Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-08-04
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Great fun at the matinee this afternoon
A patent door key has been left at thi
Office for the owner.
Persons having bills against the county
should present them to-day.
Judging by the life about the faro table,
last night there would seem to be plenty
of loose money in Eureka after all.
Sacramento Bee: The Western Union
should put up Q new notice: SAN mes.
sages taken subject to delay-of trains"
The Palisade train was eight hours late
again last evening, owing to the burning
Of the bridge near Verdi Wednesday night.
The pitch of the formation in the drift
from the LOGAN shaft is changing to cor.
respond with the dip Of the ledge lime in
the old workings.
Capt. Dahl's new steam yacht has made
q successful trial trip on Great Salt Lake
and comes up to the Captain expectations
| as Q safe and swift vessel.
Gilmer & Salisbury are stocking up for
q double daily line between Deer Lodge
| and Missoula. This will make q double
| daily line from Helena to Missoula.
An old salt" says that q good swimmer
can't commit suicide by drowning. When
| he begins TO choke he'll try to save him
self by swimming. He can't help it.
The "Big Ditch" received a pretty good
flushing yesterday. The volume OF water
that shot through it was strong enough to
sluice out all the dead animals that lined
the lower portion.
We learn from Deputy Sheriff Kaye that
Mrs. VIM. limerick, who was taken to the
Reno Insane Asylum . few days since, ON
arriving there she was more violent than
at any previous time.
A wild Western editor says "not one
woman in q thousand knows where her
diaphragm is" That may be true.
but We have never heard OF q woman
having her diaphragm lost or stolen.
Exchange: "The United States Govern
ment ia the most generous towards its
soldiers OF any Nation on the globe. 1t
has paid them 500, 900, 900 in PENSIONS"
The soldiers got about one-half and the
pension agents and thieves the other half.
The Geddes & Bertrand mine has closed
down until Monday, there being no room for
more ore in the bins. The fourth furnace
is being lined for use. When this is done
the reduction will be 80 tons per day in
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rooster.
Judge Harmon handed us yesterday the
following perfect poetic description from
~Tennyson's princess" OF back hand
writing:
"And l sat down and wrote
In such a hand as when a field Of corn
Bows all its ears before the roaring East"
The bridge, the burning Of which caused
the detention of trains from San Francisco,
was at Bronco, a few miles west Of Verdi.
1t is believed, says a special dispatch to the
SENTINEL, that it will be reconstructed by
Sunday. The material to reconstruct the
bridge has already been sent forward from
Truckee.
II was q waiter at one of the White
Mountain hotels Base Range hash-slingers
never fly SO high, who, being asked for
some green corn, replied: 81 regret to
inform you that the supply Of vegetables
was not adequate to the demand to-day,
and has become exhausted. Possibly you
may select some garden product
enumerated ON the menu as Q substitute"