Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-11-09
SALE.
A species of Gambling that Dis.
counts Pool Selling.

Despite the cold and clustering weather
Of yesterday, many gathered about the
sunny side Of the Courthouse to gamble
in the "sight and unseen" purchase Of
trunks. ~valises, packages and boxes which
had been advertised in the SENTINEL to
come of at l P. NJ. on the 9Th instant, by
the E. & P. Railroad Freight Agent. Sew
eral ladies were in attendance, and many
capitalists. Promptly at l o'clock, Sam
Friedman climbed upon the biggest trunk
and read of the following list of articles
to be sold Four trunks and contents, one
box Of personal effects, one tank, one va,
lise and contents, three carpet bags and
contents, three sacks of concentration, one
box Of specimens. An invoice Of the out
fit was taken and the bill was declared
filled. Sam opened by declaring that,
though comparatively a small stock, the
packages were undoubtedly of great value,
and he swung a roll Of blankets in the air,
a good arms-length away, hat looked
bulky and massive enough to keep a bush
whacker warm in Greenland's icy noun
tains. The entire bundle "knocked down.
to NJ. d. Foley for something less than SIS.
Mr.. Foley unrolled the outfit with a cane
which he borrowed for the occasion, and
outrolled a very respectable stock for a rag
picker's trade. A few odd shoes rolled out,
a bunch OF hair, o tattered corset, and a
rotten old coat. In Wyoming, the Oldest
settlers roll their dead in blankets and de-
posit them in the trees, and this was prob
ably the relic OF a family man and wife
which some Yankee specimen hunter, or
member OF a geological party had gathered
journeying hither, and shipped the same
G. 0. d. 1t was consoling to the purchaser
to imagine that the outside mantle would
make a very good horse blanket. The dis
play Of this developed bonanza" had
rather a chilling effect on the enthusiasm
which prevailed among the spectators, and
trunks were next in order. The first one
offered resembled an old-fashioned hay
press, and was about as heavy. 1t went
for a trife, and was said to contain sew
eral silk dresses and a roll Of "twenties."
The market revived ~instanter, and the
next trunk-empty, and worth about a
handful of pea-nuts-sold for 81 30.
One gentleman purchased a box, marked
Haley" which was similar in one respect
to the "house that Jack built" One
compartment was built within another,
until the innermost one was reached, and
there reposed, in a strong odor, that which
was pronounced by experts to be liver. A
letter accompanied the same, which ex-
planned the substance as being the heart of
a defeated candidate, who had sworn to alb
lure politics henceforth and forevermore.
The letter was signed by the President of
the Damphool Inirmary.
Ex-County Commissions John Horn
purchased one of the sacks of coneentra-
ton" and he has enough to last through
the smallpox season. John, Jr., put on
his funeral hat and hauled the sack and
contents to an ant-hill, there to be dis
sected according to the rules of that order
OF insects.
The goods were delivered at the depot
and carefully stored at an enormous ex-
pense, but we understand that the sale re-
ceipts covered a considerable portion of the
outlay to which the railroad company was
subject.