Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-02-09
SIX-PAGE EDITION
NEWS OF THE MORNING.

In New York Saturday Government bonds were
uuoted at 1851 for As OF 1907; loS for IS of 1881
1881 for AIS; sterling, 81 e34@4 SO; silver bars,
1lsI silver coin, discount buying, par selling.
SILVER in London Saturday, 52!; consols,
o. 1916; per cent United States bonds, lo54 As,
los! as 11ls.
trade dollars. IS buying, 96I selling; Mexican dol.
lars, 80 buying, e6l selling.
AT Liverpool Saturday wheat quoted at los
@l0s 81 for average California white, and los Sd
to lis Id for club.
THERE was fair demand for mining stocks in San
Francisco Saturday morning, and prices toler-
ably well sustained. Utah from si2 62l to S14,
and Sierra Nevada from So TO S2i Beeher rose 81
per share, but in all other cases the advance was
from 10 to 10 cents in those stocks showing an ap-
probation, and corresponding decline in those
showing depreciation
No appointment to succeed Indian Commissioner
Hayt has yet been determined upon.
THE investigation in regard to the colored exodus
from the South is still in progress at Washington.
ExPoRrABLE wheat in Australia and New Zealand
this year viii aggregate 81, 900 tons.
THE District of Columbia Republican Convention
has selected John F. Cook and sayles J. Bowen as
delegates'to the National Convention at Chicago.
The United States last year sent to Europe 1,5eO,-
600 hides
THE combined length Of new railroads pojected
in this country during 1880 will be 9,0co miles.
sILvEe mine has recently been discovered in
Garrett county, Maryland.
TIE lead mines near PhGnixyille, Pa, idle for
% years, are now being worked.
ALL the iron mines in New Jersey are being
worked thoroughly
SHAvAUx one OF the Ute q war chiefs, fayors the
policy OF Secretary Schurz.
BOLD robbery of bank occurred at Knoxville
H., Saturday night.
ELEVEN children escaped from the Deborah Nur-
sery in New York. Saturday night, and are still at
large.
AT Palestine, Tex. Saturday, John Kerr was shot
dead by Kirk Hage.
DAVID STANTON, of England, is now the champion
bicyclist of the United States.
TIE Supreme Court of Georgia has denied a new
trial to Cox, who murdered Colonel Aston.
THREE veteran bankers died in New York Satur
day.
Ar Newcastle, Del, Saturday, two white and three
colored culprits were publicly whipped
THE funeral of ex-Secretary of the Navy Borie
took place at Philadelphia Saturday.
Tbs Temps of Paris severely blames che American
Congress for its hospitality to the Irish agtator
Parnell.
THE death of General Arthur Jules NORM is an
nounced from Paris.
Two more arrests have been made at Lucan, Ont.
in connection with the Donnelly massacre.
AT Cheney's Cove New Brunswick Saturday, two
men and two women were drowned by the upsetttne
of boat.
An amendment to the Constitution has been
adopted ty the Iowa House of Representatives
making women eligible as members of the LeSis
la;ure.
THE Duchess OF Marlborough fund for the RELIEF
Of the Irish now amounts to e40,733.
GREAT scarcity Of food prevails in Jellalabad, Al
ghanstan.
RUPTURE is said to be imminent between Chile
and the Argentine Confederation.
IL the State Senate Saturday the file was gone
through and several very long bills were read. Nc
discussions of imp rtance took place.
MARTIN king fell 100 feet in mining shaft at
Bodie, Saturday, killing him instantly.
An explosion of giant powder at Ward, New,
killed one man and injured three others.
JAMES W. CLAYTON, for fourteen years Clerk in the
House OF Representatives. died at Baltimore yester
day.
Mrs. SARAH DuLNeHAM was probably fatally
wounded Saturday, near Londonderry, n. H., by hei
nephew Frank.
TIE Irish residents of San Francisco have decided
to have no parade on st. Patrick's Day, but to sc
up an entertainment the proceeds of which t.
be devoted to the relief of the sufferers in ireland
IN the Assembly there was contest over Mr.
Del valles amendment to the rules requiring tn
House to meet at 9:3o, and to give preference t,
certain measures, but it was finally adopted.
a rwo-PAeE supplement is issued with to-day
EcoRD-UNIoy, containing matter which will b.
found interesting by our readers.
For dispatches of Saturday, domestIcand foreign
see fourth page.