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Show The First Colored Appointment. Washington,' December 29. About a month ago John T. Morton of Arkansas was appointed through the Civil Service Commission Com-mission to a thousand dollar position in the Postoffice Department. Nothing was known of him here except that-he was a sohool teacher and the result of his examination had been entirely satisfactory, and when this morning a colored man presented himself him-self everybody was surprised. He is the first colored man appointed to a clerkship in that office. - . |