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.
Judson W.Lyons, of Augusta, Georgia, became his successor, and now has the honor of making genuine Uncle Sam's greenback by affixing thereto his signature.