Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-02-17
NEWS OF TIE MORNING.

Tx New York yesterday Government bonds were
quoted at 1869 for As of 1907 1881 for % Of 1851
1901 for AIS; sterling. 81 e4a4 SCI; silver bars
49,; silver coin. discount buying, par selling.
SILVER in London yesterday, 50 DIG; consols,
es 8-le; per cent. United States bonds, 1853; 4s
lo93; AIS, l11s.
In San Francisco half dollars are quoted at par /;
Mexican dol ars, 20 buying, Gil selling.
AT Liverpool yesterday wheat was quoted at los
3dalos Cd for average California white and los Cd
to lis I'D for club.
MINING stocks opened very quiet in San Francisco
Yesterday morning. There was little show of con-
fdenee and activity at the early informal call but
business developed more sellers than buyers and
operators lost what little hope they had Utah and
Sierra Nevada each 81, but the advance was
frittered away before the close of the call. The
market is simply fat and feless.
A DIVIDEND OF 80 cents has been declared by the
Eureka Consolidated Mining Company.
THE Pioneer Wooden Mills Company OF San Fran
cisco have discharged all their Chinese employees,
the iute company of Oakland following suit.
Is Long valley. Monterey county a ls-year-old
boy persisted in the flames of burning house
A CHSAxAs died at Virginia, New, Saturday, OF
starvation
BY an explosion of boiler at seaforth, Ont, a
building demolished and engineer killed.
RAILWAY train was attacked in Spain Sunday by
brigands, but they driven OF by the guard
SERIOUS complications have arisen between Eng
land and Persia, touching Herat.
TIE Duchess OF Marlborough writes that the dan
ger from famine in ireland now appears over.
Two SUICIDES occurred in Chicago Sunday-pistol
and laudanum.
CHARLES LANE killed his wife at Baabridge Pa,
poisoned his three children, and then committed
suicide.
HEAVY snow-storn prevailed yesterday at Port
land, Or.
JAABs MATTHEWS was killed by falling from the
royal yard of vessel, Sunday, near Astoria, Or.
THE losses to farmers of the United Kingdom dur
ing 1879 are estimated at from elOO, 100000 to
el5O, 600 600
The Pope has issued AN encyclical letter condem-
natory of divorce.
Sgy EEAb chiefs have revolted against King John
of Abyssnia.
THE white steerage passengers of the City OF Pc
king we're released from the quarantine hulk at San
Francisco yesterday. The Chinese must stay.
ELwooD, who shot Penter at Single Springs Sum-
day. has been arrested and is in Jail at Placeryille.
C. W. CARLTON, the slayer of Brummett at Hol-
lister, has been held to answer without bail.
ONE Of the columns in pursuit of Indians in Ari-
iona was compelled to retreat on the sth inst,
losing their rations, etc.
eRKaT eonfagTaton was raging on the LIST inst
a. the capital of the Republic of Salvador
The unemployed Workingmen held another meet
ing in San Francisco yesterday. which addressed
by Mayor Kalloch.
CALEB JOHNSON stabbed and killed Benjamin
Joiner at Mokelumne Hill yesterday.
ENGLAND is to advance Ireland ESQ, 900, instead
of 100000, as originally intended.
wOskx at New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, Yesterday
gave birth to five finely developed children-th
girls and two boys-all doing well.
The Superintendent of Census knows of no legal
reasons why women should not be appointed as
Enumerators.
A desperate, though unsuccessful attempt was
made by the prisoners in the Jail at Cheyenne last
night to escape.
IL the State Senate yesterday very large amount
of business was transacted and the file entirely
cleared.
In the Assembly yesterday. there vas another
noisy scene, which eliminated in the arrest of
member.