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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Nov 01, 1883

Page

3

Stock Market Dull As Partners Form For Paper Loans

The market stays flat with a tilt to lower prices. George B. Ford and Frank H. Skinner announce a partnership to buy and sell commercial paper and to negotiate city and town loans at 301 Devonshire Street, with references from major banks. Rail, mining, and railroad bond activity show mixed moves and ongoing concern over Union Pacific and New York and New England prospects.

George B. Ford First Ward National Bank State Street Frank H. Skinner Martin, Skinner & Fay Devonshire Street National Bank National Bank of the Commonwealth Franklin L. Fay, Esq Western Railroad Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Union Pacific Cammach Town Falls Sioux City Flint Pere Marquette Mexican Central Rudolph Fink Southern Division Mexican Central Railroad Fresnillo City of Mexico Chihuahua Villa Lerdo Boston Albany New York New England Old Colony Fitchburg Boston and Maine Boston and Lowell Middlesex Norse Metropolitan Horse Boston and Lowell Railroad Company Massachusetts Central Railroad Atlantic and Pacific Denver Atchison Land Grant American Bell Telephone Boston and Northern Pullman Quincy Sullivan Messrs Evans & Doane Wall Street New York and New England Toledo Cincinnati St. Louis

Bank Dividends Declared by Several New England Firms

The First National Bank Worcester will pay 5 percent dividend. The First National Bank of Barre Mass declares 3 percent dividend. The Otis Company declares 5 percent dividend payable on demand. The Columbian Manufacturing Company has a 5 percent dividend payable on demand.

First National Bank Worcester Barre Mass Otis Company Columbian Manufacturing Company Devonshire Street Boston H. E. Irvine Bliss, Fabyan & Co Summer Street Columbia & Manufacturing CO

Market ends day with sharp rally after late decline

New York financial market weakened after midday with declines in Vanderbilt, Oregon Transcontinental and others. By early afternoon losses narrowed then a rapid late surge lifted many shares led by Oregon Transcontinental and Michigan Central, closing strong as traders blamed bear pressure and rumors of rate cuts.

New York Prime Mercantile Vanderbilt Cealers Oregon Trans International Great Northern Milwaukee St. Paul Chicago Pacific Western Division Delaware & Hudson Wabash Canadian Pacific Oregon Oregon Transcontinental Central Wuerle Northwestern Lackawanna Lake Shorely Michigan Central Missouri Pacific New York Central Northern Pacific Texas Pacific Union Pacific Buffalo Aes Canada Southern Bam Ossd Pacific West Elaware & Hud Denver & Rio G Lake Shore Louisville Lake Oe MO Ieee Manhattan Memphis & C Ontario & West St.l.& Pa Pacific Esig Big Canada

Large Commodities Markets Report From Nova Scotia and Seattle

Nova Scotia markets show light activity across coal petroleum and varying fruit and grain items. Cotton and dry goods are steady, while fish, dairy and cheese trade briskly with a new giant cheese exhibit noted at Faneuil Hall and Montreal sales reported for September and October make.

Leather Trade Holds Steady Amid Slow Orders As Shipments Rise

About 50 buyers in town, mostly from the west, survey the market before placing orders. Leather prices steady with no advance seen. manufacturers hedging by buying leather on order. Weekly shipments reach 40,267 cases, up from last year, with Jan 1 totals at 2,550,351 cases versus 2,163,047. Principal destinations include Chicago, St Louis, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New Orleans, Dallas, and many others listed by city.

Nova Scotia Cecal Cumberland Uiearfield Aed Rio Java Maracaibo New York Liverpool Nova Scotia Dry Bank London Muscatel Valencia Smyrna Turkey Virginia Florida Palermo Malaga Minnesota Michigan Oho Indiana St. Louis Illinois Buenos Ayres Barbadoes Porto Rico Western Calcutta Boston West St Albans Elgin Faneuil Hall Messrs Gess. Doe & Co Montreal Allan Grove Montreal Gazette A Ayer & Av Utica St Althans Chicago Ill St Louis Cincinnati Cleveland New York City Philadelphia Baltimore New Orleans Albany Dallas Tex Galveston Savannah Wimington Charleston Atlanta Portsmouth Grand Rapids Mich Wheeling Montgomery Ala Mobule Petersburg Pl Mo Norfolk Augusta Macon Chattanooga Uplands Milwaukee Duluth Ant Gispuneek 555 Silke Jim Sucar Manila United Tierce South America

Shipping Goods and Provisions Listings for Yarmouth and Halifax

In Yarmouth Nova Scotia figures list steamer cargo including 9 boxes vegetables 3 boxes balsam 3 cases potatoes and 65 barrels turnips with 500 drums codfish. Multiple firms J G Hall & co ES Ellis & co AL Haskell TJ Jones & co and others record crates eggs fish and household effects. Sailors at Halifax record schooners Emma Schooner Olive Branch with mackerel sugar holds and tierces of sugar for Kidder Peabody & co.

Yarmouth Dominion G Hall & Co Burt & Henshaw Hall & Co AL Haskell TJ Jones & Co Fish ET Russell & Co Richardson EK F Seeley Fish Whitney, Pousland & Co James Woolworth Butler, Ralifax Emma

Bark Horace Scudder on the St Paul voyage from Africa

Cargo list from St Paul de Loando notes varied goods including lumber coal tar beef pork flour and bread, with quantities like 178 feet lumber 60 bbis coal tar 50 bbis beef 50 bbis pork 20 hair 200 bbis flour 60 bbis and furniture items such as chamber sets bedsteads dining chairs and tables, plus a Dominion steamer shipment of hardware.

ST Paul DE Loando Africa Horace Scudder Steamer Dominion ST Pierre, Mart Shelburne John Purney Point A Pitre Guad Alice Taunton Sydney North America Canada Ee Bark Alington Bay OF Islands Grace Carter

Total Receipts of Staple Products October 31 Port

The table shows today totals for principal staple receipts at the port from all points, including in transit, comparing with the same day last year. Key figures cover various commodities and origins, highlighting changes year over year.

Gebben Eave Torever UU Bence Bs nalt _ dees Caine Patter Ee Baneeisaes Pkgs Fae

Live Stock Market Report Brighton Watertown Oct 1

Brighton and Watertown Live Stock market figures show week totals for cattle sheep and swine, with arrivals at yards and prices for beef and store cattle. State and Canada origins listed. western hogs and veal calves priced. export movement light with ships Bulgaria Kansas and Victoria noted.

Liverpool A. N. Monroe Lingham & O Kansas Victoria

Cattle and Sheep Market Report Northern and Western Regions

Market results from Watertown and Boston yards with lots of cattle sheep and hogs across New York Maine New Hampshire Vermont Massachusetts and Canada. Notes include prices for steers cows calves milchers and store stock with arrivals from A N Monroe Hollis Co Hathaway Jackson and others. Demand steady with best lambs around 5 1 4 to 5 3 4 cents and western cattle pushing to higher live weights.

Boston New York Clearing House P& L Ieee N.hampshire Massachusetts Rhode Island Canada Watertown Lowell Fitchburg Alpany Eastern Maine New Old Colony Providence Kimball Eee Ik Sarees G W Clark G A Clea Gilfillan & Blanchard H F Gilbert J 5 Henry Bardwell J D Hesmer J Dimon H M Yest Charles Wallace H Bush G McBride O C Robbinson D Fisher B Lumberl W Fisher A N Monroe Hollis & Co Hathaway & Jackson C Leavitt Farell & Stetson Fitch & Kames W A Dennisha Hastings & Morse G. W Clarke H Coolidge & Son Libby & Son New Hampshire K F McIntire Aldrich & Johnson T J Courier Dow & Moulton Sargent Wood & Breck Vermort H N Jenne B S Hastings Hi Ingerson AJ Piper P P Burton A Williamson Taylor & Harpin MG Flanders G W Brunnel Sargent & Turner J Engram Jaeget Raa J O Sanborn New England Liverpool Ca& OF Whitten French & Son Brighton Landing Albany Fairch & Stetson Sige Fitch & Eames M. L John Goodnow Brighton A N Monroe F H Coolidge & Son Goodnow J Remick J Dimen C O Howe G Littlefid

Markets by Telegraph Cotton notes and receipts across cities

Cotton market summaries and receipts for New York Wilmington Cincinnati Savannah Augusta Baltimore and other hubs. Prices quoted mid value ranges, market steady or dull, with net receipts and ship/stock figures for regional markets.

Bales New York Wilmington Vincinnati Philadelphia Ely Britain Savannah Augusta Copeleltie Cox New Orleans Memphis France Charleston Galveston Louisville Great Britain

Foreign Markets. London session notes and cargo reports

Financial updates from London at 12 30 PM note Consols at 1013 16 and varied firsts for Atlantic and Great Western. Prices listed for New York Central Illinois Central Pennsylvania Railroad Philadelphia and Reading Mexican York Ontario and Western and St Pan. Report also cites Beebohm merchants report on quiet but steady wheat cargoes and wheat and corn passage.

London Atlantic and Great Western Hiie New York Central Llinois Central Pennsylvania Railroad Philadelphia and Reading York Ontario and Western St. Pan Common Beerbohm Mark Lane Liverpool United Kingdom California Uplands Orleans

Court records of assault aboard ship and naval cases

Judge Lowell presided as trial began on the Jefferson Borden for an assault at sea by water spray on a sick seaman. The Quickstep crew faced charges of coercion and flogging by members including Marston Atkins Nobrock. Equity action Coburn v Nantasket Beach RR and related cases covered loan company removal and trustee substitution. Nantasket and Hingham boat lines injunctions remained intact.

Wm. M. Patterson Jefferson Borden Army United States John Browne Charles Marston John Atkins Joseph Nobrock John Senville Eben D. Jordan The Nantasket Company Et Bill In Equity Loan and Trust Company Robert Smith Coburn Et al Nantasket Beach Railroad Company Hingham Steamboat Company

Superior Court First Session October 31 Proceedings

Proceedings of the Superior Court in two sessions before Judges Blodgett and Bacon list multiple civil actions. Cases include Fannie McMahon vs Jeremiah Connor for loss of 52 items from trunks with jury verdicts for McMahon, Greenwood vs Collins rent dispute with damages claimed for water-related premises, Cassidy vs Fisk over a construction conversion and questions of title, and tort actions for damages from assaults on children with verdicts or ongoing trials.

Fannie McMahon Jeremiah Connor Fannie Lillian L. J. Drake George W. Searle W. W. Doherty Martha J.greenwood Joseph W. Collins Emerson Street Boston Y. H. Niles R. Lund H. F. Naphen John E. Cassidy John M. Fisk Shearen J. W. Richardson T. 8 W.s W. F. Slocums Bacon Edward McHugh Felix Goodnow Brighton Street M. H. Swett T. J. Morrison Catherine McColgan Owen Martin Hanover Street Owen F. Martin Thomas Curley R. J. McKiliget

Indecent exposure and assaults heard at Superior Court

In Middlesex Superior Court on Oct 31 Judge Pitman sentenced Robert Drummond of Cambridge to six months in jail for indecent exposure. Patrick McCarty of Hedson got 14 months in the house of correction for breaking into a shop and larceny of tobacco. Several others faced charges with mixed outcomes including acquittals and varying terms in corrections facilities.

Robert Drummond Cambridge Patrick McCarty Hedson John Burk House of Correction Thomas Neville David M. Smith Somerville Jennie Kehoe James McMeniman Edward Stover Victor Boulewsier Waltham James Ready Michael Leighton Lowell Michael Flynn Wm. T. Gammell

Municipal Court Actions October 31 in Central Court

Judge Parmenter sentences Maggie Tuck to six months in the house of industry for common nightwalking. Maggie Gould gets six months for drunkenness. Thomas Rolfe fined ten dollars and costs for assault. Others held on varied bonds for larceny and assault. Daniel Crowley held for the county on a charge of robbery. James Kearns fined fifteen dollars and costs for assault in Roxbury Court.

Central Court Parmenter Maggie Tuck House of Industry Maggie Gould Drnunk Thomas Rolfe Margaret Murphy Annie Waters Sarah Mehegan Commonwealth of Massachusetts Suffolk John H D. Smith William J. Fegan Daniel B. Baker Boston Copartners Smith, Fegan Timothy Munroe Rhodes Elijah George Luclen Adams Brookline Norfolk Mass Harry P. Garland Massachusetts K. Hamilton Milk Street Biddeford Maine George Wheatland Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company Broad Street Atlantic Avenue Fort Hill Wharf Commissioners John L. Batchelder Francis B Hayes Supreme Judical Court Suffolk County Harvey T. Litchfield Hull James H. McFarlane Salem Eben CD Nantasket Company Francis A. Hobart Braintree George Eager Newton Alfred Swiff Elisha Thayer Wiliam H. Litchfield Royal M. Palsifier Thomas Leavitt Asaph Churchill Henry Norwell Linus M. Price Pacific National Bank Saucer CO. Copp Whattam James A. McGeough Frances E. Bailey Alfred L. Bailey Proctor A. Roberts

New England railroads stockholders and earnings report

The article lists stockholder counts for leading New England railroads since 1877, noting modest gains except for the Eastern line. It also reports July 1883 to July 1882 earnings for the New York, Lake Erie and Western lines, with gross, expenses, and net figures, plus totals for the year and recent comparisons. It mentions a Dominion of Canada loan failure, Addison railroad officers election, and various expense ratios for Boston area lines.

New York, Lake Erie and Western Railroad Company Dominion of Canada Ottawa Wall Street Daily News Addison New York New England Boston Albany Boston and Lowell Providence Fitchburg Hanover Branch Railroad Aee Philadelphia and Atlantic Philadelphia and Reading Texas Pacific

Marriages Record From New England Couples

At Templeton Boston Worcester Hyde Park Wakefield Somerville Cambridge and other towns pairs wed Oct dates listed. Charles L Allen and Mary Olena Hutch ine Juliet Demvard and Albion Dole Mary Freeman Firman and Alice Freeman John Gibbard and Elizabeth King Howard Hayward and Lucy Bunker Marcel lus Mitchell and Daniel Littlefield Charles E Smith and Rebecca Hardy Frank L Watson and Ella Hathaway. Reviters include T Rice J W Hamilton D aes Butler SS Nick erson Rev D Reve Rev N B Jones Jr Rev A Winship.

Allen—Hutchins Templeton T . Rice Charles L Allen Holyoke Mary Olena Hutchine Dole Demyvard Boston J W Hamilton Albion Julia Demvard Firman—Freeman Wakefield Aes Butler

Suffolk Probate Notice and Insolvency Writs in Boston

A Boston probate citation seeks letters testamentary for Harriette A Hoppe, with public notice in the Boston Post. Insolvency actions name Joshua B Barker, and Robert A Murray, with creditors’ meetings set for November 9, 1883.

Mary Eeds Boston Suffolk Neate Boston Post Joan W. McKua Elijah George Register Clarence Eastman Stone Suffolk, On Monday, the 12Th Day of November. A Joan W. McKim, Esquire Elijan George Massachusetts Messenger's A. Murray Court Square John B. O'Brien Court Street Charles Townsend Howard D. Nash

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