The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-09-17
KNOXVILLE NOTES.
CONSTANT GROWTH OF THE CITY-EAsT
TENNESSEE UNIvERsITY-CENTRA UNI
vERsITY-THE NEW BRIDGE-GRAND GEL

EBRATIOE.
Notwithstanding the pressure in
the money market and the constants
dread and nervousness produced by
the late prevailing disease through
out East Tennessee, Knoxville has,
during the whole summer, been con-
tinually and rapidly advancing in city
improvements and in the mechanical
branches of industry. New and mag
nifcent business houses have been
and are now in course OF erection on
her principal thOroughfares, while in
the newer and more suburban parts
of the city the beautiful cottages and
new buildings are thick as leaves in
Valambrosia.'
The fall session of tie East Ten
nessee University and State Agricul-
tural College opened on Thursday,
under the most encouraging auspices
over two hundred students matric-
ulating, with the prospect that this
number will be doubled in a short
time. The faculty consists of Rev.
DR.. Humes, President, with fourteen
associate professors, combining an
array of scholarship and experience
that will prove fully competent to af-
ford thorough education to all who
may avail themselves of their in
struction. Large additions have been
made to the lodging facilities Of the
University. and the grounds are fast
assuming the delightful sylvan APP
pearance no doubt originally intend
ed by the projectors of this favorite
and time-honored temple Of learn
ing.
The site for the erection of Cen
trail Umversity-a mammoth institu-
ton determined upon by the NJ. E.
Church-for the location of which
there was recently such earnest and
commendable competition among the
various towns of East Tennessee,
we learned, has been chosen on the
property of the late Gen. A. Ander-
son. about one mile north of Knox
Vile, on the Knoxville and Kentucky
railroad. The buildings will con-
mand a grand panorama of town and
surrounding country, and is one Of
the most eligible of the many eligible
positions offered to the trustees for
its location. With the amount of
capital it can command, and the en-
ergy and vim Of its projectors, Cen
trail University will soon rear its
grand and imposing spires majesti-
cally toward the heavens, and be-
come, we hope. worthy coadjutor of
East Tennessee University in en-
HANGING the fair fame of our section
Of the State for educational facili-
ties.
The County Bridge-about which
town and county has been exercised,
periodically. for two years-is ra-
pidly approaching completion. 1t is
the Howe Truss patent, and dura-
BILE and beautiful structure it prom
Uses to be-spanning the HolstOn at
the foot of Gay street, a distance OF
| 1850 feet. 1t was built by the owner OF
the Howe patent-the king of bridge
! builders and most affable gentleman
| in the South, a. l.. Maxwell, Jr..
with the assistance and personal SUI
pervision CT his superior foreman and
Ieviathan mechanic, John Gates,
who, if he is homely of face and
plethoric "in de boO-sum." knows
how to work and how others should
work. The masonry Of the bridge
was done by NJ. j. Condor, and the
lumber was furnished by Capt. JAS
s. Boyd, whose name is sufficient
guarantee of the faithfulness with
which he fulfilled his contract. The
vital part of the wood work is Of all
heart Georgia pine. The bridge is
so feet wide, with ample way for foot
passengers. But we have not time
nor room to give such a notice of the
structure as we would like, or as il
! deserves. 1t is pronounced by com
petent judges to be number one
bridge in all respects; and we close
our brief note about it with the re
mark that to our old friends, Col. z
Dickinson and Matthew Nelson
more than to all others in the county
are the people interested indebted fo1
its completion. Their unfagging Ell
ergy and determination to accom-
plish this object has at last beer
crowned with success, and we con
graduate our neighbors on the con
summation of so important an i'm
provement. The 9TH day of Octobe
next is the day fixed upon by tn
managers for public celebration O
the completion of the bridge. Their
is to be grand procession. barbecue
&C., &c, &c. It will doubtless be
big day in the metropolis-biggeI
probably. than it has ever seen he
fore. We don't know that all tn
world will be there-but we warrau
, the presence of the Beaverites, TIL
Runites, the Blountites. the Seviel
ties and the innnmerahle host c