Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-02-21
NEWS OF THE MORNING.

In New York yesterday Government bonds were
quoted at 1865 for As of 1907 1895 for Of 1851;
100 for rs; sterling, 81 s44@4 81; silver bars,
1l8 silver coin, discount buying, par selling
SILVER in London yesterday, SD; consols
es S-16; per cent. United States bonds, 1853
4s 1893 AS, 100.
In san Francisco half dollars are quoted at par;
Mexican doll lrs 20 buying. 81! selling.
AT Liverpool yesterday wheat was quoted at los
6d91s ID for average California white, and lis Id
to lis Cd for club
MINING STOCKS were quiet in San Francisco yester-
day morning. Values continue steady. Union Con
soidated fell off ST. but only 100 shares were sold in
the regular Board. Beleh,r was frmer and more
active.
1T is again reported from Glasgow that diamonds
are successfully made there.
GREAT excitement prevailed at Santa Cruz yester-
day in regard to the non-execution OF Colby, who
was to have been hanged for the murder of Harry
Williams.
CATTLE and horses are still dying Of cold and
starvation in British Columbia, and the whole coun-
try is alarmed at the situation.
A RUSH Of miners to the skagit gold fields has
commenced through British Columbia.
THE steamer Colima for Panama. yesterday took
IS cabin passengers and 95 in the steerage-an in
crease OF 80 per cent the previous average list
THIRTY SIX mines were yesterday stricken from
the list OF the San Francisco Stock Board account
of the non-payment of dues and other causes.
An unknown man was run over and killed yester-
day at Watts Station, on the So them Pacific Rail
road.
BY fall from derrick at West Oakland yester-
day, Mr.. Partridge was probably fatally injured
PoNERoY CoLLEY has been appointed Governor of
Natal.
The boring of the St. Gothard tunnel will be fin
ished in twelve days.
THE President has nominated Rowland E. Trow-
bridge, of Michigan, to be Commissioner of Indian
Affairs
Rev. EDWARD CowIEY, late Manager of the Shep
herds Fold, in New York. was yesterday sentenced
to year in the State Prison and $3.50 fine
FIRE at Atlantic, Ia; also at Derby, Pa.
By railroad accident near Belare, o., Thursday
night, 80 passengers were injured, some fatally.
GENERAL LoNGsrREEr pronouuees for Grant over
all other candidates.
TIE total number of persons killed by the Winter
Palace explosion at St. Petersburg is ten.
ANOTHER msurgent plot has been discovered in
Cuba.
THE Marysville Wooden Mills have closed, throw
ing about seventy persons out OF employment
PLMsoLL apologized in the British House of Com
mons yesterday for the language contained in his
recent handful.
WILLIAM FULLER was accidentally killed on Thurs
day at Stockton, UtNh.
A CAVE in a tunnel has stopped all railroad COM
munication between Grass Valley and Nevada City.
EIGHT or ten persons are dying daily at Rio de
-yaneiro from yellow fever.
THE Prussian Diet has been adjourned by royal
order.
Ar Valparaiso recently twenty persons were killed
by an explosion of shells in the arsenal.
The unemployed Worlingmen will again parade
In San Francisco to day.
THE Dominion House at Ottawa yesterday voted
100000 for the Irish relief fund.
AT Murfreesboro, Tenn, yesterday, Burnell Smith
and John Hall we're hanged in the presence of TO-
900 to IL, 600 people.
IT has been decided at Washington not to furnish
New Mexico and Colorado with any troops.
THE net earnings of the Illinois Central Railroad
during 1879 were $, 2O7,764
WILLIAM TERRILL, aged 70, killed Adam Ferrin,
also aged 70 years DID, yesterday, at Corinth Vt,
and then cut his throat.
GENERAL GRANT and party arrived at Vera Cruz on
the 18th instant, after a smooth voyage.
HoRRIFYISG occurred at fire in New
York last night
In the State Senate yesterday several bills were
read second time any many bills were intro
inced but the greater part of the day taken up
IN the consideration of the insolvency bill.
THE usual quantity OF valuable and entertaining
reading matter will be found by our readers the
inside pages of the RECORD UNION this morning.