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=  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN,  WEDNESDAY,  JUNE  25,  1884. 

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NO. 40.

YOL.  1

THE CHEESE TRADE.

The Situation at Present—Future Prospects 
From the Commercial Enquirer.

Since the appearance  of  the  first box of 
this year’s  make of  cheese, there  has been 
an uninterrupted  decline  in value.  Yet, at 
a  shrinkage of  some  4K  cents  per pound 
from the  starting  point,  the weakness  ap­
pears quite as great as ever, and the present 
outlook affords  little  encouragement  for a 
steadier  position until  cost  falls to a much 
lower  level.  Whether  that  point  will be 
reached by a  continuation  of  the  weekly 
fractional  shadings  under  which  buyers 
have thus far  gained  their  advantages, or 
through  a  perpendicular  decline, will  de­
pend principally  upon  the  receipts, as the 
market even now  commences to accumulate 
a small surplus, and it would require  but a 
few thousand  boxes  additional to demoral­
ize holders. It is not  unusual at this time of 
the year to  find  values  on  the  downward 
turn: indeed,it is rather expected that between 
hay and grass  stock it will be  necessary to 
grant buyers some  favors  in  order to keep 
supplies properly in  motion; yet, as  a com­
pensation for the allowances made, it is fur­
ther calculated that  demand  will stimulate 
sufficiently to exhaust offerings closely  and 
occasionally  bring about a  little reaction to 
help out incautious  buyers  on  thecouutry 
markets.  Thus far, nothing of the kind has 
occurred, nor does  there  appear  hope  for 
any early development, as  the exhibition of 
interest on  the  part of  foreign  buyers ab­
ruptly terminates when the limit  of positive 
orders is  reached, and  cheese  seems to  be 
taken  more as an act of  condescension than 
through any pressing  necessity for handing 
it.  There is  a  possibility  that  exporters 
may simulate  indifference  with more  than 
ordinary success, but a  careful  watching of 
all movements this  season  leads  us  to the 
impression that  the  holding  off is no mere 
buyer’s  trick, but  simply  the  result  of an 
honest conviction in the  necessity of finding 
the lowest possible limit  of  cost  before in­
vesting.  The results  of  last  year’s  opera­
tions would lead to  that  course to some ex­
tent, but the  determination  of  the English 
consumers to have fine  goods  at low cost is 
evidently quite as strong now as when refer­
red to in this column at the  commencement 
of the season, and  with  greatly  improved 
supports.  Nature  has  proven  remarkably 
prodigal with her favors, and  from all parts 
of the country come  reports  of  close, well- 
set and abundant  pasturage, cows  in excel­
lent condition  and a  liberal  flow  of  rich 
milk, with  no  immediate  prospect that it 
will be diverted to the  churn, owing  to the 
poor  return  for  butter.  Those  features 
would seem to settle the question of  quanti­
ty and quality, while the financial scare and 
more or less  appreciation  of  the  situation 
are cited as  evidences  that  the  producers 
will offer their output as  close  to  the hoop 
as ordinary safety  will  admit.  Briefly, an 
era of low prices appears to be accepted as a 
necessity, and the  main  question is how to 
reach the working  basis  without  inflicting 
undue preponderance of  distress  upon  any 
one class of operators. 
It  may  be  well in 
this connection to again call attention of our 
State and Western  factoxy men  to  the im­
portance of  carefully watching  and taking 
into account the situation in  Canada, where 
the production is  not only alrendy showing 
liberal and  vigorous  form, but is  evidently 
handled  by operators  bent  upon  pushing 
their cheese into  popularity.  An exchange 
from over  the  border, in  referrring  to an 
endorsement of quality by  certain  high au­
thority, says: “It  stamps a  preminm  upon 
Canadian cheese  in all  the  markets of the 
world, and  we  echo  the  sentiments of all 
engaged  in  this  great  aud  growing  trade 
when we assert that  there is  no  fear of the 
laurels thus earned being ever transferred to 
our  competitors.”  Extravagant 
in  some 
particulars as the above  form  of expression 
may appear, however, it can well be excused 
when backed by such  remarkable figures as 
shown in the exports from  Canada in 1880-1 
of 36,000,000 lbs of  cheese, and  in  1884 of 
65,400,000—nearly  doubling  in four years. 
This result is largely due to the  adoption of 
our factory system; and if  the quality  pro­
vokes such rhapsodies as  previously quoted, 
it might be as well for  many of our  domes­
tic makers to  act on the  oft-given hint and 
allow a large quantity of  cream  to  find its 
way into the cheese vat.

Smaller  Coins.

From the New Orleans Times Democrat.

The rich city of New  York is demanding 
the  coining of  lialf-cents  as a needed con­
venience in several trades and  lines of busi­
ness.  Toys, candies and innumerable small 
articles are  now sold  in that  city  for less 
than a  cent, but 
there  being  no  coin of 
smaller value than ten  mills, it is necessary 
to purchase more  than one  perhaps  really 
wants.  Pine for kindling is  sold  two bun­
dles for a cent; apples  three for a cent 
If 
you want  only one  you  cannot  get it; you 
must buy three times the  amount you need, 
and give or throw  away  what  you  do not 
w ant

The  New  York  Sun, which  made  an 
inspection of the shops, found a  general de­
mand for a small  coin, such  as a half  cant, 
among both  the  shop-keepers  and the pur­
chasers. 
It points  out  that  nearly  every

age.  The French centime is  only  one  fifth 
of one  cent; the  Portugues  rei  only one- 
tenth, and the Chinese cash, or  sen, of even 
less value. 
It was evidently  the  intention 
of the original framers  of our currency that 
we also should have  a  smaller  coin than a 
cent—the mill; but the mill is  purely imag­
inary and has never been  called into life on 
account of  the  natural  extravagance of the 
American. 
It has been regarded hitherto as 
mean and stingy to care  for  pennies, and it 
is only of late years that  the European idea 
of economy and thrift has invaded this coun­
try, and to it is due this  new  demand for a 
half cent

The cent itself has  encountered great dif­
ficulty in making its  way in  many portions 
of the Union. 
In the  South, in  some por­
tions of the West, and on  the  Pacific coast, 
the man who wanted change  for a picayune 
was looked down on as  picayunish and con­
temptible.  The  cent was  introduced  into 
St. Louis  just  four  years  ago by a cheap 
newspaper.  This  summer  San  Francisco 
will do the  same. 
In New  Orleans, as we 
know, we have not yet learned  the thrift of 
the North and  West.  Our  smallest money 
is five cents, and if bananas are worth a pic­
ayune a dozen it is  impossible  to  buy  less 
than an entire dozen,in brder perhaps to eat 
a single one.

As one of our evening contemporaries sug­
gested a few  days ago,  the  Exposition is a 
good time to attempt to  introduce  the  cent 
here. 
It has been tried a half a dozen times 
already, but each  attempt  has  been a fail­
ure.  The chances  will be  decidedly  more 
favorable than ever this winter.  There will 
be thousands of people down here with pen­
nies in their pockets, and who have been ac­
customed to their use  and to  the making of 
correct change.  An effort made then would 
very probably enable us to put in circulation 
here this coin, which we all recognize would 
be a great public convenience.

A  Tobacco  Mail’s W ill.

John Anderson, of New York made a for­
tune of some $10,000,000 out of tobacco, and 
left it all 
in  his  family.  As a  matter of 
course, all the heirs were  not  satisfied, and 
one  of them, a grand  child, now comes for­
ward to make an  attack on his  will, with a 
view to  turning in  into  waste paper.  As 
usual, the charges of fraud, deceit, undue in­
fluence, decayed mental condition, and so on 
are made, and when the  matter goes to trial 
there  will  probably be a good  deal of the 
customary  scandal.  Anderson’s  snuff  and 
tobacco  store on Lower  Broadway  was at 
one time a place of note in  Gotham.  Near­
ly all the celebrities of  forty years  ago fre­
quented it and  contributed  to  the  fortune 
that “John  Anderson, My  Joe,”  gradually 
rolled  up. 
Its  chief  notoriety,  however, 
arose from the mysterious  murder in Hobo­
ken of the ‘Pretty Cigar Girl,’ who attended 
in it, and  whose  unusual  beauty  was its 
leading attraction in the case  of young men 
about town.  The murder caused  great  ex­
citement and  was  the  talk  of  the whole 
country for  months. 
It  happened  nearly 
forty years ago, when  Hoboken was all op 
en country and the Elysian Fields, now van 
ished for aye, were the favorite  rural resort 
of New  Yorkers.  The  perpetrator  never 
was discovered, nor any  actual  clue  to his 
motive.  The story  of 
the  ‘Pretty  Cigar 
Girl’ was published in cheap,  form  soon af 
ter the murder and had a great sale.
The  Benefits  of Hard  Times.

From the Boston  Advertiser.

Experience teaches  that  this  country  al­
ways  advances  most  rapidly  in its wealth 
when  the  business  community  complains 
most, and when stock exchanges are  dissat­
isfied.  Nor is this a  paradox  or a mystery 
Sellers feel  best  when  prices  go  up.  But 
when prices go down  goods  are  better  dis­
tributed and real capital  increases,  because 
diminishing dividends and incomes occas ion 
economy, better management and greater at­
tention to businefe.  Periods of  caution and 
depression like  the  present,  therefore,  are 
not necessarily  an  evil.  On  the  contrary, 
it is in times like these that far-sighted men 
lay the foundation of a fortune and of a rep­
utation for sagacity, energy and courage.  In 
a certain sense, the country is in  the' midst 
of a crisis,  both  political  and  mercantile, 
This crisis will be a benediction, if it induces 
the  people  to  live  economically,  to  labor 
hard, to manage well, and to aim at  what  is 
just, honorable and noblest.  These  are  not 
days fit for rest and recreation, but  for  toil 
courage, and true  enterprise.  The  rewards 
of business will go to him who  works  hard­
est, shrewdest and longest”

Not all  One Sided.

A Northern  paper  thus introduces a sub­
ject that is evidently making  the  dealers in 
that locality no small amount of trouble: 

Our merchants  complain  that  they find 
large  quantities  of  salt  in  the  bottom of 
crocks of butter.  Of course it  is  no  honest 
woman who does this, but we would suggest 
to the parties who do  follow this contempt­
ible practice that they  ought  not to  charge 
the merchants with swindling.

A day air store  has  been  constructed  by 
Lord  Fitzhardinge  at  his  Berkley Castle 
farm in England,  with  the  object of  ascer­
taining whether it is practicable to store but­
ter when it is Is.  per  pound,  until  winter.

HEBREWS  IN  BUSINESS.

A Race W hich DoesaLarge Portion of New 

York’s Trade.

New York Letter to Boston Herald.

trade. 

Considering the small  number of Jews in 
New  York—only  60,000—in  comparison 
with the number of Christians, their success 
in the  business  world is  simply  phenom- 
inal.  There are millions  upon  millions of 
Jewish capital invested here  in the  whole­
sale 
In fact, the  business in many 
lines of trade is nearly monopolized by Jew­
ish firms. 
I started from  Union Square the 
other morning and walked  down Broadway 
to Wall street, following  the  interesting oc­
cupation of some of my  fellow-beings  from 
the  country—namely, of  reading  signs. 
I 
counted no less than 650 upon which Jewish 
names were painted.  These  names  repre­
sented almost every  kind of  wholesale  and 
jobbing trade  located  on the  great artery. 
The  millinery,  clothing, hat, cap  and  fur 
trade predominated.  I also found many re­
tailers of Jewish  nationality. 
Id on  block 
I found only one Christian firm.

In 

Jewish. 

Turning Wall street, I found the same ev­
idences of Jewish  prosperity, only in  a les­
ser degree among bankers and brokers.  Two 
of the largest banking-houses in the country 
—J. & J. W.  Selgiman, and  Kuhn, Loeb & 
Co.—are  distinctively 
the 
Stock  Exchange  are the  Henriques Bros., 
Wormser, Marx, and a host  of others, all of 
whom stand  high, and  wield an  influence 
among  their  fellow  members,  and  carry 
large  accounts  for  their  customers. 
In 
Maiden Lane and  John street, the  center of 
the wholesale and retail jewelry trade of the 
country, the name of  the  Hebrew is found 
right and  left,  above  and below.  A round 
$5,000,000  of  capital  is  employed  by the 
Jews in this  trade  alone, and  with it they 
transact  fully 33  per cent, of the  business 
done in it.

West of  Broadway, in  Broome,  Mercer 
White,  Leonard, Greene, Grand, and  other 
streets  comprising the  great dry goods and 
clothing  districts, is a  modern  Jerusalem. 
Seventy per  cent, of  the  entire  wholesale 
clothing trade is done  by Jews, who employ 
a capital  of  $25,000,000. 
In clothiers’ trim­
mings the Jews have $10,000,000 invested.

Ninety-five per  cent, of  the ladies’ cloaks 
and suits sold throughout  the country come 
from New York Hebrew  houses, who annu­
ally turn and re-turn  $50,000,000 of capital. 
In the fur trade 50 per cent, of the firms are 
Jewish, and the capital  invested is $15,000,- 
000.  The Hebrew  controls  exclusively the 
manufacture of caps,  and  on  about 50 per 
cent, of the hats made  he figures his profits. 
In the manufacture of silks and  ribbons the 
Jew is at home.  His capital here amounts to 
$25,000,000, and of the business  in this line 
of feminine apparel he transacts 60 per cent. 
He  is also active in the  tobacco, sugar, and 
wholesale  liquor  traffic, holding  large  in­
terests in each.  Strange  to say, the  Jew is 
never found in the  retail  liquor  business. 
“Gin-mills” and “gin-slinging” he  gives the 
grand go-by.  There is not a  bar, I am told, 
in Gotham presided over  by a  Hebrew.

Elasticity  of Leather Belts.

From the Scientific American.

One excellent, if not absolutely necessary, 
quality  in a belt is  elasticity.  Under some 
circumstances a belt that  is  non-elastic and 
only pliaBle will act, but  it is  not so useful 
as a belt that combines elasticity and pliabil 
ity.  A gut  string  used  as  a  round  belt 
is  not  elastic—only  pliable—and 
to  do 
effective duty it  must be  kept  very  tight, 
making  a strain  on  the  bearings  of  the 
spindles  it connects.  But  a  belt  that  is 
greatly elastic will develop  its  full driving 
power, even though  it  may run quite slack. 
An amateur foot lathe of considerable capac­
ity can  be run  by an  India  rubber  thong 
with so slight a tension as to allow the finger 
to pass  between  it and  the  scored  pully 
without pain.

Much of the value of  leather  belts is due 
to their elasticity; this, as  well as their sub 
stance, aiding in their adherent contact with 
the pulley face.  By the term  elasticity the 
quality  of  stretch—permanent  stretch—is 
not intended.  An ordinary bullock’s hide is 
usually permanently stretched five inches be­
fore being cut up, but  the  elasticity of the 
belts  made  from it is not  impaired.  New 
belts  also  have to  be “taken  up” usually 
after running a short time.  But  there is an 
elastic quality in a well fitted belt that is re­
cuperative; it will return on itself when the 
temporary  strain  is  removed. 
It follows, 
then that the periodical release of belts from 
their  working  strain  is  a reasonable prac­
tice.

A recent  experiment  appears  to  prove 
this.  As a test, a mechanic put new leather 
belts on two iron turning lathes  at the same 
time.  The lathes  stood  side by  side, the 
work on  them  was  similiar, and the belts 
cut from the  same roll.  The  belt  on  one 
lathe was thrown  off  every  night, and that 
on the other was  never  released.  The lat­
ter was shortened four  times  during its life 
while the other was taken up only once, and 
when the  continually  strained  belt was so 
nearly  worn  out as to require  repairs,, the 
nightly Released belt was in excellent condi­
tion.

This treatment of belts is not always pos­
sible; the prime movers and secondary belts

in such  cases  as  where a long  belt is run 
with an  idler  pulley or  tightener; but  the 
small ultimate belts  that drive  lathe cones, 
drills, milling machines  could be so  treated 
without  trouble  and  with a resultant econ­
omy.

Business and Speculation.

From the New  York  Journal of Commerce.
People who have a legitimate business and 
stick to it seem to be  weathering  the  hard 
times  pretty  well.  Our  list of  “business 
troubles,”  which  has  grown  unpleasantly 
long of late, points  the  moral  for  specula­
tors.  Many of the sufferers  are  those self- 
styled bankers  and  brokers  who are only 
gamblers.  Instead  of  playing  at  faro  or 
poker all day (it may constitute  their diver­
sion at night) they take  the hazards in rail­
road stocks, wheat,  pork,  whiskey, and  pe­
troleum. The innocent public no longer furn­
ishing its quota of  victims  for  these  men, 
they are cleaning out each other.  The soon­
er they all fail the better  it will be for legit­
imate  business.  The  most  dangerous and 
offensive types are the  men  who are called 
“railroad kings” by their toadies and follow­
ers.  Their gains are ill-gotten—the product 
of years of  trickery  and  fraud. 
If  these 
men should be obliged to  bite the dust now 
there would be no cause  for  regret.  Their 
tools and dupes would suffer as they deserve, 
but the great honest business of  the country 
would be all the healthier for the removal of 
these  disturbing  elements.  The  bubbles 
must burst some time.  The present  time is 
as good  as any.  The day of general liquid­
ation  like  the day of  judgment  is  sure to 
come.  Woe to the men who are caught with 
too much sail spread!  They  may  not  call 
themselves speculators, and  they  would re­
sent the term we apply to them.  But every 
man is a speculator so  far  as  he takes  im­
prudent  and  needless  risks  in  the  hope 
of greater gains  than  can  be  produced by 
the cautious prosecution  of  some legitimate 
business which  he  knows  that  he  under­
stands.  These are days  when  one  kind of 
business is enough for  one man.  The shoe­
maker who sticks to his  last does not figure 
in our list of failures.

She Took the Lot.

Detroit Free Press,

“Do  your women  customers  bother  you 
much?” asked a  citizen  who  was  talking 
with a Woodward  avenue  grocer the other 
morning.

“Well, they seldom want to pay the prices. 
It seems  natural for  them to  want to beat 
down the  figures.  There  comes  one now 
who  probably  wants  strawberries.  Here 
are some  fresh  ones at 15 cents per  quart, 
and yet if I should  ask  her  only 11  she’d 
want ’em for 10.”

“Say, try  it on, just  for a  joke. 

If she 

asks the price put it at 11.”

The  grocer  agreed,  and  presently  the 
woman came up, counted  the sixteen boxes 
of berries under her nose, and, of course, in­
quired :

“Have  you  any  strawberries this morn­

ing?”

“Yes’m.”
“Fresh ones?”
“Yes’m.”
“In quart boxes?”
“Yes’m.”
“How much?”
“Only 11 cents per box, madam.”
“I’ll take  the whole lot,” she quietly ob­
served, as  she  handed  out  a $5 bill: and 
take ’em she did.

The citizen  disappeared at  that moment, 
and the grocer somehow believes that it was 
a put up job-between the two.

Selling: Eggs By Weight.

American Agriculturist.

There is from  twenty to  thirty  per cent, 
difference in weight of eggs, yet  the custom 
is almost universal in the  Eastern  markets 
of selling  them  by the dozen  at  a uniform 
price.  Even duck’s  eggs, which are  much 
larger and regarded by some as  much richer 
bring no more than the  smallest  hens’ eggs 
of not half the weight. 
In California, eggs, 
fruits and many other  articles that are here 
sold by the dozen, the bunch or by measure, 
are sold by weight.  The  practice is a good 
one, and works  beneficially  for  all parties, 
especially for the  producer. 
It operates as 
a premium upon the cultivation  of the most 
productive varieties of fruits, vegetables and 
farm stock.  The farmer who is painstaking 
with his poultry and gets the  largest weight 
in eggs has a fair  reward  for  his skill  and 
industry.  The present custom is a premium 
to light weight and good  layers.  We  need 
a change  in  the  interest of fair dealing  in 
trade, and if necessary it should be enforced 
by legislation. 
If the Legislature  is compe­
tent to fix the weight of a  bushel of corn or 
Rptatoes it can easily regulate the weight of a 
dozen of eggs, and  thus promote  exact jus­
tice between buyer aud seller.

There is a great  glut of  American  beef, 
dressed and on the hoof, in  England, espec­
ially at  Glasgow,  in  consequence  of  the 
large  number of workmen  out of  employ­
ment not  being  able to use meat.  On one 
lot of cattle the consignors lost  $30,000, and 
dressed beef had sold at eight cents.  These 
differences ought to help cheapen meat here, 
which  has been  high out of all  proportion

ENORMOUS  TIN  DEPOSITS

Important  Discoveries  of the 

the Black  Hills.

Mineral  in

From the New York Herald.

The aggregate consumption of  tin is enor­
mous. 
It is  very  easy  to  discover  how 
much is consumed  in the United States, for 
as all of it, comes  from abroad, government 
statistics are the sole source of  information. 
Last year  we  imported  nearly  24,000,000 
pounds of tinplate and  other  manufactures 
of tin we received nearly 500,000,000 pounds 
worth  nearly  $30,000,000.  The  great  de­
mand has incited enterprising Americans for 
years to search for tin  deposits in this coun­
try, but until recently the ore does not seem 
to have been found in paying quantities.

A number of  prominent  geologists  have 
recently examined the tin  deposits of Geor­
gia, Dakota, and  California, and a represen­
tative of the Herald has  been  so fortunate 
as to encounter one of them on his way east. 
This  gentleman,  Prof.  G. E.  Bailey—late 
of the Chair of Analytical  Chemistry in the 
University of Nebraska, and  now the geolo­
gist  of Wyoming Territory and a member of 
the American Institute of Mining Engineers 
—will be  remembered  in  connection  with 
many government  scientific  expeditions in 
the West;  but he said  he had gone to Har­
ney peak, which is the center  of  the Black 
Hills tin district, merely to  satisfy  his per­
sonal curiosity which  had  been aroused by 
stories as to the quantity and  quality of the 
ore.  He satisfied himself that  the  tin-bear­
ing area is large, the deposits abundant, and 
promising, if  judiciously worked,  to  be  a 
great  and  steady  source  of  supply  and 
profit.

“In what rock  is  the  tin  found?” asked 

the reporter.

“In the granite region,  The granite occu­
pies an area measuring twelve miles by sev­
en or eight, the principal mass being Harney 
Peak itself.  The  tin  is found in  the class 
of rock called greisen.  This greisen is quite 
unifonnily impregnated by the tin, the crys­
tals of ore varying in size,those about a quar­
ter of an inch in diameter being  most abun­
dant.”

What is the nature or  variety of the ore 

itself.”
It is oxide of  tin, known  as cassiterite. 
The greisen rock  is  found all  through the 
granite 
region  of  Harney  Peak.  The 
stream-tin is  common, and  distributed just 
as gold is in the earth  that results from the 
decomposition  of  gold-bearing  rock. 
It is 
found in the  dirt  of  all the  streams—and 
there are many of  them  flowing  from the 
Harney range on  the  east,  west, and  north 
sides, and has  long  been  known, although 
not as tin, to the  mineral sluicing  for gold. 
They  have  called  it  ‘black  iron,’  ‘black
jack,’ ‘blende,’ but  principally ‘that  d----- d
stuff’—for it has  been a great  nuisance  to 
them, by being taken  up so  rapidly  by the 
amalgamators that these could not arrest the 
gold. 
In the  gold  sluices it  appears  as a 
heavy black mineral, in grains from the size 
of peas to that of a hen’s  egg, sometimes in 
chunks  weighing  a pound  or more. 
It is 
found in the stream  as  far  east  as Harney 
City, as far  west  as Hill  City, and  on the 
north as far away as Sheridan; consequently 
all the placers in the granite  region are val­
uable for both tin and gold; the metals could 
be obtained together by  putting  in bedrock 
flumes.”

“Has not tin been found in paying quanti­

ties anywhere else in the United  States?”

“It has been reported in Georgia and Cali­
fornia.  The  former  deposits  I  have  not 
seen.  The California workings, which I vis­
ited, have been abandoned,  I believe,  partly 
on account of the limited  area in which  the 
mineral was found, and also because of  con­
flicting old Spanish  land-grants.”

“Do you  believe the deposits in the Harn­

ey Peak region are extensive?”

“Yes.  Geological  reasons could be  given 
at length to show that the  outlying  granite, 
being  intrusive,  extends  to  great  depths, 
while the area and distribution of the miner­
alized portions of the granite, taken  in  con­
nection with the known  placer  deposits,  go 
to show that there exist in the Harney Peak 
region large quantities of tin so  placed  that 
they  can  be  economically  and  profitably 
worked. 
It should be distinctly understood, 
however, iu this connection,  that  while  the 
discovery  must  be regarded  of  the  utmost 
value, not only to the Black Hills region but 
United States, tin is not a poor man’s metal, 
nor is a tin-mine a poor man’s mine.  A tin- 
mine requires extensive  capital  and  exper­
ienced labor united with business-like  man. 
agement, and the works must be on  a  large 
scale.”
ore easy to reach and work?”

“One  question  more,  Professor. 

Is  the 

“That is an important question, as  the ex­
perience  of  many  brilliant  mineral  ‘finds’ 
has proved. 
I can safely say, however, that 
a great deal of  the  tin-bearing  rock  can  be 
easily obtained.  It can be quarried from the 
surface instead of being  dug for and follow­
ed underground.  How abundant  this rock is 
you may imagine when I tell you that I have 
seen veins of it  measuring  more  than  fifty 
feet  in  width.  The  rock  can  easily  be 
crushed, the ore concentrated, and the metal 
worked into bars of pure tin.  To extract the 
stream-tin the process would resemble placer 
mining for gold,  although  of  course,  much 
rougher, the metal being in larger fragments

“How valuable is the  ore  or  rock—what 

will it  assay!”

“Well, much better than that of Cornwall, 
where the rock averages about two per cent 
of tin.  The stream—that which must be ob 
tained by sluicing or placerjwork—will yield 
about seventy-five per cent, of pure tin.” 

“Then there are millions in  it?” 
“Certainly;  if properly worked,  yes;  but 

it is not a business to rush into  wildly.” 

“Oh, 

“How long will the Harney Peak deposits 
last—how long can they be counted  upon to 
supply the  demand?”

forever,  practically.  Why,  the 
stream-tin alone is so abundant  that  all  the 
companies that could possibly work it  could 
go on for twenty years  without  exhausting 
it.  Yet this is but the waste, you might say, 
of the  main  deposit—the  mere  scraps  that 
water and frost have detached,  a little  at  a 
time, from the great mass and source  of  the 
ore, which is Harney Peak itself, more than 
a mile high, and the surrounding tin-bearing 
rock which, as I have already said,  extends 
for miles. 
It is impossible  to  imagine  this 
great body of ore ever being exhausted.  As 
to profit, the  richness of the  ore,  compared 
with that of any other tin-bearing district in 
the world, settles that question conclusively. 
I have seen, I think, most of  the  specimens 
of tin ore in prominent American cabinets of 
minerals, but none were as rich as  much  of 
the rock I saw in the  Harney Peak region.”

A  New  Style  of B^ot.

The German trade  papers are much  exer­
cised over a new form of boot  that has been 
submitted to the German government, with a 
view to its adoption for army purposes.  The 
designer does not appear to be  a  shoemaker 
by trade, or to have  based  the  form  of his 
boot upon any of those in  use  in  European 
armies,  but  to  have  sought  his  model 
amongst original races in various quarters of 
the  globe.  He calls it a “Kruzhandstiefel,” 
or “wrapper-boot,” a name which has caused 
a considerable amount of mystification in the 
shoe trade.  The material used  in  the  new 
boots are leather and coarse canvas,  the lat­
ter, however, only being used in  the  upper. 
The boot is made to fit closely to the leg, be­
ing rather higher than the  ordinary  spring- 
side.  Bound the top it has a strip of leather 
fitting closely to the leg,  but  the  upper ap­
pears to consist  exclusively  of  the  canvas, 
with strips of leather ¡sewn  perpendicularly, 
presumably  for  additional  strength.  The 
golash seems to be close fitting,  like  an  In­
dian mocassin, and the sole is said  to  allow 
of perfect freedom to every joint of the foot, 
its measurement being taken from a toot im­
pression.  Briefly, the boot seems to be com­
parable to a mocassin, with a combination of 
leather canvas upper, and  with  a  sure  me­
chanical fastening at the top, and having, in 
addition, a sole  and  a  low  heel.  That  it 
would prove comfortable in wear  seems un­
questionable, the main  doubt  concerning  it 
being its durability, and its likelihood to hold 
firmly on the leg.

In Need of Rest.

Patient—Doctor, I  want  you to prescribe 

for me.

Doctor (after feeling of her pulse)—There 
is  nothing  the  matter  madame.  All you 
need is rest.

Patient—Now aren’t you mistaken, doctor? 
Please study my  case  carefully.  Just look 
at my tongue.

Doctor—That needs rest  too.

They were  in  the  grocery  store.  Said 
Brown  (seeing a blind man about to enter): 
“Were you aware how delicate the touch  of 
a blind man is? when  nature deprives us of 
one sense she makes amends by bringing the 
other senses to extraordinary acuteness.  Let 
me illustrate by this gentleman. 
I’ll take a 
scoop  of sugar and  let him  feel  of it, and 
you see how  quickly  he’ll tell  what it is.” 
The blind man having  entered, he  was put 
to the test.  He put  his  thumb  and finger 
into the scoop, and without  hesitation said: 
“That  is sand.”  Everybody  laughed  but 
the grocer.  He  made  several-  attempts at 
blushing and then  went  into the back shop 
and kicked his dog.

Coal is certainly cheap at the present rates 
and it would seem a matter of poliej  to  lay 
in winter stores now.  The accumulations at 
the mines are large, and there is every pros­
pect of a number of the mines  closing down 
soon to reduce the supply  which  means  an 
an increase in prices in the near  future.

Women have a great respect  for  old  age. 
Watch a young lady seated in a street-car be­
tween a young gentleman and an elderly one 
and see how determined she is not to incom­
mode the latter by crowding against him.

A correspondent asks:  “What is the best 
time to pick strawberries?”  The  best  time 
for  this  class of work is before  the gardner 
gets up in the morning and there’s no big dog 
in the garden.

W. H. Brooks has purchased a half  inter­
est in the grocery business of A. L. & E.  W. 
Kitchen, at Edmore, and the firm  name will 
hereafter be Brooks & Kitchen.

This is the season when the glass factories 
are  busy  manufacturing  pure  Cape  Town 
diamonds for the  summer hotel clerk.

An Otsego man has  just received an order 
from New Orleans for a large supply of roll-

DIRTY  DUNIAP.

DELINQUENT  DEBTORRS.

A JO U R N A L  DEVOTED TO TH E

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, JUNE  25,1884.

0F"  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.

Twin names in infamy- 

more.

-Dunlap and Mess-

We  can 

Carroll.

serve  three masters—Turner  &

'  Baltimore is now spoken of as  “The  City 
of Cans.”

Birds of a Feather—L E. Messmore, Mess- 

more Bros., Rice & Messmore.

The Three (Dis) Graces—L  E.  Messmore, 

Messmore Bros., Rice &  Messmore.

There’s magic in  the  name—L  E.  Mess- 

mere, Messmore Bros., Rice & Messmore.

Subscribers and others, in  ordering  goods 
from manufacturers and  jobbers  mentioned 
in this paper, will confer a favor by mention­
ing The Tradesm an.

If the writer of spring poetry be put down 
as a nuisance to society, what shall be said of 
the  authors  of  the  campaign  songs  with 
which we are to be deluged.

Assignments taken through  in short order 
and  at  small  expense—We  can  represent 
creditors,  assignee  and  assignor  all  at the 
same time—Carioll & Turner.

There  is  a  difference  in  opinion among 
some newspapers as to whether it was  Ven- 
nor  or  Wiggins  who  died  lately, but they 
are all reconciled that it  shall  be  either  or 
both.

The Northwestern Grocer,  which was one 
of the first trade papers to  respond to  a  re­
quest  for  an  exchange,  has lately dropped 
The Tradesman from its  list.  However, 
The Tradesman can stand it,if the Grocer 
can.

Col. Messmore is announced as the  orator 
at Kent City July 4.  He  will  probably  re­
ceive $25 and expenses.  Here is  an  excel­
lent opportunity for some one of his  numer­
ous creditors to garnishee the Financial Com­
mittee, and secure $25  of  his  claim.  But 
perhaps  Messmore 
lias  already  assigned 
the amount to his  wife!

Attention  is  called  to  the  proposal  set 
forth in another  column  to  organize a local 
post of the Michigan Commercial Travelers’ 
Association.  The  project  is  in  every way 
worthy the consideration of every Knight of 
the Road, and as the Grand Rapids  boys are 
noted  everywhere  for  their  enterprise  and 
perseverence, it  is  not  unlikely  that  an or­
ganization of the kind will be effected.

The  Gripsack  Brigade.

W. J. Jones, of Kemink, Jones  &  Co.,  is 
spending a week on the  D.,  L.  &  N.  Rail­
way.

Joe F.  O.  Reed,  traveling  representative 
for H. Leonard & Sons, has gone to Cherokee, 
Iowa, to visit his father, Rev. N. A. Reed.

Geo. B. Mather,  late  with  C.  S.  Yale  & 
Bro., has returned to his former  position  as 
local representative of the Corunna Coal Co.
Aaron  Hufford,  traveling  representative 
forG. A. Wrisley & Co., is  spending  a fort­
night here at home in search of rest and  rec­
reation.

D. C. Underwood has two fine store build­
ings, situated on  corner  lots,  on  the  main 
street, at Elmira, which will be  for  sale  or 
rent about August 1.

W. H.  Sharpnack,  formerly  traveler  for 
D. P. Clay & Co., has engaged in the lumber 
commission  business  at  Duluth  and is re­
moving his family to that place.

Rev. J. T. Hankinson,  formerly  engaged 
in the boot and shoe business at  Kent  City, 
lias engaged to travel  for Cole & Stone,  pro­
prietors of the Marshall Shirt Manufacturing 
Co.  He  will  cover  the  G. R.  &  I.,  from 
here to Mackinaw, and the C. & W. M.,from 
Grand Rapids to LaPorte, Ind.
* Silas K. Bolles, for five years past general 
traveling representative for B. S. Tibbits, of 
Coldwater,  has engaged to  represent  J.  W. 
Coughtry & Co., the  extensive  cigar  manu­
facturers at Cigarville, N. Y.  His  territory 
includes  Michigan,  Indiana,  Illinois  and 
Ohio, and comprises the jobbing trade  only. 
His headquarters will  be  Grand  Rapids,  as 
in the  past.

Philo B. Newton, of the firm  of  Steele  & 
Newton, Advance, has engaged to travel for 
Cody, Ball & Co., taking as his  territory  all 
the towns from Morley to Walton  Junction, 
with frequent drives away from the railroad. 
Mr. Newton is an  old  traveler,  having car­
ried samples  for Henry S. Smith  &  Co.,  D. 
P. Clay, E. Plumb & Sons, and also Chicago 
and Detroit houses.  He will  see  his  trade 
every  fortnight,  and  the  division  of  Mr. 
Haugh’s territory will enable the latter gen­
tleman to see considerable more  trade  than 
formerly and give those he  does  visit more 
attention.

C. S. Black, the Buchanan  furniture man­
ufacturer, who was recently  burned  out,  is 
looking for a new location on  Puget Sound.

AMONG THE TRADE.

IN  THE  CITY.

A. Woodward has re-engaged  in  the  gro­
cery business at Manton.  Cody, Ball  & Co. 
furnished the stock.

G. R. Mayhew is building a fine  residence 
on South Prospect street, adjoining the home 
of Amos.  M. Musselman.

G. Rumsey has  started a grocery  store  at 
40  Fountain  street.  Shields,  Bulkley  & 
Lemon furnished the stock.

Dan O’Reiley  has  engaged in the grocery 
Shields, 

business  on  Wealthy  avenue. 
Bulkley & Lemon furnished the stock.

J. M. Howard, formerly  of  this city,  has 
engaged  in  the  grocery  business  at  Bay 
View.  John Caulfield furnished  the  stock.
J. G. Gatz, of this city, has invented a  car 
coupler, which precludes the necessity of ac­
cidents in coupling cars, as it  is  not  neces­
sary for a man to go between the  cars.  He 
has applied for a patent on the  device.

The Grand Rapids Packing Co. has leased 
the south set of  stores in  the  new  Gilbert 
block, now in course of  erection  on Ottawa 
street.  The  store on the  comer  of  Louis 
street has been rented by the Diamond Wall 
Finish Co. 
It is rumored that Arthur Meigs 
& Co. will  also  occupy one of  the  central 
stores.

Wm.  H.  Tuttle,  receiver  for  Messmore 
Bros., at Cadillac, has effected a sale  of  the 
clothing  stock  to  Gilbert  Anderson,  who 
bought it in behalf of P. Medalic,  at  $7,105. 
Storm & Hill, of Chicago, the attaching cred­
itors, have a  judgment against  the  firm for 
$5,600, which with  the  costs  of  the  judg­
ment amounts  to  $6,200.  Thus  it  will  be 
seen that after this amount and the expenses 
attending the failure and subsequent  litiga­
tion are paid,  the  unsecured  creditors  will 
receive no  percentage  of  their  claims.  A 
shining example of the penchant  the  Mess- 
moresjpossess to swindle their creditors!

AROUND  THE  STATE.

C. F.  Watson, the  Belding  merchant, is 

Barnes & French have engaged  in general 

dead.

trade at Chase.

H. J. Martin is building a fine  new  brick 

block at Yermontville.

True Glidden has engaged in  the  confec­

tionery business at Sturgis.

Peter Kinnie has  started  a  confectionery 

store and bakery at Chase.

Wells  &  Son  succeed J. E. Wells  in  the 

hardware business at Chase.

W. A. Peck  succeeds T.  R. Van  Wert  & 

Co. in general trade at Alba.

A. M. Hannill has opened a fruit aud con­

fectionery store at Charlevoix.

F. C. Brackett succeeds Mrs. Ellen Lyon in 

the drug business at Whitehall.

Fink & Knight succeed  Will  A.  Coon  in 

the grocery business at  Edmore.

A. M. Spitzer succeeds  H.  Frazel  in  the 

meat market business at  Mason.

Dyer & Withrow succeed Dyer &  Lusk in 

the meat market business at  Chase.

Bennett & Herrick, jewelers at Mancelona, 

have dissolved, Chas. Herrick  succeeding.

F. L. Pease, who has a drug  store  at  De­
troit, and another  at  Gowen,  is  shortly  to 
open a third at Big Rapids.

F. G. Hines  &  Co.  have  engaged  in  the 
drug  business  at  Charlevoix.  They  have 
one of the best locations in the place.

Force  &  Allen  have sold  their  stock  of 
goods at Rustford to Charles Ostrander, who 
will continue the business at that place.

M. J. Griswold is building an  addition  to 
his store at Griswold.  He is the posessor of 
a flowing well, the water flowing  three  feet 
above the  ground.

Rollins Leach has  sold his  interest in the 
firm  of Sisson &  Leach,  general dealers  at 
Freeport, to F. Sisson’s brother, E.  H.  The 
new firm will' be known as Sisson  Bros.

Bickford  &  Starr,  who  engaged  in  the 
grocery  business  at  Harbor  Springs about 
two  months  ago,  write  T he  T radesman 
that they are closing out their stock and will 
retire from business.

The Hopkins Station correspondent of the 
Allegan Gazette  is responsible for  the state 
ment that  J.  L.  Davis  will  turn  over  his 
stock of goods at that place July 1  to J.  W 
Bragington and engage in the produce  busi 
ness in the  fall.

J. O.  Banks,  of  Whitehall,  has  retired 
from  the  grocery  business—a  business  in 
which he should  never  have  engaged.  He 
will hereafter devote his  attention to boring 
people by talking  life  insurance—a  subject 
which his|mind is incapable of grasping.

Black & Massey, the general dealers at Mc­
Brides, have finally collapsed, the stock hav­
ing  been  attached  by  a  Detroit  creditor. 
The saw mill operated by the firm was leas­
ed.  Massey  has  been  drinking  heavily  of 
late,  and on Friday left  the  place  for parts 
unknown.  The  liabilities,  which  are  held 
almost  entirely  by  Detroit  parties, amount 
to about $8,000, and the stock  will  probably 
inventory about half that amount.

STRAY  FACTS.

F. Nackerman has  started a saloon at Elk 

Rapids.

The Muskegon Car Works  are  being  im­

proved to the amount of $14,000 in cost.

There is some talk  of  establishing  a sec­

ond fruit drying establishment at Mason.

Blodgett & Byrne are extending  their  log­
ging  railroad  in  Roscommon  county  five 
miles.

J. Cummer & Sons  are building a logging 
railroad from their mill at Cadillac,to Musk­
rat Lake.

Joseph Post is manager of the new cheese 
factory at Clarksville,, which is doing a pros­
perous business.

The Flint Wagon Works  has  received an 
order for 500 wagons from the  Moline Plow 
Co., of Kansas City, Mo.

The Sturgis cigar  factory of  Thornton & 
Clugston  has  changed  hands,  Messrs. 
Gatch,  McKinstry, Shoecraft & Chapp being 
the new proprietors.

The  cash value of the products of  the Elk 
Rapids furnace, chemical works,saw' mill and 
grist mill for the year ending  May 31,  1884, 
amounts to  $590,904.

The latest  dodge  being  worked  in  the 
State to secure farmers signatures to policies 
which  afterward  turn up  in  the  form of 
notes, is manipulated by  pretended  agents 
for tombstones.

Elmira continues  to  boom  with  uninter­
rupted vigor, and the  citizens  of  the  place 
claim that it is growing faster than  any oth­
er town on the line, in proportion to the pop­
ulation.

Charlevoix Journal:  Geo.  Wrisley  has 
purchased the boiler and  engine  of  the  old 
factory, and it is intimated that not far hence 
it will be put to driving machinery for  man­
ufacturing furniture at  Charlevoix.

The Buchanan Reclining Chair and Swing 
Co. will probably hereafter be known as  the 
Bellevue Reclining Chair and Swing  Co.,  as 
they  have  accepted  the  offer  of  a  $1,000 
bonus  and  partnership  to  move 
to  that 
town.

Ionia National:  The  Michigan  Overall 
Co., of this city, now employ  thirty-five wo­
men and four men  in  the  factory  and four 
traveling men.  About 1,000 yards  of  cloth 
are cut  up  daily  and  150  dozen  garments 
made weekly.  These goods are sold mostly 
in Michigan and Indiana.

Alex. Rogers, of  Muskegon,  has  entered 
into  contract  with  Robert  Wier  and  Seth 
Lee, of that place, to manufacture  their  re­
cently patented lumber  piling  machine. 
It 
is said to pile lumber  thirty  feet  high,  and 
saves labor to such an extent as  to  promise 
to come into general use.

Pullman & Hinchman, the  handle  manu­
facturers at  Shelby, who  recently  made an 
assignment,  make a  showing  of  $9,959.92 
liabilities and  $5,930  appraised  assets.  A 
large portion of  the  indebtedness  is due to 
the merchants of Shelby, on which the blow 
falls with crushing force, and the  employes 
of the firm. It is not likely that creditors will 
realize  to  exceed  20  per  cent.  The  firm 
should have  thrown  up the  sponge at the 
time of the  boiler  explosion in  their  mill 
last fall.

THE  KENDALL  MATTER.

Cliaim.

Report of the  Assignee—Outrageous  Legal 
Assignee Baker favors  The T radesman 
with a copy of his final report  on  the John 
C. Kendall  assignment matter, from  which 
it  appears  that  the  total  amount  of the 
claims whose holders  have filled the proper 
proof  is $16,873.11.  Mr.  Baker puts  in  a 
claim for $1,279.92 as the expense attending 
the proper  prosecution of  his trust, $400 of 
which is for personal  services  as  assignee 
It is within the knowledge of The Trades­
man that  Mr. Baker  performed the  duties 
involved in this case  with  singular  fidelity 
and  scrupulous  economy,  and  a  claim  of 
$400 is none too high, when  sthe  amount of 
work he accomplished  and  the  amount  of 
money lie saved the{creditors, are taken into 
consideration.  But the  claim of $250,  pre­
sented by Turner & Carroll, for retainer and 
legal services, is unjust and extortionate, and 
unless Judge Montgomery goes diametrically 
opposite his usual course  in  such  cases, he 
will  cut  the  claim  down  to  a  reasonable 
amount, or do as he did  with  the same firm 
in the Newman matter, refuse  to allow any 
portion  of  their  claim.  There  is  an  old 
adage to the effect  that  no  man  can  serve 
two masters, and yet while in the pay of the 
assignee,  Carroll  was  employed  by  the 
assignor to go to New York  for the purpose 
of  effecting a compromise, which, however, 
he was  unable  to  accomplish.  But this is 
not all that can be laid at the door of this le­
gal firm.  Furnished with a list of the credit­
ors in advance of all others, Turner & Carroll 
wrote or telegraphed to each  principal cred­
itor, soliciting their  claims.  Here  we have 
an anomaly seldom witnessed.  A legal firm 
representing the  creditors, the assignor and 
assignee in the same case—all  at  the  same 
time.  And by the  amount of  the bill they 
put it as counsel for the  assignee  it  would 
appear that they failed to secure any remun­
eration from either creditors or assignor, and 
were bent  on  making  the  estate  pay the 
three bills under the guise of one.

Good  Words  Unsolicited.

Devendorf & Leonard,  druggists, Detroit: 

“Like  it.”

H.  Principal  &  Co., grocers, Muskegon: 

“We like your paper first-rate.”

F. M. Davis, hardware,  Chippewa  Lake; 

“Like the paper.  Just what I want.” 

Bickford & Starr, grocers, Harbor Springs: 

“We like T he Tradesm an very well.”

W.  D.  Brainerd,  grocer,  Eaton  Rapids: 

“Acknowledge the value of your  paper.” 

Henry J. Marsh,  general  dealer,  Marsh- 
ville:  “Your paper, as its name  implies,  is 
useful to every business man.”

P. H. McGhan, grocer, Denver:  “I  have 
given  Th e  Tradesm an  a  thorough  trial, 
and pronounce it the best business  paper  in 
the State.”

John A. Wright, lumber and general deal­
er, Grand  Junction:  “I  think  your  paper 
very cheap at the price.  The  legal knowl­
edge alone is worth more in the year than the 
cost of the paper.”

Dr. M. V.  Sinz,  druggist,  Trent:  “Your 
paper fills a want which no other dods in ed­
ucating the retailer and showing up many of 
the dark ways which the majority of  us  do 
not  know about.  Like it  also  for  its  out­
spoken articles on blacklegs.”

Something: about His Record  as  a Liar and 

Swindler.

W. A.  Dunlap,  the  notorious,  received 
meager  attention  in  the  columns of  The 
T radesman last week, but  since  that time 
facts have come to  light  that place  him in 
even worse light. 
It has  been learned that 
there is  hardly a  wholesale  house  in  this 
city where he has not  applied  for  credit or 
is already owing bills that have been  given 
upas  worthless.  Not only does he possess 
a penchant  for  swindling  the  men  who 
place reliance upon his  promises to pay, but 
he appears  to  have  repeated  falsehoods at 
many places where  the  truth  would  have 
answered a great  deal  better. 
Instead  of 
being “overseer and  paymaster” at  the  up­
per Canal  street  bridge, as  he  claimed, he 
was only a common  laborer,  and  received 
only ordinary  wages.  He  was  given  em­
ployment  by  his  brother-in-law,  a  Mr. 
Wheaton,  who  was  wholly  unacquainted 
with Dunlap’s  true  character, and  who ex­
presses disgust at the manner in which Dun­
lap conducted himself.  The lout attempted to 
beat the Clarendon Hotel out of a board bill, 
but the matter was  adjusted  by Mr. Whea­
ton.  He succeeded, however in  beating the 
Bridge Street House out of $12, and also ob­
tained a suit of  clothes  of  Scott  and  Wil­
liams,  by  means  of  representations 
that 
would put him behind  the  bars, if  a prose­
cution  for  false  pretenses  were  pressed 
against him.  He also  endeavored to obtain 
a carpet at Morgan & Avery's, but the latter 
gentlemen nipped his clever  scheme  in the 
bud.  He subsequently called for the carpet, 
asked to be directed to a bank, and left with 
a promise  that he  would  return  in a few 
moments and pay the amount,  but he never 
returned.  Numerous other  instances of his 
swindling  propensities  have come to  light, 
but enough have been stated to show that he 
is one of the most untrustworthy men in the 
country, and that the house that extends him 
any credit will have the  pleasure  of  charg­
ing the account up to profit and loss.

“Dunlap is one of the worst customers we 
ever struck,”  said  Mr. Barlow, the  veteran 
book-keeper at Cappon,Bertsch & Co.’s.  This 
firm had an account against  him  for  years, 
and took  every  step  possible  to  collect  it, 
without success.  Finally, in December, 1879, 
we passed the amount, $34.62, to  the  profit 
and loss account.  The  claim is  for  sale  at 
any time at one cent on the dollar.”

“Dunlap  came  into  my  store  several 
months ago,” said Mr. S.  A.  Welling,  “and 
represented that he had put in a stock of dry 
goods at Nashville and wished  to sort up on 
a few notions, 
I had never had any dealing 
with the man, but he talked so well, and car­
ried himself so apparently square, that I sold 
him a bill of $50  or  $60  worth.  The  only 
thing that arroused  my  suspicions  was  his 
anxiety to get the goods off on the afternoon 
express, but no sooner  had  the  goods  been 
shipped than I began to be deluged with  in 
quiries from parties  whom he had  referred 
to me. 
I couldn’t recommend the man, for I 
knew  nothing  of  his  antecedents—except 
that the firm  of  Dunlap  &  Stinchcomb,  of 
Sunfield,  with  whom  he  was  formerly 
identified, had always paid their bills prompt­
ly—and  I immediately wrote him  that if he 
expected me to give  a  favorable  answer  to 
the inquiries I received concerning  him,  he 
must  send me  a  statement  without  delay. 
The letter evoked no response, nor  was any 
attention paid to a subsequent letter.  I then 
instructed one of my traveling men  to  look 
into the matter when he went  to  Nashville, 
and he telegraphed me  that  Dunlap’s  stock 
was in the hands of the  sheriff. 
Inquiring 
the amount of  Eaton  &  Christenson’s  bill, 
who  had  sold  the  man  partially  on  the 
strength of my statements, I  went  down  to 
Nashville, and found the man  in  the  midst 
of  a  quarrel  with his wife, who  appears to 
have objected to a  certain  lady  friend that 
Dunlap had perhaps been too intimate with. 
So strenuous were her objections, and so firm 
was the husband  in  refusing  to  desert  his 
newly-t'ormed friend, that she found it  nec­
essary to invoke the aid of the  law in secur­
ing about $100 worth of the stock, which  she 
claimed  was  purchased  with  her  money. 
Dunlap  talked  all  around  the  bush,  and 
whimpered like a puppy, but I told him that 
I  cared  nothing  for  his  family  troubles— 
that all I cared  for  was  the  amount of  my 
biil.  He paid me $20, all the money he had, 
and I then told him he must either  pay  the 
remainder, secure the amount,  or go back to 
Grand Rapids with me.  He spent an hour or 
two in the  vain  endeavor to borrow the mon­
ey, or mortgage the  stock,  and  finally  pro­
posed that I take a mortgage.  This I agreed 
to do, including Eaton &  Christenson’s  bill 
in the amount, and two days later the  mort­
gage was foreclosed, and the  stock  sold  for 
enough to pay us both nearly in full.

“I will say that I was  never  more  disap­
pointed in a man in my  life.  He  is  a fine- 
looking  man,  having  the  bearing  of  a 
gentleman, and  converses  intelligently  and 
shrewdly.  Unlike most beats,  he  does  not 
aronse  suspicion by talking too much, mak­
ing too many promises, or  ordering  heavier 
than is usual.  He once struck me for  a po­
sition as traveler, and I remember now  that 
I looked upon the application with favor, al­
though I had no position open at  the  time.”

SIZED  HIM UP CORRECTLY.

From the Nashville News.

T he  Michigan  T radesman, published 
at Grand Rapids, writes up  W.  A.  Dunlap, 
who  it  will  be  remembered  run  a  candy 
store  here  last  winter,  as  a thoroughbred 
dead  beat,  which is about  the  size  of  the 
opinion  expressed by  several  other  people.

There is a factory in Green Island, N. Y., 

where fine eoffins are  made of paper.

Grand  Rapids.

J. Geo. Lehman reports the following:

John Johnson, mason, lives here............. $15 78
Jim Granis, blacksmith, lives here..........  16 00
Mrs. Rice, Scribner street..........................   2 00
Mrs. Bentley, lives here..............................  1 22
A. C. Clark, moved to Saginaw..................  9 33
Geo. Heyfield, moved near Jackson........ 10 58
Wm. A. Brown, moved to Ada..................  8 94
“I predict that you will  abandon  the  Delin­
quent Debtor list as impracticable  before the 
1st of January,” said Mr. Arnott,  of  the  retail 
grocery firm of Arnott & Arnott, the other day. 
‘While  it  may  be  the  means  of  effecting 
some good, I am inclined to thiiik that the evil 
results of  such  publications  overshadow  the 
good results.  In looking over a list of poor or 
worthless accounts, the reader is not made ac­
quainted with the circumstances  surrounding 
each individual case, although  an intimate ac­
quaintance with the facts in  each  case  might 
occasion an entire  change  of  feeling  against 
the persons named.  Some  of  the  men so  re 
ported are utterly  unable  to  pay  within any 
specified time, but may come to the front  in  a 
year, or two years,  whenever  fortune favors 
them.  If in the  meantime  we  have  paraded 
their names  through  a  Dead  Beat  list,  they 
will cease to regard our account as  an  obliga­
tion, and the  chances  are  ten  to  one against 
our ever getting anything.”
Trent.

Dr. M. Y. Sinz writes as follows:
I have lost  thousands  of  dollars  by  giving 
away to the  smooth  tongues of blacklegs, and 
many times had it not been for the  income  of 
the  medical  profession  to  patch  up  with,  I 
should have gone down.  I  have had my atten­
tion called to  a  number  of  young  men  who 
started in business by listening to the wiles of 
the credit class,  and  who  went down—not  as 
“dishonest men,” but as “mistaken men.”  We 
have  several  dead  beats  here—one  of  the 
worst being a nursery man—who  will  receive 
deserved ventilation  unless  they  mend their 
ways.  With me, the credit business  has come 
to an end, as  I  have  reached  the  conclusion 
aptly  expressed  by  one  of  your  correspon­
dents, that if a man buys on 60 or 90 days time, 
he can just as well buy for cash.

LUMBER, LATH  AND SHINGLES.

The Newaygo Company quote f. o. b. cars  as 
follow:
Uppers, 1 inch.................................. per M $44 00
Uppers, 114,1 lA and 2 inch..........:............   46 00
Selects, 1 inch..............................................   35 00
Selects, 1J4, 1V4 and 2  inch.........................  38 00
Fine Common, 1 inch.................................  30 00
Shop, 1 inch.................................................   20 00
Fine, Common, 1J4, l l/2 and 2 inch...........   32 00
No. 1 Stocks,  12 in., 12,14 and 16  feet__   15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet..................           16 00
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet.........................  17 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet.........................  16  00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet.........................  17 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 12,  14 and 16 feet........  15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet..........................   16 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 20 feet.........................  17 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  12 50
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet__ ».................  13 50
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet........................   14 50
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  12 50
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet.........................  13 50
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet.........................  14 50
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 12,14 and 16  feet.......  11  50
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet..........................   12  50
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in.,  20 feet........................   13  50
Coarse  Common  or  shipping  culls, all
9 00
widths and  lengths................................. 
A and B Strips, 4 or 6 in ............................  35 00
C Strips, 4 or 6 inch....................................   28 00
No. 1 Fencing, all  lengths.........................  15 00
No. 2 Fencing, 12,14 and 18  feet...............  12 00
No. 2 Fencing, 16 feet.................................  12 00
No. 1 Fencing, 4  inch.................................  15 00
No. 2 Fencing, 4  inch.................................  12 00
Norway C and better, 4 or 6 inch.............   20 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, A and  B..................  18 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, C...............................   14  50
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, No. 1  Common__  
9 00
Bevel Siding,  6  inch,  Clear.....................   20 00
Piece Stuff, 2x4 to 2x12,12 to 16 f t ... 15 50@11  00 
$1 additional for each 2 feet above 16 ft.
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., A.  B....................  36 00
Dressed Flooring, 6 in.  C..........................   29 00
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., No. 1, common..  17 00
Dressed Flooring 6in., No. 2 common__   14 00
Beaded Ceiling, 6 in. $1 00  additiinal.
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., A. B and  Clear..  35 00
Dressed Flooring, 4in., C..........................   26  00
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. 1  com’n  16 00 
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. 2  com’n  14 00 
Beaded Ceiling, 4 inch, $1 00 additional.
( X X X 18 in. Standard  Shingles............. 
3  50
3 40
■{XXX18 in.  Thin...................................... 
3  00
( X X X 16 in................................................. 
No. 2 or 6 in. C. B 18 in.  Shingles.............  
2 00
No. 2 or 5 in. C. B. 16  in.............................. 
175
Lath  ............................................................. 
2 00

HIDES, PELTS AND  FURS.

Perkins & Hess quote as foLows:

H ID ES.

Green................................................$fl>  @7
Part  cured..............................................  8  @ 8Ji
Full cured................................................  8J4@ 8^
Dry hides and kips.................................  8  @12
Calf skins, green or cured....................10  @12
Deacon skins............................pieceSO  @50
Shearlings or Summer skins $  piece.. 10  @20
Fall pelts............................... 1................30  @50
Winter  pelts....................................... 1 00  @1 50
Fine washed 
ft....................................  25@27
Coarse washed.......................................18  @20
Unwashed...............................................2-3
Tallow......................................... ............5J4@ 5lA

S H E E P  PEL TS.

W OOL.

FRESH  MEATS.

John  Mohrhard quotes the trade as follows:
Fresh  Beef, sides..................................   8  @  9lA
Fresh  Beef, hind quarters..................10  @11
Dressed Hogs.........................................   754@  8
Mutton,  carcasses.................................  7  @  8
Veal..........................................................  354® 9^4
Fowls......................................................  
15@16
Pork Sausage.........................................10  @10^4
Pork Sausage in bulk............................  @10
Bologna...................................................  @10

MASON’S 
FRUIT JARS

Write or Telephone us for

LATEST

i total

JOHN 

CAULFIELD
Wholesale  Grocer.
Teas, Tobaccos,  Spices  Etc.,

—AND JO B B E R  IN —

85,87  and  89  Canal  Street 

FACTORY  2LG252TT
For the following well-known  brands of To­

baccos  and  Cigars:

FINE  OUT.
Fountain.............................................  
74
Old  Congress...............................................64
Good  Luck...................................................55
Good and Sweet........................................... 45
American  Queen......................................... 38
Blaze  Away................  
35
Hair Lifter...................................................30
Governor,  2  oz.  foil....................................60
In half barrels  or four  pail  lots,  2c ^  lb off 
above list.

PLUG.

Horse Shoe...................................................47
McAlpin’s Green Shield...........................   .48
McAlpin’s Sailor’s  Solace...........................48
McAlpine’s Chocolate  Cream....................48
Red Star, extra quality, same style  as
Sailor’s  Solace......................................48
Big Chunk or J. T. Mahogany Wrapper. .40
Hair Lifter, Mahogany Wrapper................37
D. & D. Dark,  yi and 16  oz.  pounds........37
Ace High......................................................35
Duck, 2x12  and  flat....................................48
Nobby  Spun  Roll....................................... 48
Black  Spun Roll..........................................38
Canada Plug (Virginia Smoking)..............50
C resent Plug, 6 lb  cads.............................. 45

In 60 lb quantities 2c per lb off.

s  ivn o  k ; i  isr o .

Peerless........................................................25
Rob  Roy......................................................25
Uncle  Sam.................................................. 28
Tom  and  Jerry................................... 
24
Good Enough...............................................23
Mountain Rose.............................................20
Lumberman’s  Long  Cut.....................     .26
Home Comfort.............................................24
Green  Back,  Killickinick...........................25
Two Nickel, Killickinick y.i....................... 25
Two Nickel, Killickinick,  %..................... 26
Star Durham,  Killickinick,  %................... 25
Rattler,  Killickinick,  yi.............................25
Honey Dew, Killickinick,  yi..................... 25
Posey, Killickinick,  yi,  paper................... 25
Canary, Killickinick, Extra Virginia........36
Gold  Block, Killickinick, yi.......................32
Peck’s Sun,  Killickinick, Ksand lbs........IS
Golden Flake Cabinet................................. 40
Traveler, 3  oz.  foil.................................... .35
Rail Road Boy, 3 oz. foil............................ 37
Nigger  Head, Navy Clippings................... 26
Scotten’s Chips, Navy  Clippings,  paper. .26 
Leidersdorfs’ Navy Clippings, cloth bags.26
Old Rip Fine Virginia Long Cut................55
Lime Kiln Club........................................... 45
Durham Long  Cut.................................... .60
Durham,  Blackwell’s  y i............................ 60
Durham, Blackwell’s, y i............................ 57
Durham, Blackwell’s, y i.............................55
Durham, Blackwell’s,  tb ............................ 51
Seal of North Carolina % ...........................52
Seal of North Carolina % ....................    .50
Seal of North Carolina y i...........................48
Seal of North Carolina lb ...........................46

Special prices given on large lots.
CIGARS.

 

 

 

 
 

Smoke  the  Celebrated  ‘‘After Lunch”  Cigar.
After  Lunch.........................................$30 00
Clarrissa..................................................45 00
Clara....................................................... 32 00
M irella....................................................35 00
Queen  Marys.......................................... 25 00
Josephines.............................................. 25 00
Little  Hatchets.................... 
30  00
Old Glories...........  
23  00
Twin Sisters............................................23 00
Moss Agate..............................................18 00
Magnolia................................. 
12  50
Commercial........... ............................... 55  00
Delumos..................................................60 00
Mark Twain............................................ 55 00
Golden Spike..............#.........................55  00
Storm’s  Boquet......... ! .........................65  00
Owl Captain...........................  
60  00
S. & S. Capadura.................... 
32  00
In addition to the above brands  of Tobac­
cos and  Cigars,  I  keep  in  stock  an  ample 
supply  of  all  other  well-known  brands  of 
Plug and Fine Cut  Our stock in the Tobac­
co and Cigar  line  is  one  of  the  largest  and 
best assorted to be  found  in  the  city.
TEA S.
Japan ordinary.............. 
23®30
Japan fair................................................33@35
Japan fair to good.........................  
35@37
J apan fine................................................40@50
Japan dust...............................................15@18
Young Hyson..'....................................... 25@50
Gun Poivder.............................................35@50
Oolong.........................................35@45@55@60
Congo......................................................30@35
Corn,  Barrels....................
Corn, %  bbls.....................
Corn. 10 gallon  kegs........
Corn, 5 gallon  kegs..........
Corn, 414 gallon  kegs.......
Pure Sugar Drips,  bbl__
Maple Syrup, 5 gal kegs.. 
Maple Syrub, 10 gal  kegs.

®  31 
@  33 
@  36 
@1 90 
@1 85 
30®  37 
@3 10 
@6 00

SY R U P S .

S U G A R S .

Some grades of sugar advanced last  week % 

to yic.  We quote as follows:
Cut  Loaf...................... ..  ...............7%@8
Powdered  Standard........................7%@8
Granulated Standard...................... 7  @7-yi
Standard  Confectioners’  A..........6% @6%
Standard  A .....................................
Extra White C.................................6M@6M
Extra Bright C.................................6  @6%
Extra  C............................................5% @5%
Yellow C......... .................................5  @5%
We call the especial attention of those de­
siring to purchase new stocks to our superior 
facilities for meeting their wants.  Our guar­
antee is first-class goods and low  prices.
Careful attention given mail orders.  Spec­
ial quotations mailed on general line  of  gro­
ceries when requested.

—ALSO—

Jelly Cups,

Ice Cream Freezers, 
Refrigerators and
COMPLETE  STOCK

H. Leonard &  Sons,

16 Monroe Street, 

GRAND RAPIDS 

.  -

MICH«

Drugs NflEeòidnes

F i r m n e s s  i n  Q u i n i n e .

From the Oil, Paint and Drug Reporter.
'  For several  weeks past  some of the for­
eign makers of quinine have persistently re­
fused to fill  orders  for  that  article at the 
quotations  current 
in  this  market.  The 
sales of their  brands  have, therefore, been 
mainly from outsiders  who  were willing to 
meet the views of buyers, and  the  stock so 
available has been  steadily diminishing. 
It 
has been believed by most of the  trade that 
the dullness prevailing  here  would  tend to 
overcome even the manifest  firmness of the 
foreign makers, and that the market  would 
not experience a decided advance until more 
activity prevailed here. 
It  is  now  evident 
that the quinine market is approaching a cri­
sis, and that  there must  soon  be a general 
advance  in the  alkaloid, or a  break in the 
cost of  the  bark.  Advices  from  abroad, 
where  the  controlling  influences  are now 
centered, are  somewhat  contradictory, but 
upon the whole seem favorable  to the posi­
tion taken by the  principal  manufacturers. 
The stock of bark is  not  large, nor is it be­
ing increased  by the  receipts  from  either 
South America  or  the  Indies, the  supply 
from the former source being  greatly dimin­
ished.  The holders of  bark are believed to 
be well supported in  their present  position 
and the chances of their being  forced to sac­
rifice stock or concede to lower views on the 
part  of  buyers,  are  thought  to be small. 
Such at least is the view  taken  by some of 
the best  authorities  abroad,  though a con­
trary opinion is  held by  some  makers who 
are still inclined to regard the  bark market 
as higher than the  relations  of  supply and 
demand, and the  financial  strength  of the 
holders, would warrant.  There is, however, 
no doubt that the sales of quinine during the 
past two or three months  have  been  alto­
gether more active  abroad  than  they have 
been here.  This  being the  case,  with the 
clear 
bark  market 
which their proximity to the  principal hold­
ings affords them, it is evident  that the for­
eign  manufacturers  have  had  reasonable 
grounds for the firm position  they have tak­
en, and it will not be  surprising  to see this 
market follow the course  they  have  appar­
ently marked  out.  The  opposition  of  do­
mestic makers could  doubtless prevent such 
an advance, but so far  as  their  sentiments 
can be ascertained, they do  not  seem to re­
gard  with disfavor  advanced  prices if they 
can be  maintained. 
In the  present  condi­
tion of  trade no  advance  would  probably 
emanate from  domestic  manufacturers, al­
though they admit  that the  manufacture of 
quinine  is  without  profit  at  the  current 
prices, but we are led by late foreign advices 
to look for such a strengthening of  the posi­
tion abroad that a rise in this  market would 
seem to be among the early probabilities.

view  of 

the 

Oleomargarine  Products.

From the Oil, Paint and Drug Reporter.

The business of supplying consumers with 
oleomargarine butter continues uninterrupted 
in this State  notwithstanding  the law pro­
hibiting its manufacture and  sale on and af­
ter  June 1st.  The  leading  manufacturers 
have entered into a mutual understanding to 
test the  constitutionality of  the enactment, 
by advice of counsel who have been retained 
to fight their  battle.  No  effort  has  been 
made to enforce the law, and  it would seem 
that the Dairy Commissioner has-no inclina­
tion to face  the  issue  at present  at least 
The  legal  arbitration  of  the  prohibition 
question is said to be  delayed to enable the 
natural butter  dealers to lay their plans for 
securing similiar  laws in other  States, and 
at the same time,  to allow the  butter specu­
lators to get the upper  hand in the season’s 
make  of  natural  butter.  The  dealers  in 
oils are interested in all movements relating 
to this trade.  The majority of  manufactur­
ers  here  and  elsewhere  are a unit  in ac­
knowledging  the  necessity of  fighting the 
new law and have  contributed  towards the 
payment of counsel for  that  purpose.  The 
law will be tested entirely upon its constitu­
tionality and not upon any  question of pat­
ent or  process.  A  similiar  measure  was 
sustained  by  the  courts  of  Missouri, but 
there is a wide difference  between  Eastern 
and Western justice.  The  ultimate  end of 
the  agitation  will be good, as it will  clear 
away a lot of  ignorant  predjudice  against 
oleomargarine.  The trade in  artificial  but­
ter has been greatly diminished owing to the 
mass of dealers being afraid to handle it and 
the  cheapness  of  natural  butter,  which 
proves a powerful factor in  inducing retail­
ers to forsake the  substitute.

The local trade in  oleomargarine  oil  has 
been stagnant for some  time, principally on 
account of  the home manufacturers  requir­
ing  but light supplies to meet  their limited 
wants.  The market is well stocked with oii 
the principal part of  which  is  stored with 
the hope of realizing  better  prices later on. 
Exporters, however, are taking lower values 
in sympathy with  the  expected  decline in 
the  Dutch  market, the  present  course of 
which is  very doubtful  but tending  down­
ward.

A Mighty Mean Man.

“The meanest man I have  ever struck  in 
all  my business  experience,”  said  a  well- 
known druggist, is a customer  whom I have 
been furnishing with medicine for ten years, 
and from whom I could never collect a cent. 
The other  day  he  sent a big  basketful of 
bottles to my office  and  wanted  me to buy 
them.”

“Well, what  harm  was  there  in  that?” 

asked the reporter.

“Oh, none to  speak  of; only  the  bottles 
were the same ones I  had  been  furnishing 
him with, for the ten years I trusted him.”

GROWTH  OF  THE  CIGARETTE.

Facts and Fancies Connected with Its Man­
ufacture.
From the New York Tribune.

Whether the cigarette is the product of the 
dude or the dude of the cigarette is an  open 
question.  There has been  a  parallelism  in 
their  growth and the cigarette is as much an 
essential feature in the outfit of the dude  as 
the  silver-headed  cane,  toothpick  shoes  or 
cork-screw coat.  While the cigarette is nec- 
cessary to the dude, however, the dude is by 
no means  essential  to  the  cigarette.  The 
latter has come into extremely extensive use 
within the last few years, and is  smoked in­
discriminately  by  boys  and  old men, mer­
chants and clerks, bulls,  bears,  and  lambs, 
millionaires and laborers, and no inconsider­
able part of the 640,000,000 cigarettes manu­
factured last year  was consumed by the fair 
sex.
The cigarette of commerce is of recent or­
igin, the word  cigarette  only  appearing  in 
the dictionery within the  last  six  or  seven 
years.  Fifteen years ago its use was confin­
ed almost entirely to a few foreigners.  Then 
every cigarette smoker carried with  him  his 
package of rice paper  and  bag  of  tobacco, 
and  a  mahogany-colored  thumb  and  fore­
finger werfi his marks of distinction.  A few 
ready-made cigarettes  were  imported  from 
Cuba and Russia, but the trade in  them  was 
unimportant.  In 1868 the first  cigarette fac­
tory begun operations in this city.  Francis S. 
Kinney was the pioneer in the industry, and 
the Kinney Tobacco Co., of which he is pres­
ident, is still the largest  cigarette  manufac­
turing  firm  in  New  York.  Four  Russian 
cigarette makers were imported  and  put  to 
work.  The output of cigarettes for the  first 
year was 1,751,000.  For a while  these  men 
had a monopoly of the industry, but in  1872 
an effort was made to teach the  trade to wo­
men.  The workmen struck against the em­
ployment of female labor, but  after  a  long 
struggle were defeated  and a  large  number 
of women and girls were put under  instruc­
tion and protected  against  violence. 
In  a 
few months they were sufficiently skillful to 
make good cigarettes.  Now the work is done 
almost entirely by girls.  The success of the 
first factory was so great that  a  number  of 
others were established, and the cigarette soon 
became as much an  article  of  commerce  as 
the cigar. 
It has  long  ago  outstripped the 
pipe in popularity among smokers.

will be one pound of  paper.  A  peculiarity 
of rice paper is that it makes no  perceptible 
smoke in burning and leaves  no  perceptible 
ashes.

The idea  of making cigarettes by machin­
ery is as old  as the  industry, and  at  least 
150 cigarette-making  machines  have  been 
wholly successful.  Only the  poorer quality 
of  cigarettes  can be  made  by  machinery. 
The tobacco has to be worked differently ac­
cording to  the  weather.  The  consequence 
is that a machine which will make a perfect 
cigarette on a damp day will  be  practically 
useless on a dry day, and  this is a difficulty 
which has  not  yet  been  overcome.  The 
machines in use will  make  on an  average 
12,000 cigarettes a day.

New York is the chief  cigarette  making 
center of the United  States, and the output 
of the factories here is more  than  one-half 
that of the. entire country.  Next in order of 
importance come Baltimore, Rochester  and 
Richmond. 
It is estimated  that  the output 
in the country for 1883 reached at least 800,- 
000,000.  There  are  still a few  cigarettes 
imported from Europe  and  Cuba, but these 
sources of supply are comparatively insignif­
icant and  the  importations  are  exceeded 
greatly by the exportation.

German  ingenuity has  produced  another 
derivative from coal tar  in the  shape of an 
explosive for mining  purposes  or  firearms. 
This  resultant  is  a  mixture  or  saltpeter, 
chlorate of  potash and a solid hydro-carbon 
the 
latter  being  paraffin,  asphaltum,  or 
pitch.  The solid  ingredients  are powdered 
and intimately  mixed, and the mass is then 
treated with a liquid  volatile  hydro-carbon, 
such as benzine or gasoline, which  dissolves 
the solid hydro-carbon and  forms the whole 
into a plastic  body.  This cake is then roll­
ed into sheets and hardened by allowing the 
liquid solvent to  evaporate, the product be­
ing afterwards  broken up in  grains  of any 
desired size, like  ordinary  gunpowder.  By 
this  method of dissolving 
the  hydro-car­
bon before or after admixture with the salts, 
the grains become coated  after drying with 
a water proof  surface or Varnish.  The new 
compound is only an explosive when confin­
ed in a close  space. 
It possesses the  same 
density as gun-powder and is very hard.

American cigarettes take a  front  rank  in 
the markets of  the  world,  and  the  export 
trade is large.  There is not a civilized coun­
try on the globe to which they are  not  sent. 
Orders have been received from Alaska, and 
even the Turks enjoy the  Virginia weed  oc­
casionally.  Several  large  shipments  were 
made to Constantinople recently.  Ten years 
ago an order for 10,000 cigarettes was consid­
ered an extremely large  one;  now  it  is not 
unusual for an order for 1,000,000 to be' book­
ed, and some orders have been  received  for 
as many as 4,000,000.  The  tobaccos chiefly 
used in the manufactire of cigarettes are the 
various  trades  of  Virginia,  Perique  and 
Turkish.  The Virginia tobacco goes through 
a  long preparation before it reaches  the cig­
arette  maker. 
In  the  best  cigarettes  it 
is  never  used  until  it  is  at  least  two
years old, the purpose in keeping it  so  long 
being to insure uniformity in quality and  to 
enable the manufacturer  to provide  against 
possible short crop.  When  the  tobacco  is 
brought in from the farm it is  taken  into  a 
curing room, where it is thoroughly cured by 
means of hot air.  After the  leaf  has  been 
stripped from the stem it goes through a pro­
cess by which a large proportion of the nico­
tine is volatilized  and  dissipated.  The  to­
bacco is then packed away in hogsheads and 
tierces and stored for two years.  When the 
time arrives for the tobacco to be cut up  for 
manufacture  the  leaves are treated so as to 
make them pliable.  Each manufacturer has 
his own process for doing this, and  it is one 
of the secrets of the business which  is  care­
fully guarded.  The mixture  is  then  made.
A certain proportion of Turkish and Virgin­
ia is used for one brand, of Turkish and Per­
ique for  another,  Perique  and  Virginia  or 
either of the three by itself for  others.  Af­
ter  the  cutting  machine  has  reduced  the 
leaves to tiny golden ribbons the  tobacco  is 
put through another secret process, and when 
it is ready to work up into cigarettes it has a 
fresh  and  crisp  appearance,  but  can  be 
handled readily without breaking or  crumb­
ling.  Thus prepared it is kept in a cool, dry 
room until it is needed in the manufacturing 
room.  Each cigarette maker is  given  three 
pounds of tobacco and 1,000 papers at a time, 
and is expected to return 1,000 perfect cigar­
ettes.  The rolling it done by hand and many 
girls are able to roll from 3,500 to  4,000 cig­
arettes each day.  As the  cigarettes are roll­
ed they  are  dropped  into  a  trough  which 
leads to a box under and back of, the  table, 
when they are received  by  the  cutter,  who 
with a pair of scissors  clips  off  the  surplus 
tobacco.  When 1,000 cigarettes are complet­
ed they are taken by  the  cutters  to  the  as­
sistant superintendent, who  examines them, 
rejecting all which are imperfect.  They are 
then sent to  the packing room,  where  they 
again undergo an examination.  The  pack- 
pers put the cigarettes into bundles of ten or 
twenty, and become so expert  at  this  work 
that they pick up  the  required  number  of 
cigarettes without counting.

The rice paper in which the best cigarettes 
are rolled is  all  imported  from Franee.  A 
great deal of inferior paper comes from Ger­
many.  Attempts  have  been  made  in  this 
country to manufacture fine rice  paper,  but 
they have been  unsuccessful. 
It  is  made 
from the rice paper plant fatsia papyHfera, 
and not, as is generally  supposed,  from  the 
It is  when pure  com­
American rice plant. 
posed entirely of cellulose. 
It  forms  2-100 
of 1 per cent of the weight of  the  tobacco, 
that is, in 5,000  pounds  of  cigarettes  there

With the advent of hot  weather  the glue 
manufactories  of New  England  have shnt 
down and  will  make  no  more  glue  until 
next fall.  The season now  closed has been 
a good one.  The winter was  not especially 
favorable, but the  spring has been uniform­
ly cool and there have  been  no such  losses 
as were entailed by the hot  Sunday of May, 
1888, when hundreds of barrels run to waste 
in the  cooling houses.  The  production for 
the  season of  1883-4 in New  England has 
been  curtailed  about  25  per cent.  There 
has been no working on holidays or on over­
time. 
It has  been  a slow  season  for the 
very proper  reason that the consumption of 
glues has owing to the  depression  of  busi­
ness,  fallen  off  nearly  one-third  and  the 
stock on  hand is  estimated to  exceed  that 
held at tiffs period for three years past.

A movement is on foot to establish a com­
pany in New York for  the  purpose  of con 
structing and running tanks similiar to those 
used for oil, for the storage of spirits of tur­
pentine.  The capital of the  company is fix­
ed at  $100,000, and  a large portion  of that 
amount  has, it is  said,  already  been  sub 
scribed for by the naval  stores  trade.  The 
system of storing  spirits  in tanks, has been 
in vogue in  London  for  many  years and 
there is no reason why it should not work in 
New  York as it does  there. 
It  would  no 
doubt attract stock to this market,and would 
not  only be  the  means  of  saving a large 
quantity of spirits, now  lost by evaporation 
and leakage, but greatly  facilitate  dealings 
in forward deliveries, as  the  company  pro­
pose to issue  certificates  for  goods  stored 
which would be  used  in  the  settlement of 
contracts.

The  Quinine  and  the Morphine.

One night after the  drug  store  had  been 
closed and all was dark  within, the Quinine 
Bottle leaned over and whispered to the Mor­
phine Jar:

“Say, let’s put up a job on the clerk.”
“How?”
“Why, you come  over  here and  stand in 
my place, and  I’ll  go  there  and  stand  in 
yours.”

“Oh, no, 1  know your  little  game.  You 
think if you got in my place you’ll do all the 
business.  But  you  needn’t flatter yourself. 
No drug clerk ever made the mistake of giv­
ing quinine for  morphine.”

Gone Astray.
From the Merchants’  Review.

A department in The Michigan T rades­
man—a  scrumptious  little  paper,  by  the 
way—is headed “Stray Facts.”  Erom some 
of our other contemporaries facts seem to be 
always astray.

“No, sir,” said a hotel clerk to a  couuner 
cial traveler, “you  can’t litter  up  this office 
with your rough looking  trunks.”  “What 
the matter with  you?” replied the disgusted 
traveler.  “This, sir, I’d have  you  know, 
a four dollar house and—”  W hat! four dol­
lars a week?”  “No, sir, four dollars a day. 
“Oh—ah—excuse me. 
It’s  quite  remarks 
ble how much less  one  can see, than he can 
discover by asking a few  questions.  Good­
bye.”

There are 3,985 paper,mills in the  world, 
which turn out annually 1,904,000,000 pounds 
of paper.  Half  of  this is used in  printing 
generally, while 600,000,000  pounds  are us­
ed  for  newspapers.  An  average  of  11K 
pounds is  used  by  every  Englishman and 
10^ pounds by every American.

□Advanced—Lycopidium,  Castor oil.
cerine, Serpentine.

Declined—Morphia,  Quinine  German, 

AC ID S.

Gly

Acetic,  No. 8............................$  ft  9  @
Acetic,  C. P. (Sp. grav. 1.040)........   30  @
Carbc lie............................................
Citric.................................................
Muriatic 18  deg............................... 
3  @
Nitric 36 deg....................................
Oxalic...............................................   14/4®
Sulphuric  66 deg.............................  
3  @
Tartaric  powdered........................
Benzoic,  English....................oz
Benzoic,  German............................  1*  ®
Tannic............................................... 
®

AM M ONIA.

Carbonate.................................®  16  @
Muriate (Powd. 22c).........................
Aqua 16 deg or  3f............................ 
Aqua 18 deg or 4f...........................  

jj  @
7  @

Ò  50 
®
40 
3 00 
50

@  85 
@  7
@1 10

BALSAMS.

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

BA RK S.

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

B E R R IE S .

Cubeb, prime ¡(Powd $  90)............
°
Juniper............................................. 
Prickly Ash......................................1 CO

EX TRACTS.

Licorice GO and 25 B> boxes, 25c)...
Licorice,  powdered, pure.............
Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 ft doxes).
Logwood, Is (25 ft  boxes)...............
...............
Lgowood, )4s 
do 
Logwood, )£s 
do 
...............
Logwood, ass’d  do 
...............
Fluid.Extracts—25 $  cent, off list.

FLO W ERS.

Arnica..........................
Chamomile,  Roman.. 
Chamomile,  German.

10  @

 

 

Aloes,  Barbadoes..................•
Aloes, Cape (Powd  24c).................. 
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd  60c)..........
Ammoniac.......................................  
Arabic, extra  select....................... 
Arabic, powdered  select............... 
Arabic, 1st picked..........................
Arabic,2d  picked............................ 
Arabic,c3d picked............................ 
Arabic, sifted sorts. . . . . . . . . . . . .  
Assaf oentida, prime (Powd 35c)...
Benzoin 
Catechu. Is 04 14c, 14s 16c)............ 
Euphorbium powdered.................. 
Galbanum strained......................... 
Gamboge........................................... 
Guaiac, prime (Powd  45c).............  
Kino [Powdered, 30c].....................
Mastic 
«■•••••••••••••••••••••••••
Myrrh.Turkish (Powdered  47c)... 
Opium, pure (Powd $5.50)............... 
Shellac, Campbell’s ......................... 
Shellac,  English............................* 
Shellac, native.................................
Shellac bleach ed..............................
Tragacanth.......................... ..........   3°
H E R B S—IN   OUNCE  PACKAGES.

60®  75
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40
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IR O N .

Hoarhound.......................-.............................
Lobelia..............................................................
Peppermint.......................................................ui
Rue.................................... 
S
Spearmint.......................................................
Sweet Majoram................................................
Tanzy.................................................................™
Thyme...............................................................X?
Wormwood......................................................
Citrate and  Quinine....................... 
6 40
Solution mur., for tinctures........ 
m
Sulphate, pure  crystal.................. 
‘
Citrate.....................................  
 
S?
Phosphate................................  
00
Buchu, short (Powd 25c)................  13  ®  11
®
Sage, Italian, bulk (148 &l/4s, 12c)... 
gx
Senna,  Alex, natural..........•••••••  18 
Senna, Alex, sifted and  garbled.. 
30
Senna,  powdered............................ 
*j{
Senna tfnnivelli...............................
Uva  Ursi..........................................
Belledonna........................................ 
Foxglove........................................... 
Henbane........................................... 
Rose, red........................................... 

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LIQ U O R S.

W., D. & Co.’s Sour Mash Whisky.2 00
Druggists’ Favorite  Rye................1 75
Whisky, other brands..................... 1 W
Gin, Old Tom.....................................J gg
Gin,  Holland.....................................« ®0
Brandy...............................................* 22
Catawba  Wines................................*
Port Wines........................................ 1 35
Carbonate, Pattison’s, 2 oz...........
Carbonate, Jenning’s, 2 oz.......—
Citrate, H., P. & Co.’s  solution....
Calcined............................................

M AGNESIA.

22
X-
„ X?
^ oo
®2 25 
@2  00 
®1 50 
©1 75 
@3 50 
@6 50 
®2 00 
@2 50

O IL S .

do 
do 

®  50 
45 
1  80 
50 
2  00 
19)4®  20 
2 00 
75
1  00 40 
85
1 25 
8  00 
1 60
2  00 
75 
40 
50
2 00 
2 01 
1 00 
90 
1  70 
1 75 
80 
1 25 
50
1 75
3 25 
9 75
65
4 50 
7 00
60 
4 50 @  12
2 25 
4 50 
1 002 50
1 90
3 50 
6 00
@1  202 50 
@  67
9 75

Almond, sweet.................................  45
Amber, rectified..............................
Anise.................................................
Bay $   oz...........................................
Bergamont........................................
Castor...............................................
Croton...............................................
Cajeput..................... -.....................
G&SSlBi ...................................... . •
Cedar, commercial  (Pure 75c).......
Citronella........................................
Cloves................................................
Cubebs, P. &  W...............................
Erigeron...........................................
Fireweed...........................................
Geranium  $   oz............—  ••••••
Hemlock, commercial (Pure <5c)..
Juniper wood..................................
Juniper berries...............................
Lavender flowers, French.............
Lavender garden 
.............
Lavender spike 
.............
Lemon, new crop............................
Lemon,  Sanderson’s.......................
Lemongrass....................• • —
Origanum, red flowers, French...
Origanum,  No. 1............................
Pennyroyal......................................
Peppermint,  white.........................
liosc  $   oz.,<••• •••••••• ♦•*••»*•••••
Rosemary, French  (Flowers $5)...
Sandal  Wood. German..................
andal Wood,  W .I............................
Sassafras...........................................
Tansy  ...............................................
Tar (by gal 60c).................................
Wintergreen.................................
Wormwood, No. 1 (Pure $6.50).......
Savin.................................................
Wormseed..........................
Cod Liver, filtered................ $  gal
Cod Liver, best................  
..........
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16
Olive, Malaga....................
Olive, “Sublime  Ita lia n ...............
Salad.........................................•••••  65
Rose,  Ihmsen s .......................v  oz
Bicromate.................................ft
Bromide, cryst. and gran. bulk...
Chlorate, cryst (Powd 23c).............
Iodide, cryst. and  gran, bulk.......
Prussiate yellow..............................

PO TASSIU M .

10

ROOTS.

Alkanet............................................
Althea, cut.......................................
Arrow,  St. Vincent’s .....................
Arrow, Taylor’s, in J4s and )4s....
Blood (Powd 18o)..............................
Calamus,  peeled..............................
Calamus, German white, peeled..
Elecampane, powdered..................
Gentian (Powd  17c(.........................
Ginger, African (Powd 16c)...........   13
Ginger, Jamaica  bleached............
Golden Seal (Powd 40c)..................
Hellebore, white, powdered..........
Ipecac, Rio, powdered....................
Jalap, powdered..............................
Licorice,  select (Powd 12)4)..........
Licorice, extra select.....................
Pink, true........................................._  „
Rhei, from select to  choice..........1 00
Rhei, powdered E. I .....................: .110
Rhei, choice cut  cubes..................
Rhei, choice cut fingers.................
Serpentaria................. .............. .
Sarsapariila,  Honduras................

110 
37)4 
12 
15 
35 
®1 50 
®1 20 
2 00 
2 25 
50 
65 
40

2 ^

HAZELTIHE, 
PERKINS

Wholesale

Druggists !

42 and  44  Ottawa  Street  and 89, 91, 93  and 

95  Louis  Street.

IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF

» tu . Oils J a rró te

MANUFACTURERS  OF

ELEGANT  PHARMACEUTICAL  PREPARATIONS, 

FLUID  EXTRACTS  AND  ELIXIRS.

GENERAL WHOLESALE AGENTS  FOR

W olf, Patton & Co., a n d J ohn L. W hit­

ing, Manufacturers  of  Fine 

Paint  a nd  Y arnish 

Brushes.

—Also for the—

Grand  Rapids  Brush  Co.,  Manfgs.  of 

H a ir, Shoe a n d H orse Brushes.

Druggists’ Sundries

m
Our stock in this department of  our  busi­
ness  is  conceded to be  one  of  the  largest, 
best-assorted and diversified to be  found  in 
50
the Northwest.  We are heavy importers  of 
many articles ourselves and  can  offer  Fine 
Solid Back Hair Brushes,  French  and  Eng- 
glish Tooth and Nail  Brushes  at  attractive 
prices.  Our line of Holiday  Goods  for  the 
approaching season will be more full and el­
egant than ever  before,  and  we  desire  our 
customers  to  delay  their  fall  purchasers 
of those articles until they have seen our el­
egant line, as shown by our accredited repre­
sentative who is now preparing  for  his  an­
nual exhibition of those  goods.

We  desire  particular  attention  of  those 
about purchasing outfits  for  new  stores 
to the fact  of  our  unsurpassed  facilities 
for meeting the wants of this class of buyers 
without delay and in the most approved -and 
acceptable manner known to the drug trade. 
Our  special efforts in this direction have  re­
ceived from hundreds of  our  customers  the 
most satisfying recommendations.

We give our  special  and  personal  atten­
tion  to  the  selection  of  choice  goods  for 
the drug  trade only,  and trust we merit the 
high praise accorded us for so  satisfactorily 
supplying the wants of our  customers  with 
Pure Goods  in this  department.  We  con­
trol  and  are  the  only  authorized  agents 
for the sale of the celebrated

Withers Dade & Co's

Henderson  Co.,  Ky.,  SOUR  MASH  AND 
OLD FASHIONED  HAND  MADE,  COP­
PER  DISTILLED  WHISKYS.  We not 
only offer these goods to be  excelled  by  no 
other  known  br an d  in  the  market,  but 
superior in all respects to most that  are  ex­
posed  for  sale.  We  guarantee  perfect 
and  complete  satisfaction  and  where  this 
brand of goods has once been introduced the 
future trade has  been assured.

We are also  owners of the

Which continues to have  so  many  favorites 
among druggists who have sold  these  goods 
for a very long time.  Buy our

We  call  your  attention to the  adjoining 

list of  market  quotations  which  we  aim  to 
make  as  complete  and  perfect  as  possible. 
For special quantities and for  quotations  on 
such articles as do not appear on the list such 
as Patent Medicines, etc., we  invite your cor­
respondence.

Mail orders always receive our special and 

personal attention.

lU F E R in iU G O

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

18
10
3o
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I  Anise, Italian (Powd 20c)............... 
__ 
13
j  Bird, mixed in ft  packages,.......... 
5  @  - 6
I  Canary,  Smyrna.............................  
3)4@  4
¡ Caraway, best Dutch (Powd  19c)..  11  @  12
Cardamon,  Aleppee....................... 
3 00
Cardamon, Malabar........................  
3  -5
30
Celery............................... 
 
Coriander, Best English................  
13
F ennel.............................................. 
15
Flax,  clean.......................................  
3S£®
4  ®  4;
Flax, pure grd (bbl 354).................. 
Foenugreek, powdered.................. 
8  @  9
Hemp,  Russian............................... 
5  @  o.
Mustard, white; Black 10c)............ 
8
1  00
Oiiirififi 
 
Rape, Lngiish..................................  
7)4®  8
Worm,  Levant................................. 
14
@2 50 
2 00 
1  10 
85 
65
1  40

s p o n g e s .
Florida sheeps’ wo^, carriage......2 25
do 
Nassau 
do 
.......
.......
Velvet Extra do 
do 
.......
ExtraYellow do 
do 
do 
Grass 
.......
do 
Hard head, for slate use................
Yellow Reef, 
.................

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do 
do 

do 
do Scherin’s  do  ... 
do 

3 25
Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.17) $  gal—  
1 o0
Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref. 
Anodyne Hoffman’s....................... 
50
27
Arsenic, Donovan’s solution........ 
12
Arsenic, Fowler’s solution............ 
30
Annatto 1 ft rolls............................  
Blue  Soluble.................................... 
50
3 75
Bay  Rum, imported, best............. 
2 00
Bay Rum, domestic, H., P. & Co.’s . 
Alum.........................................  ^ ft  2J£®  3)4
Alum, ground  (Powd9e)............... 
3  ®  4
32
Annatto, prime...............................  
Antimony, powdered,  com’l ........ 
4)4®  5
Arsenic, white, powdered.............  
6  ®  7
Balm Gilead  Buds........................... 
40
" ~5
Beans,  Tonka..............................  • 
Beans, Vanilla.................................7 00  @9
1  60
Bismuth, sub  nitrate.....................  
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c).......................  
45
Blue Vitriol  ....................................  
7)4®  9
Borax, refined (Powd  13c).............  
1;
1 Bo
Cantharides,Russian  powdered.. 
18
Capsicum  Pods, African............... 
Capsicum Pods, African pow’d ... 
20
18
Capsicum Pods,  American  do  ... 
Carmine,  N o.40 ............................... 
4 00
Cassia Buds................... 
12
Calomel. American......................... 
*0
Chalk, prepared drop...................... 
o
13
Chalk, precipitate English............ 
Chalk,  red  fingers..........................
2
Chalk, white lump................... 
Chloroform,  Squibb’s .................... 
1 60
60
Colocynth  apples............................ 
Chloral hydrate, German  crusts.. 
1 60
Chloral 
cryst... 
1 78
Chloral 
1 90
Chloral 
crusts.. 
1 75
Chloroform......................................1 00  @1  10
Cinchonidia, P. & W........*............  55  @  6C
Cinchonidia, other brands.............   55  ®  60
Cloves (Powd 28c)............................  30  ®  22
Cochineal.........................................  
30
Cocoa  Butter................................... 
45
Copperas (by bbl  lc).......................  
2
Corrosive Sublimate.......................  
6a
Corks, X and XX—35 off  list........
Cream Tartar, pure powdered.......  38  ®  40
15
Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 ft box.. 
Creasote............................................  
50
34
Cudbear,  prime...............................  
Cuttle Fish Bone.............................. 
24
Dextrine........................................... 
¿2
Dragon’s Blood Mass.....................  
50
Ergot  powdered...........................  
45
Ether Squibb’s ................................. 
119
Emery, Turkish, all  No.’s.............  
8
2)4®  3
Epsom Salts............  .......................  
Ergot, fresh...................................... 
50
Ether, sulphuric, U. S.  P ............... 
69
14
Flake white...................................... 
Grains  Paradise.............................. 
2a
Gelatine, Cooper’s..........................  
90
45 © 70
Gelatine, French  ............................  45
Glassware, flint, 65 off,by box 55 off 
Glassware, green, 60 andlOdis—
12 @ 17
Glue,  cabinet..................................   13
17 @ 28
Glue,white.......................................   17
21 @ 25
Glycerine, pure...............................   21  1
25® 40
Hops  )4s and 54s.......................
.
Iodoform $   oz..........................  
85 ©1  00
Indigo...............................................  85  @1  00
23 @ 25
Insect Powder, best Dalmatian...  ®   ^   ®
2 10
Iodine,  resublimed........................
1 50
Isinglass,  American.......................
9
Japónica...........................................
10 @ 15
London  Purple............. 1...............   10
Lead, acetate............................................. 
Lime, chloride, ()4s 2s 10c & 54s He) 
9
1 00
Lupuline........................................... 
Lycopodium............................................. 
Mace.................................................  
_  60
Madder, best  Dutch.......................  12)4@  13
■ 
1 35
Manna, S.
50
Mercury............................................
3 15©3  40 
Morphia, sulph., P. & W........$  oz
40
Musk, Canton, H., P. & Co.’s........
! 1J
Moss, Iceland............................^ ft 
Jg
Moss,  Irish................................ 
30
Mustard,  English............................ 
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 ft  cans........ 
18
Nutgalls............................................  
20
Nutmegs, No. 1................................. 
m
Nux  Vomica.................................... 
10
Ointment. Mercurial, )6d............... 
40
Paris Green......................................  18  @ 26
Pepper, Black  Berry.....................  
18
Pepsin...............................................  
3 00
Pitch, True Burgundy.................... 
7
Quassia  ............................................  
6  ©  7
Quinia, Sulph, P. & W........... ft oz  1_30@I 3o
Quinine,  German............................1 25  @1  30-
Seidlitz  Mixture.............................. 
38
Strychnia, cryst............................... 
1 60
Silver Nitrate, cryst.......................  <9  @  82
80
Red  Precipitate.......................ft 
Saffron, American..........................  
40
Sal  Glauber...................................... 
@  »
Sal Nitre, large  cryst.....................  
10
Sal  Nitre, medium  cryst............... 
9
_  33
Sal Rochelle.....................................  
Sal  Soda............................................ 
3  ©  2)
Salicin...............................................  
g 00
Santonin.........................  
6  75
 
38
Snuffs, Maccoboy or Scotch.......... 
Soda Ash [by keg 3c].....................  
4
Spermaceti.......................................  
*6
Soda, Bi-Carbonate,  DeLand’s.... 
4)4@  »
14
Soap, White Castile............. 
 
 
    ..................'. 
Soap, Green  do 
17
®
Soap, Mottled do 
......................... 
Soap, 
do  do 
......................... 
11
Soap,  Mazzini..................................   M 
_  14
Spirits Nitre, 3 F .............................   36  @  28
Spirits Nitre, 4 F..............................  28  @  32
Sugar Milk powdered.....................  
30
Sulphur, flour.............. 
 
Sulphur,  roll.................................... 
Tartar Emetic..................................
Tar, N. C. Pine, LA gal. cans  $  doz 
Tar, 
quarts in tin.......... 
Tar, 
pints in tin.............
Turpentine,  Venice................ ft 
Wax, White, S. &  F. brand........... 
Zinc,  Sulphate................................. 

25
60
7  ®  8

3)4®
3®

do 
do 

2
1

 

 

O IL S .

 

Capitol  Cylinder.......................... 
75
Model  Cylinder................................................... 60
Shields  Cylinder.................................................
Eldorado Engine..................................................45
Peerless  Machinery........................................... go
Challenge Machinery..........................................35
Backus Fine Engine........................................... 30
Black Diamond Machinery................................30
Castor Machine  Oil.............................................6C
Paraffine, 25  deg..................................................22
Paraffine,28  deg— .........................................---1
Sperm, winter bleached........................ — 1 40
Bbl  Gal
Whale, winter........................................  80 
85
Lard, extra............................................   64
Lard, No.  1....................... ...................  65
Linseed, pure  raw.............................   58
Linseed, boiled..................................  61 
Neat’s Foot, winter  strained.,........   90 
Spirits Turpentine..............................  35 

««
95
45

V A RN ISH ES.

No. 1 Turp  Coach................................. 1 10®1 20
Extra  Turp........................................... 1 60@1 70
Coach  Body.......................................... 2  75®3 00
No. 1 Turp Furniture...........................1 00@110
Extra Turp  Damar..................... ......1  55®1 60
70@  75
Japan Dry^r, No. 1 Turp. 
P A IN TS.
Lb
9
10
10
11
2® 3 
2® 3 
2® 3 
2)4® 3 
m ®  3
13@16
55®57
16®17
6M
6H@70 
@90 
1  10 
1 40

Bbl
Boralumine, White  bulk]  ............
5 fts 
Boralumine, 
“ 
........
Boralumine,Tints bulk.  V50 off..
Boralumine  “ 
5 fts.  I ............
1M
Red Venetian........... . 
Ochre, yellow Marseilles........   13£
Ochre, yellow  Bermuda.......... 
lf!£
Putty, commercial........... 
2J4
Putty, strictly pure..................   2)4
Vermilion, prime American..
Vermilion, English.................
Green, Peninsular.........
Lead, red strictly pure...........
Lead, white, strictly pure.......
Whiting, white Spanish... —
Whiting,  Gildersf.......................
White, Paris American............
Whiting  Paris English cliff..

A MERCANTILE  JOURNAL, PUBLISHED EACH 

WEDNESDAY.

E.  A. STOWE  &  BBO., Proprietors.

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

Second-class  M atter A

WEDNESDAY, JUNE  25,1884.

Tempted  by  Sharpers.

“It is a great wonder to me that the  num­
ber of defalcations by treasurers of  corpora­
tions is not  larger  than  it  is,”  observed  a 
treasurer of one of the Northern  counties to 
a reporter recently.

“Why?”
“Because they have so many  temptations. 
When I first took hold of the  treasurship  of 
our county I was literally besieged  with let­
ters, circulars  and  confidential  communica­
tions  from  New  York  banking  firms  of 
doubtful  notoriety.  They  came  in  every 
mail.  They were marked ‘private,’ ‘person­
al’ and all that sort of  thing.  They  proved 
to me—on  paper,  of  course—how  I  could 
easily  double  all  my investments.  They 
showed that by putting my money up  I was 
absolutely certain to win, and that it was an 
impossibility for me to lose. These commun­
ications  were  full  of  the  most  plausible 
methods.  The plans were captivating.  The 
results they worked out  were  astoundingly 
big, and there was an air of frankness about 
them  which  ordinarily  would disabuse  the 
unsophisticated  mind  of  any  suspicion  of 
crookedness.  For  nearly  two years  these 
things  kept  coming  to.  my  office, but as  I 
didn’t bite the hook they gradually  fell  oif, 
and now I get very few of them.  But  I  do 
know this to be the  case—whenever  a  new 
man  is  put  in  a place where he has  other 
people’s .money to handle,  those sharpers  in 
the big cities get after him with  their  circu­
lars  and  when  they  once  catch  him-they 
don’t let go until they  have  either  made  a 
thief or bankrupt of him, or both.  That  is 
why I am surprised that the  number  of  de­
falcations is not  larger.”

Tlie  Georgia  Melon  Crop.

From the Atlanta Constitution.

The melon season, which  will  open soon, 
promises to be of great interest in  many re­
spects.  Last  year,  when  8,000  carloads 
were thrown upon the markets in the North 
and  West,  much  loss  was  caused  by  bad 
shipments and poor selection  of  a  market. 
The melon-growers have this year formed  a 
pool, and engaged Mr. Davis, of  Albany,  as 
their agent, who will make Atlanta his head­
quarters for the  entire  business.  Agencies 
have  been  established  in  249  cities of  the 
Northwest, containing a population  of  over 
5,000,000 people.  The distribution of melons 
will be so arranged  that  not  a carload will 
leave Atlanta until a market has been found 
for it.  Last year’s  mistake was in  sending 
melons North too early, before  hot  weather 
had set in.  This season the first  shipments 
will be made to Southern points  only.  The 
business has now reached proportions which 
gives it a leading place in  the  industries  of 
the South.  Lands in the melon region have 
advanced greatly in price.

A St. Louis girl has run  away from home 
because the man they were trying to compel 
her to  marry, would  not  smoke  a  certain 
brand of cigars.  The girl has behaved quite 
properly.  She could never have  been  hap­
py with a husband, who would not oblige in 
so small a matter as  the  kind  of  cigars he 
used.  Such a man would have been sure to 
insist upon selecting his own  clothing  with 
the certain consequence of  making his wife 
miserable and offending her taste  by the cut 
of his trousers and the  color  of  his cravat. 
He would be particular about his meals, and 
would have been always raising  a row con­
cerning the coffee and the butter.  This girl, 
by making herself scarce,  has  undoubtedly 
escaped a life of unhappiness.

A W ife’s Queer  Advice.

A wife whose  husband  would  not go to 
the seashore  this  summer  advised  him to 
stand on his head the other day.

“Why should I do that?” lie asked.
“Perhaps you might have a  rush of brains 

to the head,” was the withering  reply.

Brazil which is  credited  with  producing 
nearly one-half the world’s supply of coffee, 
has  now on  exhibition  at Boston, what is 
said to be  the “most  remarkable  coffee ex­
hibit ever  made.” 
It  comprises  about five 
hundred samples of  coffee, representing the 
products of the same number of sub-districts 
of Brazil.

The annual  production of  canned  fruit, 
meat,  fish  and  vegetables  in  the  United 
States is placed at five hundred million tins, 
or about ten tins for every man, woman, and 
child in the country.

John Jarrett states that  the  wages  of  la­
bor amount  to sixty per cent, of the  capital 
invested in the production of  manufactured 
articles.

Try the  celebrated  Jerome  Eddys.  The 
finest 10 cent cigar in the market.  For  sale 
by Fox, Musselman & Loveridge.

The Gale  Manufacturing  Co. of Albion, 
shipped a car  load  of rakes  and  plows to 
Salt Lake City last week.

The St. Louis Oil Co. is  negotiating  with 
the Roscommon Oil Co., but so far no agree­
ment has been reached.

Lace-Making  Slaves.

A report of M. Scalquin, a member  of the I 
school commission of inquiry on the  schools 
of lace-makers in which young  girls are em­
ployed, has just  appeared, and  makes most 
painful revelations of the  manner  in which 
these schools are  conducted. 
In the  prov­
ince of East Flanders  there  were  in  1840 
only eighty-four  Ecoles  Dentellieres ;  now 
there are more than 300.  They  mostly  be­
long to different religious communities, such 
as the Apostolines, the  Maricoles, the  Col­
lectines, the Sœurs de Marie, and  Sœurs de 
Charité.  The age of admission is as  low as 
In  many  of  the  schools 
five or six years. 
they are taught nothing except to work. 
In 
some an hour, in  soine  less  is  devoted  to 
reading and writing.  Besides  this  there is 
nothing but the catechism,  the  litany,  and 
the loom.  What is much more serious is the 
time they are kept  at  school. 
In  general 
the gates open at 5:30 in  summer, and  at 7 
in winter, and the children are kept at work 
until  8:30  in  summer  and  until  eight  in 
winter.  The  regulations 
the 
bishop of Bruges fix the school hours from 6 
o’clock in the morning until six in the even­
ing, but these limits of time  are  seldom ob­
served, and nearly  always  exceeded.  The 
effects on the health of  those  so  employed 
cannot be  otherwise  than  most  injurious. 
From continually stooping  over  their  work 
the girls,  especially  those  who  begin  very 
young, contract  deformities;  this  attitude, 
combined with the use of chaufferettes  (foot- 
stoves), make them  subject to  chest  com­
plaints, and nearly all those who begin early 
become short-sighted from  having  to  keep 
their work close to their  eyes.

issued  by 

This is not all.  The unfortunate creatures 
who ruin their health, and work without in­
termission, are miserable paid.  A  portion, 
estimated at 20 per cent, of  their  wages,  is 
retained by the  nuns,  who  pay  the  young 
children as little as they like,  and  this  has 
been a frequent  subject  of  complaint  from 
the parents.  A nun who had been connected 
with one of these schools is  quoted  as  hav 
ing acknowledged that clever and experienc­
ed  workwomen  who  continued  to  go to the 
school could not, by working  fifteen hours a 
day, earn more that 1 franc  50  centimes  or 
2 francs a day, of these there might  be  four 
or five to a  hundred  who  earned  merely  a 
trifle.  A  child is mentioned who, after two 
months,  took  home  30  centimes  as  her 
wages, or at the rate  of  one-half  centime  a 
day.  Another,  twelve  years  old, had  for 
three years’ work, received 5 francs,  or less 
than 1 centime a day.  Their  earnings went 
to the convent, and  what  the  convents  had 
gained  from  the  work  of  these poor  girls 
must amount annually to  a very large  sum,
; which there is  no  means  of  calculating.

A new process has  been  discovered, says 
the Chronique  Industriile, by which artifi­
cial ivory can be  made  from  the  bones of 
sheep and goats  and  the  waste  of  white 
skins, such as kid, deer, etc.

Smoke the celebrated Jerome Eddy Cigar 
manufactured by Bobbins  &  Ellicott,  Buf­
falo, N. Y.  For sale by Fox,  Musselman  & 
Loveridge,  Grand Kapids, Mich.

Choice Butter can always be had  at M.  C. 

Bussell’s.

CARPETS  AND  CARPETINGS.
Spring & Company  quote as follows: 

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

TH REE-PLY S.

Hartford  3-ply................................. 
Lowell 3-ply...................................... 
Higgins’ 3-plv..................................  
Santord’s 3-ply................................. 

@  90
@  90
@  85
@  70
@  65
@  82J4
@  70
@  8254
@  65

@1 00
@1 00
@1 00
@  9754

EXTRA  SU PERS.

HEMPS.

ALL  W OOL  S U P ER F IN ES.

WOOL FILLING AND MIXED.

Hartford..........................................  
@  7754
Lowell................................................ 
@  8254
Other makes....................................   75  @  7754
Best cotton chain............................  60  @  6254
Best  2-ply.........................................  5754®  60
Other grades 2-ply..........................   5254®  55
All-wool  super, 2-ply.....................   50  @  55
Extra heavy double cotton chain.  4254®  45
Double cotton chain.......................   35  @  40
Heavy cotton and wool, double c.  30  @  3254 
Half d’l chain, cotton & wool, 2-ply  2754®  3254
Single cotton chain.........................  19  @  25
3-ply, 44 wide, extra heavy...........   2754®  30
@  22
B, 4-4 wide......................................... 
Imperial, plain, 44 wide................. 
@  I854
D, 33  inches.................................... 
@  17
No. 1,44,54,64 and 84.................. 
@  45
No. 2, 
..................  
@  3754
No. 3, 
@ 3 0
.................. 
@ 2 5
No. 4, 
..................  
Best all rattan, plain....................... 
@  6254
@  5254
Best all rattan and cocoa, plain... 
Napier A........................................... 
@  50
Napier  B........................................... 
@  40
Opaque shades, 38 inch.................. 
@  15
@  18
Holland shades, B finish, 44.......... 
@  10
Pacific  Holland, 44......................... 
Hartshorn’s fixtures, per gross... 
@36
Cord fixtures, per gross................. 
@10

OIL CLOTHS.

MaTTINGS.

CURTaiNS.

do 
do 
do 

MILLINERY  GOODS.

J. J. Van Leuven quotes as follows:

HATS.

Cantons...................................perdoz  2 25@-3 00
Milans....................................................  4 00® 6 00
Fine Milans............................................9 00@12 00
Superfine Milans.................................. 15 00@18 00
Chip.......................................................   5 00@12 00

BLACK  CRAPE.

Samuel Courtland & Co.’s brand.

 

4-4................................................per yard 50@  75
44  .................................................... ........  85®1 25
44  .............................................................1 50@2 00
54  ............................................................. 1  75@2  50
54  ......................  
2 75@3 00
6 4 ............................................................ 3  25@4 50
8atin and GG, all silk,  extra heavy,  all colors.
No. 4....................................................................1 00
No. 6.................................. ................................ 1 25
No. 7....................................................................1 50
No. 9....................................................................1 85
No. 12.................................................................. 2 25
No. 16..................... ........................................... 2 75

RIBBON S.

Second quality, all colors.

No. 4....................................................................  40
No. 5...................................................................   50
No. 7...................................................................   70
NO. 9..........................................................  
  85
No.12........... ...........................................„ * ...  90
No. 16......................................................... „ . . 1 10

 

I M P O R T E R S

— w £L 3ST I>—

Wholesale  Grocers,

CORNER IONIA  & ISLAND  STREETS.

Fireworks We have the  largest and 

best  selected  stock  ever 
brought  to  this  market, 
suitable  for public or pri­
vate  display, and  are the 
Headquarters  for  FIRE 
CRACKERS, 
TORPE 
DOES,  FLAGS,  LAN­
TERNS,  ETC.  Send for 
catalogue and prices.

Cigars We are carying a full line  of Gor­

dons’  Cigars  of  Detroit,  among 
which  are  the  celebrated “ D.  F.” 
and “Olympian” and  although the 
latter is being imitated, the stock 
and workmanship is much inferior 
to  the  genuine,  for which  we  are 
exclusive agents.  Give  us  a  trial 
order.

Showcases We carry in  stock  such 
PUTNAM  &  BROOKS.

cases  as  there  is  most 
demand  for,  of the  best 
makes,  and  will  meet 
Chicago prices.  Give us 
a call before purchasing.

At  M anufacturers’  P rices.

SAM PLES  TO  THE  TRA D E   ONLY.

S o u se  and  Store  Shades  M ade  to  Order. 

68  Monroe  Street, Grand Rapids.

NELSON BROS. <& CO.

FOX, MUSSELMAN &  LOVERIDGE,

WHOLESALE  GROCERS,
Nimrod, Acorn, G if, Crescent & M  Seal Pin Tobaccos.

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

-----WE  ABE  FACTOBY  AGENTS  FOB-----

’ 

Oar  stock  of Teas,  Coffees  and  Syrups 

is  Always  Complete.

__  
T o b a eo o s,  V in egars  and.  S p ic e s  2 

—WE MAKE SPECIAL CLAIM FOR OUR—

’  OUR  MOTTOi  “ SQUARE  DEALING  BETWEEN  MAN0AND  MAN."

CORRESPONDENCE  SOLICITED. 

.

Choice Butter a Specialty!

Also  Foreign  and  Domestic  Fruits,  Cheese, 
Eggs,  Jelly,  Preserves,  BANANAS  and  EARLY 
VEGETABLES.

Careful Attention  Paid to  Filling  Orders.

M. C, Bussell, 48 Ottawa St., C’d Rapids.
P. J. LAMB  &  COMPANY,

-----------W HOLESALE  D E A LE R S  IN ------------

B utter,  C heese,  Eggs,

Apples, Onions, Potatoes, Beans, Etc.

NO.  8  AND  10  IONIA  STBEET,

O ltA X D   R A PID S.  -  MIOHIGAX.

-A-  B.  KZ 1st O W L.SON

----- WHOLESALE  DEALEB  IN-----

AKRON  SEWER  PIPE,

Fire  Brick  and  Olay,  Cement,  Stucco,

LZME,  H A IR ,  COAL  and WOOD.

ESTIM ATES  C H EERFU LLY  FURNISHED.

Office 7 Canal Street, Sweet,s Hotel Block.  Yards—Goodrich Street, Near Michigan Cen­

SPRIN G   <Si COMPANY

tral  Freight  House.

-W H O L E S A L E   D E A LE R S   IN —

IFLA-ISrOYr  A N D

STAPLE DRY ROODS

CARPETS,

MATTINGrS,

OIL  CLOTHS,

ETC..  3DTC.

Q  a n d   8  M onroe  Street,

Grand  Rapids, 

- 

M ichigan.

S.A.WELUN6

WHOLESALE

—AND-

♦  NOTIONS!

PANTS,  OVERALLS,  JACKETS,  SHIRTS, 
LADIES’  AND  GENTS’  HOSIERY,  UNDER­
WEAR,  MACKINAWS,  NECKWEAR,  SUS­
PENDERS,  STATIONERY,  POCKET  CUT- 
TLERY, THREAD, COMBS, BUTTONS, SMOK­
ERS’  SUNDRIES,  HARMONICAS,  VIOLIN 
STRINGS, ETC.

r e t a il e r s ,

If you are selling goods to make 

a profit,  sell

L A V IN E

This Washing Powder pays the Retailer a 
larger profit than any in the  Market,  and  is 
put up in handsome and attractive  packages 
with picture cards with each case.  We guar­
antee  it  to  be  the  best  Washing  Powder 
made and solicit a trial order.  See prices in 
Price-List.

HAWKINS & PERRY

STATE  AGENTS,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  

MICHIGAN.

PROPELLER
The best

—AN D —

BASS
PICKEREL
BAIT
World-

IN  T H E

Ö

No. 1,  75e;  No. 2.  65c; 
No. 3 ,60c; No. 4,50c; No, 
6,50c.

Sent  to  any  address 
on  Receipt  of  Price  ! 
Liberal discount to deal-

CALKINS 
BROS.

105  Ottawa St.
Agents and dealers in ail kinds of fishing tackle

and gun goods.

City Bottling  Works

BOTTLED  LAGER, 
PINTS,  PFR  DOZ. 
50  CENTS.

B O T T L E D   ALE, 
PINTS, PER  DOZ. 
75 CENTS.

BOTTLED PORTER, 
PINTS, PER DOZ., 
75 CENTS.

BOTTLED  CI DER, 
Q,TS,  PER  DOZ., | 
$ 1.20.

DU  1  >>  V 

«  u .

All  Goods  Warranted! 

the BEST in the 

Market.

TELEPHONE  NO'. \

272.

EDMUND  B.  DIKEMAN

JEWELER,

44  CANAL  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS,\
MICHIGAN.
MICHIGAN  COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS’  ASSOCIAI
Incorporated Dec. 10,1877— Charter in   Force for 

Thirty Tears.

LIST OF OFFICERS :

President—Ransom W. Hawley, of  Detroit. 
Vice-Presidents—Chas. E. Snedeker, Detroit; 
L. W. Atkins, Grand Rapids;  I. N. Alexan­
der, Lansing;  U. 8. Lord, Kalamazoo; H. E. 
Meeker, Bay City.
Secretary  and  Treasurer—W.  N.  Meredith, 
Detroit.
Board  of Trustees,  For One  Year—J. C. Pon­
tius, Chairman, S. A. Munger, H. K. White 
For Two Years—D. Morris,  A. W.  Culver.

I am represented on the  road  by  the  fol­
lowing well-known travelers:  John D. Man- 
gum,  A.  M.  Sprague,  John  H.  Eacker, 
L. R. Cesna, Geo. W. N. D e J onge. 
Frank Berles 
24 Pearl Street 

Grand Rapids, Mich.

House Salesman.

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SEED  BUCKWHEAT

We have a choice lot of 
Seed  Buckwheat,  which 
we  offer to  the  trade  at 
$1.25 per bushel.

SEED  STORE,

91 Canal street.

A.  DEC-  F O W L i B ,  

HOUSE  DECORATOR 

—And Dealer in—

FINE  WALL  PAPER

Window Shades,  Room Mouldings,

Artists*  M aterials  !

Paints, Oils, Glass, Etc.

37 No.  Ionia  Street, South  op  Monroe.
Special  designs  furnished  and  Estimates 
given for interior decoration and  all kinds  of 
stained and ornamental Glass work.

L. H.  BEALS &  SON

Manufacturers of

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Westfield, Mass.

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O F F I C E
SALESROOM
NO. 4 PEARL STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

U O Y U C O Ji’lin tS

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PORTABLE  AND  STATIONARY

ENGINES

From 2 to 150 Horse-Power,  Boilers, Saw Mills, 
Grist Mills, Wood Working  Machinery,  Shaft­
ing,  Pulleys  and  Boxes.  Contracts  made for 
-Complete Outfits.
W .  O,  D en iso n ,

88,90 and 92 South  Division  Street, 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICHIGAN.

WEATHERLY & CO.i

-Grand  Rapids,  Mich.,  Wholesale  and  Retail

IH.OKT  F IF E , 

B rass  Goods,  Iron  a n d  B rass F ittings 

Mantles,  Grates,  Gas  F ixtures, 

Plumbers, Steam  F itters,
—And  Manufacturers  of—

Galvanized  Iron  Cornice.

MOSELEY  BROS.,

Wholesale

Clover, Timothy and all  Kinds Field Seeds
Seed Cora,  Green  and  Dried  Fruits,  Oranges 
.and Lemons, Butter, Eggs, Beans, Onions, etc. 
«GREEN  VEGETABLES  AND  OYSTERS. 

122 Monroe Street, Grand  Rapids, Mich-

BUSINESS  LAW.

Brief Digests of Recent  Decisions in Courts 

of Last  Resort.

Pledging Credit.

A book-keeper, by reason  of  his  employ­
ment, has not the implied power to bind the 
credit of his employer  for  the  benefit  of  a 
third party.—Supreme Court of  Michigan.

Life  Insurance—Payment  of Dues.

A stipulation- to pay dues under  a  life in­
surance policy promptly on a day mentioned 
in the policy is not waived by failure to give 
notice of the time when  such  dues  become 
payable,  and a custom to receive payment of 
dues  after  the  time  fixed  when  made by 
postal order or  drafts  post  dated  is  not  a 
waiver of payment on the day  when  due.— 
Supreme Court of Iowa.

Boundary—Trespass.

If two adjacent or  conterminous  proprie­
tors agree upon and establish a dividing line 
between their  premises,  and actually  claim 
and occupy  the  land  on  each  side of  that 
line continuously for over twenty years, such 
possession will be  adverse and confer a title 
by prescription.—Supreme  Court of Wiscon-

Improvement—Public  Benefit.

It  is  not  necessary,  in  order  that a use 
may be regarded as public,  that  the  whole 
community or any large portion thereof par­
ticipate in it. 
If an improvement be of pub­
lic benefit, the  fact  that  some  members  of 
the community may be specially benefited by 
it above others will not deprive it of its pub­
lic  character. 
So  held  by  the  Supreme 
Court of Indiana in the recently decided case 
of Ross et. al. vs. Davis et. al.

Partnership  Privilege.

A partner has authority to bind the firm in 
all matters pertaining to the partnership bus 
iness.  But it  is  not  properly  partnership 
business to release indebtedness due to  it  in 
consideration of the release of  indebtedness 
due to its debtor from  one  of  its members 
Where a co-partnership member is  indebted 
to  a person owing the firm he  cannot  apply 
the indebtedness due the  firm  for  the  pur 
pose of canceling his  indebtedness, nor  can 
he apply the funds or  property  of  the  firm 
for such purpose without consent of  his  co­
partner, or at least  his  subsequent  ratifica­
tion.—Thomas vs.  Stetson,  Supreme  Court 
of Iowa.

Commercial  Centers  and  Their  Exports,
Liverpool—Iron,  cutlery,  earthern-ware, 

cottons.

products.

London—British  manufactures, 

foreign 

Madiera Isles—Wines, fruits,  nuts.
Malaga—Oranges, wine,  raisins.
Manilla—Sugar,  tobacco,  cigars,  hemp, 

coffee.

fruit.

ucts.

Marseilles—Wine, brandy,  sardines,  silk, 

Melbourne—Gold, wool, wine.
Mobile—Cotton, forest products,
Monrovia—Palm-oil, wax, pepper-nuts.
Montevideo—Cattle, products.
Montreal—Breadstuffs, cattle, forest prod­

Morocco—Goat-skins, wool,  beans,  maize.
New Orleans—Cotton, sugar, tobacco.
New  York—Grain,  varied  manufactures.
Odessa—Wheat, tallow, salt, timber.
Okhotsk—Furs, fish oils.
Oporto—Wine, olive-oil, fruits, cork.
Panama—Cotton,  coffee,  chincona-bark, 

Para—Caoutchouc, cacas, rice, sugar.
Paris—Varied French manufactures.
Pernambuco—Cotton, coffee,  sugar.
Philadelphia—Iron,  coal,  petroleum,  ma 

tobacco.

chinery.

Portland," Me.—Lumber, staves, casks.
Portland, Or.—Wheat, flour, salmon.
Quebec—Ships, lumber, grain,  fish.
Rangoon—Rice,  teak-wood,  bamboo,  cot­

Reykj avik (Rek-a-vic) —Eider-down,feath­

Riga—Grain, flax, lumber.
Rio  Janeiro—Coffee,  gold,  diamonds, 

Rome—Pictures, statues, objects of art.
San Francisco—Wheat, wool, wines, gold.
Savannah—Cotton,  lumber.
Shanghai—Tea, 

silk,  cotton,  Chinese 

Sierra  Leone—Palm  oil,  timber,  ginger, 

ton.

ers.

hides.

wares.

ivory.

percha.

Singapore—Tins,  spices,  rattans,  gutta­

Smyrna—Figs, sponges, raw silk, drugs.
Stettin—Grain, oil-cake, wool, beer.
St. John’s—Cod-fish, seal-skins,  oil.
St.  Louis—Grain,  machinery,  manufac­

St. Petersburg—Tallow,  flax,  hemp, furs.
Sydney—Wool,  cattle-produets,  tins, cop­

Tamative—Caoutchouc, cattle, hides, wax.
Toronto—Grain, cattle, manufactures.
Trieste—Grain, flour, lumber, wine, oil.
Valparaiso—Grain,  copper,  silver,  wool, 

Vera  Cruz—Coffee,  vanilla,  hides, tobac­

tures.

per.

hides.

co.

Victoria—Coal, salmon, furs,  lumber.
Vienna—Leather goods, glass-ware.
Yakutsk—Furs.
Yokohama—Silk, tea, rice, Japanese goods.
The creamery  of  Messrs. Loyster & Son, 
Hudson,is turning out 5,000 pounds of choice 
creamery  product  per  week.  Ten  teams 
collect the product of  the  dairies  within a 
circuit  of 10  miles, covering  a  territory of 
250 miles.

The  Montague  Butter  Plate  Factory 
has been running night  and  day, and even 
then it is hard to fill the orders,

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A  Revelation.

From the Baltimore Trade.

It has long  been a  wonder  how  people 
would use such large  quantities  of  soaked 
or winter packed goods;  some persons have 
thought they  were  taken by  the  ignorant 
public, under the impression that they  were 
green goods, but it seems that the public, at 
least some  of  the  western  retail  grocers 
have learned by  experience  their  intrinsic 
value. 
It has  for  a  long  time  been  the 
practice in the western cities to give custom­
ers a present of some sort  to  attract and re­
tain trade.  Every child and darkey expects 
their candy even  with  their  smallest pur­
chase.  But of late the  shrewder  grocers of 
the larger cities are saving  their candy, and 
using soaked canned goads as a “Sop to Cer­
berus” on Saturday night.  As  this practice 
grows there will be an  immense increase in 
the  demand  for  soaked  goods,  and  can. 
makers will revel in wealth.

An  American  Fable.

A big, red-faced  Nothing  was  strolling 
along the street  when a Deputy sheriff slap­
ped him on the shoulder.

“You’re just the chap I am looking for.” 
“What do you want of me?  I’ve  done no 

evil.”

“Never mind; come right along.”
“But I never stole anything.”
“I know it.”
“I never broke a law.”
“Of course not.”
“Then what  on  earth can a sheriff  want 

with me?”

“You’re a Nothing, aren’t you?”
“Yes sir.”
“Don’t know anything?”
“Not a thing.”
“Don’t want to know  anything?”
“Not a cussed thing.”
“I thought so.”
“Well?”
“Well we want you for a juror.”

Where the Honor Lies.

From the  Cincinnati Times-Star.

“Cincinnati can  claim  one  mofe honor,” 
said  Dr. T. C. Minor, yesterday.  “All this 
extensive canned goods business was origin­
ated by some Cincinnati fellows who visited 
Pompeii and in the  ruins found  some fruit 
which  had  been  hermetically  sealed, and 
was still good after a thousand years.  They 
came back to America  and started the busi­
ness with big  results.  This  was  the ‘ren­
aissance,’ so to  speak, of  the  canned fruit 
process.”

A fine lithograph  of  the  celebrated  trot­
ting stallion, Jerome  Eddy, with  every  500 
of  Jerome Eddy cigars.  For  sale  by  Fox, 
Musselman & Loveridge, Grand Rapids.

TIMETABLES.

—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.

H a n d s  Sold  Ry  tie  Dozen  al  lev  York  Prices!!

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Clothing  and  Gent’s  F urnishing  Goods, 

Cottonade  P ants  and H osiery.

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.

Z.  C.  L E V I ,

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

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A R R IV E .

depart.

Michigan  Central—Grand  Rapids  Division. 
•(Detroit Express..............................................6:00 am
■(Day Express..........................................12:25 p m
♦New York Fast Line............................  6:00 pm
■(Atlantic Express.................................... 9:20 p m
♦Pacific  Express............................ 
•(Local  Passenger................................... 11:20 a m
•(Mail..........................................................3:20 p m
•(Grand  Rapids  Express........... .......... 10:26 p m
■(Daily except Sunday.  ♦Daily.
The New York Fast Line runs daily, arriving 
at Detroit at 11:59 a. m., and New York  at 9 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 6:00 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. Schultz, Gen’l Agent.

Detroit,  Grand  Haven &  Milwaukee.

G O ING EA ST.

GOING  W EST.

• Arrives.  Leaves.
■(•Steamboat Express. ..  
6:10 am  
6:15 a m
•(Through  Mail....................10:10 a m  10:20 a m
•(Evening  Express............. 3:20 pm   3:35 pm
♦Atlantic Express...............  9:45 pm   16:45 pm
■(Mixed, with  coach...........  
10:00 am
■(Morning 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  10:35 p m
•(Mixed..................................  
8:00 am
♦NightExpress....................  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.
Train leaving  at  10:35  p,  m.  will  mak  con­
nection with Milwaukee steamers daily except 
Sunday and the train leaving at 4:55 p. m.  will 
connect Tuesdays and  Thursdays  with  Good­
rich steamers for Chicago.
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. Potter, City Pass. Agent. 
Thomas  Tandy, Gen’l Pass. Agent,  Detroit.

Grand  Rapids  &  Indiana.

GOING NORTH.

going south.

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

S LE EPIN G  GAR ARRANGEM ENTS.

All trains daily except Sunday.
North—Train  leaving at  4:45  o’clock  p.  m. 
has  Woodruff  Sleeping Cars for Petoskey and 
Mackinac City.  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.

Ct L. Lockwood, Gen’l Pass. Agent.

Patent Egg Cases Sz Fillers

M essrs  F,  J*.  LAMB  tb  OO.

Have  been  appointed  manufacturers’  agents  for  Western  Michigan  for  the  Lima Egg 
Case Co., manufacturers of the  best,  strongest  and  most  durable  cases  and  fillers  in  the 
market, and will quote prices on application, both for  fillers and egg cases complete.
P E R K I N S   &  ECES
Hides, Furs, W ool & Tallow,
C astor M achine  O il

NOS.  133  and  134  LOUIS  STREET,  GRA*ND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

----- DEALERS  IN-----

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

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

OHIO  OIL  OOZMIFAINTT

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

MANUFACTURERS  AND  JOBBERS  OF

Hazeltine, Perkins &  Co., Brand  Rapids.
RESTDGB, BERTSCH & CO.,
BOOTS  &  SHOES,
H i  art SjtcM i Mailed far lit H i p  M i
14 and 16 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

River Boots and Drive Shoes, Calf and Kip Shoes for Men and  Boys,  Kid,  Goat  and 

Calf Button and Lace Shoes for Ladies and Misses are our Specialties.

Chicago & West Michigan.

6:10 am

Leaves.  Arrives,
■(Mail............. ;.......................9:15 am   4:00 pm
•(Day Express....................... 12:25 p m  10:45 p m
♦Night  Express...................  8:35 pm  
Mixed....................................... 6:10 a m  10:05 p m
♦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 
12:25 p. m., and through coach  on 9:15 a.m. and 
8:35 p. m. trains.

NEW AYGO D IV IS IO N .

Leaves.  Arrives.

5:15 pm
8:30 pm

Mixed.......................................5:00 am  
Express................................... 4:10 pm  
Express.................................  8:30am   10:15am
Trains connect at Archer avenue for Chicago 
as follows: Mail, 10:20 a. m.; express, 8:40 p. m 
The Northern terminus of  this Division is at 
Baldwin, where close connection Is made with 
F. & P. M.  trains to and from Ludington and 
Manistee.

J. H. Palmer, Gen’l Pass. Agent.

CLARK,  JEW ELL  &  CO.,
Groceries  and  Provisions!

W H O L E SA L E

83,85 aid 87  PEARL  STREET and 114,116,118 and 120  OTTAWA  STREET, 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

(Groceries.

PENCIL  PORTRAITS—NO.  19.

Geo.  H.  Seymour,  Known  Everywhere  as 

“ George.”

George Hinsdill Seymour was bom in Paris 
township, Kent  county,  May  4,  1853,  and 
received his education at the  district  school 
near his home and the  high  school  in  this 
city, supplemented  by  a  course  at  Swens- 
berg’s Commercial College.  At an early age, 
he appears to have been of a legislative turn 
of mind, and in 1867 he was a messenger  in 
the State Senate, subsequently serving in the 
same capacity with the  Constitutional  Con­
vention, which met the same  year. 
In 1871 
he entered the employ of C. C. Comstock, as 
book-keeper, remaining there until a long fit 
of  sickness  compelled  his  resignation. 
In 
the Legislature of 1873, he  received  the  ap­
pointment of clerk of the Senate Appropria­
tions and Finance Committee, and on the ad­
journment of the Legislature, accepted a posi­
tion as clerk in the office of the Commissioner 
of Insurance.  In the fall of the same year, he 
resigned his clerkship to open a set of books 
for the Grand Rapids Chair Co., where he re­
mained until the spring of 1875, when he ac­
cepted a position with W. S. Gunn.  Remain­
ing there eight months, he made an  engage­
ment in the spring of 1876 with E. Hayward 
&  Bro.,  of  Trent,  to  take  the  position of 
book-keeper  and  yard  manager.  Here  he 
spent three years,  during which time he led 
to the  altar a gifted  Lansing  lady, and was 
honored by being elected to  the  position  of 
justice of the peace  and  township  superin­
tendent of schools, both of which  offices  he 
filled with signal ability.  Severing  his con­
nection  with  the  Haywards,  he  came  to 
Grand Rapids May 1,1879, with  no  idea as 
to what business would next engage  his  at­
tention.  Arriving here at 10  o’clock  a.  m 
he made an  engagement  with  Schneider  & 
Rosenfield before noon, to travel on the road. 
Starting out after spending less than a week 
in the town posting up on goods and prices, he 
met with success from the start, and on Jan. 
1,1883, was rewarded by being  admitted  to 
partnership in the new firm of Hugo Schneid­
er & Co.  His territory  includes  the  entire 
trade of Western  Michigan  covered  by  the 
house.

to 

Than George  Seymour,  there  is no more 
quiet, unassuming man on the road.  He has 
none of the  attributes of the bulldozer,  and 
has  never  been  known 
insist  upon 
taking an order,  where  the goods were  not 
needed.  He prefers  to  be  regarded in  the 
light of a friend, and the success he  has  at­
tained as a salesman is  to  be  attributed  to 
the fact that he makes friends  wherever  he 
goes, and holds them.  He is an indefatigable 
worker, as fearless as he is tireless, and will 
accomplish as much within a given  time  as 
any.  other  man  in  his  line  on  the  road, 
Thoroughly reliable in every respect, he has 
the confidence of his trade, the  respect of his 
house, and the  friendship of  every  traveler 
out of this market.

A  New  Variety  of Coffee  Plant.

A new  coffee,  called  “Maragogipe,”  has 
lately been discovered in Brazil, and a  com­
mission was formed to investigate the  qual­
ities of the coffee and also of the  plant,  and 
hey have decide d entirely in its favor.  Not 
only does it produce a  larger  crop,  but  the 
coffee berry is much larger, and has  a  very 
silky-looking smooth surface, with high qual­
ity flavor. 
It stands well  on the high lands, 
and the first planters that have adopted it in 
Brazil are said to be  so  delighted  with  the 
results  that  they  are  cutting  down  their 
splendid  coffee  trees  of  the old variety  of 
coffee and planting this  new  “Maragogipe” 
variety.

Knights  of the Gripsack,  Attention !
All resident and  visiting  member  of  the 
Commercial Travelers’ Association in Grand 
Rapids, are requested to meet in the reading 
rooms  of  Sweet’s  Hotel,  on  Saturday, 
June 28,1884, at 8 o’clock p. m., for the pur­
pose of making  arrangements  for  a  picnic 
and organizing a  post of the  Association  in 
Grand  Rapids.

Features  of the  Week.

Sugars  advanced  sharply  early  in  the 
week, but have since declined nearly  to  the 
old figures.  Oil is off  %c.  Gallon Erie ap­
ples have declined to $2.50,  and  white  fish 
have declined a trifle.

Oranges  are 

scarce,  higher  and  poor. 
Lemons  are  advancing  slightly,  with  good 
supply  and  demand.  Peanuts  are  a  little 
lower.

The Messmore grocery  stock is nearly all 
closed out and  another week  will  probably 
suffice  to  clean  it  out  entirely.  The  City 
National Bank  will  realize  between $4,000 
and  $5,000  on  their  $12,500  claim, leaving 
about $20,000  wholly unprovided  for.  An 
other  shining  example of  Messmore  finan­
ciering !

“If the gentleman who keeps the shoe store 
with a red head will return  the umbrella of 
a young  lady with  whalebone  ribs  and  an 
iron handle to the  slate-roofed grocer’s shop 
he will hear of something to his advantage, as 
the same is the  gift  of  a  deceased  mother 
now  no  more, with  the  name engraved on 
it.”
In New York city there are 7,325 grocers, 
and  bakers.  Thirty-thousand 
butchers 
trucks  are  employed  to  move 
two-horse 
the  shipping  of  that  city,  and  $20,000 
are  invested  in  the  outlay  of  horses  and 
wagons.

The annual value of the  dairy products of 
Illinois,  more  than  forty  creameries  and 
cheese  factories, is  nearly sixteen  million 
dollars.

the Matter.

The Department of Agriculture Moving  in 
A friend of T h e   T r a d e s m a n ,  at  present 
sojourning ip Washington, writes as follows 
of a subject that will  be of interest to every 
dealer:

I am  informed  that  the  Department  of 
Agriculture is preparing to  make a series of 
important  experiments in  relation to sugar 
growing. 
It is annonnced  that Mr. Blaine’s 
policy, if  elected, will be the annexation  of 
Cuba, but the Department of  Agriculture is 
not content to  take  the  chances  upon  the 
purchase of this sugar  field, and  has  deter­
mined to see  what  are  the  possibilities of 
the United States, as it now  stands, for  su­
gar growing, as $50,000 was appropriated by 
the Agricultural Bill for the investigation^ 
production.  Provision for  the  expenditure 
of a portion of this has  been  already  made 
by an order for the  immediate  manufacture 
of “diffusion batteries” for the  manufacture 
of sugar from sorghum, the experiments last 
season in this  line  being so successful as to 
warrant  their  continuation  upon  a  larger 
scale this year.  The experiments, however, 
are not to stop with sorghum.but are to be ex­
tended to beet  sugar, maple  sugar, and  the 
cane sugar of the South.  There are, Profes­
sor  Wylie, the chemist  of  the Department, 
says, four different  sugar  belts in the coun­
try, one  in  the  extreme  North, where  the 
maple  abounds,  another 
just  adjoining, 
stretching from Maine  down  through  New 
England and Northern  New York, skirting 
Northern Ohio  and  Illinois, sweeping  over 
Wisconsin,  Minnesota  and  Dakota,  along 
the northern boundry of Montana, and down 
the western coast of Washington and Oregon. 
This  belt,  he  says,  is  able,  with  proper 
attention, to  produce  from  sugar  beets  all 
the sugar that this  country  wants  and  for 
which it now sends out of the  country near­
ly  $100,000,000  a  year.  Of  the  sorghum 
belt he has  also  great  hopes. 
It  stretches 
from New Jersey west  through Pennsylvan­
ia, the  Ohio  Valley, Missouri, Kansas  and 
New  Mexico.  To  the  cane  sugar  belt, 
stretching along the  California coast, he al­
so intends  to  give  some  attention, making 
the study of the sugar  cane a very thorough

Tlie Tobacco  Rebate.

the 

United  States  Collector  Watkins has  re­
ceived  about  $30,000, 
total  amount 
of  the  tobacco  rebates  preferred  against 
the  Government  by  dealers  in  this  dis 
trict, in consequence  of the reduction  in the 
tobacco tax last  year.  There  are  about 400 
claimants, to  each  of whom have been mail­
ed checks for the amount their  due.  Those 
who were allowed claims exceeding $100 are 
as follows:
Arthur Meigs  & Co.,  Grand  Bapids..$1,973 90 
1,247 20 
“
Shields, Bulkley & Lemon 
830 09 
Fox, Musselman & Loveridge  “
733 83 
Cody, Ball & Co 
“
736 03 
A. M. Amberg 
530 36 
Jobn Caulfield 
143 90 
D. J. Dornink 
590 36 
Eaton & Christenson 
667 10 
Hawkins & Perry 
197 36 
J. A. Gonzales 
135 80 
Ira O. Green 
157 21 
Mohl & Kenning 
197  15 
LeGrand Peirce & Co 
393 77 
Putnam & Brooks 
167  70 
Rice & Moore 
471 26 
Hugo Schneider & Co 
662 39
Morris H. Treusch
Byron Ballou,Cadillac............................ 
104 86
148 13
Glass & Durham 
173 99
Fred S. Kieldsen
Buckley & Douglass, Manistee............. 
189 60
114 76
Butters, Peters & Co.,  Tallman............ 
John Williams, Muskegon.....................  
116 60
 
C. L. Nichols 
Bola Borgman 
 
Francis Jeroch 
 
D. P. Clay & Co., Newaygo......................  
336 45
264 33
Dexter & Noble, Elk Rapids..................... 
Hopkins Mfg. Co., Bear Lake.................  
108 21
Hannah, Lay & Co., Traverse City....... 
380 65
143 82
Julius Radeke, Grand  Haven.................  
Geo. W. Roby Lumber Co.,  Ludington  107  83
Sands & Maxwell,  Pentwater.................  
155 54
Webber, Brown & Lee, Ionia................... 
131 41
Taylor & Cutler 
.............. 
32127
JohnWingler.  Lowell............................... 
103 07
West Michigan Lumber  Co.,  Diamond
 

Lake...........................................  
Making It  Right.

“ 
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' 

' 

 

Railroad  Magnate—“See  here,  sir!  this 
won’t do.  You sell me that sugar at 10 cents 
a pound, and I have just found out that  j to u  
have been charging my son 15 cents  for  the 
same  brand.”

Grocer—“But you see, sir, your  son  lives 
in the next square, close by, while you reside 
a mile away, and I have been  afraid  that  if 
I  did not sell  to  you  at  a  low  price  you 
would prefer to buy at some grocery  nearer 
home.”

Railroad  Magnate—“1  can’t  help  that, 
You have no  right  to  discriminate  against 
my son in that way just because he lives near 
you.”

Grocer—Well, I will  stop  it.”
Railroad  Magnate—“And  let  him  have 

his sugar at 10 cents?”

Grocer—No, I will charge you  15  cents.”
Wliat a Fall  Was There, My  Countrymen. 
From the Cadillac Times.

O. S. Whitmore  has opened  a  justice  of­
fice, and will attend to all  calls for that arti­
cle, from a marriage up to a  contest  over  a 
two dollar dog.

Needed by every retail  grocer  or  Confec­
tioner,  one  or  more  of  Kenyon’s  Patent 
Spring Paper Bag Holders.  Each have capac­
ity of containing about fifty bags.  Send thirty 
cents  to  KENYON  BROTHERS,  Wake­
field, Rhode Island, for sample by mail,  and 
learn their great convenience.

Orders  for  any  kind  of  butter  desired 
will  be  filled  promptly  and  satisfaction 
guaranteed  by  E.  Fallas,  wholesale  dealer 
in butter and eggs, 125 and 127 Canal street, 
Grand Rapids.

The Michigan Flooring and Handle Manu­
facturing Co., at Summit City, turns out 12,- 
000 feet of flooring and 11,000 broom handles 
daily.

The  Moses  Wagon  Works,  Lapeer, 
have been forced  to  take  a  vacation  until 
they can get more seasoned material.

Advanced—Sugars  56c.
Declined—Kerosene 54c.

AX LE  GREASE.

Frazer’s ..........................................................  ^5
Diamond........................................................  .
M odoc__ 5p doz..........................................
Paragon...  $  doz.........................................   70
»0
Paragon, 30 0»  pails..............   

 

BA K IN G   PO W D ER .

Arctic 56 ft cans.................................. $  doz.  45
Arctic % fl) cans.............................................. 
75
1 40 
Arctic 56 fl> cans....................................
3 40 
Arctic IB)  cans....................................
13 00
Arctic 5  ibcans..................... ..............

BLU IN G .

Dry, No. 3........................................... doz. 
Dry, No. 3........................................... doz. 
Liquid, 4 oz,....................................... doz. 
Liquid, 8 oz........................................ doz. 
Arctic 4 oz..........................................^  gross 4 00
Arctic 8  oz..........................
'. '. '. '.12 00
Arctic 16 oz.......................... .........
........3  00
Arctic No. 1 pepper box.............
.......3 00
Arctic No. 2 
.............
.......4 50
Arctic No. 3 
.............

35
4o
3o
65

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BROOMS.

No. 1 Carpet.............................................. 
No. 2 Carpet..............................................  "
No. 1 Parlor Gem....................................  
No. 1 Hurl.................................................  
No. 2 Hurl  ...............................................  
Fancy Whisk............................................  
Common Whisk.......................................  

2 50
*7 5
2 00
J 75
1
85

CANNED F IS H .

Cove Oysters, 1 B>  standards.....................1 15
Cove Oysters, 2  B>  standards....................  1  86
Cove Oysters, 1 B>  slack filled....................  75
Cove Oysters, 2 fl) slack filled.....................1 35
Clams, 1 fl>  standards..................................1  6o
Clams, 2 fl)  standards.................................. 2 65
Lobsters, 1 B>  standards.............................1 65
Lobsters, 3 B>  standards.............................2 70
Lobsters,  Picnics............ 
.........................1 “
Mackerel,IB)  fresh standards................. 1 30
Mackerel, 5 fi> fresh standards................. 6 50
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3B>................350
Mackerel, 3 B> in Mustard........................... 3 50
Mackerel, 3 fl) broiled..................................3 50
Salmon, 1 fl) Columbia river...................... 1 60
Salmon, 2 B> Columbia river......................2 60
Salmon, 1B>  Sacramento...........................1 50
Sardines, domestic %s................................. 
°
Sardines,  domestic  Ms...............................   1*54
Sardines,  Mustard  Ms.................................  15
Sardines,  imported  Ms...............................   15
Sardines, imported Ms................................  *0
Sardines, imported Ms, boneless...............  32
Sardines, Russian  kegs..............................  50
Trout, 3 B)  brook.......................................   3 00

CANNED F R U IT S .

Apples, 3 B> standards................................1 00
Apples, gallons,  standards, Erie..............2 50
Blackberries, standards............................ 1 20
Cherries,  red................................................1 00
Cherries, w h ite...........................................1 75
Damsons.......................................................J *9
Egg Plums, standards 
..............................1 3o
Egg Plums,  Erie......................................... -1 45
Green Gages, standa. Js 2 fl)......................1 40
Green Gages,  Erie.......................................1 50
Peaches, 3 fit  standards...............................1 75
Peaches, 3 fi> Extra Yellow........................2 00
Peaches,  seconds.........................................1 65
Pie Peaches 3 fi)............................................1  15
Pears, Bartlett 2 ft.......................................1 30
Pineapples, 2 fi)  stand.................................1 40
nuinpps 
...........................................1 45
Raspberries, 2 fl) stand...............................125
Raspberries, 2fi) Erie..................................1 40
Strawberries, 2 fit standards...................... 1 10

CANNED  F R U IT S — C A L IF O R N IA .

Apricots, Lusk’s........................................... 2 75
Egg Plums.....................................................2 8d
Green Gages..................................................« °5
Pears  ............................................... ............3 00
Quinces..........................................................3 00
Peaches..........................................................3 00

MOLASSES

Black Strap........ ..........................................  @18
Porto  Rico................ 
30@35
New  Orleans,  good.....................................40@50
New Orleans,  fancy................................... 56@60

 

OATMEAL.

185B>pkgs...............................................   @3 75
363B) pkgs...............................................   @3 35
@5 50 
Imperial  bbls..........
@6 75 
Quaker bbls..........................
@5 75
Star and Cresent, steel  cut.

do. 

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

12 M
19M
75
1 00
75
1 00

PIC K L E S.

do 
do 

Choice in barrels med......................................7 50
Choice in M 
......................................4 50
small............................4 50
Dingee’s 54 
Dingee’s quarts glass fancy.......................... 4 25
Dingee’s pints 
do 
.........................  2 50
American qt.  in Glass....................................2 00
American pt. in Glass..................................... 1 25
C. & B. English  quarts..................................6 00
C. & B. English  pints..................................... 3 60
Chow Chow, mixed and Gerkins,  quarts.. .6 00
pints__ 3 60
Dingee & Co.’s C. C. M. & G. Eng. style,qts.4 50 
pt8..2 75

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P IP E S .

Imported Clay 3 gross.......................... 2 25@3 00
Imported Clay, No.  216............................  @1 85
American  T. D.......................................   90@1 00

R IC E .

Choice  Carolina............................................... 6M
Prime  Carolina.................................................7M
Java  ...................................................................6
P atna................................................................. 6M
Rangoon............................................................5%

SA LERA TUS.

DeLand’s pure...............................................@ 5M
Church’s  ...................................................... @ 5M
Taylor’s  G.  M................................................ @ 5M
Cap  Sheaf...........................................  .........@ 5M
Dwight’s ........................................................ @ 5M
Sea  Foam............................... ...................... @ 5M
S., B. &L.’s  Best...........................................@ 5M

SALT.

60 Pocket...................................................  
28 Pocket...................................  
100 3 B) pockets........................................... 
Saginaw F ine............................................. 
Diamond C.................................................. 
Standard Coarse.................................. 

 

2 
 
2 65
1 00
1 75

 

SA UCES.

Lee & Perrins Worcestershire, pints.  @5 00 
Lee & Perrins Worcestershire, 54 pts.  @3 00
Picadilly, M pints..................................   @1 50
Halford Sauce,  large............................  @3 75
Pepper Sauce, red  small.....................   @  75
Pepper Sauce, green.............................   @  90
Pesper Sauce, red large ring...............  @1 30
Pepper Sauce, green, large ring........  @1 60
Catsup, Tomato,  pints..........................   @  90
Catsup, Tomato,  quarts  .....................   @1 30
Horseradish,  M pints............................  @1 00
Horseradish, pints.................................  @130
Capers, French surflnes.......................  @2 25
Capers, French surflnes, large...........   @3 50
Olives, Queen, 16 oz  bottle..................  @3 85
Olives, Queen, 27 oz  bottle.................. 
@6 50
Olive Oil,  quarts, Antonia &  Co.’s__   @7 00
Olive Oil, pints,  Antonia & Co,’s ........  @4 00
Olive Oil, M pints, Antonia & Co.’s__   @2 5o
H em p......................................................  
5
Canary..................................................... 
5
7
Rape........................................................ 
Mixed Bird................................................  5M@6
Kirk’s American  Family........... $  fl) 
5%
do. 
India......................................... 
5%
do.  Savon........................................ 
6
do.  Satinet...................................... 
5M
do.  Revenue..................................  
5%
¿.4 75
do.  White Russian............................ 
Goodrich’s English Family  ............... 
5M
Princess............................ 
4M
6 75
Proctor & Gamble’s Ivory..................... 
Japan  O live........  
5
3  70
Town Talk  $  box 
Golden Bar........ 
4 20
Arab..............  
3 
45
Amber........... 
75
3 
Mottled  German.. 
4  20

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

SEEDS.

SOAP.

do. 

Corn,  Barrels.........................................
Corn, M bbls............................................
Corn,  10 gallon kegs...............................
Corn, 5 gallon kegs.................................
Corn, 454 gallon kegs.............................
Pure  Sugar....................................... bbl
Pure Sugar Drips...................... M bbl
Pure Sugar  Drips................ 5 gal kegs
Pure Loaf Sugar Drips.............'.54 bbl
Pure  Loaf Sugar..................5 gal kegs
Japan ordinary.  24@30
Japan fair........... 32@35
Japan fair to g’d.35@37
Japan fine........... 40@50
Japan dust..........15@20

32
©
34
35 
@1 80 
@1 65
28@  32 
30@  36 
@1 85 
@  95 
@1  00
Young Hyson... .25@50 
Gun  Powder.......35@50
Oolong..........33@55@60
Congo..................  @30

TEAS.

TOBACCO—F IN E   CUT.

 

 

Rose Bud.................................................   @50
O.  K.........................................................   @45
Our  Bird.................................................   @30
Peaches...................................................  @38
Morrison’s  Fruit....................................   @50
Victor......................................................   @60
Diamond  Crown....................................  @57
Red  Bird......................  
©52
Opera Queen...........................................  @40
Sweet Rose..............................................  @45
Green Back............................................   @38
F ru it...........................................................   @33
0  So  Sweet.................................................   @31
Prairie Flower...........................................  @65
Climber [light and  dark].........................  @62
Matchless...................................................   @65
Hiawatha...................................................  @69
Globe...........................................................   @70
May Flower................................................  @70
Hero.............................................................  @45
A tlas............................................................  @35
Royal Game................................................  @38
Silver Thread............................................   @67
Seal..............................................................   @60
Kentucky...................................................  @30
Mule  Ear.....................................................  @67
Peek-a-Boo.................................................   @32
Peek-a-Boo, a   barrels..............................  @30
Clipper, Fox’s.............................................  @32
Clipper, Fox’s, in half barrels.................  @30
Fountain.....................................................  @74
Old Congress..............................................   @64
Good Luck..............................................  @52
Good and Sweet......................................  @45
Blaze Away............................................  @35
Hair Lifter................................................. 
@30
Old Glory, light.........................................   @60
Charm of the West, dark.........................  @60
Governor, in 2 oz tin foil..........................  @60

50
2 

35

1 55

PLU G .

 

 

B. F. P.’s Favorite.................................  @50
Old Kentucky.........................................   @50
Big Four,  2x12........... 
@50
Big Four, 3x12.........................................  @50
Darby and Joan, all sizes......................  ©50
Turkey, 16 oz., 2x12...............................   @50
Blackbird, 16 oz.,  3x12..........................   @34
Seal of Grand Rapids............................  ©48
Glory  ......................................................   @50
Durham...................................................  @48
Silver Coin..............................................   @50
Buster  [Dark],.....................................  @36
Black Prince [Dark]..............................  @36
Black Racer  [Dark]..............................  @36
Leggett & Myers’  Star..........................   @50
Climax.....................................................  @50
Hold F ast........ ......................................   @48
McAlpin’s Gold Shield..........................   @48
1  Nickle Nuggets 6 and 12 fl> cads.........  @51
Cock of the Walk  6s..............................  @37
Black Spun  Roll....................................   @38
Nimrod.....................................................  @48
Acorn......................................................   @48
Red Seal...................................................  @46
Orescent..................................................  @44
Black  X ...................................................  @35
Black  Bass..............................................   @40
True Grit..................................................  @35
Nobby  Spun  Roll...................................  @50
Spring......................................................   @50
Crayling, all  styles...............................   @50
Mackinaw................................................  @47
Horse Shoe. , ............. 
@50
Godd  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
Jumbo......................................................  @40
Applejack..............................................  @50
Jack Rabbit........................................         @42

 

 

 

 

CANNED  V EG ETA BLES.

Asparagus, Oyster Bay.............................. 3 25
Beans, Lim a.................................................   8o
Beans, String................................................  00
Beans, Boston Baked...................................l  65
Beans,  Stringless..........................................1 00
Corn, Erie.......................................................J ¿5
Corn, Revere..................................................1 20
Corn,  Egyptian.............................................1 10
Corn,  Yarmouth........................................... 1 ‘■0
Corn Trophy..................................................1 !•>
Corn, 2B>  Onandago.....................................150
Corn.  Acme.................................................. 125
Mushrooms, French........................... i. n ,22@34
Peas, standard  Marrofat...........................1 40
Peas, 2 fi)  Early, small  (new)....................1 60
Peas, 2B> Beaver...........................................  75
Peas, French 2 fi>............................... ...........23@26
Pumpkin, 3 B> Golden...................................110
Succotash, 2 Bi standards............................  85
Succotash, 2 B> B.&M...................................1 75
Squash, 3 B>  standards................................. 1 20
Tomatoes, 3fi) Dilworth’s.............................1 00
Tomatoes, 3 fi) Job Bacon.............................1 00
Tomatoes, gal. Erie........ .............................2 95
Tomatoes, Acme 3 B>.....................................1 20
G.  D.....................   35 
lEly’s Waterproof  75
Musket................   75 
|

CAPS.

CHOCOLATE.

 

A a Vi Q

Boston  premium.........................:...........  @36
218 75
Baker’s premium.............. 
@40
Ill 09
Runkles............................................... . • ■ •  @35
476 56
German  sweet...........................................  @2o
.................................  @25
Vienna Sweet.
CO FFEE.
@14
Green Rio...............................................12
@27
GreenJava.............................................17
@27
Green Mocha........................................... 2o
d t i A A n  
@17
Roasted Rio— '......................................12
Roasted  Java.......................................... 24  <®<H:
Roasted Mar............................................17  @19
Roasted Mocha........................................  @34
Roasted Mex........................................... 17M@19
Ground  Rio............................................   956@17
Ground  Mex...........................................  @16
Arbuckle’s ..............................................   @15M
X X XX.................. ..................................  @15M
Dilworth’s ..............................................  @I5M
Levering’s .............................................. 
. @151i
Magnolia.................................................   @15M
72 foot J u te .......  1 35  160 foot Cotton —  1 75
60 foot Jute.......1  15  150 foot Cotton... .1 50

CORDAGE.

169 68

FLAVORING EXTRACTS.

Lemon.

Jennings’ 2 oz......................................f!  doz. 1 00
1  50
2 50

4 oz...................................... 
“ 
6 oz.........................  
” 
 
8 oz.........................................................3 50
“ 
No. 2 Taper........................................   1 25
“ 
No.  4 
“ 
“  M pint  round.....................................  4 50
1 
“ 
No.  8............................ 
“ 
No. 10....................................................4 25

1  75
..........■...................   9 00
3 00

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Jennings’ 2 oz......................................¥  doz.  1 40

4 oz.........................................................2 50
“ 
6 oz.........................................................4 00
* 
8 oz.........................................................5 00
“ 
“ 
No. 2  Taper.........................................  1 50
No.  4 Taper........................................   3 00
“ 
“  M pint  round......................................  7 50
1 pint  round....................................... 15 00
“ 
« 
No.  8....................................................  4 25
“ 
No.  10.................................  

6 00
Faucets,  self  measuring.....................   @2 60
Faucets, common................................. 
@  35

FAUCETS.

 

 

Vanilla,

FISH.

Whole Cod..............................................  4%@654
Boneless Cod......................................... 
5@7@8
Herring M bbls.;i0O fi).........................2 75@3 00
Herring Scaled.................................... . 
@24
Herring Holland...................................  @1  00
7 00
White, No. 1, M bbls............................ 
3 50
White, Family, M bbls......................... 
1 00
White, No. 1,10 fl) kits......................... 
White, No. 1,12  fi> kits......................... 
1  10
Trout, No.  1, M  bbls............................ 
4 50
Trout, No. 1,12 fi>  kits..............*........ 
80
Mackerel, No. 1, M bbls....................... 
6  50
Mackerel, No. 1,12 fi) k its.................. 
1  00

FRUITS.

2 75

MATCHES.

London Layers, new................................... 
Loose Muscatels Raisins,  new............2  50@2 60
New Valencias  Raisins.........................  7M@7M
D ehesia...................................................  @3 25
Ondaras...................................................  @10M
Turkey P runes......................................  6%@6%
Currants..................................................  5M@6
Citron..........................................................  @20
Dried Apples  .........................................   8  @8M
Richardson’s No. 2  square................................. 2 55
270
Richardson’s No. 3 
1 55
Richardson’s No. 5 
2 70
Richardson’s No. 6 
1 70
Richardson’s No. 8 
2 70
Richardson’s No. 9
Richardson’s No. 4 round..........................2 55
Richardson’s No. 7  do 
.......................... 2 70
Richardson’s No. 7M do 
.......................... 1 55
Electric Parlor No. 17............ ...................§ 70
Electric Parlor No. 18.............................. -5 80
Grand Haven, No. 9........................,..,..2 70
Grand Haven, No. 8 ........................ ...1 40
70

20 gr oss lots special price. 

Procter & Gamble’s Velvet......................  @3 40
Procter & Gamble’s Good Luck..........  @3 25
Procter & Gamble’s Wash  Well..........  @3 15
Badger........................................... 60fl>s  @ 6M
Galvanic.....................................................  @4 20
Gowan & Stover’s New Process 3 fi> br  @18%
Tip Top....................................... 3 fl> bar  ©  16
@6 75
Ward’s White Lily....................................  
Handkerchief.............................................  @4 20
Sidall’s .......................................................  
3 00
Babbitt’s .................................................... 
5 25
4 10
Dish R ag.................................................... 
Bluing.    ................................................ 
Magnetic..................................................... 
4 20
New  French  Process...............................  
4 50
5 00
Spoon.......................................................... 
5 00
Anti-Washboard........................................ 
Vaterland...................................................  
3 25
 
Magic.............................................. 
 
4 00
Pittsburgh.................................................. 
Bogue’s ......................................................  
6 75
White castile bars................................. 
13
12
Mottled castile........................................ 
@ 5M
Old  Style............................................... 
5M
Old Country............................... 
 

5 00

Lautz Bros. & Co.

SPIC E S.

STARCH.

Acme, 701 fi)  bars..................................   @ 6%
Acme, 25 3 fi) bars...................................  @ 6%
Towel, 25 bars.........................................  @5 25
Napkin, 25  bars......................................  @5 25
Best American, 60*1 fi) blocks...............  @ 5%
Palma 60-1 fi) blocks, plain....................  @5%
Shamrock, 100 cakes, wrapped............  @3 70
Master, 100-% fi) cakes................ 
..  .  @5 00
Stearine, 100  % fi) cakes.......................   @5 00
Marseilles, white, 100 % fi)  cakes........  
@6 25
.Cotton Oil, white, 100 % fl)  cakes........  
@6 25
Lautz’s 60-1 fit blocks, wrapped...........   @7
® 6% 
German Mottled, wrapped..................
@ 5% 
Savon, Republica, 60 fl) box..................
@ 5% 
Blue Danube, 60-1 fi) blocks................
@ 5 
London Family, 60-1 fi)  blocks............
@4 00 
London Family, 3-tt> bars 80 fi).............
@4 00 
London Family, 4-fl> bars 80 fl).............
@3 85 
Gem, 100 cakes, wrapped.....................
@4 00 
Nickel, 100 cakes, wrapped..................
@3 25
Climax, 100 cakes, wrapped.................
Boss, 100 cakes,  wrapped.....................   @2 30
Marseilles Castile, Toilet,3 doz in  box 
'a i  9Si 
@  7 
A. No. 1, Floating  White.....................
16@22
Ground Pepper,  in boxes and cans...
Ground  Allspice....................................  12@20
Cinnamon................................................  16@30
Cloves......................................................   20@26
Ginger......................................................   17@20
Mustard...................................................  15@35
Cayenne...................................................  25@35
Pepper % fi) ^ dozen............................... 
75
Allspice  %fl>...........................................
Cinnamon  % fi)......................................
1  00 
75 
Cloves %  fi).............................................
@18 
Pepper,  whole....................................
Allspice................................................
@10 
@12 
Cassia................................................. .
@22
Cloves..................................................  20
Nutmegs,  No. 1..................................   70
Muzzy Gloss 1 fi> package.....................
Muzzy Gloss 3 fi) package.....................
Muzzy  Gloss 6 fl) boxes.........................
Muzzy Gloss bulk............................
Muzzy Corn 1 fi)...............................
Special prices on 1,000 fi) orders.
Kingsford  Silver Gloss.........................
@8/4 
Kingsford Silver Gloss 6 fl> box..........
i@854 @6% 
Kingsford Corn......................................
Oswego  Gloss.........................................
@656 @ 6% 
Mirror  Gloss...........................................
Mirror Gloss, corn......................... —
@4 
Piel’s Pearl..............................................
@5 
Niagara Laundry, 40 fl) box,  bulk.......
@5 
•* 
Laundry, bbls, 186  fl>s...........
@7 
“  Gloss, 401 fl) packages...........
“  Gloss,  36 3 $   packages..........
@6 
@7 
“  Gloss, 6 fi) box, 72 fl) crate—
@7 56
Corn, 401 lb  packages..........................
American Starch Co.’s
m a@3%
1 fl)  Gloss.................................................
10 oz  Gloss..............................................
@6
3 ft)  Gloss...............t ................................
@7
6 fl> Gloss, wood  boxes..........................
@6*4
Table Corn...................................... 40 fl)
@7
Table  Corn..................................... 20  fl>
@4
Banner, bulk..........................................
Jugs f!  gallon......................................... 
@8
Crocks......................................................  
7
Milk Crocks............................................  
7
Rising  Sun gross..5 88|Dixon’s  gross........ 5 50
Universal...............5 88 Above $  dozea.......   50
IX  L ....................... 5 50|
Cut Loaf.................................................  
Cubes..................... 
Powdered.................................. 
 
Granulated  .................  
Conf. A ............................................ 
Standard A ................................."......... 
Extra C white — ..............  
 
 
ExtraC.................................................. 
FineC................. 
 
YellowC____   ,  .. 

@®
@7%
  @7%
  @756
@7
@6  96
654@654
5%@6
554@5%
556@5M>

@654
@6%
@7
@6
6%@7

STOVE P O L IS H .

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

STONEW ARE.

SUGARS.

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SM OKING.

4 20

Morning Dew.........................................   @26
Chain  ......................................................  @22
Seal of Grand Radids............................  @25
King.........................................................   @30
Flirt.........................................................   @28
Pug...........................................................   @30
Ten Penny Durham, 54 and %.............   @24
Amber, a  and lfl>..................................   @15
Dime  Smoking.......................................   @22
Red Fox Smoking............. , ...................  @26
Lime Kiln Club......................................  @47
Blackwell’s Durham Long Cut............  @90
Vanity  Fair............................................  @90
Dim e........................................................  24@25
Peerless...................................................  @25
Standard.................................................   @22
Old Tom...................................................  @21
Tom & Jerry...........................................  @24
Joker........................................................  @25
Traveler...................................................  @35
Maiden..................................................... 
©26
T opsy......................................................   @27
Navy Clippings......................................  @24
Honey D ew ............................................   @25
Gold Block..............................................  @32
Camp F ir e ....................................... 
  @22
Oronoko.................................................  
@19
Nigger  Head...........................................  @26
Durham, % fi).........................................   @60
do  % fl)..........................................  @57
54 fl)..........................................  @55
do 
do 
1 fl)..........................................   @51
H olland ................................................   @22
German...................................................  @16
Long Tom................................................  @30
National...................................................  @26
T im e........................................................  @26
Love’s Dream.........................................  @28
Conqueror..............................................   @23
Fox’s ........................................................  @22
Grayling.................................................   @32
SealSkin..................  
@30
Dime Durham...................  
@25
Rob Roy...................................................  @26
Uncle  Sam..............................................  @28
Lumberman...........................................  @26
Railroad Boy...........................................  @37
Mountain Rose.......................................   @20
Good Enough.........................................  @23
Home Comfort, %s and  54s..................  @25
Old  Rip, long cut..................................   @60
Durham,  long cut....-..........................   @60
Two  Nickle, %5......................................  @25
Two  Nickle, 56s.................................. 
 
  @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
Big Deal, %s  longcut............................  @27
Applejack, %s  granulated.................  @24
King Bee, longcut, %s and 14s...........   @22
Milwaukee Prize, %s and 14s...............  @24
Good Enough, 5c and 10c  Durham__   @24
Durham, S., B. & L, 54s and %s............  @24
Rattler, longcut......................................  @28
Windsor cut plug...................................  @25

 
 

 

SH ORTS.

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

Pure  Cider.. 
White Wine.

10@12 
10®  12

W ASH ING PO W D ERS.

@1014 
1776 $  fl) 
7%
Gillett's $  fi)
7@10
Soapine pkg............................................. 
Pearline $  box........................................  @4 50
LaVine, single boxes, 481 fl)  papers...  @4 50
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 481 lb pap’rs  @4 25
Lavine, single boxes, 100 6 oz papers.  @4 50 
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 100 6 oz  pap  @4 25 
Lavine, single boxes, 80 14 fi) papers..  @4 15
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 80 14 fl) paprs  @4 00

YEAST.

Seneca Falls “ Rising Sun”.....................   1 75
Twin Bros..........1 75  I W ilsons.................1 75
Gillett’s ............. 1 76  ¿National............... 1  75

M ISCELLANEOUS.

do  waterproof............................ 
do 

Blacking......................................... 30, 40, 50@60
1  50
Bath Brick imported.................................  
American.................................  
Barley............................................ 
 
 
Burners, No. 1 ........................................ 
1 10
do  No.  2........................................ 
1  50
Bags, American A ................................  
20 00
Condensed Milk, Eagle brand....................8 10
Curry Combs ft doz.............................. 1 25®
Cream Tartar 5 and 10 fi> cans.............   @25
Candles, Star..........................................  
Candles,  Hotel........ .................................   @1814
Chimney Cleaners ft d o z................. 

  @50

95
75
 

  @1554

do 

do 
do 

@2614
@2714.

Chimneys No.  1......................................  @35
No. 2......................................  @46
Cocoanut,  Schepps’ 1 B>packages. 
Cocoanut,  Schepps’ 1 & 14 fl)  do 
. 
Extract Coffee,  v. c..............................   90@95
F elix ............................1 30@
Flour, Star Mills, in bbls......................5 75@
in Sacks....................... 5 50®
Flour Sifters fi doz...............................3 00@
Fruit Augurs each.................................1 25®
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps.......................   @25
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps.......................   @40
Gum, Spruce...........................................  35@40
Ink fi 3 dozen  box.................................1  00@@  6 
Jelly in Pails.
do  Glass Tumblers  doz..................
@75 
Lye $  2  doz. cases................................
@1 55- 
Macaroni,  Imported.............................
@13 
Domestic.................................................
@ 514. 
French Mustard,  8 oz fl dozen...........
@80 
Large  Gothic...........
@1 35 
Oil Tanks, Star 60  gallon.....................
@10  00 
Peas, Green Bush..................................  
....
@1 60
do  Split prepared!............................  @314
Powder,  Keg...................................................5 50@
14 Keg..............................................3 00@
Sago  ........................................................ 
Shot, drop........................................................ l 85®
Sage.........................................................  
@15
Tobacco Cutters each...................................1 25®
Twine......................................................  18@20
Tapioca................................................... 
5@&
Wicking No. 1 $  gross...........................   @40
No. 2  .....................................  @65

do  buck...........................................   .2  10®

do 
do  Argand...........................................1 50@

5@6

do 

do 

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

STICK.
Straight, 25 fl)  boxes........ :...................   @1Q
do 
Twist, 
...............................  @1014
Cut Loaf  do 
...............................  @12
MIXED.

Royal, 25 fi)  pails.......................................   @1014
Royal, 200 fl) bbls...............................................io
Extra, 25 fi)  pails.............................................. 1154
Extra, 200 fl> bbls.............................................n
French Cream, 25 fl) pails.............................. 14
Cut loaf, 25 fl)  cases..................... .................. 14
Broken, 25 B) pails..........................................1114
Broken, 200 fl)  bbls..........................................loy2

FANCY—IN 5 fl) BOXES.

Lemon Drops............ ..............   ....................14
Sour Drops.......................................................15
Peppermint  Drops........   ..............................16
Chocolate Drops.............................................17
H M Chocolate  Drops................................... 20
Gum  D rops....................................................12
Licorice Drops................................................20
A B  Licorice  Drops.. 
..............................14
Lozenges, plain...............................................j&
Lozenges,  printed..........................................17
Imperials........................................................i&
Mottoes...........................................................i©
Cream  Bar................................................... i"l5
Molasses Bar...................................................14
Caramels..........................................................20
Hand Made Creams...................................... ’ .23
Plain  Creams................................................. 20
Decorated  Creams.....................................I...23
String Rock................................................  !.! 16
Burnt Almonds..............................................  24
Wintergreen  Berries.............................. . ” “.16
Lozenges, plain in  pails........ V................ .. .14
Lozenges, plain in  bbls.................................IS
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.........................................  9%
Sour Drops, in  pails........................................12
Imperials, in  pails...........................................14
Imperials, in bbls............................. 
13

Fancy—in  Balk.

FRUITS.

Oranges fi box.........................................5 50@6 06
Oranges OO $  box.................................
Oranges, Imperials, $   box..................
Oranges, Valencia ^  case...................
Lemons,  choice....................................  4 00@5 OO
Lemons, fancy........................................ 5 50®6 00
Bananas^ bunch................................... 2 00@4 06
Malaga Grapes, fi keg..........................
Malaga Grapes, $  bbl............................
Figs,  layers  $  fl>....................................  12@16
....................................   18@20
Figs, fancy  do 
Figs, baskets 40 fi) $  fi)..........................   @14
do  ...........................   @  6
Dates, frails 
Dates, % do 
do  ..........  ...............  @7
Dates, skin.............................................. 
@ 6
Dates, y2  skin.........................................  @  714.
Dates, Fard 10 fi> box $   fi)...................10  @11
Dates, Fard 50 fl) box ^ fl)....................  7  @ 8
Dates, Persian 50 fi>box 
fi)................   6J4@  7
PEANUTS.
Prime Red,  raw  ft  fl)............................
Choice 
do  ............. .............. 
@ 8
Fancy 
do  ...........................  @ 8V4
Choice White, Va.do  ............................  @9
Fancy H P ,.  Va  do  ...........................  @10

do 
do 

NUTS.

Almonds,  Terragona, tp ffi>....................
Almonds, loaca,
Brazils,
Pecons,
Filberts, Barcelona 
Filberts, Sicily 
Walnuts, Chilli 
Walnuts, Grenobles 
Walnuts, California 
Cocoa Nuts, ft  100 
Hickory Nuts, large ft  bu 
Hickory  Nuts, small  do

18@19
uo  ..........
16@17
do  ............
9@10
do  ......................  10@14
d o ....................
d o .......................   @14
do  ....................  @1214
d o ......................  14@15
d o ....................
..........  @4  50'
1 25-

PROVISIONS.

PO R K .

The  Grand Rapids  Packing &  Provision  Co 

quote  as follows:
Heavy Mess  Pork.......................................$16 56
Back  Pork,  short cut.................................  17 00
Family Clear Pork, very cheap................   17 25
Clear Pork, A.  Webster packer................   18 00
Extra Clear Pork........................................  19 00
Clear Back  Pork, new................................   20 25
Boston Clear Pork, extra quality.............   20 06
Standard Clear Pork, the best....................  21 25

All the above Pork is Newly Packed.
DRY  SALT MEATS—IN   BOXES.
Long Clears, heavy, 500 B>.  Cases.......... 
Half Cases.............  
do. 
Long Clear medium, 500 fl)  Cases.......... 
Half Cases.......... 
do 
Long Clears light, 500 fl) Cases............... 
do. 
Half Cases............... 
Short Clears, heavy...................................... 
medium................................... 
light.........................................  

do. 
do. 

Extra Long Clear Backs, 600 fl)  cases.. 
Extra Short Clear Backs, 600 K)  cases.. 
Extra Long Clear Backs, 300 fl)  cases.. 
Extra Short Clear Backs, 300 fi)  cases.. 
Bellies, extra quality, 500 fi) cases........  
Bellids, extra quality, 300 fl) cases........ 
Bellies, extra qulaity, 200 fl> cases........ 

Tierces  .......................................................... 
30 and 50 fl> Tubs........................................... 

LARD.

LARD IN   T IN   P A IL S .

20 fi) Round Tins, 80 fi) racks.................. 
50 fl) Round  Tins, 100  fl>  racks............... 
3 ft Pails, 20 in a case................................... 
5 fi) Pails, 12 in a case.............................. 
10 fi> Pails, 6 in a case................................... 
SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED  OR  P L A IN .

9^4
9^4
9V4

9
9%
9
9%
9
9%

10
10%
10%
1054
1054
10%
10

8
8%

8%
8%
9
8%.
8%

do. 

Hams cured in sweet pickle, heavy__
12%
Hams cured in sweet pickle medium.. 
13
light........ 
1354
Shoulders,  boneless.................................... 
Shoulder, cured in sweet  pickle.......... 
9%
1154
Extra Clear Bacon....................................... 
 
Ribbed Bacon..................................... 
 
Dried Beef,  Extra....................................... 
15
Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 fl>s........  11 25.
Rolled Beef, cordless.................................  17 00'

B E E F  IN  BA RR ELS.

CANNED B E EF.

Libby, McNeil & Libby, 14 fl> cans, 54 doz.
2 fi) cans, 1 doz. in case—  

incase......................................................  18 50
2 80
do. 
Armour & Co., 14 fl> cans, 54 doz in case  18 50 
do. 
2 fl> cans, 1 doz. in  case..  2  80
do. 2 fl) Compr’d Ham, 1 doz. in case 4 00'

SAUSAGE—FR ESH  AND  SM OKED.

Pork Sausage...................................................  9
Ham  Sausage....................................................15
Tongue  Sausage.............................................  11
Liver Sausage...................................................  8
10
FYankfort  Sausage............................... 
Blood  Sausage..................................................  8
Bologna,  ring.................  
854,
 
Bologna, straight.............................................  854-
Bologna, thick....................................... 
  854-
Head  Cheese.....................................................  8

 

 

 

P IG S ’  FE E T .

^@314

In half barrels................................................  3 90 -
In quarter barrels.,............................................   2 10-
In kits.................  ...........................................

T R IP E .

In half barrels...................................................... $3 75-
In quarter barrels.....................................:.  2 00*
I n k it s .......................... 
  %
Prices named are lowest  at time of going to- 
press, subject always to Market changes.

 

 

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SMALL  FEET  NOT  BEAUTIFUL.

2>rç  (Boobs.
Spring & Company quote as to...
W ID E  BROW N COTTONS.

A n d r o s c o g g in , 9-4. .23 
A n d r o s c o g g in , 8-4. .21
Pepperell,  7-4.....1 6%
Pepperell,  8-4.....20
Peppered,  9-4.....22V,

Peppered, 104.........25
Peppered, 114............27 %
Pequot,  74..............18
Pequot,  84 ..............21
Pequot,  9-4..............24

C a l e d o n ia , XX, o z . .11 
C a l e d o n ia ,  X ,OZ...10
E c o n o m y ,  o z ..............10
Park Mills, No. 50. .10 
Park Mills, No. 60.. 11 
Park Mills, No. 70. .12 
Park Mills, No. 80. .13

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

QSNABURG,

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

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

BLEACHED  COTTONS.

Avondale,  36..........8%
Art cambrics, 36.. .11%
Androscoggin, 44..  8%
Androscoggin, 5-4..
Ballou, 4-4...............
Ballou, 54...............
Boott, 0 .4 4 ..........
Boott,  E. 5-5..........
Boott, AGC, 44-----
Boott, R. 34..........
Blackstone,AA4-4  7% I 
Chapman, X, 44—   6%
Conway,  44........... 7%
Cabot, 4-4................   *%
Cabot, 7-8................   6%
Canoe,  34 ...............  4
Domestic,  36..........  <%
Dwight Anchor, 44.10
Davol, 44...............  9%
Fruit of Loom, 44..  9 
Fruit of Loom, 7-8..  8%
Fruit of  the Loom,
cambric,  44........12
Gold Medal, 44..  -.7
Gold Medal, 7-8.......6%
Gilded Age............. 8%

Greene, G, 44........   5%
Hid, 44....................  8%
Hill, 7-8....................  7%
12% Hope,  44................   7%
King  Phillip  cam­
bric, 44.................11%
Lin wood,  4-4..........  9
Lonsdale,  44..........  8%
Lonsdale  cambric. 11% 
Langdon,GB,44...  9% 
Langdon, 45........... 14
Masonville,  44.........9%
Maxwell. 44............10%
New York Mill, 4-4.10% 
New Jersey,  44—   8 
Pocasset,  P. M. C..  7% 
Pride of the West. .12% 
Pocahontas,  44—   8%
Slaterville, 7-8........   6%
Victoria, AA..........9
Woodbury, 4-4........   5%
Whitinsville,  4-4...  7% 
Whitinsville, 7-8—   6%
Wamsutta, 4-4.........10%
Widiamsville,  36... 10%

CORSET JE A N S .

Armory..................  7%|Kearsage.................  8%
Androscoggin sat..  8% Naumkeagsatteen.  8%
Canoe River...........   6  Peppered bleached 8%
Clarendon...............6% ¡Peppered sat............9%
Hallowed  Imp.......6% Rockport................
Ind. Orch. Imp.......6% Lawrence sat............  8%
Laconia..................   7%|Conegosat...............  7

Albion, solid............5%
Albion,  grey............b
Allen’s  checks.........5%
Aden's  fancy.......... 5%
Allen’s pink..............6%
Allen’s purple.......... o%
American, fancy— 5%
Arnold fancy.......... b
Berlin solid...............J%
Cocheco fancy.......b
Cocheco robes.........7
Conestoga fancy.... 0
Eddystone  ------------®
Eagle fancy............5
Garner pink............<

Gloucester............... 6
Glou cestermourn’g . 6 
Hamilton  fancy— 6
Hartel fan cy..........6
Merrimac D..............6
Manchester ..............6
Oriental fancy....... 6
Oriental  robes........6%
Pacific  robes...........6
Richmond................6
Steel River..............5%
Simpson’s ............... 6
Washington fancy.. 
Washington blues..8

f i n e  b r o w n   c o t t o n s .

Indian Orchard, 40.  8% 
Appleton A, 44...
Indian Orchard, 36.  8  .
Boott  M, 44...........   7%
Laconia  B, 74.........16%
Boston F, 44..........  8
Lyman B, 40-in.......10%
Continental C, 4-3..  tji 
Mass. BB, 4-4..........  6%
Continental D, 40 in 8%
Nashua  É, 40-in—   9
ConestogaW,44...  7
Nashua  R, 44........   7%
Conestoga  D, 7-8...  5% 
Nashua 0,7-8..........  7%
Conestoga G, 30-in.  6%
Newmarket N .. —   7% 
Dwight  X, 34........ 6
Peppered E, 39-in..  7% 
Dwight Y, 7-8..........  6%
Peppered  R, 44—   7 
Dwight Z, 44..........  i
Peppered  O, 7-8—   6% 
Dwight Star, 44—  
Peppered N, 34—   6% 
EwightStar,40-in..  9
________  m   aft 
s
Pocasset  C, 44
Enterprise EE, 36..  5% Pocasset  u, 4-4.......  <
Great Falls E, 4-4...  7  Saranac  R...............  • %
Fanners’ A, 44.......6% Saranac  E.................  9
Indian  Orchard, 14 7% I

d o m e s t i c   g i n g h a m s .

8

A m o s k e a g ..................
A m o s k e a g , P e r s i a n
styles....................1J}%
Bates.......................  If*
Berkshire...............  «%
G  la s g o w  checks—   t 
G la s g o w  checks, f ’y 7% 
G l a s g o w  

checks,

r o y a l   s t y l e s ...........   8
n e w   ^  

Renfrew, dress styl 9% 
Johnson  Manfg Co,
Bookfold..............12%
Johnson Manfg Co,
dress  styles.........12%
Slaterville, 
dress
styles......................9
White Mfg Co, stap  7% 
White Mfg Co, fane 8 
(White  Manf’g  Co,

s t a n d a r d

G l o u c e s t e r ,  
Plunket...................   7% Gordon.....................8
Lancaster.  8% Greylock, 
Langdale.................... WCI  styles .................1

7%  EarlSton...............  9%

dress

W ID E BLEACHED COTTONS.

A n d r o s c o g g in , 74.. 21 
Androscoggin, 84. .23 
Peppered,  7-4....... 20  Pequot,  74..............¿1
Peppered,  84........ 22% Pequot, 84...............24
Peppered,  94.......25 
|Pequot,  94..............27%

iPeppered.  104.....2T%
Peppered,  114..... 32%

HEAVY  BROW N  COTTONS.

7%¡Lawrence XX, 44..  8%

Atlantic  A ,44...
Atlantic  H, 44.......7
Atlantic  D, 44.........6%
Atlantic P, 44........  5%
Atlantic LL, 44—   5%
Adriatic, 36.............   <%
Augusta, 44..............6%
Boott M, 44...........   7% I Stark A A .4 4 . . ...
Boott FF, 44..........  7% Tremont CC, 44—   5%
Graniteville, 4 4 ....  6% Utica,  4 4 .............9
T ruiian  Head.4-4...  7% Wacbusett,  44.......  <%
l£di!£a Head 45-in .12% | Waehusett, 30-in...  6 %

Lawrence  Y, 30—  
Lawrence LL, 44...
Newmarket N ........   754
Mystic River, 44...  6%
Pequot A, 44..........  8
Piedmont, 36..........  7

T IC K IN G S.

Falls, XXXX..........18%
Amoskeag,  ACA... 14 
Fads, XXX............. 15%
Amoskeag  “ 44.. 19
Fads,  BB................11%
Amoskeag,  A ........13
Fads,  BBC,36...... 19%
Amoskeag,  B ........12
Fads,  awning........19
Amoskeag,  C....... 11
Hamilton,  BT, 32.. 12
Amoskeag,  D ........10%
Hamilton,  D..........10
Amoskeag,  E ........10
Hamilton,  H ------- 10
Amoskeag, F ..........9%
Hamilton  fancy... 10
Premium  A, 44— 17
Methuen AA..........13%
Premium  B ............16
Methuen ASA........18
Extra 44.................. 16
Extra 7-8 ! * 1111  .......14% ¡Omega A, 7-8.......... 11
Omega A, 44 .......... 13
Gold Medal 44........ 15
Omega ACA, 7-8— 14 
GCA 7-8....................12%
Omega ACA, 44— 16
GT 44 ....................... 14
Omega SE, 7-8.........24
RC 7-8....................... 14
Omega SE, 44.........27
BF 7-8.................  
16
 
Omega M. 7-8.........22
A F 44........................19
Omega M, 44.......... 25
Gordis AAA, 32....... 14
Shetucket SS&SSVV 11% 
Cordis ACA, 32.......15
Shetucket, S & SW.12 
Gordis No. 1,32....... 15
Shetucket,  SFS— 12
Gordis No. 2............ 14
Stockbridge  A .......7
Gordis  No. 3............ 13
Stockbridge frncy.  8
Gordis  No. 4............11%

GLAZED CAMBRICS.

Garner....................  5
Hookset..................  5
Red  Cross...............  5
Forest Grove..........

Empire........... ........
Washington............  4%
Edwards..................   5
S. S. &Sons.............   5

GR A IN   BAGS.

American  A .........19  (Old  Ironsides......... 15%
•Stark A ...................23% | Wheatland...............21%

DENIM S.

Boston.................... 
........ im/
Everett blue..........14% (Warren  AXA........ 12%
Everett  brown...... 14% Warren  BB............11%
«Otis  AXA.............. 12%  Wan-efi CC.............10%
•Otis BB................... 11% I York  tancy...........lo

P A P E R   CAM BRICS.

Man vide..................  6
Masgnvdle.............  b

IS. S. & Sons.............   6
G am er....................  6

W IG AN S.

Red  Cross...............  7%¡ThistleMills.
Berlin.....................   7% Rose.............
G am er....................  7% I

SPO O L COTTON.

Brooks....................50
Clark’8 O. N. F .......55
J . & P.  Coats..........56
Widimantic 6 cord. 55 
Widimantic 3 cord. 40 
•Charleston bad sew 
ing thread............30

Eagle  and  Phoenix 
Mills bad sewing.30 
Greeh  &  Daniels...25
Merricks.................40
Stafford............— 35
Hall & Manning— 30 
Holyoke...................25

Grown.................... 17
No.  10.....................12 %
C oin........................10
Anchor...................15
Centennial.............
Blackburn..............8
JDavol...................... 14  l
London........ . ......... 12%
Paoonia............1 2
Red tt»S8i.........10
Social Imperial,... 16

MasonvilleTS........   8
Masonvide  S.......... 10%
Lonsdale.................9%
Lonsdale A ..............16
Nictory  0 ...............  6
Victory J ................ 7
Victory D ............... 10
Victory  K ............ ..12%
Phoenix A ........ 
9%
Phoenix  B ...........—10%
Phoenix XX — ,  ..15

ROCKETS  AND  PIN  WHEELS.

Novelties Prepared for Every Kind of Cele­

bration,

As the day we  celebrate  draws  near the 
great business oi  manufacturing and selling 
fire-works 
increases  with  great  rapidity. 
The various houses  engaged in that trade in 
New York report that their  business for the 
Fourth is greater this  year than it has been 
for some years  past.  They say that the ef­
fects of the coming political  campaign have 
not yet  begun  to be  felt.  They  expect as 
large a business from that  after  the Fourth 
is  over  as  they  are  now  getting  for  the 
Fourth.  They have  prepared  a  number of 
novelties for this season, some of them strict­
ly for political purposes.

One of the new things is a “golden  show­
er  candle.”  This  sends  out a ball  which 
differs from that thrown  by the Roman can­
dle in that it leaves a trail  of  fire  behind it 
and  resembles a rocket in its  flight.  Then 
there are steel  spangle  candles, throwing a 
ball which  explodes  in a  number of small, 
fiery spangles, producing  a  splendid  effect.
In sky-rockets the  short-sticked rockets are 
the favorites, though the  old-fashioned kind 
with long sticks continue to be  manufactur­
ed.  The  colored  parachute  rocket,  while 
not exactly a novelty, will  probably be sold 
and  used  more  largely  than  heretofore. 
These  rockets, when  at a great height, dis­
charge a  star  of  heavy  caliber, suspended 
from  a  parachute, which  is  set  free,  ex­
panded, and illuminated  by the  bursting of 
the rocket. 
This  explains the mystery  of 
these floating stars, which  puzzle the child­
ren by  remaining  invisible  so  long a time 
and changing color so frequently.

One of the campaign  novelties are bomb- 
rockets which,  when  at  their  highest alti­
tude, explode with a loud  report.  They are 
used for salutes at political  meetings and in 
parades.  Then there are  colored exhibition 
rockets, of unusual size, weighing  from two 
to  four  pounds.  They  explode  aDd  dis­
charge red, blue, and  green  peacocks’ tails, 
comet-like  stars  steel-spangled 
stars, and 
other effects.  These are considered  the fin­
est  rockets  produced.  A  special  novelty, 
made  by  one  company  only,  is  a  rocket 
which throws out two  parachutes with stars 
at one time.  The  greatest  of  all  rockets, 
however,are probably the“Pleiades” rockets. 
They weigh six pounds  each, and cost 360 a 
pair.  When at their  altitude they  explode 
and  throw  out  seven  floating,  changing 
lights  suspended  from  baloons.  Another 
startling  rocket  is  the  telescope  repeater. 
This ascends to a  great’height and  then ex­
plodes, releasing  four  more  rockets  which 
continue their upward  flight and  burst into 
showers of colored  stars.  The  colored  tri­
pod rockets are something new.  They have, 
instead of sticks, three  legs, which  are  ad­
justable, allowing the  rockets to be set per­
pendicularly on  the  most  uneven  ground, 
obviating the necessity  of a trough or guide 
of any kind.  They  are  deemed  especially 
useful during the  campaign, as  they can be 
fired  easily 
from  the  street  along  the 
line of a parade.

Another novelty which is useful for  eith­
er lawn illumination or for political parades 
is the colored torch.  These look  like an or­
dinary pine-knot  torch, and  turn  blue, red, 
or  green, 
lasting  about 15 minutes  each. 
They  are  brilliant  and  will  illuminate a 
whole platoon of men.  Much  attention has 
been given to the  batteries of  colored stars, 
with ¡which  a  good  imitation of a volcanic 
eruption  may  be  given.  Colored  floral 
bomb-shells will afford  delight and alarm to 
children.  They throw out showers of color­
ed stars and then  project a  bomb-shell  300 
feet  into  the  air, where  it  explodes  and 
throws out stars of every hue.  The colored 
floral fountain is one of the  novelties in sta­
tionary pieces. 
It throws  upward and out­
ward liquid drops and  spangles  and sprays 
of  fire, which  produce  the  likeness  of a 
large fountain in action.  These are entirely 
new,  and  the .manufacturers  praise  them 
highly.  They  are  provided  with a sharp 
wooden base,  which can be  pushed into  the 
ground.  The colored  star  mine  is  another 
handsome illuminating piece.  It consists of a 
tube  case,  with  a  wooden 
substantial 
base. 
It 
is 
colored 
fires,  stars, and streamers  of  various  hues! 
In the final discharge  these  are  thrown up 
and scattered  high in the air.  Manufactur­
ers of fireworks declare that these  are simi- 
liar to a volcanic  action, and are  warranted 
to strike terror to the soul of the boldest ser­
vant girl.

charged  with 

The gay,  deceptive  flower-pot,  with  its 
safe-looking wooden  handle, will  appear as 
usual, and the children, fondly believing the 
assurances of their big  brothers  that it will 
not  hurt  them,  will  have  their  fingers 
scorched by the showers of fiery spray.  The 
catalogue of one  firm  announces, with  an 
apparent  absence of guile,  “They are harm­
less and can be used  with  great delight by 
ladies  and  children.”  The  seductive  pin- 
wheel, which always  refuses to  go off until 
the igniter goes up close to  see  what is the 
matter with it, will be  on iiand.  The  chief 
style is called the  colored  double  triangle 
wheel.  These are  the  best  made  and are 
composed of six cases of brilliant fire.  Each 
one  of  these,  after  ignition,  changes  the 
form and color of its scintillations and exhib­
its at the same  time variegated  colored cen­
ter rings, changing to the finest colors known 
in the art of pyrotechnics.  They are expen­
sive, costing $30 per dozen.

and 

appearance 

A number of  stationary  show  pieces of 
handsome 
re asonable 
price  are  in  the  market.  One  represents 
a fir tree in  varigated  colored  stars, inter­
mingled with showers of  sun-fire.  Another 
sends  out a showering cascade in fire of col­
ored  stars, shooting  upward  and at angles 
i on the  sides.  The  “shower  of  pearls” is

composed of  a masked  battery  of  colored 
candles in  the  centre, shooting  stars  high 
upward, while  on each  side  are  fountarns 
of brilliant  fire  shooting  downward.  The 
colored  illuminated  vertical  consists of  a 
large wheel bearing  on  its  arms a  star  of 
lance fires in  crimson  and  green which in 
revolving blend in harmonious  colors in the 
center while the  changing  spur  fires  form 
extended  rings on  the outside.  The Aztec 
fountain has a masked  battery of candles  at 
the top and a revolving  piece in tbe centre, 
and candles again below.
□The sparkling caprice is considered one of 
the handsomest pieces  made. 
It consists of 
an arm, in the centre of  which  is a  revolv­
ing piece which  carries  around  the  entire 
arm and flaming pieces at  each end.  When 
going very fast  this  whole  piece  suddenly 
stops and  stalls off in an opposite direction. 
The man in the moon is a comic face, illum­
inated, while streams of  fire  spurt from be­
hind it.  George Washington  is also treated 
in the  same  way.  The “phantom  circles” 
are curious ring  effects  in fire.  The centre 
piece is an upright  revolving ring, inside of 
which and revolving in an opposite direction 
is a colored flyer.  Above  and  below  this 
are colored flyers revolving  horizontally and 
in opposite  directions.  The various  differ­
ent movements of the wheels  and  the  con­
trasts in color produce a remarkable effect.

VISITING BUYERS.

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

ville.

land.

Lake.

land.

Wm. F. Stuart, Sand Lake.
S. N. Pike, Allegan.
Wm. Parks, Alpine.
A. G. Chase, Ada.
John Gunstra, Lamont.
Byron McNeal, Byron Center.
A. T. Diver, Hartford.
B. Steketee, of P.  Steketee  &  Co.,  Hol­
J. W. Fearns, Big Rapids.
0. E. Close, of O. E.  Close  &  Co.,  Sand 
Geo. Luther, Middleville.
J. YanPutten, of Van Putten& Sons, Hol­
Waite Bros., Hudsonville.
H. Baker of H. Baker & Son, Drenthe. 
David J. Peacock, Bridgton.
R. V. McArthur, Rockford.
A. W. Blain, Dutton.
H. A. Crawford,  Cadillac.
John Scholter, Overisel.
Wm. Vermeulen, Beaver Dam.
1. J. Quick & Co., Allendale.
J. W. Closterhouse, Grandville.
Mr.  Ball,  of  Greenwood  &  Ball, Grand­
R. L. Willett,  Altona.
Gringhaus Bros., Lamont.
H. T. M. Treglown, Lowell.
P. A. Peterson, Chase.
F. D. Lacey,  Nirvana.
John  W. Mead, Berlin.
Notier & Boven, Graafschap.
Carrell & Fisher,  Dorr.
G. J. Shackelton,  Lisbon.
Stauffer & Salisbury, Hastings.
C. F. Sears & Co., Rockford.
Mrs. M. B. Schryer,  Mantón.
M. J. Howard, Englishville.
F. C. Brisbin, Berlin.
E. W. Pickett, Wayland.
O. W. Kibby, Bellaire.
John J. Ely,  Rockford.
G. W. Moekema, Graafschap.
H. H. Moore, Lakeview.
Jay Marlatt,  Berlin.
A. L. & E. W. Kitchen, Edmore.
S. T. McLellan, Dennison.
F. E. Davis,  Berlin.
W. S.  Root, Talmadge.
Mr. Ten Hoor, of Baron & Ten Hoor, For
Walter Sclioomaker, Cannonsburg.
A. Engberts, Beaver  Dam.
J. C. Benbow, Cannonsburg.
F. S. Kieldsen,  Cadillac.
W. H. Struik, Forest Grove.
Smedley Bros, Bauer.
J. Barnes, Plainfield.
C. O. Bostwick & Son, Cannonsburg.
Mr. Field, of Paine & Field,  Englishville, 
Parkhurst Bros., Nunica.
G. P. Stark, Cascade.
Kellogg & Potter, Jennisonville.
Nelsoii & Hall, North Muskegon.
Norman Harris, Big Springs.
B. M. Dennison, East Paris.
A. Norris & Son, Casnovia.
Andre Bros.,  Jennisonville.
Howard Morley, Cedar Springs.
D. E. McVean, Kalkaska.
Ed. Roys, of Roys Bros., Cedar Springs. 
J. F. Hacker, Corinth.
F. C. Brisbin,  Berlin.
G. N. Reynolds, Belmont.
L. A. Gardner, Cedar Springs.
Freeport Herald:  Freeport expects to get 
a telephone line  from  Hastings.  This  will 
connect us with Grand Rapids and all  other 
important points in the State.

est Grove.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Advertisements of 25 words or  less  inserted 
in this column at the rate of 25 cents per week, 
each and every insertion.  One  cent  for  each 
additional word.  Advance payment,

WANTED.— A position in a first-class  drug 

store by  a  young  man  of  experience 

Address A., care The T r a d e s m a n .
"ITT ANTED.—A  number  of  traveling  sales 
VV  men to handle a line of shirts in connec­
tion with their other line.  Liberal Commission 
paid.  Address, Marshall Shirt Manufacturing 
Co.,  Marshall, Mich.

HAVING  WITHDRAWN from the business 

formerly carried on under the firm name 
of Graham  &  Sweeney,  at  Hopkins,  Mich.,  I 
will not hold myself responsible for  any debts 
contracted under the above name.

N.  SWEENEY,

June 11, 1884. 

FOR SALE—A stock of new, fresh staple gro 

ceries and fixtures complete. Willlnvoice 
3500 or $600.  This is an extra chance  for some 
young man, with a small capital to make mon­
ey.  The town has  3,500  inhabitants,  one  rail­
road, and will have  a  cross  road  within four 
months, and new  water  works.  The  place  is 
growing  fast.  Very  low  rent.  Reasons  for 
selling, I have business  in  another  town  and 
can not be at both places.  I offer  this  chance 
for two weeks only.  Would take a good trusty 
partner.  Address for one week  T,  33  Clinton 
street, Grand Rapids, or Box 10, Hastings, Mich

OYSTERS AND  FISH.

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: 

OY STERS.

F R E S H   F IS H .

New York Counts, per can.........................
Extra  Selects........................................................
Codfish ................ 
5
Haddock............................................. •••••••  l
Smelts............................... .  —  ...............j>
Mackinaw Trout.................... 
 
7
Mackerel......... —  
............«*•";
W hlteflsh........... ............................................. A
Smoedk Whlteflsh and Trout................ 
..10
Smoked Sturgeon........... 
8

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ib a rb w a re .

Prevailing  rates  at Chicago are as follows:

AUGERS AND B IT S.

©S’, old  style........................................ dis 
50
55
H. C. Co..............................................dis 
Douglass’ ................................................ dis 
50
Pierces’ ....................................................dis 
50
50
Snell’s ....................................................... dis 
Cook’s  ......................................................dis40&10
Jennings’,  genuine................................dis 
25
Jennings’, imitation..............................dis40&10

Spring.......................................................dis 

BALANCES.

25

Railroad......................................................$  15 00
Garden.....................................................net 33 00

BARROW S.

BELLS.

Hand.................................................... dis  $ 60&10
60
15
20
55

....................................................... dis 
........................................................dis 
Gong..................................................... dis 
Door, Sargent.......................................dis 

BO LTS.

Stove......................................................dis $ 
40
Carriage and Tire, old list.................dis 
80&20
Plow  ......................................................dis  30&10
Sleigh Shoe...........................................dis  50&15
Cast Barrel Bolts................................dis 
50
55
Wrought Barrel Bolts........................dis 
50
Cast Barrel, brass  knobs...................dis 
55
Cast Square Spring.............................dis 
Cast Chain........................................... dis 
60
55&10
Wrought Barrel, brass  knob............dis 
Wrought Square.......  .........................dis  55&10
Wrought Sunk Flush......................... dis 
30
Wrought  Bronze  and  Plated  Knob
Flush...................................................  50&10&10
Door.............................................dis  50&10

BRACES.

Barber............................................. 
Backus..................................................dis 
Spofford................................................dis 
Am. Ball...............................................dis 

 

dis$ 40
50
50
net

11, plain.................................................. $  4 00
4 50

Well, swivel.................................................  

BUCKETS.

BU TTS,  CAST.

60
.dis
Cast Loose Pin, figured.....................dis
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed........ dis
60
.dis
60
dis
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed..dis 
.dis 50&10
Wrought Narrow, bright fast  joint..dis 
60
.dis
Wrounht Loose  Pin
.dis 60& 5
Wrought Loose Pin, acorn tip.........dis
.dis 60& 5
WroughtLoose Pin, japanned.........dis
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silver
.dis 60& 5
tipped................................................. dis
.dis
'60
Wrought Table....................................dis
.dis
60
Trought Inside Blind.......................dis
65&10 
Wrought Brass...................................... dis
70&10 
Blind. Clark’s..........................................dis
70&10 
Blind, Parker’s......................................dis
70 
Blind,  Shepard’s................................ dis
15 00 
Spring for Screen Doors 3x2%, per gross
18 00
Spring for Screen Doors 3x3 
per gross

CAPS.

.................................. per  m $ 65
Ely’s 1-10.......
60
...................................  
Hick’s C. F ...
35
D........................................................ 
60
Musket................................................... 

CA TRIDG ES.

Rim Fire, U. M. C. & Winchester  new list 
50
50
Rim Fire, United  States.........................dis 
Central Fire..............................................dis  %

C H IS ELS.

Socket Firmer.......................................dis  65&10
Socket Framing....................................dis  65&10
Socket Corner..................................... 
  dis 65&10
Socket Slicks........................................ dis  65&10
Butchers’ Tanged Firmer..................dis 
40
Barton’s Socket Firmers....................dis 
20
Cold........................................................ net

Curry, Lawrence’s...............................dis 
Hotchkiss  ............................................ dis 

COMBS.

33%
25

Brass,  Racking’s ........................................  40&10
Bibb’s ............................................. :.........   49&10
B eer.............................................................  40&10
ienns’.........................................................  
60
Planished, 14 oz cut to size..................... $  ft  37
14x52,14x56,14 x60 .........................................  39

C O PPER .

D R IL L S.

ELBOW S.

Morse’s Bit  Stock..................................dis 
Taper and Straight Shank.....................dis 
Morse’s Taper  So5nk.............................dis 

35
20
30

Com. 4 piece, 6  in............................doz net $1 10
Corrugated..............................................dis  20&10
Adjustable..............................................dis  40&10

EX PA N SIV E B ITS.

Clar’s, small, $18 00;  large, $26  00.  '  dis 
Ives’, 1, $18 00 ;  2, $24 00 ;  3, $30  00.  dis 

F IL E S .

American File Association List......
Disston’s ..............................................
New American....................................
Nicholson’s ..........................................
Heller’ 
e Rasps..........................
Heller’s Hors
GA LV ANIZED IR O N ,
14 

Nos. 16 to
12 
15 
List 
Discount, Juniata 45, Charcoal 50. 

22 and  24,  25 and 26,

13 

30,

Stanley Rule and Lveel Co.’s ................dis 

GAUGES.

20
25

40&10
40&10
40&10
40&10
30
33%

18

50

HAMMERS.

Maydole & Co.’s ...................................... dis 
15
Kip’s ........................................................ dis 
25
Y©rkes&  Plumb’s ................................. dis 
30
Mason’s Solid Cast  Steel..................... 30 c list 40
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. .30 c 40&10 

HA NG ERS.

Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track dis  50
Champion, anti-friction........................dis 
60
Kidder, wood tra.k............................... dis 
40

H IN G ES.

Gate, Clark’s, l, 2, 3................................dis 
60
State............................................per doz, net, 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to  12  in.  5%,  14
and  longer.............................................. 
4 25
Screw Hook and Eye,  %  ...................net  10%
Screw Hook and Eye %....................... net 
8%
Screw Hook and Eye  %............  
  net 
7%
Screw Hook and Eye,  %......................net 
7%
Strap and  T............................................ dis 60&10

HO LLO W   W ARE.

Stamped Tin Ware....................................   60&10
JapannedoTin  Ware.................................  20&10
Granite Iron  Ware..................................  
25

HO ES.

Grub  1................................................$11 00, dis 40
Grub  2...............................................   11 50, dis 40
Grub 3.................................................   12 00, dis 40

KNOBS.

Door, mineral, jap. trimmings........$2 00, dis 60
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings__   2 50, dis 60
Door, porcelain, plated trim­
mings ..........................................list,  7 25, dis 60
60
Door, porcelain, trimmings  list, 8 25, dis 
Drawer and  Shutter,  porcelain..........dis 
60
Picture, H. L. Judd &  Co.’s ....................d 
60
Hemacite.............................. 
dis 
50

 

LOCKS—DOOR.

Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s reduced list dis  60
Mallory, Wheelnr &  Co.’s......................... .dis  60
Branford’s .....................................................dis  60
Norwalk’s ....................................... 

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.................... dis

LEV ELS.

65

M ILLS.

Coffee, Parkers  Co.’s ................................. dis
45
Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables dis  45
Coffee, Landers, Ferry &  Clark’s ............. dis  45
Coffee,  Enterprise....................................... dis  25

MATTOCKS.

Adze  Eye....................................... $16 00dis40&10
Hunt Eye....................................... $15 00dis40&10
Hunt’s ........................ ...............$18 50 dis 20 & 10

N A IL S .

Common, Brad and Fencing.

lOd to  60d............................................ $  keg $2 50
8dand9dadv...............................................  
25
6dand7d  adv........................................1—  
»0
4d and 5d  adv.......................
3d advance.....................................................  1 50
3d fine  advance..................................................  ® 00
Clinch nails, adv................................................  1 75
Finishing 
Size—inches  j  3 
Adv. $  keg 

I  lOd  8d 
1%
2% 
$1 25  1 50  1 75  2 00 
MOLLASSES GATES.

6d  4d
2 

Stebbin’s Pattern  ...................................... dis
Stebbin’s Genuine...................................... dis
Enterprise,  self-measuring.......i .............dis

Sperry & Co.’s, Post,  handled.................. dis  50

M AULS.

O IL E R S .

Zinc or tin. Chase’s Patent... — ............ dis  55
Zinc, with brass bottom .... ...................... dis  50
«dis  40
Brass or  Copper......................... 
Reaper.................................... per gross, $12 net
Olmstead’s — ........ ............................ . 
60

 

K

Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy........... ..................dis 15
Sciota Bench............................. ..................dis 25
15
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy.. ..................dis
20
Bench, first quality................. ..................dis
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood  and
Fry, Acme................................. ............. dis 40&10
60
Common, polished.................. ...............dis
8
Dripping......................................................f i b
Iron and Tinned..................... ........... dis
Copper Rivets and Burs........ ........... dis

PA N S.  .

R IV E TS.

40
40

PA TEN T FLA N ISA ED   IR O N .

“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10% 
“B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25  to 27 

Broken packs %c sp B> extra.

9

RO O FIN G  PLA TES.

IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal Terne.................5 75
IX, 14x20, choice Charcoal  Terne...............  7 75
IC, 20x28, choice  Charcoal Terne................ 12 00
IX, 20x28, choice Charcoal Terne...............16 90

Sisal, % In. and larger............................^  9%
15
Manilla.

R O PES.

SQUARES.

Steel and  Iron. 
Try and Bevels. 
Mitre  ...............

.dis  50 
.dis  50 
.dis  20

SH EET IR O N .

Com. Smooth.

Com. 
$3 20 
3 20 
3 20 
3 20 
3 40 
3 60
All sheets No, 18 and  lighter,  over 30 inches 

Nos. 10 to  14.................................. $4 20
Nos. 15 to  17..................................   4 20
Nos. 18 to 21..................................   4 20
Nos. 22 to 24 ..................................   4 20
Nos .25 to 26 ..................................   4 40
No. 27.............................................  4 60
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SH EET ZINC.

In casks of 600 lbs, $   B>....................
In smaller quansities, $   lb.............

T IN N E R ’S SO LDER.

No. 1,  Refined....................................
Market  Half-and-half....................
Strictly  Half-and-half.....................

T IN   PLA TES.

6%

13 00
15 00
16

Cards for Charcoals, $6 7
50
10x14, Charcoal....................
IC,
10x14,Charcoal...............................  8 50
IX,
12x12, Charcoal...............................  6  50
IC,
12x12,  Charcoal..............................  8 50
IX,
14x20, Charcoal...............................   6  50
IC,
14x20,  Charcoal...............................  8 50
IX,
14x20, Charcoal...............................  10 50
IXX,
14x20, Charcool...............................   12  50
IXXX,
IXXXX, 14x20,  Charcoal.................................  14 50
20x28, Charcoal...............................   18 00
IX*, 
100 Plate Charcoal.................................  6 50
DC, 
DX, 
100 Plate Charcoal.................................  8 50
DXX, 100 Plate Charcoal.................................  10 50
DXXX,  100 Plate Charcoal.............................   12 50
Redipped  Charcoal  Tin  Plate add 1 50  to 6 75 

rates.

TR A PS.

Steel. Game......................................................
Onaida Communtity,  Newhouse’s...........dis  %
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s—   60
Hotchkiss’ ........................................................  60
S, P. & W. Mfg.  Co.’s......................................  60
Mouse,  choker....................................... 20c $  doz
Mouse,  delusion...............................$1  26J§J doz

W IR E .

Bright  Market.................................................  dis 60
Annealed Market.............................................. dis 60
Coppered Market...............................................dis 55
Extra Bailing..................................................... dis 55
Tinned  Market..................................................kis 40
Tinned Broom..........................................3? ft  09
Tinned Mattress.................  
§_ft  8%
Coppered  Spring  Steel.......................... dis 37%
Tinned Spring Steel.................................dis 37%
Plain Fence................... 
ft  3%
Barbed Fence...................................................
Copper...............................................new  list net
Brass..................................................new list net

 

W IR E  GOODS.

Bright.................................................dis 60&10&10
Screw Eyes........................................ dis 60&10&10
Hook’s ..............................................dis  60&10&10
Gate Hooks and Eyes.....................dis  60&10&10

W rEN C H ES.

Baxter’s Adjustable,  nickeled.............
Coe’s  Genuine......................................dis  50&10
Coe’s Pat Agricultural,  wrought........... dis  65
Coe’s Pat.,  malleable.................................dis  70

m i s c e l l a n e o u s .

Pumps,  Cistern....................................dis  60&10
Screws....................................................... 
70
Casters, Bed and  Plate.......................... dis 
50
Dampers,  American................................. 
33%

ing.

Tight Shoes Destructive  of  Grace in 'Walk­
From the New York Express and Mail.

“This clatter about  small  feet  is all non­
sense,” said a fashionable shoemaker yester­
day.  “I saw an interview  with a shoemak­
er in the Mail  and  Express  last  week, in 
which it was said that a certain lady had the 
prettiest  foot  in  New  York  because she 
weighed 160  pounds  and  yet  wore only a 
number one shoe. That lady had the homliest 
foot in New  York in my  judgment, and  I 
am a connoisseur  in  feet.  A  small foot is 
more  usually a deformity than a beauty.” 

“Why?” asked the  reporter.
“Because  it is  usually a disproportion, a 
monstrosity.  A  perfectly  beautiful  wom­
an’s foot  should be in  length  a  little less 
than one-seventh of  her  height.  The foot, 
moreover, is the  base, the  support  of  the 
body, and it should be  neither  too  small to 
support it, nor for beauty’s  sake seem to be 
Imagine 160  pounds of flesh  over two 
so. 
little number  one feet. 
I’ve got an artistic 
eye for such  things, and  the  disproportion 
makes  me  shudder.  The  most  beautiful 
foot known is that of  Venus de Medici. 
It 
is neither very  short  nor  very narrow, and 
although the Venus is a rather small woman, 
she would find a number two shoe decidedly 
uncomfortable.  The  model  of  that  foot 
never  wore a shoe.  You  hear  lots of talk 
about  the  big  feet of  Chicago girls.  That 
shows that the Chicago girls are  either very 
tall or very  sensible.  There  is not a pretty 
foot in New York. 
I have  been  measuring 
ladies’ feet for thirty years  in the  city, and 
have failed to  find a really  pretty foot  yet. 
My artistic taste has  often  prompted me to 
go to Chicago, where the feet  must be pret­
tier than the number  two  feet  of the New 
York ladies, unless the  New  York  ladies 
are phenominally short in height.”
“Are tight shoes unhealthful?”
“Yes, they impede  the  circulation of  the 
blood.  With tight  shoes  and  tight lacing 
our women produce a very thin-blooded gen­
eration.  Tight  shoes  destroy  grace  and 
cause an  awkward  walk. 
If  you want to 
acquire the gait of  a dude, just get a pair of 
pointed shoes two  sizes too  small  for you 
and hold out your arms.”

“Can you describe a perfect foot?”
“A perfect foot must be, as I said  before, 
a little less in  length  than  one-seventh the 
height of the woman. 
It  should  be arched 
at the top. 
It should be broadest across the 
ball, and the  toes  symmetrical, and  tipped 
with pink nails, should spread on the ground 
at every  step,  The  second toe  should be 
the longest.  The heel  should  descend in a 
straight line  from  behind  the  ankle, and 
should  be  delicately  rounded.  The  skin 
should be white as  ivory, and  marked with 
faint indications  of blue  veins.  The  heel 
and toes, however, should  have a rosy flush. 
Such a  foot  you  never  see  treading  the 
beach of a seaside watering place, and never 
will until women  learn that a  small foot is 
not necessarily a beatiful one.”

$16 'tR ton.

COUNTRY  PRODUCE.
Asparagus—50c  doz. bunches.
Bailed  Hay—Scarce  and firm  at  $15@ 
Buckwheat Seed—$1.25 ^9 bu.
Butter—Choice dairy packed is worth  15c. 
Creamery packed 19c.
Beans—Handpicked 
readily  command 
$2.25@$2.50.  Unpicked are not much mov­
ing.
Cabbages—$1.50@$4.50 @  crate,  accord­
ing to size.
Cabbage Plants—50c ^  100.
Cheese—Light skim 8e.  Full cream 10c.
Clover  Seed—Choice  medium  firm  at  $6 
@$6.50 ^  bu. and mammoth in fair  demand 
at $6.75  ^  bu.

at 2c ^   Ib.

Cucumbers —50c ^   doz.
Dried Apples—Quarters active at 7@9c ^  
ib,  and sliced  8@9c.  Evaporated  dull  and 
slow at 12^@14c.

for pure, and 8@10c for adulterated.

and Western and 18@20c for  Michigan. 
ib. 

Eggs—Firm and ready  sale  at 16@17c. 
Green Onions—25@35c <*jp dozen  bunches. 
Hungarian Grass Seed—$1 ^  bu.
Honey—In comb, 18c ^  lb.
Hops—Brewers pay  26@28c  for  Eastern 
Lettuce—In fair demand at 10c 
Maple  Sugar—Dull  and  plenty  at 1‘^Kc. 
Millet Seed—$1  bu.
Onions—New Orleans, $5.25 ^  bbl. 
Pieplant—Ordinary  stock in fair  demand 
Peas—$2  bu.
Peas, for field seed—$1.50  ^  bu. 
Radishes—18c ^  dozen bunches. 
Potatoes—75@90c ^  bu. for old and $3.50 
Poultry—A little  more  plentiful.  Fowls 
Spinach—50c ^  bu.
Sweet Potato Plants—50c ^  100. 
Strawberries—7@ 9c ^   qt.
Timothy—Choice is firmly held at $1.75 ^  
Tomatoes—Illinois $1 
Tomato Plants—50c 
Wax  Beans—$1@$1.25  ^   X   bu.  box. 
Green, $1.50@$2 ^  bu.
□Watermelons—Georgia 25@35c apiece.
dis 60

@$4.50 7$ bbl. for new.
seling at 15@16c.

box of  20 lbs.
100.

bu.

G R A IN S   A N D   M IL L IN G   PR O D U C T S .

$1.05.

Wheat—White, 95@98c;  Lancaster,  96@ 
Com—45@60c 
bu.
Oats—White 40c ^  bu.
Rye—52@54c ^9 bu.
Barley—Brewers pay $1.30@$1.40 ^   100
.
tt>s. 
Flour—Fancy  Patent,  $6.50 
bbl.  in 
sacks  and $6.75 in wood.  Straight, $5.50 ^  
bbl. in sacks and $5.75 in  wood.

Meal—Bolted, $1.45 
cwt.
Mill Feed—Screenings, $14 

ton.  Bran,
$13@$14 @ ton.  Ships, $15  ^   ton.  Mid­
dlings, $17 ^  ton.  Corn  and  Oats, $23  ^  
ton.

.

.

Mr. Standart,  traveling representative for 
Standart Bros., of  Detroit, has  engaged  to 
represent  the  Peninsular  Fruniture Co., on 
the  road, and is meeting  with  exceptional 
success.  He  has  become  a  stockholder  in 
the  institution  to  the  extent  of  $2,000, as 
has also Joshua Homer, of the Old National 
Bank, in a  like amount.  Both  have  been 
elected directors in the  corporation, and the 
latter has been  chosen  secretary  and  treas­
urer*  . 

&  ..

. - 

How Ingersoll’s Life WasS aved by a Cigar.
Bob Ingersoll tells—in  private though—a 
good  story at  his  own  expense, but  one 
which we see no reason should not be enjoy­
ed  by the  world  at large. 
It  seems  that 
while Ingersoll was in Cleveland  soon after 
his successful! fight  for  the Star-Routers, a 
sort of anti-tobacco crusade had been started 
in that city, and a well known Boston scien­
tist was delivering  nightly lectures  against 
the use of the soothing weed.  This speaker 
invited others to  argue  the  question  with 
him, but, although the smokers were largely 
in the majority, the Boston  man  invariably 
proved too clever  for the  debaters  brought 
against him.

Availing  themselves  of Ingersoll's  pres­
ence, some of his  friends  begged  the great 
orator to take  up  the  cudgel  in behalf  of 
the tobacco-users; which he condescended to 
do, more as a joke than for  any serious rea­
son.

That evening the hall  was  jammed, and, 
when the prohibitionist requested an answer 
to his  arguments, Bob  solemnly arose and 
said  he  would  reply to the  statement  of 
his eloquent friend by the  relation of a sim­
ple incident.  He said:

“I was once  attending to a mining case in 
one of the wildest and most  lawless regions 
of Utah.  A murder had recently been com­
mitted by a notorious thief, and a committee 
of local vigilantes were  watching for him at 
every crossroad.  Just  at  nightfall  I  was 
riding back  to the  town  from  the  mine, 
mounted on a white  horse.  The posse had 
ambushed  themselves  in  some  chapparal, 
and as I came down the bridle-path they got 
ready to fire all together—for they waste  no 
time on trials in that  section.  Entirely un­
conscious that  half a dozen  shot-guns  were 
sighting  my  shirt  front, 
I  stopped  my 
horse,  struck  a  match,  and  proceeded to 
light my  cigar.  Thinking  that  the  light 
would give them a still better mark to shoot 
at, the concealed  party held  their fire for a 
secondhand thejblaze’of the match reflected on 
my features, revealing  they were  not those 
of the man they  awaited, and  stepping out 
on tbe road, they  congratulated  me o il  my 
narrow escape.  And so  ladies  and gentle­
men, if I hadn’t had the good  fortune  to be 
a smoker I wouldn’t be her now.”

“And you call that  fortune?” grimly  ask­
ed the  anti-tobacco  lecturer, after  the ap­
plause had subsided.

“Wasn’t it?” inquired Bob,  with  a plain­

tive smile.

“I don’t see it,” thundered  his opponent. 
“If it hadn’t been for  that  miserable  cigar 
there  would  be  one  less  lawyer  in  the 
world.”

And, amid the roar  that  followed, Inger­
soll sat down completely knocked out in one 
round.

V

THE  GROCERY TRADE.

What a  Leading  Wholesale Grocer  Has to 

Say  of the Situation.

Opening Up  of Another  Timber Tract.
Messrs.  N.  Slaght  &  Co.,  of Greenville, 
who have 13,000 acres of fine timber land on 
the  headwaters  of  Pine  River,  in  Lake 
county, have concluded to  begin  operations 
this season, with a view to getting  the prod­
uct on the  market  early  next  spring,  and 
have  accordingly  contracted  with  Wm.  F. 
Stuart, of Sand Lake, to remove his  shingle 
mill from that place to a  point  eight  miles 
west  of  Tustin,  which  work  has  already 
been begun.  Mr. Stuart will also  erect  an­
other shingle mill in the fall, and two  more 
in the spring, each mill to have a capacity of 
45,000  per day.  A  saw mill will be in op­
eration by winter, and will have  a daily  ca­
pacity of 40,000 feet.  The finfi estimate that 
the  tract  contains  150,000,000  of  shingle 
timber, three-fourths of  which  will  run  to 
stars.  The  hemlock and  hardwood  timber 
bordering the stream is estimated at 50,000,- 
000 feet.  The product of both mills  will be 
piled  up  until  spring,  when  the  firm  pro­
pose to put in an eight mile  spur track, nar­
row guage, striking the G. R. &  I.  Railroad 
about  midway  between  Tustin and Hobart. 
As  it  will  take from five to eight  years  to 
cut all of the timber on the tract, ‘the opera­
tions  in  that  vicinity  are  likely  to  bring 
about many changes  in  the  business  situa­
tion of the towns roundabout

G k   .A ..  R .
CIGARS

—TH E-

V  eteran’s 

Favorite.

EATON & CHRISTENSON

77  Canal Street, 

-   Grand  Rapids,

Business  Methods  of  the  West  Michigan 

Lumber  Co.

The West  Michigan  Lumber  Co.,  which 
has been in existence about four years,  now 
operates three mills—one at Woodville, with 
a daily sawing capacity of 60,000 feet, one of 
equal capacity at Diamond Lake, and one at 
Park City, which cuts 50,000 feet  daily.  A 
shingle mill is operated  in  connection  with 
each saw mill, the combined  daily  capacity 
being 160,000  shingles.  Lath  and  pickets 
are also manufactured  at  each  mill,  and  a 
machine shop]is operated at Woodville.  The 
average pay roll at Woodville  registers  200 
names, at  Diamond  Lake  about  the  same 
number, and  at Park City about 125, making 
a total force of 525  men,  not  including the 
workmen in the lumber camps, when the lat­
ter are in  operation.  Well-stocked  general 
stores are run at  each  of  the  three  points 
named.  The corporation also attends to the 
spiritual and educational wants of their  em­
ploys  by maintaining  regular  preaching  at 
Woodville and Diamond Lake and encourag­
ing day schools  at  all  three  places.  The 
company goes a step farther  by  refusing  to 
allow any saloon to exist on land  owned  by 
the corporation.  Every employe is  paid  in 
full, in cash, on the 10th of each  month. 
It 
is estimated that the mill at Woodville is yet 
tributary to a seven years’ cut.

Good  Words  Unsolicited.

William  Neilan,  general  dealer, Weldon 

Creek:  “Success.”

Barnhart  &  White,  Mancelona: 

“We 

could not do without it.”

Byron  See,  grocer,  Charlevoix:  “It  is  a 

good paper for retail dealers.”

Chas. E. Bird, druggist, Saugatuck: “Good 

trade paper.  Well worth the money.” 

Moore  &  Yarger,  general  dealers, Free­

port:  “Could not get along  without it.” 

Eugene Burdick, grocer, East Jordan:  “I 

could not do without the paper anyhow.” 

Rodenbaugh Bros., druggists and  grocers, 
Mancelona: “We like the paper very much.” 
L. E. Linsley, grocer, Big Rapids:  “It is a 
great help to me and I  can’t  do  without  it. 
Send it along.”

I. J. Babcock &  Son,  druggists,  Kalama­
zoo:  “We are too poor to indulge  in every­
thing that is good.”

Carpenter & Codman,  grocers,  Hartford 
“It is just what we want, and we  cannot af­
ford to be without it.”

L.  E.  Paige,  druggist,  Sparta:  “Yes,  I 
want it, and  when  my  subscription expires 
send another statement.”

Clark  Bros.,  grocers,  Greenville:  “We 
appreciate your paper  very  much,  and  can­
not very well do without i t ”

E.  B.  Woodward,  hardware,  Kalkaska: 
“I have had  your  valuable  paper now  just 
long enough to see that I cannot give  it  up. 
It is just what every man in  retail  business 
wants.’V

S.  S.  Burnett,  general  dealer,  Collins: 
I want The Tradesm an every 
“Fes, Sir! 
week.  Why I  1st.  It is worth  the  money 
asked for it.  2nd.  Any man  who  has  the 
vim and  push  to  make  The  Tradesm an 
what it is, is entitled  to  patronage.  Plain 
facts briefly  stated.”

Samuel Bigelow, druggist and grocer, Sum­
ner:  “A word for your paper. 
I  consider 
it one of the best in the State, and it  should 
have a wide circulation.  Think you are mak­
ing it a grand success.  It is of great interest 
to me, as I reached Grand Rapids in October, 
1851, and resided  there  and  in  the vicinity 
until the close of the war, consequently have 
seen and watched the wonderful  growth  of 
your beautiful city from small beginnings to 
its present status as one of the leading cities 
of the State.”

Midland has three new  groceries.
W. M. Elder, druggist at Lansing, has sold 

Niles button hooks are attaining great  ce­

out.

lebrity.

Lilly &  Vosburgh, grocers at Allegan, are 

succeeded by Lilly & Lilly.

E. Tallmadge, meat dealer at Portland,  is 

succeeded by E. S.  Stevens.

A. F. Slooter  succeeds  L.  T.  Kanters  in 

the confectionery business fit Holland.

Armstrong & Chrisholm succeed A. J. Mc­
Leod in the meat market business at Charle­
voix.

Bellevue will loan  $1,000  as a temporary 
bonus, to any man or company that  will  lo-

COLE  &  STONE,
Gents'  Fine  Shirts.

Manufacturers  and Jobbers of

Samples and Prices  will  be  Sent  to  Close 

Buyers  in  our  Line.

Address,

Marshall 

- 

Mich.
EVERY  KIND  AND  SIZE,
Trunk, Clout and Finishing: 
Steel Wire Nails and Rrads,

—A LSO —

American  Tack  Co.,

F a i r h a v e n  

-  

M a s s

 

'WHOLESALE

31  PEARL  STREET,

-
AGENTS FOR

I i. S. H IL L  c*3 OO,
FISH ING   TAC ZLS
MICH. 
GRAND  R A P ID S  
Du  PONT’S  Gunpowder.
ing, Blasting and Cannon Powder guaranteed.
ALBERT  COYE  &  SONS,
A w nings,  T ents,

The lowest market prices  for Sport­

—Manufacturers and Jobbers of—

Horse, Wagon and Stack Covers, 

Flags, Banners, Etc.

All  Ducks  and  Stripes  Kept  Constantly  on  Hand

OILED  CLOTHING.

73  Canal  Street.

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  

MICHIGAN 

Send for Prices.

A .   A .   O H I P P H K T

WHOLESALE

Hats, Gaps and  Furs

54  MONROE  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN.

We carry a Large Stock, and Guarantee Prices 

as Low as Chicago and Detroit.

..  FOR 

BOOK-KEEPING  MADE  EASY
R E T A I L   G R O C E R S .
By using our Combined Ledger and Day-Book, 
CUSTOMERS'  ACCOUNTS  are  kept  and 
ITEMIZED STATEMENTS.rendered m half 
the time required by any other process.

*

Send for  descriptive  circular  to  HALL & 

CO., Publishers. 154 Lake St., Chicago, 111.

STEAM  LAUNDRY

43 and 45 Kent Street.

A. K. ALLEN, Proprietor.

WE  DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS  WORK AND  USE  NO 

CHEICALS.

Orders by Mail and Express  promptly  atr 

tended to.____________________________

COAL AND  BUILDING MATERIALS.  '
A. B. Knowlson quotes as follows:
Ohio White Lime, per bbl............. . 
1  10
Ohio White Lime, oar lots.................... 
95
Louisville Cement,  per bbl.................. 
1 40
Akron Cement per  bbl......................... 
1 40
Buffalo Cement,  per bbl.................... 
1  40
Car lots....................................................1 15@1 20
Plastering hair, per bu........................   35®  38
1 75
Stucco, per bbl........................................ 
Land plaster, per ton................... 
J  75
 
Land plaster, ear lots............................ 
3 00
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  76®7 00
Cannellcoal...................................... 
7 00
Ohloooai:........................ 
 

4o@3

COAL.

 

 

“What have you  to  say in  regard  to the 
business  situation?”  asked a reporter of a 
leading grocery jobber the other day.

I  d o tn  

“In the  grocery trade I can tell  you it is 
in rather a peculiar condition.  For the past 
six or eight months  we have been  having a 
dull season throughout  the  whole country. 
Industry has  been  interrupted; trade  poor, 
and  enterprise  generally  lacking  in  all 
branches of  business. 
pretend 
to say just what the cause of all this trouble 
is. 
It may be  overproduction, or it may be 
something else; perhaps lack  of  confidence 
or timidity among the  capitalists  generally. 
Whatever the cause is, however, we know on­
ly too well  the  result.  There  has  been a 
shrinkage in prices of  all  or  nearly all the 
leading commodities in our trade  that could 
not fail to cause  great  losses to large hold­
ers.  This decline has  been  going  on until 
at the present time it  would  seem  as if we 
had touched a bottom, below  which  it  was 
impossible to go.  Let me  give  you  a few 
figures to show you  what  the  decline  has 
been.  To-day the  refiners’ price for granu­
lated sugar is exactly two cents a pound less 
than it was a year ago.  Yellow  sugar is al­
so two cents lower  than  last  year.  Molas­
ses sells for twenty-five per  cent,  less  than 
it did a year ago.  and  the  price  of canned 
goods  has  declined  to  the  same  extent 
Flour sells for  from $1 to  $1.50  per barrel 
less than it did a  year  ago, and only the ar­
ticles of tea and  coffee  seem  to  hold their 
own.  Outside  these there  has  been a gen­
eral shrinkage.  Then the  demand has fall­
en off largely, though perhaps not  to the ex­
tent that returns for  sales  would  indicate, 
but there has  been a falling  off  in this di­
rection.

“People have not the  ability  to consume 
that they had when times  were better, eh?’
“That is not it  exactly, for  even  though 
they may not have so much money to spend 
you must remember that  what  money  they 
have has  from 25 to 30 per cent,  more pur­
chasing power to-day  than it had a year ago 
to-day.  This is true in other articles  of use 
than groceries.  Take, for  example, the  ar­
ticle of  ready-made  clothing.  A  man can 
to-day  get a  good  working  suit  for  $10, 
which a year ago would  have  cost  him $15 
at least.  There are still other  things which 
are also relatively cheaper  to-day than they 
were a year ago.”

“You may say that the shrinkage in prices 
of canned  goods  has  been  25  per  cent. 
Would not that  represent  more  than  the 
profit  on  such  goods  with 
last  year’s 
prices?”

“Far  more, indeed.  Why  the  profit of 
the wholesale  trade on canned  goods is but 
microscopical  at  best.  The  retail  trade 
makes the largest profit on them, but  not 25 
per cent.  You can  easily  figure then, that 
large and persistant holders of canned goods 
must have lost  heavily  on  them, as indeed 
they have lost on many other articles held in 
stock.”

“Is the  retail  trade  well  stocked  with 

goods?”

“No the retailers have no stock on hand to 
speak of.  They have been  afraid  to  stock 
up on a declining market, but have been buy­
ing for the past six months only to meet  ac­
tual demands.  And even  now, when prices 
have gone far below the zero  of  actual  cost 
of production in many if not most articles in 
our trade, they seem  afraid to stock up.”

“What are the prospects of the trade?  The 

outlook?”

“It is not easy to guess.  Tilings are now 
on so even a balance for the turning of prices 
upward, with an active demand, that there is 
no telling what a day may bring forth.  I am 
inclined,  however,  to  think  we  may  pass 
through the  usual  summer  season  of  dull 
trade before the turn will come.  Still there 
is no telling  what  may  happen  before  the 
first of September.  Then we may  look  for 
it, for people usually return  from  the  sum­
mer vacation ready to go to work and  make 
things lively.”

“What do you consider the  wisest  course 

to pursue now?”

“I would simply hint  to  the  retail  trade 
that they go slow, but  keep  a sharp  watch 
for the time to stock up  is  when  goods  are 
selling below cost.  The holders of consider­
able stocks, when the  revival  boom  comes, 
will find they have  made  a  very  profitable 
investment.  When  prices  do  take  an  up­
ward turn, they will  go  back  to  a  normal 
standard in a very short time.”
Lilliputian  Cigars,

From the Hillsdale Standard.

We were shown a  curiosity  in  the  cigar­
making  business  the  other  day. 
lsadore 
Cohn,  foreman in  M.  Cohn’s  cigar factory, 
his  made  fifty  perfect  cigars,  filler,  wrap­
per and all of so  diminutive  size  that  they 
are  easily  held  in  the  half  of a hazel  nut 
shell.  By  the  aid  of  a  microscope,  the 
wrapper can be followed,  but  not  with  the 
naked eye.

It is calculated  that a stoppage  of  manu­
facture and  output of  goods for sixty days 
in the knit goods trade, in  accordance  with 
a proposition  recently sent out to the manu­
facturers throughout the  country, would re­
lieve the market of 450,000 dozens of goods.

A useful mucilage for  labels, etc., can  be 
made of two ounces of dextrine dissolved in 
one ounce of acetic  acid  and five  ounces of 
water, and the  addition of  about an ounce 
of alcohol  when  the  dextrine is  well dis­
solved,

GRAND  RAPIDS

MANUFACTURED  FOR

H.  LEONARD  &  SONS,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

HAND  0E   MACHINE  MADE  POTS  FOR 

SAE BY THE  PACKAGE  OR  RE­

PACKED  TO  ORDER.

Sold at Manufacturers’  Prices.  Send  for 

Price List  at once for the Spring Trade.

S E E D S

—FOR  THE—

FIELD  AND  GARDEN,

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WHOLESALE  AND  RETAIL,

—AT THE—

SXSSD  S T O R E ,

91  Canal  St., Grand  Rapids, Mich.

W. T. LAffiOREAUI, A p t
A L A B A S T I N E !

HSÄDQTJAETSRS !

-FOR—

Sporting  Goods

-AND—

OUT  DOOR  GAMES,
Base Ball Goods,
Marbles, Tops,
Pishing Tackle, 
Croquet, Lawn Tennis, 
Indian Clubs,
Dumb Bells,
Boxing Gloves.

We wish  the  Trade  to  notice  the  fact that 

we are

Alabastiue 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 onl/y preparation  that is  claimed 
to  possess  these  great  advantages,  which 
are  essential  to  constitute  a  durable  wall 
finish.  -Alabastine is hardened on  the  wall 
by  age, moisture,  etc.;  the  plaster  absorbs 
the  admixtures,  forming  a  stone  cement 
while  all  kalsomines,  or  other  whitening 
preparations,  have  inert  soft  chalks,  and 
glue,  for  their  base,  which  are  rendered 
soft, or  scaled, in  a  very  short  time, thus 
necessitating  the  well-known  great  incon 
venience  and  expense, which  all  have  ex­
perienced,  in  washing  and  scraping  off the 
old  coats  before refinishing. 
In  addition 
to the above advantages,  Alabastine  is  less 
expensive,  as  It  requires  but  one-half  the 
number of pounds to cover tbe same amount 
of surface with two coats, is  ready  for  use 
by  simply  adding  water,  and  is easily ap­
plied by  any  one. 

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JBkliZi  Faint  D ealers

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THE ALABASTINE COMPANY

M. B. CHURCH, Manager.

G R AND   R A P ID S , 

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M ICH IGAN

Grid  Rapids  Wire  Works

Manufacturers of All Kinds of

W IR E   W O R K  !

92  MONROE  STREET.

C. S. YALE & BRO.,

—Manufacturers  of-

And  are  not to  be  undersold by any house 

in the United States.

Our Trade Mark Bats

—ARE  THE-

BEST AND CHEAPEST

In the Market.

Send for our New  Price List for  1884

Order a  Sample Lot  Before Placing a Large Order

EATON, LYON  &  ALLEN

20 and 22 Monroe  Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN,

U. FEETER,

36 South  Division  Street, Grand Rapids, Mich

Dealer  in

—Also—

STAP LE   A N D   F A N C Y   GROCERIES, 

CANNED  A N D   D RIED   FRUITS.
EGGS  AND  BUTTER
A  Specialty.  Pays  Cash  on  Receipt of  Prop­

erty.

Buyers  of  Eggs  by  the  Crate  or Barrel 
will be  supplied  at  the  lowest  Wholesale 
Price with Sound, Fresh Stock.  This House 
does not handle Oleomargarine, Butterine or 
Suine.

Telephone  Connection.

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Manufacturers  of

Fine Perfumes,

Colognes, Hair  Oils, 
Flavoring Extracts,
Baking Powders, 

Bluings, Etc., Etc.

BAKING  POWDERS,

ALSO PROPRIETORS  OF

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BLUIKTOS,  ETC.,

40 and 43  South  Division  St.,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICH.

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K S M I N K ’ S

“Red Bark Bitters"

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78  W est Bridge Street,

FOSTER, 
STEVENS

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-WHOLESALE-

H A R D W A R E !

10  and  13  MONROE  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN.

WE  SOLICIT  THE

DEALER’S  TRADE.

And NOT the Consumer’s.

We are Manufacturer’s Agents for the

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Grown Jewel Vapor  Stove!

And quote factory prices.  Send for catalogue-

We are Manufacturer’s Agents for

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Jewett’s Bird Cases

And quote factory prices.  Send for catalogue

We are Manufacturer’s Agents  for

Jew ett’s  F ilters,

And quote factory prices.  Send for catalogue-

We are also Headquarters for

Grand  Rapids  Wheelbarrows  and

Bacon  &  Priestly  Express  Wagons,.
All of which  are  sold  at  factory  prices.  We 
would be  pleased to  send  catalogue  to those 
wishing to buy.

We are carrying to-day  as  large  a  stock, 
and filling orders as complete, as  any  house 
in Michigan.

