—A Quaker and his wife who have labored for seven years among the Modoc Indians, are reported to have transformed them into well-mannered and well-dressed people. They own nice farms, and, for the most part, have connected themselves with the Society of Friends.
THE CHINESE.
—A Baptist preacher in Portland, Oregon, named Fung Chak, reports a church of 65 Chinese converts.
—During the first three months after the anti-Chinese law went into operation, 3,849 Chinese departed from the Pacific coast, and only 169 arrived.
—The Presbyterian Board has purchased a large and valuable building, in San Francisco, at a cost of $22,500, for a Chinese Mission.
—Mr. Yung Wing, so well known for his efforts in establishing a school for the Chinese in Hartford, Conn., has been appointed chief magistrate of the city of Shanghai.
—The British and Foreign Bible Society entered China in 1843, and has agents at Shanghai, operating chiefly through the missionaries of the different societies.
—A Chinese Sunday-school was opened in Farwell Hall, Chicago, in 1878. The number of regular attendants at the present time is between fifty and sixty. On Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday evenings, secular instruction is given them. The school is under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A.
—Soon after the American Board, in response to the suggestion of the A. M. A., decided to open a mission at Hong Kong, a Thanksgiving offering, amounting to $114, was made by Miss Harriet Carter’s Chinese Sunday-school, Mount Vernon Church, Boston. The money was paid over to the treasury of the Am. Board.