Seth Wadhams, of Chicago, who gave the $1,500 for the purchase. At Marion, a house was built for a parish school. At Athens, the Trinity School Building to accommodate 150 scholars and the family of teachers, has been completed at a cost to the Association of $8,000. For this the colored people themselves made the needed two hundred thousand brick, mixing the clay by the tramp of their one small steer, and they have their proportionate interest in the property. At the laying of the corner stone, the local editor, the Postmaster and the Principal of the Ladies’ Seminary of the place, made appreciative addresses, and Miss Wells had her Jubilee. In Little Rock, Ark., at a cost of $5,500, we have bought and fenced a tract of 14 acres, overlooking that city, as a site for the Edward Smith College, which has been chartered by the State, being so named from a gentleman in Massachusetts who gave the money to buy the land, and who to a surplus now in hand intends to add enough to make his donation $19,000. This institution is greatly needed in that grandly opening State, where there is, as yet, no provision for the higher education of the colored people. This last planting will about complete our circle of State institutions. At Fayetteville, Ark., our Howard School Building has been overhauled, and in it we have re-opened our own school. So at Lexington, Ky., we have refitted our High School Building, and have resumed our own school, the city for the last six years having had the use of the house. At Camp Nelson, the trustees of the Academy are erecting a new three-story building under the lead of the Rev. John G. Fee. At the South we count 8 chartered institutions, 11 high and normal schools, and 38 common schools—in all 57. During the year we have employed 241 teachers, an increase over the last year of 11. Of these, 13 have performed the duties of matrons and 15 have been engaged in the business departments. The number of students has been 9,608, a gain of 500 over last year. Of these, 72 have been in the theological department, 28 in the law, 104 in the collegiate, 139 in the preparatory, 2,542 in the normal, 1,103 in the grammar, 2,185 in the intermediate, and 3,481 in the primary.