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Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Oct 06, 1885

Page

3

October Century and Outing Offer Rich Illustrations

The October Century features Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer with 13 E A Abbey illustrations and essays by Lathrop on Hartford and the Nook Farm group, plus Grant papers and Riverside Park. Outing highlights outdoor life with Goater on Brittany, Stevens bicycle journey, and Sierra Madre campaign notes, alongside art and literature pieces from The Art Journal and English Illustrated Magazine.

October Harpers Goldsmith E. A. Abbey William Hamilton Gibson George Parsons Lathrop Hartford T. S. van Dyke Miss Woolson East Angels and Howell Doorga Phil Robinson Mary Gray Morrison Dielman Horace Porter Lincoln Grant James H. Wilson Adam Badeau Don Carlos Buell M. E. Seawell Charles W. Eldridge Riverside Park Gen. Grant William A. Stiles Alfred Parsons Harry Fenn F. M. Newton Richard Watson Gilder Lieut. Schwatka Alaska Lizzie W. Champney Howellls Henry James Bostonians Brandle Matthews C. P. Cranch Mary Allen H. C. Bunner Edgar Fawcett Frank D. Sherman Robertson Trowbridge Roger Riordan Bessie Chandler J. A. Macon Anne C. Goater Brittany Thomas Stevens World America Germany Capt. Bourke Crooke Sierra Madre Helen Jackson Edward S.farwell Emily Shaw Forman Wheelman Co Boston Art Journal M. E. Dulhue Seville Jiminez Amanda London Club Land Joseph Walton Leader Scott Foresters At Home F. Thyselton Dyer Harrow Church J. M. O ° Fallon Margaret Stokes Hans Memlinz International News Co New York English Illustrated Rye D. Lacour J. R. Wells Robert Hunter London Commons Wimbledon Barnes and Clapham J. Fitzgerald Miss Clare Bernard H. Becker Sandwich Woodbridge Basil Field Joseph Hatton Equator

Imaginary cures and accounts of medical illusion

In the Gentleman's Magazine there are notes on La Loutherbourg and others who cured via imagination. A French patient felt heat in the loins as a coach was dismissed after a stark gaze. Sydney Smith recounts Rogers misled by a window, while Dr Sigmund cites a woman misled by a doctor’s prescription.

Gentleman’s Magazine Mr. Loutherbourg Rogers Sigmund

Alaska Seals and Trade Echoes From Behring Sea

A Kansas City Times correspondent outlines the Alaskan lease income of 317,500 annually from the seal islands and details the Behring Sea seal rookeries. He describes arrival patterns the 250,000 on St George and 1,000,000 on St Paul, the breeding females and bachelors, the killing drives, and the process from skinning to shipment to London. The Alaska Commercial Company employees about 100 natives, pays 40 cents per skin, and provides coal, salt, schooling, housing, and welfare for widows and orphans under the 20 year lease starting May 1, 1875.

Alaska Kansas City Times Seal Islands Sim Alaska Commercial Company Bachelor Seal Behring Sea St. Paul’s Island Here St. George St. Paul Holuscheak Bachelor San Francisco New York London Islands

New England Manufacturers and Mechanics Institute Auction

In 1581 a vast worksite near Huntington avenue produced the New England Manufacturers and Mechanics Institute building using 2,000,000 bricks and 800 tons of iron. The auction on Oct 15 by Gideon Beck & Son will sell the structure and installed machinery worth over $1,060,000 plus furnishings, fixtures, and a skating rink setup, with full details available from the auctioneers at Tremont Street.

Huntington Avenue New England Manufacturers and Mechanics’ Institute Gideon Beck & Son Exeter Engine Hancock Prouty Audo Street Uctioneers Tremont Sturtevant John Mason Little Horatio Wellington

Money market notes show steady discount rates and active bank exchanges

The money market remains moderately active with discount rates steady. Call loans with collateral run 25 to 3 percent while various paper categories range 34 to 64 percent. Note brokers operate at 44 and 5 percent. Country banks firm at 5 to 5s percent. Clearing balances at 24 percent, gross exchanges $12,540,727, balances $1,588,880. Boston bank statement due tomorrow hints rising averages with a $1,416,700 loan gain and surplus up to $2,227,286 from prior years.

New York Boston BECIC

Market gains echo New York as rail rates talks proceed

Stock activity rose with New York while railroad leaders plan talks on fares and routes. A $20 rate to Chicago, $18.50 to the Erie, and $9.25 to Buffalo are noted, with the pool expected to match Chicago to the Missouri river. Union Pacific reports August earnings down slightly, eight month totals show a broader decline and mining stocks drift.

Gale St. Lo At&esftros Msie At & Pacos Ey Uon BCCI Ie Jrer Dankers’ Sterling Be. Is Reeser Ewecameen BerteOy Jabls Os & Lowell BRB &L Reichsmarks Eastern Fitchburg Gulagets Kacy 8 & M Linsas Pull Pal Co Rutland Napeos Franklin Abell F Naumk Mills Boeton Exican Central N.Y N. B Union Pacific Eseses tCommon New York Chicago New York Central Pennsylvania Erie Buffalo Missouri River Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Colorado Railway Association Burlington and Quincy Mullen Alton Union Pacific Raiway Company Dayton Trenton Louisiana and Houghton Lake Portage Hancock Worcester Nashua Rochester Stephen Salisbury J. Edwin Smith Charles W. Smith Messrs. Salisbury Old Colony Boston Summit Station Worcester and Nashua Road Northboro Framingham New Road Pew Albany New England Maine Mexican Central Mexico Central National Bell Atchison Trust Consolidated Vermont Fremont Elkhorn Tamarack Quincy

Wall Street Opens Strong Led by Lackawanna Advance

NEW YORK stock trading surged after 2 p m with Lackawanna jumping to 109 1 2 amid heavy buying and rumors of a bear squeeze. Delaware and Hudson gained to 92 as rails and bonds showed mixed strength while overall market closed steady after late variances in prices and a total of 437 336 shares traded.

New York Lackawanna Delaware and Hudson Northwestern Pacific Mail Western Union Missouri Kansas Texas Atlantic and Pacific Firsts Western Division Denver Rio Grande London Denver and Rio Grande Denver and Ohio News Peoria Decatur Evansville Mutual Union Telegraph New York, Susquehanna and Western Loday

Market dullness and drift on Oct 5 as traders await supply data

A late report from Geo C Eldredge Co in Chicago describes a quiet trading day with grain prices fluctuating narrowly. Wheat opened slightly under Saturday, but activity remained muted as traders waited for the visible supply statement. Early rally from erroneous consol postings gave way to declines on expectations of higher supply and London stock gains.

Messrs George C Eldredge & Co Chicago Emery Board of Trade Bulletin London

Market Digest Flour and grain prices steady with mixed notes

Receipts flour and grain show Unchanged to firm tones across cities. Spring patents at 675 and winter patents around 560 dominate quotes, with Milwaukee Chicago St Louis and New York showing varied but steady levels in flour wheat corn oats and rye. Butter eggs cheese and sugar follow quiet demand with modest price ranges and regional supply shifts.

Minneapolis Duluth London Det.5 Port Phillips Sydney America St Louis Milwaukee Chicago New York Minnesota Detroit Toledo White State Rye Liverpool New Yark Nova Scotia New Brunswick Country Park Cincinnati C. Middleshay Lord Tierces City Steam Continent South America Union Stock Yards Beerbohm Chamber of Commerce Mark Lane Paris California London P. Y. C Mlavanae

BeSessue Setesess Market Report Patchy Trade Tones

The market shows steady tones at Baltimore Cincinnati Mobile Savannah and St Louis while dull at Philadelphia and firm at other major points. Net receipts and exports figures appear for the US and major regions with mixed totals and increases in American stock levels.

U.S Great Britai France Continent Baltimore Cincinnati Mobile Savannah St. Louis Dull Philadelphia

London and Havana Financial Summary Highlights Oct Five

Financial dispatch from London shows consols and rail credits with varied quotes. Havana reports dull sugar trade as buyers hold, with quotable prices in reales and gold terms and U S demand routing via Havana and Matanzas. Market roundups note wheat and corn stable in London and Liverpool with stock levels given and weather noted.

Havana Haryana Matanzas United States

Importiz at Hoston Savannah Steamer cargo lists

Cargo listing from the Steamer City of Macon and Dominion pages shows multiple consignors and goods. Entries include cotton bales, hides, leather, lumber, paper stock, redress items, and various commodities from Atlantic Cotton Mills to Barry Thayer and Co, with quantities like 50 bales, 337 do lumber, 100 do wool, 188 bbls rosin, and 24 bels rosin. Also lists eggs, herring, codfish, and other fish products aboard Dominion and Emerson vessels out of Yarmouth and Cardenas.

Savannah Macon Allen, Field & Lawrence Atlantic Cotton Mills Blanchard Bulings & Eaton AS & J Brown & Co Bernd & Co Barry, Thayer & Co Boston Duck Co Farnum Dodo Goodrich & Porter Great Falls Manuf Co William F Ha’ & Co Hayes & Co Hill & Cutler Haskins & Montague M Howard Lond & Leckir Marqueze & Varney A P Morse & Co George McQuesten & Co Stark Mills George S Priest Russell Paper Co Richardson & Dennie LW Sherman & Co Stetson, Moseley & Co Warren & Co Barclay & Co Cutler ES Ellis & Co JG Hall & Co Hovey & Co TJ Jones & Co

Diverse offshore cargoes reported from Atlantic ports

From Yarmouth to Lunenburg and Antwerp, shipments include flour, meal, oil, hemp, carpet sweepers, lard, canned goods, hardware, and coal. Multiple steamers and schooners depart or arrive with notable totals such as 6000 bushels corn and 125 bbls flour, reflecting active trade across Halifax, Annapolis, and New York routes.

Weymouth Addie John Port Acadia Willie Mahone Bay Jessen ST Jobns N F Halifax L J Seng Wallace Cove Hugh M Annapolis Allwwood Antwerp New York Jan Smreydel New Brunswick Sydney J L Crosby P&gs Lunenburg N S G A Smith

Receipts of Staple Products Across Railroads

A historical ledger lists October 5 receipts of staple goods by lines including Boston and Albany, Grand Junction, Providence, Old Colony, New York and New England Mauresa, Fitchburg, Maine Eastern, Maine Western, Lowell, Salem expresses, and Sea routes. Items include bales wool and cotton, bushels grain, cases eggs, boxes cheese, butter, lard, beef, pork, tea, coffee, molasses, leather hides pelts and numerous sacks and bales, with quantities varying by railroad and destination. The record details vast transfers of agricultural and foodstuffs such as corn, oats, flour, meal, beef, pork, and butter across regional networks.

Boston and Albany Grand Junction Railroad Providence Railroad Bates Old Colony Railroad New York New England Fitchburg Ballroad Maine Railroad Eastern Division Maine Railroad—Western Division Hay—S Lowell Railroad Eeeer Salem

Judge Finds No Evidence of Violence in Havey Case

Judge Parmenter reports in the Havey drowning case at the Charles River near Craigie’s Bridge on July 3 finding no reliable evidence of unlawful violence. Judge Adams states the evidence does not show negligence by ice cart driver Almon A Read in the August 11 fatality on Billerc a street.

Parmenter John Havey Charles River Craigie’s Bridge Adams Almon A. Read Edward Masterson Billerica Street Judge Forsaith Boston and Albany Railroad Company T. Wiley Hatchard Newtonville George Collis Old Colony Winthrop Rand Boston and Albany Falmouth Street Judge Parmenter Rand

Railroads See Mixed Earnings And Deficits In 1884

Yearly financial updates show Central Pacific and Union Pacific earnings with deficits and surpluses, plus monthly figures for St. Louis and San Francisco, Chicago and Northwestern, Omaha, Chicago and Alton, and Huntington system lines. Details include net income, operating costs, rentals, taxes, and government payments with several percentage changes and totals.

United States Union Pacific Central Mojave A. and P. RK. R Central Pacific St. Louis San Francisco Chicago and Northwestern Railway Omaha Railroad Chicago and Alton Huntington

Probate Court Probes Wills and Admin Actions in Suffolk

In Suffolk county probate court yesterday Judge McKim probated the wills of Samuel Canning Samuel S S Cudworth Mary Lucy Hall Samuel G Perkins Lydia A Lucas James Plunkett Mary Ann Wilson Elizabeth Pope Charles A Thatcher and Joanna Dwyer. Letters of administration were issued for the estates of William P D Haley Bridget Flaherty Catherine O Connor Bridget Manning Edward H Lamb James McAdams Jason Farr Clara A Olander Frederick W Clander Frances M Connor Emmat T Howell Kate C Stone James Powers Harriet L Gibbens and Isabel W Baylies.

Suffolk County McKim Samuel Can-ning Samuel Ss.cudworth Mary Lucy Hall Samuel G. Perkins Lydia A. Lucas James Plunkett Mary Ann Wilson Elizabeth Pope Charles A. Thatcher Joanna Dwyer William PD. Haley Bridget Flaherty Catherine O’connor Bridget Manning Edward H. Lamb James McAdams Jason Farr Clara A

Emma Lee Hudson arraigned for larceny in superior court

Emma Lee Hudson appeared yesterday before the superior criminal court on an indictment for larceny from Lot tie J. French found by the grand jury in April. She pleaded not guilty and was held in 800 for trial without counsel. In default of bail she was committed. Melville F. Delow, oil dealer, awarded 2500 damages in the same court after a fall down an elevator well at Morgan Silver Co on Beverly Street.

Emma Lee Hudson Superior Criminal Court Lottie J. French Melville F. Delow Morgan Silver Company Beverly Street

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L Norfolk & W Den Geoleeneta Oregon Way Oregon Improvene Panams Pitteburg Orn Caledonia Aroostook Aroostook Hebrons Rio Java Maracaibo Laguira Jamaica St Domingo Manila Illoilos Ponce Porto Rico Virginia Wilmington Centennial Beacon Light Imperial Pittsburg New Yorkk—Petroleum United Pipeline Uplands Orleans Goondo Canadian Pacific Ilinois St Paul Hoston Yarmouth Steamer Dominion Scotapatec Wits Inquest Railroad Matters West Shore Deal The North River Construction Company New York Central-Vanderbilt Drexel, Morgan & Co Drexel Organ Nahant Street Hailway Nahant Street Railway Company Lynn Nahant Bailey’s Hill William C. Otis T. Dexter Johnson Thomas H. Bacon John D. Mower Benjamin J. Berry George H. Towle William R. Whitney Southern Pacific Southern Pacific Company Chesapeake & Ohio Eliz Lex, & Big Sandy Kentucky Central Ches Ohio & So West Detroit, Lansing and Northern Railroad Denver and Rio Grande Committee Manitoba Road Wall Street Windsor Hotel Gould Cammack Heath Heath & Co Merrick A. Richardson Hardware John Reardon & Sons John Hobbs John W. McKim Suffolk Jeremiah B. Corbett Michael F. McGettrick Harvey D. Wasserbohhr John C. Miller Charles H. Blodgett Alice A Frederick Whitney Robert H. Haynes Portland Street Thomas Bragin Michael Carney Pitts Street Carney Bragin A. Alene Énaiat Wits History Eee Pond’s Extract Co Fifth Ave Umphreys U. S Humphreys’ Med. Co Fulton St N. J Humphreys’ Medicine Co N. Y Humphreys Humphreys’ CO Fulton &J C. J. Lewis Friendship Street Providence K. I A.S. Richards & GO Samuel Bunting’s Market St Lippincott, Son & CO Market Street BY . L. Daw & CO Bierchante’ Exchange Building Boom Siete Street Exchanges Place USS Telephone—No Boston Stock Exchange Ee Pacific R Central div Hares Ao Central National Bank Masssto Echo American Loan & Trust Co Boston and Hingham Steamboat Co Howard National Bank State National Bank Traders’ National Bank Eliot National Bank Vermont Massachusetts R R Co Lockwood Co Cheshire Peabody Mills Newburyport Maas Wes Charles River Street Ry Co Dwelling House Insurance Bay State Live Stock Co Insas City Cameron Kansas City Lawrence and Southern RR Ogdensburg Lake Champlain Pleasant Hill & de Soto RR Slen Aor Continental National Bank Blackstone National Bank Shawmut National Bank Cambridgeport National Bank Naumkeag Steam Cotton Mills Washington Mills T Fairbanks Co Kutland Washington National Bank Egon Ry and Nay Co Vuluutal Intasket Consolidated Railroad of Vermont National Gar Co Gideon Bech & Son Tremont Street Manufacturers & Mechanics Lewis J. Bird & CO General Auctioneers Washington St Corner State Horticultural Hall Carbee—Buck Dorchester EN Packard Samuel P Carbee N Delia Buck Haverhill Gilmore—Sanborn W McDowals Daniel W Gilmore Alice Sanborn Harvey—Crawford Jacob Bird Jalper Harvey Sarah Crawford Lampson—Turner D H Ela Lewis Lampson Lizzie H Turner Bicknell Cottage City Jacob N L Bicknell M E Church East Weymouth Melrose Highlands George S Isa J O Church Cheney Somerville Ebenezer Cheney Ellis Eng Rufus Ellis DD Gibbs Georgina G Fletcher B Gibbs Hoeffner Washington Street Louisa J Hoeffner Jenks Paul Nancy J Saine Paul Smith Charles H James Lucy A Smith Seaver Woodville Martha H Charles Seaver Daniel Spillane S.torrkey Brookline George W Torrey William D Weymouth A Melrose Luke Sargeant Frank E Hale Glenn Hill Pike Dean Henry C. Bird & CO H. H. Leavitt Hanover Street Court Street Lewis Horatio Harris & Co State Street State St Scythia Malaga Almeria Norseman Atlas National Bank National Webster Bank Old Boston National Bank Boston Belting Co Banron Bee Ot Aw & OW Auction Tere Brozxers and APP Me Mershamia Bxetanae First Fleer Bresibers Muchanee Agcuce Seles Vargae Batursar California Southern Connecticut Passumpsic Abington National Bank Portsmouth Gt Falls Conway Boston & Albany Pacific Guano Co E & T Fairbanks Co Dover Great Falls Colhos Lake Champlains Eastern & Kistm Ee Allegan & Grand Rapids Everett National Bent Metropolitan RR & No Sioux City and Pacific Cleveland, O Middlesex H RR Co San Diego Land Ana Ty Albert Howe Salse Sirec Brighton Coun Warren Avenue Bostesss Portugal Cove Newfoundland Cape Race Cape Pine Eee Essrs Snea & Co St. Johns N. F H. & A. Allan Montreal Hichboxmn & CO Austin D. Collins Elizabeth L. Cassidy County of South Fellows Fuirer Roach Sarah Stevens Austin D. Gollins Five Cents Savings Bank Dameo Aeeu Ellen B. Holden George H. Tinkbam George White George Hollen Morigagee Margaret Morrison S. Maria Barker Ibro East Chelsea Street Broots Street East Boston Company John H. Townsend Horace L. Shepard Walstein K. Chester Otis Shepard Anne Shepard Louis J. Hoeffner Walden Place Roxbury Weld Lot Ezra Conant T. B. Moses Libro Horffner NER Ieee City OF Basin No. 4 Ashland Boston Water Board City Hall H. T. Rockwell
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