Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1875-09-05
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this morning for the purpose, says tie
Carson Tribune of the I'd, of meeting
Major w. w. Mccoy and II. F. Rice,
concering the proposition of Mr.. Ste
venson to visit Philadelphia to make
arrangements concerning the erection
of q quartz mill on the Centennial
grounds. OF the $4,000 appropriated
by the Nevada Legislature for defray-
ing the expenses of collecting and for
warding collections to the Centennial
$1,000 will perhaps pay all the ex-
penses of Messrs. Stewart and White
hill. 1t is estimated that S, 1000 will be
amply sufficient for building the pro-
posed quartz mill, leaving $1,000 for
general purposes. Major Mccoy, who
BY the way, has his heart and soul in
the business, proposes to erect a build
ing in Paramount Park expressly for
the accommodation of Nevadans; that
is to say, there would be two recep-
ton rooms, one for gentlemen and the
other for ladies. An Office would be
provided for the intelligence agents
whose business it should be to make
every necessary arrangement for the
comfort OF Nevadans. These agents
must be acquainted with all the de-
partments of the exhibition and be en-
abled to give foreign visitors all the in
formation they might require on any
and all subjects. 1t is considered that
such a house could be built and fur
nished for IS, which would still
leave $4,000 for incidental expenses.
The idea is an excellent one and will,
we trust, be carried into execution.
Haskell, the solitary occupant Of the
County Jail, at Austin, will be dis
charged on the Goth inst, his term ex-
piring on that day. Mr.. H. has en-
joyed the hospitalities of Lander coun-
ty for about a year, having been in
yited to do so by Justice Logan, who
thus expressed his appreciation of his
efforts to blazea trail to glory by max
ing a bonfire of a few hundred cords
of wood belonging to the Manhattan
Company. Had the present law been
in existence at the time Haskell built
his little fire he certainly would have
been an honored guest of the State for
several years, and he may thank his
lucky stars that a defect in the law was
all that saved him from the State
Prison.
Two women of.the town, at Reno,
some nights ago, weary of breath and
sadly mourning their hopeless lot, SOL
EMMY determined to put an end to
their career of sorrow and shame by
suicide. They procured poison, and
when night had set in repaired to the
cemetery, with the intention OF execut-
ing their horrid purpose, and doubt
less would have succeeded but for a
circumstance which gave a ludicrous
termination to the whole affair. A gen.
tleman who stands six feet in his stock
ings, and wearing a long white buster,
happened to pass that way, and when
the women caught sight of him they
imagined that they beheld a veritable
ghost, and the two more unfortnnates
weary of breath, forgetting their sui.
cidal intentions, beat a hasty retreat.
A little boy Of Paul Gross. at Silver
City, while playing in the street in
front of the Silver House, came near
meeting with q serious accident. See.
ing q buggy coming down the street al
full speed, the little fellow attempted
to Escape; finding egress cut off from
one side by a large wood team, he at
tempted to gain the other side of the
street, but was knocked down by the
horses, falling between them. He had
presence of mind enough to lay still
thereby escaping severe injury. When
extricated from his uncomfortable pc
sition under the buggy it was found
that he received but slight bruises.
The work on the State Prison build
ing at Reno is progressing rather
slowly at present for want OF material
With the present force at the stone
quarry, it Is impossible to furnish
stone fast enough to keep the work
going on at the Prison as fast as de
sired, and the contractor will bt
compelled to reduce his present forct
or close down until there "a be more
material secured.
A horse driven by Judge McKcnney
became frightened, near Austin, las
Wednesday afternoon, kicked loos,
from the buggy, demolishing that We
hicle, but without injuring the Judg'
or the lady who was riding with him
There were but twenty a loads D
ore shipped over the Virginia ant
Truckee Railroad last Wednesday, al
being from the Consolidated Virgins