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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1886
Page
3
The market details a $10 million bond call amid limited cash influx and a cautious trade day. Baltic and Mexican shares falter as bullion shipments and silver note projections stir expectations. several rails and utilities show mixed moves while earnings comparisons reveal overall gains versus last year.
The North Pennsylvania Railroad Company declares a quarterly dividend of 2 percent. The Chicago Burlington and Quincy railroad also declares a quarterly dividend of 2 percent.
The August 15 listings show varied activity across bonds and stocks with notable figures including C BEN at 58 and 8,000 shares, Mex Cen bonds at 9% to 43, 1,000, and Oregon 8s at 51,000 with quotes around 102 to 105 in the day’s closing. Railroads and utilities display modest gains, while mining and land concerns show mixed demand. overall prices reflect uneven trading and liquidity.
A fragmented listing from Wilson W Fay and Company at No 7 State Street Boston shows multiple stock entries including Kensington Chair Crescent Burton Stock Gray Dynamo Huron American Electric Mts U S War Company and others with quantities and obscured annotations indicating 100 unit lots and various codes. The readable items include a mix of chair and electrical stocks along with military contractor references, reflecting a historical broker’s ledger fragment.
On August 13 New York money on call eased from 2 to 7 with last loan at 4 and close at 31g. Sterling quiet, government and railroad bonds dull, and the stock market remained listless after 2:15 pm with no notable price moves. Afternoon shows slight improvement on easier money rates, but overall dull, with total railroad bond dealings at 1.79 million and key issues trading lower yet some gains in select issues. transactions totaled 177,968 shares.
The snippet lists a wide range of stocks and bonds including Adams Express, American Express, Oregon Navigation, Central Pacific, Wells Fargo Ex, Union Pacific, New York Central, and various rail lines. It also notes mining stocks such as Homestake and Quicksilver with several preferred issues and bonds, reflecting a dense page of market quotations and listings.
In San Francisco prices list official closings from Best & Belcher and Good & Curry among mining stocks. The page fragment shows Hale & Horton and Fellow Jacket, with unclear figures and several garbled entries.
Suffolk County records show numerous parcel transfers on Marlboro Newbury Portland Hampshire St Botolph Tremont Arnold Jamaica Lawsa and Aliston streets with dates from July 14 to Sept 10 1873 and values ranging from 25 to 3500 dollars including a 394920 square foot lot on Jamaica Street and a 19000 square foot St Botolph land parcel. mortgages noted for Hampshire Ruggles and Allen streets.
A sequence of property deeds and mortgages is recorded across several cities including South Boston West Medford Everett Charlestown Revere Chelsea and associated streets. Names include Jemces G Griffin William Gradon George N Park Patrick Downey James J Doyle Thomas Robinson and more with parcel sizes and amounts noted.
A historic list records various mortgage actions including discharges and quitclaims across 1880s Boston area. Notable entries show Henry M Whitney and Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company, South Boston Savings Bank and Herman Benks, Anna M Ward and Charles H Kiessling, Richard C Humphreys executor and Martha A Foster, Edwin Howland trustee and Maria W Howland, Workingmen’s Co operative Bank and Mary F Downey, Stephen G Allen to Essex Savings Bank, and Samuel C Harvey to Benjamin C Hardwick with multiple dated actions and amounts such as 15000 and 2000 dollars.
The report divides the system into New England Middle Southern Western and Pacific groups with 1885 and 1884 figures for mileage capital stock funded debt and other debt, plus earnings and fixed charges. It notes totals for assets and liabilities, interest and dividends paid, and quarterly results for Delaware Lackawanna & Western comparing 1886 to 1885 totals and surplus.
The flour market shows a improved tone but prices stay near current levels. Corn remains steady at old quotations while oats remain dull. Butter is quiet with unchanged prices and cheese stays firm amid light demand. Eggs are dull and weak. pork and lard, fresh meats, poultry and game hold steady. Apples show light demand. seeds and hay flat. potatoes plentiful with steady prices. sugars quiet.
The contract among Baltimore & Ohio Reading and Jersey Central is unsigned but informally agreed, awaiting formal ratification likely at next week’s meeting. B&O is not shipping freight over Jersey Central and will open its throage line from Philadelphia to Baltimore on Monday. B&O opposes any trunk line pool rate cut, warning that reductions would trigger immediate rate cuts.
Norfolk and Western posted a gain of 16494 in the first week of August. Commissioner Daniels is authorized to buy cheap eastbound tickets to curb rate erosion. Two land purchases in Greenville New Jersey involve Wilson Lanter Co for the New Jersey Junction Railroad and waterfront stakes by the Baltimore and Ohio. The Junction Railroad issues bonds guaranteed by New York Central with trustees J Pierpont Morgan and H Fahnestock. The St Paul and Duluth reported a yearly surplus of 1247 after $374657 in preferred dividends and $417104 in improvements. Kansas eyes 1500 miles of new track this year. Oregon Railway and Navigation names Colgate Hoyt and D P Thompson to its board. A Boston Winthrop and Shore meeting seeks ratification of an arrangement with the Boston Revere Beach and Lynn line. Late railroad earnings are given.
A long list of lawyers and law firms across multiple cities is shown, including names attached to Creighton, Frank & Adler, W T Dixon & Bro, Tucker, Smith & Co, Seixas, Seiz Schwab, Henderson, O Neill & Sons, Geo W Cady, James H Laws, Charles Meis, Adolph Meyer, O F Willson, H H Valpey, J Weil, Strong & Co, Metz Powell, Reed Jones & Co, C P Traty & Co, Joske Bros, C J Lewis, and Dewey Rodgers among others, with locations spanning Baltimore, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Detroit, Huntsville, Montgomery, Omaha, San Antonio, St. Louis, Toledo, Waco, and beyond.
A firmer wheat market lifts flour tone while demand remains soft. Prices hold steady across grains with corn and oats mostly unchanged though some bids rise. Notable: a 2700 bushel May No 2 white corn sale at 41 1/2 cents and various bid ask ranges for oats and rye. Inspections show mixed grain movements and diverse milling prices for export and domestic trades.
Butter market remains quiet with demand for small immediate lots. Western creamery prices at 19 20c, Eastern creameries similar. cheese firm with steady Western extras. Eggs weak with heavy receipts. U.S. and Liverpool markets show mixed signals. Fresh meats steady with limited demand. pork, lard, and beef prices listed across cuts.
The market shows quiet trading with steady quotations for Middling Upland and Gulf. Liverpool futures open and close quietly across August to September delivery spread. Spot market opens dull but closes unchanged at 54 65 16d for middle Orleans, with sales around 8 000 bales and total receipts incomplete.
In New York on August 13 flour prices firm as receipts reach 21,031 barrels with exports and strong sales reported. Wheat climbs with No 2 spring around 87 cents, red at 86. Rye, cornmeal, and sugar show varied steady to dull moves across St Louis Toledo Detroit Milwaukee Chicago Cincinnati. Receipts and shipments data accompany price levels for pork lard and other staples, with general activity described as firmer in several grains and meats.
The week shows mixed activity across ports with net receipts and stocks listed for Augusta, Galveston, New Orleans, Mobile, Memphis, Savannah, Charleston, Wilmington, Norfolk, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New York, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Louisville and consolidated totals. Exports to Britain France and the continent noted. prices steady to firm with mid figures cited.
Cattle receipts 7450 shipments 2500 active with steers 990 to 1560 pounds priced 375 to 425 dollars. stockers and feeders 240 to 350. Texans stronger. Hogs receipts 13,500 shipments 5500 strong with good grades firmer, packing and shipping 475 to 520. Sheep receipts 3090 shipments 500 steady with natives 3.25 to 4.25, Western 2.75 to 3.50, Texans 2 to 3, Taminos 4.75.
A late private despatch from Emery and Hodges at State Street reports wheat rising a cent on export demand with 55 loads in Chicago and 20 000 bush in Baltimore. Weather in England boosts demand while corn stays dull and pork falls slightly with varied car receipts and futures quotes for September and October.
Chicago Grain Market notes wheat closing 2 cents higher on open board with active buying from foreign markets. New York reports 51 loads exported and corn slips modestly to 44 3/4 cents amid rain delays.
Beerbohm reports firm wheat cargoes with American terms and prices in London market. Liverpool notes breadstuff demand improving, wheat and corn firmer with several price quotations. Paris sees wheat and flour dearer. English and French markets firm amid unsettled English weather. In Havana sugar weak with delivery quotes at Cardenas in gold per quintal.
London August 13 Consols quoted 1013 16. United States bonds 48 129 percent 4498 113 percent Atlantic & Great Western firsts 5244 do seconds 16 percent Canadian Pacific 684 Erie 34 percent do seconds 105 percent Mexican ordinary 444 St Paul 9544 Pennsylvania 6049 Read y.
An 19th century advertisement touts Ba Mensman’s Peptonized Beef T Nic as rich in nutritive properties. It claims blood building and life sustaining effects aiding indigestion nervous debility and recovery from exhaustion and pulmonary illnesses. Caswell Hazard & Co New York sell through druggists.
The Mercantile Agency notes 157 U S and Canada business failures this week, down from prior counts. E. Viet marble works Charleston S C assigns with 12000 liabilities, 8000 assets. Leach paints Vine Yard Haven attached. Boston firms Boylston Ivon Works consider insolvency after creditors vote for 50 cent on dollar plan. debtors say 18 cents on dollar. Other notices include assigns at Ports mouth Virginia Waynesville North Carolina Dubuque Iowa and Little Rock Arkansas, with Cheever & Co settling creditors at 29 cents on the dollar.
A fragmented shipper list details exports and imports by steamer and firm across Boston Saint John New Brunswick Port Antonio Jamaica Yarmouth Newfoundland Barbados and Baracoa. Items include eggs berries mackerel codfish calfs skins bananas cocoanuts sugar and machinery with various firms such as C W Clement H Griffin & co DeLong & Seaman Adams Chapman co JG Hall & co and Seaverns & co.
A detailed export list from multiple ports shows cargos aboard steamers Galileo Kansas and other vessels. Items include beef bacon lard tobacco sugar and woolen goods, with volumes in cases bbls sacks and tons, traded from LIVERPOOL BUENOS AYRES HALIFAX BARBADOES and more to MONCTON and CARTHAGENA.
Receipts listed for Friday Aug 15 show rail lines Boston & Albany Boston & Maine Eastern Division and Western Division handling large totals of wool flour oats wheat corn beef and more. Also noted are by sea totals and a comparative weekly table for Aug 13 with year over year figures.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Probate Court Suffolk district cites heir and next of kin to Grace P Townsend late of Boston to appear September 6 1886 at ten in the forenoon to show cause on probate of a will presented by Edward B Townsend executor petitioning letters testamentary without bond publication to run in the Boston Post for three weeks witness Joan W StcKin judge August 13 1886 Asst Register John H Paine
The Suffolk Probate Court in Boston issues a citation in the May Munroe estate matter. Alonzo L. Munroe of Chelsea petitions letters of administration with will annexed since the executor died. Citations require three weekly newspaper publications in the Boston Daily Globe before September 6, 1886.
Train departures listed for Boston stations toward Ron Tee Rochester Parmington and many points including Andover Exeter Biddeford Lawrence Lowell Merrimac Wakefield and Portland Bangor and Lewiston with numerous times across day and night. The fragmentary timetable shows mixed formatting and unclear sections but preserves a dense schedule of routes and stops.
Two insolvency petitions filed in Suffolk County Massachusetts court. Bradford Thomas & Co. seek a warrant to seize the estate of James H. Galligan of Boston. Patrick J. Campbell files a similar petition to seize James M. Walsh's Boston estate. Assistant Register Joan H. Paine notes dates August 12 1886 and August 13 1883.
Candidates for teaching certificates in Boston day and evening schools will be examined August 24 25 and 26 at the Girls High School West Newton Street. Examinations start Tuesday at 9 am and continue Wednesday and Thursday at 830 am attendance required daily. Applicants should request circulars from Phineas Bates secretary of the Board of Supervisors Mason Street Boston.
Boston to Amesbury and coastal stops list service hours and fares across multiple lines. The timetable names dozens of towns including Beverly Biddeford Lynn Rockport Salem and Portsmouth with varied morning afternoon and Sunday trains and multiple fare amounts.
Train timetable lists Augusta Haymarket Bangor St John Halifax and Providence routes from Haymarket square and Causeway street stations. Morning and afternoon departures noted for Portland Rockland Machiasport Sanford and Knox Lincoln lines with specific times. Steamer connections from Halifax via Portland listed on select days.
City ticket office 306 Washington street lists departure and return times for Point of Pines and Oak Island routes with Sundays schedules. Includes multiple morning and evening times and notes Pullman cars on Portland and Bangor lines as James T Furber and J Flanders sign as general managers.
Public notice details extensive passenger train times from Boston to New York and to western cities, with daily and Sunday services, returning schedules, and notes on transfers. It lists stations from Hyde Park to Attleboro, Belmont, Waverley, Watertown, Cambridge, and beyond, plus special routes via the Hogsac Tunnel route and connections to Saratoga, Albany, Chicago, and St. Louis.
Arrival and departure times for trains at Concord Bedford Nashua Junction with notes on through connections and where to obtain full timetable information. Officials Joe Mellén and Lucius Tubile listed as general superintendent and general passenger agent.
LUCIUS TUTTLE, Gen. Passenger Agent, and C. H. MELLEN, Gen. Supt. list a Monday March 31 1836 start time for Boston departures to Jefferson Way Stations and multiple stops such as Oakdale Berlin Hudson Belmont Waverly and Belmont with varied morning and afternoon departures including express services.
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