Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1885-11-20
LOCAL JOTS.
Scraps from h Notebook OF th'
sentinePs Reporter.

Heavy rain last night.
silver-S1 OH @s1 OPS.
A heavy snowstorm is predicted.
Entertainments about town are scarce.
There are 80 physicians and SO attorneys
in Butte.
Engage your Sunday girl for the ball on
Thanksgiving evening.
The demand for wood ia better thar was
expected by the dealers.
Don McNicol and W. J. Townshend lefl
yesterday morning for Taylor.
The Postoffce bookstore has all the new
monthlies and pictorial papers.
The wind continued to blow, as they say
in Old Virginia. fright smart" yesterday.
Emma Nevada will sing In the Methodist
| Church at Austin on Sunday, December 6.
Blackleg is said TO have made its ap.
| pearance among cattle in Reese River VAL
ley.
Look out for sneak thieves about your
house. They are becoming numerous and
i%mpudent.
Humboldt's taxes this year amounted TO
$50. 102 n, OF which less than ST. 800 are
delinquent.
The universal sentiment Of the State ap.
pears to be. a Nevada man for the United
States Senate.
A torrent of Water rushed down Poverty
gulch last night.
A child's gold chain and locket were lost
yesterday, for which Mrs. Berg will pay q
reward Of So 30.
Where are all those progressive euchre
parties that we heard of some six weeks
ago as going to take place shortly?
The assessment OF 80 cents per share
levied by the Chollar Mining Company will
be delinquent in the board tomorrow.
For a while yesterday it looked as though
we were to get no telegraphic news. but
the wires were finally got in working
shape.
John s. Cspron yesterday sold the
Sohwamb residence On Mob Hill to A. L..
Fitzgerald, Esq. We did not learn the
price paid.
Several pieces OF property were yester-
day sold in front of the Courthouse by
Sheriff Stinson, among them the Red Bird
Con. mine and three ranches.
A gentleman who came in from Secret
Canyon yesterday, informs us that a rich
and extensive strike has just been made in
the Geddes & Bertrand mine at that place.
Reno Journal: Among the Trustees ap-
pointed by Gov. Stanford appears the
name OF "Wm. M. Stewart, OF Nevada"
Ali Do coming events cast their shadows
before?
A spooney young married couple in Car
son nearly broke up q show the other
night. Their gushing attentions proved q
greater attraction than the regular adver-
tised show.
o. K. Stampley has been appointed q
gauger in the Internal Revenue Depart
ment at San Francisco, vics J. McCracken.
Mr.. Stsmpley was formerly q prominent
resident Of this State.
Good shipments of ore continue to DE
made from the Silver Conner mine to the
Richmond reduction works. It is probable
that another 81 900. dividend will be de-
clared on December l..
The following are employed by the Man
haitian Company at Austin: Surface men
on days pay. 81; miners on days pay, 8;
miners on contract, 6: miners on lease, so;
miners on tribute, 1877; total, 243.
The Carson Appeal says that Senator
Tall HhS WTltteu u letter 70 u T6sluent OF
that city, stating that the Mint will be re.
opened January /, 1886, and the erection
OF the new Government building will begin
in March.
Hon. Thomas Wren came in from Mt.
Hope yesterday, where he is doing his ut
most to develop some promising mines.
He has some eight or ten men at work
there, and in one of the properties the
prospects for a good ore body are said to be
fattering.
The parents OF children in town are
considerably exercised yesterday over
the report OF several cases Of scarlet fever.
A SENTINEL reporter investigated the mat
ter and found no we'll developed case. There
are. however, two or three cases OF scarlet
rash, which are not considered at all
alarming.
Some Of the papers Of the State have,
with considerable sarcasm, spoken of
James G. Blaine probably coming for
ward as a successor to Senator Fair as q rep.
resenative of Nevada in the United States
Senate. Mr.. Blaine is really more entitled
to the seat than some who have been men
toned as candidates. He has interests In
three mines in Eastern Nevada.