Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1885 — A MEMORABLE MEETING. [ARTICLE]

A MEMORABLE MEETING.

Thirty-fifth Anniversary of the Meeting’ of the Indiana Constitutional Convention of 1850. , Grand Reunion of the Survivors of That Body and of the First Legislature Under the New Constitution. THE OFFICIAL CALLS. Co 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 io constitute a great and prosperous State, t is a melancholy fact that over threefourths of the men who framed the ConItitution have passed away, and that the Pest, in the order of nature, must speedily follow; —~ —^—* * — l A reunion of thb 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 wonld tend to perpetuate their personal history and give them that place in the history of the Statute which they are justly entitled. It will be such an important historigal event as ought to, and doubtless will, command the sympathy and 00-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 reunion will commence promptly at two o’clock p. in. 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 Carr, President. Wit. H. English, Principal Secretary. The undersigned members of the convention cordially join in the foregoing call:

Thomas A.- Hendricks. William 8. Holman. William McKee Dunn. Alvin P. Hovey. Alexaneeb 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. Thip 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, beside s, many members of the convention were also members of the Legislature.

It seems to us that a reunion of the surviving members should take dace 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 snch 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 founty. Hiram Allen—Carroll and Clinton. ♦Samuel J. Anthony—Porter. Oliver P. Badger—Putnam, George H. Bailingall—Henry. Cromwell W. Barbour—Vigo. ♦Erastus K. Bas com—Adams and Wells. Walter E. Beach, Elkhart. ♦John Beard—Wayne. Othniel Beeson—Wayns. George Berry—Franklin. ♦Thompson P. ltickneL—Noble. Horace P. Biddle—Cass, Howard, etc. . *James E. Biyth—Vanderbnrg. ♦James W. Borden—Allen, etc. ♦Thomas I. Bourne—Vico. ♦Henry J. Bowers—Ripley. Wi liarn Bracken—Rush. ♦Michael G. Bright—Jefferson. Benjamin F. Brookbank—Union. ♦James JR. M. Bryant—Warren. ♦Thomas Butler—Greene. ♦John F. Carr—Jackson. ♦Horace E. Carter—Montgomery, Shad; ach C handler—Brown. ♦Jacob I*. Chapman—Marion. ♦Thomas Chenowith—Vermillion. Haymond W. Ci rk—Hamilton. ♦Othniel L. Clark—Tippecanoe. ♦Joseph Coats—Fountain. ♦Albert B. Cole—Hamilton. ♦Schuyler Colfax—st. Joseph. Alexander B. Conduitt—Morgan. ♦Grafton F. Cookerly—Vigo. ♦James Crawford—Morgan. Daniel Crumbacker - Lake and Porter. ♦John Davis—Ma ffson. Oliver P. Davis —Parke and Vermillion. ♦Samuel Davis—Parke. ♦James Dick—Knox. ♦David M. Dobson—Owen and Greene. William McKee Dunn—Jefferson. •John P. Dunn—Perry, eta Mark A. IJuzan—Boone. •Ben H. Edmonston—Dubois. ♦James Elliott ttd fi 1 vacancy)—Shelby. ♦Alex. S. Farrow—Putnam. ♦Jacob f isher—C ark. James B. b oley—Decatur. ♦William C. foster—Monroe. ♦Samuel Friable— Perry. ♦James Garvsj—Kosciusko. ♦Thomas W. Gibson— lark. ♦Thomas Gootee-i-Martin. George A Gordon—Howard and Cass. John A. Graham—Miami. ♦Chris C. Graham—Warrick. ♦Milton Gregg—leff<*rson. ♦William R Btadden—Sullivan, eta ♦Samael Hall—Gibson. ♦William Holliday—Orange. ~,♦ Allen Hamilton^-Allen. ♦Jonathan Harb Jit—White, eta Franklin Hardin -Johnson. ♦Nathan B. Hawkins—Jay, eta Jefferson Helm—Ru-”. ♦M' lchert Helmer—Lawrence. Thomas A. ndricks—Shelby. ~ •Wilds W. Hitt-Knox. ♦Benoni CL Ho an—Grant. Alvin P. Hovey—Posey. ' , ■ •John B. Howe—Lagranga , •

William A Holman—Dearborn. Wilson Huff—Spencer. •John D. Johnson—Dearborn. ♦Smith Jonev— Bartholomew. ♦Daniel Kelso —Switzerland, eta Phineas Mi Kent—Floyd. ♦Harrison Kendall—Wabash and Miami. •RobertO. Kendall—White, etc. ♦David Kilgore—Delaware. Isaac Klnley—Wayne. \l ♦James Lockhart—Vanderbnrg, etc. ' ♦Ezekiel D. Logan—Washington. ♦Douglas Maguire—Marion. ♦Walter March—Delaware, eta,. ♦Joseph H. Mather—Elkhart, etc. John Mathes —Harrison. •Edward R. May—Steuben. Beattie McClelland—Randolph. ♦Joel B. McFarland—Tippecanoe. ♦Wm. McLean—Boone. Cornelius J. Miller—Clinton. •Smith Miller —Gibson, etc. ♦Hugh Miller—Fn) ton, etc. ■* *Dtxon Milligan—Jay and Blackford. Robt EL MUroy—Carroll. , ♦Samuel P. Mooney—Jackson. ♦Geo. W. Moore—Owen. , *Jesse Morgan—Rash. i * Alex. F. Morrison—Marlon. ♦John L Morrison—Washington. Daniel Mowrer—Henry, ♦Elias Murray—Huntington. ♦Christian C. Nave—Hendrick*. •John S. Newman—Wayne. ♦John B Niles —Laporte. *W. R. Nos singer —Parke. ♦Robert Dale Owen—Posey. ♦Abel C. Pepper—Ohio, etc. Samuel Pepper—Crawford. * J ohn Pet tit—Tippecanoe. ♦Hiram Prather —Jennings, etc. ♦James Rariden—Wayne. ♦Daniel Reed—Monroe and Brown. ♦James G. Read—Clark. ♦Joseph Hi stine—Fountain. .Tames Richey—Johnson. ♦Joseph Robinson—Decatur. ♦Rodolphus Schoonover—Washington. ♦David A. Shannon—Montgomery. W. F. Sherrod— Oranae, etc. , •George G. Shoup—Franklin. ♦Stephen Sims—Clinton. ♦Ross Smiley—Fayette. •Thomas Smith“» Ripley. ♦Hezekiah 8. Smith—Scott ♦Henry T.' Snook—Montgomery. ♦John L. Spann—Jennings. ♦Wm. Steele—Wabash. Alex. C. StevefasOn —Putman. ♦George Tague - Hancock. ♦Zachariah TannehUl—Bartholomew. E. D. Taylor—Laporte. Elias S. 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, eta ♦Spencer Wily—Franklin. ♦Benjamin Wolf—Sullivan. Robert Work —DeKalb. Jacob Wonderlich —Whitley. Francis B. Yocum—Clay. ♦John Zenor—Harrison. George W. Carr, President—Lawrenoe. Wm. H. English, Principal Secretary. Bobert M. Ev ns, | H. G. Barkwell, V Assistant Secretaries. George L. Sites, 1 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. *S. S. Mlckel—Adams and Allen Counties. J. Brngh—Blackford. J. Kirnard—Carroll. *G. B. Walker —Cass. ♦J. M. Hannan—Clay. ♦James S. Athon—Clark. ♦Houston Miller—Crawford and Orange. W. E. Niblack—Daviess. J. I*. Millkin—Dearborn. *R. J. Dawson—De Kalb. B. F. Goodman —Dubois. Joseph H. Defrees—Elkhart. ♦J. 8. Reed—Fayette and Union. ♦J. B. Winstanly—Floyd. o ♦fllolon Turman —Fountain. George Berry—Franklin. J. J. Alexander— Green and Owen. John Hunt—Hancock and Madison. ♦Joseph G. Marshall—Jefferson. A. Teearden— Laporte. ♦George G. Dnnn—Lawrence. ♦Nicholas McCarty—Marion. ♦Benjamin Henton—Miami and Wabash. Alfred M. Dele van—Morgan. Joseph Allen—Montgomery. J. Wood —Ohio and Switzerland. E. R. James —Posey and Vanderbnrg. Hiwan Knowlton—Ripley. R. D. Logan—Rush. ♦Norman Eddy—St. Joseph. J. W. Odell—Tippecanoe. J. A. Cravens— Washington. ♦D. P. Holloway—Wayna._. „—_ -- ♦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 Harnson. John Witherow— Hendricks. E. T. Heckman—Henry. ♦.Tames R. Slack—Huntington and Wells. Frank Emerson —Jackson and Scott. ♦Gilderoy Hicks —Johnson. Thomas-Washburn —Kosciusko. O. P. Davis—Park and Vermillion. Job Hatfield—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. Wm. H. English, Speaker—Scott County. John Crawford —Adams County. Isaao D. G. Nelson—Allen. Jos. Struble—Barcho omew. ♦Jos. W. Holliday—Blackford. Wm. B. Beach and Wm. Staton—Boone. Wm. Taggart—Brown. Albert G Hanna —Carroll. * W m. Z. Stewart—Cass. *T hos. W. Gibson and Andrew J. Hay—Clark. Oliver Cromwell and Geo. Donham—Clay. ♦Jas. . . Suit —Clinton. ♦Joel Ray—Crawford. John Scudder —Daviess. ♦Oliver B. Torbit and Wm. S. Holman—Dearborn. ♦John F. Stevens—Decatur. Michael Thomson Delawara Henry W. Barker—Dubois. ♦Joseph Beane —Elkhart. John V. Lindsay—Fayette. Phineas M. Kent—Floyd. Jacob Dice—Fountain. Samuel Davis and*Emanuel Wither*—Franklin. ♦Hugh Miller—Fulton. Zimri Reynolds—Grant Andrew Humphreys—Greena James W. Cockrnm—Gibson. James H. Donthit —Hamilton. John Foster—Hancock. Thomas S. Gunn—Harrison. Ebeneter S. Watson —Hendricks. Isaac H. Morris—Henry. ♦Nathaniel It Lindsay—Howard and Tipton. ♦George McDowell—Huntington and Wells. Samuel ’J’. Wells—Jackson. Robert Huey—Jay. John Lyie King and Francis F. Mayfield— Jefferson. Edward P. Hicks— Jennings. Samncl Eccles—Johnson. •James D. Williams —Knox. •Robert Geddes—Kosciisko. F rancis Henry—Lagrange: ♦Alexander McDonald— Lake. ♦Frankliri W. Hnnt—Laporte. ♦Melchert Helmer—Lawrence. ♦Thomas McAllister and ’Andrew Bhanklin— Madison. •Isaac Smith and ’Henry Brady—Marion. ♦Thomas Snmner—Marshall and Starke. Martin D. (ir.m —Ma tin. Richard F. Donaldson—Miami ♦Samuel H. Buskirk—Monroe. John Laverty—Morgan.,. Mahlon D. Manson and Daniel- C. Stover— Montgomery. ♦Jerome Sweet—NobTe. David S. HuffsteUer—Orange. •James W. Dobson —Owen. ♦Elias G. Holliday—Parka ♦Milton Walker—Perry. James C. Uraham—Pike. \ William M. Harrison—Porter. ♦Robert Dale Owen and,*Urbin Marrs—Posey. A. M. C. Gondy—Pul ski and Jasper. 1 ’ Bradford Glazebrook and D. C. Donahue— Putnam. John Wißon—Randolph. Hiram H. Hart—Ripley. Jnnius B eson —Rush , - ' * Thomas 8. Stanfield—St Joseph. William Major—>helby. Thomas M. Smith -Spencer. Theophilns U bowning -Sullivan. Samuel Porter and John W. Spencer—Switzerlan and Chia r ’ „ ♦Gilman C. Mndgett and George W. McConnel —Steuben and DeKalb. Godlove O. Behm—Tirpeeanoe. , ♦James Leviston—Union. ♦Willlard Carpe.iter—Vanderbnrg. Henry Hostetter—Vermillion. 'Samuel B. Goo kins and Robert M. Hudson— VigO. J c-alvin Cowgiil—Wabash. ♦James K, M. Bran. —Warren. Eli Lewis—Warrick. ♦Rodolphus Schoonover—Washington.

‘John C. Doughty, ♦Edmund Lawrence, and Joseph M. Bullar—Wayne. Solomon Maya—Wh te and Bentoh. David Litchfield—Whitley. ♦Supposed to be dead. If any mistakes are discovered in 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 snch sketch will be forwarded. The same is expected to be nsed at the reunion of surviving members, which is to be held at Indianapolis the sth, Cth 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 consnme more than five minutes in reading- *, ‘ Statu Items. —The Presbyterian Church at Bichmond was struck by lightning and entirely consumed. —Charles Gillinger was shot and mortally wounded at Penville by Wm. Reiser 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 horde 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 20th of September, the date having been changed. —The Gienwood distillery, near Lawrenceburg, burned. It belonged to Mr. Walsh, of Cincinnati. Loss, $12,000; insurance, SB,OOO. Buyer’s cooper shop and a small brewery adjoining were also burned.

—The father of Miss Nonrse, the young lady who committed suicide by drowning herself at Louisville a few days since, killed himself with poison in Lafayette in 1867. Ho was at the time editor of the Journal of that city. —lndianapolis Sentinel. —At Indianapolis a manufacturer is turning out log wagons for service in the mahogany woods of South America. Each weighs twenty-five hundred founds, 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 sale 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-

—The State Printing Bureau reports that the printing and stationery of the current fiscal year has cost $32,532.16; paid for legislative printing and stationery, $8,752.97—total, $41,285.13. The printing bill last year was $11,009 less. The additional expense has been in the publication, this year, of several reports which were due and should have been paid for last year, and in the printing of the legislative acts. This is in addition to the $30,000 allowed by the Legislature for printing claims of several years’ standing. —“To meet the requirements of a classic figure,” says a writer in the Indianapolis Journal, “a lady should be 5 feet 4| inches tall, 32 inches bust measurement, 24 inches waist, 9 inches from armpit to waist, long arms and neck. A queenly woman, however, should be 5 feet 5 inches tall, 31 inches abont tho bust, 26J inches about the waist, 35 over the hips, inches around the ball of the arm, G$ inches around the wrist. Her hands and feet should not be too snialL” —The statement of the Michigan City Penitentiary shows: Beeeipts daring May, June, and July from convict labor, $24,534.68; expenditures, $21,065.86; excess 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 is of,, the opinion that Under the law it should be tamed into the State Treasury, and drawn out upon the Auditor’s warrant as occasion might require. 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. —Fred Spitkey, a young man of a melancholy disposition, determined to die at Sullivan, and going into one of the drug of the place called for a large quantity of strychnine. The druggist looked at his customer with a su -picions eye and concluding to be bn the safe side, put up some powdered chaH for Mr. Spitkey, which the lalter paid for, and then made a bee-line for the nearest saloon. Calling for- a glass of beer he poured the poftder into the beverage and gulped the mixture down with evident relish. Then he bade the bartender an affectionate good-by, and calling on all his friends bade them also a last farewell. He laid down and tried hard Io die, bnt the chalk wonld net work.- Sp tkey finally repented and was completely overcome with fear, which threw hint into fits, in the agonies of which it took several men to hqld him As soon as he recovered h 3 ran to the druggist s and discovered that he had swallowed harmless chalk. The last seen of him he was shaking the druggist by the hand and weeping tears of thankfulness.