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man but he took no no

| a negro pollceman' pu' iie ''>
tee of it. ,,,,.
,,Ccr nrorninent and respected DdSl4tNs
men were out driving. and a doZeh ~
tie negro boys chased them ana iiIa.'
vulgar remarks about the morse az
me men. TWO Young ladies OF tiit
| t"H.r, xera out shopping Friday night
land three negro boys, about IL yea
old each. lined up across the S!Ie WIN
land told the ladies to go round II t4S4
wished to get by. saw tniee llt t!'S
| nero girls lock hands going down
! straat taking 10 twO-thirds Of the side
| ,,,Il- They met &c gentlemen. me
ilitrle chap in the middle said 10 me
other two: Don't give dem Unit
folks any road. OATS what. pa says
do"
These are significant incidents, but
they 90 to show the disposition Of the
NEGRO here Every hour during the
Jav such things happen The decent
panule Of the town just take tn" MholF
lining as a matter of course, and do not
protest.
| No city has ever had a more worth
l,4ss puljce force than Wilmington now
has John r Melton, man from OUT
IN the country near here, * the chiel.
He is nothing more than a mass Oh Gay
His actions from day to day prove nam
totally Incompetent Every night
Ieverv day. almost every hour, for some
months. thefts. robberieS. bur&lalIe9
and various other crimes have been
| committed in the town The people
have no security whatever.
But one thing seems t" fill the MINDS
of the officers: They look forward to
Ipay day. That is all.
Saturday | went to the city hall to
see Mr.. John CoWan, on" Of the pest
citizens of the town. After looking in
lat several doors, | WAS met in the pas
sage by little negro. | asked if Mr.
CoWan was in. The boy answered: NO.
CoWan is not in. and | don know where
he is If you want to Sc him, you
might go out and hunt fer him. This
said. the impudent boy scampered out
to the front steps of the building to
pat a white policeman on the shoulder
| | left him hugSin% the officer. How
| YER the officer did not seem to relish
the embrace very much. The boy clos
ed the conversation that he had drawn
the cop into by diSputing his word.
ma gined | would like to see the boy
hug Mr.. Jim Cunningham. of the Char
Iotte force. But such are the things
, | that | see here.
| During a short stroll on Market street
Saturday morning, I counted six dead
chickens and one dead cat. besides a
, dozen or more barrels of decayed cab
bage leaves, beans, rOaStfng-ear Shucks
and the like Why all this? Is Will
mington without officers? No. She has
twice many policemen as Charlotte.
In all. she has tWenty-four policemen,
thirteen Of whom are negroes. The
names of the negro policemen on regu-
lar duty are:
Sergeant H. Il. Green. Officers Thos
Moore, Joseph Sharp, Frank Toomer
William Richardson. Joe Anderson
Henry Whitehead, David Bryant, Geo
Bell. John Spicer and John Carroll.
Wilmington also has four health Off
GERS. all colored: Isaac Barnett George
,, Sye. John Lee and Jack Moore. In addi-
ton there are six deputy sheriffs, four
Of whom are onlored, viz: Buck
Wright, Ed. Bryant, Tony Ashe and
John Noofield. And. to make the list
complete, she has a negro register of
deeds, c. w Norwood. with two ne
: gro clerks, a negro coroner, David
follows: Andrew J. Allen, Thos. Brink
ley, James b. Dudley. Lewis Geyer
alentlne Howe, Daniel Howard, j. NJ
Jenkins Elijah Lane, Washington Nc
Nell, John G. Norwood. Thomas Ri
vera, Jr., John H. Shaw, Thomas Smith
: A. j. Walker. II. Men. Williams. Luke
Grady, Richard J. Jordan, Jordan Nix
: on, Elijah Leonard, George F.. Green, J.
Primes Bowen. John II. Brown. Chas
A. Foreman, John Holaway, John H
: Howe. Bfnjamin J. Hooper, Major LOT
TIN, r. H. Lane, Caleb NJ. Martin, Geo
t w. Price. Abel S. Robinson. Charles
sullivan, j. F. Taylor, John H. Weber
< godfrey Wills. Jr,. Lewis Hollings-
r worth, Levi Nixon, J. H. Davis, a. L.
r Freeman Samuel NJ. Virgins
!, The negro aldermen of the town are.
SViiii,,t n'rWo"a, GOOD negro; Andrew
fI ii!,1e i"N liis''>' az foft Macon, and
'lVeh.
"@''Iii mouse: John I. Dan
I ~, No'ltctof' J"hh r. Taylor, deputy
collector, ana James H. Howard. are
~ - o'9
ne county mas SIX negro school COM
mltt"elnen. Magistrates. aldermen no.
i c,;Ii' oeputy sherIffs, court house
81 !cia'S: c"hstables, etc, make about Sc
pick out about as many tbita ,1a,, ~ ~
The same charactp. from tho lot nf afei
GERS Iett o,ar ,ftr tt ~ " Oil
counted nIt Tba,, a IC' az
. strina az VI 'he same
- he a1ac+fo,, Of ,ooc - ',
JorJa. \ixnn ,r,I " 1 o9tel
l,cted on the board o, cnnnfy Io,,,,,',t.
sioners for New Hanover Some ,in,o
4 AGO th.y alantad - 7oiIe liihe
= selves members of the board of ed1ca.
tl"n OF the county. An Injunction wa,
, issued, and after a long and TEDIOUS
how