Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1885 — A MEMORABLE MEETING. [ARTICLE]

A MEMORABLE MEETING.

Thirty-fifth Anniversary of the Meeting of the Indiana Constitutional Convention of 1850. -Orud Heunion of the Survivors of That Body and of the First Legislature Under the New Constitution. THE OFFICIAL CALLS. To the Surviving Members of the Indiana Constitutional Convention of 1850 : Gentlemen —lt is more than the third of a century since the Constitution framed by the great body of which you were members was adopted by the people of Indiana. Under its wise provisions wonderful advancement has been made in all that goes to constitute a great and prosperous State. It is a melancholy fact that over threefourths of the men who framed the Constitution have passed away, and that the rest, in the order of nature, must speedily follow. A reunion of the venerable survivors would seem eminently right and proper. It would be gratifying to them and the descendants and friends of the honored members of the convention who are dead. It would tend to perpetuate their personal history and give them that place in the history of the Statfe to which they are justly entitled. It will be such an important historical event as ought to, and doubtless will, command the sympathy and co-opera-tion of the whole people. We therefore earnestly invite every surviving member and officer of the convention to meet at the capital of the State on the first Monday of next October, which is the thirty-fifth anniversary of the convention. The reunioii will commence promptly at two o’clock p. m. of that day at English’s Opera House. The surviving members of the first Legislature (1851-2) held under the Constitution are respectfully invited to attend, and are expected to form a reunion immediately after that of the convention. The surviving members of the last Legislature (1850) held under the old Constitution, and the surviving members of all previous Legislatures in this State, are in like manner invited to attend. The proceedings are expected to occupy Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, the sth, 6th, and 7th of October. George Whitfield Cark, President. Wm. H. English, Principal Secretary. The undersigned members of the convention cordially join in the foregoing call: Thomas A. Hendricks. William S. Holman. William McKee Dunn. Alvin P. Hovet. Alexaneer B. Conduitt. James B. Foley. Phineas M. Kent. George Berry. Oliver P. Davis. Horace P. Biddle, the legislature call. To the surviving members and officers of the first Legislature of Indiana held under the present Constitution. Gentlemen—A meeting of the surviving members of the Indiana Constitutional Convention'of 1850 has been called for the first Monday in October, the thirty-fifth anniversary of the meeting of that convention, and you are invited in the call to attend and form a reunion immediately thereafter. This would be in the order of the meeting of the two bodies in 1850-51, and appropriate for the further reason that the work of each was somewhat of like character, the important duty devolving upon that Legislature of making the entire code of laws conform to the new Constitution (the length of its session being left unrestricted for that purpose) and, besidt s, many members of the convention were also membeis of the Legislature. It ssems to us that a reunion of the surviving members should take Diace as above indicated, and you are therefore requested to be at Indianapolis by noon of the sth of next October, to remain until the 7th. and the call heretofore made for a reunion on the last day of the State Fair is withdrawn, except that there will be a meeting at 10 o’clock a. m. on Wednesday of State Fair week at Hotel English, of such members of the convention and Legislature as may then be in Indianapolis, for the purpose of arranging for the grand reunion on the first Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of October: Wm. H. English, Speaker H. R.; Wm. E. Niblack, Mahlon D. Manson, Isaac D. G. Nelson, James A. Cravens. Samuel Davis, Robert D. Logan, Robert N. Hudson, Andrew J. Hay, Andrew Humphreys. Jacob Dice.

CONVENTION OF 1850. The Men Who Framed the Present Constitution of Indiana. ♦Charles Alexander—Pike ( ounty. Hiram Allen—Carroll and Clinton. ♦Samuel J. Anthony— Rort-er. Oliver P. Badger—Putnam. George H. Ballingall—Henry. Cromwell W. Barbour—Vigo ♦Erastus K. Bascom—Adams and Wells. Waiter E. Beach, Elkhart. "♦John Beard—Wayne. Othniel Beeson—Wayne. George Berry—Franklin. ♦'ihompson P. Bickneli—Noble. Horace P. Biddle—Cass, Howard, eto. ♦.lames E. Blythe—Vanderburg. ♦James W. Borden—Allen, etc. ♦Thomas I. Bourne—Vigo. ♦Henry J. Bowers—Ripley. Wi liam Bracken—Rush. ♦Michael G. Bright—Jefferson. Benjamin F. Brookbank—Union. ♦James R. M. Bryant—Warren. ♦Thomas Butler—Greene. ♦John F. Carr—Jackson. ♦Horace E. Carter—Montgomery. Shadiach < handler—Brown. ♦Jacob P. Chapman—Marion. ♦Thomas Chenowith—Vermillion. Haymond W- Cl rk—Hamilton. ♦Othniel L. Clark—Tippecanoe. ♦Joseph Coats—Fountain. ♦Albert Br Cole—Hamilton. ♦Schuyler Colfax—fct. Joseph. Alexander B. Conduitt—Morgan. ♦Grafton F. Cookerly—Vigo. ♦James Crawford—Morgan. Daniel Crambacker - Lake and Porter. ♦John Davis—Ma lison. Oliver P. Davis—Parke and Vermillion. ♦Samuel Davis—Parke. ♦James Dick—Knox. ♦David M. Dobson—Owen and Greene. William MoKee Dunn—Jefferson. ♦John P. Dunn—Perry, eta Mark A. Duzan—Bdone. ♦Ben R. Edmonston—Dubois. ♦James Elliott (to ti 1 vacancy)— Shelby. ♦Alex. S. Farrow—Putnam. ♦Jacob l 1 isher—Ciark. James B. 1 oley—Decatur. ♦William C. Foster—Monroe.

* Sim net Friable—Perry. •James Garvin—Kosciusko. 'Thomas W. Gibson—l-lark. ♦Thomas Gootee—Martin. Georae A. Gordon—Howard and Cass. John A. Graham—Miami. ♦Chris C. Graham—Warrick. •Milton Grestsr—Jefferson. •William R Hadden—Sullivan, etc. •Samuel Hall—Gibson. •William Holliday—Orange. •Allen Hamilton—Al'en. •Jonathan Harbalt—White, etc. Franklin Hardin -Johnson. •Nathan B. Hawkins—Jay, etc. Je.lerson Helm—Rush. •Melchert Heimer—Lawrence. Thomas A. Hendricks—Shelby. •Willis W. Hitt-Knox. •Benoni C. Honan—Grant. Alvin P. Hovey—Posey. •John B. Howe—Lagrange. William S. Holman—Dearborn. Wilson Huff—Spencer. •John D. Johnson—Dearborn. •Smith Jones—Bartholomew. •Daniel Kelso—Switzerland, etc. Phineas M. Kent—Floyd. •Harrison Kendall—\\ abash and Miami. •Robert C. Kendall—White, etc. ♦David Kilgore—Delaware. Isaac Kinley—Wayne. ♦James Lockhart—Vanderbnrg, eta ♦Ezekiel D. Logan—Washington. ♦Douglas Maguire—Marion. ♦Walter March—Delaware, eta ♦Joseph H. Mather—Elkhart, etc. Joi.n Mathes—Harrison. ♦Edward R. May—Sienben. Beattie McClelland—Randolph. •Joel B. McFarland—Tippecanoe. •Wm. McLean—Boone. Cornelius J. Miller—Clinton. •Smith Miller—Gibson, etc. •Hugh Miller—Fulton, eta ♦Dixon Milligan—Jay and Blackford. Bobt. H. Mllroy—Carroll. ♦Samuel P. Mooney—Jackson. •Geo. W. Moore—Owen. ♦Jesse Morgan—Rush. ♦Alex. F. Morrison—Marion. ♦John I. Morrison—Washington. Daniel Mowrer—Henry, ♦Elias Murray—Huntington. ♦Christian C. Nave—Hendricks. ♦John S. Newman—Wayne. ♦John B Niles—Laporte. •W. K. Nofslnger—Parke. ♦Robert Dale Owen—Posey. ♦Abel C. Pepper—Ohio, etc. Samuel Pepper—Crawford. •John Pettit—Tippecanoe. ♦Hiram Prather—Jennings, eta •James Rariden—Wayne. ♦Daniel Reed—Monroe and Brown. ♦James G. Read—Clark. •Joseph Ri stine—Fountain. James Richey—Johnson. ♦Joseph Robinson—Decatur. ♦Rodolphus Schoonover—Washington. ♦David A. bhannon—Montgomery. W. F. Sherrod—Orange, etc. ♦George G. Shoup—Franklin. •Stephen Sims—Clinton. ♦Ross Smiley .—Fayette. ♦Thomas Smith—Ripley. ♦Hezeinah S. Smith—Scott. ♦Henry T. Snook—Montgomery. ♦John L. Spann—Jennings. ♦Wm. Steele—Wabash. Alex. C. Stevenson—Putman. •George Tague Hancock. •Zachariah Tannehill—Bartholomew. E. D. Taylor—Laporte. Elia 3 8. Terry—Daviess. •Wm. W. Thomas—Fayette. •Henry P. Thornton—Floyd. Henry G. Todd—Hendricks. •Daniel Tembley—Fayette and Union. •J. Van Benthusen—Shelby. •David Wallace—Marion. ♦Thomas D. Walpole—Hancock, eta '•Johnson Watts—Dearborn. Amzi L. Wheeler—Marshall, etc. ♦Spencer Wily—Franklin. ♦Benjamin Wolf—Sullivan. Robert Work—DeKalb. Jacob Wonderlich—Whitley. Francis B. Yocum—Clay. ♦John Zenor—Harrison. George W. Carr, President—Lawrence. Wm. H. English, Principal Secretary. Bobert M. Ev ns, J H. G. Barkwell. v Assistant Secretaries. George L. Sites, ) Sam J. Johnson, Doorkeeper. Samuel McKinzey, Sergeant-at-Arms. Harvey Fowler, Stenographer. Austin H. Brown, Printer.

INDIANA LEGISLATURE OF 1851-52. Senate. ♦James H. Lane, President. ♦B. S. Mickel—Adams and Allen Counties, J. Brush—Blackford. J. Kirnard—CairolL *G. B. Walker—Cass. ♦J. M. Hannan—Clay. ♦James 8. Athon—Clark. ♦Houston Miller—Crawford and Orange. W. E. Niblack—Daviess. J. P. Millkin—Dearborn. *R. J. Dawson—De Kalb. B. F. Goodman—Dubois. Joseph H. Defrees—Elkhart. ♦J. 8. Heed—Fayette and Union. ♦J. B. Winstanly— Floyd. . ♦Solon Turman—Fountain. George Berry—Franklin. J. J. Alexander—Green and Owen. John Hunt—Hancock and Madison. ♦Joseph G. Marshall—Jefferson. A. T eearden Laporte. ♦George G. Dunn—Lawrence. ♦Nicholas McCarty—Marion. ♦Benjamin Henton—Miami and Wabash. Alfred M. Delevan—Morgan. Joseph Allen—Montgomery. J. Wood—Ohio and Switzerland. E. R. James—Posey and Vanderburg. Hiwan Knowlton—Ripley. R. D. Logan—Rush. ♦Norman Eddy l —St. Joseph. J. W. Odell—Tippecanoe J. A. Cravens—Washington. *D. P. Holloway—Wayne. ♦J. L. Spann—Bartholomew and Jennings. R. G. Kendall—Benton. L C. Dougherty -Boone. ♦J. 8. Hester—Brown and Monroe. R. H. Crawford—Decatur. ♦W M. Shaffer—Harrison. John Witherow—Hendricks. E. T. Heckman—Henry. ♦James R. Slack—Huntington and Wells. Frank Emerson—Jackson and Scott. ♦Gilderoy Hicks—Johnson. Thomas Washburn—Kosciusko. O. P. Davis-Park and Vermillion. Job Hattield—Perry. ♦Henry Secrest —Putnam. ♦T. M. D. Longshore—Randolph and Jay. James M. Sleeth—Shelby. Members of the House. ♦John W. Davis, Speaker—Sullivan County. V m. H. Eng.ish, Speaker—Scott County. John Crawford—Adams County. Isaac D. G. Nelson -Alien. .Jos. Struble—Bartho omew. ♦Jos. W, Holliday—Blackford. Wm. B. Beach and Wm. Staton—Boone. Wm. Taggart—Brown. Albert G Hanna—Carroll. ♦Wm. Z. Stewart—Cass. ♦Thos. W. Gibson and Andrew J. Hay—Clark. Oliver Cromwell and Geo. Donham—Clay. ♦Jas. i-'. Suit—Clinton. ♦Joel Ray—Crawford. John Scudder—Daviess. ♦Oliver B. Torbit and Wm. S. Holman—Dearborn. ‘John F. Stevens—Decatnr. Michael Thomson Delaware. Henry W. Barker—Dubois. ♦Joseph Beane—Elkhart. John V. Lindsay— Sayette. Phineas M. Kent—Floyd. Jacob Dice—Fountain. Samuel Davis and *Emanuel Withers—Franklin. ♦Hugh Miller—Fulton. Zimri Reynolds—Grant. Andrew Humphreys—Greene. James W. Cockrum—Gibson. James H. Donthit— Hamilton. John Foster—Hancock. Thomas S. Gunn—Harrison. S. Watson —Hendricks. Isaac H. Morris—Henry. ♦Nathaniel R. Lindsay—Howard and Tipton. ♦George McDowell—Huntington and Wells. Samuel T. Wells—Jackson. Robert Huey—Jay. John’Lyle King and Francis F. Mayfield— Jefferson. Edward P. Hicks—Jennings. Samuel Eccles—Johnson. ♦James D. Williams—Knox. ♦Robert Geddes—Kosciusko. Francis Henry—Lagrange. ♦Alexander McDonald—Lake.

•Franklin W. Hunt—Laporte. •Melchert Helm r —Lawrence •Thomas McAllister and ‘Andrew Shanklin— Madison. ♦lsaac Smith and ‘Henry Brady—Marion. •Thomas bumner—Marshall and Starke. Martin D. Cr.m—Ma tin. Richard F. Donaldson—Miami. •Samuel H. Buskirk—Monroe. John Laverty—Morgan. Mahlon D. Manson and Daniel C. Stover— Montgomery. •Jerome Sweet —Noble. David S. Huffstetter—Orange. •James W. Dobson—Owen. •Elias G. Holliday—Parke. ♦Milton Walker—Ferry. James C. Graham—Bike. William M. Harrison—Porter. ♦Robert Dale Owen and *l’rbin Marrs—Posey. A. M. C. Goudy—Bnl ski and Jasper. ♦Bradford Glazebrook and D. C. Donahue— Putnam. John Wilson—Randolph. Hiram H. Hart—Riplev. Junius Beeson —Kush. Thomas S. Stanfield—St. Joseph. William Major—Shelby. Thomas M. Smith—Spencer. Theophilus Cbowning —Sullivan. Samuel Porter and John W. Spencer—Switzerlan i and Ohio. •Gilman C. Mudgett and George W. McConnel —Steuben and DeKalb. Godlove O. Behm—Tippecanoe. ♦James Leviston—Union. •W'lllard Carpenter—Vanderbnrg. Henry Hostetter—Vermillion. ♦ Samuel B. Gockins and Robert M. Hudson— Yigo. Calvin Cowgill—Wabash. ♦James R. M. Brant—Warren. Eli Lewis—Warrick. ♦Rodolphus Schoonover—Washington. ♦John C. Doughtv, ‘Edmund Lawrence, aDd Joseph M. Bulla—Wayne. Solomon Hays—Wh te and Benton. David Litchfield—Whitley. •Supposed to be dead. If any mistakes are discovered ur the foregoing list of members of the Convention or Legislature please report the same to Hon. William H. English, Indianapolis. The relatives and friends of any deceased member of either body are requested to have prepared and forward to Mr. English by the 20th of September a biographical sketch of such deceased member, and please inform him, at once, that such sketch will be forwarded. The same is expected to bo used at the reunion of surviving members, which is to be held at Indianapolis tne slh, 6th and 7th of next October, and will probably be published with the proceedings. It is desirable that the sketch should be of such length as will not consume more than five minutes in reading.

State Items. —The Presbyterian Church at Richmond was struck by lightning and entirely consumed. —Charles Gillinger was shot and mortally wounded at Penville by Wm. Keifjer in a quarrel about a young lady to whom they were suitors. —Samuel McCutcheon. aged fourteen, was killed at Goshen by a bridge giving way while he was crossing with a load of logs. His brother was severely injured and one horse was drowned. —Mrs. Annie F. English, wife of Hon. William E. English, died at Indianapolis last week. She had been an invalid for two years past. The immediate cause of her death was chronic dysentery. —The second reunion of the Thirtyninth Indiana Volunteers (Eighth Cavalry) will be held at Kokomo on Sept. 22 and 23, instead of on the 19th and 2(fch of September, the date having been changed. —At Indianapolis a manufacturer i turning out log wagons for service in the mahogany woods of South America. Each weighs twenty-five hundred pounds, and is up to a ten-ton load on a rough road; the wheels have tires four inches wide and an inch thick, and the motive power will be ox teams of from eight to twenty yoke. Judge Woods, of the United States Court, at Indianapolis', has ordered a foreclosure and sa'e of the Chicago and Great Southern Railway in satisfaction of the mortgage of $1,474,680, and the order stipulates that no bid under $300,000, including above liabilities, be entertained. William P. Fishback is appointed master in chancery to make the sale after the same shall have been advertised. —“To meet the requirements of a classic figure,” says a writer in the Indianapolis Journal, “a lady should be 5 feet 4| inches tall, 32 inches bust measurement, 24 inches waist, 9 inches from armpit to waist, long arms and neck. A queenly woman, however, should be 5 feet 5 inches tall, 31 inches about the bust, 26J inches about the waist, 35 over the hips, Hi inches around the ball of the arm, 6i inches around the wrist. Her hands and feet should not be too small.” ■ —The statement of the Michigan City Penitentiary shows: Receipts during May, June, and July from convict labor, $24,534.68; expenditures, $21,065.86; excsss of earnings, $3,468.82. The total excess of earnings in the Warden’s hands now amounts to $21,514.19. The Warden and Auditor differ somewhat as to the proper disposition of this surplus. The Auditor is of the opinion that under the law it should be turned into the State Treasury, and drawn out upon the Auditor’s warrant as occasion might roquire. The Warden falls back upon a legislative enactment whereby he is authorized to expend surplus earnings in improvements, additions, etc. He claims that better contracts can be made for cash, and that he is authorized to hold and expend properly this money under the above act. The prison is selfsupporting. Every now and then you fall in with people who seem to have the habit of looking at everything through the wrong end of the telescope. The man who is always running down his own town and surroundings is one of this kind. A prominent Mormon elder, who is the father of tweuty-seven grown-np boys, says he is in the “wholesale gents furnishing business.”