“We send you the accompanying draft. It is our Golden Wedding gift, April 1, 1879, which is the fiftieth anniversary of our married life. We want you to use it for the Christian and educational elevation of the poor Freedmen as you think best. We talked the subject over, and concluded to make you this gift in behalf of _them_, instead of making a fashionable golden wedding party for the entertainment of our fifty-year-old friends or our own personal benefit. With it you shall have our daily prayers for the ultimate success of so worthy a cause.” “Enclosed please find my check for $——, donation of my “Lady Friends” at my Golden Wedding.” * * * * * RECEIPTS FOR APRIL, 1879. MAINE, $175.49. Bath. M. F. Gannett $10.00 Bethel. F. B. and H. C. B. 1.00 Blanchard. “A Friend.” 5.00 Brewer. First Cong. Ch., $10.83; First Cong. Sab. Sch., $3.52, bal. to const. Mrs. Rev. C. A. BECKWITH, L. M. 14.35 Brunswick. First Cong. Soc. 19.65 Falmouth. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 9.20 Foxcroft and Dover. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 36.28 Gorham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 31.85 Hallowell. South Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Tougaloo U._ 15.00 Hampden. L. H. 0.50 Lewiston. Rev. G. S. Dickerman 20.00 North Waterford. S. E. H. 1.00 Orono. First Cong. Ch. 1.56 St. Albans. First Cong. Ch. 1.60 Sweden. Cong. Ch. 5.00 Waterford. “H. E. and C. M. D.” $3 and box of C.; Mrs. C. D. 50c 3.50 NEW HAMPSHIRE, $619.08.