Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1874-11-24
JOTTINGS AROUND US.
Scarlet fever is raging in Carsr

executed at this office.
There is rumored strike in the
Edgar, on Treasure Hill.
With fear and trembling the
turkey steps upon the stage.
Our stores are putting on their
holiday appearances.
Visit Piper's Opera House this
week.
Jewett has the finishing of Mrs.
Coats lodging house.
Sunday night was the toughest
of the season.
The fiume of the Eagle mill,
lower end of town, was blown down
Sunday morning.
Carbolic acid is a disinfectant
that is used benefcially in scarlet
fever times.
The saloons of Eureka supply
the compositors Of the Sentinel"
with hot Tom and Jerry.
Enlargement The TIMES will
come out greatly enlarged and i'm
proved soon. Subscribe now.
They charge four dollars for
keeping horse over night at Pan
amint
Dallas makes his regular semi
daily trips, rain or shine, between
Dayton and Virginia City.
Our newly-elected Sheriff and
wife are expected to arrive from
San Francisco soon.
The shooting match at the Mound
House promises to be largely at
tended. There is turkey for all
who go.
They have commenced excavating
for new building next south of
the Pioneer Assay Office. 1t will
be occupied as restaurant.
S. G.. Whitney, long a compos-
itor in the TINES office, has taken
up his residence in Virginia City.
He takes water in his'n.
The mud at 8 A. NJ. was about
two inches deep; at II NJ, three on
a level; at sunset no sounding bot
tom.
When you 60 to Virginia City
stop at the International Hotel.
1t is the only first-class hotel in
that place.
Counterfeit half-dollars of the
die of 1871 are in circulation in
Eureka. The imitation is said to
be a good one, we'll calculated to
deceive.
If any one thinks that Old Boreas
has friends in this country he is
much mistaken, yet he comes and
stays an indefinite period without
invitation.
There is demand for carpenters
in town to-day, to place in position
the numerous outhouses that were
overturned the past two or three
days.
Very little talk about going to
Panamint from this part of the
country. Our miners have the ex-
perience of former excitements in
their minds eye. They are content
to let well enough alone.
The Silver House sets a good
table and furnishes a splendid
room; ditto the Barnum restaurant;
ditto Meyers; ditto Frett's private
boarding house and ditto the
| Sierra Nevada Hotel.
The road between this city and
Gold Hill has been very much i'm
proved of late, by the Toll Com
pany covering the road bed with
waste rock from the mines. 1t is
now passable where last year the
mud was terrible.
We have been asked why we did
not publish the arrivals at our
principal hotels. Once for all let
us assure the enquirer that they
ARE too voluminous for our col
umns. 1t will do very well for
second-rate towns and papers, but
the TINES can't spare the room.
Colonel Joe Nelson, the chief
| Ol6rk Vi Ullt luuCl udtlodoi iiOoSi, 10
ever accommodating and obliglng,
and never refuses to smile" with
his guests. The Colonel has a
story about the Beecher Tilton
affair that is entirely new. Get
him to tell it you when up town.
Brown & Mahanny of the " POST
are doing good job printing at low
prices. This is not an invitation to
our county people to have their
work done there, but simply to
remind Storey county merchants
not to send their work away from
home.
On and after Monday, October
18th, the stage for Glenbrook will
leave the Ormsby House, Carson,
on Mondays, Wednesdays, and
Fridays, on arrival of the 10 o'clock
A. NJ. train from Virginia. Return
ing will leave Glenbrook on Tues
days, Thursdays and Saturdays, at
4 o'clock P. NJ, on arrival OF the
boat from Tahoe and Truckee.
Superintendent McDufie keeps