Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-02-09
News Brevities.

-. The Legislature Of Mississippi at its recent
session granted loan Of $4,000 from the Chick
asaw fund" to the Mobile and Ohio Railroad on ia
vorable terms. The guarantee subscription Of
s4Oo, 900 for the purchase Of the iron has been
raised, and the funds are now secured to complete
the road to the Tennessee line. Track laying has
been resumed from Macon, Miss, nOrthwsrds.
-. The New Orleans Pieayrne Of the lst inst
says: 1.-THE six pound guns used in this city on
the 22d of December ult., by order of Brig. Gen.
Pafrey, In the national salute, at noon, were dis
tinctly heard in Marion county, Miss, distance Of
not less than e5 miles to the Northwest of Pass
Christian. The guns we're fred on the Place d
hr,ses which, 10 an sir line cannot be less than so
or 90 miles from where they were heard, as We
have stated. How much farther the sound travel
ed; NC cannot say. But what we have stated we
know TO be correct"
80. The following amendment 10 the Constitus
ton Of the State of Arkansas passed their last Leg
i.Ature: Amendment to the Constitution propo.
sed by the General Assembly of the State of Ar.
kansas, at its session, begun on the first Monday
of November, eighteen hundred and hfty~six: The
twenty-second section of the fourth article of the
Constitution of this State s hereby stricken out,
and repealed, and instead thereof the following
shall be inserted as amendment to, and part of the
Constitution: The State of Arkansas shall not be
sued in any of its courts. Approved 18th Janua-
ry, 1881"
80. J. w. McConaughey, Land Attorney and
State Collector for Arkansas gives notice that he
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tons touching the interests pertaining to bis Office
should, in the future be addressed.
-. The last Okalopa, Miss, Prairie Ys0s has
the following paragraph, which the ladies will please
skip" "No person seems to have heard of that
chap in Aberdeen who just came home from
years absence in Nicaragua. On his way up from
the landing, he met quite a number of ladies'. Az
ter kissing his sister, &C., pray said he, ARE all
the Aberdeen girls married? met Miss A. why,
brother, Miss A isn't married. Not married.
Nor Miss b? nor Miss c.? nor Miss oh,
pshaw brother said sis, just beginning to catch
the idea, that's nothing but hoops
E. Il. Porter, Esq, Of Memphis, has pre-
scented the Presbyterian College at Danville, Ky,
10000 acres Of Arkansas lands valued at $50, O00
He has also given the Memphis SynOdical College
the same number Of acres.
-. The Norfolk Herald of the 2sth ult.,
chronicles the death Of Mrs. Jane Collins, at the
advanced age Of cighty>seven years. She was
native of ireland, and came to Norfolk in the year
1897 with her husband, Philip Collins, who was
butcher. Mr.. Collins died about the year 1907,
and the subject OF this notice continued the bus-
ness up to the time of her death, retaining the
Identical stall she had occupied fifty years belore
She made and lost several fortunes. During the
of 1872 she had the contract for supplying the
troops at this station with beef, and made many
sacrifices to fulfil it, often going beyond her obi.
cations to forward the views of the commanding
General.
-. The following table is made up from the
report Of the Auditor OF Louisiana