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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1889
Page
7
The report shows steady markets across key commodities with light receipts. Cheese prices hold at firm levels while eggs, beans, poultry, and potatoes show varied strength. hay and straw supplies remain tight and demand fair. Notable figures include New York and Chicago bread and bean price levels and regional quotes for potatoes and poultry products.
The market reports ample supplies and fair demand with quoted prices for Egyptian onions at 1 50 per crate, Spanish onions 1 per crate, native onions 75 cents per bush, beets 35 cents per box, carrots 50 cents per box, lettuce 1 25 per box, and various beans, corn, peppers, and tomatoes priced by bushel, box, or dozen. First arrivals include red onions sold today at 2 per bag.
Market remains well supplied with good demand for choice eating apples as Astrachans and pippins fetch 250 275 per barrel and 32 250 for sweets. Oranges and lemons scarce but firm at 4 5 per box for Messina and Palermo oranges and 4 7 per box for Messina and Palermo lemons.
Receipts show tallow 15 pkgs beef 2 bbls pork 541 bbls lard 416 pkgs hams 84 bbls preserved meats 7 cases bacon 300 boxes. Compared to last year pork and work products markets steady with fair demand. prices listed for long cuts and various pork products and lard across several regional markets.
Shoulder and bacon prices listed for Cincinnati and Chicago markets with loosed meats, lard, corned beef, tongues and fresh beef quotes. Cattle values show varying quotes for choice, good, light and heavy cattle, with expressed market activity described as quiet, steady or dull.
Market reports show steady to firm trends across regions. Cattle receipts in Kansas City and Chicago indicate higher bids for choice beef, with Texas cattle and natives trading in the 3.0 to 3.6 range, while hogs show strength in Chicago and Kansas City with varied classes from heavies to lights and ships. Sheep remain steady with values around 3.4 to 4.6 for natives and Westerns, and lambs fetching up to about 5.75.
New York cotton firm with fair demand as 587 bales change hands at upland and middling quotes around 11 to 11 1/2 cents. Futures open steady, close quiet and steady. Liverpool and other markets show varied receipts and stocks, with mixed exertions across regional trading hubs.
Sugar receipts today 183 bales 115 hogsheads and 12 bags vs last year 1285 hogsheads 100 bags and 20262 mats Raw sugars dull steady prices quoted Cuba refining 6 6 sc 96 test Manilas 478 5 4c Noilus 5 5 sc Javas Nos 10 to 11 6 4c Refined sugars steady demand Pulverized 85 30 340 powdered 82 85c granulate 81 8 4c confectioners 87 16c standard A 8 4c Belmont A 7 c extra C 7 7 ec yellow 65 s 7 5 sc Wholesale price granulated 8c Sugar market firm and fairly active Havana sugar quiet Cardenas Saturday 1050 bags centrifugal 95 42 96 polarization $4 gold P quintal Molasses receipts today 30 bbls 2 birds 53 tierces 462 casks 90 punch same day last year 1 bbl and 92 punch Market dull and nominal Fancy Ponce 43c per gal choice 40 41c fair to good 36 39c Cienfuegos 28 31c Barbadoes 34c boiling 50 test 30 1/2c New York trade dull.
Coffee from New York to Rio remains quiet and steady with fair cargoes at 18 cents. Whiskey trades hold at 102 dollars. Turpentine and petroleum in New York show mixed values with resin near 102.34 dollars, tariffable tar at 275, and petroleum at 7.60 cents plus related byproducts.
Shipping ledger itemizes imports across Tobaco, Yarmouth, Charlottetown and Halifax. Lists punch, molasses, sugar, cocoanuts, berries, eggs, mackerel, herring, codfish, halibut, logs, and oil drums. Includes many firms such as J L Thomas, J G Hall & co, Barclay & co, Delong & Seaman, F Hutchinson, H B Griffin, and Beaman.
A raw ledger of consignments including Ayres & co and J F Hutchinson with eggs fish and mackerel, various firms sending bbls cases and boxes to ports such as Port Hawkesbury Halifax and London England. Notable entries include 69 do mackerel 45 bbis eggs 600 dbis mackerel and a brig Genoa of 600 tons chalk order.
Shipping list from Port Gilbert Port Williams Port Windsor St John Frederickton and others reports diverse cargoes including coal flour cornmeal oil kerosene salt lard cattle beef beef products canned goods and machinery. Additional items include lumber leather bacon and opulent consignments on ships such as Palestine Her mann Cumberland Mary Rose and British Empire with quantities ranging from hundreds to thousands of units.
Foreign markets report from London and Liverpool dated Aug 26 shows wheat quiet but steady, corn slow, and varied quotations for English and foreign wheat and American and Danubian corn. Cargoes, spot markets, and weekly deliveries noted as weather remains mostly fair, with a British wheat weekly delivery count of 38,669 quarters at an average price of 30s 5d. Provisions and dairy prices steady, cotton markets quiet with futures easing, and American middling cotton at 65d with notable sales and receipts.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Suffolk Probate Court informs heirs at law next of kin and all interested persons in the estate of Timothy McCarthy late of Boston Massachusetts deceased. Public notice requests filing claims or responding per probate rules.
Corrected timetable for New York and New England trains from Boston foot of Summer Street. Lists daily and Sunday departures to Ashcroft, Baltimore, Dorchester, New York via air line, Providence, Norwood, Norwich Line, River Street, and Norwich line express with multiple intermediate stops and times. Includes Woonsocket division and connections to steamer City of New York at New London.
John Adams, Genl Supt, outlines daily Boston to Troy Albany and beyond schedules on the Fitchburg Hoosac route. Sizes include multiple Express and Sleeping Car services to Chicago Niagara Falls and Grand Trunk lines with numerous intermediate stops and seasonal notes. Local timetables available at stations and 250 Washington Street Boston.
Play 12 1889 time tables show local and through service between all stations. Trains for Albany and the West depart Boston at 211.00 a.m. with drawing room cars. Worcester to New Haven dining car 4.60 p.m. Daily limited express. Electric lighted Worcester to New Haven 11.00 p.m. Daily sleeping cars. Tickets and sleeping or parlor car accommodations at 232 Washington Street or Kneeland Street station.
Western Division Boston station Haymarket services list multiple trains to Portland Alton Bay Manchester Exeter and other stops with varying departure times from 6am to 11pm including a Workingmen's train. The timetable covers North Conway Reading Dover Haverhill Lawrence Newburyport Lowell Medford and Salem with numerous intermediate times and rundates.
Trains leave Boston for Portland Amesbury Beverly Biddeford Great Falls and Rochester Hampton Beach North Hampton Wharf Keane Marblehead Swampscott Newburyport North Conway Wortsmouth Rockport Gloucester Salem York Harbor Beach R B R Swampscott Wolfeboro Wynn Stations and branches plus workingmen's train with varied times from early morning to late evening across numerous New England towns including Boston Haymarket.
Trains depart Boston for Keene Peterboro Hillsboro and other stops on varied daily times. Stops include Nashua North Billerica Lawrence Stoneham Webara Woburn and Manchester with through service to Concord Montreal and Kee feormatory Station.
Trains leave from Boston stations for Northampton and multiple towns with listed departures at 7.45 am 1.30 3.40 pm and additional times for Hudson So Sudbury Rockbottow Wayland Weston Waltham Belmont Waverley and SUNDAY TRAINS to Northampton at 1.15 pm signed James T. Furber and D J Flanders as general manager and ticket agent.
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