Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-05-19

A Cosby Letter from Our Lady
Correspondents.

Correspondents.
To say that it has been dull since the
Odd Fellows excursion, is simply to
state that we have relapsed into our
normal condition. The advent of y
couple of hundred jolly, big. hearted
Eurekans, on pleasure bent, and the
excitement consequent on our prepare.
ton to receive them, the holiday dress
we put on, and the unusually good
time we had, make us hope that this
event will only be one of many that
will happen in the neal future, and
serve to link the two extremities Of the
county o closely together.
A CELEBRITY.
We have had glimpses Of several
celebrities fitting to and fro on the iron
highway. prominent among whom was
Col. Bob Ingersoll, of oratorical fame,
who was en- route 10 San Francisco.
Your correspondent attempted to in
terview him, but was restrained, from
the fact that the gallant Colonel was
suffering from q severe fit of indiges-
ton, brought on by eating too much
crow since the fourth of March. We
understood from one of his travelling
companions that he seeks this coast in
the hope that q change of climate and
diet may restore his political and men,
tai health.
AN IDYL OF THE RAIL.
From first-class t hird.class pass.
engers is quite q jump; but a little in
cident occurred here on Tuesday morn
ing, or the arrival Of the western
bound emigrant train, that illustrates
the old story of love and its stratagems.
Among the passengers was a family
from the hopper devastated State OF
Kanzas, consisting Of father, mother,
and a small brood of thirteen of assort-
ed sexes, ages and sizes. The oldest
was u plump, fair haired girl, with a
weary look that b~etokened a life worn
out with a constant struggle with the
tow-headed children that had fallen to
her charge. A stalwart young fellow
from Maine, bound to the redwood
section OF the Golden State, made the
acquaintance Of the girl after leaving
Omaha, and the trip, so tedious to the
ordinary passenger, became 10 them
only one of pleasure. Friendship
was mutual. Soft elances. ardent
pressures Of the hand, and de-
iicious rides on the platform to-
gether became daily Incidents. only
interrupted by the shrill voice of the
mother, whose falsetto shrek of Mary
Ann, recalled the daughter from her
dream of love to the tern duties of
life. This riied the young man and he
unfolded a plan To the girl whereby she
could at once shake herself free from
her sisterly duties, and after some
hesitation the fair Mary Ann consent.
ed. On the arrival of the emigrant
train 1t Palisade the couple got out OF
the car and incOntinently skedaddled
in the direction OF the round-hOuse,
behind which they stayed until the
train pulled out. Then boarding the
eastern bound train they proceeded as
far as Elko, where they procured q
license and were duly made one. The
groom telegraphed the fact to the anx-
ious parents, passed the night at the
Depot Hotel, and taking the mornings
western passenger train they proceed
ed on their way to Overtake their old
train, which they expected to do
somewhere in the neighborhood OF
Winnemucca. A cute trick, was it
not ? and possessing all the elements Of
q first-class romance.
/ wrote you in one OF my former
letters that we expected to get rich cff
Of our newly-discovered coal vein. l
had a forty-dollar share in the enter
prise-a present from my sweetness
but that borrid Frank Stewart came
along here and knocked it all in the
head. He says that the formation is
azovic, devonian and silurian, and as
no coal vein could ever struggle
through three such words as those, OF
course we, that is the company,
weakened at once. The Professor is
sojourning over in the neighborhood
of Elko, with eye fixed on the
vast mineral deposits of that section,
and the other gazing into futurity,
with a far-away look that indicates
that nothing less than q State Office
bounds his mental vision. He is pre-
pared to locate with either eye at a
moments notice. l will close this
letter by stating that the weather
along the Humboldt is mixed, q
little OF all sorts. NELLIE A.