Tougaloo University.—An unusually large number of independent applications have been sent in, so that we are likely to have an overflow of students. These will need to be provided for. You may, therefore, hear from us again, asking for provisions of shelter to meet the demand. We never had so many apply before the opening of school.
Nashville, Tenn.—Fisk University.—We are now able to speak of our opening as a very favorable one. The number of new students is larger than usual and of a more advanced class, and the spirit was never better.
ITEMS FROM THE FIELD.
—Rev. Evarts Kent, of Atlanta, Ga., took his vacation in Vermont visiting his father, Rev. Cephas H. Kent, of New Haven, and preaching a historical sermon at Benson. He met a warm welcome upon his return to his field.
—The brothers, Rev. A. W. and Rev. C. B. Curtis, of Marion and Selma, Ala., having had their vacation in the Northwest, are back again upon their chosen spheres of labor.
—The health of President E. A. Ware’s wife having been greatly threatened, upon medical advice he spent the summer with her in the Adirondacks and is much encouraged by the improvement attained. He is now back at his post, as are also Professors T. N. Chase and C. W. Francis.
—Rev. Dr. Horace Bumstead and wife, of the Atlanta University, have been afflicted in the death of their youngest child, a son, which occurred on Lookout Mountain, whither they had fled for relief in the pure air of that locality.
—Prof. R. D. Hitchcock, of the Straight University, having been called to the presidency of the Southern University, New Orleans, has declined the same and remains at his post.
—Prof. Albert Salisbury, Superintendent of Education, having taken as a wife Miss Hosford, a teacher in the Whitewater Normal, Wisconsin, has installed his family in their Atlanta home, and he is now going his Southern rounds.