The Michigan Tradesman.

YOL.  1.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN,  WEDNESDAY,  FEBRUARY  6,  1884.

NO. 20.

SILK  HAT  HATERS.

ODDS  AND  ENDS.

MAKING  BUTTERINE.

COMMUNICATIONS.

THE  SUPREME  COURT.

The  Process by  Which  a Substitute for  Butter 

|  Strenuous Objection  to  Sensational  Advertis­

Digests  of  Commercial  Decisions  Recently 

NOTICE.

NOTICE  IS  HEREBY GIVEN th a t th e notes 

and  accounts  lately  assigned  to  m e  by 
Jas. E. Furm an will be sold  a t  public  auction 
to th e  highest bidder at th e  store  lately  occu­
pied by Jas. E. Furm an, a t No.  36  W est  Bridge 
street, in th e  city o f G rand Rapids,  on  th e  0th 
day o f F ebruary, 1884, a t 2 o’clock in th e  after­
noon. 

N. A. FLETCHER, Assignee.

G rand Rapids, Mich., Ja n u a ry  29,1884.

3NTOTIOE.

Notice is hereby given th a t th e  firm  of A lbert 
' Coye  &  Son  is  this  day  dissolved  by  m utual 
consent.  Dated Ja n u a ry  16,1884.

ALBERT  COYE, 
CHARLES  A. COYE,

We  have  this  day  entered  in to   co-partner­

ship u n der th e firm  nam e  of

A L B E R T   COYE  &  SONS,

For th e purpose of continuing th e   TENT AND 
AWNING  BUSINESS  a t  th e  old  stand,  No.  73
Canal Street.

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

A n n ouncement.
No  m ore  trades!  No  m ore pine lands!  No 
m dre corner lo ts! No m ore speculating fo r m e ! 
A fter y ears of study I shall  resum e  the  prac­
tice of medicine', and therefore m ake this pub­
lic announcem ent to  m y m any fo rm er p atients 
and to  th e public  generally.  I  claim   to  have 
no specifics nor to perform  m iracles, b u t to the 
u n fo rtu n ate I prom ise a rational and conscien­
tious treatm ent,  and  having  faith   and  confi­
dence in my new and im proved tre a tm e n t  and 
rem edies fo r all p rivate  diseases, I  shall  m ake 
all such a  specialty.  C onsultation  and  tre a t­
m ent free to  those unable to pay.
Office h o u rs: 9 to 11 a m, 2 to  4 and 7 to 6 p m.

No. 40 F ountain  Street.
U nquestioned references given if desired.

DR. G. A. CLEMENT,

SITUATIONS  WANTED.

WANTED—A bout March  1st, a  situation  as 
book-keeper, by a thoroughly com petent 
and  reliable  m an. 
Satisfactory  references. 
Address  B., Care of W. A. Severson,  D ruggist, 
Buchanan, Mich:

DRUG  STORES  FOR  SALE.

A ddress H. B. Fairchild, Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

kins  stock  and  business  a t  Fife Lake. 

DRUG  STOCK  FOR  SALE.  The F. D. Caul- 
D RUG  STORE  FOR  SALE  in Grand Rapids, 
D RUG  STORE  FOR  SALE  a t  Otsego,  Mich.

invoice.  Owner has other 
business.  A ddress  H azeltine,  P erkins  &  Co., 
W holesale D ruggists, Grand Rapids, Mich.

$2,000.  Address H azeltine, P erkins & Co., 

fo r  $2,500  o r 

W holesale D ruggists, G rand Rapids,  Mich.
D .  D A RW IN   HU GH ES—W ALTER H .  HU GH ES.

D. D. &  W. H. HUGHES,

ATTOKKEYS-AT-LAW,

L e d y a rd   B lo ck ,  O tta w a   St., G ran d   R ap id s.
Special  atten tio n   given  to  th e  C o l l e c t i o n  
o f   C l a i m s   and  Commercial  Litigation  in  the 
City and  thro u g h o u t  N orthw estern  Michigan. 
Also, Proofs of  Claims in A ssignm ent Cases.

E.  J. KIRKLAND. M.  D.,

SPECIALIST  IN   DISEASES  OF  THE  *
Ear, E y e   and  Throat

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

»

72  Ottawa  Street,  Corner  of Monroe  Street, 

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

JOHN MOHRHARD,
Fresh & Salt Meats

—WHOLESALE—

109  CAN AL  STR EE T,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICHIGAN.

FOU  SALE.

sir.  Never been here before?”

A  Practical  Illustration  ot  “ Shoot  the  Hat.”
A traveling salesman for a struggling Chi­
cago jobbing  house  visited  America»  Fall, 
Idaho, on the 23d of November, on the even­
ing of which day a number of cowboys were 
preparing to have a ball in  the  same  town. 
Everything passed off smoothly  until  after­
noon,  when  the  commercial  wanderer  ap­
peared upon the street wearing a  silk  hat— 
a»  article of apparel which  no  cowboy  can 
endure.  As soon as the  traveling  man  ap­
peared the cowboys started after him,  walk­
ing in  single file, and  keeping  close  in  his 
wake.
The man  with the silk hat  may  have  no­
ticed the procession, hut it  is  probable  that 
he had  no  idea  of  its  significance.  He 
stopped in a little store for  a  few  minutes, 
and while he tarried there the crowd on  the 
outside increased.  When he  emerged  once 
more  the  boys  fell  into  line  behind  him 
¿gain in single file and resumed their march, 
gathering recruits at almost every step, until 
finally there were  twenty  or  thirty  of  the 
gang in the  procession.  By  this  time  the 
stranger began to understand that something 
was the matter either with him or  with  tlxe 
town, and  he  darted  into  a  little  jewelry 
store, pretending that he  wanted  to  set  his 
watch.  The boys came to a halt on the side­
walk  and  faced  the  store-  The  jeweler, 
whose stock consisted  principally  of  revol­
vers and other shooting irons, looked inquis­
itively at his caller and then at the throng in 
front.  Thinking it a good opportunity to say 
something, the traveling man  observed:
“You have a nice town here, but  can  you 
tell me  why  these  men  are  following  me 
around?”
“I can,” said the store-keeper  laconically; 
“they’re after that hat.”
“What hat?”
“That plug.  They don’t allow  ’em  here, 
“Never,” gasped the man.
“Well, now look here,” said  the  jeweler. 
“The boys are a little full of fun to-day, and 
they might make  things  uncomfortable  for 
frou. 
I’ll jnst escort you up to-the hotel and 
introduce you to some of them as my friend. 
Then you put that hat away  and  don’t  you 
wear it any  more.”
Thanking the jeweler, the stranger walked 
out arm in arm with him, the boys falling in 
behind and following them to the hotel.  On 
entering the bar-room the jeweler called one 
of then to his  side  and  said:  “This  is  Mr.
B-----, a friend of  mine  from  the  States.”
The “boy” siezed him by  the  hand  with  a 
grip that brought tears to his eyes, and said;
“I’ll take turpentine.”
Others crowded up and  were  introduced, 
each one smiling a sickly sort of  smile,  but 
looking unforgivingly at the hat.  All agreed 
that they  would  have  to  have  something, 
and quietly urged  the  stranger  toward  the 
bar, on which the innkeeper had  placed  the 
bottle  and  glasses  the  minute  the  first 
speaker  had  “nominated  Ills  medicine” 
When once they were  arranged  in  front  of 
the bar, with glasses in  hand,  tiie  hat  sud­
denly slipped from the head of  the  wearer, 
assisted by a cowboy in the rear, and in  less 
time than it takes to tell it a ring was formed 
around the offending article and  a  score  of 
revolvers were blazing away at  it.  The ter­
rified traveler stepped to one  side  with  his 
new found  friend,  and  was  met  with  the 
comforting remark:
.  “It’s a mighty good thing for you that you 
got onto me, for in ten  minutes  more  those 
chaps would have been firing at that  hat  on 
your head.  They wouldn’t  have  taken  the 
trouble to have knocked it off.  They would 
have shot it off, and  you  would  have  been 
lucky  if  you  had  escaped  with  a  whole 
skull, for some of the boys  are  a  little  wild 
in their shooting.” .

A well-selected stock o f groceries  situated 
in  a grow ing tow n o f 1,500 population  is  offer­
ed fo r sale.  The stock will inventory $3,000 to 
$3,500,  and  th e  cash  sales  last year  am ounted 
to $2u,800.  The store is located in th e best p a rt 
o f th e tow n, th e  building  is  of  brick,  and  the 
re n t b u t $300  p er  annum , w ith  a  lease  having 
th ree  years  y et  to   ru n .  Best  of  reasons  for 
selling.  A ddress XX X , care T h e  T r a d e s m a n , 

G rand Rapids, Mich.SEEDS

-F O R   T H E -

FIELD  AND  GARDEN,

— a t —

WHOLESALE  AND  RETAIL,

—FOR  SALE  AT  THE—

S£1£]B STOH.E,

91  C an al  St,, G ran d   R a p id s, M ich.

W. T. L1M0BEAIJI Agent

O. F. BIG*EILOW,

-WHOLESALE  DEALER  I N -

I I

-----AND-----

APPLIANCES,

NO. 8  CA N A L  STR EE T,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICHIGAN.

STEAM  LAUNDRY

43 and 45 K en t Street.

A.  K.  ALLEN,  Proprietor.

WE DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS  WORK AND  USE  NO 

CHEMICALS.

Orders by Mail and Express  promptly  at­

tended to.

The Gentle Dummy Occupying  Number Seven­

teen.

A poor devil of a hair dresser was sold out 
lately, and among the effects  was  a  superb 
head and bust of a papier-mache female.
The clerk at a Northern hotel purchased it, 
and the boys determined to have  some  fun. 
There is a long room in the hotel divided by 
curtains, each half containing a bed.
So they stuck the bust  at  the  top  of  the 
bolster and put the  lay  figure  comfortably 
under the sheets, where it lay like  a  reclin­
ing Venus.  They went down to the office to 
await the arrival of the 11 o’clock  train  and 
see w'lio was apportioned to  number  seven­
teen, where the gentle dummy was reposing.
To their ehargin old Silas Gregory, who  is 
the solidest man on the road, in  a  religious 
sense, got the lucky  number.
Just before the solemn man went up stairs 
Derrick Adams called him to one  side.
“Sir,” he said, with  a  halting  confusion, 
“can I speak a few words in private to you?”
“Certainly, sir.”
“Well, sir, I suppose the clerk has  forgot­
ten it, but a young lady is sleeping in one of 
those beds—it is true that a  curtain  divides 
the room, and with a man of your  character 
it does not matter at all.”
“Not at all,” said the serious  traveler,  “I 
shall be rising early  and  need  not  disturb 
her.”

“Exactly.  You’ll be very careful—”
“Sir, you don’t know me;  if  you  think  I 
could be capable of—”
“I know you are the very  soul  of  honor. 
Good night.”
“The boys sat  in  Derrick’s  room  for  an 
hour, and were  just  going  to  retire  rather 
disgustedly to their chambers when the door 
of number seventeen opened and the serious 
man rushed up the corridor, his face as white 
as a miller’s.
“Gentlemen,”  he gasped,  “a  great  erime 
has  been  coimpitted—that  girl’s  face  is as 
cold  as  ice—she’s dead!  Merciful  heavens, 
dead!”
The  whole  crowd  went  with  him,  and 
when he found out the  swindle he  began to 
bluster, but Derrick said very quietly:
“Now, look you here, Mr. Whatdoyoueall- 
em, before you kick up  a  row  here  you’ve 
got to explain how you found out that maid­
en’s cheek was cold.”
“I—I—I—Great Scott! Give me my grip!” 
and the pious man frightened the night clerk 
out of a weeks’ growth by  dashing  through 
the  office  into the  gloomy  darkness of  the 
night.
The hotel people think it was a case of de­
lirium tremens, but the boys all know it was 
an honest attack of Brooklyn paroxysms.
The  serious gentleman  hasn’t been  seen 
since on the Michigan circuit, and a report is 
rife that he has gone back East  to avoid the 
malaria of the climate in these regions.

Minor  Information  of  Interest  to  Everybody.

Bear is a favorite fur in London.
Since the opening of  the  Suez  Canal  tea 
has,  1879  excepted,  declined  each  year  in 
It  has  never  been lower in England 
price. 
than now.

John S. West, now of Tiverton, R. I., who 
failed  in  Baltimore  in  1851,  was  in  New 
Bedford recently paying his creditors in full, 
although he was discharged by the courts of 
Baltimore.

When you have a pound of sugar returned, 
with a note, saying,  “Too much glucose  for 
sugar, and too  little  for  starch,”  you  may 
come to the conclusion that you have mirsed 
your calling.
The best maccaroni consumed in this coun­
try, is, according to the Philadelphia  Press, 
made of California wheat.  New York, Phil­
adelphia and San Francisco  make more mac­
caroni than is imported.

“Well,”  said  a  jaunty  son,  lonnging  in 
from the office with his father’s mail, “you’ve 
got a postal from ma, and she  says she  met 
a cyclone.”  “Pity the cyclone,” Was the old 
plan’s crusty reply, as he jabbed his pen into 
the inkstand.
A business firm in Toronto,  which  sent  a 
postal card to a broker who was in litigation, 
stating that the  broker’s  opponent  had  at­
tempted  to  extort  money  from  them  by 
blackmail and was a  low  fellow,  was  sued 
for $15,000 damages  for  libel,  but  pleaded 
that the communication was privileged,  and 
the jury found a verdict for them.

I smelt of it, aud it  had  no  smell. 

The boy  would  put  a  bucket  of  whole 
pepper and then a bucket of some stuff  that 
I at first supposed was coarsely ground pep­
per. 
I 
tasted of it, and it had no taste. 
I looked at 
it  closely,  and  I’ll  be  blowed  if  it  wasn’t 
bran. 
“What’s  that?”  said  I  to  Sandy. 
“That,” said  Sandy,  with  a  laugh,  “why, 
that’s  profit.”

Among the  applications  of  cotton  is  its 
use, in part, in the  construction  of  houses, 
the material employed for this purpose being 
the refuse, which, when ground up  with  an 
equal amount of straw' and  abestos,  is  con­
verted into paste,  and  tills  is  formed  into 
slabs of brick, which  acquire, it is  said,  the 
hardness of stone, and furnish a really valu­
able building stock.

One pound of rice gives 88 per cent, of nu­
triment, and one pound of  beef  25 per cent. 
And yet says the Journal of Health, count­
less numbers of people strain at a point daily 
to purchase beef at 15 cents  a  pound  when 
they could get a pound of  rice  at  one-third 
of that amount, the  rice,  too,  having  three 
times as much nutriment as the beef and  be­
ing three times easier of digestion.

The  estimated  eixport  from  China  and 
Japan of  all  descriptions  of  teas  for  this 
country and Canada for the season  of  1883- 
84 just closed is  placed  at  65,540,000  lbs., 
against 74,550,000 lbs., for the  previous sea­
son,  and  79,900,000  lbs.,  for  1881-82..  Of 
this  quantity  44,800,000 
lbs.,  had  been 
shipped up to the latest mail dates  received 
Boston, and about 3,000,000 lbs. had arrived 
at that port up to the 1st instant.

Nothing  Worried  Him.

A Canal  street  business  man,  who  was 
obliged to take a trip  up  North  last  week, 
unexpectedly  encountered  an  old  acquain­
tance in the person of an ex-broker. _
“Why, it’s five years since I have heard of 
you,” exclaimed the merchant, as they shook 
hands.
“Yes,  it’s  about  five  years  since  I  was 
cleaned out.
“And what are you doing now?”
“In  the  grocery  business—the retail busi­
“And doing  well?”
“Oh, so-so-”
“And you like  it?”
“Well, it’s a change, you  see. 

I  furnish 
the experience and another man the  money, 
and I’ve nothing to worry over.  When I go 
to bed at night I know that Jay Gould  can’t 
jump the price of eggs, nor Vanderbilt upset 
tile figurès on dried apples,  and  I  rest  per­
fectly easy.”

ness.”

Thompson,  the  Poet.

•  S. D. Thompson, general dealer at Neway­
go, is entitled to the rank as  a  poet  second 
only to the more or less  immortal  Julia  A. 
Moore,  as  following  effusion 
in’  a  late 
Newaygo paper fully attests:
Ju s t give m y te a  a trial,
While all the rest  of  m y  grocery  stock 

My sugar I know is sweet,
Is so very, v^ry cheap.
J u s t drop in and see me 
I t is hard tim es I know;
B ut I will divide th e profits,
If you will keep up th e show.

Patents  Issued  to  Michigan  Inventors.

The following patents have lately  been is­

sued to Michigan inventors:

box and drinking flask.
attachment for time locks.
mechanism.
for circular saws.

II. E. Doran, Grand Rapids, fire  escape.
Joseph F. Morgan, Detroit, combined lunch 
Hiram P. Prince, Grand Haven, unlocking 
Frank  Scooneas,  Detroit,  elevator  stop 
W. D.  Sherman,  Grand  Haven,  hanging 
M. B. Holmes, Fernsville, railway jack.
H. H. Todd, Lapeer, running gear.

Some  Soap.

Messrs. Fox, Musselman & Loveridge have 
placed with Procter & Gamble, of Cincinnati, 
who take rank among the leading soap houses 
of the ¡country, the  largest  soap  order  ever 
sent from this market.  The  order  was  for 
550 boxes, two full carloads, or  38,500  bars. 
The mammoth invoice is expected  to  arrive 
the" latter part  of the present week.

The  Best  Buggy.

The Spiral Spring is the best buggy made, 
and the enormous sales of the vehicle  attest 
this fact.  The  patent  spring  used  in  the 
construction of every buggy is the best thing 
of the kind ever invented, being at once com­
pact, easy riding and durable.  Besides  this 
feature the Spiral  Spring  buggies  combine 
other points equally as valuable.  The work­
manship is perfect.

is  Manufactured.

From   the  D etroit  Times.
“No, sir, this is not the  place  where  they 
manufacture a substitute for butter,  “said  a 
gentleman at the door of a store on  Atwater 
street in reply to a question.  “We make the 
very  nicest and cleanest butterine  that  you 
ever  saw.  Just  step this way and see  how 
it is done.”
In a back room,  where  were ranged upon 
the shelves rows of golden rolls of what seem­
ed to be  a  remarkably  fine  grade of  butter. 
“This is our  butterine,  as  it  is  ready  for 
sale,” he continued.  “Everyone thinks that 
because it isn’t pure butter  it  is  necessarily 
unhealthy.  New that is not the  case  here. 
If you will look around you will notice  that 
there  are no such signs as,  ‘No  admittance 
except on  business,’  or  ‘apply  at  the  office 
for admittance.’  Everything is  public,  and 
anyone who comes in will have someone put 
at his disposal to show him through the place. 
If you would like to see the way  it  is  done 
just step upstairs where they are now  busy 
making the butterine.  You see tips churn,” 
pointing to a large tin vat  in  which  a  post 
was revolving having arms similar to a wash 
tub in a distillery.  “This is where we chum 
You see we take the very best creamery but­
ter, refined lard, beef oil and pure cream and 
put them in the  churn  and  mix  them  up 
thoroughly ;  then the mixture  is* drawn  off 
into a vat half filled with ice and worked by 
If you  will  wait  a  minute  you 
two men. 
will see how it is  done.”
Two men had  taken  a  position  on  each 
side of the vat with forks very similar to the 
ones used in digging potatoes.  The butterine 
was drawn off and was mixed  with  the  ice 
and immediately took the form of the  nicest 
of butter.
“This is not exactly the way  the  old  wo­
men make it, and I  wouldn’t  wonder  if  it 
surprised some of them,”  said  the  manufac­
turer; “but I would  sooner  use  this  than 
most of the butter now  sold  as  home-made 
creamery.”
“How  much  of  this  do  you  make  in  a 
day?”
“Well, you see, the churn holds half a ton, 
and we generally run off about four ehnms a 
day. 
It is then  worked  on  tables  and  the 
buttermilk  extracted  like  ordinary  butter, 
and it is then made up in rolls or packed for 
shipping.  We ship all over the country and 
are now opening a trade with Holland and I 
think we will soon ship all of our produce.”
“What is the difference between butterine 
and oleomargarine?”
“The only difference is in the  use  of  tal­
low  instead  of  lard  and  milk  instead  of 
cream.  As to the prices, creamery butterine 
is three or  four cents less than fresh  butter. 
There are different kinds of it as well  as  of 
anything else.  It just depends upon the pro­
portions that are used.”

ing.  .
Collins, Mich., Jan. 31.

Editor  Tradesman :  I wish you  would 
j be  so kind as to explain why so many retail 
dealers are advertising  to  sell  goods  at 
off,”  “less  than  oost,”  etc.  1  cannot  see 
where the^e is anything gained by this mode 
of advertising.  You are well aware than no 
responsible house can afford to sell goods for 
one-quarter off regular rates,  that  the  mar­
gins of retailers  would  not  admit  of  such 
fearful “cuts” and allow them to live.  True, 
the  times  are  hard  and  money  unusually 
close;  but it  appears  to  me  that  all  such 
maneuvers  on  the  part  of-  dealers  only 
weakeh  them. 
It  is  high  time  we  learn 
that our customers  (many of them)  are men 
of good understanding  and  judgment,  that 
some of  them  are  as  well  posted  as  the 
retailer himself, and that every  such  adver­
tisement is regarded by such men as a snare 
or trap in which to entangle  the  unsuspect­
ing ;  or, what is yet worse, a  misrepresenta­
tion or a lie.  Men of any principle will not 
for  any length  of  time  patronize  a  house 
that will month after month insult  an  intel­
ligent community  with  such  falsehoods  as 
“K off,” “at your own price,” etc.  Any man 
of good judgement knows that goods  cannot 
be sold at cost, or  for  less  than  cost.  Such 
a man is willing to  pay  a  fair  margin,  a 
margin that will enable the  dealer  to  carry 
his customers through the close times and at 
the same time not imperil his own interests.
There  are but few  solid  farmers  who  do 
not realize the terrible  pressure  this  winter 
is having upon trade,  and  I  for  one  think 
they will stand by any  honorable dealer,  re­
gardless of the 
off,”  and  “at  your  own 
price,” advertisers.  Only the floating  trade 
is attracted by  such  inducements  and  as  a 
general rule such trade is of but little value, 
if  any,  as- there  are  so  many  dead-beats 
among that class as to  make  it  undesirable.
What would we  think  of  the  wholesale 
house that would advertise 
off,” “regard­
less of cost,” etc.?  Would such an advertise­
ment elevate them in our opinion, or  on  the 
contrary cause us to look with  suspicion  on 
such a move.  Most assuredly we would pro­
nounce them either knaves or fools.  If such 
a course would bring the  jobber  into  disre­
pute, why  not  the  retailer?  I  can  see  no 
reason  why  he  should  not  share  the  same 
fate.
It appears to me  that  all  dodges  made  to 
attract customers like those mentioned, and, 
also, “every twentieth article  free,” “a pres­
ent for every so  many  dollars’  trade,”  “the 
lucky guesser,” etc.,  etc.,  are  only  genteel 
In  my  opinion,  an 
methods of swindling. 
honest advertisement is all- that  is necessary 
to  attract  desirable  trade. 
I  should  be 
pleased to here from othdls on  this  subject.

Truly and faithfully yours,

S. S.  Burnett.

Five  Minutes in  a Wagon  Factory.

“Well, Charley, what’s the  news?”  asked 
Tiie Tradesman’s wagon reporter, of  gen­
ial Capt. Belknap, a day or two ago.
The reply was  by  no  means ’ unassuring, 
and tended to dispel  any  doubts  that  may 
have  flashed  through  the reportorial  vision 
as to  the  profitableness  of  the  present  sea­
son.
“I am  getting  out  a  carload  of  ‘Oscar 
Wilde’ logging carts, caat-hooks,  chains,  ox 
yokes and other articles included  in  a com­
plete logging outfit for the  Honduras  Lum­
ber Co. 
It will be sent by rail  to  New  Or­
leans, and thence to its destination by steam­
er. 
I have already sent two carloads of cul­
tivator work to Toledo, and have three more 
in preparation.  An outfit of coal buggies to 
carry charcoal at John Otis & Co.’s iron  fur­
nace at Mancelona is nearly ready  for  ship­
ment.  Besides, I am repairing and  repaint­
ing a large  number of the  furniture  manu­
facturers’ vans and jobbers’ trucks.”
“You might add,” said the Captain  “that 
wide-tired wagons are coming into universal 
use, and that it is  but  a  question  of  time 
when the old style of wagons will be  out  of 
existence.  This statement will hold good all 
over tbe country, and is  not  peculiar  to  the 
Michigan trade.”

000 feet of lumber,  while  the  shingle 

Muskegon’s Timber Output--Stocks  on  Hand.
The total products of the Muskegon  mills 
Ior the past year are  as  follows:  Lumber,
649.000.  000 feet;  shingles, 250,000,000;  lath,
140.000.  000 pieces.  The difference  between 
the cut of  1883  and  1882  was  only  about
6.000. 
product was nearly double that of 1882,  and 
lath  one-third more.  The lumber  on  hand 
at the various manufacturing  points  on  the 
east shore qf Lake Michigan,  sold  and  un­
sold, is as follows:
M usk eg o n .................................... i .. • ... 128,000,000
W hite  L ake...............................................  18,000,000
Grand H aven and Spring  L ake..........   55,000,000
M anistee  ..................................................   30,000,000
L u d in g to n .................................................  6,000,00#
Big R apids.................................................  10,000,000
P e n tw a te r.................................................  2,000,000
S au g atu ck .................................................  1,000,000
Of this stock on hand, considerable is sold 
to be delivered on the opening of navigation. 
Last season  the  lumber  on  the  Muskegon 
docks was fully  30,000,000  feet  more  than 
now, while the cut of tiie past season  was  a 
little larger.  This  would  show  that  more 
lumber was sold at that place  in  1883  than 
ever before in the history of the trade.

Feet.

Late  Business  Changes.

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

eral store, sold out to Dudley & Robinson.
chattel mortgage.
business,
sold out to Watson &  Bliss.
to W. W. Denis.
an extension.
succeeded by John J. Hartman.
produce, sold out to Wdfcson & Bliss.
C. Maul.
under chattel mortgage.
out to Abbott & Co.
to Henry Randolph.
reported going out of  business.
succeeded by Randall & Beebe.
ceeded by Harrington & Phillips.
to  Ovid.

Alba—Winegar & Peck, saw mill and gen­
Bangor—D. Fly, dry  goods,  closed  under 
Fremont—C. Haase,  saloon, going  out  of 
Flint—Geo. T. Warren, cigars and tobacco, 
Ovid—E. J. Beebe, general store, assigned 
St. Joseph—A. F. Reichle, notions, asking 
Stanton—Chesire  &  Hartman,  furniture, 
Vicksburg—S.  C.  Richardson,  grain* and 
Fremont—J. A. Todd, market, sold out  to 
Holland—R. A.  Braman,  notions,  closed 
Hudson—Lane & Beach,  machinery,  sold 
Ithaca—J. H. Markham, jeweler, sold  out 
Reed City—Mrs. R.- M.  Davis,  millinery, 
Fowlerville—-Austin  &  Randall,  grocers, 
Jackson—J.  S.  Harrington,  grocer,  suc­
Mecosta—A. F. Cooley, dry goods, moving 
Thomas—N. E. Irish, drugs, sold out.

New  Corporations Authorized.

The  following  corporations  have  lately 
filed articles of association  with  the  Secre­
tary of State at Lansing:
Rapids, capital $1,000,000.
capital $1,000,000.
000.
ital $50,000.
changed from Stanton to Detroit.
duced to#$10,000.
creased to $500,000.

Grand Rapids  Silver  Mining  Co.,  Grand 
United States Steel  Plate  Co.,  Republic, 
Detroit Lumber Co., Detroit, capital  $50,-
Bay County Savings Bank, BayCitv; cap­
Pease,  Robinson  &  Jackson  Co.;  office 
L. Chapman & Co., Bay  City;  capital  re­
Parke, Davis  &  Co.,  Detroit;  capital  in­

Delaying  a Train  with Soap.

From  the Savanna News.
Some  malicious  fellow,  whom  the  law 
ought to put where he can do  no  harm,  put 
five bars of soap  in  the  water-tank  on  the 
Brunswick & Western Road, near Waycross, 
a few days ago.  The night express train that 
came along next,  filled  up  with  the .soapy 
water, and soapy water will not make steam. 
So the engine was laid up on the track, with­
out steam or  the  power  to  make  it,  until 
another engine could toe sent out to pull  the 
former train and engine onward.

A  Corner  on  Eggs.

Philadelphia speculators have been buying 
up eggs in large quantities and holding them 
In  Schuylkill  county  one 
for an advance. 
firm has an ice bouse in which are stored 30,- 
000 dozen, which were purchased all the way 
from 15 to 20 cents a dozen.  The market is 
bare of this article of food, and it is  predict­
ed that  they  will  reach  50  cents  per  dozen 
within a month. 
It is  supposed  that when 
they reach the latter  figure  the  speculators 
will unload on the  market.

The  Best  Reading.

Every family that desires  to  provide  for 
its young people wholesome and  instructive 
reading should send for  specimen  copies  of 
the Youth’s Cosip anion, of  Boston. 
It  is 
the brightest and best  of  papers  for  young 
people. 
Its columns  give  more  than  Two 
H undred Stories yearly by the most noted 
authors, including J. T. Trowbridge. William 
Black,  Harriet  Beecher  Stowe,  Thomas 
Hardy, Mrs. Oliphant and many  others,  be­
sides  scientific  articles by  eminent  special­
ists, tales of adventure  by  noted  travelers, 
papers of encouragement and advice by men 
and women of  ability  and  experience,  and 
reminiscences and anecdotes of  famous peo­
ple.  With a circulation rapidly approaching 
350,000 copies a  week,  the  Youth’s  Com­
panion can  well  afford  to  spread  such  a 
feast before its patrons ;  and spreading  such 
a feast, it is no wonder  it  has  such  a  tre­
mendous circulation.  *

Frederick Stearns & Co., of Detroit,  file a 
report showing $200,000 nominal, and $100,- 
000 paid-in, capital afcd $48,869.89  indebted­
ness. 

*

Handed  Down.

A Cincinnati firm of buggy makers  sold a 
lot to a customer but sent the  bill  of  lading 
to a bank in his neighborhood, together with 
a draft.  The bank was not to let them have 
the buggies until he paid for them, but it al­
lowed him to remove them for inspection and 
he would not return them.  The bank there­
upon paid the manufacturers and brought re­
plevin for the stock, which it  was fairly en­
titled to do.— (Campbell J.)  West  Michigan 
Savings Bank vs.  Howard.
A lumberman  hired  a  logger  to  clear  a 
stream anti run his logs and a  dispute arose 
between them as  to  what  was  to  be  paid. 
The stream was not one  of  the  kind  called 
navigable, and could not therefore be cleared 
without going on some one’s premises.  No­
body had objected to this,  however,  but  the 
lumberman took the ground that a contract to 
clear it was one  which  involved  a  trespass 
and was therefore void.  This was a needless­
ly broad conclusion so long  as  no  one  com­
plained,  and  until  they  did *th#contract 
would  be  presumed  valid.—(Cooley,  C. J.) 
Fuller vs.  Rice.
The Ruppes, who kept a general store, sued 
Thomas Edwards for the price of $900 worth 
of supplies which they had furnished to a cer­
tain  St.  Amaud,  whom  Edwards  had  en­
gaged  to  lumber  a tract of land.  When St. 
Arnaud  had  begun  to get these supplies he 
referred the Rupples to a brother of Edwards, 
who was  acting  as  the  latter’s  clerk,  and 
they wrote him as follows:  “Dear  Sir:  Ed 
St. Arnaud has got some goods, mostly camp­
ing utensils.,  He said  that they were for T. 
W. Edwards,  for  lumber  camp.  Will  you 
please send us an order to give him supplies if 
O. K.”  To this the clerk answered:  “I think 
it will be O. K. for about one hundred dolars 
at present.”  But this was a very insufficient 
basis for  holding  Thomas  Edwards.  His 
clerk could not be supposed to have  author­
ity to make him liable for the debt of a third 
person,  and his letter, at  best,  was  nothing 
but the expression of his own opinion, which 
Edwards was not bound to make good.  Nor 
did the letter amount to  any  such  contract 
as  to  be ratified by Edwards saying  “that’s 
all right” on hearing of them; nor, under the 
statute  of  limitations  was  even  his  oral 
promise to pay a third person’s debt  legally 
binding on him,—(Sherwood, J.)  Ruppe  vs. 
Edwards.

AGAIN  SUSTAINED.

The  U.  S.  Court  Declares  the  State  Insolv- 

ency  Law  Constitutional.

In the United States court last week,  in  a 
suit growing out of the failure of Mr. A.  M. 
Cheney, of  Charlotte,  Judge  Withey  fully 
sustained the State law of 1883 regarding in­
solvent parties.  This was the  first  case  of 
the kind tried in this Court since the passage 
of the law, aud there was considerable inter­
est manifested in it by  attorneys. 
It  seems 
that on the 13th of December Mayer  Wilde, 
of  Buffalo, attached Mr.  Cheney’s  goods  at 
Charlotte by process in  the  United  States 
court, on a claim for  $2,500.  As  the  stock 
was  worth  $5,000, and there  were  other 
claims  exceeding  the  latter  amount,  Mr. 
Petre  Doran,  representing  the  claims  of 
Henry W. King  &  Co.,  Chicago,  and  Chas. 
Root & Co., Detroit, advised Cheney to make 
an  assignment»  which  he  accordingly  did, 
Wm. Rathbun, Chas. Root & Co.’s credit man 
being  named as assignee.  Mr. Doran then fil­
ed a petition that the attached goods be turned 
over to tiie assignee, the assignment  having 
been made within the ten days  required  by 
the State law.  The defense claimed  that as 
Wilde was not a resident  of  this  State  he 
was not  bound  by the laws  of  this  State, 
that as the United States had jurisdiction in 
the case, and as  a  United  States  Marshall 
was in possession of the property,  the  State 
could not interfere, and other equally foolish 
propositions characteristic of the attorney for 
the Buffalo house.  Mr. Doran answered the 
arguments, holding that as  the  goods  were 
sold since the law .went  into  effect,  Wilde 
was bound to abide by  the  law,  and  Judge 
Withey granted the petition.  This is the sec­
ond case involving the validity  of  the  new 
law, the  other  decision  being  in  a  circuit 
court.

SOLD  OUT.

thing?”

The  Question  Is.  “ Will  Creditors  Get  Any­
The announcement that Winegar  & Peck, 
saw  mill  owners  and  general  dealers  at 
Alba, had sold out  to  Dudley  &  Robinson, 
of this city, was not wholly  unexpected, but 
served to :awaken considerable apprehension 
as to what disposition the late  firm  propose 
to make of their indebtedness. 
It is a  mat­
ter of common knowledge that the firm were 
involved to the extent of  $5,000 to $6,000 in 
Wetzell Bros.’ failure, and  that  they  have 
since been asking  and  securing  extension^ 
and giving notes for their  indebtedness. 
It 
is  thought  that  the  more  honorable  way 
would have been for the firm to have made an 
assignment, but as more  could  be  realized 
from a sale than from a  forced  closing  out 
of the business,  perhaps creditors may be the 
gainers after  all.  As  yet,  there  has  been 
no intimation that creditors will receive any 
part of their claims, and  the  fact  that  the 
store building and lot  were  transferred  to 
Mrs. Winegar gives color  to  the  statement 
that the firm has taken this course to  defeat 
the ends of justice.
Mr. Wm. M. Robinson, of the newr firm of 
Dudley  &  Robinson,  was  seen  by  The 
Tradesman  reporter,  and  stated  that  the 
sale was absolute, and  that  possession  was 
given on the 1st.  About 2,000,000 feet pine 
logs now on the skids at the mill will be cut 
during the  coming season,  and  the  plant 
made a feeder for the firm’s lumber yard  on 
South Division street.

A. 

Brady, the Luther dealer  who  divides 

Come Along.

his time between selling goods for half their 
cost and evading lengthy  imprisonment  for 
fraud, threatens  to  come  down  to  Grand 
Rapids and do The Tradesman editor vio­
lent bodily injury.  For  the  benefit  of  the 
aforesaid Brady, it is well to  state  that the 
editorjis a retired prize-fighter, and  that the 
employes in the office are all men of massive 
muscular  development.  Furthermore,  side 
windows open on a stone-paved alley, which 
affords a soft resting  place  for  all  objects 
hurled from  said  windows.  Luther  is  a 
pretty hard town,  but Mr. Brady  must  not 
imagine that he has a monopoly  on  pugilis- 
tie attainments  or  other  conveniences  for 
speedy death.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

A  JOURNAL. DEVOTED TO TH E

Mercantile and Manufacturing Interests of the State.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor and  Proprietor.

very well in their way, but the  sooner  the] 
retailer  impresses  upon  his  customers  the 
fact  that  such, schemes  necessarily  bring 
about a deterioration  in  the  quality  of  the 
goods, or  a consequent advice  in  price,  the j 
! better it will be for all concerned.

Term s $1 a year in advance, postage paid. 
A dvertising rates m ade know n on application.

WEDNESDAY,  FEB.  6,  1884.

Subscribers  and  others,  w hen  w riting 
to  advertisers, will confer a favor on  th e pub­
lisher by  m entioning th a t they saw th e adver­
tisem ent in th e colum ns of  th is  paper.

REPUTABLE  GAMBLING.

The experieuce of  the  present  time  is  a 
heavy lesson against gambling in stocks and 
produce.  The experience is so dearly bought 
to many that they will hardly  recover  from 
it.  Many of the failures of men in the  reg­
ular trades have  revealed that  they came  to 
disaster through taking ventures in  railroad 
stocks and in produce.  Now  and  then  the 
fall of a banker is announced from the same 
cause.  What  has been  brought to  light by 
faillres, proves that  the  temptation  of  this 
gambling has spread widely among all kinds 
of business men where it was  unknown  un­
til it was uncovered by disaster.  That which 
has  thus  become  known,  gives  reason  to 
think that much more of the  same  kind  ex­
ists  without  being  yet  known,  and  gives 
cause to general  distrust.  Wholesale  mer­
chants, manufacturers and bankers know not 
who may have been drawn in  by  this  gam­
bling,  and  this  impairs  confidence  in  all. 
The  continued fall  in  the  prices  of  these 
properties, is continually revealing a greater 
extent of this practice, and this is extending 
the distrust.  Men who have gained compet­
encies  in the old regular and slow ways, and 
who were thought  examples  of  safety,  are 
found drawn into  this  vortex  of  gambling 
speculations  on  margins.  Merchants  who 
have retired from business on  a  sufficiency, 
have been tempted to risk  it  in  these  ven­
tures, and  in many cases have had it  swal­
lowed up at a  single  turn.  Discoveries  of 
this,  and  the  failures  of  men  who  were 
thought  models  of  stability,  have  made 
bankers mistrustful, and  have impaired  the 
general credit.

It has been  stated  that  the  shrinkage  in 
railroad shares in  the  last  year  has  been 
$1,000,000,000,  most  of  it  in  the  last  six 
months.  This loss has been spread over the 
entire country.  It has wiped out margin after 
margin and forced to the sacrifice a continual 
suscession of buyers.  A heavy decline in pro­
duce has  added  a  large  sum  to  this  loss, 
which is alike spread everywhere.  A  pro­
duce panic in Chicago shakes Grand Rapids, 
and is  felt  in  every  considerable  town  in 
Michigan, and in all the North and  some  of 
the South.  The regular ways  of  merchan­
dize and industry seem very slow in compar­
ison with trade which can be turned instant­
ly. 
Its facilities are very great when $1,000 
can be spread over a purchase of 20,000 bush­
els of grain, which has  only  to  change  five 
cents a bushel in the right direction,  to dou­
ble the money, and when  it  can  be  spread 
over 200 shares of stock, with the like chance 
of rising or falling.  The  telegraph  enables 
this venture  to  be  made  from  any  place. 
Bankers frequently prefer to!end their mon­
ey on the article itself, with  the  customary 
margin,  rather  than  the  slow  and  careful 
way of lending it on mercantile paper.  Thus 
the chief banking business is  in  furnishing 
facilities for gambling.  The custom is to cry 
against the authorities because  they  do  not 
suppress the gamblers—meaning  those  who 
keep rooms for the  faro  and  other  games. 
But all that is a  small  evil  compared  with 
the respectable gambling in stocks  and  pro­
duce.

The present effects are so wide-spread and 
disastrous that a lasting check will probably 
be given  to  the  practice  of  men in  regu­
lar business to risk the impairment  of  their 
capital in these big-blow ventures.  They are 
enough to create  the  business  maxim  that 
the merchant who  takes  a  side  venture  in 
stocks  or produce  is  on  the  sure  road  to 
ruin.  The  evil  of  this  gambling  is  great 
enough when carried on by men  who  make 
it their business and  profession;  but  it  has 
grown to immense  proportions  by  the  side 
investments  of  business  men  all’over  the 
country.  The effect  of  this  branch  of  the 
gambling is  now felt ali  over  the  land. 
It 
has greatly added to the, list  of  failures  in 
regular trade, and is in a large  measure  the 
cause of the present depression and  general 
distrust.

A Bostonian ventures the opinion that the 
manufacturing system of New  England  has 
come to be a bad inheritance as truly as was 
slavery in the  South.  He  thinks  the  ten­
dency to a consolidation and  aggregation  of 
capital in overgrown corporations has  about 
run its course and that the day of appointing 
men to responsible positions in mills because 
they are deacons in the church  and  influen­
tial in the town is past.  It is to be succeeded 
by a return to the original system of smaller 
establishments  owned  by  individuals  who 
give dose supervision to the work.  Corpor­
ate management has begotten  extravagance 
and proved the reverse of economical.  Great 
numbers of  establishments  have  outgrown 
their capacity  to  meet  the  question  of low 
cost. 
Individual  ownership, it is predicted, 
will not  only  result  in  better management, 
but also  in  better relations between  capital 
and labor.

The Cincinnati Times-Star thus urges im­
mediate action on  a  bankruptcy  bill  on  the 
part of Congress:
There is  almost  universal  dissatisfaction 
with the workings of the  various  State  in­
solvency  laws—which  are  very  dissimilar 
and not a few of which contain numerous and 
glaring defects—and the  feeling  among  all 
classes of business men in favor of  enacting 
a uniform  bankruptcy  law  grows  stronger 
every day.  The pending Lowell bill is gen­
erally approved by commercial organizations 
throughout  the  country.  Certain  amend­
ments have been suggested which it might be 
well to adopt.  But the  important  thing  is 
for Congress to take hold of the subject with 
as  little  delay  as  possible  and  decide 
whether we are to have a uniform insolvency 
law or stick to forty-three different systems.

Refering to one Felker, who was formerly 
in trade in this city, and  whose  latest base 
of  operations is St.  Louis,  the  New  York 
Merchants' Review replies, in  answer  to  a 
slanderous attack:
We shall not imitate  the  originality  and 
honesty of the man who copied the material 
for a Grocers’ Hand-Book from  cyclopedias 
and text books and published it as  his  own.

In reproducing a recent editorial utterance 
from our, columns, the  Boston  Commercial 
Reporter refers to  T h e   T r a d e s m a n   as  a 
“bright trade paper recently started at Grand 
Rapids.” 

________________

The Detroit  Iron  Furnace  Co.,  who  op­
erate the coal-kilns  north  of  Gaylord,  have 
nearly 300 men  now  on  the  pay-rolis  and 
disburse'about $4,000 per  month.  Between 
250 and 300 eords  of  wood  are  received  at 
the kilns daily. 
It is rumored that the com­
pany intend putting in chemical works at the 
kilns next summer.

TIME TABLES.

CENTRAL  STANDARD  TIME.

Michigan  Central—Grand  Rapids  Division.

DEPART.

ARRIVE.

tD etroit E xpress...................................... a m
+Day  E xpress............................................12:20 p m
♦New Y ork F ast L in e..............................  6:25 p m
+A tlantic E xpress.......................................9:20 p m
♦Pacific  E x p ress................................................6:45 a m
+Local  P assenger.............................................11:20 a m
+M aii...........................................................J :^ p m
tG rand  Rapids  E xpress....................... 10:25 p m
tD aily except Sunday.  *Daily.
The New Y ork F ast Line ru n s daily, arriving 
a t D etroit a t 12:35 a. m., and New Y ork a t 10 p. 
m. th e  n ex t evening.
D irect  and  prom pt  connection  m ade  w ith 
G reat  W estern,  G rand  T runk  and  Canada 
Southern train s in sam e depot a t D etroit, th u s 
avoiding tran sfers.
The D etroit E xpress leaving at 6:05 a. m. has 
Draw ing  Room  and  P arlo r  Car  fo r  D etroit, 
reaching th a t city a t 11:45 a. m., New Y ork 10:30 
a. m., and Boston 2:40  p. m . n e x t day.
A tra in  leaves D etroit a t 4 p. m. daily except 
Sunday w ith draw ing room  car Attached, arriv­
ing a t G rand Rapids a t  10:25 p. m.

J . T. Schultz, Gen 1 A gent.

Detroit,  Grand  Haven &  Milwaukee.

GO ING EA ST.

G O IN G  W EST.

Leaves. 
6:45 a m 
10:20 a m 
3:35 p m 
10:40 p m 
10:00 a m
12:55 p m 
4:55 p m
8:00 a m 
5:30 a m

A rrives.
tSteam boat E x p ress..........
+Through  M ail..............:,.. 10:10 a m
+Evening  E x p ress........................ 3:20 p m
♦A tlantic E xpress........................  9:45 p m
tM ixed, w ith  coach............
tM orning  E xpress...............12:40 p m
tThrough  M ail.....................  4:45 p m
tSteam boat  E x p ress...........10:00 p m
tM ix ed ....................................
♦N ightE xpress.............................  5:10 a m
tD aily, Sundays excepted.  ♦Daily. 
P assengers  tak in g   tb e   6:15  a.  m.  Express 
m ake close connections a t Owosso fo r L ansing 
and a t D etroit fo r New York, arriv in g  th ere at 
10:00 a. m. th e  follow ing m orning.
P arlor  Cars  on  Mail  Trains,  both  E ast  and 
W (jSt.
Lim ited  E xpress  has  W agner  Sleeping  Car 
through to Suspension Bridge and th e m ail has 
a P arlo r Car to  D etroit.  The  N ig h tE x p re ss 
has a through W agner Car and  local  Sleeping 
Car D etroit to  G rand Rapids.

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

The  communication  from  the pen  of  a 
Collins dealer, published in another column, 
voices the sentiment of a  large  majority  of 
reputable merchants.  That  sensational  ad­
vertising means nothing, and is demoralizing 
in its effects, is rapidly coming to be a recog 
nized fact;  and the better class of merchants 
have long since discarded  it,  as  well  as  all 
similar  false inducements held  out to  draw 
trade.  Those who are still employing doubt­
ful advertising  methods  will  generally  be 
found to  be beginners in  business,  or  those 
who have not yet learned  that  the  effect  of 
such bids for patronage are exactly opposite 
that intended.  The capitalist, merchant and 
farmer all understand th emeaninglessness of 
such appeals,  and  appreciate  at  their  trne 
worth honorable and business-like  advertis­
ing methods.  The other point touched by our 
correspondent, the gift craze, is deserving of 
the severest censure, although just at present 
manufacturer, jobber and retailer seem to be 
equally  reprehensible.  Manufacturers  are 
inaugurating prize enterprises without num­
ber to entrap the  unwary,  and  jobbers  too 
often fall willing victims to the schemes.  A 
revolver with every caddy of tobacco  and  a 
silver spoon with every cake of soap  are  all

Grand  Rapids  &  Indiana.

GO ING NORTH.

A rrives.  Leaves
Cincinnati &G. Rapids Ex.  9:02 p m  
9:50 a m  
C incinnati & Mackinac E x.  9:22 a m  
Ft. W ayne & M ackinac E x ..  3:57pm  
4:45pm
7:15 a m
G’d Rapids  & Cadillac  A c. 
*
G. Rapids & Cincinnati E x . 
6:32 a m
M ackinac & Cincinnati E x .  4:05 p m 
4:32 p m 
M ackinac & F t. W ay r e E x .. 10:25 a m  12:32 p m 
Cadillac & G’d  Rapids  Ac.  7:40 p m 

GO ING  SOUTH. 

S LE EPIN G  CAR ARRANGEM ENTS.

All train s daily except Sunday.
N orth—T rain  leaving  a t  4:45  o’clock  p.  m. 
has  W oodruff  Sleeping Cars fo r Petoskey  and 
M ackinac City.  T rain leaving a t  9:50 a. m. has 
com bined Sleeping and Chair Car fo r Mackinac
Ci|o u th —T rain leaving a t 4:32 p. m. has  Wood­
ruff Sleeping Car fo r Cincinnati.

C. L. L o c k w o o d , G en’l Pass. A gent.
Chicago & West Michigan.
A rrives, 
Leaves.
*:00 p m 
tM ail........................................9:35 a m
10:45 p m  
tD ay  E x p ress.......................13:50 P m
6:10 a m
♦Night  E xpress................... 8:35"
♦Daily.  TDaily except Sunda
P ullm an Sleeping  Cars  o n -all  n ig h t  train s. 
Through  parlor  car  in  charge  of  careful  a t­
ten d an ts w ithout  ex tra  charge  to   Chicago  on 
12:60 p. m., and through coach on9:35 a. m. and 
8:35 p. m. train s.

NEWAYGO D IV I8 IO N .

................. - .............  5 :00am  

Leaves.  A rrives.
Mixed 
3:00pm
E x p ress...................................  4:00 p m   4:00 p m
E x p r e s s ...........................   8:30am   12:42pm
rb  "" 
...........
iflie  N orthern term inus of th is D ideion is a t 
Baldwin, where close connection is m ade  w ith 
F. &  P . M.  train s  to  and  from   Ludington  and 
M anistee.

J. H . P alm er, G en’l Pass. A gent.

|  

" 

‘ 

THAN  THE  BRANDS  OF  OTHER  MAKERS.

‘CLIMAX,” with  Red Tin Tag, is their Best  Brand.
RISING  SUIT  Y EA ST

Grand  Rapids,

Michigan.

RISING

________

0

Grand R apids, M ich.

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

Factories, Seneca Falls, New York.

B LA C K W ELL’S  bI r HIW   TO B AC C O   COM PANY

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

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

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

Correct  Time  and  be  a  pleasing  reminder  when  your  orders  should  he  sent  in  for  the  “ Bull.” 

Respectfully  to  the  Trade,

BLACKWELL’S  DURHAM  TOBApOO  CO.

We keep a large force of hands con­
stantly  employed, manufacture  all 
our stick, and can at all times  give 
you the BEST  GOODS, and in 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 I 
of ALMONDS, BRAZILS, FILBERTS, 
WALNUTS,  PACANS,  PEANUTS, 
and  COCOANUTS,  and  can  fill  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  COMMENDS  ITSELF 

TO  THE  TASTE  AND  OTHER  SEN SES.

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

IH U R D ’S  PLUG  T0B1CCDS

Is  Ample  Evidence of This.  This  C o m  mil Sell over  20,000,000 Pounds  of fcir 

-■ 

Favorite  Brads  this  Year;  or  About

Oni-Firtii ol Ml tiro Pint W arn lisi in ilia Ciiitry!

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

T H E   U.  S.,  IT   FO LLO W S T H A T   T H E IR   GOODS  MUST  G IV E

SPRING  & COMPANY

— WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN-

ZEnAJSTCry  -AJSTD

STAPLE DRY BOORS
CARPETS,

f

MAT  INCS,

OIXj  c lo th s,

ETC.,  ETC.

6  and  8  M onroe  Street,

THE W AY

You  can  get  On©  of  tk©s©  2To?@l  Cloclss  F K E E   by  ordering  from 
your  Jobber  FiftyJ Pounds  of  B lack w ell’s  Genuine  B ull  Durham 
smoking  Tobaooo-  »The  F ifty  Pounds  can  be  made  up  of  assorted 
sizes  if youjwish, and the goods will be charged at  LOWEST  PRICES.

B l a c k w e l l’s  D u r h a m   T obacco  Co m p a n y ,  D u r h a m ,  N .  C.

Ge n t l e m e n —The  Clock  which  we supply you contains a good lever movement, which, with  the usual handling, will make a very 

excellent time-keeper. 

.  Tours  teuly, 

ANSOMA  CLOCK  COMPANY.

The Clock you will g et will he over 18 tim es th e  size o f th e  accom panying diagram ;  th a t is, 12 inches high and 8 inches wide.

N ew  York,  August  1,  1883.

S -u/piplem exit  to   T U E   M IC H IG A N   TUAJDESaÆA-U.

f c o

i

2)r\>  (Boobs.

Spring:  &  Com pany quote as  u .w  .* o :

W ID E  BROW N COTTONS.

I Pepperell, 10-4........25
A ndroscoggin, 9-4.. 23 
A ndroscoggin, 8-4. .21  Pepperell, 11-4........27 )4
Pepperell,  7-4....... 16*4 jPequot,  7-4.............. 18
Pepperell,  8-4....... 20 
iPequot,  8-4..............21
Pepperell,  9-4....... 22)4 [Pequot,  0-4..............24

CH ECK S.

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

¡Park Mills, No.  90. .14
P ark  Mills, No.  100.15
Prodigy, oz..............11
Otis Apron.......»... 10*4
Otis  F u rn itu re .......10)i
[York,  1  oz............... 10
i Yorlt, AA, extra oz. 14 

OSNABURG,

A labam a brow n__ 7 
¡Alabama  plaid......... 8
Jewell briwn..........9)4 Augusta plaid..........   8
Kentucky brown.. 10)4 Toledo plaid...........   7)4
Lewiston  bro w n ...  9)4 ¡M anchester  plaid..  7
Lane  brow n............  9*4  New  Tenm p la id ...11
Louisiana  plaid__   8  j Utility plaid............   64

BLEACHED  COTTONS.

 

84

Avondale,  36.........
A rt  cam brics, 36..
Androscoggin, 4-4.
Androscoggin, 5-4.
Ballou, 4-4..............
Ballou, 5-4..............
Boott,  0.4-4..........
Boott,  E. 5-5..........
Boott, AGC, 4-4__
Boott,  R.  3-4..........
Blackstone, AA 4-4 
6*/
Chapman, X, 4-4...
Conway,  4-4..........  7%
Cabot, 4-4...............  754
Cabot, 7-8...............  64
Canoe,  3-4...............  4
Domestic,  36........  74
Dwight Anchor, 4-4.10
Davol, 4-4...............  94
F ru it of Loom, 4-4..  84
F ru it of Loom, 7-8..  84
Fi;uit of  the  Loom,
cam bric,  4-4.........12
Gold Medal, 4-4.. 
Gold Medal, 7-8......64
Gilded  A ge............ 84

8)4 ¡Greene, G,  4-4.........  54
114  Hill, 4-4.....................  84
84  H ill, 7-8.......... 
74
124  Hope,  4-4.................   74
K ing  Phillip  cam ­
bric, 4-4..................114
Lin wood,  4-4..........   9
Lonsdale,  4-4...........  84
Lonsdale  cam  brie. 114 
Langdon, GB, 4 4 ...  94
Langdon,  45.............14
Masonville,  4-4......... 94
Maxwell. 4-4.............104
New.York Mili, 4-4.104
New Jersey,  4-4__   8
Pocasset,  P. M. C..  74 
Pride of th e W est. .124
Pocahontas,  4-4____8 4
Slaterville, 7-8.........  64
Victoria,  Á A .............9
W oodbury, 4-4...........534
W hitinsville,  4-4...  74
W hitinsville, 7-8____64
W am sutta, 4 4 ......... 104
Williams ville,  36... 104

..  7

CORSET JE A N S .

A rm o ry .......  74  K earsage..............................  84
Androscoggin sa t..  8)4 N aum keagsatteen.  84
Canoe R iver.  6  Pepperell  bleached  84
Clarendon.64 Pepperell s a t...........................   94
Hallowell  Im p .64  R ockport...........................  74
Ind. Orch. Im p .6 4  Lawrence sa t....................   84
L a c o n ia ......  74|C onegosat.............................  7

P R IN T S .

G lo u cester.............. 6
Albion,  solid........... 54
G loucesterm ourn’g.6 
Albion,  g re y ...........6
H am ilton  fa n c y ...  6
Allen’s  checks........54
H artel fan cy ........... 6
Ailen’s  fan cy ......... 5 4
Allen’s p in k ..............64
M errim ac  D .............6
M an ch ester............
Allen’s p u rp le..........64
O riental  fan cy ........6
Am erican, fan cy — 54
O riental  robes........64
Arnold fan cy ............6
Berlin solid..............  54|Pacific  robes.............6
Cocheco  fa n c y ......8  
¡Richmond................. 6
Steel  R iver...............54
Cocheco robes 
Simpson’s ................ 6
Conestoga fan cy — 6
W ashington fa n c y .. 
Eddy s to n e ................6
W ashington  b lu es..8
Eagle  fan cy ...............5
G am er p in k .............. 7

F IN E  BROW N  COTTONS.

A ppleton  A, 4-4—   8
Boott  M, 4-4............  74
Boston  F, 4-4...........  8
C ontinental C, 4-3..  74 
Continental D, 40 in  84 
Conestoga W, 4-4...  7 
Conestoga  D, 7-8..!  54 
^
C^gestoga  G, 30-in.  6 4

Indian Orchard, 40.  84 
Indian O rchard, 36.  8
Laconia  B, 7-4......... 164
Lym an B, 40-in........104
Mass.  BB, 4-4...........  64
N ashua  E, 40-in____9
N ashua  R, 4-4.........  74
sh u a 0,7-8...........  74
w m arket N.  __ IJk
pperell E, 39-in.,

lPeppereli  R, 4-4....  7

_  
Dwight  Z, 4-4.......... 7 
Dwight Star, 4-4—   74  Pepperell  0,7-8__   64
Rwight Star, 40-in..  9  /Pepperell  N, 3-4—   iik
ijW erprise EE, 36..  6£g|tocasset  C, 4-4.......Tm
G reat Falls E, 4-4...  74® aranac  R ...............   7%
F arm ers’ A, 4-4.......64   Saranac  E ................  9
Indian  Orchard, 4-4  741

DOM ESTIC GINGHAM S.

A m o sk e ag ..............  8 
¡Renfrew, dress sty 1104
Johnsoif  M anfg Co,
Am oskeag, Persian 
sty les.....................104|  B ookfold...............124
B a te s........................   8 
[Johnson  M anfg Co,
B e rk sh ire................  7 4   dress  sty les.........124
Glasgow checks__ 74  ¡Slaterville, 
dress
Glasgow checks, f ’y  7 4 1  sty les..................... 134
¡White Mfg Co, stap  8
Glasgow 
royal  sty les.........  9 
G loucester, 
E arlsto n ...............   94
P lu n k e t................. .  8 G ordon...................
8
L a n c a ste r.............. .  8 Greylock, 
dress
L angdale................ .  7% styles  ................. 12 Vi

new 
sta n d a rd ..............  8

checks, 

W ID E  BLEACHED  COTTONS.

Pepperell.  104__ 27 V4
Androscoggin, 7-4. .21
Pepperell,  114__ 32)4
A ndroscoggin, 8-4. .23
Pequot,  7 4 ............ 21
PeDPerell,  7-4....... .20
Pepperell,  8-4....... .22)4 Pequot,  8 4 ............ 24
Pequot,  9 4 ............
Pepperell,  9-4....... .25

HEAVY  BROW N  COTTONS.

A tlantic  A, 4-4— .  7% Law rence XX, 44.
8)4
A tlantic  H, 4-4— .  7M Law rence  Y, 30...
7
A tlantic  D, 4-4— .  6)4 Lawrence LL, 44 ..
A tlantic P, 4-4....... .  6 N ew m arket N ....... 7h
.  bVt Mystic River, 4-4.. 6)4
A tlantic  LL, 44..
8
A driatic, 36............ .  7 Vi Pequot A, 4 4 ........
.  6)4 Pieidmont,  36.........
7
A ugusta, 4 4 .........
.  7)4lStark AA, 4-4......... 7%
B oott  M, 4 4 .........
.  7X |Trem ont CC, 4 4 ... b%
B oott  FF, 4 4 .......
.  6)¿¡Utica,  4 4 ...............
9
G raniteville, 44..
.  7)4¡W achusett,  4-4__ 7)4
Indian  Head, 44.
Indiana H ead 45-in. 12H|W achusett,  30-in..
6)4

TICK IN G S.
.15 Falls, X X X X ......... .I8yf
Amoskeag,  AC A.
Falls, X X X ............ .15*/,
“ 44 .19
Am oskeag 
Am oskeag,  A — 14 Falls,  BB............... .11V4
Falls,  BBC. 36....... .19)4
Amoskeag,  B — .13
Am oskeag,  C — .12
Falls,  aw ning....... 19
A m oskeag.  D — .11 HamiHon,  BT, 32. .12
A m oskeag,  E — .10)4 H am ilton,  D ......... 10
.10 H am ilton,  H ......... .10
Am oskeag, F .......
.17 H am ilton  fancy.. .10
Prem ium   A, 4 4 ..
.16 M ethuen A A ......... .14)4
Prem ium   B .........
.16 M ethuen ASA....... .18
E x tra 4 4 ...............
.14)4 Omega  A, 7-8......... .11
E x tra 7-8...............
Gold Medal 4 4 — .15 Omega  A, 4 4 ......... .13
.12)4 Omega ACA, 7-8... .14
CCA  7-8.................
.14 Omega ACA, 4 4 ... .16
CT 4 4 .....................
.14 Omega SE, 7-8....... .24
RC 7-8.....................
16 Omega SE, 4 4 ....... .27
BF 7-8.....................
A F 4 4 ..................... ..19 Omega M. 7 -8 ....... 22
.14 Omega M, 4 4 ........ .25
Cordis AAA, 32...
.15 ShetucketSS& Ssw  11 V%
Cordis  ACA, 32...
Shetucket, S & SW .12
.15
Cordis No. 1, 32...
Shetucket,  SFS... .12
Cordis  No. 2......... ..14
Stockbridge  A __ .  7
.13
Cordis  No. 3.........
.11)4 Stock bridge  frncy.  8
Cordis  No. 4.........

C A R PET S  A N D   C A R PETIN G S. 

Spring  &  Company  quote  as  follows: 

TA PESTRY BRUSSELS.

R oxbury  ta p e stry ...................
Sm ith’s 10 w ire.......................... ....... 
Sm ith’s  e x tra ............................
Sm ith’s B  P alisade.................
Sm ith's  C  Palisade................. ....... 
H iggins’  **.................................
H iggins’  ***...............................
....... 
Sanford’s  e x tra ........................ ....... 
Sanford’s  Com ets.....................
THREE-PLYS.

H artford  3-ply...................................
Lowell 3-ply........................................
H iggins’  3-ply....................................
Sanford’s 3-ply...................................

EXTRA  SUPERS.

@ 90
@ 90
@ 85
@ 70
@ 65
@ 82)4
@ 70
@ 82)4
@ 65

®1  00 
@1  00 
®1  00 
@  974

H a rtfo rd ............................................. 
@
Lowell..................................................  
@
O ther  m akes......................................   75  @
Best cotton ch ain .............................   60  @

ALL  WOOL  SUPERFINES.

HEMPS.

WOOL  FILLING  AND  MIXED.

Best  2-ply...........................................   W4@
O ther  grades 2-ply. r.........................  524®
All-wool  super, 2-ply.......................  50  @
E x tra heavy double cotton chain.  424®
Double cotton ch ain .........................  35  @
H eavy cotton and wool, double c.  30  ® 
H alf d’l chain, cotton & wool, 2-ply  274®
Single cotton ch ain ..........................  19  @
3-ply, 4-4 wide, e x tra  heavy............  274®
B, 4-4 w ide...........................................  
@
Im perial, plain, 4-4 w ide..................
@
D, 33  inches........................................
No. 1, 4-4,5-4,6-4 and 8-4...................
No. 2, 
...................
No. 3, 
...................
No. 4, 
....................
B est all rattan , p lain ........................
Best all ra tta n  and cocoa, p la in ...
N apier  A .............................................
N apier  B .............................................
O paque shades, 38  in ch ...................
H olland shades, B finish, 4-4...........
Pacific  Holland, 4-4..........................
H artsh o rn ’s fixtures, p er  g ro ss...
Cord fixtures, per  gross..................

OIL CLOTHS.

CURTaiNS.

MaTTINGS.

do 
do 
do 

®

@10

774
824
774
624

624
524
50
40

(Broceries.

$  doz

M o d o c__ $  doz  60 
60 
D iam ond..............
BLUING .

AXLE  GREASE.
¡Paragon.
¡Frazer’s 

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

BROOMS.

No. 1 C arpet................................................. 
No. 2 C arpet................................................  
No. 1  H u rl.................................................... 
No. 2 H url  ..................................................  
Fancy W hisk............................................... 
Common W hisk..........................................

.

2
2
2
1
1

00

CANNE
Pie P eaches.........1  20
3ftStandard 1  90@2  20
Apples, 3 f t .........1  20
do.  6 f t..........   2  15
do.  g allons...  3  40 
Straw berries  @1  00 
Blackberries 
1  10
R a sp b e rrie s__   1  40
Cherries, red l  20  1  25 
1  herries w hite..  1  90
P ineapples.........  1  75
D am sons............   1  25
Egg P lu m s.........  1  65
G a g e s.................   1  65
P e a rs.................   1  35
Lusk’sA pricots.  2 %
Tom atoes  ..1  05@1  20 
Corn,  Excelsior  1  10
Corn, E rie............ 1  15

D GOODS.
Corn, C am den...  1  10 
Corn, T ro p h y ...  115 
Corn, Y arm outh  1  35
P eas__ 75@1  25@1  50
S tring B ean s... 
85
Lim a B eans.........  85
Lewis’ B’d Beans. 1  75 
P um pkin  ..1  10@1  15 
Succotash  ... 85@i  60
Oysters, 
l i b __   1  10
Oysters,  2 f t __ 1  85
Salm on__   1  60@
Lobsters, S ta rs..  1  75
Sardines, Am ....... 
8
Sardines  In p o rt.  13 
Corned  Beef 2 ft  3  25 
Cond. Milk, Eagle 
case...................8  10

CO FFEE.

G reen R io__ 13
G reen J a v a .. .18 
G reen M ocha.26 
Roasted Rio.. 14 
Roasted  Java25 
Roasted  Mar. 18

@15

@18
@35

Roasted Mex.18  @20 
G round  R io.. 10  @18 
G round  Mex.  @174
A rbuckle’s .......... @17 34
X X X X ................. @17
R oast M ocha.......@35

72 foot J u t e ....... 1  35 
60 foot  J u te ....... 1  20 

G.  D......................   35 

CORDAGE.

¡60 foot C otton___ 2  10
¡50 foot C otton___ 1  85
CAPS.

¡Ely’s W aterproof  75

F R U IT S .

London Layers, new ...........!................... 
2  70
Loose M uscatels Raisins,  new ............   @2  40
New V alencias  R aisins........................  
@74
T o n an d ara s...............................................  @10
T urkey P ru n e s ........................................  6  @64
C u rra n ts....................................................  64@ 64
C itro n ............................, ..........................   18@20
Dried A pples  ...........................................   74@8
Whole Cod................................................  
4&@6
Boneless Cod.................................... —  
64@8$£
H erring 4  bbls........................................  @3  00
H erring Scaled........................................ 
28@30
H erring H olland....................................   @1  10
W h iteF ish  4  b b ls ................................. 
7
K its......................................   @1  00
T rout h alf b b ls........................................ 
4  50
85
do.  K its ............................................... 
M ackerel half bbls No. 1....................... 
6  75
do.  K its  No. 1 .................................  
1  00
B loaters....................................................  @  95

F IS H .

do 

MATCHES.

Richardson’s N o.^  sq u a re............................. 2  70
................................ 155
Richardson’s No. 3  do 
Richardson’s No. 5  do 
................................ 170
Richardson’s No. 6  do 
................................ 2  70
Richardson’s No. 8  do 
.................................170
Richardson’s No. 9  do 
................................ 2  55
Richardson’sN o. 4  r o u n d .............................. 2  70
............................... 2  55
Richardson’s No. 7  do 
Richardson’s No. 74 do 
' ............................... 170
Electric Parlor No. 17.......................................3  80
Electric Parlor No. 18.......................................5  70
Grand  Haven, Noa9................................. ^ * .2  25
Grand  H aven, W9»8.................................JL. .1 60

20 gross lots spAia!l>orice^  "

■^ M OLASSgS.  ** 

y

Black S tra p __ !W@20|New O rleans  f’'».ifi@6Ci
Porto  Rico.......... 32@35 Syrups,  co rn ......  32@33
New Orleans g’d.45@50|Syrups,sug27@35@45 

O IL .

do. 

K erosene  W. W........................................ 
Legal  te s t............................... 
Sweet, 2 oz. square............................. 
Sweet, 2  oz. ro u n d................................... 
Castor, 2 oz.  square................................. 
Castor, 2 oz. ro u n d.....................................  

OATMEAL.

15 4
12&
75
1  00
75
  1 

 

2  35
.2 55
6 
6 

P IC K LES.

Dingee’s barrels m ed..................................... .6  75
Dingee’s 4  
........................................4  00
Dingee’s 4  
sm all.............................5  00
Dingee’e q u arts glass fa n c y ...........................4  25
Dingee’s pints 
..........................   2  50
Saur  K raut, $  bbl........................................... 10  50

do 
do 

do 

SUGARS.

84@854
G ranulated............................................... 
8&
Cut L oaf...................................... ............. 
•& S%
C u b e s...........................................................  
Pow dered................................................  
8%
@7 81
Conf. A .......................................................... 
74
Standard A ............................................... 
E x tra C...................................................... 
74@ 74
64@T
Fine C........................................................... 
Yellow.......................................................   64@ 04

SOAP.

do. 

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

K irk’s A m erican  F a m ily ............$  ft 
I n d ia ...........................................  
do. 
do.  S a v o n .......................................... 
do.  S a tin e t........................................ 
do.  R e v e n u e ....................................  
do.  W hite R ussian.......................... 
C ity ...........................................................  
Bell’s G erm an  F am ily.......................... 
do.  M ono......................... .................. 
Goodrich’s English Fam ily  — .........  
P rin c e ss.............................. 
P roctor & Gamble’s I v o r y ...................... 
Jap an   O liv e ......... 
$  box 
Town Talk 
Golden B ar..........  
A rab ................. 
3 
A m ber.............  
3 
M ottled  G erm an.. 
Sidall’s ...................................................... 
B abbitt’s ..................................................  
Dish R a g ..................................................  
Bluing......................................................... 
M agnetic.................................................... 
New  French  P rocess.............................  
S p o o n ......................................................... 
Anti-W ash b o a rd ......................................  
V aterlan d ..................................................  
Magic........................................................... 
P ittsb u rg h ................................................  
Bogue’s ...................................................... 
W hite castile  b a rs............................... ... 
Mottled castile....................................... 
Old  S tyle..................................................  
Old C ountry............................................... 

 

64
64
6
64
54
5  40
3  50
59$@54
4 00
5 4
44
6 
5
3 70
4  20
45
75
4  20
3 00
8 50
4  25
5 00
4  20
4  50
5  00
5  00
3 25
4  20
4  00
6  75
13
  12
@ 5 4
54

SPICES.

 

G round Pepper,  in boxes and c a n s ...  16@22
Ground  A llspice......................................   12@20
C innam on..................................................   16@30
C loves.........................................................  20@25
G inger.........................................................  17@20
M ustard ................... 
15@35
C ayenne......................................................  25@35
Pepper 4  ft $  dozen...............................  
75
75
Allspice  4  
 
Cinnam on  4  
75
Cloves 4   f t................................................  
75
Pepper,  w hole...................................... 
@18  .
10@12
A llsp ice..................................................  
C a ssia ...................................................... 
@12
Cloves......................................................  20  @22
N utm egs,  No. 1....................................   70  @75

 

 

 

 

STARCH.

Special prices on  l,00o ft orders.

@7
Muzzy Gloss 1 ft package....................... 
@64
Muzzy Gloss 3 1b package....................... 
Muzzy  Gloss 6 ft boxes.. : ..................... 
@74
Muzzy Gloss b u lk ....................................  
@6
Muzzy Corn  1 1b........................................  7  @74
K ingsford  Silver Gloss.......................... 
@84
@94
K ingsford Silver Gloss 6 ft  b o x ........... 
K ingsford Corn........................................  84@9
Oswego  G loss...........................................  
@64
@7
M irror  Gloss............................................. 
M irror Gloss, co rn ................................... 
@74
P iel’s P e a rl................................................  
@4
2 60 
2  45 
1  10 
1  75 
1  55

60 P o c k e t............
28 P o ck et..............
Saginaw F in e __
Diamond  C...........
Standard  Coarse.

s a l t .

SEEDS.

54
H e m p .................................  .....................  
C a n a ry ........................................................ 
44
R a p e ...........................................................  
7
Mixed B ird.................................................  54@8
Jugs $   gallon......................................... 
  @8
 
Crocks............................... 
7
Milk  Crocks............................................... 
7
Rising  Sun g ro ss..6  88|Dixon’s  g ro ss.........6  50
U n iv e rsa l................5  88 Above $1 dozea.....  50
I X  L .........................5 50| 

 
STOVE  PO L IS H .

s t o n e w a r e .

•

Q uaker 2 ft cases, 48 fts $   case............ 
do  5 ft cases, 60 fts $  case................ 
Im perial  bbls.............................................  
Q uaker bbls..................................................  

¡White Mfg Co, fane  8

W hite  M anf’g  Co,

SALERATUS.

DeLand’s pure  @ 5 4 ¡Cap Sheaf.......  @ 54
C hurb’s ...........  @  54 Dw ight’s .........  @ 54
Taylor’s  G. M.  @541

TEAS.

Jap an   ordinary..23@25
Ja p an  f  a ir.............25@30
Jap an  fair to g’d.30@37
Jap an  fine.............40@50
Jap an  d u st........... 14@20

Young H yson__ 25@50
G un  Pow der.......35@50
O olong...........33@55@60
C ongo...................  @30

TOBACCO—F IN E  CUT.

Wide  A w ake.............................................
Daiscy  [In half barrels,  30c]................
H ia w a th a ..................................................
Globe...........................................................
May F lo w er...............................................
Rose  L eaf..................................................
Silver  C ro w n...........................................
Owl  C lu b ..................................................
H ero............................................................
A tla s ...........................................................
Royal G am e..............................................
Silver  T hread...........................................
Old  Dog T ray ...........................................
Seal..............................................................
K e n tu c k y ...............................................:
Mule  E a r....................................................
Peek-a-Boo................................................
Peek-a-Boo,  4   b arre ls............................
C lipper.......................................................
F o u n tain ....................................................
Old C ongress.............................................
Good  L u ck ................................................
Good and Sw eet........................................
Blaze  A w ay.............................................
H air L ifte r......................................T........
Old Glory, lig h t........................................
Charm  o f  the W est, d a rk .......................
Governor, in 2 oz tin   fo il.......................
Ripper, in  p ails........................................

PLU G.

Sentinel 17 ft and 28 ft cad s...................
C lim ax ........................................................
H oney Bee 28 ft  cads..............................
Hold F a s t ..................................................
McAlpin’s Gold Shield............................
Nickle N uggets 6 and 121b  cads...........
Chocolate Cream 4 and 8 ft cads...........
My Choice 3 oz pocket  pieces..............
My Choice 16 oz pieces............................
Cock of th e W alk  6s...............................
Black Spun  Roll......................................
N im rod....... *..............................................
A c o rn .........................................................
Red Seal......................................................
C re sc e n t...................................................
Black  X ......................................................
Black  Bass.................................................
T rue G rit............................... : ..................
Nobby  Spun  R oll....................................
S pring.........................................................
Crayling, ail  sty les.................................
M ackinaw .................................................
H orse Shoe............................... ................
Good  L u ck ................................................
Big Chunk o r J .T ....................................
H air L ifte r................................................
D. and D., b lack ........................................
McAlpin’s G reen  Shield........................
Ace  H igh, b lack ......................................
Cham pion  A ......................................... ..
Sailors’  Solace......................................
Red S ta r......................................................
Shot G u n ....................................................
D u c k ...........................................................

SM OKING.

D im e...........................................................
P eerless......................................................
Standard ....................................................
Old  Tom ......................................................
Tom & Je rry  ............................................
Jo k e r...........................................................
T raveler..............: .....................................
M aiden........................................................
Topsy  .........................................................
Navy C lippings........................................
H oney D ew ...............................................
Gold  B lock.................................... ............
Camp Fire  ...............................................
O ronoko... ¿ J .................................
Nigger  H e a R  . ............................... M k.
D urham ,  4  £>...................................

00

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l i b ............ .............................
H o llan d .....................................................
G e rm a n ......................................................
Long Tom ..................................................
N ational......................................................
T im e ...........................................................
Love’s D ream ...........................................
C o n q u e ro r.................................................
Fox’s ...........................................................
G ra jlin g ....................................................
Seal S k in ................................ ...................
Dime D u rh a m ..........................................
Rob R oy......................................................
Uncle  Sam ............................. •..................
L u m b e rm a n .............................................
Railroad Boy.............................................
M ountain Rose..........................................
Good  E nough...........................................
Home Com fort, 4 s  and  4 s ...................
Old  Rip, long  c u t....................................
D urham ,  long  c u t...................................
Two  Nickle, 4 5 ........................................
Two  Nickle,  4  s ........................................
S tar D u rham .............................................
Golden Flake Cabinet..............................
Seal o f N orth Carolina, 2 oz.................
Seal o f N orth Carolina, 4  oz..................
Seal of N orth Carolina, 8  oz.................
Seal of N orth Carolina, 16 oz  b o x es...

00
75

@67
@60

@62
@45
@33
@30
@60
@60
@60
@31

@50
@48
@48
@48
@51
@50
@34
@33
@37
@38
@50

@44
@35
@40
@35
@50
@50
@50
@47
@50
@50
@40
@37
@37
@48
@35
@48
@48
@50
@48
@48

24@25
25
2221
24
25 
35

51

@30
@26
@26
@28
@23
@22
@32
@30
@25
@26
@28
@26
@37
@20
@23
@25
@60
@60
@25
@26
@25
@40
@52
@50
@48
@50

SHORTS.

Mule E a r .......
H ia w a th a __
Old Congress.

P u re  Cider__
W hite  W ine...

Seneca F alls “ Rising  S u n ” .......................  1  75
Twin Bros.......... 1  75  ¡W ilsons..................1  75
G illett’s ..............1  75  ¡N atio n al................1  85

M ISCELLANEOUS.

do 

do 

do 

95
65

do 
do 

75
do 
do 

G erm an sw eet...................  

w aterp ro o f.............................  

B la c k in g ........................................... 30, 40,50@60
1  50
B ath Brick im p o rte d ...................................  
A m erican................................... 
B arley.........................................................   234®  3
B urners, No. 1 .......................................... 
1  10
No.  2........................ , ............... 
150
Bags, A m erican A ................................... 
20  00
Baking Pow der  b u lk ..........................  
10@22
Beans,  m edium   ......................................   @2  00
Beans, hand picked................................. 
2 JO
B u tter.........................................................   18@20
B u tte rin e ..................................................   18@21
Cream T artar 5 and 10 ft can s..............  @25
Candles, S ta r.................................................  @154
candles,  H otel.............................................   @164
Chocolate, B aker’s .................................  @40
@27
14  @144
Cheese full cream  choice................. 
Catsup q u arts $   dozen..........................1  40@1  60
@264
Cocoanut,  Schepps’ l f t  packages. 
Cocoanut,  Schepps’ 1 & 4  ft  do 
@274
. 
E x tract Coffee,  v. c ...................................... 
95
F e lix ............................1  30@
Flour, S tar Mills, in b b ls ......................5  75@
in Sacks....................... 5  50®
Gum, R ubber  100 lum ps..................  
  @25
Gum,  Rubber 200 lum ps.........................  @40
Gum, Spruce.............................................   35@40
Chimneys No.  1........................................  @35
No.  2.............................., ........  @45
Indigo..........................................................1  00@
Ink $  3 dozen  b o x ..................................1  00®
Jelly in P ails.............................................•  @  74
do  Glass Tum blers 
doz...................   @85
Licor ce . ....................................................  20@30
Licorice  R oot............................................  @12
Lye ^  2  doz. cases...................................1  65@
M acaroni,  Im ported...............................   @13
D om estic....................................................  @ 6
Mince Pies, 1 gross cases, $  case.........  @6 00
French M ustard,  8 oz 
Large  G othic...........,1  35@
Oil Tanks, S tar 60  gallons..................  12 00@
Oil Tanks, P aten t 60 gallons................ 14 00@
Pipes, Im ported Clay 3 gross................ 2 25®
do  A m erican  T. D..........................  90@1  00
Pepper Sauce...........................................   90@1 00
Peas, G reen B ush.....................................1  40@
Powder,  K eg..............................................5 50®
4  K eg.........; .............................3 00®
R ic e .................................................................5@64@ 7
Sago  ...........................................................  @ 6-
Shot, d ro p ...................................................1  90@
do  b u c k .................................................2  15®
S ag e.............................................................  @15
Curry Combs $1 doz..................................1  25®
Molasses G ates each...............................   @45
M easuring F aucet e a c h .........................2  75®
Tobacco C utters e a c h .............................1  25®
T w in e ..........................................................  18@20
Chim neyCieaners $   doz.........................  @50
Flour Sifters $  d o z .......................  
  3 00®
F ru it A ugurs e ach ................................... 1 25®
T a p io c a ......................................................  @  5
W ashing Crystal, G illett’s box.............1  50@1  65
W lcking No. 1 $  gross............................  @40
No. 2  ........................................   @65

do  Split p rep ared...................................   @ 3 4

do 
do  A rg a n d ..................................... 1  50®

dozen........................... @85

W ashing Powder, 1776 $  f t .......................  @104

do 
do 
7@10
Borax ine 
b o x .............................•..........3 75@
P earline $  box.......................................... 4 50@

G illett’s $   f t.............  @  74
Soaplne p k g .. . . . . . .  

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H azeltine, P erkins & Co. quote as follows fo r j 
quantities usually w anted—fo r larger am ounts j 
w rite them  fo r quotations:
ACID S.

9

@

A cetic,  No. 8............................. 1b 
Acetic,  C. P. (Sp. grav. 1.040).........  30
Carb<  lie ...............................................
C itiit....................................................
M uriatic  18  deg................................. 
3  @
N itric  36  d eg ......................................   11  @
O x alic..................................................   144@
Sulphuric  66 deg...............................  
3  @
T artaric  pow dered..........................
Benzoic,  E nglish.....................$  oz
Benzoic,  G erm an.............................   12  @
T a n n ic.................................................   15  @

AMMONIA.

C arbonate...................................^ f t   19  @
M uriate (Powd. 22c)..........................
6  @
A qua 16 deg o r  3 f.............................  
A qua 18 deg o r  4f.............................  
7  @

BALSAMS.

C o p a ib a..............................................  
F ir........................................................
P e ru ..................................................... 
T o lu ......................................................

Cassia, in m ats (Pow’d 20c)............  
Cinchona,  yellow ............................ 
Elm,  select.........................................  
Elm, ground, p u re ................'........... 
Elm, powdergd,  p u re ......................  
Sassafras, of ro o t.............................  
W ild Cherry, select.......................... 
Bay berry  pow dered........................ 
Hem lock  p o w dered......................... 
W a h o o ................................................. 
Soap  g ro u n d ....................................  

@
2

12
18
15
13
15
10
12
20
18
30
12

b e r r i e s ,

Cubeb, prim e  (Powd $1  20)............  
@1  00
J u n ip e r..................................................  
6  @  7
Prickly A sh ........................................1 00  @1  11

e x t r a c t s .

Licorice (10 and 251b boxes, 25c)... 
Licorice,  powdered, p u re ...... —  
Logwood, bulk (12 and 251b doxes). 
Logwood, Is (251b  boxes).... 
................ 
Lgowood, 4 s  
Logwood, 4 s  
................ 
Logwood, ass’d 
................ 
Fluid E x tracts—25 $  cent, off list.

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12

27
374
9
13
15
14

FLO W ERS.

A rn ica..................................................   10  @  11
Chamomile,  R om an........................  
25
Chamomile,( G erm an....................... 
25

GUMS.

60®  75
Aloes,  B arbadoes.............................. 
Aloes, Cqpe (Powd  24c)...................  
18
60
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd  60c)........... 
28@  30
A m m oniac.......................................... 
60
A rabic, e x tra   select......................... 
A rabic, powdered  select................ 
60
A rabic, 1st  picked............................ 
55
45
Arsbic,2d  p ick ed .............................. 
A rabic, 13d picked.............................. 
40
35
A rabic, sifted so rts..........................  
30
Assafoentida, prim e (Powd 35c)... 
Benzoin............................................... 
55@60
C am phor............................................. 
24@  25
Catechu. Is (4  14c, 4 s   16c). 
13
Eupborbium  pow dered...................  
35@  40
G albanum  strain ed .......................... 
80
Gam boge.............................................   1  00@1  10
Guaiac, prim e (Powd  45c).............. 
35
Kino [Pow dered, 30c]....................... 
20
M astic..................................................  
110
40
M yrrh. T urkish (Powdered  47c)... 
Opium, p u re (Powd $5.50)..................  
4 55
4q
Shellac, Campbell’s .......................... 
Shellac,  E nglish...............................  
33
Shellac,  n ativ e................................... 
28
Shellac bleached...............................  
35
T ra g a c a n th ........................................  30  @1  10

iMERBS—IN   OUNCE  PACKAGES.

t d ...................J. ...« a lk .................. 25

.......  ............ .■•.. .P C ..................... 25
n t ...................1 .___!n ...................... 25
R ue'.......................................... 
40
S p e a rm in t........................................................... 24
Sweet M ajoram .............................  
35
T a n z y ..................  
25
T h y m e ...................................................................30
W ormwood  .......................... 
25

 

IR O N .

LEA VES.

C itrate and  Q uinine    ..................... 
6  40
Solution m ur., fo r  tin c tu re s......... 
20
7
Sulphate, p u re  c ry sta l...................  
80
C itra te ................................................. 
P h o sp h a te .......................................... 
65
Buchu, sh o rt (Powd 25c)....................  12  @  11
6
Sage, Italian, bulk (4 s & 4 s, 12c)... 
Senna,  Alex, n a tu ra l.......................  18  @  20
Senna, Alex, sifted and  garbled.. 
30
Senna,  pow d ered ........................... 
22
16
Senna tfnnivelli.................................  
10
U va  U rsi.............................................  
35
Belledonna.......................................... 
Foxglove.............................................  
30
H e n b a n e.............................................  
35
2 35
Rose,  re d .............................................  

LIQ U O R S.

 

 

 

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W., D. & Co.’s Sour Mash W hisky.2 00  @2 25
D ruggists’ F avorite  R ye................1  75  @2 00
W hisky, o th er  b ran d s.................... 1  10  @1  50
Gin, Old Tom ......................................1  35  @1  75
Gin,  H olland...................................: .2 00  @3 50
B ra n d y ................................................ 1  75  @6 50
Cataw ba  W ines.................................1  25  @2 00  .
P o rt W ines........................ 
@2 50
Carbonate, P attiso n ’s, 2 oz............  
23
37
Carbonate, J  enning’s, 2 oz..............  
2  25
C itrate, H., P. & Co.’s  solution__  
70
Calcined............................................... 
Almond, sw eet....................................   45 
@ 50
Am ber,  rectified...............................  
45
A n ise .................................................... 
2  10
Bay $1  oz.............................................  
50
B ergam ont.................................. .... 
2 20
Cr&ton..................................................  
2 00
75
C a je p u t........................... 
1  20
C a ssia..................................................  
Cedar, com m ercial  (Pure 75c).......  
40
C itro n ella.......................................... 
85
1 25
C loves..................................................  
Cubebs, P. & W ................................. 
8  00
1  60
E rig e ro n .............................................  
F irew eed..............*............................  
200
76
G eranium   $   oz.................................  
Hemlock, com m ercial (Pure 75c).. 
40
Ju n ip e r  wood....................................  
50
Ju n ip e r  b erries................................. 
2 25
L avender flow ers-F rench.............. 
2 40
Lavender garden 
.............. 
1  00
L avender spike 
90
.............. 
1  85
Lemon, new  cro p .............................  
2 00
Lemon,  Sanderson’s ......................... 
80
L em ongrass........................................ 
1  25
O riganum , red  flowers, F re n c h ... 
O riganum ,  No. 1.............................. 
50
P en n y ro y a l........................................ 
2 00
P epperm int,  w h ite........................*. 
2 85
Rose  $   oz...........................................  
9  75
Rosem ary, French  (Flowers $5)... 
65
5 00
Sandal  Wood, G erm an...................  
Sandal Wood, T urkish  D ark ......... 
8  00
S assafras.............................................  
60
T a n s y ............................. ....................  
3  75
T ar (by gal 60c)...................................  10  @  12
2  25
W in terg reen ................................... 
Wormwood, No. 1 (Pure $6.50).......  
4  50
100
 
S avm ........................................... 
2 50
W orm seed.......................................... 
Cod Liver, filtered ....... 
190
.$ g a l  
Cod Liver, b e st.......................... 
4 00
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16 
6 00
Olive, M alaga............... 
@120
. 
Olive, “ Sublim e  Italian’  . 
2 50
__  
S a la d .....................................................  65 
Rose,  Ihm sen’s ........................ $1 oz 
9  75
16
B icrom ate...................................^  ft 
Bromide, cryst. and  gran. b u lk ... 
31
Chlorate, cry st (Powd 23c).............. 
20
Iodide, cryst. and  grqn. b u lk ....... 
1  30
P russiate yellow...............................  
30
A lthea, c u t.........................................  
27
17
A rrow,  St. V incent’s ......................  
Arrow , Taylor’s, in 4 s  and 4 s __  
45
Blood (Powd 18c)...............................  
12
Calamus,  peeled............................... 
18
Calamus, G erm an  w hite, peeled.. 
38
Elecam pane, pow dered...................  
23
G entian (Powd  17c(.......................... 
13
Ginger, A frican (Powd 16c)............  13  @  14
Ginger, Jam aica  bleached............ 
20
Golden Seal (Powd  40c)................... 
35
18
Hellebore, w hite, pow dered........... 
Ipecac, Rio, pow dered..................... 
110
Jalap,  pow dered...............................  
37)
Licorice,  select (Powd 124)........... 
12
Licorice, e x tra  select....................... 
15
Pink, tr u e ...........................................  
35
Rhel, from  select to   choice..........1  00  @1  50
Rhei, powdered E. 1......................... 1  10  @1  20
Rhei, choice c u t  cu b es...................  
2 00
Rhei, choice c u t  fingers.................  
2 25
S erp en taria........................................ 
60
S e n e k a ................................................. 
65
Sarsaparilla,  H o n d u ras.................  
35
Sarsaparilla,  M exican..................... 
18
10
Squills, w hite (Powd  35c)................ 
V alerian, English (Powd 30c)......... 
25
V alerian, V erm ont (Powd 280).... 
20

POTASSIUM .

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13
Anise, Italian  (Powd 20c)...............
5  @ 6
Bird, mixed in ft  packages............
4)4® 5
Canary,  S m yrna...............................
11  © 12
Caraway, best D utch (Powd  19c)..
2 20
Cardamon,  A leppee........................
2 50
Cardamon, M alabar..........................
20
C elery..................................................
12
Coriander,  nest  E nglish.................
15
F e n n e l................................................
334® 4
Flax,  c lean ...'....................................
4  @ 4 Vt
Flax, pure grd (bbl  354)...................
8  @ 9
Foenugreek,  pow dered...................
5)4@ 6
Hemp,  R ussian............................. ..
8
M ustard,  white (Black  10c)............
1  00
Q u iu c e................................................
7)4® 8
Rape, L nglish....................................
14
Worm,  L ev an t..................................
Florida sheeps’ wool, carriag e.......2 25  @2 50
2 00
Nassau 
do 
110
V elvet E x tra do 
do 
85
E x tra Yellow do 
do 
65
do 
Grass 
do 
H ard head, fo r slate u se.................  
75
Yellow Reef, 
140
.................. 
Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.26) 
g a l__  
2 36
1  50
Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref. 
Anodyne  Hoffman’s ........................  
50
Arsenic, D onovan’s solution......... 
27
12
Arsenic, Fow ler’s solution............  
30
A nnatto  1 ft ro lls.............................  
Blue  Soluble......................................  
.  50
Bay  Rum, im ported, b e st.............. 
* 2  75
Bay Rum , dom estic, H., P. & Co.’s. 
2 25
A lum ...........................................   ^  ft 
3H
24@  
3  @ 
Alum , ground  (Powd 9c)................ 
4
A nnatto,  p rim e................................. 
32
A ntim ony, powdered,  com ’l ......... 
44@   5
'6  @  7
A rsenic, white, pow dered.............. 
Balm Gilead  B uds............................ 
40
Beans,  T onka....................................  
2  25
Beans,  V anilla...................................7  00  @9  75
Bism uth, sub  n itra te ....................... 
2 20
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c)........................  
45
74@  9
Blue  V itriol............... .*..................... 
Boralum ine, W hite  bulk ] ............  
9
5 fts I  . . . ____  
Boralum ine, 
10
Boralum ine, T ints  bulk.  [• 40 
ff.. 
10
Boralum ine 
5  fts. J ............  
11
Borax, refined (Powd  15c).............. 
14
2 75
Cantharides, Russian  pow dered.. 
Capsicum  Pods, A frican ................ 
18
20
Capsicum Pods, A frican  pow’d ... 
18
Capsicum Pods,  A m erican  do  ... 
Carm ine,  No. 40................................. 
400
Cassia  B u d s...................................... 
14
Calomel.  A m erican.......................... 
70
Castor  Oil...........................................   174®  19
5
Chalk, prepared d ro p ....................... 
Chalk, precip itate E nglish............  
12
8
Chalk,  red  fingers............................ 
2
Chalk, w hite lu m p ............................ 
1-60
Chloroform ,  Squibb’s ..................... 
60
Colocynth  apples.............................. 
Chloral hydrate, G erm an  c ru sts.. 
1  60
Chloral 
c ry st... 
17#
Chloral 
Scberin’s  do  ... 
190
Chloral 
175
c ru sts.. 
C h loroform ...................*................... 1  00  @1  05
C inchonidia.......................................   70  @  (5
Cloves (Powd  28c).............................   20  @  22
30
C ochineal........................ •.................. 
Cocoa  B u tte r..................................... 
45
Copperas (by bbl  le )......................... 
2
Corrosive Sublim ate........................  
60
Corks, X and XX—35 off  list.........
Cream T artar, p ure pow dered.......  38  @  40
15
Cream T artar, grocer’s, 10 ft bo x .. 
50
Creasote........................................... 
24
Cudbear,  p rim e................................. 
C uttle Fish B one...............................  
23
D e x trin e .............................................  
12
D over’s  Pow ders.............................  
1  20
50
D ragon’s Blood M ass....................... 
E rgot  pow dered...............................  
45
E tn e r Squibb’s ................................... 
1  10
8
Em ery, Turkish, all  No.’s .............. 
2 4 ®   3
Epsom  S alts........................................ 
E rgot, fre sh .........  ............................  
50
E ther, sulphuric, U. S.  P ................ 
69
Flake  w hite........................................ 
14
G rains  P arad ise...............................  
35
(itine,  Cooper’s ...........................  
90
GfikitG ait
itine. F r e n c h .............................
«ware, flint, 60 off,l#box 50 off
Glassware, green, 60  and 10 d is__
12  © 
Glue,  cab in et....................................
Glue, w h ite.................................... ....
17  @ 
G lycerine,  p u re .................................
23  @ 
25®
Hops  4 s  and 4 s ...............................
Iodoform  $   oz...................................
In d ig o ..................................................   85  @1
Insect Powder, best  D alm atian ...  32  @
Iodine,  resublim ed.......................... 
2
Isinglass,  A m erican........................  
1
Ja p o n ic a .............................................
Lead, aceta te ......................................
Lime, chloride, (48 2s 10c & 4 s  11c)
M ace..........................s........................
Madder,  best  D u tch ........................   124®
M anna, S.  F ........................................ 
M ercury...............................................
M orphia, sulph., P. & W .........oz 
Musk, Canton, H., P. &  Co.’s .........
Moss, Iceland............................. ^  ft
Moss,  Iris h .........................................
M ustard,  E nglish.............................
M ustard, grocer’s, 10 ft  can s.........
N utgalls...............................................
N utm egs, No. 1...................................
N ux  V om ica......................................
O intm ent, M ercurial, 4 d ................
Pepper, Black  B erry .......................
3
P ep sin .................................................. 
P itch, T rue B urgundy.....................
6  @
Quassia  ............................................... 
1
Quinia, Sulph, P, & W ............ ft oz 
Seidlitz  M ixture...............................
Strychnia, cry s t................................. 
1
Silver N itrate, c ry st........................   79  @
Red  P re cip ita te............ ........... $  ft
Saffron, A m erican............................
Sal  G lauber........................................ 
Sal N itre, large  c ry st......................
Sal  N itre, m edium   c ry st................
Sal R ochelle............................................
Sal  Soda............................................... 
Salicin..................................................  
S a n to n in .......................................  
Snuffs, Maccoboy o r Scotch...........
Soda Ash  [by keg 3c].......................
Sperm aceti..........................................
Soda, Bi-Carbonate,  DeLand’s  
 
Soap, W hite C astile..........................
.........................
Soap, G reen  do 
Soap, M ottled do 
..........................
Soap, 
do 
..........................
Soap,  M azzini....................................
Spirits N itre, 3 F ...............................   26  @
Spirits N itre, 4 F ...............................   28  @
Sugar Milk pow dered......................
Sulphur, flour....................................  
34@
Sulphur,  ro ll......................................
T artar E m etic....................................
Tar, N. C. Pine, 4  gal. cans  $  doz 
Tar, 
q u arts in tin ........... 
Tar, 
pints in  tin ...............
T urpentine,  V enice................. $  1b
W ax, W hite, S. &  F. b ran d ............
Zinc,  S u lphate................................... 

2  @
2
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7  @

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H ID E S , P E L T S   A N D   FU RS.

P erkins & Hess quote as  follows:

H ID ES.

@25

FU RS.

W OOL.

SH E E P PELTS.

@  7 
@  74 
£@ 8 
@12 
@12 
@50
@20 
@50  • 
@1  25

G reen.................................................. $Mb  6
P a rt  cu red .................................................  7
Full cu red..................................................   7i
D ry hides and k ip s...................................  8
Calf skins, green or cu red ..................... 10
Deacon skins............................. piece20
Shearlings or Sum m er skins $  piece. .10
Fall p elts.................................................... 30
W inter  p elts..............................................75
Fine washed $ f t .......................................30
Coarse w ashed.......................................... 22
U nw ashed...................................................2-3
Mink, larg e..................................................   60@ 80
Mink,  sm all.................................................  25® 40
M uskrat, W inter.................................................10 @15
8@ 11
M uskrat,  F all..............................................  
M uskrat,  k its..............................................  
3®  4
i  Raccoon........................................................  40@1 00
Skunk, black...............................................  90@1 00
Skunk, half  strip e .....................................  60@  70
Skunk, narrow  strip e...............................   25@ 35
Skunk,  b ro ad .............................................   10@  15
Red F o x .....................................................1  00@1  25
Gray F o x ..............................:...................  60@  85
M arten,  yellow ..........................................   75@1 00
F ish er.............1...........................................4  00@8  00
O tte r ..........................................................6  00@7  00
B ear...........................................................5  00@12  00
D eer skins, red and blue, d ry __ $   ft  30@ 
35
D eer skins, gray and long  h aired .......  20@  25
Beaver, clean and dry 
f t................. 2 00@3  50
Above prices are fo r  prim e  skins  only—u n ­
prim e in proportion.
6@  64
Tallow.........................................................  

OYSTERS.

F. J. D ettenthaler quotes as follow s:

New Y ork Counts, per  c a n ...............................   40
E x tra  Selects..........................................................35
Plain  Selects.........................................................   28
H. M. B.  F .................................................................21
Favorite F .................................................................18
P rim e ........................................................................16
X X X ......................................................................... 15
New Y ork Counts, per  gallon..............  @2  50
Selects, per  gallon..................................1 76@2  00
S ta n d a rd s................................................. 1 00@1  16
Can pi ices above are for cases and half cases.

PRO V ISIO N S.

The  Grand Rapids  Packing  &  Provision  Co. 

PORK.

quote  as  follows:
New H eavy  Mess P o rk ................. bbl $17  75
New Fam ily Clear P o r k ..........................  18  50
New E x tra Clear Pork, A. W ebster’s  ..  19  25
New E x tra Clear P o rk .............................   20  00
New Boston Clear P o rk ............................  20 00
New Standard Clear P o r k ......................   20  50
E x tra B  c lear  Pork, ex tra   g o o d .........  20  00
S. P. Booth’s Clear P o rk ..........................  20  00

DRY SaLT MEATS—IN BOXES.
E x tra Long Clear Backs, 600  ft  c a ses.. 
E x tra Short Clear Backs, 600 ft  case s.. 
E x tra Long Clear Backs, 300  1b  case s.. 
E x tra Short Clear Backs, 300 ft  cases.. 
Long Clears, heavy, 500 ft.  Cases..........  
H alf Cases.............. 
Long Clear m edium , 5001b  Cases..........  
H alf C ases........... 
Long Clears light, 5001b Cases...............  
H alf Cases...............  
Short Clears, heavy....................................... 
m edium ...............................  
lig h t......................................  

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do. 

do. 
do. 

LARD.

104
11
11
114
9$£
10
94
10
94
10
104
104

104

9%

Tierces  ............................................................. 
30 and 50 ft T u b s.................................. 9%

LARD IN TIN PAILS.

20 ft Round Tins, 50 ft  rack s................... 
50 ft Round  Tius, 100  ft  rack s................ 
3 ft Pailrf, 20 in a  case...............................  
5 ft Pails, 12 in a c a s e ...............................  
10 ft Pails, 6 in a c a s e ...............................  

SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED OR  PLAIN. 

do. 

H am s cured in sw eet pick le m edium .. 
lig h t......... 
Shoulders cured in sw eet  pickle..........  
E x tra Clear B acon....................................  
Dried B e e f................................................ . 
E x tra Dried B e e f...................... ............... 

9%
9%
104
104
104

134
134
84
104
14
16

E x tra Mess Beef Chicago packed $  bbl.  12  00 

BEEF.

CANNED BEEF.

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

in c a se .........................................................  20 00
2 ft cans, 1 doz. in case__   3 00
do. 
A rm our & Co., 14 ft cans, 4  doz  In case  20 00 
2 ft cans, 1 doz. in  case..  3 00 
do. 
do.  2 ft Compr’d Ham , 1 doz. in case 4  50 

Prices nam ed are  lowest  a t tim e of going to 

press, subject always to M arket changes.

. 

SAUSAGE—FRESH AND SMOKED.

P o rk   Sausage......................................................10
P ork Sausage Meat, 50 ft tu b s................. . 
10
H am   Sausage...................................................... w ii
Tongue  Sausage.............................................., 'n
Liver Sausage........................................................84
F ra n k fo rt  Sausage..........................................’.10
Blood  Sausage.................................................   84
84
Bologna,  rin g .................................................  
Bologna,  stra ig h t...............................................  84
Bologna,  th ick ..................................................‘  84
H ead  Cheese......................................................... 84

In  half barrels  .................................................$3  85
In  q u a rte r b arre ls........................................' ’  2  00
95
in  k its................. 

PIGS’ FEET.

TRIPE.

In  half b arre ls........................................................$3 75
In  q u arter b arre ls.........................................    1  go
I u k its .................................................................. 
go

F R E S H   M EATS.

Jo h n   M ohrhard  quotes  the trade as follows:
F resh  Beef, sides....................................   64@  84
Fresh  Beef, hind  q u a rte rs...................  8  @10
Dressed  H o g s.........................................   8  @  84
M utton,  carcasses...................................  »  @7V4
V eal.............................................................  9  @104
Spring «Chickens......................................   14@15
Fow ls...........................................................  @13
P ork  Sausage...........................................   @10
P ork Sausage in b u lk .............................   @j»4
Bologna......................................................  @10

CANDM| FR U ITS  A N D   NUTS.

P u tn am  & Biftorfs quote as follows :

STICK.

S traight,^25 lb  boxes...............................10  @11
Twist, 
Cut Loaf 

...............................104@114
............................... 12  @124
MIXED.

do 
do 

Royal, 25 ft  p ails.......................................104@11
Royal, 2001b bbls.................................................10
E xtra, 25 ft  p alls.................................................12
E xtra, 200 ft b b ls.  .............................................114
F rench Cream, 25 ft p ails................................. 15
Cut loaf, 251b  cases............................................15
Broken, 25  lb  pails.............................................114
Broken, 200 ft  bbls..............................................l l

FANCY—IN  5 ft BOXES.

 

 

Lem on  D rops............................... 
.14
Sour D rops........................................................... 15
P epperm int  D rops............................................16
17
Chocolate  D rops....................... 
H M Chocolate  D rops...............*......................20
Gum  Drops  ........................................................ 12
Licorice D rops.................................................... 20
A B  Licorice  D rops..........................................14
Lozenges, p la in ................................................... is
17
Lozenges,  p rin te d .........................  
Im p e ria ls.............................................................16
M o tto es.................................................................16
Cream  B ar........................................................... 15
Molasses B ar........................................................14
Caram els...............................................................20
H and Made Cream s............................. 
23
Plain  Cream s......................................................20
D ecorated  Cream s............................................. 23
S tring Rook..........................................................16
B urnt A lm onds...............................................  24
W intergreen  B erries........................... 
16

F an cy —in   B u lk .

Lozenges, plain  in  pails................................... 14
Lozenges, plain in  b b ls.....................................13
Lozenges, printed in pails................................15
Lozenges, p rinted in  bbls................................14
Chocolate Drops, in pails..................................15
Gum   Drops, in pails............................................9
Gum Drops, in bbls...........................................   74
Moss Drops, in  p alls..........................................114
Moss Drops, in b b l s ....................................    .104
Sour Drops, in  p ails.......................................... 12
Im perials, in  p ails............................................. 14
Im perials, in  bbls............................................... 13

M arket  well  supplied—prices  a  little  higher.
Oranges ^  b o x ..........................................3  @3 25
Oranges OO $  box................................... 3  @3 25
Oranges, Florida, $   bo x............................
Oranges, V ale n c ia ^   case.....................5  50@6 00
Lemons,  choice.................................. >  3 00@3  50
Lemons, fa n c y ..........................................3  50@4 00
Bananas $  b u n ch....................................
Malaga Grapes, W keg ............................
Malaga Grapes, $  b b l.............................
Figs,  layers  ^  f t.....................................  12@16
Figs, fancy  do 
......................................   18@20
Figs, baskets 4 0 f t$ lb ............................  14® 15
do  .............................   @ 6
Dates, frails 
Dates, 4  do 
d o .............................  @ 7
Dates, sk in ................................................   @ 6
Dates, 4   sk in ...........................................   @  74
Dates, Fard 101b box $   1b .....................  @124
D ates, Fard 50 ft box <§) 1b ......................   @10

PEA NU TS.

Prices firm and higher.

Prim e  Red,  raw  
@ 8
Choice 
do  ................... 
Fancy 
do  .............................   84@  9
Choice W hite, Va.do  ................................94@10
Fancy H P,.  V a  do  ............................. 104@11

1b.............................
 

do 
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N U T S .'

W ithout change.

Almonds,  Terragona, ^  f t.....................  @20
do  ......................18  @19
Almonds, loaca, 
do  .....................134®  14
Brazils, 
do  .......................10  @17
Pecons, 
do  ....................  @13
Filberts, B arcelona 
do  .....................  @15
Filberts, Sicily 
do  .....................
W alnuts, Chilli 
do  .....................  15@16
W alnuts, Grenobles 
W alnuts, California 
d o .....................124@14
Cocoa N uts, $   100 
H ickory N uts, large $   bu 
H ickory  N uts, sm all  do

...........5 00@

COAL  A N D   B U IL D IN G   M A TE R IA LS. 
A. B. Knowlson quotes as follows:

1  10
Ohio W hite Lime, per  b b l..................... 
Ohio W hite Lime, car lo ts..................... 
95
Louisville Cement,  p e r b b l...................  
40
A kron Cem ent per  Dbl.......................... 
*  40
Buffalo Cement,  p er b b l......................  
1  40
Car lo ts.......................................................1  15@1  20
P lastering hair, per b u ..........................  35@  38
Stucco, per b b l.......................................... 
175
Land plaster, p er to n .............................. 
2 50
1  75
Land plaster, car lo ts.............................. 
F ire brick, p er  M.................................... $27 @ $35
F ire clay, perobbl..................................... 
3 00

COAL.

A nthracite, egg and g ra te ...................$6  50@6  75
A nthracite, stove and n u t...................  6  75®7  uO
Cannell coal.............................................  
7 00
Ohio coal...................................................3 49@3 60
Blossburg o r  C u m b erlan d .................  5 00®5 25

ALAB ASTINE!

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  wall,  which 
is  strengthened  and  improved  by  each  ad- 
ditionabcoat, 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  fcement, 
while  all  kalsomines,  or  other  whitening 
preparations,  have  inert  soft  chalks,  and 
glue,  for  their  base,  which  are  rendered 
soft, or  scaled, in  a  very  short  time, thus 
necessitating  the  well-known  great  incon­
venience  and  expense, which  all  have  ex­
perienced,  in  washing  and  scraping  off the 
old  coats  before  refinishing. 
In  addition 
to the above advantages,  Alabastine  is  less 
expensive,  as  it  requires  but  one-half  the 
number of pounds to cover the same amount 
of surface with two coats, is  ready  for  use 
by  simply  adding  water,  and  is easily ap­
plied  by  any  one.

-FOR  SALE  BY-
Faint  Sealers.

----- 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.

SfU TtA0* makV;

EATON,  LION  &  ALLEN,

20  and  22  Monroe  Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

Respectfully announce to  th e T rade  th a t  they 
are b etter th en  ever prepared to supply all ac­
quirem ents in th e line of

A s th e ir  facilities  are  unsurpassed,  and  th eir 
stock will be k ep t in  in such  condition  as  will 
give  entire  satisfaction,  both  in  th e  line  of 
staples and" novelties.

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1884~40th  YEAR.

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DOUBLE  DEALING.

REVIEW  OF  THE  MARKETS.

Both  Sides.

A  Legal  Firm  that  is  Alleged  to  Work  for 
“Do you know the true inwardness of  the 
Kendall  failure?”  said  a  prominent  legal 
light to The  Tradesman  reporter  yester­
day, and the latter was compelled to reply in 
the negative  and  suggested  that  he  would 
like to be enlightened on the subject.
“You see,” continued the legal gentleman, 
Turner &  Carroll  are  Kendall’s  attorneys, 
and got him in  good  shape  to  fail.  Then 
lhey sent down East, and induced one of his 
creditors to attach the  stock,  in  order  that 
he might make an assignment, and  come  in 
for  the discharge-from-liability  prevision  of 
the new insolvency law.  The day after  the 
assignment, Kendall furnished Turner & Car- 
roll with a list of his creditors, to whom they 
wrote, soliciting  the claims.  Thus you  see 
that  Turner  &  Carroll,  while  ostensibly 
working  in  the  interest  of the creditors are 
really  in cahoots with  Kendall,  and  subse­
quent events will prove this assertion.”

G. S. YALE & BR0„

—M anufacturers  of-

BAKING  POWDERS, 

BLUINGS,  ETC.,

40  a n d   42  S outh  D ivision  St.,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  

-  

MICH.

WESTFIELD WHIPS

X.H.BZJELX.S 

d O O .,

MANUFACTURERS.

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—AND—

SALESROOM 
NO. 4 PEARL STREET, 

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

6. ROYS & CO., Gen’l Agents.

A.  A.  CRIPFEN,

WHOLESALE

Hats, Caps and Furs

54  MONROE  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICHIGAN.

We carry a Large Stock, and Guarantee Prices 
et8 Low as Chicago and Detroit.
A.  H.  F O W L B ,

PAINTER  AND  DECORATOR.

—AND  DEALER  IN —

PAINTS,  OILS,  AND

ROOM  MOULDINGS,

FINE  WALL  PAPERS AND 

Artists’  Materials!
WINDOW  SHADES,
Glass, Plain anH Ornamental
F J. DETTENTHALER
O Y S T E R S

37  Ionia  Street, South  of  Monroe.

Successor to  H.  M. Rliven,

—WHOLESALE—

*  AND  CANNED  GOODS.

A gent  fo r  F arren ’s  Celebrated  “ F  ”  Brand 

Raw  O ysters.

117  MONROE  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

- 

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MICH.

PECK  BROTHERS,

129  and  131  Monroe  Street,

-WHOLESALE-

DRUGGISTS

Prices in No Instances Higher than those  Quoted 

in this Paper.  Write ns for Specia

The  Dry Goods Market.

In the East the dry goods trade is  slowly 
improving,  and  the  outlook  is  considered 
good  for  an  active  demand  later  in  the 
month.  Agents and jobbers are counting on 
the extremely light stocks held by the trade, 
and  claim  that  confidence  is  all  that  is 
wanting to make a good trade.  Confidence, 
however, is a capricious  goddess,  $nd  just 
now is enjoying a fit of sulks.  One thing is 
certain, however, the goods  for  the  spring 
trade are more beautiful in style and  finish 
than any  ever  shown  before. 
In  primts, 
ginghams and  dress  goods  the  movement 
has been fair  and  sonle  styles  have  been 
sold  ahead  of  production. 
In  the  above 
lines fashions are  destined  to  run  toward 
lighter shades than they did last  year.  At 
home trade  is gradually  improving  as  the 
season advances, and a  very  good  business 
was  transacted  during  the  past  week  in 
most of the leading  staples, though distinct­
ively winter goods  were  only  in  moderate 
request. 
It is getting so late in  the  winter 
season that merchants are  not  disposed  to 
stock up freely with goods that  will  be un­
saleable in the course of a very  few  weeks, 
and  hence  such  lines  of  merchandise  as 
blankets,  flannels,  heavy  woolen  cloths, 
cloaking, thick  shawls,  and  warm  under­
ware are only bought  in small  quantities to 
supply current  wants.  But  few  quotable 
changes have  occurred, the  only  change in 
prints being a reduction  of  %c. 7$ yard  in 
the price of American. 
In brown sheetings 
there was a decline of 
in Lawrence LL, 
Mystic River,  and Pepperell E.

The  Grocery  Market.

We make advance«  in a  number  of  arti­
cles, noticeably pickles  and  canned  corned 
beef.  Pickles are cheap yet.  Teas are said 
to be getting scarce and  importers  have ad­
vanced  prices  from  2c to  4c.  Sugars  are 
easier.  Peanuts  are  higher  and  going  up 
still. 
Jobbers  are  on  the  lookout  for  a 
sharp advance in full cream cheese,as stocks 
are  considerably  short  of  last  year.  •  The 
prices  quoted  to-day  are  a.full  half  cent 
cheaper than  they  were  a  year  ago.  We 
consider cheese a  good  purchase at  to-day’s 
prices.  There is no let up on fish prices and 
no probability of any  for  some time.  Val­
encia raisins are cheap, extremely so.

The  Drug  Market.

Business continues to move along smooth­
ly, and collections are reported as somewhat 
easier.  The feature of the  week  has  been 
the  break  in  quinine. 
Formerly  quinine 
was protected by a  tariff  about  equivalent 
to the actual value  of  the  article,  thereby 
giving the American manufacturers  a  com­
plete monopoly of the  business.  This tariff 
was abolished some four years ago  with the 
result of reducing  the price  nearly  100  per 
cent.  Then, about a  year ago,  the  Ameri­
can manufacturers tried to get the  tariff  re­
established, but failed.  They then  entered 
into a pool with the European  manufactur­
ers binding  themselves  to  maintain  estab­
lished prices, the pool going into force  July 
1, 1883.  Prior to the formation of  the pool 
the price had  been  about  $1.50 per  ounce, 
and the combination raised it to about $1.80. 
A few days ago one of the English firms  in 
the pool began cutting  prices, the  standard 
quotations being thereby  reduced  about  20 
per cent.  As there was nothing  to bind the 
English firm to  the  combination  price  the 
result of the cut is a complete demoralization 
of the market.  At present the  price ranges 
from $1.30 to  $1.60,  this  being  about  the 
fair manufacturing value of the article,  but 
in  case the pool should  be  reformed  there 
is nothing to prevent the price  rising  to $3 
per ounce, or even higher,  except the  pres­
sure of public opinion.

The  Provision.  Market.

As will be seen by the Price Current, pork 
has advanced from $1.25 to $1.50 per barrel, 
lard has gone up %c in sympathy, and  beef 
has sustained a slight advance.  The  rise in 
pork  is  due  to  the  fact  that  live  stock 
has ceased to  come  in,  and  to  the  general 
scarcity.  Lard continues to be the cheapest 
product of  the  hog.  Beef  is  bound  to  go 
still higher.

The  Fruit and  Nut  Market.

Oranges and lemons are firmer and a shade 
higher.  Peanuts have taken another  sharp 
advance and are  held  very  firm.  Foreign 
nuts are steady with a weak market.

Country  Produce.

bu.

bbl.

Apples—In  fair demand  at  $3.25@$3.75 
for Russets and Baldwins.  Extra fancy, $4.
Butter—Firmer,  with  slight  upper  ten­
dency.  Da.iry  rolls  are  moving  slowly  at 
20@22c, and  packed  at  16@20c.  Western 
creamery 27@28e.
Butterine—Slow  sale  on  account  of  the 
cheapness of genuine  butter.  Prices  range 
from 18@21c, although a very inferior grade 
is sold at 12c.
Buckwheat—New York patent,  $3.75  per 
100 ibs, and $7 
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 
ft>s.
Cheese—Full cream in fair demand at 14c ; 
skim active at 9c@ lie.
Celery—Winter in fair supply and demand 
at 25@30c 
doz.
Cabbage—Small quantity fair stock at $12 
@$15 ^   100 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  $12@$12.50  ^   bbl.  Extra 
faney, $13.
Corn—Local dealers stand in  readiness to 
supply carload lots of Kansas  corn  at  from 
It is all of the same quality, 
45@60c ^p bu. 
but the former price  is  for  damp,  and  the 
latter for dry, stock.
Dried Apples—Quarters active at  7@7%c 
^p  ib.  Sliced quarters, 8@8%c.  Evaporated, 
14@15c.
Eggs—Exceptionally scarce, even for this 
season of the year.  Fresh  are  occasionally 
to be bad in  very  small  quantities  at  38c, 
and the last of the pickled stock was cleared 
out this week at 34c.
Honey—In comb, 16@18c ^P lb.
* Hops—Choice New York  25@28c  ‘«Jp  lb ; 
low  and  medium  grades  18@24c;  Pacific 
coast 24@27c; Wisconsin 12@20c; Michigan 
20@22e.
Onions—Choice yellow 75c ^  bu. in sacks 
and $2 
Peas—Holland $4.25 
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  I5@17c.  Geese 
are very scarce  at  12@14c.  There  are  no 
ducks in market this week.

3 bu. bbl.

bu.

Ruta Bagas—Yery firm at 50c 

It
is almost impossible to obtain any bnt frozen 
stock.

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

bu. 

$1.75@$2 ^  bu.

Visiting  Buyers.

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

r 

ville.

A. Engberts, Beaver  Dam.
M. J. Howard, Englishvilie.
,C. O. Bostwick & Son, Cannonsburg.
T. J. Sheridan & Co.,  Lockwbod.
J. Omler,  Wright
McLeod & Trautman Bros., Moline.
C. E. & S. J. Koon, Lisbon.
Barker & Lehnen, Pierson.
G. Bron & Ten Hoor, Forest Grove.
J. C. Benbow, Cannonsburg.
Smeadley Bros., Bauer. 
Paine & Field, Englishvilie.
W. S. Root, Talmage.
U. S. Monroe,  Berlin.
W. Schoemaker,  Cannonsburg.
B. M. Denison, East  Paris.
F. G. Thnrston, Lisbon.
Johnson & Leibert, Caledonia.
G. H. Walbrink. Allendale.
S. M. Wright Big Springs.
W. A. Williams, Oakfield Center.
Conklin Bros., Ravenna.
Ballard & Nash,  Sparta.
Dr. R. Gibbs, Six Corners.
H. M. Freeman,  Lisbon.
Parkhurst Bros., Nunica.
Comeil & Griswold, Griswold.
W. W. Winter,  Bradley.
Joe H. Spires,  LeRoy.
A. J. White, Bass River.
G. S. Curtis, Edgerton.
F. W. Wright, Cadillac.
N. S’. Loop, Kent City.
Mr. Homing, of Horning  &  Hart,  Wood-
B. N. Pettengill, Rockford.
Dr. S. A. Wheeler, for Staples  &  Coveil, 
H. B. Dunning, Allegan.
E. S. Botsford, Dorr.
C. Crawford, Caledonia.
E. S. Hipkins, Blanchard.
H. W. Cleveland. Nunica.
A. Norris, of A. Norris &  Son,  CaSnovia. 
J. W. Joscelyn, Ventura.
C.  O. Sunderland, Lowell.
Wm. Parks, Alpine.
E. J. Hewes,  Newaygo.
G. Noel, Palo.*
E. W. Pickett, Wayland.
T. W. Previn, Cedar Springs.
C. E. Kellogg, Grandville.
Fred F. Taylor, Pierson.
Geo. E. Harris, Ashland P. O.
Stillaway & Blush, Kent City.
C. F. Sears & Co.,  Rockford.
Geo. H. Force, Morley.
H. T. M. Treglown, Lowell.
W. H. Struik, Forest Grove.
Geo. A. Sage, Rockford.
H. T. Reed, White Cloud.
G. Gringhaus, Lamont 
L. P. Swift, Crapo.
S. C . Fell, Howard City.
Chas. Deming, Dutton.
F. E. Cam pan, Alaska.
Fred  Claasen,  formerly  engaged  in  the 
grocery business on East Falton  street,  has 
formed  a  co-partnership  with  his  brother, 
Herman, under  the  firm  name  of  Claasen 
Bros., and the two  have  lately  moved  into 
their new store on the corner of Coit  avenue 
and First street, purchasing the new stock of 

Whitehall.

John Caulfield.Crocfterç TEtc.

H. Leonard & Sons quote as follows: 

ONE  CRATE  W H IT E   G R A N ITE  W AR E.

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44
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44
44
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3  85
22
5  63

50
61
72
87
72
83
96
1  32
1  93

Knowles,  Taylor  &  Knowles—-Cable  Shape—
Diamond C.
6 doz P la te s................. . .5 inch
3
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20
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4 
3
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‘  B akers................ ..3  “
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“  Bowls................. ..N o. 36
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.  “  30
44
44 
* 
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“  Cov’d B u tte rs.. ..5  inch
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“  U ncov’d 
“  Cake  P la te s__
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“  R e staurant Cream s.........
y
3
“  Cup  P la te s.......
30
. .7 inch
4 68
“  Casseroles.........
Y
..8  “
5  25
/£
44 
66
..3  “
2
“  D ishes................
..9  “
1  38
Y
44 
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44 
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2 61
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1-6 “  Ew ers and Basins. No 9.. ...  9  00
77
•*  B arrell  M ugs..
.No. 36
35
. .4 inch
“  F ru it Saucers..
5
2
“  Scollops.............. 2Y  “
60
..5  “
83
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44 
1
..6  44
1
44
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..8  “
1  93
Y
M. 
“  Jugs, No. 36__
...  1  16
Y.
....................  30....
...  1  38
Y
•* 
*•  12....
...  2  90
Y
1-6 “  
44  6 ....
...  4  40
Y  ■*•  Shell  P ick les...
...  1  65
Y “  Sugars. No. 30..
...  2  90
Y “  Spoon  H olders.
...  1  80
6 sets U nhandled Coffees,........... ... 
50
36
... 
Teas
36
... 
47
12

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1  83
14  40
2 61
2 16
42
48
66
48
69
83
1  02
96
44
2 82
3 85
96
38
90
1  17
1  31
1  32
46
67
87
1  50
38
1  75
1  20
41
1  05
1  38
96
58
69
73
73
83
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12  96
5  61

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$81  66

ASSORTED PACKAGE GLASS SETS—NO. 35.

4 V ictoria  Sets, p lain ............................. 19 
4  Slppo  Sets, plain ..................................30 
4  Vail  Sets, figured................................34 

B arrel, 35c. 

76
1  20
1  36
—
$3 32

CH AN DELIERS.

No 5<X)2 light fo r  stores,  com plete  w ith

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

LAMP BU RN ERS.

No 0 A ny style  per doz................ ...................  90
No l 
............... ...................... 1  00
No 2 
............... ................... 1  50

do 
do 

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GLASSW ARE.

Heavy Figured  “ Horseshoe’ Pattern.

Sets, $   dozen..*..............................
.............   $3  00
...............   3  00
...........   2  00
Celeries...........................................
............  3  00
Bowls, 7 inch, and covers...........
Bowls, 8 
...........
...........   3  60
Bowls, 9 
............
...........  
Comports, 4  inch..........................
30
...........  
Goblets...........................................
45
...........  
Wines..............................................
35
..........-.  3  00
Salvers............................................
Nappies,  4  inch............................. $  gross  2 25

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Package a t cost’

GLASS O IL  CANS.

“ Q ueen” o r  “ Daisy.”  No  charge  fo r box.
Y gal.  per doz....................................................3 50
1 gal 
....................................................4 50

do 

TUBULAR  LANTERNS.

No 0 New w ire lift fo r lighting,  per doz__ 8  50
No 0 H inge fo r lighting, p er  doz...................7  50

LAM P CHIM NEYS.
A nchor, S tar o r Diamond brand, w hich m eans 
Second Quality.
No. 0 Sun  $   b o x ...................................................... 1 90
...................................................2  00
No.  1 
No.  2 
...................................................3 00
N o .0 Sun  $   b o x .......................A .....................2 10
................... i ........................... 2 25
No.  1 
...................................................3 25
No.  2 

9 L . & S .  brand, F irst Q uality Annealed*

do 
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JOHN  CAULFIELD.

Wholesale  Grocer!

85,  87  and  89  CANAL  STREET,

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

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

W EDN ESD AY .

E.  A.  STOWE, Editor and  Proprietor. 

OFFICE  IN   EAGLE  BUILDING,  3<1  FLOOR. |
\ Entered  at  the  Postofflce  at Grand  Rapids  as 

Semndrclms Matter. 1

H4ZELTIRE,  PERKINS  &  COMPART,

WHOLESALE  DRUGGISTS,

42  and 44  Ottawa  St.,  and  89,  91,  g3  and  g5  Louis St.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Z M F O B T E B S   A N D   J O B B E R S   0 7

Paints,  Oils

And.  Druggists’  Sundries.  A lso  M anufacturers  o f

Fine Pharm aceutical & C hem ical F reparations,

FRDIT 
Oranges
Lemons

S P E C IA L   USTOTIOE

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0  $3.00--$3.25  per 
00  $3.00-43.25  w  Box. 
Val.  $5.50--$6.00  W  “

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,

¿TOBBERS  OF

WE  SOLICIT  YOUR  ORDERS.

PUTNAM & BROOKS,
Fruit 4 Produce at Wholesale

Choice Butter, Eggs, Cheese, Mince  Meat, Maple 
Syrup,  Jellies,  Buckwheat  Flour,  and  Foreign  and 
Domestic  Fruits  and  Vegetables.
Careful  Attention  Paid  to  Filling  Orders.
M. G. Russell, 48 Ottawa St,, G’d Rapids.
F. J. LAMB  &  COMPANY,

-WHOLESALE  D E A LE R S  IN-

Butter,  C heese,  Eggs,

Apples, Onions, Potatoes, Beans, Etc.

NO.  8  IONIA  STREET,

ORANB  RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

NELSON BROS. <& CO.,

EXCLUSIVELY

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Lamps, Chandeliers and Pendants.

Buy  “Our Own”  Brand  of Lamp Chimneys, if good  ones are wanted.  Note the Special 

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Prices we quote in another column.

16   Monro©  St.,  Grand  B.apids,  Michigan.

FOX, MUSSELMAN & LOVERIDGE,

WHOLESALE  GROCERS,
Niirafl, Acorn, Clief,

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

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

Our  stock  of Teas,  Coffees  and  Syrups  is  Always  Complete.

-W E  MAKE  SPECIAL  CLAIM  FOR OUR—

T obaccos,  V inegars  and  S p ices

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

CORRESPONDENCE  SOLICITED.

WHOLESAL E

Hat  and  Gap  Store

F B J C E S   CXJAEA1TTEED 

68  Monroe  Street, Grand  Rapids.

Sou se  and  Store  Shades  Made  to  Order.

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

----- WHOLESALE  DEALER  IN-----

AKRON  SEWER  PIPE,

Fire  Brick  and  Clay,  Cement,  Stucco!

ZiZMS,  H A ZE,  COAX  and  W OOD .

ESTIM ATES  C H E ERFU LLY  FURNISHED.

Office—7  Oanal  Street.  Sweet’s  Hotel  BBck.  Yards—Goodrich  Street,  Near  Michigan

Central  Freight  House.

AS (LOW  AS  CHICAGO  AND  NEW  YORK l

GOOD  FUR CAPS, $22.50  PER  DOZEN. 

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  WOOL  HATS,  $4.50  AND  UPWARDS 

GENUINE  FUR  HATS, $13.50  AND  UPWARDS.

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

Im ported  Scotoli  Caps,

Lum loerm en’s   G oods, 

M aclsinaw  S liirts cfc D raw res.

,  

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

Pontiac  Fulled  Mitts, Socks  and Boots!

E V E R Y   ONE  W ARRANTED .

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

Clothing  and  Gent’s  Furnishing  Goods.

DUCK  OVERALLS,  THREE  POCKETS, $3.50  PER  DOZEN.

¡¡[IP  Terms—7 per cent, off in 10 days;  5 per cent, in 30 days;  net in 60 days.

X.  O.  L E V  X,

3 6 ,3 8 ,4 0   and  42  OANAL  STREET, 

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN

H. H. Hendereen has engaged in the drug 

business at Kent City.
J. Hullinger, druggist at Mecosta, proposes 
to  remove  his  stock  and  business  to  Big 
! Rapids, and t  M. Patterson, dealer in drugs 
| at Millbrook, will remove his  stock  to  Me- 
I costa about the same  time, 
{
j  Wm. Oppenheim, who made  a  disastrous 
I failure in the clothing business at  Whitehall 
a few months ago, the adjustment of  which 
has not yet been effected, died  at  his, home 
a t Dowagiac on the 30th,  after  a  long  and 
painful illness.  The interment was made at 
Detroit.
Lewis Brown, a Hebrew elothing merchant 
who has been in business  at  Allegan  since 
midsummer, 1882,  made  an  assignment  on 
the 31st to Asa H. Patrick.  The liabilities are 
about  $4,000,  and  assets  about  $3,000. 
Brown was formerly engaged in the clothing 
business on Milwaukee avenue, Chicago, and 
was supposed to be worth $1,500.  He never 
kept any books, did not do a  banking  busi­
ness, and did not associate with  the  people 
of his race, being  somewhat  of  a  business 
enigma.
Creditors representing $27,000 of B. S. Tib- 
bits’ liabilities met at Coldwater and  agreed 
to settle  for 50 eents on a  dollar.  His  lia­
bilities are about $50,000. 
If the balance of 
the creditors are willing,  all  claims  will  be 
settled on the same basis.  His cigar  manu­
factory is running without  interuption.  He 
made no assignment, but secured extensions, 
and  gave  notes  for  his  indebtedness,  and 
covered his^property  with  mortgages,  after 
which he  announced  that  he was  insolvent 
and  willing  to  pay  the  percentage  above 
mentioned.

STRAY  FACTS.

Dryden will have a barrel  factory.
The Monroe paper mills are still idle.
R. F. Dana, an Albion baker, has sold out. 
A flouring mill is  wanted  in  Charlevoix. 
Vermontville will have a wagon and sleigh 
A new $100,000 hotel is in  contemplation 

factory.

at Jackson.

F.  D.  Adams  &  Co.,  Alma,  will  erect 
The Dowagiac Manufacturing Co.’s  build­

another store.
ings cover two acres of ground.

A cheese factory  is  to  be  established  at 

Smith’s Corners, east of Almont.

II. J. Leonard is preparing to erect an ele­

vator and warehouse at Belding,

shoe factory, churn factory and  foundry.

Blissfield is working to get  a  roller  mill, 
McElwee’s picture  backing  establishment 
at Big Rapids, will start up shortly  with  30 
men.

The East Saginaw National  Bank will be­
gin business  February  15, with a  capital of 
$ 100,000.

Geo. D. Barton & Co., Alma,  are  building 
an addition, 60x80 feet, two stories,  to  their 
saw-mill.
The  Decatur  Manufacturing  Co.  lias  re­
ceived an order from a large  St.  Louis  con­
cern for 1,000 buggy boxes.
The State  Roller  Flouring  Mills,  Dowa­
giac,  have  a  capacity  of  225.barrels,  and 
have  to run night and day.
It  is  rumored  that  the  machinery  of  the 
Clinton wollen mill, which is now idle, is to 
to be removed to Tecnmseh.
Blousfield & Co.’s  new  woodenware  fac­
tory at South Bay City will soon be  in  run­
ning order and turn  out  5,400  wash  boards 
daily.
John Thompson has purchased the Shelby 
grist mill of Wm. II. Banks, and  intends  to 
have it completed and  in  lunning  order  by 
April 1.
Pentwater News:  We  place  the  Grand 
Rapids T r a d e s m a n  upon our  exchange  list 
this week. 
It is  a  paper  every  tradesman 
along the shore ought to take.

The American Lumber Co., of Dollarville, 
has failed.  The laborers are on the verge of 
starvation, as many of them have not receiv­
ed their wages for some  months.

The total output of the Lake Superior iron 
mines and the valuation for last year was as 
follows:  Gross tons pig iron, 57,484;  value, 
$1,291,140.  Gross tons  iron  ore,  2,351,372; 
value, $13,677,919.
Weaver’s grist  mill  and  G.  D.  Webster’s 
saw  mill  at Hesperia have stalled up again, 
having  been  idle for several months on  ac­
count of a break in the dam.  Hesperia now 
has  tw« grist mills and an equal  number  of 
saw mills in operation.

The Detroit, Lansing & Northern Railway 
is  busy preparing to extend its line into  the 
western part of the State during the present 
year.  Ties and material are being gotten out 
at  Lakeview  for  the  extension  from  that 
place to Howard City of the Saginaw Valley 
and St Louis division.  The work of grading 
is  to  be commenced  as  early as practicable. 
Surveyors are also  atjwork  on preliminary 
lines for the extension  of  the  main  road  to 
the lake shore.

Louis N. and  A. T. Moran have formed  a 
co-partnership at Detroit for the  purpose  of 
carrying on  a  wholesale  grocery  business, 
under the firm name of Moran Bros.  Louis 
N. contributes the sum of $25,000 and A.  T. 
$20,000 to the common stock, to  be  used  in 
common between  them.  Each  member  of 
the firm is to devote his  entire  time  to  the 
business, and the profits are to be equally di­
vided. 
It is  provided  that  neither  of  the 
partners shall indulge in outside speculations 
without the consent of the other, and  a  sum 
not in excess  of  $2,500  per  year  shall  be 
drawn out of the business for individual  ex­
penses, unless the profits  shall  justify such 
transaction.

WEDNESDAY,  PPB.  6,1884.

AMONG  THE  TRADE.

IN   T H E   CITY.

Henry Ward Beecher’s new  residence  on 
Paris avenue is nearly ready for  occupancy.
R. E. McCormick  has  opened  a  grocery 
store at Mecosta.  He  purchased  his  stock 
in this city.
A. Bunnell has engaged in the grocery bus­
iness on South Division street.  He purchas­
ed his  stock of Cody, Ball & Co.
Donnan &  Gray,  agricultural  implement 
dealers at Lowell,  have  sold  out  to  E.  T. 
Brown & Co., of this city, who will continue 
the business.
Dr. Henry Lever has closed his drug store 
on South Division street, and is  engaged  in 
removing the stock  to  Newaygo,  where  he 
will re-engage in business.

Perkins & Co. have received orders  for 20 
of their patent shingle machines  during  the 
past nine days.  One goes to Oregon and four 
to as many Southern States.

H. N. Brokaw,  of  Ionia,  general  travel­
ing agent for Taylor Bros. & Co., hat and cap 
jobbers of Chicago, was in town several days 
last week, visiting the  trade.
Silas K.  Bolles,  formerly  traveling  agent 
for B. S. Tibbitts,fof Coldwater, has engaged 
to represeut a’Cleveland cigar house  on  the 
road,  covering  the  same  territory  as  form­
erly.
At a meeting of  the members of the plas­
ter  pool,  Monday,  the  price of land plaster 
was raised from $1.25 to $3 per ton.  This is 
the sequel of the maneuver predicted by The 
T r a d e s m a n  several months ago.
A. E. Brooks, of Putnam  &  Brooks,  left 
Monday night for Chicago, to attend a  meet­
ing of the executive committee of the Nation­
al Confectioners’ Association, recently organ­
ized, of which the firm is a member.

A. Norris, of A. Norris &  Son,  Casnovia, 
was in town last week and purchased a com­
plete grocery stock of Clark,  Jewell  &  Co., 
which they will put in one side of the build­
ing in which their drug stock is located.

The grocery stock  of  Carlos  O.  Sunder­
land, of Lowell, was sold by the assignee  to 
O. A. Ball and John Caulfield for $450, who 
in turn disposed of  the  same  to  Anna  B., 
wife of Carlos, for $900, who will  continue 
the business at the old stand.

S.  A.  Sweet  has  purchased  the  A.  W. 
Fisher stock,  on  South  Division  street,  of 
Arthur Meigs & Co., consolidated with it the 
goods he saved from his stock during the re­
cent fire at Howard City, and will  continue 
business at Fisher’s old stand.
D. G. Hall, the Ithaca ex-druggist, was re­
cently seen by a Grand Rapids traveler,  and 
stated that his indebtedness, all told, does not 
exceed $600, and that he has  $1,000  in  un­
collected accounts, on which he will  realize 
enough to pay every claim in full.
Mr. Hutchinson, of E. Jaffroy & Co., New 
York;  F. A. Coolidge, of Gibson,  Parish  & 
Co., Chicago;  Geo. Brawe, of J. K. Smeallie 
&  Co.,  New  York;  Merritt  Andrews,  of 
Theo. Pomeroy & Sons, Utica,  N.  Y.,  have j 
visited this market during the past week.
Mr. Sampson having refused  to  serve  as 
receiver for Messmore Bros., of Cadillac, the 
attorney for Henry W. King & Co. and other 
creditors  petitioned  Judge  Withey,  of  the 
United States Court, to enforce  the  assign­
ment, which he  granted  by  appointing  W. 
H. Tuttle, of this city, assignee.
Fred Clark, attorney for I.  E.  Messmore, 
visited Yolney last week in  the  interest of 
his client, and persuaded Hugh H. McKenzie 
to reliquish goods to  the  amount  of  $360, 
that being the indebtedness  due  Messmore. 
But $40 worth of stock is left to meet claims 
aggregating seve&l hundred  dollars.
C. W. Jennings, of the firm of Jennings & 
Smith, returned Saturday from  a  successful 
fortnight’s  trip  through  northern  Indiana 
and Ohio.  Jas. T. Avery started  out  on  an 
eight  weeks’  southern  tour  on  Thursday, 
and  Wm. H.  Jennings  left  Monday  for  an 
eighty  days’  absence,  St.  Louis  being  the 
objective point, and the intervening territory 
the scene of trouble.
A gentleman from  the  Upper  Peninsula 
stated yesterday  that  the  liabilities  of  the 
American Lumber Co. will  come  very  near 
$1,000,000.  The assets  are  now  variously 
estimated at from $750,000 to $900,000, most 
of which  is  secured  by  mortgages.  The 
cause of the failure is laid to the present de­
pression of the lumber trade and  the  conse­
quent shrinkage of  values.

Wm.  M.  Robinson,  assignee  for the ras­
cally Newmans, will make no  further  move 
until the 19th,' the  expiration  of  the  legal 
limit, after which he will endeavor to  effect 
a final settlement with the creditors  by  dis­
tributing the amount now in  his  hands. 
It 
is probable that  very  few  of  the  creditors 
will accept the percentage offered,  prefering 
to hold their claims against the Newmans.

AROUND  T H E   STA TE.

Avery & Coons, meat  dealers  at  Lowell, 
have sold out to Forma» & Aldrich.
Ballard & Nash succeed M. B. Nash in the 
grocery business at Sparta  Center.
Converse  Eddy,  of  Grattan  Center,  has I 
taken  John  Emmons  in  partnership  with j 
him. 
L. C. Stow, of the Grand Rapids Furniture
Pray Bros.,  of  Petoskey,  have  opened  a ! Co., is spending several weeks in the South- 
branch elothing and dry goods store at Cross j west.  He is at present in Kansas.
Village. 
|  Eaton, Lyon & Allen are getting out an il-
Lee & Son, grocers at Allegan, assigned to  lustrated, thirty-page catalogue for  the  Mc- 
A. S. Peek on the 31st.  Liabilities are  esti-  Cord & Bradfield Furniture  Co.  It will be a
mated at $2,500;  assets about the same.

fine job, typographically and otherwise.

------------------------—
Late  Furniture  Gossip,

W. C. Tuttle, druggist at Albion, has been 
closed at the instance of Sheldon &  Robert­
son,  who  held  a  chattel  mortgage  on  the
M. F, White, of Jackson, and II. C. McFar- 
lan have purchased the Manton flouring mill j 
and will enlarge the building and repair  the 
machinery.
M. •  C.  Barber,  assignee  for  Curtiss  & 
Church, of Lowell, paid  a  second  dividend 
of 15 per cent, on the 1st.  The first dividend 
was 25 per cent.
Rockford  Register:  Mr.  J.  Coon  has| 
moved his stock of boots and shoes contained 
in his branch store at Cedar Springs back  to 
It didn’t prove a  paying  invest­
Rockford. 
ment
Howard Record:  Mrs.  W.  S.  King  has 
sold her stock of goods to A. JI. Jackson, of 
Three Rivers,  where  he  runs  a  bankrupt 
store.  The goods were packed and  shipped 
Saturday.

Russell & Austin, proprietors of the Grand 
Rapids  Mattress  Co.,  have made  arrange­
ments to start a branch establishment at Bay 
City. 
It will be located in Gates’  block,  ®n 
Water street, and will be placed in charge of 
a son of Mr. Austin.

Getting  Along  Fast.

“Do%rou see that man passing by?” said  a 
Canal street grain merchant, nodding toward 
a red-whiskered individual who was trudging 
past the store.  “It is only a few  years  ago 
that he was in hard luck,  and  went  around 
looking wretchedly shabby—in fact, 1  think 
he wore a  long  coat  for  a  very  particular 
purpose.  He  got a job braking on the rail­
road,  and  in  three  months  was  placed  in 
charge of a train.  Two years later he ownted 
two hotels up north and an  addition  to  the 
eity.  That’s what I call  prosperity.”

The last fraud—a cheap boot.

