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Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

May 07, 1883

Page

3

Flour and grain quotes steady in U S markets

Grain and flour trade remains quiet with little change in quotations. Corn and oats show modest from day to day movement while rye and barley stay soft. Butter cheese eggs and vegetables steady with pork, lard and beef prices edging up slightly amid steady demand.

Minnesota St. Louis Indiana Ohio Michigan New York Illinois

New York Money Market and Stock Summary May 5

Money on call active but freely supplied. demand 24 to 4 percent, closed offered at 1 percent. Prime mercantile paper 6 1 4 to 7 1 4 percent. Bar silver 1095. Exchange dull and steady at 4821 482% long and 4843 485 short sight. Government bonds unchanged. railroad bonds irregular. Stocks dull and weak. notable declines in Atlantic and Pacific and other rails. New York Central led recoveries midday, later weak. final list down 4 1 4 percent with New York Central soft. Mining dull. Robinson Consolidated and Sonora Consolidated quoted. Total shares traded 38,587. weekly 236,986. Weekly bullion receipts from mines $260,000. Total stock exchange transactions 252,000.

Mexican Central and Mexican National Railroad Sonora Sinaloa Durango Treasury Atchison Eeey Union Pacific New York Burlington and Quincy Chicago Hannibal and St. Joseph Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Chicago, Burlington and Quirby Denver and Rio Grande Boston Post Denver Toledo, Cincinnati and St. Louis Cincinnati Northern Little Rock and Fort Smith Land Department Little Rock, Mississippi River and Texas Eastern Boston and Maine Xroads Atlantic and Pacific Chesapeake and Ohio East Tennessee Fort Worth Denver City Kansas Pacific New York Chicago and Texas and Pacific Rio Grande Division Vanderbilt New York Centrals Rochester Pittsburg Northwest Lackawanna New York Central Robinson Consolidated Uplands New Orleans Minnesota Canada Rio Demerara Cuba Maranham Petroleum United City Extra India South America Liverpool Milwaukee Cincinnati Toledo Detroit

Liverpool cheese and New York market summary

Special market report from New York mercantile exchange with butter and cheese unchanged. May pork at Chicago started at 1970, close around 21971g. June and subsequent months show varied closes. May wheat and corn prices at Chicago listed with changes. Hog receipts and shipments reported by Union stock yards with weekly totals. grain and carrot prices in Chicago markets included.

Liverpool New York Mercantile Exchange Chicago Sic Sige Slige

Foreign Exports Listed From Halifax and Charlottetown Ports

The May export listings show steamer Carrol clearing with a cargo including hardware, cutlery, emery wheels, iron tanks, naval stores, baby wagons, window glass, rubbers, glassware, iron pipe, seed, boots, plated ware, furnishing goods, tarred paper, crayon pictures, hops, copper paint, stationery, blacking, dry goods, duck, machinery, varnish, lines, marble, rubber belting, waste, oysters, valveline, drugs, steam fittings, cotton flannels, hats and caps, butter, sash weights, clocks, lubricating oil, machinery, beef bladders, mirrors, etc, totaling 1,054 feet of black walnut and other items. Glasgow lists Steamer Canadian with sacks of flour, sugar, canned meats, staves, lubricating oil, beef, poultry, tobacco, wheat, handles, apples, leather, hardware, cattle. In New Brunswick, schooner Mayflower ships cables, rods, yellow metal, wire rope, cordage, hardwire, log reel, anchors, rigging chains, canvas, bars iron, flour. St John, schooner Ariel reports kerosene, carboys acid, pitch, May 5 clearances. Port Gilbert, NS schooner Blythe lists two spars.

Halifax Charlottetown Pel Glasgow Parsboro ST Joan Ariel Port Gilbert Blythe

Receipts of Staple Products May 5 Data

A detailed ledger of shipments from multiple railroads and express lines listing bales of cotton wool flour cornmeal oats beef lards butter cheese eggs beans apples lumber leather hides pelts bones and other staples. Consolidated figures show Maine Fitchburg Eastern New York and New England and Providence lines handling varied consignments including heavy flour cornmeal and lumber movements along with livestock hides and butter.

Lowell Railroad Maine Railroad Fitchburg Railroad Eastern Railroad Peabody and Salem New York and New England Railroad Old Colony Railroad Bofton and Albany Providence Railroad

Cotton Markets Consolidate Across Regions and Prices

Market reports from Cincinnati to New York show firm or strong mid and low middling cotton with varied gross and net receipts. Prices range with middling around 10 to 10.5 cents, while coastwise shipments and stock levels differ by port, including Baltimore and Charleston, with regional activity flat or steady amid exports and domestic demand.

Cincinnati York Tsaieg Ceees Arden Stocksis Visssen Louisville Charleston Augusta Middlin NEW Orlean GYCES France Daics Coves Wilmington BOCK

Financial market summary from London and Liverpool notes

Financial news from London on May 5 and May 6 reports bank bill discount rates at 3 percent for 60 to 90 days, trade bills at 3 plus 1/4 percent. Suez canal shares fell 1 3, Central Pacific and Denver and Rio Grande mortgage and stock prices varied, and wheat and corn cargoes moved modestly. Liverpool flour and wheat prices edged up with provisions and cheese quoted, receipts of corn for three days at 20,000 centals, and cotton trading active.

London Atlantic Great Western Erie New York Central Ilinois Central Pennsylvania Central Reading Ontario and Western Milwaukee St. Paul Common Suez Canal Central Pacific Denver Rio Grande Oregon California Wabash Canada Beerbohm Merchants’ Exchange Liverpool

Havana Sugar Market Report Shows Upward Tendency

In Havana on May 5, sugar showed fair demand with an upward tendency though sellers were few. Prices ranged for molasses sugar and Muscovado, with exports to the United States and steady exchange rates noted. Leaf tobacco markets were quiet with Remedios and Vuelta Abajo fillers priced and exchange rates quoted for 60 days and short sight.

Havana Matanzas Partido Vuelta Abajo United States

Ancient Boston court cases replayed in civil torts

Walter H Fisher et al v New York and New England railroad company contests a land obstruction claim with a right of way and double tracking. Ann Cronin v City of Boston handles injury from icy sidewalk with a sufficent notice. Josiah Quincy v Carpenter et al reviews extra insurance payments under leases for Clinton street stores with a full discharge receipt.

Walter H. Fisher New York and New England Railroad Company Eee Norfolk L. Newton W. C. Lori Hanover Street Clark Fleet Streets N. L. Graffam F. M. Babson Josiah Quincy George C. Carpenter Clinton Street Boston BosToon Carpenter, Woodward & Morton Carpenter Supreme Court D. KE. Ware A. A. Ranney

Hastings v Mann case list and related filings

A sequence of case numbers and party names appears, listing Hastings v Mann, Strecker v Filene, Westervelt v Peirce, Bruce v Same, Swett v Seme, Bassett v Same, and other matters including Wentworth v Stickney, Aitken v Jordan, Parker v Greenfield Tool, Reid v Robinson, Drewe Oliver, Naylor v Peck, and Sharp v Crohn with associated docket references and filing notes.

Hastings Mann Strecker Filene Westervelt Peirce Bruce Same Swett Seme Bassett Ee Sown Fiet Given Bank Prescott Helbach Werner Wentworth Stickney Aitken Jordan Parker Greenfield Tool Company Reid Robinson Drewe Oliver Naylor Peck Sharp Crohn

Critic on Massachusetts reform and a Lydia Pinkham ad

A letter to the New York Sun condemns Massachusetts officials for cruelty to prisoners and lauds reform efforts at Tremont Temple. The piece recalls Gov Butler and adds a sermon-like tribute to reformers, ending with an advertisement praising Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a health aid.

New York Sun New England Gov. Butler Massachusetts South Tremont Temple Mark Jesus Tewksbury Almshouse Prof Vaughan Virginia Joseph Cook Lydia E. Pinkham Port Pice Mia Lydia FE. Pintcham Lynn Mass Shoe Philadelphia

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