The widow of John Evans, of South Meriden, has given $2,000 to Wesleyan University to found the John Evans scholarship, open to candidates for the ministry in junior or senior classes.
It has been estimated at Washington that the annual profit to the country by the conversion of illiterate into educated labor cannot be less than $400,000,000. If so, money given for the endowment of educational institutions at the South, like those of the A. M. A., would yield a hundred fold in half a generation.
GENERAL NOTES.
AFRICA.
—The caravan of English missionaries conducted by Mr. Stokes has reached the extreme south of Victoria Nyanza, a little to the west of Kaghei.
—Mr. Resteau has established at Ambrisette the first factory of the Belgian Company for African commerce. He has sent the plans for another establishment that the company will found in the region south of the Congo.
—The Committee of English missions has accepted for its stations on the Niger the services of Dr. Percy Brown, who offers himself for work in any part of the mission field.
—The new king of Cayor has made a visit to the Governor of St. Louis, promising to aid with all his power the construction of the railroad. In two or three weeks the section from Dakar to Rufisque will be finished.
—The British and African Steam Navigation Company, which has already 20 ships for service on the west side of Africa, has constructed two others of less draught that they may leap the sand banks of the lower rivers. They will be named the Lagos and the Calabar.