FIRST PASSENGER TRAIN. The Fayetteville (Tenn.) Observer gives the following sketch: "The first passenger train to reach Fayetteville arrived in the town on August 19, 1859, fifty one years ago. At that time locomotives were designated by names instead of numbers, and the engine pulling the train was the Belle Kelso, called in honor of a popular belle of that day and now Mrs. Belle Kelso Allison, of Memphis. The railroad from Decherd was originally intended to be built to some point in Alabama and chartered as the Winchester and Alabama Railroad. It was built to Elora, and no other town applying for it, Fayetteville raised the required amount, and it was built to this place. At that time the State offered aid to any line of road not less than forty miles in length. It was claimed that this road was the required mileage, and the State contribution was secured. The sidings were probably measured, but for years the passenger rate from Fayetteville to Decherd was computed on a forty mile trip. An accu! rate survey shows the distance to be 38.9 miles." It was the rule in those days to name engines for persons. A delightful memory is revived now in the christening of an engine on the Mobile and Ohio for Miss Phie Chester, of Jackson, Tenn. The engine was gorgeously decorated and a party in an elegant car was taken by it from Jackson to Humboldt, Tenn., at the frightful speed of "a mile a minute."