The Michigan Tradesman.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN,  WEDNESDAY,  JULY  9,  1884.

STOCK  SHIRTS.

Some of the Changes Time  Has  W rought.
From the Western Furnishing Reporter.

In spite of a bad spring  trade, shirts have 
been sold,  and  very many of  them at that, 
by firms who  make  first-class, well  known 
brands. 
It is true, general  trade  has  not 
been  up to what  was  expected, but it has 
been felt more  by the smaller  makers  and 
those who  do not  make  first-grade  goods 
than it has been  by the  largest  and  most 
popular houses.  This  sustains  the  often- 
printed assertion that the manufacturer who 
aims at a high standard of work  is  the  one 
who has the steadiest and  most reliable pat­
ronage.  To be sure, his  prices  may  some­
times strike the superficial observer as being 
high, but upon  careful inspection of details 
one can readily see that it costs more to pro­
duce a perfect  article  than it  does to turn 
out  slop-work;  consequently  the  honest 
manufacturer  does not try so dispose of his 
goods by underselling,  but  rather by giving 
his customers good value and a good article. 
Adherance to this  principle  is the secret of 
the good business done  this spring by a few 
of the shirt manufacturers.

is full of people running  around looking for 
those who will buy, and the  goods seek the 
consumer, rather  than than the  consumers 
seek  the  goods.  The  result is a continual 
depression, only those  who can  sell  below 
others are worth listening to, there is no lon­
ger  any such thing  as demand, except for a 
customer, and if the  latter has  any means, 
he knows  he is at a premium, and  that it is 
a favor for him to give an  order.  The mer­
chant princes of the earth have become men­
dicants begging for trade. 
It is immatertial 
that they beg  by deputy, the overproduction 
of everything except  the  circulating  med­
ium, makes  his  stock of a most  uncertain 
value, and  produces a feverish  anxiety  to 
exchange  for  money, lest  it depreciate on 
his hands.  Competition  then drives him to 
the lowest possible margins of profit, and of­
ten conscienceless competition will takes his 
trade from him at prices below  cost  and he 
can only  meet  the  prices  by doing as  do 
those who care little  whether or  not  they 
pay for the goods they sell.

An Island of Cocoanuts and Bananas. 

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The Influences of Modern Trade.

There are some  truisms  not  sufficiently. 

Correspondence New York Times.
•  Bonacca is an island and in its  way is one 
of the  liviest  places in Spanish  Honduras. 
Its  liveliness, however, is peculiar to itself, 
and there are few places like it.  The island 
has two uses. 
It grows  excellent  bananas 
and  cocoanuts  and  affords a refuge for all 
the flies of the surrounding islands.

The laundering of shirts seem to have kept 
place with the other improvements  in  shirt 
manufacturing.  Most of the  largest  manu­
facturers  have  their  own  laundries,  and 
strive to excel in fine work.  The writer vis­
ited one of  them  a  few days ago, and  was 
very much surprised with the peculiar excel­
lence of finish which is attained by the most 
elaborate machinery and appliances.  There 
may  be  improvements  yet to be  made,  but 
one can scarcely see where it can be done.

The writer was shown a few  days since  a 
stock shirt made before the war, and sold at 
a high figure.  The wonderful improvement 
made since then in stock shirts was very ev­
ident to anyone.  This article was  made  of 
very inferior  muslin:  a long, straight, wide- 
plaited bosom;  the shut was cut like a bag; 
seams sewed without felling, body very small 
and short; no yoke and  no  shaping, except­
ing a hole cut in the neck, with a  collar and 
cuffs attached. 
It was certainly a  primitive 
garment, and no wonder everyone desiring a 
shirt was compelled to have it  made.  Now 
it is entirely different.  Any person  not  ab­
solutely deformed can go to a first-class men’s 
furnisher and buy a stock shirt that  will  fit 
him perfectly.  Thousands  of  well-dressed 
men who would not think of buying a ready­
made shoe or suit of clothing, no longer have 
their  shirts  custom-made,  but  buy  from 
stock, as their requirements  demand.  This 
is not only true of white  shirts,  but  applies 
to the colored shirt trade.  These same man­
ufacturers make large quantities and in great 
variety of patterns; and as they are also col­
lar and cuff manufacturers, they  readily  en­
sure a better made and  more  perfect-fitting 
collar than do most of the custom-shirt mak-

There  are  many bananas  raised at Bon­
acca, but they do not  run so large as on the 
mainland; the cocoanuts do splendidly. 
In­
deed it is to encourage the cocoanut growers 
that the fruit men  take  their bananas.  At 
present  there is a sort of a boom  in the co­
coanut business, and  many are  starting co­
coanut  plantations, or “cocoanut walks,” as 
they  are  called  here. 
It is a safe  invest 
ment  for  money, but  the  return  is slow 
The trees are  planted  along  the  seashore 
in a sandy soil mixed with loam.  From the 
time a tree is  planted it takes  seven  years 
before it is  sufficiently  large to bear  nuts 
But just as soon as  the  cocoanuts  form  on 
the trees then a steady income sets in.  The 
average  number of  cocoanuts to the tree is 
120 per year. 
In the  best places  trees will 
bear 150 per year.  They are sold  according 
to the  season of  the  year, from $16 to $30 
per thousand.  Our captain was  paying $20 
per thousand for  good nuts.  The cocoanut 
walk needs  hardly  any  care.  When  ripe 
the nuts fall off  themselves, and  all that is 
necessary is to pick them up.  The husking 
of cocoanuts is the most tiresome work  on a 
plantation, but the  native  inhabitants  are 
very skillful at it, and they charge  very  lit­
tle for their  services.  After  being husked 
the nuts are piled  up, and  when  the  first 
steamer arrives are loaded into  dories  and 
paddled to the ship.  As they are passed up 
the sides they are counted, and a  check giv­
en immediately to the planter, who on going 
to the captain or purser, receives his money. 
The whole business  is  conducted on a cash 
From the Baltimore Trade.
basis.  There are  plenty  of  small  islands
„
well known to the hard  working  merchant  »Meh can be bought cheap on  which  there 
and manufacturer of these  over-busy times;  ^  *ow ™*Ment tees to pay for the money 
perhaps not properly  brought  to  his atten-  Invested  in a short 
ime, as well as to sup- 
tion.  The  new  powers  and consequent  P°rt » e  planter  while  waiting for his new 
methods of commerce, have brought a knowl-1 tr^ f  to grow, 
edge of  the  conditions of the  crops of  all 
things  that
better than | York and New  Orleans is always  equal  to 
the merchant, so that he knows
the supply.  The usual method of a  planter 
the grower and as soon, just  what  the mar­
who comes into this  country to start  a  new 
ket value of anything is from day to day.  If 
plantation  is  to  begin  with  the  banana 
in business, 
ignorance  is  bliss, then do we 
Nine  months  after  the  banana  sucker is 
live in the days of  most  glorious  wisdom. 
planted  a  yield  is  obtained.  The  young 
The story is told of a certain  Scotch  grocer 
shoots are  planted  eighteen or twenty feet 
of Auld  Lang Syne, that  having  ordered a
pun” of indigo from the jobbers in London, 1 apart, and  between  them a cocoanut tree is 
the latter  read it for a “tun” of  the  article  Placed.  The heavy  growth of the  banana 
roo 
and though  sore  pressed to find it, shipped  shades the young plant until it is we 
The soil 
that amount to fill  the order.  By the  time  ed, when it soon shoots up ahead, 
and  cocoanut  will 
the letter reached Edinburgh, the indigo was  Is so rich that  banana 
Then  the  banana  suckers
half  way there, and  the  canny Scot was at  soon interfere, 
his wits end what to do.  But  he did  noth-  are cut  down  and  the  trees  kept  clean 
ingin haste, and waited  for  the stuff to ar-  Thus, while  the  planter  lives  upon¡ a n d  
rive.  Meanwhile  news  came  to  London  makes a profit  from his  bananas, the future
nearing its 
from the East of disaster  to  the  crop, and  fortune  in  cocoanuts is rapidly 
little  trouble in
the jobber jumping at  the  conclusion  that  consummation.  There  is
the Scotchman had acted on knowledge  and  making  plantations m the  country.  Land
cornered the  market, sent off a special mes-  costs nothing, and large  concessions may be 
senger who rebought  the  entire  amount at | obtained from the Hondurian govemmen . 
double or  treble  what it cost.  TIlose  ways 
have gone  forever, so far as we aie concern­
ed.  The  merchant  knows  just when it is  From the Montreal Monlteur 
advisable to pick  up such lots of any goods 
The best proof of the value of trade papers 
as will  pay, but he is  also  aware  when it  may be found in the fact that all  successful 
will pay him to let the  producers  carry the  merchants, dealers and retailers acknowledge 
goods for him.  The world has shrunk won-  that they  have  derived  great  benefit  fiom 
derfully during the last  fifty  years, and we  them, and continue reading them as  long  as 
have  catalogued  and  labeled  everything  they do not retire from active business.  But 
within its bowels, and on its back, know the  there is, on the other hand, a class of dealers 
quantity and the value, and lack  nothing so  and retailers who declare that they have not 
much as customers to consume  it.  But this  got time to read trade papers, and that if they 
knowledge is only a trifle  of  our  progress,  have the  leisure  to  read  them, they would 
We  have  transposed the mental  powers of  know  beforehand  what  they  contain.  To 
inventive  genius  into  tireless  metal,  and  these the Moniteur replies, that  a  business 
though Prosper  has • passed  into  dust, his  man, however little leisure he  may think he 
spirit is forever  harnessed  in the  treadmill  has left to bestow on reading, ought  to  find 
inform  himself  about what in  his
of  production.  But  here  again  we  lack  time  to
trade concerns him most and is to him as much 
nothing so much as  consumers.  Many new 
a matter of dollars and cents as  his  current 
branches of  business  have  developed with 
business—i. e., the price of  goods  and  ten­
this progress, but they  have merely resulted 
dency and state of thè markets in his special­
in shifting a portion of the  population from 
ty;  and that the trifling sum  of  the  annual 
old labors  into new.  The  quantities to be 
cost*of subscription is made up a hundred or 
consumed  have  immensely  increased,  but 
often a thousand fold, by the  valuable hints 
the number of  consumers or their  means to 
a trade paper may contain, not left unheeded 
purchase have not been  proportionally aug­
by any intelligent reader in his specialty.
mented.  The consequence is that the earth

have a value*, into the office  of I year> whil®the demand for the nuts in

The cocoanut  industry is increasing every

The  Usefulness  of Trade  Papers.

The  Duties of a Grocery Clerk 

A true and industrious  grocery clerk  will 
always  appear  clean and  sober, and  will 
make it his  earnest  duty to arise  from his 
bed in the morning at a regular  time.  This 
will enable him to arrange everything in the 
store in good order  and in  good  condition.
He will see to it that  the floor is swept,  the 
counter  brushed  clean, and what is  on the 
same  laid in a good  shape, and  held  in a 
good condition.  The scales  should be kept 
constantly in a bright and  clean  condition, 
and also the  shelf  goods, including  the tea 
canisters should be dusted off  regularly and 
often, and all goods should be  kept as clean 
as  possible  whenever  the  opportunity  is 
there to do it.  The show  windows  should 
also be one of the principal  objects with its 
goods, the same nice and clean, and the veg­
etables  should be nicely fixed up  and be in 
a good trim, as such  practice will  increase 
the sale of the  same, but he must  pay still 
more attention to the goods which are placed 
in the cellar,  as they are  often  spoiled be­
fore discovered.  He  should  keep  over all 
other goods in the store a  watchful eye, and 
by the sale of the  same in time will  secure 
no loss to his employer.

The clerk’s duty is further  that  he  must 
be always  both  friendly and  polite  when 
wating upon  customers, and  he will  study 
to please one and all; he must  act  lively at 
all times, but will be careful and  avoid mis­
takes in weighing or measuring, receiving o 
giving  change, and  he  must  never  stand 
idle, as there is always something  to fix up, 
or goods  wanting  overhauling, or whatever 
it may be to do, he will keep  good  hours at 
night and if his time  admits he should read 
some good book to improve  himself, but on 
the  other  hand, he will  not  use his  time 
which is due to his own  personal  rest to an 
outward ill-practice, which would  not alone 
ruin or  harm  himself, but  would also be a 
great interference with  the  business, as he 
would not be  able to attend to his  duties in 
the  morning  following; it is his  duty that 
when  abroad, or  when  gone to customers, 
that he may not use  more time than requir­
ed, and at the close of  the place at night he 
will see to it that  everything is in  good or­
der  and in its proper  place, all the  tender 
goods to be  covered so that the  dust or dirt 
will not get in, or whatever it may be neces­
sary to be  done, as it is the  clerk’s  duty to 
take as much interest in the business as if it 
were his own.

If his  fellow-clerk  is  second or younger 
the older  clerk’s duty is to watch over  him 
as an elder brother would over  his younger, 
and will always be ready for him  with good 
advices and good examples for him, and if a 
mistake has been made  by the  younger the 
former will  correct him by using  easy and. 
frank  language  and by  showing  film  the 
proper and  correct way, and it is the  older 
clerk’s  duty to assist the  second or younger 
clerk at any time when  required, such as in 
helping  him in carrying out a basket or two 
of  goods or whatever it may be in the  line 
of business as he should  make  it  as agree­
able as possible and should  help another as 
one can.

It is the cleik’s  duty to  respect and obey 
the orders and also wishes of  his employer. 
Follow your master rather than  show an in­
clination to outrun him, yield to him  rather 
than oppose him, love  him and  look  up to 
him as to a parent, give  credit to his obser­
vations and  esteem them to be correct; and 
in case of his  employer’s  absence the clerk 
will with still more attention watch over the 
business, and will be polite  and be  faithful 
and  honest  with  the  money he is trusted 
with and the  goods  which  he is handling, 
and aid him on all occasions in regard to the 
business.

The Necessity  of Small Things.

Men pursue  business  for  profit.  Details 
play an important  part in business  success, 
They are the foundation on which  the after 
super-structure is reared.  Pennies multiply 
into  dollars.  Small  savings gradually  in­
crease  the  bank  account.  The  merchant 
who  achieves  a  fortune  is  practical in de 
tails.  Little  things  are  carefully  scrutin 
ized.

One of the wealthiest  merchants in  New 
York always  saves the envelopes of his let­
ters, the back of which he utilized for  mem­
orandums.  This is indicative of his inethod 
in business details. Another gathers up loose 
nails, twine and paper, saving them  for  fu­
ture use.  How many thousand sweep them 
aside  as  rubbish.  Little  do  they imagine 
that indiscriminate  sweeping is but the key 
to business  character  which, in  succeeding 
years culminates in loss and failure.

The smallest  leak  will in time  sink  the 
largest ship  that  floats.  And so the small 
losses in business that  daily  occur through 
neglect of details swamp at last the  wealth­
iest firms.

Figures are  important to  consult.  They 
never lie.  Two and two  never  make five, 
and yet how many merchants act  upon this 
principle of expansion.  Their  hopefulness 
is larger than  their  caution.  Hopefulness 
within itself never  brought fortune. 
It is a 
poor  anchor in business, for it has no  stay­
ing power.

Profit  and  loss  should be a daily study. 
Neglect  at  this  point  is  dangerous.  To 
many, the dry, practical details of  everyday 
mercantile  life  are  irksome.  They  shun

NO. 42.

them, neglect  them, avoid  them  for  more 
pleasant  duties.  Do you  wonder  at  their 
final failure?  Why?  Have they not  ignor­
ed the primary principles of commercial suc­
cess?  Must they not, therefore pay the pen­
alty?

The  merchant  who  carefully scans  the 
most 
insignificant  details of  his  store  is 
master of  the  situation.  He is  skilled to 
plan and  organize, and his  affairs  are con­
ducted by rule and method.  Every arch has 
its keystone, which  gives  strength and sta­
bility to the  whole, and so  every merchant 
has a  pivotal  point  which  determines the 
strength or weakness of  his business ability. 
The important thing to do  after  having dis­
covered  the  weakness is to overcome it  by 
every effort, care  and  patience.  As  single 
spears of wheat  aggregate in their fulness a 
bounteous  harvest  so  painstaking in busi­
ness multiplies at last into ample fortune.

The Amount of Wheat in a Barrel of Flour.
E. II. Walker,  Statistician  of  the  New 
York Produce  Exchange, gives the  follow­
ing in regard to the amount of  wheat neces­
sary for a barrel of flour:

A 

large  majority  of 

Previous to what  is  known  as  the  new 
process in  milling, a barrel of  flour  of  196 
pounds was  reckoned as equal to five  bush­
els of  wheat.  The  Produce  Exchange of 
1870  made  the 
change  from  5  to  4% 
bushels. 
the 
mills still  make  flour by the  old  process. 
Some of the  best flour  made  takes 5K to 6 
bushels of wheat.  The new  process  takes 
an average of about 4X bushels of  wheat to 
the barrel of low grade flour.  The year 1879 
will be a probable  average for the change to 
4}£  bushels.  Some of the verylow grades of 
flour are made  from four  bushels of  wheat 
to the  barrel.  The  quantity of  wheat re­
quired depends upon its quality.  Years ago 
New York dealers in wheat made  contracts 
for the  manufacture of  flour  from  spring 
wheat at four  bushels  and thirty  pounds, 
four bushels and forty pounds, or four bush­
els and fifty pounds, the  miller  turning out 
and  delivering a barrel  of  flour  at  these 
rates, he furnishing the barrel and retaining 
the  offal; but  the  flour  turned  out  was 
known as Extra  State, a low grade  of flour. 
The  better  grades of flour  required  more 
wheat then for their manufacture  than they 
do now. 
It can, in  fact, be  said that a bar­
rel of  flour is made  from 4, 4 5 ,  5K and 
6 bushels of wheat, the quantity of grain re­
quired  depending on its  quality as  well as 
upon the  grade of  flour to  be  made.  Five 
bushels  were  about a fair  averagff in 1879, 
while now, with  many mills changed to the 
new process, 4J^  bushels is  probably a fair 
average, and has been since 1879.

Tobacco  Show  Cards  and  Romance.
“Pretty girls in Richmond?  I  should  say 
we had!” exclaimed a  passenger  from  Vir­
ginia.  “The  State  is  full  of them.  Ever 
been  there?  No?  Well,  you  ought  to  go 
down.  But I’ll  bet  you’ve  seen the  photo­
graph of the prettiest girl in our town a thous­
and times.  You don’t think  you  have,  but 
you have all the same. 
I’ll  tell  you.  You 
have certainly seen the show window adver­
tisements of a Richmond firm that  makes  a 
popular brand of smoking tobacco, the adver­
tisement being adorned by the photograph of 
a beautiful young  lady.

Of course you have seen  it  hundreds  of 
times.  They  are  in  every  tobacco  store. 
Well, that is a real photograph, and  the girl 
is the belle of Richmond.  There  is  a little 
romance connected with it, too.  The young 
lady was courted  by  a  young  man  of  our 
town, but he made poor progress in winning 
her affections.  Like  all  beauties  she  was 
vain and ambitous.  She became actually en­
vious of Mrs. Langtry and wanted to  go  on 
the stage  herself.

“One night she was saying how she would 
love to have her  picture  hung  up  in  show 
windows and admired by everybody like Mrs. 
Langtry’s. 
‘What  would  you  give to have 
it?’ inquired her suitor. 
‘Anything,  every­
thing,’ she replied  enthusiastically,  but  not 
thinking it  meant  anything  serious.  So  a 
bargain was made, playfully on hqr part, that 
in case within six  months  her photographs 
were on exhibition all over  the country,  she 
would grant the young  man  any  honorable 
request.  He is a member of the tobacco man­
ufacturing  firm  spoken  of,  and  is a smart 
young chap, with an eye to business,  as  you 
can see.  They are to be married  in  June.”

Growth of the  Cream  Industry.

Ten years ago butter factories  were  little 
known.  Five years ago  little  was  thought 
of the most recent  plan—that  of  collecting 
the cream for butter making  into  a  central 
establishment, leaving the milk to be fed  on 
the farms.  While it has attracted less atten­
tion, the growth of this gathering-cream sys­
tem has  been  perhaps  as  remarkable  and 
rapid in the West as was that of  the  cheese 
factory system. 
It  has been  estimated that 
there are now 1,000 creameries  in the West, 
at least  600  in Iowa alone, and the numbet 
is steadily increasing. 
Illinois has 412  but­
ter and cheese factories, most of them in the 
northern counties.

A  number of Chinese farmers  in  Merced 
County, California, have begun  to  cultivate 
the opium-yielding poppy.  As they are mak­
ing a success of it,  it  is  likely  that  others 
will follow in their  steps.

COMMERCIAI,  REPORTING.

Some of the Difficulties that Have to Be En 

countered.

There  are  difficulties  surrounding  every 
line of occupation, and those  that beset com­
mercial reporting are perhaps no greater than 
those attendant upon the pursuit of other vo* 
cations.  But they are different, and are com­
paratively unknown, or, at least unrecogniz­
ed.  The  first  difficulty  that  the  reporter 
meets with in his rounds  amongst  business 
men is to find  the  right  man  in  the  right 
place. 
It  is  an  astonishing  thing,  but  it 
seems almost literally true, that in every bus­
iness firm  there  is  only  one  partner  who 
knows enough about what is going on  to  be 
able to talk to a reporter;  and this is not on 
account of unwillingness, but to  all  appear­
ances is due to inability to know what to say. 
“Well,  no,  there’s  nothing  new,”  says  an 
active,  energetic  prominent member of  the 
firm, perhaps the head of the house, “there s 
nothing new. 
I should be glad to  give  you 
any information in my power, but the fact is 
I haven’t given my attention to these things; 
you had better  see my partner—he’s out just 
now—he may be a  > te ll you something.”
And this is a fair sample of  what  would  be 
received in a great majority of leading whole­
sale houses.  This difficulty being overcome 
through finding the right man, others follow 
quickly.  The merchant oftentimes seems to 
regard the reporter as  he  would  a  rival  in 
business, and at once sets himself on the de­
fensive, as if saying to himself:  “This  man 
has come  to  find  out  something,  but  he’ll 
have to wake up pretty early to get ahead of 
me.  Let me see:  I won’t tell him  the  first 
word about our business, but I will tell  him 
a lot of stuff that don’t amount to  anything, 
and if he can make anything  out  of  it  he’s 
welcome.”  With a little  tact  the  reporter 
sometimes manages to get some real inform­
ation out of such a  customer, but the task is 
not an easy one.  Then there is the merchant 
who has an axe to  grind.  He  regards  the 
reporter simply as an instrument that he can 
use to  further  his  own  interests,  and  so, 
whatever may be the actual state of the mar­
ket, he reports it, honestly enough no doubt, 
in accordance with what his books  and  his 
opinions declare it ought to be.  Out of such 
a party, if the reporter knows  how to weigh 
and sift news, he can often  glean  much  ex­
cellent material for a true  report.  But,  un­
fortunately, there is the  merchant  who  has 
little or no regard for the truth.  He will re­
port dealings in volumes and  at  prices that 
others  in  his line know nothing  about  and 
that many will not hesitate to  say  it  is  im­
possible  should  have  taken  place  without 
their knowledge.  This makes a  real  stum­
bling  block for the reporter.  He knows not 
whether to  accept  or  reject  the  statement 
made, and the correctness of his report  nec 
essarily hinges upon his decision.  To leave 
out important matter must greatly impai^ if 
not wholly destroy, the value of  all the  rest 
of his work, but to make a  misstatement  of 
facts and so give the market a false coloring 
is far worse.  Of course it is open to him  to 
give the statement and throw as much doubt 
upon  it  as  the  occasion  seems to warrant, 
and this is perhaps usually done, but the dif­
ficulty is to know to what extent  it  may  be 
doubted, and as the reporter himself has been 
driven into confusion as to the actual state of 
the market, his report can hardly be a  clear 
and satisfactory one.  Of all the  difficulties 
that beset commercial reporters, misrepresen 
tation is undoubtedly the worst. ¡Then there 
is a  spirit of playfulness or jest often found 
amongst the merchants, who so far forget the 
difference between business  and pleasure as 
to seek to make the reporter the victim  of  a 
joke by giving him, with  all  apparent  seri­
ousness, a greatly exaggerated or  purely im­
aginative  account  of what has  been  going 
on.  This class is not so difficult to deal with; 
the reporter soon learns to know their ways, 
and is then prepared to make  them valuable 
auxiliaries in throwing lights and shades up­
on the markets.  Finally, there is  the  com­
petent,  common-sense,  outspoken  man  of 
business, who recognizes the importance of a 
a faithful report of the market, and gives all 
the information  he  deems  fit  freely.  For­
tunately there is usually more than one such 
business man in every line of  industry,  and 
so it is that notwithstanding many an obstacle
and many a disappointment, it  is  generally 
possible to give not only a faithful, but  rea­
sonably  full  and  intelligent  report  of  the 
markets, but the task, as we eave  endeavor­
ed to point out, is not an easy one.

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D ull Trade and Its  Remedies.

From the St. Louis Grocer.

The general business situation in all parts 
of  the  country is one  approaching  stagna­
tion.  The  only movement of  merchandise 
but  is  taking  place  is  to  fill  immediate 
wants, and this makes orders  small.  There 
are occasional spurts of business, to be sure, 
that nothing that  partakes of a general and 
permanent improvement.  As is usually the 
case, the western  markets are less  effected 
than the eastern by the  prevailing dullness.
While this is naturally the  dull seaaon of 
the year, the dullness  has  been  intensified 
by the New York  bank  panic, and  also by 
the  fact that this is the presidential election 
year, which always causes  more or less dis­
turbance  in all  industrial  interests. 
|The 
country has  plenty of  financial'strengtla as 
is evidenced by the quick  recovery from me

panic, but it must  not be  forgotten that the 
I evils which caused the panic  have not been 
removed.  The rascals and  swindlers  who 
mismanaged the  banks  have not  yet been 
punished, and each  day brings to light new 
cases of villainy among those who hold posi­
tions of financial responsibility.  Bank after 
bank goes down because the  managers have 
been unfaithful to their  trust, and  the  idea 
is rapidly spreading tnat none  of  our banks 
are what they should  be, and  this  impair­
ment of public confidence is one of the most 
serious features of the times.

The facilities for gambling on our  so-call­
ed trade exchanges are so  great  that  thous­
ands are  drawn into the snare  only to ruin 
themselves and drag down their  frends with 
them.  People  with  money do  not  know 
whom t6 trust, and consequently  the  funds 
are kept out of investment, and we have the 
anomalous condition of a surplus capital and 
a scarcity of loanable  funds.  There is now 
a general  demand for laws  regulating  our 
banking  institutions, but  whether  this de­
mand will ever amount to anything  remains 
to be seen.  Certain it is that so long  as dis­
honest men and  speculators are  allowed to 
remain at the head of  banks, all the laws in 
the  world  will  avail  nothing.  The gam­
blers and  embezzlers  must be punished, or 
no bettering of  conditions  can take  place. 
One of the  most  discouraging  features of 
the times is the ease with  which embezzlers 
secure  immunity for  their  crimes.  Their 
“high  social  position”  and a  “regard  for 
their innocent  families” allows  them to go 
free, and  they  may  again be reinstated if 
they only promise to disgorge.  Add  to this 
misrepresentations of railroad and other cor­
porations as to  their  earnings, and it is not 
hard to understand  why public  confidence, 
that indefinable  something, should be badly 
shattered.  Under such  circumstances trade 
will be kept down to the narrowest limits of 
necessity.  When public confidence is again 
restored, capital will once more  seek invest 
ment, and trade and  industries will soon be 
in a rapidly improving condition.

Antiquity  of the Corset.

From the London World.

As long ago as the days of the Greeks and 
Romans, a slight elancee figure  was  admir­
ed, and stoutness looked upon  as a deformi­
ty.  Martial ridiculed fat  women, and Ovid 
put large  waists in the  front  rank  of his 
remedies  against  love.  Several  remedies 
were tried then as  now, not only to restrain 
an expanding  figure, and  to  enhance  the 
beauties  of a  very  slight  one.  But  they 
were of a different  kind  from  those  with 
which  we  are  familiar.  Bandages  were 
worn with the generic name of fasciae mam- 
illares.  These consisted of the strophium, 
the cloth worn around the bosom; then tenia 
a  simple  band  below,  and  the  zona, or 
waist-belt.  When  bandages  failed,  those 
who valued the beauty of  their  figures  had 
recourse to a remedy  perscribed by Serenus 
Sammonicus.  They enveloped  their  busts 
with garlands of ivy, which were thrown on 
the fire as  soon  as  withdrawn, and  after­
ward rubbed all the upper part of  their bod 
ies with goose fat mixed with warm milk or 
with  an . egg of a partridge.  Men  were as 
vain as women, if we are to  believe  Aristo­
phanes and other writers.  The great  comic 
dramatist mocked his  cotemporary  Cinesas 
for wearing busks of lindenwood, and  Capi 
tolinus, in  his  biography of  the  Emperor 
Anthony, mentions that he also had recourse 
to  them to compress  his  swelling  figure. 
Testimony  is  conflicting,  however.  Some 
contend that the ancients wore veritable cor­
sets, arguing that when Homer in describing 
Juno’s toilet when  she  wishes to captivate 
Jupiter  speaks  of  the  two  girdles  worn 
around  her  waist—the one  bordered  with 
gold fringe, the other  borrowed from Venus 
—he  was  really describing a Greek  corset, 
and that  the  egide or  cuirass  of  Minerva 
which  Virgil  describes is to be  interpreted 
in the same manner.  But this  view is sure­
ly mistaken, for no monument of  antiquity, 
no artistic work, no  evidence  gleaned from 
other  scorces, point to the  use of  stiff, un­
yielding whalebone corsets.

Strawberries  and Peas.

From the Baltimore Trade.

The  packing of  strawberries is over, and 
the commission men who handle these goods 
for the growers, say that the packing houses 
have  not taken  over  one-third as many as 
last season.  Early June  peas are also clos­
ed, and the  conditions of  the market  have 
been unusual.  Prices have been 30 per cent 
higher than last year  for  peas, due entirely 
to the smallness of the  yield.  Marrow peas 
are even shorter than were  early Junes, and 
the  season  will be over by the end of next 
week.  The result is a supply one-third less 
than was provided for, and  consequent high 
prices.  On peas,  especially of fine  grades, 
most of  the  pack  has  passed  out of first 
hands at low prices, considering  the cost of 
green stock, but as a rule buyers are exceed­
ingly shy of taking hold of goods.

Every one has heard  of  condensed  milk, 
but condensed, or rather solidified, drinks of 
a more potent nature are  a novelty.  An in­
genious  French  chemist  has  discovered  a 
method by which any wine,  spirit,  or  malt 
liquor can be solidified into a cake, like choc­
olate, and so conveniently  carried  about  in 
the pockets of the thirsty.

A JO U R N A L DEVOTED TO TETE

Mercantile and Manufacturing Interests of the State.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

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

WEDNESDAY,  JULY  9,  1884.

POST  NO.  1.

Orga nized 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 Sweet’s Hotel reading room 
Saturday, July 19, at 8 p. m.

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.

Hardware dealers should not  fail  to  note 
the new carriage bolt list  which  has  lately 
been mailed to their address.

As financiers, Colonel  Sellers,  Ferdinand 
Ward and Benson Bidwell shrink into insig­
nificance when compared with the inimitable 
Dunlap.  This fertile genius proposed to loan 
$5,000  from  a  $37  bank  account and still 
have money enough left to  conduct his busi­
ness.  The parable of the loaves  and  fishes 
is not more wonderful than this !

The attention of druggists  is called to the 
card of  Secretary  Jesson, printed  on  the 
drug page, referring to the coming  meeting 
of the State  Pharmaceutical  Association at 
Detroit.  The objects of  the  organization, 
and  the  subjects to  be  discussed  at  the 
meeting are  near to every druggist, and the 
call ought to meet with  ready  response  all 
over the  State.

In their gathering on Saturday the commer­
cial men of Grand Rapids proved beyond ques 
tion that they can bury individual differences 
and throw aside the  little  asperities  which 
invariably attend an active business  life,  in 
order that all may meet on common  ground 
and  enjoy  a day  of  social  and  fraternal 
pleasure.  And the royal  good  time  exper­
ienced by every one present convinced  even 
the most skeptical that the results amply re­
paid the exertion.

P. Lorillard & Co.  have  issued a circular 
to the trade announcing that they  have con­
cluded to abolish the  contract  system in the 
sale of their goods, as it has been found after 
a thorough test to be inoperative, on account 
of the non-co-operation  and  opposition of a 
portion of the jobbing trade.  Messrs. Loril­
lard & Co. are the originators of the contract 
system on a farge  scale, and were consider­
ed  the  firmest  adherents  of  the  policy. 
Their  abandonment of  the  scheme, after a 
thorough  trial, is significant, and gives  rea­
son for the belief that the other manufactur­
ers will follow suit.

The  Detroit  Commercial  came  out  last 
week with its  usual quota  of  matter  stolen 
from The Tradesm an,and reproduced with­
out thanks or credit.  The Commercial is to 
be congratulated on the  convenient source it 
has for obtaining whatever of  brightness  or 
originality appears in  its  columns,  but  the 
wholesale appropriation of such matter  sug­
gests a point of honor which newspaper men 
.would readily appreciate.  But  as the Com­
mercial is run by  men  without  newspaper 
experience, and without the training  requis­
ite to a proper understanding  of  the  duties 
and responsibilities attending that profession 
the above stricture will have no  effect.

Active  B ailding  Operations  at  Allegan. 
From the Gazette.

Building  operations  continue  active and 
on a large scale, and the town is fast  assum­
ing a City-like air, as the new structures show 
their clean and imposing  fronts.  The  addij 
tions to the list since our last report, are the 
two stores of Sherwood & Griswold, those of 
H.  Vosburgh,  Mrs.  II.  Stanley,  and  C.  S. 
Facer’s saloon.  The  Jenner  estate  having 
decided  not  to  build,  the  National  bank 
will be built alone.  Dryden  &  Sons  have 
their  front  finished  and  bricklaying  is  in 
progress  on  other  parts.  They  expect  to 
occupy the new place by the first of August, 
and will have a  large  and  handsome  store. 
Mr. Sawyer’s building  is  well  toward  com­
pletion  and  will be occupied by H. P. Dun­
ning with his  drug  and  book  stock.  Fred 
Hall’s is nearly done.  Those of H. B. Peck 
and  L.  W.  Watkius  are  about  half  done 
E.  B. Bailey, grocer, will  occupy  the  latter 
place.  Calkins  &  Dunning will go into A. 
E. Calkins’ building,  and F. Franks, butcher 
into Mrs. Wilkes’ store.  Work is in progress 
upon the foundations  of  Sherwood  &  Gris­
wold’s,  H.  Yosburgh’s,  and  Oliver  Bros.’ 
stores, while the walls are nearly up and the 
floors laid for H. F.  Marsh’s  and  Spohn  & 
Vanderhook’s block.  C. W. Calkins’ corner 
building  shows  a handsome  front  and will 
be  completed  by  August  1, when it will be 
occupied as before by S. D. Pond and Ed. T. 
Yan Ostrand.  All  in  all, the prospect for 
future growth and business is very favorable.
It is said that a substitute for genuine hu­
man  hair is now made out of the bud of the 
palmetto tree.  It can be made of any length, 
and dyed any color.

Last  year  Arizona produced over 17,000,- 
000  pounds  of  copper,  and  this  year  the 
yield  will  probably  be  about  25,000,000 
pounds.

AMONG THE TRADE,

IN  THE  CITY.

Chas. W. Jacoy succeeds J. W.  Crater  in 

the billiard business on Pearl  street.

Dr. C. S. Hazeltine  now  spends  his  Sab­
baths on Mackinac  Island, where his family 
are comfortably situated  for the  summer  at 
the Old Mission House.

J. S. Cowan, the East Bridge  street  drug­
gist, has formed a co-partnership  with S. P. 
Barnard under the  firm name  of  Cowan  & 
Barnard and engaged in the manufacture  of 
flavoring extracts, baking powders, ink, blu­
ing,  etc.,  at  210  East  Bridge  street.  Mr. 
Barnard  will  represent  the  firm  on  the 
road.

in 

Another  of 

the  new 
the  stores 
Gilbert  block  on  Ottawa 
street  has 
been rented, leaving but one store without a 
tenant.  The store  spoken for will  be occu­
pied by a wholesale firm  from  Detroit, but 
the nature of the business is not known, and 
Mr. Gilbert refuses to disclose it.

John  W.  Pugh, of this city, has invented' 
a belt fastener, which consists of two  pieces 
of  metal,  each slotted, so as to form on one 
side  of  it  a  series of tongues adapted to be 
bent  into U-loops, the two parts being hing­
ed together  so  that  the  free  ends  of  the 
loops will project in opposite directions from 
the sides of the fastener.

“The abolition of the  contract  system  in 
the tobacco business,”  said a prominent job­
ber,  “will  result  in  every  jobber  hav­
ing  brands  of  his  own,  in order that com­
petitors may not cut prices. 
In the end, the 
brands will be so numerous and meaningless 
that the manufacturer will step  in  and  sell 
the retailer direct.  The  jobber protects  the 
retailer as a matter of business and the man­
ufacturer does not stand by the jobber.”

“The time has gone by when there is mon­
ey in the  jobbing  trade,”  said  an  old-time 
wholesale clerk the other  day.  “Fifteen  or 
twenty years ago the jobber’s expenses were 
nothing,  compared  to  what  they  are now, 
and  the  profits  were  twice  as great.  The 
house I was with in those times  sold  $850,- 
000 worth of goods per year, and  only  kept 
two men on  the  road.  The annual profits 
amounted to $60,000.  Now it  takes  a  half 
dozen men to swell the sales to that amount, 
and then the profits don’t pan out more than 
a third as much.”

The Kendall  matter came up for  final ac­
tion in the Circuit Court  Monday.  Turner 
& Carroll, who had hitherto put in a bill  for 
$250 against  the  estate,  could  not itemize, 
but $150 worth, and their claim  was  conse­
Included 
quently cut down to that amount. 
in the $150, was a charge for  $50  “as 
re­
tainer,” but it did not retain worth a cent, as 
the same firm acted as the attorneys for both 
the other parties to the  failure—the  assign­
or and the creditors.  Such  a  proceeding  is 
irregular  and  unprofessional,  and  receives 
the merited condemnation of every  business 
man acquainted with the circumstances.

AROUND  THE  STATE.

Perry Bros, have started a 99 cent store at 

Petoskey.

B. Booth has started in the  harness  busi­

ness at Potterville.

ion store at Rodney.

Clyde Keep is building a feed and  provis­

G. W. Francis is  building  an  addition  to 

his store at  Nashville.

business at Manistee.

Peter  Tresche  has started in the  grocery 

D. C. Bacon, grocer at Charlevoix,  is  suc­

ceeded by E. M. Clark.

E. G. Haney has sold his  hardware  stock 

at Big Rapids to his son, Will.

Clark &  Hunter  succeed W. H.Yerrick in 

the boot and shoe business at Ovid.

L. E. Woods succeeds W. A.  Witherly, in 

the boot and shoe business at Niles.

R. Waldron succeeds Waldron &  Burnett 

in the grain and feed business at  Jackson.

J. W. Bragington succeeds J. L.  Davis  in 
the drug  and  grocery  business  at  Hopkins 
Station.

Boelkins & Son, grocers at Muskegon, have 
dissolved.  The business will  be  continued 
by the son.

Hammond, Standish & Co. have a  branch 
establishment at Mackinaw  City,  in  charge 
of W. R.  May.

E. Rich, clothing and dry goods  dealer  at 
Pentwater, has decided to close out his busi­
ness, on account of failing health.

The Saginaw  Salt  Association  disbursed 
$160,000 to  manufacturers  on  Wednesday. 
The sales of salt have been active of late.

B. B. Forbes has purchased an interest  in 
the entire general stock and  business  of  A. 
M. WeSton, at  Harbor  Springs,  instead  of 
the grocery stock, as stated last week.

Whitman & Barrass have engaged  in  the 
crockery business at  Ionia.  Mr.  Whitman 
was formerly with R. W. King  & Co., of De­
troit, and Mr. Barrass is from Troy, N. Y.

R. G. Archer succeeds Walden  &  Archer 
in the grocery business at Alba.  Mr. Walden 
will settle up some  outstanding  accounts  at 
Leroy, and re-engage in business  at Alba  in 
the  fall.

Wm. L. Tilden and  W.  E.  Ambler  have 
purchased the hardware stock of  Mr.  F.  O. 
Gardner, at Pentwater, and will conduct the 
business under  the  name  of  Tilden  &  Co. 
Mr.  Tilden  will  have  charge  of  the  bus­
iness.

STRAY  FACTS.

Fumaceville has a population of 338.
King Bros.,  near Lyons,  have 60 acres of 

peppermint.

shop at  Mecosta.

Wm. Peck is arranging to build a carriage 

Gleason  &  Stevens  succeeds  B. F. Ball, 

billiard hall at Charlotte.

C. H. Haines succeeds A. De Long  in  the 

hotel business at St. Johns.

G. W. Yan Buren & Son have  taken  pos­
session of the Montreal House  at  Big  Rap­
ids.

F. N. Chase succeeds Hicks & Chase in the 
blacksmith and wagon  making  business  at 
Boyne City.

Creditors  of  Pullman  &  Hinchman,  the 
Shelby handle manufacturers, now expect to 
realize 27 per cent,  of their claims.

Jake Struble has moved  his  saloon  from 
Petoskey to Harbor  Springs, and opened up 
in the basement of the Lake Park  House.

The following changes in the names of sta­
tions on the G. R. & I. have been announced: 
Conger  changed  to  Reynolds,  Beitners  to 
Keystone, and Carp River to Carp  Lake.

S. P.  Creasinger,  of  Maple  Rapids,  has 
rented his  banking  office  to  Isaac  Hewitt 
and  Fred  A. Travis,  who will open a bank 
about the middle of the month.  It has stood 
empty since Creasinger’s failure.
Trouble Among: the  Furnace Companies  at 

Pine Lake and Furnaceville.

The recent failure of R. M. Cherrie & Co., 
of Chicago, and the  consequent  embarrass­
ment of  the  Pine  Lake Iron Co., of  Pine 
Lake,  and  John  Otis & Co., of Mancelona, 
have resulted in considerable uneasiness dur­
ing the past week.  The Pine Lake  Iron Co. 
has not yet  made  an  assignment, but as the 
stock is  all, or  nearly all, held  by Cherrie it 
is difficult  to see  how  it  will be possible  to 
avoid  such a course.  Several of the Grand 
Rapids creditors have been secured and  sev­
eral others are on the  verge of  uncertainty. 
In the firm  of  John Otis & Co., the “Co.” is 
merely nominal, Otis  being the sole proprie­
tor of the concern.  He visited  Grand Rap­
ids on the  4th  and  gave a chattel  mortgage 
to W. O. Hughart, for $6,000. On the day fol­
lowing  he  made  an  assignment  to Willard 
Barnhart, of  this  city.  Otis was in  Grand 
Rapids again Monday, and  personally assur­
ed all his creditors  that his  available  assets 
are in excess of his liabilities, and that there 
is no occassion for alarm, as he would be on 
his feet again within a few weeks.  Such ex­
uberance Is characteristic of most failures in 
their  early stages, but a few  days  usually 
bring about a differeut view of the condition. 
It is to be sincerly hoped  that  Mr. Otis  can 
bear  out  his  statements  by  facts, as other­
wise disaster to  several  dealers  will  attend 
the failure.  Otis claims  that  his  plant, real 
estate, stock and product are  worth  $80,000, 
while his indebtedness is only $40,000—$20,- 
000 on real estate  and  $20,000 for merchan­
dise and labor—and that he can pay all claims 
and have money left.

The embarrassment of Otis cripples sever­
al dealers at Mancelona and Fumaceville, as 
they had been in the habit of taking the  pa­
per of the concern.  H. Freeman immediate­
ly gave  a  chattel  mortgage  for  $1,900,  in 
favor of Shields, Bulkley  &  Lemon.  T.  C. 
Prout gave a chattel  mortgage for $1,000  to 
his wife and came to Grand Rapids  Monday, 
with a proposition to settle.  He did not make 
any offer, but stated that he wished to sound 
creditors with a view  to  ascertaining  what 
percentage would be  likely  to  be accepted.
“I know Otis  well,” said  Mayor  Charley 
Belknap,  “and any statement he  makes can 
be depended upon, 
If he says he is solvent 
and can pull through all right, that settles it. 
Otis is no rattlehead, but a shrewd  business 
man, who deserves the sympathy of every one 
in this trouble.”

Otis’ failure is due to the fact that he holds 
$17,000 worth of Cherrie’s paper, on  which 
he will not realize anything like face  value.

The  Gripsack Brigade.

C. H. Bayley left Monday on  his  regular 

three weeks’ Northern trip.

Graham Roys, of the  firm  of  G.  Roys  & 
Co.,  left  Monday  for  a  two  months’  trip 
through  Ohio  and  Indiana.

Arizona’s  “drummer  tax” is $200 a year. 
Montana’s  tax  is  $100  per  year  for  each 
county, with $25 local extra for Butler City.
F.  B.  McGraw,  secretary  of  the  Grand 
Rapids Wheelbarrow  Co.,  is  off  on a fort­
night’s tour through Wisconsin  and  Minne­
sota.

N. S. McConnell, with Nelson Bros. & Co., 
is taking a fortnight’s vacation.  He proposes 
putting in the time at  Detroit,  Pontiac  and 
Ionia.

Gid Kellogg left yesterday for a six weeks’ 
tour  of California, Oregon  and  Washington 
Territory,  in  the  interest  of  the  Simonds 
Manufacturing Co.
Denis  P.  McCarthy,  who  was identified 
J  with the early jobbing trade of Detroit, is in 
town for a day or two.  He  is  now  on  the 
road for a Chicago  house.

Thos. A. Stephens,traveling representative 
for C. A. Jackson & Co.,  Petersburg, Ya.,  is 
spending a week or ten days in the  city,  re­
cruiting his health and rushing the girls.

B. Frank Emery, traveling  representative 
for Gray, Burt & Kingman,  is  accompanied 
by nine  of  his  Lake  Shore  customers—all 
Democrats—at the Democratic Convention at 
Chicago this week.

Ed. Krekel, formerly with Rindge, Bertsch 
& Co., has gone West for six weeks’ restand 
recreation.  On his return, he will go to Reed 
City and assist his partner in  the  boot  and 
shoe business of Fletcher & Co.

Wm. Logie, Wm. A. Rindge and John  H. 
Palen,  Rindge,  Bertsch  &  Co.’s  traveling 
salesmen, started out Monday with  the  new 
fall samples.  This is Mr.  Palen’s  first  trip 
out.  He takes the territory  formerly cover­
ed by Ed.  Krekel.

E. J. Goodrich, for several years past in the 
employ of F. W. Wurzburg,  is  now  on  the 
road for W. H. & A. D. Rowe,  manufactur­
ers of shirts and underclothing  at  Troy,  N. 
Y.  His territory includes the states of Mich­
igan, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and West Vir­
ginia.  He sees his trade but twice a year.

TRAVELERS’ PICNIC.

son.

The  Most  Enjoyable  Gathering of the  Sea­
Barring the  heavy  wind  which  prevailed 
until nearly sundown, a more perfect day for 
a  picnic could hardly be conceived than  last 
Saturday, the  occasion  of  the  first  annual 
summer  reunion  of  the - traveling  men  of 
Grand Rapids.  The scene  of the festivities 
was  at  Reed’s  Lake, and the boys and their 
families began to arrive as soon as 10 o’clock, 
from which time every car brought fresh del­
egations until the time of adjournment in the 
evening.  Some who could not spend the en­
tire day hurriedly made the rounds, and  de­
parted, feeling that the  acquaintances form­
ed had amply  paid  them  for  the  exertion, 
while those who went  early  and  staid  late 
voted the occasion the pleasantest of the kind 
within their remembrance.  It is seldom that 
a party so miscellaneous  in  its  make-up  is 
able to throw aside the formalities ordinarily 
observed, and give itself up to social  enjoy­
ment, but the gathering iq question found no 
difficulty in accomplishing that end.  Every­
one appeared to be bent on making the occa­
sion as pleasant as possible for everyone else, 
and in that way succeeded  in  making  him­
self or  herself  individually  happy.  There 
were no uncongenial  spirits—no clashing of 
opinions or sentiments—no  incidents to mar 
the pleasure of the  day.  As a consequence, 
July 5,1884, will be noted in the memory of 
every one present on  the  auspicious  begin­
ning of a series of reunions  from  which  all 
have a right to expect beneficial results.  Con­
sidering the number present,  it  was  almost 
impossible to secure a complete list, but  the 
following  is  believed  to  include  everyone 
who appeared on the grounds during the day. 
If there are any omissions,  it  is  not  inten­
tional :

Flora Me Dowell.

Wm. Logie, wife and two  children.
L. M. Mills, wife, two children, and  Miss 
Mrs. L. W. Atkins.
Geo. H. Seymour and wife.
Wm. Boughton and wife.
J. N. Bradford and wife.
W. J. Hawkins and  wife.
W. H. Downs and neice.
Wallace Franklin, wife and daughter.
Geo. F. Owen and wife.
N. S. McConnell.
Ed. P. Andrew and wife.
W. S. Horn and wife.
D. S. Haugh and wife.
Dick Warner and  daughter.
Geo. P. Cogswell and wife.
L. M. Cary, wife and child.
E. J. Goodrich and wife.
A. C. Sharp and wife.
Thomas P. Ferguson.
Joe Reed and lady.
Wm. A. Rindge.
Algernon E. White and wife.
B. F. Emery, wife and two sons.
Valda A. Johnston and wife.
Wm. B. Collins and wife.
Frank H. White and  wife.
Wm. N. Rowe.
R. D. Swartout and  wife.
’ Al. M. Love and lady.
C. L. Love and wife.
Thomas A. Stephens and lady.
1 Frank Jewell and lady.
Silas K. Bolles and wife.
Henry Ward Beecher.
P. Coppen and wife.
L. A. Caro and  wife.
Fred W. Powers.
Frank K. Drake.
.  John F. Gill.
Chas. J. Hall.
E. J. Coppens and wife.
W. H. Allen.
Mrs. D. E. Stearns.
G. Frank Miller and boy.
Robert  Hyman.
W. R. Keasey and lady.
E. L. Raymond and  wife.
Dr. J. B. Evans and wife.
J. C. Watson and wife.
R. B. Orr and wife.
Jas. B. Mclnnes, sister and  lady friend.
J. P. Vough.
A. J. Brown and wife.
A. B. Cole and wife.
Nathan D. Ward and wife.
Walter Holmes.
E. Holbreok.
M. H. N. Raymond and wife.
Gid. Kellogg and wife.
W. H. Kathan.
Wm. M. Clark.
W. A. Beneke, wife and child.
As soon as a sufficient number had arrived 
to play a match game of  base  ball,  Geo.  P. 
Cogswell and A. B. Cole chose sides and then 
followed the most exciting game of the  sea­
son.  Thomas P. Ferguson officiated as  um­
pire and scorer.  After each side had played 
nine innings, the score stood 27 to 27, but on 
the tenth innings, Cogswell’s  nine  won  the 
game, the score standing 31 to 27.

Then followed the fat man’s race,  the  en­
tries being as follows:  Gid. Kellogg, Robert 
Hyman, Dick Warner,  L.  M.  Cary,  R.  D. 
Swartout, Geo.  P.  CogSwell  and  Thos.  P. 
Ferguson.  Dick  Warner  won  the  honors 
easily, and was subsequently presented with 
an imported leather medal  and  a  bottle  of 
liiament, ¡the  latter to be used  where Cogs­
well’s head cape in contact with  his  knee.
In the lean  man’s race, the entries were as 
follows;  Silas K. Bolles, W.  G.  Hawkins, 
L. A. Caro, D. S. Haugh, Fred Powers, Geo. 
F. Owen, A. J. Brownr Frank K. Drake, Ed. 
P. Andrew, Wm. B. Collins  and  M.  H.  N. 
Raymond.  The race was won by D. S. Haugh, 
the Hero of Mancelona, Powers second, and 
Wm. B. Collins third.

The  champions  of  the  two  races,  Dick 
Warner and D. S. Haugh, then measured de­
grees of fleetness,  resulting in a  victory for 
Dick.

In  the  free  for  all race, there were  six­
teen entries as follows:  Gid. Kellogg, L. A. 
Caro, Geo. F. Owen, Geo.*P. Cogswell, J. N. 
Bradford, W. S. Horn, W. G.  Hawkins,  W. 
H. Downs, A.  C.  Sharp,  Dr.  J.  B.  Evans, 
John F. Gill, W. H. Kathan,  Jas.  Mclnnes, 
Fred Powers. A. B. Cole and Wallace Frank­
lin.  Victory perched on the banner of W. S. 
Horn.

A dispute then  arose  between  Cogswell, 
Cole and Caro as to whom belonged the hon­
or of being the last man in  the  race,  and  a 
test accorded the title to Cogswell, Cole  sec­
ond and Caro last.

Speeches being in  order,  a  platform  was 
improvised from a lunch table, and Cogswell 
was assisted to the rostrum.  Billy Logie in­
troduced the speaker as one “imported from 
Australia especially for the occasion,” where­
upon Cogswell gave  an  eloquent  discourse 
which was listened to  with  rapt  attention. 
No ordinary report would do the  effort  jus­
tice.  The speaker began by referring to the 
windyness of the weather, and was not at all 
disconcerted when some one suggested that it 
was in perfect keeping with the speech.  He 
complimented his audience as  the  finest  he 
had ever addressed, whereupon he was  pre­
sented with a bouquet of chips and a lemon­
ade.  Tears and applause greeted the speak­
er in turns as he swayed the audience by the 
power of his eloquence.  He  closed  with  a 
thrilling  Shakespearean  rendition,  and  al­
most ruined his pants in the endeavor  to  be 
tragic.

Theo. A.  Rowley, the designer,  was  then 
introduced.  He stated that although  not  a 
traveling man the boys  had  his  sympathy, 
whereupon some one in  the  audience  cried 
out, “We need it.”  He gave a  character se­
lection from “Solon Shingle” and closed with 
a fine rendition of the “curse scene” in “Rich­
elieu.”

Geo. Owen was then importuned to speak, 
but as he had left his  “speeching  machine” 
at home, he was unable to reply.

L. M. Cary, W. R. Keasey and several oth­
ers were asked to favor the audience with ex­
positions of their views,  but  none  were  in 
the humor and were  consequently  excused.
Supper was then announced,  and  all  did 
ample justice to the tempting viands  spread 
forth on a score or  more  of  tables.  After 
supper, those who “trip the light  fantastic” 
were given an opportunity  to  display  their 
agility of foot and  form,  and  at  7  p. m .  a 
meeting of Post No. 1 was held on the north 
piazza.  President Logie occupied the chair, 
and in the absence of Secretary Atkins, Geo. 
Seymour filled the position.  The minutes of 
the previous meeting were read and  approv­
ed, and after a rambling discussion the meet­
ing adjourned to meet at the  reading  rooms 
at Sweet’s Hotel, Saturday evening, July 19. 
The following new names have  been  added 
to the membership list since  the  last  meet­
ing:  D. S. Haugh, R. J. Coppes, John  Mc­
Intyre, Geo. P. Coswell, Wm.  H.  Pittwood, 
Geo. F. Miller, W. R. Keasey, Dick Warner, 
Frank K.  Drake,  Nathan  D.  Ward,  P.  J. 
Coppens,-L. M. Cary.

Dancing continued until about 10  o’clock, 
when the party broke up, well satisfied with 
the events and pleasures of the day.

P IC N IC   N O T E S .

Needed a new hat—Cogswell.
The biggest boy in the crowd—Brad.
The little barefoot—Geo. P. Cogswell.
Conspicuous by his  absence—John  McIn­

The clown of the occasion—Geo.  P. Cogs­

A poet as well as a runner—Walter  Scott 

The homeliest man  in the  crowd—W.  R. 

tyre.

well.

Horn.

Keasey.

The champions for 1884—Dick Warner, D. 

S. Haugh, W. S. Horn.

The heavyweight—Gid. Kellogg; the light­

weight—E. J. Goodrich.

Frank Conlon was too busy  talking  poli­

tics to find time to attend.

Frank Parmenter forgot all about the  pic­

nic until too late in the day to attend.

The handsomest man in the  crowd—Rob­
ert Hyman, better known as “Up and  Up.”
M. Wait  &  Son, Homer, have assigned  to 
James Cook, jr.  Liabilities, $7,000;  assets, 
$17,000.

Although Haugh was defeated by Warner 
in the championship race, he still  wears the 
belt that entitles him to the title of  “Michi­
gan’s Sullivan.”

Frank Jewell remarked that he was “born 
to suffer,” and afterwards attempted an  op­
eratic selection.  Then his  hearers  thought 
they were “born to suffer,” too.

“Pa” Evans, otherwise known as Dr. J. B., 
was not asked to read his play.  He tried to 
get several of the boys  to go off with him to 
the woods and listen to one  act, but they all 
pleaded previous  engagements.

Too much praise cannot be  accorded Mes­
srs. Logie, Mills and Seymour,  on whom de­
volved in great part the management  of  the 
gathering.  They performed their part of the 
programme to the satisfaction of all concern­
ed, and added greatly to the pleasure of  the 
occasion.

The next  entertainment  in  prospect  is  a 
banquet and ball to be given under the  aus­
pices of  the Post at one of  the  hotels  next 
winter.  By that time the  organization  will 
be thoroughly perfected  and  the  minor  de­
tails will be arranged with  systematic  thor­
oughness.

While the boys were at the height of their 
enjoyment,  a  delegation  of  the  Salvation 
Army  approached  and  anxiously  inquired 
for John McIntyre.  They  said  that  John 
had|lately manifested considerable interest in 
their meetings, and that they were confident 
of finally bringing him into the fold.  After 
vainly pleading with  Keasey  and  Orr,  the 
party departed with the remark that “Drum­
mers are about as hard to move  as  stones.”

Honorable  to the  End.

“I will venture a prediction concerning N. 
G. Burtt,” said a well-known northern travel­
er, speaking of the tradesmen at  Cross  Yil- 
lage the other day,  “and  that  is  before  ten 
years have  rolled  around,  he  will  pay his 
creditors in full—all but Hannah, Lay & Co., 
who, he  thinks’ crowded  him  to»  the  wall. 
You remember he settled at 35 per cent., but 
I have the best of reasons for  thinking that 
he never  considered  that  settlement  final, 
and that as soon as he is able he will quietly 
pay each account against him in f  uU,”

LATEST

JOHN

— AND JO B B E R  I N —

85,  87  and  89  Canal  Street

CAULFIELD
W holesale  Grocer
Teas,  Tobaccos,  Spices  Etc.,
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Old  Congress......... ’. ..................................64
Good  Luck...................................................55
Good and Sweet........................................... 45
American  Queen..........................................38
Blaze  Away...............................  
35
Hair Lifter................................... 
30
Governor,  2  oz.  foil....................................60
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above list.

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Horse Shoe...................................................47
McAlpin’s Green Shield.............................. 4S
McAlpin’s-Sailor’s  Solace.......................... 48
McAlpine’s Chocolate  Cream................... 48
Red Star, extra quality, same style  as
Sailor’s  Solace. . . 1................................48
Big Chunk or J. T. Mahogany Wrapper. .40
Hair Lifter, Mahogany Wrapper................37
D. & D. Dark,  % and 16  oz.  pounds........37
Ace High...................................................... 35
Duck, 2x12  and  flat.................................. 48
Nobby  Spun  Roll___*................................48
Black  Spun Roll..........................................38
Canada Plug  (Virginia Smoking)............. 50
C resent Plug, 6 ft»  cads.............................. 45
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Peerless........................................................25
Rob  Roy......................................................25
Uncle  Sam...............................................   .28
Tom  and  Jerry...........................................24
Good Enough...............................................23
Mountain Rose................................. 
20
Lumberman’s  Long  Cut................ 
26
Home Comfort.............................................24
Green  Back,  Killickinick...........................25
Two Nickel, Killickinick 
....................... 25
Two Nickel, Killickinick,  %..................   .26
Star Durham,  Killickinick,  %................... 25
Rattler,  Killickinick, 
............................ 25
Honey Dew, Killickinick,  %..................... 25
Posey, Killickinick, 
paper......... . 
.,25
Canary, Killickinick, Extra Virginia.. ..  .36
Gold  Block, Killickinick, %.......................32
Peck’s Sun,  Killickinick, j^sand lb s... ..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,  K ............. 
57
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Durham, Blackwell’s,  ft)................  
5i
Seal of North Carolina % ...........................52
Seal of North Carolina % ..........................50
Seal of North Carolina % ...........................48
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Smoke  the  Celebrated  1 ‘After Lunch”  Cigar.
After  Lunch.................. 
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Clarrissa......................................................45 00
Clara............................................................32 00
M irella........................................................35 00
Queen  Marys............................. 
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.............  
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Mark Twain...........................  
55  00
Golden Spike.........................  
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Storm’s  Boquet........................................... 65 00
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S. & S. Capddura......................................... 32 00

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supply  of  all  other  well-known  brands  of 
Plug and Fine Cut.  Our stock in the Tobac­
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IDruQg&flftebicines

PERFUMES.

Them.

Fancies  and  Freaks  of  People  who  Use 
“Do men and women buy  the  same  kind 
of perfumery, as a general rule?” I asked the 
proprietor of a large drug store, whose trade 
in odors is very extensive.

“No,” was  the  answer.  “Men  generally 
prefer the  strong,  penetrating  combination 
odors, particularly  Jockey  Club  and  West 
End.  The ladies ask for  the  more delicate 
and  subtle perfumes,  such  as  White  Rose 
and Yiolet.  Of  course there are  exceptions 
to this; some men of refined tastes reflect the 
same in the perfumes they use, and there are 
women who are fond of loud odors, but in the 
main the rule holds good.”

“Do ladies often adopt one  perfume,  and 

adhere to it, using no other?”

“No, they do not.  They generally want to 
change about every three months.  They get 
tired of one kind, or they take a fancy to some 
odor they have noticed somewhere, and they 
want to try it  1 have one customer, though 
—a gentleman—who has bought from me the 
same kind of perfumery, and  no  other,  for 
the past twelve years.  It is the old fashioned 
Ess Bouquet, put up by Bailey &  Co.,  Lon­
don, England.”  And he set upon the show­
case a tiny bottle of the  golden  liquid,  val­
ued at $1.50.”

“Is it very nice?”  I  asked,  judging  from 
the bulk and the  price  thereof that it ought 
to be.

“I don’t know. 

I  never  smelled  it,”  he 
answered,” but this gentleman—he’s getting 
to be elderly now—comes just  about once  a 
month, as he has done  for  all  these  years, 
for his little bottle of Ess Bouquet.  I  don’t 
know how long he had used it when he begun 
to buy of me.”

I looked  at  the  label  meditatively,  and 
thought  of  this  man,  who  had  loved one 
odor for twelve years. 
It is not often a man 
will love anything, even a  woman,  for  that 
long, and I fell to wondering  what  manner 
of man he was.  Was this a mere mechanical 
chain of habit he had  gotten  into?  Did  he 
go just so often for his perfumery, as he did 
for his box of socks or his  shaving  soap,  or 
was this a kind of devotion to a lady who had 
in years back loved  this  perfumery,  and  a 
faint, half tangible way of keeping alive her 
beautiful memory. 
I wondered whether  he 
was elegant, handsome,  and  Sybaritish,  or 
simple common-place,  business-like  and  re­
spectable ;  whether he was tall  and  stately, 
or short and fat; given to festivity, swallow­
tails, and white ties, or wedded to cutaways, 
newspapers and the home circle, and wheth­
er his friends always knew him  by this rare 
old-fashionded perfume, as  the  Corsican  in 
“Two Nights in Rome” knew  tne  presence 
of the fair but  treacherous  Antonia  by  the 
odor of Parma violets iu the  room. 
I  won­
dered if he had ever been on a campaign, or 
shipboard, camping out, or  in  exile “twelve 
miles from a lemon,” where it  was impossi 
to  get  Ess  Bouquet,  and what his feelings 
were under those circumstances; and I men­
tally pictured him shipwrecked on a desolate 
island, but the thought was too horrible, and 
I awoke  from  it,  as  from a bad dream,  as 
the  druggist  shut  the  showcase  with  a 
click and set out  several bottles  for  my  in­
spection.

“Ail English odors,” he said.
“Do you not think perfumes can  be made 

in this country to equal those imported?” 

“Perhaps they can  be,  but  they  are  not. 
You see, they are  manufactured  here  from 
the oils and essences and have not the  deli­
cate, exquisite odor of those made right from 
the great flower farms  of  France  and  Eng- 
gland.  They are in the county of Mitcham, 
and Mitcham  lavender water  is  famous the 
world over,

I took up the bottle he set before me. Lav- 
endar!  Ah, what memories and  associations 
the name brought  forth! 
If  the  precious 
attar of rose, worth its weight in pearls, and 
the faint,  pungent  musk  and  sandal wood 
conjured up visions  of  dark-eyed  Sultanas 
and entrancing Lalla Rookas of the wondrous 
“serpent of old Nile,” dusky-eyed  Egyptian 
queens, and Persian beauties such as Gautier 
pictured and Constant paints, how  different 
w ere the thoughts aroused by  this  old-time 
perfume  of  our  grandmothers,  those  pure 
fair  Puritan  maidens  in  their  folded ker­
chiefs and modest gowns. 
It meant the sub­
tle aroma of the spare room sheets, the linen 
they had spun with their own fair hands, and 
laid  away  with  sprigs  of  lavendar  in  old 
chests that had come over  in the  “Mayflow­
er.”  Why, even the  garments  of  Priscilla 
must have shaken  this  perfume from  their 
folds when she said “Why don’t  you  speak 
for yourself, John?” and how  odorous  of  it 
the linen of the ‘seting-out’ when John  took 
her through the Plymouth woods to his own 
little cabin.

How often are sweet odors associated with 
the lovely women of poetry and song.  Who 
does not remember the “white, little fragrant 
apartment”  of  Owen  Meredith’s “Lucile,” 
the “hair that floated odors as she went,” or 
the gloves smelling of violets that have been 
immortalized in fiction and song.

“Do not ladies buy more  perfumery  than 

gentlemen?” I asked.

“Well, no, the trade is  about  evenly  bal­
anced;  but  when  to  comes  to  Bay  Rum 
gentlemen are  almost  exclusively  the  pur­
chasers.”

“Where does the best come from?”
“S t  Thomas,  West  Indies.  The  Lord 
only knows where the barber  shop article is 
made.”

“How about  the  creature  known  as  the 
dude—l  d0n’t mean where is he manufactur­
ed—bat is he a good customer, and apt to be 
more  fastidious  than  the  rest  of mankind 
about his perfumes?”

or decrease?”

Call for the Second. Annual  M eeting of the 

State  Pharmaceutical Association.

“Does the demand for perfumery increase 

“No, he does not purchase as much as oth­
ers,  nor  is  he  as  exquisite in his tastes as 
The Michigan State Pharmaceutical Associ­
many  quiet-looking,  unfashionable  gentle­
ation holds its second annual meeting in Mer­
men, who are not  noticeable  on  the  street. 
rill Hall, Detroit, Tuesday, Wednesday  and 
Sometimes he rushes in to have his handker­
Thursday, Sept. 9th, 10th  aud 11th/  A one 
chief  perfumed  when  he  is  going  some­
and one-third rate of fare has been  secured 
where, and he isn’t particular what it is; but 
on the C. & W. M., G. R. & 1.,  D.  L.  &  N.,
then his chief end and  aim in life  is  to  be
seen, and when he has accomplished that he ID- «• H. & M„ Grand T rant  Mich. Central,
1 L. S. & M. S., Chicago  and  G. T., and F. &
is happy.”
P. M.,  also  reduced rates at the  hotels in 
Detroit.  The  programme  will  consist  of 
the discussion of  trade  interests, as well as 
“It is greatly on the increase.  Colognes of 
scientific  subjects.  The wholesale  and re-
the finest quality are used extensivly  in  the
hath of my lady or gentleman,  sachet  pow-  tall druggists of  Detroit are  making  great 
ders  perfume  the  wardrobes, and odors  „f I preparations tor  entertaining  the  druggists 
while there.  All are cordially invited to at­
the most delicate  kind  are  for the handker­
tend and become members.  The  larger the 
chief.”
association the more  influence it will  wield. 
I glanced up at the ranks of  shelves,  and 
Many abuses that have crept into  the  phar­
as I looked at the almost innumerable  array 
macists’ business need  correction.  A  large 
of bottles, I asked how many different kinds
and  intelligent  body of  men by united  ac-
of  perfumery  do  you  keep  in  stock?  to 
which I received  the  reply,  Between  sixty | ta°°j .«»■>  accomplish a great J e a l, where  a
small number  would  fail.  The  association 
and seventy.—And at what price?  Oh, from
now has a membership of 200. 
It is desired 
the cheap cologne to the most  expensive  es­
to enroll  300 or more at the  next  meeting, 
sential oils, at $25 to $30 per ounce.
and I therefore ask  every druggist, whether 
proprietor of a store or in the  employ of an­
other,  to  become  a  member.  Application 
blanks can be obtained  by addressing me at 
Muskegon. 

Colored  Fires.

J a c o b   J e s s o n ,

. 

. 

,

Secretary.

As this is Presidential year, the following 
formulae for colored fires will be  found  use­
ful to druggists, as they will be in  consider- 
ble demand.  These are  unlike  the  colored 
fires used for theatrical  exhibitions, but  are 
especially for  pyrotechnics:
L IG H T   B L U E .

Sulphur, 4 ounces.
Burnt Alum, 6 ounces.
Chlorate of Potassium, 15 ounces.
Powder them separately and  mix  with  a 

wooden spatula.

D A R K   B L U E .

Sulphur, 6 oz.
Sulphate Copper, 1% oz.
Chlorate Potassium, 17  oz.
Powder them separately and mix carefully 

with a wooden  spatula.

CR IM SO N .

Nitrate Strontium (dry)  17 oz.
Sulphur, 5A  oz.
Charcoal, willow, VA oz.
Chlorate Potassium, 1  oz.
Powder them separately and mix  careful­

ly with wooden spatula.
G R E E N .

Nitrate of Barium, 20 oz.
Sulphur, 1A  oz.
Chlorate of Potassium, 1% oz.
Sulphate of Antimony, A,  oz.
Charcoal, willow, A  oz.
Powder them separately and mix carefully 

with a wooden spatula.
R E D .

Sulphur, 2 oz.
Sulphate Antimony, 2 oz.
Nitrate of Potassium,  1 oz.
Nitrate of Stronium  (dry) 10 oz.
Powder them separately and mix carefully 

with a wooden spatula.

D A R K   R E D .

Sulphur, 4 oz.
Nitrate Stronium, 6 oz.
Chloride of Potassium, 15 oz.
Powder them separately and mix carefully 

with a wooden spatula. 

*

R O S E  R E D .
Charcoal, Willow,  A  oz.
Chloride of Potassium, 1% oz.
Sulphur, 3 oz.
Nitrate of Stronium, 10 oz.
Powder them separately and mix carefully 

with a wooden spatula.

O R A N G E   R E D .

Sulphur, 3 A  oz.
Chalk, 8A oz.
Chlorate of Potassium, 13 oz.
Powder them separately and mix carefully 

with a wooden  spatula.

V IO L E T .

Alum, 3 oz.
Carbonate of Potassium, 3 oz.
Sulphur, 4 oz.
Chlorate of Potassium, 15 oz.
Powder them separately and mix carefully 

with a wooden  spatula.

W H IT E .

Zinc filings, 4A  oz.
Sulphur, 6 oz.
Nitrate of Potsssium (powdered), 11% oz, 
Gunpowder, 3 oz.
Mix them carefully with a wooden  spatu

Y E L L O W .
Charcoal, willow, 3A  oz.
Sulphur, 10 oz.
Mix them.
As-  all  colored  fires  are  liable  to  spon­
taneous combustion, do not  make  them  far 
ahead in stock.

Red  Ink.

Cochineal, A  oz.
Gum Arabic in powder,  % oz. 
Potassium tartrate cryst, 1 oz. 
Distilled water  (hot), 8oz.
Make a solution, filter, and add 
Burnt alum, 2 drachms.
Oil of cloves, 4 minims.
This makes an exceptionally fine ink.

The  Abuse of Opium.
To the Editor of “The Tradesman.”

The  habitual  use of  the  preparation  of 
opium, as a means of intoxication, is an evil, 
the  extent of which is scarcely  appreciated 
by the  profession  or by the  community at 
large.  There  are  stores to  my knowledge 
in the outskirts of  this city in which  laud­
anum is not  only sold, but made. 
I do not 
refer to druggists, but shops  that  keep gro­
ceries, notions and  odds  and  ends.  They 
use a “general  receipt  book” by which  all 
things are compounded, and  peddled out to 
every poor  victim who  can  produce a few 
pennies to purchase a temporary relief  from 
imaginary pains.  So common is this article 
of  trade,  that  even  little  children  are 
furnished  with  it  on  application, as if  it 
were  the  most  harmless of drugs. 
It is a 
conumdrum to me that  Chief  Morau’s ser­
vices are not required  more  than they are, 
In  these  shops, laudanum is sold  at  half 
the price  maintained by respectable  estab­
lishments, and  there can be  no  doubt that 
its  intoxicating  effects are sought by many 
who  use  it  as a substitute  for  alcoholic 
drinks. 
Individuals  who  would  shrink 
from the habitual use  of  spirituous liquors 
employ  this medicine  under a false persua­
sion  that it is useful  or  necessary to allay 
some  symptoms  of  chronic  disease,  until 
they become  victims to the worst of  habits 
There  is  scarcely a  druggist  in  this  city 
who cannot relate instances of  opium intox­
ication that come under his  own notice  and 
has  been  served at his own  counter.  Fe­
males afflicted with chronic disease, widows 
bereft  of  their  earthly  support, inebriates 
who have  abandoned.the  bottle, lovers dis 
appointed in their hopes flee to this powerful 
drug either in its crude form, in the form  of 
a tincture or  some  of  its  salts, to  relieve 
their  pain of  body or mind, or to take  the 
place  of  another  repudiated  stimulant, 
Such, too, is the morbid  taste of  those that 
they think  they require the soporific  influ­
ence of opium to  fill  this  measure of their 
life enjoyment, just as the drunkard is wed­
ded to his cups, or the  tobacco  user to  his 
weed. 

C h e m i s t .

That Husband of Mine.

A  woman  hastily  entered  a  Muskegon 
lager  beer  saloon and demanded of the pro 
prietor:

Is he a tall man?’ 

“Has my husband been in here?”
“I don’t know him. 
“Yes.”
“Red headed?”
“Yes, and red complected.”
“Full  beard?”
“Yes.”
“Wear a slouch hat?”
“Yes.”
“He was here not five minutes  ago.  He 
came  in,  drank  a  glass  of  lemonade,  and 
then walked down the street.”

“Drank  what?”
“Lemonade.”
“Wrong man I”  she said, shooting herself 

out of tne  door.

Fly and mosquito poison, to  be applied to 
the hands and faces  of  those  who  go  into 
the woods in summertime, has become a sta­
ple article of forest men’s supplies,  and  its 
manufacture a  recognized  industry. 
It  is 
now  made  so  that the smell is not particu­
larly offensive.

Industry and trade in  Russia  are  depres­
sed.  Complaints, says a  correspondent,  in- 
i  crease every day.  Money is scarce and cred- 
| it hard to get.  Among the  small  manufac­
turers failures are frequent occurrences.  The 
! stock market is extremely dull.

The total number of cinchona trees in Ben-J  The Tradesm an  has  arranged  with  an 
gal at the end  of  last  year  was  4,711,168,  experienced and practical  chemist to answer 
while the crop was the largest ever gathered,  any queries? that may be propounded by the 
being 396,980 pounds of dry bark.  All  this 1 traderin  regard to  pharmaceutical  prepara- 
was sent to the factory, except 41,800 pounds, J tions.  All queries should be written plainly 
which was forwarded to London  at  the  re-1 and briefly, to insure reply, 
quest of the Secretary  of  State,  to be made 
up in different forms of  febrifuge  and to be I 
w .  Fincher,  the  Pentwater druggist 
afterwards  returned  for  experimental pur- J ha3 had the misfortune to lose his  fine  sail 
poses to India.  The  revenue  derived from  }Dg yacht, “Evangeline,” through the  covet- 
the sale  of plants and barks was equal to 6% | ong proclivities of some clever thief.
per cent, on the capital invested. 

1  A German entered a Dexter drug store the
An  English  firm  of  soap manufacturers I other day and  asked  for  “lemonade  mit  a 
spend from $120,000 to  $160,000  a  year  in J giub in it.”0  He probably meant a  “stick.” 
advertising.  To  each  of the babies whose
birth is announced  \n  the  London  Times, I  Howell  &  Blackmer  succeed  Howell  & 
they send a package gratuitously. 

I Brown in the drug business at Kalamo.

_  

, 

, 

,

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Advanced—Oil peppermint.
Declined—Balsam Peru,
A CID S.

Acetic,  No. 8............................ft  9  @  1C
Acetic,  C. P. (Sp. grav. 1.040)........   30  @  35
Carbclic............................................  
35
Citric.................................................  
55
Muriatic 18  deg...............................  
3  @  5
Nitric 36 deg.-..................................  11  @  12
Oxalic...............................................   14 
15
3  @  4
Sulphuric 66 deg.............................. 
Tartaric  powdered......................... 
48
Benzoic,  English....................$  oz 
20
Benzoic,  German............................  12 @ 1 5
Tannic...............................................  15  @  17

AM M ONIA.

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

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
2 50
50

12
18
15
13
15
10
20
18
30
12

B E R R IE S .

Cubeb, prime |(Powd $  85)............ 
Juniper............................ 
 
Prickly Ash............................... . 

@  80
6  @  7
.1 CO  @1 10

EXTRACTS.

Licorice (10 and 25 lb boxes, 25c)... 
Licorice,  powdered, pure...................... 
Logwood, bulk (12 ana 25 B> doxes). 
Logwood, Is (25 fl>  boxes).......................  
................ 
Lgowood, 54s 
do 
Logwood, 54s 
do 
...............  
Logwood, ass’d  do 
..1 ....... 
Fluid^Extracts—25 $  cent, off list.

27
9
13
15
14

FLO W ERS.

Arnica...................................., .........   10  @  H
Chamomile,  Roman................................ 
Chamomile,  German.............................. 

. 

.  -GUMS.

28©

75 
18 
50 
30 
60 
60 
50 
40 
35 
30 
30 
55@60 
24 
22®
13 
35©  40 
80
90®1 00

Aloes,  Barbadoes............................
Aloes, Cape (Powd  24c)..................
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd  60c)..........
Ammoniac.......................................
Arabic, extra  select.......................
Arabic, powdered  select...............
Arabic, 1st picked..........................
Arabic,2d  picked............................
Arabic,c3d pickad............................
Arabic, sifted sorts.........................
Assafcentida, prime (Powd 35c)...
Benzoin.........................*..................
Camphor........................................... 
Catechu. Is (54 14c, Ms 16c)
Euphorbium powdered—
Galbanum strained
Gamboge.........................................  
Guaiac, prime (Powd  45c).............
Kino [Powdered,30c]................
Mastic................................................
Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 47c)...
Opium, pqre (Powd $5.50). 
hellac, Campbell' 
Shellac,  English.
Shellac, native
Shellac bleached..............................  „   _ „  *£}
Tragacanth......................................  30  @110

H ERBS—IN   OUNCE  PACKAGES.

 

Hoarhound............................. 
25
Lobelia...............................................................25
Peppermint...................................................... ..
Rue..................................................................... 40
Spearmint........................................................ 24
Sweet Majoram................................................ 35
Tanzy..................................................................
Thym e.......s.......................................................
Wormwood.......................................................25

IR O N .

LEA VES.

6 40
Citrate and  Quinine............. .'........ 
Solution mur., for tinctures........  
20
7
Sulphate, pure  crystal.................. 
Citrate........ .....................................  
60
6®
Phosphate........................................ 
Buchu, short (Powd 25c)................   12  @  11
6
Sage, Italian, bulk (54s &}4s, 12c)... 
Senna,  Alex, natural.....................   18  ©  20
30
Senna, Alex, sifted and  garbled.. 
Senna,  powdered............................  
*2
Senna tinnivelli..............................  
J»
U fa  Ursl...........................................
Beltedonna......................  
jjo
 
Henbane..........................................  
„35
Rose, red........................................... 
2 35
©2 25 
@2 00 
@1 50 
@1 75 
@3 50 
@6 50 
@2 00 
©2 50

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

LIQ U O R S.

1  35

 

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

M AG NESIA . 

'

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

O ILS.

do 
do 

Almond, sweet............. ...................  45
Amber,  rectified............................
Anise.................................................
Bay $   oz.........................................
Bergamoqt.......................................
Castor...............................................   19
Croton................................................
Cajeput............................................
Cassia...............................................
Cedar, commercial  (Pure 75c).......
Citronella........................................
Cloves................................................
Cubebs, P. &  W............... 
...........
Erigeron...........................................
Fireweed...........................................
Geranium $   oz...............................
Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75c)..
Juniper wood..................................
Juniper berries............. .................
Lavender flowers, French.............
Lavender garden 
.............
Lavender spike 
.............
Lemon, new crop............................
Lemon,  Sanderson’s................—
Lemongrass............................. - ■ • • •
Origanum,red flowers,French...
Origanum,  No. 1............................
Pennyroyal......................................
Peppermint,  white.........................
Rose $   oz............................... .........
Rosemary, French (Flowers $5)...
Sandal  Wood. German..................
andal Wood,  W. I ............................
Sassafras...........................................
Tansy ................................................
Tar (by gal 60c).................................  10
W i n  f  flrDTfiPTl
Wormwood, No. i  (Pure $6.50).......
Savin.................................................
Wormseed.......................................
Cod Liver, filtered.................¥  gal
Cod Liver, best................  
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16
Olive, Malaga....................
Olive,“Sublime  Italian  .  . 
....
Salad.......................................... 
Rose,  Ihmsen’s ___ ’............... $  oz

...

65

PO TASSIU M .

Bicromate.................................^ ft
Bromide, cryst. and gran. bulk...
Chlorate, cryst (Powd 23c).............
Iodide, cryst. and  gran, bulk.......
Prussiate yellow..............................

ROOTS.

Alkanet............................................
Althea, cut.......................................
Arrow,  St. Vincent’s .....................
Arrow, Taylor’s, in 54s and 54s—
Blood (Powd 18c).............................
Calamus,  peeled..............................
Calamus, German white, peeled..
Elecampane, powdered..................
Gentian (Powd  17c(.........................
Ginger, African (Powd 16c)............  13
Ginger, Jamaica  bleached............
Golden Seal (Powd 40c)..................
Hellebore, white, powdered..........
Ipecac, Rio, powdered.
Jal_alap, powdered.
Licorice,  select (Powd 1254)..........
Licorice, extra select.....................
Pink, true........................................
Rhei, from select to  choice..........I 00
Rhei, powdered E. 1.........................110
Rhei, choice cut  cubes..................
Rhei, choice cut fingers.................
Serpentaria.........................
Seneka...................................*.........
Sarsaparilla,  H onduras.......'....

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

SEEDS.

Anise, Italian (Powd 20c)...............
Bird, mixed in fi>  packages..........
Canary,  Smyrna..............................
Caraway, best Dutch (Powd 19c)..
Cardamon,  Aleppee.......................
Cardamon, Malabar........................
Celery................................................
Coriander, Dest English................
Fennel..............................................
Flax, clean.......................................

Mustard, white,' Black 10c)__
Quince.......................................
Rape, English..........................
Worm,  Levant.................................

18
10
25
20

20
12
15

13
5  @ 6
354@ 4
11  © 122 «02 25

334©
4  © 454
8  © 9
5  © 554
8
1 00
754@ 8
14

SPONGES.
Florida sheeps’wool, carriage.......2 25
.......
do 
Nassau 
do 
.......
Velvet Extra do 
do 
Extra Yellow do 
.......
do 
do 
Grass 
.......
do 
Hard head, for slate use................
Yellow Reef, 
.................

do 
M ISCELLANEUS.

@2 50 
2  00 
1  10 85 
65 
75 
1  40

50

45
2

50
24
24

do 
do 

2 25
1 60

754©  9

1 85
18
20
18
12
5
12
8
2
1 60
60
1 60
1 70
1 90
1 75

2 25 
Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.17) $  gal__
1 50 
Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref.
50
Anodyne Hoffman’s.......................
27
Arsenic, Donovan’s solution........  
12
Arsenic, Fowler’s solution...........  
30
Annatto 1 fl> rolls............................ 
12
Blue  Soluble.................................... 
50
Bay  Rum, imported, best.................... 
2 75
2 00
Bay Rum, domestic, H., P. & Co.’s. 
Alum ........................................  $ f t   254@  354
Alum, ground  (Powd 9c)............... 
3  ©  4
32
Annatto, prime............................ 
454®  5
Antimony, powdered,  com’l........  
Arsenic, white, powdered.............  
6  @  7
40
Balm Gilead  Buds..........................  
Beans,  Tonka.........................................  
Beans, Vanilla................................7 00  @9 75
Bismuth, sub nitrate............................ 
37}
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c)...............................  
Blue Vitriol  .................................... 
12
Borax, refined (Powd  13c)...................... 
Cantharides,Russian  powdered.. 
Capsicum  Pods, African............... 
Capsicum Pods, African pow’d ... 
Capsicum Pods,  American  do  ... 
Carminé,  No. 40 ...................................... 
Cassia Buds...................................... 
' 
Calomel. American................................. 
25
Chalk, prepared drop...................... 
25
Chalk, precipitate English............ 
Chalk,  red fingers..........................  
Chalk, white lump..........................  
Chloroform,  Squibb’s .................... 
Colocynth  apples............................ 
Chloral hydrate, German  crusts.. 
Chloral do 
cryst... 
Chloral 
do  Scherin’s  do  ... 
Chloral do 
crusts.. 
Chloroform....................................1 00  @1  10
Cinchonidia, P. & W........*............   55  @  6C
Cinchonidia, other brands.............   55  @  60
Cloves (Powd 28c)............................  20  @  22
Cochineal......................................... 
30
Cocoa  Butter........................ 
Copperas (by bbl  lc)............ 
Corrosive Sublimate....................... 
65
Corks, X and XX—35 off  list........
Cream Tartar, pure powdered.......  38  ©  40
Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 ft box.. 
15
Creasote................................. 
Cudbear, prime.................... 
Cuttle Fish Bone..................  
Dextrine........................................... 
12
1 20
Dover’s  Powders............................ 
Dragon’s Blood Mas s.......... 
45
Ergot  powdered............................. 
Ether Squibb’s .................................  
110
Emery, Turkish, all  No.’s.............  
8
2)4©  3
Epsom Salts...................................... 
Ergot, fresh..................... ¿..............  
50
Ether, sulphuric, U. S.  P ............... 
69
14
Flake white...................................... 
Grains  Paradise.............................. 
25
Gelatine,  Cooper’s ..........................  
90
Gelatine, French............................  45  @  70
Glassware, flint, 70 off,by box 60 off
Glassware, green, 60 and 10 dis__
Glue,  cabinet..................................   12  @  17
Glue, white........................................  17  @  28
Glycerine, pure...............................   21  ©  25
Hops  54s and 54s.............................. 
25©  40
Iodoform 
oz................................. 
35
Indigo................................................  85  @1 00
Insect Powder, best Dalmatian...  23  @  25
Iodine,  resublimed..................... 
2 10
Isinglass,  American.......................  
1 50
Japónica........................................... 
9
London  Purple...............................   10  @  15
Lead, acetate.................................... 
15
9
Lime, chloride, (54s 2s 10c & 14s lie) 
1  00
Lupuline........................................... 
Lycopodium.................................... 
50
Mace.................................................  
60
Madder, best  Dutch.......................  1254©  13
Manna, S.  F ...................................... 
1 35
Mercury............................................ 
50
Morphia, sulph., P. & W........$  oz  3 10@3 35
40
Musk, Canton, H., P. & Co.’s........  
10
Moss, Iceland............................ig ft 
Moss,  Irish............................i.........  
12
30
Mustard,  English............................ 
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 ft  cans........ 
18
Nutgalls..................... ......................  
20
Nutmegs, No. 1.................. ..............
Nux  Vomica.................................... 
11!
40
Ointment. Mercurial, Md............... 
Paris Green......................................  1854®  27
Pepper, Black  Berry.....................  
18
Pepsin...............................................  
3 00
Pitch, True Burgundy.................... 
7
Quassia  ..................... 
6  @  7
Quinia, Sulph, P, & W........... ft oz  1 30@I 35
Quinine,  German............................1 25  @1 30
Seidlitz  Mixture.............................  
28
1 50
Strychnia, cryst............................... 
Silver Nitrate, cryst.......................  79  @  82
Red  Precipitate.......................ft 
80
Saffron, American..........................  
40
Sal  Glauber...................................... 
@  2
Sal Nitre, large  cryst.....................  
10
Sal  Nitre, medium  cryst............... 
9
Sal Rochelle...............................  
33
 
2  ©  2}
Sal  Soda............................................ 
2  00
Salicin......................  
 
Santonin........................................... 
6  75
Snuffs, Maccoboy or Scotch.......... 
38
Soda Ash [by keg 3c].....................  
4
25
Spermaceti.......................................  
454@  5
Soda, Bi-Carbonate,  DeLand’s .... 
14
Soap, White Castile......................... 
17
......................... 
Soap, Green  do 
9
Soap, Mottled do 
......................... 
Soap, 
do  do 
......................... 
11
Soap,  Mazzini..................................  
14
Spirits Nitre, 3 F ..............................  26  @  28
Spirits Nitre, 4 F ..............................  28  @  32
Sugar Milk powdered.....................  
30
Sulphur, flour..................................  
Sulphur,  roll............................... 
Tartar Emetic..................................
Tar, N. C. Pine, 54 gal. cans  ¥  doz 
Tar, 
quarts in tin.......... 
Tar, 
pints in tin..............
Turpentine,  Venice................ $  ft
Wax, White, S. &  F. brand............
Zinc,  Sulphate................................. 

354®
3©
2
1

do 
do 

7  ©

 

 

O IL S.

Capitol  Cylinder............................................
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
Gal
85
75
65
62
65
95
45

Whale, winter.
Lard, extra__
Lard, No.  1—

Bbl
80
64
55
58
61 .
90
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Boralumine, 
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Boralumine,Tints bulk.  V50 off..
Boralumine  “ 
5  fts.  1............
Red Venetian............................  1%
Ochre, yellow Marseilles........   154
Ochre, yellow  Bermuda..........  154
Putty, commercial..................  254
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..

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HAZELTINE,
PERKINS «

W h o le s a le

Druggists !

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

95  Louis  Street.

45
12

4 00

70

IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF

’igs, iRäiciues, Gbemii 
P its, Oils, Variisles,

MANUFACTURERS  OF

ELEGANT  PHARMACEUTICAL  PREPARATIONS, 

FLUID  EXTRACTS  AND  ELIXIRS.

GENERAL WHOLESALE  AGENTS FOR

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

ing, Manufacturers  of  Fine 

Pa in t  and  V arnish 

B rushes.

—Also for the—

Grand  Rapids  Brush  Co.,  Manfgs.  of 

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

Drussists’ 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  new  stores 
to the fact  of  our  unsurpassed  facilities 
for meeting the wants of this class of buyers 
without delay and in the most approved and 
acceptable manner known to the drug trade. 
Our  special efforts in this direction have  re­
ceived from hundreds of  our  customers  the 
most satisfying recommendations.

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

Withers Dade & Co’s

Henderson  Co.,  Ky.,  SOUR  MASH  AND 
OLD FASHIONED  HAND  MADE,  COP­
PER  DISTILLED  WHISKYS.  We  not 
only offer these goods to be  excelled  by  n o  
o t h e r   k n o w n   b r a n d   in  the  market,  but 
superior in all respects to most that  are  ex­
posed  for  sale.  We  g u a r a n t e e   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

A

'1
Which continues to have  so  many  favorites 
among druggists who have sold  these  goods 
for a very long time.  Buy our

Gins, BranHies & Fine Wines.

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.

M M T IM IIS & C O

IM P O R T E R S

-jA J N T X >

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.

W M . SEA R S & CO.
Cracker  Manufacturers,

A g en ts  fo r

AMBOY  CHEESE.

37, 39 & 41 Kent  Street,  Grand Rapids,  Michigan.
F. J. LAMB  &  COMPANY,

■WHOLESALE  D E A LE R S  IN-

I  M

B utter,

Apples, Onions, Potatoes, Beans, Etc.

State Agent for the Lima Patent Egg Cases and Fillers.

NO.  8  AND  10  IONIA  STREET,

OBAN3D  R A P ID S .  -  M ICH IGAN.

Choice Buffer a Specialty!

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

Careful  Attention  Paid  to  Filling  Orders.

M. 6. Russell, 48 Ottawa St., G’d Rapids.

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 .

13.  A.  STOWE  & BKO., Proprietors.

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

Second-class Matter:1

WEDNESDAY,  JULY  9,  1884.

Condition  of the  Clothing Market. 

From the Western Clothing Reporter.

In  the  manufacture  of  clothing woolens 
the trade demands not cheap grades,  but fin­
er goods at lower prices.  This  demand  the 
manufacturers  realize,  and  are doing  their 
best to meet.  The same  tendency to curtail 
production, which was adopted at the begin­
ning of the season, continues in a marked de­
gree, and this must have  a. beneficial  effect 
upon the market.  A necessity  of  realizing 
upon stocks accumulated last year has forced 
some manufacturers to  unload.  The  pros­
pect of an immediate improvement is not very 
good, but it is safe to say  that  over-produc- 
tian will not be risked to add to the  disturb­
ing elements against which the trade is  con­
tending.

Good  W o rd s  U nsolicited.

F. L. Tucker, general dealer, Sumner 

would miss your paper more than 
could name.”

several

O. H. Richmond & Co., druggists and med­
icine manufacturers,  Grand  Rapids:  “We 
feel called upon to  congratulate  you.  T h e  
T r a d e s m a n  is better and better all the time. 
We could not ‘keep house’  without it now.”

A bill prohibiting the  importation  of  the 
article known to commerce as “tea dust” has 
been passed by the Senate, and it is  expect­
ed to be passed by the House of Representa­
tives as soon as it reaches that branch.  The 
article prohibited is found on analysis, to con­
sist of tea dust and other  articles deleterous 
to health.  The Senate bill is supplementary 
to the bill to exclude adulterated teas, which 
has met with popular approval, and  the  ne 
cessity for which has  been  generally  recog­
nized. 
It is understood that the leading tea 
importers  have  been  urging the passage  of 
the bill.  The importation  of  tea  dust  was 
recently forbidden by the Canadian  govern­
ment.

The professors of the  University  of  Jena 
who have been investigating the effect of to­
bacco upon the human  system,  report  that 
moderate  quantities  of the weed may be us­
ed without injurious effects.  They say that 
in the German army soldiers  in  active  ser­
vice are very properly furnished with smok­
ing tobacco, because smoking  enables  them 
to endure severer fatigue  upon  smaller  nu­
trition and with greater  alacrity  and  confi­
dence than would otherwise be the case.

Busted  in  Business but  Not In Society. 

From the Chicago News.

“Now that the drop in  wheat  has  swept 
away our fortune,” said  a  sympathetic  and 
sentimental Chicago  wife  to  "her  bankrupt 
husband,  “we must, of course give up every­
thing.  Our house, our horses, carriages, ser­
vants, diamonds, and  all  must  go,  and  we 
must begin at  the  foot  of  the  ladder  and 
work our way up again.  Do you know,  Al­
gernon, that I sometimes find myself  rejoic­
ing over our misfortunes. 
It takes me back 
to our early life to think of our  living  once 
more in a cottage  and  being  alone  by  our­
selves.  Let them take  everything,  and  we 
will be happy yet.”

‘You evidently are a  little  off  your  bal­
ance, Maria,”  said  the  bankrupt  merchant, 
removing a’tliree-for-a-dollar from his mouth. 
“I bought in your  name  only  this morning 
a $40,000 house on the boulevard, and I have 
with the family plate about $100,000 in Gov­
ernment bonds, which are yours,  do you un­
derstand?  1 have conveyed some other prop­
erty to  my  friend  Jenkins,  whom  I  once 
helped out of a similar  scrape,  and  we  are 
all ship-shape, I  am  glad  to  say.  We  are 
busted in business, but not  in  society.  No, 
no;  we may come to want in  time,  but  not 
this summer.  The giving up everything and 
going to live in a flat is what you read about. 
It isn’t the style in this town.”

“You’re an angel  man,”  replied  the fair 

one.  “I think I’m catching on.” 

.

Drummer Wisbom.

A load  of  Boston  tourists  was  recently 
traveling in a sleeping car;  also  a  commer­
cial  traveler. 
In  the  morning,  when  the 
porter went around to collect his assessments 
on boot-blacking, there was a  great  commo­
tion among the Boston tourists.  Some  paid 
him a five-cent nickel, and those who had no 
nickel, were compelled to yield up short bits. 
All the  while the traveling  man,  dressed in 
ordinary  clothes,  sat  reading  his  paper. 
When the porter reached him he  looked  up 
inquiringly,—

“Did you black my boots, sir!”
“Yes, sah.”
“You did a splendid  job;  never  had  my 
boots blacked so  well  before  on  this  line. 
Here’s three dollars.

When the porter pocketed the money,  the 
Boston  peeple  looked  up  astonished,  and 
presently it was rumored than John Mackey 
was aboard, or Vanderbilt was out on a cam­
paigning trip. 
In a few  minutes  the  com­
mercial man and the porter met (by chance) 
in the smoking  room.

“When does my sleeping  ticket  run  out?”
“Your time was up, sah, at  Ogden,  but if 
you wants to ride to Reno, boss,  it’s all right, 
sah.”

The traveler gave the darkey a  drink  out 
of a black bottle, and the porter winked con­
tinuously for nine seconds, as he  drank  the 
traveler’s health.

Six dollars saved.  Economy is the road to 

wealth.

It  has  recently  been  proposed  to pre­
vent  petroleum  fires by placing a bottle of 
ammonia in each  barrel of the oil.  On igni­
tion, by  accident  or  otherwise, the  bottle 
would break, and the effect of the ammonia 
cal yapors would be to extinguish the fires.

“Look here.  This piece of meat don’t suit 
me. 
It’s  from  the  back  of  the  animal’s 
neck,” said the man in the market  to an Is­
raelite butcher.  “Mine frien’, all  dot  beef 
vot I sells is  back  of  the  neck.  Dere  vos 
nooding but horns in front of dot neck.

“Well, I do declare!” exclaimed  old  Mrs. 
Dusenberry, as she looked up from the even­
ing paper, ‘ they first invented liver pads an’ 
now they are telling about foot pads  in Chi­
cago.  What an age of invention we are  liv­
ing in, to be  sure.”

A colored man came into a newspaper  of­
fice and wanted  to  subscribe  to  the paper. 
“How  long  do  you  wTant  it?”  asked  the 
elerk. 
“Jess  as  long  as  it  is,  boss;  if  it 
don’t fit the shelves I kin t'ar a piece off my­
self.”

If matches are made in  heaven,  how  can 
the sulphur and brimstone that are on  them 
be accounted for?  Will  D.  M.  Richardson 
try to overcome his diffidence  for  once  and 
send in a solution to this conundrum?

“A man is worth more to himself and  his 
family in the United States than in any other 
country  under  Heaven,”  says  the  Boston 
Herald.  Why, then, should he run away to 
Canada as soon as the bank  breaks?

“Yes,” said the schoolmaster,  as he jump­
ed  wildly  from  the  chair,  “I have  always 
been  in favor  of  tax  on  raw material, but 
bless me if I am in favor  of raw material on 
tacks!”

A “genteel” washerwoman in Washington 
takes the House of Representatives’ laundry 
work on contract, hires the work done at  $4 
a week, and pockets $200 a month.

According  to  the 
increased  45,000  in 
past year.

directory, Chicago  has 
population  during  the

Within  three  years  the  number of  saw­
mills in Arkansas has increased from 319 to 
over 1,200.

The fig is said to be a sure crop in most of 
the Southern States.  The cost of cultivation 
is trifling.

New Orleans has a  successful  lady  drug­

g ist

The  Kind, of  Business  That Suited  Him.
.  “Pap, I thought you said the other  night, 
when you read that  piece in the paper, that 
if you’d catch  anyone  liuggin  your  wife, 
you’d leave her.”

“Yes, I did.”
“Well, then, I reckon you’ll have  to leave 
mother, fur yisterday when  that dentist fix­
ed her teeth he all  the  time  had  his  arm 
right around her neck.”

“Oh, well; that’s a different thing.  That’s 

part of his profession.”

“And kin he hug  girls, too?”
“Yes.”
“Well, then, by  golly, I’m  goin’ to  learn 

the tooth doctor trade.”

Why the Name is  Appropriate.

“Isn’t ‘Collar-button’  rather an  odd nick­
name to give a boy?”  asked a gentleman of 
a friend, who had just  addressed his son by 
that title.

“Well, I don’t know,” 

replied the father 
laughingly.  “It may sound a little  curious, 
but it suits the boy first-rate.”

“Why do you think the nick-name ‘Collar 

button suits  the boy?”

“Because,” was the  reply,  “when he slips 
out in the evening, I am  never  able  to find 
him.”

A Fine Quality of  Sugar.

“That, sir, is a very fine quality of sugar.” 
said the groceryman.  “It is used mostly for 
making desserts.”

“Why is it used  mostly for  making  des- 

serfs?”  asked  the customer.

“On account of its superior quality, sir.” 
“Oh, that’s it?  1 thought it might be used 
for making  desserts on account of the large 
amount of sand in it.”

W orthy  of Its  Name.

Irate Customer—“See here, sir,  I  bought 
one of those lightning ice-cream  freezers  of 
you last week.”

Dealer—“Well,  it  proved  worthy  of  its 

name, didn’t it?”

Irate  customer—“Worthy  of  its  name 

Why it turned the cream sour.”

“Dealer—“Yes, 

that’s  what 

lightning

does.”

A  Bankrupt’s  Lament,

Had I known all that 1 know now. 
Had I sown that which I sow now, 
And my better sense controlled me, 
Had I heard what it told me,
Had the future condescended 
An horizon more extended.
To have granted, poor and ailing,
I had ’scaped the pangs of failing; 
Had I been a good deal wiser 
I’d have been an  advertiser.

New York’s  yearly product of men’s and 
women’s  clothing  is  $80,000,000; of  furs. 
$5,000,009; of hats -  and caps, $4,000,000; of 
shirts, $5,000,000.

Cigars We are carying a full line  of Gor­

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

Showcases We carry in  stock  such 
PUTNAM  &  BROOKS.

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

A . .

K N O W L S O N

-WHOLESALE  DEALER  IN-----

AKRON  SEWER  PIPE,

Fire  Brick  and  Clay,  Gainent, Stucca,

T .T M T S j   H A IR ,  COAX  a n d ,   W O O S.

ESTIM ATES  C H E ERFU LLY  FURNISHED.

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

tral  Freight  House.

SPR IN G   <& COMPANY

-WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN-

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GOODS

68  Monroe  Street, Grand  Rapids.

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FOX, MUSSELMAN & LOVERIDGE,

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WHOLESALE  GROCERS,

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

-----WE  ARE  FACTORY  AGENTS  FOR-

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Our  stock  of Teas,  Coffees  and  Syrups 

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CA RPETS

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OIL  CLOTHS,

ESTO-,  ETC.

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Grand  Rapids,

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CARPETS  AND  CARPETINGS. 

Spring & Company  quote  as follows:

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

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BUSINESS  LAW.

B rief Digests of Recent  Decisions in Courts 

o f East  Resort.

Deeds—Construction—Intention.

The Supreme Court of Illinois  holds  that 
in construing deeds or other  writings courts 
must seek to ascertain and  give effect to the 
intention of the parties, and for that purpose 
they may and will take notice  of  attendant 
circumstances and by them determine the in­
tention of the parties.

Must Perform Debtor’s Contract.

In  the  opinion  of  the  iilinois  Supreme 
Court a judgment creditor who  levies  upon 
and purchases the  land  of  his  debtor who 
has bought the same, acquires only the inter­
est the debtor had in the  premises.  Before 
lie can obtain any title,  he  must  pay  what 
his debtor was obligated to pay as  purchase 
money and taxes accruing on the  land.
Mistake in Description of Eeased Property.
When a mistake is made in the description 
of land leased in drawing the lease, and it is 
clear what property was in fact  leased,  the 
lessee will  have  a  clear  right  against  the 
lessors to have the mistake corrected, and  so 
will one succeeding to his rights by purchase 
of the  leasehold  property  under  execution 
against the lessee.—Bradshaw, admr. vs. At­
kins, Supreme Court of Illinois.

Good  W ill.

The case of Pearson vs. Pearson,  recently 
decided  by  the  Chancery  Division  of  the 
High Court of Justice, England, was  a  case 
of  dissolution  of  a  partnership  where one 
partner was to  have  the  business  and  the 
good will, and  where  the  outgoing  partner 
had set up in business in the same place and 
had sent out circulars  soliciting orders from 
the old customers of the  firm.  Mr.  Justice 
Kay,  in accordance  with  earlier  decisions, 
granted  an  injunction  restraining the  out­
going  partner  from  in  any  way  soliciting 
business  from  the  customers  of  the  old 
firm.

Good  W ill—Profits of Trade.

The good will connected  with  the  estab­
lishment of any particular  trade  or  occupa­
tion may be the subject of barter or sale. 
It 
is a valuable right, and, if it  be  unlawfully 
destroyed or taken away, the law will award 
compensation to the injured party. 
It is de­
fined to be “the advantage or  benefit  which 
is acquired by an establisliment  beyond  the 
mere value of the capital,  stocks,  funds  or 
property  employed therein,  in  consequence 
of the general public patronage or encourage­
ment which it receives from constant or hab­
itual customers on account of its  local  posi­
tion  or  common  ability  or  reputation  for 
skill, affluence  or punctuality,  or from other 
accidental circumstances,  or  necessities,  or 
even from ancient partialities or prejudice.” 
It is claimed here that the  plaintiff  is  seek­
ing to recover for his loss of profits in trade, 
and not for the injury of his good will.  But 
the attachment complained of drove his cus­
tomers away, and he lost their trade.  Now, 
it is plain that if, by any  means,  customers 
are driven from a particular locality to which 
they  resort  to  trade,  that  trade loses that 
which we have described as good will.  The 
distinction between profits and good  will  is 
obvious;  profits  are  gains  realized  from 
trade ;  good will  is that which brings  trade.

A favorable location of  a  mercantile  estab­
lishment, or habit of customers to resort to a 
particular place will bring  trade.  This  ad­
vantage  may  be  designated  by  the  term 
“good will,” and what the  trader gains from 
the trade so acquired  are  profits.—Cary  vs. 
Gunnison in the Supreme Court of Iowa,  by 
J udge Beck.

Im parting "Valuable  Instruction.

“Papa,”  asked  a  little  boy, “a man who 

steals a loaf of bread is a thief, isn’t he?” 

“Yes, a dastardly thief.”
“Is  a  man  who  steals  $10,000  a  thief, 

too?”

“Well, no, my boy,  scarcely.  Defaulter, 

I think, is the more appropriate word.” 

“And what is he called when  he  steals  a 

million  dollars?”

“There is no such thing as stealing a mil­
lion dollars, my son. 
It  is  termed  ‘divert­
ing.’  When a gentleman diverts  a  million 
dollars he is spoken of as a financier.”

Husband and Wife.

“You are an awful fool, John Smith,” she 

said to her husband with  emphasis.
D “I know I am,” he humbly acknowledged.
“ And you have been ever since the  day  I 

“Longer than that, my'dear,  longer  than 

married you.”

that.”

“Quite likely.”
“Yes,” he went on, sadly, “I have been an 
awful fool ever since the day I asked you to 
marry me.”

In order to keep  machinery from rusting, 
take one  ounce  of  camphor,  dissolve  one 
pound of melted lard; take off the scum and 
mix in as much fine black  lead as  will give 
it an iron color.  Clean the  machinery  and 
smear it with this mixture.  After 24  hours 
rub clean  with  a  soft  linen  cloth. 
It  will 
keep clean for  months  under  ordinary cir­
cumstances.

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.

Choice Butter can always be had  at M.  C. 

Russell’s.

City Bottling Works

BOTTLED  LAGER, 
PINTS,  PER  DOZ. 
50  CENTS.

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

BOTTLED PORTER, 
PINTS, PER  DOZ. 
75 CENTS.

BOTTLED  CIDER, 
Q,TS,  PER  DOZ., 
$ 1.20.

All  Goods  Warranted 

the BEST in the 

Market.

TELEPHONE  NO.

2 7 2 .

The  True  Inwardness  of Dunlap’s  Much  Talked-About  Bank Account.

Everyone who did any business with  Dunlap while he was  in  trade  at  Nashville  last 
winter will remember that he was continually referring to his “bank account,”  and  offer­
ing to give checks to anyone who would trust him for goods.  He also  endeavored  to  se­
cure credit on the strength of the statement that a draft could be made on him at his bank; 
and, as stated last week, he offered to loan a certain jobbing establishment here $5,000 that 
was “lying idle” at his bank. 
In order to ascertain what  ground Dunlap  had  for  these 
representations, The Tradesman has secured an exact  transcript of his banking transac­
tions, and presents them below.  The account does not conform to  the  statements  made, 
so far as amount is concerned,  and will only tend to strengthen the opinion  already form­
ed regarding Dunlap’s untruthfulness and chicanery :

Dr.  BARRY & DOWNING, Bankers, in acc’t with W. A. DUNLAP & Co.  Cb. 
1884. 

1884.

23 74
3 00
4 20
3 45
3 20
37 59

4 To Draft
5 To Cash
7 To Cash to  Balance

10 00 |Jan.
00
4
23 59

Feb.

25 By Cash
26 By Cash
30 By Cash
1 By Cash
o By Cash

37 59

M  R  Phnrph  “ Rorlotto”  rIn
lIU»
HI.  D.  ulllll Ml  Dilliclic 
Manufacturer of ¡ “Bedette.”

PA TEN TED  JU N E  15,1883.

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

Price—36 in. wide, by 6% f t long, $3.50;  30 in wide,  by 

ft.  long,  $3.00;  27  in. 
wide, by 4>£ ft. long, cover not adjustable, $2.50.  For sale  by  furniture  dealers  every­
If not for sale by your dealer it will be sent to any address  on  receipt  of  price.
where. 

ALL WOOL SUPERBTNES.

WOOL FILLING AND MIXED.

TH REE-PLY S.
©1 00 
Hartford  3-ply............................
©1 00 
Lowell 3-ply.................................
Higgins’ 3-plv..............................
@ 1 00 ©  9754
Sanford’s 3-ply............................
EXTRA  SU PERS. 
@  7754 
Hartford......................................
©  8254
Other  makes....................................  75  © - TIV%
Best cotton chain............................  60  @  62^4
Best  2-ply.........................................  57^4®  60
Other grades 2-ply..........................   52&@  55
All-wool  super, 2-ply.....................   50  @  55
Extra heavy, double cotton chain.  42&@  45
Double cotton chain.......................   35  @  40
Heavy cotton and wool, double c.  30  ©  3254
Half d’l chain, cotton & wool, 2-ply  2754@  3254
Single cotton chain....................1..  19  ©  25
3-ply, 4-4 wide, extra heavy............  27^4@  30
B, 4-4 wide.........................................  
©  22
Imperial, plain, 4-4 wide................. 
@  1854
@  17
D, 83  inches...................................... 
No. 1, 4-4, 5-4, 6-4 and 8-4.................. 
©  45
No. 2, 
..................  
©  3754
No. 3, 
@ 30
..................  
©  25
No. 4, 
..................  
Best all rattan, plain.......................  
@  6254
@  5254
Best all rattan and cocoa, plain... 
Napier A ..................*...................... 
©  50
Napier  B..........................................  
©   40

OIL CLOTHS.

MaTTINGS.

HEMPS.

do 
do 
do 

CURTaiNS.

Opaque shades, 38 inch.................. 
Holland shades, B finish, 4-4.......... 
Pacific  Holland, 4-4........................ 
Hartshorn’s fixtures, per gross... 
Cord fixtures, per gross................. 

©  15
@  18
©  10
@36
@10

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

Ohio White Lime, per bbl.................... 
1  10
Ohio White Lime, car lots.................... 
95
Louisville Cement,  per bbl..................  
1 40
1 40
Akron Cement per  bbl......................... 
Buffalo Cement,  per bbl..................... 
1 40
Car lots.................................................... 1 15@1 20
Plastering hair, per bu.........................  35©  38
Stucco, per bbl........ •.............................. 
175
Land plaster, per ton............................ 
3  75
Land plaster, car lots............................ 
3 00
Fire brick, per  M...................................$27 @ $35
Fire clay, per bbl................................... 
3 00
Anthracite, egg and grate..................$6 50@6 75
Anthracite, stove and nut..................  6 75@7 00
7 00
Cannellcoal........................................... 
Ohio coal................................................ 
40@3 60
Blossburg or Cumberland................ 
00@5 25

coal.

Incorporated Dec. 10,1877—Charter in  Force for 

Thirty Years.

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

President—Ransom W. H aw ley, of  Detroit. 
Vice-Presidents—Chas. E. Sn ed ek er, Detroit; 
L. W. Atk in s, Grand  Rapids;  I. N. Alexan­
d e r , Lansing;  U. S. L ord, Kalamazoo; H. E. 
Me e k er, Bay City.
Secretary  and  Treasurer—W.  N.  Me r e d it h , 
Detroit.
Board  of Trustees,  For One  Year—J. C. P on­
tiu s, Chairman, S. A. Munger, H. K. Wh it e 
For Two  Years—D. Mo r ris,  A. W.  Culv er.

TIME TABLES.

D E PA R T.

Michigan  Central—Grand  Rapids  Division.
•(■Detroit Express.......................... -........6:00 am
+Day Express..........................................12:25 p m
♦New York Fast Line............................  6:00 p m
+Atlantic Express.................................... 9:20 p m
♦Pacific  Express............................................... 6:4 am
•(•Local  Passenger................................... 11:20 a m
tM ail..........................................................3:20 p m
tGrand  Rapids  Express............................... 10:25 pm

A R R IV E .

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. Schultz, Gen’l Agent.

Detroit,  Grand  Haven &  Milwaukee.

G O IN G  W EST.

GO ING EA ST.Arrives. 
Leaves.
•(•Steamboat Express..........6:10 a m 
6:15 a m
■(•Through  Mail....................10:10 a m  10:20 a m
■(•Evening  Express............. 3:20 pm   3:35 pm
♦Atlantic Express...............  9:45 p m  10:45 p m
+Mixed, with  coach...........  
10:00 am
■(■Morning  Express............. 12:40 p m  12:55 p m
tThrough  Mail....................  4:45 pm   4:55 pm
■(■Steamboat Express..........10:30 p m  10:35 p m
+Mixed..................................  
8:00 am
♦NightExpress....................  5:10 am   5:30 am
+Daily, Sundays excepted.  *Daily.
Passengers  taking  the  6:15  a.  m.  Express 
make close connections at Owosso for Lansing 
and at Detroit for New York, arriving there at 
10:00 a. m. the following morning.
Parlor Cars on Mail  Trains,  both  East  and 
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.

T homas  Tandy, Gen’l Pass. Agent,  Detroit.

D. P o tter, Gity Pass. Agent.

Grand  Rapids  &   Indiana.

G O IN G  NORTH.

G O ING  s o u t h .

Arrives.  Leaves. 
Cincinnati & G. Rapids Ex.  9:00 pm   11:00 pm  
Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex.  9:20 a m  10:25 a m 
Ft. Wayne & Mackinac E x..  3:55 pm   5:00 pm 
*G’dRapids  ¿¿Cadillac  Ac. 
7:10am
G. Rapids & Cincinnati Ex.  6:30 p in  7:00 a m 
Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex.  4:10 p m  4:35 p m 
Mackinac & Ft. Way r e E x.. 10:25 a m  11:42 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 10:00  o’clock  p.  m. 
has Woodruff  Sleeping Cars for Petoskey and 
Mackinac City.  Trainleaving at 10:25 a. m. has 
combined Sleeping and Uhair Car for Mackinac 
City.
South—Train leaving at 4:35 p. m. has  Wood­
ruff Sleeping Car for Cincinnati.

C. L. Lockwood, Gen’l Pass. Agent.
Chicago &  West Michigan.

Leaves.  Arrives,
tMail.........................................9:15 am   4:00 pm
tDay  Express.......................12:25 p m  10«45 p m
♦Night  Express.....................8:35 pm   6:10 am
Mixed.....................................  6:10 am   10:05 pm
♦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....................................  5:00 am   5:15 pm
Express...................................4:10 pm   8:30pm
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 
M&nist66*

J. H. Palmer, Gen’l Pass. Agent.

—AND—

NOTION'S!

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.  Sprague,  J ohn  H.  Eacker, 
L. R. Cesna, Geo. W. N. De J onge. 
Frank Berles 
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.  H .  P 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.  Ionia  Street, South  of  Monroe.
Special  designs  furnished  and  Estimates 
given for interior decoration and  all kinds  of 
stained and ornamental Glass work.

‘‘A  t  .  Manufacturers of

L. H. BEALS & SON
j   Whips  & Lashes,
\ 1 
\
i \  O F F I C E
1 
SALESROOM
NO. 4 PEARL STREET,

Westfield, Mass.

- A N D -

j 

f 

! 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

m s  »..M ilam s

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 is o n ,

88, 90  and 92 South  Division  Street,  ,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICHIGAN.

—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.

Hammocks  Sold  Hy  tie  Dozea  at  New  York  Prices!!

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

Clothing  and  Gent’s  Furnishing  Goods, 

Cottonade  Pants  and  Hosiery.

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

Call and get our prices and see how tliey 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, 

-  

- 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

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

P E R K I N S   &  EE E S
Hides, Furs, W ool & Tallow,
C astor M achine  O il

NOS.  132  and  134  LOUIS  STREET,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

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

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

OHIO  OIL.  OOIMIF.AJSrsr

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- 
ingDinto popular favor.  We  Solicit  a  Trial  Order.

Hazelline, Perkins & Co., Grand Rapids.
RINDGE, BERTSCH & CO.,
BOOTS  &  SHOES,

MANUFACTURERS  AND  JOBBERS  OF

SHRIVER,

WEATHERLY & CO.,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.,  Wholesale  and  Retail

IB.O X   P IP E , 

B rass  Goods,  Iron  a n d  B rass Fittings 

Mantles,  Grates,  Gas  F ixtures, 

P lumbers,  Steam  F itters,
—And Manufacturers  of—

Galvanized  Iron  Cornice. 

MOSELEY  BROS.,

Wholesale

Olover, Timothy and all  Kinds Field Seeds
Seed  Corn,  Green  and  Dried  Fruits,  Oranges 
and Lemons, Butter, Eggs, Beans, Onions, etc. 
GREEN  v e g e t a b l e s   a n d   o y s t e r s. 

122 Monroe 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.

14 and 16 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

CLARK,  JEWELL  &  CO.,
Groceries  and  Provisions,

W H O L E S A L E

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

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

- 

- 

-  MICHIGAN.

(Sroceries.

Saginaw.

A  Challenge  from the  Grocery Jobbers of 
To the Wholesale Grocers of Grand Rapids.
The wholesale grocers of the Saginaws desir­
ous of cultivating a closer acquaintance with 
their fellow  grocers of  Grand  Rapids, and 
feeling  that a friendly social  gathering will 
redound to our mutual advantage, do hereby 
challenge their brother  grocers to a friendly 
game  of  base ball, same to be played  upon 
the grounds of  the Saginaw Base Ball Club, 
subject to  the  rules  of  the  Northwestern 
League, a return  match  to  be  played  at 
Grand Rapids, and proceeds of  both  games 
to be  donated to the  regular  clubs of  the 
respective  cities, both  games to be  played 
during the  month of  July, if agreeable and 
convenient to both parties, no player to be el­
igible to play in the match  unless a member 
ber of the firm he represents.

Wells, Stone & Co.
P lumb, McCausland & Co.
Symons, Smart & Co.
R. Boyd & Co.
J ohn P. Derby,
The J ames Stewart Co. L imited.
By Jas. Stewart

Immediately upon the receipt of  the chal­
lenge, the  fact  was  communicated  to the 
various wholesale  houses, and it was  decid­
ed to  accept  it at pnce.  Several of the job­
bers left their desks, covered  with—not  or­
ders or remittances, but requests  for  exten- 
tions—and repaired to the rear of  the stores 
to engage  in  practice.  An  attempt will be 
made to fix  the time about the 15th, and ev­
ery athletic jobber—-and Grand  Rapids job­
bers are all athletes, by the way—will repair 
to Saginaw with the  firm  determination of 
pulverizing any nine that Eastern Michigan 
can place before them.

Failure  of C*  G, McCulloch  &  Co.

C. G. McCulloch & Co., jobbers in  coffees, 
spices and grocers’ sundries have made a vol­
untary  assignment to Jas. Gallup.  The firm 
is composed  ofC. G.  McCulloch  and  John 
H. DeLaney, and has been in existence since 
last October.  McCulloch claims to have fur­
nished the capital, S3,500, and is inclined  to 
attribute the failure to the fact that DeLaney 
was  unable  to  contribute  anything  to  the 
funds of the firm, although he says his part­
ner has acted honorably  from  beginning  to 
end.  The latter part of June  an  inventory 
was taken, which resulted in  the  following 
showing:

ASSETS.

Book Accounts...
Cash on hand........ .
Cash in bank..........
Merchandise........
Furniture.............
Personal property. 
Spice plant.............

Total

. $4,547.24 
241 33 
255  66 
2,757 26 
731 91 
603 00 
1,000  00
$10,136 40

L IA B IL IT IE S .

Total 

Bills payable............................................$2,734 03
Notes  payable........................................   4,197 57
$6,931  60
“When I saw these figures,’’ said  Mr. Mc­
Culloch, “I knew that all our  original  capi­
tal had disappeared, and that unless we could 
get help from some of our friends,  it  would 
be all day with us.  I  tried hard to  interest 
a number of moneyed men by way of a third 
interest in the business, but it was no go.  I 
then realized that  the  only  way  left  open 
was to make an honorable assignment,  leav­
ing the stock to the creditors, without  pref­
erence, which I accordingly did.  Of  course 
the stock will have to be sacrificed, and it is 
extremely unlikely that creditors will realize 
to exceed 50 per cent”

A  Business Scene.

“Well,  sir,”  he  said,  rubbing  his  hands 
and  smiling  pleasantly, as a young man en­
tered  the  store,  “what  can  we  do  for  you 
to-day?”

“You keep a good many things here, don’t 
you?”  the  young  man  responded,  looking 
about.

“Oh,  yes;  we  keep  most  everything  in 
stock. 
If  there  is anything you want that 
you don’t see, just ask for it.  We  can  sup­
ply you.”

“Well, I don’t  see any  money.  My boss 
sent me around with this old bill  to ¿collect, 
so I’ll just ask you for the amount.”

“Oh, yes; I remember the bill. 

I’m sorry, 
but I guess you will have to wait a little  for 
the money,”

“All right,” replied the young man sitting 
down in a chair,  “that’s what  the  boss  told 
me.”

“What did the boss tell you?”
“He told me to wait for the money.”

Features  of the  Week.

The grocery market has been about steady 
during  the  past  week.  Sugars are a trifle 
higher, and are firm with an upward tenden­
cy.  Pickles  are a little  lower.  Whitefish 
have declined, in consequence of  the arrival 
of the fresh catch and will go still lower with­
in the next week or ten days.  Java rice and 
Muzzy Gloss starch have  advanced.
Provisions are higher and  firmer.
Muskegon News:  With such  vast  quan­
tities of  pine  and  hard  timber* which  sur­
round  Muskegon,  the  opening  for  manu­
facturers would be a  profitable  one.  Tubs 
and  pails,  wooden  rolling-pins,  bowls, 
broomhandles,  wheelbarrows,  staves  and 
barrels,  matches, shoe lasts, pegs, furniture 
of all kinds,  and  a  great  variety  of  other 
useful  and  necessary  articles of commerce 
can be  produced here at the lowest possible 
cost  A  tannery would be a profitable ven­
ture, as the hemlock  is  inexhaustible,  and 
so  would  other  enterprises  unnecessary to 
enumerate.

Buffalo has more miles  of  railroad  track 
within her corporate limits  than  any  other 
city.

VISITING BUYERS.

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

Lumberton.

Rapids.

A. P. Waldo, with  Bridger,  Snell  &  Co., 
Lon Pelton, Morley.
O. Green,  Martin.
Chas. Lovejoy, of Loverjoy& Herrick, Big 
M. B. Nash,  Sparta.
Jay Marlatt,  Berlin.
F. B. Watkins, Monterey.
R. A. Woodin,  Sparta.
Sumner Koon, Lisbon.
Geo. W. Sly,  Muir.
H. P. Dunning, Allegan.
G. W. Sly, Muir.
Ben West, of J. C. West & Co., Lowell. 
Heber Walsh, Holland.
Dr. John Graves, Wayland.
M. Y. Wilson, Sand Lake.
Dr. J. R. Hathaway, Howard City. 
Walling Bros., Lamont.
J. C. Benbow, CannonsbUrg.
John J. Ely, Rockford.
Peter Zalsman. Paris.
Smedley Bros, Bauer.
J. W. Bragington,  Hopkins.
Spring. & Lindley, Bailey.
Gringhaus Bros, Lamont.
Jorgensen & Hemingsen, Grant.
Parkhurst Bros., Nunica.
M. R. Griffin, Coopersville.
F. C. Brisbin, Berlin.
Barker & Lehnen, Pierson.
Geo. W. Bartlett, Ashland Center.
F. E. Davis, Berlin.
Andre Bros.,  Jennisonville.
Cass Scoville, of Scoville & McAuley,  Ed- 
Kellogg & Potter, Jennisonville.
H. E. Clark, Lowell.
Geo. Sharer, Cedar Springs.
B. McNeal, Byron Center.
O. Green, Martin.
John D. Merritt, Olive Center.
W. C- Ball, of  Greenwood  & Ball, Grand- 
Jo in  Schoiten, Filmcte Center.
C. H. Deming, Dutton.
Mr. Campbell, Eowler &  Campbell, Nash­
C. R. Bunker, Bailey.
R. Carlyle, Rockford.
S. C. Fell, Howard City.
J. R. Harrison, Sparta.
J. H. Spires,  Leroy.
O. F. & W. P. Conklin, Ravenna.
S. A. Colby, Rockford.
Mrs. J. Ensing, Kalamazoo.
Johnson & Seibert, Caledonia.
J. A. Stocum, Rockford.
DenHerder & Tannis,  Vriesland.
J. C. Paris, Kent City.
W. S. Root, Talmadge.
G. C. Baker, LeBarge.
C. O. Bostwick & Son, Cannansburg.
Lee Deuel,  Bradley.
M. Minderhout,  Hanley.
G. H. Walbrink, Allendale.
Baron & TenHoor, Forest  Grove.
McLeod & Trautman Bros., Moline.
O. F. Conklin, Coopersville.
M. J. Howard, Englishville.
A. Engberts, Beaver  Dam.
W. H. Struik, Forest Grove.
B. M. Dennison, East Paris.
J. Barnes,  Plainfield.
A. J. White, Bass River.
J. W. Mead,  Berlin.
Bert Tinkler, Hastings.
John Yan Eenaan, Zeeland.
H. Freeman, Mancelona.
A. B. Foote, Hilliards.
H. Baker & Sons, Drenthe.

gerton.

ville.

ville.

Visiting Salesmen.

The following  representatives  of  outside 
jobbers have visited this market  during the 
past week, and paid their respects to the var­
ious wholesale houses:
Chicago.
cago.
Chicago.

Denis P. McCarthy, Towle,  Carle  &  Co., 
W. C. Richmond, Bean, Hughes & Co., Chi­
D. W. Kimball,  Marshall  Field  and  Co., 
Mr. Chick, John H. Pray  &  Co.,  Boston.
Thos. A. Stevens, C.  A.  Jackson  &  Co., 
Mr.  Leedom,  Thos.  L.  Leedorn  &  Co., 
John V. Far well & Co., Chicago.
Si Wicks, Hemphill, Hamlin &  Co.,  New 
York.
Mr. YanDeventer, YanDeventer & Home, 
New York.
□Geo. P. Mills, Tonquin  Bitters  Co.,  Cin­
cinnati,  Ohio.
Frank Conlon, C. E. Andrews  & Co., Mil­
waukee.
Mr. Cones, S. W. Yenable &  Co.,  Peters­
burg, Pa.

Petersburg, Va.
Philadelphia.

How They  Swindled Him.

The neat manner in which a hotel  keeper 
was  swindled  is  thus  described  by an ex­
change:  A few days ago  four  well  dressed 
men  entered  the  hotel  and  had  dinner* 
When  the  moment  came  to  pay they said 
that  they  had  no  money  with  them,  but 
would  leave  a  valuable  diamond  ring.  A 
few  days  later  they called, settled the pre­
vious account, had  another  dinner,  talked 
to  the  proprietor,  and  finally  sold  him the 
ring  for  $75.  He  considered  that he had 
made a good bargain, because,  while  it had 
been  in  his  possession, he had taken it to a 
jeweler,  who  pronounced  it  to  be  worth 
$150.  The  guests,  however, had, on their 
second  visit,  substituted  an  imitation  fac 
simile for the genuine ring.

Among customs in Siam  is  a  method  of 
deciding  a  lawsuit  by  putting the litigants 
under  cold  water,  the  one  remaining  the 
longest being declared the  victor.

HIDES, PELTS AND  FURS. 

Perkins & Hess quote as foLows:

H ID E S.

Green................................................$  fi)  @7
Part  cured..............................................   8  @ 854
Full cured......................................................   8%@ 854
Dry hides and kips..................................  8  @12
Calf skins, green or cured.....................10  @12
Deacon skins............................$  piece20  @50
Shearlings or Summer skins $  piece.. 10 @20
Fall pelts.................................................. 30 @50
Winter  pelts.......................................1 00  @1 50

S H E E P  P EL TS.

W OOL.
Fine washed $  fi>....................................   25@
Coarse washed..................... 
18  @20
Unwashed................................................ 2-3
Tallow...............................................................5%@ 5)4

 

FRESH  MEATS.

John  Mohrhard quotes the trade as follows:
Fresh  Beef, sides...................................  7  @ 8?4
Fresh  Beef, hind quarters....................10 @1054
Dressed Hogs..........................................  7%@  734
Mutton,  carcasses..................................   7 @8
Veal..........................................................  854® 954
15@16
Fowls....................................................... 
Pork Sausage.................*......... ............10  @1054
B o lo g n a ......................... ............ 
@10

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

AXLE  GREASE.

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BLU IN G .

B A K IN G   PO W D ER .

Frazer’s .........................................................   85
Diamond............................... .......................   60
M odoc__ f) doz...........................................  60
Paragon...  fi doz.........................................  70
Paragon, 20 ft  pails.....................................   90
Arctic % fl> cans................................¥   doz.  45
Arctic % ft cans.............................................. 
75
Arctic y* lb cans..............................................   1 40
Arctic 1 B>  cans..................................................2 40
Arctic 5  B) cans.................................................12 00
Dry, No. 2...........................................doz.
45 
Dry, No. 3....................................... - .doz.
35
Liquid, 4 oz,....................................... doz.
, doz. 
65 
Liquid, 8 oz..............................
$   gross 4 00
Arctic 4 oz...............................
.........   8 00
Arctic 8  oz.............................
........  12 00
Arctic 16 oz.............................
..........  2 00
Arctic No. 1 pepper box.......
.............   3 00
Arctic No. 2 
.......
“ 
.............   4 50
Arctic No. 3 
.......
“ 
BROOMS.
....... 
2 50
No. 1 Carpet— ......................
2 25
....... 
No. 2 Carpet............................
2  75
....... 
No. 1 Parlor Gem..................
00
_ „
No. 1 Hurl...............................  
No. 2 Hurl  ...............................................  
1  75
Fancy Whisk............................................  
1  25
Common Whisk.......................................  
85
Cove Oysters, 1 ft  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,IB)  standards................................. 1  65
Clams, 2 B>  standards................................. 2  65
Lobsters, 1 S>  standards.............................1 65
Lobsters, 2 B>  standards.............................2  70
Lobsters,  Picnics........................................1  65
Mackerel, lfl>  fresh  standards.................1  20
Mackerel, 5 B> fresh standards.................6  50
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 B>.................3 50
Mackerel,3 B> in M u s t a r d , — ,.3 50
Mackerel, 3 B> broiled.......................3 50
Salmon, 1 B) Columbia river....................  .1 60
Salmon, 2 lb Columbia river.......................2 60
Salmon, 1 B>  Sacramento............................l  50
Salmon, Wm. Hume’s Eagle.....................   185
Sardines, domestio lis.
7/2
12%
Sardines,  domestio  %8.............................. 
Sardines,  Mustard  %s.................................  12
Sardines,  imported  14s...............................   15
Sardines, imported 54s.................................  20
Sardines, imported 54s, boneless...............  32
Sardines, Russian  kegs..............................  50
Trout, 3 B>  brook.......................... 
3 00
CANNED ERliiTS.

CANNED F IS H .

 

 

 

Apples.3 ft> standard^ .................................   90
Apples, gallons,  standards, Erie....................2 50
Blackberries, standards...................................1 20
Cherries,  red.......................................................1 00
Cherries, w h ite..................... •.....................1 75
Damsons.....................................  
1  *9
Egg Plums, standards 
.............................. 13a
Egg Plums,  Erie........................................... 1.45
Green  Gages, standards2 B>.............................1 40
Green Gages,  Erie.............................................1 50
Peaches, 3 B)  standards.....................................1 75
Peaches, 3 fi> Extra Yellow..................     .2 00
Peaches,  seconds..........................................1 65
Pie Peaches 3 B>........... ................................1  15
Pears, Bartlett 2B)........................................1 30
Pineapples, 2 ft  stand........................ 
1 40
Quinces............................................ 
1 45
Raspberries, 2 fl> stand...................  
1 25
Raspberries, 2B> Erie................................... 1 40
Strawberries, 2 fi> standards........................1 10
Apricots, Lusk’s................................................ 2 75
Egg Plums..........................................................2 85
Green Gages.......................................................2 85
Pears  ............................................................. 3 00
Quinces...............................................................3 00
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, Lim a............................... *.................  85
Beans, String................................................  90
Beans, Boston Baked........................................1 65
Beans,  Stringless...............................................1 00
Corn, Erie............................................................1 15
Corn, Revere............................. 
1 20
Corn,  Egyptian.............................................110
Corn,  Yarmouth................................................ 1 20
Corn Trophy.......................................................1 15
Corn, 2 B>  Onandago.....................................150
Corn.  Acme...................................................1 25
Mushrooms, French.................................... 22@24
Peas, standard  Marrofat....................... . . .1 40
Peas, 2 ft  Early, small  (new)...........................1 60
Peas, 2 ft Beaver...............................  
76
Peas, French 2 B>................ .............;. .23@26
Pumpkin, 3 ft Golden........................................1 10
Succotash, 2 B> standards............................  85
Succotash, 2 B> B. & M........................................1 75
Squash, 3 lb  standards...................................... 1 20
Tomatoes, 3B> Dilworth’s ................................. 1 00
Tomatoes, 3 fi) Job Bacon..................................1 00
Tomatoes, gal. Erie........................................   .2 95
Tomatoes, Acme 3 fi)..........................................1 20
CAPS.
35  [Ely’s Waterproof  75 
G.  D.....................
75  1
Musket................
Boston  premium
Baker’s premium
Runkles...............
German  sweet...
Vienna Sweet__
Green Rio...........
GreenJava..........
Green Mocha.......
Roasted Rio........
Roasted  Java—
Roasted  Mar.......
Roasted Mocha..
Roasted Mex.......
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 |50 foot Cotton__ 1 50

........   @36
........   @40
........   @25
........   @25
....12  @14
....17  @27
....25  @27
.......12  @17
....24  @34
....17  @19
.....  @34
.......17)4@19
.......9)4©17
.......  ©16
@15%
.......  @15%
.......  @13%
.......  @15%
.......  ©15%

CHOCOLATE.

CORDAGE.

COFFEE.

FLA V O RIN G  EXTRACTS.

Lemon.

Jennings’2 oz......................................5P  doz. 1 00
2 50

4 oz.........................................................1 50
6 oz....................... 
8 oz.......................................................3  50
No. 2 Taper........................................  1 25
No. 4 
54 pint  round.......................................4 50
1 
No.  8.................................... 
No. 10..................................................  4 25

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

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“ 
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44 
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“ 

Jennings’ 2 oz......................................<¡8 doz.  1  40

Vanilla.

“ 
“ 
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“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

4 oz.........................................................2 50
6 oz.........................................................4 00
8 oz..........................  
5 00
No. 2  Taper........................................  1 50
No.  4 Taper..................................   3 00
54 pint  round.....................................   7 50
1 pint  round.......................................15 00
No.  8....................................................  4 25
No.  10............................... 

 

 

F IS H .

FAUCETS.

6 00
Faucets,  self measuring......................  @2 50
Faucets, common................................. 
@  35
Whole Cod..............................................  4%©6)4
Boneless Cod......................................... 
5@7©8
Herring 54 bbls.^lOO fi>.........................2 75@3 00
@24
Herring Scaled...................................... 
Herring Holland...................................  @100
White, No. 1,54 b b ls............................ 
7 75
White, Family, 54 bbls......................... 
3 25
White, No. 1,10 fi> kits....................
1 08 
White, No. 1,12 B> kits....................
4 50 
Trout, No.  1,54  bbls.......................
80 
Trout, No. 1,12  fi> kits....................
6  50 
Mackerel, No. 1,54 bbls............—
1  00
Mackerel, No. 1,12 fl>  kits.............
London Layers, new.......................
2 75
Loose MUscatels Raisins,  new............2  50®2  00
New Valencias Raisins.......................  
7%@7%
D ehesia......................................................   @3 25
Ondaras............................................
Turkey Prunes...............................
Currants............................................
Citron................................................
Dried Apples  ............................... .........   8  @854

F R U IT S .

M ATCHES.

Richardson’s No. 2  square................................. 2 70
Richardson’s No. 3 
.............................2 55
do 
Richardson’s No. 5 
.............................1  70
do 
Richardson’s No. 6 
.............................2 70
do 
Richardson’s No. 8 
do 
..............  
1  70
Richardson’s No. 9
do 
............................ 2 55
Richardson’s No. 4 round...............................2 70
Richardson’s No. 7  do 
.............................. 2 55
Richardson’s No. 754 do 
.............................. 1  70
Electric Parlor No. 17........................................... 3 20
Electric Parlor No. 18........................................... 4 64
Grand  Haven, No. 9.............................................2 50
Grand  Haven, No.  8..............................................1 60

20 gross lots special price.

MOLASSES.

BlackStrap.................................................{  @18
Porto  Rico.................................................... ,30@35
New  Orleans,  good....................................i40@60
New Orleans,  fa n cy ....;.........................  J.66@60

OATM EAL.

185B>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. 

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

1254
1854
75
1  00
75
1 00

PIC K L E S .

 

do 

7  00
...................................... 4  00

Choice in barrels med................ 
do 
Choice in 54 
Dingee’8 54 
do  .  small..................................4 25
Dingee’s quarts glass fancy................................4 25
Dingee’s pints 
.........................  2 50
American qt.  in Glass......................................... 2 00
American pt. in Glass..................................... 1 25
O. & 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  C arolina........................ 
654
Prime  Carolina.......................... 
754
Java  ....................................................................6%
P atna.................................................................. 654
Rangoon.................  
534

 
 

 

 

 

SA LERATUS.

DeLand’s pure.............................................. @554
Church’s  ...................................................... @554
Taylor’s G.  M................................................@554
Cap  Sheaf......................................... .'.......... @ 5)4
Dwight’s ........................................................ @554
Sea  Foam......................................................@ 554
S., B. &L.’s  Best.......................................... @ 5)4

SALT.

60 Pocket................................................ 
2 50
28 Pocket......................... -..................... 
2 35
100 3 fi>  pockets.......................................   1  2 65
1 00
Saginaw F ine..... ...................................  
Diamond C.............................................. 
1 75
Standard  Coarse....................................  
1 55
Ashton, English, dairy, bu. bags........  
80
Ashton, English, dairy, 4 bu. bags.... 
3 20
American, dairy, 54 bu. bags.................... 
 
Rock, bushels........................................... 

25

SA UCES.

Lee & Perrins Worcestershire, pints.  @5 00 
Lee & Perrins Worcestershire, 54 pts.  @3 00
Picadilly, 54 pints......................................  @1 50
Halford Sauce, large............. ..............  @3 75
Pepper Sauce, red  small.........................  @ 75
Pepper Sauce, green.................................  @ 90
Pesper Sauce, red large ring...............  @1 30
Pepper Sauce, green, iarge ring........   @1 60
Catsup, Tomato,  pints..............................  @ 90
Catsup, Tomato,  quarts  .........................  @1 30
Horseradish,  54 pints................................  @1 00
Horseradish, pints..................................  
  @1 30
Capers, French surflnes...........................  @2 25
Capers, French surflnes, large...........   @3 50
Olives, Queen, 16 oz  bottle..................  @3 85
Olives, Queen, 27 oz  bottle..................  @6 50
Olive Oil,  quarts, Antonia &  Co.’s __   @7 00
Olive Oil, pints,  Antonia & Co,’s ........   @4 00
Olive Oil, 54 pints, Antonia & Co.’s __   @2 5o

SEEDS.

H em p......................................................  
5
Canary..................................................... 
5
7
R ape........................................................ 
Mixed Bird................................................  554@6

SOAP.

Kirk’s American  Family........... f) fi> 
do. 
India .........................................  
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.. 

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

do. 

3 45
3 75

’ 4 75

5%
5%
6
5)4
534
5)4
454
6 75
5
3 70
4 20

4 20

Procter & Gamble’s Velvet..................  @3 40
Procter & Gamble’s Good Luck..........  @3 25
Procter & Gamble’s Wa6h Well..........  @3 15
Badger............................................60  tt)s  @  6)4
Galvanic.................................................   @4 20
Gowan & Stover’s New Process 3 fi) br  @1834
Tip T o p ......................... ...........3fi>bar  @  16
Ward’s White Lily................................  @6 75
Handkerchief.........................................  @4 20
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............................................. 

3 00
5 25
4 25
5 00
4 20
4 50
5 00
6 00
3 25
4 20
4 00
6 75
13
12
@ 554
654

Lautz Bros. & Co.

Acme, 701 fi>  bars...................................  @ 6)4
Acme, 25 3 fit bars...................................  @ 654
Towel, 25 bars.........................................   @5 25
Napkin, 25  bars......................................  @5 25
Best American, 601 fi> blocks...............  @5)4
Palma 60-1 fi) blocks, plain....................  @ 5%
Shamrock, 100 cakes, wrapped............  @3 70
Master, 100-% B> cakes..........................   @5 00
Stearine, 100  % fi) cakes.......................   @5 00
Marseilles, white, 100 34 fl>  cakes.......
Cotton Oil, white, 100 34 B>  cakes........   @6 25
Lautz’s 60-1 fi) blocks, wrapped............  @7
German Mottled, wrapped..................   @ 6)4
Savon, Republica,60 ft box..................   @ 5%
Blue Danube, 60-1 fi) blocks................ 
  @534
London Family, 60-1 fi)  blocks...........
London Family, 3-fi> bars 80 fi>.............   @4 00
London Family, 4-fi) bars 80 fi).............   @4 00
Gem, 100 cakes, wrapped.....................   @3 85
Nickel, 100 cakes, wrapped..................  @4 00
Climax, 100 cakes,  wrapped.................  @3 25
Boss, 100 cakes,  wrapped.....................   @2 30
Marseilles Castile, Toilet,3 doz in  box  ©1 25
A. No. 1, Floating  White......................  @ 7

SPIC E S.

75
75

@63
@6)_
@754
@6%

STARCH.

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
Pepper % fi> $  dozen...................,........  
75
Allspice  54 fl)................................................ 
1 00
Cinnamon  )4 B>....................................... 
Cloves 54  fi)....*............................................ 
@18
Pepper,  whole....................................  
Allspice................................................ 
@10
Cassia................................................... 
@12
Cloves...................................................  20  @22
Nutmegs,  No. 1..................................   70  @75
Muzzy Gloss 1 B> package.......................... 
Muzzy Gloss 3 fi) package...................... 
Muzzy  Gloss 6 fi) boxes......................... 
Muzzy Gloss bulk................................... 
Muzzy Corn 1 fi)...................................
Kingsford Silver Gloss......................
Kingsford Silver Gloss 6 B> box.......
Kingsford Corn......................................  8%@8)4
Oswego  Gloss.........................................   @6)4
Mirror  Gloss...........................................  @654
Mirror Gloss, corn.................................  @6%
Piel’s Pearl..............................................  @4
@5
Niagara Laundry, 40 fi) box,  bulk....... 
Laundry, bbls, 186  fits...........  
@5
“  Gloss, 401 fi) packages...........  
@7
packages.......... 
“  Gloss,  36 3 
@6
@7
“  Gloss, 6 fi) box, 72 tt> crate__  

Special prices on 1,000 fl> orders.

Corn, 401 fi)  packages..........................   @754
American Starch Co.’s
1 tt>  Gloss.................................................. 
@654
10 oz  Gloss.............................................. 
@3;
3 fi>  Gloss.................................................. 
@6
6 fi> Gloss, wood boxes...........................  @7
Tatfle Corn.......................................40 fl>  @654
Table  Corn......................................20  fi)  @7
Banner, bulk........................................... 
@4
Jugs f)  gallon.........................................  
@8
Crocks............................................ 
7
Milk Crocks............................................  
7
STOVE P O L IS H .
Rising  Sun gross..5 88|Dixon’s  gross........ 5 50
Universal...............5 88 Above $  dozea.......   50
I X  L ....................... 5 601
Cut Loaf.....  ............................................. 
Cubes..........................................................  
Powdered.............................................. 
Granulated........................................... 
Conf. A ...................................................  
Standard A ................................................. 
Extra C white........................ 
 
Extra C ................. 
FlneC........................ 
 
Yellow C ......  .  ,. 

(S
C
@7%
@7)4
@6  %
@1
6%@6%
5%@5%
5%@5%
5%@5%

STONEW ARE.

SUGARS.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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PLU G .

TOBACCO—F IN E   CUT.

Corn,  Barrels............................................   @ 32
Corn, 54 bbls................................................  @ 34
Corn, 10 gallon kegs...................................  @ 35
Corn, 5 gallon kegs....................................   @1 80
Corn, 454 gallon kegs.................................  @1 65
Pure  Sugar....................................... bbl  28®  32
Pure Sugar Drips.........................54 bbl  30®  36
Pure Sugar  Drips................ 5 gal kegs  @1 85
Pure Loaf Sugar Drips...............54 bbl  @  95
Pure  Loaf Sugar..................5 gal kegs  @1 90
TEAS.Young Hyson__ 25@50
Japan ordinary.  24@30
Gun  Powder.......35@50
Japanfair.. . . __ 32@35
Japan fair to g’d. 35@37
Oolong.........33@55@60
Japan fine...........40@50
Congo..................   @30
Japan dust......... 15@20
@50
Rose Bud.................................................
@45
O.  K.........................................................
@30
Our  Bird.................................................
@38
Peaches..................................................
Morrison’s Fruit............. ......................
@60
@60
Victor......................................................
@57
Diamond  Crown....................................
@52
Red  Bird.................................................
@40
Opera Queen...........................................
@45
Sweet Rose..............................................
@38
Green  Back............................................
@33
F ruit.......................................................
@31
O So  Sweet..............................................
@65
Prairie Flower.......................................
@62
Climber [light and  dark].....................
Matchless................................................
@65
@69
Hiawatha............................................
Globe........................................................
@70
May Flower............................................
@70
Hero.........................................................
@45
A tlas........................................................
@35
@38
Royal Game............................................
Silver Thread.........................................
@67
Seal...........................................................
@60
Kentucky................................................
@30
Mule Ear.................................................
@67
Peek-a-Boo...........................................
@32
Peek-a-Boo, 54  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
. E. IVs F a v o r i t e . . ................  @50
Old Kentucky.........................................  @50
30
Big Four,  2x12.......................................   @50
Big Four, 3x12.........................................   @50
Darby and Joan, all sizes......................  @50
Turkey, 16 oz., 2x12...............................   @50
Blackbird. 16 oz.f  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 a st................................................  @48
McAlpin’s Gold Shield..........................   @48
Nickle Nuggets 6 and 12 B>  cads........ .  @51
Cock of the Walk  6s ...........................   @37
Black Spun  Roll....................................   @38
Nimrod........ ............................................   @48
Acorn......................................................   @48
Red Seal...................................................  @46
Crescent..................................................  @44
Black  X ...................................................  @35
Black  Bass..............................................   @40
True Grit.................................................   @35
Nobby  Spun Roll...................................  @50
Spring......................................................   @50
Grayling, all  styles...............................   @50
Mackinaw................................................  @47
Horse Shoe......................................  
  @50
Good Luck..............................................  @50
Big Chunk or J. T..................................   @40
Hair Lifter..............................................   @37
D. and D., black......................................  @37
McAlpin’s Green  Shield.............. 
  @48
Ace  High, black....................................   @35
Champion A ...........................................  @48
Sailors’  Solace.......................................   @48
Red Star................... 
@50
Shot Gun.................................................   @48
D uck.......................................................   @48
Jumbo......................................................  @40
&.pple Jack................. 
@50
Jack Rabbit............................................   @42
Morning Dew.........................................   @26
Chain  ......................................................   @22
Seal of Grand Radids............................  @25
King.........................................................   @30
F lirt.........................................................   @28
Pug...........................................................   @30
Ten Penny Durham, 54 and %.............   @24
Amber, 54 and 1B>.. ;..............................  @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, 54 fi)..........................................   @60
)4 fi)................ 
@57
54 fi>........................................  @55
1 fi)..............................................  @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
@26
Rob Roy...................................................
Uncle  Sam..............................................
@28
Lumberman...........................................
@26
Railroad Boy...........................................
@37
Mountain Rose.......................................
@20@23
Good  Enough.........................................
Home Comfort, %s and  54s..................
@25
Old  Rip, long cut..................................
@55
Durham,  long cut, No.  2.....................
@55
@25
Two  Nickle, %5......................................
@26
Two  Nickle, 54 s......................................
Star Durham...........................................
@25
Golden Flake Cabinet............................
@40
@52
Seal of North Carolina, 2 oz................
@50
Seal of North Carolina, 4 oz.................
@48
Seal of North Carolina, 8 oz................
Seal of North Carolina, 16 oz  boxes...
@50
Big Deal, 54s  longcut............................
@27
Apple Jack, %s  granulated.................
@24
King Bee, longcut, %s and 54s............
@22
Milwaukee Prize, 54s and 54s...............
@24
Good Enough, 5c and 10c  Durham__
@24
Durham, S., B. & L, 548 and 54s............
@24
Rattler, longcut......................................
@28
Windsor cut plug..................................
@25
Mule Ear.................................................
Hiawatha................................................
Old Congress..................... . 
..........
Acme........................................................
SN U FF.
Lorillard’s  Macoboy..............................
American Gentlem an..........
Rappee, A. Beck & Co.’s .......................
Gail & Ax’s  Macoboy............................
Scotch, Railroad  Mills..........................
Pure  Cider..............................................
White Wine............................................
1776 f) fi)..................................................
Gillett’s $  fi)...........................................
Soapinepkg.............................................
Pearline $  box........................................
Lavine, single boxes, 481 fi) papers...
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 481 fi) pap’rs 
Lavine, single  boxes, 100 6 oz papers.
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 100 6 oz  pap 
Lavine, single boxes, 80 54 B> papers..
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 80 54 fi> paprs

 
SM OKING.

W ASH ING PO W D ERS.

V IN EGA R.

do 
do 
do 

SHORTS.

‘4 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

@35
@44
@44
10@12 
10®  12

@ 754 
@10 @4 50 
@4 50 
@4 25 
@4 50 
@4 25 
@4 15 
@4 00

YEAST.

M ISCELLANEOUS.

[Wilsons...............1 75
Twin Bros..........1 75
INational............. 1  75
Gillett’s ............. 1 75
Blacking.........................................30, 40,50@60
1 50 
do  waterproof. 
95 
Bath Brick imported. 
75
American.
do 
@354 
Barley...........................
Burners, No. 1 ............
1  10 1 50
20 00
Bags, American A ................................. 
8 10
Condensed Milk, Eagle brand.............  
7 50
Condensed Milk,  Swiss........................ 
Curry Combs $  doz............................... 1 25@
Cream Tartar 5 and 10 fl) c a n s...........  @25
Candles, Star................................ .........  @15)4
Candles, Hotel................... ................. @16)4
Chimney Cleaners<p doz.... . 
@50

do  No. 2.

do 

90@95

do 
do 

@35
@46
@26)4
@2754

F elix.........................„1 30@
inSacks....................... 5 50@

Chimneys No.  1...........................
No. 2.................................
Cocoanut,  Schepps’ l ft packages. 
Cocoanut,  Schepps’ 1 & 54 fi)  do  . 
Extract Coffee,  v. c.
Flour, Star Mills, in bbls..............................5 75@
Flour Sifters $  doz........................................3 00@
Fruit Augurs each......................................... l  25@
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps.......................   @25
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps.......................   @40
Gum, Spruce....................................         35@40
Ink $  3 dozen  box..........................................1 00@
Jelly in Pails..........................................
do  Glass Tumblers $  doz........... @75
Lye  2  doz. cases................................ 
 
55
Macaroni,  Imported........................... 
  @13
Domestic............................................... j  @554
French Mustard,  8 oz ^ dozen........  @80
Large  Gothic........ . .  @1 35.
Oil Tanks, Star 60  gallon.....................   @fo 00
Peas, Green Bush..................................  
gg
  @354
Powder,  Keg.......................................... 5 50®
54 Keg.............................................. 3 00@
Sago  ........................................................ 
Shot, drop........................................................ 1 85®
do  buck...................................................... 2 10@
@15
Sage.................................. 
 
Tobacco Cutters each............. . . . . . . . .1 25@
18@20
Twine........................................ 
s@6
Tapioca........................................... 
Wickmg No. 1 $  gross..........................   @40
@65
do  Argand........................................... 1 50®

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

No. 2 

5@6

do 

do 

 
 

 

 

 

 

CANDY, FRUITS AND  NUTS. 

Putnam & Brooks quote as follows: 

Straight, 25 fl)  boxes..........................
Twist,
Cut Loaf

@10
@10)4
@12

STICK .

MIXED.

Royal, 25 fl)  pails................................... 
Royal, 200 fl) bbls.......................................    _ i o
Extra, 25 fl)  pails.........................................  
Extra, 200 fi) bbls.................................... ...!.. 11
French Cream, 25 fi) pails.....................!.."!! !l4
Cut loaf, 25 fl)  cases...................................!!! !l4
Broken,25  fi)  pails............................................ !!!! 1154
Broken,200fl)  bbls..................................'.105^

@1054
1114

FANCY—IN 5 fi) BOXES.

 

Lemon Drops............................ 
14
Sour Drops........................................................ 15
Peppermint  Drops.....................................    lfl
Chocolate Drops.................................. 
17
H M Chocolate  Drops..................................  .20
Gum  D rops..................................................   13
Licorice Drops................................................ .20
A B   Licorice  Drops..................
Lozenges, plain........................................ !*.!.  J6
Lozenges,  printed.................................. . . . !.ITT
Imperials............................................. 
is
Mottoes".............................................................16
Cream  Bar.........................  
” !ll5
Molasses Bar................................. 1 .!.*!*..*. 14
Caramels........ ................................................. !20
Hand Made Creams.......................... .!1. ."  "23
Plain  Creams........................................ . ” -” !a0
Decorated Creams................................ ..!... 23
String Rock..................................................... [16
Burnt Almonds............................... ..  .¿„***"24
Wintergreen  Berries........... ........... 
16.

 

Fancy—in  Bulk.

Lozenges, plain in  pails................................. 14
Lozenges, plain in  bbls...................................13
Lozenges, printed in pails..............................15
Lozenges, printed in  bbls..............................14
Chocolate Drops, in pails................................14
Gum  Drops, in pails.......................................   g
Gum Drops, in bbls.........................................  7
Moss Drops, in pails........................................11
Moss Drops, in bbls.........................................  954
Sour Drops, in  pails....................................."12
Imperials, in  pails........................................... 14
Imperials, in bbls.............................................13

FRUITS.

Oranges f  box.......................................5 00@6 00
Oranges DO ft box.................................
Oranges, Imperials, $   box..................
Oranges, Valencia %  case..................
Lemons,  choice....................................  4 00@5 00
Lemons, fancy.......................................5 5o@6 00
Bananas $  bunch..................................2 00@4 00
Malaga Grapes, $  keg..........................
Malaga Grapes, ft bbl............................
Figs,  layers  $  fi)....................................   12@16
Figs, fancy  do 
....................................   18@20
Figs, baskets 40 Jb ^ fl)..........................   @14
Dates, frails 
do  ...........................   @ 6
Dates, 54 do 
do  ............................  @7
Dates, skin..............................................  @ 6
Dates, 54  skin.........................................  @754
Dates, Fard 10 fi) box ^  fl)....................10  @11
Dates, Fard 50 fl) box #fl>.....................  7  @ 8
Dates, Persian 50 fl> box $  tt>................   654® I

PEANUTS.
Prime Red,  raw  $   fl)............................
d o ...........................   @ 8
Choice 
do  ...........................   @854
Fancy 
Choice White, Va.do  ............................  @ 9
Fancy H P,. Va  do  ...........................   @ic

do 
do 

NUTS.

Almonds,  Terragona, $  tt>....................  18@19
Almonds, loaca,
16@17
Brazils,
do  .................... 
9@10
Pecons,
do  ....................  10@14
Filberts, Barcelona 
do  ....................
Filberts, Sicily 
d o ....................  @14
Walnuts, Chilli 
do  ....................  @1254
Walnuts, Grenobles 
d o ....................  14@15
Walnuts, California 
d o ....................
Cocoa Nuts, ft  100 
Hickory Nuts, large $   bu 
Hickory Nuts, small  do

@4 50
1 25

PROVISIONS.

PO R K .

The  Grand Rapids  Packing  &  Provision Co 

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

All the above Pork is Newly Packed.
DRY  SALT MEATS—IN   BOXES.
Long Clears, heavy, 500 fi).  Cases.......... 
HalfCases.............. 
do. 
Long Clear medium, 500 fi)  Cases..........  
Half Cases.......... 
do 
Long Clears light, 500 fi) Cases............... 
H alfC ases............. 
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......  
TififfiPR 
30 and 50 ft Tub s I".'.!."!.!'.""! ‘ ! T

do. 
do. 

LARD.

9
9%
9
9%
9
9%
9%
9)4
9)4
9)4
10
10
10
9)4
9)4
9%
ft

. 8)4 

LA RD IN   T IN  P A IL S .

SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED  O R  P L A IN .

20 ft Round Tins, 80 ft  racks.................. 
50 ft Round  Tins, 100 ft  racks............... 
3 ft Pails, 20 in a case.............................. 
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)4
8)4
9
8%
8%
13
13)4
13%
9)4
8%
11%
10)4.
16

B E E F  IN  BA RR ELS.

do. 

CANNED B E EF.

Libby, McNeil & Libby, 14 ft cans, % 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.incase 4 00 

SAUSAGE—F R ESH  AND SM OKED.

Pork Sausage...................................................  9
Ham  Sausage....................................................15
Tongue  Sausage..................'.........................  n
Liver Sausage................................................... 8
Frankfort  Sausage............................. .......1 0
Blood  Sausage..................................................  8
Bologna,  ring...................................................   8)4,
Bologna, straight.............................................  8)4
Bologna,  thick....................... 
       8)4-
Head  Cheese.........................J........ ............] ”  8

 

P IG S ’  FEE T.

In half barrels................................................  390..
In quarter barrels............................... 
  2  10
In kits....................................................

 

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.

2)r\>  (Boobs.

Spring & Company quote as rtbiuwo

W ID E  BROW N COTTONS.

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

Pepperell, 10-4... ...25
Pepperell, 11-4... ...27%
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 
ParkMids, 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

Alabama plaid.......8
A ugusta p laid.........8
Toledo plaid...........   7%
Manchester  plaid..  7 
New Tenn. plaid.. .11 
Utility plaid............  6%

BLEACHED  COTTONS.

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, 44.........9%
Boott, K. 34...........   5%
Blackstone, AA 44  7% 
Chapman, X, 44—   6%
Cpnway,  44..............7%
Cabot, 44 ................   7%
Cabot, 7-8.................  6%
Canoe,  34 ...............  4
Domestic,  36..........  7%
Dwight Anchor, 44.10
Davol, 44...............  9%
Fruit of Loom, 44..  9 
Fruit of Loom, 7-8..  8% 
Fruit of  the Loom,
cambric,  4-4........12
Cold Medal, 44..  ..  7
■Gold Medal, 7-8.........6%
Gilded Age............... SU

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

..  6% 
. . 10% 
. . 10%

CORSET JE A N S .

Armory..................  7%[Kearsage.................8?*
Androscoggin sat..  8%|Naumkeagsatteen.  8%
Canoe River...........   6  Pepperell bleached 8%
Clarendon...............  6% Pepperell sat..........  9%
Hadowell  Im p.:...  6% Rockport................   7%
Ind.Orch.Imp.......6%¡Lawrencesat.......  8%
Laconia..................   7%|Conegosat............  7

Albion,  solid............5%
Albion,  grey............6
Allen’s  checks.........5%
Aden’s  fancy.......... 5%
Allen’s pink............ 6%
Allen’s p u r p l e 6% 
American, fancy... .5%
Arnold fancy...........6
Berlin solid............... 5%
Cocheco fancy....... 8
Coeheco robes.........7
Conestoga fancy— 6
Eddy sto n e..............6
Eagle fancy............ 5
Garner pink............ 7

Gloucester.............. 6
Glou cestermourn’g . 6
Hamilton  fancy__6
H artel fancy........... 6
Merrimac D.............6
Manchester.............6
Oriental fancy........6
Oriental  robes........6%
Pacific robes...........6
R ichm ond.................6
Steel River.............. 5%
Simpson’s ................6
Washington fancy.. 
Washington  blues..8

F IN E  BROW N  COTTONS.

Appleton A, 44—
Boott  M, 44...........
Boston F, 4-4..........
Continental C, 4-3 .. 
Continental D, 40 in 
Conestoga W, 44... 
Conestoga  D, 7-8... 
Conestoga G, 30-in.
Dwight  X, 34........
Dwight Y, 7-8..........
Dwight Z, 44..........
Dwight Star, 4 4.... 
Ewight Star, 40-in.. 
Enterprise EE, 36.. 
Great Falls E, 44...
Farmers’ A, 44.......
Indian  Orchard, 44

Indian Orchard, 40.  8% 
Indian Orchard, 36.  8
Laconia B, 74.........16%
Lyman B, 40-in.......10%
Mass. BB, 4-4..........  6%
Nashua  E, 40-in__ 9
Nashua  R, 44........   7%
Nashua 0,7-8..........  7%
Newmarket N ........   7%
Pepperell E, 39-in..  7%
Pepperell  R, 44__   7
Pepperell 0 , 7-8___ 6%
Pepperell N, 34___ 6%
Pocasset  C, 44.......7
Saranac  R...............  7%
Saranac E ...............  9

DOM ESTIC  GINGHAM S.

A m o s k e a g ............•  8
Amoskeag, Persian
styles.................... 10%
Bates.........................7%
Berkshire...............  6%
Glasgow checks—   7 
Glasgow checks, f*y 7% 
Glasgow 
Gloucester, 
•  standard.............   7%
Plunket.................... 7%
Lancaster...............  SU
Langdale.................. 7U

checks,
r o y a l   s t y l e s ........... 8
new

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

Earlston...............  9%

styles  ...................12%

W ID E BLEACHED  COTTONS.

A ndroscoggin, 74..21 
[Peppered.  104.. 
A ndroscoggin, 84..23  Pepperell,  114..
Pepperell,  7-4....... 20  IPequot,  74........
Pepperell,  84....... 22%|Pequot,  84........
Pepperell,  94....... 25  IPequot,  9-4........

HEAVY  BROW N  COTTONS.

Atlantic  A, 44.......
Atlantic  H, 4-4.......
Atlantic  D, 4-4.......
Atlantic P, 44........
Atlantic LL, 44—
Adriatic, 36.............
Augusta, 44...........
Boott M, 44............
Boott  FF, 44..........
Graniteville, 44—  
Indian  Head,44... 
Indiana Head 45-in.

8%
5%

Lawrence XX, 4-4. 
Lawrence  Y, 30... 
Lawrence LL, 44..
Newmarket N......
Mystic River, 4-4..
Pequot A, 44........
Piedmont,  36........
Stark AA, 44........
Tremont CC, 4-4...
Utica,  44...............
Wachusett,  44__
Wachusett,  30-in..

TIC K IN G S.

Amoskeag,  ACA.. .14 Falls, XXXX........ 18%
Amoskeag  “ 4-4. .19 Falls, XXX............ .15%
Amoskeag,  A ....... .13 Falls,  BB............... .11%
Amoskeag,  B ....... .12 Falls,  BBC, 36....... 19%
Amoskeag,  C....... II Falls,  awning....... 19
M i Amoekeag,  D ....... .10%Hamilton,  BT, 32. 12
Amdfekeag,  E ....... .10 Hamilton,  D........ .10
Amoskeag, F ........ .  9*4¡Hamilton,  H __   . .10
.17 Hamilton  fancy.. 10
Premium  A, 4-4..
Premium  B .......... .16 Methuen AA........ 13%
Extra 4-4................ .16 Methuen ASA....... .18
Extra 7-8................ .14% Omega A, 7-8........ .11
Gold Medal 4-4....... 15 Omega A, 4-4........ .13
GCA 7-8.................. ■ 12%Omega ACA, 7-8... 14
■CT 4-4..................... .14 Omega ACA, 4-4... 16
RC 7-8..................... .14 Omega SE, 7-8....... 24
BF 7-8..................... .16 Omega SE, 4-4....... 27
AF4-4..................... .19 Omega M. 7-8....... .22
Gordis AAA, 32---- .14 Omega M, 4-4........ .25
Gordis  ACA, 32.... .15 Shetucket SS&S&W YIV%
Gordis No. 1, 32— .15 Shetucket, S & SW.12
Cordis  No. 2.......... 14 Shetucket,  SFS.:. .12
Gordis  No. 3.......... .13 Stoekbridge  A __ 7
Cordis  No. 4.......... .11% Stoekbridge frncy 8

A

GLAZED CAM BRICS.

Garner............. ....  5 Empire................
Hookset........... __ 5 Washington........ ..  4%
Red  Cross........ ....  5 Edwards............... ..  5
S. 8. & Sons.......... ..  5
Forest Grove...

G R A IN  BAGS.
__ 19 Old  Ironsides__ ..15%
Stark A ............ ....23% Wheatland.......... ..21%

DENIM S.

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............. __ 11%¡York  fancy......... ..15

P A P E R   CAM BRICS.

Man ville........... ....  6 S. S. & Sons.......... ..  6
Masgnville....... ....  6 Garner .................

W IG A N S.

SPO O L COTTON.

Red  Cross........ ...,  7%Thistle Mills........
Berlin............... ....  7% Rose...................... ..  8
G arner............. ....  7%
Brooks............. ....50 Eagle  and  Phoenix
Mills ball eewing.30
Clark’s O. N. F, ....55
J. & P.  Coats... ....55 Greeh  &  Daniels. ..25
Willimantie 6 cord. 55 Merricks............. ..40.
Willimantic 3 cord. 40 Stafford............... ..35
Hall & Manning.. ..30
Charleston ball sew
ing thread.... ....30 Holyoke........ .

S IL E S IA S .

Grown............. . ....17 Masonville TS__ ..  8
No.  10............... ....12% Masonville  S....... ..10%
Coin.................. ....10 Lonsdale............. ..  9%
Anchor............. ....15 Lonsdale A .......... ..16
Nictory  O............ ..  6
Centennial.......
Blackburn ....... ....  8 Victory J ............. ..  7
Davol................. ....14 Victory D ............
London............. ----12% Victory K............ ..12%
Paconia............ ....12 Phoenix A............ ..  9%
Red Gross....... ....10, Phoenix B.......... ..10%
..15
Social  Imperial....10 Phoenix XX......

COUNTRY  PRODUCE.

A  STRANGE  STORY.

bu.

size.

$16 ^  ton.

Asparagus—About out of market.
Bailed  Hay—Scarce  and firm  at  $15@ 
Buckwheat Seed—$1.25 ^  bu.
Butter—Choice dairy packed is worth 15@ 
16c.  Creamery packed  19c.
readily  command 
Beans-—Handpicked 
$2.25@$2.50.  Unpicked are not much mov­
ing.

Beats—40c ^  doz. bunches.
Cabbages—$6@$8  ^   100,  according  to 
Cheese—Full cream  9@9}£c.
Clover  Seed—Choice  medium  firm  at  $6 
@$6.50 ^  bu. and mammoth in fair  demand 
at $6.75 

Cucumbers —45c ^3  doz.
Dried Apples—Quarters active  at 7@9c ^  
ft>,  and sliced  8@9c.  Evaporated  dull  and 
slow at 12X@14c.

bbl.  .
at 2c 7$  lb.

for pure, and 8@10c for adulterated.

Eggs—Firm and ready  sale  at 16@17c.
Green Onions—30@35c ^  dozen  bunches.
Hungarian Grass Seed—$1 ^  bu.
Honey—Choice new, 16c 
Hops—Brewers pay  35@40c  for  Eastern 
and Western and 18@20c for  Michigan.
Lettuce—In fair demand  at 10c ^   B6.
Maple  Sugar—Dull  and  plenty  at 12>£c. 
Millet Seed—$1 ^ b u .
Onions—New,  $2.50  7$  sack  and  $4  7$ 
Pieplant—Ordinary  stock in fair  demand 
Peas—60@75c ^   bu.
Peas, for field seed—$1.50  7$ bu.
Radishes—16c ^  dozen bunches.
Potatoes—Old  are  about  played  out. 
Choice new are worth $2.75@$3 per bbl., but 
are no a downward tendency.
Poultry—A little  more  plentiful.  Fowls 
seling at 15@16c.
Timothy—Choice is firmly held at $1.75 ^  
bu.
Tomatoes—Illinois $1 ^  box of  X  bu.
Wax  Beans—$1  ^   bu.;  Green,  75cper 
Watermelons—Large scaly  bark  Georgia 

bu.
are worth $40@$45 per  hundred.

lb.

GRAINS AND  MILLING  PRODUCTS.

$1.05.

Wheat—White, 95@98c;  Lancaster,  96@ 
Corn—45@60c ^  bu.
Oats—White 40c 7$ bu.
Rye—52@54c ^  bu.
Barley—Brewers pay $1.30@$1.40 ^   100 
lbs.
Flour—Fancy  Patent,  $6.50  ^   bbl.  in 
sacks  and $6.75 in wood.  Straight, $5.50 ^  
bbl. in sacks and $5.75 in  wrood.

Meal—Bolted, $1.45 ^  cwt.
Mill Feed—Screenings, $14 ^  ton.  Bran, 
$13@$14 @ ton.  Ships, $15  ^   ton.  Mid­
dlings, $17 ^  ton.  Corn  and  Oats, $23  ^  
ton.

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 i n ............................  35 00
C Strips, 4 or 6 inch....................................   28 00
No. VFencing, 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 6 in., 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.
( XXX 18 in. Standard  Shingles.............  
3 50
3 40
1 X X X 18 in.  Thin...................................... 
3 00
( XXX 16 in................................................. 
No. 2 or 6 in. C. B 18 in.  Shingles.............  
2 00
No. 2 or 5 in. C. B. 16  in.............................. 
175
Lath  ............................................................. 
2 00

OYSTERS  AND  FISH.

F. J. Dcttenthaler quotes as follows: 

OYSTERS.

FR ESH   F IS H .

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

 

 

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS.

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

WANTED—A position as traveling salesman 

or head clerk in a  mercantile  establish 
ment by an experienced and thoroughly  com­
petent  man.  Address  T. M.  Stryker,  Coral, 
Mich.

A. Lockinaw, Kalkaska, Mich.

FOR SALE—Stock and good will of retail gro­
cery store in one of the  best  locations  in 
Grand Rapids.  Will either rent or sell building. 
Stock and fixtures will  inventory about $1,000. 
Address XX X , care T h e T radesm an.
W ANTED—A first-class baker.  Apply to C. 
WANTED.— A position in a  first-class  drug 
store by  a  Voung  man  of  experience. 
Address A., care T h e T radesm an.
WANTED.—A  number  of  traveling  sales­

men to handle a line of shirts in connec­
tion with their other line;  Liberal Commission 
paid.  Address, Marshall Shirt Manufacturing 
Co.,  Marshall,  Mich.

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

N.  SWEENEY,

June 11,1884, 

IX ) R SALE—A stock of new, fresh staple gro- 
1  ceries and fixtures complete. Willinvoice 
$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,  83  Clinton 
street, Grand Rapids, or Box 10, Hastings, Mich.

A  Cheboygan  Merchant  Interviews  a  De­
From the Cheboygan Democrat.

funct Clerk.

A sense of something passing to and fro,” 

For  some  years  one  of  oar  prominent 
merchants has been a firm believer in  spirit­
ualism  and  all  its  manifestations—visible 
and  invisible.  Whether  Deacon  Williams 
is  responsible for this or not we cannot say, 
be that as it  may,  the  subject  had  been  a 
prolific  source  of  conversation between the 
merchant and his clerk and intimate friends. 
Some year  or  two  ago  an  agreement  was 
made  between  the merchant and one of his 
clerks, that whoever should die  first  should 
return if possible, and  bring  the  other  tid­
ings from that “unknown bourne”.  At that 
time  both  were  strong, hearty men, and to 
all appearances it would be a long  time  be­
fore  either  would  join  the silent majority. 
But  the  clerk sickened and after a long ill­
ness he died.  As it became evident that he 
was dying he spoke  to  his  employer  again 
on  the  subject,  and  solemnly  promised  to 
return again if it were  possible,  A  month 
or so after the remains of the departed were 
deposited  in the cemetery, the merchant be­
gan  to  anxiously  await  tidings  from  the 
Land of the Leal.  At first nothing occurred 
out of the ordinary run of things terrestrial, 
but as time passed the merchant began to be 
conscious of a presence—
“An impalpable impression on the air,—
And  jumped  to  the  conclusion  that  his 
friend  was trying to  break through the veil 
of mystery that shrouds the other world, and 
was so excited that he retired  to  Lis  room, 
where, after  the  feelings  of  the  merchant 
had  been  worked  up to the proper pitch to 
enable the  shade  to  approach,  it  began  to 
materialize,  until  the  portly  form  of  the 
clerk stood beside the merchant the same as 
in life, and then ensued a long conversation, 
during which the spook  volunteered  if  the 
merchant would go  to Chicago, to perform a 
miracle and cure a  slight lameness the mer­
chant  suffered  from while working through 
the medium of  a  “healer.”  The visit was 
made and the lameness was greatly relieved, 
and another visit  will  be  made,  when  the 
cure, it is expected, will be completed.  The 
intimacy  between  two friends of two differ­
ent worlds has  now  become  so  great  that 
the merchant  keeps  some  of  his  intimate 
friends up all night  in  his  room  while  he 
talks  to  the departed,  who, however, is in­
visible to all but himself,  and  whose  voice 
he alone can here.  The  story  is a strange 
one,  but there is no doubt but that the mer­
chant is firm in the belief that  he  sees  and 
talks  with  the  departed,  and  so sincere is 
he  that  several  of  his  friends  have  been 
convinced.

The Campaign.

From the Industrial World.

Indications  now  point  to  a  very  active 
and  exciting  Presidential  Campaign/  To; 
a certain  extent  this will injure the regular 
business of the country. 
In some branches, 
however,  there  will  be  increased activity. 
Flag-makers, manufacturers of  regalia  and 
uniforms, 
torch-light  manufacturers,  and 
makers  of  transparencies  will  have  their 
hands  full.  Ready-made-clothing  dealers 
already  report  a  large  business  in  Grand 
Army of the  Republic  suits,  and  campaign 
hat-makers  also  are  crowded  with  orders. 
These are special industries brought into in­
creased activity by the political  contest.

Will regular business be neglected?  Why 
should  it?  Men need not stop working be­
cause of  their intense  anxiety  to  elect  the 
President  of  their choice.  There  will  be 
large  numbers  of  public  gatherings,  no 
doubt,  and  these  will  attract  many  from 
their  stores  and  shops  to  attend them, but 
this, at best, will be only a temporaiy  inter­
ruption to business.

It  may  be  expected  that  all  kinds  of 
trade will be less active for  the  months  of 
July  and  August than for  the two or three 
previous months.  At  least,  there  are  few 
indications  looking  to activity during these 
months, but the dulness, if it should prevail, 
will not be all due to political excitement.

Many are  forced  to  the  belief  that  the 
best  interests  of  the country would be sub 
served by  extending  the  Presidential  term 
from four to ten years, 
thus preventing the 
too-frequent recurrence of  Presidential cam­
paigns,  with  all  of their unsettling and de­
moralizing effects. 
In  the  present  contest 
the  people  will  not loudly complain of the 
ill effects of the political agitation if  the  re­
sult  of the election shall prove satisfactory.

He  Wasn’t From  the South.

“Yes, sir, I was up to the Chicago Conven­
tion,” replied  one  drummer  in  response  to 
the inquiry of  another as  they  both  looked 
around in vain to see if there were any pretty 
girls on the car;  “had  a  royal  time,  too. 
Walked about  the  hotels  and  made  people 
believe  I  was  a  big  politician.  Tried  to 
make  Steve  Elkins believe I was a delegate 
from the South,  and hard up for stuff to pay 
my hotel  bill with.  But he was too flip  for 
me—couldn’t work him.”

“How did he catch onto you?”
“Well, I’ll tell you.  He took me into room 
40, Grand Pacific,  clear  into  the little  back 
bedroom. 
‘Now,’  says  he,  ‘we  want  all 
the friends we can get in the south.  We’re 
going to have a glorious foreign  policy, and 
—but let’s take a drink first,’ says he. 
‘Cer­
tainly,’ says I.  ‘Whitelaw,’ says Steve, ‘pass 
the bottle.’  They gave  me the bottle, but I 
hesitated. 
‘A 
glass, if you please,’ says  I. 
‘Young man,’ 
says  Steve,  as  he  took  me  by  the  collar, 
‘your name  may be Brown, and you may be 
a  delegate  from  Georgia, but  I believe you 
are an infernal  liar.  You’re  the  first  man 
from the  South  I’ve  seen—and  I ’ve  seen 
about  all  of ’em—that asked for a  glass  to 
drink whisky out of.  Now you  get  out  of 
here.’ ”

‘What now?’ says  Elkins. 

Ibarbware.

Prevailing  rates  at Chicago  are  as follows: 

AUGERS AND B IT S .

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

 

Spring.............. 

.dis 

25

BALANCES.

 
BA RROW S.

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

BE LLS.

Hand.................................................... dis  $ 60&10
Cow....................................... . ..............dis 
60
15
Call...........................................................dis 
Gong....................................................... dis 
20
Door, Sargent........................................ dis 
55

Stove....................................................... dis $ 
Carnage and Tire, new .ist................. dis 

BO LTS.

40
75

Cast Barrel Bolts..................................dis 
50
55
Wrought Barrel Bolts..........................dis 
Cast Barrel, brass  knobs.....................dis 
50
Cast Square Spring...............................dis 
55
Cast Chain........ ................................... dis 
60
Wrought Barrel, brass  knob..............dis  55&10
Wrought Square...................................dis  55&10
Wrought Sunk Flush............................dis 
30
Wrought  Bronze  and  Plated  Knob
Flush.....................................................  50&10&10
Ives’ Door.............................................. dis  50&10

BRACES.

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

40
50
50
net

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

$  4  00
4 50

 

BUCKETS.

BU TTS,  CAST.

60
Cast Loose Pin, figured........................dis 
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed........dis 
60
60
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed.. dis 
Wrought Narrow, bright fast  joint, .dis  50&10
Wrounht Loose  Pin.............................dis 
60
Wrought Loose Pin, acorn tip............dis  60& 5
Wrought Loose Pin, j apanned............dis  60& 5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silver
tipped................................................. dis  60& 5
Wrought Table.......................................dis 
60
Wrought Inside Blind..........................dis 
60
Wrought Brass......................................dis  65&10
Blind. Clark’s......................................... dis  70&10
Blind, Parker’s......................................dis  70&10
Blind,  Shepard’s................................... dis 
70
Spring for Screen Doors 3x2%, per gross  15 00
Spring for Screen Doors 3x3__ per gross  18 00

CA PS.

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

60
35
60

CA TRIDG ES.

C H IS ELS.

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

33%
25

COMBS.

COCKS.

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

 

C O PPER .
Planished, 14 oz cut to size..................... $  ft  37
,14x52,14x56,14 x60........... 
39
D R IL L S.

Morse’s Bit  Stock........................., ...dis
35
Tapfei&nd Straight Shank.............
.. dis
20
Morse’s Taper  So5nk...................... ...dis
30
Com. 4 piece, 6  in............................ doz net $1 10
Corrugated......................................
...dis 20&10
Adjustable........................................ ... dis 40&10
Clar’s, small, $18 00;  large, $26 00.
20
Ives’;,,1, $18 00 ;  2, $24 00 ;  3, $30 00.
25

EX PA N SIV E B ITS.

ELBOW S.

dis
dis

F IL E S .

American File Association List..
...dis 40&10
Disston’s ........................................... . ..dis 40&10
New American...............................
... dis 40&10
Nicholson’s........................................ ... dis 40 A-10
Heller’s ............................................ .. .dis
30
Heller’s Horse Rasps......................
33%
.. dis
GA LV ANIZED IR O N ,
22 and  24,  25 and 26,  27 
28
Nos. 16 to 20, 
12 
List 
15 
18
14 
Discount, Juniata 45, Charcoal 50. 
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s..............dis 

13 
GAUGES.

50

HAMMERS.

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

HA NG ERS.

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

H IN G ES.

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

HOLLOW   W ARE.

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

H O ES.

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

KNOBS.

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

 

LOCKS—DOOR.

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

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ..................... dis  65

LEV ELS.

M ILLS.

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

N A IL S.

Common, Brad and Fencing.

lOdto  60d............................................ $  keg $2 45
8d and 9 d adv................................................ 
25
6dand7d  adv................................................ 
50
4d and 5d  adv................................................ 
75
3d advance.....................................................  1 50
3d fine  advance.............................................  3 00
Clinch nails, adv...........................................  175
Finishing 
Size—inches  }  3 
Adv.  keg 
Steel Nails—Advance 15c from above prices. 

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

6d  4d
2 
1%

M OLLASSES GATES.

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

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

M AULS.

OILERS.

Zinc or tin, Chase’s Patent................... 
  dis  55
Zinc, with brass bottom........................... dis  50
Brassor  Copper.............................. ......d is  40
Reaper.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..per gross, $12 net

MATTOCKS.

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

ALL OF WHICH WE  QUOTE  AT  BOTTOM 

PRICES.

AG ENTS  FOR  THE

Riverside Steel Nail

A  Stock of which we now have  in  store—and 
solicit  Sample  Orders.  PRICE  ONLY FIF­
TEEN (15)  CENTS ABOVE COMMON NAILS.

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

2%*

The  Introduction  of  Steel  Nails.

PLANES.

PANS.

RIVETS.

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

Fry, Acme....................................... 
Common, polished.;..........................................dis 60
Dripping...................................................... n> 

dis 40&10
8

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 fl ft extra.

40
40

ROOFING PLATES.

ROPES.

SQUARES.

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............................$  tg  9%
Manilla.............................................................  15
Steel and  Iron.............................................. dis  50
Try and Bevels..............................................dis  50
Mitre  ............................................................dis  20
Com. Smooth.  Com.
$3 20
3 20
3 20
3 20
3 40
3 60
Alksheets 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.

SHEET IRON.

In casks of 600 tbs, $   B>............................ 
In smaller quansities, <p  B>.....................  

TINNER’S SOLDER.

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

6%
7

13 00
15 00
16

TIN PLATES.

Cards for Charcoals, $6 75.
10x14, Charcoal.................................  6  50
IC, 
10x14,Charcoal...............................  8 50
IX, 
12x12, Charcoal.................................  6  50
IC, 
12x12,  Charcoal...............................  8 50
IX, 
14x20, Charcoal.................................  6  50
IC, 
IX, 
14x20,  Charcoal................................  8 50
IXX,  14x20, Charcoal.................................  10  50
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.

WIRE.

Steel, Game......................................................
Onoida Communtity,  Newhouse’s..........dis  35
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s__   60
Hotchkiss’ ........................................................  60
S, P. & W. Mfg.  Co.’s ......................................  60
Mouse,  choker....................................... 20c $  doz
Mouse,  delusion................................. $1 26 $1 doz
Bright Market..........................................  dis  60
Annealed Market.....................................dis  60
Coppered Market.................. .....................dis  55
Extra Bailing............................................dis  55
Tinned  Market........................................ kis  40
Tinned Broom..........................................¡¡j? tb  09
Tinned Mattress....................................... fl>  8%
Coppered  Spring  Steel...........................dis 37%
Tinned Spring Steel.................................dis 37%
Plain Fence__ .7......................................^ tb 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
33%
Dampers, American................................. 

FOSTER,

TEVENS 
&  GO.,
HARDWARE!

-WHOLESALE—

10  and  12  MONROE  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

MICHIGAN.

WE  SOLICIT  THE

DEALER’S  TRADE,

And NOT the Consumer’s.

We are Manufacturers’ Agents for the

Croia Jewel Vapor Stove,

The  long-talked-of  steel  nail  is  now  a 
reality  and  has  become  a bona fide article 
of commerce,  with every appearance of hav­
ing come into  the  market  to  stay.  Small 
stocks  of  them are  in the hands of the job­
bers, and the  next  few  months  will  deter­
mine  whether  the  nail will meet the popu­
larity which has been predicted.  The  pro­
duction as yet has been very small.  Only a 
few  scattering  car-load  lots  have been ob­
tainable, the bulk of the shipments from the 
mills even being in less than car-loads.  The 
experimental stage, in so far as it effects the 
value  of  steel  for nails, is now passed, but 
many minor details of  production are yet in 
question, and it is  a  definite  settlement  of 
these that is  awaited  before  the  manufac­
ture is begun in earnest. Stee lnails have been 
made in small quantities in this country  for 
some  time,  but  they  were  held at fancy 
prices and occupied  no  important  place  in 
the general trade.  The price at which they 
shall  be  put  upon  the  market  is  not  yet 
definitely settled, because  the  cost  of  pro­
duction  as  compared  with iron nails is not 
yet  ascertained.  For the present, the Ben- 
wood nails are selling at  the  same  price  of 
iron,  and  the Riverside are held  at 15 cents 
per keg  higher than iron.  The  nails  now 
in  the  market  are  made  entirely  of  soft 
steel, neither Bessemer or  open-hearth, and 
of  course  the  necessity of puddling is done 
away  with.  The  local  makers  are  using 
with  success  the  same  machines  formerly 
used for iron nails.  At the East some alter­
ations in  the machines have been made, the 
value of which is not yet developed.

The question  of  making  the  nails  suffi­
ciently  lighter  to  make  up in  number the 
additional  cost per keg to the  consumer has 
received  considerable  attention.  While  it 
is pretty generally admitted that the greater 
strength and rigidity of the steel  would  ad­
mit  this, the change to a lighter nail is held 
by the better-informed to be of  very  doubt­
ful advantage, to say the  least.  The  nails 
would  not  only have  to be cut light enough 
to make up  the  difference  in  price  to  the 
consumer, but also to admit of that price be­
ing raised to recompense  the  manufacturer 
for the increased cost  of  the  light  cutting. 
The  most  important claim for steel nails is 
their rigidity, and this  advantage  would  be 
lost in  making  the  nail  enough  lighter  to 
meet the above requirements.  Furthermore, 
experience  teaches us that a certain amount 
of cleavage is  essential  and  any  reduction 
of the same is  of  doubtful  advantage. 
In 
fact,  it has of late years been the custom to 
make the iron nails  as  light  as admissable. 
The small additional cost named above, it is 
thought,  however,  will  not prove an obsta­
cle to the popularity of steel nails, and their 
use is, it is believed, destined to become gen­
eral.  The  extra  cost is, in many instances, 
more than offset by saving in  breaking  and 
in  labor  for  boring  holes for nails in hard 
wood.  The chief  advantage,  as  has  been 
said, lies in their greater  rigidity,  and  it  is 
for  use  in  hardwoods that they are mainly 
in demand.  They  are especially adapted to 
flooring and molding  purposes.  The  nails 
are  said to finish somewhat better than iron 
nails and to have fewer flaws.

Glucose  in  Leather.

According to the Shoe  and  Leather  Re­
view, the falsification of the weight of leath­
er  by  adding  glucose,  or  grape  sugar ap­
pears to be carried on rather  extensively  in 
Germany,  and  the  shoe  trade societies are 
taking steps to protect themselves  from  the 
imposition.  A simple  test is recommended, 
which consists in placing pieces of the leath­
er  in  water  for  the  space  of twenty-four 
hours, when the glucose will be dissolved by 
the water, and the  result  will  be  a  thick, 
syrupy  liquid.  When  two  pieces  of  the 
leather are placed together and  left  in  that 
position for a time, it will be found  difficult 
to separate them, as the gummy  exudations 
will stick them together. 
It  is  stated  that 
some samples of sole leather were  found  to 
contain as high as 30 to 40 per cent of extra 
weight.  Another  test  recommended  is  to 
cut  off small  pieces  of  the  leather,  and, 
wrapping them in  a  damp  cloth,  lay  them 
away for a few  days  in  a temperate  place. 
If the leather is adulterated, the  pieces will 
be found to be stuck together, and surround­
ed  by  a  syrupy  substance in proportion  to 
the quantity of the adulterant used; and the 
peculiarity about leather treated with  grape 
sugar is that, after wetting,  it is  difficult  to 
dry, and resembles gutta percha or untanned 
leather more than the genuine article.

Canes and  Umbrellas,

The manufacture of canes  and  umbrellas 
in the United  States extends  from  Massa­
chusetts to California, and from Michigan to 
Texas, including nineteen  different  states, 
although the  production in some of them is 
very  small, notably in  Ëouisana, where the 
product amounts to only $500, and  Virginia 
producing only $900  worth.  The  number 
of  shops in the  United  States is given  as 
172; number of males  employed,  1,504; fe­
males, 1,863, and children, 245; total amount 
of capital, $2,646,425; material used, $4,502,- 
777.

W hat  May  Be.
From the Ishpeming Agitator.

Geologists  claim  that  at  the  junction of 
the granite and slates  of  this  region  there 
ought to be indications of tin.  Nothing has 
yet  been  found of this metal, but the rocks 
which are  so prolific in other minerals  may 
yet  prove  to contain this.  Thete might be 
a  search of a systematic  kind ’made  for  it 
with good results.  Little  is  known  of  tin 
by explorers hereaways and mines of it may 
have been trampled under foot for ages past

%

PENCIL PORTRAITS—NO.  91.

Grocery Trade.

Dr  J  11. Evans, the Handsome  Man  of the 
Josiah Bidwel  Evans was  born at Water- 
town, N. Y., Dec. 23,1849, and about a year 
afterward  his  family  removed  to  Walton, 
Delaware county, same State,where they still 
reside.  Josh, attended the village school  at 
Walton,  subsequently  studying  the  higher 
branches at Deposit, and completing his edu­
cation at Cornell University.  While getting 
an education, he taught school  winters,  and 
all his studies were pursued with the  single 
idea of fitting himself for the  profession  of 
teacher, in which vocation  he  subsequently 
attained considerable success.  He was mar­
ried Aug. 17, 1870, and in the spring of 1872 
removed to Missouri, where he was principal 
of  graded  schools  at  St.  Francisville  and 
Athens. 
In 1875 he accepted the  principal- 
ship  of  the  public  school  at  Farmington 
Iowa, where he  had charge of  four  depart 
ments, his wife  being intermediate  teacher. 
He  filled the position  acceptably  for  three 
years, when he resigned to remove to Michi­
gan, teaching the school at Berlin the coming 
year.  He then attended a course of medical 
lectures at the Hahnemann Medical College, 
at Chicago,—from which comes the designa­
tion “Dr.”—and  afterwards  practiced with 
Dr. Marvin, of this city1 several months.  Jin 
1880, he engaged with John Caulfield  to  at­
tend to the wants of the city , trade and make 
short trips outside, which position  he  filled 
for  about  a  year,  when  he  accepted  an 
offer extended him by  W.  W.  Kimball,  to 
sell musical instruments.  On the sale of the 
business to McIntyre & Goodsell,  he contin­
ued with the house, remaining in the position 
until June, 1883, when he engaged to  travel 
for Cody, Ball & Co.  His territory includes 
to D., G. H. & M., east and west, the G. K. & 
L, from Howard City to Plainwell, the C.  & 
W. M., as far as Watervliet, and east to Eat­
on Rapids on the Michigan Central.  He sees 
his trade regularly  every  three  weeks,  and 
there is every reason  for  thinking  that  his 
visits are as acceptable to the  trade  as  they 
are satisfactory to the house  he  represents 
Mr. Evans is a genial  companion  as  well 
as a polite and accomplished gentleman.  He 
is a capital collector—very much better than 
the average—and takes front rank as a sales­
man. 
lie  holds  his  trade  by  “doing  the
square thing by his customers,  and  making 
everything right,” as he expresses it, and  to 
this fact is to be  attributed the success  that 
has attended his career as a  traveling  sales­
man.

Logs  Run on  Rogue  River

Mr. Wm. H. Powers, secretary and  treas­
urer of the Rogue and Grand River Log Run­
ning Co., furnishes The  Tradesman  with 
the following table, showing the  number  of 
logs handled by the company during the pres­
ent season, and the individual owners of the 
same:
C. C.  Comstock......................................... q’mf’non
A. B. Long & Sons...............................«gp 920
Grand Haven Lumber Co.......................o’™ ’X™
Robinson, Letellier & Co......................... i’<»nlan
Cupples Wooden ware  Co....................... ^25’fcn
R. H. Woodin...........................................
Buswell, Cairnes &  Co............................
Michigan Barrel Co..................................

Total 

20,224,728
This is a considerable falling off from  the 
figures of last year, the logs run during 1883 
amounting to 39,090,000 feet. 
It  is estimat­
ed that the next two  years  will  completely 
exhaust all the pine  worth  running  on  the 
river, the most of  which  will  be  cut  next 
year, and even then  the  total  amount  will 
probably not exceed 10,000,000 feet.  The re­
mainder, which  will  be  for  the  most  part 
small and scattering, will be worked up into 
shingles on the ground.

That’s  W hat He  Failed For.

“Well, Messmore, do you propose to accept 
the  fifty  per  cent,  compromise  offered  by 
John Wingler?” asked  John Caulfield of the 
more  or  less  illustrious  Colonel the  other 
day.

“Yes, I shall advise my wife to that effect, 

was the reply.

“That’s a pretty fair margin—get fifty per 
cent and settle at 10—I understand you pro­
pose making such  an offer,”  said  Caulfield.
“What am I in this  business for, anyhow, 
if it ain’t to make  a  good  percentage?”  re­
plied Messmore.

D. W. Kendall, designer for the Berkey & 
Gay Furniture Co., J.  N.  Murray,  until  re­
cently  traveling  representative  for  Sidney 
Norris & Co., of Baltimore, and Wm.  Strid- 
iron, traveling salesman for Berry  Bros.,  of 
Detroit, have formed a  co-partnership under 
the firm name of Murray, Kendall & Co., for 
the purpose of engaging in the  manufacture 
and sale of hat cases for hotels.  The case is 
the invention of Mr.  Kendall,  who  has  ar­
ranged with the  Novelty  Furniture  Co.  for 
the  manufacture of several, and Mr. Murray 
has gone on the road in  the  interest  of  the 
new firm.

D. E. Steams,  general  western  traveling 
overseer for the  Broadhead  Worsted  Mills, 
Jamestown, N. Y., left  yesterday  for  a  six 
weeks’ tour  through  Illinois,  Missouri  and 
Kansas.  He has just arranged  with W.  W. 
Williams,  of  Kalamazoo,  to  represent  his 
house  in  Kansas,  Nebraska  and  Missouri. 
Yemor Wooley  continues  in  possession  of 
the  Iilinois  trade  and  W.  B.  Kindalethe 
Michigan trade, while S. K. Lindley attends 
to the Chicago retailers.

> Jas. Fox has just completed a summer res­
idence at Macatawa Park, and his family are 
now enjoying the cool breezes and fine fishing

RUINED  HOMES.

A Villain  Who  has  W recked the  Peace  of 
“Do you expose trade frauds?” said a call­

Nine  Families.

er  at the  office  the  other  day.

“Of course  we do, that’s one of our  spec­
ialties,” responded the  fraud  reporter,  who 
then recognized the  interrogator  as  an  old 
friend who once lived on the West  Side.  A 
closer scrutiny of the man’s face revealed the 
fact that his eyes wore a dead look  and that 
his lips were tightly compressed.

I hardly recognized you,” apologized the 
newspaper man.  “You look as  though  you 
were in trouble.  1 didn’t know that anything 
ever worried you.  Why, a few  months ago 
you were  counted  the j oiliest  man  on  the 
West Side.”

“I know I was,” said the  other as he wip­
ed  away a tear;  “but just look at  me  now 
See  how  thin  I’ve  grown,  and  how  pale 
and careworn.  Oh! but I’ve  suffered.  Lis­
ten.”

He drew nearer to the  reporter,  pulled  a 
flask from an inner pocket, took a long  pull 
at it,  and  replaced  it.  The  scribe  was 
thunderstruck.  Mr. Blank was a deacon  in 
a West Side church once and was known  as 
a total abstainer.

Yes, listen to  me,”  continued  the  -man, 
wiping his lips, “and learn  how  the  happi 
ness of six families may be  wrecked by  one 
heartless, unfeeling  fiend, for  if  ever  there 
was a fiend that boy is one.  But to begin at 
the beginning.  When you knew me last fall 
I lived in peace and  quiet,  but  in  an  evil 
hour a friend persuaded me to  move  into  a 
tenement  house  over  on  --------  street.
Everything moved along smoothly for sever­
al weeks when it was discovered that one of 
the  tenants  had a  piano.  Nothing  strange 
in that, you say?  Ah, but  wait, wait.  The 
piano was all right, perhaps,  except  that  it 
was sort of ‘tinpanny,’ but oh  the  fiend  in­
carnate  who  performs  upon  it.  Performs 
upon it, did I say?  Rather let me say pounds 
it, hammers it, jumps on it, smashes it.  He 
seems to have no use for any  music  but  his 
own.  We stood it for a  few days, and hop­
ed he would die from  over  exertion,  but  it 
daily grew worse until  it  has  wrecked  the 
lives and blasted the hopes of the occupants 
of the row, your unfortunate servant  among 
them.  We tried to get a sight of  the  fiend 
who was driving us mad and a  neighbor  sat 
for three days with a Winchester rifle trying 
to get a sight at him, but to no purpose.  We 
have never seen him, but we know from the 
way he plays  what  he  looks  like.  He  is 
hump-backed and his body  is  covered  with 
red hair.  He has but one eye, and that is in 
the center of his forehead.  His  mouth  i&  a 
cavern, and he has teeth like a  shark.  His 
arms are so long  that  his  hands  touch  the 
ground as he stands before his instrument of 
torture.  His  hands are as big as hams, and 
his  fingers  are  like  sections  of  a bologna 
sausage.  No  one  but  a  person who looks 
like this could be cruel  enough to do as this 
fiend does.  He laughs in glee as he runs his 
enormous paws across the keys.  He slashes, 
he thumps, he slaps, slams, bangs,  punches, 
batters,  beats,  whacks,  pummels,  bastes, 
lashes.  The instrument  groans,  yells,  and 
prays for mercy, but he never lets  up.  The 
neighbors are all beginning to look like me— 
thin, careworn, and  emaciated.  There have 
been two deaths in the block which  may* be 
directly traced to this monster.  We serious­
ly contemplate  blowing  up  the  house,  but 
have not quite decided what  to  do. 
In  the 
meantime we are  gradually  and  surely  ap­
proaching madness and are driven from  our 
homes.”  Poor  blank  groaned  deeply  and 
dropped his head upon his breast.

‘But  what  has  all  this  got  to  do  with 

trade?” suggested the reporter.

“Why, don’t you see the fiend  is  employ 
ed in a subordinate capacity in  some one  of 
the wholesale houses here, and as soon as we 
discover his whereabouts we propose to make 
it lively for the firm that  will  have  such 
villain around.”

A  MODEL  ESTABLISHMENT.

ids.

The  Finest  Flouring  M ill in  Grand  Rap­
Of  the  recent  changes  in the ownership 
and management in the  Yalley  City  Mills, 
the readers  of  The Tradesman  have  al­
ready been made  acquainted.  Since  taking 
possession of the  property,  several  months 
ago,  the  new  proprietors  have  expended 
about  $10,000 
in  enlargements,  improve­
ments, and new machinery,  until  they  now 
have  one  of  the  finest  and  best equipped 
flouring mills in the West.  Other  mills,  to 
be sure, have a larger capacity, but none turn 
out finer goods, or excel the Yalley  City  in 
the  strength  or  color  of their flour.  Eight 
double sets of rolls are in constant operation, 
day and night, except Sunday, the mill  hav­
ing a daily producing capacity of  about  200 
barrels of flour, which amount will probably 
have to be increased in  the  near  future,  in 
order to meet the  growing  demand  for  the 
product of this  establishment.

the 

Accepting 

invitation  of  Manager 
Rowe,  a reporter  of  The  Tradesman  re­
cently took a walk through the various floors 
comprising the mill and noted the  superior­
ity of the machinery and the  general  excel­
lence of the flour.  The mill building proper 
is 90x60 feet in size, four  stories  and  base­
ment.  Connected  with  it  is  a  two-story 
brick office building, 45x25 feet in size.  The 
wheat passes through five separate  cleaning 
machines before it reaches the roll, which re­
moves all foreign substances.  None but the 
best grades of wheat are used,  a  good  pro­
portion being Minnesota hard spring.  Sever­
al grades of flour are used, the fancy  patent 
brand,  “Roller Champion,”  taking  the  first 
rank.  The  next  grades,  “Snowflake”  and 
“Lily  White,”  both  patent  roller  process 
flours, are meeting with exceptional success, 
“Snowflake,” particularly,  having  obtained 
wide popularity.  During the past month, it 
has  been  extremely  difficult  to  keep pace 
with the demand for  these  brands,  and  on 
the  day  The  Tradesman  reporter looked 
through the  mill  the  orders  on  the  books 
greatly exceeded the amount on hand.  Such 
an unusual demand  is  due  entirely  to  the 
merit of the goods.

The new  establishment is particularly for­
tunate  in  the  personel  of  its  officers and 
working staff.  Messrs. C. G. Swensburgand 
M. S. Crosby, as president and vice-president 
respectively, are well and  favorably  known 
as successful  business  men.  Mr.  Wm.  N. 
Rowe, the manager, on whom  has  devolved 
the labor and discretion incident  to  the  se­
lection of new machinery and the placing of 
the goods of a comparatively  new  establish­
ment on the market, has developed manager­
ial qualities that place him in the front rank 
among successful  millers.  Mr.  R. M. Law­
rence, the secretary and treasurer,  has  per­
formed the duties  incident  to  his  position 
with singular fidelity.  Messrs.  Jesse  Owen 
and  G.  H.  Jacobs,  who  occupy  the  posi­
tions of foreman and millwright,  respective­
ly,  are  both  conspicuous  examples  of the 
ight men in the  right  places.  Taken  as  a 
whole, the  officers  and  employees  are  far 
above the average, and  give strength  to  the 
assertion that no institution was ever in bet­
ter hands.

Mr. S. K.  Bolles,  traveling  salesman  for 
Messrs. J. W. Coughtry&Son, of Cigarville, 
N. Y., is pushing trade this month in antici 
pation of the hay fever  season,  as  he  says 
the 15th of August always floors him, and al 
though he may not be  visible  to  the naked 
eye from that date until the arrival  of  Jack 
Frost, he desires to say to the cigar trade that 
his address is Grand  Rapids.  All orders by 
mail will receive prompt attention._____

DILWORTH’S,

—T H E -

BEST  ROASTED  PACKAGE  COFFEE  ON 

THE  MARKET.

F O B   S A L E   B Y

Factory Agents for Western Michigan.

Fox, MHSSBlian & Loveriig
w. J. P.
The  B est 

10c

ÍCIG-AR!

Miscellaneous  Trade  News.

Sand Lake  cries  aloud  for  a good  meat 

market.

The  Dundee  cheese  factory  uses  3,500 

pounds of milk daily.

L. L. Bissell  has  purchased  the  grocery 

business of A. T. Call at Lakeview.

A wagon and  carriage  factory  is  among 
the probabilities at Howard City in the near 
future.

O. E. Close, the Sand Lake druggist, is an 
expert numismatist, and has a large and val­
uable collection.

D. E. Wilber has moved his stock of  gen­
eral goods from Birmingham to East Jordan, 
Charlevoix  county.

The handle factory at Ovid has shut down 
until September.  The company  has  manu­
factured  10,000  dozen  rakes,  1,000  dozen 
scythe snaths, 300 dozen  cradles  and  other 
articles too numerous to mention.

Joseph  O.  Jeannot  and  Merrit  F. Reed 
have formed a co-partnership  at  Muskegon 
under the firm name of Jeannot & Reed  and 
engaged in the  grocery business.  A.  Weir- 
enga, the  Muskegon  jobber,  furnished  the 
stock.

Styles in Pocket Handkerchiefs.

Ever since the  depreciation in qualities of 
domestic silk handkerchiefs commenced, the 
tendency to revive  the  linen  handkerchief 
trade for men’s ware  has been very noticea­
ble.  The  coming  season  bids fair to be a 
very active one in this  line, as  the styles to 
be introduced are so radically different from 
those shown  heretofore.  This will  be par­
ticularly in  the  colorings, which show that 
the new  color, “gray mode,” will be a lead­
ing favorite. 
In place of the two inch hems 
the fashion will be one-half  inch, but  there 
will be some offered as  narrow as  one-quar- 

in width.

EATON & CHRISTENSON

77  Panai Street,  -   Grand  Rapids,

Manufacturers of All Kinds of

W IR E   W O R E !

92  MONROE  STREET.

-  
AGENTS FOR

GRAND  B A P ID S 
MICH.
Du PONT’S  Gunpowder.
ing, Blasting and Gannon Powder guaranteed.

The lowest market prices  for Sport- 

w s m

MASON’S  IRETAHjERS. 
FRUIT JARS

If you are selling goods to make 

a profit,  sell

Write or Telephone us for

—ALSO—

Jelly Cups,

Ice Cream Freezers, 
Refrigerators and
COMPLETE  STOCK
C
 Í GLASSWARE
H. Leonard & Sons,

m

—AT—

16 Monroe  Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS
ALBERT COYE & SONS
WATERTOWN  HAMMOCK  S U P P O R T .

State Agents for

L A Y I N E
WASH18G  POWDER

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,

MICH. GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN.

A L A B A S T IN 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  but  one-half  the 
number of pounds to cover the same amount 
of surface with two coats, is  ready  for  use 
by  simply  adding  water,  and  is easily ap­
plied by  any  one.

-FOR  SALE  BY-

AZiZi  F ain   Dealers.

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

THE ALABASTINE COMPANY

M.  B.  GHUR0H, Manager.

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

- 

.  - 

-  MICHIGAN.

—FOR  THE—

FIELD  AND  GARDEN,

-----AT-----

WHOLESALE  AND  RETAIL,

-A T  T H E -

S E E D   S T O R E ,

Dealers in

Awnings»  Tents,  Horse  Wagon  and  Stack 

Covers,  Oiled  Clothing,  Etc.

73  Canal  Street.

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

ggpr”  Send for Prices.

-  

MICHIGAN 
EVERT  KIND  AND  SIZE
Trunk, Clout and Finishing 
Steel Wire Nails and Brads

—ALSO—

American  Tack  Co.,

TACKS
NAILS

Ma ss
A.  a .  o r a P P E N

F a ir h a v e n  

-  

WHOLESALE

Hats, Caps and Furs

54  MONROE  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

- 

MICHIGAN

We carry a Large Stock, and Guarantee Prices 
i Lowas Chicago and Detroit.

EDMUND  B.  DIKEMAN

-THE—

SEAT  WATCH

—AND—

JEW ELER,

44  CANAL  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN.

STEAM  LAUNDRY

43 and 45 Kent Street.

A. K. ALLEN, Proprietor.

WE  DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS  WORK AND  USE  NO 

CHEMICALS.

Orders by Mail and Express  promptly  at­

tended to.

FO R

BOOK-KEEPING  MADE  EASY
R E T A I L   g r o c e r s .
Bv using our Combined Ledger and Day-Book, 
CUSTOMERS’  ACCOUNTS  are  kept  and 
ITEMIZED STATEMENTS.rendered m  half 
the time required by any other  process

Send  for  descriptive  circular  to  H A LL  & 
CO., Publishers. i<4 Lake St., Chicago^HL___

SB&SQXTA S T E R S  I

-FOR-

Sporting  Goods

-A N D —

OCT  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
BEST  AND CHEAPEST

—ARE  THE-

In the Market.

pw~  Send for our New  Price  List for  1S84..

Order a  Sample Lot  Before Placing a Large Order..

E O T ,  LYON  &  ALLBN,

20 and 22 Monroe  Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  MICHIGAN..

&  CO.,

Manufacturers of

Fine Perfumes,

Colognes, Hair  Oils, 
Flavoring Extracts,
Baking Powders, 

Bluings, Etc., Etc.

ALSO  PROPRIETORS  OF

KEMIKTK-’S

"Red Bark Bitters7

---- AND-----

91  Canal St., Grand Rapids, M idi.

W. T. LAlOeBADI. M at.
COLE  &  STONE,
Gents'  Fine  S hirts.

Manufacturers  and Jobbers of

Samples and Prices  will  be  Sent  to  Close 

Buyers  in  our  Line.

Address,
Marshall 

- 

Mich

L .  S .   E E I L L  cSo   C O ,
F IS H IN G   T A C K L E

WHOLESALE

81  PEARL  STREET,

78  West  Bridge  Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  

MICHIGAN..

S«'¡SS>‘5

C. S. YALE & BRO.

-Manufacturers  of-

BAKING  POWDERS,

BLUINGrJS,  ETC.,

40 and  48  South D ivision  St.,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICH..

