Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-12-22

The Virginia Chronicle has the fol
lowing: When a bank clerk IN max
ing out q check OF 81 900, payable 10 q
San Francisco capitalist. is so absent
minded as to draw the draft payable
to his sweetheart. the inference Is IRE
sistible that Cupid has rather got the
hest OF him. Yet such a thing hap
pened In n OF our hanks only q few
daysago
The SiIrer State a v Of Central Dis
trict: Weare informed by Mr.. Staples.
Superintendent of the Silver Monarch
mine. that a car load of ten IONS of ore
from that mine is now at Mill City
awaiting shipment to Reno. He also
informs us that Norman Gilbert Is
making $40 a day crushing and work
ing ore by hand machinery.
The Virginia Chronicle says: The
| opinion in San Francisco is hat the
new Justice management Is trying TO
force Schultz To let go of q large block
Of J Justice yet in his hands, and to that
end Baldwin Is giving u those
edness, In the hope of breaking the
stock.
The Salt Lake Tribune says that on
Tuesday morning, while the south
bound freight train on the Utah Gen.
trail Railroad was coming Y the
sand ridge. between Hooper and Kays-
vile. Mi. William Jeffs. the fireman,
fell from the engine while attempting
to oil the same. One leg falling under
the wheels. was run over nearly sew
ering the foot from the leg.
Josh. the prize fox hound Of the late
Pacific Coast Bench SHOW. gets y free
ad vertisement. He IL lost. j. Orn.
dorf. of Virginia City, Is the owner Of
the dog.
The Gold Hill News chronicles the
total destruction If a dwelling house
by fire in that city. The property was
owned by j. ID. Loynachan, and the
loss Is estimated at s., 900.
The total length OF the Sutro tunnel
up to the present time Is Is. 1858 feet,
leaving q distance Of about 1870 feet to
run before intersecting the Comstock.
There is more active prospecting on
quartz veins going on In the Grass
in many previous years.
The child found in q soap box, 1t
Virginia City, a few days since, proves
to be a child belonging to a woman
who buried 1t to save funeral expenses.
In a saloon row at Bodie, Sunday
evening last, a miner named John
Harrelton, was stabbed behind the ear,
the knife. blade just escaping cutting al
artery.
The Sitter State reports that the Rye
Patch q. NJ. Il M. Co. has leased the
Auburn Mills at Reno, and will com
meme crushing ore on the LIST of next
month.
1t is reported that Henry G. Gavin,
one of the first settlers in Humboldt
county, died at his ranch on the Big
Meadows last Monday. of pneumonia.
The fare from Carson to Bodie, by
stage, is $l7 so. Stages leave Carson
at 10 A. NJ. and reach Bodie by noon
the next day.
The Elko Independent reports work
on the artesian we'll at that point a.
making rapid progress. Ithas attained
a depth OF llS feet.
The Repiew soundly berates the
stock sharpers who bear the Tuscarora
mines.
Horse thieves infest Inyo county, Cal.
~ifornia, and carry on their depredations
unmolested.
San Francisco cattle dealers are visit
inv Lander county for the purpose of
buying stock for the Bay City market.
Suit has been commenced by the
Oph,r Mining Company against Geo.
F. Ford for the recovery of S2,l27 IS.
The Bodis trade is bringing a large
amount of business to Carson City.