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Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Jul 13, 1885

Page

3

Trade Clears Show Broad Improvement Across Cities

The exhibit this week is more favorable than any in recent memory with gains in percentages over last year and the prior week. New York’s clearings rose to $488,978,897 from $484,709,355, while 26 cities totaled $752,897,046 versus $737,391,504 last week and $707,516,816 last year, a 7.8 percent rise year over year. Outside New York, countrywide clearings reached $263,918,149, up from $252,681,990 last week and $230,647,542 a year ago, with most cities posting increases. Among the few declines or flat readings are Indianapolis, Springfield, Syreuse, and Lowell.

New York Boston Philadelp’s Chicago St. Louis Baltimore San Fran Cincinnati Pittsburg Kansas City Milwaukee Louisville Providence Detroit Omalsive Minneapolis Gleveland Columbus Hartford Indianapolis New Haven Memphis Portland Worcester Springgfield Peoria Syracuse Lowell Iss Clearing House Springfield Syreuse Philadelphia Omaha Cleveland

New York Financial Market Summary July Rise and Volume

New York on July 11 reports money on call easy at 1 percent with steady quotations for foreign exchange and firm government bonds. Rail bonds show strength as stocks rise, led by New York Central Wilmington and Jersey Central gaining up to 1 percent. Western Union climbs after rival declines, with Vanderbilts buoyed by progress on trunk railroad settlements. Market breadth is strong, with high activity in late hours and notable gains in Canadian and Missouri Pacific, while crop reports and short interest temper enthusiasm. Total weekly sales reach 1,056,800 shares, down from last week by 54,000.

Boston Prime Mercantile New York Boston Post United States New York Bank New York Central Willmington Jersey Central Vanderbilts Western Union Wester Union Western Union Central Sily Lake Shore Central of New Jersey Pacific Mail Louisville Nashville Erie Union Pacific Canadian Pacific Fihe Canada Southern Missouri Pacific Delaware Railroad Delaware and Chesapeake Railroad Cambridge and Seaford Rail Queen Anne and Kent Railroad Delaware, Maryland and Virginia Railroad New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad the Sentinel Peoria Chicago GC Eldrdge & Co Messrs Emery & Hodges No 98 State Street Theield St. Louis Austria Virginia Rio Ldie Java Maracaibo Jamaica St Domingo Porto Rico Cuba Imperial Hyson Young Hyson Twankay Hyson Skin Congou Souchong Oolong Palermo Messina Baracoa Cincinnati Centennial Beacon Light Lhc New York—Petroleum United Pipeline Isagc Pittsburg Thorncreek Minnesota New York Roller Michigan Michigan Roller Ohio Wisconsin London Liverpool St Louis Milwaukee Prince Detroit Dali Toledo Bardec Buffalo Isic Masy White State Soc Canada

Market Digest of Flour and Grain Prices and Commodities

Digest covers nuts starch coffee sugar and molasses with grain and flour prices. Lists New York to Chicago notes on wheat corn oats barley meals and rye flour, mills, millers, and export demand. Includes cotton futures and Liverpool market, with prices and receipts across several cities.

Financial markets and commodities update from London and Liverpool

July reports show Consols and United States bonds quoted with modest movements while grain prices fluctuate with wheat and corn signals. Liverpool notes winter wheat prices, butter and cheese values, and pork bacon lard and tallow levels, with London market tones described as easy and weak amid stagnant home funds and firmer foreign issues.

Maritime cargoes and vessels in Atlantic trading routes

In Boston and Porto Rico areas a range of consignments is listed including schooners Grace Bradley with 5000 bags sugar for Baring Bros, Frank M Howes with 3500 bags sugar for John A Emmons, and Edith brig with 847 puncheons and 50 bbls sugar. Other entries include Magum with wood and spiles, Turban with mo lasses, and various firms handling salt, cocoanuts, and eggs along Metegahan Nova Scotia and Viequez area routes.

Viequez Whitney, Pousland & Co

Far Recalling Exports List From Halifax and Charlottetown Trades

Long, itemized export ledger lists shipments from Halifax NS, Pictou NS, Port Hawkesbury CB, and Charlottetown PET and Yarmouth NL. Entries cover flour, hardware, foodstuffs, beverages, tobacco, timber, salt, oats, pigs, pigs, and various rendered goods aboard several steamers and schooners with quantities.

Halifax Pictou Port Hawksbury Charlottetown Pet Yarmouth Port Hawkesbury John Northrup Hattie R

City criminals arraigned on forgery and lottery charges

North street residents Lewis N. Connor Edwin G. Gale Robert F. Jones Hazen H Dinsmore and Walter Perkins faced indictments for forgery and uttering tickets of the Metropolitan railroad company and were held on 2600 bail Each defendant named in lottery pool indictments pleaded not guilty Albion Atwood John J Kane Joseph Williams Frank J Martin Stephen McNeil Augustus Morris Charles Davis Henry P Young George W Conant Joseph Malford and John Beber no trial date set William J Doyle admitted drunkenness and was sentenced to one year in the Massachusetts reformatory Margaret O Hearn jailed six months for a like offence John Stevens pleaded guilty to drunkenness and received a one year term at the house of correction.

North Street Lewis N. Connor Edwin G. Gale Robert F. Jones Hazen H.dinsmore Walter 8 Perkins Metropolitan Railroad Company Albion Atwood John J. Kane Joseph Williams Frank J. Martin Stephen McNeil Augustus Morris Charles Davis Henry P. Young George W. Conant Joseph &. Malford John Beber William J. Doyle Massachusetts Reformatory Margaret O’hearn John Stevens House of Correction

Belt Line Proposal Connects Boston to Arlington and West Medford

The Boston and Lowell Belt Line would extend from Boston through Somerville Junction to West Medford and Arlington, forming a circuit. Tickets would cover any ride on the loop for five to six cents, with a train every 15 minutes. Suburban trains would run express toward Boston, saving time for outer riders. passengers from outside the belt would transfer at West Medford or Arlington.

Boston and Lowell Boston and Lowell Road Boston Somerville Junction West Medford Arlington New York City Winchester Woburn Mystic Ponds Lower Mystic East Cambridge Mil Row Winter Hill Somerville North Somerville College Hill Medford Hillside Somerville Highlands Willow Avenue West Somerville North Avenue Lake Street Lowell

Sigurd in the Valkyrie tale at Paris and a Boston concert season

A lengthy synopsis outlines Reyer's Sigurd opera with Gunther Hilda Brunehild and Hagen amid a complex plot of love, magic philters, and heroic deeds. The program notes describe Promenade Concerts in Boston with Neuendorff, Oakland Garden shows, and public notices on lectures, theater, and vaudeville acts.

Sigurd Reyer Paris Siegesmund Netherlands Siegfried Gunther Bergundes Hilda Uta Brunechild Odin Wotan Brunehild Hagen Valkyrie Mr. Neuendoriff Neuendorff J. P. Clark Park-street Joseph Gabin State Street Oakland Garden Brother Max R. E. Graham Switzerland Graham Bingham Mile Bella Verna Little Kittie Boston School of Oratory Moses T. Brown Theodore Weld Phillips Henry N. Hodson Webster Francis T. Russell Cardinal Wolsey J. W. Churchill Henry D. Jones Boston Museum Mr. Solomon Billee Taylor Lillian Russell Phebe J. H. Ryley Capt. Flipper

Haunted Car Rumors Stir San Pedro Line

A Los Angeles News account quotes brakeman Jack Martin describing a supposedly haunted old car. It sits on a side track after being unloaded of six tons of iron for a cable railroad and allegedly witnessed three murders after a door was forced somewhere between Boston and Sacramento.

Los Angeles News Jack Martin San Pedro Cable Martin Boston Sacramento Nevada Frisco

William Noyes dies. Boston fruit firm leader remembered

William Wallace Noyes, senior member of W. W. & C. R. Noyes, large North Market fruit importers and exporter of apples to Europe, died at 45 on Appleton street after a varied career from Maine war service to Boston commerce. He leaves a widow. Funeral Tuesday at 2 PM. Other obituaries note Roger Drury, Gen. W. N. Grier, George Taylor, Joseph G. Bell, and Hiram Peaslee.

Thirtieth Boston Seaverns & Co W. W. Noyes & Co Europe Merchant's Exchange The Produce Exchange Fruit and Produce Association Oriental Star Lodge Livermore A. J. Gordon Clarendon-street Roger Drury Bright Mr. Drury Province of Connaught Ire United States New York Newport Rh. I Ft. Trumbull Providence Roxbury George Taylor Lynn Yacht Club Joseph G. Bell the Highlands Washington and Hanae Hiram Peaslee Haverhill Delevan Otel

Insolvency Notices Span Firms Across Boston and New England

Insolvent estates include Atherton & Co of Boston owing 4043.02 with assets variously listed. James D. Driscoll and Fred G. Brown & Co. also petitioned into insolvency with sizable liabilities and mixed secured and unsecured claims. Creditors in multiple cases sign off at reduced dividends, with attachments and trustees named in several assignments. Additional failures and consolidations across Worcester Springfield Gloucester New York and other locales are noted, detailing liabilities and asset values in diverse trades.

Atherton & Co Boston W. B. Atherton Francis Murphy James D. Driscoll Fred G. Brown Fred G. Brown & Co Bedrossian & Co Ernsteen Schwartzburg Fancy Een Dolar Tobias & Wall Trunks Edward A. Simons Crockery Salem Sminall, Co H. Gaffney Gloucester E. M. Estey Moncton N. B John M. Goodwin South Berwick James E. Brierly Birmingham Conn W. J. Clark M. S. Oviatt Flash Ansonia H. P. Hilliar New London George F. Peacock Jeweller New York John D. Little Judge Brown Supreme Court Newburg N. Y Ward, Stanton & Co L. A. Caddick & Co Boots and Shoes Troy Beard Levenworth Eaton, N. X A. Cooper & Sons Hickory Grove Ind

Cadet Camp Opens as Veterans Schedule Reunions Near

The first corps of cadets begins camp at Hing ham today. The Twentieth Massachusetts Regiment holds its annual reunion at Point of Pines on Saturday July 18 with a 11 A M meeting and 1 P M dinner. The Eighteenth Massachusetts Volunteer Association reunion is set for August 26 at United States Hotel. Union Veteran Army directory updates list officers and directors. Boston Fusilier Veteran Association plans a summer reunion at Downer Landing with details July 15. An excursion from several veteran groups to Rocky Point Rhode Island is planned for July 27.

Hingham Twentieth Massachusetts Regiment Point of Pines Eighteenth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Association United States Hotel Union Veteran Army E. J. Patterson Eben Jackson E. A. Taylor Patterson

Nantasket Outing Delights With Reeves Band Concert

Those who went to Nantasket yesterday enjoyed perfect weather and a highly praised Reeves's American band concert. The Temple quartet impressed the audience with vocal numbers and a Nearer My God to Thee paraphrase. Next Sunday the piazza at the Hotel Nantasket will host a larger crowd. Steamers depart Rowe's wharf at 5:30, 6:15, and 7. Round trip tickets cost 30 cents.

Nantasket Reeves Commonwealth Temple Quartette Rowe’s Wharf

Mexican editors visit Boston for harbor excursion

The Mexican editors and their ladies were hosted by the city on Saturday aboard the J Putnam Bradlee. Lieut. Gov. Ames and Albert T. Whiting joined Boston press representatives for a harbor tour visiting pumping stations Fort Independence Fort Warren Nantasket Nix's Mate Boston light and more before docking on Her island and inspecting the institute of technology. They then traveled to New York on the Fall River line that evening.

J. Putnam Bradlee Gov. Ames Albert T. Whiting New Board of Police Commissioners Boston Press Ft. Independence Ft. Warren Yiull Nantasket Nix’s Boston Light Boston Institute of Technology Fall River New York

Officials Review Osborne Eligibility for Police Commission

Assistant Attorney General Shepard weighs Mr Osborne's eligibility for the police commission with a ruling likely Tuesday. At the board of health lunacy and charity meeting on Saturday a woman clerk in the outdoor poor department was dropped from the rolls. A vote to elect a superintendent of outdoor poor in August was recorded. A committee was appointed to confer with the state house commission about moving offices from the State house.

Shepard Osborne Police Commission Board of Health, Lunacy and Charity Outdoor Poor Department Outdoor Poor State House Commission State House

Postal Guide published with mail departure times

The Dial Postal Guide corrected by post office authorities and issued by Horace Dodd at 265 Washington Street is now published. It contains the time of departure of the mails for the summer resorts and other useful postal information. Rev W H Wilcox of Malden Mass says sagechart is no longer a luxury but a necessity in my family. Sold by all druggists and grocers.

Dial Horace Dodd Washington Street Rev. W. H. Wilcox Malden Mass

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