The Michigan Tradesman.

VOL.  1.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN,  WEDNESDAY,  MARCH  19,  1884.

NO. 26.

DRUG  STORES  FOR  SALE.

BU SIN ESS  LAW.

COMMUNICATED.

HOW  WE  LIVE.

THE  EDITOR’S  BLUNDER.

C0M M ISSI0N   MERCHANTS.

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Brief  Digests  of  Recent  Decisions in  Courts 

Method  to  Defeat .a Fleeing  Delinquent 

-Dis-

Nutritious  Qualities  of  Various  Foods 

Vari-

He Thought He  Knew  a Book Ageut  By  Intui- 

tion.

He was well-dressed,  and  to  all  appear­
ances a thorough  gentleman.  On  opening 
the office door he*immediately walked  over 
to the editor’s desk, and remarked:

“Fine morning, this.”
“No,”  replied the editor,  as he  mentally 
sized up the stranger, “ I don’t want a  Uni­
versal Compendium of  Human  Knowledge 
to be paid for on the easy  payment,  mutual 
life insurance plan.”

“My good sir, began the  other.”
“I’ve got ‘Flowers of  Poesy, ” interrupted 
the pencil pusher,  and my library is as com­
plete as I want it.”

“But,” said the stranger.
“Oh, you have some patent suspender but­
tons.  Well,” and the editor turned round as 
though he had nothing more to say,  “I  have 
cast iron fastenings that never come of,  and 
they can’t wear out.  Good day.”

You don’t understand,”  commenced  the 
well-dressed man, but the editor didn’t allow 
him to finish the sentence,

“Oh, yes I do,” he said,  “you want  me  to 
make my  fortune by  going  into  a  scheme 
for buying up all the orange lands of Florida. 
I ’m in that  already. 
I’m  in  the  Colorado 
silver mining scheme;  my house is well-pro­
vided  with lightning  rods. 
I  don’t  want 
any  plaster  of  Paris  statuary,  and  I 
never pay for what I buy  anyway.”

“There is some  mistake.”
“No, there is no mistake,” said the editor, 
taking the words out of  the  other’s  mouth, 
“and I haven’t got the time to talk  to  book 
agents, peddlers, or anybody like you.”

“Oh, very well,” observed the stranger,  as 
he started for the door,  “I  called  round  to 
pay a little bill, but as you  haven’t  time  to 
talk with me, good day.”

And now the office mourns for a bill  that 

never will be  paid.

Imitation  Butter and  Cheese.

Some curious facts regarding the manufac­
ture of butter and cheese, have been testified 
to before the committee  of  the  New  York 
Senate, appointed to investigate the adulter­
ation of food products:

Dr. E. W. Martin, a chemist,  who  during 
the past year investigated, under  the  direc­
tion of the State Board  of  Health,  several 
factories where imitation cheese  was  made, 
testified  that  in  one  factory  at  Chesire, 
Orange covnty, it was found that the cheeses 
made consisted principally of pure lard,  the 
constituent portions being in  the  proportion 
of 75 per cent, of lard to 35  per cent or but­
ter.  The lard used was rendered  at  a  very 
low temperature, scarcely higher than blood 
heat, and was of the grade  known  as  deo­
dorized lard.  The witness  did  not  think 
that the temperature employed would be suf­
ficient  to destroy any germs  of  animal  life 
that might exist.  Dr. Love testified that out 
of 30 samples of what was sold to him as pure 
butter, only six was genuine, while  the  rest 
were  imitations.  In some of the latter there 
was a small percentage of butter fat. 
In no 
case was it found that there was as much  as 
10 per cent, of pure butter put in the product. 
No traces of nitric acid were  foimd in any of 
the  samples  analyzed.

The  Maple  Sugar  Production.

The production of maple sugar  by  States 
is given in one of the last  census  volumes. 
In this product  Vermont  leads  all  other 
States.  The production is increasing, which 
is gratifying from two points  of  view—the 
prosperity of  a  farmer’s  industry  and  the 
preservation of the  forests.  The fact of the 
increase iff production indicates that the ma­
ple forests are at least not being  destroyed. 
The total production of maple sugar in  1870 
was 38,448,000 pounds ;  in 1880,  36,576,000. 
The States producing over a million  pounds 
in 1870 and 1880 were as  follows :

1880.

1870.
Vermont................ ............8,864,303
New  York............. .............6,693,040
Ohio....................... ............. 3,469,619
New Hampshire... ............. 1,800,704
............ ............. 1,781,855
Michigan 
Pennsylvania....... ............. 1,545,917
Indiana.................. ............. 1,332,333

11,261,077
10,603,619
2,895,782
2,131,745
3,433,140
2,866,010
335,117
Apparently, Ohio and Indiana  have  been 
clearing away their maple forests.  The total 
production was nearly as large as at  present 
in 1850, when the production  of  Ohio  was 
4,500,000 and that of New York as  large  as 
at present.  The  largest  production  of  all 
wasj reached  in 1860, when  over 40,000,000 
pounds was produced,  even  Massachusetts 
having over 1,000,0000 pounds, against  878,- 
000 in 1879.

The  Business  in  General,  and  South  Water 

Street  in  Particular.

“The evils of the commission business are 
not all on South Water street, nor are  they 
confined to the commission  dealers,” said a 
local representative of  the  latter  class  the 
other day.  “As an instance of  the injustice 
frequently meted out  to us,  I  will  relate, 
briefly, an experience that we  recently  had 
with an out-of-town dealer.  He  consigned 
us several crates of eggs just at a time when 
they happened to be a drag in  the  market. 
He stated that  he  had  paid  35  cents  per 
dozen, and  should  expect  more  than  that 
figure.  As a matter  of¿fact, we  were  get­
ting only 33 cents, with  slow  sale  at that. 
We spent half a day driving around,  solicit­
ing a sale,  but  without  success.  About a 
week later we effected a sale  to  a  Cadillac 
dealer at 33 cents, on sixty  days’ time,  and 
immediately sent the  consignor  our  check 
for the full amount, deducting  no  commis­
sion. 
In the meantime we received  an  ur­
gent request for an account of sales, and the 
receipt of the check brought about an  angry 
response, stating that the  eggs  could  have 
been disposed of at home for 38  cents,  and 
intimating that we would  sometime come to 
realize  that  ‘honesty  is  the  best  policy.’ 
The writer  also  enclosed  a  copy  of  the 
Grand Rapids Eagle’s market,  for  the  cur­
rent day, quoting eggs at 30 cents, evidently 
thinking that sufficent authority for the posi­
tion taken. 
It seems that  outside  dealers 
will never come to realize  that  no  dépend­
ance whatever can be placed on the  market 
reports of the local  dailies.  We do  not us­
ually pay any attention to  complaints  from 
consignors, but in this case I  gathered  quo­
tations from several markets, including those 
in The Tradesm an, and  forwarded  them 
to the growler.  This  experience  is  but  a 
repetition of similar ones  happening  every 
week, and goes to show the utter  thankless­
ness  of  the  commission  merchant’s  busi­
ness.”

“Duplicate  books  and  other  species  of 
trickery may pay for a time,  and those  who 
practice such  frauds  may  flourish  like  a 
green  bay  tree,”  said  a  leading  produce 
dealer,  “but there comes a time  when  theft 
ceases to be  profitable.  And  the  firm  of 
G. Lasher & Son, of South Water street, has 
found  that  time.  Two  years  ago  they 
handled about 100 carloads of  Scotch  pota­
toes for a  New York firm.  The  latter was 
not satisfied  with  the  returns  made  and 
sent out an attorney to look the  matter  up. 
He foimd  where most of  the  potatoes  had 
been placed, and. between the amount realiz­
ed  and  the  account  of  sales 
rendered 
discovered a  discrepancy  of  about  $5,000. 
Lasher & Son refused to make amends,  and 
an action for embezzlement is now  pending 
against them, the outcome of  which  will be 
looked for with considerable interest.”

The  Difference  in  Dealers.
From the Chicago Purchasing Agent.

The Michigan Tradesm an,  in  its issue 
of March 5th, has an article on “South Water 
Street Rascality,” giving  the  experience  of 
some parties with their consignments of pro­
duce, etc., to commission  men  in  our  city. 
There is no question,  that  among  the  vast 
multitude claiming to transact a commission 
business on the thoroughfare named, parties 
of questionable probity may be found, but it is 
unjust to throw doubt upon the class  gener­
ally.  As honest firms in  this  branch, as  in 
any  other  in  this  city  or  elsewhere,  are 
plenty, but the trouble with shippers  gener­
ally, who are not in the habit of making con­
signments, is, that somehow they see or hear 
of extra inducements being offered by parties 
ostensibly  in the business here,  who,  when 
they catch “fresh” parties,  either  make  no 
returns at all, or else turn the goods  over  to 
some good commission  house,  who  sell  the 
goods, deducting commissions, while  the  re­
ceiver takes another commission on  the  bal­
ance.  Stick  to  well-known  reliable  com­
mission men, and  but  little  may  be  expect­
ed.

D oubtful  Com plim ent  for  Mr. Russell.
Tom Morehouse, who is understood  to  be 
a shining exception to the great mass of dis­
reputable dealers who are in the majority on 
South Water street,  writes as follows:
Mr. M. C. Russell, of your  city,  who  has 
been making a tour of South Water street to 
discover an honest man, lias also made a tour 
of the Dime Museum here, where he  discov­
ered the beauty show. 
I understand he  has 
made an engagement with the manager to be­
come the next  attraction,  as  the  manager 
thinks the people here would  willingly  pay 
a dime to  see  an  honest  man  from  Grand 
Rapids.

A  North  Carolina  professor  makes  this 
statement: “Cookingsoda, water, and almost 
any oil will make a  good  article  of  milk, 
from which cream will  rise.  Tallow,  laid, 
suet and some  vegetable oil, with  artificial 
milk are all one  needs  for  making  butter. 
Chinamen construct cheese out  of [peas  and 
beans and fat, flavored withcocoanut;” from 
which an exchange  argues  that “the gentle 
cow must go.”  But  we  are  inclined  to 
think the g. c. will stay with us.
travelers 

comparing 
notes: “I have been out three weeks,” said the 
first, “and have only got four orders.”  “That 
beats me,” said the other,  “I have been  out 
four weeks,” and have only  got  one  order, 
and that’s an order  from  the  firm  to  come 
home.” 

Two  commercial 

w„.

The Wool  Clip  of the  United  States.

The wool  clip  of  the  United  States  for 
1883 is said to exceed that of 1883  by  about 
30,000,000 pounds,  aggregating  330,000,000 
pounds.  The increase has been  principally 
in the Territories.  The consumptive requir- 
ments of American mills are about 7,000,000 
pounds per week,  so  that  even  with  the 
above increase in the domestic supply, there 
will still be a deficiency  for  domestic  con­
sumption of about 50,000,000  pounds  to  be 
provided for  by  importation.  The  defic­
iency is chiefly in carpet wools, to the growth 
of  which  comparatively  little  attention  is 
given in this country.

Boralumine. 

It is the ’

RUG^STO^K^DR^SALET^The^rDrCauÌ- 
kins  stock  and  business  at  Fife Lake. 
Address H. B. Fairchild, Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

for  $3,500  or  invoice.  Owner has other 
business.  Address  Hazeltine,  Perkins  & Co., 
Wholesale Druggists, Grand Rapids, Mich.

DRUG STORK FOR SALE in Grand Rapids, 
D RUG STORE FOR SALE  at  Otsego,  Mich.

$3,000.  Address Hazeltine, Perkins & Co., 

Wholesale Druggists, Grand Rapids,  Mich.
LIVERY  STABLE  FOR  SALE.

RARE  CHANCE  to  purchase  a  first-class 

Livery Stock including  one  of  Cunning­
ham’s best hearses.  Will take as part payment 
good  improved  farm  property.  Will sell  or 
rent barn and grounds.  Tne  best  location in 
the best livery town  in the  State.  Address, P. 
O. Box 318, Big Rapids, Mich.
WANTED

&OOD  SECOMD-HAND SAFE wanted at this 
GC__________ ___
office.  Must be cheap.  Address,  stilting
office.  M 
size and price.
FO R   SA L S,

Stock of  drugs  and  hardware  located  at 
New Troy,  Mich.  For  particulars  enquire 
of Jennings & Smith, 30 Lyon street,  Grand 
Rapids, Mich.

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Their

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of Last  Resort.

L iability  of Com m on|Carriers.

Where a common  carrier receives goods in 
order to transport them  from  one  point  to 
another and fails  to  deliver  them  at  the 
point of destination it is liable for the reason­
able value of the goods at that point,  it  not 
being  shown that the failure to  deliver was 
occasioned by inevitable accident or  by  the 
act of the public enemy, and the carrier can­
not escape its liability by  showing  that the 
means of transportation employed by it were 
furnished to it by  others.—St.  Louis  Court 
of Appeals.

P artn ersh ip .

In the absence of fraud each one of a firm 
has the right to dispose of the complete part­
nership interests and is considered to be  the 
authorized agent of the firm.  And  in  case 
of an actual disagreement the weight  of  au­
thority is in favor of the the power  of a ma­
jority of a firm, acting in good faith, to  bind 
the minority and such ought to be  the  law; 
for where there is a community  of  interest, 
certainly it is the will of  the  majority,  and 
not the will of  the  minority  that  ought  to 
control.  If there is a fraudulentfcombination 
on the part of the majority to injure  or  op­
press the minority, the  law  is  otherwise 
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.
Option  D eal  Invalid.

In August, 1883, G. and  W.  entered  into 
contract according  to which G.  was  to  pay 
W. $100 for the privilege of buying from him 
100 bales of choice hops of the crop of  1883, 
to be delivered at the former’s store on or be­
fore January 1, 1883.  The price was  to  be 
50 cents per pound whenever the hops  were 
tendered,  provided  G.  accepted  them;  he, 
however,  had  the privilege  of  refusing  to 
buy, and  if he refused, was  to forfeit  $100, 
Hops went up, W. refused  to deliver accord 
ing to contract, and G. entered suit, in which 
Judge Blodgett, in the U. S. Circuit Court at 
Chicago held the contract void on the ground 
that it was a gambling contract. 
It was,  he 
said, an agreement by which the plaintiff ac­
quired an option at  a  future  day  to  buy  a 
quantity of hops, and the only penalty there­
under was forfeiture.  There was no obliga­
tion to take the hops, and the contract  was, 
therefore, in his'opinion, a mere bet of  $100 
as to whether the plaintiff would, at the  ex­
piration of a certain time, take the  hops  or 
forfeit $100.

reputable  Dealers.

Palo, Mich., Mar. 7,1884.

Editor T r adesm an:—1 read The Mich­
igan Tradesm an, and am more  and  more 
pleased with it.  Especially am I  pleased to 
see the “dead-deat” discussed.  It has a long 
time  ago occurred to me that  when  one  of 
a dealer’s delinquents leaves him and goes to 
a new field to practice his peculiar  methods 
that there ought to be an understanding gen­
erally among dealers  throughout  the  coun­
try and an itemized statement of his account 
sent to some dealer  in  the  new  field,  to­
gether  with  a  statement  of his character. 
Such a course would be far  ahead  of  what 
the American Creditors’ Association  can  do 
in that  direction, for then when  Mr.  D.  B. 
asks for favors, he could be confronted with 
an unsettled  account.
There is, to my mind, a worse  class of D. 
B.’s than the one discussed, and which honest 
wholesalers and honest retailers are,or should 
be, alike concerned about to  such  an extent 
that they  co-operate  against  them.  The 
class I speak of are the  retail  dealers  who 
have,  nor  can have, nothing else to recom­
mend them to the public  consideration  than 
“cheap!  cheap!  c h e a p!” who buy goods of 
confiding wholesalers  and sell  them  out  at 
such  ruinous  rates—sometimes  less  than 
cost, as some in  a  neighboring  village  are 
doing on sugar—that  their  bills  cannot  be 
paid and as a consequence, trade is becoming 
demoralized  and just and true men are made 
to suffer.  Let  us  hear  somebody  else  on 
this subject.

Very Respectfully Yours,

Giddeon  N oel. .

Good  Word  for  Grand  Rapids  from  a  Frank- 

Dealer.

Franefort,  Mich., March 10,1884.

Editor  Tradesm an:—I  think  your  pa­
per a good  one. 
It  is  neatly  printed  and 
chuck full of business, and should be in  the 
hands of  every  live  merchant  who  makes 
Grand  Rapids or Detroit their buying  point. 
With us here  at  Frankfort, it  is  different. 
We  have  no  communication  with  Grand 
Rapids.  We have steamboat and sail  vessel 
connection direct with Chicago and  Milwau­
kee, getting lower freight rates than railroads 
give, but in buying  it,  perhaps,  makes  but 
little  difference. 
I  think  Grand  Rapids 
quotations  compare  favarably  with  theirs, 
and  I  find  in  a  few 
they  are 
even lower. 
I see by The T radesm an that 
your wholesale  merchants  are  plucky,  and 
have plenty of push and perseverance, which 
I have no  doubt  will  make  your  city  the 
headquartersjfor Michigan merchants on the 
line of roads from there.
The Toledo, Ann Arbor & Northern Mich­
igan Railroad contemplates making  our  vil­
lage the lake terminus of  their  road, which 
bring us in closer business  relationship with 
Grand  Rapids,  especially  for  the  winter’s 
trade, navigation being then  closed.  Wish­
ing you success, I am,

items 

Respectfully,

Ch as.  B urmeister.

ously  Cooked.

The world little imagines how largely it is 
indebted to the laborious researches of scien­
tific medical men for many of  the  most  im­
portant truths relative tojhuman health, hap­
piness and  life.  As  population  increases 
the value of food is enhanced, the knowledge 
which  chemistry  has  elicited  is  becoming 
more and more valuable in a practical  point 
of view.

Some kinds of  food  are  more  nutritious 
than others, and if it should  be  found  that 
articles which are  cheapest  have  the  most 
nutriment and give  the  highest  ability  to 
labor, then knowledge becomes money to the 
poor.  Tables vary, but some of the  general 
results are as follows:  One  pound  of  rice, 
prepared for the table,  gives 88  per  cent  of 
nutriment, and,  consequently,  a  relatively 
proportional ability to labor, compared  witn 
other articles of  food.  A  pound  of  beef, 
costing fifteen cents, gives only 35 per  cent, 
nutriment.  Yet  countless  numbers  of  the 
poor in New York strain to a point daily  to 
purchase beef at fifteen cents a pound, when 
they  could get a pound of rice for  one-third 
of the amount, the  rice,  too,  having  three 
times as much nutriment as  beef,  making  a 
practical difference of  800  per  cent.,  aside 
from the fact that boiled rice is  three  times 
easier of digestion than boiled beef, the rice 
being digested in about one hour, roast beef 
requiring three hours and  a  half.  There  is 
meaning,  then, in the reputed fact that two- 
fifths of the human family live on rice.

We compile the following  tables  for  pre­
servation, as being practically  and  perman­
ently useful.  Ail the economist  requires  is 
to  compare  the  price  of  a  pound  of  food 
with  the amount of nutriment which  it  af­
fords :
Percentage of
Kind of
Mode of
food.
nutriment.
preparation.
..................... 95
........ raw...........
Oils..................
........ boiled___ ..................... 93
Peas................
..................... 92
Barley.............
.......boiled ....
Corn bread__ ........ baked ___ .......................91
..................... 90
Wheat bread.. ........ baked ..  .
Rice.................. ........ boiled___ .......................88
Beans.............
........boiled .... .......................87
........ baked___ ....................... 79
Rye bread.......
Oat meal........ ..........porridge . ....................... 74
Mutton............
......................30
........ broiled...
........ raw .......... .......................39
Plums.............
Grapes............
..........raw ......... .......................37
..........raw.......... .......................36
B eef...............
Poultry........... ..........roast....... .......................36
..........roast....... ....................... 34
Pork...............
.......... fried....... .......................34
Veal................
Oft
Venison.......... ..........broiled...
..........boiled__ .......................31
Codfish ..........
E ggs...............
..........whipped. .......................13
Apples........... ........... raw......... .......................10
Milk  ............... ............raw.........
....  7
Turnips.......... ............raw......... .......................  4
Melons............ ........... raw......... .......................   3
2
Cucumbers__ ............raw .......

M aker  of Note  Responsible.

In the case of Art vs. Fowler, the Supreme 
Court of Kansas held recently, that a person 
who, being in full possession of all  his  fac­
ulties, and able to read,  though  slowly  and 
with difficulty, signs a promissory note under 
the belief that it is an instrment of a  differ­
ent character and does  so  without  himself 
reading the instrument, but  relying  on  the 
reading and representations of a stranger, is 
guilty of such negligence as will render  him 
liable on the note to a bone fida holder there­
of.

In the case of the Centenial  building  and 
Loan  Association vs. Mitchell,  recently  de­
cided by the Kentucky Superior Court, it ap­
peared  that in  the  constitution  of  the  ap­
pellant it is provided  that  money  on- hand 
might be loaned  among  the  members,  and 
that the highest bidder at any meeting, upon 
payment  at  the  time  of the amount of his 
bid into the treasury, should  be  entitled  to 
precedence in borrowing  the  money  which 
should be for loan at the next meeting there­
after.  The court held that amounts bid under 
the foregoing provision were for the  use  of 
the money, and that being in addition to legal 
interest they were usurious.

F ire  Insurance—Change  of Title.

The fact that a member of a firm  disposes 
of his interest to his partner, taking note and 
chattel mortgage as  security,  the  firm  prop­
erty having been insured, does not, in case of 
fire, release from  liability  the  company  in­
suring, because of a clause in the policy pro­
viding,  “If without such assent  (the written 
consent of the company)  the  said  property 
shall be sold.”  The Supreme Judicial Court 
of Massachusetts holds, that whatever might 
be the effect of a conveyance of his whole in­
terest by one partner to a stranger, such con­
veyance  to  his  co-partner is not a  breach 
of the insurance  contract.  “So  far  as  the 
object of preserving an insurable  interest  is 
concerned, as the actual interests of partners 
in the firm property are necessarily fluctuat­
ing, there seems to be  no  particular  reason 
why the insurers should  wish  to  keep  the 
state of  legal  title  unchanged  as  between 
them.  Certainly there is no sufficientground 
for extending the language chosen by the in­
surer beyond its plain and natural  meaning. 
Our conclusion is sustained by the weight of 
authority in this  country.

“No,” said  the  Vermont  map,  who  was 
shot in the head  by his  friend  while  they 
were out hunting, lost most of an ear and was 
considerably scratched,  “I  don’t  mind  the 
wound so much, but it  breaks  my  heart  to 
have my head mistaken by my most intimate 
friend for a polecat.”

An Eastern Exchange is responsible for the 
following:  “A Michigan  man  has  trained 
his cat to visit a grocery and steal  mackerel 
for him.” 

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From the Sunny  South.

The following extract from a  letter  from 
Aiken, S. C., written by Alford  H.  McClel­
lan, who was identified with his  brother,  D. 
M., 
in  general  trade  at  Reed  City  for 
about twelve years, will  be of general  inter­
est:
We are about half a  mile from town, right 
among  delightful  pine 
trees,  and  have 
peaches, cherries, plums and  grapes  of  our 
own.  The climate seems perfection, and the 
sun shines  warmly  nearly  every  day.  We 
have had three frosts, but the fruit nearly in 
bloom is not injured.  Our house is large and 
well-furnished, and has verandas all around, 
where we can sit  at  any  time  of  the  day, 
moving our chairs only often enough to keep 
in the shade.  We each have a fire-place, and 
heaps of pine cones and  knots  to bum,  and 
are ‘stuck up’ to the highest ‘pitch’ in conse­
quence.  The town is full of boarders,  inva­
lids, etc., from all over the country, who are 
walking and riding continually.  Colored peo­
ple are thicker than raisins in  a  plum  pud­
ding made by a bride, but they are so  polite 
and  jolly  one cannot  wish  their  shadows 
and ivories to grow less, if they do not come 
too near.  Aiken  has  six  churches,  a jail, 
courthouse, brick school house for the child­
ren of Ham, and the  widest  streets  I  ever 
tried to hollar across to a friend—and failed. 
Land was no object, so they  turned  it  into 
the road.  Shade  trees are everywhere* with 
benches underneath to rest.  The  one-story 
houses peculiar to this locality are attractive 
looking, exceptionally so, and all have  yards 
full of shrubbery,  ivies,  little  Dutch  trees, 
bunches of  ground,  and  heaps  of  flowers. 
There are a great many stores in  the  place, 
but  there is less business done than in Reed 
City.  There  is no hurry.  Everyone takes 
time to eat and sleep every day.
Friends of Don. M.  McClellan—and their 
name is legion throughout Western Michigan 
—will regret to learn that while a  Southern 
residence has prolonged the life of his  wife, 
it has not restored her health, and that she is 
now at the point of death.

The Best is Good Enough for Me.

A  smiling,  well-dressed  youth,  accom­
panied by a damsel  who  was  evidently  far 
gone in love, went into a drug store the other 
evening, and walking up  to  the  cigar  case 
and commandingly placing his  gloved  hand 
over  the  boxes  containing  the ,“six-for-a- 
quarter” kind, said, “Give me a  twenty-five 
cent cigar.”

“Two for half a dollar?” asked the  polite 

druggist.

“Yes, that is the kind, but I will only take 
one to-night;  1 have left my  case  at  home, 
and they break up terribly  in  my  pocket,” 
was the reply.

Reaching out a handful of the choice brand 
to his customer the apothecary waited  until 
he had selected one to suit him, and then re­
placing the rest in their proper box, took the 
proffered twenty-five cent piece and dropped 
it in his till.

After doing this  he  furtively  took  two 
dimes from a box in his  money-drawer,  and 
producing 
some  matches  from  a  shelf, 
dropped the money  and the  lucifers  in  the 
young man’s  hands,  saying  as  he  did  so, 
“Here, have a match.” *

This advice was taken by  the  youth,  and 
when he had succeeded in lighting  his  pur­
chase, and its costly aroma reached  the  ol­
factory organs of  his  admiring  companion, 
she turned her love-lighted  orbs  up  to|his, 
and said in tones of worshipful awe:

“O, Charlie, how can you afford  to  smoke 

twenty-five cent cigars?”’

When he had assured her that “the best is 
good enough for me,” his conquest was com­
plete, and  she  departed  in  his  company, 
willing to  follow  him  to  the  ends  of  the 
earth.

The mistress of a house in the city said to 
a youug servant girl fresh from the country: 
“Martha, go see if Mr. Scott, the pork butch­
er, has pigs’ feet.”  The servant girl depart­
ed  and  returned  a  few  moments  later. 
“Please,  ma’am,  I  don’t  know,  I  couldn’t 
see.”  “But  what  did you say?”  “I didn’t 
say anything.  I looked at  Mr. Scott—he had 
boots on.”

The  difference  between  “ luck ”  and 
“chance” is thus defined:  You  take  a  girl 
out to the  theater  and  discover  that  you 
haven’t a cent in your pocket.  Out of court­
esy you invite her to an oyster saloon after the 
performance.  See refuses for some reason— 
that’s “luck” ;  but the “chance” is a  million 
to one she will  accept

At the bank:  “I  have a  note  here  that’s 
due  to-day.  I’d like to get the time  extend­
ed, as I havn’t any  money.” 
“We  cannot 
possibly let it go  ovey.”  “That  is,  I  have 
the money, but—”  “All  right,  I guess  we 
can accommodate  you. 
If  you’ve  got the 
money it is quite a different thing«”

Mixes  Well  With  Sugar.

“I hear that some confectioners are  using 
tons of white earth  in  the  manufacture  of 
candies,” said a New  York  drummer  to  a 
Canal street grocer.

“Is that so?” said the  light-weight  cham­
pion of honesty.  “I think it  is an  outrage 
on humanity that such base practices are  al­
lowed.  They  ought 
to  be  summarily 
stopped.”

“It is rather  rough,  I  must  admit,”  re­
marked the  traveling  maa,  clutching  his 
gripsack firmly, and  looking  his  customer 
square in the eye, “but then, you  know,  the 
stuff can be bought cheap,  and  when  it  is 
mixed with sugar not even an expert can de­
tect it.”

“Well, if that’s the  case,”  whispered  the 
honest merchant  as  he  glanced  cautiously 
around, “can’t you ship me a  lot  when  you 
get  home?”

Boralumine is  cheapest, 

durable.

best  and  most

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M. B. C M  “B iM ” Co.,
Manufacturer of I “Bedette.”

31  HURON  STREET,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

F. J. LAMB  &  COMPANY,

■WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN-

Butter,  Cheese,  Eggs,

S lf i

Apples, Onions, Potatoes, Beans, Etc.

NO.  8  IONIA  STREET,

PATENTED JUN E 15, 1883.

This invention supplies a long felt want for a cheap portable bed, that can be put  away  in 
a small space when not in use, and yet make a roomy,  comfortable bed  when wanted.  Of the 
many cots that are in the market there is not one, cheap or expensive, on which a comfortable 
night’s rest can be had.  They are all narrow, short, without spring, and in  short no bed at all. 
While THe Bedette folds into a small space, and is as light as anything can be made for  dura­
bility, when set up it furnishes a bed wide and long enough for the largest man, and is as com­
fortable to lie upon as the most expensive bed.  It is so constructed that the patent  sides, reg­
ulated by the patent adjustable tension cords, form the most perfect spring  bed.  The canvas 
covering is not tacked to the frame, as on all cots, but is  made  adjustable,  so  that  it  can  be 
taken off and put on again by any one in a few minutes, or easily tightened, should it  become 
loose, at any time from stretching.  It is a perfect spring bed, soft and  easy,  without  springs 
or mattress. For warm weather it is a complete bed, without the additionlof anything ;lfor cold 
weather it is only necessary to add sufficient clot hing.  The “ BEDETTE " is a household neces­
sity,  and no family after once using, would be without it.  It is simple in its construction, and 
not likely to get out of repair.  It makes a pretty lounge, a perfect bed, and the price is within 
the reach of all.

Price—36 in. wide, by 6K ft. long, $3.50;  30 in wide,  by 6X  ft.  long,  $3.00;  27  in. 
wide, by 4% ft. long, cover not adjustable, $2.50.  For sale  by  furniture  dealers  every­
If not for «ale by your dealer it will be sent to any address  on  receipt  of  price.
where. 

GRAISTD  R A PID S.  -  MICHIGAN.

.A..  B.  KZ 1ST O W  L S O  KT,

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

AKRON  SEWER  PIPE,

Fire  Brick  and  Clay,  Cement,  Stucco,

Z.Z20!,  H A IR ,  COAX,  an d  W OOD.

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ESTIMATES  CHEERFULLY  FURNISHED.

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

Central  Freight  House.

SPRING  A COMPANY  *

A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE

Mercantile and Manufacturing Interests of the State.

E.  A.  STOWE, Editor.

Terms $1 a year in advance, postage paid. 
Advertising rates made known on application.

WEDNESDAY,  MARCH  19,  18847

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  DECISIONS--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  Bub- 
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.

Word was received Monday that the  com­
bination  of corroders had resulted in an  ad­
vance of white lead 6}^c.

If any dealer is cognizant of the  fact  that 
T he T radesman is being sent  to  any  one 
outside the regular  channels  of  trade,  we 
shall esteem it a favor to be made  aware  of 
such lapses. 
It is intended that the  papers 
shall reach dealers only, and if any  copies 
are being received by those  not  entitled  to 
them in this respect, the error will be  recti­
fied as soon as this office is made acquainted 
with the  fact.

Saranac  Business  Points.

From the Local.

Saranac is on a booth.
E. D. Kitchen, a  former  resident  of  this 
place, is in town, looking up a location to go 
into business.

Several parties hearing of the  prospect  of 
two new roller process mills,  have  been  in 
town this week looking over the ground with 
a view to locating here in  business.

S. A. Watt  and Willard Cahoon will erect 
a fine store just south of S.  Haight’s  furni­
ture store, this season, and E. P. Gifford will 
build adjoining them  on  the  south.  Other 
building projects are in view.

Good  Words  Unsolicited.

S.  S.  Dryden & Sons, hardware, Allegan: 

“Valuable.”

Edward Davies, grocer, Montague: “A good 

investment.”
consider the paper well worth the money.”

M. G. Woodward,  druggist, Lake City:  “I 

B. J. Forrest, general dealer, Monroe Cen­
ter:  “Enclosed please  find $1.  Think  it  is 
worth  more.”

L. C. Madison, druggist, Boyne Falls:  “A 
good paper.  Like it well.  Just  the  thing 
for every man that is in business.”
Wm. Ji. Lewis,  meat  market  and  provis­
ions, Boyne City:  “I think your paper merits 
more praise than I can possibly give it.”
Sturtevant  &  Hopkins,  general  dealers, 
Sherman:  “We are much pleased  with  it, 
for it is just what  every  tradesman  wants.”

Country  Produce.

bbl.

Apples—Stock light, and market not very 
well supplied.  Baldwins and Russets readily 
command $4@$4.50, and  extra  fancy  find 
frequent sale at $5.
Beets—Choice find ready sale at  $2.75  ^  
bbl. and ^  bu.
Butter—Good  dairy rolls are firm  at22@ 
23c  and  packed  from  10c  up.  Elgin 
creamery, 27.
Butterine—Active at  18@22c  for  choice.
Buckwheat—New York patent,  $3.50  per 
100 lbs, and $6.50 
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 active demand  at  $1.75@  $2.
Barley—Choice $1.30 ^  100  lbs.
Cheese—Firmer and  stiffer.  Full  cream 
is active at 15c, and skim is in good demand 
at 12%@13>£c.
Celery—Winter stock il scarce and has ad­
vanced to 40@45c 
Cabbage—Small quantity fair stock at $10 
@$15 ^  100 heads.  No extra good  in mar­
ket.
Cider—20c 1$ gal. for ordinary.  Sand  re­
fined, $6.50 
Clover Seed—Choice medium weaker at $6 
@$6.50 'P bu. and mammoth in fair  demand 
at $7 ^  bu.
Cranberries—Choice cultivated Wisconsin 
are firm at  $14  ^   bbl.  Small 
inferior 
fruit is held at $10@$11.
Corn—Local dealers stand in  readiness to 
supply carload lots of Kansas  com  at  from 
45@60c ^  bu. 
It is all of the same quality, 
but the former price  is  for  damp,  and  the 
latter for dry, stock.
Dried Apples—Quarters active at 7@9c ^  
lb,  and sliced  8@9e.  Evaporated  dull  and 
slow at 14@15c.
□Eggs—Just on the verge of a decline.  For 
several  days  past,  the demand has been  ac­
tive,  and  prices have been maintained to 22 
@23c.  At present, 22c is asked.

doz.

bbl.

ib.

and $2.25 

Honey—In comb, 18c ^  lb.
Hops—Choice New York  25@28c  ^   lb ; 
low  and  medium  grades  18@24c;  Pacific 
coast 24@27c; Wisconsin 12@20c; Michigan 
20@22c.

Maple Sugar—12Kc 
Onions—Choice yellow 75c ^  bu. in sacks 
3 bu. bbl.
Peas—Holland $4.25 ^  bu.
Potatoes—A drug in the market, and very 
few moving.  Small quantities are changing 
hands at 30@35c.
Parsnips—Firm at $2.75 ^  bbl and  $1  ^  
bu.
Poultry—Chickens and fowls  are  firmer, 
readily commanding  16@17c  and  15@16c, 
respectively.  There are no ducks and  geese 
in market, and an  few  turkeys,  which  find 
ready sale at  16c.
Ruta Bagas—Large stock choice  bagas  in 
market, and selling  readily  at  65c  <$   bu., 
and $2 <$  bbl. 
Timothy—Weaker.  Very  choice is held 
at $1.50@$1.75 
Wheat—Local dealers are paying  82 @ 88c 
bu. for No. 2 and 92@95c for No. 1.

bu.

.

Late  Business  Changes.

Eaton Rapids—H. Kositchec &  Bros., gen­
eral store,  did  not sell out as was reported,
Ovid—Henry A. Potter,  dry  goods,  sold 
out.
Remus—Aaron Miller, grocer, burned out. 
Loss $2,000, no insurance.
Portland—W.  H.  Marple,  groceries  and 
notions, sold out to D. P. Ashley.
Sturgus—Hunt  &  Biederstadt,  millers, 
burned out.  Loss, $5,000.

TIME TABLES.

CENTRAL  STANDARD  TIME. 

New  Corporations  Authorized.

Petoskey Telephone Co., Petoskey; capital
St. Ignace Telephone Co., St. Ignace; cap­
New Mexico Central & Northern  Railway 
H. O. P. Live Stock Co.,  Detroit;  capital
Automatic  Cut-off  Co.,  Detroit;  capital 
Drs. K. & K. United States  and  Surgical 
Globe  Capsule Co.,  Detroit;  capital  $10,-
Oakwood  Manufacturing  Co.,  Traverse 
Manton Manufacturing Co., Manton; capi­

$2,000.
ital $1,800.
Co. ;  articles amended.
$ 100,000.
$50,000.
Association, Detroit;  capital $100,000.
000.
City ;  capital $25,000.
tal $16,000.

Glad  to  Note  It.

From the Maucelona Herald.
The  Michigan  Tradesman  will be en­
larged from a four to an  eight  page  paper 
on the 26th of this month.  We  are  glad  to 
note this evidence of prosperity  the part  of 
The Tradesm an. 

.

Of the countless good stories  attributed to 
Artemus Ward, the best is  tliq  one  which 
tells of the advice he gave to a Southern rail­
road conductor soon after the war.  The road 
was in a wretched condition, and  the  trains 
consequently were run at phenomenally  low 
rate of speed.  When  the  conductor  was 
punching  his  ticket  Artemus  remarked: 
“Does this railroad company allow passengers 
to give it advice, if they do so in a respectful 
manner?”  The conductor replied  in  gruff 
tones that  he guessed so.  “Well,”  Artemus 
went on, “it occurred to me it would be well to 
detach the cow-catcher  from  the front of the 
engine and hitch it to the  rear  of the train. 
For  you see we are not liable to overtake  a 
cow, but  what’s  to  prevent  a  cow  from 
strolling into  this  car  and  biting a  passen­
ger?”

A  man,  for  having  successfully  played 
this trick in Chicago is now in prison:  Enter 
a drug store or a grocery and ask for  a  cake 
of soap and tender  a  $10  bill  in  payment’. 
The  clerk  returns a $5 and $4.90 in change. 
Then discover  that  you  already _ had  ten 
cents in change  which  you  put  with  the 
$4.90, asking the clerk at the  same  time  to 
give you a five  dollar  bill  for  the  change. 
After getting the bill pull  out  the  first  $5 
and say to the clerk:  “Here  is  $5  more— 
just give me back the $10.”  Simple as  this 
plan is,  it  frequently  fools  the  confused 
clerk,  and leaves the customer  $4.90  and  a 
cake of soap ahead.

The best preserves are said to  come  from 
France;  but this cannot be  true.  We often 
hear  of  a  “ perfect  janl ”  in  the  United 
States.

Any wholesale house will  fill  orders  for 

Boralumine.

DEPART.

Michigan  Central—Grand  Rapids  Division.
tDetroit Express............................................  6:05 am
+Day  Express..........................................12:20 p m
♦New York Fast Line.............................. 6:00 p m
+Atlantic Express............................................ 9:20 pm
♦Pacific  Express..............................................6:45 am
■(Local  Passenger...........................................11:20 am
+Mail..........................................................3:55 p m
tGrand  Rapids  Express............................... 10:25 pm

ARRIVE.

■(■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 3:05 p. m. next day.
A train leaves Detroit at 4 p. m. daily except 
Sunday with drawing room car attached, arriv­
ing at Grand Rapids at 10:25 p. m.

J. T. Sc h u l t z , Gen’l Agent.

Detroit,  Grand  Haven &  Milwaukee.

GOING EAST.

Arrives. 

GOING WEST.

Leaves.
■(■Steamboat Express.......... 
6:15 a m
•PThrough  Mail....................10:10 am   10:20 am
■(•Evening  Express.................3:20 p m  3:35 p m
♦AtlanticExpress................  9:45 pm   10:45 pm
•(■Mixed, with coach...........  
10:00 a m
tMorning  Express............... 12:40 p m  12:55 p m
■(■Through  Mail.....................   4:45 p m  4:55 p m
•(■Steamboat Express...........10:30 p m,
tMixed..................................  
*  8:00 am
♦Night Express....................  5:10 am   5:30 am
tDaily, Sundays excepted.  »Daily. 
Passengers  taking  the  6:15  a.  m.  Express 
make close connections at Owosso for Lansing 
and at Detroit for New York, arriving there at 
10:00 a. m. the following morning.
Parlor Cars  on  Mail  Trains,  both  East  and 
West.
Limited  Express  has  Wagner Sleeping Car 
through to Suspension Bridge and the mail has 
a Parlor Car to  Detroit.  The  Night  Express 
has a through Wagner Car and  local  Sleeping 
Car Detroit to Grand Rapids.

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

Grand  Rapids  &  Indiana.

GOING NORTH.

GOING  s o u t h .

Arrives.  Leaves.
Cincinnati & G. Rapids Ex.  9:02 p m 
Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex.  9:22 am   9:50am 
Ft.Wayne&MackinacEx..  3:57pm  4:45pm
G’d Rapids  & Cadillac  Ac. 
7:15 a m
G. Rapids & Cincinnati Ex. 
6:32 a m
Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex.  4:05 pm   4:32 pm 
Mackinac & Ft. Way re Ex.. 10:25 am   12:32 pm  
Cadillac & G’d  Rapids  Ac.  7:40 p m 

SLEEPING CAR ARRANGEMENTS.

All trains daily except Sunday.
North—Train  leaving at  4:45  o’clock  p.  m. 
has Woodruff  Sleeping Cars for Petoskey and 
Mackinac City.  Train leaving at  9:50 a. m. has 
combined Sleeping and Chair Car for Mackinac 
City.South—Train leaving at 4:32 p. m. has  Wood­
ruff Sleeping Car for Cincinnati.
C. L. Lockwood, Gen’l Pass. Agent.

Chicago & West Michigan.
Leaves.  Arrives,
tMail......................................9:35 am  
4:00 pm
+Day  Express..................... 12:50 p m  10:45 p m
♦Night  Express..................   8:35 p m   6:10 am
♦Daily.  TDaily except Sunday.
Pullman Sleeping Cars  on  all  night  trains. 
Through  parlor  car  in  charge  of  careful at­
tendants without extra charge  to  Chicago  on 
12:50 p. m., and through coach on 9:35 a. m. and 
8:35 p. m. trains.

NEWAYGO DIVISION.

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

J. H. Palmer, Gen’i Pass. Agent.

„  __

P j, J .
  W e  m anufacture all o u r stock 
v a i l U j r   and  can  always  give  you  th e 

.

best  goods.

f l r a r i r m a   Wo  buy  in  large  lots  from  
V / I u U g t / O   first  hands  and  ship  only  In 
fu ll car lots.  W e handle 20,- 
OOO boxes of Oranges  and 

T   n m  n v i n   Lemons In a   season and our
J j U i i l U i l o   facilities for buying and  h an ­

dling are  unsurpassed. 

■VT,,.fC!  W e  carry  a heavy  stock  of B ra- 
XN  LluO  zils,  Almonds,  Filberts,  W alnuts, 
Pecans  and  Cocoa  Nuts,  and  w ill 
sell  against any m arket. 
P n o r m t a   W e lately  bought eig h t  car 
A  C w U U u D   loads  o f  th e  best  re-cleaned 
and  hand-picked  Tennessee 
and  V irginia  Nuts,  and  are 
prepared  to  fill  th e  largest 
orders.

K H U N  .  IRO N S

-WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN-

FANCY  AJSTD

STAPLE DRT GOODS *

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MATTINGS,

OIL  CLOTHS,

ETC.,  ETC.

6  arici  8  M onroe  Street,

G rand  R ap id s,

M ich igan .

FOX, MUSSELMAN & LOVERIDGE,

WHOLESALE  GROCERS,

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

-----WE  ARE  FACTORY  AGENTS  FOR-

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

T o b a ceo s,  V in eg a rs  a n d   S p ic e s I! 

-W E MAKE SPECIAL CLAIM FOR OUR-

OUR  MOTTO:  “ SQUARE  DEALING  BETWEEN  MANoAND  MAN.”

CORRESPONDENCE  SOLICITED.

THE DEAREST TOBACCO

Is a Poor, Common or Low-Priced Article,

As It Gives Neither Pleasure 

Nor Satisfaction.

TO  THE  TASTE  AND  OTHER  SEN SES.

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

WHENEVER  IT  DISCOVERS  AN  ARTICLE  THAT  COMMENDS  ITSELF 

THE PUBLIC IS NOT SLOW TO LEAON THIS FACT
LULLMD’S FLUE THAU
O it-M  of All tit P it Tobacco Did li I s  Coitrp!

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

Favorite  Brands  this  Year;  or  About

AND  AS TH ERE  A RE  BETW EEN  800  AND  900  OTHER  FACTORIES  IN  

THE  U. S.,  IT  FOLLOWS  THAT T H E IR   GOODS  MUST  GIVE

THAN  $HE  BRANDS  OF  OTHER  MAKERS.

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

j=hi r pTftment  to  THE  MICHIGAN  rrFLAJ3BS^ÆAJSr---^Æa.rolx  IQ,  1884.

Drugs Si flftebicines

Advanced 

Bismuth,  Sub  Nitrate,  Chlori

Sarsaparilla,  Mexican................
Squills, white (Powd 35c)...........
Valerian, English (Powd 30c)__
Valerian, Vermont (Powd 28c)..

form.
•  Declined — Quinine, 
Potash, Bicromate.
„  
Hazeltme, Perkins & Co. quote as follows toi  norfiflTnon  Aipnnpp 
quantities usually wanted—for larger amounts |  Cardamon,’ Malabar. 
write them for quotations:
ACIDS.

|  Anise, Italian (Powd 20c)...............
5  @
Morphia,  Cinchonidia,:  Bird, mixed in ft  packages...........  
1  Canary,  Smyrna.............................  
4%@
!  Caraway, best Dutch (Powd  19c)..  11  @
2
2

.  , 

„„ 

_  

Celery................................................
Coriander, Dest English.
Fennel
Flax,  clean.......................................  
Flax, pure grd (bbl 3%).
j  Foenugreek, powdered.................. 
I  Hemp,  Russian............................... 
Mustard, white. Black 10c)...........  
Quince.............................................. 
i  Rape, Lngli8h..................................  
j  Worm,  Levant................................. 

3%@
4  @
8
5%@  6
8
1 00
7%@  8
14
,
|  Florida sheeps’ wool, carriage;__ 2 25  @2 50
I  Nassau 
do 
2 00
........  
1  10
........ 
\  Velvet Extra do 
Extra Yellow do 
85
........ 
66
........ 
Grass 
do 
!  Hard head, for slate use..........  ... 
76
|  Yellow Reef, 
................. 
140

do 
do 
do 
do 

s p o n g e s . 

do 
MISCELLANEUS.

do 
do 

do 
do Scherin’s  do  ... 
do 

Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.26) $  gal__  
2 36
1 50
Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref. 
50
Anodyne Hoffman’s....................... 
Arsenic, Donovan’s solution........ 
27
Arsenic, Fowler’s solution...........  
12
30
Annatto  1 ft rolls............................ 
Blue  Soluble.................................... 
50
2 75
Bay  Rum, imported, best............. 
2 25
Bay Rum, domestic, H., P. & Co.’s. 
Alum.........................................  $ f t   2%@  3%
3  @  4
Alum, ground  (Powd 9c)............... 
Annatto,  prime............................... 
32
Antimony, powdered,  com’l........  
4%@  5
6  @  7
Arsenic, white, powdered.............  
Balm Gilead  Buds..........................  
40
30
2 25
Beans,  Tonka..................................  
12
Beans,  Vanilla................................7 00  @9 75
2 30
Bismuth, sub  nitrate..................... 
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c)....................... 
45
7%@  9
Blue Vitriol.....................................  
Boralumine, White  b u lk ]...........  
9-
10
5 fibs I ............ 
Boralumine, 
“ 
Boralumine, Tints bulk.  J-40 ff  .. 
10
Boralumine  “ 
5 fts. j ............ 
11
Borax, refined (Powd  15c).............  
13
3 00
Cantharides, Russian  powdered.. 
Capsicum  Pods, African............... 
18
20
Capsicum Pods, African pow’d ... 
18
Capsicum Pods,  American do  ... 
Carmine, No. 40............................... 
4 00
Cassia  Buds...................................... 
14
Calomel.  American........................  
70
Castor  Oil.........................................  17%@  19
5
Chalk, prepared drop.....................  
12
Chalk, precipitate English...........  
8
Chalk,  red  fingers..........................  
Chalk, white lump..........................  
2
1 60
Chloroform,  Squibb’s .................... 
Colocynth  apples............................ 
60
Chloral hydrate, German  crusts.. 
1 60
Chloral 
cryst... 
17#
Chloral 
190
Chloral 
crusts.. 
1 75
Chloroform.....................................1 15  @1 20
Cinchonidia, P. &  W........*............  60  @  65
Cinchonidia, other brands.............   60  @  65
Cloves (Powd 28c)............................  20  @  22
Cochineal......................................... 
30
Cocoa  Butter..................................  
46
Copperas (by bbl  lc)....................... 
2
Corrosi ve Sublimate....................... 
65
Corks, X and XX—35 off  list........
Cream Tartar, pure powdered.......  38  @  40
15
Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 ft box.. 
Creasote............................................ 
50
Cudbear,  prime...............................  
24
Cuttle Fisn Bone................ 1........... 
23
Dextrine........................................... 
12
Dover’s  Powders............................ 
1 20
Dragon’s Blood Mass.....................  
50
45
Ergot  powdered.............................. 
110
Etner Squibb’s................................. 
Emery, Turkish, all  No.’s .............  
8
Epsom Salts...................................... 
2%@  3
Ergot, fresh...................................... 
50
Ether, sulphuric, U. S.  P ............... 
69
14
Flake  white...................................... 
Grains  Paradise.............................. 
35
Gelatine,  Cooper’s ..........................  
90
Gelatine. French  ............................  46  @  70
Glassware, flint, 60 off,by box 50 off 
Glassware, green, 60 and 10 dis....
Glue,  cabinet........... ......................   12  @  17
Glue, white.............   .......................   17  @  28
Glycerine, pure...............................   23  @  26
Hops  %8 and %s.............................. 
25@  40
Iodoform <18  oz................................. 
35
Indigo...............................................   85  @1 00
Insect Powder, best Dalmatian...  32  @  34
Iodine,  resublimed......................... 
2 30
Isinglass,  American....................... 
1 50
Japonica........................................... 
9
15
Lead, acetate.................................... 
9
Lime, chloride, (%s 2s 10c & %s 11c) 
1 0O
Lupuline........................................... 
Lycopodium..............................•... 
35
Mace.................................................  
60
Madder, best  Dutch...............
1 25 
Manna, S.  F __
50
Mercury............................................
Morphia, sUlph., P. & W........$  oz
3 50@3 75 
40
Musk, Canton, H., P. & Co.’s........
Moss, Iceland............................$) ft 
10
Moss,  Irish................................................ 
Mustard,  English....................................  
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 ft  cans........ 
Nutgalls............................................  
Nutmegs, No. 1.........................................  
Nux  Vomica....................................  * 
Ointment, Mercurial, %d.......................  
Pepper, Black  Berry.............................. 
Pepsin...............................................  
3 00
Pitch, True Burgundy.................... 
7
Quassia  ............................................  
6  @  7
Quinia, Sulph, P. & W........... ft oz • 1 40@I 45
Quinine, other brands....................1 40  @1  45
Seidlitz  Mixture...................................... 
1 50
Strychnia, cryst............................... 
Silver Nitrate, cryst.......................  79  @  82
Red  Precipitate...................... $  ft 
80
Saffron, American..........
Sal  Glauber.....................
Sal Nitre, large  cryst__
Sal  Nitre, medium  cryst...............
Sal Rochelle.....................................
Sal  Soda............................................ 
Salicin...............................................  
Santonin........................................... 
Snuffs, Maccoboy or Scotch..........
Soda Ash [by keg 3c].....................
Spermaceti.......................................
 
Soda, Bi-Carbonate,  DeLand’s 
Soap, White Castile.........................
.........................
Soap, Green  do 
Soap, Mottled do 
.........................
Soap, 
do  do 
.........................
Soap,  Mazzini..................................
Spirits Nitre, 3 F .............................   26  @
Spirits Nitre, 4 F .............................   28  @
Sugar Milk powdered.....................
Sulphur, flour..................................  
3%@
Sulphur,  roll....................................
Tartar Emetic..................................
Tar, N. C. Pine, % gal. cans  $  doz 
Tar, 
quarts in tin.......... 
Tar, 
pints in tin.............
Turpentine,  Venice................ $  ft
Wax, White, S. &  F. brand...........
Zinc,  Sulphate................................. 

2  @
2
6

18
20
10

4%@

7  @

do 
do 

2
1

@

12
30

75
40
18

28

OILS.

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...............
Bbl
Whale, winter................................. ...  75
Lard, extra...................................... ...  78
Lard, No.  1...................................... ...  65
Linseed, pure  raw......................... ...  56
Linseed, boiled............................
...  59
Neat’s Foot, winter  strained__ ...  90
Spirits Turpentine.......................
...  41

. ..75
...60
...50
...45
...35
...25
...30
...30
....60
22
...21
..1 40
Gal
80
80
70
60
63
95
50

VARNISHES.
No. 1 Turp  Coach.....................
Extra  Turp...... ........................
Coach  Body...............................
No. 1 Turp Furniture...............
Extra Turp  Damar..................
Japan Dryer, No.  1 Turp........

PAINTS.

Red Venetian............................
Ochre, yellow  Marseilles........
Ochre, yellow  Bermuda........
Putty, commercial.................
Putty, strictly pure.................
Vermilion, prime  American. 
Vermilion,  English.................
Green, Peninsular..................
Lead, red strictly  pure..........
Whiting, white Spanish......
Whiting,  Gilders*....................
White, Paris American........

Bbl
1%
1%
1%
2%
2%

.1 10@1 20
.1  60@1 70
.2 75@3 00
.1 00@1 10
.1 55@1 60
.  70@  75

Lb
2@ 3
2® 3
2@ 3
2%@ 3
2%@ 3
13@16
55@5T
16@17
«%
cwt
@70
@90

¡©r\>  (Boobs,

Spring & Company quote as  wuu#o :

WIDE  BROWN COTTONS.

Androscoggin, 9-4. .23  (Pepperell, 10-4........ '&
Androscoggin, 8-4. .21  Pepperell, 11-4........ 27%
Pepperell,  7-4........16% ¡Pequot,  7-4..............18
Pepperell,  8-4........30  Pequot,  8-4..............31
Pepperell,  9-4........22% IPequot,  9-4..............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. .14 
Park Mills, No. 100.15
Prodigy, oz.............11
Otis Apron.............10%
Otis  Furniture......10%
York,  1  oz.............. 10
York, A A, extra oz. 14

OSNABURG,

Alabama brown—   <
Jewell briwn..........  9*4
Kentucky  brown.. 10Vi 
Lewiston  brown...  9%
Lane brown...........   9%
Louisiana  plaid—   8

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

BLEACHED COTTONS.

Avondale,  36..........  8%
Art  cambrics, 36.. .1114 
Androscoggin, 4-4..  814 
Androscoggin, 5-4.. 1214
Ballou, 4-4 .  ............  714
Ballou, 5-4...............  6
Boott, 0.4-4............  814
Boott,  E. 5-5........... 7
Boott, AGC, 4-4.......  914
Boott, R. 3-4.........     5%
B1 ackstone, AA 4-4  <14 
Chapman, X, 4-4—   «14
Conway,  4-4...........
Cabot, 4-4................
Cabot, 7-8................   6/4
Canoe,  34...............  *
Domestic,  36---•••- 
Dwight Anchor, 44.10
Davol, 44........ • 
814
Fruit of Loom, 44 ..  9 
Fruit of Loom, 7-8..  814 
Fruit of  the Loom,
cambric,  4-4........12
Gold Medal, 44..  ..  7
Gold Medal, 7-8.........614
Gilded  Age............... 8%

Greene, G.  4-4........  514
Hill, 44....................  814
Hill, 7-8....................  714
Hope,  44................   714
King  Phillip  cam­
bric, 44.................1114
Linwood,  4-4..........  9
Lonsdale,  44..........  814
Lonsdale  cambric. 1114 
Langdon, GB, 44...  914
Langdon, 45........... 14
Ma8onville,  44.........914
Maxwell. 44............1014
New York Mill, 4-4.1014 
New Jersey,  44—   8 
Pocasset,  P. M. C..  714 
Pride of the West. .1214 
Pocahontas,  44—   814
Slaterville, 7-8........  614
Victoria,  AA..........9
Woodbury, 4-4........   5%
Whitinsville,  4 4 ...  714 
Whitinsville, 7-8—   614
Wamsutta, 4-4.........10%
Williamsville,  36.. .1014

CORSET JEANS.

Kearsage................   81*
Armory............. .
Naumkeagsatteen.  814 
Androscoggin sat. 
Pepperell bleached  814
Canoe River
Clarendon...............éüPeppereíl sat............9%
Hallowell  Imp.......6% ¡Rockport 
. . ............  <%
Ind. Orch. Imp.......6y* Lawrence sat............8%
Laconia..................7%]Conegosat.................  *

PRINTS.

Albion,  solid...........514
Albion,  grey...........«
Allen’s  checks........514
Ailen’s  fancy......... 5%
Allen’s pink............ 6%
Allen’s purple.........«14
American, fancy.. - .514
Arnold fancy...........«
Berlin solid...............®1*
Cocbeeo fancy........®
Cocheco robes.........7
Conestoga fancy — «
Eddystone..............«
Eagle fancy............ «
Garner pink

Gloucester.............. 6
G loucestermourn’g. 6 
Hamilton  fancy— 6
Hartel fancy........... 6
Merrimac D.............6
Manchester.............6
Oriental  fancy........6
Oriental  robes........6%
Pacific  robes...........6
Richmond................6
Steel River.............. 514
Simpson’s ................6
Washington fancy.. 
Washington  blues..8

FINE  BROWN COTTONS.

Appleton A, 44—   8
Boott  M, 44...........   754
Boston  F, 44..........  8
Continental C, 4-3..  < %
Continental D, 40 in 8%
Conestoga W, 44...  7 
Conestoga  D, 7-8...  5%
Conestoga G, 30-in.  614
Dwight  X, 34........ 6
Dwight Y, 7-8..........  6%
Dwight Z, 44..........  7
Dwight Star, 44 ....  7%
EwightStar,40-in..  9 
Enterprise ÉE, 36..  534 
Great Falls E, 44...  7
Farmers’ A, 44.......634
Indian  Orchard, 14 7%

Indian Orchard, 40.  814 
Indian Orchard, 36.  8
Laconia B, 74........ 16%
Lyman B, 40-in.......10%
Mass. B B .44..........  634
Nashua  E, 40-in—   9
Nashua  R, 44........ 7%
Nashua 0,7-8..........  7%
Newmarket N ........  714
Pepperell E, 39-in..  714 
Pepperell  R, 44—   7 
Pepperell  0 , 7-8—   6% 
Pepperell N, 34—   614
Pocasset  C, 44.......7
Saranac R...............  714
Saranac E ...............  9

DOMESTIC GINGHAMS.

Bivios 

Johnson  Manfg Co,
...................7% I Johnson  Manfg Co,

__ 8  ¡Renfrew, dress styll0%
__ 10%  Bookfold.............. 12%
••  6%  dress  styles........ 12%

Amoskeag 
Amoskeag, Persian 
Bates 
Berkshire 
Glasgow checks....  7  Slaterville, 
Glasgow checks, f’y 7% |  styles..,. 
Glasgow 
Gloucester, 
Plunket..................  2f*£ord?n ;........ V ""  8
Lancaster...............  834 Greylock, 
Langdale................ 7341  styles  .....................12%

dress 
„
royal  styles........  8  ¡White Mfg Co, fane  8

¡White Mfg Co, stap  734
|White  Manfg  Co,

checks, 
-new 

dress

WIDE BLEACHED COTTONS.

Androscoggin, 74..21  ¡Pepperell.  104......27%
Androscoggin,84..23  ¡Pepperell,  114......82%
Pennerell  74........20  IPequot,  74............. 21
W S S &   84........22% Pequot,  84............. 24
Pepperell,  94 ....... 26  ¡Pequot,  94............. 27%

HEAVY BROWN COTTONS.

Atlantic  A, 44......   7% ¡Lawrence XX.4-4..  8%
Atlantic  H ,44.......7  Lawrence  Y, 30....  7
Atlantic  D ,44.......6% LawrenceLL,44...  6
Atlantic P .44........   5% Newmarlset N........   ”%
Atlantic LJU44—   5% M ysticRiver,4 4...  6%
Adriatic, 36.............   ¡%Pequ°t A  44..........  8
Augusta, 44...........   6% Piedmont,  36..........  7
Boott M. 44...........   7% Stark AA, 44 ..........  734
Boott  FF.4-4..........  734Tremont CC,44....  534
Graniteville, 44 ....  634 Utica,  *-* ■ ■ • • • •.......9
Trwiian  Head  4-4...  7% Wachusett,  44.......  <%
^ndiana Head 45-in.12%|wachusett, 30-in...  634

Amoskeag,  ACA... 15 
Amoskeag  “ 44.. 19
Amoskeag,  A .........14
Amoskeag,  B .........13
Amoskeag,  C.........1*
Amoskeag,  D.........11
Amoskeag,  E .........10%
Amoskeag, F ......-10
Premium  A, 4-4— 17
Premium  B........... 16
Extra 44..........
Extra 7-8........
Gold Medal 44.
CCA 7-8...........
CT 4 4 ...................... 11
RC 7-8.............
BF 7-8.............
A F 44...........

Falls, XXXX..........18%
Falls, XXX.............15%
Falls,  BB................11%
Falls,  BBC, 36........19%
Falls,  awning........19
HaruiUon,  BT, 32. .12
Hamilton,  D ......... 10
Hamilton,  H ......... 10
Hamilton  fancy... 10
Methuen AA......... 14%
Methuen ASA........18
14% ¡Omega A, 7-8....... ..11
15 Omega A, 4-4....... ..13
12%Omega ACA, 7-8.. ..14
14 Omega ACA, 4-4.. ..16
14 Omega SE, 7-8 — ..24
16 Omega SE, 4-4— ..27
19 Omega M. 7-8---- . .22
(Anega M, 4-4....... ..25
14
15 Shetucket SS&Sö W11 %
15 Shetucket, S & SW.12
Cordis No. 1,32—
14 Shetucket,  SFS....12
Cordis  No. 2..........
13 Stock bridge  A ..-.. .  7
SSdte N o ll” ” ---• ii%IStoekbridge  frncy.  8 

GLAZED CAMBRICS.

..............5 

burner 
Hookset'..”..............   5  ¡Washington.............  434
Red  Cross...............  5  Edwards....................  5
F o r e s t Grove.......... 
¡S. S. s  Sons.............   5

¡Empire  ...................

GRAIN  BAGS.

American  A 
Sterk A 

. 

.......19  ¡Old  Ironsides.........15%
. .. .. ,.23%lWheatland.............21%

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

M an v ille... 
M asgnville

DENIMS.
.  7% ¡Otis CC...................10%
.14%iWarren  AXA....... 12%
.14% I Warren  BB...........11%
.12% Warren CC............ 10%
.11% I York  fancy.......... 15

PAPER  CAMBRICS.

IS. S. & Sons... 
Garner  ..........

WIGANS.

Red  Cross...............  7  |Thistle Mills.............
Berlin.....................   7  Rose..........................  8
G am er....................  7  I

SPOOL COTTON.

Brooks.................... 50
Clark’s O. N. F...... 55
J. & P.  Coats..........56
Willimantic 6 cord.55 
Willimantic 3 cord. 40 
Charleston ball sew 
ing thread........... 30

Eagle  and  Phoenix 
Mills ball eewing.30 
Greeh  &  Daniels...25 
Merricks.................M
Stafford................. 35
Hall & Manning... .30 
Holyoke................. 25

No.  10...........
Coin...............
Anchor.........
Centennial... 
Blackburn...
Davol.............
London..........
Paconia........
Red Cross.... 
Social Imi

SILESIAS.
17 Masonville TS... ...  8
12% Mason ville S— ...10%
10 Lonsdale............ ...9%
15 Lonsdale A ........ ...16
Nictory  O.......... ...  8
8 Victory J ............ ...  7
14 Victory D .......... ...10
.12% Victory K ..........
.12 Phoenix A .......... ...  9%
..  10% 
Phoenix  B ........
.10
4.16
Phœnix X X .......
.16

(Bcoceries,

AXLE GREASE.

Modoc  ....  $  doz  60  IParagon...  fldoz  60 
Diamond.............  60 
|Frazer’s ...............  85

BLUING.

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

BROOMS.

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

CANNED GOODS.

25
45
35

*60
g j®
?00
}
125
«5

 

Apples, 3 lb standards................................ 1 20
Apples, 6 lb standards................................ 2 00
Apples, gallon  standards........................... « J®
Apricots, Lusk’s..........................................2 95
Beans, Lim a..................................... 
j*
Beans, String................................................  85
Beans, Boston Baked..................................1 70
Blackberries, standards................ .............1 go
Cherries, w h ite............................................1 90
Cherries,  red.................................................J ®
Condensed Milk, Fagle  brand...................8 10
Corn, Erie..................................................... }
Corn, Revere.................................................* ■*«
Com,  Egyptian............................................110
Com,  Yarmouth..........................................j
Damsons....................................................... J
Egg Plums, standards................................J «0
Green  Gages, standards.............................|  60
Lobsters, Stars............................................» 00
Lobsters, Picnics........................................ 1  <5
Oysters, 1  lb  standards...............................11«
Oysters,lib  slack filled..............................  75
Oysters, 2 lb  standards..............................  18“
Oysters, 2 lb slack filled.............................. 1 25
Peaches, all  yellow  standards................. 2 10
Peaches, white  standards......................... 1 90
Peaches,  seconds........................................ J *
Pie Peaches...........................................
Pears, B artlett............................................J j®
Peas, standard  Marrofat...........................l  go
Peas, good Marrofat................................... 1 «“
Peas, soaked.................................................   «5
Pineapples....................................................* «o
Raspberries, Erie........................................l  go
Raspbe*-ies,  other brands........................{
Salmon, standard........................................1 «0
i«/*
Sardines,  imported  %s...............................  
Sardines, imported %s.................................  20
Sardines, domestic %s................................. 
»
Sardines,  domestic  %s.............................. 
i*/4
Strawberries,  standards............................ l 10
Succotash, standards................................. 1 «6
Succotash,  other  brands................................*
Tomatoes,  standards.,..................... l 00@i Uo
lEly’s Waterproof  75

...........   35 

CAPS.

G.  D...............
Musket................   75  1

COFFEE

Roasted Mex.18 
@20
@18
Ground  Rio..10 
Ground  Mex.  @17
Arbuckle’s ..........@1714
XX XX................@1714
Dilworth’s ......... @1714

Green Rio__ 13  @15
Green Java.. .18  @28 
Green Mocha.26  @28 
Roasted Rio. .13%@18 
Roasted  Java25  @35 
Roasted Mar.18  @19%
Roasted Mocha  @35
72 foot Jute ..... 1 35  ¡60 foot Cotton... .1 75 
60 foot Jute.......1  15 
|50 foot Cotton... .1 50

CORDAGE.

CORN  SYRUPS.

Barrels..............................................................  j®
%  bbls................................................................  £5
(0 gallon  kegs...................................................
5 gallon  kegs.................................................... * ¿2
4% gallon kegs................................................. 1 ou

FISH.

 

Whole Cod.......................................... 
.
Boneless Cod...................................... 6%@7%<^%
Herring % bbls. 100 !b........................ 2 75@100
Herring Scaled...................................... 
2°®«®
Herring Holland...................................  @1 10
Bloaters.................................................  @1 «0
8 00 
White, No. 1, % bb ls........
4 00 
White, Family, % bbls—
110 
White, No. 1,10 lb kits......
1 25 
Whise, No. 1,12 ft kits....
4 75 
Trout, No. 1, %  bbls........
90 
Trout, No. 1,12  lb  kits....
7 00 
Mackerel, No. 1, % bbls...
1 15
Mackerel. NoS 1.12 ft  kits

FRUITS.

London Layers, new 
2 60
...............................  
Loose Muscatels Raisins,  new............2  25@2 30
New Valencias Raisins............................  
@7
Ondaras......................................................   @J0
Currants............. -..................................  ®
Citron......................................................  18@20
Dried Apples  .........................................  8  @8

MATCHES.

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

20 gross lots special price.

MOLASSES.

15
12%
75
1 00
75
1  00
5  75
6 75

New  Orleans,  good...................................... »«@50
New  Orleans,  fancy...............................••--56@60
Syrups, Sugar......................................... 27@35@45

OIL.

do. 

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

OATMEAL.

Imperial  bbls....................................
Quaker bbls.......................................
Choice in barrels med........................................... 7 25
Choice in % 
...................................... 1
small..................................4 25
Dingee’s % 
Dingee’s quarts glass fancy...........................4
Dingee’s pints 
do 

.........................  * 5U

PICKLES.

do 
do 

SALERATUS.

DeLand’spure @5%|Cap Sheaf............  ©
Churh’s ..........  @ 5% Dwight s ........   @5%
Taylor’s G. M.  @  5%|

60 P ocket....................
28 Pocket.....................
Saginaw F in e.............
Diamond C..................
Standard  Coarse........

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

2 60
2 45
110
1  75
1 55

H em p......................................................
Canary....................... ............................
R ape........................................................
Mixed Bird..............................................

do. 

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

Kirk’s American  Fam ily........... $  lb
do. 
India.........................................
do.  Savon........................................
do.  Satinet......................................
do.  R evenue..................................
do.  White Russian.........................
Goodrich’s English Family  ...............
Princess............................
Proctor & Gamble’s Ivory.................
Japan  O live..........
Town Talk 
box
Golden Bar...........
Arab......................
Amber...................
Mottled  German..
Sidall’s ...................................................
Babbitt’s ................................................
Dish R ag................................................
Bluing......................................................  
Magnetic.................................................. 
New  French  ProcesB............................ 
Spoon......................................................  
Anti-Washboard
Vaterland................................................ 
Magic...................................................
Pittsburgh.........................................
Bogue’s ..............................................
White castile bars............................
Mottled castile...................................
Old  Style............................................
Old Country........................................

SPICES.

Ground Pepper, in boxes and cans.
Ground Allspice-----
Cinnamon..................
Cloves.......................
Ginger.......................
Mustard....................
Cayenne...................
Pepper % ft V dozen
Allspice  %ft..........
Cinnamon  % f t......
Cloves H »-

5%
4%

6%
6%
66%
534
5 40
5%
4%
6 75
5
3 70
4 20 
3 45
3 75
4 20
3 00
5 50
4 25
5 00
*
4 50
f 00
5 00
3 25
4 20 
4 00 
6 75 
13 
12@6%
5%

16@22
12@20
16@30
20@25
17@20
15@35
25@36
76
76
76
75

SALT.

SEEDS.

SOAP.

Pepper,  whole....................................
Allspice...............................................
Cassia...................................................  „
Cloves...................................................  20
Nutmegs,  No. 1..................................   70

@18
@12
@22
@75

STARCH.

@7
@6%
@7}4

STONEWARE.

Special prices on 1,0001b orders.

Muzzy Gloss 1 ft package.....................
Muzzy Gloss 3 1b package.....................
Muzzy  Gloss 6 ft boxes........................
Muzzy Gloss bulk..................................
Muzzy Corn lib ......................................  <
Kingsford Silver Gloss.........................
@9%
Kingsford Silver Gloss 6 1b  box..........
Kingsford Com......................................
Oswego  Gloss......................................... 
@634
Mirror  Gloss...........................................  @7
Mirror Gloss, com .................................  @7%
Piel’s Pearl..............................................  @1
Jugs $   gallon.........................................  @8
Crocks............. - ...................................... 
7
Milk Crocks............................................  
7
Rising  Sun gross..5 88IDixon’s gross........ 5 50
Universal...............5 88 Above ¥  dozea.......   50
IX  L .......................5 50]
Granulated.
Cut Loaf__
Cubes  ........
Powdered..
Conf. A .......
Standard A .
Extra C.......
Fine C........
Yellow........

SUGARS. 
...................................................  @734
8S£@8%
.............................. 
8 36 @8%
................................. 
8%@8%
...............................  
...................................................  @7%
736@7%
................................. 
................................. 
6%@7
636@636
...............................  
................................  6  @6%

STOVE POLISH.

_

 

 

Sage.........................................................   @15
Curry Combs $1 doz................................1 25@
Molasses Gates each..............................  @45
Measuring Faucet ea ch ....................... 4 50@
Tobacco Cutters each...........................1 25@
18@23
Twine......................  
ChimneyCleaners ^  doz.......................   @50
Flour Sifters $  doz................................3 00@
Fruit Augurs each..................................1 25@
Tapioca................................................... 
5@6
Washing Crystal, Gillett’s box............ 1 50@1 65
Wicking No. 1 $8 gross..........................   @40
do  No. 2  ......................................  @65
do  Argand................................... 1 50®

Washing Powder, 1TT6 ^ f t ..................  @10%
Gillett’s $   ft..........  @7%
Soapine pkg............ 
7@10

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

do 
do 

PROVISIONS.

FORK.

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.............   20 00
Clear Pork, A.  Webster packer.............   20  50
S. P. Booth’s Clear Pork, Kansas City..  21 50
Extra Clear Pork........................................21 00
Extra B  Clear Pork...................................21 50
Clear Back Pork, new..............................  22 00
Boston Clear Pork, extra quality..........  22 00
Standard Clear Pork, the best.................  22  50

@   10 
@  35 
35

@

@  50
40
2 00
60

Acetic,  No. 8............................<$ft
Acetic,  C. P. (Sp. grav. 1.040)........
Carl'  lie............................................
Citr.c.................................................
Muriatic  18  deg...............................
Nitric 36 deg....................................
Oxalic ................................................
Sulphuric 66 deg.............................
Tartaric  powdered........................
Benzoic,  English....................^ oz
Benzojc,  German............................
Tannic...............................................

AMMONIA.

Carbonate.................................$  ft  17  @  20
15
Muriate (Powd. 22c)......................... 
Aqua 16 deg or  3f............................ 
6  @  7
Aqua 18 deg or 4f............................ 
7  @  8

BALSAMS.

Copaiba............................................ 
F if.....................................................  
Peru....................................... ........... 
Tolu................................................... 

BARKS.

Cassia, in mats (Pow’d 20c)...........  
Cinchona,  yellow..........................  
Elm,  select.......................................  
Elm, ground, pure..........................  
Elm, powdered,  pure....................  
Sassafras, of root............................ 
Wild Cherry, select........................  
Bayberry  powdered....................... 
Hemlock powdered......................... 
W ahoo......................................................  
Soap  ground............................................. 
Cubeb, prime  (Powd $1 20)............ 
@1  00
6  @  7
Juniper............................................. 
Prickly Ash................................  . .1 00  @1  11

12
18
15
13
15
10
12
20
18

BERRIES.

EXTRACTS.

Licorice (10 and 25 ft boxes, 25c)... 
Licorice,  powdered, pure.............  
Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 ft doxes). 
Logwood, Is (25 ft  boxes)........... 
............... 
Lgowood, %8 
do 
Logwood, %s 
do 
............... 
Logwood, ass’d  do 
............... 
Fluid Extracts—25 $  cent, off list.

FLOWERS.

27
37}
9
12
13
15
14

Arnica...............................................   10  @  11
25
Chamomile,  Roman....................... 
Chamomile,| Germ an.....................  
25

60@  75
Aloes,  Barbadoes............................ 
Aloes, Cape (Powd  24c).................. 
18
50
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd  60c).......... 
28®  30
Ammoniac.......................................  
Arabic, extra  select....................... 
60
Arabic, powdered  select............... 
60
55
Arabic, 1st  picked..........................  
Arabic,2d  picked............................ 
45
40
Arabic,! 3d pickad............................ 
35
Arabic, sifted sorts......................... 
30
Assafoentida, prime (Powd 35c)... 
Benzoin............................................  
56@60
23@  25
Camphor..........................................  
Catechu. Is (% 14c, %8 16c)............ 
13
Euphorbium powdered.................. 
35@  40
80
Galbanum strained......................... 
Gamboge..........................................   1 00®1 10
Guaiac, prime (Powd  45c).............  
35
Kino [Powdered, 30c].....................  
20
Mastic................................................ 
1 10
Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 47o)... 
40
Opium, pure (Powd $5.50)............... 
4ul0
4o
Shellac, Campbell’s ......................... 
33
Shellac,  English.............................. 
Shellac, native................................. 
28
Shellac bleached.............................  
_  35
Tragacanth........................................  30 @1 10

HERBS—IN  OUNCE  PACKAGES.

OILS.

IRON.

LEAVES.

LIQUORS.

MAGNESIA.

Hoarhound.......................................................25
Lobelia...............................................................25
Peppermint.......................................................25
Rue..................................................................... 40
Spearmint........................................................ 24
Sweet Majoram...........................  
35
Tanzy................................................................ 26
Thym e...............................................................«0
Wormwood...................................................... 25
6 40
Citrate and  Quinine....................... 
Solution mur., for tinctures........  
20
7
Sulphate, pure  crystal.................. 
Citrate....................................   •—  
80
Phosphate.......................................  
65
Buchu, short (Powd 25c)................   12  @  11
6
Sage, Italian, bulk (%8&%s, 12c)... 
Senna,  Alex, natural.......................  18 @  20
30
Senna, Alex, sifted and  garbled.. 
22
Senna,  powdered............................ 
Senna tinnivelli...............................  
16
J?
Uva  Ursi........................................... 
Foxglove........................................... 
30
35
Henbane........................................... 
Rose, red........................................... 
2 35
W., D. & Co.’s Sour Mash Whisky.2 00  @2 25
Druggists’ Favorite  Rye................ 1 75 @2 00
Whisky, other brands..................... 1  10 @1 50
Gin, Old Tom..................................... 135 @175
Gin,  Holland..................................... 2 00 @3 50
Brandy............................................... 1 75 @6 50
Catawba  Wines.................................1 25 @2 00
Port Wines.........................................135 @2 50
Carbonate, Pattison’s, 2 oz...........  
23
Carbonate, Jenning’s, 3 oz.............  
37
Citrate, H., P. & Co.’s  solution.... 
2 25
Calcined............................................  
70
Almond, sweet.................................  45  @  50
Amber, rectified.............................  
„45
2 10
Anise.................................................  
_ «0
Bay ^   oz........................................... 
Bergamont.......................................  
2 00
Croton...............................................  
2 00
Cajeput............................................  
75
Cassia...............................................  
1 «»
40
Cedar, commercial  (Pure 75c)....... 
„85
Citronella.......................................  
Cloves...............................................  
1 25
Cubebs, P. &  W............................... 
8 00
Erigeron........................................... 
1 60
Fireweed........................................... 
2 00
Geranium  $   oz...............................  
75
40
Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75c).. 
Juniper wood..................................  
50
Juniper berries...............................  
2 25
2  40
Lavender flowers- French.............  
1  00
Lavender garden 
.............  
90
Lavender spike 
.............  
1  85
Lemon, new crop............................ 
Lemon,  Sanderson’s....................... 
2 00
Lemongrass...................................... 
80
Origanum, red  flowers, French... 
1 25
Origanum,  No. 1............................ 
50
2 00
Pennyroyal...................................... 
Peppermint,  white........................  
2 85
9 75
Rose  $   oz......................................... 
Rosemary, French  (Flowers $5)... 
65
Sandal  Wood, German.................. 
5 00
Sandal Wood, Turkish  Dark........ 
8 00
80
Sassafras........................................... 
2 50
T ansy...................................................  
  3 75
Tar (by gal 60c).................................  10  @  12
3 25
Wintergreen................................. 
4  50
Wormwood, No. 1 (Pure $6.50)....... 
Savin.................................................  
1  00
Wormseed.......................................  
2  50
Cod Liver, filtered....... 
■ $  gal 
190
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 .......................^ oz 
9 7o
Bicromate.................................$  ft 
15
35
Bromide, cryst. and  gran. bulk... 
Chlorate, cryst (Powd 23c).............  
20
Iodide, cryst. and  gran, bulk....... 
1  40
30
Prussiate yellow.............................. 
Alkanet............................................  
25
Althea, cut....................................... 
27
Arrow,  St. Vincent’s .....................  
17
45
Arrow, Taylor’s, in %s and %8.... 
12
Blood (Powd 18c).............................. 
18
Calamus,  peeled.............................. 
38
Calamus, German  white, peeled.. 
Elecampane, powdered..................  
23
Gentian (Powd  17c(......................... 
13
Ginger, African (Powd 16c)............  13  @  14
Ginger, Jamaica  bleached............ 
20
Golden Seal (Powd  40c)..................  
35
20
Hellebofe, white, powdered.......... 
Ipecac, Rio, powdered.................... 
110
37!
Jalap, powdered.............................. 
12
Licorice,  select (Powd 12%).......... 
Licorice, extra select...................... 
15
Pink, true.................. ......................  
_   36
Rhei, from select to  choice..........1 00  @1 50
Rhei, powdered E. I .................. ....110  @1 20
Rhei,ohoiceout  cubes............. 
2 00
Rhei, ohoice cut fingers................ 
2 25
Serpentaria__ ____ 
60
Brnmtm

POTASSIUM.

ROOTS.

do 
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6 00

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

LARD.

Tierces
30 and 50 ft Tubs

LARD IN  TIN PAILS.

20 ft Round Tins, 80 ft  racks...............
50 ft Round  Tins, 100 1b  racks............
3 ft Pails, 20 in a case..........................
5 ft Pails, 12 in a case ...'...................
10 ft Pails, 6 in a case..........................

10%
10%
10%
10%
10%
10%
11
11
11
11%
11%
11%
12

10
10 
10 
10% 
10% 
10%

SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED  OR  PLAIN.

do. 

14 
Hams cured in sweet pickle medium..
14% 
light........
9% 
8houlders cured in sweet pickle.......
Extra Clear Bacon..................................
11%
Dried B eef................................................
16
Extra Dried B eef....................................
Extra Mess Beef Chicago packed $  bbl.  13 00 

BESF*

CANNED BEEF.

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

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

SAUSAGE—FRESH AND SMOKED.

Pork  Sausage.................................................. 10%
Pork Sausage Meat, 50 ft tubs...................... 10%
Ham  Sausage.................................................. 15
Tongue  Sausage............. ...............................  11
Liver Sausage...................................................  8%
Frankfort  Sausage........................................ 10
Blood  Sausage........ .............. 
8%
Bologna,  ring..............................................¿.  8%
Bologna, straight............................................   8%
Bologna,  thick............................................  8%
Head  Cheese.....................................................  8%

 

 

PIGS’ FEET.

In half barrels................................................$3 85
In quarter barrels..........................................  2 10
In kits................................................................  1 GO

TRIPE.

In half barrels.................................................$3 85
In quarter barrels..........................................  2 00
In kits..............................................................  
95
Prices named are  lowest  at time of going to 
press, subject always to Market changes.

FRESH  MEATS.

John  Mohrhard quotes the trade as follows:
Fresh  Beef, sides...................................  7%@ 9%
Fresh  Beef, hind quarters..................  9  @10%
Dressed Hogs.........................................   9  @9%
Mutton,  carcasses.................................   8  @9
Veal..........................................................  9  @10%
Spring Chickens....................................   16© 17
Fowls.......................................................  15© 16
Pork  Sausage..........................................10%@11
Pork Sausage in bulk............................  @11
Bologna...................................................   @10

OYSTERS  AND  FISH.

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: 

OYSTERS.

New York Counts, per can................................38
Extra  Selects.......................................................33
Plain  Selects.....................................................   28
H. M. B. F ............................................................. 31
Favorite F ............................................................. 18
Prim e....................................................................16
X X X ......................................................................14
New York Counts, solid meats, per gal.......2 50
Selects, solid  meats, per gallon__  
.  @1 75
Standards, solid meats, per gallon__   @110
Can pi ices above are tor cases and half cases. 
Codfish...............................................................12%
Haddock...........................................................   8
Smelts................................................................   8
Herring.............................................................  7
Mackinaw Trout...............................................10
Mackerel............................. 
15
Whitefish.......................................................... 12%

FRESH  FISH.

 

EXTRACTS.

JENNINGS’  DOUBLE  CONCENTRATED  EXTRACTS. 
Packed in 1 Dozen Paper or 2 Dozen Wood Box. 
2 ounce B. N. Panel  fi dozen..............................1 00
do
4 do
do
6 do
do
8 do
No. 2 Taper Panel 
do 
No. 4 
% pint round 
do
No. 8 Panel 
No. 10  do
2 ounce B. N. Panel
4  do
6  do
8  do
No. 2 Taper Panel
No. 4 
% pint round  .
1 
do
No. 8 Panel
No. 10  do

Lemon.
.........................1  75
o 
o 
.........................2 75
o 
................. .....3  75
......................... 1  25
o 
............................ 2  00
o 
o 
.........................4 50
......................... 9 00
o 
.........................3 25
o 
......................... 4  50
o 
dozen.......................... 1 50
........................2 75
do
........................4 00
do
........................5 00
do
........................1  75
do
....................... 3 00
do
........................7 50
do
do
......................15 00
........................4 25
do
do
...........................6  00

do
do
do

iJENNINGS’ TRUE FLAVORINGS.

Full Measure—Wrapped.
• 
% Pint 2 ounce 
% Pint 4  do 
% Pint 8  do 
% Pint 12  do

Lemon.
dozen.................................. 1 50
do 
.....................  
................................. 5 00
do 
do 
................................. 7 50

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HIDES, FELTS AND  FURS. 

Perkins & Hess quote as fol.ows:

HIDES.

FURS.

WOOL.

SHEEP PELTS.

Green................................................$ f t 6   @7
Part  cured..............................................  7%@ 8
©  8% 
Full cured..................................................  8
Dry hides and kips...................................  8
@12 
Calf skins, green or cured......................10
@12 
@50
Deacon skins............................$  piece20
Shearlings or Summer skins ^ piece. .10
@20
Fall pelts................................................... 30
Winter  pelts....................................... 1 00  @1 50
@32
Fine washed *pft...................................... 30
@25
Coarse washed..........................................22
Unwashed...............................................2-3
Mink, large................................................  60® 75
Mink,  small..............................................   26@ 40
Muskrat,  Spring................................. 
 
Muskrat, Winter......................................  10@ 15
8@ 11
Muskrat,  Fall............................................ 
Muskrat,  kits............................................ 
3@  4
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......................................  76@1 00
Fisher....................... 
4 00@8 00
Otter............................................ 
6 00@7 00
Bear....................... ................................ 5 00@12 00
Deer skins, red and blue, dry—   ^  ft  30®  35
Deer skins, gray and long  haired.......  12®  25
Beaver, dean and dry $  ft............... .2 00@3 50
Above prioes are for  prime  skins  only—un­
prime in proportion,

18@ 19

 

 

TEAS.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PLUG.

TOBACCO—FINE CUT.

Young Hyson— 25@50
Gun  Powder.......35@50
Oolong..........33@56@60
Congo..................   @30

Japan  ordinary..26@30
Japan fair............ 32@35
Japan fair to g’d.35@37
Japan fine............ 40@50
Japan dust...........15@20
69
Hiawatha................................................ 
70
Globe........................................................ 
May Flower............................................  
70
Hero........................ 
@45
A tlas........................................................  @36
Royal Game............................................   @38
Silver Thread.........................................   @67
Old  Dog Tray.........................................   @60
Seal................ 
@60
Kentucky............................................ '• 
@30
Mule  Ear.................................................   @67
Peek-a-Boo..............................................  @32
Peek-a-Boo, %  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
Climax.....................................................  @50
Hold F ast................................................  @48
McAlpin’s Gold Shield..........................   @48
Nickle Nuggets 6 and 12 ft  cads..........  @51
Cock of the Walk  6s..............................  @37
Black Spun  Roll....................................   @38
Nimrod.....................................................  @50
A com .............. 
@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..................I...........................   @47
HorseShoe..............................................  @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........................................................  @18
SMOKING.
24@25
Dim e....................................... 
 
Peerless..................................................  
25
22
Standard...............T................................  
Old Tom................................................... 
21
Tom & Jerry........................................... 
24
Joker........................................................  
25
35
Traveler................................................... 
Maiden.................................... .•..............   @26
T opsy......................................................  
27
24
Navy Clippings...................................... 
25
Honey D ew ............................................  
Gold Block..............................................  
32
Camp F ir e ............................................. 
22
Oronoko.................................................  
19
26
Nigger  Head........................................... 
60
Durham,  % ft........................................ 
57
do  % f t ........................................ 
do  % f t ........................................ 
55
1 f t ......................................  
51
Holland...................................................  @22
German...................................................  @16
Long Tom.......................... 
@30
National......................................-...........*  @26
T im e........................................................   @26
Love’s Dream.........................................   @28
Conqueror..............................................   @23
@22
Fox’s .................  
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, %s and  %s..................  @25
Old  Rip, long cut..................................   @60
Durham,  long cut.................................  @60
Two  Nickle, %5......................................  @25
Two  Nickle, %s......................................  @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

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SHORTS.

VINEGAR.

Mule Ear.................................................  
23
23
Hiawatha................................................ 
Old Congress........................................... 
23
Pure  Cider.....................................................  12
White  Wine...................................................  12
Seneca Falls “ Rising  Sun”.....................   1 75
Twin Bros..........1  75  ¡Wilsons................ 1 75
Gillett’s ............. 1  75  ¡National...............1  85

YEAST.

MISCELLANEOUS.

 

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do 

do 
do 

Blacking.........................................30, 40, 50@60
150
do  waterproof............................ 
Bath Brick imported................................ 
95
American............................ 
75
do 
Barley......................................................   @ 3
1  10
Burners, No. 1 ........................................ 
1  50
do  No. 2........................................ 
Bags, American A ................................. 
20  00
Baking Powder  bu lk......................... 
10@22
Beans,  medium  ....................................   @2  10
Beans, hand picked........................... 
2 40
Butter......................................................   18@20
Butterine................................................  18@2l
Cream Tartar 5 and 10 ft cans..............  @25
Candles, Star...........................................  @15%
Candles,  Hotel.......................................   @16%
Chocolate, Baker’s ...............................   @40
German sweet....................  2o@26
Cheese full cream choice...................... 14%@15
Catsup quarts $   dozen.........................1 40@1 60
@26%
Cocoanut,  Schepps’ lft packages. 
Cocoanut,  Schepps’ 1 &  % ft  do 
@27%
Extract Coffee,  v. c............................... 
95
F elix ....................................1 30@
Flour, Star Mills, in bb ls........   ...........5 75@
inSapks................................5 50@
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps.......................  @25
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps.......................   @40
Gum, Spruce...........................................  36@40
Chimneys No.  1......................................  @35
No. 2......................................  @48
Indigo......................................................1 00@
Ink % 3 dozen  box................................1 00@
Jelly in Pails...........................................  @ 6
do  Glass Tumblers $  doz..................  @75
Licorice, Sicily......................................  @20
Licorice, Calabra...................................  28@30
Licorice Root.........................................   @12
Lye  2  doz. cases..........................................1 55@
Macaroni,  Imported..............................  @13
Domestic.................................................   @ 5%
Mince Pies, 1 gross cases, $  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 50@
@3%
Powder,  K eg...................................................5 60®
do  % Keg.............................................. 8 00@
Rioe.......................................................6@6%@7%
Sago  ................ 
Shot, drop........................ 
do  tu c k ....

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

5@6

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ALABASTINE!

Alabastine is the first and  only  prepara­
tion made from  calcined  gypsum  rock,  for 
application  to  walls  with  a  brush, and  is 
fully  covered  by  our  several  patents  and 
perfected  by  many  years  of  experiments. 
It  is  the  only  permanent  wall  finish,  and 
admits  of  applying  as  many  coats  as  de­
sired, one over another, to any hard  surface 
without  danger  of  scaling,  or  noticeably 
adding to the thickness of  the  wall,  which 
is  strengthened  and  improved  by  each  ad­
ditional coat, from time  to  time. 
It  is  the 
only material for the purpose not dependent 
upon glue for its adhesiveness ;  furthermore 
it is the only  preparation  that is  claimed 
to  possess  these  great  advantages,  which 
are  essential  to  constitute  a  durable  wall 
finish.  Alabastine is hardened on  the  wall 
by  age, moisture,  etc.;  the  plaster  absorbs 
the  admixtures,  forming*-  a  stone  cement, 
while  all  kalsomines,  or  other  whitening 
preparations,  have  inert  soft  chalks,  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  haw  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-lialf  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-

M.T.T.  p a in t  S e a le r s .

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

THE ALABASTINE COMPANY

M. B.  OHTJBOH, Manager.

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICHIGAN.

WESTFIELD WHIPS

L .H .5 S Ä L S  

< £   S O I T ,

MANUFACTURERS.

O F F I C E

—AND—

SALESROOM 
NO. 4 PEARL STREET, 

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GBAUD RAPIDS, MICH.

D. BOYS & GO, Geil Agents.

A.  A.  GRIPPEN,

WHOLESALE

Hats, Caps and Furs

54  MONROE  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN,

We c a n y  a Large Stock, and Guarantee  Prices 

as Low as Chicago and Detroit.

-FOR  T H E -

FIELD  AND  GARDEN,

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WHOLESALE  AND  RETAIL,

—AT TH E-

S E E D   S T O R E ,

91  Canal  St., G rand  Rapids, Mich.

ff. T. U K 01A U 1 Aeeit

A.  H.  F O W L E ,

PAINTER  AND  DECORATOR,

—AND DEALER  IN -

Artists’  Materials!
WINDOW  SHADES,

FINE  WALL  PAPERS AND 

ROOM  MOULDINGS,

PAINTS,  OILS,  AND

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37  Ionia  Street, South  op  Monroe.
JOHN MOHRHARD,
Fresh & Salt Meats

—WHOLESALE—

109  CANAL  STREEJT,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICHIGAN.

B.  J.  KIRKLAND.  M.  D.,

SPECIALIST  IN  DISEASES  OF THE

Z ar, E y e   and  T hroat

W ITH DRS. JOHNSON ft BOISE,

72  Ottawa  Street,  Corner  of Monroe  Street, 

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

PENCIL  PORTRAITS  NO.  S.

SUGAR  IN  LUMPS.

Augustus Caywood  Sharp, the  Fat  Man  of  the j 

Grocery Trade.

A. C. Sharp  was  bom  in  Lodi,  Seneca 
county, N. Y., in 1850, and was educated  in 
the common schools of that place.  He came 
to Michigan in  1865,  and  located  with  his 
parents in the township of Gaines, where he 
remained until 1875. 
In the spring  of  that 
year he came to  this  city  and  entered  the 
employ of O. W. Blain, then as now engaged 
in  the  commission  business,  where  he  re­
mained until 1879, when he indentified  him­
self with Cody, Olney & Co., spending but a 
week  in the  house  preparatory to starting 
out on the road.  His first sale was to Furber 
& Kidder, ot Hopkins Station, a customer he 
has held to the present time.  His  territory 
then included  the  principal  points  on  the 
Lake Shore &  Michigan  Southern,  Chicago 
& West Michigan,  and  Detroit,  Lansing  & 
Northern Railways, he being the first  sales­
man out of Grand Rapids to cover the latter 
road.  On the occasion of Mr. Underwood’s 
leaving the firm he added  to  his  trade  the 
towns on the Newaygo  division,  and  there 
has been no change in his route  since.  His 
sales  during Lthe year  18812—the heyday of 
the grocery trade—amounted to  $171,744.98, 
which is probably the largest showing of the 
kind that can be made  and  verified  by  the 
books.  His largest month’s sales were .dur­
ing August, amounting to $17,381.06, and the 
smallest during February, which  were  $12,- 
461.18. 
In the  former  month  he  sold  the 
largest tea order ever received at this market, 
consisting of 58 half chests,  or  about  3,480 
pounds. He was married in 1878 Miss to Ella 
R.  Weatherly,  and  resides  at  696  Cherry 
street.

Mr. Sharp is a  typical  Yankee,  and  pos­
sesses  all, or nearly all, of the good  charac­
teristics of that class.  He is  noted  for  his 
punctuality, and is exceedingly particular in 
this respect, never disappointing a  customer 
when he has promised to meet him on a cer­
tain day.  His superabundant good nature and 
his  invariable-square dealing with  his  cus­
tomers have served to place him ip  high  es­
teem with the latter,  and  enabled  him  to 
hold his trade against almost any odds.

On the ISasel—Wm. B. Edmunds,  W. J. Price, 

J.  H. McIntyre.

Failure at  Holland.

Schepers & Schiphorst,  druggists  at  Hol­
land,  were  recently  attached  by  R.  A.
Schouten, of this city, and A. J. Huizenga, of 
Holland, whose.claims aggregated $174, and 
the firm subsequently made  an  assignment 
to Gerrit J, Diekema, who furnishes  the fol­
lowing list of  creditors,  their  claims aggre­
gating $709.58:
Hazeltine, Perkins & Co., Grand Rapids. $170 18 
.  2415
Peck Bros. 
R. A. Schouten 
.  114  00
W. Van der Maas 
.  18  80
John A. King & Co., Chicago....................  120 85
John C. West 
....................  26 60
T. H. Hinchman,  Detroit..........................   139 95
A. J. Huizenga, Holland............................  60 00
............................ 
7 65
L. Mulder 
............................  37 50
T.  Keppel 
The stock will inventory at cost prices be­
tween $700 and $800.  As the exemption of 
both partners,  and  the  attachments,  will 
leave the other creditors “out  in  the  cold,” 
efforts will be made to secure  a  settlement, 
so that all the creditors can participate in the 
proceeds.  Peter  Doran  represents  most 
of the creditors.

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He  Was “ Long” on  Opium.

“Your reference to a local  quinine  specu­
lation,” said a West  Side  drug  clerk,  “ re­
minds me of a similar experience that  came 
to my notice at my former home in New York 
State a few years  ago.  During  the  excite­
ment attending  the  Turko-Russian war and 
the report that^the Turkish crop was a  fail 
ure, opium rose  from  about  $4  to  $6.25  a 
pound.  My then employer was confident of 
a further advance, and purchased 100 pounds 
at the latter price. 
It  shortly  advanced  to 
$8.50, which set him  crazy  on  the  subject, 
and led him to  think  that  the  quotations 
would reach $12. 
Instead of going  higher, 
however,  opium rapidly declined to  the  old 
figure,  where  it  lias  remained  ever  since 
The old fellow was gritty,  and  declared  he 
would have his purchas'e  price  or  nothing, 
and the last I heard from him  he  was  still 
keeping the stuff in his cellar, with every in­
dication that it would go at the latter figure.”

Mr.  Mills,  Stand  Up!

C. Newton Smith, of Lakeview,  sends  us 
$2 for his own and  John  S.  fille r’s  sub 
scription, pays the usual tribute to the merits 
of The Tradesm an, and winds  up  as  fol 
iows:
“The business men of  this  village  think 
thJt  L. Max. Mills,  of  the  wholesale drug 
house of Hazeltiue, Perkins & Co.,  of  your 
city, is decidedly  the  best  drummer  that 
visits this town.”

Mr. Mills will please send Mr. Smith a box 
of cigars’for expressing  the  above  opinion 
and The T radesman  a  duplicate  of  the 
same for giving the opinion the proper  pub­
licity.

Coon  Closed Up.

Jackson Coon, a dealer in boots and shoes 
at Rockford, was recently attached by  Bur- 
gett & Hart, of Toledo, on a claim  for $700, 
and subsequently  Peter Doran,  at  the  in­
stance of R. & J. Cummings, of Toledo,  put 
on a second attachment  for  $650,  covering 
the stock, store, and three  lots.  There  are 
two mortgages on  the  stock, one  for  $600, 
given Jan. 24 to Corbm & Kutts,  of  Grand 
Rapids, and another for $1,000 given  March 
10 to Neal  McMillan,  of  Rockford.  The 
stock will inventory about  $2,800,  and  the 
real estate  is  appraised  at  $3,000,  out  of 
which will come the  homestead,  valued  at 
$1,500.

Boralumine  will  give  you  satisfaction.

That  Which is  Pure and That Which  is  Not-* 

Cubes  Imitating  Cut  Loaf.

A correspondent  asks  the  differance  be­
tween the sugar which  is sold in apparently 
smoothly-cut lumps and other  white  sugar, 
the lumps of which are someweat  rough  on 
their surfaces.  The difference  is considera­
ble, and the latter, which is pure  loaf  sugar 
eut into lumps, always  commands  a  higher 
price in the wholesale market, and cannot be 
adulterated. 
It is called in the market  “cut 
loaf.”  The former quality ot sugar  is  what 
is known as ‘‘‘cubes.”  The cut-loaf sugar  is 
made in lumps of fifty pounds  out  of  cane 
sugar, then sawed into slabs, and these slabs 
are partly cut through and partly broken.  It 
is easy to distinguish the  marks  of  cutting 
and breaking  on  each  lump.  The  cube 
sugar is made of soft sugar  and  pressed  in 
molds, which gives the smooth  appearance. 
The cut-loaf sugar  will  keep  its  shape  in 
any climate, and is  suitable  for  shipment. 
The  cube  sugar  will  sometimes on a  sea 
voyage  resume  the  consistency of the soft 
sug&r, and the change of form is due to adul­
teration.

The safest sugar for any one to buy is pure 
loaf sugar, and  is  much  sweeter  than  any 
other.  The principal substance used in adul­
ating sugar is glucose, which is sugar  made 
from  various  vegetable, substances,  chiefly 
grain.  While glucose is sweet it is easily de­
tected by the expert  because  it  is  not  so 
sweet as cane sugar.  It is, nevertheless, very 
extensively used to adulterate cane sugar and 
produce the cheap sugars which are  sold  in 
the market.  Reputable  dealers  sell  it  as 
glucose, but there are many dealers who sell 
glucose for sugar.  The nature of the glucose 
is  to make a close, sticky sugar;  it  does not 
produce grains, like cane.

The polariscope readily exposes any  adul­
teration of sugar, but there is need  of  some 
ready test by which dealers who  cannot  af­
ford a polariscope can tell whether they  are 
buying cane sugar or glucose.  The  glucose 
is not  harmful as food,  but  its  sweetening 
properties are limited.  The  official  test of 
cut-loaf sugar is 100 per cent.  Other refined 
sugars in lumps do  not  always  reach  that 
test.  At present the precise form of the gen­
uine cut-loaf sugar has not yet been counter­
feited.

Visiting  Buyers.

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

dale.

E. Campbell, Baldwin.
Henry de Kline, Jamestown.
C. E. Kellogg, Grandville.
Jas. Ward, Greenville.
A. T. Burnett, Cross Village.
Christian Pfeifle, Lake P.  O.
Nevins Bros., Moline.
E. F. Empey, East Jordan.
E.  B. Slocum & Co., Hesperia.
J. H. Moores,  Lansing.
W. S. Root, Talmage.
F. A. Jennison,  Manton.
Colburn & Carpenter, Caledonia.
E. LaGrange. Mecosta.
T. J. Sheridan & Co., Lockwood.
Mrs. J. H. Avery,  Wayland.
John J. Ely,  Rockford.
L. J. Eckler, Kalkaska.
D. J. Peacock, Bridgeton.
Geo. Carrington, Trent.
I. S. Boise,  Hastings.
Barker & Lehnen, Pierson.
Byron McNeal, Byron  Center.
Johnson &  Seibert, Caledonia.
L. W. Styles,  Cedar Springs.
E. Murray, South Boardman.
J. L. Davis, Hopkins.
T. J. Knowles, Fremont.
Norman Harriss, Big Springs.
David Cornwell, Monterey.
U. S. Monroe, Berlin.
E. F. Metz &  Co., Holland.
Geo. H. Force, Morley.
Comeil Bros., Lumberton.
Wm. Vermeulen, Beaver Dam.
J. Walbrink, of I. J. Quick &  Co.,  Allen­
J. T.  Perham, Kent  City.
N. S. Loop, Kent City.
M. P. Shields,  Hilliards.
G. W. Mok^ma, Graafschaps.
H. L. Farrell, JamestoWn.
B. N. Pettengill, Rockford.
C. Crawford, Caledonia.
Waits Bros., Hudsonville.
Walling Bros., Lamont.
C. E. Blakeley, Coopersville.
B. Ensley, Ensley.
Chas. Cole, of Cole Bros., Ada.
S. C. Fell, Howard City.
Robt. Carlyle, Rockford.
Geo. A. Sage, Rockford.
E. W. Pickett, Wayland.
G. S. Putnam. Fruitport.
Mr. Rose, manager  for  S.  Ives,  Hunger- 
Fred  Morley,  of  Morley  Bros.,  Cedar 
A. DeKruif, Zeeland.
Weertman & Fisser, Zeeland.
P. Prince & Co., Holland.
Frank Kerbey, Douglass.
Gray  & Gray, Sheridan.
H. P. Miller, Carson City.
O. M. Vaughns, Covert.
F. C. Williams, Ada.
Cole Bros., Ada.
C. E. Clark, Lowell.
G. W. Chipman,  Saranac.
Mrs. H. Thomas, Ionia.
Aniba & Mead, Ionia.
C. F. Watson, Belding.
G. R. Slawson, Greenville.
Hang & Fox, Pewamo.
J. D. Woodbury, Portland.
C.  S. Wolcott, Portland.
D. Wade, Portland.
M. Husburger, Lowell.
J. Stitt, of Stitt Bros., Norwich.
Dr. L.  Gibbs, Six Comers,
G. Gringhaus, Lamont.
H. Bromley, Denver.
J. DeBH, Byron.
Jas. Riley,  Dorr.
G. H.  Walbrink,  Allendale.
W. A. Severson,  Buchanan.
N, DeVries, Jamestown.
T. B. Snyder,  Ayer.
Knapp &>Walsworth, Howard City.
Wm, Parks,  Alpine.
Thos. Cooley, Lisbon.
B. Wynhoff, Holland. 
L. Young, Coopersville. <
J. Moerdyk Jr. & Co., Holland.
R. B. McCullock, Berlin.
Paine &  Field, Englishville.
Louis Kolkema,  Holland,

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ford.
Springs.

Short-Weight Sacks of Floury 

Have you ever had ydnr attention  called 
to short-weight sacks of flour?” said a prom­
inent retail dealer in Th e  Tradesm an  of­
fice, the other day.

The flour reporter was called in, and ques­
tioned in regard to the matter, but professed 
ignorance, and the dealer was asked  to  give 
all the points he was acquainted with on the 
subject, whereupon he continued:

“A day or two ago, one of  our  best  cus­
tomers returned a 25 pound  sack  of  flour, 
stating that it contained but  23  pounds,  in­
cluding sack.  Of course we were inclined to 
doubt his statement, and remarked  that  the 
discrepancy  was  undoubtedly  due  to  his 
scales, but upon placing the sack on our own 
scales we were surprised to find that he was 
right in the matter.  Thinking that  perhaps 
that sack might be an exception, we weighed 
a number of others, two or three  from  each 
of the brands of the  three  leading  mills  of 
the city, but they alj failed to  register  more 
than 23 pounds.  This is the first  complaint 
of the kind we have received,  and  I  don’t 
know how long we have been  cheating  our 
customers out of a pound of flour on a  sack. 
Of course we will have to bear all the blame, 
as most of our customers think that we put up 
the flour ourselves. 
It looks as if there was 
concerted action on the part of the millers of 
the city to get ahead of us eight pounds on a 
barrel, and if such is the fact it is  high time 
we were made aware of the cheat,  in  order 
that  we  may not place ourselves in a false 
ligjjt before our customers.”

If the millers have any answer to make to 
this accusation, the columns of T he Trades­
man are open to them.

Lyon  & Gray’s Showing.

Lyman D.  Follett,  assignee  for  Lyon  & 
Gray, the  merchant  tailors  who  recently 
made a» assignment, has completed an inven­
tory of the stock and  accounts  of  the  late 
firm  from which it appears that  the  assets 
are $7,195.31, consisting of $5,865.81  worth 
of goods, at their inventory  value,  and  $1,- 
329.60  worth of  book  accounts,  the  total 
amount of which is $1,973.20.  The  liabili­
ties  are  $12,724.67,  distributed  among  16 
creditors in the following  amounts:
Mary E. Burchart, Grand  Rapids.........$0,000 00
Curtiss, Dnnton & Co. 
15 59
Hitchcock, Esseltine & Co., Detroit_____ 
25 67
J. H. Lesher &  Co., Chicago....................... 
335 75
Belding Bros. 
33 00
John A. Griffith & Co., Baltimore............. 
J. R. Keim & Co., Philadelphia.................. 
65 32
122 37
E. W. Wheelock & Co., Boston.................. 
193 41
F. A. Messenger, Jr. 
Nienaker,  Son & Co.,  Cincinnati............. 
132 15
Loury & Braun, New York.................... 
505 21
'....................   3,872 06
A. Origet 
808 49
..................... 
A. Baudomine 
409 io
L. Buyer & Co. 
..................... 
Crane & Crane 
..................... 
32 94
Kallmeyer, Krathany & Co.................... 
140 11
Mrs. Burehard’s  claim  is  represented  by 
two chattel mortgages,  securing  four prom­
issory  notes,  each for  $1,500, with interest 
at 7 per cent, from Jan. 1,1884.

32 50

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44 
“ 

“ 

“ 

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A. Origet’s claim is secured to the amount 
of $750 by a promissiory note given Oct.  18, 
1883, and endorsed by Mary  E. Burchard.

Considering the amount of secured claims, 
it is extremely unlikely that  the  unsecured 
creditors will realize anything at all from the 
proceeds of the stock.

Muskegon  in  Need  of a Hat Store.

“Muskegon is the best point for a hat store 
I know of anywhere,”  said  a  drummer  in 
that line the other  day.  “There  is  not 
store in the  place  that  carries  over  $500 
worth  of stock, while. Jackson,  which  has 
only 4,000 more population, has three  estab­
lishments that will compare  favorably  with 
those in this  city.  There  is  an  excellent 
opening  for  an  exclusively  hat  and  cap 
store.”

A French Sardine  packer , at  Nantes  has 
beaten the Yankee packers of the same arti­
cles  in  very important invention in  connec­
tion with the trade, which is bound to place 
the inventor in the same niche of immortality 
with  those who have minimized the  bother 
of mankind as to  many  like  improvements 
from a patent cokscrew to a knife sharpener, 
The  distinctive feature of  this inenvtion  is. 
that each sardine box contains an  ingenious 
contrivance in the form of  a  key  which  af 
fords an easy means  of  opening,  and  ob­
viates  the  necessity  of  the  old-fashioned 
openers.

CARPETS  AND  CARPETINGS. 
Spring & Company  quote as follows: 

@

65

@1  00 
@1  00 
@1  00 
@  971

7714
8214
7714
6214

TAPESTRY BRUSSELS.
Roxbury  tapestry.........................
Smith’s 10 wire..........................
Smith’s  extra,...............................
Smith’s B  Palisade.......................
Smith’s C  Palisade.......................
Higgins’  **.......................... ...........
Higgins’  ***....................................
Sanford’s extra.............................
Sanford’8 Comets..........................

THIIEE-PLYS.

Hartford  3-ply...............................
Lowell 3-ply....................................
Higgins’ 3-ply.................................
Sanford’s 3-ply....,.......................
EXTRA  SUPERS.

HEMPS.

ALL WOOL  SUPERFINES.

WOOL PILLING AND MIXED.

Hartford.........................-................ 
@
Lowell................................................ 
@
Other  makes....................................   75  @
Best cotton chain...........................  60  @
Best  2-ply.........................................   5754@
Other  grades 2-ply..................*—   52}4@
All-wool  super, 2-ply.....................   50  @
Extra heavy double cotton chain.  42&@
Double cotton chain.......................  35  @
Heavy cotton and wool, double c.  30  @ 
Half d’l chain, cotton ft wool, 2-ply  2714®
Single cotton chain.........................  19  ®
3-ply, 4-4 wide, extra heavy...........   2714®
B, 4-4 wide......................................... 
@
Imperial, plain, 4-4 wide................. 
@
@
D,38  inches...................................... 
No. 1, 4-4, 5-4, 6-4 and 8-4.................. 
©
 
No. 2, 
@
 
No. 3, 
@
No. 4, 
@
 
Best all rattan, plain.......................
Best all rattan and cocoa, plain..,
Napier A ........... ...............................
Napier  B ..........................................
Opaque shades, 38 inch..................
Holland shades, B finish, 4 4 !.....,
Pacific  Holland, 4-4..................
Hartshorn’s fixtures, per gross..
Cord fixtures, per gross..........

OIL CLOTHS.

CURTaiNS.

MaTTINGS.

do 
do 
do 

 
 
 

@ 52 %
50
40

@10

H. Leonard & Sons quote as follows:

ONE  c r a t e   w h i t e   g r a n it e   w a r e . 

“

4 
4 
4 

44
44

44

44

44
44
«4

44
44
44
«4

50
61
72
87
72
83
96
1  32
1 93

Knowles,  Taylor  &  Knowles—Cable  Shape- 
Diamond C.
6 doz Plates.................• .5 inch
3 00
- 1  83
.6  44
3
14 40
20
.7  44
2 61
.8  “
3
2  16
3  • ‘  Bakers............... ..3  44
42
.5  44
% 4 
48
..6  44
% 4 
7 
66
V4
4 
44
..8  44
48
\
4 
69
‘  Bowls.................. .No. 36
1
1
.  44  30
83
4 
1 02
.  “  24
1
4 
96
4  Cov’d Butters... .5  inch
V
2
44
4  Indiv’l 
.2*  44
2 82
% 4  Cov’d Chambers.No. 9
3 85
1
4  Uncov’d 
44
44 
96
44  Cake  Plates.......
38
“  Restaurant Creams..........
Vi
90
44  Cup  Plates........
3
1 17
4  Casseroles.......... . .7 inch
“ 
1 31
..8  44
h
2
1 32
4 Dishes................ ..3  44
..9  44
46
Vi
.10  44
67
% 44 
.11  44
87
Vi
4« 
1  50
1-6 44  Ewers and Basins. No 9...
38
Barrell  Mugs... .No. 36
%
.4 inch
“  Fruit Saucers...
1  75
5
2
44  Scollops............. 2Vt  44
1 20
41
..5  “
Vt
..6  “
1 44 
1 05
1 38
1
1  93
96
..8  “
Vi
44  Jugs, No. 36__
58
.  1  16
V.
69
..  1  38
...................  30....
V
73
...................%2........
..  2 90
V
44  6__
1-6 44 
..  4 40
73
83
“  Shell  Pickles...
..  1 65
Vi
73
..  2 90
44  Sugars. No. 30..
..  1  80
Vl 44  Spoon  Holders.
45
6 sets Unhandled Coffees............. .. 
50 •
3 00
12 96
36
.. 
36
“ 
Teas
44 
5 61 
12
47
Crate__ ...
2 00
$81 66 

3 85
22
5 63
.  3 85
75
. 
30
. 
4 68
5 25
66
1 38
2 00
2 61
.  9 00
77
35
60
83

4 
4  Handled 

44 

44
<4

44

ASSORTED p a c k a g e   g l a s s  s e t s

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

NO. 35.

Barrel, 35c.

$  32

CHANDELIERS.

No 5°0 2 light for  store 

complete  with  7 

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

LAMP BURNERS.
No 0 Any style  per doz.............
No 1 
.............
do 
do 
No 2 
.............
GLASSWARE.

do 
do 

.  90 
.1  00 
.1 50

Heavy Figured  “ Horseshoe”  Pattern.

dozen...............................................   $3 00

Sets, 
Pitchers, 14 gallon............................................  3 00
Celeries..........« .................................................   2 00
Bowls, 7 inch, and covers..........................   3 00
3 85
Bowls, 8 
Bowls, 9 
3 60
Comports, 4  inch......................................... 
30
Goblets.........................................................  
45
Wines............................................................. 
35
Salvers................................................................  3 00
Nappies,  4 inch............................. ^ gross  2 25

“ 
“ 
no  “ 

“ 
“ 

 
 

 
 

Package at eost-

GLASS OIL CANS.

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

do 

TUBULAR  LANTERNS.

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

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

STICK.
Straight, 25 ft  boxes.............................   @10
..............................  @1014
Twist, 
Cut Loaf 
.......................... ..  @12
MIXED.

do 
do 

FANCY—IN 5 ft BOXES.

Royal, 25 ft  pails....................................  @1014
Royal, 200 ft bbls..............................................  914
Extra, 25 ft  pails.............................................1114
Extra, 200 ft bbls............................................. 11
French Cream, 25 ft pails.............................. 14
Cut loaf, 25 ft  cases........................................ 14
Broken, 25 ft pails..........................................1114
Broken, 200 ft  bbls..........................................101i
Lemon Drops..................................................14
Sour Drops.......................................................15
Peppermint  Drops........................................18
Chocolate Drops.............................................17
HM Chocolate  Drops................................... 20
Gum  Drops  ....................... .............................12
Licorice Drops................................................ 20
A B  Licorice  Drops...................................... 14
Lozenges, plain................................................16
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.....................................................10
Burnt Almonds..................................... ......   24
Wintergreen  Berries.....................................16
Lozenges, plain in pails................................. 14
Lozenges, plain in bbls...................................13
Lozenges, printed in pails..............................15
Lozenges, printed in  bbls..............................14
Chocolate Drops, in pails................................14
Gum  Drops, in pails.......................................   8
Gum Drops, in bbls.........................................  7
Moss Drops, in pails........................................11
Moss Drops, in bbls.........................................  914
Sour Drops, in  pails...................................... 12
Imperials, in  pails......................................... 14
Imperials, in bbls...........................................13

Fancy—in  Bulk.

FRUITS.

Oranges—Cases are higher.

Oranges 38 box....................................... 3 00@3 50
Oranges OO $  box.................................3 00@3 50
Oranges, Imperials, 38  box..................4 25@4 50
Oranges, Valencia 
case....................6 00@7 60
Lemons,  choice....................................  2 75@3 2S
Lemons, fancy.......................................   @3 50
Bananas ¥  bunch..................................
Malaga Grapes, $  keg..........................
Malaga Grapes, $  bbl............................
Figs,  layers  38 ft....................................  12@16
Figs, fancy  do 
....................................  18@20
Figs, baskets 40 ft 38 ft..........................  14@15
Dates, frails 
do  ...........................  @6
Dates, % do 
d o ...........................   @7
Dates, skin..............................................  @ 6
Dates, Vi  skin.........................................  @714
Dates, Fard 10 ft box $   ft................... 10  @11
Dates, Fard 50 ft box 38ft.....................  8  @9
Dates, Persian 50 ft box 38 ft................  
7@ 8

PEANUTS.
Advancing.
Prime  Red,  raw  38  ft............................
Choice 
do  ............... 
@8
 
Fancy 
do  ...........................  @9
Choice White, Va.do  ............................  914@10
Fancy H P,.  Va  do  ........................... 10%@11

do 
do 

NUTS.

Almonds,  Terragona, 38 ft...................19@@20
do  ....................17  @18
Almonds, loaca, 
Brazils, 
do  .....................10!4@li
do  ....................10  @14
Pecons, 
Filberts, Barcelona  d o .....................  @13
Filberts, Sicily 
do  .....................  14@15
Walnuts, Chilli 
do  .....................1214@14
Walnuts, Grenobles  d o .....................  15@16
Walnuts, California  d o .....................
Cocoa Nuts, ¡p  100 
Hickory Nuts, large 38  bu....................
Hickory Nuts, small  do  *...................

.................... 4 50@5 00

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

1  10
Ohio White Lime, per bbl.................... 
Ohio White Lime, car lots.................... 
95
Louisville Cemeni,  per bbl.................. 
1 40
1 40
Akron Dement per  bbl........................  
1  40
Buffalo Cement,  per bbl......".............  
Car lots.................................................... 1 15@1 20
Plastering hair, per bu.........................  35®  38
Stucco, per bbl.......................................  
175
Land plaster, per ton............................ 
J 75
3 00
Land plaster, car lots__ \ .................... 
Fire brick, per  M.................................. $27 @ $36
Fire clay, per bbl.. .*............................ 
3 00
Anthracite, egg and grate..................$6 50@6 75
Anthracite, stove and nut.......... —   6 75@7 00
C a n n ellco a l...................................  
7 00
Ohiocoal........ ......................................  
40@3 60
00@5 25
Blossburg or Cumberland__ _ _..... 

COAL.

• 

U

Crocket^  JBtc.

LATEST

JOHN

CAULFIELD

Wholesale
Grocer

85,87  and  89  Canal  Street!■

V i

The best goods for the least money can be 
had only at sueh 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.  Them 
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—

d e e  Butter, CtaG, Mince 
Meat, Jellies, B n c H  
Fleur, Maple  Syrnp, 
Dried  Peacles,  Apples, 
Ibs, Qncttrries.

SUOARS.

Cut Loaf Cubes......................................... 8 ^
Powdeied  Standard..................................8%
Granulated Standard................................7-84
Standard Confectioners’  A..................... 7-44
Standard  A..............................................7-31
Extra WhiteC......................................... 7
Extra Bright C..................................6%@6%
Extra  C.............................................6X@6%
Yellow C.......................................  6&@6&

CANNED  GOODS

Are still the absorbing question.  Our friends 
are taking them liberally at our close figures 
and making  leadfbs.  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 bf  the  best 
dealers in the country.
3 ft Job Bacon’s  Tomatoes, Standard. .1  10
3 ft Smith & Wicks’ Tomatoes............. 1  00
2 ib Sweet  Com, Erie........................ 1  12%
2 ft) Sweet  Com, Mitchell’s..................1  10
2 lb  Sweet Com, Fredonia....................1  00
2 ft) Corn, F. & D.’s................................  80
2 ft) Peas, Extra  Early......................   85
2 ft) Peas, Platts’ Erie........... ............... 1  10
2 ft> Peas,  YanCamps........................... 1  00
2 ft) Peas, Ex. F. Y. Canning  Co.........1  20
2 lb Lima  Beans, Standard...................  85
2 ft) Lima  Beans, Extra........................1  00
2 ft) String Beans, Shawnee,white wax.  90
3 ft) Climax  Pumpkin, Standard........... 1  20
2 ft) Succotash,  Standard.................. 
90
2 ft) Succotash,  Yarmouth.....................1  48
3 ft) Boston Baked Beans...................... 1  60
Apples, Gallons,  Erie........................... 3  00
Apples, Gallons, Extra  Erie County.. .3  00
3 lb  Peaches,  Standard......................... 1  75
3 ft) Peaches, All  Yellow..................... 2  00
3 lb Erie Pie  Peaches...........................1  25
2 lb Blackberries,  Madison..................1  05
2 ft) Blueberries, Detroit....................... 1  35
2 ft) Red Cherries,  Standard.................
2 ft) Green  Gages, Extra........................
2 ft) Egg  Plums, Extra..........................
2 ft) Strawberries,  Extra..............1  25@1  50
3 ft) Bartlett Pears, Echert’s Standard. .1  25 
The  response  to  our  advertisement  in
the late issues  of  T he  T radesm an  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  Tradesm an  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.

lASELTINE,  PERKINS  &  COMPANY 5

WHOLESALE

42 aid 44  Ottawa St.,  and.8 9 ,9 1 ,93  and  g5  Louis St„ Gland  Rapids,  Mich.

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.
A MERCANTILE  JOURNAL, PUBLISHED EACH 

WEDNESDAY.

E.  A.  STOWE &  BRO.,  Proprietors.

OFFICE IN  EAGLE  BUILDING, 3d  FLOOR.
IEntered  a t  the  Pmtnfflee  at  Grand  Rapids  as 

Second-class  Matter.

WEDNESDAY,  MARCH  19,  1884.

AMONG  THE  TRADE.

IN  THE  CITY.

It is reported  that  W.  J.  Price  contem­

plates engaging in the fur business.

Jas. O. McCool succeeds Chas.  HcCool  in 

the grocery business at 72 Caicter street.

Dr. J. B. Evans is said to have  come  into 
possession of a ferret that affords him no end 
of amuselnent.

J.  C.  Watson  left  Monday  for 

three 
weeks’  trip through the Saginaw  Valley  in 
the interest of C.  S.  Yale&  Bro.

A.  M.  Sprague,  of  Jackson,  traveling 
agent for Welling & Carhart,  paid his  usual 
semi-annual visit to the house last  week.

G. B. Wright  (E.  L.)  has  removed  his 
Holland  branch of the “Bee Hive” to  Kala­
mazoo and opened a new store at  Plainwell.
Norman Harris has just got in shape to re­
sume business at Big Springs.  He purchased 
his new dry goods stock this week of Spring 
& Company.

Henry Ives,  traveling  representative for 
the  Plumb  &  Lewis  Manufacturing  Co. 
leaves Thursday for an  extended  business 
trip through the Southwest

Mr. James A. Crookston takes  exceptions 
to the substitution of  a  cipher for a figure 9 
in  the year of his birth, 1829, and says that 55 
years are plenty enough for him.

J.  Vander  Werp&  Crotty  succeeds J. 
Vander Werp Jr. in the grocery business  at 
Muskegon.

Jorgensen & Heningsen  is  the  name  of 
in 

the firm who  succeed  C.  M.  Woodard, 
general trade at Ashland  P. O.

C. Rhefus and J. E. Just are each building 
a brick store at Muir, one to  be  occupied  as 
a shoe store, the other for a general  store.

W. R. Burt has  sold  his  interest  in  the 
wholesale grocery house of R. Boyd  &  Co., 
at East Saginaw, to Messrs. Boyd and Barlow 
of the same firm.

Lee Smith has bought out T. W.  Preston, 
dealer in drugs  and  groceries,  at  Crystal. 
Smith was formerly a partner of  Preston  in 
the same business.

stray  fa cts.

Hillsdale has  again an edge  tool  factory. 
Blissfield is working to  get  an  iron  foun­

dry.

mill.

Fremont is laying her cards for a  carding 

The Cheboygan Democrat clamors  for  an 

extra bank at that place.

The  American  Cigar  Co.  at  Coldwater 

make 26,000 cigars daily.  «

F.  Woodhams  has  removed  his  harness 

business from Plainwell to  Prairieville.

Chas.  Bailey,  of Fife Lake,  is  building a 

saw mill at Kewadin, on Elk Lake.

Harbor Springs is jubilant  over  the  loca­
tion of a machine shop and foundery in  that 
place.

Saginaw  has  prospects  of  a  railroad  to 
connect with the Wabash at Adrian or  Man­
chester.

Frank H. Nix, photographer at Reed City 
has taken as  a  partner  E.  H.  De Vogt,  of 
Traverse  City.

Battle Creek expects to get  an  Ohio  iron 
bridge factory  to  establish  a branch  there 
employing 100 men.

H. E. Phelps, of Marshall,  is  negotiating 
with  Battle  Creek  manufacturers,  for  the 
manufacture of his patent step ladder.

Glucose has been given a certificate of good j 
character by President Marsh, of the Nafion- 
al  Academy  of  Sciences.  He  says  that 
neither in its normal condition  nor ferment­
ed has glucose any deleterious  effect  upon 
the system, even when taken  in  quantities, 
and that the only objection is that it contains 
less of the sweetening  powers  than  sugar. 
The principal of  its  admixture  with  sugar 
cane, it will be seen, is the same as though a 
certain quantity of dissoluble sand had been 
added.  Brewers  in  the  country  and else­
where *are as yet the  best  customers  of the 
glucose factories.  In the United States there 
are twenty-nine  factories,  with  $5,000,000 
capital, using 40,000 bushels  of  com  daily, 
and producing  annually  $10,000,000  worth 
of glucose.  Germany  has  thirty-nine  fac­
tories of this starch sugar, with  an  annual 
product of 40,000 tons.

Since the introduction of the two-cent  let­
ter stamps, so steadily has the  demand  for 
postal cards fallen off that  the  Postmaster 
Gemeral suggests a reduction of  $35,000  for 
the cost of manufacture in the  estimates  of 
the next fiscal year.
H.  W A L S H   &  S O N

Holland, Mich., Wholesale Dealers in

Olover, Timothy Seed and Ground Oil Oakes

Write for quotations.

SEED  CORN
W e have a choice stock 
of Seed Corn, both Yellow 
Dent and  the  Yankee, or 
Eight  Rowed,  which  we 
offer  to  the  Trade.  We 
have given it  a thorough 
test  and  warrant  it  to 
grow.  Send for  Samples 
and Prices to THE SEED 
STORE, Grand Rapids. 
W. T. Lamoreaux, Agent.
F.J.DETTENTHALER
O Y S T E R S

Successor to  II.  M. Bliven,

—WHOLESALE—

AND  CANNED  GOODS.

Agent  for  Farren’s  Celebrated  “ F ”  Brand 

Raw  Oysters.

117  MONROE  STREET,

The Fremont tannery turns  out  over  800 
sides of sole leather weekly.  »It  is  said  to 
have a contract to furnish church  fairs  with 
leather oysters.

The  woodenware  manufactory  works  of 
Gonsolus & Co., Big Rapids, will be in active 
operation early  next  month.  The  boilers 
are now being placed in  position.

Ed. C. Pierce,  for  many  years  with  the 
firm of F. H. & E. O. Pierce, general dealers 
at Flint, has purchased a half interest in  the 
wholesale confectionery  business  of  Chas. 
Harrison.

Chester people are  talking  of  building  a 
combination hall  and  factory,  which  shall 
be used in summer for  the  manufacture  of 
cheese, in the fall for political meetings, and 
in the winter for a rink.

The  Mancelona Herald is responsible  for 
the following joke at the expense of  a  rival 
town:  “Bellaire is a temperance  town  and 
contains  no  saloon.  Three  drug  stores 
to prescribe for the sick is sufficient.”

At Coldwater, A. E. Morrison has  bought 
Herman Friedman’s stock  of  notions  and 
fancy goods, and Enos  N. Billings has  pur­
chased the interest of M. W. Brainard in the 
firm of Brown & Brainard, furniture dealers.
John M. Flanagan, of Lowell, who recent­
ly formed a co-partnership with Mr. Greeup, 
of Big Rapids, under the firm name of Green­
up & Flanagan, for the purpose of  engaging 
in the banking business at Mancelona, writes 
T h e  T ra desm a n that the project has  been 
abandoned.  This will be a cause for general 
regret throughout Northern Michigan.  Job­
bers having collections in that locality, how­
ever, can entrust them  to  Judge  C.  S.  Ed­
wards,  of Mancelona,  and rest assured  that 
they will be given dilligent  attention.

Late  Furniture  Gossip.

F. Menzer has engaged in the manufacture 

of  undertaking goods at Flint.

C.  E.  Dunks,  formerly  of  Detroit,  will 

shortly open a furniture  store at Flint.

C. R. Robinson  will  soon  engage  in  the 
cabinet and undertaking business to Prairie­
ville.

The  Reclining  Swing-Chair Co. will  soon 
open up at  Buchanan  under  favorable  cir­
cumstances.

OFFER  THE  FOLLOWING

SPECIALTIES

TH IS W E E K :

Large Assortment Chas. Heatons’Cups and Saucers.
Teas, Unhand, per set...................................27cts
“ 
Teas, Hand, 
Coffees, Unhand  “ 
Coffees, Hand 
“ 

...................................33
...................................33
r........................................40

SELECTED  THIRDS.

Sold in any quantities.

Best  White  Granite Cups and Saucers.

J. W. Pankhurst & Co., per set....................35cts
These are equal to any made and  are  worth 
40cts.

Barrel  Assorted  Glass  Table  Sets.

4 Victoria Sets, per set.................................19cts
4 Plain Handled Sets, per s e t ..................... 30
4 L’ge Figured Sets,  pea  set.........................34

Barrel, 35cts.

Lamp  Chimneys— Good  Common.

No charge for box.

No. 0 Sun  $   box....................................................1 90
No. 1 
No.  2 

...............................................2 00
...............................................3 00
Best  Common.

do 
do 

Each Chimney Labeled First Quality.

No. 0 Sun $   box................................................... 2 10
No. 1 
No. 2 

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

do 
do 

Prices  of all  Crockery, by the Crate or  Repacked 

on  application.

All mail orders given 
careful attention.
H.  LEONARD  &  SONS

-I  WOULD  CALL  THE  ATTENTION  OF  MERCHANTS  TO  MY

Spring  Styles  of Fine  Hats,

Spring  Styles  of Wool  Hats,
Spring  Styles  of Stiff  Hats,

Spring  Styles  of Soft  Hats,

Wool  Hats  $4.50  to  $12  per  Dozen,

Fine  Hats  13.50  to  $36  per  Dozen, 

Straw  Hats  for  Men,

Straw  Hats  for  Boys,

Straw  Hats  for  Ladies,

Straw  Hats  for  Misses.

.1;  I t  D on  at  flew  Tort  Prices!!

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C lothing  an d   G ent’s   F u r n ish in g   Goods, 

C ottonade  P a n ts  an d   H o siery .

DUCK  OVERALLS,  THREE  POCKETS,  $3.50  PER  DOZEN  AND  UPWARDS.

Call and get our prices and see how they will compare with those of firms in larger cities.

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The  Castor  Machine  Oil  contains  a fair  percentage  of  Castor  Oil  and  is  in  all  re­

The  Engraved  Globe  Chimney.

Crimped  Top  only  75cts  per  dozen.  Former 

Dithridge Flint Glass.
price $1‘25 per dozen.

A  Good  THbular  Lantern 

For $1.50 per dozen.  Regulffr price  $9 per doz

Nutmeg  Night  Lamps 

Only  $1.75 per doz.  Regular price  $2 per doz

Illuminator  Bases.

Seven inch, to fit any burner, $1 per  dozen, 
dozen in barrel.  Sold for $1.25 everywhere.

spects superior as a lubricator to No. 2 or No. 3 Castor Oil.  The

O H IO   OILi  OONAIP-AHSTYT

Is the only firm in the United States tiiat has succeeded in making a combination of  Veg­
etable and Mineral Oils, possessing the qualities of a Pure Castor Oil. 
It is  rapidly  com­
ing  into popular favor.  We  Solicit  a  Trial  Order.

Hazeltine, Perkins & Co., Grand Rapids.

M. B. Church has bought the  Haire  farm 
on the river below the city. 
It contains 640 
acres, 425 of which are improved and  under 
cultivation.  The purchase price is  reported 
to be ¡$25,000.

Geo. A. Smith, formerly with A. A.  Crip- 
pen,  now  on  the  road  for  Spaulding  & 
Thayer, hat and cap'jobbers of Boston, spent 
last week with friends in this city,  and  left 
Monday for a trip through Illinois and  Mis­
souri.

John G.  Shields,  of  Shields,  Bulkley & 
Lemon, is in the South, recruiting his health 
accompanied by a sister, who is also in poor 
health.  During  his absence, he willjlook up 
the advisability of handling fruits and  raw 
sugars, purchased from first hands.

Such  is  fame.  Every  Saturday,  the 
bright and spicy society paper of Detroit, re­
fers to Mr. Harvey J.  Hollister,  cashier  of 
the Old National Bank, as “chorister of  the 
Old National Band.”  The  imbecile  proof 
reader who stumbled over  such  a  blunder 
should be banished to the Fiji  Islands.

Chas. Root & Co., of Detroit, still continues 
in possession of the Giddings stock at  Sand 
Lake, and an inventory of the stock  and  ac­
counts is now in  progress.  John  Caulfield 
claims to have a prior mortgage on the stock 
for $1,000, but Peter Dorpn, attorney for the 
firm in  possession, 
ignores  the  mortgage, 
holding that their claim is enritled  to  prior­
ity.

Mr. M. J. Clark has  returned  from  Min­
nesota, whither he went  to  investigate  the 
matter of dissolving the attachments against 
the Wetzell  Bros’, land, referred  to  in  last 
week’s T ra desm a n.  He  states  that  the 
ablest legal talent of that  State  incline  to 
the opinion that they can  be  dissolved, and 
that he proposes to leave no stone  unturned 
to secure that end.

H. W.  Beecher and J.  S.  Kymer,  travel­
ing representatives for Eaton, Lyon & Allen 
for the past eight years, have  formed  a  co­
partnership under the firm name of Beecher 
& Kymer and purchased the  book  and  sta­
tionery business of M.  E. Haskell, at  Trav­
erse City.  They will continue their present 
relations with Eaton, Lyon &  Allen, placing 
their new business in the  hands  of  Merritt 
B. Holley.  _________________

Hon. Julius Houseman, member  of  Con­
gress  from  this  district,  was  interviewed 
Monday by a reporter of  T h e  T radesm an 
relative to the prospects for  the  enactment 
of a National bankrupt bill  at  the  present 
session of  Congress.  He  stated  that  the' 
amended Lowell bill  had been  reported fa­
vorably, and placed  on the  calendar  in the 
House, and that in  his  opinion  the  senti 
ment in favor of the measure was so  strong 
that there would be little difficulty in getting 
it  through. 

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A movement is on foot among the jobbers 
and manufacturers of the  city  looking  to­
ward the organization  of  an  Exchange  or 
Union, for the purpose of  securing  an  ex 
change of credit reports, and otherwise  sup 
plementing 
the  work  of  the  mercantile 
agencies.  Such organizations have  been  in 
existence in Detroit, Chicago and other cities 
for several years, and have resulted in much 
good to the  membership.  A  meeting  will 
shortly be called to arrange  the  preliminar­
ies attending the organization.

AROUND  THE  STATE.

Jas. A. Sheldon succeeds Davis & May  in 

the meat market business at  Petoskey.

J. W. Richards, of Detroit,  is  thinking  of 

starting a hardware store in Elk Rapids.

H. M. Freeman, the Lisbon general dealer, 

has been elected president of the village.

Lyman & McRae have opened  a  grocery, 

provision, flour and feed store at Clarion.

The Same the  World Over.

This is the way she talked to her grocery- 
man, while another  customer  stood  at  the 
counter and was in a hurry  to be waited on, 
and all the rest of the clerks busy: 
“Well, 
let me see—I can’t think of anything  else I 
want.  What is that?  Canned  salmon—no, 
I guess not.  Oh, I guess you may  send  us 
I think  we’re  nearly  out  of 
some sugar. 
sugar. 
I don’t  know.  You  may  send  me 
five  pqunds—no,  not 
five  pounds—only 
three pounds and a  half.  Our  box  is  too 
small  to  hold  five  pounds.  Well  (walks 
slowly up and  down  the  store). 
I  don’t 
think I want anything else to-day.  What is 
this—bottled horseradish?  It is good.  How 
much is it a  bottle?  Well,  I  don’t  care— 
No; I  guess  not.  Well, yes;  I’ll  take  it. 
Oh, yes—and send a Spanish onion and half 
a dozen  bottles  of  porter.  Well,  I  guess 
that’s all.  How much are these grapes? No, 
I won’t have auy to-day.  They  look  niee, 
too.  Well, send  a  pound. 
(Goes  toward 
the door.)  Don’t forget to send  the  things 
right away.  Oh, I  forgot  (turning  back), 
some  pepper.  Have  you  white  pepper? 
Send a box.  Now, you’ll  b«  sure  to  send 
them in time,  won’t  you? 
I  think  tha’ts 
about all.” 
(Goes out.)  Customer  goes as 
far as “I want”—(She returns.)  “Now, don’t 
forget to send them things right away,  will 
you?  How much is this red cabbage a head. 
I think you may put a head  along  with the 
rest,” and she was gone.  “What  can  I  do 
for you?  Sorry I’ve kept you so long  wait­
ing,” said the grocer.  “Can you  change me 
a half  a  dollar?”  said  the  weary  man 
in 
waiting.

Enormous quantities of  oranges  are  pro­
duced in Paraguay.  They are sold  at  fifty 
cents a bushel, and fed  to  pigs  and  cattle, 
and are used for distillation.

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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16  MONROE  STREET.

o. P. BIGELOW,

—WHOLESALE DEALER IN—

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APPLIANCES,

NO. 8  CANAL  STREET,

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C. S. YALE & BRO.

—Manufacturers  of—

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICHIGAN.

ALBEIT  COTE 
SOBS,
Awnings,  Tents,

—Manufacturers and Jobbers of—

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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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Choice Butter, Eggs,  Cheese,  Buckwheat  Flour, 
Maple Syrup,  Jellies, Foreign  and  Domestic  Fruits 
and  Vegetables, and Sand  Refined  Cider.

Carefhl  Attention  Paid  to  Filling  Orders.
M. C. Russell, 48 Ottawa Sl„ C'd Rapids.

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STEAM  LAUNDRY

43 and 45 Kent Street.

A.  K.  ALLEN,  Proprietor.

WE  DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS  WORK AND  USE  NO 

CHEMICALS.

He  Kept a Diary.

“Do you still keep up your  diary?”  asked 

“Of course,” replied Brown; “and I find it 

Jones. 

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convenient”

“Do you use pen or ink in  it?”
“Neither.”
“How do you keep it; then?”
“Oh, I use it for shaving  paper.”

Orders by Mail and Express  promptly  at­

tended to.

Boralumine is the best wall  finish  on the 

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