Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-12-07

Extracts from u Eureka Woman's
Letter to the Pacific Life.
Madame La Grange, the prima donna at
Prevost's concert hall, has been utilizing
some Of her leisure moments in correspon-
dence with the San Francisco Pacific Life
on which paper she used TO be engaged as
dramatic critic. In o woman's way, hit
or miss, she rattles along and makes some
readable sketches Of life on the Base Range.
THE ooNcERr HALLS.
She says, are seven in number. They open
at 1880 in the evening and are kept open
till 4: 80 o'clock in the morning, and later
when any guests remain. During the
night may be seen q varied community Of
characters, ranging from society men
both married and single-to teamsters,
herders, cowboys, business men, gamblers,
and bummers, or " wall-fowers," as at .
ball, those who sit round the stove all
night, some to sleep, and others to "bum"
for a drink. At one table all is hilarious
fun with the waiter girls, who are paid 81
a night, besides outside commissions on
wine, while near the stove one may hear
two or three old men discussing politics,
or the revised edition." with q display
OF theological knowledge and q gift OF
oratory that would do credit to o s. F.
pulpit.
"BoDIE JAKE"
The saddest sight here is q young girl,
who, though only sixteen, 10 already blast
ed from o life of reckless dissipation and
worse. She is called rBodis Jake" and
apart from her blasphemous and impure
language, there is something about her
that takes q tear from the eye Of man or
woman as they regard her cumming at all
hours of the night till 6 in the morning for
a drink. A lady offered her q good situa-
ton as nurse II she would give up her sin.
full life. and the poor girl gratefully &C.
cepted the position, and promised to do
better, agreeing not to enter q saloon again
from that night. Poor. girl, she held out
till 8 A. NJ, but came in four times after
that, and to some one said, "It's no use
my trying to change my life now. I've
gone this road too id long," Surely,
the curse Of the Almighty must follow the
one who first tempted this wretched girl,
whose end will be a sad, sad type Of such
q life.
JOHNNY o'KEEFE's FUNERAL.
The funeral, = very large one, took place
and, to the credit Of "the boys" he
was followed to the grave with as much
honor as If he had been q millionaire, hsv-
ing a brass band which discoursed q dead
as well as any. There was scarcely
q dry eye amongst the large body OF peo-
pie who followed him.
BIG MEN.
One Of the strangest things that struck
me was the fact that l never saw so many
tall men as are here, some being six feet
ten. 1.-THE Gregovich brothers must have
the Madam's mind when she was
the measure Of Eureka stalwarts.
ED. SENTINEL. And / must say that
heir general characters are as gigantic as
they are in stature. As a general thing
men of every grade and position here ap-
pear to soar with the very air to. nobler
aspirations and deeds than any / have met
elsewhere. There is nothing little or mean
about them, and when they have it they
spend ten dollars with as much .glee as
many q man in other localities who would
buy q ive-cent cigar and ask for the five
tents change. There are no five-cent pieces
mere, the smallest being a dime.
BREAKFAST HOUR.
There are several concert halls here, all
doing we'll, who Of course keep open night
Ind day, and the consequence is q general
Of night into day, and you see
people going to breakfast at 4 o'clock in
he afternoon.