—The Presbyterian Board is about to open a new mission in China, in the province of Shautung. It will be located at Wei Hein, a city midway between Tsinan and Tungchon. There will be three laborers. There are now forty missionaries of all denominations in the province, among a population of 30,000,000.
—An Anti-Opium Prayer Union has been formed in Great Britain, of which the members residing in different parts covenant to pray at least once a week, on Thursdays, for the overthrow of the appalling and accursed opium trade in China and elsewhere.
—Of the Chinese students at Yale ordered home two years ago, Mum Yew Chung, who was coxswain of the crew of 1881, is in the office of the United States Consul-General at Shanghai; Wong is in partnership with Spencer Laisim, of the class of 1879, they having opened a translating agency; Chang, of the class of ’83, is at leisure, and desirous of returning to America; and Low, of the class of ’84, is married to a daughter of a merchant prince, and is likely to attain official honors. Tsoy Sin Kee is also married.
THE INDIANS.
—The rightful residents of the Indian Territory have forwarded to Washington a list of 2,400 names of intruders.
—Martin B. Lewis, a missionary of the Sunday-School Union, writes that on a recent Sunday at the Sisseton Reservation, half of the children at the Sunday-school came without shoes, their feet being sewed up in cloth; yet they were happy. A woman walked four and a half miles when the mercury was ten degrees below zero to make arrangements about organizing a school at her house. She had been five years in a family of eight without hearing a sermon or a prayer, and asserted that she could no longer live as a heathen.
BENEFACTIONS.
The will of Mr. Peter Ballentine contains a bequest of $5,000 to Rutgers College.
Alida V. R. Constable bequeathed $4,000 to Union Theological Seminary, New York.