Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-02-14
FLUE DUST.
Scraps from she Notebook of the
SentineIs Reporter.

Scraps from the Notebook of the
SentineTs Reporter.
Go and hear the dialogues at the con-
cert.
The County Commissioners hold a
meeting to-day.
Sunday School concert at the Methodist
Church tonight.
The sobbing wind is fierce and strong,
It's cry Is like a human wall.
The children expect you to go and hear
their solos at the concert tonight.
Mountain Lodge No. 81, I. o. o. F.,
meets this evening at 1880 o'clock.
The Senate has ignored the proposition
to exclude the reporter OF the Carson In
dex.
An elegant assortment of valentines can
be found at the Postoffice bookstore and at
Calisher's.
Assessment No. IA of the I. o. G. F., is
due, and must be paid to Secretary David
son to-day.
If anybody sees a dark mahogany cane
| going around loose he will please restore
it to this Office.
There is plenty of money paid out in
Eureka, but it has not the chance to circu-
late that it used to have.
The Prospect Mountain Tunnel Com
pany has let q contract to A.. Morrison g.
Co. to run another 100 feet of tunnel.
Several old-time Eurekans have gone to
Calico District, in San Bernardino County,
Cal. 1t is reported as being a good mining
country.
The hose carts were stationed at the hy-
drants last night, ready for use at a mo-
ment's notice. The wind blew a gale and
every precaution against fire was in order.
District Attorney CARRIERS notice to de-
linquent taxpayers is published under the
head Of ''New To-day" and is very i'm
portant to those who are in arrears for
taxes.
The wind blew big guns last night, and
made screeches on the telephone wires.
Tho white clouds raced northward as
though the fiend were after them. A reg
ular wind blizzard.
A.. E. Kaye made himself useful yester-
day by resolving himself into a scavenger
and cleaning the ice and slush from the
sidewalk alongside the Jail and Courthouse.
Deputy Mike Walsh superintendent the job.
The work of sinking the LOGAN shaft is
going on bravely. The man who can guess
whether ore will be found in the deep
workings of the future will have a chance
to be as big a fellow as Jim Fair or John
Mackay.
Jerry Ahern, the boss wood dealer on
South Main street, informs us that the late
cold snap reduced his stock of wood some
what, but that he has an abundance left,
and continues to furnish it at the old price
of $40 per cord.
In order to make a thorough and salts
factory examination of the books of county
officers, the services of an expert seem
Indispensable. Without the aid of such a
person the work of the Grand Jury in this
matter is not apt to be very valuable.
Miss Louisa Mau, a teacher in the pub
lie school, yesterday received by mail
from Italy, where a married sister has been
spending her honeymoon, a handsome
gold pin, inlaid with onyx, into which
some designs are worked in an artistic
manner.
Siempreviva always alive) is the name
of a plant that Lachman has for sale. 1t
looks like a last years birds nest, but
when put in water for a few minutes it I'M
folds into a pretty, green plant, spreading
out about the size of a saucer, with sprigs
radiating from the center like fern leaves.
1t is a Mexican plant.