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

gossip, rutnors of I" 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 are 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 he censured
for holding his proboscis
Necessary Evils.
Your correspondent is credibly in
formed that gambling saloons and un-
gi!de6 palaces of shame exist in this
moral city. Were it not so stated in
the newspapers-which are always cor
rect-I would no believe il. The du-
ties of the inefficient police are confined
to arresting new>boys and black mail
ing negro boct-blacks out of q free
"shine." Gambling houses are not IL
cen>ed. 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 favorite resort for these
Honorahles is at john ChamberlW's
bird house. A free supper is had at
midnight-the finest wines included.
And here many an NJ. &. goes through
with his salary as soon 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 gruIu look, the admiring ladies
i'll the gallery suppose that he sa. up
all night considering bills i'm commit
tee. But his colleague is aware that
committee work consisted in trying 10
make the "nine win out" Their
wives have become posted on this
COMMITTEE work." and do not sit up
in their loose pull-backs waiting for
their husbands t. 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 a naval nondescript, or -" society
beau" who lives upon the earnings of
public women.
Pretty Treasury Girls.
How they ever were so-called is a
mystery. A more homelier set l never
saw outside of a Woman's Rights Con-
yention. Not one in fifty would pass
in a rough crowd in the dark. There
are, as IN all cases, a few exceptions.
But what they lack in beauty hey
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
200 or 800 in a bunch, or rooin, with
a man in the ooiu to look at or
tlirt 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
$40 per month, and are AS happy as
CLANS at a bake. The large majority
are paid 81 80 per day. They live on
it in good style; support Their widowed
mothers and idle brothers while they
loaf around the Capitol; and they also
dress we'll and attend ''swell'' recep-
tons, and have mony left. The heats
of the bureaus propose to reduce the
salaries Of these latter from 81 IS t o
81 81 day. Then there will be music
in the air.
An AmuS1uS InclHent.
The other day as a gentleman who
had seen other and better days was
meandering through the corridors of
the Capitol. he beheld the face of a
man he recognized as a peanut vendor
in boyhoOd's days, on a railroad of
which he was a large stakeholder and
principal we 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 now bankrupt hailed him with
a familiar slap on the back and a
''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 man can assume, coolly replied:
''Sir, l am a Senator in Congress!"
''The - you are! Fin ieally glad tn
hear it," With an attempt at a digni-
fed bow, this carpet bag Senator alb
raptly 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 n prominent
seat in the Senate last Tuesday morn
ing. Immediately u fiutter was OBJ
servable 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 ak eolored members In
the House. The seats of five are con-
tested by plain Democrats, and they
will probably succeed.
Within the past year 27l illegitimate
babies we're 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 10 the Y. NJ. C. A,
have stolen $50, 900.
Congress costs Sl2, 1000 a day.
Personal.