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Newspaper
Boston Weekly Globe
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1884
Page
5
George Alfred Townsend surveys American theatre decline contrasting stock companies with modern stars, condemns club life and immorality, praises pure performers like Patti and Adelina, laments audiences and the rise of burlesque, notes Atlantic tastes, law enforcement, and Broadway vice, ends with a rheumatism testimonial for Athiophoros.
The Pennsylvania Statesman reports Samuel J. Randall's Georgia visit for a Democratic celebration in Atlanta. A three member committee extended the invitation. Randall praised national unity beyond the Solid South and offered a defense of party principles, including constitutional rights and free speech, during a large procession and reception at the Capitol and executive mansion.
In Portland a Maine farmer recalls a 1882 Thanksgiving bet over a crow versus a turkey. Plaisted, resolved to honor vows, watched rival Collins win the election and later consume crow rather than crowning a meal. He laments blue for not betting again.
Kate Smulzey has fasted 263 days and lies weak and comatose as physicians fear death approaches. In Milwaukee Mine. Mathilda Frozica Anneke, active in the 1848 German revolutions, died here at 67 after fleeing to the United States.
She campaigned with soldiers beside her officer husband and fought bravely as a private. Latterly she edited a revolutionary paper in this country. She authored several books and founded a female seminary.
A Courier-Journal staff correspondent reports the eastern Kentucky plague spreading across Wise Virginia and surrounding counties. The illness, concentrated near Pine mountains streams, causes severe thirst and rapid deaths. Poisonous minerals in mountain streams are blamed as the epidemic’s true source, with potential victims nearing 1000.
Captain Tra Holmes of the Akbar and crew endured a twelve hour gale near Hatteras as first mate Augustus Ingalls was swept overboard and lost. Holmes remained lashed to the wheel until the danger passed, guiding the brig to safety toward Turk's Island and Providence. Ingalls, about 30, left a wife and four children in Machias.
Joseph Edwards a retired pickle merchant in New York hosted Thanksgiving at 253 West Forty third street. His 25 year old son Charles, long a troublesome figure, burst in with a carving knife. The father fired, the pistol struck Charles but hit Harry instead, wounding him in the head. Harry died or may die as Charles fled. Charles is sought by police with a wife in Newark. Harry was transported to St Luke's Hospital.
Littlefield Allison & Co. sue Western Union Telegraph Co. for 2000 dollars claiming an operator error shifted a lemon shipment from Texas Pacific to Texas Express, altering delivery route to New Orleans. The misrouted telegram allegedly caused price differences of 1681 62 plus costs.
To the Editor of the Globe the writer notes a coincidence in electoral votes 219 for Jackson in 1832 and Cleveland in 1884 and predicts that from March 4 1885 four years hence there will be a second Old Hickory as president elect signed JACKSONIAN DEMOCRAT Boston November 22
The New Haven Register reports an advertisement for a wife by a Gravesend, L. I. woman who lists $22,000 in mining stock, 200 cattle, 2 smoke brindle steers, 117 yoke of oxen and 6000 acres in Indian Territory. Julius Schaufuss, a 46 year old applicant from Gravesend, visits the office and is interviewed as part of a matrimonial inquiry led by agent William G. Butler.
The South Berkshire Cheese Company near Great Barrington reports a record season since its 1872 founding. From May 14 to November 21 it received about 711000 pounds of milk and produced around 72000 pounds of cheese, with July and August as peak months. Over 1500 cheeses have been completed, with wholesale price at twelve and a half cents per pound, under the long tenure of Joseph F. Lawton, veteran cheese maker.
In Hornellsville New York James Knowles awoke to a violent ear pain as a large snapping bug crawled inside his ear. His wife Mrs Knowles used a lamp and then a hairpin to aid extraction, releasing blood and finally crushing the insect after it emerged. The couple credits her insight into insect habits for saving him from serious harm.
Curiaco November 26. Within ten minutes after the board of trade opened this morning the provision crowd sold broker Hutchinson over a million and a half pounds of ribs for January and February delivery. The move caused excrement in the pit as buyers did not expect Hutchinson to buy. He says he will escalate pressure after Christmas.
In Cincinnati on November 28 Paul Schopper a night watchman for the city workhouse yards was attacked by a full grown buck deer during rounds. Rescued by two prison employees his face and head were severely lacerated his right leg broken and he was otherwise injured though he did not recover.
Markets show little change with subdued activity and easy rates. Dividend payments loom, boosting money supply. interior banks report selective borrowing while city rates linger. Exchange, commodity, and grain figures listed. commercial and bank clearings, imports, and prices for meat and produce provided.
Prices for these securities remained firm through the week with an 80 close. Yesterday’s closing bids rose versus the prior Saturday with 85s up 44 percent, 444s up 14 for the registered, and coupon bonds up for certain issues. Gs show 1 to 2 percent higher, while various land, mining, railroad, and telephone equities display mixed movements across listed names and tickers.
In Boston market notes the Thanksgiving poultry trade was fair, apples and beans show large supplies with soft demand, butter and cheese prices steady yet subdued, and coal and coffee markets quiet. Egg and fish lines hold steady but with limited active trading. corn and flour show ample supplies and muted price movements amid cautious buying. Local prices reflect modest steadiness with several staples near last week’s levels.
New York markets report steady flour trade with Saturday trading. Grain futures show softer demand with winter wheat and corn prices mixed amid export demand and futures closing near steady. provisions, lard, pork, and butter markets move with uneven but active trading and price shifts.
Arrivals of livestock for the week ending Friday November 28 at Brighton and Watertown show Western cattle 10,astern cattle 244, Northern 457, total 671. Western sheep and lambs 420, Eastern sheep and lambs 540, Northern 3601, total swine 26,189, veals 206, horses 251. Beef cattle prices per 100 pounds dressed weight range from 34 to 37 dollars with quality differences noted. Hides and tallow prices per pound listed for Brighton and country hides and lambskins.
Gloucester reports a light week for rail and steamer shipments with shore fishermen bringing in about 356,000 pounds of codfish and George’s Bank catches pushing total weekly landings toward 654,000 pounds. Mackerel receipts were around 200 barrels. weekly port totals include 95,000 pounds of fresh cod, 30,000 pounds of haddock, 50,000 pounds of voul...
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