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.  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.  Two received diplomas from Wellsley, one from Smith College and one from Vassar.  Miss Scott is 20 years old.  She was born in Richmond, Va., having graduated from the common schools in Boston.  Miss Scott’s teachers spoke so encouragingly of her work that the girl was determined to have a college education.  She paid particular attention to the study of language and literature, and she is now a fluent linguist and a member of the Idier and German clubs.  She has contributed considerably to college and New England journals.

[Illustration:  THE GARNES FAMILY.]

THE DISCOVERY OF THE GARNES FAMILY.

A picture of which is herein placed, will do much to confound those bumptious sociologists who make haste to rush into print with statistics purporting to show that the Negro Race in America is “fast dying out.”  The aim of this class of people seems to be to show that the Negro Race withers under the influence of freedom, which is by no means true.  It is possibly true that filth and disease does its fatal work in the Negro Race, the same as in other races among the filthy and corrupt, but the filthy and corrupt in the Negro Race, as a class, are growing fewer every year—­for which we can thank the philanthropy of the American people who are doing something to better the condition of the Negro rather than hurling at him enernating criticisms and complaints.