VOL.  1.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN,  WEDNESDAY,  NOVEMBER 21,  1883.

NO. 9.

HAZELTINE, PERKINS & CO.,
Wholesale  Druggists,

AND  DEALERS  IN  LUBRICATING  AND  CARBON  OILS.

M an u fa ctT ire rs’  A gents,

-IMPORTERS  AND  JOBBERS  OF-

DRUGGISTS’  SU N D R IE S  <& BRUSH ES,

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

OPtAKTD  H.APIDS,  -  MIOITIG-AN-.

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

PUTNAM <&

WHOLESALE

; Fruit and Nuts

03  a n d   05  C a n a l  S tree t,

ARSENIC  EATING.

ENSLAVED  BY  OPIUM.

ODDS  AND  ENDS.

The  Effect  of  the  Drug  on  the  Dead  and  the 

The  Prevalence  of  the  Morphine  Habit— Wo­

Living.

men  the  Usual  Victims.

Miscellaneous 

Information  of  Interest  to 
Everybody.

,

me.”

Utah.

The silk industry  is  making  progress  in 

for the third time this season.

Confectioners are the  only  class  of  men

Some Florida orange  trees  are  blooming 

Denver  charges  railway  ticket  brokers 
| $500 per year for license, and requires  them 
to keep an open record of all sales, the same 
as pawnbrokers.

Nothing, perhaps, is more exasperating to 
the commercial traveler than to be flatering- 
ly, yet falsely, accused of a crime  which the 
lack of opportunity only has  prevented  his 
committing.

From  the Detroit  News.
A gentleman was recently  talking  with  a 
prominent Woodward avenue druggist when 
a  well-dressed  woman  entered  the  store. 
Her sunken eyes and haggard look proclaim-
grief or a physical wreck.  Handing a small 
bottle to the clerk she said “Sixty.”  A whit­
ish substance was dealt out to her, and  after 
paying  for  it,  she  stealthily  put  a  small 
amount into her mouth.  Suddenly her  eyes 
brightened, her countenance assumed a more 
cheerful aspect, and  she  became  talkative. 
When she had gone, inquiry was  made, and 
the apothecary explained:
“That woman is a confirmed  opium  eater. 
Boasting of her industrious habits, an Irish 
Three years ago morphia was prescribed  for 
housemaid said she rose  at  five,  made  her 
her  to  relieve  severe  pains.  The pleasing 
fire, put on her kettle,  prepared  her break­
sensation gave her a taste for the  drug,  and 
fast, and made all the  beds,  before  anyone 
beginning with a dose  averaging  one-fourth 
else was up in the house.
of a grain she now  consumes  80  grains  of 
A gentleman of  leisure  has  figured  that 
morphia daily.” 
“I suppose there  are  many  such  charac­
there are about 14,0000 pet  canaries  in  this 
country, which yearly use 168,000,000 pounds 
ters?”
“In my  experience  I  have  met  with  at
of seed, worth at least $14,000,000.  Twenty-
least a score of persons who buy opium  reg-  two manufacturers, it is  said,  made  1,000,- 
ularly in some one of its various forms.  The  000 bird cages last year.
vast majority of slaves to opium are women. 
Men rarely become enslaved to it, but I have 
noticed that those who eat opium  to  excess 
are invariably heavy drinkers.  The drug  is 
prescribed  for  them by physicians, and the 
opium-eaters gradually increase the dose un­
til some day it becomes large enough to carry 
them off.”
“What are the effects of continual  opium­
eating?”
“At first a pleasant sensation is produced. 
‘We go off to the third heaven,’ one  of them 
once told me.  The system is  stimulated  to 
unusual activity, and when the effects of the 
drug have passed  away,  languidness  takes 
possession of the whole frame.  The  opium 
eater is in reality little weaker when not un­
der the influence of  the  drug  than  before, 
but  his condition,  when compared  with  his 
previous exhilaration, is so  inferior  that  he 
takes another dose of the  drug  in  order  to 
reproduce the same feeling.  We can always 
tell how  long they have been addicted to  its 
use.  When they use it at first they come in 
boldly and ask.for their  consolation.  Then 
they grow shy, and  strive  to  hide  the  use 
they make of it.  Finally they  say  little  or 
nothing, handing their package, for we know 
want is wanted.”

From  the  Detroit  Evening Journal.
A citizen and a  local  physician  were  re­
cently  engaged  in  conversation in front  of 
the City Hall.  As they stood talking a hand­
somely dressed and attractive woman passed
by, and many were the heads that were turn-*  e(j that she was either a victim of some great  who charge pretty girls for taffy.
ed to catch a second  glimpse  of  her.  She 
was of medinm height and finely proportion­
ed.  Her  features were perfect, and her eyes, 
large and dark, contrasted with indescribable 
effect with her pale,  delicate  but  beautiful 
complexion.  The two  gentlemen  were  for 
the moment lost in admiration of the woman, 
and did not resume  their  conversation until 
she had disappeared in the crowd.
“What a  beautiful  woman,”  repeated the 
citizen.”
“Very,” replied the physician.
“Do you know her?”
“No.”
“Do you know of her?”
“Well,  no  more  than  observation  tells 
“And that is—”
“That she is an  arsenic-eater!”
“How can you tell?”
“By her general appearance.  I cannot ex­
plain to you how I tell,  without  going  into 
details.”
“Pardon me, but will you enlighten me on 
this subject?”
“Arsenic possesses great antiseptic powers. 
It lias a marked effect in preserving the body 
from decay.  When arsenic  is  taken,  and 
it  destroys  life,  if  the  person  lives  long 
enough for it to pervade the entire body, the 
remains  will  continue  for  an  indefinite 
period in a remarkable state of preservation. 
Skins that are intended  for  stripping  have 
arsenic rubbed on the flesh side.  The  habit 
of eating arsenic is prevalent in  certain  por­
In the city of Vienna it is 
tions of Austria. 
a common custom to put arsenie in the  food 
of horses. 
It gives them a  glossy  coat,  and 
makes  them fat and gives them  good  wind. 
It has the same effect on man.  The body  is 
rounded, the ¿yes  are  brightened,  and  the 
respiration is  improved.  But when the hab­
it of arsenic eating is once formed, any irreg­
ularity in taking it  is  dangerous,  and  may 
end  fatally.  Arsenic  eating  shortens  life. 
However, there have been cases  where  per­
sons, who have been slaves to the habit from 
their youth, have remained  in  good  health 
at the age of 60, and  even  older  than  that. 
The practice of arsenic eating, confined  to  a 
small territory at first, is  rapidly  spreading 
all over the world. 
It is popular among  the 
demPmonde, and is used by them to enhance 
their charms.  A great many  ladies  in  this 
country  resort  to  this practice, and Detroit 
has its share of arsenic devotees. 
I know  a 
number of ladies, who move  in  the  highest 
circles of society in this city, who are slaves 
to arsenic-eating 1”

In 
what particular line is he ? ”  “ In the debt 
line.”  “In the debt line ? ”  “ Yes,  he  has 
contracted about $10,000 worth of debts dur­
ing the last two  years.  Everybody  says  he 
is very successful at his business.”
It is said that the largest grapevine in  the 
United States grows on the premises  of  Mr.
Madden in Pike coimty, Ga. 
It  is  eighteen 
years old, is thirty-four inches in  circumfer­
ence at its base, is a quarter of  a  mile  long, 
and yields five wagon loads of grapes.
The breaking up of the great Glenn wheat 
ranch in  California,  the  largest  cultivated 
farm in  the  country,  will  soon take place.
About 15,000 acres, more  than  one-third  of 
the ranch, are advertised for sale, and  other 
farms will shortly be placed on  the  market.
The cotton-growing region of the South  is 
rejoicing over the invention of a cotton-pick­
ing machine which successfully discriminates 
between  the  open  bolls,  green  bolls  and 
blossoms. 
It harvests cotton  at  the  rate  of 
two hundred pounds an  hour,  and  promises i hatches. 
to take the place of hand-picking.

One of the chief features at a recent coun­
ty exhibition of England was an iron wAtcli, 
which had been turned out by a  Kiddermin­
ster  firm for the purpose of showing the ex­
traordinary malleability of their metal.  The 
watch is said to be perfect.

Among the  odds  and  ends  of  the  New 
York city retail  markets,  calf’s  heads  and 
calf’s liver can  be  obtained  for  fifty  cents 
each, sweetbreads for  $3  and  $4  a  doxen, 
roasting pigs  for  .$3  and  $3.50  each,  and 
tripe for six cents a pound.

“Where do they wind up?”
“In the county houses and insane asylums. 
The brain  is destroyed, and  they  end  in  a 
pauper’s or a lunatic’s grave.”

The following patents have lately  been is­

“ So your  husband  is  a  contractor. 

Patents  Issued  to  Michigan  Inventors.

sued to Michigan inventors:

“One  of  the  best  articles  in  a  grocery 
store is politeness. 
It should be an impossi­
bility to offend a grocer.”  This is, as  Tony 
Weller  says,  “a  werry  pretty  sentimnet;” 
but the grocer  who  could  not  be  offended 
when the boys carry off his  boxes  and  out­
side  fixtures  for  election bonfires, is not for 
this  cold  world.  He  needs  wings,  imme­
diately.

“Aw, you can sell me, aw,  a  blue  neck­
tie, to match my eyes, you know?”  inquired 
an Austin dude in a gentleman’s  furnishing 
store.  “Don’t know as 1 can,  exactly,” re­
plied the salesman,  “but I can  lit  you  with 
a soft hat to match that head.”  Then  the 
dude withdrew from  the  store,  a  crushed 
strawberry  hue  suffusing  his  effeminate 
features.

Hop growers have a strong competition  in 
hemlock  bark.  Numberless schooner loads 
of this latter material  are  received  in  Chi­
cago, and prepared  for use  in  giving lager 
beer  pungency  and  color.  So  long  as  beer 
drinkers are willing to  accept  bark  extract 
in place of hops, the cultivation of the latter 
must cease to be  remunerative. 
It  is  diffi­
cult to grow hop vines  in  competition  with 
hemlock trees.

A lady living in Glendive,  Montana, who, 
while on a farm in  Ohio,  had  great  exper­
ience in raising hogs,  writes  that  worms  in 
the intestines, or parasites in the flesh known 
as trichin*, may be destroyed by  giving  the 
hogs wood ashes witli their  dry  food  or  lye 
in their swill.  She states that the  parasites 
in swine are  always  accompanied  with  an 
overabundance of mucus, and that the quan­
tity of it may be greatly reduced by  feeding 
the animals wood ashes or lye.

The great boom  in  the  hop  market  last 
year, when the price went up  from  twenty- 
five  cents  per  pound to  $1.10  caused  the 
brewers to use  substitutes,  and  instead  of 
IK  pounds of hops to  the  barrel,  they  use 
six-tenths of a  pound.  The  substitutes  are 
gentian root, Colombo root,  chamomile  flow­
ers,  quassi  wood  or  extract,  nux  vomica, 
aloes, cocculus  indicus,  licorice  paste,  etc. 
And  people  who  drink  those  concoctions 
sometimes wonder why they do not feel very 
well.
At Astoria, Oregon,  all  the  offal  of  the 
salmon used for canning is  thrown  into  the 
sea at the shore, the  canneries  being  so  sit­
uated that the  great  Pacific  Ocean,  at  the 
mouth of the great Colorado  River,  receives 
all the rejected  matter.  According  to  the 
Portland Oregonian, this seeming  wasteful­
ness is a means of  constant  reproduction  of 
the salmon.  The first operation in  the  can­
neries,  he  argues,  is  to  relieve the fish of 
their entrails,  fins,  heads  and  spawn,  and 
these in almost every  instance,  are  dropped 
directly into the river.  Much of the spawn, 
of course, is eaten by fish  or  destroyed,  but 
a goodly share, he thinks, finds lodgment on 
the bottom, where in the  natural  process  it
It is a fact  well  known  that  the
water  about  the  canneries  fairly  swarms 
with young fish during the summer and fall.

Grand  Rapids,

M ichigan.

SPRING  <& COMPANY

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN—

FAIsTOY  AND

STIFLE

GOODS

OIL

MATTINGS,

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6  and.  8  M ò n ro e   S tree t,

Grand  Rapids,

M ichigan.

No Trouble  to  Show  Goods.

A stranger  stepped  into  Moses  Schaum- 
berg’s ready made clothing  emporium a few 
days ago.  “Vant to  see some  bants—gene- 
vine  Scotch tweeds?” said Moses, as he rub­
bed his hands and smiled, when  he  noticed 
the stranger opening  his  pocketbook.  The 
stranger took a long list out  of  the  pocket- 
book, and after consulting  it, said:  “ Let us 
begin on summer  overcoats.”  “ Dot stock of 
summer overgoats vas  so  goot as vas not in 
dis State pefore.  I sells dose  goots  sheap. I 
malcesOnot a halaf  a  tollar  brofits  on dose 
overgoats.”  The  stranger  allowed  Moses 
to  show  him  about  forty-five  overedats. 
Then he said he would look at shirts.  Then 
it was hats he seemed to  want—straw  hats 
and felt hats, high hats and low  hats, were 
exhibited, and  all  offered  at  “thirty  ber 
cent, below cost,” but the stranger,  without 
buying anything, passed on  to  a shelf  full 
of linen and flannel underwear.  Mose scat­
tered  everything  off the  shelf  on  to  the 
counter, and the strapger made a  close  ex­
amination  of  every  article,  but  ordered 
nothing.  “Mine  vrient,”  said  Mose,  “vat 
you pelieve you vants?  Do  you  vants  nod- 
ings, or do you dalce me  for a  lunatic  asy­
lums?  I shows you all  dose  goots vat  vas 
genevine,  und  you  nodings  puy*  Maby 
you vants some umbrellas to look at,  as you 
looks to have not  sense  to  come  out Of the 
rain already.  Yot is dot racket you  got mit 
you, anyhow?  The stranger  handed  Mose 
the list he held in his hand, and  asked:  “Is 
that your advertisement?” 
“Yes,  dot  vas 
so.”  “Got all 
the  goods  described  there, 
have you?”  “All  dose  goots  vas  genevine 
I imported, so hellup me gracious!” 
“Don’t 
! you say  at  the.  bottom  of  that  advertise­
ment, ‘No trouble to  show  goods,  call and 
examine  before  purchasing  elsewhere?’ ” 
“Yes, I say dot.” 
“Well,  I  always  pur­
chase elsewhere, but, as I was  waiting  for 
the train, I thought I’d kill time by  accept­
ing  your  invitation  to  call  and  examine 
your  stock  anti  prices.  You  have  not 
shown me your stock of linen  dusters  yet.” 
“Yacob!  Yacob!  bring  me dot  six  shooter 
right  avayl”

Took  Him  Back.

“I want a pair of driving  gloves,”  said  a 
consequential looking duck, entering a gent’s 
furnishing store  and  addressing  a  lady  at­
tendant.
“Buckskin?” asked the polite saleswoman.
“Oh, no?” replied the impetuous customer, 
“I want something that will match the color 
of my skin.”
“Oh, you do?” returned the  lady  quickly, 
taking down a box  from  the  shelf;  “try  a 
pair of these calf-skins!”
The dough-head has never  since  patroniz­
ed a store where there are women attepdants.

store?

Had  Had  Experience.
Boy to Druggist—Want a boy?
Druggist—Yes.  Ever worked  in  a  drug 
Boy—Yes, sir.
Druggist—What did you do?
Boy—Bit holes in porous  plasters.
Rapid exit of  boy, followed by a  bottle of 

mucilage.

Every theater critic has his  own  peculiar 
style.  The  editor of a mining  camp  news­
paper, for example, has this to  say of a pop­
ular songstress:  “As  a  singer she can  just 
wallop the hose off any that  ever  wagged  a 
jaw on the boards.  From her clear, birdlike 
upper notes she  would  canter  way down  to 
the brass racket and then cushion  back  to  a 
sort of spiritual treble that made every  man 
in the audience imagine  every  hair  on  his 
h e ^  was  the  golden  string  of  a  celestial 
harp, over which angelic fingers were sweep­
ing-”

chine.

cleaner.

log-roller.

John P. Benoit, Detroit, cut-off valve gear.
Horace  Butler, Ludington,  skidding  ma­
George Cassidy, Flint,  feed-water  heater.
William H. Cloud, Detroit, bench-vise.
Freeman S. Farr and J. Evered, Muskegon, 
James G. Gilleland, Palmyra, animal trap.
James A. Green, Bay City, lubricator.
F.  Eugene  Jeanjaquet,  Detroit,  colter 
Richard Lanckner, Bay City, valve.
Henry T. and H. H. Lowell, Ionia,  refrig­
George  Moebs,  Detroit,  machine 
for 
Luther  Y.  Moulton,  Grand  Rapids,  ma­
Hiram P. Pruin,  Grand  Haven, breastpin.
Victor Shreve,  Detroit, car coupling.
George N. Spencer, Three  Rivers, railway 
Ransom E. Strait, Galesburg, grain binder.

erator.
bunching cigars.
chine for drying grain.

velocipede.

The  Way He  Looked  at  It.

The idols  worshipped by  the  heathen  of 
Africa and India are nearly all manufactured 
in England, and pay a very handsome profit. 
It is stated that the commercial value of  the 
brass and  cast-iron gods shipped to heathen 
lands far exceeds  that of the  Bibles,  books, 
and tracts which reach the same destination.
It is said that one New York produce firm 
has paid an average of $50 a day for a month 
at a time for telegrams  to  Chicago,  and  the 
telegraphic business of five  firms  with  their 
Chicago correspondents costs $110,000 a year. 
And yet  less than  half a century ago all the 
world’s business was transacted without  the 
wire.
The cheapest postal service in the world is 
that of Japan,  where  letters  are  conveyed 
all over the entire empire for two  seu—that 
is about one and two-fifths cents in our mon­
ey.  This is the more wonderful as the coun­
try has  litttle  over  one  hundred  miles  of 
railway,  a  small  steam  marine, and rather 
poor roads.

The  Value  of a Good  Clerk.

From the Commercial Enquirer.
A good clerk is a prize too  rarely  found 
and  when  found,  often  unappreciated. 
When a man has a  clerk in whom  he  can 
place confidence he may  regard  himself as 
extremely fortunate.  One good  clerk  will 
do more and do it better than two poor ones. 
He does not require constant looking  after. 
When he does anything there is no  necessi­
ty for his employer to do it over  again.  He 
will always  take  pains to  treat  customers 
well and give them exactly what they  want. 
He  never  acts  as  if  he  owns 
the  whole 
establishment and a  very large  part  of the 
world outside of it.  He is polite,  unassum­
ing, and anxious to forward his  employer’s 
interests.  He is sufficiently  level-headed to 
recognize the fact that the more his employ­
er’s  business  increases  the better  is 
his 
own chance  for  advancement.  Witli  this 
end in view he naturally takes  a close  per­
sonal interest in the  business.
When a man is  fortunate  enough  to get 
such an employe, he would do  well  to  en­
deavor to retain him. 
If  he  wants  a  holi­
day once in a  while, let  him  have  it.  He 
will appreciate it and make  it  up  to  you, 
Should he ask a favor of you, grant it,  as by 
so doing you will  make him  regard  you as 
his best friend and  the  bond  between  you 
will be one of friendship as well as business 
interest.  Many  employers  overlook 
the 
fact that a good clerk  is a  person  of  some 
influence.  He can always bring trade  with 
him, and need never be at a loss for employ­
ment. 
If  he  leave  one  employer  he  can 
readily  obtain  a  position  with  another, 
probably  in  the  same  neighborhood,  and 
draw trade to his  latest  employer.  When 
you get a good clerk  keep  him.  You  can 
feel a sense  of  security  when  you  go  to 
market or for an evening’s recreation, if you 
leave such a person in  charge.  Your  busi­
ness will be well attended 
to  and  even  if 
you pay him a liberal salary you will  find it 
a benefit in the long run.

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From the  Albany Argus.

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‘  Don  t  mention  It. 

English farmers  have been in the habit of 
selling their wheat crop as soon  as  threshed 
A boy passing the peanut stand at the cor­
to get  money  with  which  to  purchase  feed 
ner  of Broadway and Columbia  street,  yes­
for stock during the  winter.  Of  late  years, 
terday noon, snatched a  single  peanut  from 
however, the wheat crop has been very poor, 
the open roaster.  The attendant Italian saw 
giving a smaller amount of money to  invest, 
the act, and quick as  a  flash seized the  lad, 
and the losses from disease have been unusu­
to whom he administered a vicious kick.  A 
ally  severe.
benevolent old gentleman who had witnessed
I  ' A number  of Boston  capitalists  have  ac-
the affair remonstrated with “John.” 
“Why do you kick/a small  boy for  taking  quired a  lease of the gutta-percha forests  of 
| Dutch Guina for a term of thirty-three years, 
one peanut?  You ought to be arrested.” 
“Dida  you  sometima  sella  ze  peanut?”  and have already begun operations there up- 
on an extensive scale.  Their  lease  covers
queried  the Italian,  pleasantly. 
No,” replied the  old  gentleman,  with  a ¡1,000,000 acres, ami the quality of  the  gum
puzzled expression.
is said to be equal to that  of  the  best  East 
“Wella, I tella you a somezing zen.  Onea 
India product.
lit-tel boy steala onea lit-tel peanut, no maka 
Baltimore,  having  more  than  $20,000,000 
muclia losa.  Bata when ze tousen lit-tel boy 
invested in oyster  packing,  and  over  30,000 
j  persons engaged in  the  business,  is  taking 
steala ze tousen peanut, it maka hella ze hole 
in ze bag.”
I measures to prevent  the  destruction  of  the 
| oyster beds  in  the  Chesapeake  Bay. 
It is
proposed that the period of  rest for  the oys-
“I can’t make my cash balance,”  reported  ters  shall  be  lengthened  and  extend  from 
the book-keeper  to  the  senior  member  of  a j  April 1 until October 1. 
“Well, John,” remarked the thrifty house-
j 
five-year-old concern. 
j  wife, as she poured the tea with that beauti-
“Wliieli way is it?” 
j  foi rjse and fall motion  she  had  cultivated
“Over.” 
■ 
“How much?” 
the tea-pot, “I guess you had better  or-
! 
A “Traveller” writes  to  London  Truth: 
der up a barrel of flour in the morning, Mrs.
"Forty-five dollars.” 
Perhaps the following story  may  be  of in­
‘Correct you are, my boy.  You  take  five 
Thriftless’ folks, over the way, had  a  barrel
terest  to  some  of  your  readers, 
if  they 
and give me forty;  you  see,  my wife came 
rolled in to-day, and they won’t be in borrow­
should ever be under the necessity  of travel­
in here this  morning  and  I  dumped  what 
ing trim for some  time.”
ing without a ticket:  The other  day, on the 
money I had in  my  pockets  into  the  cash 
—  Railway, a man  got into one of  the  car­
“How is it you can tell  such  whoppers?” 
drawer.  Then I turned  my  pockets  inside 
riages and presently began talking to  a  fel­
asked a caller, addressing the  editor  of the 
out, and told her I hadn’t got a cent, and the 
low passenger.  After a  time he  asked  the 
fish story department.  “Well, you see,” re­
money in the drawer was part of  a  sum  to 
gentleman whether he had  ever  heard  the 
plied the editor,  “our wife’s name is Anna.” 
pay a'note, and that  you  had  gone  out  to 
story about how a  man  traveled  without a 
“What has that to do with  it?” 
“A  great 
borrow enough to make up the whole.  You 
ticket.  The gentleman said he had  not;  so 
deal.  When we are writing fish  stories we 
take the five, I say, and  don’t  mention  it.”
the man asked him to lend  him  his  ticket, 
usually have  Anna  nigh  us  to  help  us.” 
that he might show him  how  it  was  done, 
The caller was carried to the hospital.
and began fiddling  about  with it,  but  pre­
Kitten heads  are  sufficiently  fashionable 
tended that the story had  suddenly  slipped 
in  Paris  to  make  the  special  business of 
out of his head, but that  he  would  be sure
It  is  to  be
breeding the kittens  profitable. 
hoped that the  fashion  will  extend  to  the  to  remember  it  soon.  After  a  time  the
train got near London, and as the  man  still 
United States just long enough,  in  point  of 
could not remember the  story,  he  returned 
time, to clear off the present available stock, 
the gentleman his ticket.  This  struck the 
and afford relief to the countless millions  of 
gentleman  as  being  very  curious,  so  he 
human non-fasliionables who are sadly afflict­
watched the man.  When  the  man  got to 
ed by the miserable  midnight  merriment  of 
the barrier and was asked for his  ticket, he 
ancient toms and tabbies.  Raw materials of 
said he had given it  up, but  the ticket  col­
this kind can be sold very cheap, and bills be 
lector denied it, and after a good deal  of al­
dated ahead to the satisfaction of buyers.
tercation the man pulled some silver out  of 
his pocket, and was  about  to  pay  his  fare 
when he suddenly said  (producing  a  small 
piece of ticket) that he could  prove  that he 
had given up his ticket, because he  remem­
bered playing about with it in the train  and 
tearing  off a  small  piece  and  that  if  the 
ticket-collector looked he would find a  tick­
et with the piece torn off.  On looking,  the 
ticket-collector  found  a 
ticket  with  the 
piece torn off, and  of  course,  immediately 
begged the man a thousand  pardons.

A small boy was recently  discovered  pur­
loining some apples from the front of  a  gro­
cery  store.  The  proprietor gave  chase, but 
failed to overtake him, and  he  was  obliged 
to shake his fist and shout after him:
“Never mind, my young kid, I’m going up 
to see your mother about this.”
“That’s all right,” yelled  back  the  small 
* boy,  “you just go right along  up  there.  Pa 
filled a man full of buckshot  the  other  day 
for going to see ma,  and  I  reckon  he’s  got 
another dose laid away somewhere for you.”
“Then  you  are  getting  along  nicely  in 
school, my little man!  Can you tell me how 
many pecks there are  in  a  gallon?”  “Just 
half a  peck, sir.  You see,  there  are  eight 
quarts in a peck, and four quarts in a gallon. 
That just fetches it.”  “Your  logic  is  very 
good.  Now  tell  me how many  yards  in  a 
foot!”  “I  should think  there  was  a  yard 
and  a  half  in  your  foot,”  and then the boy 
“skinned” around  the  corner  for  fear  the 
foot might  swing in his direction.

The  Territory  of  Arizona  makes a good 
showing.  According to the  report  of  Gov­
ernor Tuttle its  population  is  not  less  than 
75,000. 
It is now in 
excess of that of Nevada.  In the production 
of gold, silver and copper,  it  is  only  second 
to Colorado as a bullion  producer,  the  com­
bined annual value being nearly $24,000,000. 
In  cattle and  sheep  it  is  making  enormous 
progress.  The present demand is for artesian 
water, and Congress will be asked to make a 
liberal appropriation  for  boring  such  wells.

Timely  Warning  from  a  Young  Kid.

How  to Travel  without  a Ticket.

It was 40,440 in 1880. 

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INSURES AGAINST ACCIDENTS AT H ALF THE 

RATES OF STOCK COMPANIES.  ■
$70,000,000 of Iwance in Force!

NOT  ONE  DOLLAR  OF  INDEBTEDNESS.

TTAH  PAID  3,000  CLAIMS.

NO  CLAIMS  UNPAID.

H U M S B. FEET, Of R um ,Pitt 4 Co, P u silli

JAMES E. PITCHER, Ssmtary.

&  CO.,
Wholesale  Grocers!

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

GHAKTD  R A P ID S ,  -  M IC H IG A N ,

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M cAlpin’s  GOXiD  SHIELD  Plug,

H arris’  SE2TTX2TEL  Plug,

H arris’  HONETT  BEE  Plug,

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

MERIT,-and  will  Please  Both  Dealer and  Customer.

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Fire  Brick  and  Clay,  Cement,  Stucco

T.ÎMB, H A IR ,  COAX  and WOOS.

ESTIM ATES  CH EERFU LLY  FURNISHED.

Office—7  Canal  Street.  Sweet’s  Hotel  Block.  Yards—Goodrich  Street,  Near  Michigan

Central  Freight  House.

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE

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.  21,  1883.

t& 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.

The is joy in the nursery  since  castor oil 

went up in price.

The Department  of  Agriculture  now  re­
ports that Cotton will pan out  about  86  per 
cent, of the yield last year.

The remarkable multiplication and success 
of palpable frauds by Chicago  jobbers  serve 
to bring  into  disreptite  the  idiotic  maxim 
maker who said  that “Tricks in  trade never 
prosper.”

At a meeting of the  Western  Nail  Asso­
ciation at Pittsburg on the 14th,  it  was  de­
cided that the mills should shut  down  Dec. 
22 and remain so until  Feb.  4.  This  will 
have the effect of equalizing the overproduc­
tion and bettering prices.

The diminished consumption of  iron  and 
steel in the United States is indicated by thé 
fact that for the nine months of  the  present 
year the total imports  have  been  but  540,- 
029 tons,"against 950,905 tons in  the  corres­
ponding period of last year.

A comparison of the  amount  of  national 
bank circulation outstanding Nov. 3 with the 
same a year ago, shows that there  has  been 
a contraction of  $11,179,323.  The  amount 
on Nov. 3,  1883,  was  $251,522,408,  against 
$362,701,731 on Nov. 5, 1882.

A California  paper says:  Our production 
of raisins this  year  is  over  125,000  boxes, 
and in three years it  bids fair to be  400,000. 
Most of this production will be in  San  Ber­
nardino, Los Angeles and  San  Diego  coun­
ties.  The New England immigrants who have 
settled in colonies will  be  the  great  raisin 
makers of California.

The extravagance of strikes  is  now  being 
well illustrated at Pittsburg, where window- 
glass workers have held out against the man­
ufacturing concerns  for  two  months.  The 
loss in wages is $210,000, equal to about four 
times the difference in wages  for  a  year  if 
the reduction proposed by the manufacturers 
had been accepted.  And it is likely that the 
strikers will yield at last, after so  much  dis­
astrous idleness.

The  Northivestern  Lumberman,  in  de­
tailing the events of the life of David Ward, 
commonly called “Dr.,”  of  Detroit,  vouch­
safes  the  opinion  than  his  Michigan  and 
Wisconsin pine  is worth, at  current  prices, 
$15,000,000, and his hardwood  and  mineral 
lands $25,000,000 more.  A peculiar  feature 
of the case is that “Dr.” Ward  is seldom in­
cluded in the list of millionairs that goes the 
rounds of the press periodically.

The  eleventh  annual  convention  of  the 
National Butter,  Cheese  and  Egg  Associa­
tion, is announced to be  held  in  Cincinnati, 
December 4-6.  The proceedings will consist 
of addresses and papers  prepared  and  read 
by  men  eminent  in the dairy business, fol­
lowed by practical  criticism  and  discussion, 
and the occasion  will  be  enlivened  by  such 
features of a  light  and  agreeable  character, 
as the place,  time and opportunity may sug­
gest.

The clove crop  has  been  growing  larger 
each season for several years  past,  and  this 
year  it  will  amount  to  20,000 bales.  The 
crop was about as large as  this  season’s  up 
to about ten years ago, when a tornado swept 
over Zanzibar, the  principal  clove  country, 
and  inflicted  great  damage  on  the  crop, 
which for some time after was not above 10,- 
000 bales.  Attention was then turned to the 
Amboyna Islands, but the crop was  limited, 
though they are larger and of better  quality 
than the Zanzibar cloves.

The Merchant'8 Review utters the follow­

ing trite and seasonable truths:
Dull  times  are  saving  times.  There  is 
never more money  in  the  community  than 
when men are keeping it; there is never less 
than when men are spending it.  The margin 
of expenditure is never wider than when low 
prices reduce  fixed  charges.  Fortunes,  big 
and little, are made, not in  the  booms,  but 
in the ebbs.  The man who buys on the flood 
is stranded some day;  the man who  invests 
on the ebb is flaoted  to  fortune.  Any  man 
can sell goods in flush  years;  the  man  who 
sells them in lean years ends  a  millionaire.

The retail druggists of the State have done 
a good thing for themselves  and  the  trade 
by organizing an association for  the  protec­
tion of their mutual interests.  The meeting 
at Lansing last  week  was  a  representative 
gathering of apothecaries, albeit Grand Rap­
ids was not largely represented, and the pro­
ceedings show that the members  were  gov­
erned by moderation and extreme good sense. 
A draft for a  legislative  enactment  govern­
ing druggists  was  presented,  discussed, and 
adopted,  and  the  convention  adjourned  to 
meet in Detroit next  Fall, until  which  time 
suggestions will be in order  from  those  fa­
vored with copies of the proposed law.  We 
shall print, next week,  a liberal  abstract of 
the measure, and those who  wish  to  obtain 
the document in full can do so by addressing 
the Secretary, Mr. Jacob  Jesson, Muskegon.

CÛRRBNT QUOTATIONS.

FURNISHED  BY  LEADING  DEALERS. 

* *

STAPLE  DRY  GOODS. 

Spring  &  Company quote asfollows 

WIDE  BROWN COTTONS.

Androscoggin, 9-4. .23 
Androscoggin, 8-4. .21
Pepperell,  7-4........16*4
Pepperell,  8-4........20
Peppered,  9-4....... 2214

Peppered, 10-4....... 25
Peppered, 11-4....... 27‘4
Pequot,  7-4............ 18
Pequot,  8-4............ 21
Pequot,  9-4............ 24

CHECKS.

Caledonia, XX, oz. .11 
Caledonia,  X, oz... 10
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.............1054
Otis Furniture.......1054
York, 1  oz.............. 10
York, AA, extra oz.14 

OSNABUUG,

Alabama brown__ 7
Jewell briwn..........  954
Kentucky brown .*.10*4 
Lewiston  brown...  954
Lane brown........... 954
Louisiana  plaid__ 8

Alabama plaid.__ 8
Augusta plaid.....’.  8
Toledo plaid............754
Manchester plaid..  7 
New Teun. plaid.. .11 
Utility plaid...........   6 54

BLEACHED COTTONS.

Avondale,  36..........  854
Greene, G, 4-4........ 6
Art  cambrics, 36.. .1154 
Hill, 4-4......................9
Androscoggin, 4-4..  854 
Hill, 7-8......................8
Androscoggin, 5-4. .1254
Hope,  4-4.................. 754
Ballou, 4-4...............  754
King  Phillip  cam­
Ballou, 5-4...............  6
b r i c ^ .................1154
Boott,  O. 4-4............  854
Linwood,  4-4..........9
Boott,  E. 5-5
Lonsdale,  4-4..........954
Boott,AGC,4-4.....  954 Lonsdale  cambric. 12
Boott, K. 3-4...........  52£ Langdon, GB, 44...  954
Blackstone, AA 4-4.  7%|Langdon, 45............14
Masonville,  4-4.........954
Chapman, X, 4-4__ 654
Maxwell. 4-4............1054
Conway,  4-4...........   724
Cabot, 4-4................   754
New York Mill, 4-4.1154 
New Jersey,  4-4....  8 
Cabot, 7-8................   654
Pocasset,  P. M. C..  754 
Canoe,  3-4...............  4
Pride of the West. .1254
Domestic,  36 ..........  754
Pocahontas,  4-4___ 854
Dwight Anchor, 4-1.10
Slaterville, 7-8........  654
Davol, 4-4................   954
Victoria, AA..........9
Fruit of Loom, 4-4..  954 
Woodbury, 4-4.......... 55S£
Fruit of Loom, 7-8..  854 
Whitinsville,  4-4...  754
Fruit of  the Loom,
Whitinsville, 7-8___ 654
cambric,  4-4........12
Wamsutta, 4-4.........1154
Gold Medal, 4-4..  ..  7
Williamsville,  36... 1054
Gold Medal, 7-8.......654
Gilded Age............. 8%

CORSET JEANS.

Armory..................  754|Kearsage...................854
Androscoggin sat..  854 Naumkeagsatteen.  854
Canoe River...........   654|Pepperell bleached 854
Clarendon...............  6541 Pepperell sat..........954
Hallowell  Imp......  654 Rockport...................754
Ind. Orch. Imp. 
6541 Lawrence sat..........854
754[Conegosat...............  7
Laconia
PRINTS.
.554|Gloucester..............6
.6  Gloucestermourn’g.6
.6  Hamilton  fancy__ 6
.6  Hartel fancy............ 654
.654 Merrimae D..............654
.654 Manchester..............654
.6  Oriental fancy.........6
.6541 Oriental  robes.........654
.554 Pacific  robes............7
.654 Richmond.................654
.7  Steel River............... 6
.6  Simpson’s;.................654
.6541 Washington fancy..
.5  [Washington  blues..8

Albion,  solid__
Albion,  grey__
Allen’s  checks..
Aden’s  fancy...
Aden’s pink.......
Aden’s purple...
American, fancy
Arnold fancy__
Berlin solid........
Cocheco fancy..
Coeheeo robes...
Conestoga fancy
Eddystone........
Eagle fancy.......
Garner pink............. 7 

|

FINE BROWN COTTONS.

.105

dress

lard, 4-4 
DOMESTIC GINGHAMS.
............  854 Renfrew, dress

Appleton A, 4-4__ 8  [Indian Orchard, 40.  854
Boott  M, 4-4...........   754 Indian Orchard, 36.  8
Laconia B, 7-4.........1654
Boston F, 4-4..........8
Lyman B, 40-in....... 1054
Continental C, 4-3..  754 
Mass. BB, 4-4............654
Continental D, 40 in 854 
Nashua  E, 40-in__ 9
Conestoga W, 4-4...  7 
Conestoga  D.7-8...  554 
Nashua  K, 4-4........ 754
Nashua 0,7-8..........  754
Conestoga  G, 30-in.  654
Dwight  X, 3-4........ 6
Newmarket N .......... 754
Pepperell E, 39-in..  754
Dwight Y, 7-8..........  654
Pepperell  R, 4-4__ 7
Dwight Z%44..........  7
Peppered  O, 7-8___ 654
Dwight Star, 4-4—   754 
Ewight Star, 40-in..  9 
Peppered  N, 3-4___ 654
Enterprise EE, 36..  654 
Pocasset  C, 4-4.......7
Great Falls E, 4-4 
Saranac  R__  ...........754
Saranac  E................9
Farr 
Indi
dress styll 
Amoskt 
f 110 54
Johnson Manfg Co,
Amoskt 
Bookfold..............1254
styles 
Johnson Manfg Co,
Bates.. 
dress  styles.........1254
Berkshi 
Slaterville, 
dress
iks.... 
Glasgov 
styles....................1354
ks, f ’y 
Glasgov
checks,
White Mfg Co, stap  8 
Glasgow
White Mfg Co, fane 8 
royal  styles........  9
White  Manf’g  Co,
Gloucester, 
new
Earlston...............  954
standard............  8
Cordon....................  8
Plunket..................  8
|G
Lancaster...............  8 
reylock, 
styles  ......... 
1254
Langdale................   7541
WIDE BLEACHK 
D COTTONS.
|P 
Androscoggin, 7-4. .21 
epperell.  104.......2754
Androscoggin, 8-4.. 23  IF
eppefrell,  114.......3254
Pe 
equot,  74..............21
Pepperell,  7-4........
i Pe 
luot,  84..............24
Pepperell,  8-4........
luot,  9-4..............2754
Pepperell,  9-4........
|Peq
WN  C 
HEAVY  I
COTTONS.
.  756|Lav 
Atlantic  A, 4-4.......
Atlantic  H, 4-4.......
.  7541 Lav 
.  654 ¡Lav 
Atlantic  D, 4-4.......
.  6  Nev 
Atlantic P, 4-4........
.  554 Mystic River, 44...  654
Atlantic  LL, 4-4....
.  754 Pequot A, 44..........  8
Adriatic, 36.............
Augusta, 4-4...........
.  634fPiedmont,  36.........  7
Boott  M, 4-4...........
.  754 Stark AA, 44.........   8
.  754 Tremont CC,4 4 ....  6
Boott  FF, 4-4..........
.  7  Utica,  44...............   9
Granite
.  8  Wacbusett,  44......734
Indiar
.1254|Wachusett, 30-in...  634 
Indiar
TICKINGS.
Falls, XXXX.........1854
Amoskeag,  AC A ... 15 
Falls, XXX............ 1554
Amoskeag  “ 4-4.. 19
Falls,  BB................1154
Amoskeag,  A ........14
Falls,  BBC, 36....... 1954
Amoskeag,  B ....... 13
Falls,  awning....... 19
Amoskeag,  C....... 12
Hamilton,  BT, 32..12
Amoskeag,  D........11
Hamilton,  D .........10
Amoskeag,  E........1054
Hamilton,  H .........10
Amoskeag, F......... 10
Hamilton  fancy.. .10
Premium  A, 44— 17
Methuen AA.........1454
Premium  B ...........16
Methuen ASA.......18
Extra 44.................16
Omega A, 7-8.........11
Extra 7-8........  .......1454
Omega A, 44.........13
Gold Medal 44....... 15
CCA 7-8...................1254 ¡Omega ACA, 7-8___ 14
Omega ACA, 44__ 16
CT 44 ....................... 14
Omega SE, 7-8.... ..24
BC 7-8....................... 14
Omega SE, 44........27
BF 7-8....................... 16
OmegaM. 7-8  ..L..22
A F44....................... 19
Cordis AAA, 32....... 14
Omega M, 4 4 ..____25
Cordis ACA, 32.......15
Shetucket SS&SSW 1154 
She tucket, S & SW.12
Cordis No. 1, 3 2 .. .15
Cordis  No. 2............14
Shetucket,  SFS 
12
Cordis No. 3............ 13
Stoekbridge  A ......7
Cordis  No. 4........... 11541 Stock bridge  frney.  8

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ce  Y ,30.... 
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ALL  WOOL  SUPERFINES.

CARPETS  AND  CARPETINGS. 
Spring  &  Company  quote  as  follows: 
TAPESTRY 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............................ 
©
THREE-PLYS.
Hartford  3-ply..........................
@1  00 @1 00 
Lowell 3-ply.............................
@1 00 
Higgins’ 3-ply............................
Sanford’s 3-ply..........................
@  9754
EXTRA SUPERS.
Hartford..........................................  
®  7754
Lowell............................ 
©  8254
 
Other makes....................................  75  @  7754
Best cotton chain............................  60  ©  6254
Best  2-ply.........................................  5754®  60
Other  grades 2-ply..........................  5254®  55
All-wool  super, 2-ply................... 
50  ©  55
Extra heavy double cotton chain.  4254®  45
Double cotton chain.......................  35  @  40
Heavy cotton and wool, double c .  30  @  3254
Half d’l chain, cotton & wool, 2-ply  2754®  3254
Single cotton chain.........................  19  ®  25
3-ply, 44 wide, extra heavy...
B, 4-4 wide.................................
Imperial, plain, 44 wide........
D, 33  inches...................................... 
OIL CLOTHS.
No. 1, 44, 54,64 and 84.................  
 
No. 2, 
No. 3, 
..................  
No. 4, 
 
Best all rattan, plain.......................  
Best all rattan and cocoa, plain... 
Napier  A........................................... 
Napier  B........................................... 
Opaque shades, 38  inch.................. 
Holland shades, B finish, 44.......... 
Pacific  Holland, 44......................... 
Hartshorn’s fixtures, per  gross... 
Cord fixtures, per  gross.!..........1. 

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WOOL FILLING AND  MIXED.

MaTTINGS.

CURTaiNS.

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•  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,  Vases, 

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.

Imihense  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.

Holiday  Goods.

Tin  Toys.

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coffees do 
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tree baskets,
do

ONE  ASSORTED CASE  NO.
1 doz China Motto Teas  assorted.
1  do 
.2 00 
54  do 
.3 50 
54  do 
.0 50 
54  do 
.3 25 
54  do 
.4 50 
54  do 
.6 50 
1-6 do 
.7 00 
1-6 do 
.8 50
1-6 do 
1-6 do 
Red Bohemian vases...............  75
1-6 do 
Silvered Bohemian  vases.......1 00
1-6 do 
.......1 25
do 
1-6 do 
.......1 60
do 
1-6 do
.......175
1-6 do  Blue decorated  do 
1-6 do Alab. 
do 
.......5 75
1-6 do Decorated Toy Tea sets............. 2 25
1 
............. 4 50
do 
1-6 do White 
............. 1 75
54  do Good child cup and saucer........   90
plates.........................  90
54  do 
do 
54  do Alphabetical childs  plates.......  70
mugs.....  
54  do 
70
1  do  china decorated  mugs...............
1  do 
...............
1 20
54  do 
ass’d
1 75
54  do 
do
1 25
54  do Toy knives and forks..................1 25
1 do China open work baskets.
1  do Assorted animal  whistles
ld o  
do  China vases........
do  Pitchers................
1 do 
2
do  Baskets.......................... 2
54  do 
2
54  do Toy casters.........................
5 40
1  Smoking set................................... 5 40
9 00
1 
.........................
1  do Cloth  dolls [China heads!
1 25
54  do 
1 75
54  do 
2 50
54  do 
4 00
1-6 do 
1 do Kate Greenaway China  fig’s...
1-6 do China decorated wash sets
.2
1-6 do do  Doll  heads.............................2
.1
1-6 do  do 
..................

do 
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do 
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do
do

do 
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ONE  ASSORTED  PRCKAGE NO. 3. 

—Containing—

do 
do 
do 

do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 

doz. Assorted  Animals..................
60 1 doz.
do
88 1
..................
..................100
63 ‘4
do
.................. 2 00
65 1-3 do
Horse and  Boy...................... 2 25
60 1-3 do
.......................3 75
do 
35 1-6 do
Wagons...................................
46 1
do
.................................... 1 50
1 00 Vt
do
....................................2 00
50 % do
Trucks.....................................4 50
45 1-6 do
Express................................... 9 00
75 1-12 do
Train  Cars.......................... ... 2 40
75 1-6 do
Locomotives__ ;....................2 00
63 54
do
........................... 4 25
44 1-6 do
Toy Kitchen...........................2 25
63 1-12 do
............................4 50
63 1-12 do
Steamboats.............................2 25
2 00 56
do
Toy Banks...............................
33 1
do
33 1
Fancy Cups.............................
do
Mechanical Locomotive........
17 1-12 do

do 
do 

Package,  40c

$33  63

12 83

Gall  and  See  Us  When  in  the  City.  We  Are  Headquarters  for  Staple  Orockeryi 

Glassware*  Lamps,  Chimneys,  Lanterns,  Etc

WHOLESALE  GROCERS,
Niroi, Acorn, Chief, Crescent & Rod Seal Plug ToHaccos.

44,  46  and  48  South  Division  Street,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

---- WE  ARE  FACTORY  AGENTS  FOR-----

Our  stock  of Teas,  Coffees  and  Syrups 

is  Always  Complete.

—WE MAKE  SPECIAL  CLAIM FOR OUR—

T o b a c c o s ,  V in e g a rs   a n d   S p ic e s   2 

0UB  MOTTO;  “ SQUARE  DEALING  BETWEEN  MAN  AND  MAN.”

CORRESPONDENCE •'SOLICITED.

THE DEAREST TOBACCO

Is a Poor, Cominon or Low-Priced Article,

As It Gives Neither Pleasure 

Nor Satisfaction.

TO  THE  TASTE  AND  OTHER  SENSES.

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

WHENEVER  IT  DISCOVERS  AN  ARTICLE  THAT  COMMENDS  ITSELF 

THE PUBLIC IS NOT SLOW TO LEAHN THIS FACT
M IL L *  FL1
One-Fonrtli of All tie Plug; Tobacco Used in this Country!

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

Favorite  Brands  this  Year;  or  About

AND  AS THERE  ARE  BETWEEN  800  AND  900  OTHER  FACTORIES  IN 

THE  U.  S„  IT  FOLLOWS THAT THEIR * GOODS  MUST  GIVE

THAN  THE  BRANDS  OF  OTHER  MAKERS.

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

STAPLE  GROCERIES.

AXLE GREASE.

M odoc__ $  doz  60  ¡Paragon...  $  doz.; 65
Diamond.............  60  ¡Frazer's...............  85

BLUING.
 

•

COFFEE.

BROOMS.

CANNED GOODS.

25
Dry, No. 2..............  
doz. 
45
Dry, No. 3 .............................................doz. 
Liquid, 4 oz,...................................... doz. 
35
Liquid, 8 oz.......................................... doz. 
65
2 50
No. 1 Carpet.............................................. 
2 25
No. 2 Carpet.............................................. 
2 00
No. 1 Hurl.................................................  
1  75
No. 2 Hurl  ...............................................  
125
Faney Whisk............................................  
Common Whisk.......................................  
85
Corn, Camden...  1  10 
Pie Peaches........ 1 20
Corn, Trophy...  1  15 
3ftStandard 2 00©2 20
Com, Yarmouth* 1 35
Apples, 3 lb........1 20
Peas__ 75@1 25@1 50
do.  *6 lb..........2 15
String Beans... 
85
do.  gallons...  3 40 
Lima Beans........  85
Strawberries  1 @110 
Lewis’B’d Beans.1  70 
Blackberries 1 10-1 15
Pumpkin.. 
@1  15 
Raspberries__ 1 40
Succotash ... 1 65@90
Cherries, red__ 1 25
Oysters,  lib __   110
Cherries white..  1 90
Oysters,  2 f t __ 1 85
Pineapples........  1 75
Salmon__ 1 60®
Damsons. . . . ___ 1 25
Lobsters, Stars.. 1  75
Egg Plum s........   1 50
Sardines, Am......   8
G ages................   1  50
Sardines  Inport.  13 
Pears..................  1 35
Corned  Beef  @2 85 
Lusk’s Apricots.  2 95 
Cond. Milk, Eagle
Tomatoes . .1 05@1 20
case.......i...... 8 10
Corn,  Excelsior 110
Green Rio__ 12 @15 Roasted Mex.18 @20
Green Java.. .18 @28 Ground  Rio.. 10 @16
Green Mocha.27 @29 Ground  Mex. @17
Roasted Rio. .115i£@18 Arbuckle’s........ .@17«
Roasted  Java23 @32 x x x x .............. @17«
Roasted Mar. @1814
72 foot J u te ....... 1  35 60 foot Cotton... 2 10
50 foot Cotton... 1 85
60 foot Jute....... 1  20
G.  D....................
Ely’s Waterproof  75
Musket............... .  75
London Layers, new.............................  
2 65
175
Loose Muscatels Raisins, old............... 
Loose Muscatels Raisins,  new...........  
2 25
New Valencias Raisins.........................  814®  8«
Turkey Prunes......................................  6(4@7
Currants...................................................  6«@
Citron................ '....................................   18@20
Dried Apples  .........................................  8  @9
Whole Cod..............................................  5Vi@6Vt
514@9
Boneless Cod......................................... 
3 25
Herring Vt bbls.......................................... 
Herring Scaled.....................................  
30
Herring Holland....................................... 
1 10
White Fish 14 bb ls...................................  
6 00
do.  Kits....................................  85@90
Trout half bbls.......................................... 
4 85
85
Mackerel half bbls No. 1.........................  
6’ 50
1 00
Bloaters................................................1 15@1 20
Richardson’s No.'2  square. .*......................2 70
.1 56
Richardson’s No. 
do
Richardson’s No, 
do
.1 70 
Richardson’s No*6 
do
.2 70 
Richardson’s No. 8 
do
.1  70 
Richardson’s No. 9
do
55
Richardson’s No. 4 round............................. 2 70
Richardson’s No. 7  do 
.............................2 55
Richardson’s No. 714 do 
.............................1 70
Electric Parlor No. 17......................................3 80
Electric "Parlor No. 18......................................5 70

do. Kits  No. 1 ................................. 

do.  K its....................................... 

MaTCHES.

FRUITS.

CORDAGE.

FISH.

CAPS. 

*

 

20 gross lots special price.

MOLASSES.

OIL.

do. 

OATMEAL.

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

Black Strap....... 19@20|New Orleans  fy.62@65
Porto  Rico.........32@35 Syrups, corn...  @34
New Orleans g’d.  @48|Syrups, sug27©35@45 
Kerosene  W. W.....................................
1614
1314
Sweet, 2 oz. square.................................
Sweet, 2 oz. round.................................
1  00 
Castor, 2 oz.  square.........................;..
75 
Castor, 2 oz. round...............................p
1  00
Quaker 2 ft cases, 48 fts $   case...........
2 35 
2 55
do  5ft cases, 60 fts $  case...............
Imperial  bbls.......................................
Quaker bbls............................................
6 75
Dingee’s barrels med.................................
6 40 
Dingee’s 14 
.................................
3 90
small............................. 4 50
Dingee’s % 
Dingee’s quarts glass fancy........................... 4 25
....................... .2 50
Dingee’s pints 
do 
SUGARS.
Granulated............................................ 
8%
Cut Loaf.................................................
Powdered.......................................... 
9%
Conf. A ................................................... 
814
Standard A ....................................  ..."
7«@7«
Extra C................................................... 

PICKLES.

do 
do 

 

SOAP.

 

do. 

SPICES.

STARCH.

@ 514 
_

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

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

614
614
6614
534 
5 40 
3 50
4 00

Kirk’s American  Family...........^ ft
do. 
India.........................................
do. 
Savon  .......................................
do. 
Satinet......................................
do. 
Revenue  ..................................
do.
White Russian........................
City-
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..
Bidall’s ..................................................
Babbitt’s ..........;......................
Dish R ag.................................. .
White castile bars................................
Mottled castile.......................................
Old  Style...............................................
Ground Pepper,  in boxes and cans.., 
16®22
Ground. Allspice....................................  12@20
Cinnamon......................................../....  16@30
Cloves......................................................  20@25
Ginger...........................................  
  15@20
Mustard...................................................  15@35
Cayenne...................................................  25@35
Pepper 14 1b  dozen............................... 
75
Allspice  14 1b........................................... 
75
Cinnamon  14 f t .................................. s. 
75
Cloves 14  ft.............................................. 
75
Pepper,  whole....................................  17
@18
Allspice...............................................
@12
Cassia..................................................
@12
Cloves...................................................  20
NutAiegs,  No. 1..................................   70
Muzzy Gloss 1 ft package.....................
Muzzy Gloss 3 ft package.....................
Muzzy  Gloss 6 ft boxes.........................
Muzzy Gloss bulk..................................
Muzzy Corn 1 ft.....................................
Kingsford  Silver Gloss........................
Kingsford Silver Gloss 6 ft  box
Kingsford Corn..........................
Oswego  Gloss.............................
Mirror  Gloss...............................
Mirror Gloss, corn.......v ...........
450 P ocket....................................
28 Pocket......................................
Saginaw F ine..............................
H em p...........................................
Canary.........................................
R ape............................................
14@6
Mixed Bird...................................
STONEWARE.
Jugs ^  galloH.............................
@8
7
Crocks...................................................... 
7
Milk Crocks............................................ 
Rising  Sun gross..5 88|Dixon’s  gross........5 50
Universal.............. 5 88|Above $  dozea........  50
IX  L .......................5 50|
DeLand’spure  @ 514 ¡Cap Sheaf......   @514
•Churh’s ..........  @ 514 ¡Dwight’s ........   @ 514
Taylor’s G. M.  @5141
Japan ordinary.,23@25 Young Hyson.. . .25@50
Japanfair............ 25@30lGun  Powder.......35@50
Japan fair to g’d. 30@37 ¡Oolong.................33@55
Japan fine............ 40@50iCongo..................  @30
.Japan dust...........14®20|
TOBACCO—FINE CUT.
Wide  Awake....................................
Daisey...............................................
H iawatha.........................................
Globe.................................................
May Flower.....................................
Rose  Leaf.........................................
Silver Crown..................................
Owl  Club.........................................
Ripper  ...'.........................................
Ripper in % bbls..............................
Hero..................................................
A tlas.................................................
Royal Game......................................
;Silver Thread..................................
Old  Dog Tray..................................
Beal....................................................
Kentucky.........................................
Clipper..............................................
Mule Ear...........................................
Hiawatha.................* .....................

38
32
69
70 
70 
65 
38 
30 
30
@28
@45
@35
@38
@67
@60
@60
@30
@30

@7
@614
@714
@6
7  @714 
@814 
@914
8«@9
@624
@7
@714

STOVE POLISH.

BALERATUS.

SHORTS.

2  40 
l 10

SEEDS.

514
414

TEAS.

SALT.

PLUG.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

do 

YEAST.

do 
do 
do 

MISCELLANEOUS.

 
VINEGAR.

Sentinel 17 ft and 28 ft cads..................  @48
Climax.................................; ...............   .  @50
  @48
Honey Bee 281b  cads...................  
Hold F a st...................................... 3 —   @48
“76” ............. 
@48
Dog On I t ........................................... 
@37
McAlpin’s Gold Shield..........................   @48
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....................................  @38
Nimrod....................................................   @50
Acorn ...................  
@50
Red Seal...................................................  @45
Crescent.................................................   @44
Black  X ...................................................  @35
Black  Bass..............................................  @40
True Grit.................................................   @35
Nobby  Spun  Roll...................................  @50
SMOKING.
D im e..................................... 
25@26
Peerless........................ 
23
Standard.................................................  
20
Old Tom................................................... 
19
24
Tom & Jerry........................................... 
Joker........................................................ 
25
35
Traveler................................................... 
Maiden..............................’. ....................   @25
28
T opsy...................................................... 
24
Navy Clippings...................................... 
Honey D ew ............................................  
25
Gold Block............................................. 
32
Camp Fire  ................................  
22
 
21
Oronoko.................................................  
26
Nigger  Head........................................... 
60
Durham; ^4 f t ......................................... 
Vi f t ......................................... 
57
Vt f t ......................................... 
55
l i b ........................ 
.51
Holland...................................................  @22
German....................................................  @16
Long Tom...................................  
  @30
National...................................................  @28
T im e........................................................  @26
Love’s Dream...............................■.........  @28
Conqueror.................................... 
@23
Fox’s . . . ........ ............. 
@22
Pure  Cider.......#...........................................   12
White Wine................................................. \  12
Seneca Falls “ Rising Sun ”.....................   175
Twin Bros..........1 75  I W ilsons.................1 75
Gillett’s ............. 1 75  1 National...............1 85
Blacking.........................................30, 40, 50@60
do  waterproof............................ 
1  60
Bath Brick imported............................ 
95
do 
American............................ 
65
Barley.....................................................  2«@ 3
Burners, No. 1 .......................................  
1  10
do  No.  2.......................................  
1  75
Bags, American A ................................. 
20 00
Baking Powder  bulk......................... 
10@22
Beans,  medium  ....................................  @2 50
Beans, hand picked...............................  
2  75
Butter......................................................  20@24
Butterine................................................  19@23
Cream Tartar 5 and 10 ft cans.............   @25
Candles, Star............................. <....-__   @15^4
Candles,  Hotel........................................  @1614
Chocolate, Baker’s ...............................   @40
German sweet...............  ..  @27
Cheese full cream choice......................1314@1454
dozen................................. 1 35@
Catsup quarts 
Cocoanut,  Schepps’ lft packages. 
@2514
Cofeoanut,  Schepps’ 1 & 14 ft  do 
@2654
Extract Coffee,  v. c............ *................ 
95
F elix............. 1...........1  0@
Flour, Star Mills, in b bls..............................6 0@
in Sacks..............................5 5@
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps.......................  @25
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps.......................   @40
Gum, Spruce..................... , .............t...  35@40
Chimneys No. 1......................................  @35
No. 2......................................  @45
Indigo............................................................... 1 00@
Ink $  3 dozen  box......................................... 1 00@
Jelly in Pails................:.........................  @ 714
do  Glass Tumblers $  doz..................  @85
L icorice...,............................................   20@30
Licorice  Root.........................................  @12
Lye $  2  doz. cases.................................1 55@
...1 55®
Macaroni,  Imported................
@13
@6 00
Mince Pies, 1 gross cases, 
French Mustard,  8 oz $   dozen........
©85
Large Gothic
Oil Tanks, Star 55  gallons.......
Oil Tanks, Patents» gallons....................... 14 00®
Pipes, Imported Clay 3 gross..
do  American  T. D...........
90@1 00
Pepper Sauce.........., ___:___-.............  90@1 00
90@1 00
Peas, Green Bush.. A........................... 1 50®
...i 50@
1  @ 314
Powder,  Keg............................
...5 50®
...3 00®
14 Keg.......................
Rice............................................
...5®6@ 7
Sago  .........................................
@ 6
Shot, drop.................................. .............1 90®
...1 90@
do  buck...............................
.. .2 15®
Sage...........................................
Curry Combs $  doz................
...i 25®
Molasses Gates each...............
Measuring Faucet each ..........;...........2 76@
...2 75@
Tobacco Cutters each..........................1 25®
...1 25®
Chimney Cleaners  doz..........
Flour Sifters $  doz..............,..
...3 00®
Fruit Augurs each................................ 1 25®
...1 25®
Tapioca.....................................  
_
@ 5V4
Washing Crystal, Gillett’s box........... 1 50@1 65
...1 50@1 65
Wicking No. 1 $  gross...........
©40
do  No. 2  .......................
@65
do  Argand....................
f t __
@1014
@  IVt
_
7@10
Boraxine $  box..................................... 3 75®
...3 75®
JENNINGS’  DOUBLE  CONCENTRATED  EXTRACTS.
Packed in 1 Dozen Paper or 2 Dozen Wood Box.
Lemon.
2 ounce'B. N. Panel  (P dozen.........................1 00
4 do
do
do 
.1  75 
6 do
do
do 
.2 75 
8 do
do
do 
.3 75 
No. 2 Taper Panel 
do 
.1 25 
No. 4 
do 
do 
.2  00 
14 pint round 
do 
.4 50 
do 
1 
do 
.9 00 
No. 8 Panel 
do 
.3 25 
No. 10  do
do 
.4 50
2 ounce B. N. Panel 
dozen.........................1 50
do
do 
4 
..2 75 
do
6 
do 
..4 00 
do
8 
do 
.5 00
No. 2 Taper Panel! 
.........................1 75
/In 
Wn  1  
3  nn
*  
do 
No. 4 
3 00 
14 pint round 
.7 50 
1 
do 
15 00 
No. 8  Panel 
.4 25 
No. 10  do
.6  00

do  Split prepared.............................._3

G illett'sflft..........
Soapine pkg...........  

Washing Powder, 1776 

1 35®
.12 00®
..14 00®
.. .2 25®

do 
.do
‘do
do
do
do

case........

@15
@45

...1 50®

Vanilla.

do 
do 

do 
do 

@50

do 

do 

do 

. 

JENNINGS’ TRUE FLAVORINGS 

Full Measure—Wrapped.

Lemon.

Pint 2 ounce  $  dozen.................................1 50
................................. 2 50
................................. 5 00
................................. 7 50
2  25
................................. 4  00
8 00
......................  
................................12 00

do 
do 
do 
I dozen.................  
do 
do 
do 

14 Pint 4  do 
14 Pint 8  do 
34 Pint 12  do
14 Pint 2 ounce 
*4 Pint 4  do 
14 Pint 8  do 
34 Pint 12  do

Vanilla.

 

PROVISIONS.

extra.

The Grand Rapids  Packing &  Provision  Co. 

PORK.

quote  as  follows:
New Heavy Mess Pork................ $   bbl *13 25
Old Heavy Mess  Pork............................  1175
New Family Clear Pork.........................  15 00
New Extra Clear Pork, A. Webster’s ..  15 50
New Extra Clear Pprk............................  16 00
New Boston Clear Pork..........................  16 25
New Standard Clear P ork.....................   16 50
On orders less than five bbl. lots 25 cts. 

do. 
do. 

LaRD.

71a
714
714
714
TÜ

DRY SaLT MEATS—IN BOXES.
Long Clears, heavy, 500 ft.  Cases..........
Half Cases.............
do. 
Long Clear medium, 500 ft  Cases..........
Half Cases..........
do 
Long Clears light, 500 ft Chses...............
»Half Cases...............
do. 
Short Clears, heavy...............I...............
medium..............................
light....................................
Tierces  .....................................................
30 and 50 ft Tubs......................................
50 ft Round Tins, 100 ft  Racks...............
3 ft Pails, 20 in a case..............................
5 ft Pails, 12 in a case..............................
10 ft Pails, 6 in a case.............................
Hams cured in sweet pickle medium..
light........
Shoulders cured in sweet  pickle.......
714
Extra Clear Bacon...............................
10
Dried B eef............................................
11
Extra Dried B eef.................................
13
Extra Mess Beef Chicago packed $  bbl.  11 50 
Libby, McNeil & Libby, 14 ft cans, Vt doz.

SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED OR PLAIN. 

LARD IN TIN PAILS.

734
734
8
814
814
8«
834
854

incase.......................... ...........................   19 00  f
do. 

2 ft cans, 1 doz. in case__   2 85
Armour & Co., 14 ft cans, Vt doz  in case  19 00 
do. 
2 ft cans, 1 doz. in case..  2 85 
do.  2 1b Compr’d Ham, 1 doz. In case 4 50 
Kansas City, 141b cans, Vt doz in case...  18 50 
press, subject always to Market changes.

Prices named are lowest  at time of going to 

CANNED BEEF.

BEEF.

do. 

DRUGS,  DYES  AND»  CHEMICALS.

Advanced—Oil Cassia.
Declined—Balsam  Tolu,  Buchu  short,  Cut- 

tie Fish Bone.

Hazeltine, Perkins &  Co. quote as follows: 

ACIDS.

9  @
Acetic,  No. 8............................^  ft' 
Acetic,  C. P. (Sp. grav. 1.040)........  30  @
Carbolic............................• .............
Citric................................................. 
*  *
Muriatic 18 deg............................... 
3  @
Nitric 36 deg....................................  H  @
Oxalic.......................1......................   1414®
Sulphuric 66deg........................  
3  @
Tartaric  powdered........................
Benzoic,  English....................$  oz
Benzoic,  German............................  12  @
Tannic'...............................................  15  @

AMMONIA.

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

BALSAMS.

Copaiba............................................ 
Fir.....................................................
Peru................................. ...............
Tolu...................................................

BARKS.

19  @
•
6  @
7  @

D  55 
@
40 
2 50 
60

Cassia, in mats (Pow’d 20c)............
Cinchona,  yellow..........................
Elm,  select.......................................
Elm, ground, pure..........................
Elm, powdered,  pure.....................
Sassafras, of root............................
Wild Cherry, select........................
Cubeb, prime (Powd 90c)................
Juniper......................... ................... 
6  @  7
Prickly Ash......................................1 25  @1 35

BERRIES.

EXTRACTS.

Licorice (10 and 25 ft boxes, 25c)...
Licorice,  powdered, pure.............
Logwood, bulk (12 ana 25 ft doxes).
Logwood, Is (251b  boxes)...............
do 
Logwood, 14s 
...............
Logwood, 14s 
...............
do 
Logwood, ass’d  do 
...............
Fluid Extracts—25 fi cent, off list.

^FLOWERS.

27
3714
9
12
13 
15
14

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 (Vt s 14o, 34s 16c)..........
Guaiac, prime (Powd  45c).............
Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 47c)...
Opium, pure (Powd ¡65.40)...............
Shellac, Campbell’s.........................
Shellac,  English.............................
Shellac,  native.................................
Tragacanth......................................  30

*  IRON.

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

24®

18 
50 
45 
50 
40
32
27 
18 
30 
25 
13 
35 
40
3 90 
4033
28
@1  10

6 40 
20 
7

LEAVES.

Buchu, short (Powd 25c)................   12  @ 1»
6
Sage, Italian, bulk 048 & 1Ab, 15c)... 
Senna,  Alex, natural.....................   18  @ 20
30
Senna, Alex, sifted and  garbled.. 
Senna,  powdered........................
Uva  Ursi...........................................
10

LIQUORS.

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

MAGNESIA.

Carbonate, Pattison’B, 2 o z ..............
Carbonate, Jenning’s, 2 oz.............
Citrate, H., P. & Co.’s  solution__

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

23

OILS.

do 
do 

Almond, sweet...............  ........ ...
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 
..........
Lavender spike 
..........
Lemon, new crop.........................
Lemon,  Sanderson’s....................
Origanum, red  flowers, French.
Origanum,  No. 1.....................
Pennyroyal..............................
Peppermint,  white.......;............
Rosemary, French  (Flowers ¡65).
Sandal  Wood, German..-...........
Sandal Wood, Turkish  Dark__
Sassafras.................................'.
Tansy ........................................
Tar (by gal 60c)...................
Wintergreen............................
Wormwood, No. 1 (Pure $7.50)
Cod Liver, filtered................ $  gal
Cod Liver, best........................
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16
Olive, Malaga....................
Olive, “Sublime  Italian’  . 
__
Salad.................................................
Rose,  Ihmsen’s ....................... $  oz

POTASSIUM.

Bieromate................................ f) ft
Bromide, cryst. and  gran. bulk...
Chlorate, cryst (Powd 23c).............
Iodide, cryst. and  gran, bulk.......

r o o t s. 

•

Althea, cut.......................................
Arrow,  St. Vincent’s .....................
Arrow, Taylor’s, in J4s and 54s__
Blood (Powd 18c).............................
Calamus,  peeled................ :...........
Calamus, German  white, peeled..
Elecampane, powdered..................
Gentian (Powd  17c(.........................
Ginger, African (Powd 16c)...........   13
Ginger, Jamaica  bleached...........
Golden Seal (Powd 40o)..................
Hellebore, white, powdered..........
Ipecac, Rio, powdered....................
Jalap,  powdered.............................   *
Licorice,  select (Powd 1234)..........
Licorice, extra select.....................
Pink, true.........................................
Rhei, from select to  choice........ .1 00
Rhei, powdered E. I ........................110
Rhei, choice cut  cubes..................
Rhei, choice cut fingers................
Sarsaparilla,  Honduras................
Sarsaparilla,  Mexican....................
Squills, white (Powd 35c)..-...........
Valerian, English (Powd 30c)........
Valerian, Vermont (Powd 28c)__

SEEDS.

45  @  50 
48 
2  10 
2 20
1  10 
40* 
90
1 25 
5 50
40
50
2 25 
2 40 
1  00
90 
2  00 
2  20
1 25 
50
2 00 
2 85
65 
5 00 
8 00 
65
4 00
10  @  12 
2 35
5 00
1 75 
4 00
6  00 
@1 20
2 50 
Ì  67 
10 50

65

18 
33 
20 
1 35

27
17 
45 
12
18 
38 
23 
18
@  .14 
20 
35 
18 
1 10 
3754 
12 
15 
35 
@1 50 
@1  20 
2  00 
2 25 
35 
18 
10 
22 
20

4

Anise, Italian (Powd 20c)...............
Bird, mixed in ft  packages..............   5
Canary,  Smyrna.........................  
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.

13
@  
6 
®  434 
@   12 
2  20 
2 50 
12
3«@  4
4  @  4
8  @  9
434©  5
8
.  1 00 
734®  8
14

Florida sheeps’ wool, carriage. 
Nassau 
do 
do
Velvet Extra do 
do
Extra Yellow do 
^do
do
Grass 
do 
Hard head, for slate use..........
Yellow Reef, 
..........
do 
MISCELLANEUS.

@2 50 
2 60 
1  10 
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
A lum ..:....................................  $  ft
Alum, ground  (Powd 9c)............
Annatto,  prime.............................
Antimony, powdered,  com’l — .
Arsenic, white, powdered...........
Beans,  Tonka...............................
Beans,  Vanilla...............................

234® 
3  ©
434® 
6  @

334
4
32
7
60
7 00  @9 75

 

 

 

 

Qo 
do 

do 
do 
do, 

Bismuth, sub  nitrate.......  ...........  
2 20
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c)................ 
45
 
734®  9
Blue Vitriol..................................... 
Borax, refined (Powd  15c).............  
14
'  140
Cantharides, Russian  powdered.. 
18
Capsicum  Pods, African............... 
20
Capsicum Pods, African  pow’d... 
18
Capsicum Pods,  American do-... 
Carmine,  No. 40 ............................... 
4 00
14
Cassia  Buds...................................... 
Calomel.  American........................  
70
Castor  Oil.........................................  17  ®  1834
Chalk, prepared drop.....................  
5
1 60
Chloral hydrate, German  crusts.. 
1  74
cryst... 
Chloral 
Chloral 
Scherin’s  do  ... 
1 90
Chloral 
crusts.. 
1 75
Chloroform......................................1 00  @1 05
Cinchonidia.....................................   80  @  85
Cloves (Powd 28c)............................  20  @  22
Cochineal...............:........................ 
30
Copperas (by bbl  lfe)....................... 
2
Corrosive Sublimate....................... 
60
Corks, X and XX-35 off  list........
Cream Tartar, pure powdered.......  38  @  40
Cream Tartar, grocer’a, 10 ft box.. 
15
Creasote............................................  
50
Cudbear,  prime............................... 
24
23
Cuttle Fish Bone.............................. 
8
Emery, Turkish, all  No.’s .............  
234®  3
Epsom Salts...................................... 
50
Ergot, fresh,....................................  
Etner, sulphuric, U. S.  P ............... 
69
Gelatine,  Cooper’s ..........................  
90
Gelatine. French............................  45  @  70
Glassware, flint, 60 off,by box 50 off
Glassware, green, 60 and 10 dis__
Glue,  cabinet..................................   12  @  17
Glue,white......................  
  17  @  28
Glycerine,  pure...............................  25  @  28
Indigo...............................................   85  @1  00
Insect Powder, best Dalmatian...  32  @  34
2 30
Iodine,  resublimed...............................  
1 50
Isinglass,  American.............................. 
Japonica.................................. f___ 
9
Lead, acetate.................................... 
15
Lime, chloride, (34s 2s 9c & 34s 10c). 
8
Mace................................................  
60
Madder, best 'Dutch.......................  1234®  13
75
Manna, S.  F ....................  
Mercury..................... .'................... 
48
Morphia, sulph., P. & VV........<18 oz 
3 35
Musk, Canton, H., P. & Co.’s
.. 
40
Moss, Iceland__ ’..................... $  ft 
10
Moss,  Irjgh.......................................   - 
12
30
Mustard,  English............................ 
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 ft  .cans........ 
18
Nutgalls...........................................  
20
Nutmegs, No. 1...............................  
55
Nux  Vomica................................... 
10
Ointment, Mercurial, 3£d............... 
40
18
Pepper, Black  Berry..................... 
P ep sin ....,.......................................  
3 00
7
Pitch, True Burgundy................... 
Quassia........................  
7
 
Quinia, Sulph, P, & W........... ft oz 
1 85
Seidlitz  Mixture...............: ............ 
28
Strychnia, cryst...........\ .................* 
1 50
Silver Nitrate, cryst.......................  79  @  82
Red  Precipitate.. •.................. $  ft 
80
37
Saffron, American..........................  
Sal  Glauber.....................................  
@  2
Sal Nitre, large  cryst.....................  
10
9
Sal  Nitre, medium  cryst............... 
Sal Rochelle...................................... 
3334
2  @  234
Sal  Soda............................................ 
Salicin...............................................  
2 50
Santonin................’.............. 3......... 
7 25
Snuffs, Maccoboy or Scotch.........  
38
4
Soda Ash [by keg 3c].....................  
23
Spermaceti........................................ 
Soda, Bi-Carbonate,  DeLand’s__  
434®  5
14
Soap, White Castile......................-. 
......................... 
Soap, Green  do 
17
Soap, Mottled do 
 
9
.......  
Soap, 
do  do 
......................... 
11
Soap,  Mazzini..............................  
14
Spirits Nitre. 3 F ..............................  26  @  28
Spirits Nitre, 4 F .............................   28  @  32
Sulphur, flour..................................  
334@  4
Sulphur,  roll.................................... 
3
Tartar Emetic..................................  
65
Tar, N. C. Pine, 34 gal. cans  3P doz 
2 70
Tar, 
quarts in tin.......... 
140
Tar, 
pints in tin.............  
85
25
Turpentine,  Venice................ ft 
Wax, White, S. &  F. brand...........  
55
Zinc,  Sulphate................................. 
7  @  8

6  @ 

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CANDY,  FRUITS  AND  NUTS. 

Putnam & Brooks quote as follows :

. 
Straight, 25 ft  boxes............................. 1034@11
Twist, 
Cut Loaf 

STICK.
............................. 11  @1134
..............................12  @123s
MIXED.

do 
do 

Royal, 25 ft  pails....................................1034@11
Royal, 200 ft bbls..............................................10
Extra, 25 ft  pails...................................... .......12
French Cream, 25 ft pails....................... .......15
Cut loaf, 25 ft  cases................................. .......15

.  FANCY—IN 5 ft BOXES.

FRUITS.

case......................................

Lemon  Drops..................... ".................... .......14
Sour Drops............................................... .......15
Peppermint  Drops................................. .......16
Chocolate Drops...................................... .......17
H M Chocolate  Drops............................ .......20
Gum  Drops  ............................................ .......12
Licorice Drops......................................... .......20
A B  Licorice  Drops............................... .......14
Lozenges, plain........................................ .......16
Lozenges,  ifl-inted.................................. .......17
Imperials................................................. .......16
M ottoes.................................................... .......16
Cream  Bar............................................... .......15
Molasses Bar............................................ .......14
Caramels................................................... .......20
Hand Made Creams................................. .......23
Plain  Creams........................................... .......20
Decorated  Creams.................................. .......23
String Rock.............................................. .......16
Burnt Almonds....................................... ...  .24
Wintergreen  Berries............................. .......16
Oranges, Florida, $   box.......................4 50@5 00
Oranges, 
Oranges, $1 bbl..................................... .9 50®
Lemons, fair to  good............................5 00
Lemons, choice to fancy..................... 5 50
Bananas $  bunch..................................
Malaga Graces, $  keg..........................
Malaga Grapes, $  bbl............................6 00@8 50
Figs,  layers 
ft....................................  15@16
Figs, fancy  do 
.................................... 
17
Figs, baskets 3 0 ft$ ft..........................  
1"34
do  ...........................   @6
Dates, frails 
Dates, 34 do 
do( ............................  @7
Dates, skin................ ............................  @ 634
Dates, 34  skin.........................................  @734
Dates, Fard 10 ft box $   ft....................  @14
Dates, Fard 50 ft box $  ft.....................11  @12
PEANUTS.
Prime Red,  raw  <p  ft............................
do  .............................  @834
Choice  do 
do  ........................
®  9 
Fancy 
do 
@Ì3
Choice White, Va.do  .......................
Fancy H P,.  Va  do  ............................1034®
NUTS.
Almonds,  Terragona, <p fl 
do 
Almonds, loaca, 
do
Brazils, 
Pecons, 
do
Filberts, Barcelona 
do  ...........
Filberts, Sicily 
do  ....................1234@13
do
Walnuts, Chilli 
...4. ..........  @14
Walnuts, Grenobles  do 
Walnuts, California  do 
................   @14
Cocoa Nuts, 3P  100 
................ 5 00®
Hickory Nuts, large $   bu 
Hickory Nuts, small  do

.......21
........19
........13
...10

@22 
@20 
@
@1234 
@1134

2s@i 50

#  HARDWARE  GOODS.

1134

.......8

do
do
do
do
do

10*4
7*/,
3Vt
5*4

@30
@26
@20
@18
@10

Prevailing rates are as follows:
Anvils—Peter V/right’s,  $   ft.................. 
Augurs—40 and  10 per cent. off. 
Babbett—Genuine <p  ft.
Extra.....................
No. 1.......................
No. 2.......................
No. 4.......................
-3-16 inch Lake Superior, $  f t . .. . • 
.. 
do
Vi 
5G6  do
do
% 
Vt 
do
«  
do

..  -  5
..  4 70
Files—Nicholson’s best 40  and  10 per cent  off 
Forks—Hay and Manure 50 per cent off. 
Hammers—Maydole’s 10@15per 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 $3.15@3.50 rates.
Swede’s bar 534c ^ f t .   *
Padlocks 30 per cent. off.
Lead—Pig 3P  ft............................................  
6
Sheet 
ft.............................................. 
6
Pipe ip  ft.:............................................  
6
'Bar  lif t ............................................... 
  7
Rope—Manilla $)  ft— .*........................ 13  @14
Sisal <p ft..............................................10  @11
Jutfeip ft.......................................  834® 934
Sash Weights ^ 1b..................................   134® 2
Shot—Buck  $2.15.
Solder....................................................... 14  @17
Steel—Best cast tool $ f t ................................   @13
Round Machine <pib........................   @8
Spring ^ ft............................................  ^„434
Tin-Pig 3P ft.....................................  @26
 
Bar ^  ft................................. 
.  634® 7
Zinc-Sheet  f  ft........................... 

Drop $1.80.

cent. off.

LAMP CHIMNEYS.
Second Quality.
.....................................  
................ 

Anchor, Star or Diamond brand, which  means 
No. 0 Sun  f   box...............................................1 90
No.  1 
2 00
No. 2 
...3 00
No. 0 Sun ¥   box...............................................2 10
...............................................2 25
No. 1 
No.  2 
.............................................. 3 25

H. L. & S. brand, First Quality Annealed'

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CROCKERY AND  GLASSWARE.

H. Leonard & Sons quote fts follows :

•

“

..

44

ONE  CRATE  WHITE  GRANITE  WARE.

44
44
44
44
44
44

54
66
78
90
78
90
1 05
1 44
2  10

Knowles,  Taylor  &  Knowles—Cable  Shape- 
’ Diamond C.
6 doz Plates................ . .5 inch
3 24
4 
1 98
..6  “
3
4 
20
15 60
..7  “
4 
3
2  70
..8  “ 
3
2 34
‘  Bakers.............
..3  “
4 
45
. .5  “
Vt
52
‘ 
..6  “
72
7  “
%
H 4 
52
..8  “
i
“  Bowls................ ..No. 36
75
i
90
.  “  30
4 
i
1  10
..  “  24
“  Cov’d Butters.. ..5 inch
1 05
h
Ot
2
“  Indiv’l 
.254  2
“  Cov’d Chambers.No. 9
3 07
Vt
1 “  Uncov’d 
4 20
.  “  “
1  05
H “  Cake  Plates...-.
“  Restaurant Creams..........
37
Vt
3
90
“  Cup  Plates.......
. .7 inch
54 “  Casseroles........
1 27
1 43
..8  “
54
“  Dishes...............
..3  “
1 44
44 
..9  “
50
Vi
% 44 
72
.10  “
44 
.11  “
95
1 65
1-6 “  Ewers and Basins. No 9...
1 75
“  Fruit Saucers..
5
. .4 inch
42
.36  “
“  Barrell  Mugs..
Vt
2
“  Scollops............. 354  “
1 20
45
..5  “
*4
1 44 
..6  “
1 14
44 
1 50
1
..7  “
..8  “
2 10
1 05
54
“  Jugs, No. 36__
63
.  126
Vt
“ 20....
“  “ 
75
.  1 50
Vt
76
“ 12....
“ 
.  3 06
1-6 “ 
“ 
“  6__
80
.  4 80
“  Shell  Pickles...
90
.  1  80
54
“  Sugars. No. 30..
.  3 15
79
54 “  Spoon  Holders.
.  1  80
45
Vt gross Un’hd Coffees 12 sets in g 6 30
3 15
14 40
4 80
3
1
6 00
$86  11

4 20
27
6 15
.  4 20
75
30
. 
5 10
5 70
72
1 50
2 16
2 85
.  9 90
&5
81
60
90

“ 
“  H’d

“  Teas,

44
44
44

44 
“ 

44
“

44
44

 
 

“ 

33.

Any assortment packed to order.
ASSORTED  PACKAGE  MAJOLICA—NO.
Tea  Set,  44  Pieces,  Shell...........
..'............
dozen Sauce Plates,  “ 
........... 2 00
“ 
Fruit Sets, 7 Pieces 
“ 
Covered Butters 
.............   75
 
Hand Teas 
“ 
30
Hand Coffees 
“ 
 
40
Hand Moust. Coffees  “ 
..............  50
Molasses  Cans,  Sunflower...........   55
Bread Plates,  Strawberry...........   13
Bread Plates. Oak..........................   37
Pitchers, No. 12, Rose....................  58
 
31
“ 
30  “ 
 
“  42  “ 
21
 
“  54  “ 
17
“  12, Fern...................  58
 
“ 
24  “ 
42
 
25
36  “ 
“ 
6, Cor’l....................  62
“ 
42
 
“ ~  24 
“ 
 
“  42  “ 
21
Begonia Leaves..................... 
15
dozen Individual Butters.............   50
Bread and Milk Sets, Shell...........   67
Cuspadores,  Sunflower................   54
Tea Pot, Sugar and Cream, Shell.
Caulf.

6 50 
1 25 
4 00 
3 00 
90 
1 20 
1 50 
1 65 
1 08
Ï 74 
93 
63 
51 
1 74 
1 26 
75 
1  86 
¿26 
63 
1  80 
1 00 
1 34 
1 08 
$25 
1 00
$12 08
Less 10 Per Cent............  4 20
Package, $1. 
$37 88
Packages  assorted  or  repacked to order.
ONE ASSORTED PACKAGE ROCKINGHAM AND YEL- 

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“ 

“ 

“ 

 

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“ 

“ 
“ 
“  
“  
“  

Mugs, 
Tea Pots.

LOW WARE.
Diamond H.
S 
Mixing Bowls,

Bakers,  7 inch..........
8  “ 
..........
9  “  ..........
10 
11 
12 

34  doz. Rock. Chambers,  No. 4..
$4 50 
“ 6..
, .3 25 
9 .
. 250 
34
6..
.300
9.......225
12.......150
30..
18..
400
24..
325
30..
3 75 
105 
125 
155 
185 
230 
..................
.280 
................
Scallops,  6 in ch .......
120 
......
150 
.......
1 80 
.......
225 
Nappies,  7 inch.......
1 05
................
125
&
................
1 55
54
................
1 85
%
................ . 2 30
Vi
................
2 80
%1 «
..................
2
95
2 44
.....................
105
“Our New” Pitcher, No. 6
4 50
Vi
“  12.
“ 
2 75
%
Vi 44
“ 24.
“ 
175
Spittoons,  No. 5 .................. . 2 00
Vi
)4 44
“  4 ................
.300
Vi 44
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4 00
*54 44
44  2 . . . .
.500
44 Yellow Bowls, No. 36........
.  40
2 44
“ 30........
.  50
44
“  24 .........
.  60
% 4* Nappies,  6 inch..................
Vt 44
..  90
% 4*
..110
Vi 44
.................. ..  1 40
.................. ..170
Vi
54 44. Chambers,  No. 4 ................ ..4  00
44
.  3 00
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Vt 44
. 2 2o

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8  “ 
9  “ 
8  “ 
9  44 
10  “ 
11  “ 
12  “ 
Plates,  8 inch 
9  “
10  “ 
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44 

“ 6 ........
“  9 ................

7  44
8  “
9  “ 
10  “ 

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$113
243
125
10075
50
65
100
81
69 
26 
31 
39 
46 
58
'  70
30
38
45 
56 
26
31
39
46 
58
70 
85
190
210
112
69
44
50
100
125
80
100
30
25
30
36
35
43
100
ï 12
$36 06

Package, $100.

60 days $25 20.

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
per doz.........................27  00
do 
Verde  bronze 
.......................... 27  00
...........  
Verde and Fr bronze do 
2“ 00
do 
Silver bronze 
.......................... 30 00
...........................30 (X.
Silver and blue br.  do 
.......................... 33 00
Ebony and  gold 
do 
Extra gilt bronze 
do 
.......................... 33 00
Goldorpol.  bronze  do 
........ ;.............. 45 00

bronze, 

No 5G) 2 light for  stores,  complete  with  7 

inch shades, each.........................................1  75

CHANDELIERS.

LAMP BURNERS.

No 0 Any style  per doz..................................   75
No l 
...................................   85
JSTo2 
...................... ............135

do 
do 

do 
do 
GLASSWARE.

Heavy Figured  “ Horseshoe”  Pattern.

Sets, f)  dozen...............................................   $3  00
Pitchers, Vt gallon.......................................   3 00
Celeries.........................................................  2  10
Bowls, 7 inch, and covers..........................   3 00
Bowls, 8 
3 85
Bowls, 9 
3 60
Comports,4  inch...................  
30
 
Goblets........................................  
 
50
W ines............................................................  
35
Salvers...........................................................  3 00
Nappies,  4 inch............................. $  gross  2 25

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Package at cost'

GLASS OIL CANS.

“ Queen” or  “ Daisy.”  No  charge  for box.
V4gal.  per doz. :................................................... 3 50
1 gal 
..................................................4 50

do 

PACKAGE  DECORATED  VASE  LAMPS.

No.  37.

Fourteen Lamps in barrel.  Assorted  deco­
rations, sold complete with 7 inch white shade, 
Illuminator  base  and burner,  per doz. $9 50.
Same with 7  inch  hand  painted  decorated 
shades,  per doz. $11 50.
Can pack Vt doz. each style.

No.  28.

12 lamps in Barrel,  assorted  hand painted 
porcelain  base.  Sold  complete  with 
aboveTrimmings—white shade,  per  doz  $10
Decorated shade per doz...............................   $12
Can pack Vt doz each style.

TUBULAR  LANTERNS.

No 0 New wire lift'for lighting,  per doz... .9 00 
No 0 Hinge for lighting, per doz..................7 50

r>

)  COAL  AND  BUILDING  MATERIALS, 
j  A. B. Know Ison quotes as follows:
! Ohio White Lime, per  bbl.................... 
1 10
1 00
Ohio White Lime, car lots.................... 
140
Louisville Cement,  per bbl.................. 
Akron Cement per  Dbl......................... 
1 40
Buffalo Cement,  per bbl..................... 
140
Car lots....................................................1 15@1 20
Plastering hair, per bu ........................   35@  38
Stucco, per^bbl.......................................  
1 75
Land plaster, per ton............................ 
3 75
Land plaster, car lots............................ 
3 00
Fire brick, per  M..................... .............$27 @ $35
Fire clay, per bbl.................... .............. 
3 00
Anthracite, egg and grate..................$6 50@6 75
Anthracite, stove and nut..................  6 75@7 00
Cannellcoal........................................... 
7 00
Ohio coal...............................................   3 5G@3 75
Blossburg or  Cumberland................  5 00@5 25

COAL.

HIDES,  PELTS  AND  FURS.

Perkins & Hess quote as follows:

HIDES.

FURS.

WOOL.

SHEEP PELTS.

Green............................................... f) ft  6^4® 7
Part  cured.............................................7  @ 7V4
Full cured...............................................   7^4® 8
Dry hides and kips.................................  8  @12
Calf skins, green or cured...................10  @12
Deacon skins.r.........................$  piece20  @50
Shearlings or Summer skins $) piece.. 10  @20
Fall pelts................................................ 30  @50
November pelts.....................................60  @90
Fine washed ^ ft...................................30  @32
Coarse washed.......................................22  @25
Unwashed.......................... .....................2-3  -
Mink, large......................................  
 
 
Mink,  small.........................>..................  25®  40
Muskrat,  Fall............................................ 
8@ 10
Muskrat,  kits............................................ 
3®  4
Raccoon....................................................   40@ 80
Skunk, black............................................   90@1 00
Skunk, half stripe...................................  60® 70
Skunk, narrow stripe.........., ................  25®  35
Skunk,  broad...........................................  10@ 15
Red Fox....................... ...........................1 00@115
Gray Fox...................................................  60@ 85
Marten,  Yellow........................................  75@1 00
Fisher......................................................4 00@8 00
Qtter.......................................................6 00@7 00
Bear.............................*........................... 5 00@9 50
Deer skins, red and blue, dry__ $   ft  30®  35
Deer skins, gray and long  haired.......  20@  25
Beaver, clean and dry......................... 2 00@3 00
Above prices are for  prime  skins  only—un­
prime in proportion.
Tallow...................................................... 
6® 6^4

60® 75

FRESH  MEATS.

John Mohrhard quotes as follows:
Fresh  Beef, sides...............................
Fresh  Beef, hind  quarters...............
Dressed Hogs......................................
Mutton,  carcasses..............................
Veal......................................................
Spring Chickens.................................
Fowls....................................................
Pork  Sausage......................................
Bologna................................................

TIME TABLES.

5V4@ 714 
6Vt@ 9 
6  @ 6V4
6  @ 6Vt
9  @1014 
1  @1214 
8  @10 
@ 9 
@10

D E P A R f .

ARRIVE.

Michigan  Central—Grand  Rapids  Division.
Detroit Express........ ............................   6:20 am
Day Express..................:.......................12:45 p m
New York Fast Line.....................................   6:50 pm
Night  Express...............................'........10:40 pm
Mixed.................................................................7:30 am
Pacific  Express.............................................  7:30 am
Local  Passenger............................................ 11:50 am
M ail.........................................................  4:50 p m
M ixed......................................................  5:10 p m
Grand Rapids  Express.........................10:50 j) 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.

Detroit,  Grand  Haven &  Milwaukee.

GOING EAST.

Arrives.

GOING WEST.

Leaves.
tsteamboat Express__ ...  6:36 a m 6:45 a m
■(Through  Mail............. ...,10:40 a m 10:50 a m
•(■Evening  Express........__ 4:05 p m 4:05 p m
♦Atlantic Express........ __10:05 p m 11:00 p m
11:00 a m
tMixed, with  coach__
•(■Morning  Express......__  1:05 p in
1:25 p m
■(■Through  Mail............. ....  5:15 p m 5:25 p m
■(■Steamboat Express____10:25 p m 10:30 p m
tMixed............................
7:45 a m
♦Night Express............. .__   5:40 a m 6:00 a m
tDaily, 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 
West.
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.

Thomas  Tandy, Gen’l Pass. Agent,  Detroit.

D. Potter, City Pass. Agent.

GOING NORTH.

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

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 pm  
1:00 p m

SLEEPINO CAR ARRANGEMENTS.

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 DIVISION.)

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

4:35 pm
6:35 am

Chicago & West Miohigau.
Leaves.  Arrives,
tMail...................................... ,10:00 am  
+Day Eimress.......................   1:15 p m 10:45 p m
♦Night  Express...................   9:00 pm  

♦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  
Express....................................3:10 pm  
A. M. Nichols, Gen’l Pass. Agent.
MICHIGAN COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS’  A S S o S
Incoi'porated  Dee. 10,1877—Charter  in  Force for 

NEWAYGO DIVISION.

Thirty  Years.

4:00 pm
10:10 am

LIST  OF  OFFICERS:

President—James  T.  Phillips,  44  Jefferson 
Avenue, Detroit.
Vice-Presidents—H. H.Hodson, Detroit; John 
H. McIntyre, Grand  Rapids; Thos. J. Hay­
wood,  Ypsilanti;  Wm.  E.  Saunders,  East 
Saginaw;  T. J. Paxton, Monroe.
Secretary and Treasurer—George W. Hill, 80 
Woodbridge Street, West, Detroit.
Board of Trustees, For One Year—R. W. Haw­
ley, Chairman, J. F. Cooper E. H. McCurdy, 
Detroit;  For Two  Years—Sam. B.  Sinclair, 
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.

BLACKWELL’S dI rHAMTOBACCO  COMPANY

To the Distributors of Blackwell’s Durham Smoking Tobacco throughout the United States:

GREETING:—It  has  been  our  aim  for  some  time  to  supply  you  with  an  article  that  would  not  only  advertise  our  brand  of  W.  T,  Blackwell’s  Genuine  Bull 
Durham  Smoking  Tobacco,  but  also  be  useful  to  you  and  an  ornament  to  your  place  of  business;  just  what  to  select  has  been  our  diffitulty.  Cliromos, and  articles  of  that 
nature  soon  lose  their  novelty,  and  we  regretted to  expend  such  an  enormous  sum  on  anything  that  would  not  last  and  be  of  some  value.  The  novel  idea  finally  struck 
us  of  producing  a  bale  of  Blackwell’s  Genuine  Durham  Smoking  Tobacco,  containing  “ Works ”  instead  of  the  original  well-known  article,  guaranteed  to  furnish  you  with 
Correct  Time  and  be  a  pleasing  reminder  when  your  orders  should  be  sent  in  for  the  “ Bull.” 

Respectfully  to  the  Trade,

B LA CK -W ELL’S  DURHAM   TOBACCO  GO.

DURHAM,  N.  q.,  August  20,  1883.

à

THEfW AY TO GEET THEM!

Y o u ||c a n   get  One  of  these  N ovel  Clocks  F E E £   by  ordering from 
your  Jobber  F ifty  Founds  of  B lack w ell’s  G enuine  B u ll  Durham  
sm oking  Tobacco.  The  F ifty  Founds  can  be  made  up  of  assorted 
sizes if you wish,* and the goods will be charged  at  LOWEST  PRICES.

f f  

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Blackwell’s  Durham  Tobacco  Company,  Durham,  N.

C.

Gentlemen—The  Clock  which, we supply you contains a good lever movement, which, with  the usual handling, will make a very 

xcellent time-keeper. 

Yours  truly, 

ANSONIA  CLOCK  COMPANY.

New  York,  August  1,  1883.

The Clock you will get will be over 16 times the size of the accompanying diagram;  that is, 12 inches high and 3 inches wide.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.
71 
A   MERCANTILE  JOURNAL, PUBLISHED EACH j  orders witli the various houses:

The following retail dealers  have  visited j 
..........I the market during the past week and placed I
0 . Halliday, of Halliday &  Brown,  Hoyt- j

VISITING  BUYERS.

W EDNESDAY. 

. 

| 

' 

E.  A.  STOWE, Editor and  Proprietor. 

_______ 

OFFICE  IN  EAGLE  BUILDING,  3d  FLOOR, j

AMONG  THE  TRADE.

IN  THE  CITY.

The Grand Rapids Felt  Boot  Co.  are  still, 
running day and night in the  vain  endeavor 
to keep pace with their orders.
Geo. W. Harris & Son, a light-weight gro- j 
eery firm  at  238 South Division  street, have 
been closed on chattel mortgage  by  Arthur | 
Meigs & Co.
Mr. O. Halliday,  of  Halliday  &  Brown, 
Hoytville, was in town a day or two ago, and 
reported that the firm had sold out, to whom 
it was not learned.
Chas. E. Belknap is getting up a half dozen 
covered stages, on sleighs, to operate  on  the 
mail and passenger line  between  St.  Ignace 
ancUSault de St. Marie.

W. P. Granger, bill clerk at the  Provision! 
and Packing Co., has gone east for a week’s 
rest.  The place i$ filled  in  his  absence by j 
his brother, James E.  Granger.
« Chas. B. Judd, of the Bissell Carpet Sweep-1 
er  Co.,  left Tuesday for a five  weeks’  busi-1 
ness trip through  the  Eastern  States.  He 
will go as far as Boston and Portland.

Contrary to former announcement and gen- 1 
eral expectation, Wentworth &  Camion  will 
not engage in the jobbing trade until there is I 
a brighter appearance  ground  the  financial 1 
horizon.
Mr. Jacob Jesson, Secretary of  the newly- j 
organized Michigan Pharmaceutical Associa­
tion,  was  in  town  Saturday, the  guest  of 
Judge Montgomery.  He was on his way to ] 
his home in Muskegon.

Stryker &  Dekker,  who  have  just  com-1 
pleted  the  erection  of  a  new  store at the 
comer of Center  street  and  Sixth  avenue, 
looked over the market and placed  their  or­
der for a full grocery  stock with Fox,  Mus- 
selman & Loveridge.

Putnam & Brooks have received  an  order 
for  six  tons  of  confectionery  from  Fort 
Wayne, lnd., and have lately filled large  or­
ders from New Orleans, St. Louis and Nash­
ville.  All of which goes to show that Grand 
Rapids candy is not surpassed by that  made 
anywhere, and is winning a good  reputation 
abroad.

AROUND  THE  STATE.
South Lyops is to have a bank.
The Charlevoix foundry has begun  opera-1 

The Leland furnace will go into blast next 

tions.

spring.

A new handle factory has just been started 

Fax Bros,  merchant tailors at  Cheboygan, 

at  Cadillac.

have sold out.

D. Stuck  has engaged in the produce  bus­

iness at Big  Rapids.

II. D. Harvey, dealer in groceries  at  Ban­

gor, has sold out to J. Damson.

All the Ludington mills, except one or two 

have shut down for the  season.

F. L. Allen,  of  Lakeview, has  opened  a 

branch harness shop at Sylvester.

H. F. Snyder, general dealer at Crapo, has 

sold out to J. N. Franklin, late of Detroit.

Freeport will give a  handsome  bonus  for 
the establishment of a wooden-bowl factory.
A company has been organized to develop 
the valuable limestone deposits at Petoskey.
Bellinger  &  Shutz,  dealers  in  meats  at 
Kalkaska, have dissolved,  each  continuing.
Dun’s  Mercantile  Agency  reports  that 
Ingalls & Leete, hardware dealers at Almont, 
are selling out

A. W. Fowler & Co.,  of  Muskegon,  have 
sold out to Johnson  Bros.,  the  transfer  to 
take place Dec.  1.

ville.

Middleville.

W.  T . Addis, Jr., Boyne City.
E. llagadom, Fife Lake.
E.  H. Foster, Fife Lake.
Mr. Parkhu'rst,  of  Parkhurst  &  Clark,
G. W. Moekema, Graafsclfaaps.
Graves & Son, Shelby.
P. Hansen, Big Prairie.
O. W. Knox, H art 
II. B. Irish,  Lisbon.
A. M. Church, Englishville.
Paine & Field, ‘Englishville.
C. E. Kellogg, GrandVSIle.
J. Omler,  Wright.
G. H. Walbrink, Allendale.
Smeadley Bros., Bauer.
B. M. Dennison, East Paris.
H. Colby & Co., Rockford.
Mrs. E. Deacon, Cedar Springs. 
K. L. Kinney, Maple Hill.
W. II. Struik, Forest Grove.
G. Bron & Ten Hoor, Forest Grove.
John J. Ely, Rockford.
G. W. Joscelyn, Yentura.
T. J. Sheridan, Lockwood.
U. S. Monroe, Berlin.
W. S. Root, Talmage.
H. D. Harvey,1 Bangor.
J. Damson,  Bangor.
L. P. Swift, Crapo.
O. Green,  Martin.
F. Newman, Don*.
A. J. White, Bass River.
Corneil & Griswold, Griswold.
Norman Harris, Big Springs.
Geo. Heintz, Ross Station.

.

TRADE  CHANGES.

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

Battle  Creek—J.  W.  Chaddock  &  Co., 
hardware, sold out to Pittman & Flower.
Big Rapids—Hewitt, Stevens & Co., plains 
ing null, dissolved, W. P. Hewitt continuing.
Charlotte—Selkirk & McDonald, jewelers, 
dissolved, A. T. Selkirk continuing.  .
Homer—Higby & Henshaw, dry goods and 
grocers,  dissolved,  Higby  &  Hopkins  suc­
ceeding.
Lansing—Porter  &  Strong,  grocers,  sold 
outmto  W. L. Chippenger & Co.
Hoytville— Halladay  &  Brown,  general 
store, about to sell out.
Manistique—W. E. Smith, jeweler, report­
ed left town.
Williamsburg—D. McVeigh, shingle  mill, 
reported left town.
Pinckney—L. E. Richards  &  Co.,  general 
stroe, sold out to Mrs. C. E. Richards.

.  LATE  CHARLEVOIX  CHANGES.

fol-
Dun’s Mercantile  Agency  notes  the 
lowing:
A.* Fox, grocer, is selling  out  at  cost,  and 
announces  his determination of  closing  out 
and retiring from business on account  of  ill- 
health.
The  Charlevoix  Manufacturing  Co.,  a 
joint-stock corporation with a paid-in capital 
of §10,000, succeeds the late firm of S. M. C. 
Mason  & Co. in the planing mill business.

The Pine. Lake Lumber Co. is  putting  up 
another saw mill at#Dwight’s Landing.  Jan­
uary 1 the  capital  stock  will  be  increased 
from §20,000 to §50,000, all paid in.

. CHANGES  AT  VERMONTVILLE.

lowing :
ed, H. C. Hammond continuing.
out ot  business. 

fol-
Dun’s Mercantile Agency reports  the 
H.  C. & C. E.  Hammond, harness, dissolv­
A. A. Hopkins,  agricultural  implements, 
Edward W. Hyde, wagons, out of business.
W. H. Broas, saloon, succeeded by  James 
Garnett, formerly  proprietor  of  the  livery 
s t a b l e . ___________ ______

*

WORTHLESS  QUOTATIONS.

How  the  Grand  Rapids  Daily  Papers  Mislead 

the  Business  Public.

ington  Hotel  property  at  Muskegon  to  a t 
White Cloud man for §4,200.

The Novelty Iron Works at Muskegon has 
increased its capital  stock  from  §25,000  to 
§50,000, §35,000 of which is all  paid  in.

Albert Koch and Chas. Miller have formed 
a co-partnership at  Montague  and  engaged 
in the tailoring business.
, 

The first barrel  of crackers turned  out  of 
the Flint Cracker factory was  purchased  by 
Bishop & Zimmerman, who  afterwards  sold 
it to the Fint Hospital. 
I
The'lumber firm of Cass, Morrison, Gale & I 
Co., at Big Rapids, has been dissolved by the I 
retirement of Geo. D. Milles.  Business will 
be continued under the same firm name.

F. Sauerbier, formerly engaged in the gro­
cery and  crockery  business  at  St.  Joseph, 
has  opened  a similar store at Ryerson P. O.
The Cobb Spring-Tooth Harrow Company 
has accepted an invitation,  accompanied  by 
a  liberal  offer, to establish  their  works  at 
Sturgis.
The Frankfort Iron  furnace  went  out  of 
blast on Monday, and operations will not be 
resumed until spring, and then probably  un­
der new management.

The daily papers of Grand Rapids all pub­
lish what they are pleased to call a  “Whole­
sale Market,” although  the  information  im­
parted is of little value, as it  is  seldom  cor- 
„  
. rect, and consequently cannot be relied hpon.
Ryerson, Hills & Co. have sold  the Wash-j rpjie  markets  are  ostensibly  “ Corrected
Daily,” and a great  show  of  authenticity  is 
given them by regularly  changing  the  date 
line at the head of the markets, but in  most 
cases this is the only change made in weeks, 
and sometimes months.  That this fact  may 
be made  patent to all, but  few  illustrations 
are necessary.  For  instance,  the Times  is 
still quoting ripe peaches  and  tomatoes,  al­
though neither have been in the  market  for 
a month.  Butter is placed at  16c,  whereas 
even a fair quality brings 25 per  cent. more. 
Beans are priced at  §1.75,  but  the  jobbers 
and commission merchants are getting  §2.50 
for common  stock.  The  Democrat  quotes 
potatoes at 70c, when  as  a  matter  of  fact 
they are a drug in the market at  about  half 
that price.  Concord grapes and  pears  have 
not been in the market for  a  fortnight,  but 
both are still  quoted.  Celery  is  quoted  at 
20e per bunch, although it  is  active  at  30c 
per dozen bunches.  Squash  is  placed  at 4c 
per pound, but is selling for half that figure. 
The Eagle is scarcely less deserving of  cen­
sure, while the Leader has always been open 
to criticism in this respect. 
It is still in the 
memory  of  many  that  the  latter  paper 
quoted strawberries as late as October  about 
three  years  ago,  although  none  were  in 
maekrt at that time, even  in  New  Orleans.
The above mis-quotations, selected  at ran­
dom from issues  of  the  papers  of  current 
date, serve to illustrate the entire worthless­
ness of tills feature of the average  daily  pa- 
| per.  When it is understood that  the  work 
I of keeping the «report correct  is  usually  en- 
| trusted to a  reporter  already  overburdened 
with other and more pressing duties, it is not
car load of butter plates was shipped to Chi-  strange that little dependence can be  placed 
cago  last  Tuesday.  Thirty-five  hands  are j on it.  With a paper like The Tradesman, 
now employed at the factory and  the  plates  the situation  is  reversed.  One  man  gives
his entire time to a  careful  scrutiny  of  the 
are turned out at the rate of 150 per minute.
markets,  making note of every  change,  and 
The Muskegon News-says:  The  lumber 
inquiring  into  every  unusual  feature  inci­
on the docks will be mostly carried over  un- j 
dental to the subject.  He is  therefore  able 
til next spring.  Some of it is  sold  and  the I 
to  treat  the  matter  understandingly,  and 
owners prefer to let  it  remain  here  during 
when he finally places the ruling figures, the 
the winter, as the danger  from  fire  is  less 
quotations  may  be  accepted  as  absolutely 
here than in the larger cities and the rate  of I 
correct.
insurance is smaller.
The question may be summed  up  as  fol­
lows:  Do not  expect  too  much  from  one 
If you want the news, take a  news­
paper. 
paper.  But  if  you  want  correct  market 
quotations, take a trade paper. 

Dun’s Mercantile Agency  reports  the  as­
signment ©f John  Hickey,  liquor  dealer  at 
Big Rapids, and the  opening  of  a  produce | 
and commission house at that place by Hunt i 
& Pierce.
R. Hoffman,  general  dealers  at  Filmore 
Center, has removed to Montague.  Tellman 
& Hoffman, who operated the  saw  and grist 
mill at the former place, have  sold  out,  and 
IT  Tellman has removed to Muskegon.

Says  the  Mancelona  Herald:  The  first

«

According to an  estimate in the  Manistee | 
Ad/oocate, there are about 30,000,000 feet of , 
logs in the  Little  Lake,  30,000,000  in  the j 
Manistee  River,  16,000,000  in  the  South I 
Branch and 12,000,000 in  the  Little  River,1 
making the total  amount  of  logs  on  hand j 
about 88,000,000 feet.
The firm of J. B. Bailey & Son, dealers  in | 
groceries and crockery at Allegan,  has  been 
dissolved by  the  retirement  of  the  senior 
member, who is 73  years old,  and  well  de­
serves a rest  from  mercantile  cares.  The 
business will be continued at the  old  stand 
by  Ed.  Bailey,  under  the name  of  J.  B. 
Bailey’s Son.

A large  walnut  show  case,  with  opening 
The mince pie  graceth  the  festal  board, I in front, 3 feet 6 inches deep, by 6 feet long, 
making its juices rare, and the mouth of th e! and 4 feet high, with table to  fit.  Price. of 
baby waters while he  vieweth  the  treasure ¡the  case,  only  §25;  stand,  §5.  Call  on  or 
there.  The doctor smileth a wan, sad smile | address
and heaveth a crocodile moan, and the marble 
man goeth out in his yard  and  polisheth  up ■ 
a  stone.  And  the  undertaker  mournfully | 
asks “What will his measure be?” while the 
sexton labels a spot “reserved” under a  wil-1 
low tree.

16 Monroe  Street, Grand  Rapide, Mich.
Cummer & Henderson, proprietors of  the 
Cadillac Iron Works, have made  an  assign­
ment to E. F. Sawyer, of that place.

II.  Leonard  &  Sons,

COPYING PRESSES !
Railroad, Express  Companies

ALL  SIZES  FOR

AN D   G ENERAL  USE.

MANUFACTURED  BY

(SAMUEL  C. TATUM & COMPANY,!

CINCINNATI,  OHIO.

j^ “  illustrated  Catalogue sent on application.

OUR  PRESSES  RECEIVED  THE  First Award AT  THE  CHICAGO  RAILWAY  EXPOSITION.
OYSTERS!
II. M. BUVEKT, 

More  Failures.

It had been hoped that the recent financial 
flurry  would  serve  to avert further assign­
ments, but  the  present  week  opened  with 
rather mortvtlian its full  quota.  Phillip  E. 
Newman & Co., boot and shoe dealers doing 
business here and  at  Kalamazoo  and  South 
Bend, lnd., tacked a notice on the door Mon­
day  announcing  an  assignment  to  W.  M. 
Robinson.  L. Creighton, a commission lum­
ber dealer at Cadillac, with small assets  and 
liabilities, failed.  Cummer & Rawles, hard­
ware dealers at the same place, made  an  as­
signment  to  Peter Haifley,  with  liabilities 
estimated  at  §37,000, and assets at §42,000. 
Ric%&  Messmore,  the  private  bankers  at 
Cadillac, made an assignment Monday noon, 
after fighting strenuously for  a  fortnight  to 
get above water.  This  will  necessarily  im- 
pell Messmore Bros., the clothing dealers, to 
take  the  same  course,  and  may  possibly 
bring about the failure of  O. S. Whittemore 
& Co.  Every failure of the kind  brings  le­
gitimate business down  nearer  to  hard-pan, 
and renders  the  future  brighter  for  all  not 
seriously affected by them.
Brief  Review  ot the  Leading  Lines  of  Trade.
Dry goods are quiet and collections not so 
good as  earlier in the season.  Groceries are 
somewhat depressed, owing  to  the  general 
failure of crops, and the consequent “ floor” 
feeling prevalent among the  farming  class. 
Sugars are a triflle lower and have evidently 
touched bottom,  Coffees are slightly higher 
and firmer.  London layer and  new  Musca­
tel raisins have  advanced.  Candy  is  down | 
3^c, in consequence of  the  drop  in  sugars. I 
Business continues fair to good, and  dealers j 
look for a lively  holiday 
trade.  Boot  and j 
shoe and drug jobbers report a booming bus-1 
iness.  Hides, pelts and  furs aie  very  dull, 
and hides are likely to decline.
COUNTRY  PRODUCE,

bbl.

bbl.

20c ^  gal.

lb., and bid  fowls, 8c.

sales made at §5.50@6.25 ^  bu.

Cider—Good quality and  selling freely  at 
A'elery—Active at 30c ^  doz.
Cabbage—Firm at §6@§9 ^  100.
Clover  Seed—Not  much  moving.  Some 
Timothy—In ample supply at §1.65 ’<$ bu.
Sweet  Potatoes—Jerseys,  .firm  at  §4  ^  
Grapes—Cats^waba,  10c.
Cranberries—Cultivated Wisconsin, §10@ 
§12 
Poultry—Easy.  Spring chickens in  good 
demand,,  but  old  rather  slow.  Dressed 
chickens,  lie 
Eggs—Quite  scarce  at  25c fof freeh, and 
24c for packed.
Dried  Apples—Quarters,  7@8c  ^   lb.; 
evaporated, 15@16c.
Honey—In comb, 18e ^  lb.
Potatoes—A drug in  the  market.  Choice 
Rose and Burbanks offered freely at 40c, and 
carload lots  at  35c  and  very  dull  even at 
those prices.
Apples—Winter and fall  fruit  are selling 
at §3 @§3.25  bbl.
Butter—Dull.  Western  creamery,  24c; 
dairy, 18c @ 22c.
Onions—Dull and slow.  Sales  of  choice 
yellow made at §2 
bu. in 
sacks.
Squash—Hubbard  selling  at  2c  @  2}<^ 
lb.

bbl., and 65c 

Silver Ware  Show  Case ter Sale.

—WHOLESALE—

O Y S T E R S

AND  CANNED  GOODS.

.¿{gent  for  Farren’s  Celebrated  “ F ”  Brand 

Raw  Oysters.

117  MONROE  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

A.  H .  P O W L B ,  

PAINTER  AND  DECORATOR,

—AND DEALER  IN—

Artists’  Materials!

FINE  WALL  PAPERS AND 

ROOM  MOULDINGS,

WINDOW  SHADES,
Glass, Plain and Ornamental

PAINTS,  OILS,  AND§

37  Ionia  Street, South  of  Monroe.

F E E T E H ’S

GROCERY

—-AND----

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.

Result  of  Last  Week’s  Gale— Mistakes  of  the 

Signal  Service.

The  northwesterly  gale  which  prevailed 
almost steadily on the chain of Great  Lakes 
last week was the most disastrous to life and 
property that has occurred in any gale  since 
1867.  The total number of  wrecks was  40, 
which includes vessels going ashore, as  well 
as those which went to pieces, and  the  total 
number of lives lost was 68, so far as known. 
Besides these, there are other vessels missing, 
or  that  have not been heard from  since  the 
gale began to blow.  The season as.a  whole 
has been the most disastrous to shipping and 
insurance men alike that has ever been known 
before in the  history  of  navigation  on  the 
Lakes.  It has been marked by disasters ter­
rible in their nature and entailing heavy loss 
upon insurance companies.  This was partly 
due to an unpropitious  and  stormy  season, 
but largely to  the  inexcusable  mistakes  of 
the Signal Service.  TRe latter have  missed 
every gale of wind in such a way. as  to  en­
courage  vessel  masters to leave port on the 
verge of veritable hurricanes.  Such was the 
case last week  and  also  last  May.  To  go 
further back, they made  the  same  mistake 
before the great gale of Oct. 16,1880, in  th$ 
wake of which followed the terrible disasters 
of the Alpena, Wells  Burt,  and  lastly,  the 
Akeley.

W H O L E S A L E

STORE

PRICES  GUAR&XTTEED 

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  Alfa)  UPWARDS.

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Im p o rte d .  Scotob.  C ap s,

L u m b e rm e n ’s   G o o d s ,

M a e b in a w  S liir ts  tfc D ra w r e s . 

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Pontiac  Foiled  Mitts, Socks  and  Boots!

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E V E R Y   ONE  W ARRANTED . 

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MICH.

Clothing  and  Gent’s  Furnishing
DUCK  OVERALLS,  THREE  POCKETS,  $3.50  PER  DOZEN.

Goods.

Tenns—7 per cent, off in 10 days;  5 per cent, in 30 days;  net in GO day

36, 38,40  and  42  CANAL  STREET, 

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

X.  C.  L E V I ,

ALABASTINE!

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COMMERCIAL  PRINTING

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49  Lyon  Street.

Eaton, Lyon & Allen,

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.

Alabastinc 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  suiAace  , 
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  claimed 
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 
I the  admixtures,  forming  a  stone  cement, 
while  all  kalsomines,  or  other  whitening 
I preparations,  have 
inert  soft  chalks,-  or 
j  glue,  for  their  base,  which  are  rendered 
soft, or  scaled, in  a  very  short  time, thus
BOOKSELLERS, STATIONERS | ^c<^itating~tlie  well-known  greatl]
incon- 
vemence  and  expense, which  all  hav<
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.

Eaton, Lyon & Allen,

B L A N K   BOOK  M ANUFACTURERS.

SPECIALIST  IN  DISEASES  OF THE

R.  J.  KIRKLAND.  M.  D„

Far, E ye  and  Throat

PRINTERS, and

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WITH DHS. JOHNSON & BOISE,

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 j
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tended to.

Orders by Mail and Express  promptly  at­

CHEMICALS.

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-FOR  SALE  BY-

¿LXiXj  F aint  D ealers.  ♦

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THE ALABASTINE COMPANY

M. B.  CHURCH, Manager,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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