Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-08-18

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Bowel complaints are keeping the doctors
on the Range busy.
Excellent progress is being made in the
grading Of the ;Bodie and Mono Lake Rail
road.
The picnic for the children of the Epis-
copal Sunday School has apparently been
dropped.
Mrs. A. A. Andre and son, who went to
the coast on the excursion in July, returned
last evening.
Parties desiring stock ranched should
read the advertisement Of George Taft in
another column.
Emmett r. Jones will have a hearing on
the charge Of vagrancy before Justice Har-
mon to-day.
H~alf-dimes are finding their way into
Reno and along the line Of the Virginia
& Truckee Railroad.
A party of five or blk gentlemen will
visit the Eureka Tunnel to-day to take q
look at the prospects OF that enterprise.
The editor Of the Grantsville Bonanza
charges the editor of the Reese River
R~eveille with ~blackmailing the Gold Park
mines.
The display of fruit In the various stores
about town demonstrates that the crop has
been an excellent one on the Coast this
season..
Eureka Con. yesterday declared its reg
ular monthly dividend of so cents per
share, making the grand total dividends OF
the mine 81, 705, 900.
Theatrical managers and agents Of trav-
cling companies generally II they want
dates at the Opera House in Eureka must
communicate with the proprietors direct.
Benjamin Bare, a workman in the Navajo
mine, Tuscarora. was seriously injured by
a blast on the 18th. One OF his eyes was
blown out, and his other was badly hurt.
The thermometer yesterday afternoon at
Q O'Clock indicated so degrees, and at !
O'Clock this morning GO. The weather is
delightful and is proving a perfect tonic to
weak-lunged humanity.
General Conner is in Boston, but he is
expected in Eureka before long. A hand
some strike in the Eureka Tunnel would
be a deserving return for the Generals
confidence in Old Prospect.
Judge Davenport is basking in the cool
shades bordering Lake Bigler, catching
fish and hobnobbing with the distin-
guished tourists who are making that
lovely locality their Summer home.
Modoc County, California, boasts Of q
steer seven feet one inch high and weigh
ign 1 800 pounds. This is considered the
largest animal of the class in the State.
Can't our Nevada ranchers steer it up q
little ?
Two wife heaters have been arrested in
Virginia City. The mania for married
men thrashing the partners of their sor-
rows is apparently epidemic. in the Silver
State, n a wholesome lesson should be
impaired to the brutes.
The solicitude of our citizens concern
ing the condition OF the President was
very general yesterday. and there was a
universal expression OF gladness over the
SESTIsEL's news in the evening that q
more favorable turn had taken place.
A Wood River. Idaho. ~prospeetor named
Piper went in bathing a short distance
from HALEY the other day, hanging his
vest, which contained 81, 700 in green
backs. on a tree. While he was in the
water thieves captured the treasure.
Engineer Il. @. Luther has completed q
map Of the first ten miles Of the Il. K O.
II. IL. H., ana u diagram OF the DAiance
will be ready in a few days. 1t is report
ed that another 25 miles will be prepared
as soon as the present % are fairly under
way.
Some Of the leading Comstock stocks
made a splendid upward movement yester-
day. The market stiffened in the morn
ing's board. and closed actively under
heavy sales and advanced prices. The
principal upheaval appears to be In the
north end mines.
A family living near the railroad track.
at the head OF Poverty Avenue, has q
brood Of fifteen chickens, si of which but
two are as black as ravens. The old hen
is also black, and a boy. on being asked
how it came about the little ones were all
of q dark color. replied that they were
Matched from black eggs.