Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1880-05-16
SING. BARNES AT THE BAY.
What He Says about the Dull
Times and Things.

Times and Things.
Almost every ooe in Nevada knows
Sine. Barnes. There is a good deal Of the
philosopher about Sine. Just at presenthe
is allowing the light Of his countenance to
illuminate Pine Street, and the other dark
corners of the Bay City. A correspondent
Of the Virginia Chronicle ran across him
the other day and this is what happened
We caught Sine. Barnes q few days ago
as he was seeking to skulk unobserved
through Pauper alley.
"How's things on the Ccmstock p cried
six voices at once.
sINc. BARNES ON BoNANzAs.
"It's still there" replied Sine, evasively,
and as imperative requests for the imme-
date uncovering of a new bonanza show
cred upon him, the wary sagebrusher di-
verted the fire by saying pityingly:
Won't you poor boosters come and
have a drink"
Need ! tell of the grateful tears which fell
at the extension of this timely aid?
"Don't you feel scared about the Com
stock" said Sine. as he hooked on to the
bar with his elbow, and held his glass a few
inches below his chin with the other hand.
Don't lay awake nights with the idea that
the old lode has give out. There's lots OF
stuff in her yet, and prospecting is going on
on a scale never seen before. They've al
ways had the luck to strike it before, and I
a see any reason why they won't again.
And then when the strike is made we'll all
laugh at ourselves for having been such
dern fools as to have let the sand run out
Of US, and to speak of the Comstock as a
x.xlltnn wvt+h all $kA -z.-n -.alaI Axk
OF it."
''That's all very fine, but it's too hlanked
general" growled a broken broker.
"Well," drawled Mr.. Barnes, IN take
my shovel and dig out a bonanza for you
when I go back. il thatll make you feel
more satisfied like"
A COMPARATIVE STORY OF DULL TIMES.
"Are times very dull in Virginia, Sine. ?"
one asked.
Pretty dull, sonny, pretty dull. You
can come to me for money il you can get
any one to bet against that proposition.
But they amt as tough as they are down
here, boys. I tell you, you can get too
dern much for five cents in Frisco now for
it to be a good place for a poor man to live
in. When FIVE cents will buy an eight
mile ride, or a big glass of good beer. or a
decent cigar, you can make up your mind
that the five cents is ALFRED hard to get.
You're shaving things down too close here
to suit me. Things are so cussed cheap
that when I come down Pine street with a
twenty in my pocket I feel as il I ought to
have a shotgun over my shoulder for safety.
1t amt the town ii once was. You can
buy q whole suit of clothes here for the
price of an Urinary pair of britches a few
years ago, and yet I never saw SO many
seedy looking young fellows-young fell
lows with good big heads and faces with
sabe in EN-, too. That's a bad sign for the
camp. Money must be mighty hard to get
when young fellows don't wear good
clothes. The Comstock's dull, but il amt
down on all-fours rakin' over the rubbish
in the hope of findin' a short bit. as Frisco
is. And you're blubberin' like q baby for
its milk because you can't get the Comstock
to chuck you a little bonanza. just when
you want 1t. Take another drink and do
the decent thing by your eyes by looking
at this twenty"
Sine. in his eccentric way described the
condition Of things here admirably. The
brokers and the general run Of dealers are
fearfully down in the dumps. General
business Is suffering too, and the city is
full OF idle men. A magnificent crop is
growing. however, and the gathering and
selling Of it will supply the city and State
with new blood. II, in addition to the
crop, you Comstockers would disclose that
bonanza We are all hungsring for, oalifor-