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The Daily Dispatch: July 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], Spurgeon on "White Chokers." (search)
Judge R. M. Hudson was elected to serve in the Greenbrier Judicial Circuit, without opposition, on the 1st inst.
The comet.
A correspondent at Knoxville, Tenn., gives us the subjoined account of the appearance of the comet in that region.
Though the celestial visitor has disappeared from the view of the Tennesseeans, as we are informed by the writer, the inhabitants of this portion of the world have not yet been deprived of the sight:
I infer from your paper that the comet did not present a very brilliant appearance as seen from your city.
It was first observed here on Monday night, 1st inst. I saw it the first time the next evening.
It was at 3 P. M. in the heavens a little towards the Northwest, about thirty degrees above the horizon.
As it grew darker, the tail became more distinctly visible.
It was very long and narrow.
I supposed it to be at least ninety degrees in length, perhaps a hundred, or nearly so. An old gentleman who saw the comet after midnight, when the head was down near the horizon, says that the tail extended up to the zenith, and beyond it. It was a magnifice