—Lai Tip, a Chinese laundryman, was recently murdered on Spring Street, New York, while returning from the Sunday-school of the Reformed Presbyterian Church. It appears he was set upon by two or three roughs, and while stooping to recover his hat, which had been knocked off, received from a knife fatal wounds from which he died on the third day. His funeral was attended by Rev. Drs. Hall and Crosby, and he was buried amid a large attendance of Chinamen at Machpelah Cemetery, Hoboken, N.J. The murder was most shameful and unprovoked.
FLATONIA, TEX.—“The box you spoke of in your letter was received last week. Maps are just what we need and will be a great help. Almost everything was of use, and I consider it a very valuable box, unusually so. I would like to give my heartfelt thanks to the donors if I knew them. Please do so for me. I know that those who keep up the supplies at home like to be assured that their gifts are appreciated.”
COLORED SUNDAY-SCHOOLS, N.C.—“Happy Greeting” Union Sunday-school is the name of one of eight schools organized during the last two months by a missionary of the American Sunday-school Union in North Carolina. “This name,” he writes, “was adopted by a cheerful crowd of colored people.” Another of these schools is called “Valley Home.” Very few among those people were able to read the Bible. In a class of twenty-five, only one could tell the name of the first book in it. Some said that Jacob built the ark. When asked how the Israelites expressed their joy after crossing the Red Sea in safety, one said: “I s’pose, sir, dey shot off big guns and holler’d!” and all present nodded their assent.
REV. JOS. E. ROY, D.D., FIELD SUPERINTENDENT, ATLANTA, GA.
Commencement Exercises of the Theological Department of Howard University were held in the Memorial Lutheran Church, Fourteenth Street and Vermont Avenue, Washington, D.C., Friday evening, May 6th, 1881, at 7.45 o’clock. A large audience of white and colored friends was present, including various U.S. Senators and other persons of influence.
Music; Prayer by Rev. W. W. Patton, D.D., Pres. Howard University; reading of the Scriptures by Rev. J. G. Butler, D.D.; Music; Addresses by Graduates; The Perpetuity of the Church, by Emory W. Williams, Prince George’s Co., Md.; Man, a Religious Being, by William A. Shannon, Washington, D.C.; Music; The Christian Minister, by George V. Clark, Atlanta, Ga.; Our Duty to Africa, by Jarrett E. Edwards, Columbia, S.C.; Music; Address to Graduates, by Rev. Charles A. Stark, D.D., Lutheran, Baltimore, Md.; Presentation of Bibles to the Graduates, in behalf of the Washington Bible Society, by Rev. A. W. Pitzer, D.D.; Conferring Certificates, by Rev. J. G. Craighead, D.D., Dean Theo. Dept. The addresses were of a creditable character and gave promise of future usefulness.