Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-11-17
E.T. GA. AND VA. R.R.


At the meeting of stockholders in Knox
vile, the report of the President, Col. r. T.
Wilson, was adopted:
Ayes-Fifteen thousand three hundred
aud forty-six and three-quarter Q5,346a)
shares.
Noes-Five hundred and ninety-nine and
three quarter (599a) shares.
The following directory was ecsed.
r Wilson, Jos. Jaques, G M McGhee,
WR Sewer, 5 ID Reynolds, r Il Richards,
w G Kyle, Jas. D COwan, R G Jackson, 7
G Barrett, John Talbot, Jas. Earnest,
Robt. Sneed, S b Boyd, Jos. r Anderson.
The first nine in the above list received
15,SIls votes each.
The following named gentlemen received
12t votes, viz: A E Jackson, I'd BleviDs,
Samuel d Mitchell, d Heiskell, w Fain,
Jos. Ii Dosser, w B Lenoir, Dix Alexan-
der.
Upon motion, the President was directed
hereafter to have printed copies of his an
nual report for distribution among the
stockholders, on or before the annual meet
ing.
MEETING OF THE DIRECTORS.
The newly elected Board Of Directors
met last evening, and elected the following
officers: Pre- sident, r. T. Wilson; Vice
President, G. NJ. McGhee; Vice President
and Superintendent, Joseph Jaques; Sec
rotary and Treasurer, James G. Mitchell.
INFLUENZA AND CHOLERA.
The Baltimore Gazette says: at is worthy
of note that whilst our horses are suffering
grievously and generally, from the malady
from which they are now slowly recover
ing, our citizens were attacked with a spe-
cies of influenza" And that paper adds:
ga similar disease passed over Europe in
the early part of the last century, and it is
remarkable that, like the one which is still
on its travels, its general progress was
from east to west, sometimes turning
northward or southwark. In 1913 horses in
N ew York suffered In a similar manner; but
a less degree. At the same time, infu-
enza among tie people broke out with
great severity, and was attributed, as now,
to the combined influences of cold and hU-
Nudity. On all occasions its worst effects
have been experienced when hot dry sum-
mers, such as the one through which we
ave lately passed, have been followed sud
denly by cool, or damp, or changeable
weather. In the direction of its course
from place to place some physicians assert
that influenza resembles Asiatic cholera,
and there are those who contend that it not
unfrequently precedes or follows that
scourge. Whether this be so or net, the
mere fact that such theory has been
preached, and that, coincident with it, we
have reports Of the presence Of cholera
in Hungary, in East Prussia, and in Ire
land, and that it has also broken out in
Dresden, and has already struck down two
OF the American sQjOurners at that pleasant
Saxon capital-thus bringing it home, as it
were, to oUrselves-is well calculated to
create anxiety among timid people, and
come uneasiness among others less i'm
pressible. Thus far, however. we have news
of only six cases in Dresden, three of
which were fatal II may be some
satisfaction to know that Of late years
cholera has Travelled but slowly from
east TO west, and that it is universally
conceded to be assuming milder type than
formerly as 1t approaches the cities of
central aud Western Europe. 1t is true
that on its temperance in 1867, at Hurd-
war, on the Ganges, it was singularly fatal,
and that it marked with innumerabls vic
tins the track Of the pilgrims journeying
to their homes from the great Hindoo
festival, and also as it swept across the
plains of Afghanistan, and into the
mountains of the Caucasus, and thence to
the Caspian and the Euxine seas. But
throughout Russia, wherever it made its
appearance during the present year, al
though the recorded mortality was fifty per
cent of those who were striker down with
the disease, the ratio of loss was smaller
than usual, and the number of persons at
tackled comparatively limited. That the
sanitary condition Of q city has much to do
in abating the virulence of this terrible
scourge is generally acknowledged, and it is
a'so admitted that it is much more under
medical control t an it was when, forty
years ago, it became the terror of Europe
aud baffled the skill of the ablest physicians.
Il is very probable now that some spora-
die cases are reported in Western Europe
we shall have occasional cries of warning
from our journals, coupled with admoni-
tions 10 be prepared for its coming during
next summer. We do not think, however.
that there is any serious cause for alarm.
Nevertheless, such warnings and such
words Of caution are wei enough in their
way, aRd if they tend TO inspire US, indi-
vidualy and collectively, with a greater re-
gard for the laws of health, they will do
good service, even though we should escape,
as we may reasonably hope to do, a vista
ton v hich most persons hold in so much |
dread.