The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-05-08
NEW s 8 U M M a R <.
-eola a. New York closed yesterday strong
OFFICE No. 1s.HaYNESTREEE


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Gold at New York closed yesterday strong
at sss.
The New York cotton market closed dull
and lower. Sales 1000 bales, at 50 cents, with
no buyers at over sig cents.
AT Liverpool cotton closed heavy and ID.
lower. Sales 5000 bales. Uplands 12}d. Or
leans 12Sd.; Orleans afloat 12ad.
"A memorial church, to be called s'The
Church Of the Heavenly Rest, I" is to be erected
on Fifth Avenue, New York.
Fashionable young ladies in New York are
IN the habit OF taking an early canter around
Central Park, followed by groom in velveteen
breeches and top boots.
lin California, the Legislature has passed
a bill offaring premium Of five dollars
ton ON the first thousand tons OF pig or
blast iron produced, IN that State from native
ore. 81
in England, for 1868, the public printing,
II is estimated, win cost 81, $50, 900 in gold, an
increaseof $4,000 over last year. The London
newspapers are complaining that the amount
is excessive. ~ s-,.
The plan Of exporting the suffering poor,
II appears, has recently been adopted BY Great
Britain. The departure Of one hundred and
ffty emigrants from London to Quebec, on
April 10th, is announced. They are described
as mechanics who were out Of work. and who
were sent out as ssobjects Of public charity"
by the London East-End Emigration Commit
tee.s ~
The suspension bridge across the Hudson
river, at the Highlands, hss been planned. Its
total length Is to be 2499 feet, with o span be-
tween the towers (which are 1865 feet apart)
Of 1890 feet. The bridge is to be 155 feet above
high-wster and is to bear 8 pressure OF $3.50
toms. There are to be, 40 cables; each about
14inehes in diameter. The towers are to be
27O feet high, and the iron and steel in the
bridge will weigh 17,005 tons.
"A terrible case of human spontaneous COM
bustion, which resulted in death, Is reported
in Cleveland, Ohio. The name Of the man was
Bremer. We learn that he drank, on wager,
six large drinks Of ,whiskey and pint Of stock
ale, at 3 citing. With blazing face and start
ing eyes he reeled towards gas Jet, in order
to light his pipe, when the no1ious gases Is
suing from his mouth were instantly ablaze,
and the poor Wreocn "ss soon oe''ie 'o'.' 1-A'0N
by an inward nfe. ~,
-sitka is reported 70 Do sutnins Guy nsey
businsss port, and during April ten or twelve
vessels arrived and departed from its wharves.
Several Of them were steamships, and it also
appears that from the constant arrivals OF pas
sensers, the popuiss'on 70 tap.us .o .het
a nrlsk business mas aiso sptuus - - -
Piace, punio.nes a1e eon,s up, go III -,
sptrIt OF eneerPsAse 40 ue'oioph -,
account OF tne magic ns~e " AuAo''0- ''e
attached 70 sms iat. ON country nlt.
lln the sseotgla srecons.r u'.iou o10e..oA'
the returns received SNOW 'ua. sue .ous DussSl
sion has .peen iaslnea' sl'u, .naV 'ao 1'0pNOn
cans have eiecseo tne,r canaasse ~. so,e,no-
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9os'ss ~ votl, 60 po,nt,-
consfesslo1aA loaos aslon ose,.'1 80. ~.
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kepuphcans nave catfish ene eoie.uc.
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~. al dovn 10 meet at New York on July
an, NJ Aronat Re,mont the Chairman of
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