Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-02-19
NEWS OF THE MORNING.

In New York yesterday Government bonds were
quoted at lo7 for As of 1907; 1895 for IS OF 1881
1901 for AIS; sterling, "a s4@4 ss1 silver bars,
1Isl: silver coin. discount buying, par selling
SILVER in London yesterday, sgd; consols
es 5-lGa9s 7-16; per cent. United States bonds
1O55; As, 1903 AS, 1102.
In San Francisco half dollars are quoted at par !;
Mexican dol ars, 30 buying, OIL selling.
AT Liverpool yesterday wheat was quoted at los
Sda10s 10d for average California white and los led
to lis I'd for club.
MINING STOCKS were again dull and lower in San
Francisco yesterday morning. Utah shows decline
of 81, Sierra Nevada 81 SO, Mexican 81 so, ophir
81 So and other Comstock descriptions from 1Oc to
75c per share.
r. BARSELL, prominent citizen of Napa county,
and an ex-member of both Senate and Assembly,
died at Napa yesterday.
CowLEY, manager of the Shepherds Fold in New
York, was yesterday convicted of starving and
cruelty treating children
WALKING MATCH has been arranged between
o'Leary and Weston to take place at San Francisco
in March.
Is Chinese row near collegeville, San joaquin
county, of participants received fatal wounds
SARAH WISSEMUcoA has been arrested at Lovelocks
New, for sending challenge to fight duel.
Bessie Turner, the famous BeecherTiton wit
ness, has abandoned the stage and married
THE mine exploded under the Cars Winter Pal
at St Petersburg was filed with dynamite and
gun cotton.
JAsEs LENoS, founder of the Lenox Library in
New York, is dead.
THE election in Philadelphia, Tuesday resulted in
the choice of Is Republicans, Democrats and I In
dependent. The Select and Common Council are
both strongly Republican.
The unprecedentedly cold weather in Dakota is
greatly interfering with the traffic the Northern
Pacific Railroad
THE town of Osceola, H., has been almost entirely
swept away by freshet.
A HOUSE was blown down at Cincinnati yesterday,
burying an entire family beneath the debris and
killing an infant.
MARTIN L. CoUK has been sentenced at Deadwood,
D. T., to be hanged April 10th, for the murder OF
Mrs. Minnie E. Callison.
THE Oregon Republican State Convention is in
session at Salem.
THE 81 dive ordinance in San Francisco has been
declared unconstitutional by the Superior Court
Judges.
The Russian army of invasion against the Turco-
mans is to be commanded by General Skobeloff
In the State Senate yesterday the Railroad Com
mlssoners bill perfected and ordered engrossed
The Normal School bill postponed until to-day.
In the Assembly large number of Code bills
taken up and disposed of.
A PERRIER was found dead at Los Angeles yester-
day, having evidently been murdered.
THE earnings of the Union Pacific Railroad for
January show gam of S16SOO0.
A DISCOVERY of perpetual motion is said to have
been made in Ohio
FIRE ut Terre Haute, Ird.
MORE hopeful reports are received regarding the
situation in Ireland.
ANOTHER surrender of insurgents is reported from
Havana.
F. II. Bowen suicided at Dubuque, Ia, yesterday,
by holding his head in pail of water.
The New York Greenback State Convention will
meet at Albany March oath.
THE law abolshing slavery IN Cuba was promul-
gated at Madrid yesterday.
DAMAGING foods prevail in several provinces of
Snain