on for growth in
population and in civilization.

It will be remembered that of the three men connected with the horrible
murder of Mr. Thornton, two were at once arrested by the natives and
shot. The third, Titalk, who was the leader, escaped for the time. Mr.
Lopp thus describes his death: "After the 'Bear' had left for the South,
Titalk came back to the cape, and his uncle, Te-ed-loo-na led him up on
the hillside near the grave of Mr. Thornton, and asked him how he should
put him to death, strangle him, stab him or shoot him. The boy preferred
to be shot, so he commanded him to hold his head down and then shot
him."

Mr. Lopp furnishes another evidence of the disposition on the part of
the leading natives to guard the interests and property of the mission:
"On one occasion during the winter Chief Eliguok heard that a boy had
broken into the school-house, and he announced his intention to kill the
boy, but upon investigation it was found to be a false report."

We trust that in the good providence of God, this mission will be made
prosperous and be greatly enlarged, that its missionaries will be
preserved in safety, that the natives will become more orderly, that the
influence of the school and mission may bring to them peaceable fruits
of civilization and Christianity.

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HON. A.C. BARSTOW.

We record our tribute of sorrow at the death of Hon. A.C. Barstow, which
occurred September 5th. He was for many years intimately and usefully
connected with the growth and prosperity of the city of Providence,
R.I., which was his home and where he died. He was a man of wide
sympathies in Christian and patriotic work, having held responsible
offices in his native State, and was connected with other public
movements, like that of the Board of Indian Commissioners, of which for
a time he was president. He was a devoted Christian man, active in the
church of which he was a member, and deeply interested in the missionary
and benevolent boards of the Congregational churches. He was for a long
time a vice-president of our Association.

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REV. GEORGE S. SMITH.

"Servant of God, well done!
Rest from thy loved employ!
The battle fought, the victory won,
Enter thy Master's joy!"

This may be fittingly said of Rev. G.S. Smith, who for thirteen years
was pastor of the Congregational Church at Raleigh and McLeansville,
N.C., and who entered into