Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-01-24
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The Railroad and Its Employees
Local and Personal Notes Of Gen.
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Local and Personal Notes Of Gen.
erai Interest.
From our regular Correspondent
AUSTIN, New, Jan. 81, 1880.
EDITOR SENTINEL :-Hoop-lal Wild and
woolly I'm q blue-spitting tarantula-
right from the railroad | These are the
kind of artel-producing yelps that may be
heard at most any time Of night about the
streets of Austin. Or, to be more specific,
the Nevada Central employees have had a
payday, and, as some Of their camps are
pitched within a few miles Of town, the
gang comes in nightly to give us a rip
roaring benefit. Most Of them manage to
get back to work the next morning, but a
few s~tragglers invariably remain behind to
keep the dizzy fluid" in motion till the
return Of their companions in the evening.
Every morning theye yaay be seen a dele
CATION OF the more sober ones looking up
their pals, and packing them of to camp.
The foremen of the different camps, also,
during the latter part Of the night, gener-
ally send wagons to town, in which the
boys" drunk or sober, are gathered up
and carried home for work the next day.
This lively, as well as disgusting state Of
affairs, is, however, merely a foretaste Of
what is to come when they all get to work
ing on this end of the line, which will de-
posit about 800 Of those 'jolly fellows |"
among us, and we may consider ourselves
fortunate if we have the own left to us,
after they nave tired Of their funny f%rolics,
subsequent upon their final payday. Every
morning finds three or four Of those
uprfhico Snoaztp0 ptthsn tho Ppllc ~ tho
city bastile. The hospital has been crowd
ed with their sick for some time and con-
siderable dissatisfaction is showing itself
among the taxpayers. Notwithstanding
all this, the railroad is a certainty, inc the
majority Of us are willing to put up with
some annoyance and Inconvenience, as long
as we are hitched onto civilization and re
lieved Of our long standing isolation.
1t is expected that the Nevada Central
will be at vaughns, 25 miles from here, the
latter part Of this week. General Ledlie,
the contractor, is now ably assisted by Mr..
Richard Amerman, a representative OF the
New York Syndicate, and all arrangements
have been made to lay track night and day.
using headlights and pitch torches in the
work. They are perfectly confident that
the road will be completed and in good
shape before the 9th proximo. Too much
cannot be said of the energy and pluck of
General Ledlie and Colonel Bridges, and
their lively corps Of assistants, and, if the
road is not finished and thoroughly equip
ped before the expiration of its charter,
they most surely cannon be said to have
lacked interest or lost a minute that could
have been saved to them.
Our mail arrivals. for the past two weeks,
have been rather irregular, owing, it is
said, to the repeated breaking Town Of en-
gines on the N. @. This, Of course, is very
bad, yet, in the face of all these obstacles,
Austinites are disposed to deal mercifully
with the railroad folks and. in the language
of the small boy, :" give them a show for
their white alley"
The ladies of the Order of Eastern Star
gave what was meant to have been an inyi-
tation installation of officers, limited as to
the number to have been invited. But it
is understood that they had a little "job
put up on them" SO to speak, in the form
Of quite q number Of outsiders being
wrung in on them, to attend the marriage
of our urbane County Clerk, Mr.. Joe A.
Miller, TO Miss Lizzie Dawley, Rev. S. P.
Kelly officiating, which made up an unex-
pected part of the already pleasant pro-
gramme. Some persons were very wroth,
because OF not being aware of the fact that
tAO "tooAh6 u " q DtatO va tAiat ~
ing, and, in consequence thereof. were in
attendance san special bid or their kissing
suit. But such things will happen in the
best regulated families therefore we will
have to content ourselves and wait until
some OF the rest of the boys nerve them
selves for the slaughter. Nevertheless, we
but re-echo the expression Of all their
friends when we wish them a long life of
happiness and prosperity. Joe is a first
class fellow, and we bespeak for him naught
but tender treatment at the hands Of the
charitable Mrs. M.
Billy Clark. Of the Cosmopolitan saloon,
has lately been having a lively spar with
the dark angel. But Billy proved himself
the champioo. and yesterday put in an APP
pearance on the street, for the first time
in three weeks. His critical condition was
brought about on account Of a heavy fall
on the ice coated street, one day during our
late stormy weather. He struck on the
side Of his face and head. shocking the
skull and brain SO seriously as to leave him
in a semi-conscious condition for several
days. He is picking up nicely, however,
aud it is to he hoped he Will soon be his
genial old-self once more.
Blitz W. Paxton, Of Paxton & Curtis
Bank. this city, lately returned from Cali
fornia, where he has been spending the
holidays. Mr.. Paxton has made many
friends since his first advent among us,
some six months ago, by his agreeable and
u~nassuming manners, and we hope to see
him a ~permanency here.
Hon. D. c.. Mckinney. District Judge
for the counties Of Churchill, Lander and
Nye, takes his departure for California to-
morrow accompanied by his family, where.
I am informed, il is his intention to settle
them permanently. The Judge will, how
ever, return to us in about a month, and
handle the judicial reins as heretofore.
1t is said hat several capitalists or their
agents have, for the last six or eightmonths.
been gliding slyly back and forth, through
this section, endeavoring to spy out good
locations of mining property, in which to
venture a stake. 1t is expected, therefore.
that there will be quite a revolution in the
mining affairs Of this county, after the
completion of our railroad outlet to the
great business centers Of the East and West.