Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-09-27

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Scraps from the Note-booH al tho
senttncI's Reporter.
Two or three good rooms are for rent in
the SENTINEL building.
An unusually large freight train arrived
from Palissde last evening.
The buzz of the candidate was heard
throughout the streets last night.
Mountain Lodge No. 81, I. o. o. F.,
meets this evening at 1880 O'Clock.
The WEEKLY SENTINEL can be had at G
M. Fassett's drug store, Ruby Hill.
To-day's Republican Convention prom
Uses to be a very interesting assemblage. E
Before the election is over many q dark
horse will be feeling like a very light jack
ass.
To-day's Convention will add long list
to the reception committee of the "sore-
head ball.
The Republican County Convention
meets at 10 O'Clock this morning at the
Opera House.
The tributers in the Dunderberg mine
made a shipment of ore yesterday to the
Richmond works.
See B. Alexander's announcement that
he will beat the Democrats, Republicans,
bankers and g~rabbers.
Bill Mayor will be a prominent candi-
date before the Republican Convention to-
day for Sergeant-at-Arms.
The Tyndall and Cosmos mines, on Pros
pect Mountain, owned by G. j. II. Buttlar,
have been sold to Thomas Wren.
Conventions are like pedro games
every man has his kick, and when the
game is ended everything is again quiet.
Tho Republicans rave ten candidates
out for long aud short-term Commission
ers. Eight cut Of the ten must be dis
appointed to-day.
A party of Ruby Hill miners left yester-
day for Silverado for the purpose of
making arrangements for leasing mines
from John Potter.
Sam. Harris and J. G. Phillips left yes
terday for Hamilton, where they will be
employed In Eugene N. Robinson's mines.
Others will leave for there in a few days.
"What is a pessimist, papa" asked a
bright lad. ga pessimist, my son." said
the old man, sis one who would find fault
with his seat in Heaven, if he ever got
there"
Danny Mann, the Irish comedian, made
his first appearance at the Truckee last
evening. Danny is a clever performer,
n adds materially to the company's
strength.
The Elko Independent says that one
half of the candidates for Office in Elko
County will be left. Nine-tenths Of the
candidates in the Republican Convention
to-day will be left.
Lautenschlager's corner last night was
like q beehive, and a million drinks, more
or less, must have been sold. 1t remind
ed one, on the surface, Of the purer and
better days OF the Republic.
Some local pedestrians talk of getting
up a "a hours go-as-you-please match at
the Rink within the next few weeks. The
race is to be sweepstakes of an entrance
fee of S25 and gate receipts.
An angry cool at Newport, the other
day, is said to have served a soup Of mucll-
age, of which the entire family partook in
blissful ignorance Of its composition. This
is a seaside romance that ought to stick.
. In running a drift northwest sixty feet
from the surface in the Geddes & Bertrand
mine at Secret Canyon a body of $500 car
Donate ore was discovered yesterday. 1t
has the appearance of making an extensive
body of ore.
George Elston, of the Truckee trio of
variety performers, deserves more than a
passing notice, which he would get
were it not for politics. He is a good
tenor singer and wonderfully popular. He
was encored last night until it seemed
like a shame to tax his voice any longer.
Henderson, the blacksmith, met with
quite a serious accident last evening
while shoeing a horse, and had an artery
in his thigh severed. Major Long, an old
soldier, happened along at the time and
stopped the flow OF blood with a bandage
until the arrival of Drs. Owen and Thoma.
A consolation ball, to be given on d
grand scale, will take place some time
next week. The committees will be COM
posed of the defeated candidates of both
Conventions, and that alone will insure its
success. The best of music has been OBJ
tanned, and it will be the affair of the
season.
The SENTINEL is pleased with its marks
mauship. A shot fred by it yesterday,
almost at random, has made more than
one of our Republican friends each think
himself the target. We expect to-day, in
of our wholesome little no.
tice, that every delegate in the Conven-
ton will be armed to the teeth with anti
subsidy resolutions.