Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-07-06

lest and most substantial encourage
ment.
The Buffalo Express thus comments
on the prevailing fashion which shows
the shape "snd all that sort Of thing,
yOu know 1--WE regret TO have dis
covered a fashion that, il il il not IN
graceful, is indecent. The present fashion
81 drawback skirts, tight waists and
c4gTmUus Dustles, is altogether too sug-
Cesiive. No, it is not even suggestive.
II leaves too little room for Imagination
TO make it in any degree artistic, a
fashion that sharply defines the out
lines Of the lower limbs, and the bust,
and exsgRerstes posterior proiuberances
which 81 nearly initiates the stage cos
tune Of tights that one can almost see
the play OF the muscles as she walks
such a costume might do well enough
for the nude drama, or possibly might be
tolerated IL worn exclusively indoors at
home. But 20 parade upon the streets
10 broad daylight, with costume eX-
pressiy designed 10 throw into prOmi-
nence those parts OF the form which
skirts were originally designed TO mod
estly conceal, seems to Us to call for but
one term-indecent"
The Nashville Banner of Sunday says
OF Wells's new patent gas purifier, that
it "Telates 10 means for purifying illumi-
mating gas IOT the purpose Of depriving
it Of the ammoniscal liquors and tsrry
matters, and the nature Of the inven-
ton consists in novel arrangement Of
sectional grids in a vessel through which
the gas is caused to pass, which grids
are composed Of round rods OF cane, or
other similar material. Between and
over these the gas is required to pass,
dividing il into fine streams and causing
il TO deposit the tsTry matters and am
mOniscal liquors. By this arrangement
the ascending volume of gas is broken
Up into small streams st each grid,
and the tarry matter and ammonical
liquors are deposited on the rod, and drip
from grid to grid, thereby washing, cool
ing, 'sCrubbing' and cendensing the gas
with its own liquor, and retaining in
the gas its carbon or illuminating power.
The above invention has been in sue
cessful operation for the past nine
months in our gas works, and has given
entire satisfaction, having increased the
volume and Illuminating pc yer Of the
gas, at the same tine having materially
decreased the quantity OF lime used in
publication"
Sunday morning, while the steamer
A. J. White was at divers landing,
Arkansas, two men named Oliver came
aboard, father and son, the latter having
in his hands a shotgun, for the purpose,
as it is supposed, Of attacking young
man named Robert YerbeT, who asked,
"Arey you bringing this gun here to shoot
me withp The young man replied,
"There is no load in il" and as he said
so, Yerber seized the gun, whereupOn
Oliver, senior, drew q pistol. Yerber
then drew pistol, and pointing
it ct the old man, told him
he did not want TO shoot him.
In the meantime young Oliver
drew pistol and fred. The bullet hit
young YeIber in the head and he fell,
dying upon the deck Of the steamer.
Old man Oliver then fired when Yerber
fell, thereby making sure the work Of
death, The murdereTs cOolly left the
E0at, no attempt being made by the
officers Of the boat TO arrest them. The
body Of YerbeT was carried 10 Helena,
where il was given to the authorities for
burial. The difficulty originated about
a debt due from the divers, at the sight
Of whom YeTbeT remarked that they
wanted to kill him but neither you'd
it alone. The murder is said to
have been cOwsrdIy and brutal. Robert
YeTbeT lived at divers landing, having
a plantation near. lie was a young man
well esteemed and Known by great
many persons of this city,