The Michigan Tradesman.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN,  WEDNESDAY,  AUGUST  27, 1884.

NO. 49.

$   VOL.  1.

LO RILLA RD ’S  LUCRE.

Overflowing  Coffers  of 

th e   M illionaire 

Sportsm an.

Probably  no  name 

is  better  known 
throughout this  country and  Europe 
than 
that of Pierre Lorillard.  He has for so many 
years  been so closely 
identified  with  the 
manufacturing  interests of New York  City 
that in the business  world  his  name  has 
been a synonym for  activity  and  strength, 
and in the sporting world he has met  every­
body of  prominence  from  the  Prince  of 
Wales down to the  latest  jockey  with  his 
first mount

The old house of Peter and George  Loril­
lard, which was established in 1760 at Cham­
bers and Chatham streets,  is  presided  over 
at the present  time by Pierre, the  son  and 
nephew of the  original  founders.  On  the 
death of Pierre’s  father  who  survived  his 
brother George, the business was bequeathed 
to Peter’s  sons, Pierre,  George, Louis  and 
Jacob, but in  the settlement of  the  estate, 
Pierre absorbed the interest of his  brothers, 
and is now the sole representative of that en­
ormous business interest.

Mr. Lorillard was bom fifty-two years ago 
in the old  family  mansion  near  Bowling 
Green, but spent his early youth in the mag­
nificent  residence  erected by his  father at 
the north-west corner of  Tenth  street  and 
Broadway.  At the time this house was built 
it was regarded  as one of  the  handsomest 
private residences in the metropolis. 
It was 
here that the sons and daughters of old Peter 
grew up amid princely  hospitality, magnifi­
cent balls and dinners, and  it was  here that 
they met their life partners.  Pierre married 
a daughter of the  well  known  Dr.  Taylor, 
and notwithstanding the fact that she is now 
a grandmother, she retains distinct traces of 
her early marvelous beauty, and  when  she 
occupies the box seat on her husband’s four- 
in-hand on the Coaching Club’s  parade  she 
is as brilliant and dashing as  the  celebrated 
beauty, Miss Marion Langdon.

Shortly after Pierre’s marriage with  Miss 
Taylor he built a handsome mansion at Fifth 
avenue  and  Thirty-sixth  street,  and  the 
wealth displayed in its appointments and the 
marvelous culture and taste shown in its en­
semble remind one  of  the  fairy tales in the 
“Arabian Nights.”  On grand  occasions the 
drawing-room, dining  parlor, and  conserva­
tories, which  are  on  the  main  floor,  are 
thrown into one, making one of the grandest 
private ball rooms in the city.

“Mr. Lorillard’s first  interest in the sport­
ing world  was in yachting, and in this  con­
nection he became  prominent as  the owner 
of the Vesta, one of the three competitors in 
the famous ocean  yacht  race  from  Sandy 
Hook to Cowes, in  which  the stakes  'were
830,000,  apart  from  the  private  wagers, 
which aggregated in the  neighborhood  of  a 
million. 
It will be  remembered  that  the 
contest was won  by Mr. James Gordon Ben­
nett’s Henrietta.  Although the three yachts 
were not in sight of each other after one day 
out from the  Sandy Hook  Lightship  they 
reached Queenstown within  three  hours of 
each  other.  Mr. Osgood’s  Fleetwing  and 
Mr. Lorillard’s Vesta went racing into Cowes 
Harbor  under a full  spread of  canvas  for 
what proved to be  second  place  neither of 
them knowing that  the / Henrietta  had al­
ready arrived.

Later  on  Mr.  Lorillard’s  fondness  for 
sports  led him  to become  a  patron  of  the 
turf, and  the  victories  of  the  cherry  and 
black are well known on  both  sides  of  the 
Atlantic.  With  the  exception  of  Richard 
Ten Broeck, of Kentucky, Mr. Lorillard was 
the first to try  conclusions  with  American 
bred horses with those of the famous  racers 
of  England,  and  his  success  with  Parole 
spurred him  on.  When  he  won  the Blue 
Ribbon of the Derby with  Iroquois  he  was 
looked  upon  as  a  hero, 
and  when 
his colors were seen at the front in other im­
portant events, he was lionized at all the up­
town clubs. 
It has been  said  that he  was 
induced to withdraw his horses  from  Eng­
land upon the ground  of thej unfairness  of 
the  handicapping,  as  promulgated  in  a 
spirit  of jealousy  by  the  leading  sporting 
clubs of England.  On this  subject Mr. Lor­
illard  has always been  reticent, and  what­
ever the  truth  may  be,  he  has,  with  true 
sportsman etiquette, never  allowed a  com­
plaint to pass his lips.

Mr. Lorillard  owns  a fine  breeding farm 
at Rancocas, N. J., where  there  are  prob­
ably many future kings  of  the turf, and he 
also  possesses  some  of ¡the  most  valuable 
short-homed cattle in the world.  He  holds 
an annual sale to  dispose  of  his  yearlings, 
and was recently  quoted as saying  that he 
took greater pleasure in breeding racers than 
in racing them.  He is, however,  represent­
ed in all the important events and has had a 
fair measure of success  during  the  current 
year.

Owing to a disagreement with the  manag­
ers of the Saratoga track,  neither  Mr.  Lor­
illard nor his brother race their horses  over 
that course, their field  of  operations  being 
confined  to Monmouth  and  Jerome  Parks, 
the Sheepshead bay track, and that in Balti­
more.  Mr. Lorillard backs his turf opinions 
very freely,  and  has  been  known  to  win
8100,000 
in a day.  His house  in  Newport 
at Ochre Point is one  of the  more  recently 
constructed,  and  commands,  probably, the 
finest view of the ocean at that  fashionable 
resort. 

It is built in Queen Anne style, an
d

is capable of entertaining  thirty  guests  at a 
time.  For this palatial home  Mr. Lorillard 
paid 8500,000.  His  famous  steam  yacht, 
the Rhoda, is constantly at the  command  of 
his guests, and represents an  additional ex­
penditure to him  of  850,000  a  year.

Mr.  Lorillard  is a  prominent  club  man, 
being a member of the Union, Knickerbock­
er,  New  York  Yacht,  American  Jockey, 
Coaching, and several  others. 
In  politics 
he sympathizes  with  the  Republican party. 
At his different factories in New  York and 
New Jersey  he  gives  employment  to  up­
ward  of  four  thousand  hands.  They are 
treated  with  uniform  liberality,  and  at 
Christmastide they are substantially remem­
bered.

Mr. Lorillard’s  possessions  are estimated 
at  $15,000,000  to  820,000,000,  and  of  the 
millionaires in New York City he is  proba­
bly the most  lavish  in  his  annual expendi­
tures,  they  being  in  the  neighborhood  of
8500,000.

Short M ethod  of  C om puting  In terest.
Some fifteen years ago  the book-keeper of 
the second or third largest dry  goods  house 
in New York, says  the Northwestern  Oro- 
cer, astonished and offended thebook-keeper 
of another great house by saying to him that 
there were mistakes in a  bill which  he had 
just put  into his  hands,  and  that  he  had 
better take it back to his counting-room  and 
correct them than  to  compel  him to  point 
them out.  Accountant No.  1  had spent  but 
five minutes—pencil  in  hand—making  fig­
ures on the interest added  to some  charges 
in the bill, before he returned  the  bill with 
the remark above made.  Accountant No. 2, 
confident that his bills were  correct,  and if 
not, no one could, in so  brief  a period,  de­
tect an error, took up his bills and  returned 
to his office, and  reported  to  his  principal 
hów highly he had been insulted. 
“Why,” 
said he,  “I  spent  many  hours  over  those 
bills and feel confident that they are correct, 
and yet No. 1 glanced at them less  than five 
minutes and then advised me to  take  them 
back and make  corrections  which I  might 
discover without  his  pointing  them  out” 
His chief sympathized  with  his  book-keep­
er, and reported to the head of  house No. 1, 
who called  upon his  chief  book-keeper for 
an explanation, with  the  remark  emphasiz­
ed: 
“How was it possible  that you  could
in five minutes solve  interest  on  numerous 
bills running  on  so  many  odd  number  of 
days?”  Book-keeper No. 1 had  a  rare tal­
ent for numbers,  he was a prodigy in  arith­
metic, and  he had made  himself  perfectly 
familiar with our method  of  computing in­
terest; by always keeping  dollars under dol­
lars, cents under  cents,  mills  under  mills, 
every fraction in the solution was  apparent. 
At a glance he took  a twelfth of a  bill that 
liad run five days, and a  tenth of  one  that 
had run six days, and a  sixth  of  one  that 
had run ten days; and thus he  had detected 
blunders in the solution of his too-conceited 
fellow book-keeper.

The rule has been found  most  admirable 
for  averaging  interest  in  accounts  where 
there are numerous small  bills  which have 
run over their time  but  a few  days.  The 
accountant simply groups  those which have 
overrun the time  for  which  the  purchase 
was  made—2,  3,  4, 5, or  6  days—into  as 
many brief sums in  addition.  The respec­
tive aggregates are divided  by 30, 20, 15,12 
and 10, the aliquot parts of 60,  and  at once 
he has  the  true  and  accurate  solution  of 
each and all these little problems,  which by 
old methods would  be  the  labor of  half a 
day.

No. 1 requested his chief  to  procure  the 
bills and he would point  out  the  mistakes 
and demonstrate to his satisfaction  the pos­
sibility of not only detecting  errors  within 
a few minutes where they exist, but also the 
rules by which the time of computing  inter­
est may be reduced to a minimum.

The accounts were reproduced, he pointed 
out the mistakes which  he had  discovered, 
and  fully  explained  to his chief his  brief 
methods  of  computation.  The  result was 
that all parties were  convinced  that  book­
keeper No. 1 was not only  a  bookkeeper of 
remarkable powers  but a  first-class  gentle­
man.

But the best  of  the  whole story  is to be 
told:  When  bookkeeper  No.  1 got  home 
that evening,  some  one had  placed in  his 
parlor an elegant  piano,  with  the  compli­
ments of one of the most popular  dry goods 
merchants  of  the  City  of  New  York  ad­
dressed to his happy wife.

W orking  A round a Point.

About the 1st of July a Chicago fruit-buy­
er went over to St. Joseph, on the  Michigan 
shore, to view the peach-crop  prospects, and 
he found one  orchard-owner  who was feel- j 
ing so very blue that he said to him:

“Now, then, I’ll  give  you  a  check  for

81,000  for your fruit as it stands.”

“No, I couldn’t do it,” replied the grower, 
after some hesitation.  “It would seem to be 
doubting the  Lord.”

Two weeks after that, when the prospects 
were still poorer  he  appeared  in  Chicago 
and  said  he  guessed  he  would  take  the
81,000.

“But it will be doubting. the  Lord,”  ob­

served the buyer.

“Yes, it probably will; but I ’ve concluded 
to doubt him on peaches and make  up for it 
by hanging onto ’taters and cabbage.”

CANNED FOODS.

The Q uestion of Tin Poisoning Scientifical­

ly D eterm ined.

From the Science News.

The industry in canned foods and fruits is 
of  enormous magnitude,  and  is  increasing 
every year.  With the  vast  consumption  of 
these goods in  households, hotels, boarding­
houses, on  ships, steamboats, etc., it is  not 
strange that a large degree of anxiety should 
be manifested, on the part of  the  public, to 
know as regards safety in their use.

In the last volume  of  Science  News, we 
presented a somewhat extended article upon 
the subject in which we gave  the  results of 
some researches in respect to the toxic action 
of lead and tin, and  the  presence of  these 
metals in canned foods and  fruits.  Profes­
sor  Attffeld, F.  R. S., a  distinguished  .En­
glish chemist, has recently conducted  some 
experiments in the same  direction; and  his 
results  correspond,  in  general,  with those 
reached in our laboratory.  We do  not fully 
coincide with Professor  Attfield  regarding 
the  harmlessness of the metal  tin.  We as­
sume  that its toxic  action, under  peculiar 
conditions, is not well understood. Professor 
Attfield remarks as follows:

 

“During the last  fifteen years I have  fre­
quently examined  canned  foods, not  only 
with respect to the  food  itself as food, and 
to the process of canning, but  with  regard 
to the relation of  the  food to, or the  influ­
ence, if any, of the metal of, the can  itself. 
So lately as within  the  past  two or  three 
months, I have  examined  sixteen  varieties 
of canned  food for  metals  with a view to 
discovering the  decimal  parts of a grain of 
tin (or other  foreign  metal)  present  in a 
quarter of a pound, with  the  following  re­
sult:
Salmon.....................................................     .None.
Lobsters........................................ 
None.
O ysters............................................................0.004.
Sardines........................................................ None.
Lobster paste................................................ None.
Salmon  paste..............................................N one.
Bloater paste..................................................0.002.
Potted beef.............................................  
  None,
Potted tongue.............................................. None.
Potted “Strasbourg” ...................................None.
Potted  ham .....................................................0.002.
Luncheon tongue..........................................0.003.
A pricots..........................................................0.007.
P e a rs...............................................................0.003.
Tomatoes.......................................................... 0.007
Peaches............................................................0.004.
“These  proportions  of  metal, are, I say, 
I question 
undeserving of  serious  notice. 
whether 
than  the 
they  represent  more 
amounts of tin we periodically wear  off  tin 
saucepans in preparing food (a month ago, I 
found a trace of tin in water which had been 
boiled in a tin kettle),  or the silver we wear 
off our forks and  spoons.  There can  be lit­
tle doubt that we annually pass through  our 
systems a sensible  amount of  such  metals, 
metallic  compounds, and  other  substances 
that do not come under the  denomination of 
food; but there is no evidence that they ever 
did, or are ever  likely to, do harm, or occas­
ion us the slightest inconvenience.  Harm is 
far more likely to come to us from  noxious 
gases in the air we breathe  than  from  for­
eign substances in the food we eat.

“But whence come the much  less  minute 
amounts of tin (still  harmless, be it remem­
bered)  which have been stated  to  be  occas­
ionally present in canned foods?  They come 
from the minute  particles of metal  clipped 
off from the  tin sheets in the  operations of 
cutting, bending or  hammering  the parts of 
the can, or possibly melted off  in the  prep­
arations necessary for the soldering together 
of the joints of the can.  Some may pei'haps 
be cut off by the knife in opening a can.  At 
all events, I not unfrequently find such min­
ute particles of metal on  carefully washing 
the external surfaces of a mass of meat  just 
removed from a can, or on otherwise proper: 
ly treating  canned food, with the  object of 
detecting  such  particles.  The  published 
processes for the detection  of  tin in canned 
food will not reveal more than the  amounts 
stated in the table, or about those  amounts; 
that is to say, a few thousandths, or perhaps 
two or three hundredths, of  a  grain, if  this 
precaution be adopted. 
If such care  be not 
observed, the less  minute  amounts may be 
found. 
I did not detect any metallic  parti­
cles in the  twelve  samples of canned  food 
just mentioned; but  during  the  past  few 
years I have occasionally found small pieces 
of metal, perhaps amounting, in some of  the 
cases, to a few tenths of a grain per  pound. 
Now and then small shot-like  pieces  of tin 
or possibly scdder may be met with.  But no 
one h^a ever found, to  my  knowledge, such 
a quantity of actual metallic tin, tinned iron, 
or  solder, as, from  the  point of  view  of 
health, can have  any  significance  whatever.
“The largest amount of tin I ever detected 
in actual solution, in food, was  in some can­
ned soup  containing a good  deal of  lemon 
juice.  It amounted to only three-hundredths 
of a grain in  half a pint of  soup as  sent  to 
table.”

ous extent in the mining and  lumbering re­
gions of the country, and  in some  communi­
ties in defiance  of  law.  We see it  stated 
that  notwithstanding 
the  fact  that  it  is 
against the law, the coal and  iron  corpora­
tions operating in northwestern and western 
Pennsylvania  have  established  mammoth 
company establishments.  The  laborers em­
ployed in the iron mines  and  manufactories 
and  collieries  are  forced 
to  buy  at these 
stores. 
In the event of  their refusal  they 
are discharged and their  names  are  placed 
upon the black list, and they  are  unable to 
obtain work anywhere  in the  coal  and iron 
region.

Now here is a genuine  evil against  labor 
which should  be  suppressed, and  which a 
correct  public  sentiment  among  business 
men may help to alleviate.  The  net profits 
of one of these Pennsylvania company stores 
is said to have been 8180,000 in 1883. 
It is 
no wonder that mining companies  are loath 
to give them up.  Nor is it any wonder that 
the miners feel keenly the  injustice  of hav­
ing such profits  wrung  out of their  scanty 
wages.  An effort is now being made among 
miners  to  combine  against  the  pernicious 
system  of  company  store  interests.  The 
workingman  should  have  the  privilege  of 
buying the necessaries of life where  he can 
get  them  the  cheapest.  Company  stores 
can, if they will, sell as cheap  as or cheaper 
than  outside  parties.  But  they  have  no 
right to compel custom.

How  Gun  B arrels  are  Made.

Several  of 

The beautiful  waved  lines  and  curious 
flower-like figures that  appear  on the  sur­
faces of gun barrels are  really  the  lines of 
welding, showing that  two different * metals 
—iron and steel—are intimately  blended in 
making  the  finest  and  strongest  barrels. 
The process of thus  welding  and  blending 
steel  and  iron  is  a  very  interesting  one. 
Flat bars, or ribbons, of  steel  and  iron are 
together  and  then 
alternately  arranged 
twisted  into  a  cable. 
these 
cables are then welded together  and shaped 
into a long, flat bar, which  is  next  spirally 
coiled around  a  hollow  cylinder,  called a 
mandrel;  after  which the  edges  of  these 
spiral  bars are  heated  and  firmly  welded. 
The  spiral  coil  is  now  put  upon  what  is 
called a welding mandrel,  is again  heated, 
and carefully  hammered  into the  shape of 
a gun barrel.  Next comes the cold hammer­
ing, by which the pores  of  the  metal  are 
securely  closed.  The  last,  or  finishing, 
operation is to turn the barrel on  a  lathe to 
exactly its proper shape  and  size.  By  all 
the twistings, weldings and hammerings the 
metals  are so  blended  that  the  mass  has 
somewhat the consistency  and  toughness of 
woven steel and iron.  A barrel thus  made 
is very hard to burst  But the  finishing  of 
the inside of the barrel  is an  operation  re­
quiring very great care and skill.  What  is 
called a  cylinder-bored  barrel  is  made of 
uniform size  from  end to  end.  A  choke 
bore is one  that is  a  little  smaller  at  the 
muzzle  end  than it  is at the  breech  end. 
There are various  ways of  “choking”  gun 
barrels, but the object of  all  methods  is to 
make the gun throw its shot  close  together 
with even and regular distribution  and with 
great  force.  There  are  several  kinds  of 
metallic combinations  that  gunmakers use, 
the principal of which are called Damascus, 
Bernard and laminated  steel.  The  Damas­
cus  barrels  are  generally  considered  the 
best.

,  W hat  P luck  W iU  Do.

The London Times, of  a recent date, con­
tains  Some  interesting  facts  about  Henry 
Bessemer. 
It  was  a chance  remark  at  a 
gun trial in France which gave to  the great 
steel  king 
the  idea  of  improving  and 
strengthening gun metal.  He  incurred an 
immense outlay, he built furnace  after fur­
nace,  he tried  machine  after  machine, he 
took out patent after patent, and  he saw the 
money he had amassed  by  previous  inven­
tions fast melting away.  After  sundry par­
tial  successes, he  fell  into  disrepute  and 
was sneered  at by  the  iron  manufacturers 
as  an  unpractical  enthusiast,  while 
the 
Woolwich  authorities  had  been  snubbing 
him, as a matter of  course.  A few months 
later  Bessemer  had  produced  steel  worth 
from 8250 to 8300  per  ton  from  iron  that 
cost him only 835 per ton.  “He  could then 
see in his mind’s eye, at a glance,  the  great 
iron industry of the world  crumbling  away 
under the  irresistable  force  of the  facts so 
recently  elicited.”  Fourteen  years  after­
wards these experimental  works  were  sold 
for exactly twenty-four times the whole sub­
scribed capital of the  firm,  after  returning 
fifty-seven  fold,  and  the  manufacture  he 
originated is now estimated  to be  worth no 
less than 8100,000,000  yearly 1

The  E vil  of Com pany  Stores.

From the American Artisan.

One of the evils which  oppress the  labor­
ing  classes,  more  especially  where  large 
numbers of workmen  are  employed  at one 
place by single firms or corporations, is that 
of company stores.  The corporations which 
employ the laborers also run  general stores 
to furnish supplies for  the tamilies  of  the 
workmen.  This could  be made a  blessing 
instead of a curse to working  people, but is 
not likely to become  so while  greed  has so 
strong  a hold  upon  humanity.  Tne  com­
pany store business has  grown to an enorm­

Changes th a t are T aking  Place.

A gentleman gave a beggar ten  cents  for 
the expressed  purpose of buying a drink  of 
whisky.  A little  later he saw  the  beggar 
emerging  from a bake shop  with a loaf  of 
bread under his arm.

“You told  me you  wanted the money for 

whisky,” said the gentleman?

“I know I did,” the beggar replied.  “If I 
had  told  you I wanted  it  for  bread  you 
wouldn’t have given it to me.  The sympathy 
dodge is played out  and ’frankness’ has tak­
en its place. People admire frankness. Could 
you give me ten cents more?”

ILLEGITIM ATE.

Cheap.”

The  Pernicious  Practice  of  “ Selling  Too 
There are men among us in  nearly  every 
community who are  possessed  with the de­
lusion that they are divinely elected to trans­
act the larger part of the  business  done  in 
their immediate locality, and being possessed 
of  an  exceedingly  egotistical  mind,  and 
somewhat over self-confident,  this  delusion 
bears them on still farther  until  they have 
reached  the  point  where  they  absolutely 
claim the whole trade,  part  and  parcel,  to 
the utter exclusion of every other dealer.

Such men  hesitate  at  nothing,  however 
mean and contempitble,  to  accomplish this 
end.  They begin operations first by scatter­
ing abroad a flaming  advertisement, declar­
ing that in opening business they have done 
so purely in the  interest  of  the  consumer, 
and that they  do  not  expect  to  derive any 
pecuniary benefit  themselves.  They do this 
simply for the  purpose of  breaking  up  all 
combinations  heretofore  existing  in  their 
particular line of  trade,  and  therefore  de­
sire to be known as the poor  man’s  friend. 
If engaged in the grocery  trade,  they  will 
offer baking powder,  canned goods  and tal­
low candles at a  discount,  and  to top  off, 
will offer as a leader  and  magnet  to  draw 
patrons—granulated  sugar  at  a  price  less 
than  it can be  bought  in  25  pound  lots— 
with cash discount  in  the  bargain.  Such 
methods are not  only  contemptible  but il­
legitimate,  and entirely  foreign  to  sound 
business  principles.  Besides,  the  dealer 
conducting his business in  such  a  manner, 
has nothing to gain in the end,  but  much to 
lose.

The people who are duped  by such adver­
tisements are growing wonderfully less, and 
are not deceived as they  once  were.  They 
understand  the  “dodge.”  They  do not be­
lieve that any man or  number  of  men are 
enough interested  in  their welfare, to  em­
bark in an enterprise and give what is virtu­
ally—according to  their  advertisements—a 
gold dollar for 95 cents, although in the case 
of granulated sugar, they are actually giving 
a gold dollar for less than it is worth.  But 
the majority of  the  people  who  patronize 
grocery stores,  well know  that when  a sac­
rifice  is made  in one  article,  some  other 
article  which  the  customer  is not so  well 
able to judge  of the quality and  worth,  is 
depended upon to compensate  for  loss  on 
the sacrificed article, so that  the  purchaser 
gets no more goods for  his  money  than he 
would if he bought at a legitimate store.

People have lost confidence in  such deal 
ers, and look upon them with  distrust, and 
their  competitors  look  upon them  as  cut­
throats, and refuse to have  apy  intercourse 
with them.  From such dealers may  be ex­
pected all sorts  of  impositions  of  fraudu­
lent  and  adulterated  goods  for  genuine. 
They  will  bear the  closest  watching, and 
even then one is not  safe  against their  im 
positions, if he engage in any dealings what­
ever with them.

This underhanded way of  doing business 
should not  be  encouraged.  A  demagogue 
should not receive support from  respectable 
people,  whether  mercantile  or  political. 
Honest competition is always  to be  desired 
and much  good  results  from  such.  With 
honest competition  goods are sold at  a fair 
living profit, and prices are usually uniform. 
A dealer  may  purchase a  job lot of  some 
kind of goods and own them at a less  figure 
than his competitor, and he  may  desire  to 
give the benefit of  his purchase  to  the cus­
tomer, which is purely within  the  scope of 
a  legitimate  business  transaction. 
This 
chance  frequently  occurs  in  the  grocery 
trade, and is as likely to fall to the  fortune 
of one dealer as another.

A “cheap” dealer is as undesirable  to sell 
to as to buy  from.  t  His  method  of  doing 
business is not  calculated  to  inspire  with 
confidence the  jobber who  sells him  goods 
on credit.  He  may  meet  his  obligations 
prompty enough to begin  with, but  sooner 
or later he must ask for an extension  of his 
bills.  Then the jobber begins to investigate 
the  method  that  the  peculiar  dealer  has 
adopted in conducting his business,  and dis­
covers at once that it  is  all  wrong. 
Such 
men do more to degrade legitimate  business 
than all the other evils put  together.  But 
they  are  becoming  beautifully  less  every 
day, and it is not saying too  much to  assert 
that the time is not far  distant  when  busi­
ness will be on a  sounder  basis,  with less 
splurge and thunder.

HATS  OF  PRO M INENT  MEN.

Some  of the  C haracteristics  of Politicians 

and  Statesm en.

Washington  Correspondence  Cincinnati  Star.
Have you observed that as soon as  a man 
springs into public  notice he at  once  seeks 
some distinctive article of head gear. 
It is 
a little difficult to tell why this  is, but it is, 
nevertheless, a fact.  Men  love to  be  dis­
tinguished above their fellows,  and  if  you 
will  point  out  a public  personage  whose 
head gear does not  advertise  his  position, 
then you will have to go  outside  of  Wash­
ington  for  subjects.  President  Arthur 
usually wears a tall silk hat.  It  looks  like 
a President’s hat.  Whoever  made  it,  it is 
the only one of its kind in Washington.  In 
the first place,  it is  a.very  tall  hat,  with 
just the shadow of a curve  near the  crown. 
The brim is broad and  nearly  straight, an^i

hangs out over his eyes. 
It is a hat 'among 
hats, and  one  would  ask  the  name of  its 
owner among a thousand.

Attorney General  Brewster’s  white  silk 
hats are almost  historical.  He  has  them 
made in Philadelphia,  and it  is understood 
consumes several each season. 
It is a mat­
ter of some curiosity why he should  want a 
new hat of this species.  Certainly  it must 
be a great puzzle for  him  to  pick  out  his 
latest purchase from among the large  stock 
he must have on hand.  His hats  are  made 
to be brushed either or both ways, and  they 
usually are.  They are built  very high with 
a bulging crown and a  rolling  brim,  some­
thing after the style of  the  headgear  worn 
in  the  pictures  of  the allegorical  “Uncle 
Sam.”  Mr.  Blaine  sometimes  wears  a 
stylish silk hat, but his favorite  is  a  black 
slouch, which he draws down over his  eyes 
until it nearly touches his nose.

General Butler and Senator Edmunds and 
Senator Hoar also  run  to slouches,  all  ap- 
parently  made  on  pretty  nearly the  same 
model.  General  Logan  wears  a  cavalry 
slouch hat  about  half the  time and  a  re­
spectable silk  hat the remainder. 
Senator 
Ingalls’ hat is  tall and  angular, like  him­
self. 
It is a keen and  incisive  looking hat 
and sits on his head in a prim  sort of  fash­
ion, as much as to say  to  all  brother  hats: 
“Just  have yourself  made  over  into  this 
style.”

Secretary Chandler usually wears a derby. 
He perches it  low  down  on his  forehead, 
where it looks thorougly  business-like,  like 
its owner.  Secretary  Frelinghuysen  wears 
a tall, thin silk hat. 
Secretary  Folger, on 
the contrary,  wears  a  rather  low-crowned., 
hat, which materially  adds to  his  judicial-;, 
appearance.  Secretary  Lincoln’s  silk  hat 
is usually stylish and  dressy,  while  Secre­
tary Teller’s makes him look  like an  Epis­
copal bishop.  Postmaster General Gresham 
has developed a  genuine  fondness  for  his 
old black  slouch hat, which he throws down 
anywhere.

Commissioner Loring wears the  most dig­
nified looking hat in  Washington.  No one 
would ever think of such a thing as rubbing 
that hat the  wrong  way, and  as  for crush­
ing  it,  the  idea  would  be  preposterous. 
General  Rosecrans  affects 
the  military 
slouch hat, while General Sheridan  wears a 
light derby of a fashionable  make.  Before 
he was elected Speaker, Mr. Carlisle always 
wore a slouch hat; now he wears a  tall silk 
one with  a  narrow brim,  which  looks  as 
though it was three sizes too small.  Senator 
Malione wears a light  brown slouch  hat on 
the left side of his head, which gives  him a 
dashing appearance.  Judge  Lawrence, 
eccentric First Comptroller of the  Treasury 
Department, wears a flat crowned  hat  with 
a wide brim.  This is savagely pushed down 
on his head, just as though he had  just giv­
en an adverse decision of  16,000 words. 
It 
almost covers his ears, but it  don’t—that is, 
one can see his ears.  These are a very few 
of the immense  numbers  of  distinguished- 
looking hats which may  be  seen in  Wash­
ington.

The subject of hats  suggests  an  incident 
which happened at the White House  during 
Grant’s first term.  General Butler came in 
to see the President one day  and  deposited 
his new silk hat in a large and  comfortable 
arm-chair.  As he stood talking, in  walked 
Horace [“Greeley.  Greeley stumbled  across 
the room and sat down fair and square upon 
Butler’s hat.  Of course there  was a  crash, 
and as the great editor jumped  up  General 
Butler took the remains  of  what  was  his 
handsome headgear in his hands,  and  said: 
“Greeley, I knew that hat wouldn’t fit  you.”

sugar, 

Pen  P o rtra it  of the  Average  T raveler.
Referring to the recent  reunion  and pic­
nic of  the  traveling  men  of  Peoria,  the 
Lecon, 111., Democrat  remarks:
□The “drummer,” so-called, ought once in a 
while to have a  time. 
Just  imagine  how 
the poor, virtuous souls have  to go  out into 
the  cold  world  begging  of  the  merchant 
princes of the outer towns  the  poor  privi­
lege of stocking them  with  soap,  candles, 
silks, mackerel, threshing machines, whisky, 
tape,  wagons, 
iqowing  machines, 
beer,  etc.  When they leave home they shed 
tears of deep concern for poor  little  wifey, 
and are so sorry  they  have to  leave. 
For 
five minutes after  leaving  home  they  will 
not look upon another man’s  wife or daugh­
ter.  And there they go, from town to town, 
in heat and in cold, rain or  shine,  working 
like beavers to do  the  people  good,  profit 
their employers, and layup an honest penny 
for wife and babies.  When they go to their 
meals they eat very rapidly  for  fear  some 
other fellow will get a bill of  one  of  their 
customers, and when the day’s work is done 
they offer a prayer for wife and  babes  and 
go straight to bed.  They always sleep alone. 
They never allow a female to  address them, 
and a resolution was  passed  as  they  went 
down stream  that  if  women  continued to 
flirt with them they would  all  wear heavy 
veils when on the streets and railroad trains. 
Poor fellows!  This was the  first  and only 
day that any one of  them has  had to  him­
It will long be'  remembered.
self in years. 
The manufacture of barbed wire is  grow­
ing into a great interest in the United States. 
Beginning with a product of  10,000  pounds 
in 1874,  it  reached  the enormous  total  of
200,000,000 pounds in 1883.

A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE

Mercantile and Manufacturing Interests of the State.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

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

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST  27,1884.

POST  A.

Organized, at  Grand Rapids, June 28,1884. 

OFFICERS.

President—Wm. Logie.
Vice-President—Lloyd Max Mills.
Secretary and Treasurer—L. W.  Atkins. 
Official  Organ—The  Michigan  Tradesman. 
Committee on Constitution and By-Laws—Wal­
lace Franklin,  Geo.  F.  Owen,  Geo.  H. Sey-
Next Meeting—At Sweet’s Hotel reading room 

Saturday, August 30, at 8 p. in.

p r   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.

No more betting on Maud S.  Never again 
will her swift feet twinkle over  the  turf to 
the tube of the tinkling dollars.

for  their  crop.  The  average  well-to-do 
farmer in the old States will do wisely to re­
main where he is.

The timely article on the subject of “com­
pany stores,” which appears in another part 
of this week’s paper, will probably be given 
less consideration than the subject deserves. 
While the  article  in  question  refers  more 
particularly to a condition of affairs existing 
in the iron regions of Pennsylvania, yet  the 
statements made will apply with equal force 
and justice to many of the lumbering regions 
of this State.  Company stores, when  right­
ly conducted, are a convenience to employes 
as well as a source  of  profit  to  employers. 
But when it is made compulsory for the men 
to trade at the  establishment,  the  business 
ceases to be legitimate and becomes a monop­
oly. To this pernicious system is  to be traced 
much of the dissatisfaction existing in certain 
lumbering localities, and it is  not  necessary 
to go back many months to recall an  exten­
sive  and expensive strike of laborers, which 
was brought  on by  the imposition  of store 
orders and compulsory  trading  at  company 
stores.  And the Oscoda  trouble,  involving 
the presence of the military, is but a precur­
sor of what may be  expected  with  greater 
or less frequency, unless the cause  of  com 
plaint is speedily removed.

AMONG T H E  TRADE.

IN  THE  CITY.

Jas. Wingarden has  engaged  in the  gro­
cery business at Grand Haven.  Cody,  Ball 
& Co. furnished the  stock.

Groskopf Bros., manufacturers  of trunks 
and  valises,  have  opened  a  branch  sales- 
roo m at 16 North Ionia street.

H. VanderVeen has started in the grocery 
business at the corner of  Logan and Charles 
streets.  Cody, Ball  &  Co.  furnished  the 
stock.

Frank Maybee has purchased the  interest 
of all the stock-holders in the  Grand Rapids 
Broom Co., and will  hereafter  conduct the 
business under his own name.

The  Nashville  News  says:  H. M. Lee 
was in Grand Rapids  this  week and closed 
a contract with a  firm there for  the  manu­
facture of his patent wheel  hoe.

Emery J. Bean, formerly  engaged in  the 
drug  business at Custer, has  started in the 
same  business at Summit  City.  Hazeltine, 
Perkins & Co furnished the stock.

Andries Dekker,  of  the  former  firm  of 
Stryker & Dekker, has  engaged  in the gro­
cery business on his own  account on  Grand- 
ville avenue.  Clark, Jewell & Co.  furnish­
ed the stock.

W. L. Smedley, brother  of  the 

Smedley
Bros., general dealers at Bauer, has engaged 
in the  grocery and  notion  business at 168 
Fourth street.  Cody,  B all* Co.  furnished 
the grocery  stock.

S. H. Sweet, formerly engaged  in the gro­
cery business at 258  South  Division  street, 
has rented a store  building  now  in  process 
of construction at Reed City, and will put in 
a  stock of furniture and fancy  goods

There have been no new developments  in 
the Carr case during  the  past  week.  The 
assignee is pushing the  collection of the  ac­
counts with all possible  dispatch, and  con­
templates the sale of the  land  belonging to 
the estate in the near future.

The  D.  R.  Stocum  assignment  matter 
came up for  final  settlement  in  the  Kent 
Circuit Court Monday,  and  was  adjourned 
until Sept. 15,  at  which  time  a  final  divi­
dend will be declared  and  the  assignee re­
lieved from further obligation.

Frank Berles, Jr.,  house salesman  for  S 
A. Welling, and Adolph Wurzburg,  with F, 
W. Wurzburg,  has  purchased  the  grocery 
business of the  late  Franz  Berles,  at  the 
comer of West Bridge and  Turner  streets, 
and  will continue  the  business  under  the 
former firm name.

A considerable  number of  druggists and 
drug  clerks  are taking  advantage  of  the 
present low price of quinine to lay  in  from 
one to several hundred  ounces, for specula­
tive purposes.  The present very  low  price 
is proving very attractive to those of a specu­
lative turn of mind.

Arthur Meigs & Co. recently attached  the 
grocery stock of Henry Principaal, at Muske­
gon, but it was  subsequently replevined  at 
the instance of  Lyman  Newton, of  Muske­
gon, who  holds a  mortgage  lease  on  the 
stock.  Principaal engaged in business  only 
about a month  ago, with a  capital  of  only 
$100, which, it is now claimed was borrowed 
money.

The New York News states the case pret­
ty strongly when it says:  “Our  bankrupts, 
as a class, seem to be a race of  thieves  and 
counterfeiters whose  proper portion  is  the 
penitentiary.”

The man who sells goods at cost to attract 
custom, or to draw away the patrons of rival 
establishments, and in so  doing  jeopardizes 
the property of  his  creditors, 
is  dishonest 
and disreputable.

The Ooopersville  Observer  utters a  pro­
phetic warning relative to  the  necessity for 
better fire protection—a  warning  that  the 
business men of the  place  would do well to 
heed and act upon.

For  genuine  honesty  and  business-like 
sagacity,  T h e   T ra desm a n  gladly  com­
mends the recent  action of the  Northwest­
ern Manufacturing Co., as related last week, 
In these  times of  blanket  mortgages  and 
preferred  creditors, it is encouraging to note 
that  there  are  some in business  who  are 
possessed of a high ideal of commercial hon­
or.

Chief Drummond,  of  the  United  States 
Secret  Service,  sends  out  the  following 
warning:  “Please send out a general  alarm 
to all storekeepers  and  business  people to 
look out for a new counterfeit $10  national 
bank note  on the  Third  National  Bank of 
Cincinnati  The note  has  a  brown  back, 
series of 1882, and large  brown  seal,  letter 
C.  The note is dangerous.”

The Chicago Produce Exchange has taken 
a step which, it is  believed,  will  do  much 
toward the development of the dairy interest 
of the northwest, which has already reached 
the enormous amount of $150,000,000  annu­
ally.  Beginning  Sept.  10, Wednesday  of 
each week will be set apart  for  the  sale of 
butter, cheese, and eggs at  the  Produce Ex­
change, and will be  known  as  Dairy  Day. 
On those days manufacturers of  butter  and 
cheese are invited to  attend  with  samples, 
and ample facilities will be furnished for ex­
hibiting them and for meeting with members 
of the Exchange and  the trade.

There never was  a time when the  neces­
sity for organization among the  grocery job­
bers—an the jobbing houses at  this market, 
in fact—was more apparent than at the pres­
ent  time.  Such an  organization  would en­
sure fair profits, prevent unmerciful and un­
scrupulous “cutting,” and enable the jobbers 
to act in concert on all  points  affecting  the 
growth and prosperity of the business.  The 
exchange of views which would  be  afforded 
by  occasional  meetings  would  alone  com­
pensate for the expense involved in the  un­
dertaking.  Who will be  the first  to  move 
in the matter?

Kellogg, Sawyer & Co. and Patrick & Co., 
the Leroy lumbermen  and  mercantile  firm 
respectively, come in for a good share of the 
criticism accorded the owners  of  “company 
stores.”  Readers of T h e  T radesm an will 
remember that rèference was  made  to  this 
subject nearly a year ago, in connection with 
a recital of the shameful treatment accorded 
the men employed by Kellogg, Sawyer & Co. 
and the unusual profits piled up by the mer­
cantile firm—while the  other  concern  went 
into liquidation—is conclusive evidence that 
undue  advantage  was  exercised  over  the 
men, and that  they  were  the  victims  of 
species of bull-dozing as cruel and reprehen 
sible as any existing in  the  mining  regions 
of Pennsylvania.

It is not  probable  that  there  will  be 

great rush to Dakota this fall, or next spring, 
for the particular reason  that  the  promises 
of vast wealth in wheat growing  made sev­
eral years  ago are  not  being  realized. 
In 
1881 Dakota wheat sold at the farms as high 
as $1.28 a bushel, and with this  as a basis it 
was declared that a Dakota wheat  field was 
a mine of wealth.  Thousands were induced 
to invest  their  money,  not  one  of  whom 
thought  it  probably  that  A  No.  1  wheat 
would ever fall below $1 a bushel.  But the 
price has gradually declined, until this  year 
the best sells for but 65 cents, and as buyers 
In the Northwest make a practice  of grading 
down  wheat, the  majority of  the  farmers 
will not realize much over 50  cents a bushel

AROUND  THE  STATE.

Going into  Business.

Fox & Miller  have  engaged  in  the  boot 

ing a jewelry store.”

H. P. Dunning has  begun  work on a new 

store building at Allegan.

Gringhaus Bros., general  dealers  at  La 

mont, will add a line of drugs.

M. Lane & Son have  opened  a  hardware 

and tinshop  at Bloomingdale.

T. A. Price succeeds  G.  S.  Owen  in  the 

grocery business at Mancelona.

and shoe business at Charlevoix.

I. B. Watkins, the  general dealer at  Mon­

terey, is building a fine residence.

Robert Knowles, grocer at  Oleon,  has re­

moved to Yates, Manistee county.

G. H. Allured, hardware dealer  at Ionia 

is  succeeded by G. H. Allured & Son.

M. Davis  has  engaged  in the  wholesale 

fruit and produce business at Reed City.

J. R. Hughes has opened  a  novelty  store 
in the old McClellan building at  Reed City
Horton & Bills,  confectionery  and  fruit

“What are you doing there?”  demanded a 
policeman  of a suspicious-looking  charactei 
who was prowling  about at a late hour  the 
other night.

“I am quietly  attending to my own  busi­

ness.”

“And what is your business?”
“Jewelry business.  1 think some of open­

The time  required for  the  formation of 
mineral veins appears to be much  less  than 
has been generally supposed.  A ditch which 
was filled up two years  ago  with  common 
clay containing iron has  just  been  opened 
again by  Dr. Fleitman, who  has  found, to 
his great suprise, that the  clay has  become 
white, and is permeated by cracks filled with 
compact iron pyrites, these veins being from 
a twenty-fifth to a sixth of an inch in  thick­
ness.

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.

Will invoice about $1,000.  Rent low. 
J  J, Hastings, Mich.

farm, a stock of dry goods  and  groceries.
Address 
50*

FOR  SALE  OR  EXCHANGE—For  a  small 
WANTED—Situation by competent clothing 

salesman.  Can furnish the very best of 
recommends  as  regards  ability and  honesty. 
Address  for one week  S.  S.  Braman,  Morley, 
Mich. 
49
\ \ T  ANTED—Men in each  town  in the  State 
V T 
to sell nests of  pails, at which big wages 
can be  made.  I  will  furnish,  one  each,  14 
quart, 10 quart and 5 quart flaring pails.  Also 
one each,  2 quart  and 1  quart  covered  pails 
and a 2 quart dipper, for 65 cents.  These goods 
are flrst-class.  All my pails have double seam­
ed bottoms.  No  charge  for  packing.  I  am 
headquarters  for  anything  in  the  tinware, 
glassware or crockery line, also 5  and  10 cent 
counter goods.  Country merchants  and  ped­
dlers should  cail or  write  for  prices.  E. L. 
Wright, 14 and 16 North Division  street, Grand 
Rapids, Mich. 
50

FOR SALE—I  have a fine new store building 

dwelling house and 40 business  and dwel­
ling lots in Elmira for sale on easy  terms.  D. 
C. Underwood.
TTTANTED—A  good  merchant tailor.  Must 
VV  be a good cutter and be  able to do  good
Address E. B. Slocum  &  Co., Hesperia,
work.
48tf
Mich.
W ANTED,  to  sell,  or  exchange  for  Dry 
Goods, Notions, Mens’ Furnishing goods 
or clothing, one  7 year old  sound  black  geld­
ing.  Good driver  and  elegant ^saddle  horse. 
Perfectly  safe  for a  lady  to  ride  or  drive. 
Very  kind  every  way.  Also  top  trinkin 
spring buggy,  elegant  harness  and  common 
harness, wagon, Bobs and Cutter; also a  com­
plete outfit for starting grocery business such 
as show cases, oil tanks, counter and platform 
scales,  scoops,  coffee  mill,  caddys,  cheese 
safes, patent syrup  gates etc.,  too  numerous 
to  mention.  Any  part  or ail  of  the  above 
cheap for cash or reasonable equity  in  trade. 
Will  entertain  any  other  proposals  of  ex­
change.  A A A  care of  “The Tradesman.”

IT’OR EXCHANGE—I have 80 acres  of choice 

. 
hard wood land lying within  three  and a 
half miles of Tustin, six acres cleared and 150,- 
000 of cork  pine  standing  on  same,  which  I 
will exchange for city lots in Grand  Rapids or 
sell on reasonable terms.  D.  C. Underwood.

experience.  Can  speak  French. 
GGG, care “The Tradesman.”

tion clerk by a young man of five years’
Address

WANTED—Position  as  drug  and  prescrip­
F ‘OR  SALE—A general stock  of  goods  at  a 

good location on the  Toledo,  Ann  Arbor 
& Northern  Michigan  Railway.  Depot  to  be 
built immediately.  Address S. M. Scott, North 
Star, Gratiot County, Mich. 

49

P L E A S A N T  T O  T A K E , A C T S  M I L D L Y , CURES Q U I C K L Y
DUNHAM'S  SURE  CERE  FOR  FEVER  &  AGUE.
One  Dose  taken during the  Chid, 
arrests  the  disease in 20 minutes.
SEVER  KNOWN  TO  PAIL.  Money re­
turned  if it does not cure.  Price, 
50c.  Ask druggist for it.  Sent pre­
paid for 60 cts.  Address, W estern 
Medicine Co. .Grand Rapids, Mich.

WESTERN  MEDICINE  CO.’S  TONIC  LIVER  PILLS.
Purely  Vegetable; contain  no  calomel,  mineral 
poison or quinine.  Act directly on the Liver, “tone 
Wup” the  system,  aid digestion  and 
' purify the blood.  POSITIVELY CUBE 
HEADACHE AND CONSTIPATION.. In­
valuable  for  Biliousness,  Indiges­
tion, Hypochondria, etc.  Sent free 
on receipt of price, 25  cts.  Sample 
package free.  W estern  Medicine 
Com pany., Grand Rapids, Mich.

MASON'S 
FRUIT JARS

W hy  H eating Stoves are Surm ounted W ith 

O rnam ents.
From the American Artisan.

The  query  is  suggested  why  is  it  that 
stove manufacturers universally feel obliged 
to surmount heating stoves with an “urn” or 
something in its stead? * We suppose the an­
swer would  be that it  has  become  custom­
ary and that a stove looks better  with some 
such ornament than without it.  But  is this 
a fact?  Of course  this is  a  question which 
cannot be answered by an arbitrary  affirma­
tion or negation, but is a matter of  individ­
ual taste and opinion.  As such we  are free 
to say that in our opinion many of the artis­
tic square stoves which have  been  brought 
out can be made to  look better  without any 
such topping off device.  Artistic  taste does 
not demand it, and it  is  therefore  open  to 
the criticism of appearing to be  “stuck  on” 
serving no useful purpose.  Talking  with a 
stove man about this matter lately,  he made 
the remark that if the people desired monkeys 
with wings on put on to stoves  they  ought 
to have them.  But is this the proper way to 
discuss a matter of this kind?  The  way we 
look at it is that stove manufacturers  ought 
to be educators.  Not  that  stove  foundries 
should come into  competition  with  school- 
houses, but every trade ought not  simply to 
minister to existing wants, but  also  to edu­
cate the people to better things.  Stove man­
ufacturers, we are happy to say,  have  done 
good work in this direction, as the goods of­
fered the present season bear witness.  This 
is an evidence that in minor  matters,  such 
as we have spoken of above, it is not  neces­
sary to be ruled by ideas which have a right 
now to be known as  reminiscences.  Natur­
al laws compel an  adherence to  certain ele­
mentary principles in working constructions, 
But in  the  outward  adornment  of  stoves 
manufacturers are not compelled  to  remain 
in ruts.

The  D ishonored D raft,

From the Chicago Grocer.

A sheepish looking  piece of  paper lay on 
the desk  of  the  credit  man.  “You  back 
here?”  asked that  gentleman, with a stem 
voice, as he entered his office.

“Yes sir, I came back!”
“How long you been gone?”
“Five days.”
“You look squelched.”
“Yes, sir, I was damned forty-three  times 

in ten minutes.”

“Any thing else?”
“Well, they threw  the  hammer  through 

my collector.”

matter?”

“You did have a hard time;  what was the 

“Nothing there to meet  me.”
“Nothing?”
“Nothing.”
“Shame  on  you!  You’re  a  dishonored 

draft.”

T aking Tim e by the Forelock.

“I wish to look at some mourning goods,” 
said  a  lady, as  she  entered  a  dry  goods 
store.

“Yes, madam,” replied  the  clerk;  “this 

way, please.”

After looking through the entire stock she 
remarked that she would  come  again in the 
course of a day or two.

“May I ask,” said the clerk, in a sympathet­
ic tone of  voice, “if the  death  occurred  in 
your immediate family?”

“There has been no death  yet,”  she  re­
plied, sadly, “but  my husband is very low.”

Concluded Not to Buy.

“Any reduction in price  of clothing?” 

“Yery  large  reduction,”  answered 

he

the

asked.

dealer.

“I would like to buy a pair  of  pantaloons 

if I can get them  cheap enough.”

“Well, sir, prices  have  all gone to pieces, 
particularly on pantaloons.  The bottom has 
fairlj  dropped out.”

“In that case,” said the  customer, turning 
to go, “I guess I will  stick to  my old  ones 
for a while yet.”

O btains M ilk from  a  C ream atory.
I don’t think  your  milk is as  good as it 

used to be,” said a lady to a dairyman.

“You mean  the  last  lot, ma’am?  I was 
disappointed in it myself,” replied the milk­
man.

‘That’s unfortunate, for I want it as pure 

as I can get it for my children.”

“Well, ma’am, you  need have no  further 
I’ve changed  my creamery, and now 

fears. 
get it from a new cream-a-tory.”

The Boston Bulletin says that  a party of 
cotton-mill men at Fall  River,  Mass.,  con­
template removing their mill to Hot Springs, 
Ark.  They have machinery which costover 
$100,000,  embracing  4,500  spindles,  110 
looms, an engine of  180 horse  power,  and 
other property which they will plant  in the 
valley.  Their proposition  is  to  stock  the 
concern, taking $20,000 themselves, and ask 
that the citizens subscribe  $30,000,  putting 
in the whole at $50,000.

Large stock on hand at bottom  prices  for 
immediate shipment.  Also  EXTRA  RUB­
BERS for MASON  Jars.  We  quote  porce­
lain lined Mason jars as follows:

Pints, $13 per gross.
Quarts, $14 per gross.
1-2 Gallons, $17 per  gross.

To meet the demand for cheap storage for 

fruit, we offer:
Quart Barrell Jars, per  gross.....................   9  50
y2 Gal. Barrell Jars, qer gross..................... 12 50
These are glass cans with glass covers to seal 
with wax.  Also
Per Dozen.
yt Gal Stone Preserve Jars and Covers.......  85
1 Gal Stone Preserve Jars and Covers.......1 40
y2 Gal Stone Tomato Jugs and Corks..........  85
1 Gal Stone Tomato Jugs and  Corks..........1 40
Sealing Wax, $  Jt>............................................   4c

H. Leonard & Sons,

GRAND  RAPIDS 

16 Monroe  Street,
-  

MICH.

The daily product of paper at  Holyoke is 
closely estimated  at the  enormous  amount 
of one hundred and seventy-seven  tons.  A 
large part of the product is fine writing  and 
book papers.  More than $5,000,000  are  in­
vested in the business, which gives  employ­
ment to between 4,000 and 5,000  hands.

H ercules  P ow der !
STUMP  AND  ROCK  ANNIHILÂT!»  !

THE  GREAT

SEND  EOB  PRICES.

j o m r   o a .tjljF i e i _i3d,

General  W holesale  Dealer.

busi-

dealers at Saranac, have  retired from 
ness.

Wm. Balgaying has opened a grocery store 
at W. C. Sheldon’s former location at Grand 
Haven.

Mr. Hirschfield will  shortly  remove  his 
clothing stock and business  from  Chase to 
Allegan.

J. B.  Lewis  &  Co.,  general  dealers  at 
Burgess, Charlevoix county,  are  succeeded 
by J. B. Lewis.

O. S. Richards, the Clarksville dealer, con­
templates exchanging his business  for  Cal­
edonia property.

Chas. R. Smith, formerly Smith &  Smith, 
has sold his grocery business  at  Cadillac to 
Boorem & Wilcox.

Watt & Cahoon  and E. P. Gifford, expect 
to have their new buiidings at Saranac ready 
for occupancy by Sept. 15.

T. H. Clayton has engaged  in  the  furni­
ture business at Reed City, instead of Cedar 
Springs, as heretofore published.

Desky  Bros,  will  engage  in the  notion 
business at Muskegon  about  Oct. 1.  The 
store  will  be  known  as  “ The  Chicago 
Fair.”

Hubbard & Killefer, druggists  at  Bloom- 
ingdale, have sold out  to  Mr.  Spayed,  of 
Kalamazoo, and will  remove \to  a  western 
state.

P. L. Kimball,  the Plainwell druggist, has 
nearly  completed a sale of  his  stock,  and 
will engagd in the practice of his profession 
at that place.

John Long, dealer in drugs and  groceries 
at Yicksburg, has sold  his  grocery stock to 
W. T. Long, who will continued the business 
at the.same stand.

S. A.  Howey,  whose  hardware  store  at 
North Muskegon was burned during  the re­
cent conflagration there, has just got  into a 
new store and put in a new stock.

Fowlerville  merchants  will  give  dead 
beats 30  days  to  pay  up.  At  the  end  of 
that time their names will be  posted  in the 
papers and  in  big  letters  on  the  bulletin 
boards.

Aylsworth & LaDouceur have  divided up 
their  clothing  stock at Big Rapids, and no 
longer  exist as a firm.  The latter has  sold 
his  portion of  the  goods to W. H. Smith, 
who has lately engaged in the  clothing busi­
ness at that place.

The large  clothing  store  of  Seligman & 
Roseman, at Bay City, has  been  closed  on 
chattel mortgage for $18,000 to Jacob  Selig­
man, of East Saginaw, and  Herman  Rosen­
berg, of Rochester.  The  firm  expect to so 
adjust  matters as to start up in a few  days.
M. G. Woodward, druggist  at  Lake  City, 
sold out to Mrs. L. E.  Bailey,  who  in  turn 
sold out  to  Alex.  McBain.  The  business 
has been placed in charge of Reeder & Fish­
er, who  will  have  the  stock  in  their  own 
name as soon as the necessary arrangements 
can be perfected.

The  G ripsack  B rigade.

C. E. Morgan, general traveling  agent for 
Jennings & Smith, is on an  extended  busi­
ness trip  through  Indiana,  and is meeting 
with exceptional  success.

A. W. Fisher has  engaged  to  travel  for 
the Grand Rapids Packing Co., covering  the 
city trade and the Michigan Central, G. R. & 
I., L. S. & M. S. and C. & W. M., south.

T h e T radesm an is in receipt of  a lilipu- 
tian newspaper entitled the  News  Record, 
published  at Middjeville  by Willis J. Mills, 
who is evidently a relative  of  the renowned 
“Max.”  This  fact  accounts for the native 
genius of the  youthful  publisher  and  the 
creditable appearance of the paper.

Members of Post A, and those  who desire 
to  identify themselves  with  the  organiza­
tion, should not  neglect to attend the  regu­
lar monthly  meeting on  Saturday  evening. 
Before another month  shall  have  elapsed, 
the Post will  probably be located in its own 
rooms, to which it will welcome all  resident 
and visiting representatives of  the traveling 
fraternity.

Stephen Sears is accompanied  on  his up­
per lake shore trip this  week  by  his wife, 
who was desirous of ascertaining  the  pleas­
ant features surrounding the traveling man’s 
career.  And the early morning trains Steve 
mapped  out  to  take 
on  this  occasion 
are pretty sure of convincing Mrs. Sears that 
her husband is the hardest vyorked—as  well 
as the most innocent—man on the road.

P urely Personal.

W. T. Lamoreax has  gone  to  Northville 

for a four days wool siege.

H.  Eaton,  of  Eaton  &  Christenson,  is 
spending a week at the  various northern re­
sorts.  He is accompanied by  his  wife  and 
daughter.

Dr. C. F.  Hazeltine,  whose  family  has 
been  spending  the  summer  at  Mackinac 
Island, and who has himself put in consider- 
ablk time at that resort, will return with his 
family on Friday.

Geo. H. Minchener,  district  manager for 
Dun’s Mercantile Agency,  was  in the  city 
last wqek on his semi-annual inspection tour. 
Mr. Minchener has been connected  with the 
Agency for over twenty years.

Jas. F. Nelson,  of  Nelson  Bros.  &  Co., 
has returned from New York,  where he has 
been for the past  three  weeks  purchasing 
spring  goods of the  importers  and  manu­
facturers.  The traveling  men of the house 
will start out with the spring  samples about 
Sept. 20.

Geo. H. Kelly  has  gone to Muskegon  in 
the interest of  Dun’s  Mercantile  Agency, 
and will spend several weeks in the city and 
county, revising the  rating of the  business 
men.  Mr. Kelly’s  well-known  ability  and 
experience are a sufficient guarantee that the 
work  entrusted  to  him  will be done  thor­
oughly and that  his  conclusions  may be re­
lied upon as correct.

STRAY  FACTS.

Jas. Fox has sold  out  his  saloon at Mus­

A n  H onorable  Surrender.

kegon.

making five in all.

the coming winter.

Coleman is to  have  another  shingle mill, 

A $1,000 dock will be built  at  Bay View 

Hamlin & Tingle have leased E. M. Stick- 

ney’s grist mill at Paris.

B. M.  Osgood has sold out at Bellaire and 

returned to Howard City.

L.  Bauerle,  of Chicago,  has  engaged  in 

faucet business at Petoskey.

Yeckley & Higgins contemplate  engaging 

in the livery business at Otsego.

The stave  factory  of  Liken  &  Bach,  at 

Fairgrove, is run day and  night.
The Frankfort  Lumber  Co. 
another new store at  Frankfort.

is  erecting 

A. F. Lehman & Co. succeed Jas. C. Com­

fort in the saloon business at Ionia.

The pail and tub factory at Big Rapids has 

broken ground for a large store house.

Shelby has at last  got a grist  mill.  Wm. 

Banks is the proprietor, also the miller.

D. G. Huhn is putting  in a fruit  evapora­
tor, with a capacity of a 100 bushels per day 
at Saranac.

The citizens of Cedar,  Osceola county, de­
sire some  one to start a small  saw  mill at 
that place.

The Clarksville cheese  factory,  which  is 
operated by a stock company, is  turning out 
300 pounds of cheese daily.

Brace  &  Jackson  have  purchased  the 
flouring mill at Baldwin and will  put in im­
proved roller process machinery.

W. H. Sutherland,  proprietor  of  the  St. 
Joseph Merchant Mills, says that the  wheat 
coming  in  now is the  finest  brought  into 
market, from that section for many years.

W. S. Nelson, the Cedar Lake lumber and 
shingle manufacturer,  has  been  compelled 
to make  an  assignment.  The  assets  will 
probably be sufficient to meet the  liabilities.

W iliam s & W heeler, the  Ludington hard­
ware dealers,  having  found  themselves un­
able to meet their bills as they  become due, 
and being desirous of  avoiding  attachm ents 
or other means  for  obtaining  preferences, 
have  given  Geo.  Goodsell,  a  banker  at 
Ludington, a trust mortgage  covering  their 
entire property.  They  take  this  course in 
“deference to the wishes of  their  creditors, 
the advice of their  friends,  and  their  own 
earnest desire to pay,” and also  for the rea­
son that it enables  them  
to carry  on  their 
business themselves, rather than  to  entrust 
I t is  understood that the 
it to an assignee. 
stock and accounts will about  m eet the 
lia­
bilities.  The am ount of the assets  is being 
determined by an inventory, now in progress 
T he total indebtedness is $3,953.84,  divided 
among  fifteen creditors 
the  following 
amounts:
Foster, Stevens & Co...................................... $484 51
Mich. Stove Co.................................................   ?75 A?
John Pritzlaff........ ....................................... 405  05
Morley  Bros....................................................   375 33
Buhl Sons  & Co...............................................   715 84
Cleveland Co-Operative Stove Co............  103  92
Dutcher,  Yose  & Co.......................................   70 56
E. Bement  & Sons..........................................   ¿5 00
Detroit Stamping Co.......................................   20 34
Geo.  Goodsell.....................................................273 67
Hibbard,  Spencer,  B artlett & Co............  316  11
Green &  Button  Co.......................................   47 93
Pprrv  & Co 
141 00
Wm. Frankforth  & Co......................................461 27
F. J. Blair, Andree & Co.................................  38 55

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H ave  Rem oved  th e  Ban.

With the fact that our firm has  been plac­
ed under the ban of the  Knights  of  Labor 
for selling Straiton & Storm’s cigars, our city 
trade is already acquainted.  The announce­
ment was made  without  proper  authoriza­
tion on our  part, and  was  the  result of a 
mistake as serious as it was annoying to our 
trade and ourselves.  After  careful  consid­
eration of the matter,  in  all its phases  and 
all the points involved, we  have  concluded 
to abandon the sale of the  goods in question 
and have so notified the executive committee 
of the  Knights of Labor, who have  agreed 
to remove  the  ban, so far as it affects  our 
house.  Our customers  are  therefore reliev­
ed from the consequences  otherwise  threat 
ened in case they persisted in purchasing  of 
us, and may  confidently  continue  their re­
relations with our house without fear of ser­
ious consequences.

Thanking the trade for the cordial support 

accorded  us in the  past, and  bespeaking 
continuation of the same,  we are,

Yours truly,

Cody, B a l l & Co.

At a meeting  of the executive  committee 
of  the  Knights  of  .Labor,  held  Monday 
evening, the matter referred  to  above  was 
viewed and discussed thoroughly, and it was 
unanimously voted to remove the  ban  from 
Cody, Ball & Co., and  also  to make  every 
effort to counteract the effects of the  former 
action.

Brugs & flftebicines

Castor Oil  Prospects.

From the Oil, Paint and Drug Reporter.

The limited  production  of castor  beans 
would indidate that  farmers  are  directing 
their attention to the  cultivation of  cereals 
or other products, for the reason that the av­
erage yield is far below that  of  wheat  and 
other articles of food, and consequently they 
find no profit in a harvest of only nine bush­
els of castor beans per acre, which command 
one  dollar and a half per  bushel  when the 
market is high.  Kansas produces fully three- 
quarters of all the beans  raised in the Unit­
ed  States.  There  was a reduction in acre­
age last year of nearly seventy per cent., the 
total  production  being  placed  at  156,471 
bushels, including Kansas, Missouri, and  Il­
linois,  against  499,790  bushels of the  year 
previous, or 343,313 bushels less  than  was 
produced in Kansas  alone in  1882, allowing
15,000  bushels as the crop for  Missouri  and 
Illinois.  The situation this year is on a low­
er  plane.  According to the  report  of  the 
Kansas State Board of  Agriculture, publish­
ed in these  columns  three  weeks  ago, the 
area has been  decreased  from  1883  about 
twenty per cent, and  the  crop is said to be 
below the condition of one year ago  by  ten 
per cent.  This is strange, as the weather in 
Kansas has been favorable for all crops, and 
an excellent yield of  all cereals and seeds is 
the result.  September is the harvest month 
in Kansas and Missouri, and new oil may be 
expected the first of October.  As the report 
of the State Board was  issued in June, it is 
safe to say that the observations  were made 
in the  middle of  May, which is too  early a 
date to form a  correct opinion as to the per­
centage of loss or gain in the condition of the 
crop.  The average  yield  per  acre in 1883 
was ten  bushels, while  the  prospects  for 
this year indicate less than nine  bushels per 
acre, according to the same authority.  There 
is no doubt but what the coming crop will be 
smaller than last season, but  scarcely to the 
extent outlined abone.

W aterproof V arnish  for Paper.

From the N. Y. Oil, Paint and Drug  Reporter.
In many cases  waterproof  varnishes  are 
useful, and among their  uses  may  be men­
tioned their application to labratory  labels, 
and their use for the fixing of drawings.

There are many  such  varnishes,  but ac­
cording to  our  own  experience,  says  the 
Photographic News,  one  of  the best is  a 
thin solution of guttapercha in  benzole, and 
such a varnish may  be made  by  dissolving 
one or two parts of fine  guttapercha  foil in 
a hundred parts of  benzole.  The heat of a 
water bath serves to make  the  guttapercha 
dissolve tolerably quick,  but if it  is  neces­
sary to  have  the  preparation  at  once,  the 
guttapercha  may  be  dissolved  in  a  little 
chloroform, and this is then  mixed with the 
required bulk of benzole.  Paper  which has 
been coated with this varnish can  be  easily 
written,  drawn,  or  painted  upon;  and  it 
must be remembered  that  the  guttapercha 
varnish does not make  the  paper  transpar­
ent or spotted.  It is known that  guttapercha 
slowly oxidises in the air, and becomes  con­
verted into a brittle resin;  but  this  oxida­
tion product is itself a waterproofing  agent. 
Alcoholic solutions of resins  tend  to  make 
papers more or less transparent, but the fol­
lowing varnish,  prepared  with  acetone,  is 
not subject to  this  drawback.  One part of 
damar is dissolved  in six  parts of  acetone, 
the materials being allowed to digest togeth­
er for some weeks; the clear  liquid  is now 
decanted off, and mixed  with  its  own  vol­
ume of plain collodine.  Another method of 
making a waterproof varnish for  paper con­
sists in digesting 30  parts  of  white  shellac 
with 300 parts of  ether, and  then  agitating 
the solution with 15 parts of finely  powder­
ed white lead;  on  filtering  the  solution, it 
will be found that the white  lead  has  been 
very effectual in clarifying the solution. The 
above  resinous  varnish  gives  more  luster 
than the guttapercha varnish, but the  latter 
gives far more flexibility,  a considerable ad­
vantage  in  many  cases.  Not  only silver 
prints, but also collotypes,  and  often photo­
mechanical impressions,  may  often  be  ad­
vantageously treated with one of the  above 
varnishes; and it must not be forgotten th a t, 
anything  which  protects  a  silver  print 
against damp serves to diminish the  tenden­
cy to fading.

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The oil in  fishes is contained  in  the  net­
work of the tissues, and  cannot be liberated 
until they are destroyed, either  by putrefac­
tion or by the application of  heat. 
In  both 
these cases the oil is subjected to an alterna­
tive  process of a more or  less  pronounced 
character. 
It  has,  however,  been  noticed 
that under the influence of  certain  reactive 
substances, the  albuminoid  matters  which 
form the  tissues  contract, become  tighter, 
and  allow  the oil to exude in a cold  state, 
and  in a condition  of  remarkable  purity. 
The reactive substances  which  produce this 
effect are notably lime, per-chloruret of iron, 
the  sulphates of peroxide of  iron  and  the 
chlorurets and sulphates of alumina.  Of all 
these reagents the salts of iron  produce  the 
best results, because they procure the  disin­
fection of  the substances to which  they  are 
applied, and secure them against putresence.
It is stated that a linseed oil pool, embrac­
ing the mills in St. Louis,  Omaha,  Burling­
ton, Ottumwa and other places, was  formed 
at a meeting at Lake Minnetonka,  Minneso­
ta, a few days ago, and  that an effort is  be­
ing made to bring in all the country mills.

Hygienic pillows are now in vogue. Three 
form a full  equipment  for a bod, of  which 
one is filled with  hops, a second  with  pine 
needles,  and  a third  with  marine  moss. 
They are believed to cure  sleeplessness and 
nervous disorders.

The  M etric  System.

From the Oil, Paint and Drug Reporter.

Those who are opposed to the  metric sys­
tem are entertaining great  fears  that it will 
supersede the present antiquated plan.  The 
eminent gentlemen who constitute the socie­
ty known as the  International  Institute for 
Preserving  and  Perfecting  Anglo-Saxon 
Weights and  Measures  seem to be  greatly 
worked up and in  distress of mind  over the 
coming congress, which  meets in  Washing­
ton, D. C., October 1, to select a prime  mer­
idian by which every civilized  nation  shall 
measure degrees of  longitude.  The  princi­
pal cause for  worriment in  the  anti-metric 
circles is the statement that an effort will be 
made at this  international  congress to  com­
mit the United States to the adoption of  the 
metric system.  Anticipating a movement of 
this character, the  Anglo-Saxon  enthusiasts 
have  importuned  President  Arthur to pre­
vent  the  nation  being  represented by any 
one who is not in favor of  maintaining  the 
old plan.  This reminds us of the opposition 
to the introduction of uniform standard time, 
which has been  found a great  convenience 
to the traveling public, as well as to the rail­
road corporations.

this  fact  alone 

The metric system is taught in all the pri­
vate and public schools of this  country, and 
a knowledge of it is made one of the require­
ments  for  admission to  leading  colleges, 
and  from 
its  adaption 
would be  easy, and not  cause  the  friction 
anticipated by its opponents.  All the piom- 
inent nations of Europe, except England, use 
the metric system, and the  latter is expected 
to fall  into  line.  The  metric  system  of 
weights  and  measures  has  for  a unit  of 
length the meter, of small volumes the liter, 
and of weights the gram.  These  are  divid­
ed by ten, 100, and 1,000, and  the  divisions 
designated by the  prefixes  deci,  centi  and 
milli; or they are  multiplied  by  ten,  100, 
1,000 and 10,000, and  the  multiples  distin­
guished by the prefixes deca, hecto, kilo and 
myria.

A  New  Solvent.

What is  said to be a valuable  preparation 
in which petroleum forms the chief  ingredi­
ent has recently been patented  in  England. 
The invention relates to the production from 
petroleum of a substitute  for  bisulphide of 
carbon which can be used for extracting oils 
and anthracine,  for  dissolving  gums, rosins 
and  analogous  substances, for  waterproof­
ing,  and  for  vulcanizing  india-rubber  in 
conjunction  with  chloride  of  sulphur  or 
other  vulcanizing  agents.  To  obtain  the 
improved  substitute, which is  called  “vul 
coleine,”  the  distillate  or  fraction  from 
petroleum which passes  over  between  the 
temperatures of 100 degrees and 212 degrees 
F. or  thereabout  (the  fraction  known  as 
spirit or naphtha)  is taken and treated in the 
following manner:  To every 100 gallons of 
petroleum are added from  two to three  gal­
lons of sulphuric acid, with  constant  agita­
tion, continued as long as may be necessary, 
in a suitable  vessel; it is  then  allowed  to 
subside, and the liquor  decanted  from  the 
sediment is run into a still with from one to 
two per cent, of its weight of lime  or  other 
dehydrating  medium, calcium  carbonate or 
other alkaline carbonates, or oxides of metals 
capable of removing or destroying  any  sul- j 
pho-oils which may have  been  generated by 
the treatment with sulphuric acid.  The dis­
tillation is conducted without injecting steam 
or water into the contents of the still. Some­
times before distilling  the  liquid is submit­
ted to repeated  treatment  with  fresh  sul­
phuric acid until the acid  ceases to be color­
ed, or nearly so.  As  the  distillate  comes 
over, the receivers  are exchanged as soon as 
the product which is coming  over  reaches a 
specific gravity  from  about  680 to 690, wa­
ter being taken as 1,000.  By these processes 
the portions of petroleum unsuited for a sub­
stitute for bisulphide of carbon are removed, 
and considerable  economy is thereby effect­
ed, both in material and bulk of liquid to  be 
operated on.

Carbonic  Acid  Gas.

A writer in  one of the  medical  journals 
argues against the common idea that carbon­
ic acid gas is  poisonous.  He  asserts  that 
it is  no  more  so  than  water—animals  im­
mersed in it die just as they do  if immersed 
in  water, and for the  same reason,  namely, 
want of oxygen.  Birds have  been  made to 
live in an  atmosphere containing  35.40 per 
cent, of  pure  carbonic  acid  and  about  an 
equal per cent,  of oxygen.  Yet,  when the 
carbonic acid of respired air rises to one per 
cent, that air is very dangerous poison.  The 
solution of this  puzzle  is  that  respired air 
contains a very small  proportion  of poison­
ous organic matter, which is constantly exhal­
ed from even the healthiest lungs;  its exact 
nature is not known, but it is  the  source of 
the foul odor so characteristic of  badly ven­
tilated rooms.  The air from the  exit  pipes 
of a crowded  hall  darkens  sulphuric  acid, 
declorizes  potassium  permanganate,  and 
causes water, or a sponge  saturated with it. 
to putrefy.

Paper bottles  are  now  made  on a large 
scale in Germany and  Austria.  The  paper 
must be well  sized.  The  following is said 
to be a good recipe for the paper:  Ten parts 
of rags, forty of  straw, fifty of brown  wood 
pulp.  The paper is  impregnated  or  coated 
on both sides  with sixty parts  defibrinated 
fresh blood, thirty-five parts of lime powder, 
five parts sulphate of  alumina.  After  dry­
ing, ten or twelve rolled  leaves  are  coated 
again, placed over each other, and then plac­
ed in heated molds. The albumen in the blood 
forms a combination on  pressure  with  the 
lime which is perfectly proof against spirits, 
etc.  The bottles  are  made in two  pieces, 
which are joined afterward.

Kobert Knowles, grocer,  Yates:  “1  like 

your paper very much.”

R eports  on  th e  H op  Crop.

From  the N. Y. Oil, Paint and Drug  Reporter.
The hop farmers in this State are despon­
dent over the prospects  of  the  crop,  which 
should  be  ready  for  picking three  weeks 
hence.  The  counties  of  Madison,  Otsego, 
Oneida and Schoharie claim to  raise  nearly 
sixty  per  cent,  of  the  entire  yield  of  the 
United States, and last year  the  four  coun­
ties exported hops to the value of three  mil­
lion dollars.  This  season,  the  farmers  of 
the districts named  expected  to realize four 
million  dollars  net  from  a  crop of  fifteen 
million pounds, but it  is  believed  that the 
yield will only reach two-thirds of  the aver­
age, if it is that.  One  thousand  pounds  to 
the acre was calculated upon previous to the 
June frosts.  Then followed  the  retarding 
weather of July, accompanied  by  high and 
destructive winds and damaging hail storms. 
This condition prevailed so long  that even a 
favorable August  could  not  overcome  the 
damage and insure a promising development 
of the  fruiting process.  The  hot and  wet 
weather in August it is expected will be fol­
lowed by a  blighting  mold,  so  dreaded by 
hop growers, and it would not be  surprising 
if an early frost  visits  the vineyards before 
picking.

The  hop  market  is  easy, owing  to  the 
light wants of exporters and the  slow home 
trade.  The principal consumers  are  appar­
ently  well  stocked  in  anticipation  of  a 
change in values.  Sellers  are  not  pressing 
stocks.

The report of the  condition  of  the  plant 
in Europe by the German Hop Growers’ As­
sociation will prove interesting at this  time. 
In the  United  Kingdom  a  poor  yield  was 
anticipated. 
In  Belgium the plant has suf­
fered, but is  well  developed  and  pushing. 
The early cold weather checked  its  growth 
in France, but it has  gained  much by later 
warmth and a good  growth  was  expected. 
Hops are backward in Holland  and Sweden 
In Bavaria the plants  looked  well, and the 
same was true of Wurtemberg, though there 
had been  slight  damage  from  hailstorms. 
In Baden gardens have  suffered  from  cold 
in June, but plants are generally  sound and 
clean. 
In  Alsace-Lorraine  much  damage 
done by adverse  weather,  and  plants  very 
uneven, in cases backward;  on  the  whole, 
however, appearances were  not  unsatisfac­
tory. 
In the Posen districts also the  plants 
are very backward, but look sound  general­
ly. 
In  Brunswick  and  Prussian  Altmark, 
with few exceptions,  the  plants  looked ex­
tremely well.  Equally satis factory reports 
have been received from West Prussia, Hoh- 
enzollern  and  Hesse. 
In  the  Prussian 
Khine province, Hanover, and the  Kingdom 
of Saxony, cases  of  damage  are  rare. 
In 
Pomerania the  growth  is  very  backward. 
In Bohemia the hops are making  good pro­
gress.  Late hops look well in Styria, while 
the very early hops,  especially in the south 
ern  districts,  suffered 
from  prevailing 
cold and wet weather  during  the  blossom­
ing season.  Galicia promises a  good  crop, 
though probably a  less  plentiful  one  than 
last  year. 
In  Upper  Austria  continued 
warm weather promises a good yield.

The  M anufacture  and  Value  of Q uinine. 
From the N. Y. Oil, Paint and Drug  Reporter.
One of the articles  in the  drug  trade re­
ceiving the most attention to-day  is quinine, 
and recent events  have  suggested  recollec­
tions of  the  past.  Regarding  the  present 
low values, partly attributed to the  London 
failures, a prominent New York  maufactur- 
er said recently:

“The removal of  the  tariff  has  little or 
nothing to do with the demoralization in the 
trade.  All the trouble is  caused  by  over­
production, while the demand  has remained 
constant. 
I  cannot  see  that  there is  any 
more consumed now  than  during  the  past 
five years, and the only effect of  taking  off 
the  duty  has  been  to  remove  half of  the 
work done from  the  United  States  to Eu­
rope.  The manufacturers there have dump­
ed on  the  United States  all  their  surplus 
product in the hope of finding a market, and 
as we could not absorb it, the price  has nat­
urally  gone  down.  Those  who  produced 
most have lost most, and  at  present  I  can 
see no sign of relief. 
In  fact,  the  outlook 
for quinine is as bad as it  well  can  be, ex­
cept to the consumer.”

The world’s production to-day is estimated 
at 4,500,000 ounces, of which  Germany  and 
Italy manufacture by  far  the  greatest por­
tion.  There  is  considerable  made in Eng­
land, but its  enhanced  cost  limits  its  con­
sumption and consequent  production,  Am­
erica  consumes 40 per cent, of the total  pro­
duction, or about 1,800,000 ounces.  Prior to 
the removal  of the  tariff 1,500,000  ounces 
were produced here, but the effect  of the re­
moval of the duty has been  to  decrease the 
manufacture and  make  the  United  States 
more dependent upon foreign  supplies. 
It 
is estimated that now not more than  1,000,- 
.000  ounces  are  manufactured  in  the  New 
World.  From  the  East  Indies  the  ship­
ments of  the  raw  material  to  the  United 
States were over 6,000,000 pounds, of which 
a very  large  proportion  was  shipped 
to 
Europe for account of the  American  manu 
facturers,  Of late years the  quality  of the 
product has materially  improved.

Bricks made of cork  now  constitute  one 
of the new German  industries.  The  usual 
size is ten by four and three-fourths and two 
and a half inches.  They are prepared  from 
small corks, refuse, and  cement,  and  have 
not only been used for certain  building pur­
poses, on account of their lightness and  iso­
lating proporties, but are also employed as a 
covering for boilers, in preventing the radia­
tion of heat.

“Of what did you say  they  convicted the 
doctor?”  “Well, I don’t know exactly,  but 
I suppose it was purgery.”

@  50
40
2 50
00

12
18
15
13
15
10
12
20
18
30
12

27
37)4
9
12
13
15
14

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT,

Advanced—Hempseed,  Manna,  Oil  Penny­
Declined—Castor  Oil,  Chinconidia,  Opium, 

royal.
Oil Cnbebs, Linseed Oil, Oil Peppermint.

Acins.

Acetic,  N o.8............................Ç ft  9  &  10
Acetic,  C. P. (Sp. grav. 1.040)........   30  ©  35
Carb< lie............................................ 
50
Citrxc.................................•............... 
55
Muriatic 18  deg...............................  
3  ©  5
Nitric 36 deg....................................  11  @  12
Oxalic...............................................   14)4@  15
3  @  4
Sulphuric  66 deg.............................. 
Tartaric  powdered......................... 
48
Benzoic,  English....................$  oz 
20
Benzoic,  German............................  12  @  15
Tannic.............................;................  15  ©  17

AMMONIA.

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

BALSAMS.

Copaiba........................................... 
F ir...................................................... 
P eru................................................... 
T olu................................................... 

BARKS.

Cassia, in m ats (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....................................  

BERRIES,

Cubeb, prime  (Powd $  85)............ 
@  80
6  @  7
Ju n ip er............................................. 
Prickly A sh......................................1 CO  @1  10

EXTRACTS.

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

FLOWERS.

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

• 

GUMS.

 

Aloes,  Barbadoes............................ 
60®  75
Aloes, Cape (Powd  24c).................. 
18
50
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd  60c).......... 
Ammoniac........................... 
28®  30
 
Arabic, extra  select....................... 
60
Arabic, powdered  select............... 
60
Arabic, 1st picked..........................  
50
Arabic,2d  picked............................ 
40
35
Arabic,c3d picked............................ 
30
Arabic, sifted sorts......................... 
30
Assafcentida, prime (Powd 35c)... 
Benzoin............................................  
55@60
21®  24
Camphor........................................... 
Catechu. Is (V* 14c, )£s  16c)............ 
13
35®  40
Euphorbium powdered.................. 
80
Galbanum strained......................... 
60®1  00
Gamboge........................................... 
Guaiac, prime (Powd  45c).............  
35
20
Kino IPowdered, 30c]...................... 
10
Mastic................................................ 
40
Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 47c)... 
Opium, pure (Powd $6.00)............... 
4 35
30
Shellac, Campbell’s ......................... 
26
Shellac,  English.............................. 
Shellac,  native................................. 
24
30
Shellac bleached.............................. 
T ragacanth......................................  30  @110

HERBS—IN  OUNCE  PACKAGES.

H oarhound.......................................................25
Lobelia...............................................................25
Pepperm int.................................... 
25
Rue..................................................................... 40
S pearm int............1.......................................... 24
Sweet Majoram................................................ 35
T anzy.................................................................25
T hym e...............................................................30
W ormwood.......................................................25

 

 

IRON.

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

LEAVES.

6  40
20
7
80
65

Buchu, short (Powd 25c)................   12  ®  13
6
Sage, Italian, bulk G4s&)4s, 12c)... 
Senna,  Alex, natural.....................   18  @  20
30
Senna, Alex, sifted and  garbled.. 
Senna,  powdered.................  
22
Senna tinnivelli...............................  
16
Uva  Ursi........................................... 
10
35
Belledonna........................................ 
30
Foxglove........................................... 
H enbane............................;............. 
35
Rose, red..................... 
2  35

 

 

 

LIQUORS.

OILS.

MAGNESIA.

W., D. & Co.’s Sour Mash Whisky.2 00  ®2 25
Druggists’ Favorite  Rye................1 75  @2 00
Whisky, other brands.....................1  10  ®1 50
Gin, Old Tom.....................................1 35  @1 75
Gin,  Holland.....................................2 00  @3 50
B randy...............................................1 75  @6 50
Catawba  W ines................................ 1 25  @2 00
Port Wines.........................................1 35  ®2 50
Carbonate, Pattison’s, 2 oz............ 
23
Carbonate, Jenning’s, 2 oz.............  
37
2 25
Citrate, H., P. & Co.’s  solution.... 
Calcined............................................  
70
Almond, sweet.................................  45  ® 50
Amber, rectified.............................. 
45
Anise.................................................  
80
Bay f   oz.........................................  
50
2  00
Bergamont.......................................  
Castor................................................  18  @ 19)4
Croton...............................................  
2 00
C ajeput............................................  
75
1 00
Cassia................................................ 
Cedar, commercial  (Pure 75c)....... 
40
Citronella........................................ 
85
Cloves...............................................  
1 25
Cubebs, P. &  W ...............................  
6 50
1 60
E rigeron........................................... 
2 00
Fire weed........................................... 
Geranium  $   oz...............................  
75
40
Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75c).. 
50
Juniper wood..................................  
Juniper berries...............................  
2 00
Lavender flowers, French........ ’.. 
2 01
1  00
.............  
Lavender garden« 
Lavender spike 
90
..............  
1  70
Lemon, new crop............................ 
Lemon,  Sanderson’s.......................  
1  75
80
Lemongrass...................................... 
Origanum, red  flowers, French... 
1 25
Origanum,  No. 1.........  
50
 
Pennyroyal...................................... 
2  00
Peppermint,  w hite................. 
3  50
 
9  75
Rose  $   oz......................................... 
65
Rosemary,French (Flowers$5)... 
Sandal  Wood, German.................. 
4  50
andal Wood,  W. 1............................ 
7  00
Sassafras...................’. ...................... 
60
T an sy ...............................................  
4 50
Tar (by gal 60c).................................  10  @ 12
W intergreen................................. 
3  25
Wormwood, No. 1 (Pure $6.50)....... 
4  50
Savm.................................................  
1  00
W ormseed........................................ 
2  50
Cod Liver, filtered.................$  gal 
1 90
Cod Liver, best.............................................. 3 50
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16 
Olive, Malaga.................... 
®1  20
Olive, “Sublime  I ta lia n ............... 
2 50
S alad.................................................  65  @ 67
Rose, Ihmsen’s .......................oz 
9 75

do 
do 

6 00

 

 

POTASSIUM.

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

ROOTS.

A lkanet............................................
Althea, cu t.......................................
Arrow,  St. Vincent’s .....................
Arrow, Taylor’s, in &S and )4s__
Blood (Powd 18c).............................
Calamus,  peeled..............................
Calamus, German  white, peeled..
Elecampane, powdered..................
Gentian (Powd  14c).........................
Ginger, African (Powd 16c)............  13
Ginger, Jam aica  bleached............
Golden Seal (Powd  40c)..................
Hellebore, white, powdered..........
Ipecac, Rio, powdered....................
Jalap, powdered..............................
Licorice,  select (Powd 12)4)........
Licorice, extra select.....................
JT1I1K)  11 Uu. •••••««. ..t-A* •••••••••••
Rhei, from select to  choice..........1 00
Rhei, powdered E. 1.........................1 10
Rhei, choice cut  cubes..................
Rhei, choice cut fingers................
Serpentaria....................................
Seneka....................... ......................
Sarsaparilla,  H onduras................

14
35
20
1  25
30

15
27
17 
35 
12
18 
38 
23 
10
®  14 
20 
35 
22 
1 10 
37)4 
12 
15 
35 
®1 50 
®1 20 
2 00 
2 25 
50 
65 
40

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

SEEDS.

Anise, Italian (Powd 20c).............
Bird, mixed in ft  packages..........
Canary,  Smyrna.............................
Caraway, best Dutch (Powd  19c)..
Cardamon,  Aleppee.......................
Cardamon, Malabar.........................
Celery................................................
Coriander,  Dest English.........!!.!
F en n el..........................

18
10
25
20

13
5  @
6
3)4© 4

11  @ 122 002 25

25
12
15
334@4  © 4)4
8  @ 9
5)4© 6
8
1  00
7)4® 8
14

Mustard, white( Black 10c). 
Q uince..................................
Worm,  Levant.

SPONGES.

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

do 
do 
do
do 

do 

MISCELLANEUS.

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

do 
do 

Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.15) $  g a l.... 
Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref.
Anodyne Hoffman’s .......................
Arsenic, Donovan’s solution........
Arsenic, Fowler’s solution............
Annatto  1 ft rolls............................
Blue  Soluble...............................
Bay  Rum, imported, best__
Bay Rum, domestic, H., P. & Co.’s.
Alum .........................................  $  ft
Alum, ground  (Powd 9c)...............
Annatto,  prim e...............................
Antimony, powdered,  com’l........
Arsenic, white, powdered...........
Balm Gilead  Buds.....................
Beans,  Tonka........ .•........................
Beans, Vanilla.........................     ’. 7
Bismuth, sub  nitrate.....................!
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c)................. ..."
Blue V itrio l...................................
Borax, refined (Powd  13e)..!!!!!!! 
Cantharides,Russian  powdered..
Capsicum  Pods, A frican...............
Capsicum Pods, African  pow’d!!! 
Capsicum Pods,  American  do  ...
Carmine,  No. 40...............................
Cassia Buds.............................!!!!!!
Calomel.  American................*.***’
Chalk, prepared drop................ .•* *
Chalk, precipitate English........ .
Chalk,  red fingers..........................
Chalk, white lum p..........................!
Chloroform,  Squibb’s ........
Colocynth  apples................... . !  I
Chloral hydrate, German  crusts.!
cryst...
Chloral do 
Chloral 
do  Scherin’s  do  ...
Chloral do 
crusts..
Chloroform ......................................1
Cinchonidia, P. & W ........*!!!!.!!!
Cinchonidia, other brands...! ! ! !
Cloves (Powd 28c).......................
Cochineal.....................................! "
Cocoa  B utter......................     ! ! " ”
Copperas (by bbl  lc).............!..!!!!
Corrosive Sublimate.......................
C orks,X andX X —35off  list..!!!.’
Cream Tartar, pure powdered.......
Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 ft box..
Creasote............................................
Cudbear,  prim e..................!!!!!!!
Cuttle Fish Bone................. !.!!!!!.
D extrine................................!..!!!!
Dover’s  Powders...................!!.!!!
Dragon’s Blood Mass...................
Ergot  powdered.............................
E ther Squibb’s ..........................
Emery, Turkish, all  No.’s ........ !!!
Epsom Salts......................................
Ergot, fresh.............................!!!!!!
Ether, sulphuric, U. S.  P ...!!!!.!.
Flake white..................................!"
Grains  Paradise................. !!!!!..!
Gelatine,  Cooper’s ........................!!
Gelatine. French  .....................
Glassware, flint, 76 off,by box 60 off
Glassware, green, 60 and 10 dis__
Glue,  cabinet..................................
Glue, w hite...................................!"
Glycerine, pure........ ...111..!
Hops  )4s and )4s....................... .
Iodoform ^   oz.................................
Indigo........................................!".!".!
Insect Powder, best  Dalm atian...
Iodine,  resublimed........................
Isinglass,  American................. . . ”
Japonica........................................”
London  Purple................. !..!.!!!.
Lead, acetate.........................  
 
Lime, chloride, ()4s 2s 10c & '¿s iic)
Lupuline...........................................
Lycopodium...................... !!!!!!!..
M ace.............................................11!
Madder, best  D utch........ !!!!!!!!
Manna, S.  F ................................. ” .
Mercury................................!!!!!!!!
Morphia, sulph., P. & W........ ’» ’oz
Musk, Canton, H., P. &  Co.’s ........
Moss, Iceland................ 
» f t
Moss,  Irish.......................................
Mustard,  English................. !!.!!!!
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 ft  cans...!!!
Nutgalls............................................
Nutmegs, No. 1...........................H I
Nux  Vomica....................................
Ointment. Mercurial, Hd............!.
Pepper, Black  Berry.....................
Pepsin...............................................
Pitch, True Burgundy................!.!
Q uassia............................................
Quinia, Sulph, P. & W............. ft oz
Quinine,  German............................l
Seidlitz  M ixture.............................
Strychnia, cryst...............................
Silver Nitrate, cryst.......................
Red  Precipitate............................ ^  ft
Saffron, American..........................
Sal  Glauber......................................
Sal Nitre, large  cryst.....................
Sal  Nitre, medium  cryst...............
Sal Rochelle......................................
Sal  Soda....................................   .....
Salicin...............................................1
Santonin..........................................!
Snuffs, Maccoboy or Scotch..........
Soda Ash  [by keg 3c].....................
Spermaceti.......................................
Soda, Bi-Carbonate,  DeLand’s....
Soap, White Castile.........................
........................
Soap, Green  do 
Soap, Mottled do 
.........................
Soap, 
do 
.........................
Soap, Mazzini..................................
Spirits Nitre, 3 F ..............................
Spirits Nitre, 4 F .............................
Sugar Milk powdered.....................
Sulphur, flour..................................
Sulphur,  roll....................................
T artar Emetic..................................
Tar, N. C. Pine, )4 gal. cans  $  doz
Tar, 
quarts in tin ..........
Tar, 
pints in tin .............
Turpentine,  V enice*.............»  ft
Wax, White, S. &  F. brand...........
Zinc,  Sulphate.................................

do 
do 

do 

 

2 23
1  50 
50 
27 
12 
30 
50
2 75 
2 00
234@  3)4
3  @  4
32 
5
4)4© 
6  @
7
40 
2 25 
00  @9  75 
1  60 
45
7)4®  9
12 
1  85 
18 
20 
18 
4 00 
12 
70 
5 
12
8 
2
1 60 
60 
1 60 
1  7«
1 90 
1 75
00  ©1  10 
50

38  @  40 
15 
50 
24 
24 
12 
1 20 50 
45 
1  10 
8

2)4®

45  ®

'

25®

17 
28 
25 
40 
35 
@ 1  00 
@  25
2 10 
1 50 
9
10  @  15 
15 
9
1  00 
50 
60
12)4®  13 
1 75 
50
3 25@3 50 
40 
10 
12 
30 
18 
20 
70 
10 40 
18 
3 00 
7
6  ®  7
1  10®I 15 
00  @1  05 
28 
1  50 
79  ®  82 
80 
40
10
9
33
1  2)4
2  00 
6  75
38
4 
25
5 
14 
17
9
11
14
28
32
30
4
3)4 
60 
2  70 
1  40 
85 
25 
60 
k  8

4)4®

26  ® 
28  ®
3)4®

@

OILS.

Capitol  Cylinder..................................................75
Model  Cylinder................................................... 60
Shields  Cylinder................................................ .’50
Eldorado Engine..................................................45
Peerless  Machinery...................................A. «.35
Challenge Machinery..........................................35
Backus Fine Engine................................  
!30
Black Diamond Machinery................................30
Castor Machine  Oil.............................................6C
Paraffine, 25  deg................................................ .33
Paraffine, 28  deg............................................... .21
Sperm, winter bleached................ ............ 
l  40
Bbl  Gal
Whale, w inter......................................  80 
85
L ard,extra...'................. 
75
64 
65
Lard, No.  1...........................................  55 
Linseed, pure  raw ..............................  53 
56
Linseed, boiled..................................   60 
63
Neat’s Foot, winter  strained............  90 
95
Spirits Turpentine.............................   37 
45

 

 

VARNISHES.

FAINTS.

“ 
“ 

No, 1 Turp  Coach...............................
E xtra  T ürp.........................................
Coach  Body.........................................
No. 1 Turp Furniture..................
Extra Turp  Damar............................
Japan Dryer, No.  1 Turp..................
Bbl
Boralumine, White  b u lk ] ............
5 fts I ............
Boralumine, 
Boralumine, Tints  bulk.  )50 off..
Boralumine 
5  fts. J ............
Red Venetian............................  134
Ochre, yellow  Marseilles........   134
Ochre, yellow  Bermuda..........  134
Putty, com m ercial..................   2)4
Putty, strictly pure..................   2)4
V ermilion, prime Am erican..
Vermilion,  English..................
Green, Peninsular....................
Lead, red strictly  pure............
Lead, white, strictly pure.......
Whiting, white  Spanish..........
Whiting,  Gilders  ......................
White, Paris American........ ..
Whiting  Paris English cliff..

,110@1 20 
1 60@1  70 
.2  75@3 00 
.1 00@1 10 
.1 55@1  60 
,  70@  75
Lb
9
10
10
11
2® 3 
2®  3 
2@ 3 
2)4® 3 
234® 3 
13®16 
55@57 
16@17
534
©70
1  10 
1 40

W holesale

\

Druggists I

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

95  Louis  Street.

IMPORTERS AND  JOBBERS  OF

Dims, Hediclnes, Glieiiiicals, 
Palms, mis, Msis, 

ai Briïisfs
SliSSBR

,  MANUFACTURERS  OF

FLUID  EXTRACTS  AND  ELIXIRS.

GENERAL  WHOLESALE  AGENTS  FOR

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

in g, Manu facturers  o f  F in e 

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

Brushes.

—Also for the—

Gra n d  R a pid s  Bru sh  Co.,  Ma nfg s.  of 

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

Druggists' Sundries

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

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

p e a iL ip r D e p r ta l

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

WithersDade&Co’s

Henderson  Co.,  Ky.,  SOUR  MASH  ANT) 
OLD FASHIONED HAND  MADE,  COP­
PER  DISTILLED  WHISKYS.  We not 
only offer these goods to be  excelled  by  no 
o th er  know n  br a n d  in  the  market,  but 
superior in all respects to most that  are  ex­
posed  for  sale.  We  g u a ra n tee  perfect 
and  complete  satisfaction  and  where  this 
brand of goods has once been introduced the 
future trade has  been assured.

We are also  owners of the

Druggists’  Favorite  Rye,

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

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

Mail orders always receive our special and 

personal attention.

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

Thirty Tears.

LIST OF  OFFICERS:

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

,   _  _

„  

RETAILERS,

If you are selling goods to make 

a profit,  sell

L A V IN E

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

HAWKINS & PERRY

STATE  AGENTS,

-  

MICHIGAN

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

Jl

Manufacturers  of

Fine Perfumes,

Colognes, Hair  Oils, 
Flavoring Extracts,
Baking Powders,

Bluings, Etc., Etc.

ALSO  PROPRIETORS  OF

KLEMISTKl’S

“Red Bark Bitters

77

-AND-

78  W est B ridge  Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN.

GOLE  &  STONE,
Gents’ Fine Shirts.

M anufacturers  and  Jobbers of

Samples and Prices  will  be  Sent  to  Close 

Buyers  in  our  Line.

Address,

Marshall 

- 

Mich.

SEEDS

A MERCANTILE  JOURNAL,, PUBLISHED  EACH 

W EDNESDAY.

E.  A.  STOWE  & BRO., P roprietors.

OFFICE  IN  EAGLE  BUILDING,  3d  FLOOR.
I Entered  at the  Postoffice  at  Grand Hap ids  as 

Second-class Matter.1

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST  27,1884.

The  Value  of Manner.

From the London Spectator.

We have  heard it said  that  you  can do 
everything, however  unpleasant  it may  be 
to those around you, if you only do it in the 
right way;  and the instance  given  to prove 
the  truth of  this  assertion  is taken  from 
humble life.  A  cat walks  daintily  into  a 
room on a cold Winter’s day, and with  a be­
nign glance at the company  and  a  melodi­
ous  purring  sound  she  walks 
leisurely 
aaound,  selects  for  herself 
the  warmest 
place in the  room—perhaps  the  only warm 
place, right in front of  the  fire—curls  her­
self up  and goes  serenely  to  sleep,  secure 
that no one  will be  so unreasonable  as  to 
question her right to sleep wherever inclina­
tion prompts her to do  so.  No one calls it 
selfish, no one is annoyed,  because  she has 
done it so prettily and  gracefully. 
Indeed, 
all  experience  an  access  of  warmth  and 
comfort in themselves  from beholding  pus­
sy’s  blissful  repose.  Now,  imagine  the 
same thing done in a different way,  and by 
a less self-possessed individual. 
If it were 
done hurridly, or noisily, or clumsily, or dif­
fidently, even,  or in  any  way  obtrusively 
what a storm of indignation it would  excite 
in  the  bosoms  of  all  beholders !  How 
thoughtless, how inconsiderate,  how selfish! 
No, it must be done as the cat does it,  with­
out a sound or  a  gesture  to  provoke  criti­
cism or it must not be done at all.
Cheap  Chicago  Cigars.

From the Chicago Herald.

In a State street cigar  store  yesterday  a 
customer had overhauled  the  entire  stock 
and still  seemed  dissatisfied.  He was  on 
the point of going out when a  salesman,  as 
a last resort, asked  him why  he  could not 
be suited.

“Well, you see, I want something  cheap.”
“I know it, and I’ve showed  you  all the 
cheap goods in  the  iiouse.  Here’s  some­
thing for a  dollar  a  hundred.  You don’t 
expect to get cigars  cheaper  than  that  do 
you?”

“I thought I might.  You see in my busi­
ness I want  something  small  and  cheap. 
Now, couldn’t you make me  a  cigar  about 
half the  size  of this one, for, say, 50 cents a 
hundred. 
I can  sell them [two for a  quar­
ter.”

“No, we can’t  do  that.  What  is  your 

business, may I ask?”

“I’m running a Summer resort  hotel.”

Tobacco  as  a  Preventative.

A  French  physician,  Dr.  Pecholier, 
strongly advocates the use  of  tobacco  as a 
preventive of epidemic  and contagious  dis­
orders.  He cites as an instance of  its bénéfi­
cient  effects, the  immunity  from  phthisis 
enjoyed by  workpeople  in  tobacco  manu­
factories, which has  lately  been  noted  in 
the Montpellier Medical.  Whether  this is 
to be attributed to the floating  tobocco dust 
with which the atmosphere  of  such  places 
is impregnated, is not quite clear, but  it ap­
pears probable.

An  E xtravagant  Cook.

Steward of  Summer  Resort  Hotel—The 
bill of fare is all right  but  the  clam  chow­
der.  You will have to cross that off.

Landlord—What’s the matter?  You know 
very well that we are to have clam  chowder 
every  Friday.

Steward—I  understand all  that, but  tile 
new cook threw the dish  water out  by mis­
take this morning.

Landlord—Tell him if he does it again I’ll 

discharge  him.

R. A. Kanaga, boots and shoes, Nashville: 
“Think  T h e  T ra desm a n  a  very  good 
paper, and every business  man in Michigan 
should take  i t ”

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 ex tra.......
Sanford’s Comets...

@  90 
@  90 
@  85 
@  70 
@  65 
@  82^4 
©  70 @  82*4 
@  65

THREE-PLYS.

Hartford  3-ply................................... 
Lowell 3-ply........................................ 
Higgins’  3-ply....................................  
Sanford’s £ p ly ................................... 

@1 00
@1 00
@1 00
@  97H
@ 7 7  V%
H artford............................................. 
Lowell..................................................  
@  82V4
Other m akes......................................   75  @  77 Yt
Best cotton chain..............................  60  @  62V4

EXTRA  SUPERS.

ALL  WOOL  SUPERFINES.

h e m p s.

WOOL FILLING AND  MIXED.

Best  2-ply...........................................   6754@  60
Other grades 2-ply............................  52V4@  55
All-wool  super, 2-ply.......................  50  @  55
Extra heavy double cotton chain.  42)4@  45
Double cotton chain........................   35  @  40
Heavy cotton and wool, double c.  30  @  32t4
Half d’l chain, cotton & wool, 2-ply  27!4@  32‘A
Single cotton chain..........................  19  @  25
3-ply, 4-4 wide, extra heavy............   27)4@  30
@  22
B, 4-4 wide........................................... 
Imperial, plain, 4-4 wide.................. 
@  18^4
D, 33  inches......................................  
@  17
No. 1,4-4,5-4,6-4 and 8-4...................  
@  45
No. 2, 
...................  
@  37V4
@ 3 0
...................  
No. 3, 
No. 4, 
@ 2 5
...................  
Best all rattan, plain........................  
@  62^4
@  624
Best all rattan and cocoa, plain... 
Napier A .............................................  
@  50
Napier  B .............................................  
@  40

OIL CLOTHS.

MSTTINGS.

do 
do 
do 

CURTaiNS.

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

@  15
@  18
@  10
@36
@10

Hamilton  Carhartt  &  Co.,
M en’s F urnishing Goods

WHOLESALE

M ANUFACTURERS  OF

for Comparison.

The “Carhartt” Pantaloons, Overalls, Engineers’ Jackets, Jumpers’ Shirts, ete.  Upon our 
manufactured goods, we guarantee to save the trade the  Jobbers’  Profits.  Samples  sent
Detroit.
118 Jefferson Ave.
We manufacture a full line, use 
the  best  material  obtainable,  and 
guarantee  our  goods  to  be  first- 
class.
W e  carry  an  immense  stock  of 
Virgidia  and  Tennessee  P ea n u ts, 
Almonds, Brazils, Filberts, Pea- 
cans,  W aln u ts  and  Cocoanuts, 
and compete with any market.

We are  agents  for  Gordon’s 
celebrated  W a g   Jaw s,  O lym ­
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,  Figs,  Dates,  Etc.,  in 
large quantities from first-hands  and 
are  headquarters  for  everything  in 
our line.

PUTNAM  &  BROOKS,  i
FOX, MUSSELMAN & LOVERIDGE,

REM OVAL !

Coal, Wood,  Lime,  Cement, 

Sewer Pipe, Etc,

Office removed to 3 Canal street, Basement.

-A_  B.  K N O W L S O N .

W M   SE A R S & CO.
Cracker  Manufacturersp

Agents  for

V

AMBOY  CHEESE-  •

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

■WHOLESALE  D EALERS

Butter,

Apples, Onions, Potatoes, Beans, Etc.

State Agent for the Lima Patent Egg Cases and Fillers.

NO.  8  AND  10  IONIA  STREET,

m-n ATVT>  RAPIDS.  -  MICHIGAN.

PEC K   BROS.,

W holesale Druggists

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,

G-rand  R apids

SPRIN G   & COMPANY1

Mieli.

w h o l e s a l e   g r o c e r s,
Nimrod, Aeon, M, Crescent & M  Seal Ping Todaccos.

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

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

Oar  stock  of Teas,  Coffees  and  Syrups 

is  Always  Complete.

Toloaccos,  Vinegars  and  Spices 1! 

—WE MAKE SPECIAL CLAIM FOR OUR—

0URIM 0TT0:  “ SQUARE  DEALING-  BETWEEN  MANDAND  MAN.”

CORRESPONDENCE  SOLICITED.

-W HOLESALE  DEALERS  IN-

PLAÎsTCTST  -AJSTD

P E R K I W S   &  H E S S ,
Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,

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

NOS.  132  and  134  LOUIS  STREET,  GRAND  RA PID S,  M ICHIGAN.

STAPLE

GOODS

—FOR  T H E -

FIELD  AND  GARDEN,

-AT-

WHOLESALE  AND  RETAIL

-AT THE—

S£2EII>  STORE,

91  Canal St., G rand  R apids, Mich.

I . T. L A H A O I A p t
EDMUND B. D1KEMAN,

GREAT  WATCH

BARBOUR’S CAMPAIGN  TORCH

The  only  Torch  that  can  be  taken  apart  and  shipped in  a 

Small  space.

300 to 500 Torches complete (except handles)  can  be packed In  one 

barrel, thus making the freight or express charges very low.

A  Child can P ut them together in  one Minute.

As  good  as  any Torch  Made.  The  Cheapest  in  Price.

WILL  BURN  FOR  FIVE  HOURS.
Ask for price or send for sample order.
F O S T E R ,   S T E V E N S  

lOcand 12 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

CO.

At M anufacturers’ Prices.

SAM PLES  TO  THE  TRAD E  ONLY.

JEW E L E R ,

44 CANAL STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN

Souse and  Store  Shades Made to Order 
NELSON  BROS.

68  Monroe  Street, G-rand  Rapids.

CARPETS,

M ATTINGS,

Oil-.  CLOTHS,

ETC..  ETC.

Q  and.  8  Monroe Street,

xr

Grand Rapids»

Michigan.

BUSINESS  LAW.

B rief Digests of R ecent Decisions in Courts 

of E ast Resort.

eratives in a position of danger, and  enjoys 
the benefit of their services.  For all  practi­
cal purposes he is the  owner of the  factory 
until the end offhis  lease, which  may  run 
for hundreds of years.  We must decide that 
he is the ‘owner’ of the factory, and that the 
landlord is not liable.”

Not a  B ad  Failure.

From the New York Sun.

Smith.—“You have heard of B’s failure?” 
Jones.—“No. 
Smith.—Liabilities  about  $700,000, that’s 

Is it a bad failure?” 

Jones—“That’s  enough.  What  are  his 

all.”

assets?”

Smith.—“Well, be is very much respected, 
teaches a class in Sunday-school, is a deacon 
in the  church, never  drinks  or  smokes, his 
wife is a Hendrickhudsonvandusenbury,  his 
great-grandfather came over in the Mayflow­
er, his mother once shook  hands  with  the 
Prince of Wales, and his brother  is  an  ulti­
mate friend of  Lord Mutanhed.  Those  are 
all of his assets, I believe.”

Jones.—“Those  are  enough.  He’ll pull 

through all right.”

A  Scrilegious Pun.

“My dear, did  you hear  that  Deacon S. 
fell asleep during the sermon last Sunday and 
tumbled out of his  pew?”

“I did not,” she said.
“Yes, it’s fact. The Deacon is a very lucky 

man.”

“Why?” she asked.
“Because when he fell out of  his  pew he 

struck aisle, you know.”

Then she looked at him, and the more she 
looked the more uncomfortable he got.  Fin­
ally he could stand it no  longer.

“My dear,” he said humbly,  “I  beg  your 
pardon.  A religious  matter of that  nature 
is not a fit subject for  jesting.”

Needed by every retail  grocer  or  confec­
tioner,  one  or  more  of  Kenyon’s  Patent 
Spring Paper  Bag  Holders.  Each  has  ca­
pacity of containing about fifty bags.  Their 
great convenience can be learned  by  having 
one mailed for 30c, four for $1, or one dozen 
expressed for $2.50 from  Kenyon  Brothers, 
Wakefield, Rhode  Island.

OUR  SUBSCRIBERS  can  do  us  a 
kindness  that  will  be  duly  appreciated by 
mentioning T h e T ra desm a n  always  in re­
plying to the advertisements  that  appear  in 
our columns.

Elgin creamery  butter,  the  choicest  the 

market affords, at M. C. Russell’s.

WHOLESALE

21  PE A R L   STREET,

L.  HILLcfc CO,
F IS H IN G   TJLCHZJ3
GRAND  R A P ID S 
MICH.
Du  PONT’S  Gunpowder.
ing, Blasting and Cannon Powder guaranteed.

The lowest m arket prices  for Sport­

-  
AGENTS  FOR

Grail  H als  lira  Worts

PRIVATE  CORPORATION— VENUE.

An action  against a private  corporation, 
when the cause of action  is  transitory, may 
be brought in any county in  which  the  cor­
poration 
its 
agents, without regard to the  location of its 
principal place of business, or its ownership 
of real estate.—Supreme Court of  Alabama.

transacts  business 

through 

TITLE— CAN  NOT  BE DISREGARDED.

A judgment creditor who  resorts to a  di­
rect  action to annul  an  outstanding  title 
made by his debtor to a third person can not 
disregard such title during  the  pendency of 
the action and proceed by seizure  and  sale 
of the property, according to the decision  of 
the  Supreme  Court of Louisiana in the  re­
cent case of Ulrick  vs. Duson et al.

ASSIGNEE— POWER  OF.

An assignee in a voluntary  assignment  is 
the mere instrument  of  the  debtor  for  the 
distribution of his property,  and  unless  the 
power is conferred  upon  him  specially by 
statute, he can  not  maintain any action  or 
suit  concerning the  same that  the  debtor 
could not, in case no assignment  had  been 
made.—United States Circuit Court, District 
of Oregon.

TENANT— LIABILITY  FOR NUISANCE.

The tenant in possession and not the land­
lord is responsible to  third  person  for  in­
juries  occasioned  by a failure to keep  the 
demised premises in repair,  unless the  own­
er has  agreed to keep  them  in  repair, or 
when the  premises  were let with the nuis­
ance upon them, in which  case  the  owner 
and not the tenant is  responsible  for  injur­
ies caused by the nuisance.—Supreme Court 
of Illinois.

B A N K  CHECK  NOT  EVIDENCE  OF  PAYMENT.
A check on a bank is not prima facie  evi­
dence of  the  payment of an original  debt, 
and a check  drawn  in  favor  of a debtor s 
agent is clearly not prima facie  evidence  of 
the payment of the  debt to the  creditor, ev­
en if the creditor assents that the check shall 
be so  drawn. 
In  order  that a check  on a 
bank shall be payment of an original debt it 
shall be such payment and  be  taken  by the 
creditor  as  payment.—Mullins  vs. Brown, 
Supreme Court of Kansas.

CORPORATION— PREFERENCE TO CREDITORS.
The creditor of the corporation  first suing 
a stockholder in respect to his individual lia­
bility acquires by his suit a preference  over 
other creditors, which  neither they nor  the 
stockholder can  defeat, unless  possibly by 
bringing a  general  winding-up  bill.  Such 
action is in  the  nature  of  an  equitable at­
tachment of the stockholder’s liability to the 
extent of the plaintiff creditor’s claim.  The 
stockholder, after notice of such a suit against 
him, can  not  defeat  the action  by paying 
other creditors to the extent of his liability. 
Supreme Court of Illinois.

EXCURSION  TICKET— TIME  LIMITED.

A bought an excursion ticket at a reduced 
rate, good for a limited  time  only, and  at­
tempted to return on it after  the  time  had 
expired aDd was put off the  train, for which 
he brought  suit for  damages, failed to  get 
judgment, and  carried the case, Pennington 
vs. the  P., W. &  B. Railway  Company, to 
the Maryland Court of  Appeals, where  the 
judgment of the trial court was affirmed, the 
higher court holding that  since  the  ticket 
was bought at a reduced price and  accepted 
and used, the purchaser  was  bound by the 
stipulation on its face, and  that when  once 
excluded from the car, he had no right  to be 
re-admitted without  paying the whole  fare 
from the starting point.

FIRE  ESCAPE— “ OWNER” — MEANING  OF

TERM.

In the destruction by fire of the Randolph 
Mills, Philadelphia, an employe, to save  his 
life, jumped from the  fourth story, sustain­
ing severe injury, and  brought  suit  against 
the owner of the building to recover damages 
under the statute providing for  the  erection 
of fire-escapes, which  reads:  “Every store­
house, factory, manufactory or  workshop of 
any kind in which employes or operators are 
usually employed at work on  the  third  or 
any higher story, shall  be  provided  with a 
permanent safe  external  means of  escape 
therefrom in  case of  fire.  And it shall be 
the duty of the  owners,  superintendents  or 
managers of such factories, manufactories or 
workshops to provide and  cause to be  affix­
ed to every such  building  such  permanent 
fire-escape.”  Defendent had leased the mill 
to another  party who  had a tenantey  from 
year to year, and  judgment was in  favor of 
defendent in the trial  court on  the  ground 
that he was not the owner of the mill.  The 
case, Sebott vs. Harney, was then carried to 
the  Supreme  Court of Pennsylvania, which 
sustained the opinion of the  lower  court in 
the  following  opinion:  “It is to be regret­
ted that an act of so  much  importance, and 
having so meritorious an  object, should  not 
have been prepared with  more care. 
It is a 
penal act, and can not be extended by impli­
cations beyond its terms.  The plaintiff con­
tends that the ‘owner’ of the  factory is  the 
land upon which the factory building stands 
But a manufactory is  something  more  than 
a building. 
It is onlj completed when there 
is put into the building  machinery; and  the 
duty of erecting  fire-escapes  attaches  when 
the operatives  are  brought in to work.  To 
whom does that duty attach?  Clearly to the 
occupant in possession, who places their op

A.  A.  CTUPPEX,

W HOLESALE

Hats, Caps and Furs

54  MONROE  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

M ICHIGAN.

We carry a Large Stock, and Guarantee Prices 

as Low as Chicago and Detroit.

FOR

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

Send for  descriptive  circular  to  HALL & 

CO., Publishers. i«¡4 Lake St., Chicago, 111.

TACKS
NAILS

:KVERY  KIN®  AND  SIZE,
T runk, Clout and F inishing 
Steel W ire Nails and Brads.

—ALSO—

American  Tack  Co., 

F a i r h a v e n  

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Ma s s .

S. A. WELLINGS

WHOLESALE

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IST O T I GUSTS!

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.

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I am represented on the  road  by  the  fol­
lowing well-known travelers:  J ohn D. Ma n- 
gum,  A.  M.  Spr a g u e,  J ohn  H.  E ackek, 
L. R.  Cesn a,  Geo. W. N. D e J onge. 
F ra n k Ber l e s 
24 Pearl Street 

House Salesman.

DILWORTH’S

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C. S. YALE & BR0„

,  —M anufacturers  of—

-THE-

BEST  ROASTED  PACKAGE  COFFEE  ON 

THE  MARKET.

F O R   S A L E   B Y

BAKING  POWDERS, 

BIiUING-S,  ZE3TO-,

40  and  42  South D ivision  St.,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICH.

Factory Agents for Western Michigan.
ALBERT CO YE & SONS
WATERTOWN  HAMMOCK  S U P P O R T .

State Agents for

TIME TABLES.

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Dealers in

Awnings,  Tents,  Horse  Wagon  and  Stack 

Covers,  Oiled  Clothing,  Etc.

73  Canal  Street.

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICHIGAN. 

JSF”  Send for Prices.

ARRIVE.

DEPART.

Michigan  Central—Grand  Rapids  Division.
tD etroit Express....................................   6:00 a m
tDay Express..........................................12:25 p m
♦New York Fast Line............................  6:00 p m
t  Atlantic Express............................................ 9:20 p m
♦Pacific  E xpress............................................  6:4 am
tLocal  Passenger...........................................11:20 a m
tM ail....................................................... 3:30 p m
tGrand  Rapids  Express........ ..............10:25p m
tDaily except Sunday.  ♦Daily.
The New York Fast Line runs daily, arriving 
at Detroit at 11:59 a. m., and New York  at 9 p. 
m. the next evening.
Direct  and  prompt  connection  made  with 
Great  Western,  Grand  Trunk  and  Canada 
Southern trains in same depot at Detroit, thus 
avoiding transfers.
The Detroit Express leaving at 6:00 a. m. has 
Drawing  Room  and  Parlor  Car  for  Detroit, 
reaching that city at 11:45 a. m., New York 10:30 
a. m., and Boston 3:05 p. m. next day.
A train leaves Detroit at 4 p. m. daily except 
Sunday with drawing room car attached, arriv­
ing at Grand Rapids at 10:25 p. m.

J. T. Sc h u l t z , Gen’l Agent.

And  Lashes  of All  Kinds  and  Prices. 

Orders  P romptly  F il l e d .

G. BOYS & CO., Gen’l Ateits

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

Detroit,  Grand  Haven â  Milwaukee.

GOING EAST.

GOING WEST.

Arrives.
tSteamboat Express......... 6:10 a m
tThrough  Mail.................... 10:15 a m
tEvening  Express.......................3:20 pm
♦Atlantic Express...............  9:45 p m
tMixed, with  coach...........
tMorning  Express..............12:40 p m
tThrough  Mail..................  5:00 pm
tSteamboat Express.........10:30 p m
tM ixed..................................
5:10am
♦Night Express................ 

Leaves. 
6:20 a m 
10:20 a m 
3:55 p m 
10:45 p m 
10:30 a m
12:55 p m 
5:10 p m 
10:35 p m 
7:10 a m 
5:30 a m
tDaily, Sundays excepted.  *Daily. 
Passengers  taking  the  6:20  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 5:10 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.

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D. P o t t e r , City Pass. Agent. 
SDY, Gen’l Pass. Agent,  Detroit.

Thomas  Tandy.

GOING NORTH.

Grand  Rapids  &  Indiana.
Arrives.
Cincinnati & G. Rapids Ex.  9:00 p m 
Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex.  9:20 a m 
Ft. Wayne & Mackinac Ex..  3:55 p m  
G’d Rapids  & Cadillac  Ac.
G. Rapids & Cincinnati Ex.  6:30 p m 
Mackinac & Cincinnati E x.  4:10 p m 
Mackinac & Ft. Way tie Ex.. 10:25 a m 
Cadillac & G’d  Rapids  Ac.  7:40 p m 

GOING  SOUTH.

Leaves. 
11:00 p m 
10:25 a m 
5:00 p m 
7:10 a m
7:00 a m 
4:35 p m 
11:42 p m

SLEEPING CAR ARRANGEMENTS.

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 10:25a. m. has 
combined Sleeping and Chair Car for Mackinac
^ South—Train leaving at 4:35 p. m. has  Wood­
ruff Sleeping Car for Cincinnati.

C. L. Lockwood, Gen’l Pass. Agent.
Chicago & West Michigan.
Leaves.
Arrives, 
4:00 p m 
tMail.....................................  9:15 a m
10:45 p m 
tDay  Express..................... 12:25 p m
6:10 a m 
N ight  Express.................   8:35 p m
10:05 pm
Mixed....................................6:10 am
♦Daily. 
tDaily except Sunday.
Pullman Sleeping Cars  on  ali  night trains. 
Through parlor  car  in  charge  of  careful at­
tendants without extra charge  to  Chicago  on 
12:25 p. m., and through coach  on 9:15 a.m. and 
8:35 p. m. trains.

NEWAYGO DIVISION.

Leaves.  Arrives.
Mixed 
5:15pm
.................................5:00 a m  
Express.......  ....................... 4:10 p m  
8:30 pm
Express..................... . 
8:30am  10:15a m
Trains connect at Archer avenue for Chicago 
as follows: Mail, 10:20 a. m.; express, 8:40p. m 
The Northern terminus of  this Division la at 
Baldwin, where close connection is made with 
F. & P. M. trains to and from Ludington and 
Manistee. 3, H. P almer, Gen’i Pass. Agent.

Manufacturers of All Kinds of

W IR E   W O RK
City Bottling Works

92  MONROE  STREET.

BOTTLED  LAGER,  pints, per doz., 50 cts 
BOTTLED  ALE,  pints,  per doz., 75  cents. 
BOTTLED  PORTER,  pints, per  doz., 75c. 
BOTTLED  CIDER, quarts, per doz.,  $1.2.0

All  Goods  WARRANTED the REST  in  Ik  Market.

Telephone  No.  272.

Wm. A. Clark

80  South Division Street.

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.

PORTABLE  AND  STATIONARY

E 3ST G13ST 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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WEATHEBLY k CO,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.,  Wholesale  and  Retail

IRON PIPE, 

Brass  Goods,  Iron  a n d  B rass F ittings 

Ma n tles,  Gra tes,  Gas  F ixtures, 

P lum bers,  Stea m   F itt er s,
—And  M anufacturers  of—

Galvanized  Iron -Cornice.

MOSELEY  BROS.,

Wholesale

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

128 Monroe Street, Grand Bapids, Mich.

—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.

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le  Dozen  at  New  M   Prices!!

-LARGE  LINE  OF-----

Clothing  and  Gent’s  Furnishing  Goods, 

Cottonade  Pants  and  Hosiery.

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

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

X.  C.  L E V I ,

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

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN

Tlie  Old  Reliatole

Pioneer Cigar Factory,

H.  S C H N E I D E R   GO

PROPRIETORS.

31  Monroe Street,

Grand Rapids.

The  following  brands  are  our  own  make and Union labelled goods:  D ick and George, 
P eninsular  Club,  Los  Dos,  Selir  Fein,  Louise,  M ocking  B ird,  E vening Star  and  K .  T. 
We are jobbers of  all kinds of Tobaccos  ann  Sm okers’  A rticles.

POWDER

C astor M achine  O il

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

o h io   o il   ooi^F-AJsrsr

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

Hazeltine, Perkins & Co., Grand Rapids.
RINDGE, b e r t so h  & CO,
BOOTS  &  SHOES,

MANUFACTURERS  AND  JOBBERS  OF

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.

tiallr AOaiM for Hit Hii

14 and 16 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

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CLARK,  JEWELL  &  CO,
Groceries  and  Provisions,

WHOLESALE

85,85 aid 81PEAEL  STREET and 114,116,118 and 12» OTTAWA  STREET, 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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Groceries.

PEN C IL PORTRAITS—NO. 87.

Trade.

A.  S.  Doak, the  Q uiet Man  of th e  Grocery 
Algernon  Sidney  Doak  was  born  near 
Compton, Canada, March 27,1848, and lived 
on a farm with his parents until 22  years of 
age, when he went to Horicon, Dodge coun­
ty, Wis., and entered the  employ  of  M. F. 
Tooker, general dealer, as  clerk. 
JRemain- 
ng i 
position two years, he  purchased
the stock and business of his  employer, and 
conducted it alone for a year, when  he sold 
an interest to Mr. Tooker, and  removed the 
stock to Manistee. The firm Of A. S. Doak & 
Co., continued the business  two years, when 
they were burned out  in the  first  large fire 
that visited Manistee.  Mr.  Doak  then en­
gaged  as  book-keeper  for  Filer  &  Sons, 
shingle  manufacturers  at  Filer  City, with 
whom he  remained  two  years.  He then 
formed a  partnership  with  W. W.  Chapin, 
and under the firm name  of W. W.  Chapin 
& Co.,  started  in  the  shingle  business  at 
Manistee, continuing  operations  there  two 
years, when he sold out to his partner, form­
ing another business alliance under the firm 
name of Fisher & Doak.  The new firm pur­
chased a tract of pine land nearManton, and 
put in a saw and  shingle  mill.  Mr. Doak 
subsequently purchased the  interest  of his 
partner, and removed  the  mill  to  Edmore, 
where he cut on contract for Graff, Little  & 
Co.,  afterwards  admitting  to  partnership 
Julian  Howard,  when  the  firm  name was 
changed  to  Howard &  Doak.  On closing 
out the Edmore investment, Mr. Doak  came 
to Grand Rapids and entered  the  employ of 
Hawkins  &  Perry  as  traveling  salesman, 
which position he has filled to  the  satisfac­
tion of  all  concerned  for  nearly six  years. 
His territory is  the towns on the  G. R. & I., 
north of Big Rapids, and  both  branches  of 
D., L. & N., north of Ionia.

Mr. Doak is a quiet,  unassuming  gentle­
man, who never  intrudes  his  ideas  on his 
trade, and seldom offers a suggestion  that is 
not acted upon.  He regards  his  customers 
as his friends, and  is  usually  able to  hold 
their trade indefinitely.  His  collections are 
given painstaking attention, and the  results 
are invariably satisfactory.  The  fact that 
he still represents the same house for which 
he carried his first sample case, and  that his 
territory has  not  been  changed  since  his 
first trip out, are suggestive of the esteem in 
which he is held by his  employers,  the re­
spect entertained for him by his  customers, 
and his sterling worth as a  salesman  and a 
man.

A  Good  W ord  for  Alba.

W. A. Williams, the Alba general  dealer, 
seems to have “fallen in love” with his new 
location, although  he  has  been  there  only 
about a month, as he  writes  as  follows  of 
the place and its future prospects:

Alba  is  situated  seven  miles  north  of 
Mancelona and nine miles south  of  Elmira. 
It has good soil on all sides, the best  of any 
location on the G. R. .& L , north of Cadillac. 
About three miles  east of  the  place,  there 
lies  a  tract  of  solid  pine  timber,  twenty 
miles broad, and extending  south  as  far as 
Missaukee county.  The  remainder  of the 
county around Alba is timbered  with  hard­
wood,  such  as  maple,  beach,  birch,  elm, 
hemlock,  oak,  basswood  and  cedar.  The 
place now  has  about  500  inhabitants  and 
contains eight business houses, one saw mill 
and planing mill, one broom handle  factory, 
one cant hook handle and bowl  factory, one 
blacksmith shop, a hotel  and  saloon.  The 
town  needs  a  lawyer,  baker,  dressmaker, 
meat market and a man with sufficient funds 
to loan on real estate.  There is every  pros­
pect of a new railway from  Bellaire  to Al­
pena, touching at Alba and Gaylord.  Such 
a line would be a great benefit to  the town, 
as it would give the  merchants  the  advan­
tage of lake freights.

Cora  Starch  Com bination.

The Western corn  starch  manufacturers 
are endeavoring to form a  combination. 
It 
may be that they  are  in  earnest  this  time, 
but they will have to  make  some  striking 
demonstration of the  fact  before New Eng­
land cotton manufacturers  will  believe  it. 
Usually the first  man  approached after  the 
pool rates have been agreed  upon  has been 
ready to cut the agreement in  some way.

It is quite true, as the starch  manufactur­
ers claim, that the market has been demora­
lized for months,  where  the price  of  com 
would justify  a  firm  condition  of  things. 
They have themselves  only  to  blame. 
In 
the first place too many grades of corn starch 
are manufactured. 
It becomes  next  to im­
possible to regulate prices  when one manu­
facturer produces 22 pounds of starch to the 
bushel and another 30 pounds,  with  prices 
ranging from 2 7-8 to 4 cents per  pound.

The  companies  who  are  mentioned  as 
forming the new pool  include  two  Cincin­
nati  companies;  the  manufacturers  located 
at Elkhart  and  Columbus, Ind.;  Columbus, 
O.; Peoria and Danville, 111.;  Ottumwa and 
Des Moines, la.  There are several outsiders 
to be heard from, but it is believed that they 
will all come into the arrangement

F eatures  of th e   W eek.

T ie grocery business has been fairly good, 
and collections have not fallen  off from pre­
vious weeks.  The  market has  been  about 
steady, no changes of importance  having oc­
curred.  Provisions have changed very little 
during the week.

Oranges are steady,  with  light  demand. 
Lemons are firm at the  quotations  and  in 
fair demand.  Bananas are scarce.  Peanuts 
are quite active and steady in price.

Abuse of tobacco may inj ure the eye-sight, 
investigations  demonstrate 

but  scientific 
that its moderate use does not affect it

VISITING  BUYERS.

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

Grand Haven.
rider, Hart.

S. M. Wright, Big Springs.
M. J. Howard, Englishville.
I. S. Boise, Hastings.
Gaylord & Pipp, Pierson.
J. P. Anderson, Saranac.
J. W. Closterhouse, Grandville.
T. W. Provin, Cedar Springs.
W. H. Struik, Forest Grove.
Heck & Goodman, Burnip’s Corners.
J. H. Spires, Leroy.
C. O. Bostwick & Son,  Cannonsburg.
Jas. Wingarden, Grand Haven.
Paine & Field, Englishville.
McLeod & Trautman Bros.,
B. M. Dennison, East Paris.
G. Baron & TenHoor, Forest  Grove. 
Cornell & Griswold, Griswold.
Norman Harris, Big Springs.
Walter Shoemaker, Cannonsburg.
John Mead, Berlin.
H. M. Freeman, Lisbon.
J. Omler, Wright
J. Barnes, Austerlitz.
F. G. Thurston, Lisbon.
G. H. Walbrink, Allendale.
R. H. Woodin, Sparta.
M. V. Wilson,  Sand Lake.
Walling Bros., Lamont.
Byron McNeal, Byron Center.
G. F. Richardson, Jamestown.
J. R. O’Dell, Fremont.
Roup & Williams, Chippewa  Lake.
O. W. Messenger, Spring Lake.
C. H. Deming, Dutton.
J. E. Thurkow, Morley.
W. L.  Heazlit, Wayland.
C. Cole, Ada.
Mr. Gibbs, Gibbs Bros., Mayfield.
Eli Bunnells, Coming.
C. L. Gray, C. L. Gray & Co., Evart
E. W. Pickett, Wayland.
M. H. McCoy, Grandville.
O. M. Bush, Evart.
Mr. VanWoerkom,  VanWoerkom  Bros., 
Mr.  Houghtaling,  Houghtaling  &  Sack- 
Geo. A. Sage, Rockford.
Messenger & Sheenan, Hickory  Corner. 
W. B. Wilson, Muskegon.
F. H. Spencer, Saranac.
F. C. Williams, Ada.
Nagler & Beeler, Caledonia.
W. H. Benedict, Casnovia.
M. Minderhout,  Hanley.
Jacob Debri, Byron Center.
Wm  Vermeulen, Beaver  Dam.
J. W. Braginton, Hopkins.
Johnson Bros., Muskegon.
Thos. Cooley, Lisbon.
J. Gunstra,  Lamont 
A. G. Chase, Ada.
N. DeVries, Jamestown.
John Glupker, Zutphen.
Jay Marlatt,  Berlin.
Ed. Roys, of Roys Bros., Cedar Springs.
J. B. Taylor, Sparta.
G. N. Reynolds, Belmont.
J. A. Spooner, Cedar Springs.
Henry DeKline, Jamestown.
Cass Scoville, of Scoville & McAuley,  Ed- 
Mr. Kellogg, of  Kellogg  & Wooden, Kal­
Geo. W. Sharer, Cedar Springs.
Jackson Coon, Rockford.
J. L. Graham, Hopkins.
Sisson & Lilly, Lilly Junction.
Peter Zalsman, Paris.
Smedley Bros., Bauer.
Norman Harris, Big Springs.
C. Keller, Keller.
C. A. Robinson, Rothbury.
Adam Wagner, Eastmanville.
Byron McNeal, Byron Center.
Darling & Smith, Fremont.
S. L. Rouse & Co., Hobart.
A Retan, Pewamo.
J. E. Mailhot, West Troy.
Gringhaus Bros., Lamont.
O. W. Kibby, Bellaire.
J. E. Rice,  Coopersville.
Kellogg & Potter, Jennisonville.
Geo. Martindale, Cross Village.
R. B. Forrest, Monroe Center.
Mr. Camp, of Cole & Camp, Kingsley.
Mr. Pope, of Pope & McElcheran, Traverse 
John Otis, Mancelona.
S. T. McLelland, Dennison.
Mr. Griswold, of  Griswold,  Campbell  & 
W. Graham, Middleville.
Mr.  Ball,  of  Boomgard  &  Ball,  Grand 
S. S. Dryden, Allegan.
E. VanderVeen, Holland.
Mr. Ferris, manager  Henderson  &  Peter 

City.

Co., Middleville.

Haven.

son, Holton.

gerton.
kaska.

VISITING  SALESMEN.

shall.

Representatives of  the  following  houses
G. F. Cole, Marshall  Shirt  Factory,  Mar­
Will Morley, Staiton & Storm, New York.
Thos. McLeod, H. P. Baldwin & Co.,  De­
L. L. Morrison,  Dick,  Middleton &  Co., 
J. E.  Hollingshead, Adrian.
Geo. D.  Bow,  Dick,  Middleton  &  Co., 

troit.
Louisville.

Louisville.

The  Department of  Agriculture  reports 
that the prospect  is  favorable  for  another 
large crop of potatoes, not so full  as that of 
last  year, on an area three per cent smaller. 
The  present  indications  point to a crop of 
about ten  per  cent, less  than that of 1883, 
with a larger  difference if future  conditions 
should be less favorable.

An oil for  belting is recommended  which 
consists of 9 parts linseed oil  and four parts 
litharge  ground in water.  These  boiled to 
a plastic consistency, and  then  liquified by 
an  addition  of  turpentine, furnish  an  oil 
which  posesses, it is said, many  admirable 
qualities.

It is  stated  that  the  Government  pays 
$50,000 a year for the repair of mail pouches. 
There are about 100,000  mail  bags  in  use, 
and  about  10,000  are  purchased  yearly. 
The weakest point in the mail-sack is where 
it closes and opens.  In  closing  the  pouch 
the staples  are  pushed  through  the  slots, 
and project an inch or more.  As  the bags 
are thrown about, the staples soon bend and 
often  break. 
It  seems  strange  that  this 
little item should  cost  the  Government  so 
much, and one would think that  Yankee in­
ventive  genius might produce  a  new  mail- 
bag that would at least do  away  with  this 
item of expense.

The direct line  of telegraph is now  open 

between S t Louis and Owosso.

AXLE  GREASE.

 

 
 

 
 

“ 
“ 

BLUING.

BAKING  POWDER.

** 
“ 
BROOMS.

Frazer’s ........................................................   85
Diamond........................................................  60
M odoc__ $  doz............... t ..........................  60
Paragon...  $  doz.........................................  70
Paragon, 20 ft  pails......................................  90
Arctic % ft cans.................................. $  doz.  45
Arctic % ft cans.............................................. 
76
Arctic Vt H> cans..................... ........................  1 40
Arctic 1 ft cans.....................................................2 40
Arctic 5  B> cans....................................................12 00
Dry, No. 2............................................doz. 
25
Dry, No. 3............................................doz. 
45
Liquid, 4 oz,.............. 
35
doz. 
Liquid, 8 oz......................................... doz. 
65
A rctic4 oz.................................. r ...$   gross 4 00
Arctic 8  oz.......................................................   8 00
Arctic 16 oz.....................................................  12  00
Arctic No. 1 pepper box................................   2 00
Arctic No. 2 
3  00
Arctic No. 3 
4  50
2  50
No. 1 Carpet.............................................. 
2 25
No. 2 Carpet.............................................. 
No. 1  Parlor Gem....................................  
2  75
2 00
No. 1 H url.................................................  
1 75
No. 2 Hurl  ................................................ 
Fancy W hisk............................................... 
1 25
85
Common W hisk........................................ 
Cove Oysters, 1 ft  standards.......................1 15
Cove Oysters, 2  ft  standards.....................  1 95
Cove Oysters, 1 ft  slack filled....................  75
Cove Oysters, 2 fl> slack filled.......................1 25
Clams, 1 ft  standards.................................... I 65
Clams, 2ft  standards....................................2 65
Lobsters, 1 ft  standards..............................
Lobsters, 2ft  standards..............................
Lobsters,  Picnics................................ ........
Mackerel, l f t   fresh  standards................... 1 20
Mackerel, 5 ft fresh  standards................... 6 50
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3  ft..................3 50
Mackerel, 3 ft in M ustard............................. 3 50
Mackerel, 3 ft broiled....................................3 50
Salmon, 1 ft Columbia river........................ 1 60
Salmon, 2 ft Columbia river........................ 2 60
Salmon. 1 ft  Sacramento............................. 1 50
Salmon, Wm. Hume’s Eagle......................   1 85
Sardines, domestic %s................................. 
7
Sardines,  domestic  54s...............................   1214
Sardines,  Mustard  14s.................................  12
Sardines,  imported  148...... 
15
Sardines, imported 14 b.................................  20
Sardines, imported 14s, boneless...............  32
Sardines, Russian  kegs..............................  50
Trout, 3 ft  brook........................................  3 00

CANNED FISH.

 

 

CANNED FRUITS.

Apples, 3 ft standards.....................................  90 #
Apples, gallons,  standards, E rie................2 50
Blackberries, standards...............................1 25
Cherries,  red...................................................1 10
Cherries, white .............................................1  75
Damsons.........................................................1 20
Egg Plums, standards 
.............................. 1 35
Egg Plums,  Erie............................................1 45
Green  Gages, standards 2 ft........................1 40
Green Gages,  E rie........................................ 1 50
Peaches, 3ft  standards................................ 1 75
Peaches, 3 ft E xtra  Yellow..........................2 00
Peaches,  seconds.......................................... 1 65
Pie Peaches 3 ft.......................... .................1 15
Pears, B artlett 2 f t........................................1 30
Pineapples, 2 ft  stand..................................1 40
Q uinces.......................................................... 1 45
Raspberries, 2 ft stand................................ 1 25
Raspberries, 2 ft E rie....................................1 40
Strawberries, 2 ft standards........................110
Apricots, Lusk’s ........................................... 2  75
Egg  Plum s.....................................................2 85
Green Gages..................................................2 85
Pears  .............................................................3 00
Q uinces..........................................................3 00
Peaches..........................................................3 00

CANNED FRUITS—CALIFORNIA.

CANNED VEGETABLES.

.

Asparagus, Oyster Bay................................ 3 25
Beans, L im a.................................................   85
Beans, S tring................................................  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..................................................1  15
Corn, 2ft  Onandago.....................................1  50
Mushrooms, French.....................................22@24
Peas, standard  M arrofat.............................1 40
Peas, 2 ft  Early, small  (new).......................1 60
Peas, 2 ft Beaver...........................................  75
Peas, French 2 ft................................. 
Pumpkin, 3 ft Golden........................ .........1.10;/
Succotash, 2 ft standards............................  85
Succotash, 2 ft B. & M................................... 1 75
Squash, 3ft  standards................................. 1 20
Tomatoes, 3ft Dilworth’s .............................1 05
Tomatoes, 3 ft Job Bacon...........................1  05
G.  D.....................   35  ¡Ely’s W aterproof  75

CAPS.

CHOCOLATE.

 

 

COFFEE.

Boston  prem ium .....................................     @36
Baker’s premium ......................................  @40
R unkles........... .'.........................................  @35
German  sweet.........................................    @25
Vienna Sweet..................  
@25
Green Rio..................................................12  @14
G reenJava................................................17  @27
Green Mocha............................................ 25  @27
.12 
Roasted Rio. 
.24  @34 
Roasted  Java.. 
Roasted  M ar... 
.17  @19 
Roasted Mocha. 
@34 
.17!4@19 
Roasted M ex...
Ground  Rio__
.  9)4 @17 
@16 
Ground  M ex...
Arbuckle’8.......
@1534 
Y Y XX.............
@1534 
Dilworth’s .......
@ 534 
Levering’s .......
@1534 
Magnolia..........
@1534
1  75
1 50

72 foot J u t e .......  1 25  160 foot Cotton 
60 foot Ju te .......1  05 
|50 foot Cotton 

CORDAGE.

FLAVORING EXTRACTS.

Lemon.

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

  1  50

4oz...........................................  
6oz......................................................... 2 50
8 oz......................................................... 3 50
No. 2 Taper.........................................  1 25
No.  4  a 
34pint  round............................  
1 
“ 

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

....................................  1  75
  4  50
...............................   9 00
3 00

 

Vanilla.

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

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

5 00

 

 

FAUCETS.

FISH.

Faucets,  self  m easuring......................  @2 50
Faucets, common................................. 
@  35
Whole Cod..............................................  4M@6)4
Boneless Cod...................................... 
........~
Herring 34 bbls. 100 ft.........................2 75@3 00
Herring Scaled......................................  @24
Herring Holland..................................   @1  10
White, No. 1,34 bbls
6  50 
White, Family, 34 bbls.......
2 50 
White, No. 1,10 ft k its.. ;..
95 
White, No. 1,12  ft kits.......
1 05
Trout, No. 1,34  bbls..........
5 25 
Trout, No. 1,12  ft  kits.......
90
Mackerel, No. 1,34 bbls__
6 50 
Mackerel, No. 1,12 ft  kits.
1 00

FRUITS.

London Layers, new.............................. 
2  85
Loose Muscatels Raisins,  new............  @2  70
New Valencias  Raisins....................... 
734@734
D ehesia...................................................  @3 25
Ondaras...................................................  @1
Turkey P ru n e s...................................... 
@
C urrants................................................   5  @
C itron.................  
@2
Dried Apples  .........................................  8  @834

 

 

MATCHES.

Richardson’s No. 2  square........................... 2  70
do
Richardson’s No. 3 
.2 55 
do
Richardson’s No. 5 
.1 70 
do
Richardson’s No. 6 
.2 70 
do
Richardson’s No. 8 
.1 70 
do
Richardson’s No. 9
.2 55
Richardson’s No. 4 ro u n d ...................................2 70
Richardson’s No. 7  do 
.............................. 2 55
.............................. l  70
Richardson’s No. 734 do 
Electric Parlor No. 17...........................................3 20
Electric Parlor No. 18........................................... 4 64
Grand  Haven, No.  9.............................................2 25
Grand Haven, No.  8............................................. i 50

20 grdSs lots special price.
  @18
Black  Strap............................................ 
Porto  Rico.....................................................30@35
New  Orleans, good.................. 
40@50
 
New Orleans,  fancy.................................... 56@60

MOLASSES.

185 ftpkgs.......
362ft pkgs.......
Im perial  bbls. 
Quaker bbls... 
Steel  c u t........

do. 

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

..................  @3  75
..................   @3 25
..................  @5  50
..................   @6 75
..................   @5  75

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

1334
10%
75
1 00
75
1  00

PICKLES.

do 
do 

Choice in barrels med.............  
.................. 7 00
......................................4 00
Choice in 34 
small............................ 4 25
Dingee’s 34 
Dingee’s quarts glass fancy.......................... 4 25
Dingee’s pints 
.........................  2 25
do 
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 
p is..2 75

“ 
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“ 

*’ 

“ 

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

PIPES.

RICE.

Choice  Carolina__
Prime  Carolina___
Java  ........................
P a tn a .......................
Rangoon..................

SALERATUS.

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

SALT.

60 P o ck et...........................................
28 Pocket............................................
100 3 ft  pockets...................................
Saginaw F in e ....................................
Diamond C........................................
Standard Coarse...............................
Ashton, English, dairy, bu. bags...
Ashton, English, dairy, 4 bu. bags.
American, dairy, 34 bu. bags..........
Rock, bushels....................................

SAUCES.

Lee & Perrins W orcestershire, pints.
Lee & Perrins W orcestershire, % pts.
Picadilly, 34 pints..................................
Halford Sauce,  large............................
Pepper Sauce, red  small.....................
Pepper Sauce, green.............................
Pesper Sauce, red large ring...............
Pepper Sauce, green, large ring........
Catsup, Tomato,  pints..........................
Catsup, Tomato,  quarts  .....................
Horseradish,  34 pints............................
Horseradish, pints............................... .
Capers, French surflnes.......................
Capers, French surflnes, large............
Olives, Queen, 16 oz  bottle..................
Olives, Queen, 27 oz  bottle..................
Olive Oil,  quarts, Antonia & Co.’s __
Olive Oil, pints,  Antonia & Co.’s ........
Olive Oil, 34 pints, Antonia & Co.’s__

SEEDS.

H em p.........................................-............
C anary.....................................................
R a p e ........................................................
Mixed Bird.............................................

....634 
....734 
— 6%
__6— 554
.@ 534 
.@ 534
• @ 534 
.@ 534
• @ 534 
.@ 534 
•@ 534
2  50 
2  35
2  65 
1  00 
1  75 
1  55
80
3 20 
25 
30

@5 00 
@3 00 
@1  50 
@3  75 
@  75 
@  90 
@1 30 
@1  60 
@  90 
@1 30 
@1 00 
@1 30 
@2 25 
@3 50 
@3 85 
@6 50 
@7 00 
@4 00 
@2 50

5
7
534@6

23@26

SOAP.

Lautz Bros. & Co.

Acme, 701 ft  bars...................................
Acme, 25 3 ft bars...................................
Towel, 25 bars  .......................................
Napkin, 25  bars......................................
Best American, 601 ft blocks...............
Palma 60-1 ft blocks, plain....................
Shamrock, 100 cakes, wrapped............
Master, 100-% ft c ak e s..........................
Stearine, 100  % ft cakes.......................
Marseilles, white, 100 % ft  cakes........
Cotton Oil, white, 100 % ft  cakes........
Lautz’s 60-1 ft blocks, wrapped...........
German Mottled, wrapped..................
Savon, Republica, 60 ft box..................
Blue Danube, 60-1 ft blocks................
London Family, 60-1 ft  blocks............
London Family, 3-ft bars 80 ft.............
London Family, 4-ft bars 80 ft.............
Gem, 100 cakes, wrapped.....................
Nickel, 100 cakes, wrapped..................
Climax, 100 qakes,  w rapped................
Boss, 100 cakes,  wrapped.....................
Marseilles Castile, Toilet,3 doz in  box
Kirk’s American  Fam ily............f) ft
do. 
In d ia .........................................
do.  Savon........................................
do.  S atin et....................... ..............
do.  R evenue..................................
do.  White Russian.........................
Goodrich’s English Family  ...............
P rincess............................
Proctor & Gamble’s Iv o ry .................
Japan  O live........
Town Talk  $  box
Golden B ar.___ ...
A rab........ :.............
Amber................. .........
Mottled German..
Procter & Gamble’s Velvet..................
Procter & Gamble’s Good Luck..........
Procter & Gamble’s Wash  Well..........
Badger............................................ 60 fts
G alvanic.................................................
Gowan & Stover’s New Process 3 ft br
Tip Top....................................... 3ft bar
Ward’s White Lily................................
Handkerchief.........................................
Sidall’s ...................................................
Babbitt’s ................................................
Dish R a g ........................................
Bluing.................................. ...................
Magnetic..................................................
New  French  Process............................
Spoon ......................................................
Anti-Washboard....................................
V aterland................................................
Magic........................................................
P ittsburgh..............................................
Bogue’s ...................................................
White castile bars.................................
Mottled castile.......................................
Old Country............................................

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

do. 

SPICES.

@ 634 
@  634 
@5 25 
@5 25 
@  6 
@ 5% 
@3 70 
@5 00 
@4 85 
@6 25 
@6 25 
@ 7 
@ 634 
@ 5% 
@  5% 
@ 5 
@4 00 
@4 00 
@3 85 
@4 00 
@3 25 
@2 30 
©1

5 10

634
5%
5%
5%
534
534
434
6 75
5
3  60
4 10 
3 40
3  75
4  20 
@3 40 
@3 20 
@3 05 
@634 
@4 20 
@18% 
@  16 
@6  75 
@4 20
3 00
5 50
4  15
5 00 
4 20
4 50
5 00
5 00
3 25
4 20 
4 00
6 75 
12 
10
534

STARCH.

Ground Pepper,  in boxes and cans...  16@22
Ground  Allspice....................................   12@20
Cinnamon................................................  16@30
Cloves......................................................  20@25
Ginger......................................................   17@20
M ustard...................................................  15@35
Cayenne...................................................  25@35
Pepper 34 ft $  dozen
75 
Allspice  34ft.................................... .
75 
Cinnamon  34 f t ......................................
1  00 75 
Gloves 34  ft..............................................
Pepper,  whole....................................
@18 
Allspice................................................
@10 
Cassia...................................................
@12
Cloves...................................................  20  @22
Nutmegs,  No. 1..................................   70  @75
Niagara Laundry, 40 ft box, bulk.......
@5
Laundry, bbls, 186  fts...........
@6%
“  Gloss, 401 ft packages...........
“  Gloss,  36 3 $   packages..........
@6
“  Gloss, 6 ft box, 72 ft crate__
“ 
Corn, 401 ft packages............
Muzzy Gloss 1 ft package.....................
Muzzy Gloss 3 ft package.....................
Muzzy  Gloss 6 ft boxes.........................
Muzzy Gloss bulk..................................
Muzzy Corn l f t ......................................
Kingsford  Silver Gloss.........................
Kingsford Silver Gloss 6 ft  box..........
Kingsford Corn.....................................
Oswego  Gloss.........................................
Mirror  Gloss...........................................
Mirror Gloss, corn.................................
Piel’8 Pearl..............................................
American Starch Co.’s
1 ft  Gloss.................................................
10 oz  Gloss....................  .......................
3ft  Gloss.................................................
6 ft Gloss, wood  boxes..........................
Table Corn 
.................................40 ft
Table  Corn.....................................20 ft
Banner, bulk...........................................

Special prices on 1,000 ft orders.

@8
@834
@8
@634
@634@6%
©4
@634
@6
@7
@634
@7
@4

@63
@734

Jugs $   gallon.
Crooks.............
Milk Crocks...

STONEWARE.

...........................................  7
...........................................  .7

STOVE POLISH.

SUGARS.

Rising  Sungro88..5  88|Dixon’s  groks........ 5 50
U niversal...............5 88 Above 3® dozen.......   50
I X L .......................5 50]
Cut Loaf...................................j............. 
@734
©7%
C ubes..................................................... 
Powdered..............................................  
@7%
G ranulated..............................  
  @6%
Conf. A ...............:............*5.................. 
@634
  @6%
Standard A .......................... 
 
E xtra C white........................................   6  @634
E xtra C.......................... .......................  
r>%®6
534@5 34
3pne C. 
Yellow C............................. 
554@534

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

 
 

 

 

SYRUPS.

TEAS.

@50
@45
@30
@38
@50
@60
@57
@52
@40
@45
@38
@33
@31
@65
@62
@65
@69
@7#
@70
@45
@35
@38
@67
@60
@30
@67
@32
@30
@32
@30
@74
@64
@52
@45

Corn,  Barrels.........................................  
33
36
Gorn, 34 bbls............................................  
Corn,  10 gallon kegs...............................   @  35
Corn, 5 gallon kegs.................................  @180
Corn, 434 gallon kegs.............................   @1 65
Pure  Sugar....................................... bbl  26@  30
Pure Sugar Drips.........................34 bbl  30@  36
Pure Sugar  Drips................ 5 gal kegs  @1 85
Pure Loaf Sugar Drips...............34 bbl  @  95
Pure  Loaf Sugar..................5 gal kegs  @1 90
Japan ordinary.  24@30
Young Hyson__ 25@50
Japan fa ir........... 32@35
Gun  Powder.......35@50
Japan fair to g’d.35@37
Oolong......... 33@55@60
Japan fine........... 40@50
Gongo..................  @30
Japan dust..........15@20
TOBACCO—FINE CUT.
Rose Bud...........................................
O.! K ...................................................
Gur  Bird...........................................
Peaches ............................................
Morrison’s  F ruit..............................
V ictor................................................
Diamond  Grown..............................
Red  Bird...........................................
Opera Queen....................................
Sweet Rose.......................................
Green  Back......................................
F ru it.................................................
O So  Sweet.......................................
Prairie  Flower.................................
Climber [light and  dark]...............
M atchless.........................................
H iaw atha.........................................
Globe.................................................
May Flow er......................................
Hero...................................................
A tlas.................................................
Royal Game......................................
Silver Thread............................... .
Seal.....................................................
K entucky.........................................
Mule E ar.................................. '.___
Peek-a-Boo.......................................
Peek-a-Boo, 34  barrels....................
Clipper, Fox’8...................................
Clipper, Fox’s, in half barrels.......
Fountain...........................................
Old Congress....................................
Good Luck.........................;.............
Good and Sweet...............................
Blaze Away......................................
Hair Lifter.......................................
Old Glory, light...............................
Charm of the West, dark...............
Governor, in 2 oz tin foil...............
B. F. P.’s  Favorite..........................
Old Kentucky..................................
Big Four,  2x12.................................
Big Four, 3x12..................................
Darby and Joan, all sizes...............
Turkey, 16 oz., 2x12........................
Blackbird. 16 oz.,  3x12....................
Seal of Grand Rapids.....................
Glory  ................................................
D urham ............................................
Silver  Coin.......................................
Buster  [Dark].................................
Black Prince [Dark].......................
Black Racer  [Dark].......................
Leggett & Myers’  Star....................
Clim ax..............................................
Hold F a s t.........................................
McAlpin’s Gold Shield....................
Nickle Nuggets 6 and 12 ft  cads...
Cock of the Walk  6s .......................
Black Spun  Roll..............................
Nimrod..............................................
Acorn ................................................
Red Seal............................................
C rescent...........................................
Black  X ............................................
Black  Bass.......................................
True G rit...........................................
Nobby  Spun  Roll............................
Spring................................................
Crayling, all  styles.........................
Mackinaw.........................................
Horse Shoe.......................... ............
Good  Luck.......................................
Big Chunk or J. T............................
Hair L ifter.......................................
D. and D., black...............................
McAlpin’s Green  Shield................
Ace  High, black..............................
Champion  A ....................................
Sailors’  Solace.................................
Red Star............................................
Shot Gun...........................................
D uck...............................................
Jum bo..........................   ..................
Apple Jack.......................................
Jack Rabbit.....................................

@60
@60
@60
@50
@50
@50
@50
@50
@50
@34
@48
@50
@48
@50
@36
@36
@36
@50
@50
@48
@48
@51
@37
@38
@48
©48
@46
@44
@35
@40
@35
@50
@50
@50
@47
@50
@50
@40
@37
@37
@48
@35
@48
@48
@50
@48
@18
@40
@50
@42

PLUG.

SMOKING.

 

Morning Dew...................................
@26
Chain  ...............................................
@22
Seal of Grand  Radids.....................
@25
King.................................................
@30
F lirt...................................................
@28
Pug....................................................
@30
Ten Penny Durham, 34 and %......
@24
Amber, 34 and l f t ............................
@15
Red Fox Smoking............................
@26
Lime Kiln  Club...............................
@47
Blackwell’s Durham Long  Gut__
@90
Vanity  F air.....................................
@90
D im e.................................................
18@25
Peerless............................................
@25
Standard ..........................................
@22
Old Tom............. .............................
@21
Tom & Je rry ....................................
@24
Joker.................................................
@25
Traveler............................................
@35
Maiden..............................................
@26
Topsy  ...............................................
@27
Navy Clippings...............................
@24
Honey D ew .....................................
@25
Gold  Block.
@32
Gamp F ir e __
@22
Gronoko..........
@19
Nigger  Head..
©26
Durham, % ft . 
@60
do  % f t .
@57
do  % ft
@55
do 
l f t .
@51
H olland..........
@22
G erm an..........
@16
Long Tom__
@30
National........ . 
_
T im e ........................................................   @26
Love’s Dream.........................................   @28
C onqueror..............................................   @23
Fox’s ........................................................  @22
G rayling..................................................  @32
Seal Skin........ ........... 
@30
Dime D urham ........................................  @25
Rob Roy...................................................  @26
Uncle  Sam..............................................  @28
Lum berm an...........................................  @26
Railroad Boy................ 
@37
Mountain Rose........................................  @20
Good  Enough.........................................   @23
Home Comfort, %s and  %s..................   @25
Old  Rip, long c u t..................................   @55
Durham,  long cut, No.  2.....................   @55
Two  Nickle, %5......................................
Two  Nickle, %s......................................  @26
Star Durham ...........................................  @25
Golden Flake Cabinet............................  @40
Seal of North Carolina, 2 oz.................  @52
Seal of North Carolina, 4  oz.................  @50
Seal of North Carolina, 8 oz.................  @48
Seal of North Carolina, 16 oz  boxes...  @50
Big Deal, %s  longcut............................  @27
Apple Jack, %s  granulated.................  @24
King Bee, longcut, %s and %s...........   @22
Milwaukee Prize, %s and %s...............  @24
Good Enough, 5c and 10c  D urham ....  @24
Durham, S., B. & L, %s and %s...........   @24
Rattler, longcut......................................  @28
Windsor cut plug..................................   @25
Mule E a r.................................................  
24
23
H iaw atha................................................ 
23
Old Congress........................................... 
Acme........................................................ 
23
Lorillard’s  Macoboy..............................  @55
American Gentlem an........   @72
Rappee, A. Beck & Co.’s .......................  @35
  @44
Gail & Ax’s  Macoboy............. 
Scotch, Railroad  Mills..........................   @44^
Pure  Cider.............................................. 
10@12
White  Wine............................................  
10@12
1776 
f t ..................................................   @10%
Gillett’s $  f t ...........................................  @7%
Soapine pkg............................................  
7@io
Pearline $  box......................................t  @4 50
Lavine, single boxes, 481 ft papers...  @4 50
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 481 ft pap’rs  @4  25
Lavine, single boxes, 100 6 oz papers.  @4 50
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 100 6  oz  pap  @4 25
Lavine, single boxes, 80 % ft papers..  @4  15
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 80 % ft paprs  @4  00

WASHING POWDERS.

VINEGAR.

SHORTS.

SNUFF.

“ 

 

 

 

YEAST.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Twin Bros..........1 75  ¡W ilsons.................1 75
Gillett’s ............. 1  76  INational...............1  75
B lacking.........................................30,40,
do  w aterproof............................
Bath Brick im ported............................
do 
American............................
Barley.. ..................................................
Burners, No. 1 ........................................
do  No.  2.......................................
Bags, American A .................................
Condensed Milk, Eagle brand.............
Gondensed Milk,  Swiss.........................
Curry Combs  doz....................... . 
Cream T artar 5 and 10 ft cans.............
Gandies, S tar.......................................
Candles,  Hotel................................... ..
Chimney  Cleaners^  d o z...................

1  50 
95 
75
110 
1  50 
20 00 
8 00 
7 50 
@25 
@15% 
@16)4 
@50

25@ 

1

* 

do 

no.  2............................

Chimneys No.  1....................................
Cocoanut,  Schepps’ 1 & % ft  do  .
Extract Coffee,  v. c................. .............
F e lix .................y ..!‘l
Flour Sifters $  doz................................3
Fruit Augurs each...............................'1
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps.......................
Gum, Rubber 200 lum ps..................
Gum, Spruce............................... , 
’
Ink $  3 dozen  box................................ j
Jelly in Pails..........................................
do  Glass Tumblers $  doz .
Lye $12  doz. cases..................”  ..........
Macaroni,  Im ported..........
Domestic.................................................
French Mustard,  8 oz $  dozen!..........
__ m do 
Large  Gothic!!!!!!! ’
Oil Tanks, Star 60  gallon...........
Peas, Green Bush.....................
do  Split prepared..........!!..............
Powder,  Keg.............................. !!!!!!' 4
do  % Keg..................... 
2
Sago  ..........................................  ..........
Shot, drop...............................  
j
j
Sage......................................!".'!...........
Tobacco Cutters e ac h ..........  ........... "1
T w ine.....................................................
T apioca................................................*
Wicking No. 1 $  gross..........................

do  b uck.......................... 

 

do  No.2  .........................
do  A rgand................... 

 

j

@38
@48
@27%
90@95
30@
00@
25@@30
@40
30@35
00@

@ 554 
@75 
@1 55 
@13 
@80 
@80 
@1 35 
@10 OO 
@1  75 
@ 3 y» 
00®
50@
60@
80@
@15
25@
18@20
5@6
@40
@65

5@6

50@

CANDY,  FRUITS AND  NUTS.- 

utnam & Brooks quote as follows:

STICK.

 

do
do

@10%

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

FANCY—IN 5 ft BOXES.

@10%
Royal, 25 ft  pails............................ 
Extra, 25 ft  pails...........  
....................« «
Extra, 200 ft bbls..................*..........................JJ7*
French Cream, 25 ft pails...............................14
Gut loaf, 25 ft  cases..................!” **.............. j.
Broken, 25  ft pails........  
-iiiz
Broken, 200 ft  bbis........... !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 10%
Lemon Drops............................ 
14
Sour Drops.    .....................! ” ....................... jk
Peppermint  Drops........   .!!!.!!!!!!...........16
Chocolate Drops....................!........................17-
HM  Chocolate  Drops...... _........................... 20
Gum  Drops  .................................................... Í»-
Licorice Drops...............!!.!.!.!.!!!!!!!........20
A B  Licorice  Drops.. 
*  .................... .  "14
Lozenges, plain.................  
i6
Lozenges,  printed........  
 
it
Im perials........................   ..............................
M ottoes................................................ ..........
Cream  B ar..........!!.!!!!..................................»
Molasses B ar..........!!!!!..................................Í4
Hand Made Creams . .!!.!!!’............................2a
Plain  Creams................... 
«o
Decorated  Creams......................................... m
String Rock.....................  
7?
Burnt Almonds........ ...................................... .>»
W intergreen  Berries.!!!!!!!!!!’!!".!!!!!. .16 

 

Fancy—in  B ulk.

Lozenges, plain in  pails............... 
14
Lozenges, plain in  bbls.................  
13
Lozenges, printed in pails__ !!!....................15
Lozenges, printed in  bbls........... .!!!  !! 
14
................. 14
Chocolate Drops, in pails.......... 
Gum Drops, in pails...........  
 
«
 
Gum Drops, in bbls.................  
 
7
Moss Drops, in pails............! ......................14
Moss Drops, in bbls.......................................   91/
Sour Drops, in  pails........  
13
Imperials, in  pails........  
14
Imperials  in bbls................ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 13

 

 

 

FRUITS.

keg..

6  59®,

Oranges $  box...............................  
Oranges OO ^  box........ 
'
Oranges, Imperials, $   box..................
Oranges, Valencia $   case..........V.'.'.V.
Lemons,  choice............................!..*!  3 50@4 00!
Lemons, fancy.................... 
4 uvñí* no
Bananas ^  bunch...................!!!!!!!! 2 M@4  0&
Malaga Grapes, 
Malaga Grapes, $  bbl...........................
 
Figs,  layers  $  ft.................... 
 
 
Figs, fancy  do 
 
..................... 
Figs, baskets 40 1b ¡p ft....................
Dates, frails 
do
d o ..........
Dates, % do 
Dates, skin.....................
Dates, y2  skin....................
Dates, Fard 10 ft box ^   ft 
Dates, Fard 50 ft box #  ft.... 
Dates, Persian 50 ft box $  ft.
PEANUTS.
Prime  Red,  raw  ip  ft.!__
Choice 
d o ..........!
Fancy 
do  ...!..* ’
Choice White, Va.do  ........
Fancy H P,. Va  do  ......... !.

©@@ 6
iy*
.10
@11
7  @  8 
0%® 7

t 2@l8
S

do 
do 

@  7)4 
@   8 
@  9

NUTS.
Almonds,  Terragona, $  ft... 
do 
Almonds, loaca, 
do  ..!
Brazils, 
do  !!!
Pecons, 
do  ! 
Filberts, Barcelona 
Filberts, Sicily 
do  ..
Walnuts, Chilli 
do  ... 
Walnuts, Grenobles  d o .!! 
Walnuts, California  do  . 
Cocoa Nuts, ^   100 
Hickory Nuts, large $   bu .!! 
Hickory  Nuts, small  d o ...

18@19
16@17
fe@10
10@14
@14
@12)4,
14@15

@4 50-

io>4

11%
11)4.
11%

3%

8)4;

PROVISIONS.

PORK.

The  Grand Rapids  Packing  &  Provision  Co­

quote  as  follows:
Heavy Mess  Pork.................................... 
jus  75:
Pig Pork, short cut, better than  mess.V.  18 OO
Family Clear Pork........................  
19 50.
Extra Clear P o rk ...............................!!!!!.
Clear Back  Pork, new.....................   !.......  20 00s
Boston Clear Pork............................
Standard Clear Pork, the best ..!.."!.'!.’!!''

All the above Pork is Newly Packed.
DRY  SALT MEATS—IN BOXES.
Long Clears, heavy, 500 ft.  Cases.......... 
Half Gases.............  
Long Clear medium, 500 ft  Cases.......... 
Half Cases..........  
Long Clears light, 500 ft Cases............... 
Half Cases............... 
Short Clears, heavy................................. 

U
ll%
ll
11%
11
11%
10)4
medium...................................... 10^
light........................................  

do. 
do 
do. 

do. 
do. 

Extra Long Clear Backs, 600  ft cases..
Extra Short Clear Backs, 600 ft  cases.
Extra Long Clear Backs, 300 ft  cases..
Extra Short Clear Backs, 300 ft  cases..
Bellies, extra quality, 500 ft cases........  
Bellids, extra quality, 300 ft cases........ 
Bellies, extra qulaity, 200 ft cases........ 

LARD.

Tierces  .......................................................... 
30and50ftT ubs....................!.!!!.!!!.! 

LARD IN TIN PAILS.

8)4
8%

20 ft Round Tins, 80 ft  racks.......................  
501b Round  Tins, 100  ft  racks.................... 
3 ft Pails, 20 in a case.............................. 
9
5 ft Pails, 12 in a case.......................... .. 
s%
10ft Pails. 6 in a case........................................8%

SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED OR  PLAIN.

Hams cured in sweet pickle, heavy__  
Hams cured in sweet pickle medium.. 
light........  
Shoulders,  boneless...............................
Shoulder, cured in sweet  pickle.......!! 
E xtra Clear Bacon...................................... 
Dried Beef,  E xtra...................................... 

do. 

14
14%
14%
9

12
15

 

BEEF IN BARRELS.

Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 fts........   10  75
Plate Beef, extra quality..........................   11  75.

CANNED BEEF.

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

incase......................................................  18 25;
do. 
2 ft cans, 1 doz. in case__   2 90
Armour & Co., 14 ft cans, % 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 OO-

SAUSAGE—FRESH AND SMOKED.

Pork Sausage...................................................  9
Ham  Sausage................................................... 15
Tongue  Sausage............................................   n
Liver Sausage...................................................  8.
Frankfort  Sausage......................................... 10
Blood  Sausage................................................... 8
Bologna,  ring...................................................  8%.
Bologna, straight.........................  
8%
Bologna, thick.................................................   8%
Head  Cheese......................................................  8

 

PIGS’ FEET.

In half barrels.................................................  3 90
In quarter barrels..........................................   2 m
In kits.................  ..........................................!
In half barrels............................................... f  3  75
In quarter barrels..........................................   2 OO-
In k its........................ 
95
Prices named are lowest  at tim e of going to 
press, and are good only for th at date, subject 
to m arket fluctuations.

TRIPE.

 

 

Ibarbware.

Prevailing  rates  at  Chicago  are  as follows: 

AUGERS AND BITS.

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

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

25

R ailroad.......................................... 
$  15 00
Garden....................................................... net 3o 00

BALANCES.

BARROWS.

BELLS.

H and.................................................... dis  $ 60&10
60
Cow.............................................................dis 
Call..............................................................dis 
15
G ong...........  
20
Door, Sargent............................................dis 
55

dis 

 

BOLTS.

Stove......................................................dis $ 
40
Carriage  new  list....................................dis 
75
Plow  .......................................................dis  30&1C
Sleigh Shoe..............................................dis  50&15
Cast Barrel Bolts.................................... dis 
50
W rought Barrel Bolts............................dis 
55
Cast Barrel, brass  knobs.......................dis 
50
Cast Square Spring.................................dis 
55
Cast  Chain.................................................dis 
60
Wrought Barrel, brass  knob................dis 55&10
Wrought Square.....................................dis 55&10
Wrought Sunk Flush............................. dis 
30
W rought  Bronze  and  Plated  Knob
Flush...................................................  50&10&10
Ives’ Door................................................dis  50&10

BRACES.

B arb er.................................................. dis $ 
Backus......................  
dis 
Spofford........... ..................................... dis 
Am. Ball...................................................dis 

 

40
50
50
net

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

BUCKETS.

BUTTS, CAST.

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 

PANS.

Fry, Acme............................................... dis 40&10
...dis 40&10
60
__ dis
Common, polished................
ft
8
Dripping.................................
RIVETS.
Iron and  Tinned....................
Copper Rivets and B urs......
\  
PATENT FLANISAI

40
..dis
40
. .dis
24 to 27 lOVi
9
to 27

Broken packs V4c  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, Vi In. and Barger...............................$   9V4
Manilla.............................................................  15V4
Steel and  Iron.............................................dis  50
Try and Be véls............................................ dis  50
Mitre  ...........................................................dis  20
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. 27....................................... 
4 60 
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SHEET ZINC.

casks of 600 fi>s, $   ft...............
smaller quansities, $   ft........
TINNER’S SOLDER.
No. 1,  Refined...............................
Market  Half-and-half.................
Strictly  Half-and-half................

TIN  PLATES.

6V4

13 00
15 00
16

©r\>  (Boobs.

Spring  & Company quote as ru«« 
WIDE  BROWN COTTONS.

Androscoggin, 9-4. .23 
Androscoggin, 8-4.. 2l
Pepperell,  7-4...... 16^4
Pepperell,  8-4...... 20
Pepperell,  9-4......22 Vi

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

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

Park Mills, No. 90. .14 
Park Mills, No. 100.15
Prodigy, oz............ 11
Otis Apron............ 10 Vi
Otis F urniture......10V*
York,  1  oz..............10
York, AA, extra oz. 14

OSNABURG,

Alabama brown—   7
Jewell briwn..........9Vi
Kentucky brown.. 10Vi 
Lewiston  brow n...  9Vi 
Lane b ro w n ........  9Vi
Louisiana  plaid—   8

Alabama  plaid.......8
Augusta plaid........   8
Toledo plaid— ....  7Vi 
Manchester  plaid..  7 
New Tenn. plaid.. .11 
Utility plaid........... 6V4

b l e a c h e d  c o t t o n s.

Avondale,  3 6 .......  8V4
Art  cambrics, 36.. .11 Vi 
Androscoggin, 4-4-  gVi 
Androscoggin, 5-4.. 12%
Ballou, 4-4................  7Vi
Ballou, 5-4................  6
Boott,  0 .4 4 ............   °Vi
Boott,  E .5-5..........7
Boott, AGC, 4 4 .......9 Vi
Boott, R. 3 -4 ....... ■  5M
Blackstone,A A 4-4.  (Vi!
Chapman, X, 4-4....  6 Vi
Conway,  4 4 ............
Cabot, 4-4.................
Cabot, 7-8.................   ”Vi
Canoe,  3-4------------*  !
Domestic,  36.......
Dwight Anchor, 44.  9
Davol, 4 4 .........••••
Fruit of Loom, 4-4..  9 
Fruit of Loom, 7-8..  8V4 
Fruit of  the Loom,
cambric,  4 4 .........12
Gold Medal, 44..  •
Gold Medal, 7-8.......6Vi
Gilded  A ge..............8%

Greene, G,  4-4........   5V4
Hill, 4-4....................  8 Vi
Hill, 7-8....................  7Vi
Hope,  4-4................ 7V4
King  Phillip  cam­
bric, 4-4................11 Vi
Linwood,  4-4..........9
Lonsdale,  44..........8 Vi
Lonsdale  cambric.llVi 
Langdon, GB, 44...  9Vi
Langdon. 45...........14
Masonville,  44.......9Vi
Maxwell. 4-4............10Vi
New York Mi1.!, 4-4.10VÌ 
New Jersey,  4-4—   8 
Pocasset,  P. M. C..  (Vi 
Pride of the West. .12V4 
Pocahontas,  44—   8Vi
Slaterville. 7-8........  6 Vi
Victoria, AA..........9
Woodbury, 44........   5%
Whitinsville,  4 4 ...  7Vi 
Whitinsville, 7-8—   6 Vi
Wamsutta, 4-4........ lGVi
Williams ville,  36...10VÌ

CORSET JEANS.

..............7Vi|Kearsage....................  8*
Annorr 
AnXoscoeirinsat..  8%|Naumkeagsatteen.  8Vi 
^anoeRH^r 
.  6  Pepperell  bleached  8 Vi
6% Pepperell sat............9Vi
S e n K  
Hallowell  Im p.......6 £  Rockport.. . . .............  t
Ind. Orch. Im p.......7 
lLawrencesat.............8Vi
IConegosat.
L aconia....................7V

G loucester............... 6
Albion,  solid............5V4
Gloucestermourn’g.6 
Albion,  grey............6
Hamilton  fancy— 6
Allen’s  checks.........5Vi
Hartel fancy............6
Ailen’s  fancy.......... 5Vi
Merrimac D..............6
Allen’6 pink............ 0V2
M anchester..............6
Allen’s purple.........bVi
Oriental fancy.........6
American, fancy.... 5Vi 
Oriental  robes.........6 Vi
Arnold fancy.......... ®
S Ä . : : : : : - ' ! *  r a ^ o  *
............ç
Cocheco fancy........ 6  ¡Richmond^................®
Cocheco robes..........7  Steel River.................5/*
S d Ä e fancy:::  e
Eag^e  fancy............. 5  Washington blues..8
G arner pink.............7  I

.

EINE BROWN COTTONS.

..........7V4|lndian Orchard, 36.  8

Armleton  A, 4 4 ....  8  ¡Indian Orchard, 40.  8%
Roston  F. 4*4.........   8 
iLscoiiifl, Bj i*4«..• • «Iôtî
Gontinental C, 4-3..  73É Lyma* B, 40-in.......10Vi
ContinentalD, 40in 8« Mass. BB, 4-L 
....  53£ 
Conestoga W, 44...  7  Nashua  E,40-m ....  9
Conestoga  D, 7-8... 
Nashua  R, 4-4........  (
Conestoga G, 30-in.  ®kNashua 0,7-8.........
nw ieht  X. 3-4........ 6  Newmarket N --------  (54
D w i l h t W . - .V .   6Vi|PepperellE,39-in..  754
Pepperell  R, 44—   7 
Dwight Z, 44 
Pepperell  0,7-8—   6V4 
Dwight Star, 4-4—   (54 
Pepperell  N, 3-4—   654
Ewight Star, 40-in..  9
Pocasset  C, 44.......7
E nterppse EE, 36..  5Vi 
Saranac  R ...............  7
G reat Falls E, 4-4...  7
Saranac  E ...'.........   9
Farm ers’ A, 4-4.......6s4
Indian  Orchard, 44 7Vi

COUNTRY PRODUCE.

Apples—The market is well supplied with 
home-grown fruit, which sells at $1.50@$2.25 
per bbl.

Buckwheat Seed—$1.25 1$ bu.
Butter—Choice  dairy  packed  is  in  good 
demand and held at 15@18c and creamery at 
20 @ 22c.

Beans—None in market.
Beets—40c 1  bu.
Berries—Whortleberries are in steady sup­
ply at $2.50 '$ bu.  Blackberries are in good 
demand, and  comparatively  scarce at  7c@ 
7Kc ^  q t

bunch.

sale at these prices.
ments are now commanding 15c.

Cabbages—$4@$5 ^  100 
Celery—25c 
Cheese—Full cream is slow  sale  at 9c. 
Clover  Seed—Choice  medium  $6@$6.50 
bu. and mammoth at $6.75  7$  bu.  Slow 
Eggs—Firmer  and a trifle  scarcer.  Ship­
Egg Plants—$1.25 ^  doz.
Grapes—California, $3  for  one-half  case 
of 20 Bos.  Southern, 6@7c ^  lb.
Green Com—8@10c  doz. ears.
Hungarian Grass Seed—$1 IP bu.
Honey—Choice new, 15c.
Hops—Brewers pay  35@40c  for  Eastern 
andWestem and 18@20c  for  Michigan.
Hay—§12@$14 for new, and$13@$15  for 
bailed. 
.
Lettuce—The  Daily  Times is quoting  it 
at 12c 1   ft., but the  produce dealers  have 
had  none on hand for  about  two  months. 
This is a fair  sample of  the  correctness of 
the alleged quotations furnished by the daily 
press of Grand Rapids.

Maple Sugar—About out of market. 
Melons—Musk,  $1.25 ^  crate of a  dozen. 
Watermelons, $15 ^  100 for Jerseys and $20 
for Missouris.

. 

. 

. 

, 

Millet Seed—$1  bu.
Onions—New, $1  IP bu.
Peaches—$2.50@$3.50  ^  bu.  Nearly all 
the fruit  that  has  yet  appeared is Cling­
stone. 
,
Pears—California $4.75 ^   case  of  about
225.
Plumbs—California $2.25 ^  crate of about 
225.
Potatoes—The  market  is  well  supplied 
with home-grown, which  find  slow  sale at 
35@40c ^  bu.
Poultry—Fowls 15@16c.  Spring chickens, 
19c@20c.
Radishes—Out of market.
Red Peppers—$1.50 IP bu.
Turnips—40e7$ bu. 
Timothy—Choice is firmly held at $1.75 
Tomatoes—Acme 50c per bu.

_   ^  Mr.

bu.

GRAINS AND MILLING  PRODUCTS. 

new  Fulse,  78c.

Wheat—White,  80c;  new Lancaster,  82c; 
Com—45@60c IP bu.
Oats—White 40c |P bu.
Rye—52@54c IP bu.
Barley—Brewers pay $1.30@$1.40 Tjp  100 
fts.
Flour—Fancy  Patent,  $6.20  'IP  bbl.  in 
sacks  and $6.45 in wood.  Straight, $5.20 7$ 
bbl. in sacks and $5.45 in  wood.

Meal—Bolted, $1.50 |p cwt.
Mill Feed—Screenings, $15 IP ton.  Bran, 
$14  per  ton.  Ships,  $15  |P  ton.  Mid­
dlings, $18 |p ton.  Com  and  Oats,  $23 
ton.

Cormany  & Strickland,  who  have  been 
carrying on the manufacture of woodenware 
at Reed City under  the name of the  Eureka 
Manufacturing  Co., have  made an  assign­
ment.

LUMBER, LATH  AND  SHINGLES,

The Newaygo Company quote f . o. b. cars  as 
follow: 
^
Uppers, 1 Inch................ .................Per M $44 00
Uppers, 154,1% and 2 inch.........................  46 00
Selects, 1 i n c h ......................................  85 0®
Selects, 154,154 and 2  inch.........................  38 00
Fine Common, 1 inch................................. 
J™
Shop, 1 inch.................. 
.......  w  m
Fine, Common, 154,1V4 and 2 inch.  . . —   3-00 
No. f  Stocks,  12 in., 12,14 and 16  feet  ...  15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet.........................  1® 00
No. 1 Stocks, 12in., 20feet... . ....... ..........  17  00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet.........................  1® 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10in .,20fe et.........................  1J 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., 20feet..........................  17  00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  12  50
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 18 fe et.........................  13 5U
N o.2 Stocks, 12in .,20fe e t......................   14 50
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  1-50
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet.........................  13 50
N o.2 Stocks, 10in .,20f e e t......................   14 50
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 12,14 and 16 feet........   11  »0
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 18 fe e t..........................   13  50
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in.,  20 feet. 
.......... ......  13 50
Coarse  Common  or  shipping  culls, all
widths and lengths.......................... 8 00® v oo
A and B Strips, 4 or 6 i n ............................  ob oo
C Strips, 4 or kinch...................................   *8 w
No. 1 Fencing/all  lengths  .......................   15 00
No. 2 Fencing, 12,14 and 18  feet...............  12 00
No. 2 Fencing, 16 feet................................. 
XX
No. 1 Fencing, 4  inch.................................
N o.2 Fencing,4  in c h .........................  
XX
Norway C and better, 4 or 6 inch.............   *0 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, A and  B ..................  1» W
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, G-..............................  14 50
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, No. 1  Common.... 
9 00
Revel Sidlmr.  6 inch,  Clear.....................   2U uu
Piece Stuff, 2x4 to 2x12,12 to 16ft... !0 00@10 50 
$1 additional for each 2 feet above 16 ft.
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., A.  B ....................  ge uu
Dressed Flooring, 6 in.  C............. "•••••
Dressed Flooring, 6 m., No. 1, common..  17 00 
14 00
Dressed Flooring 6in., No. 2 common—  
Beaded Ceiling, 6 in. $1 00  additnnal.
35 00 
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., A. B and  Clear..
26 00 
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., C....................... •
16 00 
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. 1  com n 
14 00
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. 2  com n 
Beaded Ceiling, 4 inch, $1 00 additional.
i  y y y  18 in. Standard  Shingles.............  
g 50
3 40 
1 X X X 18 in.  Thin.................................
3 00 
X X X 16 in..................•••-.  V.................
2 00
No. 2 or 6 in. C. B 18 in.  Shingles.............
1 75
No. 2 or 5 in. C. B. 16  in ..............................
2 00
Lath  .............................................................

OYSTERS  AND  FISH .

OYSTERS.

FRESH  FISH.

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: 
New York Counts, per  can.....................
E xtra  Selects............................................
Codfish......................................................
H addock....................................................
Smelts.........................................................
Mackinaw Trout.................................. - *
M ackerel...............................................
W hiteflsh..................... ............................
Smoked Whiteflsh and T rout..................
Smoked Sturgepn......................................
H ID ES, PELTS AND  FURS.

Perkins & Hess quote as foLows:

15

HIDES.

Green............................................... ^  ®
P art  cured....................................
Full cured......................................
Dry hides and kips......................
Calf skins, green or cured........... • - • • m
Deacon skins............................^  piece20
Shearlings or Summer skins $  piece. .10
Fall pelts..............................................;-“0
W inter  pelts....................................... 1 00
Fine washed ^     .....................................j."0®
Coarse washed....................... ............... £8„
Unwashed.. .............................................
Tallow............................•••-•..................8^ ®

SHEEP PELTS.

WOOL.

@ 7 
@   8 Vi 
8V4@ 8V4 
8  @12 
@12 
@50
@20 
@50 
@1 50

@20

FRESH   MEATS.

John  Mohrhard  quotes the trade as follows:
Fresh  Beef, sides...................................  ®V&®  8
Fresh Beef, hind  quarters..................8  ®  ®
Dressed Hogs.........................................  
8
Mutton,  carcasses.......g g j *
Powhs............. I" ." '................................ 
Pork Sausage  ....................................... M
Bologna.

15@16
@10

DOMESTIC  GINGHAMS.

Renfrew, dre3S styl 9% 
Johnson  Manfg Co,
Bookfold.................12 Vi
Johnson  Manfg Co,
dress  styles.........12 Vi
Slaterville, 
dress
styles......................9
White Mfg Co, stap
royal  styles........   8  ¡White MfgCo.fanc  8
[White  Mant g  Co,
............. 7Vi ¡Gordon......................8
dress 9

A m oskeag........ .. .8
Amoskeag, Persian
styles.................... 10V4
B ates.........................¿Vi
B erkshire...............  ®/»
Glasgow checks....  7 
Glasgow checks, f y 7 Vs 
Glasgow 
Gloucester, 
Plimket 
Lancaster".............   8% Greylock, 
Langdale................ 7&I  styles  .....................12Vi

checks,
new 

WIDE BLEACHED COTTONS.

Androscoggin, 7-4..21 
jPeppereil.  10-4.......27Vi
Androscoggin, 8-4. .23  [Pepperell,  11-4.......32Vi
■ppnnerell  7-4....... 20  Pequot,  7-4.............21
Pepperell,  8-4....... 22Vi Pequot,  8-4.............24
Pepperell,  9-4....... 25  ¡Pequot,  9-4.............¿>\i

HEAVY  BROWN  COTTONS.

Atlantic  A, 4-4.......7V£¡Lawrence XX, 4-4..  8\
Atlantic  H ,4-4.......7  ¡Lawrence  Y ,30....
Atlantic  D, 4-4..
Atlantic P, 4-4—
Atlantic LL, 4-4.
Adriatic, 36........
Augusta, 4-4.......
Boott  M, 4-4.......
Boott  FF, 4-4....
Graniteville, 4-4.
Indian  Head, 4-4 
Indiana Head45-i

,.  6V4Lawrence LL, 4-4...  5%
..  5M ¡Newmarket N ........   7V4
.  5V4¡Mystic River, 4-4...  6
..  7Vi Pequot A, 4-4..........  8
..  6V6¡Piedmont,  36..........7
..  7V4¡Stark AA, 4-4..........  7V4
.  72ilTremont CC, 4-4—   5%
..  6X ¡Utica,  4-4................ 9
..  7V2|Wachusett,  4-4.......7Vi
i.l2Vi|Wachusett, 30-in...  62i
TICKINGS.

Amoskeag,  ACA.. .LlViiFalls,XXXX..........18Vi
“ 4-4..19  Falls, XXX..............15/4
Amoskeag 
Amoskeag,  A ........13  ¡Falls,  BB 
......... 11A
Amoskeag,  B ........12 
iFal}8»  BBC, 36.........19/i
Amoskeag,  C....... U   Falls,^awning......19
Amoskeag,  D ....... 10V4 Hamilton,  BT, 3^..1-
Amoskeag,  E ........ 10  ¡Hami ton,  D..........
Amoskeag, F ..........9V4 Hamilton,  H ............9Vi
Premium  A, 4-4— 17  Hamilton  fancy—10 
Premium  B ........... 16  Methuen AA.......... 13V4
Extra 4hL .................16 
Idethuen ASA........ M
E xtra 7-8........  
, .14V4 ¡Omega A, 7-8..........11
Gold Medal 4-4.........15  [Omega A, 4-4 
.... .13
•j'.g...................13/4¡OiHGg’fl. ACA, 7-B....14
Omega ACA, 4-4— 16
CT 4-4.......................\\
Omega SE, 7-8.........24
BC 7-8...................... 11
Omega SE, 4-4.........27
BF 7-8...................... 1®
Omega M. 7-8.........22
4_4...................... 19
Omega M, 4-4.......... 25
Cordis AAA, 32......14
ShetucketSS&SSW 11 Vi 
Cordis ACA, 32......15
Shetucket, S & SW.12 
Cordis No. 1,32......15
Shetucket,  SFS— 12
Cordis  No. 2...........14
Stockbridge  A .......7
Cordis  No. 3...........13
Stockbridge frncy.  8
Cordis  No. 4...........11V4

GLAZED CAMBRICS.

............... 5  ¡Empire  ...................

Garner 
H ookset"...............  5  W ashington.............   4&
Red  Cross...............  a  f d^ ards-  -...............  ?
Forest Grove.......... 
¡S. S. & Sons............  5

GRAIN BAGS.

American  A ........ 19  lOld  Ironsides.........15
Stark A 
. . . . . . .   .23 Vi! W heatland............. 21

Roston 
.............   7Vi lOtis  CC.................... 10Vi
Pverett blue!.. !.. .13 Vi ¡Warren AXA...........12Vi
Everett brown.......13 Vi ¡Warren  BB............llVi
Otis  AXA...............12Vi Warren CC............. 10V4
OOsBB 
. .............11/4; York  fancy........... 15

PAPER  CAMBRICS.

Manville..................®
M asgnville.............  e

|S. S. & Sons............... 6
¡G arner......................6

WIGANS.

Red  Cross...............7Vi [Thistle Mills.............
B erlin.......................  Z$|Rose.......................   8
G a rn e r.....................  7V4I

SPOOL COTTON.

B rooks...................50
Clark’s O. N. F ......55
J. & P.  Coats.........55
Willimantic 6 cord.55 
Willimantic 3 cord. 40 
Charleston ball sew 
ingthread...........30

Eagle  and  Phoenix 
Mills ball sewing.30 
Greeh  &  D aniels...25
M erricks.................40
Stafford...................35
Hall ft Manning— 30 
Holyoke...................25

SILESIAS.

C row n................... 17  [MasonvilleTS..........  8
jjo.  10.....................12Vi Masonville  8 ...........10V4
Lonsdale...................9V4
C oin......................... 10
Lonsdale A ............. 16
A nchor....................15
Nictory  O...............
Centennial.............
Victory J .................
B lackburn.............  8
Victory  D .............
Davol.................. . -  I*
Victory  K ........... 
2V4
London............. 
Phoenix A ...............  9V4
P aconia................. 13
Phoenix  B .........  10V4
Red  Cross............JO
Phoenix X X .......¿-.15
Social  Im perial.... 16

.1JV4

Office of JOHN  CAULFIELD,
85, 87, 89 Canal Street,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

Japan  Teas are  now  arriving  quite  freely,  and 
prices are fairly settled.  I desire to advise the trade 
that, within a few  days,  I  will  be  in  receipt  of the 
following invoices:
125 Chests by City of Peking, No. 424, My own  importation  - 
30
237 
<• 
28
97 
« 
25
125 
•< 
36
Also large assorted lines of Young Hyson,  Gun 
Powders, both Muyone and Pingsuey, Formosa Oo­
longs, and Moning Congos at lowest figures.

« 
« 
Suez Steamer 

No. 75, 
No. 25, 

“ 
« 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 

« 
« 

- 

- 

- 

- 

“ 

-
“  and Mocha 

......................................... 23
-

I  wish  to  call  special  atttention  to  my  new 
brands of roast Coffees.  I have taken special pains 
in selection and blending,  and  roast  fresh  daily.  I 
guarantee  better  values  than  those  furnished  by 
Eastern parties or no sale.
Imperial  Roast, a blended coffee 
IQ
O. G. Roast Java 
  25
-
Mandehling Java 
-  28
Mail  orders  solicited.  Lowest  market  prices 
guananteed.
I  have  secured  the  agency  of Gilbert’s  Starch 
factories  at  Buffalo  and  Des  Moines.  Their  goods 
have always been regarded as equal to any of East­
ern Manufacturers, and have always held their own 
in the Eastern States.  I  am  now  able  to  compete 
with Western manufacturers  in  price  and  guaran­
tee quality.

- 

- 

- 

-

-

-

’  JOHN  CAULFIELD.

2 1 5

BRISBIN   OF  BERLIN .

to rial  O bservations.

H is  Offer  of  Com promise  R ejected—E di­
In response to the  call  for a  meeting  of 
the creditors  of  F.  C.  Brisbin,  the  Berlin 
general dealer, representatives of six  of the 
thirty or forty houses  interested  assembled 
at  the  place  designated  last  Wednesday 
afternoon, to  listen to  a  proposition  from 
Brisbin’s attorney, Arthur Lowell, of  Coop- 
ersville.  Mr. Lowell stated the reasons that 
impelled his client to take the course he had, 
related  the  circumstances  surrounding  the 
utterance of the mortgages, berated the pub­
licity that had beeD given the matter through 
T h e T radesm an, and concluded by extend­
ing an offer of  20  per  cent,  in  full  settle­
ment.  One of the  creditors  stated  that  he 
would  accept  the offer  if  he  thought  that 
was all there was  in  it,  which he  did  n«t. 
Another volunteered the opinion that 50 per 
cent, would be acceptable,|but was unable to 
speak,  authoritatively, for all  the creditors. 
Mr. Lowell stated that he W’as not  authoriz­
ed  to  go  beyond  the  offer  made,  and  the 
meeting adjourned indefinitely.

T h e T radesm an acknowledges the receipt 
of a pleasant call  from  Mr.  Brisbin  on the 
day of the meeting.  While inclined to take 
exceptions to some of the  statements  made 
relative to his  late  actions,  he  accepts  the 
criticisms made, as a  whole,  as  both perti­
nent and deserved.  He engaged in business 
at  Berlin  with  the  determination  to  sell 
goods  at  actual cost  for six  months  or  a 
year, for the purpose of bringing to the town 
a considerable patronage  thqt went to Coop- 
ersville and Grand Rapids. 
If  the  money 
which was his stock in  trade  had  been his 
own, no one would question his right to take 
such a course, but as events have since prov­
ed, the money was  borrowed  from  another 
and Mr. Brisbin was  thus  jeopardizing  the 
property of his creditors.  Being  a stranger 
to the  town  and  surrounding  country, and 
not having the advantage of help  who could 
advise him  in  such  matters,  he  naturally 
trusted many men who are irresponsible and 
from whom it will be immpossible to collect 
any proportion  of  the  accounts  involved. 
The advent of close times  caught  him with 
many  other  accounts  on  his  books  which 
would have been good under more favorable 
circumstances, but which have  been  practi­
cally uncollectible for the past  six  months. 
This condition of  affairs  tended  to  embar­
rass him, and instead of making a voluntary 
assignment or executing a trust  mortgage to 
some one who would act for all the creditors, 
he chose to make a Detroit dry goods  house 
and his own  father-in-law  preferred  credi­
tors,  giving mortgages  that  amount  to  a 
practical ^hut-out for all the  other creditors. 
When asked by the editor of T h e  T ra d es­
man why  he did not take the former course, 
he replied that pressure was brought to bear 
upon him suddenly  and  unexpectedly,  and 
that he executed the mortgages without  giv­
ing the subject a second thought. 
It is small 
satisfaction to know that he  “would  not do 
the same thing over again,”  nor  is  it  com­
forting  to  the  creditors  to  learn  that  he 
stated: “The fact  of the  matter  is,  I  have 
made a complete  fizzle  of  the  whole  busi-

Cards for Charcoals, $6 75.
10x14, Charcoal...............................   6 50
10x14,Charcoal.................................  8 50
12x12, Charcoal....................................  6 50
12x12,  C harcoal.............................   8 50
14x20, Charcoal...............................   6  50
__, 
14x20,  Charcoal................................   8 50
IXX,  14x20, Charcoal...................................10  50
IXXX,  14x20, Charcool......................................12 50
IXXXX, 14x20,  Charcoal.............................  14 50
20x28, Charcoal.................................  18  00
IX, 
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 

rates.

TRAPS.

WIRE.

Steel, Game......................................................
Onoida Communtity,  Newhouse’s ........... dis  35
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s__   60
Hotchkiss’ ........................................................  60
,P . &W. Mfg.  Co.’s......................................  60
Mouse,  choker....................................... 20c  doz
Mouse,  delusion.................................$1 26 ^  doz
Bright Market............................................  dis  60
Annealed M arket.........................................dis  60
Coppered Market.........................................dis  55
E xtra Bailing........ :....................................dis  55
Tinned  M arket............................................kis  40
Tinned  Broom............................................Vgft  09
Tinned M attress....................................... ^  ft  8V4
Coppered  Spring  Steel...........
__ dis 37V4
Tinned Spring Steel...................................dis 3754
Plain Fence....................................................ft  VA
Barbed Fence.................................................
Copper...............................................new  list net
Brass..................................................new  list net

WIRE GOODS.

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

WrENCHES.

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

MISCELLANEOUS.

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

FOSTER,

It probably does  not  occur to Mr. Brisbin 
that in “selling  goods at cost,” as he  exult- 
ingly expresses it,  he has given the business 
interests of the place a black eye from which 
it will  take a long  time to recover.  To be 
sure, he has drawn trade to the place by giv­
ing  away  his—or  rather  his  creditors’— 
goods, but it is not to be expect that the pat­
ronage he has created will  continue to come 
to Berlin, when the attraction  ceases.  Coun­
try people  have a peculiar  fascination  for 
buying  goods  “cheap,” no matter  how far 
they go or how great the expense involved but 
as none of the other Berlin merchants  seem 
disposed to  do  business  for  fun, it is ex­
tremely unlikely that the town will continue 
to maintain  the  reputation it has  had  the 
past year.  Besides this drawback, which in 
itself amounts to a curse, Brisbin  has  injur­
ed  the  legitimate  trade  of  the  place, by 
agreeing to sell goods lower than  any of his 
competitors. 
In the light of  recent  events, 
it is plain to see  how he could do so consist­
ently, for he never proposed to pay for them; 
but the others, who meet their bills, have ex­
perienced no little  difficulty in withstanding 
such  irresponsible competition.

Brisbin  stated in T h e T radesm an office 
that he proposed to remain in Berlin, but  it 
is learned  from  other—and more reliable- 
sources  that he will leave the  place as soon 
as he can effect a settlement with his  credit-« 
ors.

A note from Berlin  says:  “Brisbin  now 
appears on the street with a dashing pair  of 
trotters, and  drives  around  the  square in 
Maud S. time.  We look upon Brisbin as the 
Vanderbilt of Berlin.”  All of  which  goes 
to show that the old adage  about a  prophet 
being “not without  honor  save in his  own 
country” sometimes proves untrue.

Com bination  of Coal-M iners.

The  miners employed in  the  colleries of 
the bituminous  and anthracite  regions  are 
forming a powerful  combination.  The or­
ganization, under the name  of  the  Miners’ 
Amalgamated Association, will absorb all the 
associations that have  been  formed  within 
the last few years by the miners  and  labor­
ers.  The  Amalgamated  Association  will 
not confine its  operations  to  the  Pennsyl­
vania coal regions, but will extend its  juris­
diction to Ohio  and the other  Western coal 
fields. 
It is estimated that the  membership 
already reaches over 100,000,  and it  is con­
fidently believed  by the  organizers  that  a 
membership of 200,000  will  be secured  by 
next  September.  The  leaders  claim  that 
the new organization is  merely  for  protec­
tive purposes, and is not  intended to  be ag- 
. gressive in its character or to ferment strikes.

-WHOLESALE—

10  and  12  MONROE  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICHIGAN.

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

W E   SOLICIT  TH E

DEALER’S  TRADE,

And NOT the Consumer’s.

We are prepared to quote  specially  low prices 

on any of the following:

Nicholson  Files,

Tin  Fruit  Cans, 

Simonds  Saw, 

Foster  Axe.

AG ENTS  FOB  THE

Riverside Steel Nail

A  Stock of which we now  have  in  store—and 

solicit  Sample  Orders.

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

Fos1er,Stevens i Go.

60
Cast Loose Pin, figured..........................dis 
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin  bronzed........ dis 
60
60
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed, .dis 
W rought Narrow, bright fast  joint..dis  50&10
W rounht Loose  Pin. 7........................... dis 
60
W rought Loose Pin, acorn tip ..............dis  60& 5
W roughtLoosePin,japanned............dis  60& 5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silver
tip p e d ...................................................dis  60& 5
Wrought Table........................................dis 
60
Wrought Inside  Blind...........................dis 
60
dis  65&10
Wrought Brass................ 
Blind, Clark’s ...........................  
dis  70&10
Blind, Parker’s....................................... dis  70&10
Blind,  Shepard’s .................................... dis 
70
Spring for Screen Doors 3x2%, per gross  15  00
Spring for Screen Doors 3x3__ per gross  18 00

 

 

CAPS.

CATRIDGES.

Ely’s 1-10......................................... __ per m $ 65
60
Hick’s C. F ......................................
35
S. D.................................................
60
Musket............................................
50
Rim Fire, U. M. C. & W inchester new list
50
........ dis
Rim Fire, United  States.............
........ dis
%
Central Fire...................................
Socket Firm er............................... .......dis 65&10
65&10
Socket Fram ing............................ .......dis
65&10
Socket Slicks................................. .......dis 65&10
40
Butchers’ Tanged Firm er.......... __ dis
20
__ dis
Barton’s Socket Firm ers...........
.......net
Cold.................................................
Curry, Lawrence’s....................... .......dis
Hotchkiss  .................................... .......dis

CHISELS.

COMBS.

33%
25

Brass,  Racking’s...........................  
40&10
Bibb’s ..........................................................  49&10
B e e r.............................................................  40&10
Fenns’.........................................................

 

 

Planished, 14 oz cut to size..................... $  ft
14x52,14x56,14 x60.........................................

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

COCKS.

COPPER.

DRILLS.

ELBOWS.

Com. 4 piece, 6  in ............................doz net $110
Corrugated.............................................. dis  20&10
A djustable...............................................dis 40&10

EXPANSIVE BITS.

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

dis
dis

FILES.

American File Association L ist.........dis
Disston’s ........................ 
dis
New American...................................... dis
Nicholson’s .............................................dis
Heller’s ..................................................dis
Heller’s Horse Rasps............................ dis  33
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.

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

HANGERS.

Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track dis
Champion, anti-frietion..................... dis
Kidder, wood tra .k ..............................dis

HINGES.

Gate, Clark’s, l, 2,  3................................ dis 
60
State............................................ per doz, net, 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to  12  in.  4V4  14
3V4
and ¡longer.............................................. 
Screw Hook and Eye,  %  ...................net 
10V4
Screw Hook and Eye y8.......................net 
8V4
Screw Hook and Eye  %...................... net 
7V6
Screw Hook and Eye,  %.....................net 
7V6
Strap and  T ............................................ dis  60&10

H0LLOW  WARE.

Stamped Tin W are....................................   60&10
JapanneduTin  W are.................................  20&10
Granite Iron  W are.................................. 
35

 

n.ruh  1............................................... $11 00, dis 40
Grub 3.!..............................................¿2 00, dis 40

HOES.

.  KNOBS.

Door, mineral, jap. trim m ings........ $2 00, dis 60
Door, porcelain, jap. trim m ings—   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 
49
H em aeite................................................dis 
50

LOCKS—DOOR.

Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s reduced list dis  60
Mallory, Wheelnr  &  Co.’s ........................ dis  60
Branford’s ....................................................5-8
Norwalk’s .....................................................R18  ®0

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

LEVELS.

MILLS.

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

NAILS. 

Common. Brad and Fencing.

MATTOCKS.
A dye  Eve 
.  ......................$16 00 dis 40&10
Hunt E ye.!!................................ $15 00 dis 40&10
Hunt’s ........................................$18 50 dis20 & 10
i,
lOdto  60d............................................ $  keg $2 45
*5
8d and 9 d  adv.............................................. 
6d and 7d  adv.............................................  
50
4d and 5d  adv.............................................. 
¿¡>
3d advance.....................................................  £ 5®
3d fine  advance............................................   « JJ®
Clinch nails, adv........   ................................  1 7o
Finishing 
Size—inches  f  3 
AdvTvkeg 
Steel Nails—Advance 10c from  above prices. 

I  lOd  8d 
6d  4d
2% 
1V2
2 
$1 25  1  50  1  75  2 00 

MOLLASSES GATES.

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

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

50

MAULS.

OILERS.

Zinc or tin, Chase’s Patent........................dis
Zinc, with brass bottom .............................dis
Reaper..................... ................per gross, $12 net
Oimstead’s . ............................. 
5U

MTJSXEESG02T  BUSINESS  DIRECTORY.

S. S. MORRIS  & BRO.,
Jobbers  of  Provisions.

PAOK.BKS

—AND—

CANNED  MEATS  AND  BUTTERS.

Choice  Smoked  Meats  a  Specialty.

Stores in Opera House Block, Packing and Warehouse Market and W ater Street.

W . D. CA REY  &CO.

Successors  to  Carey  &  Lander,
GEKTEH.AL

Commission Merchants

-AND  JOBBERS  0F-

Fr\xits stud. Produce.

ORDERS  PROMPTLY  FILLED.  BEST  GOODS  AT  LOWEST  PRICES.

Klme’s  Patent  Candler  and  Egg Carrier.

Til©  Best  on  tli©  Market.

Can be made any Size, Round or Square, with any Capacity.  State  Territory 
for Sale by G.  C. SAYLES, Sole  Agent  for  the  United  States, P. O. Box  1973, 
Muskegon, Mich.

ANDREW  WIERENGO,

W holesale

G R O C E R ,

WIERENGO  NEW  BLOCK

Pine Street

Muskegon, Mich.

TO FRUIT GROWERS
BASKET FACTORY !

MUSKEGON 

I M P O R T E R S
Wholesale  Grocers,

A 3 X T 3 3

Cor. Ionia & Island Sts., Grand Rapids.

N ew  Japans.

We invite the special attention of the trade to several large invoices  of  the  new  crop • 
of 1884-5 Japan Teas, including all  grades  of  Pan  Fired, Basket Fire and Sun Cured,[and 
embracing  about  1,000  chests  in  all,  a  large portion of which we are now receiving per 
Steamers San Pablo and City of Rio de Janeiro.  These  Teas  are  positively  our  own im­
portation,  and  we  believe we  are  safe  in  saying  that  they  are  the  first  Teas  ever  im­
ported  to  this  market  direct  from  Japan.

They are selected with a view to the wants of Michigan trade and our friends will  do 

well to send for samples and  quotations  before  buying  new  Teas.

Passengers  W ho Smoke.

“Since we have adopted the new  style of 
cars, we do not have much difficulty in keep­
ing smokers off the  front  platform,” said a 
street car conductor, “but when a man  does 
get on the front end of the  car, our  instruc­
tions are to go to him and  politely  tell  him 
that it is against  the  rules.  Then  we  go 
back to the rear platform and  watch  to  see 
how much that passenger cares for the rules. 
Other  passengers  frown,  cough,  mutter, 
and  look at us  threateningly.  We are  in 
structed to approach  the  smoker a  second 
time and  politely  say, “If you please sir,  it 
is contrary to  the  rules to smoke  on  this 
platform.”

“Well, what then?” asked the reporter.
“Nothing.”
“But if  the  passenger  continues  smok­

ing?”

“Let him  smoke.  The rules of  the com­
pany  are  politely to  request  a" passenger 
twice not to smoke.  We are told  not to get 
into any controversy  with  passengers, and 
on no account put them off.”

“Then they smoke?”
“The hogs do.

M iscellaneous Trade Notes.

S. R. Yan Drezer  has  opened a new res­

taurant at Saranac.

John  Bailey  contemplates  erecting  a 

double store building at Rockford.

The Dowagiac basket  factory will  build 

an addition for box and handle  making.

D. Thompson & Co.’s bending works, now 
in process of erection  at  Owosso,  will  em­
ploy forty  men.

The Ishpeming  Agitator  says  that  the 
Lake Superior  region has so  far  produced 
copper and iron ore of  the marketable value 
of $370,000,000.

The  Evart  Hardware Co. has  been  dis­
solved by mutual  consent,  M. O. Parkinson 
retiring, and R. A. Allured  and  E. F. Bird- 
sell continuing the business.

John J. Ely has  concluded  to  remain  at 
Rockford,  having  purchased  a  desirable 
business location, on which he  will  erect a 
brick  store  building,  24x60 in  dimensions.
R. A.  Kanaga—not  W.  H.  Kanaga,  as 
stated last week—is the boot and shoe  deal­
er at Nashville, who has recently  purchased 
the Barry  Downing bank  building  at that 
place.

The lumber firms of R. H.  McCracken  & 
Co. and H. N. Hovey  & Co.,  at  Muskegon, 
have been  dissolved,  Geo.  Hume  retiring. 
The new firm  of  H. N. Hovey &  Co., com­
posed of  H. N.  Hovey,  R. H.  McCracken 
and J. B. McCracken, absorbs  the  property 
and business.

Mackinaw  City  Journal:  Wanted  in 
Mackinaw City:  A pulp factory,  a tannery, 
a blast furnace, a soap factory, a saw  mill, a 
tooth-pick factory,  a  wholesale  grocery,  a 
tin shop, a shoe shop, a barber  shop, a  doc­
tor, a dentist, a breakwater, a  lot  of red-hot 
men to buy lots.

The total  loss in the  recent  fire  at  the 
Grand  Haven Match  Factory’s  works  was 
$2,800.  The manufacturing department was 
not burned, as the destruction  was  confined 
to the machine shop,  packing  room, storing 
room  and box  manufacturing  department. 
Temporary quarters have been secured,  and 
orders are being filled without  interruption. 
The construction of a new factory  building 
has been decided upon, and it is expected  to 
have it ready for  occupancy in  about  two 
months.
M.  M. H O USEM AIT,

ATTORNEY  AT  LAW,

ROOMS  7  AND  8  HOUSEMAN  BUILDING, 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH. 

COMMERCIAL  LAW   A   SPECIALTY.

1 .

Glim pse  of a  Soap  Factory.

From the Detroit Free Press.

There  are two  prudent  politicians  and 
public men in this city who are  backed by a 
very safe commodity whenever they wish to 
retire to the obscurity  of  commercial  life. 
It is a soap factory and  is  located  on  the 
Dix road near Twenty-fifth  street,  and the 
two politicians are—but on  second  thought 
we won’t tell.

The factory is a three-story  building  and 
the younger branches of the family, who are 
feeling their way along  the stony  paths  of 
commercial knowledge, run  the  institution 
and oversee the  soap-boiling. 
It  is  a large 
business and employs a  number  of  skilled 
men who understand the  practical  part  of 
the work,  turning ashes into lye, grease into 
oil, and the whole matter into a fair  article 
of laundry soap.

“Do you use dead dogs and  cats  in  your 
manufacture?” asked the interested  visitor, 
whose nose wras buried  in  a  handkerchief, 
and who kept  safely out  of  range  of  the 
boiling steamer.

“We do not,”  responded  M r.----- .  “We
leave those luxuries to  the  sausage  makers 
and rival establishments.  Our  soap  is all 
made from cotton-seed oil,  tallow,  and  the 
purest grease.  You need not  fear  the odor 
—there isn’t any.”

In  what  appeared  a  be  a  bottomless 
pit of concentrated lye, there  was  a  writh­
ing sea of boiling  soap—50,000  pounds. 
It 
was drawn off from this into a  cooling  ap­
paratus, called a Crutcher,  leaving the  set­
tlings,  technically called  “the  nigger,”  in 
the bottom of the big tank.

“How do you manage to have  your  soap 

always the same?”

“Our workmen see that the  regular  pro­
portions are used, but the soap does  not al­
ways thicken  and  harden  with  the  same 
ease.  Our soap boiler works at  it  until he 
has it just right.”

“Does it make any  difference  about  the 

time of the moon?”

“No; this isn’t old woman’s soap.”
“Or the day of the week?”
“Our Friday soap is always  the  best; but 
the soap gets sulky and has  tantrums some­
times like everything else.”

Alabama this year has been  distinguished 
for the inauguration of  heavy  mining  and 
smelting enterprises.

Adam is said to be the only man who nev­
er tantalized  his  wife about “the way  his 
mother used to  cook.”

Gladstone  recently  made  the  following 
prophetic utterance :  “Elevate the  working 
class by keeping your children in it.’1 

Puscher, the  Nuremberg  chemist, says a 
paste composed of starch, glycerine and gyp­
sum will maintain its plasticity  longer than 
any other  cement.

Only $543 was extracted from $144,000 as­
sets of Orange Judd, the agricultural editor. 
For completeness this failure conies  next to 
that of the Penn Bank.

In making infants’  shoes fifteen  different 
machines  are  used,  costing  between  $250 
and $400.  These turn out  ten pairs  in the 
same time as one pair made by hand.

A single shoe manufactory  in  Massachu­
setts  turns  out  by  patent  machinery  in 
twelve months as many  pairs  of  boots and 
shoes as 30,000 shoemakers  in  Paris  make 
by hand in the same period of time.

Stockings dyed  with  poisonous  coloring 
matter are rendered harmless to the  wearer 
by dipping  the  articles in a bath of rubber 
dissolved in naptha or some  other  reagent. 
Evaporation covers  each  fiber  with a thin 
film of rubber, preventing the transfer of the 
dye from the fabric to the skin.

A  Birmingham,  England, physician  has 
invented an artificial sponge. 
It is made  of 
cotton, rendered absorbent, and treated with 
antiseptics.  One of its most  important  ad­
vantages is cheapness; this quality  makes it 
unnecessary to use it more than once, so that 
“sponge infection” becomes an easily obviât 
ed evil.

Step by step the leading food  products of 
Europe are being reproduced in this country. 
Macaroni is made by Italians in New  York 
Neuchâtel  cheese by Swiss in New  Jersey 
Schweizer kase by Germans in  Ohio, Albert 
biscuit  by Englishmen in Albany, and cavi 
are by .Russians in Harlem.  Nearly  all  of 
these are exported to Europe, and there sold 
as domestic manufactures.

The process of removing the coloring mat­
ter from sugar  was  discovered in a curious 
manner.  A hen that  had  gone  through 
clay-puddle went with her muddy-feet into 
sugar-house.  She left  her  tracks on a pile 
of sugar. 
It was  noticed that wherever the 
tracks were the sugar  was  whitened.  Ex 
periments were made, and  the  result  was 
that wet clay came to be used in refining sug­
ar.
The plan of  using  the  enormous  water 
power of the Alps for working  electric rail 
ways in Switzerland  is about to take a defin­
ite shape, the idea being to connect the towns 
of St. Moritz  and  Pontresina by an  electric 
railway four and three-quarters  miles  long, 
the  motive  power to be  supplied  by  the 
mountain streams ; the line,  in case  the plan 
proves a success, to be extended a  consider­
able distance.

Anew York jobber, who was  pestered to 
death by continuous inquiries  from  visiting 
buyers  regarding  the  recent  earthquake, 
posted a placard  reading  as following in 
conspicuous  place  over  his desk:  “Yes, 
felt the earthquake. 
I did not know  it was 
an earthquake; thought it was an ice  wagon 
or the Keely motor  on  a  rampage.  1  was 
not hurt; my family were not hurt;  but  the 
next  man  who  talks  earthquake  will  be 
hurt  This is a business office.”

Is  now  in  full operation  manufacturing- 

kinds  of

all

Prices the Lowest.

Quality Guaranteed.

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Consignments  Solicited.

WHOLESALE  AND  COMMISSION

ORCUTT 
Bntter, Esp, Gteese, Frnit, Grain, Hay, Bnef Farl, FnAnce
MUSKEGON NOVELTY  IRON WORKS
Williams’  Patent  Novelty  Pipe  Wrench

Manufacturers  of  the

MUSKEGON, MICH.

Best,  Strongest  and  Most  Durable  Made.

School  Books

School  Stationery

W holesale,

BATON,  LYON  &  ALLEN,

22  and  24  Canal  Street,

The  only  general  jobbing  house  in 
Michigan  in  our  line.  Send  for cata­
logues and terms.

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

Ohio White Lime, per bbl.................... 
1  10
Ohio White Lime, car lots.................... 
95
Louisville Cement,  per bbl.................. 
1 40
Akron Cement per  bbl......................... 
1  40
Buffalo Cement,  per bbl..................... 
1 40
Car lots.................................................... 1  15@1 20
Plastering hair, per b u —   .................  35®  38
Stucco, per bbl........................................ 
1 75
Land plaster, per to n ............................ 
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 n u t..................  6  75®7 00
Cannelleoal........ .................................. 
7 00
40@3 60
Ohio coal...........................  
 
Blossburg or Cumberland ................  
  00@5  25

COAL.

 

We also build Mill and Marine Engines and Boilers  and  conduct  a  General  Machine 

Shop, Blacksmith,  Foundry and Boiler  Shop  Business. 

361  Western  Avenue.

Choice Butter a Specialty!

BANANAS, LEMONS, CALIFORNIA FRUITS, 

EGGS,  CHEESE,  VEGETABLES,  APPLES.
Careful  Attention  Paid  to  Filling  Orders.

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

ALL  USE

Eaton & Christenson’s

L. C. B.  CIGAR.

Towel, 
Shamrock, 
Sa COMPANY,

Again we remind the Trade that we are the Sole Agents in this market  for  the  well- 
known and popular Soaps of LAUTZ  BROS.  &  CO., Buffalo, N. Y.  Below wejjmentioc. 
a few of their best-known brands:
Acme 
Palma, 
White Cotton Oil,  Gem, 
Blue Danube, 
Master, etc.

Best American,
White Marseilles.
Boss,
Savon  Republique,

Napkin, 
Nickel, 
Stearine, 
Lautz Soap, 

Mottled German, 

These goods we sell regularly at the Manufacturers1 Prices, and deliver thenf in  10 
box lots and upwards to all rail points in Michigan, freight  prepaid.  Please send for’price- 
lists and  samples.  See quotations on Grocery Page.

Starch.

We are also the Sole Agents here for the NIAGARA  STARCH  WORKS’  Starch,  of 
Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  which  we  sell  at  the  manufacturers’  prices,  freights  prepaid  on  all 
shipments  of  10  box  lots  and  upwards  to  all  railroad  points  in  Michigan.  Send  for 
price lists.  See prices on Grocery page of this paper.

Tobaccos.

We  carry  the  largest  and  most  complete  line  of  Cigars  in  Michigan.  We not only 
carry  a  full  line  of  staple  and  popular brands  of  plug,  fine  cut  and  smoking  tobaccos, 
but are factory agents for the following, with which  we  are  able  to  offer  the trade special 
inducements:
B. F. P.’s Favorite Plug Tobacco. 
Big Four
Black  Bird 
Zoo Zoo 
Pirate
Old Kentucky 
Turkey 

Our Bird Fine Cut Chewing  Tobacco.
Morrison’s Fruit 
Victor 
Peaches 
Big  Deal  Smoking Tobaccos.
King  Bee 
Apple Jack 

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See quotations on grocery  page.

F an cy  G roceries.

We carry not only a complete line of staple goods, but also a full assortment of every­
thing in the Fancy Grocery department,  and are  now  considered headquarters in this line. 
Please send for Circulars and Price-lists relative to this department.  Parties desiring new 
stocks will find it to their decided advantage to come and see us before purchasing.
Crosse & Blackwell’s English Pickles. 
Lea & Perrins’ English  Sauce. 
Holford’s 
Piccadilly
Colman’s 
James Epps’ 
Choice Brands of French Peas.

Curtis Bros.’ Salad Dressing.'
Durkee & Co.’s  “ 
A. Lusk & Co,’s California Peaches.

“  Mustand.
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Breakfast  Cocoa.

Green Gages,

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"  Egg Plums.
“  Pears.
•'  Quinces.
“  Grapes.
'»  Cherries.

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“  Mushroons-

Italian Macarroni, 1 ft> pkg.

“  Vermicella.

Queen Olives, 16 oz* and 27 oz. bottles.
French Capers,  genuine  imported  in  bottle.
Choicest Salad Oil, Antonini & Co., Leghorn..

China Preserved Ginger, all size jars, 
Knowles & Anderson’s Jams and Jellies.

We are sole agents for the Rochester Ready Cooked Food Co.’s Desicated and Cookedi 
Oat Meal, Hominy, Wheat, Beans and Peas.  Send us a trial  order  for  these  goods.  All: 
correspondence and mail orders receive prompt attention,

