Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-03-06
NEWS OF TIE MORNING.

In New York yesterday Government bonds were
quoted at 1863 for As Of 1907 1o3t for IS of 1887
les for AS; sterling, 81 s5@i IS; silver bars,
1133 silver coin, discount buying, par selling.
SlLyER in London yesterday, sid; consos,
81 1916; per cent. United States bonds, LOG;
IS, 1929 AS 11oI.
IL san Francisco half dollars are quoted at par;
Mexican dollars 30 buying, OH selling.
AT Liverpool yesterday wheat was quoted at los
7d9ls % for average California white, and lis Id
TO lis I'd for club
An assessment Of 30 cents has been levied By the
Zeal del Monte Mining Company.
THE variations in mining values at the Stock Board
in San Francisco yesterday morning were OF little
importance, and correctly given only in fractionsH
The tone Of the market in most cases was weaker,
and there was decline of Toe 75c in the majority
Of the Comstocss
THE sealing season has commenced on the north
ern coast.
THE cold weather still prevails in upper British
Columbia.
MILL and covered bridge burned at Bar Mills, Me.
A VIOLENT gale occurred in Ohio, Indiana and Ken
tucky yesterday morning, doing much damage to
property and causing the loss OF several lives.
Two men We're killed and number wounded at
Watertown, N Y, in an iron NINE
THE Treasury Department Yesterday purchased
I61, 900 ounces of silver.
AUGUSTUS PnoERT accidentally shot and killed
himself on Sandy river, in Oregon, Thursday.
TIE wouldbe assassin of General MehkofT was
executed at St. Petersburg yesterday the presence
Of an immense concOurse of people.
In order to afford Bismarck relief from his ardu-
1ttfia- Gfo1b
be appointed Prussan Premier.
ALL danger of general starvation in Ireland now
seems to have passed
ROGER B. CoNANT was yesterday sentenced at Bos-
ton 70 seven years Imprisonment for embezzlement
a STEAMSHIP from New York to Liverpool lost
overheard seventy head of cattle on the voyage.
THE New York Republican State Committee has
chosen Chester A. Arthur as Chairman
IRoN ore is being shipped from the McCloud
river, near the United States Fishery, to San Fran
cisco.
The evidence is all in at Ukiah in the case of
Brown, one of the Mendoeino outlaws on trial for
murder.
FIRE at San Bernardino
A SHOCK Of earthquake was experienced at San
Bernardino Thursday night.
THE case of the North MONDAY Mining Company
against the Orient Mining Company was concluded
at San Francisco yesterday with verdict for plain
tiff
CHARLES COLBY was hanged at Santa Cruz yester-
terday for the murder of Harry Williams.
FREEMAN GRIFFITH was found frozen to death near
Truckee last evening.
For insulting President Grevy and Waddington,
Paris newspaper has been fined 900 francs
IT is possible that crack French regiment will
visit this country the occasion OF the centennial
celebration of the surrender of Yorktown.
THE winter wheat crop in portions OF Wisconsin
is pronounced a failure
The Chilean fleet has attacked africa. Peru
THERE is at present 100000 worth of gold
bullion in the New York Assay Office.
THE death of Commodore Isaiah Hanscom, u S.
~, is announced from Washington.
AN explosion of damp at East Nanticoke Pa,
yesterday, caused the death of several miners
BY boiler explosion in Glasgow, Scotland, Thurs
day six persons were killed and thirty severely In
iured
THE usual quantity of excellent reading matter,
includug the regular weekly departments, will be
found this morning on the inside pages of the
RE0oRD-USIoN.
In the State Senate yesterday the Article on Reye-
nue and Taxation completed There was a lively
passage at arms between Senators luck and Pardee,
In relation to the passage of Assembly Bill No. 404.
Senator Pardee demanded an investigation, and the
saatter viii be brought before the Senate to-day
In the Assembly yesterday good days work was
accomplished, forty bills on the third reading file
having been disposed Of