Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-08-02
NEWS OF TEE MORNING.


In New York saturday Government bonds were
quoted at Joy for Is Of 1907; 1899 for 6s Of 1881
nIl for as; sterling, 81 s2@4 S. silver bars,
usi silver coin, discount buying, Par selling.
Silver in London Saturday. So 13-16d consola,
os I-ie per cent. United States bonds, 1o5.; As
1l2i; As, 1las
In San Francisco half dollars quoted at par
Mexican dollars, 81 buying, sls selling.
AT Liverpool Saturday wheat was quoted at ss
Iod@10s 4d for good to choice California.
Mining stocks we're still weaker in San Francisco
Saturday. The decline was the most radical OF any
day during the week, andivaues in some cases were
lower after the Board than in the Board. The fol-
lowing sales made after adjournment: Utah
81 20, Sierra Nevada $40 25, Union Consolidated
sl7 Is, Mexican SO so, Consolidated Virginia 81 Co.
Hale Norcross 81 CO. Potosi 81 so, Bullion 81 go,
Belcher 81 rs and Yellow Jacket 50 80.
The full text of General Hancock's letter to Gen
era Sherman, written December IS, 1876, in regard
TO the electoral difficulty, is given this morning.
s. Z. Smith has mysteriousy disappeared from
Eapa.
n. A. Chandler killed himself Friday night at Eu-
reka. New.
Burglary at Phoenix, a. T.
The catte-raisers of New Mexico are seeking the
protection Of the Government.
The list of awards to United States exhibitors at
Sydney Is published in our dispatches of Saturday
Crop reports from Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota,
Dakota and Michigan are received.
Workmen in the building line are in great de-
mand at Chicago.
Mrs. a. I. Stewart is to endow college at Car
H. II u r,
Co.,
The Bank of Colorado at Denver has been at
taehed on check of $500.
Important successes have recently been gained by
the Russians ever the Turcomans
Kansas has population of 1,OO9,oOO.
Princess Louise and Prince leopold have left for
England.
Civil war is imminent at Pekin, China.
wagners Theater at Beyruth. Germany, was
much damaged by fire on the 10Th of July.
two-cent daily paper has been started at st.
Louis.
General Garfield will visit New York on the 9Th
The census shows that Des Moines is the most
populous city in Iowa
The notorious Bender murderers of Kansas are
said to be in custody in Nebraska
]. H. Graham fired five shots at Miles Finlen Satur-
day night at Virginia. New, none of which took ef-
feet
The testimony in the Oakland case being ell in,
argument of counsel was begun at O'Clock Satur-
day, and continued until midnight when the Court
adjourned, the.Ju &c reservng his decision.
Secretary Schurz left San Francisco for Yosemite
yesterday.
No disturbance occurred at the San Francisco
Lot
we're held
The funeral Of E. J. Lockwood, of the Appeat,
took place at Marysville yesterday and largely
attended.
Fire al Brockton Massachusetts.
Dr. Tanner entered upon the thirty-6fth day of
his fast in New York. yesterday at noon.
Max Burckhsrdt editor of a German weekly
paper, sucided in San Francisco, yesterday, with
morphine
A Rio de Janeirc dispatch announces the robbery
of the bank of the province at Porto Allegro OF
$4,000.
Advices from Bueuos Ayres state that the rebels
are still holding cut at Dolores.
In a collision between the British steamer Harter
and an Italian bark, the latter was sunk but no
lives were lost.
Gladstone is suffering from congestion of the LETT
lung.
Railroad trains are now running regularly into
Leadvlle, Col.
In the Fifth Ohio District the Republicans have
nominated W. X. Boone fer Congress.
At Balltown, Ky. Friday Benjamin johnson f.
tally shot Turner Weson at political meeting
Fifteen hundred freight cars, almost all loaded
with grain, passed Poughkeepse, N Y, Saturday
the heaviest one days shipment since the Hudson
River Railroad was built.