Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-12-18

scrap from the Notebook Of she
6~emtImeI,s Reporter.
Yesterdays quotation OF silver, s1.O1

semtineI's Reporter.
Yesterdays quotation OF silver, S1.O1
Are we to have any amusement
Christmas?
j. Vanderlieth left yesterday for a visit
to California.
Hard characters and petty criminals
keep the Los Angeles courts busy.
Several members Of the Legislature else,
are arranging their business to go to Car.
son.
Paul Boyton, the swimmer, ia raising
1000 men in New York to go TO Mexico or
Central America.
The weather yesterday was very pleas.
ant-what the EASTERN people would call
q regular January thaw.
A man about to hang in Wisconsin, as
| his last speech, said: "Just think of il |
In q minute wha. a lot l shall knowl"
Dav. e. Baily, Esq, left yesterday for
San Francisco, but will round up at Car
son about the time the Legislature con-
venes.
A man has invented q chair that can be
adjusted to 800 different positions. 1t is
designed for a boy to sit in when he goes
to church.
A subscription is already started for q
bronze monument to ex-President Arthur.
The first day it circulated S42, 900 was
subscribed.
The sale OF Abadie's personal property
continues from day to day, and from pres
ent appearances is likely TO continue for
some time yet.
Eureka will be we'll represented at Car
son when the Legislature meets. We
should like to know why so many out
siders are going there.
1t is said that q man who won't take a
paper because he can borrow one has in
vented a machine which he can cook his
dinner by the smoke of his neighbours
chimney.
After the 1st of next month the whole
will be necessary to have the seals OF all
the courts changed, so as to comply with
tho new law.
Three white girls have already eloped
with Indians since Buffalo Bills show has
been in New York. Is Eastern female
taste changing, or has the supply of Chi
namen run out?
From Sacramento comes the story OF o
bride won at q game of poker between her
admirers, she willing, and the loser to act
as best man at the marriage. Three skies
won the willing bride.
In New York, it ia said that $50, 900 chill.
dren visit saloons with pitchers to procure
liquor every two hours Of every week day.
The evil is to be controlled by revoking
the licenses Of the sellers.
Large shipments OF gold were made yes
terday from the Bank Of England to New
York. II the latter would use more of the
surplus silver, there would be no need u
drawing gold from London.
Mosby lectures in Boston, and is enter
tanned at a champagne dinner by several
Ysnks whom he took prisoners and thought
of hanging during the late uneasiness.
Men and brothers, the war is over.
Wells, Fargo d Co., yesterday shipped
seven bars of Richmond bullion, valued
at SIG, 800 OF; three bars OF Eureka Con.
bullion, valued at 81, 054 83. and two bars
of passing bullion. valued at 81 900.
Thomas Bird, who was on trial in San
Francisco for shooting his sweetheart, has
been discharged on the strength of evil
dence that the shooting was tai.
The unfortunate girl has no redress for
being filled full Of Bird shot.
Jane Calhoun, aged 166 years, lives in
Ulster county, Now York. Her husband
built with his own hands the house in
which she lives for her to enter as a bride
in 1899, and since then she has never lived
in any other. A homely woman.