Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-05-18
THIS MORNINGS NEWS.

In New York Government bonds are quoted al
40; for IS Of 1907; l15s for SIS; 10ls for Sts !;
sterling, 81 sSa4 e0I; silver bars, ll4f.
Silver In London, SID consols, lo2 l-l6d; s per
cent. United States bonds, extended, I64 Is, ls3
as lie.
In sa Francisco half dol'ars are quoted at dis
count to par Mexican dollars 9lIa92 cents
Mining stocks were quite active in San Francisco
yesterday morning, bat the movement emanated
from the holding interest. As a result, there was
general breakdown in prices
Great damage has been done to vines and fruits
IN Santa Cruz county by frost
At Belfast, Lassen c,unty, Tuesday, John Smith
was killed and F. W. Stevens badly injured BY a
ewing bank.
james Smith was found dead yesterday at VIII
m'uston, Los Angeles county
The President yesterday sent to the Senate the
name Of Samuel W. Backus, TO be Postmaster at San
Francisco; also William H. Brown, TO be United
States Surveyor-General for the district of Cali.
iornia
During the ten months ending April Soth, 544 500
foreign immigrants arrived in tho United States.
The recent rich mineral discovery near Laramie
City, Wyoming, is causing great excitement
Considerable damage is reported in northern Mis-.
sssippi from frost.
Payne and party the invaders Of Indian Territory,
have been seized by the United States authorities
mob at Martins Parish, La, took murderer
from jail and banged him TO the limb Of tree and
then caught negro charged with murder and sus.
pended him from the same limb
Convention Of the State Sabbath school Asso.
citation is in session at Stockton.
Great scarcity Of cattle prevails in portions Of
Wisconsin, and a beef famine is feared
Anton Schemauper killed his wife at Hancock
Mich, Tuesday, and then committed suicide.
The steamer Rio Grande, laden with cotton, has
arrived at Delaware Breakwater with her cargo on
fire, and will be scuttled and sunk
Apheus W. Wilson, of Baltimore, has been elected
Bishop of the General Conference of the NJ. E
Church South, at Nashville.
A II year-old girl persisted in the flames Of burn
ing house near orland, Colusa county, yesterday
morning, and woman and baby were badly injured
Joseph Thompson, brakeman, was run over and
killed at kojave, on the Southern Pacific Railroad
Monday night
Lieutenant Danenhower and party arrived at
Hull, England, yesterday. in good health.
The village Of Marceite, France, has been de
stroyed by fire, rendering $50 people homeless.
shipherd appeared before the Foreign Relations
Committee again yesterday in the Peruvian Com
pSny matter but refused to furnish required papers
and was discharged.
Blaine declares that he does not intend to become
a candidate for Congress from Maine
-Four tramps robbed and killed negro near Col
linsville, Ill., Sunday night. and put his body on the
railroad track xVhe RIM over NV train
The affairs Of the Industrial School are being in
vestigateds by the San Francisco Board of Super
visors.
Tho Garfield House, home for working girls, has
been formally opened by United States Minister
Lowell.
fire ut DayisyfIIe, Yolo county, yesterday morn.
ing. caused loss Of about 81, 600.
The trial OF officer John Moroney for assault to
murder attorney D. J. Murphy, was begun in San
Francisco yesterday.
At Waterloo, Quebec. yesterday, slOO,0 worth
OF property was destroyed by fire.
John Plate was accidentally killed in mine at
Tombstone, A. t yesterday.
The body Of Jack Hanscome, who was drowned
last fall in Bonner lake, recovered yesterday.
There is no new mystery at wheatand.
1t is reported from wrangel that there has been
fighting at Harrisburg between two parties of white
men, and that two or three had been killed.
Charles Noonan was found drowned yesterday at
Est Portland, Or.
Moses A. Grinnell, an octogenarian, has been
fund guilty Of murder at Newport, R. l.
The death Of Claudon, the French journalist and
novelist, is announced from Paris
The remains of Ex-Governor Washburne laid in
state yesterday at Ia Crosse, Wis, and the funeral
viii take place to-day.
Trouble with the Mescalero Apaches is inevitable,
unless the Government provides means to prevent
them from suffering for want of food
The estate of Ralph Waldo Emerson is estimated
TO be worth 800, 900.
The New York detectives are still watching the
steamers from Europe, in hopes of catching the
Dublin assassins.
In the suit Of the municipality OF Marseilles
agairst exEmpress Eugene, verdict has been rem
dered in favor Of the latter.
There is no change in the situation on board the
quarantined steamer Altonower at San Francisco
the smallpox continuing to develop rapidly and the
Chinese still showing mutinous disposition.