Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-07-18
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SenGinel's Reporter.

scraps from the Notebook Of the
S~entineI's Reporter.
"Uncle Toms Cabin" tonight at the
Opera House.
Reno boasts of a good many new build
ings going up.
Alpha Lodge No. l, A. o. U. W., meets
this evening at 1880 o'clock.
Deputy Sheriff Mckay will collect
licenses on Ruby Hill to-day.
The jury in the Mendes-Kyle case was
locked up last evening for safe-keeping.
The warm weather does not seem to
effect the attendance at the concer halls
in this town.
Judge Rives yesterday fined Thomas
contempt of Court.
Elsewhere will be found the full pro-
ceedings of the Democratic Central Com
mittee, which met Saturday night.
Every person who wishes to vote at the
coming election must be registered, and
he should not fail to attend to this matter
in time.
The funeral of Mrs. John Ewing, who
died on Sunday last, was attended yester-
day afternoon by q large number Of sor-
rowing friends.
Despite the driving power and staying
qualities of Bullet Neck, we must say he is
about as homely and awkward a piece of
horsef1esh as We ever saw.
Rescue Hose Company No. / are re-
quested to turn out this evening at 6
o'clock, for the purpose of testing their
hose. A full attendance is desired.
A spacious and elegant single room for
rent in the SENTINEL building. 1t is fur
nished for q sleeping apartment, but would
make a fine lawyers or DOCTORS Office.
The case of Mendes VS.. Sheriff Kyle oc-
cupied the attention of the District Court
all of yesterday in hearing evidence. A ver-
dict in the case will probably be reached
to-day.
The Secretary of the Reno Agricultural
Society writes to the SENTINEL hat extra
preparations are being made for the an
nual Fair. The programme will be out in
a few days.
Some Of the testimony given in the Men
des-Kyle case yesterday was very amusing
to those who heard it, and created q deal
of speculation among the outsiders who
were told about it.
The Silver State says hat DR.. T. W.
1ltiltllSppI PoopCu Shop oSopSiL O. Oh LIE
way home to Elko. 1t is said that he will
soon leave to take charge of the Railroad
Hospital at Sacramento, vice DR.. Meiggs,
who intends to return to Nevada.
The weather yesterday was very close
and sultry. At moor the thermometer
gagged the temperature at SO in the shade,
but towards evening threatening clouds
obscured the sun, and the atmosphere
cooled off considerably. At midnight the
sky was again clear.
Some horse racing was done on Main
street yesterday afternoon. The exhibit
ton of broncho bottom and legs was good
enough, and everybody smiled to see EN-
go. But it is a bad sort of sport for the
street. If a child had been run over there
would have been a good deal more trouble
than enough to overbalance the fun.
The "Uncle Tom" Company have with
them o %jennet, or genet, or Jeanette 1--WE
confess we don't know which, or whether
it is any one of the three), which is a
trinity built little ANIMAL daisy, all bun
the head, which is hideous, and jackass all
over. It's father, they tell US, is a male
horse, and its mother a female ass.
The manner of taking in collections at
the Methodist Church is old-fashioned,
and reminds us pleasantly or unpleasantly
we can't say, being a little mixed about it)
of the days when we sat in the sanctuary
and deposited our mite in the mouth OF a
sack or purse attached to o far-reaching
stick. Those were days Of long benches,
and the stick was necessary.
o. Fl. Smith, 8 gentleman long and
favorably known in this community, an
nounce himself this morning SO o csndir
date for the office Of Constable for Eureka
township, subject to the decision OF the
Democratic Convention. Mr.. Smith needs
no recommendation at our hands. He Ia
well known in this community ga an honest.
competent and upright man. If he gets
the nomination he will be o hard man to
haat.