Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-05-01
LOCAL AND OTHER JOrs.
Scraps from the Notebook Of th,
Sentiners Reporter.

SentfnePs Reporter.
House cleaning is the order OF the day
Yesterdays quotation Of silver, 81 00k
Fancy dress and lawn party at the Stone
saloon this evening.
Considerable dead" work is being
done in the Richmond mine.
Strawberries are late this season. The
first crop in California was destroyed.
Herman Bellinger has been appointed
as School Census Marshal for this district.
The annual Spring round-ups have com.
4 menced and stockmen are busy on the
ranges.
The ore shipments to the two reduction
works In town have been quite numerous
the past week.
Miles Goodman, the newly.appointed
| Postmaster Of Virginia City. will assume
| the duties of the Office to-day.
The Board of Commissioners will meet
| on Monday. Pass in your bills against
| the county to Clerk Andre to-day.
Hon. A. G. Cleveland and W. N. Nc.
Gill, two OF White Pines best citizens,
came in yesterday by private conveyance.
Messrs. Baker & Wines, A. E. Cheney,
r. Sadler. Charles Mckenzie and Charles
Gibson returned from Hamilton last even
ing.
Mrs. Charles Provost, who has been
visiting her mother and sister in San
Francisco for six weeks, Is expected in on
this afternoons train.
The interior OF the Truckee Concert
Hall has been thoroughly renovated. pa
pered and painted. 1t is now one of the
cosiest resorts in town.
Thomas Trainer has purchased the large
vacant lot Immediately south Of the resi-
dence OF D. W. Levan on Spring street,
and will shortly erect thereon q sabstan-
tial and neat cottage.
1t ia said that the Eureka Con. Company
will have added to their reduction works
another furnace within 80 days, which
will be used solely for the working of the
speiss in their dumps.
According 10 the official count made
April 20 by the State Board OF Examiners,
there was S293, 1888 SO in gold coin and
vouchers. and $793, 900 State School fund
bonds in the State Treasury.
The ore bins at the Richmond reduction
works are full, and for the present no ore
Is being shipped down from the compsny's
mine. II is probable two OF the furnaces
will be fred up about May 20.
The Bodie Free Press says: One would
think a first. class combination of cholera,
yellow fever and smallpox would he hailed
with delight by Virginia City as q stand
off to the bestial epidemic now raging
there.
Parties 10 from Hamilton last night say
the case in progress there against Edward
CrntchIey. who is accused OF the murder
OF John Hewlett, near Cherry Greek. last
Monday, looks as though it will result in a
conviction.
We noticed yesterday that Louis Brandt
was examining and putting in order the
fire plugs Of the town. He ia an old Sac
ramento fireman and fully understands his
business, and wears the badge OF an ex-
empt fireman Of the above mentioned city.
Levy is the right man in the right place.
The lead market East, instead OF show
ing signs OF greater animation, on the
contrary weskens more and more, and
dealings are confined TO small lots at about
4.55 cents for refined, aud 4.50 to 4.52%
cents for The demand is ex-
tremely light. and prices are almost nom
insl. This state OF affairs is principally
due to the still unsettled labor troubles.