—The “Cassedy Hall” has been built this summer at Talladega for the use of the primary department and named for Mr. J. H. Cassedy, of this State, who gave the $5,000 needed for its erection.
—The “Whitin Hall,” at New Orleans, has been built this summer as a boy’s dormitory and named for the late Deacon J. C. Whitin, of Whitinsville, Mass., whose estate paid in $10,000, which, for the erection, was put with $5,000 given by Deacon Seymour Straight, for whom the university was named.
—Prof. J. A. Nichols, lately Superintendent of Schools at Yonkers, N.Y., has been made Principal of the Avery Institute at Charleston, S.C., in the place of Prof. A. W. Farnham, who resigned.
—Rev. Milton E. Churchill, a graduate of Knox College and of the New Haven Divinity School, a son of Prof. Geo. Churchill, of Galesburg, Ill., has been made Principal of the Emerson Institute, at Mobile, Ala.
—The Le Moyne Institute, at Memphis, Tenn., has been enlarged at a cost of $2,000, one-half of which, upon the solicitation of the Principal, A. J. Steele, was furnished by white citizens of that place.
—At Macon, Ga., to accommodate the library, which Rev. S. E. Lathrop has been gathering, a Library Building has been erected, with a basement for an industrial department. For this project, citizens of Macon, both white and colored, contributed liberally.
—Rev. B. A. Imes, pastor at Memphis, Tenn., having received an appointment in the Alcorn University, Mississippi, with a tempting salary, has decided to remain with his chosen people. He is popular in that city, and the teachers of the Le Moyne Institute seem to be as fond of their preacher as the parishioners who make up the body of his church.
—At Little Rock, Arkansas, a school has been opened this fall in the Congregational Church of Rev. Y. B. Sims, under Miss Rose M. Kinney as Principal, a lady of large experience in our work. This school is the precursor of the Edward Smith College, which is to go along in that city. Miss M. E. Keyes is associated with her as missionary.
—The new church at Mobile, Ala., was dedicated on the last Sabbath of September, Pastor Crawford and Revs. J. C. Fields and F. G. Ragland participating.