Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1875-06-09
STEALINGS

The course of true love encounters
as many ragged edges" in Silver City
as elsewhere, as the following from the
Lyon TTmesamply attests: A youthful
swain and signing maiden had lived.
loved and rubbed noses in the rural
precincts of our neighboring county,
until they couldn't stand it any longer,
and resolved to be we'd, but, from
some cause unknown to us, could find
no one there to sling the diamond
hitchn around their desperate loves.
Determined, they therefore started out
to seek a parson and license in a more
sympathetic cline, and we first hear of
them in Carson trying their persuasive
powers on the County Clerk. No go;
something wrong. They then came
to Dayton and were again foiled by the
A~rgus-eyed officers of the law. From
Dayton to Virginia, and from Virginia
to Reno with the same unfortunate re-
suit. On Friday they again appeared
i'm DAYTON. We don't know where
they went the last time, nor do we
know, positively, that they found a
parson;' but if they didn't, they had
evidently found some way out of the
dif1iculty-as the young man was as
happy and confiding as a sucking pig,
while the blushing damsel kept poking
her finger 1T him and saying "You
naughty mani"
This item is from the Carson Appeal
| of the 9th instant: Yesterday Hon.
John II. McMurdy, Probate Judge of
one of the counties of Colorado, and a
resident of Georgetown, in that Terri
tory, died at the Ormsby House of
peritonitis, or Inflammation of the
covering of the bowels. The deceased.
with his wife ard a small party OF
friends, had been on a tour through
California, and a few days ago came to
Lake Bigler. While at the lake Judge
McMurdy became overheated by row.
ing a boat on the lake, and while in
that state got chilled. This brought
Oh the fatal inflammation. He was
brought here only day before yester-
day. lie died about three O'Clock in
the afternoon. The deceased was a son
of Reverend Robert McAlurdy, ID. d.,
of Hyde Park, Illinois, was in the 18th
wear, had been married about three
years and leaves a wife and son. The
wife, poor soul, has a bitter ending to
her pleasant jaunt. She may feel sure
of "A deal of sympathy in the place OF
strangers. Deceased was born i'll
Pioua, Ohio. The remains will be TAX
Ell East to-day.
In Virginia City last Saturday NJ. f..
Basset, a teamster for MIR. Savage, and
engaged in hauling freight from the
depot to the G. and c. shaft, received a
severe injury on the top OF the head.
He vas driving his ream near the shaft
when q surface blast was discharged.
.l - III .r.s.l..,.r -. Il 4 a.ta
pounds was thrown almost perpendic-
ularly into theair and came down upon
the top OF Mr.. Basset's head, infiictiDg
a severe scalp wound, two and a half
inches in length. Fortunately the
| skull was not broken in, although con
| siierablv scratched and injured by the
rock. The man was knocked senseless
for a few moments.
Last Friday morning, about three
O'Clock, Daniel Carlin, a brick mason,
who resides on the corner of Carson
and Il streets, Virginia City, fell
through the trestlework of the railroad
bridge near the 0phir mine, some
twenty-five feet, TO the ground below.
Tie poor mar was bruised from head
TO foot. His head, arms, legs and body
all suffered COMMISSIONS, besides the in
ternal injuries he sustained ana the
fracture OF the small bones of the feet.
He remained where he fell til! day
light, when, his cries attracting aiten-
ton, he was discovered and taken
home.
Scarlet fever is prevailing to an
alarming extent in Virginia City. The
number OF cases of scarlatina is in
rreaSiur daily. TO such an eXteut that
The disease must be regarded as cpl
demical. Twenty-Five cases + report.
ed east of G street.