Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-05-07

Scraps from the Notebook Of the
SentineI's Reporter.

Mr.. d. Nathan will arrive this evening.
cold.
The weather was rainy and disagrecable
yesterday.
Betake ye to the house of God when the
bells ring.
The Postofice letter list is published
this morning.
Divine services will be held in all the
churches to-day.
District Court meets at 10 o'clock to-
morrow morning.
Mint rate for fine silver is quoted at
81 IA 6-10 per ounce.
The Typographical Union meets at 2
O'Clock this afternoon.
Anchor Lodge of Chosen Friends meets
at 2 o'clock this afternoon.
The WEEKLY SENTINEL can be had at W.
j. Penrose's newsstand, Ruby Hill.
Secondhand furniture sells here for
about the same price that new costs.
General George M. Sabin left this
morning for Carson on professional bust
ness.
Superintendent Tom Robinson Of the
Bay State mine at Newark was in town
yesterday.
The recent bad weather has laid up a
number Of our people with colds and
rheumatism.
Several parties from the East are ex-
pected here this week to negotiate for min
ing properties.
The New York Mining Record quotes
the price of lead at 81 80 and 81 95, and
refined at s. 10.
Bartlett yesterday received q large con-
signment of domestic cigars, which he
claims can't be beat.
Tom Dale's little son, who has been
dangerously ill, is reported as somewhat
better and improving.
Strawberries are becoming plentiful in
the market, and sell for four bits per
box-the standard price.
'My wife," remarked Fitznoodle, isis
fairly crazy over the fashions. She's got
the delirium trimmins."
1t was Longfellow who slyly described
the lady as wearing flowers son the con-
gregation side of her bonnet"
The delinquent sale list of the Monu-
mental Tunnel Company will be found in
another column of this paper.
1t is reported that a Republican cam
paign paper will be started here in the
course of q couple of months.
The WEEKLY SENTINEL, published yes
terday afternoon, is a splendid number to
send to your friends in the East.
Upton Post, G. A. R., will not meet to-
night. Its meeting nights are the second
and fourth Sundays of each month.
The supply of wood is reported to be
growing short. There will be an abund-
ance of it as soon as the roads become good.
1t takes a girl about four hours longer
to wash the front windows of a house than
the back windows ii she has plump arms.
Bring on your Chinese and kill off the
pioneer settlers of the West, seems to be
the cry Of the universal brotherhood of
man.
Miss Minnie Schwamb left this morning
for a visit to Carson, and from thence will
go to Grass Valley and attend the Sisters
school.
There seems to be quite a movement in
real estate during the past few days, sew
eral private residences having been sold at
very fair prices.
Assessor Wallace reports the sum of
S2,GS9 SO due on the proceeds of mines
in this county for the quarter ending
March 81, 1882.
The Suniowers under Crawford and the
Lilies under Muldoon will cross bats to-
day, the former will represent Eureka and
the latter Ruby Hill.
At the rattle last evening at the 0cciden-
tai Saloon, for an elegant meerschaum
pipe, A was thrown, and DR.. Martin
walked off with the pipe.
There will be preaching this morning in
the Methodist Episcopal Church by the
Rev. Mr.. Porter. Sunday school immedi.
ately after the morning service.
The Ruby Hill Union Guard requests US
to thank Mr.. VIM. Bryant for several
boxes of fine Havana cigars on the occa-
sion Of their election of officers.
Now that the Bay State mine at Newark
has an abundance of water for their en-
| CINE, work will again be resumed on the
400 level. The mine generally is looking
we'll.
On the first OF the present month the
Indebtedness of the Albion Company was
S12, 2O7 A, with 81, 7SS 80 in the treasury,
and a balance Of 81, 40S still due on assess
ment No. 10.
A legal gentleman observed yesterday
that the Eureka people were very hard to
| please. Although Nature presented them
| with every variety OF weather in one day,
they would still growl and get profane.
A contract was let yesterday to sink the
| Ell Dorado Con. shaft 100 feet deeper,
which, when completed, will be $50 feet
deep. Crosscutting has been commenced
to connect with the tunnel for ventilation.
Rev. Gallagher, formerly of Eureka,
preached in New York last Sunday against
deadheadism in the ministry and in the
| church and the theatrical community.
| He thinks deadheadism is a growing evil.
Some thief, having no fear Of God, man
or the devil, broke into the Methodist
| Church parsonage on Friday night and
| stole a pair of blankets and some bed
| clothing. Probably the thief did not
know he was stealing from a preacher.
We were in error yesterday morning in
stating that the Eureka Tunnel owed Nor
ris H. Joseph SIS, 900. The Tunnel Com
pany has paid in full S21 ZOO for its por-
ton of the Ell Dorado ground. The
amount due Joseph is owing by the FL
Dorado Con. Company.
The Virginia City Irish Land League
hold a meeting this evening for the pur-
pose of making arrangements for cele-
brating the release Of Davitt, Parnell, Dill
lon and other patriotic leaders. Is it
not time for the Eureka League to make a
move in the same direction
Meat scarce in the East.
A wholesale Eastern meat dealer who