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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1885
Page
3
Holiday shopping in Boston shows a strong trade in practical and tasteful gifts with Egyptian and Japanese styles popular in desk items and novelties. Retailers note earlier start to the season, lower prices, and a shift toward useful home goods, toys, laces, furs, and unique jewelry as shoppers race to complete Christmas lists.
Christmas brings heavy extra work to post office staff with cards gifts and congratulatory letters flooding the building. Extra temporary workers will be hired to manage peak demand as foreign mail also rises while stamps sell briskly and express firms brace for holiday volumes.
Intruders entered several Chelsea homes during the night, waking residents with a pistol shot and stealing small items. Marion Hallett’s husband chased the burglar while a partner possibly waited outside. A 33 caliber revolver was recovered. no major valuables were taken. Other homes on Walnut and Bellingham streets reported break-ins with items such as a microscope and clothing stolen.
Court house commissioners report settlements for estates at 8 Pemberton square 27 85 37 Somerset street 10 Pemberton square 33 Somerset street 12 13 14 Pemberton square and 19 Somerset street. Total paid 44197 50 above assessor values. 1883 assessments show increases for 8 Pemberton square and 10 Pemberton square while 12 13 14 Pemberton square hold steady. Estates listed involve Ebenezer Francis Ida Mason William Sohier Mary Rk Porter and Caroline M Richardson.
Banks cut discounts to 4 percent while call loans hold at around 4 percent. Sonora bonds plunge on a Kansas suit seeking to restrain interest payments, triggering broad selling in Atchison and Northern Pacific shares. Bank rates ease slightly, with mixed actions in international exchange as traders await further guidance from the Bank of England and evolving railroad finance news.
Chief Wade leads a thorough inquiry into an alleged plot to murder Eva and Bertie Chaplin. Mrs. Weldon visited the family gifting candy, while the Chaplins deny sickness after her gifts. Police cite circumstantial evidence, plan further action after her April release from detention.
A New Hampshire citizens committee forms to press for repeal or compromise of the valued policy law. It aims to show lawmakers that enforcing the law will paralyze business, ruin credit, and push manufacturing firms to relocate. Mutual insurers fear coverage gaps as foreign companies avoid business here. If a compromise gains a legislative majority, a special session may be urged.
Workmen remove temporary timber supports at the corner of Temple Place and Tremont Street as iron pillars and girders substitute them. The old court house is raised with two stories built underneath creating a skyward structure, planned for mercantile use, formerly the Masonic Temple, then government court house, now vacant awaiting redevelopment.
In Lardo Scotland a statue dedicated to Alexander Selkirk, born in 1676, stands near his cottage birthplace. It shows Crusoe in goat skins with a firelock, gazing seaward, using Selkirk’s original weapon as the model kept by the executors of Mr Lomsaine of Cathallan.
San Francisco report lists official closing prices for mining stocks as of December 16. Best & Belcher and Hale & Norcross appear with quoted figures while other entries show partial or unclear values. The list includes various firms such as Darien and Ontario with scattered cents per share, reflecting a eroding market.
Exposure can cause colds throat diseases and consumption warning signs include a troublesome cough. Use Dr Bull's Cough Syrup in time to remove both the cause and effect of your discomfort.
Fragmented OCR from a Boston Sales page shows entries for December 17 including American Shoe and Bowman with numeric amounts. Mentions Burton Stock Car and Kruns Ships Berth with various sums, but many garbled words obscure full items and outcomes. No coherent narrative or clear event structure is recoverable from the text.
New York markets opened active with gains in early trading as investors rotated into strong names. By afternoon, selling reemerged, pushing the Dow and broader averages into modest losses while several rail and utility issues firmed. Trading volume totaled just under 591,000 shares as investors weighed corporate earnings and government debt outlook.
A late special from George E. Eldridge & Co reports a drop in Northwest wheat movement while European passage rises 160,000 bushels, triggering a stronger market and a belief that prices will climb. Deliveries to Northwest may fall, and a visible-supply decline is expected due to home demand. Corn and provisions firm but quiet. market sentiment hints at a coming crisis with bulls and bears battling toward a likely five-cent advance or decline by year end.
Week ending data reveal higher futures activity with May contracts opening at one cent and closing near nine six to nine five. Mill throughput rose to eleven mills, weekly flour production hit 67,547 barrels while stocks and on call oats prices fluctuated, inspections logged diverse wheat and oats lots across Minneapolis Duluth St Paul and Boston notes.
Digest shows flour and grain markets stabilizing with steady to unchanged quotes across regions. Chicago Milwaukee New York St Louis and other hubs report quiet trade, mixed receipts and shipments and firm or steady prices for bread and milling flours, corn, oats and rye along with subdued butter eggs and beef markets.
London reports slow cargoes of wheat and corn off the coast and heavy prompt shipment. Prices show red winter wheat 338, No 2 spring 3ls 6d, mixed American corn 2ls 9d, with large on passage volumes for continent and United Kingdom. London and Liverpool quotes, Bank of England rate up to 4 percent, sugar in Havana firm, exchange firm, and gold premiums noted.
A fragment lists numerous ships and cargoes at global ports including Boston ANQUILLA ANSE DE HAINAULT and ANNAPOLIS with pots logs, sugar, papers, and cotton. Vessels such as Geo Walker Hugh M Joshua Baker Moses B Tower Norseman Archer and Pioneer carry logs, sugar, paper stock, leather, diamonds, ore, and bales across Liverpool NS and PEI with diverse lots of hides, wool, ore, and crates.
The Palestine arriving December 15 ferried a vast cargo through Liverpool including 24 553 bushel corn 00 cases beef 25 mutton 47 meats 2 organs 83 sacks oatmeal 412 sacks cottonseed meal 408 bags oil cake 125 sacks oatmeal 100 tierces salt meats 60 oil 200 barrels pork 593 boxes bacon 3660 sacks flour 2212 bales cotton 36 head cattle 896 quarters beef 238 barrels tongues 1400 pieces staves 265 pieces barrel staves 333 bags leather 1452 barrels apples 19 cases woodenware 30 boxes printed shete 2296 pounds cheese 58 bales cotton waste 1 box 2 barrels 2 kegs ink 1 cas s cotton goods 23 bars tallow 2 caset 38 bags 107 bolls 55 bales freight 50 tierces trimmings 272 barrels lard 150 do beef 68 do guts
Historical tally lists freight and commodity shipments by railways Boston and Albany Grand Junction Providence and Queensland Colonies. Items include cotton wool grain oats corn meal pork bacon lard beef butter cheese eggs tea coffee sugar molasses oleomargarine and leather in bales sacks crates cases and boxes with numerous counts and units. The fragment details varied cargo volumes for December and notes multiple railroad lines and destinations.
A fragmented listing of mixed commodities and quantities including hides leather cotton wool and bales. several railroad divisions and regional entries appear with scattered figures for apples hay lumber butter cheese eggs and other goods. Names of railroads Boston Maine Lowell and express lines surface with assorted car counts and box totals.
A deteriorated port table lists daily receipts of staples from various shipments including tallow lard grease coffee and molasses. It records quantities in barrels casks bags and boxes, noting hogs pork potatos and leather goods among others with several figures and itemized totals from 1863.
Private meeting of Springfield division bondholders opposed the plan to replace bonds with 5 percent mortgage bonds on the main line. The dispute centers on priority of Springfield branch claims and mortgage legality. About 200,000 bonds remain outstanding, with Robert Garrett & Sons among large holders. A final decision set for Dec 22.
The Frost v. Chase case before Judge Cour resumed and concluded regarding alleged suspender infringement. The ruling details are not provided in the fragment.
Judge ROCKWELL presided as the jury awarded the plaintiff Mary Ryan three hundred twenty five dollars against the town of Stona ham. C K Fay represented the plaintiff with W B Stevens for the town. Malahy v Cambridge Railroad Co remains on trial. Order numbers 874 537 384 306 273.
In Boston court records No 531 Kendall v Boston and Albany R R Co verdicts total 34 843 and No 530 Doyle administrator v same 2 000 with Swasey and Soule counsel. No 1764 City of Boston v Joan Gray et al goes to Supreme Court on law questions. No 1741 Highland Foundry Co v Smith Gerrish et al suit over bonds with three year deficiencies totaling 2 150 19 259 531 and 210 856 contested signatures. Second Session before Judge Mason resumes No 633 Blanchard v Boston Gas Light Co unfinished with Dickinson Dudley and others.
Suffolk County Insolvency Court under Judge McKim held first meetings for proof of debts and assignee selection. Thomas Barry, Benja min C. Gay, Clement A. Linnemann, John W. F. Wilson, Michael H. Brennan, Max Abrahams, and others had assignees named. Hearings on Miller & Co. bottlers and M. Fairbanks & Co. insolvency petitions led to warrants against estates. Other debtors include Joseph White, James McCarty, F. L. Morse, William Tobin & Co., and George G Whitehorn, with multiple locations cited.
At the December meeting President Angell reported he spoke to 17 000 public school pupils on the society aims. Agents secured indictments against Fitchburg and Connecticut River railroads for cruelty in transportation. Gifts came from the Valeria G Stone estate and the executors of Edward Lawrence. The society must secure new offices by May 1. A motion urged stationing horses at East Boston ferries at low tide to aid loaded teams. A resolution noted the death of John Langdon Sibley, a longtime ally. Agents have dealt with 114 ocom-
Wednesday the last of the Dart & Co Marlboro express items were recovered in New York after being stolen on Chauncy street. Hoffman, a member of the express thief gang, was arrested on Rivington street and brought back by Inspector Mountain. Governor Robinson ordered a requisition to return Winfield Scott Hayes on charges tied to a Lancaster hearse theft and conspiracy. Wade, linked to the Lynde street horse swindlers, was indicted and bailed last month. Patrolman Murphy recovered the remaining cigars from Henry Pelkus & Co on Commercial Street. Police also report arrests for breaking into a Boston and Providence railroad car and theft of clothing from J. V. Mulberg.
The Grant eulogy committee honors Rev. Henry Ward Beecher for his service by presenting a Kowara open-face watch with an eighteen-carat gold case and heavy chain. The gift, engraved with H. W. B. and a city inscription, acknowledges his eulogy on General Grant on Oct. 22, 1885. The watch cost 251.
Albert B. Stearns, 45, of Dedham, appointed by Collector Simmons in 1674 as storage clerk, becomes appraiser with a salary rise from 1300 to 3000. Republican, born in Chiconee, brother of George M. Stearns noted for the collectorship.
Professor C E Fay delivered the third junior class lecture in college hall last evening on the Niebelungen Lied, Germanys epic poem. A large Hilland crowd attended as the talk was illustrated by stereopticon slides from the Schnorr frescoes in the Munich palace.
New Haven reported a burglary attempt at Guilford savings bank and post office last night. A watchman found men at the rear door around 1 am. the door had been bored to saw out the lock. Police suspect professional burglars aimed to blow open both safes. they fled the scene.
At the annual election of Post 159 G. A. R. the following officers were chosen Commander J. Rossiter senior vice commander C. W. Lannan junior vice commander W. G. Smith quartermaster G. S. Pitts surgeon E K A. Hanscom officer of the day C. J. McNaughton officer of the guard J. O. Drow
Petitions for recount are filed for alderman races in wards including the eleventh and seventh districts. Independent candidate John F. Marvin plans to apply today for a Ward 16 recount, signaling potential broader challenges to vote totals across the council race.
Philip O Brien of New York City and John Ellison of Fall River Mass met in New York Wednesday and traveled to Boston together lodging at the Oxford House. At 4 o'clock yesterday morning Ellison left the house with $265 stolen from O'Brien.
Frank Davis was sentenced in Municipal Court to three months in the house of industry after being found by Patrolman Maguire in Leverett Street carrying thirteen dozen eggs in a basket. The incident occurred in the early morning hours.
A woman formerly near death from multiple female ailments including displacement and leucorrhea reports recovery after using Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription and his local treatments. She claims to be "as good as new" and notes the price reduced to one dollar by druggists.
At Charlestown on December 17 Rev George W Baooks joined Robert Greene of Westmoreland New Hampshire and Emma A Fisk of Charlestown in marriage. Moreland Russell marriage in Boston December 15 by Rev Seues W Durrell unites Frederic A Moreland to Emma T Sussell.
The fragment lists telephone numbers and railway and land company references followed by sums and executor orders. It mentions Lynn Os, Omaha and Southwestern, and various manufacturing companies with dates in 1896, including reg coupon and trust terms.
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