Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-03-03
FLUE DUST.

Seventeen thousand letters were sent
from Eureka during the month of
February.
A railroad team loaded with grain
and merchandise departed for Typo
this morning.
The freight arrivals by rail yesterday
embraced one car of merchandise and
seven of coal.
Sixteen carloads of crude bullion
and refined lead were shipped to Pali-
SADIE yesterday.
The value of the crude bullion
shipped since our last issue was SILL
600.
The sidewalks and stores were
tbronged last evening with a crowd OF
visitors from the suburbs.
Three hundred registered letters
were sent from the Eureka Postofice
during the month of February.
Money orders to the amount of
$500 we're forwarded from the Eu-
reka Postofice last month.
Wood is delivered to the Eureka
Consolidated Company by rail at 50
per cord.
Snow on the Hoosac road has drifted
to a depth of five feet, rendering it well
nigh impossible.
Lead was quoted at 4 cents, currency,
large lots, in the New York market
yesterday.
The Jail vault and fixtures are set
down in the Controllers report at a
value of SIS, 900.
Eureka county stands second on the
list in her contributions to the State
Treasury during the year 1877.
The Austin stage driver reports the
roads in a fearful condition between
Eureka and the Willows.
Mr.. p. Berwin keeps us supplied
with New York dailies, for which ia
vor he has our thanks.
A few more days OF the glorious sun
shine and the mud will be but a mem
Dry.
The Board will tomorrow declare
the seat of County Commissioner
Oberer vacant.
Rev. VIM. Johns breaches at Miners
Union Hall, Ruby Hill, this evening,
at IA O'Clock.
Two Base Range game cocks are
matched for a fight mex week. The
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Joe Mendes is painting and other.
wise improving his main street prop
erty.
Members OF the National Guard are
requested to meet at the Justices
Court room at 3 o'clock this afternoon.
Secret Canyon is coming into de-
served notoriety. Our miners proph-
ecy immense deposits under the over
lying sbale.
From the lst of October, 1876. to Sep
TENDER Both. 1877. there was IS, 0S5
tons of ore extracted and reduced in
Eureka District.
The aggregate value of the property
belonging to Eureka county. including
the Courthouse, Jail, hospital. books
n furniture, is computed at $50, 600.
Rube Eggleston is under the wealth
err, so i'll in fact as to be unable to at
tend to the routine of his business.
Hope he will be all right in a few days.
Tenement houses are very scarce.
An agent informs us that he has a
dozen applications for residences which
he is unable to fill.
There are no less than six broken
legged patients under the care OF the
physicians of Eureka at the present
time.
Don't tell a married man any Joke on
the boys, for he'll tell his wife. his wife
will tell her sister, and her sister will
tell the rest of the girls.
A choice presents itself to our COM
munity this evening. Church services
and comic opera. Is there any doubt
but that the churches will be crowded.
A series Of caves have been broken
into In the Jefferson ground. near the
Jackson mine. A good indication Of
the near presence of an ore body.
General Freight and Ticket Agent
Lawlor, of Palissde, was in tcwn YES
terday. He left for the terminus again
this morning.
Mr.. Mechanics informs us that no
change has been made in the Cosmo-
politan Restaurant, and that he will
conduct it the same in the future as in
the past.
The average boy is never so happy
as when able to surreptitiously break a
window pane. The sashes of the Lem.
mon mill give evidence of the bent of
his inclinations.
Spring races will soon be in order at
lnb lllDWS tTdck. MT. carpenter
contemplates inaugurating a season OF
turf sports as soon as the weather will
permit.
Last evening, at Bigelow's Hall, was
probably the first occasion that-using
a popular slang phrase the gallery
gods ever took a tumble.
The petition for the opening of Bate
man street will be presented to the
Board of County Commissioners to.
morrow, and also one asking for the
appointment OF two policemen. Both
documents have numerous signers.
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Deceased.
Mr.. Henry Allen yesterday received
a brief dispatch from the East, convey
ing the sad intelligence of the death of
his wife. Mr.. Allen had just returned
from a visit and left her in very preca-
rious health, but with a hope from the
attending physicians that she would
recover. The lady was we'll known in
Eureka, having resided here for a
number Of years prior to her de-
parture in search of health-a trip