Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1885-12-25
LOCAL JOTs.
Scraps from she Notebook Of II
sentinePs Reporter.

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sentinePs Reporter.
Merry Christmas.
Another storm is evidently brewing.
Yesterdays quotation Of silver, 81 O2N
Don't forget the Catholic services to.
day.
There are SO wards In the State Orphans
Home.
The frightful tin horn is again heard In
| the land.
There is q proposition to organize q G..
| A. r. Post at Elko.
Oats sold yesterday on Main street for
$40 a ton and barley for S42 80.
Sam Davis has issued q book containing
o number Of his best sketches and poems.
The lead market is in q strong condition,
and ia very encouraging to our lead miners.
The streets were thronged last evening
with people making purchases Of Christmas
good things.
Tho prices of diamonds have fallen In
London from SIS to SO per karat. Lord,
what q loss is ours.
On Wednesday last the public schools
closed for the term, and the vacation will
continue until January 4.
Elko Independent: A party from Eureka
10 about TO open out a stock of dry goods
In the old Bank building.
While you are enjoying the good things
to-day see that the poor children are not
neglected. Make them happy, too.
Mrs. A. L. Fitzgerald returned y~ester-
day from a visit to her mother, Mrs. Major
Mccoy. Shasta county, California.
The Suniower Social Club will give a
grand masquerade ball on Thursday even
ing, January IA. See advertisement.
Well, what did you get in your stockings
this morning? just az 500 as be got out
OF bed the editor Of the SENTINEL got q pair
OF No. So in his.
Battle Mountain Central Nevadan: It Ia
rumored that there is 0 movement 70 g.
tablish . daily stage line between this
point and Austin.
A dispatch received yesterday states that
Governor Adams health Ia fast improving
and that he may be expected home from
San Francisco at an early date.
An ordinance ia TO be shortly submitted
to the Board OF Commissioners Of Storey
county for passage TO compel the early
SaOoAd6 va ooicOu5 III FAA6ihtb Sitys
The Mother Hubbard ball last night al
the Stone saloon was largely attended, and
the scene Of hilarity usual on such CO.
casions was particularly noticeable TO q
looker.cn.
Mrs. Mary A. Robbins. q former resi-
dent Of Carson. CT years OF age. committed
suicide 10 Esst Oakland, CAL, last Thurs
day by s~trangling herself with q piece Of
linen.
We understand that at least two OF the
good women OF Eureka remembered the
poor OF the town last evening to the ex-
tent that they each sent to poor families
in Poverty Gulch q basketful OF eatables-
enough TO supply said families for a couple
Of days.
On Saturday evening as the Y. d T. ex-
press was pulling into the station at Reno
John McGsskill attempted to cross the
track in front OF the locomotive. just as he
gained the platform he was caught by the
pilot and sustained injuries from which he
died Sunday morning.
The anti Chinese feeling has reached
Winnemuccs, according to the following
from the Silver State: Pat Haney, of the
Depot Hotel, has discharged his Chinese
cooks and hired white men in their places.
He thinks the Chinese should go, and will
do all he can to start them.
The office OF Justice of the Peace at Rye
Patch Is in doubt. John Borland was
elected as successor to Frank Dorman but
died before taking the Office. Mr.. Dor
man thinks he went out Of Office when his
term expired, but others think that he
holds until his successor qualities.
A highwaymsn stood up q printer In
Virginia City the other night and found In
bis pockets a printers rule, q few leads. q
broken key and she handle OF q pocket
knife minus the blade. The highwsymsn
was so disguised that he gave the Eanipu-
lator of types just n second to get out
OF sight.