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Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Oct 27, 1884

Page

3

Money matters in Boston market dull as rates slip

Boston money markets loosen with cash piled in eastern centers while exchange stays favorable. Banks lend cautiously amid weak trade and insolvency fears. fall boom proved slow as production adjusts to reduced demand. Min rates 3 4 percent on secured loans. bank loans 2 percent. New York funds carry premium.

Boston the Herald Daily Press New York Met Mutual Life Insurance Company of George Allen Et al Israel Fellows Catherine Fellows New York Corporation Fellows Massachusetts Allen George Allen Commonwealth J.F. Colby Ailen W.S. Slocum Bedford Street Taber Shoe and Leather Exchange Fall River Line

Market Summary Shows Mixed Yet Firm Close on Oct 25

In New York on October 25, money eased to 1 percent on call, with prime mercantile paper at 6 percent. Bonds firm, stocks fluctuated from morning weakness to near close firmness, led by New Jersey Central and Union Pacific gains. Weekly stock volume reached 1,347,642 shares amid mixed rail and utility movements and substantial specie exports and imports for the week.

New York Shorts American Bell Telephone Bell McDonough Associated Associated Press Wallace New York City Pell Drawbaugh Bell Company Crawbaugh Bell -Teekholders New England Erie Telephone Washington Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe Css Union Pacific Union Pacific Company Wall Street Messrs Atkins Ames Adams Dexter State Street Union Pacific Railway Company Omsha Boston Peter Paul Dow, Jones & Co Prime Mercantile Jersey Central Western Union New Jersey Central Canada Southern Missouri Pacific Northwestern St. Paul Lackawanna Lake Shore New York Central Ockawanna West Shore Atlantic and Pacific Pittsburg Northern Trusts Chesapeake and Ohio Chicago St. Louis Ohio Central Pennsylvania Richmond Danville Wabash Centennial Beacon Light Fall River New Orleans Liverpool Uplands Orleans Havana Matanzas United States Iowa Mississippi Keithsburg Consolidated Bonds Charles Fairchild Russel Sage Alfred Sully Clark Illinois Central Baltimore and Ohio Canadian Pacific Railway Manitoba Hoosac Tunnel

Butter cheese and eggs market report summary

Butter receipts 1206 tabs and steady market. Best late creamery stock 24 26 cents. northern dairy dull with few sales under 26. Long eggs and closures quiet. Cheese receipts 1072 boxes with steady demand for fine mild stock around 24 25 cents. Western choicest selling. Liverpool 56 6d. Egg receipts 1 box 691 cases with abundant supply and higher prices. best fresh eastern 27 cents. Provisions noted.

New York Stevdy Liverpool

Market Tone Mixed Across Ports with Varied Price Shifts

Net receipts at southern ports and exports to Great Britain France and the Continent show gains in American stock. Boston weakness contrasts with rallies in Charleston Norfolk and New Orleans while Philadelphia Wilmington St Louis and other centers remain dull to steady. Prices move 1 sixteenth up at Charleston 1 sixteenth down at Philadelphia and Wilmington and 1 sixteenth down at St Louis with most others unchanged.

Minnesota Wisconsin Michigan Ohio Indiana New York Rollers St Louis Southern Southern Illinois Chicago Milwaukee St. Louis New York City Mills Detroit Duluth Charleston Philadelphia Wilmington

Foreign Markets Financial London October 25

Treasury and market noise across bullion withdrawals and bond prices from London and Havana. Bank rates, discount levels, and domestic rail shares shift as American demand for gold looms. Virginia bond coupons and Mexican debt talks color the day with currency, freight, and export data in multiple exchanges.

Emport Shipment at Hoston Liverpool Wharf

Listing of cargo from the brig Pavonia including 85 casks soda ash and hundreds of cases and boxes of goods. Several named firms and items noted such as J P Flagg & co machinery, Baring Bros & co iron and wine, and multiple shipments of textiles, hardware, and provisions bound for various buyers.

Liverpool Eng Pavonia Jl&ds Riker Byrnes Flagg & Co Cheney Bros Lirdseya Baring Bros & Co H + Jackson Hayes & Co Naylor & Co Durant Otis Clapp & Co Peyser & Co Houghton & Dutton Hollings & Co Hall Slocum Pierce Cottons Lewis, Brown & Co Cumner, Jones & Co Hovey & Co Sears Smith & Dove Manusco Chaflin & Co Shoenhoff Leeson & Co Cottons Shepard, Norwell & Co W White & Co Owen Bros H Stearns & Co Richardson & Co Groves Noves Bros Moise Houghton Lewis, Brown & Co Brown Darrell & Co Coleman Mead & Co Lewis Brown & Co Shepard Norwell & Co Moors & Co Daring Bros & Co Booth & Co Macailar, Parker & Co Jordan, Marsh & Co White & Co Soule & Burbee Torrey,right & Capen Whitney & Co Noyes Hooper & Co AS & J Brown & Co Simons, Hatch & Whitten Thurber & Co Bigelow, Kennard & Co Mdise Chas Lancaster Stone & Downer Earle Manus Co Mackintire, Lawrie & Co Wright Bros Crooks & Co Walker & Co Barmg Bros & Co Baldwin Bros & Co Farrall & Smith Macauley Bros Furs Manchester, Robertson & Allison Lee Brown Bros & Co Mills & Co Kitching & Co Micullar Parker & Co Cumner Jones & Co Mackintire, Lawzie & Co Colaman, Mead & Co Lancaster American Screw Co Alden & Co Kate Burke Littaner & Rollins Bark Polykarp Peg Coast Haith Logwood M Fowle Co

Historic Atlantic trade fragment items and cargo notes

In Halifax and Charlottetown ports a steamer carries diverse cargo including whiskey pikes pianos and printing goods with hundreds of packing units and odd lots. Glasgow lists Scandinavian steamer cargo of apples ink herring wax dyestuffs flour oatmeal and cattle. Harborville reports schooner F Day with 125 barrels.

Halifax Charlottetown Pel Carroll Russia Glasgow Scot Harborville

Vast 19th century freight list from regional Railroads

A dense inventory of goods transported by multiple rail lines including Maine and Lowell Railroads. Items listed cover flour butter eggs meat hides lumber wool and agricultural products with hundreds of bales and barrels, cars and tubs recorded for each line.

Total Receipts of Staple Products Oct Oct

The table lists today total receipts at the port from all points of shipment for staples such as cotton wool flour cornmeal oats butter oleo cheese eggs beans oats wheat potatoes barley rye milk feed tallow beef lard coffee tea molasses leather hides skins pelts and more, comparing with the previous year’s corresponding day. Figures show quantities in various units and include in transit stock and a wide range of commodities.

Boston and Albany Grand Junction Ratreac Providence Railroad Old Colony Railroad New York and New England Railroad Baer Maine Railroad Lowell Rsilroad Fitchburg Peabody Salem Dales Fea Seeree

Government Commissioner Reports On Railways Finances

The Government Commissioner of Railways, William H. Armstrong, submitted the annual report detailing examinations of subsidized railroads. Union Pacific shows total indebtedness of 66,639,066. Central Pacific 54,647,925. Sioux City and Pacific 3,290,316. Grand total 127,823,015. Net balances in favor to the U.S. amount to 102,954,794 with sinking funds totaling 6,684,099. The report urges immediate investment of unspent sinking funds and Congress action for final bond payments.

William H. Armstrong Secretary of the Interior Pacific United States Union Pacific Kansas Pacific Central Pacific Western Pacific Sioux City Central Branch Unicon Pacific San Francisco Sacramento Oakland Congress West Shore Buffalo Grand Trunk Road John H. Davis & Co Jay Gould New York Central New York Ontario Western Grand Trank

Insolvency and bankruptcy notices sweep across 1880s US and Canada

Weekly reports show 234 failures in the United States, rising from 209 the prior week, with Canada up by 7 to 29. Borissowsky & Sons of Moscow seek administration amid assets of 7.86 million roubles and liabilities of 6.14 million. A long list of discharges, assignees, and meetings follows for numerous Boston area debtors including Farrell & Co., Altman Demelman & Fuchs, and McDowell & Adams, with asset appraisals, leases, and potential lump-sum settlements noted.

United States Bradstreet’s Canada Borissowsky & Sons Moscow Russia Suffolk County Herbert Fall M. S. Field Lewis Williams John W. Holprook John B. McKay Joseph L. Brown Altman Demelman & Fuchs Broadtreet Martin Kane Clinton Market Kane Ivory Bean Charles P. Barrett Indivedual Chesapeake Oyster Company Thomas J. Denny Joshua A. Holt Leather Board High Street Arthur Dixwell Art Park Street Herbert S. Fall Hay and Coal Medford Street Charlestown Tremont Street Daniel Seaverns John Horsfield Carpenter Hancock Street Dorchester Boston Machine Company Willian E. Coffin Granite Street South Boston L. F. Lawrence, Adams & Co Devonshire Street Charles B. Barrett & Co Charles B. Barrett Abbott J. Jenkins North Market Street Macomber & Greenwood Greenville RB. Macomber Green Street Jamaica Pigain Warenam Street Thomas J. Es Liquor Desler Avery Street C. Franklin Slerman Markman Heath Street Roxbury John Glancy Renfrew Street Alexander Kidd Portland Street George R. Clarke West Street Abel R T. Barnes Osk Place Jamaica Plain Annie B. Bradstreet James B. Hennesey Clinton Street Charles C. Pattee Revere Frank W. Broad W. A. Drummond Chelsea Frederick W. Kyle Daniel KR. Proden Bergheim Bros Herman and David Gents Atlantic Avenue Litchfield & Crocker Lawrence Litchfield James A. Crocker Charlies McConnell Causeway Street Henry Bornstein Washington Street Andrew W. Newman Eustis Street McDowell Fitz & Martin W. H. H. Emmons Anthony Tighe Freeman & Co Central Street Abraham Freeman Freeman Wechusett Clothing Company Fitchburg Dennis Nelen Furniture Springfield William Ackhurst Halifax N.S Temple & Co Lewistown Gilmore & Carter Belfast John Gilmer Speed New York Adams & Allen, Woollens Grand Street Eee Ork Runyon Newark N.J Newark Savings Institution John A. Shober Lancaster C. L Chestnut Naval Stores Savannah Chicago Galvanized Wire Fence Company George 7. Jackson & Co Augusta Millers Thomas A. Scales Public Grain and Stock Exchange of Chicago New York State H. D. Cooke & Co Washington, D. C J.G. Holzworth Cigars Toledo John Mcintosh William G. Shhwarts Michael Corcoran Francis McQuaid John Gormley Amos M. Kyle

Roberts v White and other court action list

The record lists multiple civil cases including Roberts versus White 1056 Bishop versus Crane 1074 Pengenick versus Sanitary 1104 Walker versus White 1146 Aldrich versus Searle 984 Willard versus Miles and 115 Sweetzer versus Columbus Pub Co.

Roberts White Bishop Crane Pengenick Sanitary Walker Aldrich Searle Willard Miles Sweetzer Columbus Pub. Co

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