Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 7, Number 251, 13 December 1878 — NEWS OF THE MORNING. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE MORNING.

Gold closed in New York yesterday at 100 i ; Government bonds, 105J for 6s of 1567 ; lOCt for 5s of 18S1 ; IWJ for 4js ; Pacific Mail, 131 ; Western Union Telegraph, 94J ; Panama Railroad, 121 ; sterlieg, «4 S3J@4 88. .Sllvbr in London j'esterday, 50d ; consols, 94 :'K •?;".'. I 10; United States 5 per cent, bonds, 108}, uid 1001 for 4)8.

j Legal tenders in San Francisco, 03 £ buying, 99} selling. V Half dollars, 98.10 buying and 98} selling. Trade dollars, BCJ buying and 97 selling. . Mexican dollars, 89@90. Wheat in Liverpool yesterday: average California white, 9s4d@9s9d; club, 9s 7d(3105. Silver bars in New York, 109J in gictuliacks, 109| in gold : silver coin, }@1} discount. "' < Crows Point has levied an assessment of $1 per share. ■

Thk Consolidated Amador Mining Company have declared a dividend of 25 cents j>er share.

In the San Francisco mining share market yester- | day morning Union Consolidated sold at an advance of $7 over the best price Wednesday morning, Sierra Nevada $3.Opbir 32 50, Mexican $2 25, Best A Belcher and Utah each $1. Chollar-I'otosi declined : $1 50. ', There was but little change in the values of other descriptions. I Fire in New York. Also at McMinnvillc, Or. . Ex-Govkr-nok Curtis, of Pennsylvania, will contest Seth I". Yocum's right to a seat in the next Congress. Jamkh G. lii'RKß, convicted of murder in the second degree at Omaha, was yesterday sentenced to twelve years in the Penitentiary. , ; : The Sutro Tunnel Company's shares will hereafter be dealt in at the New York Stock Exchange by dollars and fractions, instead of percentage. • [ : Captain Low, 89 years old, one of the surviving . Dartmoor . prisoners . from this country, died at I Gloucester, Mass., Wednesday.

The last Fenian prisoner confined in Ireland will be released before Christinas.

Thk Government of Denmark has granted the administration of Santa Cruz a loan for the pui-]>ose of restoring the sugar plantations.

Kepoktb of great damage by storms and floods continue to be received from the Eastern States.

Tue state of siege is lobe continued in the Basque Provinces as long as the agitation for the Furos last*.

A KRiauTruL accident occurred at the Ouadalu])c mine, mar Sau Jose, yesterday, in which one man was killed and several injured.

b the case of ex-I'olicc Court Clerk Dixon, at f-'an Francisco, the jury yesterday returned a verdict of not guilty.

Two BURBBBD and twkxtt applicants for teachers certificates arc being examined in .S:in Francisco

As unknown man jumped from the Oakland ferry boat yesterday morning, and was drowned.

The new budget shows that the revenue of Turkey is 16,(100,000 Turkish pounds. * The Russian? have decided to leave 00,000 men in Bulgaria.

SrECiE decreased 4,800,000 francs the past week in the Bank 'if France.

Drams Edwards (colored), his wife and child, were murdered near Murfreesboro, Term., Saturday, by two white men.

Governor Rkxkkai Lome refuses to interfere in the case of Costa Fraley, to be hanged at St. John to-day for murder.

One hundred thousand dollar robbery at St. John, N. B.

During the twelve months ending Nov. 30th there arrived at New York 0,255 Immigrants.

Tuekb mkn have confessed at Red Bluff to the murder of A. D. Buck, who was found dead near there in April last.

Rarub trotted a mile at Stockton yesterday in &14J— the fastest time ever made in the State.

The office of the Chinese Consul in San Francisco, Col. F. A. Bee, was formally opened yesterday.

Frank Tiiaykr, Superintendent of the Ward mine, was fatally injured yesterday by a falling derrick.

MlTt hkll and Ket< ham, suspected cattle thieves, after killing a herder, were taken from the Sheriff in Custer county. Neb., Tuesday nijjht, tied to a tree and burned to death.

Noah Marti* was found murdered near York, Neb., Tuesday ni^ht, and Wednesday the dead bodies of Mrs. ll&rldon and her three children were found in a hay stack near Kearney, Neb.

Goktciiakokk has formally resumed direction of the Russian Foreign Office.

The French Chamber of Deputies yesterday adjourned sine die.

The proprietors of the San Francisco Bulletin were yesterday arrested on a charge of libel, on complaint of William L. Reed, of IMaccrville.

The Constitutional Convention yesterday eontin•.lued the discussion upon the Chinese question, arguments being mule liy Messrs. Wilson, Barnes, Winans, Wyatt, and others.