Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-10-30
Tommy smiler in an Obscure Corner
General Jack, Doc. Wixom, Eliza
Pinkston, Jack Frost, Et nj.


AUSTIN, October %, 1878.
EDITOR SENTINEL: The great Mighels
was ON hand last Friday night, as an en-
tire circus, as the side show did not arrive.
Between Repub's and Democrats, the
| Court house was crowded, but the applause
was very dim and the cheering faint.
Tommy Smiler sat in an obscure corner,
| with his head ducked down out Of sight,
and stayed very quiet, and did not place a
man in nomination for Secretary or Chair
man. Mighels was led into the hall by
| Mike Farrell. General Jack, the strength
| ening plaster. was elected Chairman. and
| George Dale, o Missourian whom Coifax
took up as an estray, and who is going to
be horsed for County Clerk by Joe Miller,
was made Secretary.
Mighels talked about his vote on the
Bullion Tax. and about Farreli's Railroad
bill. Mighels told some funny stories and
made people laugh, but did not explain his
remarks about the Irish, the Cornish n
Canadians.
The meeting was like a late breakfast,
notwithstanding Mighels had hired old
Butcher TO get on a horse and charge up
and down the street, and ring asbell and
shout Mighels. And General Jack had
| got up bonfires on the street and hired a
small boy to shoot off rockets, and about
80 or 40 more to run up and down the
stairway and through the lower hall and
shout, and a band Of music to play John
Brown" and if any votes were made by
it the Democrats fail to see it.
Mighels went away Saturday night and
had no one to see him off on the stage but
old Bluch, who then went up and
opened the campaign fights in the big wig
wan by cilling it a regi lar Mormon out
fit, and walking up close to Col ak he as
serted hat he could lay his hand on a man
that was at the Mountain Meadow mas
sacre. Tommy Smiler. like old Frenchy,
as was said by Dick Guiberson, when Dick
| chohed the door-bsl II on Felix. said he did
not like de music" and bounced old
Blucher and rode him out Of the wigwam
| on a gallop, touching him up as he went
with a brass crib-board. Old Butcher
landed in Jail, and Charley Lund, the
p~hilanthropist, did not bail him out for
| some reason or other.
Tommy Smiler has quit showing the
Leader to his friends, and seems cowed
and is afraid to smile when he sets out the
bottle for a customer, for fear Lander
Democrat may be taking notes. His
girl, in the Leader, has not gone up to
Cedar street yet. and Doc. Wixom says
that she need not go on purpose, that. not
withstanding he is not what he used to be,
that he will always do the best he can for
any woman in distress.
General Jack, the bell-mule in the Re-
publican pack train, and Jack Frost have
gone to Battle Mountain, the General to
enlist the Central Pacific Railroad Com
pany in his interest as School Superinten-
dent, and John to try and make the rail
road people believe that he is competent
for the Office of Sheriff, when he cannot
write his own name 80 that even a writing
master or autographed expert could read
it with q telescope, let alone ordinary
people.
Albert Standbaek, the man who was de-
feat-d in the Republican Convention for
Short-term County Commissioner, and
who accepted the ~foriorn hope of the long
term when John O'Donnel resigned, is get
ting around the saloons and talking to the
boys as though nothing had happened.
Albert is an old pioneer in the camp. and
left the parental mansion when quite a
lad. His father raised corn principally on
thu farm. and as land was high could not
afford to plant the grain over four feet
apart n the last year that Albert stayed
at home the old man did not raise over
half Of a crop, so in the spring his father
said to him, "Albert. my son; You have
got five or six years yet TO grow. and your
mother and me will hate to see YOU go
away, but you had better go out and settle
down in some Of the wide prairies Of the
West, and go into some outdoor business
like" Albert says that the only thing he
is afraid Of is that Lander Democrat
will say something about his feet.
| LANDER DENocpaT