Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-09-20
OUR SAN FRANCISCO LETTER.
From the SENTINEL's Correspondent

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. Is.
Ward meetings are the disorder Of
the night. The ear-piercing fife and
the rub.a-dub-dub Of the kettle-drum
resound upon the unoffending air.
Politics IS the ~agitating question of the
hour, and the halls and corner gro
cories throughout the city echo With
the unnamed ardor of the callow cam
paign agitator. The campaign has
opened up brisk, and if the enthusi-
asm is kept up to its present pitch, we
will have the livelie.t campaign that
California has witnessed for many a
year. 1t is estimated that this city will
go for Tildsn and Hendricks by 10 900
majority.
u Pig. Tailed BrsthreB.
1t seems Chinese emigration is grad
ually decreasing. The last steamer
brought in only 200. Last month only
536 heather came over while $50 went
toward the setting SUM- that is if the
captains of the steamers do not econo-
mize the truth in the interest of the
Chinese companies. 1t is a remarka-
BILE coincidence that the steamers from
China and Japan invariably arrive
here at 8 or 4 o'clock A.. NJ, when
everybody, even the Custom, house
officials. are fast asleep. The Collector
of the Port has grown rich and negli-
gent. His negligence" made him
rich.
Mere Prospective Subsidies.
Nearly all of the newspaper proprie-
tors in the city yer to see the last
spike driven at the recent Southern
Pacific railroad celebration. Every
paper In the city, except Senator Jones'
Post, is = railroad organ. This looks
as though the railroad company was
preparing TO ask for another subsidy.
After the subjfiy is voted away, then
these papers will all abuse the people
for being such fools, and denouncs the
''grssping m%onopolists" for robbing
the people. Day by day our conf
dence is shaken in the stability of hui
man nature. Under certain circum-
stances, is there q man who has not
his price?
The End of q Bore.
The Mechanics Fair will close next
Saturday, much to the regret of the
soft young men and silly virgins who
go there to flirt. About the neatest |
piece of ingenuity at the Fair, except
the soda. water and candy girls, is u
clock, showing the time of day, the
day of the week, the day and name of
the month, and, also, over the face is a
dial showing the phases of the moon.
The clock strikes the quarters, halves
and hours on musical bells. 1t also
has chimes and deals out favorite airs
at intervals, or between hours. 1t cost
about 81, 1000, and WAS made by Tiffany
81 Co., New York, for f. j. Baldwin's
hotel.
Minor Mention.
The theaters' are doing a compare
poor business. 1t is circus week,
and Booth is at a discount. The
~aristocracy, who affect Italian
opera and scarcely understand the
of orthodox English, are at
home in the circus tent, and appreciate
talent.
Miss Helen Marble, the elocutionist
and dramatic reader. is here on a short
visit, from Virginia City, and on her
return intends concertizing through
out Nevada.
The SENTINEL correspondent dream
ed Of Fred. Hart the other night, while
it was raining. He thought that he
bsheld Fred. in a flume-shaped coat
and white kids at an Adelphi ball;
that he had fallen from grace and
joined the grand array of 'stiffs;" but
it was only a dream.
j. NJ. S.