Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-01-01

scraps from the Notebook Of the
SentfneI's Reporter.

Yesterdays quotation OF silver, 81 GA.
Make your good resolutions for 1886 to.
day.
A number Of our merchants are taking
stock.
Diphtheris 10 still prevalent In Salt
Take City.
A masquerade ball is billed for tonight
at Palisade.
Dav. E. Baily, Esq, came in from Car
son yesterday.
Sunday hours will be observed at the
Postoffice to-day.
With this issue the SENTINEL enters
upon its 32d volume.
Hay in Austin is worth from SIS to
s2Oa ton. barley $50 and wheat $40 per ton.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. l.. Wines returned
home yesterday from a visit TO Cali
fornia.
Most citizens will either blow their
whistles or wet them in honor OF the
new year.
There have been three divorces and the
same number OF marriages in Carlin dur
ing the past year.
Senator Fair will leave San Francisco
early next week for Wash ington to take
his seat in Congress.
The ore in the California mine still holds
out we'll. and regular shipments are being
made 10 the furnaces.
In she District Court in and for Eu-
reka county. during the year 1885, As
suits were instituted.
It has not been learned positively yet
il the Jeffreys Lewis combination will
visit Eureka this month.
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has been completed on the Mountain
View mine, Prospect Mountain.
The Eureka County Bank will be
closed to-day; also the Office OF Wells,
Fargo Il Co. after 10 o'clock A. M.
There ia a fine prospect in the Metallic
mine. Page Canyon, Secret Canyon Dis
trict, and the ground is splendid for work
ing.
Messrs. Williams and Tysck are trying
their luck in the Bald Eagle mine. There
is nothing in sight, but the prospects are
good.
Charles Rudeue and James Bergman
have q fine streak OF ore in the Conten-
ton mine. Prge Canyon. Secret Canyon
District.
The Town Talk says that II is almost
q certainty that mining operations will
continue throughout the Winter, as
usual, at Butte.
A very useful and prettily illustrated
Annual fox the year 1886 has been pub
lished from the Office OF the Reno State
Journal. Thanks tor q copy.
Uhl. the grooeryman, received yester-
day 100 dressed chickens, the average
weight OF which is -four pounds. He is
retailing them for so cents each.
The Reno Journal says that Pyramid 10
not dead. but only sleeping. Vigorous
operations will be resumed nextSpring. and
every effort made to reduce the ore.
The Easter term OF Bishop Whitsker's
Reno school for girls will begin Thursday,
January 7. at 10 o'clock. Tuition in Pre-
psratory Department. 81 per month.
The Governor has recently appointed
William Mooney. the pioneer livery stable
mar Of the Comstock. as Judge Advocate
on his staff with the title of Colonel.
1t la reported That Mrs. Dean. Of Cortez,
has made a sale OF 100 head of six and
eight year old for $40 per head. The cat
lie were a prime lot. Beef is looking up.
Speaking OF the mining situation at the
Norcross. the Virginia Chronicle says:
There ia no change in the situation at the
mine TO warrant 30 disastrous q tumble In
the value of shares"
E. j. Parkinson, OF the Carson Tribune,
writes from the Arkansas Hot Springs
that he Ia rapidly improving, n now
believes that he will soon be as we'll as
ever. Glad to know 10.
Patrick Linehsn. the Virginia City
policeman, who MORALLY wounded Daniel
Delaney a short time since. has been
placed under S., 900 bonds to await the
action OF the Grand Jurv-
An exchange remarks that cowboys
seldom marry. They can stand the ex-
pense of q $50 hat, q 500 saddle, and a
Sl6 spur, but when you come to pile on
the expense OF q bonnet, IL Is too much.
The Eureka Con. furnace will not be
closed down to-day, as announced. J.
countermanding order, we understand,
was received at this end Of the line the
other day from the office in San Francisco.
Fulton Lindsey. of the Reno marble
works. came in on yesterdays train and
expects to remain on the Base Range for
a week or ten days. In the meantime
he will be busy erecting tombstones In
our several burial grounds.
During the year 1885 % marriage
licenses were issued by the Clerk OF this
county, and by the District Court In and
for Eureka county four DEGREES of d.
vorce were granted, one case was dis
missed and three are pending.
Mr.. Percy, the barber in Matt Schatz-
lein's establishment, won the silk quilt
Wednesday night, and not W. j. Tonkin, as
stated. Our informant got the result
mixed by Mr.. Tonkin holding ticket 40
and Mr.. Percy throwing that number.
While none Of the ladies of the town
sent us notices for publication. announc-
ing that they will keep open houses to-day.
vet we understand many OF them have
said they would be happy TO receive those
OF their friends who may call.
Eager eyes are turned towards the
Geddes niue. Secret Canyon. What ia to
be done during the Winter has not been
made public, bat it is we'll known that il
the mill is not started up in the Spring, 1t
will not be for the want Of plenty OF ore