Chapter II: Part 2

In no year, may I add, have there been so many conversions among the Chinese on this coast as in the one just past.

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BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.

MISS D.E. EMERSON, SECRETARY.

WOMAN'S STATE ORGANIZATIONS.

CO-OPERATING WITH THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.

ME.--Woman's Aid to A.M.A., Chairman of Committee, Mrs. C.A. Woodbury, Woodfords, Me.

VT.--Woman's Aid to A.M.A., Chairman of Committee, Mrs. Henry Fairbanks, St. Johnsbury, Vt.

CONN.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. S.M. Hotchkiss, 171 Capitol Ave., Hartford, Conn.

N.Y.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. C.C. Creegan, Syracuse, N.Y.

OHIO.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. Flora K. Regal, Oberlin, Ohio.

ILL.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. C.H. Taintor, 151 Washington St., Chicago, Ill.

MICH.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. Mary B. Warren, Lansing, Mich.

WIS.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. C. Matter, Brodlhead, Wis.

MINN.--Woman's Home Miss. Society, Secretary, Mrs. H.L. Chase, 2,750 Second Ave., South, Minneapolis, Minn.

IOWA.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Miss Ella K. Marsh, Grinnell, Iowa.

KANSAS.--Woman's Home Miss. Society, Secretary, Mrs. Addison Blanchard, Topeka, Kan.

SOUTH DAKOTA.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. W.H. Thrall, Amour, Dak. {105}

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THE BLACK WOMAN OF THE SOUTH.

The Rev. Alexander Crummell, D.D., formerly a missionary in Africa and now Rector of St. Luke's Church in Washington, D.C., is a native of Africa, a graduate of one of the leading Universities of England, who adds to the strength and graces of a sound scholarship, the devotion of a noble Christian character.

From an address made by him upon the "Needs and Neglects of the Black Woman of the South," we quote his plea for "Woman's Work for Woman." Referring to the Negro woman in slavery days, he says:

"She was a 'hewer of wood and a drawer of water.' She had to keep
her place in the gang from morn till eve, under the burden of a
heavy task, or under the stimulus or the fear of a cruel lash. She
was a picker of cotton. She labored at the sugar mill and in the
tobacco factory. When, through weariness or sickness, she had
fallen behind her allotted task, then came, as punishment, the
fearful stripes upon her shrinking, lacerated flesh.

"Her home life was of the most degrading nature. She lived in the
rudest huts, and partook of the coarsest food, and dressed in the
scantiest garb, and slept, in multitudinous cabins, upon the
hardest boards!

"There was no sanctity of family, no binding tie of marriage, none
of the fine felicities and the endearing affections of home. Few of
these things were the lot of the Southern black woman. Instead,
thereof, a gross barbarism, which tended to blunt the tender
sensibilities, to obliterate feminine delicacy and womanly shame,
came down as her heritage from generation to generation; and it
seems a miracle of providence and grace that, notwithstanding these
terrible circumstances, so much struggling virtue lingered amid the
rude cabins, that so much womanly worth and sweetness remained, as
slaveholders themselves have borne witness to.

"Freed, legally, she has been; but the act of emancipation had no
talismanic influence to reach to and alter and transform her
degrading social life. The truth is, 'Emancipation Day' found her a
prostrate and degraded being; and, although it has brought numerous
advantages to her sons, it has produced but the simplest changes in
_her_ social and domestic condition. She is still the crude, rude,
ignorant mother. Remote from cities, the dweller still in the old
plantation hut, neighboring to the sulky, disaffected master-class,
who still think her freedom was a personal robbery of themselves,
none of the 'fair humanities' have visited her humble home. The
light of knowledge has not fallen upon her eyes. The fine
domesticities which give the charm to family life, and which, by
the refinement and delicacy of womanhood, preserve the civilization
of nations, have not come to _her_. She has still the rude, coarse
labor of men. With her rude husband, she still shares the hard
service of a field-hand. Her house, which shelters, perhaps, some
six or eight children, embraces but two rooms. Her furniture is of
the rudest kind. The clothing of the household is scant and of the
coarsest material; has oft-times the garniture of rags, and for
herself and offspring is marked, not seldom, by the absense {106}
of both hats and shoes. She has rarely been taught to sew, and the
field-labor of slavery times has kept her ignorant of the habitudes
of neatness and the requirements of order. Indeed, coarse food,
coarse clothes, coarse living, coarse manners, coarse companions,
coarse surroundings, coarse neighbors, both white and black, yea,
everything coarse, down to the coarse, ignorant, senseless
religion, which excites her sensibilities and starts her passions,
go to make up the life of the masses of black women in the hamlets
and villages of the South. This is the state of black womanhood.

"And now look at the _vastness_ of this degradation. If I had been
speaking of the population of a city, or town, or even a village,
the tale would be a sad and melancholy one. But I have brought
before you the condition of _millions of women_. And when you think
that the masses of these women live in the rural districts; that
they grow up in rudeness and ignorance; that their former masters
are using few means to break up their hereditary degradation, you
can easily take in the pitiful condition of this population and
forecast the inevitable future to multitudes of females, unless a
mighty special effort is made for the improvement of the black
womanhood of the South.

"I am anxious for a permanent and uplifting civilization to be
engrafted on the Negro race in this land. And this can only be
secured through the womanhood of a race. If you want the
civilization of a people to reach the very best elements of their
being, and then, having reached them, there to abide as an
indigenous principle, you must imbue the _womanhood_ of that people
with all its elements and qualities. Any movement which passes by
the female sex is an ephemeral thing. Without them, no true
nationality, patriotism, religion, cultivation, family life, or
true social status, is a possibility. In this matter it takes two
to make one--mankind is a duality. The male may bring, as an
exotic, a foreign graft, say, of civilization, to a new people. But
what then! Can a graft live or thrive of itself? By no manner of
means. It must get vitality from the stock into which it is put;
and it is the women who give the sap to every human organization
which thrives and flourishes on earth.

"I plead, therefore, for the establishment of at least one large
'_Industrial school_' in every Southern State for the black girls of
the South. I ask for the establishment of schools which may serve
specially the home life of the rising womanhood of my race.

"I want _boarding schools_ for the _industrial training_ of one hundred
and fifty or two hundred of the poorest girls, of the ages of
twelve to eighteen years.

"I wish the intellectual training to be limited to reading,
writing, arithmetic and geography.

"I would have these girls taught to do accurately all domestic
work, such as sweeping floors, dusting rooms, scrubbing,
bed-making, washing and ironing, sewing, mending and knitting.
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"I would have the trades of dress-making, millinery, straw-plating,
tailoring for men, and such like, taught them.

"The art of cooking should be made a specialty, and every girl
should be instructed in it.

"In connection with these schools, garden plats should be
cultivated, and every girl should be required daily, to spend at
least an hour in learning the cultivation of small fruits,
vegetables and flowers.

"It is hardly possible to exaggerate either the personal, family or
society influence which would flow from these schools. Every class,
yea, every girl in an out-going class, would be a missionary of
thrift, industry, common-sense, and practicality. They would go
forth, year by year, a leavening power into the houses, towns and
villages of the Southern black population; girls fit to be the
wives of the honest peasantry of the South, the worthy matrons of
their numerous households.

"I am looking after the domestic training of the _masses_; for the
raising up of women meet to be the helpers of poor men, the _rank
and file_ of black society, all through the rural districts of the
South.

"A true civilization can only be attained when the life of woman is
reached, her whole being permeated by noble ideas, her fine taste
enriched by culture, her tendencies to the beautiful gratified and
developed, her singular and delicate nature lifted up to its full
capacity, and then, when all these qualities are fully matured,
cultivated and sanctified, all their sacred influences shall circle
around ten thousand firesides, and the cabins of the humblest
freedmen shall become the homes of Christian refinement through the
influence of the uplifted and cultivated black woman of the South."

The above appeal is in the line of our American Missionary Association work. While we have higher schools and institutions for more thorough education, which these Negro women need as much as any women in the world, we are increasingly developing this idea which Dr. Crummell eloquently pleads.

We remind our friends and those Christian women who are interested in the uplifting of Negro womanhood, that the American Missionary Association, the _ordained agency_ of the Congregational Churches for this work, could do much more of it if the means were forthcoming. The marked success of the domestic training in our schools at Tougaloo, Miss., Talladega, Ala., Thomasville, Ga., Memphis, Tenn., and other points, shows the advantage gained in the twenty-five years' experience which the A.M.A. has had in its work for the Negroes.

We need the co-operation of all Christian women in carrying on these Industrial Schools already established, and to enable us to establish and carry forward _many more_.

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YOUNG FOLKS.

WHAT SUSIE FOUND AT TOUGALOO.

(SEE FEBRUARY AMERICAN MISSIONARY.)

A roomful of girls of various sizes and complexions, all very much intent upon their work, and no one thinking just at that moment of a traveled fairy daughter, to adopt and love as her own, sent by a beneficent and tender-hearted northern "Fay." I doubt if Susie ever before saw so many "little women" laboring with needles and trying to set the troublesome stitches straight and even, to keep the thread from tangling and the seam clean. The results are far from perfection, but they are encouraging.

Some of the children _wear_ thimbles, and some set them upon their desks and _wiggle_ the needle through without their aid. Here is a child so tiny that no thimble in the box will serve her. She has a delicate face, with big brown eyes, and her fingers are the slenderest of appendages to her atoms of hands. Her sister, a year or so older, has a round, chubby face, with plump, dimpled, brown hands, but these fat fingers also must grow to the smallest thimble. Here is a quiet, modest little girl whose five baptismal names, Cynthia Ann Finetta Bloomfield Celeste, furnish her nothing prettier for every day use than "Lusty." She could not thread a needle or tie a knot when she joined the Hope Band, and the second year she wore one of the smallest thimbles with a bit of cloth inside for "chinking" to keep it on. Here Susie's sympathies are drawn out towards a thin, nervous-looking little Frances, who has a hand and foot crippled. She walks painfully along to her place and holds her work at a disadvantage in the poor little cramped left hand, but she likes to be there with the others.

Most of the heads are covered with little tight braids, on some heads standing at every angle, on some laid smoothly down, one braid tied to another. A few have their curly hair cropped close, and here is a little girl with a bushy mass overshadowing her lively face. She takes but a stitch or two until she goes up to the front and holds her work out for her teacher's inspection. Some time elapses before that lady can notice it and say, "That is pretty good, Lena; now go right on carefully." Lena returns slowly to her place, takes a stitch or two more and repeats the performance. When will the work be completed? O no, that is the way she used to do, but _now_--

A middle-sized "Topsy" comes pushing rudely forward, tossing her head and whispering disagreeable things to those she has to pass, and Susy hopes she will not be brought into any closer relations with _her_, when she happens to see her tenderly fondling a broken-armed, broken-legged dollie, while her work is being adjusted, and thinks somewhat better of her. There are several Lilies and Roses in this growing garden. The lilies are not white and the roses are not red, but more attractive and interesting to their teacher's eyes than the black pansies the flower gardeners {109} labored so long to produce. Their teacher is fond of flowers and has her windows full, even in winter, but she does not smile upon them with such a heartful of affection as upon these, nor can those bask in the light of her merry face more freely. As her short, round figure moves down the aisle and back, and Susie gets a good look at her, she says to herself, "Why surely this is Mrs. Santa Claus! How glad I am!" and it is not a strange conclusion, for her figure and expression _are_ like the poet's description of dear Saint Nick.

Here is a girl in one of the side seats a good deal taller than her teacher. Through the long, bright, warm summer she works in the cotton and the corn, alongside of father, brothers, uncles, men and women, boys and girls. Her hands are enlarged and roughened with toil, but she is taking pains to learn how to do this useful indoor work skillfully too.

There is a goodly company of these larger girls, but Susie does not feel any more afraid of them, nor of "the middle-sized bears and the wee tiny, small bears" than did little Silverhair in the nursery tale. She doubts, however, if these largest ones have not laid aside dollies, and thinks she must look among the "leaster" ones for the little _step-mother_ who will respect her own little Fay-mother's request to "take good care of her." But when the sewing-lesson is ended and she notices one and another bring to light a little dollie-daughter to hug in her arms as she walks homeward, and sees the sociable interest of all the rest, she feels no further doubt about the mother-love in all these little Southern bosoms and resigns all care as to which one shall be hers, leaving the whole question to Mrs. Santa Claus.

Perhaps some day we may call upon her when she is fully domesticated in her new home. There will not be many comforts and conveniences in that home. Possibly when we ask for Susie, her mamma will draw a little old box from under the head of her bed, as once when I called upon one of these little girls and asked her if she had a doll. It had lost some of its limbs and it was dressed in odds and ends, tacked together by the untaught little mother, but when I set the dollie on my knee and pretended to drink tea out of one of the tiny toy cups set forth from the same treasure-box, you could not find a more hilarious little mamma anywhere, though you should pick out one with all nursery stores at her command.

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A LETTER FROM ONE OF OUR INDIAN PUPILS IN NEBRASKA.

SANTEE AGENCY, NEB.

_Dear Eastern Friends_:--We have had five good prayer meetings during two weeks, and I am very glad to tell you dear friends that some of our school-mates said they will try and do as God wants them to do. And some pray who never did before. No words can tell how I felt one evening {110} after we came home from meeting. Just before I went up stairs I asked the Matron if I could talk Dakota to tell my room-mate about the meeting. The subject was, "What must I do to be saved?" I told it to her the best I could. After I was through talking I asked her if she understood all what I meant and she said "Yes." We both were silent for one minute. I was praying to God in my heart to help me to help this dear school-mate of mine. Then in a little while she said, "I believe in Jesus and now I will always try and be a Christian." When she said that, I couldn't do anything more, I was so glad that my tears came. And before we went to sleep I ask her to pray after I did, and she did; this was the first time she prayed in her own words. It was so dark and I couldn't see anything but I knew she was crying by the way she spoke. After long time I thought she went to sleep; but all at once she call my name and said, "I wish tomorrow morning they would sing in Dakota, '_Ring the bells in heaven, there is great joy to-day_.'" Dear friends we kindly ask you to remember us when you offer prayer to our dear God.

Your friend,

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RECEIPTS FOR FEBRUARY, 1888.

MAINE, $1,119.63.

Auburn. High St. Cong. Ch. 117.28 of which for Indian M. and 39.74 for Chinese M. 302.85

Augusta. Joel Spalding, to const. HON. WM. P. FRYE L.M. 30.00

Bangor. Central Cong. Ch. 75; Hammond St. Cong. Ch., 2, for Pleasant Hill, Tenn. 77.00

Bridgeton. By Mrs. Hale, Pkg. Basted Work, for Selma, Ala.

Castine. Wm. G. Sargent, for Pleasant Hill, Tenn. 5.00

Center Lebanon. Sab. Sch. Class., for Pleasant Hill, Tenn. 4.10

Denmark. Box of C., for Mobile, Ala.

East Orrington, Sab. Sch. 2; Miss M.F. George, 1, for Pleasant Hill, Tenn. 3.00

Edgecomb. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 13.00

Farmington Falls. By Miss Susan G. Crowell, for Freight 0.65

Hampden. Cong. Ch. 4.80

Harpswell. Mrs. John Dinsmore. for Pleasant Hill, Tenn. 7.00

Island Falls. Miss D. Merriman, for Pleasant Hill, Tenn. 2.50

Limington. Cong. Ch. 12.50

Monson. Rev. R.W. Emerson, for Pleasant Hill, Tenn. 5.00

Newcastle. Mrs. Wm. Heath, for Pleasant Hill, Tenn. 1.00

New Gloucester. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl. and Box of C., 1.75 for Freight, for Selma, Ala. 1.75

New Sharon, Cong. Ch. 3.00

North Bridgeton. Cong. Ch. 2.25

Norway. Mrs. Amos. I. Holt, Bbl. of C., for Wilmington, N.C.; ---- 2, for Freight 2.00

Orkland. H.T. and S.E. Buck, 20; Mrs. Trott, 3; "A Friend," 1 24.00

Portland. "A Friend" (10 of which for Rosebud Indian M.) 15.00

Saco. First Parish Ch. and Soc., to const. MRS. ELLA C. INGALLS L.M. 30.00

Scarboro. Cong. Ch. 5.16

Skowhegan. Ladies of Miss'y Soc., Bbl. of C., for Selma, Ala.

South Paris. by Mrs. Austin, Pkg. Work, for Selma, Ala.

Union. 2 Classes, little girls in Sab. Sch., by Mrs. F.V. Norcross for Pleasant Hill, Tenn. 5.00

Wells. B. Maxwell. 25.00

Westbrook. Second Cong. Ch. 25.57

Wilton. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., for Selma, Ala.

Yarmouthville. Rev. Amasa Loring, for Pleasant Hill, Tenn. 2.00

----. "Friend in Maine," bal. to const. MRS. JULIA A. MERRILL L.M. 10.50

By Mrs. C.A. Woodbury, Treas. W.A. to A.M.A., for Woman's Work:

Ladies of Maine 500.00

NEW HAMPSHIRE, $291.01.

Amherst. Rev. A.J. McGown 10.00

Auburn. Benjamin Chase, for Indian M. 2.00

Candia. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 17.50

Colebrook. "A Friend," Pkg. of Coats, Val. 16.16.

East Derry, First Ch. 18.03

East Jaffrey. "A Friend" 15.00

Enfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00

Epping. Cong. Ch. 37.00

Goffstown. Bbl. of C., Val. 30, for Greenwood, S.C., 1.40 for Freight 1.40

Great Falls. Mrs. J.A. Stickney, Bbl. and Box of C. and Christmas gifts, for Storrs Sch., Atlanta, Ga.

Greenfield. Cong. Ch. 15.50

Greenfield. "Friends" for Storrs Sch. 8.50

Greenland. Cong. Ch. 15.56

Hancock. By Miss B.D. Robertson 5.63 {111}

Henniker. By Miss B.D. Robertson 5.80

Lyme. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 19.81

Manchester. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. ALLEN L. FRENCH L.M. 53.18

Mason. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., for Storrs Sch., Atlanta, Ga.

Nashua. Miss Sarah Kendall, for Greenwood, S.C. 3.00

Nashua. 2 Bbls. of C., for Greenwood, S.C., 2 for Freight 2.00

Newport. Cong. Ch. 40.10

Pittsfield. Box and Bbl. of C., etc., for Marion, Ala.

South Newmarket. For Freight 2.50

West Lebanon. Tilden Sem., Box of C. and Christmas Gifts, for Storrs Sch., Atlanta, Ga.

By George Swain:

Amherst. Cong. Ch. 1.50

Greenville. Cong. Ch. 10.00

Mason. Mrs. P.S. Wilson 2.00

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.13.50

VERMONT. $174.06.

Bethel. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., for McIntosh, Ga. 3.43

East Hardwick. O. Paine 0.50

Fairhaven. For McIntosh, Ga. 5.35

Irasburg. Mrs. J.E. Chamberlin 5.00

Jamaica. Ladies, for McIntosh, Ga. by Mrs. Ellen D. Wild 2.00

Lyndon. Dr. L.W. Hubbard 2.00

Middlebury. Bbl. of C., and 2 for McIntosh, Ga. 2.00

Montpeller. Bbl. of C., for Storrs Sch., Atlanta, Ga.

North Thetford. Cong. Ch. 7.00

Norwich. Cong. Ch., 15; "A Friend," 5 20.00

Peru. Dea. Edmund Batchelder, 3; Rev. A.B. Peffers, 2. 5.00

Pittsford. Mrs. Nancy P. Humphrey 10.00

Post Mills. Cong. Ch. (3 of which for McIntosh, Ga.) 8.00

Quechee. Bbl. of C. and 1.75 for McIntosh, Ga. 1.75

Saint Johnsbury East. Cong. Ch. 6.50

Shoreham. R.H. Holmes 5.00

Stratford. Cong, Ch. 25.00

Townshend. Cong. Ch. (5 of which from Mrs. Anna Rice) 25.53

Wells River. Cong. Ch. 20.00

West Brattleboro. Ladies of Cong. Ch., 15; A.L. Grout, 5, for McIntosh, Ga. 20.00

MASSACHUSETTS, $5,925.07

Amesbury. Union Evang. Ch. 4.03

Amherst. "A Friend," to const. JOHN RICHARDS L.M. 30.00

Andover. Rev. F.W. Greene, 20; A Friend, 10 30.00

Andover. Juv. Miss'y Soc. of West Parish, for Indian Student Aid 15.00

Andover. Ladies of Free Ch., Bbl. of C., for Marion, Ala.

Ashfield. "A Friend" 1.16

Auburn. Infant Class. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga. 7.00

Belchertown. Mrs. D.B. Bruce, to const. REV. CHARLES R. BRUCE L.M. 30.00

Beverly. Dane St. Sab. Sch., for Student Aid, Fisk U. 50.00

Boston. J.H. Nichols, A.A. Lawrence and S.W. Marston, Val. Sch. Books and Sch. Apparatus

Dorchester. Miss Mary A. Tutle, for Marie Adlof Sch'p Fund 0.40

Jamaica Plain. Miss Nellie Riley, Pkg cards, etc., for Straight U. ----

.0.40

Boxboro. Cong. Ch. 15.00

Boxford. A Friend, for Ch., Corbin, Ky. 5.00

Brimfield. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., for Student Aid, Fisk U. 10.60

Buckland. First Cong. Ch., for Sherwood, Tenn. 4.00

Cambridgeport. Miss Hannah E. Moore 8.00

Chelsea. Y.P.S.C.E. of First Cong. Ch., for Student Aid, Fisk U. 7.50

Chelsea. Miss E. Davenport 5.00

Chelsea. Mrs. Emma B. Evans, for Indian M. 5.00

Clinton. Young People's Mite Soc., for Indian Sch'p 43.00

Cohasset. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 31.33

Cummington. Mrs. H.M. Porter 3.00

Dalton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., for Student Aid, Williamsburg, Ky. 45.00

Dracut. First Cong. Ch. 10.00

Dunstable. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 30.74

East Douglas. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 49.97

East Weymouth. Ch. and Sab. Sch., for Pleasant Hill, Tenn. 50.00

Georgetown. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 33.50

Globe Village. Young Helpers of Evan. Free Ch., for Student Aid, Fisk U. 25.00

Greenwich. Daniel Parker, deceased, by Mrs. M.P. Estey 5.00

Groton. Ladies' Benev. Soc., by Mrs. Caroline Blood, for Freight 2.00

Hampshire Co. "A Friend" 5.00

Haverhill. Sab. Sch. of West Cong. Ch., for Freight 3.00

Hyde Park. Woman's H.M.U. and Children's M. Soc. of First Cong. Ch., for Tougaloo U., and to const. MISS ALICE GRAY L.M. 30.00

Ipswich. South Cong. Ch. 20.00

Lakeville. Mrs. C.L. Ward 25.00

Lawrence. Lawrence St. Ch. and Soc. 150.00

Long Meadow. "A Friend," for Indian M. 1.00

Lowell. John St. Cong. Ch., 41.92; "A Friend in Elliot Ch." 5; Geo. C. Osgood, M.D., 1.50 48.42

Lowell. Ladies' Benev. Soc. of First Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., for Wilmington, N.C.

Malden. Infant Sab. Sch., for Straight U. 10.00

Manchester. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.75

Mansfield. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., for Wilmington, N.C. 8.17

Middlefield. Cong. Ch. 28.00

Monson. Mrs. Abbie G. Smith 5.00

Neponset. Stone Mission Circle of Trin. Cong. Ch., for Student Aid, Wilmington, N.C. 10.00

Newburyport. "Friends," for Mountain Work 3.00

Norfolk. Cong. Ch. 2.14

North Abington. Cong. Ch. 5.00

North Adams. "A Friend" 10.00

Northhampton. "C" 100.00

Northbridge. Cong. Ch. 10.00

North Brookfield. Freight on Box to Pleasant Hill, Tenn. 4.60

North Leominister. Mrs. S.F. Houghton, to const. REV. F.A. BALCOM L.M. 30.00

Peabody. Sab. Sch. of South Cong. Ch., for Indian M. 50.00

Peabody. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., Box Books and Christmas Gifts, for Sherwood, Tenn.

Pepperell. Ladies of Cong. Soc., Bbl. of C., for Greenwood, S.C., 2 for Freight 2.00

Randolph. Collected by Mrs. J.C. Labaree, 30; Y.L. Miss'y Soc,. Bbl. of C., for Tougaloo, U. 30.00

Randolph. Annie T. and Marion Belcher 10.00

Reading. Cong. Ch. 18.00

Royalston. "A Friend," 10; ----, Bbl. of C., for Greenwood, S.C. 10.00

Royalston. First Cong. Ch. 2.50

Somerset. Cong. Ch. 2.00

Somerville. Sab. Sch. of Franklin St. Cong. Ch., for Indian Student Aid, add'l 40.00 {112}

Somerville. Winter Hill Cong. Ch., 17.50; Day St. Ch., 10.50 28.00

Somerville. Ladies of Cong. Ch., for Freight 3.35

South Amherst. South Cong. Ch. 6.12

South Braintree. Cong. Ch. 11.00

Southington. Ladies' Benev. Soc., 2 Bbls. of C., for Tougaloo, Miss

South Weymouth. Children's Soc., Bbl. of Christmas Gifts

Spencer. Mrs. G.H. Marsh's S.S. Class, for Wilmington, N.C. 7.00

Springfield. "H.M." 1000.00

Taunton. Union Cong. Ch. 27.50

Waltham. Trin. Cong. Ch. 15.80

Waltham. Sab. Sen. Class, for Storrs Sch. Atlanta, Ga. 3.00

Warren. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., for Student Aid, Tillotson C. & N. Inst. 42.00

Watertown. Mrs. M. Pryor 0.50

Wellesley. Cong. Ch. and Soc 123.14

Wellesley. Wellesley College, to const. GEORGE W. CABLE L.M. 45.00

Wellesley. "Friends" in Wellesley Col., for Marion, Ala 26.00

West Boylston. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 9.00

Westhampton. ladies' Benev. Soc., for Tougaloo U 10.00

Westminster. "Cheerful Givers," for Student Aid, Fisk U 5.00

West Newton. Earnest Workers, for Student Aid, Storrs Sch 5.00

West Springfield. Mrs. Lucy m. Bagg, for Pleasant Hill, Tenn 50.00

Weymouth. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., for Pleasant Hill, Tenn 55.00

Whitman. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 77.00

Winchendon. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., for Pleasant Hill, Tenn 20.00

Winchester. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 19.59

Worchester. Old So. Ch., to const. GEO. R. BLISS and MRS. GEO. M. PIERSE L.M.'s 61.26

Yarmouth. Rev. John W. Dodge, for Pleasant Hill, Tenn 25.00 -------------- $2,925 07

LEGACY.

Whitinsville. Estate of Chas. P. Whitin, by Edward Whitin, Ex. 3000.00 -------------- $5,925 07

CLOTHING, ETC., RECEIVED AT BOSTON OFFICE.

Farmington Falls, Me. By Miss Susan G. Crosswell, Box, for Williamsburg, Ky

Litchfield, Me. Ladies' Aid Soc., Bbl., for Williamsburg, Ky

Brookfield, Mass. Mrs. R.B. Montague. Bbl., for Sherwood, Tenn

Cambridgeport, Mass. Miss Lacena Palmer, Basted Patchwork

Cambridgeport, Mass. By Mrs. R.L. Snow, Box and Bbl., for Tougaloo U

Haverhill, Mass. West Cong. Sab. Sch., Bbl., for Talladega C.

Hyde Park, Mass. W.H.M.U., of First Cong. Ch., Bbl., Val. 40 for Tougaloo U.

Roxbury, Mass. Mrs. Arthur W. Tuffts, Box, for Sherwood, Tenn

Somerville, Mass. Mission Circle of Franklin St. Ch., Bbl., for Santee Indian M.

RHODE ISLAND, $448.63.

East Providence. Samuel Belden, for Atlanta U 100.00

Newport. United Cong. Ch. 34.68

Pawtucket. "Friends," Cong. Ch., for Indian M. 105.00

Providence. Sam. Sch. of Union Cong. Ch., 50 for Indian M. and 25 for Williamsburg Ky 75.00

Providence. Union Cong. Ch. and Soc. 131.87

Riverside. Riverside Cong. Ch 2.08

CONNECTICUT, $2,001.63.

Berlin. "A Friend," 70; The Misses Churchill, 2, for Student Aid, Tougaloo U. 72.00

Branford. E. Davis 1.00

Bridgeport. First Cong. Ch 129.76

Bristol. Sab. Sch. Class, for Indian Sch'p 14.00

Columbia. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., 3, and Bbl. of C., for Louisville, Ky 3.00

Danbury. "A Friend," for Lexington, Ky. 50.00

East Canaan. Cong. Ch. 5.00

East Hartford. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., 29.77 and Box of Christmas Gifts, for Student Aid, Williamsburg, Ky 29.77

East Wallingford. Mrs. Benj. Hall 3.50

Enfield. Sab Sch. of First Cong. Ch., for Indian Sch'p Fund 25.00

Fairfield. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., for Tougaloo U 25.00

Gaylordsville. Miss Grace Hendricks, for Tillotson C. & N. Inst. 10.00

Glastonbury. "Friends," for Indian M. 217.00

Hartford. Teachers and Scholars, Sab. Sch. of Asylum Hill Cong. Ch., 12.50 for Santee Indian Sch.; 10 for Atlanta U.; 5 for Chinese Sch. Cal. 27.50

Hartford. Sab. Sch. of Windsor Av. Cong. Ch., for Student Aid, Fisk U 20.00

Lakeville. Mrs. S.C. Robbins 4.50

Ledyard. Cong. Ch. and Soc 22.77

Mansfield Center. Ladies' Soc. of Cong. Ch., Half Bbl, of C., etc., for Storrs Sch., Atlanta, Ga

Middletown. Sab. Sch of First Cong. Ch., for Indian M. 25.00

Milton. Cong. Ch. 5.00

Naugatuck. "Young Friends," for Indian Sch'p 70.00

New Britian. Miss Mary L. Stanley, 9 for Student Aid; Miss Mary L. Stanley and Miss Daniels, Box of C, for Williamsburg, Ky 9.00

New haven. "A Friend" 10.00

New Haven. Davenport Ch., for Indian M 5.50

New Haven. First Ch., Miss Barnes' S.S. Class and Others. Box for Jones' Kindergarten, Storrs Sch

New London. "Member of Second Ch." 1.00

Norfolk "A Friend" 4.50

North Branford. Sab. Sch., for Oaks, N.C. 20.00

North Coventry. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., for Student Aid, Williamsburg, Ky 24.00

Norwalk. Miss C.L. Marsh, for Tillotson C. & N. Inst 10.00

Norwich. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. Ch., for Santee Indian M. 50.87

Norwich. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. Ch 2.08

Poquonock. Willing Workers of Cong. Ch., for Student Aid, Williamsburg, Ky. 9.00

Salisbury. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., for Indian M 12.50

Sharon. John H. Cleaveland 5.00

Simsbury. Miss'y Soc. for Freight 3.00

South Coventry. Dea. and Mrs. Kingsbury, 10; Miss Louisa Lord, 5 for Williamsburg, Ky 15.00

South Glastonbury. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch. 10.58

Southington. First Cong. Ch., for Thomasville, Ga 1.50

Southport. "A Friend" 30.00

Southport. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., for Indian M 8.92

Thomaston. Cong. Ch. 35.15

Thompsonville. Mrs. J.C. Simpson, 5; Miss Maggie Drigg, 5, for Student Aid, Straight U 10.00

Unionville. First Ch. of Christ 37.92

Unionville. "A Friend," Communion Service, 8 pieces, for Ch., Austin, Tex

Warren. Cong. Ch. 21.00

Waterbury. First Cong. Ch. 200.86

Waterbury. Ladies' Benev. Soc., First Cong. Ch., for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga 25.00 {113}

Waterbury. "A Friend," for Santee Indian M. 50.00

Waterbury. Sunshine Circle, for Indian M. 5.00 West Hartford. "S.H.," for Indian M. 10.00

West Hartland. Cong. Ch., for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga. 6.00

Weston. Cong. Ch. 10.00

Windham. Ladies' Soc. Cong. Ch., Box of C., etc., for Thomasville., Ga.

Woodbridge. Cong. Ch. 14.83

Woodbury. Ladies' Miss. Soc. of South Cong. Ch., for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga. 25.00 Woman's Home Missionary Union of Conn., by Mrs. S.M. Hotchkiss, Sec.:

Kent. Sab. Sch. of Cong, Ch., for Mountain White Work 20.00

New Haven. Ladies' Miss'y Soc. of College St. Ch., for Conn. Ind'l Sch. 35.00

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LEGACIES.

Durham. Estate of Dea. Gaylord Newton, by H.G. Newton, to const. HENRY G. NEWTON, MISS LOIS CAMP and THOMAS R. NOBLE L.M.'s 100.00

New Haven. Estate of Mary Dutton, by Samuel D. Gilbert, Ex. 100.00

Woodbury. Estate of Sarah J. Deming, by Anson A. Root, Adm. 303.67

--------- $2,001 63

NEW YORK, $1,676.98.

Adams Basin. Mrs. H. Clark 5.00

Aquebogue. Cong. Ch. 11.00

Binghamton. Cong. Bible Sch., for Student Aid, Fisk U. 25.00

Brooklyn. Sab. Sch. of Tompkins Av. Cong. Ch., for Atlanta U., to const. REV. ROBERT R. MEREDITH, D.D., REV. GEO. F. PENTECOST, D.D., HENRY T. HOLT and MRS. ELMA M. STEBBINS L.M.'s 123.00

Brooklyn, Ladies' Circle, Lee Av. Cong. Ch., 22; South Bushwick Sab. Sch., 12; Daughters of the King, Lee Av., Cong. Ch., 7; Penny Offering Park Av. Sab. Sch., 5; Mrs. Anna Pollock, 3, for Student Aid. Mrs. Sarah Wilde, 10; Miss Sarah Hulst, 5; Daughters or the King, Lee Av. Cong. Sab. Sch., Pkg. of C.; Flossie Bringham, 1; Carrie Strong, 1, for Student Aid. Ladies' Circle, Lee Av. Cong. Ch., 2 Boxes of C.; South Bushwick Reformed Sab. Sch., 2 Bbls. of C. and Box of Books, for Williamsburg, Ky. 66.00

Brooklyn. Sab. Sch. of Central Cong. Ch., for Santee Indian M. 37.50

Brooklyn. Park Cong. Ch., 16.43; A.G. Brinkckerhoff, 5 21.43

Fairport. J.E. Howard 50.00

Flushing. First Cong. Ch. 56.00

Gloversville. Cong. Ch. 235.34

Honeoye. Cong. Ch. 26.00

Kiantone. Cong. Ch. 4.50

Lawrenceville. Lucius Hulburd 5.00

Lima. Mrs. Orson Warner 2.00

Lisbon. First Cong. Ch., 8.51; Mrs. Wm. Sheldon, 1 9.51

Miller's Place. Mount Sinai Cong. Ch. 12.00

New York. Miss D.E. Emerson, for Student Aid, Tougaloo U. 25.00

New York. "A Friend," Christmas Gift, for Williamsburg, Ky. 5.00

Paris. Cong. Ch. 24.00

Perry Centre. Cong. Soc., for Freight 1.25

Riverhead. Cong. Ch. 10.30

Rochester. Mrs. E.R. Andrews 4.50

Union Valley. Wm. C. Angel 5.00

Walton. First Cong. Ch. 69.82

Walton. Cong. Sab. Sch., Christmas Gifts, 33.93, and 2 Bbls. of C., etc.; H.E. St. John, 9; Miss Jennie Hull, 2, for Student Aid, Williamsburg, Ky. 44.93

West Bloomfield. Cong. Ch. 20 of which for Student Aid, Fisk U. 41.00

Woodbridge. First Cong. Ch. 8.37

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$938.45

LEGACY.

Waverly. Estate of Mrs. Phebe Bepburne, Howard Elmer, Ex. 738.53

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$1,676.98

NEW JERSEY, $36.91.

Colt's Neck. Reformed Ch. 5.16

East Orange. "True Blue Card," Collected by Mary Brenner 1.00

Lakewood. Rev. Geo. and E.O. Langdon 3.00

Newark. "X.Y." 1.75

Newark. "A Sister in Christ," Box Papers, etc., for Sherwood, Tenn.

Upper Montclair. Ladies' Aid Soc. of Cong. Ch., Bbl. Of C., for Storrs Sch., Atlanta, Ga.

Westfield. "A Friend" 1.00

----. "Heart's Content" 25.00

PENNSYLVANIA, $7.00.

Braddock. Thomas Addenbrook, Box Books, etc., for Sherwood, Tenn.

Guy's Mills. Mrs. F. Maria Guy 2.00

Linesville. M.T. Donaldson 5.00

OHIO, $407.82.

Austinburg. Cong. Ch. 11.00

Berea. First Cong. Ch. 6.50

Cleveland. Jennings Av. Cong. Ch., 75; Plymouth Cong. Ch., 72.16; John Jay Low, 20 167.16

Cleveland. Mount Zion Sab. Sch., for Student Aid, Fisk U. 8.64

Cleveland. Sab. Sch. First Cong. Ch., Box of C., for Tillotson C. & N. Inst.

Medina. W.H. Sipher 2.00

Mount Vernon. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 19.37

North Ridgeville. Ladies' Benev. Soc., Box Canned Fruit; Cong. Sab. Sch., Bbl. of Goods, for Williamsburg, Ky.

Oberlin. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., 10; "A Friend," 12.50; Mrs. L.G.B. Hills, 5 27.50

Oberlin. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. Ch., for Lexington, Ky. 15.00

Oberlin. Mrs. Vance, for Student Aid, Williamsburg, Ky. 5.00

Oberlin. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., for Storrs Sch., Atlanta, Ga.

Painesville. First Cong. Ch. 27.90

Painesville. Y.L.M. Soc., of First Cong. Ch., for Fort Berthold Indian M. 4.75

South Salem. Daniel S. Pricer 5.00

Toledo. Miss A.M. Nicholas, for Wilmington, N.C.. 5.00

West Andover. "Friends," by L.L. Coleman 10.00

Willoughby. Lyndon Freeman 1.50

Ohio Woman's Home Missionary Union, by Mrs. Phebe A. Crafts, Treas., for Woman's Work:

Burton. Mrs. A.S. Hotchkiss 3.00

Cleveland. L.H.M.S., of Euclid Av. Ch. 20.00 Cleveland. Euclid Av. Ch., L.M. Soc. 20.00

Columbus. Eastwood Ch., Y.L.M. Soc. 10.00

Columbus. Eastwood Ch., "Family Mite Box." 12.00

Willoughby. Mrs. Mary P. Hastings 26.00

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INDIANA, $25.00.

Bloomington, Mrs. A.B. Woodford, for Student Aid, Fisk U. 5.00

New Corydon. Geo. Storz 20.00

ILLINOIS, $468.20.

Albion. James Green 10.00

Bunker Hill. D.E. Pettengill 1.00

Canton. Cong. Ch. 42.20

Chicago. Sedgwick St. Sab. Sch. 25.00

Chicago. Major E.D. Redington, for Lexington, Ky. 17.00

Earlville. Mrs. Rindell, 1; Mabel Rindell, 20 cts.; Bertie Rindell, 15 cts. 1.35

Galesburg. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., for Fisk U. 10.00

Geneseo. First Cong. Ch. 145.18

Greenville. Ladies' Miss'y Circle, Box of C., Val. 25

Joliet. "A Thank Offering" 5.00

La Grange. W.M.S., for Chinese M. 5.00

Lake View. Church of the Redeemer 22.55

Lyonsville. Cong. Ch. 5.60

Naperville. Prof. Geo. W. Sindlinger, for Pleasant Hill, Tenn. 10.00

Odell. Mrs. H.E. Dana 10.00

Ottawa. First Cong. Ch. 32.66

Princeton. Mrs. R.D. Harrison, for Student Aid, Fisk U. 1.00

Prospect Park. Cong. Ch., in part 7.00

Shabbona. Woman's Miss'y Soc., 2 Boxes Papers, etc., for Sherwood, Tenn.

Turner. Mrs. R. Currier 1.00

Wheaton. College Ch. of Christ, in part 28.81

Winnebago. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., for Woman's Work 9.00

Woman's Home Missionary Union of Ill., Mrs. B.L. Leavitt, Treas., for Woman's Work:

Chicago. L.M. Soc. of New Eng. Ch. 30.00

Oak Park. Ladies' Benev. Circle 23.00

Rockford. Peter Holman Fund, First Ch. 20.65

Sheffield. Aux. 5.20

------ 78.85

MICHIGAN, $90.01

Allendale. Cong. Ch. 2.75

Ann Arbor. Ladies' Miss'y Soc. of Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., for Athens, Ala.

Banks. Cong. Ch. 8.70

Cheboygan. First Cong. Ch., add'l 0.97

Grand Rapids. First Cong. Ch. 25.50

Hopkins. First Ch. 6.50

Laingsburg. Cong. Ch. 4.50

Lansing. Cong. Ch. 7.00

Northville. D. Pomeroy 5.00

Salem. Miss'y Soc. of Second Cong. Ch., for Athens, Ala. 5.59

South Haven. First Cong. Ch. 14.50

----. "Muskegon" 2.00

Woman's Home Missionary Union of Mich., by Mrs. E.F. Grabill, Treas., for Woman's Work:

Bay City. W.H.M.S. 2.00

Cheboygan. W.H.M.S. 5.00

------ 7.00

WISCONSIN, $222.03.

Baraboo. Miss'y Soc., Bbl. of C., for Storrs Sch., Atlanta, Ga.

Boscobel. Cong. Ch. 2.25

Bristol and Paris. Christian Endeavor Soc., 2.55; Ladies' Soc. of Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., for Thomasville, Ga. 2.55

Brodhead. Cong. Ch. 4.27

Darlington. Cong. Ch. ..7.33

Fond du Lac. First Cong. Ch., 2 Bbls. C., for Storrs Sch., Atlanta, Ga.

Green Bay. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., Bbl. of C., for Austin, Tex.

Janesville. "Friends," Box of C., for Marion, Ala.

La Crosse. "A Friend," 25; Cong. Ch., 10 35.00

Lake Geneva. Mrs. Geo. Allen 5.00

Leeds. Cong. Ch. 5.00

Mazo Manie. Cong. Ch. 7.07

Milwaukee. Plymouth Ch. 40.58

Peshtigo. Cong. Ch. 3.22

Sparta. Cong. Ch. 40.41

Stoughton. Miss Sewell's S.S. Class, Christmas Gifts, for Austin, Texas

Waukesha. "Friends," for Student Aid, Marion Ala. 15.00

Wauwatosa. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., Box of C., for Austin, Texas

Windsor. Cong. Ch. 18.75

Woman's Home Missionary Union of Wis., for Woman's Work:

Green Bay. W.M.S. 9.00

Milwaukee. W.H.M.U., Grand Av. Ch. 25.00

Stoughton. Sab. Sch. Birthday Box 1.60

------- 35.60

IOWA, $204.31

Burlington. Mercy Lewis, for Chinese M. 0.50

Cedar Rapids. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., Birthday Offerings 1.97

Cherokee. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., for Student Aid, Straight U. 10.00

Chester Center. Cong. Ch. 9.85

Danville. L. Mix 5.00

Denmark. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 14.50 Farragut. Mrs. L.S. Chapin, for Woman's Work 2.00

Garnaville. Rev. G.M. Porter 3.00

Hull. Mrs. E.C. Davidson, for Student Aid, Williamsburg, Ky. 6.00

Iowa City. Sab. Sch., for Pleasant Hill, Tenn. 15.00

Iowa City. Mrs. R.A. McClain 5.00

McGregor. J.H. Ellsworth 10.00

McGregor. S.S. Class, by Mrs. S.J. Peterson, for Student Aid, Straight U. 5.00

McGregor. Mrs. C.E. Daniels, for Freight 2.30

New Hampton. First Cong. Ch. 12.30

Newton. Wittenberg Sab. Sch. 14.78

Sioux City. First Cong. Ch. 44.00

Stuart. Bbl. of C., for Savannah, Ga.

Tabor. Cong. Ch., for Tillotson C. & N. Inst. 10.00

Tipton. Mrs. M.D. Clapp 3.50

Tyrone. Wm. Griffiths 0.25

Woman's Home Missionary Union of Iowa, for Woman's Work:

Grinnell. W.H.M.U. 3.68

Le Mars. " " 5.73

McGregor. L.M.S. 6.95

Osage. W.M.S. 3.00

Tipton. L.M.S. 10.00

------- 29.36

MINNESOTA, $220.25.

Brainerd. First Cong. Ch. 12.00

Hancock. Sab. Sch. Miss'y Soc., for Savannah, Ga. 5.00

Leech Lake. C.P. Allen, M.D. 30.00

Plainview. Cong. Ch. 14.11

Plainview. Box of S.S. Supplies, for Corbin, Ky.

Rochester. W.J. Eaton, 50; Cong. Ch., 40.87 90.87

Sauk Center. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 8.00

Sauk Center. "Little Lights," Box Papers, etc., for Jonesboro, Tenn.

Stillwater. Grace Cong. Ch. 2.92

Wabasha. Cong. Sab. Sch. and Y.P.S.C.E. 27.25 {115}

Worthington. Union Cong. Ch. 21.55

Zumbrota. Cong. Ch. 8.55

MISSOURI, $236.60.

Bevier. Luella J. Hudelson 2.00

Kansas City. Olivet Cong. Ch., in part 9.05

St. Louis. Pilgrim Cong. Ch., 200; Third Cong. Ch., 10.55 210.55

St. Louis. Mrs. R.H. Webb, for Straight U. 10.00

Webster Groves. Cong. Ch. 5.00

KANSAS, $85.65.

Atchison. Cong. Ch., for Tillotson C. & N. Inst. 5.00

Dover. Cong. Ch. 2.80

Lawrence. Second Cong. Ch., "Thank Offering" 1.00

Topeka. Woman's H.M. Soc., for Storrs Sch., Atlanta, Ga. 75.00

Topeka. Ladies' Miss'y Soc. 2 Bbls. of C. for Storrs Sch., Atlanta, Ga.

Wakarusa. Cong. Ch. 1.85

DAKOTA, $5.00.

Sioux Falls. W.M.S., by Mrs. Sue Fifield, Terr. Treas. 5.00

NEBRASKA, $47.00.

Cowles. Cong. Ch. 2.00

Omaha. First Cong. Ch. (in part) 10.00

Oxford. F.A. Wood 5.00

Wahoo. Cong. Ch., to const. Rev. A.A. CRESSMAN L.M. 30.00

CALIFORNIA, $62.50.

Riverside. C.W. Herron's S.S. Class, for Student Aid, Tougaloo U. 8.00

San Luis Obispo. Rev. E.N. Bartlett 4.50

Santa Barbara. Rev. Edward Hildreth, to const. PHILO C. HILDRETH L.M. 50.00

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $70.00.

Washington. "Two Members First Cong. Ch.," for Indian M., and to const. MRS. SARAH B.A. ROBINSON and MISS SARAH M. ROBINSON L.M.'s 60.00

Washington. Lincoln Memorial Ch. 10.00

MARYLAND, $393.16.

Baltimore. First Cong. Ch. 105 of which for Indian M. 393.16

KENTUCKY, $450.86.

Lexington. Tuition 314.21

Williamsburg. Tuition 136.65

TENNESSEE, $1,126.03.

Grand View. Tuition 45.00

Jonesboro. Tuition, 22.25; County Fund, 40 62.25

Memphis. Tuition 467.20

Nashville. Tuition, 509.08; Rent, 6.50 515.58

Pleasant Hill. Miss J.A. Calkins, 31; Mrs. Shroyer, 1; "A Friend," 1; "A Friend," by Mrs. Shroyer, 1, for Pleasant Hill, Tenn. 34.00

Sherwood. Mrs. O.N. Alden 2.00

NORTH CAROLINA, $177.35.

Raleigh. First Cong. Ch., Christmas Offering 4.85

Troy. By S.D. Leak 1.00

Wilmington. Tuition 163.00

Wilmington. By Miss H.L. Fitts 8.50

SOUTH CAROLINA, $228.62.

Charleston. Tuition 228.62

GEORGIA, $882.94.

Atlanta. Storrs Sch., Tuition 295.85

Atlanta. First Cong. Ch., Birthday Offerings 1.04

Macon. Tuition 246.35

Marietta. Ch. and Sab. Sch. 1.00

McIntosh. Tuition 58.75

Savannah. Tuition 207.70

Thomasville. Tuition 72.25

ALABAMA, $706.35.

Athens. Tuition 57.75

Birmingham. Christmas Gift, Cong. Ch. 5.60

Ironaton. Cong. Ch. 1.50

Jenifer. Cong. Ch. 3.60

Marion. Tuition, 130.50; "Southern Friend" (C.W.L.). for Marion, Ala., 5; Cong. Ch., 3 138.50

Mobile. Tuition 288.90

Selma. "Two Southern Friends," for Marion, Ala. 30.00

Selma. W.M. Ass'n, Cong. Ch., for Indian M. 5.00

Talladega. Tuition 176.10

FLORIDA, $80.00.

Orlando. M. Marty 10.00

Saint Augustine. Pub. Sch. Fund 70.00

LOUISIANA, $419.75

New Orleans. Tuition 389.75

New Orleans. M.L. Berger, D.D., to const himself L.M. 30.00

MISSISSIPPI, $209.65.

Port Gibson. Mrs. M.S. Bradford, for Freight 1.85

Tougaloo. Tuition 206.30

Tougaloo. Rent 2.00

TEXAS, $127.84.

Austin. Tuition, 123.84; "Friends." 4; Mr. Blatchford, Ag't, 1 Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1 Webster's Academic Dictionary, for Tillotson C. & N. Inst. 127.84

INCOMES, $29.05.

Avery Fund, for Mendi M. 29.05

CANADA, $10.00.

Montreal. Chas. Alexander 5.00

Toronto. Mrs. Jane Ebbs 5.00

TURKEY, $10.00.

Van. Rev. Geo. C. Raynolds 10.00

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Donations 10,146.59

Legacies 4,242.20

Incomes 29.05

Tuition 4,250.05

Rents 8.50

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Total for February 18,676.39

Total from Oct. 1 to Feb'y 29 110,091.90

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Subscriptions for February 104.41

Previously acknowledged 458.09

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Total 562.50

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