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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1889
Page
7
Market chatter notes lake ingot copper at 12c with little buying interest and possible price drops forthcoming. Western pig lead at 4c spot in round lots, holders seeking higher. Pig tin firmer at 19¾c, London tin at £88 17s 6d spot and £89 12s 6d futures. Tin plates steady with fair demand. Spelter firm at 5c to 5.05c, demand good.
Market round up reports no change in raw sugar prices with firm refined levels. Rio coffee slips then steadies near bottom as stock and trade in spices and teas show dull activity. Wholesale prices edge higher. pepper and cassia quotes vary amid cautious demand and strong exports from Singapore and Jamaica.
The July option for wheat is sustained by Hutchinson, with heavy December selling. Northwest weather and high temperatures temper bears, while corn stays dull. Exports and hogs dominate the day as lard and ribs weaken. forecasts hint at large hog slaughter in July and August.
July 6 wool sale in London reports good attendance and spirited bidding. Cross breds bought largely for America, with 500 bales sold for account. Better greasies declined slightly. 12,750 bales offered and 94,000 remaining. Today's sales included Victoria lot of 1900 bales with various prices for scoured and greasy grades.
The Utah wool output for 1889 will approach 12 million pounds, sold at 14 to 19 cents with an average around 17.44 cents. Fine feed from May rains improved quality. Mutton exports have been brisk, causing scarcity and keeping prices firm through the summer.
Providence July 6 the print cloth market ends the week firm at 3 15 16c bid for 64 squares spots with manufacturers holding for 4c and 37 16c for 56x60s. Sales total 6500 pieces including 3000 of 64x 64s spots at 3 15 16c and 4000 at 3 31 32c plus 2500 of 66x60s at 3 7 16c. Manufacturers hold 98,000 pieces 648 and no 56x60s.
John E. Welsh flour and grain at 206 State Street reports carload arrivals of 42 cars yellow corn, 6 cars No 3 white oats, total 48 cars. Flour receipts today 6115 bbls 6614 sacks, firm market with higher prices hinted. New York and Chicago quotations listed for flour oats corn wheat rye and byproducts, with steady to firm tone and varied exports.
Receipts for today list butter 1940 pkgs, oleo 2335 pkgs, cheese 770 boxes, eggs 268 boxes and 2058 cases, beans 103 bbls, potatoes 16 cars, hay 19 cars, straw 7 cars. Last year values show higher butter and varied dairy goods. butter market described as over supplied and dull with unchanged prices. New York and Chicago reports flag easy quiet markets for dairy and weak butter with ample stocks. Oleomargarine unchanged. Cheese well supplied with outside prices around 3 cents, Western around 8 plus 2 cents.
Beans show tight supply with red kidney beans at 3 dollars and yellow eye at 375. Other lots small and firm. Potatoes demand fair at old prices. Poultry stocks small with high quality lots in demand and firm prices. Hay and straw demand quiet with steady, unchanged prices. rye straw dull and steady.
The market remains well supplied with no notable change in quotations as Saturday trading proceeds quietly. Traders report steady prices and routine activity, with none of the usual fluctuations seen on busy market days.
Fruit prices and supply notes for apples, oranges, strawberries, berries, cantaloupes, currants, pineapples, raspberries, watermelons, bananas, and California fruits. Details include crates, pints, quarts, and per-bunch pricing, with references to Nova Scotia, York State, Maryland, Delaware, Louisiana, Abaco, Havana, and Baracoa markets. boat commodity movements noted for Savannah.
The steamer Brunel carries Mediterranean fruit and will be sold on Tuesday. H Harris & Co will auction Monday a selection of California fruits including 178 boxes Hartlett pears 80 boxes Crawford peaches 285 boxes Tragedy prunes 14 boxes golden plums 36 boxes fancy plums 134 boxes German prunes and 45 boxes purple Duane plums.
The Brinio arrives Wednesday with Baracoa bananas for Seaverns and JW. Howick passed Gibraltar July 4 with 1700 boxes Messina lemons 1900 half boxes Palermo oranges and 13200 boxes Palermo lemons bound for Boston. Ponca sailed Palermo July 2 with Messina and Palermo fruit for Boston. Savannah due Monday carries 160 bbls 550 crates vegetables and 16780 watermelons. Christian Johnson due Tuesday with Baracoa bananas for WW and R Noyes. Viking due Wednesday from Banes with bananas for Seaverns and Qa. Kong Alf expected Thursday from Jamaica with bananas for the Boston Fruit Company.
Receipts today show tallow 81 bbls beef 225 tierces pork 306 bbls lard 6978 pkgs hams 19 bbls preserved meats 402 boxes bacon 2214 boxes. Price quotes in New York Chicago St Louis Cincinnati reflect steady to firmer lard and mixed pork cuts with meat products trading at various bid levels. Tallow remains quiet, city deliverable at 4 5-16 to 4 3-16 cents per pound.
New York cotton opens quiet and closes steady with 320 bales sold, 147,236 stock. Liverpool shows firm demand for middlings and low middlings. American receipts and exports noted. Several inland markets report firm to steady prices across Augusta Galveston New Orleans Mobile Memphis Savannah Charleston Baltimore Norfolk Wilmington West Point Philadelphia Cincinnati data show steady mid 10 to 11 cent ranges.
Consolidated net receipts for one day 607 with exports to Great Britain 46 and Continent 22. Stock 177 640. St Louis net receipts and shipments 28 and stock 2507 with steady mid 1011 16c. Louisville steady with mid Llc figures and overall receipts.
Market reports show steady to weak trends in cattle hog and sheep prices. Kansas City receipts steer values 340 to 400 dollars and hogs 410 to 430, Chicago cattle and hogs mixed with profitable ranges. Cincinnati hogs lower, others steady to strong in various grades and shipment totals.
Turpentine closed at 37 percent with rosin at 110 to 112 percent and tar at 225. Petroleum closed at 7.30 cents with RSW at 7.20 cents and cases at 9.10 cents. Coffee Rio in New York remains steady with fair car loads. Whiskey shows no change, reported at 102 dollars.
List of imported and exported goods at Montevideo and Liverpool including agricultural implements cane sugar pine lumber kerosene oil lashings of crates and crates of flour beef lard butter and groceries on several vessels and steamers with quantities and destinations.
July 6 London market notes show wheat firm in cargoes and on passage with quiet Paris wheat and inactive English markets. Liverpool spot Wheat firm Corn slow, futures firm with July No 1 California at 7s 9d and November at 7s 4d, August corn at 3s 9 42d. Provisions mixed with Pork steady 63s, Lard 35s 6d, Cheese 45s.
A condensed snippet lists several business names and representatives across states including I Faller, Sons & Co of Cedar Rapids Iowa Gibs, G A Cobban of Middletown Ohio, L B Cahill of Montgomery Alabama, and W H Weimer of Weimer Wright & Watkins Philadelphia, indicating a network of partners and agents in a trade notice.
Cynthia Maud Sherburne seeks a divorce from Orlando A. Sherburne alleging outrageous neglect and failure to provide maintenance since 1885. She states they were married in Boston on September 28, 1884 and that she has resided in Boston for over three years dependent on charity. She requests restoration of her maiden name Cynthia Maud Hopkins.
Probate notices cite John M Forbes trustee seeking land division approval and conveyance to Nathaniel H Stone. Executors of Henry W Bellows estate named with agent Francis V Lalch. demands to estate of Anna H Bellows and Russell N Bellows. administrator appointed for John P Barnard estate with payment requests. Boston, July 3, 1889.
Trains on the Merrimac Valley Line depart Boston from the Boston and Lowell Station on Causeway Street. Service details indicate schedules for outbound routes and boarding points along the route.
Trains depart Boston Passenger Station Causeway Street with an accommodation service to Troy at 6 30 am and an express parlor car service to Troy and Binghamton at 8 30 am. A sleeping car runs to Buffalo.
A dense list of transit times shows multiple towns including Amesbury Mev erly Epawich Eyam Salem Marblehead Swampscott and North Conway. The data covers various stations with departures and arrivals ranging from early morning to late evening, hinting at a broad regional schedule.
A dense timetable lists departures from Keene Peterboro Hillsboro and many others with multiple daily times across 8.30am to 11.15pm including Nashua Woburn and Concord. It mentions routes via Concord Bedford Lowell Lawrence and Montreal with numerous daily stops and transfer points.
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