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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

May 14, 1885

Page

3

Market Rumors Move Delaware and Lackawanna Shares

The piece traces a flurry of trading chatter around Delaware and Lackawanna stock, with reports of large selling by S. W. White brokers and borrowed shares signaling a potential short interest. It also notes declines and recoveries in other railroad and utility issues, plus anticipated legislative developments and bond activities shaping near term prices.

Market Irregularities Mark Wall Street Amid Rail Stocks

New York reports a volatile session with Lackawanna leading moves as bears target Vanderbilt interests and Union Pacific debt plans loom. Central Pacific and Oregon notes reshape cross country rail finance, with bonds advancing in general and a pending June payoff noted.

Freight rates spark sharp trade activity and stable markets

General trade shows little improvement as cheap Chicago to Kansas City transport spurred large orders, while old rates restore competition. Transatlantic freights stay in fair demand and cotton mills move toward stock reductions. Some corporations report solid earnings including a semi annual 3 percent dividend, with room offering, oats and corn markets showing active call sales and varied bid prices.

Chicago Kansas City Helce Fryé Lear

Broad range of commodities with steady prices across markets

Markets report muted demand for cement, coal, and oils with steady to firm prices. Coffee, dyes, and drugs show mixed demand. a wide array of staples including lumber, leather, and produce maintain current levels. Naval stores, gunpowder, and sugar trade note steady activity while freight rates and tinplate remain stable.

Trade Mood Firms Up as Manufacturers Face Mixed Sales

The business shows uneven demand with some houses thriving while others lag. Jobbers push price cuts with limited effect as manufacturers hold line. Some large firms enter the retail market this year seeking higher prices through direct sales.

Imports at Boston and Caribbean vessel listings

A ledger style record lists imports at Boston including vessels from Liverpool with 180 bags hide to Thos Groom & co and 77 bags to Baring Bros, plus 96 bales old cotton and 525 tons pig iron. Also notes shipments to MATANZAS MAYAGUEZ SAGUA ARECIBO and ARROYO with brig and schooner listings carrying sugar molasses and related goods from multiple firms.

Liverpool Eng Missouri Thos Groom & Co Everett & Co Flax Smith& Dave Manus Co Read & Sons Hogg, Brown & Taylor Miller Bros & Co Dame Stoddard & Kendall Spear & Co Baring Bros & Co Mackintire, Lawrie & Co Shreve, Cramp & Low Hayward, Perry & Rider Tog Bros & Co H C Warren Matanzas Addie M Bird Mayaguez P R Estella Peabody & Co Sagua Levanter Perry Tierces Sugar AB Perry & Co Arecibo de Molasses Gossler & Co Arroyo Nor Nash, Spaulding Co

Foreign Exports. Historic Ship Cargoes Across Ports

A detailed list of goods loaded aboard various vessels at Hayti London Demerara Glasgow Maitland Halifax and Hantsport including brig Rapid Transit Stockholm City schooner John K Souther Scandinavian and Elsie Cronan. Commodities include codfish pork beef mutton flour lard cheese wax leather and lumber among many items with quantities and destinations.

Hayti Brig Rapid Transit London Eng Stockholm City Demerara John K Souther Glasgow Scot Maitland Anthony Halifax N S. Brig Elsie Cronan Hantsport

Receipts of Staple Products by Railroad Lines

Detailed ledger style list records shipments and quantities of wool, flour, beef, butter, tea, coffee, sugar, eggs, apples, potatoes, leather, hides, and other staples across multiple railroads including Boston and Albany, Grand Junction, Providence, Old Colony, New York and New England, Fitchburg, Maine Eastern and Western divisions, Howell, Peabody Salem lines, and express services. Entities include railroad names, cargos such as bales, barrels, sacks, and cars, with figures for each commodity.

Werren Eureka Boston Sporting Manila Cebu Boston New York Sandwich Islands India Calcutta Southern Ile Elaine Kentucky Icc Vermont Choice Western Creamery Nova Scotia Canada Carolina Java Rangoon Patna Boston and Albany Grand Junction Railroad Providence Railroad Old Colony Railroad New England Fitchburg Maine Railroad Eastern Division Howell Potatoes—S Cats Peabody, Salem Yottoz Baics Egge Cate Benes Seewan &Rease Dbis Gacou Bexes Csv iOfsking Board of Railroad Commissioners State of John D. Kernan William E. Rogers John O’donnell Mt. Washington Railroad Company John H. George N.W. White, Jr John M. Mitchell Concord Emmons Raymond J. Thomas Vose Walter Aiken A. W.sulloway Franklin Mr. George F. E. Brown Edward D. Harlow Sylvester Marsh N. II New Bedford Acushnet Street Railway Indiana, Bloomington and Western Railroad Company Indianapolis Austin Corbin Alfred Sully J. Rogers Maxwell John L. Farwell Charles Stanford Robert K. Dow George E. Leighton Henry W. Maxwell Frederick W. Dunion Fred W. Peck James Kh. O. Sherwood James KE. Edmunds Joseph Dorr Chicago Central Traffic Association Charles River Street Railway Lafayette Square Cambridge Main Street Cambridge Railway Harvard Square Schemaera Maos Railroad

Livestock Market Figures Detail Cattle Sheep and Swine Volumes

Arrivals at different yards show cattle 3,646 sheep 1,761 veals 150, total 5,557. Prices list beef quality tiers from first to third, with regional state totals for cattle and sheep by New Hampshire Vermont New York and Western regions. Road car totals 568 with double-deck counts noted.

N.hampshire Vermont Sane New York Boston Lowell Fitchburg Eastern Maine Albany

Export Trade and Maine Cattle Market Report

The report tracks export trade with cattle rising in Liverpool and London markets with quot ed prices around 7d per 6d and 18 14c, while Maine cattle, dairy cows and horses dominate local sales. It notes total weekly shipments from the port at 1461 cattle and 760 sheep, with beef shipments reaching 2974 quarters and mutton at 15s, plus detailed steamer consignments to London Liverpool Glasgow and other ports with buyers like A N Monroe J Hathaway Wells & Richardson and Libby firms.

Lis Gothenburg City London Venetian Liverpool Thompson, Flanagan & Bang O Bruce A N Monroe Australia Scandinavian Glasgow J A Hathaway Monroe Maine J H C Libby Wells & Richardson H Bird & Co Ruell Robinson Cornville Watson Jones Fairfield Chas Toby Same Place Joy Bros Benton Mr Blake Oakland Libby & Sons Libby & Merrill J H Fogg

Cattle and hog markets report from Chicago and other cities

Cattle receipts 4500 ship ments 3005 with gains to 10c. Hogs receipts 20000 with mixed to lower prices and packing and shipping at 4.30 to 4.45. Sheep receipts 700 with steady market. Chicago prices show steers 4.75 to 5.90, stockers 3.75 to 4.45, feeders 4.50 to 5. Texans 3.75 to 4.30. Flour and grains mixed, pork around 1110, lard 6.80 to 6.32. Milwaukee wheat 88.5 to 89, corn 47 1/4, oats 34 to 34 1/4, rye 7 3/4. Cincinnati pork 1137% il 50, lard 6 70c.

Maine F H Coolidge S H Martin & Squier Britton & Savage M C Roundy W G Townsend R P Pollard Piper & Pond A Williamson FS Kimball Sargent & Tanner GH Sprigg BS Hastings M G Flanders G W Brownell W Ricker Hingerson Massachusetts J S Henry Watertown Boston Bond Canada Union Market Eldred T Shackett Kansas City Chicago Boe C W Rowell F Fairbanks J M Dyer J A Hathaway Brighton Albany Farrell & McFlynn E TL Eames Monroe A N Monroe JS Henry Aldrich & Johnson Breck & Wood W Scollans Libby & Son J D Hosmer New York Orleans St Louis Minnesota Cuba United City Extra India Western Steam City Steam Continent South America Liverpool Lake Mobile Savannah Charleston Memphis Milwaukee Cincinnati

Foreign Markets and Commodities Report from London Havana and Liverpool

Market notices from London Havana and Liverpool show mixed activity in bonds currencies and commodities with consolidations in consols at 999 16 and Atlantic and Great Western firsts around 233 3 4 Canadian Pacific 3814 Erie 104 and New York Central 85. Wool and wheat trade see cargoes easing in London while wheat prices hold firm in Liverpool and Paris with heavy and dull tone for corn and breadstuffs. cotton in Liverpool drags with Upland and Orleans varieties listed and futures quiet but steady.

New York Prime Mercantile Lackawanna Gould-White Union Pacific Western Union Missouri Pacific Grangers Vanderbilts Toly Wo Street Chicago Europe Mississippi River Pacific Mail Northwestern St. Paul Lake Shore London Oregon and California Central Pacific Central Oregon Puget Sound British Columbia Gulf of Mexico Chicago and Alton Denver Rio Grande East Tennesee Wabash St. Louis Pacific General Gulf, Colorado Santa Fe Michigan Central Consolidated New Orleans Pacific Wisconsin Pacific Alton Terre Haute Toledo Lawson, Douglas & Co Trapani Cadiz Liverpool Turk’s Island Calcutta Castile Porto Rico Cardenas Isi New Orleans Havana Madeira Sicily Ivison Malaga Burgundy Ohio Pennsylvania Michigan Genaretans FF Great Brita France Baltimore Philadelphia Cincinnati Norfolk Canadian Pacific Erie New York Central Beerbohm Merchants’ Exchange Mark Lane California United Kingdom Paris Orleans

Court Record Supreme Judicial Court May 13

Nathaniel W. Ladd as Executor appeals a probate decree contesting the will of Venuna Russell of Boston. The brother heir challenges execution validity, mental capacity, undue influence, and revocation. Attorneys I R Clark for the executor and William Gaston with W E Davidson for the appellant.

Nathaniel W. Ladd Charles Ek. Russell You Russell Boston I. R. Clark William Gaston W. E. Davidson

Boston Superior Court session lists multiple injury cases

May 13 session before Judge Pitman includes Ellen Field vs City of Boston for 10000 damages from ice on Hanover near Charter. Elmira Slade vs Mead for property damage from derrick. Phebe Chase vs City of Boston for 24000 due to snow and ice on Monmouth Street. Maria Moreland vs Boston and Providence Railroad for injuries from fallen shingles. other in-order dockets and third session listings before Judge Knowlton and specific case numbers noted.

Pitman Ellen Field City of Boston Hanover Street Charter Street J. B. Richardson R. W. Nason Elmira P. Slade Charles KE. Mead Phebe W. Chase Monmouth Street S. B. Allen T. Savage T. M. Babson Maria A. Moreland Boston and Providence Railroad Company Hyde Park Hazelwood J. E., Cotter George Putnam Young F. Waldron Frank McLaughlin George Campbell McLaughlin Campbell Lynds Wiggin & Fernald Samuel Fl. Swett Ace & Alger City Solicitor City New York and New England Maple Farm Common Street Essex Street Roger New York

Defendants Enter Guilty Pleas in Multiple Cases

Before Judge Aldrich trialers Barker and Malloy plead guilty to one count each for breaking and entering. Phineas F. Drew pleads guilty to two counts of embezzlement. George McCarthy found guilty of indecent exposure with sentence deferred. Henry Newhall placed on probation for larceny from person.

John Barker Michael Malloy Phineas F. Drew George McCarthy Henry Newhall

Ohio Central Hireorganization and Hocking Valley Plan

The Ohio Central Youth committee reports a new Toledo and Ohio Central Railway to be formed June 1. It proposes stock exchanges with Hocking Valley stock, limits on new bonds and stock, and trustees holding all Ohio Central shares. If accepted, Hocking Valley guarantees interest on Ohio Central bonds. Objections come from terminal and equipment stake holders amid talks of economy and shared terminals.

Ohio Central Canda Committee Toledo and Ohio Central Railway Company Columbus, Hocking Valley Toledo Hocking Valley Hocking Valley Comany Hocking Corey River Division St. Louis San Francisco

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