Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-03-01
STATE NEWS.

The Gold Hill News SAYS: Rice and
Harrington, the two men in the County
Jail charged with murder, are allowed
an hour each day in which to exercise.
They gladly avail themselves of the
privilege, and spend the time in walk
ing around the corridors of the prison.
Notwithstanding the unpleasant noise
made by their clankirg chains. they
seem reasonably contented Rice fire.
quently sings during his hour OF re-
creation, and occasionally INDUCES in
y lively jig, which makes his ankle
ornaments rattle in fine style. Har-
rington remains much the same,
rather quiet and undemonstrative.
Since the STAY Of execution was granted
in his case ne has great hopes of OBJ
txIning a new trial, with a possibility
Ct final commuta'ion. 1t will he re-.
meml,ered that Rice is the man who
killed r. Rata, the Jamaican. When
brought to PRISON he was almost rs
| thin as a shadow, but now he is grow
ing stout and f1eshy. Regular meals
| and plenty of rest have worked this
| change in him. Before his arrest be
never knew where his mex meat was
coming from, and generally took his
chances Of sleeping in the back room
of some saloon. He also has hopes of
escaping the death penalty, as the man
he slaughtered was considered a dan
gerous and useless member of society.
Eureka is unquestionably the richest
mining camp in the United States.
They not only find bonanzas deep in
the bowels of the earth in that blissful
region. but above the surface of the
ground, aud IN the 7th OF last January
one fell from the skies to the foot of
Diamond Mountain. The collision be-
tween this windfall and the earth pro-
duced n shock which threw an honest
rancher living near Diamond Mountain
out of bed. Looking out Of the VIM
dow to ascertain the cause of the jolt,
the rancher saw an Immense mass
glowing at white heat aud of dazzling
brightness, living at this foot of the
mountain. He rushed out of doors in
his shirt.tail and located the burning
mass, which proves to he a verita-
BILE bonanza, assaving 1886 in silver
and $40 in gold per ton. 1t is esti-
mated that the mass contains 1000, 900
tons. Who will dare dispute after this
that Eureka is the most favored local
ity on the face of the earth. or that the
SENTINEL, which gives a plausible &C
count of this discovery is not equal to
the New York Herald in getting up a
first class hoax.-SlUer State.
The Reno Gazette says that SNOWFALL
Jenkins, a venerable colored man, over
whose woody head the storms of sixty
winters have passed. arrived in Reno
late yesterday afternoon. The old mar
had travelled all the way from Mono
Lake, a distance OF $50 miles, on foot,
and in addition had dragged a heavy
sled OH which was anout $50 pounds
Of his household effects. The old man
said he had been three weeks on the
road, and had found it easy travelling
with q sled until The snOw gave out,
after which it ''war III den trabelin'
de road to Jordan" He don't go much
on the lake region as a mining corn-
try, but spoke with awe of the mvste
rious lake, and ended by saving, ''De
Debil am mighty thick around dar."
There is a mar confined in our Jail,
says the Eiko Independent, serving out
a sentence of ninety days for misde-
meanOr. His sentence was $500, or 80
days in jail. Some OF his friends raised
the mount of his fine and sent it to
the Sheriff with instructions to take
his note for the money, pay his fine,
and let him out; but he concluded that
he could make $500 easier by remain
ing in Jail than any other way, 10 he
refused to be released in that way, aud
the money was returned to the parties
who sent it.
Winnemucca SiIUer State: Gao. NJ.
Miller, OF Unionville, passed here ye,.
terday on his way to the Black Hills,
where he goes on a tour of Observa
ton with a view of putting on a line Of
stages from Laramie, on the Union
Pacific railroad, to the mines. The cit
,zens of Laramie have offered him
5000 as All i%nducement to stock the
road, which they claim to be the short
est from the rail- Dad to Dead wood.
The Virginia Enterprise says: An
old Comstocker, being reproached by
his prospective mother in law that he
was much too old for her daughter-
that he was even bald lI~ea,ied-re-
piled, "Madam, my badness is nc in.
dication of age; IL runs in the family.
In fact. madam" said he, in a sudden
Rush OF confidence, II was born bald
headed"
The SilUer State says that the new
mill built by the Grand Prize Com
pany, at TuscarOra, has been shut
down. The alleged cause is a deranxe.
msnt of tho engine bed; hut the real
cause il supposed to be a bear move
ment Of the owners
MiRACLEs.