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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

May 27, 1885

Page

3

Wall Street Notes Mixed as Bonds and Stocks Fluctuate

New York on May 26 reports money on call easy at 1 percent, prime mercantile paper firm, and silver at 107.5. Government and state bonds show mixed activity with several issues stronger, railroad bonds active. The stock market closes firm with most prices higher than last evening, led by New York Central and Central of New Jersey gains amid a dull session. Vanderbilt and West Shore speculation cited amid rumors. Transactions total 100,107 shares.

Boston Corporation New York Bears Atchison Commissioner Fink Messrs. Hayden New York Central Thompson and Roberts Pennsylvania King and Felton Erie Kaizer Baltimore and Ohio Strickson and Sargent Grand Trunk Western Association Bliss Boston and Albany Mr. Newell Lake Shore West Shore Vanderbilt Central Eastern Eastern Railroad Herald Concord Railroad Concord N. H Frederick Smyth Manchester James W. Johnson Enfield Josiah Minot Benjamin A. Kimball John J. Pearson Walter M. Parker John A. White Smyth St. Louis Summit Branch Lykens Valley Lykens Valley Water Company Transcontinental Association Denver Pacific Mail Company City of Pekin Yokohama New York Times Harris and Smith Sidney Dillon Oregon Navigation New York Graphic Wall Street News Prime Mercantile North Carolina Virginia Georgia Mussouri Central of New Jersey Louisville Nashville Houston Texas Central P. Huntington Vannerbilt Gulf, Colorado Santa Fe Chesapeake and Ohio Columbus Hocking Valley Toledo Buffalo and Louis Pensacola Northern Pacific General New Orleans Pacific Oregon Transcontinental Central Pacific Land Grant Richmmond and Allegheny Ft. Wayne Ile Rio Jamaica St Domingo' S Ios L.ehow Ponce Porto Rico Cuba Hysen Young Hysen Twankay Hyson Skin Congou Souchong Oolong Japan Messina Palermo Catania Aspinwall Baracoa Cincinnati Chicago Centennial Beacon Light New York—Petroleum United Pipeline C. Thorn Creek Murphy No. 4 Murphy & Co. No London Liverpool—Petroleum Antwerp Cort New Orleans Llige Albany Long Island Cooes Inc Reading Chicago and Alton Burlington and Quincey PAM Sa Canadian Pacific East Tennessee Nou Ill Central, So Dee Louisville and Richmond and Danville Georgia Pacific Alabama Illinois Central Ind Bloom West Ohio Central St. L San Francisco Kan City Ft. S Atch Ands Central Pacific Union Pacific Chicago, St. Paul Minneapolis and Omaha Nicholas J. Grace New England Buffalo Boston and Springfield Southern Pacific Arizona New Mexico Michigan Central Kansas Pacific Income Hoosac Tunnel

Wheat and flour markets show weak demand and price concessions

Receipts and shipments across Milwaukee Chicago St Louis and New York indicate quiet trading and price softness in flour and wheat. Prices for Spring Wheat patent and Minnesota extra fill the space as buyers hold back. Corn oats rye and barley show mixed activity with regional declines and firming in some grades.

St. lLania Milwaukee Chicago New York Ohio St Louis Minnesota St. Louis Detroit Toledo Llee iMige Dali White State Rye St . Louis Noninal State Cincinnati Middles Gulf

Commercial London Wheat Market May 26

Dull cargoes for wheat and corn amid steadier English wheat markets. Paris wheat flour quiet. Liverpool wheat dull, corn 489d. London prices: winter wheat 7s 9d 8s, spring 7s 3d, California 63 38d. Provisions mixed with pork 59 8d, bacon 20s 64 30s 6d. Receipts 141,300 cwt. Havana gold 23514. sugar firm. exchange dull.

Commercial London Beerbohm Merchants’ Exchange Paris Liverpool England Klaiverpool California Havana

Faneuil Hall Market Prices Reported May 27

Trade unchanged from last week with small-quantity movements except hotel and eating house trade. Fresh meats show slight firmness at week start, with arrivals keeping beef steady and veal firmer early on. Market activity remains stable and consistent.

Faneuil Hall Norfolk Bermuda Hubbard Striped Bass M &d

Oceanic Freight Item List From Ports and Vessels

A dated ledger-like summary of goods, crates, and supplies loaded at Liverpool, Yarmouth, Sydney, Port Antonio, and other ports. Entries include lumber, leather, hardware, canned fish, flour, oats, meat, and various crates. Vessels include Scythia, Dominion, Panny Flint, and Lorenzo D Baker, with cargo quantities and destinations.

C-Agate Liverpool Eng Mer Scythia Yarmouth Dominion Sydney Arichat Port Antonio Lorenzo D Baker Port Gilbert N S

Receipts of Staple Goods by Regional Railroads

The document lists cargo totals for multiple railroads including Boston and Albany, Grand Junction, Providence, Old Colony, New York and New England, Fitchburg, Maine Eastern and Western divisions, Lowell, Peabody and Salem expresses, and sea routes. Items encompass cotton bales, corn and flour, oats and bran, sugars, butter, eggs, bacon, lard, tallow, hides, leather, skins, pelts, and numerous sacks and boxes with quantities varying by railroad. Strong entities include railroad names, staple goods, and unit counts.

Boston and Albany Grand Junction Railroad Providence Railroad Old Colony Railroad New York and New England Railroad Fitchburg Brayroad Maine Railroad Eastern Division Maine Railroad—Western Division Ba'es Lowell Railroad Peabody, Salem Barney

Eggt corn and staples reach port from all points

Fragmentary lines indicate a report on cargo health showing staples and corn moving through a port from multiple origins. The text hints at shipments arriving from various points, but details are unclear.

Eggtcorn

Watertown Union Live Stock Report May 26

Boston Post reporter Geo. J. Fox lists market totals for cattle sheep lambs swine with counts by state and road car totals. Prices for beef store cattle hides tallow and skins, and classifications for cattle and sheep are provided with quality notes.

Watertown Union Boston Post Geo. J. Fox

Supreme Judicial Court Postpones Gas Company Equity Hearing

On May 26 before Judge C Allen the Supreme Judicial Court heard matters in equity. The hearing on the Consumers' Gas Company bill was further postponed.

Supreme Judicial Court C. Allen Equity Consumers’ Gas Company Middlesex County Morton Lowell Entre

Vermont Central reports 1884 earnings and future security plan

Board of directors of Vermont Central reports 1884 earnings and expenses for Central Vermont and operated roads. Net income after expenses shows 162 859 52 in treasury. Plan by American Loan and Trust Company to consolidate ownership and ease litigation is favorable. Track upgrades include steel rails, new bridges, more depots and larger Mogul locomotives to improve service and capacity.

DOU ci Dpgenges C.iscicaceste Assah OGL Treasury Vermont Canada American Loan and Trust Company of Boston Vermont and Canada Railroad Central Consolidated Company Nn&j St. John’s Windsor Rouse’s Point St. Albans Vermont Central Roxbury

Real estate and attach ment notices in Providence and Cincinnati

A set of attachment notices lists creditors and parties including Frank Singin and Ferdinand Smith in Providence R I and the Simpson Gault Manufacturing Company of Cincinnati. Bonds total 100000 dollars. Van Winkle and Schmidt of New Haven are reported attached. Suffolk County real estate attachments include O M Spiller versus William Fitzermeyer for two hundred dollars in contract action.

Providence R. I Frank Singin Ferdinand Smith Simpson-Gault Manufacteri Cincinnati van Winkle & Schmidt New Haven Conn Suffolk County O. M. Spiller William Fitzermeyer

Yergin Daughters Shine In Self Made Career At College

Robert Yergin, a one armed ex confederate soldier, from Dail's township Laurens, has daughters Mary and Lilah. Mary, 17, runs her father's engine to gin cotton while studying, earned money to educate herself, and is in Columbia Female College's graduating class as valedictorian and first honor. Lilah, 14, also operates the engine and aims to follow.

Greenville S. C Robert Yergin Dail’s Laurens Columbia Female College Miss Yergin Mary Yergin Lilah

General Nickname Born From Helping Soldiers Return

In Austin a stranger asks Gen. Jeff Blakeman if he was active in the late war. He replies he shipped cotton to Europe during the war and earned money, then loaned money to returning soldiers, earning the nickname General that stuck afterward.

Texas Sistings Austin Jeff Blakeman Europe

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