Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-04-02
All Fools Bay.


This was inaugurated early yesterday
morning by some genuine sport. About
one o'clock groups Of four and five drop
ped into the Star Brewery casually as
If they had gone there for the purpose of
extracting a smile from the pretty walters.
About eighteen persons had thus gathered,
when Mr.. Jackson with a bottle wrapped
in a newspaper, and his face expressing the
deepest concern and anxiety, came in
through the back door and waltzed up to
the bar. In q voice Of deep emotion he
requested Billy Sprague, the presiding ge-
MUS, to fill the bottle with the best brandy
In the house, as quick as possible, as one
OF the girls on Virtue avenue had been
taken suddenly sick, and a DELAY might
prove dangerous. Billy whisked out an
immense demijohn on the instant, tore the
paper from the neck Of the bottle, inserted
a faucet, and elevating the jug commenced
pouring out the liquid, all eyes in the
room watching the process. while Billy
was too intent upon his business to observe
the smiles Of his visitors. Billy had poured
out about a quart, wondering how. much
the darned bottle would hold, when all OF
a sudden there was a perfect food OF brandy
down his unmentionables to the floor, the
bottom Of the bottle having been knocked
on, but the paper being wound
tightly about it, held the liquor until
it burst its way through. Billy hastily
turned the bottle over, and the situation
flashed through his mind in an instant,
while at the same time a shout Of laughter
greeted him that made him look round
for a small hole to crawl into. He set
'em up for the crowd, when Jackson pro-
posed to play the same trick on Provost Of
the Truckee, located a few doors below.
He urged the crowd to repair thither,
while he would go around the back way.
They started off in a struggling manner
and the jokiest left by the back door. but
returned in a few moments, and quietly
awaited developments. The crowd went
to the Truckee, where they were Hospitality
received and entertained by the walters,
but Jackson failed to make his ap-
pe~arance. One, two, three. fifteen
minutes fled, but still no man
with the bottle. Several delegates were
sent out to hunt him up, who re-
turned with the startling information that
he was enjoying his leisure dignity at the
Star, making love to the ~lassies, and hav-
ing completely turned the tables upon
them. The crowd had a hasty but sup
pressed consultation, and in q body re-
paired to the Star, but, Jackson seeing his
friends coming in by the front entrance,
fled through the back door, and saved him
self from a douse in the big ditch. They
searched for him for an hour afterwards,
but he proved himself non est.
Another practical joke was played upon
a simple German, who was sent with q box
about noon to a certain address, previous
ly posted, from whence in turn he was sent
the full round Of at least a dozen places,
when he dropped the box, and swore by
and Kaiser Wilhelm that he
wouldn't lug it any further. 1t weighed
about fifty pounds.
The splinter men were out in full force,
and everybody appeared to have a piece OF
cord wood run up their wrists. OF course
there were only too many who we're willing
to relieve their fellow sufferers-and drew
a foot of string.
In an uptown restaurant a young man
was served with sole-leather as beef-steak,
for horse-raddish and wooden
cakes, s%prinkled with buckwheat, for hot
Numerous other little pleasantries took
place among the idlers, all of which passed
off good-naturedly, and the day seemed to
create a good many recruits for the In
Urinary, who will no doubt in due time be
drawn into that extensive organization.