mass.
The University of Vermont is to receive the valuable library of the late Hon. George P. Marsh, of Italy, a gift purchased by the Hon. Frederick Billings, of Woodstock, an alumnus of the University.
The late Edward Clark, of Cooperstown, N.Y., left $50,000 to Williams College, his alma mater.
Howard University has received $5,000 from the estate of the late F. P. Schoals, Esq., of New York.
Mr. Thomas Beaver, of Danville, Pa., has given $30,000 to the endowment fund of Dickinson College, as a memorial of his father.