The Michigan Tradesman.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN,  WEDNESDAY,  NOVEMBER  7,  1883.

He  Wasn’t  Her  Pa.

Winning  Over a Tough  Customer.

From  the  Commercial  Travelers’ Magazine.

“ I invested chiefly  in  cosmetics,”  contin­
ued lie,  “articles for the toilet, intended  not 
j  only to beautify, but to restore beauty  when 
so far faded that the original texture  cannot 
be perceived.  Lady Doldrum was a hundred 
and ten, and she was never  set  above  forty- 
five by those who took the census.”
“ Indeed! ” said his eager listener.
“Yes,” he went on, “and those who  never

A  young  woman  went  to  the  depot  to 
meet her father.  As the  train  came  in  she 
saw a middle-aged man, who  resembled  her 
parental relative,  and  she  rushed  into  his 
arms, huddled down on his bosom, kissed on 
the mouth, the ear,  the  chin,  and  all  over 
his patent celluloid. 
It was not  her  father, 
but a  middle-aged  drummer  for  a  tobacco
had any beauty at all, by applying this ‘Halm | house.  He took a  long  breath,  apd  looked 
of the Begum’ lotion, may become celebrated j around at some other drummers, and winked, 
enough to draw  a  ten  thousand-dollar  prize i as much as to say,  “ Oh!  I’m such a dude! ”
Of course the scene  could  not  last  always, 
in a moral circus.
though he wished it could.  After a climatic 
Ike had drawn near  and  was  overlooking 
hug, she looked up in his face and shrieked, 
the property*
“You are not my pa?”  He said probably she 
“ There, my little fellow,” said  the young 
was right,  as he had been on that route only 
man,  “don’t  handle  that  soap  unless  you 
eleven years.  She asked his pardon, and he 
wish to buy a cake, of which I have several. 
told her not to mention it,  “ we  public  men 
That soap is made from  the  oil  of  spikes, 
should always hold ourselves in readiness to 
and  is  a  sure  antidote  against  mosquito- 
support those who need  it.”  She  smiled  a
bites,
An antidote against mosquito-bites must j sweet, sad, blushing smile, and  went out in- 
be invulnerable,” said Mrs. Partington, “and  to the wide world, and the drummer walked 
as you say you have purchased a  number  of  to the hotel with the other drummers, twen-
ty kisses and six hugs  ahead  of  the  game. 
cakes, I wish you would sell  me  a  cake  or
They asked him if it didn’t  make  him  feel 
tW O.”
“Certainly; there are three, which yoican 
ashamed to have such a  mistake  made,  and 
he said no,  it  was  all  right.  He  said  of 
have at cost,—seventy-five cents,—delighted 
to accommodate you. 
I bought  a  larger  lot 
course it might look queer, but  those  things 
occurred very often to him,  as  they  would 
of the lotion than I need, and  it  strikes  me 
occur to any fine-looking man.  Besides, the 
that  it  would  heighten  and  restore  your 
girl probably enjoyed it.  Then  they  asked 
beauties of complexion that  time  has  some­
him why he did not wear his diamondjbreast- 
what tried. 
I would not  press  the  matter, 
pin on such trying occasions.  He looked  at 
of course, but one so celebrated should  take 
his shirt-front, and it was gone.  While  he 
all the pains  possible  to  preserve  features 
had been allowing her to play  the  daughter 
that may be  cherished as part of  our  native 
she had burglarized his shirt.  He  fainted, 
scenery.  I can spare you a couple of bottles 
and when they had brought him to  he  said : 
of the preparation, for which there was great 
competition among respectable old  ladies  at 
“ Tell my family I died with my face to  the 
the  sale.  Two  bottles ?  very  well. 
I  am 
foe.”
pleased to accommodate  you.  Two  dollars. 
Thank you.”
“ Is it  to  be  put  on  extraneously ? ” she 
Not  long  ago  a  Hartford  Commercial 
said.
“ Externally, yes.  And  that reminds  me 
Traveler was warned of the  crusty  disposi­
of a little  joke  that  occurred  at  the  sale. 
tion of a retailer in one of the  central  New 
One asked the auctioneer if the wash was to 
York cities, and informed that while  lie had 
to be applied externally, and lie said,  * Yes ’ 
better call upon him, the firm  would  not  be 
adding in a tone that the questioner  did  not 
disappointed should he fail to  transact  any 
hear, ‘ and eternally, I should judge, in your
business.  “I’ll sell him,” said the  Hartford
case, before it will make you beautiful.’ Ha, i poy?  confidently.  Arriving  at  the  city  in 
j  qUestion, he paid his first call to the man  he
ha, ha!  Impudent, but good, wasn’t it ? ” 
But how will it infect  me ? ”  the  dame 
had been warned  against.  He  found  him 
inquired. 
I
sitting on a high stool before  a  desk,  pour­
“ Excellently well,”  he  said,  “ because  it 
ing over the pages of a ledger.  As the Com­
has  something to work upon, and  your  face 
mercial Traveler entered he  just  turned  his 
very  much  resembles  that  of  Lady  Dold-j 
head,  took  in  the  sample-case,  and  said: 
rum.” 
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“Humph,” and  went  on  with  his  figures. 
“ What is in  the  other  packages ? ”  she 
After a lapse of five minutes he  said,  with­
asked.
out looking up:
“ Oh, they are preparations  for  a  similar I 
“If your a drummer I  don’t  want  to  see 
purpose  as  the  ‘Begum,’  and  excellent 
you, so don’t waste time here.”
things, too, which  I  should  be  pleased  to 
“But I’m not a drummer,” was the reply.”
show you.  This is  the  greatest  com-allev- 
“ What are you, then ? ” inquired  the  re­
iator in the  world.  Lady  Doldrum  cured 
tailer.
herself with it, and was  thereby  enabled  to 
“ I am an ambassador  of  commerce,” an­
wear  shoes  two  sizes  too  small  for  her. 
swered the salesman, nothing daunted.
Fact, I assure you.  That package contains a 
“Ambassador what? well, I can’t talk with 
disinfecting vinegar, called the ‘Citric Samp­
you.”
son,’ so strong that when applied  as  a  puri­
“If you only know it, there’s a man in one 
fier the servants have to wear a handkerchief 
of the leading  institutions  in  Hartford  that 
over the head securely tied under  the  chin, 
would give a hundred  dollars  to  talk  with 
to prevent the blowing the top of their skulls 
me.”
off by its pungency.”
“ Dear  me,”  said  Mrs.  Partington,  “ it 
must be dangerous  to  have  it  lying  round 
where there are  children.”
“ Not at all.  We were  told  that  it  was 
composed  of  harmless  acids,  the stings of 
which had been extracted, and—this is New- 
buryport, madam,  named  to  distinguish  it 
from ‘Old Berry Port,’ a  favorite  resort  for 
seasiders, kept by  old  Mr.  Berry,  down  be­
low.  The town  is  likewise  celebrated  for 
being the former residence of Lord Timothy 
Baxter, the author of Baxter’s ‘Saints’ Rest,’ 
the ruins of which  are  plainly  to  be  seen. 
And this,” he continued,  “ is  the  celebrated 
‘Salt-Rheum  Eradicator,’  which,  we  were 
told, was used by Lady Doldrum with  great 
success.  The auctioneer, who seemed  to be 
a very truthful man, said she was so afflicted 
with  chaps  in  her  younger  days  that  she 
had  to  wear  boxing-gloves  at .her  dress 
parties, and that, after  using  this  ointment, 
her  skin  became  as  free  as  an  infant’s. 
Please smell its delicate odor.  This  cannot 
be  beat.”
“ It is very odious,” said Mrs. P., giving it I 
a  long sniff, “and  not  at  all  like  beet. 
I 
should say it smelt more like  parsnip.  But |

“ What sort of a man is he ?”
“ He’s deaf and dumb.”
At this response  the  retailer * came  down 
from his high stool, and before he  left,  the 
Commercial Traveler  had his  name  in  his 
book for a handsome bill of goods.

The  Wise  Man.

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No wise man will  set  out  on  a  journey 
without providing himself with at least fifty 
cheap cigars.  Those which  can  be  bought 
for two cents are just as good  as  those  sold 
for a dime, and the gift of  one  is  rewarded 
with just the same courtesy.  You  are  in  a 
hurry to change trains and recheck baggage. 
The checkman don’t care two cents  whether 
you are left or not, and the chances are  that 
you would be left but for  the  cigar.  Edge 
up to him and-drop the cigar into his fingers, 
ask him to recheck  you  to  Greenville,  and 
you are fixed in six  seconds.  Hours  later, 
when he comes to sit  down  and  smoke, he 
may remember your phiz  and  bless  it,—but 
you  are far away.  The  brakesman  on  the 
passenger train studies gruffness.  You can’t 
offer him money, nor ask him to take a glass 
of beer;  but if  you  want  to  know  exactly 
how  long  you  have  to  wait  at  Walton
ed the young man, with  a  smile.  “ Is  this i  1 have no room for it, and I am going to  the  Junction, and how long it takes you  to  run
from there to Traverse City, just tender him j 
Ike, and am I  in  the  honored  presence  of  beac 
Mrs. Partington ? ” 
a two-cent cigar.  His  granite  countenance 
will melt and run  all  over  his  face,  and  he 
will feel himself bound not  only  to  answer 
the case, but immediately diverted  the  con 
all inquiries, but to tell you how to save two 
versation to external subjects.
dimes  in  getting  your dinner at the restau­
“ Are  you an  admirer  of  national  scen­
rant. 
In fact, the  influence  of  a  two-cent 
ery ? ” she asked.
cigar is almost boundless. 
It will  stop  any 
am;  try me,” was the young mail’s  re­
citizen and make  him feel happy  to  answer 
ply, and a man on a  seat  near  by  laughed 
a dozen questions. 
It will direct you to  the 
aloud.
best hotels, point out the best  sights,  make 
“I  do  so  love  out-door  landsca]>e,”  she 
street-car conductors talk, give you  the  best 
continued.  “The  lovely  rocks  and  rivers 
seat in the omnibus, and accomplish all  that
and ambiguous woods fill  me  with  delight. 
There, is not that view charming,  with  the 
gentle hill and the villain on top?”
She meant villa, of course,  but  a  load  of 
bricks on a  side-track  intervened,  and  the 
view was cut off forever.
“ This is a very  interesting  country  that 
we  are  passing  through,”  said  the  young 
man.
“Has  it  any  hysterical  interest?”  she
“Yes,” he replied, “there’s Salem, that we 
just  now  passed,  where  Cotton  Mather 
roasted  all  the  homely  old  women  for 
witches,—hundreds  of  ’em;  and  Beverly, 
celebrated as the birthplace of the bean; and 
Hamilton, where Roger Williams established 
the  first  camp-meeting;  and  yonder,  where 
you catch a glimpse of  blue  water  between 
the trees,  is  the  place  where  Christopher 
Columbus landed.”
“ Dearme,”  said  Mrs.  Partington,  “ how 
very interesting!  Have you traveled much?”
“ Yes,  my  dear  madam,” was the reply. 
“ I am of a traveling family. 
I am a  direct 
decendant  of  the  Wanderng  Jew. 
I  live 
mostly upon the cars, and am just  returning 
to my home on my semi-annual visit, having 
stopped in Boston only long enough to buy a 
few trifles as family presents,—at  the  great 
sale, you know, of Lady  Doldrum’s  effects, 
in Beacon street.  They’re in the bag under­
neath my  feet.”
the 
“ What  did  the  lady  sell out tor ? 
old lady inquired.
“ Oh,” was the reply,  “ for many reasons. 
I n  the first place she was  dead,  and  didn’t 
want ’em any more.  Perhaps that  was  rea­
son enough.”
“ Most  deciduously,”  said the dame, with 
a smile. 
“ Perhaps you would  like  to  see  them, 
the young man said, reaching  down  to  take 
up the  bag.

“Well,  my dear madam,” urged the young I
She modestlv admitted that such might be | man,  “you will need  it  there,  for  the  air  is
............  
You had better
salt and the room is plenty, 
take a box.”
She took one, of course,  and  conversation 
continued uninterruptedly.
“ This is Greenland,” said the young  man 
as they stopped at  a  station ;  “ you  can  see 
the ‘ icy mountains ’ ordinarily, but to-day, I 
am told, they  are  taken  down  for  repairs,
‘ India’s coral strand ’ is very near here.”
At Portsmouth  the  nice  young  man  got 
out, with his  valise,  umbrella,  and  parcel, j  gopi an(|  silver can do
bidding Mrs.  Partington  a  warm  farewell, 
and begging her to write to him her  opinion i  However much the  farming  classes  may 
complain of the vicissitudes of the season and
of the purchases she had made. 
“ What young man  was  that,”  she  asked  the  consequent  uncertanity  of  agriculture, 
yet there are more  elements  of  certanity  in
the conductor. 
“ He’s a drummer,” was the reply; “Cam-  this industry than in any commercial or manu- 
phor, Cantharides & Co.” 
factoring enterprise.  Statistics  of  business,
“ Well, I  declare,”  she  mused,  “ only  a  records i f  bankrupt  courts,  the  experience 
drummer, and yet he has enough  malady  in  of merchants and  manufacturers,  all  go  to 
him to  make  a  whole  brass  band.  What j  prove this proposition.  The  abject  poverty
and real suffering which exist in large  cities
have you got there, Isaac ? ”
and towns are largely out  of  proportion  to 
“ ’T is a brush that fallow dropped,  ’’said j 
the  popultaion  as  compared  with the  rural 
he, painting the car  window  next  him  vig- 
districts.
ourously with water held in the  car  dipper, 
which he had twisted  off  for  the  purpose; 
A  Savannah  factory  is  producing  daily 
“we’ll give it to him  when we  come  back.”
four tons of  excellent  paper  made  of  rice 
“I hope you didn’t abstract  it,”  said  she.
straw- and palm leaves.  The  paper  is  said 
“That,” said  the  old  gent  on  the  front 
to be of superior quality and  can  be  manu­
seat, looking back, “ is an  abstract  proposi­
factured  twenty per cent, cheaper  than  pa­
tion.”  But what he meant she didn’t know, 
per made of  jute  butts  and  rags.  Up  to 
nor  he, probably, but  he  laughed,  and  Ike 
within  a  short  time  rice  straw  and  palm 
kept  on dabbing the  window  with  the  new 
leaves  have  been  allowed  to  go  to  waste. 
brush.
They now yield to this factory about  $100 a 
Their  destination  at  Old  Orchard  was 
day.
gained, where  they found all the room  they 
On authority of  the  Grocer,  a  barrel  of 
wanted,  and  it  was  a matter of surprise to 
pickels should contain from twenty-eight  to 
the  old  lady,  when  she  asked  about  the 
thirty gallons, and the net  weight should  be 
faith cure, to learn that  it  was  not  bottled 
about 160 pounds for common pickles.  The 
and for sale, like Congress water.
vinegar used in manufacturing common pick­
I  intended  to  weave  a  moral  for  this 
les weighs  about  eighty-eight  pounds,  and 
sketch, but to  save  my  life  I  don’t  know 
the pickles  seventy-two.  Gherkins  or  fine 
how to do  it,  and  therefore  must  beg  the 
pickles weigh somewhat more.
reader, if he sees one, to put a pin in  it  and 
stick it to the wall like a rare butterfly.

Worth, the  Parisian  man-milliner,  is not 
an invalid, as reported.  He  is  55 years old 
and is growing fat and bald.  He furnished 
the costly dress for the  Czarina  at  her  late 
coronation,  as  well  as  many  of  the ward­
robes  worn  by  the  princesses  and  royal 
ladies on that occasion.

“There is one thing connected  with  your 
table,” said a commercial traveler to a West­
ern landlord, “ that is not surpassed  by  the 
best hotels of Chicago.”  “Yes,” replied the 
pleased landlord;  “and what is that?”  “The 
salt.”
The Travelers’ Protective  Association  of 
the United States claims over  600  members.

Mein Gott, Isaac!  mark  up  eferyding  in 
der sthore dree liundert und fifety  ber cend. 
Here comes a man vot vants trust.

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“Bless me, yes, by all means.”

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MICHIGAN COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS’  ASSOCIAI
'—Charter  in  Force for 
Incorporated  Dec.  10,1877- 
'ears.
T h irty  F<

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L IS T   O F   O F F IC E R S :

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President—J ames  T.  P h il l ip s,  44  Jefferson 
Aveuue, Detroit. 
Vice-Presidents—H. H. H odson, Detroit; J ohn 
H. McI ntyre, Grand  Rapids; Thos. J .  H ay­
w ood,  Ypsilanti;  Wm.  E.  Saunders,  East
Saginaw;  T.J. P axton, Monroe.
Secretary and Treasurer—George^ W. H il l , 80 
Woodbridge Street, West, Detroit.
Board of Trustees, For One 1 ear—R. W. H aw­
ley, Chairman, J . F. Co o per E. H . McCurdy, 
Detroit;  For TWo Years—Sam. B.  Sin c la ir, 
Geo. L. Sampson, Wm. Saxby, Detroit.

m e e t i n g s :

Annual Meeting—December 28,1883.
Last Regular Meeting for 1883—December 1.

MRS.  PARTINGTON’S  G0MPANI0N.

How  a Clever Commercial Traveler Overcame 

the  Old  Lady.

B. P. Shillaber, in Commercial  Travelers’Mag- 
azine.
After spring cleaning  was  over-  and  the 
two weeks’ spring vacation in the Deep Cove 
Grammar  School  had  commenced,  Mrs. 
Partington gathered Ike and other  traps  to­
gether for a brief journey to the seaside. 
It 
was  rather  early  in  the season, she  knew, 
but as she expressed  herself,  “ the  room  at 
the  beaches  at  such a time was  not  so  cir­
cumcised, and people could act just  rts  they 
wished, if they desired to, and  be  happy  in 
proportion  as  they  enjoyed  themselves.” 
And so she and Ike started over the Eastern 
Railroad for a popular destination along  the 
beaches, the boy happy in  his  release  from 
school.  The boy was very happy.  So much 
so, indeed, that by his exuberance  in  going 
five miles he  had  set seven children crying, 
provoking the anger of  seven  mothers,  put 
peanut-shells  in  the  conductor’s  pocket, 
reached with his feet under the seat in front 
and kicked the heels  of  an  old  gentleman 
asleep over his paper, run up and  down  the 
aisle  half-a-dozen  times,  jolting  right  and 
left, and ended with kicking  over  a  lunch- 
basket that protruded, and scattering the ed­
ibles on every side,—here  a  doughnut  and j 
there a pickle,—to his great glee.  At length 
he took a vacant window, and  gazed  on  the 
flying  landscape,  while  Mrs.  Partington, 
oblivious as to his  doings,  sat  half  asleep, 
rolling  like  a  Chinese  mandarian  as  they 
flew along.

“ Is this seat occupied, madam ?
Mrs. Partington had seen  dimly  a  young 
and  bright-looking  man  enter  when  they 
stopped  at  a  way-station,  and  was  wide­
awake enough to realize this, and, moreover, 
that he  had  a  small  valise  in  his  hand,  a 
paper package, and an  umbrella. 
I  forget 
how old it is a  woman  must  be  when  she 
fails to appreciate the attractions  of  a  nice- 
looking young man, but  the voice  inquiring 
if  the  seat  was  occupied  startled Mrs. P., 
and she said “No,” quite forgetting Ike, who 
still was on his  knees  before  the  window, 
and seeing how  very  agreeable  the  young 
man looked, she thought she would not  sub­
ject him to seek farther.  Therefore  she  re­
peated the “ No,” adding “ sir ” to it, and he 
took the seat, first  putting  the umbrella and 
parcel on the rack over her head, and his va­
lise beneath his feet.
“ Fine day for  travelling,  mum,” he  said, 
in a gentle voice.
“Yes, sir,” she responded, “the  air is  very 
invariegating, and the late rain has made the 
atmosphere quite moist and tumid.”
“Humid, perhaps you meant to say, pardon 
me,” he replied.
“ Oh, yes,  thank  you;  I  frequently  make 
such mistakes,” see replied:  “but as Deacon 
Hanscom was wanted to remark, ‘A mistake 
aint no haystack, and to err is  humane.’ ”
“ Cheese it!” said a  boyish  voice  in  the 
young man’s ear, who turned  around,  some­
what  surprised,  to  meet  the  mischievous 
look of an urchin who leaned over  the  back 
of the seat.  He was about to  make  an  an­
gry demonstration when  the  old  lady  inter­
posed.
“Isaac,” said she, “you must  be  be  more 
reprehensible before strangers.”
“ I'm behind him,” said Ike, with  a  grin. 
‘Did I catch the boy’s name  aright?” ask-

OWNERS  OF  MILLIONS.

How They  Have Multiplied in  the Present  Gea- 

e ration.

Writing  of  his  favorite  hete  noir,  the 
millionaire,  John  S win ton,  of  New York, 
says:
Once upon a  time old  John  Jacob  Astor 
was  tottering  along Broadway, near  Union 
Square,  when  a  friend  in  my  company 
pointed him out and  said: 
“That  ancient 
is a millionaire—he owns a million dollars.”
I had never before  up to  that  time  of  my 
boyhood, heard of such a being,  and  so  he 
was of course a curiosity.  “A millionaire— 
a million dollars all his  own!”  He was a 
wonderful spectacle.  “Are there  any  more 
of  them?” was asked, to  which  my  friend 
replied:  “I’ve heard of but half  a dozen in 
the country—old  Stephen Girard  of  Phila­
delphia,  dead  John  McDonough  of  New 
Orleans,  and  two or  three  others  in  this 
town.” 
It seems but a few years  since this 
dialogue took place;  yet it was before  Com­
modore Vanderbilt and  A. T.  Stewart  had 
piled up their first million.  What a  mon- | 
strous crop of  millionaires  we have  grown j 
among us since then, is seen by the fact that 
the World, a few weeks ago,  published  the | 
names of 200 of them living in this city, and 
it appears  from letters  sent to  the World's 
editor that many of them  were  left  out  of 
the list.  The city of  Boston, according  to 
the Globe, can show up  over  100  of  these 
millionaires, and you have no difficulty about 
hunting up many more of them,  beside  de­
cuple  millionaires  and  quinquagintuple 
millionaires,  in  San  Francisco,  St. Louis, 
Chicago, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, and other 
places.  Besides our long string  of  million­
aires,  we  have  now  here  the  centuple 
millionaire and the bi-centuple  millionaire; 
and perhaps there  is  truth  in  the  remark 
made about  the king  of them  all, that “as 
soon as he got to  be  a  millionaire, lie  was 
seized with the mad ambition  to  become a 
billionaire.”
The editor goes on to quote “Gath,”  who 
estimates  Wm. H. Vanderbilt’s  fortune  at 
at least .§200,000,000, and his income at $10,- 
000,000  a year.  Then  Mr. Swinton  quotes 
the World, which, after  saying  that  Van­
derbilt’s income is $15,000,000 a year,  adds: 
He has  $45,000,000  in government  bonds. 
He has $20,000,000  in Lake Shore and  New 
York Central, probably more of  it  in  Lake 
Shore.  He  has $10,000,000  in  Northwest­
ern stock and bonds.  He has stock  in  the 
Red Line and other freight  companies,  and 
the Wagner  company.  He  has  something 
in Michigan Central.  In April last, when he 
held $40,200,000 in  government  fours,  his 
quarterly check for interest upon  them was 
$402,000:  so that his . annual  interest  upon 
that amount  of government  bonds  for  the 
present year is $1,608,000.
“No fortune was ever accumulated by any 
individual in  England equal  even  to  the 
present  fortune  of  Mr.  Vanderbilt.  The 
largest personalty was that of  Mr. Brassey, 
the great  railroad  contractor,  $30,000,000. 
The next largest was that of  Mr. Morrison, 
dry  goods,  $20,‘000,000,  with  real  estate 
equal to some $2,500,000  more.  The  Duke 
of Westminster’s realty  can fall little  short 
of $100,000,000, but his father  only  left 4,- 
000,000  personalty,  and  this  included  a 
.famous collection of  pictures.  Queqn Vic­
toria herself, who has always been  a  miser 
greedy for money,  is not, as  a  private  in­
dividual, worth more than $10,000,000.  The 
great nabobs of the East Indies,the  wealthy 
slaveholders of Brazil, and the  monarchs of 
continental Europe  have  no  fortunes  that 
will compare with that of this  New Yorker. 
In old Rome there were no  such  capitalists 
as  W. H. V.  Pliny  estimates  the  fortune 
of the wealthy Crassus at a sum that  would 
amount to but  $10,000,000  in  our  money, 
though  historians say  that  the  enormous 
wealth of  the  millionaires  of  Rome  was 
one of the worst signs of her decadence.”

Keep  Your  Measures  Clean.

From the New York Commercial Enquirer.
“I never go into that  store,  because  the 
measures  don’t look clean,” said  one  lady 
to another in our hearing.
“Neither do I,” was the  reply,  “because I 
slipped on some greasy stuff that was on the 
floor the only time I was there.”
Here  are a couple of hints for  the  retail 
grocer.  Two customers lost for the want of 
a little care!  The case is by no  means  an 
exceptional one.  There  are  lots  of others 
just like  it.  We  have noticed  them  our­
selves, and have  no doubt that  others  have 
also done so.
We  have seen tea and sugar  weighed  in 
scales that were  very  plainly  innocent  of 
the good effects  of a  cleaning,  for  several 
weeks, at least.  Some people do not  object 
to such trifles, but anybody who  is  an  ad­
mirer of soap and water will look up a store 
where  they  are occasionally  used  on  the 
premises.  There is always plenty  of  soap 
in a grocery store, and  customers  should be 
treated to an occasional example of  its good 
effects.  Keep  your  counters,  scales  and 
measures clean and bright.  Take  a  knife 
and scrape off the weights once in  a  while. 
If dirt collects on your pound  weight for ill- 
stance, you are  selling  overweight  without 
knowing it, so  that  cleanliness in  that  re­
spect will prove profitable to you.
Don’t  let  any  meat  clippings  or  other 
greasy substances lay around on your  floors. 
They will attract rats and drive  away  your 
customers.  Keep  a  box near  your  meat 
block and throw all the  waste  into  it. 
It 
wrill do no harm either, if you keep  the  box 
out of  sight.
If you have a box of  oranges,  lemons  or 
other  fruit  displayed  to  view,  put  clean 
sheets  of white paper around it.  They will 
If  you 
make it look twice  as  attractive. 
have any decayed fruit or vegetables  throw 
them away.  Don’t let them  remain 
in the 
basket with good  articles, they  will  injure 
the sale of the  latter.
After taking a bushel of coal  out  of your 
coal  box  shovel  up what  falls  upon  the 
walk.  Loose  pieces of coal do  not improve 
the appearance  of a sidewalk, and,  besides, 
passers-by may slip on them,  and  they  are 
sure to attract a crowd  of  small  boys  who 
will amuse  themselves  by  throwing  them 
around the  street.
There are  very  many  snch  trifles  that 
should be lopked after. 
take 
much time to attend to them,  and  they  are 
really important.  Whenever  any  of  them 
falls under  another’s  observation  he  will 
surely call attention to them. 
In the  mean­
time, let  every man  look  out for  himself 
and see what errors  and  omissions he  can 
rectify.

It  does not 

NO. 7.

The  Advance  in  Castor  Oil.

PEDE0L0GY.

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Front  Rank.

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A  New  Science  That  Promises  to  Take 

From the Oil, Paint and Drug Reporter.
In our issue of September  5th  we  stated 
that the price of castor  oil  wpuld  probably 
go higher, although the new  crop  of  beans 
A clever writer in an Eastern paper  thus 
would  then  soon  be  available,  and  gave 
discourses on what  he  proposes  as  a new 
our reasons for the  belief.  An  advance  of 
science:
one cent per pound has  been  declared,  and 
Pedeology, the language of  the foot,  is a 
the prospects are that ere long a still further 
theme new to most of  our  learned  profess­
advance will be gained.  The causes for this 
ors, and possibly of too lowly  nature  to at­
are  not far to seek.  Last year  the  crop  of 
tract their attention, yet  it weilds  vast  in­
castor beans amounted  to  499,700  bushels, 
fluence upon the world.  Observe  the variety 
and the whole of this amount  was - required 
in the size, shape  and  general  characteris­
to supply the consumption  in  this  country, 
tics of feet.  Examine them  in  each  indi­
while this year the crop in Kansas will prob­
vidual part, then in their entirety, and  heed 
ably not  exceed  140.000  bushels,  to  which 
the lessons there taught.
may be added 20,000 bushels as the  product- 
The foot is  a  marked  feature  amongst 
tion in the states  of  Missouri  and  Illinois, 
peoples.  One’s  nationality is  readily  dis­
making the total crop this year 160,000 bush­
tinguishable by their feet.  Thus the French
els, or less than one-third of the crop of 1882. 
foot is of medium  length,  with  small  h e e l,........  
The reason the production was so small this
and slightly tapering towards the toes,  with I year jg n0^ owiug t0 any failure of the  crop,
but little  hollow  beneath the  instep,  and 
in fact, the yield per acre this yegY averaged 
denotes  restlessness,  courage,  and  irrasci- 
ten and one-half bushels as against nine and 
bility.  The English foot is long, broad  and 
one-half bushels last  year.  The  small  pro­
thick, with large heel and low  instep,  indi­
duction, therefore, is entirely due to  the  de­
cating  determination,  hardihood,  self-reli­
creased  acreage  devoted  to  this  crop,  and 
ance and untiring  perseverence.  The Ger­
this was owing to the  low  prices  at  which 
man foot is broad,  thick, flat,  and  of  uni­
beans  sold  last  year,  the  farmers  finding 
form width from heel to toe, showing  care­
other crops would have proved more  remun­
less, phlegmatic sluggishness, with  a  mind 
erative.  It is apparent, therefore, that owing 
readily susceptible to influence  if  properly 
to scarcity, if for no other reason, prices may 
manipulated.  The Irish have narrow heels, 
be expected to go considerably  higher.  But 
high insteps, short  feet  usually,  indicating 
there  are many  other  influences  which  will 
strong  attachments,  generosity,  patriotism 
have a bearing on market values.  The  con­
and 
fondness  for  personal  encounters. | 
sumption of  castor  oil  the  past  year  was 
The  Scot’s  foot  is a  combination  of  the ] 
barely up to the  average,  and  it  is  known 
English and German,- and is equally adapted 
that the quantity of  oil  held  outside  of  the 
for Highland or Lowland life,  since,  owing 
manufacturers is very light,  while  some  of 
to the peculiar formation of their  feet, they 
the  latter  have  very  little  on  hand,  and 
can climb up or down the steepest hills with 
are behind in their deliveries.  The consump­
ready  facility,  and  for  this  reason  they 
tion »luring the year before us  will  without 
make good soldiers and  the best  of  sheep 
doubt be largely increased by reason  of  the 
herders.  The Chinese have feet like  Oscar 
change of duty on alizarine assistant,  which 
Wilde—who is  an  exception  amongst his 
will probably hereafter all be  made  in  this 
English  brethren—denoting  fondness  for 
country.  The  imports  of  this  article  last 
epicurean  delicacies.
year amounted to fully 500,000  pounds,  and 
The American foot must be  divided  into 
this  represents  over  200,000  pounds  of 
several types, since to each  of  the  various 
castor oil, it will be^seen that with no change 
latitudes of our country  belongs  a  distinct 
in the consumption  for  other  purposes,  we 
style of feet.  The  New  Englanders  have 
shall require an increased production by just 
long,  naiT O w ,  elastic  feet, firmly  fitted  to 
that  amount.  A  considerable  increase  in 
the ankle, with projecting heels,  clearly  in­
price may naturally  be  expected  to  follow 
tended for  mountain  climbing,  and  there­
when the effects of  this  increased  consump­
fore adapted to tliefcharacter  of  their coun­
tion  begin  to be felt, and there  is  already a 
try.  These indicate  lofty  aspirations,  per­
disposition on the  part  of  some  dealers  to 
severance,  indomitable  will  and  rare gen 
hold their supplies off the market for  higher 
i ius.
prices.  This will, of  course,  react  on  the 
The  people  of the  Middle  States  have 
price of beans, and those planters  who  have 
feet of moderate length, rather  broad,  with 
not  already  sold their crop will realize  bet­
wide, flat  heels,  and  when these  feet  are 
ter prices, and this again will probably  lead 
planted in any spot they are there  to  stay. 
to an increased acreage devoted  to this  crop 
They mean  energy, determination, fondness 
next year.
for official station, and acquisitiveness.
It will probably be  suggested  that  castor 
The Southerners have short, narrow  feet, 
oil may be imported from Calcutta  and  that 
perfectly rounded  heels, high  arching  in­
thereby the price  can  be  kept  from  going 
steps, with quite a  curve beneath, and these 
much higher.  This will prevent  any undue 
perfectly  exemplify  their  character. 
In 
advance,  and  there  are  two  vessels  now 
that the  Southron  is  of  luxurious  tastes, 
overdue, the St. Patrick with 200 cases,  and 
easy and indolent, ordinarly,  but  firm,  de­
the Alameda with 300 cases,  but  as  it costs 
cided, and at  times  imperious,  yet  withal 
about seventeen cents per  pound  to  import, 
kind and  amiable,  open-hearted  and  free­
and when the oil arrives,  it  is  not  uniform, 
handed, but with decided  disinclination  to 
the prospects are  that  another  cent  added 
manual labor.
to the price of domestic oil would  not  bring 
I  offer  this  general  outline  of  a  new 
Calcutta oil in very close  competition.  The 
branch of science, hoping that it  will  prove 
duty on castor oil is eighty cents  per  gallon 
of  interest and benefit to each of you.
or nearly ten  and  three-quarters  cents  per 
pound, so  that  there  is  very  little  chance 
Telling  How  to  Make  Butter  Sweet.
that a declining market abroad  would effect 
it  much.  With beans the case is  somewhat 
different, although the duty  on  these  being 
one  cent  per  pound  prevents  these  from 
being brought here  to  reduce  the  price  of 
oil below the  present  market  values.  But 
with a demand for beans  from  America  the 
probabilities are  that  the  Calcutta  market 
will advance and the price of  oil  be affected' 
thereby. 
It will be seen from  all  we  have 
pointed out that although the  present  price 
of castor oil is higher than for several  years 
the  prospects  are  that  still  higher  prices 
must follow.

An enterprising  Philadelphia  woman  is 
reported to have been doing a good  business 
by advertising to furnish a new  and  infalli­
ble process for  making strong  butter  per­
fectly  sweet.  The  recipe  would  be  fur­
nished to applicants who  enclosed 25  cents 
in stamps to “D. F.” in  care of  the  paper 
containing the advertisement.  The  follow­
ing is said  to  be  the  “Great  Dairy  Dis­
covery:”  “It will be  evident  to all that as 
long as butter is  strong  it cannot  be sweet. 
The first step, therefore, is  to  diminish  its 
strength to the required degree of weakness. 
Now the strength of a  human being  is  due 
to the assimilation of meat, eggs, etc., there­
fore abstinence  from an  animal diet  and a 
Lack of enterprise cannot be attributed to 
strict adherence to  the  vegetable  tends  to 
the wholesale grocery merchants in  Boston, 
directly lessen  strength.  Butter  possesses 
judging by the methods which some  of their 
a  capacity  for  assimilation  unequaled  by 
number employ to attract  public  attention. 
any human being, as can  easily  be  demon­
A late instance of this is afforded by  a  re­
strated by placing a dish of butter and three 
ception given to the trade of  that  city  by a 
salt herring side by side, in which  case  the 
prominent house which recently moved  into 
butter will  soon  absorb and  assimilate  so 
a new store.  On  the  occasion  referred  to
much of the herring as  to  become  entirely
elaborate collation  was. served,  the  bill 
too strong to be eaten.  Following this theory I 
to its legitimate conclusion the  great  dairy | of Jare  consisting  exclusively  of  articles 
dealt in by the firm.  California was  repre­
discovery  has  been  made. 
Place  your 
sented by canned apricots  and  cherries, the
butter  in a  wide  mouthed dish or  upon a
plate,  so as to allow  free  contact  with  the  P o t i o n  of a  well-known  canned  goods 
Then  place  the | establishment m San Jose.  The New Eng-
* 
surrounding atmosphere, 
land Grocer  states  that  the  affair  was  a 
dish in a refrigerator containing  no  animal 
marked success, there having been  over  5,-
matter, but only vegetables and very  few of 
000 visitors, of whom one-half  the  number 
them.  The butter will soon lose  its  abnor­
partook of the  collation.
mal strength and become quite  weak.  Now I 
remove the vegetables  and  place  a  large 
saucer of molasses next  the  butter,  which 
will soon absorb  the  saccharine  properties 
of the molasses and become as sweet as  can 
be desired.”

A  Boston  House-Warming.

Gum  Arabic.

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Butter  Past and  Present.
From the Gennan-American Grocer.

Butter  is  something which  the  average | 
man dislikes to suspect. 
If  it fills  the re­
quirements  of  butter  in color,  taste  and 
odor, he does not care to inquire  rashly into 
its family history. 
In  olden  times  butter 
that came up to these tests was good  butter. | 
Tasting it a man had visions of  broad  pas- j 
tures sprinkled with daisies and buttercups, 
dew on the grass, and clear pools under  the 
trees where the brook broadened  out.  To 
be sure, a single hair w'ould blur theqneture; 
but lie would strive to see  a  pretty  dairy­
maid in his mind’s eye as the  owner  of the 
hair, even if it were  red hair.  At this date 
butter has something of the  speciousness of 
the confidence man about it. 
Its gold,  one 
feels, may well be pinch-beck.  The  pastor­
al picture  is  just as  likely to  be  laid  at 
Hunter’s  Point  with  grimy  men  stirring 
greasy pots as the oleomargarine oil  is mix­
ed with lard oil, cotton-seed oil  and  yellow 
paint.  Look at  the little  innocent pat  of 
butter by your plate,  and ask  if it is  guilty. 
It will  not  change color,  though  it  may 
never have been  near  a cow. 
It is  of this 
our great butter barons  complain. 
It gives 
the butterine  man a  chance.  He  lias  a 
silent accomplice.  The question  is,  if the 
butterman  cannot  always  detect  bogus 
blitter, how is the poor consumer in  his con­
stitutional squeamishness  to bring anindict- 
ment against his breakfast?

A Chicago hackman is said to have  made 
$40,000 in ten years  by  showing  strangers 
around the city and  getting  a  commission 
from traders on the goods he induced visitors 
to buy.

In Morroco about the  middle  of  Novem­
ber a gummy  juice  exudes  spontaneously 
from the trunk and branches of  the  acacia. 
It gradually thickens i  in  the  furrow  down 
which it runs, assumes the form of  an oval 
or round drop, about the  size of  a  pigeon’s 
egg,  of different colors, as it  comes from the
1  white and red  gum tree.  About  the  mid- 
| die of December the Moors  encamp  on the 
I border of the forest and  the  harvest lasts a
full month.  The  gum 
is then  packed  in 
I large leather sacks and transported  on  the 
i backs of camels and bullocks to  seaports for 
I shipment.  This is the gum arabic  of  com­
merce.

The  Hot^se  Cat as  a  Fur-Bearing  Animal.
An importer  and  exporter of  furs  gives 
this information:
The  house cat is one  of  the most  valu­
able of fur-bearing animals, and when  they 
mysteriously disappear from the back  fence 
they often find their way to the  furrier. 
It 
is an actual fact that in  1882 over  1,200,000 
house cats  were  used  by  the  fur  trade. 
Black,  white,  Maltese,  and  tortoise-shell 
skins  are in most demand, and are made  in­
to linings.  As  for  skunks,  350,000  were 
used  in  this  country  last  season,  valued 
from 50 cents to  $1.20.  They  come  from 
Ohio and New York principally.

The thrifty manufacturers of tools  in dif­
ferent parts of Germany have resorted to the 
dishonest practices of marking  their  goods 
“American manufacture” and then shipping 
them to different countries.  Documents re­
ceived at Washington from Russia,  Turkey, 
and other countries report that this  game is 
being played with success.  The goods  thus 
unloaded are  poor  material,  sold  at  high 
prices,  and  tend  to  impair  confidence  in 
the standing of the American eagle generally 
among outside barbarians.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

A JO U R N A L DEVOTED 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,  NOV.  7,  1883.

p*r'  Subscribers  and  others,  when  writing 
to  advertisers, will confer a favor on the pub­
lisher by  mentioning that they saw the adver­
tisement in the columns of  this  paper.

Disraeli once said that to be a  great  law­

yer means to ruin a great  man.

Do not  speak  of  the  commercial  traveler 
hereafter as a drummer.  Hail  him  as  an 
“ Ambassador of Commerce.”

Competent  authorities  estimate  that  the 
net foreign immigration to the United States 
for the four years ending June 30, will be in 
the  neighborhood  of  2,500,000—enough  to 
constitute a small nation.

Let no one  fear  that  the  recent  lumber 
failures will in the least affect the legitimate 
business Interests of the  city.  The  causes 
that brought them about  are  entirely  alien 
to  the  commercial  honesty  and  reliability 
for which the city is noted,  and  they  reflect 
discredit only upon  the  men  who  brought 
about their own downfall.

At this time of  the  year,  when  money  is 
tight  and  the  prospects  for  the  winter’s 
trade is not as flattering as  it  has  been  for 
some years past, it behoves the retail  dealer 
to buy  carefully,  meet  all  bills  promptly, 
and keep every expense down to  the  lowest 
possible notch.  A  little  extra  caution  at 
this time may enable  him  to  avoid  serious 
difficulty,  if  not  positive  embarrassment, 
later in the season.

There  is  a  determination  to  settle  the 
question of liability for  statements  made  to 
to the mercantile agencies.  Another suit has 
just been brought against a linn  which  fail­
ed  in  New  York,  their  creditors  alleging 
that they  made  fraudulent  representations 
to an agency, on the strength of  which  they 
obtained  goods  from .the  plaintiffs.  The 
definite settlement of this question is  of  im­
portance to all merchants.

Chicago has been effervescing again on the 
Hennepin canal humbug and  recently  held 
one of its  characteristically  windy  conven­
tions to  elaborate  and repeat  the  specious 
arguments wbich it is hoped will bring Con­
gress to the aid of that  fraud. 
It  is  a  fine 
scheme, to make a short cut from the Missis­
sippi to the Lakes, but if there  is  really  so 
much commercial need for this artificial  wa­
ter-route private capital ought to  take  it  in 
hand as it has the ship canal across  Florida. 
When Congress  has  put  the  natural  high­
ways in  good navigable  condition,—not  ex­
cepting  Grand River—it will be time enough 
to call upon it to appropriate money  for  ar­
tificial water-courses.

There is pressing need  of  a  good  bank­
rupt law, either State or National, to protect 
the credit business.  The need  is  painfully 
demonstrated  with  each  recent  failure  or 
suspension in business.  The  old  National 
law was good as far as it went, but was very 
weak in its method  of  application.  Attor­
neys and assignees sat upon the corpse until 
the  bones] were  picked  dry.  Settlements 
were prolonged for months, and even  years, 
which  should  have  been  closed  up  in  as 
many weeks.  The new State law  does  not 
promise to facilitate business. 
It allows  an 
assignee to delay  settlement  as  long  as  he 
chooses, and render his  account  as  he  sees 
fit. 
It gives the  creditor no voice whatever 
in the  distribution  of  assets,  and  compels 
him to waive all future claim on  the  debtor 
when he places his account in the  hands  of 
the assignee.  This question  of a new bank­
rupt law is a vital one, and the best interests 
of the business world demand that it  should 
have immediate attention.

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M.  B.  CHURCH, Manager.

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PAINTER  AND  DECORATOR,

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Central—Grand  Rapids  Division.
Michigan
Detroit Express........................................6:20 a 111
Day Express........................................... 12:46 P m
New York Fast Line.....................................   6:50 pm
Night  Express.............................................10:^p m
Mixed..........................................................1:30 a m
Pacific  Express.............................................   7:30 am
Local  Passenger............................................ 11:50 am
Mail.........................................................   4:50 pm
M ixed......................................................
Grand Rapids Express.........................10:50 p m
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. Schultz, Gen’l Agent.

33.  K N O W L S O N ,

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Fire Brick and  Clay, Cement,

m e, HAIR.COAL  and WOOD.

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Office-

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H.  LEONARD  &  SONS,

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Detroit,  Grand  Haven &  Milwaukee.

GO ING EAST.

Arrives.
■(■Steamboat Express..........   6:36 am
■PThrough  Mail....................10:40 am
■(■Evening  Express.............   4:05 pm
♦Atlantic Express............... 10:05 p m
■(■Mixed, with  coach...........

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

GO ING  W EST.

•♦■Morning  Express.............   1:05 pm
•(■Through  Mail....................  5:15 p m
■(•Steamboat Express......... 10:25p m
■(Mixed..................................   ^
♦NightExpress....................  5:40 a m

1:25 p m 
5:25 p m 
10:30 p m 
7:45 a m 
6:00 a m
+Daily, Sundays excepted.  »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.
Parlor Cars  on Mail  Trains,  both  East  and
^Limited  Express  has  Wagner Sleeping Car 
through to Suspension Bridge and the mail has 
a Parlor Car to  Detroit.  The  Night  Express 
has a through Wagner Car and  local  Sleeping 
Car Detroit to Grand Rapids.

D. P o tter, City Pass. Agent. 
T homas  T andy, Gen’l Pass. Agent,  Detroit.

Dolls!  Dolls!  Dolls!

One Hundred Styles, in  Wax, China, Bis­
que,  Paper  Mache,  Rubber,  Leather  and 
cloth.  Dressed  and  Undressed.  Dolls’ 
Heads and Bodies Separate.  Bathing Dolls, 
French Dolls, Crying and Sleeping  Dolls.

Bohemian  Glassware.

Cologne  Sets,  Card  Receivers,  Yases, 

Mugs, Bouquet Holders, Etc.
Lava  Ware.

Smoking Sets, Tobacco  Boxes,  Spittoons, 
Cuspadores, Match Boxes, and  Many  Other 
Articles.

Tin  and  Wooden  Toys.

Great  Variety,  Both  Imported  and  Do­

mestic.

Bisque  Figures.

Lovely  Goods, from $2 to $24  per  dozen.

Motto  and  Shaving  Cups.

Fifty Styles, 30 cents to $12.50 per  dozen.

Silver  Plated  Ware.

Immense  Stock  of  useful  and 

fancy 
articles, from the  best  makers,  fully  war­
ranted and  sold  at  manufacturers’  prices. 
Castors, Cake  Baskets,  Tea  Sets,  Water 
Sets,  Pickles,  Butter’s,  Card  Receivers, 
Napkin Rings, Knives,  Forks, Spoons etc.

Fancy  Cups  and  Saucers.

Three Hundred Styles,  from  75  cents  to 

$6  per dozen.

Majolica  Ware.

Immense  Assortment Pitchers, Creamers, 
Sugars, Fruit Sets, Butter  Dishes,  Begonia 
Leaves, Bread Plates, Bread and Milk  Sets, 
Molasses  Jugs,  Fruit  Plates, Salad Bowls, 
Etc., Etc.

Mechanical  Toys.

For  Show  Windows.  Dancing  Figures. 

Walking Figures, Bears, Etc.

ALABASTINE!1  THE UNITED STATES 

I s P R H T G   <&  C O M P A N Y

Alabastine is the first and  only  prepara­
tion made from  calcined  gypsum  rock,  for 
application  to  walls  with  a  brush, and  is 
fully  covered  by  our  several  patents  and 
perfected  by  many  years  of  experiments. 
It  is  the  only  permanent  wall  finish,  and 
admits  of  applying  as  many  coats  as  de­
sired, one over another, to any hard  surface1 
without  danger  of  scaling,  or  noticeably 
adding to the thickness of  the  wall,  which 
is  strengthened  and  improved  by  each  ad­
ditional coat, from time  to  time. 
It  is  the 
only material for the purpose not dependent 
upon glue for its adhesiveness ;  furthermore 
it is the only  preparation  that is  clalrned 
to  possess  these  great  advantages,  which 
are  essential  to  constitute  a  durable  wall 
finish.  Alabastine is hardened on  the  wall 
by  age, moisture,  etc.;  the  plaster  absorbs 
the  admixtures,  forming  a  stone  cement, 
while  all  kalsomines,  or  other  whitening 
preparations,  have 
inert  soft  chalks,  or 
glue,  for  their  base,  which  are  rendered 
soft, or  scaled, in  a  very  short  time, thus 
necessitating  the  well-known  great  incon­
venience  and  expense, which  all  have  ex­
perienced,  in  washing  and  scraping  off  the 
old  coats  before  refinishing. 
In   addition 
to the above advantages,  Alabastine  is  less 
expensive,  as  it  requires  but  one-half  the 
number of pounds to cover the same amount 
of surface with two coats, is  ready  for  use 
by  simply  adding  water,  and  is easily ap­
plied  by  any  one.

320 and 322  Broadway, New York.

INSURES AGAINST ACCIDENTS AT HALF THE 

RATES OF STOCK COMPANIES.

$70,000,000 of Insurance ii Force !

NOT  ONE  DOLLAR  OF  INDEBTEDNESS,

HAS  PAID  3,000  CLAIMS.

NO  CLAIMS  UNPAID.

m m  B. FEET, of Bners,P«m 4 Co, Prosili.

JAMES R.PITCEEB, Sortali

— WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN-

F A N C Y   -AJSTD

STAPLE DRY ROODS

OIL.  CLOTHS,

CANAI-'

Grand Rapìds, Mich.

M A T T IN G S,

ETC.,  ETC.

0  andL  8  M onroe  Street,

Grand Rapids,

Michigan.

<&  CO.,

Wholesale  Grocers!

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

OHAMD  HAPIDS, MICHIGAN „

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

Weisiuger  &  Bates’ “Hold  Fast”  Plug!

Elder Evans on  Collecting  Debts.

From the New York Tribune.
All  laws  enforcing  collection  of  debts 
might safely be rescinded.  The money paid 
out to collect  the  debts  of  the  American 
people ecfuals in amount the sums  collected. 
Why, then, not let the debts go  and save all 
the law  machinery  and  personal  vexation 
that attends the  legal  collection  of  money 
loaned?  Let each person  who lends money 
see to it that it  is  repaid  or lost.  Whose 
business is it but that  of the  parties 
inter­
ested?  If the loaning is a matter of  friend­
ship—a favor conferred—the law should not 
intermeddle. 
If it is a business  transaction 
it may safely be  left  in  the  hands  of  the 
parties concerned.  The lender  assumes the 
contingency  that  the borrower  will  be  in 
better financial condition in the  near  or  re­
mote future. 
If lie miscalculates,  it  is  his i 
business, not another’s.  Hear what Horace 
Greeleysaid: 
“I hate lawyers;  they  do  more  misehiei i 
then they are worth.  They cause disorder— 
demoralizing every form of equality, and are 
the chief obstacle to  good  government. 
If 
A lets B have his property  without  paying, 
I don’t see why  C D E and all  the  rest  of 
the  alphabet should be  called  upon  as  a 
police force to get it  back.  No  such  thing 
should be attempted  by law. 
It is the most 
monstrous innovation  upon man’s honor and 
integrity that was ever forced into  the com­
merce  of the world.  Let a  man  trust  an­
other at  his own  risk. 
. Even the  gambler 
pays  his debts  contracted  at  the  gaming­
table.  He is not obliged to pay, but he con­
siders them  debts  of  honor.  Abolish  all 
laws for the  collection  of  debts,  and  thus 
abolish the whole credit system;  this  is  the 
only safe, true  basis;  that  would  abolish 
most lawyers and all of  the  broker’s  trade 
which now controls the commerce of  Amer- 
ica..”
To my  -mind  that  is  good  morality  and 
sound logic.

.

GOING  NORTH.

Grand  Rapids  &  Indiana.
Arrives.
Cincinnati & G. Rapids Ex.  9:30 p m 
Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex.  9:50 am  
Ft.Wayne&MackinacEx..  4:25 pm  
G’d Rapids  & Cadillac  Ac.
G. Rapids & Cincinnati Ex.
Mackinac* Cincinnati Ex.  4:35 pm  
Mackinac & Ft. Way r e Ex.. 10:55 a m 
Cadillac & G’d  Rapids  Ac.  8:20 pm  

GOING  SOUTH.

All trains daily except Sunday.

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

S LE EPIN G  CAR ARRANGEM ENTS.

North—Train  leaving at  5:15  o’clock  p.  m. 
has  Woodruff  Sleeping Cars for 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. Leet, Gen’l Pass. Agent.

Lake  Shore  &  Michigan  Southern.

(KALAMAZOO  D IV IS IO N .)

Arrives.  Leaves.
Express...............................   7:i$ p m   ?:29am
M ail......................................10:00 a m  4:25 p m
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. Abbott, Gen’I Agent.

Chicago & West Michigan.

Leaves.  Arrives,
fMail........................................10:00 am   4:35 pm
+Day  Express.....................   1:15 pm   10:^p m
♦Night  Express......................9:00 pm   6:35 am
♦Daily.  tDaily except Sunday.
Pullman Sleeping Cars  on  all  night trains. 
Through  parlor  car  in  charge  of  careful at­
tendants without extra charge  to Chicago  on 
1:15 p. m., and through coach on 9 p. m. trains.
Leaves.  Arrives
Mixed.....................................   6:20 am   4:00 pm
Express.......  ......................... 3:10 p m  10:10 a m
A. M. N i c h o l s ,  Gen’l Pass. Agent.

NEWAYGO D IV IS IO N .

Holiday  Goods.

do 
po 

do do 

do 
do 

coffees  do 
do 
do 
......6 60
do 
do 

ONE ASSORTED CASE  NO.  1.
1 doz China Motto Teas  assorted.......
.......
1  do 
do 
.......“ 00
do 
do 
.........3 50
do 
do 
........ 0 50
do 
do 
14  do 
do moust  coffe...............3 45
54  do 
do 
do 
.........4 50
54  do 
do do 
do 
1-6 do 
do 
do 
.........7  00
1-6 do 
do 
do 
.........8 50
1-6 do 
tree baskets.......2 25
do 
1-6 do 
Red Bohemian vases...............  75
1-6 do 
Silvered Bohemian  vases.......l  00
1-6 do 
.......125
do 
1-6 do 
.......160
do 
1-6 do
1-6 do  Blue decorated  do 
 
175
1-6 do  Alab. 
................ 5 25
1-6 do Decorated Toy Tea sets............. 7  f l
1 
do 
do 
............. 4 50
1-6 do White 
............. A
do 
54  do Good child cup and saucer........   90
plates.. — . . . ..........  ™
54  do 
do 
54  do  Alphabetical childs  plates....   ¿0
mugs... 
‘u
54  do 
i do  china decorated  mugs...............
. . . . . .......
Id o  
assd........120
»A  do 
54  do 
do 
........1  75
54  do Toy knives and forks.................  1
1  do  China open work baskets..........
1  do  Assorted animal  whistles........
do  China vases...................
Id o  
1 do do 
Pitchers.............................
»4  do 
do  Baskets........................... *
14  do Toy casters,.......
1  Smoking  set........
1 
............. ■—  ••••••
1  do Cloth  dolls [China heads]...
Y i  do 
54  do 
54  do 
1-6 do 
1  do  Kate Greenaway China  ng s 
1-6 do  China decorated wash sets..
1-6 do  do  Doll  heads.....................
1-6 do  do 
.......................

...............5 40
...............9 00

do 
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do 

do 
do 
do 
do 

do
do
do
do

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Tin  Toys.

McAlpin’s  GOXiD  SHIELD  Plug,

Harris’  SEZTTZXTEXa  Plug,

Harris’ XXOITEY  BEE Plug,

And  We  Particularly  Invite the Attention  of Buyers to these  Brands,  as THEY  POSSESS  REAL 

MERIT,  and  will  Please  Both  Dealer and  Customer.

40

1 00 

40 
50 
45

ONE  ASSORTED  PRCKAGE NO. 3.

—Containing—

do 

do 
do 

Animals..........
1 doz. Assorted 
..........
do 
1 
do 
do 
>4 
 
do 
100
.................. 2 00
do 
1-3  do 
do Horse and  Boy......................2 25
1-3 
do 
do do 
1-6 
.........................3 75
do Wagons..................................
1 
do do 
54 
......................................150
% 
do do 
...................................... 2 00
1-6 
do Trucks.....................................4 50
1-12 do  Express................................... 9 00
do Train  Cars.............................. 2 40
1-6 
54 
do Locomotives...........................2 00
1-6  do 
............................. 4 25
1-.12 do  Toy Kitchen........................... 2 25
1-12 do 
............................. 4 50
do Steamboats............................. 2 25
54 
1 
do Toy Banks..............................
1 
do Fancy Cups...............................
1-12 do  Mechanical Locomotive........

do 
do 

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

66 R I V E R S I D E , ”

Which  We  Guarantee  Equal  to  Any  Made,  Both  in  RICHNESS  OF  FLAVOR  AND 

KEEPING  QUALITIES.  Never  Buy  a  Cheap  Cheese for 

Winter Stock.

WE  KEEP  THEFINEST  AND  LARGEST  LINE  OF-----

Package,  40c

$33 63

12 83

TEAS, COFFEES, SYRUPS and SPZCSS

Call  and  See  Us  When  in  the  City.  We  Are  Headquarters  for  Staple  Crockery, 

Glassware,  Lamps,  Chimneys,  Lanterns,  Etc

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

CURRENT QUOTATIONS.

f u r n i s h e d   b y   l e a d i n o   d e a l e r s .

•STAPLE  DRY GOODS.

Spring  &  Company quote as follows :

W ID E   BROW N COTTONS.

Androscoggin, 9-4. .23 
Androscoggin, 8-4. .21
Pepperell,  7-4........16%
Pepperell,  8-4........2P
Pepperell,  9-4........22%

Pepperell, 10-4........25
Pepperell, 11-4........27%
Pequot,  7-4.............18
Pequot,  8-4.............21
Poquot,  9-4.............24

CHECKS.

Caledonia, XX, oz. .11 
Caledonia,  X,oz...lO
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..............10%
Otis  Furniture.......10%
York, 1  oz............... 10
York, AA, extra oz. 14

OSNABURG,

Alabama brown—   7
Jewell briwn..........9%
Kentucky  brown.. 10%
Lewiston  brown...  9%
Lane brown........... 9%
Louisiana  plaid—   8

Alabama plaid.........8
Augusta plaid........   8
Toledo plaid...........   7%
Manchester  plaid..  7 
New Tenn. plaid.. .11 
Utility plaid...........   6%

BLEACHED  COTTONS.

Avondale,  36..........8%|Greene, G,  4-4
Hill, 4-4— .  9
Art  cambrics, 36. ..11% 
Hill, 7-8...j.............   8
Androscoggin, 4-4..  8% 
Hope,  4-4................   7%
Androscoggin, 5-4.. 12%
King  Phillip  cam­
Ballou, 4-4...............  7%
bric, 4-4.................H%
Ballou, 5-4...............  6
Linwood,  4-4..........9
Boott,  0.4-4............  8%
Lonsdale,  4-4—  ...  9% 
Booti,  E. 5-5__
Lonsdale  cambric. 12 
9%
Boott, AGC, 4-4.
5% Langdon, GB, 4-4...  9% 
Boott, R. 3-4—  
7% Langdon,  45........... 14
Blackstone, AA 4-4.
Mason ville,  4-4......9%
Chapman, X, 4-4—   6%
Maxwell. 4-4...........10%
Conway,  4-4
New York Mill, 4-4.11% 
Cabot, 4-4................   7%
New Jersey,  4-4....  8 
Cabot, 7-8................   6%
Pocasset,  P. M. C..  7% 
Canoe,  3-4...............  4
. wpBt  121/
Pride«
Domestic,  36.........  7%
Pocahontas,  4-4. 
Dwight Anchor, 4-4.10
Slaterville, 7-8—  
Davol, 4-4................9%
Victoria, AA—  
Fruit of Loom, 4-4..  9%
Woodbury, 4-4—  
Fruit of Loom, 7-8..  8%
Whitinsville,  4-4 
Fruit of  the Loom,
Whitinsville, 7-8. 
cambric,  4-4........12
Wamsutta, 4-4... 
Gold Medal, 4-4..  ..  7
Williamsville,  36
Gold Medal, 7-8.......6%
Gilded Age............. 8%

6%
11%
10%

— 

CORSET JE A N S.
■_____ 
_____ 8%
Armory...................   7%|Kearsage
Androscoggin sat..  8% Naumkeagsatteen. 8%
'  pepperell bleached 8%
Canoe River...........   6%
Pepperell sat.9%
Clarendon...............  6%
Rockport.  7%
Hallo well  Imp.......6%
Lawrence sat.8%
Ind. Orch. Imp.......6%
Conegosat.  7
Laconia..................  7%

P R IN T S .

B

8%

..  9

F IN E  BROW N  COTTONS.

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¡Johns 
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WIDE BLEACHED

Albion,  solid...............5%¡Gloucester................ . . 6
Albion,  grey...........6  Gloucestermourn g.b
Allen’s  checks....... 6  Hamilton  fancy....6
Alien’s  fancy..........6  Hartel fancy........... 6 %
Allen’s pink.............6% Merrimac D.............6%
Allen’s purple..........6% Manchester.............b%
American, fancy__ 6  Oriental  fancy........o
Arnold fancy...........6% ¡Oriental  robes........6
Berlinsolid.............. 5% Pacific  robes........... 7
Cocheco fancy........6%¡Richmond................ 6%
Cocheco robes......... 7  Steel River.............. b
Simpson s, 
Conestoga fancy— 6
Washington fancy. 
Eddystone...............6%
Washington  blues.
Eagle fancy.............5
Garner pink.............7
Indian Orchard, 40.  8%
Appleton A, 4-4....  8 
Indian Orchard, 36.  8
Boott  M, 4-4 
Laconia B, 7-4........16%
Boston F, 4-4 
Lyman B, 40-in...... 10%
Continental C, 4-3..
Continental D, 40in ¿¿¡Mass. BB, 4-4.........6%
Nashua  É, 40-in—   9
Conestoga W, 4-4... 
5%|Nashua  R, 4-4........  71
Conestoga  D, 7-8... 
6% Nashua 0 ,7-8.
Conestoga G, 30-in.
Dwight  X ,3-4........  6  ¡NewmarketN  .....
Dwight Y, 7-8..........6% | Pepperell E, 39-in..
Dwight Z, 4-4............7  Pepperell  R, 4-4....
Dwight Star, 4-4....  7% Pepperell  0,7-8.... 
Ewight Star, 40-in..  9  Pepperell N ,3-4... 
Enterprise EE, 36..  6^4 Pocasset  0,4*4—
Great Falls E, 4-4...  7% Saranac  R.............
Farmers' A ,4-4.......6% Saranac  L ...
Indian  Orchard, 4-4 7% j
DOM ESTIC GINGHAM S.
Amoskeag.............  8% ¡Renfrew, dress sty 110%
Amoskeag, Persian 
styles.................... 10
Bates.......................  8
Berkshire.............   7
Glasgow checks....  7 
Glasgow checks, f’y  7 
Glasgow 
checks, 
royal  styles........9
Gloucester, 
standard  .
Plunket__
Lancaster.. 
Langdale.
Androscoggin, 7-4.. 21  jPeppere 1.  10-4... 
Androscoggin, 8-4. .23  Pepperell,  11-4...
Pepperell,  7-4........20  Pequot, 
,-4..........
Pepperell,  84........22% Pequot,  8-4..........
Pepperell,  9-4........25  ¡Pequot,  9-4..........
. .  8%
Atlantic  A, 4-4.......7% Lawrence XX, 44
Atlantic  H, 44...... 7% Lawrence  Y, 30
Atlantic  D, 44...... 6% Lawrence LL, 44...  6%
i\Totinnorlrot M 
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it 
Newmarket N 
Atlantic P, 44........  6
5%|My8tie River, 44
Atlantic  LL, 44 
______  
¡Pequot A, 4-4....,
Adriatic, 36
Augusta, 44...........   6% ¡Piedmont,  36....
8 
Boott M, 4-4...........   7%¡Stark AA, 4-4....
Boott  FF, 4-4..........  7%;Tremont CC, 4-4.
6 
.  9 
Graniteville, 4-4—   7  Utica,  4-4..........
.  7%
Indian  Head, 4-4...  8  Wachusett,  44.. 
.  6%
Indiana Head 45-in. 12% ¡Wachusett,  30-in 
.18% 
Falls, XXXX........
Amoskeag,  ACA... 15 
.15% 
Falls, XXX...........
Amoskeag  “ 4-4. .19 
Falls,  BB...............
.11% 
.14
Amoskeag,  A —
BBC, 36......
.19% 
Amoskeag,  B ....... 13  Ealls,
.19 
awning......
Amoskeag,  C----- 12  ¡Falls
Hamilton,  BT, 32.
.12 
Amoskeag,  D ......11
.10
Amoskeag,  E ........10% ¡Hamilton,  D
Hamilton,  H ..........10
Amoskeag, F ....................10  ”  “
Hamilton  fancy...10
Premium  A, 44 — 17
Met huen AA..........14%
Premium  B ............16
Methuen ASA........18
Extra 44...................16
.14% ¡Omega  A, 7-8..........11
Extra 7-8........
¡Omega A, 44 ..........13
...... 15 
Gold Medal 4-4
.. ,12%|Omega ACA, 7-8— 14 
OCA 7-8..........
¡Omega ACA, 44— 16
CT 44 ....................... 14
¡Omega SE, 7-8........24
RC 7-8....................... 14
Omega SE, 44 ........27
BF 7-8....................... 16
¡Omega M. 7-8..........22
A F 44....................... 19
Omega M, 44 ..........25
Cordis AAA, 32.......14
ShetucketSS&SSW 11% 
Cprdis  AC A, 32....... 15
Shetucket, S & SW.12 
Cordis No. 1,32.......15
¡Shetucket,  SFS — 12 
Cordis  No. 2............ 14
Stock bridge  A.
Cordis  No. 3............13
Cordis  No. 4........... 11%¡Stockbridge  frncy.  8

HEAVY  BROW N  COTTONS.

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TICKINGS

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CARPETS  AND  CARPETINGS. 

Spring  & Company  quote  as follows:

90
90
85
70
65
82%
70
82%
65
@1  00 
@1  00 
@1  00 
@  97%
®  77% 
©  82% 
@  77% 
©  62%

60

TH UEE-PLY S.

EXTRA  SU PERS.

W OOL  F IL L IN G   AND  M IXED.

TA PESTRY BRUSSELS.
Roxbury  tapestry..........................
Smith’s 10 wire.................................
Smith’s  extra..................................
Smith’s B  Palisade.........................
Smith’s C  Palisade.........................
Higgins’  * * .......................................
Higgins’  * * * ......................................
Sanford’s extra...............................
Sanford’s Comets............................
Hartford  3-ply................................
Lowell 3-ply.....................................
Higgins’  3-ply..................................
Sanford’s 3-ply.................................
Hartford..........................................
Lowell...............................................
Other  makes....................................
Best cotton chain............................
ALL  W OOL  SU PER F IN ES.
B«3st  2 -p ly ....................................  g.%©
Other grades 2-ply..........................   52%@
All-wool  super, 2-ply..... .. .. .. .. .   50  @
Extra heavy double cotton chain.  42%@
35  @ 
Double cotton chain............. • • ■ • •
30  @ 
Heavy cotton and wool, double c 
27%@ 
Half d’l chain, cotton & wool, 2-ply
19  @
Single cotton chain.........................
27%@
3-ply, 4-4 wide, extra heavy...........
@
B, 4-4 w ide................._......................
@
Imperial, plain, 4-4 wide................
@
D, 33  inches......................................
®
No. 1, 4-4,5-4,6-4 and 8-4..................
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No. 2, 
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No. 3, 
..................
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No. 4, 
..................
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Best ail rattan, plain........... .  —
©
Best all rattan and cocoa, plain...
@
Napier A ...........................................
©
Napier  B...........................................
©
Opaque shades, 38  inch..................
Holland shades, B finish, 4-4..........
@
Pacific  Holland, 4-4.........................
@36
Hartshorn’s fixtures, per gross...
@10
Cord fixtures, per gross................

O IL  CLOTHS.

do
do 
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METTINGS.

CURTRINS.

HEM PS.

18%
17
45
37%
30

62%
52%
50
40
15
18
10

45
40
32%
32%

STAPLE  GROCERIES.

AXLE GREASE.

Modoc.......$  doz  60
Diamond.............   60

Paragon. . .   ^  doz  65 
Frazer’s ...............  85

B L U IN G .  .

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

45
35
65

BROOMS.

No. 1 Carpet..............................................  ^ 50
No. 1 Hurl. 
....................................  2 00
No. 2 Hurl  ...............................................  
i  2«
1 25 
Fancy Whisk.......................................
85
Common Whisk..................................

CANNED GOODS.

Pie Peaches........1 25
3ftStandard 2 00@2 25 
Apples, 3 fl>........1 25
...  2 15 
...  3 40 
1@1  10 
...  1  15
40

do.  6 lb 
do.  gall« 
Strawberri 
Blackberri 
Raspberrit 
Cherries, r 
cherries w 
Pineapple! 
Damsons. 
Egg Plums 
Gages  —
Pears.......
Lusk’s Api 
Tomatoes 
Corn,  Exc«

1 
ed..
1 
hite
1 
1
........ 1
........  1
............1
.......  1
icots.  2 
.1 05@1

Corn, Trophy...  1  15 
Corn, Yarmouth  1 35
Peas__ 75@1 25@1 50
String Beans... 
85
Lima Beans........   85
Lewis’ B’dBeans.l 70 
Pumpkin. .1 15® 1 25 
¡Succotash  ... 1 65@90
Oysters,  1 ft__   110
¡Oysters,  2 f t — 185
Salmon__ 1 60®
Lobsters, Stars.. 1 75
Sardines, Am......   8
Sardines  Inport.  13 
Corned Beef 2 75@2 80 
Cond. Milk, Eagle
8  10

case

110 
.  CO FFEE.

|

CAPS.

F R U IT S .

CORDAGE.

@18%
@20
@16
@17

2 50 
1  75 
1 95
8%@  8% 
7%

Roasted Mar. 
Roasted Mex.18 
p  round  Rio.. 10 
Ground  Mex.

Green Rio__ 12  @15
Green Java.. .18  @28 
Green Mocha.27  @29 
Roasted Rio. .11 %@18
Roasted  Java23  @32
72 foot J u te .......1  25  ¡60 foot Cotton— 2  00
60 foot Jute.......1  05  ¡50 foot Cotton —  1  7o
G.  D....................   35  ¡Ely’s Waterproof  75
Musket...............   75 
London Layers, new.......................
Loose Muscatels Raisins, old........
Loose Muscatels Raisins,  new—
New Valencias  Raisins..................
Turkey Prunes.................................. .
Citron......................................................  1*^2
8  @9
Dried Apples
6%@7
Whole Cod.......................................
5%@9%
Boneless Cod..................................
•  3 25 
Herring % bbls...............................
30@ 31 
Herring Scaled............................• •
1  10 
Herring Holland............................
6  00 
White Fish % bb ls.....................
85@90 
do.  Kits.............................
4 85 
Trout half bbls...............................
85 
do.  K its......................................
6 50 
Mackerel half bbls No. 1...............
1  00
do. Kits  No. 1 .........................
........2 70
Richardson’s No. 2  square..........
........1 55
do
Richardson’s No. 3 
........ 1 70
do
Richardson’s No. 5 
........ 2 70
do
Richardson’s No. 6 
........ 1 70
do
Richardson’s No. 8 
........ 2 55
do
Richardson’s No. 9
0
Richardson’s No. 4 round ..
Richardson’s No. 7  do 
..............................2 55
Richardson’s No. 7% do
¡3 80
Electric Parlor No. 17........................
.5 70
Electric Parlor No. 18........... .
20 gross lots special price,
MOLASSES.

MaTCHES. 

FISH.

O IL .

do. 

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OATMEAL.

16%
131/
1 no 
75
1  00
2 35 
2 55 
6  00 
6 75
...5 7 
...3 50
.................4 50
.................4 25
.................2 50
8- 94
9- 31 
9-20 
8-56 
8-44
@8
%@7% 

Black Strap........19@20|New Orleans f'y.62@65
Porto  Rico..........  @35 Syrups, corn.^.  @34
New Orleans g^d.  @4o|Syrups, sug27@35@4o 
Kerosene  W. W..................................
Leghl test..........................
Sweet, 2 oz. square.............................
Sweet, 2  oz. round.............................
Castor, 2 oz.  square............................
Castor, 2 oz. round.............................
Quaker 2 ft cases, 48 fts ^  cfse........
do  5 ft cases, 60 fts $  case............
Imperial  bbls....................................
Quaker bbls.........................................
P IC K LES.
Dingee’s barrels med.........................
Dingee’s % 
.......- • •
Dingee’s % 
small..
Dingee’s quarts glass fancy.
do 
Dingee’s pints
SUGARS.
Granulated__
Cut Loaf..........
Powdered........
Conf. A ...........
Standard A __
Extra C............
Fine C
Yellow....................................................
Kirk’s American  Family........... ^ ft
do. 
India.........................................
do.  Savon  .......................................
do.  Satinet......................................
do.  Revenue  ..................................
do.  W'hite Russian.........................
Bell’s German Family.........................
do.  Mono.................................. ........
Goodrich’s English Family  ...............
Princess............................
Proctor & Gamble’s Ivory
Japan  O live........
Town Talk  ^ box
Golden Bar...........
Arab.......................
Amber....................
Mottled  German..

6%
6%
6
55
5 40
4 00 

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

5 Vi 

SOAP.

do. 

5% 
4%

® T

6 75
3 70
4 20 
3 45
3 75
4 20
3 00
5 50
4 25 
13 
12

 

 

 

SALT.

STARCH.

@ 5%

2 40 
1  10

Sidall’s ..................................
Babbitt’s ...............................
Dish R ag..............................
White castile  bars...............
Mottled castile.....................
Old  Style...............................
SPICES.
Ground Pepper,  in boxes and cans...  J6@22
Ground  Allspice....................................  12@20
Cinnamon................................................  16@30
20@25
Cloves.......................................... 
Ginger......................................................  ¡J5@20
15@35
Mustard
25
Cayenne...................................................
70
Pepper % ft $  dozen.............................
65
Allspice  %ft..............................;...........
70
Cinnamon  % f t ............. *......................
75
Cloves %  ft..............................................
©18
Pepper,  whole................ 
1”
 
@12
Allspice...............................................
@12
Cassia...................................................  „„
@22
Cloves...................................................  20
@75
Nutmegs,  No. 1.................................   «9
@7
Muzzy Gloss 1 ft package...................'.
Muzzy Gloss 3 ft package.....................
< m i/i@7%
Muzzy  Gloss 6 ft boxes.........................
@6
Muzzy Gloss bulk..................................
7  @7% 
Muzzy Corn l f t ...................................... 
'
@8% 
Kingsford Silver Gloss.........................
@9%
Kingsford Silver Gloss 6 ft  box..........
8%@9
Kingsford Corn......................................
@6%
Oswego  Gloss.........................................
@7
Mirror  Gloss...........................................
@7%
Mirror Gloss, corn.................................
60 P ocket..................... .........................
28 Pocket................ t ..............................
Saginaw F ine.........................................
H em p........
Canary .......
R ape..........
Mixed Bird.
Jugs 
gallon.
Crocks.............
Milk Crocks...
Rising  Sun gross..5  88|Dixon’s  gross........5 50
Universal...............5  88 Above fi dozea.......   50
1 X L .......................5 50|
DeLand’spure  © 5%¡Cap Sheaf.......  @5%
Churh’8 ..........  @ 5% Dwight’s ........   ©5%
Taylor’s G. M.  @ 5%|
Japan  ordinary..23®25
Japan fair............25@30
Japan fair to g’d.30@37
Japan fl ne............40@50
Japan dust...........14@20
TOBACCO— F IN E   CUT.
Wide  Awake.................................
Daisey..............................................
Hiawatha........................................
Globe...............................................
May Flower....................................
Rose  Leaf.......................................
Silver  Crown.................................
Owl  Club.........................................
Ripper  ............................................
Ripper in % bbls............................
Hero.................................................
A tlas................................................
Royal Game....................................
Silver Thread........... .....................
Old  Dog Tray........... .....................
Seal...................................................
Kentucky........... ............................
Clipper............................................
j Mule Ear. 
Hiawatha

Young Hyson__ 25@50
Gun  Powder.......35@50
Oolong................33@55
Congo.................   @30

38
30
69
70 
70 
65
• 35 
30 
30 
@28 
©45 
@35 
@38 
@67 
@60 
@60 
@30 
©30
23
23

5%®6
@8

STOVE PO L IS H .

STONEW ARE.

SALERATUS.

5%
4%

M ISCELLANEOUS.

51
@22
@16
@30
@26
@26
@28
@23

do  waterproof
do 

PLU G .
@48
______________ _____ ■ ■ ____  
Sentinel 17 ft and 28 ft cads.
Climax * ¡7........ r....................................  @50@48
Honey Bee 28 ft  cads...........
Hold F ast...............................................   @*2
@48
76”
@37
Dog On It
McAlpin’s Gold Shield..........................   @*ff
Nickle Nuggets 6 and 12 ft  cads..........  @51
Chocolate Cream 4 and 8 ft cads..........  @50
My Choice 3 oz pocket  pieces.............   @34
My Choice 16 oz pieces..........................   ©33
Cock of the Walk  6s..............................  @37
Black Spun  Roll..................... :.............  @5°
@50
Nimrod....................................
@50
Acorn .........................................
@45
Red Seal......................................
@44
Crescent ......
Black  X ...................................................  @35
..........  @40
Black  Bass__
............   @35
True Grit.................................
...........   @50
Nobby Spun Roll..................
SM OKING.
25@26
D im e.......................... .
23 
Peerless....................................
20 
Standard.................................
19
Old Tom..................................
24
Tom & Jerry..........................
25 
Joker.......................................
35
Traveler..................................
@25
Maiden....................................
28
Topsy  ......................................
24
Navy Clippings.....................
25 
Honey D ew ............................
34 
Gold Block.............................
22 
Camp Fire  ..............................
21
Oronoko..................................
26 
Nigger  Head..........................
60
Durham, % f t .........................
do  % f t .........................
do  % f t .........................
do 
1 f t ........................
Holland..................................
German............. ....................
Long Tom...............................
National..................................
T im e............. ..........................
Love’s Dream.........................
Conqueror..................... ........
''ox’s .......................................
VIN EGA R.
.  12 
Pure  Cider..............................
.  12
White Wine............................
YEAST.
1 80
Seneca Falls “ Rising  Sun ” ..
¡Wilsons...............1 75
Twin Bros..........1 75
¡National..............1 85
Gillett’s ............. 1 75
Blacking.........................................30, 40,50@60
1 60 
95 
Bath Brick imported.......................
•  65 
American.......................
%@ 3 
Barley.................................................
1  10
Burners, No. 1 ..................................
1 75 
do  No.  2...................................
Bags, American A ............................
20  00
10@22
Baking Powder, bu lk......................
2 30
Beans,  medium.................................
Beans, hand picked...............................  
2 75
Butter......................................................   20@24
Butterine................................................  19@23
Cream Tartar 5 and 10 ft cans.............   @25
Candles, Star...........................................  @15%
Candles,  Hotel............................. 
  @16%
Chocolate, Baker’s ...............................   @40
German sweet....................  @27
Cheese full cream choice.....................   13@13%
Catsup quarts $   dozen.........................1 35@
@25%
Cocoanut,  Schepps’ lftpackages. 
jocoanut,  Schepps’ 1 & % ft  do 
@26%
Extract Coffee,  v. c.....................?  .... 
F elix........................... 1  0@
Flour, Star Mills, in bb ls..................... 6  0©
in Sacks.......................5  5@
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps.......................  @25
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps.......................   @40
Gum, Spruce.............................................  35@40
Chimneys No.  1......................................  @35
@45
Indigo................................................................1 00®
Ink 1) 3 dozen  box..........................................1 00@
Jelly in Pails...........................................  @7%
do  Glass Tumblers $  doz..................  @85
Licorice.....................................................  20@30
Licorice Root.........................................   @12
Lye fi 2  doz. cases.................................1 55®
Macaroni,  Imported..............................  @13
Mince Pies, 1 gross cases, $  case.............   @6 00
Domestic............. .'..............   ®  6
French Mustard,  8 oz $   dozen...........   @85 •
Oil Tanks, Star 55  gallons................   12 00@ *
Oil Tanks, Patent 5o gallons....................... 14 00@
Pipes, Imported Clay 3 gross....................... 2 25®
do  American  T. D..........................   90@1 00
Pepper Sauce.........................................  90@1 00
Peas, Green Bush........................................... 1 50@
do  Split prepare«!..............................  3  ® 3%
Powder,  Keg........................................... 5 50®
do  % Keg...................................... 3 00@
R ice..........................................................5@6@ 7
Sago  ........................................................  @  6
Shot, drop........ ,.....................................1 90@
do  buck...............................................2 15®
Sage.........................................................   @15
Curry Combs $  doz.................., ...........1 2o@
Molasses Gates each..............................  @45
Measuring Faucet each ....................... 2 75@
Tobacco Cutters each ...........................1 25@
ChimneyCleaners $   doz.......................  @50
Flour Sifters $  doz................................3 00@
Fruit Augurs each....................:...........1 25@
Tapioca...................................................  @ 5%
Washing Crystal, Gillett’s box............1  50@1 65
Wicking No. 1 ^ gross..........................   @40
do  No. 2  ......................................  @65
do  Argand................................... 1 50@

Large  Gothic............. 1 35@

No.  2...................  

do 
do 

do 

do 

do 

do 

95

. 

 

 

 

Washing Powder, 1776 

f t ..................  @10%
Gillett's $   ft............  @ 7%
Soapine pkg............  

7@10

do 
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Vanilla.

Boraxine $  box...................................... 3 75@
JE N N IN G S ’  DOUBLE  CONCENTRATED  EXTRACTS. 
Packed in 1 Dozen Paper or 2 Dozen Wood Box.
Lemon.
2 ounce B. N. Panel  f) dozen.........................1 00
do 
4  do 
.........................1 75
do 
....2 75
............. .
do 
do
6,  do 
__ 3 75
...............
do 
do
8  do 
....1  25 
.............
do 
No. 2 Taper Panel 
....2 00 
...............
do 
No. 4 
do 
....4  50 
.............
do 
% pint round 
....9  00 
.............
do 
1 
do 
....3  25 
<lo 
No. 8 Panel 
..................
__ 4 5o
.............
do 
No. 10  do
...... 1  50
2 ounce B. N. Panel 
dozen.............
...... 2 75
do
.............
do 
4 do
...... 4 00
........ .
do 
do
6 do
.......5 00
do
.............
do 
8 do
.......1  75
No. 2 Taper Panel 
.............
do 
.......3 00
.............
do 
No. 4 
do 
.......7 50
% pint round 
do 
.............
....15 00
do 
1 
do 
.............
.......4 25
No. 8  Panel 
.............
do 
.............
do 
No. 10  do
........6  00
TRUE  FLAVORING
Full Measure—Wrapped. 
Lemon.
dozen.....................
do 
do 
do 
Vanilla.
« dozen__
__
do 
do 
__
do 
__

% Pint 4 
% Pint 8 
\  Pint 12
% Pint 2 ounce 
% Pint 4  do 
% Pint 8  do 
M Pint 12  do

Pint 2 ounce 

..1  50 
..2 50 
..5  00 
. .7  50

..4 00 
..8   00 
.12  00

JENNINGS

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PROVISIONS,

PO R K .

The  Grand Rapids' Packing &  Provision  Co. 

quote  as  follows:
New Heavy Mess Pork................ fl  bbl $13 00
Old Heavy Mess  Pork............................  H 37%
New Family Clear P ork.........................  15 00
New Extra Clear Pork, A. Webster’s ..  15 00
New Extra Clear Pork............................  16 00
New Boston Clear Pork..........................  16 00
New Standard Clear P ork.....................   16 00
On orders less than five bbl. lots 25 cts. 

extra.

LA RD.

do. 
do. 

7
7%
7
7%
7
7%
7%
«%
7%

DRY  SALT MEATS—IN   BOXES.
Long Clears, heavy, 500 ft.  Cases.......... 
do. 
HalfCases.............  
Long Clear medium, 500 ft  Cases.......... 
HalfCases.......... 
do 
Long Clears light, 500 ft Cases............... 
do. 
Half Cases..............  
Short Clears, heavy................................. 
medium.............................. 
light....................................  
Tierces  ............. -......................................
8%
30 and 50 ft Tubs...................................... 
50 ft Round Tins, 100 ft  Racks............... 
8%
9
3 ft Pails, 20 in a case.............................. 
8%
5 ft Pails, 12 in a case.............................. 
10 ft Pails, 6 in a case — ....................... 
8%
14%
Hams cured in sweet pickle medium.. 
light........  
14%
7%
Shoulders cured in sweet pickle.......... 
Extra Clear Bacon..................................  
10
11
Dribd B eef...............................................  
Extra Dried B eef.................................... 
13
Extra Mess Beef Chicago packed $  bbl.  11 50 
Libby, McNeil & Libby, 14 ft cans, % doz.

SMOKED  MEATS—CANVASSED  O R  PL A IN .

LARD IN  T IN  P A IL S .

CANNED B EEF.

incase......................................................  I® 00
2 ft cans, 1 doz. in case—   2 85
do. 
Armour & Co., 14 ft cans, % doz in case  19 00 
do. 
2 ft cans, 1 doz. in  ease..  2 85
do. 2 ft Compr’d Ham, 1 doz. in case 4 50 
Kansas City, 14 ft cans, % doz in case... 18 50 
press, subject always to Market changes.

Prices named are  lowest  at time of going to 

BEEF.

do. 

DRUGS,  DYES  AND  CHEMICALS.

Advanced—Oil Pennyroyal, Castor Oil. 
Declined—Balsam Peru,  Calomel,  Corrosive 
Sublimate,  Roman  Chamomile  Flowers,  Oil 
Bergamont, Iodine, Red Precipitrate.

Hazeltine, Perkins &  Co. quote as follows:

AC ID S.

$ f t

Acetic,  No. 8..........................
Acetic,  C. P. (Sp. grav. 1.040)
Carbolic..................................
Citric.......................................
Muriatic 18  deg.....................
Nitric 36 deg.........................
Oxalic.:..................................
Sulphuric  66 deg.............................. 
Tartaric  powdered.........................
Benzoic,  English....................$  oz
Benzoic,  German............................  12
Tannic...............................................  15

@

11
14%@ 
@
3

AM MONIA.

Carbonate.................................ft  19
Muriate (Powd. 22c)
Aqua 16 deg or  3f..
Aqua 18 deg or 4f............................ 

6
«

BALSAMS.

Copaiba........................................'•
Fir......................................................
Peru............. ....................................
Tolu..................................................

BARKS.

Cassia, in mats (Pow’d20c)...........
Cinchona,  yellow..........................
Elm,  select.......................................
Elm, ground, pure..........................
Elm, powdered,  pure.....................
Sassafras, of root............................
Wild Cherry, select........................
Cubeb, prime (Powd  $1)................
Juniper.............................................  6
Prickly Ash......................................1 26

B E R R IE S.

EXTRACTS.

Licorice (10 and 25 ft boxes, 25c)...
Licorice,  powdered, pure.............
Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 ft doxes).
Logwood, Is (25 ft  boxes)...............
do 
Logwood, %s 
...............
do 
Logwood, %s 
...............
...............
Logwood, ass’d  do 
Fluid Extracts—25 
cent, off list.

FLO W ERS.

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

GUMS.

Aloes, Cape (Powd  24c)..................
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd  60c)..........
Arabic, extra  select.......................
Arabic,  powdered select...............
Arabic, 1st picked..........................
Arabic, 2d picked............................
Arabic, 3d pickad............................
Arabic, sifted sorts.........................
Assafoetida, prime (Powd 37c).......
Camphor..........................................
Catechu. Is (% s 14c, %s 16c)
Guaiac, prime (Powd  45c).............
Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 47c)...
Opium, pure (Powd 85.40)..............
Shellac, Campbell’s ........................
Shellac,  English.............................
Shellac,  native................................
Tragacanth  .....................................

12
18
15
13
15
10
12

1 00 

@  7
@1 35

37%
9
12
13 
15
14

©  12

18
30
24®  25 
13 
35 
40 
3 90 
4p 
88 
28
@1  10

30

IR O N .

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

LEA VES.

16
Buchu, short (Powd 25c)............
Sage, Italian, bulk (%s & %s, 15c)...
Senna,  Alex, natural.....................   18
Senna, Alex, sifted and« garbled..
Senna,  powdered............................
Uva  Ursi...........................................

LIQU ORS.

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

M AGNESIA.

Carbonate, Pattison’s, 2 oz...........
Carbonate, Jenning’s, Z oz.............
Citrate, H., P. & Co.’s  solution—  

6 40 
20

17
6
20
30
10

®

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

23
37

2

O ILS.

1 00

Almond, sweet.................................  45  @
Amber,  rectified............................«
Anise........................................................ 
Bergamont.............................................. 
Cajeput............................................
Cassia...............................................
Cedar, commercial  (Pure 75c).......
Citronella.......................................
Cloves...............................................
Cubebs, P. &  W...............................
Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75c)..
Juniper wood..................................
Juniper berries...............................
Lavender flowers- French.............
Lavender garden  do 
..............
Lavender spike 
.............
do 
Lemon, new  crop............................
Lemon,  Sanderson’s .......................
Origanum, red  flowers, French...
Origanum,  No. 1..............................
Pennyroyal ...*................................
Peppermint,  white................._—
Rosemary, French  (Flowers $5)...
Sandal  Wood, German..................
Sandal Wood, Turkish  Dark........
Sassafras..........................................
Tansy  ...............................................
Tar (by gal 60c)................................
Wintergreen.....................
Wormwood, No. 1 (Pure $'
Cod Liver, filtered..........
Cod Liver, best................
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 1
Olive, Malaga....................
Olive, “Sublime  Italian’  .
Salad..................................
Rose,  Ihmsen’s ................

50 
48 
10 
2
2 20 
2
75 
95 
40 
90
1 25 
5 50
40
50
2 25 
2 40 
90 
2  00 
2  20
1 25 
50
2  00 
2 85
65 
5 00 
65
4 00 
©  12
2 35
5 00
1 75 
4 00
6 00 
©1  20
2 50 
©  67
10 50

8 00 

f  gal

$ o z

.50).

65

10

POTASSIUM .

Bicromate.................................^ ft
Bromide, cryst. and gran. bulk...
Chlorate, cryst (Powd 23c).............
Iodide, cryst. and  gran, bulk.......

ROOTS.

Althea, cut.......................................
Arrow,  St. Vincent’s .....................
Arrow, Taylor’s, in %s and %s—
Blood (Powd 18c)..............................
Calamus,  peeled.............................
Calamus, German  white, peeled.
Elecampane, powdered............. •..
Gentian (Powd  17c(.......................
Ginger, African (Powd 16c)..........
Ginger, Jamaica  bleached..........
Golden Seal (Powd 40c).................
Hellebore, white, powdered........
Ipecac, Rio, powdèred..................
Jalap,  powdered............................
Licorice,  select (Powd 12%)........
Licorice, extra select....................
Pink, true.......................................
Rhei, from sélect to  choice........
Rhei, powdered E. I .......................
Rhei, choice cut  cubes................
Rhei, ctioice cut fingers...............
Sarsaparilla,  Hondurus...............
Sarsaparilla,  Mexican..................
Squills, white (Powd  35c).............
Valerian, English (Powd 30c).......
Valerian, Vermont (Powd 28c)...

SEEDS.

18 
33 
20 
1 35

17 
45 
12
18 
38 
23 
13 
14, 
20 
35 
18 
10
12 
15 
35 
©1 50 
@1 20 
2  00 
2 25
18
10
20

13  @

1  00 
1  10

Aniso, Italian (Powd 20c)...............
5
Bird, mixed in ft  packages...........  
Canary,  Smyrna.............................  
4
Caraway, best Dutch (Powd  19c)..  11
Cardamon,  Aleppee.......................
Cardamon, Malabar........................
Coriander, best  English........
Flax,  clean...............................
Flax, pure grd (bbl 3%)..........
Foenugreek, powdered..........
Hemp,  Russian....................
Mustard, white (Black  10c)...
Quince......................................
Rape, Lnglish..........................
Worm,  Levant.........................
SPONGES.
Florida sheeps’ wool, carriage
do 
Nassau 
do
Velvet Extra do 
do
Extra Yellow do 
do 
.......
do 
Grass 
.......
do 
Hard head, for slate use................
Yellow Reef, 
................

do 
MISCELDANEUS.

13
6
4%
12
20
50
12
4
3$£@
4%
4  @
9
8  @ 
4 ? m   5
8
1  00 
7%@  8
14

1  10 

©2 50 
2 0 0. 
85 
65
1 40

Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.24) $  gal —  
Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref.
Bay  Rum, imported, best.........
Bay Rum, domestic, H., P. &  Co.’s.
2%@ 
Alum.........................................  ^ ft
3  ©
Alum, ground  (Powd 9c)...............
Annatto,  prime..............................
4%@ 
Antimony, powdered,  com’l........
6
Arsenic, white, powdered.............
Beans,  Tonka..................................
Beans,  Vanilla.................................7  00

2 34
1 50
2 75
3%4
32

2 60 
@9 75

®

2$

7%

do 
do 

@1 00 

2 20 
45 
©  9
14 
1 40 
18 
20 
18 
4 00
14 
70
@  18%
1 60 
1  70 
1 90 
1 75 
@1 05 
@  85 
©  22 
38
60
©  39
15 
50 
24

Bismuth, sub  nitrate.......  ............
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c).......................
Blue Vitriol.....................................  
Borax, refined (Powd  15c).............
Cantharides, Russian  powdered..
Capsicum  Pods, African...............
Capsicum Pods, African  pow’d ... 
Capsicum Pods,  American  do  ...
Carmine,  No. 40...............................
Cassia  Buds......................................
Calomel.  American........................
Castor  Oil.........................................  17
Chalk, prepared drop.....................
Chloral hydrate, German  crusts..
Chloral do 
cryst...
Chloral 
do  Scherin’s  do  ...
Chloral do 
crusts..
Chloroform......................................1 00
Cinchonidia......................................  80
Cloves (Pow«l 28c)............................  20
Cochineal................ ........................
Copperas (by bbl  lc).......................
Corrosive Sublimate..................... -
Corks, X and XX—35 off  list —
Cream Tartar, pure powdered.....  37 
Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 ft box..
CreaBote............................................
Cudbear,  prim e.,............................
Cuttle Fish Bone.............................
Emery, Turkish, all  No.’s.............
Epsom Salts...................................... 
Ergot, fresh......................................
Ether, sulphuric, U. S.  P ...............
Gelatine,  Cooper’s ..........................
Gelatine. French............................  45
Glassware, flint, 60 off,by box 50 off
Glassware, green, 60 and 10 dis__
@  17 
Glue,  cabinet..................................   12
@  28 
Glue,white.......................................   I"
@  28 
Glycerine,  pure...............................   25
Indigo...............................................   85
@  34 
Insect Powder, best  Dalmatian...  32
2 30 
Iodine,  resublimed........................
1 50 
Isinglass,  American.......................
9 
Japonica ..........................................
15 
Lead, acetate....................................
Lime, chloride, (%s 2s 9c & %s 10c).
8 
60 
Mace........................
13
Madder, best  Dutch
Manna, S.  F ...................................... 
'*»
Mercury............................................ 
48
3 3* >
f  oz
Morphia, sulph., P. & VV........
40
Musk, Canton, H., P. & Co.’s.
Moss, Iceland...........................
10
. $ ft
Moss,  Irish...............................
30
Mustard,  English....................
18
Nutgalls.............................
20
Oí)
Nutmegs, No. 1..................
Nux  Vomica................
40
Ointment, Mercurial, %d.
Pepper, Black  Berry.......
3 00
Pepsin.................................
Pitch, True Burgundy.................... 
7
Quassia.......T.....................................  6  @  7
1 85
Quinia, Sulph, P, & W..  .......ft oz 
Seidlitz  Mixture.............................  
28
1 50
Strychnia, cryst............................... 
Silver Nitrate, cryst.......................  79  @  82
Red  Precipitate.......................^ ft 
80
Saffron, American.............. 
37
 
Sal Glauber.....................................  
©  2
Sal Nitre, large  cryst.....................  
10
Sal  Nitre, medium  cryst............... 
9
Sal Rochelle........................•............  
33%
Sal  Soda............................................ 
2  @  2%
2 50
Salicin...............................................  
Santonin.......................................... 
7 25
Snuffs, Maccoboy or Scotch.......... 
38
Soda Ash [by keg 3c].....................  
4
23
Spermaceti.......................................  
So«ia, Bi-Carbonate,  DeLand’s __  
4%@  5
14
Soap, White Castile........................  
Soap, Green  do 
17
........................  
9
Soap, Mottled do 
......................... 
H
........................  
Soap, 
do  do 
14
Soap,  Mazzini..................................  
Spirits Nitre. 3 F .............................   26  @  28
Spirits Nitre, 4 F .............................   28  @  32
3%@  4
Sulphur, flour..................................  
Sulphur,  roll....................................
65 
Tartar Emetic..................................
2  70 
Tar, N. C. Pine, % gal. cans  $  doz
1 40 
Tar, 
quarts in tin..........
85
Tar, 
pints in tin.............
Turpentine,  Venice................ft
Wax, White, S. &  F. brand...........
Zinc,  Sulphate................................

©
CANDY, FRUITS  AND  NUTS 
Putnam & Brooks quote as follows :

12%@

do 
do 

 

STICK .

Straight, 25 ft  boxes...
Twist, 
Cut Loaf 

do 
do

...11  @111 
...11%®12 
@ 121

Royal, 25 ft  pails....................................11  @11%
Royal, 25 ft bbls...............................................10%
Extra, 251b  pails.................................. ...........12%
Extra, 25 ft bbls.................................. .*..........11%
French Cream, 25 ft pails.............................. 15
Cut loaf, 251b  cases................... 
15

 

FANCY—IN 5 ft BOXES.

5 50

Lemon Drops..................................................14
Sour Drops...................................................... 15
Peppermint  Drops........................................16
Chocolate Drops.............................................1
H M Chocolate  Drops.
....20
___12
Gum  Drops  ..........................
.......20
Licorice Drops.......................
.......14
A B Licorice  Drops.............
.......17
Lozenges, plain.....................
.......18
Lozenges,  printed................
.......17
Imperials...............................
.......16
M ottoes..................................
.......15
Cream  Bar..............................
.......14
Molasses Bar..........................
.......20
Caramels................................
.......23
Hand Made Creams...............
.......20
Plain  Creams.......................
.......23
Decorated  Creams....-..........
.......17
String Rock............................
.......24
Burnt Almonds.....................
.....17
Wintergreen  Berries...........
FR U IT S .
Oranges, $   box.....................
Oranges, ^ case.....................................
Oranges, ^ bbl.....................................10 50@
Lemons, fair to  good..........................5 00
Lemons, choice to fancy..................... 6 00
Bananas ft bunch.................................. 2 00@3 50
Malaga Grapes, $  keg..........................
Malaga Grapes, $  bbl............................ 
Figs,  layers 
ft.................................... 
................  
Figs, fancy  do 
Figs, baskets 30 ft $  lb......
Dates, frails 
do  .......
Dates, % do 
d o ........
•Dates, skin..........................
Dates, %  skin.....................
Dates, Fard 10 ft box $   ft.
PEANUT
Prime  Red,  raw  <¡¡1  ft........
do  .........
Choice 
Fancy 
do  ......
do  ........
Choice White, 
Fancy HP,.  Va  do  ........
NUTS.
$E>......... ........20  @21
Almonds,  Terragona, 
ft 
do  ......... ..........18  ©19
Almonds, loaca,
do  ........ ..........  ©13
Brazils,
do  ........ ..........11  ©12%
Pecons,
d o ........ ..........  @11%
Filberts, Barcelona 
d o ........ ..........12%@13
Filberts, Sicily 
do  ........ ..........  @14
Walnuts, Chilli 
d o ........ ..........  @15
Walnuts, Grenobles 
d o ........ ..........  ©14
Walnuts, California 
Cocoa Nuts, ^  100 
Hickory Nuts, large $   bu 
Hickory  Nuts, small  do

....... ..
lo@16
18 
1'
18 
©  6 
@  7 
©  61/ 
® 7V 
@14

...... 5 00©
1 50©

® 9 
© 9% 
@10 
©

do 
do 

HARDWARE  GOODS. 

Prevailing rates are as follows:
Anvils—Peter Wright’s, 
Augurs—40  and  10 per cent. off. 
Babbett—XXX, $  ft.

ft............

B., D.  &   Co.,  No.  X ,$ f t .................... 
B.. D. &  Co.,No. 2, $  ft...................... 
Chain—3-16 inch Lake Superior, $  ft....... 

-16

do
do
do
do
do

do
do
do
do
do

21
12
10%
6%
5/4
5
4 70

cent. off.

Files—Nicholson’s best 40 per cent off.
Forks—Hay and Manure 5o per cent off. 
Hammers—Maydole’s 15 per cent off.
Hinges—Strap and T 60 per cent off.
Horse Shoes—Burden’s $4.35 per keg.
Horse  Nails—Au Sable  30  and 10 per 
Iron—Flat Bar $2 rates.
Sheet No. 24 $3.96  rate3.
Swede’s bar 5%c fl ft.
Padlocks 30 per cent. off.
Lead-Pig f   ft...........................................
Sheet $   ft..................................... .
Pipe $   ft..............................................
Bar  f  ft................................
..13 
Rope—Manilla $   ft..................
..10 
Sisal ^ ft...............................
..  81/
Jute $  ft...............................
Sash Weights $ f t .......................................  
Shot—Buck  $2.15.

a
/(- i ...
Steel—Best east tool $  ft.........................   @*3

Drop $1.80. 

Round Machine  ^ ft............................

6
6
6
@14 
@11 
m  9%

Tin—Pig $  ft........................................... 
Bar ^   ft.......................................
Zinc—Sheet  $  ft....................................  @ JjV*
Slab V  ft............................................  
®   ,y *

p*2?

CROCKERY  AND  GLASSWARE.

H. Leonard & Sons quote as follows:

ONE  CRATE  W H IT E   GR A N ITE  W ARE.

Knowles,  Taylor  &  Knowles—Cable  Shape- 

“

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44
44
44
44
44
44

54
♦56
78
90
78
90
1 05
1 44
2  10

Diamond C.
.5 inch
6 doz Plates................
3 “ 
..6  “
20 4« 
7  44
44 
.8  “
£
3 “  Bakers............... ..3  “
% 44 
.5  44
44 
..6  “
% 44 
7  44
% 44 
..8  “
“  Bowls.................. .No. 36
1
“
“ 
.  “  30
1
44  44
.  “  24
1
4 20
% “  Cov’d Butters... .5 inch
27
“  Indiv’l  “
.2%  “
% “ Cov’d Chambers No. 9
6 15
44  44
“  Uncov’d 
1
.  4 20
“  Cake  Plates.......
% “  Restaurant Creams........... . 
75
30
. 
“  Cup  Plates........
3
% “ Cassèroles.......... . .7 inch
5 10
% 44 
..8  “
5 70
72
“  Dishes................ ..3  “
% 44 
..9  “
1 50
“ 
2  16
.10  “
H
% 44 
2 85
.11  “
1-6 “  Ewers and Basins, No 9— .  9 90
35
“  Fruit Saucers... . .4 inch
5
81
% “  Barrell  Mugs... .36  “
60
“  Scollops............. 2%  “
% 44 
90
. .5  4*
44 
..6  “
i
44 
7  44
i
% 44 
..8  “
“  Jugs, No. 36__
“  20....
“ 
“ 
“ 12....
h
1-6 “ 
“  6__
% “  Shell Pickles...
“  Sugars. No. 30..
h
“  Spoon  Holders.
a
“ 
3
“  H’d
1

2  10
.  1 26
.  1 50
.  3 06
.  4 80
.  1  80
.  3 15
.  1  80
gross Un’hd Coffees 12 sets in g  6 30
4 80

44
44
44
.4
“ 
“ 
“ 

“  Teas,

44
“
44

44
44

44 
44 

44

3 24
1 98
15 60
2 70
2 34
45
52
72
52
75
90
1  10
1 05
£
3 07
4 20
1  05
37
90
1 27
1  43
1 44
50
73
95
1 65
1 75
43
1  20
45
1  14
1 50
1  05
63
75
76
80
90
79
45
3 15
14  40
6 00
$86  11

Any assortment packed to order.

 

 

 

ASSORTED  PACKAGE  MAJOLICA—NO.  33.

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

1 Tea  Set,  44  Pieces,  Shell.......,..
“ 
1 dozen Sauce Plates, 
...........
........... 2 00
“ 
2 Fruit Sets, 7 Pieces 
..............  75
“ 
4 Covered Butters 
 
3 Hand  Teas 
“ 
30
3 Hand Coffees 
“ 
40
3 Hand Moust. Coffees  “ 
............  50
3 Molasses  Cans,  Sunflower...........   55
6 Bread Plates,  Strawberry...........   18
6 Bread Plates. Oak..........................   37
3 Pitchers, No. 12, Rose....................  58
“ 30  “ 
3 
....................  31
“  42 
3 
21
 
“ 
17
 
“ 
“  54 
3 
3 
“  12, Fern.....................  58
 
“ 
3 
“  24 
42
75
3 
“  36 
25 
“ 
 
“  6, Cor’l......................   62 
1 86
3 
42  126
3 
 
“ 
“ 24 
3 
“ 42  “ 
63
....................  21 
12 Begonia Leaves.............................   15 
180
100
2 dozen Individual Butters.............  50 
2 Bread and Milk Sets, Shell...........   67 
134
2 Cuspadores,  Sunflower................   54 
108
t Tea Pot, Sugar and Cream, Shell. 
1 25
100
Caulf. 
1 
$42 08
Less 10 Per Cent............   4 20
Package, $1. 
$37 88
Packages  assorted  or repacked to order.
j  ONE ASSORTED PACKAGE ROCKINGHAM  AND Y EL­

 
 
 
 
 

“ 

“ 

“ 

I  ;'4

“ 

44 
44 

44
44

9 ..

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Mugs,
Tea Pots.

LOW   W ARE.
Diamond H.
“ 
Mixing Bowls,

Bakers,  7 inch__
8  “  __
....
9  “ 
10  “ 
....
...
11  “ 
12  “ 
...

doz. Rock. Chambers,  No. 4__ $4 50
“ 6 .......325
“ 
¡50
“  6... ..300
“  9... 2 25
“  12... '.’.150
“  30..
“  18..,¡¡400
“  24.. .. 3 25
“  30.. .. 2 75
.  105
..  1 35
.. 155
..185
..2  30
..2 80
120
150
180
225
1 05 
125 
155 
185
. 230
2 80
. 
95
.  105 
450 
.  2 75 
..1 7 5  
..200 
.. 300 
.  400 
..500 
..  40
..  50
..  60
__  75
....  90 
... .110 
...140 
... 1 70 
...400 
:..  300 
9. 9R

Scallops,  «in ch ................
. 
................
Nappies,  7 inch................
...................
...............
...................
....................
...................
................
....................
....................
“Our New” Pitcher, No. 6 
“  12.
“ 24
Spittoons,  No. 5 ................
“  3 '..’.’.’....I ’. ’. 
“  2
Yellow Bowls, No. 36........
“  30 ........

8  “
9  “ 
8 “ 
9  “ 
10 “ 
11 “ 
12 “ 
9  “ 
10  “ 

'.
.
.
Chambers,  No. 4 
“  6 .

“ 
“ 
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Nappies,  6 inch.

Plates,  8 inch 

8 “ 
9 “ 
10 “ 

“ 
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24

»' 

“ 

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Package, $100.

60 days $25 20.

$113
243
125
100
75
50
65
100
81
69
26
31
39
46
58
70
30
38
45 
56 
26
31
39
46 
58 
70 
85
190
210
11269
44
50
100 125 
80 
30 
25 
30 
36 
35 
43 
100 2 25 
112
$36 06

100 

HANGING LAMPS.

Price  Complete,  with  New  Style  Drip  Fount.
Our pendants are  all  manufactured  by the 
Bradley &  Hubbard  Manufacturing  Co,  and 
will give better satisfaction  than  any  others 
in the market.  Send  for complete catalogue 
of chandelier goods.
F  Bronze  No  366, per doz........................ 24 00
Silver and blue No 366  do 
........................ 27 00
Ebony &  gold  No 366  do 
.........................30 00
Nos.  465,  or  466  French
...27 00 
...27 00 
do 
Verde  bronze 
27 00 
Verde and Fr  bronze  do
...30 00 
do 
Silver bronze 
...30 00 
do 
Silver and  blue br. 
...33 00 
Ebony and  gold 
do 
...33 00 
Extra gilt bronze 
do 
...45 OO
Gold or pol.  bronze  do 
Special prices for  two  dozen  or  more pen­
dants in one order.

per doz............
............
..........
..........
..........
..........
..........

bronze, 

CH AN DELIERS.

No 500 2 light for  stores,  complete  with 7

inch shades, each......................................-J  75
Over 100 styles of chandeliers  constantly on 
hand.  We  have  all  the  new  and beautiful 
Brass pendants and Chandeliers.

Special quotations made for churches.

LAMP  BU RN ERS.

No 0 Any style  per doz..................................   75
No 1 
..................................   8o
No 2 
.................................. 1  oo

do 
do 

do 
do 

GLASSW ARE.

Heavy Figured  “ Horseshoe”  Pattern.

Sets, ^  dozen...............................................   $3 00
3 00 
Pitchers, % gallon.......................................
2  10 
Celeries.........................................................
3 00 
Bowls, 7 inch, and covers............. ............
3 85 
Bowls, 8 
.....................
3 60 
Bowls, 9 
..........................
30 
Comports, 4  inch.........................................
50 
Goblets.........................................................
35 
W ines............................................................
3 00
Salvers............................................... ..........
Nappies,  4 inch............................. gross

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Package at cosf

COAL  AND  BUILDING  MATERIALS.
A. B. Knowlson quotes as follows:

1  10
Ohio White Lime, per bbl.................... 
1 00
Ohio White Lime, car lots.................... 
Louisville Cemem, per bbl.................. 
1 40
1  40
Akron Cement per  bbl.......................... 
Buffalo Cement,  per bbl...................... 
, 1 4 0
Car lots.......................................................1 15@1 20
Plastering hair, per bu.........................  35®  38
Stucco, per'bbl.......................................  
1  75
Land plaster, per to n ........................... 
3  «5
Land plaster, car lots............................ 
3 00
Fii*e brick, per  M.................................. $27 © $35
Fire clay, per bbl..................................  
3 OO

COAL.

Anthracite, egg and grate..................$6 60@6 75
Anthracite, stove and nut...................  6  75@7 00
C annellcoal.............................................  
£  90
Ohio coal................................................  3 50@3  «o
Blossburg or  Cum berland.................  5 00@5 26

Now is the time of  year  when  the  way­
faring man is beguiled with  advertisements 
such as, “Going  out  of  business,”  “Stock 
must be closed out in thirty days,”  “Slaugh­
ter sales,”  “Ruinous  prices.”  “Goods  sold 
for less  than  cost,”  “We  retail  goods  at 
wholesale  prices,”  etc.  This  sensational 
sort of advertising may deceive  the unwary, 
but intelligent people pay no attention  to it. 
Merchants find that a plain, straightforward 
presentation  of their goods  is  the  kind  of 
advertising that brings returns.

In a spirit of unhallowed rivalry, two  In­
dianapolis  clothiers  went  to  selling  jean 
pants  cheaply, so that  one  finally  put  his 
goods down to ten  cents  a  pair, the  other 
following to five cents, when both  let  them 
go at last—about two  thousand  pairs  in all 
—at one cent a pair.  This will not  be very 
profitable for the dealers, but two  thousand 
Hoosiers can now afford jean pants.

F.  Shaw &  Bro.,  the  Boston  shoe  firm, 
have  offered  to  pay  their  creditors  33% 
cents on the dollar.

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G R O C E R Y

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Commission House!

We have in stock and  are  constantly receiv­
ing the finest stock of Eggs ever offered to the 
Trade  at  lowest  Wholesale  Prices.  Dealers 
wishing to  purchase  by  the  Crate  or  Barrel 
should call and examine.  All  orders  by  tele­
phone or otherwise promptly  attended to.
36 South Division Street.

R.  J.  KIRKLAND,  M.  D„

SPECIALIST  IN  DISEASES  OF THE

Ear, Eye  and Throat

W IT H  DRS. JO H N SO N   & B O ISE,

72  Ottawa  Street,  Corner  of Monroe  Street.

Office  Hours:  9 a. m. to 12 m.; 2 to 5 p. m.

STEAM  LAUNDRY

43 and 45 Kent Street.

A.  K.  ALLEN,  Proprietor.

WE  DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS  WORK  AND  USE  NO 

CHEMICALS.

Orders by Mail and Express  promptly  at­

tended to.

¡:

HAZELTINE, PERKINS & CO.,
Wholesale  Druggists,

AND  DEALERS  IN  LUBRICATING  AND  CARBON  OILS.

M an-ufacturers’  Agents,

----- IMPORTERS  AND  JOBBERS  OF-----

¡DRUGGISTS’  SUNDRIES  A  BRUSHES,

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

GRANTD  HAPI35S,  -  MIOEIGA3XT.

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

FOX, MUSSELMAN & LOVERIDGE,

WHOLESALE  GROCERS,

44,  46  and  48  South  Division  Street,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.
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-----WE  ARE  FACTORY  AGENTS  FOR-----

, MM, Giant

'  Our  stock  of Teas,  Coffees  and  Syrups 

is  Always  Complete.

A   M ERCA N TILE  JO U RN A L,  PU BLISH ED   EA CH  

W EDN ESD AY .

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor and  Proprietor.

OFFICE  IN  EAGLE  BUILDING,  3d  FLOOR.

WEDNESDAY,  NOY.  7 ,1 8 8 3 .

AMONG  THE  TRADE.

IN   T H E   CITY.

Frost Bros., grocery dealers  at  133  South j 

Division street, have sold out.

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Will Butchart has  taken  the  position  of 

billing clerk at Cody, Ball & Co.’s.
J.  C.  Shaw,  dealer  in  groceries  at  36 
Leonard street, has sold  out  to  Bragington 
&  Seigel. 
L. J. Eckler, of Westwood, who lately en­
gaged in  general  trade,  purchased  his  dry 
goods stock of Spring & Company last week.
Wm. H. Stewart, who operates  a  general 
store  at  Round  Lake,  was  in  town  last 
Thursday.  He  was  accompanied  by  Ins 
family.
Sain.  Tannebaum,  of  the  Star  Clothing 
House, started north yesterday on a  visit  to 
the  patrons  of  the  establisement  along  the 
line of the C. & W. M.
The grocery brokerage business appears to 
e a lucrative one,  as Mr. H. F.  Hastings is 
understood to have lately purchased a  block 
of stock in the Wolverine Chair  and  Furni- 
ure Co.
U. S. Monroe, the general dealer at Berlin, 
recently took to wife the accomplished  Miss 
Wilson, of  that  place,  and  celebrated  the 
event on the occssion of his  visit  here  last 
Saturday by passing  around  a  choice  brand 
of smokers.
C. S.  Yale & Bro. now occupy two  stores, 
Sos. 40 and 42 South Division street, the in­
crease in working space having been render­
ed necessary  by  the  glowing  demands  of 
their business.  The two stores will  be  con­
nected by an arched passage way.

The Grand Rapids Felt Boot Co.’s  factory 
is running day and night to keep  pace  with 
their orders, with  a  capacity  of  800  pairs 
each 24 hours.  During October,  1,500  cases 
were turned out,  the  largest  month’s  busi­
ness ever done by the establishment.

The Bissell Carpet  Sweeper  Co.  shipped 
six cases  of their carpet sweepers  to  Ham­
burg, Germany, Saturday, 12 cases on  Tues­
day, and nine  cases  to-day.  Each  invoice 
was sent to a different house, the orders hav­
ing been obtained through exporters.
The Stockwell &  Darragh  Furniture  Co. 
did more business  in  October  than  during 
any previous  monMi  in  the  history  of  the 
corporation.  Joshua Speed, general  travel­
ing agent for the company,  expects  to  take 
the road the latter part of the week, visiting 
the trade in the far west.
The recent cut in freight rates as far  west 
as Ogden has brought to this market a  num­
ber of heavy furniture buyers,  nearly  all  of 
whom have purchased  largely.  Among  the 
buyers who have lately put in an appearance 
are Geo. W. Perkins, Pueblo,  Colo.;  Kilpat­
rick & Brown,  Denver;  Robert  Keith,  Kan­
sas  City;  Hiram  Brush and Frank Barnes, 
Chicago; Geo. Neidhardt, Three Rivers.

AROUND  T H E  STA TE.

Alpena shipped 4,728,000  feet  of  lumber 

last week.
has failed to mature.

The cheese factory project at Coopersville 

The Harbor Springs toothpick factory will 

begin work this week.

Ryerson, Hills & Co., Muskegon, will soon 

begin manufacturing salt

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Port  Huron  hardware  dealers  have  im­

ported 100 stoves this month.
The grocery firm  of  M.  H.  Brackney  & 
Son, at Big Rapids, is succeeded  by  Grand- 
Gerard & Co. 
McOmber & Fincham, dealers in groceries 
at Petoskey, are about to establish  a  branch 
store at Alanson.
Pitman & Flower,  of  Pontiac,  have  pur­
chased J. W.  Chaddock  &  Co.’s  hardware 
store at Battle Creek.
The  Newaygo  Republican  says  that  a 
business  firm  at  that  place  sold  $11,000 
worth of goods during October.
L. M. Handy, dealer in boots and shoes at 
Mancelona,  ha6  sold  out  to Haaris & Lay­
man, who will continue the business.

V ISIT IN G   BUYERS.

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

son.

C. O. Bostwick & Son, Cannonsburg. 
Waite Bros., Hudsonville.
J. E. Bevins, Leroy.
John Smith,  Ada.
G. Miller,  Ryerson P. O.
C. B. Moon, Cedar Springs.
G. H. Force, Morley.
L. J. Eckler,  Westwood.
John J. Ely, Rockford.
O. S. Richards, Clarksville.
Delo Bros., Bravo.
G. W. Joscelyn, Yenturia.
Colbom & Carpenter, Caledonia.
F. Doge, Stanwood.
J. R. Harrison, Sparta Center.
John Barker, of  Barker  &  Lehnen,  Pier 
P. W. Travis, Otsego.
Fred K. Hotchkiss, Hastings.
D. M. Rice, Croton.
T. J. Sheridan, Lockwood.
S. A. Gardner, Cedar Springs.
IL S. Farrell, Jamestown.
R. V. McArthur, Rockford.
J. D. F. Pierson, Pierson.*
C. E. Blakeley, Coopersville.
G. W. Hoag, Martin.
F. A. Winslow, Saugatuck. 
C. H. Adams, Dual & Adams, Bradley.
L. S. Dickenson, Fennville.
W. H. Struik, Forest Grove.
G. Bron & Ten Hoor, Forest Grove.
U. S. Monroe, Berlin.
Norman Harris, Big Springs.
Geo. Heintz, Ross Station.
G. H. Walbrink, Allendale.
A. M. Church, Englishville.
C. E. Kellogg, Grandville.
McLeod & Trautman Bros., Moline. 
Oliver Seaman, Big Rapids.
C. O. Bostwick & Son, Cannonsburg.
R. Gilbert, Moline.
Paine & Field, Englishville.
J. Omler,  Wright.
A. Engberts, Beaver Dam.,
Geo. Lentz, Croton.
Smeadley Bros., Bauer.
Wm. McMullen, Wood Lake.
W. S. Root, Talmage.
G. S. Curtiss, Edgerton.
B. M. Dennison, East Paris. 
J. Colby, Jtockford.

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F id s   Gleaned  from  the  Various  Houses  at 

this  Market.
DRY  GOODS.

Business continues good,  and  collections 
are reported as exceptionally prompt.  There 
is no change in  quotations.

GROCERIES.

Trade is fair,  witli  little  prospect  of  an 
immediate improvement.  Jobbers are look­
ing up  credits very sharply, and are  conser­
vative enough not to push  sales,  where  the 
party buying is at all sliakey.  Coffees  are 
at a standstill, but  firm  at  present  prices. 
Sugars reached their lowest  point  last  Sat­
urday,  at  which  time  they  advanced "%c, 
which still leaves the  staple  a  little  below 
last week’s quotations.  Syrups  are  weak, 
in consequence of  the  dullness 
in  sugars. 
New Valencia raisins are higher.  Tobaccos 
hold tlieir own, although  both  retailers and 
jobbers are  pretty well loaded, hi  anticipa­
tion of the late advance and another in pros­
pect.

DRUGS.

The drug trade  is  moving  along  in  the 
even tenor of its way, and seems  to  be  the 
only branch of business  that is  not affected 
by the present  slackness.  Country dealers 
exhibit considerable conservatism in making 
purchases, but none express  disappointment 
at  the present condition  of trade  or  appre­
hension for the  future.  Arrow  root  and 
hemp seed have  advanced since  last  week, 
and oil wormwood, balsam tulu,  oil  cubebs, 
canary seed and oil  cajeput  have  declined. 
The statement made last week to the  effect 
that castor oil had advanced in  consequence 
of a “comer” on  the staple was the result of 
a  misunderstanding,  and  has  no  truth  in 
fact.  The advance is owing to  entirely  dif­
ferent causes, as is pointed out in  an atticle 
on the subject on another page.

H ID E S,  PELT S  A N D  FURS.

Arrangements  have  been  made  with  a 
leading house in the  above  line  to  furnish 
full  quotations  on  hides,  pelts  and  furs. 
The list will appear next week and be a reg­
ular feature  of the  paper  thereafter.

TR A D E  CHANGES.

Bradstreet’s Mercantile Agency  furnishes 
The Tradesman  with  the  following  busi­
ness changes, embarrassments, etc., occurring 
up to the hour of going to press:

Alpena—N. H. Epstein, clothing, sold out 
and left town.
Berrien  Springs—Dexter & Bolinger, gro­
cer, dissolved, Bolinger Bros, continue.
Bloomingdale—J.  E.  Matthews,  tinware 
and  hardware, is  succeeded  by J. E. Mat­
thews &  Son.
Bumip’s  Comers—Spencer  Streng,  gen­
eral store, sold out.
Bay City—Forsyth,  Pierson  &  Holcomb, 
hardware, dissolved, Forsyth & Pierson suc­
ceeding.
Centerville—E.  D.  Thomas,  drugs,  sold 
out to C. E. Sabin.
Flowerfield—J.  N. Hoag  &  Co.,  millers 
and produce, sold out to B. J. Conrad.
Edmore—J.  B. & S. C.  Matthews,  drugs, 
out of business.
Erie—R. Green & Co., jewelers,  reported 
left town. 
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Ionia—VanAllen & Co., druggists,  G. W. 
Webber retired, G. W.  YanAllen  admitted, 
style firm same.
Ithaca—S. J. Thoenan  &  Son, hardware, 
about selling out.
McBrides—A. B. McBrides, general  store 
sold out to White & Maynard.
Marshall—Rock  River  Paper  Co.,  at­
tached.
Oak  Grove—M. L.  Davis,  general  store, 
sold out to Isaac M. Bush.
Petosky—Shirk  Bros.,  hardware  and 
bankers,  discontinued  banking;  Belknap 
&  Strickland,  grocers,  advertising  to  sell 
out.
Plainwell—J.  W.  Hitchcock & Co.,  tail­
ors, style  changed  to  Hitchcock  &  Heath, 
same partners.
Roscommon—H.  Bartholomew,  drugs, 
sold out to W. S. Washington.
Sheridan—Stanton Bros., drugs, dissolved, 
M. B. Stanton continuing.
Wyman—O.  W.  Avery,  saw  mill  and 
store, burned out, loss estimated  at $15,000, 
insured for $10,000.

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THE  LATE  FAILURES.

“ Swapping  Paper,”   and  What  Came of 

It-

CANDY,  NUTS  A N D  FRU ITS.

Trade in the above lines,  whichThas  beeu 
a trifle light for some time  past,  is  picking 
up somewhat,  and  will  doubtless  be  good 
until  after  the  holidays.  Oranges  and 
lemons are in fair supply and prices  steady. 
Almonds,  brazils  and  filberts  are  higher. 
Peanuts are somewhat  lower,  although  the 
new crop is not yet in  market  to any  great 
extent.  New figs are plenty and prices low­
er.

COUNTRY  PRODUCE.

bu.

ity poor.

sales made at $5.85 ^  bu.

Eggs—In  fair  supply  at.25c. 

Cider—Selling freely at 20c '<$ gal.  Qual­
Celery—Active at 30c ^  doz.
Cabbage—Firm at $1@$1.20 ^  doz.
Clover  Seed—Not  much  moving.  Some 
Timothy—Rather scarce at $1.65 
Sweet  Potatoes—Jerseys,  firm  $4.50  ^  
bbl.
Grapes—Last  pickings.  Concords  are 
selling at 6c.  @  7c.  White  California,  $5,- 
25 ^  case.
Pears—Good quality California $4 ^  case.
Cranberries—Cape  Cod, $4 ^  bu.;  culti­
vated Wisconsin, $10.50@$13 ^  bbl.
Poultry—Easy.  Spring chickens in  good 
demand,  but  old  rather  slow.  Dressed 
chickens,  11c ^  lb., and old  fowls, 10c.
Jobbers 
and commission dealers anticipate still high­
er prices. 
Dried Apples—Quarters,  8c ^   lb.;  evap­
orated,  15@16c.
Honey—In comb, 18c 
Potatoes—Almost a  drug  in  the  market, 
in  consequence  of  heavy  shipments  from 
Southern Michigan  and  Northern  Indiana. 
Choice Rose and Burbanks are offered freely 
at 45c, and carload lots are.slow sale  at  40c.
Apples—Winter and fall  fruit  are selling 
at $3.25@$3.50 ^  bbl.
Butter—Dull.  Western  creamery,  24c.; 
dairy, 18c @ 22c.
Onions—Dull and slow.  Sales  of  choice 
yellow were made at $2.25  7$ bbl.,  and  75c 
bu. in sacks.
Quinces—New  York  state  fruit,  $2.75@ 
Squash—Hubbard  selling  at  2c  @  2% ^ 
Buckwheat—New York patent,  $4.60 per 

lb.

,

$3 per bu.
lb.
100 lbs.

COMMERCIAL  PRINTING

---- AND-----

l i t  H  KaiiMunu!

Eaton, Lyon & Allen,

49  Lyon  Street.

Having  purchased  the  Eagle  Job  Printing 
Establishment, and having added largely to its 
facilities,  we  would  respectfully  announce 
that we are  prepared to execute in  first-class 
style  such  orders  for Book  and Job  Printing 
and Blank Book Manufacturing as  may be  en­
trusted to us.

Eaton, Lyon & Allen,

BOOKSELLERS, STATIONERS

P R IN T E R S , and

BLANK  BOOK  MANUFACTURERS.

—WE  MAKE  SPECIAL  CLAIM  FOR  OUR—

Tobaocos,  V inegars  and.  Spices  ! 

OUR  MOTTO:  “ SQUARE  DEALING  BETWEEN  MAN  AND  MAN.”

CORRESPONDENCE  SOLICITED.

FUTITAM

WHOLESALE

Gandy, Fruit and Nuts

.

, 

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,  „  

Reckless  Lumbermen.

money  suddenly 

„  
Buhl Sons  &  Co.,  of  Deti oit,  the 

Bradstreet’s reports the opening of  a new 
The annoucement, last Friday,  that Frank 
meat market at Reed City by J. N. Maynard, 
and a new millinery store by Mrs. E. Gilbert.
Cliickering bad  made a  voluntary  assign­
ment for the benefit  of  his  creditors,  and 
Will W.  Bailey,  of  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  has 
the announcement the  day  following  that 
purchased the general store af C.  C.  Bailey, 
M.  J.  Bond  had  taken  a  similiar  course, 
at Fife Lake, and will continue the business.
were received with considerable surprise,  as 
Brown & McLellan  will build a new $10,- 
it had been  supposed  that  both  gentlemen 
000 roller-process grist mill at  Bronson,  and 
were doing a safe business.  That  such was 
the citizens propose to help them  to  the  ex­
not  A  fact,  however,  will  be  understood 
tent of $2,500.
when  it is stated  that they  had  both  been 
Charles B. Lovejoy, who has seen  sixteen 
in the habit  of  “swapping  paper”  at  the 
years’  service  behind  the  counter,  opened 
banks, and that that practice  brought  about 
his new grocery store at  Big  Rapids  on  the 
their  downfall.  The  local  papers  and  the 
3d with considerable eclat.
bank officers have been extremely careful to 
present the  failures  in  the  most  favorable 
Geo. Lentz has purchased the  interest  of 
light, probably arguing that if the true  facts 
his deceased partner, Charles Merritt, in the 
were made known, the showing would  be a 
general stock of Merritt & Lentz, at  Croton, 
bad one, and possibly bring about  disastrous 
and will continue the  business.
results.  That such a form  of  argument  is 
Sheehan & Co.,  clothing  dealers  of  Ann 
defective,  need 
not  be  demonstrated.
Arbor, have sold out to B. J.  Conrad,  form-
±*.  o .  vajiuou,  w m . 
ivroor,  nave sum  uuu 
. 
erlv manager of  the  Register  Printing  and 1 Messrs. Cliickering and Bond were not  rep- 
Publishing Co.  Sheehan &  Co.  go  to  Me-1 resentative business men, having made their 
nominee 
and  launched  out  too
....   .  deeply.  Their  failure  reflects  upon  them-
j  e  aione and not in the least upon the good 
o  - 
gag«*,  bid  in  the Shiek b a i to p U ^ k  of  *ame o[ t)le’clty.  The  statemkts  in  the
hardware at Marshall.  Mr. Shick,'speaking 
city papers that both men will settle  in full, 
after the ancients,  “ bit  off  more  than  he 
and  have money left, is on a  par  with the 
could chew,” and was  closed  out  by  credi­
other assertions.  We  venture  the  opinion 
tors.
that neither will pay 40 per cent.,  and time 
The Big Rapids Herald says  that  a  gen­
will prove the truth of this statement.
tleman of that city, who  knows  whereof  he
The failures of Porter, Byrne & Co., Wet-
speaks, estimates the total amount of lumber  zeq  Bros.,  S.  P.  Swartz,  and  others here 
handled at that placefrom Jan.  1  to  Nov. 1  j  anq Rice &
. and Rice & Messmore,  at  Cadillac,  are  re- 
224,000,000.  This is exclusive  of 
ani‘ | sultant upon the other assignments, and like 
shingles.
I them are a standing reproach to the habit of 
!  “ swapping paper,” one of  the  most  perni­
L. A. Lyon, of Hudson, an old veteran  in 
cious schemes ever invented  to raise money.
the hotel business,  has  leased  the  Hudson 
House in that place and  proposes  to  run  a 
first-class  hotel. 
Improvements  and  a 
thorough renovation are  now in  order.  H is 
son George will be manager.

Always  Believe  Everything  They Read.
A  daily  exchange  has  the  following:
! In the Sunday papers some one of the many 
I cheap stores advertised  to  sell  cotton cloth 
j and calico for a cent a  yard.  Hundreds of 
One of Messrs. Hazeltine, Perkins & Co.’s  women rushed to the  store  yesterday,  pre-
pared to buy from fifty to 5,000  yards each, 
northern  customers  recently  wrote  them, 
and were disgusted on being  informed  that 
making inquiries  relative  to the  excursion 
not more than ten  yards  would be  sold  to 
which left the city  for Louisville yesterday. 
any one person, and  furthermore  that  the 
They answered at length, detailing the time 
“special” sale closed  at noon.  The  women 
it would  leave,  giving  the  price  of  tick­
knew that they had been  fooled,  and natur­
ets, and  naming the place where they  could 
ally wanted to get even with somebody, and 
be  obtained.  The  customer 
appeared 
consequently they came  to  the  newspapers 
at the house Monday, and upon being greet­
in small swarms. 
If  the  millennium  will 
ed and asked if he  was  ready  for  the  ex­
usher in the period when people will  know
cursion, replied  rather  emphatically:  “Ex-
cursion!  H — II  I’ve got $3,500  worth  of  that they can’t expect to  get  something for 
| nothing, it can’t come too soon.
M . J. Bond’s paper!” 

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IN C ID E N T  OF  T H E   L A T E   FA IL U R E S.

OÄLKUVS  BROTHERS.

97 OTTAWA  STREET.

Agents for GUN  AND  BUSTING  POWDER,  and  Dealers  in

63  a n a   ©3  Canal  Street,

SHOT,  CAPS,  WADS,  CARTRIDGES,  FISHING  TACKLE,  GUNS,  REVOLVERS  and  GUN  GOODS.

DEALERS  SUPPLIED.

THE DEAREST TOBACCO

Is a Poor, Common or Low-Priced Article,

As It Gives Neither Pleasure 

Nor Satisfaction.

THE PUBLIC IS NOT SLOW TO LEARN THIS FACT

WHENEVER  IT  DISCOVERS  AN  ARTICLE  THAT  COMMENDS  ITSELF 

TO  THE  TASTE  AND  OTHER  SENSES.

--------THE  REMARKABLE  SALE  OF--------

Is  Ample  Evidence of  Tkis.  This  Concern will  Sell over  20,000,000 Pounds  of  their 

L O U T S   W  TOBACCOS
 Pint M m  tlsii ii tils Cutty!
Oi-Fmrtl ol All i
Bitter saMaciien or B urnt Better Value to 111 loner

A N D   A S  T H E R E   A R E   B E T W E E N   8 0 0   A N D   9 0 0   O T H E R   FA C T O R IE S  IN  

T H E   U.  S.,  IT   FO LL O W S  T H A T   T H E IR   GOODS  M UST  G IV E

Favorite  Brands  this  Year;  or  About

THAN  THE  BRANDS  OP  OTHER  MAKERS.

“CLIMAX,” with  Red Tin Tag, is their Best  Brand.

Grand  Rapids,

Michigan.

WHOLESALE

HIT  &  GAP  STORE

FEXCES  GUARANTEED

AS  LOW  AS  CHICAGO  AND  NEW  YORK!

GOOD  FUR CAPS,  $22.50  PER  DOZEN.  —  WOOL  HATS,  $4.50  AND  UPWARDS. 

GENUINE  FUR  HATS,  $13.50  AND  UPWARDS.

----- LARGE  LINE  OF-----

Im p o rte d   Scotob.  Caps,

Luml)©rmen’s   G oods, 

MacbLinaw S liirts cfc D raw res.

----- AGENCY  FOR  THE-----

Pontiac  Fulled  Mitts, Socks  and  Boots!

EVERY  ONE  WARRANTED).

Clothing  and  Gent’s  Furnishing  Goods.

-----LARGE  LINE  OF-----

DUCK  OVERALLS,  THREE  POCKETS,  $3.50  PER  DOZEN,

jg p   Terms—7 per cent off in 10 days;  5 per cent, in 30 days;  net in 60 days.

36, 3 8 ,4 0   and  42  CANAL  STREET, 

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

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