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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Oct 01, 1884

Page

3

Money Matters in Boston Market Quiet and Steady

The September month end in Boston money markets shows steady mercantile and miscellaneous paper with rates from 5 to 7 percent for well backed issuers and bank loans at around 3 to 4 percent with collateral. Clearinghouse exchanges total 8,725,594 dollars with 1,199,793 dollar balances. New York funds at a 17 to 20 cent premium. Stocks move higher on NY strength. Union Pacific shares rise amid bullish talks while several rail and utility names trade with cautious optimism.

Boston Corporation New York Clearing House Sterling Onesie Ooet Emwee Reichsmarks Aéeseeuwe Sede Western Tierces Western Steam South America Cincinnati—Park Milwaukee Chicago Cincinnati

Dividends Declared by Multiple National Banks

A list of banks including Quinsigamond National Worcester Randolph National Weymouth Union National Abington Southbridge National Spencer Salem National Powow River National National Grand Brockton National Fairhaven National Exchange Salem Asiatic National Lynn First National Marblehead National declared various dividends. Most payments range from 3 to 8 percent with several semi annual notes.

Quinsigamond National Bank Worcester Randolph National Bank Union National Bank of Weymouth Abington National Bank Southbridge National Bank Spencer National Bank of Spencer Salem National Bank Powow River Salem Lynn First National Bank Marblehead National Bank

Financial markets steady with mixed gains and late decline

New York markets show easy money at 1 2 percent on call and gains in Union Pacific St Paul New York Central Pacific Mail led by gains before a late 1 to 1 4 percent retreat. Vanderbilts rise in Canada Southern Michigan Central while rail and granger shares recover then drop as profits are realized. Trading volume 343 100 shares with diverse sectional issues and ex dividend notes.

New York Prime Mercantile Paper Union Pacific St. Paul New York Central Pacific Mail Lackawanna Jay Gould Canada Southern Michigan Central Burlington Northwestern Missouri Pacific Northern Pacific Omaha Poday Wame Cansan South’n Central Pacific Chi St. Louis Del L. & West Delaware& Hud Denver & Rio G Ceosarcsesess Han St. Jo Kansas & Texas Lake Shore Louisville& Nash Memphis & Onn New Jersey Ohio & Mississppi Ontario Apa Ohio Centra BCO Pacific Mail Peona Phila Reading St. Paul St. P Texas Pacific

Grain and commodity market notes and dry goods roundup

Market report from Chicago shows in store grain totals by kind with September 26 figures and year comparison, plus on call sales data for No 2 white grades and bid ask prices for Oct to Dec and year. New York dry goods bulletin notes quiet business, muted demand across prints ginghams dress goods and woollens, with some strength in worsted coatings.

New York White State Chicago Toledo Dull St. Louis Rye Western Milwaukee Liverpool P. E New Hampshire Aroostook Cape Java Maracaibo Laguira Jamaica Pembroke Huron Porto Rico Barbadoes English Island Antigua Carolina Rangoon Malaga Messina Palermo Baracoa Cincinnati St Louis Centennial Beacon Light New York—Petroleum United Pipeline New Orleans Uplands Orleans Commercial Exchange Commercial Bulletin En’s

Marrhelt Digest of Markets Flour and Grain

September 30 market digest notes flour and grain trading across local and telegraphic reports. Prices for wheat corn and rye are summarized with brief movement. Local merchants and producers observe shifts in supply and demand amid seasonal harvests.

Prices of Livestock and Hides in Brighton Market

Prices list for Farrow cows Fancy cows and milch cows with various age groups. Working oxen and yearlings offered, plus two and three year old steers. Western fat swine and northern hogs priced by weight or lot. Sheep and lamb prices with spring lambs noted. Hides tallow skins and pelts priced, including calf and dairy skins. Classification of cattle and sheep defines quality grades and market notes. Brighton market excludes Boston and Albany hogs from certain entries.

VRE Veeney Eye Rae Brighton N.B Bofton and Albany

Fragmented 1884 trade and commodity lists from railroads and ports

A dense catalog of shipments and goods from multiple railroads and ports in 1884 including cornmeal, oatmeal, beans, butter, apples, potatoes, lumber, leather, wool, flour, oats, meat, and many other commodities. Names of regions such as Pitchburg, Eastern, Maine, Lowell, and Peabody appear with extensive tonnage and counts.

Pitchburg Eastern Railroad Humber Maine Railroad Lowell Railroad Peabody Salem Bouter Gocuaeer Boston and Albany Grand Junction Providence Railroad Old Colony Rayroad New York and New England Railroad

Savannah ledger of cargoes and shipments to various firms

Listings from Savannah and other ports show steamer and schooner cargoes including lemons from Chas Amory Boston Rubber Shoe Co leather hides boots and shoes lumber and wool bales, and oranges, cigars, rosin, and baled goods. Several firms such as Lernd Bros C J Bishop Fong Thayer and J S Hirschberg appear with quantities. cargoes also note ships like Gate City Amelia Laura Belle and Buteshire with items ranging from cotton to herring to sugar.

Savannah Gate City Gleason & Co Continental Mills Great Falls Co Nashua Manuf Co Atlantic Mills Boston Duck Co Cocheco Co Edwards Manuf Webster Manuf Co West Boylston Co Warren Steamship Line Palmer Mills Stetson J Seaver & Co Storrow Lewis Rosin Leonard & Clark Leonard Marqueze & Varney George McQuesten & Co McKean George E Newhall New England Organ Co Bullard Hall Prince S Priest Park & Woodson Richardson & Dennie Stetson, Moseley & Co Williams Seaverns & Co Rosario Virginia Stafford Rice & Co Brown Bros & Co James E Ward & Co Ropes & Co H H Wright Sagur Buteshire Sugar Standard

Obituary for Gen George P Meserve of Jackson N H

Gen George P Meserve longtime northern New Hampshire resident died at his Jackson home on September 19 aged 86. A grandson of Capt Jonathan Meserve of the British army and son of Col Jonathan Meserve he served in state militia rising to major general at 26. He influenced local affairs and land settlement including Thompson and Meserve’s purchase atop Mt Washington. Survived by his wife Harriet Eastman and a large family others include Matthew Howland of New Bedford, John F Stockbridge of Melvin Village and George Thayer of Milford.

George P. Meserve New Hampshire Jackson N. H Jonathan Meserve Col Srades Democratic Party Thompson and Meserve Mt. Washington Harriet Eastman Matthew Howland New Bedford John F. Stockbridge Melvin Village N. I

Naval Library expels curator over resignation dispute

A Tuesday meeting at the Naval Library and Institute at the navy yard voted not to accept A. M. Massie’s resignation and expelled him. Dr. Henry Lyon presided as the commandant submitted that Massie insulted visitors, forced purchases, refused to surrender the key, and blacklisted him. Capt. Bunce and others set up an accounts committee with Commander Kautz named temporary curator and librarian before adjournment.

Naval Library and Institute Navy Yard A. M. Massie Henry Lyon Capt Bunce Massie Kautz White

Counterfeiter James Quinlan Arrested After Suspect Bills Surface

Since Saturday night James Quinlan was seized for trying to pass a ten dollar counterfeit note at Susmann Bros cigar store, 273 Washington. Similar bills were reported accepted at Heath’s drug store 375 Washington and Freeman & Gray’s 124 Tremont, seeming to be 1875 Webster head notes, prompting warning to the public.

James Quinlan Treasury Susmann Bros Washington Street Heath’s Drug Freeman & Gray’s Tremont Street Webster

Marriages Registered in Standish and Boston

MARRIAGES list notices show John C Brown of Boston and Alice K Doughty of Standish wed at Standish on September 27. Walter L Gerry and Annie E Batchelder wed in Boston on September 25. Clark McKay and Ina Ayer wed in Boston on September 23. Herbert H Wise and Lucinna A Moore wed in Boston on September 25. Lenema H Warren and Josephine W Gird wed in Cambridge on September 29.

Lucinna A Moore Warren Gird Cambridge E Hewe Lenema H Warren Josephine W Gird Worcester

Insolvency filings and bankrupted firms across cities

Insolvency petitions and bankruptcies flood headlines from Salem to Boston and beyond. John McIntire of Essex seeks relief for liabilities around 2000. livery keeper facing about 277250. Fillows Bros. of Belleville Ontario seeks extension. receivers and attachments target Grant Ward assets and Thomas J. Morgan trust income. Littlejohn Belt and other firms file voluntary petitions. Dallas and Vienna items show agricultural implement and sugar firm troubles. numerous real estate and creditor attachments noted across Suffolk and Norfolk counties.

Neilson & Co Boston John McIntire Essex Salem Robert S. Clisby Dedham Norfolk County Fillows Bros., Brewers Belleville Ont Julian T. Davis Grant & Ward Donohue Joseph K. Wels Broadway Co. Littlejohn & Co Atlantic Avenue Suffolk County Clement Littlejohn Robert M. Belt Littlejohn Dallas Mitchell & Scruggs Fort Worth Wilcox Cen Donnell Company New York City James M. Preston Philadelphia Rounds and Press Company Monroe Street Chicago Recorder of Deeds Samuel D. Ward C. D. Soule Secon Denver Spielman Bros Cincinnati John O. Berkelman M. Oettinger Warsaw N.Y Solomon Leys Matthews, Barker & Co Grain and Commission Ill John Bairnson R. C. Stonehouse Wallaceburg Henry Fink Helena Ark F. J. Briody New C. Pater Portland Ore E. E. Wood Brattleboro W. J. N. Balcom Nichaux N.S Rufus F. Page Thompson William Rounds Towania R. P. Smyth Austin Tex Newlin & Tucker New London Ind D. Abersohn New Manchester P.©. Atkinson Kansas City C. M. Fuller Titusville A. B. Stannard Lawrence Orlando S. Williams Eliza D. Ahrens Cocal William Whetstone Jefferson City Mont Abbott & Betham Mt. Pleasant Mich Wyman & Ball Montgomery Ala C. A. Schaefer Independence Kan Bowman & Ingersoll Thayer Vienna R. Weinrich John H. Proctor Aaron W. Emerson Andrew L. Fitch Anne M. Blackmore Charles W. Bills John M. Robbins Mowry Strater

Court ruling upholds fraud claim in patent sale case

U S District Court directs decree for plaintiff in equity against Hiram L. White and partners Parker Tower and Gay Auburn Me. The master’s report finds a fraudulent scheme over one fourth of the Farmer Exhaust patents. Gay is found not a bona fide purchaser for the second one fourth and one eighth is awarded to the plaintiff. White Parker Tower and Gay liable for reconveyance. Chipman dismissed without costs.

Charles E. Ferreira Hiram L. White Equity E. K. Parker J. A. Tower White Gray Auburn Gay Parker and Tower Parker Tower Gayof Gany J. B. Richardson Alien Allen Ferreira Boston Bat Peg Chipman

Blue Line appoints acting agent as Boston agency resigns

General Manager B B Mitchell of the Blue Line announces Wm Garry has resigned as New England agency head. D E Partridge becomes acting freight contracting agent effective Oct 1 1884. Garry to enter wholesale tobacco business in Cincinnati with Hill Garry handling Lorillard tobaccos.

B. B. Mitchell Blue Line Rochester N. Y Wm. Garry New England Boston Mass D. E. Partridge Garry Cincinnati Hill & Garry New House Nickel Plate New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad Company Chicago Railroad Commissioners Illinois Railroad Commissioners Woburn Boston and Lowell Railroad Mellen Boston and Lowell Concord Railroad Great Eastern Groveton Portland Boston and Lowell Northern Line Vermont

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