Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-16
NEWS OF TEE MORNING.

liz New York yesterday Government bonds
quoted at lo4l for As of 1907 1899 for IS OF 1851
1913 for dis; sterling, 81 s2l@4 IS silver bars
l1S silver coin, discount buying, par selling
SILVER in London yesterday, 81 SIG; consols,
81 1916; per cent. United States bonds, 1855 4s
1871; As, Ill.
liz San Francisco half dollars are quoted at par;
trade dollars, 95 buying, 961 selling; Mexican dol
lars, e6 buying, 96l selling.
AT Liverpool yesterday wheat was quoted at los
Sd TO lis sd for average California white, and lis
Sd to lis Sd for club
An assessment of 81 per share has been levied by
the Crown Point Mining Company
MINING stocks presented few features of interest
in San Francisco yesterday. The north end stocks,
such as Utah, Sierra Nevada, Union Consolidated,
Mexican and Ophir stood Just about where they did
at the same time Wednesday The middle stocks
were also steady. The south end stocks were lit
tie irregular and somewhat weaker Beleher, after
selling gp to $40 SO Wednesday, fell to 50 Over
man opened at 50, but fell to IS 25 which is 81
lower than Wednesday. Buwer dropped to $40 So
after selling az SI2.
JOSEPH SPENCER was killed by fall Wednesday
night, at Portland, Or.
OSWALD KoTzDABlE unsuccessfuly attempted to
kill himself at Portland Wednesday night.
olNDER from locomotive caused the Canada
Central Railway Company to pay 100000 damages
to a lumber merchant of Toronto.
BULLION in the Bank of England increased ell9 900
the past week
NEW Radical newspaper La J,sstice-made its
appearance in Paris yesterday.
THE Government of the Society Islands proposes
colony except from France.
The Louisiana sugar crop is estimated this year at
-i75,0oO hogsheads, against 2Os,O last year.
SERIOUS quarrel recently occurred at Kalisch,
Poland, between Russian and German officers.
CONSIDERABLE emigration of coored people is
taking place from North Carolina. destined for In
diana.
IT is rumored at Ottawa that recruiting for the
British army will soon begin
The strike of 10000 coal miners in Mons district,
Belgium, has terminated.
THE damage by the recent storm in Washington
county, Oregon, is estimated at not less than S2O
oOO
The death of Edwin H. Shelton, of the First Cav
airy, occurred recently at Canyonville, Or.
PARTICULARS of the recent fight with Indians in
New Mexico are given this morning
A SERIOUS riot occurred Tuesday and Wednesday
at Pesth, Hungary, and many persons were hurt.
SPECIE in the Bank of France decreased 1904, GOO
francs the past week.
EDISON has against another snag in connection
with his electric light.
AT Killarney, Ireland, Wednesday, fifty able bodied
men, with their families, applied for admission to
the workhouse
THE Sutro tunnel made 145 feet last week-the
largest run in the history of that concern.
THE Dismal Swamp canal in Virginia was sold by
auction Yesterday for S275, 900.
THE Treasury Department yesterday purchased
49, 900 ounces of silver for the miHts.
THERE is material chaLge in the position OF
affairs in Maine, both sides still holding out and
each claiming to be right.
GAMBETTA yesterday occupied the Presidential
chair in the French Chamber OF Deputies
IL the Senate yesterday it decided that all
bills shall be read three times at length The Gov
ernor's appointment of homeopathic physician on
the State Board Of Health was confirmed
THE Assembly held long session yesterday, and
among other things resolved to make up a test case
and send to the Supreme Court to test the rule in
regard to reading bill by title.