The record-union., 1891-03-22
THIRTY YEARS AG9.
lincoln's Memorable Journey to the
National Capital in 1861.
How Sacramento Lawyer Proved His
Point, But Lost His Money
Some of the Old Hussars.


Some of the Old Hussars.
While Lincoln was making his men,
orable journey to Washington, to be inau-
gurated as President, many interesting
things occurred. At one station he start
ed in to tell a story, and before he had
half finished the train started off, and the
people at the station never learned where
the joke came in. AT the next station
somebody told him that several of the
country folks had run after the train and
were there among the crowd, anxious to
hear the rest of fthe story. So Lincoln got
the conductor to wait while he told it all
over.
At Silver Creek, Ohio, Lincoln had
spoken few words from the rear plat
form of his car, when he stopped and
asked the name of the place, ''Silver
Creek" remarked bystander. "Silver
Creek? Why, remember / have lady
correspondent at Silver Creek. Not long
ago she wrote me letter and said she
thought it would improve my looks if
let my whiskers grow. I took her ad
vice, and now here i am. 1 wonder if
she is of the same opinion now-is she
here to see how / look with whiskers, for
the first time in my life?''
A voice-"What's her name2"
Lincoln eSitatingly)-"Well, believe
her name is Miss Mary Berdell.''
The crowd-''Well, here she is ~
At this moment, amid much cheering
and commotion in the crowd, a pretty,
blushing damsel was pointed out to Lin
coin, and he Immediately climbed down
the steps, pushed his way to where the
young miss was standing, took her by
the hand, and then bent forward and i'm
printed rousing smack on her burning
cheek. The crowd cheered as the Presi-
dent leaped upon the car, waved his
hand and disappeared.
While the President-elect was travelling
across Indiana his train had narrow es-
cape from being wrecked. Some mis-
creants had secured an apparatus used
for putting cars on the rails and fastened
it to the track in such way that train
going at fair rate of speed would surely
be wrecked. The discovery was made
near a station by q yardmaSter who was
running locomotive slowly toward the
woodward. This occurred just a few
minutes before the train bearing Mr..
Lincoln was due at that point.
.........A little incident occurred in the
District Court in this city one day during
the trial of Louis kahl for the murder of
Catherine Gherken, on L street, which
caused quite laugh on one of the attor-
neys, but the humorous side of which
was not apparent to him. In order to re-
fute certain testimony produced by the
prosecution, he immersed two twenty
dollar gold pieces in blood and allowed
them to remain in it over night, to ascer-
tain whether or not the blood could be en-
tirely removed by washing. The next
morning he washed them off and was
elated at the result. That day they were
exhibited in court and passed around
among the attorneys and attaches, all ad-
1pittipO that thaV were pntirn1V free from
any sign of blood. But when the lawyer
sought to recover his coin he could not
find 1.-THE gold pieces had mysteriously
disappeared, and he never saw them
again. The experiment was pre-emi-
nently successful, but it cost him just
$40, and he expressed regret that the
blood had been removed so completely
that he could not identify his from other
twenty dollar pieces in the crowd.
.........A shocking assault was made on a
cripple by an insane man, on the steamer
Antelope, one evening, on her trip from
San Francisco to this city. When the
boat was near Rio Vista Frenchman
named Homer Lefever, who had one
wooden leg, was sitting on sack of grain
on the lower deck, when ali insane man
named Coad rushed at him with an ak
and struck q violent blow at his head.
The AK struck the victim near the top OF
the forehead and cut down to the left OF
the nose, across the eyebrow and upper
lip. Fortunately the blow fell a little
short, or Lefever's head would have been
split open. Before the crazy man could
be stopped he struck again, inflcting a
terrible cash in Lefever's right arm. Coad
was then knocked down and secured. Le-
fever finally recovered.
As man named c. G. st. Clair
was being tried in the Police Court one
day, on a charge of arson, a somewhat ex-
citing scene took place. The principal
IVitnaSG AGAINST him q MrS Nelson
and while giving her testimony she said
that ST. Clair had threatened, in San Fran
cisco, to go to Sacramento and ''burn
down her id shanty." At this the
prisoner became greatly excited, and al
though trembling from head to foot he
lier' and then fell on the floor in convul-
sions. Great confusion prevailed, and the
case had to be continued.
Senator Heacock, who now ably
represents Santa Barbara in the State SEN
ate was thirty years ago resident of Sac
ramento, and one of this county's repre-
sentatives in the Senate of 1861. He was
passing the Franklin school-house at
Sixteenth and y streets one evening, on
his way home from the Senate, when he
discovered the building to be on fire.
The Senat } was considerably younger
and more active then than now, and he
set at work. assisted by few neighbors,
TO put out the fire, which feat he accom-
plished before much damage was done.
The fire was started by an incendiary.
1.-THE second annual ball of the
Sacramento Hussars took place on the
2lst of March, 1861, and was under the
management of the following-named
gentlemen: Captain l.. Steudeman, Lieu
tenant NJ. ArenZ, Lieutenant +. Elmer,
Lieutenant Charles Heinrich, J. Marzen,
j. Gregory, n. Meyers, A. Neubauer, p.
Keefer, Captain \. Windau, A. Heilbron,
+. Haug, L. Kraus, III. Harmes, D. Wei
man, II. Ehman, f. Aschnaur, John
c. SCHNEIDER, G. Reeber and S. Gerber.
There are only a few of them left.
.........The following item appeared in
the local column of the UNION: 1.-THE
Supervisors propose asking the passage
of an Act by the Legislature authorizing
the board to 'call in the outstanding in
debtedneSS of the city and issue termlna-
ole annuities, which will extinguish the
debt in Is years." There must have been
some mistake, however, in the drawing
upo the Act, for the securities issued were
OF the interminable kind, and after run
ming for thirty years do not show yearn-
ing to come in.
.........Some capitalists had scheme on
foot to put on a line of stages TO run from
Sacramento TO San Francisco, by way OF
benlcia, crossing the Carquinez Straits
by ferry. 1t was thought the enterprise
would be well patronized, and yet people
complain nowadays because it takes them
nearly four hours TO make the journey by
rail, and at less than half what the stage
fare would be.
....Ihere was aproposition before the
san francisco Board of Supervisors to
employ saiarled reporter to report theil
proceedings, on the ground that the news
paper reporters sometimes misquoteG
their remarks and placed them in a false
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