Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-06-28

up last night on the Julia, and goes 10
81. Paul TO rustioate.
The Henry Ames, for St. Louis, and
IL. S. Turner, for Cincinnati, passed
Vioksburg yesterday.
Tho GAINESVILLE, FOR this port, left
Little Rock last night.
The Henry Ames has for St. Louis $40
hogsheads sugar, 100 sacks salt aud
500 packages miscellaneous freight The
Great Republic has 1000 tons consist
ing Of 572 hogsheads Of Havana sugar
aud 5000 sacks Of salt.
A Chicago lumber firm will soon en-
deayer TO have a lumber raft containing
100000 feet Of pine lumber towed across
Lake Michigan and il that is landed
successfully, they will send a raft of
1000, 900 feet over the same route.
During gale at Louisville n Aight or
We since the Dove No. had her pilot.
house root blown of. The Mary Miller
was carried out aud lodged against
Weitzers dam. The Old Mary Swan
was torn loose from Jerseyville and
lodged on the towhead One Davis was
killed by lightning while unloading
sunkon coal barge on Sand Island, aud
another man, working with him, was
badly injured. The General Lyle and
the wharf boat OF the Mail Line Com
pany we're torn loose from their moor
ings at the foot of Third street, but
we're held by the stern-line Of the wharf
boat, and we're pulled in at Fourth
street without damage.
The Big SunAower will be compelled
TO enlarge her cabin if the popularity Of
her officers should increase. Captain
Billy Jones dosen't get any sleep while
the boat is under way, either going or
returning, except what he can pick up
from two or three chairs or a table, or
something Of that sort, because the boat
is always so full Of passengers that he
has to give up his own bed. The boys
say it is because the officers Of the boat
are SO popular.
The above is copied from Jimosulli-
vans river column in the Vicksburg
Herald. If there is sleep, toothpicks, or
anything else left on the tables or chairs
Of the Big Sunaower after the Herald
man has made his visit to the boat, the
fact is one worthy Of record, but that in.
coming only from the Herald,
is open to doubt.
The New Orleans Times thus de-
scribes the experimenting there a few
days since with patent lifeboat:
There were collected together large
concourse Of our citizens, steamboatmen,
agents, ETC., to witness its wonderful per-
formance. Accordingly as the hour for
its trial approached, ten young men got
into the boat and went out about twenty
yards beyond the ferry wharf, and i'm
capsized the boat, which
turned over the same as barrel would,
and righting itself at each turn, and as
fast as the water would come in on its
side while tilted, it would drain out when
the boat would become righted. This
lifeboat is twenty feet in length, five feet
beam, and is constructed of fve-eighth
inch iron, will carry about thirty or forty
ordinary people very comfortably. The
inventor of this automatic continuance
is Mr.. Beaupre, of Metropolis, Illinois.
The Board of Commissioners at Wash
ngton, investigating the subject of steam
boiler explosions, after hearing the re-
ports Of committees determined to adj
ourn till August. 1t was agreed that the
should by that time be
ready to reasonable here, and to report
prepared to proceed with the
The Western commission
srs will at once select site for their ex-
periments and make the necessary ar