—Rev. A. J. Biddle, in speaking of the American Indian, gives the following incident with which he was personally acquainted, as a typical case: An Indian and his wife left their tribe in the state of Oregon, came among the white settlers upon an excellent farm, built their cabin, assumed the garb of civilization, and were exceedingly earnest in their endeavors to be as their neighbors. The wife eagerly sought instruction from her white sisters in housekeeping. The husband was as eager to know how to farm. They were succeeding nicely, contented and happy in their new home and new civilization. One day two white men came along, saw this farm; it was fertile and well improved; they coveted it; asked the Indian to sell it; he refused. They determined to have it; so, a few days later, they returned when no white witnesses were present, shot the Indian in his own door-yard, drove the frightened wife away and took possession of the property. Nor were they ever molested. No one saw the crime but the Indian wife. No court would listen to her story, so the matter ended, with the pleasant home desolated, the murderers eating the fruit of their crime. * * * * * AFRICA. —The whole Bible has been translated into eight African tongues, and portions of it into 24 others, making 32 in all. —According to the _Agence Reuter_, M. Roger will set out with the Belgian expedition and 135 natives to rejoin Stanley upon the Congo. —Three Roman missionaries, of Ouroundi, have been massacred in their houses, near Tanganyika. Three others escaped. The last letters of the missionaries tell of the perils which they run on the part of the blacks from the calumnies of the Arab merchants in regard to those who endeavor to abolish the treaty. —The Livingstonia Central African Company has established a factory at Inhamissengo, at the mouth of the Zambeze. It found there already two European companies, one Portuguese and the other French. —Messrs. Creux and Berthond, of the Swiss mission at the north of Transvaal, are attempting to open a direct route from Valdezia to the Delogoa Bay. —A company has been formed in Transvaal, with a capital of 200,000 livres, to explore the silver mines of Tati. —The London Missionary Society’s mission on Lake Tanganyika has been carried on since its commencement, in 1876, at an expense of $100,000. There have been three deaths, and three have been obliged to retire on account of ill health. The society proposes to send out five new men in the Spring to recruit the mission. —Mr. Adam McCall, leader of the Livingstone inland mission on the Congo, died at Madeira on November 24. —Direct communication was to be established by submarine cable between Calle and Bizerte early in October.