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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1889
Page
7
Rye flour and cornmeal show dull to steady demand with prices steady. Graham flour quiet at 290 3400 bbl. Oatmeal receipts 135 bbls, market steady with 540 for fine and 87 600 for cut. Rye receipts none, malt dull at quoted prices. Millfeed quiet with moderate demand, cottonseed meal steady, hops dull with no change.
Lemons from Messina Naples Catanias and Palermo sell in narrow ranges from 2 50 to 4 50 per box. Apples receipts are 38 bbls mostly russets with small sales at 2 250 per barrel and Baldwins from cold storage at similar prices. Strawberries arrivals improving but not large with mixed regional prices and native lots selling 12 18c per quart. April receipts tally 58 482 pias vs 68 002 pias a year ago. Peaches Florida express sales at 1 125 per crate. Pineapples Jamaicas 7 12c and Aspinwalls 20c. California fruits limited with cherries 150 200 apricots 150 300 peaches 3 and plums 2 per case. Bananas well supplied at old prices.
Week ending June 8 receipts include butter 27 899 pkgs and 3110 boxes, oleo 1848 pkgs, cheese 2726 boxes, eggs 30 boxes plus 61 bbls and 10 578 cases. Beans 774 bbls, potatoes 47 cars, hay 255 cars, straw 33 cars, poultry 258 pkgs, sweet potatoes 307. Butter market steady with Western creameries firm. prices 19c for extra Western, 16 18c for firsts and extras. Northern creameries less plentiful yet demand remains, finest lots at 20c. Eggs firm with mixed regional quotes and steady to firm prices.
Saturday markets show steady demand with onions Britt Bermudas at 80c per crate Spanish 85c per crate and Fevoltians 2 per crate Native bunches. Old beers scarce at 25c, new beets 1 per dozen, Bermudas 1 per crate. Carrots 3 per barrel old and 60c per dozen new. Cucumbers abundant natives 4 to 5 per 100 and Southern lots 2 to 2.50 per crate. Rhu barb dull at 42c per lb. Asparagus rising to 1.25 per dozen bunches. Southern beets 1.50 per crate. Norfolk cabbage pricier at 1.50 per barrel. Savannah wax beans 1 per crate and other beans higher. Savannah tomatoes 3 per crate. Ohio and Maryland peas off market. Board ships: Savannah boat 1270 pkgs vegetables. Norfolk boat 4000 cabbages 400 peas 2000 beans.
Weekly fruit receipts list apples 622 bbls strawberries 24 898 pigs Valencia oranges 662 cases Messina none Palermo oranges 10 000 boxes Messina lemons 611 boxes Palermo lemons 20 317 boxes bananas 72 369 bunches. Oranges demand flat ample supply with Messinas 3 50 to 4 50 Naples Catanias 4 50 5 00 Palermos 3 50 4 00 Valencia regulars 6 6 and 6 7 a case.
The Victoria passed Gibraltar in May with 3900 cases Valencia oranges for Boston. Timor sailed from Palermo May 29 with Varied fruit including 200 half-boxes Messina oranges 5000 boxes Messina lemons 700 boxes and 4900 half-boxes Palermo oranges 16700 boxes Palermo lemons. Miranda due June 13 with Jamaica bananas. Valencia passed Gibraltar with 4000 cases Valencia oranges for Boston. Brunel sailed from Palermo May 30 with oranges and lemons for Boston.
Harris & Co will auction 814 packages of California fruit on Tuesday. The Mediterranean fruit aboard the steamer Peconic will also be sold that day.
Provisions for the week ending June 8 show varied receipts across pork beef lard and notes for dressed hogs and bacon. Prices drift lower with lard down about 4 cents and pork about 25 cents. quotes cover pork products beef cuts tallow and sausages, with regional markets in New York Philadelphia Chicago and St Louis.
Stock Yards Kansas City reports strong cattle receipts with natives at 2 to 3 dollars and mixed butchers near 160 to 185. Hog receipts hit 8138 with heavies around 4 12 to 4 25 and light to medium at 4 12 to 4 20. St Louis notes hogs steady at 4 25 to 4 40 while Chicago shows cattle steady to higher with beeves 4 60 and steers 3 60 to 4 40. hogs at 4 20 to 4 45, ships 3 50. Sheep receipts steady with natives 3 50 to 4 50 and lambs 1 3 25.
Cotton trading in New York remained calm with 433 bales moved. Futures opened and closed dull while the day’s table shows opening and closing quotes for June through May, with mixed upland grades and daily shifts. Global markets reported no Liverpool activity due to holiday, while port and inland figures across Augusta Galveston New Orleans Mobile Memphis Savannah Houston and others showed moderate receipts, varied exports and stable to steady mid to high middling ranges.
A Louisville firm shows mid 11th century figures with one day totals. Consolidated net receipts reach 1212, exports to Great Britain 3824, exports to the Continent 118, and stock at all United States ports 260,846.
Lager receipts total 820 barrels, 55 barrels year ago. raw sugars steady with Cuba and Manilas quoted. Refined sugars in steady demand with multiple grades priced from 7 to 9 cents. Molasses receipts 72 barrels and related stocks, market firm with quiet trade. Ponce Porto Rico and New Orleans grades listed. New York fore ign quiet and New Sagua dull with open kettle varieties cited.
Turpentine closed at 38 38%42c with resin at 1074 110 and tar at 210. Petroleum closed at 7.10c with RSW at 6.90c and cases at 8.80c. Whiskey unchanged at 102. Coffee in Rio dull and easier with fair cargoes at 185c.
Schooner Jennie S S511 loaded two barrels of molasses at Port Spalan on June 8 1889 for Perkins and Welsh.
Shipping list records cargoes and vessels across Halifax Cape Island Pubnico Port au Prince Antonio Jam Liverpool and Lockport. Goods include flour beef lard pork butter oranges fish oil hams coal bricks lumber and hardware. Vessels include schooner Salvador brig Matilda Back steamer L D Baker Bulgarian and Ella Maud with multiple crates crates goods and quantities.
Foreign markets report a dull London scene with cargoes off coast and wheat quiet. Two cargoes arrived since last update, one sold, four awaiting sale. Paris and Liverpool show quiet to firm wheat and flour futures with June and July quotes noted.
Buffalo New York W H Walker of W H Walker and Co dies. T T Ramsdell of O P Ramsdell Sweet and Co of Tay Chicago IJ C W Marks of Craw Dubuque Iowa W F P Large of Large and Amsden Tre Hudson New York H W Moore United States Los Angeles California W M Patrick of Patrick Bros Ad Montgomery Alabama C Hann United States Pittsburg Pennsylvania A 1 Scott Qu Philadelphia Pennsylvania M C Pani of Paul Bros Ven St Louis Missouri J H Schafer of Schafer Swarts and Co A W Heeling West Virginia G W Boyd of Boyd and Co Tre
Frederick A. Macauley of Boston petitions the Suffolk Superior Court for a divorce from Martha M. Macauley of St John New Brunswick alleging lawful marriage in 1883 and desertion since, with Macauley living in Massachusetts for over five years and Martha’s whereabouts unknown. The filing, dated May 17 1889, requests decree of divorce.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts declares a libel filed in the Suffolk Superior Court. Martha M. Macauley must appear in Boston on the first Monday of August and is to receive published copies and mailed notices of the libel and order. she may show cause why the libel prayer should not be granted.
In Suffolk County at Boston Municipal Court Charles N. Stearns sues Leopold V. Schlosser Secundo Lopez trading as Schlesser Co New York and trustee Hervey J. Parker for ninety five dollars due per a May 22 1859 writ. Defendants residents unidentified here, no service in Commonwealth. Notice by publication ordered for June 22 1889.
JOSEPH E. MERRILL SOLOMON W. JOHNSON and WILLIAM D. BANCKER petition the Supreme Judicial Court to dissolve The Springfield News Company a Springfield based corporation with ten thousand dollars capital stock all stock held by the three petitioners and no liabilities the business and liabilities having been assumed by New England News Company of Boston Massachusetts asking for dissolution of the Springfield entity.
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