Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1875-11-27
LETTER FROM jsAN FRANCISCO.
The Races The Carniyai-H Hotels
sharpers-General Gossip.
"IN THE CITY BY THE SEA-" |
2lst, 18th, 1875.

DEAh oENliNEhs l. was Ju-b Stoif
ing / a doorway. There, did you
ever real ola man commencing to re-
late the circumstances attending any
event--a fire, a food, a storm, an earth
quake-no matter what it might be,
but he would start by telling you what
he was at the time doing? You did
not ask him what he was doing, nor
| did you want to know; but that makes
not a "dif of ~bitterance," as Emerson
Il mean the minstrel, not the philoso-
pher) might say, he goes on to tell you
the same. So Twas standing in door
way, watching the rain pattering down
and men, women and children pad
ding and splashing along, when l
thought l would write you "A letter.
Now, where the connection between
the doorway and the rain, women and
| children and this letter comes in, /
! doIt' exactly see, but | have made a
start to write you and that is some
thing; you may connect to suit your
self.
Rain, rain, rain, right straight along,
but not continuously, for sundry times
in the past week it has ceased, the
clouds broke away, a fine breeze start
ed and com enanc frightened. But
alas! perhaps the next hour, anyhow
the next morning, patter. patter, pat
ter. drizzle, drizzle, the beautiful rain
would come again, and
No Eour-mile Race,
Which we country members are so
anxious to see, can take place. But
never mind, / have stood this long
enough, and to- morrow just let it set in
again and | will buy an umbrella and
then it will stop, and the better the
umbrella | buy the quicker it Will stop.
Had the Jockey Clue known this they
would have sent a deputation to the
subscriber long ago, possibly offered
to buy him one. But that wouldn'i
have worked; TO make the charm IF
feclual he must buy it himself. We
all know how umbrellas are usually
obtained. and therefore l say emphat.
icaliy buy"
But y hat a terrible disappointment
this rain has occasioned. it would take
an ADLER pen than mile to tell. Thou
sands hal c~Ongregated from all paris
of the country to see the race, and it
was such a race, considering the
stock, the stakes, and all else connected
with il, as one nigh not have the OPP
portunity of witnessing again in u
Ii fetime, hence the deep damnation ot
this putting of. Now when it will
take place none can tell, of course, as it
may ia n all next week a. it did this.
This race was the great event of he
season, but why speak further OF 1t,
you are by telegraph, mail aud express
a. well posted in all The details AS we
who are on the ground. mot by tele-
graph.-ED.]
rhe next great event OF ths season
was the
Car.niv-ea Ball.
For which preparation had been made
on so grand a scale for weeks; and a
stupid affair it was. ''Yours, truly
was there, on the floor, an active par
ticipant, and therefore he knows where
of he speaks, aud thu difference be
tween the race and the ball was thai
the one Just did come of and the other
Just didn't. Not but what there wa~
an Immense crowd there, rich cos
TUNES. and all that, but for fun, real,
genuine, rollicking fun, commend ME
to one ball in the sage-brush 10 adozen
Of this kind; but OF this you have de
rails from the jenkins OF the press
doubtless to a ~surfeit, and | need not
take your time or space further, and |
will only add that in taking their ac-
counts do so with grain of salt-'.cuin
grams salis''-and further, that your
. .special'' went in character a the
!, Yelled Prophet of khoras an. and
played the part most splendidly, e>-
pecially when he unmarked; hut he
) got no prize from the committee, not
even a mention. Now there's justice
and di>criEc ination for You!
But speaking of standing in the door
way to a locker on in Vienna it is
amusing to take a stand and listen to
; disjointed remarks II
Fragments OF Con v~ersatiOn
That one catches AS the crowd passes to
and fro. Allow me to give you a few
specimen pebbles:
at will come off tomorrow, sure,
al half past IL O'Clock at night; DIR.
stone married them at his church; she
Is fourteen feet beam and copper
bottonsd and bolted; wears a plug hat
and looks gay; drawed out of Ophir
and went into julia; shaft 400 feet
down and bully prospect; don't that
beat hill and little pigeons; pinned
back so tight she couldn'l-see stars
and rolled rignt over; no "shenani-
gam about II. Forty girls dressed
beautifully, and no takers at ten buyer
five. Will give YOU two hundred and
five for small woman in red shawl and
gray dress; black names and tail, and
do It easy in $3.50; true as steel and
sticks like wax; nom in the market at
any price. Bought Annie Belcher at
three and went plumb out out Of sight;
no bottom ut all; won't ride or work
in single harness; must take time, !
tell you; stops at the Palace and has
three small children; twice every