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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1888
Page
7
Fish and corn hold firm while flour and oats stay steady. Butter and eggs ease, beans demand fair, potatoes and sweet potatoes firm. Florida oranges in fair demand, cranberries light, pork and lard in fair demand, lambs moving, sugars and molasses steady.
In Chicago markets, wheat opened steady then rose on a trader's 600,000 bushel purchase at 8 1/2 cents May and bids that price on 5 million bushels, signaling bearish sentiment as May and July prices diverge in St. Louis. Corn remains firm with light receipts but a long crop outlook suggesting lower prices ahead. Provisions hold firm amid unchanged features as the grain movement continues.
A week of quiet activity at the fish market as high prices dampen demand during Lent. Mackerel shows a strong market while cod, hake, and haddock vary little. herring remains steady and canned goods prices hold. Fresh fish and boxed mackerel listings with assorted prices are reported.
The flour market remains quiet yet steady with few sales and no price changes. Prices include fine at 250 to 300 per bbl, super fine 275 to 325, and various grades up to 485 per bbl. Corn futures and cereals show steady demand, with steamer yellow and No 2 white on track offering modest quotes as receipts stay light.
The report lists cash and futures bids for oats and white oats with March June and April contracts. It notes inspections across several grain types including cornmeal oatmeal buckwheat flour rye and millfeed with firm barley and malt prices and various carload lot references.
The butter market holds steady from last quotes with small receipts. Prices show wide ranges from Western extra creamery at 20 30c to Vermont and New York offerings. eggs, cheese, and beans also largely unchanged with firm demand for select seed, peas, and potatoes amid a quiet market.
Chicago butter firm with light receipts. Western creamery extra 25 27 cents. Cheese unchanged. Eggs weak at 14 16 1 2 cents. St Louis butter firm. eggs lower 18 13 142 cents with rising receipts. New York butter steady 26 29 cents. cheeses steady. Eggs steady Western firsts 16 cents. Beans slow with marrow 275, medium 250 255, red kidney 2. Cincinnati butter quiet at 1 2 0. Eyes dull 13 wis Vee. Liverpool colored cheese 56s, white 59s.
The Peconic arrives with Messina oranges and lemons and Palermo fruit totaling 9500, 2000, 3500, 5400 boxes and more. Auctions on Valencia oranges from Cephalonia and Savannah shipments raise prices. apples, Florida and Palermo oranges and lemons show varied quotations. Crandberries, Cape Cod lots, and pints per box with standard and jobbing prices noted.
Provisions show no note change in Pork with trade quiet at old prices. Lard and Hams move fairly with prices near last quotations. Long cuts 17 25 17 75, short cuts 17 60 18 60, backs 18 18 25, light backs 17, lean ends 17 25 17 76, pork tongues 16, prime mess 816 75, extra prime 13 76 14 25, mess 14 75 16 75, fresh ribs 10142 21c, sausages 10 11c, bologna 6a6440c. Lard choice 8 14 14¢ Ib in tierces, 8% de in 10-lb Is, value in 6-Ib pails 9446 in 3-Ib pails, ms 1042 12c.
Trade is quiet with steady prices across beef and pork cuts. FRESH BEEF shows unchanged quotings as market demand for Murrows and LAMBS remains fair, with Eastern VEAL and various mutton and lamb categories detailed by price and quality.
PIPELINE CERTIFICATES show closing at 3 pm March 9 1888 with bids opening March 9. SUGAR market steady with raw sugar prices listed for various grades and refined sugar demand quiet. granulated sugar around 6 1 2 to 6 1 2 cents. MOLASSES prices for Porto Rico and Cienfuegos noted. TALLOW steady with city and country quotes. NEW YORK Tallow at 4 56 cents. LONDON Tallow 35s. TURPENTINE AND PETROLEUM figures for New York and rosin tar petroleum markets given with prices and case costs.
Trade centres report mixed grain activity with flour receipts high 14 880 packages and 1650 bushels of wheat in Chicago market. Prices show southern steady rye flour firm cornmeal dull oats higher in St Louis and Minneapolis wheat ranges across regions with No 2 red and No 1 white quoted. Provisions fluctuating pork lard and bacon noted in several cities.
New York spot cotton ends quiet at middling uplands 108-16e and low middlings 91-16c with 169 bales sold. Liverpool quotes uplands 5 1 4d and Orleans 6 7 16d with futures steady. weekly totals show American exports and stock changes across major ports.
The report shows net receipts across ports, exports to Great Britain France and the continent, and stock levels. It records seven day totals of 73 459 net receipts and 54 247 exports to Great Britain with a total US port stock of 180 010 and Liverpool stocks at 883 000 versus prior year.
Market reports from St Louis Kansas City Peoria and Chicago show hogs firm with steady to strong prices and mixed grades. cattle receipts large and values higher with fancy cattle at 570 and steers 325 to 520. sheep and lambs uneven with natives and Westerns quoted at 376 to 590 and Texans around 275 to 520.
Market report notes wheat firm and corn steady with quiet flour in London Paris and Antwerp. Prices shown in shillings per quartern, with California wheat for June and July bids. Havana sugar and molasses prices listed in gold per quintal amid quiet sales.
A detailed listing of cargoes from various ports including Beaver Harbor Havana and Liverpool. It records schooners with herring and molasses, sugar, fish, lobsters, potatoes, timbers, and a wide array of merchandise. Names of firms like J Mansfield Son and KE Atkins appear alongside ships such as Robin Hood Viola Cephalonia and Hiawatha with quantities in bales cases and boxes.
The record notes 13 cases 501 boxes tin 2 casks soda ash 6430 bags potatoes 8 bales wool 131 casks skivers 41 do 24 pkgs 1 crate earthenware 731 boxes tin 2 a 45 boils 226 bars fron a quantity noise order. Schooner Severn carries 4780 bags sugar Nash Spaulding & co.
On March 9 1888 exports from Havana and Matanzas include the bark Pearl weighing 461 tons coke coal and the bark Carrie E Long carrying 397 187 feet of lumber.
A March 9 1888 inventory lists staple shipments across multiple railways including Boston and Albany Grand Junction Boston and Providence Old Colony New York and New England Fitchburg Boston and Maine divisions and express and sea routes. Entries cover wool cotton flour oats cornmeal grease lard butter cheese eggs beans hay leather hides and other commodities with quantities by bale box barrel sack and car.
The Suffolk Superior Court orders libellant to publish the libel and order in the Boston Post for three weeks and mail a registered copy to Richard W. Lucas or serve him with the libel and order fourteen days before the first Monday of April. He may show cause why the libel should not be granted.
Massachusetts court orders notice in a contract action for eight thousand dollars. Plaintiffs Burrage Cole Weeks and Poole allege debt from Wright Klang Birnbaum Green Reed and Cohen based in Boston and New York. Defendants nonresidents must appear on the first Monday of April. publication in the Boston Post required.
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