The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-11-27
GENERAL.

/ The American end OF the French cable
was connected at North Eastman, Mass, or
the 18th, and the line successfully worked
through the entire circuit, from Cape Cod tC
! Brest.
| 1t is again reported that the Edison elec-
trio light is completed and will be publicly
exhibited at an early day.
The seventh annual session of the Ameri-
can Public Health Association was held al
| the State Capitol, Nashville, Tenn, begin
ming on the 18th. About 200 delegates were
present. The President of the Association,
DR.. j. L. Cabell, delivered the annual adj
dress, which was an exhaustive review Of the
sanitary condition of the country.
The boat-race between Hanlan and Court
ney, which was to have been rOwed upon
the Potomac near Washington, is again off,
Courtney refusing to row with Blake rs
referee.
A call has been issued, signed by 7. II.
Murch, Chairman Congressional Committee
National Greenback-Labor Party, and f. P.
Devices, Chairman National Committee Ma
tional Party, for a meeting at Washington,
d. c., on the Sth of january, 1850, of repre-
sentatives from the various National, Labor
and Greenback organizations throughout the
country, for the purpose of selecting 2 time
place, ETC., for holding a National Conven-
ton for the nomination of candidates for
President and Vice-President.
About 20 negroes arrived at New York on
the 18th from Liberia, whittier they had gone
year ago under the auspices of the South
Carolina Colonization Society. They bring
the most gloomy accounts of the enterprise,
showing that it was grossly mismanaged:
that scores Of the emigrants have died of
climatic ailments, and that the few who re-
main alive are barely able to obtain sufficient
food.
Another railroad rumOr, current on the
Goth, was that the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe Railroad Company had completed
an arrangement with the st. Louis and San
Francisco Railroad Company, in pursuance
of which line is to be built from Santa Fe
to San Francisco under the old charter of
the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad. This
charter is still valid, and the land grant car
ried with it covers about 40,OOO,0O0
acres. Bonds are to be issued TO the
amount Of $25,0OO,OOO, secured by these
lands and the road, and guaranteed by the
ST. Louis and San Francisco, and Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe Railroads. These
bonds, it is said, have been placed already.
The AtchisOn, Topeka and Santa Fe Com
pany has its grading finished to the Rio
Grande now, and it was expected the rails
would all be laid by the first of December.
The new road commences at the Rio Grande
md is to be pushed directly to the Pacific
Ocean.
1t was likewise reported in New York City |
IN the 20th that Vanderbilt had sold to the |
lay Gould party some 100000 shares of New |
York Central Railroad stock, and that the |
was made with view to giving |
he New York Central the traffic OF the Wa |
,ash and the Union and Kansas Pacific Roads, |
md the latter roads an outlet to the Atlantic /
eaboard. Mr.. Vanderbilt still retains a |
controlling interest in the New York Cen
raj, but Gould will have 4 representation in
he Directory.
The American Health Association, at its
ecent session at Nashville, elected the fol-
owing officers for the ensuing year: Presi-
lent, John ;. Billings, U. S. N; First Vice
President, Samuel Chopin, New Orleans;
ecOnd Niee-President. Il. c. Kedzie,
.ansing, Mich; Treasurer, J. B. Lindsey,
Nashville. Executive Committee-Mess
:. b. White of Louisiana, j. L. Cabell of
'irginia, f. VI. Hunt Of New jersey, T. Il.
'lunkett Of Tennessee, Charles T. Folsom
t Massachusetts, \. L. Gibson of the L. 5.
!. The next meeting will be held in New
orleans