Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-04-03
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DR.. j. r. N. Owen was reported quite i'll
last evening.
Eureka Lodge No. %, /. o. o. F., meets
this evening at 7 o'clock.
Six opium fiends are In limbo, and six
hundred, more or less, are not.
Tho weather yesterday was perfectly de-
lightful, and seemed to make everybody
happy.
A~boriginees now adorn the sidewalks of
Main street, removing rotten apples by
eating them.
Who Of our business men will take the
initiatory steps towards organizing local
mining companies
James McBurney, the veteran and indie
fatigable ~prospector, got showed out Of
Tenn Pahute and is sojourning now in
Eureka.
Miss Ida Chester and Edward Varney,
| San Francisco artists, will arrive here in a
day or two, and make their first appear
ance at Truckee Music Hall.
The members OF Union Guard will hold
q special meeting this evening at 7:30
o'clock at their armory. A full and
prompt attendance is requested.
A young lady has been sworn in as Dep
uty Sheriff in Chsmbersburg, Pa. She
will go a great way toward softening down
the rigor Of a Sheriff's attachment.
P. s. Quad and wife. who were ap-
pointed to take charge of the Hospital at
the last meeting OF the Board of County
Commissioners, moved in on Tuesday last.
The members of the Republican County
Central Committee hold a meeting this
evening at the Office of Wren & Cheney,
for the purpose of calling a primary cleo
ton.
John Sherman still has faith in the
Southern outrage policy. He doubtless
expects to dig up another 'Jim" Ander-
son or to play another Mrs. Eliza Pink
ston.
An Alabama editor declares that snakes
have feet. The snakes that an. Alabama
editor sees are likely to have anything.
There is nothing either local or personal
in this.
The gentlemen proposing to form q
social dancing club are requested TO meet
this evening at the Bureau Hotel at 7:30
o'clock in order to complete the organiza-
ton started on Sunday.
The Hamburg mine ia so thoroughly
showed in that it is impossible for the
tributers 10 take in supplies, except by
packing just what they can on their backs
over q t%reacherous trail in deep snow.
Main street was yesterday enlivened by
q wrestling match between two young buck
Indians. One pressed the shoulder-blades
OF the other down into the slush, to the
admiration Of 1000 lookers-on, more or
less.
Vassar girls have q fire company. Prob
ably no fire company in the United States
has such a complete and fashionable
assortment Of hose. We are too sorry that
| Vassar is not here. How nice it would be
to see those hose filled cut and spouting
| water on parade.
Those who believe that a half-loaf is
better than no bread will be glad that
silver will be in demand for the next two
years, at least, for coinage into standard
| dollars and smaller denominations, though
the trade dollar 10 retired and win be rated
in the future as only 30 much bullion.
The people OF the Pacific Coast will be
interested in the next political campaign
to see the record of their representatives
in Congress on the Kelly Silver bill, the
most important measure of legislation, so
lar as MS sectlOn Is cOnceEneus tHAt LAS
been introduced during this session OF the
National Legislature.
Now that the danger is past, some per-
sonsons, perhaps. who saw nothing TO ap-
prehend from the powerful enemies OF our
mining.interest at Washington, and in the
| other great anti-silyer centers of COM
merce of the East. will wake up to the i'm
portance Of the crisis through which the
Pacific Coast passed yesterday.
Speaking OF an old gentleman who gave
himself out as zone of them id literary
fellows" "But I have never seen any OF
| his writing" "That doesn't astonish me;
he only writes p~osthumous work. "-Ex.
| Which, parsphrased, is that his death was
| the only noteworthy event of his life.
And yet there are pig-heads who will not
| be appreciated ever for dying.