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Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Apr 17, 1883

Page

3

Money matters and banking round up in Boston

Boston notes report money easy by day’s end with mercantile paper rates from 5 to 6 percent and loans on call. Bank reserves show a gain, though still negative, while stock details highlight falls in western rail shares. Mining dividends are praised as strong, with high historical payout and potential for capital reallocation into mines.

Boston Mercantile New York Clearing House Boston Bank Associated Banks of Bosacon Henry B. Clifford M. E Aus Prime Mercantile Atlantic and Pacific Chicago St. Louis New Orleans Hannibal and St. Joseph Richmond and Danville Texas and Pacific Rio Grande Ohio Central Kansas Texas Oregon Stock Exchange Northwest St. Paul Minneapolis Manitoba ig@lin New Jersey Central Lake Shore Northwestern Burlington and Quincy Union Pacific Vanderbilts Burlington Quincy Lackawanna Sierra Grande Sonora Navajo Hail Anderson Ironsides Philadelphia Committee On Securities Today Southwestern Gould Texas Pacific Company Vicksburg Shreveport Lnk Seney Gould-Seney Memphis Charleston East Tennessee Meriden Northwest Executive Committee Lyanshouions Toaday PTI Co Ea Hist Lo’st Canada Southern Central Pacific T. C C.&j.c L. & West Delaware & Hud Lidl Denver & Riog Han St. Jon Louisville& Nash Lake Erie & W Michigan Central Manhattan Memphis & C Missouri Pacific New Jersey Northern Pacific Ovo & Missisippi Ontario & West Ohio Centra Pacific Mail Peoria Phila Reading Milwaukee &St.p St. P Omaha Texas Pacific St.l.& Pa Wester Union Oregon Trans.Co Belsast Tenn W. P Baby Mutual Union Taky St Min. & M

Grain Trade and Market Report from Boston Daily

A detailed daily snapshot covers car inspections and grain receipts with totals for April 16 including 59 cars, corn receipts of 25 000 bushels, wheat 18 650 bushels, oats 15 475 bushels, shorts 10 500 bushels, oatmeal 125 bushels, and peas 2 000 bushels. Also notes flour receipts 4 545 barrels and 14 116 sacks, Liverpool cheese at 71s ½cwt, butter and cheese quotes from the mercantile exchange, egg and bean prices, foreign export weights, and Chicago park price movements for various futures.

Bostos Shorts Liverpool New York Mercantile Exchange Eastern Creamery Elgin Eastern Welch New York Boston Produce Exchange Mercantile Exchange Boston Western Creamery Chicago

Market Notes on Breadstuffs and Grains

Breadstuffs and flour prices show a dull market with varied regional quotes. Corn meal and oatmeal sales occur in small lots, oats steady, millfeeds and cotton seed meal firm, with prices listed for Bran, middlings, and other feed products across regions.

Receipts of Staple Products by Railroads and Expresses

A list of freight receipts dated April 16 shows multiple railroads including Maine Fitchburg Grand Junction Sea and others transporting cotton wool flour tallow bacon sugar eggs potatoes hay lumber leather hides and pelts. Entries name railroad names and quantities such as 710 bales cotton 42 bales wool and 8 bbls tallow for Fitchburg and 1,911 bales cotton 276 bales wool and 89 casks grease for Sea.

Lowell Railroad Maine Railroad Fitchburg Railroad Eastern Railroad Grand Junction Railroad Peabody and Salem New York and New England Railroad Old Colony Boston and Albany Providence Railroad

Global Steamship Goods List From Liverpool to Annapolis and Baracoa

A long shipping ledger excerpt lists cargo items and consignors per vessel across Liverpool, Savannah, Annapolis, Baracoa and Baracoa ports. It details bales, boxes, pkgs, casks, and cases of mdse including wool, indigo, cloth, leather, paper, tin plates, salt, sugar, rum, hides, coffee, and hardware, with numerous mercantile firms and ship lines such as Baring Bros & Co, J M Chapman, Warren Line, and others. The entries cover multiple dates and destinations, reflecting extensive trading and supply shipments to colonial and Atlantic ports.

Liverpool Eng Norseman Baring Bros & Co Congdon & Wilbur Walker & Co Stone & Downer Williston, Knight & Co Hadlehy Gifford, Simpson & Co Wetherell Bros JL & DS Riker Flax Smith & Dove Manus Co Mdse Baring Bros & Co Wright Bros Seall Haley & Co Sumpsen & Co Moise Coleman, Mead & Co Optical Instruments Codeman Moise Dame, Stoddard & Kendall Bray & Hayes Zenas Sears Thos L Smith Ewing Bros & Co Piper Geo Warren Read & Sons Joel Goldthwait & Co Phelps, Dodge & Co Sherry Wood, Pollard & Co Weld & Sons Richards & Co Atherstein & Co Pierce & Co Dame & Co Cochrail & Co JD & M Williams BC Clark & Co Chase & Co Smith & Dove Arthur Stedman & Fuller Pacific Mills Fuller, Dana Bond, Parsons & Co Thairlwall P Warren & Co York Manuf Co Laconia Co Barry, Thayer & Co Warren Steamship Line Jumber Geo H Peters & Co Parker van Wart & Co Richardson & Dennie Lewis F Tenney J W Brigham & Co Greenough & Co Charles E Morrison M Y Henderson S & J Brown Billings & Eaton Hull Patrick Arklay Iron Chase Lundel Estes & Lauriat Gay & Wolf Moors & Co Jackson A & W_ Bird Merrill Bros E& F King & Co G_ Norris & co Gossier & Co Naylor & Co Annapolis Rand & Co Allen & Morse White Bros Halibut Delong & Seaman Mead Dudley & Co Dudley Ellis & Son Baracoa Noyes Yubacoa Cienfuegos Thetford Atkins & Co Burgess

Value of Imports into the Port of Boston Week Ending April 18

The listing shows import values by region and item for the Port of Boston for the week ending April 18. Notable totals include $491,071 in unspecified imports, with detailed figures for items like linen thread, dyewood, rubber, and various goods from ports such as Barbados, Mexico, Surinam, Demerara, and Argentina.

Porto Rico Barbados Carl Turks Island St, Martins I Pena Mexico Surinam Scotland Wouiocr Sesee Veces Scomntor Ecserees Farthenware Animnair Italy Cuba Paoiambosg Swan's Dotal

Foreign Exports Report From Atlantic Schooners Listings

Halifax and Yarmouth NS plus St Johns NF and Hayti cargoes include Polar Star C Graham Delta and North America with bbls flour corn meal kerosene oil coal molasses sugar and other goods. Evan Leonard carries codfish pork oil and canned foods. Read lists show varied exports from Pierre and local ports with multiple vessels and quantities. The entry notes schooners cleared on specified dates in April.

Pierre Mig Halifax Graham Yarmouth Delta ST Johns North America Evan Leonard

Value of Experts from the Port of Boston for the Week Ending April 13

The report lists detailed values by commodity and country, showing a broad spectrum of goods such as naval stores, resins, tar, pitch, breadstuffs, coffee, spices, sugar, and beverages. It includes totals for imports and the value attributed to various nations and British possessions, ending with a grand total of 1,374,640.

ACIS Naval Annals Tron India BayahrmerUs Englands Danish West Indies French West Indies Fyenca Guiana Miqueton Langley Ccscsee Newfoundland and Labrador Aptica Australasia Azores Madeira S .Sepencerses Quebec

Markets by Telegraph Cotton Review Across Cities

Cotton markets show steady to firm tone in Galveston New Orleans Savannah and other ports with middling around 9 to 10 cents and stock levels near several thousands of bales. Trade reports list net receipts shipments and coastwise movements while New York Chicago and Cincinnati reflect weaker or firmer tones in futures and cash markets amid varied flour, grain, and livestock activity.

Boston New York Richardson, Hill & Co Philadelphia Baltimore No. 40 Water Street Bales Galveston New Orleans Wilmington BOCK Geessesee Savannah Aches Catia Cies Saltimore Mobile Great Britain Augusta Dgllaics Csvadevcesvecce Wise Memphis United States Continent

Detroit Market Summary Signals Steady Prices In Early Trade

Lard in good demand at 11 dollars, bulk meats firm with shoulders at 7 37 a rib 10, bacon unchanged, whiskey steady at 1. Receipts 1500 head, meats 485 head. Wheat steady with No 2 red winter shipments and 5000 bus, No 2 white fall 90, corn 105 bid for May June 107. Detroit market notes unusual prices and stock movements in a brisk trading period.

Choice Canada Maine Central Grand Trunk Aroostook Burbank Peerless Brooks New York Worcester County Philadelphia Ohio St Louis City Minnesota Esport Taegram Canada White Southern Galgc Rio United Prime Steam Continent South America Liverpool Chicago ST. Louis Milwaukee Toledo Commercial Bulletin Cincinnati Detroit

Financial Markets Report From London and Liverpool

Atlantic and Great Western firsts and other shares quoted with mixed results. Wheat and corn prices steady to quiet. arrivals moderate off the coast and at Mark Lane. Liverpool grain and cotton markets show firm wheat and steady cotton with notable bales traded and varying futures. Coffee prices in Rio de Janeiro quoted for firsts with strong weekly receipts and US shipments. London exchange at 21 in the period.

Aoaneman Beerbohm Mark Lane Liverpool England Etek California Orleans Sarge

Whittemore Patent Suit Over Shoe Sole Finishing Tool

Court records a bill in equity by Fifield against David Whittemore over infringement of a Dodge patent for a tool finishing boot and shoe edges. Plaintiff claims title via assignment. defendant denies title. Meard represents plaintiff. F W Porter for defendant. decision reserved.

Fifield David Whittemore J. Wesley Dodge Meard J.E. Magnadier Ft. W. Porter

Court dismisses Freeman tax case. Suray case ongoing

In Warren, Georgia Freeman found guilty of carrying on a tobacco business without the special tax. Suray’s trial for passing counterfeit money is unfinished. Supreme Court sessions resume with multiple civil and criminal dockets. various cases listed with defendants and notes on verdicts, setoffs, and continuations before Judges Aldrich Knowlton Pitman.

George H. Freeman Warren Joseph Suray Pesan

Superior Court Tort Action Over Cards Damages

Middlesex County court before Judge Barker hears Nathan French suing Otis Marshall for treble damages over money lost gambling at 3 Montgomery Place Boston. Defence a general denial. Asa Cottrell for plaintiff C H Pattee for defendant.

Nathan French Otis Marshall Robert W. Kilpatrick Malden Montgomery Place Boston Asa Cottrell C. H. Pattee

Superior Court Dockets Mix Larceny and Assault Sentences

April sessions before Judge Bacon and Judge Parmenter saw multiple defendants convicted or charged in larceny breaking and entering and assault cases. Sentences ranged from four months to two years in correctional institutions, with fines up to $1,000 and bail set or extended for several defendants.

Charles Smith House of Correction J. Edwin Sherman Charles Horan John Otis Annie Stearns Dennis Sullivan Albert Spooner Lawrence A. Sexton Robert Pike Parmenter Thomas McCarthy Elizabeth Finnegan Daniel Gorman Allen George Michael J. Stankard Daniel Kennedy Thomas Stone John White Thomas E. McLaughlin Mary Ford George Warner Mary Marbles Fran Austin Aborn Mason Horace A. Patterson House of Industry Bunker Hill John Keefe South Boston Thomas M. McAuliffe Richard McCarthy

Old Colony stockholders revise bylaws after consolidation

A special meeting of Old Colony stockholders addressed by by law revisions following the consolidation with Boston Clinton and Fitchburg. They approved notes and bonds up to 500 000 dollars, named Austin W Adams and Edwin G Parker as approving officers, and authorized increasing capital stock to 12 million dollars. They discussed a Quincy to Braintree branch and possible further consolidations with Boston Concord and Montreal and with Lowell and Nashua.

Old Colony Railroad Company Old Colony Boston, Clinton and Fitchburg Choate Austin W., Adams Edwin G. Parker Quincy Braintree Boston Concord Montreal Lowell and Nashua Northern New Hampshire Railroad Company New Hampshire Eastern Monterey Washington Capital Burr Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe W. S. Strong Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Denver and Rio Grande Mexican National

Property transfers and mortgages clutter Boston area records

A long list of property transactions across Boston neighborhoods including purchases on Purchase Street, Chandler Street, Brimmer Street, Shawmut Avenue and more. Entries note buyers, sellers, parcel details, sale prices, mortgage details, and dates from 1883 to 1885, with附 attachments and building permits in South Boston and Dorchester areas.

Purchase Street Stanley Cunningham Frederick Cunningham Same Provident Institution For Savings Chandler Street Moses H. Schwarzenberg Otis C. Merrill Brimmer Street Benjamin J. Lang Richard C. Nichols Lemuel Shaw Shawmut Avenue Franklin Insurance Company Cyrus Sargeant Chauncy Street David Nevins Catherine M. Potter Old Harbor Street South Boston Savings Bank Joseph Foy Winthrop Boston Point Shirley Winthrop Farm Committee On Public Lands Standing Committee On Public Lands Anderson Street Erieca Brighton Warren Avenue

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