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GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN,  WEDNESDAY,  FEBRUARY  27,  1884.

NO. 23.

The  Song  of the  Advertiser.

I am an advertiser great!

In letters bold, and big, and round, 
The praises of my wares I sound; 

Prosperity is my estate.

The people come,
The people^ go,
In one continuous, 
Surging  flow—
They buy my goods and come again, 
And I’m the happiest of men;
And this the reason I relate:
I am an advertiser great!
There is a shop across the way 

Where ne’er is heard a human tread, 
Where trade is paralyzed and  dead, 

With ne’er a customer a day.
The people come,
The people go—
But never there:
They do not know

There’s such a shop beneath the skies, 
Because he does not advertise:
While I with pleasure contemplate 
That I’m an advertiser great.
The secret of my fortune  lies 

In one small fact, which, I may state, 
Too many tradesmen learn too late: 

If I have goods 1 advertise!

The people come,
And people go,
In constant streams—
For people know
That he who has good wares to sell 
Will surely advertise them well;
And proudly I reiterate,
I am an advertiser great!

The  Advance  in  Caniharides.

From the Oil, Paint and Drug Reporter.

Probably no other drug has shown so rapid 
an advance in price in so short  a  period,  as 
has  cantharides.  Cantharides  is  another 
name for Spanish flies, as some of our  read­
ers outside the drug trade may not be aware 
We are in doubt as to why the name  “Span­
ish flies” was  first  applied  to it, but  it was 
probably owing to the fact that  it  was  first 
discovered in Spain.  Now, however, it comes 
from all parts of Europe,  that  coming  from 
Russia being considered the best, consequent­
ly the term “Russian” has  been  applied  by 
common consent to cantharides  of  the' best 
quality.  There is  a  cheaper  grade  in  the 
market,  known  as  Chinese.  About  two 
months ago the price of Russian, which  had 
been ruling at about $1.10, began to advance 
on advices from abroad of a  short  crop. 
It 
was ascertained later that it was not a  short 
crop which caused the advance, but more par­
ticularly  an  extraordinary  demand  from 
America.  The  stock  here  was  small,  and 
shortly  after  the news was  received, efforts 
were made to concentrate it. This was not im­
mediately accomplished, however, though the 
price  continued to advance,  until now $2.50 
is asked,with the stock very light, and mostly 
held by  one house, the .few lots which  have 
arrived having been all bought up.  Chinese 
have advanced in sympathy with the Russian, 
and  $2.25  is  now  ask®d  for a single  case, 
which is all the stock  at. present  available. 
How  high  prices  will  eventually  go  is  a 
question.  The extreme figures above quoted 
have been ruling for about  two  weeks,  but 
should  an  active  trade  ensue,  materially 
higher prices may be considered  among  the 
probabilities. 
In conclusion  it  may  be  re­
marked that the supply of Chinese has  been 
so short this year, that at  no  time  recently 
has there been more than one case  here,  in­
deed for a short  time  the  market  was  en-» 
tireiy  bare.  The  extreme  figure  finally 
brought a  case  from  an  interior  market, 
which was  sold  almost  immediately  on  its 
arrival.

The  Difference  in  Boys.

f 
“Yes, there’s a heq$> ’o difference in boys,” 
replied the old man, as he tied up  a  bag  of 
oats.  “There’s my son, for instance.  Every­
body beats him in a hoss trade, swindles him 
on a watch dicker, and leaves him out in the 
cold when he farms on  sheens.  He’s  good- 
hearted, but there’s jio  business  about  him. 
If I had to depend on  John,  I’d  die  in  the 
poor house.”  He  wrestled  the  bag  aside, 
siezed another, and continued:  “And  there 
was my son  Philip—keen as  a  razor—eyes 
wide open, and so smart that no man in New 
Jersey dared offer him a pair of old boots for 
a $300 hoss, for fear of  being cheated.”  “Is 
he dead?”  “Yes, he’s  gone,  and  that was 
the sharpest trick of  all.  He  found  he’d 
got the consumption, and what did he do but 
hunt up a life insurance  agent,  take  out  a 
$5,000 policy, give his note for the premium, 
and come home and fall off  a  load  of  hay, 
and run a pitchfork clear through him.  Some 
sons would  have  hung  on  and  doctored 
around and wanted currant jelly and chicken 
soup for eighteen  months,  but  that  wasn’t 
Phil.  No, sir!  He didn’t even ask for any­
thing better than a  $20  tombstone,  and  he 
said I needn’t  get that  unless  the  marble- 
cutter would trade even up for a blind calf.”

Patents  Issued  to  Michigan  Inventors.

The following patents have lately  been is- 

ued to Michigan inventors:

Jas.  B.  Wayne,  Detroit,  mechanism  for 
driving dynamo-electric machines
Chas.  H. Eggleston, Marshall, assignor of 
one-half to Edward  O.  Ely,  Grand  Rapids, 
button fastener; also button setting machine.
Geo. W. Bloodgood, Wyandotte, fastening 
railway rails  to metallic ties.
Geo. W. Smith, Milford, damper regulator.
Phillip H. Kells, Adrian, tile machine.
Ella  Whaples,  Jackson,  attachment  for 
John C.  Bloom,  Kalamazoo,  assignor  to 
Daniel L. Johnson, Kalamazoo, process for 
T. C. Evans, Ludington, horseshoe.
The beauties of a paper currency  with  an 
inadequate basis of  coin  are  illustrated  by 
the  following  announcement  in  a  recent 
number of the Buenos Ayres Herald: “Price 
for this edition, $6 gold a year, or  $150  cur­
rency, foreign postage  extra.”

dresses.
Hiram B. Miller, drive chain.
exterminating ground-burrowing animals.

THE  GROWLER.

The  Worst  Enemy  to  a  Revival  of Prosperity.
Nature  holds  the  universe  in  poise  by 
playing dangerous forces against each other, 
and when one force  fails  the  other  begets 
havoc.  The same is no less  true  in  trade. 
The growlers and the  visionaries  meet  half 
way,  and  their  equal  combating  influence 
gives the  health-flush  to  commerce.  The 
cool judgment is neither that  of an optimist 
nor a pessimist, but a blending  of  the  two. 
When one fails misfortune falls.  Unfortu­
nately  the  visionary is  of  milder 
temper 
than  the growler,  and  yields  more  easily. 
More unfortunately still, the growlers  have 
been  in  the  preponderance  of  late  in  all 
branches of trade.  Confidence, or  the  lack 
of it,  is the  outgrowth of  innate  conscious­
ness of fallibility, a consciousness so power­
ful that it fails to  perceive  that  otheA  are 
also fallible in a greater or less degree.  The 
pessimist is always loud-mouthed  and  peri­
patetic.  He  gets  in  the  high  places  and 
high-ways and  bawls  ruin  in  every  man’s 
face.  He  is  strong-lunged  and  makes  a 
great din.  Like the visonary, he is  open to 
conviction,  but,  like  . the  Scotchman,  he 
would like to  see the  man  that  could  con­
vince him.  The matter of confidence is like 
the tide—never stationary, always ebbing or 
flowing.  The growler and the visionary are 
alike  always  positive,  the  former  a  little 
the more so.  Both  are  equally  dangerous. 
The merchant or manufacturer meets one of 
these  homed  cattle,  and  no  matter  how 
much superior his own judgment may be and 
how firm his convictions  as  to  the  present 
and future of business, he more  or less con­
sciously takes in, under an unconscious  pro­
test, something  of  the  feeling  the growler 
promulgates.  He meets another and anoth­
er.  Conscious  fallibility  says: 
“Maybe, 
after all, these fellows know something  that 
I do not.”  So it goes.  He  loses  buoyancy 
little by little.  The change in him,  and the 
outcry of the growlers, influence others  who 
in time yet react on  others.  Every  pebble 
cast at confideij^e, like one  dropped  in  the 
sea, begets wavelets  that  expand  over  the 
whole surface of trade,  each  adding  to the 
waves that lash themselves into  a storm.  It 
is never necessary  that  the  lack  of  confi­
dence should be based on judgment  or fore­
sight.  As a  fact,  it  never  is. 
It  is  the 
weakness of human nature—the  hysteria of 
trade.  Look abroad to-day.  Consider  fair­
ly all the elements that enter into our  trade. 
What has begotten and  fosters  the  general 
depression?  Nothing but lack of cosfidence. 
Where does the cause lie? in the national re­
lations with the  world?  They  were  never 
more advantageous—more at  rest. 
In our 
foreign commerce?  Notwithstanding  some 
In the 
restrictions it is bigger  than  ever. 
fallacy of the  balance of  the  trade? 
It is 
enormously in our favor. 
In  the  material 
growth  and  development  of  our  country? 
These are unprecedented,  even  in our  own 
history.  Shall  we  seek  it  in"  diminished 
population?  We have increased as  rapidly 
as ever.  Have our mines  failed?  Has our 
currency  depreciated?  To  all  these  ques­
tions the answers are most positively  in the 
negative.  Why then  is  our  trade  depress­
ed?  Over-production has been given as  the 
cause, yet it  is  an  indisputable»  fact  that 
stocks in almost all lines of goods  are  com­
paratively  lighter  than  for  many  years. 
Not only this but production has been large­
ly curtailed.  To finance the fault cannot be 
attributed.  Our banks are burdened with  a 
plethora of funds.  The investment of these 
funds, lack of confidence forbids, yet money 
is pouring into new enterprises at  a  gallop­
ing  gate. 
Imposed upon by  the  visionists 
for a period, men  rushed  into  speculation, 
fostered all  manner  of  inflation.  The  re­
action came.  Legitimate trade  always  suf- 
sers for the crimes  of  illegitimate  specula­
tion.  The growlers got on top—howled their 
reign of panic in  everyone’s ears.  A wise, 
cool loqk into the possibilities was  not  tak­
en, and, frightened, each one  contributed  to 
the general shrinkage and inactivity.  What 
are the facts?  More goods  have  gone  into 
consumption in the  last  year  than  in  any 
previous one.  The  aggregate  volume  of 
transactions has been bigger.  Not in money 
value possibly, but in actual goods  handled. 
Prices have declined, and profits  have  been 
very closje.  Weak concerns have been weed­
ed out, and the result is  a  healthful  condi­
tion in almost  all lines  of  trade,  which  is 
steadily  and  inevitably  improving,  and  in 
which, hapyily, there ere no indications  of a 
“boom,” with  its  disastrous  consequences. 
Indications  all point to a fair year, and  con­
fidence  is slowly but surely  returning.  En­
couragement  is  shown  in  every  direction, 
and brighter skies are  showing  themselves. 
True, the growler  is  still  here.  He  butts' 
with  all his might against reviving prosper­
ity.  He is like the bqll who charged at  the 
locomotive.  We admire his  pluck, but dep­
recate his lack of discretion.

In Brazil, where the inhabitants take  cof­
fee many  times  a  day,  alcoholism  is  un­
known. 
Immigrants  gradually  contraot  a 
fondness for coffee, and  their  children  fall 
into the habit, and never coutract a love  for 
liquors that are so fatal  in  other  countries. 
The number of cafes  in  the  large  cities  is 
enormous,  while  the  drinking  saloons  are 
very few.

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Miscellaneous

-FOR  BOXING  ON-

Merchandise

In Future, to Take Effect February 13,1884.

DRUG  STORES  FOR  SALE.

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

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

for  $2,500  or  invoice.  Owner has other 
business.  Address  Hazeltine,  Perkins  & Co., 
Wholesale Druggists, Grand Rapids, Mich.

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

Wholesale Druggists, Grand Rapids,  Mich.

—Manufacturers and Jobbers of—

Awnings,  Tents,

Horse, Wagon and Stack Covers, 

Flags, Banners, Etc.

All  Ducks  and  Stripes  Kept  Constantly  on  Hand

73  Canal  Street.

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICHIGAN 

}& -  Send for Prices.

E.  J.  KIBKLAED.  M.  D.,

SPECIALIST  IN  DISEASES  OF THE

Ear, Eye  and Throat

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

72  Ottawa  Street,  Corner  of  Monroe  Street, 

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

-WHOLESALE—

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  *  MICHIGAN.

109  CANAL.  STREET,

Fresh & Salt Meats
PECK  BROTHERS,
DRUGGISTS

129 and 131 Monroe  Street,

-WHOLESALE-

Prices in No Instances Higher than those  Quoted 

in this Paper.  Write us for Special (¡notations.

—WHOLESALE—

Successor to  H. M. Bliven,

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

STEAM LAUNDRY

Agent  for  Farren’s  Celebrated  “ F ”  Brand 

417  MONROE  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

AND  CANNED  GOODS.

Raw  Oysters.

MICH.

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43 and 45 Kent Street.

A.  K.  ALLEN,  Proprietor.

WE  DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS  WORK AND  USE  1  

CHEMICALS.

□Orders by Mail and Express  promptly  at­
tended to.
a  r >  r t o i m o e m e n t .
No  more  trades!  No  more pine lands!  No 
more corner lots! No more speculating for me I 
After years of study I shall  resume  the  prac­
tice of medicine, and therefore make this pub­
lic announcement to my many former patients 
and to the public  generally.  I  claim  to  have 
no specifics nor to perform miracles, but to the 
unfortunate I promise a rational and conscien­
tious treatment,  and  having  faith  and  confi­
dence in my new and improved treatment and 
remedies for all private diseases, I shall make 
all such a specialty.  Consultation  and  treat­
ment free to those unable to pay.  —
Office hours: 9 to 11 a m, 2 to 4 and 7 to 6 p m.

No. 40 Fountain Street.
Unquestioned references given if desired.

DR. G. A. CLEMENT,

Adulteration  of Food.

One important  subject  which  should  re­
ceive the especial  attention  of  grocerymen 
throughout the entire country is that  of  the 
adulteration  of  food.  Fortunately  for  the 
human race, meats and vegetables can yet be 
procured as nature made them, but food that 
undergoes  the manipulation of human hands 
and machinery has become of the  most  du­
bious  character.

The only remedy for this great and  grow­
ing evil is a stringent law  against  adultera­
tion and the establishment of State or nation­
al chemical laobratories  for  the  analysis of 
suspected food.  The voice of one grocer  or 
a dozen or a hundred will avail nothing,  but 
concerted  action  will  accomplish  wonders.
The  following  extract  from  an  old  ex­
change is as true to-day as  when  published 
and  is  worthy  the  consideration  of  every 
honest grocer in  the  land,  both  wholesale 
and retail:

Glucose is  used  in  a  hundred  ways,  es­
pecially in honey and sugars.  White earth— 
of which many thousand dollars’  worth  are 
imported each year—is widely  employed  in 
adulteration on account of its cheapness and 
the ease with which it may  be  made  to  as­
sume the appearance of many common  arti­
cles of food.  The cream of tartar which the 
average housekeeper buys nowadays is from 
50 to 75 per cent white earth.  It is notorious 
that  most  baking  powders  are  made  with 
alum.  The  chances  are  rather  more  than 
two to one that your baker’s  loaf, wherever 
bought, contains alum.  The infamy of adul­
teration reaches its lowest  depths  in  bread­
making, for it is an article which is found on 
every table, and the poorer classes are  com­
pelled to depend upon  the  baker  for  their 
supply, while the daily consumption of bread 
containing alum has a most disastrous  effect 
upon  the  health.  Oatmeal  is  adulterated 
with the iimutricious outer husk of oats  and 
barley.  Mustard  is  mixed  with  flour  and 
other substances, and often is not mustard at 
all.  Cornmeal is mixed  with-wheat  flour. 
Tea is made from  leaves  of  various  kinds, 
“faced” with such inviting drugs as  prussic 
acid, Prussian blue,  and  chromate  of  lead 
Ceffee is sometimes made of baked liver and 
mahogany sawdust.  Spent  tea  and  coffee 
both  are  largely  sold,  after  having  been 
“faced” or polished.  The  eater  of  pickles 
takes into his system  sugar  of  lead,  verdi 
gris, sulphuric acid, white vitrol,  chromium 
and alum,  Candies,  as  everybody  knows, 
are largely made of white earth and glucose, 
with a .tinge  of  arsenical  coloring  matter. 
Chloride of tin, glucose, white  earth,  and  a 
half dozen of other things enter into the com­
position of sugar.  The treatment  to  which 
milk if subjected is  too  well  known  to  re­
quire more than a passing  allusion.  When 
the milkman refrains from diluting the  con­
tents of his  cans with  chalk  and  water  he 
commonly abstracts the cream, and gives his 
customers skimmed  milk  at  eight  cents  a 
quart.

There is hardly  an article  of  food  which 
the house-keeper  can  buy  with  any  confi­
dence  in  its  purity  and  wholesomeness. 
Tradesmen’s  guarantees  and  recommenda­
tions are worth nothing  at  all.  Even  “old- 
established  houses”  sell  adulterated  goods 
and  knowingly  grow  rich  in  an  infamous 
traffic. 
It has  been  well  said* that  in  the 
wilful  adulteration  of  food  and  medicine 
man appears in his meanest  aspect. 
If  the 
human conscience will not prevent man from 
poisoning his brother man in his  bread,  his 
beer, his sugar, and his milk, that too feeble 
faculty ought to be  reinforced  by  stringent 
laws.

He  Wanted the  Worst.

“Can you tell me where 1 can find a quack 
doctor?” breathlessly asked a young  man  to 
a friend on the street.

“Dr. B-----is looked upon as a quack.  You

will find him at his  office, I think.”

“Are you sure he doesn’t know  anything 
about medicine?  I want the worst physician 
in the city.”

“Yes, he is the worst in the country.  But 
what in the world  do  you  want  of  such  a 
man?”

“My rich uncle has just  been  taken  sick 

and I am his sole heir.”

A man who is a thorough master of a trade 
carries his capital in his head.  He  is  inde­
pendent, and should be  self  reliant,  as  his 
services will always  be  in  requisition,  un­
less, perchance,  he  has  drifted  into  some 
portion of the world where  trade and manu­
factures are in a state of decadence. 
It may 
be an excellent thing to endow  a youth with 
a splendid education, but often we find  such 
young men failures in a business way.  But 
there is no excuse  for  a first-class mechanic 
or engineer ever being  found  in  an  unfor­
tunate  plight.  The man possessing  a  good 
scientific or mechanical education  who  can­
not make his way successfully  through  life 
must be composed of very poor  material.

“Then, if I understand jou,” said  a  mer­
chant to a customer, “you do  not  intend  to 
pay me the amount you owe?”  “Your under­
standing is correct, Cap’n.”  “And  yet  you 
call yourself an honest man, do you?”  “Yes, 
sir;  if I were not  honest  I  would  tell  you 
that I intend to pay;  but being honest I  do 
not wish to deceive you.”

Tobacco raising in  North  Carolina heats 
gold milling.  A Warrentown fanner refused 

,000 for his crop on seven acres.

What  Part  of a Train  is  Safest.

Four men hidden in the smoke  cloud  of a 
smoking box of a parlor car on the G. R. & I. 
spent an hour discussing which part of a car 
is the safest to ride in.  They finally  agreed 
to leave it to the  conductor.

“Middle of middle car, right  hand  side,” 

is what the authority replied.

The rapidity with which he spoke and the 
mechanical way in which he made the reply, 
led one of the men to  halt  him  as  he  was 
passing on and ask him to  explain  himself.
“Why,” said he, “everybody asks me  that 
same question, and I am so used to  answer­
ing it that I’ve  got  it  down  to  the  fewest 
words possible. 
I shouldn’t wonder  if  you 
were to ask me that when I am  asleep  if I 
wouldn’t answer it without waking up.  The 
middle car of a train is  the  safest,  because 
it is furthest removed from a collision either 
in front or  behind.  Even  if  the  engine 
plunged into an open drawbridgde  it  might 
not take more than  a  car  or  two  with  it. 
Couplings  would  be  likely  to  break,  you 
know.  Always sit in  the  middle  of  a  car, 
because when cars telescope they are apt not 
to telescope many feet.  As  you  can’t  tell 
which end will telescope, and  as  both  ends 
may telescope, take  to  the  middle.  What­
ever car you go in, sit on therright hand  side 
of the car, which is to say, the  side furthest 
from the other track, because  it  sometimes 
happens that freight projects too far beyond 
a flat car and rips the windows  out  of pass­
ing  trains.”

“Do railroad men  observe  all  these  pre­

cautions when they ride?”

“They take no precaution  at  all.  Those 
that I have mentioned are sensible,  hut  you 
can’t always sit where  you  like,  and  there 
are plenty of people  unlucky  enough  to  be 
killed wherever  they  sit.  Railroad  men 
never consider the  possibility  of  accidents. 
They could not be railroad men if they did.”

Don’t go into the grocery  business  unless 

Don’t.

you understand it.

Don’t  enter  it anyhow  unless  you  have 
sufficient capital and experience to swing the 
business.

Don’t  let  the  business  swing  you;  the 

swing might break.

Don’t fail to  get, in your  partner,  a  man 

whom you know and can trust.

Don’t fail to select a good location in a live 

town.

Don’t fail to buy in that market where you 

can buy to the best advantage.

Don’t overstock; buy light until you know 

what your trade demands.

Don’t fail to discount your  bills.
Don’t neglect to count, weigh,  gauge  and 

measure everything you buy.

Don’t buy a lot of goods you can never sell 

because the price is low.

Don’t fail to display goods to the very best 

advantage.

Don’t fail to do a little judicious  advertis­
ing, to let the people know you are  in  busi­
ness.

Don’t  be  a dead  merchant;  people  hate 
to buy goods that  have  been  handled  by  a 
corpse.

Don’t deceive your  customers  by  selling 
them goods that are not just what you claim 
for them.

Don’t sell them antiquated butter and  an­

tediluvian ‘eggs.

Don’t  fail to make  your  customers  your 

friends;  keep candy for the babies.

Don’t fail to make entries of sales in your 
sales  book;  if  the  store  is  afire—charge! 
charge and run!

Don’t fail to be sharp and prompt in  mak­

ing collections.

and cash account.

Don’t fail to keep track of your own books 

Don’t fail to keep your scales right, and to 

give fair weight; no more,  no less.

Don’t  keep  around  you  any  saucy,  un­

obliging or untidy assistants.

Don’t fail  to  keep  your  store  and  your 

stock of goods bright and clean.

Don’t fail to keep your windows  clean, so 
that the dear public can stand out and  look 
in, and be tempted to come in  and  look out 
—and buy.

Don’t let the cat sleep in the sugar barrel; 
some customers hesitate  about  buying  that 
kind of sugar.

Don’t let tobacco quids lie  around  on  the 
floor, that a customer may stumble over and 
break a leg.

Don’t smoke or eat around the store when 

waiting on customers.

Don’t fail  to  keep  well  informed  as  to 

where, when, what or how to buy.

Don’t fail, for  the  sake  of  $1,  to  keep 
posted  as  to  all  things  of  interest  to  the 
trade;  therefore

Don’t fail to subscribe for The Michigan 

Tradesman.

‘Well,” remarked a young M. D., “I  sup­
pose the next thing will  be  to  hunt  out  a 
good situation, and then wait for  something 
to do, like Patience on a monument.”  “Yes,” 
said a bystander, “and it won’t he long after 
you do begin before the  monument  will  be 
on the patients.”

A  pedagogue  complimenting  one  of his 
little pupils  on  his  deportment,  observed: 
“You  are  a  good  boy;  your  mother  must 
have taken  pains  to  raise  you.”  “Yes,  it 
was  quite  painful,”  said  the  pupil;  “she 
raised a blister every time.”

South  Water Street  Honesty.

Speaking of that paradise for produce and 
commission dealers, South Water street, Chi­
cago, a Canal street merchant recently asked 
of  The  Tradesman’s  cabbage  reporter, 
“Did you ever hear how  Horace  Tompkins 
sold one or those fellows  a  carload  of  cab­
bages?”

The reporter confessed  ignorance  on  the 

subject, and the merchant continued:

“You see Horace owns a cabbage farm up 
near the D. & M.  crossing,  and  frequently 
has more kraut fruit than he can conveniently 
handle.  A year or two  ago  he  wrote  to  a 
leading commission house  on  South  Water 
street, soliciting an  order  for  a  carload  of 
cabbages, and was  informed  that  as  there 
was a  scarcity of the article on  the  market, 
eight cents a head  could  probably  be  real­
ized.  He  forthwith  consigned  a  carload, 
purchasing about $20 worth to complete  the 
car.  Unfortunately for himself, he  did  not 
accompany the consignment to Chicago,  but 
trusted to the  honesty of the  dealer.  As  a 
consequence, he received  a  check  for  $80, 
when he should have been allowed  at  least 
$500.  After figuring up his freight, cartage, 
and the  amount paid  for  the  cabbage  he 
bought, he found he had just enough  left  to 
buy seed for another year.  He does not sell 
to Chicago  dealers  any  more,  and  if  you 
should ever  want  to  get  him  boiling,  just 
mention the fact that South Water street is a 
good market for  cabbage.”

Won’t  Fail  Again,  if He  Can  Help  It.

A Northern merchant recently met  an  ac­
quaintance, and after some general remarks, 
the latter said:  “I  hear  that  you  have  fail­
ed?”

“Yes, I went by the board.”
“Very bad?”
“Yes, pretty bad.”
“Outside speculation, 1 suppose?” 
“Partly.”
“Creditors willing to give you a chance  to 

recover?”
“Yes.”
“Glad of it. 

right?” 

I suppose you’ll soon  be  all 

#

“Yes;  1 tell you what, it  is  a  very  disa­
greeable business. 
I  had  to  plead  family 
extravagance, and my wife, who hadn’t  had 
a new dress for six months, was as mad as a 
hop. 
I proved that I had given too much to 
the  church,  and  the  minister  called,  and 
raked me over the coals.  1 had a  clerk  ab­
scond with a lot of cash,  and  the  creditors 
made me own up that  he  was  my  brother. 
I supposed that I had lost  five hundred dol­
lars by a fire, but they figured that I was one 
hundred dollars ahead. 
I figured on  having 
enough to pay thirty cents on the dollar, but 
somehow they  got  hold  of  enough  to  pay 
ninety-eight, and  put all the costs on me. 
I 
lost four weeks of trade on top of  this,  and 
I’m feeling awful  blue. 
It  hardly  pays  to 
fail, unless you’ve got a partner to bluff cred­
itors.”

The  Corset  Must  Go.

From the Cincinnati  Herald.

Hebe told me, with a sadness in her charm­
ing voice that she was collapsing.  Hebe is a 
relative of mine, a mother of a family, and a 
sensible woman of the world.  She  always 
had a pretty wit, and I smiled in echo.  But 
she said I was thick-headed  not  to  see  she 
was in earnest, and immediately I  gave  her 
“I  said  collapsing,  and  I 
my  attention. 
meant it,” quoth she. 
“Women  who  have 
used the merciless corset for  so  many years 
as I have, collapse.  No!  They do  not  be­
come round-shouldered, but  they  just  sink 
down by a weakening  of  the  muscles  that 
support the frame.  Stays  do  the  work  by 
falsely supporting  the  frame  and  refusing 
the natural strength  that  would  have  gone 
to those muscles had  they  been  allowed  to 
develop.  We  must’throw  these  vile  com­
pounds of duck and whalebone  or  silk  and 
steel away in  the  end,  and  I  received  an 
idea from the Jersey which I shall  urge up­
on suffering womanhood  as their substitute. 
My  plan is to substitute an elastic  band  for 
corsets, and I am confident it will be  a  suc­
cessful substitution.” 
I write of this  with­
out permission from Hebe, but shall  find  a 
return for  the  rating  I  shall  receive  if  it 
drives the corset out of a dozen  houses. 
It 
is not calculated to  improve  the  form,  but 
has become a false standard by long use and 
suffering.

Any housekeeper can prove the honesty of 
her grocer, or his butter, by melting it.  Pure 
butter melted produces a pure, limpid, golden 
oil, and it  retains  the  butter  flavor.  Melt 
oleomagarine and the oil smells like  tallow, 
and a scum rises to  the  surface.  Butterine 
is a mixture of dairy butter and  fats.  Melt 
that and the butter oil will  rise  to  the  top. 
Pour this off and you will find the fa'ts at the 
bottom, whitish in color and giving off a dis­
agreeable smell.

The  sale  of small articles is not to be  de­
spised.  A box of matches, costing a cent, but 
sold at two, seems a petty transaction, but it 
is 100 per cent, profit on the capital invested. 
The same is true or other articles. 
It is not 
the bulk or quantity sold that renders profits 
large, but the articles, their quality, and  the 
prices obtained as compared with the cost.

The man who married a girl  because  she 
“struck his fancy” says she strikes him any­
where that comes handy now.

Boralumine—Buy  it and  try  it.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN.

A JO U RN A L DEVOTED TO TH E

Mercantile and Manufacturing Interests of the State.

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

WEDNESDAY,  PEB.  27,  1884.

|3gr°  Subscribers  and  others,  when  writing 
to  advertisers, will confer a favor on the pub­
lisher by  mentioning that they saw the adver­
tisement in the columns of  this paper.

NEWSPAPER  OECiSIONS--THE  LAW.

1.  Any  person who takes a paper  regularly 
from the  post-office—whether  directed  to  his 
name or  another’s, and  whether  he  has  sub­
scribed or not—is responsible for the payment.
2.  If a person orders his paper discontinued, 
he must pay  all  arrearages,  or  the  publisher 
may continue to send it until payment is made, 
and collect the whole amount, whether the pa­
per is taken from the office or not.

The tendency of the iron, cotton and wool­
en  markets are stronger, and  the  consump­
tive demands are fait catching up to the pro­
duction.  The  lowest  point  has  evidently 
been passed, and the progress in future  will 
be in the line of improvement all around.

A  Northern  dealer  writes: 

“After  10 
years of  observation  and  attention  to  mar­
kets, I  do  not hesitate  to  pronounce  your 
quotations in their entirety the fullest, fairest 
and most satisfactory, and see little room for 
improvement  in  that  department  of  your 
paper.”

The recent curtailment in  the  production 
of cotton goods has been followed by a small 
advance in the price of unbleached cotton by 
the New York and Boston agents for a num­
ber of the New. England  mills. 
It  is  con­
tended by some  of  the  largest  commission 
houses that ninety days of good trade,  with 
the present output, would cleAr the  markets 
of what now appears to be an excessive sup­
ply-

RETIREMENT  OF  THE  TRADE  DOLLAR.
The recommendation that trade dollars be 
excliangable for two years for  standard  dol­
lars and made a tender for government dues, 
and that they be recoined into standard  dol­
lars, the  bullion  contained  in  them  being 
counted as a part of the monthly purchase of 
silver  required  by  the  provisions  of  the 
Bland bill, is probably the best measure that 
could be expected of the  present  Congress, 
and much better than the composition of the 
Committee on Coinage has led the public  to 
fear and expect.  Of course, it would  be  in- 
finateiy wiser and safer,  if  both  trade  and 
standard dollars were outlawed, and the em­
ployment  of  silver  limited  to  the  strictly 
subsidiary  coins.  But if this cannot be had, 
the next best thing is to  use  the  trade  dol­
lars as a part of  the  bullion  supply.  The 
redemption of  the  trades  is  defensible  on 
one ground, and on one only—that of remov­
ing at least one element of  chaos  from  our 
currency, and reducing by one the number of 
United States  coins.  Moral  obligations  on 
the part of the government  to  accept  these 
coins there  are  none,  as  has  been  clearly 
enough shown.  Those who  took  them  did 
so with full knowledge that they lacked legal 
tender quality, and were liable  to  deprecia­
tion at any time.  As far as the case  of  the 
present holders  is concerned, there  is  every 
•  reason to believe that they are  mainly  spec­
ulators, whose losses or gains are no  partic­
ular concern to the  nation.  But  since  the 
trade dollar is an anomaly  and  a  nuisance, 
since it has got into circulation at home con­
trary to expectation and intention, and since 
the same speculative hue and cry for  its  re­
demption may at any time  be  raised  by  an 
interested clique, it may  be well  enough  to 
get rid of it.  The  great  danger  heretofore 
has been that, in doing this,  the  silver  men 
in  Congress  would  insist  upon  the  direct 
substitution of  standard  for  trade  dollars, 
without any reduction from the monthly bul­
lion purchases  and  coinage  of  standards. 
The  importance  of  this  point  lies  in  the 
number  of  trade  dollars  to  be  redeemed 
which is probably  very  much  greater  than 
most people suspect.  A  recent  careful  in­
vestigation has  shown  that  the  amount  of 
trades likely to be presented for  redemption 
is, perhaps, equal to two-thirds  of  a  year: 
standard coinage under the Bland bill.  The 
United  States mints  originally coined $35, 
959,360 of trade dollars.  As  early  as  1877 
the government officials reported a practical­
ly complete cessation  of  demand  for  them 
for  export  purposes,  and  they  were  then 
chiefly used  as  currency  at  home.  And  a 
comparison of the coinage  repotrs  with  the 
satistics of the imports and  exports  of  coin 
and bullion leads pretty directly to  the  con­
clusion that on a  moderate  estimate,  there 
are to-day twenty millions  of  trade dollars,
mostly held by speculators, ready to be  pre­
sented for redemption.  The  unlimited  ex­
change of trades for standards would  inflate 
the silver currency by  about  that  sum,  the 
trades being out of circulation, 
It is chiefly 
these speculators, who  originated  the  trade
dollar panic, and bought them in at  a  heavy
discount,  who  will  be  benefieted  by  the 
redemption act.  The  hypocritical  pretense 
that it is in the interest of  the people is  not 
Worth a moment’s  notice;  except  in  as  far 
as the people’s interest may be promoted  by 
legislating out of  existence  a  supernumery 
and confusing coin.  But it will, at least, be 
no worse to  coin  standard  dollars  out  of 
melted trades than out of bullion  purchased 
by  the  tax  payers;  and  the  speculating 
broker who has  bought  up  the  discredited 
coins deserves to have a government market 
provided for his wares just  as  much  as  do 
the owners  of  silver  mines  in  Colorado, 
Nevada and elsewhere, for whose sole profit 
and  benefit the  evil  silver  coinage  act  re­
mains upon the statute book. 
In  fa$t, if  as 
seems probable, the supply of  trades  should 
be sufficient to keep the mints running  for a 
good part of a year without any outside pur­
chases of bullion, it would be  interesting  to 
watch  the  discomforture, for the  time  be­
ing, of the silver rings whose product is now 
purchased by  the  United  States.  To  the 
feature of the redemption bill which provides 
that the trade dollars recoined shall be count­
ed as bullion in  the  monthly  purchases  re­
quired by law—a feature which is its one re­
deeming quality—the agents of  the  mining 
interests in Congress will offer a determined 
resistance.

The  weekly list of failures  continues  un­
pleasantly large in number, though  compar­
atively small in amount  of  liabilities.  The 
clearing out of  so  many  weak  firms  must 
neccessarily  have a good effect on the busi­
ness  of  the  remainder,  though  temporary 
embarrassments may  arise  from  sales  of 
brankrupt stocks.

Good  Words  Unsolicited.

Stebbins &  Hoqie,  druggists,  Lawrence: 

“It is just what we  want.”
Sid. Y. Bullock, with J.  B.  Quick,  drug­
gist, Howard City;  “Find  it  very  interest­
ing.  Can’t live without i t ”  N 
R. E.  Young,  with  M.  Palmer,  general 
dealer, Mackinaw City:  “A very useful,  in­
I show it and 
structive and amusing paper. 
recommend it to every tradesman I  see.”

A. Shook, general  dealer,  Coral:  “ The 
Tradesman is just what I  want. 
I  could 
not think of  doing without it.  Any  dealer 
who thinks he can  is wanting in good judge­
ment.”
J. R. Odell, drugs, Fremont:  “It is only of 
late that I have taken notice  of  the  paper, 
having so many.  On examination, however, 
I find it to  be  an  interesting  sheet  and am 
much pleased with i t ”

F. C. Selby, general dealer, Yolney:  “We 
have learned to look  for  and  welcome  the 
visits of The Tradesm an.  Believe it to be 
not only a pleasant visitor  but  a  profitable 
one.  Success to The Tradesm an.”

Literary  News and Gossip.

One of the best periodicals of the kind in this 
country is The American, a political, scientific, 
financial  and  literary  weekly,  published  at 
Philadelphia.  Although  combining  so  many 
features, all are handled ably  and  effectively.
Of all the fashion papers—and their name  is 
legion—hone  attain a higher degree  of  excel­
lence, or exhibit greater enterprise in the  pre­
sentation of the latest styles, than The Season, 
which is published monthly by the Internation­
al News Co., New York, at $3.50 per year.

The Art Interchange  improves  with  each  is­
sue.  We look upon it as one of  the  very  best 
of the Art journals, and find muco in its pages 
for study and profit.  To  all  interested  in  art 
matters, it is worth three times its subscription 
price.  Published by  Willian  Whitlock,  semi­
monthly, at 140 Nassau street, price $3  a  year.
Scandinavia,  the  new  magazine  organ  of 
Norse mythology  and  literature,  is  meeting 
with unexpected success and is bound  to  take 
rank as one of the leading literary  periodicals 
of the country.

TIME TABLES.

CENTRAL  STANDARD  TIME. 

,

D E PA R T.

A R R IV E . 

Michigan  Central—Grand  Rapids  Division.
•(•Detroit Express..............................................6:05 am
+Day Express..........................................12:20 p m
*New York Fast Line....................................  6:25 pm
+Atlantic Express.................................... 9:20 p m
♦Pacific  Express..............................................6:45 am
♦Local  Passenger.......................................... 11:20 am
tM ail.......................................................3:55 pm
tGrand  Rapids  Express...................... 10:2op m
♦Daily except Sunday.  *Daily.
The New York Fast Line runs daily, arriving 
at Detroit at 12:35 a. m., and New York at 10 p. 
m. the next evening.
Direct  and  prompt  connection  made  with 
Great  Western,  Grand  Trunk  and  Canada 
Southern trains in same depot at Detroit, thus 
avoiding transfers. 
The Detroit Express leaving at 6:05 a. m. has 
Drawing  Room  and  Parlor  Car  for  Detroit, 
reaching that city at 11:45 a. m., New York 10:30 
a. m., and Boston 2:40 p. m. next day. 
,
A train leaves Detroit at 4 p. m. daily except 
Sunday with drawing room car attached, arriv-1 
ing at Grand Rapids at 10:25 p. m.

J. T. Schultz, Gen’l Agent.

,

Detroit,  Grand  Haven &  Milwaukee.

GOING W EST.

GOING EA ST.Arrives. 

Leaves.
♦Steamboat Express.......... 
6:15 a m
•(•Through  Mail....................10:10 am   10:20 am
■(•Evening  Express............. 3:20 p m  3:35 p m
♦Atlantic Express...............  9:45 pm   10:45 pm
♦Mixed, with coach...........  
10:00 a m
♦Morning  Express............. 12:40 p m  12:55 p m
•(Through  Mail....................  4:45 pm   4:55 pm
•(•Steamboat Express.........10:30 p m
♦Mixed.................................. ®:S0am
♦NightExpress....................  o:10am  5:30 am
♦Daily, Sundays excepted.  ♦Daily.
Passengers  taking  the  6:15  a.  m.  Express 
make close connections at Owosso for Lansing 
and at Detroit for New York, arriving there at 
10:00 a. m. the following morning.
Parlor Cars  on Mail  Trains,  both  East  and
WLimited  Express  has  Wagner  Sleeping Car 
through to Suspension Bridge and the mail has 
a Parlor Car to  Detroit.  The  NightExpress 
has a through Wagner Car and  local  Sleeping 
Car Detroit to Grand Rapids.

D. Potter, City Pass. Agent. 
Thomas  Tandy, Gen’l Pass. Agent,  Detroit.

Grand  Rapids  &  Indiana.

G O ING  SOUTH.

GOING NORTH.Arrives.  Leaves.
Cincinnati & G. Rapids Ex.  9:02 p m 
Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex.  9:22 am   9:50 am  
Ft. Wayne & Mackinac Ex..  3:57 p m  4:45pm 
7:15 a m
G’d Rapids  & Cadillac  A c., 
G. Rapids & Cincinnati Ex. 
6:32 am
Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex.  4:05 pm   4:32 pm  
Mackinac & Ft. Way r e E x.. 10:25 a m  12:32 p m 
Cadillac & G’d  Rapids  Ac.  7:40 p m 

S LE EPIN G  CAR ARRANGEM ENTS.

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

c. L. Lockwood, Gen’l Pass. Agent.

Chicago & West Michigan.

Leaves.  Arrives, j

♦Mail  4 
.................. 9:35 am   4:00 pm
+Day Express..................... 12:50 pm   10:45 p m
♦Night  Express..................8:35 p m  6:10 a m

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

NEWAYGO D IV IS IO N .
Leaves.  Arrives.
Mivcd 
......................5:00 am   3:00 pm
TMmress........  
..................   4:00 pm   4:00 pm
Express.  .  .......................... 8:30am  12:42 pm
®ie  Northern terminus of this Division is at 
Baldwin, where close connection is made  with 
F. & P. M.  trains to and from Ludington  and j
Manistee.  ^  R  pAIiMEB) Genq Pa89. Agent.

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SPECIAL  NOTICE

— T O —

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 th at we do not intend to buy hereafter.
Here are positive bargains.
H.  LEONARD  &  SONS.

J O B B E R S   O F

best goods.

dling are unsurpassed.

We  manufacture all our stock 
U a i l l U y   and  can  always  give  you  the 
/'Y nanrrziC!  We buy in  larSe lots fro.m
C tllU C O   first hands and ship  only  m 
full car lots.  We handle 20,- 
OOO boxes of Oranges  and 
T  r tm r v n  cs  Demons in a season and our 
J j C illU I lO   facilities for buying and han­
TVTn-Fcs  We  carry  a heavy stock  of Bra- 
1N U.UO  zils,  Almonds,  Filberts,  Walnuts, 
Pecans  and  Cocoa  Nuts, and  w ill 
sell against any market. 
‘D n a n n f a   We l»tely bought eight car 
loads  of  the  best  re-cleaned 
XTfc5cLI.lU.UO 
and  hand-picked  Tennessee 
and  Virginia  Nuts,  and  are 
prepared  to  fill  the  largest 
orders.

PUTNAM &  BROOKS

F. J. LAMB  &  COMPANY,

J

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Lamps, Chandeliers and Pendants.

Prices we anote in another colnmn.

Buy  “Our Own”  Brand  of Lamp Chimneys? if good  ones are wanted.  Bote the Special 
16  Monroe  St.,  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.
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 

E S S B  

TO  THE  TASTE  AND  OTHER  SENSES.

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

m m .  FLOG  TOBACCOS

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

Favorite  Brands  this  Year;  or  About

^

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

AND  AS THERE  ARE  BETWEEN  800  AND  900  OTHER  FACTORIES  IN 

Oit-Fwtli i  ill tin I   "1 Used In Is Coilry!
ction or Represent Better Yalno for tbe Moner
S P R I N G   <Si  C O M P A N Y

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

THAN  THE  BRANDS  OP  OTHER  MAKERS.

-W HOLESALE  D E A LE R S  IN -

Sutter,  Cheese,  Eggs,

Apples, Onions, Potatoes, Beans, Etc.

NO.  8  IONIA  STREET,

G R A N D   R A P I D S .  

-   M I C U I G - A N ■

A  B. K 1ST O W LSON,
Fire  Brick  and  Clay,  Cement,  Stucco,

AKRON  SEWER  PIPE,

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

LIME, BAIR,  COAL and WOOD.

ESTIM ATES  CH EERFU LLY  FURNISHED.

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

Central  Freight  Ecrase.

barlow brothers,

B O

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Blank Book Manufacturers

PAPER  BOX  MAKERS,

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STAPLE DRT BOOBS

CARPETS.

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PROVISIONS.

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Groceries.

Spring & Company quote as  ú ..u 
W ID E  BROW N  COTTONS.

Androscoggin, 94. .23 
Androscoggin, 84. .21
Pepperell,  74.......16*4
Pepperell,  84.......20
Pepperell,  94 .......224

Pepperell, 104.........25
Pepperell, 114............27 Vi
Pequot,  74..............18
Pequot,  84 ..............21
Pequot,  94 ..............24

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

Park Mills, No. 90..U 
Park Mills, No. 100.15
Prodigy, oz.............11
Otis  Apron.............10Vi
Otis  Furniture......10V4
York,  1  oz..............10
York, AA, extra oz. 14

OSKABURQ,

Alabama brown—   7
Jewell briwn..........9Vi
Kentucky brown.. 10Vi 
Lewiston  brown...  9Vi
Lane brown........... 9V4
Louisiana  plaid—   8

Alabama  plaid.......8
Augusta plaid........  8
Toledo plaid............  7V4
Manchester  plaid..  7 
New Tenn.plaid... 11 
Utility plaid............  6V4

BLEACHED  COTTONS.

54
Greene, G.  44
Avondale,  36..........  814
Hill, 44......................»14
Art  cambrics, 36.. .11 Vi 
Hill, 7-8....................  714
Androscoggin, 44..  8V4 
Hope,  44.................. 714
Androscoggin, 54. .12V4
King  Phillip  cam­
Ballou, 44 ...............7Vi
bric, 44................. 114
Ballou, 54...............*6
Linwood,  44 ..........  9
Boott,  0 .4 4 ...........   8V4
Lonsdale,  44..........  84
Boott,  E. 5-5..........  7
Lonsdale  cambric. 114 
Boott, AGC, 44.......9Vi
Langdon,GB.4-4...  94
Boott, B. 34..........  5%
Langdon. 45...........14
Blackstone, AA 44  74 
Masonville,  44.........94
Chapman, X, 44—   6V4
Maxwell. 44............104
Conway,  44...........   7%
New York Mill, 4-4.104 
Cabot, 44 ................   714
New Jersey,  44—   8 
Cabot, 7-8................   6V4
Pocasset,  P. M. C..  74 
Canoe,  34 ...............  4
Pride of the West. .124
Domestic,  36..........  714
Pocahontas,  44___ 84
Dwight Anchor, 44.10
Slaterville, 7-8........   64
Davol, 44...............  9Vi
Victoria,  AA.........  9
Fruit of Loom, 44..  9
Fruito! Loom, 7-8..  8%jWoodbury,4-4......  5%
Whitinsville,  44...  74 
Fruit of  the  Loom,
Whitinsville, 7-8—   64
cambric,  44.........12
W amsutta, 44........104
Gold Medal, 4 -4 ....  7
Williamsville, 36... 104
Gold Medal, 7-8.........6
Gilded  Age............... 8

CORSET JE A N S .

Armory..................  74
Androscoggin sat..  84
Canoe River.........  6
Clarendon.............. 654
Hallowell  Imp.......
Ind. Orch. Imp.......64
Laconia..................  74

Kearsage................   84
Naumkeagsatteen.  84 
Pepperell bleached 84
Pepperell sat..........  94
Rockport................   714
Lawrence sat..........  84
Conegosat........ ......

Albion,  solid............54
Albion,  grey............6
Allen’s  checks.........54
Allen’s  fancy.......... 54
Allen’s pink..............64
Allen’s purple.......... 64
American, fancy— 54
Arnold fancy...........6
Berlin solid...............54
Cocheco fancy....... 8
Cocheco robes.........7
Conestoga fancy— 6
Eddystone..............6
Eagle fancy............ 5
Garner pink............7

Gloucester..............6
Gloucestermourn’g . 6 
Hamilton  fancy— 6
Hartel fancy...........6
Merrimac D............6
Manchester............6
Oriental fancy.......6
Oriental  robes.......64
Pacific  robes.......... 6
Richmond...............6
Steel  River............. 54
Simpson’s ...............6
Washington fancy.. 
Washington  blues..8

F IN E   BROW N COTTON8.

Appleton A, 4-4—   8
Boott  M, 4-4...........   754
Boston  F, 4-4..........  8
Continental C, 4-3..  754 
Continental D, 40 in  834 
ConestogaW,4-4...  7 
Conestoga  D ,7-8...  54 
Conestoga G, 30-in.  654
Dwight  X, 3-4........   6
Dwight Y, 7-8  ........  64
Dwight Z, 4-4..........  7
Dwight Star, 4-4—   734 
Ewight Star, 40-in..  9 
Enterprise EE, 36..  534 
Great Falls E, 4-4...  7 
Farmers’ A, 4-4* —   634 
Indian  Orchard, 1-4 74

Indian Orchard, 40 .  854 
Indian Orchard, 36.  8
Laconia B, 7-4.........164
Lyman B, 40-in.......104
Mass. BB, 4-4..........  654
Nashua  E, 40-in_V
Nashua  R, 4-4....  734
Nashua 0,7-8..........  754
Newmarket N .......... 754
Pepperell E, 39-in..  74 
Pepperell  R, 4-4—   7
Pepperell 0,7-8___ 64
Pepperell  N, 3-4—   654
Pocasset  C, 4-4.......7
R.......  754
Saranac 
Saranac 
E.......  9

DOM ESTIC GINGHAM S.

Amoskeag.............  8
Amoskeag, Persian
styles....................104
Bates.........................74
Berkshire.............   64
Glasgow checks—   7 
Glasgow checks, f’y  74 
Glasgow 
royal  styles........  8
Gloucester, 
standard.............  74
Plunket..................  74
Lancaster...............  834
Langdale.................. 734

checks,
new

Renfrew, dress styll04 
Johnson  Manfg Co,
Bookfold..............124
Johnson Manfg Co,
dress  styles........124
Slaterville, 
dress
styles....................  9
White Mfg Co, stap  734 
White Mfg Co, fane 8 
White  Manf’g  Co,
Earlston...............  94
Gordon....................  8
Greylock, 
dress 
styles  ...................124

W ID E  BLEACHED COTTONS.

Androscoggin, 7-4. .21  ¡Pepperell.  10-4.......274
A n d r o s c o g g in , 8-4.. 23 Pepperell,  11-4........... <$J4
Pepperell,  7-4......20 
¡Pequot, 7-4..............31
Pepperell,  8-4......224 Pequot,  8-4.............. 34
Pepperell,  9-4......25 
¡Pequot. 9-4..............274

HEAVY  BROW N  COTTONS.

854

Atlantic  A, 4-4......   7% Lawrence XX, 4-4.
Atlantic  H, 4-4......   7  Lawrence  Y, 30.... t
Atlantic  D, 4-4 ......   654|Lawrence LL, 4-4... 6
Atlantic P, 44........  5% ¡Newmarket N........  754
Atlantic LL, 4 4....  54 Mystic River, 4-4... 64
Adriatic, 36.............  74 ¡Pequot A, 44..........  8
64!Piedmont,  36..........  7
Augusta, 44........
74|Stark AA, 4-4..........  7%
Boott M, 4-4........
7%!Tremont CC, 4-4.. ..  5%
Boott  FF, 4-4.......
6% ¡Utica,  4-4................  9
Graniteville, 4-4..
74¡Wachusett,  4-4__..  74
Indian  Head, 4-4. 
ndiana Head 45-in.124 Wachusett,  30-in...  634

^

TIC K IN G S.

¡Falls, XXXX.......... 184
Amoskeag,  ACA.
¡Falls, XXX..............154
4-4.
Amoskea 
Falls,  BB.................114
Amoskeag,  A ... 
Falls,  BBC, 36.........194
Amoskeag,  B  .. 
Falls,  awning.........19
Amoskeag.  C... 
Hamilton,  BT, 32..12
Amoskeag,  D... 
.. 104 ¡Hamilton,  D......... 10
•Amoskeag,  E ... 
..10  Hamilton,  H......... 10
Amoskeag, F—  
.. 17  Hamilton  fancy... 10
Premium  A, 4-4.
..16  Methuen AA..........144
Premium  B.......
.. 16  ¡Methuen ASA........18
Extra 4-4.............
.. 144 ¡Omega A, 7-8......... 11
Extra 7-8
Omega A, 4-4......... 13
.15 
Gold Medal 4-4—
Omega ACA, 7-8__ 14
,. .12} 
CCA 7-8................
Omega ACA, 4-4__ 16
.14 
CT 4-4...................
Omega SE, 7-8.........24
...14
Ttf! 7-8 
...........
Omega SE, 4-4.........27
BF 7-8.................. ..  16
Omega M. 7-8........22
AF4-4......................19
Omega M, 4-4......... 25
Cordis AAA, 32.. .. .14
Shetucket SS&S3W 114 
Cordis  ACA, 32.. ...15
Shetucket, S & SW. 12
Cordis No. 1, 32.. ...15
Shetucket,  SFS 
12
Cordis  No. 2....... ...14
Stockbridge  A ......7
Cordis  No. 3....... ...13
.114!Stoekbridge  frncy.  8
Cordis  No. 4....... ...11!

GLAZED CAM BRICS.

Garner....................a 
Hookset..................  5  Washington...........   434
Red  Cross...............  5  Edwards....................  5
Forest Grove.......... 
¡8. S. & Sons.............  5

¡Empire  ...................

American  A.
Stark A ...................234 ¡ 'Wheatland

G R A IN   BAGS.
.19  ¡Old  Ironsides.........154
•214

Boston.............
Everett  blue... 
Everett  brown.
Otis  AXA........
Otis BB.............

Manville... 
Masgn ville

Red  Cross.
Berlin.......
Garner  —

Brooks.............
Clark's O. N. F.
J. & P.  Coats...
W illimantic 6 o 
Willimantic 3 e 
Charleston ball se 

ingthread

Crown........
No.  10........
Coin...........
Anchor.......
Centennial.

Social  Imperial.

■ 1054| 
,.  74 ¡Otis  CC...........
..144¡Warren  AXA. 
..124 
. ,144iWarren  BB... 
..114 ! 
.124¡Warren CC.
.104
..114 York  fancy__ . \  15
PER  CAMBRICS.
...  6
..  6 S. S. & Sons......
..  6 Garner ............. ....  6
W IGAN8.
7 Thistle Mills....
* ‘  if Rose.................. ....  8
POOL 30TTON.
. .50 Eagle  and  Phtenix
Mills ball sewing.30
. .«55 Greeh  &  Daniel s ...25
d.55 Merrieks.......... ....40
d.40 Stafford........... .. ,.a5
Hall & Manning ....30
..30 Holyok%..........
SIL E SIA S .
..17 Mason ville TS.. ....  8
.124 Masonville  S ... ....104
..10 Lonsdale.......... ....  94
.15 Lonsdale A ....... ....16
Nietory  O........ ....  6
..  8 Victory J .......... ....  7
..14 Victory  D........ ....10
..124 Victory  K ........ — 12%
.12 Phoenix A......... ....  94
..10 Phoenix  B ........ ...  104
..16 Phoenix X X — . 
.15

Modoc  ... 
Diamond.

AX LE  GREASE.

Ç doz  60  ¡Paragon...  $  doz

60 . ¡Frazer’s ..........
BLUING .

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

BROOMS.

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

CANNED GOODS.

2 50 
2 25 
2 00 
1 75
85

Pie Peaches........ 1 20
3fl)Standard 1 90@2 20
Apples, 3 ft........ 1 20
do.  61b............2 00
do.  gallons...  3 25 
Strawberries'  @1  00 
1  10 
Blackberries 
Raspberries  —   1 35 
Cherries, red 
1 06 
('berries white..  190
Pineapples........  1 60
Damsons............1 25
Egg Plum s........ 1 40
G ages................   1 55
Pears................   1  40
Lusk’s Apricots.  2 95 
Tomatoes  ..1  05@1 15 
Corn,  Excelsior  1 10
Corn, Erie........... 1  15

Corn, Camden... 
1  10 
1  15 
Corn, Trophy...
1 30
Corn, Yarmouth
Peas__ 75@1 35@1 50
90
String Beans... 
Lima Beans........  85
Lewis’B’d Beans. 1  70 
Pumpkin  ..1  10@1  15 
Succotash  ... 85® 1  40 
Oysters,  lib —   110 
Oysters,  2 lb— 1 85
Salmon__ 1 60@
Lobsters, Stars. .2  00
Sardines, Am......   8
Sardines  Inport.  13
Corned Beer 2 ft  3 25 
Cond. Milk, Eagle

.........8  10

case.

COFFEE,

Roasted Mex.18 
@20
@18
Ground  Rio..10 
Ground  Mex.
@174
Arbuckle’s .......... @1754
XX XX.................@1754
Dilworth’s .......... @1734

Green Rio__ 13  @15
Green Java...18  @28 
GreenMocha.26  @28 
Roasted Rio.. 134@18 
Roasted  Java25  @35 
Roasted Mar.18  @194 
oastedM ochaha  @35
72 foot J u te .......1 25  ¡60 foot Cotton— 1 75
60 foot Jute.......  1  10  ¡50 foot Cotton... .1 50

CORDAGE.

G.  D.....................  35  ¡Ely’s Waterproof  75

CAPS.

F R U IT S .

F IS H .

London Layers, new.............................  
2 60
Loose Muscatels Raisins,  new........... 2 2o@3 35
New Valencias  Raisins...................... 
7  @754
Ondaras....................................  ...........
Turkey Prunes..................... . —  • —   JJ  M
Currants.................................................  d  @64
Citron....................................... - —  —   18@20
Dried Apples  ................................*—   7%@8
Whole Cod....................................  .• •• • 
,
Boneless Cod......................................54@54@8/j
Herring 4  bbls. luo lb..........................   <5@3 00
Herring Scaled...................................... 
2§@30
Herring Holland..................................   @1  JO
WhiteFish 4  bbls............................... 
7  50
do  Kits....................................  @1 05
4 25 
Trout half bbls —
75 
do.  Kits,.............................
6 75 
Mackerel half bbls No. 1.......
1  05 
do. Kits  No. 1 ................
@1  00
Bloaters..................................
MATCHES.
Richardson’s No. 2  square..
do 
Richardson’s No. 3 
do 
Richardson’s No. 5 
do 
Richardson’s No. 6 
Richardson’s No. 8 
do 
Richardson’s No. 9 
do 
Richardson’s No. 4 round.............................2 70
Richardson’s No. 7  do 
..........................2 55
Richardson’s No. 74 do 
..........................1 70
Electric Pai lor No. 17......................................3 80
Electric Parlor No. 18.................................. . .5 70
Grand  Haven, No.  9.......................................2 25
Grand  Haven, No.  8.......................................1  60

.

20 gross lots special price 

MOLASSES.

Black Strap........   @20|New Orleans f’y.56@60
Porto  Rico..........32@35 Syrups, corn...  31@32
New Orleans g’d.45@50|Syrups, sug27@35@45 

O IL .

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

OATMEAL.

Quaker 2 lb cases, 48 lbs $   case...........  
do  5 lb cases, 60 lbs $  case............... 
Imperial  bbls.......................................  
Quaker bbls............................................ 

15%
12%
75
1 00
75
1 00

2 30
2 50
5  75
6 7a

PIC K LES.

Choice in barrels med.....................................6 50
Choice in 4  
......................................4 00
Dingee’s 4  
small........................... 5 00
Dingee’s quarts glass fancy.......................... 4 21
2 50 
do 
Dingee’s pints 
.......................  9 a
50
Saur  Kraut, $  bbl.......................................

do 
do 

SUGARS.

Granulated............................................
Cut Loaf..................... ...........................
Cubes....................................................
Powdered..............................................
Conf. A ...................................................
Standard A ............................................
Extra C................................................... 
7
Fine C....................................................  
6!
Yellow....................................................   6

@ 88%

• flft

SOAP.
Kirk’s American  Family.
do. 
India.......................
do.  Savon  .....................
do.  Satinet....................
do.  Revenue................
do.  White Russian........
C ity......................................
Bell’s German  Family.......
do.  Mono........................
Goodrich’s English Family
Princess..........
Proctor & Gamble’s Ivory 

do. 

box

Japan  Olive 
Town Talk
Golden Bar........
Arab....................
Amber................
Mottled German

do. 
do. 
do. 
do. 
do. 
do.
Sidall’s ...
Babbitt’s 
______________ 
Dish Rag
Bluing. T.................................................. 
Magnetic.
New  French  Process.
Spoon..................................................... 
Anti-Wash board.................................... 
Vaterland...............................................  
Magic__ ..................................................  
Pittsburgh.............................................. 
Bogue’s ................................................... 
White castile  bars................................. 
Mottled castile.......................................  
Old  Style...............................................  
Old Country........................ -•*................ 

3 70
4 20 
3 45
3 75
4 20 
3 00
5 50
4 25
5 00
4 20 
4 50
5 00
5 00
3 25
4 20
4 00
6 75
13
12
@ 54
54

SPICES.

j  Ground Pepper,  in boxes and cans...  16@22
'  Ground  Allspice....................................  12@20
Cinnamon...............................................   16@30
Cloves......................................................  20@25
Ginger......................................................  17@20
Mustard...................................................  15@35
Cayenne...................................................  25@35
75
Pepper 54 ft ¥  dozen........................ 
75
Allspice  4 ® ........................................... 
75
Cinnamon  % f t ...................................... 
Cloves %  ft.............  
75
 
@18
Pepper,  whole.................................... 
Allspice...............................................  
@10
Cassia................................................... 
@12
Cloves...................................................  20  @22
Nutmegs,  No. 1..................................  70  @75

 

 

STARCH.

@6%

@7
Muzzy Gloss 1 ib package.............
Muzzy Gloss 3 R package.............
Muzzy  Gloss 6 ib boxes..................
@74
Muzzy Gloss bulk..........................
@6
Muzzy Corn 1 B>...............................
@74
Special prices on 1,000 fl) orders.
Kingsford  Silver Gloss..................
@84
Kingsford Silver Gloss 6 B>  box..
Kingsford Corn.....................................   8%@9
Oswego  Gloss......................................... 
Mirror  Gloss..........................................   @7
Mirror Gloss, corn.............
@4
Piel’s Pearl..........................
SALT.
2 60 
60 Pocket ............................
2 45 
28 Pocket.............................
Saginaw F ine.....................
l 10 
1  75 
Diamond C..........................
1 55
Standard Coarse................
SEEDS.
H em p...............................
54
Canary.................................
44
i
Rape........................................................ 
Mixed Bird..............................................  54@6
Jugs $   galloa........... P........................... 
@8
Crocks...................................................... 
7
Milk Crocks............................................ 
7
Dixon’s  gross........6 50
Rising  Sun gross.. 5 88
Universal........... ..5 88
Above fl dozea.......  50
IX  L .......................5 50

STOVE PO L IS H .

STONEW ARE.

DeLand’s pure
Churh’s .......
Taylor’8 G. M.

SALERATUS.
@ 5 4 1 Cap Sheaf.......  @ 554
@ 554 Dwight’s ........   @554
@ 5541
Japan  ordinary.. 26@30
Japan fair........... 32@35
Japan fair to g’d.35@37
Japan fine........... 40@50
Japan dust..........15@20

Young Hyson__ 25@50
Gun  Powder.......35@50
Oolong........ :33@55@60
Congo..................  @30

TEAS.

TOBACCO—F IN E  CUT.

Wide  Awake..........................................  
38
32
Daisey  [In half barrels, 30c]............... 
Hiawatha...............................................  
(>9
¿0
Globe........................................................ 
<0
May Flower............................................ 
Rose Leaf...............................................  
66
3°
Silver  Crown........................................ 
Owl  Club...............................................  
30
Hero......................................................~  @4o
A tlas........................................................  @35
Royal Game............................................   @38
Silver Thread....................................... •  @67
Old  Dog Tray.........................................  @60
Seal.........................................,.................  @60
Kentucky............................................: 
@30
Mule  Ear.................................................   @67
Peek-a-Boo..............................................  @32
Peek-a-Boo, 4   barrels.........................  @30
Clipper....................................................   @30
Fountain.................................................  @74
Old Congress...........................................  @64
Good  Luck..............................................  @52
Good and Sweet......................................  @45
Blaze  Away............................................   @33
Hair Lifter..............................................  @30
Old Glory, light......................................  @60
Charm of the West, dark.....................   @60
Governor, in 2 oz tin foil.....................   @60
Ripper, in  pails......................................  @30

PLU G.

 

 

Sentinel 17 ib and 28 lb cads..................  @48
Climax..................... 
@50
Honey Bee 28 ib  cads............................  @48
Hold F ast................................................  @48
McAlpin’s Gold Shield..........................   @48
Nickle Nuggets 6 and 12 lb cads..........  @51
Chocolate Cream 4 and 8 lb cads..........  @50
My Choice 3 oz pocket  pieces.............   @33
My Choice 16 oz pieces..........................   @32
Cock of the Walk  6s.............................   @37
Black Spun  Roll....................................  @38
Nfmrod....................................................   @50
Acorn.....................................................  @50
Red Seal...................................................  @48
Crescent.................................................   @44
Black  X ...................................................  @35
Black  Bass..............................................  @40
True Grit.................................  .............   @35
Nobby  Spun  Roll..................................   @50
Spring......................................................  @50
Crayling, all  styles...............................   @50
Mackinaw................................................  @47
Horse Shoe..............................................  @50
Good  Luck..............................................  @50
Big Chunk or J.T................................ 
  @40
Hair Lifter.............................................  @37
D. and D., black......................................  @37
McAlpin’s Green  Shield.......................  @48
Ace  High, black....................................  @35
Champion  A ...........................................  @48
Sailors’  Solace.......................................   @48
Red Star..................................................  @50
Shot Gun...............................................  
@48
D uck........................................................  @48

SM OKING.

 

 

 

 

 

do 
do 
do 

Dim e........................................................  24@25
25
Peerless................................................... 
Standard.................................................  
22
Old Tom...........................................  
21
Tom & Jerry........................................... 
24
Joker........................................................ 
25
Traveler........................................  
^35
 
Maiden....................................................   @26
T opsy................................ 
27
24
Navy Clippings.................. 
 
25
Honey D ew ............................................  
Gold  Block.............................................. 
32
Camp Fire  ............................................  
22
Oronoko.................................................  
19
26
Nigger  Head........................................... 
60
Durham, 4 1 b ......................................... 
57
54 lb.........................................  
4  lb.......................................... 
55
1 lb......... ...........................  
51
Holland...................................................  @22
German...................................................  @16
Long Tom...............................................   @30
National...................................................  @26
Time  ........................................................  @26
Love’s Dream.........................................  @28
Conqueror..............................................  @23
’ Fox’s ........................................................  @22
Grayling.................................................   @32
SealSkin................... 
@30
Dime Durham.......................................   @25
Rob Roy...................................................  @26
Uncle  Sam..............................................  @28
Lumberman..........................................   @26
Railroad Boy...........................................  @37
Mountain Rose.......................................   @20
Good  Enough.........................................  @23
Home Comfort, 54s and  4 s ..................  @25
Old  Rip, long cut.............. 
@60
Durham,  long cut.................................  @60
Two  Nickle, 4 5 ......................................  @25
Two  Nickle, Vis.....................................  @26
Star Durham...........................................  @25
Golden Flake Cabinet...........................   @40
Seal of North Carolina, 2 oz................   @52
Seal of North Carolina, 4 oz.................  @50
Seal of North Carolina, 8 oz................   @48
Seal of North Carolina, 16 oz  boxes...  @50

 

 

 

SHORTS.

Mule Ear.......
Hiawatha —  
Old Congress.

@654

Pure  Cider... 
White  W ine..

YEAST.

Seneca Falls “ Rising  Sun ”.........................  1 75
Twin Bros.......  1 75 
¡Wilsons.....................1 75
Gillett’s ............. 1  75 
¡National................... 1 86

M ISCELLANEOUS.

 

 

do 

do 

do 
do 

German sweet.................. 

Blocking.........................................30, 40, 50@60
1 50
do  waterproof............................ 
Bath Brick imported............................ 
95
do 
American............................ 
75
Barley.......................................................   2%@ 3
Burners,*No. 1 .......................................  
1  10
1  50
do  No.  2.......................................  
Bags, American A ................................. 
20 00
10@22
Baking Powder  bu lk......................... 
Beans,  medium  ....................................  @2  10
Beans, hand picked............................... 
2 40
Butter......................................................  18@20
Butterine................................................  18@21
Cream Tartar 5 and 10 B> cans.............   @25
Candles, Star...........................................  @154
Candles,  Hotel........................ 
  @164
Chocolate, Baker’s ...............................  @40
@27
Cheese full cream choice......................14%@14%
Catsup quarts $   dozen........................ 1  40@1  60
@264
Cocoanut,  Schepps’ 1 ft packages. 
Cocoanut,  Schepps’ 1 & 4  ft  do ., 
@274
Extract Coffee,  v. c........................ 
95
F elix...........................1  30©
Flour, Star Mills, in bbls  — ...............5 75@
in Sacks.......................5 50©
Gum, Rubber  100 lumps.......................  @25
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps................ 
  @40
Gum, Spruce...........................................  35@40
Chimneys No.  1......................................  @35
No.  2......................................  @46
Indigo...................................................... 1 00@
Ink fl 3 dozen  box...............................1 00@
Jelly in Pails...........................................  @6)4
do  Glass Tumblers $  doz.................. 
©75
Licorice, Sicily......................................  @20
Licorice, Calabra..................................   28@30
Licorice  Root.........................................  @12
Lye fl 2  doz. cases.................................1 55@
Macaroni,  Imported.............................   @13
Domestic.......................... ......................  @ 54
Mince Pies, 1 gross cases, fl case........  @6 00
French Mustard,  8 oz $   dozen...........   @80
Large  Gothic.......... 1 35@
Oil Tanks, Star 60  gallons................   12 00©
Oil Tanks, Patent 60 gallons...............14 00©
Pipes, Imported Clay 3 gross...............2 25@
do  American  T. D........................   90@1 00
Pepper Sauce.........................................  90@1 00
Peas, Green Bush..................................1  40@
do  Split prepared....................  .......  @ 34
Powder,  Keg.......................................... 5 50@
4  Keg.....................................3 00@
Rice........................................................ 6@64@74
Sago  ........................................................  @6
Shot, drop...............................................1 90@
do  buck............................................. 2 15@
Sage.........................................................   @15
Curry Combs $  doz...............................1 25@
Molasses Gates each..............................  @45
Measuring Faucet ea ch ...................... 4 50@
Tobacco Cutters each ..........................1 25@
Twine......................................................   18@23
ChimneyCleaners $   doz.......................  @50
Flour Sifters $  doz........ ......................3 00@
Fruit Augurs each................................1 25@
Tapioca...................................................  @5
Washing Crystal, Gillett’s box...........1  50@1 65
Wicking No. 1 $  gross..........................   @40
do  No. 2  ......................................  @65
do  Argand................................. 1 50®

Washing Powder, 1776 fl f t ..................  @104
Gillett’s V  ft..........  @ 74
7@10
Soapine pkg............ 

Boraxine $  box.....................................3 75@
Pearline fl box......................................4 50®

do 
do 

do 

do 

*

*

Seneka.............................................
Brags & flftebidnes
Sarsaparilla,  Hondurus................
Sarsaparilla,  Mexican...................
Squills, white (Powd 35c)...............
Valerian, English (Powd 30c)........
Advanced—Opium,  Oil  Bergamont,  Balsam 
Valerian, Vermont (Powd 28c) —  
Peru, Carbonate Ammonia, Gum Camphor.
Declined—Alkanet  Root,  Sarsaparilla  Root,
Hondurus. 
____BJ______|________ | ...........
Anise, Italian (Powd 20c)...............
Hazeltine, Perkins & Co. quote as follows for  Bird, mixed in lb  packages...........  
Bird, mixed in 9)  packages..
quantities usually wanted—for larger amounts  Canary,  Smyrna.............................  
Caraway, best Dutch (Powd 19c)..
write them for quotations:
Cardamon,  Aleppee.......................
AC ID S.
Cardamon, Malabar........................
Celery................................................
Coriander, Dest English................
Fennel..............................................
Flax, clean.......................................
Flax, pure grd (bbl 3%)..................
Foenugreek, powdered..................
Hemp,  Russian...............................
Mustard, white; Black 10c)...........
Quince..............................................
Rape, Lnglish..................................
Worm,  Levant.................................

Acetic,  No. 8............................fl ft  9  @
Acetic,  C. P. (Sp. grav. 1.040)........   30  @
Carl 
lie............................................
CitliV....................................... .........
3  @
Muriatic  18 deg............................... 
Nitric 36 deg....................................  H  @
Oxalic................................................  144@
Sulphuric 66 deg.............................  
3  @
Tartaric  powdered........................
Benzoic,  English....................$  oz*
Benzoic,  German............................  12  @
Tannic..............................................   15  @

SEEDS.

5  @
44@
11

3%@ 4
4  © 44
8  @ 9
54® 6
8
1 00
74® . 8
14

25  @3 50
2 60
1  10

12 

2 36
1 50 
50 
27 
30 
50
2 75 
2 25
2%@  34
3
44@
6  @

40
2 25 
@9 75

SPONGES.
Nassau 
do 
do 
.......
.......
Velvet Extra do 
do 
ExtraYellow do 
.......
do 
do 
Grass 
.......
do 
Hard head, for slate use..........  ...
Yellow Reef, 
.................

do 
M ISCELLANECS.

3

4

1
1

74®

24®

do 
do 
do 

...............................   60
20

.........................................1 00

Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.26) fl gal —  
Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref.
Anodyne Hoffman’s.......................
Arsenic, Donovan’s solution........
Arsenic, Fowler’s solution...........
Annatto 1 ft rolls............................
Blue  Soluble...................................
Bay  Rum, imported, best.............
Bay Rum, domestic, fl., P. & Co.’s.
Alum.........................................  fl ft
Alum, ground  (Powd 9c)............... 
20
Annatto,  prime...............................
Antimony, powdered,  com’l ........ 
Arsenic, white, powdered.............  
Balm Gilead  Buds..........................
Beans,  Tonka..................................
Beans,  Vanilla.................................7 00
Bismuth, sub  nitrate.
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c).......................
Blue Vitriol...................................... 
Bor alum ine, White  b u lk ]...........
5 fts 1............
Boralumine, 
“ 
Boralumine, Tints  bulk.  ¡-40 ff  ..
Boralumine  “ 
5 fts. J ............
Borax, refined (Powd  15c).............
Cantharides,Russian  powdered.. 
Capsicum  Pods, African...............
Capsicum Pods, African pow’d ... 
Capsicum Pods,  American  do  ...
Carmine, No. 40...............................  
Cassia Buds......................................
Calomel.  American.........................
Castor  Oil.........................................  174©
Chalk, prepared drop......................
Chalk, precipitate English...........
Chalk,  red  fingers..........................
Chalk, white lump..........................
Chloroform,  Squibb’s .................... 
Colocynth  apples............................
Chloral hydrate, German  crusts.. 
cryst... 
do 
Chloral 
Scheriq’8  do  ... 
Chloral 
crusts..
do 
Chloral 
Chloroform
Cinchonidia..................
Cloves (Powd 28c)........
Cochineal.........................................
Cocoa  Butter..................................
Copperas (by bbl  lc).......................
Corrosive Sublimate..................... .
Corks, X and XX—35 off  list........
Cream Tartar, pure powdered.......  38  @
Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 ft box..
Creasote...........................................
Cudbear, prime...............................
Cuttle Fish Bone..............................
Dextrine...................................—
Dover’s  Powders............................ 
Dragon’s Blood Mass.....................
Ergot  powdered..............................
Ether Squibb’s ................................. 
Emery, Turkish, all  No.’s .............
Epsom Salts...................................... 
Ergot, fresh......................................
Etner, sulphuric, U. S.  P ...............
Flake .white......................................
Grains  Paradise..............................
Gelatine,  Cooper’s ..........................
Gelatine. French............................  45  @
Glassware, flint, 60 off,by box 50 off
Glassware, green, 60 and 10 dis__
Glue,  cabinet..................................   12
Glue, white.......................................   17
Glycerine,  pure...............................  S   1
Hops  4 s and 4 s .............................. 
25
Iodoform $   oz.................................
Indigo................................................
Insect Powder, best  Dalmatian...
Iodine,  resublimed........................
Isinglass,  American.......................
Japonica...........................................
Lead, acetate....................................
Lime, chloride, (4s 2s 10c & 4 8 11c)
Lupuline...........................................
Lycopodium....................................
Mace.................................................
Madder, best  Dutch.......................
Manna, S.  F ......................................
Mercury............................................
Morphia, sulph., P. & W........fl oz
Musk, Canton, H., P. &  Co.’s ........
Moss, Iceland............................f! ft
Moss,  Irish.......................................
Mustard,  English............................
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 fl)  cans........
Nutgalls.......; ...............................
Nutmegs, No. 1.................................
Nux  Vomica................   ................
Ointment, Mercurial, 4 d ...............
Pepper, Black  Berry.....................
Pepsin...............................................
Pitch, True Burgundy....................
Quassia  ............................................  
6
Quinia, Sulph, P, & W........... ft oz
Quinine, foreign............................. 1  35
Seidlitz  Mixture.............................
Strychnia, cryst
Silver Nitrate, cryst.......................
Red  Precipitate.......................fl ft
Saffron, American..........................
Sal  Glauber.....................................
Sal Nitre,.large  cryst.....................
Sal  Nitre, medium  cryst... ?........
Sal Rochelle.....................................
Sal  Soda............................................
Saliciu...............................................
Santonin..........................................
Snuffs, Maccoboy or Scotch..........
Soda Ash [by keg 3c].....................
Spermaceti......................................
Soda, Bi-Carbonate,  DeLand’s—
Soap, White Castile........................
Soap, Green  do 
........................
Soap, Mottled do 
........................
Soap, 
do  do 
..........  ...........
Slap,  Mazzini..................................
Spirits Nitre. 3 F .............................
Spirits Nitre, 4 F .............................
Sugar Milk powdered.....................
Sulphur, flour..................................
Sulphur,  roll....................................
Tartar Emetic..................................
Tar, N. C. Pine, 4  gal. cans  $  doz
Tar, 
quarts in tin..........
Tar, 
pints in tin.............
Turpentine,  Venice................fl ft
Wax, white, S. &  F. brand...........
Zinc,  Sulphate................................

do 
do 

79

44©

@

34®

©  17 
'  28 
26 
40 
35
85  @1 00 
32  @  34 
2 30 
1 50 
9 
15 
9
1  00 
35 
60
124@  13 
1 25

1  45 
@1  40 
28 
1  50 
@  82

O ILS.

Capitol  Cylinder........................
Model  Cylinder..........................
Shields  Cylinder.........................
Eldorado Engine........................
Peerless  Machinery..................
Challenge Machinery................
Backus Fine Engine..................
Black Diamond Machinery......
Castorine......................................
Paraffine, 25  deg........................
Paraffine, 28  deg.........................
Sperm, winter bleached...........
Whale, winter..............................
Lard, extra..................................
Lard, No.  1............................•....
Linseed, pure  raw.-...................
Linseed,  boiled..........................
Neat’s Foot, winter  strained...
Spirits Turpentine.....................
V A RN ISH ES.
No. 1 Turp  Coach.................................. 1  10@1  20
Extra  Turp............................................ J 60@1 70
No. 1 Turp Furniture............................1 00@1 10
Extra Turp  Damai’...............................1  66@1 60
Japan Dryer, No.  1 Turp.....................   70@

Bbl

PA IN TS.

Bbl
Red  Venetian................ ...........  1%
Ochre, yellow  Marseilles........  1%
Ochre, yellow  Bermuda..........  1%
Putty,  commercial..................  34
Putty, strictly pure..................  34
Vermilion, prime  American..
Vermilion,  English..................
Green, Peninsular....................
Lead, red strictly  pure............
Whiting, white  Spanish..........
Whiting,  Gildera.....................
White, Paris American............
Whiting, Paris English cliff...

AMMONIA.

Carbonate............................... flft  17  @
Muriate (Powd. 22c).........................
Aqua 16 deg or  3f............................ 
6  @
Aqua 18 deg hr 4f............................ 
7  @

BALSAMS.

BARKS.

Copaiba
Fir........
Peru___
Tolu__
Cassia, in mats (Pow’d 20c)...........  
Cinchona,  yellow............. ............ 
Elm,  select......................................  
Elm, ground, pure......................... 
15
Elm, powdered,  pure........... 
10
Sassafras, of root.................  
Wild Cherry, select.............. 
12
Bayberry  powdered................................ 
18
Hemlock powdered.............. 
W ahoo.....  ...................................... 
Soap  ground.........................  
12
B E R R IES,

&  50 
40
2  00 
60

12
18
15
13

30

Cubeo, prime  (Powd $1  20/...........  
@1  00
Juniper..*.■......................................  
6  @"  7
Prickly Ash......................................1 CO  @1  11

EXTRACTS.

Licorice (10 and25 ft boxes,25c)... 
Licorice,  powdered, pure......—  
Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 fl) doxes). 
Logwood, Is (25 ft  boxes)............... 
do 
Lgowood, 4 s 
............... 
do 
Logwood, 4 s 
............... 
Logwood, ass’d  do 
............... 
Fluid Extracts—25 fl cent, off list.

27
374
9
12
13
15
14

FLO W ERS.

Arnica...............................................   10  @  11
Chamomile,  Roman....................... 
25
Chamomile,', German.....................  
25

GUMS.

45

60@  75
Aloes,  Barbadoes............................ 
18
Aloes, Cape (Powd  24c)..................  
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd  60b).......... 
50
28@  30
Ammoniac!...................................... 
Arabic, extra  select....................... 
60
60
Arabic, powdered  select............... 
55
Arabic, 1st picked..........................  
Arabic,2d  picked................. 
40
Arabic,  3d picked............................ 
35
Arabic, sifted sorts......................... 
30
Assafoentida; prime (Powd 35c)... 
Benzoin............................................  
55@60
23®  .25
Camphor..........................................  
13
Catechu. Is (4 14c, 4 s  16c). 
35@  40
Euphorbium powdered................. 
Galbanum strained......................... 
80
Gamboge...........................................  1 00®110
35
Guaiac, prime (Powd  45c).............  
20
Kino [Powdered, 30c].....................  
Mastic...............................................  
1  10
40
Myrrh. Turaish (Powdered  47c)... 
Opium, pure (Powd $5.50)............... 
4cl0
Shellac, Campbell’s ........... ............. 
4o
Shellac,  English.............................. 
33
Shellac,  native................................. 
28
Shellac bleached.............................. 
35
Tragacanth......................................  30 @1  10

H ERBS—IN   OUNCE  PACKAGES.

IR O N .

Hoarhound.......................................................25
Lobelia...............................................................25
Peppermint................ 
25
Rue..................................................................... 40
Spearmint........................................................ 24
Sweet Majbram................................................35
Tanzy.......................................... 
25
Thym e...............................................................30
Wormwood.......................................................25
Citrate and  Quinine....................... 
6 40
Solution mur., for tinctures........ 
20
Sulphate, pure  crystal.................. 
7
Citrate.............................................. 
80
65
Phosphate........................................ 
Buchu, short (Powd 25c)................   12 @ 
11
Sage, Italian, bulk (4s & 4s, 12c)... 
6
Senna,  Alex, natural.....................   18 @ 
20
30
’Senna, Alex, sifted and  garbled.. 
22
Senna,  powdered............................ 
Senna tinnivelli...............................  
16
Uva  Ursi.............. 
10
35
Belledonna.......................................  
30
Foxglove.................................... 
Henbane........................................... 
35
Rose, red....................... 
 
2 35

LEAVES.

 

 

 

 

LIQU ORS.

W., D. & Co.’s Sour Mash Whisky.2 00
Druggists’ Favorite  Rye..............175
Whisky, other brands...................1  10
Gin, Old Tom...................................1  35
Gin,  Holland...................................2  00
Brandy....................................  .......1 75
Catawba  Wines..............................1  25
Port Wines...................................... 1  35

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

M AGNESIA.

 

 

 

 

 

 

@

50

O ILS.

do 
do 

m
2 10
50
2 00
2 00
75
1 35
40
85
1 25
8 00
1 60
2 00
75
40
50
2 25
2 40
1 00
90
1  85
2 00
80
1 25

Carbonate, Pattison’s, 2 oz...........
Carbonate, Jenning’s, 3 oz.............
Citrate, H„ P. & Co.’s  solution..........
Calcined............................:-----------
Almond, sweet.................................  45
Amber,  rectified.............................  
Anise.................................................  
Bay fl  oz........................................... 
Bergamont.......................................  
Croton...............................................  
Cajeput............................................  
| Cassia...............................................  
Cedar, commercial  (Pure 75c)....... 
Citronella............... 
Cloves...............................................  
Cubebs, p. &  W................  
Erigeron........................................... 
Fireweed........................................... 
Geranium  fl  oz...............................  
Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75c).. 
Juniper wood..................................  
Juniper berries............................... 
Lavender flowers- French............. 
Lavender garden 
............. 
Lavender spike 
.............  
Lemon, new  crop............................ 
Lemon,  Sanderson’s....................... 
Lemongrass...................................... 
Origanum, red  flowers, French... 
Origanum,  No. 1*.............. 
2 00
Pennyroyal...................................... 
Peppermint,  white........................ 
2  85
Rose  fl  oz...........................  
9  75
65
Rosemary, French  (Flowers $5)... 
Sandal  Wood, German.................. 
5 00
8  00
Sandal Wood, Turkish  Dark........ 
60
Sassafras........................................... 
3 75
T ansy...............................................  
Tar (by gal 60c).................................  10  @  12
2 25
Wintergreen................................. 
Wormwood, No. 1 (Pure $6.50)....... 
4  50
TOO
Savin................................................  
2  50
Wormseed.......................................  
Cod Liver, filtered......  
. fl gal 
1  90
Cod Liver, best........................  
4  00
Cod Liver, H,, P. & Co.’s, 16 
Olive, Malaga.................... 
@1 20
2 50
Olive, “Sublime  Italian’  .  —  
Salad.................................................  65  @  67
Rose,  Ihmsen’s .......................fl oz 
9  75
Bicromate.................................fl ft 
16
Bromide, cryst. and  gran. bulk... 
31
Chlorate, cryst (Powd 23c).............  
20
1  30
Iodide, cryst. and  gran, bulk....... 
Prussiate yellow........... ................. 
30
ROOTS.
25
Alkanet..................... 
Althea, cut........................ 
27
 
Arrow,  St. Vincent’s .....................  
17
Arrow, Taylor’s, in 4 s and 4 s —  
45
Blood (Powd 18c).............................  
12
18
Calamus,  peeled.............................. 
38
Calamus, German  white, peeled.. 
Elecampane, powdered..................  
>
Gentian (Powd  17c(.............  
13
 
Ginger, African (Powd 16c)...........   13  @  14
Ginger, Jamaica  bleached...........  
20
Golden Seal (Powd 40c).................. 
35
Hellebore, white, powdered.......... 
18
Ipecac, Rio, powdered.................... 
110
371
Jalap,  powdered.............................. 
12
Licorice,  select (Powd 124).......... 
Licorice, extra select.....................  
15
Pink, true.......................- ............... 
35
Rhei, from select to  choice..........1 00  @1 50
Rhei, powdered E. 1........................ 1 10  @1 20
Rhei, choice cut  cubes........ .........  
2 00
2 26
-Rhei, choice cut fingers................. 
Serpentaria...................................... 
60

POTASSIUM .

, 

 

 

6 00

114
114
114
11%
104
104
104
104
104
104
10%
10%
10%

104
104

PORK.

The  Grand Rapids Packing &  Provision  Co. 

quote  as follows:
Heavy Mess  Pork.....................................$19 00
Back Pork,  short cut............................... 19 25
Family Clear Pork, very cheap.............  19 50
Clear Pork, A.  Webster packer.............  20 50
S. P. Booth’s Clear Pork, Kansas City..  21 50
Extra Clear Pork.....................................   21 00
Boston Clear Pork, extra quality..........  22 00
Standard Clear Pork, the best................   22 50
Extra B  Clear Pork........ ’. ........................21 50
Clear Back Pork, new..............................  22 00

All the above Pork is Newly Packed.
DRY SaLT MEATS—IN BOXES.
Extra Long Clear Backs, 600  9)  cases..
Extra Short Clear Backs, 600 fl>  cases..
Extra Long Clear Backs, 300 ft  cases..
Extra Short Clear Backs, 300 ft  cases..
Long Clears, heavy, 500 ft.  Cases..........
Half Cases.............
Long Clear medium, 500 ft  Cases..........
Half Cases..........
Long Clears light, 500 ft Cases...............
Half Cases...............
Short Clears, heavy.................................
medium..............................
light....................................

do. 
do 
do. 

do. 
do. 

LARD.

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

LARD IN TIN PAIL8.

20 ft Round Tins, 80 fl)  racks..................
50 ft Round  Tins, 100 ib  racks...............
3 fl) Pails, 20 in a case.............................. 
5 fl) Pails, 12 in a case.............................  
10 ft Pails, 6 in a case.............................  

1.04
10V*
114
11
10%
SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED OR PLAIN. 

134
Hams cured in sweet pickle medium.. 
light........  
13%
Shoulders cured in sweet pickle.......... 
9%
114
Extra Clear Bacon..................................  
Dried B eef...............................................  
15
Extra Dried B eef.................................... 
17
Extra Mess Beef Chicago packed fl bbl.  13 00 

do. 

CANNED BEEF.

Libby, McNeil A Libby, 14 fl) cans, 4  doz.

incase............................. .......................   20 00
2 fl) cans, 1 doz. in case__   3 20
do. 
Armour & Co., 14 ft cans, 4  doz  in case  20 00 
do. 
2 ft cans, 1 doz. in  case..  3 20 
do. 2 fl) Compr’d Ham, 1 doz. in case 4 50 

SAUSAGE—FRESH AND SMOKED.

Pork Sausage.................................  ...............11
Pork Sausage Meat, 50 ft tubs......................11
Ham  Sausage...................................................124
Tongqt  Sausage............................................ ll
Liver Sausage...................................................  84
Frankfort  Sausage........................................10
Blood  Sausage.................................................   84
Bologna,  ring.....................................................84
Bologna, straight............................................   84
Bologna,  thick.................................................   84
Head  Cheese........... ’............... ....................... 84

PIGS’ FEET.

TRIPE.

In half barrels.................................................$3 85
In quarter barrels.........................................   2 00
In kits.............................................................. 
96

In half barrels................................................ $3 75
In quarter barrels..........................................  l 90
In kits.................................................... >........  
90
Prices named are  lowest  at time of going to 
press, subject always to Market changes.

60

FRESH  MEATS.

John  Mohrhard quotes the trade as follows:
Fresh  Beef, sides..................................   6
@ 9 
Fresh  Beef, hind quarters..................  8
@10 
Dressed Hogs.........................................  9
@ 94 
Mutton,  carcasses...................................7
Veal.........................................................   9
@104
Spring Chickens....................................   14@16
Fowls........................................................  14@15
Pork  Sausage..........................................104@11
Pork Sausage in bulk............................  @104
Bologna...................................................  @10

@ 8 

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

STICK.

1

1

do 
do 

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

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

Royal, 251b  pails................................... 104@U
Royal, 200 ft bbls..............................................10
Extra, 25 ft  pails............................................. 12
Extra, 200 ft bbls............................................. 114
French Cream, 25 ft pails__ ,........................15
Cut loaf, 25 9)  cases.........................................15
Broken, 25 ft pails..........................................114
Broken, 200 fl>  bbls..........................................11

FANCY—IN 5 ft BOXES.

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

Fancy—in  Bulk.

Lozenges, plain  in  pails................................. 14
Lozenges, plain in  bbls...................................13
Lozenges, printed in pails..............................15
Lozenges, printed in  bbls..............................14
Chocolate Drops, in pails..............................15
Gum Drops, in pails........ “.............................  9
Gum Drops, in bbls.........................................  74
Moss Drops, in  pails......................................114
Moss Drops, in bbls  ....................................... 104
Sour Drops, in  pails......................................12
Imperials, in  pails.........................................14
Imperials, in bbls........... ................................13

FRUITS.

Oranges scarce and higher.

Oranges fl box..................... .*............... 3 50@3j26
Oranges OO f! box.................................3 20@3 25
Oranges, Florida, fl  box.......................
Oranges, Valencia]?  case................ .-.  @6 00
Lemons,  choice....................................  3 00@3 50
Lemons, fancy...................................... 3 50@4 00
Bananas fl bunch..................................
Malaga Grapes, fl keg..........................
Malaga Grapes, $  bbl...........................
Figs,  layers fl ft...................................  12@16
Figs, fancy  do 
 
18@20
.........................  
Figs, baskets 40 fl> f! ft..........................  14@15
Dates, frails 
do  ..........................   @6
Dates, 4  do 
d o ...........................  @7
Dates, skin..............................................  @6
Dates, 4   skin.........................................  @ 74
Dates, Fard 10 ft box $   fl>....................  @124
Dates, Fard 50 ft box #  ft.....................   @10

PEANUTS.

Without change.

Prime  Red,  raw  $   ft............................
Choice 
d o ............................  @8
do  ............................  84@  9
Fancy 
Choice White, Va.do  ............................  94@10
.104@11
Fancy HP,.  Va  do

do 
do 

NUTS.

Brazils are lower. 

Almonds,  Terragona, fl ft 
Almonds, loaca,
Brazils,
Peeons,
Filberts, Barcelona 
Filberts, Sicily 
Walnuts, Chilli 
Walnuts, Grenobles 
Walnuts, California 
Cocoa Nuts, $   100 
Hickory Nuts, large 1 
Hickory  Nuts, small

($ f t .......... ........  @20
do  ................... 18  @19
do  .......... ........12  @124
do  ................... 10  @17
do  ....................  @13
do  ........ ..........  14@15
do  ........ ..........12 4@14
d o ........ ..........  15@16
tlo  . 
.
..........  @124
..........5 00@
P  bu........
do  *.................. 

1  50

COAL  AND  BUILDING MATERIALS.
A. B. Knowlson quotes as follows:
1  10
Ohio White Lime, per  bbl.................... 
Ohio White Lime, car lots.................... 
95
Louisville Cement,  per bbl.................. 
1  40
Akron Cement per  bbl......................... 
1 40
Buffalo Cement,  per bbl.............* ... 
140
CarlotB.................................................. 1  15@1 20
Plastering hair, per bu.........................  35®  38
Stucco, per bbl.......................................  
175
Land plaster, per ton........................................... 2 60
Land plaster, car lots............................ 
*1 75
Fire brick, per  M...................................$27 @ $35
Fire clay, per bbl................................... 
3 00

COAL.

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

Lb 
2@ 3 
2® 3 
2@ 3 
24®  3 
2%@ 3 
13@16 
55@57 
16@17 
@ 6 
cwt 
@70 
@90 
1  10 
1 40

Crockery  Etc.

H. Leonard & Sons quote as follows:

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

“ 

“ 

“ 
44 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

50
61
72
87
83
96
1 32
1  93

Knowles,  Taylor  &  Knowles—Cable  Shape- 
Diamond C.
6 doz Plates....................5 inch
3 00
3
....................6  “
“ 
1  83
44 
7  44
..  . 
20
14 40
3 “ 
....................8  “
2 61
3 “  Bakers..................3  “
2 16
................ .5  “
54 “ 
42
54 “ 
..................6  “
48
54 “ 
..................7  “
66
................ '8  “
“ 
a
48
i
“  Bowls....................No. 36
69
1
“ 
“ 
....................  “  30
83
1
“  “ 
....................  “ 24
1  02
“  Cov’d Butters__ 5 inch
54
96
2
.“  __ 254  “
“  Indiv’l 
44
“ Cov’d Chambers.No. 9
54
2 82
1
“  Uncov’d 
.  “  “
3 85
“  Cake  Plates.......................
54
96
“  Restaurant Creams..........
54
38
3
“  Cup  Plates.........................
90
54 “  Casseroles.............7 inch
1  17
54 “ 
............. 8  “
1  31 
“  Dishes....................3  “
1 32
....................9  “
“ 
54
46
“ 
..................10  “
54
67
54
..................11  “
“ 
87
1-6 “  Ewers and Basins. No 9...
1  50 
“  Barrell  Mugs__ No. 36
54
38
5
“  Fruit Saucers.......4 inch
1 75
“  Scollops............. 254  “
2
1 20
“ 
..................5  “
41
54
“ 
..................6  “
1
1 05
1
44 
..................7  44
1 38
“ 
..................8  “
1 93
96
54
“  Jugs, No. 36........................ .  1  16
58
54
“  30.......................
“  “ 
.  1 38
54
69
“  “ 
“  12......................... .  2 90
73
54
1-6 “  “ 
“  6.......................
.  4 40
73
“  Shell Pickles....................... .  1 65
83
54
“  Sugars. No. 30..................... .  2 90
/4
73
“  Spoon  Holders.................... .  1 80
45
54
6 sets Unhandled Coffees.... ;....... . 
50
3 00
36  ‘
“ 
............. . 
36
12 96
12  ‘ Handled 
.............
47
Crate............................
2 00 
$81 66

3 85
22
5 63
.  3 85
. 
30
4 68
5 í¿5
66
1 38
2 00
2 61
.  9 00
77
35
60
83

Teas 

“ 
“ 
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“ 

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ASSORTED PACKAGE GLASS SET S-- n o . ;35.

4  Victoria  Sets, plain.......................
..1 9
4  Sippo  Sets, plain............................. ..30
4 Vail Sets, figured............................ ..34

Barrel, 35c.

76
1  20
1 36
$   32

CH AN DELIERS.

No 500 2 light for  store 

comp.ete  with  7 

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

LAM P BU RN ERS.
No 0 Any style  per doz...........
No 1 
No 2 

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

do 
do 

do
do 
GLASSW ARE.

.  90 
.1  00 
.1 50

 

 

Heavy Figured  “ Horseshoe”  Pattern.

Sets, $   dozen.................................  
$3 00
Pitchers, 54 gallon.......................................   3 00
Celeries.........................................................  2 00
Bowls, 7 inch, and covers..........................   3 00
3 85
Bowls, 8 
 
.......................... ‘  3 60
Bowls, 9 
Comports, 4  inch......................................... 
30
Goblets......................................................... 
45
Wines.................................................. 
.. 
35
Salvers...........................................................  3 00
Nappies,  4 inch............................. $  gross  2 25

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Package at cost*

GLASS O IL  CANS.

“ Queen’.’ or  “ Daisy.”  No  charge  for box.
54 gal.  per doz.................................................3 50
lgal 
.......................... ......................4 50

do 

TUBULAR  LANTERNS.

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

LATEST

5,

JOHN

CAULFIELD

Wholesale
Efrocer

85,87  and  89  Canal  Streetj

The best goods for the least money can be 
had only at such places where  expenses  are 
in proportion to the amount of business done 
and this is  where  THE  OLD  RELIABLE 
has the  advantage  over  competitors.  The 
secret of our success is that we buy goods as 
low as cash can produce them.  We are thus 
prepared to place staple and fancy Groceries 
on the market at such prices as obtains the con­
fidence of the close  buyer who is desirous 
of  getting  full value for his money.  Then, 
again,  we  are  under  no  extravagant  ex­
penses, nor enormous rents,  nor  supernum­
erary expensive  agents  to  tax  and  annoy 
customers with, besides not having the profit 
to divide between three, four or six partners, 
we can afford to be liberal sellers.

-HEADQUARTERS  FOR-

la W e lU c k w ta t

The Largest House, and Only General Jobbing House 

of the Rind in Michigan.

ALLEN,

'j

20 and 33 Monroe  Street, 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN,

Respectfully announce to. the Trade  that they 
are better then ever prepared to supply all ae-
quirements In the line of

BOOKS AND  STATIONERY,

ALÂB ASTINE!

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

Alabastine is the first and  only  preparar 
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
ditional coat, from time  to  time.  It  is  the 
•nly material for the purpose not dependent 
upon glue for its adhesiveness ;  furthermore 
it is the only  preparation  that is  claimed 
to  possess  these  great  advantages,  which 
are  essential  to  constitute  a  durable  wall 
finish.  Alabastine is hardened on  the  wall 
by  age, moisture,  etc.;  the  plaster  absorbs 
the  admixtures,  forming  a  stone  cement, 
while  all  kalsomines,  or  other  whitening 
preparations,  have  inert  soft  chalks,  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-

4  A lii.  Faint  Sealers.

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

THE ALABASTINE COMPANY

M. B.  0HÏÏE0H, Manager.

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-  MICHIGAN.

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

WESTFIELD WHIPS

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^ \ I i . K . B E A L S  

<& CO.,

MANUFACTURERS. 

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—AND—

SALESROOM 
NO. i PEARL STREET, 

GRAND EAPIDS, MIOH.

G. ROYS & CO., Gen’l Agents.

A .   A .   C R I F P E N ,

WHOLESALE

Hats, Caps and Furs

54  MONROE  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

- 

MICHIGAN.

We carry a Large Stock, and Guarantee  Prices 

«8 Low as Chicago and Detroit.
A .   H .   F O W L

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PAINTER  AND  DECORATOR,

—AND DEALER  IN—

Artists’  Materials !

FINE  WALL  PAPERS AND 

ROOM  MOULDINGS,

WINDOW  SHADES,

PAINTS,  OILS,  AND

PENCIL  PORTRAITS— NO.  2.

James  Fox,  One of the  Oldest  Grocerymen  in 

the  City.

James Fox—better known as “Jim”—was 
bom in Zeeland, Holland,  March  21,  1851, 
and came to this city  with  his  parents  five 
years later.  He attended the public schools 
and  Swensberg’s  Commercial  College,  and 
in 1865, when but fourteen years of  age,  Jie 
entered the employ of L. &  C.  Fox—father 
and uncle—who at  that  time  ran  a  retail 
grocery store where Peck’s drug 6tore is now 
located.  Seven years later, in 1872, he form­
ed a  co-partnership  with  his  uncle,  under 
the firm name of Samuel Fox & Co., and en­
gaged in the  wholesale  .and  retail  grocery 
business at 17 and 19 South Division  street, 
James taking the road, a branch of the  bus­
iness he has since followed  almost  continu­
ously.  Five years later, he became the head 
of the firm, and the  name  was  changed  to 
Fox, McSkimin & Co. 
In the  fall  of  1877, 
John Shields purchased McSkimin’s interest, 
and the firm  name  was  changed  to  Fox, 
Shields & Co.  In November, 1879, Mr.  Fox 
sustained a severe fall, resulting in complete 
loss of health for some time, and he disposed 
of his interest in the business to John Graff, 
and went South,, returning in  the  following 
spring, with health completely restored.  He 
arrived on Saturday evening, and on the fol­
lowing Monday effected an  agreement  with 
his present business associates, he  and  Mr. 
Musselman starting East for the  purpose  of 
making  the  necessary  arrangements  that 
evening.  Ten days  later,  lie  went  on  the 
road drumming up trade for the new whole­
sale grocery house  of  Fox,  Musselman  & 
Loveridge,  the  youngest  firm,  in  point  of 
years, in the State, the combined ages of the 
three partners aggregating only 80 years.

Mr. Fox’s personal characteristics  are  al­
most too well known to admit of reiteration. 
He is a man of  strong  likes  and  dislikes, 
with a hearty admiration  for frankness  and 
bluntness of speech, and  a  hatred  of  cant 
and ceremony  of  all  kinds.  Contemning 
duplicity in others, he is himself  free  from 
that vice, and the man is  yet  to  be  found 
who  will accuse  him  of  being  two-sided. 
His most marked trait is  his  ability  to  at­
tract and hold men  to  him,  many  of  his 
present customers being men he sold  on  his 
first trip out, and whose  trade  he  has  held 
from that time to  this.  Not  a  few  of  his 
patrons relate incidents showing that he has 
gone out of his way to assist them when in a 
tight place, and to this virtue is undoubtedly 
owing  much  of  his  personal  popularity. 
While aspiring to a high standing as  a  job­
ber, he takes rather more pride in  maintain­
ing his reputation as a  salesman—a  reputa­
tion  that  credits  him  with  selling  more 
goods  in  his  line  than  any other man who 
goes out from  this market

On the Easel—J. A. Crookston, A. C.  Sharp.

Late  Business  Changes.

The  following  business changes,  failures, 
embarrassments,  etc.,  securing  up  to  the 
hour of  going  to  press,  are  furnished  The 
Tradesman by the mercantile agencies:
Big Beaver—Chas. W. Flinn, general store, 
selling out.
Boyne  City—J.  C.  McPhelin,  hardware, 
sold out.
Custer—E. J. Bean, general stpre, sold out 
to Chester McAllister.
Luther—Johnson & Kirkland,  hotel,  suc­
ceeded by F. W. Johnson.
St. Joseph—A. K. Webster &  Co.,  drugs,
A.  K. Webster deceased.
Fennville-*-E. F. Hall, general  store, sold 
out.
Grand Haven—S. O. Eames, clothing, sold
I
Lowell—Langs & McNaughton, furniture, 
-
Spring  Lake—John  R.  Ghent,  drugs, 
Vicksburg--Wm. Strong, jeweler, succeed­
Williamston—J. F. Harmnel, grocer, given 
C~3
Pentwater—Brown & Bears,  lumber,  dis­
Zeeland—J. Moerdyk,  general  store,  suc­
i

O U t. 
succeeded by Coons & McNaughton. 
chattel mortgage for $125  discharged.
ed by Richardson &  Strong.
bill of sale. 
solved, and business discontinued.
ceeded by J. Moerdyk & Co. 

i 

Chattel  Mortgages.

Grand Rapids—E. T. McClure, restaurant 
and saloon,  $1,786.45;  Mrs. M. C. Kimball 
milliner, $1,840;  E. B-  Escott,  drugs,  $1, 
000;  John Adrian, brewer, $1,671.
Muskegon—W. C. Miner, grocer,  $106.75: 
Mary Funkee,  milliner, $200.
Free Soil—Dean Bros., drugs, $200.
Lakeview—E. W.  Briant,  general  store. 
$3,000.
Greenville—D.  D.  Clough &  Son,  furni­
ture, $600.
Traverse City—Olive  & Swoboda,  tailors, 
each mortgaged his house, Olive  $300, Swu 
boda  $600.

Delinquent  Debtors.

PETOSKEY.

W ilcox  &  W ilde  write:  We are  well pleas­
ed with your paper here  and  think the  “Dead 
Beat” feature will fill a long-felt want,  as  our 
American Creditors’ Association does not give 
the  necessary  publicity  to  the  names of the 
delinquents  to  head  them  off  in  their  swin­
dling schemes.  Success to your paper.

LYONS.

Spaulding  & Thayer  report:  We  are  very 
glad to be among the first to contribute to the 
“Dead-Beat” list; for we have been “bitten” in 
small amounts by a good  many.  The  one we 
wish to call attention to especially,  and  in the 
strongest  terms  to  denounce,  as  a  genuine 
dead-beat of the blackest dye, is M.  B.  Peters, 
who went from this place to Reed  City, but is 
now, or was only  shortly  ago,  at  Manistique. 
He has a very fluent tongue,  and  uses  it to  a 
very marked  ad\ antage.  Personally,  we suf­
fered  by him to the  extent  of  $65,  and  other 
merchants can tell you a similar story.

We are strong advocates of the* ‘Dead-Beat” 
list, and shall take particular pains  to  inform 
you of the whereabouts of any of oar  “flock,” 
as they silently steal from the fold—many  un­
der the cover of darkness.

Closed on  Chattel  Mortgage.

In the summer of  1882,  John  Luyendyk 
disposed of his interest in the  grocery  busi­
ness of John Luyendyk & Co., on the comer 
of Fourth and Stocking streets, to  his  part­
ner, Nicholas Okker, taking a mortgage back 
for $590.  Okker aggreed to  make  monthly 
payments,  but  soon defaulted, and disposed 
of a part interest  in  the  business  to  John 
Dregge, who assumed  outside  liabilities,  as 
well as  the  contract.  A  short  time  ago 
Johnanes  Kooman,  a  retired  milk peddler, 
purchased the business,  aggreeing  to  meet 
the liabilities.  He gave John  Caulfield  his 
notes for $404, but  immediately  began dis­
posing of his property and putting it in other 
hands, and running down his stock,  ostensi­
bly for a fraudulent purpose,  Caulfield then 
purchased the Luyendyk mortgage, and fore­
closed, removing the stock to his own  store, 
where it will be sold at public sale Saturday. 
It is not worth to exceed $200.

Country  Produce.

Apples—In  fair  demand  at  $3.75@$4 
for Russets and Baldwins.  Extra fancy, $5.
Beets—Choice find ready sale at  $2.75 
bbl.
Butter—Slow  sale  on  account  of  the 
amount  of  good  butterine  in  the  market. 
Good  dairy  rolls  are  held  at  22@23c  and 
packed from 10c up.  Western creamery, 27 
@28c.
Butterine—Active at  18@20e  for  choice. 
There is no inquiry for the low grades at any 
price.
Buckwheat—<New York patent,  $3.75  per 
100 lbs, and $7 7$ bbl.
Beans—Prices are looking up, the Eastern 
market  having  advanced  very  materially. 
Handpicked are firm at $2.25@$2.50 and un­
picked are in moderate  demand  at  $1.75@ 
S2.

Barley—Choice $1.30 ^  100  lbs.
Cheese—Full cream  is  very  firm,  selling 
for 14@14Xc; skim is active at 10@llc.
Celery—Winter stock is scarce and has ad­
vanced to 45c 7$  doz.
Cabbage—Small quantity fair stock at $10 
@$15 
100 heads.
Cider—20c 7$ gal. for ordinary.  Sand  re­
fined, $6.75 ^  bbl.
Clover Seed—Choice medium  firm at $6@ 
$6.75 7$ bu. and mammoth in fair demand at 
$7@$7.25 ^  bu.
Cranberries—Choice cultivated Wisconsin 
are firm at  $12.50  ^   bbl.  Small  inferior 
sruit is held at $10:
Com—Local dealers stand in  readiness to 
supply carload lots of Kansas  com  at  from 
It is all of the same quality, 
45@60c 
but the former price  is  for  damp,  and  the 
latter for dry, stock.
Dried Apples—Quarters active at 7@8c 7$ 
lb,  and sliced 8@9c. Evaporated, 14@15c.
Eggs—Downward  tendency 
in  prices. 
Strictly fresh are held at 25c, and will  prob­
ably touch 20c within the next  fortnight.

Hdhey—In comb,  18c 
Hops—Choice New York  25@28c  7p  lb ; 
low  and  medium  grades  18@24c;  Pacific 
coast 24@27c; Wisconsin 12@20c; Michigan 
20@22c.
bu. in sacks 
and $ 2 ^ 3  bu. bbl.

Onions—Choice yellow 75c 
Peas—Holland $4.25 ^  bu.
Potatoes—Carload lots of ordinary  are of­
fered at 35@40c, although assorted Burbanks 
command 50c, and are not much moving.

Parsnips—Firm at $2.75 7$ bbl.
Poultry—Chickens and  fowls  are  in  the 
market  in  limited  quantities,  and  readily 
command  14@16c  and  14c,  respectively. 
Turkeys are very scarce at 17c.  Ducks  and 
geese are out of market altogether.
Ruta Bagas—Considerable choice stock  in 
market at $2 7$ bbl.
Timothy—Weaker.  Very  choice is held 
at $1.75  $  bu.
Wheat—Local dealers are paying  82 @ 88c 
IP bu. for No. 2 and 92@95c for No. 1.

bu. 

lb.

Visiting  Buyers.

The following retail dealers  have  visited 
the market during the past week and placed 
orders with the various h o u s e s .

B. H. Rose, Manton.
Wm. Parks, Alpine.
C. E. Kellogg, Grandville.
C. B. Moon & Co., Cedar Springs.
Chas Glascow, Saranac.
O. J. Knapp, Howard City.
0. Green, Martin.
John Whiteford, Lake City.
J. Grutter, Grandville.
G. H. Walbrink, Allendale.
F. E. Deming, Freeport.
Wagner & Wells, Eastmanville
Geo. A. Sage,  Rockford.
L.  W. Stiles, Cedar Springs,
W. S. Root, Talmage.
Byron McNeal, Byron Center.
R. W. Finch, Sumner.
Odell, Davis & Barnhart, McLain Station.
Mrs. M. E. Snell, Wayland.
Colburn & Carpenter, Caledonia.
D. Ford, Horton’s  Bay.
Mr. Adkins, of Robinson & Adkins, Roth- 
Dibble Bros., Dorr.
D. S. Rankin, New Era.
T, J. Sherwood & Co., Lockwood.
E. LaGrange, Mecosta.
1. S. Boice, Hastings.
I. L. Every, St.  Louis.
E. B. Slocum & Co., Hesperia.
B. F. Hart, Yestaburg.
Merricle & Hopper, Fremont.
G. C. Pond, Aetna.
Adam Wagner, Eastmanville.
C. H. Coleman, Coleman.
C. F. Sears & Co., Rockford
J. Walbrink, of I. J. Quick &  Co.,  Allen­
J. W. Closterhouse, Jennisonville.
J. H. Toren, Jennisonville.
Hadley Bros., Paradise.
Mr.  Green, of Green &  Green, Byron Cen­
John de Jough, Grand Haven.
J. S. Toiand,  Ross.
A.  & L. M. Wolf, Hudsonville.
Thos. Murphy, Paris.
S. C. Fell, Howard  City.
F. O. Lord, Howard City.
T. W. Provin, Cedar Springs.
Jacob Liebler, Caledonia.
S. T. McLellan, Dennison.
Chas. Cole, of Cole Bros.,  Ada.
W. S. Clark, of W. S. Clark ’&  Co.,  Hor­

bury.

dale.

ter.

ton.

manville.

John Wagner, of Wagner &  Wells,  East­
Adam Wagner, Eastmanville.
T. C. Prout, Mancelona.
C. E. Clark, Mancelona.
Mr. Dildine,  of Dildine & Post, Edgerton.
Mn Jennie, manager for G. E. Wood, Cad­
W. L. Heazlett, Wayland.
J. M. Dameron,  Bangor.

Weekly  Payment of  Wages.

The American people seem to be  afflicted 
with  a  mania  for  legislating  upon  every­
thing. 
In following this  bent’  they  some­
times touch upon  matters  which,  however 
good the object of the  legislation  may  be, 
would be better left to  their  qwn  working 
out.  Recently bills  have  been  introduced 
into  the  legislatures  of  several  States  to 
compel  employers  to  pay  their  employes 
weekly. 
It is  gratifying to  observe the in­
creasing  tendency among manufacturers  so 
to pay, and the custom is now the -prevailing 
one;  but such subjects  are  scarcely  within 
the province  of  legislation.  Such  matters 
adjust themselves by the laws of  intelligent 
mutual interest.  The weekly payment gives’ 
to the employe advantages that  ready  cash 
commands over the credit system.  He may 
buy where and what and as he pleases.  He 
is not confined to such places as he  can  get 
credit, does not pay an  extra  percentage or 
take unsuitable  or  inferior  goods  for  the 
sake of the credit, and, above  all,  does  not 
over-buy,  as is too often  the case  when the 
payment does not come at once.  He has no 
debt, no perplexity,  is  better  fed,  clothed 
and contented, and consequently gives more 
valuable services.  While  the  benefits  are 
obvious, there may be  some  industries,  as, 
perhaps, the railways, in which weekly pay­
ments are impracticable or inconvenient and 
annoying; and to force  all  alike  so to  pay 
would  work  hardships.  The  interests  of 
labor and capital are identical, and such leg­
islation, by disrupting the  natural  gravita­
tion  to that  which  is  best  for  both,  only 
tends to throw fresh fire-brands between the 
two, neither of which can exist  without the 
other.

M. C. Russell has secured the  agency  for 
Grand Rapids and Western Michigan  of the 
celebrated Sand Refined Cider, a verychoiee 
article, which he is prepared  to  furnish  to 
dealers at $6.75 per barrel.

Boralumine 
finish  for walls.

is 

the  best  and  cheapest

Decorate

mine.

your  homes  with  Boralu-

CARPETS  AND  CARPETINGS.
Spring & Company  quote as follows: 

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

THREE-PLYS.

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

EXTRA  SUPERS.

@
@
@
@
@
@
@
<a
@  65

@1  00 @1 00 

@1  00 
@  9754

60

HEMPS.

ALL WOOL  8UPERFINE8.

WOOL FILLING AND MIXED.

Hartford...........................................
©  7754 
Lowell...............................................  
^
@  8¿54 
Other makes....................................  75  @
@  7754 
Best ootton chain............................  60  @
@  6354
Beet  3-ply 
............................  5754®
Other grades 3-ply..........................   5354®
All-wool  super, 3-ply.....................   50  @
Extra heavy double cotton chain.  4254®
Double cotton chain.......................  35  @
Heavy cotton and wool, double c.  30  @ 
Half d’l chain, cotton & wool, 3-ply  2754@ 
Single cotton chain......................... 
19  @
8-ply, 4-4 wide, extra heavy...........   37V£@
B,  4-4 wide....................................... 
@
@
Imperial, plain, 4-4 wide................. 
D,  33  inches................................... 
@
@
No. 1, 4-4, 5-4, 6-4 and 8-4.................. 
- .................. 
No. 3, 
@
No. 3, 
.................. 
@
@
.................. 
No. 4, 
Best all rattan, plain.......................  
(a
Best all rattan and cocoa, plain...
Napier A ...........................................
Napier  B ...........................................
Opaque shades, 38 inch..................
Holland shades, B finish, 4-4..........
Pacific  Holland, 4-4.........................
Hartshorn’s fixtures, per gross...
Cord fixtures, per gross.................

OIL CLOTHS.

6354
5254
50
40

MaTTINGS.

CURTaiNS.

do 
do 
do 

@36
@10

HIDES, PELTS  AND  FURS.

Perkins & Hess quote as foLows:

H ID ES.

FU RS.

W OOL.

SH E E P PEL TS.

Green............................................... ¡p ft 6  @7
Part  cured..............................................  7  @ 754
Full cured............................., ..............   75£@ 8
Dry hides and kips.................................  8  @12
Calf skins, green or cured................... 10  @13
Deacon skins............................$  piece20  @50
Shearlings or Summer skins $  piece. .10  @30
Fall pelts..................1.............................30  @50
Winter  pelts....................................... 1 00  @1 50
Fine washed $ f t ................................... 30  @33
Coarse washed....................................... 33  @25
Unwashed...............................................2-3
Mink, large................................................  60@ 80
Mink,  small..............................................   25@ 40
Muskrat, Winter...................................... 
lo@ 15
Muskrat,  Fall............................................ 
8@ 11
Muskrat,  kits......................................  
 
 
Raccoon.....................................................  40@1 00
Skunk, black— ......................................  90@1 00
Skunk, half stripe...................................  60® 70
Skunk, narrow stripe..............................  25@ 35
Skunk,  broad...........................................  10® 15
Red Fox...................................................1 00@1 25
Gray Fox...................................................  60® 85
Marten,  yellow............................ 
Fisher...................................................... 4 00@8 00
Otter........................................................6 00@7 00
Bear......................................................... 5 00@12 00
Deer skins, red and blue, dry__ ft  Jb  30@  35
Deer skins, gray and long  haired.......  12@  35
Baaver, clean and dry 
ft ft................ 2 00@3 50
Above prices are for prime  skins  only—un­
prime in proportion.
6@ 654
Tallow......................................................... 

 

 

EXTRACTS.

.........................l  75
.........................2 75
.........................3  75
......................... l  25
.........................2 00
.........................4 50
.........................9 00
.........................3 25
......................... 4 50

Lemon.
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
do 
dozen..............................l 50

JE N N IN G S ’  DOUBLE  CONCENTRATED  EXTRACTS. 
Packed in 1 Dozen Paper or 2 Dozen Wood Box. 
2 ounce B. N. Panel  ft dozen..............................l 00
do
4 do
do
6 do
do
8 do
No. 2 Taper Panel 
do 
No. 4 
54 pint round 
do
No. 8 Panel 
No. 10  do
2 ounce B. N. Panel 
do
4 
do
6 
do
8 
No. 2 Taper Panel 
No. 4 
do 
54 pint round 
1 
do 
No. 8 Panel 
No. 10  do

..2 75 
..4 00 
..5 00 
..1 75 
..3 00 
..7 50 
.15 00 
..4 35 
..6   00

Vanilla.

do 
do 
do 

JE N N IN G S ’  TRUE FLAVORINGS.

Full Measure—Wrapped.

Lemon.

do 
do 
do 

54 Pint 2 ounce  $  dozen...................................... 1 50
54 Pint 4  do 
54 Pint 8  do 
M Pint 12  do 
54 Pint 2 ounce ft dozen......................................2 25
54 Pint 4  do 
54 Pint 8  do 
$4 Pint 12  do 

................................. 4 00
................ 
8 00
................................12 00

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

Vanilla.

do 
do 
do 

C. 

S. Edwards, drugs and  groceries,  Man- 

eelona: “Am glad to note the success of The 
Tradesm an.  Y ou  certainly  have  a  bo­
nanza, for it is growing rapidly and  is  snp- 
plying a long-felt want.”

illac.

•l

37  Ionia  Street, South op  Monroe.

Use  Boralumine 

work.

if  you  want  good 

Boralumine—Handsome  as well  as  sub­

stantial.

do 
do 

LAM P CHIM NEYS.
Second Quality.
.............................................. 2 00
.............................................. 3 00

Anchor, Star or Diamond brand, which  means 
No. 0 Sun  ft  box................................................... l 90
No.  1 
No.  2 
No. 0 Sun  <p  box................................................... 2 10
No. 1 
No. 2 

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

.............................................. 2 25
.............................................. 3 25
OYSTERS.

do 
do 

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows:

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

 

 

 

C. S. YALE & BRO.,

-Manufacturers  of—

BAKING  POWDERS, 

B X jH I K T G - S ,   e

t c

. ,

40  and  42  South  Division  St.,  4

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

- 

-  

MICH.

3@ 4

I

75@1 00

For  an  Excellent  Chew, 

All W hite Burley ±> Hi­

er, Very Soft  and 

• 

Sweet,  Use

Look Out for a Tag^in the 

Tobacco  Calling  for 

One  of  Thomas’ 
Alarm Clocks.
—FOR  SALE  BY—

Rice & Moore,

H. Schneider & Co., 

and  John Caulfield.

See The Tradesman for Price List.

11

S U O A R S .

Cut Loaf Cubes......................................... 8A
Powdered  Standard..................................8%
Granulated  Standard...............................8
Standard  Confectioners’  A .....................7%
Standard A...............................   
7%
Extra White C..........................................7
Extra Bright C..................................6%@6X
Extra  C . ..................................... 6A@Q%
Yellow C.......................................

CANNED  GOODS

Are still the absorbing question.  Our friends 
are taking them liberally at our close figures 
and making  leadfrs.  Remember  gallon 
apples will surely go higher.  We  continue 
our
CLOSING OUT  SALE
for  the  Next  Thirty  Days.  3 , 0 0 0  
Cases Canned Goods of Staple and Standard 
Brands, 1883 packing, quality guaranteed.

JOB  BACON’S  TOMATOES 

Have the Highest  Endorsement of  the  best 
dealers in the country.
3 lb Job Bacon’s  Tomatoes, Standard. .1  10
3 lb Smith & Wicks’ Tomatoes............ 1  00
2 lb Sweet  Corn, Erie........................l  12A
2 lb Sweet  Corn, Mitchell’s..................1  10
2 lb Sweet Corn, Fredonia....................1  00
2 ft) Corn, F. & D.’s...............................   80
2 lb Peas, Extra  Early.....................  85
2 lb Peas, Platts’ Erie........... ...............1  10
2 ft> Peas,  YanCamps........................... l  00
2 lb Peas, Ex. F. Y. Canning  Co.........1  20
2 lb Lima  Beans, Standard...................  85
2 lb Lima  Beans, Extra........................l  00
2 ft> String Beans, Shawnee,white wax.  90
3 lb  Climax Pumpkin, Standard........... 1  20
2 lb Succotash,  Standard......................   90
2 lb Succotash,  Yarmouth......................1 48
3 lb Boston Baked Beans........................1 60
Apples, Gallons,  Erie.............................3 00
Apples, Gallons, Extra  Erie County.. .3  00
3 ft) Peaches,  Standard........................... 1 75
3 lb Peaches, All  Yellow......... ............2  00
2 lb Peaches, Kensett’s Standard........... 1 20
3 lb Erie Pie  Peaches.........................    .1 25
2 lb Blackberries,  Madison..............     .1  05
2 lb  Blueberries, Detroit........................ l  35
2 lb Red Cherries,  Standard...................1 10
2 lb Green  Gages, Extra..........................l 50
2 lb Egg  Plums, Extra.......................... 1  50
2 lb Strawberries,  Extra............. 1  25@1  50
3 ft) Bartlett Pears, Echert’s Standard. .1  25 
Tho  response  to  our  advertisement  in
the late issues  of  The  Tradesman  from 
country merchants for canned goods was lib­
eral beyond our expectation.  Several of the 
orders were from  localities  where  we  are 
not  represented by an  agent, and  for  other 
goods in our line.  Mail orders  on  this  ac­
count, are all the more appreciated, with care- 
and prompt attention given them.
Readers  of* The  Tradesman  will  find 
it  to their interest to  keep  a  .business  eye 
on this column headed  STANDARD  QUO­
TATIONS.  Mail orders solicited and  care­
ful attention given thereto.

HAZELTIHE,  PERKINS  &  COMPART,

W H O LESA LE  DRUGGISTS,

42 and 44  Ottawa St.,  and  89,  91,  93  and  g5  Louis St., Grand Rapids,  Mich.

I M P O R T E R S   AXTD  J O B B E R S   OF

And. Druggists’ Sundries. Also Manufacturers of

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

A MERCANTILE  JOURNAL, PUBLISHED EACH 

WEDNESDAY.

E.  A.  STOWE.  Editor and  Proprietor.

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

Second-class  Matter A

WEDNESDAY,  FEB.  27,  1884,

AMONG  THE  TRADE.

IN  THE  CITY.

It is rumored that a glue  factory  is  soon 

to be started here.  Whew!

A. Coye & Sons are getting  out  an  illus­

trated, twelve page catalogue.

J.  C. Watson  left  yesterday  for  a  trip 
over the C. & W. M, north,  in  the  interest 
of C. S. Yale & Bro.

M. C. Russell shipped a  carload  of Michi­
gan apples to Louisville  Saturday.  He  has 
received  two  carloads  of  fresh  vegetables 
from Chicago.

The death of the venerable Heman  Leon­
ard, founder  of  the  house  that  bears  his 
name,  removes  another  landmark  of  the 
commercial growth of the city.

J. H. McIntyre left Saturday for  Elliotts- 
ville, N. Y., to attend the funeral of  an  un­
cle, Rev. Courtney Smith.  He  is  expected 
back the latter part of the week.

L. R. Cesna, traveling  agent  for  Welling 
& Carhart,  returned  Thursday  from  a  six 
weeks’ Southern trip, and started Friday for 
a tour of the Northern customers of the firm.
Theo. M. Kemink and W.  J.  Jones  have 
formed a co-partnership, under the firm name 
of Kemink, Jones & Co., and will engage  in 
the manufacturejand sale of perfumes, flavor­
ing extracts, etc.
' A. B. Long  and  Isaac  Phelps  were  unin­
tentionally, omitted from The TuaDESMAN’s 
list of wealthy men.  The former is worth— 
no  one but himself knows—and the latter is 
probably good for  $200,000.

Jas. Fox and L.  L.  Loveridge  will  here­
after cover the Northern trade of  Fox, Mus- 
selman & Loveridge,  in  addition  to  then- 
other territory, A. N. Leslie having  severed 
his connection with the house.

Mr. Adkins, of Robinson &  Adkins,  gen­
eral dealers at Rothbury, was in town  Mon­
day.  He stated that he  would  retire  from 
the firm about June 1, and that  Mr.  Robin­
son would then continue the business alone.
“We have sold  more  goods  so  far  this 
year than daring the same  period  last  sea­
son,” said a prominent grocery jobber,  who 
has sought in vain for a  realizing  sense  of 
the “prevailing hard times” so much  talked 
about

Wm. M. Robinson, assignee for the  New­
mans, has  gone  South  for  a  view  of  the 
Mardi Gras.  Nearly  all  of  the  Newman 
creditors have filed their claims, and on  his 
return, Mr. Robinson will draw  checks  for 
the pitiable pro rata accorded each creditor.
Senator Bliss, of East Saginaw, the author 
of the obnoxious assignment law, which was 
annuled by the Supreme Court, was in town 
Monday and Tuesday.  He  stated  that  the 
business men of  the  Saginaw  Valley  were 
much taken back by  the  decision,  and  that 
they proposed  to  secure the 
introduction 
of a similar bill in the next Legislature, tak­
ing good care that the  unconstitutional  fea­
tures be eliminated.

“What are the candies we make composed 
of?”  repeated  a local  manufacturer,  in  re­
sponse to  an  inquiry.  “Well,  sugar  is  the 
principal  article. 
It  is  mixed  with  glu­
cose to break  the  grain,  for  you  know  as 
soon as sugar becomes hard it  crumbles  the 
same as before it  was  melted.  Before  glu­
cose was invented we used cream tartar, but 
you see glucose is sweet and helps  to  make 
better candy and is  also perfectly  pure  and 
harmless.”

“You estimate Joe  Martin’s  property  al­
together too low,” said a prominent business 
man the other day.  “Not long ago his clerk 
showed me a list of live  mortgages  held  by 
him  aggregating  $167,000,  to say  nothing 
of the property he has  scooped  in  by  fore­
closures. 
Including  his  bank  and  other 
stocks, he must be worth  at  least  $300,000. 
Another authority, who formerly  represent­
ed his ward in the Common  Council,  stated 
that when the city was easting about for the 
location of a pest house a few years  ago,  he 
was on the committee for that  purpose,  and 
was interviewed by Martin, who at that time 
owned nearly 100 places in  and  around  the 
city, some of them quite valuable.

ABOUND  THE  STATE.

R. A. Cannaga has engaged in the boot and 

shoe business at Nashville.

J. P. Anderson will erect  a  new  store  at 

Saranac the coming season.

•

Frank E.  Willett,  clothier  at  Flint,  has 

made an assignment to H. C. Spencer.

Chas. Sackrider & Co. succeed J. K. Flood 

in the dry goods business at Hart. 

Darling &  Roberts  have  engaged  in  the 
grocery and boot and shoe business at Sparta.
Jay Knudsen has purchased the meat mar­
ket business of Hanton & Forbes, at  White­
hall.

Jacob Jesson & Co. have moved their Cen­
tral drug store at Muskegon to the Landreth 
block.

Van Ort, Witvliet & Beenwkes,  hardware 
dealers at Holland,  are  succeeded  by  Van 
Ort & Beenwkes.

Er. Garrison,  of  Fort  Wayne,  Ind.,  has 
the  grocery  stock  of  L.  W. 

purchased 
Galloway, at Hudson.

Angell •& Blakeslee have sold  their  meat 
market at Saranac to Blakeslee Bros., late of 
Belding, who will continue the business.

W.  C.  Tuttle’s  drug  stock,  Albion,  in­
voiced at $7,000, was bid in by J.  W.  Shel­
don,  one  of  the  principal  creditors,  for 
$2,000.

A. H. & A.Y.  Ayers  have  formed  a  co­
partnership at Howard  City under  the  firm 
name of Ayers  Bros..,  and  engaged  in  the 
grocery business.

Chas.  Deska  has  rented  the  Pentwater 
Lumber Co.’s old  stand  at  Pentwater  and 
put in a complete new  stock.  Clark, Jew­
ell & Co. furnished it.

O.J. Knapp and  H.  E.  Walsworth  have, 
formed  a  co-partnership  and  engaged  in 
the  general  grocery  business  at  Howard 
City, under the firm name of Knapp & Wals­
worth. 

1

, 

Contrary to previous report, I. M. Pattison 
& Co., druggists at Millbrook, have not gone 
out of business, and do not contemplate such 
a move.  They will remove to Mecosta, how­
ever, about April 1.

Mancelona Herald:  Judge C. S. Edwards 
has purchased the new store at  the furnace. 
We learn that a stock of drugs’  and  grocer­
ies will be put in when the building  is com­
pleted.  The store is one of the best and the 
location all that can be desired.

A young man by the name  of  Cudebeck, 
son of R.  Cudebeck, of  Ashton,  has  been 
arrested and  taken  to  the  county  jail  at 
Hersey for burning the store of A. C. Adams 
at Ashton last week.  The young  man had 
some $200 worth of goods that he  had  stol­
en from the store before  setting  fire  to  it, 
and was preparing  to  start  out  peddling. 
His father is one of the wealthiest  men  of 
Osceola county, being a heavy money lender. 
The young man’s reputation for honesty has 
always been good, and no  cause  is  known 
for this act of which he is accused.

STRAY  FACTS.

Dennison is talking cheese  factory.
“Hen aigs” are advertised  by  a  Baldwin 

dealer.

The Kalkaska Manufacturing Co.  has  be­

gun making packing boxes.

Webber & Farnsworth have started a new 

wooden bowl factory at Shelby.

The Mancelona Herald says  that another 
handle factory is contemplated at that place.
The Sheffield  Velocipede  Car  Co.,  with 
$100,000 capital,  has  just  been  started  at 
Three Rivers.

The Mackinaw Lumber Co. has begun  the 
erection of a large planing and  shingle  mill 
at West Branch.

Heneka &  Tousley,  the  Petoskey  furni­
ture dealers, recently assigned, will probably 
pay not to exceed 75 per  cent.

Efforts are being made to establish a hard­
wood mill to cut the beech and maple  to  be 
found in abundance near Manistique.

Cole &  Stone,  manufacturers  of  shirts, 
collars and cuffs at Paw  Paw,  will  remove 
their business*to Muskegon next month.

A  very  heavy  lumbering  business  has 
been done in Cheboygan county this winter. 
One lumberman  alone  employed  over  500 
men.

The Saginaw Manufacturing Co. has lately 
turned out 100,000 grease boxes in one week, 
and the factory’s capacity was not more than 
one-half tested.

Messrs. Billings and Coburn,  of  Chicago, 
and B. Hunter, of Keystone, have  formed  a 
co-partnership and will engage in the manu­
facture of brick at the latter point.

Blume &-Co., proprietors  of  “The  Fair” 
and “The Peoples  Clothing  Store,” at Dow- 
agic, have made an  assignment  to  John  T. 
Tyron.  They had a branch store at Decatur.
A  Saginaw  grocer  named  Guyde  set  a 
spring gun for burglars inside his store door. 
There is evidence that somebody  received  a 
full charge of buckshot, and the  police  now 
have their eyes on a suspect, who  has .been 
mysteriously shot in the face and  hands.

The American Lumber Co., which  recent­
ly failed, has  commenced  operations  again 
at Dollarville.  The men have been paid  off 
and have gone back to  work.  A  board  of 
managers has been appointed to oversee  the 
business, instead of one manager as  former­
ly.

Jk F. Hanrahan, the Coopersville  agricul­
tural implement  dealer,  who recently made 
an assignment  to  Roswell Lillie,  makes a 
showing  of  $3,000  liabilities  and  $5,800 
assets.  The latter are  in  the form  of notes 
from farmers,  and although  perfectly  good, 
are at present uncollectable,  hence  the fail­
ure.

The  manufactories  of Ypsilanti comprise 
two first-class flouring mills,  a  woolen  fac­
tory, four paper mills, capable of turning out 
five tons of paper per day each, one machine 
shop for the manufacture of paper  mill  ma­
chinery, three foundries, two  with  machine 
shops in connection,  two  extensive  lumber 
yards, three sash, blind  aud  door  factories, 
one carriage factory, owned by a  stock com­
pany, and others owned by private firms.

Creditors  have levied  attachments  upon 
the  entire real  estate of B.  S.  Tib bits,  the 
Coldwater cigar manufacturer.  H e recently 
placed ’ a  mortgage  upon  all  his  personal 
property and real estate,whenjhe was offered 
a settlement at 50 cents on the dollar, which 
it  is alleged,  he  agreed  to,  but  recently 
“went back on” the offer  and sold  out  his 
entire business.  The attachments cover the 
cigar  factories,  opera  house  and  skating 
rink.  The amount of his  estimated  liabili­
ties is $100,000.

A new company has recently been  organ­
ized at Republic, which, for a  wonder,  says 
a local paper, is not  a  mining  corporation. 
It bears the name of the United States Steel- 
Plate Co., and is organized with a capital  of 
$1,000,000,  for 
the  purpose  of  manufac­
turing  an  invention  for  turning  iron  into

Fine Pharmaceutical <&

steel.  The process consists of an application 
of chemicals to iron plates, whiQh is  said  to 
change them  at  once  to  the  very  hardest 
steel. 
It was invented about a year  ago  by 
Mr. M. L. Healy, of Republic, and has since 
been patented.  The  company  will  imme­
diately set about  putting  the  piocess  to  a 
practical  test  by  disposing  of  territorial 
rights for its use.

Status  0! the  Burt  Case.

N. G. Burt, who has been engaged in gen­
eral trade at Cross Village for the  past  five 
years, has been compelled, by  the  stress of 
adverse circumstances, to make  an  assign­
ment to Orville H. Shurtleff, of the  firm  of 
Shurtleff Bros.,  of  the  same  place.  The 
stock  inventories  about  $1,300  and  will 
probably be appraised at about $1,000.  The 
book accounts  amount  to  $1,200  and  are 
probably worth  $500.  The  liabilities ag­
gregate  $2,696,  distributed  among  eight 
creditors in the following amounts:
Hannah, Lay & Co., Traverse C ity........... $1,390
Spring1 & Company, Grand Rapids...........  
¡250
Rindge, Bertsch & Co. 
225
Clark, Jewell & Co. 
314
175
E. G. Studley & Co. 
100
Jacob Barth 
Hawkins & Perry 
218
Detroit Safe  Co., Detroit............................ 
24
The above facts were  obtained  from Mr. 
Jewell, of Clark, Jewell & Co., who made a 
pilgriniage to Cross Village last week.  Mr. 
E. G. Studley  sent  a Petoskey  attorney  to 
the scene of the failure, and has a  report to 
the effect that the stock will appraise $2,000 
and the accounts $1,500. 
If  the  latter  fig­
ures are correct, Burt will  undoubtedly  be 
able to pay dollar for dollar. 
It  is  stated 
that lie was  averse  to  making  an  assign­
ment, and only did so to protect  his  Grand 
Rapids creditors when  threatened  with  at­
tachment by Hannah, Lay & Co.

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Galster Gone to  Canada— His  Figures.
F. J. Galster, the Boyne  Falls  bankrupt, 
has fled to Canada, the incentive  being  the 
threat of a Cleveland firm to  prosecute  him 
for obtaining goods  under  false  pretenses. 
He has claimed to his creditors that he own- 
| ed a farm and the  store  building  in  which 
he  did  business,  while 
recent  develop­
ments reveal the fact that he owned neither. 
The claim of his wife for $600, of his moth­
er for $1,000, and a dealer in old  coins  for 
$211, were all refused by the assignee, leav­
ing  the  liabilities  at  $1,602,  distributed 
among  15  creditors 
following 
amounts:
Foster, Stevens & Co., Grand  Rapids.......$375
Ira O. Green 
Welling & Carhart 
Cody, Ball & Co, 
John Caulfield 
Chas. E.  Belknap 
Eaton & Christensen 
Brown, Hall & Co. 
C. 
J. Pulcher 
E.  G. Studley 
M. H. Treusch 
-----Weirich,  Detroit...................................   153
Pribyl Bros.,  Chicago.................................  63
Adams & Ford,  Cleveland..........................   415
Novelty Cutlery Co., residence unknown.. 

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100
 
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118
 
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63
The assets include $1,365 worth  of  stock 
and $80 in book accounts, which are  worth­
less.

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Littlefield’s  Liabilities.

J. K. Wright, assignee for  W. W.  Little­
field, general dealer at  St.  Louis,  has filed 
his report of the mvoiee showing the  liabil­
ities to be  $6,313.95,  distributed  among 47 
creditors, Welling & Carhart being the on^y 
Grand Rapids  dealers interested,  and  they 
only  to the extent of  $63.10.  The  assets 
are $4,692.99, including the following items: 
Drygoods  and  groceries,  $1,836.83;  cloth­
ing  $1,614.49;  book  accounts,  $1,241.67. 
The assignee advertises  for  sealed  propos­
als for the whole of the assets, or each stock 
separately, or the book accounts.

Druggists  Protecting Themselves.

The New York Druggists’ Union have re­
solved to stand by and protect the manufac­
turers  of  proprietary  and  pharmaceutical 
preparations who  agree  not  to  sell  their 
goods to pharmacists and  druggists  known 
to undersell the retail  price  as  established 
by manufacturers.  Under these  conditions 
the druggists agree to  support  such  manu­
facturers by doing all  they  can  to  further 
their interests, by refusing to sell any imita­
tions of their preparations,  to  notify  them 
promptly of any  imitation  which  may  be 
offered, and to furnish the names of  whole­
sale  druggists  who  violate  the  agreement, 
and of brokers who may sell to or  purchase 
for “scalpers” and “cutters.”

Late  Furniture  Gossip.

The furniture  for the new  hotel at  Santa 
Fee,  N.  M.,  will  he  purchased  in  Grand 
Rapids.

Henika & Tousley, retail furniture dealers 
at Petoskey, have made an assignment to H. 
C. Peister.

A. E. Palmer, chair manufacturer at Read­
ing, will move his factory to Hillsdale in the 
course of a month.

Thomas Rollinson, of Watertown,  N.  Y., 
will open a furniture and undertaking  busi­
ness at Port Huron.

The following  wholesome  advice,  volun­
teered by  a  valued  correspondent  of  the 
American Furniture Gazette,  of  Chicago, 
is particularly applicable to this State, where 
the craze to create  new  furniture  factories 
has lately developed into a mania:  “I think 
there is a good deal more danger to be  fear­
ed this year from over production than from 
politics.  The calm joyousness and confidence 
with which the owners of  back-woods  saw­
mills are rushing into furniture making, will 
soon, it appears  to  me,  create  a  large  de­
mand for sack-cloth and  ashes.  This* is  a 
big country, and  can  take  a  great  deal  of 
furniture, but there is a  limit  to  its  furni­
ture absorbing  capacity,  which  limit  must 
be pretty nearly reached. 
In the  meantime 
dozens of men who have  a  water  power,  a 
circular-saw, a planer, and  a  cheap  lumber 
supply, have got an insane notion that there’s 
millions in the furniture  business,  and  are 
rushing into it by  wholesale.  Their  aggre­
gate capacity isn’t so very great, perhaps, but 
they are turning out  enough  poor  goods  at 
cheap prices to demoralize things if the game 
is kept up.  Those thinking of enlarging  or 
of starting new in furniture making—espec­
ially common  goods—and  who  are  at  the 
same time in search of  good  advice  should 
not overlook Punch’s advice to  those  about 
to marry:—’Don’t.’ ”
Influence of a  Political  Year on Tobacco Con­

sumption.

“There will be 25 per cent,  more 

tobac­
co chewed this year than  ordinarily,” said a 
jobber  whose  cognomen  is  suggestive  of 
physical prowess.

“How do you make  that out?” asked The 

Tradesm an’s tobacco reporter.

“For the reason that during periods of ex­
citement people use more of the weed  than 
usual.  Old duffers who would  under other 
circumstances be at work at  home,  and  do 
without tobacco altogether, or at  least use it 
sparingly, seek  the  corner  grocery  or  the 
village tavern to discuss the  political  situa­
tion  with  associates—and  ‘chaw’.  Rural 
patriots who  go to  bed at  8  -o’clock  three 
years eut of four hie themselves  away  to a 
‘perlitical meetin’ ’ and ornament the school 
house walls and floors  with juice. 
In this 
way,  they chew  about  three  hours  longer 
than usual, and  being  under  more  or  less 1 
excitement, chew vigorously.”
Fruit  and  Nuts.

On account of  the  ruinously  low  prices 
ruling on oranges for the past  two or  three 
weeks, the  importers  have  nearly  stopped 
shipping and the result is a scarcity of fruit; 
and a sharp advance  and  better  prices  are 
pow looked  for  from  this  time  forward. 
Lemons are also doing better and prices  are 
firm at a small advance.  Nuts are  firm and 
steady, with the exception of Brazils,  which 
are lower.

Dealers or others in want  of  a  fine  car­
riage, buggy or delivery  wagon  should  not 
fail to call and see specimens of the work of 
the Spiral Spring Buggy Co.,  at  the  corner 
of East Bridge  and  Ottawa  streets.  Those 
who  are  unable  to  come  to  the  city  will 
be  supplied  with  descriptive  circulars 
and price lists, on application.
Rare Opportunity.

I offer for Sale my Entire  Stock,  consist­
ing of Dry Goods, Boots and Shoes,  Grocer­
ies, etc., together with  the  Good  Will  of  a 
Thriving Business,  and will Lease my Store 
to  the  purchaser of the Stock at  a  reasonar 
ble price,—the best location in the village.
I also offer my Grain  Elevator,—size  20x 
44—with Steam Power and Cleaner, with  a 
capacity of 4,000 bushels, all in  good  condi­
tion and doing a paying business.
My reasons for selling  are  entirely  satis­
factory, and this offer presents a rare  oppor­
tunity for an energertic man with  moderate 
capital to invest in  a  well-established  busi­
ness.

M. A. HANCE,

Bellevue,  Mich.

FOX, MUSSELMAN & LOVERIDGE,

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

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

Nimrod, Acori Chief, Crescent & M  Seal Plug; Totaos.

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

Tobaccos, Vinegars and. Spices 

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

—WE  MAKE SPECIAL CLAIM /OR OUR—

CORRESPONDENCE  SOLICITED.

WHOLESALE

Hat  aud  Gap  Store!

PRICES  GUARANTEED 

AS  LOW  AS  CHICAGO  AND  NEW  YORK l
GOOD  FUR CAPS, $22.50  PER  DOZEN.  —  WOOL  HATS,  $4.50  AND  UPWARDS 

GENUINE  FUR  HATS, $13.50  AND  UPWARDS.

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

Imported Scotch. Caps,

Lumbermen’s Goods, 

Machinaw Shirts cfc Lrawres.

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

Pontiac Fulled Mitts, Socks  and  Boots!

E V E R Y   ONE  W ARRANTED .

Clothing  and  Gent’s  Furnishing  Goods.

----- LARGE  LINE  OF-—

DUCK  OVERALLS, THREE  POCKETS, $3.50  PER  DOZEN.

11®"  Terms—7 per cent, off in 10 days;  5 per cent, in 30 days;  net in 60 days.

X.  O.  LEVI,

3 6 ,3 8 ,40  and  42  CANAL  STREET, 

Fruit & Produce at Wholesale

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN1*1

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Choice Butter, Eggs, Cheese, Mince  Meat, Maple 
Syrup,  Jellies,  Buckwheat  Flour,  and  Foreign  and 
Domestic  Fruits  and  Vegetables.

Careful  A ttention  Paid  to  Filling  Orders.

M. C. Russell, 48 Ottawa St., G’d Rapids.
SEEDS

O. P. BIGELOW,

—WHOLESALE  DEALER IN—

—FOR  THE—

FIELD  AND  GARDEN,

— -AT—

WHOLESALE  AND  RETAIL,
SEEB STORE,

—AT THE—

91  Canal St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

W. T. LAMOREAUI, Agent.

SURGICAL  INSTRUMENTS

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A PPL IA N C E S,
NO. 8  CANAL  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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