The Michigan Tradesman.

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN,  WEDNESDAY,  JANUARY  2,  1884.

NO. t5.

YOL.  1.
A L A B A S T I N E !

Alabastine is the first and  only  prepara­
tion made from  calcined  gypsum  rock,  for 
application  to  walls  with  a  brush, and  is 
fally  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  surface 
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 
(be  admixtures,  forming  a  stone  cement, 
while  all  kalsomines,  or  other  whitening 
preparations,  have 
inert  soft  chalks,  or 
glue,  for  their  base,  which  are  rendered 
soft, or  scaled, in  a  very  short  time, thus 
necessitating  the  well-known  great  incon­
venience  and  expense, which  all  have  ex­
perienced,  in  washing  and  scraping  off  the 
•Id  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 
«f surface with two coats, is  ready  for  use 
by  simply  adding  water,  and  is easily ap­
plied  by  any  one.

------- FOR  SALE  BY--------

ALL  Faint  Dealers.

----- MANUFACTURED  BY-----

■THE ALABASTINE COMPANY

M. B. CHURCH, Manager.

GRAND  RAPIDS.

MICHIGAN.!

COMMERCIAL  FEINTING

-----AND----

Eaton, Lyon & Allen,

4»  Lyon  Street.

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

Eaton, Lyon & Allen,
BOOKSELLERS, STATIONERS

PRINTERS, and

B L A N K   BOOK  M ANUFACTURERS.

A.  JELm  FOW LB ,| 
j

PAINTER  AND  DECORATOR. 

AND DEALER  IN-

ROOM  MOULDINGS.

FINE  WALL  PAPERS AND 

Artists’  Materials!
WINDOW  SHADES,
Blass, Plain and Ornamental

PAINTS,  OILS.  AND

*

ST  I onia  Stbkkt, South  of  Monroe.

A.  A.  GRIFFEN,

WHOLESALE

Hats, Caps and Furs

54  MONROE  STREET,

f tl tA M )   R A P ID S ,

W lC H IiiA N .

Wt carry a Large Stork, and Guarantee Prices 

mu Lem as Chicago and Detroit.

E.  J.  KIRKLAND.  M.  D„

SPECIALIST  IN  DISEASES OP THE

9-  Sax, By©  and Threat
7E Ottawa Street,  Comer  of Monro«  Street. 

WITH  IJBH. JOHNSON *  BOISE,

OCloe Hour»: 0 a. m. to 13 m.; * to I» p. m.

A Few Words for ‘'The Tradesman.”

T he  T radesman  has  passed  the  first 
quarter of its first publication  year,  and  its 
success, although assured from the  start,  is 
now a reality. 
In short,  it  is  now  only  a 
question of how much of a success it will be. 
It has  been  demonstrated,  beyond dispute, 
that there is a demand for  such  a  publica­
tion, that the field selected is sufficiently ex­
tended to  give  it  a  generous  support,  and 
that the object  and  merits  of the paper are 
appreciated at their full worth.

The same general features that have served 
to give character and interest to the paper in 
the past will be continued in the  future,  to­
gether with such additional features  as  will 
come  with  added  experience  and  a  more 
thorough  knowledge  of  what  is  desired. 
Th e  T radesm an  is  in  no sense a “house 
organ"’—one of the most detestable  features 
of  trade  journalism—and  is  therefore  not 
subject to the caprice of  any  outside  influ­
ence as to what it shall and  shall  not  print. 
We shall continue to act independently,  giv­
ing place to such matters as we see fit, with­
out any regard to whom they may  hit,  hav­
ing in mind only the  general good of the re­
tail tradesman.  Recognizing that a subscrip­
tion list numbering every retailer In Western 
Michigan is a source of strength vastly more 
valuable than the advertising patronage of a 
dozen jobbers, we shall  bend  every  energy 
to accomplish that end, agreeing to furnish a 
paper  in  no sense unworthy the  mercantile 
interests of the State.

A word to our readers who are not already 
subscribers.  We  have  sent  The  Trades­
man regularly each week to  several  thous­
and reputable dealers, at our owu  risk.  By 
this  time,  they  are • enabled  to  determine 
whether it will bp of any assistance to them 
in the prosecution of their business. 
If not, 
they are  at perfect liberty  to  inform  us  of 
the fact, receiving the assurance that the ac­
count is balanced, as we  have  no  desire  to 
ask a man to pay for what  has  been  of  no 
use of him, and  what he does not want. 
If, 
on the other hand,  the  paper  hast afforded 
him any profit, given  him  seasonable  hints 
and pertinent suggestions that  are  valuable 
in a business sense, we should be pleased  to 
receive his subscription, either in  the  shape 
of a cash advance or a  notification  that  the 
paper is wanted.  Let it be  understood that 
no wholesale house is sending  the  paper  to 
anyone on its own account,  and  that  every 
paper mailed to those who are  not subscrib­
ers is at. the risk  and  expense  of  the  pub­
lisher.

So Plain As Nefer Vas.

From  t he  Wall  Street News.

When the tax assessor of one of the wards 
called  upon  a  clothing  dealer  and  asked 
about the value of his stock,’ Isaac  replied: 
“Vhell, shust about $400.”
•‘Four hundred! why,  you  must  have  at 
least $2,000 invested here.”
“No? no! no! vhasyou efer inder clothing 
peesness?”
“No.”
“Vhell. it vhas  surprising  what  a  show 
Four  hundred  vhas  enough 

$100  make. 
to start a mammoth clothing house.”  , 

“When did you inventory?”
“Vhell, about six weeks ago."’
“Didn’t that  inventory  show  over  $3,000 
stock?”
“Oh, yes, yes; but let me explain  to  you. 
We  took dot inventory to sell out  the  pees­
ness to a man from  New  York,  und  I  bor­
rowed 200 coats and 400 wests of my brudder 
Shacob to fill oop der stock.  Der man didn’t 
bite, and so I falls back  on  my  true  stock. 
If I haf  more ash $400 here do you  think  I 
didn’t get more as $2,000  insurance?”
New Corporations Authorized.

The  following  corporations  have  lately 
filed articles of association  with  the  Secre­
tary of State at Lansing:

W\\m MIOTÌC1AL TRAYIÄS’ ASSOCIAI

Incttrpomtcd Der. 10,1877—Charter in  Forre for 

Thirty Years.

LIST O F  O F F IC E R S :

President—R ansom W. H aw ley, of  Detroit. 
Vice-Presidents—Chas. E. Snedekkr, Detroit; 
L. W. At k in s, Grand  Rapids;  I. N. A lexan­
d er, Lansing;  U. S. L ord, Kalamazoo; H. E. 
Me e k er, Bay City.
Secretary  and  Treasurer—W.  N.  Me r e d it h , 
Detroit.
Board  of Trustees,  For Ono Year—J. C. Pon­
tiu s, Chairman, S. A. Munger, H. K. W h it e 
For Two Years—D. Mo r r is,  A. W.  Culv er.

KNIGHTS  0?  THE  GRIPSACK.

! Annual  Meeting ot  the  Michigan  Commercial 

Travelers’  Association.

j  The annual meeting of the Michigan Com­
mercial Travelers’ Association  was  held  at 
! Cleland  hall,  Detroit,  on  the  28th  ult.,  the 
[ day being the sixth anniversary of the incor- 
I  poration  of  the  Association  and  the- tenth 
anniversary  of  its  formation.  There were 
138  members  present.  The  meeting  was 
called to order by President Jas. T. Phillips, 
| who addressed  the  Association, alluding  to 
the benefits derived from the  reserve  fund, 
and touching upon the valuable  concessions 
received  from  the  railroad  companies  and 
the  consequent  obligation  the  Association 
was under to those  corporations.  He allud­
ed feelingly to brothers  members  who  had 
passed  away,  and  dwelt  upon  the  manly 
characteristics of his immediate predecessor, 
President John W. Higgins, who was  killed 
in the railway disaster near  Olivet.
Secretary  Hill  presented  the  following 
report:
! Membership one year ago................................542
New members admitted during 1883............   113
Members  reinstated........................................  15
j  T otal..............................................................   670
Members dropped from  roll.....................75
I Deceased  members.....................................   8

Total..............................................................   587
Increase of membership............................  45
The Treasurer’s report showed:

T otal..................
Death losses  paid. 
Expenses..............

Balance on hand for 1882..................... $ 6,423 66
Receipts from all sources during 1883  20,068 90
................ $26,493 20
.$20,000 00 
983 10
------------*20,983 10
Cash on  hand......................................$ 5,509 10
j  The thanks of the  Association  were  ten­
dered Edwin Martlock for  his  efficient  ser- 
j vices as chairman of the railway  committee, 
j  A  resolution  was  passed  adopting  the 
j proposition of J. II. Brewer, of New Jersey, 
looking to the abolition of the tax  collected 
! from commercial travelers in  certain  States 
| by memorializing Congress to that end.  The 
Association will present a petition to  Mich­
igan Congressmen in furtherance of the  pro­
posal.
I  The  election  of  officers  resulted  as  fol- 
I lows:
President—Ransom W.  Hawley,  Detroit.
!  First  Vice-President—Chas.  E.  Sned- 
■ eker,  Detroit.
Srcond  Vice-President—L.  W.  Atkins, 
Grand -Rapids.
Third  Vice-President—I.  N.  Alexander, 
j Lansing.
I  Fourth Vice-President—U. S. Lord, Kala- 
! mazoo.
I  Fifth Vice-President;—H. E. Meeker,  Bay 
1 City.
j  Secretary and Treasurer, W. N.  Meredith, 
Detroit.
i  Board of  Trustres—J.  C.  Pontius,  S,  A.
1 Munger, H. K. White, 
j  Trustees  Reserve  Fund  Committee  (two 
j  years)—D. Morris, A. W. Culver, 
j  The first ballot for Secretary resulted in a 
; tie, and it was  agreed  to  proceed  with  the 
election of the remainder of the officers  and 
call  a  special  election  for  Secretary  after­
ward.  This was accordingly  done  and  Mr. 
Meredith was elected by one  vote,  a  result 
| which is complimentary to the old Secretary.
1  A  resolution of thanks  offered  by  T.  J. 
Haywood to the retiring officers for the able 
and efficient manner in which they discharg­
ed their respective duties _ in  the  past  year 
was  adopted,  as  was  aiso  the  suggestionj 
j made part of the  same  resolution,  that  600 
! copies of the  president’s  adress  be  printed 
[ for members with the amended  constitution.
The afternoon  session  was  chiefly  occu­
pied with discussing amencments to the con­
stitution, ode of which provides for  a  seini- 
! annual assessment of $5 each to be made  in 
| April and October, thus doing away with the 
} assessment of dues  at  the end of each year, 
t This amendment was  passed  after  a  vigor- 
j ous struggle, and was afterward  reconsider- 
I ed, but wras passed a  second  time.  Several 
j minor amendments w'ere inserted in the con- 
j  stitution.  The rule  making  it  compulsory 
j upon the Board of Trustees  of  the  reserve 
! fund to invest the surplus  in  United. States 
bonds was changed,  and  investment  in  se­
curities is now optional with the Board.
! 
In  the  evening  the travelers  discussed  a 
| sumptuous banquet.

*

How  He Worked  It.

Patents Issued to  Michigan Inventors.

Eureka Iron  and  Steel  Works,  Detroit; 
capital, $500,000.
Lexington  Utica  Railroad  Co.:  capital, 
$520,000.
Roscommon  Opera  House  Co.,  Roscom­
mon ; articles amended.
Whitnev Organ Co., Detroit: capital,'$50,- 
000.
An Sable Lumber Co.,  An Sable:  capital 
increased to $34,000.
j  Patent  Pulp  Lining  Co.,  Niles:  capital,
| $200,000.
i  Gale  Sulky  Harrow  Manufacturing  Co„ 
| Detroit; capital increased to $100,000. 
j  Western  Medicine  Co.,  Grand  Rapids; 
1 capital, $25,000.
|
Sentinel Printing Co.,  Ionia; capita!, $12,- 
000. 
A drummer on his first trip was  seated in 
Yeagiey  Automatic  Fountain  Machine 
| the same car with an old experienced knight 
Co., Detroit;  capital, $50,000. 
i of  the road, and  their  conversation  turned 
t  Detroit  and  Alpine  Silver  Minifig  Co., 
[ on their relative daily  expenses, 
j Detroit;  capita), $500,000.
i 
“I always manage  to  include  in  my  ex- 
! penses,” said the eider,  “hats,  boots,  over- 
| 
j coats, etc., and every drummer who has  any 
; respect for his noble calling ought to do  the 
I  The following patents have lately  been is- 
< same.  Make the firm stand ’em.”
; sued to Michigan inventors:
The  younger  man  thought  that  a  very 
good idea, and upon his return  from his trip 
he included among other items  of  expenses 
one pair of boots,  $12.
His  employers  expressed  themselves  as 
well pleased with his success as a  salesman, 
but objected to pay for the  boots.
On his next trip he was  fortunate  enough j 
to meet his former acquaintance.
“How is  it,”  he  asked,  “that  your  firm 
j will stand overcoats as  legitimate  expenses 
1 when mine kicked on a pair of boots?”
“You didn’t put boots  down  in  your  ex- 
[ 
| pense account, did you?”
“Certainly,” said the young man.
“Well,  you  are  a  chump.  You  should | 
have dovetailed the price  of  the  boots  into 
postage stamps and sundries.” 
When the young man again  submitted his j 
: account the firm remarked:
“We  don’t  see  any  memorandum 
for 
‘boots’, or anything of that  nature,  Mr.  So- 
and-So.”
“No,” Mr. So-and-So  said  softly  to  him­
self.  “You don’t see it, but there is a  forty 
dollar overcoat tolre just the same.”

James  IT. * Armstrong,  Pinconuing,  chain 
John C. Bach, Hillsdale, shaft press. 
Ewell B. Bellinger, Kalamazoo, cultivator. 
Jeremiah  Dayo,  Denton,  safety  attacli- 
| merit for gun locks.
I  Samuel  J.  Gray,  Fort  Gratiot.,  railway 
! guard.
Frank J.  Kellogg,  Battle  Creek,  rule  or 
| measure,
Ira N. Moore, Battle Creek, mitten. 
! 
Joseph O’Brien. Kalamazoo, artificial  leg. 
John  C.  Perkins,  Kalamazoo, 
railway 
<). E.  Perry, Whitehall, churn motor.
John  H.  Porter,  Jackson,  cylinder  cock 
L.  C. Pratt, Kalamazoo, crutch.
An Improvement on tho Chromo  Plan.
The proprietors  of  a  Chicago  dry goods 
store advertise  that  they  will  gratuitously 
furnish  an  oyster  stew,  to  every  person 
whose bill for goods  purchased  at  their  es­
tablishment exceeds $1 in amount.

j  hand car.
[ 

steam escape,

; fastener.

,

Grand  Rapids  Boys  on  tho  Read.

Evoiuiion  n  Buckivhoa! Cakes.

Benj.  Hollister will continue to  represent 

From  tho  New  York  Sun.

Peirce & White on the road.

Collins will represent John Caulfield.

Frank Crawford, Manley Jones and Frank 
Stephen Sears aud Jas. W. Seymour  will, 
of course, continue to handle Wm.  Sears  & 
Co.’s goods.

Ralph  Blocksma  will  continue  another 
year as traveling  agent  for  Voigt,  Herpol- 
sheimer & Co.

Chas.  S.  Robinson  will 

the 
Grand Rapids  Packing  and  Provision  Co. 
for another year.

represent 

E. 

P. Dana proposes  to go on the  road  in I 

in the spring, selling lumber on his own  ac-! 
count on. commission.

Cody,  Ball  &  Co.  will  be  represented 
another year by A. C. Sharpe,  J.  B.  Evans 
and D. S. Haugh on the road,  and Algernon
E.  White in the city.

Shields, Bulkley & Lemon  will  continue 
to be represented  by  B. F. Parmenter,  Ed. 
Frick, D. F. Keyes on the  road,  and  J.  A. 
Morrison in the city.

Putnam & Brooks will be  represented  on 
the road the coming  year  by  Wm.  B.  Ed­
munds, Chas. C. Drew and Geo. McKay, and 
in the city by T. C. Putnam.

Rindge, Bertsch & Co. will have the  same 
representation as last year, Wm.  Logie,  W.
A.  Rindge,  and  Ed.  Krekel  covering  the 
same territory as in the past.
Spring & Company’s trunks  will  be  car­
ried this year by W. H. Downs  and Jonh P. 
Gill, the  latter  covering  the  territory  for­
merly traveled by Geo. F. Owen.

Thomas  P.  Ferguson,  formerly  traveling 
agent for Jacob Barth, but for the  past  two 
years  on  the  road for S. M. Tyler & Co., of 
Detroit, has signed with that firm for another 
year.  His territory will be the same as here­
tofore.

C.  H. Bayley will  continue to agitate  the 

northern trade for Clark, Jewel &  Co.,  and
J.  O. Cloyes  will  attend  to  the  city trade. 
Another traveler will  be  engaged  later  in 
the season.

Jas. A. Crookston and  L.  M.  Mills  will 
continue their present relations with  Hazel- 
tine, Perkins  &  Co.,  and  Prof.  Hampson 
will continue to carry  a  line  of  druggists’ 
sundries and brushes for the same firm.

A. 

N. Leslie and W. S. Horn have  engag­

ed to travel for Fox,  Musselman  &  Lover- 
idge for  another  year,  covering  the  same 
ground  as  heretofore.  Messrs.  Fox  and 
Loveridge will also continue their periodical 
visits to the trade.
S. A. Sheldon, western traveling agent for 
Austin,  Tomlinson  &  Webster,  manufac­
turers of the Jackson  wagon,  has  returned 
from  a  flying  trip  through  Nebraska,  and 
returns the middle of the month  for  a  tour 
of Iowa and Kansas.

T he Tradesm an is in receipt of  an  ele­
gant  card, ornamented  with  satin  flowers, 
announcing  the  engagement—for  another 
year—of Mr. C. W. Mansfield with Bradner, 
Smith & Co., of  Chicago. 
It  is  a  question 
in this case which is to be most congratulated.
Geo. F. Owen, for the past four years trav­
eling salesman for  Spring  &  Company, has 
severed his connection  with  that  house  to 
accept a similar  position  with  Brewster  & 
Stanton, of  Detroit.  He  is  succeeded  by 
John F. Gill, for the past  two  years  identi­
fied  with  the  wholesale  department  of  the 
house.  Mr. Gill is a young  man  of  energy 
and pleasing address, and will  undoubtedly 
make many new friends for Spring  &  Com­
pany.

Detroit’s Rich  Men.

I  D. M. Ferry, 50, $1,000,000.

•  The Detroit  Times  prints  a  list  of  the 
wealthy residents of that place,  accompany­
ing each reference with the reputed  fortune 
of the gentleman in question.  As there  has 
been an evident endeavor to approach  exact­
ness, more  than  ordinary  reliance  may  be 
placed on the statements. 
In the  following 
compilation from the article, the first figures 
represent the age  of „the person  and the sec­
ond the  value  of his property:
Francis Palms, 70. $5,000,000.
David Ward, 67, $5,000,000.
Wm.  E. Lovett, 58, $4,000,000.
Jas. S. Newberry, 63, $4,000.000.
Jas. McMillan, 64,  $4,000,000.
C. H. Buhl, 71,  $2,000,000.
Jas. F. Joy, 70, $1,5000,000.
II. I*. Baldwin, 69, $1,000,000.
Peter Heiikle, 52, $1,000,000.
W. H. Stevens, 65, $1,000,000.
W. B. Wesson, 65,$1,500,000.
Simon J. Murphy, 70,  $2,000,000.
'  Geo. II. Hammond, 59, $1,500,000.
David Whitney, Jr., 52, $2,t)00,000.
Henry Stephens, 55, $1,000,000.
|  M. S. Smith, 50, $1,000,000.
I  Gen. R. A. Alger, 47, $1,000,000. 
j  Capt. Jack. Pridgeon, 53, $1,000,000.
Chas. E.  Rresler, 65, $1,000,000.
Daniel Scotten, 62, $2,000,000.
Thos. W. Palmer, $2,000,000.
Mrs. Thos. W. Palmer, $3,000,000.
Fred. Buhl, 77, $750,000. 
i  Wm. A. Butler, 70, $750,000.
G: V. N. Lathrop, 66, $750,000.  *
\  Philo Parsons, 68, $700,000.
Edmund Hall, 55, $750,000.
Thos. Nester, $600,000.
John Owens, 61, $500,000.
A.  C. McGraw, $500,000.
Alanson Shely, 73, $500,00»).
J. S. Farrand, 68, $500,000.
W. K. Muir,  $400,000.
Caleb Van Husan, 78, $500,000.
Chas. Stinchfield, $450,000.
Stephen Baldwin,  $470,000.
Alex. Lewis, $390,000.
Thos. A. Parker, $4,000,000.
W. W. Crapo, $400,000.
Alfred E. Brush, 34, $800,000.
Hugh Moffatt, 70,  $600,000.
Wm. B. Morau,  $400,000.
Geo. Hendrie, $700,000.
Theo. II. Eaton, $600,000.
Alex. M. Campau, 58, $700,000.
Tragott Schmidt, $600,000.
Steel belting is, according to  report,  now 
being  made  in  Germany.  The  belts  are 
made exclusively of steel wire,  and  are  so 
constructed that they are flexible, easily  fas­
tened  and  may  be  tightened  at  pleasure. 
The  pulley  upon  which  the  belting  runs 
must  be  covered  with  leather,  or  other 
suitable  material 
friction. 
The belting is well adapted for heavy  work, 
it is claimed, and is not  affected  by  damp­
ness or a change of temperature, as is  leath-

for  securing 

“Buckwheat  cakes!”  said 'a   man  in  a 
down-town  restaurant. 
“Wheat  cakes!” 
In  a  short 
said another man  by  his  side. 
time the  waiter  brought  three  broad,  thin 
disks, that  were  white  within  and  a  crisp 
brown without, to each man. 
In  looks  the 
cakes were exactly  alike.  A  man  with  a 
sensitive taste could have  determined  after 
one or  two  trials  that  they  did  not  taste 
alike.
“I ordered buckwheat cakes  just  because 
the  name  brings  up  pleasant  memories,” 
said one.  “Here is a case in which evolution 
has ruined the thing evoluteil.  When 1 was 
a boy my father used to carry buckwheat  to 
the mill and bring back a greyish flour.  My 
mother mixed it at night, and the next morn­
ing I sat down to breakfast before a  heap— 
but no matter.  We won’t talk about it.”
“Yes, but you  said  something  about  the 
evolution spoiling the thing evoluted.  What 
was the thing evoluted?”
“The buckwheat  flour.  The  buckwheat 
of my youth was  cleaned  and  then  ground 
between  the  stones  like  any  other  grain. 
Not long ago a man who wanted  to  make  a 
beautiful flour to look at concluded  that  he 
could do so if he could  entirely  remove the 
shuck  from  the  kernel  of  buckwheat.  To 
do this he made a machine  that  consists  of 
four  serrated  or  corrugated  rollers.  Two 
are placed  at  the  end  of  the  screen  over 
which the  grain  passes,  and  as  the  grain 
drops between them it gets a nip that breaks 
it up and separates about all the meats from 
the husks.  Then the meat drops  through a 
short screen, and the husks pass on  through 
the second set of rollers.  They are  further 
broken  up,  and  the  remaining  meats  are 
separated.  The meats are ground, and  this 
white tasteless stuff is the result.”
“That was only the  complaint  of  a  man 
who thinks that there are bo times  like  the 
old times,” said a flour dealer  to  whom  the 
above was  related. 
“If  he  wants  ground 
husks instead of clean flour,  he  can  get  it, 
and for less money.  Few mills  now  grind 
shucks and all together, bat the  flour  is  to 
be had. 
If the  new  process  flour  was  not 
better than the old it would not now be  tak­
ing the lead.”

Maxims  for Business  Men.

When a business  man  reaches  the  point 
where he thinks he can not  spare  any  time 
to  examine  sources  of  financial and  com­
mercial information, he may safely conclude 
that his business is not well managed.
When a business man  finds  himself  in  a 
financial  situation  so  embarassing  that  he 
cannot afford  to  possess  every  publication 
that would throw more light upon  his  busi­
ness transactions,  he  should  not  delay  an 
hour, but arrange at once with an auctioneer 
to close out his stock to the  highest  bidder.
When a business man  comes  to  the con­
clusion that he cannot  afford  to  spend dur­
ing  the  year,  in  judicious  advertising,  an 
amount equal to  one-half,  or  at  least  one- 
quarter of  the  sum  he  pays  annually  for 
rent, he may safely make up  his  mind  that 
it is high time for him to move Iris  business 
to cheaper quarters.
When  a business man disburses  annually 
for salaries and expenses of travelers  to  so­
licit trade  a  larger  sum  than  he  pays  in 
making his  business  khown  to  the  public 
through other judicious advertising, he  may 
be sure that he ought to reconsider his  man­
agement.  Salesmen  should  be  assisted  in 
their arduous work by well managed  adver­
tising.

Making the H?.rd Times  Harder.

IZ3 

But thinking makes it so.

While  a  reporter  of  T h e  Tradesman 
"was at one of the northern towns last week, 
j lie met an experience that set him to  think- 
j.ing on the probable outcome of  the  present, 
j business depression, providing the  majority 
! of the tradesmen continues to talk in a  dole- 
j ful strain as to the prospects of  the- future,
I and reminded him forcibly of the lines from 
j Hamlet: 
¡y^
i  _  T here’s nothing either good or bad 
j  A farmer who had evidently not “been’”to 
j town” for a  fortnight  enquired  of  a  mer- 
I chant as to whether the tinjes  were  getting 
j better,  and was  answered  in  the  negative, 
the  reply  also  conveying 
the  opinion 
j that there was no indication of an  improve­
ment “for  months  to  come.”  Desiring to 
ascertain the effect of this dismal inielligence. 
j the reporter  engaged the farmer  in  conver­
sation, and gleaned  from  him  what  he  be­
lieves to be the key-note of the present  bus- 
ness depression.  Said the tiller of the  soil: 
“Last spring the merchants here told us that 
j hard times  were  coming  on,  and  that  we 
I wanted to be  prepared  for  them.  So  we 
held onto  our  money,  bought  nothing  bnt 
what we actually needed, and  although  our 
potatoes aud com slipped up on  us,  we  still 
have enough to keep the wolf from the  door 
for  some  time  to  come.  The  merchants 
still keep on telling us that it is hard  times, 
and that there is no help for it until another 
harvest, and I  suppose it’s  so,  but  I  don’t 
just  see where it comes in.  All  my  neigh­
bors have plenty of money,  bnt  they  won’t 
lend a cent for love nor money, for fear they 
may  have to  use  it  themselves. 
It  seems 
to me that if people got to thinking different­
ly,  and imagining that times we not  so  bail 
after all, that there would be more money in 
circulation and  more trading done.”
And the farmer spoke teuer than-he knew . 
If merchants could  only  realize  that  every 
time they speak  discouragingly  thay  drive 
away or delay  a  certain  amount  of  trade, 
thus  directly  injuring  their  own  business, 
they would soon conclude to take a  hopeful 
view of the situation;  and it  is  the  humble 
opinion  of  The  Tradesman 
they 
would immediately see  a  marked  improve­
ment in their own business,  and  a  gradual 
return of  better  times. 
It would  cost but 
little to try the experiment, anyway.
A Foolish  Accusation Answered.

that 

The  Michigan  Tradesman 

is  still 
worried over the prospects of  a  hard  wood 
manufactory being established here.  Wbat’s 
the  .matter?  Do  you  think  Cadillac  will 
hurt Grand Rapids?— Cadillac Times.

It may  as  well  be  understood,  once for 
all, that while The Tradesman is laboring 
for the interests of Grand Rapids  in  partic­
ular, it also  aims  to  serve  the  State  as  a 
whole.  The  idea  of  one  small  establish­
ment at an outside town, without the advan­
tage of  either  experienced  management  or 
desirable shipping facilities, "hurting Grand 
Rapids,” is preposterous  and  absurd.  The 
manufacturing interests of  this  market  are 
too firmly established to admit of a fear from 
such competition.  But when, as  is  at pres­
ent the case, we see one company retire from 
business,  another  on  the  verge  of  dissol­
ution,  and 
two  others  uncertain  as  to 
Whether  or  not 
to  continue business,  in 
view of the fact  that  operations  have been 
carried on  for  three  years  at  an  absolute' 
loss—it behoves all careful men to take note 
of  the situation, aad not rush  reeklesalj  in­
to speculations intended to further  augment 
the present overproduction.

What is Done with  Bad  Eggs.

They  are  divided up among  tanners, mo­
rocco dressers, confectioners, and fine paper- 
makers.  The  tanners  take  the  yolk,  and 
never question the freshness of the  product; 
the  confectioners  and paper men  are  eager 
for the foaming  white.  Vast  quantities  of 
the yolks are used, and only recently  has  it 
been possible for the leather men  to  obtain 
them in  quantities.  The  yolks  are  mixed 
with flour and salt,  and  a  dough  is  made. 
This is used for  sizing  and  dressing.  The 
paper men are not particular  regarding  age. 
The white which they secure must be clean, 
for if a single streak  of  yolk  should  creep 
in, then when the paper is sized it will have 
a yellowish streak through it.  These  parts 
of the eggs are disposed of by  the  gallon  at 
nominal figures.

How to Select Flour.

In selecting flour,  first look  to  tiie  color. 
If it is white with  a  yellowish  straw-color 
If it is white with a bluish cast 
tint, buy it 
or with black specks in it,  refuse  it.  Next 
examine its adhesiveness—wet and knead  a 
little of it between your fingers;  if it  works 
soft and sticky  it  is  poor.  Then  throw a 
little lump of dried flour  against  a  smooth 
surface; .if it  falls  like  powder,  it  is  bad. 
Lastly, squeeze some of the flour  tightly  in 
your hand; if it retains the  shape  given  by 
the pressure, that too, is , a  bad  sign. 
It is 
* easy to buy flour that will stand these  tests. 
These modes are given by all old  flour deal­
ers, and pertain to  a  matter  that  concerns 
everybody.

Two  For  a  Quarter.

when he met a  friend.

lie was  smoking  a  fine-flavored  Havana 
•‘Have a cigar?” he inquired politely.
“Thanks,” said the other  gratefully,  tak­
ing and lighting the proffered weed.
After a few experimental puffs,  however, 
the friend removed the  cigar  from his  lips, 
anti looking  at  it  doubtfully,  saitl,  with  a 
very evident abatement  of  gratitude  in  his 
tone:
“What do you you pay for  these  cigars?”
“Two for a quarter,” replied  the  original 
proprietor of both weeds, taking his own  ci­
gar out of his mouth and looking  at  it  with 
considerable  satisfaction:  “This  cost  me 
twenty cents and that five.”
The conversation languished at this point.

Gold in Teeth.

A writer  of mathematical bent  finds from 
the census-returns that there are about 17,000 
dentists in the United States, who,  he  esti­
mates, pack into the teeth of  the  American 
people a ton of pure gold annually.  Contin­
uing his speculations, he predicts that in the 
twenty-first century all the gold in the coun­
try will be buried in the graveyards.

E. P. Farrington & Co., wholesale  grocers 
of Chicago, went out of business January  1, 
after an existence of 32 years.  The  senior 
member of the late firm goes to Minneapolis 
to  re-engage  in  the wholesale grocery busi­
ness.

A  Useful  Toy.

“¡See here, sir!” ezclaimed an old  individ­
ual, rushing into  a  toy  shop  this  morning 
and unwrapping  a  envious-looking  contriv­
ance on wheels, with a  bey  to  it.  Here is 
that ‘great novelty,’ the  ‘Keely  Motor  toy," 
you sold  me,  and  I  want  yon  to  take  it 
back.”
“Did you wind it  up"?”,  asked  the  store, 
keeper, blandly.
“Wind it up?  well,  I  should  say  so. 
I 
wound it up for two hours, aud  might have 
Sone on winding to  eternity. 
It won’t got“
“No, of coarse  not,”  answered  the  store­
keeper; “that is why it is called  the  Keelr 
Motor toy.’ ”

Value  of  the  Egg  Product.

People are not  generally  aware  that  the 
egg product of the United States stands sec­
ond in value to only  corn  and  wheat,  and 
very often surpasses the latter.  During  the 
last fiscal year, for  instance,  the  com  crop 
was  worth  $480,643,400,  the  wheat  crop. 
$484,675,779 and the egg crop,  $475,682,889. 
The old hen, in her relation  to our domestic 
economy, is thus  cniitled  to  more  respect 
than has commonly been paid her.
Encouraging  Manufactures.

' 

'The boot and shoe manufacturing business 
at Dover, N. H., bids fair to become  an  im­
portant industry  of  that  city.  Two  large 
manufactories are  soon  to  lie  started,  the 
city  council  having  exempted  both  firms 
I from taxation  for  ten  years,  on  condition 
! that  each manufactures  $100,000  worth  of 
goods annually.  Other  Massachusetts firms' 
have signified their  intention  to  engage  in 
j business there.
j 

i ______ ;____________

According  to  reports  furnished by  the 
Railway Age, there were 6,608 miles of new 
! railroads constructed  in  the  United  States 
j during 1883.  This makes, the total  mileage 
5 of railroads  in  the  United  States  119,937. 
The following is a statement of  the  milage 
j for  the teree years previous  to  1888:  1880. 
j7,174  miles;  1881.  9,784  miles;  1882  11 - 
591 miles.
I  At Bermuda,  Va., on tl»e Appomatox  Riv­
er about 1,000 tons of yellow ocher are annu­
ally  taken,  at least one-third of all toe  fine 
j ochers used in the United States.  Virginia de- 
j posit contains about ten per cent of sand or 
I grit, which  must be washed  out  before the 
! ocher  can  be  ground  and  boiled,  but  the 
French ochers are so pure as not  to  require 
j washing.
j 
I n England the shavings of veneers of dif 
j ferent kinds of  wood  are  coming  into  use 
I for hook «overs.  The woods  now  most 
i use are our American walnut, lime, oak  amt 
holly; but all  woods  may  be  used.  After 
being placed upon the wood, the veneers can 
either be nibbed down  with  oil  or  Freue!) 
polished.

A French restanranteur who sold mauufae  * 
tured champagne under  the  name  of  a fa# 
mous firm has been obliged, as a peualty,  to 
advertise his ill doing in ten newspapers,  to 
pay $2,400, and to  go  to  prison  for  a ferU 
night.

New oil fields are continually being dicover-|
! ed, and is spite of the astonishing growth o f:
I the trade the supply seems sufficient  to  last j 
j for  generations.  Near  Los  Angelos,  Cal., i 
I with very crude  appliances,  wells  have  re- 
| cently been  sunk  whi6h  produce  a  paying 
j flow.  A railroad is soon to  be  built  which 
will open a new field in  Wyoming. 
In  the j 
mountains of Kentucky and Tennessee there; 
are  districts, almost wholly undeveloped,  in i 
which some wells have  been  flowing  a  few . 
barrels a day for ten years, and in  our  own 
State it is not  unlikely  that  the  operations j 
now under  way  in  Roscommon  and  other; 
northern  counties  will  develop  wells  that j 
will produce a paying flow. 
In  addition  to , 
these deposits, it is said that the  fields  now j 
being worked in Western Asia  are far moie ; 
•extensive than even the Pennsylvania depos- j 
its, which now supply a  very  large  part  of 
the world’s demand.

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O F F I C E   O F

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C O M P A N Y  P U T N A M

-WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN-

W HOLESALE

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

A JOURNAL DBVOTKD TO THE

Mercantile and lattfotarug Joienwis of tin* State.

E.  A.  STOWE.  Editor and  Proprietor.
Terms $1 a year in advance, postage paid. 
Advertising rates made known on application.

WEDNESDAY,  JAN. 2,  1884.

t3T”  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.  —

CROAKING  DETRIMENTAL  TO  TRAOE.
Times are bad enough, but they  might  be 
very much worse, and they certainly will be 
made flo better by  the  constant  grumbling 
in which not a few are  at  present  wont  to 
engage.  The fact that  so  many  see  fit  to 
constantly talk in a despondent strain about 
the condition of trade does more  than  any­
thing else  to  retard  the  coming  of  better 
times.  For, after all,  views  which  people 
■ entertain of the future have a  more  or  less 
controlling influence  upon  what  they  will 
do in the present  A  trifling  objection will 
sometimes defeat an important  project. 
If 
a syndicate of capitalists are made to believe 
that the present unsatisfactory  condition  of 
general business is to  long  continue,  they, 
through an over-abundant caution,  may  de­
fer executing their plans for the building  of 
a railroad  or the  establishment  of  a  large 
manufacturing plant.  Their very  action  is 
productive  of  the  stagnation  in  business 
which  they  so  much  deprecate.  The  ex­
ample of  their  timidity  is  infectious,  and 
others through their influence are led  to  do 
the same thing. 
It is needless  to  say  that 
when everybody 6tops  trading,  business  is 
dead.  The inactivity which they deplore is, 
in part, produced by  themselves.  Hence  it 
is evident that  what  one  says,  as  well  as 
what one does or fails to do, is an important 
element in controlling the actions of  others.
If everybody goes to crying hard times, it is 
not singular that  just  the  restriction^  and 
limitations which  produce  hard  times  are 
brought about.  Confidence is  the  key-note 
to activity and  success  in  business.  Confi­
dence is the child of faith. 
It cannot be  ex­
pected that men who think they see a  panic 
in store in the near future  will  embark  in 
enterprises which would be likely to be frus­
trated and defeated  by  such  a  panic.  No 
one could hope to  engage  mariners  for  an 
ocean voyage by attempting to convince them 
that they were  about  to  encounter  terrfiic 
hurricanes and probable shipwreck.

If everyone to-day  were  freely  engaging 
in  enterprises  warranted  by  their  means, 
there  would  be  a  healthy  and  profitable 
movement in all trades.  But men under the 
influence of fear and caution  restrict  opera­
tions, and  go  to  the  extreme  limit  of  re­
trenchment.  Railroads, instead of repairing 
t heir rolling stock as they ought  to, only  do 
those tilings which they for  the  time  being 
are forced to. 
Individuals, instead  of  buy­
ing the needed clothing or necessaries in the 
household, make the old things answer.  The 
shoes are patched, the  old  hat  is  made  to 
serve  the purpose of the new one. 
Instead 
of  enjoying  the comforts  of  two iires, the 
family  now  huddle  together  in  one  room 
over one fire.  The much-needed painting of 
house  and  barn  is  deferred  until  another 
year, and broken fences are  left  for  future 
mending or  patched  up  temporarily.  And 
thus  in  a  thousand  ways  the  work of re­
trenchment goes on. 
In the  meantime, the 
artisan whose business it is  to  manufacture 
supplies for their wants is left  without  em­
ployment.  Now why all this retrenchment? 
Sot  because  the  country  is  poor,  for  it 
never was so rich as  it  is  to-day.  N ot  be­
cause  crops  have  failed, 
lias 
not  been  the  case, except with one or  two 
crops, and such failures were only in certain 
sections.  The trouble is that people gener­
ally have allowed  themselves  to  be  scared 
over  the  situation of  business,  and  being 
thus fearful of what  may  come, they  have 
commenced a system of economy which they 
little dream lias a  serious  retroactive  influ­
ence upon their own interests.

for  such 

The abnormal dullness in  trade  is  in  no 
small degreechargeable to the croakers, who 
are constantly predicting evil in the  future. 
Whv is it not as well to take a cheerful view 
of  the  situation?  The  exercise  of a little 
philosophy  will  teach  these  misanthropes 
that there is no such thing as  eternal  night; 
that there is an ebb and flow to trade as well 
as to the tides of the ocean;  that  prices,  in 
jhe  very  nature  of  events,  cannot  go  on 
continually declining, and that all the proba­
bilities point to the faetthatwe have reached 
solid  rock  now.  or  are  very  close to that 
point.

It is better for all to cherish a  feeling  of j 
hopefulness,although it is  more  natural  to] 
indulge in  desponding than in  cheerful pre- j 
dictions.  Many who  are  closely  scanning t 
the  future  discern  numerous  encouraging 
signs.  The wonder  is  that  there  are  not 
-  more who do so.  When we  come  to  think j 
of the magnitude of the country, the diversi­
ty of the wants of the people, the wealth  of j 
the nation  and  the  facilities  we  have  for j 
commerce and manufacturing, it is  not  sur- j 
prising that the intelligent  observer  should j 
•  see a  bow  of  promise  in  the  future.  A s* 

surely as the morrow’s sun shall rise, so sure­
ly will prosperity return to the country. The 
time of this return may be much nearer than 
many anticipate.  This being true, how idle 
is it to continue in predictions of evil, espec­
ially since such predictions are promotive of 
the evils feared.
»The  distribution  of  the  world’s  stock of 
petroleum is one of the wondArs  of  nature.

A few weeks ago it looked as though there ; 
must be a large crop of failures in the  retail J 
trade about the first of the year, for the  rea- j 
son that the dealers had not been able to dis- j 
pose of the stocks of goods  purchased.  The 
present  outlook  is  much  more  favorable 
Collections are reported better, and it is pretr 
ty well settled that the country will be in ex­
cellent shape for the opening of  the  spring 
trade, in consequence of having  a  compara­
tively small surplus of winter goods to carry 
over.

The Chicago Purchasing Agent suggests 
that the present low price of white beans af­
fords judicious speculators an  excellent  op­
portunity to purchase large quantities of the 
staple and hold them for the rise that is sure 
to come later in the season.

j& m

NEW  YORK,  1884.

About sixty million copies of The  Sun  have 
gone out of our establishment during the past
twelve months. 
----
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you would get a continuous strip  of  informa­
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and sane wit long enough to reach from  Print­
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House Square, and then three-quarters  of the 
way back to the moon again.
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PBpSPEOTUS  POE  1884.

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Fashion Magazine in America, and  we  believe 
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STAPLE DRY ROODS
CARPETS,

MATTINGS

OIL.  CLOTHS,

ESTO..  BTC.

Q  and.  8  Monro©  Street,

Gandy, Fruit and Nuts

OB  and.  Q S   Canal  Street,

Grand  Rapids,

Michigan.  4*’

THE DEAREST TOBACCO

Is a Poor, Common or Low-Priced Article,

As It Gives Neither Pleasure 

Nor Satisfaction.

ITHE PUBLIC IS NOT SLOW TO LEARN THIS FACT

WHENEVER  IT  DISCOVERS  AN  ARTICLE  THAT  C O M M ^ ID S  ITSELF 

TO  THE  TASTE  AND  OTHER  SENSES.

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

L O U 'S   «
  w a s
|Oie-Fonrtl of All tie Plug Tobacco Used in this Coitry!

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

Favorite  Brands  this  Year;  or  About

AND  AS THERE  ARE BETWEEN  800  ANI>  900  OTHER  FACTORIES  IN 

THE U.  S.,  IT FOLLOWS THAT THEIR  GOODS MUST  GIVE

Ml 

IKti:

Grand Rapids,

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Michigan.

THAN  THE  BRANDS  OP  OTHER  MAKERS.

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

^ T U RING CQ

BEST  ON  THE  MARKET.  EVERYONE USES IT.  Sold by all Wholesale Grocers. 

Factories, Seneca Falls, New York.

J  Vw/ 
'
Grand Rapids,

•  do 

*  do 

2*■4©

cryst... 

12 © 17
17 @ 28
@ 28
85 @1 00
32 @ 34O30
1  509
15
860
12*4®  13 
1 25 
48 
3 35 
40 
10 
12 
30 
18 
2« 
75 
10 40 
18 
3 00

Chalk, prepared drop.....................  
5
1  60
Chloral hydrate, German  crusts.. 
1 70
Chloral do 
Chloral 
1 90
do  Scherin’s  do  ... 
Chloral 
1 75
do 
crusts.. 
Cblortjiorra......................................1 00  @1 05
Cinehonidia......................................
80 (0 85
20 @ *»
Cloves (Powd 28c)............................
30
Cochineal................ .......................
Copperas (by bbl  lc).......................
60
Corrosive Sublimate.......................
Corks, X and XX—35 off  list........
Cream Tartar, pure powdered.......
@ 40
15
Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 ft box..
Creosote............................................
50
Cudbear,  prime...............................
24
23
Cuttle Fisn Bone.............................
8
Emery, Turkish, all  No.’s.............
Epsom Salts.................  ..................
50
Ergot, fresh......................................
Ether, sulphuric, U. S.  P ...............
69
90
Gelatine,  Cooper’s ..........................
45 @ 70
Gelatine. French............................
Glassware, flint, 60 off,by box 50 off
Glassware, green, 60 and 10 dis__
Glue,  cabinet..................................
Glue, white.......................................
Glyoerino, pure...............................
Indigo...............................................
Insect Powder, best Dalmatian...
Iodine,  resublimed........................
Isinglass,  American.......................
Japonic» ...........................................
Lead, acetate....................................
Lime, chloride,()6s 2s 9e & *4s 10c>.
Mace.................................................
Madder, best.  Dutch.......................
Manna, 8.  F ......................................
Mercury.................................. ........
Morphia, sulph., P. & W........ ® oz
Musk, Canton, H., P. &  Co.'s........
Moss, Iceland............................^9 ft
Moss,  Irish.......................................
Mustard,  English............................
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 ft  cans........
Nutgalls............................................
Nutmegs, No. 1...............................
Nux  Vomica..........*.......................
Ointment, Mercurial, ¿ d ...............
Pepper, Black  Berry.....................
Pepsin...............................................
Pitch, True Burgundy....................
Quassia.................................................  6
Quinia, Sulph, P. & W........... ft oz
Seidlitz  Mixture.............................
Strychnia, cryst
Silver Nitrate, cryst......................
Red  Precipitate.......................^9 ft
Saffron, American..........................
Sal  Glauber......................................
Sal Nitre, large  cryst. -..................
Sal  Nitre, medium  cryst...............
Sal Rochelle........................................
Sal  Soda............................................
Salicin...............................................
Santonin...........................................
Snuffs, Maccoboy or Scotch..........
Soda Ash [by keg 3c].....................
Spermaceti.......................................
Soda, Bi-Carbonate,  DeLand’s__
Soap, White Castile........................
........................
Soap, Green  do 
Soap, Mottled do 
........................
Soap, 
do  do 
........................
Soap,  Mazzini..................................
Spirits Nitre, 3 F ..............................
Spirits Nitre, 4 F .............................
Sulphur, flour..................................
Sulphur,  roll....................................
Tartar Emetic..................................
Tar, N. C. Pine, Ya gal. cans  $  doz
Tar, 
quarts in tin..........
Tar, 
pints in tin.............
Turpentine,  Venice................®ft
Wax, White, S. &  F. brand...........
Zinc,  Sulphate.................................

1 85 
28 
1 50 
82 
80 
37
10 
9
33*/2 
©  2)4
Z 50 
7 25 
38
4 
23
5 
14 
17
9
11
14
26  @  28 
28  ©  32 
3*4@  4
3 
65 
2 70 
1 40 
85 
25 
55
7  @  8

79  @

4*/2@

do 
do 

CANDY,  FRUITS AND  NUTS. 

Putnam & Brooks quote as follows:

STICK.

Straight, 25 ft  boxes............................. 10)6@11
Twist, 
Cut Loaf

.11  @11)4 
.12  @12)a

do
do

FANCY—IN   5 ft BO

MIXED.
Royal, 25 ft  pails....................
Royal, 300 ft bbls................
Extra, 25 ft  pails....................
Extra, 200 ft bbls...................
French Cream, 25 ft pails__
Cut loaf, 25 ft cases...............
Lemon  Drops...............'........
Sour Drops.............................
Peppermint  Drops..............
Chocolate Drops....................
H M Chocolate  Drops__ ...
Gum  Drops  ..........................
Licorice Drops.......................
A B  Licorice  Drops.............
Lozenges, plain.....................
Lozenges,  printed................
Imperials...............................
Mottoes........................... .
Cream  Bar.............................
Molasses Bar..........................
Caramels..........a......................
Hand Made Creams...............
Plain  Creams.........................
Decorated Creams................
String Rock............................
Burnt Almonds.....................
Wintergreen  Berries...........
FRUITS.
Oranges, Florida, ]9  box.......
Oranges, $  case.....................
Oranges,  bbl.......................
Lemons, fair to  good...........
Lemons, choice to fancy__
Bananas  bunch..................
Malaga Grapes, ]9 keg..........
Malaga Grapes, $  bbl...........
Figs,  layers  ^ ft....................
....................
Figs, fancy  do 
Figs, baskets 30 ft (p ft..........
Dates, frails 
do  ...........
Dates, )i do 
d o  
Dates, skin.............................
Dates, )4  skin........................
Dates, Fard 10 ft box (P  ft...
Dates, Fard 50 ft box (p ft__
PEANUTS.
Prime  Red,  raw  (p  ft...........
Choice 
do  ...........
Fancy 
do  ...........
Choice White, V a.do...........
Fancy H P,.  Va  do  ...........
Almonds,  Terragona, ]p ft... 
Almonds, loaca, 
do  ... 
do  ...
Brazils, 
do  ...
Pecons, 
do  ... 
Filberts, Barcelona 
Filberts, Sicily 
do  ...
Walnuts, Chilli 
do  ...
Walnuts, Grenobles  do  ... 
Walnuts, California  do  . 
Cocoa Nuts, sp  100 
Hickory Nuts, large *p  bu... 
Hickory Nuts, small  d o -..
OYSTERS.

do 
do 

NUTS.

— 10)4@11
...............10
...............12
...............11)4
............... 15
............... 15
S........ ...14
............... 15
.............. 16
............... 17
..............20
...............12
...............20
............... 14
...............)6
............... 17
...............16
...............16
............... 15
............... 14
...............20
............... 23
...............20
............... 23
...............16
...........   24
...............16
....3 50@4 50 
....6 50@i  50 
....8 00@
...  4 50@5 00 
@5¿50

...6 00@8 50 
..12  @16 
...  18@22)4 
,..  15@16 
@6 
@ 7 
@6)4 
@7)4 
@14 
@12

.11

. . . 7   @ 7)4 
8@   8)4 
...  8)4@ 9 
...  9)4@10
@21 
___20__ 18
@19 
....13
@14 
@17 
....10
@14 
@15 
@14 
15@I6 
13@14 

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5 00@

@d  00

2 ) r v  

( B o o b s ,

G r o c e r i e s .

Spring & Company quote as follows :

WIDE
Androscoggin, P-t 
Androscoggin, 8-4
Pepperell,  7-4__
Pepperell,  8-4__
Peppered,  P-4 —

Caledonia, XX, oz 
Caledonia,  X, oz.
Economy,  oz.......
Park Mills, No. 60 
Park Mills, No. 60 
Park Mills, No. 70 
Park Mills, No. 80

BROWN COTTONS.
. .23  Pepperell, 10-4.
21  Pepperell, 11-4. 
..16)4 ¡Pequot,  7-4—
..20  Pequot,  8-4----
..22)4 ¡Pequot,  P-4 —  
CHECKS.

■ ~tVï 
.18 
.21 
.24

Park MilLs, No. 90.. 
Park Mills, No. 100.
Prodigy, oz.............
Otis Apron.............
Otis  Furniture......
fYork, 1  oz..............
iYork, AA,extra oz.

..11
..10
-.10
..10
.11
.12
.13
OSKABURG,

14
15 
1110*4
10)4
10 
14 

! 

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Alabama brown__ 7  ¡Alabama  plaid.........9
Jewell briwn..........9*4 Augusta plaid..........   8
Kentucky brown.. 1054 Toledo plaid...........   7)4
Lewiston  brown...  9*4¡Manchester  plaid..  7
Lane brown........... 9*4 New Tenn.plaid... 11
Louisiana plaid__   8  ¡Utility plaid...........   6*4

BLEACHED COTTONS.

Avondale,  36..........  8*4
Art  cambrics, 36.. .11*4 
Androscoggin, 4-4..  8*4 
Androscoggin, 5-4.. 12*4
Badou, 4-4...............  7*4
Badou, 5-4...............  6
Boott,  0.4-4............  8*4
Boott,  E. 5-6............  7
Boott, AGC, 44.........9&
Boott, K. 34..............6%
Blackstone, AA 44.  72i
Chapman, X, 44___ 614
Conway,  44 ............  7%,
Cabot, 44.................  714
Cabot, 7-8.................  6*4
Canoe,  34 ...............  4
Domestic,  36..........  7J£
Dwight Anchor, 44.10
Davol, 44........ .  
Fruit of Loom, 44..  914lVictoria, AA..........9
Fruit of Loom, 7-8..  8J4 
Fruit of  the Loom,
cambric,  4-4...
Gold Medal, 4-4..
Gold Medal, 7-8..
Gilded  Age........

Greene, G,  4-4.......  6
Hill. 44....................9
Hill, 7-8...................   8
Hope,  44................   714
King  PhilUp  cam­
bric, 4-4.................1114
Lin wood,  44..........  9
Lonsdale,  44............914
Lonsdale  cambric. 12 
Langdon, GB,4-4...  914
Langdon,  45...........14
Masonville,  44.........914
Maxwell. 44............1014
New York Mill, 44.1114 
New Jersey,  44—   8 
Pocasset,  P. M. C..  714 
Pride of the West. .1214 
Pocahontas,  44___ 814
914 Slatervide, 7-8.........614
Woodbury, 44........  52£
Whitinsville,  44...  714
..12 Whitinsville, 7-8..
.  6)4
..  7 Wamsutta, 4-4__ .11)4
..  6*4 Williamsville,  36.
.10)4
..  m

CORSET JEANS.

Armory....................714
Androscoggin sat..  814
Canoe River...........   614
Clarendon..............  614
Hallowed  Imp.......654
Ind. Orch. Imp.......654
Laconia.................... 714

Kearsage................   814
Naumkeagsatteen.  814 
Peppered  bleached 814
Pepperell sat..........  9*4
Rockport.................  714
Lawrence sat..........8J4
Conegosat...............  7

PRINT*.

Albion, solid......... .514
Albion,  grey............6
Aden’s  checks.........6
Aden’s  fancy.......... 6
Aden’s pink............ 614
Aden’s purple.........614
American, fancy— 6
Arnold fancy...........6*4
Berlin solid..............514
Cocheco fancy....... 614
Cocheco robes.........7
Conestoga fancy— 6
Eddystone..............614
Eagle fancy..........5
Garner pink............7

Gloucester...............6
Gloucestermourn’g . 6 
Hamilton  fan cy....6
Hartel fancy__ ... .614
Merrimac D......... 614
Manchester......... 614
Oriental  fancy......6
Oriental  robes.....614
Pacific  robes......... 7
Richmond.............614
Steel River.............6
Simpson’s;.............614
Washington fancy.. 
Washington blues..8

FINE BROWN COTTONS.

Appleton A, 4-4__ 8
Boott  M, 4-4...........   714
Boston F, 4-4..........8
Continental C, 4-3..  754 
Continental D, 40 in 854 
ConestogaW,4-4...  7 
Conestoga  D, 7-8...  554 
Conestoga G, 30-in.  654
Dwight  X, 3-4........ 6
Dwight Y, 7-8.......... 614
Dwight Z, 4-4.......... 7
Dwight Star, 4-4—   754 
EwightStar,40-in.,  9 
Enterprise EE, 36..  6*4 
Great Falls E, 4-4...  714
Farmers’ A, 44.......654
Indian  Orchard, 1-4 714

Indian Orchard, 40.  8*4 
Indian Orchard, 36.  8
Laconia B, 7-4....... 1614
Lyman B, 40-in......1054
Mass. BB, 4-4............6*4
Nashua  E, 40-in__ 9
Nashua  B, 4-4........  754
Nashua 0,7-8......... 7*4
Newmarket N ........ 754
PepperedE,39-in..  754 
Peppered  B ,4-4....  7
Pepperell O, 7-8__ 6*4
Pfepperell N..3-4___ 654
Pocasset  C, W .......7
Saranac  R...............  714
Saranac E ...............  9

DOMESTIC GINGHAMS.

styles.................... 1054  Bookfold 

Amoskeag.............  814 Renfrew, dress styll014
Amoskeag, Persian 
¡Johnson  Manfg Co,
1214
Bates.......................  8  ¡Johnson Manfg Co,
Berkshire.............   7141  dress  styles.......'.1214
Glasgow checks__   714 ¡Slatervide, 
dress
styles....................1314
Glasgow checks, f ’y 714 
Glasgow 
cheeks,  White Mfg Co, stap  8
royal  styles........9  ¡White Mfg Co, fane 8
Gloucester, 
¡White  Manfg  Co,
standard.............   8 
914
Earlston 
Plunket..................  8  Gordon.....................  8
Lancaster...............  8  Greylock, 
Langdaie................ 73£j  styles  .....................1254
iPepperell.  10-4.. ...27)4

Androscoggin, 7-4. .21 
21 
Androscoggin, 8-4.. 23
23  1 Pepperell,  11-4..
20  Pequot,  7-4........ ....21
Peppered,  7-4........20
22)4]Pequot,  8-4........ ...24
Peppered,  8-4..
,25  ¡Pequot,  9-4........ ...27)4
Pepperell,  9-4..

WIDE BLEACHED COTTONS. 

 
dress

new 

HEAVY  BROWN  COTTONS.

Atlantic  A, 4-4.......754 Lawrence XX, 4-4..  8*4
Atlantic  H, 4-4.......  7!4!Lawrence  Y, 30___ 7
Atlantic  D, 4-4.......654 Lawrence LL, 4-4...  614
Atlantic P, 4-4........ 6
Newmarket N ........   714
Atlantic LL, 4-4—   614
Mystic River, 4-4...  614
Pequot A, 4-4..........  8
Adriatic, 36.............   714
Piedmont,  36..........  7
Augusta, 4-4...........   654
Stark AA, 4-4..........  8
Boott M, 4-4...........   714
Boott  FF, 4-4..........  754
Tremont CC, 4-4__ 6
Utica,  4-4................   9
Granite vide, 4-4__ 7
Indian  Head, 4-4...  8 
Wachusett,  4-4.........754
Wachusett,  30-in...  654 
Indiana Head 45-in. 1244

TICKINGS.

Amoskeag,  ACA... 15 
Amoskeag  “ 4-4.. 19
Amoskeag,  A .-----14
Amoskeag,  B ........13
Amoskeag,  C........12
Amoskeag,  D ..— 11
Amoskeag,  E ........1054
Amoskeag, F ......... 10
Premium  A, 4-4— 17
Premium  B ...........16
Extra 4-4................. 16
Extra 7-8................. 1414
Gold Medal 4-4........15
CCA 7-8...................1254
CT4-4...................... 14
RC 7-8...................... 14
BF 7-8......................16
AF4-4.............. ........19
Cordis AAA, 32......14
Cordis ACA, 32......15
Cordis No. 1, 32......15
Cordis  No. 2...........14
Cordis No. 3...........13
Cordis No. 4...........1114

Fads, XXXX.......... 1814
Fads, XXX............ 1514
Falls,  BB............... 1114
Fads,  BBC, 36....... 19*4
Fads,  awning....... 19
Hamilton,  BT, 32..12
Hamilton,  D.........10
Hamilton,  H .........10
Hamilton  fancy...10
Methuen AA.........1454
Methuen ASA.......18
Omega A, 7-if........ 11
Omega A, 4-4.........13
Omega ACA, 7-8___14
Omega ACA, 4-4__ 16
Omega SE, 7-8.........24
Omega SE, 4-4.........27
Omega M. 7-8....... 22
Omega M, 4-4.........25
Shetucket SS&SSW 1154 
Shetucket, S & SW.12
Shetucket,  SFS___12
Stockbridge  A .........7
Stockbridge frncy.  8

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-PLYB.

Hartford  3-ply.................................
Lowell 3-ply.....................................
Higgins’ 3-ply..................................
Sanford's 3-ply.................................

EXTRA  SUPERS.

@ 90
@ 90
© 85
@ 70
@ 65
© 82)4
@ 70
@ 82)4
@ 65
@1 00
@1 00
©1 00
© 97)4

45 
40 
3254 
3254 

HEMPS.

a l l   w o o l   s u p e r f i n e s .

@ 77)4
@ 82)4
7754
6254

WOOL  FILLIN G   AND  MIXED.

Hartford..........................................
Lowed...............................................
•Other makes....................................  75
Best cotton chain............................  60  ®
Best  2-ply.........................................  5754®
Other  grades 2-ply..........................   5254®
All-wool  super, 2-ply......................  50  @
Extra heavy double cotton chain.  4254®
Double cotton chain.......................   35  ®
Heavy cotton and wool, double c.  30  ® 
Half d’l chain, cotton & wool, 2-ply  2754®
Single cotton chain.........................
• 
3-ply, 4-4 wide, extra heavy...
B^ 44 wide.........................................
Imperial, plain, 44 wide................
D, 33  ihches.....................................
No. 1, 44, 54, 6-4 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................

19  @  25
@  30
% 18)4
<0 17
© 45
@ 37)4
@ 30
@ 25
© 02)4
@ 52)4
@ 60
@ 40
@ 15
@ 18
@ 10
@36
@10

OIL CLOTHS.

CURTHINS.

M&TTING8.

do 
do 
do 

AXLE  GREASE.

BLUING.

BROOMS.

CANNED GOODS.

M odoc 
doz  60  ( P a r a g o n ^  do/,  65
Diamond.............  60  ¡Frazer's...............  85
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  ........
1 ‘25 
Fancy Whisk__
85
Common Whisk.
Com, Camden...  1  10 
Pie P e a c h e s 1 20 
Corn, Trophy...  1  15 
3tt>Standard 2 00@2 20
Com, Yarmouth  1 35 
Apples, 3 lb........1 20
Peas.... 75@1 25@1 50 
do.  6 lb..........2 15
StringBeans... 
85
do.  gallons...  3 40 
Lima Beans........  85
Strawberries  1 @1 10 
Lewis’B’d Beans. 1  75 
Blackberries 1 10-1  15 
Pumpkin  ..1  10®115 
Raspberries  —   1 40 
Succotash ... 85® 1.60
Cherries, redl 20 1 25 
Oysters,  1 lb__   1 10
cherries white..  190
Oysters,  2ft —  1 85
Pineapples........   1 75
Salmon__   1 60®
Damsons............  1 25
Lobsters, Stars.. 1  75
Egg Plum s........   1 65
Sardines, Am......   8
G ages......., ......... 1 65
Sardines  Inport.  13 
Pears................   1 35
Corned Beef  @2 85 
Lusk’s Apricots.  2 95 
Cond. Milk, Eagle 
Tomatoes  ..1 05® 1 20 
ca se................8 10
Com,  Excelsior  110
COFFEE.Roasted Mex.18  @20 
Green Rio__ 1354@15
Ground Rio..10  @18 
Green Java.. .18  @28 
Ground  Mex.  @1754
Green Mocha.26  @28 
Roasted Rio..l354@l8 
Arbuckle’s ..........@1754
Roasted  Java25  @35 
X X XX.................@1754
Roast Mocha.......@35
Roasted Mar. 18  @19
72 foot J u te ....... 1  35  160 foot Cotton— 2  10
60 foot Jute.......1  20  ¡50 foot Cotton— 1  85
G.  D.................  35 
(Ely’s Waterproof  75
Musket............  75 
|
London Layers, new.............................  
2 60
Loose Muscatels Raisins,  new........... 2 30@2 35
New Valencias Raisins....................... 
Turkey Prunes......................................  6  @654
Currants.................................................  
6@654
Citron......................................................   18@20
Dried Apples  ................. 
754@8
FISH.
Whole Cod..............................................  4%@6
554@9
Boneless Cod......................................... 
Herring 54 bbls........?......................... 3 00@3 15
30
Herring Scaled...................................... 
Herring Holland.................................1 00@1 05
White Fish 54 bb ls..................... / —  
6 75
do  Kits..............................     95@1 00
Trout half bbls...................................... 
4  50
do.  K its............................................  
86
Mackerel half bbls No. 1......................  
6 50
do. Kits  No. 1 ...............................  
1 00
Bloaters.................................................   @1  10
.3 70 
Richardson’s No. 2  square..........
.1 55 
do
Richardson's No. 3 
.1 70 
do
Richardson’s No. 5 
.2 70 
do
Richardson’s No. 6 
.1 70 
Richardson’s No. 8 
do
.2 55 
Richardson’sNo. 9 
do 
.2 70 
Richardson’s No. 4 round 
S  55
Richardson’s No. 7  do
Richardson’s No. 754 do 
..............................1 70
Electric Parlor No. 17......................................3 80
Electric Parlor No. 18..................................... 5 70

CORDAGE.

MaTCHES.

FRUiTB.

7Sf@8

CAPS.

 

 

20 gross lots special price.

MOLASSES.

OIL.

do. 

do 
do 

PICKLES.

OATMEAL.

Black Strap........   @20|New Orleans  f ’y . 55@57
Porto  Rico..........32@35Syrups, corn...  @34
New Orleans g’d.4o@50|Syrups,sug27@35@45 
Kerosene  W. W.................................... 
16
Legal test.............................  
12%
Sweet, 2 oz. square................................. 
75
Sweet, 2  oz. round................................. 
1 00
Castor, 2 oz.  square...............................  
75
I 00
Castor, 2 oz. round................   .............  
Quaker 2 lb cases, 48 lbs $  case...........  
2 35
2 55
do  5 lb cases, 60 lbs $  case............... 
Imperial  bbls.......................................  
5  75
Quaker bbls............................................ 
6 75
Dingee’s barrels med............................... •... .6 25
Dingee’8 54 
......................................3 80
small............................4 50
Dingee’s 54 
Dingee’s quarts glass fancy........ •................ 4 25
do 
Dingee’s pints 
.......................... 2 50
Saur  Kraut,  bbl.......................................... 8 50
SUGARS.
Granulated............................................ 
831
Cut Loaf.................................................  
9%
Cubes..................................................... 
@ 8?4
954
Powdered.............................................. 
Conf. A ...................................................  @  7%
Standard A ............................................ 
7%
Extra C................................................... 
71i®,7%
Fine C.......................:...........................  
6=S4@7
Yellow............. :.....................................   6?4@6?4
Kirk’s American  Family........... r# ft
654
654
India.........................................
Sayon  .......................................
6
Satinet.....................................
6*4
Revenue  ..................................
554
White Russian........................

do. 
do. 
do. 
do. 
do.

SOAP.

C ity............................... . —
Bell’s German  Family........
do.  Mono..........................
Goodrich’s English Family
Princess............
Proctor & Gamble’s Ivory

do. 

SPICES.

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
@ 554 

Japan  O live........
Town Talk 
fi box
Golden Bar...........
Arab.......................
Amber....................
Mottled  German..
Sidall’s ...................................................
Babbitt’s .........................*.............,........
Dish R ag................................................
White castile bars.................................
Mottled castile.......................................
Old  Style...............................................
16@22
Ground Pepper, in boxes and cans...
Ground  A llspice..................................   12@20
Cinnamon. . ...........................................  16@30
Cloves......................................................  20@25
Ginger......................................................  17@20
Mustard...................................................  15@35
Cayenne...................................................  25@35
Pepper 54 ft  dozen.............................  
75
Allspice  14 ft.......................................... 
75
Cinnamon  *4 lb...................................... 
75
75
Cloves 54  ®.............................................. 
Pepper,  whole....................................  17  @18
Allspice................................................ 
@12
Cassia................................................... 
@12
Cloves...................................................  20  @22
Nutmegs,  No. 1.................................. v 70  @75
@7
Muzzy Gloss 1 lb package.....................  
Muzzy Gloss 3 ft package.....................  
@654
Muzzy  Gloss 6 lb boxes......................... 
@754
Muzzy Gloss bulk..................................  
@6
Muzzy Corn 1 ft.....................................   7  @754
Kingsford  Silver Gloss......................... 
@854
Kingsford Silver Gloss 6 lb box..........  @954
Kingsford Corn......................................  834@9
Oswego  Gloss......................................... 
@654
Mirror  Gloss........................................... 
@7
@754
Mirror Gloss, corn................................. 
60 Pocket............. ............*........ ..........  
2 60
28 Pocket.................................................  
2 45
Saginaw F ine......................................... 
1  10
1 75
Diamond C.............................................. 
Standard  Coarse.................................... 
1  65

STARCH.

SEEDS.

SALERATUS.

STONEWARE.

STOVE POLISH.

554
H em p...................................................... 
Canary....................................................  
454
R ape.......................................................  
7
Mixed Bird..................... .......................   5*,4©6
Jugs <19  gallon......................................... 
@8
Crocks...................................................... 
7
Milk Crocks............................................  
7
Rising  Sun gross..5 88jDixon’s  gross........6 50
Universal*...............5 88 Above $  dozea.......  50
IX  L ........................6 50|
DeLand’s pure  @ 554 ¡Cap Sheaf.......  @ 554
Churh’s .........  @ 654 Dwight’s ........   *@554
Taylor’s G. M.  @ 5541  ‘
TEAS.
Japan  ordinary..23@25|Young Hyson__ 25@50
Japanfair...........25@30 Gun  Powder........35@50
Japan fair to g’d.30@37 Oolong..........33@55@60
Japan fine...........40@50lCongo
@30
Japan dui^t......... 14@20j
Wide  Awake.........................................
Daisey  [Iu half barrels, 30e]........... .
Hiawatha..............................................
Globe......................................••..............
May Flower.................. .......................
Rose  Leaf..............................................
Silver  Crown.......................................
Owl  Club..........................’...................
Hero......................................................
A tlas....................................................
Royal Game.................................... —
Silver Thread.......................................
Old  Dog Tray......................................
Seal......................................... ...............
Kentucky............................................
Clipper............................................ .

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

TOBACCO—FINE CUT.

5 40
3 50
4 00

5% @5 54
554
4*4

PLUG.
lb and 38 lb cads.

 

Sentinel 17 ft and 28 ft cads..................  @48
Climax.......................................................   @60
Honey Bee 28 lb  cads............................  @48
Hold F ast................................................  @50
“76” ............................................... 
  @48
McAl pin’s Gold Shield..........................   @48
Nickle Nuggets 6 and 12 ft cads...........   @61
Chocolate Cream 4 and 8 1b cads...........  @60
My Choice 3 oz pocket  pieces.............   @34
My Choice 16 oz pieces..........................   @33
Cobk of the W alk  6s...........   ...............  @37
Black Spun  Roll....................................  @38
Nimrod................................................ 
@50
Acorn......................................................  @50
Red Seal.................................   ...............   @45
@44
Crescent................................................ 
Black  X ...........................  
@38
Black  Bass.................... 
 
@40
True Grit.................................................   @35
Npbby Spun  Roll..................................   @50
Spring......................................................  @50

 

 

SMOKING.

Dim e........................................................  24@25
23 
Peerless...............................................
Standard ..............................................
20 
19
Old Tom:..............................................
24 
Tom & Jerry.......................................
26 
Joker....................................... .............
35
Traveler...............................................
@26
Maiden.................................................
28
T opsy..................................................
24
Navy Clippings..................................
25 
Honey D ew .........................................
32 
Gold  Block..........................................
Camp F ir e ...........................................
22 
19
Oronoko...............................................
26 
Nigger  Head.......................................
60.
Durham, 54 f t ........... ..........................
54 f t ......................................
54 f t ......................................
1 f t ....................................
Holland................................................
German...............................................
Long Tom............................................
National...............................................
T im e.....................................................
Love’s Dream......................................
Conqueror......................................
Fox’s ....................................................

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

do 
do 
do 

Mule Ear. 
Hiawatha

SHORTS.

VINEGAR.

Pure  Cider.................................. t................  12
White Wine..................................................  12

. 

YEAST.

Seneca Falls “ Rising Sun ”.....................   1 75
Twin Bros..........1 75 
|W ilsons................ 1 75
Gillett’s ............. 1 75  ¡National...............1  85

MISCELLANEOUS.

 

95

do 

do 

do 
do 

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

Blacking.........................................30, 40,50@60
do  waterproof............................ 
150
Bath Brick imported............................ 
95
do 
 
65
Barley.......................................................   224® 3
110
Burners, No. 1 .......................................  
1 75
do  No. 2.......................................  
20 00
Bags, American A .................................... 
Baking Powder  bu lk ......................... 
10@22
Beans,  medium  ......................... 
 
 
Beans, hand picked...............................  
2 65
Butter......................................................  18@20
Butterine.....................................  
  18@22
Cream Tartar 5 and 101b cans.............   @25
Candles, Star...........................................  @1554
Candles,  Hotel........................................  @1654
Chocolate, Baker’s  ................................  @40
German sweet....................  @27
Cheese full cream choice.....................1354@1454
Catsup quarts $  dozen........................1 50@
Cocoanut,  Schepps’ lib packages. 
@2554
Coooanut,  Schepps’ 1 & 54 ft  do  . 
@2654
Extract Coffee,  v. c............................... 
F elix...........................1 J0@
Flour, Star Mills, in bbls................... .5 75@
in Sacks...................... 5 50@
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps.......................  @25
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps.......................   @40
Gum, Spruce..........................................  36@40
Chimneys No. 1......................................  @35
No. 2......................................  @45
Indigo..................................................... 1 00@
Ink <¡9 3 dozen  box................................1 00@
Jelly in Pails...
do  Glass Tumblers $  doz..............
Licorice............................................
Licorice  Root....................................
Lye  2  doz. cases.............................
Macaroni,  Imported..........................
Domestic..............................................
Mince Pies, 1 gross cases, ^ case__
French Mustard,  8 oz $   dozen........
Large Gothic........
1 35@
Oil Tanks, Star 60  gallons.
12 00@4
Oil Tanks, Patent 60 gallons............... 14 00@
Pipes, Imported Clay 3 gross............... 2 25@
do  American  T. D.........................  90@1 00
Pepper Sauce.........................................  90@1 00
Peas, Green Bush................................... 1 60@
do  Split prepared..............................  @854
Powder,  Keg...........................................5 50@
56 Keg...................................... 3 00@
R ice.............................................................5@654@ 7
Sago  .................................................... 
  @ 6
Shot, drop........................................................ 1 90@
do  buck...................................................... a 15@
Sago....-...................  
@15
Curry Combs $  doz................................1 25@
Molasses Gates each............. *..............   @45
Measuring Faucet each  ........................2  75@
Tobacco Cutters each...........................1 25@
ChimneyCleaners $   doz.......................   @50
Flour Sifters $  doz........................................3 00@
Fruit Augurs each..........................................1 25@
Tapioca . .................................................   @ 554
Washing Crystal, Gillett’s box............ 1 50@1 65
Wicking No. 1 $  gross........................ 

@ 754 
@85 
20@30 
@12 
55@ 
@13 
@   6 
@6  00 
@85 

  @40
do  No. 2  ......................................  @65
do  Argand................................. ,1 50@

do 

do 

..1

 

Washing Powder, 1776 *¡9 f t ..................  @1054
Gillett's $   ft.,.......  @754
Soapine pkg.........................  7@10

do 
do 

do
do
do

Lemon.
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 

Boraxine $  box...................................... 3 75@
JENNINGS’  DOUBLE  CONCENTRATED  EXTRACTS.
Packed in 1 Dozen Paper or 2 Dozen Wood Box. 
2 ounce B. N. Panel  *  dozen........... ........... 1 00
a  do 
........... ............1  75
6  do 
........... ........... 2 75
............
8  do 
No. 2 Taper Panel
........... ........... 1  25
No. 4 
do
........... ............2 00
Va pint round
........... ........... 4 5'
l 
do
............ ........... » 00
No. 8 Panel
No. 10  do
............
2 ounce B. N. Panel W  dozen........... ........... 1  50
4  do 
........... ........... 2 75
6  do 
........... .............4 00
8  do 
........... .............5 00
No. 2 Taper Panel
........... ........... 1  75
do
No. 4 
........... ........... 3 00
Yt pint round
........... .............7 50
l 
do
........... ..........15 00
No. 8  Panel
...........
No. 10  do
........... ........... 6 00

do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 

Vanilla.

........... 4

do
do
do

JENNINGS’ TRUE FLAVORINGS. 

Full Measure—Wrapped. 

Lemon.

56 Pint 2 ounce  $  dozen..........................
54 Pint 4  do 
54 Pint 8  do 
34 Pint 12  do
54 Pint 2 ounce 
*4 Pint 4  do 
54 Pint 8  do 
24 Pint 12  do

do
.............
do 
do 
.............
t dozen.............
.............
do 
do 
.............
do 
.............

Vanilla.

...1 50 
...2 50 
...5 00 
...7 50
..2 25 
..4 00 
..8  00 
.12  00

HARDWARE GOODS.

cent. off.

do 
54 
5-16  do 
do 
24 
54 
do 
% 
do

Chain—3-16 inch Lake Superior 

Prevailing  rates at Chicago  are  as  follows:
1024

Anvils—Peter Wright’s,  $   ft..................  
Augurs—40 and  10 per cent. off.
Babbett—Genuine <¡9  ft.........................  @30
Extra..............................................  @26
No. 1................................................  @20
No. 2................................................  @18
No. 4................................................  8  @10
10
62á
h i
4%
4%

uperior, *  ft__ . 
CIO 
___
do 
__ . 
do
. 
do
do 
__ . 
Files—Nicholson’s best 40 per cent off.
Forks—Hay and Manure 5<> per cent off. 
Hammers—Maydole’s 10@15per cent off. 
Hinges—Strap and T 60 per cent off.
Horse Shoes—Burden’s $4.50 per keg.
Horse  Nails—Au Sable  30  and 10 per 
Iron—Flat Bar $2 rates.
Sheet No. 24 $3.80.
Swede’s bar 554c <¡9 ft.
Padlocks 30 per cent. off.
Load—Pig $   ft............................................
Sheet ^  ft..............................................
Pipe39  ft....... ....................................
Bar  $  ft.................................................
Rope—Manilla (¡9  ft................................13
Sisal <|9 ft.............................................10
Jute $  ft............................................   854® 954
Sash Weights ^ ft...................................  154@ 154
Shot—Buck  $2.15.
Solder.......................................................14
Steel—Best cast tool $  ft.........................

@17 
@ 3 
@ 8
Round Machine 
Spring ^  ft............................................   @ 454
Tin—Pig $  f t.......................................  
©36
B ar*  ft......................................... 
@28
tfinc—Sheet  *  ft....................................524© 654

6
6
7
@14
@11

Drop $1.80.

ft

D r u g s  S .  i T I h e b i d n e s
*  Advanced—Cubebs, Oil  Cubebe.
Hazeltinc, Perkins & Cb.‘quote as follows for 
quantities usually wanted—for larger amounts I 
: write them for quotations:
ACIDS. 

!

OILS.

24@

IRON.

11  @

BARKS.

LEAVES.

BERRIES.

LIQUORS.

BALSAMS.

FLOWERS.

AMMONIA.

EXTRACTS.

12  @ 
18  @

12
25
28
18
50
45
50
40
32
27
18
30
25
13
40 
3 90 
40 33 
28
30  @1  10
6 40 
20

9 @ 10
Acetic,  No. 8............................|jft
Acetic,  C. P. (Sp. grav. 1.040)........
30 @ 35
Carbolic............................................
35
Citric.................................................
57
Muriatic  18 deg...............................
3 @ "5
Nitric 36 deg....................................
11 @ 12
Oxalic...............................................
14)4@ 15
Sulphuric 66 deg.............................
3 @ 4
50
Tartaric  powdered........................
Benzoic,  English....................^ oz
20
Benzoic,  German............................ 12 @ 15
Tannic............................................... 15 @ 17
Carbonate...'........................... ^ ft
19 @ 20
Muriate (Powd. 22c)........... ............
15
6 @ 7
Aqua 16 deg or  3f............................
7 @ 8
Aqua 18 deg or 4f...........................
Copaiba........................... ...........
@ 55
Fir.....................................................
40
2 50
Peru...................................................
Tolu...................................................
60
Cassia, in mats (Pow’d 20c)...........
12
Cinchona,  yellow..........................
18
Elm,  select........... ..........................
15
Elm, ground, pure.....................
13
Elm, powdered,  pure.....................
15
Sassafras, of root............................
10
Wild Cherry, select........................
12
Cubeb, prime  (Powd $2/.....  ........
2 00
6 @ 7
Juniper...........................................
Prickly Ash......................................I  00 ® i  10
27
Licorice (10 and 25 ft boxes, 25c)...
Licorice,  powdered, pure.............
37)
Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 ft doxes).
9
Logwood, Is (25 ft  boxes)...............
12
...............
do 
Logwood, )4s 
13
do 
Logwood, 14s 
...............
15
Logwood, ass’d  do 
...............
14
Fluid Extracts—25 $  cent, off list.
Arnica...............................................
Chamomile,  Roman......................
Chamomile,  German.....................
Aloes, Cape (Powd  24c)..................
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd  60c)..........
Arabic, extra  select.......................
Arabic,  powdered select...............
Arabic, 1st picked..........................
Arabic, 2d picked............................
Arabic, 3d picked............................
Arabic, sifted sorts.........................
Assafoetida, prime (Powd 37c).......
Camphor...........................................
Catechu. Is (54 s 14c, *48 16c).......'..
Guaiac, prime (Powd  45c).............
Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 47c)...
Opium, pure (Powd $5.40)...............
Shellac, Campbell’s .........................
Shellac,  English.............................
@2 25
Shellac, native.............................
Tragacanth ......................................
Citrate and  Quinine.......................
Solution mur., for tinctures........
Sulphate, pure  crystal..................
Buchu, short (Powd 25c)................
Sage, Italian, bulk(54s&54s, 15c)...
Senna,  Alex, natural.....................
Senna, Alex, sifted and  garbled..
Senna,  powdered............................
Uva  Ursi...........................................
W., D. & Co.’s Sour Mash Whisky.2
Druggists’ Favorite  Rye...............1
Whisky, other brands.............
Gin, Old Tom..............................
Gin,  Holland..............................
Brandy-................... ...................
Catawba  Wines........................
Port Wines.................................
MAGNESIA.
Carbonate, Pattison’s, 2 oz__
Carbonate, Jenning’s, 2 oz.......
Citrate, H., P. & Co.’s  solution 
Almond, sweet..........................
Amber,  rectified.......................
Anise...........................................
Bergamout.  ..............................
Cajeput ......................................
Cassia.........................................
Cedar, commercial  (Pure 75c).
Citronella..................................
Cloves.........................................
Cubebs, P. &  W.........................
Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75c)
Juniper wood.......................
Juniper berries....................
Lavender flowers- French.. 
Lavender garden  do
Lavender spike 
do
Lemon, new crop................
Lemon,  Sanderson’s ...........
Origanum, red  flowers, French
Origanum,  No. 1.......
Pennyroyal...............
Peppermint,  white..
Rosemary, French  (Flowers $5)
Sandal  Wood, German...........
Sandal Wood, Turkish  Dark..
Sassafras.........................!..........
Tansy .........................................
Tar (by gal 60c)..........................
Wintergreen..............................
Wormwood, No. 1 (Pure $6.50).
.
Cod Liver, filtered....... 
Cod Liver, best.........................
Cod Liver, H*, P. & Co.’s, 16
Olive, Malaga....................
Olive, “Sublime  Italian’  . 
__
Salad.................................................
Rose,  Ihmseu’s .......................^ oz
Bicromate................................ (p ft
Bromide, cryst. and gran. bulk...
Chlorate, cryst (Powd 23c).............
Iodide, oryst. and  gran, bulk.......
Althea, cut.......................................
Arrow,  St. Vincent’s .....................
Arrow, Taylor’s, in 548 and 56s__
Blood (Powd 18c).............................
Calamus,  peeled.............................
Calamus, German  white, peeled..
Elecampane, powdered..................
Gentian (Powd  17c(.........................
Ginger, African (Powd 16c)...........
Ginger, Jamaica  bleached...........
Golden Seal (Powd 40c)..................
Hellebore, white, powdered..........
Ipecac, Rio, powdered....................
Jalap,  powdered.............................
Licorice,  select (Powd 1254)..........
Licorice, extra select.....................
Pink, true.........................................
Rhei, from select to  choice..........1
Rhei, powdered E. 1.........................1
Rhei, choice cut  cubes..................
Rhei, choice cut fingers................
Sarsaparilla,  Honduras...............
Sarsaparilla,  Mexican....................
Squills, white (Powd  35e)...............
Valerian, English (Powd 30c)........
Valerian, Vermont (Powd 28c)__
Anise, Italian (Powd 20c)...............
Bird, mixed in ft  packages...........
Canary,  Smyrna.............................
Caraway, best Dutch (Powd 19c)..
Cardamon,  Aleppee.......................
Cardamon, Malabar........................
Coriander, best English................
Flax,  clean.......................................
Flax, pure grd (bbl 324)..................
Foenugreek, powdered..................
Hemp,  Russian...............................
Mustard, white (Black  10c)...........
Quince....................:........................
Rape, Lnglish..................................
Worm,  Levant.................................
SPONGES.
Florida sheeps’ wool, carriage.......2
do 
Nassau 
do 
.......
Velvet Extra do 
.......
do 
Extra Yellow do 
........
do 
do 
Grass 
.......
do 
Hard head, for slate use..........  ...
Yellow Reef, 
................
Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.24) (¡9 gal__
Alcohol, wood, 96 per cent ex. ref.
Bay  Rum, imported, best.............
Hay Rum, domestic, H., P. & Co.’s.
Alum........................................(p ft
Alum, ground  (Powd 9c)..............
Annatto,  prime........... , .................
Antimony, powdered,  eom’l........
Arsenic, white, potvdered.............
Beans,  Tonka..................................
Beans,  Vanilla.................................7
Bismuth, sub  nitrate.......  ............
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c).......................
Blue Vitriol.....................................
Borax, refined (Powd  15c).............
Cantharides, Russian  powdered..
Capsicum  tods, African...............
Capsicum Pods, African  pow’d ... 
Capsicum Pods,  American do  ...
Carmine,  No. 40...............................
Cassia Buds.....................................
Calomel.  American__ ...................
Castor  Oil.......................!.................

IS
6
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22
10
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75  @2 00 
10  @1 50 
35  @1 75 
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75  @6 50 
25  @2 00 
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37 
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45  @  50 
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2 10 
2  20
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1 25 
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1  00 90 
2 00 
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1 25 
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8  00
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4 00
10  @  12 
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4 50
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4 00
6  00 
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18 
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1 30

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11  @ 122 20
2 50
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8  @ 9
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2 00 
1  10 
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2 34 
1  50
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3  @ 4
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15 
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MISCELLANEUS.

POTASSIUM.

ROOTS.

SEEDS.

17  @  18)4

ral

65

8)4

 

8)4

P R O V IS IO N S .

PORK.

The  Grand Rapids  Packing  Sc  Prevision  C*. 

quote  as  follows:
New Heavy  Mess Pork................ V  bbl $1.5 25
Old Heavy Mess  Pork............................  15 25
New Family Clear P ork.........................  WOT
New Extra Clear Pork, A. Webster’s  ..  16 TO
New Extra Clear Pork............................  1”  OT
New Boston Clear Pork..........................  16 75
New Standard Clear P ork.....................   17 00
Extra B  Clear Pork, extra  g o o d ........   16 62)4
S. P. Booth’s Clear Pork.....  ....................W 25

DRY SaLT MEATS—IN BOXES.
Extra Lopg Clear Backs, 600 ft cases.. 
Extra Short Clear Backs, 600 ft  cases. 
Extra Long Clear Backs, 300 ft  cases.. 
Extra Short Clear Backs, 300 ft  cases. 
Long Clears, heavy, 500 ft.  Cases.......... 
Half Cases.............  
Long Clear medium, 500 ft  Cases.......... 
Half Cases.......... 
Long Clears light, 5001b Cases........... . 
Half Cases..............  
Short Clears, heavy.............................  

8%
8
!'
9> 4
8
8)i
8
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8
8)4
6*4
medium........................................84*
light.................................... 
84i

do. 
do 
do. 

do. 
do. 

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9?»

Tierces  ....................................................
30 and 50 ft Tubs.....................................  

LARD IN TIN PAILS.

20 ft Round Tins, 50 ft  racks.................. 
9%
9)«
50 ft Round  Tins, 100 ft  racks............... 
3 ft Pails, 20 in & case.............................   W)4
5 ft Pails, 12 in a case.................................. 
10)4
10 ft Pails, 6 in a case.................................. 
10

SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED OR PLAIN. 

do. 

Hams cured in sweet pickle medium.. 
light........  
Shoulders cured in sweet pickle.......... 
Extra Clear Bacon....................................... 
Dried B eef.................................................... 
Extra Dried B eef........................................  
Extra Mess Beef Chicago packed ^ bbl.  11 75 

BEEF.

13)4
13%
7%
10
13
14)4

CANNED BEEF.

Libby, McNeil & Libby, 14 ft cans, )4 doz.

incase......................................................  18 50
2 ft cans, 1 doz. in case__   2 85
do. 
Armour & Co., 14 ft cans, )4 doz  in ease  18 50 
do. 
2 ft cans, 1 doz. in case..  2 85 
do. 2 ft Compr’d Ham, 1 doz.incase 4 50 

Prices named are lowest  at time of going te 

press, subject always to Market changes. 

SAUSAGE—FRESH AND SMOKED.

Pork Sausage.....................................................9
Pork Sausage Meat, 50 ft tubs.........................9
Ham  Sausage................................................... 12)4
Tongue  Sausage.............................................. 11
Liver Sausage...................................................  8)4
Frankfort  Sausage......................................... 10
Blood  Sausage................................................... 8)4
Bologna,  ring.......................... 
8)4
Bologna, straight...................................... 
 
Bologna,  thick.................................... 
 
Head  Cheese....................................................   8)»

 

In half barrels................................................... $3 85
In quarter barrels..............................................  2 09
In kits.......................................................•___ 

95

PIGS’ FEET.

TRIPE.

In half barrels.....................................................$3 85
In quarter barrels..............................................  2 00
In kits............................................................ 
sr*

FRESH  MEATS.

John Mohrhard quotes as follows:

Fresh/ Beef, sides...................................0  @8
Fresh  Beef, hind quarters..................  7  @9
Dressed  Hogs...........................•............  7  @8
Mutton,  carcasses..................................  6 @ 7
Veal..........................................................   9 @10)4
Spring Chickens....................................11  @12ys
Fowls........................................................   8 @10
Pork Sausage.........................................  @ 9
Pork Sausage in bulk............................  @ 9
Bologna...................................................  @10
COAL.  A N D   B U IU D IN G   M A T E R IA L S .
A. B. Knowlson quotes as follows:

1  10
Ohio White Lime, per bbl.................... 
l  00
Ohio White Lime, car lots.................... 
140
Louisville t’emeni, per bbl.................. 
Akron Cement per  bbl........................  
1  40
Buffalo Cement,  per bbl.............. ...... 
140
Car lots................................................... 1 15@1 20
Plastering hair, per bu.........................  35@  38
1  75
Stucco, per^bbl.......................................  
Land plaster, per ton...........................  
3 75
3 00
Land plaster, car lots............................ 
Fire brick, per  M.................................. $27 @ $35
Fire clay, per bbl..................................  
3 00

COAL.

Anthracite, egg and grate..................$6 50@8 75
Anthracite, stove and nut..................  6 76@7 CO
Cannell coal..........................................  
7 00
Ohio coal...............................................   3 5f@3 75
Blossburg or Cumberland................  5 00@5 25

TIME TABLES.

ARRIVE.

DEPART.

Michigan  Central—Grand  Rapids  Division.
Detroit Express............................................... 6:30 am
Day  Express........................................... 12:45 p m
New York Fast Line.....................................   6:50 pm
Atlantic Express..............................................8:45 pm
Pacific  Express.............................................  7:10 am
Local  Passenger............................................11:45 am
Mail.........................................................   4:20 p m
Grand  Rapids  Express.................................10:50 pm
The New York Fast Line runs daily, arriving 
at Detroit at 11:40 p. m., and New York at 9  p. 
m. the next evening.
Direct  and  prompt  connection  made  with 
Great  Western,  Grand  Trank  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. in., and Boston 2:40 p. m. next day.

J. T. Schultz, Gen’l Agent.

Detroit,  Grand  Haven &  Milwaukee.

GOING EAST.

Arrives. 
tSteamboat Express.......... 
•(Through  Mail......................10:10 am  
tEvening  Express.................3:20 pm  
»AtlanticExpress................  9:45 pm  
tMixed, with  coach...........  

Leaves.
6:45 am

10:20 am
3:35 pm
10:40 pm

10:00 am

GOING WEST.

12:55 pm

8:00 am

5:30 am

■(Morning  Express...............12:40 pm  
•(Through  Mail....................  4:45-p m  4:55 pm
tSteamboat Express.......... 10:00 p m
+Mixed............................................. 
»NightExpress.....................  5:10 am  
tDaily, Sundays excepted.  »Daily. 
Passengers  taking  the  6:15  a.  m.  Express 
make close connections at Owosso for Lansing 
and at Detroit for New York, arriving there at 
10:00 a. ra. 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.

D. P o t t e r , City Pass. Agent. 
T h o m a s  T a n d y , Gen’l Pass. Agent,  Detroit.

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: 

New York Counts, per can...
Extra  Selects..
Plain  Selects............................
H. M. B. F ................................
Favorite F .................................
Prim e.......................................
X X X .........................................
New York Counts, per gallon
Selects, per gallon..................
Standards

........40
........35
.......28
.........21
........18
........16
........ 14
@2 50 
1 75@2 00 
1 00@1 15
Can pi ices above are for cases and half cases.

HIDES, FELTS AND  FURS.

Perkins & Hess quote as follows: 

h i d e s .

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FURS.

WOOL.

SHEEP PELTS. 

Green............................................... -pft6  @ 6)4 j
Part  cured..............................................  7  @7)4
Full cured...............................................   73£@ 8
Dry hides and kips.................................  8  ©12 
Calf skins, green or cured...................10  @12 
Deacon skins............................*¡9 piece20  @50
Shearlings or Summer skins  piece.. 10  @20 
Fall pelts........................................... — 30  @50 
November and December pelts.......... 60  @1 (0;
Fine washed fl ft...................................30  @32 
Coarse washed.......................................22  @25
Unwashed.............................................. 2-3
Mink, large..............................................  60@  80 1
Mink,  small............................................   25@ 
j
Muskrat, Winter....................................10  @15
Muskrat,  Fall........................................ '■ 
8©  11 j
Muskrat,  kits............................................ 
3@  4|
Raccoon........................................  
 
 
Skunk, black............................................   90@1 
Skunk, half  stripe.................................  60@  70 j
Skunk, narrow stripe............................  25@  35
Skunk,  broad.........................................  10@  15
Red-Fox..................................................1  00@1 25
Gray Fox.................................................   60@  85 j
Marten,  yellow........................................  75@1 
Fisher......................................................4  00@8 00
Otter.................................................. 
Bear........................................................ 5 00@12 00
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  00@7 00

Grand  Rapids  &  Indiana.

GOING NORTH.

Arrives.
Cincinnati & G. Rapids Ex.  9:02 p m 
Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex.  9:22 a m 
Ft. Wayne & Mackinac Ex..  3:57 p m 
G’d Rapids  & Cadillac  Ac.
G. Rapids & Cincinnati Ex.
Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex.  4:05 p m 
Mackinac & Ft. Way > e Ex.. 10:25 a m 
Cadillac & G’d  Rapids  Ac.  7:40 pm  

GOING  SOUTH.

All trains daily except Sunday.

Loaves.
9:50 a m 
4:45 p ru 
7:15 am
6:32 am 
4:32 pm  
12:32 p in

SLEEPING CAR ARRANGEMENTS.

North—Train  leaving at  4:45  o’clock  p.  m. 
has Woodruff  Sleeping Cars for Petoskey and 
Mackinac City.  Train leaving at  9:50 a. m. has 
combined Sleeping and Chair Car for Mackinac 
City.
South—Train leaving at 4:32 p. m. has  Wood­
ruff Sleeping Car for Cincinnati.

A. B. Leet, Gen’l Pass. Agent.

40@1  00 j
00

Chicago & West Michigan.

00

Leaves.  Arrives.
(•Mail................................ 
9:35am   4:00 p m
+Day Express..  .................12:50 p m  10:45 p m
»Night  Express....................   8:35 pm   6:10 a in
»Daily.  tDaily except Sunday.
Pullman Sleeping Cars  on  all  night trains. 
Through  parlor  car  in  change  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.......   .........................  5:00 am   3:20pm
Express.................................... 4:00 pm   4:00 pm
Express..................................   8:30 a m 12:45 p m

NEWAYGO DIVISION.

A t M. Nichols, Gen’l Pass. Agent.

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VISITIN’«»  BUYERS.

A  Happy  New  Year.

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

sonville.

Middleville.

,

E: C. Whitney, of E.  C.  Whifcdey  <fc  «'<>.. 
C. E. Kellogg, Grandville.
0. O. Bostwick & Son, Cannonsburg.
K.  W. Pickett Wayland. 
W. AV. Pierce, Moline.
Paine «fc Field, Euglislwille.
E.  LeGrange, Mecosta.
1. J. Quick «fcCo., Allendale.
M. M.  Boss, Wayland.
S. M. Geary, Maple Hill.
U. S. Monroe, Berlin.
J. T. Perhaiu, Kent City.
W. Schoeinaker,  Cannonsburg.
B. M. Dennison, East Paris.
H. T. M. Treglown, Caledonia.
Smeadley Bros., Bauer.
A. L. Wolf, of A. L. & M  L.  Wolf,  Hud- 
C. M. Woodard, Ashland.
Chas. .Johnson,  Tustia.
N. DeVries, Jamestowd.
II. Minderhout, Hanly.
Mr. Rrock, of Brock «fc Allport, Muskegon. 
E. D. Snow, Kent City.
Mr. Post, of Dildine & Post, Edgerton.
W. M. Snelling, Six Comers.
Mr. Barker, of Barker «fc Lehnen,  Pierson.
E. LaGrange, Mecosta.
Campbell & Smith. Luther.
F. C. Brisbin, Berlin.
C. F. Seáis,  Rockford.
Christian Pfeifle,  Lake P. O.
Mrs. M. J. Butler, San^ Lake.
Calvin Durkee, Lakeview.
li. Carlyle, Rockford,
M. J. Howard, Englishvilie.
C. O. Sunderland, Lowell.
T. J. Sheridan, Lockwood.
T.  W. Provin, Cedar Springs.
D. T. Hersey,  Wayland.
II. T. M. Treglown,  Caledonia.
B. Whitney, West Troy.
G. A. Wagar, Mears,
Norman Harris, Big Springs.
J. C. Benbow, Cannonsburg.
Stauffer & Salisbury,  Hastings.
Den Herder <& Tanis, Vriesland.
G. Bron & Ten Hoor, Forest Grove.
B. DeVries, Allendale Center.
J. Di F. Pierson, Pierson.
J. S. Boiee, Hastings.
Andrew Carlson, Gilbert P. (>.
J. E. Rice, Coopersville.
E. J. English,  Croton.
G. S. Powell & Co., Sand Lake.
Mr.  Stauffer,  of  Stauffer  &  Salisbury, 
F. O. Lord, Howard City.
•J. F. A. Raider, Newaygo.
Frederick Hotchkiss, Hastings.
Fisher & Mastenbrook,  Lament.
.1. Hullinger, Mecosta.
Mr. Baldwin, «»f Button &  Baldwin,  Tail- 
Geo. F. Hine, Ada.
Mr. Hunter, of Hunt «fc Hunter, Lowell. 
John Cole, Fremont Center.
Walling Bros., Lament.
L. Veyer, New Holland.
Geo. B. Bartlett, Ashland.
Mr.  Colvoord,  «if  Colvoord  A-  Teravest, 
P. Zalesman, Paris..
E. Eckrman, Muskegon.
T. B. Harris, Cedar  Springs.
H.  J.  Leonard, Belding.
A. F.  Mears, Charlotte.
T. C. Prout, Mancelona.
.  A. Wagner, Eastmanville.
Wylie, Robertson «& Co., Martin.
Geo. W. Bevins,  Tustin.
John Spring, of Spring <fc Lindley, Bailey. 
Shirtz Bros., Shelby.
C. E. Wells, Saugatuck.
Dexter & Noble, Eaton Rapids.
Lyman & Townsend, Howard City.
Dibble Bros., Dorr.
D. Kelly, Lyons. 
McLeod «fc Trautman Bros., Moline.
John Gunstra, Lamont.
F. C. Brisbin, Berlin.
Frace «fe Huhn,  Saranac.
.John De Brie, North Dorr.
R. Osterhof, Ferryburg.
J. Ball, of Ball «fe Co., Grand Haven.
W. H. Walker,  Trufant.
Coraeil <fc Griswold, Griswold,
E. Medes, Coral.
W. H. Struik, Forest Grove.
AV. A. Williams, Oakfield Center.
D.  Kelly,  Muir.
T. Saurby, Rockford.
M. Hayward,  Moo».
J.- N. Covert, Carlton  Center.
W. J. Clark, Harbor Springs.
F. F. Taylor, Pierson.
H. Goodman, Bumip’s Comers.
C.  B. Moon, Cedar Springs.
F. F. Farr,  Plainwell.
H. L. Carter,  Sand Lake*
Mr.  Magoon,  of  Overpack  &  Magoon, 
Thomas  Barber, of E. M.  Barber  &  Co., 
F. G. Fox, Allendale.
A. Engberts, Beaver  Dain.
Jas. Heany,  Levering.
G. S. Curtiss, Edgerton.
H. C» Peckham, Freeport.
Notier  «& Lokker, Graafschaaps.

*

Hastings.

man.

Scottsville.
Hubbards ton.

Hamilton.

Tiwi advertising i^.tii>HS ©f 'J'HK  T rades- j 
max, one and all, deaire to express  through j 
the medium of this paper their  appreciation j 
of the, favors so freely accorded them by the 
retail dealers of  the  State  during  the  past | 
year,  and  to  solicit  a  continuance  of  thei 
same. 
Individually  and  collectively  they 
extend cordial  greetings  to  (heir  numerous' 
customers, and bespeak for them a  prosper­
ous, and consequently A Happy, New Year. 
And in this wish, The T radesman heartily 
joins.
List  of  Creditors 

he  b.  R.  Slocum  &  Co. j 
j

failure. 

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Neal McMillan, assignee  of  D. It. Slocum 
! «& Co.,  who were burned  out  in  the  recent 
j fire at Rockford, has filed  the  result  of  his 
I inventory of the stock, accounts and  indebt- 
} edness of the firm.  The stock is inventoried 
! at  $10,869.68,  the  fixtures  at  $323.25, the 
| good  accounts  at  $345.96, the  doubtful  and 
j worthless accounts at $970.21, the real estate 
I at $950, and horses,  harnesses and hearse at 
I $300,  making  a  total—not 
including  the 
| doubtful  and  worthless  accounts—of  $12,- 
| 788.89.  The total liabilities are  $11,489.13, 
distributed among 52 creditors in  thefoltow- 
' iug amounts:
| J.  V.  Farwell  & Co., Chicago................$1,078 23
 
" 
505 00
| Lindauer Bros. 
 
“ 
83 00
| J. W. Griswold 
 
“ 
72 25
I Biefleld Baos. 
 
" 
40 50
I Grosslander & Co. 
‘ 
¡C. F. Bice 
............... 
7 26
............... 
586 60
| Mahler, Bellack & Co. 
 
 
** 
I Herbst & Stausky 
62 00
 
 
“ 
! Win. Clark & Son 
8 30
32 00
 
W. S. McLaughlin & Co.  “ 
 
Keith  Bros. 
“ 
579 75
.......v—  
1100
.............. 
“Price Current” 
“ 
18 IK)
| New England Furn. Co., G’d  ltapids... 
9 00
... 
“ 
[ Plumb & Lewis Mfg Co. 
41 70
... 
Me« ord & Bradfiela Fur. Co.  “ 
Grand Kapids Chair Co. 
“ 
... 
14 00
| G. K. Cloth Casket Co. 
** 
... 
19 49
i Cody, Ball & Co. 
“ 
... 
46 59
61 17
... 
[ Rindge, Bertsch  & Co. 
“ 
9 90
... 
“ 
E.  G. Studley & Co. 
60 37
... 
! Shields, Bulkley  &  Lemon  " 
Curtiss, Dunton  &  Co. 
“ 
... 
39 74
16 10
... 
■ Jennings &  Sm ith, 
“ 
I Edson,  Moore  &  Co.,  Detroit............   1,900 00
“ 
i A. C. McGraw & Co. 
 
524 61
 
“ 
i J. K. Burnham & Co. 
41 80
25 91
 
“ 
S Union Chair Co. 
161 89
! Sampson, Black & Grant  “ 
 
9 30
! W. D. Robinson & Co. 
 
“ 
175 30
! Big Rapids Furniture Co,, Big Rapids.. 
i Colby Wringer Co., Reading, Mien....... 
18 50
| Globe Casket Co., Kalamazoo............... 
31 50
I Bub & Kipp, Milwaukee......................... 
36 02
j Oliver & Co., Allegan.............................. 
22 20
! Carlyle & Co., Columbus, Ohio.............  
25 00
Frank & Schindler, Indianapolis.......... 
17 55
Rogers & Lewis, Fort Wayne, Ind....... 
36 00
133 30 
Appleton Knitting Co., Appleton, Wis. 
86 24
La Porte Woolen Mills, La Porte, Ind.. 
Wilber, DuBois & Wilber, Troy, N. Y .. 
56 00
R. & J. Cutilings, Toledo......................... 
494 65
Burgut & Hart 
........................ 
57 60
8 67
Phoenix Chair Co., Sheboygan, Wis—  
Blake & Co., Racine, Wis....................... 
26 6'J
29 58
Broadhead Worsted Mills, Jamestown. 
Leland, Rice & Co., Boston....................  1,400 00
Luce & Smith 
.................... 
72 10
180 00
Mosler, Bahman &  Co., Cincinnati....... 
J. A. Stocum, Sanborn, Iowa................   1,263 00
Frederick C. Stegman, Courtland........ 
too 00
Wm. Powell,  Rockford..........................  
325 00
Julia A. Stocum  “ 
.......................... •  525 00

 
 
 
 
 

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Plainwell  Points.

From  T hk  T radesman’s Reporter.

Plainwell has now two cigar factories.
Geo. H. Richards  has  traded  the  Bridge 
Street House for a  farm  near  Lawton,  and 
D. C. Coleman  will  hereafter  act  as  mine 
host.
R. S. Putnam proposes to build four  large j 

threshing machines this winter.

boiler for his turning factory. 

J.  C.  Ives  has  received  an  engine  and 1 
j
Merchants  report  a  satisfactory  holiday j 
business, in most cases larger than last year. I 
While the general tendency has been to keep 
stocks down to the lowest possible limit, the! 
retailers here find that' the  inventories  will 
reveal fully as  heavy  stocks  a3  have  ever 
been  carried  heretofore,  and  also  that the 
balance for the year is on  the  right  side  of 
the ledger.

Growth  of Sparta Center.

There are few, if any, towns in  the  State j 
that can  show  a  more  substantial  growth j 
during  the  past  year  than  Sparta  Center.; 
With the increase  in  population  and  busi-1 
ness lias come an augmented trade for  retail 
dealers, without,—as is often the case under 
such  circumstances—an  undue  increase  inj 
the number of  tradesmen..  The  new  I.  O. ■ 
O. F. building is  now  completed  and  occu- j 
pied,  and  the  Anderson  block,  containing I 
two stores, is  nearly  ready  for  occupancy. 
C. H. Loomis’ new building,  to  be  occupied 
as a hardware  store,  is  being  pushed  for­
ward as fast as  the  weather  permits.  Nu­
merous  new  cottages  here  and  there  over 
the town, indicate the thrift  and  enterprise 
of the  men  who  have  come  to  Sparta  to 
make their homes.

Late  Furniture  Gossip.

out an illustrated, 24 page catalogue. 

The  Pentwater  Furniture  Co. is  getting j 
1
Nelson, Matter  «fc Co.  have  received  an j 
order to furnish the new  McClure  Hotel  at j 
It  was  secured j 
Wheeling, West Virginia. 
by M. L. Fitch, the Eastern traveling  repre­
sentative of the firm.

COUNTRY  PRODUCE.

bu.

100.

$15 

  lb. 

18c@20c ^  gal.

bbl.  Extra fancy, $13. 

Illinois are in limited supply at $5.50.

Cider—Good quality and  selling  freely  at 
Celery—Active and firm at 25@30e  doz.
Cabbage—Very linn  and  scarcest  $10@ : 
Clover  Seed—Firm at $5@$6.50 
Timothy—In ample supply at $1.65 %l.bu.
Sweet Potatoes—Jerseys,  Baltimores  and j 
Grapes—Catawaba out of market
Cranberries—Cultivated  Wisconsin,  firm i 
at $10.50@$12 
!
Poultry—In good  demand.  Spring chick- 
ens firm at  9@ 10c '¡p lb., and old  fowls act­
ive at  7@Sc.  Turkeys scarce  at 14c.
i 
Eggs—Fresh are in fair  demand  at 
26c, and pickled stock are steady 23c.
Dried  Apples—Quarters,  7@8c  r$   lb.; j 
evaporated,  14c@15c.
Honey—In comb, 16@18e ^
j
Potatoes—The  glut Is gradually  moving j 
off, and although prices  have  not  taken  ail 
upward tendency, they are  firmer  than  for 
two months past.  Small lots  are  selling  at 
45@50c.
Apples—Winter fruit is firmer, and is sell­
ing freely at $3.50 ^  bbl.  Extra fancy,  $4.
Butter—Very  dull  and  little  moving. 
Dairy rolls are moving  slowly  at  20c@21c, 
and packed at 16c@20c.  Western creamery, 
25c@27c.
Onions—Dull and slow.  Sales  of  choice 
yellow made at $1.75@$2 
bu. in sacks.
Squash—Hubbard in fair supply  at  2j-*c.
W  »».
Buckwheat—New York patent,  $4.25 per 
100  lbs, and $8.00  ^9  bbl.  For  ten  barrel 
lots, these prices can be shaded a trifle.
Cheese—Full cream, firm at  14%c;  shim, 
active at 9c@ 11c.
Beans—Fair demand and moderate sale at 
$2.00@$2.25  for  handpicked,  and  $1.25@ 
$1.75 for medium.

bbl., and 65c 

Peas—Holland $4.25 
Pears—California $3.75 
Ruta Bagas—Very firm at 45c  |9 bu.
Beets—In good demand at 75c % bn.

case.

bu.

One of the  most  wonderful  things  about 
paper is its strength.  As an  illustration  of 
this a Bank of England note twisted  into  a 
kind of rope  can  suspend  as  much  as  329 
pounds on one end of it and not  be  injured 
in the least.

DRUG  STORES  FOR  SALE. 

best towns of the  State.  Reason,  engaged  in 

RUiTsTOcir^

kins  stock  and  business  at  Fife Lake. 
Address H. B. Fairchild, Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

$2,000.  Address Hazeltine, Perkins & Co., 

DRUG STOCK FOR SALE at Invoice, about 

$5,500.  The  leading  store  in one  of the 
other  business.  Will  sell  on  time.  Address 
Hazeltine, Perkins & Co., Wholesale Druggists, 
Grand llapids, Mich.
D RUG STORE  FOR SALK  in Grand Rapids, 
for  $2,50u  or  invoice.  Owner has other 
business.  Address  Hazeltine,  Perkins  & Co., 
Wholesale Druggists, Graud Rapids, Mich.
DRUG  STORE  FOR SALE  at  Otsego,  Mich.
F.J.DETTENTHALER
O Y S T E R S !

Wholesale Druggists, Grand Rapids,  Mich.

Successor to  H.  M. Iiliven.

-WHOLESALE-

AND  CANNED  GOODS.

Agent  for  Farron’s  Celebrated  “ F ”  Brand 

Raw  Oysters.

l i t   MONROE  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICH.j

PECK  BROTHERS,

129 and  i31  Monroe  Street,

—WHOLESALE—

DRUGGISTS

Prices in  No  Instances Higher than those  (hinted! 
in this Paper.  Write us for Special Quotations.

STEAM   LAUNDRY

43 and 45 Kent Street.

A.  K.  ALLEN,  Proprietor.

M   DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS  WORK AND  USE  NO 

CHEMICALS.

Orders by Mail and Express  promptly  at­

Frail & Produce at Wholesale

tended to.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

A  M B8CA X TILK   JO U R N A L , FCK LISIIK D  EA CH  

W EDN ESD AY .

E.  A.  STOWE, Editor and  Proprietor.

OFFICE  IN  EAGLE  BUILDING,  3<1  FLOOK.
[Entered  at  the  Pon&offiee  at  Grand  Rapid*  an 

Sceond-cUuut Matter.]

WEDNESDAY,  JAN.  2,1884.

AMONG  THE  TRADE.

IX   TU B   CITY.

A.  B.  Frost  succeeds  Frost  Bros,  in  the 
retail  grocery  business  on  South  Division 
street
There is said to  be  enough  limestone  in j 
this vicinity, at the present rate of consump- j 
tion, to last 100 years.
J. M. Spore, who was recently burned out j 
at Rockford, denies that he is  to  remove  to j 
this city and engage in business.
There will be fewer changes in the  work- j 
tag forces at the various jobbing houses this j 
year than for several years past.
A. B. Richmond has resigned the assignee- j 
ship of Kinney, McGraw & Co.,  and  Harry j 
W. Whipple has been appointed receiver  in j 
his stead.
D. T. Hersey, who has engaged in the gn> j 
eery business at  Wayland,  was  in  town  a, 
day or two ago, and purchased his  stock  ofI 
Cody, Ball & Co.
Dr. N. J. Aiken proposes to erect  a  brickj 
building during the  coming  season, and  en-1 
gage in the manufacture and sale  of  patent i 
medicines on a large scale.
Most of the wholesale houses are engaged : 
iii taking stock, the result of which will  en­
able them to ascertain just  how  much  they j 
are behind on the year’s business.
Jas. E. Bevins, the general dealer at Leroy, j 
had judgment rendered against  him  in  th e! 
United States Court, on Monday,  for  8703, j 
on  three  promisory  notes  held  by  Conn, i 
Wamples & Co., of Chicago.
John Goldsmith contemplates engaging in 
fche manufacture  of  pails  and  tubs  at  Big 
Rapids. 
It is proposed to  organize  a  stock 
company for that purpose, a majority of the 
stock to be subscribed  by  business  men  or 
capitalists of that place.
S. K. Riblet, the  general  dealer  at  New­
aygo, accompanies  a  year’s  subscription  to 
The T radesm an with the following cheer­
ful acknowledgment of  its  merits:  “Your 
paper is nearly the  only  trade  journal  that 
shows any life.  They usually are all adver­
tisements.”
Fred. Ball, for over two years past collect­
or for the City National Bank, has  accepted 
the position of bookkeeper  for  Barnhart  & 
Judson,  succeeding  Henry  G.  Dikhouse. 
Mr.  Dikhouse  proposes  going  on  the  road 
on his own account, selling lumber  on  com- j. 
mission.

abound  t h e  sta te.

Beecher <fc Peek, grocers at Allegan, made 

an assignment Monday to Geo.  Knapp.

M. B. Nash, the general dealer  at  Sparta, 
claims to be the oldest Good Templar in  the | 
State, having joined the order in New  York I 
in 1852.
Vine P. Welch,  variety  dealer  at  Ionia, 
made  an  assignment  Monday.  Welch  re-| 
oently claimed that he had §3,000  in  stock, ] 
and only $1,700 lsabilities.

At an early hour Friday morning  fire  de­
stroyed three business houses at Palo,  Ionia j 
county, causing a  total  loss  of  $5,500,  on j 
which  there  was  an  insurance  of  nearly 
$3,000.
C. C. Thompson, the  general  dealer  and 
shingle manufacturer at Lakeview, Mich., is 
reported to  have  skipped  out,  leaving  his 
«•editors in the lurch to the tune of $7,000 or 
$8,000.
L. Averill &  Co.,  the  general  dealers  at 
Frankfort,  who  recently  made  an  assign­
ment,  are  endeavoring to effect  a  compro­
mise  on  the basis of 50 per cent.  Their as- j 
sets are $3,620 and their liabilities  $6,000. 
J
“ One  peculiarity  of  Rockford,” said  an j 
old merchant the  other day, “ is that  a  good 
many have made money there, but someway 
they never seem to get any enjoyment  from 
it, and they are seldom able to take  it  away 
It is either  lost by  fire,  or 
from the place. 
slips  through  their  fingers  in  some  unac-l 
countable  manner.” 
In'the light  of  recent 
events, this  observation  possesses  peculiar j 
interest.

STRAY'  FACTS.

Cheboygan is to have a new  hotel.
Seneca is to have a cheese factory.
Owosso claims to be the best pork  market j 

in the  State.

lime monthly. 

Bellevue  ships  nearly  500,000  pounds  ofj 
:
The Niles paper mills will continue  work | 
1
Dewey & Wells have engaged in the hotel | 

through the winter. 

business at South Boardmau.

up their taming factory at  Shelby.

lumber on the Saginaw river wharves.

this winter is less than 800,000,000 feet. 

Pullman & Hinchman have  again  started j 
There is over 200,000,000  feet  of  unsold j 
The Saginaw estimatd of logs to be put in | 
j
The  stockholders  of  the  Lumberman’s j 
National  Bank  at  Muskegon  received  a 
substantial Christmas gift in the  form  of  a 
50 per cent, dividend from the earnings which! 
have accrued during the ten years  the  bank j 
has been in  operation.

T H E   GROCERY'  M ARKET.

The  grocery  market  is  quiet,  althoughj 
there  are  signs  of  gradual  improvement j 
New loose muscatel raisins are a little  high­
er, and London layers rather easier.  As will 
be’ seen by the Price Curaent, two grades  of ! 
currents are quoted.  To get a good  quality, j 
dealers  should order the best, as this seems j 
to be an off year in  currents,  and  none  are j 
extra  good.  New  Orleans  molasses  are ; 
cheap, and have  evidently  touched  bottom, j 
There is every probability that they may  go j 
higher, and dealers should  buy  without  de­
lay.  Sugars are about  stationary,  in  short 
everything in the grocery business is as, low 
as can be afforded.  Those who are inclined 
to doubt thi« statement  should  compare  to- { 
«lay’s quotations  with  any  prices  given  in | 
two  years.

The great tobacco firm of P.  Lori Hard  <fc i 
Co. gave to each employee double wages  for j 
Christmas week.  The wages were  paid  as: 
usual, and each and every wage  earner  was j 
presented with an envelope which contained j 
d o u b le  the usual tmount  This was a  very 
graceful  way  to  exhibit  a  recognition  of 
faithful service.
Ermine has now descended so low  among j 
furs as to be regarded as  only  fit  for  mere j 
cloak linieg.

HASELTDIE, PERKINS & 06

Wholesale  Druggists,

AND  DEALERS  IN  LUBRICATING  AND  CARBON  OILS.

Mazmfiaoturers’  Agents,

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

DRUGGISTS’  SUNDRIES  «ft BRUSHES,

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

GrRAKX>  ÜAPIDS,  - MIOBTIG-A N.

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

O R A N G E S !

W e liave arranged, to  Ixandle  a 
large quantity of F lorid^ Oranges 
tills  season,  and  cure  slilpping 
F ull Carload Lots direct from  tlie 
growers.  Tlie  crop  Is  Largo  and 
Fine, and  Is  selling  at  Very Low 
Ibices.

Special  Prices  fo r  Large  Lots.
IP T T T lS ra m :  <&  B R O O K S .

FOX, MUSSELMAN & LOVERIDGE,

WHOLESALE  GROCERS,
Ping Tobaccos.
Nimrod, Acorn, G i( Crescent & M  

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

- —WE  ARE  FACTORY  AGENTS  FOR-----

Oar  stock  of Teas,  Coifees  and  Syrups  is  Always  Complete.

-W E  MAKE SPECIAL CLAIM  FOR  OUR—

Toloaooos,  Vinegars  and  Spice© ! 

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

CORRESPONDENCE  SOLICITED.

WHOLESALE

HAT  &  GAP  STORE

PRICES  GDARAXTTEED 

AS  LOW  AS  CHICAGO  AND  NEW  YORK!

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

GENUINE  FUR  HATS,  $13.50  AND  UPWARDS.

-LARGE  LINE  OF

Im ported  Scotoli  Caps,

Lum berm en’s  Goods, 

MaclSLinaw Slilrts c&3 L raw res.

I,A T E   TR A D E  CH AN G E».;

Bradstreet’s Mercantile Agency  furnishes 
T h e  T radesm an with  the  following  busi­
ness changes, embarrassments, etc., occuring 
up to the hour of going to press:

Adrian—Geo.  E.  Avery,  crystalized  tin, 
Bennington—D.  R.  Salisbury, hardware, 
Blanchard—S.  Pangboni,  grocer,  closed 
Buchanan—Roe «fc  Rough,  saw  mill  and 
Covert—E.  A. Rood,  haudware,  sold  out 
Corunna—J.  W. Knight <fe Son, closed  by 
Chapin’s  Station—Gibson <fc  Rogers,  gro­
Fremont—Geo. Pearsons, feed, sold out to 
Jackson—L. D. Vinson <fc  Co.,  stone  and 
Lowell—Sunderland <fc  Sterling,  grocers, 
Luther—Wm. B. Peet, grocer, sold out  to 
Lakeview—J.  E.  Ramp,  harness,  given 
Memphis—II. G. Del .and, grocer, sold out 
Mason^-E. A. Barnes,  lime,  staves,  etc., 
North  Branch—A.  S.  Sholes,  geHerai 
New Baltimore—C.  Schnoor, Jr.  «fc  Bro., 
Pentwater—C.  E.  Bush  «fc  Co.,  grocers, 
Sterling—Nonre  &  Kent,  lumber,  burned 
S t Ignace—Robert  McGanrie,  books  and 
Shelby—G. W. Hobby, grocer, sold  out to 

burned out,  insured.
will remove to  Owosso.
by creditors.
lumber dissolved.
to S. II. Shattuck.
creditors.
cers, succeeded by Gibson <fc May.
Geo.  Spaulding.
marble, L.  D. Vinson deceased.
succeeded by C. O. Sunderland.
J. M. Verity «fc Co.
bill of  sale.
to Harriet DeLand.
sold out to Peak «fc  Sherwoood.
store, sold out to Seaman & Co.
general store  dissolved.
closed out business.
out.
stationery, assigned.
John Anderson.

Choice Butter, Eggs, Cheese, Mince  Meat, Maple j
Syrup,  Jellies,  Buckwheat Flour,  and  Foreign  andj Pontiac  Fulled  Mitts, Socks and  Boots!
Domestic Fruits  and  Vegetables.

E V E R Y   ONE  W ARRANTED.

AGENCY  FOR  THE-

Careful  Attention  Paid to  Filling  Orders.
M. C. Russell, 48 Ottawa St, G’d Rapids.
P. J. LAMB  &  COMPANY,

W HOLESALE  D EALE R S  IS

Butter,  Cheese,  Eggs.

Apples, Onions, Potatoes, Beans, Etc.

NO.  8  IONIA  STREET.

Clothing  and  Cent’s  Furnishing  Goods»

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

DUCK  OVERALLS,  THREE  POCKETS, $3.50  PER  DOZEN.

23T  Terms—7 per cent off in 10 days;  5 per cent, in 30 days;  net in 60 days.

36,38,40  and  42  CANAL  STREET, 

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN

I-  d.  L E V I ,

.A..  B.  K 1ST O W  L S O N ,

— WHOLESALE  HEALER  IN-----

AKRON  SEWER  PIPE,

Fire  Brick  and  Clay,  Cement,  Stucco!

Z.ZME, HATK,  COAX, and WOOD.

ESTIMATES  CHEERFULLY  FURNISHED.

o -z tnâûDorx>/

-  MIOmGAX.

Office.—T Oanal  Street.  Sweet’s  Hotel  Blook.  Yards—Goodri5h  Street,  Near  Michigan

Central  Freight  House.

