Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-05-23
SHORT BITS.
Moonlight nights again.

Never trump your partners ace.
The letter list is published to-day.
H. X. Mitchell was in Carson last
Saturday.
1t is nearly halfpast seven when the
sun sets now.
County Commissioner Page came in
from bis ranch yesterday.
A. D. Haskell departs for Typo this
morning on a little business trip. He
will be back in u few days.
The Knickerbocker Mining Compa-
ny has levied an assessment of 80
cents per share, delinquent June 2lst.
II your parasol doesn't p,stch your
dress this year, ladies, you are not in
style.
Eureka Consolidated closed at $18 in
the afternoon Board, an improvement
Of 81 from the day previous.
There raj not much change in the
Comstocks yesterday; a shade better
il any difference.
r. Sadler is preparing to ship so
tons of Newark ore TO San Francisco.
He thinks it will go $3.50 per ton.
The Consolidated folks will put
fires under their boilers and start the
furnace some time to- day.
The railroad company started q
of their huge freight teams to Tybo
yesterday loaded with $4,000 pounds
of freight.
The two or three inches of snow de-
posted during Monday night disap-
peared in a few hours yesterday
morning.
Charlie Lautenschlager is giving the
G. r. Brewery a thorough overhauling.
He will also have the establishment
lighted with gas in a day or two.
The Library Association acknowl-
edges the receipt of "a volumes of ex-
cellent books from Mr.. John A. Pax
ton. This is a very liberal donation.
Who will be next?
Ell Dorado South appeared yester-
day on the stock list for the first time
in two years. Two hundred shares
were sold, at so cents per share.
Mr.. McElroy, of Treasure Hill, paid
the SENTINEL a friendly call yesterday.
He reports matters quiet in his elevat-
ed neighborhood. MI. McElroy is
over on business and will return this
morning.
Sheriff Raum, of White Pine coun
ty, came into town quietly night be-
fore last, and as quietly slid out yester-
day morning. He vas on official bust
ness.
Read the new advertisement of J..
Straus, the jeweler, in to-day's paper.
He has a fine assortment of elegant
and latest style goods, which he offers
at the lowest figures.
The ore trains are plying regularly
between the Eureka Consolidated
mine and reduction works. There is
about 600 ton Of ore in the dumps at
the furnaces.
A great mary working men, seeking
employment, are arriving in town
daily. 1t is a poor place for a laborer,
just at the present time, and very few
succeed i'll obtaining employment.
The negotiations pending between
Hank knight and Charley Grimm in
volving the sale of q dog are declared
off. Not but what the dog had good
points, but Hank flew the track on
color. Nothing but yaller would suit
him.
County Clerk Harmon, according to
latest advices, was doing the historic
battle-fields Of Petersburg, Virginia.
He has got an economical streak, and
communicates with his friends through
the medium of a postal card.
The County officials complain bitter
ly Of the supreme dullness that reigns
in their respective offices. In these
hard times would be litigants cogitate
over the scarcity of the metallic me-
dunn and repress their desires to in.
woke the aid of the law.
There was a special session of the
County Commissioners yesterday, to
consider road matters in certain parts
of the county, but it was finally con.
cluded to pass the whole subject over
to the next regular meeting of the
Board.
A Palisade girl, while out walking
lately, lost one of her shoes on the
railroad track. Half an hour later q
freight train ran into it and wrecked
sixteen of the cars, knocked the ends
out of the engine boilers and killed
two hundred head of cattle.
Lambert Molinelli has been making
quite an improvement in the ar
rangements of the Clerks office. The
pigeon holes have been supplied with
patent dust traps neatly painted and
labeled, thus preserving the papers
filed in those r~eceplacles. Lambert is
quite an inventive genius and has an
eye to neatness and order.
A Eureka man, who had been alb.
sent for a couple of years, returned last
week to find his wife the mother of a
six-month old child, T" How's that, old
girl ?" inquired he. "Blue glass,
john" And a silence pervaded that
domicile like unto the dread stiffness
that precedes the thunder storm.
John struck out for new diggings.
A Milwaukee lady, in taking her