The Michigan Tradesman.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN,  WEDNESDAY,  SEPTEMBER  10,1884.

NO. 51.

TH E  FIN ANCIA L  SITUATION.

I

Joseph O. R utter in the  Current.

Public attention at the  present time being 
drawn in an unusual  degree to the  stagna­
tion and depression which made mischief  to 
the business  and  financial  interests of the 
country, it may not be  out of  place to look 
over the ground  and  ascertain, to some ex­
tent at least, what  the  situation  really is; 
and to try and point to some of the causes—
(if we can) which have led to them.

Merchants are, for the most part, complain­
ing of unprofitable results of  their  invested 
capital and for their  labor; while  we  will, 
without doubt, all agree  that  the  financial 
situation is of a nature so  serious  as  to  de­
mand our most careful consideration, and its 
contemplation fills us, as it needs must, with 
the greatest apprehension and anxiety.  Up­
on all sides failures follow closely upon fail­
ures—the wholesale  and retail  dealer  has 
gone  alike to a common  ruin.  The  large 
dealer and the small  have  met at the  com­
mercial grave.  We are called  upon to wit­
ness a  continuous  procession  of  business 
burials, if, indeed, we do not  sometimes ap­
pear  among  the  grief-stricken  mourners. 
These victims of the  struggle  for  existence 
are not being hurled to destruction in one of 
those financial  avalanches, which have been 
so frequent in the past; many, if not most of 
those who have gone down, have succumbed 
as if under the decaying  influences of an in­
sidious  and  deadly constitutional  disease, 
slow in its progress, but certainly fatal—and 
under existing  causes  seemingly  irremedi­
able.
The banking interests of our  country  are 
so involved and interwoven  with  its  manu­
facturing, commercial, mercantile  and  agri­
cultural  interests—so  mutually  dependent 
are they upon each other—that any influence 
seriously affecting them is felt  like  the  tin­
gle of the  galvanic  shock  throughout  the 
whole.  The existing conditions in  banking 
are in a large degree the reflex, or secondary 
effects  arising from the  unsatisfactory, not 
to say disastrous state of other business inter­
ests, but not  entirely so.  There is  another 
and very potential factor  which  presents it­
self for our consideration. 
It is  undeniably 
true  that as store-houses  for  the  floating 
money of the people, and as  great  distribu­
tors by means of loans, and  thus  helpful  to 
all other classes of business men, banks  are 
vitally necessary in promoting  the prosperi­
ty  of  a country. 
It  is  equally  true,  and 
should always be remembered, that  the  pri­
mal and the objective purpose of  capital  in 
banking, as of capital devoted to other  uses, 
is a fair and proper remuneration.  Banking, 
no more  than  merchandising, should  give 
something for nothing. 
Instead of  hamper­
ing it  with  burden  of  heavy  taxation, it 
should be the care of legislators in this coun­
try, as it is in  all  others, to  make  it  free. 
The difficulty not  unusually experienced  in 
earning the required and expected profit up­
on banking capital, to meet those  inevitable 
losses which will sometimes come under the 
wisest and most  prudent  management, and 
to render a fair  compensation  for  its  use, 
brings with it the  temptation to take an ex­
tra hazard and  incur an extra  risk,  which 
would be seldom  offered if legitimate  busi­
ness  could be made to yield so  fair a profit 
as it  should.  There is  great  misapprehen­
sion in the  minds of most  people  as to the 
profits accuring to  banks, as the  business is 
now conducted.  Let banks  make  a  charge 
for their work, reasonably, and  moderately, 
that their earning  capacity may be  increas­
ed, and  we  will  hear  of  fewer  losses  by 
bad debts and defalcations caused  by specu­
lation.

Prosperity is a grand conservator of  regu­

larity and integrity.

Under the existing  stimulus of  the  late 
war when the general  government  became 
as it did a purchaser of  almost  every  kind 
of manufactured and agricultural product in 
quantities so vast that a review of them now 
would  make  them  seem  appalling,  there 
seemed to be no limit to the consuming pow­
er of our people;  and, notwithstanding  the 
vastness of the  increased  supply, commodi 
ties of all kinds were  generally scarce  and 
high-priced.  When the war  closed  and the 
government suddenly ceased  its  purchases, 
the market furnished  by it ended.  Not on­
ly so, but large  previous  purchases of arti­
cles of nearly every description, constituting 
necessary stock  in  reserve,  were  thrown 
back into the channels  of trade through the 
auction and other methods of sale.  Prudent 
men saw that the time had  come to  take in 
sail and early began the work of curtailment 
and retrenchment; but the great mass of pro­
ducers kept on, heedless of  the  threatening 
conditions.  Over-production, with its atten­
dant  sharp  competition, soon  made  itself 
felt  The  hand-writing  was on  the  wall. 
But taking them as a whole  the  men of the 
country passed by with averted  eyes,  until, 
1873, the country was shaken as by an earth­
quake in its length and breadth  by  the  not­
able failure of one of the great firms in New 
York and  Philadelphia.  The  panic of that 
year in its crisis  and  results is not likely to 
be  forgotten  by  anyone  participating 
in 
it   Of the years that passed before its dread­
ful  effects  began  to  pass  away,  everyone 
knows. 
In May of the ¿»resent  year we ate 
again of the bitter fruit which  was found so 
injurious in 1857 and 1873.  The  conditions 
antecedent  were  much  alike in  every  in­

stance, although produced in different ways, 
and the results were very similiar.

Whether we will tak'e our  former  exper­
iences as a teacher for the  future, is a ques­
tion we will do well to ask  ourselves, if  we 
would avoid the recurrences of the past.

There is no known way of preventing pan­
ics,  other  than  removing  their  cause.  So 
long as human nature retains the faculty, so 
common to the general  animal  kingdom, of 
stampeding under the shock of sudden fright 
or when confronted  with real, or  only  fan­
cied danger, so long will the  periodical pan­
ic come—more or less intense in effect as all 
business is nearer to or further from, a sound 
and prosperous  basis.  The  only  way—al­
though in the present generation  it may not 
be a popular one—to  prevent  their frequent 
repetition, will be to do away with  all  arti­
ficial  stimulous to  prosperity, and  be  con­
tent  with  a  slow,  natural,  and  healthful 
growth.

To give such  elasticity to a  banking  sys­
tem that it will  readily  adjust  itself to the 
ever-changing condition of things—in a coun­
try so great,  a  territory  so  extended,  and 
with interests so varied  as in our  own—is a 
problem absorbing the attention of the ablest 
financial  thinkers  we  have.  Much might 
be done in allaying the evils which flow from 
the senseless scares  similiar to the  one  we 
have so  lately  . contended  with. 
It is  one 
thing, however, for bank  officers  while  sit­
ting in the quietude of  the  back  parlor  in 
friendly  conversation  or 
contemplative 
thought, to admit, that in such  times, as we 
have alluded to,  the best welfare  of all will 
be promoted by a wise  policy  of  moderate 
and prudent help to the  needy, when  such 
help will do them good; and  quite  another 
thing to  extend  it,  and,  by  going  further, 
avoid undue contraction by  gathering in the 
resources for self-perservation when a fright 
ened public are hammering at  the  door  for 
their balances in bank, and when  distrust is 
in every heart; when they fear and  perhaps 
feel that solvency is, or  may  be, the  excep 
tion and not the rule; when, in fact  wearied 
and worn, they say  (and  what  bank  officer 
has not experienced  this?)  with  the  patri­
arch of old:  “Would that I had  the  wings 
of a dove, that I might  fly away  and  be at 
rest”

There is one more  thought  worthy of our 
notice at this time in connection with  mone­
tary matters. 
It is:  What are the available 
monetary resources of this country?

We shall  be greatly misled if  we  depend 
upon the  published  tabular  statements, as 
taken from the official records.  The volume 
of the United States  legal  tender  treasury 
notes, national  bank  notes, gold  and  silver 
currency is substantially inexistence as pub­
lished, but the  proportion of each  in  actual 
circulation is much  less than  would  appear 
to  the  casual  observer.  The  amount  of 
hoarded money in the  hands of our  people 
is almost  incredible, as  any  one  interested 
may see for himself by making  an  approxi 
mate estimate in this way:  Take  from  the 
statements  of the  treasury  of  the  United 
States  the  amounts  of  legal  tender  notes, 
national bank notes and gold and silver sup 
posed to be  in  actual  existence.  From  the 
total of these items,  deduct  the amount  of 
cash of all kinds held by the national  banks 
at a given day with the  estimated  amounts 
held by the  various  state  banks, corporate 
and private. 
(These figures can be obtained 
from the comptroller of  the currency.)  De­
duct further the amount of cash in the treas­
ury of the United States  and  also an  esti 
mated sum per capita.  This  latter must be 
counted as funds in the hands of house keep­
ers for daily incidental  expenses; money  in 
the pockets  of  the  men  for  daily  personal 
use; money in the till of the shop-keeper for 
change and small payments,  and  any  other 
similiar instance where  money may be fair­
ly said  to be kept  for  use.  An  estimate 
made in this  way  will  deeply  impress  any 
one of the immense power of the  secret and 
silent contraction which is  at  work  among 
us, and  may explain  why what is  usually 
believed to be a redundant  currency has not 
fulfilled its natural  law.  Another  element 
which operates in the nature of a contraction 
of the currency is  the  constantly  extending 
area of population and business in our coun­
try. 
In a country lil^e England  where  the 
area is necessarily  limited  by  geographical 
situation and the  population  and  business 
concentrated  as a  consequence,  a  smaller 
sum of money is required for actual  circula­
tion per capita, than in a  country embracing 
a continent, and where  new settlements are 
a matter of daily occurence, each  settlement 
being, in a sense, a  monetary  center  of  it­
self.

T he remaining articles will appear in  suc­

ceeding  issues of T h e  T ra desm a n.

“How high do these come?”  asked a diffi­
dent young  woman, as  she  handled  some 
hose in a Washington street dry goods store, 
and the young man from the country, newly 
engaged  as  clerk, 
innocently  answered, 
“Jest abaout over the knee, ma’am, I should 
jedge,” and then stared as his customer  fled 
without buying.

A Hazelhurst,  Miss., man  has  started a 
new industry.  He ships toads to Louisville 
florists, who use them to rid  their  plants of 
insects, which they are said to do very effec­
tually.

COMMERCIAL  RATINGS.

How  the  Agencies  O btain  T heir Inform a­

tion.
Prom the Detroit Journal.

“Yes, commercial agencies  get  left  once 
in a while  in  their  ratings.  As you say, a 
man may  be  rated  high  aud  yet a failure 
will disclose the fact that he has been  insol­
vent a long time,” said an official  of  one  of 
the 
to-day.
Most of the million-dollar failures  happen 
that way.”

large  commercial 

agencies 

“Oh,  the  cause  is  simple  enough.  We 
don’t  profess  omnipotence  or to  be  mind- 
readers.  We merely make the best possible 
use of the material at hand.  When a heavy 
house grows  insolvent by  degrees  it  taxes 
oui mettle. 
Insolvent  houses  which  cover 
their tracks usually have two or three heavy 
creditors on whom the bulk of the losses are 
likely to  fall.  The small  ones  are  taken 
care of, and the suspicions of the general and 
uninterested  public are  not  aroused.  The 
few heavy creditors are interested in keeping 
their debtor’s credit good in order  that  the 
burden which they are carrying may be eith­
er raised of  shifted to  other  shoulders,  so 
they keep still.”

“How do you get at your facts?”
“ H o w  do you reporters get  at your  news?
I imagine  we  work to a  certain  extent  in 
very much the same manner.  We look up a 
man’s rating by asking those who  are  most 
likely to  know, frequently  the  party  him­
self.  Bank officers are our most prolific and 
I may say  also, our  most reliable  resourced 
of information.  Most of them  spit  it  right 
out  when  asked  about a man’s  standing. 
They are most likely to know  if  a  business 
man is borrowing money or not.”

Don’t business men exaggerate when you 

ask them for their standing?”

“Some do, aud some underrate  their  own 
possessions. 
I have in  my  mind a man  in 
this city who said, ‘Put me  down tor  $5,000 
or $10,000,’ when he was worth  fully $125,- 
000.”

“Then, again, almost every day some man 
comes up and  claims we are doing  him  an 
injustice.  We usually ask these  parties for 
a scheduled statement, at which there  is  al­
most invariably a kick.  Sometimes, howev­
er, we make the  desired  correction, and  al­
ways  do if we  are  satisfied  there  is  the 
slightest injustice done.”

“How is the reporting done?”
“All our  subscribers  are  furnished  with 
books, in  trust, returnable  when a new  one 
is  issued, which  answers  for  all  ordinary 
purposes.  Then they have the  privilege  of 
making special inquiries.  When we receive 
such requests we send out our  men to make 
a full  investigation.  This  frequently  not 
only includes the state of a person’s finances 
but his prospects and habits of  life—wheth­
er he is spending money on actresses or not, 
gambling, owning  fast  horses, intemperate 
or is addicted to any of the bad habits which 
inevitably result in failure.”

“It pays a business man to  indulge  in his 

little pleasures on the strict quiet.”

“Indeed it does.  For sooner or later cham­
pagne suppers and a general fast life impairs 
a man’s  credit,  even  when  he is perfectly 
able to pay his debts.  You see his creditors 
are  inclined to discount  his  future.  And 
then, too, clerks in large  houses are under a 
good deal of  the same  surveillance, though 
not  by us.  Private  detective  agencies  do 
quite a business in this line, for in times like 
this an employer doesn’t know whomjto trust, 
and keeps track of  the doings of hi» men by 
aid of these agencies.”

“Are lady clerks ever shadowed?”
“Not that I know of.  Not unless there is 
some cause  for  suspecting  them, 1 believe. 
But you will have to see some private detec­
tive about that. 
It is  altogether  too  small 
game for us.”

F all  Styles of Hosiery.

From the Dry Goods Bulletin.

In this department of dry goods the styles 
for  fall  have  been  adapted, by  whatever 
authority does set the fashions, to the  inter­
ests of the  buyer  rather  than  the  seller, 
Plain colors are the  rule; fancy  styles  alto 
gether  exceptional for  evening  wear, silk 
hose in light shades are shown, but black, in 
all materials and for all sizes, predominates 
The other approved  shades  are  seal-brown, 
navy-blue aud  garnet.  A few  bright  reds 
are shown, and  just  enough  fancy  styles— 
striped plaid, etc.—to  vary the  stock.  Silk 
hosiery, for  those  who  can  afford a good 
quality and a good laundress,  is,  of  course, 
the pleasantest of all coverings, but nowhere 
is the attempt to get something  for  nothing 
a greater feature  than  in  stockings.  Who 
ever compares the price per ounce of sewing 
silk  (pure  silk,  necessarily)  with  that  of 
low-priced,  so-called  silk  hosiery, and  re­
flects that the usual  loading of  silk is inad 
missible in goods that are to be washed, will 
soon see  that  the  merchant is selling  his 
manufactured  goods at less than  the cost of 
the raw material, or else that the raw mater­
ial is something else  than  silk.  The  silk 
from pierced  cocoons, of course, is lower in 
price, but even that  is worth more per ounce 
than much of the hosiery sold  as  silk.  Ev­
en if the hosiery be of  the best  quality, ig­
norance or carelessness in the  laundry  will 
transform it into  something  scarcely to be 
distinguished from cotton.  Silk  thread, cot­
ton or fine woolen, or cashmere, must, there-

fore, be  the  choice of the  majority of  the 
buyers.  Children’s  hosiery  is  ribbed, this 
style being generally preferred, as  the  elas­
ticity of the ribbing  makes it fit the  plump 
and the thin wearer equally well.  Toes and 
heels show white,  only enough, however, to 
make sure that the stocking is ingrain—that 
is, dyed before  weaving.  Some  new  lisle 
thread hose show two colors, the  top of  the 
foot and half of the leg being of the  lighter 
shade, the remainder of the leg and the heel 
of the darker.  For instance, one style shows 
a front of  blue and a back of gray; another, 
in graver taste, has a gray front  and  black 
back.  Lisle hosiery for wear  with  slippers 
has a pattern of colored  embroidery on foot 
and ankle.  A curious variety  was  in frise 
effects and large figures.  Silk  hose—really 
silk—are worn like  the  jersey  mitts—soft, 
lustrous and  exquisitely fine.  No sign  ap­
pears of the return to white hosiery so often 
predicted, and  which would  certainly  be a 
misfortune to the seller, as fancy, which dic­
tates the majority of purchases, would  then 
have small scope.  In this large stock, drawn 
from three countries, all styles are seen to be 
represented, and all tastes  may be satisfied, 
unless it is the unreasonable and  insatiable 
shopper who demands at once the best goods 
and the lowest prices.

Condition of the  Cigar Trade.

From the Boston Globe.

“How is the cigar  trade?”  was  asked a 

leading wholesale dealer yesterday.

“Good.  Prices  are, if  anything, stronger 
than they were say six months ago.  This is 
due to the advance  in  seed leaf  tobacco of 
the beter gardes.  There has been no mater­
ial advance in imported  leaf.”

“How is the stock in packers’  hands?” 
“There is none left of the old  crop;  that 
is,  none  of  the  fine  and  most  desirable 
grades.  There is a fair  supply  of  the  ’83 
crop on  hand.  Manufacturers  don’t  com­
mence on that until the cold weather sets in 
All  leaf  tobacco is kept  from a year  to a 
year and a half before being  manufactured 
The cigar most largely sold here, ‘a seed and 
Havana,’ such as  retails at three for a quar­
ter,  has  imported  Havana  filling  and 
Connecticut wrapper.”

“How about cigarettes?”
“The  demand  for  them is constantly in 
creasing, but prices are so cut  that  there is 
little profit in them for the  jobbers  and  re­
tailers.  The  manufacturers, however,  get 
about as much for  them as they  ever  did, 
As  you  know,  no ’ doubt,  many  leading 
brands of cigarettes that  used  to  retail  at 
twenty cents per bunch are now sold for just 
half that price.  Strangely enough the enor 
mous demand for cigarettes does not  mater­
ially effect the  demand  for  cigars.  This  is 
no doubt due to the fact that  cigarettes  are 
smoked largely by those  who  would  not in 
any event smoke cigars; boys, girls and weak 
minded men.”
A  Speedy A cknow ledgm ent  of  the “Corn

There were  eight of  them, and  they had 
been holding down chairs in  the  saloon and 
lying for two hours, when the ninth  man, 
seedy fellow  who had sat at  another  table 
and heard all that they had to say, came ov­
er to where they were sitting and  offered to 
beat the record for two drinks of fifteen cent 
whisky.

“Now, get ready for a big snake,” suggest­

ed one of the party.

“Nary snake,” the ninth man replied.
“Sea serpent.”
“No.”
“Fish story, I’ll bet.”
“Nary  fish.”
“Thunder storm or cyclone, sure.”
“Wrong again.”
“Shootin’ match.”
“No.”
“Well, go ahead.”
“While 1 was down in New Jersey—” 
“Oh, mosquitoes.”
“No sech thing.  Stop interruptin.”
“Go  on.”
“While I was down in New Jersey I loan­

ed a feller $3,000—”

‘That settles it.  He  beats  the  record,” 

shouted one of the crowd.

“But 1 ain’t done yet,”  said the story tell­

er.

“Don’t  make  any difference.  You  have 
told  the  biggest  lie of  the day.  Barkeep, 
two whiskies for one  man, and  now I move 
we adjourn.”

“Carried,” announced the  chair, and  the 

jig was up.

An extensive adulteration of  leather  has 
just been detcted and exposed by the inspec­
tors of imperial government in Germany.  It 
is accomplished  by adding  glucose in large 
quantities, by soaking the  tanned  hides  in 
that adulterant, and drying them, which ma­
terially increases their  weight, apparent sol­
idity of texture and  money valuation.  The 
adulteration may be  detected by macerating 
the leather in water for twenty-four hours or 
more, when a thick, ropy, viscid  solution of 
glucose is formed.  Not  only  is  the  weight 
of leather  augmented  by  the  process, but 
poor and sleazy products of the vat are turn­
ed out with the apparent  density and  elas­
ticity of the finest qualities, and  retain  this 
appearance  until  saturation  exposes 
the 
fraud.

Denmark has 6,954 licensed cheese factor­

ies.

SHOE  PEGS.

in  V erm ont.

How  They  Are  Made—Visit 

to  a  Factory 

From the  New York Mail.

It was the privilege of the writer  to visit 
the picturesque  little 
town  of  Arlington, 
Vermont, which dt the time boasted a popu­
lation of 2,500, three  churches,  five  stores, 
two hotels, an extensive car works, sash and 
blind, and  chair  factory;  also a  “peg  fac­
tory,” which, by the courtesy  of  the  fore­
man, he was  shown  through,  and  received 
valuable information.  The timber  used  is 
black and yellow  birch,  which is  cut  into 
pieces four feet in length, varying  in diame­
ter from eight to  fourteen  inches.  These 
logs are placed in a building  in  winter and 
the  frost extracted by steam.  They are then 
run on a tram railway to the circular saw de­
partment, and cut into  slices  or  blanks  of 
the thickness desired  for the  length  of the 
pegs.  These are sorted  and  the  knots cut 
out, and are then passed on to a long  bench 
which contains six  machines  composed  of 
fluted rollers.  The blanks  are then run be­
tween these rollers, which crease’ both sides. 
They are then run  through  again to  cross- 
crease, or mark out  the  exact sizes  of the 
pegs.  Then  they go  to  the  splitting  ma­
chines,  which  are  set  with  double  knives, 
and cut the blanks into pegs.  As they pass 
the last  machine they  are  sorted,  and  all 
knots and discolored ones  removed  as they 
are brushed off into  large  baskets.  These 
machines are under the  care  of  young  wo­
men who appeared much  more  happy  and 
useful than do many of  those who,  thump­
ing at their piano, would consider  such em­
ployment  menial.  The  next  process  is 
bleaching,  which  is  accomplished  by  the 
fumes of brimstone, which  is  unhealthy, as 
those  who  labor  here  shorten  their  lives. 
They  are  then  placed  in  large  cylinders, 
which  hold  eleven  barrels,  and  have  600 
steam  pipes running  through  them,  and re­
volve one and one-half times  to the minute, 
drying two charges per day to each cylinder. 
They are then passed in large wooden casks, 
or cylinders, which, revolving  rapidly,  pol­
ish  them  by  friction,  the  refuse  falling 
through wire sieves or screen openings, after 
which they are  again  passed  into  a  sifter, 
which  separates  all  the  single  pegs,  and 
drops  them  into  tubs,  or  boxes, 
leaving 
those Which have not been  separated  in the 
machine.  They  are  then  put  in  barrels 
ready for market.  The  factory  running on 
full time turns out 150 bushels,  or  fifty bar­
rels, per day.  The sizes go  from  eight  up 
to sixteen to an  inch.  The  lengths  go by 
eighths, two and one-half to twelve.  Twen­
ty-six hands are employed, half of  them be­
ing women.  The products  of  this mill  are 
mostly shipped to Germany and France, and 
enter largely  into the  manufacture  of  toys 
and  fancy  goods as  well  as  into  the  shoe 
manufactory.

Aggressive  A m erican  Cheese.

American cheese has been trying to  force 
its way into  the  British  markets  without 
meeting with any permanent  success  until 
within a few  years.  The  reason  assigned 
for its failure has been the want of unformi- 
ty  in grade.  At one  time  the  size  would 
vary, then the quality or the age.  Since the 
large factories have sprung up in this  coun­
try, these defects that  have  hitherto  been 
against its introduction into  England  have 
been remedied.  To what great  proportions 
this industry has arrived  may  be  perceived 
from the total reports of  the  manufacturers 
and  exports of cheese, which  amounted  to 
1,120,000,000 pounds last year.  It is thought 
that the production will  equal  this  year if 
not exceed this  amount.  Cheese  produced 
by factories are now of a standard grade and 
present an almost  perfect  form  and  even 
quality.  This uniformity adapts itself to the 
ideas  of  the  conservative  Englishman  at 
once, and, as a consequence, the use of  Am- 
ericaif cheese is on the  increase in England. 
It is claimed that the sea  voyage  has a ten­
dency to improve  the  flavor  of  cheese, and 
to give it a mellowness which it does not at­
tain in any other way.

M iscellaneous  Notes  of  Interest.

The  wealthiest  man in Oregon is  living 
this summer for fun in the log  cabin  which 
he used to inhabit from necessity.

A year ago Minneapolis millers were pay­
ing $1.14 per bushel  for  No. 1  hard  wheat. 
To-day the  schedule  price is seventy-seven 
cents.

Kansas farmers have  generally decided to 
stack their com until the  market  advances 
at least five or six cents per bushel above its 
present average.

California papers say this will be the most 
prosperous honey season ever known in that 
State.  Ventura  county alone has a yield of 
about 1,600  tons.

In Kansas alone the  wheat crop it estima­
ted at 40,000,000 bushels, enough if  sold  at 
seventy-five cents  per bushel, to give $30 to 
every man, woman and child in the State.

“Don’t you  remember  me?”  asked  the 
soda water clerk of a lady customer. 
“No, 
I can not say that I   do,” she 'replied,  “and 
yet there is something  familiar  about  your 
fizz.”

The tea merchant continues to  give away 
crockery and glass, and it is possible he will 
find the soap man a competitor in generosity, 
as they are fixing  to put  up  crockery with 
soap.

England reports a good  crop  of  potatoes. 
The tubers will  be  abundant, though  small, 
by reason  of  the  extraordinary  dry season. 
For the same cause there is comprative little 
disease.

A son of Emerald  Isle  dragged a hopeful 
son into a prominent boot and shoe  store in 
Chicago, and broke out as follows:  “Mister,
I wants a good strong pair of cow-hiders for 
the bye, I wants  nayther  kip, calf, or cow­
hide, but sumthing  jurable” !

The imitation of canned  sardines  can go 
no further.  The  packing-box  is  made  in 
Jersey City, the wrapper is printed  in New 
York, the tin cans are manufactured in Bos­
ton, the fish are caught on the  Maine  coast, 
and the oil is extracted from  cotton-seed  in 
Georgia.

According to the Chemist  and  Druggis 
the substance which gives to Russia  leather 
its peculiar aromatic and lasting  qualities is 
the oil of white birch bark (oleum, betvluc). 
Dissolved in  alcohol, it  is  said  to  render 
fabrics  proof  against  water,  acid,  and  in­
sects, and renders them more lasting.

Some recent trials  show  that  very  thin 
blades, as  flat  springs  and  cutlery  blades, 
can  be  effectively  hardened  and  tempered 
by heating them and  thrusting  them  into a 
mass of mineral wax—crude  paraffin.  The 
needles of sewing machines and  small drills 
have also been so treated successfully.

Strong carbolic acid is  a  powerful  poison 
when  externally applied.  A man  recently, 
while  carrying a pound  of it in a bottle  in 
his pocket, broke the glass.  The  acid  ran 
over the surface of one leg.  He experinced 
little pain, but died two hours  after  the  ac­
cident.  The acid paralyzed his nerves.

Wood wool has been introduced as a cheap, 
and useful dressing for wounds, and it is be­
ing  extensively  prepared  as a  commercial 
staple  for  surgical  dressings. 
It is  finely 
ground wood, such as is used  in the  manu­
facture of paper. 
It is a clean  looking  soft 
substance, and  absorbs a great  quantity of 
liquid.

The  trader who buys for cash  avoids  ex­
travagance,  practices  economy,  saves  the 
profits he makes, and in this  w'ay  he  soon 
becomes independent of favors  and can buy 
his goods to the best advantage.  He has the 
entire market to select  from  instead of be­
ing tied to any individual  jobbing  firm, and 
suits his own views and tastes as to what he 
will purchase and what let alone.

An Austin school teacher, who  is  simul­
taneously an Irishman, has been  very much 
annoyed  by the  absentees.  He  created a 
slight flutter of excitement  among the elder 
pupils by saying, in a very impressive  man­
ner:  “Children, 1  want  yez  to  understand 
that from now on the absentays  must  sit on 
the front bench, so I can know right off who 
they are, and apply the corrective.”

The consumption of raw wool in the Unit­
ed  States  has  increased  from  90,000,000 
pounds in 1860, to 300,000,000  per  annum. 
Twenty four  years ago, we imported  forty 
per cent, of what we  used, but  now  import 
less than twenty per cent.  The  number  of 
hands employed has increased from 40,000 in 
1850 to  161,000 in 1880.  The  capital  em­
ployed  has  increased  from  $28,000,000 to 
$160,000,000  during 
In  1869 
we imported nearly one-third of  the woolen 
goods we used, now we import one-tenth.

that  time. 

like 

He was a young lawyer and  was  deliver­
ing his maiden  speech.  Like  most  young 
lawyers, he was florid,  rhetorical, scattering 
and weary.  For four weary hours he talked 
at the court  and the  jury, until  everybody 
felt 
lynching  him.  When  he  got 
through, his opponent, a grizzled old profes­
sional, arose, looked  sweetly at  the  judge, 
and said:  “Your  honor, I will  follow  the 
example of my young friend  who  has  just 
finished, and submit the case  without  argu­
ment.”  Then he sat  down, and the  silence 
was large and impressive.

Prof. Douglass, of  the Michigan Universi­
ty, produces amateur cyclones at will by sus­
pending a large copper plate by silken cords. 
This  plate is charged heavily with  electrici­
ty, which  hangs  down  like  a  bag  under­
neath, and is rendered  visible by the use  of 
arsenious  acid  gas, which  gives  it a green 
color.  The formation is a minatuxjg^lone, 
as perfect as any started in the cfcflPlj  It is 
funnel  shaped, and  whirls  around  rigidly. 
Passing this plate over  a  table, the  cyclone 
snatches  up  copper  cents,  pith  balls,  and 
other objects and scatters  them on all sides.
It  is  too  common 
an error that chamois skins are derived from 
an animal named the “Chamois.”  The skins 
really are made from the flesh side of sheep­
skins, soaked in lime water, and also in a so­
lution of  sulphuric  acid.  Crude  oil  from 
fish rendering establishments is poured over 
them,  and  they  are  afterwards  carefdlly 
washed in a solution of potash.  To  restore 
their  flexibility,  permanent  washing-  in 
strong suds  made of  olive oil  and  potash 
with a little  water,  and  afterwards  laying 
between brown paper wet  with  glycerine is 
a good  plan.

The Drugman says: 

The officers of the Cedar  Springs  Union 
Agricultural and  Horticultural  Society are 
making unusual preparations for  their com­
ing fair, judging by the premium list  which 
has just been issued.  The  fair will be held 
on the  grounds at Cedar  Springs  Sept 30 
and Oct. 1, 2 and 3.  Liberal  premiums  are 
offered in the various classes, and the speed­
ing purses are all that could be desired.

PLA N ES.

Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy................................dis
Sciota Bench................................................ dis
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy.........! " . ! "  !dis
Bench, first quality.....................................dis
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s,  wood  and
Fry, Acme................................ ...............dis í
Common, polished................ . ...............dis
..........$  »
Dripping..................
Iron and  Tinned........
........   dis
Copper Rivets and B urs..  '' ‘ ........... dis
‘ A  Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 104 
“B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25  to 27 

PA TEN T FLA N ISA E I> IR O N .

R IV E TS.

9

Broken packs 4 c  ^  ft extra.

RO OFING PLA TES.

, 

R O PES.

* * v  ^

SQUARES.

IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal  Terne.............  
5 75
IX, 14x20, choice Charcoal  Teme 
............7  75
IC, 20x28, choice  Charcoal Terne.........." . .12 00
IX, 20x28, choice Charcoal  Terne...............16 90
Sisal, 4  In. and  larger......................... 
aa  ay.
\Tnnilln 
Manilla 
_ 
Steel and  Iron.............................................dis  50
Try and Bevels.............................................dis  50
Mltre  ............................................................dis  20
SH EET IR O N .
xt 
Com. 
Nos. 10 to  14............................ 
$3 20 
Nos. 15 to  17.......................’"  
3 20 
Nos. 18 to 21.................. 
 
3 20 
Nos. 22 to  24....................155
3 20 
Nos .25 to 26............... 
3 40 
No. 27................................4 60
3 60
All sheets No, 18 and  lighter,  over 30  inches 
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SH EET  ZINC.

$4 20
420
491)
'  4 40

Com. Smooth.

 

In casks of 600 fts, $   ft.................. 
In smaller quansities, $   ft........7
t i n n e r ’s   s o l d e r .

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

TIN  PLATES.

40
50
50
net

4 09 
4 50

64

13 00
15 00
16

Cai’ds for Charcoals, $6  75,
IC,
10x14, Charcoal.......................
6 50 
IX,
10x14,Charcoal....................
8 50 
IC,
12x12, Charcoal.......................
6  50 
IX,
12x12,  C harcoal......................
8 50 
IC,
14x20, Charcoal.......................
6 50 
IX,
14x20,  Charcoal.......  .............
8 50 
IXX,
14x20, Charcoal.......................
10 50 
IXXX, 14x20, Charcool.......................
12 50 
IXXXX, 14x20,  Charcoal....................
14 50 
IX, 
18 00 
DC, 
6 50 
DX,  100 Plate Charcoal 
8 50 
DXX,  100 Plate Charcoal........
10 50 
DXXX,  100 Plate Charcoal........
12 50
Redipped  Charcoal  Tin  Plate add 1  50  to  6  75 

20x28, Charcoal..................
100 Plate Charcoal..............

rates.

TRAPS.

WIRE.

Steel.  Game....................................................
Onaida Communtity,  Newhouse’s .......  dis  35
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s ....  60
Hotchkiss’ .................. 
60
s, p. & w . Mfg.  co .’s ...... j
; ...........   60
Mouse,  choker....................................... 20c $  doz
Mouse,  delusion................................. $1  26  doz
Bright  M arket................................. 
¿is
Annealed Market....................... . . .” ........  dis
Coppered Market........................... . ! . .. ” Idis
E xtra Bailing..................-................ dis
Tinned  Market................................. 
Tinned  Broom............................. ! ....... 5® ft
Tinned M attress................................... . "w  ft 84
Coppered  Spring  Steel...................... . .  dis 374
Tinned Spring Steel................................. dis 374
Plain Fence...............................................$  a> 3 y
Barbed  Fence...................................................
Copper................................................ new  list net
Brass................................................... new  list net

WIRE GOODS.

kis

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

dis  60&10&10

 

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

MISCELLANEOUS.

Pumps,  Cistern...................................dis  60&10
Screw s................ ;.....................................  
70
Casters, Bed and  Plate................... 
50
Dampers, American................................. 
334

dis 

FOSTER,
STEVENS

A JO U R N A L DEVOTED TO TH E

Mercantile and Manufacturing Interests of the State.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

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

WEDNESDAY,  SEPTEMBER  10,  1884.

POST  A.

Organized at  Grand Rajnds, June 28,1884.

O F F IC E R S .

President—Wm. Logie.
First Vice-President—Lloyd Max Mills.
Second Vice-President—Richard Warner. 
Secretary and Treasurer—iL. W.  Atkins. 
Official Organ—The  Michigan  Tradesman. 
Committee  on  Elections—Wm.  B.  Edmunds, 
chairman;  D.  S.  Haugh,  Wm.  G.  Hawkins, 
Wallace Franklin and J. N. Bradford. 
Regular Meetings—Last Saturday  evening in 
each month. 
^  , 
,
Next Special M eeting-A t  Sweet’s Hotel read­
ing room, Saturday, Sept. 13, at 8 p. m.

„ 

gar~  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.

It is only the other day that a sixteen year 
old messenger in a St. Paul bank opened the 
safe and ran off with $6,000.  Even the chil­
dren follow the fashion.

In spite of the depression in other lines of 
manufacture,  the handle  business is  excep­
tionally good this  year.  But  then  this  is 
campaign year, and the season of torch light 
processions.

On April 19 the  Detroit  Commercial  re­
ferred to Grand Rapids as  a  “small  town.” 
On  September  6,  the  paper  spoke  of the 
place  as  a  “little  Chicago.”  Wonderful 
growth for only a little over four months!

The  first of a series of  articles  on  “The 
Financial Situation”  is  presented this week. 
They are from the pen of  Joseph O. Rutter, 
President of the Traders’ Bank  of  Chicago, 
who has contributed  them  to  the  Current, 
of that city.

Baltimore  now lays  claim  to a more  dis­
tinctive title than the  “City of Monuments” 
or the “City of  Mobs”—the “City of Cans.” 
It is  estimated  that upwards  of  a  hundred 
million packing cans are manufactured there 
every  year,  one firm  having  an annual  ca­
pacity of twenty million.

A leading wall paper house  has  issued  a 
circular to the trade calling attention  to  the 
reasons why Grand Rapids is to be preferred 
to  the  Eastern  markets  as  a  purchasing 
point.  Briefly stated, they  are  as  follows: 
Low freights; time gained  in  filling orders; 
no expense for boxing goods, as is necessary 
when they  are shipped from distant markets. 
These advantages are sufficient to  commend 
Grand  Rapids  to  the  attention  of  buyers 
everywhere.

A reporter  for the  New  York  World  re­
cently interviewed fifteen of the leading dry 
goods merchants  in Gotham  relative to  the 
fall  trade  outlook.  The  answers  received 
were  to  the  following  effect:  “Merchants 
expect  to  do as large a  business as  usual. 
Trade is about three weeks  or a month later 
than usual,  owing to  overproduction  in the 
past and  the conservatism  of business  men 
in  the West and North.  The  outlook  for 
the retail trade is good.”

It makes a great deal of difference wheth­
er  you  save a train  from  destruction  or 
whether you burn a train and  rob  the  pas­
sengers.  A girl in the West  imperiled  her 
own life in saving  those  of  a  train  load  of 
passengers, and  she  was  awarded  a  gold 
medal worth $20.  Frank  James  burned a 
a train or two, and went  through  the  pas­
sengers in his peculiar  style, and  now  his 
admirers have presented him with a blooded 
horse, a fine saddle and  an  elegant  buggy. 
Verily, virtue is it own reward.s

Impelled by the  frequent  cases  of  mis­
placed confidence, the grocers of  New York 
City have  established  an  Employment Bur­
eau  for clerks.  All applicants for positions 
are required  to fill out  a blank,  specifying 
the terms of  service  and the  names of pre­
vious employers.  The application  is  then 
turned  over to the authorized  agent  of the 
Union,  who visits the gentlemen named  by 
the  applicant,  and  thoroughly  investigates 
his record.  The system has been in use but 
a short  time,  but the  results are said to  be 
even more satisfactory than was anticipated.

Will people never cease going to extremes? 
Last year cheese ruled high  during  most of 
the season, and this year new factories  were 
inaugurated by the  hundred.  As  a conse­
quence, much  bad  cheese  has  been  made, 
and considerable loss  has  resulted  to  the 
factories  turning  out  the  poorer  grades. 
Last year evaporated  apples  commanded  a 
fair price, and this season hundreds  of  far­
mers have become possessed of the idea that 
they can twist the tail of fortune  by  estab­
lishing fruit evaporators.  As a consequence 
of this wholesale increase in  manufacturing 
capacity—coupled with the  enormous  crop 
and prevailing  low  prices—evaporated  ap­
ples will probably be sold for  a  mere  song 
before the season is  over.

That was a funny story which  Bill Alden 
wrote, in the New  York Times,  concerning 
the  discovery of  a pin  mine. 
It  was  re­
printed in T h e   T ra d esm a n,  and  excited 
considerable  comment.  Now  then,  there 
are some men who never  can see a  joke un­
less they  make  it themselves.  An  individ­

ual of this  description  rushed  at a  reporter 
of T h e T radesm an the other day and said: 
“You have  hurt the  pin  business  badly.” 
“How?” inquired the reporter.  “Why, d—n 
it,  by  saying that a pin mine had been  dis­
covered out west.  How  do you expect any­
body  will buy  pins when there’s  a  billion 
gross of them  ready to be dug  out for  mere 
nothing, in a  mine?  That  article  was  an 
outrage.  Facts  like it contained should  be 
suppressed.”

Traveling men state that  at  least  50  per 
cent, more merchants are doing a  cash busi­
ness now than there were a year  ago.  And 
there is every reason for  thinking  that  the 
number will continue to increase, as the ben­
efits of the cash system come to be better un­
derstood.  The advantages  of  a  cash  busi­
ness have been admirably exemplified during 
the  past  year.  Those  who  were  doing a 
large credit business have been close pressed 
ever since the advent of the present financial 
stringency,  and fully 90 per cent, of the fail­
ures  that  have  occurred  have been among 
those who adhered  to the credit system.  On 
the contrary, those who have sold  goods  for 
cash only have been enabled to  weather  the 
tempest with unimpaired credit, and the ma­
jority of them have been able to  keep  their 
sales up to the old figures, thus ensuring the 
usual profits.

The able article on another page from the 
pen of Mr. Lambert, a practical cheese mak­
er, is deserving of careful  perusal  and  con­
sideration. 
In endeavoring to ascertain  the 
cause for  cheese  poisoning, cases of which 
have been  altogether to  frequent of late, he 
has struck a subject which has hitherto been 
overlooked by the medical and chemical pro­
fession—the  whey  tank.  And  the  line  of 
argument  employed  by  the  writer  would 
seem to  be  convincing  even  to  the  most 
skeptical  that  he  is  on  the  right  track. 
Dozens of pet theories have been advanced as 
to the possible causes for  cheese  poisoning, 
and many ideas  have  been  put forth, as to 
what might  cause  poisoning, under  certain 
conditions. 
It remains  for  Mr. Lambert to 
state the result of actual  investigations, and 
base a  line  of  argument  on  them,  taking 
nothing for granted,  and  making  no  state­
ments which he is not prepared to prove.

AMONG TH E TRADE.

IN  THE  CITY.

F. J. Lamb  & Co. shipped  a car  load  of 

apples to Minneapolis  yesterday.

N.  Malloy &  Co.  succeed  the  Johnson 
Planing Mill  Co.  The  “Co.”  is  Rev.  L. 
Dodds.

H. Austin has  started in the grocery busi­
ness at Walker P.  O.,  otherwise  known  as 
D., G. H. &  M. Junction.  Clark,  Jewell  & 
Co. furnished the stock.

The firm of Provin & Andrews, grocers at 
119 Plainefild avenue, have  dissolved, Fred. 
J. Provin  retiring.  The  business  will  be 
continued by Wm. H. Andrews.

The  Western  Medicine  Co.  has  removed 
from  the  basement  of  the  City  National 
Bank building to more commodious quarters 
in the  rear of the  Grand  Rapids  National 
Bank.

B. M. Hoag and  C. S. Judson  have  form­
ed  a co-partnership under the  firm name  of 
Hoag & Judson,  and  engaged in the grocery 
business at Cannonsburg.  Clark,  Jewell  & 
Co. furnished the stock.

“The  demand  for  hammocks,”  said  a 
leading dealer,  “has been greater than usual 
this year.  At summer resorts, they  are  in- 
dispensible,  and at the hotels they are  very 
popular. 
In many instances they are swung 
in dormitories,  and many  young people pre­
fer them to mattresses.  The ordinary twine 
hammock is the most popular, but for camp­
ing  parties the heavy canvas ones are to  be 
preferred.  A  good  serviceable  hammock 
can now be  had for sixty cents, but a dollar 
will purchase a daisy.”

AROUND TIIE  STATE.

Stephen  Lobban has opened a store at At­

las.

Wm. Hill, restauranter at Morley, hjs sold 

out to Mr. Lacey.

J. F. Kelly succeeds Mason Bros,  in  gen­

eral trade at Montague.

Becthel & Godfrey  have  engaged  in  the 

meat business  at Freeport.

John  Russell, 

late  of  Plymouth,  will 

open a bakery at Reed City.

W. J. Stokes succeeds C. A. Hoxie  in  the 

grocery business at Battle  Creek.

E. E. Riopel succeeds Devendorf  & Leon­

ard in the drug business at  Detroit.

Bennett & Son succeed  M. A. Bennett  in 

the boot and shoe business at Kalamazoo.

Frank O. Lord  has  moved  into  his  new 
brick  store  at  Howard City, and increased 
his stock.

C. Clever has sold his interest in the Com­
mercial House at Yermontville  to  his  part­
ner,  and will  engage  in  the  grocery  busi­
ness.

E. C.  Jenner & Co., boot and shoe dealers 
at Allegan,  have dissolved,  Mrs. Lottie  L. 
Ford retiring.  The  business  will  be  con­
tinued by E. C. Jenner.

Wm. G. Watson & Son, general dealers at 
Coopersville, have dissolved, Wm.  G.  retir­
ing.  The  business  will  be  continued  by 
Dudley O. Watson and  Peter Devoist, under 
the firm name of Watson & Devoist.

Peter Ross, notion and fancy goods dealer 
at Wayland, has removed his stock and bus­
iness to Saugatuck, where he will continue in 
trade.  A. W. Nash will occupy  the vacated 
side of the store at Wayland with a stock of 
boots and  shoes.

John  Greenop  and  Robert  Lavery,  who

have been conducting a grocery  business  at 
Big Rapids under the firm name of J. Green­
up & Co., have dissolved by mutual consent, 
and selected T. C.  Gardner to  wind  up the 
affairs of the  late firm.

STRAY  FACTS.

Deciple  is a new  postoffice  in  Mecosta 

A cigar box factory will be established  at 

comity.

Plainwell.

J. M. Fuller’s bank at Boyne City has dis­

continued business.

I.  E. Rosenbloom has engagad in the mer­

chant tailoring business at  Ionia.

Chicago capitalists will  start  up  the  idle 
furniture factory at Belding in a  few  days.
The school seat factory at Battle  Creek is 
compelled to run thirteen hours a day  to fill 
orders.

Rhode A. Fulcher succeeds John  Fulcher 
in the  wagon  and  blacksmith  business  at 
Reed City.

Yermontville people have  wisely conclud­
ed to abandon the  project  of  establishing a 
fruit evaporator  there.

The City National Bank is the  reorganiz­
ed banking firm  of Leroy  Moore  &  Co., of 
Greenville.  Capital $50,000.

Allegan Gazette:  G. W. Howe has taken 
his stock to Kalamazoo,  but  will return and 
occupy the store now held by Lilly &  Lilly.
The apple market  is  good  at  St.  Johns. 
Horace Hollenbeck is buying  100  bushels a 
day and Faxon & Richmond  are buying and 
shipping as high  as  250  bushels  daily and 
will build an evaporator to dry 300  bushels.
Wylie, Curtis & Co., bankers at Kalkaska, 
have sold  their  business  to A. A. Bleazby, 
one of the members of the  original  firm of 
Wylie, Bleazby & Co., who will continue the 
business.  Wylie, Curtis &  Co., will consol­
idate their business with  Curtis, Watchel & 
Co., at Petoskey.

The Galvin Brass and Iron Works, of De­
troit, has been  incorporated  with a capital 
stock of $100,000, to  manufacture  all  kinds 
of brass and  iron  ware.  The  incorporators 
are  Francis  Palms, M. W.  O’Brien, H. W. 
Skinner,  F.  F.  Palms,  Thaddeus  Galvin, 
John Galvin, John W. Strackbein, John Col­
lins, W. S. Armitage and I. T. Keena.

J. Halstead, wagon and carriage maker at 
Shelby, has assigned to  R. H.  Wheeler,  G. 
W. Woodward  and  W. H.  Churchill.  The 
reason given for the  failure is a large  stock 
on hand, with  a slow sale, and too many ac­
counts with  slow-paying farmers.  The  as­
sets are estimated at  $12,000, and the liabili 
ties are about $8,000.  The business will be 
continued.

Allegan Gazette:  C.  F. Quay is in town, 
representing Ho Id & Hall  of  Kansas  City, 
Mo., of the  Southwestern  Creamery  Asso­
ciation.  He  proposes  forming a stock com­
pany to build  a  creamery  in or near  town 
and finds conditions favorable to the scheme. 
Stock is  to be subscribed  to the amount  of 
$6,500,  $1,000 being taken  by Hold & Hall, 
who erect the  building,  putin  engine aud 
machinery,  and  furnish  skilled  workmen, 
everything  being ready for operation before 
money  is  paid.  Creameries  have  every 
where proved  profitable and are very  likely 
to  remain  so.  Certainly  Allegan  should 
have one.

P u rely  Personal.

M.  C. Russell is rusticating  at  Petoskey. 

He is expected home about Thursday.

H.  B. Fairchild has returned from a  visit 
at Rochester, N. Y.,  bringing  his  wife  and 
son with him.

Myron S. Goodman,  book-keeper for Haz- 
eltine, Perkins & Co., is visiting his  parents 
at Kendallville, Ind.  He  is  expected  back 
next Monday.

John Caulfield, who has been seriously in­
disposed and confined to his bed for the past 
week, is improving and will be about  again 
in a day or two.

Messrs. D. D. Cody, Willard Barnhart and 
O. A. Ball extended their northwestern  trip 
as far  as  Fargo,  returning  last  Saturday. 
They report  a magnificent  trip,  and  their 
looks do not belie their words.

In connection with the  recent  wedding of 
Henry Royce,  head clerk  at Bradstreets’,  a 
good story is told. 
It seems that four of the 
groom’s  friends—Frank  Jewell,  John  J. 
Sours,  Michael  H.  Ducey  and  Frank  H, 
Wheeler—conceived  the idea  of  presenting 
him with  an easy chair, as a  token of  their 
friendship.  One  of the  quartette  was  in­
structed  to make  the  purchase,  settle  the 
bill, and  pro  rate the  expense  among  the 
others.  He made the  purchase, as directed, 
and ordered the bill sent  to  him.  By some 
combination of circumstances, however,  the 
bill was delivered with the chair to the home 
of the bride, just before the ceremony.  And 
now  the boys have  resolved to boycott  an 
establishment  that  “gives  them away”  in 
such a manner.

Grew  Old  too  Late  in  Life.

“Yes, sir, I ’m pretty sick; not feeling well 
at all,” said an old fruit vender, as he settled 
down in the  corner of  a door  and  fanned 
himself with a tattered straw hat.

“What’s the matter  with  you?” asked  a 

by-stander.

“Well, it’s mostly old age; I’m ninety-two 
If it only had  come on  when I 

years old. 
was young 1 think I could have stood it.”

The merchant who  advertises catches  the 
early trade  and enjoys  a prosperous' trade; 
the  one who does not advertise,  sooner  or 
later takes up his residence in Canada, Aus­
tralia or Obscurity.

Dealers having  potatoes, apples and  eggs 
for  sale would do well to  correspond  with 
F. J. Lamb & Co., Grand  Rapids, Mich.

The  Non-Explosive  Lamp  company  of 
Cleveland has exploded.  This is another ar­
gument against our trade-mark system.

The  G ripsack Brigade.

Geo. Owen is bound northward,  and  will 

spend Sunday in Petoskey.

A. M.  Sprague,  southern  representative 
for S. A.  Welling,  spent  Saturday  in  the 
city.

A. C. Crookston has returned from  a visit 
to his old home at Palmyra,  where he spent 
about ten days.

Frank Emery is spending the present week 
in Chicago, and can be  addressed in  care of 
Gray, Burt & Kingman.

Cass  Bradford  has  moved into  his  new 
home at 78 Mount Yernon  street,  where  he 
is pleasantly and comfortably situated.

Members of Post A, and all traveling men 
interested in the success of the organization, 
should not fail to attend the  special meeting 
at Sweet’s Hotel Saturday evening,  as  mat­
ters of importance will come up  for  action.
Frank E. Chase has leased the north tene­
ment  in  LeGrand  Peirce’s  new  residence 
block on Ottawa street, and  is  arranging  to 
have it in readiness for occupancy by Octob­
er 1, at which time he will go  to  Cape  Cod 
for his wife and daughter.

It is now the fashion of  commercial  trav­
elers of standing to  take  their  wives  with 
them on their business missionary trips.  In 
this  respect,  as  in  all  other  matters,  the 
fashion is very popular with  the wives,  and 
they hope there will be no  change  in  style 
for an indefinite period.

“Did you know that Algernon  had  about 
concluded  to go  into  the hotel  business?” 
asked a friend of A. E. White, Cody, Ball & 
Co.’s  city  man, the  other  day.  “You  see 
Algy takeg a  ride now every evening, in  or­
der to get his  trotter in proper trim to enter 
the 2:30 class at the next race, and frequent­
ly he does not get  home until the remainder 
of the family have retired.  The other even­
ing  he  was  surprised  to  find  a  stranger 
asleep  in  the  best  parlor,  and  speedily 
brought  the  intruder  from  the  land  of 
dreams by the vigorous exercise of  the mus­
cles in one leg.  On  being  asked  what  he 
wanted,  the  stranger  replied  that  he  was 
waiting to be shown  to a room, having  mis­
taken the house for  a  hotel.  Algy’s  home, 
you  remember,  is  the old  Campau  home­
stead out on  South Division street,  and  the 
man is  not  to  be  blamed  for supposing  he 
had run across a convenient stopping place.”

The most expensive butter  in  all  Europe 
is made in the district of Isigny, in Norman­
dy.  A correspondent says that  it  sells  by 
auction in Paris during the winter  at about 
75 cents  per  pound,  wholesale,  sometimes 
reaching 85 cents.  During the summer  sea­
son it often  falls  in  price  to  50  cents  per 
pound. 
Its superiority is due  to  the  extra­
ordinary care observed in  its  manufacture. 
Again, the hand  never  touches  the  butter; 
it is beaten up in cloths and the  utensils are 
clean.

LUM BER, LATH  AND  SHINGLES.

The Newaygo Company quote f . o. b. cars  as 
follow:
Uppers, 1 inch...................................per M $44 00
Uppers, 14, 14 and 2 inch.........................  46 00
Selects, 1 inch..............................................  35 00
Selects, 1J4, 14 and 2  inch.........................  38 00
Fine Common, 1 inch.................................  30 00
Shop, 1 inch.................................................   20 00
Fine, Common, 14>1 4  and 2 inch............  32 00
No. I   Stocks,  12 in., 12,14 and 16 feet—   15 00
No. 1  Stocks, 12 in., 18 fe et.......................   16 00
No. 1  Stocks, 12 in., 20feet.......................   17  00
No. 1  Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.....   15  00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 18 fe et.........................  16  00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 20 fe et.........................  17  00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 12,  14 and 16 feet........   15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet..........................   16  00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 20 feet..........................   17  00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 12,14 and 16 fe et.......  12 50
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 18 fe e t.........................  13  50
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet.........................  14  50
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  12 50
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet.........................  13 50
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet.........................  14  50
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 12,14 and 16  feet........   11  50
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 18 fe e t.................  
 
12 50
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in.,  20 fe et.........................  13  50
Coarse  Common  or  shipping  culls, all
widths and  lengths.......................... 8 00® 9  00
A and B Strips, 4 or 6 i n ............................  35 00
C Strips, 4 or 6 inch....................................   28 00
No. 1 Fencing, all  lengths.........................  15 00
No. 2 Fencing, 12,14 and 18  feet...............  12 00
No. 2 Fencing, 16 feet.................................  12 00
No. 1 Fencing, 4  inch.................................  15 00
No. 2 Fencing, 4  inch.................................  12 00
Norway C and better, 4 or 6 inch.............   20 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, A and  B .................   18 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, C...............................   14  50
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, No. 1  Common—  
9 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch,  Clear.....................   20 00
Piece Stuff, 2x4 to 2x12.12 to 16ft... !0 00@10 50 
$1 additional for each 2 feet above 16 ft.
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., A.  B ....................  36 00
Dressed Flooring, 6 in.  C..........................   29 00
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., No. 1, common..  17 00 
Dressed Flooring 6 in., No. 2 common—   14 00 
Beaded Ceiling, 6 in. $1 00  additiinal.
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., A. B and  Clear..  35 00
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., C..........................   26 00
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. 1  com’n  16 00 
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. 2  com’n  14 00 
Beaded Ceiling, 4 inch, $1 00 additional.
( X X X 18 in. Standard  Shingles.............  
3 50
■< X X X 18 in.  Thin...................................... 
3 40
( X X X 16 in................................................. 
3 00
No. 2 or 6 in. C. B 18 in.  Shingles.............  
2 00
No. 2 or 5 in. C. B. 16  in .............................. 
175
Lath  ............................................................. 
2 00

OYSTERS AND  FISH .

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: 

OYSTERS.

F R ESH   F IS H .

E xtra  Selects......................................
S elects........... ..........................................
Standards.................................................
F avorites.................................................
Codfish ......................................................
H addock...................................................
Smelts........................................................
Mackinaw T rout......................................
M ackerel..............................................
W hiteflsh.................................................
Smoked Whiteflsh and T rout.................
Smoked Sturgeon....................................

38
33
25
22
8
7
5
7
15
7
10
10

H ID ES, PELTS  AND  FURS. 

Perkins & Hess quote as foLows:

H ID E S .
. . . . $ »   @7
Green....................................
.............  8  @  84
P art  cured............................
............84® 8M
Full cured.............................
..........  8  ©12
Dry hides and kips.............
..............10  @12
Calf skins, green or cured. 
$  piece20  @50
Deacon skins.......................
Shearlings or Summer skins $  piece.. 10  @20
Fall pelts..............................................-.30  @50
W inter  pelts........................................1 00  @1 50
Fine washed $  fl> 
Coarse washed...
Unwashed..........
Tallow...............

,  25@
18  @20 
.2-3
.  54®  54

S H E E P  P EL TS.

WOOL.

FRESH  MEATS.

John Mohrhard quotes the trade as follows:
64®  8 
8  @  9 
© 8 
.  6 4 ®   7 
94® 10 
15@16 
10  @104 
@10

Fresh  Beef, sides................
Fresh  Beef, hind quarters.
Dressed Hogs.....................
Mutton,  carcasses,.........
Veal....................................
F ow ls.................................
Pork Sausage......................
B ologna....,......................

I b a t b w a r e .

Prevailing  rates  at  Chicago are  as  follows: 

AUGERS AND B IT S.

Ives’, old  style...........................................dis  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’,  im itation...............................dis40&10

Spring..........................................................dis  25

BALANCES.

BARROW S.

R ailroad..................... > .............................$  15 00
Garden........................................................net  33 00

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

 

BO LTS.
Stove..................................................... dis $ 
Carnage new  list................  
dis 

40
75

 

Cast Barrel  Bolts.................  
50
dig 
55
W rought Barrel Bolts............!..!!! . dis 
50
Cast Barrel, brass  knobs................’. dis 
Cast Square Spring................  
55
dis 
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
_ 
...................................................  50&10&10
Ives  Door................................................dis  50&10

BRACES.

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

BUCKETS.
Well, plain...............................
Well, swivel.............................
BU TTS,  CAST

Cast Loose Pin, figured........................d
. .dis
60
Cast Loose Pin,-Berlin  bronzed.............
..dis
60
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed, .dis 
..dis
60
W rought Narrow, bright fast  joint..dis
;. .dis 50&10
W rounht Loose  P in .............................dis
..dis
60
W rought Loose Pin, acorn tip
..dis 60&  5
WroughtLoose Pin, japanned...........
. .dis 
60&  5
W rought Loose Pin, japanned, silver
rer
tip p e d ..................................................dis
..dis 6Ü&  5
W rought Table...................................... dis
..dis
60
Wrought Inside  Blind......................... dis
..dis
60
Wrought Brass...................................... dis
..dis 65&10
Blind. Clark’s ..........................................di_
..dis 70&10
Blind, Parker’s...................................... dis
..dis 70&10
Blind,  Shepard’s... 
............... ......
. .dis
70
Spring for Screen Doors 3x24, per gross
15 00
Spring for Screen Doors 3x3.... per gross  18 00 

CAPS.

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

CA TRIDG ES.

Rim Fire, U. M. C. & W inchester  new list
Rim Fire, United  States........................dis
Central F ire............................................. dis

C H IS ELS.

Socket Firm er........................................ dis
Socket Fram ing.....................................dis
Socket Corner........................................ dis
Socket Slicks..........................................dis
Butchers’ Tanged  Firmer 
,. .dis
Barton’s Socket Firmers.
. .dis 
Cold....................................
... net

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

COMBS.

..dis
. .dis

Brass,  Racking
Bibb’s .............
B e e r.................
Fenns’.............

65&10
65&10
65&10
65&10
40
20

334
25

40&10
49&10
40&10
60

Planished, 14 oz cut to size..................... ft  37

14x52,14x56,14 x60.........................................  39

D R IL L S.

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

35
20
30

ELBOW S.

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

EX PA N SIV E B IT S .

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

dis 
dis 

20
25

F IL E S .

American File Association  List......... dis 
50
50
Disston’s .................................................dis 
New American............. ......................dis 
50
Nicholson’s............................................. dis 
50
30
Heller’s ................................................... dis 
Heller’s Horse Rasps............................ dis  334
28
Nos. 16 to 20, 
List 
18

GA LVANIZED IR O N ,
22 and  24,  25 and 26,  27 
12 
15 
14 
Discount, Juniata 45, Charcoal 50. 
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ...............dis 

13 
GAUGES.

50

HAM MERS.

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

H A NG ERS.

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

H IN G ES.

and [longer................................. 

Gate, Clark’s, 1,2, 3...............................dis 
60
State............................................ per doz, net, 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to  12  in.  44  14
34
 
Screw Hook and Eye,  4   ...................net 
104
Screw Hook and Eye %.......................net 
84
Screw Hook and Eye  4 ...................... net 
74
Screw Hook and Eye,  %.....................net 
74
Strap and  T ........................................... dis  60&10

 

HO LLO W   W ARE.

Stamped Tin W are....................................   60&10
JapannedoTin  W are............................         20&10
Granite Iron  W are................ 
25

 

 

HO ES.

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

KNOBS.

Door, mineral, jap. trim m ings........$2 00, dis 60
Door, porcelain, jap. trim m ings—   2 50, dis 60 
Door, porcelain, plated trim ­
m ings......................................... list,  7 25, dis 60
60
Door, porcelain, trimmings  list, 8 25, dis 
60
Drawer and  Shutter, porcelain......... dis 
Picture, H. L. Judd &  Co.’s ................... d 
49
H em acite.............................. 
dis 
50

 

LOCKS—DOOR.

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

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

LEV ELS.

65

M ILLS.

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

MATTOCKS.

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

N A IL S.

Common, Brad and Fencing.

lOdto  60d............................................ P keg $2 45
8d and 9 d adv...............................................  
25
6d and 7d  adv................................................ 
50
4d and 5d  adv................................................ 
75
3d advance.....................................................  1  50
3d fine advance.............................................  3  00
Clinch nails, adv...........................................  1 75
Finishing 
Size—inches  ¡ 3  
Adv. f  keg 
Steel Nails—Advance 10c from.above prices. 

I  lOd 
$1 25  1 50  1 75  2 00 

8d  6d  4d
14

24 

2 

-WHOLESALE-

HARDWARE!

10  and  13  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 
market.

W E  SOLICIT  TH E

DEALER’S  TRADE,

And NOT the Consumer’s.

AGENTS  FOB  THE

Riverside Steel Nail

The Steel  Nail  is  the  Coming  Nail.  All 
dealers who have once had  them  will  have 
no  other.  Why?  They  are  stronger;  they 
are lighter; they will  not  break;  carpenters 
insist  on  having  them; 
they  are  worth 
twenty-five  per  cent,  more  than  the  iron 
nail; 

they cost but a trifle more.

We are receiving  three  car  loads  a  week 
and  are  still  behind  with  our  orders. *  We 
have  promise  of  more  frequent  shipments 
and  now  hope  to  keep up  on  our  orders 
for 

sample  order  or  ask 

Send 

for 

price.

M OLLASSES GATES.

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

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

M AULS.

O IL E R S .

Zinc or tin. Chase’s P atent...................... dis  55
Zlno, with brass bottom ........................   .dis  50
BraBSor  Copper....................................... ..dis  40
50

Seaper........ .............................per gross, $12 net

Imstead’s ----------------------------....... 

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

Foster,StevensiGo.

©rugs & flftebidnes

CROQUET STILI.  PO PULAS.

R ecent

Im provem ents 
Balls.

in  M allets  and

A brisk young  clerk at a leading  city es­
tablishment unbosomed himself, on  the sub­
ject broached, in the following fashion:

“Very few Grand Rapids people are aware 
of the extent to which croquet  is  played  in 
some parts of the country.  Our  experience 
in furnishing goods to  people  interested in 
athletic sports has been  that  Grand  Rapids 
starts in with a rush on new games,play them 
frantically for a short  time, and  then gives 
them  up  altogether.  Croquet,  as  usually 
played, is a game  of  small  possibilities, but 
experts have  brought it to a  state  of great 
perfection.”

“Are  there  any  improvements  in  the 

game?”

“None in the wickets, but  great  improve­
ments in the balls and  mallets.  The wick­
ets are, as formely, set in pegs  driven  into 
the ground.  This is the latest  thing in mal­
lets,” he added, handing one  over the coun­
ter.

It was unlike the ordinarily  croquet  mal­
let  The head was as long as the  handle if 
not a little longer.  The head was  made  of 
lignum  vitse, bound at either  end  with  a 
strip of brass an inch  wide.  On the  ends, 
and held in place  by the  brass  rims, were 
two leather disks, each about  one-sixteenth 
of an inch thick. 
It is  asserted  that  they 
act on the end of the croquet mallet  exactly 
as  the  tip  does  on  a  billiard  cue.  The 
head of this mallet was about two  inches in 
diameter and a foot  and a half  long.  The 
handle was of lighter wood than  the  head. 
To play with it one would  have to stoop ov­
er very much.  But this, it is said, is the ac­
customed attitude of expert croquet players. 
They stand with the  toes of their  feet in a 
line with the  shot  they wish to make, and 
then lean over, resting the  left  hand  upon 
the left knee.  They are  then  directly  over 
the ball and swing the mallet  accurately in 
line.  Their playing is very  much  like  that 
of an expert billiardist, and  they indulge in 
split shots and carroms, and send their balls 
whirling  through  the air in a manner  that 
would amaze old fashioned croquet  players.
The latest croquet balls are  made of solid 
rubber, and  cost  $2 apiece.  Next in order 
are boxwood balls, which are  sold at seven­
ty-five  cents  apiece.  There is  very  little 
springiness in the  rubber  ball, and it is al­
most as heavy  as  the  wooden  one. 
It is 
averred that more difficult and accurate play­
ing can be done with the rubber  balls  than 
with any other kind.

, 

K

gan D ruggists.

“It is said,”  the  clerk  remarked,  “that 
when croquet once  gets a grip on a man  he 
is gone.  All sorts of  men  play  the  game 
well, from  clergymen to athletes, though 
confess there are very few men of the latter 
who ever  take a liking  for it.  As  a  rule: 
however, there  is  not  enough  excitement 
about it to tempt  people  into  following it 
very far.”
Secretary  Jesson’s  F inal  A ppeal  to  Miclii
The Michigan State Pharmaceutical Asso­
ciation will hold its second  annual  meeting 
in Detroit, on  Tuesday  Sept. 9,10  and 11 
There will probably be an attendance of  300 
or more,110 applications having been received 
to date.  The magnificent exhibits exhibited 
by the leading manufacturers and wholesale 
^   druggists at the  meeting  of  the  American 
™   Pharmaceutical  Association  at  Milwaukee, 
will be  shipped to Detroit;  and,  besides, a 
large number who  did  not  exhibit at Mil- 
wauke will do so  here.  This  alone will re­
pay any retail  druggist  for  the  time  and 
nwihey spent in attending. 
It is very impor­
tant that we  should  secure  proper  legisla­
tion.  Self  preservation is one  of  nature’s 
first  laws.  A  member  of  the  Pharmacy 
Board of an  adjoining  State  recently said 
that at the last meeting of  the board  out  of 
seventeen applicants four  passed.  Now  re­
flect for a moment!  What does that  mean? 
It means simply this, that those that are not 
^ 0   qualified in other States are  here  and  that 
we must put up with having all that  incom­
petent overflow thrust upon us, if  we do not 
do as our neighbors  have  done—secure the 
enactment of a Pharmacy bill.  We want an 
expression of the representative druggists of 
the State in favor of the bill  strong  enough 
to impress upon  the  Legislature  the  fact 
^   that we are in earnest, therefore, a large  at­
tendance is desired.  Coming together  once 
a year and discussing  scientific  subjects as 
well as trade interests is certainly very pleas­
an t  We meet old  friends and  make  many 
new acquaintances. 
It also  creates a better 
general feeling among us all. We return to our 
homes with new ideas, and  a  large  amount 
of knowledge gathered from the  experience 
of others, feeling that we are better  prepar­
ed than ever before for the  year’s  work  be­
fore us,  Again I ask every druggist  in  the 
State  of  Michigan  to  attend  our  annual 
meeting in Detroit  Sept. 9, and  join  us in 
membership. 
I have assurances  from  the 
“ Detroit druggists  that  you will all be royal­
ly entertained.  Reduced  rates  on  all  rail­
roads can be obtained by addressing me. 

J acob J esson, Secretary.

Muskegon, Mich.  /
A “scientific crank” has been going  about 
CaLthe country trying to secure the  attention of 
^leading  medical  journals  with  his  unique 
<  method of curing all diseases.  The  process 
is  the  complete  filtering  of  the  patient’s 
blood—in a vacuum—thereby  removing  all 
deleterious substances.  He has  a  machine, 
one mouth of which he applies to a vein and 
the  other  to  an  artery.  He  says,  “the 
^blood’s got  to go  through  my filter  or  the 
man will die.”  He is a  well educated  per­
son, of good address, and asks  for  nothing.

VISITING  BUYERS.

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

Co., New Era.

F. C. Lord, Howard City.
C. 0. Bailey, Fife Lake.
P. V. Smith, Chester.
Jackson Coon, Rockford.
H. Austin, Walker.
Hoag & Judson, Cannonsburg.
Ed. Roys, of Roys Bros., Cedar Springs.
D. H. Lord.  Howard City.
J. W. Bragington, Hopkins,
R. B. McCullock, Berlin.
John Giles & Co., Lowell.
W. W. Peirce, Moline.
G. B. Chambers, Wayland.
C. H. Deming, Dutton.
F. O. Lord, Howard City.
C. Stone, Cedar  Springs.
Green & Green, Byron Center.
Walter Struik, Forest Grove.
Kellogg & Potter, Grandville.
Henry DeKline,  Jamestown.
T. W. Provin, Cedar Springs.
Jay Marlatt,  Berlin.
Scoville & McAuley, Edgerton.
Andre Bros., Jennisonville.
Waite Bros., Hudsonville.
E. P. Barnard,  buyer  New  Era  Lumber 
Theron Stafford, Ravenna.
U. S. Monroe, Berlin.
John W. Mead, Berlin.
Baron & TenHoor, Forest Grove.
Thos. Smedley, Smedley Bros.,  Bauer. 
Paine & Field, Englishville.
C. O. Bostwick & Son, Cannonsburg. 
Hehry Henkel, Maple Hill.
G. H.  Walbrink,  Allendale.
O. Green,  Martin.
J. W. Closterhouse, Grandville.
J. C. Benbow,  Cannonsburg.
W. S. Root, Talmadge.
Mr. Pipp, Gaylord & Pipp,  Pierson.
J. Barnes, Austerlitz.
Bert Tinkler, Hastings.
J. Omler,  Wright.
C. Bergin, Lowell.
Norman Harris, Big  Springs.
G. J. Sbackelton,  Lisbon.
John J. Ely,  Rockford.
Henry Strope, Morley.
Spring & Lindley, Bailey.
Wm. Vermeiden, Beaver  Dam.
Stauffer & Salisbury, Hastings.
Mrs. C. E. Kellogg, Grandville.
I. S. Boise, Hastings.
B. F. Hall, Fennville.
M. P. Shields,  Hilliards.
David Phillipps, Howard  City.
Geo. W. Bevins,  Tustin.
Adam Newell, Tustin.
Sisson & Lilley, Lilley  Junction.
M. J. Howard, Englishville.
Wm. McMullen, Wood Lake.
B. M. Dennison, East Paris.
T. J. Sheridan,  Lockwood.
Wm. Hill,  Morley.
Sisson & Lilley, Spring  Lake.
J. H. Moores, Fife Lake.
Walling Bros., Lamont.
John Gunstra,  Lamont.
Fred Jacobs,  Newaygo.
L. E. Paige, Paige & Anderson,  Sparta. 
Byron Dickenson,  Hastings.
A. B. Gates, Rockford.
W. W. Pierce, Moline.
A. B. Johnson, Lowell.
S. Frost, McBrides.
Mr. Furber, Furber & Kidd-er, Hopkins.
G. J. Shackelton,  Lisbon.
Mr.  Sherman,  manager  of Grand  Haven 
C. Cole,  Ada.
W. S. Bartron, Bridgeton.
P. B. Newton, Steele & Newton, Advance. 
Dickinson & Raymond,  Fennville.
Mr. Montgòmery, of Montgomery,  Hair &
John Colby, of Colby & Co., Rockford.
J. S. Barker, Sand Lake.
John Scott, Lowell.
E. Rutan,  Greenviile.
G. W. Bartlett, Bridgeton.
Mr. Patrick, of Patrick & Co.,  Leroy.
W. W. Kelley, Hastings.
Alex Patterson, Dorr.
Mr.  Teachout,  of  Teachout  &  Roedel, 
R. H. Woodin, Sparta.
A. T. Linderman, Whitehall.
J. A. Wilson, Hastings.
J. E. Patterson, Whitehall.
E. E. Chase, LowelL 
J. Glupker, Zutphen.
W. F. Rice, Alpine.
Wm. Parks, Alpine.
A. B. Sunderland, Lowell.
Jay Marlatt,  Berlin.
A. & L. M. Wolf, Hudsonville.
Mr. Walbrink, of L J. Quick & Co., Allen­

Lumber Co., Stanton.

Giddings, Paris.

White Cloud.

dale.

The  W heat Prospect.

S. W. Tallmadge, of Milwaukee, the well- 
known  crop  statistician,  puts  the  wheat 
crop of the country for 1884  at  530,000,000 
bushels, or 25,000,000 more than the  largest 
heretofore crop, 130,000,000 more  than  the 
crop of 1883, and 80,000,000 more  than  the 
average crop of the past five years!  Of this 
crop Great Britain takes  yearly  from  one- 
sixth to one-fifth, while  continental  Europe 
takes scarcely  a  quarter  to a  third  of  the 
amount taken by Great  Britain.  The dis­
parity  in  corn  and  provisions  taken  by 
Great Britian and the continent  of  Europe 
respectively is still greater, especially in the 
case of  provisions.  Thus, 
in  1883  Great 
Britain and  dependencies  took from  us  in 
provisions to the value of about  $71,150,000, 
and France  and  Germany  to  the  value of 
only $10,500,000 out of a  total of  $96,500,- 
000 exported.  While  our  export  trade to 
continental Europe is  falling  off,  to  Great 
Britian  it  is  increasing  at  an  enormous 
atio.  Thus in 1848 we exported but  about 
half a million  bushels  of  wheat  to  Great 
Britain,  and  in  1883, a  bad  year  with 
us,
nearly ninety millions of bushels.

Druggists atteuding  the  meeting  of  the 
State Pnarmaceutical Association  at Detroit 
can find  no more convenient  and  desirable 
place to  stop at than at  “The  Brunswick,” 
comer of State and Griswold streets.  Street 
cars leave  the  Central  Depot for the  hotel 
every  six minutes, and guests  are  assured 
that they .will receive every attention  possi­
ble.

Black walnut  sawdust,  formerly  thrown 
away, is now utilized. 
It  can  not  only be 
moulded into ornaments, but it makes a very 
pretty substitute for ground coffee.

They  say  Blaine  is  like  Henry  Clay. 
Then possibly some  day  he’ll  have a cigar 
named after him.

OPINIONS  AROUT  OVID.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

D ig an .

One of the  B anner In lan d   Towns  of Mich- 
There are few towns in the State  that im­
press the  casual  observer with  such an  air 
of stability and permanent  growth  as  Ovid. 
Of course the principal reason of this is  the 
backing possessed by the  place in the shape 
of a substantial farming  community extend­
ing for miles in every direction; but no little 
credit should be awarded  the  tradesmen  of 
Ovid for their public spiriteduess in erecting 
business blocks that would not appear to dis­
advantage in towns twice  its  size,  and  for 
their enterprise in carrying stocks,and offer­
ing prices, that prevent any trade  naturally 
tributary to Ovid from being diverted to rival 
business points.  The merchants of Ovid, as 
a class, are unusually wide  awake  and  pro­
gressive, and have the reputation of  leaving 
no stone unturned  that  would  tend  to  en­
hance  the  beauty,  population,  or  business 
standing of the community.

Ovid recently received a  black  eye  in  the 
shape of the failure of a bank, mercantile es­
tablishment  and  manufactory,  but  as  all 
three of  these  institutions  were  insolvent, 
the result was  inevitable  and  was  sure  to 
come sooner or later.  The  remaining  busi­
ness houses  suffer  more  or  less  from  the 
forced  collection  of  all  accounts  due  the 
bankrupt firms, but the distrust  engendered 
by  the  failures  has  gradually  worn away, 
and a better feeling prevails than  the  place 
has known for  years.

Scofield & Cooper, the manufacturing firm 
which recently assigned, have offered the as­
signee for Saurs  & White $20,000  for  their 
mortgage for $27,000 and 20 per cent in full 
settlement  to  the  other  creditors.  There 
seems to  be a disposition on the part  of the 
latter to accept the offer, but it is understood 
that Assignee Darragh will positively refuse 
anything less than the face of the mortgage, 
as  the property  covered  is  inventoried  at 
about $40,000.

Recognizing the crying necessity for better 
banking facilities, the  business men  of  the 
place are moving to secure the  organization 
of a national bank.  The effect of such an in­
stitution would be to revive the drooping en 
ergies of the place, and give the  business  of 
the community  an  impetus  that  would  be 
felt for a long time to come.

“Speaking of banks,” says a  leading  citi­
zen, “reminds  rae  of  the  run on our  bant 
here  away  back  in  the  fall of 1873.  Jim 
Darragh  was  at  that time our only banker, 
and Jay Cooke was  his  New  York  corres­
pondent  When Cooke failed, the people be­
came alarmed, hnd made a run on the bank. 
Jim stood up manfully under the ordeal, but 
after a few hours he saw that some  sferategj 
would  have  to  be  adopted,  or  the  bank 
would have to close doors.  He  accordingly 
approached A. H. Frisbee, who is  our  rich 
est man and lias the confidence of every one 
for twenty miles roundabout.  The  old gen­
tleman replied that he  had  no  money,  but 
would sign any papers that  would  help  the 
bank out of the present difficulty.  But Dar 
ragh had another  way  of  quieting  the  ap­
prehensions of his depositors, and  imparted 
it to Frisbee, about as follows: 
‘These peo 
pie have no place to  put  their  money,  and 
they all know you.  Stand  out  in  front  of 
the bank, and  ask  them  to  lend you  their 
money, as they draw it  out.  They  will  all 
place it in your hands, and as fast as you get 
four or five thousand turn it over  to  me  on 
deposit.’  The old gentleman  gladly did  as 
directed, and  the  result  was  exactly  what 
Darragh had predicted.  After about $9,000 
had been drawn  out,  the  people  saw  that 
Frisbee stood behind the bank, and  the  run 
ceased.”

If there is one thing,  more  than  another, 
in which the people of Ovid can take a com­
mendable degree of pride, it  is  their  repre­
sentative newspaper, the Union.  Conducted 
as too few newspapers are—on  purely  busi 
ness principles—it has attained a circulation 
and  influence  second  to no other  country 
journal in the State, and richly deserves the 
unusual success it has  achieved.

VISITING SALESMEN.

Representatives of  the  following  houses 

have been in town since our last issue: 

York.

Harry Nelson, D. H. McAlpin&Co., New 
W. R. Keasey, Chicago.
Richard B. Sheeran, Detroit.

OYSTERS !

We duplicate Chicago and Detroit prices and 
guarantee  as  strictly fresh  stock and  as  well 
filled  cans  as  any  in  the  m arket—at bottom 
prices.

S £ 3 S 1 > S   !

Clover, Timothy and all kinds  field seeds  at 
bottom prices.  Write for quotations  when  in 
need of seeds.
Oranges and Lemons
Green and Dried Fruits, Butter, Eggs,  and  all 
kinds of Produce.

MOSELEY  BROS.,

122  Monroe  Street,  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

DO  YOU  KNOW

—THAT—

XtoriUard’s  Climax

PLU G   TOBACCO

With Red Tin Tag, is the best?  Is  the purest; 
is never adulterated with glucose, barytes, mo­
lasses or any deleterous ingredients, as  is  the 
case with many other tobaccos?
UorlUard’s Rose  L eaf F ine Cut Tobacco 
is also made of the  finest  stock,  and  for  aro­
matic chewing quality is  second to none.
take first rank as a solid  durable  smoking to­
bacco wherever introduced.
jLorillard’s  Fam ous Snufife 
have  been  used  for  over  124  years,  and are 
sold to a larger extent than any others.

Liorillard’s  Navy  Clippings 

Advanced—Oil Anise.
Declined—N othing.

AC ID S.

Acetic,  No. 8............................$  ft  9  ®
Acetic,  C. P. (Sp. grav. 1.040)........   30  ®
Carbt lie............................................
Citric .................................................
Muriatic 18  deg.................................. 
3 @
Nitric 36 deg....................................  11  @
Oxalic...............................................   14*4®
Sulphuric  66 deg................................  
3 @
Tartaric  powdered.........................
Benzoic,  English....................$  oz
Benzoic,  German............................  12  @
T annic..............................................   15  @

AM M ONIA.

Carbonate.................................ft  15  @
Muriate (Powd. 22c).........................
Aqua 16 deg or  3f............................ 
Aqua 18 deg or 4f............................... 

6  @
7 @

@
2

BALSAMS.

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

BA RK S.

Cassia, In mats (Pow’d 20e)...........
Cinchona,  yellow..........................
Elm,  select.......................................
Elm, ground, pure..........................
Elm, powdered,  pure.....................
Sassafras, of root............................
Wild Cherry, select.........................
Bay berry  powdered.......................
Hemlock powdered........................
W ahoo..............................................
Soap  ground.......................... .........

B E R R IE S ,

Cubeb,  prime (Powd 80c)............... 
@
Ju n ip er............................................  
6  ®
Prickly Ash..................................... 100  @1

EXTRACTS.

Licorice (10 and 25 lb boxes, 25c)...
Licorice,  powdered, pure.............
Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 lb doxes).
Logwood, Is (25 lb  boxes)...............
................
Lgowood, y2s 
do 
Logwood, %s 
do 
...............
Logwood, ass’d  do 
...............
Fluid, Extracts—25 $  cent, off list.

FLO W ERS.

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

GUMS.

28®

60®

Aloes,  Barbadoes............................ 
Aloes, Cape (Powd  24c)..................
18 
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd  60c)..........
50 
Ammoniac.......................................
30 
Arabic, extra  select.......................
60 
Arabic, powdered  select...............
60 
Arabic, 1st  picked..........................
50 
Arabic,2d  picked............................
40 
Arabic,c3d picked...........................
35 
Arabic, sifted sorts........................
30 
Assafcentida, prime (Powd 35c)...
30 
Benzoin............................................
55®60
Camphor.........................................
21®  24 
Catechu. Is (V% 14c, %a 16c)........   ,
13
Euphorbium powdered..................
35®  40 
Galbanum strained........................
80
Gamboge..........................................
90®1 00 
Guaiac, prime (Powd  45c).............
35
Kino [Powdered, 30c].....................  
20
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

H ERBS—IN   OUNCE  PACKAGES.

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

IR O N .

LEA VES.

6 40
20
7
80
65

Citrate and  Quinine................ .  .. 
Solution mur., for tinctures........  
Sulphate, pure  crystal..................  
C itrate.............................................. 
Phosphate........................................ 
•  : 
Buchu, short (Powd 25c).................  12  ® 11
Sage, Italian, bulk (%s & *4s, 12e)... 
6
Senna,  Alex, natural.....................   18  @ 20
30
Senna, Alex, sifted and garbled.. 
Senna,  powdered............................ 
22
Senna tinnivelli.......................... 
16
Uva  Ursi........................................... 
10
35
Belledonna........................................ 
Foxglove........ ............................ 
30
H enbane........................................... 
35
Rose, red........................................... 
2 35

 

LIQ U O R S.

W., D. & Co.’8 Sour Mash W hisky.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.............................................175 
Catawba  W ines.............................. 1 25  @2 00
Port Wines....................................... 1 35  @2 50

M AGNESIA.

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

 

23
37
2  25
70

 

@6 50

O IL S .

 

 

 

 

 

do 
do 

Almond, sweet.................................  45  @ 50
Amber,  rectified.............................. 
45
Anise...................................  
2 00
 
Bay $   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.............. 
l 25
 
Cubebs, P. &  W ...............................  
6  00
l  60
E rigeron........................................... 
Fireweed.......................... 
2 00
Geranium  $   oz..............  
75
40
Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75c).. 
Juniper wood..................................  
50
Juniper berries...............................  
2  00
Lavender flowers, French.............  
2 01
100
Lavender garden 
.............  
Lavender spike 
90
.............  
1  70
Lemon, new crop................ ~.......... 
Lemon,  Sanderson’s.......................  
1  75
80
Lemongrass...................................... 
Origanum, red flowers, French... 
1 25
50
Origanum,  No. 1............................ 
Pennyroyal...................................... 
2 00
3  25
Peppermint,  white......................... 
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................................. 
z 25
4 50
Wormwood, No. 1 (Pure $6.50)....... 
l  oo
Savin.................................................  
2 50
W ormseed....................................... 
Cod Liver, filtered................ $  gal 
1 90
Cod Liver, best...............................  
3 50
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16 
6 00
Olive, Malaga.................... 
@1 20
Olive, “Sublime  I ta lia n ............... 
2 50
S alad.................................................  65  @  67
Rose,  Ihmsen’s .......................$1 oz 
9  75

PO TASSIU M .

Bicromate.................................$  fl> 
Bromide, cryst. and  gran. bulk... 
Chlorate, cryst (Powd 23c).............  
Iodide, cryst. and  gran, bulk....... 
Prussiate yellow.............................. 

14
35
20
1  25
30

ROOTS.

 

A lkanet............................................  
15
27
Althea, cut........................................ 
Arrow,  St. Vincent’s .....................  
17
Arrow, Taylor’s, in J4s and %k__  
35
Blood (Powd 18c).............................. 
12
Calamus,  peeled.................  
18
38
Calamus, German white, peeled.. 
Elecampane, powdered..................  
23
Gentian (Powd  14c)......................... 
10
Ginger, African, (Powd 16c)............  13  @  14
20
Ginger, Jam aica  bleached............ 
Golden Seal (Powd 40c)..................  
35
Hellebore, white, powdered....... 
22
Ipecac, Rio, powdered.................. . 
110
Jalap,  powdered.............................. 
37%
Licorice,  select (Powd 12%)........  
12
Licorice, extra select...................... 
15
Pink, tru e ......................................... 
35
Rhei, from seleot to  choice..........1 00  @1 50
Rhei,powderedE. I ..........; ............ 110  @1 20
Rhei,choice cut  cu b es................ 
2 00
Rhei, choice cut fingers...............  
2 25
50
Serpentaria.......................... 
Seneka....................... 
65
 
Sarsaparilla,  H onduras.. .. .. .. .. .  
40

 

 

 

Sarsaparilla,  Mexican.................... 
Squills, white (Powd 85c)............... 
Valerian, English (Powd 30c)........ 
Valerian, Vermont (Powd 28c)... 

18
10
25
20

SEEDS.

 

Anise, Italian (Powd 20c)..............  
13
Bird, mixed in ft  packages . ........  
5  ©  6
314®  4
Canary,  Smyrna.............................. 
Caraway, best Dutch (Powd 19c)..  11  @  12
Cardamon,  Aleppee....................... 
2  00
Cardamon, Malabar........................  
2  25
25
Celery................................................ 
Coriander,  Dest English................. 
12
F en n el.............................................. 
15
Flax,  clean.......................................  
324®
4  @  4K
Flax, pure grd (bbl 324).................. 
Foenugreek, powdered.................. 
8  @  9
Hemp,  Russian............................... 
5)4®  6
Mustard, white' Black 10c)...........  
8
1  00
Q uince.............................................. 
Rape, Lnglish..................................  
754@  8
Worm,  Levant................................. 
14

SPONGES.

Florida sheeps’ wool, carriage...... 2 25  @2 50
do 
Nassau 
do 
........  
2 00
........  
Velvet Extra do 
1  10
do 
Extra Yellow do 
do 
85
....... 
65
do 
Grass 
....... 
do 
Hard head, for slate use................. 
75
Yellow Reef, 
................. 
140

do 
M ISCELLANEUS.

30

2)4® 

do 
do 

Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.21) $  gal__  
2 29
1 50
Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref. 
Anodyne Hoffman’s ....................... 
50
Arsenic, Donovan’s solution....... 
27
Arsenic, Fowler’s solution..........  
12
Annatto  1 B) rolls................  
50
Blue  Soluble.................................... 
2  75
Bay  Rum, imported, best.............  
2 00
Bay Rum, domestic, H., P. & Co.’s . 
Alum .........................................  $ f t   224@  3y,
Alum, ground  (Powd 9c)............... 
3  @  4
Annatto,  prim e...............................  
32
4V4@  5
Antimony, powdered,  cotn’l........  
6  @  7
Arsenic, white, powdered.............  
Balm Gilead Buds..........................  
40
Beans,  Tonka..................................  
2 25
Beans,  Vanilla................................7 00  @9 75
Bismuth, sub  nitrate.....................  
1  60
Blue  Pill (Powd 70e).......................  
45
7*4@  9
Blue V itrio l.................................... 
12
Borax, refined (Powd  13c).............  
185
Cantharides,Russian  powdered.. 
Capsicum  Pods, A frican............... 
18
20
Capsicum Pods, African  pow’d ... 
Capsicum Pods,  American  do  ... 
18
Carmine,  No. 40............................... 
4 00
12
Cassia  Buds...................................... 
Calomel.  American......................... 
70
5
Chalk, prepared drop...................... 
Chalk, precipitate English............ 
12
Chalk,  red  fingers........................... 
8
Chalk, white lum p..........................  
2
Chloroform,  Squibb’s.'.................. 
1  60
Colocynth  apples............................ 
60
Chloral hydrate, German  crusts.. 
1 60
1 70
cryst... 
Chloral do 
1 90
Chloral 
do  Scherin’s  do  ... 
Chloral do 
crusts.. 
1 75
Chloroform .................................... 1  00  ®1  10
Cinchonidia, P. &  W ........*............  45  @  50
Cinchonidia, other brands.............   45  ®  50
Cloves (Powd 28c)............................  20  @  22
Cochineal......................................... 
30
Cocoa  B utter.................................   " 
45
Copperas (by bbl  lc).......................  
2
Corrosive Sublimate....................... 
65
Corks, X and XX—35 off  list........
Cream Tartar, pure powdered.......  38  @  40
Cream Tartar, m-ocer’s, 10 ft box.. 
15
Creasote........ .¥................................ 
50
Cudbear,  prim e...............................  
24
24
Cuttle Fish Bone.............................. 
D extrine........................................... 
12
l  20
Dover’s  Powders..................... ” ”  
50
Dragon’s Blood Mass...................... 
Ergot  powdered.............................. 
45
1  10
E ther Squibb’g................................. 
Emery, Turkish, all  No.’s..............! 
.8
Epsom Salts...................................... 
3
Ergot, fresh...................................... 
50
Ether, sulphuric, U. S.  P ............... 
69
Flake  w hite.....................................  
14
Grains  Paradise............................”  
25
Gelatine,  Cooper’s ..........................  
90
Gelatine, French  ............................  45  @  70
Glassware, flint, 70 off,by box 60 off
Glassware, green, 60 and 10 dis__
Glue,  cabinet..................................   12  @  17
Glue,white.......................................  17  @  38
Glycerine, p ure...............................   21  ©  25
Hops  14s and 14s .............................. 
25@  40
Iodoform <p  oz...................  
35
Indigo................................................; 85  @1 00
Insect Powder, best  Dalm atian...  23  ©  25
Iodine,  resublimed........................  
2  10
Isinglass,  American......................  
1  50
Ja p o n ica ......................................... 
9
London  Purple.............................. "  10  @  15
Lead, acetate.................................... 
15
Lime, chloride, (*4s 2s 10c & *4s lie) 
9
Lupuline........................................... 
1  00
Lycopodium..................................................... 50
M ace..................................................................60
Madder, best  D utch........... . . . . . . 
13%@  13
Manna, S.  F
1 ¿ r
Mercury............................. 
Morphia, sulph., P. & W__ ..  28 oz
3 25@3 50 
Musk, Canton, fi., P. &  Co.’s ........
40
Moss, Iceland............................» f t
Moss,  Irish....................  
13
Mustard,  English....................*.-*** 
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 ft cans ....*! 
Nutgalls.........................  
30
Nutmegs, No, 1...............................70
Nux  Vomica............................... 2 |1  
Ointment. Mercurial, *4d . 
Pepper, Black  Berry... 
is
Pepsin...............................................  
3 00
Pitch, True Burgundy. 
7
Quassia.............................................. 
7
Quinia, Sulph, P. & W........... ft oz  1  10©I 15
Quinine,  German............................1  00  @1 05
Seidlitz  M ixture.............................
28 
Strychnia, cryst..........................
1  50 
Silver Nitrate, cryst.......................  79
@  82
Red Precipitate....................... ¡p ft
Saffron, American..........................
Sal  Glauber......................................
Sal Nitre, large  cryst...................
Sal  Nitre, medium  cryst........... ”
Sal Rochelle......................................
Sal Soda....................................  ...”  
Salicin...............................................j
Santonin..................................... .. ’.
Snuffs, Maceoboy or Scotch..........
Soda Ash [by keg 3c].....................
Spermaceti.......................................
Soda, Bi-Carbonate,  DeLand’s__
Soap, White Castile.........................
........................  
Soap, Green  do 
17
Soap, Mottled do 
........................  
9
........................  
Soap, 
do 
11
Soap,  Mazzini..................................  
14
Spirits Nitre, 3 F .............................   26  @  38
Spirits Nitre, 4 F .............................   28  @  33
Sugar Milk powdered.....................  
30
314®  4
Sulphur, flour..................................  
Sulphur,  roll.................................... 
60
Tartar Emetic.................................. 
2 70
Tar, N. C. Pine, 54 gal. cans 
doz 
quarts in tin .......... 
Tar, 
l   40
Tar, 
pints in tin ............. 
85
Turpentine,  Venice................ ® ft 
35
Wax, White, S. &  F. brand...........  
60
Zinc,  Sulphate................................. 
8

3®  31%

414©

6  ® 

7  ® 

do 
do 

30
18

do 

@

10

40

2

i

 

O ILS.

Capitol  Cylinder.................................................75
Model  Cylinder....................................... ....... .” ¿0
Shields  Cylinder...............................................” 50
Eldora<jo Engine...............................................” 45
PeerlesS  Machinery..........................................[35
Challenge Machinery.........................................’25
Backus Fine Engine.........................................."30
Black Diamond Machinery............................’ 30
Castor Machine  Oil..........................................” 6C
Paraffine, 25  deg............................................. !.!22
Paraffine, 28  deg.................................................[21
Sperm, winter bleached................................. i  40
Bbl  Gal
85
Whale, w inter......................................  80 
Lard, extra...........................................  64 
75
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

V A RN ISH ES.

Bbl 

“ 
“ 

No. 1 Turp  Coach..................................1 10@1  20
E xtra  T urp............................................1 60@1  70
Coach  Body........................................... 2  75©3  00
No. 1 Turp F urniture........................... 1 00@110
E xtra Turp  Damar...............................1 55®1  60
Japan Dryer, No.  1 T urp.....................   70®  75
Lb
9 
10 
10 
11
2® 3 
2® 3 
2® 3 
2*4® 3 
224® 3 
13®16 
55@57 
16@17 
5%
@70 
@90 
1 10 
1 40

P A IN TS.
Boralumine, White  bulk)  .
5 fibs [ ............
Boralumine, 
Boralumine, Tints bulk.  S-50 off..
5 fts. J ..........
Boralumine 
Red Venetian............................  134
Ochre, yellow  Marseilles__ ...  134
Ochre, yellow  Bermuda..........  134
Putty, com m ercial..................   2*4
Putty, strictly pure..................   2*4
Vermilion, 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..

HAZELTINE,

W l i o l e s a l ©

Druggists !

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

95  Louis  Street.

IMPORTERS AND  JOBBERS  OF

MANUFACTURERS  OF

FLUID  EXTRACTS  AND  ELIXIRS.

GENERAL  WHOLESALE  AGENTS  FOR

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

in g, Manu facturers  of  F in e 

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

B rushes.

—Also for the—

Gra n d  R a pid s  Bru sh  Co.,  Ma n fg 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 drag trade. 
Our  special efforts in this direction have  re­
ceived from hundreds of  our  customers  the 
most satisfying recommendations.

W iiieaiLiprDeirtrat

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

WithursDade&Cu’s

Henderson  Co.,  Ky.,  SOUR  MASH  AND 
OLD FASHIONED  HAND  MADE,  COP­
PER  DISTILLED  WHISKYS.  We  not 
only offer these goods to be  excelled  by  no 
o th er  KNOWN  b r a n d  in  the  market,  but 
superior in all respects to most that  are  ex­
posed  for  sale.  We  g u a 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 Medioines,  etc,,  we  invite your cor­
respondence.

Mail orders always receive our special and 

personal attention.

«VfT

A MERCANTILE  JOURNAL, PUBLISHED EACH 

WEDNESDAY.

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

OFFICE  IN  EAGLE  BUILDING, 3d  FLOOR.
I Entered  at  the  Postoffice  at  Grand  Rapids  as 
Second-class Matter.1________ __

WEDNESDAY,  SEPTEMBER  10,  1884.

T H E   LARGEST  TOBACCO  MANUFAC­

TORY  IN   TH E  W ORLD.

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

Thirty Tears.

LIST OF OFFICERS:

President—Ransom W. H aw ley, of  Detroit. 
Vice-Presidents—Chas. E. Sned eker, Detroit; 
L. W. At k in s, Grand Rapids;  I. N. Alexan­
d er, Lansing;  U. S. L ord, Kalamazoo; H. E.
Meek er, Bay City. 
Secretary  and  Treasurer—W.  N.  Mer e d it h ,
BoanTof Trustees,  For One Year—J. C. P on­
tiu s, Chairman, S. A. Mu nger, H. K. w h it e 
For Two Years—D. Mo r r is,  A. W.  Culv er.

____ 

, ,

RETAILERS,

F. J.  DETTENTHALER
OYSTERS,  FISH

W HOLESALE

-AND-

CANNED  g o o d s .

117   Monroe  St.7  Grand  Hapids,

REM OVAL !

Coal,  Wood,  Lime,  Cement,  f  

Sewer Pipe, Etc,

Office removed to 3 Canal street, Basement.

JA.  IB.  K N O W L S O N .   »

W M . SEA RS & CO.
Cracker  Manufacturers9

—FOR  THE—

FIELD  AND  GARDEN, |

— a t —

WHOLESALE  AND  RETAIL,

—AT THE—

SHHD  S TOR E ,

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

I . T. LAMOEEAUÏ, A ffli1
EDMUND  B.  DIKEMAN,

BARBOUR’S  CAMPAIGN  TORCH

The  only  Torch  th a t  can  be  taken  ap art  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.

FO STER ,  S T E V E N S   <&  CO.,

10  and 13 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

H ercules  Pow der !
STUMP  AND  ROCK  ANNIHILATOR  !

THE  OHEAT

SEN D   FOB  PRICES.

—AND—

JEW ELE R ,

Louis  Reynolds has sold  his  interest in 
the Bank of Charlevoix and  returned to his 
old home at Maple  Rapids.  The  bank  will 
hereafter be known as Brown & Co.

44  CANAL STREET,

GRAND RAPIDS,

JOHN  CAULFIELD,

G-eneral  Wholesale Dealer.

Grand Rapids,

ÜÜ

If you are selling goods to make 

a profit,  sell

LA  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.

ftM  M

HAWINS & PERRY

STATE AGENTS,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  

MICHIGAN.

M anufacturers  of

Fine Perfumes,

Colognes, Hair  Oils, 
Flavoring Extracts,
Baking Powders, 

Bluings, Etc., Etc.

ALSO  PROPRIETORS  OF

HEMINK’S

“Red Bark Bitters

-AND-

78  W est B ridge  Street,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  

MICHIGAN.

COLE  &  STONE,
Gents’  Fine Shirts.

M anufacturers  and Jobbers  of

Samples and Prices  will  be  Sent  to  Close 

Buyers  ir^ our  Line.

Address,

Marshall 

- 

Mich.

Com position  of  Tobacco  and  W ho  P ro­

duces It.

From the Grocer and Country Merchant.

Consumers generally give little thought to 
the magnitude of the  tobacco  business,  and 
it is only by actual figures that  they can  be 
made to comprehend its  importance.  Even 
then the average  mind is bewildered  at  the 
figures.  P. L o rilla rd &  Co., manufactur­
ers of the celebrated  Clim a x, Red  Tin  Tag 
Plug Tobacco, and  the  largest  manufactur­
ers of tobacco in  the  world, produce  about 
one-sixth of all the tobacco consumed in this 
country, although there are 773 other  manu­
factories  in  the  United  States.  The  total 
consumption  in  this  country, according  to 
actual  statistics  for  1883,  was  139,783,782 
pounds, of which P. Lorillard & Co. furnish­
ed 24,747,289  pounds as follows :

Pounds.
Plug Tobacco...........................................19,028,456
Fine  Cut.....................................................2,239,444
Sm oking.....................................................2,375,994
Snuff.................................... *....................1,103,395
This is equivalent to about 83,000  pounds 
per day for every working day  in  the  year. 
The tax paid to the Government on this pro­
duct by the above firm the last year was 82,- 
581,999.65, or $8,606  for  each  working  day 
of the  year.  Astonishing  as  these  figures 
appear, 
increasing 
increase  for  1883  over 
its  product,  the 
that of 1882 being 5,341,000 pounds.

the  firm  is  annually 

Who will claim in the face of these figures 
that tobacco has not become  a  necessity  in- 
. stead of  being a luxury, as  it  has  been  so 
long regarded?

Settling W ith  a  M ourning W idow.

From thè Wall Street News.

One of the steamers plying  between  De­
troit  and  Cleveland  ran  over a skill  one 
night and drowned the occupant.  When he 
had been identified, the  agent  called  upon 
his wife to see if a settlement could  not  be 
made.  She was not in tears nor  prostrated 
with grief.  On the contrary, she was at the 
washtub  and in  good  humor.  When  the 
matter was broached, she said;

“Well, now, my husband took  home  the 
washings, brought in  the  coal, and  was of 
use in several other ways, and his death was 
quite a loss to me.”

“About what sum do you feel would make 

you good?”  he asked.

“Now, then, be honest  with  me,” she re­
plied after taking a moment to think. “How 
much  will  a bang-up  bridal  ‘tower’  from 
here to Niagara Falls and back cost?”

“Well, $300 ought to put you through first 
class and give you three days at  the  Falls.” 
“Well,  say $350.  That gives  me  money 
for my  shoes and a bonnet, and I may want 
to dye my hair and buy some stockings.” 

The money was handed over and a receipt 
taken, and the “tower” took place  the  next 
week.

H ave  L earned  a  Lesson.

From the Detroit Free Press.

“I believe,” said a lawyer  the  other day, 
when speaking of  the  depression  in  busi­
ness, “that the  general mercantile  business 
of  Detroit is on as  solid  footing  as can be 
found  anywhere  in  the  country.  Up  to 
four or five years ago almost  every  one  of 
our merchants was dabbling in silver  stock, 
futures, new railroad  lines  or  some  other 
outside  matters.  Nearly every  failure  you 
can name in the last ten years can  be traced 
directly to outside speculations.  You  will 
now have to hunt a long  time  to  find  any 
merchant of standing who has any  specula­
tion  on  hand.  Our  failures  for  the  last 
three years have been very  few,  and  every 
single one of them  can  be traced to  some­
thing beyond business  depressions.  One of 
the largest failures was caused by a  partner 
drawing over $40,000 out of  the business to 
buy silver stock  which  isn’t  to-day  worth 
one twentieth of its face value.”

W ould  B ather Have  W hisky.

While Gen. Sherman was lying in front of 
Atlanta,  and  while a “military  necessity” 
suggested to  every  man  the  propriety of 
hugging the  bottom  of  the  ditch,  says  the 
Arkansaw Traveler, a committee of evangel­
ists called on the general.

“My dear general,” said  the  spokesman, 
“we have come to see you on important bus­
iness.  We would  like to get a special  train 
to bring in a load of  ministers and  tracts.”
“Humph,”  grunted  the  general, “I’d  a 
thundering  sight rather  give  you a special 
train to bring down a load of  whisky.  You 
fellows  are  enough to scare  an  army  to 
death.”

How  to M ake  a   F ilter.

In response to a request  for  directions to 
make a cheap filter, 'the  Industrial  World 
presents the  following:

Take an earthenware jar  with  a  hole in 
the bottom in which to put  a tap.  Place a 
perforated board half way inside  the  filter, 
and nearly fill the top  space with  charcoal. 
This is a cheap  but very  serviceable  filter, 
and one that can be depended on.

I  will quote you until further notice as follows;  E xtra Selects, 38;  Selects, 33 

Standards, 25; Favorites, 22.

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

We are agents for  Gordon’s 
celebrated TSTag Jaws,  Olym­
pia»» 3D. F-, and many other well- 
known brands and carry a full line 
of his goods at factory prices.
We handle Oranges, Lemons, 
Bananas,  Figs,  Bates,  Etc.,  in 
large quantities from first-hands  and 
are  headquarters  for  everything  in 
our line.

PUTNAM  &  BROOKS.
FOX, MUSSELMAN & LOVERIDGE,

a wmmh h h

W HOLESALE  GROCERS,
Niroi, Acorn, CM, Crescent & M  Seal Ping Tobaccos

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

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

Our  stock  of Teas,  Coffees  and  Syrups 

is  Always  Complete.

Tobaccos,  Vinegars  and.  Spices [!
1 

0U R SM 0T T 0:  “ SQUARE  D E A L IN G   B E TW E EN   M A N 1 A N D   M A N .”

-W E  MAKE SPECIAL CLAIM  FOR  O U R -

CORRESPONDENCE  SOLICITED.

Agents  for

AMBOY  CHEESE.

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

-WHOLESALE  D E ALE R S  IN-

Apples, Onions, Potatoes, Beans, Etc.

State Agent for the Lima Patent Egg Cases and Fillers.

NO.  8  AND  10  IONIA  STREET,

GRAND  HAPIDS.  -  MICHIGAN.

PECK   BROS.,

W h o le s a le  D ru g g is ts

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,

Grand  Hapids

SPRING  A COMPANY

M i e l i .   0

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

I H A - N O i r   -AJSLD

STAPLE DRY GOODE

CARPETS,

MATTING-S,*

OIL  CLOTHS,

ETC.,  ETO.

6  and.  8  Monroe  Street.

A.  A.  OHIFPESr,

W HOLESALE

Hats, Caps and Furs

54  MONEOE  STEEET,

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. 1H4 Lake St., Chicago, 111.

TACKS
NAILS

EVERY  KIND  AND  SIZE,
T runk, Clout and Finishing 
Steel W ire Nails  and B rads.

—ALSO—

American  Tack  Go., 

F a ir h a v en 

-  

Ma ss.

G  PO vv

C. S. YALE & BRO.,
FLAVO «  BITHACTS!

—M anufacturers  of—

BAKING  POWDERS,

BLUINGS,  ETC.,

40 and  43  South  D ivision St., 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

- 

-  

MICH.

S. A. WELLINGS

WHOLESALE

-AND-

NOTIONS!

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

-  

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

DILWORTH’S

House Salesman.

-THE-

BEST  ROASTED  PACKAGE  COFFEE  ON 

THE  MARKET.

F O R   S A L E   B Y

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“There goes a brave man,” said  a  citizen 
“He is one of the 

pointing to a  passer-by. 
bravest men I have ever seen.”

“Was he in the army?” some one asked.
“I don’t know.”
“Then I suppose you have known  him to 
distinguish himself in personal encounters?”

“Not particularly.”
“Why, then, do you regard him as a brave 

man?”

“Well, you see,  some  time  ago,  I  got a 

divorce from my wife.”  *

“Yes.”
“That man  married her.”

L ooking  a t  F u tu re   Possibilities.

“But, dear papa, Adolphus and  I do love 

each other so dearly.”

“I can’t help that, Angelina. 
ou can’t marry him.”
“I don’t see what objection  you can  pos­

I tell  you 

sibly have to him, dear papa.”

“Objection enough. 

I want you to live at 

home always, and not in Canada.”

“Who said anything about living in Cana­

da, dear papa?”

“Nobody said anything about it, but  isn’t 
Adolphus a  bank  cashier,  and  don’t  that 
make  it  likely  you  will  ultimately  live 
there.”

Disqualified for  a B ank  E xam iner.

“Please give me a little something  to  get
meal?”
“Why don’t you work for a living?” 
“Don’t you see that I am hopelessly blind? 
can’t.”
“Yes you can.  There are plenty  of  busi­

nesses you might  conduct!”

“What, for  instance?”
“Well, you are eminently qualified for the 

position of a bank  examiner.”

“No, I am not.  My blindness  may be all 
right  for it, but  when I wras  young I  was 
good at figures, and  that  would  disqualify 
me if nothing else would.”

Down to a  Fine Point.

Lover  of  antique—“What is  the  price of 

that Louis XIY cabinet.”

Bric-a-brac  Dealer—“Five  hundred  dol­

lars.”

“Mercy!  Why, a friend of mine  got  one 

just like that for $150.”

“Where?”
“At Millburgville, Conn.” 
“Oh! of course.  You  can’t  expect us to 

,

compete with Millburgville.”

“And  why not?”
“That’s where they make ’em.”
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great convenience can be learned  by  having 
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expressed for $2.50 from  Kenyon  Brothers, 
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BUSINESS LAW.

B rief Digests of Eecent. Decisions in Courts 

of  East  Besort.

A T T O R N E Y   A N D   C L IE N T .

The Supreme  Court  of  Pennsylvania,  in 
the case of Campbell  vs. Higginbotham, ad­
ministrator of  E. Mapel, decides  that  when 
no special contract  is  made  between  attor­
ney  and  client, their  relations  as  such  ter­
minate with the death of  the latter, and  the 
statute of limitations begins to run from that 
time.

A D V E R S E   PO S S E S S IO N .

The open and exclusive use of  real  prop­
erty for the purpose to which it is ordinarily 
fit  or  adapted,  constitutes  adverse  posses­
sion; and the erection of a fence or other ar­
tificial boundary to indicate the limits of such 
possession, is not essential thereto.  So held 
by United  States Circuit  Court, District of 
Oregon.

r i p a r i a n   r i g h t s .

In a suit by a riparian proprietor for dam­
age done by sawdust brought to  his land by 
the stream  from  the  defendant’s  mill,  the 
question whether the defendant’s use of  the 
stream for carrying off  the  dust  is  reason­
able or not, is a question  of  fact  depending 
upon the circumstances  of  the  case, includ­
ing the purposes old and new for which  the 
stream is used by each party, the  amount of 
the  defendant’s  benefit,  the  amount  of  the 
plaintiff’s damage, and all the  causes of the 
damage.—Supreme  Court  of  New  Hamp­
shire.

L IE N   O F   C R E D IT O R S .

In law, the first entry of  judgment  is  al­
ways a first lien, provided due  diligence has 
been made in making the levy.  This is also 
true as  regards  partners.  A  mortgage  on 
the individual property of  one partner  was 
foreclosed, and both  an  individual  creditor 
and a firm creditor claimed the surplus mon­
ey.  Both had judgments, the  latter  being 
the  first  entered.  The  former  claimed  a 
preference as an individual creditor, but was 
defeated, and carried the  case,  London  vs. 
Ball, to  the  Supreme  Court  of  Indiana, 
where the  judgment  was  affirmed,  on  the 
following opinion:  “It is not  doubted  that 
the general rule is that partnership creditors 
are postponed as to individual property, and 
individual  creditors  preferred.  But  this 
general rule does not apply where a lien has 
been obtained  by  judgment  rendered  prior 
to the creation of the individual debt.”

IN D O R S E M E N T .

A certificate on the  back of a note  by the 
maker (who was also the payee) of the nature 
of the consideration of his own property and 
financial ability was held not to prevent  his 
signature to such certificate from having the 
force  of an  indorsement so as to make  the 
note negotiable and to transfer the  title to a 
bona  1uLe  holder  for  value—Dunning  vs, 
Heller,'decided  by  the  Pennsylvania  Su 
preme Court  Regarding the woids over the 
indorsement  amount  to  a  contract.  They 
contain a statement as to the  indorser’s  pe 
cuniary responsibility and the  consideration 
of the note.  It was unnecessary and perhaps 
foolish for the maker to put all over his signa 
ture as  indorser, but he  has  done it, and as 
it does not vary his contract  as  maker  and 
indorser we are  unable to say as  the  court 
the  words  ov 
said:  “We  now 
er 
law 
that  the note  was  not  indorsed as requir 
ed by the commercial law.”

indorsement  a  matter  of 

think 

the 

IN F R IN G E M E N T   O F   P A T E N T — R E V IS E D   S T A T  

U T E S   C O N S T R U E D .

A, a  patentee, having  put  his  patented 

In 1875, while making 

article upon the market  without  marking 
“patented” as required by  section 4,900, Re­
vised Statutes, D, without notice of  the pat 
ent, from time to time for a number of years 
infringed upon it. 
steam  condenser  having in it the  patented 
article, he was notified for the first time that 
it was patented, whereupon he  immediately 
offered to pay the established royalty for  all 
the patented article he had already introduc 
ed into that condenser, and for enough more 
to finish it; but  the  patentee  refused to  ac 
cept the offer unless D would  pay the entire 
royalty for all previous  infringements made 
without notice of patent, which D refused to 
do and  proceeded to finish  the  condenser 
using sufficient of the  patented  article  for 
that purpose but did not  otherwise  infringe 
the patent  after, whereupon A brought  suit 
for infringement  in  the  United  States  Cir 
cuit Court, District  of  California, which, on 
trial, held that defendant was only liable for 
the infringement arising  from the  making 
and selling the condenser  finished  after  re­
ceiving actual notice of the patent.

A Telephone F raud.

Irate Customer—“Why can’t  you fellows 
be honest?  That  telephone  you  put up in 
my office is a  fraud.  You  said  that  words 
could be distinctly heard for twenty  miles.” 

Telephone Man—“Well, they can.”
“They can’t, I say.  They  can’t be  heard 

five  blocks.”

“Oh, you are mistaken.”
“But I am not 

I yelled myself hoarse at 
a man last evening only  five  blocks  away, 
and he  could  not  hear a word I said.  He 
said so.”

“ Queer, very queer; but, by the way, w hat 

was it-you said to him?”

“I  asked him when he would be around to 

square up his account”

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c o a l   a n d   b u i l d i n g   m a t e r i a l s .
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TH E  W HEY  TANK.

P lausible  Theory as to the Cause of Cheese 

Poisoning:.

E a st Sa g in a w ,  Sept.  4,1884.

Editor “ Michigan Tradesman.”

D e a r  Sir—A  few days ago I  saw  a copy 
of  T h e  T ra desm a n,  dated  Ju n e  4,  in 
which there was  an  article  giving  an  ac­
count of the cheese poisoning th at  occurred 
at  Middlevi lie, 
this  State,  on  Decoration 
Day.  Now, Sir,  if you will give me space  in 
your columns, I  will give the  public  my ex­
perience in regard to m ilk and  cheese  pois­
oning.

For the last twelve years, I have  been an 
attentive student of milk and its productions, 
and  am  well  aware  that  there  are  many 
cases of sickness caused  by  cheese  poison­
ing which  are  attributed  to  other  causes. 
There  should be more attention paid to this 
article of food, in  regard to  its  quality and 
wholesomeness; but the  general  opinion in 
the mind of the  public is,  that  it must  of 
necessity be a healthy food, as it is the  pro­
duct of the rural dairy, where the cows have 
access to the purest grasses—in fact,  every­
thing to produce a  pure  milk.  This I  do 
not deny.  When the cows receive the  best 
of feed and care, there  is  no  danger  from 
that part of the dairy,  but  this  is  only  the 
first stage of the production, and  is  subject 
to less dangers.  This is where the public is 
led astray, not knowing that  there  is more 
danger of the milk  becoming  unwholesome 
after it is drawn from the  cow  and  coming 
in contact with  foreign  substances,  which 
produce  poisonous effects, which  necessar­
ily endanger many lives.  The  medical fac­
ulty saw the necessity of making an investi­
gation of the result of  the  recent  poisoning 
case at Middleville, but so far as 1 have been 
able to ascertain,  the  public  will  not  be 
benefitted by the coming report of  the State 
Board of Health, as there are no causes giv­
en for the poisonous substances contained in 
cheese, the only  conclusion  reached  being 
that such poison does sometimes exist.  The 
effects from such cheese  are  alarming.  So 
far as I have been able to collect from news­
paper reports  and other sources,  the  num­
ber of  cases of direct poisoning reached 200, 
and from what I  know  of  the  quality  of 
cheese now on the market  and  that  which 
has been consumed, I am safe in saying that 
those figures will not give 10 per cent, of the 
direct and indirect causes of  the sickness in 
this State.

Since I have  recovered  from  a  sickness 
caused by poisonous  milk  and  the  gasses 
arising therefrom,  while  manufacturing  it 
into cheese, I have devoted the most  of  my 
time  in  microscopic examinations  and  lit­
I  have visited factories in 
mus paper tests. 
Allegan  and Tuscola  counties. 
I  have ex­
amined cheese  in the cities  of  Kalamazoo, 
Grand Bapids,  Reed  City,  East  Saginaw, 
and the village  of Mt.  Morris,  having  had 
some fifty samples in all, one from  Wiscon­
sin, made by the Cooley process or  oleomar­
garine cheese, five  from  Ohio,  three  from 
New York State, and the  others  from  this 
State.  One sample was made in September, 
1883. 
I am sorry to say there were only six 
samples that did not  show  microscopic  or­
ganisms  and  did  not  turn 
blue  litmus 
paper red.  Two of the samples  which  did 
not show any organisms were made  by  me 
in  the  month  of  May.  The  September 
cheese was also very  pure.  The  oleomar­
garine  did  not  show  any  organisms,  but 
there were foreign  substances  present,  but 
not discolored,  which  no doubt  were  the 
foreign fats amalgamated with the  caseine. 
Some of the other samples  were  very  bad, 
particularly one fromMt. Morris, three from 
factories in Allegan county, one from  a fac­
tory in Tuscola county,  and  three  in  East 
Saginaw, and two in  Grand  Rapids.  The 
above samples, when placed under a  micro­
scope, showed particles of substances resem­
bling copperas or other matters of  a  green­
ish cast.  Some showed greenish  veins  dot­
ted with a clear substance resembling liquid, 
and turning blue  litmus  paper  red  almost 
immediately.  Now the appearance of those 
cheese  are  what  the  general  consumer 
would call very fine.  One  cheese in  Kala­
mazoo was close and very moist and  a little 
crumbly.  A  clear  liquid  oozed  from  the 
pores,  when 'pressed  between  the  fingers. 
Another was a soft and very  porous  cheese. 
One at Grand Rapids was a  close  and pasty 
cheese, with no appearance of  liquid,  emit- 
ing a pungent acrid smell, and  bitter  taste. 
This is the  general  quality  of  the  cheese 
that came under my observation.

What is the cause of all  this  trouble? 

is 
a question  that  is  asked  by  many.  Some 
attribute it to the feed, others  to  the  water 
or atmosphere; but when you ask thejhonest 
dairymen who are calling on the Legislature 
to pass laws and put a stop to the  manufac­
ture  and sale of  artificial  and  adulterated 
food, they would tell you that  the  operator 
does not understand  his  business,  when  at 
the same time they are themselves,  through 
their  ignorance  and  filthiness,  causing  a 
worse  article  to  be  manufactured.  This 
you cannot fail  to  see,  as  I  proceed  with 
this report.  As far as I have  been  able to 
locate the cause of the  poisonous  substance 
in the cheese, and whence it  originates, it is 
from the whey tank.  The germs of  decay­
ed  and  fermented  substances  cause  the 
milk to undergo an unnatural  decay. 
It  is 
a general practice among dairymen to  carry 
this decomposed whey home  in  the  cans in 
which they deliver the milk to  the  factory. 
Now this substance we call whey, is in many 
instances the worst combination of  decayed 
matter imaginable, and many times the tank 
that receives this from the factory  contains 
the decay«! carcasses  of  rats,  mice,  toads, 
and I have seen snakes.  Besides  all  this,

the whey  contains  the  albumen,  sugar  of 
milk,  and  a  portion  of  the oils,  and  in  a 
short time  a great  chemical  change  takes 
place, converting sueh substances • combined 
into poisonous acids, and  one  or  two germs 
from those substances are sufficient to decay 
the albumen, and destroy the lactine  of  two 
hundred pounds of milk or more.

When I discovered, on  the  28th  day  of 
May, that the milk did not undergo  the nec­
essary  chemical  change  and  continued  to 
gi-ow worse day  after day,  I began  to  use 
every means in my power  to  ascertain  the 
cause  of the trouble.  By the use of chemi­
cals and other means, I  found  that  the  al­
bumen was decayed.  By  putting  some  of 
the milk under severe tests, I discovered that 
the lactine was destroyed.  Then, further on, 
I found the  presence  of  butyric  acid,  and 
that when the change took place, from  milk 
into cheese, there would be  an  oil  percepti­
ble which had the appearance of asboline oil, 
and that under certain influences this oil was 
pungent, acrid, and very bitter; but in course 
of time this would disappear,  when  another 
change would take place,  and an  acid liquid 
resembling syrup, as regards thickness would 
appear.  This was valeric acid, and these oils 
and acids produce narcotic poison.

I feel confident  that when  the  scientists 
shall  have  discovered the actual  cause  of 
cheese  poisoning, they will substantiate  all 
my statements. 
I  think  if  Dr.  Yaughan 
had inspected  the whey  tank and  analyzed 
some of the contents,  his report would have 
been more satisfactory. 
In my examination 
of it, I discovered many peculiar substances. 
I  have been asked several times if I did not 
think it originated  from cows eating poison­
ous herbs, 
I  am  aware that  in time of  a 
drouth  the cow will feed upon many obnox­
ious  weeds and rank grasses, but  feel  cer­
tain that  they would refuse all  herbs  that 
would produce a direct poison.  Rank weeds 
and  grasses and  impure  water  will  create 
obnoxious taints which  will have  their  in­
fluences on the caseine, and many times  am- 
monical and carbonic acid gases will be pro­
duced by such causes-  But a poisonous sub­
stance cannot be produced  in the milk,  and 
coming in direct contact with the milk.

In summing up this subject, and giving to 
the public  the facts in  regard  to the whole­
someness  of the cheese  that is now on  the 
market, 50 per  cent, should  be  condemned; 
and of  such milk as I have  seen and  exam­
ined  at  factories in the  past two weeks 90 
per cent,  is  only fit  for the hogs. 
It  is  a 
well  known  fact with  the  operators  who 
have given their whole attention to the qual­
ity  of the milk  which is being delivered  to 
the factory under  the  disguise of a pure ar­
ticle, 65 per cent,  should be fed to the hogs; 
but under  the  present factory  system  and 
law,  the operator has  no other  alternative 
but to receive it and  make it up the  best he 
can, regardless  of  the results. 
I  maintain 
that it is  now  time for the public  to  take 
this  matter  in  hand  and demand  of  their 
Legislatures  the  enactment  of a law  that 
will  compel the  dairymen  of  the  United 
States to deliver the milk to the factory in a 
wholesome condition.  Cheese that is whole­
some and  free  from foreign  substances and 
contains all the fats, will be close and moist 
When pressed between  the fingers it  should 
appear dry and mealy, the oil showing itself 
distinctly  on the  fingers,  with  a  pleasant 
smell and a good  cheesy  flavor.  But  avoid 
all cheese that  is soft and porous,  or  close 
and pasty, with  a pungent acid  smell  and 
bitter to the  taste.  All  such cheese contain 
decayed foreign substances,  the oils  having 
been expelled either by imnatural  causes or 
the operator’s  inability  to  retain them,  and 
in their  place  has  retained  water.  I  will 
give  you  a  simple  and  practical  test  by 
which the  consumer  will be  able  to  detect 
the foreign  defects  in  cheese,  should  his 
judgment fail him.  Take  a small  piece  of 
sugar in the mouth  and let it dissolve,  then 
taste of  the cheese  and if it leaves  a  very 
acid and bitter taste  in the mouth, you  may 
know all such cheese are unwholesome, and 
should  the stomach  not  contain  sufficient 
alkali to neutralize those acids it would soon 
produce violent sickness.

C.  B. L a m bert.

F eatures of the  W eek.

The grocery business has been fairly good 
during the past week,  and collections  show 
no falling off.  Sugars  have  advanced %c, 
and  are  firm.  Otherwise,  the  market  is 
without a feature.

Oranges are not plenty and prices  remain 
about steady.  Lemons,  on  account of  hot 
weather and light  arrivals, are a little  high­
er.  Receipts  will be small  for the  balance 
of this month  and prices will depend on the 
weather mainly.  Nuts  are  steady,  except 
walnuts, which are higher.  Peanuts  are  a 
little lower again.  The  new crop  promises 
well.

The  amount  of  lobsters  taken  on  the 
Maine cost is estimated to be  25,000,000 an­
nually, of which 7,000,000 are  sold  to  the 
regular trade, while  the balance, 18,000,000, 
are consumed by the lobster  packers.  Yet 
the amount of money paid  to  the  catchers 
for the  7,000,000,  amounts  to much  more 
than that paid by the packers on the 18,000,- 
000.  The export trade in New York,  in the 
months of May, June and  July,  amounts to 
forty bushels a day on the part of one  deal­
er, as he says, yet he sends only  from three 
to five barrels daily now,  on  account of the 
law, but that  number  is  very  eagerly  de­
manded  by  hotels  and  summer” boarding 
houses all along the shore.

A banana skin lay on  the  grocer’s  floor 
“What  are you doing  there?”  asked  the 
scales, peeping over the  counter.  “Oh, I’m 
lying  in  wait  for ¡the  grocer. 
“Pshaw!” 
said the scales, “I’ve  been  doing  that  for 
years.”

WHOLESALE  FEIGE  GUBRENT.

AX LE  GREASE.

Frazer’s .........................................................   85
Diamond........................................................  60
M odoc__ $ d o z ...........................................   60
Paragon...  $  doz.........................................  70
Paragon, 20 fi>  pails......................................  90

B A K IN G   PO W D ER .

Arctic bi ft cans.................................. $  doz.  45
Arctic 94 ® cans.............................................. 
75
Arctic bi » c a n s..............................................1 40
Arctic 1 ft  cans..............................................“ 40
Arctic 5  ft cans.............................................. 13 00

BLU IN G .

25
Dry, No. 2............................................ doz. 
45
Dry, No. 3............................................ doz. 
Liquid, 4 oz,.......... ............................ doz. 
35
Liquid, 8 oz........................................doz. 
65
Arctic 4 oz.........................................$   gross 4 00
Arctic 8  oz.....................................................   8  00
Arctic 16 oz....................................................   13 00
Arctic No. 1 pepper box...............................   2 00
Arctic No. 2 
.......................... . ■ •  3 00
Arctic No. 3 
...............................   4 50

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CA NN ED F IS H .

2  50
No. 1 Carpet.............................................. 
2 25
No. 2 Carpet.............................................. 
No. 1  Parlor Gem....................................  
2 75
2 00
No. 1 H url.................................................  
No. 2 H url  ...............................................  
1  75
1
Fancy Whisk.......................... ................. 
85
Common Whisk............................
Cove Oysters, 1  a   standards.................... 1 15
Cove Oysters, 2  ft  standards....................   1 9a
Cove Oysters, 1 a   slack filled....................  75
Cove Oysters, 2 a  slack filled.................... 1 25
Clams, 1 a   standards..................................I 65
Clams, 2 a   standards............. ....................2 65
Mackerel, 1 a   fresh standards.................1 20
Mackerel, 5 a  fresh  standards.................6 50
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 a ............... 3 50
Mackerel, 3 a  in M ustard...........................3 50
Mackerel, 3 a  broiled..................:.............. 3 50
Salmon, 1 a  Columbia river......................1 60
Salmon, 2 a  Columbia river......................2 60
Salmon. 1 a   Sacramento...........................1  50
Salmon, Wm. Hume’s Eagle.....................   1  85
Sardines, domestic 54s................................. 
7
Sardines,  domestic  b is...............................  12*4
Sardines,  Mustard  bis.................................  12
Sardines,  imported  Ha...............................   15
Sardines, imported bis............................... •  20
Sardines, imported bis, boneless...............  32
Sardines, Russian  kegs..............................  50
Trout, 3 a   brook.. . . . ...............................   3 00

CANNED F R U IT S .

Apples, 3 a  standards.................................  90
Apples, gallons,  standards, Erie..............2 50
Blackberries, standards.............................1 25
Cherries,  red................................................ 1  10
Cherries, w h ite ............................................1  75
Damsons....................................................... 1 20
Egg Plums, standards 
..............................1 35
Egg Plums,  E rie..........................................1 45
Green Gages, standards 2 a ...................... 1 40
Green Gages,  E rie.......................................1 50
Peaches, 3 a   standards.............................. 1 75
Peaches, 3 a  E xtra  Yellow........................2 00
Peaches,  seconds........................................ 1 65
Pie Peaches 3 a ............................................1  la
Pears, B a rtle tt2 a .......................................1 30
Pineapples, 2 a   stand................................ 1 40
Q uinces.........................................................1 45
Raspberries, 2 a  stand...............................1 25
Raspberries, 2 a  Erie..................................1  40
Strawberries,  2 a  standards...................... 1 10
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 F R U IT S —C A L IF O R N IA .

CANNED VEGETA BLES.

Asparagus, Oyster Bay...............................3 25
Beans, L im a.................................................   85
Beans, String................................................  90
Beans, Boston Baked.......^......................... 1  65
Beans,  Stringless........................................ 1 00
Corn, Erie......................................................115
Corn, Revere.................................................1 20
Corn,  Egyptian............................................1  10
Corn,  Yarmouth.......................................... 1 20
Corn Trophy..................... ...........................115
Corn, 2 a   Onandago....................................150
Mushrooms, French.................................... 22@24
Peas, standard  M arrofat............................1  40
Peas, 2 a   Early, small  (new).....................1 60
Peas, 2 a  Beaver...........................................  75
Peas, French 2 6 .......................................... 23@26
Pumpkin, 3 a  Golden..................................1  10
Succotash, 2 a  standards............................  85
Succotash, 2 a  B.&M...................................1,75...
Squash, 3 a   standards.................. ..............120
Tomatoes, 3 a  Dilworth’s........................... 1 05
Tomatoes, 3 a  Job Bacon............................1  05
G.  D.......................  35 lEly’s W aterproof  75
M usket..................  75 |

CAPS.

CHOCOLATE.

CO FFEE.

Boston  prem ium ......................................  @36
Baker’s prem ium ......................................  @40
R unkles......................................................  @35
German  sweet...........................................  @25
Vienna Sweet............................................   @25
@14
Green Rio.................................................12
@27
G reenJava...............................................17
@27
Green Mocha........................................... 25
@17
Roasted Rio.............................................12
@34
Roasted  Ja v a......................................... 24
@19
Roasted Mar........................................... 17
Roasted Mocha........................................  @34
Roasted Mex........................................... rT)4@19
Ground  Rio.............................................  9V£@17
Ground  Mex...........................................  @16
Arbuckle’s ..............................................   @15)4
X X X X .....................................................  @1514
Dilworth’s ..............................................  @1514
Levering’s ..............................................  @1514
Magnolia.................................................   @15 J4

72 foot J u t e .......  1  25  160 foot Cotton___ 1  75
60 foot Ju te .......1  05 
|60 foot Cotton___ 1  50

CORDAGE.

FLA V O RIN G  EXTRACTS.

Lemon.

doz. 1  00
Jennings’ 2 oz...............................
1 50
4oz...............................
2 50
6 oz...............................
3 50
8oz...............................
No. 2 Taper....................................   1 25
No.  4 
1  75
bi pint  ro u n d ...............................  4 50
1 
...............................   9 00
No.  8..................................................3 00
No. 10..............................................  4 25

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FAUCETS.

Jennings’ 2 oz......................................$  doz.  1 40
4 oz.....................................................2 50
“ 
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6 oz............................................ .  4 
00
8 oz...................................................  5 00
“ 
“  .  No. 2  Taper...................................   1 50
No.  4 Taper....................................   3 00
“ 
bi pint  round.................................   7 50
“ 
1 pint  round...................................15 00
“ 
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No.  8................................................  4 25
“  
No.  10.........................  
. .. .6   00
Faucets,  self m easuring......................  @2 50
Faucets, common................................. 
@  35
Whole Cod..............................................  4%@6)4
Boneless Cod..........  ............................ 
5@7@8
Herring bi bbls. 100 ft.........................2 75@3 00
Herring Scaled......................................  @24
Herring Holland..................................  
@90
White, No. 1, bi b b ls............................ 
5  75
2 25
White, Family, bi bbls......................... 
95
White, No. 1,10 lb k its......................... 
1 05
White, No. 1,12 lb k its......................... 
Trout, No.  1, bi  bbls............................ 
5 35
Trout, No. 1,12  lb  k its......................... 
90
Mackerel, No. 1, Vi bbls....................... 
6 50
Mackerel, No. 1,12 lb  kits.................. 
1 00

F IS H .

F R U IT S .

London Layers, new................................... 
Loose Muscatels Raisins,  new............  @2  70
New Valencias Raisins.........................  7)4@7Vi
D ehesia..................................................  @3 25
O ndaras......................................................   @10
Turkey P ru n e s..........................................  
@6
C urrants.................................................   5  @6
C itron..........................................................  @32
Dried Apples  .........................................  8  ©8 Vi

2 85

M ATCHES.

Grand  Haven,  No. 9, square..............................2 25
Grand Haven, No.  8, square.............................. 1 50
Grand Haven,  No.  200,  parlor...........................2 50
Grand  Haven,  No.  300, parlor...........................3 75
Grand  Haven,  No.  7,  round....................  
2 25
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
.1 70 
Richardson’s No. 8 
do
.2 55
Richardson’s No. 9
Richardson’s No. 4 ro u n d .................; ...........2 70
Richardson’s No. 7  do 
............................. 2 55
Richardson’s No. 7Vi do 
............................. 1 70
Electric Parlor No. 17......................................3 20
Electric Parlor No. 18......................................4 64
B lackStrap........................................   
@18
Porto  Rico.....................................................30@35
40@50
New  Orleans, good......................  
New Orleans,  fancy......................  
56@60

MOLASSES.

 

185 Ibpkgs.......
3621b pkgs.......
Imperial  bbls. 
Quaker bbls... 
Steel  c u t........

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Kerosene  W. W..................................... 
Legal te s t.:..........................
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

l3Vi
75
1 00
75
1  00

PIC K L E S .

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

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

R IC E .

Choice  Carolina^..............................................6Vi
Prime  Carolina..................................................7 Vi
Java  ...................................................................
P a tn a .................................................................. 6
R angoon............................................................. 534

SALERATUS.

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

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, Vi bu. bags............... 
Rock, bushels......................................... 

2 50
2 35
2 65
1 00
1 75
1 55
80
3 20
25
30

SA UCES.

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

SEEDS.

H em p...................................................... 
C anary..................................................... 
R ap e...................................................... 
Mixed Bird...............................................  

5
5
7

5V4@6

SOAP.

Lautz Bros. & Co.

Acme, 701 lb  bars...................................  @ 6)4
Acme, 25 3 B> bars...................................  @ 6)4
Towel, 25 bars  .......................................   @5 25
Napkin, 35 bars......................................  @5 25
Best American, 601 fi> blocks...............  @ 6
Palma 60-1 fl) blocks, plain....................  @594
Shamrock, 100 cakes, wrapped............  @3  70
Master, 100-94 ft c ak e s................. ....  .  @5 00
Stearine, 100  94 ft cakes...........................  @4 85
Marseilles, white, 100 94 ft  cakes........   @6  25
Cotton Oil, white, 100 94 lb  cakes........   @6  25
Lautz’s 60-1ft blocks, wrapped....... ...  @  7
German  Mottled, wrapped..................  @ 6)4
Savon, Republica, 60 ft box..................   @ 5%
Blue Danube, 60-1 ft blocks................. 
@594
London Family, 60-1 ft  blocks............ 
@ 5
London Family, 3-ft bars 80 ft.............   @4 00
London Family, 4-ft bars 80ft.............   @400
Gem, 100 cakes, wrapped.....................   @3  85
Nickel, 100 cakes, wrapped..................  @4 00
Climax, 100 cakes, w rapped................   @3 25
Boss, 100 cakes,  wrapped.....................   @2 30
Marseilles Castile, Toilet,3 doz in  box  ©1 25
A 1  Floating, 60 cakes..........................   @4 20
Kirk’s American  Fam ily............$  ft 
6)4
do. 
In d ia .........................................  
594
do.  Savon..................... 
5%
do.  S atinet...................................... 
594
do.  R evenue................................... 
5)4
do.  White Russian......................... 
Goodrich’s English F a m ily ............... 
5)4
P rincess............................ 
4)4
Proctor & Gamble’s Iv o ry ................. 
6 75
Japan  O live........  
5
3 60
Town Talk  $  box 
Golden B ar.............  
4 10
Arab......................i 
3 40
Amber...... 
3 75
4 20
Mottled German.. 

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Procter & Gamble’s Velvet..................  @3 40
Procter & Gamble’s Good Luck..........  @3 20
Procter & Gamble’s Wash  Well..........  @3 05
Badger............................................ 60fts  @ 6Vi
G alvanic.................................................   @4 20
Gowan & Stover’s New Process 3 ft br  @18%
Tip Top....................................... 3 ft bar  @  16
Ward’s White Lily.................................  @6 75
Handkerchief.........................................  @4 20
Sidall’s ................................................... 
Babbitt’s ................................................ 
Dish R a g ................................................ 
Bluing...................................................... 
Magnetic.................................................  
New  French  Process............................ 
Spoon...................................................... 
Anti-Washboard....................................  
V aterland................................................ 
Magic........................................................ 
Pittsburgh.............................................. 
Bogue’s ................................................... 
White castile  bars................................. 
Mottled castile.......................................  
Old Country........ ................................... 

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
554

SPICES.

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 bi ft $  dozen.............................. 
75
Allspice  J4lb........................................... 
75
Cinnamon  )4 f t .................................. .. 
1 00
75
Cloves bi  ft.............................................. 
Pepper,  whole.................................... 
@18
Allspice................................................ 
@10
Cassia................................................... 
@12
Cloves..................................................  20  @22
Nutmegs,  No. 1..................................   70  @75
Niagara Laundry, 40 ft box,  bulk....... 
@5
@494
•* 
Laundry, bbls, 186  fts...........  
“  Gloss, 401 ft packages...........  
@694
“  Gloss,  36 3 ft  packages.......... 
@6
“  Gloss, 6 ft box, 72 ft c rate.... 
@7
Corn, 401 ft  packages...........  
“ 
@7)4
@6%
Muzzy Gloss 1 ft package...................... 
@6)4
Muzzy Gloss 3 ft package...................... 
@7)4
Muzzy  Gloss 6 ft boxes......................... 
Muzzy Gloss bulk..................................  
@5)4
Muzzy Corn 1 ft...................................... 
@7
Kingsford  Silver Gloss......................... 
@8
Kingsford Silver Gloss 6 ft  box.......... 
@8)4
Kingsford Corn............C........................ 
@8
Oswego  Gloss......................................... 
@6)4
Mirror  Gloss...........................................  @6)4
Mirror Gloss, corn................................. 
@694
Piel’s Pearl.............................................. 
@4
American Starch Co.’s
1 ft  Gloss.................................................  
@6)4
10 oz  Gloss..............................................  
@394
3ft  Gloss.................................................  
@6
6 ft Gloss, wood  boxes................ 
  @7
Table Corn.......................................40ft  @6)4
Table  Corn......................................20  ft  @7
Banner, bulk........................................... 
@4
Jugs $   gallon......................................... 
@8
7
Crocks......................................................  
Milk Crocks............................. 
7
 
STOVE P O L IS H .

Special prices on 1,000 ft orders.

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SUGARS.

Rising  Sun gross..5  88 Dixon’s  gross........ 5 50
U niversal.............. 5 88 Above $  dozen........  50
I X L .......................5 50
Cut Loaf.................................................
Cubes .....................................................
Powdered........................................  
Granulated  ...........................................  
Conf.A ...................................................
Standard A ............................................  
E xtra C white........................................  6
Extra C...............................................
FineC ....................................................
Yellow C.................................................   5  @5)4

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@7)4
@6)4

SY RUPS.
Com,  Barrels.......................
Com, )i bbls.....................
Corn,  10 gallon kegs.............
Corn, 5 gallon kegs...............
Corn, 4)4 gallon kegs............

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@1
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.......bi bbl
30@
5 gal kegs @1
.......bi bbl @
.5 gal kegs @1

95

TOBACCO—F IN E   CUT.

Young H yson.. . ,25@50
Gun  Powder.......35@50
Oolong.........33@55@60
Congo..................  @30

Japan ordinary.  24@30
Japan fa ir........... 32@35
Japan fair to g’d.35@37
Japan fine........... 40@50
Japan dust..........15@20
Rose Bud.................................................   @50D
O.  K .........................................................  @45
Our  Bird.......:........................................   @30
Peaches...................................................  @38
Morrison’s  F ruit....................................   @50
V ictor......................................................  @60
Diamond  Crown....................................  @57
Red  Bird.................................................   @52
Opera Queen...........................................  @40
Sweet Rose..............................................  @45
Green  Back............................................  @38
F r u it.......................................................  @33
O So  Sweet..............................................  @31
Prairie Flower........:.............................   @65
Climber [light and  dark].....................   @62
M atchless................................................  @65
H iaw atha...............................................   @69
Globe........................................................  @70
May Flow er............................................  @70
Hero.........................................................  @45
A tlas........................................................  @35
Royal Game............................................   @38
Silver Thread.........................................  @67
Seal.................................. .......................   @60
K entucky................................................  @30
Mule  E ar.................................................   @67
Peek-a-Boo..............................................  @32
Peek-arBoo, bi  barrels__ . . * ..............   @30
Clipper, Fox’s ............................. 
@32
Clipper, Fox’s, in half barrels.............   @30
Fountain.................. ..............................  @74
Old Congress................................... . 
@64
Good Luck............................... .............   @52
Good and Sweet......................................  @45
Blaze Away............................................  @35
Hair L ifter.......................... .................. 
@30
Old Glory, light.....................................  @60
Charm of the West, dark.....................   @60
Governor, in 2 oz tin foil................ 
@60
B. F. P.’s  Favorite.................................  @48
Old K entucky.........................................  @48
Big Four,  2x12.....................................  @43
Big Four, 3x12............. ...........................  @48
Spearhead, 2x12 and 3x12.....................   @48
Turkey, 16 oz.,  2x12...............................   @48
Blackbird. 16 oz..  3x12.........................   @35
Seal of Grand Rapids...........................   @48
Glory  ....................................... ..............   @50
D urham ......................................, ...........  @48
Silver .Coin..............................................  @50
Buster  [Dark]............. .........................  @36
Black Prince [Dark]..............................  @36
Black Racer  [Dark]..............................  @36
Leggett & Myers’  Star..........................   @50
Clim ax.....................................................  @50
Hold F a s t................................................  @48
McAlpin’s Gold Shield..........................   @48
Nickle Nuggets 6 and 12 ft  cads..........  @51
Cock of the Walk  6s ..............................  @37
Black Spun  Roll....................................   @38
Nimrod.....................................................  @48
A corn............... ......................................  
©48
Red Seal....................’..............................  @46
C rescent.................................................   @44
Black  X ...................................................  @35
Black  Bass..............................................   @40
True G rit.................................................   @35
Nobby  Spun  Roll..................................   @50
Spring......................................................   @50
C rayling, all  styles...............................   @50
Mackinaw................................................  @47
HorseShoe..............................................  @50
Good  Luck............................... ..............   @50
Big Chunk or J .T ..................................   @40
Hair Lifter..............................................  @37
D. and D., black......................................  @37
McAlpin’s Green  Shield.......................  @48
Ace  High, black....................................   @35
Champion  A ...........................................  @48
Sailors’  Solace........................................  @48
Red Star...................................................  @50
Shot Gun.................................................   @48
D uck........................................................  @48
Jum bo......................................................  @40
A pplejack..............................................  @50
Jack Rabbit............................................  @42

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SM OKING.

do 
do 
do 

94 f t .....................................
bi f t ........ -..........................
l i b ................................... 

Morning Dew.........................................
Chain  ......................................................
Seal of Grand  Radids............................
King.........................................................
F lirt.........................................................
Pug...........................................................
Ten Penny Durham, bi and bi.............
Amber, bi and 1ft..................................
John  Gilpin,  granulated.....................
Lime Kiln  Club......................................
Blackwell’s Durham Long  Cut...........
Vanity  F air............................................
D im e........................................................
Peerless...................................................
Standard .................................................
Old Tom...................................................
Tom & J e rry ...........................................
Joker........................................................
Traveler...................................................
Maiden....................................................
Topsy  ......................................................
Navy Clippings......................................
Honey D ew ........................................
Gold  Block..............................................
Camp Fire  ............................................
Oronoko.................................................
Nigger  Head...........................................
Durham, bi f t .........................................

@26
@22
@25
@30
@28
@30
@24
v@15
@18
@47
@90
@90
18@25
@25
@22
@21
@24
@25
@35
@26
@27
@24
@25
@32
@22
@19
@26
@60
@57
@55
.
@51
H olland...................................................
@22
G erm an...................................................
@16
Long Tom...............................................
@30
National...................................................
@26
T im e .................................... ...................
@26
Love’s Dream............. ...........................
@28
Conqueror..............................................
@23
Fox’s ........................................................
@22
G rayling.................................................
@32
Seal Skin........ ......... ...............................
@30
Dime Durham 
.................................
@25
Rob Roy...................................................
@26
Uncle  Sam..............................................
@28
Lum berm an__ :....................................
@26
Railroad Boy...........................................
@37
Mountain Rose.......................................
@20
Good  Enough.........................................
@23
Home Comfort, 94s and  V£s..................
@25
Old  Rip, long c u t..................................
@55
Durham,  long cut, No.  2.....................
@55
Two  Nickle, )45......................................
@25
Two  Nickle, Vis......................................
@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, bis  longcut............................
@27
A pplejack, 94s  granulated................
@24
King Bee, longcut, bis and Vis...........
@22
Milwaukee Prize, bis and Vis...............
@24
Good Enough, 5c and 10c  Durham__
@24
Durham, S., B. & L, )is and bis ...........
@24
Rattler, longcut.....................................
@28
Windsor cut plug..................................
@25
24
Mule E a r.................................................  
H iaw atha...............................................  
23
23
Old Congress........................................... 
Acme..................:.................................... 
20
Lorillard’s  Macoboy..............................  @55
American G entleman........   @72
Rappee, A. Beck & Co.’s .......................  @35
Gail & Ax’s  Macoboy............................  @44
Scotch, Railroad Mills..........................   @44
10@12
Pure  Cider.............................................. 
White W ine............................................  
10@i2
1776$ f t ... *............................................   @10Vi
Gillett’s $  f t ...........................................  @7%
Soapine pkg............................................  
7@10
Pearline $  box.......................................   @4 50
LaYine, 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 bi ft papers..  @4 15
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 80 Vi ft paprs  @4 00

W ASH ING PO W D ERS.

VIN EGA R.

SHORTS.

SN U FF.

“ 

YEAST.

M ISCELLANEOUS.

Twin Bros..........1  75  I Wilsons     ........... 1  75
Gillett’s ............. 1  75  [National...............1  75
50@60 
B lacking.........................................30, 40,
1  50 
do  w aterproof............................
95 
Bath Brick im ported............................
75
do 
American............................
@3)4 
Barley................ .....................................
1  10 
Burners, No. 1 .......................................
1 50 
do  No. 2........................................
Bags, American A .................................
20 00 
Condensed Milk, Eagle brand.............
8 00 
7 50 
Condensed Milk,  Swiss.........................
Curry Combs $  doz............................... 1
@25 
Cream Tartar 5 and 10 ft cans.............
@15)4 
Candles, Star...........................................
Candles,  Hotel.......................................
@16)4
Chimney Cleaners $   doz.....................

25® 

do 

No.  2............................
Cocoanut,  Schepps’ 1 & bi ft  do
Extract Coffee,  v. c.....................
F e lix ............. ..
Flour Sifters $  doz...........
Fruit Augurs each.......................
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps.............
Gum, Rubber 200 lum ps.............
Gum, Spruce.........................’..!!
Ink $  3 dozen  box.......
Jelly in Pails.................................
do  Glass Tumblers $  doz . ...
Lye $  2  doz. cases.............. !
Macaroni,  Im ported.......
Domestic.........................” ...........
French Mustard,  8 oz $  dozen!. 
. . . _  d° 
Large  Gothic!!
Oil Tanks. Star 60  gallon..........
Peas, Green Bush...............
do  Split prepared.......!..........
Powder,  Keg.............................. !'
do  Vi Keg...........................
Sago  ...................................."   "
shot, drop...................!!!."!!!!!""
Sage..........................................
Tobacco Cutters each  .!!!!!.
T w ine............................................
T apioca..................!!."."!..".*.........
Wicking No. 1 $  gross................
do  N o.2  ........................!!
do  A rgand..........

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

„ 

@38 
@48 
@27)4 
.  90@95 
.1  30@
.3 00@
.1 25® 

@30 
@40 
.  30@35 
.1 00@

@ 5)4 
@75 
@1 55 
@13 
@80 
@80
.  @1  35
.  @10  00 
@1 75 
■  @ 3)4
.4 00@
.2 50@ 
.1 60®
.1  80®
@15 
.1  25@
.  18@20 
. 
5@0
@40 
.  @65
.1 50®

5@6 

CANDY,  FRUITS AND  NUTS. 

Putnam  & Brooks quote as follows:

do 
do 

STICK.
Straight, 2o ft  boxes...........
..............  ;............
Twist, 
c u t Loaf 
............¡g j!p
MIXED.
Royal, 25 ft  pails.................. 
ghinte.
Royal, 200 ft bbls................   ....................
....................7?,,
Extra, 25 ft  pails.............  
Extra, 200 ft bbls...........  
.......................... \ \ Y%
French Cream, 25 ft pails 
...........................11
Cut loaf, 25 ft  cases....... 
Broken, 25  ft  pails..........! ..............................7i t/
Broken, 200 ft  bbls...............!!!!!!!!!..!........101/

 

FANCY—IN 5 ft BOXES.

 

Lemon  Drops..................
Sour Drops....................  .......... 
.............
Peppermint  Drops...!!.’...............................
Chocolate Drops.....................   *................... iZ
H M Chocolate  Drops....... 
Gum  D ro p s..................................  
 
Licorice Drops.......... !.!.!.!.!!.....................m
A B   Licorice  Drops.. 
.............................. 44
Lozenges, plain........ 
..............................
.................................
Lozenges,  printed... 
Im perials............... 
M ottoes............................................................
Cream  B ar............. ..........................................
Molasses Bar.......!!!!!!...................................
Caramels................ ” ! * ..................................
Hand Made Creams.........................................So
Plain  Creams............. ‘...................................
Decorated  Creams.......................................... 7»
String Rock........................   
7»
Burnt Almonds........ ...................................... 37
W intergreen  Berries..!.!.!.!!.” ! ! ! ! .! " !   16 

ii

 

 

Fancy—in  B ulk.

Lozenges, plain in  pails. 
14
Lozenges, plain in  bbls.... 
......................... {2
Lozenges, printed in pails 
........................
Lozenges, printed in  bbls.............................u
Chocolate Drops, i n pails 
....................i4
Gum  Drops, in pails........  
u
Gum Drops, in bbls........................................   7
Moss Drops, in  pails.......!...............................J
Moss Drops, in bbls..........!!!......................... g..
SourD rops,in  pails... 
Imperials, in  pails...........................................\ a
Imperials  in bbls............. !’.!".!’..".!!!!...........13

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

 

 

vi

on

7"

=

.......  uo®® 50>

q  k/v? aa,
^
........ 4  50@5 50.

f r u i t s .
Oranges $  box.....................  
Oranges OO $  box.. 
Oranges, Imperials, $   box..................
Oranges, Valencia$   case.!!!!!!"’" '
Lemons,  ch o ice............... 
Lemons, fancy........... 
................ % 
Bananas $  bunch.. 
Malaga Grapes, $  keg 
.....................
........ r.........
Malaga Grapes, $  bbl... 
.g|§20
............... 
Figs, fancy  do 
.......... 
<ainu
Figs, baskets40ft $  ft... 
................. 
d o .......  ................. 
Dates, frails 
m V
Dates, bi do 
do  ...........” ........... 
7
Dates, V4  skin................ !.!................... 
71/
Dates, Fard 10 ft box $   ft!!................in  @11/st
.......  7  @ c
Dates, Fard 50 ft box $ f t ... 
Dates, Persian 50 ft box $  ft.......“  * *"  6)4®  7
PEANUTS.
d o .............................  &  7
do  ............................. 
a   7^
a s
............ 

Prime  Red,  raw  $   ft...
Choice  do 
Fancy 
do 
Choice White, Va.do  ... 
Fancy H P ,.  Va  do  ........ @ 9

NUTS.
Almonds,  Terragona, $  ft............  
d o ......... ..!.!! 
Almonds, loaca, 
§ razils. 
do 
do 
Pecons, 
Filberts, Barcelona  do 
Filberts, Sicily 
do ...!! ! ! ." " ”  
Walnuts, Chilli 
do  ... 
Walnuts, Grenobles  do 
.  ’..........  
Walnuts, California  do 
Cocoa Nuts, $   100 
Hickory Nuts, large $   b u .. 
............
Hickory Nuts.sm all  do  ......!!!!!!! 

18@19
16@17
.................  @ 8
m a n
.... 
.................  ®
@14
@1294
.......  u a u .
^
jai  ka-
1 25

PROVISIONS.

PO R K .

The  Grand Rapids  Packing  &  Provision  Co 

quote  as  follows:
Heavy Mess  Pork,  old.................. 
S17  50.
Heavy  Mess  Pork,  new..................... . . .  .  19 00
Back  Pork, short cut, new........... !!!!!".!!
Pig Pork, short cut, better than  mess!!!  18  OO
Family Clear Pork........... . 
19 25
E xtra Clear P o rk ..................... !!!. ..!*!.'..  20 50
Clear Back  Pork, new...........  
.............   20 00
Boston Clear Pork................
Standard Clear Pork, the best.!.’!!!.'.'.'!.’! ’

do. 
do 
do. 

DRY  SALT MEATS—IN   BOXES.
Long Clears, heavy, 500 ft.  Cases.......... 
H alfCases..__ ... 
Long Clear medium, 500 ft  Cases.......... 
Half Cases.......... 
Long Clears light, 500 ft Cases............... 
HalfCases................ 
Short Clears, heavy................................. 
medium.........................*"’ 
light.................................io
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...... 

do. 
do. 

LARD.
Tierces  .............................. 
30 and 50 ft T u b s...................... !!!!!!.”.! 

LARD IN  T IN  P A IL S .

20 ft Round Tins, 80 ft  racks.................. 
3 ft Pails, 20 in a case....................... . 
5 ft Pails, 12 in a case.........................." * 
10 ft Pails, 6 in a case.................. !!!!!! 

10)4
10%
10)4
10%
ioy2
10%
jo
10

11
11)4
ip|?

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8)4

8%
9%
914.
9

SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED  OR  P L A IN .

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

do. 

14
1494-
14)4
9
12
13

B E E F  IN  BA RR ELS.

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

CANNED B EEF.

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

incase......................................................  18  00
do. 
2  85
Armour & Co., 14 ft cans, bi doz in case  18 00 
do. 
2 ft cans, 1 doz. in  case..  2  85 
do.  2 ft Compr’d Ham, 1 doz. in case 4  00

2 ft cans, 1 doz. in case__  

SAUSAGE—FR ESH  AND  SMOKED.

Pork  Sausage...................................................  9
Ham  Sausage................................................... 15
Tongue  Sausage...........................................  11
Liver Sausage...................................................  8
Frankfort  Sausage.............. 
10
Blood  Sausage.................................................   8
Bologna,  ring...................................................  8)4
Bologna, straight...........................  
8)4
Bologna,  thick...................................  
8)4
H eadC heese.................  
 
8

 

 

 

 

 

 
P IG S ’  F EE T.

In half barrels.....................................................  3 99
In quarter barrels.....................................’  2 10
In kits.................  ....................................
In half barrels..................................................... $3 75
In quarter barrels...............................................  2 0(k
In kits..............  
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.

T R IP E .

 

 

 

 

 

M ark our Specialties M ail orders receivecareful A ttention.

Lamps.

LANTERNS !

Per doz.
No. 1 Burner Lift Wire T u b u lar................. 8 50
Same, with  Guards.........................................8  75
Buckeye, Double  Globes.............................. 6 00
‘Tilting’ T ubular...............................................7 00

Every Style  of Lantern 
carried 
in  Stock.  We 
make a  Specialy  of Lan­
terns  and  Lamps  for 
Lighting  Mills,  Etc.
W ill  Send  Cuts  of  Assortment  on 

Application.

RETAIL  PRICES.
Fount, brass, each..........................
nickel.................................
Table Lamps, with shade,  brass..
nickel.

“ 

“ 

.3 00 
.3 50 
.3 50 
.4 00

MASON’S  PORCELAIN  CAP

FRUIT  JARS.

Quart—$13 per gross.
1-2 Gallon—$16 per gross.

LAMP  CHIMNEYS.

ANCHOR  BRAND.

No  Charge for Boxes,  6 doz.  in Box.

Per Box.
No. 0 Sun Bulb C.  T.......................................1 90
No. 1 
......................................... 2 00
No. 2 
......................................... 3 00

“ 
“ 

The following  chimneys  are  m anufactured 
expressly for us,  are  superior in  quality  and 
but a trifle higher in  cost  than  the  chimneys 
usually sold by  others.  Each  chimney  is  la­
beled with our brand and name.
FIRST  QUALITY 

Sun Bulb C. T __

Hinge

No. 0 
No. 1 
No. 2 
No. 0 
No. 1 
No.

No charge for box.

Per box. 
..2 10 
..2 25 
..3 25 
..2   20 
..2 40 
..3 40

THE PERFECTION

German Student, 7 in shade 

“  

“  

10

Glass  Standard and  Hand  Lamps.

A ssortm ent  No.  11.

“
“

14 doz A Lamps  and  B urners..........2 16
48 
70 
16 
..2 70 
..3 38 
“ 
..4  75
..........2 16
..........3 38
footed..2 25

B 
C 
A
C 
D
Engd Lamps & 
B
Hand.  “

fancy,

Package at cost.

Net.

$15 57

AS80RTED  CASK

Engraved  E nglish  Glassware  No. 145,

14 doz Sets..........
. Engd 36
Yi doz 14 gal Pitchers  .
. Engd 36
14 doz 14 gal Pitchers... . Engd 36
3 doz  Goblets...
. Engd 36
1-6 doz 7 in Casseroles.. .Eugd 36
1-6 doz 8 in Casseroles.. .Engd 36
1-6 doz 7 in cov’d bowls. .Engd 36
1-6 doz 8 in cov’d bowls. Engd 36
14 doz Sm Celeries........ .Engd 36
14 doz Molasses  cons... . Engd 36
2 doz No. 3 Wines__ . Engd 10
3 doz 4 in Comports...
1 doz Oval  Salts..........
2 doz Individual Salts.
1 doz Shaker  Salts.....................

7 20
6  00
4 00
1  10
3 00
4  00
6 00
7 50
3 00
3 50
70
40
17

Tierce $1  10,

Less Disconnt 10 per cent,

3 60
2 00
1 00
3 30
50
67
1  00
1 25
75
1  75
40
1  20
50
34
55 
$19  81

If you have not  our Il­
lustrated Price-List  send 
for it.

The  Crockery  ancl  Glassware  Business  in 
From the Boston  Globe.

¡Boston.

What is the  condition  of  the  crockery 
trade?”  was  asked  a  large  impoi  r  and 
dealer yesterday.

“I consider it in a very healthy  condition. 
July was not quite as good as  July  ’83; but 
August will,  I think,  be  quite  up  to  last 
year.  Choice articles sell  quite  as  readily 
as they ever did.  One reason for this healthy 
condition of affairs is that importers  are not 
overloaded.

“How  does  American  glassware  com­

pare with imported?”

The glass made here is equal  to  any  in 
the world, and during the past week  I have 
sold glass to go to Paris, Holstein  and Men­
tone, which certainly proves  the  high  esti­
mation in which American  glass is  held  in 
Europe.”

“Will the  Franeo-Chinese  war  probably 

affect the  price of India china?”

“The advices received thus  far  have  had 
no effect upon prices, but if the news  of the 
past two or three days is confirmed  it must 
advance  prices  largely,  and  housekeepers 
who have a good supply on hand  may  con­
sider themselves fortunate.”

A  Typical  D akota  Town.

“We’ve got a beautiful town,”  said  a Da­
kota man the other day.  “Eighteen months 
ago it was a bare prairie.  Now we  have 2,- 
000  population,  forty 
stores,  seventeen 
saloons  elegant,  some  of  them,—an opera 
house, four  variety  shows,  eight  beer  sa­
loons,  a  dime  museum, 
three  gambling 
houses, thirteen  hotels,  two  breweries  and 
the stock for another one  all sold, a  distil­
lery, a paid police force and  two  steam fire 
engines.”

“How many churches and schools?”
“Oh, yes, and they are talking about build­

ing a church and a school.”

Southern  progress  has  been  unimpeded 
during the past year of  general  depression. 
Growth and prosperity are  noted  in  all  the 
material interests of that great section.  The 
New Orleans Times-Democrat of recent date 
presented a very complete  review of the in­
dustrial, financial and educational  condition 
of the twelve  Southern  States, from which 
it appears that the  increase in wealth  dur­
ing the year has been  $205,718,976, as  com­
pared with an annual increase  in  the  pre­
vious four years of $160,176,757, that a great 
reduction in taxes has been made; that State 
indebtedness has been considerably reduced, 
both  principal  and  interest;  that  public 
schools are not  neglected, the rate of  taxa­
tion maintained in the South exclusively for 
educational purposes being higher  than  the 
school taxes of New  England.  The  South 
spends to-day twice as much as it spent  five 
years ago for  education, and  four times as 
much as it spent in 1870.  Our New Orleans 
contemporary shows  also  in its  exhaustive 
article that industrial  development has been 
marvelous, and that the building of  the rail­
roads has continued as steadily as ever, even 
more  rapidly than in other  portions of the 
country.  The construction of 3,155 miles of 
road in the  Southern  States  during  little 
more  than a year is certainly  evidence  of 
enterprise.  This record  of  recent  develop­
ment is a gratifying indication of the health­
ful  and  substantial  growth  of  the  new 
South.

.3 75 
.3 50

ASSORTMENT  NO. 99.

1  doz  very  large  Fine  Lamps  that 
will retail  at $1.50 each  which we can 
sell complete  with  7  INCH  SUN   IL­
LUMINATORS  at  $ 0 , 5 0   per 
doz.

ASSORTMENT  NO.  29.

Com plete  w ith 7 in.  Sun Illum inator.

“ 
“ 
“ 

2 Bronze Base Lamps.........................@65 
65 
 
“ 
2 
 
2 
“ 
70 
“  
2 
79 
 
4 Decorated 
............................84 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
Package at cost, 

net 

130
1 30
1 40
1 58
3 36
8  94

COUNTRY  PRODUCE.

Apples—The market is well supplied with 
home-grown  fruit,  which  sells  at  40@60c
Buckwheat Seed—$1.25 ^  bu.
Butter—Creamery is very scarce, in conse­
quence of which a really choice  article  has 
advanced to 25c.  Dairy  readily  commands 
17@18c.

Beets—40c ^  bu.
Berries—Blackberries are soft at  6@7c 

bailed.

qt.  Whortleberries are yet in the market at 
$2@$2.50 ^   bu.

Cabbages—$4@$5 7$ 100
Celery—25c ^  bunch.
Cheese—Full cream is slow  sale  at 9c.
Clover  Seed—Choice  medium  $6@$6.50 
^  bu. and mammoth at $6.25  ^   bu.  Slow 
sale at these prices.

new crop.

Eggs—Scarce and very bad at 15c.
Egg Plants—$1.25  doz.
Grapes—California $5 per  case of  40 lbs. 
Kelly Island,  10c ^   ft.  Delawares,  Con­
cords and Isabellas, 7@9c.

Musk, 75c per doz.

Green Com—10c 7$ doz. ears.
Hops—Brewers are paying 25c for  choice 
Hungarian Grass Seed—$1 ^  bu.
Honey—Choice new, 14c.
Hay—$12@$14 for new, and$13@$15  for 
Maple Sugar—About out of market.
Melons—Watermelons, $1.25@$2  7$  doz. 
Millet Seed—$1 ^  bu.
Onions—New, 50c ^  bu.
Peaches—$2.50@$3.50  ^  bu.
Pears—California  $4. 
case  of  about 
225.  Bartlett, $2.25 per bu.
Plumbs—California $2.25 ^  crate of about 
225.  Green gages and blue,  $2.25@$3.50.
Potatoes—The  market  is  well  supplied 
with home-grown, which  find  slow  sale at 
25c ^  bu.
Poultry—Fowls 15@16c.  Spring chickens, 
19c@20c.
Radishes—Out of market.
Red Peppers—$1.25 7$ bu.
Sweet  Potatoes—Jersey,  $5  ^   bbl.
Baltimore, $4 ^  bbl.
Turnips—40c'$ bu.
Timothy—Choice is firmly held at $1.75 ^  
Tomatoes—Acme 40c per bu.

bu.

GRAINS AND  MILLING  PRODUCTS.

new  Fulse,  76, 78@80c.

Wheat—White,  78c;  new Lancaster, 80c, 
Com—60c ^  bu.
Oats—White 32@35c ^  bu.
Rye—52@54c ^  bu.
Barley—Brewers  pay  $1.25  ^   cwt.  for 
new.
Flour—Fancy  Patent,  $5.90  ^   bbl.  in 
sacks  and $6.05 in wood.  Straight, $4.80 'p 
bbl. in sacks and $5.05 in  wood.

Meal—Bolted, $1.40 
Mill Feed—Screenings, $15 ^  ton.  Bran, 
$13  per  ton.  Ships,  $14  ^   ton.  Mid­
dlings, $17 ^  ton.  Com  and  Oats, $23 
ton.

cwt.

A  New  M etal.

A New York scientist claims to  have dis­
covered, along the Lehigh Valley,  a  hither­
to unknown metal which will some day sup­
plant nickle in general use.  He  was  mak­
ing an experiment  with an  explosive  sub­
stance mixed with pulverized  furnace  slag, 
which, on being heated, caused an explosion 
to take place.  Upon examining the crucible 
in which  the mixture  had been,  he  found 
that a chemical process had  taken  place by 
which an apparently valuable,  but  hitherto 
unknown, metal had  been  eliminated  from 
the slag. 
It was silvery white  in  color,  of 
fine,  smooth  texture,  and  susceptible  of a 
brilliant polish that no exposure will tarnish. 
It was found to be malleable,  ductile and of 
great tenacity, showing a  tensile ‘ resistance 
of 140,000 pounds to the square inch.  Fur­
ther experiments  confirmed  the results  of 
the first trial, and a  company  has  been  or­
ganized for the purpose  of  “working”  the 
large slag banks  along  the  Lehigh  Valley 
for the new metal.

<5oobs.

Spring  &  Company quote as £jnuwo :

W ID E  BROW N COTTONS.

Androscoggin, 9-4 
Androscoggin, 8-4
Pepperell,  7-4__
Pepperell,  8-4 —  
Pepperell,  9-4—

Pepperell, 10-4....... 25
.23
.21
,1614(Peqùot,  7-4..............18
.20  Pequot,  8-4..............21
.2214 ¡Pequot,  9-4..............24
CHECKS.

Caledonia, XX, oz. 
Caledonia,  X, oz..
Economy,  oz........
Park Mills, No. 50. 
Park Mills, No. 60. 
Park Mills, No. 70. 
Park Mills, No. 80.

Park Mills, No. 90.. 14 
Park Mills, No. 100.15 
Prodigy, oz............. 11

York, 1  oz...............10
York, AA ,extra oz.14

OSNABURG,

Alabama brown 
7  [Alabama  plaid.......8
Jew ell briwn..........914 Augusta plaid.......... 8
Kentucky  brown.. 1014 Toledo plaid...........   71
Lewiston  brown...  9141 Manchester  plaid..  7 
Lane brown........... 914¡New  Tenn. plaid.. .11

BLEACHED  COTTONS.

Avondale,  36..........
A rt  Cambrics, 36... 
Androscoggin, 4-4.. 
Androscoggin, 5-4..
Ballou, 4-4...............
Ballou, 5-4...............
Boott,  0.4-4...........
Boott, E. 5-5...........
Boott, AGC, 4-4.......
Boott, R. 3-4...........
Blackstone, AA 4-4. 
Chapman, X, 4-4—
Conway,  4-4...........
Cabot, 4-4................
Cabot, 7-8................
Canoe,  3-4...............
Domestic,  36..........
Dwight Anchor, 4-4.
Davol, 4-4...............
Fruit of Loom, 4-4.. 
F ruit of Loom, 7-8.. 
Fruit of  the  Loom,
cambric,  4-4........
Cold Medal, 4-4..
Gold Medal, 7-8.......
Gilded  Age.......,...

814 ¡Greene, G. 4-4........   514
111-
814
1214
714
6
814
914
5%
714
614
7%
754
614
4
7149
914
9
814
12
7
614
8M

Hill, 4-4 
Hill, 7-8
Hope,  4-4................
King  Phillip  cam
brie, 4-4................
Linwood,  4-4..........
Lonsdale,  4-4..........
Lonsdale  cambric. 
Langdon, GB, 4-4...
Langdon,  45..........
Masonville,  4-4__
Maxwell. 4-4...........
New York Mill, 4-4.
New Jersey,  4-4__
Pocasset,  P. M. C.. 
Pride of the W est..
Pocahontas,  4-4__
Slaterville, 7-8........
Victoria, AA..........
Woodbury, 4-4........
Whitinsville,  4-4...
Whitinsville, 7-8__
W amsutta, 4-4........
Williamsville,  36...

14

Crown.................. ..17 Masonville TS..
...  8
No.  10.................. ..12H Masonville  S__ ...lOYi
Coin..................... ..10 Lonsdale............ ...  9‘/t
Anchor................ ..15 Lonsdale A ........ ...10
Nictory  O..........
Centennial..........
B lackburn.......... ..  8 Victory J ............
Davol.................... ..14 Victory  D ..........
London................ . .1214 Victory  K ..........
Paconia............... ..12
Red  Cross........... ..10
Social  Im perial.. ..16

Phoenix A .......... ...1914
Phoenix B .......... ...10Y, 
Phoenix XX .......

.. 5

Albion,  solid...........514
Albion,  grey...........6
Allen’s  checks........514
Aden’s  fancy......... 514
Allen’s pink............ 614
Allen’s purple.........614
American, fancy__514
Arnold fancy...........6
Berlin solid............... 514
Cocheco  fancy........6
Cocheco robes......... 7
Conestoga fancy— 6
E ddystone........— 6
Eagle fancy............ 5
Garner pink............ 7

G loucester.............. 6
Glou cestermou rn’g . 6
Hamilton  fancy__6
Hartel fancy........... 6
Merrimac D........ ..6
M anchester.............6
Oriental fancy........6
Oriental  robes........614
Pacific  robes........... 6
Richmond................ 6
Steel River...............514
Simpson’s ................ 6
Washington fancy.. 
Washington  blues..8

F IN E  BROW N COTTONS.

¡ton  A, 4-4__
M, 4-4...........
n F, 4-4..........
aental C, 4-3.. 
îentalD , 40 in 
toga W, 4-4... 
toga  D, 7-8... 
toga  G, 30-in.
it  X ,$ 4 ........
it Y, 7-8..........
it Z, 4-4..........
it Star, 4-4—  
it Star, 40-in., 
prise EE, 36.. 
FaUs E, 4-4...
;rs’ A, 4-4.......
i  Orchard, 4-4

8  ¡Indian Orchard, 40.  814 
714¡Indian Orchard, 36.  8
8  (Laconia B, 7-4.........1614
734 ¡Lyman B, 40-in....... 1014
854 ¡Mass. BB, 4-4..........  534
7  Nashua  E, 40-in__ 9
5i4!Nashua  R, 4-4........  7
614 j Nashua 0 ,7-8..........  714
6  ¡Newmarket N........ 714
6141PepperellE,39-in..  714
7  Pepperell  R, 4-4__   7
714 Pepperell 0,7-8__ 614
9  Pepperell N, 3-4__ 614
514 Pocasset  C, 4-4.......7
7  Saranac  R ...............  7
634 Saranac  E ..............9
7141

DOM ESTIC  GINGHAM S.

A m oskeag.............   8
Amoskeag, Persian
styles.................... 1014
B ates...................    714
B erkshire...............  614
Glasgow checks—   7 
Glasgow checks, f’y 714 
Glasgow 
royal , styles........  8
Gloucester, 
standard ................714
P lu n k et..................   714
Lancaster.............  834
Langdale.................   734

checks,
new

Renfrew, dress styl  914 
Johnson Manfg Co,
Bookfold..............1214
Johnson  Manfg Co,
dress  styles.........1214
SlatervUle, 
dress
styles......................9
White Mfg Co, stap  734 
White Mfg Co, fane  8 
¡White  M anfg  Co,
Earlston.................914
Gordon......................8
Greylock, 
dress 

s ty le s .......... ....... 1214

WIDE BLEACHED COTTONS.

Androscoggin, 7-4 .21 ¡Pepperell.  10-4__ .2714
-  Androscoggin, 8-4. .23 Pepperell,  11-4__ .3214
Pepperell,  7-4....... .20 Pequot,  74........... .21
Pepperell,  8-4__ ■ 22Y, Pequot,  8-4............ .24
Pepperell,  9-4__ .25 Pequot,  9-4............ • 2714

HEAVY BROWN  COTTONS.

Atlantic  A, 4-4... •  7MLawi’ence XX, 4-4. .  8M
Atlantic  H, 4-4...
¡Lawrence  Y, 30..
.  7
Atlantic  D, 4-4__ .  614 ¡Lawrence LL, 4-4.
.  50.
Atlantic P, 4-4__ .  5?4¡Newmarket N ....... .  7Ü
.  5Yi Mystic River, 4-4.
Atlantic LL, 4-4..
.  6
.  714 ¡Pequot A, 4-4........ .  8
Adriatic, 36..........
.  614 (Piedmont,  36........ .  7
Augusta, 4-4........
Boott M, 4-4.......... •  7Ü I Stark A A, 4-4........ .  7^4
Boott  FF, 4-4.......
.  7a ÍTremont CC, 4-4..
.  5%
Graniteville, 4-4..
.  tía. iUtica,  4-4............... .  9
Indian  Head, 4-4. ■  714 Wachusett,  4-4__ •  714
Indiana Head 45-in . 12141 Wachusett,  30-in.. .  6*¿

TICKINGS.
. 13*4 ¡Falls, XXXX........ .1814
Amoskeag,  ACA.
“ 4-4 .19 Falls, XXX............ .1514
Amoskeag 
Amoskeag,  A __ .13 Falls,  BB............... .UYt
Amoskeag,  B __ .12 Falls,  BBC, 36....... .1914
Amoskeag,  C....... .11 Falls,  awning....... .19
Amoskeag,  D....... • ioy, Hamilton,  BT, 32. .12
Amoskeag,  E ...«. .10 Hamilton,  D........ .  »14
Amoskeag, F ........ .  9Y, Hamilton,  H ........ .  914
Premium  A, 4-4... .17 Hamilton  fancy.. .10
Premium  B .......... .16 Methuen AA........ .1314
Extra 4-4................ .16 Methuen ASA....... .18
... .u y t Omega A, 7-8........ .11
E xtra 7-8........ 
Gold Medal 4-4....... .15 Omega A, 4-4........ .13
CCA 7-8.................. .12*4 Omega ACA, 7-8... .14
CT 4-4..................... .14 Omega ACA, 4-4... .16
RC 7-8..................... .14 Omega SE, 7-8....... .24
BF 7-8..................... .16 Omega SE, 4-4....... 27
AF4-4..................... .19 Omega M. 7-8....... .22
Cordis AAA, 32__ .14 Omega M, 4-4........ .25
Cordis ACA, 32..,. .15 ShetucketSS&SSW 1154
Cordis No. 1, 32— .15 Shetucket, S & SW.12
Cordis  No. 2.......... .14 Shetucket,  SFS... .12
Cordis  No. 3.......... .13 Stockbridge  A __ .  7
Cordis  No. 4.......... .IDA Stockbridge  frncy.  8

GLAZED CAM BRICS.

G arner.................. .  5 Empire  .................
Hookset................ .  5 Washington.......... .  44Í
Red Cross............. .  5 Edwards................ .  5
Forest Grove........
S. S. & Sons............ 5

American  A ........
Stark A ................

G R A IN   BAGS.
Old  Ironsides....... .15
. 23‘A IW heatland............ .21
DENIM S.

B oston.................. .  714¡Otis  CC.................. 10M
Everett blue........ .1314 W arren  AXA....... 1214
Everett  brown__ •13V4 Warren  BB.......... 1114
Otis  AXA............ .1214 Warren CC........... 10Y,
Otis BB.................. .1114 York  fancy.......... 15

P A P E R   CAM BRICS.

Manville................ 6 S. S. & Sons...........
Masgnville............ 6  ¡G arner..................

W IG AN S.
714 Thistle Mills..........
Red  Cross.............
B erlin.................... 714 Rose.......................
Garner  ..................
714

6
6'

8

SPO OL  COTTON.

Brooks.................. 50 Eagle  and  Phoenix
Clark’s O. N. F __ 55
Mills ball 8ewing.30
J. & P.  Coats........ 55
Sreeh  &  Daniels.. 25
Willimantic 6 cord 55 M errlcks............... 40
Willimantic 3 cord. 40 Stafford................ 35
Charleston ball sew
Hall & M anning... 30
ingthread.......... 30  1 Holyoke................ 25

CORSET JE A N S .

A rm ory................
714 Kearsage............... 81a
Androscoggin sat. 814 Maumkeag satteen 814
Canoe River.......... 6
Pepperell  bleached  814
Clarendon.............
614 Pepperell sa t........
914
Hallowell  Im p__ 6% Rockport............... 7
Ind. Orch. Im p__ 7 Lawrence sat........
8Y»
Laconia ................
714 Donegosat.............
7

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.

TpOR  SALE—In  Owosso,  brick  store  and  a
JC 
small  stock  of  dry  goods.  Terms  easv.
Inquire of A. T. Thomas, Owosso, Mich.
53
TT7 ANTED—1Two traveling salesmen to han-
TV 
die a staple line on commission.  Address
XXX, care Thé Tradesman. 
TUT ANTED—Position as  clerk,  book-keeper
or  traveling  salesman  for a  reputable
tv 
business house.  Have one  and  a  half vear’s
experience  in  general
trade.  Address  W.  T.
Adkins, St.Johns, Mich.
■pOR SALE—I  have a fine new store building
P   dwelling house and 40 business  and dwef-
ling lots in Elmira for sale on easy  terms. D.
C. Underwood.

50tf

50tf

KOR EXCHANGE—I have 80 acres  of choice 

hard wood land lying within  three  and a 
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.

half miles of Tustin, six acres cleared and 150,- 

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
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237 
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28
97 
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25
125 
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36
Also large assorted lines of Young Hyson,  Gun 
Powders, both Muyone and Pingsuey, Formosa Oo­
longs, and Moning Congos at lowest figures.

No. 75, 
No. 25, 

Suez Steamer 

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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
Eastern parties or no sale. 
Imperial  Roast, a blended coffee
Mandehling Java

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25
28
Mail  orders  solicited.  Lowest  market  prices 
>nanteed.
I  have  secured  the  agency  of Gilbert’s  Starch 
iories at Buffalo  and Des Moines.  Their goods

and Mocha

I  am  now  able  to  compete

JOHN  CAULFIELD.

cy

F a st.

A  T r a v e l i n g   M a » W h o   W as  a   L ittle   to o  
“I wonder if that pretty girl over  there is 
not a flirt,” said one drummer to another  on 
an incoming train the other day.

“She looks like it,”  said  his  companion, 
“and what is more,  she  and  I  have  passed 
many  happy  hours  together. 
I’ve  staid 
many a  night  at  her  father’s  house,  hut I 
don’t do that any more, and if you can make 
a mash on her go  ahead.”

The other  drummer  went over  to  where 

she sat and  said:

“Permit me,  madam.”
“Certainly,” she replied.
“My friend over there says he has  known 
you for sometime,” he  continued, as  he sat 
down.  She blushed and  smiled  sweetly as 
she acknowledged the old acquaintance. 
“Very nice fellow,” said the drummer.
“Do you think so?” said the  woman, mod­

estly.

“Bully fellow, but he ain’t  very  popular 
with the girls.  Don’t seem  to  care  much 
about ’em.”

“Don’t he?”  she archly inquired.
“Not very much.”
“But  it’s  different with  me;  I  like  him 

eyer so much.”

“Happy old boy!  Say, you couldn’t  love 

me a little as his proxy, could  you?” 

“Goodness,  no!”
“Well, that’s pretty  tough  on  me,  but if 
you think so much of him,  I’ll  get  up  and 
let him come over and sit by you.”

“Oh! I wish you would.”
The masher looked red and blue  by turns, 
and got up and went over and told  his com 
panion what she had said, and added:

“Say,  old  fellow,  you’ve  got  her  dead 
She’s  mashed  on you  the  worst  way  and 
wants you to come over and sit by  her.

“Is that so?” queried the other with  a sat­
isfied smile, arising and bowing to  the lady, 
who beckoned him over to the seat with her 
And  then  he  went over and  put his  arm 
around her, and when  the  conductor  came 
along, he pointed  them  out to  him  and be­
gan to tell him what  a  mash  the  other  fel­
low had made, when the  conductor  smiled 
blandly, and  told  him  to  go  and  soak  his 
head, that  that  was  the  other  drummer 
wife and he had  known  her ever  since she 
was a baby.  The  masher  got off  the  first 
time they came up with  a freight  train  and 
went the balance of the way as live beef

T h e  D r u m m er’s  N e w   B ran d   o f  D y n a m ite  
Chicago Herald Train Talk.

“You didn’t know  I was an  inventor, did 
you, boys?” inquired a drummer of  his com- 
pauious on a  Panhandle  train. 
“Well,  I 
am, though.  Have got a big thing, too.  Got 
it right here under my seat. It beats the Keely 
motor all to pieces.  Do  you  see this  little 
box?  What if it isn’t bigger than a hat box?
1 tell you there’s power enough  inside  of it 
to blow  up  the  boiler  of 
the  locomotive 
ahead there or  knock  this  train  from the 
track. 
It’s powerful  and  no  mistake, and 
dangerous to handle.  Killed  two men  in 
Indianapolis  last  week.  Not  long ago it 
tackled a big clothing house  in Philadelphia 
and absolutely ruined it.  The week  before 
that it wrecked a  steamer  on  Chesapeake 
bay.  The  pilot  had  been  experimenting 
with it fqr several  months,  and finally got 
careless.  No trouble  about  power—power 
enough to knock the earth off its axis.'  The 
trouble is to apply it.  Now,  I’ll  take  the 
lid  off  and  show  you—oh,  you  fellows 
needn’t jump off the train. 
I  know how to 
handle it, and there ain’t any  danger.”

“What do you call it?”
“It’s a strange  battery—the  most  perfect 
aud powerful storage battery ever construct­
ed. 
I had  it made  in  New  Jersey.  Be­
fore taking the lid off, I’ll turn the box over 
and show you—come back  here, I  tell  you 
there’s no danger—and show you the label.” 
The box was turned over, and on  its  bot­
tom the  trembling  drummers  saw  this in 
scription:

“2 qts. N. J. apple-jack.”

School  Books

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School Stationery

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EATON,  LION  A  ALIEN,

33  a n d   3 4   C anal  Street,

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

O Y S T E R S !

ON  DECK—1884.

WM.  L.  ELLIS  &  CO.’S

B R A N D

Baltimore  Oysters!

F at  and  full  count.  Special  express  and 
express rates to all points  in Michigan, either 
from Baltimore or Chicago house.  Our oysters 
are  opened  and canned fresh  from  the well- 
known  Nanticoke  beds.  No  slack  filled  or 
fresh water snaps sent out.  Dealers  can have 
their  orders  filled  promptly by addressing B. 
F.  EMERY.  Agent,  Grand  Rapids(at  home 
every Saturday).

M   Sags  flit  M s

M anufacturers of All Kinds of

W IR E  W O R E!

92  MONROE  STREET.

H e   H ad In q u ir e d , T oo.

As  has  been  stated  heretofore,  Dave 
Smith, the amber-haired, Celtic-featured grip 
carrier contemplates removing from  Detroit 
to Grand Rapids. 
In pursuance of  this  de­
termination, he recently approached a prom­
inent citizen  with a proposition to let a cer­
tain house owned by that gentleman.

“Well said the  prominent  citizen, “1 will 
make  inquiries  about  your  character, and 
you may call in a day or two and I will, per­
haps, let you have the key.”

A day or two later Dave called again. 
“Well,” said the citizen.  “1  have  made 
inquiries about your character and  am satis­
fied to let you have the key.”

“Oh, never mind,”  said  Smith;  “I  have 
been making inquiries about your character, 
and I don’t think I want  i t ”

WHOLESALE

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

L. S. HILL «to OO.
FISHING  TACKLE
GRAND  R A P ID S 
MICH. 
Du PONT’S  Gunpowder.
ing, Blasting and Cannon Powder guaranteed

The lowest m arket prices  for Sport- 

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AGENTS FOR

PLEASANT TO TAKE, ACTS MILDLY. C U B E S  QUICKLY

DUNHAM’S SURE CURE  M  MB & AGUE.
’One DOSS taken during the Chill, 
arrests the  disease in UO minutes.
jfIVII WOW TO TAIL.  Money re­
turned if it does not cure.  Price, 
50c.  Ask druggist for it.  Sent pre­
paid for 60 cts.  Address, Wester* 
Medicine Co. .Grand Rapids, Mich,

U nfailing:  E v id e n c e   o f  S u ccess.

From the Ovid Union.

T h e  M ic h ig a n  T r a d e s m a n  is the  name 
of a new six-column,  eight-page  quarto  pa­
per, established at  Grand  Rapids  nearly a 
a year  ago, which  came to our  table  this 
week for the  first  time. 
It  is  beautifully 
printed, handsomely made up, and  bears ev­
idence  of  prosperity.  Now, if  any of the 
readers of  the Union wish to know how we 
judge as to  the  business the  paper is doing] 
we have to say,it is well patronized by adver­
tisers,  which is  always a  safe  guide  when 
th e  advertisements are from  home  business 
men, whichis the case with  T h e   T r a d e s ­
m a n . 

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There will be but half so much fruit  can 
ned in California this  year  as  last, because 
th e  business was overdone last  season  and 
resulted in loss.

WESTERN  MEDICINE  CO.’S  TONIC  LIVER  PIUS.
Purely  Vegetable; contain  no  calomel,  mineral
ae.  Act directly on the Liver, 
tone
r purify the blood.  POSITIVELY CVS!
HEADACHE AND CONSTIPATION.. In- 
| valuable for  Biliousness,  Indiges­
tion. Hypochondria, etc.  Sent free 
on receipt of price, 35  cts.  Sample 
• package free.  Western  Medicine 
’ Company., Grand Rapids, Mich.

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STEAM LAUNDRY

43 and 45 Kent Street,

A.’ K. ALLEN, Proprietor.

WE  DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS  WORK AND  USE  1  

CHEMICALS.

Orders by Mail and Express  promptly  at­

tended to.

MUSKEGON  BUSINESS  DIRECTOS.'?.

MUSKEGON  NOVELTY  IRON  WORKS
w illiams'  Patent  Novelt  Pipe  Wrench

Manufacturers  of  the

Best,  Strongest  and  Most  Durable  Made.

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

361  Western  Avenue.

Sliop^Blacksmith,  Foundry and Boiler  Shop  Business. 

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

PACKEitS

—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. CAREY &CO.

Successors  to  Carey  &  Lander,

g e n e r a l

Commission Merchants

—AND  JOBBERS  OF—

FruLits axicL Produce.

ORDERS  PROMPTLY  PILLED.  BEST  GOODS  AT  LOWEST  PRICES.

lime’s Patent  Candler  and Egg Carrier.

Tlie  Best  on  "tlx©  Marls-et.

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,

"Wliolesal©

G R O C E R ,

WIERENGO  NEW  BLOCK

Muskegon, Mich.
Pine Street
TO FRUIT GROWERS
BASKET  FACTORY !

MUSKEGON 

Is  now  in  full  operation  m anufacturing  all 

kinds  of

Prices the Lowest.

Quality Guaranteed*

WHOLESALE  AND  COMMISSION

OPtOTTTT  <&  COMPANY,
Bitlor, Esis, CKbbso, Frail, Grain, Hat, Bool PoiK, Pnflnca
Choice Butter a Specially!

Consignments  Solicited.

MUSKEGON, MICH,

BANANAS, LEMONS, CALIFORNIA FRUITS, 

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

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

At  M anufacturers^ P rices.

SAM PLES  TO  TH E  TRAD E  ONLY.

ftTLd.  Store  Sh.ad.es Made to Order. 
68 Monroe  Street, Grand Rapids.
N E L S O N   B R O S .  <8t  C O .

I M P O R T E R S
Wholesale  Grocers

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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  da 

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

Soaps.

Again we remind the Trade that we are the Sole Agents in this m ark eter  the  well- 
known and popular Soaps of LAUTZ  BROS,  &  CO., BuHalo, N. Y.  Below welmention 

few of their best-known brands:

Towel,' 
Shamrock, 

Acme, 
Palma, 
White Cotton Oil,  Gem, 
Blue Danube, 
M&st^r  etc
These goods we sell regularly at the Manufacturers’ Prices, and deliver them  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.

Napkin,
Nickel,
Steanne,
Lautz Soap,

Best American, 
White Marseilles. 
Boss,
Savon  Republique,

Mottled German, 

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 
Applejack 

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Fancy Groceries.

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.

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Breakfast  Cocoa.

Green  Gages.

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Egg Plums.
Pears.
Quinces.
¥  Grapes.
’*  Cherries;

“  Mushroons.

Italian Macarroni, 1 lb 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.

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

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