Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-03-29
THIS MORNINGS NEWS.

In New York yesterday Government bonds were
quoted at 1893 for As OF 1907, 1lS3 for AS sterling,
81 ss94 9Ot 1913 for 3s. 100 for 5s; silver bars,
1Ilh.
Silver in London, 5O3l; consos, lt2 l6d; 5
per cent. United States bonds, extended, los; As,
1-6; AIS ll5l.
In San Francisco Mexican dollars are quoted at
s73@ss cents.
There was moderate business in stocks at San
Francisco yesterday morning, and prices showed
but little change, though generally higher than
Thursday. The levying Of so cent assessment on
Alta was awaited of by the insiders to make a show
of business by advancing the price from 81 so to
81 60 in steps of half dime at time. At the close
it dropped back to 81 As
falling wall at Cincinnati yesterday buried
several men under the debris, ki ling one.
1t is rrmored in London that Khartoum has fallen.
The occupation of Alloy, China, is being discussed
by the French in TOnquin.
Lady Colin Campbell has been granted divorce
from her husband the youngest son of the Duke Of
Argyle
The fourth and youngest son OF Queen Victoria,
Prince Leopold, died suddenly yesterday at Cannes.
Berlin newspapers assert that Sargent declines to
accept the appointment of Minister TO St Peters
burg
Danger Of damage from broken dam is inlmi-
nent at Dover, n. II.
Two hundred and seventy work house emigrants
have been shipped from Glasgow for Boston on one
steamer.
The United States man-of-war Lancaster has ar
rived at Alexandria, Egypt.
Republican delegates to the Pennsylvania Repub
lican State Convention being instructed to sup
port Blaine for President.
Burton Greeley, the self-confessed stage robber
was sentenced at San Andreas yesterday to five
years imprisonment
Charles Stewart Parne has purchased his grand
fathers estate at Burlington, n. J.
A fatal sheep disease has broken out in the vicin'
ity of New Comerstown, o.
In Chicago yesterday 10000 bushels of wheat
we're bought for export.
Damaging earthquakes occurred in Agram and
Slavonia Thursday.
The fantest whisper of conversation can nov be
heard by telephone betweea Boston and New York.
The German Rechstag adjourned yesterday for
the Easter vacation.
Catholic Pleuary Council will convene in Balti-
more November 9th.
The semi-annual meeting of the Womens Home
Missionary Association is in session at Boston.
Three train robbers were arrested in Chicago
Thursday.
Mcdowell, the murderer Of Maggie oBrien, was
hanged at San Bernariino yesterday.
Thomas Bennett was caved on and seriously in
jured at the Providence mine, near Nevada City,
yesterday.
Fire at Memphis, Tenn; loss, $4,000.
The Grand Lodge, A o. I. w, will convene at
San Francisco April LIST.
David Picken dropped dead of heart disease at
Salt Lake yesterday
serious riot occurred in Cincinnati last night
Both houses of Congress adjourned yesterday
until Monday.
Leslie Lavender, aged 16, shot and dangerously
wounded Alexander Owens and his wife near Lynch
burg, Va.
A Chinaman was run over by train near Phoenix,
Or, yesterday, and killed.
Fire in Portland, Or; loss, g, 900.
The postoffice at Lindale, Modoc county, Cal, has
Seen discontinued.
An ice gorge at St. Paul, MINI, yesterday, did
considerable damage.
Shaeffer has accepted Slosson's challenge to
match game OF billiards and selects Chicago as the
place for the contest.