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THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
The rules of this Company require that all messages received for transmission, shall be written on the message blanks of the Company, under and subject to the conditions printed thereon, which conditions have been agreed to by the sender of the following message.
O.H. PALMER, Sec'y.    WM. ORTON, Pres't.

Dated Norfolk Jany 8 1869.
Received at Richd Jany 8
To Genl O Brown

I can get no later information than that published in the morning papers [[strikethrough]] wheth [[/strikethrough]] which I think is exaggerated. That a sergeant had been mortally wounded & several negroes killed The trouble arose out of an attempt on the part of the Sheriff assisted by the military under

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