Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-02-19

gossip, rumOrs Of fashionable alli-
ances," the names of those played out
beautiful bellies who make their debut
in society every winter, marine corps
intelligence, and the latest society
| slush. The more matter .of-fact cases
Of immortality and the murder of ILL
gitimate children r left for the less
romantic daily newspapers. The po-
lice records show 27l infants murdered
in this city within the past II months.
Can the man in the moon be censured
for holding his proboscis
Necessary Evils.
Your correspondent is credibly in
formed that gambling saloons and I'M
gildeG palaces of shame exist in this
moral city. Were it not so stated in
the misrepresentation are always cor
rect-I would not believe il. The du-
ties of the inefficient police are confined
to arresting newsboys and black mail
ing negro boct-blacks put of q free
">hine." Gambling houses are not IL
censed, but pay monthly assessments
of hush money to the police. The ma
jority are brace games, and are consid-
cred good enough for members OF Con-
gress. The lavorite resort for those
H~onorahles is at John Chamberlm's
bird !" house. A free supper is had at
midnight-the finest wines included.
And here many an NJ. e. goes through
with his salary as Dor as drawn, and
in order to meet his legitimate ex-
penses, is compelled to court the favor
of the king Of the lobby. When a
member appears in his seat late next
day with flushed face, blood shot eyes
and a grnm look, the admiring ladies
in the gallery suppose that he sat up
all night considering bills in commit
tee. But his colleague is aware that
committee work consisted in trying TO
make the thine win out" Their
wives have become posted on this
COMMITTEE work." and do not sit up
in their loose p~ull-backs waiting for
their husbands to come home drunk.
Not much. They came to Washington
to have a good time. and they are
doubtless having it. They have gone
to the theater or some swell reception
with q naval nondescripi, or :" society
beau," who lives upon the earnings of
public
Pretty Treasury Girls.
How they ever We're so-called is a
mystery. A more homelier set never
saw outside of Woman's Rights Con-
vention. Not in fifty would pass
in a rough crowd in the dark. There
are, as III all cases., a few exceptions.
But what they lack in beauty they
make amends for in dress and general
get up. There are about 1000 girls IN
the Treasury department.. They are
divided OFT into the various bureaus
DDl NJ Pm i'm q In1nHb mr. room, with
not a mar in the room to look at or
flirt with, except the overseer of that
bureau, who generally happens to be
some old married poke" or bald
headed bachelor. The clerks who do
the stamping, counting, registering,
ETC., OF these greenback notes, receive
$75 per month, and are az happy as
clans at a bake. The large majority
are paid 81 IS per day. They live on
it in good style; supportthei widowed
mothers and idle .rolhers while they
loaf around the Capitol; and they also
dress we'll and attend ''swell' recep-
lions, and have mony left. The heats
of the bureaus propose to reduce the
salaries Of these latter from 81 rs to
81 80 day. Then there will he music
in the air.
An Amusing Imciaent.
The other day as a gentleman who
had seen other and better days was
meandering through the corridors of
the Capitol, he behald the face of a
man he recognized as q peanut vendor
in ~bOyhoOd's days, Oh a railroad of
which he was 4 large stakeholder and
principal owner. Taking an interest
in the boy, this bloated capitalist APP
pointed him conductor. In a few years
the conductor became wealthy and the
bondhOlder bankrupt. Sudde ly meet
ing his former conductor the other day,
the nov bankrupt hailed him with
q familiar slap on the back and q
"why, old fellow, how are you, and
what are you doing here?" The pea
nut man scarcely recognized his old
employer, and strengthening up with
that dignity which only a mean and
small MAJ can assume, cooily replied:
'.Sir, l am a Senator in Congress!"
1.-THE - you are! I'in really glad to
hear it," With an attempt at a digni-
fed bow, this carpet bag Senator alb
rnptly LETT his former patron and friend
in need. Such gratitude is common
the world over.
Capital Leaves.
Theodore Tilton, the long. haired per-
jurer and cowardly condoner Of his
wife's perfidy, occupied a prominent
seat in the Senate last Tuesday morn
inG. Immediately u flutter was OBJ
seryable in the ladies' gallery, and
every opera glass was turned upon the
libertine who trades in his wife's dis
honor, and had not the courage to de-
fend his own.
There are six colored members in
the House. The seats of five are con-
tested by plain Democrats, and they
will probably succeed.
Within the past year 271 illegitimate
babies were murdered in this city.
This discounts Brooklyn-tne home Of
brother Beecher.
An investigation into the affairs of
the Freedman's Savings Bank. of this
District show that those bald headed
hypocrites, who pray through their
noses, and belong TO the Y. M. c. A.,
have stolen $36, 900.
Congress costs $4,000 a day.
Personal.