The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-11-26
LIGHTNING FLASHES.

+ The result in Virginia was: Cleveland,
145, 497; Blaine, l30, 355.
The Colorado and Utah pool asSoci..-
tons adjourned Tuesday.
The Citg If Tokjo brought ffty-six
cases of exhibits for the Worlds fair
The regular secret session of the
pienary committee was held on Tues
day.
The Alabama Legislature. On Tuesday
elected James il. Pugh To be United
States Senator.
The Acknowledgement renews his re-
concentrations Tor paying |. ;. Mar
shals salaries.
a French paper suggests that among
the first acts OF President Cleveland
should be a proposal to Congress 10
abolish the import duties on pictures.
The epidemic in the western counties
of Virgins. is fearful. Not less than 175
of the citizens of Wise, County have
died within few days. Relief is being
loudly called for; nurses, medicines and
committee of intelligent physicians to
diagnose the disease and stop its ter
rible march are needed.
AT mass meeting of colored citizens
III Atlanta, Ga, To consider the effect
the change of administration would
have upon the blacks of the south. Sen
ator Colquitt spoke He said the races
would be brought nearer together and
understand each other better than ever
before He assured the cOlOred men
that their rights would be guarded as
zealousIy by the Democratic State and
national administrations as ii they were
white.
The Geographical and Anthropological
societies of Berlin, gave banquet Tues
day night at the Kaiserhof, to Stanley
and other experts attending the Congo
conference. There were present 30
persons.
At the colored demonstration al
Augusta, Ga, speeches were made by
II. H. Tucker and Mayor Goodwin.
Governor Cleveland's recent utterance.
assuring the negroes that every right
they possessed should be protected by
his administration was read, and was
received with the cheers of the colOred
men.
Norvin Green, president of the West
ern Union Telegraph Company, in
lengthy card, this morning denies that
his company altered, DELAYED or with
held the returns of the New York cleo
ton, or tempered with them in any
way; all were collected and
by the Associated Press, and simply
handed III to the superintendent for
general distribution To the public The
company had nothing to do with
making up the bulletins; it took
the. Associated Press bulletins
and delivered them, as heretofore,
TO customers who had subscribed
for them, nothing more Mr.. Green
brides himself ON the dispatch and
CELEBRITY which his company handled
and transmitted the returns as re-
ceived. He refers 10 the tardv manner
in which the Indiana returns were for
warded, and invites an investigation by
the Democratic State committee into
the causes He says: The manage
ment OF this company, in its business
relations to the public, is strictly
non-pohticaI and non-partisan. There
are as many Democrats as Repubh-
cans among its employees In con-
clusion he saws: sit is, therefore, mani
testify absurd TO charge that the service
OF the company could be converted into
a party machine or could, in any way,
distort or stifle the facts, when such an
attempt at conspiracy could only have
been made by the aid of large number
of members of the political party which
il was designed to.injure-