Mrs. Adeline Smith, of Oak Park, Ill., recently gave $11,000 for the founding of a Philander Smith chair in the University of Little Rock, Ark., to be a perpetual memorial of her husband, who died about a year ago.
Permanent endowments are needed in order that the institutions of the American Missionary Association may achieve that larger success which is rightly expected of them. Every consideration of the past, of the present and of the future, enforces the demand that these endowments should be provided at once.
GENERAL NOTES.
AFRICA.
—The German Reichstag has voted an appropriation of one million marks to defray the expenses of an expedition now being fitted out for the exploration of Central Africa.
—The Church Missionary Society have received tidings from their Uganda Mission at Mtesa’s capital that five young men have been baptized, the first fruits of the mission.
—Notwithstanding the presence of General Matthews with the troops of the Sultan of Zanzibar, a brisk trade in slaves is going on at Mombassa. General Matthews is now fighting with a rebel chieftain who has a settlement not far from Mombassa where he receives runaway slaves.
—The Church Missionary Society of England is about to begin missionary operations in Egypt. It is to be under the care of Rev. F. A. Klein, an able Arabic scholar. The same society had a station at Cairo in the beginning of this century, but abandoned it in 1824.
—The English Baptists have established a station at Stanley Pool. The new missionary ship “Peace” is now ready to be shipped to the Congo. Mr. Stanley is about to publish an account of the results of his explorations. The French government has recently appropriated about $300,000 to defray the expenses of De Brassa’s expedition.