Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-11-24
FLUE DUST.
scraps from the Notebook Of the
sentineI's Reporter.

Thanksgiving Day.
Attend the G.. A. r. ball tonight.
Mr.. VIM. Ferguson returned last night
from Austin.
Under Sheriff Jim Mason has an attack
OF pneumonia.
No business will be transacted by the
banks to-day.
All business in the county offices will be
closed to-day.
Postofice hours to-day will be from 10
A. M. to | p. M.
A large number Of dinner parties will
be given to-day.
A. E. Cheney, Esq, returned from
Hamilton last evening.
Mrs. John s. Capron was last evening
reported. as being very i'll.
The Stock Board adjourned last evening
until tomorrow morning.
Mrs. Joe Travis departed for her home
on White River ON Tuesday.
Mr.. II. Muller, Of the firm OF Paxton a.
Co., left by this mornings train for Reno.
He expects to return on Saturday.
Hon. W. W. Bishop and wife returned
from Hamilton yesterday afternoon.
Religious services will. be held in the
Catholic Church to-day at II O'Clock.
Read Joe Boos' meat market proclama-
ton under the head of "New To-day"
Mrs. Hugh Stowell and Mrs. J. II.
Reilly returned last night from the East.
DR.. James Williams had his forty-irst
birthday on Tuesday, and still he is youth
full.
Col. Ed. N. Robinson will give a grand
dinner to-day to a large number Of his
friends.
Judge Rives will return from Hamilton
to-day, where he has been holding q term
Of Court.
Office hours at Wells, Fargo & Co.'S
Express will be from Q to 10 O'Clock this
morning.
There will be a social gathering OF
the ladies Of the Methodist Church on the
Both instant.
The public schools on Ruby Hill and
Eureka will be closed until Monday next
at 8 o'clock.
County, arrived last evening from an
European trip.
All the restaurants in town have been
making unusual preparations for elegant
dinners to-day.
Judge E. W. Hillyer Of Carson, now I'M
der treatment at San Francisco, is reported
as slowly recovering.
The fire started last week in the rear OF
Stewards stable is reported to be still
smoldering and smoking.
Hon. Ge6. W. Merrill returned from
Hamilton last evening, where he has been
attending the District Court.
Mr.. r. d. Clark, formerly Superintend-
ent of the Geddes & Bertrand mine at
Secret Canyon, arrived last night.
Neil Guilmett, a Frenchman at Carson,
died Saturday night from exhaustion
brought about by s~elf-imposed starvation.
The condition OF DIR. Thoma was some
what improved yesterday, and we hope to
see him able TO be about in a day or two.
There are not more than four or. five
hundred dollars delinquent On this years
tax roll. This speaks we'll for Eureka
County.
Messrs. Gilmer Il Salisbury, owners OF
| the Geddes 4 Bertrand mine at Secret Can
yon, have about lis men employed about
their works.
James II. Kinkead, brother OF the Gov
ernor, is dangerously i'll at Carson. He
has been sick for a week. His death ia now
hourly expected.
A dull old lady being told that a certain
lawyer was lying at the point OF death, ex-
claimed. my graciousi won't even death
stop that mans lying"
The Reno Gazette learns that the Wads-
worth mail route to Grantsville, three
| times q week, is continued. and there are
no known orders to discontinue.
W. f. F. Deal. a we'll known Comstock
lawyer, threatened to smack J.. A..
| Stephens, another lawyer, in the face, and
there would have been o little row but for
friends.
Lew Wood Is now running on Bill
Sweeny's bus between Eureka and the
depot. Orders will be received by him OF
those desiring to be conveyed to and from
the depot.
Wells, Fargo & Co.'s express brought
from California last night immense quan,
titles Of poultry. game, fish, and lots OF
other good things for Thanksgiving din
ners to-day.
Jake Langstroff, the merchant tailor, is
in receipt OF a new and elegant lot OF Win
ter goods, and an additional invoice is to
arrive to-day. Some Of the cloths are Of
novel pattern, and very attractive.
At the recent term OF the District Court
at Hamilton, a man from Cherry Greek,
whose name we were unable to learn, was
sentenced to one year in the State Prison
for horse stealing. An unusual occur