Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-02-24
FLUE DUST.

ADOtner sag Siu0Wdlk was lalu
down across Main street yesterday.
The we'll in front of Stowell and
Michel's stores has been finished.
p. Burkett, OF Palisade, returned yes
terdsy morning.
Our latest advices from London quote
Richmond Con. shares at SAT so.
Eberhardt & Aurora shares are
quoted in London at S37 80.
Arrangements are being made for a
set to between a couple of Base Range
game cocks.
John Shoenbar was selling tickets to
a show yesterday. A great many peo-
pie purchased.
Eleven car loads ofbullion and refined
lead were shipped to Palisade yester-
day.
The stairs leading to Masonic Hall
are to be reversed, and a piazza con-
structed.
Gid. Scanland, although provided
by superintendent Shoenbar with tick.
cts, did not attend the show.
The session OF the Justices Court
yesterday was occupied by the hearing
of a civil suit.
The Eureka Social Club will give a
sheet and pillow-case party on Thurs.
day evening next.
George A. Davis street sales will be
resumed as soon as pleasant weather
allows.
Ike Phillips will set out another of
those splendid lunches tonight. The
"Parlor" is getting to be the resort.
Tl,o DiaH na---1;I..zl 49,.
pany has paid to its shareholders divi-
dends amounting to $l,023 $40.
Services will be held in all of the
churches to day. with the exception of
the Methodist Episcopal.
Mr.. Anderson is building a coy resi-
dence on the west side of Spring street,
above Bateinan.
Superintendent j. c. Powell tele-
graphs thai he will return to Eureka
on Tuesday evening next.
S. Wenban and family, of Cortez,
have gone to San Francisco on a
pleasure visit.
The Jackson Mining Company has
levied its tenth assessment OF 80 cents
per share; delinquent on the 18th of
April.
Barley is selling at three cent per
pound at Kern Creek. The Rail
road Company purchased 20 tons at
that price last week.
The freight arrivals by rail yester-
day comprised W. car loads of mer-
chandise. one of hay, of wood, one
of timber and five Of coal.
The face of the Eureka tunnel is in
hard limestone. The contractors have
finished the open cut and drifted Is
feet.
Messrs. Alchorn and Kierski, of the
Grand Lodge of |. o. of II. Nj, depart
ed for Virginia City yesterday morn
ing.
Splane Il O'Leary have opened a
coy little saloon opposite the Sill rel
Brick Hotel, South Main street. The
boys will make a good team.
Henry Allen is at work on a new
patent, something novel and useful.
Henry is a splendid mechanic, and his
ingenuity is ~unbounded.
Frank Durkee is at work on a model,
to be forwarded to the Patent Office.
1t is a very intricate piece of work
manship.
Canned hash is for sale at our gro
Gerry stores. 1t is chewed way down
East. Cheap labor will be the ruin of
US yet.
"When the Pigs Begin to Fly " is the
latest comic a travesty of 1.-THE
Sweet Bye-and. Bye" as sung by the
Adah Richmond Troupe.
Mr.. Capron and family did not leave
for a Francisco until this morning,
he having been unavoidably detained
by business.
One of the County Commissioners
informs us that there will he a vacan-
cy declared in the Board at the next
regular meeting.
Cut this out and show it to your
wives: 1t only costs three cents a year
to clothe a Kings wife in Africa. Eve,
before the fall, is the prevailing cos
tune.
1t used to be "Pull down your est,r
among the males. Observing ~loafers,
who hunt the corners during these
muddy times, say that the popular
feminine action is. Pull up your
skirts"
A petition to the County Commits.
sioners, asking that Bateman street be
opened west of the Courthouse, was
in circulation yesterday, and received
numerous signatures.
Il. Robinson, foreman of the Con.
molly, will leave for San Francisco to-
morrow morning on a visit to his fam
lily. There is a y%oungster down there
that Tom claims but has not yet seen.
Cyrus Horn, Jr., and Fred. Wells
are constructing a private telegraph
line between the Recorders office and
the X X furnace. They have pro-
cured the necessary instruments, and
will doubtless in time graduate as first
class operators.
There was a rumor afloat yesterday
that a compromise had been effected
between the Atlas and Ruby Consoli-
dated Companies. Negotiations have
been in progress for some time, but
that conclusion has not been reached.
During the month of January 10,470
shares OF Eureka Cor. were sold at
prices ranging from S35 % to $50; 425
shares of X X, at So; $500 shares of
Jackson, from So to 81 %, and 800
shares Of Phenix, at 81.
We are sorry to learn of the death
of the infant son of j. L. Martin, one