The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-05-19
N Il w 8 8 U M M AR Y

Gold closed in New York yesterday ut Sss
Cotton in New York was quiet and rather
heavy, with sales Of 2OS2 bales at S1ao., the low
est quotation for middlings.
-In Liverpool cotton closed quiet; sales 10.
600 bales; prices unchanged.
The newest fgurein the German is callet
the Engagement"
There are seventy miles Of street railwa,
in New Orleans. .,.es,...-
AT Berlin, lately, it is reported that {
woman seventy-two years Of age gave birth tt
child.
1t has been found that steel rife barrels
when fired off several times in a northerly di
rection, acquire magnetic properties.
The Shepherd will case in New Orleans
has been decided in favor Of the heirs Of B. D.
Shepherd on all the points set up by thei,
counsel
Il physician Of Brealau announces to the
Academy of Sciences in Paris that he has sue
ceeded in Illuminating the cavihes Of the living
human body by means Of electricity so as to
render their interior visible to the physician.
,..-Isis proposed by the British Medical Jour.
nal that nitrous oxide for surgical operations
shall be hqui6ed by pressure and enclosed in
very strong bottles, 80 as to be always at hand
and in convenient form for use.
The Grand Jury in Baltimore has present
ed the lottery system which has fourished in
that city as pernicious, So frenzy" and "the low
est degradation Of gambling" and calls Cor its
suppression. Its effect, as shown by investi-
gation, make.a fearful record. e,.s;
They are about TO- try q curious case in
Paris. Awould-be suicide, who, had not suf6-
cisnt courage to perform the fatal act, hired o
friend to blow out his brains for twenty francs.
tits to be tested whether this was murder or
not, s5as. Ia
1t Is stated that, in consequence Of our
high tax. Brazilians anxious to buy American
machinery have found it profitable to send an
American sample to France or England, to get
machines made there after these American
models, cheaper than we can make them.
-An extensive emigration is now taking
place hom Australasia California, and it is as
serted that il free conveyance were offered by
the authorities Of the htter State, nearly the
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the 29d, making the voyage in o little over
twelve days almost the average speed of the
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