eem of those with whom he has been
associated.

MISS LUCELIA E. WILLIAMS.

This estimable lady, after four years of severe but patient suffering
from neuralgia, passed away Sunday afternoon, December 22, at her home
in Deerfield, Mass. Miss Williams was a native of Deerfield, an old
historic town in the Connecticut Valley, and a descendant of Rev. T.
Williams, who was taken captive by the Indians. During the war of the
Rebellion Miss Williams was sent by the National Freedman's Aid Society
to labor among the Freedmen of Port Royal Island, S. C. With a
commission and a Government permit alone she found her mission field.
The following year was spent at Richmond, Va., teaching among the
refugees who had come into the city at the close of the war. The next
year she taught a large school in Washington, D. C., at Kendall Green,
and in the autumn of 1867, accompanied by her sister, Miss P. A.
Williams, she began her work at Hampton, Va., teaching in the Butler and
Lincoln schools. After the new building was completed, the sisters were
transferred to the Normal school, which they organized, and the success
of which was largely due to their indefatigable labors. Miss Williams
was connected with the institution two years when she was appointed by
the American Missionary Association as Principal of the Stanton Normal
Institute, Jacksonville, Fla., where she remained seven years.

Miss Williams always secured the confidence and esteem of those with and
for whom she labored, and was considered one of the most efficient
teachers in the employ of the Association.

The South.

THANKS, GOVERNOR STONE.

The popular Governor of Mississippi, Hon. J. M. Stone, who has filled
the responsible position of chief executive for a greater length of time
than any other person since the formation of the State government, in
his last message to the Senate and House of Representatives called
especial attention to Tougaloo University, as follows:

"Although Tougaloo University is not a State institution, I desire, in
its behalf, to convey to you in this parting message a word of warm and
sincere commendation. No school in the South is conducted upon higher
principles, and its good effects are felt throughout the State. By way
of recognition of its great merit, and for the high esteem in which its
principal is held in the community, the Board of Visitors has been
continued from term to term, and I recommend that a Board be appointed