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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1888
Page
7
The department titled Reports from Trade Centres has been discontinued and its information moved alongside local market reports. Telegraphic reports for any commodity will appear after the Boston market report, making each market complete in every detail and eliminating the need to compare separate column reports.
The report details firm flour and grain prices for carload lots excluding rye, with diverse grades and regional quotes. Markets note strong demand, firm values, and wide ranges across New York Chicago Minneapolis Milwaukee and export lines for flour, corn, oats, rye, and millfeed.
Eastern firsts steady at 140, Western 1334 1d4c. Cincinnati trade quiet at 13c. Beans demand quiet but firm. large foreign supply with pea prices at 2.50 to 3.10 and assorted hand picked and screen varieties ranging 2.25 to 3.16. Grass seeds firm. timothy quoted 320 to 330 in the North, 310 to 410 in the West, clover and red top prices listed by region. Potatoes steady with varied regional prices, hay and straw demand fair with prices largely steady. Poultry market quiet. frozen stock slow. turkey, chickens, and fowls priced across regional ranges.
The steamer Gambetta arrives April 24 from Baracoa with bananas for Seavyerns and Co. The steamer Hondo arrives April 27 from Jamaica with bananas for the Boston Fruit Company.
Fruit and cargo sales summary with H Harris & Co auction results. Valencia oranges at 3 6 6 per case, Floridas at 1 8 7 4 per box. Balder steamer cargo sold: Bananas 1 1 4 2 per bunch, cocoa nuts 25 per 1000. Oranges and lemons quotes, Palermo and Messina fruit prices, Florida oranges, and bananas market notes. Jamaica fruits priced at 1 2 with Baracoas at 1 1 5 0.
Pork market firm with varied quotes across cuts and regions. Beefs, lards, and bacon priced steady or firm, with New York and Chicago markets showing mixed pork, lard, and dry salted meats. beef and mutton values listed by cut and grade.
A market report notes strong demand for trucks as spinach receipts stay small and prices rise. Multiple vegetables show varied quotations including Bermuda potatoes at 125 per crate, Florida tomatoes at 33 per crate, cabbage at 2 275 per crate, and rhubarb at 9c per box. Prospective buyers are informed of current price levels for asparagus, peas, onions, beets, beans, squash, lettuce, and other produce.
Sugar and molasses prices in New York show steady demand with refined sugars firm. Cotton in New York opens firm, advances in Liverpool, quotes for middling and futures show steady to firm tone amid active trade and notable bale counts.
Shipping listing detailing cargoes from numerous ports including Arecibo Annapolis Digby and Matanzas. Items include lasses sugar boxes eggs potatoes lobsters herring logwood coffee oranges and various fruits. Numerous firms listed with steamer and brig names and quantities.
Passengers with tickets on this line may have baggage checked from hotels or residences to the destination. Calls for baggage may be left at the Old State House. Effective April 1, 1888, Fall River Line offers weekday Boston to New York departures at 6 p m with returns at 5 p m. Detailed schedules list multiple stops including Ashmont Hyannis Barnstable Cottague City and Brockton with numerous departure and return times. GEO. L. CONNOR, Gen. Pass. Agent.
In Suffolk Superior Court Boston April 16 1888 the libellant must publish notice of pendency and appearance before the court on the first week of June. A co of libel and order must be published weekly for three weeks in the Boston Post and mailed or served fourteen days before the first Monday of June. William A Cline may show cause why prayer of the libel should not be granted.
The market digest shows Augusta Net receipts 69, sales 105. New Orleans exports to Great Britain 4 782 and to France 4 502 with 8 000 sales. Savannah dull with stock 22 564. Philadelphia steady with stock 1 779. New York active with exports to Britain 10 476 and continent 920, stock 231 766. Consolidated three days net receipts 7 557 with total exports 54 125 to Britain France and the continent and nationwide stock 640 011.
Hogs and cattle markets mixed with regional receipts and prices. Chicago cattle strong with build in steer and stocker values, hogs opened weak to mixed across regions, with varied shipments and receipts noted in St Louis Kansas City Peoria Cincinnati and others. Prices include Yorkers at 6.30 to 6.53, packers 5.25 to 6.60, and butchers up to 5.60.
The schooner Eva Maud lists cargo including 169 packages of agricultural tools 3 barrels of beans 3 packages of blacking 33 boxes candles 50 bags corn cask 1 0 boxes clocks 115 boxes canned beef 13 boxes canned fruit 120 doors 10 boxes evaporated apples 208 bags feathers 500 pounds flour 16 bags fertilizer 1 case flannels 300 boxes 84 pantry furniture 343 keys glassware 800 packages hardware 18 bags 12 barrels hayseed 45 boxes ink 1 barrel shoe ink 100 sides cloth heather 5 bales lines 119 cases matches 50 barrels meal 182 barrels 142 half barrels 65 cases kerosene oil 4 barrels lubricating oil 48 cases clothing 5 organs 28 bells oars 70 barrels oysters 125 barrels pens 40 rolls 36 packages paper 400 rolls of bdls paper bags 107 bbls pitch 1 piano 1 barrel pegs 4 packages plated ware 9 bbls 25 boxes salt 48 boxes soap 77 boxes stove polish 74 bbls sash 12 cases slates 88 trunks 65 cases spirits turpentine 80 kegs tar 2 barrels vinegar 1 barrel 3 cases varnish 229 packages woodenware 13 boxes hops 6 carboys acid
A dated market digest notes quiet movement at steady prices across goods. London copper 35s, New York firm at 415-16c on 140000 lb sales, turpentine 40 14c, rosin 122 14 125, petroleum 63 4 7c, Rio coffee 14 4 4c, whiskey not reported. St Louis and Cincinnati steady at $109.
London and Liverpool market notes report firmer wheat prices and stronger corn with English and French markets generally dearer. At Mark Lane foreign wheat and Danubian corn rise. American corn and Minnesota flour prices mixed. Liverpool quotations steady for wheat and corn, pork and lard cling to shown ranges with cheese easing.
A detailed April 23 1888 record lists freight movements and quantities for Boston and Albany, Grand Junction, Heston & Providence, Old Colony, New York and New England, Fitchburg, Boston and Maine Eastern Division, Boston and Maine Western Division, Lowell System, Py Express, and By Sea. Items include bales cotton wool flour oats malt feed bacon butter eggs cheese tea coffee sugar and leather with totals by line and product.
A long list of names and firms from multiple states including Georgia Maryland Illinois New York Ohio Indiana Texas Michigan Pennsylvania Kentucky Tennessee Alabama and others. Entries cover wholesalers brokers and importers such as Gramling Spaulding & Co C J Rooney & Co Brooks Rogers Selz Schwab J Gates J Benckenstein Miller Cutler & Co McKee Branham Bamberger Streng Sutcliffe Owen Rosenberg Hall Mason Shoe Co and Murray Dibrett & Co indicating a broad regional commercial directory segment.
Corrected train listings show Boston departures to Ashcroft and many northeast destinations, with times for Blackstone Danbury Dorchester Dudley Street Ellis Endicott Fishkill on the Hudson and more. Evening expresses run to New York Philadelphia Norwich Line Worcester and willimantic with connecting services. Sundays include special Norwood Hyde Park and Franklin routes.
Suffolk county court orders petitioners to publish for three weeks in the Boston Post a copy of the petition and order. The notice invites all interested parties to appear in Boston on the first Moss day of June to show cause why the petition should not be granted. John Noble, Clerk, April 14, 1888. Attest. H. Cooper, Asst. Clerk.
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