The Michigan Tradesman.

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YOL.  1.

UNEDUCATED  MERCHANTS.

The Disadvantage  Under  W hich  They La- 

bor.

To the average  man it appears as  though 
it required but little  ability to  conduct any 
retail business.

In  fact,  we  conclude  that  many  of 
those who go into retail trade  conclude that 
it is a mere question  of  a  moderate capital, 
and that once embarked  in  it  the  business 
will take care  of  itself, so  far  as  any ulti­
mate difficulties or losses are concerned, and 
if they but  exercise  a  rigid  personal econ­
omy,  will  take  care  of  them  as  well. 
It 
matters little if they  know  anything  about 
selling goods, and still  less do they imagine 
that a long experience is  requisite  to enable 
one  to  purchase  to  advantage.  They  also 
rely on always being able  to  atone for their 
own ignorance of the business by engaging a 
clerk whose business knowledge and experi­
ence will supplement their stupidity.  This, 
although they do not so  regard it,  is a virtu­
al descending from  the  frying  pan into the 
fire, except in extreme cases where they  are 
fortunate enough to find an employe blessed 
both with a knowledge  of  the  business and 
exceptional  honest  principles.  Even  in 
this case  the  position is  not a pleasant  one 
for the  employer, as  the  clerk  has the ap­
pearance always of  being  the  proprietor of 
the establishment  This often  leads  to the 
discomfiture, if not to the humiliation of the 
proprietor, as  it  is  not  pleasant for  men to 
submit  to  be  underrated  in  importance. 
But in the  relations between  employer  and 
employe, where the  latter  is  the  real  head 
and front  of  the  business, the  former  soon 
finds that he cuts but an  insignificant figure. 
It is always  necessary  to  use  extreme cau­
tion and the best of  judgment in  the  selec­
tion of  clerks; but  it  becomes  doubly nec­
essary to do so where one has the conscious­
ness that he lacks the  knowledge  necessary 
to conduct his business himself.  Should his 
clerk  chance  to be  dishonest, he  lias  his 
employer  at  his  mercy, since  his  superior 
knowledge of all pertaining to the  business 
easily enables him to deceive his  ill-inform­
ed patron with impunity.  There is great dan­
ger that the proprietor  will  become careless 
and  inattentive  in  such cases, and will de­
pend too  much  upon  his  better-informed 
clerk, from a realizing  sense of his  own im- 
potency in the business.  Without  any spur 
upon him, the clerk attends to  the demands 
made  upon  him  by  the  daily  routine of 
the business  but  he  does  not  possess  the 
same  interest  he  would  were  he  the  ac­
tual owner.  He allows  many  little  things 
to go unattended to on a  plea that he is pre­
vented  by  want  of  time,  or  some  other 
equally plausible reason; he  finds  no  time 
to re-arrange, brighten or dress up the stock; 
he has no time to attend to the thousand-and- 
one things by which  the general appearance 
of a store is so much  enhanced, and  which, 
by their neglect, at once  indicate  the  reign 
of  shiftlessness  or  indifference.  The  pro­
prietor who is  stretching  his  morning  nap 
an hour or two longer,does not know what a 
difference would be made in  the appearance 
of things generally about  his establishment 
if his eye was upon his  clerk a little often- 
er.  The proprietor  of  a  business  house 
must be attentive and alert himself if he de­
sires his clerks to exhibit those qualities.  A 
clerk nearly always reflects the qualities dis­
played by his  employer.  This  may  be  re­
garded as an indisputable fact, and it is cap­
able  of  verification at any time  upon  any 
hand.  A cheerful, accomodating  and thor­
ough-going business man is  not cursed with 
stupid help; and, on the  other  hand, a slip­
shod, easy-going, shiftless  numbskull,  who 
cumbers the  retail  trade  because  circum­
stances  have  jostled  him  into  it, and he 
hasn’t  energy  enough  to  get  out  only 
through  becoming “played out,” always  at­
tracts a clerk made up after his own pattern 
precisely.  Unfortunately the  man who en­
ters into a business  without  understanding 
its “ins” and  “outs,” is  not  generally  the 
kind of a man to go to  work  and  make up 
for his  deficiencies by close and severe  ap­
plication.  He is not  one  of  those  natures 
which kindle with  the  fire  of  zeal  in  the 
presence of something  which  offers an ad­
vantage  to  accomplishment.  He could do 
much toward acquiring both the art  and the 
science of his  business  were he so minded. 
But,  incompetent to  take the helm, he dis­
dains the oar, and prefers to float  aimlessly 
down  the  stream.  While  many  contend 
that a  practical  mercantile  education  can 
only be  acquired  in youth, it by no  means 
follows that a man cannot acquire  consider­
able knowledge about any business in which 
1 he may chance to engage at any time of life, 
if he sets about  it  in  right  good  earnest. 
He  had  much  better  not  embark  in  a 
business without the necessary qualiications 
to make it successful  from  the start.  The 
possession of a sum, the needed  amount  to 
capitalize  an  enterprise,  is  no  argument 
whatever.  No capital is  judiciously invest­
ed, whatever  the nature of the  business in 
which it may be  employed, if  the  investor 
be not  thoroughly at home in the  business. 
Youth is certainly the  time  for  obtaining 
business knowledge.  The mind is in a more 
receptive, condition; the  senses are all more 
acute and active, and  application to one ab­
sorbing  occupation is easier  than at a later 
period of  life.  Nevertheless, there  are  in­
numerable 
instances  of  men  who  have

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN,  WEDNESDAY,  JULY  2,  1884.

achieved  greatness in a business  pursuit or 
profession first undertaken after, middle age 
have dawned upon  them.  Few  men  have 
the massive energy  which, outlasting youth 
and  young  manhood  periods of trial  and 
struggle,  holds  them  unswervingly to one 
purpose,  and  fits  them to  win  distinction 
when the fires of young ambition and youth­
ful hope are both extinguished, and even the 
vital fire itself  smolders low.

Coal as a  Fuel.

Those who believe coal  gas  is  to  play  a 
small partin the economical processes of the 
future  are  likely  to  find themselves  much 
mistaken.  Even  if superseded  by  electric­
ity as an illuminant, which is by  no  means 
certain,  coal gas will, there is reason  to  be­
lieve, occupy a still more important position 
in the future as a fuel than it has in the past 
as an illuminant.  Recent experiments have 
shown it to be by long odds the most efficient, 
economical and convenient of all  fuels.  To 
compare the cost of coal gas with the cost of 
the electric light or even with other fuels is a 
task  as  unsatisfactory  as  it  is  useless,  be­
cause, as is well-known, the sale of residuents 
when the market is good, is  often  sufficient 
to defray all the expenses  of  gas  manufac­
ture, and thus it might almost be given away. 
Indeed, at many points outside  of  the great 
cities, large quantities of gas are  thrown  to 
the four  winds  during the  progress  of coke 
manufacture.  There is a coke making center 
in Pennsylvania, where, it is said, as much as 
twenty-four million cubic feet of gas are each 
day permitted to escape  in  smoke.  Ovens 
have recently been set  up which enable the 
coke manufacturer to make from thebi-prod- 
ucts  a  good  eight-candle power gas  which, 
though of no account as an  illuminant, is  of 
great value as a fuel, for it is cheap, requires 
no stoking as coal fuel  does  and  leaves  no 
ash and clinkers behind.  The fuel gas, it has 
been found, may  profitably  be  sold  at  ten 
cents the 1,000 cubic feet.  A  careful  esti­
mate shows that  such  fuel  would  cost  the 
proprietors of a puddling  furnace  not  more 
than 83 a day, the boilers costing 81 for  the 
same time; and ordinary  dwellings could be 
furnished with fuel both for heat  and  cook 
ing purposes for fen cents a day.  Wherever 
gas has been used as a fuel it has given  sat­
isfaction. 
It  readily  generates  an  intense 
heat, leaves no soot and requires little if any 
attention.  For domestic use, both for  heat­
ing and cooking, it is likely to prove invalua­
ble.  As now made, fuel gas is  charged  for 
at  the rate of from thirty to forty  cents  per 
thousand cubic feet.  This  in  a  restaurant, 
where a whole range is used for fifteen hours 
a day, would amount to about  twents cents; 
a  domestic  stove  used  by  a  small  family 
would consume only a few  cents’  worth  of 
fuel gas per  d&y. 
In  many  parts  of  the 
country arrangements  for  the  manufacture 
and distribution of fuel gas  are  now  being 
made;  notably at Yonkers, N. Y., where al­
ready its sale has begun. 
In short,  there  is 
reason to believe that, in the future,  gas,  as 
a  fuel, will prove invaluable, as well to  the 
small housekeepers as to the great manufac­
turers.

Packed  In  Glucose.

From the California Grocer and Canner.

Several weeks ago a  number of agents for 
Eastern concerns made  their  appearance  in 
this city, and nearly drummed the canners to 
death in an endeavor to market a large quan­
tity of glucose.  At that  time  the  industry 
was congratulated upon its fortitude in with­
standing the arguments of the  traving  trad­
ers. 
It was thought that the good  example 
of the honest and public-spirited canners had 
brought their erring  brothers  to  a  sense  of 
their  degradation,  and all  were  willing  to 
forget the past, confident in the hope of a com­
plete  reformation  in  the  tricky  packers. 
Since  then  a  large  quantity  of  glucose has 
been imported, and it is openly admitted that 
it is the intention  to  use  it in this season’s 
fruit-packing operations. 
In  defense of the 
use of the stuff, it is said by those to whom it 
was  consigned,  that  prices  of  sugar  have 
been so high that canners could not afford to 
use granulated sugar in making  syrups.  A 
large majority of the canners will  use  grau- 
lated sugar, and they say they cannot  afford 
to allow any canner, or canning company, to 
send out goods prepared with glucose to com­
pete  against  their own  straight  goods;  and 
the probable result will be that they who hope 
to gather illegitimate profits this season will 
be foiled in the attempt, for the trade will be 
fully advised  as to  the  different  brands  in 
which the glucose has been used, and the ex­
tent of the pack of each;  so that in point  of 
fact the goods might as well be sent into the 
market bearing the  token  “Packed  in  Glu­
cose.”

“Ten years ago,”  said  Gath,  “I  knew  a 
man who had 811,000,000 and seven children. 
One day I asked him why he did  not retire. 
His  answer  was:  ‘I  have  811,000,000,  I 
want just 12, because I have seven children. 
My wish is to give each a million  and  keep 
five for myself.’  That man died in  a  tene­
ment-house,  and  his  children  are working 
for 81 a day.”

The menhaden oil works on  the  Atlantic 
coast employ 3,000 men.  Last year the catch 
«quailed 6,000  fish,  making  over  1,000,000 
gallons of oil.

BENEVOLENCE  AND  BUSINESS.

ducted.

How  the

‘Bon  Marche”  of Paris  is  Con­
Comparatively few are unacquainted with 
this wonderful dry-goods store of  Paris, but 
I think not many know  that  it is a benevo­
lent work as well  as  a  succescful  business 
undertaking.  Mr.  Boucicaut,  the founder, 
began  life as a poor boy, and  when able to 
have a little store of  his own, his  attention 
was  directed  to the  welfare of  his clerks, 
and hejgave them, as  soon  as he was able a 
home  in his  own house.  From  this small 
beginning the work  has grown wonderfully. 
Mr. Boucicaut  died a few  years ago worth 
millions of  dollars, and  to-day  the  “Bon 
Marche,”  carried  on  by his  widow,  em­
ploys 3,000 people.

Two thousand of .these people  live in the 
building and  the  3,000  take  their  meals 
there.  The first  thing  to  be  noticed  by a 
party  making a tour  of  inspection of  this 
great  concern  is  a hall  filled  with desks, 
where a great many  boys  and  young  men 
are  studying  book-keeping.  They  review 
all the  books of  the  store, and  are paid a 
small amount for every  mistake  they  find. 
In the evening lessons are given gratuitously 
in English, German, instrumental  and vocal 
music and  fencing.  Concerts  are given by 
the store in the  summer, in  the  square  by 
the side of the  building;  in  the  winter, on 
the ground floor, which can be cleared by the 
porters in  twenty  minutes of counters  and 
goods, when it is needed for that purpose or 
for balls.  There are four dining-rooms, one 
for the  men  clerks, one  for  the girls, one 
for the workwomen, and  one for the porters 
messengers and drivers.

The menu for dinner of one day consisted 
of soup, one kind of meat, one  kind of  veg­
etable, and  dessert, and  for  each  person a 
half-bottle of wine.  Coffee is extra; it costs 
two cents for a small  cup  and  three  cents 
for the large  ones.  Three  hundred  people 
are employed in the  kitchen  and as waiters 
in the  dining-rooms.  The  kettles are  im­
mense, three  feet  high, and  no  man  can 
meet his  arms  around  one  of  them.  Of 
course, when full and hot  they  are  beyond 
the  ability of  man to move, so pulleys  are 
arranged which lift the kettles  from the fire 
and place them where they are wanted.

For the clerks  there is a room for amuse­
ments, where there are billiard tables, chess, 
checkers, dominoes, etc., but  no  card play­
ing.

The lady clerks have a pleasant little  par­
lor, where there is a piano, and  where  they 
can spend their  evenings when they choose. 
Each  girl has a room  entirely  to  herself, 
which is plainly  but very  comfortably fur­
nished.  There are rules to  be  observed by 
all, but they are not burdensome, or  oppres­
sive; the doors are not closed  on week days 
until 11, and on Sundays until 12:3Q at night 
but  the  occupations  and  entertainments 
make it more  enticing to remain  at  home 
than to go out.

Every one in  the  service  of  the  “Bon 
Marche” receives a  certain  commission  on 
everything  sold  or  delivered, and  after  a 
number of  years’ service, each  acquires  an 
interest in the  store that  increases  yearly. 
It is one of the most  complete  works of be­
nevolence known. 
It would  be  almost im­
possible to think of any  details that are not 
attended to.  There is a barber’s shop in the 
building for the use of the  employes, a phy- 
scian is employed by  the  store, and his ser­
vices are free  to  all; moreover, there  is an 
infirmary in another  part  of the  city where 
those who are sick  are  cared for; a  pair of 
boots is blacked for every member of the es­
tablishment every day.  When asked if any 
board was paid, the answer was “no,” but  I 
suppose at least some  difference is made  in 
the salary.  A peep  at this  famous  estab- 
lishmen is always  included  in the  program 
of those visiting Paris.

Tobacco Culture in Brazil,

Tobacco cultivation in  Brazil began about 
the year 1600, in the  province of Bahia,  and 
from thence  extended  to  all  the other dis­
tricts along the coast. 
In 1881-2 the tobacco 
exports had reached an aggregate of 52,000,- 
000  pounds,  of  the  value  of  83,402,000. 
Large  quantities of the leaves in bales  are 
exported to  Hamburg.  Cigar  factories are 
established in all the large cities throughout 
the tobacco growing regions.  The  methods 
employed in the cultivation  and preparation 
of the plant are very much the same as they 
were 200 years ago.  The tobacco of  Brazil 
is  characterized  by  its  strength  and  dark 
color.

July  and  August 

The seed may  be  germinated  in any sea­
son of the  year, but the  winter  months of 
June, 
are  gener­
ally preferred for planting the seed, because 
germination and  transplanting  are  brought 
into  or  near  the  rainy  season.  Tobacco 
plants, when planted in this season, are con­
sidered the best growers and  produce larger 
leaves.  Those, however, which  are germin­
ated in the  dry season, and  sustained by ir­
rigation, grow with greater  vigor  and  pos­
sess a better aroma.  The land  selected for 
the  . plants is  cleared  and  surface-worked 
with a hoe, after which it is marked off  into 
parallel rows about three feet  apart, accord­
ing to locality  and  size of  mature  plants. 
In transplating, the  young  plants  are  set 
from two to two  and a half  feet  apart, and 
are manured heavily in  the  pits  opened for

them.  Care is necessary for a  time  to pro­
tect them from the sun and to  irrigate plen­
tifully when the transplanting  occurs in the 
dry  season.  The work of  cultivation  and 
keeping down  the  weeds  is  done  entirely 
with the hoe.  The work of  cutting out the 
suckers is performed once a week.

In gathering in the crop the planter usual­
ly  waits until the plant  is  fully mature,  as 
determined by doubling and breaking one of 
the top  leaves. 
In Bahia  and  many  other 
places,  however,  the  lower  leaf  is  often 
picked  by  itself,  and then 
in a few days 
the next, and so on as long as the plant will 
develop the lower  leaves into what is called 
the first quality.  These leaves are  hung up 
two  and two, under  cover  and  across poles, 
twenty-four hours after  picking  and  sweat­
ing. 
In  curing, the  tobacco  grows  darker 
and darker,  until it becomes jet black.

Clothespins Twelve  for a Cent.

“To  look  at  that  clothespin,” .said  the 
dealer, you’d scarcely believe  that the man­
ufacturer could make and sell twelve of ’em 
for a cent, and  have a profit of  more  than 
fifty per cent, at that, would you?”

“No,”  replied  the  reporter,  “but I don’t 

know anything about clothespins.”

“Well, said the dealer, “they whittle them 
out at the rate of eighty a minute.  A beech 
or maple  log, a foot  in  diameter  and  ten 
feet long, will whittle up into 12,000 clothes­
pins.  That log won’t cost more than 82. The 
clothespins they cut out of  it  will be worth 
896.40. It will take them two hours and a half 
to run  that  log  into  clothespins, which is 
whittling out 4,500 an hour.  At ten hours a 
day they get away with four logs  and  have 
on hand 48,000  clothespins, worth  8385.60. 
Now, the  lumber  for  these  pins has only 
cost  88 or so. 
If that was all  the expense, 
a  man  with  a  clothespins  factory  might 
snap  his  fingers at the  Standard Oil Com­
pany or Grant &  Ward  profits.  But  then 
those logs must be sawed up by four  differ­
ent  kinds or saws.  One  separates  the log 
into  lengths  of  sixteen  inches; 
another 
saws these into boards  three  quarters of an 
inch  thick; another  cuts  the  boards  into 
strips  three-quarters  of  an  inch  square. 
These strips are caught on a wheel that hur­
ries  them to a gang  of  saws  which  chop 
them 
lengths.  These 
lengths  are  carried by a swift-moving  belt 
to a machine that  seizes  them, sets them in 
a lathe that gives  them  their  shape in the 
twinkling of an eye, and  throws them to an 
attendant, who  feeds  them  to a saw  that 
moves  backward  and forward as if it were 
madder than a snake.  This saw  chews out 
the slot that the  washwoman  shoves  down 
over the clothes on the line, and the clothes­
pin is ready, all but  kiln  drying and polish­
ing.

clothespin 

into 

“The latter is  done  in  a  revolving  iron 
cylinder  the same as  castings  are cleaned. 
All these  processes  cost  money, and when 
the manufacturer comes to put up  his goods 
for sale he finds that his  profit on the 48,000 
pins, his day’s work, is  only 8193.  We pay 
the  manufacturer a cent a  dozen, or a trifle 
more than 88 a thousand. We are compelled, 
in these close times, to sell  them for 4 cents 
a dozen, or 832 a thousand.”

No  Hod-Carriers  in  Germany.

As there are no hod-carriers  in  Germany, 
for the simple reason that  a  hod  is  as  un­
known there as an  Irishman  is,  each  brick 
must  be  passed  from  hand to hand again. 
The higher up the brick-layers  are the more 
men are required to  toss  the  bricks.  Two 
men  to a story is  about  the  average,  with 
enough more to lead  from  the  front of  the 
building to the place  where  the  bricks  are 
needed.  Thus,  says  a  writer  in  the  San 
Francisco Chronicle, I have  seen three men 
on the  ground,  eight  on  the  front  of  the 
building, and five on the top, making sixteen 
men through whose hands each brick passed 
before it reached its place of  destination. 
I 
have frequently seen and  watched  a  single 
brick go climbing up the  front of a building 
leaping from hand to hand, and I have won­
dered all the time  why in  the  world  hods, 
horse-power,  or  steam  engines  were  not 
used.

Sun-Poisoned Potatoes.

No grocer should  allow  potatoes to stand 
in front of  his  store  in  the sun, as they be­
long  to  the  “Solanum”  family,  of  which 
the  deadly  nightshade  is one  of  its full 
brothers.  All  branches of  the  family con­
tain more or less of  that  poisonous narcotic 
called “solanine.”  The bulb, or potato, con­
tains the least of  this unless they are expos­
ed to the  sun, which  rapidly  develops  this 
element.  Long exposure  to  the light, with­
out the direct sun, will  develop the solatine 
in the potato, and make an  article  unfit for 
food.  But exposure  to  the sun  is so injur 
ious to the  potato,  making  it  not  only un­
palatable  but  actually  injurious to health, 
that  any  grocer,  for the offence  of  selling 
potatoes  which  have  been  exposed  two or 
three days  to  the  sun  ought to be indicted 
for selling unhealthy and  dangerous human 
food.

T h e T ra desm a n is in  receipt of samples 
of the luminous goods manufactured  by the 
Enterprise  Manufacturing  Co.,  of  Akron, 
Ohio, which possess points that readily com­
mend themselves to the business public.

PEANUTS  AND  FRUITS.

Some Observations of a Loquacious Dealer. 
From the Detroit Times.

Everbody  meets the  man  whose  pockets 
bulge with peanuts at all  hours  of  the day 
and night, and each  epoch  in  whose  exist­
ence is marked with  exclamation  points of 
peanut shells. It is this well defined penchant 
on the part of humanity which  enables  the 
street comer merchants to  drive a profitable 
trade and revel in the luxuries of maccaroni 
and cheap  cigars  with  a  Spanish  brand. 
Women peanut fiends  are not so common as 
masculine munchers, yet shapely fingers and 
pearly teeth have been  known to  crush the 
indigestible  luxury  with more or  less em­
phasis and with considerably more than less 
publicity.

“There has been a  great  change  in  the 
peanut industry during the  past ten years,” 
said a prominent vendor of small  fruits and 
nuts yesterday.  “I  can recollect  the  time 
when  peanuts  were  worth  17  cents  per 
pound at wholesale, and when every man of 
intelligence considered  that day a total loss 
which  did  not  include  a peanut  banquet. 
These banquets formed the  principal indus­
try of some men that  I  could  name. 
I am 
speaking now of the years 1875-1876.  About 
that time I bought an automatic machine for 
roasting peanuts, which  went with a crank, 
much the same as  some  of  my leading cus­
tomers. 
I paid  8225 for the piece of mech­
anism, and I don’t in the least  mind telling 
you that I cleared  on an  average a profit of 
810 per day on my instrument.”

“Who were some of  your leading custom - 

ers in those dark ages of peanut history?”

“Well, first and foremost, I must place on 
record as an old time peanut champion John 
Logan Chipman, the great  Michigan  jurist. 
Of course, I am  hardly prepared to say that 
his brain owes its  judicial  greatness to pea­
nuts, but peanuts  once  played a  prominent 
part in his daily walk and conversation.  He 
could flip a peanut  shell a greater  distance 
and with greater precision than  any man on 
record. 
If the space beneath his desk is not 
littered and carpeted with  peanut  shells at 
the present time it is owing  to the  fact that 
time has worked a decided reformation.  Do 
you see that man who just came through, on 
his way back to see  another  man on impor­
tant  business?  That’s Joseph  Cook, one of 
my old  time  peanut  regulars.  No, not the 
Boston rattler—the Detroit  level head.  He 
has bought  several tons of roasted  peanuts 
in  his  day  and  generation. 
I  think  he 
could get more  solid comfort  out  of  a  fat 
and deceptive peanut  than any  man I have 
ever  known.  About the  only  peculiarity 
that I recall in relation to  his  methods was 
found in the fact that he carried  his supply 
in his trousers’ procket. 
It  made  consider­
able of a circus when I rung a measure in on 
him  that  had  just come out of  the roaster 
piping hot. 
It’s a good  deal  easier to pour 
a pint  of  peanuts  into  a  man's  trousers’ 
pocket in a compact volley than to fish them 
out  single-handed  afterwards.  E.  S. Bar­
bour, of the  Detroit  Stove  Co., is another 
chap who has  pulverized a great many pea­
nuts against time.  One  peculiarity  of  my 
peanut customers is that most of the leading 
ones have since become great and good men. 
S. D. Miller  and  John  G. Irwin  must be 
placed upon the champion list. 
I don’t like 
to say  anything  about  George P. Goodale, 
otherwise I might tell you  how he wrote all 
his “Signor  Max” articles  while  under the 
influence  of  peanut  inspiration. 
If  you 
have read them you  will  readily  recognize 
the points where the shells got  mixed up in 
a grapevine twist  with the kernels.  When­
ever I got a poor roast on my peanuts he got 
a poor roast on his readers.  A h! those were 
great days. 
I have dropped the peanut bus- 
ness  since.  You can’t sell  peanuts  for 20 
cents  per quart in this  misguided  age. 
If 
you get half that now-a-days you.  are  doing 
well.”

“How about the street merchants?”
“Well an Italian on the  corner  of  Wood­
ward and  Larned  buys  his  stock in New 
York and buys the best  goods  he can  pro­
cure.  He has been in the  business here for 
the past ten years  and  is  said to  have ac­
cumulated  a  goodly  supply  of  material 
wealth.  Of course a man of  that sort saves 
about everything  he  makes, living  entirely 
on  maccaroni, a brand  of  sustenance  that 
comes cheap.  That class  of  trade  is  alto­
gether of the five cent order, and  such deal­
ers buy nothing  on  which  risk is likely to 
be incurred.  Unless they can purchase at a 
bargain  with the  certainty of  getting back 
promptly  their  money—and  a  good  deal 
more on top of it—they wont  touch what is 
offered them. 
It is different  with those fel­
lows who peddle  about the  city in  wagons 
and breed colic and pestilence  by the  infer­
ior quality of their  wares.  They  buy only 
when the market is glutted, and  buy the re­
fuse.  When a large merchant finds himself 
stuck on a lot of half decayed  truck he sells 
it off to these chaps  for  whatever they will 
pay, and they turn it over  again to children 
and  persons  who  are not  judges of  good 
goods for about threee times  what it is real­
ly worth.”

“How about the fruit trade?”
“Well, there are some feautures about the 
business  which  might  prove  of  interest. 
Now,  take  grapes  for  instance. 
I could 
handle  grapes,  all  the  year  round, but I 
hardly think I could  find  many  victims  at

NO. 41.

87 per pound.  That is the  rate  of tariff in 
New York at certain seasons of the year. 
I 
have  got as  high  as  83.50,  but  my con­
science  refused  to  stretch  beyond 
that 
figure.  Peaches also  run  up  to 81 each in 
eastern  markets.  Strawberries 
readily 
bring 87 per quart in New York  during the 
month of January. 
I have introduced man­
goes in the Detroit market season, and I am 
cultivating  quite a relish  for  the  tropical 
delicacy among  the  more  luxurious of my 
customers. 
I have a call for  mangoes  now 
almost every hour of  the  day. 
I shall soon 
bring  on a supply of West  India  limes, as 
an experiment. 
I have a very large  banana 
trade, which is  steadily on  the  increase. A 
taste  for  bananas, I think, is acquired  by 
cultivation.  Most people  prefer the yellow 
brand, of which there are two  varieties, one 
coming  from  the  Isthmus, Aspinwall, and 
the other from Jamaica.  The former  is the 
most popular  brand.  The  red  varieties of 
bananas  are  known to the  trade  as Barra- 
coas.  The most  satisfactory point  for  the 
purchase  of  foreign  fruits  is  California. 
From there I receive black  and  white cher­
ries and appricots.  The leading  peculiarity 
of Californian  fruits  is found  in  the  fact 
that  they seem to  keep  longer  and better 
than  any  other.  Those  cherries 
that 
you  see  out  there in front  have  been on 
hand for five  days  and are just as fresh as 
the day they arrived.

The Soap  Caper.

A  very  successful  swindle,  operated  by 
street peddlers, is what is technically known 
as  the “soap  caper,”  For  the  purpose  of 
the swindle two  fellows  will  buy  a  lot  of 
cheap soap and cut it  up  into  small  pieces, 
which  are  daintily  perfumed  and  nicely 
wrapped in fancy colored paper.  This is all 
the stock in trade needed, except a generous 
allowance of  cheek.  One  of  the  fellows 
dresses himself up like  a dude, and general­
ly  conducts  himself  so  that  everybody  to 
whom he appeals  makes fun  of  him.  Per­
haps he does sell a few  pieces  of  the  soap, 
for it appears to  do  what  is  claimed for it, 
but he purposely makes such  an ass of him­
self that  nobody wants  to  trade  with  him. 
Soon, when lie is boasting of how much soap 
he can sell in  a  day, a common-looking  fel­
low  in  the  crowd  calls  out, “Well,  why 
don’t  you sell it then?” and at once they get 
into a wrangle, which is  ended by the plain 
fellow betting that he can sell  more soap in 
ten minutes than the proprietor of the stand 
can sell in half  an hour.  The bet is gener­
ally quite  a  large  one,  and  as sympathy is 
entirely with  the  common-looking  fellow, 
the crowd comes to his support, and  he rap­
idly sells  out his  share  of  the  soap, and 
finally also disposes  of  the  greater  part of 
the other’s  packages. 
It is needless to say 
that  the  fellows  are  confederates, and  are 
playing into each other’s  hands.  Two good 
operators  can  make  tremendous  profits by 
working this game, and  they run  no risk of 
being arrested.

Served  Her Right.

A certain pretentious  shopper  at Albany,, 
after teasing the clerks of a dry  goods  store 
beyond the forbearance limit, pompously or­
dered a spool  of  thread  to  be  sent  to  her 
house. 
It was  agreed  that  she  should  be 
made an example  of  and a warning  to  her 
kind.  She was surprised, and her neighbors 
were intensely interested,  shortly  after  she 
had arrived at home.  A common dray drawn 
by four horses proceeded  slowly  up  to  her 
door.  On the dray, with bare  arms,  were  a 
number of laborers.  They were holding  on 
vigorously to some  object  which  she  could 
not see. 
It was a most puzzling affair.  The 
neighbors  stared.  After  a  great deal  of 
whip-cracking  and  other  impressive  cere­
monies, the cart was backed against the curb. 
There, reposing calmly, and, in the center of 
the  cart  floor,  was  the  identical  spool  of 
thread which she had “ordered.”  It seemed 
to.be coming all right.  With  the  aid  of  a 
plank, it was finally rolled, barrel fashion, to 
the sidewalk.  After a mortal struggle it was 
“up-ended”  on  the  purchaser’s  door-step. 
The fact that the purchaser came out a min­
ute later and kicked her  own  property  into- 
the gutter  detracted nothing from the  moral 
of the undertaking.

A New Article of Food.

this 

that 

the  knowledge 

A Norwegian speculator, says the British 
Trade Journal, has been  turning his atten­
tion  recently to  the  introduction  of  whale 
meat as an article of food.  He was induced 
through  a  belief  that 
to  do 
it 
nutricious  and  palatable,
was  both 
and 
immense
quantities of it  are  annually thrown  away, 
notwithstanding  large  quantities  of  it  are 
eaten each season  by  those  engaged  in the 
whale fisheries.  He concluded that*if  some 
preserving process were adopted  it could be 
profitably  used  on  shore.  He  accordingly 
made arrangements with  several captains of 
whaling  vessels  and  two  meat-preserving 
firms, and some time  since he gave a whale 
dinner.  At this  dinner  he  claims  to  have 
proven that whale flesh may be  cooked in a 
dozen  different  ways, and  that  it  forms  a 
delicious as well  as a  wholesome  article of 
diet. 
It is said that some  parts  of  the fish 
supplied material for, and excellent imitation 
of, turtle soup; other portions resemble beef; 
while  other  portions  again,  are  almost  as 
white and tender as chicken.

A JO U R N A L DEVOTED TO TH E

Mercantile and Hanufacturina: Interests of the State.

£ .  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

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

WEDNESDAY,  JULY  2,  1884.

POST  NO.  1.

Organized at  Grand Rapids, June 28,1884. 

O F F IC E R S .

President—Wm. Logie.
Vice-President—Lloyd Max Mills.
Secretary and Treasurer—L. W.  Atkins. 
Committee on Constitution and By-Laws—Wal­
lace Franklin,  Geo.  F.  Owen,  Geo.  H. Sey­
,
mour. 
Next Meeting—At Reed’s Lake, Saturday, July 
5, at 3 p. m.

gagr"  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.

Post No. 1- 

per.

-May you live  long  and  pros-

Saturday, July 5, promises to be a  red let­
ter day  with  the  traveling  men  of  Grand 
Kapids.

Concentration and organization are the or­
der of  the  day,  and  the  traveling  men  of 
Grand Rapids propose to be  no exception to 
the general rule.

The wholesale grocers of New York  City 
have followed in the footsteps of the jobbing 
trade at this  market,  by  agreeing  to  close 
their places of business at 3 o’clock  on  Sat­
urdays.

In hardware, there has  been  a  new  bolt 
list adopted, and the discount is  now 75  per 
cent.  New lists are  now  in  the  hands  of 
jobbers, who are mailing them to  their  cus­
tomers.

The arrangements made by the officers for 
the  reunion and  picnic  at  Reed’s  Lake  on 
Saturday  are  all 
that  could  be  desired, 
and are sufficiently elaborate  and  attractive 
to secure the presence of every Knight of the 
Gripsack.  All travelers are cordially invited 
to be present and to bring  their  ladies  with 
them.

A new feature is added this  week  in  the 
shape of synopses of all  decisions  rendered 
by the Michigan Supreme Court in any  way 
relating to  trade  and  commercial  matters. 
T h e  T ra desm a n has also  arranged with a 
well-known lawyer to answer  all legal quer­
ies  concerning trade that may be  propound­
ed  by  our subscribers.  Questions  coming 
under this head must be brief  and  pointed, 
and have a direct bearing upon  the  subjects 
discussed in this journal.

The Tradesman is requested to extend a 
cordial  invitation  to  every  traveling  man, 
whether a resident of this city  or  only here 
temporarily, to participate in the picnic to be 
held at Reed’s Lake Saturday,  July 5, under 
the auspices of Post No.  1.  Every  traveler 
is expected to bring with  him  his  wife,  or 
sister, or some other fellow’s  sister ; and,  if 
convenient, a well-filled basket  of  eatables. 
Those who are  unable  to  comply  with  the 
latter requirement can obtain suitable accom­
modation of the caterer at the  Lake.

A  Parting  Shot.

“ ‘Dirty Dunlap’ is particularly apropos,” 
said a leading jobber,  “for he is one  of  the 
foulest  mouthed  men  I  ever  met. 
Some 
time ago—before we knew him as well as we 
do now—he proposed that we borrow $5,000 
of him at a fair rate  of  interest,  which  we 
agreed to do.  But as we did not  make  any 
calculation on the money, we were not disap­
pointed that is never came to hand.”

One of the most  amusing  stories  told  of 
Dunlap’s cheeky pretentions is his brief  but 
spirited career at a certain Ohio town several 
years ago.  Going  to  the  place  an  entire 
stranger, he represented  himself  to  be  the 
son of a bank president, and readily  obtain­
ed access to  the  best  society  of  the!town. 
The acquaintanceships thus formed  enabled 
him to ply his vocation as a beat to good ad­
vantage, and it was not long  before  he  had 
succeeded in borrowing  money from  nearly 
every young man in the place.  His dashing 
manners,  coupled  with  his  pretentions  to 
wealth and social standing, caused him to be 
dubbed “Count Dunlap,” and this appellation 
still clings to him  wherever  his  connection 
with the episode is known.”

If any dealer  is so foolish as to give Dun­
lap credit, after the  wholesale  exposure he 
has  received, it  will  be no  fault  of’T h e 
T radesm an.

Good  Words  Unsolicited.

H. Whiting, druggist, Traverse City:  “It 

is a good paper.”

City:  “Valuable.”

Geo.  A.  Thayer,  general  dealer, Carson 

B. J. Goodsell &  Co.,  hardware,  Luding- 

ton:  “A very good paper.”

Ball & Co., grocers, Grand  Haven:  “We 
think your paper first-class in  every  respect 
and up to the times.”

Met L. Saley, of Chicago, one of  the best 
newspaper men in  the  West,  writes: 
“It 
gives me pleasure to know that T he Trades­
m an  is  booming. 
It  deserves  to  boom. 
When cause and effect are  considered  there 
is no other thing for it to  do.  The  fact  is, 
the majority of newspaper men  don’t work. 
They fill in in the easiest  possible  maimer. 
It don’t pay.”

I N   T H E   C IT Y .

John Winkler, baker, has sold out to Chute 

& Stynbaugh.

Barth & Co., planing mill  operators, have 
dissolved.  They are succeeded by  Johnson 
&  Co.

The  Cappon  &  Bertsch  Leather Co. are 
the purchasers of Geo. Metz,  Jr.’s,  tannery 
at Holland.

Provin & Andrews  have  engaged  in  the 
grocery  business  on  Plainfield  avenue. 
Clark, Jewell & Co. furnished the  stock.

Kindge, Bertsch & Co.  announce  another 
decline in rubber goods,  in  consequence  of 
which the discount will hereafter be  35  and 
5 per cent.

“Is there any money in fish culture?” said 
Charley  Holt,  the  Cascade  pisciculturist, 
“well, I should say there was.  There is more 
money in it for me  than  in  raising  wheat. 
My trout pond covers two  acres  of  ground, 
requires about  one-third  of  my  time,  and 
yields  about  $600  net  profits  each year. 
That’s better than any branch of  legitimate 
farming that has ever  been  brought  to  my 
notice.”

As  T h e  T radesm an  predicted,  Judge 
Montgomery refused  to  allow the  claim of 
$250 for legal  services in the  Kendall case, 
put in by Turner & Carroll, instructing them 
to put in an  itemized  bill.  The  case  was 
then adjourned  until  next  Monday. 
It is 
said that  the  claim is for services  and ex­
penses  incurred in taking  two trips to New 
York  in  behalf of John C. Kendall, for the 
purpose  of  attempting to  effect a compro­
mise with the creditors.  If so, the bill should 
be paid by the assignor, and ought not  to be 
put in against the estate.

A R O U N D   T H E   S T A T E .

A. A. Manning, furniture dealer at Evart, 

has sold out.

H. Withey  lias engaged in the  restaurant 

business at  Freeport.

C. H. Clement succeeds Clement &  Clem­

ent in general trade at Sheridan.

Saginaw business men are going to put the 

needed capital into a woolen mill.

W. A. Kibbey  has  engaged  in the  meat 

market business at Hopkins Station.

Rose Bros. & Co., of Petoskey, have open­

ed a branch grocery store at Bay Yiew.

T. C.  Prout,  general  dealer  at  Furnace, 
near Mancelona, has sold out to H. E.  Wat­
son.

L. Straus & Co.  , succeed  Straus & Rosen- 
field in the boot and shoe  business  at  Mus­
kegon.

Stiles & Pray are closing out their stock of 
dry goods at Yermontville, and will  hereaf­
ter devote their attention wholly to the hard­
ware  trade.

J. W. Fearns, formerly engaged in the gro­
cery business at Big Rapids, has  invented  a 
barrel cover, which he calls the “Chief,” and 
which  he is placing  on  theDmarket „in this 
State.

T h e T ra desm a n  stated  last  week  that 
Fink & Knight succeeded Will  A.  Coon  in 
the grocery business at Edmore,  whereas  it 
should have read drug  business.  The  gro­
cery business will be carried on by N. Fink.
A legitimate effect of  making  too  many 
inducements to secure trade—such as paying 
the fare of  outside customers—is the  disas­
trous failure  of Cohen  Bros. & Brownstein, 
general  dealers at Ludhigton and Ridgway. 
Pa.  The  firm  was  supposed to be  worth 
from $20,000 to $40,000, and easily obtained 
credit  for  about  $70,000.  H. B.-Claffin & 
Co., of  New  York, were  given  a  chattel 
mortgage for  $29,000, and [_ subsequently se­
cured a bill of  sale, the nominal  considera­
tion being $30,000.  The whole matter looks 
like a Claffln  trick to  shut  out  the  other 
creditors.

STRAY  FACTS.

The Marshall shirt factory is in full blast 
Bellaire is talking of a big  sash  and  door 

S.  R.  Van  Drezer  has  opened a lumber 

H. J. Leonard’s new elevator at Belding is 

factory.

yard at Saranac.

nearly  completed.

Sisson & Lilley have bought 8,000,000 feet 

additional pine in Newaygo county.

Post’s planing mill at Coleman, is to  have 
an addition in the shape of a stave and head­
ing machine.

A factory, 30x100 feet, two stories high, 

building at Bellaire, and its  principal  pro­
duct will be scoops.

Mr. Gibbs, of  Fife  Lake,  .has  leased the 
shingle mill of H. Lucas & Son, at Richland 
and will operate it in the future.

Petoskey  Democrat:  A  building  30x90 
feet is being erected by T.  K.  Winser  near 
his bowl factory, part of which will  be used 
in the manufacture of  woooden  bowls,  and 
the balance leased to a gentleman from  Chi 
cago who is about to engage in the manufac­
ture of wooden faucets, measures, etc.

David Ward, at Manistee,  is  constructing 
a track from the railroad to  the  little  lake, 
by which means he can  convey  his  logs 
the Flint & Pere Marquette  track  for  ship­
ment to East Saginaw.  He  expects to  thus 
transport 4.000,000  to  5,000,000  feet,  to 
sawed at Saginaw  mills.

John Canfield, at Manistee, has  not  gone 
short on logs this year to  any  great  extent. 
Besides running his own  saws,  he  has  em- 
employed a portion  of  the  capacity  of the 
mills of the following named concerns to help 
him  dispose of surplus logs:  Rudock,  Nut- 
tall & Co., Louis Sands, Filer & Sons, Brooks 
& Sweet, Dempsey, Simpson &Co., andC. B. 
Lewis & Son.

AMONG THE TRADE.

POST NO.  1.

Organization of  a  Local  Branch of  the M.

C. T. A.

In response to the call which  appeared in 
T he Tradesm an of last  week, for  a meet­
ing of commercial  travelers to consider  the 
subject  of  effecting a  local  organization, 
about  twenty representatives of  the frater­
nity assembled at the reading room at Sweet's 
Hotel Saturday evening, among  which were 
the following:

Wm.  Boughton,  Wm.  Logie,  L. W. At­
kins, Geo. F. Owen.  L. Max  Mills,  W.  H. 
Downs,  W. G.  Hawkins,  J. L.  Bradford, 
Geo. H.  Seymour,  Wallace  Franklin, Jas. 
McSkinmin, N. S.  McComell,  Ed.  P.  An­
drew, W. S. Horn, E. P. Dana and FredSel- 
leck, all of  Grand  Rapids,  and  Samuel F. 
Poorman, of Detroit.

The meeting was called to order by L. W. 
Atkins, Second Vice-President of  the Mich­
igan  Commercial  Travelers’  Association, 
who  stated  the  objects  embodied  in  the 
call.  First and foremost it was  thought ad­
visable to organize a local post  of the M. C.
T. A.—meiqbership in  the  parent  body be 
ing requisite to render one eligible to  active 
connection with the local  association—com­
posed of traveling  men  who  reside in this 
city.  Numerous  questions  are  coming up 
at various times, relative to concessions  and 
rebates  from  the  railways, etc., which the 
Grand Rapids boys are unable to discuss and 
act upon, on account of lack of organization. 
Moreover, they are not cultivating  that soci­
ability that marks  the  fraternity in several 
other cities.  Many of the  boys  are  not ac­
quainted with more than  two  dozen travel­
ers out of the  same  market. 
It is difficult 
to find a half dozen whose  families are inti­
mate.  Visiting  salesman  have no  general 
place of resort where  they can make the ac­
quaintance of local  representatives of trade. 
This condition  of affairs calls for  organiza­
tion, for  concerted action, both  in business 
and social channels.  The best means at com­
mand are to organize a post  of M. C. T. A., 
to be governed by officers  and an  executive 
board. 
Included in the  plan, would be the 
proposition  to  rent  and  furnish  suitable 
rooms,  where  the  members  and  visiting 
travelers could always  find a welcome, with 
an opportunity to read,  write  and smoke or 
seek diversion in games or conversation.  A 
letter  was  read  from a  member  of  the 
Rochester  post,  detailing  the  advantages 
that had  accrued  from a similiar  organiza­
tion in that city.  The post  there  is  an  in­
corporated  body, numbering  131  members. 
They have the  finest  rooms  in  Rochester, 
four in  number,  elegantly  furnished,  and 
containing a piano, billiard  table  and  card 
tables.  Every Saturday  evening  the rooms 
are  crowded to  their  utmost  capacity, at 
which time  music and  refreshments are an 
especial feature.  No  liquors  are  allowed 
except  on  special  occasions, such  as ban­
quets, etc.

cares of business  for a day, and enjoy a few 
hours of  recreation, association  and  union. 
Let the  occasion be  the  foundation  for a 
broader and deeper  friendship  and  fellow­
ship, a rejoicing over^what has  been accom­
plished  in  the  past, and a preparation  for 
greater triumphs in the future!

P IC N IC   N O T E S.

Ben. F. Parmenter will whistle a solo.
A. S. Doak will  point  out the  merits of 

his running horse.

lead a class meeting.

Hub Baker will demonstrate his ability to 

Wm. H. Jennings will indulge his appetite 

for strawberry lemonade.

Geo. F. Owen will  have  a  fund  of  new 

stories at command.  Fact!

A. C. Sharpe will deliver  a  discourse  on 

the subject of grape culture.

Ed. Frick will confine his remarks during 

the day to exactly sixteen words.

Charley Drew will be on hand,  if  he  can 

possibly spare the time from Ionia.

John D. Mangum  will  expatiate upon the 

political virtues of Sammy Tilden.

Philo B. Newtan will  give a discourse  on 

scriptural and philosophical subjects.

Wm. B. Edmunds and Wm. Boughton will 

appear in the role of the “Twin  Giants.”

D. C.  Underwood  will  endeavor  to  sell 

every one present a corner lot at Elmira.

The annual picnic of the M. C. T.  A. will 
be held on the same day at Sugar Island, De­
troit.

D. S. Haugh will give a  dissertion on  the 
manly art of self-defense, with  practical  il­
lustrations.

Ben  Hollister  will  be  on  hand with his 
horse fiddle, which he  got  in  exchange  for 
his base viol.

Dick Mangold will perform  his  great  act 
of talking  10,000  sentences  in  fifteen  con 
secutive minutes.

Charles  Wilcox  will be compelled to put 
in the  time  in  Muskegon, as he has an en­
gagement with his best girl.

Jas. A. Morrison will  explain his method 
of training  runaway horses  and take a bass 
part in the musical programme.

Dr. J. B. Evans will entertain  those  who 
have literary inclinations by reading and in­
terpreting the manuscript of  his  new  play 
John  Read  will  walk  around  the  Lake 
quicker  than  Ihe  steamboat  can make the 
trip, in case he gets home  from his northern 
trip.

Frank Collins will drive out with his fast 
horse, and he and R. B. Orr  will  get  up  a 
shake purse and  determine  the fleetness of 
their flyers.

Geo.  Seymour, the  champion  fisherman 
will succeed in hooking enough  blue gills  to 
supply  the  entire party, and  have  several 
baskets left.

Wm. B.  Collins  will  only  have  time  to 
shake hands with the boys, as a recent  addi­
tion to  his  family  monopolizes  almost  his 
entire time and  attention.

Crookston  will  distinguish  himself  by 
wearing a pair of shoes made especially  for 
Chang, the Chinese  giant,  having  soles ex­
actly an inch in  thickness.

Billy Logie spoke of the  concessious that 
could be obtained from the  railroads  enter­
ing here, in case of united action.  At  pres; 
ent there are no committees representing the 
traveling men  outside  of  Detroit, and as a 
onsequence the  railroad  most used by  the 
Grand Rapids boys—theG. R. &I.—is behind 
several other  roads in the State in  point of 
rebate  on baggage.  As there are fifty-seven 
members of  the  M.  C.  T.  A.  residing  in 
Grand Rapids,  it is time that  some  under­
standing  was  reached, in order  that  they 
might act in concert on all points  involving 
the advancement of their business. Of  course 
those who are not  members will  have  free 
access to the rooms of the  organization, and 
enjoy nearly all the privileges accorded Teg­
ular members.

Samuel  F.  Poorman, of  Detroit,  related 
some of the social pleasures  that attend the 
annual festivities of the resident members of 
theM. C. T. A., and urged the Grand Rapids 
boys to form a bond of union.

After a rambling discussion  pro and  con 
the measure, it  was declared  the  sense  of 
the meeting that preliminary steps be  taken 
to effect such an  organization,  and  Messrs. 
Boughton, Logie and Mills were appointed a 
committee to draft an  agreement for  signa­
ture.  The resolution reported was  accepted 
and adopted, and the following  names were 
immediately appended:  L.  W. Atkins, Wm. 
Boughton, J. N. Bradford, W.  J.  Hawkins,
J. McSkimmin, Geo. F.  Owen, Geo. H. Sey-
mour,  W.  H.  Downs,  E. P.  Dana,  Wm. 
Logie, Wallace Franklin and Lloyd M. Mills. 
The  election of officers  being in order, the 
following were  unanimously chosen  to  fill 
the positions mentioned:
President—Wm. Logie.
Vice-President—Lloyd Max Mills.
Secretary and Treasurer—L. W. Atkins.
Messrs. Wallace  Franklin, Geo. F. Owen, 
and Geo. H. Seymour were appointed a com­
mittee to draft a constitution  and  by-laws, 
to be submitted for  approval or amendment 
at a future meeting.

The question of a picnic was then broached 
and discussed, the  result  being  that it was 
decided to hold a reunion and  basket picnic 
at the pavilion  grounds at Reed’s Lake next 
Saturday.  All traveling men  are  cordially 
invited to participate in the pleasures of the 
occasion, and  bring  with  them  such  lady 
company as may be most agreeable.  No es­
pecial  effort  will  be  made to meet at any 
central  location  and go in a body, but  the 
general rendesvous will be at the pavilion at 
10 o’clock.  A meeting  of  the  post will be 
held  that at place  during  the afternoon, at 
which time it is expected  many new  mem­
bers will be added to the roll.

T he Tradesm an bespeaks  for  the  new 
association the full measure of success it  de­
serves, and trusts that  the  benefits  derived 
will more than  exceed the sanguine  expec­
tations of its founders.

Regarding the  picnic, Th e  Tradesm an 
urges every  traveling  man to lay  aside  the

Algernon  Edmund  White,  Cody  Ball  & 
Co.’s giant,  will perform feats  of  muscular 
development  and offers to  run  a  foot-race 
with any man in the crowd.

Jas. E. Ireland will go  on  a  hunting  trip 
around the Lake, and hit everything  except 
the objects aimed at.  He may, possibly, lose 
a thumb in the undertaking.
□Max Mills has brought his yacht down from 
Traverse Bay and will give all  the  boys  an 
opportunity to test her fine sailing  qualities 
and admire his seamanlike ability.

If Joe F. Reed seems morose and preoccu­
pied, his friends may attribute it to the  fact 
that he is contemplating another  investment 
in mining or Honduras timber stocks.

L. R. Cesna  will  trade  horses  with  any 
man  who is the possessor of a  nag with the 
heaves, and, as usual, will  allow  the  other 
fellow to get the better of the  bargain.

Manley Jones prefers  the company of  his 
best girl at Traverse City to the  pleasure  of 
meeting so distinguished an assembly, all of 
which goes to show that he  must  be  pretty 
badly “gone.”

If any one hears a deafening  sound at the 
Lake on the day of the  picnic,  let  him  not 
imagine it to be a  thunderclap,  a  dynamite 
explosion or an earthquake. 
It will only be 
Hawkins, talking.

J. N. Bradford has been laid  up,  tempor­
arily, with an affection of  the  throat, but  is 
nearly recovered,  and  will  take  the  latter 
part of this week’s trip.  John McIntyre has 
taken Brad’s place in the interim.

John McIntyre will be  oh  hand as usual, 
and in order to keep up his  previous  record 
will probably beg, borrow or steal some  one 
else’s dinner.  As he was once  convicted  of 
horse-stealing, the  farmers  in  the  vicinity 
would do well to keep their animals at a safe 
distance.  He will  probably  not  undertake 
to run off with the dummy, however.

All the other boys will act perfectly natur­

al.

The Gripsack Brigade.

Wm. Boughton, of this city, is one of  the 
fourteen original charter members of the M. 
C. T. A.

C. W. Mansfield,  traveling  representative 
for Bradner, Smith & Co.,  left  Monday  for 
Chicago.  He will return  Friday.

Geo. F. Owen, formerly of Spring & Com­
pany, now on the road for  Brewster & Stan­
ton, of Detroit, is taking  his  summer  vaca­
tion here at home, and will not terrorize  his 
trade again until about the 15th.

Valda  A.  Johnston,  formerly  with  the 
Grand Rapids  Packing  and  Provision  Co., 
has accepted a position as traveler for Ham 
ilton Carhartt &  Co.,  of Detroit.  He  will 
make Grand  Rapids  his  headquarters,  and

cover all territory contiguous to this city.

A. D. Baker, northern traveling represent 
ative for Foster, Stevens & Co., has  gone  to 
Lockport, N. J., for a fortnight’s rest and rec­
reation.  His territory will be covered in his 
absence by John Read, with whom the trade 
will be glad to renew their former  acquaint! 
ance.

Samuel F. Poorman, the Detroit  traveler, 
who spent Sunday in this city,  has  a  novel 
scheme in the way of a combination  railway 
ticket, which  he confidently  expects  to  see 
in general use at no very  distant  day.  His 
idea is to issue 5,000  mile  tickets,  good  on 
any road in the United States, the tickets to 
be sold at a uniform price of $100 each, or  2 
cents per mile.  The  accounts  between  the 
various railways would have to be kept by a 
sort of clearinghouse, which would ascertain 
the amount due each road, and settle accord­
ingly. 
In making purchases, the ticket buy­
er would willingly pay an extra  25 cents for 
the  purpose  of  maintaining  the  clearing 
house. As there are 100,000 commercial trav­
elers in the United States, 25 cents  on  each 
ticket would yield $25,000, an ample amount 
to carry on such an undertaking.  This plan 
would prove advantageous to the commercial 
men, as it would enable  them  to  avoid  the 
trouble incident to the  purchase  of  tickets, 
and as it would also put an end to  the scalp­
ers’ business, the railroads would also be the 
gainers in the end.

“Did you ever know how we  came to call 
Ireland the ‘Irish  Sportsman’? ”  said Geo. 
W. Watrous, of Coopersville, tire  other day. 
The sporting  reporter of T h e T ra desm a n I 
confessed ignorance on the subject, and  Mr. 
Watrous continued:  “You see  Ireland was j 
always talking about the wonderful shots he 
had made, and the success that always attend­
ed him whenever he went hunting, so one day 
a couple of us agreed to lay off and  spend a 
day with him in the woods.  He hired a gun 
and loaded himself down  with  ammunition, 
and although the old fellow had any number 
of good  shots, he couldn’t bring  down  any 
game.  The rest of us filled  our  bags with 
squirrels, but for some reason  none came to 
his share.  After tramping all day, and  get­
ting thoroughly tired  out, we started home. 
On the way back, Ireland  spied a chipmuck 
sitting on a rail fence  about  the  length of 
a rail  distant.  He  drew up  his gun, took 
careful aim,  and  fired.  After  the  smoke 
had cleared  away, the  chipmuck  still  sat 
there  as calm as an  iceberg. 
Ireland  has 
not  mentioned  the  subject  of  hunting 
since that time, and whenever  we  want  to 
plague him all  we  have  to  do is  to  make 
some reference to the matter.”

Purely  Personal.

Le Grand Peirce was  last  heard  from  at 

Liverpool.

M. C. Russell  gladdened the hearts of  the 

South Water street fellows  Monday.

Wm. H. Allen,  for  the  past  year  book­
keeper for 1. E. Messmore, has engaged with 
the Star Union Line, which  has  established 
an office at No. 7 Canal street.

Mr.  E.  J.  Keate,  well 

and  favorably 
known in business  and  railway circles, has 
accepted the position of  local representative 
for the Star Union  Line, which  has  lately 
established headquarters in  this  city.  Mr. 
Keate is well qualified to perform the duties 
devolving upon him in this  connection, and 
will undoubtedly work up a business, profit­
able alike to himself  and  the  company he 
represents.

HIDES, PELTS AND  FURS. 

Perkins & Hess quote as fol.ows:

H ID E S .

Green................................................?! ft  @7
Part  cured..............................................  8  @ 8J4
Pull cured................................................8J4@ 8L4
Dry hides and kips.................................  8  @12
Calf skins, green or cured....................10
@12
@50
Deacon skins............................piece20
Shearlings or Summer skins $  piece. .10
@20 
@50 
Pall pelts................................................. 30
@1 50
Winter  pelts....................................... 1 00

S H E E P  PEL TS.

WOOL.

Fine washed^ ft....................................  25@27
Coarse washed........................................18  @20
Unwashed............................................... 2-3
Tallow............................ ......... ................5J4@ 5 V

LATEST

JOHN 

CAULFIELD
W holesale  Grocer, 
Teas, M aims,  Slices  I t ,

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85,  87  and  89  Canal  Street

baccos  and  Cigars:

FACTORY  AGENT 
For the following well-known brands of To­
F I N E   OUT.
Fountain...................................................... 74
Old  Congress..................................................64 
Good  Luck......................................................55 
Good and Sweet........................................... 45
American  Queen......................................... 38
Blaze  Away............................................. 
Hair Lifter...................................................30
Governor,  2  oz.  foil................................ 
In half barrels  or four  pail  lots,  2c 
ft oft 
above list.
P LUG .  

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60

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In 60 Ib quantities 2c per Ib off.

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  Mf
D. & D. Dark,  % and 16  oz.  pounds........37
Ace High......................................................35
Duck, 2x12  and  flat....................................48
Nobby  Spun  Roll....................................... 4S
Black  Spun Roll......................................... 38
Canada Plug  (Virginia Smoking)..............50
Cresent Plug, 6 ib  cads.............................. 45
s : m : o k i n 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,  Killicbinick...........................25
Two Nickel, Killickinick %....................... 25
Two Nickel, Killickinick,  %..................... 26
Star Durham,  Killickinick,  % ................... 25
Rattler,  Killickinick,  %............................ 25
Honey Dew, Killickinick, 
..................... 25
Posey, Killickinick, 
paper................... 25
Canary, Killickinick, Extra Virginia........ 86
Gold  Block, Killickinick, %.......................32
Peck’s Sun,  Killickinick, %s and lbs..........18 
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 
.......................    .60
Durham, Blackwell’s, % ............................ 57
Durham, Blackwell’s,  XA ............................ 55
Durham, Blackwell’s,  Ib............................ 51
Seal of North Carolina % ...........................52
Seal of North Carolina % ...........................50
Seal of North Carolina % ...........................48
Seal of North Carolina Ib...........................46

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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 .*9
Storm’s  Boquet.....................7.............. 65  00 
Owl Captain.................................................60 00
S. & S. Capadura......................................... 32 00

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FRESH  MEATS.

John  Mohrhard quotes the trade as follows:
Fresh  Beef, sides...................................  7 14® 9
Presh Beef, hind quarters...................10  @H
Dressed Hogs.........................................   72£@ 8
Mutton,  carcasses.................................  7  @ 8
Veal..............................?..........................  314® 9V%
Fowls................................................. 
15@16
Pork Sausage...................................................... 10 @1014
Pork Sausage in bulk.    .......................  @1014
Bologna...................................................  @10

MASON’S 
FRUIT JARS

Write or Telephone us for

—ALSO—

Jelly Cups,  *

Ice Cream Freezers, 
Refrigerators and
COMPLETE  STOCK

H. Leonard & Sons,

16 Monroe Street, 

GRAND RAPIDS

MICH.

TEA S.

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. 
Japan ordinary......................................23@30
Japan fair.............................................. 32@35
Japan fair to good..................................35@37
Japan fine.............................................. 40@50
Japan dust.............................................15@18
Young Hyson..........................................25@50
Gun Powder.............................................35®50
Oolong.........................................35@45@55@60
Congo......................................................30@35
Corn,  Barrels....................................  ®  31 
Corn, Vi  bbls.....................................   ®  33
Corn. iO gallon  kegs..........................  @  36
Corn, 5 gallon kegs...........................   @1 90
Corn, 4V4 gallon kegs........................   @1 85
Pure Sugar Drips, bbl.......................  30®  37
Maple Syrup, 5 gal kegs....................  @3 10
Maple Syrub, 10 gal kegs...................  @6 00

s y r u p s . 

SUOARS.

Sugars firm at following quotations: 

Cut  Loaf.......................................... 7%@S 
Powdered  Standard......... .............. 7% @8
Granulated Standard...................... 7  @7-%
Standard  Confectioners’  A ........... 6% @6%
Standard  A .....................................  @6%
Extra White C.................................6}£@6*&
Extra Bright C.................................6  @6)i
Extra  C............................................5%@5%
Yellow C..........................................5)i@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.

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The Kentucky Oil Field.

From the Oil, Paint and Drug Reporter.

Developments  begun  last  winter and re­
cently  pushed  with  vigor  in  the  “blue 
grass” region of Kentucky for  the  purpose 
of obtaining oil, have  now  reached  a stage 
when some definite  idea may be  formed of 
the petroleum  deposits  in that section, and 
how much of a factor they will  prove in the 
American field of production.  Oil has been 
found in sufficiently large quantities and un­
der  sufficiently favorable  conditions to war­
rant the  statement that  Kentucky affords a 
profitable field for operating of  well borers; 
that the area of deposit is extensive and the 
supply abundant.  The character of  the oil, 
however, and  its  freedom  from  spirituous 
properties  forbids  expectation  that  any 
“gusher”  will  be found  or  flowing  wells 
abound.  Operations  begun  last  fall  in  a 
quiet way under the auspices of a stock com­
pany, with  Col. Andrew C. Ferris,  the  pe­
troleum pioneer, in charge of  matters in the 
field, have  been  continued as fast as practi- 
ble to the present time with assured success. 
The oil belt extends through Kentucky from 
northeast  to  southwest  for  a  distance  of 
about one hundred and fifty miles  in length 
and  fifty  miles or  more in  extreme width, 
and the rocks * and  shale  are  so  saturated 
with oil, that during the late  war they were 
freely burned for  camp  fires, and  now are 
utilized by laborers  constructing or grading 
railways, both by  night  and  day, building 
for the purpose  of light and  warmth  great 
bon-fires of the oil-impregnated rocks.  The 
Devonian shale  is  rich  in  bitumen, but is 
somewhat compact, hardly  more  than  fifty 
per cent of oil  being  found  in its recesses. 
Underlying this, are the  Chertro  and  Keo­
kuk sandstones, almost  fissureless, followed 
by the Cumberland  stone,  containing some 
oil.  Then comes a course  variety  of  sand­
stone and conglomerates, in which the great­
est deposits  exist.  Here is  the  real reser­
voir of  the  oil.  The oil is heavy, is meas­
urably  from  odor, and  by distillation  and 
chemical  analysis is found to contain 71 per 
cent of dense  substance  (lubricating  prop­
erties), 15 per  cent  of  earthy  matter  and 
coke, a trace  only of  benzine  or  naphtha, 
with no paraffine or  gum.

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The abundance of subteranean gases how­
ever is attested by the  important  fact  that 
only a week ago oil borers, while boring  for 
oil  between  Paris  and  Mount  Sterling, 
struck an  immense  gas  well; the force of 
the gas being so great as  to force 
the tools 
several hundred feet in  the air.  The gas is 
rushing from the orifice with tremendous force 
and great volumes in quantities "sufficient  in 
the  estimation  of  those on the  ground  to 
supply the two important  settlements  men­
tioned with a natural  illumination; whether 
their conjectures are correct however will be 
determined by the  continuous outflow.  At 
any  event  the  discovery is an  important 
one.

The knowledge  of  oil  deposits  in  Ken­
tucky antedates the  rebellion.  Enterprises 
in oil boring were being carried on in 1860-1 
and were interrupted by the outbreak of the 
war, and the open  hostility  manifested  to­
ward efforts made by Northern  men.  Some 
of the wells had progressed far enough to be 
moderately  productive.  The  oil  obtained 
then  was noted for its  superior  lubricating 
properties, and was in use on  several  lines 
of  railway, as well as  for  machinery, and 
commanded at the wells  at that  time tlfirty 
cents per gallon or  (when  barrels held only 
40 gallons)  812  per barrel.  Col.  Ferris, af­
ter having  opened up the  Pennsylvania oil 
field at Tarentum in 1857  (two  years before 
Col. Drake bored the Oil Creek well)  and in 
1859 having  operated  successfully  in  the 
Kanawa Valley, conducted operations in the 
Kentucky field in 1860 until driven away by 
the confederates.  Taking  advantage of his 
knowledge of that section, a number of cap­
italists last fall induced him to obtain leases 
for  them of  10,000  acres  of the  territory 
where surface indications  were  still  abun­
dant, and which have been  free from opera­
tions  since  the  ante-bellum  well-borings. 
The territory is  in  Bourbon  County, about 
thirty miles  southeast  of  Paris, and on ac­
count of improved railway and river naviga­
tion is fairly accessible.  The  distance from 
which tools and machinery  have  had  to be 
transported to the seat  of  operations—Cin­
cinnati being the  nearest  available  point— 
have  made  progress  necessarily slow, and 
while it is evident  that  none but  pumping 
wells  may be expected (for reasons  already 
given), yet  it is  amply  demonstrated  that 
oil exists in  very large quantities. 
In writ­
ing of the matter  recently, Col. Ferris, who 
has never been  charged  with  being an en­
thusiast,  said: “Indications  are  such  and 
demonstrations have been made  that render 
it a certainty that Kentucky will become the 
oil field of the  future.  And  while  foreign 
competition and  production  may lessen our 
export trade, joined to  possibly depleted oil 
deposits near  the  seaboard, yet  for  home 
consumption we may rest  satisfied  that  in 
Kentucky alone oil enough  exists to supply 
all these  United States  for  generations to 
come.”

Making  allowance  for  the  natural  en­
hancement of views of one  interested in its 
developement, it  may  safely  be  assumed 
that a much needed and  valuable deposit of 
heavy oil is being  exhumed  in  Kentucky; 
but as all the indications  forbid the expecta­
tion of any light gravity  oil, the  supply for 
illuminating  purppses  is  not  apparently 
menaced. 
It is  questionable  whether  this 
fact is one to be  deplored  in view  of  the 
present abundance of that grade in Pennsyl­
vania and the low  range of prices; while it 
is not doubtful that the decreasing  quantity

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of Pennsylvania lubricating  oils will render 
the development of the  Kentucky  field ad­
vantageous to the trade and to the communi­
ty at large.

The Position of Glycerine.

From the Oil, Paint and Drug Reporter.

For a year or more  there has been a grad­
ual decline in the price of both  German and 
American glycerine, and last  week the low­
est price was reached which has  been  quot- 
ted  for  the  past  five  years.  As a conse­
quence, there is considerable uncertainty felt 
among dealers just  now as to the  future of 
the article.  The generally accepted  reasons 
for the  decline in values are, that the  com­
petition to-day is much greater than ever be­
fore, there  being  many different  processes 
among  manufacturers  which  has led  to a 
material reduction  in the price of the crude 
article.  On the other side the quotation  for 
crude  has  declined  from 120  francs to 95 
frances in the past two months.  The  ques­
tion at  present  is  whether  manufacturers 
can continue to make a profit  under the low 
prices now  existing.  ;In the spring of 1882, 
owing to the  scarcity of  the  crude  article 
abroad, prices advanced and ruled as high as 
200  frances, producing  a  like  advance  in 
this country.  These figures continued to be 
quoted until the fall of the same  year when 
a decline took place, since which time prices 
have gradually fallen off  until now the very 
low figure of  19c. to 20c. for  both  German 
and American have been reached.

The  majority of  dealers are  inclined to 
the opinion that no higher  prices  will rule. 
On  the  contrary, they seem to regard it as 
probable that the markets will either remain 
stationary or  show a further  decline.  But 
the future course of prices  will  necessarily 
depend upon  the ability of  makers of crude 
by the various new  processes to work profit­
ably at  the  current or lower  prices. 
It is 
unlikely that there will be any improvement 
in prices until there has  been a reduction in 
the output, and  that  will only occur  when 
values reach a point.  below  which some of 
the producerscan  operate  their  particular 
processes. 
In  other  words, it is  believed 
that the present excessive  competition  will 
continue  until it results  in the  survival of 
the fittest.

Prospects of the  Indigo Crop.

According to the present  condition of the 
indigo crop, the finer qualities will be in less 
this season.  Recent reports from the supply 
producing countries confirm  this  statement 
In Reinhold’s Calcutta review of the market 
it is stated that the sowings were very back­
ward, and  the severe draught caused by un­
usual heat in March and  April  checked all 
field work.  Some districts  had  only  com­
pleted their sowing  by the  middle  of  last 
month, while work was still  being  prosecu­
ted  in  other  localities at the first  of  this 
month. 
In  Lower  Bengal the bright pros­
pects have been  shattered by too much rain, 
whilst the  condition  of  the plants in some 
parts have been improved by the light rains, 
notably in Tirhoot, where the  planters  are 
more  sanguine  of a  fair  output. 
In  the 
northwest Provinces reliance is placed  upon 
the irrigation works, and  reports from  that 
district  are  favorable.  Better  growing 
weather is expected during the remainder of 
the  month, and it is hoped  rapid  progress 
during the  remainder of the season will off­
set the generally unsatisfactory results  thus 
far.  A fair approximate opinion of  the crop 
cannot be  formed  until the  latter  part of 
next month.  A bad beginning  may make a 
good ending.  The stock in London on June 
1st was reported to be  20,999 chests, against 
15,004 chests  at the same  time  last  year. 
The New York indigo market  has  been de­
void of activity for some time, and  without 
any special movement to influence a fluctuat­
ing  tendency.  The 
limited  consumptive 
wants are  being  supplied at steady  figures, 
and the  feeling, although  quiet, is  one  of 
confidence in the stability of values.  *

A New Antagonist to Alcohol.

From the Medical Record.

The kola  nut of  Guinea, or  gara  nut  of 
Soudan, the fruit of the sterculia acuminata, 
cola acuminata  of  Daniell, has  recently as­
sumed a new  importance by its remarkable 
property of antagonizing the  effects of alco­
hol. 
It has long been  known that the kola 
nut contains  caffeine, to  which  may be at 
tributed the  lessened  desire for  sleep and 
sense of physical well-being  caused  by the 
consumption of it; for  which reasons it has 
long  been  extensively  and  highly  valued 
throughout a large portion  of  Africa.  Un­
like the coffee bean, however, it contains  no 
tannin. 
It  has  recently  been  discovered 
that when chewed, it antagonizes the effects 
of alcohol, and  constant  use of it is said  to 
dissipate the  desire, even  in  old  drinkers. 
Whether  it  is  superior  to  the  aromatic 
spirits of  ammonia for the  treatment of an 
“acute drunk” is not yet  definitely  known. 
The nuts are much more  available  for  con­
stant  use, however, than  any liquid, and if 
the claims put  forward be  true, the “diner- 
out,” by taking a few  of  them  along  with 
him, need not  be  disutrbed  by thoughts of 
the next morning’s headache.

add:

Cologne.

A choice, fragrant cologne, of lasting  and 

delicate odor can be made as follows:

Henry’s Cologne Oil, 6 oz.
Alcohol, 95 per cent, 7 pints.
Mix.  Let stand for a week  or more, then 

Rose Water, 1 pint.
Shake well, letting the  mixture  stand for 

one day, then filter through paper.

The Dupont Powder Co. has paid  $75,000 
to the Yulcan Powder Manufacturing Co., of 
Catasauqua, Pa., upon agreement that it sus­
pend operations for one year.

A  Useful Table of Reference.

There is in an  ordinary  half  gallon  acid 

bottle:

Acid, Muriatic, C. P., 6 pounds.
Acid, Nitric, C. P., 7 pounds.
Acid, Sulphuric, C. P., 9 pounds.
Acid, Muriatic, Commercial,  h%  pounds.
Acid, Nitric, Commercial, 6% pounds.
Acid, Sulphuric, Commercial, 9  pounds.
Sol. Mer. Tin, 7  pounds.
Liquor Palassa, 5 pounds.
Sulphuric Ether, 3% pounds.
Acetic Ether, 4 pounds.
Acetic Acid, 5 pounds.
Spirits Ammonia, 4 pounds.
When ordering from your wholesale drug­
gist, govern yourself  accordingly,  and  save 
expense and trouble.

One bu. rape seed whighs 50 lbs.
One bu. millet Seed weighs 50 lbs.
One bu. hemp seed weighs 44 lbs.
One bu. canary seed weighs 60 lbs.
One bu. flax seed weighs 56 lbs.

Here  and  There and  Everywhere.

friend 

An Erie druggist labeled  a  new  liniment 
‘Phiz,”  because  a 
told 
him that  was  a  popular  name  for  human 
lineaments.

learned 

The difference between  a  druggist  and  a 
farm hand is said by an exchange to be, that 
one is a pharmacist and the other a farm as­
sist.

The candy and  corrosive  sublimate  were 
kept on the same shelf in a Nebraska  store. 
One man found it out  two  days  before  his 
funeral.

The louder the quack, the longer the  bill.
A local drug  clerk  has  ascertained  for  a 
certainty that a  man  can  marry  on  $10  a 
week—that is, if the  girl’s  mother  keeps  a 
boarding  house.

Outlawed Accounts.

I have an open account with A. B. extend­
ing over a period of about twenty  years,  on 
which $88 is due me.  A. B. claims  that all 
items more than six years old  are outlawed, 
if this is the law and it is applied  to our ac­
count, but $40 is due me. 

Is A. B.  right?
L. P. S.

Answer—If  your account is mutual,  that 
is, if there are entries on each side, a  settle­
ment must go back to the beginning. 
If all 
the charges are on your side—that is, if  the 
total on your side is $88 and on his  nothing 
—you can only recover from  him  for  items 
less  than  six  years  old.  As  we  under­
stand your question, $88 not $40, is due. 
It 
is well for all dealers to  bear  in  mind  this 
principle:  To keep an account  alive, there 
must be a payment, with consent, within six 
years.

stance.

Paste2 W hich  W ill  Adliere  to  Any  Sub­

Sugar of Lead, 1X  ounces.
Alum, 1}4 ounces.*
Gum Arabic, 2% ounces.
Wheat Flour,  1 pound.
Water, sufficient.
Dissolve the gum arabic in  two  quarts  of 
warm  water.  When  cold  mix in  the flour 
and add the sugar of lead and alum dissolved 
in water.  Place the whole on the  fire, stir­
ring constantly, and take it off when it shows 
signs  of  ebullition.  Let  it  cool  and  the 
paste is made. 
If too thick, add  some  gum 
water to bring it to.the proper consistency.

Turned  Wood Boxes.

No. 1 turned wood boxes contain  1  drachm. 
No. 2 turned wood boxes contain 2 drachms. 
No. 3 turned wood boxes contain 4  drachms. 
No. 4 turned wood boxes contain 1  ounce. 
No. 5 turned wood boxes contain 2 ounces. 
No. 6 turned wood boxes contain 3 ounces. 
No. 7 turned wood boxes contain 4 ounces.

T h e T radesm an  has  arrangedl with  an 
experienced and practical  chemist to answer 
any queries" that may be propounded by the 
traderin  regard to  pharmaceutical  prepara­
tions.  All queries should be written plainly 
and briefly, to insure reply.

DELINQUENT  DEBTORRS.

Scotts.

E. L. Carbine reports the following-:

E.  L.  Boardman,  removed  to  Grand

Rapids..........................................................$612
Lewis McCracken, moved to  Muskegon..  8 66
Frank Kelly, moved to Kalamazoo, paint­

er by trade..................................................   16 22

Wm.  Shaver,  gone  north  with  another 

man’s  wife...................................................  6 06

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.

Address A., care T h e  T r a d e s m a n .

store by  a  young  man  of  experience. 

WANTED.— A position in a  first-class  drug 
WANTED.—A  number  of  traveling  sales­

men to handle a line of shirts in connec­
paid.  Address, Marshall Shirt Manufacturing 
Co.,  Marshall, Mich.

tion with their other line.  Liberal Commission 

AYING  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.

June 11,1884. 

. 

N.  SWEENEY,

1 

IX) R SALE—A stock of new, fresh staple gro- 

ceries and fixtures complete.  Willlnvoice 
$500 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 SH   F IS H .

New York Counts, per can..........................  38
Extra  Selects...............................................35
Codfish.......................................................  8
Haddock....................................................7
Smelts........................................................   5
Mackinaw Trout.........................................  7
Mackerel.....................  
15
7
Whiteflsh .......................... 
Smoedk Whiteflsh and Trout......................10
Smoked Sturgeon............  
  8

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT,

Advanced—Paris Green.
Declined—Glass  warf  flint,  morphine,  cu 

bebs, shellac.

AC ID S.

Acetic,  No. 8............................$3 ft  9  @  10
Acetic,  C. P. (Sp. grav. 1.040)........  30  @  35
Carbc lie............................................  
35
Citric.................................................  
55
Muriatic 18 deg...............................  
3  @  5
Nitric 36 deg....................................  11  @  12
Oxalic...............................................  14*4©  15
Sulphuric 66 deg.............................. 
3  @  4
Tartaric  powdered......................... 
48
Benzoic,  English....................$  oz 
20
Benzoic,  German............................  12  @  15
Tannic...............................................  15  @  17

AMMONIA.

Carbonate.................................^ ft  15  @  18
Muriate (Powd. 22c)......................... 
14
Aqua 16 deg or  3f............................ 
6  @  7
7  @  8
Aqua 18 deg or 4f............................ 

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

®  50
40
3 00
50

12
18
15
13
15
10
12
20
18
30
12

B E R R IE S ,

Cubeb, prime '(Powd $  85)..........  
@  80
6  @  7
Juniper............................................. 
Prickly Ash..................'...................1 00  @1  10

EX TRACTS.

Licorice (10 and 25 ft boxes, 25c)... 
Licorice,  powdered, pure.............  
Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 ft doxes). 
Logwood, Is (25 ft  boxes)............... 
do 
Lgowood, )4s 
............... 
do 
Logwood, J4s 
............... 
Logwood, ass’d  do 
............... 
Fluid„Extracts—25 $  cent, off list.

27
37)4
9
12
13
15
14

FLO W ERS.

Arnica.................................•.............   10  ©  11
Chamomile,  Roman....................... 
25
Chamomile,  German.....................  
25

GUMS.

Aloes,  Barbadoes............................ 
60®  75
Aloes, Cape (Powd  24c)..................  
18
50
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd  60c).......... 
Ammoniac.......................................  
28®  30
60
Arabic, extra  select....................... 
Arabic, powdered  select............... 
60
50
Arabic, 1st picked..........................  
Arabic,2d  picked............................ 
40
35
Arabic,c3d pickod............................ 
30
Arabic, sifted sorts......................... 
30
Assaf oentida, prime (Powd 35c)... 
Benzoin............................................  
55@60
22®  24
Camphor........................................... 
Catechu. Is ()4 14c, 34s 16c)............ 
13
35@  40
Euphorbium powdered.................. 
80
Galbanum strained......................... 
60®1 00
Gamboge........................................... 
Guaiac, prime (Powd  45c).............  
35
20
Kino [Powdered, 30c]...................... 
110
Mastic................................................ 
40
Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 47c)... 
Opium, pure (Powd $5.50)............... 
4  15
Shellac, Campbell’s .............. 
30
26
Shellac,  English...................  
 
Shellac, native................................. 
24
Shellac bleached.............................. 
30
Tragacanth......................................  30  @1 10

 

 

H E R B S—IN   OUNCE  PACKAGES.

Hoarhound.......................................................25
Lobelia...............................................................25
Peppermint.......................................................25
R ue...........................:.......................................40
Spearmint........................................................ 24
Sweet Majoram................................................ 35
Tanzy .
25
Thyme...............................................................30
Wormwood.......................................................25

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LEA VES.

Citrate and  Quinine....................... 
6 40
20
Solution mur., for tinctures........  
Sulphate, pure  crystal..................  
7
C itrate........................................... 
80
Phosphate ...........  
65
Buchu, short (Powd 25c).................  12  @  11
Sage, Italian, bulk (34s &J4s, 12c)... 
6
Senna,  Alex, natural............. .......  18  @  20
Senna, Alex, sifted and  garbled.. 
30
Senna,  powdered............................ 
22
Senna tinnivelli...............................  
16
10
Uva  Ursi........................................... 
35
Belledonna........................................ 
Foxglove........................................... 
30
Henbane........................................... 
35
Rose, red............................. 
 
2 35
LIQ U O R S.

W., D. & Co.’s Sour Mash Whisky.2  00  @2 25
Druggists’ Favorite  Rye................ 1  75  ©2 00
Whisky, other brands..................... 1  10  @1 50
Gin, Old Tom..................................... 1  35  @1 75
Gin,  Holland................... 
2  00  ©3 50
Brandy...............................................1  75  @6 50
Catawba  Wines................................ 1  25  ©2 00
Port Wines.........................................1  35  @2 50

M AGNESIA.

Carbonate, Pattison’s, 2 oz............ 
Carbonate, Jenning’s, 2 oz.............  
Citrate, H., P. & Co.’s  solution__  
Calcined............................................  

23
37
2 25
70

O IL S .

 

 

 

 

do 
do 

Almond, sweet.................:..............   45  @  50
45
Amber, rectified.............................. 
1  80
Anise.................................................  
Bay $   oz........................ 
 
50
2 00
Bergamont.......................................  
Castor...............................................  19}4@  20
Croton...............................................  
2 00
Cajeput............................................  
75
Cassia...............................................  
1 00
40
Cedar, commercial  (Pure 75c)....... 
85
Citronella ....................................... 
1 25
Cloves...............................................  
Cubebs, P. &  W .............................. 
8 00
1  60
Erigeron........................................... 
Fireweed........................................... 
2 00
Geranium f   oz...............................  
75
Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75c).. 
40
Juniper wood..................................  
50
2 00
Juniper berries...............................  
2 01
Lavender flowers, French............. 
Lavender garden 
100
.............  
Lavender spike 
90
.............  
Lemon, new crop............................ 
1  70
Lemon,  Sanderson’s....................... 
1  75
Lemongrass...................................... 
80
1 25
Origanum, red flowers, French... 
Origanum,  No. 1............................ 
60
1  75
Pennyroyal...................................... 
3 25
Peppermint,  white......................... 
9  75
Rose  $   oz......................................... 
65
Rosemary, French  (Flowers $5)... 
Sandal  Wood. German.................. 
4 50
andal Wood,  W. 1............................ 
700
60
Sassafras........................................... 
Tansy..................  
4 50
 
10  @  12
Tar (by gal 60c).......................... . 
3  25
Wintergreen................................. 
Wormwood, No. 1 (Pure $6.50)....... 
4  50
Savm.................................................  
1 00
Wormseed........................................ 
2 50
Cod Liver, filtered................ $  gal 
1 90
Cod Liver, best................................ 
3 50
6 00
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16 
. 
Olive, Malaga........ ..........  
@1 20
Olive, “Sublime  Italian  .  . 
2 50
....... 
Salad.................................................   65  @  67
Rose,  Ihmsen’s .......................$  oz 
9 75
Bicromate.................................$  ft 
14
Bromide, cryst. and gran. bulk... 
35
Chlorate, cryst (Powd 23c).............  
20
Iodide, cryst. and  gran, bulk....... 
1  40
Prussiate yellow.............................. 
30

PO TASSIU M .

ROOTS.

Alkanet............................................  
15
27
Althea, cut.......................................  
17
Arrow,  St. Vincent’s...................... 
Arrow, Taylor’s, in 14s and 54s__  
35
12
Blood (Powd 18c).............................. 
18
Calamus,  peeled.............................. 
38
Calamus, German  white, peeled.. 
Elecampane, powdered..................  
23
13
Gentian (Powd  17c(......................... 
Ginger, African (Powd 16c)............  13  @  14
Ginger, Jamaica  bleached............ 
20
Golden Seal (Powd 40c).................. 
35
Hellebore, white, powdered.......... 
22
Ipecac, Rio, powdered............. . 
110
3714
Jalap, powdered.............................. 
Licorice,  select (Powd 1214).......... 
12
Licorice, extra select...................... 
15
Pink, true......................................... 
35
Rhei, from select to  choice........ .1 00  @1 50
Rhei, powdered E. 1........................110  @1 20
Rhei, choice cut  cubes................ 
2 00
2 25
Rhei, choice cut fingers........... 
50
Serpentaria..............  
Seneka.................  
 
65
Sarsaparilla,  Honduras................ 
40

 
 

 

 

 

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

SEEDS.

Anise, Italian (Powd 20c).......................  
5  ©  6
Bird, mixed in ft  packages.......... 
Canary,  Smyrna........... ................. 
314@  4
Caraway, best Dutch (Powd 19c)..  11  @  12
Cardamon,  Aleppee........... ..........  
2 U0
Cardamon, Malabar........................  
2  25
Celery..... ..................................................  
Coriander, Dest English......................... 
Fennel.......................................  
Flax, clean.......................................  
Flax, pure grd (bbl 314).................  
Foenugreek, powdered.................. 
Hemp,  Russian............................... 
Mustard, white; Black 10c)............ 
Quince.............................................. 
Rape, Lnglish..................................  
Worm,  Levant.........................................  

334@
4  @  4)<
8  @  9
5  ©  5^
8
1  00
714®  8

 

SPONGES.
do 
do 
do 

Florida sheeps’wool, carriage...... 2 25  @2 50
2  00
Nassau 
do 
110
Velvet Extra do 
Extra Yellow do 
85
Grass 
do 
65
Hard head, for slate use......................... 
1  40
Yellow Reef, 

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

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

 

 

do 
M ISCELLANEUS.

do 
do 

do 
do Scherin’s  do  ...
do 

Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.17) $  gal__
Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref.
Anodyne Hoffman’s.......................
Arsenic, Donovan’s solution........
Arsenic, Fowler’s solution...........
Annatto 1 ft rolls............................
Blue  Soluble....................................
Bay  Rum, imported, best.............
Bay Rum, domestic, H., P. & Co.’s.
Alum......................................... 
ft
Alum, ground  (Powd 9c)...............
Annatto, prime...............................
Antimony, powdered,  com’l ........
Arsenic, white, powdered.............
Balm Gilead  Buds..........................
Beans,  Tonka..................................
Beans, Vanilla.................................7
Bismuth, sub nitrate.....................
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c).......................
Blue V itriol....................................
Borax, refined (Powd  13c).............
Cantharides,Russian  powdered..
Capsicum  Pods, African...............
Capsicum Pods, African  pow’d ...
Capsicum Pods,  American  do  ...
Carmine, No. 40...............................
Cassia Buds......................................
Calomel.  American.........................
Chalk, prepared drop.....................
Chalk, precipitate English__ ___
Chalk,  red  fingers..........................
Chalk, white lump..........................
Chloroform,  Squibb’s....................
Colocynth  apples............................
Chloral hydrate, German  crusts..
cryst...
Chloral 
Chloral 
Chloral 
crusts..
Chloroform......................................1
Cinchonidia, P. & W........*............
Cinchonidia, other brands.............
Cloves (Powd 28c)............................
Cochineal.........................................
Cocoa  Butter..................................
Copperas (by bbl  lc).......................
Corrosive Sublimate.......................
Corks, X and XX—35 off  list........
Cream Tartar, pure powdered.......
Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 ft box..
Creasote............................................
Cudbear, prime...............................
Cuttle Fish Bone........ ....................
Dextrine..........................................
Dover’s  Powders............................
Dragon’s Blood Mass..................
Ergot  powdered..............................
Ether Squibb’s.................................
Emery, Turkish, all  No.’s .............
Epsom Salts......................................
Ergot, fresh......................................
Ether, sulphuric, U. S.  P ...............
Flake white......................................
Grains  Paradise..............................
Gelatine,  Cooper’s..........................
Gelatine. French  ............................
Glassware, flint, 79 off,by box 60 off 
Glassware, green, 60 and 10 dis....
Glue,  cabinet..................................
Glue, white.......................................
Glycerine, pure...............................
Hops  )4s and )4s..............................
Iodoform $   oz.................................
Indigo...............................................
Insect Powder, best Dalmatian...
Iodine,  resublimed........................
Isinglass,  American.......................
Japonica...........................................
London  Purple...............................
Lead, acetate....................................
Lime, chloride, ()4s 2s 10c & Ms 11c)
Lupuline...........................................
Lycopodium....................................
Mace.................................................
Madder, best  Dutch.......................
Manna, S.  F ......................................
Mercury............................................
Morphia, sulph., P. & W........ $  oz
Musk, Canton, H., P. & Co.’s........
Moss, Iceland............................$  ft
Moss,' Irish.......................... ............
Mustard,  English............................
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 ft  cans........
Nutgalls............................................
Nutmegs, No. 1.................................
Nux  Vomica.........................
Ointment. Mercurial, Md___......
Paris Green............................ A c...
Pepper, Black  Berry.....................
Pepsin...............................................
Pitch, True Burgundy....................
Quassia  ............................................
Quinia, Sulph, P, & W............. ft oz
Quinine,  German............................1
Seidlitz  Mixture.............................
Strychnia, cryst...............................
Silver Nitrate, cryst.......................
Red  Precipitate............................ f? ft
Saffron, American..........................
Sal  Glauber......................................
Sal Nitre, large cryst.....................
Sal  Nitre, medium  cryst...............
Sal Rochelle..................;..................
Sal  Soda............................................
Salicin...............................................
Santonin ..........................................
Snuffs, Maccoboy or Scotch..........
Soda Ash [by keg 3c].....................
Spermaceti.......................................
Soda, Bi-Carbonate,  DeLand’s__
Soap, White Castile.........................
Soap, Green  do 
........................
Soap, Mottled do 
.........................
Soap, 
do  do 
.........................
Soap, Mazzini..................................
Spirits Nitre, 3 F ..............................
Spirits Nitre, 4 F..............................
Sugar Milk powdered.....................
Sulphur, flour................ ..................
Sulphur,  roll....................................
Tartar Emetic..................................
Tar, N. C. Pine", Vi gal. cans  $  doz 
Tar, 
quarts in tin........... 
Tar, 
pints in tin ............. 
Turpentine,  Venice................ ft 
Wax, White, S. &  F. brand...........  
Zinc,  Sulphate................................. 

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2 25 
1 50 
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18 
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Capitol  Cylinder..................................................75
Model  Cylinder................................................... 60
Shields  Cylinder..................................................50
Eldorado Engine..................................................45
Peerless  Machinery........................................... 35
Challenge Machinery..........................................25
Backus Fine Engine........................................... 30
Black Diamond Machinery................................30
Castor Machine  Oil.............................................6C
Paraffine, 25  deg.................  
22
Paraffine, 28  deg..................................................21
Sperm, winter bleached.................................1 40
Bbl  Gal
85
Whale, winter......................................  80 
75
Lard, extra...........................................  64 
Lard, No.  1...........................................  55 
65
Linseed, pure raw..............................  58 
62
Linseed, boiled...................................  61 
65
95
Neat’s Foot, winter  strained............  90 
Spirits Turpentine............................ -  35 
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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
Japan Dryer, No.  1 Turp......................  70©  75
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PA IN T S.

Bbl
Boralumine, White  b u lk ]............
“ 
5 fts I ............
Boralumine, 
Boralumine, Tints bulk.  150 off..
Boralumine  “ 
5 fts. j ............
Red Venetian............................  154
Ochre, yellow Marseilles........   134
Ochre, yellow  Bermuda..........  134
Putty, commercial..................   234
Putty, strictly pure..................   2)4
Vermilion, prime American..
Vermilion, English..................
Green, Peninsular....................
Lead, red strictly pure............
Lead, white, strictly pure.....
Whiting, white Spanish..........
Whiting,  Gilders ......................
White, Paris American.......
Whiting  Paris English cliff.

1010

11
2® 3 
2® 3 
2© 3 
2)4® 3 
234© 3 
13@16 
55@57 
16@17

45  @  70

—Also for the—

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10
25
20

13

30
12

15

HAZELTINE, 
PERKINS 
&  CO.,
Druggists!

W h o le s a le

75

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

95  Louis  Street.

IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF

MANUFACTURERS  OF

FLUID  EXTRACTS  AND  ELIXIRS.

GENERAL WHOLESALE AGENTS  FOR

W olf,  P atton & Co., a n d J ohn L. W h it­

in g , Manu facturers  of  F in e 

P a in t  a n d  V a r n ish 

B rushes.

Gra n d  R a pid s  Brush  Co.,  Ma n fg s.  of 

H a ir , Shoe a nd H orse B rushes.

Druggists’ Sundries

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 
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  n ew   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.

fiieaM LiprD esartoit

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 
o th er  know n  br a n d  in  the  market,  but 
superior in all respects to most that  are  ex­
posed  for  sale.  We  g u a ra n tee  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

Druggists’  Favorite  M ,

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.

lA lL T IE F E raU G O

110 
1 40

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I M P O R T E R S

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.

F. J. LAMB  &  COMPANY,

-WHOLESALE  D EALE R S  IN-

Butter,

Apples, Onions, Potatoes, Beans, Etc.

State Agent for the Lima Patent Egg Cases and Fillers.

NO.  8  AND  10  IONIA  STREET,

G-RAXP  R A P ID S .  -  MICHIG-AX■

Choice Butter a Specialty!

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

Careful  Attention  Paid to  Filling  Orders.

IK. C. Bussell, 48 Ottawa St., G’d Rapids.
B.  KZ 1ST  O W LiSON

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

AKRON  SEWER  PIPE,

Fire  Brick  and  Clay,  Cement,  Stucco,

XiXXÆB,  H A IR ,  COAX  and WOOD.

ESTIM ATES  C H E ERFU LLY  FURNISHED.

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

tral  Freight  House.

COMPANY

A   M E R C A N T IL E   JO U R N A L , P U B L IS H E D   E A C H  

W E D N E S D A Y .

E. A.  STOWE  &  BBO., Proprietors.

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

Second-class  Matter A

WEDNESDAY,  JULY  2,  1884.

MILLIONS  OF ORANGES.

Foreign Fruit.

Twenty-Four  Steamships  W liicli  Bring in 
It is said that twenty-four  steamships are 
kept busy by one firm in bringing fruit from 
Mediterranean ports to New York.  Twelve 
of them are  passenger  vessels,  the  greater 
part of whose cargoes are composed of fruit. 
The other twelve are freight  vessels, whose 
westward cargoes  are  composed  wholly  of 
fruit.  The  cargoes  are  discharged  at  a 
Brooklyn pier, near  the  Wall  street  ferry. 
The firm has just finished an extensive sales­
room, which is said to constitute the most ex­
tensive fruit market in  this  country.  Sales 
take place at noon on the  day after  a  cargo 
has arrived.  A crowd of importers, brokers, 
grocers, vendors, and Western  buyers  is  al­
ways on hand.  Each importer to whom fruit 
has been consigned  opens two boxes as sam­
ples, and the contents of these are overhaul­
ed by prospective buyers.

When the  auctioneer mounts his stand  in 
the salesroom,  men  who  look  like  tramps 
jostle their fashionably clad fellow  bidders, 
and when they  raise  their  hands  the  auc­
tioneer  is  quick  to  catch their bids, for  he 
knows  that  their  checks  are  as  good  as 
wheat.

Many of the purchased goods  are  hurried 
off to Chicago, St. Louis, and other Western 
shipping points in refrigerator cars. 
In  the 
steamships  the  boxes  of  fruit are piled so 
that air can circulate freely all  about  them, 
and  strong  currents  of  air  are  kept  up 
through the holds by means of wind  sails.

A box of oranges landed in  Brooklyn  has 
cost,  everything  included,  $2. 
It  brings 
from SI to $5, according to its condition and 
the state of the market.  The  ocean  freight 
cost is 30  cents.  The  season  for  oranges 
lasts from  early  December  to  early  June. 
Then the dried fruit trade begins.  This lasts 
until December. 
It  is  said  that  1,000,000 
boxes of  raisins  are  often  received  in  one 
month.

Unflt for Their Positions.

From the Philadelphia Grocer.

If the men who are  unfit  for  their  posi­
tions are few, those who are above  their po­
sitions are  far  from  being  so.  When  we 
hear of salesmen who will not carry samples ; 
of boys who cannot dust a desk; and of men 
who “don’t want it known that they are  do­
ing such work, as it is only  temporary,”  we 
turn in disgust to men who are proud of  do­
ing all that they do well, and who find more 
satisfaction in serving their employers  faith­
fully, than in pleasing a set of puppies on the 
street.  Rough  work,  plain  clothes,  long 
hours, and scant fare may all  be  consonant 
with the highest gentility if the mothers and 
sisters are kept above want  and  the  man’s 
way is paid through the world.  Genteel em­
ployment, swell clothes,  evenings  to  spare, 
and plenty to smoke and drink,  may be part 
of a life of low unmanliness if  the  actor  is 
not ashamed of a family  in  want  and  of  a 
useless existence.  There  need be no shame 
in doing right, but we would that some sense 
of shame would light  upon  the  multitudes 
who are not fit for their positions,  and  lead 
them  to  some  effort  at  improvement.

One  Kind  of Cigarettes.

A New York medical expert  says  that  if 
cigarettes were made of second-hand tobacco 
it would be a good thing for the youth of the 
country,  for  as  thus  made  the deleterious 
substances would nearly all be extracted.  He 
says:

The bid cigar  stumps,  after  the  charred 
ends are cut off, are soaked in  a  solution  of 
ammonia  and  some  other  chemical  which 
takes away nearly all the nicotine  from  the 
tobacco and removes all traces of smoke and 
creosote.  The mass of pulpy tobacco is then 
pressed  in  cakes  and  shaved  into 
fine 
shreds by a cutting machine.  Then it is given 
a bath in some bleaching solution  which  re­
moves nearly all the properties of which the 
weed is possessed when  it  comes  from  the 
plantation.  Then it is dried,  after which  it 
is passed under an atomizer  and  dampened 
by means of a preparation  of  glycerine  and 
some flavoring extract.  Then it is ready for 
the cigarette.^

Not a  Banker.

A plainly  dressed  man,  who  introduced 
himself as Mr.  John  Smith  strolled  into  a 
doctor’s  office,  and,  having  explained  his 
symptoms,  asked  the  doctor  how  long  it 
would  take  to  cure  him.

The doctor, who  had  treated  the  visitor 

with every  possible  courtesy,  replied:

“You  will require  several  years’  careful 
treatment under my personal supervision be­
fore you are perfectly well;  but I think, Mr 
Smith, you will be able to resume your labors 
in the bank in about two months.”

“Doctor, you are fooling  yourself. 

I  am 
not Smith, the banker, but Smith, the street­
car driver.”

“Is that so?  Well, my good fellow, I don’t 
see what you came to see me  for.  There  is 
nothing the matter with you, except that you 
are not a banker.”

“I’m a director in the company,” said  the 
devil in a newspaper office.  “You don’t say 
“Yes,  it’s  true.”  “What  are  a di­
so?” 
rector’s duties?” 
“To  direct  wrappers,  of

THE  ORIGIN  OF SILK.

Tradition.

Interesting; Scraps of Chinese  History  and 
“If we put  any trust  in  tradition,” says 
an English  journal regarding  the  origin of 
silk, “there is a legand  that Tchin, the eld­
est son of Japhet, father of the  Asiatic race, 
taught his children the art of preparing silk, 
as well as the arts of painting and sculpture. 
Be this  as it may, it is  certain  that  about 
3,000 years before the  Christian  era a Chi­
nese  book, th e ‘Chou King,’ described  silk­
en cords, which were stretched upon a musi­
cal instrument invented by the  emperor Fo- 
Hi.  One  of  his successors, Chin Nong, re­
puted inventor of the plow, explained to his 
contemporaries what beautiful stuffs could be 
obtained by cultivation of the Mulberry tree, 
and about the year 2,600 b. c. an empress to 
whom a  greatful  posterity assigned a place 
in a  cellestial  constellation, perfected  the 
art of unraveling the  cocoon  and  weaving. 
From that time silk culture had its principal 
seat near the northern  portion  of  the 1 el- 
low River, in the  Province of  Chang Tong. 
There  was  produced  silk  for  the  royal 
household.  Yellow  was the  chosen  color 
for the emperor, empress and  prince imper­
ial ; violets for the other wives of the emper­
or, blue  for  distinguished  officers, red  for 
those less conspicious, and black  for  every 
one else. In the book of rites, Li-Ki, the cere­
monies  performed at  the  harvest are care­
fully described.

Even the Empress did not disdain to gath­
er the leaves of  the Mulberry with her own 
dainty fingers, and watched over the rearing 
of the  busy  toilers  of the  cocoon.  For a 
long time this invaluable  industry remained 
the  exclusive  property of the Chinese  em­
pire, but about the  third  century before the 
Christian  era a  military  expedition  from 
China bore the results of its civilization to the 
startled Occident. Silk became known in Per­
sia  and  India,  and  was at last brought  to 
Europe.  The  soldiers of Crassus, 56 years 
b .  c.,  saw  silken  standards  among  the 
Parthians,  and a  few  years  later  an  im­
mense velarium of silk protected the specta­
tors in the Roman  circus  from the  rays of 
the sun.  From this  time the Romans  were 
always provided with the beautiful  textures 
which were the  admiration of their legions. 
Yet silk was still the  privileged  possession 
o f'th e  rich, ancfin  the  time of  Aurelian, 
who  flourished  in the  third  century, was
worth about  forty  times its present  value. 
This enormous price, when considered  with 
the fact that  there was at that  time no com­
merce  between  Rome and the Orient, goes 
far toward explaining the great  hoarding of 
treasure and  jewelry which  has  since that 
time gone on in India.  There is dispute be­
tween tradition  and  history as to the period 
when the genuine cocoon was  brought from 
China to Europe.  How  was the  vigilance 
of the Celestials thwarted, since exportation 
of the silkworm from the  flowery  kingdom 
was forbidden under the  severest penalties? 
One account states that 552 A. p . two monks 
sent to Kothan*by*Justinian  succeeded  in 
bearing  away  their  booty  concealed  in  a 
stalk  of  bamboo.  The  legend  says  that 
once upon a time, when  Kothan did not yet 
possess  the  precious  bombyx, the king of 
one of the provinces sought  and  obtained a 
daughter of  the  Chinese  emperor  in  mar­
riage.  Before quitting her native  land  she 
hid 
the  mulberry  and  silk­
worms’ eggs in her  hair, where it would es­
cape the vigilance of  the customs officers on 
the frontier.  When she  reached  lier  new 
home she planted the seeds of  the mulberry 
in order that suitable  nourishment might be 
provided in the leaf for the worms.

seeds  of 

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.

Mr. Spurgeon being  asked whether a man 
could be a Christian  and  belong  to  a brass 
band, replied:  “Yes, I think he  might;  but 
it would be a  very  difficult  matter  for  his 
next-door neighbor to be a Christian.”

Choice Butter can always be had  at M.  C. 

Russell’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...............................  
Shnford’s Comets............................ 

TH REE-PLY S.

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

EXTRA  SU PERS.

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Hartford........................................... 
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Lowell................................................ 
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Other makes....................................  75  @
Best cotton chain............................  w  @
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Best  2-ply........................................  
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Other grades 2-ply..........................   5214©
All-wool  super,2-ply...... .. .. .. ..   50  ©
Extra heavy double cotton chain.  4214© 
Double cotton c h a in ...............  35  @
Heavy cotton and wool, double c.  30  @ 
Half d’l chain, cotton & wool, 2-ply  2714©
Single cotton chain.........................  19  @
3-ply, 4-4 wide, extra heavy............  2714©
B, 4-4 wide..................  
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Imperial, plain, 4-4 wide................. 
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D,33  inches....................................  
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No. 1, 4-4,54,64 and 8-4.................. 
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No. 2, 
No. 3, 
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No. 4, 
Best all rattan, plain.......................  
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Best all rattan and cocoa, plain... 
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Napier A ........................................... 
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Napier  B................... 
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Opaque shades, 38 inch..................  
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Holland shades, B finish, 44......... 
Pacific  Holland,44.................. 
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Hartshorn’s fixtures, per gross... 
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Cord flxtures. per gross..,

 
CURTalNS.

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MOTTINGS.

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4010

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.

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

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Showcases
PUTNAM  &  BROOKS

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

STIFLE DRY GOODS

CARPETS,

A t  M a n u fa c tu re rs ’  P ric e s . 

SA M PLES  TO  THE  TRAD E  ONLY.

H ouse  and  Store  Shades  Made  to  Order. 

68  Monroe  Street, Grand  Rapids.

NELSON  BROS.  CO.

FOX, MUSSELMAN&LOVERIDGE,

MATTINGS,

OIL  CLOTHS,

ETC.,  ETC.

Q  a n d   8  M o n ro e   S tre e t,

W m m  
i M

Grand  Rapids,

M ichigan. 0

WHOLESALE  GROCERS,
Nimrod, Acorn, G if, Crescent & Red Seal Ping Tobaccos.

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

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

t 

Our  stock  of Teas,  Coffees  and  Syrups 

is  Always  Complete.

—WE MAKE SPECIAL CLAIM FOB OUR—

T o b a o o o s,  V in e g a rs   a n d   S p ic e s  .1 

OUR  MOTTO:  “ SQUARE  DEALING  BETWEEN  MANoAND  MAN/»

C O R R E S P O N D E N C E   S O L IC IT E D . 

.  J

Ö. G. McCULLOCH & CO.
I Tea, Coffee and Spice 
1 

House.

8  Pearl Street,. ~

I Grand Rapids  -  Mich, |

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S. A. WELLING

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.

I am represented on the  road  by  the  fol­
lowing well-known travelers:  J ohn D. Man- 
gum,  A.  M.  Spr a g u e,  J ohn  H.  E a ck eb, 
L. R. Cesn a,  Geo. W. N. D e J onge. 
F r a n k B er l es 
24 Pearl Street 

Grand Rapids, Mich.

House Salesman.

-  

- 

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.  Hi.  F O W L E ,  

HOUSE  DECORATOR 

—And Dealer in—

FINE  WALL  PAPER

Window Shades,  Room Mouldings,

A rtists’  M aterials  !

Paints, Oils, Glass, Etc.

37 No.  I o nia  St r e e t, South  of  Monroe.
Special  designs  furnished  and  Estimates 
given for interior decoration and  all kinds of 
stained and ornamental Glass work.

L. H.  BEALS & SON

fK \ 

Manufacturers of

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, 

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MICHIGAN.

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The best

— AND—

BASS
PICKEREL
B A I T

IN  T H E

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

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

CALKINS

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

Westfield, Mass.

— AN I)—

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

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

6. ROTS & CO., Gen’l Apits

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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.

80 S.  Division

All  Goods  Warranted 

the BEST in the 

Market.
TELEPHONE
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NO.

EDMUND  B.  DIKEMAN,

PORTABLE  AND  STATIONARY
E N G I N E S
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 e n iso n ,

88,90 and 92 South  Division  Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  ' 

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MICHIGAN.

WEATHERLY k GO.,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.,  Wholesale  and  Retail

IR O N   P IP E , 

JEW ELER ,

44  CANAL  STREET,

B rass  Goods,  Iron  a n d  B rass Fittings 

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN.

Mantles,  Grates,  Gas  F ixtures, 

Plumbers, Steam  Fitters,
—And  Manufacturers  of—

Galvanized  Iron  Cornice.

MOSELEY  BROS.,

Wholesale

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

122 Monroe Street, Grand  Rapids, Mich.

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

Thirty Tears.

L IS T   O F   O F F IC E R S :

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, 8. A. Munger, H. K. White 
For Two Years—D. Morris,  A. W.  Culver.

BUSINESS  LAW.

Brief,Digests of Recent  Decisions in Courts 

of Last  Resort.

Partnership—Binding Associates.

In the absence of special authority,  in the 
opinion of the Supreme  Court  of  Pennsyl­
vania, one partner cannot bind his associates 
jointly with himself by a contract of  surety­
ship or guaranty.

Fraudulent Assignment.

In the opinion of  the  Supreme  Court  of 
Wisconsin, an assignment containing prefer­
ences in favor of persons not creditors of the 
assigning firm, but creditors of an individual 
partner therein, is fraudulent and void  as to 
unpreferred creditors of  the  firm  who  had 
repudiated it.
Certificates of Stocks Not Negotiable Secur­
The Supreme Court  of  California,  in  the 
case of Barstow vs. the Savage  Mining  Co., 
holds that certificates of stocks are not nego­
tiable securities, but  are  simply  the  muni­
ments and evidence of the holder’s  title to a 
given share in the property and franchises of 
the corporation.

ities.

Sale—Denial of Vendor’s Title.

In an action for goods sold and  delivered, 
the defendant sought to  escape  liability  by 
denying the plaintiff’s title at the time of the 
sale.  From a judgment against  him in the 
case,  he  appealed  to  the  Supreme  Court, 
where he was again beaten.  The Chief Jus­
tice, Smith, in the opinion, said:  “No  prin­
ciple of law can be found which  will permit 
a purchaser (in the absence, of course, of the 
assertion of superior right by another)  to set 
up in defense to a claim for  the  price  of  a 
defect  of 
title  of  a  vendor.”—Web­
ster vs. Lane, Supreme Court of Nortli Caro­
lina.

the 

tice.

Liability for Em ploye’s Negligence.
Mullvehille vs. Bates was a case involving 
the negligence of an employe,  it  appearing 
on trial that A was employed by B  to  drive 
his express wagon, and to pick  up  business 
for him, and while  engaged  in  some  work 
for himself A ran over a child,  and  for  the 
injuries suffered B was sued  and  judgment 
recovered against him.  He  carried the case 
to the  Supreme  Court  (Minnesota),  where 
judgment was affirmed,  Judge  Mitchell,  in 
delivering the opinion, saying:  “A was en­
trusted with  the  wagon  generally,  to  hunt 
work where he could find it, and with author­
ity to carry articles for whomever he saw fit 
Whether he accounted to the master  for the 
value of the time  occupied  in  transporting 
his own property is immaterial,  that being a 
matter entirely between themselves. 
If the 
driver had taken the wagon on an independ 
ent journey ot his own, altogether out of the 
scope of the purposes for  which  it  was  en 
trusted to him, and an injury  had  then  oc 
curred, the  defendant  would,  probably  not 
have been liable.  But such was not the fact 
here.  The  trip  in  which  the  servant was 
using  the  wagon  was  within  the  scope  of 
the purposes for which it  was  entrusted  to 
him.”
M utual  Life

Insurance—P rem ium s—No­
The premium of a life policy was not paid 
and in a suit for the  loss  the  company  de­
fended upon that ground.  Thejplaintiff  re­
lied upon the fact that she had not  received 
the customary notice of  fifteen days, the no­
tice not having been sent to the proper place. 
The defendant had judgment, and the plain­
tiff appealed.  In this case the Supreme Court 
of Ohio  affirmed the judgment.  Judge See- 
vers, in the opinion, said i  “Life  insurance 
companies could not exist for any  length  of 
time and comply with their contracts  if  the 
prompt  payment  of  dues  and assessments 
can be evaded or payment  thereof  delayed. 
It is common and  usual  to  provide  that  if 
dues and assessments are unpaid the  policy 
shall be  null  and  void.  Conceding  that  it 
had been the custom of the companj  to send 
fifteen days’ notice of the time the  premium 
was due, it was a voluntary act on the part of 
the  company, ¡which  was  not  required by 
the terms of the  policy.  The  obligation  to 
pay the annual dues on a  fixed  day  was  as 
positive  as  if  the  assured  had  given  her 
promissory note to that effect.  The fact that 
the defendant had voluntarily  sent  out  no­
tices when the premiums  were  due,  and  in 
this instance, as is claimed, was negligent in 
sending the notice to the  proper  place,  can 
not operate as a waiver of the  conditions  of 
the  policy.”—Mandego  vs.  Centennial  Mu­
tual  Life  Association,  Supreme  Court  of 
Iowa.

Patents  Issued  to  Michigan  Inventors.
J. H. Benjamin, Saginaw, log-binder.
C. E. Brown, Jackson, bustle.
Wm. Downham, St. Johns, carriage-curtain 

attachment.

tilling wood.

ing wood.

J. A. Mathien,  Detroit,  apparatus  for dis­

J. A. Mathien, Detroit, retort for carboniz­

C.  B.  McAlvay  and  E.  H.  Christopher, 

Jackson, lubricator for steam engines.

E. G.  Miles,  Fenton,  interfering pad  for 

C. H. Parshall, Detroit, lubricator.
Wm. M. Thomas, Grand Rapids, automatic 

electric cutout.

E. I.  Walden,  Ispheming,  steam-generat­

horses.

or.

Wm. R. Wilcox, St, Joseph, car-step.

A tramp stopped at a house on Main street 
the other day, and  asked  for  something  to 
eat.  “Which do you like  best?”  asked  the 
hired  girl—“steak  or  chop?”  The  tramp 
meditated  a  minute  and 
then  replied, 
“Chop.” 
“Step  right  this  way,” said  the 
hired  girl;  “here’s  the  axe and there’s  the 
woodpile.”

How to  Make  Ginger Ale.

After wiping off his mouth  and  carefully 
placing the glass on the  marble  counter,  he 
whispered to the  druggist:

“Very good ginger ale that is.”
“Yes, sir.”
“I can sell you a recipe to make three cents 

worth of that fill a five-cent glass.”

“Don’t want it, sir.”
“Maybe you have a better thing?”
“I have, sir. 

I can make ten cents’ worth 
of cayenne pepper take the place of six shil­
lings’ worth of ginger!”

The  thirsty  traveler  took  lemonade  next 

time.

The  Business  Situation.

From the Boston Advertiser.

But the most significant test of  the  coun­
try’s prosperity lies in the price of real prop­
erty, which continues at the usual rates, just 
as if there had been  no  decline  in  railroad 
shares.  No “boom” is in  sight,  then;  yet 
neither is there  much  justification  for  the 
profound gloom which haunts so many busi­
ness men at the present time.

Bricks made of cork now constitute one of 
the new German industries.  The usual size 
is ten by four and three-fourths by two  and 
a half inches.  They are prepared from small 
corks, refuse and coment, and have not only 
been used for certain building  purposes,  on 
account of their lightness and isolating prop­
erties, but are  also  used  as  a  covering  for 
boilers, in preventing the radiation  of  heat.

Lovers of salad need have no fear that the 
supply of olive oil will diminish to any alarm­
ing  extent.  According  to  the  Drugman 
there are now eighty-five mills  in  operation 
in the South for the manufacture  of  cotton­
seed oil, and during  the  past  season  about 
500,000 tons of the seed were crushed, giving 
a product of over 250,000 barrels of that con­
venient adulterant.

The  Postmaster  General  has  decided 
against the establishment of a  post-office  at 
Bay  Springs  because  of  its  proximity  to 
Boyne City.

There is  talk  of  a  telephone  line  from 
Charlevoix to Boyne City, and some prospect 
of  one to Ironton.

Two hundred thousand quarts of  peanuts 
were sold in Philadelphia during two days of 
a circus there.

8®“  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.

TIMEJTABLES.

 

A R R IV E .

D E PA R T.

Michigan  Central—Grand  Rapids  Division:
tDetroit Express....................................   6:00 am
tDay Express.................................. 
12:25 
*New York Fast Line............................  6:00 pm
+Atlantic Express.....................................9:20 pm
♦Pacific  Express.............................................   6:4 am
tLocal  Passenger...........................................11:20 am
+Mail..........................................................3:20 p m
+Grand Rapids  Express........................10:25 p m
tDaily 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. S c h u l t z , Gen’l Agent.

Detroit,  Grand  Haven &  Milwaukee.

G O IN G  EA ST.

GO ING W EST.

Arrives.
tSteamboat Express..........6:10 a m
•(■Through  Mail.....................10:10 a m
+Evening  Express.......................3:20 pm
♦Atlantic Express...............  9:45 p m
tMixed, with  coach..........
•(•Morning Express..............12:40 p m
■(•Through  Mail....................  4:45 p m
tSteamboat Express...........10:30 p m
tMixed..................................
♦NightExpress...........................   5:10 am

Leaves. 
6:15 a m 
10:20 a m 
3:35 p m 
16:45 p m 
10:00 a m
12:55 p m 
4:55 p m 
10:35 p m 
8:00 a m 
5:30 a m
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. P o t t e r , City Pass. Agent.

T h o m a s   T a n d y , Gen’l Pass. Agent,  Detroit.

Grand  Rapids  &  Indiana.

G O ING NORTH.

G O ING  SOUTH.

Arrives.  Leaves.
Cincinnati & G. Rapids Ex.  9:02 p m 
Cincinnati &MackmacEx.  9:22 am   9:50 am  
Ft. Wayne&MaekinacEx..  3:57 p m  4:45 p m 
7:15 am
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  CAR ARRANGEM ENTS.

All trains daily except Sunday.
North—Train  leaving at  4:45  o’clock  p.  m. 
has  Woodruff  Sleeping Cars for Petoskey and 
Mackinac City.  Trainleaving at  9:50a. m. has 
combined Sleeping and Chair Car for Mackinac
City. 
S o u t h —Train leaving at 4:32 p. m. has  Wood­
ruff Sleeping Car for Cincinnati.

C. L. Lockwood, Gen’l Pass. Agent.

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Chioago & West Michigan.
Arrives, 
Leaves.
4:00 p m 
tMail......................................  9:15 am
10:45 p m 
+Day Express..................... 12:25 p m
6:10 am  
♦Night  Express.................. 8:35 pm
10:05 pm
Mixed....................................6:10 am
♦Daily.  tDaily except Sunday.
Pullman Sleeping Cars  on  all  night trains. 
Through parlor  car  in  charge  of  careful  at­
tendants without extra charge to  Chicago  on 
12:25 p. m., and through coach  on 9:15 a.m. and 
8:35 p. m. trains.

NEWAYGO D IV IS IO N .

Leaves.  Arrives.
Mixed......................................5:00am  5:15pm
Express................................. 4:10 p m 
8:30 p m
Express.................................8:30 am  
10:15 am
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.

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OROUTT  <&  COMPANY,
Butter, Eggs, Cleese, Fruit, Brain, Hay, Beef, Pori, ProHuce

WHOLESALE  AND  COMMISSION

Consignments  Solicited.

* 

MUSKEGON, MICH.

—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.

Ham ids  Soli if  tie  Dozen  at  New  York  Prices!!

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

Clothing  and  Gent’s  F urnishing  Goods, 

Oottonade  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.

X.  O.  L E V I ,

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

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN,

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

P E R K I N S   <&  H E S
Hides, Furs, W  ool &; Tallow,
Castor Machine  Oil.

NOS.  123  and  124  LOUIS  STREET, GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

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

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

OHIO  OIL  OOIAFAlISTY'

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- 
ingGinto popular favor.  We  Solicit  a  Trial  Order.

MANUFACTURERS  AND  JOBBERS  OF

Haznltine, Perkins  &  Co., Grand  Rapids.
RINDGE, BERTSOH & CO.,
BOOTS  &  SHOES,
Goods are Specially Marled for the M id p  Trade.
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.

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

W H O L E S A L E

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

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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Groceries.

MUSKEGON MATTERS.

VISITING BUYERS.

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

Facts and Fancies Picked Up at that Place.
That Muskegon is going ahead  with rapid 
strides, no one who has half an eye  will de­
ny.  Extensive building  operations serve to 
tide over the effect of the present prevailing 
dullness, and a determination to take advan­
tage of every opportunity precludes a vision 
of the discouraging outlook that  is  brought 
into altogether too much prominence in many 
other cities in  the  State.  As  a  class, the 
business men  of  the  place  are  prosperous 
and progressive, and to these  characteristics 
is to be attributed  in  great  part  the  plie- 
nominal  and  substantial  growth  that  has 
marked the city’s progress  during  the  past 
dozen years.

The jobbing trade of the city is well repre­
sented by A. Wierenga, groceries,  S. S. Mor­
ris & Co., provisions, C.  L. Brundage, drugs, 
John Williams, liquors,  and Carey & Lander 
and Orcutt & Co.,  produce. 
Several  other 
houses also conduct a jobbing business  on  a 
smaller scale.

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“Andrew Wierenga begun  the  retail  gro­
cery  business ten years ago with only $178,” 
said a friend  that  gentleman.  “To-day  he 
owns a brick block  worth  at  least  $15,000 
and conducts a jobbing business  that  ought 
to  pan  out  $5,000  a  year. 
In  ten  years 
Wierenga will be counted among Muskegon’s 
rich men.” 

“The firm of S. S. Morris & Bro.  is anoth­
er  example  of  Muskegon  enterprise,” said 
another  authority.  “The house  began the 
retail business twelve  years ago  with  small 
capital, and is  to-day  one  of  the 
leading 
packing  houses  in the  State, doing  only a 
jobbing business.”

The Muskegon Brewing Co. must have met 
with  exceptional  success,  if  the series  of 
buildings erected by  the  establishment  are 
any  criterion.  Beginning  with  1881,  the 
company has put up a larger  structure  each 
year, and this season it has  capped  the  cli 
mav by erecting a fine five-story brick build­
ing which is  without  an  equal  in  Western 
Michigan.

THE SCHIMMEL. ASSIGNMENT.

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Louis Schimmel, assignee for L. W. Schim- 
mel & Co., crockery dealers, has filed the re­
sult of an inventory of  the  stock,  accounts, 
etc., from which it appears  that the apprais­
ed value of the stock is $6,027.97 and the ac­
counts $1,126.79, making the total assets $7,- 
154.76—just about enough to pay the  mort­
gages held by tho assignee  and the  Muske­
gon  National  Bank. 
The  total liabilities 
are $8,489.15, distributed  among  thirty-two 
creditors in the following amounts; 
Muskegon National Bank, Muskegon.. $3,000 00 
.. 3,000 00
Louis Schimmel 
Daily Morning News 
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Muskegon Valley Fur. Co 
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Dana & McKay 
H. Leonard & Sons, Grand Rapids........ 
A. Coye & Sons 
 
Norton & Butters, Boston.....................  
Abram French &  Co.  “ 
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Pitkin & Brooks,  Chicago.....................  
“ 
Burley & Tyrell 
...................... 
“ 
Clapp & Davis 
 
 
Otto Young &  Co 
“ 
Meriden Brittania Co 
.....................  
Dennison Mfg, Co  “ 
 
W. H. Glumey, Jons & Co., Buffalo—  
J. C. Jewett & Co 
“  —  
Monitor Oil Stove Co.,  Cleveland........  
Manning, Bowman  & Co.,  Meriden... 
Meriden Malable Iron Co 
... 
Wilcox Silver Plating Co 
... 
H. M. Smith, New  York......................... 
Geo. F. Bassett & Co  “ 
......................... 
Richard & Hartley, Pittsburg............... 
J. Wyllie & Son, East Liverpool,  Ohio. 
Russell Cuttlery Co., Turner’s Falls... 
Jenness & McCurdy,  Detroit................  
John P. Fiske 
................. 
Genden Paeschke Mfg. Co., Milwaukee 
Derby Silver Co., Birmingham, Conn.. 
Jesse Dean, Trenton, N. J .....................  

65 25
25 00
282 00
69 00
128 07
8102
5 76
5  71
36 00
1  25
136 96
103
33 20
35 00 
70
517 02
157 46
21 40
63 38
17 32 
43 29
214 79
100 00
33  19
100 00
241 99

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18 00
32 50

Features  of the  Week.

The market has been  exceptionally quiet 
and featureless, nothing  having declined o.
Business still  contin- 
advanced materially, 
collections are no eas-
ues unimproved, and 
ier.

Oranges are scarce  and  higher.  Lemons 
are in  good  demand  and  steady  in  price. 
Nuts are without change.

An  Act  of Great Valor.

“Yes, sir,” he said, much excited;  “he’s a 

liar, and 1 told him so.”

“That’s rather a risky thing to do.  I won­

der he didn’t knock you  down.”

“Oh, I told him  through  the  telephone.”

M. C. Bussell has just added to his  estab­
lishment a first-class refrigerator, one of the 
best in the country, with a  capacity  of  two 
tons of ice and six to  eight  tons  of  butter. 
By means of  this  important  auxiliary,  the 
construction  and maintenance of  which  in­
volves considerable expense, he will be able 
to keep a large amount  of  choice  creamery 
and dairy butter on hand  at  all  times,  and 
customers can invariably depend  upon  hav­
ing their  orders  filled  promptly,  with  the 
best goods on the market, and shipped in the 
best possible condition.

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.

A cattle king says that  within  ten  years 
Omaha will be the cattle center of the coun­
try.  An abbatoir is now  being  built  there 
that will cover 400 acres and will cost $750,- 
000.

It is said that tomatoes and cucumbers are 
so plenty in Florida that hundreds  of  acres 
of them are ploughed  in,  because  they  are 
not worth the cost of  picking.  '

Sugar is selling at two  cents  a  pound  in 

mapy places in Cuba.

Tan Bark- 

old.

-$5.50 for new  and  $4.50  for

port.

Center. 
Stanton.

Samuel Boush,  of Reigler & Roush,  Free­
A .V . Coburn, Pierson.
A. V. Chapman, Fruitport.
C. L. Howard,  Clarksville.
O. S. Richards, Clarksville.
B. Wynhoff, Holland.
G. P. Stark, Cascade.
Wm. Yermeulen, Beaver Dam.
N. S. Loop, Kent City.
Dibble Bros., Bumip’s Comers.
G. W. Hoag, Martin.
C. E. Blakely, Coopersville.
Blakeley Bros., Fife  Lake.
John Cole, Fremont 
Walling Bros., Lamont.
J. D. F. Pierson, Pierson.
W. H. Hicks,  Morley.
O. E. Close & Co., Sand Lake.
Nagler & Beeler,  Caledonia.
F. C. Williams, Ada.
J. C. Benbow, Canonsburg.
J. C. West, Lowell.
Mr. Purdy, of Purdy  &  Hastings,  Sparta
Mr.  Blackman  of  Shepard  &  Blackman, 
J. B. Watson, Coopersville.
Geo. Carrington, Trent.
J. H. Herrington, Freeport.
W. H. Andrews, Fennville.
E. H. Foster, Fife Lake.
Holland & Ives,  Rockford.
Nicholas Bouma, Fisher.
J.  Newman, Dorr.
F. C. Shelby, Yolney.
M. Minderhout, Hanley.
Geo. W. Bartlett, Ashland  Center.
R. V. McArthur, Rockford.
O. M. Rush, Evart
R. Carlyle, Rockford.
W. W. Pierce, Moline.
C. W. Armstrong, Bowen’s Mills.
H. S. Swan,  of  DeGroat&  Swan,  Hun- 
JayMarlatt, Berlin.
G. J. Shackelton, Lisbon.
E. W. Pickett,  Wayland.
John Scholten, Fillmore Center.
Henry Marsh, Hobart.
J. Newman, Dorr.
C. Duning, Dutton.
A. W. Blain, Dutton.

____,

gerford.

■  Mr.  Ball,  of  Boomgard  &  Ball,  Grand 
Haven.

Coopersville.

brook.

A. E. Landon, Nunica.
E. H. Foster, Fife Lake.
H. B. Irish,  Lisbon.
Geo. W. Bevins, Tustin.
Bert Tinkler, Hastings.
Fisher & Mastenbrook, Lamont.
Poland & Wenzell, Woodville.
Byron McNeal, Byron Center.
J. W. Mead, Berlin.
W. C. Harper, Robinson.
Robert Carlyle, Rockford.
C. Bergin, Lowell.
J. Barnes, Plainfield.
G. C. Baker, LeBarge.
G. H. Walbrink, Allendale.
J. Omler, Wright.
Jas. Moerdyk, Zeeland.
Geo. W. Watrous,  of  Watrous  &  Lilley,
Heck & Goodman, Burnip’s Corners. 
Norman Harris,  Big Springs.
Paine & Field, Englishville.
M. J. Howard, Englishville.
L. L. Maxfield, Fruitport.
Wm. Snelling, Six Corners.
Jorgensen & Hemingsen.  Ashland.
S. M. Wright, Big Springs.
F. C. Brisbin, Berlin.
Adam Newell,  Tustin.
Mr. Holbrook, of Holbrook &  Carse, Hol­
Liddell & Linstrom,  Holbrook.
Andre Bros., Jennisonville.
J. Glupker, Zutphen.
Parkhurst Bros., Nunica.
Kellogg & Potter, Jennisonville.
Gringhaus Bros., Lamont.
J. H. Moores, Moorestown.
R. G. Smith, Wayland.
Geo. S. Powell, Sand Lake.
C. F. Sears & Co., Rockford.
Mrs. M. M. Coon, New Era.
E. W. Pickett, Wayland.
Spring & Lindley, Bailey.
Gaylord & Pipp, Pierson.
JacobBartz, North Dorr.
H. T. M. Treglown, Lowell.
John J. Ely, Rockford.
Geo. H. Force, Morley.
I.  S. Boise, Hastings.
Waite Bros., Hudsonville.
Adam Wagner,  Eastmanville.
O. P. McClure, Spencer  Mills.
J. L. Graham, Hopkins.
Geo. A. Sage,  Rockford.
J. C. Paris, Kent City.
J. W. Feams, Big Rapids.
Mr. Carpenter,  of  Colbom  &  Carpenter,
O. Naragang, Byron Center.
John Gunstra, Lamont.
N. DeVries, Jamestown.
H. C. Peckham, Freeport.
H. E. Clark, Lowell.
Geo. W. Shearer, Cedar Springs.
O. F. Conklin,  Ravenna.
A. Norris, Casnovia.
Henry DeKline, Jamestown.
S. E. Faxon, Sen.,  Ada.
T. W. Provin, Cedar Springs.
Cass  Scoville,  of  Scoville  &  McAuley
J. J. Wiseman, Nunica.
R. Steffin, Jamestown.
C. E. Clark, Lowell.
S. C. Fell, Howard City.
Geo. W. Reed, of Reed  &  Barnard,  Stan-
J. W. Closterhouse, Grandville.

wood.

Edgerton.

Caledonia.

Sand,  Sugar and  Strawberries.

Grocer—How much sand have  you put  in 

that  sugar?

Clerk—About  a  peck.
Grocer—Mercy on me!  only a peck!  Put 

in a couple of bushels.

Clerk—A  couple  of  bushels!  Good  St, 
Saccharine!  Do  you  want  to  ruin  your 
trade?

Grocer—Certainly  no;  a  bushel of  sand 

more or less, won’t be noticed now.

Clerk—Why won’t it?
Grocer—This is strawberry  time.

According to the Chinese, cask making has 
been  known to  them  for  many  thousand 
years.  They  labored, however,  under  this 
drawback.  They did not  know how to give 
the final  touch by which the lid is fastened 
in, the  only  method  that  struck  them 
feasible  being to  place a boy inside  while 
the cooper tightened the  hoops  and secured 
the lid in  its  position.  But  how  was  the 
boy to get out?  This  remained an unsolved 
problem for 3,000 years.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

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B L U IN G .

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BROOMS.

Frazer’s ..........................................................  85
Diamond........................................................
Modoc  ....  ^ d o z.........................................  60
Paragon...  $  doz................... 
<0
Paragon, 20 ft  pails......................................  00
................................. f) doz.  45
..............................................  
75
......................................  1 40
Arctic 54 ft cans
.................. 2 40
.................. 12 00
Arctic 5
25
__ doz. 
Dry, No. 2__
45
........ .............. doz. 
Dry, No. 3...
... doz. 
35
Liquid, 4 oz,.
65
__ doz. 
Liquid, 8 oz.
__ ff  gross 4 00
Arctic 4 oz............................................  gw w  *
Arctic 8  oz.......................................................  8 0 ■
Arctic 16 oz.....................................................  12 0u
Arctic No. 1 pepper box................................  2 00
3  00
Arctic No. 2 
Arctic No. 3 
4 50
No. 1 Carpet............................................ . 
2 50
No. 2 Cffrpet..............................................  " 2o
No. 1 Parlor Gem....................................  
2 75
No. 1 Hurl.................................................  
2 00
No. 2 Hurl  ................................................ 
1 75
125
Fancy Whisk.......................... 
Common Whisk........................................ 
8o
Cove Oysters, 1  B>  standards................... 1 15
Cove Oysters, 2  ft  standards..................   1 85
Cove Oysters, 1 ft  slack filled....................  75
Cove Oysters, 2 ft slack filled.....................1 25
Clams,Iff)  standards...................................1  65
Clams, 2 B>  standards...................................2 65
Lobsters, 1 ff>  standards.............................. 1 65
Lobsters, 2 ff>  standards..............................2 70
Lobsters,  Picnics..........................................1 65
Mackerel,IB)  fresh standards...................1 20
Mackerel, 5 ff> fresh standards...................6 50
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 ff)................3 50
Mackerel, 3 ft in Mustard........................... 3 50
Mackerel, 3 ft broiled..................................3 50
Salmon, 1 ft Columbia river...................... 1 60
Salmon, 2 ft Columbia river...................... 2 60
Salmon,Iff)  Sacramento............................ 1 50
Sardines, domestic hia................................. 
7)4
Sardines,  domestic  14s...............................   1214
Sardines,  Mustard  14s.................................  12
Sardines,  imported  hia...............................   15
Sardines, imported }4s.................................  *0
Sardines, imported 14s, boneless...............  32
Sardines, Russian  kegs..............................  50
Trout, 3 ft  brook........................................  3 00

CANNED  F IS H .

 

CANNED F R U IT S .

Apples. 3 ft standards.................................  90
pples, gallons,  standards, Erie..............2 50
ackberries, standards.............................1 20
Cherries,  red................................................ 1 00
Cherries, w h ite........................................... 1 75
Damsons.......................................................J 20
Egg Plums, standards 
..............................1 oa
Egg Plums,  Erie......................................... 1 45
Green Gages, standards 2ft......................1 40
Green Gages,  Erie...................................... 1 50
Peaches, 3 ft  standards..............................1  75
Peaches, 3 ft Extra Yellow........................2 00
Peaches,  seconds........................................1 65
Pie Peaches 3 ft......................................... 1  15
Pears, Bartlett2ft...................................... 1 30
Pineapples, 2 ft  stand..................................i f -
Raspberries, 2 ft stand................................1 25
Raspberries, 2ft Erie...................................1 40
Strawberries, 2 ft standards......................110
Apricots, Lusk’s ......................................... 2 75
Egg Plums...................................................2 8o
Green Gages................................................|  8o
Pears  ............................................................3 00
Quinces........................................................* J"
Peaches........ . ...............................................3 00

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

CANNED V EG ETA BLES.

Asparagus, Oyster Bay... .•....................... 3 25
Beans, L im a.................................................   85
Beans, String................................................  90
Beans, Boston Baked.................................1 65
Beans,  Stringless....................................... 1 00
Corn, Erie.....................................................J ¿5
Corn, Revere............................................• ••1*0
Corn,  Egyptian...........................................110
Corn,  Yarmouth.........................................1 20
Corn Trophy................................................J J5
Corn, 2ft  Onandago.................................. -150
Corn.  Acme— ...........................................125
Mushrooms, French....................................22@24
Peas, standard  Marrofat.............................1 40
Peas, 2ft  Early, small  (new)......................1 60
Peas, 2 ft Beaver.............. 
75
Peas, French 2ft.................................. . • 
Pumpkin, 3 ft Golden................................ .1 10
Succotash, 2 ft standards............................  85
Succotash, 2 ft B. & M................................... 1 75
Squash, 3 ft  standards................................. 1 20
Tomatoes, 3ft Dilworth’s.............................1 00
Tomatoes, 3 ft Job Bacon.............................1 00
Tomatoes, gal. Erie...................................... 2 95
Tomatoes, Acme 3ft.....................................120
D.....................   35  [Ely’s Waterproof  75

CAPS.

 

)23@26

CHOCOLATE.

Boston  premium......................................  @36
Baker’s premium......................................  @40
Runkles.............................................  
  @35
German  sweet...................................... ■ • ■  @2j>

 

OATMEAL.

18 5 ft pkgs...............................................   @3 75
362ft pkgs...............................................   @3 25
Imperial  bbls.........................................  @5 50
Quaker bbls............................................   @6  75
Star and Cresent, steel cut..................  @5 75

O IL .

do. 

Kerqsene  W. W..............................
Legal test..........;...........
Sweet, 2 oz. square..........................
Sweet, 2  oz. round..........................
Castor, 2 oz.  square.........................
Castor, 2 oz. round..........................

12)4 
1 %Vx 
76
1  00 
75 
1  00

P IC K L E S .

do 
do 

Choice in barrels med............. ........................7 50
Choice in 54 
......................................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 
pts..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................................................6%
Prime  Carolina..................................................714
Java  ................................................................. 6
P atna............................... .'............................... 6)4
Rangoon............................................................. 524

SA LERA TUS.

DeLand’s pure..............................................@514
Church’s  ............ 
@514
Taylor’s G.  M....................  .........................@ 5)4
Cap  Sheaf......................................................@ 5)4
Dwight’s ........................................................@ 5)4
Sea  Foam......................................................© 5)4
S., B. &L.’s  Best.......................................... © 5)4

 

SALT.

60 P ocket...............................................  
28 Pocket................................................. 
100 3 ft pockets.......................................  
Saginaw F ine......................................... 
Diamond C.............................................. 
Standard  Coarse.................................... 
Ashton, English, dairy, bu. bags........  
Ashton, English, dairy, 4 bu. bags—  
American, dairy, 14 bu. bags...............
Rock, bushels.........................................

SA UCES.

Lee & Perrins Worcestershire, pints.
Lee & Perrins Worcestershire, hi pts.
Picadilly, 14 pints..................................
Halford Sauce,  large............................
Pepper Sauce, red  small.....................
Pepper Sauce, green..............................
Pesper Sauce, red large ring...............
Pepper Sauce, green, large ring........
Catsup, Tomato,  pints..........................
Catsup, Tomato,  quarts  .....................
Horseradish,  14 pints............................
Horseradish, pints.................................
Capers, French surflnes.......................
Capers, French surflnes, large...........
Olives, Queen, 16 oz  bottle..................
Olives, Queen, 27 oz  bottle..................
Olive Oil,  quarts, Antonia &  Co.’s —
Olive Oil, pints,  Antonia & Co,’s ........
Olive Oil, 14 pints, Antonia & Co.’s__

SEEDS.

H em p......................................................
Canary .....................................................
Rape........................................................
Mixed Bird..............................................

SOAP.

do. 

Kirk’s American  Family — . . . . $ f t

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

India..........................
do. 
do.  Savon.........................
do.  Satinet.......................
do.  Revenue....................
do.  White Russian...........
Goodrich’s English Family
Princess............................
Proctor & Gamble’s Ivory.................
Japan  O live.........
f) box
Town Talk 
Golden Bar.............
Arab........................
Amber....................
Mottled  German..
Procter & Gamble’s Velvet..................
Procter & Gamble’s Good Luck..........
Procter & Gamble’s Wash  Well..........
Badger...........................................60 lbs
Galvanic.................................................
jGowan & Stover’s New Process 3 ft br
Tip Top....................................... 3ft bar
Ward’s White Lily.................................
Handkerchief.........................................
Sidall’s ...................................................
Babbitt’s ................................................
Dish R ag................................................
Bluing......................................................
Magnetic..................................................
New  French  Process............................
Spoon.....................................................
Anti-Washboard....................................
Vaterland................................................
Magic........................................................
Pittsburgh..............................................
Bogue’s ...................................................
White castile bars.................................
Mottled castile........................................
Old  Style................................................
Old Country.............................................

Lautz Bros. & Co.

2 50
2 35
2 65
1  00
1 75
1 55
80
3 20
30

@5 00 
@3 00 
©1 50 
@3 75 
@  75 
@  90 
@1 30 
@1 60 
@  90 

@1 30 @1 00 

@1 30 
@2 25 
@3 50 
@3 85 
@6 50 
@7 00 
@4 00 
@2 50

5
7
514@6

524
524
6
5)4
524

[4  75

3 70
4 20 
3 45
3 75
4 20 
@3 40 
@3 25 
@3 15 
@ 6H 
@4 20 
@1834 
@  16 
@6 
@4 20
3 00
5 25
4 10
5 00 
4 20
4 50
5 00
5 00
3 25
4 20 
4 00
6 75 

13 12

@ 514 
514

CO FFEE.

Green Rio..........
GreenJava........
Green Mocha—
Roasted Rio.......
Roasted  Java...
Roasted Mar—
Roasted Mocha.
Roasted M ex...
Ground  Rio—
Ground  Mex...
Arbuckle’s ........
X X X X .............
Dilworth’s .......
Levering’s .......
Magnolia..........
72 foot J u te __ 1 35 |60 foot Cotton__ 1 75
60 foot Jute — 1  15 150 foot Cotton__ 1 50

.......12  @14
.......17  @27  .
............ .......25  @27
.......12  @17
.......24  @34
.......17  @19
.......  @34
.......17)4@19
.......9)4@17
.......  @16
.......  @15)4
.......  @15)4
.......  @15)4
.......  @15)4
.......  @lo)4

CORDAGE.

FLA V O R IN G  EXTRACTS.

Lemon.

Jennings’2 oz....................................ft  doz. 1 00
4 oz..........................................................1 50
6 oz.......................... 
2 50
8 oz..................................................  3 50
N o.2 Taper........................... .....1 2 5
1  75
14 pint  round........................................4 50
i  
.......................... . .. 9  00
3 00

“ 
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“  No.  4 
“ 
» 
“  No.  8............................... 
“  No. 10...................................................  4 25

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Jennings’ 2 oz......................................ft 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
“ 
14 pint  round.....................................   7 50
“ 
1 pint  round........................................15 00
“  No.  8.....................................................  4 25
“  No.  10...................................................   6 00

Vanilla.

Faucets,  self  measuring..........................   @2 50
Faucets, common.......................................  
@ 35

FA UCETS.

F IS H .

Whole Cod.................................. ..........  424@6)4
5@7@8
........  
Boneless Cod.............................
.......2 75@3 00
Herring Vt bbls.JOO ft...............
........  
@24
Herring Scaled..........................
........   @1 00
Herring Holland.......................
........  
7 00
White, No. 1, hi bb ls................
3 50
........ 
White, Family, hi bbls.............
1 00
........  
White, No. 1 ,10 ft kits.............
1  10
White, No. 1,12  ft kits.............
4  50
........ 
Trout, No.  1,54  bbls................
80
......  
Trout, No. 1,12  ft  kits.............
........  
6  50
Mackerel, No. 1, hi bbls............
........  
1  00
Mackerel, No. 1,12 ft  kits— .

F R U IT S .

2  75
London Layers, new.............................. 
Loose Muscatels Raisins,  new..........2 50@2 60
New Valencias  Raisins.......................  
7)4@7)4
D ehesia...................................................  @3 25
Ondaras......................................................   @10)4
Turkey P runes......................................  6)4@624
Currants.......  ........................................  5)4@6
Citron......................................................   @20
Dried Apples  .........................................  8  @8)4

M ATCHES.

........................... 2 56
.............................170
........................... 2  70
.............................170
............................ 2 55
.............................. 2 55
.............................. 1  70

Richardson’s No. 2  square................................ .2 70
do 
Richardson’s No. 3 
do 
Richardson’s No. 5 
do 
Richardson’s No. 6 
do 
Richardson’s No. 8 
Richardson’s No. 9 
do 
Richardson’s No. 4 round...................................2 70
Richardson’s No. 7  do 
Richardson’s No. 7)4 do 
Electric Parlor No. 17........................................... 3 20
Electric Parlor No. 18........................................... 4 64
Grand  Haven, No.  9.................................  
2 70
Grand  Haven, No. 8............................................. 1 40
70
Black  Strap....................................................„  @18
Porto  Rico........................................ 
80@35
New  Orleans,  good..............  
40@60
New Orleans, fancy........ .......... ............,.,*50@w

20 gross lots special price. 

M OLASSES.

 

 

 

 

@ 6)4 
Acme, 701 ft  bars...................................
@ 6)4 
Acme, 25 3 ft bars...................................
@5 25
Towel, 25 bars.
Napkin, 25 bars......................................  @5 25
Best American, 601 ft blocks...............  @ 534
Palma 60-1 ft blocks, plain....................  @534
Shamrock, 100 cakes, wrapped............  @3 70
Master, 100-34 ft cakes ...........................  @5 00
Stearine, 100  % ft cakes.................. . 
@5 00
Marseilles, white, 100 34 ft  cakes........  @6 25
Cotton Oil, white, 100 34 ft  cakes........   @6 25
Lautz’s 60-1 ft blocks, wrapped............  @7
German  Mottled, wrapped..................  @6)4
Savon, Republica, 60 ft box..................  @ 534
Blue Danube, 60-1 ft blocks.................  @534
London Family, 60-1 ft  blocks...........  
London Family, 3-ft bars 80 ft.............   @4 00
London Family, 4-ft bars 80 ft.............   @4 00
Gem, 100 cakes, wrapped.....................   @3 85
@4 00 
Nickel, 100 cakes, wrapped
@3 25 
Climax, 100 cakes, wrapped.................
@2 30 
Boss, 100 cakes,  wrapped.....................
@1 25 
Marseilles Castile, Toilet,3 doz in  box
@ 7
A. No. 1, Floating  White.....................

@ 5

SPICES.

 

STARCH.

1 00 

Special prices on 1,000 ft orders.

Ground Pepper,  in boxes and cans...  16@22
Ground Allspice....................................   12@20
Cinnamon................................................  16@30
Cloves.....................................................  20©25
Ginger.....................................................  17@20
Mustard...................................................  15@35
Cayenne.............. 
25@35
75
Pepper )4 ft $  dozen.............................
75
Allspice  hi ft...........................................
Cinnamon  )4 f t ......................................
75 
Cloves hi  ft..............................................
@18 
Pepper,  whole....................................
@10 
Allspice....................' .........................
Cassia...................................................
@12 
@22
Cloves...................................................  20
Nutmegs,  No. 1..................................   70
@6)4
Muzzy Gloss 1 ft package.....................
Muzzy Gloss 3 ft package......................
@6)4
@7
Muzzy  Gloss 6 ft boxes.........................
Muzzy Gloss bulk..................................
@6
Muzzy Corn 1ft..................... ................  634@7
Kingsford Silver Gloss.........................
Kingsford Silver Gloss 6 ft box..........
8)4@8)4
Kingsford Corn......................................
@6)4
Oswego  Gloss.........................................
@6)4
Mirror  Gloss...........................................
Mirror Gloss, corn.................................
@4
Piel’s Pearl..............................................
@5
Niagara Laundry, 40 ft box,  bulk.......
@5
•*  Laundry, bbls, 186  fts............
@7
“  Gloss, 401 ft packages............
“  Gloss,  36 3 $   packages..........
@6
“  Gloss, 6 ft box, 72 ft crate—
©7)4
Corn, 401ft  packages..........................
American Starch Co.’s
@6)4
1 ft  Gloss.................................................
@334@6
10 oz  Gloss..............................................
3ft  Gloss..................................................
@7
6 ft Gloss, wood boxes..........................
@6)4
Table Corn...................................... 40 ft
@7
Table  Corn..................................... 20 ft
@4
Banner, bulk...........................................
Jugs $   gallon......................................... 
@8
7
Crocks......................................................  
Milk Crocks............................................  
7
Rising  Sun gross..5 88IDixon’s  gross........ 5 50
Universal...............5 88 Above $  dozea.......   50
I X  L ....................... 5 50|

STOVE POLISH.

STONEWARE.

SUGARS.

Standard A.................................

Cut Loaf...................................... 
Cubes.................. ................ .................
Powdered............................................... 
Granulated  ...........................................
Conf.A.......................................................  @6 \
ExtraCwhite............... 
6)4@6)4
Extra C...................................................... 
63i@5ft
Fine C.........}........................................ •'
Yellow C. f J................................... 
 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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TEAS.

PLU G .

TOBACCO—F IN E  CUT.

Corn,  Barrels.........................................  @  32
Corn, V2 bbls............................................   @  34
Corn, 10 gallon kegs...............................   @  35
Corn, 5 gallon kegs.................................  ©1  80
Corn, 4)4 gallon kegs..............................  @165
Pure  Sugar....................................... bbl  ?28@  32
Pure Sugar Drips.........................hi bbl  30@  36
Pure Sugar  Drips................ 5 gal kegs  @1 85
Pure Loaf Sugar Drips...............hi bbl  ©  95
Pure  Loaf Sugar..................5 gal kegs  @1 90
Japan ordinary.  24@301 Young Hyson— 25@50
Japanfair........... 32@35 Gun  Powder....... 35@50
Japan fair to g’d.35@37 Oolong..........33@55@60
Japan fine........... 40@50 Congo...................  @30
Japan dust_____15@20|
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 ruit.................  
@33
O 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, hi  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
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
Nickle Nuggets 6 and 12 ft  cads..........  @51
Cock of the Walk  6s..............................  @37
Black Spun  Roll....................................   @38
Nimrod...........................  
@48
  @48
Acorn....................................... 
Red Seal...................................................  @46
Crescent......................  
 
@44
Black  X ..................................................  @35
Black  Bass..............................................   @40
True Grit.................................................   @35
Nohby  Spun Roll...................................  @50
Spring......................................................   @50
Cray ling, all  styles...............................   @50
Mackinaw............................................... 
  @47
HorseShoe..............................................  @50
Good Luck..............................................  @50
Big Chunk or J. T..................................   @40
Hair Lifter..............................................   @37
D. and D., black......................................  @37
McAlpin’s Green  Shield.......................   @48
Ace  High, black....................................  @35
Champion  A ...........................................  @48
Sailors’  Solace.......................................   @48
Red Star...................................................  @50
Shot Gun................................................. 
  @48
D uck........................................................  @48
Jumbo......................................................   @40
Apple Jack.................  
@50
Jack Rabbit............................................   @42
Morning Dew.............................  
@26
Chain  .......................................... 
  @22
Seal of Grand  Radids............................  @25
King.........................................................   @30
Flirt..........................................................  @28
Pug...........................................................   @30
Ten Penny Durham, hi and hi...............  @24
Amber, hi and 1ft...................................  @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 Fire  ............................................  
@22
Oronoko................................................. 
@19
Nigger  Head...........................................-  @26
Durham,  hi f t .........................................  @60
hi f t .........................................  @57
54 f t .........................................   @55
1 f t .........................................   @51
Holland ...................................................   @22
German...................................................  @16
Long Tom................................................  @30
National..................................................  @26
T im e........................................................  @26
Love’s Dream.........................................  @28
Conqueror..............................................   @23
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, )4s and  )4s..................  @25
Old  Rip, long cut..................................   @55
Durham,  long cut, No.  2.....................   @55
Two  Nickle, hi5......................................  @25
Two  Nickle, )4 s...................................  
  @26
Star Durham...........................................  @25
Golden Flake Cabinet............................  @40
Seal of North Carolina, 2 oz................   @52
Seal of North Carolina, 4 oz................   @50
Seal of North Carolina, 8 oz................   @48
Seal of North Carolina, 16 oz  boxes...  @50
Big Deal, hia  longcut............................  @27
Apple Jack, )4s  granulated..........—   @24
King Bee, longcut, hia and 54s ............  @22
Milwaukee Prize, Us and )4s...............  @24
Good Enough, 5c and 10c  Durham__   @24
Durham, S., B. & L, )4s and hia...........   @24
Rattler, longcut......................................  @28
Windsor cut plug..................................   @25
23
Mule Ear....................................‘............. 
23
Hiawatha................................................ 
Old Congress................................ 
 
23
Acme.................. 
23
Lorillard’s  Macoboy..............................  @55
American Gentleman........   @72
Rappee, A. Beck & Co.’s .......................  @35
Gail & Ax’s  Macoboy............................  @44
Scotch, Railroad  Mills..........................   @44
10@12
Pure  Cider.................. .......... ...............  
10@12
White Wine............................................  
W A SH IN G  PO W D ERS.
@10)4
1776 ff f t ............................................
@7)4
______ . 
Gillett’s ft ft
Soapinepkg............................................  
7@10
Pearline $  box........................................  @4 50
Lavine, single boxes, 481 ft  papers...  @4 50
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 4811b 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 hi ft papers..  @4 15
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 80 hi ft paprs  @4 00 

 
SM OKING.

V IN EGA R.

do 
do 
do 

SHORTS.

SN U FF.

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YEAST.

M ISCELLANEOUS.

do  waterproof............................  
American............................ 
do 

Twin Bros...'__ 1 75  [Wilsons....................... 1 75
Gillett’s ............. 1 75 
lNational..................... 1 75
Blacking........................................30, 40,50@60
1  50
Bath Brick imported.................................  
95
 
 
Barley..........................................................  
t@3H»
1  10
Burners, No. 1 ...................................  
 
1  50
do  No. 2........................................ 
Bags, American A ................................. 
20 00
@
Condensed Milk, Eagle brand.............  
8 10
Condensed Milk,  Swiss........................ 
7  50
Curry Combs f! doz............. .................1 25@
Cream Tartar o and 10 ft cans.............   @25
Candles, Star..............................................   @15)4
Candles, Hotel........ . 
Chimney Cleaners <p  doz.... .. .. .. ,.  ..  @50
5«@5ft

@16)4

@8

do 

do 
do 

@26)4
@27)4

Chimneys No. 1.....................................   @35
No.  2......................................  @46
Coeoanut,  Schepps’ 1 ft packages. 
Cocoanut,  Schepps’ 1 &  V» ft do 
. 
Extract Coffee,  v. c..............................   90@95
F elix.......................... 1 30@
Flour, Star Mills, in bbls..............................5 75@
in Sacks...............................5 50@
Flour Sifters $  doz........................................3 00@
Fruit Augurs each..........................................1 25@
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps.......................  @25
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps.......................   @40
Gum, Spruce...........................................  35@40:
Ink ff 3 dozen  box.................................l  00@
Jelly in Pails.
@ 6 
do  Glass Tumblers ^ doz................
@75 
Lye ff 2  doz. cases...............................
@1 55 
Macaroni,  Imported...........................
@13 
Domestic...............................................
@ 5)4 
French Mustard,  8 oz ft dozen..........
@80 
Large Gothic..........
@1 35 
Oil Tanks, Star 60  gallon....................
@10  00 
Peas, Green Bush................................
@1 65 
_
do  Split prepared........... ............... 
3)4
Powder,  Keg...................................................5 50@
Vi Keg..............................................3 00@
Sago  ........................................................ 
5@G
Shot, drop........................................................ 1 85®
do  buck...................................................... 2 10@
Sage.........................................................   @15
Tobacco Cutters each................................... 1 25@
Twine......................................................  18@20
Tapioca................................................... 
5@6
Wicking No. 1 f) gross...................... 
  @40
do 
No. 2  .....................................  @65
do  Argand ................................... l  5Q@

do 

do 

CANDY, FRUITS AND  NUTS. 

Putnam & Brooks quote as follows:

do 
do 

STICK.
Straight, 25 ft  boxes.............................   @10
..............................  @10)4
Twist, 
..............................  @12
Cut Loaf 
MIXED.

Royal, 25 ft  pails........................................  @10)4
Royal, 200 ft bbls..............................................io
Extra, 25 ft  pails..............................................fiK
Extra, 200 ft bbls..............................................ll
French Cream, 25 ft pails............................... 14
Cut loaf, 25 ft  cases..........................................14
Broken, 25  ft pails........................................... l l )4
Broken, 200 ft bbls...........................................10)4

FANCY—IN 5 ft BOXES.

Lemon Drops....................................................14
Sour Drops........................................................ 15
Peppermint  Drops..........................................1&
Chocolate Drops........... ..................................IT
H M Chocolate  Drops................................    .20
Gum  D rops..................................................... is
Licorice Drops.......................................„........ 20
A B Licorice  Drops..........................!.!!!! !l4
Lozenges, plain...............................................j g
Lozenges,  printed...........................................it
Imperials........................................................ .16
Mottoes'.............................................. 1.!.!!!. 16.
Cream  Bar.............................................. ..'.*.15
Molasses Bar......................................... ! 1." .14
Caramels..................................................... ."I201
Hand Made Creams................................... . . .23
Plain  Creams..................................................]20
Decorated Creams........................ 
.23
String Rock...................................................... 16
Burnt Almonds................................................24
Wintergreen  Berries................................... | ’i6

 

Fancy—in  Bulk.

Lozenges, plain in  pails................................. 14
Lozenges, plain in  bbls...................................13
Lozenges, printed in pails..............................15
Lozenges, printed in  bbls..............................14
Chocolate Drops, in pails................................14
Gum Drops, in pails........................................  8
Gum Drops, in bbls.........................................  7
Moss Drops, in pails.........-............................. 11
Moss Drops, in bbls.........................................  9)4
Sour Drops, in  pails........................................12
Imperials, in  pails..........................................14
Imperials, in bbls.............................................13

FRUITS.

5 50@6 50

4 00@5 00*
5 50@6 00 
2 00@4 OG

Oranges ff box.............................
Oranges OO f) box.......................
Oranges, Imperials, ff  hox........
Oranges, Valencia f!  case..........
Lemons,  choice............................
Lemons, fancy.............................
Bananas ff bunch.........................
Malaga Grapes, ff keg.................
Malaga Grapes, ff bbl..................
Figs,  layers  ff ft..........................
12@16 
..........................
Figs, fancy  do 
18@20 
Figs, baskets 40 ft f) ft.................
@14 
Dates, frails 
do  .................
©   6
Dates, hi do 
do  .................
Dates, skin..............................................  @ 6
Dates, Vi  skin.........................................  @7)4
Dates, Fard 10 ft box ff  ft....................10  @11
Dates, Fard 50 ft box $  ft....................   7  @8
Dates, Persian 50 ft box ^ ft................   6)4@  7

PEANUTS.
Prime  Red,  raw  ft  ft.
Choice 
do  .
Fancy 
do  .
Choice White, Va.do  .
Fancy H P,.  Va  do  ...................

do 
do 

NUTS.

........  @ 8
.........  @8)4
........  @ 9
........  @10

Almonds,  Terragona, $  ft........... .......  18@19
do  ........... ........  16@17
Almonds, loaca,
Brazils,
do  ........... ......... 
9@10
Pecons,
do  ........... ........  10@14
Filberts, Barcelona
d o ...........
d o ........... ........  @14
Filberts, Sicily
Walnuts, Chilli
do  ...................  @12)4
Walnuts, Grenobles
d o ...................  14@15
Walnuts, California
do  . 
Cocoa Nuts, ff  100 
Hickory Nuts, large f 
Hickory Nuts, small

H 50 
1 25

.,

. 

PROVISIONS.

PO R K .

The  Grand Rapids Packing &  Provision  Co 

quote  as follows:
Heavy Mess Pork.......................................$16 25
Back  Pork,  short cut__ a. ........................17 00
Family Clear Pork, very  cheap................   16 50
Clear Pork, A. Webster packer................   17 75
Extra Clear Pork........................................  18 25
Clear Back Pork, new.................................  19 00-
Boston Clear Pork, extra quality.............   20 00-
Standard Clear Pork, the best....................  19 50-

All the above Pork is Newly Packed.
DRY  SALT MEATS—IN   BO XES.
Long Clears, heavy, 500 ft.  Cases........ 
Half Cases.............  
do. 
Long Clear medium, 500 ft  Cases........ . 
Half Cases..........  
do 
Long Clears light, 500 ft Cases............... 
Half Cases............... 
do. 
Short Clears, heavy................................ 
medium.............................. 
light....................................  
Extra Long Clear Backs, 600  ft  cases.. 
Extra Short Clear Backs, 600 ft cases.. 
Extra Long Clear Backs, 300 ft  cases.. 
Extra Short Clear Backs, 300 ft  cases.. 
Bellies, extra quality, 500 ft cases...... 
Bellids, extra quality, 300 ft cases........ 
Bellies, extra qulaity, 200 ft cases........ 
Tierces  ..................................................... 
30 and 50 ft Tubs..................................... 

do. 
do. 

LA RD.

Shi
9
Shi
9
8%
9
9)4
9)4
9)4„
9%.
10
10
10
10)4
10)4;
924
724
8

LARD IN  T IN  P A IL S .

SMOKED MEATS— CANVASSED  OR  P L A IN .

20 ft Round Tins, 80 ft  racks.................. 
50 ft Round  Tins, 100 ft  racks............... 
3ft Pails, 20in a ca se ...........................  
5 ft Pails, 12 in a case.............................. 
10 ft Pails, 6 in a case.............................. 
Hams cured in sweet pickle, heavy__  
Hams cured in sweet pickle medium.. 
light........  
Shoulders,  boneless...............................  
Shoulder, cured in sweet  pickle.......... 
Extra Clear Bacon................................... 
Ribbed Bacon........................................... 
Dried Beef,  Extra................................... 
Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 fts........   11 00
Rolled Beef, cordless.................................  16 75,

8
8
824
824
8)4 •
J2)4-
13
13)4-
9)4
924
11)4
10)4.
15

B E E F  IN  BA RR ELS.

do. 

CANNED B EEF.

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

incase......................................................  18 25-
2 ft cans, 1 doz. in case....  2  80
do. 
Armour & Co., 14 ft cans, )4 doz in case  18 25 
do. 
2 ft cans, 1 doz. in  case..  2 80 
do. 2 ft 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
Frankfort  Sausage........................................ 10
Blood  Sausage..................................................  8
Bologna,  ring................................. .................  8)4 :
Bologna, straight............................................  8)4-
Bologna,  thick..................................................  8)4-
Head  Cheese.....................................................  8
75
In half barrels................................................  3 90-
In quarter barrels..........................................  2 10
In kits...............................................................

P IG S ’  FE E T .

T R IP E .

In half barrels...............................................$3 75
In quarter barrels.........................................   2 00
Inkits................................... ......... ...............  
95
Prices named are lowest  at time of going to 
press, subject always to Market changes, which 
are liable to occur at any time.

W M. SEAJits & CO..
Cracker  Man
.1j

ufacturers, 

A s e n te

Ifoarbware.

Prevailing  rates  at Chicago  are  as follows: 

AUGERS AND B IT S.

res’, old  style...........................................dis 
[. H. C. Co................................................. dis 
»ouglass’ .................  
dis 
’ierces’ ...................................................... dis 
nell’s ..........................................................dis 

50
55
50
50
50

f 0 r  

AMBOY  CHEESE. 

8
\
37, 39 & 41 Kent  Street,  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.  [
Hand.................................................... dis  $ 60&10
.dis
c
.dis
.dis
ALBERT COYE & SONS
Door, Sargent...............1...................... dis
WATERTOWN  HAMMOCK  S U P P O R T .

How it Looked  Upon the Note-Rook When 

A  HOTEL  CLERK  INTERVIEWED.

the Reporter Finished.

State Agents fo r .

BARROW S.

BO LTS.

BE LLS.

Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy........... ..................dis 15
.................dis 25
Sciota Bench............................
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy.. ..................dis 15
Bench, first quality................. ..................dis 20
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood and

60
8

40
40

Fry, Acme.................................
Common, polished.................. ............ .dis
Dripping...................................
............$  ft

PA N S.

R IV E T S.

Iron and Tinned...................... ........... dis
Copper Rivets and Burs........ ........... dis

PATENT FLANISAED IRON.

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

9

Broken packs %c $  ft extra.

ROOFING PLATES.

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............................$  
Manilla.............................................................  15

9%

ROPES.

SQUARES.

£>rç  (Boobs.

Spring & Company quote as fo»«wo : 

W ID E  BROW N COTTONS.

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

! Pepperell, 10-4.........25
Pepperell, 11-4.......... 27 V
Pequot,  7-4..............18
Pequot,  8-4..............21
Pequot,  9-4..............24

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

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

OSNABURG,

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

Avondale,  36..........  8%
Art  cambrics,36...11%
Androscoggin, 4-4..  8%
Androscoggin, 5-4. .12%
Ballou, 4-4...............  7%
Ballou, 5-4...............  6
Boott,  0.4-4............  8%
Boott,  E. 5-5............  7
Boott, AGC, 4-4.......9%
Boott, R. 3-4...........   5%
Blackstone, AA 4-4  7%
Chapman, X, 4-4—   6%
Conway,  4-4............7%
Cabot, 4-4................   7%
Cabot, 7-8.................  6%
Canoe,  3-4...............  4
Domestic,  36..........7%
Dwight Anchor, 4-4.10
Davol, 4-4...............  9%
Fruit of Loom, 4-4..  9 
Fruit of Loom, 7-8..  8%
Fruit of  the Loom,
cambric,  4-4........12
Cold Medal, 4-4..  ..  7
Cold Medal, 7-8.......6%
Cilded Age........ . 
8%

v%

6%

Alabama  plaid— 8
Augusta plaid....... 8
Toledo plaid..........
Manchester  plaid. 7
New Tenn.plaid.. h
Utility plaid..........
COTTONS.
Greene, G.  4-4....... 5 Vi
8%
Hill, 4-4..................
Hill, 7-8..................
7%
Hope,  4-4............... 7%
King  Phillip  cam
brie, 4-4............... 11%
9
Linwood,  4-4........
Lonsdale,  4-4........
8%
Lonsdale  cambric.11%
Langdon, GB, 4-4.. 9%
Masonville,  4-4.........9%
Maxwell. 4-4............10%
New York Mill, 4-4.10% 
New Jersey,  4-4—   8 
Pocasset,  P. M. C..  7% 
Pride of the West. .12% 
Pocahontas,  4-4—   8%
Slaterville, 7-8........   6%
Victoria, AA..........9
Woodbury, 4-4.......... 5%
Whitinsville,  4-4...  7% 
Whitinsville, 7-8—   6%
Wamsutta, 4-4.........10%
Williamsville,  36...10%

CORSET JE A N S .

Armory..................  7%lKearsage.................  85*
Androscoggin sat..  8% Naumkeagsatteen.  8%
Canoe River...........   6  Pepperell bleached 8%
Clarendon.  ...........   6% Pepperell sat..........9%
Hallowell  Imp.......6%IRockport...................  7%
Ind. Orch. Imp.......6%|Lawrencesat............  8%
Laconia.................. 7%|Conegosat.................  7

Albion, solid............5%
Albion,  grey............6
Allen’s  checks.........5%
Ailen’s  fancy...........5%
Allen’s pink..............6%
Allen’s purple.......... 6%
American, fancy... .5%
Arnold fancy........... 6
Berlin solid............... 5%
Cocheco fancy........6
Cocheco robes..........7
Conestoga fancy.... 6
Eddy ston e.............. 6
Eagle fancy.............5
Carner pink.............7

Gloucester.............. 6
Gloucestermourn’g . 6
Hamilton  fancy__6
Hartel fancy........... 6
Merrimac  D.............6
Manchester............ 6
Oriental fancy........6
Oriental  robes........6%
Pacific  robes...........6
Richmond................6
Steel River..............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 .

Appleton A, 4-4—
Boott  M, 4-4............
Boston F, 4-4..........
Continental C, 4-3.. 
Continental D, 40 in 
Conestoga W, 4-4... 
Conestoga  D, 7-8... 
Conestoga G, 30-in.
Dwight  X, 3-4........
Dwight Y, 7-8..........
Dwight Z, 4-4..........
Dwight Star, 4-4—  
Ewight Star, 40-in.. 
Enterprise EE, 36.. 
Creat Falls E, 4-4...
Farmers’ A, 4-4.......
Indian  Orchard, 1-4

Indian Orchard, 40.  8% 
Indian Orchard, 36.  8
Laconia B, 7-4.........16%
Lyman B, 40-in.......10%
Mass. BB, 4-4..........  6%
Nashua  É, 40-in__ 9
Nashua  R, 4-4..__ 7%
Nashua 0,7-8..........7%
Newmarket N ........   7%
Pepperell E, 39-in..  7% 
Pepperell  R, 4-4—   7 
Pepperell  0 , 7-8—   6% 
Pepperell N, 3-4—   6%
Pocasset  C, 4-4.......7
Saranac  R...............  7%
Saranac  E ...............  9

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

Am oskeag.............  8  ¡Renfrew, dress styl 9%
Johnson Manfg Co,
Amoskeag, Persian 
styles  ..................1014  Bookfold..............12%
jjates 
...............7% Johnson Manfg Co,
dress  styles........12%
Berkshire...............  6%
dress
•Glasgow checks—   7 
styles...................9
Glasgow checks, f’y 7% 
Glasgow 
Gloucester, 
P lu n k et..................7% G ordon........... ••••••  8
L ancaster...............  8% Greylock, 
L angdale................ 7% I  styles  .................... 12%

Slaterville, 
White Mfg Co, stap  7% 
White Mfg Co, fane 8 
royal  styles........   8
White  Manf’g  Co,
standard.............  7% I  Earlston.................9%

checks,
new

dress

W ID E  BLEACHED COTTONS.

Androscoggin, 74.. 21  ¡Pepperell.  10-4.......27%
Androscoggin, 84. .23  Pepperell,  114.......32%
Pepperell,  74........20  Pequot,  74..............21
Pepperell,  84........22% Pequot,  84..............24
Pepperell,  9 4 ........25  IPequot,  94..............27%

HEAVY  BROW N  COTTONS.

A tlantic  A, 44.......7% Lawrence XX, 44..  8%
A tlantic  H, 4 4...... 7  Lawrence  Y, 30....  7
Atlantic  D, 44.......6% Lawrence LL, 44...  5%
Atlantic P, 44........   5% Newmarket N ........   7%
A tlantic LL, 44 ....  5% Mystic River, 4 4...  6%
Adriatic, 36.............   7V6 Pequot A, 4-4..........8
Augusta, 44...........   6% Piedmont,  36..........  7
Boott  M, 44............  7% Stark AA, 4 4 .......  7%
Boott  FF, 4-4..........  7% Tremont CC, 44—   5%
G raniteville,44—   6^ Utica,  4 4 .............9
Indian  Head, 4-4...  7% W achusett,  4-4.....  7% 
Indiana Head45-in.l2%|Wachusett, 30-in...  6%

T IC K IN G S.

Amoskeag,  ACA... 14 
Amoskeag  “ 44.. 19
Amoskeag,  A ....... 13
Amoskeag,  B ....... 12
Amoskeag,  C....... 11
Amoskeag,  D ....... 10%
Amoskeag,  E ....... 10
Amoskeag, F ............9%
Premium  A, 44— 17
Premium  B ............16
Extra 44 .................. 16
Extra 7-8.................. 14%
Gold Medal 44........15  ¡Omega A, 44
GCA 7-8................... 1 2 % ------- K" K
GT 44 .......................14
RC 7-8...................... 14
BF 7-8...................... 16
A p A_A 
......19
Gordis AAA, 32......14
Gordis  ACA, 32......15
Gordis No. 1,32......15
Gordis  No. 2...........14
Gordis  No. 3...........13
Gordis  No. 4...........11%

Falls, XXXX..........18%
Falls, XXX............ 15%
Falls,  BB............... 11%
Falls,  BBC, 36....... 19%
Falls,  awning....... 19
Hamilton,  BT, 32..12
Hamilton,  D .........10
Hamilton,  H -------10
Hamilton  fancy... 10
Methuen AA......... 13%
Methuen ASA....... 18
Omega A, 7-8.........11
.13
Omega ACA, 7-8— 14
Omega ACA, 44__ 16
Omega SE, 7-8.........24
Omega SE, 4 4.........27
Omega M. 7-8.........22
Omega M, 44.......... 25
Shetucket SS&SSW 11% 
Shetucket, S & SW.12 
Shetucket,  SFS— 12
Stockbridge  A .......7
Stockbridge frncy.  8

GLAZED CAM BRICS.

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

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

G R A IN   BAGS.

American  A .........19  I Old  Ironsides.........15%
Stark A .................. 23%[Wheatland.............. 21%

Boston....................  7%lOtis CC.................... 10%
Everett blue......... 14% Warren  AXA.........12%
Everett brown......14% Warren  BB............ 11%
Otis  AXA.............. 12% Warren CC..............10%
Otis BB...................ll%|York  fancy............15

P A P E R   CAM BRICS.

Manville....................  6  IS. S. & Sons..............6
Masgnville...............  6  jGarner ...; ..............6

W IG AN S.

Red  Cross................   7% (Thistle Mills..........
Berlin.......................  7% Rose.......................   8
Garner.....................   7%1

SPO O L COTTON.

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

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

Crown.................... 17
No.  10.....................12%
Coin........................10
Anchor...................15
Centennial.............
Blackburn.............   8
Davol......................14
London...................12%
Paconia................. 12
Red Cross..............10
Social  Imperial— 16

Masonville TS. 
Masonville S..
Lonsdale........
Lonsdale A __
Nictory  O.......
Victory J ........
Victory  D.......
Victory  K .......
Phoenix A .......
Phoenix  B .......
Phoenix X X ...

.10%  

.  8 
.  9% 
.16 
.  6
.10 
. 12%  
.  9% 
10% 
.15

l%\

Present  Situation  of  the  Allegan  Grange 
Store.
From the Allegan Gazette.

The managers of the grange  store  do  not 
make as satisfactory progress as  they  could 
wish in the work of securing new stock sub­
scriptions, and the outlook for  their  future 
cannot be considered favorable.  Only  $9,- 
800 of new stock have been  subscribed,  not 
enough to make  good  those  who  deposited 
money with the concern, while it is said sev­
eral old stockholders have either given notice 
of withdrawal or mean to  do  so.  This  has 
put an end to all talk  of  building,  and  the 
managers mean to rent  some suitable  place, 
if one can be obtained.  Still nothing definite, 
even as to continued existence of  the  store, 
will be known for three months yet.  It may 
not be generally known that the storekeeper 
did a sort of banking business, receiving  de­
posits, and had on hand  at  the  time of  the 
fire nearly $10,000.  This  sum the directors 
have decided to repay, but in so doing  have 
only avoided litigation, for of their legal ob­
ligation there is no doubt.  The  money was 
invested in the  stock  of  goods.  Delay  in 
stock subscriptions is doubtless  largely  due 
to the existence of this large debt,  for  each 
stockholder  is  individually  liable  for pay­
ment of the whole, and new stockholders are 
equally liable with old ones.  They buy  the 
privilege of paying all the old  debts as  well 
as sharing  in  the  new  profits.  The faith 
some of the patrons  had  in  the  enterprise 
and its manager is shown  by  the  extent  of 
these  deposits.  They  were  not  alone  in 
small sums, but we hear of deposits amount­
ing to $300,  $900  and  $1,500  respectively. 
Men have been known to draw  money  from 
the bank and transfer it to the  grange store, 
deeming it safer there. 
If  a  banking  busi­
ness had been done  with  their  money  this 
might have been well enough, but it was  in­
volved  in  mercantile  risks,  invested  in  a 
stock of goods upon which not a cent  of  in­
surance was carried.  Another source of dis­
satisfaction is the “Sinking  fund” so called. 
This amounted to several  thousand  dollars, 
and was supposed to be accumulated profits. 
The  theory  was  that  it  provided  security 
against loss by fire  or  otherwise,  deteriora­
tion of stock, etc.  But it was a sinking fund 
on paper only. 
It was also invested in mer­
chandise, and was therefore not  available in 
any emergency whatever.  This  can  not  be 
regarded  as  wise  management,  and  these 
things, with several minor  causes, make un­
certain the continuance of an  institution  its 
owners and patrons had imagined  as  stable 
as the hills.

Left by  the Train.

From Texas Siftings.

We have been asked time  and  again how 
it  is  that  so  many  people  get  left  by the 
trains that  go  out of  Austin. 
It is  a very 
complicated  matter, and  we are  not  sure 
that we are  equal to the  task, but  we will 
try.  One reason  is  because  they  are  not 
aboard  the  train.  There  are  two  public 
clocks in Austin,  which  are  usually from 
twenty minutes to three-quarters of  an hour 
ahead of each  other.  One of  these  clocks 
keeps  railroad  time,  but  nobody  knows 
which one of the two clocks it is.  The man 
who wants to leave  Austin,  say on the elev­
en-o’clock  train, must  first  find out which 
clock keeps railroad time.  After he has sat­
isfied himself on that point, he  will have to 
go to the depot from twelve  minutes to half 
an hour before or  after  eleven  o’clock, be­
cause the trains do not run  on  Austin  rail­
road time, but according  to  St.  Louis  rail­
road time. 
If the would-be  traveler under­
stands algebra, he might cipher it out; or he 
can, if he sees proper, telegraph to St. Louis. 
That is one  successful way to get left.  An­
other, and a better  way, is  for  yon, if  you 
dont care to miss  the train, to go to the rail­
road  depot and ask what the  schedule time 
is.  As no train  has  ever  yet  arrived  on 
schedule time, you will know for certain one 
time of day when the train will  not  arrive. 
Having gained that point, you must ask one 
of the employes how much  behind time the 
train  is, and if  lie  says a hour,  then  you 
must come back in two  hours, and you will 
hit it, provided  the  employe  has not  lied 
about it.  Usually  the  blackboard  at  the 
railroad office tells you  precisely how many 
hours the  train is  behind  time; but as the 
figures are only  changed  once a week, they 
are not  reliable, except by accident.  How­
ever, the train always  arrives  when it gets 
here; and by going to the  depot a day  or  so 
before you want to leave, and camping there 
until the  train does  arrive, you  will he all 
right, if you  don’t  take  the  south  bound 
train  instead of  the  north-bound  train, or 
vice  versa.  At it is impossible  to find out 
which is which, and  as it is rather  difficult 
for one man  to travel on two trains going in 
different directions,  the only really safe way 
not to miss the  train  is to walk.  The  man 
who has a walk-over cannot be left.

There  is a hotel in  Cincinnati  that  em­
ploys men  for  chambermaids, and as a con­
sequence  very  few  drummers  stop there. 
Things are coming to a mighty mean pass in 
Cincinnati  when a man can’t flirt  with the 
chambermaid. 
I asked  the  proprietor the 
reason for such a strange state of affairs, and 
he told me that the men  did the  work  just 
as well as the women, and  better, and were 
not one-tenth  of  the  bother.  “Don’t  you 
find it displeases the guests?”  “Not much,” 
he replied: “the  majority of the guests, and 
the men  especially, like  the  change  much 
better than before.  They are  not  afraid to 
talk before men or ask for what they want.”

When a merchant who trades with you sud­
denly changes his line from genuine to shod­
dy goods, after having built  up a large busi­
ness with good goods, make  up  your  mind 
he is a sharper  and cut off his credit.  Oth­
erwise he will swindle you sooner or later.

(To  guest: 

(To  inquirer: 

(Ting-a-ling!  Front,—283.) 

The interviewer said  to  the  hotel  clerk, 
“How long have you been in this business?”
“All  my life,” he  replied,  “and  (ting-a 
ling ! Front,—444)1 don’t  know (ding-dong ! 
Front,—pitcher of ice-water  for  1804) much 
about anything else. 
(To guest: ‘No letters 
for you to-day sir.’)  Not so much about this 
business  as  I  thought  I did (ting-a-ling!— 
Porter,  baggage  for  405) fifteen  years  ago. 
(Bell-boy with card.  Lady wants to see Mr. 
Jones.  Front,—take this card to 405.)  The 
fact is, 1 see too many smart men who know 
(man wants change  for  $20. 
‘Nothing but 
small  hills  sir’) all  about  keeping a hotel, 
and I find there is a great  deal to be learned 
(Boy with  big  paper box:  Take 
about it. 
it to 43.  One  flight.’) 
‘You 
will find stamps at the cigar  stand.’)  Bag­
gage left for board.  Piles of it in the vaults 
down-stairs. 
(To  guest:  ‘The  train  for 
Queehosh  leaves at  5:30  r.  m.’)  Theré’s 
packages and trunks  been  laying  there for 
years  (ding! Front,—703)and furniture, too. 
All  sorts  of  traps  and  curiosities. 
(To 
stranger: 
‘No.  The  north  river  boats 
haven’t  commenced  running  yet.”)  Bad 
debts?  Yes,  sometimes.  Fact  is,  a land­
lord can’t  help it, 
(Ting-a-ling!  Front,— 
go to 763.)  People will get into your books. 
It’s hard to refuse a customer that’s paid  up 
for  years. 
‘Mr.  Beegum? 
He’s dead.  Died here two week’s ago.  Sent 
him  home  on  ice.’)  There’s  a  man now 
just  coming  in.  Owes  the  house  $1,500 
board for himself  and  family at permanent 
rates. 
Judg­
ment out  now  against  him.  Can’t  (signs 
transfer  company  receipt for baggage)  col­
lect a cent.  That’s him now drinking at the 
bar.  Regular 
(ding-dong!  Front,—763) 
sponge.  Holds an official position, too.  Big 
man  about town  and  at  dinners. 
(‘John, 
take this gentleman’s  baggage to 302.’)  Do 
I  remember  faces  well?  Seldom  forget a 
‘No, sir, he left 
face  (to a register  hunter: 
three days ago.’)  that  I’ve once seen. 
(Fat 
I used  to  remem­
m an:‘My key  please.’) 
ber names, too. 
(To inquirer:  ‘Dr. Bangor 
left for home yesterday.  No I’m  quite sure 
he’s not here.’)  But I lost the faculty of fe- 
membering names when I was cashier at the
—  Hotel.  You  see  (ding-dong!  ‘Front 
fire in 601’) in making  out  our bills there it 
was the rule of  the  house to ask  every — 
(To  stranger: ‘Single or  double  room, sir 
Board by the day or on the European plan?’) 
No matter  if  you’d  stay there  ten  years 
when you pay your bill, I asked your name, 
(To’patron : ‘There’s a train  on  the P. rail-
road from Philadelphia to New York at one 
minute  past 13 p .  m .’)  This  made  me d e ­
pend on the books  for  recollecting  names, 
and somehow my mind will no longer retain 
(‘Nothing in your  letter-box to-day, 
them, 
sir.’) 
It’s  much  harder  to act as  clerk in 
some  hotels  than  others, because  (ting-a 
ling!  To  bell-boy; 
‘Tell  the  engineer  to 
send some steam up to 584’) some hotels are 
so ssteymetrical as almost to run (signs an er­
rand boy’s receipt for  package)  themselves, 
Yes. 
I don’t  suppose  there  is a third-rate 
town  (‘William, take a pitcher of  ice-water 
to 1,000’)  in the  country but  some  resident 
there  is  known  to  me. 
(Colloquy  with 
‘John  tell  the  carpenter to fix the 
guest: 
lock on 709.’) 
I have  during the last thirty 
years been clerk  at hotels in St. Louis, Chi­
cago, New  Orleans,  Philadelphia,  Charles 
ton,  Atlanta. 
‘You  must 
take  the  Twenty-third  Street  cross-town 
cars to get on Hunter’s Point.’)  The business 
(Front,—take  this  card  to  344)  is  very 
(Front,—544) ditf— (‘No, sir, he is not stop­
ping here’) — er — (‘Want  your bill.  Cer­
(James, show  the  gentleman 
tainly’)  ent. 
to 409.)  No. 
(Front,—porter, get  baggage 
from  900.)  Yes.  What  was  I  saying1 
(Ding-dong-!  Front!) ”

(To  strangers: 

Vanderbilt’s  Treasure  Vaults.

It is said that Mr. William H. Yanderbilt 
treasure vault,  in which he recently  stowed 
away some $100,000,000 in securities, is one of 
the most redoubtable works of defense on the 
American continent, though one  may not be 
entirely  certain  of  that  by  surveying  his 
mansion from the outside. 
Its  foundations 
were blasted out of the rock;  the front wall 
is five feet in  thickness,  and  the  side  and 
rear walls are three feet, the materials  used 
being pressed brick with  brown-stone  trim­
mings.  The beams, girders, and main pillars 
are iron, incased in fire-proof material.  The 
doors, window-frames and  mifior  partitions 
are iron, marble and glass.  No  wood  is  to 
be found in the structure.  The  great  vault 
is thirty-six  by  forty-two  feet,  of  wrought 
iron, steel and Franklinite  iron,  is imposing 
in strength and proportions, and is  situated 
on the ground  floor. 
Its  four  outer doors 
weighs 8,200 pounds  each,  and  have  every 
effective and known improvement in defens­
ive devices.  A  massive  wall  of  masonry 
surrounds the ironwork.  The  vault,  which 
is burglar, fire and water proof, constitutes a 
distinct building itself.

Stove................................................................ dis $ 40
Carriage and Tire, new .ist..............................dis ?£
Plow  .......................................................dis
Sleigh Shoe.............................................dis
Cast Barrel  Bolts...  ...........................dis
Wrought Barrel Bolts......................... dis
Cast Barrel, brass  knobs.................... dis
Cast Square Spring.............................. dis
Cast  Chain.............................................dis
Wrought Barrel, brass  knob..............dis
Wrought Square.......  ......................... dis
Wrought Sunk Flush...........................dis
Wrought  Bronze  and  Plated  Knob
Ives’  Door...........................................................dis 50&10

30&10
50&15
50
55
50
55
60
55&10
55&10
30
Elush...................................................  50&10&10

Steel and  Iron.............................................dis  50
Try and Bevels..............................................dis  50
Mitre  ............................................................dis  20

SHEET IRON.

Com. Smooth.

Com. 
$3 20 
3 20 
3 20 
3 20 
3 40 
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.
SHEET ZINC.

BRACES.

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

40
50
50
net
Well, plain...................................................$  4 00
Well, swivel.................................................  
4 50

BUCKETS.

BUTTS,  CAST.

Cast Loose Pin, figured........................dis
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed.........dis
Cast Loosb Joint, genuine bronzed, .dis 
Wrought Narrow, bright fast  joint..dis
Wrounht Loose  Pin............................ dis
Wrought Loose Pin, acorn tip............dis
WroughtLoose Pin, japanned............ dis
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silver
...dis
WroughtTable..................................... dis
Wrought Inside Blind......................... dis
Wrought Brass...................................... dis
Blind. Clark’s........................ 
dis
Blind, Parker’s...................................... dis
Blind,  Shepard’s...................................dis
Spring for Screen Doors 3x2%, per gross
Spring for Screen Doors 3x3 
per gross

tipped........................ 

 

 

60 
60 
60 
50&10 
60 
60& 5 
60& 5
60& 5 
60 
60 
65&10 
70&10 
70&10 
70 
15 00 
18 00

CAPS.

Ely’s 1-10.........................................
Hick’s C. F ......................................
G. D.................................................
Musket............................................

...per m $ 65
60
35
60

CA TRIDG ES.

CH IS ELS.

Rim Fire, U. M. C. & Winchester new list
50
Rim Fire, United  States.............
50
........ dis
Central Fire.................................... ........ dis %
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 Jà
25

COCKS.

Brass, Racking’s........................................  40&10
Bibb’s .........................................................   49&10
B eer.............................................................  40&10
Fenns’.......................................................... 
60

Planished, 14 oz cut to size..................... $  lb

CO PPER .
14x52,14x56,14 x60...............
D R IL L S.

........$ f t   37
...............  39

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

35
20
30

ELBOW S.

doz net $1  10
__ dis 20&10
...dis 40&10

EX PA N SIV E BITS.

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

dis
dis

20
25

F IL E S .

American File Association  List..
__ dis
40&10
Disston’s ............................. ................. dis
__ dis 40&10
New American...
__ dis 40&10
Nicholson’s............................................dis
__ dis 40&10
Heller’s ................................................. dis
...dis
30
Heller’s Horse Rasps....................... 
33%
.. .dis

dis

Nos. 16 to 30, 
List 

GA LV ANIZED IR O N ,
22 and  24,  25 and
14

26, 
27
12 
15
coal 50.
Discount, Juniata 45, Charcoal 50.

13 

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

« 

GAUGES.

28
18

50

HAMMERS.

15
.. .dis
Maydole & Co.’s ....................................dis
25
... dis
Kip’s
Yerkes &  Plumb’s............................... dis
...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., Wopd track dis  50
Champion, anti-friction........ ..  .......dis
60
Kidder, wood tra.k................ ............dis
40

H IN G ES.

Gate, Clark’s, 1,2, 3................ ............dis
60
. per doz, net, 2 50 
State...........................................
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

„ 

H O LLO W   W ARE.

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

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
Door, porcelain, trimmings  list, 8 25, dis
Drawer and  Shutter,  porcelain....... dis
Picture, H. L. Judd &  Co.’s..................d
Hemacite ............J................................dis

LOCKS—DOOR.

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

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’sl.t...............dis  65

lev els.  »

m ills.  -  «

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

MATTOCKS.

Adze  Eye.....................................$16 00dis40&10
Hunt Eye.................................... $15 00 dis 40&10
Hunt’s.........................................$18 50 dis 20 & 10

N A ILS.

Common, Brad and Fencing.

lOd to  60d............................................ $  keg $2 45
25
8d and 9 d adv................................................ 
6dand7d  adv................................................ 
50
4d and 5d  adv................................................ 
75
3d advance.....................................................   1 50
3d fine  advance.............................................   3 00
Clinch nails, adv...........................................  175
Finishing 
Size—Inches  j  3 
Adv. $  keg 

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

6d  4d
2 
1%

Stebbin’s Pattern  ...................................... dis  70
Stebbin’s Genuine........................................ dis 70
Enterprise,  self-measuring........................dis 25

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
Oimstead’s ................................................ 
50

3 606%

13 00
15 00
16

In casks of 600 fts, <p  ft.....................
In smaller quansities, ff  ft..............

TINNER’S SOLDER.
No. 1,  Refined.................................... .
Market  Half-and-half....................
Strictly  Half-and-half.....................

TIN PLATES.

Cards for Charcoals, $6 75.
10x14, Charcoal... i.........................  6 50
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,
IXXX, 14x20, Charcool...............................   12  50
IXXXX, 14x20,  Charcoal............................  14 50
IX, 
20x28, Charcoal...............................   18 00
DC,  100 Plate Charcoal.............................  6  50
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.

TRAPS.

Steel, Game......................................................
Onoida Communtity,  Newhouse’s ...........dis  %
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s __   60
Hotchkiss’ ........................................................  60
S, P. & W. Mfg.  Co.’s......................................  60
Mouse,  choker...................................................20e doz
Mouse,  delusion............................... $1 26£$ doz

WIRE.

Bright Market...........................................  dis  60
Annealed Market........................................dis  60
Coppered Market...............................................dis 55
Extra Bailing.....................................................dis 55
Tinned  Market..................................................kis 40
Tinned Broom..................................................flft 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

WIRE 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

WrENCHES.

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

MISCELLANEOUS.

Pumps,  Cistern....................................dis  60&10
Screws.................................................... 
70
Casters, Bed and  Plate.......................... dis 
50
Dampers, American................................. 
33%
Condition of the Glass Market.

Within two weeks’ time the window glass 
factories  will go out  of  blast, with a small 
amount of stock on hand. 
It was estimated 
earlier in the season that  the aggregate pro­
duction of all the factories  this  year would 
fall short some  550,000 boxes  as  compared 
with last year’s  production.  The  fact does 
not seem  to  have had any serious  effect as. 
apparently, the demand  has not been strong 
enough to absorb  the  glass on the  market, 
and the contemplated  advance in prices ap­
pears to  he  based  rather on what is hoped 
for than  upon  what is expected.  Thus far 
in the season the supply has  been  adequate 
to the demand, and unless there should arise 
an  unusual  demand  during  the  summer, 
which  is  hardly probable,  the  quantity of 
glass held by the  manufacturers,  including 
that imported last fall, will no doubt be suffi­
cient to supply the wants  of  trade until the 
resumption of production in the fall. 
If the 
Glass-workers’  Association  decides  to  re­
frain from creating a  disturbance on the re­
sumption  of  work, the  factories  will find 
that  they will  be  able to  produce all the 
glass the  country  is  likely to  consume the 
coming year.  The  prospects for  manufac­
turing industries are not of so encouraging a 
character as to  justify any aggressive move­
ments on the part of  the workers.  There is 
a limit to exaction, and the workers  should 
be wise enough to know when  that  limit is 
reached.  The  consumptive  power  of  the 
country is ultimately a more  potent  factor 
in the  decision of  the  questions  between 
manufacturers 
than  the 
strongest combination that can be  made  by 
either, and if the workingmen’s  association 
would  exercise a  moiety  of  that  wisdom 
which is said to exist in the counsel of num­
bers, they will let  well  enough  alone.  At 
the conference of  manufacturers  and work­
ers held at Pittsburg  last  Friday, the com­
mittees to fix the rate of wages for the ensu­
ing  year,  from  September 1, decided to be 
governed by the net card ratfe iustead of  the 
selling rate.  This does  away with the slid­
ing  scale  adopted  as a  compromise,  and 
fixes the rate at that ruling before last year’s 
strike, and it is to he  hoped that  this is the 
final settlement of  the  wages  question  for 
the year.

and  workmen 

The latest champion mean man  has  been 
found  in  Rochester,  N.  Y.  He  bought a 
pound of beef, and  on  the  strength  of the 
purchase  induced the butcher to give him a 
generous  supply of “dog  meat.”  Then he 
told his wife to prepare part of the dog meat 
for dinner, save  the  rest  for the next day, 
and carry  the  pound of  beef  back  to the 
butcher, with the explanation that  she  her­
self previously had  bought at another place 
all the meat the family could  use.  The du- 
I tiful wife did as commanded, and  the mean- 
I est man got his money back.

Dealers in

Awnings,  Tents,  Horse  Wagon  and  Ssack 

Covers,  Oiled  Clothing,  Etc.

73  Canal  Street.

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICHIGAN.

J3F"  Send for Prices.

$16 1$ ton.

COUNTRY  PRODUCE.
Asparagus—50c ^  doz. bunches.
Bailed  Hay—Scarce  and firm  at  $15 @ 
Buckwheat Seed—$1.25 ^  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.

Beats—50c ^  doz. hunches.
Cabbages—$1.50@$4.50 @  crate,  accord­
Cabbage Plants—50c ^  100.
Cheese—Light skim 8c.  Full cream 10c.
Clover  Seed—Choice  medium  firm  at  $6 
@$6.50 ^  bu. and mammoth in fair  demand 
at $6.75  ^  bu.

ing to size.

Cucumbers —45c 
Dried Apples—Quarters active at 7@9c 

doz.

ib,  and sliced  8@9c.  Evaporated  dull  and 
slow at 12>^@14c.

bbl.
at 2c 7$  ft>.

for pure, and 8@10c for adulterated.

Eggs—Firm and ready  sale  at 16@17c.
Green Onions—25@35c ^  dozen hunches.
Hungarian Grass Seed—$1 ^  bu.
Honey—Choice new, 18c ^  lb.
Hops—Brewers pay  35@40c  for  Eastern 
and Western and 18@20c for  Michigan.
Lettuce—In fair demand  at 10c ^   ft).
Maple  Sugar—Dull  and  plenty  at 12)£c. 
Millet Seed—$1 ^ b u .
Onions—$2.75 ^  sack of IK  bu.; $4.75^ 
Pieplant—Ordinary  stock in fair  demand 
Peas—75@85c ^   bu.
Peas, for field seed—$1.50  ^  bu.
Radishes—15@25c 1$ dozen bunches.
Potatoes—80c ^  bu. for  old  and  $3.50@ 
$4 ^  bbl. for new, which are firm at  prices 
quoted, but will probably  decline  after  the 
Fourth.
Poultry—A little  more  plentiful.  Fowls 
seling at 15@16c.
Sweet Potato Plants—50c ^9  100.
Strawberries—7@8c 
Timothy—Choice is firmly held at $1.75 ^  
Tomatoes—Illinois $1 ^  box of  20 lbs.
Tomato Plants—50c ^  100.
Wax  Beans—$2  ^   bu.,  Green,  $1.50 
Watermelons—Georgia, $6.50 ^9 bu.
GRAINS AND  MILLING  PRODUCTS.

bu.

bu.

qt.

$1.05.

Wheat—White, 95@98c;  Lancaster,  96@ 
Com—45@60c  bu.
Oats—White 40c ^  bu.
Rye—52@54c  bu.
Barley—Brewers pay $1.30@$1.40 ^   100
Flour—Fancy  Patent,  $6.50  ^   bbl.  in 

ft)S .
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 ^p ton.  Com  and  Oats, $23  ^p 
ton.

The most successful counterfeit of the dime 
is said to be made of glass mixed with  some 
base metal by a process unknown  to  ordin­
ary workers in metal and glass.  The counter­
feit looks exactly like the  genuine  ten-cent 
piece, but on being struck  with a hammer it 
is crushed to  pieces.

LUMBER, LATH  AND SHINGLES.

The Newaygo Company quote f . o. b. cars as 
follow:
Uppers, 1 inch..................................per M $44 00
Uppers, 1%, 1% and 2 inch.........................  46 00
Selects, 1 inch..............................................  35 00
Selects, 1%, 1% and 2  inch......................       38 00
Fine Common, 1 inch.................................  30 00
Shop, 1 inch.................................................   20 00
Fine, Common, 1%, 1% 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
widths and lengths................................. 
9 00
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 16ft... 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, 4 in., 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
1 X X X 18 in.  Thin...................................... 
3 40
(XXX 16 in......................................... . 
3 00
2 00
No. 2 or 6 in. C. B 18 in.  Shingles......... 
No. 2 or 5 in. C. B. 16  in.............................. 
1 75
Lath  ....................................................... . 
2 00

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V

PENCIL  PORTRAITS—NO.  20.

Manley  Jones,  Formerly  Known  as  the 

“ Boy  Grocer.”

Mauley  Jones  was  bom at Venice, Shia- 
wasse county,  Sept.  20,  1855,  and removed 
with his parents to Lowell in 1867.  There he 
attended school for four  years,  and  in  the 
spring of 1871 entered the employ of  Wing- 
ler, Bergin  &  Co.,  the  “Co.”  being  John 
Giles, and the firm being the leading grocery 
house of the town.  Remaining in  their em­
ploy three years, Manley than  went  to  De­
troit,* where worked  a  year  at  the  grocery 
business for McCarthy, Roney  & Giles,  sub­
sequently returning to Lowell  and  entering 
the employ of Mitchell  &  Donovan.  Thir­
teen  months  later  he  engaged  with  John 
Wingler, with whom  he remained in the ca­
pacity of  head  salesman  until  July,  1880, 
when he accepted  a  position  to  travel  for 
John Caulfield.  His  territory  included  all 
available towns east on the D., G. H.  &  M., 
and south on the L. S. & M. C., C. &  W. M. 
and G. R. & L  Jan. 1,1882, he  engaged  to 
travel  for  Cody, Ball &  Co.,  taking  every­
thing on the  G. R.  & I. from  Big Rapids to 
Mackinaw City.  Here he remained a year and 
a half, when he resigned to accept a more de­
sirable position, at a larger salary, with John 
Caulfield.  He still covers the  northern ter­
ritory, as before, and has learned that many 
of his customers have come to regard him in 
the light of a friend.
vTo downright hard work,  more  than  any 
other quality,  may  be  attributed  Manley’s 
success as a salesman.  His energy  is untir­
ing and his ambition is prodigious.  Although 
young in years, he is old in the  grocery bus­
iness, and he possesses a  knowledge  of  the 
details that would serve to distinguish  even 
an older man.

“Manley  is  all  that his  name  implies,” 
said John Giles, the veteran  Lowell  grocer. 
“He came to me when about sixteen years of 
age, and applied for a situation as  clerk.  1 
was struck by his manly way of approaching 
a person under such circumstances, and hired 
him on the spot  He soon  mastered the  de­
tails of the  business,  and  won  friends  by 
treating  people  courteously,  waiting  on 
them  promptly 
seldom  making 
mistakes.  These  characteristics,  I  have 
since heard, also mark his career as a travel­
ing salesman.  He  richly  deserves  all  the 
success he has  obtained.”

“I can contribute an incident to  Manley’s 
biography,”  said  the  versatile  John  Mc­
Intyre.  “When  he  was in John Wingler’s 
employ, John regarded him so highly that he 
once treated him to a shower bath.”

and 

On the Easel—W.  G.  Hawkins,  Chas.  S. 

Robinson, C. H. Bayley.

Miscellaneous Trade  News.

Geo. Metz,  Jr.,  has  sold  his  tannery  at 

Holland.

refrigerator.

have sold out.

ka to T. Daily.

C. N. Shaw, of Petoskey,  has  invented  a 

Ellis & Benton, druggists at  South  Lyon, 

M. C. Kidder has sold his hotel at Kalkas­

Wilson & Smith, clothiers at St. Johns, dis­

solved partnership July 1.

Julius Stark succeeds E. R. Brown in  the 

bakery business at Hastings.

I. L. Every, grocer at St. Louis,  has  been 

closed  out  on  chattel  mortgage.

S. A. Aldrich  succeeds  Aldrich  &  Bray- 

man in the grocery business at Ludington.

J. O. Jeannot has engaged in  the  grocery 
bnsiness at the corner of Terrace and Walton 
streets, Muskegon.

Owen & Bullis are  making  arrangements 
to erect a fine brick  store  at  Maple  Rapids 
the present  season.

A. T. Reed has  purchased  an  interest  in 
the firm of A. M. Goodwin & Co., tailors and 
gents’ furnishing  goods  dealers  at  Muske­
gon.

B. B. Forbes has purchased an interest  in 
the grocery business  of  A.  M.  Weston,  at 
Harbor Springs.  The new  firm  will  be  A. 
M. Weston & Co.

The  postoffice  in  Emmet  county  called 
Lonsdale,  which  was  discontinued about  a 
year  ago,  has  been  resurrected  under  the 
name of Appleton,  with  Harper  Talbot  as 
postmaster, and service began last week.

Geo. E. Hubbard, formerly engaged in the 
hardware business, and J. C. Avery, former­
ly  engaged  in  the  jewelry  business, have 
formed a co-partnership at Grand Haven un­
der the firm name of J. C. Avery & Co., and 
started  in  the  tobacco and cigar business.

Edwin G. Pipp, of the firm  of  Gaylord  & 
Pipp,  general  dealers  at  Pierson,  recently 
conducted a case in a  justice  court,  with  a 
regular lawyer on the  other  side,  and  won 
the suit.  The charge was obtaining goods of 
G. & P. by misrepresentation, and the victim 
was  sentenced  to  pay  $20  and costs or 60 
days’ imprisonment.  He was committed  to 
the care of a constable, who allowed  him  to 
escape.

for 

those  who 

There are two classes of buyers who make 
high  prices 
trade  with 
the grocerymen—buyers  who  don’t  intend 
to pay at all, and buyers  who  are  enjoying 
a good income and think it  is  rather  small 
business to economize  in  purchasing house­
hold supplies.  Both  of  these  classes  are 
satisfied with exhorbitant prices.  The  com- 
plainers are those who pay  cash  and  know 
the value of money.

“I don’t see you at church any more,” said 
Bigby to Jones.  “No, confound the church!” 
was the reply.  They might know I wouldn’t 
come when they engage as  sexton  the  very 
man who does my tailoring and  to  whom  I 
Owe a bill.”

THE  SUPREME  COURT.

Digests of Commercial  Decisions Recently 

Handed  Down.

Reported Expressly for “The Taadesman.”

E. G. Studley & Co. and Jacob  Barth  are 
both  merchants,  doing  business  in  Grand 
Rapids.  The former deals  in  belting,  etc., 
and in the spring of 1882 one of their travel­
ing agents took an order for goods  from  the 
firm  of  Houghton  &  Fuhrman,  who were 
then  operating  a  shingle  mill  at  Hersey. 
The firm had a contract with Barth to manu­
facture shingles for him at their mill, but had 
no authority to purchase goods on his credit. 
On receiving the order, Studley  &  Co.’s  in­
formation as to Houghton  &  Fuhrman’s  re­
sponsibility was not favorable, and they went 
to Barth, asking  him  to  guarantee  the  ac­
count before the goods were shipped.  Barth 
said  he had  no  doubt  but  that  the  goods 
would be paid for, and agreed to become  re­
sponsible for the amount.  He further stated 
that whatever H. & F. might  want  for  their 
mill, he would guarantee, and that  if  Stud­
ley & Co. would get a  note  for  the amount 
due, he would endorse it.  H. & F., however, 
refused  to  give  a  note,  claiming  that the 
goods  did  not  comply  with  the  terms  of 
sale.  Studley & Co. sent monthly statements 
to H. & F., and once wrote  the  latter  about 
payment, enclosing a blank note, but did not 
send any statement of the account to  Barth. 
Studley & Co. then began suit against Barth, 
for  the  amount  due  and  interest.  Barth 
claimed that the case came within the statute 
of frauds, inasmuch as it  was  a  promise  to 
answer for the debt of  another  and  not  in 
writing, but the court  held  differently,  and 
Studley & Co. secured judgment for $276.76. 
Barth appealed to the Supreme Court, which 
held that a verbal promise came  within  the 
statute of frauds, and reversed the judgment 
of the lower court.

Monroe, Boyce & Co., of Spring Lake, con­
tracted with J. M. Weatherwax,of Evergreen, 
Montcalm county, to remove the timber from 
certain  lands,  to  saw  and  assort  it,  and 
cross-pile it on some  siding  on  the  Stanton 
branch  of  the  Detroit,  Lansing  &  North­
ern  Railroad.  M.,  B.  &  Co.  did  not 
own or hire the place where the lumber was 
piled, and did not keep any agent there who 
had any right to sell it, but made  their sales 
in their office in Spring Lake.  The terms of 
the contract were that  Weatherwax  was  to 
have the cost of the timber, $4.50 per  thous­
and for cutting and piling,  and  one-half of 
the net proceeds besides.  Weatherwax was 
to have no voice in the sale  of  the  lumber, 
and before shipment Monroe, Boyce;& Co. had 
no control over it   The supervisor of  Ever­
green township  assessed  taxes  against  the 
lumber, and  Weatherwax  claimed  that  his 
contract  with  M., B. & Co.  amounted  to  a 
partnership, and that the  latter  should  pay 
half the tax.  This M., B. &  Co.  refused  to 
do, whereupon Weatherwax seized  some  of 
the lumber, which was promptly replevined. 
Weatherwax then brought suit to recover the 
amount, and secured judgment in  the  Mont­
calm Circuit Court.  M., B. & Co. carried the 
case to the Supreme Court, and that body re­
versed  the  judgment,  holding  that no pre­
sumption of partnership arises from the fact 
of  one  sawing  lumber  for,  and  agreeable 
with a contract with, another, and that lum­
ber  sawed  and  piled  on  his  premises  for 
another, preparatory to shipment, is not  lia­
ble to the taxes of the former.

Good  Words Unsolicited.

Geo.  Dobson,  general  dealer,  Orange, 

“Like the paper.”

Wood  Bros.,  hardware,  Matherton:  “It 

seems to touch the spot.”

O. W. Avery, hardware, Averyville:  The 

Tradesman is a welcome visitor.”

Geo. B. Manchester,  grocer,  Middleville: 
“I find it a good paper, and cannot  do  with­
out i t ”

Ira W. Allen, general dealer, Hartford: “I 
think  your  paper  is good, and  well  worth 
what it costs.  Success to you is  my  wish.” 
W. G. Barnes, drugs and  groceries,  Lodi: 
“I am well pleased with the paper.  It is just 
what  every  merchant  needs  in  this  north 
country—a paper near home. 
I have a good 
many papers, as all postmasters  do,  sent  to 
us from all parts, but  yours  is  the  best  of 
all.”

Stray Shots.

Silk is now grown in twenty States.
The latest invention is artificial cork.
The Australian wool clip for last year was 

valued at $96,400,000.

In Lubec, Me., 4,340,000 boxes of sardines 

were put up last season.

Nearly  25,000  women  are  engaged  in 

glove-making in England.

Twenty-one  new  cotton-mills  have  been 
started in  the  South  during  the  past  four 
months.

The  estate  of  the late C. H. McCormick, 
the inventor of the  reaper,  is  estimated  at 
$30,000,000.

Only two beet sugar factories are  at  pres­
ent in operation  in  North  America, one  in 
the Province of Quebec and the other in Cal­
ifornia.

“Are  bananas  healthy?”  headlines  the 
New York Sun.  Not all of them.  The last 
one we saw was in consumption.—Marrlbor- 
rough Times.

“What kind of sauce will  you  have  with 
your steak?” asked a waiter of a drummer in 
a  restaurant  where  the  condiments  were 
served with the orders.  “If the  steak is  as 
tough as yesterday’s, send in a couple of cir­
cular  saws.”

“She is admiring herself in a $25  summer 
bonnet.  “Do you think it becoming, dear?” 
she asked of her  young  husband.  “Yes,  I 
do,” was his response.  “I think it is becom­
ing very decidedly dear.”—ClncinnaU  Satr 
urday Night.

Gr. _A_. R.
CIGARS!

—THE-

V eteran’s 

Favorite.

EATON & CHRISTENSON

77  Canal Street, 

-   Grand  Bapids,

C O LE  &  S T O N E ,

Manufacturers and Jobbers  of

Gents’  Fine  Shirts.

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 Drads.

—ALSO—

American  Tack  Co.,

F a i r h a v e n  

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M a s s .

WHOLESALE

21  PEARL  STREET,

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AGENTS FOR

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MICH. 
GRAND R A P ID S 
Du  PONT’S  Gunpowder.
ing, Blasting and Cannon Powder guaranteed.
ALBERT  COVE  &  SONS,
Awnings,  Tents,

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, 

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MICHIGAN, 

Send for Prices.

A.  A.  CRIPPE3V,

W H OLESALE

Hats, Caps and Furs

54  MONROE  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICHIGAN,

We carry a Large Stock, and Guarantee Prices 

as Low as Chicago and Detroit.

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BOOK-KEEPING  MADE  EASY
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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 in half 
the time required by any other process.

Send for  descriptive  circular  to  HALL &

S T EA M  LAUNDRY

43 and 45 Kent Street.

A. K. ^ALLEN, Proprietor.

WE  DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS  WORK AND  USB  NO

Orders by Mail and Express  promptly  at­

tended to.

CO A L  A N D   B U IL D IN G   M A T E R IA L S.
A. B. Knowlson quotes as follows:

Ohio White Lime, per bbl.................... 
1 10
95
Ohio White Lime, car lots.................... 
140
Louisville Cement,  per bbl.................. 
Akron Cement per  bbl..........:............  
1 40
Buffalo Cement,  per bbl..................... 
I 40
Car lots.................................................... 1 15@1 20
Plastering hair, per bu.........................  35®  38
1 75
Stucco, per bbl........................................ 
Land plaster, per ton............................ 
d 75
3 00
Land plaster, car lots............................ 
Fire brick, per  M...................................$27 @ $35
Fire elay, per bbl..................................  
3 00
Anthracite, egg and grate..................$6 50@6 75
Anthracite, stove and nut..................   6 75®7 00
7 00
Cannell coal........................................... 
Ohio coal..............................  
  40@8 60
 
Blossburg or Cumberland i . ........... . 
00®5 25

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GRAND  RAPIDS

Flower Pots i Hangiig Vases
H.  LEONARD  &  SONS,

MANUFACTURED  FOR

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

HAND  OH  MACHINE  MADE  POTS  FOB 

SAE BY THE  PACKAGE  0B  EE- 

PACKED  TO  OBDEB.

Sold at Manufacturers’  Prices.  Send  for 

Price List  at once for the Spring Trade.

SEEDS

—FOR  THE—

FIELD  AND  GARDEN,

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WHOLESALE  AND  RETAIL,

—AT THE—

SS3X3D  S T O R E ,

91  Canal  St., Grand  Rapids, Mich.

W. T. LA1READI, A pt.
A L A  B A S T I N E !

Alabastine is the first and  only  prepara­
tion made from  calcined  gypsum  rock,  for 
application  to  walls  with  a  brush, and  is 
fully  covered  by  our  several  patents  and 
perfected  by  many  years  of  experiments, 
it  is  the  only  permanent  wall  finish,  and 
admits  of  applying  as  many  coats  as  de­
sired, one over another, to any hard  surface 
without  danger  of  scaling,  or  noticeably 
adding to the thickness of  the  wall,  which 
is  strengthened  and  improved  by  each  ad­
ditional coat, from time  to  time. 
It  is  the 
only material for the purpose not dependent 
upon glue for its adhesiveness ;  furthermore 
it is the only  preparation that is  claimed 
to  possess  these  great  advantages,  which 
are  essential  to  constitute  a  durable  wall 
finish.  Alabastine is hardened on  the  wall 
by  age, moisture,  etc.;  the  plaster  absorbs 
the  admixtures,  forming  a  stone  cement, 
while  all  kalsomines,  or  other  whitening 
preparations,  have  inert  soft  chalks,  and 
glue,  for  their  base,  which  are  rendered 
soft, or  scaled, in  a  very  short  time, thus 
necessitating  the  well-known  great  incon­
venience  and  expense, which  all  have  ex­
perienced,  in  washing  and  scraping  off  the 
old  coats  before refinishing. 
In  addition 
to the above advantages,  Alabastine  is  less 
expensive,  as  it  requires  hut  one-half  the 
number of pounds to cover the same amount 
of surface with two coats, is  ready  for  use 
by  simply  adding  water,  and  is easily ap­
plied by  any  one.

-FOR  SALE  BY-

JELLL  F ain  D ealers.

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

THE ALABASTINE COMPANY

M. B.  OH UBOH, Manager.

G R AN D   R A P ID S , 

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Grid  R ais  Wire  Works

M IC H IG A N .

Manufacturers of All Kinds of

W I R E   W O R K  !

92  MONROE  STREET.

C. S. YALE & BR0„

-Manufacturers  of-

H E A D Q U A R T E R S  T
,

-F O R - 

Sporting  Goods

—AND—

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

We wish  the  Trade  to  notice  the  fact  that 

we are

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.

Jl

Manufacturers  of

Fine Perfumes,

Colognes, Hair  Oils, 
Flavoring Extracts,
Baking Powders, 

Bluings, Etc., Etc.

BAKING  POWDERS,

B iiU O iras,  e t c .,

40 and 42  South  Division  St.,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICH

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ALSO PROPRIETORS  OF

E L S M X N T K ’ S

Red  Bark Bitters"

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FOSTER,
STEVENS

—WHOLESALE-

DilDVAIll

10  and  12  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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Crown 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.

78  West  Bridge  Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICHIGAN.

Foster,Stevens i Co

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