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Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Mar 05, 1883

Page

3

Money Matters from Boston on March 3 1883

Boston market notes show quiet money with high rates. New York mercantile paper discounted at 4.5 to 4.75 percent, bank balances steady at 7 percent. Clearing-house exchanges total 11.221 million with 1.38 million balances. weekly gross ex changes reach 70.089 million and balances 8.897 million. New York bank statement flags unfavorable trend with loans up 2.08 million. deposits up 3.06 million. circulation up 3.04 million. surplus reserve down 3.? million.

Boston New York Mercantile Ross Bank OF Deposit Devonshire Water Street Post Sterling Exchange Commonwealth OF Massachusetts Committee On State Iouse Committee On Election Laws State House Edward Glines

MARKET REPORT GIVES VARIED PRICES ACROSS FARM PRODUCE AND MEATS

The columns list prices for vegetables fruits and staples including potatoes onions and apples, with notes on market steadiness. Poultry and game show fresh killed fowls ducks and turkeys at varying cents per pound, while hogs beef pork and lard prices appear alongside dried fruits hay and grass seeds. Cotton and sugar markets also feature, with regional quotes and futures prices for New York Boston Liverpool and related markets.

Rae — Uit Choice Canada R Banks New Brunswick New York Baldwins Tasman Red Top Western Canada Lowell Railroad Maine Railroad Fitchburg Railroad Eastern Railroad Grand Junction Railroad Peabody and Salem New York and New England Railroad Old Colony Railroad Boston and Albany Providence Railroad

Commodity price report from Liverpool and Boston exchanges

The Liverpool cheese and butter market lists varied quotes across products such as Elgin creamery and imitation creamery, with prices per unit from 0 15e to 41¢ and related notes. Boston notes butter dull and eggs easy at 2a 2he per dozen, while Chicago pork and lard show little change from yesterday. Union Stockyards report weekly receipts and shipments. Wheat corn oats futures show mixed movements with March through June contracts closing at higher or lower levels than the open.

Liverpool New York Mercantile Exchange Elgin Creamery Town State New Ohio Boston Produce Exchange Chicago Union London Beerbohm Merchants’ Exchange England Uplands Orleans

Historic Ocean Freight Entries Across Ports

A long list of shipments from Liverpool and Annapolis to various buyers includes Ibevian with glass and indigo, Hills Turner with machinery, Baring Bros with plate glass, and many more consignments. The record shows cargoes such as sugar, potatoes, oil, and textiles routed through Baltimore, Mayaguez, and nearby ports, highlighting extensive trade activity and named firms like Jere Abbott & co, Delong & Seaman, and Jordan Marsh.

Liverpool Eng Howard Snelling & Co Linder & Meyer Baring Bros & Co Plate Glass Hills, Turner & Co Moors & Co Jere Abbott & Co Jackson & Co L. P Hollander & Co Moise Thayer & Lincoln Wheelock & Co Richard Briggs Moise Howe & French Leigh & Co Whitney & Co Stone & Downer Peyser & Co Moses & Co Haberdashery Hart & Young Gross & Strauss L & DS Riker Doherty & Co Henerman Cummings Chas Polock Palm Oil Pettingill & Everett Thos Leyland & Co Monroe Annapolis Hunter Baldwin & George Holmes Ellis & Co Delong & Seaman Forrest Gay & Co L Hale & Co Dudley & Co

Foreign Exports haul from multiple ports including Halifax and Cayenne

Shipping records show steamer Carroll and other vessels cleared on March 3 from Halifax and Cayenne with extensive cargoes ranging from hardware and pumps to foodstuffs, fabric, and dry goods. The list names numerous items and quantities, including jeans, lard, flour, cod, herring, and oats, along with various tools, machinery, and general merchandise, reflecting active trade across Caribbean and Atlantic ports.

Halifax Carroll Steel Cayenne French Guiana Lizzie J Bigelow Cienfuegos Cuba Gen Roberts Glasgow Waldensian Lockport Thomas Robertson Tuskee Sea Foam Manila Cabie Cardenas Chase Ward Annapolis Hunter Manila

Cotton Market Report from Multiple Ports

New York and New Orleans show net receipts around 4 507 and 0. Net gross receipts in the 7 706 to 4 809 range. Stacks and stock totals vary, with market quiet to steady at mid and low middling levels. Coastwise shipments and exports to Great Britain noted, with Cincinnati and Philadelphia figures included. March market activity cited with unchanged prices and forward deliveries steady.

Porto Rico Cienfuegos Boston Ta Sc New York Liverpool Uplands Orleans New Orleans SP Re ST. Louis Charleston Memphis Cscsese Uisville SACK Wise AFOLK Eve Seoss Great Britain Middlig Ag Galveston Mobile Sessen Arketquiet Smiddlig Cincinnati Britain France Eee

Grain Markets Hover With Mixed Demand and High Supplies

Grain and flour futures show steady to firm levels across Chicago Milwaukee and St Louis with wheat receipts around 66,500 bushels and export demand active. Corn climbs with steady cash and May prices while oats, rye and barley hold modest gains amid ample shipments and ongoing trading.

Minnesota St Louis Indiana Ohio Michigan New York Illinois St. Louis Steve Canada West

Market summary from London and Havana financial notes

London stock and bond prices drift up as European and American railway securities rise. Commodities show quiet wheat and corn trading, strong weather in England, and firmer Havana sugar and molasses markets with rising freight activity and steady tobacco demand.

Annual Report items on Oregon Improvement Company

The second annual report details the Oregon Improvement Company and its varied holdings and earnings for the year ending November 30, 1882. It lists direct and controlled properties including coal lands, timber and agricultural lands in Oregon and Washington, a San Francisco dock, and stakes in several railroad and steamship ventures. Financials show total income of 3,351,277.74 with net earnings 1,095,664.45 after expenses and taxes, plus unemployed cash on hand of 657,537 as of 1881. Also included are notes on divisions and land assets, and other regional railroad and industrial figures from Pennsylvania and related entities.

Oregomprovement Company Oregon Improvement Company Washington Oregon San Francisco Seattle Goal and Transportation Company Columbia and Paget Ocean Division Idaho Line Snake River Northern Pacific Powder River Land Department

Rescripts issued in Mutual Life Insurance suit and related cases

Legal summaries cover removal petition in a Mutual Life Insurance case with G W Allen and Fellows, and a series of trials in trespass and contract actions. Noted are judgments on waivers, notices, and certificates, plus rulings on delivery to wives, mortgage and bill of sale arguments, with March sittings upcoming.

Eer - Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York G. W. Allen Et al United States Cra Ee Boston Alen Fellows Allen A. D. Foster W.f.slocum Theodore L. Savage Charles H. Davis J. H. Hutchinson S. K. Hamilton J. W. Stewart George Griswold Court Street Welock Dwight Street W.H. Preble J. B. Richardson Gurney Percy Francis F.bibber Oe Ee John Eldredge J. W. Mahan Daniel S. Benjamin C. Augustin Deckham H. Dudley C. P. Weston Moses W. Philbrook Admr John Eaton Sawyer John D. Philbrook Beverly Vendee Wiggin C. C. Barton Suffolk Norfolk Middlesex Barnstable Probste Court Erminia Mansfield Rudersdorff Berlin Worcester

In the case of nee bank administratrix versus Cambridge Savings Bank

The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff awarding 5000 dollars in damages. The record lists cases by docket numbers and party names across First and Second Sessions, including Bangs v Morison, Storma v Smith, Hadley v Corey, Metronene v Wile Ue v Fenton, Emertson v Walker, Bernard Merchants, and others, indicating a proceeding with multiple referenced cases in sequence.

Nee Bank Cambridge Savings Bank Nosan Bangs Morison Storma Smith Clark Dooling Hadley Corey Metronene Wile Ue Fenton Emertson Walker Bernard Merchants Erlandson Edgerly. DT Co Uinn Child Warihiey Same Brewster Travis Richardson Same. _ oe

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