Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-06-15
THIRTY YEARS AGO.
THE NOMINATION OF LINCOLN FOR
THE PRESIDENCY.
A Tragedy at Lisle's Bridge-The Sacra.
mento Rangers in Washoe-A
Wide-Awake Elder.

CANS at OnlcagO. SeWard'S name YVES pre-
sented by w. NJ. Evarts, and Blair named
Bates. Delano of Ohio said he desired IL
name man who could split rails and
maui Observation-Disclosures Lincoln. The
total number of votes cast was 465, and %;
were necessary to choice. On the frs
ballot Seward received 1874, Lincoln 102
Cameron SOL, Bates As, Chase 40, Dayton
IA, Mclean Is, Collamer 10. Wade 3, ane
Reed, Fremont and Sumner each one. Or
the second ballot Seward had 1874, Lin
coin ISL, and the others about as before
except that Cameron was withdrawn, ant
G. NJ. Clay got 2. On the third ballo
States began breaking toward Lincoln, ant
he received 354 ballots, amid great excite
ment. When waited upon at his hotel AMI
Informed of bis nomination he replied II
the committee:
MIR. Chairman and gentlemen of thu
committee, tender you-and through vol
the National Republican Convention, ant
all the people represented in inv pro
foundest thanks for the high honor dom
me, which you now formally announce
Deeply and even painfully sensible of th,
great responsibility which is inseparabl,
from that honor-a responsibility which
could almost wish had fallen upon som,
one of the far more eminent and expert
enced statesmen whose names were befor,
the Convention-I shall, by your leave
consider more fully the resolutions of tn,
Convention, denominated the platform
and without unreasonable delay RESPOND
to you, in writing, not doubling now tha
the platform will be found satisfactory anG
the nomination accepted"
Lincoln was comparatively unknown tt
the Republicans east of Illinois until be
delivered his great speech (tilling five col
umns OF the UNION in Cooper Institute
New York, shortly before the Convention
met. 1t was grand exposition of the
principles of the Republican party, anG
concluded with these courageous words
aimed as defiance to the Southern fire
eaters, who were already talking of dis
union: Neither let US be slandered from
our duty by false accusations against us
nor frightened from it by menaces of de-
struction to the Government, nor of dun.
geons for ourselves. Let us have faith tina,
right makes might, and in that faith lei
US, to the end, dare to do our duty as We
understand it."
.........A tragedy was enacted at the
Nv Si III 1901, duu JdCOE
Sapp was examined in the Police Court or
June 8, 1860, charged with the killing O.
John Lynot. 1t appears that the mer
were employed at the bridge, and quarreled
about the ownership of shovel. Lyno
insisted that Sapp had his shovel an6
Sapp declared that it was his own. The
men had assumed belligerent attitudes. apC
when Lynot called Sapp a liar the latter
hit him on the head with the shovel. Al
Lynot fell, Sapp caught him, called fol
help, bathed his wound, and then ran al
the way to town for DR.. Oatman. He lef
town for time, but returned frequently
and was arrested only when he had diff.
Guilty with another man. Public svmpa
thy was with Sapp on the ground that the
fatal blow was struck in the heat of passion
and under great provocation. He was dis
charged.
........Elder Kimball, of the Mormon
Church, made speech to some mission.
aries one day, as they were about to de.
part on PROSECUTING tour, which showed
him to be practical sort of man and alive
to what was going on. He said +: "Breth.
rem, / want you to understand that it is moi
to be as it has been heretofore. The brother
missionaries have been in the habit OF
picking out the prettiest women for them.
selves before they get here, and bringing
on the ugliest for US. Hereafter you must
by 5 them all here before selecting for
yourself, so that we all may have q fair
shake" Thirty years later it would have
been said of the Elder that there were no
flies on him"
......... During the Indian trouble in
Washoe young man named Warren
WATSON started from Carson with dispatches
from General Clarke to the officers at
Honey Lake Valley, ITO miles distant. He
rode through the heart of the district in
Tested by the hostiles, during the night,
and arrived at Honey Lake in the morn
ing. He rode but one horse, and made the
journey through a rough country and in
the dark. in fourteen hours.
.........The mountain papers were accus.
ing Charley Fairfax of having recruited
some very tough characters in this city foI
his Washoe company. AT Virginia City
they helped themselves to horses and SAD.
bles wherever they found them They
called ii pressing them into the service,
but the owners declared it deliberate horse
stealing. 1t is said that many of the out
fits never found their owners again attel
the cruel war was over.
.........ln the marriage column of tn.
UNION appeared the following: Married
In Folsom, June 18th, Christian Ecklon t.
Mary Keeie, both of Folsom" Chris. still
stays by the old town, where he has reared
a family and acquired handsome compe
tence. Thirty years of welded bliss ha
kept him young and risky, and Chris cal
go all day on quail hunt against an,
twenty-year-old in the country.
....-.George M. Patchen and Ethan
Allen trotted great race (for those days
over Union course, Long Island, on tn
18th of May, 1850, for 81 900 a side
Patchen won in three straight heats il
2:25, 2:24, 2:29. The fastest quarter wa
made in SO seconds. Horses that can d,
no better than that nowadays are hardly O
the fifth class.
........lt cannot be said that the peopl
are becoming less patriotic as the year
roll by. Thirty years ago efforts wer
made TO hold meetings to arrange for cele
brating the national birthday, but nobod,
would attend, and the idea of a genera
celebration had to be dropped. 1t is differ
ent in these times.
........."Uncle'' Daniel Blue, the well
known colored man, who died few year
ago, had narrow escape-together will
his wife and FIVE children-from bein,
burned to death on the l4th of June 1860
Their house at Ninth and f streets caugh
fire at night, and the family were rescue,
with difficulty.
1.-THE first news received on thi
coast of the nomination of Lincoln for tn
Presidency was contained in telegram 4
the UNION, stating that passenger on tn
overland stage had received a dispatch q
Malloy Station to the effect that "Abram
Lincoln of Illinois had received the nomi
nation at Chicago.
........0ne day white man named Civil
got into a row with Chinese damsel on
street and bit off one of her ears. He wa
about to commence operations onthe othe
ear when officer 0'Neil came along an,
arrested him.
.........A Mariposs aspirant for politica
honors published the following announce
ment: Il will be candidate under tn
Barner of Bell & averet For the assembl
next-a word to the wise is a nough. dio
Y Libertad."
.........Surveyor-G General Higley left tn
city on the 18th OF June, 1860, with
splendid outfit, for the purpose of survey
ing the eastern boundary of the State il
the vicinity of Lake Tahoe.
........ Mayor w. l.. Ustick and William
S. Johnson, publishers of the Sacrament
EreniRg Post, were undergoing trial on
charge of libel preferred by Eli Mayo, TIL
then Poundmaster of the city.
........ Heavy rains had fallen in tn
mountains and foothills the first week il
June. and the streets of Auburn were q
muddy as at any time during the winter.
1.-THE Sacramento Baseball Gu
issued challenge TO play any club in To
State, from which it will be seen that base