Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-05-22
LOCAL AND OTHER JOTs.
scraps from the Notebook Of tIe
gentineIts Reporter.

Yesterdays quotation Of silver, so 98%
Only four more weeks and the public
schools will close.
DR.. schneider's soda fountain was we'll
~patronizsd yesterday.
The Eureka Con. reduction works were
photographed by Monaco day before yes
terday.
Mrs. N. Mccartney has just received
from the East a number Of novelties in the
millinery line.
There will be a Chapter meeting Of st.
| Johns lodge No. s, r. A. M, this evening
at half-past Z o'clock.
Eureka Con. stock carried Its assessment
of 81 q share in good shape, yesterdays
quotation being 50 40.
The new bridge over the Spring-street
ditch in front Of the Episcopal Church is
quite q substantial structure.
Judge Rives, W. E. Griffin and Mr.. and
Mrs. W. j. Townshend are expected in on
this evenings White Pine stage coach.
Hon. Joe Williams. of Hot Creek, came
10 yesterday by private conveyance. He
saws times in Western Nye county are i'm
proving.
Thomas L. Haley, OF Eureka, has quail
fed as B~rigadisr General. an appointment
assigned him on Tuesday last by Governor
Adams.
A Lawn Tennis club will be formed this
afternoon. A meeting OF those interested
will be held at the rink on Spring street Ut
3 o'clock.
A number Of young men OF Eureka are
signing q pledge to abstain from the use
OF tobacco in any form for n year. An
excellent move.
Many people favor economy in the gov
eminent Of county matters. Those who
suffer by it do not. The old, old story Oh
q predominant element in human nature.
Aurora Star: Taking the men at the
mines and mill, including those having
charge OF the works, something over 10
men are employed by the Con. Esmeralda
Company.
Mr.. 7. E. Edwards, OF Taylor, contem-
plates returning to that town tomorrow.
His wife will leave on Monday for Califor-
mia, where she will visit for q month or
six weeks.
The contract let some time ago to sink
the shaft OF the Silver Conner mine to q
depth of $50 feet was completed day before
yesterday, and a new contract was at once
let to run d drift to the ledge.
The organizing OF q Fat Mans club in
town, with Messrs. Cheney, Hsgar and
plated. Gus Hintze applied for member
ship. but was permptorily rejected.
Tickets for the Lodge Drill ball to be
given on the evening OF the 2Sth instant
by the Uniform Rank OF the Knights Of
Pythias are meeting with q ready sale. The
occasion promises to be a grand affair.
A Michigan man found a long lost
brother of his wife by feeding 9 tramp.
This lie q melancholy evidence OF the per-
nicious practice OF feeding tramps, as the
Michigan man has had TO feed him ever
since.
Reno is preparing for a general observ-
ance OF Memorial Day. General Webster
has been selected Marshal, Miss Eva Quaife
will have charge OF the music, and DR.. ii.
II. Hogan and Rev. G. NJ. Spencer will be
the orators.
The candidate for political favors this
Fall ia all smiles. Every one possessing a
vote will shortly receive an agreeable recog-
milton. We are pleased TO know that there
il at times something in this mundane ex-
istence besides death that places sill men
on a common level.
The decision OF the State Supreme Court
on the Fee law was the talk Of The town
yesterday. Inasmuch as only those who
register for general elections can be drawn
as jurors, 1t Is estimated by some that at
least a fifth OF the voting population OF
Eureka county will forfeit their suffrage
this Fall.
A drunken Shoshone made things lively
on Mob Hill yesterday morning, brighten
| ing a number OF women and children. He
was arrested aud taken before Justice Har-
mon, who sentenced him to five days in
the county Jail. A Chinese domestic ere
ated considerable merriment in the court
room by his account OF the drunken H.
diAn's actions.
Postmaster Smith received a letter yes
terday from his wife, who is visiting in
Keokuk, Iowa, in which she said that she
was willing to cut short her visi. and re-
turn at once to Sageland; that she was
tired OF the land OF cyclones and tor,
nadoes, q frightful storm having passed
over that tow only a day or two previous
terrorizing the Inhabitants.