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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1887
Page
7
A grocery listing details price ranges for various fresh meats. Fancy spring lambs and Chicago mutton appear with quality notes from common to good and choice heavy Brighton mutton. Eastern mutton and veal sections show price points from 4 11e to 869c with terms like fancy and poor to good.
The bulletin lists miscellaneous items with timing and rates for certificates and openings, plus sugar market notes. Raw sugar prices remain steady with refiners and granulated varieties at about 615 to 616 cents. several sugar types and terms such as Javas and confectioners moves are noted.
Reports from New York Chicago and other hubs show flour and grain demand steady to weak with price ranges across many grades. Beef pork lard and whiskey firm in places while arrivals and exports vary. concrete figures list receipts and sales for wheat corn oats rye barley and other staples along with regional price bands.
Hogs firmer with rises of about 10 cents in Peoria and Kansas City with receipts around 7,000 to 10,000 head. St Louis sees buyers paying 520 to 580 for Yorkers and several grade levels, while Chicago notes strong cattle demand with steer pricing near 290 to 500 and hogs mixed from 485 to 714 for various weights. Sheep market slower with natives and Western lots trading around 2.80 to 4.90.
December 19 market roundup lists Augusta Augusta Net receipts 1884 gross 1834 sales 7938 quiet mid 954, Galveston Net 4019 gross 4019 exports to continent 3405 coastwise 574 sales 107 stock 105322 steady, New Orleans 17280 receipts 17398 exports continent 5235 sales 3000 stock 370862 quiet steady mid 8 1/2. Other ports report firm or quiet tones with varied stocks and daily shipments across Mobile Memphis Savannah Charleston Wilmington Norfolk Philadelphia Baltimore New York Cincinnati St Louis Louisville and consolidated three day totals.
London reports show cargoes off coast with wheat and corn stowed while passage cargoes for shipment remain quiet as a holiday market. At Mark Lane wheat turns easier, American corn firm, Danubian corn quiet, flour quiet with California club wheat for December and January noted. Liverpool spot wheat inactive, corn quiet with weak demand. pork higher at 63 60.
In Liverpool and Antwerp steady to firm prices for wheat and corn with California wheat quoted at 68s 10d in March and 68s 10 4d in April. London reports English wheat weaker by 6d, flour dull, and ongoing low spirits in foreign trade. Twenty cargoes of wheat arrived, with limited sales and several withdrawals.
A detailed 1887 shipping ledger notes imports and exports for Savannah and Yarmouth. Entries include cotton bales from multiple mills such as Atlantic Mills Cohannet Mills and Amoskeag, along with pig iron, oranges, fish, duck, paper stock, and various groceries. The list records vessel names, quantities, and consignors like C Storrow & co and F M Leonard & co with multiple firm allocations.
A dated shipping export summary lists cargoes for the steamer Catalonia sailing from Liverpool with goods including rubber, beef, cheese, flour, cotton, wheat, pork, lard, oil cake, leather, machinery, iron, patterns, oranges, books, and more. Additional consignments from Sydney Cow Bay, Arichat, Parrsboro, Windsor, Great Village, and Yarmouth detail sacks of feed, flour, cornmeal, pork, beef, coal, oats, and various farm products aboard schooners Kestrel Mary E McDougall Billow R N B Flora E Lennie.
Boston and Albany Railroad report lists quantities of staples including 48 bales cotton 858 bales wool 2550 bbls flour 126 bbls oatmeal 7840 bushels corn 2400 bushels oats 1100 bushels malt 900 bushels feed 700 bushels barley 800 bushels wheat 101 bbls tallow 1010 pork 20 boxes bacon 32 tierces 50 cases 210 pkgs lard 186 tubs 3 boxes butter 2260 pkgs oleo 312 boxes cheese 33 erses egegs 160 bbls apples 110 cars hay car straw 7 cars lumber 48 rolls 410
Rosalie Lyonnais of Boston files for divorce from Arthur A Lyonnais of Quebec. Married July 13 1880 at Holyoke. alleges desertion July 17 1885 and cruelty with maintenance refusal. Court orders service by publication in Boston Post with notice to appear February 1888.
The Central Massachusetts Railroad announces new routes from Boston to Northampton Hadley Amherst and other towns. It lists multiple daily departures and intermediate stops including Ware Gilbertville Barre Clinton Berlin Hudson South Sudbury Wayland Weston and Belmont with times such as 7.25 am 12.05 pm and 5.25 pm. General Superintendent Geo W Storer signs the notice.
A fragmented timetable note from Boston and Maine dated Oct 28 1887 lists Western Division routes and station references including Augusta Haymarket Causeway Yam St John Halifax and times around 8 30 am 9 am and 7 pm with references to Eastpe Ne St John and N 8 Halifar.
The timetable lists frequent trains from Portland, Calais, Rockland, Rockport, and Kennebunk to Boston and Providence with major hubs at Haymarket and Causeway Street stations. It details daily departures at 8:30 am 1:30 pm and 7:00 pm, plus weekend patterns, return times, and connections via South Boston and the Shore Line.
The fragment lists freight movement across several lines including Grand Junction, Boston & Providence, New York & New England, Fitchburg, Boston & Maine, and Boston & Maine Eastern Western Lowell. Items include cotton, wool, flour, corn, oats, wheat, bacon, butter, cheese, tea, coffee, leather, hides, pelts, lard, pork, eggs, lumber, and bales.
Navy invites sealed proposals for a steel submarine torpedo boat built to high tensile strength and speed. Bid must include drawings, weights, engine details and a 5 percent certified check. Proposals due March 1, 1888 with bond 60 percent of bid. reserve right to reject all bids.
Heirs and interested persons are cited in the Suffolk Probate Court for Boston to show cause why the Mississippi will copy may be filed. Petition by Yazoo City residents Bowman and Kling seeks letters testamentary to executors named. Public notice to appear January 16, 1888, at ten in the forenoon with weekly Boston Post publications.
Preferred stock dividend of 4 percent equals two dollars per share. Payable at American Loan and Trust Company, 65 Congress St., on Monday, Jan 2, 1888 to stockholders of record Dec 15, 1887. Transfer books closed from 3 p m Dec 15 1887 to Jan 2 1888. H Goodspeed Treasurer. Boston Dec 12 1887.
Trains depart Boston foot of Summer Street on weekdays with no car changes to Ashcroft at 6 8 9 30 pm and 12 15 2 30 4 36 6 9 10 11 15 pm. Schedules list routes through Baltimore Blackstone Dudley Street Endicott Harvard Street and other points with varied times and stops.
Fragmentary timetable lists several train times and routes toward New London, Norwich, Willimantic, Waterbury and Hartford, including intermediate stops and daily and Sunday services. Mentions Norwalk, Hyde Park, Pawtucket, Windsor and related connections.
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