Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1875-05-28

A man, recently returned to Virginia
City from San Francisco, made a re-
mark derogatory to the character of a
woman named Martha. The converse
tlon was reported to her by a friend.
She t%hereupon purchased q cowhide,
and her friend armed himself with a
pistol. and both started in search Ofthe
offender. He was found on North c
street, and was at once attacked by the
woman, while her companion stood
guard with the pistol. The Infatuated
woman exhausted her strength and
wrath, and WAS conducted home in
safety by the man who had protected
her in the affray.
Last Sunday Frank Blake, a miner in
the Ophir, vas injured by a fall, which,
however, did not result very disas.
trously. He was engaged in his usual
occupation of stopping out, when his
candle became extinguished. In en-
deavoringto get another light he turned
and accidentally fell some twelve OIL
fourteen feet. The principal injury
sustained was in the dislocation of the
bones of the left foot. The other in.
juries amounted to only a few scratch.
es and bruises. He is doing well and
will be out again in a few days.
There is a wonderful juvenile in the
public school at Silver City, in this
State, who, if given two sentences to
copy, will take a pen in each hand and
write one with each hand at the same
time, as rapidly and correctly as any
other scholar will write one. No mat
ter how long the sentences, the task is
performed quickly, gracefully and COR
rectly.
The annual closing down of opera.
tons in the United States Mint at Car
son occurs on the 18th of next month,
at which time a general overhauling of
the institution, as we'll as the recon-
struction of the furnaces, is to be made
by the officers. The loss on gold. in
melting and refining, is one pei cent,
and on that of silver one and one-half
per cent.
DR.. Van Zandt, County Hospital
Physician of Storey county, last Tues
day amputated a portion of the foot of
Daniels, the man who had his foot so
badly frozen, coming from Eureka to
Virginia City, last Winter. The opera
ton was rendered necessary by a piece
of bone protuding through the flesh of
the disabled foot.
It is said that the Indians in the vi
cinity of Cerro Gordo have decided
net to take stock, either with the
whites or the Mexican bandits, in Inyo
county, Notwithstanding one Of their
number came to his death at the hands
of the latter. 1t is said both parties
have solicited their aid.
Silver City, on Sunday last, re-
joiced in the presence of a travel
ing German brass band, an ex-
pert Scotchman and his monoton-
Gus bagpipe, a persevering boy and a
mouth organ, and three or four kettled
dogs-all wound up and playing at the
same time.
The Lyon county Times knows of a
man who robbed himself Of his gold
watch and chain out at Steamboat last
Sunday. After threatening the arrest
of all the people in that county, the
watch vas finally found in his panta-
looms pocket. He had been drinking
sulphur water.
Some wretch, who deserves to serve
a term in the State Prison, has desc
Grated the grave of w. X. Williams, in
the cemetery at Reno, by pulling up
the vines and flowers planted over il
and daily cared for by an affectionate
and grief-stricken wife.
The world-renowned comedian YAM.
kee Adams, passed through Reno last
Tuesday on his way to Carson and
Virginia City. He contemplates going
East, having been in the Australian
colonies for the past fifteen years.
G. b. Mcclellan, the well known art.
list of Virginia, is at present engaged
upon a portrait of DR.. McMeans, which,
when completed, is to decorate the
walls of the hall of the Pacific Coast
Pioneers.
There Is hardly a family In Silver
City but whose children have the
measles, and there is every indication
that the town will be scourged with
scarlatina Of the most virulent type.