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Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

May 26, 1885

Page

3

Market declines and rally in New York stocks amid railroad note

In New York on May 21 money on call remained easy at 1 percent, with stable foreign and government bond quotes. Stocks opened down about 1 to 2 percent, then rallied briefly before a renewed sell-off, ending with declines of 5 to 7 percent in most active rails and utilities. Delaware and Hudson, Lackawanna, Pacific Mail, Northwestern, Union Pacific Tax, St. Paul, New Jersey Central, and New York Central showed notable falls. a late rebound occurred in Gould stocks and Western Union. A trunk-line presidents meeting is anticipated, but no quick settlement expected amid unresolved old scores.

New York Atchison Topeka Santa Fe Chicago Burlington and Quincy Union Pacific Flint Pete Marquette Pere Marquette Kansas City Ft. Scotland Gulf and Kansas City Springfield Memphis Prime Mercantile Michigan Missouri North Carolina Western Union Delaware and Hudson Lackawanna Pacific Mail Northwestern St. Paul New Jersey Central New York Central Central Pacific Central of New Jersey Bears G. C. Eldredge & Co Messrs. Emery & Hodges No. 23 State Street Philadelphia Boston City New York, Philadelpha and Norfolk Railroad Delaware Division Pennsylvania Rod Crisfield

Markets Digest Flour And Grain And Associated Grains

The market report shows dull activity with no quotable changes in flour and grain. Chicago and New York receipts and shipments are listed across several flour types and futures, with prices ranging from around 2.25 to 5.75 in various grades, while oats and corn show firm to lower trends with multiple regional receipts and shipments noted.

Chicago New York Rts Ohio St Louis Minnesota Ely Milwaukee Detroit Toledo Worcester County

Market receipts and exports for staple products May 25

The table shows total receipts of hides grease oats and other staples, with figures for wool and tallow, and notes net receipts at 0 5 The report lists net exports to Great Britain France and the Continent and notes a decrease in American stock. The market tone varies by city: dull in New York and St Louis steady in Louisville Savannah and Wilmington firm in Charleston Galveston Memphis and Mobile and quiet elsewhere. Total Receipts of Staple Products May 25.

Tor Great Britain France Continent New York St. Louis Louisville Savannah Wilmington Charleston Galveston Memphis Mobile

Vast Early American Trade Goods Report

A sprawling ledger of merchandise and commodities lists flour, oats, malt, tallow, lard, grease, bacon, butter, cheese, eggs, potatoes, hay, leather, hides, skins, wool, beans, apples, cornmeal, peas, lumber, bales, and vast shipments by sea and rail. Entries reference multiple regions and carriers, with quantities in barrels, bags, boxes, cases, sacks, and rolls, illustrating extensive inland and coastal trade flows.

Achivere Maine Rail Weil Balitcsi Peabody Salem Sea Boston Savannah Gate City Bernd Eyres George Buel Brown & Co Billings & Eaton Bosworth Baker & Lunnell HM Blanchard White Bros & Son Weington Wellington Baiesbides Wadleigh Wheelwright &Co White Bros & H Waltham Whiteros & Son York & Whitney Richardson & Dennie H A Royce Richards Rogers Smith & Payne Boots and Shoes Smith Mapus Co Boston Iron Works Sherman Beaus Snow & Co Simonds &Co Prince & Co Gleason & Co Bill & Cutler Hudson M Howard JL Harrington T Hall & Co James & Abbott Isaacke & Co Lowell Broa & Co Ludlow Manut Co Halifax Carroll Avery & Co Arthur & Co Bowles & Co Beaman Bros Cutler Hinckley, Ayer & Co A& OW Mead Maverick Oil Co Morey & Willis Rockwell & Son Sanborn & Co Sprapve McKenzin & Gordon Gloucester Fish Co A & Ellis T & Co Seavey & Co Butler Varston & Saunders Clements Delong & Seaman Glover & Whitcomb Griffin & Co Holmes Holbrook Haskins & Montague Johnson & Co Knowles & Son William Lorimner William Pryor, Jr Russell & Co Ellis & Co Johnson TJ Jones & Co Marston Oakes Robbins Madagascar Joseph A ?Ropes India George Baracoa Boston and Albany Railroad Grand Junction Railroad Providence Railroad Old Colony Railroad

Foreign Exports and Coastal Shipments Listed

Glasgow steamer Waldensian clears May 23 with assorted cargo including flour cattle duck staves piano spokes and dry goods. Humacoa and other ports report schooners Juliet Matilda Scylla Magnum and Mary Jane carrying molasses sugar butter beef and lard among miscellaneous goods.

Glasgow Scot Waldensian Humacoa Juliet Sarrington Matilda Lunenburg Meteghan Yarmouth

Value of Exports from the Port of Boston Week Ending May 22

The report lists export values and items including sugar, coffee, and wood, with figures such as 2,497 and 1,027 units. The record catalogs cases and proceedings from AGUAY SUPERIOR COURT First Session May 25 before Judge Pitman and Judge Rockwell, detailing tort damages, board wages, employment disputes, and park land awards regarding city actions, with multiple named parties and legal representatives.

Boston England Sodeans Ssavenes John Green City of Beacon Street Wm. Gaston Francis Peabody, Jr T. M. Babson Susan S. Braston C. F. Perkins Dexter George W. Goldsmith Park Commissioners Centre Street West Roxbury Park William Gaston S. B. Whitney A. J. Bailey R. W. Nason Louisville Macomber & Greenwood Kentucky Bank In H. D. Hyde A. Hemenway D. F. Kimball

Court Adjourns as May Session Opens with Jury Panel

The court convened by adjournment from May 15 with Judges Gray Cole Nelson and Carpenter. Rev Hale led prayer. Wm H Fay of Marlboro was named grand jury foreman. Admiralty appeal cases are assigned for Tuesday June 23 and the court expects to occupy the week. Judge Carpenter assists the court as jury selection begins June 11. Motions were heard.

Gray Cole Nelson Carpenter District Court Circuit Court E. &. Hale Wm. H. Fay Marlboro

Supreme Judicial Court Sessions May 25 and 26

The court, before Judge Holmes, finished the suspended case of Ladd and Russell but it was further suspended and jurors were excused. Hearings in contested divorce cases resumed before Judge C. Allen, occupying the day with equity sessions today Tuesday May 26.

Ladd and Russell C. Allen Equity Supreme Judicial Court Middlesex County Morton

Resolutions Endorse Public Preaching on City Domain

Several gentlemen spoke and adopted resolutions of sympathy and support. Anthony Comstock addressed Baptist ministers and resolutions were adopted outlining views that requests to preach on the public domain of the city should be granted.

Anthony Comstock The Society For the Suppression of Vice Methodist Ministers L. B. Bates

New Western Expresss Part of Boston and Albany System

The Boston and Albany unveils a fast western express departing Boston in the afternoon with a newly renovated New York Central sleeper bound for Chicago. An inspector system under Superintendent Flagg gathers passenger feedback and checks train care, aiming to boost through service and cut times to Chicago and Cincinnati. The article discusses schedule comparisons with the Vanderbilt lines, limiteds, and potential profitability of early Boston departures, noting timing issues east of Worcester. It also covers the Boston, Concord and Montreal railroad annual meeting and a Cambridge rail track request, plus a rumor of a Grand Trunk branch to Colebrook.

Boston Albany New York Central Sleeping Car Company Chicago Dr. Webb Pullman Flagg Posen Sleeping Boston and Albany Railroad Vanderbilt Lines New York Buffalo St. Louis and Chicago Express New Boston and Ae Cleveland Cincinnati Detroit Worcester Springfield Pacific Express Concord Montreal Boston, Concord and J. Thomas Vose Peter Butler Samuel N. Bell Manchester N. H Warren F. Daniell Franklin Nathan H. Weeks Plymouth George W. Hills Lawrence Mass Charles H. Greenleaf Franconia

Business Troubles Shake Chicago Manufacturing Firm

A Chicago despatch reports A. Adams Manufacturing at 167 South Canal Street sold to Pennsylvania Tube Works amid debts of about 120000. Adams’s 90000 to 94000 owed to Pennsylvanian company, with 26000 received for the sale. The firm’s liabilities and creditors, including Metropolitan National Bank and First National Bank, affect many Chicago entities. Separate notices mention Hillard’s assignment for Hill’s creditors and a Providence court petition over Stafford & Co. assignments, with creditors seeking inventory and potential new assignees. Suffolk County real estate attachments list several contracts and actions.

Chicago 5. A. Adams Manufacturing Company South Canal Street Pennsylvania Tube Works 8. A. Adams Crane Bros. Manufacturing Company Pennsylvania Tube Works Company Adams Pennsylvania Metropolitan National Bank First National Bank Niles & Carr Warren D. Hall Lynn K. £. Hillard Hill Providence R. 1 Supreme Court Bardon P. Case Stafford & Co

Alder man Appleton Missing After Returns Theft

In Chicago on May 25, Alder man Appleton vanished a week after carrying the third precinct ward 3 election returns. The date of his return is unclear. Reports say the returns were stolen from his overcoat pocket in a saloon the night before his departure and destroyed, delaying the canvass and city officers’ installation.

Chicago Appleton

Orders of the Day in Massachusetts Legislature

The bill to let insurers invest more capital stock was sent to a third reading with an amendment allowing investments like savings banks. Engrossed measures include stenographer appointments for the superior court, removal of insane prisoners from the reformatory, cemetery and burial statute amendments, and publication of contested election case reports. Other items placed for Tuesday cover assignees suing in their own name, officer compensation revisions, widows and families of deceased in burial lots, railway consolidations, and charter petitions for American Bell Telephone. Reports by committees on mercantile affairs and taxation were deemed inexpedient, and Worcester deeds copies bill was tabled.

Superior Court Massachusetts Reformatory Committee On Public Service Commonwealth Troy Greenfield American Bell Telephone Company Worcester County

Sixty Hours in Week Law Discussed in House Action

The Massachusetts House debated hours of labor and related bills with motions to reconsider engrossment of measures on race discrimination in public places and licensing groves for picnics. Key votes, committee reports, and adjournment followed a lengthy session without final action.

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