Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-04-17
NEWS OF THE MORNING.

liz New York yesterday Government bonds were
quoted at 1909 for As of 1907 1OSg for 5s of 1881
lOss for AS; sterling, "a s594 IS; silver bars,
11S1 silver coin, discount buying, par selling.
SILVER in London yesterday, 51sd; consols
es 1916; per cent. United States bonds lo52 IS
1901 as, III. a
In San Francisco half dollars are quoS at par
Mexican dollars, d buying, 911 selling.
AT Liverpool yesterday wheat was quoted at los
5da10s lid for good to choice Califor ia.
DIVIDEND has been declared by the Eureka Con-
solidated Mining Company of so cents per share.
MINING stocks in San Francisco yesterday morn
ing were weak, and all Comstock shares were lower
Compared with the rates Thursday noon, Sierra
Nevada declined 81, Union Consolidated g, and
other kinds from sc to 75c. Best Belcher opened
at s12 so, but fel to S1l %, with fair sales.
THE man killed near Niles Station Monday by a
train has been identified as Thomas Nash Of Sar
Francisco.
HENRY SNYDER and Adam Elliott have been ar
rested in Ventura county, charged with the murder
OF Michael Brannan.
WILLIAM STEWART, a brakeman, fatally in
jured near Niles Station yesterday by a train
THE forest fires in New Jersey continue to rage.
AT VhOnJEOSej "a, IHufsudy mdSoH Nllsol
was shot and instantly killed by Fred. Warren.
THREE men, woman and little girl were seriously
injured near Silver Cliff, Col, Wednesday, in
stage accident.
The Greenville and Columbia (S c. Railroad ha
been sold for s2,963, 400.
GRANT was heartily welcomed at Little Rock, Ark
THE Army bill has passed a third reading il
the German Reichstag.
a COLLECTION is to be taken up in Ireland to de
fray Parnelrs election expenses.
THE gavel used at the Republican National Con
vention viii be made from piece of oak from
Abraham Lincoln's residence at Springfield, H.
J. S. WRIGHT, recently elected to the British Par
lament, fell dead yesterday at Birmingham, Eng.
THE floating debt of the Cuban treasury april LIST
amounted to 113, OO0, 600 pezetas
THE new German ambassador, Baron Won Rode
witt, has arrived at Paris.
YESTERDAYS storm on the Sierra Nevada exceeded
all others of the season in severity A graphic ac
count is given in our coast dispatches
ALTHOUGH his physician holds out hopes of re-
covery, Gortchakof is convinced that he will die.
PARYEIL was granted the freedom of the city yes
terday at Cork.
THE distress in Ireland is increasing.
THE Ameership of Afghanistan is formally claimed
by Abdur Rahman Khan.
In was reported in San Francisco last evening that
the giant powder works at West Berkeley had
blown up.
HEREAFTER two regular passenger trains will run
between San Francisco and Tucson, on the Southern
Pacific Railroad.
THE bar-rooms at Fredericton, N. B. have been
closed, owing to a recent decision of the Supreme
Court.
DAMAGING forest fires prevail in the wilderness
region of Virginia
The Secretary of the Treasury has received $780,
900 for the conscience fund from New York, labeled
income tax"
DR.. KESEA1Y, of the Tiehborne case fame, is
dead.
THE Vermont Greenback State Convention will be
held at Waterbury, May 18th.
IT is denied from Memphis that there is any yell
low fever there.
THE Treasury Department has decided to resume
coinage at the Carson Mint.
QUEEN VICTORIA left Brussels Yesterday for Flush
ing.
AT Mexico, Mo-, yesterday, two mulattoes were
hanged for murder.
The steamer Vega, with Professor Nordenskjold
on board, has arrived at Copenhagen
Elk EMPRESS Eugene has arrived at Cape Town,
South Africa.
Born Houses Of the State Legislature adjourned
sine die last night at Il o'clock