Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-05-14
DAILY RECORD
EDNEspAY............. MAY IA, 1884
THIS MORNINGS NEWS.

In New York yesterday Government bonds
were quoted at 1925 for Is of 1907, 1l2ss for AS
sterling. 81 sS@4 90; 1907 for SIS, 100 for 5s !;
silver bars, l1l13
Silver in London, 5o54d; consols, 10l5sd !;
per cent United States bonds, extended, lo5 )
IS, 1859 AS, 11534.
In san Francisco Mexican dollars are quoted
at s9@Sg}s cents
The tone of the general Comstock market i'll
SAN Francisco yesterday was weak, although
Hale & Norcross was better sustained at s. loo
. IL and so was Chollar at 81 25@1 so. Mexi-
can sold as low as 81 GO. Nearly all the others
were slightly lower. The Tuscarora stocks CON
tinued firm, Navajo advancing to s. p. The
Bodies were firmer, with sales of Bodie Consoli-
dated at S. 60 and Mono at s. cents. There viii
be no session of the Board to-day.
The railroad freight-house at Rye Patch, New
was burned yesterday morning, together with
its contents.
The Senate yesterday passed the bill, without
debate or remark, placing General Grant upon
the retired list of the army.
Wizards Hotel Washington, was considera-
bly, damaged yesterday by fire and water.
twenty-five round prize fight, lasting one
hour, took place yesterday about forty miles
from Omaha.
Cyrus H. Mccormick, of reaper and mower
fame, died in Chicago yesterday, seed rs.
The newspapers of Paris are jubilant over the
Franco-Chinese treaty.
Fighting continues in South Africa
1t is said that COnkling and Plat viii support
Blaine in the Chicago Convention
Charles OConor, the famous lawyer, died in
Nantucket, Mass Monday
The Prince of Wales is in Paris incognito.
Russia and Persia are determining Il new
frontier.
Blake Walters, a prominent Pennsylvania
politician, has been arrested, on complaint of
his wife, charged with adultery
The Grand Lodge of California. ]. O. O. F.
convened in annual session at SAN Francisco
yesterday.
A Chinese doctor has filed an application in
New York to practice medicine, on the strength
OF a diploma from the Canton College of Medi-
cine
young African prince, who was being edu-
Gated for missionary, died at Dayton, o. Mon
day.
The lglesias Government in Peru is refused
recognition by France.
One hundred and fifty pounds of nitroglycer-
Inc exploded Monday at Port Colborne Ont
Emperor William has finally consented to
Bismarck's retirement from the Prussian Min
istry.
The bill providing a civil government for
Alaska, having passed the Senate yesterday,
only awaits the Presidents approval to become
4 law
Tom Henry (colored) was murdered by
drunken negroes at Uniontown, Ky. yesterday
The Elevated Short Route Railway was form
ally opened to traffic at Louisville yesterday
The winter wheat outlook in several of the
Western States is a dismal one
The Anti-Monopolist National Convention
will assemble in Chicago to-day
The Supreme Council of the United States.
Knights of Honor, met yesterday in Chicago.
house was destroyed by fire in Nevada City
yesterday, and Il female occupant narrowly
escaped cremation.
In an accident on the Denver and Rio Grande
Railway yesterday. 100 miles east of salt Lake.
an engineer was killed and fireman and
brakeman injured.
A servant girl gave a child in salt Lake box
of morphine pills to play with, and the little
one died soon afterward.
Walter Bradshaw, aged %. fatally shot. his
father in Cambridge Mass. yesterday.