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1004. SPRINGOPENING We are now placing on sale our Spring purchases and importations. New Siiks, New Dress Goods, Rich Novelties, Rare Combinations, Spring Raglans, Spring Newmarkets, French Mantles, Embroidered Fichus, New Shawls. dall early for choice selections. L. S. AYRES & CO., INDIANAPOLIS. N. B.—Our Dress-making Rooms are now open for Spring work. BROWNING & SLOAN, DEALERS IN Fine Perfumes and Toilet Articles; Hair, Cloth, Tooth and Nail Brushes; Combs, Dressing Cases, Nail Sets, Fine Cologne Bottles, Fancy Goods, and all Articles Wanted for the Toilet. APOTHECARIES’ HALL, Nos. 7 and 9 E. Washington street.. FINE BOOTS' Ju'st received for spring trade Dne fine lot of Ladies’ .french Kid Button Boots, the finest ever brought to the city. Ladies call and see them. L. SIERSDORFEB No. 41 E. Washington St., Fletcher & Sharpe’s Block. THENEWYORKSTORE (ESTABLISHED 1853.)

DOMESTIC DEPARTMENT. A FULL LINE OF WIDE SHEETINGS AND PILLOW-CASE MUSLINS! Is All Widths and Qualities. PRICES ALWAYS IN PLAIN FIGURES. Pettis, Bassett & Cos. THE COURT RECORD. Superior Court. Room No I—Hou.1 —Hou. Napoleon B. Tavtor. In lea. Mahala B. Bays vs. .Tohn B. Conner et al; suit on note. Plaintiff ordered to appear for examination. D. M. Bansdell, receiver, vs. Francis A. Coffin; Suit on stock subscription. Taken under advisement by the court. Henry A. Stephens et al. vs. H. N. Ooc ct al.; Suit to set aside conveyance. On trial by court. Room No. 2—Hon. P. YV. Howe, Judge. Harnett Judah vs. E. M. Rand; suit for rent. Judgment for $147.50. Room No. 3—Hon. Lewis C. Walker, Judge. Alex. Metzger vs. John D. Campbelletal.: suit for commission on a real estate sale. Verdict for $330 against defendant John D. Campbell. James Nicholson vs. James W. Hess, sheriff, et al.; suit of replevin. Tried and taken under advisement by the court. Marion Criminal Court. Hon. fierce Norton. -In ten. State vs. John Price: burglary and grand larceny. Tried by jury and sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment. State vs. George Snyder; assault and battery. Tried by court and sent to .iail for twenty days. A Novel Race. L. W. Moses has matched his horse “Dandy" to trot a race against George Gray's rapid road mare “Kate." The terms of the race are somewhat unusual. It will come off at the Exposition track on the 15th of April. Tliedistance is to be three times around the track for “Kate”—equal to a mile and a half -and four times around for“ Dandy"—equal to two miles. They are to be hitched to equal weights, and to be driven by their owners. They will start together, “Dandy" to go on and gain one round in the three and catch “Kate" and beat her out. The odds are that “Dandy” will have to trot one-third further than “Kate,” but Mr. Moses is confident he can do it. The Robbery of David Meek. In the trial yesterday morning of the men arrested oh suspicion of having robbed David Meek, Wesley Ewing endeavored to throw all the guilt on Daniel Dove, who, to avenge him eels, confessed that he held Meek while Ewing robbed him of his watch and money. William Phillips and Oliver Cousins, who were also ar rested on suspicion, were released from custody an this evidence. But useful presents at King & Elder's.

SCOTTISH RITE MASONRY. Opening Day of tlie Nineteenth Annual Con-vocation—To-Day’s Programme. The nineteenth annual convocation of the various bodies of Scottish Rite Masonry began work yesterday afternoon, at 2 o’clock. There were twenty eight candidates for the perfection degrees, beginning with the fourth degree and concluding with the fourteenth, or Ineffable degree. Th e degrees, particularly those conferred last night, concluding the first series, were given with a beauty, exactness and impressiveness that even excelled the record hitherto made by the rite for fine work, and was under conduct of N. li. Ruckle, 33°, thrice potent grand master, and Jacob W. Smith, 33°, master of ceremonies. The music was under the leadership of Prof. T. W. S. Belcher, and consisted of five numbers, the following being the programme. The choir consisted of Messrs. Blake, Butler, Belcher, Hermance and S. A. Johnston, of Indianapolis, and Messrs. Patterson, Little, Cassady and Neely, of Muncie: Chant. “O, Lord Have Mercy,” by the choir; chant. ' Remember, Now Thy * Creator,” by the choir; “Come Ye Sighing .Sons of Sorrow,” by the choir; covenant songs, solo and chorus by Prof. Belcher and choir; chorus, "Praise the Lord.” to-day’s programme. The work for to-day will begin at 2 p. M., with the conferring of the 15th and 16th degrees, Saraiah Council Princes of Jerusalem, continuing at 7:30 p. M. with Rose Croix, 17° and 18°. The class of twenty-eight that took the preceding series will be considerably augmented at this point by a number of members who some time since took the perfection degrees and will here “join the procession” to continue to the 32°. The candidates and visitors are much pleased with the. rooms, which are now about completed and are the most comfortable and best arranged lodge rooms in the United States. THE VISITORS. The following visitors were in attendance yesterday. More are expected to arrive to-day: Muncie—S. A. Wilson, William Patterson, Will L. Little, J. V. H. Cassady, Lon M. Neely, John M. Bloss. Michigan City—J. A. Manning, A. D. Cambpell, Uriah Culbert, .Tames S. Hopper, C. O. Deming. Richmond—Will T. Noble, Geo. H. Dunham, Philip Chant. Goshen—C. B. Harris. Warsaw—Quincy A. Hossler, E. M. Chaplin. Vincennes—Wilson M. Tyler, W. A. Reiman, John L. Butler. South Bend—W. A. Foote. Terre Haute—J. R. Kendall, W. E. Perryman, C. M. Daggett. _ Fort Wayne—J. S. Gregg, George W. Pixley. Huntington—H. S. Drover. Weisburg—Dr. P. Fermier. Thorn town—Wm. C. Burk. Columbus, J. Albert Trotter. Crawfordaville—T. S. McKinley, JohnM. Robinson. Brazil—John Andrew. Hagerstown—Clias. E. Ford. La Porte—G. L. Arnold, Rockville—David Strouse, Frankfort—Jos. C. Suit, S. O. Bayless, T. J. Smith, James W. Morrison. Columbia City—E. S. McLallen. Bluffton—J. S. Todd. St. Louis. Mo.— John R. Parson, 8. B. Pat ten. Chicago. 111.—B. B. Hand. L. D. Richardson. Cincinnati, O.—W. H. Ilill, Samuel J. Hillman. Washington, D. C.,—John A. Henry. Mat toon. 111.—W. P. Kollar. Ellendale, D. T. —Collins Blackmere.

PERSONAL MENTION. G D. Arnold, of Elkhart, is at the Denison. D. W. Voyles, of New Albany, is at the Denieon. Judge J. 0. Suit, of Frankfort, is at the Grand Hotel. A. C. Reamer, of New Albany, is at the Grand Hotel. Mayor John D. Rupe, of Richmond, is at the Denison. Mr. A. H. Yount, of Lafayette, was in the city yesterday. Colonel E. M. Chaplin, of Warsaw, is at the Grand Hotel. R. McKim and C. A. Wymond, of Madison, are at the Denison. Colonel J. J. Mead, of Toledo, was at the Bates House yesterday. B. F. Corwin, of Greencastle, was at the Bates House yesterday. C. S. Hook and E. M. Tansey, of Union City, are at the Denison. Calvin Floyd and A. L. Bauman, of Dayton, 0., are at the Bates House. Colonel E. F. Gobel, of Chicago, agent for the State-house contractors, is at the Bates Honse. Jas. S. Hopper and wife and N. Culbert and wife, of Michigan City, are at the Grand Hotel. Miss M. Kate I jams, of Terre Haute, is visiting Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Ijams, at the Bates House. John N. Runyan, of Warsaw, candidate for the Republican nomination for State Treasurer, is in the city. Q. A. Hossler, of the Northern ludianian, is in the city. Mr. Gssna, of Warsaw, is also here, in attendance upon the Masonic conclave. William D. Schieffer, of Fort W r ayne, a prominent German, is being urged to become a candidate for the Republican nomination for Secretary of State. T. C. Adkins, C. S. Brown, Marion; R. T. Wisbard. Clinton; H. B. Peters, Logansport; George H. Dunham, Richmond: W. H. Foote, A. B. France, South Bend; T. A. Haple, J. A. Cisney, John K. Runyan, Warsaw, are at the Denison. The condition of William H. Smith, of the drug house of A. Kiefer, is believed to be slowly improving. His ailment has been diagnosed to be phlebitis, inflammation of a vein. As the dis ease is in the intestines his recovery will be exceedingly slow. A. D. Campbell, C. O. Deming, Michigan City; W. E. Parryman, Terre Haute; W. A. Reiman, Vincennes; S. O. Bayless, T. F. Smith, Frankfort; George W. Long, W. W. Rockhill, Fort Wayne; S. D. Baker, Henry F. Drovin, Huntington; J. W. Craft. J. R. Kendall, C. M. Daggett, J. B. Wallace, Terre Haute; Thomas S. Adams. Danville; L. C. King, Wabash, are attbe Grand Hotel. _ Death of Willis 8. Webb. Mr. Willis S. Webb died yesterday morning at 2:30 o’clock, at his home. No. 438 North Meridian street. The funeral will occur this afternoon at. 1:30 o'clock, and will be under the auspices of Ancient Landmarks Lodge, F. and A. M. Mr. Webb was born in Clark county, Ind., Nov. 10, 1819. Two years later the family removed to Shelby county, where he grew to man hood. In 1839 he was married to Miss Frances M. White, and shortly afterward he and his bride, accompanied by bis father's family, removed to Missouri. A year later Mr. Webb suffered severely from an attack of fever, and on >iia recovery he returned to Indiana, and again took up his residence in Shelby county. In 1847 he removed to Franklin, Johnson county, where, in company with his brother, John G. Webb, they engaged in the blaeksmithing business. In 1850 he engaged in mercantile business in company with John W. Keightley, the partnership continuing six years, when Mr. Webb sold out to Mr. Keightley. From this time on Mr. W T ebb was chiefly engaged in banking, though at various times he had interests in other lines of business. He was „one of the original members of the dry-goods firm of Webb, Kennedy & Cos. In 1865, in connection with other gentlemen, lie organized tire Indiana

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Banking Company. He remained in this firm five years, being at the same time actively ei - gaged in the wholesale dry-goods business, under the firm name of Webb, Tarkington & Cos. In 1874 Mr. Webb retired permanently from mercantile pursuits, but continued in the hanking business, with W. W. Woollen as a partner, the firm being known as Woollen, Webb & Cos. This firm failed during the panic, but, securing an extension of time, all debts were paid and the house again resumed business. Mr. Webb at various times owned large tracts of lands in Tennessee and Texas, and was also largely interested in the construction of the Iron Mountain & Helena railroad, in Moutana. In his religious views Mr. Webb was liberal, but having been brought up a Baptist he adhered to that form of worship. AT THE THEATERS. The Current Attractions This Week —Miss Fanny Devenport in “Fedora.” Mr. Rehan’s company pleased another good audience at the Grand last night by their entertaining presentation of the clever comedy “Seven-Twenty-Eight.” It will be repeated tonight and this afternoon, anti to-morrow night Miss Lizzie Evans, a young actress of excellent ability, will begin an engagement, presenting “Fogg's Ferry” and “Dew-Drop,” in which she has met with much success elsewhere. At English’s, to-morrow night and during the remainder of the week, Miss Charlotte Thompson, the favorite actress, will play a return engagement, presenting the “Sea of Ice,” in which she has never before appeared in this city. She is supported by Mr. G. C. Craig and a competent company. Mr. Joseph Reynolds is in the city arranging for the appearance of Mrs.Langtry at the Grand Opera-house next Wednesday evening, in W. S. Gilbert’s play “Pygmalion and Galatea.” MISS DAVENPORT AND “FEDORA.” Fanny Davenport’s appearance in “Fedora” at the Grand next week promises to be a theatrical event of more than ordinary importance. In New York city, where “Fedora” enjoyed a run of nearly one hundred nights, it became literally the talk of the town, and a regular “Fedora” craze seized upon the populace. For a period of several months Fanny Davenport’s portraits monopolized the shop-windows and dead walls. It was unanimously acknowledged to be the distinct dramatic hit of the year, and the receipts of the New York engagement alone are said to have reached SBO 000. Miss Davenport in America has duplicated Sarah Bernhardt’s Parisian triumph in the part. “It is the role to which Miss Davenport,” said Mr. Klaw, her representative, yesterday, “has given her best study, and her success in it proves beyond question that she has heretofore suffered considerably from dramatic misfits. She is new in the best years of her life, and has returned to America lithe and beautiful in form and face as you remember her ten years ago.” “How old is Miss Davenport?” “She is now but thirty-two—though slie has been on the stage nearly twenty-five years. In a letter written recently by her to Mr. Stephen Fiske, of the Spirit of the Times, she says: ‘My first appearance on any stage was at the Howard Atheneum, Boston, on July 4, 1858, when my father and mother and the whole company sang ‘The Star Spangled Banner.’ I stood heside my mother and held the American flag when the line ‘The star spangled banner in triumph shall wave,’ was sung. * * * From the flrst year he took the theater (I was then seven) my father put my name in the list of the company, because it pleased mo and made me think I was on the stage.”’ “How came Miss Davenport to secure ‘Fedora’ when there was so much managerial com petition for its possession?” “You are right, there was a regular Kilkenny fight and scramble to get ‘Fedora.’ It is a play combining every element of artistic and financial success when in the hands of competent actors. Beginning with assassination and ending in suicide, it runs the whole gamut of the human passions, and yet never descends to the t awdriness and far-fetchedness of melodrama. ‘Fedora,’ according to Bernhardt, is a second creation of woman, the incarnation of all feminine charms and defects, a fallen angel with white wings! But you waut to know how she got it. Through no less a personage than Bernhardt herself, who has been a warm friend of Miss Davenport ever sinco the two traveled through this country in honorable rivalry three years ago. Bernhardt wrote to Sardou, ‘if you want the American production of ‘Fedora’ to combine all the elements of pecuniary and artistic success, let Miss Davenport have it.’ Since her great success Sardou has written Miss Davenper* several congratulatory letters, and is evidently much elated to know she gave her great talents to the part.. ‘Fedora’ is likely to become one of the classics of theatrical literature, and has already been pronounced by Labouchere, of the London Truth, ‘a modern tragedy. ’ ”

THE CITY IN BRIEF. The Chase Brothers’ Piano Company, of Richmond, with a capital stock of .SIOO,OOO, was in corporated yesterday. An expressman named Kokomeir, living at No. 110 North Pine street, was taken down with smallpox yesterday. The Physio-Medical College of Indiana will hold its eleventh annual commencement exercises in True Friends' Hall, Bates Block, to morrow afternoon. Marriage licenses were issued yesterday to Henry Service and Sarah Gage, George W. Compton and Mary A. Main, Wiliiam Allen and Rosa Johnson. There is an appalling rumor prevalent that a new skating rink to be built on College avenue, near Seventh street. There is already one in “Bucktown.” In the Criminal Court yesterday John Price was sent north for eighteen months for burglary and George Snyder was sent to jail for twenty days for assault and battery. The members of the Seventh Presbyterian Church will give a reception in honor of iheir new pastor. Rev. R. V. Hunter, at the church, corner of Elm and Cedar streets, this evening, to which all are invited, “Souvenir night" at the Park rink last night, was a success. To-night there will he a blindfold race at this popular place, and on Friday ami Saturday evenings the Chicago Polo Club will meet the Indianapolis club. The funeral of John Campbell, formerly a well-known druggist of Indianapolis, and who died on Monday evening, will take place from bis father's residence this morning. The remains will be sent to Shelbyville for interment. The five postmasters constituting the late French investigating committee will meet in this city, and, after going over the evidence in the case, forward the record to Postmaster-general Gresham, with recommendations and suggestions. Marlon County Medical Society. At the meeting of the medical society last night Dr. J. E. Lockridge reported five cases of poisoning by sulphate of morphia in large doses, in which restoration was secured by the administration of sulphate of atropia. The general subject of the physiological antidoting of one of these poisons by the other was fully brought out and discussed. Four fifths of all the cases of poisoning met in general practice were stated by the essayist to be due to opium and its preparations, and the experience of the medierfl men who were present confirmed the statement. Dr. L. L. Tood will discuss affections of the lungs next Tuesday evening. General Harrison's Sword. The sword of General William Henry Harrison has been presented to the State library by William A. Rifner, of Henry county. It is the sword given by General Harrison, in 1828, to Colonel Isaac Morgan, who was at that time in command of the State militia in Dearborn county. In 1833 Morgan failed in business, and ail his property was sold at public auction. A neigh

bor purchased the sword, with the intention of returning it Colonel Morgan, but bankruptcy and dissipation had ruined him, and he did not redeem it. Mr. Rifner was at that time a resident of Hamilton county, Ohio, and being an admirer of General Harrison, desired to possess the sword. He purchased it, and has had it in his possession for more than fifty years. In presenting it to the State Librarian, to be placed among the relics, he writes: “Now, having no further uso for it in my old days, I wish to place | it where it will be properly honored and cared for.” Dan. O’Leary’s Case. The directors of the Indianapolis Base-ball Club met Monday night to consider Dan. O’Leary’s differences with the club and finally decided to grant him his release without prejudice, conditional upon his payment of $l5B, which it is claimed he owes the club. O’Leary’s version of the case differs from that of the di rectory in several respects, viz.: He claims that the club is indebted to him in the sum of SIOO.BO as his percentage on the net profits of last season, according to the terms of his contract, and that they also owe him something for his services since the close of the playing season, in arranging dates and contracts for this year. As to a fine of SIOO imposed upon him for misconduct after the Metropolitan game, lie claims that it was remitted, and, therefore, cannot now be charged against Jiim. He admits an indebtedness of $l5O, paid him in the way of advance money, but considers that offset by the percentage of last season's profits and his services since November. The directors insist upon the pay raent of the fine. O’Leary has left his case in the hands of friends in Indianapolis for adjustment. It is understood that he has signed with the Cincinnati Union League Club. The Cincinnati Enquirer, of yesterday, says: “A telegram was received last evening from Dan O'Leary, the late manager of the Indianapolis. accepting the terms of the Cincinnati Unions, and will play in the outfield and manage them during 1884. He will report for duty in a few days, and complete the arrangements for the opening of the season.” Tlo Soldiers* Monument. At the meeting cf George 11. Thomas Post, last night, a committee consisting of A. Boice, Dr. J. J. Garber. C. H. O’Brien, J. A. Closser, J. L. Bieler, A. D. Lynch, J. T. Layman. G. H. Shover, Horace McKay and George F. McGin nis, was appointed to receive and solicit subscriptions to the fund for the erection of a soldiers’ monument. The committee will meet at the office of A. Boice, room 18, Sentinel building, this afternoon at 4 o'clock, to organize’ for their work. Sail An Brah’s Lecture. Sau Au Brah, a native Burman,will give one of his inimitable lectures on Burmese life and cus toms at the Central-avenue Church, corner of Central avenue and Butler street, this evening. Sau Au Brah’s lectures are invested with unusual attractiveness, from the fact that he illustrates Burmese life with numerous utensils and of the every-day existence of the people of Farther India. The Carnival at the Wigwam. The fancy dress carnival at the Wigwam last night was a conspicuous success, there being about seventy-five couples in costume and a very large attendance of spectators. The Wigwam will change proprietors this morning, Mr. Smelser having sold out to William Kerschmeir, who will keep the place open all summer, and make various improvements. The Cable Readings. The sale of tickets for the Cable readings will begin this morning at Pfaffiin’s at Bo’clock. The attention called to Mr. Cable by the Eastern press has been followed by a hearty welcome in Chicago. He introduces several creole songs into his readings. Ticket-holders in the lecture course are reminded that their tickets are good for Friday night only.

Robbed by a “Coil." Man. John Harper, a stranger, en route to Cappo, 111., met a confidence man at the Union Depot yesterday morning, who was introduced to him as Mr. Adams, of the Adams Express Company, to whom he advanced $96.60 on a bogus check. He afterward gave Adams the check to got cashed, and saw no more of him. Probate Matters. Phenes Lake has been appointed exwfutor of the will of Ellis R. Lake, giving bond for $1,400, and Henry J. Wilson has qualified as administrator of the estate of Elijah Wilson. Bond, SII,OOO. Real Estate Transfers. Instruments filed for record in the Recorder's office of Marion county, Indiana, for the twenty-four hours ending at 5 o'clock P. M., March 18, 1884, as furnished by Elliott & Butler, abstracters of titles, room No. 3 ACtna building: Jacob H. Sellers and wife to Abraham C. .Sellers, part of the southwest, quarter of the northwest quarter of section 20; also, the south half of the south half of the northwest quarter of the northwest quarter of section 20—all in township 17 north, of range 5 east—containing fifty acres, more or less $1,550.00 Edwin G. Crawford et al. to John Matheys, lot 1. in Crawford et al.'s subdivision of part of block 15, Holmes’s Wesfcond addition the city of Indianapolis... 150.00 Mary B. Strong to Fannie Morton, lot 1 85. in Spann & Co.’s Woodlawn addition to the city of Indianapolis 525.00 David F. Swain, administrator, to Axel A. Wise, administrator, lot 24, in block 40, in John C. Burton’s North Indianapolis addition 26.00 David F. Swain, administrator, to Charles Wise, administrators deed to lot 23, in block 40, in John C. Burton’s North Indianapolis addition 27.00 James Watson and wife to Mary E. Calla- * ban, part of lot, 82, in outlot 89, in Bates’s subdivision, in the city of Indianapolis 1,450.00 Joseph Helm and wife to Charles Lahey, lot 2, in H. Bates’s subdivision of part of outlot 90, in the city of Indianapolis 276.00 Gustavus R. Fries to Margaretta N. Secrist. lots 414 and 415, in outlot 99, in the city of Indianapolis 84.34 Henry Stanton to Margaretta N. Secrist, lots 413, 414 and 415, in Fletcher and othex-s' subdivision of outlot 98, in the city of Indianapolis 80.00 Richard M. Smock, commissioner, to Mar-gax-etta N. Secrist. commissioner’s deod to lots 413. 414 and 415. in Fletcher et al.'s subdivision of outlots 96, etc., in the city of Indianapolis 1.00 Conveyances, 10; consideration $4,169.00 A Senseless Scare. Richmond Independent. The smallpox scare at Indianapolis has been magnified and exaggerated far beyond what the facts in the ease warrant. The truth is, there has been very little smallpox there. The danger to visitors going there has never at any time been greater than is always encountered while visiting the larger cities. Explanation. Since the chauge took place in our nrm, by the retirement of Dr. H. U. Carey, many of our friends are led to believe that Mr. Simeon B. Carey had withdrawn from the old firm of Layman, Carey & Cos. The facts are Simeon B. Carey is still associated witlx James T. Layman in the wholesale Hardware and Cutlery trade, at the old stand, 07 and 69 South Meridian street, where they will be pleased to see their friends and customers and show them the largest and best assorted stock of Hardware and Cutlery in the State. By strict attention to the wants of our large and growing trade we hope to merit a continuation of the patronage that has been so liberally extended to us in the past. Respectfully, James T. Layman, Simeon B. Carey, Firm of Layman, Carey & Cos.

DR. RENNER’S GRAVE. A Yisit to the Memphis Cemetery Shows He Lies Forgotten and Unhouored. Correspondence of tlie Indianapolis Journal. Memphis, Tenn., March 15.—When I decided to take a trip South a short time ago, I did so not only to recuperate from the effects of my sojourn at the “Hotel de Pest,” but to fill a longcherished desire to visit the grave of my lamented friend, Dr. J. E. Renner, who, as every Indianapolitau remembers, went South during the terrible epidemic of yellow-fever at Grenada and Memphis in 1878, offered his services to the Howard Association, and died while in the discharge of his noble work. Immediately after arriving here I started in search of the necessary information in regard to Ins place of burial. A diligent inquiry among physicians and such as were likely to know elicited nothing. No one could recall the tall form of the genial Renner. Going to the office of the Elmwood Cemetery, I found in the register this simple statement: ‘‘Dr. J. E. Renner, died Sept. 17, 1878. Lot 265, belonging to Howard Association.” Providing ourselves with floral offerings, my wife and I entered the south gate of the beautiful cemetery, where magnificent magnolias and holly trees shade the resting place of so many thousands. Deep emotions were stirred in my breast as we slowly walked between the monuments. Had I not already known the facts of the dreadful scourge of that memorable year, the oftrecurring date of September, 1878, on the tombstones would 'have told the tale. Groups of mounds of from three to eight, and the many names on some monuments spoke more eloquently than could volumes of writing of the losses that some families sustained. After calling at the superintendent’s office to inquire as to the location of Howard section, an assistant conducted us past the Masonic burial place, near the north gate, and pointed out an open space as the location. The sight I here beheld I shall never forget, and the words, “Sic transit gloria mundi” unwittingly escaped my lips. Before us were three rows of grass-grown mounds, thirty-two in all. A little beyond, separated from these only by a small space, were five or six rows containing forty-two graves. “Here,” said our guide, "lie thirty-two volunteer physicians who fell victims to yellow fever in 1878 Those beyond are the graves of the forty-two nurses who died during that time, while nursing the sufferers. For a moment all was silent. The desolate spot brought to my mind the thought, how, had not insurmountable obstacles prevented our joining Dr. Renner in his mission, I, with two other Indianapolis volunteers, might now be resting under one of these little mounds. Not a monument to tell the wanderer whom this dry grass covers; not a.slab with a name, not even a shingle with a cross to indicate the individual graves. Seventy-four brave souls went forth without hope of reward, facing death, to help the feverstricken people; and here they lie, unknown, unnumbered and unsung! No one connected with the cemetery could tell us which one of the graves contained our friend Together with the superintendent and his assistant we examined the registers and plats, but tailed to locate the looked-for spot; it only made confusion more confused, inasmuch as the number of the section in his books was given as 291, while that of the city office gave 265. In the records of the cemetery the names of seventeen out of the thirty-two physicians and many of the nurses are not even recorded! The bitterness my discoveries caused me only diminishes when I call to mind the details of the calamity; how, of 50,000 inhabitants, 30.000 sought safety in the distance, and left the rest to take care of the sick and dying; how all the undertakers were occupied to their fullest capacity day and night, necessitating the use of drays and wagons in place of horses, the digging of long trenches instead of graves. True, at such times it is not easy to keep perfect records. I wish not to cast reflections upon the city of Memphis, nor the Howard Association, but it occurs to me that the arboriculturist, in planting trees, and the florist, in setting out cuttings, no matter how busy, take the time to attach a tag with its name to the plant. The physician and nurse who leave home and all to meet death are certainly worth the tag. As for Dr. Renner, individually, I am certain his many friends in Indianapolis will be astonished to learn the true state of affairs. The impression prevails among many that not only his resting place is well known, but is marked by a suitable monument. The cause of this erroneous impression doubtless arises from the fact that the* Doctor left a not inconsiderable sum of money at his death. lam not a sentimentalist, but insist that if the city of Memphis does not sufficiently value the men who laid their lives at her feet to keep green their memories, the friends of Dr. Renner owe it to themselves to see that his grave is found and marked. This may be accomplished without much trouble or expense. The books of G. 11. Holst, & Bro., undertakers, show that they buried Dr. Renner Sept. 17, 1878, in a metallic casket, the number of which is recorded in their books. A man called Tom, in their employ, recalls well the time of the Doctor’s burial, but as he buried two physicians within a few hours, he can remember the row*, but not the grave. By opening one or two graves (which the superintendent assures me is frequently done), and examining the number of the casket , the right one may easily be found. We erect monuments to soldiers who take life, why not honor the memory of those who preserve its Theodore A. Wagner. Buy the popular $1 shirt, at Parker’s All the now-style Hats at “Seaton’s Hat Store,” 25 North Pennsylvania street. Henley Roller Skates, We can supply you now with the Henley Roller Skates. Come early, as they don’t last, long. Rinks supplied at manufacturers’ prices. Also have the repairs in stock. The Henley is the most popular and best made skate on the market. Hildebrand & Fugate. Agents Henley Roller Skate. 35 South Meridian street.

W. 11. ROLL, 30, 32 and 34 South Illinois Street, HA.S jxjst received U) Worth of New Lace Curtains at prices ' that will astonish you. P. S.—Lace Curtains Cleaned, Repaired and Colored. Telephone, 871: D i nnn Indiana paper compt, A y' H l“\ MANUFACTURERS. JL JLjL JL A- V ■ wjf, o. DkVAY, Agent No. 23 E. Maryland Street. paper upon which the JOURNAL is printed is furnished by this company. A . L. WRIGHT & CO. Wholesale and Retail Dealers in CARPETS 1 WALL PAPER, Nos. 47 and 49 S. Meridian Street,

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