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LOCAL AND OTHER JOTS. Seraps from the Note-book of the Sentinel's Reporter. Yesterday's quotation of silver, 0.98%. Berg has received a full line of miners' wear. It costs but $10 to get a divorce from a "sealed" wife in Utah. 11 The funeral of Mrs. S. J. Johnson was largely attended yesterday. Don't forget the grand ball at the Opera House this evening. Give the laddies a big turnout. President Freis, of the Eureka Con. Company, came in on yesterday's train from San Francisco. The strikes have apparently settled down to quiet-always excepting the noise of the political strikers. Reno Journal: They say the Republican legislative ticket is in danger in Ormsby, and all on account of Stewart. Lost-A gentleman's gold sleeve button, with three links engraved on it. Finder will be rewarded by leaving it at this office. Judge McKenney, of Austin, after a round of three or four days with the "boys" on the Range, will leave this morning for home. There will be a meeting this evening of the Democratic Central Committee, at I which the candidates are requested to be e present. I At a game of stud-horse poker in Charley Lautenschlager's saloon Wednesday night f one player won $2,000. One of the losers t dropped $1,200. 8 Belmont Courier: Mrs. George Ernst and children and Miss Martha Wunderlich I left for Berkley, California, where they will reside during the Winter. J. V. Keeley, of Pioche, arrived on yesterday's train from an extended visit I through California and to the City of MexI 100 en route home. He expects to leave t on this morning's White Pine stage. I Jacob Pinschower, one of the earliest c settlers of Storey county, going there in a 1861, where he has since resided, $ a died in Virginia City last Sunday morning. He was a native of Posen, Prussia, and I o aged 66 years. 1 The Catholic Fair closed last night after o a successful run of three evenings. The a managers are expected to meet either to. morrow or Saturday and report results, # an account of which will be published in Sunday's SENTINEL. B D. O. Mills has bought & controlling o interest in the Treadwell mine, Alaska, for $400,000. He has also bought an adjoin. ing claim, and intends erecting another f 100-stamp mill and chlorination works. t His investment amounts to $800,000. I Hon. Geo. W. Cassidy spoke to a very t large and enthusiastic audience at Tusca8 rora on Wednesday evening. He is expected to arrive in Eureka on to-morrow afternoon's train and hold forth in the Opera House in the evening. 6 It is said that "Big Jake" Goin, the old 1 gambler and stage driver, whose body was found in a stall in Wilson's at Reno a few e days ago, committed suicide. A paper in E the pocket gave orders for the body to be buried as it was found without any questions. o M Naches, the Piute Chief, took his boy DD to the primary school at Winnemucca I last Monday, and placed him and another e Indian lad in charge of the teacher, Mrs. BD Shepard. He says he wants his children t to be educated by white people, and to grow up like the pale faces. o A certificate from the Comptroller of the Currency, authorizing the First National Bank of Winnemucca to commence business, is published in the Silver State. I The bank has complied with the provisions of the statutes in all particulars, and is now prepared to transact business. Last Sunday morning, at Gardnerville, Douglas county, Peter Melich, a rancher, M stabbed a man named Chris. Can. The men got into a heated political discussion while under the influence of liquor, and I Melich concluded that the most effective argument he could use on Can was steel. There has been a big excitement in Sutro Tunnel shares in New York during the m last few days. On Saturday last over 10,000 shares were sold, the price opening at 12 and rising to 17 cents. The rise was based upon reported ore developments in the Comstook mines which would increase the = revenue of the tunnel. A story is also annt that the control of the tunnel has
