Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-04-19
THE DPs AND DOWNS OF STOCK
GAMBLING.

sensible reasons for the recent de
moraIization in the stock market. 1
says
Br@kers and operators in mining
stoc'js confess themselves at a los
for reason for the present condition
of fairs. They forget, or never seen
to e known, that the stock marke
ha, Exhausted its sources of supply
Let circus come to Town ana IL doe
a u business and makes money fol
a day or two. Let it stay a week auC
i. goes to the to Sheritf-or the Sheriff
gJes 10 the circus, which is the saint
thing. The stock market ihrived
while it did thrive, on the savings anC
current iucOme of the people. Wher
the peoples money CAV out and they
were in debt past redemr on, the
market had to live and last On its owr
CAPITAL and bad debts or eat its head
of. 1t has been forced to this last re-
sort. and the picking has proven ex.
ceedingly lean. The people, while they
could, kept up the percentage anc
furnished the expense money. The
stock game is played out just as fare
and monte are played out. When
the uDprofessianal betters are all
.broke" the game is no longer rofit.
able because iJ is confined to the
sharpers who are non producers. BY
AN ineXorabie law. capital is nevel at a
sland-still. If il does not increase, ii
diniinishes. Now the stock market
does not live off the mines. A might
ty small allowance OF dividend money
goes into the pot. The i%n,howing cap
ltal must come from outside sources
trade, miners wages, and the me-
chauic arts; profits and earnings must
be available or the game resolves itself
into sharp practice between the profess
SIGNALS. By-and-by, when the people
are fatteIied up again, flush times in
the stock market will be possible
with the stock market or some other
business which promises the Illusion
of quick made fortunes. Surface dig
gings only make good times while
they last. When the placers are
stripped there is nothing but small
pockets, overlooked chispas and tail
ing piles left, and nobody but a Chi,
naman will attempt to work them
with an expectation of profit.
The New York critics say Miss
Anna Dickinson is not a success on the
stage. Stung by the unfavorable com.
ments she, the other night, took occa.
sion to criticise her critics. AS might
be imagined, she handled the metro
politan censors without gloves, and
now they are going for her worse than
ever. She appealed for sympathy on
the ground that she is "a small, weak
sick, miserable, crushed and heart.
broken woman;" but the heartles:
quill-drivers decline to be merciful
Miss Anna has evidently stirred up {
hornets nest and is altogether in a BAT
way. Poor girl! She ought to come
West land grow up with the coun
try"
WE find this item in a Western ex'
change: "a Mormon colony of eighty.
four souls has taken up land and ar,
taking out a ditch about twelve mile.
above Hayden's Ferry, on the Colora
do river. They are under the leader
ship of a MIR. Jones, who transac,s al
the business of the colony. They
comprise about % able-bodied men
They have been there only a few
weeks, but will have their ditch GU
and so to planting next week. Tn
men + Josephites, having only oil,
wife apiece; they came direct from
Utah, and are very nice people. They
have only eighty acres each by home
Stealing, saying that is all they want.
WIFE-BEATING in Virginia City j
becoming fashionable since Chief Jus
lice Moses decided the Stewart law un
constitutional. The last Chronicle a
hand chronicles two remarkabl,
"cruel and unusual" cases. Nose
ought to be- picketed to the pillory an
branded Judicial Ass, in letters as bi
as the coast range.
The Republicans of Virginia Cit.
have placed in the field the followin,
municipal ticket: For Mayor, c
Derby; Treasurer, j. C. Hampton
Assessor, r. X. Bennett; Tax Collect
or, Robert Gracey; City Attorney
Thomas A. Stevens; Chief Of Police
b. F. Lackey.
WE are in receipt Of the first nun
Der Of the Weekly Gazette, publishe
at Reno, by Alexander & Hayden
Ii is an eight-page paper, neatly gotte
up aud we'll filled with interestin