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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1888
Page
7
Grouse in moderate demand priced at 75 to 90 cents per pair. Quail Western 25 to 300 per pair, ducks Northern Eastern 10 to 13 cents, mallard 70 to 80 cents per pair, teal 40 to 60 cents per pair, geese 10 shillings in Western district, rabbits Eastern 16 to 18 cents per pair. Tallow movement fair with city rendered at 434, country 444 cents and rough at 2 to 2 cents.
In Elgin 8100 the putter was sold with opening at 0c and sales at 31 82cc. Sutac had offers on some lots while the directors price closed at lo. Chicago butter is in fair demand with Elgin creamery extra Slc Western eet extra 280. Cheese is steady and eggs firm with Western firsts 150. In New York butter quiet cheese firm eggs steady scans firm and dried apples dull.
Receipts for the month ending January show gains in apples cranberries and Florida oranges with H Harris & Co. and Jona Bigelow & Co. announcing Wednesday auctions for 5000 and 500 boxes of Florida oranges. The steamer Italia arrives as Valencias sell midweek and Jamaica bananas head to Seaverns & Co. Prices mix through cranberries and assorted nuts with Mediterranean fruit quotations and jobbing orange figures noted.
Receipts for the month end show varied totals across provisions including lard, hams, beef, and pork products with port quotations unchanged. Prices range from long cuts at 17 60 to smoked ribs at 8 9c, with beef and veal markets steady and demand fair but subdued overall.
Pipeline certificates closed at 3 pm January 30 and opened January 31 with 89 percent, highs at 90 percent, and lows near 39 percent. Sugar markets show no sales, raw and refined prices steady with granulated at 7 to 7 1/4 cents, molasses offered at 22 to 85 cents per gallon from various ports, and overall wholesale grocer prices steady.
New York reports flour receipts 4581 packages exports 5613 barrels and 15 599 sacks with steady demand. Prices show Western and State extras at 290 to 440, Minnesota extras 440 to 460, city mill extra 4 30 to 4 75, superfine 2 45, winter wheat 2 90 to 5 00, and Southern assortments 3 30 to 4 90. Cornmeal oats rye barley and molasses also noted with varied bids. overall market activity moderate.
Market notes from Minneapolis Milwaukee Detroit Cincinnati and Toledo show wheat varying around 73 to 85 cents for No 1 and No 2 grades, flour and grain receipts and shipments tallied, corn oats and barley with modest shifts, pork lard and bacon prices steady to firm, and hogs softer with tighter supplies. Notable figures include No 1 hard wheat at 77 cents, No 1 Northern at around 75 to 74 cents, and bacon short clear near 8.75 dollars.
Allan Asher & Co report a quiet day in cotton futures with many operators inclined to sell despite limited comfort from abroad. New York futures opened steady and closed barely steady as port receipts and exports show modest declines while local spot prices remain near 10.5 to 11 cents.
Market bulletin from St Louis Kansas City and Chicago reports hogs lower with Yorkers at 5.15 to 5.25 for Hogs. mixed packers 5.05 to 5.40. butchers to extra 5.35 to 5.50. Cattle receipts 8060 in Chicago with higher prices for choice steers 3.25 to 3.45. stockers and feeders 2.30 to 3.40. cows and bulls 1.70 to 3.10. Hogs in Chicago slow and lower with weights 4.95 to 5.35 for mixed and 4.90 to 5.35 for heavy. lambs 5.50 to 6.00. sheep receipts 2000 with natives 3.25 to 5.25 and Western 4.50 to 5.10.
London and Liverpool market wires report wheat quiet and steady with firm Paris prices. Cargoes off coast, two sold and two awaiting sales. California and Michigan wheat prices listed. Antwerp spot wheat unchanged. Paris flour prices for January and February set. Receipts of wheat and corn for the week noted in Liverpool.
London Wool Sales opened with 284000 bales offered including 10000 held over. Competition was spirited and prices for Australian and Cape of Good Hope and Natal were around par with December. Cross-breds rose about 6 percent. Readouts show varied prices by origin including New Zealand New South Wales Queensland Victoria South Australia Swan River and Cape of Good Hope and Natal across scoured greasy and locks and pieces.
A detailed ledger of ship Bavarian from Liverpool with 220 bales paper stock and numerous consignments from multiple firms such as Wilder, King, Baring, Morey, Gardner, Moors, Hills, Turner, Wright, James Hill Mant, Abram French, EF A Leigh, Dodge, Haley, Leyland, Stoddard Lovering, Linder Meyer, Seaverns, Spinney, Spinney, and others. Includes 314 tons iron, 12 cases moise, Colorado? Noting a Bengar steamer cargo of 13 700 bags sugar at Matanzas and 166 000 frozen herring for St George NB J. Glover schooner.
On January 31, 1888 shipments leave Lunenburg NS with Diadem carrying salt and provisions, Guysboro NS tallying flour meal oats and feed, St John NB listing lumber and supplies, and Antwerp via New York noting leather bacon pork loins and hocks aboard the Ruyter.
A detailed ledger lists commodities moved by multiple railroads including Boston & Albany, Grand Junction, Boston & Providence, Old Colony, New York & New England, Fitchburg, Boston & Maine divisions, and the Lowell System. Totals cover cotton, wool, flour, corn, oats, malt, meat products, butter, oleo, apples, hay, lumber, leather, hides, bacon, beef, tea, coffee, pelts, and more.
Commonweal th of Massachusetts Suffolk Probate Court cites heirs and interested parties in the estate of Mary B Pitts for probate of a will. James L Pitts of Grand Rapids petitions for administration with will annexed without sureties. court set for February 6 1888 at ten in the morning in Boston. Public notice to be published weekly for three weeks in the Boston Post. Witness Judge John W McKie. Register Elijah George.
Joel Snow as trustee under an 1873 deed seeks court authority to sell on Johnson Avenue and Phipps Street in Charlestown Boston. Citation requires publication in the Boston Post for three weeks with the final notice at least two days before the February 20 1888 hearing. Judge Joan W McKim signs. Elva George registers.
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