Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-10-17

Upwards Of 1900 voters are registered
in Eureka.
The gleeful strains Of the hand-organ
are heard upon our streets once more.
A duck has wonderful nerve to try and
raise a family along the big ditch.
The teaching process Is q success among
the Phoebe miners.
Read what is wanted at Kemp's under
NEW to-day"
A charge Of assault and battery stands
against Abe Jones.
One man undertook TO whip three-one
at a time-last night on Main street.
A few arrests, but no trials, is what we
CLEAN from the Courts nowadays.
There are heavy timbers, by the car
load, at the depot for the x X Con.
1t 10 a common saying throughout Eu-
reka cpunty-'As pretty as o Ruby Hill
girl |"
The Phoebe stage was delayed by the
horrible condition OF the roads until after
our hour Of going to press.
What is to be the name OF the new street
above Paul, where there are SO many lots
being graded and new buildings erected?
MI hCnuPs az tBo DOdIuluk-uOuoc OpDO-
site the Richmond furnaces, wants a good
man to wait on table. See ad.
During the month of September there
was paid into the County Treasury, from
different sources, $21 ,371. 85.
Six prairie schooners were loaded for
Ward yesterday, with goods for the
merchants there.
Theatrical troupcs are giving our town
tn Q go-by severely. No one knows when
we shall be treated to a ''show" again.
They we're unpacking bales and boxes of
goods in front OF the New York Store last
evening.
There was a skirmish on Main street last
evening, wherefrom the participants
emerged we'll covered with mud.
These arc the times when the average
mule-skinner is liable to backslidc. 1t
would not be a bad idea for the good
shepherds to look after 'em a little.
Eureka business houses looked quite
desei ted last evening. We p our
people were up towards Rnby Hill to at
tend the Miners Union ball.
The local political pot in this county is
o boiling, and the candidates are doing
their level best to make everybody their
friends.
There was just this difference between
us, as regards the odds Of the fight" said a
victorious printer, who had just been pum-
melting a furnace man, was loaded and
l was solid"
1t is reported that the great poets have
left but few children. Somebody must be
sowing the seed, judging from the m
Gus poetical productions which are received
daily at the SENTINEL Office.
Carpenters are at work, at the railroad
depot, framing timbers for the trestle work
portion Of the railroad company's road
which was destroyed by the fire at the
Richmond furnaces.
A large crowd gathered on Main street
Yesterday afternoon to see q broncho throw
his rider when he should mount. The
crowd were doomed to disappointment
the pony wouldn't buck.
The Eureka Consolidated yesterday de-
clared its regular three-doilar dividend,
much to the satisfaction of a large number
Of persons here who hold the stock as 4
permanent investment.
Tho two young ladies who were prone
nading on Main steeet, yesterday afternoon,
dressed in boys clothes attracted much at
tention. Don't do it any more, girls you
iook mlch pftttaer Ia youf W xafD than
hat Of boys.
When you see a woman primp and
pucker before a glass for two hours, and
then she tramps from one end Of town to
the other. looking for ten cents worth Of
bird-seed-all the time talking about a
woman's work never being done, don
you believe her.
We saw q colored boy. the other evening,
dancing. singing and fourishing a broom
stick latter the Indian style, with a spear)
so natural like" that he would shame old
Red-and Black-afraid-of Government
mule out Of all such notions as that Of par
ticipating in q war-dance.