Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-07-09
NEWS OF THE MORNING.

In New York yesterday Government bonds were
quoted at 1881 for As of 1907 1893 for 5s Of 1881
loe5 for AS; sterling, s. s5@4 ST.; silver bars,
I4s; silver coin, / discount buying, par selling.
Silver in London yesterday, 81 9-l6d; consols,
% 7-ie; per cent. United States bonds, 1861 As
I10s; as, 112i.
In San Francisco half dollars are quoted at par
Mexican dollars 90 buying, 92k selling.
At Liverpool yesterday wheat was quoted at ss
5d@9s I'D for good to choice California.
Stocks were weak IN San Francisco yesterday
There was average decline of 81 per share from
Wednesday in Utah. Sierra Nevada and Union Con.
soldated. The decline in other Comstock descriP
tons varied from 1oc to 75c per share.
Encouraging reports are received from the har
vest fields OF the great Northwest.
The catch of seals during the season at Neah Bay
". T., was 6,26S.
The census will give Cook county, Illinois, tive
more Congressman.
$4,000.
DR.. Tanner has entered upon the eleventh day OF
his great fast at New York
The loss by fire at Lee 4 Murdock's mill, Eas
Douglass, Massachusetts, the other day, reached
$4,000.
The cengratulatory dispatch purporting to hayt
been sent from Cardinal MaCloskey to General Han
cock is declared by the former to be a forgery.
Near Cascade village, Virginia, yesterday, negr,
shot and killed white man.
In a shooting ARRAY at Denver, Colorado, Weines
day, one of the participants was fatally, and tht
other slightly wounded.
Tire of T,rnpa
James NJ. Adams has been appointed Receiver o
Public Moneys at Yakima, W.. T.
A condemned murderer at Cincinnati mistook {
fellow prisoner for a reporter, and made an ugl,
assault upon him.
Colonel Pelton, the notorious nephew of ex-Gov
ernor Tden, died in New York yesterday.
Joseph W miner committed suicide yesterday q
Woodland while in an intoxicated condition.
Lorillard's Iroquois won the Chesterfield stakes
yesterday at Newmarket, Eng.
The Cars acht Livadia was successfully launched
at Glasgow, Scotland, Wednesday.
The dory Little Western, from Gloucester. Mass
for London, spoken June 30th.
A sad condition OF affairs exists in Russia.
Feniansm is said to be engrafted on the Irish land
agitation.
The Sheriff OF ormsby county, Nevada, is missing,
together with some of the public funds.
The losses from the break in the Mississippi levee
on the Illinois side of the river will aggregate $780,
oo0
The Irish National Republican Convention viii
meet July 14th at Indianapolis
The population Of st. Paul, Mimi, is 4l,619-ar
increase Of los per cent. in ten years.
Horace B. Strait has been nominated for Congress
by the Republicans of the Second Minnesota Dis
trict.
Two children were burned to death yesterday neal
Franconia, MINI.
Leadville, Col, is 10 have free letter delivery
service after August 1st.
The Hoosier State Touring mills at Indianapoli:
were damaged by fire yesterday to the extent O
$4,000
The Seventh Wisconsin District Republicans have
renominated 81. L. Humphrey for Congress-
The issues of postage stamps, stamped envelope
and postal cards by the Postofiee Department TO
the fiscal year ending June Both amounted to s32,
100000.
For the weekly list of letters stock quotations
market report, etc, see last age.