Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1885-05-17

Scraps from the Notebook Of she
S~eutiners Reporter.


Mrs. d. W. Levan has recovered from
her late illness.
]. l.. Wines and wife returned from
Elko yesterday.
Regular services will be held in the Gath
olio Church to-day.
Winnemucca does not intend to be
annoyed by Truckee's tramps.
All our fruit and vegetable dealers re-
ceived large stocks by yesterdays train
Doesn't the weather verify the old Meth
odist hymn, that December is as pleasant
as May?
Is 1t not time that something was being
done for the proper observance Of Decors-
ton Day?
Notwithstanding the rainy weather last
evening, the attendance at the roller skat-
ing rink was large.
s. Redlich returned yesterday from San
Francisco, where he has been TO purchase
a stock of Summer clothing.
DR.. Lewis Terry, formerly Of this place,
has removed from Butte City to Anaconda,
Montana, where he is practicing his pro-
~fession.
Several rumors were afoat in town
yesterday concerning changes in q couple
of Government positions here. The rumor,
upon investigation, proved unfounded.
Supt. Williams, Of the Golden Crown
mine at Bernioe, brought into Lovelock
this week eighteen bars of bullion valued
at SIG, 500, the result Of the last run with o
ive-stamp mill.
George Lovelock shipped q carload of
nickel and cobalt ore from the Cotton
wood mines this week, says the Silver
State. The ore, which is shipped to Eu-
rope, is worth about $140 per ton.
The remains of Major Ormsby, who was
killed by the Pyramid Lake Indians, and
those of his widow and her second hus-
band, DR.. Wayman, have been remove
from Carson to Oakland for interment.
Notwithstanding California -four costs
in Eastern Nevada 20 per cent more than
the superior article manufactured at Elko,
yet the troops at Fort McDermit are sup
piled with the former. Something wrong
somewhere.
1t is intimated that the stories Of rich
strikes in Ceur d'Alene are instigated by
the Northern Pacific Railroad in order to
secure the passengers which q rush would
give them. Better visit awhile before you
rush off 80 far from home.
The average printing office devil makes
a good church deacon. The Tuscarora
Times Review lend passes around the plate
a. the M. E.. Church, and, SO far as is
known, has never yet knocked down q
nickel nor overlooked q sleeper.
/ H. W. Huising, OF Cincinnati. who
owns some valuable mining properties in
this district, arrived on the Base Range
e Yesterday with the evident intention OF re-
naming for some time. It is hoped he
will start up work in some OF his mines.
Dan de Quille ia Of the opinion that
quartz lodges are steadily growing and
that the Comstock has not ceased its work.
!, II he could only sprout q few more divi-
dends in likely spots il would be very
thankfully acknowledged just now.
al Nevada wheat and potatoes took the first
,e prize at the New Orleans Exposition. Mr..
l. Sunderland, who recently returned to Reno
from a visit to the Exposition, says that
men were willing to pay 81 apiece for the
potatoes for seed.
rel T. R. MoGurn, who for many years has
run three and four large grocery stores IN
Virginia City and vicinity, has become in-
volved in financial difficulties, and has
d transferred his three stores on the Com
stock to W. j. Hester, one OF his clerks.
Capt. O.. c.. Warner, who has just re.
= turned to Elko from a trip to Railroad
. District, says that the shipment OF ore
from the mines there to Utah for reduction
: will m abont the 10th OF this
month. The intention is TO ship eight car
loads every thirty days.
mi Rev. Bishop Whitaker arrived IN tow
on yesterdays train, and will hold divine
services this morning and evening In the
Episcopal Church. Owing to the present
system Of running trains over the Il. d
P. road be feels Obliged TO leave for the
West tomorrow morning.
At about hall. past 6 O'Clock yesterday
morning snow fell so thick and fast that IL
was impossible to see ahead OF oneself iur-
Their than a hundred feet. 1t Is not oiten
readers of the SENTINEL get items con-
. corning such early occurrences, but tnen-
we'll. it's an ill wind that blows no one
ye good.
y The Austin Reveille, in speaking OF It's
q town getting a tri-weekly mail, MAKES .
mistake when it says that Eureka Is get
IN ting q daily mail with Its blackboard SER
u vice. Owing to the schedule OF time
ID adopted by the E. Il P. railroad anu the
10 blackboard we get mail on only four days
" out of seven.
Winnemucca Silver State Of last Thurs
~ day: Notices we're posted up IN various
places about town last night calling on
{" COL to meet at their old retrea' ~ 10"
= twelve, Friday night, to make arrange
ments to give the tramps. who nave peen
' driven out of Truckee a warm receptioh
should they come this way.
~ Carson Index OF last Wednesday: In
- the Supreme Court yesterday the appeal OF
N George slingerland from Eureka, under
conviction OF grand larceny, was argued py
MI. A. L. Fitzgerald for the prisoner. The
Attorney General was assisted D. MIR. H.
+. Bartine. The case presents nisuy 4
d teresting points Of criminal law and prsc-
" tice.
,e On Monday last M. J.. Farrell, OF Aus
tin. received Q telegram from Governor
!, Adams, saying that he had been appointed
AZ one of the delegates to the Atlanta
y Convention which meets on the 18th, but
owing to the short time allowed him Tor
the trip and the necessary preparations, 1t
Ia impossible for Mr.. Farrell to avail him.
. ualf of the appolntm6nt.