Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-07-21

from 81. Louis TO st. Paul aud back,
booked seven hundred aud ffty.three
cabin passengers.
Captain j. p. Sedan was arrested at
St. Louis on Friday on charge Of EN-
bezzlement, preferred by the agent of
cider mandatory. The warrant al.
leges that Sedam's boat took down
consignment for the factory to a man on
Red river. c. o. d., and that the bill
was collected, but the goods never deliv-
cred
General Smith, Supervising Inspector
General, was expected TO arrive at Pitts
burg on Friday last, where he will at
once proceed to experiment with steam
boilers. Several sites have been sug.
gested for the experiments but as yet
none have been decided upon. The tel.
egram giving this information says also:
" The last test will be by steam, and the
o0iiSih VIII NC iHAthNloHhii9 fApiONtbs
On account Of the isolated locality there
will be no danger from this explosion,
unless one Of the scientific engineers
entertains the same notions one Of them
did when the experiments we're being
conducted there before. 1t was his the
DRY that an explosion from steam would
be no more dangerous than a mere rup-
ture from hydrostatic pressure; so, in
defiance Of the warning he stood very
near one Of the boilers when II was ex-
ploded. With deaiening aud terrible
conclusion, the heavy masses Of iron
we're sent hundreds of feet in the air,
and when the scared and very scientific
engineer stopped running he remarked
Gentlemen. you we're right and ] was
wrong. There is a difference between a
fracture and an explosion. "
DRIFTwooD.
New Orleans pleasure.seekers wit:
messed the rare phenomenon Of a water
spout on Lake Pontchartrain last Sun
day........The current in the Yellowstone
is so rapid that steamers run twenty-five
miles an hour down stream.........A Pitts
burg telegram Of the 18th says; Capt
Abner A. PEBBLES, recently of the tow
boat George Roberts, died at his resi-
denee, in Elizabeth, on Tuesday. Last
night private advices received here re-
port the arrival of the Western at Fort
Benton, on the 18th instant. Capt. John
L. Rhodes expresses determination to
fight the Mcmillan Capstan case to the
bitter end. Captain Mcmillan says,
however that he has the dead wood, and
that further resistance is foolish ".........
NJ. NJ. Deem, late clerk of the Charles
B. Church, who has been in i'll health at
Cincinnati for some time, left his home
at Catlettsburg last Thursday night, on
the Ohio No. 4, with the hope of mprov-
ing his shattered health ........ Captain
James Remission, of the Belle. Vernon,
is now enjoying perfect health. His
packet will follow the Camelia to this
city .........L. A. Reister is assisting
James Miles in the Office of the Law
rence......Captain M. L. Virden, clerk
of the Thomas Sherlock is at Cincinnati.
The Jacksonville ferry boat Shall
cross took fire Wednesday night, but
was extinguished without much damage.
........C. f. Dix late clerk of the Emile
LaBarge, is spending one month at the
Hot Springs. VIM. Craw-
ford is building new southern bayou
steamer at Higginsport, Ohio; length 80
feet, beam Is feet, with 4 feet depth Of
hold. The machinery will consist Of
one boiler, two engines, eight inches in
diameter and thirty inches stroke ........
The appraisement Of the property of
the three Upper Mississippi Packet
Companies, now consolidated, and
amounts to over $500 OOO.........The peo-
pie of Metropolis, ILL.,, are agtating the
subject of a steam ferry. Mount
Vernon, Ind, town a short distance
below Evansville, has had so many cases
of cholera that nearly all the people