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Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Mar 16, 1883

Page

3

Wisconsin Central Stock Rally and Boston Market Notes

Wisconsin Central weakened to 224 amid market depth reports. The Chicago and Eastern Illinois railroad won a favorable receivership ruling yesterday before Judge Blodgett. Eastern, Boston and Maine, Fitchburg, and Massachusetts Central shares moved lower or steadied. Boston New York bond activity included a large Massachusetts Central bond deposit and extended maturity to April 1 1883 to accommodate collateral holders. Bell Telephone rose briefly before retreating, and stockholders meet to consider capital stock expansion.

Wisconsin Central Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad Company Chicago Blodgett Telegraph Eastern Boston Maine Fitchburg Albany Massachusetts Central Europe Mexican Central Bell Telephone Boston, Hoosac Tunnel Courts of New York Consolidated Corporation

New York Financial Market Report March 15

Despatch from New York details active money on call with rates near 12 to 15 percent, later slipping to 7 percent, then rising to 15. Prime mercantile paper quoted at 6 6. Bar Silver at 110. Subsidiary coin discount at par. Exchange quiet at 480 43045 long and 483 4831 short. Stocks closed dull and irregular with notable declines in Manhattan Beach and Wabash preferred. Mining shares weak with several named issues trading, and total sales at 86,050 shares.

Boston Post New York Prime Mercantile Denver and Rio Grande Evansville Terre Haute Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Milwaukee, Lake Shore and Western Oregon Shore Line Richmond and Danville South Carolina Virginia Midland Ohio Central Texas and Pacific Land Grant Southern Pacific Missouri Manhattan Beach Denver Union Pacific Wabash Lake Erie Western Sierra Grande Horn Union Navajo Chrysolite Sonora Robinson Elko Lyamsuclions le Stock exchuNge Hi’st. Lo St. Mar Canada Southern Central Pacific Del L. & West Delaware& Hud Penser & Rio G Sinwade Sewewes Han St. Jon Kansas & Texas Lake Shore Louisville & N Lake Erie & W Michigan Central Manhattan Ele Memphis & C Missouri Pacific Northwestern New Jersey Northern Pacific Ohio & Missisippi Ontario & West Ohio Centra Pacific Mail Peona Dec. & E Phila Reading Milwaukee&st.p St. P Omaha Texas Pacific St.l.& Pa Western Union Oregon Trans.Co

GENERAL FARM PRODUCE PRICES AND MARKET SUMMARY

Prices for beans, peas, potatoes, onions, garden vegetables and fruits show steady demand with firm quotations. Notes include assorted bean prices from $2.35 to $3.40 per bushel, peas at $1.10 to $1.45, eastern rose potatoes up to 95c, onions at $2.00 to $2.50 per barrel, and various fruit and dried goods values. Provisions and meats are firm with upward tendency. pork, lard, and fresh meats show higher bids, while poultry and game stay steady with mixed rates. Cotton futures and New York/Boston spot prices cited.

Car Inspector of Chicago New York Mercantile Exchange Elgin Creamery Boston Produce Exchange London Wood Port Phillip New South Wales Queensland Sydney New Zealand Emouth Vermont New York de Winter Western Regent Dairy Choice Canada Burbank Virginias York State Timothy Nolat Timothy Red Top Canada Western Prime Eastern Boston Minnesota Messina Valencia Florida Manila Porto Rico Liverpool Uplands Orleans London Beerbohm Merchants’ Exchange United Kingdom California de Orleans Adelaide Rio DE Janeiro

Vast Atlantic Trade Ledger of Bulk Commodities and Ships

A detailed shipping and cargo list across multiple ports notes steamer cargoes and cargoes including tin plates wool paper stock and bales, with numerous firms such as Phelps & Co Baring Bros & Co and J B Moors & Co handling orders. Port entries span Liverpool Girgenti Halifax Montevideo Cienfuegos Pascagoula Demerara Cardenas and Turk's Island with goods like sugar molasses lumber hides and oranges.

Liverpool Eng Palestine Phelps, Dodge & Co Baring Bros & Co B Moors & Co JL & D S Riker Meriden Heat Glass Co Wim Read & Sons H Pierce & Robertson H White & Co H L Fearing & Co Bliss,Fabyan & Co Mount Washington Glass Co Mdse Baring Bros & Co Haile & _ Bosworth Brown, Durrell & Co Macailar, Parker & Co Samge Stone & Downer King Co Morey & Co Moors & Co Jones & Co American Screw Co Girgenti Brimstone Phelps Bros Messina Davis, Taylor & Sons Franklin, Rolfe & Co Baring Bros& Co Palermo Valencia Joe Rib Moise S S White & Co Montevideo Gossler & Co Cienfuegos Whitney, Pousland & Co Pascagoula James & Abbott Fernandina Addie Fuller Stetson, Moseley & Co Ee A Dominique Demerara Catterina D Cushing Cardenas Whitney, Poasland & Co Hannah McLeon Turk’s Island

Trade Goods and Shipments Cleared at St Thomas and Glasgow

Brig Carrie Purinton at St Thomas cleared March 15 with 20 barrels apples 2 barrels beets 100 pounds codfish 1 bushel game 20 boxes oysters 10 bales hay 10 bags salt 300 tons ice 213 250 shingles. Steamer Prussian at Glasgow cleared March 15 with 4 327 barrels flour 1 250 barrels granulated sugar 250 barrels refined sugar 200 tierces beef 6 000 slaves 3 cases cottons 164 head cattle 6 organs.

ST Thomas Carrie Purinton Glasgow

Receipts of Staple Products by Railroads and Sea

A long list of shipments from multiple railroads and sea routes detailing bales of cotton wool flour corn oats barley meal leather hides skins tallow butter cheese eggs apples hay lumber and other commodities. Entries include Lowell Maine Fitchburg Eastern Grand Junction New York and Newland Old Colony Picstin Albany Providence and Peabody and Salem lines with varying quantities and containers such as bales bbls cases rolls bags and crates.

Lowell Railroad Maine Railroad Fitchburg Railroad Eastern Railroad Grand Junction Railroad Peabody and Salem New York and Newland Railroad Lear Old Colony Railroad Picstin and Albany Providence Railroad

Market Report from New York Domestic Markets Today

Cotton steady with slight advance and dull forward deliveries. Flour receipts rise, market dull with minor price shifts. Wheat market up, large exports and strong spot demand amid active trading. Corn market higher on export demand, receipts and exports sizable. Barley firm, rye and barley malt steady, oats mixed amid sizeable storage and deliveries.

New York Gotton Uplands Orleans Minnesota Canada Tisge Fom Biggie Social mix Western Ave Chicago

Prices and market notes from multiple cities March market round

A summary of diverse commodity prices and sales across Boston Gloucester Chicago St Louis Milwaukee Toledo and New York. Includes coffee sugar pork beef lard butter codfish herring molasses linseed oils and shipper prices with varying settlements and futures hints.

Statistical financial report shows quarterly net revenue

The document outlines deductions including appropriations for dividends of 14 percent paid, interest on bonded debt, and sinking funds totaling 1,326,357.13 with a January 1 surplus of 3,393,842.54. Net revenue for the quarter ending March 31 is projected around 1,750,000.00, adding the January surplus to yield 3,393,885.24.

Western Union Telegraph Company Bos Ces Illinois Central Ilinois Central Railroad Company Inc

Indictments in Bush Distillery Case and Revenue Fraud

A case before Judge Cour covers two indictments against Goodrich H. Bush for removing distilled spirits from a Westfield distillery to defraud the revenue and for improper use of stamps. Arguments on quashing the motion and the proper framing of counts continue, with disputes over descriptions of “distilled spirits” and “stamps.” The government and defense debate compromises, pleads, and legal standards as the trial approach remains undecided. Separately, rail and transport news note Illinois Central 1882 results, London transit departures, and various earnings reports, with scattered city and rail data across firms like Chesapeake and Ohio, Central Pacific, and New York Central.

Commissioner of Internal Revenue Chas. Almy,Jr Blodgett B. F. Butler P. Cummings Are of London Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Company Buffalo Courier Central Pacific Illinois Central Railway Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railroad New York Central New York Albany Rochester Buffalo East Corinth Bangor Pennsylvania J. W. Bowen McArthur, Ohio Enquirer Ayer O. A. Prescott Elm Street Charlestown Mass Argr

Supreme Judicial Court Actions And Chambers Rulings

March 15 session before Chief Justice Morton and Justices Field Allen Colburn and Holmes. Cases argued include Conlon vs Eastern Railroad, Bulgarian Company vs Merchants' Despatch, and Jones vs Ames. In Chambers Judge Devens heard Bales et al. vs Christ Church injunctions and Homer store name dispute. injunction denied.

Supreme Judicial Court Commonwealth Morton Field C. Allen Colburn Holmes Patrick Conlon Astern Railroad Company S. M. Child T. E. Barry R. Olney Sigourney Butler Steamship Bulgarian Company (Limited Merchants’ Despatch Transportation Company D L. 8S Dabney A. L Devens Bales Christ Church John C. Ropes Charles R. Train McConnell A. Stowell J. Homer Equity Temple Place Homer Badong Poe

Superior Court First Session Disagreed Jury Verdicts

March 15 session before Judge Pitman resumed cases including Brooks admx v Seccomb et al libel claims resulting in $100 verdict in one suit and $300 in another. Sawyer v Hunnewell and Emma Sawyer v same tried together. other cases resumed with verdicts for defendant Browne in Mary A Babcock v Browne. American Automatic Organ Co v Tufts involves a $4,000 guaranty claim and dispute over writing.

Elizabeth E. Brooks Admx Seccomb J. Gargan T.D. Ely Nathan Sawyer Francis Hunnewell Emma Sawyer Same E. B. Callendar S. W. Creech Mary A. Babcock Lewis H. Browne W.H. Towne Geo. W. Easterbrook American Automatic Organ Company Eugene 8. Tufts W. H. Tufts William Jackson W. H. Tufts & Co

Real Estate Transfers in Boston and Vicinity 1883

Suffolk County transfers list numerous deeds and mortgages across Boston neighborhoods from March 1883 including BOSTON North Street and Newbury Street properties. Transactions involve Keatings Goodrich Doherty and others with amounts from $1 to $15 000 and multiple quitclaims and mortgages. Also notes public health debate on milk adulteration urging state board of health action and possible $4000 appropriation.

North Street Thomas H. Keating Catherine Keating James W. Keating Illuminate Milano Chapman Street John M. Tyler Et al Caroline C. Goodrich James L. Simonds Newbury Street Essex Savings Bank Gee. Wheatland, Jr Silas W. Merrill Charlotte Whiting James H. Beale Sixth Street Patrick H. Conley John A. McGrath Nand East Third Streets City of Boston Caleb C. Walworth Broadway Michael Doherty Otis D. Dana Stockbridge Walcott State Board of Health Board of Health Stracker Moore Young’s Lowell Cambridge Rice Northboro George M. Baker Lincoln New England Milk Producers’ Association Wetherell South Market Street Chatham Street John A. Loring Tremont Street Alex. S. Porter State Street Commonwealth of Elizabeth Sackelld Suffolk Boston Post Itness John W. McKim, Esquire William J. Corcoran Joan W. McKim, Esquire Elijah George John O’flanagan Elizabeth C O’'Flanagan Arthur Harrington Sarah Harrington

Hearings on Agriculture Committee Mass hearings on poultry and milk rules

The Massachusetts Agricultural Committee discussed dog killed sheep pricing and a bill to ban selling poultry with entrails undrawn. Debate covered public health and honesty in poultry, with proposed fines and an exception clause. The session moved to quart milk measures and whether current seals guarantee a full quart excluding the rim.

Committee ON Agriculture State House New England Milk Producers’ Association Middlesex County Commonwealth of Massachusetts Philadelphia Jersey John B. Moore Concord Mr. Wetherell Boston Stockbridge Amherst Higginbottom Holyoke J. B. Moore Eaton Quincy

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