Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-01-31
NEWS OF THE MORNING.

In New York yesterday Government bonds
were quoted at 1215s for Is of 1907; 1925 for As;
sterling, 81 S4G4 IS; 1914 for IS; silver bars,
1917.
Silver in London, 40 9-16d; consols, SO 1S-l6d; )
per cent. United States bonds, extended, 1o5; As,
I242s; as, 1l514
In San Francisco Mexican dollars are quoted
at S411aC1S6 cents.
The middle Comstocks still had rising tend
ency in San Francisco yesterday morning, and
other sections of the market were firmer in sym
pathy with the favorites. Hale and Norcross
jumped to s. TO- Business was lively.
Many passengers were injured in railroad
accident yesterday at Greenville, n. j., but
none were killed.
Lafayette Melton was hanged for murder yes
terday at Corning, Ark.
John L. sullivan was fined Sll5 in Boston
Court yesterday.
Riley Pile, desperate and moonshiner, has
murdered two men in Pickett county, Tenues-
see, and citizens are searching for him.
The will of Charles E. Hill, who left an estate
valued at 81 100000, is to be contested i'll SYRIA
cuse, n. Y.
In a railway disaster near Sydney, y. S. W.
forty passengers were killed.
A naval engagement between French and
Chinese men-of-war is reported from Shanghai
A fire at Chico yesterday caused loss OF
$4,000.
Over 100000 fruit trees have been delivered al
Redding so far this season.
The Senatorial contest in the Oregon Legis-
lature is still undecided.
During the past week 354 business failures
occurred il the United States and Canada.
Aggie McMurrin has been held at Salt Lake
for perjury i'll $1,000 bonds in connection with
the Young polygamy case.
The National Silver Convention completed its
labors in Denver yesterday, and adjourned sine
die.
A caving bank killed two men at St. Paul
Mimi, yesterday.
1t is said that the wound received by Stewart
in the Soudan is similar to that which caused
President Garield's death.
John Mccullough insists that his ailment is
Indigestion, not crazness.
Another negro exodus has begun in North
Carolina.
The State Horticultural Society is in session
at san Francisco
Willie Butler, aged 10 years was killed in San
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Fifteen hundred operatives have been thrown
out of employment in Philadelphia by an acct
dent to the engine of Dobson's carpet mills.
Speaker Carlisle visited President-eect Cleve-
land in Albany yesterday.
Oliver Rife cut his throat at Elko, New,
Thursday night, but is still alive.
The Nevada Silver Convention meets in Car
son to-day.
The United States Senate adjourned yesterday
until Monday.
The National Board Of Trade adjourned sine
die in Washington yesterday.
Fire in san Francisco; loss 10000.
Adolph Spreckes, who shot De Young, was
held to answer in san Francisco yesterday with
bail fixed ut 5000.
The great heat of the past few days caused
more than a score of deaths in Buenos Ayres.
Anegro was burned at the stake in Vera Cruz,
Mexico, yesterday.
The circulation Of O'Donovan Rossas paper
in Ireland has been prohibited.
A noted gang of outlaws have been captured
in Indian Territory by an Arkansas Sheriff
Owing to an insult offered them in the Cham
Der, the newspapers of Vienna refuse to further
publish the proceedings of the Reichsrath
In the hard glove fight at san Francisco last
night between Whistler and Brady, the former
was knocked out in the first round.