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Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Feb 14, 1883

Page

3

Money Matters in Boston Market with Union Pacific in View

Boston markets show firmer rates with banks discounting mercantile paper at 5 to 6 percent and call loans at 4 1 2 to 5 percent. National sources note United States securities strong. Union Pacific stock fluctuates from 24 to 34 per share amid a session discussing potential joint leasing among major western railroads.

Boston New York

Market Steady Decline Then Rally After Noon

Despatch from New York reports mixed rail and mining stocks with early weakness, large swings, and a final push led by Hannibal and St. Joe preferred and Chicago Burlington and Quincy. Delaware and Hudson dropped sharply to 105 1 2, while Pacific Mail and coal stocks led gains in the late rally.

Boston Western Railroad Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Chicago Burlington and Quincy Union Pacific New York Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Wabashad Hannibal and St. Joseph Indiana Vilint Pere Marquette Toledo Cincinnati St. Louis Marquette Houghton Ontonagon Town Falls Sioux City The Financial Chronicle William R. Travers Lowell New England Middlesex Rutland Albany Eastern Mexican Central South Kansas and Western Bell Telephone New Little Rock Fort Smith American Bell Telephone Northern Telephone Northern Telephone Company Franklin Hinshaw Quincy Silver Islet Sun Pedro Burnham Sumpany Messrs Wim. B. Dana & Co Financial Review G. Martin State Street Erie Jersey Central Chicago Texas Paccifie East Tennessee Kansas Mutual Union Telegraph Alton Terre Haute Lake Shore Northwestern Delaware and Hudson Central Pacific New Jersey Burlington and Quincy Pacific Mail Norfolk and Western Wabash Delaware Iindson Sierra Grande Robinson Consolidated Alice Chrysolite Hall Anderson Sierra Nevada Union Consolidated Navajo Elko al the Stock Exchange Salea Canada Southern BOI Biig C Del L. & West Manhattan Kile Memphis & C Missouri Pacific Cen Northern Pacific Wit One & Missisippi BOL Ontario & West Ohio Centra Lily Ivy Pacific Mail Peoria Phila Reading Milwaukee &St.p St. P.& Omeha Texas Pacific Saly Akg Saly Wa St.l Westen Union Oregon Trans.Co Baty Bay Nor, & Westptd St Mutual Cuion

Daily car inspection report and market notes at Corn Exchange

The report lists car grades and counts for white winter wheat, corn steamer, oars, and Liverpool cheese. Special from Elgin notes cheese and butter quotas. New York mercantile exchange reports steady markets for butter cheese and pork bids. Chicago pork and lard prices listed. Union Stockyards show hog and cattle receipts and price ranges. February wheat, corn, and oats futures with daily closes. Receipts and shipments for corn and oats at Chicago given.

Corn Exchange Liverpool Elgin New York Mercantile Exchange New York Boston Produce Exchange Chicago SIS Kis Blais Sis Rie

Market notes on breadstuffs and dairy products

The market remains firm with limited concessions. Corn oats and flour show quiet activity. butter and eggs vary by grade with creamery and dairy stock outperforming earlier levels. Potatoes steady. beans and other produce subdued as shipments tighten and prices hold.

Fall Creamery New York Vermont Wester Creamery Choice Western Dairy Sac Western Canada Sogo

Market Prices and Commodities Report Below Peak Winter Levels

The report lists prices for apples, cranberries, dried fruits, hay and straw, and provisions. It notes steady pork and lard, steady poultry and game with high prices, and general weakness in hay and straw sales. Cotton and textile futures show dull activity with mixed regional quotes and port receipts detailed.

Aioe Central Brooks Tasman Sweets

Market Bulletin: Faneuil Hall Retail Prices Feb 14

Market notes show well stocked provision departments at Faneuil Hall with hogs light from the west due to loading car shortages in Chicago. Fresh meats and pork prices rise slightly with limited fresh ribs, hams, and sausages. fruits vegetables and seafood list varied gains and shortages across items and regions.

Wennesday Chicago Norfolk Martinoes Malaga Em &P

Market summaries from Chicago to New Orleans sectors

Drawer of commodities and prices shows refined goods, beef and lard markets, and shipping rates across Chicago Toledo Milwaukee and other ports. Wheat, flour, corn, oats, rye and pork futures move amid steady to firmer tones. freight costs to Liver pool steady. various tierce and mes s beef and butter prices noted with regionally reported spot and future quotes.

Baers Porto Rico Orleans Greany Petroleum—United Liverpool Chicago Cor Toledo API Gorn Ats SM Milwaukee Barle Sie

Financial notes from London and Liverpool markets

U S 5s rise to 16, Atlantic and Great Western firsts 56, Erie 3795, New York Central 12914, Penn Central 6, Reading 28, Mexican 1451g. Cargoes for wheat and corn steady. Liverpool wheat fair, corn steady. Flour prices quoted in Liverpool and London. cotton futures dull but steady with various contracts listed. Receipts show three 18 152,000 centals wheat, mostly American breadstuffs. weather in England fine.

Boston New York Liverpool Uplands Orleans Manchester Baies Augusta Arleston Sige Midaling Savannah Mobile New Orleans ST. Louis United States Great Britain France Continent Commercial London Beerbohm Merchants’ Exchange California England

Livestock Market Report and Lumber from States

The Boston Post summary lists weekly cattle, swine, and sheep totals with prior week and year comparisons, plus rail car counts by line. It also includes market beef and store cattle prices, prices for swine and hides, and notes on lumber from various states including Maine Vermont and Massachusetts.

Maine New & Shire Vermont Massachusetts Boston Lowell Albany Fitchburg Kasten New York New England Providence Old Colby, CO Brighton

Railroads End Mutual Operating Pact Between Boston and Lowell

A Boston and Lowell railroad circular confirms termination of the mutual operating agreement with the Concord railroad, effective after business on February 28, amid cordial notes. Separate notes discuss Trans-Pacific competition, potential pooling with Union Pacific and Southern Pacific, and proposed independent routes from Ogden to California. News covers earnings shifts for Wabash, Richmond and Danville, and the Southwestern system in early February.

Lowell Railroad Concord Road Boston Boston and Lowell Railroad Corporation Concord Railroad Corporation Apnorr J. Thomas Vost Trans-Pacific Chicago Tribune Messrs. Kimball and Vining New York Southern Pacific San Francisco New Orleans Pacific Coast Union Pacific Union Central Pacific Ogden California Denver and Rio Grande Utah Burlington General Wabash Richmond and Danville Railroad Company Southwestern Railway System

Imports at Boston and Havana Steamer Newport Cargo

Listings show cargo on Boston and Havana consignments aboard ships City of Columbus and Newport. Entries include numerous bales hides cotton timber resin and crates from firms such as Edwards Brackett Field Lawrence and Proctor Haskell with items like cigars, rice, leather, and machinery. Multiple firms and cargos noted across ships and dates.

Savanna Colmmbus Eard Manchard Carlton Edwards & Brackett Henderson Lewis Turpentine Leonard & Clark Roach Tufts Rice Jewell & Co Field & Lawrence Nickerson Everett Mills Stark Mmils Bott Cotton Mills Webster Co Almy & Co Dickson Dexter Beard Wheelwright, Anderon & Co Billings & Eaton Brown & Co Lord & Co Continental Havana Newport New York Pierce & Co

Foreign Exports GLASGGW Steamer Austrian Cleared Feb 12

The steamer Austrian cleared on February 12 for foreign exports listing 6 444 bushels of wheat 3s8 boxes hams 250 boxes sugar 285 gallons shoe ink 4 cases Scotch Holland 10 150 sacks flour 1s 059 bushels corn 100 barrels apples 14 bales duck 5 cases dress foods 2 cases organ material 1 crate machinery 63 head cattle 2 200 pieces staves It records the volume and variety of goods shipped overseas from the port.

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Receipts of Staple Goods Across Railroad Lines

A long list of commodities delivered by multiple railroads including Liesten Albany Maine and Easten lines. Entries cover corn oats middlings barley flour malt tallow pork hams grease beans onions butter cheese apples hay lumber leather hides skins tea coffee molasses and more with quantities noted per carriage or carload.

Liesten and Albany Providence Railroad Lowell Railroad Tum- Sane Tolls Maine Railroad Easten Railroad Fitchburg Railroad Grand Junction Railroad New York and New England Railroad Old Colony

Baptists Attack Ingalls Over Conceptions of Immortality

The New York Baptist Weekly labeled Senator Ingalls an infidel for remarks at the Hill memorials. Ingalls replied from Washington DC defending his views on the afterlife, condemning the editorial as heathenish slander and urging repentance for malice and evil speaking.

The Baptist Weekly Senator Ingalls Washington Post New York Baptist Weekly Congress Ingalls Hill Christ Mr. Ingalls United States Senate Chamber Washington, D. C Parroy D. D New York City Sim Senator Hill

Court Record: Appeal in Fosdick Bankruptcy Case

United States Circuit Court on February thirteen before Judge Coir hears Charles H. Hersey et al as assignees appeal from a bankrupt court decision allowing proof of certain notes against the estate of C F Parker and Co. The case resumes with Edward Avery for plaintiffs and J J Myers and J E Warner for the defendant.

Charles H. Hersey

Springfield man held on charges in Ludlow post office theft

Frederick Rivers of Springfield Massachusetts was held in 1000 dollars bond by U S Commissioner HALLETY on February 13 for the March term of the district court. He faces charges of breaking and entering and stealing money from the Ludlow post office.

U.S. Commissioner's Court Hallety Frederick Rivers Springfield Mass District Court Ludlow Wiliian Measeley Patrick Lannehan Jeremiah Driscoll Emma Copekind Louis S. Letts Herman Geller Commercial Street Charles E. Brown Martin Glynn John Kennedy House of Correction James Ross John B. Farrer George Cutler

Custody dispute over Annie Neithamer ruled by Supreme Judicial Court

In a February session before Judge Devens the Supreme Judicial Court ruled that the father retains the paramount right to custody of Annie K Neithamer born to George Neithamer and his deceased wife. The case cited the child's delicate nature and the mother's earlier estrangement, with the court ordering the suit to issue and allowing the father's custody claim to proceed. additional notes on related cases and civil and criminal matters followed in the docket.

Devens Annie K. Neithamer George Neithamer Annie K Dwyer J. J. Young McConnell Et al W. H. H. Kelley Kelley Salem N. H Nho Methuen New Hampshire B. Ives, Jr Wm. Gaston Bionarrr John Depan Patrick Nelligan Suffolk Ae F. Fitz Paul West Catherine Wilton City of Boston Phillips Street T. J. Morrison T. M. Babson

New Publications listed for February including Modern Hagar

A catalog of upcoming books and editions from major publishers. Charles M Cay’s Modern Hagar is reviewed as a two volume sequel to Baby Rue. Other works include Ford’s American Citizen's Manual, Helen Campbell on Work and Play, and North American land atlas by Nesse-Wartegg.

Leadville Herald Leadville Iron Silver Company H. A. Hagan Agassiz Museum Cambridge Charles M. Cay New York Geo, W. Harlan & Co Boston A. Williams & Co Price Mr. Clay Baby Rue Kaaterskill Worthington C. Ford Helen Campbell Ernest von Nesse-Wartegg New York Belletr-Journal North America North American Kansas New Mexico Arizona Mexico Chatto & Windus London Gustave Dore Edgar Allan Poe Messrs Harper & Bros Messrs. Harper & Bros the Ancient Mariner Dore Worthington Richard A. Proctor Pearze Smyth Wio Henry A. Sumner & Co Chicago Acorn John McElroy Toledo Blade Red Acorn United States J. McKay American Journal of Medica Science Murdock Fordyce Baker American Genealogical Society Fothergill

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