Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1885-02-10
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sautineI's Reporter.

AARAurA HRnUN knG W. ~
seutineI's Reporter.
Only whisper scandal aud its echo is
heard by all.
~snowbslling aud coasting are again the
sports Of our youths.
The banging Of gongs is now q nightly
| occurrence ia Chinatown.
Look after your wife; never mind your
self, she'll look after you.
Mira. VIM. Plumhof, OF Mob Hill, has sew
eral comfortable and cosy rooms for rent.
Mrs. @. A. Fletcher and her W sons re-
turned last night from an extended visit
East.
The man who wishes to coutine believing
in his friends should never put them to the
proof.
Il ia generally believed that the beef
market has o decidedly downward ten
dsncy.
Several Of our citizens intend leaving
for Alaska about the first Of the coming
month.
The attendance at the masquerade TO be
given by the Knights Of Pythiss Monday
evening promises to be large.
Yesterday was not a very pleasant day.
i IL Whb Quitc uiOPpJ ehd ohoWcd uOotAy oa
day and in the evening.
In Washington. Senator Fair holds out
at Wormley's and Senator Jones and Con-
| gressm an Cassidy al Welcker's.
The Richmond Mining Company ship
| ped Yesterday through Wells, Fargo q Co.,
Ave bars Of bullion valued at $13.317 20.
Miss M. v. Msdigan, OF Virginia City,
has been engaged to teach the school at
| Rye Patch In place Of Mrs. Freeman, re-
signed.
At the usual weekly spelling match In
Miss Riley's room OF our public schools,
last Friday Lille Spencer was the last TO
| take her seat.
Gray, the slayer Of Scott in Paradise VAL
| Icy, made an attempt last Thursday to es-
| cape from the Jail at Elko by cutting
| through the brick wall.
The rumor now 10 that Assemblyman
| Hanks IL to succeed Frank Mccullough as
| the Deputy Warden under Warden Bell, as
soon as the Legislature s~djourns.
The Nevada & California railroad intend
to commence regular trips TO the present
terminus Of the road about the last Of Feb.
ruAry. They Will soon be ready 70 handle
freight.
According to the Bradstreet Mercantile
Agency of San Francisco there we're. dur
ing the month Of January. nine failures In
Nevada with assets Of So, 100, and liabili'
ties Sis, 1897.
All XII. who was on Friday last found en-
loving himself smoking opium in Q China'
town joint. was yesterday sentenced ~ Jus.
tice Harmon 10 either q fine Of $40 or ~
days In the County Jail.
John Piper, the Comstock Amusement
caterer for many years, has just completed
q new Opera House In Virginia City, and
on the evening OF March 9th q rousing ben
eft will be rendered him in it.
Il a meeting OF the School Trustees yes
terday afternoon il was ordered that from
the present date the salary Of the Principa
shall be $3.50. and that the salary OF escl
. OF the teachers be 500 per school month.
ri A passenger ON the East-bound emigran'
r train last Thursday committed suicide
somewhere between Wells and Toano b,
/. cutting his throat, almost severing th'
head from the body. We have not Learned
his name or the cause.
Tho Truckee and Stone saloons will each
have a masquerade ball on the night Q
81. Valentines day. They will vie will
each other in getting up the grsndest affair
70 Some very elegant costumes have beef
lg sent for al San Francisco.
orr A drift from the Combination shaft oil
the 5000 foot level was connected with tn
"a bottom OF the Norcross Wine last Thurs
day morning. Prospecting on the 3OO0-ioo
and 2900.foot levels will now be In order
o. the connection gives a fine circulation
a OF air.
ofI During the year 1884 the Manhattan mil
was In operation nearly ten months, beinl
shut down for March, April and q part @
September. The amount OF ore reduces
WAS q, 204 tons. giving an average assay o
s2si SO per ton, and producing si,l2S.
u 300 81 In bullion.
At q meeting OF tho miners In Reveiiie
Nye county, the other evening, the &C
ton Of State Senator Andrew Msute in in
o PRODUCING q memorial taxing unpatentet
mines $50 was generally denounced,
: petition was circulated. asking q reconsid
> Grafton OF the memorial.
Inasmuch as our County Jail IL some
. what crowded there being in 1t clever
!. prisoners and only five cells-Sherin stin
son and his deputies are awaiting In due pa
thence the sonvenipg OF the District Conrt
: : 1t Is believed another opium joint could b
: raided, but 10 add q number OF Cninamel
to the already oyercrowded Jail would b
a violating common decency.
Ffremen's Meeting.