Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-03
NEWS OF THE MORNING.

Ix New York yesterday Government bonds were
quoted 1881 for As OF 1907; 1o9 for IS CT 1881
lo6f for SIS; sterling, "a s1l94 Sal; silver bars
Il35 silver coin, 4ta4 discount.
SILVER in London yesterday, 524; consols,
97I1I6;5 per cent. United States bonds, 1861; Is
1909 AS, 1881
Is San Francisco half dollars are quoted at par !;
trade dollars, 95 buying, 964 selling Mexican dol
fars 96 buying, 961 selling.
Ar Liverpool yesterday wheat was quoted at los
81 to lis 81 for average California white, and lis
Cd to lis 10d for club
MISrG STOCKS opened steady in San Francisco
yesterday morning Utah sold up to $50, and adj
vance OF 81 so. Sierra Nevada rose 81 The bonanza
stocks strong. Confidence rose 81. over1nan
advanced 81 So There was considerable skirmish-
ing in Becher, with sales up to 81 90 the highest
in some time, advance OF 81 90 from the previous
Board. At the Informal session yesterday afternoon
Belcher sold up to 81. Crown Point also took an
upward turn
LAST year was the most prosperous in the history
of Colorado
THE Socialistic Congress adjourned sine die at
Pttsburg Thursday.
GRANT continues to receive receptions in
his progress southwark
WOMAN attempted to murder son OF Senator
Morgan, of Alabama, IN Washington Thursday
A SHERIFF and Constable were MORALLY wounded
at Van Vert, o., Wednesday night, by a man whom
they were endeavoring to arrest.
FIRE at Red Bank, n. J.. also at Fort Wayne,
Ind. and Napa, Cal.
GOVERNOR CORNELL was iuaugurated Thursday at
Albany, N. Y, in the presence of vast concourse
Of citizens
THREE boys drowned Thursday at Alliance,
O., while skating.
DURING the last fortnight the Afghans have lost
5000 men in killed. and wounded
SEARCH for the victims of the Tay bridge disaster
in Scotland has been suspended, on account of the
boisterous weather.
THE famine in Northern Persia is increasing daily
Ex-EMPREss EUGENE will visit Zululand in Feb.
ruary.
ONE was killed and two others severely
injured Thursday night near Napa, by a railroad
train.
De LEssErs received with great warmth on
his arrival at Panama
JOHN HOPKINS, who was injured in a runaway ac
cident at San Francisco, died Thursday night.
rHAw at Victoria, B. c., is causing the ice and
snow to disappear.
The book-keeper of ex-Sheriff Nunan, of San
Francisco, is missing, together with considerable
quantity Of public funds
DURING 1879 the product of precious metals west
of the Missouri river, including British Columbia,
was s. s05,l21 less than in 1878.
IL New York during 1872 400 failures were re-
ported with liabilities OF sl6Ss3, 1872.
PARNELL arrived at New York yesterday, and was
appropriately received
THE country between the yolga and Don, in Rus
STA, is famine-strcken.
CHARLES P. LELAND, {" Hans Breitman," will visit
California in the spring.
FLOOD is causing great damage in Oregon.
AT Ell Monte Los Angeles county, Jesus Bereras,
in attempting to stop row, was shot and killed
SPEoIE in the Bank of France decreased q, 2S5 900
francs the past week.
THE public debt was reduced in December
s4,251,217.
The country around Cabul is now quiet.
QUIET prevailed yesterday at Augusta, Me.
THB Grocers, Bank OF New York suspended pay.
ment yesterday.
READERS of the RECORD UNION will find on the in
side pages OF to-day's paper mu.h to interest and
entertain them.