In another room, the ceremonies in connection with this were performed. Here was a table covered with priestly symbols, food, liquor, candles, and peculiar priestly appliances. About the table stood three Buddhist priests, and sitting on benches were four men with drum, cymbals and horns. For two days nearly they kept up incessantly the most fearful din, reading and howling at the top of the voice. Every now and then, the priests would perform a sort of dance. On the walls were hung large pictures of the torments practised in hell—most hideous pictures of pulling out men’s tongues and eyes, and tortures you would hardly think men capable of imagining. The little children of the dead woman were there, clothed in coarse sack-cloth, and kept busy taking part in the ceremonies, directed by the priests. In the place where the house was they would come in and bow down to the ground several times to their mother. The father stood by, looking on like one troubled and ashamed of the horrid nuisance, as he evidently thought it to be. In the morning, the whole thing was taken out and set on fire, and thus spirited away to the spiritual regions for the use of the poor woman.—_From Presbyterian Record, Canada._ * * * * * RECEIPTS FOR AUGUST, 1880. * * * * * MAINE, $351.70. Andover. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $5; Rev. S. W. Pearson, $5 $10.00 Bangor. First Cong. Ch. 27.50 Bath. Central Cong. Ch., $56.10; Winter St. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $35.50; Eliza Bowker, $2 93.60 Brewer. M. Hardy, $50 to const. MRS. EUGENIE L. BECKWITH, L. M.; First Cong. Ch., $8, and Sab. Sch. $8 66.00 Brunswick. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.00 Castine. Rev. A. E. Ives 2.00 Falmouth. First Cong. Ch. 20.00 Farmington. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.00 Garland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.00 Gorham. Cong. Ch., ($2 of which bal. to const. MISS REBECCA WATERS, L. M) 25.40 Hampden. Mrs. R. S. Curtis 5.00 Portland. “Mrs. A. L. M.” 25.00 Skowhegan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.20 Standish. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 3.50 Warren. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.00 Waterford. Mrs. S. C. Hersey 1.50 West Bath. Isaiah Percy, $3; Beulah B. Percy, $2 5.00 Windham. Cong. Ch. 7.00 NEW HAMPSHIRE, $338.02.