Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-05-13
THIS MORNINGS NEWS.

In New York Government bonds quoted at
1905 for IS of 1907; 1854 for as; lOls for SITS;
sterling, q ss94 eOl; silver bars, ll4s.
sAssV in London, Sid consols, 1Ol 15-l6d; per
cent Uuited States bonds, extended, 1o4 As, l23
is, III.
In Sa Francisco half dollar quoted a. / dis
EQUINE to par Mexican dollars 91ia92 cents.
Mining stocks were rather quiet in San Fran
cisco yesterday morning, for the most part. An
attempt made at the early informal call to get
up little enthusiasm in the north-end Comstocks,
but 1t was not attended with much success.
Cherokee City, small town In Kansas, has been
demolished by cyclone.
shipherd will testify again next week in the Pc
ruvian Company investigation.
Rains prevailed throughout the Western States
yesterday.
ILL.,. yesterday.
Snow fell in Iowa yesterday to depth of four to
six inches.
The Republican State Convention of Illinois will
be held June 2sth.
Freshets are causing great damage in portions of
Indiana.
Zachariah Anderson, Swede, was and
cut to pieces by train at San Francisco yesterday
The ship Ericsson is ashore at Hanaimo, B. c.,
with full cargo Of coal
A steamship from Hongkong brought to Victoria,
B. c., Yesterday, 952 Chinese.
Edmund W. kingsland, Treasurer Of savings
bank at Jersey City shot himself yesterday, causing
. run upon the institution.
An excursion train OF Missouri editors met with
an accident on the Missouri Pacific Railroad yester
day, and though badly scared, none Of the excur
sionists were hurt.
Minister Sargent has arrived at Berlin.
Owing to the distress in certain provinces, all
foreign breadstus will be received in Spain for
year free Of duty.
tornado in Louisiana yesterday caused great
damage to property and killed several persons
At Maurpeas Island, La, boy aged II years was
beaten to death by his father and mother
The number of fatalities in the cyclone at Meal
lister, Tex is now given at 81 and the injured 40.
During the past week III business failures oc.
Cured in the United States.
Iroquois, the famous racer, has ruPtured blood.
vessel.
An Italian and his wife. the parents Of four child
rem, have become insane at Grass Valley, and will
be sent to the Asylum.
At oranienbaum, Russia, yesterday, thirty-six
houses were destroyed by fire.
The steamer Manila has been wrecked of st. John,
Porto Rico, but no lives were lost.
The Custom house at New Orleans WAS yesterday
destroyed by fire to the amount Of $4,000.
The Grand Lodge of Washington Territory, 1. o.
O. F., adjourned at wala Walla yesterday.
A fire at Esquimalt B. c., yesterday, destroyed
property to the value of $4,000.
The Democrats at San Francisco fred 100 guns
last night in honor of the signing Of the Chinese
bill.
G. w. Dunster Justice of the Peace, made an
unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide near
Truckee LAST evening.
Fountain W. George has been sentenced at Des
Moines, Ia, to be hanged August TO- 1885, for kill
ing DIR. Epps.
The Captain of the British steamer Glenelg has
been arrested at Astoria, Or for carrying too many
passengers
But ninety miles OF track-laying remains to be
done in Texas to make the through connection be-
tween San Francisco and New orlesns.
The thermometer registered 95' at Tucson, A. T,
yesterday.
The United States Senate yesterday passed the
Court of Appeals bill, and the House passed the
Geneva Award bill.
The brief Of Attorney. General Hart, hled in the
ease Of The People We. A. H. Chapman, involving
the constitutionality Of the Act giving the State
Prison Directors 500 per month and mileage fees,
will be found this morning upon the eighth page
Especial attention is directed to the inside pages
Of to-day's RECORD UNION. The eighteenth "Agri-
cultural Paper" the department Of 1.-THE Quiet
Hour" poetry, etc, are given upon the second
rape JTnon the third mage will he found notices nj
recent publications and an interesting story
titled jacobs Insurance" The sixth page con-
tains letter from Kate Heath, portrait Of Hon.
John N. Francis Charge dAfaires to Portugal, and
other matters The seventh page Is taken up by
the regular Agricultural" department, review
of the San Francisco market etc.