Salary $4,500.
Bishop H.M.Turner visits Africa and ordains an African Bishop, J.H.Dwane, Vicar of South Africa, with a conference composed of a membership of 10,000 persons.

This act of the Bishop is criticised by some of the Bishops and members of the A.M.E.Church in America on the grounds that Bishop Turner was acting without authority in making this appointment.
Mr.James Deveaux, Collector of Port, Brunswick, Ga.; H.A.

Rucker, Collector of Internal Revenue for Georgia, $4,500 (the best office in the State); Morton, Postmaster at Athens, Ga., $2,400; Demas, naval officer at New Orleans, $5,000; Lee, Collector of port at Jacksonville, $4,000 (the best office in that State); Hill, Register of the Land Office in Mississippi, $3,000; Leftwich, Register of the Land Office in Alabama, $3,000; Casline, Receiver of Public Moneys in Alabama, $2,000; Jackson, Consul at Calais, $2,500; Van Horn, Consul in the West Indies, $2,500; Green, Chief Stamp Division, Postoffice Department, $2,000.
MISS ALBERTA SCOTT AND OTHERS, Miss Alberta Scott is the first Negro girl to be graduated from the Harvard annex.

Her classmates and the professors of the institution have congratulated her in the warmest terms and in the literary and the language club of Boston her achievement of the M.A.degree has been spoken of with high praise.

Miss Scott is but the fifth student of the Negro race to obtain this honor at the colleges for women in Massachusetts.