Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-02-19
NEWS OF THE MORNING.

In New York yesterday Government bonds
were quoted at l221 for is of 1907; 1929 fer as
sterling, 81 s4a4 s71@; 1917 for S. silver bars,
1861
Silver in London, 49d; consols, GOD; per
cent. United States bonds, extended, los; As,
1855; 41as. 1152s.
In San Francisco Mexican dollars quoted
at SS934t9S4 cents
duh and sloppy feeling peTvaded the min
ing share market in San Francisco yesterday.
There was small decline in the middle Com
stocks, and the weakness extended throughout
the entire list, business being confined TO small
traders.
The departure of the Guards from England
for suakim took place yesterday
An iron mine and furnace have closed down
in Rockbridge county, Virginia, throwing ,2e0
men out Of employment
Over 1000 tickets were sold for the Dickens
carnival in Boston Tuesday night.
strike of coal miners is threatened in Mans
field valley, Pennsylvania.
The French residents of Shanghai have been
placed under Russian protection.
The weather has greatly moderated in the
East.
One ballot was taken in the Illinois Legis-
lature yesterday for United States Senator,
which resulted in no choice.
Daniel Drake wound up a spree in Los Angeles
Tuesday night by taking a fatal dose of strych-
nine.
A fire in Bisbee, A. T., yesterday morning,
destroyed the entire business portion of the
town
Fire near Cheyenne, Wyoming; loss, $4,000
Mrs Mark Hopkins is said to have several
millions liz Government bonds loaned out in
Wall street.
In attempting to serve wrlts of attachment at
Marysyille Tex, Constable was killed and a
deputy wounded.
a strange series of accidents at funeral
occurred Tuesday at Wesleyville, Pa.
The death of Captain Oliver Cults, shipmaster
and merchant, is announced from New York.
The United States Senate yesterday passed the
antiforeign contract labor bill by ayes A. 10.
A bridge is TO be built across the Willamette
river between Portland and East Portland, Or.
The bill to extend suffrage to women has been
rejected by the local House at Victoria, B. C.
The Senatorial deadlock in the Oregon Legis-
lature remains unbroken and the session closes
tomorrow night.
The next reunion of the Oregon Pioneers will
be held at Oregon City June 18th.
The missing propeller Michigan is ce-bound
in the lake twenty-.hree miles west of South
Haven, Mich.
Hon. Morton E Post is strongly recommended
for the position OF Governor of Wyoming Ter
ritory
Three vessels were burned at Memphis yes
terday, two of them steamers loaded with con
ton.
The obsequies of the dead musician, DR.. Leo
pold Damrosch, took place at New York yester-
day in the Metropolitan Opera House.
The United States Senate yesterday confirmed
The nomination of Emery speer as United States
District Judge of the Southern District OF
Georgia.
The eighteenth annual encampment of the
Department Of California, G, a. r., convened in
San Francisco yesterday.
1t is reported from Rome that Cardinal Jaco-
bini, Papal Secretary OF State, has resigned.
Great anxiety prevails at the War Office in
London about Colonel Buffers force at Gubat
The House Committee on Appropriations have
agreed to recommend ar appropriation in aid
of the New Orleans Exposition