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Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Oct 22, 1885

Page

4

Transcontinental rail deals and Western line plans emerge

Boston East and R T Wilson are said to have arranged for the Des Moines Osceola and Southern narrow gauge to join the St Paul system for a direct Des Moines to Kansas City route. Survey work in Kansas City to Canisville hints at Ottumwa branch extensions or Des Moines link. The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul aims to widen gauges and modernize, seeking a first class road to compete for Des Moines area business.

R. T. Wilson Great Southern and Western Railroad Chicago, Milwaukee and Milwaukee Chicago St. Paul Kansas City Canisville Ottumwa Des Moines Osceola Southern Denver and Rio Grande Jackson Denver and Rio Grande Railway Railroad Commissioner of Colorado Westinghouse Kansas, Nebraska and Dakota Chicago Tribune Kansas, Nebraska and Dakota Railway Ft. Scott Kan Bismarck C. C Nebraska Memphis, Tenn Ft. Scott and Gulf Railroad Burlington and Pawnee City Kansas Dakota and Northern Pacific Topeka Chicago Rate Committee Michigan Ohio Indiana Detroit West Shore Evansville Joseph W. Daveall C. C. Baldwin Benjamin Russah New York City Isaac T. Burr Boston Burlington Omaha Union Pacific Northwestern Dispatch Prescott and Arigona Central Railway Chino Atlantic and Pacific Prescott Albuquerque New Mex E. P. Rikley Burlington and Quincy Westinghouse Air Brake Company

Monthly Literature Features in North American Review

The November issue highlights frontispiece engravings and articles on Sir Edwin Landseer and The Otter Hunt, Lucy C Lillie Indian Journey, The New York Stock Exchange, and The Defence of Our Seaports. Also covers Miss Woolson East Angels and Howells Indian Summer, plus two short stories and poetry. Cassell's Family Magazine and Atlantic Monthly reviews follow.

Harper’s Bernstrom Edwin Landseer Lucy C. Lillie New England Wheatley New York Stock Exchange Mr. Wells Spain Nora Perry C. Y. Turner Louise Chandler Moulton Alcyone Frances L. Mace Harper & Bros New York Wallis Raphael Marborough College Joseph Hatton W. Hatherell Garrick Club Alfred Waterhouse R. A New Liberal Club London Domenico Morelli Helen Zimmern George Halse Wallace Aberdeen The International News Company Cassell Alice O’hanlon Barbara Foxley Newnham College Cambridge Ellen Terry Portia Granada Valencia Cassell & Co Atlantic Monthly Rebecca Harding Davis Edward Stanwood God John Fiske E. R. Sill Thackeray Olive Thorne Miller Henry James Houghton, Mifflin & Co Boston North American Review Senor Emilio Castelar Europe Grant Admiral Ammen Nicaragua Walt Whitman America James Parton United States Philip Schaff Abraham Lincoln Illinois Elihu B. Washburne United Bulgaria Eugene Schuyler Gail Hamilton E. P. Hill Colorado Alexander Delmar California William N. Phillips Kansas Henry Ward Beecher Senor M. Romero Mary G. Humphreys J. B. Jeancourt Vernon Lee Lord Houghton Li Hung Chang Gordon Cumming George Eliot Gitron College Vittoria Collonna M. Renan E.R. Pelton Richard Henry Stoddard Popular Science Monthly T. W. Mather Henry de Varigny Gheel Belgium Grant Allen John F. Hume C. A. Eggert Iowa University Horsley Playfair Magazine of Art Illustra I.aetter Press Lady Hamilton Pimstress Hamilton Millicent-Fawcett Meissonnier Poleon Russia W. M. Turner J. Pendereldhurst Paris R. A. M. Stevenson Sargent Vickers Penaissance Aloiss Heiss de Neuville

Greatest of All Time in Art and Literature Polls

A literary periodical surveyed readers on the ten greatest naval commanders ten architects ten prima donnas ten authors and works and ten poets. Votes list Nelson Farragut Perry Jones Drake Decatur Blake Porter von Tromp and others for naval leaders. Wren Angelo Inigo Jones Brunelleschi and others for architecture. Patti Nelsson Jenny Lind and more for prima donnas. Bible Shakespeare Dickens Scott and others for authors and works. Longfellow Tennyson Shakespeare Whittier and others as the top poets.

Nelson Farragut Perry Jones Drake Decatur Blake Porter von Tromp Foote Lawrence Collingwood de Ruyter Howard Howe Themistocles Courbet Hood Dupont Hull Raleigh Lydsaner Rodney Napier Macdonough Warren Bainbridge St. Vincent Boscawen de Coligny Codrington Scattering Wren Angelo Inigo Jones Bramante Brunelleschi Taylor Alberti Palladio Vitruvius Barozzio Chambersill Paxton Grotto Ferguson Raphael Fontana van Vite van Brugh Pugin Hackler Perrault Ashpitel Gibbs da Vinci Emerson Pilgrim’s Progress Hawthorne Longfellow Goethe Hugo Virgil Carlyle H. B. Stowe Cooper Robinson Crusoe Bancroft Bulwer Washington Irving Tennyson Gibbon Cowper Poe Coleridge Dante Matthew Arnold Jackson

Finance and trade surge on Atchison and Pacifico stocks

Boston, Oct 21 highlights a sharp market advance with heavy trading in Atlantic and Pacifico, Atchison, and Mexican Central. Rail stocks like Chicago lines rise while Mexican bonds, Atchison trusts, and Oregon Short Line show gains amid steady government securities and a robust money market.

Atchison Come Ccccscee Cabie Transf Cip dubacmastsOne Cee Commercial Ssemas Coes Bgstok Pacific D. c

Public Architecture in England Lamented as Decadent

The London Atheneum condemns English architecture as poor in public buildings and criticizes the office of works led by Mr. Mitford for producing pretentious yet offensive structures. It urges educating the public to desire good design, noting some improvement in private buildings despite a decline in new public works.

London Atheneum England Office of Works the Atheneum St. Martin’s-le-Grand

Swiss Slave Sales Shock London Truth Report

London Truth reports distressing Swiss child labor practices in Biel near Berne where four poor children aged 2 to 10 were auctioned for a year by public crier despite a widow mother’s pleas. The piece condemns the system as nearly as bad as American slavery, calling Swiss people a servile huckstering race.

London Switzerland Biel Berne America Europe

Dividends Declared By Globe Street Railway Cable and Pacific Mail

The Globe street railway in Fall River declares a 14 percent dividend. United States Cable company directors approve an interim dividend of three shillings per share at 3 percent per annum for the quarter ending Sept 30 1885, down from 5 percent a year earlier. Pacific Mail directors declare a 14 percent dividend for the current quarter.

Globe Street Railway Fall River United States Cable Company Pacific Mail

Review of the Boston Market Week Ending Oct 21

The weekly Boston market review notes mixed goods pricing across many sectors. Alcohol, candles, coal, coffee, and sugars show varied firming or steady trends. dry goods, meats, and grains display steady to modestly active demand, with several items highlighting price ranges and regional movements.

Boston

Commodities Report Shows Mixed Demand Across Goods

Fancy at 24 New York and Vermont at 22 22l6c. Nova Scotia at 214 22c. western 20 21c. Beans in steady demand with northern pea at 170 175, New York 165 170, medium 165 170. Canada peas 85c to 1. Pota toes rose 35 53c, sweets 150 2% bbl. Dried apples quiet. Fresh ponies easier. turkeys 20c, chickens 18 20c. Rice in good demand with sales of Carolina 200 bbls at 5 6c, Java 200 bags at 5%4c, Rangoon 100 bags at 49c, Patna 50 bags at 5c. Saltpetre crude at 5 514c fb. Salt firm. Turks Island 175 190 per hhd, duty paid. Domestic flaxseed export 127% 128 bus. Singapore pepper firm at 164 16 2c. spirits unchanged. Sugar raw fair. refining 57 59 16c, centrifugal 6 64 4c tb. Coffee and molasses quoted. Porto Rico sales on terms. Molasses firm vary by grade. Teas steady. Tobacco unchanged. Wools in good demand. domestic steady, foreign wools quiet.

Portiona Cambridge Boston Philadelph Rosendale Java Aracaibo Laguayra Jamaica Tle Manila Russia American Uplands Gull St. Domingo Lima Japan Gambier Sicily Cape Breton Labrador New York Michigan Ohio Indiana St Louis Illinois Minnesota Liverpool London Erppey Turkey Ford Virginia Florida Malaga Naples Palermo Messina Aspinwall Baracoa Warren Powder Mills Eureka Diamond Boston Sporting du Pont Eagle Choice Montevideo Buenos Ayres Texas India Indigo Bengal Vermont Nova Scotia Canada Carolina Rangoon Patna Turks Island Singapore Cienfuegos Porto Rico New Orleans Arroyo Ponce St Johns Barbadoes Demerara Yabacoa East Cambridge Maine R W Thompson J G Litchfield Halll J G Fogg Wiler, Brown Libby S H Wardwell J F Lawry Libby & Son Wells & Richardson H Coolidge & Son A P Berry & Clough A S Pierce New Hampshire J C Marshall Dow &Moulton Aldrich & Johnson H A Wilcox J O Piper & Pond A Williamson Capt W Armstrong Sargent & Tuner W G Townsend H F Gilbert G N Clair L W Tinker Hingerson Nick Campbell Catte B S Hastings T P Chase MC Roundy Shép K P Pollard J Engram Jall & Seaver Gilfilan & Blavhhard W Douglass M G Flanders P Burie F Skimball W Brownell W Kicker A N Monroe Hollis & Go E Farrell Farrell & McFlynn Scollins & Eevon Hathaway & Jackson Nelson McCracken Hosmer Gosselyn Berry Bros A K Wilson Cephalonia Hammond & Co P W Thompson Weiler, Brown & Libby Wardwell Hall & Seaver Dow & Moulton J Goodnow F S Kimball Union Market C P Burke H. A Wilcox BM R Nelson Atde Smith H Ingerson H N Jenne Maine—Coolidge & Son J .F Lawrey J H Fogg Breck & Wood I B Sargent E F Adden M C Koundy Hastings Sargent & Turner Hl N Jenne T Lanley A Farnham Worthern Massachusetts Henry East Watertown Gilfillan & Blanchard Roy West Barnet Watertown F F Adden A Worthein J O Sanborn R P Pollard Seattle WC Brown Daten Albany Brighton AN Monroe Hollis & Co EH Eames JS Henry W W Hall J D Hosmer Orleans Chicago United City Extra India Mess Western Steam City Steam South America Western Rangers Cincinnati Milwaukee Toledo Detroit

Footwear manufacturers report steady demand and rising shipments

Trade in boot and shoe goods shows overall strength with New York and home trade busy and manufacturers keeping factories running. Jobbers enter market gradually while arrivals spike in 10 days. Prices uncertain due to higher labor costs. some firms plan price adjustments. Lynn and Brockton bear current labor strain. Wax, hip boots, calf goods orders rise. rubber goods shipments remain robust. One company to raise prices after Oct 19 and discontinue freight payments. Weekly outside-New England shipments total 61,314 cases versus 40,729 last year. since Jan 1 2,232,216 cases vs 2,193,440 in 1884.

New York Lynn Brockton New England

Shipping Goods Inward and Outward From Several Ports

List of shipments at London and Charleston with cargoes including dyes, cement, lard, hides, wool, oil, soap, and timber. Entries name shippers such as Baring Bros, Beach, Brown, Cayzer Irvine, Hooper Lewis, and J W Morgan with cargoes and quantities like bales, casks, cases, and feet. Also notes schooners Portand Susie E Dickson Ball and Harry Prescott with cargoes of potatoes, lumber, and cotton.

London Eng Caledonia Andrews Baring Bros & Co Beach & Co Brown Bros & Co Mortimer & Co Drost Hoxie & Co Hooper, Lewis & Co Hilton, Weston & Co Moise Leetz & Buillon Morgan & Co RG Norris & Co Perkins Pierce & Co Richards & Co T Russell & Co Port Johnson N S Portand Charleston Thomas P Ball Savannah Harry Prescott George McQuesten & Co Harold C Beecher

Postcard of Overseas Freight Inbound Trade Goods

Foreign exports list cargoes from multiple ports Turks Island Hayti Cuba Barbados and Montevideo detailing lumber cases pork beef cheese lard flour candles beer soap and other commodities with quantities and vessel names such as Manhattan John F Kranz and W C Warner. The long inventory notes diverse cargoes including fish, rice, butter, tobacco, and dry goods shipped to and from Caribbean and South American ports.

Turks Island Haytian Manhattan Hayti Barbadoes John F Kranz Montevideo Portland Lloyds Summerside Pei W C Warner Bridgewater Algeria

Receipts of Staple Products Across Railroads Oct 21

Commerce report lists shipments by Boston and Albany Grand Junction Providence Vid Colony Fitchburg and other lines. Cotton, wool, corn, oats, wheat, beef, pork, butter, cheese, eggs, potatoes, leather, hides, and various bales, cases, and crates appear in totals across multiple railroads.

Boston and Albany Grand Junction Railroad Providence Railroad Vid Colony Railroad New York New Fitchburg Railroad Maine Railroad Maine Ailroad Lowell Railroad Peabody, Salera

Train collision near Sharpsville injures engineer in Indiana

An express Pan Handle train from Louisville to Chicago struck a horse and buggy at Sharpsville Howard county at 1 am. The engine and two cars left the track, Engineer Geo Crawford of Indianapolis was crushed under the engine, the fireman escaped unharmed.

Indianapolis Ind Louisville Chicago Sharpsville Howard County Geo. Crawford

Obituary notices from several towns dated October dates

The notices record deaths and ages including Eliis D Berry aged 17 years 9 months 27 days at Longwood on October 19. Mary E Fitzgerald aged 30 years 7 months 18 days at Wellesley on October 17. Mrs Relief widow of Joseph Moulton aged 87 years 7 months 8 days at Lynn on October 19. D Hol land Norcross aged 73 years at Marblehead on October 18. Mrs Louisa Pierce wife of Charles B Pierce aged 67 years at Newton on October 20. Mary Elizabeth Perry wife of Kate Boston dated October 21.

Berry Longwood Eliis D James Elmira O Berry Fitzgerald Wellesley Mary E Fitzgerald Moulton Lynn Relief Joseph Moulton Norcross Marblehead Mass Holland Norcross Pierce Newton

Western cattle market improves while north lags in quality

Market notes show western cattle gaining, with 74 cents valued as top bid for quality, while northern cattle run inferior to fair. Large western hog offerings, 24 225 head, and strong demand for pork despite low prices. steady veal calves and slow sleep trade. extensive listings from Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, and Canada reflect broad regional activity across cattle, sheep, hogs, and poultry.

Brighton N.B Boston and Albany

Market quotes from London and Havana

Financial brief listing British consols at 100 percent and Atlantic and Great Western, Canadian Pacific, Erie and Illinois Central shares with fractional prices. Includes New York Central, Pennsylvania, Reading and Spanish gold in Havana with scattered percentages and odd decimals.

London Great Western Canadian Pacific Erie Illinois Central Ag St Paul Comron New York Central Pennsylvania Reading Havana Qot

Insolvency listings and first creditors meetings at Salem court

The Salem insolvency court heard first creditor meetings and named assignees in multiple cases. Notable filings include M Adama of West Medway sold out, Silas Shattuck of Pepperell seeking 10 percent, James Flannagan of Portland insolvent, and Thomas Miller of Providence assigned. Second and third meetings followed for several others with adjournments.

M. Adama West Medway Mass Silas P. Shattuck Ast Pepperell Wm. H. Stafford Oldtown James E. Flannagan Portland Thomas Miller Providence R. L Geo. L. Clarke F. McCormick R. I Newcomb & Bowen Restaurateurs R. 1 Jy. Ls Weaver Sharon Cp. P. James & Co Akron Salem Coote Eugene Yates Lawrence Newton Frye Comfort Shoe Company of Walter S. Dickson Charles A. Jennings Albert W.W. Armstrong Forrest Goodwin Henry M. Colby John Homer Minot Tirrell Sylvester P. Farnsworth John Mahon Cynthia A. Lurvey

Universalist convention opens in Brooklyn with devotion and sermon

The Universalist general convention began its first session in Brooklyn on October 21. Morning devotion preceded a sermon by Rev. Dr. Charles W. Tomlison, followed by business reports and communications.

New York Universalist General Convention Brooklyn Charles W. Tomlison

Milord News Snips and Local Events Across Towns

Milford reports seven burglaries in six days while Cliff cottage at Newport sells for 52000. Worcester hosts a special state grange session. Dartmouth students clash with Lebanon Townies over politics. Nashua man Corey dies by self inflicted act. Lowell mail carrier McCredy arrested for mail tampering. A Dover NH farm allegedly yields a silver mine. Eastport Rev Brown receives church call. Fr Fleming of Ayer settles assault case. apology to follow. Bath Maine bars Salvation Army from city hall for a year. Essex South Congregational holds semi annual in Rockport. New Bedford Manufacturing Co buys land south of mill and plans a new mill. West Lebanon NH welcomes Rev Havens as pastor. Edmund Walsh sues Sheriff True over illegal search at encampment. Wareham businessmen report counterfeit 1859 half dollars. Barnum parade limb incident injures Howard. Deering sued for damages. Gloucester water plan defeat. 356 yes 647 no. 1034 voters total.

Milford Cliff Cottage Newport State Grange Worcester Dartmouth College Lebanon N. H George C. Corey Nashua John O. McCredy Lowell Nicholas Tuttle Dover Thomas W. Brown Eastport Unitarian Church Dublin Fr. Fleming Ayer E. Doherty Fleming North Attleboro A. T. Hancock R. Knapp & Co Bath Salvation Army City Hall Essex South Conference of Congregational Churches Rockport New Bedford Manufacturing Charles £. Havens Presbyterian Church Green Island N. Y Congregational West Lebanon Edmund D. Walsh Benjamin True Fortland Grand Army Wareham Cape Towns Barnum Portland Howard Henr Deering Deering Gloucester Gloucester Water Supply Company

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