R. G. Peters, Esq., of Manistee, Mich., has given $6,000 toward the Professorship Fund of Chicago University. Miss Louisa Howard, of Burlington, Vt., has given $5,000 to the University of Vermont, to establish five scholarships, to be known by her name. John P. Howard, of Burlington, Vt., gives the Vermont University $25,000 for the Lafayette statue, $50,000 for rebuilding the main edifice, making a total of $125,000, besides $150,000 given to other religious and benevolent institutions in the city. Mr. Moses Hopkins lately gave $50,000, and $3,000 for repairs, to the Golden Gate Seminary, at Oakland, Cal., which is hereafter to be called Hopkins Academy. The estate of Christopher R. Robert, of New York City, by a decision of the New York Court of Appeals, is now to pay $100,000 more to the endowment of Robert College at Constantinople. Senator Jos. E. Brown, of Atlanta, Ga., has given the State University $50,000, to be used in aiding indigent worthy young men. Paul Dulane, of Princeton, N.J., has given $2,000,000, to be used in building and endowing at New Orleans an institution for the education of white young men in languages, science, literature and art. _We learn that a man in the South has made provision in his will to leave $25,000 or $50,000 toward the endowment of one of our chartered institutions in that region. This is a grateful foretaste of what is yet to come, when the people of that land shall join with those of the North in supporting these schools of higher learning for the benefit of our newly-made fellow-citizens. It also makes to other high-minded and patriotic men at the South the suggestion—“Go thou and do likewise.”_ * * * * * GENERAL NOTES AFRICA. —Mr. Grattan Guinness honorable director of the Livingstone Congo Inland Mission, has published a grammar and dictionary in the language now spoken by the natives. —The Bible in the Basuto language, has been issued by the British and Foreign Bible Society at a cost of $20,000. This is the ninth completed Bible in the native languages of Africa. —Both roads from the coast to the level of the Upper Congo, that on the north side of the river and that on the south, are reported to be now open all the way. The vast basin of the Upper Congo, with its 900,000 square miles of territory and its 150,000,000 of idol worshippers may therefore be said to be overcome. —Between the Zambesi River and Lake Bangueola a Missionary station is to be established by M. Ceillard, a French Missionary, and his wife, who have recently gone there for that purpose. —Seven different nations are embraced by the Berlin Missionary Society in the area of their South African Work, which extends 1000 miles in length by 500 miles in width. They have forty-two stations within this boundary.