A Missionary Schooner

A new schooner is building by the American board of commissioners for foreign missions for the use of miseionaries on the island of Ruk, in the Micronesian group in the South Pacific ocean. This vessel will take the place and name of the R. W. Logan, a raissionary craft of the same characler, which was lost two years ago on a royage to Ruk from Yokohama, whither she had gone for repairs. Her captain and crew went down with her, probably in one of the flerce storms which now and then sweep the Southern ocean, says the New York 3un. It is expected that the new schooner, at present building in San Francisco, will be launched in the early part of next month. She will be comsianded by Capt. Isaiah Bray, for many years commander of the Morning Star, the fourth vessel of that name to be built with money provided by the children of the Sunday schools of the Congregational church in the United States. The R. W. Logan will be oí about 50 tons burden, its work being jupplementary to that of the larger vessel, the Morning Star, in transporting the missionaries to and from the slands in the archipelago. lts cost will be about $5,000, which has been provided almost entire'.y by the insurance mor.ey obtained after the loss of the former schooner.