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The Michigan Tradesman.

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VOL.  1.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN,  WEDNESDAY,  JANUARY  30,  188*7

NO. 19.

ODDS  AND  ENDS.

EL  MEHDI  AND  GUM  ARABIC.

SIX  INCHES  OF  STRING.

REVIEW  OF THE  MARKETS.

COLLARS  AND  CUFFS.

WORK  AND  WAGES.

The  Styles  Most  In  Demand  at  the  Present 

Time.

Cut of the Mills at Cadillac 
Laborers.

-Earnings  of  the

Minor  information  of  Interest  to  Everybody.
P. Lorillard has 35 horses for  training for 

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in  great
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Burned  Out  With  Total  Loss.

Business, though not so quiet  as  for 

I Common  laborers  receive  from  $1.50 

Standing collars having  a  space  in' front I $1.75 per day;  skilled  laborers 

A  Cadillac  correspondent  writes:  The 
From  the Clothing,  Furnishing  and  Hat  Re­
number of feet of lumber cut at the  several 
porter.
mills at Cadillac for the year  1883  and the 
The stauding collar which laps in  front— 
pay rolls for the same time, are as  follows:
commonly  known  as  the  “lap  collar” 
Cut—J. Cummer & Son, 13,768,901;  Cum­
which a year ago was worn only by the ultra 
mer lumber company,  14,925,046;  Cobbs  & 
fashionable, is to-day the  one  most  univer­
Mitchell mill,  No.  1,  13,171,823;  Cobbs  & 
sally used.  It is the most becoming standing 
Mitchell  mill,  No.  2, 13,449,334;  Mitchell 
coUar  yet  introduced. 
It  gives  an  erect 
Bros. &  Murphy,  12,776,925;  Martheson  & 
bearing, protects  the  neck  from  the  cold, 
White, 8,885,100;  O. S. Whitmore,  10,153,- 
and is especially appropriate for fall, winter 
876;  P. Hardy, 14,775,043.
and spring  wear.  Many  a  man  wishes  to 
Pay roll—J.  Cummer & Son,  $36,388.70; 
wear a lap collar  who  feels  he  cannot  be­
Cummer lumber company,$43,626.02;  Cobbs 
cause his neck is too short.  This  is  a  mis­
&  Mitchell,  No.  1,  $17,843.80;  Cobbs  &
taken impression, for the collar is made in a
variety of heighte, from  one  and  one-eight  Mitchell,  No.  2,  $17,179.67;  Martheson  & 
inches  to  two  and  one-half  inches,  cut | White, $14,938.16.
In addition to the amount  of  lumber cut, 
straight or curved, and is adapted to  almost 
27,000,000 of shingles  have  been  manufac­
any shape or size of the neck.  The average 
tured.  They bring from $1.75  to  $3.25  on 
dealer who carries much of a  line  of  these 
the cars.
goods, has at least from three to four heights 
O. S. Whitmore’s mill ran  up  to  Novem­
of the square-end lap  collar  in  stock.  The 
ber 1, making 10 months, and  Martheson & 
round-end collar of  this  kind,  though  neat 
White’s from June 1, seven months.
and  pretty,  is  being  somewhat  discarded. 
James Haynes & Sons, proprietors  of the 
The extremely high collar, two and one-half 
Cadillac planing mills, dressed and  shipped 
inches, will not be very popular this season. 
during the year  1883, 766  cars  of  lumber,
It is even now being dropped in London and
It is too  uncomfortable  a  carrying 9,320,668 feet the expense of which 
New  York City. 
style to be a favorite. 
was  $14,461.54.
the 
Of the lap  collars, those  made  without  a j 
previous  two months,  is  not  yet  active. 
band, solid collars, are much  worn,  for  the
Plenty of stoek could be sold  if  the  manu­
reason that whatever width of  tie  or  scarf- 
facturers were not afraid of their customers, 
band is worn that there is no  collar-band  to 
or did not demand immediate returns.  The 
In  nicely  made  collars  of  this 
be  seen. 
stock now on hand is the largest  known for 
kind the  interlinings  are  removed  around 
years, being double that of the same  date in 
the  button-holes,  that  the  collar  may  be 
1883.
easily buttoned.  Manufacturers  anticipate 
Up to  the  1st  of  October  the  highest
a larger  sale  than  ever  of  the  lap  collar, 
m___  demand  until j standard of  wages  had  been  maintained.
which  will  be 
wpather  comes,  when  most  men seek  At that time they were reduced 15 per  cent, 
hot  ---------  
weauier  ^  
to
comfort in a turned-down collar. 
from $2  to
Vre shown and sold freely in some sections of  $3 In the mills.  This  compares  favorably 
the  country,  every  section,  perhaps,  in  a  with  that  paid  elsewhere. 
Up  north
moderate  degree.  A  high  collar  coming  wages m the  woods  run  from  $14 to  $16 
close together  in  front,  having  the  points  per month.  Men are  plenty  and  work  is 
abruptly bent  over,  has  lately  been  intro-1 scarce.
duced by a leading Troy house 
The folded or  turned-down  collar  is  not 
as frequently seen as it was a year ago.  The 
collar having  abeut  one  inch  space,  being 
about two  inches deep at the points in front, 
and cut almost staight down, is much sought 
after;  while collars having  one-half,  seven- 
eights, one and one-fourth  to  one  and  one- 
half  inches space, and being two or two and 
one-half inches  deep,  are  sold  frequently, 
aocording  to  the shape of the tie or scarf to 
be  worn. 
In  buying  fine  folded  collars 
dealers should see that the  band  is  curved 
sufficiently to make room between the collar 
and the band, that the tie or scarf  band may 
be easily adjusted when the eollar is button­
ed, and that the band is properly  shaped  to 
fit the  shirt.  It  is  necessary  to  the  well- 
fitting and comfort of  a  folded  collar  that 
the band be narrow  at  the  point  where  it 
passes over the shoulder  blade.  These  two 
points are essential to the successful «ale  of 
any turned-down collar.
That  a  collar  should  have  two  button­
holes in the back is hardly  necessary.  The 
upper button-hole is the one commonly used. 
Using the lower one tends to throw  the  top 
of the collar onto the  neck,  making  it  un­
comfortable and ill-fitting.
No cuff yet  introduced  has  been  such  a 
favorite as the plain, square band.  It is safe 
to say that its equal  in  sale  will  never  be 
produced.  The only objection ever made to 
it is that when poorly laundried, the corners 
will roll up and look badly.  This fact alone, 
perhaps, caused the production of what man- 
ufacturers call  the  double,  found-end  cuff. 
It  is  the  square  cuff  having  the  corners 
sharply rounded off.  This cuff will be,  per­
haps, the most  popular the  coming  season. 
It is shown in widths  from  three  and  one- 
half to four and one-eight inches.  The nar­
rowest are reversible and answer every  pur­
pose of the wider  ones,  being  at  the  same 
time more comfortable.  A cuff about  three 
and three-quarters inches wide  will  be  the 
one most commonly used.  Linked cuffs will 
continue  to be worn on dress  occasions.
One of the  most  gratifying  prospects  of 
the collar and cuff trade is the  growing ten­
dency to use fewer and  more  staple  styles. 
This means a better profit  to  the  manufac­
turer, and especially to the dealer. 
It  is  a 
welcome prospect  and  deserves  encourage­
ment. 

Norman Harris, the genial general  dealer 
at Big Springs, suffered the loss of his build­
ings and stock early last  Wednesday  morn­
ing, while he was on his way to this market. 
The fire  was  discovered  in  the  rear  of  a 
woodshed,  and  was  possibly  of incendiary 
origin. 
It rapidly spread to  the  house  and 
store  building  adjoining,  destroying  both 
with their entire contents.  Mr.  Harris esti­
mates  his loss on buildings at $1,000, $2,500 
on stock, and $2,000 on household furniture. 
He had no insurance, but  as  he  has  lately 
been  discounting all his bills, his  stock  was 
nearly all paid for, and he has enough left to 
begin again.  He  has  let  the  contract  for 
erecting a new store building  26x50  feet  in 
size, and two stories  high,  work  on  which 
was  begun  Monday.  He  hopes  to have it 
in shape to resume business  within  two  or 
three weeks.
The Tradesman tenders  Mr.  Harris  its 
full measure of sympathy, assuring him that 
it is a source of regret that he has not headed 
the many suggestions made of  late  relative 
to the advisability of keeping  well  insured. 
His misfortune may be  of  profit  to  others 
by serving as a warning to those who  might 
otherwise be caught in the lurch in case of a 
fire. 

Alma—Geo. E. Passmore, grocer, sold out.
Alleyton—Proctor & Co., lumber, succeed­
ed by Wm. Davenport
Battle Creek—L. R. Williams, grocer, sold 
out
Cedar Springs—J.  Lovejoy  &  Co.,  hard­
ware, closed under chattel mortgage.
Jackson—Holden  &  Larrabee,  hats  and 
caps, sold out to A. M. Tinker & Co.
Lakeview—W. J. Taylor,  hotel,  sold  out 
and gone to Pierson.
S t Joseph—A. K. Webster & Co., sold out 
out to J. A. Sidel.
Nhshville—Jos. M. Wood, blacksmith and 
founder, burned  out;  loss  $5,000,  insured 
for $3,000.
Lowell—Miller & Yeiter, drags, dissolved, 
Yeiter succeeding.
Harrison—D. M. Hunter,  drugs,  sold  out 
to II. J. Andersen.

The  following  business changes, failures, 
embarrassments,  etc.,  occuring  up  to  the 
hour of  going  to  press,  are  furnished  The 
Tradesman by the mercantile agencies:

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Late  Business  Changes.

A  Slight  Inconsistency.

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A pair  of  embroidered, fancy-looking sus­
penders hung in frout of a store, and a young 
farmer halted to examine them.
“Something new?” he  asked, as  the  pro­
prietor came out. 
“Shust oudt, my friend.  Dosh ish  batent 
suspenders.”
“Are you sole  agent?”
“I vash.  Dot batent came oHt  about  two 
vheeks ago, und my brudder  in  New  York 
sends me a sheb lot  yesterday.  You  can t 
buy ’em no blace else.”

“They don’t look very  strong.”
“What?  If you can break dose suspenders 
by shumping over nine fences I gif  you  den
bairsl” 

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“I wonder how they’ll wear?
“Shust like iron.  Here ish a  bair  of  dot 
batent,”  he  replied  as  he  unbuttoned  his 
vest, “dot I haf worn over two y’ars.”
The farmer  had  gone  before  the  dealer 
saw where he had made  the  slip,  and  then 
he  looked  after  the  retreating  figure  and
mused: 
“I guess I let der batent part alone und go 
in heavy on the embroidery peesnessl”

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Composition of Dynamite.

Those  who  have  never  seen  the  much 
talked of dynamite explosive  will  be  inter­
ested to know that it looks  very  much  like 
moist brown sugar.  Nitro-glycerine,  which 
is  formed by the action of  nitric  acid  upon 
elvcerine, at a low temperature, is the active 
agent in dynamite, but is mixed  with  some 
absorbent ubstance to render it safer to han­
dle than the liquid glycerine.  The absorbent 
material thus used is a silicious earth—a fine 
white powder composed  of  the  remains  of 
infusoria, and  resembling  powdered  chalk; 
this takes up two or three times it weight of 
the nitro-glyerine, without  becoming  pasty, 
and the ingredients are easily mixed,  leaden 
vessels and  wooden  spoons  being  used  to 
avoid dangerous  friction.  When  flame  is 
applied to this mass it bums  with  a  strong 
flame,  without  any  explosion;  but  when 
ignited by a detonating fuse,  or  even  by  a 
sudden blow, it explosive  force  is  tremen­
dous. 

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Minden City is to have a new bakery.

Late  Furniture  Gossip.

*Eaton, Lyon & Allen are getting out an il­
lustrated, thirty-page catalogue for the Wor­
den Furniture  Co.
The  Cincinnati  Coffin  Makers’  Associa- 
ation embraces thirty-three firms,  represent­
ing $8,000,000  capital.
There are 500  undertakers  in  the  State, 
and 102 are connected with  the  association 
which  met here last week.

Agents of a New York  firm  are  scouring 
the  woods  of  Arkansas  for  black  walnut 
trees, for which $1 each is paid, the logs be­
ing shipped to New  Orleans.

Jerome  Carpenter,  formerly  engaged  in 
the  retail  furniture  business  at  Newaygo, 
but for the past six months out of trade  and 
traveling in the South, has re-engaged in the 
same business at Newaygo.

*  Unsolicited  Testimonials.

W. H. Benedict, groceries and grain,  Ver- 

montville:  “Like your  paper.”

Geo. S. Hartom,  general  dealer,  Assyria 

Center:  “It is a splendid sheet”

C. M. Woodard,  general  dealer,  Ashland 

P. O.:  “I like The Tradesman.”

W. H. Benedict, general dealer, Casnovia: 
It  is  per­

“Can suggest no  improvement. 
fect.”
D. B. Galentine,  general  dealer,  Bailey : 
“It is a valuable paper.  No dealer  ean  fail 
to derive much profit from it.”
T.  W. Daniels, Eaton Rapids:  “1 consider 
the one article “Sustained” in your last issue 
worth half the year’s subscription.” 
m  Spring & Lindley, general dealers, Bailey: 
“We have no suggestions to offer,  unless  it 
is  to request you  to  give  us  an  occasional 
hint as to how to detect adulterations.”

Again  in  Limbo.

the 

The  notorious  Brady, 

swindling 
Luther dealer, is again  arrested  for  fraud* 
this time  at the  instance  of  F.  J.  Detten- 
thaler, who is interested  $120  worth.  Mr, 
D. is on the field, and proposes  to  fight  the 
matter to the bitter end.

next season.

San Francisco is preparing  for  a  world’s 

fair in 1887.
When  business  is  dull  competition  is 
sharp, and there is consequently a good deal 
of cutting done.
Among the novelties  exhibited  by  Swiss 
watch makers are silver watches hanging for 
weeks in glass jars  of  water  and  keeping 
perfect time.
A woman who has to  keep  the  breakfast 
standing for her two indolent daughters  un- 
ril  9  o’clock  says  this year  is  no  different 
from all the  rest. 
It’s  always  sleep  year 
with them.
The price of window glass has already ad­
vanced  very  materially  in  consequence  of 
the strike, which has been  in  progress  five 
months, and  although  the  demand  at this 
season  is  light,  it  is  probable  that  when 
building is resumed in the spring there  will 
be a still  greater  increase  in  prices.  The 
Pittsburg manufacturers express the opinion 
that there will be  no  more  glass  manufac­
tured before next September.
The twenty-year contract of  the  Pullman 
Palace Sleeping-Car Co.  with  the  Pennsyl­
vania Railroad Co. expires during  the  pres­
ent year.  The Pennsylvania  Co.  expect to 
cease  all  connection with the  Pullman  Co., 
and are already engaged in  the construction 
of magnificent  new  cars  in  their  shops  at 
Altoona to replace those of the Pullman Co. 
The new  cars  will  be  constructed  after  a 
plan and specifications furnished by  a  gen­
tleman in New York.
A  family in Omaha  fabricated  an  oyster 
pie of canned oysters, and  variety  was  im­
parted to the repasfeby the  finding  of  a  hu­
man finger in  the  dish.  They,  of  course, 
could not find who had  put  his  finger  into 
the pie, it was so dextrously done;  they  did 
not find it out, they found it in.  The  prob­
ability is the addition  was  the  result  of  a 
laudable ambition on the part of sonie Balti­
more packer to give full weight solid  meats 
in his oysters.
A resident of Brooklyn who has lately re­
turned from a visit to the west  of  England 
tells of an Englishman who persisted in  the 
belief that buffaloes furnished  all  the  meat 
canned in America.  After exhausting every 
argument to convince the Englishman of the 
absurdity of his idea, the Brooklyn man sar­
castically admitted that the Englishman was 
right.  “But,” he added, “while I am making 
admissions, I  may as well  say  that  all  the 
canned salmon in America  is  also  made  of 
buffalo meat.”

An active movement  has begun per refrig­
erator  cars on the Northern Pacific for ship­
ping “steel  head” fish to the  East.  Oregon 
papers  protest  against  this  exportation  of 
the poorest fish  in  their  waters,  especially 
against the  introduction  of  it  as  “Oregon 
salmon.”  They say the deception will injure 
the fish trade of  Oregon,  when  these  steel 
heads are compared on the same slab or table 
with Sacramento salmon, per Central Pacific. 
The Board of Trade of Portland is  asked  to 
do something about it.
A sugar refinery in St. Louis has recently 
made a very large purchase of Sandwich  Is­
land  sugar,  which  will  begin  to  arrive  in 
February  and  continue  until  July.  The 
quantity contracted for is 10,000 tons, or 20,- 
000,000 pounds, valued  at  $1,500,000.  The 
transportation of this  sugar  will  be  in  the 
the hands of the  Pacific Mail Steamship Co. 
and the  Central  and Southern  Pacific  rail­
roads, the former  taking it at Honolulu and 
delivering to  the railroads at San Francisco. 
The shipment will furnish tonnage for near­
ly forty-five freight  trains.

Cheese  is  a  very  concentrated  food;  but 
cheese is  an  article  than  depends  upon  so 
many  conditions that its  quality  cannot  be 
determined for a large quantity by an  exam­
ination of a single sample.  Dry as it seems, 
ene-third  is water,  one-third  fat  and  one- 
third caseine.  The fats are  only  partly  di­
gested, while a  large  portion  of  caseine  is 
not digested at  all.  By  some  processes  of 
manufacture  the  phosphates  are  rendered 
soluble and carried away in the whey.  Un 
der what is known as  the  sweet-cured  pro­
cess  the phosphates are  retained,  and  such 
cheese  is  much  more  nutritious  that  that 
made by the acid process.
It would more than repay a day’s  sojourn 
at Jonkoeping,  says the Pall Mall  Gazette. 
to visit the  factory  from  whence  proceeds 
not a small part of the  light  of  the  world, 
The latest novelty, only at work for about a 
month, is an enormous engine,  which  daily 
produces 1,000,000 boxes of Swedish matches, 
This  wonderful  machine  receives  the  raw 
material, namely, blocks of wood at one end 
and, after a while, gives up at the  other  the 
matches  neatly  arranged  in  their  boxes, 
ready to be despatched to the uttermost ends 
of the world,  The wood which in the course 
of last summer was brought  over to  Jonkoe­
ping to be made into  matches  filled  twenty 
steamers and eight sailing vessels.

The charge that  the  Post  Office  Depart­
ment is run in  the  interest  of  the  express 
companies  will,  doubtless,  be  renewed,  in 
view of  Judge  Gresham’s  ruling  upon  the 
classification of sundry articles of  merchan­
dise, such as printed  labels,  envelopes  and 
letter heads, in which the printing is not the 
principal thing.  Goods  of  this  kind  here­
after will not be rated as printed matter at 1 
cent for two ounces,  but  must  go  as  mer­
chandise at 1  cent  an  ounce.  As  the  law 
stands this regulation is sound—and  a  good 
deal sounder and more  sensible  than  some 
postal rulings.  Whether the law ought to be 
changed in the direction of  lower  rates  for 
merchandise  is  another  qtfestion,  and  one 
upon which there is something to be said  on 
both sides.
During the year 1883 the  tomato  pack  of 
the United  States  reached  70,645,896  cans. 
This means  nearly  one  and  one-half  cans 
per capita, for each man, woman  and'  child 
in the country.  How much the  canning in­
dustry has grown within a year or  two  may 
be gleaned from the fact that while the pack 
of 1883 reached 2,943,579 cases, that of 1882 
was 2,180,123 cases, and  in  1881,  1,635,966 
cases.  Within two years,  therefore, the  in­
dustry has almost doubled.  Maryland is the 
banner state of  the  industry,  and  Harford 
county its stronghold.  She packed this year 
nearly  half  of  the  total  stock—1,450,000 
cases.  New Jersey comes next with 612,000 
cases;  Delaware  third,  156,000;  California 
fourth,  117,000;  Ohio  fifth,  112,000.  All 
other States packed less than  100,000  cases.

The  Soudanese  Too  Busy  Fighting  to  Send 

Their  Camel  Loads  to  Kartoum.

From the  New  York  Sun.

At the junction of the White Nile and the 
Blue, in Upper Nubia, east of the lower edge 
of the irregular brown  patch  which  marks 
the edge of the desert  of Sahara on the  map 
of Africa, is the city of Khartoum, the ship­
ping  point  of  nearly  all  the  gum  arabic 
with which  the  markets  of  the  world  are 
supplied.  Gum  gedda,  gum suakim,  gum 
senhaar, are the names of the different qual­
ities of the gum, each named  from  the  dis­
trict from which it comes, all being included 
within the Soudan district, in  which  the  re­
bellion of the followers of the  false prophet 
has occurred.  One of the  largest  importers 
of gum in this country is a firm  in  William 
street.
“El Mehdi’s rebellion,”  said  the  head  of 
this firm, “has cut off  the  entire  supply  of 
It is gathered  from the  acacia 
gum arabic. 
trees by the Soudan natives, brought to Khar­
toum on the backs of  camels,  and  bartered 
with Cairo and Suakim merchants for  guns, 
cartridges  and  trinkets. 
In  the  flood  of 
October and November, when the Nile  is  at 
its highest point, and during the  only  times 
when barges will pass the  falls, this gum  is 
floated  to  Cairo,  and  shipped  to  London, 
Pasis, Marseilles and New York.  The other 
great industry of the Soudan is the collection 
of ostrich feathers, but these also come from 
the Cape  of Good Hope, so there is no  dan­
ger that the supply will be cut off.”
“What is the consumption of gum arabic in 
this country?”
“Between three millions and four millions 
of pounds a year.  It is used by confectioners 
in their candies, and especially in gum drops; 
by mucilage  makers,  .envelope  manufactur­
ers,  and tobacconists,  and  by  silk  makers 
and  carpet  manufacturers  to  hold 
their 
colors.”
'Has there been a heavy  advance  in  the 
price?”
“It ]}as advanced in one year from 12 cents 
a pound in lots to from 22  to  24  cents. 
It 
advanced  30  per  cent,  in  the  last  week. 
Most of the  advance  has  been  in  the  last 
fourmontns.  There’s  no  telling  where  it 
will stop.  There isn’t  enough  gum  arabic 
in sight in all the markets of  the  world  to­
day to supply America  for  one  year.  Still 
there’s enough in  the  country  to  meet  the 
immediate  demand.  The  natives  of  the 
Soudan are gathering none this year,  and  it 
is only a question ©f time when  the  supply 
will be gone.  Here  is  a  cablegram  which’ 
we received on Jan. 7 from our Cairo house, 
to whom we telegraphed for  prices.  They 
say:  ‘There is absolutely  nothing offering.’ 
Two  years  ago  the  estimated  quantity  of 
gum arabic visible  in  all  the  markets  was 
24,000 bales, now it is 3,500 bales. 
If peace 
were to  be  declared  to-morrow,  of  which 
there is no likelihood, and the natives should 
go to work gathering gum,  it  could  not  be 
brought to Cairo until the next high Nile  in 
October, 1884.  But industries are so demor­
alized that, even  in  the  event  of  peace,  it 
would be  a  long  time  before  the  natives 
would return to the gathering of gum.”
‘How will the  failure  of  the  supply  of 
gum  arabic  affect  the  gum-drop  trade?” 
was asked a leading manufacturer.
“My  dear  sir,”  he  said  dropping  into  a 
confidential tone, “El Mehdi might  sink  all 
the  gum arabic in Africa into the  Nile,  and 
he  wouldn’t  affect  the  trade  in  American 
gum-drops.  As a matter of  fact  the  candy 
trade would not  suffer  appreciably.  There 
isn’t an ounce of  gum  arabic  in  a  million 
pounds of the ordinary gum drops like those 
sold from stands in  the  streets.  They  are 
made from  the  glucose of the starch factor­
ies,  which  is  generally  used  in  the  finer 
grades  of  confectionery  instead  of  gum 
arabic.  Of  course  the  candy  suffers,  but 
there is no limit to adulteration  in  the  con­
fectionery business.  Now, here are two va­
rieties of candy which I manufacture, either 
of  which  contains  33%  per  cent,  of  gum 
arabic.  Only people who are skilled  candy- 
eaters would know  the  difference  between 
them and a cheaper article  made  from  glu­
cose.  As the price of gum arabic  increases, 
there will be very  few  genuine  gum  drops 
sold.”

Howard  Happenings..

From  the  Record.

C. E. Murray has his new building  up.
F. O. Lord is  buying  stone  for  his  new 

block.
house before another year gets around.

Howard City will have a  first-class  opera 

S. H. Sweet has moved to  Grand  Rapids, 
where he will engage in the grocery business 
on South Division street.
Chauncey  Hess,  who  was  arrested  for 
stealing goods in this city the next day after 
the  fire,  was  taken  before  Justice  Perry, 
where  he  pleaded  guilty to the charge,  but 
claimed that he got only one  pound  of  cof­
fee.  He was fined $50 and costs, or 60 days 
in jail, which he settled.

W. R. MeGiveren, of  Lansing,  and  Prof. 
R. C. Carpenter,  of  the  State  Agricultural 
College, have been in town  looking  up  the 
opening for a brick yard.  They  think  that 
there is good clay here,  and  there  is  some 
prospect  of  Mr.  McGiveren’s  coming  to 
Howard and engaging in the business.

Last Wednesday morning,  when  all  was 
quiet in  Hathaway  &  Bullock’s  store,  the 
top of the stove suddenly left its usual place 
of resting and tried to get out of  the  top  of 
the building.  The dopr flew  open  and  fire 
was scattered all over tho floor.  The cause of 
the commotion ia supposed  to  have  been  a 
loaded stick of wood.  The report was heard 
twp blocks away.  The damage  was  slight.

California  Millionaires.

From the Cincinnati  Enquirer.

Who is the wealthiest man in  California?
“Jim Flood,  worth  $100,000,000;  he  is  a 
liberal  man  and  a  shrewd  one.  He  has 
built up  on  San  Francisco  Bay a new  port 
ealled  Costa  city,  with  magnificent  store­
houses and piers, from  v&ich  the  wood  of 
those rich  countries  are^shipped  direct  to 
Europe  and  the  world.  O’Brien,  Flood’s 
partner, is dead, and his fortune distributed, 
Mackey, one of the bonanza crowd, is thought 
to be  worth  $60,000,000,  and  Jim  Fair  is 
Vorth perhaps $40,000,000.”

The  newspaper  foreman got  a  marriage 
notice  among  items  headed  “Horrors  of 
1883,” and when the editor learned  that the 
groom was a grocery clerk, with  an  income 
of only $7 a week he said that it had  better 
remain under that head.

The Story of a Factory That Covers  an  Entire 

Bloch.
From the New  York  Sun.

“You see that large factory?  It  covers an 
entire  block.  Half  a  million  of  money 
wouldn’t buy it.  Well,  it  was  built  by  a 
little piece of cord not more that  six  inches 
long.”  Here the speaker paused and  scrut­
inized the reporter’s  countenance  for  indi­
cations of incredulity,  not  to  say  astonish­
ment.  But the  narrator  was  talking  to  a 
mon who, Bince the introduction of the  tele­
phone, has made it a point of principle to be 
ready  for  anything,  and  to  believe  all  he j 
hears.  The speaker added:
“Eight years ago there lived  on  the  west 
side, in the third story of a cheap  tenement, 
down on the North River, a poor  mechanic, 
who was kept poor because he had a passion 
for inventing;  it amounted to a passion.  He 
didn’t  drink  and  didn’t  travel  with  poli­
ticians, and all who  knew  his  family  won­
dered why they shpuld  be  so  poor.  Time 
passed on, and still the man was poor.  But 
at last he  perfected an invention—the  sim- i 
plest thing on earth—and with his patent in 
his hand he went down town  one  day,  and 
called for the head of a house  whose  check 
was current for five figures anywhere in ‘the 
street.’  The  inventor  offered  to  sell  two- 
thirds of his patent for  $20,000 if the house 
would bind itself to  put  $100,000  into  fac­
tories for producing the little  thing  that  he 
had invented.  The firm signed papers in less 
than half an hour from the time  of  hearing 
the proposal,  and  in  another  hour  the  in­
ventor had  converted  the  firm’s  check  for 
$20,000 into greenbacks.  Lots were bought, 
and a factory  was  erected.  The  business 
speedily grew  to  gigantic  proportions,  and 
at length the firm  acquired  all  the  rest  of 
the block,  and  covered  it  with  brick  and 
mortar, and now the inventor is able to asso­
ciate with millionaires.  The little glove fas­
tener—a piece of cord about six inches  long 
and a dozen little metal hooks or buttors—is 
the thing that was invented.

Patents Issued to Michigan  Inventors.

The following patents have lately  been is­

sued to Michigan inventors:

machine.

rows,
to hydro-carbon vapor burners.

John J. Renchard, Detroit, lubricator.
F. A. Hubei,  Detroit,  (re-issue)  capsule 
Elwethan Phelps, Hartford, grain cleaner.
Warren W. Hill,  Texas,  rudder  for  har­
Bruno Martin, East  Saginaw,  attachment 
A. Shellman, Charleston, spring  tooth.
Wm. M. Thomas, Grand Rapids,  assignor 
of  one-half  to  the  Grand  Rapids  Electric 
Light and Power Co., electric cut out.
Wm. F. Drake and  Jas.  H.  Seek,  Grand 
Haven, single sawing  machine.
Emanuel M.  George,  Three  Rivers,  me­
chanical movement.
Edward E. Bostwick, Union City, harrow.
Robt. M. Bellinger, Blissfield, fruit drying 
Thos.  R.  Bevins,  Kalamazoo,  carriage 
Edward  Devine,  Detroit,  pipe  bending 
John F. Guilloy, Detroit, milk  bucket.
,T. B. Joseph, Alpena, electric distress sig­
Chas. J. Leach, Hartford, combined  grain 
Geo. H. MeCole, Jackson,  trace  cock  eye 
Wm. S. Newson, Manistee,  shingle  band. 
P. O’Connor, Tallman, single  sawing  ma­
Wm. H. Richmond, Mt.  Pleasant,  clothes 
Louis C. Rodier, Detroit, radiator.
Donald G. Ross, Hatton, paving block ma­
J.  B. Sweetland,  Pontiac,  ore  pulverizer. 
E. J. Weeks, Jackson, bustle.
John Williams, Kalamazoo, cherry  pitter.

nal.
scale, bagger and register.
attachment.

rack.
springs.
machine.

chine.
reel.

chine.

The  Provision  Market.

Pork  lias advanced  $1  per  Jjarrel  since 
last week, and promises  to  go  still  higher 
after the  1st.  There are  no  surplus  hogs, 
and pork is cheap now  compared  with  the 
price of hogs.  There is no  possible  ehanee 
for cheap pork.  Lard  has  remained  about 
stationary, the extensive use of  cotton  seed 
oil preventing many of  the  variations  inci­
dent to the rise and fall of  pork.  Beef  has 
not  advanced for  several days, but is bound 
to go higher before  spring.

The  Fruit  Market.

Owing to heavy arrivals anil cold, unfavor­
able weather for shipping for the past week, 
the market is heavily over stocked and  very 
low prices rale.  The latest intelligence from 
New  York  conveys  the  information  that 
over 100,000 boxes  of  oranges  and  lemons 
are  stocked in the warehouses there,  await­
ing the advent of warmer weather.
The candy tradeis better  at  present  than 
at this time a year ago.

The  Dry  Goods  Market.

There is  said  to  be  a  slight  weakening 
tendency in prices, although there is an  act­
ive movement in the Eastern  markets,  vast 
quantities of goods having changed  hands— 
not in consequence of  forced  sales,  but  on 
account of an increased demand.
Barrels  Superceding  the  Use  of  Hogsheads.
Barrels are rapidly superceding hogsheads 
for carrying sugar, if a New Orleans author­
ity is to be  believed.  For  years  Louisiana 
sugar went to market in hogsheads, and that 
vague term, a hogshead, which,  like  a  bale 
of cotton, means nothing, and is  no  definite 
quantity, ranging anywhere from 900 to l,50o 
pounds, has been the measure for sugar  pro­
duction.  Ten years ago ninety-nine one-hun­
dredths of the crop and more was shipped to 
New Orleans in hogsheads, and a few  thou­
sand pounds were  barreled,  principally  for 
In 1880,  several  planters  bar­
family use. 
reled a portion of their crop, and found that 
it did well. 
It  was  a  convenience  to  the 
boats and railroads, for a barrel ean be rolled 
easily and rapidly by  one  man,  whereas  a 
hogshead is  moved with  difficulty  by  five, 
especially when  the  river  is  low  and  the 
banks are steep and  muddy,—and  sugar  in 
barrels was found to  sell  readily  and  well. 
In 1880, 6 per cent, of the sugar was shipped 
in barrels.  This  system of shipping was so 
successful  that  the  percentage  of  barrels 
almost  trebled  during  the  next season, and 
17 per cent., or one-sixth of the  entire crop, 
came thus packed.  Last year there was  an­
other increase, and 22  per  cent.,  or  nearly 
one-fourth of the crop, was barreled  instead 
of  hogsheaded.  This  season  the  barrels 
seem to be all-powerful, and more than two- 
thirds of all the sugar that has reached New. 
Orleans so far has come in barrels.
Good  Mercantile  Advicd.

If you are a merchant, study to please the 
person you expect to buy your goods;  study 
the golden  rules  of  square  dealing;  study 
system and study the price-lists  of  an inde­
pendent mercantile  paper.  Of  co\irse  suc­
cess  will  not  always  attend  every  effort 
made.  The location you have selected  may 
not be one where a satisfactory business can 
be done.  But one thing, says an  exchange, 
may be depended upon, viz: 
“You  cannot 
put your goods helter skelter on your shelves 
and counters, and then sit down and  expect 
the dollars to roll into your  money  drawer, 
any  more  than  a  farmer  can  expect,  after 
putting  in  his  seed  potatoes,  to  sit  in  his 
parlor and let them grow.  They will not do 
their own  plowing  and  hoeing,  and  when 
ripe will not jump in the  barrels,  and  start 
for the market.”

The  Onward  March  at  Casnovia.

The Tradesman is assured by Mr. S.  N. 
Edie that he will begin the erection of anew 
hotel early in the spring, and that it  will  be 
ready for the formal opening  July  4.  The 
dimentions will be 40x100 feet, three stories 
high,  and  it  will  be  located  on  the  spot 
where the old Casnovia Hotel burned.
Robert Hanna has about consummated  ar­
rangements to erect a new heading,  planing 
and shingle mill, 24x50 feet in  size,  with  a 
wing for engine 14x26 feet.

W.  C.  Denison,  who  has  acquired  the 
grist mill property, has just completed about 
$1,000 worth of  repairs,  including  the  ad­
dition of a  new  purifier  apparatus,  and  is 
now ready for business.

W.  H.  Benedict  is  getting  material  in 
shape to erect a large store building early in 
1885.

Several new  cottage  residences,  some  of 
which will be a credit to the place, architect- 
ually, will be built the coming season.

Sumac  Leaves.

According to a  Baltimore paper the sumac 
business at  Petersburg,  Va.,  which  but 
few years ago was in its infancy, has reached 
large proportions,  and  become  a  very  im­
portant  industry.  The  receipts  of  leaves 
this year  will  aggregate  7,000,000  pounds 
Three large  factories are  kept  in  constant 
operation,  and  tlieir  products  find  ready 
sale.  The Virginia sumac is said to  be  the 
best in the market, and has  latterly  largely 
superseded the  foreign  article.  Hundreds 
of people make their living  in  the  summer 
and early  fall  season  by  gathering  leaves 
for hundreds, of  miles  around  the  country 
contributary to the Petersburg market.

Progressive.

itor of a  newspaper.
s&h ^

An old negro and his son called on the ed­
“I wants my son 4er  work  in  yer  office, 
“What can he do?”
“Oh, at fust he kaint do nuthin’ but edick 
yer paper, but arter awhile, when he  learns 
mo’ sense, he ken black yer boots an’ sweep 
de flo’.”

The camels that were  employed  in  haul­
ing freight across the dry wastes of  Arizona 
for the Southern  Pacific  Railroad,  now  by 
natural increase 400  in  number,  have  been 
bought by John Shirley, an Australian sheep 
farmer, and are to be used in hauling freight 
across  the  deserts  in  Australia.  He  got 
them  for  $10,000—much  less  than  a  like 
number of camels would cost him if he were 
to  transport them from Africa.

The  Youth’s  Companion.

As  a  source  of  profitable  entertainment 
for the family, no paper exceeds  in  interest 
the Y outh’s Companion.  Its list of writers 
embraces the best names in periodical litera­
ture, and it is evidently the aim of its editors 
to secure not only the best  writers,  but  the 
best articles from their pens.  It is a remark­
able thing for a single paper to  obtain  such 
a succession of lively and interesting articles. 
While the Companion is in the main a story 
paper, the mental, moral and religious train­
ing of young people is an end  kept  steadily 
in view. 
Its articles  on  current  topics  are 
written by the most qualified pens, and  pre­
sent, in a clear, vivid, direct way, the funda­
mental facts of  home  and  foreign  politics, 
and all public questions. 
Its original • anec­
dotes of public men are  invaluable  inf their 
influence in stimulating  right  ambition  and 
a high  purpose  in  life.  Every  household 
needs  the  healthy  amusement  and  high 
moral  training of such a journal 
It is  pub­
lished by Perry, Mason &  Co., of Boston, 
who will send specimen  copies  upon  appli­
cation.

Connubial  Bliss.

Woman in the parlor— 
Husband on a bum— 
Supper long waiting— 
Husband  doesn’t come- 
An hour after midnight— 
Husband comes along— 
Tighter than a drum— 
Howling out a song— 
Woman cries a little— 
Says it is a sin - 
interviews the husband 
With  a rolling pin!

Granulated milk, according  to the  Med­
ical Record, is made by subjecting  milk to 
a heat of 130 degrees until the  watery  por­
tion is all evaporated.  Then it  is granulat­
ed and sugar added, when it looks like  com 
meal. 
It is less solid than  condensed  milk 
and  with  water closely  resembles  natural 
milk.

A New York  drummer  on  his  first  trip 
registers  his  place  of  residence  as  “New 
York City,” in large letters.  On his second 
trip he cuts it  down  to  “New  York,”  and 
after that “N. Y.” is enough.  All of  which 
shows that after a New Yorker has  traveled 
about a bit he begins to learn something.

The rice |crop  this  year  foots  up  87,000 
tierces against 89,725  tierces  last  year, 78,- 
967 tierces for 1881, 99,879 tierces  for  1880, 
and 104,308 tierces for 1879.  Common  rice 
isplentier.  Prime  and  choice  grades  are 
scarce.  Foreign is generally  neglected.

Spring  &  Company  are  better  prepared 
tnis  season  than  ever  before  to  meet the 
wants of their numerous  patrons.  For the 
present, Mr. Henry Spring will give  his  at­
tention to the wholesale department

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

A JO U R N A L DEVOTED TO TH E

iercaniile and Manufacturing Interests of the State.

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

WEDNESDAY,  JAfl. 30,  1884.  ~

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.

A  GLUT  OF  EVERYTHING.

The business situation  in the country is  a 
puzzle  which  the  most  experienced  mer­
chants confess their  inability  to  solve. 
It 
may be summed up in a few  words—a  glut 
of everything;  a glut  of  farm  products,  of 
manufactures  and of money.  Old business 
men do not recall just such  a  former  situa­
tion.  We  have  had  hard  times,  and  col­
lapses caused by poor crops, and  seasons  of 
extravagance, and scarcity of money, before; 
but here is a stagnation of trade in the midst 
of plenty of money, plenty of farm  produce 
and  plenty  of  all  sorts  of  mauufactures. 
Money is borrowable in  New  York  at  IK  
to 2 per cent, on first-class securities;  wheat 
is worth only  $1  per  bushel  and  com  45 
cents a bushel;  bar-iron brings only  $1.70  a 
hundred,  and  all  other  articles  of  trade 
share the low prices  of  these  leading  com­
modities.  There  is  no  brisk  demand  for 
labor and wages  are  declining  with  every­
thing else.  The end of the winter season is 
fast  approaching and  dry  goods  merchants 
and clothiers are making  an  effort  to  force 
their surplus stocks on the public by offering 
them at lower prices than have been  known 
for a generation.  Groceries as a whole rule 
lower than for twenty  years.  And  yet the 
country is rich in everything—in food, cloth­
ing,  houses,  farms,  mills,  factories,  trans­
portation agencies, gold,  silver  and  all  the 
modem adjuncts of comfort.  In fact it seems 
as if a redundancy of these things is the real 
cause of the trouble.  Trade is dull  and  de­
pressed because there are so few wants to be 
supplied.

It is not encouraging to find that our large 
surplus  of  breadstuffs  and  provisions,  un 
wanted abroad, is accumulating in idle heaps 
in elevators and warehouses,  while India  is 
supplying the British markets with the wheat 
that we once supplied.  It suggests the ques­
tion, what  is  to  be  done  with  our  future 
grain surpluses, if the  British  will not  take 
them?

The  Bankruptcy Convention.

From the New Fork Shipping List.
Wash 
The  Bankruptcy  Convention,  in 
of  the
ington last week,  made  up  chiefly 
representatives of the chambers of commerce 
and boards of trade,  who  thoroughly  com­
prehend the needs of  the  commercial  and 
business interests  of  the  country,  decided 
with practical unanimity  in  recommending 
the Lowell bankruptcy  bill  as  by  far  the 
best and simplest in  its  provisions  of  any 
that has thus  far  been  brought  to  public 
notice.  They,  however, recommended  sev 
eral minor changes in the bill, the  two most 
important of which  were  the  insertion  of 
this clause:  “From  property  exempted  by 
State Laws, the bankrupt  may  select  and 
hold to the value of not  exceeding $1,000, 
and the insertion  of  a  provision-  making 
“valid objections to the bankrupt’s discharge 
if made solvent by  speculations  outside of 
his regular or legitimate business.”  There 
was some debate in respect to the method of 
appointing the officers  provided  for  in the 
bill, and in regard to minor cases  of  bank­
ruptcy for $1,000 or less, but  no recommen­
dations were made, it being deemed  best to 
leave the matter entirely with Congress.
The representatives in CoBgress  of  East­
ern and some of  the  Northwestern  States, 
whose people engaged in business that  com­
pels the granting of credits outside of  their 
States, are alive to  the  need  of  a  general 
bankruptcy law, but they are not a majority 
in either branch, and no  such  law  will  be 
enacted until they can win support from the 
representatives of the South and portions of 
tlie West.  The action  of  the  Bankruptcy 
Convention at the Capital  last  week  ought 
to have much weight with these men.
The necessity of prompt  action  becomes 
evident from the  most  casual  examination 
of the statistics of failures for the past year 
Their number was greater than  during any 
other  period  of  our  history  except  1878 
though 
there  have  been  several years  in 
which the amount of  liabilities were  great­
er.  For  instance, in 1857,  with  4,933  fail 
ures, the  liabilities  reached  the  enormous 
sum of $291,750,000, while with  10,299 fail 
ures last year  the  liabilities  amounted  to 
only $195,908,000.  The chief  inference  to 
be drawn from this fact is that the majority 
of those who failed in 1883 were small deal­
ers, who, in many instances,  were  tempted 
to do so by  the  opportunities  afforded  for 
fraud by the exceedingly loose and,.in many 
cases, conflicting insolvent  laws of  the dif­
ferent States.  As  bearing  out  this  prob­
ability,  it  is  significant  that  recent  bank­
ruptcy  statistics  show  that  the  specificak 
preferences  for 1883 were more than double 
those for 1882, that under the present  laws 
there has been, and is, a growing  tendency 
to prefer friends  and  relatives,  to  the  not 
»frequent cutting off of every real  creditor 
from participation in the  assets.  The  pus- 
sage of a general bankrupt act ought  not to 
be delayed till a time of  financial  disaster, 
as at such a time  legislation  is  necessarily 
crude and imperfect.

Stealings for 1883.

The following table shows the  amount of 
money stolen by different classes  ofi people 
in the United States, so far  as  their  steal­
ings were brought to  light,  during  the past 
year.  Amounts  less  than  $5,000  are  not 
counted.  The  amounts  stolen  by  bankers 
and heads of  banking  institutions  lead,  in 
point of  magnitude,  while 
lawyers  have 
in  the  least  number  of 
been  discovered 
cases:
*3,581,000
Bankers.............•• • • • • •  ...........ft
»,070,000
Bank cashiers and  clerks.... . 1»
559.000
Brokers.....................................”
863.000
State treasurers.........................  «
2.360.000
Merchants and agents..............
970.000 
Clerks, treasurers, etc...............ai
1,031,700
Charity and trust officers.----- -  »
1.786.000
City employees..........• ••.......
709.000
County employees and agents.16 
451.000
Lawyers........................ 
  *
*13,380,000
Total........................................148
They  All  Know  It.

From the  Mancelona Herald.
The  Michigan  Tradesman,  published 
at  Grand  Rapids, is  run  in the interest of 
commercial men.  Every merchant will find 
it a valuable paper for  reference.

The  improved and effective farm  machin­
ery invented and put to work in this country 
in the last thirty years has increased our  ca­
pacity to produce breadstuffs immensely.  It 
is said that  shoe-machines  have  become  so 
effective that our factories oan now  produce 
in one year enough shoes to supply the coun­
try for two;  and it  may  be  said  also  that 
farm implements have ^become  so  effective 
that one man can do  the  work  which  once 
required five, and raise enough food  to  sup­
ply fifty persons.  This, perhaps, is  the  ex­
planation of the unsalable abundance of food 
and clothing in the country.  The machinery 
in the land  represents  the power of sayjjsO,- 
000,000 men—and it neither eats, drinks jior 
wears clothes. ’  If it did we would  have an 
instant market for our surplus of  farm  pro­
ducts and manufacturers.  But machinery is 
no customer. 
It needs only a little coal and 
water;  provided with these it does the work 
of ten million  men.  And  under  the  fierce 
and unsparing competition that has  become 
the inexorable law of trade, we are  continu­
ally  multiplying  our  stock  of  inanimate 
power  and  bringing  new  inventions  into 
play.  When and how is it all to end?  If we 
go on increasing our  producing  capacity  at 
this rate until our farmers shall raise enough 
bread and meat in  one year to glut the  mar­
ket for two, our furnaces make enough iron 
our factories make enough cloth, our canning 
mills put up  enough  fruit  and  vegetables 
and our shoe shops turn out enough shoes in 
•ne year to  supply  the  demand  for  three, 
how are we to employ the idle time so  as  te 
provide a living for the masses  of  the  peo­
ple? 

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There is a prospect of a new move  in  the 
petroleum business.  For  the  first  time  in 
many years the production of the  wells  has 
not been equal to the  demand.  The  result 
of this is that Pennsylvania capitalists,dwho 
have been  gradually  driven  out  of  the  oil 
trade by the Standard people, have concluded 
that this is a good time to strike out  a  cam­
paign in a new field,  The Kanawha  region 
of West Virginia is  rich  in  oil  and  many 
years  ago  there  was  a  large  refinery  at 
Parkersburg and oil  men  grew  rich  there. 
Eventually, however, the Standard company 
gathered into its directory the  leading West 
Virginia  operators,  and  successfully  froze 
out the West  Virginia  wells.  At  least,  it 
has  always  been  maintained  that  the  oil 
production of the State ceased,  not  because
the wells went dry but because the powerful 
influences of  the  great  company  were  put 
forth to close them.  At the present time, it 
is said,  the Kanawha has been made naviga­
ble at all  seasons,  and  new  railroads  have 
Ijeen  built.  Transportation  faculties  are 
good and with the first increase  in  demand 
operators are ready to undertake  the  devel­
opment of the Parkersburg region  on  a big 
scale.  More than 300,000 acres of land have 
been purchased.

The total number of failures for the week 
ending Januar* 25 in the United States  and 
Canada was 317, against 425 the week before, 
which was the greatest  number  reached  m 
any week since 1878. 
It would be  interestr 
ing to know what proportion  of  these  were

Is  This  Irony?
From the Mancelona Herald.

The little town of Wetzell  is  as  dead  as 
dead  can be. 
It is hoped, however,  that  a 
Grand  Rapids  furniture  company  will es­
tablish a factory there.;

I the result of speculation, dealing in  futures 
I and stock gambling.  There  is  really  little 
) significance in the bare  report  of  a  failure 
! without  knowing  the  cause.  A  business 
j  failure resulting from  either  of  the  causes 
; named does not indicate business depression, 
S but only an abuse of business  privileges.

The Boston Globe  summarizes  the  busi­
ness situation, accurately and tersely, in the 
following fashion:
The way to restore confidence is to restore 
it.  Men who stand around,  and  growl  and 
whine, and wonder how dull  1884  is  liable 
to be, will not find It a good year.  But those 
who work hard, are  economical,  who  push 
things,  and  advertise  liberally—such  men 
will make money, and always remember 1884 
with pleasure and enthusiasm.

The American  hog  is  rising  in  national 
Importance and  all  indications  point  to  an 
early vindication of the character and utility 
of that animal against the  aspersions of  the 
naonarchs of Europe.  During the  past  fort­
night, the hog has been introduced into both 
branches of Congress, and sueh notice taken 
of the animal as can leave no doubt that it is 
to be an international question.

On account of the increase  in  advertising, 
and in order  to  maintain  the  usual  amount 
of reading matter,  a full-page supplement is 
issued  with  The  Tradesman  this  week. 
It is hoped to make this a regular feature of 
the  paper  hereafter—until  a  final  enlarge­
ment to eight pages is  made.

The winter thus far is not  considered  un­
favorable to the wheat crop.  Through much 
of  the  winter  wheat belt  there  have  been 
liberal  falls  of  snow,  generally 
the  har­
binger  of good crops of all kind».

Th® growth of the cotton  industry  in  the 
South undoubtedly has much to  do with the 
reduction of wages in New England mills.

The National Board  of  Trade  adopted  a 
resolution  favoring  the  principles  of  the 
Lowell bankruptcy bill.

We keep a large force of hands con­
stantly  employed, manufacturé all 
our stick, and can at all times give 
you the BEST  GOODS, andin any 
quantity.

We buy ORANGES  and LEMONS in 
LARGE  LOTS from FIRST HANDS 
and ship in FULL CAR LOTS, which 
enables us to compete with any mar­
ket in the country.

We  always  carry  a HEAVY  STOCK 
of ALMONDS, BRAZILS, FILBERTS, 
WALNUTS,  PACANS,  PEANUTS, 
and  COCOANUTS,  and  can  flU  the 
LARGEST ORDERS at the LOWEST 
PRICES,  either  from  here  or  direct 
shipment.

These  are  our  MAIN  SPECIALTIES,  and for 
which we  solicit your  orders,  fully  believing  that 
we can serve you to your entire satisfaction.

PUTNAM & BROOKS.

THE DEAREST TOBACCO

Is a Poor, Common or Low-Priced Article,

As It Gives Neither Pleasure 

Nor Satisfaction.

THE PUBLIC IS NOT SLOW TO LEARN THIS FACT

WHENEVER  IT  DISCOVERS  AN  ARTICLE  THAT  COM MENDS 

ITSELF

TO  THE  TASTE  AND  OTHER  SENSES.
-THE  REMARKABLE  SALE  OF-

G0U PJU T7

-WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN-

FAJSTOY  AND

STIFLE DRY GOODS
CARPETS,

I

MAT  ING-S,

OIXj  CLOTHS,

<3H

1» Ample  Evide»« of This.  H w Cmeem iriH SeB over 

Favorite  Brands  this  Year;, or  About

ef teir

ETC.,  BTC.

A N ® *  AS THERE ABE BETWEEN 800AN® 900  OTHER 

THE U. S., IfTOIXOW S THAT THEIR ROODS- MWST 6IAE

IN

e  and.  8 Monroe  Street,

THAW T IB   BRANDS  ÖF 0T3SR  MAEXK&

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

Grand. Rapids,

Michigan,  p

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

----- WHOLESALE  DEAKUt IN*-----

AKRON  SEWER  PIPE,

Foe  Brick  and  Clay,  Cement,  Staco!

T-nunr  tta t r .  COAX, aa& W OOD.

ESTIM ATES'  QHEERFTTLL IT  FURNISHEDi

OffiDB-7  Canal  Street.  Sweet’s.Hotel  Block.  Yar&MJoodiaidi. Street, Neaar Michigan

CLmtWl  Fraiirlit  House.

O F F I C E   O F 1

TO BACCO   COM PANY

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

DURHAM,  N.  C.,  August  20,  1883.

.

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GREETING.:—It  has  been  <mr  . t o   1 »   son., ton. to s ^ y   ym.  with  an « to * .  that  wotod  not  only  ad v e rts  our bran* «f W.  T.  B a.iw .ll-.> M -   M i
______  but  also  be  uaeful  to  y .»  and  an omamont  to your  place  ot ltosiness;  Just  what to  select has  been our  dWenlty.  Cliromos, and  arbeles  of  that
and  we  mgtotto* to  o n ,« *  . *   an  euonuons  sun.  on, .nytoing  tont  would  not  * *  and  he  of  some  »In«.  The novel  Idea  dually  stmeh 
«
a  bale, of  Bla.kw.IT.  «.nuia.  Hutonm  Smoking Tobtoto,  eontoining 
guatonteed  to  furnish  yon  with

 Z

ns 
OarrMt Bme  and  be  «  pleasing  reminder  when you.  orders  should he sent  in  for  to» “ Bull.” 

Instead  of  toe  origin*  well-known 
ra 

Respectfully  to  toe 

,

w . Afitt WTEIIJ.’B  DURHAM TOBACCO  OO.

THE W AY TO

You  can  get  One  of  these  Novol  Cloohs  FB B B   by  ordering from 
your  Jobber  F ifty  Founds  of  Blaokwell’s  Genuine  Bull  Durham 
Tobacco.  The  Fifty  Founds  can be made up  of  assorted 

sizes if youjwish, and the goods will be. charged at  LOWEST  PRICES.

| B lackwell’s  D urham  T obacco  Company,  D urham,  N.  C.

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

■ 
[excellent time-keeper. 

”, 

Yours  truly, 
J’

ANSONIA  CLOCK  COMPANY.

N ew  York,  August  1,  1883.

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The Clock you will get will be over 16 times the size of the accompanying diagram;  that is, 13 inches high and 8 inohes wide.

Br\>   (3o o £)8.

G r o c e r i e s .

Spring &  Company quote as

WIDE BROWN COTTONS.

Androscoggin, 9-4. .23 
Androscoggin, 8-4. .21
Pepperell,  7-4.....16%
Pepperell,  8-4.....20
Pepperell,  9-4.....22%

.25
Pepperell, 10-4. 
..27*4
Pepperell, 11-4.
Pequot,  7-4.............18
Pequot,  8-4.............21
Pequot,  tf-4.............24

CHECKS.

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

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

OSNABURG,

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

Alabama  plaid.......8
Augusta plaid........  8
Toledo plaid...........   7%
Manchester plaid..  7 
New Tenn. plaid.. .11 
Utility plaid...........   6*4

BLEACHED COTTONS.

 

bric, 4-4....... 

Greene, G.  4-4........   6
Avondale,  36..........  8*4
Hill, 4-4...................   9
Art  cambrics, 36.. .11% 
Hill, 7-8....................  8
Androscoggin, 4-4..  8% 
Hope,  4-4.................. 7%
Androscoggin, 5-4. .12%
King  Phillip  cam­
Ballou, 4-4...............7%
11%
Ballou, 5-4...............  6
Linwood,  4-4..........  9
8%
Boott,  O. 4-4
Lonsdale,  4-4............9%
Boott,  E. 5-5..........
Lonsdale  cambric. 12 
Boott, AGC, 4-4.......954
Langdon, GB, 4-4...  9*4
» •  O/i 
Boott, K. 3-4..........
Langdon,  45............14
i.  7% 
Blackstone, AA 4-4 
Masonville,  4-4.........9%
..  6%
Chapman, X, 4-4...
Maxwell. 4-4............1054
Conway,  4-4...........  7?*
New York Mill, 4-4.10%
Cabot, 4-4................   754
New Jersey,  4-4__   8
Cabot, 7-8................   6%
Pocasset,  P. M. C..  7*4 
Canoe,  3-4...............  4
Pride of the West. .12% 
Domestic,  36..........  7%
Pocahontas,  4-4__   8*4
DwightAnchor,4-4.10
Slaterville, 7-8... 
Davol, 4-4................   9%
Victoria,  AA.
Fruit of Loom, 4-4..  9%
Fruit of Loom, 7-8..  8% IWoodbury ,4-4—
Whitinsville,  4-4... 
Fruit of  the Loom,
Whitinsville, 7-8...
i W amsutta, 4-4........10%
Gold Medal, 4-4..
Gold Medal, 7-8.......6% | Williams ville,  36... 10%
Gilded  Age............. 8%i

cambric,  4-4........12

l sat

Armon 
Andros 
Canoe I 
Clarenc 
Hallow 
Ind. Or 
Laconii

>RSET JEANS 
,.  7%'Kearsi 
,.  8%|Na 
..  634 Pe 
..  634 Pe 
•  6*  Ho 
..  634 La 
..  7%|Co
PRINTS

age................   8%
keagsatteen.  8% 
rell  bleached  8%
rell sat..........  9%
>ort................   7%
incesat..........  8%
osat...............  7

1

solid.

jester ...........
.6
jestermourn’: 
.6
iiton  fancy..
6
el fancy........
.6%
imac D ..........
.6%
îhester..........
.6%
ital fancy__
.6
.6%
ital  robes__
ic  robes........
mond.............
• 6% 
Hiver...........
.6
son’s'.............
.6%
lgton tancy.. 
igton  blues..8

Albion, 
All
Alien’s  checks........ 6 Hai
Ailen’s  fancy.......... 6 Hai
Allen’s pink............. % ¡Mei
Alleu’sp urple......... 61% Mai
America]a, fancy....
Arnold fitncy........... %|Orii
Berlin solid.............. %|Pac
Cocheco fancy........'6% Rie
St»
Cocheco]robes.........
Conestog:a fancy— ¡Sin:
% Wa
Eddystoi
Eagle fa:ncy............ .5 Wa
Garner pink...........
FINE BROWN C(
Indi
Orchard, 40.  8% 
Indian Orchard, 36.  8
Laconia  B, 7-4.........16%
Lyman B, 40-in.......10%
Mass. BB, 4-4..........  6%
Nashua  E, 40-in___ 9
Nashua  K, 4-4........  7%
Nashua 0,7-8..........  7%
Newmarket N........   7%
Pepperell E, 39-in..  7%
Pepperell  K, 4-4__ 7
Pepperell 0,7-8___ 6%
Pepperell N, 3-4___ 6%
Pocasset  C, 4-4.......7
Saranac  R................ 7%
Saranac  E...............  9

A ,4-4....  8
Appletc
Boott  M, 4-4...........   734
Boston  F, 4-4..........8
Continental C, 4-3..  734 
Continental D, 40 in 834 
Conestoga W, 4-4...  7 
Conestoga  D, 7-8...  5%
Conestoga  G, 30-in.  6%
Dwight  X, 3-4........ 6
Dwight Y, 7-8..........6%
Dwight Z, 4-4..........  7
Dwight Star, 4-4....  734 
Ewight Star, 40-in..  9 
Enterprise EE, 36..  6%
Great Falls E ,4-4...  7%
Farmers’ A, 4-4.......634
Indian  Orchard, 1-4 7%

DOMESTIC GINGHAMS.

Am oskeag.............   8%
Amoskeag, Persian
styles.................... 10%
Bates.......................  8
Berkshire.............   7%
Glasgow checks—   7%
Glasgow checks, f ’y  7%
Glasgow 
royal  styles........   9
Gloucester, 
standard.............  8
Plunket..................  8
Lancaster...............  8
Langdale...................734

checks,
new

Renfrew, dress styll0% 
Johnson  Manfg Co,
Bookfold..............12%
Johnson Manfg Co,
dress  styles........ 12%
Slaterville, 
dress
styles.................... 13%
White Mfg Co, stap  8 
White Mfg Co, fane  8 
White  M anfg  Co,
Gordon....................  8
Greylock, 
dress 
 

Eariston...............  9%

styles  ............. 

WIDE BLEACHED COTTONS. 

Androscoggin, 7-4. .21  jPepperell.  10-4.......2
Pepperell,  114.......32%
Androscoggin, 8-4. .23
Pequot,  74..............21
Pepperell,  7-4........20
Pequot,  84..............24
Pepperell,  84........22%
Pequot,  94..............27%
Pepperell,  94........25

.  HEAVY BROWN  COTTONS.

Modoc  .. 
Diamond

AXLE GREASE.

! doz  60  IParagon...  $  doz

60  IFrazer’s ..........
BLUING.

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

’  BROOMS.

No. 1 Carpet.............................................. 
No. 2 Carpet.............................................. 
No. 1 Hurl.................................................  
No. 2 Hurl  ....................................... .—  
Fancy Whisk............................................  
Common Whisk.......................................  

CANNED GOODS.

25
45
35
65

2  50
2 25
2 00
1 75
1 25
85

Pie Peaches........ 1 20
3ft Standard 1 90@2 20
Apples, 3 ft........ 1 20
do.  6 ft..........  2 15
do.  gallons...  3 40 
Strawberries  @1 00 
Blackberries 
110
Raspberries__ 1 40
Cherries, redl 20 1 25 
Cherries white..  190
Pineapples........  1 75
Damsons............  1 25
Egg Plum s........  1 65
G ages................   1  65
Pears................   1 35
Lusk’s Apricots.  2 95 
Tomatoes ..1  05@1 20 
Corn,  Excelsior  1 10
Corn, Erie........... 1 15

Corn, Camden...  1  10 
Corn, Trophy...  1  15 
Corn, Yarmouth  1 35 
Peas.... 75@1 25©1 50 
String Beans... 
85
Lima Beans........   85
Lewis’B’d Beans. 1 75 
Pumpkin  ..1  10@1 15 
Succotash  ... 86@1 60
Oysters,  1 lb__   1 10
Oysters,  2 ft)__ 185
Salmon__   1 60@
Lobsters, Stars.. 1 75
Sardines, Am......  
8
Sardines  Inport.  13 
Corned Beer  @2 85 
Cond. Milk, Eagle 
case..................8  10

COFFEE.

Green  Rio__ 13%@15  Roasted Mex. 18
Ground  Rio.. 10 
Green Java... 18  @28 
Ground  Mex. 
Green Mocha.26 
@28 
Arbuckle’s .......
@18 
Roasted Rio. .14 
x x x x
@35
Roasted  Java25 
@i§% Roast Mocha.......@35
Roasted Mar.18
CORDAGE.

@20
@18
-  <%, 
@17%

72 foot J u te ....... 1 35  160 foot Cotton... .2 10
60 foot Jute.......  1 20  150 foot Cotton— 1 85

CAPS.

FRUITS.

lEly’s Waterproof  75
|

G.  D.....................   35 
Musket................   75 
London Layers, new.............................. 
2 70
Loose Muscatels Raisins,  new............2 40@2 45
New Valencias  Raisins....................... 
7%@8
Turkey Prunes......................................  6  @6%«
Currants.................................................   6%@6%
Citron......................................................  18@20
Dried Apples  .........................................  7%@8
Whole Cod..............................................  4%@6
Boneless Cod......................................... 
Herring % bbls....................................S 00@3 15
Herring Scaled...................................... 
30
Herring Hoi land..................................   @1 10
White Fish % bbls.........................
@1  00 
do  Kits.............................
4 50 
Trout half bbls...............................
85 
do.  K its......................................
6 50 
Mackerel half bbls No. 1...............
1  00 
do.  Kits  No. 1 .........................
@  95
Bloaters...........................................

5%@8%

FISH.

MATCHES.

............. 2 70
Richardson’s No. 2  square...........
........... . ............. 1 55
do 
Richardson’s No. 3 
..........1  70
do 
.............
Richardson’s No. 5 
do 
Richardson’s No. 6 
........... . ............. 2 70
do 
Richardson’s No. 8 
............. .............1  70
Richardson’s No. 9 
........... . ............. 2 55
do 
Richardson’sNo. 4  round............... ............. 2 70
............... ............. 2 55
Richardson’s No. 7  do 
............... ............. 1  70
Richardson’s No. 7% do 
Electric Parlor No. 17....................... ............. 3 80
Electric Parlor No. 18....................... ............. 5 70
Grand  Haven, No.  9........................ .............2 25
Grand  Haven, No.  8........................ ............. 1  60

20 gross lots special price.

BlackStrap........   @20|New Orleans fy.56@60
Porto  Rico..........32@35 Syrups, co m ...  32@33
New Orleans g’d. 45@501 Syrups, sug27@35@45 

MOLASSES.

OIL.

do. 

Kerosene  W. W.........................
Legal test................
Sweet, 2 oz. square.
Sweef 2  oz. round................................. 
Castor, 2 oz.  square............................
Castor, 2 oz. round.............................

OATMEAL.
Quaker 2 fl> cases, 48 lbs $   case............ 
*“ ----  
do  5 fl) cases, 60 fl)s $  case
Imperial  bbls.........................
Quaker bbls...........................................  
PICKLES.

15% 

12% 75

1 00
'5 
1  00

2 35
2 55
5  75
6 75

12%

do 
do 

Dingee’s barrels med..........................  
Dingee’s % 
...................................... 3 80
small................................. 4 50
Dingee’s % 
Dingee’s quarts glass fancy................................4 25
do 
Dingee’s pints 
Saur  Kraut, $  bbl.............................................. 10 50
SUGARS.

.........................  2 50

Granulated............................................  
818
8%
Cut Loaf...................... 
 
Cubes.....................................................  @ 8%
Powdered.............................................. 
8%
Conf. A ...!............................................   @  7%
Standard A ............................................ 
7%
Extra C................................................... 
7%@B’%
FineC....................................................  
6%@?
Yellow....................................................   6%@6%

 

TICKINGS.

Atlantic  A, 44.......  7% Lawrence XX, 44..  8%
Atlantic  H, 44.........7% Lawrence  Y, 30—   7
Atlantic  D, 44........  6% Lawrence LL, 44...  6%
Atlantic P, 44.........  6  (Newmarket N........   7%
Atlantic  LL, 44 ....  5% Mystic River, 44...  6%
Adriatic, 36..............  7% Pequot A, 44..........  8
Augusta, 44.............  6% 
Boott M, 4-4.............  7% 
Boott  FF, 4-4..........  7%ITremont CC, 44....  6
Graniteville, 44__ 7 
lUtica,  44...................  9
Indian  Head, 44...  8  Wachusett,  44 .......  7%
Indiana Head 45-in. 12% I Wachusett, 30-in...  6% 

Falls, XXXX......... 18%
Amoskeag,  ACA.. .15 
Falls, XXX.............15%
Amoskeag  “ 4-4.. 19
Falls,  BB................11%
Amoskeag,  A .....14
Falls,  BBC, 36....... 19%
Amoskeag,  B ........13
Falls,  awning........19
Amoskeag.  C........12
Ham ill on,  BT, 32..12
Amoskeag,  D—  
10% Hamilton,  D..........10
Amoskeag,  E —
Hamilton,  H..........10
Amoskeag, F.......... 10
Hamilton  fancy... 10
Premium  A, 4-4----17
Methuen AA......... 14%
Premium  B ............16
Methuen ASA....... 18
Extra 4-4.................. 16
....14% Omega A, 7-8..........11
Extra 7-8.
Omega  A, 44.......... 13
Gold Medal 44........15
Omega ACA, 7-8__ 14
CCA  7-8...................12%
Omega ACA, 44___16
CT 4-4....................... 14
Omega SE, 7-8.........24
RC 7-8....................... 14
Omega SE, 44.........27
BF 7-8.....................   16
Omega M. 7-8.........22
AF 44....................... 19
Omega M, 44.......... 25
Cordis AAA, 32......14
Shetucket SS&SSW 11% 
Cordis  AC A, 32....... 15
Shetucket, S & SW.12
Cordis No. 1, 32....... 15
Shetucket,  SFS__ 12
Cordis  No. 2............ 14
Stockbridge  A .........7
Cordis  No. 3............ 13
Cordis  No. 4........... ll% Stoekbridge frncy.  8

SOAP.

Princess................ 

(Piedmont,  36..............  7
* 
I Stark AA, 4-4..............  8
Kirk’s American  Family........... $  B>
do. 
India.........................................
Savon  .......................................
do.
Satinet......................................
do.
Revenue.......................... .
do.
White Russian........................
do.
City
Bell’s German  Family......................... 
do.  Mono.........................................  
Goodrich’s English Family  ............... 
 
Proctor & Gamble’s Ivory................. 
Japan  O live........
Town Talk 
fl box
Golden Bar...........
Arab.......................
Amber....................
Mottled  German..
Sidall’s .................................................
Babbitt’s ..............................................
Dish R ag..............................................
Bluing...................................................
Magnetic..............................................
New  French  Process.........................
Spoon  ...................................................
Anti-W ashboard.................................
Vaterland............................................
Magic....................................................
Pittsburgh...........................................
Bogue’s ..’............................................
White castile bars.............................
Mottled castile....................................
Old  Style..............................................
Old Country.........................................

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

CARPETS  A M )  CARPETINGS. 
Spring  & Company  quote  as  follows: 

do. 

6%
6%
6
6%

 

5 40 
3 50
4 00

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

TAPESTRY BRUSSELS.
Roxbury  tapestry..........................  
Smith’s 10 wire................................. 
Smith's  extra..................................  
Smith’s B  Palisade........................  
Smith’s  C  Palisade......................... 
Higgins’  **.......................................  
Higgins’  ***...................................... 
Sanford’s extra............................... 
Sanford’s Comets............................ 

THREE-PLYS.

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

EXTRA  SUPERS.

SPICES.

@  90
@  90
@  86
@  70
@  65
@  82%
@  70
@  82%
@  65

00
00
@1 00
@  97%

Ground Pepper,  in boxes and cans...  16@22
Ground  Allspice....................................  12@20
Cinnamon...............................................   16@30
Cloves......................................................  20@25
Ginger......................................................  17@20
Mustard...................................................  15@35
Cayenne...................................................  25@35
Pepper % to fl dozen.............................. 
75
75
Allspice  % fl)........................................... 
75
Cinnamon  % fl)...................................... 
Cloves %  ft.............................................. 
75
Pepper,  whole.................................... 
@18
Allspice............................................... 
  10@12
Cassia................................................... 
@12
Cloves........ .........................................   20  @22
Nutmegs,  No. 1..................................   70  @75

HEMPS.

@  77%
@

ALL  WOOL  SUPERFINES.

WOOL  FILLING AND  MIXED.

Hartford........................................... 
Lowell................................................ 
Best cotton chain............................  60  @  62%
Best  2-ply.........................................  57%@  60
Other grades 2-ply..........................   52%@  55
All-wool  super, 2-ply.....................   50  @  55
Extra heavy double cotton chain.  42%@  45
Double cotton chain.......................   35  @  40
Heavy cotton and wool, double c.  30  @  32%
Half d’l chain,cotton* wool,2-ply  27%@  32%
Single cotton chain.........................  19  @  25
3-ply, 44 wide, extra heavy...........   27%@  30
@  22
B, 4-4 wide...................  
Imperial, plain, 4-4 wide................  
@  18%
@  17
D, 33  inches...................................... 
No. 1, 4-4, 54, 64 and 84.................. 
@  45
No. 2, 
@  37%
.................. 
No. 3, 
.................. 
@ 3 0
.................. 
@ 2 5
No. 4, 
Best all rattan, plain....................... 
@  62%
@ 52%
Best all rattan and cocoa, plain... 
Napier  A........................................... 
@  60
@  40
Napier  B ........................................... 
@  15
@  18
@  10
@86
@10

Ssaque shades, 38  inch.................. 

olland shades, B finish, 44.......... 
Pacific  Holland, 44......................... 
Hartshorn’s fixtures, per gross... 
Cord fixtures, per gross................. 

OIL CLOTHS.

CURTaiNS.

MaTTINGS.

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STARCH.

Muzzy Gloss 1 fl) package.............
Muzzy Gloss 3 fl) package...............
Muzzy  Gloss 6 fl) boxes..................
Muzzy Gloss bulk............................
Muzzy Corn 1 fl)...............................
Special prices on 1,000 fl) orders.
Kings!ord  Silver Gloss..................
Kingsford Silver Gloss 6 ft  box..
Kingsford Corn.....................’........
Oswego  Gloss.................................
Mirror  Gloss..................................
Mirror Gloss, corn.........................
Piel’s Pearl......................................
60 Pocket........................................
28 Pocket.........................................
Saginaw Fine.................................
Diamond C......................................
Standard  Coarse............................

SALT.

SEEDS.

8%@9

@6%
@7%
@6
7  @7%
@8%
@9%
@6%
«4
@4
2 60 
2 45 
1  10 
1  75 
1 55

5%
4%

H em p..............................................
Canary ............................................
Rape..........  ...................................
Mixed Bird.
Jugs $   gallo».
Crocks.............
Milk Crocks...

STONEWARE.
...................................... 
...................................... 
STOVE P O L IS H .
Rising  Sun gross..5 881 Dixon’s  gross........ 6 50
Universal.............. 5  88 Abovef
I X L .......................5 501-

5%@6

7
7

SALEBATUS.
@ 5% 
@ 5% 
@ 5%

@ 5% 
® 5%

Cap Sheaf. 
Dwight’s ..

DeLand’s pure
Churh’8 ..........
Taylor’s  G. M.
, 
Japan  ordinary.. 23@251 Young Hyson— 25@50
Japanfair........... 25@30 Gun  Powder.......35@50
Japan fair to g’d.30@37 Oolong..........33@55@60
Japanflne........... 40@50 Congo...................  @30
Japan dust..........14@20|

TEAS.

TOBACCO—FINE CUT.

 

38
Wide  Awake........................................... 
Daisey  Lin half barrels,  30c]..............., 
32
Hiawatha...............................................  
69
70
Globe........................................................ 
May Flower................... 
70
 
Rose  Leaf...............................................  
66
Silver  Crown......................................... 
38
Owl  Club................................................ 
30
Hero........................................................   @45
A tlas........................................................  @35
Royal Game............................................   @38
Silver Thread.........................................   @67
Old  Bog Tray.........................................   @60
Seal....................................................... *.  @60
Kentucky............................................:  @30
Mule  Ear.................................................   @67
Peek-a-Boo..............................................  @30
Peek-a-Boo, %  barrels..........................   @29
Clipper................ 
@30
Fountain.................................................   @74
Old Congress...........................................  @64
Good Luck..............................................  @52
Good and Sweet......................................  @45
Blaze Away............................................   @33
Hair Lifter..............................................  @30
Old Glory, light......................................  @60
Charm of the West, dark......................  @60
Governor, in 2 oz tin foil.....................   @60
Ripper, in  pails......................................  @31

 

 

PLUG.

Sentinel 17 B> and 28 fl> cads..................
Climax.....................................................
Honey Bee 28 fl)  cads............................
Hold F ast..............................................
McAlpin’s Gold Shield..........................
Nickle Nuggets 6 and 12 lb  cads..........
Chocolate Cream 4 and 8 fl) cads..........
My Choice 3 oz pocket  pieces.............
My Choice 16 oz pieces..........................
Cock of the Walk  6s..............................
Black Spun  Roll....................................
Nimrod....................................................
Acorn ......................................................
Red Seal...................................................
Orescent .................................................
Black  X ...................................................
Black  Bass..............................................
True Grit.................................................
Nobby  Spun  Roll..................................
Spring......................................................
Grayling, all  styles...............................
Mackinaw................................................
Horse Shoe..............................................
Good  Luck..............................................
Big Chunk or J.T..................................
Hair Lifter..............................................
D. and D., black......................................
McAlpin’s Green  Shield.......................
Ace  High, black....................................
Champion  A ...........................................
Sailors’  Solace.......................................
Red Star...................................................
Shot Gun.................................................
D uck........................................................

SMOKING.

Dim e............................................ ...........
Peerless...................................................
Standard .................................................
Old Tom...................................................
Tom & Jerry..........................................
Joker.................................... '..................
Traveler...................................................
Maiden......................................i .............
Topsy  ......................................................
Navy Clippings......................................
Honey D ew ............................................
Gold  Block........... .................................
Camp Fire  ............................................
Oronoko.................................................
Nigger  Head...........................................
Durham, % tt>.........................................
do  % fl).........................................
do  % fl>..................................... '..
do 
1 fl).........................................
Holland...................................................
German...................................................
Long Tom................................................
National...................................................
T im e.......................................................
Love’s Dream.........................................
Conqueror ..............................................
Fox’s ........................................................
Grayling.................................................
Seal Skin................. ...............................
Dime Durham.......................................
Rob Roy...............................................i.
Uncle  Sam..............................................
Lumberman...........................................
Railroad Boy...........................................
6 25
Mountain Rose........................................
Good  Enough.........................................
Home Comfort, %s and  %s..................
Old  Rip, long cut..................................
Durham,  long cut.................................
Two  Nickle, %5......................................
Two  Nickle, %s......................................
Star Durham...........................................
Golden Flake Cabinet............................
Seal of North Carolina, 2 oz.................
Seal of North Carolina, 4 oz................
Seal of North Carolina, 8 oz................
Seal of North Carolina, 16 oz  boxes...

@50
@48
@48
@48
@51
@50
@34
@33
@37
@38
@50
@50
@48
@44
@35
@40
@35
@50
@50
@50
@47
@50
@50
@40
@37
@37
@48
@35
@48'
@48
@50
@48
@48

24@25
25
22
21
24
25 
35
@26
27
24
25 
32 
22 
19
26 
60 
57 
55 
51
@22
@16
@30

@28
@23
@22
@32
@30
@25
@26
@28
@26
@37
@20
@23
@25
@60
@60
@25
@26
@25

@50
@48
@50

SHORTS.

Mule Ear.......
Hiawatha__
Old Congress.

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

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

MISCELLANEOUS.

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95
....1  30@ 
....5  75@
__ 5 50@

30, 40, 50@60
1  50
....... 
....... 
95
....... 
65
.......2%@ 3
....... 
1  Id
1  75
....... 
....... 
20  00
.... 
10@22
.......  @2 25
....... 
2 50
.......  18@20
.......  18@20
.......  @25
.......  @15%
.......  @16%
.......  @40
..  ..  @27
.......13%@14%
.  ...1 50@
@26%
@27%

Blacking
waterproof
Bath Brick imported
American
Barley...
Burners, No. 1
do  No.  2.................................
Bags, American A ..........................
Baking Powder  bu lk....................
Beans,  medium  .............................
Beans, hand picked.......................
Butter..............................................
Butterine........................................
Cream Tartar 5 and 10 fl) cans__
Candles, Star....................................
Candles,  Hotel...............................
Chocolate, Baker’s ......................
German sweet...........
Cheese full cream choice.............
Catsup quarts fl  dozen................
Cocoanut,  Schepps’ 18) packages 
Cocoanpt,  Schepps’ 1 & % fl)  do
Extract Coffee,  v. c......................
F elix .................
Flour, Star Mills, in bb ls.............
in Sacks.............
@25 
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps...............
@40 
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps...............
....  35@40 
Gum, Spruce...................................
....  @35
Chimneys No.  1..............................
__   @45
No.  2..............................
Indigo........ ....................................
....1   00@ 
....1  00@
Ink f) 3 dozen  box.........................
Jelly in Pails..................................
@7%
__   @85
do  Glass Tumblers fl doz..........
__   20@80
Licorice...........................................
Licorice  Root.................................
@12
___1 56@
Lye fl 2  doz. eases.........................
....  @13
Macaroni,  Imported.....................
....  @ 6
Domestic.........................................
___  @6  00
Mince Pies, 1 gross cases, fl case. 
__   @85
French Mustard,  8 oz fl  dozen... 
....1  35®
Large  Gothic...
..  12 00® 
Oil Tanks, Star 60  gallons............
...14 00@
Gil Tanks, Patent 60 gallons........
.. ..2 25@
Pipes, Imported Olay 3 gross.......
___  90@1 00
uo  American  T. D................
....  90@1 00
Pepper Sauc6.................................
...... 1 40@
Peas, Green Bush..........................
3%
Powder,  Keg..........................................5 50@
% Keg.....................................3 00@
do 
Rice 
6
Sago
Shot, drop.................................................... 1 90®
do  buck...................................................2 16@
Sage.........................................................   @15
Curry Combs fl doz............................... 1 26@
Molasses Gates each....................:........  @46
Measuring Faucet ea ch .........................2 75@
Tobacco Cutters each ............................1 25@
ChimneyCleaners fl  doz.......................   @50
Flour Sifters fl doz....................................3 00@
Fruit Augurs each..................................... 1 25®
Tapioca...................................................  @ 5%
Washing Crystal, Gillett’s box............1 60@1 66
Wicking No. 1 fl gross..........................   @40
do  No. 2  ......................................  @65
do  Argand....................................1 50@

do  Split prepared

Washing Powder, 1776 fl ff>..................  @10%
Gillett’s fi  fl)..........  @7%
7@10
Soapiue pkg............ 

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B r u f l s   &   f l f t e b i c i n e s

Advanced—Cantharides, Gum Arabic. 
Declined—Quinine, Cinchonidia.
Hazeltine, Perkins & Co. quote as follows for 
quantities usually wanted—for larger amounts 
write them for quotations :
ACIDS.

@

n   @
14%@ 
3  @

9
30

Acetic,  No. 8............................fl ft
Acetic,  C. P. (Sp. grav. 1.040)........
Carfc. lie............................................
Gitiic.................................................
Muriatic  18  deg...............................   ^3
Nitric 36 deg..........................
Oxalic......................................
Sulphuric  66 deg....................
Tartaric  powdered...............
Benzoic,  English..................
Benzoic,  German..................
Tannic.....................................
AMMONIA.
Carbonate...............................
Muriate (Powd. 22c)...............
Aqua 16 deg or  3f..................
Aqua 18 deg or 4f..................
BALSAMS.

fl ft  19
!!!!! 
6 
7
....... 

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

BARKS.

FLOWERS.

6
...1 GO

Cassia, in mats (Pow’d 20c)...........
Cinchona,  yellow..........................
Elm,  select.......................................
Elm, ground, pure..........................
Elm, powdered,  pure.....................
Sassafras, of root............................
Wild Cherry, select........................
Bayberry  powdered............. .........
Hemlock powdered.........................
W ahoo..............................................
Soap  ground....................................
BERRIES,
Cubeb, prime  (Powd $1 20)............
Juniper...................................
Prickly Ash............................
EXTRACTS.
Licorice (10 and 25 fl) boxes, 25c)...
Licorice,  powdered, pure.............
Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 fl) doxes).
Logwood, Is (25 fl)  boxes)...............
...............
Lgowood, %s 
do 
Logwood, %s 
do 
...............
Logwood, ass’d  do 
...............
Fluid Extracts—25 $  cent, off list.
Arnica...............................................   10
Chamomile,  Roman.......................
Chamomile,  German.....................
Aloes,  Barbadoes...........................
Aloes, Cape (Powd  24c)..................
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd  60c)..........
Ammoniac......................................
Arabic, extra  select.......................
Arabic, powdered  select...............
Arabic, 1st  picked..........................
Arabic,2d  picked............................
Arabic, c3d pickod............................
Arabic, sifted sorts.........................
Assafoentida, prime (Powd 35c)...
Benzoin...........*..............................
Camphor...........................................
Catechu. Is (% 14c, %s 16c)........
Eupliorbium powdered..................
Galbanum strained.........................
Gamboge..............................,...........
Guaiac, prime (Powd  45c).’............
Kino [Powdered, 30c]........... ...."..
Mastic................................................
Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 47c)...
Opium, pure (Powd $5.50)...............  ■
Shellac, Campbell’s .....................
Shellac,  English..............................
Shellac,  native................................
Shellac bleached..............................
Tragacanth......................................  30
HERBS—IN  OUNCE  PACKAGES

GUMS.

OILS.

IRON.

LEAVES.

LIQUORS.

MAGNESIA.

Hoarhound......................................
Lobelia..............................................
Peppermint..................................   .
Rue.....................................................
Spearmint........................................
Sweet Majoram...............................
Tanzy...............................................
Thym e..............................................
Wormwood.....................................
Citrate and  Quinine.......................
Solution mur., for tinctures........
Sulphate, pure  crystal..................
Gitrate..............................................
Phosphate........................................
Buchu* short (Powd 25c)................   12
Sage, Italian, bulk (%s & %s, 12c)...
Senna,  Alex, natural.....................   18
Senna, Alex, sifted and  garbled..
Senna,  powdered............................
Senna tinnivelli...............................
Uva  U r s i . ..............................
Belledonna........................................
Foxglove...........................................
Henbane...........................................
Rose, red...........................................
W., D. & Co.’s Sour Mash Whisky.2 00
Druggists’ Favorite  Rye................ 1 75
Whisky, other brands..................... 1 10
Gin, Old Tom..................................... 1 35
Gin,  Holland..................................... 2 00
Brandy...............................................1 75
Catawba  Wines................................ 1 25
Port Wines.........................................1 35
Carbonate, Pattison’s, 2 oz...........
Garbonate, Jenning’s, 3 oz.............
Gitrate, H., P. & Co.’s  solution__
Calcined............................................
Almond, sweet.................................  45
Amber,  rectified..............................
Anise.................................................
Bay $   oz...........................................
Bergamont........................................
Croton.........................................«...
Cajeput............................................
Cassia...............................................
Cedar, commercial  (Pure 75c).......
Citronella........................................
Cloves................................................
Cubebs, P. &  W...............................
Erigeron...........................................
Fireweed...........................................
Geranium  fl  oz.....................
75c).
Hemlock, commercial (Pure
Juniper wood..................................
Juniper berries...............................
Lavender flowers- French.............
Lavender garden 
.............
Lavender spike 
.............
Lemon, new  crop............................
Lemon,  Sanderson’s.......................
Lemongrass......................................
Origanum, red flowers, French...
Origanum,  No. 1............................
Pennyroyal......................................
Peppermint,  white.........................
Rose  f!  oz.........................................
Rosemary, French  (Flowers $5)...
Sandal  Wood, German..................
Sandal Wood, Turkish  Dark........
Sassafras...........................................
Tansy...............I...............................
Tar (by gal 60c).................................
Wintergreen.................................
Wormwood, No. l(Pure $6.50).......
Savin..................................................
Wormseed........................................
Cod Liver, filtered................ fl gal
Cod Li vex-, best.........................
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16
Olivte, Malaga....................
Glive, “Sublime  Italian’  . 
__
Salad.................................................
Rose,  Ihmsen’s .......................f) oz
Bicroraate.................................ft fl)
Bromide, cryst. and gran. bulk...
Chlorate, cryst (Powd 23c).............
Iodide, cryst. and- gran, bulk.......
Prussiate yellow..............................
Althea, cut.......................................
Arrow,  St. Vincent’s .....................
Arrow, Taylor’s, in %s and %s__
Blood (Powd 18c)..............................
Calamus,  peeled..............................
Calamus, German  white, peeled..
Elecampane, powdered..................
Gentian (Powd  17c(.........................
Ginger, African (Powd 16c)...........   13
Ginger, Jamaica  bleached...........
Gblden Seal (Powd  40c)..................
Hellebore, white, powdered..........
Ipecac, Rio, powdered....................
Jalap,  powdered..............................
Licorice,  select (Powd 12%)..........
Licorice, exti’a select.....................
Pink, true........................................
Rhei, from select to  choice..........1 00
Rhei, powdered E. 1.........................1 10
Rhei, choice cut  cubes..................
Rhei, choice cut fingers................
Serpentaria......................................
Seneka..............................................
Sarsaparilla,  Hondurus................
Sarsaparilla,  Mexican....................
Squills, white (Powd 35c)...............
Valerian, English (Powd 30c)---- .*  «.
Valerian, Vermont (Powd 28c)—

POTASSIUM.

ROOTS.

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r>  52 
40 
2 50 
60

12
18
15
13

1510

12
20
18
30
12
@1  00 
@  7
@1 11
27
37%
9
12
13 
15
14

60@

11
25
75 
18 
50
28@  30 
60 
60 
55 
45 
40 
35 
30 
55@60
24@  25 
13
35@  40 
80
1  00@1 10 
35 
20 
1 10 
40 
4 55 
40 33 
28 
35
@1 10

.......25
.......25
.......25
.......40
.......24
.......35
.......25
.......30
.......25
6 40 
20

1J 
@
6
@  20 
30 
22 

16 10 

1 20 

1 00 

35 
30 
35 
2 35
@2 25 
@2 00 
@1 50 
@1 75 
@3 50 
@6 50 
@2 00 
@2 50
23 
37 
2 25 
70
@  50 
45 
2  10 
50 
2 20 
2 00 
75
40 
85
1 25 
8  00 
1 60
2  00 
75 
40 
50
2 25 
2 40 
90
1 85
2  00 
80
1 25 
50
2 00
2 85 
9 75
65
5 00 
8  00 
.  60
3 75 
12
2  25
4 50 
2 50
1 90 
4 00
6 00 
2 50 
67
9 75
16
31
20
1 30 
30
27
17 
45 
12
18 
38 
23 
13
®  14 
20 
35 
18
1  10 
37*/ 
12 
15 
35 
@1  50 
@1  20
2  00 
2 25
60
65
35
18
10
25
20

1 00 
@1 20

10  @

65  @

SEEDS.

 

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70
20

38  ©

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7%@

12 

SPONGES.

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MISCELLANEUS.

1 00 
2 601 10 

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do Scherin’s  do  ... 
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13 
6 
5 
12 
2 20 
2 50 
20 
12 
15 
4' 
4% 
9
8  @
5%@ 6 
8 
8 
14
1*2 50

Anise, Italian (Powd 20c)...............
5
Bird, mixed in fl)  packages...........  
Canary,  Smyrna.............................  
4%@
Caraway, best Dutch (Powd 19c)..  "   ~
11
Gardamon,  Aleppee.......................
Cardamon. Malabar........................
Celery...............................................
Coriander, Dest English................
F ennel..............................................
Flax,  clean.......................................
Flax, pure grd (bbl 3%)..................
Foenugreek, powdered.................. 
Hemp,  Russian 
Mustard, white (Black  10c)
Quince................................. 
Rape, Lnglish.................................. 
i  Wonn,  Levant.................................
Florida sheeps’ wool, carriage......2 25  @!
I  Nassau 
do 
do 
.......
.......
Velvet Exti*a do 
do 
85 
Extra Yellow do 
.......
do 
65 
do 
G rass 
.......
do 
75
Hard head, for slate use................
1 40
Yellow Reef, 
.................
2 36
Alcohol, gi-ain (bbl $2.26)  gal__
1 50 
Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref.
50 
Anodyne Hoffman’s .......................
27 
Arsenic, Donovan’s solution........
Arsenic, Fowler’s solution...........
30 
Annatto  1 fl> rolls__ ■......................
50
Blue  Soluble....................................
2 75
Bay  Rum, imported, best.............
2 25
Bay Rum, domestic, H., P. & Co.’s.
3%
Alum.........................................  f) fl>
4
Alum, ground  (Powd 9c)...............
32
Annatto,  prime...............................
Antimony, powdered,  com’l ........
4%@ 
6  @
6  @  7
Arsenic, white, powdered.............  
Balm Gilead  Buds...’...................... 
40
Beans,  Tonka..................................  
2 25
Beans,  Vanilla.................................7 00  @9 75
Bismuth, sub  nitrate.....................  
2 20
45
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c)............................ 
7%@  9
Blue Vitriol...................................... 
9
Boralumine, White  b u lk ]...........  
5 fl>s I ............ 
Boralumine, 
“ 
10
10
Boralumine, Tints bulk.  J-40 off.. 
Boralumine  “ 
5 fl)s. J ............ 
11
Borax, refined (Powd  15c).............  
14
Cantharides, Russian  powdered.. 
2 75
Gapsicum  Pods, African............... 
18
20
Gapsicum Pods, African  pow’d ... 
18
Gapsicum Pods,  American do  ... 
400
Carmine, N o.40...............................  
Gassia Buds...................................... 
14
Calomel.  American......................... 
70
Castor  Gil.........................................  17%@  19
Chalk, prepared drop... 
Ghalk, precipitate English...'.__  
12
Ghalk,  red fingers.......................... 
8
Ghalk, white lump..........................  
2
1  60
Chloroform,  Squibb’s .................... 
Colocynth  apples............................ 
60
Ghloi’al-hydrate, German  crusts.. 
1 60
Chloral 
cryst... 
17#
1 90
Ghloi’al 
1 75
Ghloral 
crusts.. 
Chloroform................ .....................1  00  @1 05
Cinchonidia......................................
(5
Cloves (Powd 28c)............................
22
30
Gochineal .........................................
452
Gocoa  Butter..................................
Copperas (by bbl  lc).......................
60
Corrosive Sublimate.......................
Coi’ks, X and XX—35 off  list........
40 
Cream Tai’tar, pure powdered.......
15 
Ci-eam Tartar, gxocer’s, 10 ft box..
50 
Creasote............................................
24 
Gudbear,  prime...............................
23 
Cuttle Fisli Bone..............................
Dextrine...........................................
12 
1 20 
Dover’s  Powders............................
50 
Dragon’s Blood Mass......................
45 
Ergot  powdered..............................
Ether Squibb’s.................................
Emery, Turkish, all  No.’s .............
8
Epsom Salts......................................
Ergot, fresh......................................
Ethei’, sulphuric, U. S.  P ...............
Flake  white......................................
Grains  Paradise..............................
Gelatine,  Cooper’s ..........................
Gelatine, French  ............................
Glassware, flint, 60 off,by box 50 off
Glassware, green, 60  and 10 dis__
Glue,  cabinet..................................   12
Glue, white.......................................   17
Glycerine,  pure...............................   23
Hops  %s and %s..............................
Iodoform $   oz.................................
Indigo...............................................
Insect Powder, best  Dalmatian...
Iodine,  resublimed.........................
Isinglass,  American.......................
Japonica...........................................
Lead, acetate....................................
Lime, chloride, (%s 2s 10c & %s 11c)
Mace.................................................
Madder, best  Dutch.........................  12%@
Manna, S.  F ......................................
Mercury............................................
Morphia, sulph., P. & W........f) oz
Musk, Canton, H., P. & Co.’s........
Moss, Iceland............................f) 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, Time Bui’gundy....................
Quassia............................................  
Quinia, Sulph, P, & W........... ft oz
Seidlitz  Mixture.............................
Strychnia, cryst...............................
Silver Nitrate, cryst.......................  79
Red  Precipitate.......................f) 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 ..............................  26  @
Spirits Nitre, 4 F ..............................  28  @
Sugar Milk powdered.....................
Sulphur, flour................................... 
3%@
Sulphur,  roll.......................... .........
Tartar Emetic..................................
Tar, N. C. Pine, % gal. cans  ^ doz
Tar, 
quarts in tin..........
Tar, 
pints in tin...............
Turpentine,  Venice................f! ft
Wax, White, S. &  F. brand........... •
Zinc,  Sulphate................................. 

17 
28 
26 
40 
35
@1  00 
@  34
2 30 
1 50
9 
15 
9 
60 
13 
1 25 
48
3 50 
40 
10 
12 
30
18 
20 
75 
10 
40 
18
3 00

1 10 

7
HIDES, PELTS  AND  FURS.

45  @

2%@

4%@

do 
do 

25®

1 65 
28 
1 50
t  82 
80 
40
i  2 
10 
9 
33
1  2%
2 50 
6 75
38
4 
23
5 
14 
17
9 
11 
14 
28 
32 
30 
4 
3 
65 
2 70 
1 40 
85 
25 
60 
f  8

2

6

Perkins & Hess quote as follows:

H ID E S .

FU RS.

@25

W OOL.

SH E E P PEL TS.

@ 7 
Green............................................... $ f t  6
Part  cured..............................................  7
@ 7%
Full cured................................................  7%@ 8
Dry hides and kips.................................  8  @12
Calf skins, green or cured................... 10
@50
Deacon skins............................piece20
Shearlings or Summer skins $  piece. .10
@20 
@50 
Fall pelts.................................................30
@1 25
Winter  pelts.......................................... 75
Fine washed ]j)fl>....................................30
Coarse washed....................................... 22
Unwashed...............................................2-3
Mink, large...............................................     60@ 80
Mink,  small..............................................   25@ 40
Muskrat,  Winter. .>................................10  @15
Muskrat,  Fall............................................ 
8@ 11
Muskrat,  kits............................................ 
3@  4
Raccoon.....................................................  40@1 00
Skunk, black............................................   90@1 00
Skunk, half sti’ipe...................................  60@ 70
Skunk, narrow stripe..............................  25@ 35
Skunk,  broad...........................................  10@ 15
Red Fox.................................................. 1 00@1  ■
Gray Fox................
Marten,  yellow........................................  75@1 00
Fisher......................................................4 00@8 00
Otter.......................................................6 00@7 00
Bear........................................................5 00@12 00
Deer skins, red and blue, dry....  fl  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.
6@ 6%
Tallow......................................................... 

OYSTERS.

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows:

New York Counts, per can..............................  40
Extra  Selects.........................'............................35
Plain  Selects...................................  
28
H. M. B. F ............................................................. 31
Favorite F......................................................18
Prim e....................................................................16
X X X ..................................................................... 15
New York Counts, per gallon.......... 
@2 50
Selects, per gallon................ ................1 75@2 00
Standards............................................... 1 00@1 15
Can pi ices above are for cases and half cases.

 

PROVISIONS.

The  Grand Rapids  Packing &  Provision  Co. 

PORK.

quote  as follows:
New Heavy Mess Pork................ ft  bbl $16 50
New Family Clear P ork.........................  17 00
18  00 
New Extra Clear Pork, A. Webster’s
New Extra Clear Pork............................
18 50 
New Boston Clear Pork..........................
18 50 
18 75 
New Standard Clear P ork.....................
Extra B  Clear Pork, exti’a g o o d ........
18 50 
S. P. Booth’s Clear Poi’k .........................
18 50
DRY S aL T  MEATS—IN   BOXES. 
Extra Long 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, 500 ft Cases...............
Half Cases.........!!!
Short Clears, heavy.................................
medium..................... . . . ..
light..........................

do. 
do 
do. 

do. 
do. 

9%
10
9%
10%
8%
9
8%
9
8%
9
9%
9%
9%

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

LARD IN  T IN  P A IL S .

20 ft Round Tins, 50 ft  racks__
50 ft Round  Tius, 100 ft  racks...........
3 ft Pails, 20 in a case..........................
5 ft Pails, 12 in a case...........
10 ft Pails, 6 in a case__

9%
9%

9%
9%
10%
10%
10

SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED  O R  PLA IN .

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

13%
13%
7*
10%
13%
15
1 bbl.  11  75

B E EF.

CANNED B EEF.

Libby, McNeil & Libby, 14 ft cans, % doz.
2 ft cans, 1 doz. in case__  

incase......................................................  is go
do. 
2 85
Armour & Co., 14 ft cans, % doz  in case  18 50 
do. 
2 ft cans, 1 doz. in  case..  2 85 
do.  2 ft Compr’d Ham, 1 doz. in case 4 50 

Prices named are  lowest  at time of going to 

SAUSAGE—F R ESH  AND  SMOKED.

press, subject always to Market changes. 
Pork  Sausage..........................
Pork Sausage Meat, 50 ft tubs
Ham  Sausage..........................
Tongue  Sausage.....................
Liver Sausage..........................
Frankfort  Sausage................
Blood  Sausage.........................
Bologna,  ring....................
Bologna, straight................ . .
Bologna,  thick................ "
Head  Cheese..................!'.'.!!!
P IG S ’  FEET.
In half barrels  .......................
In quarter barrels..
T_ 
 
 
Inklt8................................................................ 

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

 

..  9% 
..  9% 
..12% 
..11 
■ •  8% 
..10 
..  8% 
..  8% 
..  8% 
..  8% 
..  8%

$3 85 
2  00
¿4  UU
ge

T R IP E .

In half barrels.....................................  
$3 85
In quarter barrels............................................2  00
In kits.
95

FRESH  MEATS.

John  Mohrhard  quotes the trade as follows

Fresh  Beef, sides___
Fresh  Beef, hind  quarters__ __ ”
Dressed  Hogs.................
Mutton,  carcasses........
Veal.................................
Spring Chickens...........
Fowls...............................
Pork  Sausage.................
Pork Sausage in bulk...
Bologna..........................

8  @ 8% 

6%@  8% 
8  @10 
6%@  7 
9  @10% 
14@15 
@13 
@ 9 
@  9 
@10

CANDY,  FRUITS  AND  NUTS. 

Putnam & Brooks quote as follows:

.............10 @11

................ 10%®11%
...................12  @12%

Straight, 25 ft  boxes.. 
Twist, 
Cut Loaf 

do 
do

Royal, 25 ft  pails.....................................10%@11
Royal, 200 ft bbls.............................................. lo
Extra, 25 ft  pails.............................................. 12
Extra, 200 ft bbls.............................................. 11%
French Cream, 25 ft pails................ ..!.!!!. !l5
Cut loaf, 25 ft  cases.............................. .......1 5
Broken, 25  ft  pails.....................................!T.!ll%
Broken, 200 ft  bbls........................................... H

FANCY—IN 5 ft BOXES.

Lemon Drops................................................... 14
Sour Drops........................................................15
Peppermint  Drops......................................... 16
Chocolate Drops.............................................. 17
H M Chocolate  Drops................................... .20
Gum  Drops  ..................................................... 12
Licorice Drops..................................................20
A B  Licorice  Drops........................................14
Lozenges, plain................................................ J6
Lozenges,  printed........................................... 17
Imperials..........................................................16
M ottoes.............................................................16
Cream  Bar........................................................ 15
Molasses Bar.....................................................14
.Caramels...........................................................20
Hand Made Creams......................................... 23
Plain  Creams................................................... 20
Decorated  Creams...........................................23
String Rock.......................................................16
Burnt Almonds..............  
24
Wintergreen  Berries...................................... 16

 

Fancy—in  Bulk.

Lozenges, plain in pails.................................14
Lozenges, plain in  bbls.................................. 13
Lozenges, printed in pails..............................15
Lozenges, printed in  bbls..............................14
Ghocolate Drops, in pails............................... 15
Gum Drops, in pails.......................................  9
Gum Drops, in bbls.........................................  7%
Moss Drops, in pails....................................... 11%
Moss Drops, in bbls........................................ 10%
Sour Drops, in  {>ails....................................... 12
Imperials, in  pails...........................................14
Imperials, in bbls.............................................13

FRUITS.

Market well supplied—quality fine—prices low.
Oranges ^ box.............................................2 75@3 25
Oranges 0 0   box...................................... 2 75@3 25
Oranges, Florida, $   box............................4 75@5 00
Oranges, Valencia  case........................... 5 50@6 00
Lemons,  choice.....................................   3 00@3 50
Lemons, fancy.............................................3 59@4 00
Bananas ^ bunch..................................
Malaga Grapes, $  keg..........................
Malaga Grapes, $  bbl............................8 00@8 50
Figs,  layers  $  ft....................................  12@16
Figs, fancy  do 
....................................  18@20
Figs, baskets 40 ft 
ft..........................  14@15
Dates, frails 
do  ............................  @ 6
Dates, % do 
d o ............................  @ 7
Dates, skin..............................................  @ 6%
Dates, %  skin.........................................  @7%
Dates, Fard 10 ft box fl  ft....................  @12
Dates, Fard 50 ft box f) ft.....................   @10

PEANUTS.

Prices firm at the advance
Prime  Red,  raw  fl  ft............................
Choice  do 
do  ................. ..........  7  @  7%
Fancy 
do  .............................  8  @ 8%
do 
Choice White, Va.do  ............................  8%@ 9
Fancy H P,.  Va  do  ............................  9  @10%

NUTS.

Without change.

Almonds,  Terragona, 
Almonds, loaca, 
Brazils,
Pecons,
Filberts, Barcelona 
Filberts, Sicily 
Walnuts, Chilli 
Walnuts, Gi’enobles 
Walnuts, California 
Cocoa Nuts, fl  100
60@  85 i  Hickory Nuts, large:
Hickory  Nuts, small

f f t .....................  @20
do  ....................18  @19
do  .................... 13%@14
do  ....................10  @17
do  ....................  @13
do  ....................  @15
do  ....................
d o ....................  15@16
d o ...................12%@14
....................5 00@
bu....................
do  '..................

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

1  10
Ohio White Lime, per  bbl.................... 
Ohio White Lime, car lots.................... 
95
Louisville Cement,  per bbl.................. 
140
Akron Cement per  bbl......................... 
l  40
Buffalo Cement,  per bbl.....................  • 
1  40
Car lots.................................................... 1  15@1 20
Plastering hair, per bu.........................  35@  38
Stucco, per bbl.......................................  
175
Land plaster, per ton............................ 
2 50
Land plaster, car lots............................ 
1  75
Fire brick, per  M...................................$27 @ $36
Fire clay, per bbl................................... 
3 00

COAL.

Anthracite, egg and grate..................$6 50@6 75
Anthracite, stove and nut..................  6  75@7 00
Cannellcoal........................................... 
7 00
Ohio coal...............................................   3 40@3 60
Blossburg or Cumberland................  5 00@5 25

dozea.......  50  Boraxine flbox....................................... 3 76®
4 50@

i  Pearline fi box................ 

 

The Figures in the 6. A. Ely Failure.

J. H.  Botsford,  assignee  for  G. A. Ely, 
general dealer at Alba, has filed  the  result 
of his inventory of the stock,  accounts, etc., 
with the County Clerk  at  Mancelona, from 
which it appears that the total assets are $3,- 
435.94, composed of the following items:

Stock............. .............................................
75 qq
Bills  receivable......................................*• 
c S h  
12 00
-------- 
The total liabilities are  $2,603.98, distrib­
uted among  22  creditors  in  the  following 
amounts:
L. H. Randall & Co., Grand  Rapids........*300 00
........   if? JX
E. G. Sludley & Co., 
I. C. Levi 
........
J"
E. Plumb & Son 
........  
A. Meigs & Co., note 
........   ^  J5
Detroit Safe Co., Detroit..........................  
f  ™

.. 
‘ 

“ 

,  

..........................   J" ™
A. R. & W. F. Linn  “ 
H. W. King- & Co., Chicago......................  30» ™
Lake Erie Oil Co., Cleveland....................  14 ^
72™
Globe Oil Co. 
Parkman & Francesco, Three  Rivers...  47 00
Shock & Griffeth 
-  JO«)
Peck, Eslington & Co., Lansing...............  00 00
Evert & Son, Valena, Cass County..........  46 00
-----Parmellee, residence unknown........ 
is M
Wise Bros., Mancelona.............................  
S
G. P. Clark,  Alba........................................  ™
Conkey Bros., Petoskey............ *.......... 
*5
E. R. Maxfleld,  Bellaire.............. ••  • • • •• 
“5
Mortgage on lots in Jamestown,  Mich..  400 so
In spite of the seeming incongruity between 
the above figures  and  the  following  state­
ment, it is  claimed  by  T he  Tradesman’s 
representative at  Mancelona  that  Ely  will 
not pay to exceed 50 per cent.,  while one of 
the mercantile agencies avers  that the credi 
tors  will  not  receive  over  20  per  cent. 
Those  who  are  acquainted  with  Ely  and 
with the cause of the failure claim that  the 
latter was brought about  by  careless  busi­
ness habits, as  Ely  never  kept  any  books 
and allowed the business to run itself.

The  Crookshanks*  Creditors.

The full list of the creditors of the Crook- 
shank Bros., of Ionia, shows their total liabil­
ities to be  $27,761.71.  Of  this  sum,  only 
$28.74 
is  held  in  Grand  Rapids,  Detroit 
creditors are interested to the tune of $5,662.- 
01, and  Ionia  creditors  to  the  amount  of 
$9,124.74.  Of  the  remainder.  $1,819.48  is 
represented by the elaims of other Michigan 
creditors,  and  the  balance  of tb® indebted­
ness is held by Chicago  and  Eastern  firms. 
The following is a complete list of the Mich­
igan creditors, with the claims of eaeh:
E. G. Studley, Grand Rapids................ 
22
J.  K.  Burnham  & Co.,  Detroit........... *1«753 *6
313 05 
Thos. Walsh & Co. 
470 14 
Rothschilds & Sittig 
159 85 
Westheimer Bros. 
38 50 
Detroit Knitting Co.
300 45 
A. C. McGraw & Co. 
328 47 
Jacob Brown & Co.
37 00 
I. Joachimstal & Co.
336 44 
W. D. Robinson & Co.
19110 
H. P. Baldwin & Co. 
243 94 
Beineman, Butzels & Co. 
374 40 
A. R. & F. W.  Linn 
395 50 
Black &  Mitchell 
315 60 
Heaverich Bros.
432 57 
Richard Macauley &  Co.
25 50 
J. E. Keating &  Co. 
96 00
Sampson & Black
135 00
Second National  Bank, Ionia............... 
°uu
 
Osmond Tower 
 
Sara Benedict 
7,684 00
. . . , ........  
“Sentinel” 
40 00
...............  ,  32 49
Taxes 
I»*** 35
Jane  McCabe 
 
ijg
 
Ansel Smith  estate 
 
22 90
Bortree Manufacturing Co., Jackson.. 
Pembroke Knitting Co., Muskegon.... 
31 50
Stone, Atwood  & Co., Flint.................. 
2m 92
Alma Woolen Co., Alma......................... 
42 50
The assets are placed  at  $17,544.37,  cost 
alue of stock, and $11,763.56, the appraised 
value.

“ 
“ 
‘ 
‘ 

 
 

 
 

Visiting  Buyers.

„

Lake.

dale. 
Alba.

Howard City.

The following retail dealers  have  visited 
the market during the past week and placed 
orders with the various houses:
Sid. Y. Bullock, of Hathaway &  Bullock, 
A. H. A. Eckermann, Muskegon.
J. B. Quick, Howard  City.
J. Walbrink, of 1. J. Quick  &  .Co.,  AJek-
Mr. Van  Wirt,  of  Van  Wirt  &' Dibble, 
K. Trevett, Muskegon.
F. C. Brisbin, Berlin.
A. L. & M. L. Wolf,  Hudsonville.
Den Herder & Tanis, Vriesland.
G. Bron & Ten Hoor, Forest Grove.
H. L, Farrell, Jamestown.
John Smith,  Ada.
Nelson & Hall, Muskegon.
U. S. Monroe,  Berlin.
Mr. Crandall,  of  Crandall  &  Son,  Sand 
R. B. Wadsworth, Mancelona.
Wm. Parks, Alpine.
D. W. Whipple, Casnovia.
R. Charnley, Lakeview.
C. E. Kellogg, Grandville.
Paine & Field, Englishville.
W. S. Root, Talmage.
L. W. Stiles, Cellar Springs.
Barker & Lehnen, Pierson.
Johnson & Leibert, Caledonia.
Dildine & Post, Edgerton.
C. J. McClure, Cedar Springs.
M. J. Howard, Englishville.
John Smith,  Ada.
Fred Moore,  Haire P. O.
Fred Ramsey, White Cloud.
F. C. Brisbin, Berlin.
Heck & Goodman, Burnip’s Corners.
G. P. Stark, Cascade.
Geo. A. Sage, Rockford.
Wm. M. Ingell, Sand  Lake.
Henry DeKline,  Jamestown.
T. J. Sheridan & Co.,  Lockwood.
D. T. Hersey,  Wayland.
H. Minderhaut, Hanley.
B. M. Denison, East  Paris.
Jacob Bartz, Dorr.
W. Scheemaker,  Cannonsburg.
Geo. Carrington, Trent.
G. H. Walbrink. Allendale.
McLeod & Trautman Bros., Moline.
C. O. Bostwick & Son, Cannonsburg.
J. C. Benbow, Cannonsburg.
J. W. Kingsley, Kingsley.
J. F. A. Radier, Newaygo.
E. J. Kennedy, for S.  E.  Wait,  Traverse
1
B.  N. Pettengill, Rockford.
M. C. Betts, Chippewa Lake.
Wm. Davenport, of Davenport & Co.,  A1 
D. Stuck, Big Bapins.
J. H. Toren, Jennisonville.
D. E. McVean, Kalkaska.
Mr. Ball,  of  Greenwood  &  Ball,  Grand
H. D. Irish, Grand Haven.
H. Baker, of Baker & Son, Drentha. 
Elder & Co., Spencer Creek.
O. W. Knox, Hart.
L. E.  Paige, of Paige & Anderson, Sparta
Middleville  Republican:  A  Hastings 
dealer bought some butter of a  farmer  near 
that place, in the inside of which was foand 
scraps  of  ham,  pork rinds and pork fryings. 
He  is  probably  trying  to  earn  that  $100 
which  he has to pay fyc signing his name to 
a $2 contract.
W.  W.  Littlefield,  general  dealer,  S t 
Louis,  liabilities  $5,000,  nominal  assets 
$6,000.  His  creditors  are  mostly  Detroit 
firms.

Haven.

leyton.

City. 

HARDWARE GOODS,

do 
do 
do 
do 
do 

do 
5-16  do 
do 
% 
Vt. 
do 
X 
do 

Prevailing  rates at Chicago  are as follows:
10&

Arikils—Peter Wright’s,  «   fi>.................. 
Augurs—40 and 10 per cent. off.
Babbett—Genuine $   ft.........................  ©30
Extra..............................................  @26
No. 1.......................................-v— 
©20
No. 2................................................  @18
No! 4................ ...............................  8  @10
10
5M
4%
4X

Chain—3-16 inch Lake Superior, $  ft-....... 
.......
.......
.......
.......
....
Files—Nicholson’s best 40 per cent off. 
Forks—Hay and Manure 50 per cent off. 
Hammers—Maydole’s 10@15per cent off. 
Hinges—Strap and T 60 per cent off.
Horse Shoes—Burden’s *4.50 per keg.
Horse  Nails—Au Sable  30  and 10 per 
Iron—Flat Bar *2 rates.
Sheet No. 34 *3.80.
Swede’s bar 554c ¥  lb
Padlocks 30 per cent. off.
Lead—Pig $   ft.......................
Sheet $   lb........................
P ip e«  lb..........................
Bar  « lb ............................
Rope—Manilla«  lb...............
Sisal« lb............................
Jute «#>............................
Sash Weights « f t ..................
Shot—Buck  *2.15.
Solder......................................
Steel—Best cast tool « f t  —
Round Machine « f t .......
Spring « lb .......................
Tin—Pig « lb ..........................
B ar«  ft............................
7Jnc—Sheet  « f t ....................

.... 
7*
6%
.... 
6*/4
.13  @14 
.10  @11 
.  8*@ 9V4 
.  1Ü@ VA

.14 ©17 
..  @13 
..  @   8 
..  @ hVt
mov* 
@22% 
5&@ 6A

Drop *1.80.

cent. off. 

6

„

DRUG  STORES  FOR  SALE.

RUG STOCK  FOR  SALE.  The F.D. Caul- 
Kins  stock  and  business  at  Fife Lake 
Address H. B. Fairchild, Grand  Rapids,  Mich
D RUG  STORE FOR SALE in Grand Rapids, 
for  *2,500  or  invoice.  Owner has other 
business.  Address  Hazeltinfe,  Perkins  &  Co., 
Wholesale Druggists, Grand Rapids, Mich.

.RUG STORE FOR SALE  at  Otsego,  Mich.
__’ ■: *2,000.  Address Hazeltine, Perkins & Co.,
Wholesale Druggists, Grand Rapids,  Mich.

NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that the firm of Albert 
Coye  &  Son  is  this day dissolved by mutual 
consent.  Dated January 16,1884.

ALBERT COYE, 
CHARLES A. COYE.

We  have  this  day  entered  into co-partner­
ship under the firm name of

ALBERT  COYE  &  SONS,

For the purpose of continuing the TENT AND 
AWNING BUSINESS  at the  old  stand,  No.  73 
Canal Street. 

ALBERT COYE,
CHARLES A. COYE, 
JAMES A.  COYE.

JOHN MOHRHARD,
Fresh & Salt Meats

-WHOLESALE-

109  CANAL  STREET,

g r a n d’ RAPIDS, 

-  

MICHIGAN.

D . D A RW IN  HU GH ES—W ALTER H .  H U GH ES.

D. D. &  W. H. HUGHES,

ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW,

Ledyard Bloqk,  Ottawa St., Grand  Rapids.
Special  attention  given  to the Collection 
op Claims  and  Commercial  Litigation in the 
City and throughout Northwestern Michigan. 
Also, Proofs of Claims in Assignment Cases.

Alabastine is the first and  only  prepara­
tion made from  calcined  gypsum  rock,  for 
application  to  walls  with  a brush, and  is 
fully  covered  by  our  several  patents  and 
perfected  by  many  years  of  experiments. 
It  is  the  only  permanent  wall  finish,  and 
admits  of  applying  as  many  coats  as  de­
sired, one over another, to any hard  surface 
without  danger  of  scaling,  or  noticeably 
adding to the thickness of  the  wffil,  which 
is  strengthened  and  improved  by  each  adr 
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 
the  admixtures,  forming  a  stone  cement, 
while  all  kalsomines,  or  other  whitening 
preparations,  have 
inert  soft  chalks,  or 
glue,  for  their  base,  which  are  rendered 
soft, or  scaled, in  a  very  short  time, thus 
necessitating  the  well-known  great  incon­
venience  and  expense, which  all  have  ex­
perienced,  in washing  and  scraping  off  the 
old  coats before  refinishing. 
In  addition 
to the above advantages,  Alabastine  is  less 
expensive,  as  it  requires  hut  one-half  the 
number of pounds to cover the same amount 
of surface with two coats, is  ready  for  use 
by  simply  adding  water,  and  is easily ap­
plied by  any  one.

-FOB  SALE  BY-

»T.T.  Faint  Dealers.

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

THE ALABASTINE COMPANY

M. B. CHURCH, Manager.

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

- 

- 

-  MICHIGAN.

The Largest House, and Only General Jobbing House 

of the Kind in Michigan.

E.  J.  KIEKLAND,  M.  D.,

SPECIALIST IN  DISEASES OF THE

Bar, l&ye  and  Throat

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

72  Ottawa  Street,  Corner  of Monroe  Street.

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

BATON.  110»  S  AILE»,

20  and 22 Monroe  Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN,

Respectfully announce to’ the Trade that they 
are better then ever prepared to supply all ac­
quirements in the line or

H. Leonard & Sons quote as follows:

ON E  CRATE  W H IT E   G R A N IT E  W AR E. 

Knowles,  Taylor  &  Knowles—Cable  Shape- 
Diamond C ..
6 dozPlate8...................5 inch 
3 00
1 83
6  “ 
a  “ 
14 40
¡0  « 
7  “ 
1*4« 
......8  - 
261
3  “ Bakers....................3  “ 
2 16
y.  “ 
5  “ 
42
6  “ 
48
V. 
“  

.5 0  
61 
72 
87 
72 
83 
96 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“  

 
 

 

“ 

1  “  Bowls....................No. 36
1  » 
“ 
....................  “  30
1  “  “ 
....................  “ 24
3 oj
y, 
“  Cov’d Butters__5 inch 
22
2  “  Indiv’l  “  — 254  “ 
5 63
54 
“ Cov’d Chambers.No. 9 
_  Q,
1  “  Uncov’d 
.  “  “ 
“ Cake  Plates.,.......................   3 85
54 
54  “ Restaurant Creams.............  
75
30
3  “  Cup  Plates..........i —  v.—  
>4 
4 68
5 25
8  “ 
J4 
2  “  Dishes....1............ 3  “ 
66
Xi 
  9  “ 
138
2 61
H “ 
.......................11  “ 
141  “  Ewers and Basins. No 9.......9 00
77
54  “  Barrell  Mugs— No. 36 
5  “  Fruit Saucers.4 inch 
35
“ Scollops............. 254  “ 
2 
60
54 
.................. &  *; 
83
“ 

“ Casseroles.............. 7 inch 
« 
“ 

.....___ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

 

51  “ 
54 

1 93
“ Jugs, No. 36..........................116

..................8  “ 

•* 

“  6....................... 

14$  “  “ 
4 40
54  *•  Shell Pickles.........................1 65
>4  “ Sugars. No. 30........................  2 90
54  “ Spoon  Holders...................... 1 80
50
6 sets U nhandled Coffees,............... 
............... 
38
«• 
36  “ 
12  “ Handled 
47
........... 
Crate............................

Teas 
“ 

*81 66

1 20 

76 
1 36
*3 32

.1 00 

.  90 
.1 50

ASSORTED PACKAGE GLASS SETS—NO . 35. 

4 Victoria Sets, plain..................  .......19
.30
4 Sippo Sets, plain 
Sets, figured............................... 34
4 Vail

____^  

Barrel, 35c.

CH AN DELIERS.

No 500 2 light for  stores,  complete  with  7 

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

LAMP B U RN ERS.
No 0  A n y   s t y l e   p e r  d o z ...........i . . .
N o i 
...............
No 2 
.............

do 
do 

do 
do 
OLASSW ARE.

Heavy Figured “ Horseshoe”  Pattern.

Sets, «  dozen............................................  *3 00
Pitchers, 54 gallon....................................   ® J"
2 00
Celeries,
Bowls, 7 inch, and covers..........................   3 00
..................... • • ■  3 ®
Bowls, 8 
Bowls, 9 
•> 60
..........................  
Comports, 4  Inch......................................... 
«0
Goblets.........................................................  
56
Wines........................................................  _ ®
Sulysrs..............................................••••  o uu
Nappies,  4 inch..............................«  gross  2 25

“ 
no 

“ 

“ 

Package at cost;

GLASS O IL  CANS.

“ Queen” or  “ Daisy."  No  charge  for box.
54 gal.  per doz............................................... 3 50
1 gal 
................................................. 4 60

do 

tubular  lanterns.

No 0 New wire lift for lighting,  per doz... .8 50 
No 0 Hinge for lighting, per doz..................7 50

LAM P CHIM NEYS.
Anchor, Star or Diamond brand, which  means 
Second Quality.
No. 0 Sun  «   box..............................................1 W
No. 1 
'........ ...................•••••......... 2 00
No. 2 
..............................................3 00
No. 0 Sun  «   box..............................................£ 10
No. 1 
................................................f25
No. 2 
............................................... 3 25

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

do 
do 

do 
do 

POK  fit ATjE.

A well-selected stock of groceries  situated 
in a growing town of 1,500 population is offer­
ed for sale.  The stock will inventory *3,000 to 
*3,500,  and the cash  sales last year amounted 
to *20,800.  The store is located in the best pm*t 
of the town, the  building is  of brick,  and the 
rent but *300 per annum, with  a lease  having 
thre©  years  yet to  run.  Best of reasons for 
selling.  Address XXX, care The Tradesman, 
Grand Rapids, Mich.

O- P. BIGELOW,

-WHOLESALE  DEALER IN—

-AND-

APPLIANCES,

NO. 8  CANAL STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN,

PECK  BROTHERS,

129 and 131 Monroe  Street,

-WHOLESALE-

DRUGGISTS

Prices in No Instances Higher than those  Quoted 
in this Paper.  Write us for Special Quotations.

F.J.DETTENTHALER
O Y S T E R S

Successor to  H.  M. Bliven,

—WHOLESALE—

AND  CANNED  GOODS.

Agent  for  Farren’s  Celebrated 

Raw  Oysters.

F ”  Brand

117  MONROE  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICH.

As their facilities are unsurpassed,  and their 
stock will be kept in in such  condition  as will 
give  entire  satisfaction,  both  in  the line  of 
staples and novelties.

WESTFIELD WHIPS

rXi.H:.B2ULX.S

< & C O . ,

MANUFACTURERS.

O F F I C E

-'-AND—

SALESROOM 
NO. 4 PEARL STREET, 

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

G. R0ÏS & GO, Gin’l AtBlts.

DEE.  F O W I  
PAINTER  AND  DECORATOR, 

DES,

—AND DEALER IN—

ROOM  MOULDINGS,

FINE  WALL  PAPERS AND 

Artists’  Materials I
WINDOW  SHADES,

STEAM LAUNDRY

37 Tonia  Street, South  of  Monroe.

PAINTS,  OILS,  AND

43 and 45 Kent Street.

A.  K.  ALLEN,  Proprietor.

WE  DO ONLY FIRST-CUSS  WORK AND  USE  SO 

CHEMICALS.

Orders by Mail and Express  promptly  at­

tended to.

Ob

JOHN
CAULFIELD,
Wholesale
Grocer

5

85, 87 and 89

CANAL  STREET,

Wio Will OcciytMs Sap

n e x t  w e e k .,

Country Produce.

Apples—In  fair demand  at  $S.25@$3.75 
for Russets and Baldwins.  Extra fancy, $4.
Butter—Firmer,,  with  slight  upper  ten 
dency.  Dairy  rolls  are  moving  slowly  at 
20@22c, and  packed  at  16@20c.  Western 
creamery 27@28c.
Buckwheat—New York patent,  $3.75  per 
100 lbs, and $7 1* bbl.
Beans—Somewhat  firmer  and  moderate 
sale at $2@$2.35 hand  picked,  and  $1.50@ 
$1.75 for unpicked.
Barley—Choice  commands  $1.30  ^   100 
lbs.
Cheese—Full cream in fair demand at 14c 
active at 9c@lle.
Celery—Winter in fair supply and demand 
at 25@30c 1*  doz.
Cabbage—Small quantity fair stock at $15 
^  l6o heads.
Cider—20c ^  gal. for ordinary.
Clover Seed—Choice medium firm at $6.50 
bu. and mammoth in fair demand at 
@$7 
$7@$7.25 
Cranberries—Cultivated  Wisconsin,  firm 
and scarce at  $10.50@$12.5«^$ bbl.  Extra 
fancy, $13.
Dried Apples—Quarters active  at  7@7%c
ft.  Sliced quarters, 8@8Kc.  Evaporated, 
14 @ 15c.
Eggs—Fresh very firm and higher.  Some 
sales made at  34c.  Pickled  stock is  nearly 
exhausted, and sells readily for 28@ 30«.

bu.

U  lb.
and $ 2 ^ 3  bu. bbl.

Honey—In comb, 16@18c 1J lb.
Hops—Choice in fair demand  at  20@22e 
Onions—Choice yellow 75c 
bu. in sacks
Peas—Holland $4.25  bu.
Potatoes—Slow sale at 50c for choice Bur 
banks and 45c for Rose.  Carload lots can be 
had for 5@10c less.
Poultry—Spring  chickens  and  fowls  are 
in fair supply at 14@15c and 13c, respective­
ly.  Turkeys are to be had in limited quanti­
ties, and readily command  15@16c.  Geese 
are very scarce  at  12@14c.  There  are  no 
dacks in market yet this week.
is almost impossible to obtain any but frozen 
stock*

Ruta Bagas—Very firm at 50c  1*  bu. 

Squash—Out of market
Timothy—Some  sales  of  good  made 

$1.75@$2 11 bu.

Advance  in  Tobacco.

We  stated  in  last  week’s  Tradesman 
that  we  anticipated  an  advance  in 
baccoes,  and  it  has  come  a  little  sooner 
than  looked  for. 
Peerless  smoking  and 
some  of  the  different  brands  of  plugs 
vanced  2c  per  pound  on  the  16th. 
will  not  advance  the  price  of  our  cele­
brated  Grayling  Plug  Tobacco  until  com­
pelled  to  do  so;  but  would  advise  all  of 
our friends  to  place their  orders  at  once, 
as  we  can  not  tell  when  the  advance  will 
come.

H awkins & P erry,

Wholesale Grocers, and 

Proprietors  of 

the 

Grayling Tobaccoes.

Grand  Rapids, Mich.

Delivery  Wagons.

The fact that several of the leading  retail 
grocery houses have placed orders  with  the 
Spiral Spring Buggy  Co.  for  improved  de­
livery wagons, to be completed  in  time  for 
the spring business is a sufficient  commend­
ation of the merits of their workmanship, as 
it is here that the  work  is best  known  and 
consequently  soonest  appreciated.  Call  or 
send for  estimate.

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E.  E.  PELT0N,  Publisher,

25  Bond  Street,  New  York.
A.  A.  OBXPPBN,

WHOLESALE

Hats, Caps and Fars

54  MONROE  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN.

-  We carry a Large Stock, and Guarantee  Prices 
as Low as Chicago and Detroit.

TIME TABLES.

CENTRAL  STANDARD  TIME. 

D EPA R T.

Michigan  Central—Grand  Rapids  Division.
»■Detroit Express....................................  6:05 a m
+Day  Express......................................... 12:20 p m
♦New York Fast Line............................  6:25 p m
tAtlantic Express............................................9:20 pm
♦Pacific  Express............................................. 6:45 am
tLocal  Passenger.......................................... 11:20 am
+Mail...................................................•• •  3:55 p m
tGrand  Rapids  Express............................... 10:25 pm

A R R IV E .

tDaily except Sunday.  *Daily.
The New York Fast Line runs daily, arriving 
at Detroit at 12:35 a. m., and New York at 10 p. 
m. the next evening.
Direct  and  prompt  connection  made  with 
Great  Western,  Grand  Trunk  and  Canada 
Southern Trains in same depot at Detroit, thus 
avoiding transfers.
The Detroit Express leaving at 6:05 a. m. has 
Drawing  Room  and  Parlor  Car  for  Detroit, 
reaching that city at 11:45 a. m., New York 10:30 
a. m., and Boston 2:40 p. m. next day.
A train leaves Detroit at 4 p. m. daily except 
Sunday with drawing room car attached, arriv­
ing at Grand Rapids at 10:25 p. m.

J. T. Schultz, Gen’l Agent.

Detroit, Grand  Haven A  Milwaukee.

GOING EAST.

GOING W EST.

Arrives.
tSteamboat Express..........
»Through  Mail.................... 10:10 a m
»■Evening  Express.......................3:20 pm
♦Atlantic Express......................   9:45 pm
■»Mixed, with coach...........
»Morning Express..............12:40 p m
tThrougn  Mail............................  4:45 pm
»Steamboat Express.......... 10:00 pm
»Mixed...................................._
♦Night Express............................. 5:10 am

Leaves. 
6:45 a m 
10:20 a m 
3:35 p m 
10:40 p m 
10:00am
12:55pra 
4:56 p m
8:00 a m 
5:30 a m
»Daily, 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. m. the following morning.
Parlor Cars on Mail  Trains, both  East  and 
West. 
Limited  Express  has  Wagner Sleeping Car 
through to Suspension Bridge and the mail has 
a Parlor Car to Detroit.  The  Night  Express 
has a through Wagner Car and  local  Sleeping 
Car Detroit to Grand Rapids.

D. P otter, City Pass. Agent.

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

i

GOING k o R T H .

Grand  Rapid«  A  Indiana.
Arrives.
Cincinnati & G. Rapids Ex,  9:08 p m 
Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex.  9:22 a m 
Ft.Wayne&MackinacEx..  3:57 pm  
G’d Rapids  & Cadillao  Ac.
G. Rapids & Cincinnati Ex.
Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex.  4:05 p m 
Mackinac&Ft. WayreEx. .10:25 a m 
Cadillac & G’d  Rapids  Ac.  7:40 p m 

G O ING  s o u t h .

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

SLE EPIN G  CAR ARRANGEMENTS.

All trains daily except Sunday.
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.
C. L. Lockwood, Gen’l Pass. Agent.
Chicago A West Michigan.

Leaves.  Arrives,
»Mail......................................9:35 am   4:00 pm
»Day Express..................... 12:50 p m  10:45 p m
♦Night  Express..................8:35 p m  6:10 am

♦Daily.  »Daily except Sunday.
Pullman Sleeping Cars  on  all  night trains. 
Through  parlor  car  in  charge  of  careful at­
tendants without extra charge to Chicago on 
12:50 p. m., and through coacn on 9:35 a. m. and 
8:35 p. m. trains.

NEWAYGO D IV IS IO N .

Leaves.  Arrives.
Mixed....................................  5:00 am   3:00 pm
Express................  
4:00 pm   4:00 pm
Express....................................8:30 am   12:42 pm
The Northern terminus of this Division is at 
Baldwin, where close connection is made with 
F. & P. M. trains to and  from Ludington and 
Mafiistee.

if. H. P almer, Gen’l Pass* Agent.

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

A MERCANTILE  JOURNAL, PUBLISHED EACH 

WEDNESDAY.

E. A. STOWE, Editor and  Proprietor.

OFFICE IN  EAGLE  BUILDING, 3d  FLOOR.
[Entered  at  the  Postofflce  at Grand  Rapids  as 

Second-class Matter J]

WEDNESDAY,  JAN.  30,1884.

AMONG  THE  TRADE.

IN  THE  CITY.

Putnam <&fBrooks have painted, re-papered 
and  otherwise  renovated  theft  office  and 
sample  room.
C. G. McCulloch & Co. will be represented 
on the road the coming year  by  C.  G.  Mc­
Culloch and F. £. Blakeley.

Mr, C. W. Jennings, of Jennings & Smith, 
is  expected  home  Thursday  from  a  fort­
night’s trip through Indiana and  Ohio.

C. E. Hebard has sold  his drug  stock  and 
business  at  126  Canal  street  to  Wm.  E. 
White,  for several years past a clerk in  the 
establishment.

L. Drukker, who has  just  got  settled  in 
his new  store  on  Logan  street,  purchased 
new  fixtures and  replenished  his  stock  at 
John  Caulfield’s.

J. B. Quick, one  of  the  sufferers  by  the 
late fire at Howard City,  was  in  town  last 
week and replenished his drug stock at Haz- 
eltine, Perkins & Co.’s.

interested  party”  writes 

W. S. Banker,  who  has the reputation  of 
having  more  good-looking  daughters  than 
any other man  on  the  road,  was  in  town 
several days last week.
T h e  
T r a d e s m a n   from Zeeland that commercial 
men may now rest easy, as the trouble at that 
place has been  adjusted.
Dr. J. B.  Evans,  the  gifted  grip-carrier, 
smoked a loaded cigar in  the  presence  of  a 
large  and  appreciative  audience  at  Cody, 
Ball & Co.’s office last  Saturday. 
It  was  a 
Sharp trick.

Ham. B. Carhart, of the firm  of  Welling 
& Carhart, who has been in New York  City 
for the past three weeks,  is  expected  home 
thp latter p&rt of the present  week.

“An 

Wm. M.  Ingell,  who  has  purchased  the 
restaurant  and  grocery  business  of  G.  H. 
Gilbert at Sand Lake,  was in town Monday, 
agd  sorted up his stock at Clark,  Jewell  & 
Co.’«.

Valda  A.  Johnston,  formerly  with  the 
Packing Co., now engaged in the  wholesale 
notion business, traveling by team, left Mon­
day for a five Weeks’ trip, proposing to go as 
far north as Pentwater.

H.  R.  Savage,  formerly  with  Freeman, 
Hawkins & Co. and Gray, Burt & Kingman, 
of Chicago,  has  declined  a  desirable  offer 
from the latter house to accept  the  position 
of inside manager for John  Caulfield.
Henry  Ives  has  returned  from  a  four 
weeks’  tour  of  Southern  Michigan  and 
Northern Ohio in the interest of the  Plumb 
&  Lewis Manufacturing Co., and  leaves  on 
the 1st for a trip  through Illinois, Iowa and 
Kansas.
There are no new developments in the  A. 
W. Fisher  failure.  Assignee  Tolford  has 
$650 to his  credit in bank, and  is  awaiting 
the usual period ef 90 days to  elapse,  when 
he will endeavor to effect a settlement  with 
the creditors.

Contrary to what some have inferred from 
a  previous  reserence  to  the  matter,  C.  S. 
Willcox will continue his outside visits to the 
trade, in the interest of  Hawkins  &  Perry, 
spending each Monday  in  the  city. 
J. E. 
Ireland will continue to visit the  city  trade 
each Thursday, putting in the  remainder  of 
the week on the road.

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Geo. A. Smith, for the past three years  in 
the employ of  A. A.  Crippen,  has  engaged 
with Gould &  Taylor,  jobbers  of  hats  and 
caps at  Boston,  to  represent  them  on  the 
road,  his  territory  including  the  states  of 
Michigan, Ohio and Indiana.  He has  made 
one  trip,  with  exceptionally  good  results, 
and left Monday  for  a  fortnight’s  tour  of 
Missouri. 
Albert Coye is the veteran tent  and  awn­
ing maker of  the State,  having  established 
himself here in that business  in  1855. 
In 
1882, his son, Charles  A.,  was  admitted to 
partnership with the father, under the  firm 
name of  Albert  Coye & Son;  and  on  the 
16th  of  the  present  month,  another  sen, 
James A., was  admitted,  the  style  of  the 
firm being changed to Albert  Coye &  Sons.
J.  C.  Kendall,  dealer  in  millinery  and 
fancy goods, who has never possessed  a  re­
markably good credit,  and  has  lately  been 
forced to ask  for  extensions  from  most  of 
his creditors, was attached at the instance of 
an Eastern firm Saturday  night,  and- imme­
diately made an assignment to H. P. Baker, 
after whieh the officer  released  the  attach­
ment.  The liabilities are about $20,000  and 
the nominal assets about $25,000

T. R. Van Wert, of Yan  Wert  &  Dibble, 
general dealers *at Alba, was in town Friday 
and Saturday of last week.  He said that for 
a time  his  firm  were  uncertain  as  to  the 
future of Alba, and were on the point of dis­
posing of all  their  interests  there,  and  re­
moving to a more  promising  locality;  bnt  a 
brighter day has dawned for the  place,  and 
they have concluded to  remain  where  they 
are, and still further augment their business 
investments.  The  failure  of Ely  will have 
no perceptible  influence  on  the  growth  or 
reputation of thje place.  T. R. Van Wert & 
Co. are making preparations  for  putting  in 
three  boll  lathes and about  five  lathes  for 
turning  broom  handles at  their  mill.  Mr. 
Van Wert says that  Alba  isalso  struggling 
for a stave factory, and thinksit  would  do  a 
staving business.

AROUND  THE  STATE.

M. S. Angel is enlarging his store building 

at Newaygo.

John Anderson has engaged in the bakery 

business at Shelby.

gfocery at Kalkaska.

C. A. Lockinaw has opened a bakery  and 

Reynolds & Gleason have engaged  in  the 

meat business at Cadillae.

Peter Hoeksema has opened  a  cigar  and 

tobacco store at Mnskegon.

M. C. Betts, druggist at  Chippewa  Lake, 

has sold out to Henry Arbour.

Ed. Jennings  has opened  a  new  grocery 

and meat market at Pinconning.

Goo. Richardson has sold  his  drug  stock 

at Petoskey to Higgins & Drayton.

Wm. Keough,  who  kept  a  five  and  ten 

cent  store at Jonesville, has assigned.

Williams  &  Warden,  general  dealers  at 
Manton, are succeeded by  Wardell  &  Pal-
mei.
C. C. Smith, of S t Joseph, is  thinking of 
ydiing out his extensive hardware  interests 
ynd removing to California.

O. A. Richardson, of the firm  of  Whiting 
& Richardson, hardware merchants at Flint, 
died recently of Bright’s disease.

W. W.  Littlefield,  dealer  in  dry  goods, 
groceries and clothing at St. Louis, has been 
closed on an execution for judgment.

C. D. Harwood proposes to build  a  three- 
story sandstone block on the corner of Maple 
street and Michigan avenue, Big Rapids, the 
.coming  season.

Pauley  &  Dickisen, St. Ignace, have pur­
chased the bankrupt stationery  stock  of  R. 
W. McGarvie at that place, and consolidated 
it with  their own.

Werner &  Rosenberger,  who  engaged  in 
the  candy business at Big Rapids  last  Sep­
tember, tiave dissolved partnership  and  dis­
continued business.

K. M. Cheek of East Saginaw,  proprietor 
of  a  general  notion  store  known  as  the 
Chicago  Exposition,  has  assigned.  The 
liabilities are $2,500;  assets, $1,500.

STRAY  FACTS.
Morenci has an ink factory.
Cass City has four new stores.
The Cooper House, Laingsburg, is  closed. 
Constantine will have a tissue paper  mill.
Grand Haven harbor is now released from 

its ice blockade.

M. Englemann’s salt well at Manistee  has 

been sunk 1,560 feet

The Jonesville woolen mill is now running 

to its fullest capacity.

There is talk of  starting  a  wooden  bowl 

factory at Battle Creek.

There is a movement of foot to establish a 

national bank at Milan.

Manistee merchants have banded together 

against the dead beats.

The Decatur planing mill has an order for 

120,000 axle grease boxes.

Elk Rapids is  anxiously  waiting  for  the 

establishment of a bank.

The Elk Rapids blast furnace will resume 

work early in  February.

The Milford Cultivator manufactory begins 

business the coming  week.

A  correspondent,  in  the  Shelby  Enter­

prise, advocates a piokle factory.

Manchester is to have  a  paper  mill  and, 

possibly, a fruit drying establishment.

A Detroit  baker wants  to  start  in  Cole­

man, but cannot get a suitable location.

On counting  noses Kalamazoo  has  found 

she has $100,000 men to the number of »0.

Graham &  Miller have  started  a  factory 
at Farwell to make peevy handles  and  cant 
hooks.

Allegan’s mouth is  watering for an  agri­
cultural implement factory from  New  York 
State.

'The Saline  Manufacturing  Co.,  although 
but six months  old,  will  declare  an  8  per 
cent dividend.
Hillsdale men propose organizing  a  Busi­
ness Men’s Association to  induce  manufac­
turers to visit them.

The Jonesville cotton mill is  experiment­
ing  with  bleached  goods.  They  will  be 
bleached in Utica, N. Y.

C. R. Pinfield, of New York,  is  trying  to 
induce Port Huron  capitalists  to  manufac­
ture his patent tackle block.

Nearly  12,000,000  barrels  of  petroleum 
that  had  no  existence  except  on  paper 
changed  hands  in  Pittsburg  one  day  last 
week.

The  failure  of  Anderson  Bros., bankers 
and grain dealers  at  Mendon,  has  agitated 
that  place  considerably,  as  the  firm  was 
rated high in commercial circles.

Two Saginaw commercial travelers, while 
in  Mt.  Morris,  induced  a  Flushing  man’s 
dog to accompany them to Saginaw.  Result: 
They  had  to pay  costs  and  return  dog  to 
owner.

Henry French, formerly of Cassopolis, has 
bought out Wood & Sampson’s hardware, ag­
ricultural implement, wood and coal store, at 
Buchanan.

Gray, Thoynton & Fox,  the  Detroit  con­
fectioners, file a report showing their capital 
stock to be $150,000, all paid in, and  liabili­
ties $3,575.84.

J. M. Hale, of  Dexter, has  invested  his 
brains  in  a  flat-iron  invention,  and  now 
wants somebody to invest  his  capital  in its 
manufacture.

D. M. Ferry & Co., the Detroit seed house, 
file a report showing  their  capital  stock  to 
be $750,000, all paid in, and an indebtedness 
of $159,229.69.

Hastings  business  men  are  thinking  of 
improving their water supply as a  means of 
reducing insurance rates,  which  they  com­
plain are enormous.

John Otis, proprietor of the Alba iron fur­
nace, proposed to the citizens to operate three 
coal kilns if they would build  them.  They 
have taken him up.

Mason News:  An insurance company ad­
justed a loss in this county last week and al­
lowed five cents for two  marbles.  Nothing 
like figuring things down fine.

Bangor  Reflector:  Bangor  is  shipping 
large quantities of flour and feed to northern 
stations.  The daily  shipments  of  the  two 
mills here are from two to five tons.

Hastings business men  have  admired the 
telephone from a distance, and even thought 
of securing it for their town;  but the  agent 
required a guarantee of $1,000 and  the  pro­
ject had to be abandoned.
The Caledonia button works are  again  in 
Qperation, employing 20 persons, who are at 
present employed in “finishing up’? partially 
manufactured stock.  Mr. Bergy  is  making 
definite  preparations to  start  in  full  blast 
next spring.
Sparta Sentinel:  Edison, Johnson & Fitch 
have formed a partnership, aud will  engage 
in the  sale  of  farm  implements  and  wind 
mills.  They are to occupy the  east  half  of 
the AndersoR Block, and  Tfill  have  one  of 
the most attractive stores in the  village.

The town of Manton, having raised $1,500 
bonus, Closson, Gilbert & Co. will  put  up  a 
building with sufficient capacity to add there­
to machinery, and steam vats, for the manu­
facture  of  clothes-pins,  bowls,  bent  stuffs, 
wagon  and  sleigh  woods,  handles  of  all 
kinds, furniture timber, etc. 

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Another  establishment  for  canning  and 
drying fruit and making  jams,  jellies,  etc., 
has been organized at Detroit.  The concern 
has a capital stock of $100,000, and is known 
as the Michigan Preserving Co.  The  incor­
porators  are  H.  C.  Park,  H.  C.  Wisner, 
Thomas L. Page, James Miller and Chas.  C. 
Shewfeit

Otsego News:  The chair factory of C. D. 
Stuart & Co. is running and the men  are  as 
busy as bees  in  June;  Prentiss,  Nevins  & 
Co. keep  their  factory in  motion;  the hoe 
factory is in full blast;  also  the  broom  fac­
tory;  J.  M. Ballon will start up in a  day or 
two, and the famous  grist-mills  are  in  full 
blast.  There is no livlier village  in  Michi­
gan for its size than Otsego.

FRUIT prices  are  LOW.  Wa  mote  to-day:

f l r n n  n r n n   0  $2.75—$3.00  1BF  BOI 
U l  d l l M u o   oo  $2.7543.25  jtr  BOI 
YaL  $5.5046.00  mr  Case.

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WE  SOLICIT YOUR  ORDERS.,

PUTNAM & BROOKS.

S P E O IA L   2STOTIŒ

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Having finished  our inventory, we  have  resolved 
to offer a large amount of our Crockery, Glassware, 
Lamps,  Trimmings  and  Miscellaneous  Goods  at  a 
Great  Sacrifice  to  close  out patterns and lines  of 
goods that we do not intend to buy hereafter.
Here are positive bargains.
H.  LEONARD  &  SONS,

JOBBERS OF

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Lamps, Chandeliers and Pendants.

Buy  “Our Own”  Brand  of Lamp Chimneys, if good  ones are wanted.  Note the Special 
16  Monroe  St.,  Grand  Rapids,  M ichigan.

Prices we quote in another colnmn.

W H O L E S A L E

Hat  and  Gap  Store!

PRICES  GUAB.A1TTEEP

AS {LOW  AS  CHICAGO  AND  NEW1YORKU
GOOD  FUR GAPS, $22.50  PER  DOZEN,  —  WOOL  HATS,  $4.50  AND  UPWARDS 

GENUINE  FUR  HATS, $13.50  AND  UPWARDS.

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8QF~ Terms—7 per cent off in 10 days;  5 per cent in 30 days; met in 60 days.

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WHOLESALE  DRUGGISTS,

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Fruit 4  Produce at Wholesale

Choice Butter, Eggs, Cheese, Mince  Meat, Maple 
Syrup, Jellies,  Buckwheat Flour,  and  Foreign  and 
Domestic Fruits  and Vegetables.
Carefiil Attention  Paid to  Filling  Orders.
H. C. Bussell, 48 Ottawa St., G'J Rapids.
F. J. LAMB  &  COMPANY,

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Butter,  Cheese,  Eggs 9

Apples, Onions, Potatoes, Beans, Etc.

NO.  8  IONIA  STREET,

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WHOLESALE  GROCERS,

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