Martin's Boston Stock Market: Eighty-eight Years, from January 1, 1798, to January, 1886 ...The author, 1886 - 152 páginas |
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advance April August Baltimore bills in January bonds borrowers Bost Boston Athenæum BOSTON BANKS Boston Stock Exchange Boylston Call loans Calumet capital cash Central choice paper City Clearing House rate close of month commenced Copper currency December demand discount East Boston England Exchange extra dividend Failed Faneuil Hall February Fire and Marine Flour funds gold Government Granite Railway Hecla High Low High Highest and Highest Highest and Lowest increased interest July July 15 June June 15 Lake Superior London bills Low High Low Lowell Lowest Prices manufacturing March Massachusetts Merrimack middle of month Mills money market mortgage Nashua notes November October opened Orig p. c. extra payable paying Philadelphia Pref Prices for Eight Quincy railroad securities Semi-Annual Sept share sold stockholders Street Suffolk Tremont Union United States 68 United-States Bank Water Loan Worcester York
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Página 21 - States, after fifteen years from the date of their issue, and bearing interest at the rate of four and a half per cent.
Página 14 - We are not advocates for visionary projects that interfere with useful establishments. We scout the idea of a railroad as impracticable. What can be more palpably absurd and ridiculous, than the prospects held out of locomotives traveling twice as fast as stage coaches? We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congrene's ricochet rockets, as to put themselves at the mercy of such a machine, going at such a rate.
Página 13 - Alcibiades, or some other great man of antiquity, it is said, cut off his dog's tail that quidnuncs might not become extinct from want of excitement. Some such notion we doubt not moved one or two of our natural and experimental philosophers to get up the project of a railroad from Boston to Albany, — a project which every one knows, who knows the simplest rule in arithmetic, to be impracticable, but at an expense little less than the market value of the...
Página 32 - BROKERS, BOOKSELLERS, AND OTHERS. WF HARNDEN, For the last five years conductor and passenger-clerk for the Boston and Worcester Railroad Company, has made arrangements with the Providence Railroad and New York Steamboat Companies, to run a car through from Boston to New York, and vice versa, four times a week, commencing on Monday, 4th March. He will accompany a car himself, for the purpose of purchasing goods, collecting drafts, notes and bills.
Página 1 - ... of Selectmen, reverend clergy, town-officers, and many literary and private gentlemen, visited the public schools, and afterwards partook of an elegant repast at Concert Hall. The United-States Bank paid its semi-annual dividend of 4 per cent in January. Pursuant to Act of Congress, July 14, 1798, to lay and collect a direct tax within the United States, a hundred and thirty-five estates in Boston were advertised to be sold June 11, unless the taxes and charges were paid. The low valuation of...
Página 89 - This mill was probably the first in the world, combining all the operations necessarv for converting raw cotton into finished cloth. The mills in this country then were spinning mills only ; and in England, though the power-loom had been introduced, it was used in separate establishments, by persons who bought their twist of the spinners, as the hand-weavers had always done. The orig. cap., when fully paid, was $400,000 ; par 1,000. Several changes in the capital and par, made from time to time,...
Página 13 - Some such motive, we doubt not, moved one or two of our natural and experimental philosophers to get up the project of a railroad from Boston to Albany ; — a project, which every one knows, — who knows the simplest rules in arithmetic, — to be impracticable but at an expense little less than the market value of the whole territory of Massachusetts ; and which, if practicable, every person of common sense knows would be as useless as a railroad from Boston to the Moon.
Página 20 - ... year, there was a change, and by the Spring of 1836 money was worth a handsome premium. In the Fall, good notes were offered in New York at 3 per cent a month. Stocks sensibly declined, and the premonitory symptoms of the crash which came in 1837 were visible. UNITED-STATES BANKS. — The Constitution of the United States was adopted in 1789; and the government was soon after organized. On the 14th of December, 1790, Alexander Hamilton, the founder of our system of finance, reported to Congress...
Página 32 - Railroad Companies,) if directed to his care. All packages, bundles, etc., must be sent to office, No. 9 Court street, Boston, or No. 1 Wall street, New York. Orders may be left at JW Clark & Co.'s 6 City Hall; Colman's...
Página 32 - He will take charge of all small packages of goods, bundles, &c., that may be intrusted to his care, and see them safely delivered, and attend to forwarding merchandise of all descriptions (except that prescribed by the Railroad Companies), if directed to his care. All packages, bundles, &c., must be sent to office, No. 9 Court street, Boston, or No. 1 Wall street. New York. Orders may be left at JW Clark...