Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-07-08
NEWS OF TIE MORNING.


In New York yesterday Government bonds were
quoted at 1oSs for As of 1907 1881 for SIS Of 1881
1903 for AS; sterling, 81 s5@4 s7a; silver bars,
n4s; silver coin, discount buying, par selling.
Silver in London yesterday, 52sd; consols,
es ZIG; 5 per cent. United States bonds, 1853 As
1lo7; AS, 1l2l.
In San Francisco half dollars are quoted at par
Mexican dollars, 90 buying, 92l selling.
At Liverpool yesterday wheat was quoted at ss
4da9s lid for good to choice California.
The San Francisco Stock Board convened at II A.
NJ yesterday for the first time since last Friday.
Business opened generally quiet and prices show
bat little change from the quotations prevailing at
the last previous session of the Board. Union Con-
solidated was 81 higher. ophir sold up to IS %,
against So 25 last Friday. Sierra Nevada was 25c
better. The most active stock on the list was Con-
solidated Virginia. the sales of which aggregated
over 001 shares including 800 shares at the close
at 81 60, against s. 40 last Friday
The water is gradually disappearing from the
streets of Portland, Or.
The neWly-eleeted Supreme Court Judges of Ore
gon qualified yesterday and organized.
The prospects for unprecedented yield CT fruit
and grain are excellent in Union county, Oregon.
The attendance at the Oregon State Fair at Salem
continues large.
Near Dunkirk. o., Tuesday, four persons were
killed and four others injured by the explosion OF
the boiler of a steam thrasher
Jacob Kuntz shot and killed his wife at Union
Hill, N. j., yesterday, and committed suicide.
The rowing match at New London, Conn.,, yester.
day, between the crews of Harvard and Columbia
Colleges, was won by the former.
Peace at Buenos Ayres is officially announced.
Frank Chapman was probably fatally injured at
Chico yesterday morning by fall from third
story window.
The Tamm ny and anti Tammany factions of the
Democracy in New York are already quarreling in
regard to a division of the spoils in case of Demo-
cratic success this fall
The United States revenue cutter Thomas Corwin
has arrived safely at Ounalaska from San Fran
cisco.
The French Chamber of Deputies have adopted
the final report of the Committee on Amnesty.
The appointment OF yice-Admiral Lessovski to
command the Pacific feet has been gaz tied at st.
Petersburg.
The bill granting loan for the development OF
the Irish fisheries has been rejected in the British
House of Commons.
The Virginia Readjusters State Convention met at
Richmond yesterday, with 600 delegates in attend
ance
1t begins to look now as though war between Tur-
key and Greece is almost certain.
Land agitation meetings were held in various
parts of the west of Ireland Sunday.
During June English exports, as compared with
June, 1879, increased g. So 344, and the imports
e9,66s,9 l3.
There are now six Russian cruisers in the Pacific,
and it is intended to send six more.
The Pope will not accept the resignation of Car
dinal Nina, Papal Secretary of State.
The Belgian Minister at Rome, after removing the
insignia of the Legation, has left for Brussels.
W. D. Washburne has been renomnated for Con-
gress by the Republicans of the Third Minnesota
District.
The Postcfiee Department has re-established a
postofiice at Stanton, Lake county, California.
The Republicans of the Sixth Mississippi istrict
have nominated John r. Lynch (colored), for Con-
gress.
George H. Clarke, a prominent merchant, died
yesterday at Portland. Oregon.
Chief Moses complains that the Government is
iolating the stipuatons of the treaty between it
and his people.
vigilance committeshas been formed at MERGED.