Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-04-29
FLUE DUST.
Scraps from the Notebook OF the
SentfneFs Reporter.

seminars
The baseball lads are daily practicing.
Hank knight arrived from the West last
night.
The weather yesterday was the finest Of
the season.
Mrs. A. G. Campbell is reported dan.
gerously ill.
g. M. Fassett of Ruby Hill is at Reno
visiting friends.
Mr.. J. B. M%athewson of Hamilton left
for home this morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. Wescoatt will arrive
from Carson tomorrow night.
Mr.. Jacob Harris and Mrs. Alfred Har.
rs left for San Francisco this morning.
Peter Byrnes, indicted at Winnemucca
for burglary, has been adjudged insane.
Major Downie, the veteran prospector
and old-time Californian, has gone to
Wood River.
Hon. Benjamin Plummer Of Mineral
Hill arrived last night from an extended
trip to the East.
The White House Clothing establishment
received another large consignment Of new
goods yesterday.
Persons having bills against the county
should present them at the County
Clerks office to-day.
The attendance of parents and visitors
at the public school exercises yesterday
afternoon was not large.
Mrs. Owen Geraty was reported danger
ously ill last night, and that there was lit
tie hope of her recovery.
Rifle practice is in vogue on the Hill at
present. Members of both military com
panies are out every day.
Mr.. Dan. Morris, formerly of White
Pine, but now a resident of Ogden, is
spending a few days here.
The WEEKLY SENTINEL will be published
at 8 O'Clock this afternoon. Send it to
| your friends in the East.
Now that the roads have improved, and
the weather good, many people from the
outside districts are coming in.
The tributers at the Phenix mine COM
menced hauling up ore Thursday. The
prospects of the mine are t1attering.
A stated communication of Eureka
Lodge No. 16, F. & A. NJ, will be held at
its hall this evening at 1880 o'clock.
Sheriff O'Neil of Nye County, who has
been spending several days here on official
business, left for home this morning.
A compositor made us use in yesterdays
paper the word distinction for distraction.
This is not a distinction without a differ
ence.
Ex-County Commissioner Page Of Fish
Creek has just commenced the erection Of
a large and handsome residence at that
place.
John Laity, who skipped out at the time
of the tributers' steal excitement, is said
to be at Butte City, Montana, living IN
his wits.
DR.. J. B. Keen will sell a large amount
OF furniture, oil paintings, chromos, etc.,
at 1 o'clock to-day, at his auction stand on
Main street.
In the case of Sheriff Kyle, admins
TRAITOR of the estate of David Knight, vs..
N. Smith, the jury were still out at an early
hour this morning.
In the late riot at Camborne, England,
two of the former celebrities of Ruby Hill,
General Could-Knocks and Corporal Scor-
pions, differed the Balmaid army.
A dispatch was received from Carson
last evening asking if there are any cases
of smallpox in Eureka. 1t is evident that
a false report to that effect has been circu-
lated there.
Rev. Eben Muse will preach next Sab
bath morning and evening at the Presby-
terrain Church. In the evening his subject
will be ''Infdelity versus Christianity"
All welcome.
Yesterday a number of persons were OBJ
served preparing small patches OF ground
in their yards for planting lettuce, rad
ishes md such other vegetables OF the
kind as grow readily in Eureka.
The "~dead-house" connected with
Schwamb's undertaking establishment was
visited by many persons yesterday, curious
to gaze upon the remains of Jacob Morgan.
After once gazing upon the CHASTITY sight,
none returned to take a second view.
Owing to the very dangerous illness Of
his wife last night, Mr.. Owen Geraty was
released from the jury in the Kyle-Smith
case, which had been submitted to them
for their elaboration, both parties to the
suit c%onsenting to the release.
1t seems remarkable that the Carson pa.
pers -four of them) give no report Of the
proceedings in the Acknowledgement case
in the Supreme Court. Either this i'm
portant suit seems a small matter to them,
or else it's too much exertion for their re-
porters to reach the courtroom.
The halliday system in the primary
department of the Public School is the
cause of very general dissatisfaction
among parents. 1t is to be hoped that the
Trustees will be able to employ another
teacher, SO that the youngsters may be
taught mornings and afternoons.
The sixteen-ton casting, for the bed for
the engine of the Eureka Con. new hoist
ing works, proved to be a very trouble
some piece Of freight, and was not trans
ported to the LOGAN shaft without great
difficulty. 1t was, however, landed safely,
and in a few days will be put in place.
There was promise of a high old time
between two prominent ladies Of the Hill
a few days ago, resulting from the break
ing out Of an old feud, but the law officers
nippsd the prospective litigation in the
bud. The war is smothered for a season.,
but is liable to blaze forth again at any
time.