Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-04-02
NEWS OF THE MORNING.

In New York Yesterday Government bonds
MORO ouoted at 12II% for Is of 1907; 1l2 for as;
sterling, a S4@4 S61a 1Ol for IS; silver bars,
1861.
silver in London, 40 3-l6d consols, 9S Sled; 5
per cent. United States bonds, extended, l05; As
i24sE; As. 1l45s.
In San Francisco Mexican dollars are quoted
at S41aaS5 cents.
Business opened very dali in the San Fran
cisco mining share market yesterday morning
and all the favorite stocks stepped down the
ladder a rung or two, but fully recovered at
moon. The Bodie stocks continued weak.
Bulletins in regard to General Grants condi-
ton were read in the L. ;. Senate yesterday
from the Secretary's desk.
The President has nominated J. o. Knott OF
Maryland, to be Second Assistant Postmaster
General.
Two thousand wives of Turkish soldiers yes
terday visited the Finance Minister in Constan-
1inople, and demanded the pay due then
husbands.
The insurgents yesterday laid Aspinwall in
ashes and thousands of citizens are destitute
and without shelter.
A general advance of the British forces al
suakim will be made to-day in the direction OF
Tamai.
The halfbreeds and Indians in Manitoba still
continue their work fpillage and bloodshed-
Two vacant buildings were destroyed by fire
at Virginia, New, yesterday.
Ex-Coroner Alex. Mot died yesterday in Vir-
ginia New.
Francis Berton. Consul of Switzerland and
Portugal at San Francisco, died in that city yes
terday.
Simeon Strong, the condemned wife muir
derer, hanged himself in the Jail at Reno New,
yesterday.
Samuel l. Terry, son of Judge D. S. Terry, died
yesterday in Stockton.
Piley R. Irwin dropped dead yesterday on the
Pacific Mail dock, san Francisco
It is said that the widow OF eX-President Gar
field is contemplating marriage with Rev. VIM.
y. Taylor, of Pennsylvania, but the lady's
friends deny the report.
At the annual trout exhibit in New York, fish
from California are attracting much attention.
O'Donovan Rosa thinks the Prince of Wales
should be killed when he visits Ireland.
A young girl took rat poison in New York
Tuesday, rather than work for a living.
The decrease in the national debt for March
amounted to $4,000.
yesterday near suisun, the same charge badly
wounding Walter Mcdonald.
Mrs Jaramille was thrown from vicious
horse yesterday near Lajoya y. NJ, and dragged
to death.
A remarkable cavern in the Santa Catalina
mountains, Arizona, is reported to have been
discovered.
Two hundred and twenty-five coal miners
struck against a reduction of wages yesterday at
Bloomington, Ill.
The contract for building new Odd Fellows
hall was let yesterday at san Jose.
At ella Bend, a. T., Tuesday, J. J. Preston. q
schoolmaster, was shot through the heart by J.
". Fields, a rancher
John Hicks, prospector, persisted from thirst
Tuesday, between Yuma and Pichacho, 4. r.
his two companions narrowly escaping the same
fate.
The seventeen birthday anniversary of Bis
marck was celebrated yesterday throughout the
German Empire as holiday.
In the footrace at San Francisco yesterday be
tween McComb and Kittleman. IS yards. fol
81, coo a side, the former won by twelve inches
1000 people were present.
In Yorkshire England. yesterday, 25,Cp
tbl4ASAo NCl4t ptt bli a SlllhI dSilllSt d zen pc
cent. reduction in wages.
China has accepted the French proposals fol
peace.
Forty thousand sheep have died during the
last three months in Greene county, Pa, from
the scarcity of feed and the severity of the
winter
General Grants condition yesterday and last
night was the source of intense anxiety
throughout the country his death being ex
pected every moment. AT an early hour thi.
morning he was still alive, though it wa.
thought impossible for him to survive longer
than few hours