Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-04-05
NEWS OF TIE MORNING.

liz New York Saturday Government bonds were
roted At 1C63 for As OF 1907; 1885, for IS of 1885,
100 for AS; sterling, 81 s54@4 6s1; silver bars,
ia. silver coin, discount buying, par selling.
SILVER in London Saturday, 52Id; consols,
oss lG; per cent United States bonds, 1o54; As,
1851 AS, Ill
In San Francisco half dollars quoted at par;
Mexican dollars, 81 buying, 9ll selling.
AT Liverpool Saturday wheat quoted at los
lod for good TO choice California.
MINING sTocks generally weak in San Fran
cisco Saturday morning. Union Consolidated fell
to S3l The lowest price in the break Friday morn
ing was s32 80. The best price Saturday was
sSS %. Sierra Nevada was fully 81 off. Utah rose
81 So Ophlr was 81 lower.
SERIOUS accident occurred on the Southern Pa
cifc Railroad Friday night near Cabason.
A PRIzE-FIGHT took place near Colfax Saturday,
which was finished in eleven rounds.
SHEEP and hogs are perishing by the score in
upper Willamette valley, Oregon, under the effects
of the late severe weather
THE mining excitement in Southern Arizona is
growing greater every day.
GENERAL GRANT was invested with the title OF
Duke of America by the Carnival Court at New Or
leans Saturday.
EXECUTIONS for murder and rape took place Friday
in Washington Cd. CO. Windsor Vt.), Louisville
(Ky.), Baton Rouge Qa.), Macon (Miss.) and Win
chester CKy)
FIRES occurred Friday at Troy On. ", Bradford
pa, Cincinnati (O.) and Silver Lake Qa.)
SEVERAL plantations have been inundated by a
break in the levee en- the lower Mississippi river
join swISrox declines the nomination for Pres
dent rendered him by the National Labor party.
BY the breaking of a scafold at Lansingburg, n
Y, ten men were preeipitated into the river, dis
lance of forty-seven feet.
AT Los Vegas, y. NJ, two desperadoes, in attempt
ing to rescue a prisoner, shot and fatally wounded
the jailer
THE freight-handlers Of the Chicago, milwaukee,
and St. Paul Railroad at Chicago have struck for al
advance of wages.
MRS HOLLOWAY and her oneyear-old child was
burned to death Frilay Silver Lake. Ia
Four men we're severely injured at Buffalo satur-
day by the explosion of boiler
An Apache band attacked the village of San Jose,
n NJ but we're driven off by soldiers and Mexicans.
ROBERT BUTLER has been convicted at Bradford,
Pa, of the murder of his brother.
CHICAGO dispatch announces the opening OF
lake navigation
Ii the Parliamentary elections in England the
Liberals have gained 5S seats and lost H. while the
Home Rulers show gain of three seats.
CHINESE troops have crossed the eastern Russian
frontier at ASSURE, south of Amoor.
In some places in Nova Scotia snow is ten feet
deep and in the streets of Halifax it is three to four
feet deep.
1T is proposed to construct tunnels under the st.
Lawrence river at Montreal.
THE Chilean ironclad Huascar is bombarding
AREA, Peru, three hours daily.
SEVERAL thousand men in the building trade at
Liverpool have struck against reduction in their
wages.
THE Egyptian troops have been defeated in
Somauli, in Berberah.
The King of Abyssinia is marching against King
Menelek of Thoa.
SERIOUS charges have been preferred at Washing
ton against Judge Charles Silent, of the Supreme
Court OF Arizona.
THE British Columbia Parliament will be opened
to-day at Victoria.
NJ v TRACY was shot and killed by his father
near Ord Valley Nebraska, in mistake for robber.
A CYCLONE in Kansas did great damage to prop
erty, and caused the loss of several lives.
THE Anglo-American cable is broken.
An earthquake occurred at Maysville, Me-, yester-
day morning.
THE Judge who assaulted ex-Secretary Delano has
been sentenced at Washington thirty days in Jail
and fine of 81, 900.
NEIL HANNAH killed his wife, Johanna, and her
paramour, Frank Olsen, in Mendocno county, yes
terday morning, with
ONE of the buildings of the Penitentiary, at
Columbus, o., was destroyed by fire yesterday.
BOILER explosion near Rushville, H., Saturday,
killed one man, injured three others and demolished
a sawmill.
A NUMBER of bills were returned approved in
the State Senate Saturday.
THE Senate Normal School bill was amended by
the Assembly Saturday, and will come up again to-
day