Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-22
THE DAILY REC0RD-UNI0N
NEWS OF TIE MORNING.

NEWS OF THE MORNING.
Ii New York yesterday Government bonds were
quoted at lOz for 4s Of 1907 1887 for IS OF 1881
Io7I for as; sterling, a s39i IS silver bars,
II3l silver cola. discountsbuying, par selling.
SILVER n London yesterday, 81 ZIG; consols,
ss ZIG; per cent. United States bonds, lo5s IS,
1913 AIS, Ill
Ii San Francisco half dollars quoted at par
lars, 90 buying, 961 selling.
AT Liverpool yesterday wheat was quoted at los
Cd to lis Sd for average California white, and lis
I'd to lis I'd for club.
THE election Of officers by the Sierra Nevada Min
ing Company took place yesterday.
CALFoRSIA yesterday reelected the old Board Of
Directors.
MINING stocks were irregular aud weak, as q gen
eral thing, in San Francisco yesterday morning.
Utah was an exception. This stock rose to sIs IS,
gain of 81 25 the best price Tuesday morning,
but on the regular call it fell back to s7 and closed
at 81 G2!. Mexican rose 81 70 ophir 81 50, Crown
Point 81, Belcher 81, and Sierra Nevada 81 80.
After selling dom to ST, Bodie Tuesday evening
rose to s. 70 with sales, but most of the sales on
the informal call yesterday morning we're at S..
GEORGE DRucg was accidentally killed Tuesday,
near Vancouver, ". T.
THE trial by Court-martil of Lieutenant Il. t.
Galley, Second Infantry, is about to commence at
Walla Walla, W. II
REBEccA MONTGOMERY. aged IS, committed suicide
in san Francisco Tuesday night.
JOIN CLIFFORD, lately appointed architect of the
City Hall at Gan Francisco, has resi- yncd his posi-
ton.
THE telegraph lines between Port Townsend and
Seattle, W. T. are still Frustrated.
S. WARD has been arrested at Vancouver, W. T.,
for murder committed in Iowa in 1878
TIE steamer Oregon and barkentine North Bend
in collision yesterday at Astoria, Or, both YES
sells being damaged.
FIRE al Los Banos, MERGED county
EXCEEDINGLY severe weather is reported from the
Cariboo region, the roads being blocked with snow
and the cattle suffering greatly.
CAPTAIN E A. WAEE, formerly an officer of the
British navy, was recently drowned near Nanaimo
THERE IS great restitution among the Chinese in
British Columbia where their employment has
generally been discontinued.
TIE bark California, from San Francisco for De-
parture Bay, went ashore in Dodd's Earrows, sus
tanning some damage.
THE pilot-boat Confidence ran rock and sunk
yesterday while going to sea from San Francisco
The Republican Legislature in Maize yesterday
elected Samuel a. Holbrook State Treasurer.
The earth over coal mine at Mahoney Plain, Pa
is cracking, anu general caving in is apprehended
ANOTHER Cabinet crisis is reported in Mexico
GREAT preparations are making at the City of
Mexico for the entertainment of General Grant and
party.
The work OF surveying the route of the proposed
Isthmus canal has been commenced.
VIOLENT shocks of earthquake are reported in
Salvador, doing great damage and causing much ex-
element.
IT is believed in Panama that Callao, Peru, has
been blockaded by Chilean war vessels.
A RECENT revolt of negroes in the Department of
Chincha, Peru, vas followed by some horrible butch.
cries
Il SERIOUS riot recently occurred in Rio de ia
nero caused by the levy of tax on street-caF pas
sengers.
THE British Royal Academy has resolved to admit
women to membership, subject to certain condi-
tons.
e-A-'N - NN~-NN-ASANN'S
night at osweso, N. Y, engaged in manufacturing
spurious coin.
STATE SENATOR EUGENE L. NoRToN Of Massachu-
sets, died at Boston yesterday morning.
From 20 to 30 lives were lost by colliery explo-
sion yesterday at Newcaste-under- Tyne, Eng.
AT Moosley, Eng, $50 cotton operatives have
been locked out on a strike.
AT Alpine, Col, Monday night, Constable killed
one man and fatally wounded two others, who re-
sisted arrest.
REPRESENTATIVE BERRY left Washington yester-
day for California, called home by the alarming i'll
ness OF his wife.
THE dissatisfied on at Washington over the APP
ments by the President of Census Supervisors
increases.
A B0rLEe explosion in Barretara, La, yesterday
killed three persons and wounded thirteen Others
1T is rumorcd in London that the Peruvian and
Bolivian forces in the province OF Tarapaca sur
rounded by the Chilean troops.
The acreage Of winter wheat sown this year in
Illinois is 25 per cent. greater than last year.
IT is now stated that the National Democratic
Convention will be held at Cincinnati.
THE Panama Rlilroad has declared dividend OF
4 per cent.
FOURTEEN gold mines have been discovered in
Eastern Siberia.
HOLLAND and Poland ave suffering from inunda-
TONS
THE bin for the abolition Q: slavery in Cuba has
been adopted as whole in the Spanish Cortes
IL the State Senate yesterday, among other bills
introduced was Bankrupt Act, and Revenue Act
providing for a tax on incomes over $1,000 The
consideration of tho Stae Prison hill VI, ada tho
special order for Wednesday next a half past
o'clock p. n
IN the Assembly the most of he day was con-
sumed in reconsideration of the question of mile
age.