inpatients. Of this number 8,180 were treated in the institution at Pithoragarh. A number of others were treated by me personally while on my itinerating tours, but of these no record was kept.

Regarding the diseases that are most prevalent I can only mention a few. Leprosy is very common. I am told the percentage of lepers to the population is larger in the district of Kumaon than in any other portion of India. Within a circle of eight miles from the house I live in, over fifty lepers can be found in the different villages, and this after a number have been sent to a leper asylum connected with the London mission in a station called Alenora. The mission to lepers, an Irish mission, last year at my solicitation, purchased a property here and have started an asylum for these wretched sufferers. I superintend it, at their request. They hold themselves responsible for the maintenance of a certain number of lepers, but any received over and above the number must be maintained by other parties.

This is the only institution of its kind as far as I know in any way connected with the missions of the Methodist Church. I trust if in the future this asylum has ever to look for aid from our society, it will not look in vain. I hope to write at greater length regarding what is being accomplished by this institution at some future time.

Goitre is exceedingly common. Last year in the Pithoragarh dispensary alone 1,195 cases were treated. A few weeks ago I was examining a branch school and to my surprise I found that fully three-fourths of the scholars were all troubled with this complaint. It is hard to tell what is the cause of it; the natives all attribute it to the lime in the water. It is one of the daily sights in connection with the dispensary, to see the compounders vigorously applying mercurial ointments to goitres of every degree of enlargement.

Good News from India. Rev. J. C. Lawson writes from Sitapur, India, May 18, 1886:

The heart-cheering news comes from Bro. Knowles, of Gondah, that he has just baptized over five hundred of the Thâras people, aboriginals living on both sides of the boundary line which separates British from Nipâlese territory. These people are thrifty, well-to-do farmers, simple in life, and are said to be honest and straightforward. In the northwest Provinces and Oudh alone, (to say nothing of other parts of India, and of the many thousands there must be in Nipâl), they number 14,494 males and 12,678 females, or a total of 27,172. They are to be found in every district of Fyzabad Division. Cawnpore, Kherí, Taraí, Gorakhpore, Moradabad, Budâon, and Bânda.

A work among them has also been opened in the Kherí District at Barbetta, Dhuskia and Beldârí, some seventy or eighty miles north of Sitapur and about as far northwest of Bro. Knowles' work among them at Bankatara, Bhagwanpur, Chandaupur, and other places in the Gondah District. During the trip of the Sitapur workers to the Thâroos of the Kherí District, in January last, nine Hindus of India and Nipâl received Christian baptism. Although no Thâroos are included in this number, still a good work has been opened in their midst.

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Troubles in Chinkiang, China. The Rev. G. W. Woodall furnishes the Chinese Recorder the following account of the troubles in the Methodist Episcopal Mission in Chinkiang:

During 1885 two houses were built by the American M. E. Mission at Chinkiang. The contract. in English and Chinese, was signed and stamped at the United States Consulate. The work, under the superintendence of my colleague, Rev. W. C. Longden, progressed very satisfactorily. Questions often arose about quality of material and workmanship, but the contractor usually yielded when the terms of the contract were insisted upon.

Payments were made promptly, according to contract, as the work progressed, until only eighty dollars were due him, and forty of that by agreement was not due until May, 1886.

Before the buildings were entirely finished he demanded the whole balance. We told him as soon as he completed the houses according to contract we would pay him all that was due him.

He then claimed that the houses were finished and appealed to the United States Consul for his money. The Consul investigated the accounts and examined the contract and then ordered him to finish the work. This he declared himself unwilling to do and carried the case before the Tao Tai, claiming that the mission owed him several thousand dollars, and that the Consul would give him no redress.

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We think that the moral effect of the telegram, announcing the man-of-war, acted like a charm. And the fact that a man-of-war remained in the harbor until the ringleaders were properly punished, will probably prevent similar outrages in the near future,

American citizens resident in China ought to appreciate the persistent efforts of our government representatives to obtain redress for us. It is such prompt action on the part of our governments, that throws a safeguard about our persons in these Heathen Countries.

Notes from the North Dakota Mission. Rev. Henry G. Bilbie writes from Fargo, Dakota, June 8, 1866:

Since October 15, 1885, when I was put in charge of this Mission, the work has been moving steadily forward. No very noticeable revivals have occurred, but the majority of the charges have had extra meetings and some conversions. Over one hundred have been added to the Church by this means on the 14 charges of this district. The other districts have had similar experience with more marked results.

A nice church has been completed at Wahpeton, and new churches have been begun at Grand Rapids and Milnor. It is also reasonable to anticipate that buildings will be begun before Conference at La Moure and Ripon, and other places are anticipating the building of houses at an early day.

A new circuit has been organized with three appointments in the contiguous

class of fourteen members and a Methodist Sabbath-school of about thirty. On Saturday and Sabbath following I held quarterly meeting services at Hoskins, the county seat of McIntosh County, organized a class of twelve and administered the first communion service ever held in that county. Brother A. J. Garry, a local preacher from Ohio is in charge.

In my work, since October 15, I have traveled about nine thousand miles by railroad, and over five hundred miles by team.

Very hard times prevail all through our territory. We have not only the current difficulties of the East, but those arising from the low price of wheat, and extensive deals in "futures" by many leading merchants and bankers.

Notwithstanding this, the outlook for our benevolences is quite good. Three of the leading charges of the Fargo District have taken the Missionary collection, and have considerably exceeded their assessment, which was itself greater than the million dollar line.

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The Japan Mission reports 208 members. In 1880 there were but two.

Miss Orr and Miss Duffield are in charge of the school at Wakayama, Japan. Miss Leavitt and Mrs. Drennan are teaching in Osaka, Japan.

The receipts of the Board at St. Louis for Home Missions were $8,859.85; Foreign Missions, $9,470; Special Receipts, $1,499.02, making a total of $19,828.93. The disbursements were for Foreign Missions, $7,(68.39; Home Missions, $8,274.70; Other Payments, $1,125.40; Expense of administration, $2,763.49.

The Rev. G. G. Hudson and wife have been appointed to reinforce the Japan Mission.

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"Marked progress has been made. In the Arcot Mission 95 were received on confession, making the number in full communion 1,610; native assistants in-creased from 150 to 162; 11 more schools established; now 2,213 pupils in Christian schools. The call in India is for advance in every department. Nor is this call less loud, nor the prospect less encouraging in Amoy, where 65 were received on confession, making a total of 784 communicants. A new station will probably soon be opened in the interior at Sio-ke, some 60 miles west of Amoy. in Japan the first Christian Church organized only 14 years ago by our own missionaries, consisted of 11 members; now the Union Church has 45 churches of over 4,000 members.

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Some fifteen or eighteen years ago, many of the supporters of the India Mission of the American United Presbyterian Church concluded that their mission did not pay, and talked seriously of calling home their missionaries from that heathen country. But the reaping time has come. In each of the past three years, 1883, 1884 and 1885, the net increase of communicants in that mission has exceeded 500.

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