Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-02-27
NEWS OF THE MORNING.

In New York yesterday Government bonds
were quoted at l2215 for As of 1907; 1121s for as
sterling, 81 SAGA S71l; 1O1 for IS; silver bars,
1867
Silver in London, 49d; consols, IS 9-l6d; per
cent United States bonds, extended, los; As,
I2515; as. 1143s.
In San Francisco Mexican dollars are quoted
at SS24@s4 cents.
In the San Francisco stock market yesterday
morning the favorites opened with sharp de-
cline but rallied somewhat at noon, Hale & Nor
cross closing at SIS. The outside stocks were
frmer.
Representative Logan (Republican), of the
Illinois Legislature, dropped dead on the floor
of the House yesterday.
No freight trains are to be allowed to enter
Washington between tomorrow and March 9th
vote OF censure was moved in the English
House of Lords last evening on the Govern
ments Egyptian policy.
The entire peach crop of Kansas this year
will be a failure.
The British army estimates for 1886 are
I'll, 500, 7CO.
CYRUS w. Field has sued the New York Herald
for libel.
tween France and Burmah is published
J. O. Eldridge, the well-known San Francisco
auctioneer, died in San Rafael yesterday.
British Columbia is dissatisfied with the re-
port OF the Dominion Commissioners on the Chi
nese question.
Smallpox has broken OUT on the Island Rail
way in British Columbia.
Justus Schwab the notorious Socialist, has
been held in New York for melting "a riot and
resisting the police, in s.. 500 bail
The French Admiral in Chinese waters will
intercept all vessels with rice cargoes.
Martial law has been proclaimed in Bechuan-
land, South Africa.
a shocking tale of cruelty and murder at sea
comes from New York
The prize-fght at New Orleans between Sulli-
van and Ryan has been postponed until after
Lent to satisfy the religious scruples of the lat
ter.
Large quantities of arms arc being shipped to
China from Jersey City.
The steamship Lydiau Monarch with troops
for the Soudan, reported foundered in St.
Georges Channel is safe.
Many persons have been frozen to death in
Canada this winter.
meeting Will be held in Dublin Sunday, to
TO protest against the expulsion of o Brien from
the House of Commons.
riot was caused in Castau, Austria, because
of naming the streets in Slav, instead of Italian
The Queen suggested the proposed visit of the
Prince Of Wales to Ireland
The marriage of Princess Beatrice and Prince
Henry of Battenburg will take place in July on
the Isle of Wight
The SD birthday of Victor Hugo was cele-
brated in Paris Wednesday.
The Congo Conference Mt Berlin closed its sit
tings yesterday.
Stockton now has curfcw ordinance, which
the authorities propose to strictly enforce.
The Prohibitionists of Rhode Island met in
Convention at Providence yesterday, and nomi-
mated full state ticket.
The Treasurer of Spokane county, W T., is
short So, 600 in his accounts.
Friends of the recently-yetoed militia bill in
Nevada are demanding the impeachment of the
Governor.
The strike OF weavers at Lowell, Mass, which
began February 9Th, collapsed yesterday.
In duel with swords at the City of Mexico,
one OF the participants was wounded.
Several hundred Catholics have been massa-
cred in Yunnan, by order of the Chinese
Viceroy.
In a runaway accident near New Columbia,
Ga, yesterday, two men were killed one having
his head torn from his bo5y.
A crazy Mexican in Las Maras, y NJ, killed
five men and women, and was 1iddled with
bullets by posse of citizens.
Anexplosion at Shoeburyncss, Eng, yester-
day, killed three men and fatally wounded sew
eral others.
seventy-fve maehinists struck in the Wabash
shops at Chicago yesterday.
A nun who escaped from Khartoum says that
fully 1000 persons were massacred wheu that
city fell
fthe Duke of Cumberland will renouEee his
claim to the throne Of Hanover, the German
Emperor will recognize his right to the throne
of Brunswick