SIGNS U.S. "GREENBACKS" TO MAKE THEM GOOD.]




CHAPTER VIII.


GENERAL ITEMS OF INTEREST TO THE RACE,


John C. Dancy, re-appointed Collector of Port Wilmington, N.C. Salary
$3,000.

The appointment of Prof. Richard T. Greener, of New York, as Consul to
Vladivistock.

Hon. H.P. Cheatham, appointed as Register of Deeds of the District of
Columbia. Salary $4,000.

Hon. George H. White elected to Congress from the Second Congressional
District of North Carolina, the only colored Representative in that
body.

The Cotton Factory at Concord, N.C., built and operated by colored
people, capitalized at $50,000, and established a new line of industry
for colored labor, is one of the interesting items showing the
progress of the colored race in America.

B.K. Bruce re-appointed Register of the Treasury, and on his death Mr.