Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-03-25
FLUE DUST.
Scraps from The Notebook of the
SentinePs Reporter.

SenttneF's Reporter.
The E. d Pr train leaves this morning
at 10 O'Clock for Palisade.
P. N. Hansen has reduced the price of
coal oil to SO 80 per case.
The Society OF Reese River Pioneers has
dwindled down to a mere handful.
A grocery and provision war in this
town is imminent, and the poor are re-
joiciDg thereat.
Brown 81 Tassell are just giving away
| their boots and shoes as fast as they can.
The price is no object with them.
"Chair- boarders" is the name now an.
piled to those gentlemen of leisure who
infest saloons. They used to be called
"stove-herders."
A private party got the key from Mr..
Mckay last night and had the rink all to
themselves. The ice was not bad, and
they had q fine time.
Beebe's mule, forgetting her fall Of last
week, slipped again yesterday, and falling
down the side Of Prospect Mountain to the
bottom, was instantly killed.
Upton Post No. 20, G. A. R., will hold q
meeting this evening at District Attorney
CARRIERS Office at Z O'Clock. A full at
tendance Of members is desired.
A gentleman spoke to Baron Rothschild
yesterday about the equinoctial storm.
you bet." replied the Baron; sit knocks
h out of anything l ever saw"
The Republicans, since the organization
OF the party, never nominated an Eastern
man for President. The Democrats, since
1864, never nominated q Western man.
George" the lamp lighter and general
handy man about town, skipped out home
to China the other day with his ''pile."
He said he would return after Q vacation.
About a foot OF snow fell during the
storm OF Saturday night and Sunday, q
good deal of which disappeared from the
streets yesterday, leaving slush in its
stead.
II is likely that the Democratic Central
Committee, which meets in Virginia City
to-day, will order one convention only,
and that they will name Austin for the
meeting.
Tom Reynolds, formerly engineer of the
E. & p. passenger train, has gone to Sacra-
mento. Mr.. Tate, formerly engineer OF
the freight, is now engineer OF the COM
bined trains.
The Grand Lodge, A. o. U. W., OF the
jurisdiction Of Nevada, which includes
Utah, Idaho, Montana, Nevada and Wyo-
ming, will meet at Salt Lake City on Tues
day, May 20.
An exchange says that there is q man in
the East who was born drunk. He must
be an object of envy to those who
spend all their time and money trying to
keep themselves in that condition.
Now comes the other side of the Sharon
Hill business. San Francisco may be
counted on to do her best to swamp the
plaintiff. Sharon's dirty sock is likely to
prove the worst ~''hoodoo' that ever sat
upon the plaintiff, Althea.
The Helena ON. IT, Herald Of March Is
says: There are 5000 people scattered
along among the timbers of Pritchard
creek, and twice that number are at numer-
GUS outside points. awaiting suitable
weather to go to the diggings.
The members and friends OF the Presby-
terrain Church are requested to meet at
the church on Wednesday, the 26th. at
7:30 p. NJ, for the purpose OF taking action
to renew the supply of the pulpit for an
other year. A full attendance is desired.
John Peterson got a severe cut over the
eye at the King Lear mine on Sunday,
while on top and working at the windlass.
He was found lying senseless on the
ground, and was brought to town for
medical treatment. His injuries are not
DANGEROUS.