Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-03-20
NEWS OF THE MORNING.

In New York yesterday Government bonds were
quoted at Io0 for As of 1907 1923 for % ef 1881
1878 for AS; sterling, 81 s5Ia4 SO; silver bars,
IA silver coin, discount buying, par selling
SILVER in London yesterday, sgd; consols,
es 10; 5 per cent. United States bonds, lo5; As,
iosl; as, l1o4
In San Francisco half dollars quoted at par
Mexican dollars, 81 buying, 9lI selling.
AT Liverpool yesterday wheat was quoted at los
7d9l1s 81 for average California white, and lis Cd
to lis 10d for club.
MINING STOCKS were steady in San Francisco yes
terday morning, with slight improvement in most
Comstock descriptions. Union Consolidated adj
vanced 81 from Thursday noon, and several other
kinds were from 1Oc to 75c higher. limited guam
tty of Eureka Consolidated sold at the early infor
NAL call at $40 to SO so, the same as Thursday
evening, gain of 81 over the price the 17th
THE workmen in Tunnel No. 8, South Pacific
Coast Railway, have met.
The sentence OF Cannon the agitator, was yester-
day postponed in the San Francisco Police Court
until to-day.
A NUMBER of the bondsmen of Shaber, Treasurer
OF San Francisco, have withdrawn from his bond.
JOHN MCCLURE was stabbed dangerously Thursday
night at wheatland, Or.
THE President has nominated Bret Harte to be
Consul at Glasgow.
PARsoN, the Avon murderer, was hanged at
Rochester, n. Y, yesterday.
The cigarmaker8' strike at Cincinnati has ended,
after lasting four weeks.
A RAILROAD is to be built from Bismarck, D. T.,
to the Black Hills distance OF $50 miles.
The negro laborers are on strike in st. Charles
parish La
The distress in the famine districts of Ireland is
deepening daily.
CYRUS W. FIELD has resigned the Presidency Of
the Wabash Railroad Company.
CHARLES ADAMS, of Colorado, has been nominated
to be Minister Resident and Consul. General at Bo-
livia
FIRE at Penn Van, N Y; also at Lower Cascades
Or.
Two gran-laden propellers have arrived at Toledo,
o., the earliest grain arrivals known at that port.
ALEXANDER STEWART, of Cavendish, Vt, is making
vigorous effort to obtain some OF the money left
by the late Il. T. Stewart.
TEE English House of Commons adjourned yes
day until the oath instant
THE Secretary of the Territory OF Arizona has been
arrested for violating the revenue law.
RAIN and snow prevailed at New York yesterday.
A FULL report of the speech of Senator Paul Neu-
man. on the Gorley BILL" appears in our columns
this morning.
In the State Senate yesterday the whole day was
taken up in reading and amending the so-called Nc
Clure charter BILL
THE Parks bill was again before the Assembly, but
was not finally disposed Of In the evening the wo.
man suffrage bill was considered.
TIE matter contained in the inside pages of to-
days RBcoRD-UNIos will be found unusually inter-
estng and valuable. On the second page is given
the usual agricultural department, letter from San
Francisco, g The sQuiet Hour letter from New
York, poetry, etc. Third page Continuation of
Farjeon's storyof Set in Silver Sea- and letter
from Paris. Sixth page-Neumann's speech on the
Gorley bill, and a weekly review OF the San Fran
cisco markets. Seventh page-Poetry and Notes on
House 0rnamentation.