GRAÑDRAPIDS,  MICHIGAN,  WEDNESDAY,  JULY  16,  1884.

and  another  on  credit, the  price  was  the I 
same  to  each,  but  to  the  cash  customer  I j
gave a  discount  to  which  his  money  was 
justly entitled. 
I also  made it a  rule to fill 
orders strictly according to instructions, and 
to take no advantage of  an absent  custom­
er.  These rules are still  faithfully adhered 
to.  A price is made  for  the  goods  by  the 
piece or package, and  there  is no deviation. 
The case price and the  piece are fixed  each 
day,and no change is made. The plan of mak­
ing fish of one and flesh of another is a poor 
one, and, in the long  run. will  not  succeed. 
Honest, fair  dealing  with  all 
is  the  only 
sure path of business  growth, and  the  mil­
lions  of  trade I  annually  transact are due 
mainly to this equitable rule of one price.”

A retail merchant who overheard the con­
versation,  gave  his  experience  as  fellows: 
“In 1867 I was clerk  in a  large  retail  store 
in  a  Western  city.  My  employers  were 
tricky and  unscrupulous.  They had no regu­
lar  system,  but  were  guerillas  in  trade. 
They made prices to suit the different classes 
of people who came  to  the  store, and  they 
were not slow to take advantage  when they 
could.  They lost  their  trade  and  made an 
assignment.  An Eastern firm to whom they 
owed a large  amount,  had  the  assignee  re­
moved and took possession.  As I knew the 
trade, and was familiar  with  the  business, 
they offered to sell me the stock  on  reason­
I bought it, and at once revers­
able terms. 
I 
ed the  plan of  my  former  employers. 
adopted the  one price system. 
I sold goods 
I never misrepresented 
low, but at a profit. 
nor would I allow a  clerk  to  do so, and  by 
strict  adherance to  this  equitable policy I 
have grown rich and successful, and transact 
the largest retail  dry goods  business  in my 
state.”

Here  are  two  examples  of  business  suc­
cess  directly traceable  to  equal  justice for 
all.  No discrimination as between a custom­
er igncfrant or  well posted, or large or small 
capital.  Cash and credit paid the same price, 
but  the former  had  a  discount  to  equalize 
the just difference between  the  two.  Mon­
ey is always entitled to interest, and it is but 
fail* that credit should  pay it.  There  is  no 
doubt about  the  benefits  of  this  one  price 
policy. 
It is always safe  in  business  to do 
right.  This  system  is  one  of  exact  and 
equal  justice. 
It  commends  itself  to  the 
public; it is a sheet anchor  that  wins  and 
holds.

A  CHAPTER  ON  FANS.

Their Origin and Shape  in Early Times. 

From Harper’s Weekly.

By whom fans  were  introduced into me­
diaeval  Europe—authorities  differ  on  the 
subject—we have no  precise  means of  tell­
ing.  Some say that perhaps  the  Crusaders 
brought the  fashion  from  the  E ast; it is 
probable that the  custom  of  using  the fan 
never  quite  lapsed, but  that it  descended 
and spread until  the  belles of  Spain  and 
France came to consider their  toilet  incom­
plete if one of these favorite appendages was 
missing.  The  flabellum,  known  by  the 
name of “emouchoir,” was  in use in France 
during  the  thirteenth  century, but it was 
not employed in  private  life  until the fol­
lowing century.  Fans were made of lamels 
of  ivory, and  the  circular  kinds  of  rice 
straw, of silk, of cloth  of gold or silver, and 
rich embroidery  was  lavished on these  at­
tractive luxuries.  Queen  Clemence  had “a 
fly flap of broidered silk,” and King Charles 
Y.  “a round foulding  fly trap in ivory, with 
the arms of France and  Navarre, and a had- 
dle of ebony.”  Queen  Louise de  Lorraine 
received a gift from  Queen  Marguerite of  a 
fan of mother-of-pearl, which was  valued at 
more than twelve hundred crowns.

Spanish fans in the fifteenth centiuy were 
circular and composed of paper  ornamented 
with feathers.  Tufts of  feathers  attached 
to ivory handles were  used  in  Italy in the 
eleventh  and  twelfth  centuries, and  were 
suspended from the  girdle by a small chain. 
Italian fans were introduced into  France by 
the perfumers  who formed part of  the  ren- 
tinue of Catherine de Medicis, and they soon 
became fashionoble at court.  That effemin­
ate monarch, Henry III., when he went into 
the forest with his  falconers, carried a large 
fan to protect his delicate  complexion  from 
the heat  of  the  sun’s  rays;  but  what less 
couid be expected of a man who wore gloves 
and masks lined with cosmetics for the sake 
of improving his  skin?  Under  Henry  IY. 
fans were so much  used as to become an im­
portant item in the trade of the country.  An­
ne  of  Austria,  in  her 
introduced 
Spanish fans that attained great  popularity 
among French women, and those of  scented 
wood came  into  vogue; but  the fancy was 
only a transitory one, for they were surpass­
ed in elegance and  lightness  by those made 
in France.  The  weathercock  fans  shaped 
like flags appertain  especially to Italy; they 
were made of cloth of gold or some rich silk­
en  fabric.  There is a portrait  of  Titian’s 
wife in the  Dresden  Gallery  which  repre­
sents her with such a fan.

turn, 

VOL.  1.

ENGLISH  »RUMMERS.

How tlie “Bagman” Differs from the “Trav­

eler.”

The  men  whom  Charles Dickens called 
“bagmen,” and the  English, generally, com­
mercial  travelers,  as  compared  with 
the 
American  drummer,  are  neither  so  well 
dressed,  so  voluble, nor  so  well  educated, 
says a London  letter  to  the  Philadelphia 
Press.  Very few Jews are to be  met  with 
on the road, most of them  being  their own 
“bosses.”  The commercial  traveler in  this 
country gets $5 a day for  his  expenses, and 
if usually remunerated for his  services by a 
fixed  salary, although in  some  cases he is 
paid by commission  only on  his  sales.  At 
nearly all of the  country  and  some of  the 
London  hotels a room  is  specially reserved 
for  the  use  of  the  “drummers,”  and  is 
known as the  commercial  room.  Here the 
knights of  the road do  their  feeding,  writ­
ing,  talking,  and,  after 9 p. m., smoking. 
None  but  “commercials”  are  allowed  in 
these rooms, and  the charges for  meals and 
lodgings made to those  who  frequent them 
are less by one-third  than  those  in  which 
guests  using  what is known as the  coffee- 
room are mulcted.

In days gone  by, when railroads were un­
known  and  stage  coaches  traveled  from 
London to all  parts of England  and  Scot­
land, the advent of the drummer was  eager­
ly looked forward to by his  country custom­
ers.  Then, as an  old  commercial  told me, 
with the suspicion  of a tear  in his  watery 
eye, customers would  drive a mile or two to 
meet the coach  bringing the  salesman  and 
his samples, eager  to hear the  latest  news 
from the big  city, get  the  pick  of  the  new 
goods, and perchance crack a bottle of tawny 
port at the visitor’s expense, at the old fash­
ioned inn of the country town.  All is chang­
ed nowadays; increased  facilities of  travel 
have induced hundreds of  new  firms,  large 
and small, to put men  upon  the road,  and 
now it is  calculated  that  there are  no less 
than 40,000 commercials  hunting  up orders 
daily  throughout  the  limits  of  the three 
kingdoms.

At a moderate calculation, each  of  these 
persevering  individuals covers  upwards of 
10,000 miles in  the  course  of  his  annual 
wanderings, doing an average trade of  860,- 
000 per annum.  Here, then, is an  enormous 
annual trade of 82,400,000,000 done by these 
well-nigh  ubiquitous  busybodies.  Taking 
five per cent  of  this  amount  for  railway 
fares, and the estimate is assuredly  a  mod­
erate one, one finds that  this class,  or their 
employees,  contribute  an  enormous  sum 
each year to the coffers of  the  railroad  cor­
porations.  And yet, with the  exception of 
two lines, the Great Northern and the Great 
Eastern, none of the companies  make  any 
concessions whetever to them.

Next to the all important question of “the 
line” Brown  took  yesterday from  Filkins, 
the recent  failure of  Jobson, and  the glut­
tony of Grogson, who  invariably  has to  be 
treated to a big  dinner before  an order can 
be extracted from  him, this  matter of  the 
liberalty  of  the  railway  companies  is the 
burning question of  the hour among the En­
glish drummers.  A band of  live  members 
of the order have  recently  started a bright 
little paper  called  On  the  Road, which is 
working  hard to  soften  the  hearts of the 
hitherto  obdurate  railway magnates.  The 
commercials  seek  from  the  railroads the 
granting of  a  return  or  excursion  ticket, 
available from Saturday to Monday or Tues­
day, at the price of a ticket for a single jour­
ney.  Many of  them  who  now  loaf  away 
Saturday and Sunday in dull  country towns 
c o u ld  afford to spend the  day  of  rest with 
their wives and little ones.

There are some old-fashioned customs pre­
served  to-day in the  commercial  rooms of 
the provincial  hotels which appear  curious, 
and some times turn  out embarassing to the 
newly-fledged  drummer or outsider who ob­
tains the  entry  to the “lair” of the  travel­
er  under  something  very  like  false  pre­
tenses.  The dinner  hour is usually 1 p. m 
and the  drummer  who  has  been  staying 
longest in the hotel  presides at  one  end  of 
the long table, while the latest arrival  faces 
him.  These two do the serving of the joints 
and dispense the pie and puddings.  In some 
houses the custom of drinking wine at these 
dinners prevails.  As a matter  of  form, the 
worthy bagman,  who  occupies  the  post of 
honor at the table  will  say  to  the  guests 
“Gentlemen,  will  it  be  agreeable to you to 
join me in a glass  of  wine?”  Guests  mur 
mur.  “Yes, Mr. President,  with pleasure,” 
n  and forwith  sherry is ordered—one, two, or 
three  bottles—according  to the  number of 
diners.

l 

• 

Woe betide the  impecunious  drummer if 
the president  of  the hotel be an old tippler 
or, worse  still, the  representative of a wine 
merchant  anxious to  obtain an  order from 
the  gentleman  who  keeps  the  hotel. 
In 
either  case  he  will, as  fast  as  the  bottles 
are emptied, order a further supply, and the 
unhappy  commercial,  who,  with  a  light 
pocket  and  a  disinclination  to  partake of 
stimulants, while  he is perfectly  at  liberty 
to pass the bottle as often  as  he  likes, will 
find himself called upon to pay his  share of 
the wine bill pro  rata, and, as old  hands of 
the road say, the cost of the  drink  amounts 
to three times the sum charged for the food 
This absurd custom  is, however,  rapidly dy 
ingoStin  the  better  class of  houses,  and

last Sunday  at  the  Compton  Hotel,  Liver­
pool, when  an  excellent  dinner  of  half  a 
dozen  courses  was  set  on  the table at a 
charge  of  but  75  cents  per  head, I was 
agreeably  surprised to  hear  the  president 
announce  before  we  attacked  the  soup: 
“Gentlemen, this  is  not  a wine  house, so 
you will please to  give  your own orders for 
wine, or whatever  you  may be  pleased  to 
drink with your  dinner.”  If  you  address 
the most common-place  remark to the  gen­
tlemen at the top or bottom of the table, you 
will commit a  gross  breach of  commercial- 
room  etiquette if  you omit to preface  your 
speech  with  “Mr.  President,”  or  “Mr. 
Vice.”

One admirable  custom  prevails at all ho­
tels where commercials  temporarily take up 
their abode.  When  the  cheese  has  been 
passed round  the  waiter  produces a plate, 
which he hands to the president.  This gen­
tleman puts a two  cent  piece  on  it, and it 
passes round the table, each  person  present 
doing  likewise.  A collection  box  of  the 
Commercial  Travelers’ Orphan  Asylum  is 
then placed before the president, who counts 
the cash, announces the amount, and  depos­
its it in the box.  This  penny  subscription 
realizes, it is said, something  like 825,000 a 
year.

Michigan  Gold and  Silver. 

Ispheming Correspondence  Industrial  World.
The feeling of certainty now quite general­
ly entertained in the ultimate success of gold 
and  silver  mining  on  Lake  Superior,  and 
which  is  based  upon  the  results achieved 
since the resumption of work  at  the  Ropes 
gold and  silver  mine  near  Ispheming,  has 
brought to  light  the discovery of numerous 
quartz veins, all of which  are  alleged  to  be 
charged with  gold  and  silver,  at  different 
points in the district.  A  company  has  re­
cently been formed to prosecute  exploratory 
work for the precious  minerals,  near  Ash­
land, Wis., and within the past week reports 
have  been  circulated  and  confirmed  that 
traces of gold have been discovered at Steph­
enson, on the Menominee iron range; also in 
Baraga county, in the vicinity of  the  Three 
Lakes region.  Favorable  indications of the 
existence of these minerals are  likewise  re­
ported by explorers-who have been  working 
at the Huron Mountain^.  Public  interest is 
attracted by these numerous reports, and fu­
ture developments at the various points nam­
ed will be eagerly noted.  In this county the 
work of proving the  richness  and  perman 
ence of the Ropes  vein  progresses  steadily 
with the most satisfactory results.  At  this 
mine the stamp-mill has now  been in opera 
tion ten days, and although as  yet  no  regu­
lar clean-up has  been  made,  the  saving  of 
mineral, it is estimated,  with  a  reasonable 
degree of accuracy, will represent a value of 
from 86 to 88 per ton.  These are the figures 
quoted by the operators, but the  general  be­
lief is that the latter figure  will,  upon  final 
determination, be found to be nearest corect, 
This estimated result has been attained from 
a run of the talcose slate, which is found in 
termixed with the quartz in the  vein forma­
tion, and exceeds  the expectations of the in­
terested parties,  and shows  a  larger  saving 
from this class of vein rock than was obtain 
ed in previous tests.  To-day the stamp-mill 
commenced to treat the regular quartz, and a 
much larger saving is expected.  The  need 
of a second  vanner  is  felt  to complete the 
mill  equipment,  which  now  consists  of 
five-head plant with one Frue vanner, and it 
is probable that this want  will  be  supplied 
without delay.  In the Curray shaft, the only 
opening on the  lode  now  being  worked, 
depth of eighty feet has been reached.  The 
appearance of the vein, as far as explored in 
this  shaft,  and  in  the  several drifts going 
east on the length,  inspires faith  in its  per 
manence.  The two essential points which it 
is sought to establish by the work now being 
prosecuted are the richness and  permanence 
of the vein; and from present  indications the 
results of the test will prove  satisfactory  to 
the parties who have risked their  money  in 
the venture, and will lead the way to  a  vig­
orous and intelligent search  for the precious 
minerals in these parts.  Local capital, prin 
cipally,  is  employed  in  testing  the  Ropes 
mine,  but  other  promising  quartz  belts 
abound, and will invite the attention of capi­
tal, once the reputation of the  Ropes  for 
successful and profitable career has been  es­
tablished beyond all peradventure.

East  India Seersucker.

The  genuine  East India  seersucker is 

very light fabric made of a grass  woof  and 
silk  filing  in  alternate  narrow 
stripes 
These were formerly blue  and white, but 
later years other colors  were added.  There 
is  another  peculiarity about  the  genuine 
very difficult of imitation.  They were wov 
en by  hand, with such effect that the stripes 
were alternately plain and  crinkled, the lat­
ter in white or a light  color  having the ap­
pearance of being drawn or  puckered like 
stripe of insertion gathered to be fuller than 
the plain stripe.  The English counterfeited 
the Indian  goods at first with linen, and af­
terward with cotton yarn.  The crinkled ef­
fect 
this  country  by  machinery  with  cot­
ton  yarn  but  the  looms  are  somewhat 
expensive.

is now  produced 

to  perfection 

American apples will find a  good  market 

this year in England.

WHY THEY FAIL.

Some  Reasons  W hy  Business  Men  do  not 

Succeed.

Let me  give  your  readers, says a corres­
pondent of the U. S. Economist, the benefit 
of the replies  I have  received from  leading 
men of our country to the  question,  “What, 
in your  observation, have  been  the  chief 
causes of the numerous failures in life of bus­
iness and professional  men?”  Governor St. 
John  answers:  “Idleness, 
intemperance.” 
Alexander  H. Stephens, answers, “Want of 
punctuality, honesty and truth.”  Hon. Dar­
win H. James answers, “Incorrect  views of 
the great end and aim of  life.  Men are not 
contented to live plain lives of  integrity and 
uprightness.  They  want  to  get  ahead  too 
fast and are  led  into  temptation.”  Presi­
dent Bartlett, of Dartmouth  College, namss 
causes of  failure, “Lack  of  principle, of 
fixed  pnrpose, of  perseverance.”  President 
Eliot, of Harvard,  replies,  “Stupidity,  lazi­
ness, rashness  and dishonesty.”  Dr.  H. M. 
Dexter, of  the  Congregationalism answers 
1st. Want of thoroughness of  preparation. 
2d. Want of- fixedness of purpose.  3d. Want 
of faith  in the  inevitable  triumph of right 
and truth.”  Anthony  Comstock’s  answers 
are,  “Unholy living and dishonest practices, 
lust and intemperance, living  beyond  one’s 
means.”  Mr. H. E. Simmons,  of the Amer­
ican  Tract  Society,  replies,  “Fast  living, 
mental, spiritual and bodily; lack  of  atten­
tion  to  the  details  of  business.”  Gen.  O. 
Howard  answers  in  substance,  “Breaking 
the divine  laws  of  the  body by vice; those 
of the  mind  by overwork or  idleness; and 
those  of  the  heart  by  making  an idol of 
self.”  Prof. Homer  B. Sprague, of Boston, 
answers—“1st.  Ill  health.  2d. Mistake  in 
the  choice  of  employment.  3d.  Lack of 
persistent and protracted effort.  4th. A low. 
ideal, making success to consist  in personal 
aggrandizement, rather than in  the training 
and developement of a true and  noble char­
acter.”  Dr. Lyman Abbott answers,  “The 
combined spirit of laziness and selfconceit that 
makes a man  unwilling to do anything  tin­
less  he  can  choose  just  what  he will do.” 
Mr.  A.  W.  Tenney,  of  Brooklyn,  replies, 
Outside of  intemperance, failure  to  grasp 
and  hold, scattering  too  much, want of in­
tegrity  and  promptness,  unwillingness to 
achieve  success  by earning  it  in the  old- 
fashioned way.”  The  Attorney General of 
neighboring state replies, “Living  beyond 
income,  and  speculating  with  borrowed 
funds; unwillingness to begin  at the foot of 
the ladder and work up.  Young  men want 
to be masters  at  the  start, and  assume to 
now before they  have  learned.”  And an­
other reason in the same line: “Desiring the 
success that another man has without  being 
willing to work as  that  man  does.  Giving 
money-making a first place and right-doing a 
second place.”

Judge  Tourgee, author  of “A Fool’s  Er- 
and,”  considers the  frequent cause of busi­
ness collapse to be, “Trying to  carry too big 
load.”  As to others  he  says:  “I  don’t 
know about a professional  man’s failing,  if 
he  works, keeps  sober and  sleeps at home. 
Lawyers, ministers  and  doctors  live on the 
sins of the  people, and, of  course, grow  fat 
under  reasonable exertion, unless  the  com­
petition is too great. 
It requires  real  gen­
ius to  fail  in  either of these walks of life.” 
Hon. Joseph  Medill, ex-Mayor  of  Chicago, 
answers:  “Liquor drinking, gambling,  reck­
less speculation,  dishonesty, tricky  conduct, 
cheating, 
idleness,  shirking  hard  work, 
frivolous  reading, lack  of  manhood in  the 
battle of life, failure to  improve  opportuni­
ties.”

Among the causes of failure  given by my 
correspondents many may  be  classified  un­
der the general  fault of  wavering, such  as 
‘wavering  purpose,”  “non-stiek-to-it-ive- 
ness,” failure  to  grasp and  hold,” “scatter­
ing  too  much,”  “trying  to  do  too  many 
things rather than stick to the one thing one 
knows most about.”  A young  man  spends 
seven years in a grocery store,  and when he 
has just  learned the  business he concludes 
to go into dry goods.  By failing  to  choose 
that first he has thrown  away  seven years 
experience.  Probably,  after  learning  the 
dry goods business, he  will  conclude to be­
come a watch-maker,  and at last  become a 
“jack-at-all-trades,” good at none.  A prom­
inent  merchant  says:  “Nearly all failures 
in legitimate  business  come from not serv­
ing  an  apprenticeship  to it,” that is  from 
leaving a business  one  knows  for another 
which he does not understand.

Another cause of failure is the disposition 
to escape hard work,  and get rich in haste— 
“desiring the success another  man has with­
out being willing to work as  that man does, 
and begin, as he did, at the  foot of  the  lad 
der.”  How many who were in  haste to get 
rich, to  reap  without  patient  industry  in 
sowing, have  learned  the  truth of the old 
proverb: 
“The  more  haste,  the  worse 
speed.”
Some  of  the  Benefits  of  the  One  Price 

System.

From the Dry Goods Chronicle.

I laid the foundation of this large  jobbing 
business,”  said  a  leading  dry  goods  mer­
chant, “by adopting and  strictly adhering to 
the one price  rule. 
I made  it  my  business 
for yearslo go all through the stock and mark 
prices for  each  day  that  were  alike  to  all 
customers.  I favored no customer at the ex­
pense of another. 
If  one  bought  for  cash

NO. 43.

by which  straight  or  curved  recesses of a 
definite  width  may  be  cut.  Mortises  for 
tenons are  made  with  such an implement, 
and  it  is  used  also  for  many  other  pur­
poses.

An adaption  of  the  circular  saw is more 
peculiar  than  this. 
It  is  the  cutting of a 
wide kerf with a thin saw; thus a saw of one 
fourth of an inch in thickness, or “set,” cuts 
a score, or slot, of  three-quarters of  an inch 
or more. 
In appearance the saw is anything 
but  mechanical,  and  at  first  thought  the 
method is “sloppy”  and  foolish.  But  the 
result  of  the  work is good.  The  effect is 
produced  by  placing a circular  saw  on  an 
arbor  somewhat  smaller  than 
the  hole 
through  the saw, and canting the saw to  an 
angle by means  of  convex-faced  collars or 
flanges.  When rotated the saw’s  periphery 
has a “wabbling” motion, so that twice in its 
revolution  the  saw  cuts out of its true kerf 
on  either  side. 
It  will  be seen  that the 
quarter  inch  saw is  set  one-quarter of an 
inch out of  truth on its  side,  making, with 
the  primary thickness  of  the saw  itself, a 
cutting  width  of  three-quarters of an inch. 
This  apparently  crude  method  produces 
good  results. 
It might  be  supposed  that 
such  eccentricity of movement  from side to 
side would have very coarse  score marks on 
each side of the cut, but  the  velocity of the 
saw compared  with  the  feed  insures clean 
work.  The advantages of this  method  are 
that the power  required  to  cut a wide  kerf 
with a narrow  saw  by gradations  is  much 
less than to cut the full  kerf  at once  with 
full wide cutters, and  while a saw can be of 
diameter wide enough to cut through a wide 
or  thick  piece  of  lumber,  there is a much 
lower limit to the  economical and  effective 
projection  of  chisel  cutters  from  a head. 
One of the largest manufactories of  agricul­
tural and  domestic  machinery and  imple­
ments in the country has used  circular saws 
in this manner for years.

Scandal Mongers  in  Commercial  Circles, 
It is an unfortunate  perversity  of  human 
nature to prefer the  dissemination of evil ti­
dings in preference  to  good, and  the  many 
false  reports  which  have in the  few  past 
weeks  been  disseminated  in  relation  to 
staunch and solvent  houses, merely because 
they were prominent, is a fitting  illustration 
of this dangerous propensity. 
In times like 
the present, when confidence is  justly shak­
en and impaired  by actual and  glaring  mis­
deeds, the public mind is very sensitive, and 
oftimes a word or breath  affects  the  credit 
of the  strongest  and  renders  ordinary  per­
fectly  legitimate transactions  the  cause  of 
suspicion. 
It is all very well to say, well,  if 
it is not true let them  come forward and an­
nounce their readiness to meet  liabilities on 
presentation.  The  best  and  soundest  credit 
business is not so conducted  as  to  admit of 
this prompt  liquidation.  We  doubt  if  the 
strongest financial institutions  of  the  coun­
try—nay,  not  even  the  U.  S.  Treasury— 
could respond to such a demand.

Another fruitful cause of these  sensation­
al and damaging reports is the careless man­
ner in which  people  hear  and talk of fail­
ures or embarrassments  likely to lead there­
to.  One hears a casual  remark  that  some 
house is  perhaps  in a  way  to  be  seriously 
affected, and he reports it to  the  next  one, 
stating that the house is seriously comprom­
ised; and finally it resolves  itself into an ac­
tual report of failure, neither of the relators 
actually  knowing  anything  definite,  but 
spreading  the  report  merely  from  wanton 
hearsay,  or  a  desire  to  tell  news, or  from 
mere surmise.

This is  often  as  injurious  as  statements 
made  wantonly  with  a  special  purpose  of 
“breaking the market,” as it  is  styled,  and 
while  it  is not as criminal,  is equally repre­
hensible.  What is really disastrous is quick­
ly enough known,  and it behooves all  to  be 
very careful of giving dissemination to darn­
ing reports or  suspicions  unless  they  have 
the best assurance of their correctness.

By no means suppress  information,  how­
ever ill it  may be, when its  promulgation is 
founded in a  desire to  state  fact  truly, but 
wanton reports  to  affect  some  special  pur­
pose are  surely  criminal; and  discreet  inu- 
endos founded upon  mere  hearsay or  a  de­
sire to be sensational  are  equally reprehen­
sible.

A  Great Barley  Market.

The  annual  report  of  the  Milwaukee 
Chamber  of Commerce  for  the  fiscal  year 
ending  May  30 shows an increase in the ag­
gregate 
receipts  of  grain  of  3,500,000 
bushels.  The total receipts  of  wheat  were 
9,278,922 bushels, and of all  kinds  of  grain 
21,892,332  bushels.  The receipts of barley 
show  a  marked  increase  over all previous 
years, showing  a  total  of  nearly  7,000,000 
bushels,  of  which  about one third was con­
sumed by local brewers.  Milwaukee is now 
the leading  barley  market  west  of  New 
York.  The  apparently  large  receipts of 
Chicago—8,831,899  bushels—in 1883 includ­
ed  over  3,000,000 bushels of Milwaukee re­
ceipts shipped East and South by rail.

Business  men  state  that  a  considerable 
number of counterfeit 25 cent pieces  are  in 
circulation.  They bear the date of 1875.  On 
genuine quarters  only  three  claws  can  be 
seen on the eagle,  while  on the  counterfeit 
the eagle  has  four  claws  on  one  foot and 
three on the other.

A  Chapter on  Brooms and  Broomcorn. 
“You can raise broom  corn,” said a well 
known  broom  manufacturer, “almost  any­
where  you  can  Indian  com. 
It  is  raised 
largely in  Ohio,  Kansas,  Illinois,  Missouri, 
and New York, and quite an amount is rais­
ed in other states.  About  the  only  state  I 
know  where  they  cannot  raise  it  is  in 
Maine.  The  summers  are  not  quite  long 
enough  there. 
It  is  cultivated  much  the 
same as Indian corn, twelve or fifteen stalks 
in a hill.  The stalks grow to  the height  of 
five or six feet,  and  yield  each  a  bunch  of 
broom corn about an  inch  in  diameter  and 
eighteen  inches  or  more  in  length. 
It  is 
shipped to us in large bales. 
It is  unusual­
ly cheap at  present.  What  we  had  to  pay 
eight or nine cents a pound for last  year we 
can buy now for five cents.”

Is the business profitable?”
On  some  goods  we  make  a  very  fair 
profit, but on others we hardly get  our mon­
ey back.  Take wisp  brooms,  for  example. 
We  have  them  from  seventy-five  cents  a 
dozen up to  82 50  apiece.  The  latter  are, 
to be be sure, in cases which cost  more than 
the brooms, but we  make a very good profit 
on them, whereas the cheapest  ones  barely 
pay for the cost of manufacture.”

What do  common  long-handle  brooms, 
such as you see  in  every  houshold,  cost  to 
manufacture?”

Well let me see.  Take  what  we  call  a 
medium broom. /The  corn  costs  about eight 
cents; the handle two cents; wire and  twine 
two  cents; labor  four  cents;  total  sixteen 
cents, not taking any account of  cost of sell­
ing, bad debts, etc.  Such a broom as that we 
sell for  82.25  or  82.50  per  dozen:  but  we 
have them as low as  81.25  per  dozen.  We 
have some extra ones that we sell as high as 
85. per dozen.

“What wages do you pay?”
“Most  of  it  is  piece  work,  and  a  good 
workman  can  make  from  810. 
to  818. 
per week—it depends, of  course, upon  how 
industrious he is.  One man  does not do all 
the work on  a  broom.  One  man,  called  a 
winder,’ fastens the broom corn to  the han­
dle, and another sews it, to keep it compact. 
Boys and girls are usually employed at small
wages, to  sort the  corn  for  the  winders. 
There is not any  economy in  buying  cheap 
brooms, for they are largely composed of the 
poorest com, surrounded by a small  quanti­
ty of good corn, to give  them a fair  appear­
ance.”

A brand of peas bearing the fictitious name 
of “California  Sugar  Peas,  Packed  by  the 
Alameda Packing Co., Alameda, Cala.” is on 
the market  They  are  soaked  goods, and 
short weight at that, and  dealers  would  do 
well to give them a good letting alone.

Experiments made by M. Muntz, with var 
ious kinds of water—spring,  river,  sea  and 
rain water,  also  snow—prove  that  alcohol 
may  be found in all, except pure spring wa 
ter.

The remark that fans were the only  pres­
ents which a sovereign  could receive from a 
subject is attributed to Queen Elizabeth, but 
how she  could  reconcile  such  a  speech,  if 
she made it,  with  her  acceptance  of  costly 
gifts at  New Year’s-tide, is a mystery.  But 
women have as  much  right  to  be  fickle  as 
men have to grumble, and probably the sight 
of the priceless articles thqt  were  showered 
upon her caused her to change  her  mind  as 
to the propriety of receiving her subjects’ off' 
erings.  She at her death owned twenty-sev­
en fans—a  meager  allowance  enough, some 
of our  modem  belles  may  exclaim;  but  in 
those days, when fashions did not change so 
rapidly as they do  now, it  must  have  been 
accounted  a  goodly  number.  Here  is  a 
description  of  one  given  her  by  Francis 
Drake as a New Year’s present in 1589:  “A 
ffanne of Aethers white and redd, the handle 
of  gold,  enameled  with  a  half-moone  gar­
nished with sparks of  dyamonds,  and a few 
seede-perles  on  the  one  side  having her 
Magestie’s picture within it, and on the bad 
side a device with a crow over it.”

A letter dated 1595 informs  us  that  “her 
Magestie is in very  good health,  and  comes 
much abroad.  Upon Thursday she dined at 
Kew, my Lord  Keeper’s  [Sir  John  Packer- 
ing]  house.  His  intertainment  for  that 
meale was great and exceedingly costly.  At 
her first lighting she  had a  fine fanne, with 
a  handle  garnished  with  diamonds.”  The 
Earl of Leicester’s gift must have  been  su­
perb :  “A fanne of white  fethers  sett  in a 
handell of golde; the  one side  thearoff  gar­
nished with  twoe  very  fayre  emeralds,  es­
pecially one, and fully  garnished  with  dya­
monds  and  rubyes,  and  the  backside  and 
handell of lyke golde,  garnished  with  dya- 
mondes and rubyes, and on each side a white 
beare and twoe perles hanging, a lyon ramp­
ing with a moseled beare at his foote.”  The 
Countess of Essex carried a fan at her  trial. 
“She stood  pale and trembling  at  the  bar, 
and  during  the  reading  of  the  indictment 
covered her face with  her  fan.”  Catherine 
of Braganza brought  the fashion  of  using 
large shading fans to  England.  Her Portu­
guese ladies-in-waiting, when they  went out 
without  their  masks,  shaded  their  faces 
from the heat of the sun with their fans.

New Uses for Old Tools.

From the Scientific American.

The auger is intended  primarily for mak­
ing holes in  wood, yet  the  only  cutting  or 
boring portion is  the  chisel lip on the lower 
end; and if the implement  could  be kept at 
its work and guided in its course, the gimlet 
screw at its point and  the  spiral  above  its 
cutting portion might be dispensed  with, as 
the screw merely  pulls  the  cutter  into  the 
work and the spiral guides  the  auger  and 
elevates the chips.  So  the  auger, deprived 
of  these  portions, becomes a  rotary  cutter

AMONG THE TRADE.

STRAY  FACTS.

A JO U R N A L DEVOTED TO TH E

Mercantile and Manufacturing Interests of the State.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

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

WEDNESDAY, JULY 16,1884.

POST  NO.  1.

Organized at  Grand Rapids, June 28,1884.

O F F IC E R S .

President—Wm. Logie.
Vice-President—Lloyd Max Mills.
Secretary and Treasurer—L. W.  Atkins. 
Committee on Constitution and By-Laws—Wal­
lace Franklin,  Geo.  F.  Owen,  Geo.  H. Sey­
mour.
Next Meeting—At Sweet’s Hotel reading room 
Saturday, July 19, at S p. m.

J3T”  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.

Messmore wiil make $5,000 this fall, talk­
ing Democracy  to  the Hoosiers.  But  this 
need give  his  creditors  no  encouragement. 
He will undoubtedly assign the amount over 
to his wife.

Messmore spent Convention week in  Chi­
cago, and a local  authority  states  that  “he 
had a pocketful  of  money. 
If some  of  his 
creditors could have the  amount  due  them 
from Messmore, they could also have gone to 
Chicago and attained the same distinction.

“With these hands and  this  head,  I will 
yet pay every  cent  I  owe,”  exclaimed  the 
more or less illustrious Colonel  at  the  time 
of his failure.  But up to the  present  time, 
his hands have mostly been employed in pass­
ing the glass from the bar to the lips and the 
head has been fertile only in schemes to defeat 
the efforts of  his  creditors  to  collect  their 
claims.

The  Northwestern Lumberman—which, 
by the way, is the best exponent of the  tim­
ber interests in the world—thus  calls atten­
tion to a pertinent point that every  mill  op­
erator will appreaiate:

It is noticeable  that  some  manufacturers 
who censured the Lumberman for asserting 
that  too  much  lumber  was  being  made, 
claiming  that  such  assertions  tended  to 
weaken prices, are  now  clamoring  to  have 
the mills shut  down.  There is such a thing 
as its being  healthy  for a  man to  occasion­
ally look at the sky, so that in  case  a  thun­
der storm comes up he will  know  it  before 
lightning strikes him.

The Directory of Grand  Rapids  for  1884, 
issued by R. L. Polk & Co., is the most com­
plete and accurate volume of  the  kind  ever 
issued for this city.  It includes several new 
features, notably among which is  a  revised 
county directory, containing the  names,  oc­
cupation and post office addresses, as well as 
the number of acres farmed and the assessed 
valuation of the property, of  each  resident. 
The letter press is  unusually  clean  and  at­
tractive, and the mistakes necessarily incident 
to such a publication seem to be few and far 
between.

A Mercantile  Exchange  Needed,

“What will be the outcome of the  present 
depression?” asked The Tradesman report­
er  of  a  shrewd  grocery  jobber  the  other 
day.

“Simply a survival of the fittest,” was the 
reply.  “I look  for  a good  many  failures 
during the next two months.  The men who 
have been doing  business on wind will have 
to go to the wall, and those  who have taken 
any stock in their promises will have to suf­
fer.  After it is over,  business will  be  on  a 
firmer basis, and  the  weeding  out  of  irre­
sponsible dealers cannot fail to have a bene­
ficial  effect.  Then 
the  jobbers  at  this 
market ought to get together  and organize a 
mercantile exchange, in order that they may 
keep  each  other  posted 
the 
amounts each  dealer  is  buying, as  well  as 
any  default  in  meeting  payments.  Such 
knowledge would not result  in  any harm to 
honorable dealers, but would protect the job­
bers against unscrupulous  men.  Mind you, 
I would not  advocate  dispensing  with the 
mercantile agencies.  They would still  pos­
sess the same value  as  before.  But  an  ex­
change would enable us to supplement their 
work, and make  it even  more valuable than 
it is at the present time.  Suppose  you  agi­
tate the matter in your  paper.”

regarding 

Status  of the  Keeney  Failure.

At the recent date set for the sale of the D. 
Keeney shingle mill and plant at Indian Riv­
er, no one offered to bid  more  than  $2,500. 
whereupon the creditors secured a|postpone- 
ment for the purpose of finding a  purchaser 
at private sale.  The property cost $4,000 and 
is practically  as  good  as  new, and the cred­
itors are as anxious that Mr. Keeney  should 
save something from the estate  as  they  are 
to secure their claims, as they  consider  him 
an honest man and the  failure  unavoidable. 
There are but three creditors,  the  claims  of 
each  being  as  follows:  J.  C.  Simonds, 
Grand  Rapids,  $1,100;  Daniel  Sullivan, 
Grand Rapids,  $570:  F.  E.  Martin,  Indian 
River, $1,000.  The failure was owing to the 
fact that Mr.  Keeney  was  deceived  in  the 
amount of timber he expected to secure  and 
the quality of that he did get, which, coupled 
with  the  depression  in  price  and  inferior 
shipping facilities, brought about his embar­
rassment.  His  many  friends  in  this city, 
where he resided for several years, would be 
glad to see him get on his feet again.

N. C. Terrell succeeds D. Williams  in the 

restaurant business at Cedar  Springs.

IN THE  CITY.

Two new stores are in process of construc­

tion on Michigan street.

Les  Freeman left yesterday for a  week’s 

visit to the old home near Hamilton, Ont.

Heman  Barlow’s  fine  stepper,  Mazeppa 
has been put out to pasture for the  summer.
Peter Schmidt & Sons are building  a new 
store at their present  location,  198  Straight 
street.

J. Yogel has added an ice cream  stand  to 
his other business at the comer of  East  and 
Sherman streets.

Assignee Baker expects to be able to  pay 
the creditors in the John C. Kendall matter a 
trifle over 20 per cent.

J. F. Ferris, the  Monroe  street  tea mer­
chant, will shortly open a branch store in the 
southern part of the city.

Zierlyn’s  new  two-story  brick block,  on 
the comer of Jefferson and Wealthy avenues, 
is approaching completion.

Peter Schuit has built a commodious  frame 
store  at  his  present  location,  537 Ottawa 
street, and will tear down the old  structure.
Jackson Coon the Kockford boot and shoe 
dealer, offers  20 per cent, in full  settlement 
of the claims against him.  Whether  it will 
be accepted, remains to be seen.

While at the commercial travelers’ picnic, 
on the 5th, Wm. B. Collins found  a  pocket 
book containing checks, blanks and  railroad 
tickets, evidently the property of  some trav­
eler. 
It can be obtained  at H.  Leonard  & 
Sons.
H. 

B.  Carhartt, formerly  of  the firm  of 

Welling & Carhartt, but now engaged in the 
gents’ furnishing goods  business  at  Detroit 
under the firm name of Hamilton Carhartt & 
Co., is in town for  a  few  days,  combining 
business and recreation.

Denis  P.  McCarthy,  formerly  for  many 
years identified with John Stevens  & Co., at 
Detroit, and for the past year traveling  rep­
resentative for Towle,  Carle & Co., Chicago, 
has accepted the position of house  salesman 
for John Caulfield, and has entered upon the 
duties of his new  position.

W. J.  Smith, who has carried on the  gro­
cery business for some time past at  the  cor­
ner of Pearl and South Front streets, has sold 
out to S. Remington &  Son.  The latter  has 
been in the employ of the  establishment  for 
some time as clerk.  Mr. Smith is somewhat 
undecided as to the future, but will probably 
remain in the city and engage in the drug bus- 
ness—a calling more to his  liking.

Up to the present time, a little over $11,000 
has  been  realized from the sale of the I. E. 
Messmore grocery  stock,  and  about  $1,800 
worth of goods still remain unsold. About $13- 
000 will be realized from a $14,000 inventory, 
which is an  unusually good  showing.  The 
discrepancy has been  as  follows:  $350  on 
tobaccos; $200 on cigars; $100 on teas; $200 
on soaps; and about $400 on the other goods. 
The City National Bank will  secure  $5,500 
of their $12,500 claim, leaving $7,000 unpro­
vided for.  This amount, added to  the $13,- 
000 worth of  unsecured  claims, swells  the 
grand total to $20,000.  Few men  can make 
such a showing!

AROUND  THE  STATE.

G. A. Dillenback  will  occupy  the  store 
soon to be vacated by  Newark  &  Sorensen, 
at  Cadillac.

M. Cad well  has  just  completed  his  new 
store at Sebewa.  It is 24x108 feet in dimen­
sions, and 29 feet high.

Chas. Graff and H. G. Coney  have started 
the meat market business at Ionia under the 
firm name of Graff &  Coney.

E. L. Hallam’s boot and shoe  store,  Sara­
nac, has been closed by H. P. Baldwin, 2d & 
Co., of Detroit on chattel mortgage.

Ionia  Sentinel:  H. Bowersox,  of  Grand 
Rapids,  has  opened  an  exclusive  tobacco 
house in Ionia.  It is the only purely tobacco 
house in the city.

Samuel Massey, of the late firm  of  Black 
& Massey, of  McBrides,  has  not  yet  been 
heard from.  His wife  states  that  he  is  in 
Queen Victoria’s dominions.

Walter A. Williams, Oakfield  Center, has 
purchased the general stock of W. A.  Peck, 
at Alba, and will  gradually  consolidate  the 
two stocks at the latter  place.

Walter  L. Keeney and  D.  Keeney—both 
formerly of Grand  Rapids—have  formed  a 
co-partnership under the firm name of W. I  
Keeney & Co., and engaged in the wholesale 
fish business at Mackinaw City.

Newark & Sorensen have bought  the  gro­
cery stock of Fred S. Kieldsen,  at  Cadillac, 
and will move their stock into the  Kieldsen 
store.  The latter  retires  from  active  busi­
ness on account of failing health, brought on 
by too close application, and will farm it for 
a while.

Regarding the  prediction  of  a  traveling 
man  to  the  effect  that  N.  G.  Burt,  of 
Cross Village, would pay all his  creditors 
except one—in  full  within  ten  years,  Mr, 
Burtt writes  The  Tradesm an :  “Should 
fortune be my lot, and should I see fit to full- 
ill  this  prediction,  Hannah,  Lay  &  Co, 
would share equally with the rest,  as  there 
were no preferred creditors at the time of the 
failure and would be none in case of the con­
tingency  mentioned.  Hannah,  Lay  &  Co. 
abided by the terms of settlement, and acted 
promptly to accept their money.  But I  am 
sorry to say that some of the  Grand  Rapids 
creditors did not act in the matter until after 
the eleventh hour.  I sincerely hope that the 
traveling  man’s  prediction  may  come  to 
pass.”

Gobbleville parties talk of starting  a  bas­

ket factory at that place.

L. 

S. Smith is trying to talk cheese factory 

to the people of West Kalamo.

A  factory  at  New  Richmond  turns  out 

1,000  broomhandles  each  day.

Bellevue  has  raised  the necessary bonus 

and  will  get  its  chair  factory.

Stephen D. Bennett succeeds Mr. Freeman 

in the saloon business at Muskegon.

The jam of logs in  Muskegon  river  is  35 

miles long, with Newaygo in the center.

Ed Meshier, late of  Trufant,  succeeds  J. 

Meixell in the saloon business at Luther.

C. Pelton, of Cedar Springs, has shut down 

his shingle mill, perhaps for the summer.

The amount of wages  paid to mill  opera­

tives at Manistee, in 1883, was $1,518,537.

Elry  &  Murchinson, Hancock, owe  their 
creditors $10,000.  No wonder they skipped.

E. 

A. Carroll, late of East  Bloomfield,  N. 

Y.,  has  leased  the  National  Hotel at Reed 
City.

The Muskegon Booming  Co. employs  680 
hands this season,  and  during  a  late  week 
rafted 214,533 logs.

Jonathan Boyce, of Muskegon, is building 
a schooner at Manitowoc, Wis., to be named 
the Geo. J. Boyce.  She will run in the lum­
ber trade between Muskegon  and  Michigan 
City.

J.  Platt  Underwood,  one  of  the  stock­
holders in the Tioga  Manufacturing  Co.,  at 
Big Rapids, has filed a petition in the Circuit 
Court, asking that  said  corporation  be  dis­
solved.

Big  Rapids  Herald:  The  tub and pail 
factory is nearly  ready  for  business.  Hun­
dreds of cords of  bolts  are  already  on  the 
ground, the dry kilns are full of staves,  and 
part of the machinery  is  perhaps now in 

motion.

Hemlock bark is coming in more liberally 
at Ludington, than indications assured a few 
weeks ago.  Shipments at  that  point,  how­
ever, are not likely this season  to  aggregate 
more than a  quarter  of  what  they  did  last 
year.  The price continues to be $5 a cord.

The  principal  creditors  of  Pullman  & 
Hinchman, at Shelby, have about concluded 
to purchase the mill  property of the defunct 
firm, and continue operations.  For the pres­
ent, staves will be the principal product, but 
when the market improves, the manufacture 
of broom handles will be resumed.
The Gripsack Brigade.

Charley Robinson has acquired  the  name 

of “the man who never walks.”

Frank E. Chase has returned from a sevdn 
weeks’ visit with friends at  West  Harwich, 
Mass.

John F. Gill, Northern traveling agent for 
Spring & Company, is taking a three weeks’ 
vacation [and contemplates a trip around the 
lakes with  the L. L. and H. P. Club.

John  D.  Mangum,  whose  biography  in 
brief is given on  another  page,  started out 
on a six weeks’ northern trip  Monday.'  He 
carries the new fall  samples  with  him  this 
time.
E. 

H. Bowen, of the firm of Sperry,  Fred­

erick & Bowen, of Louisville, Ky., one of the 
largest and best-known produce houses in the 
South, was in town several days  during  the 
past week.

S. W.  Smith  has  returned  from  a  tour 
trhough Illinois and Iowa in the  interest  of 
the Alabastine Co., and has gone on an East­
ern trip.  The objective point is Clifton,  N. 
Y., where his family are  now  visiting,  and 
where he will spend a portion  of  the  sum­
mer.

John  G.  Read  has  returned from a fort­
night’s 
trip—he  calls  it  a  visit—of  the 
Northern trade of Messrs. Foster, Stevens & 
Co.  He says that he was challenged to walk 
at every town he struck, but  as  he  did  not 
wish to  chargin  any  of  his friends by dis­
tancing them, he politely declined all the of­
fers extended him.

Fred  Selleck,  formerly  with  Freeman 
Hawkins & Co. and L.  H.  Randall  &  Co. 
and later with B. F. Farrington  &  Co.,  has 
entered the employ of the  American  Eagle 
Tobacco Co., and will cover the entire  trade 
of  Western  Michsgan.  He  makes  Grand 
Rapids his headquarters and will shortly re­
move his family from Detroit to this city.

The  man  who  says  Johnny  McIntyre 
never pays a bill is  a  prevaricator,”  said  a 
friend of that gentleman, the other day, “for 
I happen to know of an  instance  where  he 
once 
liquidated  without  being  pressed, 
Years ago he bought a pair of boots of Char­
ley Bailey, up at Fife Lake, but did not  pay 
for them at the time.  Bailey carried the ac­
count down from one book to another,  until 
he tired of seeing the name in the  index,  so 
he headed the last page in his ledger “Grave 
yard Account,” and noted the account down 
there.  The next time  John  came  to, Fife 
Lake, Bailey showed him the  entry,  where­
upon he paid  the  amount  in full.  So  you 
see the man who says John  McIntyre never 
pays a bill doesn’t know  what he is talking 
about.”

“Did you ever hear how Wm. H. Jennings 
traded horses up at Shelby five or  six  years 
ago?” said  a friend  of  that  gentleman  the 
other day.  “He  was  crazy  to swap horses 
with a man who had  a  diseased,  but good- 
looking, nag.  The owner of the animal was 
not at all anxious to trade, because he knew 
that his horse  was  unsound,  but  Jennings 
pressed him so hard  that  he  made  the ex­
change.  Jennings drove off in fine spirits, but 
before going a half dozen miles the new horse 
died in the harness, whereupon Jennings re­
turned and attempted to get his animal back, 
but the trader would not consent to  such  an 
arrangement, as he had not  solicited an  ex­
change or  recommended  hisj animal.  Jen­
nings then said ‘By gee crip,  that’s  the  last 
time I’ll ever trade hosses,’ and I hear he has 
kept his  word.”

Otis and the Pine Lake Iron Co.

The impression seems to be  growing  that 
the Pine  Lake  Iron  Co.  will  be  able to 
weather the present storm  and pull through 
without disaster to itself or those dependent 
upon it.  And there are the best  of  reasons 
for thinking  that  some  of  those connected 
with the institution will  make  tremendous 
sacrifices for the sake of carrying the corpor­
ation  through the present crisis.  The works 
are running as usual, and  the officers  state 
that work will not be suspended.  The  fact 
that the company ordered a bill  of  goods of 
the Packing and Provision  Co.,  and  that  it 
was filled Monday, is significant, as showing 
the intention of the officers to continue busi­
ness as before.

Mr. John Otis’ sanguine view of the situa­
tion at Mancelona has  been  tempered some­
what by the events of the past few days, and 
he is now convinced that something  besides 
talk  will  have to  be  employed to pull the 
concern through. 
If  work  is  suspended  at 
the furnace, and  the  plant  and  stock are 
closed  out at a sacrifice, creditors  will prob­
ably not realize to exceed 20  per  cent.  But 
if  all  of  the 
creditors  wiil  agree  to 
give the assignee two  years  time,  Mr.  Otis 
guarantees  that he will be able to work  out 
all  the  claims in full, and  still  have a re­
spectable  surplus  left  for  himself.  This 
proposition is so plausible  that it commends 
itself to every business  man, and  it is to  be 
hoped that his  mission  among the Chicago 
creditors of the  concern will be  successful. 
He will certainly receive the co-operation of 
every Grand Rapids creditor.

There is no change in  the situation of the 
retail  dealers at Mancelona, except  that T. 
C. Prout has given a second mortgage on his 
stock to Arthur Meigs & Co. for $1,500.

The Decline in Wrapping Paper. 

‘When  I  began  traveling  for  a paper 
house, two years ago, common wrapping was 
selling to  the  retail  trade  at  3)4  cents  a 
pound.  To-day  the  same  grade  of  goods 
command  only 1% cents,”  remarked a well 
known traveler the other day.

‘There  must  have  been a good  deal of 
money made then, or else the manufacturers 
are losing a good  deal now,” suggested  the 
reporter.

‘No,  the  profits  are  about  the  same  as 
they were formerly,” was  the  reply.  “The 
reduction in price is due  entirely  to  the in­
troduction  of  improved  machinery, which 
has lessened the number of workmen requir­
ed, the amount of chemicals  used,  and  cur­
tailed the  expense at  every  point.  Under 
the old sytem, the  straw  had  to  be  rotted 
with lime before it could be put  in  the  cut­
ting machine.  This process  required  days, 
sometimes weeks.  Now the straw is put  in 
a boiler and steamed for six hours,  when it is 
ready for the  cutter.  This  is the  way the 
manufacture is simplified.  No,  there  is  no 
overproduction of  common wrapping  paper, 
though manillas and  some other  grades suf­
fer from that cause.”

Tilings  Heard on  the  Street.

That Heman Barlow  will  re-christen  his 

plug nag “Tramway.”

That Ben Ensley, the redoubtable agricul­

turist, is worth at least $50,000.

That Steve Sears has been a member of the 
firm of Wm. Sears & Co.  since  February  1.
That a certain wholesale grocer has invest­
ed in 10,000 barrels of crude oil, and that in 
consequence of the advance he already counts 
his profits by the hundreds.

Good  Words  Unsolicited.

H. M. Milligan, grocer, Sturgis;  “I think 
you have  got  an  A No. 1  journal  for  thé 
trade.”

W. L. Keeney & Co., wholesale fish, Mack­
inaw City:  “You have certainly made a suc­
cess of The Tradesm an.”

Wm. Sterling, grocer, Eaton Rapids: “We 
want The  Tradesman, we  have  come to 
look for its  appearance  with  much  pleas­
ure.”

The Carpet  Trade  says:  “With  every 
line beautified and enriched, with  moderate 
stocks reported from all sections and visiting 
trade which furnishes  fewer  failures  than 
any other of like  magnitude, we cannot but 
prophesy a good round trade  in  carpets  for 
the fall of ’84.”

VISITING BUYERS.

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

gerton.

J. Riley,  Dorr.
Spring & Lindley, Bailey.
Chas. McCarty, Lowell.
J. W. Mead,  Berlin.
L. A. Gardner, Cedar Springs.
F. C. Brisbin, Berlin.
Bert Tinkler, Hastings.
Norman Harris, Big Springs.
Smedley Bros., Bauer.
C. O. Bostwick & Son, Cannonsburg.
J. Omler, Wright.,
Paine & Field, Englishville.
J. E. Maiihot, West Troy.
Baron & Tenhour, Forest Grove.
W. L. Beardsley, Hersey.
T. W. Provin, Cedar Springs.
J. C. Benbow,  Cannonsburg.
M. Minderhout, Hanley.
G. H. Walbrink, Allendale.
J.  Barnes, Plainfield.
T. J. Sheridan, Lockwood.
W.  H. Struik, Forest  Grove.
D. T. Hersey,  Way land.
J. W. Closterhouse, Grandville.
W. S. Root, Talmage.
H. M. Freeman, Lisbon.
B. M. Dennison, East Paris.
Mr. McAuley, of Scoville & McAuley, Ed- 
J. F. Hacker, Corinth.
John Smith, Ada.
Geo. Luther, Middleville.
Geo. E. Harris, Ashland.
I. J. Quick & Co., Allendale.
J. Riley, Dorr.
C. E. Blakeley, Coopersville.
H. DeKline, Jamestown.
A.  & L. M. Wolf, Hudsonville.
G. N. Reynolds, Belmont.
D. H. Lord, Howard City.
JayMarlatt,  Berlin.
Frank Beamer, Hastings.
Geo. H. Force, Morley.
C. F. Sears & Co., Rockford.
Notier & Boven, Graafschap.
Kellogg & Potter, Jennisonville.
Fred Ramsey, White Cloud.
Gringhaus Bros., Lamont.
John J. Ely, Rockford.
G. J. Shackelton, Lisbon.
J. L. Graham, Hopkins.
Dr. F. C. Williams, Ada.
Walling Bros, Lamont.
C. E. Blakely,  Coopersville.
Blakely Bros, Fife Lake.
O. H. Richmond & Co., formerly of Cedar 
Nagler & Beeler, Caledonia.
Holland &  Ives, Rockford.
G. P. Stark, Cascade.
M. V. Wilson,  Sand Lake.
F. A. Jenison, Mitchell.
G.  W. Joscelyn, Ventura.
John Glupker, Zutphen.
N. DeVries, Jamestown.
A. G. Chase, Ada.
Wm. Parks, Alpine.
J. W. Bragington, Hopkins.
John Giles, & Co.,  Lowell.
D.  W. Shattuck. Way land.
Byron McNeal, Byron Center.
W. F. Rice,  Alpine.
L. A. Carpenter,  Baldwin.
G. A. Estes, Tustin.
Keeler Bros.,  Middleville.
B. Wynhoff, Holland.
M. Heyboer, of Ileyboer  Bros.,  Drenthe. 
M. B. Gascoigne, Gowen.
Geo. A. Sage, Rockford.
D. Cleland, Coopersville.
C. H. Deming, Dutton.
S. Frost, McBrides.
Mr. Wilson, of Wilson,  Luther & Wilson, 
John Wagner, of Wagner &  Wells,  East- 
J. Bartz, North Dorr.
W. W. Pierce, Moline.
Chas. Marthenson, of Marthenson & White, 
F. A. Jennison,  Manton.
R. V. McArthur, Rockford.
F. B. Watkins, Monterey.
J. Frank Clark, Big Rapids.
J. W. Holmes, Remus.

Luther.
manville.

Cadillac.

Springs and Pierson.

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:

en, Louisville,  Ky.
York.
York.
troit.

E. H. Bowen, of Sperry, Frederick & Bow­
G. Morris, Arnold, Constable  & Co.,  New 
C. S. Rosenblatt, S. Baerlein  &  Co.,  New 
H. P. Boyland, John Copeland &Co.,  De­
J. A. Johnson, W. & J. Sloan, New York,
Harry  Fitz  Gerald, W. &  J. Sloan,  New 
L. E. Herring, Boyd, White &  Co., Phila 
Mr.  Bartholomew,  Page,  Booth  &  Co.. 
James F. Orion,  Evans,  Dietz  &  Magee. 
Wm.  Grant,  Arnold,  Constable  &  Co. 

York.
delphia.
New  York.
Philadelphia.
New York.

on patent medicines in England.

Tan Bark—Sales made  as  low  as  $5.50 

Over $750,000  was paid last year  as duty 

Local buyers stand in readiness to pay $5.

Hamilton  Carhartt  &  Co.,
Men’s Furnishing1 Goods

WHOLESALE

M ANUFACTURERS  OF

The “Carhartt” Pantaloons, Overalls, Engineers’ Jackets, Jumpers’ Shirts, etc.  Upon our 
manufactured goods, we guarantee to save the trade the  Jobbers’  Profits.  Samples  sent
Detroit,
118 Jefferson Ave.

for Comparison.

PECK  BROS.,

W holesale D ruggists

A Complete Stock of all that pertains to the wants of the Retail Druggist.

We  Employ  No  Travelers.  Send  for  Prices.

129  and  131  Monroe Street,

Ghrand R apids

M lo U  

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LATEST

JO H N

CAULFIELD
Wholesale  Grocer,
Teas, Totaos,  Spices  Etc.,
FACTORY  AG252TT
For the following well-known brands of To­

85,87  and  89  Canal  Street

—AND JO B B E R  I N —

baccos  and  Cigars:

FI3STE  CUT.

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

P L U  Gr.

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

In 60 ft) quantities 2c per ft) off.

S M O K I N G .

Peerless........................................................25
ob  Roy......................................................25
Uncle  Sam............................. 
28
Tom  and  Jerry...........................................24
Good Enough...............................................23
Mountain Rose.............................................20
jiimberman’s  Long  Cut............................ 26
Home Comfort.............................................24
Green  Back,  Killickinick...........................25
Two Nickel, Killickinick ) i ....................... 25
Two Nickel, Killickinick,  %..................... 26
Star Durham,  Killickinick, )£................... 25
Rattler,  Killickinick,  ) i ............................ 25
Honey Dew, Killickinick,  ) i ..................... 25
Posey, Killickinick,  )4,  paper................... 25
Canary, Killickinick, Extra Virginia........36
Gold  Block, Killickinick, %.......................32
~i*eck’s Sun,  Killickinick, %s and ft>s.. ..  .18
olden 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
fame Kiln Club.................. 
45
Durham Long  Cut.................................... .60
Durham, Blackwell’s  % ............................ 60
Durham, Blackwell’s,  % ............................ 57
Durham, Blackwell’s, % ............................ 55
Durham, Blackwell’s, ft>............................ 51
Seal of North Carolina % ....................    .52
Seal of North Carolina % ...........................50
Seal of North Carolina )4...........................48
Seal of North Carolina ft>...........................46

 

Special prices given on large lots.

Old-APIS.

Smoke  the  Celebrated  ‘‘After Lunch”  Cigar.
After  Lunch.........................................$30 00
Clarrissa................................................. 45 00
Clara.................................................     .32  00
M irella....................................................35 00
Queen  Marys.......................................... 25 00
Josephines..............................................25 00
Little  Hatchets.......................................30 00
Old Glories...........   .............................. 23  00
Twin Sisters............................................23 00
Moss Agate..............................................18 00
Magnolia........................................ 
12  50
Commercial............................................ 55 00
Delumos..................................................60 00
Mark Twain............................................ 55 00
Golden Spike...........................................55 00
Storm’s  Boquet.......................................65 00
Owl Captain............................................ 60 00
S. & S. Capadura.....................................32 00
In addition to the above brands  of Tobac­
cos and  Cigars,  I  keep  in  stock  an  ample 
supply  of  all  other  well-known  brands  of 
Plug and Fine Cut.  Our stock in the Tobac­
co and Cigar  line  is  one  of  the  largest  and 
best assorted to be  found  in  the  city.
Japan ordinary........................
.................23®30
Japan fair..................................
.................32@36
Japan fair to good....................
................ 35@37
Japan fine..................................
................ 40@50
Japan dust.................................
................ 15@18
Young Hyson............................
................ 25@50
GunPowder...............................
................ 35@50
Oolong.......................................
.. .35@45@55®60
Congo  ......................................... ..................30@35
Corn,  Barrels............................ ...........   ®  31
Corn, Vi  bbls.............................. ............  ®  33
Corn. 10 gallon  kegs................. ............  @  36
Corn, 5 gallon  kegs.................. ............  @1 90
Corn, 4Vi gallon kegs............... ............  @1 85
Pure Sugar Drips,  bbl............. ............  30®  37
Maple Syrup, 5 gal kegs.......... ............  @3 10
Maple Syrub, 10 gal  kegs........ ...........   @6 00

S Y R U P S .

TEA S.

SUGARS.
Sugars firm at following quotations:

Cut  Loaf..........................................7%@8
Powdered  Standard........................7%@8
Granulated Standard...................... 7  @7-)£
Standard  Confectioners’  A ...........6% @6%
Standard  A .....................................  @6%
Extra White C.................................
Extra Bright C................................ 6  @5)4
Extra  C........................................... 5%@5%
Yellow C..........................................5)4 @5 )i
We call the especial attention of those de­
siring to purchase new stocks to our superior 
facilities for meeting their wants.  Our guar­
antee is first-class gOQds and low  prices.
Careful attention given mail orders.  Spec­
ial quotations mailed on general line  of  gro­
ceries when requested.

4.

The  Petroleum  Industry.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT,

Attar of Boses.

Drugs él flftebicines

From the New York Sun.

The  Business of Leech-Kaising.

How  Ultramarine  Blue is Made, 

From recent statistics it appears that there 
are 29,000 producting oil  wells  in  Pennsyl­
vania, yielding at present  60,000  barrels  of 
oil a day. 
It requires  5,000  miles of  pipe 
line and 1,600 iron tanks of an  average  ca­
pacity of 25,000 barrels each, to transport and 
store the oil and surplus stocks.  There  are 
now nearly 38,000,000 barrels of oil stored in 
the region in tanks.  This oil would make a 
lake more  than a mile  square  and  ten  feet 
deep.  The money  actually invested  in  pe­
troleum production  since  1860  is  estimated 
to  be  more  than  $425,000,000,  of  which 
$200,000,000  was  capital  from New York 
City.  Since 1880 more than $12,000,000 has 
been used in building iron tanks, and nearly 
as much  in  pipe  lines, all  by  one  corpora­
tion.  The tanks cost on an average  $8,0000 
each.  A 35,000 barrel tank is 90  feet in di­
ameter and 28 feet high; 100tons of iron are 
used in constructing one.  The  annual  loss 
from  lightning  by the use of iron  tanks is 
very great, as they  form  an  attractive  path 
to earth for electircity.

“Genuine attar of roses,” remarked a New 
York chemist,  “which is made in India  and 
There are several  varieties  of  the leech, 
Australia, costs $100 an  ounce  at  the  place 
but the variety called the  Swedish  leech  is 
of distillation. 
It takes  fifty thousand rose 
the one used in medicine.  They come from 
blooms  to  yield  an  ounce  of  attar.  They 
France, where leech-farming is carried on to
are the common roses and grow in great pro­
a large extent.  Although inhabiting marsh
fusion in  California, where  the  distillation
es, the leech belongs to the silk-worm order, I of attar could be made a Very  profitable  in- 
in so far as it comes from  a  cocoon.  These  dustry> 
I have seen hedge rows near Samo- 
cocoons are gathered in  immense  quantities  na> in that state, so dense with  these  roses 
in Sweden and Norway  and  transported to  that the odor from them on  a  warm,  sultry 
the  French  leech  farms  where  they  are  day  gauged  a  feeling  of  peculiar  faintness 
hatched  and  tended.  These  farms  are  in  and oppression in the passer-by.  This is the 
very low and marshy land and range  in  ex-  effect  of  the  attar  that is distilled by the 
tent from 100  to  1,000  acres.  They  raise  heat and moist air, and is held suspended, as 
from 40,000  to  50,000  leeches  to  the acre. I jt were, in the atmosphere.
During the cold season the leech burrows un- 
There is money in that cause of  faintness 
derground but when the warm weather comes  and indoience, biit in this  country  not  only 
it makes its appearance.  A troop  of horses  the  sweetness,  but the  great  value  of  the 
is then  driven  into  the  marshes,  allowing  flowerSj is wasted  on  the  desert  air. 
In 
about ten to the acre.  The  leeches  attach  nortfiem India the roses are  regularly culti- 
themselves to the lower part of  the  legs  of  vated>  They are planted in  rows  in  fields 
the animals and gorge themselves.  After they  and require no  particular care.  When they 
have had a meal they  drop  oif,  the  horses I ^egjn f0 bloom they are  picked  before mid- 
The speculative transactions in petroleum 
are taken out, carefully attended and pastur-1 day-  This  work  is  done  by  women  and 
represents more than $400,000,000 annually. 
ed, and after ten days’ rest they  are  driven  children,  who  seem  to  regard  it more as a 
The 
lowest  price  crude  petroleum  ever 
in to feed others.  From the first  of  March I pleasure than a pursuit of  labor.  The  rose 
brought was ten cents a barrel, in  1861. 
In 
to the middle of June the leaches are fed half 1 leaves are distilled in twice  their  weight of 
1859,  when  there  was only one well in ex­
a dozen times.  In June they go underground I wafer, which is drawn off into open  vessels, 
istence,  Colonel  Drake’s  Pioneer at Titus­
again, but come out in July  and  August  to I These are allowed to stand over night, being 
ville, the price  was  $24  a  barrel.  Besides 
make their cocoons.  The  leech  is  of  dual 1 covered up with clothes to keep out dirt and 
the 5,000 miles of pipe  line in use in the oil 
sex, so each performs his  duty.  About  the I insects. 
In the morning the water is coated 
regions, there are in operation 1,200 miles of 
last of August the fishing  for  leeches  com-  with a thin oily film.  This is the  rare attar 
trunk pipe lines connecting the  region with 
mences.  The  grounds  are flooded  and  the 10f  roses> 
jt  is  skimmed  off  with  a fine 
Cleveland,  Pittsburgh,  Buffalo  and  New 
fishers enter, protected by high boots.  They I feather and dropped into vials.  The process 
York, and  lines  building in to Philadelphia 
beat the water and stir up the  leeches, as  it I continues  daily until  the  bushes  cease to 
and Baltimore. 
In the line  between  Olean 
were, with a long pole, and  as  they  appear I hioom.  So it may well be imagined that any 
and New York 15,000 barrels of oil are trans 
the larger ones are gathered into bags.  They 1 essence of oil that requires  the  distilling of 
ported daily.  These lines are all  the  prop­
are then taken and packed into  boxes  filled I dfty thousand roses to fill an ounce vial  has 
erty of the  Standard  Oil  Company, except 
with  marsh  moss  and  sand,  which  keeps j a rjght to have a g00d price set on it.” 
one between Bradford and Williamsport, Pa. 
moist a long time, and  are ready  for  trans­
The Standard  employs  100,000 men.  The 
portation  to  any  distance.  A  thousand j 
product of its refineries  requires  of  25,000
leeches are placed in each box or case.  They  An outline of the  published  processes  of I oak barrels 0f forty gallons each, and 100,000 
now cost about $50 a case.  There are prob-  making ultramarine blue may be of interest  tin cans holding five gallons each, every day. 
ably from fifty to seventy-five  cases  sold  in  The clay is  first  roasted, ground  in  a  mill,  The first American petroleum ever exported 
Chicago every year—say, on an  average, 60,- J and mixed  with  other  materials  known to  was in 18g3i  Charles Lockart, of Pittsburgh, 
000  leeches. 
In  Paris  they  use 3,000,000  au.  The  first  product  of  the  action  of I sent neariy 600,000 gallons to Europe in that 
every year, and in the whole of France near-  the materials upon  one  another,  under  the  year> and S(dd jt for $2,000 less than the cost 
ly  30,000,000;  in  Germany  they  use  very  influence of heat, is a colorless or but slight- L f transportation. 
In 1883  nearly  400,000,- 
nearly as many. 
In England  their  use  has J iy colored  body, which is believed to be sili-  qqq gallons  were  exported, for which $60,- 
fallen of greatly, for the  same  reasons  that J cate of alumina and  soda,  containing  much j 0oo,000 were returned to this country, 
it has in this country, the modern practice of j sulphide of  sodium.  When  this is  formed
medicine not being favorable to blood-letting, I the  furnace  is  cooled  down.  Up  to  this J 
but in England their use is  much  more  ex- f 
tensive than it is in this  country.”

time the  materials  have  been in a reducing  From the Iron Age. 
atmosphere;  now  follows  an  oxidizing  at-  On the 1st of June there  were in stock in 
mosphere, and  the  colorless body  becomes  this country 38,631,203 barrels of  crude pe- 
blue, but rather a green.  This green is con-  troleum—nearly  two  years’  supply  at the 
verted into a blue by another  roasting along  present rate of  consumption.  The  present 
with sulphur.  The soda ultramarine is said  rate of production is 76,834 barrels  per  day 
The  excessive  supply  of  nitrate of  soda 
to be obtaiued-a good  blue—by one  opera-  or 3,381,854 barrels for  the  month  of  May
has had a strong depressing influence on the 
To the roast-  21,494  wells  were producing at the close of
markets here  and  abroad,  notwithstanding J tion of r0asting the materials.
the increasing demand, which  was stimulat- J jng succeeds washing, to remove  all soluble 1 the month  and  244 were  drilling, notwith 
ed by low prices.  The syndicate of refiners,  matters, then  crushing and grinding;  after-  standing the stock  of  oil  increased  482,525 
however, which was formed on the tenth  of  ward elutriation, or separating the finer from  barrels during the month. 
In view of  these 
last June, will have an important bearing up-  the grosser particles, by mixing up  with wa-  facts,  the  developments  in  the  petroleum 
on values, it is believed, before the  close  of  ^   and  pouring  off  at given  intervals of I market the last month are not at all suipns- 
ing. 
It is not  strange, in  the  face  of  the 
the next quarter, although the  improvement J time. and> iastly, drying and sieving, 
enormous stocks, that the  producers  are en­
is slow in taking root.  The combination em­
deavoring to “stop the drill.
braces all the principal works located at Tar- I 
At a meeting of the Associated Producers.
aposa, Tocopilla, Autofagasta,  Agus,  Blan-1  a  simple test for ascertaining the presence
cas, Taltal and Valpariaso.  They have resolv-1 of cotton seed oil in olive oil is  given as  fol-1 held  at  Bradford,  Pa.,  June 14, at which 
ed to restrict production  to  ten  millions  of hows: 
most of  the  large  producers  were  present,
quintals" per  annum—a  reduction  of  one-1  An aqueous solution of acetate of  lead  is  an agreement was reached which  has  since 
quarter;  and  every  member  violating  the J stirred up with the oil, and the  mixture  put I been signed by many who were not  present 
rules will be compelled to pay one dollar for I aside for twelve hours, 
lf there  be present I calling for a  general  suspension  of  drilling 
every one hundred pounds produced and ex- J even so small a quantity as 5 percent, of cot-1 until January 1,1885, if three-fourths of the 
ported in excess of the  quota  stated  in  the J ton seed oil the mixture will  have a reddish J producers operating  unite.  The  organiza- 
agreement.  The intention is to solicit  from  color.  This reaction is said to be peculiar to  tion regard the  owner of every rig in which 
J a set of  tools  are  swinging  on  the 1st of
the Government such administrative and aux-  cotton  seed oil. 
iliary acts as may be necessary  to  facilitate 
J August next as “public and private enemies
and ensure the carrying out of the object  of 
The beautiful  blue  pigments  used  under  men  merely  seeking to  secure  the advan- 
the compact.  Two months prior to the expir-  the name of  cobalt  blue  owes its  coloring  tages of others’ sacrifices, and that  we shall 
ation of the term of one year  named  as  the I proprieties to the  element  whose  name  it J place in the category  hardware  and  supply 
duration of the agreement, a special meeting J bears. 
It  is  made  by  heat, alumina  and J dealers, bankers and  other  parties  giving 
will be held to decide upon  the  advisability I phosphate or arseniate  of  cobalt, one of the I credit to such  operators,  except  such  spec- 
of extending it for another  year  or  longer. J mixtures or compounds in which it is  found j ial cases as the Executive  Committee decide 
It is also provided that the operations of the j [n nature.  This blue is one of the most per-1 are  justified  in  operating.”  It  is  evident 
syndicate shall cease  temporarily  or  finally  manent, as it is one of the the  most  beauti-1 that the stoppage suggested is a  very  sensi 
whenever serious opposition manifests itself, J ful blue  pigments  known. 
or when the products  of  new  works which  affected by exposure to the atmosphere. 
In  Notwithstanding this  agreement,  oil  has 
have not come into the combination shall in-1 this respect it is quite unlike the many beau-1 experienced a most marked  decline.  Early 
terfere with  the  objects  for  which  it  was J tiful colors in all shades made from coal  tar J May  oil  sold  at $1.03 a barrel; two  weeks 
formed.  The total output and amount to be J and known as aniline  colors.  Many beauti- j ago it sold at 73 cents  and  dropped  within 
exported are allotted to the  different  works  ful  colors  and  pigments  in  the  trade  owe  three days to a fraction  over  50  cents, from 
pro  rata, taking  as a basis the producing ca- J their  brilliancy to  the  presence  of  these I which price  it  rallied  and  was  sold at the 
products, but they are as fleeting as they are  close of last  week at 61  cents  to 62  cents,
parity assigned to each. 
I Oil has been a favorite speculation  recently
brilliant. 
1 
J When the Grant & Ward failure  and  its  se-
j n thinning thick color of  any kind, when J quences alarmed the country  and  destroyed 
said a seedy-looking  man,  as  he  entered  a  taken from  the  can, beat  it  thoroughly be-1 what  little confidence  remained,  oil felt the 
drug store, “who told me that you did a very  fore adding liquid; then add a small portion 1 situation  and  dropped  from  the  point 
large  business,  and  that  any  purchases  I  at a time) thoroughly after each addition un- J which speculation had forced it to its proper 
might want to make could be effected on rea-  ^  the desired  consistency is attained. 
sonable  terms.” 

thinner  is  added  in a large  quantity  no

“I was recommended  here  by  a friend,” 

From the Oil, Paint and Drug Reporter.

It  is  quite  un-1 ble move.

The  Petroleum  Situation!,

Adulteration  in  Olive  Oil

A Cautious Purchaser. 

----------m  •  ♦ ---------  

Nitrate  of Soda.

-------  ♦   * 

If a | price, 

--------- 

“Yes, sir; certainly, sir.  We have built up  amonnt 0f stirring or beating  will break the j 

The Kind  They Smoke in Chicago 

“Such a line of policy, I take it,” said  the  niceiy oniy in this way. 

a very large  trade  by  faithful  attention  to  lumpSi and straining will be necessary. This  From the Chicago Times 
business, and by honest efforts to please our  rule appiies to almost  every  thick  paste  or I  a  bald-headed  old  sinner  walked  into 
numerous  customers.” 
mass.  Keg lead can  be  mixed  quickly and J cigar store at Fourteenth and Market streets
j Monday, and  pompously threw a  fifty  cent
seady-looking man, gazing at the  proprietor J 
I piece upon the show case, thereby indicating
with an air  of  great  confidence,  “contains I  Bottles are an  exceedingly  scarce  article, I ^js  ¿esire  to  invest in some of  the  filthy 
the essential elements of commercial success.  and prices are being pegged  up at an unpre-1 weed
A conscientious consideration for the  wants I cedentedly rapid rate.  The surplus stock of J 
“What kind of a cigar will you have, sir?” 
of one’s customers, while, at the same  time, I two years ago has been  absorbed, and bottle J t>iandiy asked  the  polite  clerk; “five or ten 
a  proper  observance  of  what  is due  one’s  houses are completely overrun  with  orders. J centSj sjr?»
self, will win in the long  run. 
Iam   a pro-J About  August,  we  are  informed  by  trust-1  The aged customer  cast  a  look  of  blank 
fessional man myself, but I take considerable j worthy correspondents, bottles will be clean J astonishment on the smiling salesman, which
nride in stating that  I  am,  nevertheless,  a 
was finally supplemented with  one of genu­
practical  man,  and  possessed  of  practical 
ine contempt; at length he said:
ideas.”

out of sight.—National Bottler’s Gazette.

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12
18
1“
1«
15
j < J
12
20
18
30
12

27
37}
9
12
13
15
14

powdered.

Advanced—Morphia, gum opium, gum opium 
Declined—Gentian plant.
A C ID S.

Acetic,  No. 8............................$  »  
9  @  10
Acetic,  C. P. (Sp. grav. 1.040)........   30  ©  35
35
Cart«, lie............................................  
Citixc.................................................  
„  ^   55
Muriatic 18 deg............................... 
3  @  5
Nitric 36 deg....................................   11  @  12
Oxalic...............................................   14 34©  15
3  ©  4
Sulphuric 66 deg.............................. 
Tartaric  powdered......................... 
48
Benzoic,  English....................$  oz 
20
Benzoic,  German............................  32  @  15
Tannic...............................................  15  @  17

AM M ONIA.

Carbonate................................ $  ®>  15  @  18
Muriate (Powd. 22c)......................... 
_  14
Aqua 16 deg or  3f............................ 
6  ©  7
Aqua 18 deg or 4f............................ 
7  @  8
ò  50 
40 
2 50 
50

Copaiba..................
Fin................... ........
Peru..........................
Tolu.........................

BALSAMS. 

'

BA RK S.

Cassia, in mats (Pow’d 20c)............ 
Cinchona,  yellow..........................  
Elm,  select.......................... 
Elm, ground, pure..........................  
Elm, powdered,  pure.....................  
Sassafras, of root............................ 
Wild Cherry, select......................... 
Bayberry  powdered....................... 
Hemlock powdered......................... 
W ahoo.............................  
 
Soap  ground....................................  

 

B E R R IE S .

Cubeb, prime j(Powd $  85)................. 
© 80
Juniper...............................................  J  ©  7
Prickly Ash........................................ICO @110

EXTRACTS.

Licorice (10 and 25 B> boxes, 25c)... 
Licorice,  powdered, pure.............  
Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 lb doxes). 
Logwood, Is (25 B>  boxes)............... 
Lgowood, 34s 
............... 
do 
Logwood, 34s 
do 
............... 
Logwood, ass’d  do 
............... 
Fluid;Extracts—25 
cent, off list.

FLO W ERS.

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

GUMS.

 

Aloes,  Barbadoes...............................  
Aloes, Cape (Powd  24c)..................  
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd  60c).......... 
Ammoniac........................................... 
Arabic, extra  select.......................  
Arabic, powdered  select............... 
Arabic, 1st picked..........................  
Arabic,2d  picked............................  
Arabic,c3d picked............................ 
Arabic, sifted sorts................ 
 
Assafcentida, prime (Powd 35c)... 
Benzoin............................................  
Camphor.............................................. 
Catechu, is (34 14c, 34s 16c)
_„phorbium powdered..................  
Eu
Galbanum strained......................... 
Gamboge.......................................... 
Guaiac, prime (Powd  45c).
-  
|U  
Kino [Powdered, 30c]................
Mastic.............................................
Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 47c).
Opium, pure (Powd $6.00)............
Shellac, Campbell’s.
----- 
■£ iff'
Shellac,  English
Shellac, native.................................
Shellac bleached..............................
Tragacanth......................................  30
H ERBS—IN   OUNCE  PACKAGES.

60© 75
18
50
28@ 3U
6U
6d
■*{
46
«5
«0
„ 3 0
55@60
22@ 24
35@  40
80
90®1 00
o5
20 
1  10 
40 
4 50 
30 
26 
24 
30
@1  10

•  — 

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■ 

Hoarhound......................................................| |
Lobelia..............................................................
Peppermint...................................  ................."j*
Rue.....................................................................
Spearmint........................................................
Sweet Majoram...............................................««
Tanzy............................................................... I"
Thym e............................................................. ««
Wormwood......................................................

IR O N .

Citrate and  Quinine.............
Solution mur., for tinctures........
Sulphate, pure  crystal..................
Citrate..............................................
Phosphate............................................

LEA VES.

6 40 
20

Buchu, short (Powd 25c).................  12  @
Sage, Italian, bulk (34 s & 34s, 12c)...
Senna,  Alex, natural.....................   18  ©
Senna, Alex, sifted and  garbled..
Senna,  powdered............................
Senna tinnivelli...............................
Uva  Ursi...........................................
Belledonna........................................
Foxglove...........................................
Henbane...........................................
Rose, red........................................... 
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................................................... } 75
Catawba  Wines.....................................1 *5
Port Wines........ .............................. 1  ®5

LIQ U O R S.

*

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

M AGNESIA.

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

O ILS.

do 
do 

Almond, sweet.................................  46
Amber, rectified..............................
Anise.................................................
B a y $   oz...................................—
Bergamont........................................
Castor................................................  19
Croton...............................................
Cajeput............................................
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...........................................
Tar (by gal 60c).................................  10
Wintergreen...................
Wormwood, No. 1 (Pure $6.50).......
Savin.................................................
Wormseed..............................
Cod Liver, filtered.................¥  gal
Cod Liver, best................. 
...
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16
Olive, Malaga....................
Olive, “Sublime  Italian  .  . 
.......
Salad............................................ 
Rose,  Ihmsen’s .......................V oz

65

PO TASSIU M .

Bicromate............................
B r o m id e , c r y s t .   a n d   g r a n .  b u l k . . .
Chlorate, cryst (Powd 23c).............
I o d id e ,  c r y s t .   a n d   g r a n ,   b u l k ..........
P r u s s i a t e  y e l l o w .........................................

%  50 
45 
1 80 50 
2 00 
^  2034 
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 
@  122 25 
4 50 
1 002 50
1 90
3 50 
6  00
@1 202 50 
@  67
9 75

“Undoubtedly, sir, undoubtedly,” respond­
ed the druggist, rubbing his hands expectant­
ly; and now, what can we do for  you,  sir?”
“Yon  may  give  me  a  two-cent  postage 

stamp, if you please.”

“Barring myself,” said  Secretary  Jesson, 
of the State  Pharmaceutical Association, “I 
think the gathering of  druggists at  Lansing 
last fall  was  the  handsomest,  best-dressed 
and most intelligent body of men  ever  seen 
together.  I never felt bigger in my life than 
I did when a colored  gentleman approached 
me with the  inquiry,  ‘What  branch  of  the 
legislature am this, boss?’ ”

The T radesman  has  arranged  with  an 
experienced and practical  chemist to answer 
any queries! that may be propounded by the 
trade-in  regard to  pharmaceutical  prepara-
t o r A u l u e r i i s h ^ ^  
and briefly, to insure reply. 

‘See here, my lad, what  do  you  take  me 
for, anyhow?  Do you think I’m  a  national 
hank, or are you a thinkin’ man?  Ten  cent
been
 f T * 1
ln f
ain’t never  chewed  up  nothing  better  than
The sale of tobacco being in France a Gov- j Wheeling stoga yet.  No sirree, I don’t want
emment  monopoly, the  widow  of  Admiral J no ten cent  segar, nor  no  five  cent  segar,
Pierre is rewarded by having the profit^ of a I nuther.  Just be kind  enough  to  give  me
tobacco  shop,  supposed  to  produce  $900  a 
year, allotted  her.

1 some o’ them thar stem  winders, nine  for
i  nickel.”

?evU:  km ,yt  1  hr

mgh  "nt0  ^

 m th,s 

A. W. Roth, formerly engaged,, in the drug 
The  Orange tree at Versailles,  known  as 
business on the comer of Wealthy and  Jef- 
the Great Constable, is nearly 500 years old.
It was planted in 1422 by Eleanor of  Carlis-1 ferson avenues, is now carrying on the same 
le, wife of Charles III., King of Navarre. 

I business in Detroit

15

Alkanet............................................
Althea, cut.......................................
Arrow,  St. Vincent’s.....................
Arrow, Taylor’s, in 34s and 34s....
Blood (Powd 18c).............................
Calamus,  peeled..............................
Calamus, German  white, peeled..
Elecampane, powdered..................
Gentian (Powd  14c).........................
Ginger, African (Powd 16c)............  13
Ginger, Jamaica  bleached........
Golden Seal (Powd 40c)..................
Hellebore, white, powdered..........
Ipecac, Rio, powdered....................
Jalap, powdered..............................
Licorice,  select (Powd 1234)..........
Licorice, extra select.....................
Pink, true.........................................
Rhei, from select to  choice..........1 00
Rhei, powderedE. I ....................... 110
Rhei, choice cut  cubes..................
Rhei, choice cut fingers.................
Serpentaria— .— .......................
Seneka ............................................
i Sarsaparilla,  Honduras— ..........

HAZELTINE, 
PERKINS

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, Lnglish..................................  
Worm,  Levant................................. 

18
10
25
20

13
5  © 6
334® 4
11  © 122 uo2 25

12
15

334©
4  @ 434
8  © 9
5  © 534
8
1 00
734©  8
14

SPONGES.

Florida sheeps’wool, carriage.......2 25  @2 50
Nassau 
do 
do 
2 00
.......  
1 10
........ 
Velvet Extra do 
do 
. —  
ExtraYellow do 
85
do 
........ 
Grass 
do 
65
do 
Hard head, for slate use................. 
75
1 40
................. 
Yellow Reef, 

do 
M ISCELLANEUS.

12
1 20

do 
do 

1 10
8
234©  8

Alcohol, grain(bbl$2.17) $ g a l.... 
Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex..ref. 
Anodyne Hoffman’s.......................  
Arsenic, Donovan’s solution........ 
Arsenic, Fowler’s solution...........  
Annatto 1 lb rolls............................ 
Blue  Soluble....................................  
Bay  Rum, imported, best.............  
Bay Rum, domestic, H., P. & Co.’s . 
Alum.........................................  f! 8>
Annatto, prime.

2  25
1  50
50
27
12
30
50
2 75
2 00
234® 334
3  © 4
32
434© 5
6  © 7
40
Balm Gilead  Buds.....................
2 25
Beans,  Tonka..................... ............ 
Beans, Vanilla.................................7 00  @9 75
1 60
Bismuth, sub  nitrate__ -.............. 
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c).......................  
45
Blue V itriol....................................  
734®  9
Borax, refined (Powd  13c).............  
12
Cantharides,Russian  powdered.. 
185
18
Capsicum  Pods, African............... 
Capsicum Pods, African pow’d ... 
20
18
Capsicum Pods,  American do  ... 
Carmine, No. 40 ...............................  
4 00
12
Cassia Buds...................................... 
Calomel. American........................  
70
Chalk, prepared drop.....................  
5
Chalk,'precipitate English............ 
12
Chalk,  red  fingers..........................  
8
2
Chalk, white lump..........................  
Chloroform,  Squibb’s .................... 
1 60
Colocynth apples............................ 
60
1  60
Chloral hydrate, German  crusts.. 
cryst... 
Chloral do 
1  78
Chloral 
do  Scherin’s  do  ... 
190
Chloral do 
crusts.. 
1  75
Chloroform.................................i'..l 00  @1  10
Cinchonidia, P. & W........*............  55  @  6G
Cinchonidia, other brands.............   55  @  60
Cloves (Powd 28c)............................  20  @  22
Cochineal......................................... 
30
Cocoa  Butter................................... 
45
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 lb box.. 
15
Creasote..................................................... 
Cudbear, prime........................................ 
Cuttle Fish Bone...................................... 
i Dextrine........................................... 
Dover’s  Powders...........................  
Dragon’s Blood Mass.............................. 
Ergot  powdered...................................... 
Ether Squibb’s................................. 
Emery, Turkish, all  No.’s.............  
Epsom Salts...................................... 
Ergot, fresh..............................................  
Ether, sulphuric, U. S.  P .......................  
Flake white.............................................. 
Grains  Paradise...................................... 
Gelatine, Cooper’s ..........................  
90
Gelatine, French  ............................  45  ©  70
Glassware, flint, 76 off,by box 60 off 
Glassware, green, 60 and 10 dis....
Glue,  cabinet..................................   12  ©  17
Glue,white.......................................   17  ©  28
Glycerine, pure...............................   21  @  25
Hops  34s and 34s.............................. 
25©  40
Iodoform 
oz................................. 
35*
 
Indigo................................................  85  @1  00
Insect Powder, best Dalmatian...  23  @  25
2 10
Iodine,  resublimed......................... 
Isinglass,  American....................... 
1  50
Japonica........................................... 
J
London  Purple...............................   10 @  15
Lead, acetate.......................... 
15
9
Lime, chloride, (348 2s 10c & 34s 11c) 
Lupuline.......................................... 
1 00
Lycopodium....................................  
50
60
M.£t>C6 .................  
Madder, best  Dutch.....................  
1234@  13
Manna, S.  F .................................. 
1 35
Morphia,’ sulph’..’ P. & W........$  oz  3 25®3 50
Musk, Canton, H., P. & Co.’s........  
40
l!;
Moss, Iceland............................$  lb 
Moss,  Irish.......................................  
12
30
Mustard,  English..................j........ 
18
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 fi)  cans........ 
20
NutgaUs............................................  
Nutmegs, No. 1................................. 
70
Nux  Vomica.................................... 
10
40
Ointment. Mercurial, 34d............... 
Paris Green......................................  1834©  21
18
Pepper, Black  Berry.....................  
Pepsin..................... ........................  
3 00
Pitch, True Burgundy.................... 
7
Quassia  ............................................  
6  ®  7
Quinia, Sulph, P, & W........... B> oz  1 30@I 35
Quinine,  German............................1 25  @1  30
Seidlitz  Mixture.....................................  
 
Strychnia, cryst............................... 
1 50
Silver Nitrate, cryst.......................  79  ©  82
Red Precipitate...................... ^ lb 
80
Saffron, American................................... 
Sal  Glauber...................................... 
@  *
Sal Nitre, large  cryst.............................. 
Sal  Nitre, medium cryst........................ 
 
Sal Rochelle..................................... 
2  ©  21
Sal  Soda............................................  
Salicin...............................................  
2 00
«75
Santonin.................... — ............. 
Snuffs, Maccoboy or Scotch.......... 
oo
4
Soda Ash [by keg 3c]...................... 
Spermaceti.................................... 
434©  »
Soda, Bi-Carbonate,  DeLand’s.... 
14
Soap, White Castile......................... 
Soap, Green  do 
17
 
............  
 
Soap, Mottled do 
9
......................... 
Soap, 
ii
do  do 
......................... 
Soap,  Mazzini........................................... 
Spirits Nitre, 3 F ..............................  26  @  28
Spirits Nitre, 4 F ..............................  28  @  32
Sugar Milk powdered.............................. 
Sulphur, flour................................... 
Sulphur,  roll...................................  
Tartar Emetic........................•••••• 
Tar, N. C. Pine, 34 gal. cans  $  doz 
Tar, 
quarts in tin.......... 
Tar, 
pints in tin..............
Turpentine,  V enice............... $  B>
Wax, White* S. &  F. brand...........
Zinc,  Sulphate................................. 

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1

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W holesale

Druggists !

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

95  Louis  Street.

IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS  OF

i s J e t t s .G l e i i  
Paints, Oils, Tarasíes,

MANUFACTURERS  OF

2
ELEGANT  PHARMACEUTICAL  PREPARATIONS, 
50
24
24

FLUID  EXTRACTS  AND  ELIXIRS.

GENERAL WHOLESALE  AGENTS  FOR

50
45
W olf, Patton & Co., a n d John L. W hit­

ing, Manufacturers  of  Fine 

50
69
14
2o

Pa in t  a n d  T arnish 

B rushes.

—Also for the—

Grand  Rapids  Brush  Co.,  Manfgs.  of 

H air, Shoe a n d H orse B rushes.

Druggists' Sundries

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

We  desire  particular  attention  of  those 
about purchasing outfits  for  new  stores 
to the fact  of  our  unsurpassed  facilities 
for meeting the wants of this class of buyers 
28
without delay and in the most approved and 
acceptable manner known to the drug trade. 
Our  special efforts in this direction have  re­
40
ceived from hundreds of  our  customers  the 
most satisfying recommendations.
10
#

33

 

«5

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 
if
Pure Goods in this  department.  We  con­
trol  and  are  the  only  authorized  agents 
30
for the sale of the celebrated

Withers Dade & Co’s

O IL S.

v a r n i s h e s .

Gal
85
75
65
62
65
95
45

Capitol  Cylinder............................................
60
Model  Cylinder..............................................
Shields  Cylinder.......................................... 
50
Eldorado Engine..................................................45
Peerless  Machinery........................................... 3o
Challenge Machinery..........................................25
Backus Fine Engine.......................................... 30
Black Diamond Machinery................................30
Castor Machine  Oil.............................................6C
Paraffine, 25  deg 
Paraffine,28  deg...
Sperm, winter bleached....................— 1^40
Bbl
80
Whale, winter 
64
Lard, extra...
55
I Lard, No.  1...
58
Linseed, pure raw..............................  58
61
Linseed, boiled..................................  61
90
N eat’s Foot, winter  strained...........   90
35
Spirits Turpentine..............................  35
..1 10®1 20
No. lTurp  Coach..................................1 10®1 20
..1 60@1 70
Extra  Turp............................................1 60©1 70
..2 75®3 00
Coach  Body...........................................2 75@3 00
..1 00©110
No. 1 Turp Furniture...........................1 00@110
Extra Turp  Damar.............................. 1 55@1 60
70@  75
Japan Dryor, No.  1 Turp.
Lb
9
10
10
11
2® 3 
2® 3 
2© 3 
234© 3 
234© 3 
13@16 
55@57 
16@17 
634 
634 ©70 
@90 
1  10 
1 40

Bbl
Boralumine, White  b u lk ]............
5 lbs I  ........
Boralumine, 
“ 
Boralumine, Tints bulk.  V50 off..
Boralumine  “ 
5  lbs. J ........ .
Red Venetian............................  13i
Ochre, yellow Marseilles........   154
Ochre, yellow  Bermuda..........  15£
Putty, commercial................  234
Putty, strictly pure..................   234
Vermilion, prime American..
Vermilion, English..................
Green, Peninsular....................
Lead, red strictly pure............
Lead, white, strictly pure.......
Whiting, white Spanish..........
Whiting,  Gildersf......................
White, Paris American............
Whiting  Paris English cliff..

PA IN T 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,  b u t  
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

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

We  call  your  attention  to  the  adjoining 
list of  market  quotations  which  we  aim  to 
make  as  complete  and  perfect  as  possible. 
For special quantities and for  quotations  on 
such articles as do not appear on the list such 
as Patent Medioines, eto„ we  invite your cor­
respondence.

Mail orders always receive our special and 

personal attention.

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

W E D N E S D A Y .

E.  A.  STOWE  &  URO., Proprietors.

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

Second-class Matter. 1

WEDNESDAY, JULY  16,1884.

CHECKS UPON  DISHONESTY. 

Three  Points  that  Ought to  He  Observed.
The July Century contains an editorial on 
“Dishonesty  in  Commerce  and  Politics,” 
from which the following remarks are quot­
ed:

“The most powerful  check  upon  dishon­
esty would come, of course, from an increase 
of the genuine religious spirit, from a  deep­
er love of ideal virtue, and  an  endeavor,  so 
far as humanity can, to reach it.  Whenever 
in the history of mankind such  a  sentiment 
has existed, and men have tried, in obedience 
to their  own  higher  impulses  or  to  some 
great teacher or exemplar, to  reach a higher 
standard  of  life,  mere  material  good  has 
ceased to have that commanding importance 
which in most men’s eyes it is  apt  to  have. 
There is no reason to doubt that what has al­
ways proved true in this respect in ages past 
would prove equally true in  our  own  time, 
if by any means the right impulses could  be 
more deeply stirred than they are now in the 
hearts of men.

“Another antidote to dishonesty would be 
the cultivation among  business  men  of  the 
true business ideal,  which consists in a  sin­
cere and hearty devotion to  the  commercial 
interests of society and the intelligent  man­
agement of the world’s commerce, and not in 
the mere accumulation of  wealth  for  one’s 
self.  Even now this  spirit  prevails  among 
many of our capitalists, and their influence is 
powerful  in  makimg  dishonest  practices 
much less frequent than  they  would  other­
wise be.  Such sentiments as these,  if  once 
highly developed in a community, would put 
a powerful check upon dishonesty, in all  its 
forms, and men guilty  of  it  would  become 
the scorn and detestation of their neighbors, 
and not, as is sometimes  the  case  now, ob­
jects of admiration.

“But we need also to  cultivate  the  intel­
lectual interests of humanity, which contrib­
ute so much to raise men above  sordid  pur­
suits and the temptations that attend  them. 
The love of virtue and of the general good is 
never so strong as it should be, and needs all 
the support it can get from  other  agencies; 
and nothing will serve so well for  this  pur­
pose as the cultivation of the higher pursuits 
of the intellect.  A deep interest in the things 
of the mind tends to lift men above the  pas­
sion of gain, and leads them to regard wealth 
as a means to those higher  things,  and  not 
as an end in itself.  True lovers  of  science, 
art and philosophy, while they know  better 
than other men do the real value of  wealth, 
never treat it as the great object of life’s aim, 
but always as subordinate to intellectual and 
spiritual good.  To be sure,  all  men  cannot 
devote their lives to such pursuits; but there 
is no reason why all should not take an intel­
ligent interest in them,  and thus  counteract 
that  engrossing  passion  for  material  good 
which now corrupts the conduct  and  wears 
out the lives of so many.”

Call for the Second Annual  Meeting of the 

State  Pharmaceutical Association.

The Michigan State Pharmaceutical Associ­
ation holds its second annual meeting in Mer­
rill Hall, Detroit, Tuesday, Wednesday  and 
Thursday, Sept. 9th, 10th  and 11th.  A one 
and one-third rate of fare has been  secured 
on the C. & W. M., G. R. & 1.,  D.  L.  &  N., 
D. G. H. &M., Grand Trunk, Mich. Central, 
L. S. & M. S., Chicago  and  G. T., and F. & 
P. M.,  also  reduced rates at the  hotels in 
Detroit.  The  programme  will  consist  of 
the discussion of  trade  interests, as well as 
scientific  subjects.  The wholesale  and re­
tail druggists of  Detroit are  making  great 
preparations for  entertaining  the  druggists 
while there.  All are cordially invited to at­
tend and 'become members.  The  larger the 
association the more  influence it will  wield. 
Many abuses that have crept into  the  phar­
macists’ business need  correction.  A  large 
and  intelligent  body of  men by united  ac­
tion, can  accomplish a great  deal, where  a 
small number  would  fail.  The  association 
now has a membership of 200. 
It is desired 
to enroll  300 or more at the  next  meeting, 
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. 

J acob J esson,

Secretary.

T h e   T r a d e s m a n   has  arranged  with  an 
experienced and practical  chemist to answer 
any queries. that may be propounded by the 
traderin  regard to  pharmaceutical  prepara­
tions.  All queries should be written plainly 
and briefly, to insure reply.

A Kansas  shoemaker  stopped  work  and 
began to spend money  freely.  He  was  on 
that account arrested on suspicion of having 
robbed a stage coach.  Then he had to  com 
fess and prove that he was heir to an English 
quarter of a million.

A. Y. Chapman, general dealer, Fruitport: 
“I like the paper very much.  1 wish to give 
it all the encouragement I can.”

I® “  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.

IGNORANCE ABOUT  POSTAL  CARDS.
The Mistakes that are Made in Using Them.
“Postal card  correspondents  make a good 
many mistakes. 
If  they  knew  what a pile 
of cards are thrown away, and why they are 
thrown away, they would be more  careful,” 
said a post office clerk as he pitched a hand­
ful of postal cards into the waste basket. 

“What is the trouble with them?”
“Every one  had  something  pasted on the 
correspondence  side. 
It  is  allowable  to 
paste on the mailing side the  address of the 
person to  whom  the  card is sent, but  any­
thing  pasted  on  the  message  side  renders 
the card  unmailable.  On  the  mailing  side 
there must be nothing in the form of  an ad­
vertisement.”

“If  pictures  are  drawn  on  the  message 

side will the card be sent?”

“Yes, unless the  picture is of a  character 
which  would  send  the  artist  to  prison. 
However, there is a great deal of  complaint 
about dunning and abusive  messages. 
It is 
popularly  believed  that  it  is a violation  of 
the law to send  scurrilous  epistles  in  this 
way, but it is not.  That  law is not  now  in 
force, and  a  man  can  abuse  another to his 
heart’s content.”

“Can a postal card be  returned?” 
“Correspondents often  try  to do that, but 
it  is  against  the  rules  of  the  office.  To 
make  sure,  they  often  stick  on a one-cent 
stamp.  That wonT:  work  either. 
If a two 
cent stamp is put on, it will pass  inspection. 
By putting on a one-cent  stamp, however, a 
postal card may be remailed to the person to 
whom it is addressed, if it does not find him 
in the first instance.  One thing about postal 
cards ought to be known to poor people who 
have friends abroad.  We have stacks of in­
ternational postal cards unused  that may be 
sent to almost  any city in  Great  Britain  or 
the Continent.  Even  in  the few  instances 
where they are used, they are apt to be  sent 
to the country which  issues  them.  This is 
not allowed.  They can only be  sent  out of 
the country which issues them.”

He  Couldn’t.

She—Did you order that watermelon?
He—Yes, dear, I ordered two.
She—Good  land, man 1  what ever do  you 
suppose we can do with  two  big  watermel­
ons?

He—I told the man to deliver  one  to-day 

and the other to-morrow.

She—Oh!
He—Yes, my dear;  you see I am not such 

a fool as I look.

either.

She—No,  dear.  You  never  could  be, 

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.

h e a b q t ja x it b iis !

-FOR-

Sporting  Goods

—AND—

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

We wish  the  Trade  to  notice  the  fact  that 

we are

And  are  not  to  be  undersold  by any house 

in the United States.

Our Trade Mark Bats
BEST  AND CHEAPEST

-ARE  THE-

In the Market.

Send for our New  Price  List for  1884.

Order a Sample Lot  Before Placing a Large Order.

EATON,  LYON  k  ALLEN,

20 and 22 Monroe  Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-   MICHIGAN.

We manufacture a full line, use 
the  best  material  obtainable,  and 
guarantee  our  goods  to  be  first- 
class.
We  carry  an  immense  stock  of 
Virgidia  and  Tennessee  Peanuts, 
Almonds, Brazils, Filberts, Pea- 
cans,  *Walnuts  and  Cocoanuts, 
and compete with any market.

Gandy 
Nuts
Cigars
Fruit
PUTNAM  Ä   BROOKS.

We are  agents  for  Gooden’s 
celebrated  W ag Jaws,  Olym­
pian, D. F-, and many other well- 
known brands and carry a full line 
of his goods at factory prices.
We handle Oranges, Lemons, 
Bananas,  Pigs,  Dates,  Btc.,  in 
large quantities from first-hands  and 
are  headquarters  for  everything  in 
our line.

A

I M P O R T E R S

-a j n t i o

WM. SEARS & CO.
Cracker  Manufacturers,

Agents  for

AMBOY  CHEESE.

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

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

Apples, Onions, Potatoes, Beans, Etc.

State Agent for the Lima Patent Egg Cases and Fillers.

NO.  8  AND  10  IONIA  STREET,

G-ZLAKD  R.API33S,  -  MICHIGAN.

Choice  Butter  a Specialty!

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

Careful  Attention  Paid  to  Filling  Orders.

M. C. Russell, 48 Ottawa St., G’d Rapids.
A.  IB.  K N O  W  L S O N

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

Wholesale  Grocers,

AKRON  SEWER  PJPE,

Fire  Brick  and  Clay,  Cement,  Stucco,

XiXME,  HAIR,  COAL  and WOOD.

ESTIM ATES  C H EERFU LLY  FURNISHED.

CORNER  IONIA  &  ISLAND  STREETS.

FOX, MUSSELMAN &  LOVERIDGE,

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

tral  Freight  House.

SFKQTG  <& COMPANY1

-WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN—

FA N C Y   -AJSTD

STAPLE DRT GOODS

CARPETS,

MATTINGS,

OIL  CLOTHS,

ETC.,  e t c .

O  and.  8  Monroe  Street,

Grand  Rapids» 

- 

M iohigan.

W H O LESA LE  GROCERS,
Nimrod, Acorn, Chief, Crescent & Bed Seal Plug Tohaccos.

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

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

Our  stock  of Teas,  Coffees  and  Syrups 

is  Always  Complete.

Tobaccos, Vinegars  and.  Spices  2 

—WE  MAKE  SPECIAL CLAIM  FOR OUR—

OURiMOTTO;  “ SQUARE  DEALING  BETWEEN  MANdAND  MAN.”

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

Church  Bedette”  Co.,
M anufacturer of I “B edette.”

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 tne 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 taeked to the frame, as on all cots, but is  made  adjustable,  so  that  it  can  he 
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 a household neces­
sity,  and no family after once using, would be without it.  It is simple in its construction, and 
not likely to get out of repair.  It makes a pretty lounge, a perf ect bed, and the price is within 
the reach of all.

Price—-36 in. wide, by 6)4 f t long, $3.50;  30 in wide,  by 6)4  ft.  long,  $3.00;  27  in. 
wide, by 4)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. 

CARPETS  AND  CARPETINGS. 

Spring &  Company  quote as follows:

TAPESTRY BRUSSELS.
Roxbury  tapestry..........................  
Smith’s 10 wire................................. 
Smith’s  extra..................................  
Smith’s B  Palisade...........................  @ 
Smith’s C  Palisade......................... 
Higgins’  ♦♦.......................................  
Higgins’  ♦♦♦...................................... 
Sanford’s extra...............................  
Sanford’s Comets...........................  

THREE-PLYS.

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

EXTRA SUPERS.  .

©  90
©  90
@  85
TO
@  65
@  82}4
©  TO
@  82A4
@  65

@1 00
@1 00
@1 00
©  97J4

ALL WOOL  SUPERPINES.

WOOL FILLING AND MIXED.

Hartford.................................  
@  7744
 
Lowell................................................ 
@  82^4
Other  makes....................................   75  @  77 54
Best cotton chain............................  60  @  6254
Best  2-ply.........................................  57 54©  60
Other  grades 2-ply..........................   5254@  55
All-wool  super, 2-ply.....................   50  @  55
Extra heavy double cotton chain.  4254@  45
Double cottou chain.......................  35  @  40
Heavy cotton and wool, double c .  30  @ 3254
Half d’l chain, cotton & wool, 2-ply  2754@  3254
Single cotton chain........................   19  ©  25
3-ply, 4-4 wide, extra heavy............  2754@  30
@  22
B, 4-4 wide......................................... 
Imperial, plain, 4-4 wide................. 
@  1814
D, 33  inches...................... 
@  17
No. 1, 4-4, 5-4, 6-4 and 8-4.................. 
©  45
No. 2, 
..................  
@  3714
No. 3, 
@ 3 0
..................  
©  25
No. 4, 
..................  
Best all rattan, plain....................... 
@  6214
@ 5214
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

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

Ohio White Lime, per bbl.................... 
1  10
95
Ohio White Lime, car lots.................... 
1 40
Louisville Cement, per bbl.................. 
1 40
Akron Cement per  bbl......................... 
Buffalo Cement,  per bbl..................... 
1 40
Car lots................................................. ..1 15@1 20
Plastering hair, per bu.........................  35®  38
175
Stucco, per bbl........................................ 
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
MICHIGAN  COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS’  ASSOCIA’N.
Incorporated Dec. 10,1877—Charter in  Force for 

COAL.

 

 

Thirty Years.

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

President—Ransom W. H aw ley, of  Detroit. 
Vice-Presidents—Ch a s. E. Sn ed eker, Detroit; 
L. W. Atk in s, Grand  Rapids;  I. N. Alexan­
d er, 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
t iu s, Chairman, S. A. Munger, H. K. W h it e 
For Two  Years—D. Mo r r is,  A. W.  Culver.

TIMETABLES.

D E PA R T.

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

A R R IV E .

 

•(•Daily except Sunday.  ♦Daily.
The New York Fast Line runs daily, arriving 
at Detroit at 11:59 a. m., and New York  at 9 p. 
m. the next evening.
Direct  and  prompt  connection  made  with 
Great  Western,  Grand  Trunk  and  Canada 
Southern trains in same depot at Detroit, thus 
avoiding transfers.
The Detroit Express leaving at 6:00 a. m. has 
Drawing  Room  and  Parlor  Car  for  Detroit, 
reaching that city at 11:45 a. m., New York 10:30 
a. m., and Boston 3:05 p. m. next day.
A train leaves Detroit at 4 p. m. daily except 
Sunday with drawing room car attached, arriv­
ing at Grand Rapids at 10:25 p. m.

J. T. Schultz, Gen’l Agent.

4:55 pm

5:30 am

Detroit,  Grand  Haven &   Milwaukee.

GO ING W EST.

GO ING EA ST.Arrives.
Leaves. 
tSteamboat 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 p m 
♦Atlantic Express.......................  9:45 pm
10:45 p m 
tMixed, with  coach............
10:00 a m
tMorning  Express...............12:40 p m  12:55 p m
■(■Through  Mail.....................  4:45 pm  
tSteamboat Express........... 10:30 p m  10:35 p in
tMixed..................................  
8:00 am
♦NightExpress....................   5:10 am  
tDaily, Sundays excepted.  *Daily.
Passengers  taking  the  6:15  a.  m.  Express 
make close connections at Owosso for Lansing 
and at Detroit for New York, arriving there at 
10:00 a. m. the following morning.
Parlor Cars  on Mail  Trains,  both  East  and 
West.
Train leaving  at  10:35  p,  m.  will  mak  con­
nection with Milwaukee steamers daily except 
Sunday and the train leaving  at 4:55 p. m.  will 
connect Tuesdays and  Thursdays  with  Good­
rich steamers for Chicago.
Limited  Express  has  Wagner Sleeping Car 
through to Suspension Bridge and the mail has 
a Parlor Car to Detroit.  The  Night  Express 
has a through Wagner Car and  local  Sleeping 
Car Detroit to Grand Rapids.

Thomas  Tandy, Gen’l Pass. Agent,  Detroit.

D. P o tter, City Pass. Agent.

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3ST0TI03STS!

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.  E acker, 
L. R.  Cesna, Geo. W.  N.  De Jonge. 
Frank Berles 
21 Pearl Street 

Grand Rapids, Midi.

House Salesman.

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DILWORTH’S

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BEST  ROASTED  PACKAGE  COFFEE  ON 

THE  MARKET.

F O B   . S A L E   B  Y

Factory Agents for Western Michigan.

A.  XX.  FO  WXiES, 

HOUSE  DECORATOR 

—And Dealer in—

FINE  WALL  PAPER

Window Shades, Room Mouldings,

Artists’  Materials 1

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.

L  H.  BEALS & SON

Manufacturers of

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Westfield, Mass.

O F F I C E

—ANI)—

SALESROOM 
NO. 4 PEARL STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

G.B0I 5M ,M A p t S

BUSINESS  LAW.

B rief Digests of Recent  Decisions in Courts 

of East Resort.

Broker—When  Entitled  to  Commissions.
In order to entitle a broker to commissions 
for  procuring  a  purchaser  of  property on 
specified terms, he  must  produce  a  person 
ready and willing to purchase on those terms, 
according to  the  decision  of  the  Supreme 
Court of Minnesota in the  recently  decided 
case of Hamblin vs. Schults.

Property  Sold—Profits  from  Use.

Property.

Property was sold Hby order of a court of 
bankruptcy; he not paying for it,  the  court, 
without  notice,  vacated  the  order  of  sale, 
and made an order selling it  to C, who  paid 
for it and went into possession of it.  After­
ward, on review, the sale to C was set  aside 
and  the  sale  to  H  reinstated.  H, having 
paid for the property, received possession of 
it, and afterward the money paid  by  C  was 
repaid to him, and suit brought by  H  to  re­
cover the profits derived from the use  of the 
property while C had it.  Judgment  having 
been awarded H by the  Circuit Court of  the 
United States for the Northern district of Il­
linois, C appealed to the  Supreme  Court  of 
the United States,  w here the decision of  the 
lower court was reversed, the opinion of the 
court being than C wras not liable  to  pay  to 
II the profits derived by him from the use of 
the property while he had it.
Partner’s  Debt—Attaching  a  Partnership 
J  and F were partners, and an attachment 
was issued and levied upon the firm’s person­
al  property  for  a  debt  of  F’s making.  F 
brought an action of replevin for the proper­
ty.: ;The trial court gave jugdment for the de­
fendant, and F carried the case—Fay vs.Dug- 
gan—to the Supreme Judicial Court of Mass­
achusetts, where the following  decision was 
made, Judge Colburn delivering the opinion: 
“The defendant  was  a  trespasser,  and  the 
owners of the property were  entitled  to  re­
cover it in an action of replevin against him; 
but both partners should have  joined  in  the 
action.  As the case  stands,  the  defendant 
must  have  judgment,  but  if  the  plaintiff 
elects to amend by joining his  partner  with 
him, he may do so upon  such  terms  as  the 
court below may impose, and if such amend­
ment is made judgment is to be  entered  for 
the plaintiff.
Partnership—Power of Majority  of  Firm.
Five persons  agreed  to  cut and pack  ice 
for sale, and after all expenses were deduct­
ed to divide  the  proceeds  equally.  Three 
months later, one of the associates sold all of 
the ice for $1.25 per ton, after consulting two 
others, whom only  he could  reach  in  time, 
and after doing all he could to get  a  higher 
bid.  The purchasers acted in good faith.  A 
bill in equity was brought  for  accounting— 
Staples vs.  Sprague—in which the two asso­
ciates  who  were  not  consulted asked  that 
the other three be charged  for  the  ice at  a 
higher price, it being charged that  the  plain­
tiffs were not bound by the sale made.  The 
defendants insisted that a majority  of  part­
ners, when acting in good faith, can  sell the 
property of the firm in the due course of bus 
iness.  The Supreme Judicial Court of Maine 
agreed with the defendants.  Judge Walton, 
in the opinion said: “In the absence of fraud, 
each one of a firm has the  complete right  to 
dispose of the  whole  partnership  interests, 
and is considered  to be the authorized agent 
of the firm. And in cage of an actual disagree­
ment, the weight of authority is in  favor of 
the power of a majority of  the  firm,  acting 
in good faith, to  bind  the minority, and such 
ought to be  the  law;  for  where  there  is  a 
community of interest, certainly it is the will 
of the majority and not the will of the minor­
ity, that ought to control.  If there is a f raudu 
lent combination on the part of the majority 
to injure or oppress the minority, the law  is 
otherwise.”

Partnership—Severance  of Ownership.
These  persons  were  partners,  and  the 
owners of a machine  in  equal  parts  and  it 
was agreed between them that  one  member 
should use the  machine,  paying  out  there­
for, at the usual rates, less one-third thereof, 
because of his interest in the property.  His 
note was to be given  for the  use, and,  upon 
his refusal to give it, the other  partner  sued 
for the  sum due.  The  defense  was  made 
that,  as  the  owners  of  the  machine were 
partners or tenants in common,  no  recovery 
could be  had. 
In this case—Davis vs. Skin­
ner—the  plaintiff  had  judgment,  and  the 
defendant appealed to the Supreme Court of 
Wisconsin, where the judgment was affirmed. 
Judge Orton, in the opinion, said;  “There is 
really no question of partnership or tenancy 
in common in the case;  the only question  is 
one  of  ’contract  Partners  or  tenants  in 
common, can, at any time they see fit,  sever 
their  interests  by  contract  and  hold  each 
other to strictly common  law  remedies. 
It 
would be the same  as  a  balance  struck  on 
settlement or a personal promise to pay.  The 
question has been determined in  this  State, 
in  a  recent  case,  in  which  it  was  said: 
‘Where  there is  an  express  agreement  by 
one partner to repay to the other his share of 
the advances made by the latter  on  account 
of the partnership business,  the  amount  of 
such share becomes thereby the debt  of  the 
partner who has thus agreed to pay the same, 
and it may be recovered in an action brought 
directly therefor, without any regard  to  the 
partnership relation existing  between  part­
ners or tenants in common,  one alone might 
sue.’ ”

“Boston, April  9,1880.  A. L. Cutler & Co. 
Gentlemen,—Please  deliver  to  Charles  A. 
Howland goods as he may want from time to 
time, not exceeding in  amount  $300, and  if 
not paid in thirty days, I will be responsible 
for the same.  B. R. Ballou.”  The Supreme 
Court Of Massachusetts,  in trying the case— 
Cutler vs Ballou—against the plaintiffs, said, 
through the Chief Justice (Morton):  “In de­
termining this question,  but little can be de­
rived from the decided cases,  as  each  case 
turns upon  the  particular  language  of  the 
guaranty to be construed. 
If the contract of 
the defendant had been that he would be re 
sponsible to the amount of $300 for goods to 
be delivered from time to time  to Howland, 
it would  have been a  continuing  guaranty 
because here is no limitation of  the  amount 
of goods to be sold or of the credit to be giv­
en, but the limitation is merely of the amount 
for which the guarantor  will be at any  time 
liable.  Such a contract imports a succession 
of dealings  in  future  without  limit  as  to 
amount.  But by the natural  and  grammat­
ical construction of the guaranty in this case, 
the  limitation  ‘not  exceeding  in  amount 
$300,’ applies to the goods  to  be  delivered, 
and cannot fairly be construed  as  merely  a 
limitation of the amount for which the guar­
antor would be responsible  at  any  time,  or 
from time to time.  The  words  ‘from  time 
to time,’ in the connection in which they are 
used in this  guaranty,  import  that  all  the 
goods to the amount of $300  are  not  neces­
sarily to be delivered at one time,  but  they 
do not enlarge the limit fixed in the contract 
of the goods to be sold and the  credit  to  be 
given to Howland.”

HONEST  UNCLE  JAKE.

Presented  witli  a  Plug  of  Tobacco  by  a 

H ighly Virtuous  Grocer.

“Speakin’  of  honesty,  sah,”  said  an  old 
darky in a Third avenue grocery store, “I’se 
an hones’ man.  Everybody knows I’se hon­
es’, an’ everybody will tole yer so.”

“Yes, Uncle Jake, I guess  you are honest 
enough,” replied the  grocer,  “and  in  these 
days it’s a credit to a man to be honest.”

■* ’Deed ’tis, ’deed ’tis sah.  Dar’s  mighty 
few  ob ’em  in  dis  worl’.  Hones’ men  is 
bery skase, dey is.”

Here the grocer turned  to throw a  scoop 
ful of sand into the sugar  barrel, and Uncle 
Jake  snatched a plug of tobacco  from  the 
counter and put it in his pocket.

‘The old saying that ‘honesty’ is  the  best 
policy,” went on the grocer, mixing the sand 
and sugar carefully,  “I don’t believe in.  It 
is not the  proper  way to put it.  With me 
honesty is not a matter of policy, it is a mat­
ter of honor, and----- Where is that  plug of
tobacco that  was  on the  counter a moment 
ago?” the grocer  suddenly demanded.

“Yes,  sah,  as  I was  sayin’,” continued 
Uncle  Jake, ignoring  the  question, “dar’s 
berry few  hones’ men  in  dis worl’.  Kase 
yer see-----”

“That plug of of tobacco, Uncle Jake,” in­
terrupted the grocer.  “You’ve got it in your 
pocket.”
“Sah?”
“I say you have got  that  tobacco in your 

pocket.”

Deed I hasn’t, sah. 

Is  yer  sho’  da’ was 
a plug of tobaker on de countali?  P’r’aps it 
failed off to the flo.”

While the grocer was looking on the floor, 
the old darkey adroitly  slipped  the  tobacco 
behind a soap box on the counter.
“Did you find it on de flo, sah?”
“No, I did  not,  Uncle  Jake.  You  stole 
that plug of tobacco and  you’ve got to show 
up.”

“l ’se a po’ old man,” Uncle Jake  replied 
in a heart-broken  tone  of  voice, “an’  has 
been po’ all  my  life,  but I  don’  steal,  sah. 
Ef  my ole  woman  wuz to heah dat I had 
ben obscused of  stealin’ it would  broke  her 
down to de grave.”

Just then the grocer  discovered the tobac­

co and apologized with deep contrition.

“I must  have  shoved  it  there  without 
knowing it, but I beg  your  pardon,  Uncle 
Jake, for my suspicions,  and  to  make  the 
matter right, just  put  the  tobacco  in  your 
pocket,  aud we’ll say no more about it.”

“Yo’ apolergies  is  ’cepted, sah,  said  the 
old  darkey  cordially,  “but  I don’t  know 
’bout  puttin’  dat  er  plug  in  my  pocket. 
‘Pears ter me it’s like settin’ a preemyum on 
honesty.  But as I tole  yer,  sah,  I’se a po’ 
ole man, an’ terbacker is skase like.  So I’ll 
purcept pe terbacker an’ thank de good Lord 
dat  I’se  an  hones’  man.  Good  mawnin’ 
sah.”

His  Version  of the  Law.

“I say,  boss,”  remarked  an  old  darkey, 
‘could you loan an old man  a  quarter  ob  a 
dollar?”

“Why, uncle, you owe me fifty cents now.”
“No, I don’t, boss.”
“Have you  forgotten  that  you  borrowed 
fifty  cents of me several years ago, and  have 
never returned it?”

“I liabn’t  forgotten  it,  boss,  but I  don’t 
owe yer nothin’.  Dat debt hab transpired by 
the stature ob limitations.”

Inquiries into the use  of  gold  and  silver 
in the  arts  and  manufactures  warrant  the 
conclusion that over $14,000,000 in gold and 
$15,000,000 in  silver  are  consumed in  this 
way annually.

A German inventor has utilized  cork in  a 
novel way.  Powdered cork  is  mixed  with 
starch  and  water,  and  the  mass  kneeded 
while boiling hot until thoroughly mixed.  It 
isjthen  poured  into  molds for  forming  ar­
ticles  and  afterward  dried  at  a very  high 
temperature.

Guaranty—Single or Continuing.

An action was brought upon an instrument 
as a continuing guaranty.  It was as follows:

East Tennessee marble  is  reported  to  be 
gelling for 100 per  cent,  more  than  Italian 
marble in leading markets.

S A  WELLING Siili

WHOLESALE

—I  WOULD  CALL  THE  ATTENTION  OF  MERCHANTS  TO  M Y-

Spring  Styles  of Fine  Hats,

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

Spring  Styles  of Soft  Hats,

Wool  Hats  $4.50  to  $12  per  Dozen,

Fine  Hats  13.50  to  $36  per  Dozen, 

Straw  Hats  for  Men,

Straw  Hats  for  Boys,

Straw  Hats  for  Ladies,

Straw  Hats  for  Misses.

H am els  Sold  Si  tie  Bozen  at  low  M   Prices!!
Clothing  and  Cents  Furnishing  Goods, 

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

Cottonade Pants  and Hosiery.

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

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

X.  O.  L E V I ,

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

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

B a k
i n g
POWDER

P E R K I N S   <§c  H I j S
Hides, Furs, W ool & Tallow,

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

NOS.  123  and  134  LOUIS  STREET,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

Castor Machine  O i l .

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  OXI_.  OOMIFL&JSTY

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.

Hazeltine, Perkins &   Go., Grand  Rapids.
r in d o e , b e r t s o h  & co„
BOOTS  &  SHOES,
Our Goods are Specially Adapted for tie M ia n  Trade.

We are agents for the Boston Rubber Shoe  Co. and keep a full line of their Celebrat­
ed Goods—both Boston and Bay State.  Our fall samples of Leather Goods are now ready 
for  inspection.

MANUFACTURERS  AND  JOBBERS  OF

14 and 16 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

CLARK,  JE W E L L   &  CO.,
Groceries  and  Provisions j

WHOLESALE

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

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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Gr&nd  Rapids  &   Indiana.

GO ING NORTH.

GO IN G   SO UTH .

Arrives.  Leaves. 
Cincinnati & G. Rapids Ex .9:00pm   11:00pm 
Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex.  9:20 am   10:25 am  
Ft. Wayne & Mackinac E x..  3:55 pm   5:00 pm 
G’d Rapids  & Cadillac  Ac. 
7:10 am
G. Rapids & Cincinnati Ex.  6:30 pm   7:00 am  
Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex.  4:10 pm   4:35pm 
Mackinac & Ft. Wayre Ex.. 10:25 a m  11:42 p m 
Cadillac & G’d  Rapids  Ac.  7:40 p m 

S LE EPIN G  CA R A RRANGEM 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 Chair Car for Mackinac 
City.
South—Train leaving at 4:35 p. m. has  Wood­
ruff Sleeping Car for Cincinnati.

C. L. L ockwood, Gen’l Pass. Agent.

Chicago £  West Miohigan.
Leaves.
tMail........................................9:15 am
•PDay Express......................12:25 p m
♦Night  Express............................ 8:35 pm
Mixed...................................... 6:10 am

Arrives, 
4:00 p m 
10:45 p m 
6:10 a m 
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  on9:15a.m. and 
8:35 p. m. trains.

NEW AYGO  D IV IS IO N .

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

J. H. Palmer, Gen’l Pass. Agent.

PORTABLE  AND  STATIONARY

E  1ST C3-11ST 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,  Denison,

88,90  and 92  South  Division  Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICHIGAN.

WEATHERLY & CO.,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.,  Wholesale  and  Retail

IH.OKT PIPE, 

Brass  Goods,  Iron  a n d  B rass Fittings 

Mantles,  Grates,  Gas  Fixtures, 

P lumbers,  Steam  Fitters,
—And Manufacturers  of—

Galvanized  Iron  Cornice.

MOSELEY  BROS.,

Wholesale

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

122 Monroe Street, Grand  Rapids, Mich.

(Broceries.

BASE  BABE.

Acceptance of the Challenge of the Saginaw 

Grocery Jobbers.

The Tradesman of last week  contained 
a communication from  the  grocery  jobbers 
of the  Saginaws to the  grocery  jobbers of 
this city, challenging the  latter to a game of 
base ball at East Saginaw and a return game 
in Grand Rapids.  The general feeling upon 
the receipt of the challenge was favorable to 
its immediate acceptance, and a statement to 
that effect was published  in  The  Trades­
man.  Rut Mr. Barlow, who  undertook  the 
work of getting the signatures of  those who 
would go, met with so much discouragement 
that he was impelled to  send  the following 
letter:

Grand RAriDS, J udy 9. 
The Jas. Stewart Co., Limited, East Saginaw.O
Gentlemen—Your communication of the 
5th inst. is received, containing  a  challenge 
from the wholesale grocers of the  Saginaws 
to the wholesale grocers of Grand Rapids  to 
play a friendly game of base ball.  We have 
canvassed the trade here and  done  our best 
in the matter, and regret to say that we  are 
unable to work up enough enthusiasm to ac 
cept the challenge.  A majority are in favor 
of it, but they do  not  constitute  enough  to 
make up a nine.  All  would  be  pleased  to 
see you and play, but some cannot get away. 
We assure you we fully appreciate the chal­
lenge and the kindly spirit in which it is of­
fered, and for ourselves would  gladly  meet 
you, but under the circumstances  do not see 
how we can, as & body, accept.

Please communicate this to the signers  of 

the challenge and oblige us,

Very Respectfully.

Cody, Ball & Co.,

BARLOW .

The  matter  was  then  agitated  a second 
time,  when the paper  given  below  readily 
received the subjoined signatures:

Grand Rapids, July 12.
To the Wholesale Grocers of the Saginaws:

We, wholesale grocers  of  Grand  Rapids, 
are in receipt of  your  challenge  to  play  a 
game of base ball on the Saginaw  base  ball 
grounds;  also a return game  on  the  Grand 
Rapids base  ball  grounds;  and  we  hereby 
accept the challenge and would name  Tues­
day, July  22, as the date of the first game, if 
agreeable to you.

O. A. Ball,
J ohn Caulfield, 
Arthur Meigs,
B. W. Putnam,
Ira O. Green,
Geo. R. Perry,
L. L. Loveridge,
A. S. Musselman,
S. M. Lemon,
F. B. Clark,
S. A. Sears,
G. B. Dunton.

The Grand Rapids jobbers have re-consid- 
ered  their  determination  to  pulverize  the 
Saginaw nine on the first attempt, and  have 
concluded to  allow  their  saline  friends  to 
win the first game, out of  courtesy  to  their 
position as hosts.  On the return game, how­
ever, the Grand Rapids club will  rise to  the 
majesty of the occasion, and scatter their  ri­
vals to the four winds.

She  Knew Good Butter.

“Why, of course.  And sometimes to keep 
their  custom,  we  have  to  let  them do it. 
Some always want overweight, and we have 
to give in  there, too.  And  some  won’t be 
satisfied  anyhow.  A few  moments  ago a 
woman came up and  wanted a pound of the 
best. 
I gave her a taste of it and she didn’t 
like it.  Then I  tried her  with  the  second- 
best  Wouldn’t do at all.  I know your sort, 
my lady, says I to myself;  so  I  gave  her a 
bit out of a ’margarine tub.  ‘I see you know 
what’s  what,  ma’am,’  says I to her;  ‘you 
bet!’ says she, tasting the ’margarine:  that’s 
what I w ant’ says  she,  ‘you  may give me 
two pounds.’  I did, and charged her  eighty 
cents for  it  and  she  went  away  happy. 
Square  deal?  Why not?  If  people  come 
here and ask for  good  butter,  1  give them 
good butter; if they ask for ’margarine,they 
get ’margarine.  But if they  come  and turn 
up their nose at good  butter  and  fancy the 
’margarine, why, let them take  and  pay for 
it.”

The  Brisbin  “ Lay  Out ” at  Berlin.

The most discouraging feature of the past 
week has been the action of  F.  C.  Brisbin, 
general dealer at Berlin, in  giving two chat­
tel mortgages on his  stock—one  for  $2,226 
to Edson, Moore & Co., Detroit, and the oth­
er for $2,600 to his father-in-law.  The stock 
was subsepuently attached at the instance of 
Esmann, Austrien, Wise & Co., of Cleveland, 
whose  claim  amounted to $289; but as the 
attorneys for the attaching parties concluded 
that  there  was  not  enough in the stock to 
warrant the assuming of  the two mortgages, 
the attachment was  released.  Brisbin, it is 
understood, claims that the stock will inven­
tory $8,000 and that the liabilities foot up to 
about the  same  amount. 
If such is a fact, 
it is very probable  that the  mortgages will 
secure their claims in full, and that the other 
creditors will be completely shut out.  Such 
is  the  expectations  of nine-tenths  of  the 
Grand  Rapids  creditors, and  there are the 
best of reasons for thinking that  their worst 
expectation will be realized.

Features  of the Week.

Oranges in moderate  supply and  quality 
only fair.  Lemons are in  good  supply  and 
the prices are  easy, but  the  quality is not 
generally  very  good.  Bananas  are  plenty 
and fairly cheap.

The West Michigan  Fruitgrowers’ society 
starts  out  right, with a resolution  against 
packing  unsound fruit  and in favor of mak­
ing  no  difference  in  size  throughout  the 
package.

Failure.

“
*

Assignee  G a llu p  has filled the result of an 
inventory of the stock and’aecounts of C. G. 
McCulloch & Co., made by Wm. L. Freeman 
and Samuel M. Lemon,  from  which  it  ap­
pears that the total liabilities  are  $7,084.67, 
distributed among forty-nine creditors in the 
following amounts:
Old National Bank,  Grand Rapids........ $400 00
5 52
Hazeltine, Perkins & Co 
6 11 
Curtiss, Dunton & Co 
422 49
H. Leonard &  Sons 
5 05
Foster, Stevens & Co 
12 30 
Jennings &  Smith 
92 10
C. O. Allen 
100 00 
Julius Rathman 
43 75 
“
Eliza Judd 
22 50
Eaton, Lyon & Allen P’t Co “
1  77 
“
Shriver, Weatherly & Co 
200 00
A. R. Antisdell 
4 30 
G. S. Clark 
“
3 12
Grand Rapids Gas Co 
2 90 
Wentworth & Cannon 
1 00
Ira C. Hatch 
20 00
C. E. Belknap
3 95
E. G. Studley & Co 
13 75
E. A. Stowe
14 82
Phil Graham 
Hollwag & Reese,  Indianapolis...............  454 45
...............»9
Wm. F. Peil & Co., 
“ 
Electric Soap Manf’g Co “ 
...............  "4 20
“ 
VanCamp Packing Co 
............. .■  J."
Eppers, Smith & Co., New York............. 1,000 00
162 68 
“  —
Hines, Kiteham & Co 
46 83 
“  —
Russell, Guild &Co 
478 75 
“  —
J. H. Lebarre & Co 
216 33 
Packard & James 
“  —
37 56 
Fitzpatrick & Case 
“  —
99 71 
Chicago Stamping Co., Chicago—
128 70 
Thompson & Taylor Spice Co“  ....
53 32 
Steele & Price
60 20 
Henry Schultz 
87 15 
Waterbury Watch Co 
121 50 
Meridan Britania Co 
29 06 
E. W. Gillet 
29 06 
Henry Wickhart 
42 25
Fels & Co., Philadelphia
Liegfleld & Brandenstein, San Francisco 86í  29 
E. P. Breckenridge, T o l e d o j »  »
French, Palmer  &  Palmer,  Fruitport..  60 56
Sidney, Sheppard & Co.,  Buffalo.............   1» 40
E. Levering & Co.,  Baltimore..................350 00
Hoffman, Lee & Co 
..................   ~60 74
Taylor & Levering 
..................  " I
Gross & Brown,  Detroit............................oM u
H. E. Otterson,  Muskegon.......................  g» i»
— — ----- , Bangor.  ........................ 
*» w
The stock is inventoried  at  $4,848.37 cost 
value  and  $3,397.36 appraised  value.  The 
book  accounts, etc., amount to $4,350.78, ap­
praised at $1,238.67, making the available as­
sets $4,635.03.  Included in the assets is a sec­
ond  mortgage for $1,000 on a forty acre farm 
near Ionia, held by Harvey J . Hollister as col­
ateral  security  for the indebtedness  at  the 
Old National Bank.  The farm is also put in 
as assets, although it is valued at only $2,000 
and the two mortgages amount to $2,200.

* 
“ 

John H. DeLaney, the  junior  partner in 
the firm, called  at The  Tradesman  office 
Monday and stated that Mr. McCulloch’s as­
sertions to the effect that he [DeLaney] had 
put no money in the concern  were  without 
foundation.  He said  that  his  original in­
vestment  amounted to $3,550, which, allow­
ing for a shrinkage, left him still an interest 
valued  at  $2,550.  McCulloch  obtained  a 
partnership  by promising to furnish  $5,000 
cash, immediately, whereas  he only  put  in 
$1,000 to begin with, subsequently augment­
ing  the  amount  to  $2,200.  Mr. DeLaney 
further stated that if he had been allowed to 
conduct  the  business as it was  agreed  he 
should, the firm would  have  been in a pros­
perous condition at the present time.

The stock has been  removed  from  Pearl 
street to 109 South Division street, where  it 
will be offered for sale. 
In case no purchas­
er is found for  the  whole  stock, it will be 
sold in small  lots.

The Chicago Way.
From the Northwestern Grocer.

The little, shriveled-up prune was going to 

the third floor.

“You look mouldy and smell musty,” said 
a little  currant  that  was  going up on the 
same elevator.

“Yes, I’m getting old.”
“How old are you?”
“Five years this spring."
“No!”
“Yes!”
“Rather ancient for a prune!”
“Well, rather, yes!”
“You’ve got worms, too!”
“Yes, I have; and so have you!”
“Yes, I’m sick abed!”
“You’re old, too!”
“Only six years last spring!”
“Is that  all?”
“That’s all!”
“Rather antiquated for a currant!”
“Well,  I should say so!”
“We’ll both  be  young  when  we  come 

down!”

“Yes, we’ll be this year’s goods!”
“Say! where we going, anyhow?”
“Going up to be renovated !”

The Mission of the  Melon  and  Cucumber, 
From the Northwestern Grocer.

The fat, good natured-looking watermelon 

lay on its side in front of a grocery store.

“You look happy!” exclaimed the  cucum­

ber by its side.

“So I am; I’m going into business 1” 
“Want a partner?”
“Yes, if I can find an earnest worker I” 
“Our family have  done some quick jobs in 

our day,” said the cucumber.

“What will we go into?”
“I have it!” and the  cucumber  whispered 

in the ear of the watermelon.

“You’re a  brick!”
“You bet!”
“Shake!
“Put it there!”
And they went out and  started a funeral
The Indianapolis Grocer  gives  two  rules 
for  ascertaining  the  soundness of a bank 
“Kill the directors,  shoot  the  cashier, gag 
the president and  open the  safe.  Take  an 
inventory of the contents.  All  other meth­
ods are delusive. 
If this is not good  advice, 
then know  your  banker  and  his  associates 
and believe what they tell you.”

Some months ago a firm at Epemay offer­
ed prizes for the  best  five  poems on  cham­
pagne.  The subject seems to have  inspired 
a large number of votaries of sentiment, see­
ing that no fewer  than  1,100  poems  were 
sent to the jury.

AXLE  GREASE.

 

“ 
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25
45
3o

BLUING.

BAKING  POWDER.

“ 
“ 
BROOMS.

gross 4 00 
8  00 
12  00 
2  00
3 U-
4 50

Frazer’s .........................................................   85
Diamond........................................................  "0
Modoc  ....  $ d o z ........................................   60
Paragon... 
doz.........................................  70
Paragon, 20 ft pails......................................  90
Arctic *6 ft cans.................................. $  doz.  45
Arctic *4 ft cans.............................................. 
j®
Arctic *4 ft cans..............................................1 40
Arctic 1 fi> cans.....................................................3 40
Arctic 5  ft cans................................................... LJ 00
Dry, No. 2........................................... doz. 
Dry, No. 3...........................................doz. 
Liquid, 4 oz........................................doz. 
Liquid, 8 oz.........................................doz.
Arctic 4 oz....................................
Arctic 8  oz..................................
Arctic 16 oz..................................
Arctic No. 1 pepper box...........
Arctic No. 2 
............
Arctic No. 3 
............
No. 1 Carpet..............................................  3 50
No. 2 Carpet.............. 
"35
2(5
No. 1 Parlor Gem............................... . • • 
2 00
No. 1 Hurl.................................................  
No. 2 Hurl  ..............................  
178
 
Fancy Whisk............................................  
1 35
Common Whisk....................................... 
  »5
Cove Oysters, 1 B>  standards......................115
Cove Oysters, 2  ft  standards....................  1 8o
Cove Oysters, 1 ft  slack filled....................  75
Cove Oysters, 2 B> slack filled.................... 1  25
Clams, 1 fi>  standards................................. 1  6o
Clams, 2 B>  standards................................. 2  65
Lobsters,IB)  standards............................. 165
Lobsters, 2 B>  standards............................. f  70
Lobsters,  Picnics.........................................1 65
Mackerel, 1 B>  fresh standards..................1 20
Mackerel, 5 B> fresh standards..................6 50
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3B>.................350
Mackerel, 3 fi) in Mustard...........................3  50
Mackerel, 3 B> broiled.................................3  50
Salmon, 1 B> Columbia river......................1  60
Salmon, 2 lb Columbia river......................2  60
Salmon. 1B>  Sacramento............................1 50
Salmon, Wm.Hume’sEagle.......................  185
Sardines, domestic J4s.................................... .7*4
Sardines,  domestic  *4s.................................  12*4
Sardines,  Mustard  *4s.............................   13
Sardines,  imported  *4s...............................   15
Sardines, imported *4s.......... 
20
Sardines, imported *4s, boneless...............  32
Sardines, Russian  kegs..............................„50
Trout, 3 B>  brook......................................  3 00

CANNED FISH .

 

 

 

CANNED FRUITS,

Apples, 3
standards........ . . . . ..................  90
Apples, gallons,  standards, Erie.............. 2 50
Blackberries, standards.............................1 20
Cherries,  red.................................................110
Cherries, w h ite............................................1 75
Damsons....................................................... 1 20
Egg Plums, standards 
..............................l ®
Egg Plums,  Erie..........................................1 45
Green Gages, standards 2 B>...................... 1 40
Green Gages, Erie.......................................1 50
Peaches, 3 lb  standards.............................. 1 75
Peaches, 3 B> Extra Yellow....................... -2 00
Peaches,  seconds........................................ ] 65
Pie Peaches 3 B>........................................... 1 15
Pears, Bartlett 2B>...................................... 130
Pineapples,2 lb  stand..
..........................1 40
Quinces.........................................................} S
Raspberries, 2 fl> stand.............................. 1 25
Raspberries, 2B> Erie..................... '............1 40
Strawberries, 2 ft standards......................110
Apricots, Lusk’s........................................... 2 75
Egg Plums.....................................................2 85
Green Gages..................................................2 85
Pears  .............................................................3 00
Quinces..........................................................g 00
Peaches..........................................................®oo

CANNED FRUITS—CALIFORNIA.

CANNED VEGETABLES.

Asparagus, Oyster Bay..............................3 25
Beans, Lim a............................................. •  85
Beans, String................................................  90
Beans, Boston Baked.................................1 65
Beans,  Stringless........................................1 00
Corn, Erie.......................................................115
Corn, Revere..................................................1 20
Corn,  Egyptian............................................1 10
Corn,  Yarmouth........................................... 1 20
Corn Trophy..................................................115
Corn, 2fl)  Onandago.....................................150
Corn. Acme................................................. 1 25
Mushrooms, French.....................................22@24
Peas, standard  Marrofat.......................... 1 40
Peas, 2 B>  Early, small  (new)....................1 60
Peas, 2 fl) Beaver...........................................  75
Peas, French 2 ft........................................... 23@26
Pumpkin, 3 lb Golden...................................1 10
Succotash,2 B) standards— ......................... 85
Succotash, 2 B> B. & M..........................1‘ 75
Squash, 3 B>  standards................................. 1 20
Tomatoes, 3B) Dilworth’s.............................1 00
Tomatoes, 3 fi> Job Bacon.............................1 00
Tomatoes, gal. Erie...................................... 2 95
Tomatoes, Acme 3B>.....................................120
lEly’s Waterproof  75
|

D.....................   35 
Musket.................  75 

CAPS.

CHOCOLATE.

CO FFEE.

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 ..................
Levelring’s  ..................
Magnolia.........................................
72 foot J u te .......1 35
60 foot Jute.......1  15

CORDAGE.

@36
@40
@35
@25
@25
.......12 @14
.......17 @27
.......25 @27
.......12 ©17
.......24 @34
.......17 @19
@34
.......17*4@19
.......9*4@17
@16
@15*4
@15*4
@15*4
@15*4
@15*4
.1 75
.1 50

160 foot Cotton..
[50 foot Cotton..

OATMEAL.

185B>pkgs................................................  @3 75
362B) pkgs...............................................   @3 25
Imperial  bbls.........................................  @5 50
Quaker bbls............................................   @6 75
Star and Cresent, steel cut..................  @5 75
12*4
19*4
75
1  00 75 
1  00

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

do. 

OIL.

PICKLES.

do 
do 

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

“ 
“ 

*’ 

“ 

“ 

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

PIPES.

RICE.

Choice  Carolina................................................6*4
Prime  Carolina..................................................7*4
Java  ....................................................................6>4
P atna..................................................................6*4
Rangoon............................................................. 5%

SALERATUS.

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

SALT.

Pocket............................................... 
Pocket..........................   .................... 
100 3 fi> pockets............. ......................... 
Saginaw Fine ......................................... 
Diamond C.............................................. 
Standard Coarse....................................  
Ashton, English, dairy, bu. bags........ 
Ashton, English, dairy, 4 bu. bags__  
American, dairy, *4 bu. bags.................... 
Rqck, bushels..............................................  

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

25
30

SAUCES*

Lee & Perrins Worcestershire, pints.  @5 00 
Lee & Perrins Worcestershire, *4 pts.  @3 00
Picadilly, *4 pints..................................   @1 50
Halford Sauce, large............................  @3 75
Pepper Sauce, red  small.....................   @  75
Pepper Sauce, green.................................  @ 90
Pesper Sauce, red large ring...............  @1 30
Pepper Sauce, green, large ring........   @1 60
Catsup, Tomato,  pints..............................  @ 90
Catsup, Tomato,  quarts.........................  @1 30
Horseradish,  *4 pints...............................   @1 00
Horseradish, pints.................................  @130
Capers, French surflnes..........................   @2 25
Capers, French surflnes, large...........   @3 50
Olives, Queen, 16 oz  bottle..................  @3 85
Olives, Queen, 27 oz  bottle..................  @6 50
Olive Oil,  quarts, Antonia & Co.’s__   @7 00
Olive Oil, pints,  Antonia & Co,’s ........  @4 00
Olive Oil, *4 pints, Antonia & Co.’s __   @2 5o

SEEDS.

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

5
5
7
5*4@6

SOAP.

Kirk’s American  Family............H> 

do. 
India.........................................  
do.  Savon........................................ 
do.  Satinet...................................... 
do.  Revenue................................... 
do.  White Russian......................... 
Goodrich’s English F am ily............... 
Princess............................ 
r & Gamble’s Ivory.................
Japan  O live........
do.
Town Talk  $  box
do.
Golden Bar............
do.
Arab.......................
do.
Amber....................
do.
Mottled German..
do.

do. 

J4 75

6*4
5%
6
5*4
5*4
5*4
4*4
6 75
5
3 70
4 20
3 45
3 75
4 20

Procter & Gamble’s Velvet..................  @3 40
Procter & Gamble’s Good Luck..........  @3 25
Procter & Gamble’s Wash Well..........  @3 15
Badger.............................................. 60fts  @6*4
Galvanic.................................................   @4 20
Gowan & Stover’s New Process 3 B> br  @18%
Tip Top.........................................3B>bar  @  16
Ward’s White Lily................................  @6
Handkerchief.:........ ............................   @4 20
3 00
Sidall’s ........ 1................................ ..... 
Babbitt’s ............................................ 
5 50
4  15
Dish R ag................................................ 
Bluing...................................................... 
5 00
Magnetic............................................ 
4 20
New  French  Process............................ 
4 50
Spoon......................................................  
5 00
Anti-Washboard....................................  
5 00
Vaterland............................................... 
3 25
4 20
Magic........................................................ 
Pittsburgh.............................................. 
4 00
6 75
Bogue’s ................................................... 
White castile bars................................. 
13
Mottled castile........................................ 
12
Old  Style................................................  @ 5*4
Old Country............................................  
5*4

Lautz Bros. & Co.

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

@ 5

FLAVORING EXTRACTS.

Lemon.

Vanilla.

Jennings’2 oz......................................doz.  1 00

4 oz..................................................1 5 0
“ 
6 oz......................................................... 2 50
“ 
8 oz......................................................... 3 50
“ 
“  No. 2 Taper...........................................1 25
No. 4 
“ 
*4 pint  round........................................4 50
“ 
“ 
l  
No.  8.....................................................3 00
“  No. 10.....................................................4 25

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

1  75
9 00

“ 
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FAUCETS.

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

4 oz..........................................................2 50
6 oz..........................................................4 00
8 oz..........................................................5 00

“ 
“ 
“ 
“  No. 2  Taper....................................   1
“  No.  4 Taper...................................... 3
“ 
*4 pint  round.................................   7
“ 
1 pint  round...................................15
“  No.  8................................................  4
“  No.  10................................................6
Faucets,  self measuring......................  @2
Faucets, common................................. 
@
Whole Cod..............................................  4%@6*4
Boneless Cod............................................. 
5@7@8
Herring *4 bbls.^100 lb.........................2 75@3 00
@24
Herring Scaled...................................... 
Herring Holland...................................  @1 00
White, No. 1, *4 b b ls............................ 
6 75
2  76
White, Family, *4 bbls......................... 
98
White, No. 1,10 fi> kits......................... 
White, No. 1,12 B> kits......................... 
1 08
Trout, No.  1, *4  bbls............................ 
4 50
80
Trout, No. 1,12  B>  kits......................... 
Mackerel, No. 1, *4 bbls....................... 
6  50
Mackerel, No. 1,12 ft  kits.................. 
1  00

FISH .

f r u i t s  .

2
London Layers, new.............................. 
Loose Muscatels Raisins,  new............2 50@2
New Valencias  Raisins.......................  
7*4@"
D ehesia...................................................  @3
Ondaras.................................;................  @10
Turkey Prunes......................................  6*4@6%
Currants.................................................   5*4@6
Citron......................................................
Dried Apples  .........................................  8  @8*4

MATCHES.

Richardson’s No. 2  square................................. 2 70
2 55
Richardson’s No. 3 
1 70
Richardson’s No. 5 
2 70
Richardson’s No. 6 
1 70
Richardson’s No. 8 
2 55
Richardson’s No. 9
Richardson’s No. 4 round..............................2 70
Richardson’s No. 7  do 
..............................2 65
Richardson’s No. 7*4 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.
Black  Strap...............................  
  @18
30@35
Porto  Rico.............................  
New  Orleans,  good...................................... 40@50
New Orleans,  fancy.....................................66@60

SPICES.

 

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...................................................  26@35
75
Pepper *4 ft $  dozen.............................. 
75
Allspice  % fl>........................................... 
Cinnamon  *4 f t ...................................... 
100
Cloves %  B>.............................................. 
75
Pepper,  whole....................................  
@18
Allspice...........................  
@10
 
Cassia................................................... 
@12
Cloves...................................................  20  @22
Nutmegs,  No. 1..................................   70  @75
@6%
Muzzy Gloss 1 fl) package...................... 
Muzzy Gloss 3 fl) package.....................
@7*4
Muzzy  Gloss 6 fl) boxes......................... 
Muzzy Gloss bulk..................................   _  @6*4
Muzzy Corn 1 fl).............................
Special prices on 1,000 fl) orders
Kingsford  Silver Gloss.................
Kingsford Silver Gloss 6 B> box..
Kingsford Corn....................................   8*4@8*4
Oswego  Gloss......................................... 
@6*4
Mirror  Gloss...........................................  @6*4
Mirror Gloss, corn.................................  @6%
Piel’s Pearl..................................................   @4
Niagara Laundry, 40 fl) box,  bulk.......  @5
@5
@7
@6
@7

Laundry, bbls, 186  B)s............ 
“  Gloss, 401 fl) packages...........  
“  Gloss,  36 3 $   packages.......... 
“  Gloss, 6 fl) box, 72 fl) crate.... 

STARCH.

STONEWARE.

@7
Corn, 401 fl)  packages............................... 
American Starch Co.’s
1 fl>  Gloss.................................................  
@6*4
10 oz  Gloss..............................................   @3M
3 B>  Gloss..................  ............................   @6
6 fl) Gloss, wood  boxes..........................   @7
Table Corn...................................... 40 fl) 
@6*4
Table  Corn.....................................20  fl>  @7
Banner, bulk........................................... 
@4
Jugs 
gallon......................................... 
®!
Crocks......................................................
Milk Crocks............................................
Rising  Sun gross..6 88|Dixon’s  gross.........5
Universal.............. 5 88 Above ¥  dozea........
I X L ......................5 50|
Cut Loaf......................................................  
Cubes..........................................................  
@8
Powdered.............................................  
Granulated..........................................  
@J
Conf. A ................................................... 
@7
Standard A ........ ..................................
Extra C white........................................•  6%@l
Extra C.................................................  ®  @*
FineC..................................................... 
5%@6
Yellow C................. 
3*4@5

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

STOVE POLISH.

SUGARS.

@
@

@48

SYRUPS.

 

 

 

 
 

PLUG.

  @50

TOBACCO—FINE CUT.

Corn,  Barrels.........................................  @  32
Corn, *4 bbls............................................  @  34
Corn, 10 gallon kegs...............................   @  35
Corn, 5 gallon kegs.................................  @1 80
Com, 4*4 gallon kegs..............................  @1 65
Pure  Sugar....................................... bbl  28@  32
Pure Sugar Drips.........................*4 bbl  30@  36
Pure Sugar  Drips................ 5 gal kegs  @1 85
Pure Loaf Sugar Drips... •........ *4 bbl  @  95
Pure Loaf Sugar..................5 gal kegs  @1 90
TEAS.Young Hyson__ 25@50
Japan ordinary.  24@30
Gun  Powder.-__ 35@60
Japan fair........... 32@35
Oolong..........33@55@60
Japan fair to g’d.35@37
Congo..................   @30
Japan fine........... 40@50
Japan dust..........15@20
Rose Bud.................................................   @50
O.  K ........................................................  @45
Our  Bird.................................................   @30
Peaches...................................................  @38
Morrison’s Fruit....................................   @50
Victor................................................. 
  @60
Diamond  Crown....................................   @57
Red  Bird.................................................   @52
Opera Queen...........................................  @40
Sweet Rose..............................................   @45
Green Back............................................   @38
F ruit........................................................  @33
O So Sweet..............................................  @31
Prairie Flower.......................................   @65
Climber [light and  dark].....................   @62
Matchless................................................  @65
Hiawatha...............................................   @69
Globe........................................................  @70
May Flower............................................   @70
Hero.........................................................   @45
A tlas........................................................  @35
Royal Game............................................  @38
Silver Thread.........................................   @67
Seal......................  
@60
Kentucky................................................  @30
Mule Ear.................................................   @67
Peek-a-Boo..............................................  @32
Peek-a-Boo, *4  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
F. P.'s Favorite...................................   @50
Old Kentucky.............................................  @50
Big Four,  2x12...........................................  @50
Big Four, 3x12............................................   @50
Darby and Joan, all sizes.........................  @50
Turkey, 16 oz.,  2x12...................................  @50
Blackbird, 16 oz.,  3x12..............................  @34
Seal of Grand Rapids...............................   @48
Glory  ..........................................................  @50
Durham...................................................  @48
Silver  Coin.................................................   @50
Buster  [Dark],.........................................   @36
Black Prince [Dark].................................  @36
Black Racer  [Dark].................................   @36
Leggett & Myers’  Star.......................... 
Climax.....................................................  @50
Hold F ast...................................................  @48
McAlpin’s Gold Shield..............................  @48
Nickle Nuggets 6 and 12 fl) cads..........  @51
Cock of the Walk  6s..............................  @37
Black Spun  Roll....................................   @38
Nimrod................................................... 
Acorn..........................................................  ©48
Red Seal......................................................   @46
Crescent.....................................................  @44
Black  X ...................................................  @35
Black  Bass.................................... 
 
True Grit....................................... 
 
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
and D., black.........................................   @37
McAlpin’s Green  Shield...........................  @48
Ace  High, black........................................  @35
Champion A ..............................................  @48
  @48
Sailors’  Solace........................................... 
Red Star................ 
 
@50
Shot Gun........................................... 
 
D uck...........................................................   @48
Jumbo..........................................................  @40
Applejack..................................................  @50
Jack Rabbit................................................  @42
Morning Dew.............................................  @26
Chain  ..........................................................  @22
Seal of Grand  Radids...............................   @25
King.............................................................  @30
Flirt...................................................  
Pug...............................................................  @30
Ten Penny Durham, *4 and %.................  @24
Amber, *4 and 1 fl)......................................  @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, *4 B).........................................   @60
*4 fl).........................................   @57
*4 B).........................................   @55
1 fl)........................................  @51
Holland...................................................  @22
German...................................................  @16
Long Tom................................................  @30
National...................................................  @26
T im e........................................................  @26
Love’s Dream.........................................   @28
Conqueror..............................................   @23
Fox’s ........................................................  @22
Grayling.................................................   @32
SealSkin........ ..........  
@30
Dime Durham........................................  @25
Rob Roy...................................................  @26
Uncle  Sam..............................................  @28
Lumberman.................  
@26
Railroad Boy...........................................  @37
Mountain Rose.......................................   @20
Good Enough.........................................  @23
Home Comfort, *4s and  *4s..................  @25
Old Rip, long cut..................................   @55
Durham,  long cut, No.  2.....................   @55
Two  Nickle, *45......................................  @25
Two  Nickle, *48......................................  @26
Star Durham..........................................  @25
Golden Flake Cabinet............................  @40
Seal of North Carolina, 2 oz................   @52
Seal of North Carolina, 4 oz.................  @50
Seal of North Carolina, 8 oz................   @48
Seal of North Carolina, 16 oz  boxes...  @50
Big Deal, *4s  longcut............................  @27
Apple Jack, *48  granulated................   @24
King Bee, longcut, %s and *4s............  @22
Milwaukee Prize, J4s and *4s...............  @24
Good Enough, 5c and 10c  Durham__   @24
Durham, S., B. &L, *48 and *4s............  @24
Rattler, longcut......................................  @28
Windsor cut plug...................................  @25
Mule Ear.................................................. 
23
Hiawatha................................................ 
23
23
Old Congress........................................... 
Acme........................................................ 
23
Lorillard’s  Macoboy..............................  @55
American Gentleman........  @72
Rappee, A. Beck & Co.’s .......................   @35
Gail & Ax’s Macoboy............................  @44
Scotch, Railroad Mills...........................  @44
Pure  Cider..............................................  
10@12
10@12
White Wine....................................... 
 
WASHING POWDERS.
L 
1776 $  fl)................................................... 
._
Gillett’s $  fl)...........................................  @7*4
7@10
Soapinepkg............................................. 
Pearline  box.......................................   @4 50
Lavine, single boxes, 481 fl> papers...  @4 50
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 481 fl) pap’rs  @4 25
Lavine, single boxes, 100 6 oz papers.  @4 50 
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 100 6 oz  pap  @4 25 
Lavine, single boxeB, 80 *4 fl) papers..  @4  15
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 80 *4 B) paprs  @4 00

SMOKING.

VINEGAR.

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SHORTS.

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YEAST.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Twin Bros..........1 75  (Wilsons.................1 75
Gillett’s ..............1 75 
iNational............... 1 75
Blacking......................................... 30, 40, 50@60
do  waterproqf............................ 
1 50
95
Bath Brick imported............................  
American............................  
do 
75
Barley...................  
@3*
Burners, No. 1 ........................................ 
110
150
 
20  00
Bags, American A ................................. 
Condensed Milk, Eagle brand............... 
8 10
Condensed Milk,  Swiss.......................  
7 50
Curry Combs $  doz............................... 1 25@
Cream Tartar 5 and 10 fl) eans.............  @25
Candles, Star............................... 
Candles,  Hotel............................. 
Chimney  Cleaners *8#  doz.....................  @50

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  @15*4
  @16*4

The Figures in the  C. G. McCulloch  & Co. 

WHOLESALE  PEI0E  CURRENT.

{

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Chimneys No.  1......................................  @35
No. 2......................................  @46
Cocoanut,  Schepps’ lfl> packages. 
@26*4
@27u.
Cocoanut,  Schepps’ 1 & *4 fl>  do 
Extract Coffee,  v. c..............................   90@95
F elix................ 
_ 
1  ¿Ota
Flour, Star Mills, in bbls.................‘.'.'.5 75©
in Sacks....................  5 50@
_  
Flour Sifters $  doz..... 
oo@
Fruit Augurs each.............  
1  25@
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps.......................
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps. 
.  .  ............
Ink  3 dozen  box.. 
...........................1
Jelly in Pails............. 
Td° 
Lye $  2  doz. cases............. 
Macaroni,  Imported........  
................. 
....................
Domestic  . 
French M i i ^ t e r d / s o z i . " . "  
rvn rp ^°, 
Large  Gothic........  
Oil Tanks. Star 60  gallon.... 
Peas, Green Bush.......... 

............ 
do  Split prepared.......  I“ !.............  

Tumblers <£ doz.'.'.'. 

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@75 *
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@1 35
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*  Keg..................................... ..

Po7i,er-
Sag? 

Tobacco Cutters each* WAT.................1  2/Ji  4
S

.........%

,

do  Argand........ ......................... 

.  @65.

.1 50@

CANDY, FRUITS AND  NUTS. 

Putnam & Bx-ooks quote as follows.: 

stick.
Straight, 25 fl> boxes........
Twist, 
........   ..................
Cut Loaf 

do 
do

@10
@10*4
@12

FANCY—IN 5 ft ROXES.

Royal, 25 B>  pails.
@10*4 
Royal, 200 fl) bbls.
...10 
Extra, 25 fl>  pails.
...11*4 
Extra, 200 fl> bbls__
11
French Cream, 25 ft pails
Cut loaf, 25 ft  cases........................................ i?
Broken, 25 ft pails.........  ............................... iirr
Broken, 200 ft  bbls..................I!!!!"."..".” ’.*. 10*4
Lemon Drops.........................
Sour Drops.......................... . _*.......................jc
Peppermint  Drops........................................ ig
Chocolate Drops..............................................17
H M Chocolate  Drops .” . . .*........................... 20
Gum  D rops......................... 
....................... Jo
Licorice Drops............” !.!.!!!.!.!.!...........2ft
A B  Licorice  Drops.. 
....................14
..............................ig
Lozenges, plain.......... 
Lozenges,  printed........ 
.............................. pr
Imperials.............  
..............................
Mottoes;................ „*........................................
Cream  Bar............. ..........................................
Molasses Bar.................................................... i?
Caramels.......................................... 
20
Hand Made Creams__ ....................................03
Plain  Creams...................  
Sn
Decorated  Creams__ __ 1...............................03
String Rock....................... *' * *........................16
Burnt Almonds.............. 
¿4
Wintergreen  B e
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@40
@35

4 lyvfjse n«
.  5° ® 6 °°

Lozenges, plain in pails.................. 
t4
Lozenges, plain in bbls........... .......................13
...................... 15
Lozenges, printed in pails..
Lozenges, printed in  bbls..........' . ] .............14
Chocolate Drops, in pails.............  
14
Gum Drops, in pails............. *........................  g
Gum Drops, in bbls........................................   7
Moss Drops, in pails.......................................1 j
Moss Drops, in bbls........  
.........................qia
Sour Drops, in  pails...................................... jo7*
Imperials, in  pails...........  
 
J 4
Imperials  in bbls..........13
fr u it s.
Oranges $  box.................... 
Oranges OO $1 box............. .." I" “  
Oranges, Imperials, $   box 
Oranges, Valencia #   case. 1
! "
Lemons,  choice.......................4 00@5 OO
Lemons, fancy.......................................
Bananas $ bunch................. .. .. '.’. '.'. '. '.2 00@4 OO
Malaga Grapes, <8 keg..........
@48
Malaga Grapes, $  bbl__
Figs,  layers  $  ft................ " *..............   12@16
..................... .............. 
i f i
Figs, fancy  do 
Figs, baskets 40 ft s  ft........ 
<au
* ‘ 
Dates, frails 
do  ............  
..........   ® g
d o ........................  
Dates, *4 do 
¡a 7
Dates, skin............................................. 
¡a g
Dates, *4  skin..................@ 7*4
Dates, Fard 10 ft box ^  ft.......  ..........ig  (&H
Dates, Fard 50 ft box $  ft............. * /  “   7  @ g
@28
Dates, Persian 50 ft box 
!  6*4@  7 

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PEANUTS.
Prime  Red,  raw  $   ft.............
d o ........................... 
Choice 
8
Fancy 
U g
do  ...............%■;........ 
Choice White, Va.do  ........  
¡a </
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Fancy H P,.  Va  do  ...................................@10
NUTS.

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

....................  @4 5Ô
1 25.

PROVISIONS.

PO R K .

The  Grand Rapids  Packing  &  Provision  Co 

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

do. 
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All the above Pork is Newly Packed.
DRY  SALT MEATS—IN   BOXES.
Long Clears, heavy, 500 ft.  Cases.......... 
Half Cases.............  
do. 
Long Clear medium, 500 ft  Cases.......... 
Half Cases..........  
do 
Long Clears light, 500 ft Cases............... 
do. 
Half Cases............... 
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........  
Beilids, extra quality, 300 ft cases........  
Bellies, extra qulaity, 200 ft cases........  
m 
Tierces  .........................................  
30 and 50 ft ühibs.......................8-
LARD IN  T IN  P A IL S .

LA RD.

8%
9
8%
9
8%
9
914
9*4
914
9*4
9%
9%
9%
9
9*4
9*4
74*

SMOKED MEATS— CANVASSED  O R  P L A IN .

20 ft Round Tins, 80 ft  racks................ . 
8
50 ft Round  Tins, 100 ft  racks............... 
8
8%
I ft Pails, 20 in a case.............................. 
8%
ft Pails, 12 in a case.............................. 
8*4
10 ft Pails. 6 in a case.............................. 
Hams cured in sweet pickle, heavy__  
13
13*4
Hams cured in sweet pickle medium.. 
light.........  
13%
Shoulders,  boneless................................ 
9*4
Shoulder, cured in sweet  pickle_____  
8%
Extra Clear Bacon..................................  
l l
Ribbed Bacon..........................................  
10*4
16
Dried Beef,  Extra................................... 
Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 fts........  
11 00
Rolled Beef, boneless................................  16 50.

B E E F  IN  BA RR ELS.

do. 

CANNED B E EF.

Libby, McNeil & Libby, 14 ft cans, *4 doz.

incase......................................................  18 25
do. 
2 ft cans, 1 doz. in case....  2 90-
Armour & Co., 14 ft cans, *4 doz in case  18 25 
do. 
2 ft cans, 1 doz. in  case..  2 90 
do. 2 ft Compr’d Ham, 1 doz. in case 4 00- 

s a u s a g e —f r e s h  AND SMOKED.

Pork Sausage...................................................  9
Ham  Sausage....................................................15-
Tongue  Sausage............................................   11
Liver Sausage...................................................  8
Frankfort  Sausage..........................................10
Blood  Sausage..................................................  8
Bologna,  ring...................................................   8*6
Bologna, straight.............................................  8*4
Bologna,  thick..................................................  8*4
Head  Cheese......................................... ...........8

P IG S ’  BEET.

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

T R IP E .

In half barrels..............................................  .$3 75
In quarter barrels........................................  2 10*
Prices named are lowest  at time of going to 
press, and are good only for that date, subject 
to market fluctuations.

♦

¡Dry?  (Boobs.

Spring & Company quote as 

o :

W ID E  BROW N COTTONS.

Androscoggin, 94. .23 
Androscoggin, 84.. i 1
Pepperell,  74........16*4
Pepperell,  84........20
Pepperell,  9 4 ........22*4

Pepperell, 104........25
Pepperell, 114........27*4
Pequot,  74.............18
Pequot,  84 ............ 21
Pequot,  94 ............ 24

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

Park Mills, No. 90. .14 
Park Mills, No. 100.15
Prodigy, oz........... 11
Otis Apron........... 10*4
Otis  Furniture.....10Vi
York,  1  oz.............16
York, AA, extra oz. 14

OSNABURG,

Alabama brown—   7
Jewell briwn..........9 *4
Kentucky brown..10*4 
Lewiston brown...  9Vi
Lane brown..: .......9 Vi
Louisiana plaid....  8

Alabama plaid.......8
Augusta plaid........ 8
Toledo plaid...........   7V4
Manchester  plaid..  7 
New Tenn. plaid.. .11 
Utility plaid...........   6*4

BLEACHED  COTTONS.

Avondale,  36..........  8 Vi
Art  cambrics, 36.. .11 Vi 
Androscoggin, 44..  8Vi 
Androscoggin, 54. .12*4
Ballou, 4-4...............  7Vi
Ballou, 5-4...............  6
Boott, 0 .4 4 ............  8*4
Boott, E. 5-5............  7
Boott, AGC, 44.......9 Vi
Boott, R. 34...........   534
Blackstone, AA 44  7Vi 
Chapman, X, 44—   6 Vi
Conway,  44 ..............734
Cabot, 44.................  7Vi
Cabot, 7-8.................  6Vi
Canoe,  34 ...............  4
Domestic,  36..........7 Vi
Dwight Anchor, 44.10
Davol, 44...............  9Vi
Fruit of Loom, 44..  9 
Fruit of Loom, 7-8..  8*4 
Fruit of  the Loom,
cambric,  44........12
Gold Medal, 44..  ..  7
Gold Medal, 7-8.........6V4
Gilded Age............... 834

Greene, G.  44........   5Vi
Hill, 44....................  8Vi
Hill, 7-8....................  7Vi
Hope,  44.................. 7V4
King  Phillip  cam­
bric, 4-4....................11 Vi
Linwood,  44..........  9
Lonsdale,  4 4 ...:...  8V4 
Lonsdale  cambric.llVi 
Langdon, GB, 44...  9*4
iLangdön,  45............14
Mason ville,  44.........9V4
Maxwell. 4-4............10Vi
New York Mill, 44.10V4 
New Jersey,  4-4—   8 
Pocasset,  P. M. C..  7Vi 
Pride of the West. ,12Vi 
Pocahontas,  44—   8Vi
Slaterville, 7-8........ 6Vi
Victoria, AA............9
Woodbury, 44........   53£
Whitinsville,  4 4 ...  7Vi 
Whitins ville, 7-8—   6 Vi
Wamsutta, 4-4........ lGVi
Williamsville, 36...10*4

CORSET JE A N S .

Armory................
A n d r o s c o g g in  s a t .
Canoe River..........
Clarendon.............
Hallowell  Imp—  
Ind. Orch. Imp—  
Laconia.................

7Vi|Kearsage.................  8Va
8*4 Naumkeag satteen.  8Vi 
6  Pepperell bleached 8Vi
¿VilPepperell sat..........9Vi
,  63i ¡Rockport................   7Vi
.  6Vi Lawrence sat..........8Vi
,  7VilConegosat...............  7
P R IN T S .

Albion, solid..........
Albion,  grey..........
Allen’s  checks.......
Alien’s  fancy........
Allen’s p in k ....—
Allen’s purple........
A m e r i c a n ,  f a n c y . . .
Arnold fancy..........
Berlin solid.............
Cocheco fancy.......
Cocheco robes........
Conestoga fancy...
Eddystone.........
Eagle fancy............
Garner pink...........

Gloucester...............6
Glou cestermourn’g. 6 
Hamilton  fancy— 6 
Hartel fancy... 
Merrimac D.. 
Manchester .. _ 
Oriental fancy 
Oriental  robes 
Pacific  robes..
Richmond......
Steel River__
Simpson’s ..........
Washington fancy.. 
Washington  blues..8

F IN E  BROW N COTTONS.

Appleton A, 44—   8
Boott  M, 44............  7Vi
Boston F, 44..........8
Continental C, 4-3..  73£ 
Continental D, 40 in 8% 
Conestoga W, 44...  7 
Conestoga  D, 7-8...  5Vi 
Conestoga G, 30-in.  6Vi
Dwight  X, 34........ 6
Dwight Y, 7-8..........6Vi
Dwight Z, 44..........  7
Dwight Star, 44—   734 
Ewight Star, 40-in..  9 
Enterprise EE, 36..  5*4 
Great Falls E, 44...  7
Farmers’ A, 44.........6%
Indian  Orchard, 44 7Vi

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

/

DOM ESTIC  GINGHAM S.

Am oskeag............. 8
Amoskeag, Persian
styles.................... 10*4
Bates.........................7 *4
Berkshire...............  6*4
Glasgow checks—   7 
Glasgow checks, f’y 7*4 
Glasgow 
royal  styles........   8
Gloucester, 
standard.............   7*4
Plunket.................... 7 V4
Lancaster...............  834
Langdale.................. 734

checks,
new

Renfrew, dress styl 9Vi 
Johnson  Manfg Co,
Bookfold.............12 Vi
Johnson Manfg Co,
dress  styles........12Vi
Slaterville, 
dress
styles......................9
White Mfg Co, stap  734 
White Mfg Co, fane 8 
¡White  Manf’g  Co,
Earlston...............  9Vi
Gordon......................8
Grey lock, 
I  sty le s......  ........ 12Vi

dress

W ID E BLEACHED COTTONS.

Androscoggin, 74. .21 
Androscoggin, 84. .23
Pepperell,  74....... 20
Pepperell,  84.......22Vi
Pepperell,  94 .......25

Pepperell.  10-4......27V4
PepperelL  114......32*4
Pequot,  1-4............ 21
Pequot,  8-4............ 24
Pequot,  94............ 27Vi

HEAVY  BROW N  COTTONS.

Atlantic  A, 44......
Atlantic  H, 44......
Atlantic  D, 44......
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

7*4 ¡Lawrence XX, 44. 
7  Lawrence  Y ,30... 
¿*4 ¡Lawrence LL, 44..
534 Newmarket N.......
5*4 Mystic River, 44..
7Vi Pequot A, 44........
¿Vi Piedmont,  36........
7J4 Stark AA, 44........
734 Tremont CC, 44...
634 Utica,  44...............
7Vi Wachusett,  44...'. 
12Vi¡Wachusett, 30-in..
TIC K IN G S.

Amoskeag,  ACA...14 
Amoskeag  “ 4-4.. 19
Amoskeag,  A ........13
Amoskeag,  B ........12
Amoskeag,  C........11
Amoskeag,  D ........10Vi
Amoskeag,  E ........10
Amoskeag, F ............9Vi
Premium  A, 44— 17
Premium  B ............16
Extra 44 .................. 16
Extra 7-8........... 
14Vi
Gold Medal 44........15
CCA 7-8....................12 Vi
CT 44 ........................14
RC 7-8........................14
BF 7-8....................... 16
A F 44....................... 19
Cordis AAA, 32......14
Cordis ACA, 32......15
Cordis No. 1, 32...... 15
Cordis No. 2............14
Cordis  No. 3............13
Cordis  No. 4............ llVi

Falls, XXXX..........1854
Falls, XXX.............15Vi
Falls,  BB................11 Vi
Falls,  BBC, 36........1954
Falls,  awning........19
Hamilton,  BT, 32.. 12
Hamilton,  D ..........10
Hamilton,  H _____10
Hamilton  fancy... 10
Methuen AA..........13V4
Methuen ASA........18
Omega A, 7-8..........11
Omega A, 44..........13
Omega ACA, 7-8__ 14
Omega ACA, 44__ 16
Omega SE, 7-8.........24
Omega SE, 44.........27
Omega M. 7-8........22
Omega M, 44..........25
Shetucket SS&SSW 1154 
Shetucket, S & SW.12
Shetucket,  SFS__ 12
Stockbridge  A.........7
Stoekbridge frncy.  8

GLAZED CAM BRICS.

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

Empire....................
Washington............  431
Edwards..................  5
S. S. &Sons...........   5

G R A IN  BAGS.

American  A ......... 19  ¡Old  Ironsides..........1554
Stark A ...................23Vi|Wheatland...............2154

DENIM S.

Boston....................  7V4 ¡Otis  CC....................1054
Everett blue......... 13V41 Warren  AXA..........1254
Everett  brown......1354 Warren  BB............. llVi
Otis  AXA.............. 12*4 Warren CC...............10V4
Otis BB............. ....11 Vi I York  fancy.............15

P A P E R   CAM BRICS.

Manville..................  6
Masgnville.............   6

IS. S. & Sons............... 6
Garner......................6

W IG A N S.

Red  Cross...............  754¡Thistle Mills.
Berlin.....................   754 ¡Rose.............
Garner....................  7541

SPO OL COTTON.

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

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

SILESIAS.

Crown.....................1<
No.  10.....................1254
Coin........................10
Anchor...........*....15
Centennial........ .
Blackburn..............8
Davol.......................14
London................... 12V4
Paconia..................12
Red Cross.............10
Social Imperial.... 16

Mason ville TS........   8
Mason ville  S.......... 1054
Lonsdale.................9Ví
Lonsdale A .............16
Nictory  O ............... 6
Victory J ...................7
Victory D.............. 10
Victory K............ 12V4
Phoenix A .............  9V4
Phoenix  B .............. 1054
Phoenix XX..........15

COUNTRY PRODUCE.

bu.

size.

box or $3 
$16 
ton.

Apples—Choice eating, 75c@$l  X  bu.
Bailed  Hay—Scarce  and firm  at  $15@ 
Buckwheat Seed—$1.25  bu.
Butter—Choice dairy packed is worth 15@ 
Beans—Handpicked scarce and not  much 
bu.  Unpicked, 

16c.  Creamery packed  18c.
moving at $2.50@$2.60 
$2@$2.25.

Beats—40c ^  doz. bunches.
Cabbages—$5@$6  ^   100,  according  to 
Cheese—Full cream  9c.
Clover  Seed—Choice  medium  $6@$6.50 
^  bu. and mammoth at $6.75  ^   bu.  Slow 
sale at these prices.

for pure, and 8@10c for adulterated.

and sliced 7@8.  Evaporated ll@13c.

Cucumbers —35@40c ^   doz.
Dried  Apples—Quarters  ?X@8X  ^   ft) 
Eggs—Firm and ready  sale  at 16@17c.
Green Onions—30@35c ^  dozen bunches.
Hungarian Grass Seed—$1 ^  bu.
Honey—Choice new, 16c ^  lb.
Hops—Brewers pay  35@40c  for  Eastern 
and Western and 18@20c for  Michigan.
Lettuce—In fair demand at 10c ^   ft).
Maple  Sugar—Dull  and  plenty  at 12)4c. 
Millet Seed—$1 ^  bu.
Onions—New,  $2  ^   sack  and  $3.50  ^  
Pieplant—About out of  market.
Peas—60@75c "p  bu.
Peas, for field seed—$1.50  ^  bu.
Pears—California $6 ^  case of about 225.
Plumbs—California $2.75@$3  ^  crate  of 
about 225.  Tennessee 90c@$l  ^   X bu.  or 
$2.75@$3 ^  24 quart case.
Potatoes—Choice new are  worth  $2.75@ 
$3 per large bbl.,  with  probability  of  a  de­
cline soon.
Poultry—A little  more  plentiful.  Fowls 
seling at 15@16e.
Timothy—Choice is firmly held at $1.75 ^  
bu.
Tomatoes—Illinois Trophy 50c per box of 
X bu.  Acme, 75c.
Wax Beans—90c per bu.  Green, 65c  per 
bn.
Watermelons—Large scaly bark  Georgia, 
$30 per 100.  Other Georgia, $3 per doz.
Squash—Summer, $1@$1.25 per  bu.  box.
Berries—Whortleberries,  $3.50  per  bu. 
Black Raspberries, 10c per qt. in 16 qt  cases. 
Red Raspberries, 12)4 per qt. in 24 pt. boxes.
Cherries—Red $2 per bu.  Black,  $1.50@ 
$2 per bu.

bbl.

GRAINS AND  MILLING  PRODUCTS.

$1.05.

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

ft>s.
sacks  and $6.75 in wood.  Straight, $5.50 
bbl. in sacks and $5.75 in  wood.

Meal—Bolted, $1.45 7$ cwt.
Mill Feed—Screenings, $14 ^  ton.  Bran, 
$13@$14 @ ton.  Ships, $15  ^   ton.  Mid­
ton.  Corn  and  Oats, $23  ^  
dlings, $17 
ton.

LUMBER, LATH AND SHINGLES. 

The Newaygo Company quote f. o. b. cars  as 

follow:
Uppers, 1 inch.................T.T."? 
. per m! '$44"?)0
Uppers, 1V4,154 and 2 inch.........................  46 00
Selects, 1 inch..............................................  35 00
Selects, 154,1V4 and 2  inch.........................  38 00
Fine Common, 1 inch.................................  30 00
Shop, 1 inch.................................................   20 00
Fine, Common, 1V4,154 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. 1 Fencing, all  lengths.........................  15 00
No. 2 Fencing, 12,14 and 18  feet...............  12 00
No. 2 Fencing, 16 feet.................................  12 00
No. 1 Fencing. 4  inch.................................  15 00
No. 2 Fencing, 4  inch.................................  12 00
Norway C and better, 4 or 6 inch.............   20 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, A and  B..................  18 ¿0
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 ¿0
Dressed Flooring 6 in., No. 2 common__   14 ¿0
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.
3 50
X X X 18 in.  Thin...................................... 
3 40

iXXX 18 in. Standard  Shingles.............  

X X X 16 in................................................. 
o. 2 or 6 in. C. B 18 in.  Shingles.............  
No. 2 or 5 in. C. B. 16  in............................  
Lath  ............................................................. 

3 00
2 00
175
2 00

OYSTERS  AND  FISH.

F. J. Dettenthaler 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.............................................10

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.

A. Lockinaw, Kalkaska, Mich.

WANTED—A position as traveling salesman 

or clerk in a  wholesale  or  retail  estab­
lishment  by  an  experienced  and thoroughly 
competent  man.  Can  furnish  best  of refer 
ences.  Address T. M. Stryker,  Coral, Mich.
w ANTED—A first-class  baker.  Apply to C. 
» ANTED
A position in a first-class  drug 
store by  a y  
store by  a_young  man  of  experience.
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.

Address A., care T h e T radesm an.

FOR SALE—A stock of new, fresh staple gro­

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

Easy  Way to  Make a Watch  Complicated.
“Twenty-four-hour watch  faces are likely 
to become popular now through a  very  sim­
ple invention.” said a jeweller,  “See here.”
He took a little tin box from a work bench 
and opened i t  
It contained  little  rings  of 
different sizes made of  strong  white  paper. 
On one side of the paper rings the figures 13, 
14,15, and so on to 24,■ were  printed  at  the 
regular intervals that separate  the  numbers 
on a watch face.  The rings were of different 
sizes, and the figures on some were printed in 
blue ink and on the others in  red  or  black 
ink.  The backs of the rings  were  gummed 
like a postage stamp.

“We  paste  these  rings  on  watch  faces. 
The 24 is directly under the XII.,  the  13  is 
inside of I., and so on.  There is a hole in the 
ring at 18 which allows free play to the spin­
dle on  which  the  second  hand  revolves. 
When this is done the job  is  complete.  At 
any time from midnight until  noon  use  the 
outer row  of figures,  but after noon you can 
say either 2:27 or 14:27,9:45 or 21:45 o’clock. 
We are going  to  fit  clocks  the  same  way. 
We  can  fit  any  watch  with  a  plain  face 
now.”

“For how much?”
“A trifle—25 cents.”

Effect of Sunlight on  Combustion.

It is evident that a considerable number of 
persons believe  that  when  direct  sunlight 
falls upon flame, combustion  is  less active, 
and will ultimately be arrested  by  it.  The 
view,  is,  however,  erroneous,  as  has been 
proved by carefully conducted  experiments. 
A candle arranged so as to bum at a uniform 
rate, and affixed to delicate  balances,  shows 
no change in the rate of consumption of wax 
when burned in the full blaze of the  sun  or 
in the shade.  Precisely the same number of 
grains of the solid material  are  changed  in 
and out of sunlight in a given time.  When we 
kindle a wood or coal fire upon the hearth, it 
appears to the eye that the flame  is  less  in­
tense if sunlight comes in through the uncur­
tained  window  and  rests  upon the ignited 
fuel;  but this appearance  is  delusive.  We 
need shade to observe clearly the process  of 
combustion,  especially  when  the  flame  is 
largely  composed  of  burning  hydrogen  or 
carbonic acid.  A pure hydrogen flame is in- 
visible  in sunlight, and even light  carburet- 
ted  gases  are  indistinctly  seen  by  day­
light.  No one need fear that sunshine  will 
put out fire.

A  genuine  marble  mantel,  costing  from 
$1,300 to $2,000, can be imitated in slate  so 
perfectly, at a cost of from $40 to  $50,  that 
the most fastidious could have no choice  be­
tween them.  The process of marbleizing re­
quires skill, but  is  comparatively  inexpen­
sive.  The enameling is done on  water  and 
afterwards subjected for a time to heat, at  a 
temperature of 300°; this makes  it  as  hard 
as flint, bakes  it  into  the  slate,  forming  a 
smooth, bright, glazed surface, which  is not 
acted on by acids or grease.  The  durability 
of this surface has scarcely been tested; mar- 
bleized mantels have been in use  for  thirty- 
five years, without showing any  signs of the 
surface cracking or wearing, or of  its losing 
its color and luster.

An English clerk in a New York dry goods 
store writes to the the  London Warehouse­
m an that there is no such  rigidity  of  disci­
pline behind counters  here as he used to en­
dure at home.

HIDES, PELTS AND  PURS. 

Perkins & Hess quote as foLows:

H ID ES.

Green............................................... fl>
Part  cured..............................................   8
Full cured.................................
Dry hides and kips..................
............8
Calf skins, green or cured—
........... 10
piece20
Deacon skins............................
S H E E P  P EL TS.

Shearlings or Summer skins $  piece. .10
Fall pelts..................................................30
Winter  peits.................. :...................1 00

© 7 
© 8*4 
4®  8»/2 
@12 
©12 
@50

©20 
@50 
@1 50

W OOL.

Fine washed ^ B>....................................  25@
Coarse washed.................................................. 18 @20
Unwashed..........................................  
2-3
Tallow...................................................... 5}4@ 5*4

FRESH  MEATS.

John Mohrhard quotes the trade as follows:
Fresh  Beef, sides....................................  7  ©  8*4
Fresh  Beef, hind quarters....................10  @10*4
Dressed Hogs.........................................   ©  8
Mutton,  carcasses...................................  7  @8
Veal..........................................................  8*4® 9*4
Fowls................................................  15@l6
Pork Sausage........................................... 10  @10*4
Bologna.......... ........................................   @10

M ASON’S 
FRUIT JA R S

Large stock on hand at bottom  prices  for 
immediate shipment.  Also  EXTRA  RUB­
BERS for MASON Jars.

To meet the demand for cheap storage for 

fruit, we offer:

Quart Barrell Jars, per gross.....................   9 50
*4 Gal. Barrell Jars, qer gross.....................12 50
These are glass cans with glass covers to seal 
with wax.  Also
Per Dozen.
*4 Gal Stone Preserve Jars and Covers.......  85
1 Gal Stone Preserve Jars and Covers.......1 40
*4 Gal Stone Tomato Jugs and  Corks..........  85
1 Gal Stone Tomato Jugs and  Corks..........1 40
Sealing W ax, $  fi>...........................................  4c

D. Leonard & Sons,

16 Monroe  Street,

GRAND RAPIDS

MICH.

Ibarbwace.

Prevailing  rates  at Chicago  are as follows:

AU GERS AND B IT S.

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

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

BALANCES.

25

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

BA RROW S.

BE LLS.

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

BO LTS.

Stove............................................ ......... dis $ 
40
Carnage and Tire, new .ist............... dis 
75
Plow  ...................................................... dis  30&1C
Sleigh Shoe...........................................dis 
50&13
50
Cast Barrel  Bolts................................dis 
Wrought Barrel Bolts........................dis 
55
50
Cast Barrel, brass  knobs...................dis 
55
Cast Square Spring.............................dis 
Cast Chain........................................... dis 
60
55&10
Wrought Barrel, brass  knob............dis 
Wrought Square.................................dis 
55&10
Wrought Sunk Flush......................... dis 
30
Wrought  Brouze  and  Plated  Knob
.  50&10&10 
Ives’  Door.
.dis  50&10

Flush. 

Barber __
Backus__
Spofford... 
Am. Ball...

40
. dis $ 
50
.dis 
50
.dis 
.. dis  .  net

20
25

40&10
40&10
40&10
40&10
30
33*4

50

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

BUCKETS.
........................................$  4 00
4 50

BUTTS,  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  j oint.. dis  50&10
Wrounht Loose  Pin..............................dis 
60
Wrought Loose Pin, acorn tip.............dis  60& 5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned.............dis  60& 5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silver
tipped.................................................. dis  60& 5
WroughtTable....................................... 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*4, per gross  15 00
Spring for Screen Doors 3x3 
per gross  18 00

CA PS.

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

 

CA TRIDG ES.

Rim Fire, U. M. C. & Winchester
Rim Fire, United  States...............
Central Fire....................................

CH IS ELS.

Socket Firmer...............................
Socket Framing............................
Socket Corner............................... .
Socket Slicks.................................
Butchers’ Tanged  Firmer...........
Barton’s Socket Firmers.............
Cold.................................................

new list 
........ dis 
........ dis 

50
50
*á

__ dis  65&10
__ dis  65&10
__ dis  65&10
---- dis  65&10
__ dis 
40
__ dis 
20
...... net

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

COMBS.

COCKS.

.dis
.dis

33*4
25

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

Planished, 14 oz cut to size.....................%lb  37
14x52,14x56,14 x60 .........................................  39

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

35
20
30

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

EXPANSIVE BITS.

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

COPPER.

DRILLS.

ELBOWS.

FILES.

American File Association  List........dis
Disston’s ................................................dis
New  American......................................dis
Nicholson’s............................................ dis
Heller’s ..................................................dis
Heller’s Horse Rasps...........................dis
Nos. 16 to 20, 
List 

22 and 24,  25 and 26,  27
12 
15
Discount, Juniata 45, Charcoal 50. 
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ..............dis

GALVANIZED IRON,
14 

13 
GAUGES.

HAMMERS.

15
Maydole & Co.’s.....................................dis 
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

HANGERS.

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

HINGES.

Gate, Clark’s, 1,2, 3.............................. dis 
60
State............................................per doz, net, 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to  12  in.  5*4  14
and  longer..............................................
4 25 
Screw Hook and Eye,  *4  .................. net
10*4 
Screw Hook and Eye %.......................net
8*4 
Screw Hook and Eye  34.......................net
7*4 
Screw Hook and Eye,  %.....................net
7*4 
Strap and  T........................................... dis
60&10

HOLLOW  WARE.

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

HOES.

KNOBS.

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

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

LEVELS.

MILLS.

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

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

MATTOCKS.

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

NAILS.

Common, Brad and Fencing.

lOdto  60d............................................ $  keg $2 45
8d and 9 d adv................................................ 
25
6d and 7d  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. f  keg 
Steel Nails—Advance 15c from above prices. 

I  lOd 
$1 25  1  50  1 75  2 00 

8d  6d  4d
1*4

2*4 

2 

MOLLASSES GATES.

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

MAULS.

OILERS.

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

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

 

PLANES.
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............................................... dis 40&10
Common, polished................................. dis 
60
Dripping................................................... $  
fl>  8

PANS.

RIVETS.

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

40
40

PATENT FLANISAED IRON.

“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10*4 
“B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25  to 27 

9

Broken packs *4c $  B> extra.

ROOFING PLATES.

ROPES.

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, *4 In. and larger............................$1 
9*4
Manilla............. ..............................................   15
Steel and  Iron.............................................dis  50
Try and Bevels.............................................dis  50
Mitre  ............................................................dis  26
Com. Smooth.  Com.

SHEET IRON.

SQUARES.

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

Nos. 10 to 14....................................$4 20 
Nos. 15 to 17 ..................................   4 20 
Nos. 18 to 21..................................   4 20 
Nos. 22 to 24 ..................................   4 20 
Nos .25 to 26..................................   4 40 
No.2 7 ............................................  4 60 
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SHEET ZINC.

In casks of 600 fts, $!  ft............................ 
In smaller quansities, ^  fl>.....................  

TINNER’S SOLDER.

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

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....................................... 30c ^ doz
Mouse,  delusion...............................$1 26 $  doz
Bright Market..........................................   dis  60
Annealed Market..................................... dis  60
Coppered Market..................................... dis  55
Extra Bailing............................................dis  55
Tinned  Market..........................................kis  40
Tinned  Broom.......................................... ^ 
09
Tinned Mattress..................' ...................$  n>  8*4
Coppered  Spring  Steel...........................dis 37*4
Tinned Spring Steel................................. dis 37*4
Plain Fence...............................................¡» a  3*4
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

6*4
7

13 00
15  00
16

W hy Can’t Any Man Put  Up  a  Stove? 

Correspondence of the American Artisan.

In your last issue my attention was called 
to an article from the  Chicago  Tribune, in 
which the above question was asked a dealer 
by a reporter of  that  paper. 
Is  it  possible 
that there are men in  Chicago  who  will  ad­
mit that they cannot put up a stove  as  good 
as any one?  Why, it is  one  of  the  easiest 
things in the  world, save that  of  running  a 
newspaper.  Any body can do it.

The only objection to the business is,  that 
it is inclined to produce  profanity. 
I actu­
ally have seen ministers  tackle  a  stove  for 
the  sole  purpose  of  giving  vent to their 
wrath, simpiy because  a  mule  had  kicked 
them, or that  contributions  were light  the 
day  before.  And in order to  make  a  pro­
tracted effort  they commence  by  undertak­
ing to insert a six-inch joint of  pipe into the 
small end of a five-inch joint.

My opinion is that every man who intends 
to live a pious life should employ a tinner to 
put up his stove.  Not but what he could do 
it just as well himself, but  his  future  pros­
pects  would  be  brighter,  and  he  would 
stand a much better chance for  entering the 
realms above, where all is peace and  happi­
ness  (the  future  home of the  tinner  and 
plumber and other saints of less note.)

It is an unpleasant fact  that  ninety-nine 
fools  out of  a hundred, .who  have not me­
chanical ingenuity enough to lift a latch on a 
gate, think  they can  set up a  stove.  And 
because  two  large  ends, or two small ends 
of the pipe will not  go  together, they abuse 
the tinner who made it or  the  fraternity  in 
general.

I have  been in the  business a long time, 
and have  worked in a number of the states, 
from east to west, and  never  had any great 
trouble in fitting  pipe. 
I think the  size is 
very uniform, under the  circumstances, as a 
great variety of weights of  iron is used, and 
even  the  same  number of  iron  varies in 
thickness. 
If all weights  are cut  over the 
same pattern, the heavy iron  will  undoubt­
edly make the pipe a little  larger, and  vice 
versa.  Where a crimping  machine  is  used 
in ordinary pipe, one-eigth of an inch small­
er at the small  end,  is  plenty, while  one- 
fourth inch is necessary where pipe is drawn 
in with mallet.

Again, where the pipe is  seamed, it is im­
possible to have every joint  just  the  same, 
although  the  joints do not vary enough  to 
bother a tinner in putting them together. 
If 
the people of this  country would  have me­
chanics do their  work in proper  shape, they 
would  be  much  better  off, at least in  the 
opinion of 

J osiikins the Tinker.

P o d u n k ,  Mo., June 17, 1884.

WrENCHES.

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

MISCELLANEOUS.

Pumps,  Cistern........... .’.......................dis  60&10
Screws....................................................... 
70
50
Casters, Bed and  Plate.......................... dis 
Dampers, American..........:..................... 
33*4

FOSTER, 
STEVENS 
&  CO.
-WHOLESALE-WARE!

10 and  12  MONROE  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

- 

MICHIGAN.

Detroit  and  Chicago  prices  duplicated  al­
ways, andfreights in our favor and shipments 
more prompt make Grand Rapids the cheapest 
market.

WE  SOLICIT  THE

DEALER’S  TRADE,

And NOT the Consumer’s.

We are Manufacturers’ Agents for the

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  TEN 
(10)  CENTSABOVE COMMON NAILS.

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

Foster, Steyensi Co,

How  Carpet Tacks are  Made.

The iron is received from the rolling mills 
in sheets from three inches to twelve  inches 
wide, and  from  three  feet  to nine feet in 
length,  the  thickness  varying, according to 
the kind of work into which it is to be made, 
from 1-8 to  1-32 of  an  inch.  These  sheets 
are all cut in  about  thirty  inch  pieces, and 
by  immersion in acid,  cleaned of the  hard 
outside flinty scale.  They are then chopped 
into strips of a width  corresponding  to  the 
length of the nail or tack required.  Suppos­
ing the tack to be cut is an  eight  ounce car­
pet tack, the  strip  of  the  iron  as  chopped 
and  ready for the machine, would  be  about 
11-16 of an inch wide and thirty inches long. 
This piece is placed firmly in the feeding ap­
paratus, and by this arrangement carried be­
tween the?knives and the machine.  At each 
revolution of the  balance-wheel  the  knives 
cut off a small  piece  from  the end  of  this 
plate.  The piece cut  off  is  pointed  at  one 
end, and square for forming the head at  the 
other. 
It is then carried  between  two  dies 
by the action of the  knives, and  these dies, 
coming together, form the body of  the  tack 
under  the  head.  Enough  of  the  iron  pro­
jects beyond the face of the dies to form the 
head, and while held  firml-y by them,  a lev­
er strikes this  projecting  piece into a round 
head.  This as we  have  said  before, is all 
done during one revolution of the wheel, and 
the knives, as soon as the  tack  drops  from 
the  machine, are  ready  to  cut off  another 
piece.

How  Shot are  Made.

F.iom the Manufacturer and  Builder.

A shot-tower is an immense brick structure, 
150 feet high, resembling a light-house  more 
than anything else.  Visitors are  conducted 
up a spiral stair-case inside to the top, where 
a fine view is obtained for  miles  about,  but 
the view down the inside is not so  pleasant. 
The opening  where  the  shot  descends  be­
comes narrower and narrower, until nothing 
is seen at the bottom but  darkness.  At  the 
top of the tower are the furnaces  for  smelt­
ing.  From these lead is  poured  into  pans 
set in the tower, with perforated  sheet  iron 
bottoms.  The melted  lead  comes  through 
these holes and enlarges on  the  other  side, 
forming into globules before it falls down to 
the  well  beneath,  holding  several  feet  of 
water.  The large shot drop the whole height 
of the tower to the bottem, but  the  smaller 
sizes only about half as  far.  One  peculiar 
thing is, that smaller shot usually expand in 
falling, and the larger sizes  contract.  Very 
great care is necessary in mixing the  metal, 
as it would run through the holes  and  drop 
in strings if not 0 f the  proper  proportions, 
and no shot could be made at  all.

A London dry goods firm  received  an  of­
ficial communication to  say  that  they  were 
entitled  to  a  final  dividend  of  one  penny, 
which would be  sent  on  their  furnishing a 
receipt.

W. H. Stewart, formerly in trade at Round 

Lake, is now at Decatur. 

s

Choice Butter can always be had  at M.  C. 

Russell’s.

V

P E N C IL   P O R T R A IT S—N O .  33

J o h n   D .  M an gu m ,  B e tte r   K n o w n   as 

“J o h n n y .”

John Daniel  Mangum  was  born  at Jack- 
son, Oct. 27,1859, and  lived  there  continu­
ously until  about  two  years  ago.  He  still 
regards the place as his “home”—if a travel­
ing man is entitled  to such a distinction—as 
it is the residence  of  his  mother  and  early 
associates.  There he attended  school  until 
about 18 years of age, when  he  entered  the 
employ of G. A. Ferguson & Co., grocers,  lie 
maining  in that position about a year  and a 
half, he  left  it  to  enter  the  Jackson  City 
Mills as an apprentice, but as the dust affect­
ed his lungs he was  compelled to forego his 
chosen  ambition  of  becoming a miller,  and 
turn his attention  to  other  fields  of  action. 
He accordingly entered the  employ of J. A. 
Campbell, selling carriages and harness, and 
in  May, 1881, engaged with  S.  A.  Welling, 
who was then carrying on a jobbing business 
gt Jackson,  In December, of the same year, 
he  began  making  short  trips  by  wagon 
among the trade, and  in April, 1882, accom­
panied the  new  firm  of  Welling & Carhart 
to this city, covering Muskegon and interme­
diate towns,  and taking short trips  in  other 
directions. 
In June, he was  assigned a per­
manent  territory, which he has since cover­
ed with satisfaction to  the trade  and  profit 
to his house.  It includes all available towns, 
on and off the railroad, from  Big  Rapids  to 
Mackinaw City, a three weeks’ drive through 
the lake  shore  country  from  Mackinaw  to 
Manistee, the F &. P. M. from  Keed City to 
Ludington, and the cities  of  Muskegon and 
Jackson.  He sees his customers every sixty 
days, and is as well  liked  in northern as in 
southern Michigan.

Mr. Mangum possesses to a marked degree 
the  qualities  that  distinguish a successful 
traveler.  He is a man  of  untiring  energy 
and perseverence, and will accomplish what­
ever he sets  out  to do, even  though  it  re­
quires the  strength of a Hercules.  Though 
young in years, and young in  point  of  ser­
vice on the road, he has  already acquired  a 
favorable reputation on the  road—a  reputa­
tion  that  will be augmented as he  attains 
more experience and becomes better known.

A   T ra v eler W h o   w a s  B o u n d   to  h e  “E v en .” 
A  merchant  traveler  visited  a  certain 
country store in Northern Michigan, and the 
proprietor gruffly told him he  did not desire 
to buy anything  from  him.  The  traveler, 
however, was not  easily bluffed, and taking 
up a newspaper, he made  himself  comfort­
able, while  the  boss  waited  on a customer. 
In about half  an  hour he  noticed  the  com­
fortable  traveler, and  going  up  to  him,  he 
said, abruptly:

“Here, you; I thought  I told  you 1 didn’t 

want to buy any of your goods.”

“I  don’t  know  what  you  thought,  but 
that’s what  you said,” replied  the  traveler, 
putting his finger on the place  he  was read­
ing and looking up at the man.

“Well, I tell you I don’t want your goods, 

and I don’t want you around here.”

“Yery well, sir.  1 don’t want to sell you. 
I was just thinking  that  you  had  missed 
your calling.”

“What do you mean?”
“Why, my  dear  sir, you  ought  to  have 

been a shoe maker.”

“What makes you  think  that?” asked the 
merchant, his  curiosity  getting  a  little  the 
better of his temper.

“Because,” replied the traveler, rising and 
slowly edging  toward the  door, “while  you 
were at work, if you happened to run out of 
bristles, it  would  be  so  handy  for  you  to 
reach  around  on  your  back  and  pull ’em 
out.”

He got away, but it took a writ of  replev­

in to get his sample cases.

A   W ater  F a m in e   I m m in e n t.

“Gentlemen,”  said  Mrs.  Simpson-Hen- 
dricks, the landlady, at the  breakfast  table, 
“I have received a request  from  the  Water 
Board to the effect that we be as  sparing  of 
water as possible.  A famine is  threatened. 
Will you please  give  the  matter your atten­
tion?

“Certainly,” they all responded, with  the 
exception of Dumley, who, having just  paid 
a few dollars on account, was feeling  rather 
independent.

“And you, Mrs.  Simpson-Hendricks,”  he 
said,  “will,  of  course,  set us a good exam­
ple.”

“Oh, yes,” she replied,  “I  shall  be  very 
economical in the use of water.  I instructed 
the servants to that effect this morning.”

“Did you say anything to  the  cook  about 

it?”

I spoke to them  all.”

“Yes. 
“Well,  in  that  case,”  Dumley remarked 
politely, “if you will allow me to change my 
mind, you may send me a cup of  tea  and  a 
glass of milk.”

S alt  I n sp e c te d   in   J u n e .

The report of Geo. W. Hill, State Salt  In­
spector, for the  month  of  June,  shows the 
following number of barrels inspected in the 
counties named:
B ay............
Saginaw
Huron.......
Iosco .............
Midland__
Manistee ... 
8t. Clair.......

.124,882 
.120,572 
.  36,727 
.  28,485 
.  8,782 
.  7,517 
.  6,270
Total.....................................................333,235
Comparative  for  June:  1878,  187,874; 
1879, 226,199;  1880,  291,592;  1881, 342,205; 
1882, 363,377; 1883,  312,196;  1884,  333,235.

The Charlevoix Savings Bank  with a cap­
ital of $25,000, is being organized  under the 
state law.

XÆTJSKSCOXT  BUSINESS  DIRECTORY.

S. S. MORRIS £ BRO.,

Facls.ers  and.

J o b b e r s   o f   P r o v i s i o n s ,

CANNED  MEATS  AND  BUTTERS.

Smoked  Meats  a  Specialty.

Stores in Opera House Block, Packing and Warehouse Market and Water Sts. Muskegon, Mich.

A N D REW   W IERENGO,

W holesale

G R O C E R

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

State Agents for

Dealers in

Awnings,  Tents,  Horse  Wagon  and  Stack 

Covers,  Oiled  Clothing,  Eto.

73  C anal  S treet.

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  

MICHIGAN. 

%W~  Send for Prices.

EVERY  KIND  AND  SIZE,
T ru n k ,  C lou t a n d  F in is h in g  
S tee l W ire N a ils  a n d  B rad s.

—ALSO—

American  Tack  Co., 

Ma ss.
A.  A.  ORIFFEN,

F a ir h a v en 

-  

W H O L E S A L E

Hats, Gaps and Fars

WIERENGO  NEW  BLOCK

54  MONROE  STREET,

- 

Pine Street 
Muskegon, Mich.
TO FRUIT GROW ERS

- 

MUSKEGON 

BASKET  FACTORY !

Is  now  in  full  oheration  manufacturing 

kinds  of

1 

Prices the Lowest.

Quality Guaranteed.

FRUIT  PACKAGES, ETC.
OHOIJTT  <&  OOMPA3STY,
M r , E ffi Gbeese, Fruit, Grain, lay, But Part, M a

WHOLESALE  AND  COMMISSION

Consignments  Solicited.

M U SK E G O N   M A T T E R S.

F a cts  an d   F a n cies  P ic k e d   U p  a t th a t B u sy  

P la c e .

Schoenberger  & Creighton, carriage paint­
ers, have dissolved,  Frank  Creighton  retir­
ing.  W. H. Schoenberger succeeds.

The firm of  H.  Principaal  & Co., grocers 
and bakers, has  been  dissolved.  Van  der 
Linde & DeJongh will continue the  grocery 
business and H. Principaal  will conduct the 
bakery business.

Derk Boelkins is the  successor to the gro­
cery firm of Boelkins  &  Son. 
It  is stated 
that the retiring  partner,  A.  Boelkins  will 
form a partnership with John  Boelkins,  an­
other son, and re-engage in the grocery busi­
ness at the present location  of G. H.  Yonk- 
er.

The tailoring firm of  A.  M.  Goodwin  & 
Co., composed of Asa M.  Goodwin  and  Ed­
mund A. Parker, has been dissolved.  Previ* 
ous to  the  dissolution  a  series  of  chattel 
mortgages were given  in  such  a  way  that 
creditors will be unable to  collect  any  por­
tion of their accounts.

Brock & Alport, the grocery firm that late­
ly dissolved, selling the stock to Levi Trues- 
dell, is offering to compromise with the cred­
itors on the basis of 25 per cent.  The  boys 
meant well, but did too much credit business 
for their limited means.  From  the  expres­
sions of several creditors on  the  subject,  it 
is thought that no offer short of 50 per  cent, 
is likely to be accepted.

If there is one thing,  more  than  another, 
that commends Muskegon as an enterprising 
town, it is the amount of labor that is  being 
expended in improving the streets the  pres­
ent season.  Thoroughfares that  have  here­
tofore  been  almost  impassible  are  being 
graded and graveled, and several streets that 
were in fair condition are being still further 
improved, some by substantial cedar paving. 
Such expenditures indicate an abiding  faith 
in the future growth  and  prosperity  of  the 
place.

Receiver Tate, who  has  given  the  estate 
of E.  C. Brown & Co.,  the  Evenwood  shin­
gle and lumber manufacturers, the best man­
agement possible  under  the  circumstances, 
states that he will be able to save about $10,- 
000 to the creditors.  The liabilities amount­
ed to upwards of $30,000.  During his admin­
istration, he has manufactured  and sold 12,- 
000,000 shingles and has about 5,000,000 still 
on hand.  He has also  on  hand  about 150, 
000 feet of lumber. Taking all things into con­
sideration, Mr. Tate has performed  the  du­
ties devolving upon him in this  matter  with 
credit to himself and profit to  the  creditors.
“Do you  remember  the  Crawford  Bros.’ 
failure in Grand Rapids several  years  ago?” 
said a former resident  of  the  Valley  City, 
now and for some time past a citizen of  the 
Sawdust town.  “Well,  I  worked  for  that 
firm at the time, and could  make disclosures 
that would put more than  one  man  behind 
the bars.  The Crawford Bros, began arrang­
ing for the failure months before it occurred, 
and  thousands  of  dollars’ worth  of  goods 
which were included in the liabilities  never 
went into the store at all. 
I  remember one 
invoice of coffee—twenty bags, each  weigh­
ing about -100 pounds—that went  direct to  a 
spice mill in Grand Rapids and  was  ground

MUSKEGON, MICH.

up and sold in a lump.  But  don’t  mention 
my name in this connection.”

The Tradesm an adds a new feature this 
week in the shape of a directory of the  job­
bing and manufacturing interests  of Muske­
gon.  A representative showing is made this 
week, and other cards and new lines will be 
added from time to time.  The houses whose 
cards appear this week need no  wordy  rec­
ommendation.  Andrew Wierengo, the  gro­
cery jobber, is known to the trade as a relia­
ble dealer in every respect.  S. S.  Morris  & 
Bro. have relied upon merit  alone  to  bring 
them to the front rank.  Orcutt &  Co.  have 
but lately begun business, but are already in 
possession of a  fine patronage.  The  Wood 
Package and Basket  Co.  produces  superior 
goods and is the largest  package  factory  in 
the world.

“I notice Judge Montgomery is  pretty se­
vere  on  assignees  and  receivers,  and  fre­
quently cuts down their claims very  consid­
erably,” said  County  Clerk  Tate, in refer­
ring to some of  the  assignment  cases  that 
have lately  come  up for  settlement  in  the 
Kent County Circuit Court.  “Judge Russell, 
on the  contrary,  believes  in  being  liberal 
with those who manage the charges entrust­
ed to them with any  degree  of  carefulness 
and  profit. 
For instance,  W.  H.  Mason, 
who was appointed receiver in the Wm. Op- 
penheim matter at Whitehall,  and who real­
ized about $9,000 from the  estate—enabling 
it to pay about 50 per cent.—put in  a  claim 
of $500 as services and Judge Russell allow­
ed it without a murmur.  Several other cases 
similar to the above that have been  brought 
to my notice enable Judge  Russell  to  rank 
among those who believe in rewarding  hard 
labor and careful management.”

M isc e lla n e o u s  T rad e  N ew s.

The spindle factory lately burned  at  Bay 

Springs is being rebuilt.

The  general  store  of  H.  Blakeslee, of 

Eastport was recently burned.

Geo. Patch  succeeds  Patch  Bros,  in  the 

drug business at Salt  River.

C. L. Blakeslee succeeds Czar Jones in the 

blacksmith business at Saranac.

Jeffries & Decker, succeed Geo. Jeffries in 

the meat business at Charlevoix.

Chas. Ely, boot and shoe dealer at Charle­

voix, has closed out his  business.

The Hudson House, at Hudson, has chang­
ed hands, Chas. E. Deal  having  bought  out 
Wm. Burch.

C. H. Plummer, the East Saginaw lumber 
man, has purchased a lumber  yard  in Jack- 
son.

J. L. Hudson, of Detroit, has purchased of 
the  assignee  the  bankrupt  stock  of  Wm, 
Gorton & Co., at Flint, and the  large  stock 
already on hand will be supplemented  by  a 
further consignment from Detroit.

A Hudson hotel runner, who  had  a  disa­
greeable fashion of seizing  a  traveler’s  sat­
chel and running ahead to his hotel, has been 
taught a painful lesson by a commercial man 
Lately he seized and carried to his hotel two 
very heavy satchels, which he opened, as the 
owner did not come to claim them,  when he 
found  them  filled  with  cobble  stones  and 
learned that he had been the victim of a prac­
tical joke,

We carry a Large Stock, and Guarantee Prices 

as Low as Chicago and Detroit.

EDMUND  B,  DIKEMAN,

GREAT  WATCH  MAKER,

J E W E L E R ,

4 4   C A N A L   ST R E E T ,

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.

F O R

BOOK-KEEPING  MADE  EASY
R E T A I L   G R O C E R S .
By using our Combined Ledger and Day-Book, 
CUSTOMERS»  ACCOUNTS  are  kept  and 
ITEM IZED STA TEM EN TS rendered in half 
the time required by any other  process.

Send  for  descriptive  circular  to  H A L L   & 

CO., Publishers.  i $4 Lake St., Chicago, 111.

Wire  WorKs

Manufacturers of All Kinds of

W IR E   W O R K  !
City Bottling  Works

92  MONROE  STREET.

BOTTLED  LAGER, 
PINTS,  PFR  DOZ. 
50  CENTS.

b o ;t t l e d   a l e , 
PINTS, PER  DOZ. 
75 CENTS.

BOTTLED PORTER, 
PINTS,  PER DOZ. 
75 CENTS'

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

80 S. Division

All  Goods  Warranted] 

the BEST in the 

Market.

If you are selling goods to make

RETAILERS, M ASON’S
FRUIT JA R S
L A V IN E

Write or Telephone us for

a profit,  sen 

mi

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 soiicit a trial order.  Sec prices in 
Price-List.

HAWKINS & PERRY

STATE  AGENTS,

â LAB ASTINE!

Alabastine is the tirst 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.

—ALSO—

Jelly Cups,

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

—AT—

16 Monroe  Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS 

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MICH.

Manufacturers  of

Fine Perfumes,

Colognes, Hair  Oils, 
Flavoring Extracts,
Baking Powders, 

Bluings, Etc., Etc.

ALSO  PROPRIETORS  OF

“ Red Bark Bitters’

-AND-

78  W e st  B rid g e   Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICHIGAN.

--------FOR  SALE  BY--------

AXiZLi  Fain  Sealers.

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

THE ALABASTINE COMPANY

M. B.  CHURCH, Manager.

G R AN D   R APIDS , 

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M ICH IGAN.

SEEDS

—FOR  THE—

FIELD  AND  GARDEN,

-----AT-----

WHOLESALE  AND  RETAIL,

-A T  TH E-

S E i S D   S T O R E ,

9 1   C anal  St., G rand  R a p id s, M ich.

ff. T. LAMOREAOS, Aflnt
COLE  &  STONE,

Manufacturers  and Jobbers  of

Gents’  Fine  Shirts.

Samples and Prices  will  be  Sent  to  Close 

Buyers  in  our  Line.

Address,

Marshall 

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Mich.

G. S. YALE & BRO.
FLAVORING  EITRACTS  L

—Manufacturers  of-

BAKING  POWDERS, 

BLUIKTOS,  ETC.,

4 0   an d   43  S ou th   D iv isio n   St., 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICH.

W.  J.  P.
The  B est 

10c

C I G A R !

G R A N D   K A P ID S , 

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M IC H IG A N .

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICHIGAN.

TELEPHONE  NO.]

272 .

PO ST   NO .  1.

Organized at  Grand Rapids, June 28,1884. 

O F F IC E R S .

President—Wm. Logie.
Vice-President—Lloyd Max Mills.
Secretary and Treasurer—L. W.  Atkins. 
Committee on Constitution and By-Laws—Wal­
lace Pranklin,  Geo.  F.  Owen,  Geo.  H. Sey­
mour.
Next Meeting—At Sweet’s Hotel reading room 
Saturday, July 19, at 8 p. m.  .*

WHOLESALE

*  31  P E A R L   ST R E E T ,

Xi. S. H IL L  c*3 CO,
FXSSXXTG  TACKLE
MICH. 
GRAND  R A P ID S 
Du  PONT’S  Gunpowder.
ing, Blasting and Cannon Powder guaranteed.

The lowest market prices  for Sport­

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AGENTS FOR

EATON & CHRISTENSON

77  Canal Street,  -   Grand  Rapide,-

