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Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Oct 04, 1884

Page

3

London and Liverpool Market Report Oct 3 191?

London reports Consols US bonds and railway stocks with mixed quotations. Wheat cargoes steady at Mark Lane, prices for red and spring wheat quoted. Paris and Liverpool wheat markets firm, weather in England fine. Liverpool notes winter and spring wheat prices, California averages, pork, lard, cheese and tallow values, and wheat receipts.

London Beerbohm Liverpool California

Oats Prices and Market Outlook on Call

On call trading showed strong activity in No 2 white oats with 24 cars sold at 37 cents. Closing bids: oats on cash 35 to 37 cents, Oct 35 to 36, Nov 36 to 30, Dec 37 to 37, year 35 to 36, Jan 37 to 38, May 39 to 40. Settling prices accompany a broader cereal market view including a Henry Clews circular predicting a 2.9 million bushel crop yield and major implications for US grain movement and railroad earnings.

Sec Henry Clews & Co Europe England France Northwest St. Paul Northwest District Dakota Red River Valley America Fitchburg United States

General Farm Produce Market Finds Mixed Demand and Steady Prices

Choice hay and top cars hold value while rye straw remains firm at 19. Beans show active buying with some price pressure, yellow eyes limited, potatoes quiet with strict stock quality, and eastern sweet potatoes steady at 275. Beef steady, mutton dull, lambs improving, apples heavy receipts with Gravensteins selling well if well colored, cranberries mixed, grapes abundant. Coffee and sugar markets struggle. peanuts and popcorn steady. oils weak with several wells in question. cotton and rice markets show narrow moves with Liverpool firm and New York dull.

New York Prime Mercantile North Carolina Alabama St.Paul Ott Northern Pacific Preferred Texas Pacific Vanderbilts New York Central Lake Shore Grangers Northwestern St. Paul Northern Pacific Lawson, Douglas & Co Grand Trunk Goubi St. Paul Company Stock Exchange Northwest Omaha C. Toledo St. Louis Jbc Alwaulkes Siminer Milwaukee Chicago Gce Toledo St Louis Liverpool P. E Western Choice Boston Western New York—Park Tierces Western Steam Continent Cincinnati Wyomings Montanas Union Ryestraw Eastern Shore Richmond Norfolk Jersey Nova Scotia Modia Java Maracaibo Laguira Ie Jamaica Pembroke Huron Porto Rico Barbadoes English Island Antigua St. Kitt’s Carolina Patna Rangoon Malaga Messina Palermo Baracoa Carthage Phillips Johnson Armstrong New York—Petroleum United Pipeline New Orleans Uplands Orleans

Maritime Cargo Totals and Listings Across Ports

A long OCR listing covers ships docking at Liverpool and other Atlantic ports with extensive cargo inventories. Entries detail boxes, bales, casks, and cases of goods such as fruit, pig iron, cotton goods, oil, tobacco, tin plates, woollens, hardware, and foodstuffs, along with involved firms like Baring Bros & Co, J B Moors & Co, and J G Hall & Co. Also listed are vessels names including Norseman, Matilda, Linn o' Dee, and Ottawa, with various destinations and cargo summaries across PORT MEDWAY and YARMOUTH NS sections.

Liverpool Eng Baring Bros & Co Cummer, Jones & Co Torrey, Bright & Capen Pierce, Hardy & Co Thos Groom & Co Mdise C Chase & Co Burnham & Co Bolls Blanchard Wetherell Jere Abbott & Co Mosley & Co Hayes & Co Chase & Co Jones, McDuffee & Stratton Clark, Sawyer & Co French & Co Howe & French Fuller, Dana & Fitz Jaggers Phelps, Dodge & Co Laring Bros & Co Lemons Brown Bros & Co Amini JB Moors& Co R H White & Co Wheeler, Conant & Blodgett Albert Berger & Co Shoninger, Moses& Co Guns J P Lovett & Sons Chickering & Son Chas Faulkner Prescott Moors & Co Mise Pacific Mills German Bank of London K & F King & Co Woollena Kendall, Barrows & Co Neale & Morse Hollings & Co Read & Sons Hartley & Co Tully & Co AS & J Brown & Co Chamberlain Grim, Heath & Co L Ames Walker & Co Port Medway Smith & Co JG Hall

New York and Straitsville Coal and Iron saga

The New York and Straitsville Coal and Iron company is traced from its 1880 Boston and New York listing to its promoter led scheme. Promoters sold stock on high earnings with fake certificates, hid losses, and faced a market collapse as pool certificates failed. Reorganization plans for Rochester and Pittsburg rail and West Shore lines are outlined along with management shifts and a major depot project.

New York Stock Exchange Stock Exchange New York and Straitsville Coal and Iron Company Exchange Standard Coal and Iron Company Hocking Valley Standard Oil Company Petroleum Straitsville Standard James G. Blaine Blaine Boston Guiteau Transcript Rochester Pittsburg Hoosack Tunnel West Shore W. E. Everest Buffalo General Western West Shore Road Chicago Everest J. W. Smith Hudson River Globe Line West Shore Line Hooosac Tunnel I. J. Bassett New England Globe and Hoosac Tunnel Washington Street McLaughlin N. Y Gensee Hoosac Tunnel New Hampshire Lowell O. C. Moore E. B Sanborn E. J. Teany J. G. Abbot Edwin Morey H. 38. Millen J. E. Crockett Talbot T. Jefferson Coolidge F. E Clark C. E. Cram Illinois Central Wabash Evansville Terre Haute Eastern Illinois Grand Trunk Railway Company Montreal Toronto New York Stonington Providence Rock Island F. P. Stevens Baltimore Bankers’ and Merchants’ Telegraph Company

Vast 19th century rail cargo tally of cotton wool and staples

A long list records freight by railroad companies like Boston and Albany Providence and New York and New England. The entries itemize bales cotton wool barrels oatmeal corn meal flax flour and many other goods with quantities and carriers, reflecting trade patterns across regional lines.

Insolvency Hearing Over Wright Worster Co Assets

In a Friday insolvency court session before Judge McKim the assignees of Wright Worster and Co faced opposition from creditors over the firm’s allowance. The firm, once sound, failed for about 450000 after engaging in outside ranch ventures in New Mexico and Texas and issuing ranch notes. Boston creditors hold much of the debt, with North Bank at 24000 secured by ranch collateral. Creditors agreed to 30 cents on the dollar, while assignees charged 2009 each for services. Hearing adjourned to November 6.

McKim Wright, Worster & Co New Mexico Texas Boston North Bank R.G. Dun & Co United States Canada New York Frank L. Weeks & Co Merchants’ Row J. H. Davidson Grocer Sharon Mass C. W. Brooke Market Holyoke Chas. H. Colgate Snirley House Winthrop McCarthy Bros., Grocers Hampton Geo. W. Huse & Co Barnstead Centre N. H L. A. Chichester Phonicia N. Y Middleton & Co Washington, D. C Breed & Edwards Ofittsburg Ayden M. Edwards Jensen, Bliss & Co Denver Col J. C. Ogerman Seymour, Sabin & Co Washington County Minnesota E. J. Cutts Steward, Minn Suffolk County Joseph Middleby & Sons James Shields Michael Larkin Henry P. Kelley HH. B. Swazey & Co Benjamin F. Cobb

Counterfeit Bill Cases End With Guilty Verdicts

U S district court October 3 before Judge Nelson Charles P Froisi found guilty of passing counterfeit English sovereigns. John H Lutheran charged with passing a counterfeit five dollar bill at the First National Bank of Peru was acquitted. Jurors excused.

Charles P. Froisi John H. Lutheran First National Bank of Peru

Hearing in Thacher Magoun Case Resumes Unfinished

Plaintiffs seek to compel reconveyance of real estate and personal property alleged to have been procured from Mr. Magoun through undue influence and without consideration. The hearing was resumed and remains incomplete.

Thacher Magoun Magoun

Defective Fifth Street Sidewalk Case Opens in Lowell

Judge Rockwell hears No. 2179 Sarah J Wheeler against the city of Lowell. Wheeler alleges a defective sidewalk caused a fall injuring a lower leg bone and seeks damages for loss of time and medical costs. Attorneys G F and G H Richard appear for the plaintiff and N D Pratt for the city. Remaining cases await trial Tuesday morning as the court adjourns for the day.

Sarah J. Wheeler City of Lowell Fifth Street G. F G. H. Richard N. D. Pratt

Vision of Joseph Hoag in Hemenway's Vermont Gazetteer

A reader sends a curiosity from Hemenway's Gazetteer of Vermont about Joseph Hoag of Charlotte. The note links Hoag's vision to religious society divisions before the rebellion and critiques modern tariffs and monopolies, inviting readers to judge if the vision was real or imagination and referencing Blaine, Capen of Tufts, and Harvard.

Joseph Hoag Boston Post Hemenway Vermont Charlotte Society of Friends Blaine Capen Tufts College Harvard Presbyterian Society Free Masons United States Africa JosEra Hose

Municipal Courts Proceedings Highlight October 3

Central court before Judge Churchill Willis bounds several cases including robbery held for $2000 appearance, indecent exposure $260, larceny fines and recognizances, assaults with varied costs, and other counts. Charlestown and Roxbury sessions cover adultery, milk fraud, obstructing inspectors, vagrancy, and drunkenness with related punishments.

Central Court Churchill Frank Willis Lawrence Flaherty Coar John McKay Philip Grady John Kennedy John Lynn John Dacey William J. Doyle Mary Snyder Richard Barry Susan J. Savage attCony Charlestown George Wing South Boston George Donnelly Charles Gardner Roxbury Michael Burke John Caulfield Melvin M. Lee Thomas Faulkner House of Industry James Grady

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