Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-08-04
NEWS OF TIE MORNING.

In New York yesterday Government bonds were
quoted at 1921 for As of 1907; 1925 for IS of 1881
III for As; sterling, 81 s3@4 IS; silver bars,
Hal silver coin, discount buying, par selling.
Silver in London yesterday, 81 13l6d consols,
81 1915; per cent. United States bonds, 1866 As
us; AIS, 114s
In San Francisco half dollars are quoted at par
Mexican dollars, 81 buying, 9ll selling.
At Liverpool yesterday wheat was quoted at 9s
lOdalos Id for good to choice California
Mining stocks were generally in better favor at
San Francisco yesterday morning. On Monday,
August I'd, prices reached lower level than for
some time, Sierra Nevada selling down to S. rs,
Union Consolidated at SIS 80 and Ophir at Sc so
Yesterday no Sierra Nevada could be had under
50 62 and most OF the sales at 50 S7l to so.
The lowest price for Union Consolidated was s1s so,
and considerable was sold at $50 to 81 rs, closing
at the extreme figure Other Comstock shares sym
pathized in the improvement.
a. Funcke, OF San Francisco, died OF heart dis
ease at Hardin Springs Monday.
4 12-year-old boy killed near Kingsbury,
Fresno county, by being thrown from horse.
C. Van Dorseu was yesterday sentenced at Yreka
to % years in the State Prison for killing -
Sylvester.
The proprietors of the Albany (or.), Herald have
been arrested on charge of libel.
The contemplated marriage of Baroness Burdett
Coutts recently denied is again positively asserted
by London journal.
During the past week specie IN the Imperial Bank
of Germany decreased 100000 marks
Cinnamon suicided at Virginia, New, yesterday
Edward F. Schroeder who killed Dr. Lefevre was
yesterday held to answer in the Oakland Police
Court without bail.
Details of the blowing up of Chilean transport
in Callao Bay given in dispatches this
ing.
R. Graham Frost has been nominated for Con-
gress by the Democrats of the Third Missouri Dis.
triet.
Tanner is now in the thirty seventh day of his
fast.
Gladstone's condition is said to be improving.
In the recent French elections the Gambettsts
seem to have been victorious.
Annapolis, Nova Scotia, was visited yesterday by
disastrous confagration.
The Clericals have won in the Italian elections
The Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel
Workers of the United States is in Convention at
Pttsburg, Pa.
Turkish war vessels have left Constantinople for
the Albanian coast
Six thousand iron miners in Lanarkshire, Scot
land are about to strike.
Lieutenant Gorringe is soon to have grand Ma
sonic reception in New York.
The New York Aldermen have decided to drown
vagrant cats.
Balbo, the Italian murderer, is to be hanged in
New York Friday
John S. Gray has been appointed Secretary of the
State Board of Harbor Commissioners.
During the year ending June So 1880, Canadians
to the number of 1859 emigrated to the United
States with the intention of becoming permanent
residents.
Representative oConnor has been renominated
for Congress by the Democrats Of the Second south
Carolina District
The Republican Convention at Carlisle, Pa, yes
terday nominated Prof. Charles j. Little, of Dickin
son College, for Congress
Roswell C. Horr was renominated for Congress
yesterday by the Republicans of the Eighth Michi-
gan District.
A rich strike is reported from the Jupiter mine at
Bodie
The municipal election at Portsmouth, N. H., yes
terday, resulted in 6 Republican victory.
General Garfield left his home in Ohio Yesterday
for New York.
The Republicans of the Ninth Congressional lis
riet of Michigan have renomuated J. A. Hubbell.
The Gar Of Russia has authorized the formation
OF Il hotilla of revenue cutters in the Baltic.
Ferdinand N. shurtleff has been appointed Col
lector of Customs at Portland, Oregon.
monument is to be erected in Mount Auburn
Cemetery, Boston. in memory Of Charlotte Cush.
man.
The Michigan salt wells. during the eight months
ending July Slst produced ,49S, 4Gl barrels.
a fire at St. Louis last night DESTROYED property
to the amount Of ss5, 900 Or $4,000.