Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-12-17
FLUE DUST.
scraps from the Notebook of ths
SenLiners Eseporter.

scraps from the Notebook Of the
Sentinel's Reporter.
The delinquent tax list OF Storey county
nils three Columns in the Enterprise.
AT a recent carnival in Denver. Col. all
the guests appeared in costumes made en-.
tirely of paper.
Mrs. Mark Hopkins is reported to be en-
gagged to a Bostonian. The rumor comes
from California.
b. Reinhart and W. T. Smith, of Elko,
after a very busy day spent in Eureka, re-
turned home this morning.
ars. A. l.. Fitzgerald who has been Wis.,
ting her mother, Mrs. Major Mccoy, in
California. returned home last night.
Mr.. Froude, overworked and weary,
contemplates making a voyage round the
world. He will be accompanied by his
son.
l. L. Requa, who has been on the Com
stock actively engaged in mining for over
rs years, will withdraw from the lode about
Jan. L.
Joe Mendes has abridged his Boca Brew
cry by about one-half by a partition north
and south. He il putting himself abreast
Of the times.
Stephen IL. Meek, who arrived in Cali
fornia in 1888, and is 80 years OF age, still
follows trapping for a livelihood near Etna,
Sisklyou county.
Payments so far this month on account
OF pensions, So, 500, 900; the issue Of silver
dollars for the week ended Dec. 6 was
S526, 1896. for the corresponding period last
year. S521 ,498.
DR.. Chamblin, in writing to a friend in
Eureka, from st Helena, Napa county,
CAL, speaks OF the death OF his child 10
months old of rheumatism, some three or
four weeks ago.
George +. Stockle, Nevada's cadet at
West Point. has so far made exceptional
fine progress in his studies. His success
at the January examination, the first really
hard test, is now assured.
The wind howled solemn music about
the street corners last night and sang of i'm
pending snow. By day after tomorrow,
according to the rule of the Oldest inhabl-
tant, we shall have the D..
May Agnes Fleming has been dead for
years, but the succession Of her novels does
not stop. One investigator Of the subject
declares that the present Miss Fleming
wears whiskers and trousers.
With ~profoundest satisfaction we are en-
abled to inform our readers that the Amer
loan peanut crop this year is the largest
that ever was-oyer $500, 600 bushels.
What crackings in 80 vast a heap
Boston Postofice authorities have in op-
Grafton, experimentally, a machine for cam
ceiling and postmarking letters. In a re-
cent trial letters were put through the ma
chine at the rate of $50 per minute.
Amusements are necessarily few in the
Michigan State Prison. and two light
hearted convicts relieved the dullness OF
their life by holding a companions head
in a furnace door to burn his hair of.
Tuscarora Times: Harry Rivers, 6 part
ner and brother professional of Joe Bignon,
has arrived from Eureka, and we are happy
TO inform the public will be one Of the at
t~ractive features Of the entertainment on
Saturday evening.
Council Bluffs has burglars, and the
Mayor prints the following notice: II will
pay $50 to n citizen who will capture q
night thief in his house and deliver him at
the city Jail. The law permits you to shoot
the rascal on the spot"
A man in Cleveland, o., having bet his
teeth natural ones) on the result on the
election, and lost, is now in a q%usndary as
TO the payment, the winner having refused
$40 in lieu of the molars, and insisting that
the condition Of the wager be carried out.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. T. Hinckley, who have
been spending a fortnight or so in Eureka
with their son, United States Land Regis
ter F. H. Hinckley, left for San Francisco
this morning, accompanied by Mr.. and
Mrs. J. l.. Hinckley. The gentlemen are
brothers. j. T. Hinckley visits California
for the sake Of his health.