Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-07-28
Gureka DaiIp Sentinel.
RHEEF

Inc DNN u a SOhSAIoShANA WIS N%4e"N
ally $ per day. Then it was raised to
5000 a year, and finally it was put at
5000. Distinguished Senators and
Representatives have become million
aires without engaging in any other pur-
suit than politics. John Sherman is only
one OF a number of shining examples Of
thrift of this sort.
Several days ago young Walsh, who
stabbed his sweetheart to death, paid
the penalty OF his crime on the galiows
at Brooklyn. How many men with
murder in their hearts will recall Walsh1s
fate and stay their hands?
There had been paid up to March l
over half a billion dollars in pensions.
The arrears of pensions will call for
between 5000, 900, 900 and $500, 900, 600
more. How many false and fraudulent
pensions have been granted nobody
can guess.
A horrible story from Chi
cago that twenty victims Of the toy
pistol are dying Of loekjaw. In almost
any other country the manufacturers
and vendors of the deadly thing would
be indicted for manslaushter.
The deaths in San Francisco for the
week ending on Friday last foot up the
extraordinary number Of ll9. There
cannot be the slightest doubt that this
alarming mortality, which was princI-
pally among children, was largely caused
by zymotic disease resultant from the
foul condition of the sewers.
1t is believed that Hayes carried
away sI75,0OO of the 5000, 900 he re-
ceived as Fraudulent President. A sal
airy OF SIS. 600 is enough for the Presi-
dent; it never would have been raised
but for the greed Of General Grant at
the beginning OF his second term.
The Cincinnati Commercial says that
it is reported in the State Of Ohio that
.'NIrs. Garfield has received a letter o.
assessment from HubbelI's committee as
sessing her for two per cent Of the late
Presidents salary"
The Tariff Commission have begun
their work in good. easy Summer weathe.
style. Their first two months will bo
spent at Long Branch.
If there was ever any doubt Of poo
Mrs. Lincoln's insanity they are now re
moved. When a young girl she wrote
letter, now in possession of Genera
Preston OF Kentucky, in which she e%
pressed a determination to become tn
wife of a President. It was addresse,
to a daughter OF Governor Wickitie, an.
contained a playful description Of tn
gawky young Lincoln, TO whom she wa
betrothed. She said: But l mean t
make him President of the United State
all the same. You will see that, as
always told you, I will yet be the Pres
dents wife"
II the old world all gets to fighting
the more the necessity Of the Unite
States to get ready to do the feeding. I
Is more fun and more profitable. Tha
IS the only way that the United State
should mix in the difficulty.
The Sultan Of Turkey wants to gal
the good will Of Germany and America
He has presented two black ponies to III
Empress, two brown Arabian stations :
the Crown Prince, and a 0 a hunter t
the Crown Princess Of Germany, and tn
picture Of a Turkish girl to General Wal
lace, the United States Minister. Abou
The latter present there is much talk
some persons insisting that it is a rea
live girl, and people are sp]eculatin:
what Wallace will do with her.
The name Uncle Sam, as applied t.
the United States, is said to have origin
ated in the war of 1912. An inspecto.
Of our army provisions at Troy named
Samuel Wilson was called by his work
men "Uncle Sam" One day somebody
asked one of the workmen what the let
ters ~. S." printed on a cask, meant
The workman replied that he supposed
it must mean Uncle Sam. The joke wa.
afterward spread in the army, and this
according to the historian Frost, was tn,
origin Of the national sobriquet.
An Eastern journal figures it out thai
Jay Hubbell will have two millions o
dollars on hand before the last of the as
sessment circulars are heard from. HI
will also be in possession of a reputation
that it will be worth two millions Of dol
lars TO carry