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Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Jun 20, 1883

Page

3

Money Matters and Stock Market Notes From Boston

Boston markets show steady money flow with banks discounting mercantile paper at 5 1 to 5 by quality. Out of town notes command higher rates, call loans 4 to 5 and 4 to 4 for corporation notes. Stock activity remains firm with Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe and Chicago Burlington and Quincy movements and mixed earnings reports. bridge damage noted but temporary.

Boston New York Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe Atlantic Pacific Colorado Chicago Burlington and Quincy Burlington Qincy Union Pacific Denver Rio Grande Kansas City Marquette Houghton Ontonagon Flint Pere Marquette Mexican Central St. Louis and San Francisco Railway Company Toledo Cincinnati St. Louis Bell Telephone Bay State Lowell Telephone Northern Lowell Syndicate Erie Telephone and Telegraph Company Cuyahoga County Bell Erie Company Cleveland William A. Ingham Loren N. Downs Charles J. Glidden William H. Bent Colorado Coal and Iron Company Messrs Perkins, Dupee & Co City of Lowell Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Ino Liss Capuesc Neiss

Boston Stock Exchange Sales at Brokers Board

Boston Stock Exchange figures show broker activity on June 1 with trading at the Brokers' Board. The report highlights price movements and notable volumes among leading securities.

Brokers’ Board

Wall Street Mood Mixed as Exports Fade and East Tennessee Dips

New York traders observed a weaker exchange market with commercial bills down amid anticipated export rise. East Tennessee incomes slumped 41 percent to 32, and Alton and Terre Haute rose to 81 before retreating. Stocks opened, then firmed after midday, with notable drops in Lackawanna and a bear push on New York Central. Transactions totaled 216,500 shares as bonds and mining stocks varied, led by East Tennessee declines and scattered gains in rail and western issues.

New York Alton Terre Haute Chicago St. Louis Pittsburg Ohio Mississippi Prime Mercantile Barsilver Allcount East Tennessee Alton and Terra Haute Lackawanna Shorts Northwest Jersey Central St. Paul Northern Pacific Lake Shore New York Central West Stock Exchange Pinnie Ace Lo’st Managa Southern Central Pacific I. C Del L. & West Delaware & Hud Denver & Biog Pacific Mail Peoria Phila. & Reading Milwaukee &St.p St. P Omaha Pacific Brig BEE Oo Union Pacific St.l & Pa Western Union Oregon Trans.Co

Boston daily grain market report and price round up

Grain receipts and bids show soft demand with mixed Corn No 2 and No 1 stocks, totals around 42 cats. Mixed oats and white corn catalogued, while butter cheese and pork futures fluctuated. market dull, prices easing, with July and August contracts correcting after a volatile day.

Boston Daily Cae Ats

Market steady with varied grain and farm produce quotes

Grain and provisions report shows steady to dull prices across corn oats rye and flour with small lot sales for consumptive demand. Butter cheese and eggs markets mixed with butter trending higher while cheese softens. Vegetables and fruits show steady tones with apples beans and onions noted. hay and flaxseed prices listed.

Shorts Burbank Niles Florida Norfolk Bermuda Maine New York Canada

Fresh Meats and Produce Prices in June Market

June market reports steady movement after busy Saturday with fresh meats showing lower lamb veal and pork prices. Lists include beef cuts, veal heads, ribs, hams, lard, sausages, and tripe, alongside poultry rates, game birds, and a wide range of fruits, vegetables, dairy, and fish with varying declines and steady availability. Major items name Western hogs, corned tongues, shad, salmon, lobsters, and oysters among others.

Immorts at Boston Steamer City cargo list itemization

Shipping ledger entry listing items exported to Boston including wool bales, lumber, turpentine, rosin, hides, lumber, paper stock, cigars, vegetables, and miscellaneous goods from firms J C Davis & Son, Denny Rice & Co, Parker Van Wart & Co, Rand & Byam, Stetson Cobb, Fenno & Manning, White Bros & Son, E Sewell & Co, Leyland line freight, and numerous other traders with quantities and product types across multiple consignments. Includes long ledger lines for Liverpool and Glasgow imports with crates, bales, and casks of various goods and vessels such as Istrian and Scandinavian.

Savannah Columbus Morrison Bernd Bros Henderson Geo E Newhall Allen, Field & Lawrence Leonard & Clark Liverpool Eng Linder & Meyer Byrnes Baring Bros & Co Sherburne Nicholson, Frost & Co Houghton & Dutton Dodo Kidder, Peabody & Co Leigh & Co Howard, Bullough & Ruey Brown Bros & Co Morey & Co Wetherill Bros Coleman, Mead & Co Ross Dupee Cottons Bradford, Thomas & Co Saxonville Mall Granite Johnson Bros Allan Lanny Bros & Co Moors & Co Cotton

Trade tabulations of commodities across Caribbean and other regions

A dense OCR listing shows values for commodities such as linen thread sugar molasses rubber and earthenware across multiple territories including Cuba Porto Rico Antigua Barbados Trinidad St Vincent Maracaibo Rosario and Manila. The page itemizes quantities and dollar totals for goods like machinery vegetables hardware paints paper stock and precious stones with a final aggregate total of 1 898 208 in assorted currencies.

Cuba caeceesSans BTR Eocidesvssesiene S.ssese Porto Rico Bermuda Barbados ST. Vincent Stuzaty WU Geomor Wyatt Maracaibo Homsiecveas Cnes Mons Csakccsis Gssouee Ccessascas Cess Dominion OF Canada Italy Spain Iloilo Manila Ongos Fessens

Inland Trade Ledger of Goods and Quantities

An inventory listing diverse commodities and bulk totals from multiple railroads including Boston and Albany and Providence. Items feature cheese eggs corn and flour among farm products with hundreds to thousands of units like bales barrels boxes and cases. hides skins beef bacon tea coffee sugar and molasses appear with varied quantities.

Lowell Railroad Maine Railroad Fitchburg Railroad Eastern Railroad Humber Grand Junction Railroad Peabody and Salem New York and New England Railroad Old Colony Railroad Boston and Albany Railroad Providence Railroad

Foreign Exports and Goods Listed From Several Ports

A long list from Sydney and other ports details exports and cargo items including nails tobacco kegs shovels tacks leather machinery and hardware with quantities such as 60 kegs nails 182 cases goods and 553 wagons. Additional entries show shipments from Glasgow Yarmouth and Buenos Ayres including flour hams bacon oatmeal carriages and hardware with varied tonnages and case counts.

Sydney Nsw Nellie M Slade Glasgow Phoenician

Value of Exports from the Port of Boston Week Ending June 16

Exports listed by category include oils agricultural imports and lubricants with totals for waxes bones and hoofs paint and paper products coal and other commodities. The report details commodities such as wheat flour bread carriages and parts, cotton goods, sugar, tobacco, glassware, lumber, and various manufactured items with country breakdowns for Ireland Scotland Newfoundland and Labrador and other regions.

Boston Ésin & Turpentine

Watertown Live Stock Market Report June 19

Boston Post reporter George J. Fox presents Watertown live stock figures for June 19 with totals for cattle sheep calves horses swine and hides. Prices for market beef store cattle and livestock by road origin are listed along with car counts and regional notes for Maine New Hampshire Massachusetts and New York rail lines.

Maine New Hampshire Massachusetts Boston Lowell Albany Fitchburg Eastern New York New England Providence Old Colony Vinces N. B Boston and Albany Brighton

Markets by Telegraph Cotton and grain reports

Cotton markets across Wilmington Memphis and other cities show mixed receipts and steady to dull tones. New York and Chicago scenes push grain and flour prices with modest declines for wheat and corn, while pork and lard move lower in Chicago and Milwaukee markets.

Cattle and grain prices. Toledo wheat drift. Cleveland and Detroit receipts

Cattle receipts 6000 head with mixed demand. common to fair cattle $230 to $375, good $460, choice $475. Wheat futures ease at Toledo with No 2 red winter cash and June around 1.23 to 1.25 and July 1.25. shipments 6000 bus. Cincinnati pork at 18, lard 96 to 1.21, Bacons ease, whiskey 1.13. Detroit wheat unsettled with No 1 white fall and June around 1.06 to 1.07. receipts 13,000 bus, shipments 1000.

Philadelphia Philadelphia Conecesnereseceees 1,087,970 387,168 San Francisco New Orleans Peter McGeoch Chicago McGeogh, Everingham & Co Bismarck of Chicago Board of Trade General News Board of Merchants’ Exchange Liverpool Little Falls Canton Elgin Utica New York Mercantile Exchange Eges St. Albans Union cab_eu New York Ohio St Louis Minnesota Canada State Shoulders Lée Continent South America Pennsylvania Louis Oppemneaianer Milwaukee Colina Oia Toledo Cincinnati Detroit

Financial Market Reports From London and Liverpool June 19

London and Liverpool market notes show dull cotton demand with upla nds at 51 1 16 to 513 16d and futures quoted. Wheat receipts three days 132 000 centals with 97 000 American. Sydney wool sales strong. flour and provisions prices in Liverpool mixed. Havana gold and exchange chiefly stable with slight premium.

Palermo Catania Boston New York Liverpool Uplands Liverpool Uplands Orleans London Sydney Port Phillips Polk Beerbohm Merchants’ Exchange California Havana United States

Court Record Supreme Judicial Court June 19

James Fitzgerald in error vs Commonwealth. Indictment charged two offences on one count with duplicity and identical wording across counts. Verdict acquitted on last three counts and found not guilty on first three. records show repugnant verdicts. Court affirms judgment and denies writ of error. S J Thomas for petitioner, attorney general for commonwealth.

Supreme Judicial Court James Fitzgerald Commonwealth Charles Francis Adams S. J. Thomas

Mann vs Cook contract suit over mining property bond

Superior Court session details a contract dispute where Albert W. Mann seeks 3000 dollars plus 10000 dollars in stock value and interest from James P. Cook et al for failing to form a mining corporation as agreed. The case includes bond transfer and property conveyance dated 1880 with defenses and settlements noted. Closing arguments in Bond vs Nichols are also mentioned.

Albert W. Mann James P. Cook Placerville California Edw. Avery C. F. Lincoln Nathan Morse R. W. Johnson

Superior Court June 19 Sentences and Pleas Report

In Superior Criminal Court Judge Bacon presided. Timothy Driscoll received two years in the house of correction for assault and battery. Cornelius McMahon was jailed 18 months for assault on a police officer. J Gerry pleaded guilty to keeping a house of ill fame and was fined $100. James Dolan pleaded guilty to illegally selling liquor and was fined $50. Matthew Condon defaulted on a similar charge and fined $50. John McCarty pleaded guilty and will be sentenced Friday. Thomas Barneck pleaded guilty to assault and battery and was fined $30. Nellie Warren, charged as a common night walker, was placed on probation.

Timothy Driscoll House of Correction Cornelius McMahon J. Gerry James Dolan Matthew Condon John McCarty Thomas Barneck Nellie Warren

Municipal Courts Hear Various Assault and Larceny Cases

Judges in Boston area courts fined or held defendants on charges including assault and battery larceny embezzlement keeping a house of ill fame and disturbing the peace. Notable bonds set: O Neil 10 dollars fines. Sullivan and Bowker 1000 for exam. Nye 500. Barry 500. Doyle 1000 as witness. O'Brien Ryan 500 bonds. Rovinson 10 fine. Doherty 5 fine appeal 50 bonds. Welch 30 bonds each. Finnerty 100 fine. Connors 10 fine. others face exams or superior court in coming days.

McCafferty John O’ Neil Dennis Sullivan Minnie Bowker Charles N. Nye Minnie Barry Fannie E. Doyle Finnigan South Boston William O’brien Patrick Ryan James Rovinson East Boston John Doherty Richard andMary Welch Roxbury Martin Finnerty Bunker Hill Mary Connors

Suffolk County Real Estate Transfers in Boston and Surrounding Areas

Suffolk County transfers list numerous property deeds and mortgages from June 1883 to 1885 across Boston neighborhoods including Dorchester East Boston and Brighton. Notable entries include Samuel H Witherell to Fanny for 5422.33 feet of land, Upham to O Connor quitclaims, and Warren Institution to Cheever with releases and second mortgages. Mortgage transfers involve Keith Alley properties and Mary J Colburn transfers.

Fairfield Street Samuel H.witherell Fannyne Berkeley Avenue Charles A. Upham Catherine E. O'Connor Erie Avenue Elbridge G. Knight Catherine E. Giggie Main Street Warren Institution John Cheever Cheever Sarah Cohen Cohen Warren Institution For Savings Keith's Alley Henry F. Spencer Boston Five Cent Savings Bank Keth’s Alley Third Street Boston Shawmut Avenue Phillips Street Mary J. Colburn Self Martha A. Hazard Kirkland Street Horace Saunders M. B. Smith Abbott Street Frances D. Silva Kiles P. Gleason Frederick Farnald Suffolk James F. R. Foss Frank H. Damon Jacob J. Balley Charles H. Thompson John Armstrong Oe Armstrong John Sarah EK Suffolk Dees Harrison Avenue Charles Cunningham Cunningham Bernard Gaven William A. Garbett Sclaco Street

Balloon ascension subcommittee to meet Thursday noon

Fourth of July events are outlined with plans for a balloon ascent committee meeting at noon Thursday to refine arrangements.

Common Council Board of Fire Commissioners West

Marriage Notices From Boston Evening Ledger

Carter-Bothamly June 18 by R W P Tilden, John F Carter to Fannie E Rothamly, both of Boston. Hamman-Brown June 14 at Boston by Rev W T ent William B Hamman to Annie Brown, both of Boston. Williams-Wright June 14 at Boston by Rev Francis G Peabody and Rev Theodore G Williams of Winchester to Velma Curtis Wright.

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