Christian herald and signs of our times . teel of Boston, Dr. William J. Erdman of Asheville, N. C,Dr. William C. Webb of Philadelphia, and Rev. George Full particulars may be obtained by addressingthe association Office, Ocean Grove, N. ). The Managers of the American Bible Society, at theirregular meeting on June 4, appropriated funds amounting inthe aggregate to $55,, including a grant to the Boardof the Reformed Church, for its Arcot Mission ; to theAmerican Board, for Bible work in Spain ; to the MissionarySociety of the Methodist Episcopal Church, foi Bible workin German
Christian herald and signs of our times . teel of Boston, Dr. William J. Erdman of Asheville, N. C,Dr. William C. Webb of Philadelphia, and Rev. George Full particulars may be obtained by addressingthe association Office, Ocean Grove, N. ). The Managers of the American Bible Society, at theirregular meeting on June 4, appropriated funds amounting inthe aggregate to $55,, including a grant to the Boardof the Reformed Church, for its Arcot Mission ; to theAmerican Board, for Bible work in Spain ; to the MissionarySociety of the Methodist Episcopal Church, foi Bible workin Germany and Switzerland ; to the Russian Bible Societyfor colporteur work in Siberia ; to the Evangelical Society ofGeneva ; to the Committee of Evangelization of the Wal-densian Church ; and to the Societys La Plata, Venezuela,Persia, China, and Russian Agencies. The issues from theBible House during the month of May were 72, 348 vol-umes; issues since April ist, 167,540 volumes. June 17. 1891. THE CHRISTIAN HERALD AND SIGNS OF OUR TIMES. 377. CURRENT^ EVENTS. Haytis Revolution-Chinese Outrages on Missions—AnItalian Kartliquake—Sir John Macdonalds Successor—The New Superintendent f Immigration Another Are>tie Expedition Presidenl KrngerB Vlall to Natal! EVOLUTION has Broken out in Hayli, as was fore-shadowed in The Chris-tian Herald. Duringthe last month, hundredsof arrests were made ofmen suspected of sym-pathy with the LegitimeGovernment, the news of_ a plot to assassinate Presi- dent Hyppolite, having become known. Theplotters selected a festival day, when all theHaytians would be in church, to attack the jailat Port-au-Prince, and liberate the plot was duly carried out and the captivesand their rescuers next attacked the Hyppolite, who was in church, wheninformed of the state of affairs, at once puthimself at the head of a body of troops andinarched to the arsenal, where a sharp fighttook place, the rebels being between the fire ofthe tr
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