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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Sep 18, 1885

Page

3

Wall Street securities ease with heavy late-day drift

New York September market reports show money on call steady at 1 1/2 percent, prime mercantile paper 4 1/2 percent, and bonds dull yet firm. Stock list weak after 2 P.M. with widespread declines and heavy dullness, Pacific Mail weak then modestly recovers, rail bonds active, multiple issues higher on gains, and nickel plate, Denver and Rio Grande, and Jersey Central among notable movers. Daily turnover: 257,233 shares.

New York Prime Mercantile Pacific Mail Pacific Roads Lamar Burlington and Missouri Railroad Union Pacific Denver Rio Grande Chesapeake and Ohio Chesapeake, Ohio Southwestern Rock Island Jersey Central St. Paul Houston Texas New Orleans Pacific Tron Mountain Mobile Ohio Toledo Wabash Lo Aay Wansachions

Markets Close Higher on Wheat and Corn Buying

A late special from Chicago brokers notes active markets with most items closing higher than opening. Wheat opened 2 cents under prior close amid UK passage concerns, but steady demand and a Milwaukee presence supported gains, while corn rose 34 cents on cash demand and short-covering. Provisions showed early strength then eased, with a cautious outlook on wheat and corn for the near term. The Cincinnati Price Current projects a 1.99 billion bushel corn crop, up about 11 percent, with frost risk fading in western states by Sept. 25 and mid-September reports indicating substantial harvest progress. Inspections for the week show mixed grain movements and varied grades, reflecting a generally bullish but tempered market.

Atchison Chicago Burlington and Quincy Union Pacific Sidney Dillon Europe Oregon Transcontinental August Belmont Elijah Smith Towa Falls Sioux City Iowa Falls Bagotat Oes Rees Wee Dubuque Omaha Knights of Labor Old Colony New York New England Itjs Eastern Worcester Nashua Rochester Bell Telephone Calumet and Hecla No. 5 Tamarack Lawson, Douglas & Co Cincinnati Trunk Line St. Paul Messrs George E. Eldredge & Co Emery & Hodges No. 28 State Street United Kingdom Milwaukee Beerbohm Shorts Commercial Exchange York State Jersey Virginias Virginia Wilmington Rio Java Maracaibo Laguira Jamaica St Domingo Manila Iloilos Ponce Porto Rico Cuba Antigua Martinique English Island Trinidad Barbadoes St. Louis Rodi Messina Palermo Imperial Hyson Young Hyson Twankay Byson Skin Congou Souchong Oolong Japans Centennial Beacon Light New York—Petroleum United Pipeline Pittsburg New Orleans Omarasi Plan

Barley and grain market report across multiple cities

Barley prices steady in Milwaukee St Louis and Chicago with strong receipts and mixed shipments. Butter cheese eggs market quiet in New York with steady to firm prices. milk products show heavy receipts, light demand, and varying regional quotes across eastern and western factories. Provisions and meats move higher in Milwaukee and Chicago while hogs and cattle steady at Union Stock Yard with mixed runs and typical regional pricing.

Minnesota Michigan St. Louis Milwaukee Chicago Wisconsin New York Ohio City St Louis Detroit Toledo Dull Rye Milwanukee Iowa Nebraska Vermont York Liverpool Choice Choice Canadian Island Union Cincinnati Great Britain France Continent Galveston Mobile Memphis Wilmington Charleston Philadelphia Baltimore Louisville

London and Liverpool market wires Sept 17 report

United States bonds listed with multiple issue prices. Wheat and corn cargoes steady with light demand, wheat easing in Liverpool while corn firm. Weather shows heavy rains in England. Quantities on passage to the UK include 1,525,000 quarters of wheat and 230,000 quarters of corn. Liverpool prices for winter and spring wheat noted, corn firm, pork and bacon steadies, tallow and cheese quoted. Havana gold price and exchange quiet with sugar firm.

London Beerbohm Merchants’ Exchange California Liverpool Kngland United Kingdom P.Y. C Havana United States

Gloucester Fish Market Week Ended Sept 17 1885 Prices

Gloucester fish market figures show codfish at 3 75 per quarter, small 3, new bank 3 and 2 75, dry cured 3 75, shares 3 25 and 2 50 per quarter, large and small cask 2 50 percent. Hake 2 25, pollock 1 75, smoked halibut 9 1 4c, smoked salmon 15c, mackerel last sale 6 50 per barrel, herring Nova Scotia 4 per barrel, Labrador 4, trout 11 per barrel, pickled codfish 4, haddock 3, halibut beads 3 50, tongues 5, sounds 11, alewives 6 50, salmon 13, swordfish 10, cod oil 35 419c, fish scrap 9c per ton, liver 6, fresh livers 50c per bucket. Cape Ann Advertiser.

Gloucester Nova Scotia Labrador Cape Ann Advertiser

Multistop Maritime Goods Ledger From Adelaide Melbourne Annapolis

A fragmented cargo list from Adelaide and Melbourne shows syrup sugar tobacco and hardware among varied consignments. Also noted are shipments from Annapolis to New Brunswick with eyes of Dishop Bent and Rand partners, plus Rio Grande do Sul brig Kathleen with salted hides.

Adelaide Melbourne Annapolis New Brunswick Chapin Bros Drew, Wheelock & Co McKeever & Hall Rand & Co A & OW Mead Griffin & Co T Russell & Co Rio Grande DO Sul Kathleen Thomas E Proctor

Foreign Exports Record From Liverpool Bay and Bear River

A detailed list of cargo exports with vessels Kansas schooner Maud Carter and schooner Muriel. Items include lard beef meal oats kerosene oil coal coal, tobacco, wheat, corn, leather, cotton, lumber, machinery, and various goods. Entries note destinations and quantities such as 1250 tierces lard 298 sacks oil cake 7691 de fent 764 quarters beef 24 428 do corn and 44 443 bus wheat.

Liverpool Eng Kansas Bay OF Islands Maud Carter Bear River Muriel

Receipts of Staple Products by Railroads and Lines

Receipts list staple goods by multiple rail lines including Boston and Albany Grand Junction Providence O d Colony New York and New Rochelle Fitchburg Hillroad Maine Eastern Division Maine Western Division Lowell Peabody Salem and other Expresses and by sea. Quantities cover wool flour corn wheat oats butter cheese eggs meat lards tallow tea coffee and various skins and hides with numerous bales boxes crates and cars referenced.

Boston and Albany Grand Junction Railroad Providence Railroad O'd Colony Railroad Baes New York New Roeland Railrozs Fitchourg Hillroad Maine Railroad Eastern Division Iumber Maine Hailroad—Weatern Lowell Railroad Peabody, Salem and Other Sea

Northern Pacific Finances Show Higher Earnings and Debts

The Northern Pacific annual report for the year ended June 30 details gross receipts from freight 7 446 267 and passengers 3 075 882 plus mail and other income 712 001 total 11 234 150. Operating expenses were 6 196 301 leaving net earnings 5 037 847. other income brings total surplus to 5 231 071. Disbursements include rent 581 144 and maintenance 352 154. funded debt interest 4 023 949. The balance sheet shows stock changes, increased first mortgage bonds by 3 125 000 and substantial bond sales. total funded debt now 67 733 500. Cascade branch work progresses with 25 miles west and 40 east, cost 1 840 000, plus 75 miles more totaling about 4 000 000. Stockholders vote to limit floating debt for new roads. Morgan presides over adjourned meeting awaiting final teller report.

Northern Pacific Northern Pacific Company Portsland Oregon Oregon Short Pend d’Oreille Missouri Northern Pacific Terminal Company Cascade Branch Cascade Mountains Cascade Oregon Railway and Navigation Company Missouri River J. Pierpont Morgan Frederick Billings August Belmont John W. Ellis Johnston Livingston Roswell G. Rolston Charles B. Wright John C. Bullitt Robert Harris Benjamin P. Cheney J. L. Stackpole Oe F. Oakes Norwood P. Hallowell John J. Hall

Whitman Receives Gift of Horse and Carriage from Friends

A Philadelphia Press report describes Walt Whitman’s quiet Camden afternoon as a phaeton and a Canadian roadster arrive from his admiring circle. Names including John G. Whittier and Mark Twain appear on a signed note dated Sept 15 1885. Whitman smiles, contemplates the surprising gift, and plans to ride across town with Mrs. Davis tending his household.

Mickle Street Camden Philadelphia Walt Whitman Fourth Street Whitman John G. Whittier Danvers Mass George H. Baker New York City Oliver Wendell Holmes Beverly Farms Edward T. Steel R. M. Buck Dr. Beemer London Canada John Boyie O'Reilly Boston H. W. Donaldson William M. Singerly Alexander K.mcclure Edwin Booth Mrs S. A. Bigelow Horace Howard Furness Wallingford John Harkness Irena Charles Emory Smith Stephen B. Elkins Lawrett William D.o’connor Washington D.C Frank Columbus

Inspector of Provisions: A City Duty Across The Year

The inspector of provisions bears year round responsibility with long hours from dawn to night in busy seasons. He inspects vegetables and fruits at southern ports, seals unfit goods, checks fish and freight operations, and watches butter trains and immature yields. He ensures no soft fish reaches markets, and condemns unwholesome consignments under the board of health, with appeal rights seldom used.

Bob Veal Board of Health

Corinne the child star earns praise and Europe bound

A few years after Corinne the child actress was briefly detained by the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, she impressed the court with her poise and is now growing in stature. Her mother Mrs Jennie Kimball speaks of health routines and credits Heptonic for tone and strength as Corinne prepares for a European musical education next year.

Little Corinne New York Society For the Prevention of Cruelty Europe Jennie Kimball Boston Museum Company Swift Mullett Street John F. Bradley Griswold Street Detroit Mich Tax Swift Specrvic Co N. Y Atlanta

Notable Clergy and Public Figures Die In September

Obituaries report the deaths of Rev. Benjamin Tefft a prominent church leader and author. Edward Haight ex congressman and bank director. Arphaxed Loomis longest serving ex congressman from New York. Munson H Readwell former Philadelphia and New York City official. James F Jeffards Cambridge longtime resident and worker. Col John W Stiles Civil War veteran and inventor. Miss Alice L Moulton Wellesley graduate died in Cape Town. Rev Frederick Metcalfe Oxonian in Norway translator. Rev Milton G Pond Royalston VT pastor.

Benjamin Tefft Oneida County N. Y Wesleyan University Bangor East Greenwich R. I Oreon Methodist Episcopal Church Indiana Asbury University Ladies’ Repository Genesee Seminary Lima First Methodist Episcopal Church First Maine Cavaly United States Stockholm Sweden Europe Maine Central Methodist Episcopal Church Portland Teift Ohio Wesleyan Universitty Madison University Geographical and Statistical Society of New York Society of Arts of London Teitt Edward Haight Westchester New York Haight National Bank of New York Bank Arphaxed Loomis Little Falls Winchester Conn New York State Herkimer County Loomis Reece Munson H. “Readwell Sing Sing Jie Connecticut Charleston D. C Philadelphia Internal Revenue King Sing James F. Jeffards Cambridge Jeffards Kennebunkport Willard Metcalf & Co John W., Stiles New York City Washington Cape Town Africa Alice L. Moulton Charles L. Moulton Beverly Moulton Wellesley College Norway Frederick Metcalfe Lincoln College, Oxford

Feeding Sheep A Practical Guide for Farm Profit

The article advises using sheep for multiple benefits including wool and meat, stresses cost-based profits tied to flock management, and outlines winter and summer feeding strategies. It notes sheep need little grain, benefits of oats and oil meal with dry straw, and recommends clover hay if grain is reduced. It discusses pasture use, weed control, and the role of sheep as scavengers to improve fields, with emphasis on shelter and consistent feeding to preserve weight and profits.

Court Record Involving Slayton Kendall and Related Suit

Court record shows Edward M Slayton v A H Kendall et al seeking 159 55 balance on a 987 barrel apple consign ment from 1881 with Wade Bassett Co as defendants Judge Carr presides Wm J Copeland counsel for plaintiff J O Teele for defendants Rowland Hazard v Durant et al Part heard with reference to a Federal Reporter case three pleas in bar alleging a trust administration release upheld by court with Elias Merwin counsel for complainant Sidney Bartlett and R D Smith for defendants

Edward M. Slayton A. H. Kendall Wade, Bassett & Co Wm. J. Copeland J. O. Teele Carr Rowland Hazard Thomas C. Durant Federal Reporter Bar Elias Merwin Sidney Bartlett R. D. Smith George P. Ockenhausen Michael Durant Boston East Somerville Ramsey & Clarke L. L. Powers Charles P. Searles

Court closes arguments in Noyes schooner assault case

U S District Court September 17 before Judge Nelson heard closing arguments in the cases of James Collamore and John W Hammond master and mate of the schooner Frank M Noyes charged with an assault on sailor Edward Haber.

U.S. District Court Nelson James Collamore John W. Hammond Frank M. Noyes Edward Haber

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