VOL.  1,

THE FALL TRADE.

ENCOURAGING  OUTLOOK  IN   MOST 

LINES.

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Comprehensive  Review  of  the  Business  Sit- 
nation, as 
Affecting  Grand  Rapids— Slight 
Depression  in  Several  Branches  of  Trade 
-Excellent  Feeling  among  Business  Men, 
and  Prospects of  a Complete  Revival  Soon.

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The  outlook  for  fall and winter business 
is now  being  discussed  with  much  interest 
In  mercantile  circles,  and  from  frequent 
conversation with merchants  in  the  various 
branches of trade, the following careful  and 
comprehensive review of the  business situa­
tion, as affecting this city, has been gleaned. 
The indications are that the season has never 
opened more satisfactorily, if volume of bus­
iness  be  not  considered,  nor  with  such  a 
feeling of confidence.  The damage to crops 
caused  by  the  long  drouth  and  subsequent 
frosts  has  had  little  visible  effect  on  trade 
as yet, but has caused a somewhat depressed 
feeling amongrdealers  in  staples,  some of 
whom  anticipate  a  decrease  in  business 
of about 15 per cent, as  compared  with  last 
year.  The loss in trade, if any, however, is 
amply compensated for by the improved gen­
eral feeling that has  taken  possesion  of re­
tail tradesmen—a feeling of caution  and se­
curity that was almost unknown a year  ago. 
Stocks are  very  generally reduced  and  are 
being replenished sufficient to  meet present 
necessities only.  This  condition  of affairs 
indicates that business is being conducted on 
a safe basis, and augurs  well for the future.
A notable  feature  of  the  past  year  has 
been the marked inroads  Grand  Rapids  has 
made  in  the  territory  formerly  covered  by 
other markets.  New fields have been invad­
ed and conquered,  and the trade in those al­
ready acquired  worked  over  to  advantage. 
Retail tradesmen are coming  to  regard  the 
wholesalers at this market with  an  entirely 
different feeling than  formerly, looking up­
on them as legitimate competitors of Chicago 
and Detroit.  Stocks  are  now carried here 
fully  as  complete  as  those  at  the  places 
mentioned, and as the expense of maintaining 
large establishments is necessarily less,  and 
our  wholesalers  are  content  witli  smaller 
profits, the country merchants are  not  slow 
to take advantage of these facts,  and  recog­
nize the saving in freight rates.  As  a  con­
sequence  Grand  Rapids  is fast acquiring a 
superior reputation as a commercial center— 
§ 0  reputation that she proposes to guard with 
«zealous care and  augment  at  every  oppor­
tunity.

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ies.  Retail dealers report to the  wholesale 
merchants that the man  who  used  to  buy 
ten pounds of sugar  makes  eight  do  now. 
They think people are buying  little  and  of­
ten, but as much in the  aggregate  as  ever;
i  but other dealers are certain that the  aggre-
also.  The cause of  the  lateness
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•  -   ■  1 and  reduced  volume  of  trade  is  without
doubt the condition of  the  crops.  The  un­
certainty  in which the wheat and corn crops 
were involved by the late  season,  has  been 
exactly reflected in the  lateness  and  weak­
ness of the grocery trade.  Up to the present 
time collections have been very  good  where 
there has been cautious buying, but in  some 
other  instances  they  have  been very poor. 
There is no despondency, but  on  the  other 
hand  the  strongest  confidence  is  felt in the 
future of  the  fall and winter trade.  Grand 
Rapids is making steady inroads into the ter­
ritory formerly monopolized by Chicago, hav­
ing taken a great step forward in this  direc­
tion  during  the  last  twelvemonth.  Espe­
cially is this the case in the upper peninsula, 
from which unusually heavy orders are now 
being  received,  owing  to  the  difficulty  of 
transporting goods during the winter months.

CI.OTHING.

The  clothing  trade  is  reported  as  in  a 
strong, healthy condition,  and the prospects 
for the  season  excellent.  Collections  are 
rather better than last year, and  there  have 
been no failures of any importance.  Stocks 
in the country are reported as far run down, 
and though buyers held off early in the  sea­
son, tiie trade latterly  has  made  up  forjit. 
The trade in summer goods was light, owing 
to the moderate heat of the season, and there 
is a  considerable  surplus  stock  held  over, 
but the trade in the heavier goods  has  been 
proportionately  active.  Both  buyers  and 
sellers look forward to a  first-class  fall  and 
winter trade.

HAKDWABE.

Trade in both light  and  heavy  hardware 
is represented as  entirely  satisfactory. 
In 
the former, prices are low, owing to overpro­
duction,- and perhaps they were never  lower 
tnanthey  are  at  present,  with  the  single 
exception of  Russia  iron, which  is  scarcer 
and dearer than usual.  Even  nails are now 
no dearer though the strikes diminished  the 
production 500,000 kegs within the last year. 
Prises are so low, indeed,  that  the  original 
manufacturers are making no money  at  all 
at present,  though,  as  trade  revives,  they 
may improve. 
In  heavy  hardware,  prices 
are also very low—as low, it is said, as  they 
were during the panic,  just  before  the  re- 
vivial  of  business.  However,  there  are 
signs of improvement in that direction  also. 
A great many small factories have been com­
pelled to close up, and as they had to sell  at 
any price they could in order to  sell  at  all, 
they used to pull down prices, and  their  re­
tirement from the field will have a tendency 
to restore high prices.

DRY GOODS.

DRUGS.

Wholesale  dry  goods  dealers  express  a 
feeling of quiet satisfaction at  the  prospect 
for a healthy fall trade.  A month  ago  the 
indications were favorable for a heavy busi­
ness, but the work of both drouth  and  frost 
in this state has been so effective  that  trade 
prospects  are  now  less  bright.  Though 
something of a  disappointment,  all  classes 
of tradesmen are inclined to take a common- 
sense view of the situation.  Stocks are gen­
erally very low, and this fact will operate to 
advantage all around.  Country  merchants 
have generally paid their bills promptly and 
have kept a surplus on hand  in  case  of  an 
emergency.  Prices are about 2%  per  cent 
lower than last year, which fact will  be  ap­
preciated by the  farmer,  who  can  get  his 
wearing apparel for less farm  produce  than 
formerly,  while  the  later  brings  in  an in­
creased revenue.  The low prices are the di­
rect result  of  the.overproduction of the last 
few months, some lines being sold  less than 
ifianufacturers’s cost.  The natural tendency 
at low prices is a  proportionately  increased 
consumption.  Grand  Rapids is rapidly ex­
tending her distributive territory  from year 
to year.  This  is  true  not only in the dry 
goods trade, but in almost all  other  depart­
ments.  Country dealers are coming to real­
ize that the wholesalers here carry nearly as 
| large and well assorted stocks as the Chicago 
> houses, and that the saving  in  freight  over 
Chicago and  Detroit  is  considerable.  This 
is  operating  in  our  favor,  and  as  a  conse­
quence the dry goods  trade  of  this  market 
is annually enlarging at the expense of other 
centers.

Mr. C. S. Ilazeltine, of Hazeitine, Perkins 
A Company, says  that  from  present  indica­
tions their business this fall will exceed that 
of a year ago by fully 15 per  cent.,  and  the 
same is true of other dealers in the same line, 
The increase is attributed in part to  the  ex­
istence of new tradesmen, but no inconsider­
able portion is  represented  by  the  business 
that Grand Rapids has taken away from De­
troit,  Chicago,  and  the  other drug  centers. 
The drug business is said to have no seasons. 
It is  true certain  drugs  are  bought  only  or 
mostly in certain seasons of the year, but  as 
to the volume of business  done  there  is  no 
regular ebb and flow  through  summer, fall, 
winter, and spring as in  the  other  lines  of 
business.  But  though  not  subject to uni­
form fluctuations, it is not exempt  from  oc­
casional depression.  Business  in  the  early 
spring was very slow, but as the spring  and 
summer wore away it constantly and  gradu­
ally improved.  Summer trade was in  every 
respect  healthy  and  satisfactory. 
It  was 
perhaps  rather  remarkable  for  small  and 
cautious  buying,  but  while  the  purchases 
were small they were also frequent,  so  that 
at the end of the season the sales  amounted 
to more than they did the year before.  As 
the fall opens the trade is better in every re­
spect  than  during  the  summer. 
In  this 
respect this branch of trade seems to  be  the 
only one that is entirely independent  of  the 
The present dullness of  the grocery trade 
influence of the seasons and the  crops.  As 
began early  in  the  spring,  and  centinued 
in the case of hardware, the prices of  drugs 
without interruption throughout the summer. 
were never lower than they are at the  pres­
One  dealer  estimates  that  the  volume  of 
ent time.  This condition of things has been 
trade was not more than 85 per cent of what 
aggravated by the revised tariff, which went 
it was last year. 
In  the  meanwhile  prices 
into effect July  1.  On  nutmegs  the  tariff 
have been lower perhaps  than  ever  before. 
was 20 cents a pound, but now they are free. 
Coffees are somewhat  different  from  other 
On oil of lemon  the  tariff  was  20  cents  a 
groceries.  Last December they were so low 
pound, but now it is free.  On oil  of  neroli
that the  growers  in  Santos,  Brazil,  threw
away  60,000  bags  because  they  weae  not j  the tariff was 50 per cent, but now this  also 
worth  shipping.  Since  the  establishment  is free.  So also the tariff of 20 per cent  on 
of the Coffee Exchange  in  New  York  they  asafetida has beenOremoved,  and  the  tariff 
have  become  a  speculative  article, 
like  of #1 a pound on croton oil has been reduced 
wheat, especially in  New  York  City;  and I to 50  cents.  Arrowroot  is  now  free  that 
since May the price of  them  has  gradually  used to be taxed 30 cents on the  pound, and
cinnamon that used to be taxed 10 cents, cin­
risen.  The  fall  trade in groceries is  late, 
namon-buds that used to be taxed  20  cents, 
some say two weeks and some say  six. 
In 
and mace that  used  to  be  taxed  25  cents. 
volume it is not at present more  than 90 per 
Peppers and pimento have been freed from a 
cent, of what it should be.  Those  who are 
five-cent tax, and the tariff  on  all  essential 
doing a full fall  trade  attribute  it  to  new 
oils has been much  reduced.  Business  has 
trade rather than to a full  trade.  There is 
been very little affected by the tariff change,
not only in Michigan, but all over  the  coun­
try, a spirit of economy in the use of grocer- iinasmueh as it was anticidated  a  long  time

GROCERIES.

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN,  WEDNESDAY,  SEPTEMBER 26,  1883.

before it went into  effect,  and  dealers were 
careful not to get caught with  a large  stock 
of a drug that was  about  to  be  cheapened. 
The tariff has  left  quinine  untouched,  but 
for some reason there  has been  a great fall- 
fing off lately in the sale of that drug.

HATS  AND  CAPS.

The spring and summer trade in hats  and 
caps, which  was  somewhat  unsatisfactory, 
owing to the prevailing  cool  weather, prom­
ises to be redeemed by the fall trade, which 
has opened up unusually lively.  Customers 
are buying larger bills  than  usual,  and  the 
prospects for  a  big  season  were  never  so 
good.  The  country  buyers  allowed  their 
stocks to run  low  as  a  preparation  for ex­
pected dull times, and bought only with  ex­
treme caution until a recent date, but at pres­
ent  trade  si  rapidly  increasing in volume, 
and it is confidently stated that the  increase 
for the season will be from 20 to 25 per cent 
over last year.  Many buyers who formerly 
went to Chicago or New York now purchase 
here, and Grand Rapids is gradually tighten­
ing her grip  on  the  hat  and  cap  trade  of 
western Michigan.  The  general statement 
is that the  tone of the entire  western  trade 
was never better than at the present time.

CBOCKERY  AND  GLASSWARE.

Mr. C. H. Leonard, of H. Leonard & Sons, 
states that  while  the  fall  trade  in  crockery 
and glassware does not start  off  as  brisk  as 
has been the case in several  previous  years, 
the outlook is in no wise discouraging.  The 
feeling of uncertanity generated by the tariff 
tampering  of  the  last  Congress  has  worn 
away, and the fact that the volume  of  busi­
ness during the summer  months  was  rather 
below the average is directly traceable to the 
same conservative feeling that has taken pos­
session  of  retail  dealers  in  all  branches  of 
trade.  As a  consequence  of  the  desire  to 
get  down  to  hard-pan,  stocks  have  been 
worked down to their lowest  possible point, 
and  when  the  fall  rush  renders  neccessary 
the placing of orders, they will be for almost 
full stocks in certain lines, insted of sorts, as 
is usually  the  case.  The  increase  in  the 
tariff on  imported  goods  from  40 to 60 per 
cent., which went into effect July 1, obliged 
jobbers who wished to take advantage of the 
former  rate  to  make  heavy  importations 
previous to that  time,  but as a consequence 
of the importations retailers will be  enabled 
to secure goods at an advance of  only  about 
10 per cent, on former  prices.  Dealers  are 
coming to realize more and more every  year 
that  goods  can  be  purchased  here  just as 
cheap, and in  some  cases  cheaper,  than  in 
Chicago and New York, while the difference 
in freight charges is an important item,  and 
the increased number  of  customers  attests 
the  fact  that  these  advantages  are  appre­
ciated at their full worth.

FURNITURE.

Major James G. MacBride, of Messrs. Nel­
son, Matter &  Company,  upon  being  asked 
to state  the  present  condition  of  the  furni­
ture trade,  said: “It  is gradually recovering 
from  the  evils  of  over-production.  A  con­
servative feeling prevails in all the branches 
of  the  industry,  from  manufacturer  to  re­
tailer.  All of the factories here are carrying 
lighter stocks than a year  ago,  and  are  pro­
ceeding more cautiously than they  have  be­
fore  for  ten  years.  Salesmen  report  that 
both jobbers and retailers will not buy goods 
for  which  there  is  not  a  pressing  demand, 
even though prices are made  way  down, be­
ing determined to keep their stocks  as  near 
to hard-pan as possible.  As it is poor policy 
to crowd sales, goods are usually held  up  to 
the regular  prices,  to  await  the  return of a 
more active demand. 
I do not attribute  the 
prevailing slackness  in  trade  to  the  preval­
ence of poor crops  in  some  sections,  but  to 
the f ac> that a business reaction  has  set  in. 
We were going along  too  fast,  and  are  suf­
fering from over-production.  In my opinion 
it is very  fortunate  that  we  have  taken  a 
common-sense  view  of  the  situation,  for  if 
we had gone on as we have for several years, 
a fearful panic could not fail to have  result­
ed.  As it  is, I  consider the feeling [among 
business  men  to be better  than  it  has  been 
for  twenty  years.”  Conversation  with  a 
number of  other  furniture manufacturers at 
this market revealed the fact that they  held 
opinions similar  to  the  above  and  that  Mr. 
MacBride had summarized  the situation cor­
rectly.

BOOTS AND  SHOES.

Contrary to  general  expectation, the  boot 
and shoe trade during August  and  Septem­
ber was considerably larger in the aggregate 
than  during  the  same  months  last  fall. 
Grand Rapids has lately become  the  recog­
nized  headquarters  for  honest,  substantial 
goods in this line, and to this fact, more than 
any Other, is mainly attributed the  increase. 
Some dealers are inclined to  accept  the  in­
creased trade as  a  criterion  of  what  is  to 
come, and on this basis the season’s business, 
as a whole, will have an  increased  percent­
age far outstriping that  of  any  other  line. 
There are one or two merchants who do  not 
speak so confidently, but the general feeling 
is of the  most  healt' i*  character.  Collec­
tions have been goou. 
.,.  ■.  trade in home- 
manufactured goods is on the  increase,  and 
the territory of distribution is  gradually  ex­
tending.

CONFECTIONERY.

The wholesale manufacture of confection­
ery is a business  that  is  usually  but  little 
affected by the  fluctuations of trade, but not 
withstanding this fact the business has been 
somewhat quiet during the past summer and 
spring.  The wholesale trade in Grand Rap­
ids last year was unusually large,  but  as  it 
is rapidly picking up this fall, the  prospects 
are that this year’s business will be fully up 
to the average.  Messrs.  Putnam & Brooks 
are of the opinion that the trade is  in  good 
shape, and is in a  healthy  condition.  Col­
lections are reported to be excellent.  As in 
other lines, Grand Rapids  is  gradually  en­
larging the territory  covered  by  dealers  in 
this staple. 

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MILLINERY GOODS.

The millinery trade in Grand Rapids  has 
undergone  a  great  change  for  the  better 
since the spring,  In the spring it was about 
10 per cent less  in  volume  than  it  should 
have been, judging by past years.  But, un­
like other lines of  business,  it  has  opened 
up this fall at least two weeks  earlier  than 
usual.  Not only has it begun earlier, but  it 
is from 10 to 15 per cent greater  in  volume 
than is usual at  this  time.  This  is  owing 
partly to an increase in customers, and  part­
ly to the size of the bills, though  some  cus­
tomers are  buying  cautiously.  Prices  are 
low, and  probably  never  were  lower  than 
they are at this time, with the  exception  of 
velvet goods.  These  goods  are  at  present 
very fashionable all over Europe, as well  as 
in this country.  But  the supply  does  not 
keep up with the demand  owing  to  the ex­
pensiveness of the machinery and  the  scar­
city of the skilled labor by  which  they  are 
produced.  There is a similar  increased  de­
mand for feather goods,  but  prices  remain 
low.  There is little or  no  indication  from 
the retail dealers who  come to  this  city  to 
buy that the consumers are inclined to spend 
any  less  money  on  millinery  than  usual. 
As to collections, there are at least no  com­
plaints.  Wholesalers  are  very  confident 
that they will do an  unusually  heavy  busi­
ness this fall, unless all the reports they have 
turn out false and all signs fail.

WINES AND LIQUORS.

The outlook in the wine and  liquor  trade 
is  comparatively  good—rather  better  than 
last year.  Collections have been  good,  and 
there have been very few failures.  The trade 
in imported goods is reported as in excellent 
condition, with the prospect  of  a  first-class 
season.  The outlook for the  whisky  trade 
is only  fair.  The  usual  amount  of  goods 
will no doubt be handled  by  the  wholesale 
dealers, but at a small profit.  Especially  is 
this the case  with  Kentucky goods,  on  ac­
count of the large amount of those goods, on 
which the tax must be paid this  fall  in  ex­
cess of the actual requirements of the  trade, 
the three years’ bonding  period  having  ex­
pired on them.  The distillers of  the  West­
ern Export Association have formed another 
pool, to run for a year  from  Sept.  1, and on 
account of the large quantity of goods which 
will be forced on the market for  the  reason 
stated they have decided to run only 25  per 
cent of their producing capacity  during  the 
year. 
In case the legislation to extend  the 
bonding period which  has  been  asked  for 
from  Congress should be  put  in  force  the 
outlook for the trade would  be  very  favor­
able., and even the  wholesale dealers  would 
make money on the goods they now carry.

LEATHER.

While there is no occasion for serious  ap­
prehension in the leather trade, the  outlook 
for the fall and winter  is not  as  promising 
as in most other lines of trade.  The failures 
in the east have had no effect upon this state, 
but  the short crops cause  small  dealers  to 
be decidedly conservative in buying.  Busi­
ness has been unusûally quiet since  the  be­
ginning of the year, and promises to  remain 
so for some time to come.

HIDES,  PELTS AND FUltS.

Traffic in hides is somewhat “blue” just at 
present, as prices are  on  a  downward  ten­
dency, and promise to keep getting lower as 
the season advances.  The outlook for pelts 
is somewhat brighter.  At this writing it  is 
difficult to statq just how the fur trade  will 
pan  out  as  the  season  has  not, yet  fairly 
opened.

SILVERWARE  AND JEWELRY.

Silverware and jewelry trade just at  pres­
ent is quiet, but  an  average  traffic is looked 
for from now on.  Locally,  the  business is 
mainly retail and is influenced to a consider- 
extent by the weather. 
If the fall is pleas­
ant and money no  tighter,  a  good  trade  is 
anticipated. 
It is not believed there will be 
any boom, but  the  amount  of  transactions 
will be a good average.

EXTRACTS AND  BAKING  POWDERS.

Manufacturers  of  extracts,  perfumeries 
and  baking  powders  report  an  excellent 
trade,  heavier  in  every  respect  than  last 
year, and more  profitable  than  was  antici­
pated earlier in the season.  Grand  Rapids 
has of late years achieved  a  reputation  for 
pure goods in these  lines  which  has  made 
the  city  known  in  a  commercial  way  not 
only  throughout the  state,  but all  over  the 
west and northwest. 

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TOBACCO.

The indications are that the  tobacco  busi­
ness will be unusually lively during the fall, 
and that the  winter  trade  will  be  heavier 
than it has been for some years.  The grow­
ing crop is said to be plentiful  but  of  infer­
ior quality, and a slight  advance in prices is 
anticipated.  The only cloud in the  horizon 
is a threatened disturbance  of  the  revenue 
tax, it being rumored that an effort  will  be 
made when Congress meets in  December  to 
abolish  the  tax  entirely.  Manufacturers, 
however, do  not  believe  that  the  national 
legislature will so soon  again  unsettle  their 
business,  and  look  forward  to  a  profitable 
fall and winter trade.

BOOKS AND  STATIONERY.

In books  and  stationery  the  season  has 
opened better than was expected,  and  deal­
ers are confident that business  will  increase 
as the winter approaches.  The general feel­
ing  seems  to  be one of  solid  contentment 
with  the  present,  and  no  fears for the  fu­
ture.

SADDLERY  GOODS.

Dealers in saddlery goods state that while 
their stocks in the aggregate were somewhat 
reduced as compared with  this  season  last 
year,  their  assortment  of  fall  and  winter 
goods is heavier than ever before.  Business 
is getting in better shape, and while the out­
look is not first-rate, there is reason to expect 
a fairly prosperous fall and winter season.

NO.  1.

ual rains have caused many fields to blossom 
continually,  a  good  deal  of  the  blossoms 
blasting, but with a favorable fall  the  yield 
will be up  to  the  average.  Reports  from 
foreign sections warrant the belief that mod­
erate prices will prevail.  Onions  and roots 
being an immense  crop,  low  prices  and  a 
dull market will be the  rule.  Grapes  and 
peaches will  command a high  price  during 
the season, as the supply is limited.

THE BREWERIES.

The brewing business, despite the increas­
ed proportions  which it assumed  last  year, 
is still growing, as the additions to the large 
brewing establishments  in  the  city  amply 
testify.  The prevailing cool weather during 
the summer tended to lessen consumption to 
a considerable extent, and  the  prospect  for 
the winter business is  not  first  rate.  The 
prices of the raw products used in the  man­
ufacture of beer are  lower  than  they  have 
been for several years, and even  if  produc­
tion  is  curtailed,  the  indications  are  that 
profits will be about a fair  average.

FREIGHT  SHIPMENTS.

A tour of inquiry among the freight agents 
having  headquarters  in  this  city  revealed 
but one general opinion as  to  the  business 
outlook for the Coming season.  None antici­
pate a boom in freight traffic  in  any line of 
trade, but all  look for  a  healthy  business. 
It is claimed that Grand Rapids is  the  only 
furniture center that  is  holding  shipments 
up to a fair average.

COAL.

The coal trade continues to show  inereas- 
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ing activity, and dealers report  their  hands 
full.  Those/parties who have been  holding 
off for a decline are realizing that there will 
be no lower prices and are coming  into  the 
market.  Prices  are somewhat  stiffer,  and 
there appears to be little or no disposition to 
make concessions.  An  advance,  however, 
is not expected  for  some  time.  The  retail 
trade is in much better condition than  here­
tofore,  and  the  demoralization  so 
long 
prevalent  is  disappearing.  The  late  cool 
weather has made people  anxious  to  lay  in 
their supplies.  Teams are scarce.

WHEAT,  CORN AND  OATS.

While  the  wheat  crop  of  the  country  is 
only medium, prices  give  not  the  slightest 
indication of  mounting  to  war  figures,  and 
unless fall sowings are poor, there is no prob­
ability that the staple will be  very  high  in j 
the spring.  But the spring is  a  long  way 
off, and it will not do  to  look  that  far  with 
too great confidence.  The receipts of wheat 
thus far have been quite moderate, but they 
will improve as the farmers firtish  their  fall 
work and get around to their year’s  market­
ing, although  some  show  a  disposition  to 
hold for bigger prices. 
In  Michigan  there 
is from year to  year  an  increasing  acreage 
of red wheat sown  at  the  expense  of  white 
wheat.  The latter, Clawson  variety,  is  too 
soft for milling purposes. 

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In Michigan the corn crop has failed with 
many farmers and they  will  be  obliged  to 
buy for personal use.  This will make them 
feel  poor,  but  their  necessities,  and their 
willingness to buy, which is as a sober second 
thought, will make a good  average  trade  in 
com'.

The oat crop is  very  large—larger by  far 
than either wheat or com.-  In some respects 
it  makes  up  for  their  deficiencies.  The 
prices for all three are medium.  Other cere­
als are about as usual, both  in  quantity  and 
quality, as well as in price.

PRODUCE.

The potato crop of the state will  be  fully 
50  per  cent  less  than  usual,  but  dealers 
do not anticipate  anything  like  the  prices 
farmers look for.  The  crop  in Kentucky, 
Tennessee  and  Missouri  is greater than for 
years, and much of it will  find  a  market  in 
the  northern  states. 
In  Tennessee  alone 
there was a surplus  of  nearly  100,000  bar­
rels  of  the  early  yield.  Several  leading 
commission  men predict  that  50  cents  per 
bushel will be the average  price, with  prob­
ably a slight rise when winter closes in.

Apples generally through the state will be 
less than half a crop. 
In some localities re­
ports are  at  hand  of  a  full  yield,  while  in 
others an almost total failure is reported.  It 
is not expected that enough  can  be  got  in 
the state to supply  the  local  demand,  and 
unless the crop  in  the  southwestern  states 
turns out  better  than is expected  there  will 
be a scarcity in the  market  here.  Dealers 
figure on $2 and 32.50 per barrel as the pros­
pective prices.

The unusual wet weather during the sum­
mer has had a depressing effect on  the  but­
ter market,  and  but  little  choice  stock  is 
looked for.  A  good  deal  has been  made, 
but it is what is known as  “wet  glass  but­
ter,” and won’t keep long, and while strictly 
first-class when fresh, it can’t keep the stand­
ard on the  market.  Oleomargarine,  too, is 
affecting the market  more  and  more every 
year, and has  entirely  superseded  the  real 
article in the  Lake  Superior  region  trade. 
Even when offered up to within a few  cents 
of genuine butter it finds  ready  Sale  there. 
Many of the commission men  infuse to han­
dle it, and one of themstated that his trade 
this year wfll be  200,000  pounds  less  than 
last year. «

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AT THE  BANKS.

In  banking  circles  the  feeling  prevails 
that the retrenchment and moderation which 
has ruled during the  past  spring  and  sum­
mer will be continued in a less  marked  de­
gree during the fall and winter.  In northern 
Michigan, much of course depends upon  the 
condition of the weather, as a certain amount 
of sleighing is necessary  in  order  to  move 
the wood products, upon which  the  success 
of the season is mainly based.  Should there 
be an open winter, and a  failure  to  get  in. 
the usual amount of logs, business could not 
fail to  be  depressed,  but  under  ordinarily 
favorable conditions, there is every  promise 
of a profitable season.  The  money  market 
is fairly active, with rates firm.

CHARACTER  IN  SMOKING.

The  Peculiarities  of  Smokers  as  Seen  by  a 

Chicago  Dealer.

“It’s twenty years,” said a Chicago dealer, 
“now since  I  began  to  sell  tobacco,  and  in, 
that time I have closely studied  the  charac­
ters of my patrons, forming  my  conclusions 
I 
from  the  kind  of  company  they  keep. 
mean by the kind of  cigars  they  smoke. 
I 
can always  tell.  An  even  tempered,  quiet 
fellow, never goes to  the  extreme  in  choos­
ing tobacco; a nervous man wants something 
strong and  furious; a mild  man  .something 
that smokes and nothing more.  Then there 
is a great deal in the way  men  handle  their 
cigar.  If a man smokes his cigar only enough 
to keep it lighted  and  relishes  taking  it  be­
tween  his  lips  to  east  a whirling  curl  of 
blue smoke into the air, set him down as  an 
easy going fellow, who  cares  little  for  how 
the  world  goes  and  no  more  for  himself. 
He has keen perceptions and delicate  sensi­
bilities.  He will hot create  trouble,  but  is 
apt to see it out when once  begun.  Beware 
of the  man  who  never  releolte  his  cigar 
from the grip of his teeth  and  is  ^different 
j  whether it bums or dies.  He is eoio, ealcu- 
j  lating and exacting.  He is* seldom energetic, 
physically,  but  lives  easily  ’off  those  who 
perform  the  labor.  A  man  who smokes  a 
bit, reads a bit and  fumbles  the  cigar  more 
or less is apt to be easily affected by circum­
stances.  He may be energetic, careful, gen­
erous, and courageous,  but  he  is vacillating 
and liable to change  on  a  moment’s notice. 
If the cigar goes out frequently the man has 
a  whole-souled  disposition,  is  a  devil-may- 
care sort of fellow, with a lively brain and a 
glib tdhgue, and  generally a fine fund of an­
ecdotes and yams.  To hold  half  of  the  ci­
gar in the mouth and smoke  indifferently  is 
a lazy man’s  habit.  They  are  generally  of 
little  force  and  their  characters  are  not  of 
the higher strata.  A  nervous  man  or  one 
under exciting influences, fumbles  his  cigar 
a great deal.  He  is  a  kind  of  popin jay 
among  men.  Holding  the cigar constantly 
between  the  teeth,  chewing it occasionally, 
and  not  caring  whether  or not  it  has  been 
lighted  at  all,  are  characteristics  of  men 
with the tenacity of bull-dogs.  They  never 
forget  anything  and  never  release  a  hold. 
The fop stands his  cigar on end and  the  in­
experienced  smoker either points it straight 
ahead  or  almost  at  right  angles  with  his 
course.”—Chicago News.

When Shootwell died the boys clubbed to­
gether to buy him a tombstone.  They  could 
not  agree  upon  the  inscription.  Fogg  sug­
gested tliis: “His gun never missed fire.  1 .fet­
us hope he may be like  his  gun.”  But  this 
was considered rather personal, and  was  re­
jected without a division.

An Iowa family gave  a  tramp  a  dinner, 
and the trapip gave the family the small-pox. 
Don’t blame the  poor  man;  perhaps  it  was. 
all he had to give.

A  noted  physician  says  that  nearly  all 
women have smaller chests and trunks  than 
tey ought.  Baggagemen don’t think so.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

A JO U R N A L DKVOTED TO  TH E

Mercantile and Manufacturing Interests of the State.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor and  Proprietor.

Terms $1 a year in advance, postage paid. 
Advertising rates made known on application.

WEDNESDAY,  SEPT.  26,  1883.

THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN. 

Recognizing  the  fact  that  for  several 
years the various branches of the  wholesale 
trade of  this  city  have  felt  the  need  of  an 
authorized representative of  their  interests, 
and that the retail dealers who  look  to  this 
market, for their supplies have felt the want 
of  a  reliable  commercial  guide,  we  are 
pleased  to  present  to  the  business  men  of 
the northwest the first number of The Mich­
igan Tradesman, a weekly journal, issued 
from the Grand Rapids  market, paying  par­
ticular attention to the wants of the  patrons 
of this  mercantile  center,  and  yet being  of 
such  a  general  character that  it  will  be  of 
interest  to  all  engaged  in  wholesale  or  re­
tail traffic anywhere.

STOCK-TAKING.

Taking account  of  stock  is  not  generally 
an easy or pleasant task, and for this reason 
not  a  few  merchants  omit  entirely  to  per­
form  this  business  duty, while others do so 
only at rare intervals.  The majority of mer­
chants,  however,  find  it  necessary and  pro­
per to keep themselves  fully  informed as to 
the present  condition  of their  business, and 
hence  never  allow  a  year  to  pass  without 
taking  an  inventory  of  stock,  while  many 
even take a semi-annual inventory. 
In  spe­
cial  lines  of  trade,  particularly  in  some 
branches of the wholesale trade, inventories 
are taken two or three times during the busy 
seasons, in order that  the exact condition of 
the stock may be ascertained.

The  labor  of  taking  account  of  stock  is 
often  great,  particularly  if the  goods  to  be 
invoiced  are  bulky,  difficult to handle, very 
numerous, or are kept  in  broken  packages. 
Occasionally one finds an unfortunate trader 
who does  not know  how to take an account 
of stock, or has allowed his goods to get into 
such a condition  as  to  make  it next  to  im­
possible to make a correct account  of  them.
In some stores goods are hurriedly unpacked 
and without marking  placed  on the shelves, 
the dealer relying  upon  his  memory  in  de­
termining the price at  which  they  will  be 
sold. 
It will readily be seen that in  invoic­
ing such goods there is little to go by, partic­
ularly if the  parties  taking  stock  are  .not 
posted as to their present market value.

Numerous reasons exist for  the inaugura­
tion  of the  journal.  Grand  Rapids  is  the 
only trade center of importance where a sim­
ilar  publication  is  not  maintained,  several 
cities  of the same commercial  standing hav­
ing one for each separate line of trade.  The 
influence they exert for good, when properly 
conducted, and the remarkable advances cer­
tain  markets  have  made  with  their  ready 
assistance,  are  beyond  peradventure.  The 
retail  merchants  of  Michigan  are  deluged 
with price-lists  from  Chicago, Detroit  and 
New York houses, but they have, until now, 
had no means  at  hand  of  knowing  the  rul­
ing quotations at Grand Rapids.  These rea­
sons, even were  they  not  accompanied  by 
others equally as cogent, are sufficient to  ex­
plain the advent of The Michigan Trades­
man.

T h e  object in view can  be  briefly  stated. 
We shall labor  faithfully  and  earnestly  for 
the  upbuilding  of  the  wholesale  trade  of 
Grand Rapids, believing that  it  should  pen­
etrate fields now included in the territory of 
other markets and be extended and enlarged 
even where it already exists.  We shall labor 
with equal zeal to promote the interests of re­
tail tradesmen and trust that the  paper will 
afford a pleasant  and  profitable  medium  of 
> communication between  wholesaler  and  re­
tailer.

Duly  conscious  of  the  arduous  nature  of 
the enterprise,  and  the  exacting  demands 
which will be made, we  do  not  deem  it  ad­
visable  to  anticipate  judgment  upon  the 
merits of the paper, the worth of which  can 
only be tested by  experience.  A  few  gen­
eral statements relative to the future  policy 
of the journal,  however,  may be  pardoned. 
It will be the aim of the  editor  to  make  its
contents as varied and interesting  as  possi­
ble.  One entire page will be  given  to  cur­
rent quotations, furnished by  representative 
wholesalers, and corrected up to the hour of 
going to press.  A weekly review  of  home 
and foreign markets will  be  carefully  pre­
pared.  The  movements  of  retail  dealers 
and  the  business  changes  of  all  wbo^are 
in  any  way  connected  with  the  various 
branches of trade will  be  chronicled.  The 
“Gripsack Brigade” will be given due prom­
inence in a department of their  own.  Orig­
inal  and selected  articles  of  interest  to  the 
trade and a judicious compilation of the mer­
cantile news of the day  will  slso  be  an  es­
pecial  feature.  Although  much  labor  has 
been expended on the initial  issue, it is nec­
essarily imperfect and liable to contain errors 
and  omissions  from which future  numbers 
will be free.  While the present general plan 
will  be  carried  out,  it  will  be  elaborated 
and  improved from time  to  time,  and  such 
changes made as will tend to  better the con­
tents of  the  paper,  increase  its  influence, 
and enable it to better serve the interests  of 
those it represents. 

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It is generally  conceded  among  business 
men, that all men have not the same end  in 
view in doing  business.  Business  is  gen­
erally supposed to be done to  make  monejr, 
but this is not always the case.  There  are 
firms who seem to  have  other  motives  for 
conducting  business- than  making  money. 
Certain it is that  they  don’t  make  money. 
Their prices are  too  low  for  that.  Why, 
then, do they do business?  No one knows. 
Perhaps for  pleasure,  or  for  glory.  This 
class of  men  are  very  disagreeable  to have 
in a community where most  men  labor  for 
money and their daily  bread.  They  seem 
to have adopted the policy  of  working  for 
nothing, and forcing others, if possible, to do 
the same thing.  This is  the  class  of  men 
who sell goods cheaper than  they  can  buy 
them, and pay for freight and cost  of  hand­
ling besides.

Quotations of extracts,  carpet«*  and  other 

goods next week.

once in a great while a merchant is found 
who lacks the  courage to take an inventory, 
fearing  that the revelation  will  prove  any­
thing  but pleasant.  This, it  is  needless  to 
say, is a sort of  moral  weakness  which it is 
not creditable to  possess,  and which shouln 
be sternly overcome. 
If  one has  reason to 
fear that there is something wrong in his bus­
iness, the sooner  he can locate the cause the 
better, for if a remedy be needed, the earlier 
it is applied the sooner will be the recovery. 
Thousands  of business  men  drift  through 
life, not knowing whether  they  are making 
substantial progress  or not.  Some awake to 
find that they have "been going gradually but 
surely down  hill  while  they  were  thinking 
that they were going the other way. 
If one 
takes a frequent inventory of his business he 
is likely to be informed  as  to his true finan­
cial  condition all  the time.  It  cannot  well 
be  otherwise  unless  fraud  or  deception is 
practiced  upon him.  Besides  this,  the tak­
ing account of  stock  necessitates a frequent 
thorough  overhauling  of  tne  latter.  This 
not only shows the  merchant  the amount of 
goods on hand, but also the  character  of the 
stock. 
It often  happens  that  certain  lines 
of goods  accumulate  faster  than  the  mer­
chant  is  aware.  Sometimes  quantities  of 
goods  get  stowed  away  out  of  the  owners’ 
sight,  and  these  are brought to light  when 
stock-taking  occurs. 
In  the  case of a hard­
ware merchant,  he  may  find  concealed  in 
some  out-of-the-way  place a  few  gross  of 
knives, or a lot of butts,  or  screws,  or some 
other equally valuable article, which he sup­
posed had been disposed of.  Finding them, 
he places  them in  their  proper  receptacle, 
and in time, sells them in the regular course 
of business.  Had there been  no  annual  in­
voicing he would  not, perhaps, have discov­
ered these articles for years.

Insurance companies  advise  the  frequent 
taking of inventories,  so  that in case of loss 
by fire there will be some criterion  whereby 
a just settlement may be made. 
It is highly 
unsatisfactory  to  leave  the  adjustment  of 
such matters to those who have to depend up­
on their power of guessing to determine  the 
extent of the claim of the  insured.

If an inventory reveals  the  true condition 
of one’s  business  affairs, it must  frequently 
be  exceedingly  serviceable  in  sounding  a 
note of warning to the over-confident trader. 
It may tell him that he is trusting too much, 
or that he is  carying too  large  a  stock,  or 
that the kind  of goods be is  keeping is  un­
suited to the wants of his trade,  or  that  he 
is  venturing  upon  dangerous  and  risky 
grounds.  To  be  forewarned  is to be  fore­
armed.  A word  of caution a year before a 
failure would be  far  more  valuable  than a 
whole  sermon  of  reproofs  after  its  occur­
rence.

Some deceive themselves  when  taking in­
ventories by over-valuing  their  stock.  The 
tendency of dealers who are not well posted 
is to do this, and in fact there is a reluctance 
even on the part of the better class  of  mer­
chants  to  write off an amount  sufficient  to 
cover depreciation.  Thus it can be  readily 
seen that if one  inventories a line  of  goods 
at cost when the market value  of  the  same 
at the time of taking is $2,000 to $3,000 less, 
he is actually misleading himself.

An inventory  to  be  valuable  should  not 
only be  as  nearly  accurate  as  possible,  but 
should also  be  taken  with  reference  to  the 
present actual value of the goods.  No busi­
ness is too small  to  require  this  attention, 
and no business of magnitude can  be intelli­
gently conducted without it.

There was a time, many years ago, before 
bookstores, pure and simple, became extin ct 
that books, pens, ink, paper, and other  arti­
cles directly relating thereto, constituted the 
bookseller’s and stationer’s  stock  in  trade. 
Now  the  proper  thing  seems  to  be  for  a 
stationer to  carry anything  in his store  that 
will  sell.  Wall  paper,  notions,  toys,  and 
many other lines are now a part of  the  sta­
tioner’s stock.

There are men who pay their bills prompt­
ly.  There are men whose goods are as good 
as  their  samples.  There  are  men  with 
whom it is a pleasure to do  business.  And 
it is gpQ(-rip\y conceded that  Grand  Rapids 
comes neMwrtethe i**Un tMswwpect than 
my other commercial market in the country,

THE  STATE  OF  TRADE.

Despite the apparent depression in general 
commercial  circles,  there  is  nothing  in the 
condition  of  trade  to  create  apprehensjon. 
On the contrary,  to  those  who  look  below 
the surface and seek causes for effects, there 
is reason for hope and the  anticipation  of  a 
strong natural and healthful revival of  com­
merce in the  near  future.  The wheat  crop 
as a whole is almost  an  average  one,  corn 
is nearly  a  fair  average,  while  hay,  oats, 
rye, and  the  subsidiary  crops  are bountiful 
in  the  extreme.  To  consume  these,  to 
create  new  wants  for  houses,  clothing, 
means  of  transportation and  all  the  results 
of  labor  and  capital,  we  have  a  popula­
tion increasing with unprecedented  rapidity, 
both  in  numbers  and  that  wealth  which 
begets  new  wants.  Prices  may  rule  low 
and the  money  profit  on  these  products  be 
small,  but  the  material  wealth  exists undi­
minished,  furnishes the  sinews  for  another 
year, the broad basis  of  future  prosperity. 
True, failures of importance  have  occurred, 
and  these  will  entail  temporary  inconven­
ience and want  of  confidence,  but  in  every 
case,  some  deep-seated  cause,  independent 
of the general conditions of the present,  can 
be found.  Many, if not the  greater  part  of 
these, are due to speculation—a cause which 
is the root of much growing evil in our com­
merce and, like the parasite, only thrives by 
drawing  blood  from  legitimate  enterprises. 
It is not too much to say that, except for the 
temporary depression it wonld  bring  about, 
it would  be  an  incalculable  benefit  to  the 
honest  enterprises  of  the  country  if  every 
establishment engaged in speculation should 
fail beyond  the  possibility  of  ever  recover­
ing.

Money is plenty and easy  and seeks  good 
investments  and  good  commercial  paper  at 
low  rates  of  interest.  Of  course  doubtful 
paper is closely scanned, and many  firms  in 
legitimate business whose  credit  is  affected 
may find  trouble in getting fund  and  go  to 
the wall, but these are  the  inevitable  evils 
consequent  upon  the  destruction  of  confi- 
ence.  But among  those  best  able to  form 
o n io n s confidence  is not shaken.  Shrewd 
fffm may hold off in making purchases for a 
time to force prices lower, but the imperative 
demands of consumption  will  after  a  time 
force them into the market, and the reaction 
will occur.  True, the improvement must and 
will  come  slowly;  and  there  will  be  no 
“boom,” nor is one to be desired, for it stim­
ulates those  energies  which  bring  about  a 
reaction.  Prices  now at  the  bottom  may 
not advance greatly, it is  not  expected  they 
will, but history  and  experience  teach  that 
strong  demands  for  legitimate  purposes  on 
small margins is the strongest and best  con­
dition of trade, and this we are in a fair way 
to obtain.  The present failures  are  but  tlio 
stepping-stones to a better state of  affairs.

been  unusually  large,  for  the  reasons  we 
have given.  Some lines of special  and  lim­
ited manufacture,  especially  novelties,  may 
suffer from over-production.  The early  fall 
trade, like the late spring trade, will be very 
light.  The later fall trade will most proba­
bly be heavier, and all of it on  narrow  mar­
gins for an  unusual  proportion  of cash and 
short, safe credits.  In brief, the present out­
look is  that  we  shall  have  a  short,  early 
fall  trade, a fair, safe later fall traffic, and a 
brisk midwinter business.—Continent.
To  Dealers  in  Holiday  Goods  and  Notions.
Hazeltine, Perkins & Co., wholesale drug- 
gisis and jobbers of druggists’  sundries  and 
fancy goods, have now one of the most com­
plete and elegant assortments of fine holiday 
goods to be found in the state.  They  have 
lately added very largely to this department 
of their large and growing business, and are 
in a position  to  supply  the  latest  novelties 
in this  line  at  manufacturers’ best  prices. 
The department is in  charge  of  Mr,  Hagy, 
an experienced sundry-man, and  Mr. Hamp- 
son, formerly with Mr. F. L. Riechel, jobber 
of brushes, whose large stock they have late­
ly  purchased,  will  continue  to  represent 
them on the road.  Mr.  Hampson  has  just 
started out on the fall campaign, and dealers 
will be interested in looking over  the  large 
and com  pletelne which he exhibits.  Prices 
have been made the very lowest,  and  if  at­
tractive goods, and bottom prices can  secure 
orders, he will commmd an  increasing  pat­
ronage.  The general agency for the Messrs. 
Stewart Bros. & Co., manufacturers  of  fine 
paint  brushes,  and  of  the  Grand  Rapids 
Brush Co. enable them to  offer  these  lines 
of goods at attractive prices.  Their  line of 
solid-back hair brushes, cloth, nail and tooth 
brushes  is  exceedingly  complete  and  will 
command increased  attention.  The  elegant 
lines of Langsdorf brush and comb cases are 
particularly choice  and  of  new  styles  and 
desirable designs, and will have a large sale. 
The new styles of odor  cases,  work  boxes, 
and other holiday novelties will  not  fail  to 
be largely sought after, and prove one of the 
especial features  of  the  coming  Christmas 
trade.  When visiting Grand  Rapids  a  call 
upon Messrs. Hazeltine, Perkins & Co.  will 
be pleasant, and afford an  opportunity to see 
a line of goods which cannot be described or 
shown in any other way.

The Carpet Trade Review gives some in­
teresting figures:  In the year 1881 Brussels 
were  $1.95;  tapestries  $1.25; 
three-plys 
$1.85, and extra supers $1.10. 
In  the  pres­
ent  year  the  prices  in  the  same  range  are 
$1.32X, $1, and  80  cents.  The  prices  are 
to-day lower than they have been for twenty 
years  except  during a short  period in 1879.
The  London  Grocer  predicts  that  Rus­
sian petroleum will  gradually  prove  a  for­
midable rival  to  American  oil  in  the  Ger­
man market, especially in the  eastern  prov­
inces.  Several reservoir cars,  it  says,  have 
recently arrived at  Bromberg  directly  from 
Baku, delivering their cargo at a price lower 
than American  petroleum  via  Bremen,  and 
of the same quality.

TRAIN TIME TABLES.

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DEPART.

Miohigan  Central—Grand  Rapids  Division.
Detroit Express......................................a m
Day  Express..........................................12:45pm
New York Fast Line..............................  0:50 p m
Night  Express................................................10:40 pm
Mixed........................................................ ... 
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Pacific  Express..............................................  7:30 am
Local  Passenger............................................ 11:50 am
M ail........................................................   f :59pm
M ixed......................................... ............
Grand  Rapids  Express................................. 10:50 pm
The New York Fast Line runs daily, arriving 
at Detroit at 11:40 p. m., and New York at 9  p. 
m. the next evening. 
Direct  and  prompt  connection  made  with 
Great  Western,  Grand  Trunk  and  Canada 
Southern trains in same depot at Detroit, thus 
avoiding transfers.
The Detroit Express leaving at 6:20 a. m. has 
Drawing  Room  and  Parlor  Car  for  Detroit, 
reaching that  city  at  noon,  New  York  10:30 
a. m., and Boston 2:40 p. m. next day.

- 

J. T. Sc h u l t z, Gen’l Agent.

Ditroit,  Grand  Haven &  Milwaukee.

GOING EAST.

Arrives.
■(•Steamboat Express..........  6:36 am
■(Through  Mail.................... 10:40 am
•(•Evening  Express.............   4:05 pm
♦Limited Express...............  7:05 p m
■(■Mixed, with  eoach............
•(■Muskegon  Express..........10:05 p m

GOING WEST.

Leaves. 
6:45 a m 
10:50 a m 
4:05 p m 
7:15 p m 
11:00 a m

■(■Morning  Express.............   1:05 pm
•(Through  Mail....................  5:15 p m
•(•Steamboat Express.......... 10:25 p m
tMixed...................................
tMuskegon Express...........
♦Milwaukee Express.........   3:52 am

1:25 p m 
5:25 p m 
10:30 p m 
7:45 a m 
6:00 a m 
4:05 a m
■(•Daily, SundaysSexcepted.  *Daily. 
Passengers  taking  the  6:45  a.  m.  Express 
make close connections at Owosso for Lansing 
and at Detroit for New York, arriving there at 
10:00 a. m. the following morning.
Limited  Express  has  Wagner  Sleeping Car 
through to Suspension Bridge and the mail has 
a Parlor Car to  Detroit.  Milwaukee  Express 
has a through Wagner Car and  local  Sleeping 
Car Detroit to Grand Rapids.

D. P o t t e r , City Pass. Agent. 
T hom as  T a n d y, Gen’l Pass. Agent,  Detroit".

The  Financial  Situation.

The apprehensions  that  have  been  enter­
tained for some months in  regard  to  the  fi­
nancial  situation,  together  with  the  labor 
troubles and the check given to  manufactur­
ing thereby, as well as the disturbances  and 
failures of midsummer, instead of being pre­
cursors  of  a  general  stringency  in  the  au­
tumn, are more likely to prove guarantees of 
a safe and healthy financial condition.  The 
apprehension of a stringency acting upon the 
minds of the country retailers, together with 
the  very  unfavorable  weather  of  the  early 
spring,  led  them to  make  lighter purchases 
than usual and influenced  the  fanning  pop­
ulation  to  exercise  a  like restraint in their 
purchase  of  everything  except  neccessary 
supplies.  The result was  that  the  jobbers 
who had prepared  for  a  large  trade found 
themselves  with  unsold  stocks  on  hand, 
and  they  in  turn  have  bought  less  exten­
sively  for  the  fall  trade.  This  has  in 
some cases proved unfortunate to the jobber, 
but the  consumer  and  retailer  are  now  in 
better condition  financially  than  they  have 
been  at any time during the last two  years. 
The  prospect  of  poor  crops  made  the  one 
prudent,  and  the  fear of  light  crops  made 
the other cautious.  Both have  yet  in mind 
the lesson  of  the  great  crash.  Whatever 
stringency  may  now  come  these  two  great 
classes cannot be  affected  with  any  serious 
fear, because neither  of  them  is  greatly  in­
debted.  The man who is out of debt regards 
such a convulsion  with  the  utmost  compos­
ure.

Production  was  checked  by  the  fear of a 
strike  and  by  several  failures  in  the  iron 
business  early  in  the  season,  so  that the 
market is not overloaded, and those who are 
now. producing'in most lines of manufacture 
are doing so on a sound basis.

In leather there has been a  diseased  state 
of trade for a long time.  A vast  amount  of 
capital has been induced  by  various  causes 
to embark in various branches  of  the  busi­
ness, and there has been a determined effort 
to keep up prices in spite of over-production 
and  speculation.  The  natural  result  has 
followed and it is  probable  that  more  fail­
ures in this line will occur.

The speculative  failures at  the  East  and 
West have been in  different lines  and  were 
directly  traceable to over-speculation.  That 
the effect of these has  only been temporary, 
and that money has at once  become  as  easy 
as before, shows conclusivey that the fear of 
a  stringency  during  the  autumn  has  fore­
warned and forearmed, not only the consum­
er and the retailer,  but  also  the  capitalist. 
In fact almost everyone has been saying  for 
months,  “We are going to have a  crash  this 
fall, and I am not going to be  where  I  can 
be hurt.”  This precaution is the best possi­
ble security against the  thing  feared. 
It  is 
more  likely  that,  jobbers  and  middle-men 
will suffer.  Failures  among  such  may  be 
looked for during  the  early  fall.  The  pro­
portion  of  them  during  the  summer  has

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COD?, BALL  A   CO.,
Wholesale  Grocers!)

9,11,13  &  15  Pearl  Street,  and  13,  15,  17  &  19  Campau  Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  -  MICHIGAN,

------WE  ARE  SPECIAL  AGENTS  FOR  THE  SALE  OF------

Allen’s Diamond Crown Chewing Tobacco
Allan's DOC  OXT XT Flug,

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H arris’  SEXTTXXTBL  Plug,

H arris’ HOES'?  BBS Plug,

And We Particularly  Invtte the Attention  of Buyers to these  Brands, as THEY  PO SSESS  REAL 

MERIT,  and will  Please  Both  Dealer and Customer.

-To Those who Appreciate a Really Fine Cheese, We Say, Buy Only the-

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Which  We  Guarantee  Equal  to  Any  Made,  Both  in  Richness  of Flavor,  and  Keeping

Qualities.

-WE  KEEP  THE  FINEST  LINE  OF-

TEAS, COFFEES, SFF.T7FS and SFXCSS

In the City,  and  Solicit Your Orders When  in  Need  of Anything  in Our  Lino.

SPRING  A  COMPANY

-WHOLESALE  DEALERS  1N-

JP* J3L 3ST O "XT  -A-3STI>

STAPLE DRY GOODS

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GOING NORTH.

Grand  Rapids  &  Indiana.
Arrives.
Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex.10:00 p m 
Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex.  9:50 a m 
Ft. Wayne & Cadillac  E x..  4:50 p m 
G’d Rapids & Petoskey Ac.
Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex.  6:10 a m 
Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex.  4:25 pm  
Cadillac & Ft. Wayne Ex. .10:55 a m 
Petoskey & G’d Rapids  Ac 8:20 p m 

GOING  SOUTH.

All trains daily except Sunday.

Leaves. 
11:00 p m 
10:20 a m 
5:15 p m 
7:45 a m
7:00 a m 
5:00 p m 
1:00 p m

SLEEPING CAR ARRANGEMENTS.

North—Train  leaving at 11 p. m. has Wood- 
tuff Sleeping Cars for Traverse City, Petoskey 
and Mackinac City.  Train leaving at 10:20 a. m. 
has  combined  Sleeping  and  Chair  Car  for 
Mackinac City. 
,  _
South—Train leaving at 5 p. m. has Woodruff 
Sleeping Car for Cincinnati.

A. B. L e e t , Gen 1 Pass. Agent.

_  

. 

. 

Lake  Shore  &  Miohigan  Southern.

(KALAMAZOO DIVISION.)

Arrives.  Leaves.
Express...............................  7:25 p m  8:00 a m
Mail.  ...................................10:00am 
4:25pm
The  train leaving  at 4:25 p. m. connects  at 
White Pigeon with Atlantic Express  on  main 
line, which has Palace Sleeping  Coaches  from 
Chicago  to  New  York  and  Boston  without 
change. 
The train  leaving  at  8:00 a.m .  connects  at 
White  Pigeon  (giving  one  hour  for  dinner) 
with special New York express on main line.
R. E . A b b o t t, G en’i  A g en t.

„  „„ 

,

Chicago & West Michigan.

, 

Leaves.  Arrives,
•(■Mail......................................10:00 am   4:35 pm
+Day Express.....................   1:15 pm   10:45 pm
♦Night  Express....................9:00pm  6:3a am

♦Daily.  TDaily except Sunday.
Pullman Sleeping Cars  on  all  night trains. 
Through coach to Chicago on l:lo  p.  m.,  and 
9 p. m. trains.

NEWAYGO D IV P IO N .

iteaves.  Arrives.
Mixed........................................ am   4:00 pm
......$.10 p m  10.10 am
Express 
“a ! M. N ic h o l s, G ln ’l B ass. A g en t.

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OIL

MATTHTGS,

ETC.,  BTC.

Q  and.  8  M onroe  Street,

Grand Rapida,

Michigan.

CROCKERY  AND  GLASSWARE.
H. Leonard & Sons quote as follows: 
PACKAGE ROCKINGHAM AND YELLOW WARE.
$11
2 4

94  doz. Rock. Chambers,  No. 4 
M  “ 

“ 

“ 
Mixing Bowls,

Mugs, 
Tea Pots,

$4 50 
“  6 ..... 3 25 
9 .... 250
6.......300
9.......2 25
12.......150
30.. 
18.. 
24.. 
30.. 

Bakers,  7 inch.............

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

8  “ 
9  “ 
10  “ 
11  “ 
12 " 

......................125
 
155
..................... 185
..................... 2 30
........................2 80
Scallops,  6 inch..................120
...................150
..................180
..................2 25
....................105
.................  125
.................  155
.................  185
................... 230
..............
.............

Nappies,  7 inch

Plates,  8 inch 

“ 
44 
» 
44 
44 
“ 
44 

1A 
9  “ 
10  “ 
» 
44 

74 1  4
................ ... 
95
2  4
................. ...  105
2  44 
94  4 “Our New” Pitcher, No. 6 
450
..  ja 
•• 
2 75
94  4
“ 24..  175
4 
44 
94
/4  4 Spittoons,  No. 5 ............. ....2 0 0
“  4 ...........
4 
.... 3 00
94
44  3 ...........
4 
...  400
94
44  2 ............
4 
....5 0 0
94
....  40
4  Yellow Bowls, No. 36 ...
2
4 
44  30 .... ....  50
2
44  24 ...
4 
....  60
94
4  Nappies,  6 inch............. .......  75
94
...........
* 
.......  90
94
...........
• 
.......110
94
4 
............. .......140
94
............. .......1 70
4 
94
4  Chambers,  No. 4 ........... .......400
94
% 4 
....  300
....2 2 5
4 
V,

44  6 ...........
44  9 ...........

7  “ 
8  44 
9  44 
10  44 

“ 
44 
“ 
44 
“ 
“ 

44 
4 4 

Package, j£l 50.

60 days $25 20.

85
190
210
112
69
44
50
75
100
125
80
100
30
25
30
36
35
43
100
225
112
$36 06

CRATE  “UNSELECTED”  WHITE  GRANITE  WARE.

44
44
44

44
44
“
44

Knowles, Taylor & Knowles.
90
1  10
1 30
1 50
1 30
1 50
1 75
2 40
3 50

. .5 inch
6 doz Plates...............
...6  44
3
t 
.. .7  44
20
4 
...8  “
3
4 
“3
4  Bakers.............
3
__5  4i
94
94 4 
‘ 
...6  44
‘ 
...7  44
94
4 
...8  44
..No. 36
1
4  Bowls...............
4 
44
..  44  30
1
..  44  24
4  44
1
..5 inch
4  Cov’d Butters.
94
- .294  “
4  Indiv’l  44
2
4  Cov’d Chambers.No. 9
V,
.  44  “
44
1
4  Uncov’d 
“  Cake  Plates...
94
44  Restaurant Creams........
3
44  Cup  Plates—
4  Casseroles........ ...7 inch
94
...8  “
94
14 
“  Dishes............... ...3  44
...9  44
94
..10  44
94
..11  44
94
1-6 44  Ewers and Basins, No 9..
.. .4 inch
44  Fruit Saucers.
5
1Z •4  Barrell  Mugs.
..36  44
“  Scollops........... .294  “
2
.5  4#
94
...6  “
1
44 
...7  44
1
3 50
. . . 8   44
94
..  2 10
44  Jugs, No. 36...
V,
..  2 50
4..................20...
94
..  5 10
•4  44 
“  12...
94
..  8 00
44  6...
1-6 44  44 
..  3 00
lÁ “  Shell  Pickles..
..  5 25
44  Sugars. No. 30.
94
94 gross Un’hd Coffees, 12 sets in glO 25 
8 50
3  “ 

7 00
37^
10 25
..  7 00
..  1 25
50
.. 
8 50
9 50
1 20
2 50
3 60
4 75
..16 50
58
1 40
1 00
1 50

“  Teas, 

44 
44 
44 

44
44
44

“ 

“ 

44

44

H’d

60 days net................... $86 87

5 40
3 30 
26 00
4 50 
3 90

2 90 
70
2  00

5 13 
25 50 
10 00
$144 79

PACKAGE EXTRA DECORATED VASE LAMPS. 

1-12 doz. Lamps, No. 5279, each

NO. 30.
5128,
5253
5267
5280
5283
5286
5244
5243
5240
5265
5291

Lx Pg  $17 25 
16 50 
15 00 
1300 
1650 
850 
850 
850 
6 75 
6 75 
6 75

$3 30 
144 
137 
125 
108 
137 
71

$13 62 
136
$12 26

Less discount 10 per cent.

Package 25 cents.

THE “ DAISY ”  OIL  CAN,

94  Gallon..................................... per dozen $3 75
1 
5 00

...................................... 

“ 
Cases free.  One dozen in box.

“ 

CURRENT QUOTATIONS.

rtJBHISHED  BY  LEADING  HOUSES.

DRY  GOODS.

Spring &  Company quota as follows : 

WIDE  BROWN COTTONS.

Androscoggin, 9-4. .23 
-Androscoggin, 8-4-SI 
Pépperell7  7-4...... 1094
Pepperell,  84 ........SO
à 
Pepperell,  9 4 ........22%  Pequot,  94

Pepperell, 104.........25
Pepperell, 114............27 %
Pequot,  74..............18
Pequot,  84..............21
...24

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CHECKS.

•Caledonia, XX, oz.. 11 
Caledonia,  X ,oz...l0
Economy,  oz..........10
Park Mills, No. 50.. 10 
Park Mills, No. 60.. 11 
Park Mills, No. 70..12 
Park Mills, No. 80. .13

Park Mills, No. 90. .14 
Park Mills, No. 100.15
Prodigy, oz.............11
Otis Apron............ 1094
Otis  Furniture.......10%
York,  1  oz..............10
York, AA, extra oz.14

OSNABURG,

Alabama brown...
Jewell briwn.......... 9%
Kentucky  brown.. 10*4 
.Lewiston  brown...  9%
Lane brown............994
Louisiana  plaid—   8

Alabama  plaid.......8
Augusta plaid........ 8
Toledo plaid............7%
Manchester  plaid..
Utility plaid............  6%

.pi

BLEACHED  COTTONS.

Avondale,  36............ 8*4
Art  cambrics, 36. ..11*4 
Androscoggin, 44..  894 
Androscoggin, 54. .1254!
Ballou, 4 4 ..............  754
Ballou, 5-4...............  6
Boott,  0 . 44............  854
Boott,  E. 5-5............  7
Boott, AGC, 4-4.......  954
Boott, B. 34............. 5%
Blackstone, AA 4-4.  73£ 
Chapman, X, 44—   654
Conway,  4 4 ............  73£
Cabot, 44.................  754
Cabot, 7-8.................. 654
Canoe,  3 4 ...............  4
Domestic,  36..........  754
Dwight Anehor, 44.10
Davol, 44................   954
Fruit of Loom, 44..  954 
Fruit of Loom, 7-8..  854 
Fruit of  the Loom,
cambric,  44........ 12
Gold Medal, 44..  ..  7
Gold Medal, 7-8.........654
Gilded Age............... 854

Greene, G. 44 ........  6
Hill, 44....................9
Hill, 7-8....................  8
Hope,  44................   754
King  Phillip  cam­
bric, 4-4................ 1154
Linwood,  44..........  9
Lonsdale,  44..........  954
Lonsdale  cambric.12 
Langdon, GB, 44...  954
Langdon,  45............14
Mason ville,  44.......  954
Maxwell. 44............1054
New York Mill, 4-4.1154
New Jersey,  44___ 8
Pocasset,  P. M. C..  754 
Pride of the West. .1254
Pocahontas,  44___ 854
Slaterville, 7-8........   654
Victoria, AA............9
Woodbury, 44.......... 554
Whitinsville,  4 4 ...  754
Whitinsville, 7-8___ 654
Wamsutta, 44.........1154
Williams ville,  36... 1054

CORSET JEANS.

Arm ory..................   754
Androscoggin sat..  854
Canoe Ki ver............654
Clarendon...............  654
Hallo well  Imp.......654
Ind. Orch. Imp.......654
Laconia..................   754

Kearsage.................  854
Naumkeagsatteen.  854 
Pepperell  bleached 854
Pepperell sat..........954
Rockport.................  754
Lawrence sat..........854
Conegosat...............  7

PRINTS.

Albion,  solid............554!
Albion,  grey............6
Allen’s  checks.........6
Ailen’s  fancy...........6
Allen’s pink..............654
Allen’s purple.......... 654
American, fancy— 6
Arnold fancy...........654
Berlin solid. . ...........554
Cocheoo fancy....... 654
Cocheco robes........ .7
Conestoga fancy— 6
Eddystone..............654
Eagle fancy............ 5
Garner pink............7

Appleton A, 4-4—   8
Boott  M, 4-4...........   7
Boston F, 4-4..........854
Continental C, 4-3..  75i 
Continental D, 40 in 854 
Conestoga W, 4-4. „ 7  
Conestoga  D, 7-8...  554 
Conestoga  G, 30-in.  654
Dwight  X, 34........ 6
Dwight Y, 7-8............654
Dwight Z, 44..........7
Dwight Star, 44—   754 
Ewight Star, 40-in..  9 
Enterprise EE, 36..  654 
Great Falls E, 44...  754 
Farmers’ A ,4 4 .....  654
Indian  Orchard, 14

Gloucester............... 6
Gloucestermourn’g.6 
Hamilton  fancy— 6
Hartel fancy............654
Merrimac D .....— 654
Manchester..............654
Oriental fancy........ 6
Oriental  robes........6
Pacific  robes............7
Richmond...............654
Steel River...............6
Simpson’s!.................654
Washington fancy. .6 
W ashington blues.. 654

Indian Orchard, 40.  854 
Indian Orchard, 36.  8
Laconia B, 74.........1654
Lyman B, 40-in....... 1054
Mass. BB, 44..........  654
Nashua  E, 40-in__ 9
Nashua  R,  44.......  754
Nashua 0,7-8..........  754
Newmarket N .......... 754
Pepperell E, 39-in..  754
Pepperell R, 4-4__ 7
Pepperell O, 7-8—   654
Pepperell N, 34___ 654
Pocasset  C, 44.......7
Saranac  R...............  754
Saranac E...............9

FINE BROWN COTTONS

DOMESTIC GINGHAMS.

WIDE BLEACHED COTTONS.

Am oskeag.............  854 [Renfrew, dress styll054
Johnson Manfg Co,
..
Amoskeag, Persian 
Bookfold............. 1254
styles....................1054!
Johnson Manfg Co, 
Bates.........................8
dress  styles........1254
Berkshire.................754
Glasgow checks....  754 Slaterville, 
dress
styles... . ..............1354
Glasgow check8,f’y 754 
White Mfg Co, stap  8 
checks,
Glasgow 
White Mfg Co, fane 8 
royal  styles........  9
White  Manf’g  Co,
new
Gloucester, 
Earlston.................954
standard ..............8
Gordon....................  8
Plunket..................  8
dress 
Greylock, 
Lancaster...............  8
styles  ...................1254
Langdale................ 754
Androscoggin, 7-4. .21 Pepperell.  10-4__ 27 V,
Androscoggin, 8-4. .23 Pepperell,  11-4—
Pepperell,  7-4....... 20 Pequot,  7-4........... .21
Pepperell,  8-4....... .2294 Pequot,  8-4............
Pepperell,  9-4....... .25 Pequot,  9-4............
Atlantic  A, 4-4__ .  79à Lawrence XX, 4-4. .  894
Atlantic  H, 4-4— .  794 Lawrence  Y, 30... .  7
Atlantic  D, 4-4__ .  «94 Lawrence LL, 4-4.
.  «94
Atlantic P, 4-4....... .  6 Newmarket N ....... .  794
Atlantic  LL, 4-4... .  594 Mystic River, 4-4.
.  6V,
Adriatic, 36........... .  794 Pequot A, 4-4........
Augusta, 4-4.......... .  6?i Piedmont,  36........
Boott M, 4-4..........
Boott FF  4-4........ .  734 Tremont CC, 4-4..
Graniteville, 4-4..
Indian  Head, 4-4.. .  8 Wachusett,  4-4__ .  794
Indiana Head 45-in. 129i Wachusett,  30-in.. .  «94

»
Stark AA, 4-4........ .  8
.  «
.  7 Utica,  4-4............... .  9

HEAVY  BROWN  COTTONS.

TICKINGS.

Amoskeag,  ACA... 15  jFalls, XXXX..........1894
¡Falls, XXX............. 1594
Amoskeag “ 4-4.. 19
Falls,  BB................ 1194
Amoskeag,  A ......14
Falls,  BBC, 36........ 1994
Amoskeag,  B ......13
Falls,  awning........19
Amoskeag,  C......12
Hamilton,  BT, 32..12 
Amoskeag,  D ......11
_ 
10
Amoskeag,  E ......1094! Hamilton,  D
Amoskeag, F ..........10  [Hamilton,  H
10
..17  Hamilton  fancy...10
Premium  A, 4-4 
jMethuenAA........1494
..16 
Premium  B ....
(Methuen ASA......18
.. 16 
Extra 4-4...........
..1494iOmega A, 7-8..........11
Extra 7-8...........
15  Omega A, 4-4........ 13
Gold Medal 44..
Omega ACA, 7-8— 14 
GCA  7-8................... 1294
Omega ACA, 4-4— 16
CT 4-4.......................14
Omega SE, 7-8....... 24
RC 7-8.......................14
Omega SE, 4-4....... 27
BF 7-8...................... 16
Omega M. 7-8....... 22
AF4-4...................... 19
Omega M, 4-4.........25
Cordis AAA, 
.......14
Shetucket SS&SSW 1194 
Cordis  AC A, 32...... 15
Shetucket, S & SW.12 
Cordis No. 1, 32...... 15
Shetucket,  SFS— 12
Cordis  No. 2........... 14
Stockbridge  A .......7
Cordis No. 3........... 13
Stockbridge frncy.  8
Cordis  No. 4........... 1194

DRUGS,  DYES  AND  CHEMICALS. 

ACIDS.

Hazeltine, Perkins &  Co. quote as follows: 
10
Acetic,  No. 8.......................... . 9P ft  9
© 35
Acetic,  C. P. (Sp. grav. 1.040)..........  30
40
Carbolic............................................
57
Citric.................................................
5
©
Muriatic  18  deg...............................  
3
@ 12
Nitric 36 deg......................................  11
4© 15
Oxalic.................................................   149
© 4
Sulphuric 66 deg.............................. 
3
53
Tartaric  powdered........................
20
Benzoic,  English....................ff oz
© 15
Benzoic,  German..............................  12
© 17
Tannic.................................. 
am m on 14.

 
.. $ ft 19
6
7

Carbonate........................
Muriate (Powd. 22c)........
Aqua 16 deg or  3f............................ 
Aqua 18 deg or 4f............................ 

BALSAMS.

Copaiba............................................
Fir......................................................
Peru...................................................
T o l u . . . . ...................................................

BARKS.

Cassia, in mats (Pow’d 20c)_____
Cinchona,  yellow..........................
Elm,  select.......................................
Elm, ground, pure..........................
Elm, powdered,  pure.....................
Sassafras, of root............................
Wild Cherry, select.........................
Cubeb, prime (Powd  $1)................
6
Juniper............................................. 
Prickly Ash.......................... ...........1 25

BERRIES.

EXTRACTS.

Licorice (10 and 251b boxes, 25c)...
Licorice,  powdered, pure.............
Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 ft doxes).
Logwood, Is (25 ft  boxes)...............
do 
Logwood, 94s 
...............
do 
Logwood, 9^8 
...............
...............
Logwood, ass’d  do 
Fluid Extracts—26 
cent, off list.

15
© 20
It)
©
7
@ 8
© 55
40
3 25
60

12
18
15
13
15
10
12
1 00
© 7
@1 35

27

FLOWERS.

Arnica............. ................................   11  ©
Chamomile,  Roman.......................
Chamomile,  German.....................

GUMS.

Aloes, Cape (Powd  24c)..................
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd  60c)........
Arabic, extra  select....................
Arable,  powdered select..............
Arabic, 1st picked..........................
Arabic, 2d picked..................... -  -
Arabic, Sd picked............:..............
Arabic, Sifted sorts....................
Assafoetida, prime (Powd 37c).......
Camphor (In squares, 28c).............
Catechu. Is (54 s 14c, 548 16c)..........
Guaiac, prime (Powd  45c).............
Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 47c).. .
Opium, pure (Powd $4.60............... 
Shellac, Campbell’s.........................
Shellac,  English..............................
Shellac, native.................................
Tragacanth......................................  30  @1

4

Citrate and  Quinine....................... 
Solution mur., for tinctures........
Sulphate, pure  crystal..................

IRON.

LEAVES.

Buchu, short (Powd 25c)................   16  ©
Sage, Italian, bJlk (548 & 54s, 1254c).
Senna,  Alex, natural.....................   18  @
Senna, Alex, sifted and  garbled. .
Senna,  powdered............................
Uva  Ursi..................... .....................

LIQUORS.

W., D. & Co.’s Sour Mash Whisky.2 00
Druggists’ Favorite  Rye...,............... 1 75
Rye, other brands................................. 1 10
Gin, Old Tom......................................... 1 36
Gin,  Holland......................... .......... 2  00
Brandy...................................................1 75
Catawba  Wines.................................... 1 25
Porter.....................................................1 35

@2 25 
@2 00 
@1 50 
@1 75 
@3 50 
@6 40 
@2  00 
@2 50

6

10

MAGNESIA.

Carbonate, Pattison’s, 2 oz...........
Carbonate, Jenning’s, 2 oz.............
Calcined, H., P. & Co.’s solution...

OILS.

do 
do 

Almond, sweet.................................  46
Amber, rectified.............................
Anise.................................................
Bergamont,  Restuccia..................
Cajeput............................................
Cedar, commercial  (Pure 75c).......
Citronella.......................................
Cloves................................................
Cubebs, P. &  W........................ —
Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75c)..
Juniper wood..................................
Juniper berries...............................
Lavender flowers- French.............
Lavender garden 
.............
Lavender sliike 
.............
Lemon, Restuccia, new crop........
Lemon,  Sanderson’s .......................
Origanum, red flowers, French...
Origanum, No. 1, in 10 ft cans.......
Pennyroyal......................................
Peppermint,  white.........................
Rosemary, French  (Flowers $5)...
Sandal  Wood, German..................
Sandal Wood, Turkish  Dark.,. .k..
Sassafras...........................................
Tansy  
.........................................  „
Tar (by gal 60c).................................  10
Wintergreen....................................
Wormwood, No. 1 (Pure $7.50).......
Cod Liver, filtered.................^ gal
Cod Liver, best................................
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16 oz bot.
Olive, Malaga.........................gall 15
Olive, “Sublime  Italian” ...............
Salad................................................  65
Rose,  Ihmsen’s .......................$  oz

POTASSIUM.

Bicromate................................ $  8) 
Bromide, cryst. and gran. bulk... 
Chlorate, cryst (Powd 23c).............
Iodine, sryst. and  gran, bulk....... 

ROOTS.

©  50 
48
1 95
2 30 
90 
98 
40 
90
1 25
7 50 
40 
50
2 25 
2 40 1 00
90 
2 00 
2 20
1 25 
50
1 60
2 75 
65
5 00
8  00 
70
4 00 ©  12
2 35
5 00
1 75 
4 00
6  00 
©1 20
2 50 
©  67
9 75

18
34
1 40

Althea, cut.......................................  
27
1*
Arrow,  St. Vincent’s ..................... 
35
Arrow, Taylor’s, in 54s and 548—  
12
Blood (Powd 18c).............................. 
18
Calamus,  peeled.............................. 
38
Calamus, German white, peeled.. 
Elecampane, powdered..................  
23
13
Gentian (Powd  17c(......................... 
Ginger, African (Powd 16c)...........   13  @  14
Ginger, Jamaica  bleached...........  
20
30
Golden Seal (Powd 35c)..................  
Hellebore, white, powdered.......... 
18
Ipecac, Rio, powdered.................. 
110
375
Jalap,  powdered.............................. 
12
Licorice,  select (Powd 1254).......... 
Licorice, extra Select.................  
15
Pink, true........... ............................. 
35
Rhei, from select to  choice..........1 00  @1 50
Rhei, powdered E. 1........................110  @1 20
Rhei, choice cut  cubes.................  
2 00
Rhei, choice cut fingers................  
2 25
Sarsaparilla,  Honduras................. 
35
Sarsaparilla,  Mexican.................... 
18
10
Squills, white (Powd  35c)............... 
Valerian, English (Powd 3c0)........  
22
Valerian, Vermont (Powd 28c)—  
20

 

SEEDS.

Anise, Italian (Powd 20c)............... 
13
Bird, mixed in lb packages...........  
524®  6
5
Canary,  Smyrna.............................. 
Caraway, best Dutch (Powd 19c)..  11  @  12
Cardamon,  Aleppee....................... 
2 20
Cardamon, Malabar......................... 
2 50
Coriander, best English...........
334® 4
Flax,  clean..................................
4  © 494
Flax, pure grd (bbl 394).............
8  © 9
5  @ 594
8
1 00
794© 8
'< w®
14

Mustard, white (Black 10c).......
Quince.........................................
Rape, Lnglish..................................  
Worm,  Levant........................ 
SPONGES.

Florida sheeps’ wool, carriage.......2 25  ©1 50
Nassau 
do 
2 00
1 10
Velvet Extra do 
Extra Yellow do 
85
Grass 
do 
65
Hard head, for slate use....... 
Yellow Reef, 
1 40

do 
........ 
........ 
do 
.......  
do 
do 
........ 
................  

90

do 
MISCELLANEUS.

14
72
5

do 
do 

do 
do Scherin’s  do  ... 
do 

2 34
Alcohol; grain (bbl $2.24) $  gal.... 
1 25
Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref. 
Bay  Rum, imported, best............. 
2  75
Bay Rum, domestic, H., P. & Co.’s . 
2 25
Alum.........................................  fift  2&@  3^
Alum, ground  (Powd 9c)............... 
3  ©  4
Annatto,  prim e.................... 
32
Antimony, powdered,  com’l........ 
494®  5
Arsenic, white, powdered.............  
6  @  7
Beans,  Tonka..................................  
2 60
Beans,  Vanilla.................................7 00  @9 75
Bismuth, sub  nitrate.....................  
2 20
45
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c).............  
794®  9
Blue Vitriol...................................... 
Borax, refined (Powd  17c)... 
15
Cantharides, Russian  powdered.. 
125
Capsicum  Pods, African..... 
20
22
Capsicum Pods, African  pow’d ... 
Capsicum Pods,  American  do 
... 
22
Carmine,  No. 40...............................  
4 00
Cossia  Buds............................ 
Calomel,  American............... 
Chalk, prepared drop...........  
1  60
Chloral hydrate, German  crusts.. 
170
Chloral 
cryst... 
190
Chloral 
1  75
Chloral 
crusts.. 
Chloroform.....................................   85  ©  87
1  00
Cinchonidia...................................... 
Cloves (Powd 28c)............................  20  @  22
Cochineal.......................................... 
38
Copperas (by bbl  lc).......................  
2
Corrosive Sublimate....................... 
65
Corks, X and XX—35 off  list........
Gieam Tartar, pure powdered.......  3794®  38
15
Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 ft box.. 
50
Creasote............................................  
Cudbear,  prime............................... 
24
Cuttle Fish Bone.............................. 
27
Emery, Turkish, all  No.’s .............  
8
294®  3
Epsom Salts...................................... 
Ergot, fresh........... .......................... 
50
Ether, sulphuric, U. S.  P ............... 
69
Gelatine,  Cooper’s ..........................  
90
Gelatine, French and  black..........  45  @  70
Glassware, flint, 60 and 10  dis.......
Glassware, green, 60,10 &794 dis...
Glue,  cabinet..................................   12  @  17
Glue, white.......................................   17  @  28
Glycerine, choice,  pure................   28  @  30
Indigo...............................................   85  @1  00
Insect Powder, best Dalmatian...  32  ©  34
Iodine,  resublimed........................  
2 40
1 50
Isinglass,  American....................... 
9
Japonica........................................... 
Lead, acetate.................................... 
15
Lime, chloride, Is [2s 9c & 3s 10c].. 
8
Mace.................................................  
60
Madder, best  Dutch.......................  1294®  13
52
Manna, S.  F ...................................... 
48
Mercury............................................  
Moryhia, sulph., P. & W........oz 
3 25
Musk, Canton, H., P. & Co.’s ........ 
40
10
Moss, Iceland............................$  1b 
Moss,  Irish.......................................  
12
Mustard,  English............................ 
30
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 ft  cans........ 
18
Nutgalls...................................  
 
20

 

@

Nutmegs, No. 1.................., ............
Nux  Vomica....................................
Ointment, Mercurial, 9id...............
Pepper, Black  Berry.....................
£
Pepsin...............................................  
Pitch, True Burgundy.................... 
j
6  @
Quassia.............................................. 
Quinia, Sulph, P. & W........... ft oz 
i
Seidlitz  Mixture.............................
1
Strychnia, cry st...............................  
Silver Nitrate, cryst......................  79  @
Red  Precipitate.......................B>
Saffron, American..........................
Sal  Glauber................ .................... 
Sal Nitre, large cryst.....................
Sal  Nitre, medium  cryst...............
Sal Rochelle...................................... 
Sal  Soda............................................ 
Salicin.................  
 
Santonin........................ •................. 
Snuffs, Maccoboy or Scotch..........
Soda Ash [by keg 3c].....................
Spermaceti......................................
Soda, Bi-Carbonate,  DeLand’s —  
Soap, White Castile.........................
Soap, Green  do 
........................
Soap, Mottled do 
........... .............
Soap, 
do  do 
.........................
Soap, Mazzini..................................  
•  *
Spirits Nitre, 3 F .............................   26  ©
Spirits Nitre, 4 F ..............................  20  ©
Sulphur, flour..................................  
324©
Sulphur,  roll....................................
Tartar Emetic..................................
Tar, N. C. Pine, 94 gal. cans  $  doz
Tar, 
quarts in tin..........
Tar, 
pints in tin.............
Turpentine,  Venice................ $  ft
Wax, White, S. &  F. brand...........
Zinc,  Sulpoate..............................

•
2  ©

do 
do 

4)4©

©

 

;
1

PROVISIONS.

The  Grand  Rapids  Packing  &  Provision  Co, 

quote as follows:

.  PORK.

New Heavy Mess Pork................ ¥   bbl $11 75
New Family Clear P ork.........................  14 00
New Extra Clear Pork, A. Webster’s  ..  15 75
New Extra Clear Pork............................  16 00
New Boston Clear Pork..........................   16 50
New Standard Clear P ork.....................   17 00
On orders less than five bbl. lots 25 cts. 

extra.

DRY SALT MEATS—IN  BOXES.
Long Clears, heavy, 500 ft.  Cases.......... 
Half Cases.............  
do. 
Long Clear medium, 500 lb Cases.......... 
do 
Half Cases.......... 
Long Clears light, 500 lb Cases.............  
Half Cases............... 
do. 
Short Clears, heavy................................. 
medium.................  
 
light....................................  

do. 
do. 

l a r d .

Tierces  .......................................... 
30 and 50 ib Tubs...................................... 
50 lb Round Tins, 100 ft  Racks............... 

 

LARD IN TIN PAILS.

3 1b Pails, 20 in a case.............................. 
5 1b Pails, 12 in a case............. ...............  
101b Pails, 6 in a case.......................... I. 
201bWood  P ails............................. 
 

7
79s
7
79(
7
79s
791
<91
791

894
8)4
824

 

994
994
9%
994

SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED OR  PLAIN.
1324
14
1494
794
U
11
13

Hams cured in sweet pickle, heavy—  
medium.. 
light.........  
Shoulders cured in sweet pickle.......... 
Extra Clear Bacon..................................  
Dried B eef.........................................iU* 
Extra Dried B eef....................................  

do. 
do. 

BEEF.

CANNED BEEF.

Extra Mess Beef Chicago packed $  bbl. 11 50
Libby, McNeil & Libby, 141b cans, 94 doz.

incase............................... ......................•  20 00
do. 
2ft cans, 1 doz. in case —   2 85
Armour & Co., 14 ft cans, 94 doz  in case  20 00 
2 1b cans, 1 doz. in case..  2 85 
do. 
do. 2 1b Compr’d Ham, 1 doz. in case 4 50 
Kansas City, 14 ft cans, 94 doz in case... 18 00 
press, subject always to Market changes.

Prices named are  lowest  at time of going to 

GROGERlES.
AXLE  GREASE.

Modoc  ....................................................... 
Diamond.............................................. • • • 
Paragon............................................ uoz- 
Frazer’s  ............................................ 80

BLUING.

Dry, No. 2............................................doz. 
Dry, No. 3........................................... doz. 
Liquid, 4 oz,....................................... doz. 
Liquid, 8 oz......................... 
doz. 
BROOMS.

60
60
65

25
45
35
65

CANNED GOODS.

No. 1 Carpet..............................................  2 50
No. 2 Carpet.............................................. 
«25
No. 1 Hurl.................................................  
« 00
No. 2 H url................................................. 
1  “>
Fancy Whisk............................................  
1
Common Whisk............................... ........ 
35
Corn, Trophy...  115 
Corn, Yarmouth  1 35
Peas...........   75@1  40
String Beans... 
90
Lima Beans........   90
Baked  Beans__ 1  75
Pumpkin........... 1 25
Succotash ... 1 65@90
Oysters,  1 ft__   1 10
Oysters,  2ft —  1 80 
Salmon....  1 65@1  75 
Lobsters, Stars.. 1 75
Sardines, Am......   89
Sardines, Inport.  13 
Corned Beef 2 90@3 00 
Cond. Milk, Eagle 
case....................8  10

Pie Peaches........ 1 25
3ftStandard 2 00@2 25
Apples, 3 ft........ 1 25
do.  6 ft..........2 25
do.  gallons...  3 40 
Strawberries  1 @1 10 
Blackberries —   1 25 
Raspberries  —   1 50
Cherries.............   1 25
Pineapples........   1 75
Damsons............1 25
Egg Plum s........ 1 50
G ages................   1  50
Pears..................  1 35
Cal. Apricots—   2 95 
Tomatoes..........  1 20
Corn,  Excelsior  110
Green Rio........10@14  IRoasted .. 10-13T7@20
Green Java__ 18@28  Grbund............. 12@15
Green Mocha..  27@29 

COFFEE.

|

72 foot J u te .......1 25
60 foot Jute.......1  10

G. D.............
Musket......

CORDAGE.

[60 foot Cotton__2 15
50 foot Cotton__1 85

CAPS.
35  ¡Waterproof  ......  75

FRUITS.

Loose  Muse Raisins......................
New Valencias  Raisins................
Turkey Prunes.............................
Currants.........................................
Citron............. ................................
Dried Apples  .................................

FISH.

Whole Cod........................ ..............
Boneless Cod..................................
Herring 94 bhls...............................
He rring Scaled.............................
Herring Holland............................
White Fish 94 bb ls.........................
do.  Kits.............................
Trout half bbls...............................
do.  K its......................................
Mackerel half bbls No. 1...............
do. Kits  No. 1 .........................

OIL.

do. 

Kerosene  W. W.............................
Sweet, 2 oz. square.........................
Castor, 2 oz.  square.......................

Legal  test................

OATMEAL.

Quaker 2 ft cases............................
do.  5 ft cases.............................
Imperial  bbls...............................
Quaker bbls....................................

SUGARS.

1  90 
10@1094 
794 
7
18@20
9

694@6M 
6@894 
3 00 
3 90 
1  10 
6  00 
85@90
5 00 
85
6 00 1 00
15&
1394

6 25

994
Granulated......................................
9%
Cut Loaf...........................................
9%
Powdered.......................................
8-81
Conf. A ............................................
8-69
Standard A ......................................
8@89i
Extra C............................................
7V,@7%
Fine C...............................................
Yellow............................................ ........  6)s@7i

SOAP.

Kirk's American  Family............^  ft
do. 
India.........................................
do.  Savon.......................................
do.  Satinet......................................
do.  Revenue  ..................................
do.  White Russian.........................
Bell’s German  Family.........................
do.  Mono...........................................
Goodrich’s English Family  ...............
Princess............................
Proctor & Gamble’s Ivory.................
Japan  O live.........
Town Talk  ^ box
Sidall’s ...................................................
Babbitt’s ...............................................
Dish R ag................................................

do. 
do. 

do. 

SPICES.

16©22
Ground Pepper......................................
llspice........:..........................
12@20
Ground  Allspice
16@30
Cinnaihon..................
 
C loves............................................. 
20@25
G in ger.................................................   *5@20
 
Mustaird.................................  
15@35

 

C ayenne................................................ 
Pepper 941b ...*....................................... 
Allspice  941b...........   
Cinnamon  94 lb — ................................ 
Cloves 94  ft........................................  
Nutmegs  whole...................................... 

 

STARCH.

Muzzy 1 1b G loss.................................... 
do  1 1b  Common...............................  
Kingsford  Silver Gloss......................... 
Common.............................. 

do 

SALT.

60 P ock et............................................... 
28 Pocket.................................................  
Saginaw F in e........................................  

SEEDS.
. 1

H em p.....................
........... 
Canary..................................................... 
R ape........................................................ 
Mixed Bird.............................................. 

.

STONEWARE.

J u g s............................................... 
 
Crocks................................  
 
 
Milk Crocks............................................  

TOBACCO—FINE CUT.

Diamond Crown.................................... 
Hiawatha................................................
Globe.......................... 
May Flower......................  
Rose  Leaf..............................., .............. 
Silver  Crown.........................................  
Owl  Club................................................ 
Ripper..................................................... 
in 9 4 b b ls................................ 

do 

 

 

PLUG.

Sentinel  .................................................  
Honey  B ee............................................
“76” ................................  
Hold F a s t........................V..................  
Climax...................... 
Dog On I t ................................................ 
My Choice.........................................  
• 
Chocolate Cream................................... 
McAlpin’s Gold Shield  ......................... 

 

 

 

 

25
70
65
70
75
75

7
7
89
89

2 55
2 40
110

5
5
6
6

8
•
7

55
70
70
”5
35
30
30
28

18
48
18
60
«7
34
60
50

.SMOKING.

 

D im e........................................................  23@24
Maiden.................................................... 
24
Peerless................................................... 
2®
Standard.................................................. 
20
I»
Old Tom................................................... 
23
Tom & Jerry........................................... 
Joker........................................................ 
24
®5
Traveler................................................... 
26
 
T opsy..................................... 
May Clippings........................................ 
24
Honey D ew ............................... 
 
2*
Gold  Block............................. 
32
23
Camp Fire  ..............................................  
19
Oronoko................................................... 
26
Nigger  Head........................................... 
Durham, 94ft.........................................  
65
g
9 4 » ......................................... 
94 f t .........................................  
60
1 f t .........................................  
16
23
Mule Ear................................................... 
Hiawatha......................................... . • • • 
23

do 
do 
do 

SHORTS.

 

 

 

Japan............... 23@45
Gun Powder.. 30©50 
Oolong........... 30®50

TEAS.

Young Hyson.. 25@50
Dust..................14©20

VINEGAR.

Cider......................  12  [White Wine............12
Natural Grape— 16 

|

YEAST.

Twin Bros..........1  75
Gillett’s ............. 1 75

[Wilsons . 
National
MISCELLANEOUS.

 

do 

do 

do 
do 

American...................  

................ 30, 40,50©80
Blacking
do  waterproof!............................ 
160
Bath Brick imported..................... —  
95
do 
 
70
Barley...................................................... 
®
J 16
Burners, No. 1 ................................... . - • 
do  No.  2........................................ 
1 TO
Bags, American A ................................. 
20 00
Baking Powder, bulk...........................  10@22
Beans, hand picked....................
.......  18@20
Butter...........................................
25
....... 
Cream Tartar..............................
.......1594@16
Candles, Star...............................
40
....... 
Chocolate, Baker’s ....................
....... 
27
German sweet........
....... 
12
Cheese............................... |..........
.qts. 
1 35
Catsup.......................i ................
.......2694©28
Cocoanut,  Shippers’..................
»0
....... 
Extract Coffee,  v. c...................
1 30
....... 
F elix...............
....... 
6 00
Flour, Star Mills, in bb ls..........
....... 
6 75
in Sacks...........
.......  25© 40
Gum, Rubber..............................
.......  36@40
Gum, Spruce..............................
....... 
35
Chimneys No.  1..........................
45
....... 
No. 2..........................
1 00
....... 
Indigo...........................................
1 00
....... 
in k 3 oz.  box............................
....... 
8
Jelly in Pails...............................
85
....... 
do  Glass Tumblers $  doz.......
.......  20@30
Licorice.......................................
....... 
12
Licorice  Root..............................
.. 1 55©1  75 
Lye $  2 doz. cases.......................
1 70
....... 
Matches, No.  8............................
do  No. 9 ...........................
Macaroni,  Imported..................
Domestic..................
do 
French Mustard,  8 oz................
Large  Gothic.
Oil Tanks, Star............................
gallons.......................
12  00 
55 
patent.......................
14 00 
gallons.......................
2 25 
Pipes, Imported Clav 3gross...
,90@1 00 
do  American  T. D.............
5 75
. 
Pickles, bbls.................. '............
,  3 50 
94 bbls........................
4 25
Dingee’s 10 q ts.........
2 50 
10 p ts .........
. 90@1 00
Pepper Sauce............. ’...............
1 40 
Peas, Green Bush.......................
394©394 
do  Split prepared..................
6 25
Powder,  Keg...............................
3 50 
94 Keg.........................
6@7
Rice.......................... ...................
35
Syrups, com. in bbls..................
Sugar....................................... .’  35@45
Molasses............:...................................  20@30
New  Orleans.....................  45®65
Saleratus................................................ 594 ®5M
Sago  .............................................  
6
Stove Polish gross............................ 3 50@6 00
1 90
Shot, drop................................................ 
2  15
do  buck.............................................. 
Sage.........................................................  
16
Curry Combs $  doz...............................  
1 25
Molasses Gates each  ............................ 
45
2  75
Measuring Faucet each ....................... 
Tobaoco Cutters each..........................  
1 25
50
Chimney Cleaners $  doz......................  
Flour Sifters $  doz...............................  
3 00
Fruit Augurs each  ...............................  
1 25
Twine......................................................   18@25
Tapioca................................................... 
6
1 50
Washing Crystal, Gillett’s box............ 
Wicking No. 1 ^ gross..........................  
40
65
do  No. 2  ...................................... 
do  Argand................................... 
150
f t .................. 
109
Gillett’s $   ft.
Soapine pkg...........  
7@10

Washing Powder, 1776 

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CANDY  AND  FRUITS.

Putnam & Brooks quote as follows :

STICK.
Straight, 25 ft  boxes........................................1194
Twist, 
....................................... I*
Cut Loaf 
........................................1294

do 
do 

Royal, 25 ft  pails.............................................1194
Extra, 
.............................................. 1294
French Cream, 25 ft pails.............................. 16
Cut loaf, 25 ft  cases........................................15

do 

FANCY—IN 5 ft BOXES.

Lozenges, plain...............................................1?
Lozenges,  printed.................................
Lemon Drops.........................................
Sour Drops..............................................
Peppermint  Drops...............................
Chocolate Drops....................................
HM Chocolate  Drops..........................
Gum  Drops  ...........................................
Licorice Drops.......................................
A B   Licorice  Drops............................
Imperials................................................
String Rock............................................
M ottoes...................................................
Cream  B ar............................................
Caramels.................................................
Hand Made Creams...............................
Plain  Creams.........................................
Decorated  Creams.................................

FRUITS.

Oranges, ^  box......................................
Oranges, $  bbl.......................................
Oranges, fi case.....................................
Lemons, fair to  good............................5 5U@6 uu
Lemons, choice to fancy.....................  
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Bananas ^ bunch.................................. 1 00@4 00
Malaga Grapes, «  keg..........................
Malaga Grapes, $  bbl............................6 «5@6 50
Figs,  layers  $ f t ....................................  26®  22
Figs, fancy  do 
....................................  20®  22
Figs, baskets 30 ft 
ft..........................
do  .......................... • 
Dates, frails 
7
d o ..........................   @  8
Dates, 94 do 
Dates, skin.............................................. 
Dates, Fard 10 ft box $   ft....................  14®  15

,6® 1

NUTS.
Almonds, soft shelled $  ft. 
Almonds, paper  do  do 
Brazils,
Pecons,
Filberts 
Walnuts,
Cocoa Nuts, $   100 
Hickory Nuts, large $   bu 
Hickory Nuts, small  do

........ 17  @20
........ 28  ©

do  ................ 
@1294
do  ....................11  ©1294
d o ......................11 @13
do  ....................1294@15
5 00
2  00

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ft. 
Prime .Red,  raw 
Choice 
do 
do  . 
do  . 
Fancy 
do 
¿rancy H P,.  Va  do  . 
Choice White, 
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GLASSWARE.

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..  4 00
.. 325
.. 2 75

NO. 100 PATTERN.
S ets...............................................
Pitchers, 94 gallon.......................
Celeries.........................................
Bowls, 7 inch, and covers..........
Bowls, 8 
..........
Bowls, 9 
..........
Comports, 4  inch.........................
Goblets.........................................
W ines............................................
Salvers, 10 Inch............................
Nappies,  4 inch..........................

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.............   3 75
..........  2 10
.............   3 00
.............   3 85
.............   3 60
1 65
........ . 
.............  
40
.............  
35
.............   4 00
gross  2 25

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ASSORTED  PACKAGE  MAJOLICA—NO,

33.

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6 50 
1 25 
4 00 
3 00 
90 
1 20 
1 50 
1 65 
1 08

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1 Tea  Set,  44  Pieces,  Shell
1 dozen Sauce Plates, 
2 Fruit Sets, 7 Pieces 
4 Covered Butters
3 Hand Teas 
3 Hand Coffees 
3 Hand Moust. Coffees 
3 Molasses  Cans,  Sunflower 
6 Bread Plates,  Strawberry
6 Bread Plates. Oak.............
3 Pitchers, No. 12, Rose.......
3
3 
3 
3 
3 
3 
,
6, Cor’l,
3 
3 
,
3
.
12 Begonia Leaves.. . ....
2 dozen Individual Butters.
2 Bread and Milk Sets, Shell 
2Cuspadores,  Sunflower—  
t Tea Pot, Sugar and Cream, Shell.
Caulf.

4  30  44 
44
4 
44  54 
44  12, Fern,
4  24 
44  36 
44 
*‘  24 
44 
-   42  44 

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1 86 
1 26 
63 
1  80 
1  00 
1  34 
1 08 
1 25 1 00
$42 08
Less 10 Per Cent...............  4 20
$37 88

Package, $1.

We are headquarters for Silver Plated Ware.
New catalogue just Issued,free on application, 
lompany, 
Representing  Meriden  Bretaimia  Cr 
Wilcbx  Silver  Plate
Derby  Silver  Company,  Wilcox  Silv< 
Company, and Middletown Plate Company.

CABINET  OIL  TANK.

60 Gallon........................ rr..........................$22 00
110  “ 
......................................................  28 00

Discount—20 per cent.

m

GRANITE  IRON  TEA  POTS.

3110, or Tea  Size............................................ $2 60
3120, or Coffee Size...................................... 
3 00

Discount—25 per cent.

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FAMILY  IDEAL  COFFEE  POT.

Polished Tin—3 Pints, 65  cts;  4 Pints, 75 cts;  5 
Pints, 85 cts;  7 Pints, $1.10;  9 Pints, $1.25. 
Nickle Plated and Silver Lined—3  Pints, $1.25; 
4  Pints, $1.45;  5 Pints,  $1.65;  7 Pints, $2;  9 
Pints, $2.25.

Discount—25 per cent.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

A   MERCANTILE JOURNAN, PUBLISHED EACH 

WEDNESDAY.

E.  A.  STOWE, Editor and  Proprietor.

OFFICE IN  EAGLE  BUILDING,  3d  FLOOR.

WEDNESDAY,  SEPT.  26,  1883.

AMONG  THE  TRADE.

IN  THE  CITY.

Clark, Jewell &  Company  are  removing 

into the new Houseman  block.

Mr. John Algier, with Cody,  Ball  &  Co., 
has returned  from  a  week’s  visit  at  Fort 
Wayne.

Mr. Heman  Leonard,  senior  member  of 
the  firm  of  H.  Leonard & Sons, is reported 
seriously ill with typhoid fever.

Mr. Henry Spring, of Spring &  Company, 
is in the eastern markets making  purchases 
for the late fall and winter trade.

Mr. A. C. Sharp,  traveling  salesman  for 
Cody, Ball & Co., who has been laid  up  by 
sickness, has taken to the road  again.

Barlow Brothers, binders and  paper  box 
manufacturers, are  moving  from  their  old 
quarters in the Led yard  block  to  the  new 
Houseman block.

Mr. T. B. Johnson, shipping clerk  for the 
Grand Rapids Packing & Provision  Co.,  has 
gone east on a visit.  His place is temporarily 
filled by Mr. W. P. Granger.

Shields, Buckley & Co.’s new block at the 
comer of Ionia and Island streets, is rapidly 
being completed.  Connections  have  been 
made for a hydraulic elevator.

Up  to  Sept  1,  1882,  Messrs.  Putnam  & 
Brooks  disposed  of  1,185  packages  of  pea­
nuts.  Up to the same time  this  year, they 
sold 2,589  packages—which  are  equivalent 
to  120  tons—more  than  double  last  year’s 
figures.

Mr. C. H. Bayley, formerly for four years 
traveling agent for I. M. Clark  &  Company, 
but for the past nine months with John Caul­
field, has resumed  his connection  with  the 
former house—now known as Clark, Jewell 
& Company—and  started  out  on  the  24th 
under the new arrangement.  His  territory 
includes everything north  along  the  line  of 
the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad.

AROUND THE  STATE.

A new cracker factory will be  started  in 

Flint.

factory.

inches high.

Bay Gity is to have a $50,000 woodenware 

Coldwater  has a cigar  maker  only  forty 

ford.

Taylor & Porter is the style of a new  gro­

cery firm at Lansing.

iner, died on the  20th.

Mrs. D. A. Murray, a  Howard  City  mill­

A. Morton,  of  Muskegon,  has  started  a 

cigar factory at Whitehall.

A. M. White is making a  hundred  dozen 

brooms a week at Kingsley.

W. J. Smith has engaged in the book  and 

stationery business at Cadillac.

Emma  Covell  has  bought  the  millinery 

stock of Mrs. A. Hood at Whitehall.

The  Muskegon  Brewing  Company  will 

shortly erect extensive bottling works.

It is  about  decided  that  Muskegon  will 

have a cannery with a capital of $75,000.

George  Clark  has  built  a  new  store  at 
Ensley Center and  engaged  in  the  grocery 
trade.

John  Ogelthorpe,  dealer  in  groceries  at 
Manistee, is succeeded  by  T.  N.  Reynolds 
&  Son.

L.  Posen,  late  of  Syracuse, has  opened 
a  general store  on  Western  avenue,  Mus­
kegon.

J. L. Handy, formerly in trade at Hudson- 
ville, has sold out and opened a grocery store 
at Saranac.

The WHson Creamery Company, of Flint, 
has been reorganized,  with  a  capital  stock 
of $20,800.

Lee Bros., of Saranac, have  opened  a dry 
goods  and  grocery  store  at  Burton,  Sliiar 
wasse county.

Messmore Brothers have engaged in trade 
at Cadillac, putting in a  stock  of  dry  goods 
and boots and shoes.

The Muskegon Chronicle claims that six­
ty new store buildings  will  be erected there 
during the present season.

Frace & Huhn have purchased the grocery 
stock of C. L. Smith at Saranac, and the lat­
ter has entered their employ.

R. W. McGarvie has sold  his  interest  in 
the St. Jgnace News, and will  engage in the 
stationery business at that place.

The Hull butter-plate factory of Wauseon, 
Ohio, which employs 100  men,  will  be  re­
moved to Mancelona, Antrim county.

Another grocery  store  at  Mancelona,  as 
soon as the building is completed.  Thomp­
son Brothers is the style of the firm.

Mrs. D. G. Scroggs has sold  her millinery 
stock at Manistee  to  Mrs. J.  A.  Deem,  for­
merly of Cadillac, and late  of Grand Rapids.

mill burned last winter, moves to  one  mile 
south of Mancelona, to open a general store.
The merchants of Hillsdale are  expecting 
a large fall trade  and  are  bringing  on  im­
mense stocks of goods.  So says the  Stand­
ard.

Another hardware store at Cedar Springs. 
Messrs. Hanabal Wagar and James  B. Call­
ahan have formed  a  co-partnership  for  that 
purpose.

Messrs.  Werner  &  Rosenberger,  the  for­
mer from Grand Rapids, and the latter from 
Chicago, have opened a wholesale and retail 
candy store in Big Rapids.  One entire floor 
is occupied by the  firm, and  as  soon  as  the 
basement can be secured,  steam  will  be  in-

T. 

C. Prout, of Howard City, whose  grist 

Parsons Brothers succeed Bert F. Parsons 
in the grocery and boot and shoe business at 
Howell.

The western fever has taken a strong hold 
of some of the prominent  business  men  of 
St. Johns.

Mr. Charles Lillie  has  purchased  an  in­
terest in the mercantile business  of  G.  W. 
Watrous at  Coopersville.  The  firm  name 
will be Watrous & Lillie.

Freeman &  Company  of  Richmond,  Ma- 
cobni county, are credited  with  paying  out 
$600 per day for eggs.  They  have 230,000 
dozen in pickle and cold storage.

Messrs.  Cannon  &  Fisher,  proprietors  of 
the Big Rapids Match Factory, began opera­
tions on the 14th.  The  present capacity of 
the factory is 20 gross boxes per day, and 11 
persons are employed.  The  working force 
will shortly be increased  to 15.

Messrs. Mills &  Edsell,  of  Otsego,  have 
sold their hoe factory there to Messrs. Chase, 
Taylor & Co. of Kalamazoo.  This extensive 
sale includes the entire factory, with all  the 
manufactured stock now on  hand,  such  as 
hoes, com knives, sheep crooks, etc.

The Diamond Match Company, which is a 
big institution at Ontonagon, will about own 
the town.  They will run their  own  bank, 
newspapers and  supply  stores,  build  their 
own tenement houses, as well  as  shops  and 
offices, manufacture on a large scale, and give 
local  competitors  in  any  line  whatever  a 
pretty poor  show.

VISITING  BUYERS.

The following retail dealers  have  visited 
the market during the past week and placed 
orders with the various houses:

ther. 

T. J. Sheridan,  Lockwood.
A. S. Hooker, Paris.
C. O. Bostwick, Cannonsburg.
Oliver Seaman, Big Rapids.
Norman Harris, Lisbon.
J. L. Handy,  Saranac.
E. M. Dennison, East Paris.
John Tiesinga, Diamond Springs.
Comeil & Griswold, Griswold.
A. Engberts, Yriesland.
U. S. Monroe, Berlin.
M. Y. Sinz, Trent.
M. V. Gundnim, LeRoy.
Mr. Osborne, of Osborne & Hammond, Lu­
J. D. F. Pierson, Pierson.^.
C. J. Burteh, Howard City.
Sid  Bullock,  of  Hathaway  &  Bullock, 
,G. A. Dillenback, Cadillac.
W. H. Hicks, Morley.
W. H. Goodyear, Hastings.
W. A. Severson, Buchanan.
C. Crawford, Caledonia.
Dr. J. A.  Wheeler, Whitehall.
M. V. Wilson,  Sand Lake.
Mr. Swan,  of DeGroat &  Swan,  Hunger- 
L. W. Stiles, Cedar Springs.
G. Gringhaus,  Lamont.
Fred. Ramsey, White Cloud.
S. I. Scott, Twin Lakef.

..

Howard City.

THE  OLD  OFFICE  DESK.

BY  H . J .   SHELLM AN.

Figure and figure the whole day through,
From morn till night and from year to year; 
Column on column must pass review,
And balance sheets be clear;
For the wheels of commerce must never cease, 
They turn and turn through the weary years; 
And the tired toilers find no release,
Though lives be filled with tears.
I stand by the same old desk to-day,
Classing and grouping the same oid  way,
It seems like a dream as I recall 
The joys and sorrows, the hopes through all 

Mustering numerals one by one.
The work is never.done;
The misty memories back to light,
That things would turn out right.

Right there’s a stain from  a splattering pen— 
It’s  forty years if it’s been a day—
We used to use the gray goosequill then,
And they had a splashing way.
It’s forty years—as a slender boy,
1 stood by my father’s side to learn 
The knowledge of signs experts employ.
And for which tyros yearn.

’Twas my first day, and I  seized the pen 
’Twas diffidence caused my trembling then;
And here where the oilcloth’s blistered up,
Embarassed, I'overturned the cup 

With a nervous hand and  a blushing brow— 
’Tis age that makes it now.
The water ran on a later day;
Which held love’s first boquet.

And this great spot where the bottle fell,
That deluged tne desk with the ink blood-red, 
Chanced when the messenger came to tell 
My baby-boy was dead.
’Tis thus I can trace the long, long years, 
Noting the stains on its quaint old form, 
Some standing for joys and some for tears; 
Sunshine or passing storm.

One there means a child that died;
Crushed to earth in his pride,

A date scratched here means a baby born;
This mark calls to mind a man  forlorn, 
When  the head of the house learned his loved
For forgery lay in  a felon’s cell;
And that marks the sin of another one,
A trusted one who fell.

son]

Here, where the marks have an  aimless trend, 
For death had taken my life’s best friend,
And, now, my desk is lhe only friend 
All else is new.  As we near the end 

I moved my pen in a dreamy way,
My loving wife, away;
That binds my heart to the days agone—
We’re desolate and lone.

The misty memories back to the light; 
That God sets all things right;

It Beems like a dream when I recall 
lh e  joys and sorrows, the faith through all 
Though the wheels of  commerce  must  never
But turn and turn through the weary  years, 
The tired toilers will find release,
Up ¡—where there are no tears.

cease,]

The  Hardest Thing  on Earth.

A wasp went buzzing to his work, 
And various things did tackle; 
He stung a boy and then a dog, 
Then made a rooster cackle.
At last upon a drummer’s cheek 
He settled down to drill;
He prodded there for half an hour, 
And then he broke his bill.

The  Sitter.

Who ish dot comes into mine store,
Undt trives der pizness oudt der door, 
Undt sits der mittle on de floor ?

Der sitter.

Who ish dot machen Deutch plood poll, 
Undt neffer lets der grackers spoil,
Undt makes me tired  ’pout his doil ?

Der sitter.

Who ish dot spits ubon der stove,
Undt steals der cinnnamon  undt cloves, 
Undt neffer knows enuff to move ?

Der sitter.

Who’s ridln’ in der hearse to-day, 
Straidtjfer der grave-yard right  avay ? 
Der m m  I vas obliged to slay—

Der Hitter.

MICHIGAN COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS’  ASSOCIAI
Incorporated Dec. 10,1877—Charter in  Force for 

Thirty Years.

LIST OP  OFFICERS:

President—J a m e s  T.  P h il l i p s ,  44  Jefferson 
Avenue, Detroit.
Vice-Presidents—H . H . H odbon, Detroit; J ohn 
H . M cI n t v h e, Grand  Rapids; T h o s. J .  H a y­
w o o d,  Ypsilanti;  W m .  E.  Sa u n d e r s,  East 
Saginaw;  T. J . P a x t o n , Monroe.
Secretary and Treasurer—G e o r g e W. H i l l , 80 
Woodbridge Street, West, Detroit.
Board o& Trustees, For One Year—R. W. H aw ­
l e y , Chairman, J .  F. Co o p e r  E . H . McCu r d y , 
Detroit;  For Two Years—Sam. B.  Sin c l a ir , 
G e o . L. Sa m pso n, W m. Sa x b y , Detroit.

meetings:

Regular Meetings for 1883—October  6, Novem­
Annual Meeting—December 28, 1883.

ber 3, December 1.

COMMERCIAL  CHRONICLES.

I.  And it came to pass that  in  the  land 
of the Kentuckyites there  dwelt  a  man  of 
great wealth.

II.  Yea, much had he of  worldly  goods, 
and of fine raiment, and of jewels;  and  the 
cattle on a thousand hills were his also.

III.  And he did keep an  inn, and  verily 
many pilgrims, or, in  the  language  of  that 
land, drummers, did  tarry  and  abide  with 
him.

IV.  For the food that was upon his table 
was good,  and  clean  were  his  beds  upon 
which the stranger within his  gates  did  lie 
himself down.

V.  Now this Kentuckyite had a daughter, 
who was fair to look upon,—yea, fairer than 
the daughters of that  famed  land  of  Ken­
tucky.

VI.  Of  which  it is  written  in  the  old 
Greek,  “They kin beat the world for women, 
whiskey, or fine horses” ; which  being inter­
preted, is, “Kentucky is a  great,  old  State, 
and don’t you forget  it.”

VII.  And  the  name  of  this  innkeeper 
was  Oleman  Jones;  and  mighty  was  his 
power in that land.

VIII.  Now it came  to  pass  that  young 
Perkins, son of the old  man  Perkins,  jour­
neyed to that land in  search  of  customers, 
and did take with him many samples.

IX.  Yea, many samples of  divers  goods 
and of many textures,—for  was  he  not  in 
the dry-goods trade?

XXXVII.  And he did reply,  “Yes, they 
are better samples than usual.  I have to-day 
the best lot I ever had.”

XXXVIII.  And Oleman Jones, when he 
had laid his eyes on the youth, and had seen 
him depart in peace, did put aside  his  shot 
gun and he did heave a large  sigh  of  relief 
and say,—

XXXIX.  “Verily I guess I  bluffed  him 

off.  He will bother me no more.”

XL.  And it came to pass that  when  the 
pilgrim friend and  the  preacher  had  jour­
neyed to the station they saw  Perkins  com­
ing afar off.

XLI.  And did  wave  his  hat  aloft  and 
yell and shout, “Bully for  the  Perkins fam­
ily!”

XLII.  And the preacher did say unto the 
pilgrim,  “What  maketh  thy  friend,  the 
drummer, so merry?”

XLIII.  And he made speech in reply,  “1 
guess it is because his samples are all safe” ; 
and he did poke the preacher in the ribs and 
did smile aloud,  “Haw! haw!”

XLIV.  And when Perkins had driven up 
he did lift out  his  sample  trunks  himself, 
and did turn to the  driver  and  give  him  a 
five-dollar bill, and did say,—

XLV.  “Hie thee back to  Oleman  Jones 
and tell him to kiss Clara for me  (if he  can 
find her).”

XLVI.  And when the driver had  driven 
away, Perkins did unlock his largest ‘trunk, 
and did throw back the lid.

XLVII.  And there  did  quickly  emerge 
therefrom some skirts and calico and blushes 
and Oleman Jones’s pretty daughter.

XLVIII.  And she and the pilgrim  were 
quickly wed, and took the train for the city; 
for what cared they for the  old  man  when 
Clara was worth fifty thousand in  her  own 
name?

XLIX.  Verily I say unto you, my breth­
ren, he who  getteth  ahead  of  the  average 
drummer must rise very early in  the  mom, 
for the atmosphere is quite  chilly  when  he 
gets lert.—Evansville Argus.

PRICE  FACTORIES.

How  the  Exchanges  Rule  the  Commercial 

X.  And these samples  did  he  carry  in 
high trunks; and their size was even a  mar­
vel in that land of pilgrims.

XI.  Yea, so much so that the porters and 
baggage-men on the  route,  when  they  had 
gazed on him  in  the  distance,  would  say, 
one to another,—

XII.  “Helen  Blazes  (the  name  of  a 
maiden  of  Illinois)!  “Here  comes  Perkins 
with them two frame houses of liis’n.”

XIII.  Now it came to pass that  Perkins 

stopped at the hostelry of Oleman Jones.

XIV.  And he did gaze upon  his  daugh­
ter and was paralyzed,  yea,  he  was  badly 
mashed.

XV.  And he did gaze on her with  eager 
eyes, and did say, “Hearken unto me, I pray 
thee, for thou art fairer than the lily to mine 
eyes.”

XVI.  And she did say  in  return,  “Oh, 
cheese that taffy!” which, being interpreted, 
is,  “Do you think so?”

XVII.  And  young  Perkins  did  come 
often unto  that  land,  and  he  soon  found 
favor in the eyes  of  the  daughter,  for  she 
said,—

XVIII.  “He’s a darling,  and  don’t  you 
foiget it.  Verily he has cheek; but to what 
amounteth a man who has no cheek in these 
days?”

XIX.  But Oleman Jones looked not with 
favor on liis  suit,  for  he  said  to  himself, 
“The man who winneth my danghtdr to wife 
must be well heeled, you  bet!”

XX.  And when Perkins had  asked  him 
for his daughter’s hand, he fell into  a  great 
rage, and gritted his  teeth  and  spit  white, 
and  said,

XXI.  “Get thee  gone!  What  art thou? 
Naught bpt a  drummer!  Get  thee  hence, 
for the man who winneth my daughter must 
have shekels in plenty!”

XXII.  “Yea, he must be rich,  and  own 
fine hosses, sail, or be a member of Congress, 
or—or—anyhow you can’t have her.  Git!”

XXITI.  And he got.
XXIV.  But  he  put  his  head  together 
with a brother pilgrim and told  him  of  his 
troubles, and they did plan a  scheme.

XXV.  Yea, verily did they put up a  job 
on Oleman Jones that  was  entitled  to  the 
cake.

XXVI.  And it happened in this  wise:—
XXVII.  On the morrow went the friend­
ly pilgrim to the next  railway  station,  and 
he sought him out a man of grace,—yea, even 
a minister,—and he said unto him,—

XXVIII.  “Be at the three  o’clock  train 

to-day, for verily I have need of thee.”

XXIX.  And  Perkins  did  get  back  to 
Oleman Jones’s house  and  did  again  open 
his big sample trunks.  Yea, verily, he  was 
busy with  his samples  as  he  never  was  be­
fore.

XXX.  And Oleman Jones did come unto 
him and said,  “How now!  Told I  not  thee 
to get?  What meanest thou?”

XXXI.  And Perkins  answered  simply, 
“Jones, I’m busy  now.  No  more  foolish­
ness for me; I  want  to  show  my  samples 
once more to a customer.

XXXII.  “And here, Jones, if thou  ever 
seest me with thy girl again, blaze away with 
thy shot gun,  and I won’t say a word.”

XXXIII.  Then said Oleman Jones  unto 
himself,  “Verily, I believe  he is  cured;  yet 
I will watch him,  for  these  drummers  are 
dumed slick.”

XXXIV.  And after they had  eaten  the 

noonday meal, the spring wagon drove up,

XXXV.  And the porters did lift unto  it 
Perkins’s big  trunks,  and  they  did  sweat 
and strain, and one did say,—

XXXVI.  “How  now,  Perkins!  Thy 

samples be very heavy.”

World.

While only  one  bushel  it  seven  of  the 
wheat crop of the United  States  is  received 
by tne Produce Exchange of New  York,  its 
traders buy and sell two for  every  one  that 
comes out of the ground.  When  the  cotton 
plantations  of  the  South  yielded  less  than 
6,000,000  bales,  the  crop  of  the  New York 
Cotton Exchange was more than  82,000,000. 
Oil wells are uncertain, but the  flow  on  the 
Petroleum  Exchanges  of  New  York,  Brad­
ford, and  Oil  City  never  hesitates.  Penn­
sylvania does well to run  24,000,000  barrels 
in a year,  but  New.York  City  will  do  as 
much in two small rooms  in  one week,  and 
the  Petroleum  Exchanges  sold  altogether 
last  year  2,000,000,000  barrels.  When  the 
Chicago  Board  of  Trade  was founded,  its 
members were required to record their  tran­
sactions.  The  dance  of  speculation  has 
now-days  grown  to  be  so  rapid  that  no 
count is made of the steps.  The Board was 
lately reported to have turned over as  much 
wheat in one day as  the  whole State of Illi­
nois  harvests  in  a twelvemonth. 
Its  spec­
ulative hogs outnumber  two to  one the  live 
hogs in the United  States,  and it  is  safe  to 
say that  the  Board  raises  five  bushels  of 
grain to every one produced  by  the  farmers 
of  the  West.  Securities  have  become  as 
staple an  article  of  production  with  us  as 
wheat, cotton, oil, or hogs.  One million dol­
lars’  worth  a  day  of  new stocks and bonds 
is needed in prosperous years  to  supply  the 
demands of the New York Stock Exchanges 
and its annual transactions are nearly thrice 
the  taxable  valuation  of  all  the  personal 
property  in  the  United  States.  One of the 
things that would be new to Solomon,  if  he 
lived to-day, is the part played by  the  mod­
em Exchange in the distribution  of the pro­
ducts  of  labor,  and  the  redistribution  of 
wealth.  The honest Industry that builds up 
our greatest  fortunes  is  raising  wheat  and 
pork on the Chicago Board of Trade, mining 
on the San Francisco Stock Exchange, build­
ing  railroads  in  Wall  Street,  sinking  oil 
wells in William Street, and  picking  cotton 
in  Hanover  Spuare.  While  the  text-books 
of the science of Exchange are describing in 
infantile prattle the imaginary trade of  pre­
historic  trout  for  pre-Adamite  venison  be­
tween the “first hunter” and  the  “first  fish­
erman,” the industry of the cotton plantation, 
the oil-fields, and  the farm is being overlaid 
by an apparatus  of  Exchanges  which  will 
prove an extremely interesting  study to  the 
Ricardo  of,  say,  the  twenty-fifth  century. 
These  Exchanges  are  the creameries of the 
world of labor.  The  prices  of  the  specula­
tive wheat and spectral hog of the  board  fix 
those of the real wheat and  the  live  hog  of 
the field.  The negro planter of Georgia who 
raises his bale and  a  half  must  sell  it  for 
what the Cotton Exchange says  it  is  worth. 
The man  who  works  in  the  ground  must 
take the price fixed for him by the man who 
works  in  the  air.  No  one  can  understand 
the “comer” who  does  not comprehend  the 
development and reach of the Exchanges  of 
our time.  The  manufacture  of prices,  like 
other modem industries, is  being concentra­
ted into  vast  establishments,  and  these  are 
passing under the rule  of  bosses  and  syndi­
cates.  The  markets,  like  political  parties, 
are  run  by  the  machine.  The  people  are 
loosing the power of  making  prices  as  well 
as nominations.  The “Free Breaklast  Tab­
le”  pays  tribute  to  some  clique,  whether 
railroad pool, trades-union, match monopoly, 
coal  combination,  pottery  tariff  infant,  or 
Board  of  Trade  corner,  on  pretty  much 
everything  upon  it.  The  coffee  market  of 
the country has lately gone out of the region 
ot unorganized supply and demand  into  the 
hands of the Coffee  Exchange,  with  all  the 
modern  improvements  for  speculation.  A 
price factory to make  the .quotations of but­
ter and cheese  has  just  been  established  in 
New York. 
It  deals  in  brokers’  eggs  as 
well as  hens’  eggs,  and  it  has  all  the  im­
proved facilities to enable it to  count chick­
ens that are not yet hatched out of eggs that 
are not yet laid.—North American Review.

“What  county  do  you  represent,  sir?” 
asked one individual of another in front of a 
saloon in St. Paul, Minn.; one day last week. 
“I’m not a member of  the  legislature,”  was 
the  reply,  “I’m  only  a private  citizen  on a 
drank.”

“Shakey,”  said a Canal  street  clothier  to 
his  son  Friday  morning,  “mark  up  ebery- 
dings a ca-worter of a tollar, und I put out a 
sign ‘Trade tollars taken here vor a  hundret 
cents.’ ”—Newark Call.

HAZELTINE, PERKINS  &  CO.,

Wholesale  Druggists,

AND  DEALERS  IN  LUBRICATING  AND  CARBON  OILS.

M a n u fa c tu re rs ’  A gents,

-INPORTERS’  AND JOBBERS  OF-

DxarcGiSTS’  s u n d r ie s   <& b r u s h e s ,

Nos. 42  and 44 Ottawa Street.,  89,  9 1 ,9 3   and  95  Louis St., 

QHAND   R A P ID S ,  -  MIOETIG-AHT.

Agents for STEWART BRUSH CO. and GRAND RAPIDS BRUSH CO.

PUTNAM  <&  BROOKS,

WHOLESALE

Gandy, Fruit and Nuts

68  a n d   03  C a n a l  S tre e t,

Grand  Rapids,

Michigan.

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SPECIAL?

(LYON ST*

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Grand Rapids, M ich.

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OALKISTS  B R O T H E R S ,

97 OTTAWA  STREET,

Agents for GUN  AND  BLASTING  POWDER,  and  Dealers in

P,  CAPS,  WADS,  CARTRIDGES,  FISHING  TACKLE,  GUNS,  REVOLVERS  and  GUNNING  GOODS.

DEALERS  SUPPLIED.

The  Kind  of Business  Man  A. T.  Stewart Was. I husband was so brutal that the man fell dead
in the office.  How much truth  there  io  in 
that story I do dot know, but it is  generally 
believed, and I have heard it in many places. 
If it is true, it is simply an illrstration of the 
fact that witn Mr. Stewart, at all times  and 
all places, businesc was  business,  what  he 
gave he gave, what he loaned he loaned, but 
what he advanced on ; a  mortgage  he  held, 
unless tire money was repaid.—Boston Her- ■ 
aid.

It was Mr. Stewart’s desire  and  intention 
to erect a mansion which  should  be a  mon­
ument to the architectural genius of the day. 
In connection with the building of that mar­
ble pile, a very unpleasant story  is  told  of 
Stewart’s dealings with  the  man  who  fur­
nished the marble.  According to the report, 
the contract was made for a certain price.  It 
was  during the hard times, when everybody 
was scraping  and  worrying,  and  the  con­
tractor soon found that he was not only  not 
going to make money by the  operation,  but 
was likely to lose everything  he  had.  He 
laid the facts before Mr. Stewart, who coolly 
replied that he had nothing to do with  that; 
that, if affairs had gone in  another  direction 
so  that  the  contractor  would  have  made 
trebble or quadrupple  what his  anticipation 
was, he, Stewart, would have been in no way 
benefited, but would  have  been  bound  by 
his contract.  Later on the contractor came 
to him and told him that he had spent every 
dollar he had, and he had  yet  much  to  do. 
Whereupon Stewart said that he  would  ad­
vance him the money upon a mortgoge,  and 
did so.  The man  went  on  and  completed 
his  agreement,  and  then,  never  dreaming 
that  Mr.  Stswart  cared to hold the quarry, 
went to him hoping to be thanked and things 
made easy,  instead  or  which  Mr.  Stewart 
told him that he must have either his money 
or the quarry.  The contractor told his wife 
of it, and  she  said;  “Why,  nonsense,  Mr. 
Stewart cannot be such  a  man  as  that. 
I 
will go down  with  you.”  They  went  to­
gether, and, as the gossip runs,'Mr. Stewart’s 
responce  to  the  womanly  interest  of  her

To  Retail  Druggists.

We commend to your favorable considera­
tion and attention The Michigan Trades­
man.  We believe that this paper will be to 
Druggists throughout the State of great ben­
efit  and  interest.  Particularly  would  we 
call your attention to the full  and  extended 
list and prices current for the  drag  market, 
which is to be one of the features of the  pa­
per; and as we shall ourselves make up  the 
market changes and correct the  list  weekly 
it will always be fresh, and can be depended 
upon as containing the latest and fullest  re­
ports.  We have for some time’ been  issuing 
a  semi-monthly  change  list  of  important 
fluctuations  occurring  in  the  market,  but 
have decided after this  issue to  discontinue 
the same, believing that  this  means  of  ad­
vising the trade will be  more  complete  and 
useful.

IIazeltine, Perkins & Co. 

Wholesale Druggists, Ottawa & Louis Streets, 

Grand Rapids, Mich.

By decree of the Cadillac common council 
all business except  the  sale  of  drugs  and 
medicines must be discontinued on  Sunday, 
after October 1st.

