Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-06-30
THIRTY YEARS AGO.
THELEC0MPTON CONVENTIONAL
ATTACK ON Frederick.
mississippi Sounds the Secession Bugle-
Serious Outbreak at San Quentin
-Early-Day Fisticuffs-Etc.

called to order by Joseph P. Hoge, Chair.
man of the State Central Committee. r. P.
Hammond, of San Joaquin, was chosen to
preside, and Judge r. T. Miller, of Trinity,
and DR.. ]. NJ. Vance, of Butte, were chosen
Secretaries. Among the more prominent
members of the Convention were John
Boggs of Colusa, W. B. May of Contra
Costa, G. G. Blanchard of Ell Dorado W.
ID. Dalrymple of klamath, Dan. Showalter
OF Mariposa, John B. Scott of Napa, Geo.
ID. Roberts of Nevada, E. G.. Blessing and
E. E. Eyre of Sacramento, P E. Connor
(afterward GeneraD of San Joaquin, John
c. Maynard of San Francisco, c. R. Street
OF Shasta, VIM. II. Parks of Suffer, H. B.
Davidson of Trinity, H. C. Kirk of Yolo,
U. w. Trahern of San Joaquin, A Hav-
ward of Amador, P. Freer OF Butte, ]. G.
Downey, of Los Angeles, II. 1. Thornton,
J. A. johnson and VIM. NJ. Stewart of
Sierra, w. S. Wells and J. NJ. Lemon of So
lano, A. L. Boggs of Sonoma, S. p Ske-
mixer of Stanislaus Ben. Z. S. Ely of
Iuba, and many others then and since
prominent in public life. John B. Weller,
John Nugent and Milton S. Latham were
placed in nomination for Governor. and the
latter was nominated on the second ballot.
The rest OF the ticket was as follows: Lieu
tenant-GoVernor, John G. Downey: Con-
gresham Northern DISTRICT, John c.
Burch, of Trinity; Congressman (Southern
Dlstrlct), Charles l.. Scott of Tuolumue.
Judge of the Supreme Court, w. w. Cope,
of Alameda; Attorney General, Thomas
ii. Williams, of Ell Dorado; Clerk of the
Supreme Court, Charles S. Fairfax of Sac
ramento; Treasurer, Thomas H. Findley,
of Nevada Controller, S. H. Brooks. Of
San Francisco SurveyorGeneral, w. A.
Higley, of Sierra Superintendent of Pub
lie Instruction, A. J. Moulder State
Printer, Charles I. Bolts, of Sacramento.
OF the entire list of nominees but one
(Latham) was from free State
lit was on the closing day of that
Convention that David S. Terry made the
speech that caused the trouble leading I'D
TO the duel with Senator Broderick and
ending with the latter's life. In a violent
TRADE against the Anti Lecompton Democ-
racy Terry said Who have we opposed
TO US? a miserable remnant of a faction
SAILING under false colOrs, trying to obtain
votes under false pretenses. They are the
followers of one man, the personal chattels
OF single individual, whom they are
ashamed of. They belong heart and soul,
BODY, boots and breeches, to David C.
Broderlck. They are yet ashamed to &C.
knowledge their master and are calling
themselves, forsooth, Douglas Democrats.
Perhaps they do sail under the
flag of Douglas, but it is the banner of the
black Douglas, whose name is Frederick,
not Stephen"
......On the day following the adjourn
ment of the Convention David C.
Broderick and D. W. Perley Ia friend of
David S. Terry met at the breakfast
table in the International Hotel, San
Francisco, and the conversation turned
upon politics. Observation-Disclosures to
Terry's attack upon him in the Conven-
tion-said he would retract the assertion
made by him that Terry was the only pure
man on the Supreme Bench of California.
Perley objected to the language, and Brod-
erlck repeated it. Perley then applied to
Broderick an opprobrious epithet, which
the latter resented. The news spread
through political circles and caused great
excitement, especially when it became ru-
mored that Perley had challenged Broder-
lex and telegraphed Terry to hurry down
FROM Sacramento
...... Drury Melone ex-Secretary of State,
and who now owns the celebrated Oak
Knoll farm, in Napa county, was then a
young clerk in the St. George Hotel, the
leading house in Sacramento. Among the
guests of the hotel was Frank Schell,
delegate from Butte county to the Lecomp- |
ton Convention, then in session. Schell |
had taken dinner, and as he was passing |
out of the dining-room Melone asked him, |
very politely, if the meal should be charged |
up to him. The UNION says: "Schell got
mad and INDUCED in violent and obscene
language. Retorts followed and Schell
struck at young Melone with heavy cane,
hitting him in the face and slightly cutting
h IN, tha olo Ill
pealed to his friends to come forward and
lend him the amount of his Indebtedness,
but in vain. He was arrested by officer
Deal. The room was crowded at the time,
which was the reason assigned by Melone
for not shooting his assailant, as he would
have been justified in doing" Schell was
subsequently convicted and heavily fined.
...... Emperor Napoleon issued an address
to his troops on Sandman SOIL in which he
invoked the blessing of God upon their
efforts, but counseled them to rely chiefly
upon a vigorous use of the bayonet.
...... Henry Ward Beecher was then in
his prime, and pouring hot shot weekly
into the ranks of hypocrites. In one of his
sermons he said: There are sitting before
me now, in this congregation, two hundred
men who stuff their Sundays full of what
they call religion, and then go out on Mon
days to catch their brei hren by the throat
saying: Pay me that thou owest It's
Monday now, and you needn't think that.
because We sat crying together yesterday
over our Savior's sutferings and love, /
am going TO let you off from paying that
debt, even if it does ruin you The world
is overburdened with one-day Christians of
this kind, and they are the very men who,
while singing 'Hsllelujah the loudest,
have the leas: real piety and love of God in
their breasts. would give you more for
one man who mixes a little consistency
and sincerity with his Sunday religion
than for all the intnlerant single-day
churchmen in the world"
.A STORY was going the rounds of the
press about a young negro at 0uichita, La,
having been scared to death by an elephant.
4 menagerie was encamped near the town,
and the negro came suddenly upon the
elephant picketed in a clump of bushes
He had never seen SO huge beast, and
started to run, but the shock psralyzed
him. One paper referred to the matter as
a case of elephanucide, while another
thought it should be called "negrocide."
.. The first whispers of an attempt to
dissolve the Union were just then family
heard. The Administration Democracy of
Lowndes county, Miss. had solemnly re-
solved that if +" Black Republican Pres
ident should be elected the Union must be
dissolved. One resolution read That
such an election by sectional majority,
and upon principles and a policy hostile
TO the political equality and security of the
Southern States, would be an act so Of
fensive and aggressive as to justify resort
TO the most efficient measures for protec-
ton" The New York Day Book which
voiced the ultraism OF the Southern fire.
eaters, was also predicting disunion on the
slavery issue.
While some of the young men who
had gone to the Pixies Peak gold fields
were writing home for funds TO pay their
way back TO dear old Pike a correspond
ent OF Minnesota paper was writing that
the miners were very much discouraged
in that region, being compelled to dig
through a solid vein of silver four feet
thick, before they could reach the gold"
While the Dashaways were holding
a meeting one afternoon at the Forrest
Thester drunken individual named John
Collins climbed in back window and pre-
sented himself on thestage stripped to the
waist and his face blackened. He created
a sensation among the auditors as well as
the parties on the stage, and was with diff
Guilty removed.