Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-08-12

Scraps from the Notebook Of the
s~entinePs Reporter.

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Oh, give us q rest on comets.
Dick Dwyer is again on the Range.
There are five prisoners in the Count.
Jail.
Considerable ore. is coming in from
Adams Hill.
New potatoes are getting to be too plen
tiful in the market.
A. E. Shannon returned last evening
from Virginia City.
Albion shares braced up little yester
day and sold at 50 As.
1t made several desperate efforts TO rair
yesterday but did not succeed.
Mrs. J.. s. Whitton is stopping at the
Baldwin Hotel, San Francisco.
1t begins to look like the ''shorts' in
Albion stock were going to get left.
The Andes Mining Company have levied
an assessment of so cents per share.
Adam Mau and Miss Matte Rundell Of
Ruby Hill we're married last evening.
Eureka Con. shares are rapidly crawling
up to the old prices again. Why not?
The Nevada Methodist Episcopal Con-
ference will meet in Carson September Is.
Gen. Sabin yesterday appointed William
Stinson a Quartermaster with the rank of
Major.
The Union Guard are getting mp some
very amusing things for their picnic next
Sunday.
The noted George M. Pinney is out from
New York trying to pump life into the old
Panamint district.
The Oldest inhabitant predicts that our
rainy season is over, and that we are to
have no food this year.
Road Supervisor Wsdish is busy fixing
up the roads in such places as were dam
aged by the recent freshets.
Prof. Dawson opens his dancing school
at the Opera House this evening. We
learn that the class will be quite large.
Twenty-Five men are constantly employed
in quarrying out rock for the foundation of
the Eureka Con- 8 new hosting works.
Jim Powell. Luther Clark and Judge
Adams will start out on q hunting trip
to-day, provided the weather is favorable.
M. J.. Franklin left this morning for San
Francisco. He goes for the purpose Of
purchasing the Fall styles for his dry
goods house.
Beatiic Lodge No. Z, knights Of Pythias,
meet at their hall this evening at 7.30
O'Clock. A general attendance OF mem
bers is requested.
The funeral Of Frank Lang yesterday
afternoon, under the auspices Of the Ma
sonic fraternity, was largely attended by
the Ruby Hill people.
A private letter received here yesterday
states that the legal fraternity down at
Phoebe are having a jolly good time of it
during this term of Court.
Prof. Eimbeck, assistant in charge of the
U. s. Geodetic Survey OF the Coast, is ex-
pected to arrive from Austin to-day, when
the corps will start for Osceola, White Pine
County.
Andy Loucks, who resides at Devils
Gate, about twelve miles from Eureka,
states that more rain has fallen in the last
five days than at any time previous in the
past six years.
The Superior Court OF California has
decided that If a man plays faro and loses
he cannot use the machinery Of the law to
recover the vanished coin, his act in play
ing at faro having been illegal in the first
place.
We find the following in the San Fran
cisco Chronicle in relation TO one Of our
old business men: An engagement has been
announced as existing between Miss Rosa
Davis OF Leavenworth street and II. Kay
ser Of Tombstone.
A number OF our prominent citizens
are discussing the idea OF getting up q
picnic on q grand scale. The time set for
it will be about the middle Of next month.
They propose that it shall last two days.
The programme will be out in a few days.