The  Michigan  Tradesman.

GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICHIGAN,  WEDNESDAY,  JANUARY  U,  1885.

Î 7

NO. 69.

Under the act of 1831, Lord  Brougham’s, 
the system of official assignees  was created. 
These officers of the court simply performed 
the work of distribution, the collecting of the 
assets devolving on  an  assignee, one of the 
creditors usually chosen by the  whole  body 
of the creditors. 
In  1849  the  amendments 
had grown so numerous that a  new  consoli­
dation act was passed, and another  again in 
1861. 
It was at  this  latter  date  that  in­
solvent  non-traders  were  admitted  to  such 
cold comfort as can be afforded by  a  certifi­
cate of discharge in  bankruptcy.  Stories of 
the  Fleet,  the  Marshalsea  and  the  King’s 
Bench are  too  well  known  to  need  more 
than a  brief  reference.  Various  acts  had 
been passed  from  1825  upwards  with  the 
purpose of affording relief to insolvent debt­
ors of the non-trading class, which included, 
by special schedale  attached  to  one  of  the 
bankruptcy acts, farmers,  graziers,  laborers 
and other workmen, but the  prisons contin­
ued to  increase  in  populousness  and squa­
lor.

less existence in creditless  and impotent in- [ debtor voluntarily seeking the  protection of
the court not having, apparently,  been  at all 
solvency,  if, 
indeed,  he  were  fortunate 
entertained by the  originators  of  the  law. 
enough to escape the  lifelong  misery  of  a 
The Only sound feature  of  the  law  which 
debtors’ prison.
has been  reproduced in the  subsequent  acts 
was the provision which passed an  indisput­
able  title to  the  estate  of  the  bankrupt, 
whether real  or  personal, to  the  assignee. 
This feature was the  subject of  much com­
ment  and  unstinted  commendation  by  En­
glish writers as being the means of  shorten- j 
ing litigation  and rendering the final dispos- 
of the estate much more speedy and certain. | 
Adjudication under the law was  made upon 
the application of a creditor  or  creditors  to 
certain specified amounts, $10,000  being the 
minimum for a single creditor and the district 
court  appointed a  commission  of  three  or 
more persons who became thereby empower­
ed to act  with  authority  that  extended to 
the imprisonment  of  the  bankrupt,  almost 
at their discretion.  This power also extend­
ed in some cases to the wife of the bankrupt, 
who could be sent  to jail  for  the  refusal to 
testify as to her knowledge of  the  business 
affiairs of  her  husband.  Another  point  in 
which this act  followed  English  precedent 
was in  confining  its  operations  exclusively 
to traders.  The assignee was  appointed by 
the commissioners, and  it  appeal’s  that  the 
latter, except in special cases, became entire­
ly substituted for the court, exercising  their 
almost arbitary  functions  with  little  refer­
ence to anything but their own  construction 
of the law and. of the  requirements  of  each 
particular case that came before them.  The 
machinery was exceedingly cumbersome and 
must have been very expensive, and  it  was 
doubtless these  considerations  that  lead to 
the speedy repeal  of  the  act,  which  had, 
however, been only intended as a temporary 
one, being limited by its  final clause to a du­
ration of five years.  A little more than two 
years was found too  much,  however,  and it 
was abolished.

to 

the  benefits  of 

The act of 1861, in addition  to  admitting 
non-traders 
bank­
ruptcy, also contained  a  clause,  the  princi­
ple of which has been adopted  in all  subse­
quent  legislation,  both  in  England  and  in 
this country.  By  it a  majority  in  number 
of  the  creditors,  representing  three-fourths 
in value of the proven claims against the es­
tate, were empowered to bind all  the  credi­
tors and  compel  the  acceptance of  a com­
position in discharge  of  the  debts  without 
the cessio  bonorum.  The  act under which 
this was permitted, however, was  drawn  so 
loosely and left so many openings  for fraud 
that it became speedily obnoxious  to the se­
verest criticism, and in 1868  it  was  amend­
ed, the powers of the dissenting  minority of 
the  creditors  being  considerably  extended. 
This also proved unsatisfactory,  and  in  the 
following year a completely new system was 
devised and put into  operation.  Official as­
signees were abolished, and  in  their  place 
were  substituted 
trustees,  chosen  from 
among the creditors, on whom  devolved the 
duty of both collecting and  distributing the 
assets, subject,  if the creditors  desired,  to a 
committee  of  inspection,  also  chosen  by 
them from among their number.  Under the 
old law a crying evil had been the ease with 
which dishonest debtors  could  avoid  their 
obligations  by  means  of  marriage  settle- 
men, and it had become a common thing for 
such, when on the eve of marriage to run up 
extravagant  bills  for  furniture,  jewelry, 
dress,  and  even  general  merchandise,  and 
then by  means  of  ante-nuptial  settlements 
(it was more difficult, but not  impossible to 
make post-nuptial  settlements stick) simply 
defy their creditors to collect their bills.  To 
meet this evil the act  of  1869  rendered  all 
such settlements absolutely null  as  against 
trustees  in  bankruptcy  within  two  years 
from their date, an null  also in  ten  years 
unless  the  debtor  can  show  affirmatively 
that at the time  of  making  the  settlement 
he was completely solvent.  Another mater­
ial provision of this act is that no debtor can 
obtain a discharge whose estate does not pay 
a 50 per  cent,  dividend, the  debtor  having 
three years in which to supply the  means if 
the estate  itself  should  fall  short.  By the 
debtors act of  the  same  year,  that  under 
which imprisonment for debt was abolished, 
bankruptcy proceedings were further altered 
by taking  from  the  bankruptcy  court  all 
criminal jurisdiction, fraudulent  debtors be­
ing turned over to the tender mercies of  the 
general law.

In substance  the English  bankruptcy law 
l’emains now as above outlined, the most im­
portant addition being  that  which  provides 
that  a  majority  in  number,  representing 
three-fourth in value of  the  creditors, may 
take charge  of  an  insolvent’s  estate  and 
liquidate it for  the  benefit of  all,  without 
public proceedings in bankruptcy; and  this 
system which includes the right of  composi­
tion,  has grown  into great  favor  with both 
debtors and creditors. 
It  is  convenient, in­
expensive, and yields speedy results  for the 
latter, while the debtor is  not  subjected  to 
the  humiliation of an exposure of his affairs 
before the eyes of the whole world.

The course  of  bankruptcy  legislation  in 
the United States has  chiefly  been  remark­
able  for  the  meagerness of its  records in 
comparison with those of any other commer­
cial country.  There have  been  only three 
brief periods in  our  history  when  general 
bankruptcy laws have been in existence: the 
first from 1800 to 1803, the second from 1841 
to 1843, and the  third  from  1867 to  1878. 
Under our Constitution, Congress  alone has 
the power to deal  with  bankruptcy  in  its 
broad sense, and while various of  the states, 
notably Massachusetts in  1838,  have  from 
time to time adopted  bankruptcy laws, they 
are limited, necessarily, in their  application 
to the citizens of  the  respective  states, and 
whenever a national law  has  been in  exist­
ence they have become ipso  facto  suspend­
ed for the time being.

The bankruptcy act of 1800,  following all 
English precedents up to that  time, was ex­
clusively designed for the  protection of  the 
creditor and  largely  for  the  punishment of 
the insolvent debtor.  Proceedings could on­
ly be instituted by creditors, the idea of  the

The  second  bankruptcy  act  had  a  yet 
briefer  existence,  although, 
in  many  re­
spects, it was a much  better  one  than  its 
predecessor. 
It was  called  into  existence, 
however, to meet a special  condition of  the 
times, and when it had  served  its  purpose 
was dispensed with.  The terrible  financial 
distress of 1837 and  1838,  resulting  from  a 
vicious  fiscal  system,  had  spread  ruin 
throughout  the country, and the wail of the 
unfortunate debtors was heard  everywhere. 
Massachusetts had, in 1838, adopted a bank­
ruptcy law which has since become the mod­
el legislation, but as  the  states  -under  the 
Constitutional inhibition cannot enforce any 
act that impairs the obligation  of  contracts, 
that law could give no relief as to  debts  al­
Its  effect  could  only  be 
ready incurred. 
prospective. 
In the  meantime  the  cry  of 
distress continued growing in  intensity, and 
in December, 1841, Congress passed a gener­
al bankruptcy act  which, for  the  first time, 
conferred on the debtor,  as well as the  cred­
itor, the right to apply  to  the  court  for re­
lief.  The eagerness with which  its aid was 
sought may be judged from  the fact that  in 
Massachusetts alone,  during  the  less  than 
fourteen months that the law  was  in  force, 
no less than 3,250 bankruptcy petitions were 
filed.  This act still maintained  the  ancient 
distinction between traders  and  non-tradfers 
and what  has since  been  known as bread- 
and-butter bankruptcies were still unknown. 
The punitive idea, except in  cases of  abso­
lute fraud, was, in this  act, conspicuous  by 
its absence.  The United  States  had  pro­
ceeded England by more than a  quarter of a 
century in refusing to treat  misfortune  as a 
crime. 
It  contained  stringent  provisions 
against fraudulent or unjust  preferences  to 
creditors or others; the title of the  assignee 
to all parts of his bankrupt’s estate  and  the 
validity of  the  deeds  made  by  him  were 
again made  positive  and  indisputable, and 
there was a* special clause  commanding that 
whenever practicable the administration of es 
tates must beclosed within two years from the 
date of the assignment.  One  very  merciful 
provision was that where the  cessio  bonor­
um  had been made completely and  in  good 
faith the bankrupt was  entitled  to  his  dis­
charge in ninety days, unless  a  majority  in 
number of his creditors,  representing  three- 
fourths in value of the claims against the es­
tate, should dissent in writing at the time of 
the hearing of the application. 
In case  of a 
second  bankruptcy the discharge  could  not 
be obtained unless the  estate  paid  75 cents 
on the dollar, exclusive  of  all  cost  and  ex­
penses.  The act was repealed early in 1843, 
the rush of debtors to  the  courts  having no 
little effect in creating a revulsion of feeling 
which rendered it exceedingly unpopular.

The third act, or rather  the  third  system 
of bankruptcy, commenced in 1867, the  first 
act under the system having  gone into effect 
on May 3, of that year.  This, together with 
all its amendments, was repealed in 1878 the 
repeal taking effect August 31.  The amend­
ments—nearly  all  going  to  comparatively 
minor details which had been  found  in  the 
practical working  of the law to pi’esent  fea­
tures of incongruity, inadequacy or  wrong— 
were five in number, dated respectively July 
14,1870; June 80,1870; June 8,  1872;  Jnne 
22,1874; and July 26,1876.  The provisions 
of this act with its amendments,  are  too  re 
cent in public memory to require any detail­
ed review.  The act was in its main features 
based on  the  Massachusetts  law  of  1838, 
It  provided for  volun-
above  referred to. 

tary as well as compulsory  bankruptcy;  for 
the discharge of the bankrupt  within a reas­
onable period after the bona  fide  surrender 
of his  estate; for the  validity of  assignee’s 
title; for the amendment of fraudulent pref­
erences  and  for  assignments  made  within 
Certain periods  antecedent  to  bankruptcy; 
contained powers of settlement by  composi­
tion, and,  in  short,  most  of  the  features 
which experience lias shown to be necessary 
to any general scheme of  bankruptcy.  The 
defects  mostly  complained of were in  the 
system of fees which assignees and registers 
were popularly supposed to  exact in  liberal 
slices  without  regard to  the  interests  of 
ei’editors.  The  truth as  to  this  matter  is 
that the schedule of fees allowed  under the 
law was so  complete  and  exact  that  under 
proper  and  energetic  supervision  of  the 
»courts, whose  officers  the  registers  and  as­
signees  were, anj 
illegal  exaction  would 
have been  impossible.  That  such  did take 
place in certain  districts,  however, is  unde­
niable, and cases became  known  and  were 
made the subject of judicial inquiry, notably 
one in Chicago—where it  was  made  to ap­
pear that register’s  fee  bills  yielded  from 
$70,000 to $100,000 a year, while they had to 
be passed upon by a  District  J udge  with  a 
salary of only $3,000.  These scandals, com­
bined with the disgust that had been  engen­
dered by the facility which  dishonest  debt­
ors, by attorney of course,  had  acquired in 
slipping through the inviting  meshes  of the 
law, led to a strong revulsion of popular feel­
ing, and the acts, prior  to  the  repeal, were 
regarded witli  the  utmost  disfavor.  This 
popular sentiment would probably  have led 
only to further amendments had it not  been 
for another potent factor in  the  shaping  of 
events.  The years of distress which follow­
ed the panic of  1873  had, by  1877-78,  had 
such a prejudicial  effect  on  all  classes  of 
business that litigation had fallen off  mater­
ially and the vast  majority of  lawyers were 
unable to make a living, or more than a very 
scanty one.  As  bankruptcy  practice  has a 
tendency always and in all  countries, owing 
to the very nature of the trusts  and  respon­
sibilities connected with  it,  to  become  cen­
tered in a few hands, those  on  the  outside, 
so to speak, became jealous of  their  appar­
ently more prosperous brethx-en.  They con­
ceived the idea that if  the  bankruptcy laws 
were  repealed  the  business  in  the  state 
courts, in the  way  of  assignments, attach­
ments and the  like, would  instantly  revive. 
The lawyers in Congress, who  make proba­
bly a majority of both  bodies,  were largely 
impressed with this  view,  and  that, in con­
junction with the  pressure  of  the  general 
public sentiment  above  referred to, led  to 
the repeal.  The experience of the  last half 
dozen.years  has  shown  that  ordinary  gen­
eral litigation in the state  courts  still  con­
tinues at a low ebb, while it  has  convinced 
the majority of  the business  world  that  a 
general  bankruptcy  law is a  necessity  to a 
commercial country.  Whether the  bill now 
before Congress  will  meet  the  objections 
made to previous measures of this character, 
remains to be seen.

B ogus A ssets.

have 

been 

there 

Dullness in trade has exposed the fragility 
of numerous firms which had  been  deemed 
too solid for possible  breakage. 
It is in the 
legal processes of bankruptcy, however, that 
the oddest  revelations are  made.  The  de­
vices by means of which the  debtors  with­
hold the assets from the creditors  are  often 
as villainous  as  highway  robbery. 
In  the 
case of a leading New York  clothing firm, a 
judge  has  in  court  pronounced  hitherto 
respected men to be scoundrels in having by 
deliberate perjury  hidden  about  $100,000 
In  several  recent  in­
from the  assignee. 
stances 
discovered 
among the assets of  bankrupt  concerns big 
bundles of worthless mining and other spec­
ulative stocks, and the suspicion  has  arisen 
that these papers do not always represent ac­
tual losses, but are put in the  place of mon­
ey  elsewhere  secreted.  Evidence  of  this 
trick, however, is  not  easily  obtained, and 
the bankrupt can always point to men deem­
ed conservative who have  permitted  them­
selves to be drawn into  wild  ventures.  A 
newspaper advertisement  read:  “A  lot of 
stock cheap for speculative or schedule  pur­
poses.”  A letter brought  the  information 
that the certificates represented mining stock 
worth in theory, at par, $50,000, but possess­
ing absolutely no value, the  enterprise  hav­
ing failed. This spoiled batch of linen paper 
the enquirer could get  for  $100.  “It  cost 
the  man  from  whom I obtained  it  about 
$30,000,” the  letter  asserted,  “and  would 
readily be accounted at that price in a bank­
ruptcy  case.”  That  is to say, a  merchant 
who,  from  either  choice or  necessity, an­
nounced a failure, could take  $20,000 out of 
his safe, put these stock  certificates in, and 
swear that they represented that  amount of 
lost capital.

An  action  was  brought  recently  before 
Mr. Justice Hawkins, in  England, to recov­
er the value of two casks of herrings furnish­
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the  judge.  “Well,  said  the  plaintiff,  “I 
again and again, whenever I could find  him, 
asked for payment, until at last he  told  me 
to go to the devil,  upon  which I  thought it 
was high time to  come to your  lordship,” a 
remark which  was  received  with  roars of 
laughter, in which the judge joined.

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H isto ric a l S k etch   o f  th e   L aw s  E n a c te d   in  

th is C o u n try  an d  E n g la n d .

The origin of the word bankrupt is  some­
what  doubtful,  though  some  philologists 
have  sought to establish it  in a  custom  of 
the traders of Venice, when that city was in 
her palmy days. 
It  is  said  that  those  of 
them who belonged to the organized guild of 
merchants had each a seat or  bench  on  the 
Rialto or at  whatever  other  public  place i 
seved the purpose of an  exchange, and  that 
when one failed to  meet  his  obligations  he 
was expelled, and the bench  (hancus), seat­
ed  on  which  he  had  been  accustomed  to 
transact his  business, was  broken  (ruptus) 
in token of his disgrace.  But, whatever the 
etymology of the word may be, the  mention 
of Venice in this connection, cannot  fail  to 
call to mind the story  that  Shakspeare  has 
made use of in the construction of one of his 
greatest works, and, with it, the savage pen­
alties that creditors  were  formerly  permit­
ted to inflict upon unfortunate debtors.  The 
Christian prayer,  “Forgive us  our  debts  as 
we forgive our debtors,” had a  terrible  sig­
nificance at the period when it was  first  ut­
tered, when the cruel provisions  of  the  law 
of the Twelve Tables gave the miserable be­
ing who had failed to  meet  his  promises to 
pay, completely  into the power of  whomso­
ever  suffered  loss,  to  be  enslaved, beaten, 
starved, put to torture, or  even,  where  the 
unfortunate, through age or  disease, was in­
capable of profitable  labor, to be slain, with 
an  accompanying  degree  of  atrocity 
that 
might suggest itself to  a cruel  imagination 
in an age of cruelty.

The earliest attempt to modify the severi­
ty of these ancient laws, which in themselves 
were  but  the  reflex  of the customs of the 
then civilized world, appears  to  have  been 
in the Julian code, under  which  the  princi­
ple of the cessio bonorum, or  surrender  of 
the entire estate of the  debtor  for  distribu­
tion  among his  creditors,  being  taken as a 
satisfaction of  all  claims, appears  first  to 
have been formally recognized.  But'this le­
gal recognition of the principal which lies at 
the root of  all  modern  systems  of  bank­
ruptcy, had but a very limited  operation, so 
far as bringing about any  serious  ameliora­
tion of the condition of the unfortunate, and 
for more than 1,500 years the miserable men 
who traded  themselves  into  insolvency,  or 
otherwise  became  hopelessly 
indebted, 
had  to  endure 
torments,  compared  with 
which the  severest  punishments  known  to 
modern criminal law are but  exhibitions  of 
heavenly mercy.

In discussing the  subject  of  bankruptcy, 
Blackstone says a bankrupt was  defined un­
der the old law as  “a  trader  who  secretes 
himself and does certain  other  acts  tending 
to defraud his creditors.” 
In  the  preamble 
to the first bankruptcy act passed in England 
in  1542,  under  Henry  VIII.,  of  much- 
married memory, the  same  principle is  ex­
pressed, probably furnishing the foundation 
for  the  remark  of  the'great  commentator. 
This preamble shows that  the act  in  ques­
tion, while it provided some remedial  meas­
ures in the  way  of  distributing  whatever 
portion of the  bankrupt’s  estate  could  be 
laid hold of, was  more  especially  intended 
to deter the fraudulently  inclined  by  terror 
of punishment.  The preamble states that it 
had become the custom among certain  sorts 
of people, to buy goods on credit, “not mind­
ing to pay for them,” and then  either flee to 
the country or  remain  within  their  houses 
and defy their creditors. 
It is here  worthy 
of note that this was the first  time  that  the 
cessio bonorum principle  was recognized in 
English law,  and  that, at the  same  time, 
there was enacted a legal distinction between 
a trader and an ordinary debtor, a distinction 
which was maintained in  every  bankruptcy 
act up to 1861.  A  similiar  distinction was 
recognized in  the  United States  in the first 
and short-lived bankrupt  acts.

The subsequent  history of  bankruptcy in 
England presents a confused mass of legisla­
tion down to 1825, when all the  multitudin­
ous acts were suspended by the  bankruptcy 
consolidation act, in  which  was  embodied 
all that the learning and wisdom of Sir Sam­
uel Romily could  support. 
In  this act the 
principle of the “composition contract,” bor­
rowed from the Scotch law,  was for the first 
time made an  element  of  English  commer­
cial jurisprudence. 
It is curious here to ob­
serve that up to that date  the  entire  object 
of English  bankrupt  laws  appears  to  have 
been the protection of the interests of ciedi- 
itors, those  of  the  honest,  but  unfortunate 
debtor  being  considered—if  considered  at 
all—as hardly worthy of legal  care.  But in 
the adoption of the composition clause an en­
tire revolution took place in this respect, and 
the prudent and upright trader who, thence­
forward, should be driven by  unforseen  ca­
lamity into bankruptcy, became, theoretical­
ly at least, as much  an  object  of  solicitude 
as  the  whole  mass  of  his  creditors. 
It  is 
true that prior to this time bankrupts  could, 
and did occasionally, obtain legal  discharge 
from their  liabilities  and  consequent  leave 
to begin the world  anew with a clean  sheet. 
But such  events  were  rather  the  incidents 
than  one  of  the  objects  of  the  law,  and, 
moreover, the legal  machinery was so curb- 
some and expensive that their  number were 
but  very  small.  In  the  vast  majority  of 
cases the unfortunate against whom a docket 
was once stricken languished away  a  hope-

Caulfield’s  Column.

W. Plumley, of Toledo, has purchased the 
interest of Charles Yany in the straw works 
at Adrian, and will, it  is  understood, put in 
additional capital  and  operate  the  works 
with a full force.

Saginaw  Courier:  The  Michigan  Dairy 
Salt Co.’s  establishment  opposite  this city, 
produced 75,000 barrels  of  dairy  salt  last 
year, a substantial  testimonial to its  excel­
lence in the markets. 
It  went  to  Chicago, 
Milwaukee,  Toledo, St.  Louis,  Cincinnati, 
Nashville  and  other  Southwestern  and 
Western points, and found a ready sale. The 
company have a fine exhibit of their product 
at the New Orleans Exposition.

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itm n tile and Manufacturing Interests of the State.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

Term s $1 a year in advance, postage paid. 
A dvertising rates m ade know n on application.

WEDNESDAY,  JANUARY  14,  1885.

Merchants  and  Manufacturers’  Exchange.

Organized at  Grand Rapids October 8,1884.

President—L ester J. Rindge.
V ice-President—Clias.  H. Leonard.
T reasu rer—Wm. Sears.
E xecutive  Com m ittee—President,  Vice-Pres­
ident and T reasurer, ex-officio; O. A. Rail, one 
year;  L. E. H aw kins and R.D . Sw artout, two
A rbitration  Com m ittee—I.  M.  Clark,  Ben  W.
T ransportation Com m ittee—W llder D. Stevens, 
In surance Oommitte—John G. Shields, A rth u r 
M anufacturing  Com m ittee—Wm.  Cartw right, 
A nnual M eeting—Second  W ednesday evening
R egular  M eetings—Second  W ednesday  even­
N ext M eeting—W ednesday evening, Jan. 14.

Putnam , Joseph Housem an.
Geo. B. D unton, Amos. S. Musselman. 
Meigs, Wm. T. L am oreaux. 
E. S. Pierce, C. W. Jennings.
of October. 
ing of each m onth.

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POST  A.

Organized at  Grand Rapids, June 28,1884.

O F F IC E R S .

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President—Wm. Logie. 
F irst V ice-President—Lloyd Max Mills.
Second  V ice-President—Stephen A.  Sears.
Secretary and T reasu rer—L. W. A tkins.
E xecutive  Comm ittee—P resident  and  becre- 
tir y ,  tx   officio i  Chas.  S.  Robinson,  Jas.  N. 
Bradford and W. G. H awkins.
Election Com m ittee—Geo.  H.  Seym our,  Wal- 
laoc  Franklin,  W.  H.  Downs,  Wm.  B.  Ed­
m unds and D. S. H augh.
Room  Com m ittee—Stephen  A.  Scars,  Win. 
Boughton, W. H. Jennings. 
A
Excursion  Com m ittee—D.  S.  H augh,  a.  A. 
Sears, C. S. Robinson, Wm. B.  Edm unds  and 
J. N. B radford.
Regular  M eetings—L ast  Saturday  evening  in 
each m onth. 
N ext M eeting—Saturday  evening,  Ja n u a ry  31, 
a t “The Tradesm an” office.
M eeting  of  Excursion  Committee—Saturday 
evening,  Ja n u a ry   17,  a t  “The  T radesm an” 
office.

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Readers of this p aper who  avail  them selves 
o f the inform ation obtained from  its colum ns, 
by advertisem ent o r otherw ise,  are  requested 
to notify th eir correspondents of the source of 
thoir inform ation.

Jay Gould says  this  will be a  good  year 
for making  money, and  there  are  millions 
who hope to see Jay’s prophecy fulfilled.

Probably  the  most  pronounced  exemplar 
of pure theory in  contradistinction  to  prac­
tice is Mr. Carnegie,  the  Pittsburg  million­
aire, who avows that he  is  a  Socialist,  but 
flays he is not ready yet to divide  up  among 
the boys.

The business men  of  Elmira  have  acted 
unwisely in allowing their  local  paper,  the 
Gazette,  to  suspend.  The  best 
interests 
of the place demand that the publication  be 
resumed without delay, and  that  the  paper 
be  given  a  support  commensurate with its 
merits.

Whether a man is married or not is a mat­
ter which, in itself, will not  affect  his  hon­
esty, but the Bank of England in forbidding 
those of its clerks who do not get more  than 
$15 a week from  taking  wives  unto  them­
selves does not act according to experience— 
at  least  in  this  country. 
It is safe to  say 
that  two-thirds  of  the  peculating  young 
clerks who get into the courts are single men.

Up to a few years  ago  the  typical  furni­
ture  journal  was  an  exceedingly  uninter­
esting affair, composed in great part of blan­
ket-like advertisements,  with a sprinkling of 
unintelligible and  misleading  matter  from 
.correspondents located at the  principal  fur­
niture centers.  With one  exception, such a 
condition of things still exists.  That excep­
tion is the  American  Furniture  Gazette, 
which has forced its way to the front by rea­
son of artistic excellence,  sprightliness  and 
general reliability.  Mr.  DeBerard, its  edi­
tor and  manager, is to be congratulated  on 
the success  attending a  comparatively new 
venture, in a field already  well  filled  witli 
unworthy  publications, and he is likewise to 
be congratulated  on  the  handsome  appear­
ance and  interesting  contents  of  his  new 
publication,  the  Ironmonger.  The  latter 
named journal  is, as its  name  indicates,  in-j 
tended to please the eye and ear of the hard­
ware and iron trades of the country, and the | 
first number gives promise of  the same  rich 
future which the Gazette is now enjoying.

A ll  H o n o r  to  B y ro n   B allo u .

It  has  lately  come  to the notice of  T h e 
T r a d e s m a n  that Byron Ballou,  the  genial I 
Cadillac provision dealer, has placed himself 
on  record  as  one  of the few men who feel 
obligated to settle in full with creditors after 
they have  obtained  a  compromise. 
It  ap­
pears  that  Ballou  failed  down  at  Otsego 
something  like a dozen years ago,  and  that 
liis creditors received  only  a  percentage  of 
their claims.  Byron, however, was not con­
tent to have it go that way, and,  as  fortune 
lias favored him during the past  few  years, 
he has settled with every creditor, dollar for 
dollar, adding 10 per cent, interest on all un­
paid claims.  Such an exhibition of honesty 
it highly commendable, and is  worthy of ac­
knowledgment.  The act  may well stand  as 
an example of others  who  have  failed  and 
i are now able to meet their obligations—obli­
gations in a moral, not legal,  sense.

“You said you were coming around te pay 
that bill,” remarked a  merchant  to  a  poli­
tician.  “To whom did I say  that?” 
“You 
told  it  to  my  boy when he came to collect 
the bill of you.”  “When?”  “Just  about  a 
week  before  election.” 
“That  explains 
"it.  It was  a  campaign  lie—that’s  what  it 
was.”

AROUND  TH E  STATE.

P. Welch, general dealer  at  Sliaytown,  is 

J. B. Clark has resumed the meat business 

burned out.

at Fife Lake.

Perry  Powers, boot  and  shoe  dealer  at 

Muir has assigned.

C. F. Phillipps, hardware dealer  at  Eaton 

Rapids, is selling out.

Benjamin Disbrow succeeds Curtis Coffeen 

in general trade at Vassar.

Mann, Pettibone &  Co.,  hardware  dealers 

at Corunna, are closing out.

Max Simon succeeds S.  Rothschild  &  Co. 

in general trade at Manistee.

F. A. Moore succeeds  John  Moore  in  the 

grocery business at Freeport.

It.  M. Wilcox & Co., confectioners at Reed 

City, have removed to Stanton.

A. H. Potter succeeds D. Thompson & Co. 

in the hardware business at Ovid.

Miss E. Riley sueceèds Mrs. S. A. Hunt in 

the millinery business at Big Rapids.

Frank H. Johnson succeeds C. C. Moulton 

in the grocery business at Muskegon.

Snow & Sprague  succeed  Drake  & Heath 

in the hardware business at  Hanover.

Miner & Hendricks  succeed  Miner & Co. 

in the grocery business at Muskegon.

L. S.  &  S.  H.  Ballard succeed S. II.  Bal­

lard in the grocery business a  Sparta.

Jeremiah Ready succeeds Johnson & Smith 

in the grist mill business at Flowerfield.

N. D. Holt, hardware dealer  at  Hesperia, 

is reported closed under chattel  mortgage.

The mortgagee is in possession of the fur­
niture stock of C. L. Hecox,  at  Greenville.
J. R. Hughes, notion dealer at Reed  City, 
has  closed  out  business and removed  from 
town.

Wagar  &  Callahan,  the  Cedar  Springs 
in  hay 

I hardware  merchants,  are  putting 
scales.

H. M. Wilcox lias closed out his  crockery 
| business at Petoskey  and  will  remove  to 
j  Cleveland.
i  Wm. D. Carey & Co.,  wholesale  produce 
dealers at  Muskegon,  have  assigned  to W. 
W. Fellows.

J. II. Kerton, a  small  grocery  dealer  at 
Mancelona, has been  closed  up  by  Arthur 
Meigs & Co.

Thieleman  &  Seifert,  meat  business  at 
Grand Haven, have dissolved, Ignaz  Seifert 
succeeding.

A  gentleman  named  Thomas,  recently 
from Ann Arbor, has opened a general store 
at Harris Creek.

S. M. Pratt, cigar and  confectionery deal­
er at Petoskey, has  assigned  to  J.  H.  Pas­
sage, of that place.

Corbin  &  Wood,  druggists  at  Sherman, 
have sold out to H. B. Sturtevant,  who  will 
continue the  business.

M. W.  Charpentier, grocer  at  Muskegon, 
has been closed on  an  execution  by  Haw­
kins & Perry, whose claim is $358.77.
*  E. E. Starr, confectioner at  Battle  Creek, 
has been closed by  Kennedy  &  Koester, of 
Detroit on a chattel mortgage for $1,021.

Robert C.  Coy, who was recently engaged 
in the drug business at Ithaca, has re-engag­
ed in the same business at Traverse City.

AMONG THE TRADE.

IN  THE  CITY.

A. Schouten has engaged in the flour  and 

feed business at 180 South Division street.

P. H. McGhan, grocery  dealer at Denver, 
has added a  line of dry goods, purchased of 
Spring & Company.

Boehove  &  Sanford  succeed  Dr. W. H. 
Ross, in the drug  business at  the  corner of 
Straight and North Fulton streets.

Jas. A. Coye  has  engaged  in  the  grocery 
business at the corner of Third  and  Broad­
way streets.  Clark, Jewell & Co. furbished 
the,stock.

F. J. Lamb & Co.  have  retired  from  the 
firm  of  Orcutt &  Co.,  wholesale  produce 
dealers at Muskegon.  The business  will be 
continued by Frank L. Orcutt, under the old 
firm name.

O.  Emmons  and  A.  Bartholomew  have 
formed a co-partnership under the firm name 
of O. Emmons & Co., and purchased the gro­
cery business of Frank T.  Lawrence, on the 
corner of East Bridge and Barclay streets.

Certain  jobbing  establishments  claim to 
have  received  direct  offers  of  compromise 
from F. C. Brisbin, the Berlin beauty, on the 
basis of 25 per cent, in full settlement.  The 
alacrity with which the offer  was  accepted 
was sufficient to make his head swim.

The A. Southwick crockery stock  was bid 
in  by  Peter  Doran  in  behalf  of  Mrs. 
Wm. H. Stuart, of  the mortgagees, for  $4,- 
800, H. Leonard & Sons bidding $4,700.  The 
mortgages on the stock aggregate  $8,113, so 
even the preferred creditors will not receive 
their claims in full.

“Mutual insurance  has  received  a  large­
sized black eye in this  locality,” said a well- 
known underwriter, referring to  the  failure 
of the Mansfield  company, the  defalcation 
of the  secretary  of  another  company,  and 
the almost extortionate  assessments  of  sev­
eral local organizations.  “But then all kinds 
of  fire  insurance  have  suffered  the  past 
year,”  continued  the  same  authority.  “I 
see that the reports show that the entire pre­
miums received are  $350,000  less  than  the 
aggregate losses.  When we come  to  figure 
in salaries, commissions and other expenses, 
I think it is not  improbable  that  the  com­
panies of  this  country, as a  whole,  are  be­
hind two or three millions on the year’s bus­
iness.  The deficiency is to be  attributed to 
the prevailing depression, which  has greatly 
increased the moral hazard.  A year of pros­
perity—as 1885  promises  to  be—will  turn 
the tables in favor of the  insurance compan­
ies.”

J.  K.  Boise  &  Co.,  the  Hudson  general 
dealers, have established  a  branch  store  at 
Pittsford, with Herbert Voorhees as manager.
Eddy & Huntley, grocery and  meat  deal­
ers at Petoskey, have dissolved  partnership, 
A. C. Huntley retiring.  The  business  will 
be continued by Mr. Eddy.

Reynolds  Bros., of  Eaton  Rapids,  have 
purchased the stock of dry  goods  belonging 
to James Cook,  at Homer,  and  will  run a 
branch store at that place.

F.  T. Boise, whose drug store was recent­
ly burned  out at  Nashville,  has decided  to 
rebuild on the same site.  He  has  resumed 
business in a temporary  location.

E. E. Rogers, dealer  in  tobaccos  and  sta­
tionery at Pewamo, has added a line of fancy 
groceries, furnished by J.  H.  Thompson  & 
Co., of Detroit, through Thos.  P.  Ferguson.
Berlin’s bad Brisbin has  taken to the roll­
er skating rink, and  all  reports  from  that 
town are to the effect that he is as complete­
ly carried away with the craze as  his  credi­
tors were with him.
Chas E. Blakeley, the  Coopersville  drug­
gist,  is spending a couple of  weeks at  Fife 
Lake, attending to Blakeley Bros.’ business, 
while his brother, George, is  putting in  the 
time at Coopersville.  •

N. G.  Burtt,  the  Cross  Village  general 
dealer, writes  T h e   T r a d e s m a n  
that  the 
mortgage on his  stock  was  discharged on 
Dec. 31, thus enabling  him to  start  out on 
the new year with his stock free  of  incum­
brance.

Himelhoch & Lewenberg, Caro  boot  and 
shoe dealers, who closed up  last  November 
but who re-opened and sold  goods to satisfy 
a chattel mortgage, have  been  again  closed 
up at the request  of  Julius  Reiss, of  East 
Saginaw, who purchased the first  mortgages 
given  to  the  creditors  and  foreclosed  on 
them.

G. M. Smith is  an  Ypsilanti  grocer.  He 
sometimes becomes intoxicated. He did Wed­
nesday night, and after pouring kerosene all 
over the floor of  his  store  in  the  Arcade 
block set it on fire.  His  clerk  happened to 
notice the smoke and  calling  assistance put 
it out.  Smith was jailed.  The  other  occu­
pants of the block will insist  that  he be not 
permitted to occupy the store any longer.

Garrett Decker, dry goods dealer at Battle 
Creek,  has  executed  eleven  chattel  mort­
gages  aggregating  $21,147.79  to  creditors 
living in New  York,  Boston  and  Chicago. 
These  are  made  due  in  payments,  strung 
along for a  year,  and  will  undoubtedly  be 
met  by  Mr.  Decker  as  they mature.  Mr. 
Decker has the courage to meet this  crisis in 
his  business affairs, and his lawyer  predicts 
that he will pull through all right.

M ANUFACTURING  M ATTERS.

The Saranac stave factary has again start­

ed up.
' The Lansing hoop factory has  started  up 
again.

C. A. Stone has leased the  flouring mill at 

S T R A Y   FACTS.

Fife Lake is to have a new bakery shortly. 
Wheat is coming into  Marshall very free­

ly now.

power.

liquidating.

Caro will have a cheese factory of 600 cow 

The First National  Bank  of  Sturgis  if 

Marshall  Gallatin & Co. will  erect a  new 

warehouse at Nashville in the  spring.

A large bookstore,  something really need­

ed, will be opened soon at Manistique.

Hastings  Banner:  The  store  occupied 
by Mr. Luther at Middleville  is still  vacant. 
It has been an unlucky one.

Battle Creek  farmers  talk of  building a 
flouring mill in the city  for  their  grinding. 
They have formed a company.

The  Frankenust  cheese  factory  is in#op- 
It is not run at  full ca­

eration this winter. 
pacity owing to scarcity of milk.

Oviatt wants a boot  and shoe dealer.  Al­
so some one to rent or purchase the saw mill 
property at that place and start up the  mill.
Marshall  Statesman:  Elston  &  Amlar 
dissolved  partnership  Jan. 1.  The  former 
will  continue  the  manufacture  of  cigars, 
while the latter takes the drug trade.

W h y  She D id n ’t.

A young woman from the country was su­
ing her sweetheart  for  breach  of  promise 
and the lawyers were, as  usual,  making  all 
sorts of inquisitive interrogatories.

“You say,” remarked  one, “that  the  de­

fendant frequently sat very close to you?” 

“Yes, sir,”  was the  reply  with  a  hectic 

flush.

you.”

“How close?”
“Close enough, so’s one cheer  was all the 

sittin’ room we needed.”

“And you  say  he  put  his  arm  around 

“No, I didn’t.”
“What did you say, then?”
“1 said he put both arms around me.” 
“Then what?”
“He hugged me.”
“Very hard?”
“Yes, very hard.  So  hard  that  I  come 

purty near hollerin’ right  out.”

“Why didn’t you holler?”
“ ’Cause.”
“That’s no  reason.  Be  explicit,  please 

Ives handle factory at Plainwell  is  again 

Because what?”

i

Aetna. 

in operation.

Greilick Bros, have started  up  their  saw 

mill at Sutton’s Bay.

is now in operation.

Holmes & Green’s saw mill,  at Fife Lake, 

Sampson & Drury, of Cadillac,  are manu­

facturing cant hook handles.

Earl & Winch have rented John P. Tillot- 

son’s saw mill at Summit  City.

The Muskegon Valley  Furniture  Co. has 

again started up with a full force.

Weaver & Casey have  purchased  Reiland 

& Hess’ saw mill, near Fife Lake.

Albert Hyde is preparing to put in  a  new 

saw mill at Summit City in the spring.

M. Hansen  succeeds  M. Hansen & Co. in 
the cigar manufacturing business at  Luding- 
ton.

Carothers & Crawford’s new  feed  mill  at 
Summit City, is now in successful operation. 
Their bowl factory will soon be running.

The annual inventory shows that the  Cut­
ler  &  Savidge  Co.,  of  Grand Haven, have 
twenty-nine million feet of lumber on hand.
The Coldwater cigar factories are all  run­
ning  again.  Even  the  tight  times  cannot 
force smokers to give  up  their  pet  indul­
gence.

A subscription in circulation  for  the  pur­
pose of raising a bonus  of  $20,000  towards 
securing  a  roller  flouring  mill in  Caro, is 
meeting with fair success.

“ ’Cause I was afeered he’d stop.”
The Court fell  off  the  bench, and  had to 
be carried out and put under the hydrant for 
the  purpose of  resuscitation.

Reversible shoe  heels  are  a  novelty,  and 
they seem to be a useful and  welcome  one. 
Both ends of the heel are trimmed alike.  The 
heel  is  secured  with  screws, which can be 
removed by anyone with a screwdriver.  By 
turning the heel end for end after  it  begins 
to  wear  off  on one side, the wear is thrown 
equally on both sides, and the  heel  is  kept 
square.'  They cost 50 cents  more  than  the 
old  style.

George  Westinghouse,  founder  of  the 
Westinghouse Agricultural Works, at Schen­
ectady, and father  of  the  inventor of  the 
Westinghouse  air-break,  died  at Pittsburg, 
Pa., December 29.  His illness was consump­
tion.  He was 77 years old and  had  always 
been un active citizen  of  his  native  town. 
There he was the head of a  large  manufac­
tory of agricultural implements.

Servant:  “The  butcher’s  boy  is  at  the 
door, sir, an’  says as how  his master wants 
some money on  that  old meat bill  at  once, 
sir.”  Head of the  house  (slicing  off a ten­
der cut of unpaid beef) :  “Well, tell him to 
call  again  sometime. 
I  can’t be  bothered 
with bills when I am at dinner.”

KNIGHTS  OF  LABOR

The Best Chew on the Market

SEND  FOR  SAM PLE  BUTT.

Clark,  Jewell  &  Co.

out  for

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Bdigan  Slate  PharmJMiitial  Association.

O F FIC E R S .

amazoo. 
sing. 
Rapids. 

P re sid en t-G eo . W. Crouter, Charlevoix.
F irst V ice-President—Geo. M. McDonald,  K al­
Second V ice-President—B.  D.  N orthrup,  L an­
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T hird V ice-President—F ran k   W urzburg,  G rd
S ecretary—Jacob Jesson, M uskegon. 
T reasurer—Wm. D upont, D etroit.
E xecutive  C om m ittee-H   J.  Brown,  A.  B. 
Stevens, Geo. G undrum , W. H. Keller,  F .  W. 
Fincher. 
N ext  place  of  m eeting—A t D etroit, Tuesday. 
October 13,1885.

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Grand Rapids  Pharmaceutical  Society.

O R G A N IZED   OCTOBER 9, 188«.

O F F IC E R S .

P resident—F rank J. W urzburg.
V ice-President—Chas. P. Bigelow.
Secretary—F ran k  H. Escott.
T reasu rer—H enry B. Fairchild.
Bige- i
Board of Censors—John Peck,  Chas.  I .
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low, Jas. S. Cowin. 
Board  of  T rustees—The  President,  W m.  II. 
V an Leeuwen, Isaac  W atts,  Wm.  E.  W hite, 
W m. L. W hite. 
Com m ittee on P h a rm a c y -H u g o  Thum ,  M.  B.
Kimm, A. C. Bauer. 
„
Com m ittee on Legislation—Isaac W atts,  O.  H.
Richmond, Jas. S. Cowin.
Committee on Trade  M atters—H. B. 1 airchild, 
Jo h n  Peck, Wm. H. VanLeeuw en.
R egular  M eetings—F irst  Thursday evening m  
each m onth.
A n n u a l  M eetings—F irst  T hursday evening in 
November,
N ext M eeting—T hursday evening, F ebruary 5, 
a t “The T radesm an” office.

_r

G ran d  R a p id s P h a rm a c e u tic a l S ociety.
The January meeting of the  Grand  Rap- 
ids Pharmaceutical Society was held at The 
T r a d e sm a n  office  last  Thursday  evening, 
the  following  gentlemen  feeing  in  attend­
ance: 
Frank  J.  Wurzburg,  John  Peck,
Geo. G. Steketee, M. B.  Kimm, O. H.  Rich­
mond, H. B. Fairchild, Wm. L. White, Wm. 
E. White, R. A. Schouten, G. W. llerendeen, 
Wm. H. VanLeeuwen,  II. E.  Locher, Theo. 
Kemink, Frank II. Escott, E. B. Curran and 
Lncas Schiphorst.  President Wurzburg pre­
sided,  and  Secretary  Escott  officiated  as 
scribe.  The  following  named  gentlemen 
were unanimously elected to membership in 
the Society:  Thos. A.  Baxter,  E.  B.  Cur­
ran, Chas. E. Escott, R,  Ado  Williams, and 
Blake Gibson.  Application for membership 
were received from the following gentlemen: 
Aaron Clark, John S.  Page,  Albert  Stone- 
honse  and Lucas Schiphorst.  After  an  in-1 
teresting discussion on matters  of  trade  in­
terest, the Society adjourned  to  meet  again i 
©n Thursday evening, February  5.

C rim in a l  N egligence.

From  th e C hristian  union.

Nothing, to the minds of careful people, is i 
so astonishing as the reckless way in  which 
some people care for the  necessary  poisons j 
which are kept in every  house. 
Instead  of ) 
these being in a separate closet, or even on a j 
seperate shelf,  from the simple remedies  in 
the  family  pharmacy,  they  stand  side  by i 
side,  in  bottles  of  similar shape, with  the 
most  harmless  drugs.  The  result  of  this 
method is that at  short  intervals  the  daily 
papers record verdicts of “accidental poison­
ing.”  Not long since,  a  woman  of  intelli­
gence and  position  took,  in  mistake  for  a 
mineral water which she was in the habit of 
taking each morning, a most deadly  poison, 
and  died  in  agony  in  a  few hours.  The 
poison had been put in  a  bottle  which  had 
formerly  contained  the  mineral  water.  A 
nurse gave a three months’-old baby corrosive 
sublimate for potash, and the baby died, after 
hours of intense suifering.  A mother gave a 
daughter carbolic acid for a medicine left  by 
a physician, and only by almost superhuman 
efforts was her life? saved. 
In all  the cases, 
the suffering and deaths were caused by  the 
criminal carelessness of the mother in allow­
ing poisons in places to which all of the fam­
ily had access.

Last week a woman took a paper of potash j 
for sugar from a closet, and put  it  into  the 
cups  of  coffee  for  her  family. * They  all 
drank enough of the coffee to  be  made seri­
ously ill.  “Mistakes  occur  in the  best-reg­
ulated families,” but no excuse can be  offer­
ed for the carelessness  that  allows  poisons 
iM places where they are of easy access. Give 
them a special place under lock and key.

VISITING BUYERS.

The following retail dealers  have  visited 
the market during the past week and placed 
orders with the various houses:
Holland & Tves, Rockford.
C. E. Blakeley,  Coopersville.
Blakeley Bros., F ife  Lake.
,  M. V. Wilson, Sand Lake.
D avid K. Boyer,  B rutus.
H. B aker & Sons, D renthe.
John J. Ely, Rockford.
Bela Borgm an, Muskegon.
T. S. Jordan, Elm ira.
E. C. Foote, W est Carlyle.
F. C, Selby, Volney.
D. S. Rankin, Now Era.
Geo. A. Sage, Rockford.
R obert Carlyle,  Rockford.
S. T. MeLellan, Denison.
J . W. B rookw alter, B urnip’s Corners.
N otier & Boven, G raafscliaps.
H. A. Crawford, Cadillac.
A. C. Adams, A shton.
H. M. Freem an, Lisbon.
B. M. Denison, E ast  Paris.
Geo. P. Stark, Cascade.
R. H. W ooden, Sparta.
J. W. B raginton,  Hopkins.
B. McNeal, Byron Center,
J. M. Reid, G rattan.
Wm. Black, Cedar Springs.
Roys Bros., Cedar Springs.
H enry DeKline, Jam estow n.
Geo. W. Sharer, Cedar  Springs.
Scoville & McAuley, Edgerton.
H. W. P otter, Jennisonville.
A ndre Bros., Jennisonville.
J. M. D am eron, Bangor.
G. B. Chambers,  W ayland,
A. & L. M. Wolf, Hudsonville.
D. H askel, Gerkey.
Geo. Reed, M ilton  Junction.
A. G. Chase & Son,  Ada,
Spring & Lindley, Bailey.
Paine & Field,  Englishville.
B arker & Lebnen, Blanchard.
C. F. Sears & Co., Rockford.
Slabberkoorn & Bro., Zeeland.
Sisson & Lilley, Lilley Siding.
Newaygo Mfg. Co., Newaygo.
Carrel & Fisher,  D orr.
M artinson & W hite, Carey.
Mrs. E. S. Quick, Howard City.
Mrs. M ary E. Snell, W ayland.
A. Sessions, W ayland.
M. M. Ross, Allegan.
A. D. Wood, Twin Lake.
J . Omler, W right.
C. E. & S. J. Koon.
W. S. B artrom  & Co., Bridgton.
W. H. Benedict,  Casnovia.
J. E. Zank,  G reenvile.
Geo. W atrous, W atrous & Lilly, Coopersville. 
Dud.  W atson,  W atson &  DeVoist,  Coopers­
Ja y  M arlatt, Berlin.
M. B. Nash, Sparta.
Geo. Stveens,  Alpine.
J. M. Crinnian, Lilleyr Junction.
H eyboer  Bros., D renthe.
John Cole, Frem ont.
Ed. S. Fitch, W ayland.
Jo sh u a Colby, Colby & Co.,  Rockford.
J . C. Scott, Lowell. 
C. W. A rm strong,  Middleville.
P. H. McG ban, Denver.
C. L. Bostwick, C. O. Bostwiek &  Son.
B aron & TenH oor, F orest Grove.
F ran k  N arrengang, Byron  Center.
M J. Howard, Englishville.
J. H. Moores, Moorestown.
W alter Shoem aker, Cannonsburg.
S. M. W right, Big Springs.
G. II. W albrink, A llendale.
N orm an H arris, Big Springs.
B. M. Denison, E ast Paris.
L. S. Ballard, L. S. & S. H. Ballard, Sparta.
J.  W.  Mead, Berlin.
Mr. W albrink, 1. J. Quick & Co., Allendale.
J. C. Benbow,  Cannonsburg.
(). F. & W. P. Conklin, Ravenna.
W.  S. Root, Tallm adge.
A. M. Church, Sparta.
Win.  McMullen, Wood Lake.
Jos.  H. Spires, Leroy.

ville.

,

B R O M ID E   O F  POTA SSIUM .

I t

P re v e n ts  Sea  Sickness,  R u t  S hould 

be

T ak en   W ith   C are.

From  th e Boston G azette.

One or two books  have  been  written  and 
have been well read by ocean travelers upon 
the use of bromide of potash as  a  preventa­
tive  of  sea-sickness.  The  drug  is  being 
largely  used  by  travelers,  who  commence 
dosing themselves  several  days  before  em­
barking on their ocean voyage; but it should 
be  used with greater caution than  has  been 
Jhe custom,  travelers  generally  having  the 
impression that it gives rise to no deleterious 
effects.  Most  people  can  take  very large 
doses of bromide without injury,  but  occas­
ionally, and there have been several cases re­
ported  of  late,  a  person  with  a  peculiar 
idiosyncrasy,  takes the  customary  doses of 
the drug,  and  upon  getting  shipboard  de­
velops the most disagreeable symstoms, such 
as stupor, dizziness, feeble  circulation,  and 
sometimes hallucination and delirium.  Nau­
sea,  vomiting  and  other  symptoms of sea­
generally 
sickness 
by 
large  doses  of  bromide, 
| taking 
symptoms  arising 
still 
its 
use 
accompanied 
severe, 
with  danger,  and, 
the  person 
has an exceptionally robust constitution, the 
drug should be taken with caution, and only 
in the smaller and medium-sized doses.

and 
unless 

are 
three 

avoided 

the 
are 

from 

W lia t K ille d  th e   D octor.

H ow  C ellu lo id  is M ade.

“1 see Dr. Blister is dead.”
“What did he die of?”
“He died of bilious fever.”
“I am surprised to  hear  that  because  lie 
boasted that he could cure any case of bilious 
fever.  1 know that he cured  me  of  bilious 
fever.”

it was upward of $300.

“IIow much did lie charge you?”
“He charged  me a fearful bill.  1 believe 

“Well, that explains why lie did not  cure 
himself.  He was a close  man,  and at those 
figures he couldn’t afford to cure himself.”

A roll of paper is slowly unwound  and at 
the same time saturated  with a mixture  of 
live parts of sulphuric acid and two of nitric, 
which falls on the paper in nice spray.  This 
changes the cellulose-of the paper into a fine 
pyroxyline  (gun cotton).  The excess of acid 
having been expelled by pressure, the paper 
is washed  with  plenty of  water, until  all 
traces of acid have been removed; it  is then 
reduced  to  pulp,  and  passed  on  to  the 
bleaching trough.  Most of the water having 
The use of  arsenic  is  alarmingly on  the 
been got  rid of by means  of  a strainer, the 
increase.  The researches of Dr. Draper, and 
pulp is mixed with  from 20 to 40 per  cent, 
Profs. Wood and Austen show that  it  is ex­
of its weight of  camphor, and  the  mixture
tensively employed in  wall  papers, textile, 
thoroughly triturated under millstones.  The I fabrics, writing and printing  paper, candles, 
accessary coloring matter  having  been add-  toys,  confectionery,  playing  cards,  theater 
ed in the form of powder, a second  mixture  tickets,  rubber  balloons  and  balls, sweat- 
and  grinding  follows.  The  finely-divived j  bands of hats, paper collars, and  bed  hang-
pulp is then  spread  out in thin  layers  on 
ings, and in amounts sufficient to cause sick­
slabs,  and  from  twelve to twenty-five  of 
ness and even death.  Prof.  Austen  recom­
these layers are placed in a hydraulic  press, 
mends a law prohibiting its use in all mater­
separated  from  one  another by  sheets of 
ials  consumed  or  employed  in the  house­
blotting paper, and are subjected  to  a  pres­
hold.
sure of 140  atmospheres, until all  traces of 
moisture have been got rid  of.  The  plates 
thus obtained  are broken up  and soaked for 
twenty-four hours in alcohol  The matter is 
then passed betwen rollers heated 140 to 150 
degrees  Fahrenheit,  whence it issues in the 
form of  elastic sheets.

President Cleveland is  very  lucky in tak­
ing office  just as a period  of  extraordinary 
commercial depression has  reached low wa- 
ter.mark.  The change of the tide is at hand 
and the flood  of  returning  prosperity  will 
add to the credit of  his  administration. 
It 
will tend to make him popular.-

T h e  D ru g   M a rk et.

Trade  is  rather  quiet.  Collections  are 
fair.  There is a further advance in bromides 
©f 8c. per pound.  Quinine is easier, but not 
quotably lower.  Opium  is  steady. 
Insect 
powder is still advancing in Europe and very 
high prices are looked  for the  coming  sea­
son.

Dr.  R. A. Schouter  has removed  his drug 
stock from the  corner  of  Wealthy  avenue 
and East street to the corner of South Divis­
ion street and Wenham avenue.

People who dislike to have their windows 
frosted in cold  weather, can  prevent  it by 
rubbing the glass inside  and  outside  with 
j glycerine.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT,

A dvanced—Bromide  potash,  oil  tanzy,  oil 
Declined—Oil cassia, oil  lemon, gum   opium, 

pepperm int, serp en tara root.
oil cubebs.

ACIDS.

Acetic, No.  8...................................... 
9  @  10
Acetic, C. P. (Sp. grav.  1.040).........  30  @  35
Carbolic...............................................  33  @  35
C itric.................................................... 
3  @  6
M uriatic 18  d e g ................................. 
11  @  J*
N itric 36 d eg ...................................... 
l->
O xalic..................................................   1414@ 
Sulphuric  66 deg ...............................  
3  @  4
T artaric  pow dered.......................... 
4«
Benzoic,  E nglish.....................$  oz 
18
Benzoic,  G erm an.............................   J"  &
T a n n ic.................................................   ^   @  15

@

15  @  18
_ 
•"
»  M
6  @  7

®

_  $
6
50

AMMONIA.

C arbonate...................................^  
M uriate (Powd. 22c).......................... 
A qua 16 deg o r  3 f.............................  
A qua 18 deg or  4 f.............................. 

BALSAMS.

C o p a ib a............................................... 
F ir ......................................................... 
P e ru ...................................................... 
T o lu ......................................................

BA RK S.

Cassia, in m ats (Pow’d 20c)............
Cinchona,  yellow ............................
Elm,  select.........................................
Elm, ground, p u re ............................
Elm, powdered,  p u re ......................
Sassafras, of ro o t.............................
Wild Cherry, select..........................
Bayberry  pow dered........................
Hem lock pow dered..........................
W a h o o .................................................
Soap  g ro u n d ......................................

B E R R IE S .

Cubeb,  prim e (Powd 60c)................ 
J u n ip e r...............................................   ®
50
P rickly A sh ......................................

@

EXTRACTS.

Licorice (10 and 25 fi> boxes, 25c)..
Licorice,  powdered, p u re ............
Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 ft doxes)
Logwood, Is (25 ft  boxes)..............
Lgowood, 54s 
..............
do 
do 
Logwood, ü s  
..............
Logwood, ass’d 
i $  cent, off list.
Fluid E x tracts-
FLO W ERS.

A rn ica...............................
Chamomile,  Rom an —  
Chamomile,  G erm an...

10  @  11

60@

Aloes,  B arbadoes........................
A loes,Cape (Powd  24c).  ................
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd  60e)..........
A m m oniac.........................................
Arabic, e x tra  select........................
A rabic, pow dered  select................
A rabic, 1st  picked............................
A rabic,2d  p ick ed .............................
Arabic,  3d picked.............................
A rabic, sifted so rts..............• .........
Assafoentida, prim e (Powd 35c)...
Benzoin...............................................
C am phor.........  .................................
Catechu. Is 04 14c, )4s  16c)............
Euphorbium  pow dered................... 
G albanum  strain ed ..........................
G am boge.............................................  
Guaiac, prim e (Powd  45c)..............
Kino [Pow dered, 30c].......................
M astic.................................................
M yrrh. T urkish  (Powdered  47c)...
Opium, pu re (Powd $5.75)................
Shellac, Campbell’s ..........................
Shellac,  E nglish...............................
Shellac,  n a tiv e ...................................
Shellac bleached...............................
T ra g a c a n th ........................................  «0  @

55@60 
18®  22
35®
90<©

H ERBS—IN   OUNCE  PACKAGES.

H o a rh o u n d ...................................
L obelia...........................................
P ep p erm in t...................................
R ue..........................; ......................
S p e a rm in t...................................
Sweet M ajoram ............................
Tanzy  .............................................
T h y m e ...........................................
W orm w ood...................................

IR O N .

C itrate and  Q uinine........................
Solution m ur., fo r  tin c tu re s.........
Sulphate, pure  c ry sta l...................
C itra te .................................................
Phosphate  ..........................................

LEAVES.

Buchu, short (Powd 25c).    ............   13
Sage, Italian, bulk ()4s & lAs, 12c)...
Senna,  Alex, n a tu ra l.......................  18
Senna, Alex, sifted and  g arb led ..
Senna,  pow dered............................
Senna tinnivelli.................................
U va  U rsi.............................................
Belledonna..........................................
Foxglove.............................................
H e n b a n e.............................................
Rose,  re d .............................................

LIQ U O R S.

W., D. & Co.’s Sour Mash W hisky.2  00
D ruggists’ F avorite  R ye................. 1 75
W hisky, o th er  b ran d s.......................1 10
Gin, Qld T om ....................................... 1 35
Gin,  H olland....................................... 2 00
B ra n d y ..................................................1 75
Catawba  W ines.................................. 1 25
P o rt W ines.......................*.................1  35

M AGNESIA.

Carbonate, P attiso n ’s, 2 oz............
Carbonate, Jen n in g ’s, 2 oz..............
Citrate, H., P. & Co.’s  solution —
Calcined...............................................

..30

6  40 
20
80

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

37

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@  19)4 

45  @  50 
Almond, sw eet............................
45 
Am ber,  rectified........................
2  CO 
A nise....................................................
50 
Bay $   o z...........................................
2  00 
B ergam ont..........................................
C a sto r..................................................   18
2 00
C roton..................................................
75
C a ie p u t............................................... 
1  00
C a ssia..................................................  
Cedar, com m ercial (Pure 75c).........  
35
75
C itro n ella.......................................... 
C loves..................................................  
1  15
5  00
Cubebs, P. &  W ................................. 
E rig e ro n .............................................  
1  60
F ire w eed................................  
2  00
G eranium   $   o z................................. 
75
35
Hemlock, com m ercial (Pure 75c).. 
Ju n ip e r  wood....................................  
50
3  00
Ju n ip e r  b erries................................. 
2  01
Lavender flowers, F re n ch .............. 
Lavender garden  do 
100
................. 
90
Lavender spike 
................. 
do 
Lemon, new  c ro p .............................  
1  40
Lemon,  Sanderson’s ........................  
1  50
80
L em ongrass........................................ 
1 25
O riganum , red  flowers, F re n ch ... 
50
Origanum ,  No. 1.............................. 
}  49
P e n n y ro y a l........................................ 
P epperm int,  w h ite.......................... 
3  35
8  50
Rose  $   oz...........................................  
66
Rosem ary, F rench  (Flowers $ 1  50) 
Sandal  Wood. G erm an...................  
4  50
andal Wood,  W. 1.............................  
7  00
S assafras.............................................  
80
T a n s y ..................................................5  00  @5  50
T ar (by gal 50c)...................................  10  ®   12
W in terg reen ................................... 
2  20
W ormwood, No. 1 (Pure $5.50)....... 
4  00
S avin....................................................  
1 00
2 50
W o rm seed.......................................... 
Cod Liver, filte re d ..........   •  . $  gal 
1  50
3 50
Cod Liver, b e st.......................... 
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16 
6  00
Olive, M alaga..................... 
@1  20
Olive, “ Sublim e  I t a l i a n ...............  
2 75
S a la d ............................... : ..................   65  ®   67
Rose,  lhm sen’s ........................ $  oz 
9 75

POTASSIUM.

B ierom ate:................................. $  ft 
Bromide, cryst. and  gran. b u lk ... 
Chlorate, cry st (Powd 23c).............. 
Iodide, cryst. and  gran, b u lk ....... 
P russiate yellow ...............................  

, 

ROOTS.

14
34
19
2  90
28

 

20
A lk a n e t............................................... 
25
A lthea, c u t.......................................... 
17
Arrow ,  St. V incent’s ....................... 
Arrow , T aylor’s, in )4s and lA s__  
33
12
Blood (Powd 18c)............................... 
Calamus,  peeled...............................  
18
35
Calamus, G erm an  w hite, p eeled .. 
Elecam pane, pow dered...................  
20
10
G entian (Powd  15c).......................... 
Ginger, A frican (Powd 16c)............   13  @  14
Ginger, Jam aica  bleached............ 
17
Golden Seal (Powd 30e)...................  
25
H ellebore, w hite, pow dered..........  
18
Ipecac, Rio, pow dered..................... 
1  10
35
Jalap,  pow dered...............................  
Licorice,  select (Powd 1214)......... 
12
Licorice, e x tra  select....................... 
15
P ink, tr u e ............................................ 
35
Rhei, from  select to   choice.......... 1  00  @1  50
Rhei, powdered E. 1..........................110  @1  20
Rhei, choice c u t  cu b es...................  
2  00
Rhei, choice c u t  fingers.................  
2  25

SEEDS.

S erp en taria................. ...............
S on ek a....................................
Sarsaparilla,  H o n d u ras................
Sarsaparilla,  M exican.....................
Squills, w hite (Powd  35c)...............
V alerian, English (Powd 30c).........
V alerian, V erm ont (Powd 28c)...

80
40
18
13
25
20
15
Anise, Italian  (Powd 20c)...............
5  @ 6
Bird, mixed in ft  packages.......
4  @ 4)4
Canary,  S m yrna...................
Caraway, best D utch (Powd  19c).. 11  @ 12
Cardamon,  A leppee............... .......
00
Cardamon, M alabar........................
2 25
C elery..................................................
20
Coriander,  nest  E nglish.................
10
F e n n e l................
15
Flax,  clean.......................................... 
Flax, p u re grd (bbl  3)4)................... 
Foenugreek, pow dered................... 
Hemp,  R ussian................................. 
M ustard, w hite  Black  10c)............  
Q u in c e ................................................  
Rape, E nglish.................................... 
Worm,  L ev an t................................... 

33£@
4  @  454
7  @  8
5  @  6
75
6  @  7
14

, 8

SPONGES.

Florida sheeps’wool, carriag e.......2 25  @2 50
 
Nassau 
2  00
do 
do 
1  10
 
V elvet E x tra do 
do 
E x tra Yellow do 
do 
85
........ 
dc 
Grass 
do 
65
........ 
H ard head, fo r slate u se .................  
75
Yellow Reef, 
.................  
1  40

 
 

do 
M ISCELLANEUS.

 

 

 

do 
do 
do 

do 
do 

2 28
Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.18) $  g a l.... 
1 25
Alcohol, wood, 95 per cen t ex. ref. 
Anodyne  H offm an’s ........................  
50
27
Arsenic, Donovan’s solution......... 
Arsenic, Fow ler’s Solution............  
12
45
A nnatto  1 ft ro lls........................... 
2)4®  3)i
A lum ...........................................   ^  ft 
3  @  4
Alum, ground  (Powd 9c)................ 
45
A nnatto,  p rim e ................................ 
5
4)4@ 
A ntim ony, powdered,  com ’l ......... 
6  @  7
Arsenic, w hite, pow dered.............. 
Blue  Soluble.  ................................... 
50
2  75
Bay  Rum, im ported, b e st..............  
2  00
Bay Rum , dom estic, H., P. & Co.’s . 
Balm Gilead  B uds............................ 
40
Beans,  T onka....................................  
2  00
Beans,  V anilla...................................7  00  @9  75
Bism uth, sub  n itra te ......................  
1  50
50
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c)........................  
Blue V itriol  ......................................  
6  @  7
Borax, refined (Powd  13c).............. 
12
2 00
Cantharides, Russian  pow dered.. 
18
Capsicum  Pods, A frica n ................ 
Capsicum Pods, A frican  pow’d ... 
22
Capsicum PodB,  Bom bay 
do  ... 
18
Carmine,  No. 40 ................................. 
4  00
12
Cassia  B uds........................................ 
Calomel.  A m erican.......................... 
75
5
Chalk, prepared d ro p ....................... 
13
Chalk, p recip itate E nglish............  
Chalk,  red  fingers............................ 
8
2
Chalk, w hite lu m p ............................ 
Chloroform ,  Squibb’s ..................... 
1  60
Colocynth  apples.............................. 
60
Chloral hydrate, G erm an  c ru sts.. 
1 50
1 70
c ry st... 
Chloral 
Chloral 
190
Scherin’s  do  ... 
Chloral 
c ru sts.. 
1 75
C h loroform ........................ , .............  ,85  @  90
Cinchonidia, P. &  W .........*.............  40  @  45
Cinchonidia, o ther b ran d s..............  40  @  45
Cloves (Powd  23c).............................   18  @  20
C ochineal...........................................  
40
45
Cocoa  B u tte r......................... 
 
Copperas (by bbl  lc )........................  
2
Corrosive Sublim ate........................  
70
Corks, X  and X X —40 off  lis t.........
Cream T artar, p u re pow dered.......  38  @  40
Cream T artar, grocer’s, 10 ft b o x .. 
15
C reasote............................................... 
50
24
Cudbear,  p rim e ................................ 
Cuttle Fish B one__ .......................... 
24
12
D ex trin e.............................................  
1  10
Dover’s  P ow ders.............................. 
50
D ragon’s Blood M ass....................... 
45
E rgot  pow dered................................ 
E th e r Squibb’s ................................... 
110
Em ery, T urkish, all  No.’s .............. 
8
2  @  3
Epsom S alts........................................ 
E rgot, fre sh ........................................ 
50
60
E ther, sulphuric, U. S.  P ................ 
Flake  w h ite........................................  
14
G rains  P arad ise................. 
25
Gelatine,  Cooper’s ............................ 
90
Gelatine, French  ...  .......................  45  @  70
Glassware, flint, 7 ) off,by box 60off 
Glassware, green, 60  and 10 d is...
17 
Glue,  c a b in et...................................
28 
G lue,w hite........................................
Glycerine,  p u re ...............................
20 
40 
Hops  54s and J4s..............................
40
Iodoform  $   oz.................................
85  @1  00 
In d ig o .................................................
30  @  35
Insect. Powder, best  D alm atian ..
4  00
Iodine,  resublim ed.......................... 
Isinglass,  A m erican....................  
1  50
 
8
Ja p o n ic a .............................................  
London  P u rp le .................................  10  @  15
Lead, a c e ta te......................................  
15
8
Lime, chloride, (54s 2s 10c & 54s 11c) 
L u p u lin e......................................... 
1  00
L ycopodium ......................................  
50
M ace....................................................  
50
1254®  13
Madder, best  D u tch ..................... . 
M anna, S.  F ........................................ 
75
M ercury.......... .................................... 
60
Morphia, sulph., P. & W.........^  oz  3  00@3  25
Musk, Canton, H., P. &  Co.’s ......... 
40
10
Moss, Icelan d ............................. ft 
Moss,  Iris h .................................... ’.. 
12
M ustard,  E nglish.............................  
30
M ustard, grocer’s, 10 ft  c a n s......... 
18
23
N utgalls............................................... 
60
N utm egs, No. 1................................... 
N ux  V om ica......................................  
10
45
O intm ent. M ercurial, )4d................ 
Pepper, Black  B e rry ....................... 
18
P ep sin ...................................................... 
2  50
P itch, T rue B u rgundy..................... 
7
Quassia  ............................................... 
7
Quinia, Sulph, P. & W ............ft ozl  05  @110
Quinine,  G erm an............................. 1  00  @1  05
Red  P re c ip ita te ....................... $  ft
ou
Seidlitz  M ixture...............................
1 40
Strychnia, c ry st.................................
80
Silver N itrate, c ry st.....................
35
Saffron, A m erican............................
Sal  G lauber........................................
10
Sal N itre, large  c ry st.......................
9QQ
Sal  N itre, m edium   c ry st................
ÜO
Sal Rochelle........................................
Sal  Soda...............................................
254
Salicin..................................................  
S a n to n in ............................................. 
Snuffs, Maccoboy o r Scotch..........
Soda Ash  [by keg 3c]......................
Sperm aceti..........................................
Soda, Bi-Carbonate,  DeLand’s __ 
Soap, W hite C astile..........................
........................
Soap, G reen  do 
Soap, M ottled do 
..........................
Soap, 
do 
..........................
Soap,  M azzini....................................
Spirits N itre, 3 F ...............................   26  @
Spirits N itre, 4 F ...............................   30  @
Sugar Milk pow dered......................
Sulphur, flour..................................... 
3)4@
Sulphur,  ro ll......................................  
3®
T artar E m etic....................................
Tar, N. C.  Pine, Vi gal. cans  $ doz
Tar, 
q u arts in tin ..........
Tar, 
pints in tin ..............
T urpentine,  V enice.................$ ft
Wax, W hite, S. &  F. b ran d ............
Zinc,  S u lp h ate...................................

2  70
1  40
85
25
55
7  @  8

@
2
6

6  @ 

do 
do 

4)4®

25®

do 

@

@

 

O ILS.

Capitol  Cylinder................................... ................75
................60
Model  Cylinder....................................
Shields  Cylinder................................... ................50
................45
Eldorado E ngine..................................
Peerless  M achinery..............................................35
Challenge M achinery............................................25
Backus Fine E ngine............................................... 30 j
Black Diam ond M achinery................................. 30
Castor M achine  O il.................................................6C |
Paraffine, 25  d eg.....................................................22
Paraffine, 28  d eg .....................................................21
.1  40 
S perm ,w inter  bleached..
Gal
Bbl
Whale, w in ter........................................  70 
75
Lard, e x tra .............................................  64 
75
65
Lard, No.  1.............................................   55 
Linseed, p u re  ra w ..............................   50 
53
56
Linseed, b o ile d ....................................   53 
N eat’s Foot, winder  strain ed .......... 
70 
90
Spirits T u rp en tin e...............................   36 
40

V A RN ISH ES.

P A IN TS.

No. 1 T urp  C oach.................................... 1  10@1  20
E x tra   T u rp ...............................................1  60@1  70
Coach  B ody..............................................2  75@3  00
No. 1 T urp F u rn itu re ............................. 1  00@110
E x tra T urp  D am ar.................................1  55@1  60
Jap an  D ryer, No.  1 T u rp .......................  70®  75
Lb
2® 3
2@ 3
2® 3
254@ 3
334® 3
13@16
60@65
16@17
534
534
®70
@90
110
1  40

Bbl 
Red  V enetian.............................   134 
Ochre, yellow  M arseilles.........  134 
Ochre, yellow  B erm uda...........  134 
P u tty , co m m ercial...................  254 
P u tty , strictly p u re ...................  354 
V erm ilion,prim e  A m erican.. 
Verm ilion,  E nglish...................  
Green, P en in su lar..................... 
Lead, red  strictly  p u re ............  
Lead, w hite, strictly  p u re ....... 
W hiting, w hite  Spanish........... 
W hiting,  G ild e rs\..................... 
W hite, P aris A m erican............  
W hiting  P aris English cliff.. 

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HAZELTINE,

W holesale

Druggists !

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

95  Louis  Street.

T ak es a B rig h te r V iew   o f  th e  S itu atio n .

G r a n d   R a p id s ,  Ja n .  12,1885. 

To the Editor of “The Tradesm an.”

D e a r   Sir—In  an  article  in  Sunday’s 
Democrat Mr. Keasey, traveling  agent  for 
Bell, Conrad & Co., of Chicago,  seems to be 
laboring under a  severe attack of “blues,”— 
“has ’em bad,” in fact and  is entitled  to the 
sympathies of Grand Rapids men  generally.
Now,  while business is  somewhat  dull, I 
think it might be much worse.  As far  as  I 
am personally  concerned—and the  same is 
true of nearly all the grocerymen who go out 
of this market—my trade is on the gain, and 
is better  than  it  was a year  ago.  Chicago 
houses labor under disadvantages in this sec­
tion.  Our home  dealers  are  getting  tlieir 
eyes opened, and now, instead of running to 
Chicago for everything, they  find  they  can 
do  better  here.  And  the  consequence is, 
Chicago men are “slipping  tlieir  grip” and 
must look up new territory.  Mr.  Keasey is 
probably no more unfortunate than  the ma­
jority of them.  Under  the  circumstances, 
we think our home  houses will  be  fully as 
likely to pull through as our Chicago  neigh­
bors.

I11 the meantime unless Mr. Keasey’s mala­
dy improves, 1 would recommend him to call 
on Brother Fairchild  and  invest  in a bottle 
of soothing syrup. 

Respectfully,

T r a v e l e r .

IMPORTERS  AND  JOBBERS  OF

D ris,l8iis,G tieic 
Paints, Oils, Yarnisles, 
and  Druggist’s 
Glassware.

MANUFACTURERS  OF
PHARMACEUTICAL  PREPARATIONS, 

ELEGANT 

FLUID  EXTRACTS  AND  ELIXIRS.

GENERAL  WHOLESALE  AGENTS  FOR

W o l f,  P a t t o n  & Co.,  a n d  J o h n  L. W h it ­

in g ,  M a n u f a c t u r e r s  o f  F in e  

P a in t   a n d   Y a r n is h  

B r u sh e s.

—Also fo r the—

Gr a n d   R a p id s   B r u sh   C o.,  M a n f ’r s  o f 

H a ir , Sh o e a n d   H o r se  B r u s h e s.

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- 
glisli Tooth and Nail  Brushes  at  attractive 
prices.

We  desire  particular  attention  of  those 
about purchasing o u t f it s  for  n e w   sto res 
to the fact  of  our  unsurpassed  facilities 
for meeting the wants of this class of buyers 
without delay and in the most approved and 
acceptable manner known to the drug trade. 
Our  special efforts in this direction have  re­
ceived from hundreds of  our  customers  the 
most satisfying recommendations.

T h e  G rip sack   B rig ad e.

W. S. Barnett, of the Peninsular Stove Co., 
j  left Monday for  a  trip  through  Wisconsin 
and Minnesota.

Dick  Savage  is  traveling  for  Hartman, 
Clark & Triggs, fish jobbers at Chicago, cov- 

1 I ei'ing Michigan and adjoining states.

Charley Robinson is said to be very partial 
I to clams, and one of Ms  favorite  diversions 
is to stand on his head in  a  basket  full  of 
the bivalves.

A. E. Brownell,  general  traveling  repre­
sentative  for  the  American  Cigar  Co.,  at 
l Coldwater,  paid  his  respects  to the Grand 
I Rapids trade last week.
(  Frank Collins, formerly  with  John  Caul- 
i field, has engaged  with Z. E. Allen,  taking 
| Wisconsin and several other western  states. 
He left for Chicago Monday night.

Peter Lankaster, for  the  past  two  years 
j traveling agent for Judd & Co., has engaged 
with  Hawkins  A  Perry  to  take  the  city 
trade and cover the Holland colony.

C. C.  Tuxbury, who has represented E. T. 
Brown & Co. at Sparta the  past  season, has 
engaged to travel with Lawrence &  Chapin, 
proprietors of the Kalamazoo Iron Works.

S.  J.  Gottlieb,  formerly  with  Senour  & 
Gedge,  of  Covington,  has  accepted  the 
agency in this State for the goods of the Ken­
tucky Railroad Tobacco  Co.,  of  Covington, 
and will make Grand  Rapids his  headquar­
ters.

Wallace  FranklinJlrnsZsignetl  with  Fair­
banks,  Morse  & Co., for another year, 'cov- 
| ering the entire State the samejislieretofore. 
j He recently sold W. W. Cummer  a 35 horse 
power Westinghouse engine, to run a  blow­
ing fan in his planing  mill  at  Cadillac  and 
| electric lighting at his own residence.

Traveling  salesmen  who  started  out  a 
few weeks ago  and  found  things  so  quiet 
that  it was almost useless to make efforts- at 
selling goods,  have  since then met with bet­
ter success, and now return with reports, not 
of active  sales and large orders, but of mod­
erately good business  and very much  better 
prospects.  While there is  no  good  reason 
for  anticipating  any  immediate  boom  in 
trade,  there is yet every reason for feeling a 
reasonable degree of  encouragement at  the 
prospect.

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  ave  the  only  authorized  agents 
for the sale of the celebrated

^
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f c M f c ' S

Henderson  Co.,  Ky.,  SOUR  MASII  AND 
OLD FASHIONED  HAND  MADE,  COP- 
FEE  DISTILLED  WHISKYS.  We  not 
only offer these goods to be  excelled  by  no 
o t h e r   k n o w n   b r a n d   in  the  market,  but 
superior in all respects to most that  are  ex­
posed  for  sale.  We  g u a r a n t e e   perfect 
and  complete  satisfaction  and  where  this 
brand of goods has once been introduced the 
future trade lias  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

Gins, Branflies & Fine Wines.

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

Mail orders always receive our special and 

personal attention.

H M . T I E P i m U C O

T he Neiv O rlean s E x en rsio n .

The excursion  committee  of  the  'Grand 
Rapids traveling men  met  according to ap­
pointment Saturday evening and  decided to 
get up an excursion to  New  Orleans  some­
time next month, providing  satisfactory  ar­
rangements can be made  with  the  railway 
companies.  Stephen Sears was authorized to 
apuroach the local  railway  officials, with a 
view to determining what  rates  and  routes 
can be obtained, and  report at a  meeting of 
the committee on Saturday  evening  of  the 
present  week.  Full  announcement of  the 
committee’s action in the matter will be made 
in T h e   T r a d e s m a n  next week.

A u O p p o rtm iity  fo r R epose.

A well-known traveler recently  retired at 
a certain hotel in a  northern  town,  leaving 
word  that he was to  be  called for an early 
train.

In   the  m orning  he  w as  aroused  from   a 
sw eet  sleep by  th e p o rter  knocking  vehem ­
ently a t the door,  W hereupon  lie a sk e d :

“Who’s there?”
“Are you the gentleman  who  was  to  be 

called for tlie 5:15 train?”

“Yes.  All right.”
“Then you can go  to sleep  again sir;  the 

train’s gone!”

I ’u re ly   P e rso n a l.

Ladd J. Lewis, manager of the Huntley & 
Babcock Manufacturing Co., at  Utica, spent 
several days visiting friends  here  the  past 
week.

M. C. Russell and wife were called to Bat­
tle Creek last  week  by  the  death  of  Mr. 
Russell’s sister, Mrs. II. M. Kenyon of Mon­
terey.  *

Thos. M.  Freeman,  the  well-known  mer­
chandise broker, has removed his office from 
the basement of the Sweet’s Hotel  block  to 
the Randall block, occupying a portion of D. 
P. Clay’s  office.

The smiling face of J.  A.  Henry,  one  of 
the members of the oyster packing  house of 
J. L. Ellis & Co., of Baltimore, was in  town 
a couple of days last week, the guest  of  the 
firm’s representative, Frank Emery.  Apro­
pos of his visit, it is  stated  that  the  hohse 
will establish a jobbing branch  at  this  mar­
ket another season.

/

The Washington monument will  not long 
enjoy its pre-eminence as the  highest  struc­
ture in the world.  An iron  tower of the as­
tonishing hight of  1,000 feet is to be erected 
in the grouuds of the  French  Exhibition  in 
1889.  An  elevator, the  safety of which is 
guaranteed, will communicate with the sum­
mit, and visitors to the  exhibition  will en­
joy an almost uninterrupted view for nearly 
a hundred miles all round.  The tower  will 
also be utilized for astronomical and meteor­
ological observations, for experiments  in op­
tic signaling, for the investigation of  certain 
problems in  experimental  physics  and  for 
various other scientific purposes.

A huge lemon was recently picked at Pan- 
asoffkee, Fla. 
It measured 24  inches in cir­
cumference one way,  22  inches  the  other, 
and  weighed 
four  pounds  and  thirteen 
ounces.

The Strobridge Lithographing Co., of Cin­
cinnati  have issued a handsome colored  cal­
endar, which is  even  an  improvement  over 
those of previous years.

No trade paper  contains  more  practical 
original articles than T h e  T r a d e s m a n ,  and 
none give more  reading at so low a rate  of 
subscription.

Good  W o rd s  U n solicited.

M. S. Burdge, grocer,  P o rt  S herm an:

‘T he

T r  a d e s m a n  is  a  g o o d  p a p e r .”

Chas.  B urm eister,  grocer,  F ra n k fo rt: 

“I 
th in k  T h e  T r a d e s m a n  is one  of  the  new siest 
trad e jo u rn als I have ev er ta k e n .”

J .  B. K etchum , general dealer,  F rem ont:  “I 
do n o t w ish to  flatter you, h u t it is th e  best pa­
p er (to m y notion) fo r a m an in  general  trad e 
th a t ev er cam e u n der m y observation.” 

Osborne Bros., grocers, K ,eelerville:  “E very 
num ber of T h e  T r a d e s m a n  has  som e  article 
m ore valuable fo r  inform ation  contained  fo r 
grocers,  th a n   the  price  of subscription.  We 
would not be  w ithout th e  p ap er.”

DISSOLUTION  NOTICE.
Gr a n d  R a p i d s , M i c h ., Ja n . 1,1885.

N otice is Hereby given th a t  th e  partnership 
heretofore existing betw een th e  undersigned, 
which has been  carry in g   on  th e  commission 
business a t M uskegon, Mich., u n d er  th e  nam e 
of O rcutt & Co., has expired by lim itation.  The 
business will be continued h e re a fte r by F rank 
L.  O rcutt,  of  M uskegon,  Mich.,  w ho  will  be 
pleased to hear from  all ou r old  custom ers  of­
ten . 

O r c u t t  & Co.

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WEDNESDAY,  JANUARY  14,  1885.

MODEST  MEN.

Town.

A n u u a l Reunion  of  Travelers  at  an  Ohio 
A Mansfield, Ohio,  correspondent  writes 
as follows of a  meeting of  travelers  which 
recently occurred at that  place:

Over a  hundred  modest  drummers, head­
ed by their late candidate for President, Mr. 
Joseph  Mulhattan,  skipped  fantastically 
around in Bleecker  Hall  this  evening. 
It 
was the sixth annual  soiree  of the Commer­
cial Travelers’ Reunion  Association.

The  Western  Reserve  has  not  been  in 
such a flutter since Mr. Blaine was here. All 
the pretty girls for miles around came to see 
the drummers. 
In spite of the horrible rep­
utation of that clings to  the  fraternity  the 
beautie^of the  place refused to be  locked in 
their rooms, as many  stem  parents desired.
The finest dinner that could be  dished up 
was served to about one  hundred  and  fifty 
travelers  and  their  friends.  After  tooth­
picks had been passed around, the President, 
Mr. Mulhattan,  arose  to  answer  the  toast: 
“Why Mulhattan was not elected  President 
of the United States.”  He said in effect:

“I was not  elected  because I did  not  get 
enough  electoral  votes.  The  fact is, I did 
not get one, but 1  wouldn’t  care  to  have it 
go any further than  this assemblage. 
I tell 
you truly, though, we had the best  platform 
of any party, but 1 was early convinced that 
I was too  good a man  to  be  elected.  The 
contest soon became  narrowed  down  to the 
two worst pills in the box,  so  I  withdrew, 
not caring much  who  won.  Believe  me, I 
am very grateful  for  the  seven  votes  I re­
ceived in the United  States, and  what  was 
especially gratifying was the receipt of three 
votes  in  Canada.  Thanks,  dear  friends, 
thanks.”

It was  unanimously decided  to  renomin­
ate Mr. Mulhattan  for  the  Presidency  in 
1888, and keep on renominating  him till  he 
carries the election.

Mr. L. H.  Wales, of  New  York,  gave  a 
few reasons why drummers should be thank­
ful: 
“Because  Thanksgiving  comes  but 
once a year because  trade is dull and  work 
light; because  we  cannot  live  always; be­
cause we are not in jail.”

“Our mothers, wives,  babies  and  sweet­
hearts,” was the  pleasant  toast  that  fell to 
Mr. W. H. Donlevy, of Philadelphia.

“Somebody Else’s Wife,” “Our  Patrons, 
“Extra Baggage,” “Pool for Drinks,” “Three 
Seconds for  Refreshments,”  “Samples” and 
“Wake Me Early,  Porter,  Dear,”  were  the 
other toasts.

Nobody, to look at  the  drummers  assem­
bled, would have supposed  that  business is 
dull.  A finer-dressed body of men could not 
be found this side of the  New York  Board 
of Aldermen.  The United  States Senate or 
the House of Representatives are  Ragmen’s 
Conventions in comparison.  Electric  lights 
flashed from the collar  buttons of  the  dis­
tinguished men, and elegant  vests  showed 
off to advantage the  athletic  forms of  the 
delegates.

The ball room  was  early  filled  with  the 
beauty of Northern Ohio.  There were young 
ladies in  plenty to  supply  each  drummer 
with  three  partners.  After  the  travelers 
had finished all the wine  prepared  for  the 
occasion, they went to  the ball  room.  The 
leading social people of the city  were  there 
waiting for the  petted  guests.  Three  hun- 
dred invitations had been issued and of these 
fully five hundred attended the ball.

Mr. Mulhattan, the Lispenard  Stewart of 
the West, led the German with the  Mayor’s 
fair daughter.  Among the finest  dancers of 
the drummers were Mr. Spinney, dry goods; 
Mr. Emery, hosiery;  Mr. Dalton,  oils;  Mr. 
-Hoffman, fish; and Mr. Glover, pumps.  The 
ladies were all adepts and the Eastern drum­
mers affected surprise  at  finding  so  much 
grace outside of Boston and New York.

While the ball was at its  hight,  the  mer­
chants of the surrounding towns were shown 
goods in an ante-room.  The  drummers, ev­
er with an eye  to  business,  brought  their 
trunks and  sample-cases  to  the  hall.  So 
-many quadrilles  were  broken up by the de­
sertion of the drummers at critical moments 
that the young ladies became indignant at be­
ing treated as secondary matter and and they 
threatened to desert, and it took  all the per­
suasive powers of the commercial men to re­
tain them.

For all that the girls of  Ohio  think  that 
there is no such set of men as the drumming 
fraternity.  The  pleasure  of  the  occasion 
was much  hightened  by  the  elopement of 
a New York traveler  with  the  belle of the 
village. 
If the drummers had  only said the 
word they might have eloped with' the hall- 
full of girls. 

,,

“Why do you  wear  your  beard  mutton- 
chops?” was asked a commercial traveler by 
a friend.  “Because,” was the philosophical 
reply, “in the first place,  it hides my  cheek, 
and, in the second place,  it  gives  my  chin 
full play.

The  length  of  new  railway  track  con­
structed in 1884,  according  to  the  Railway 
Age, was a little less than 4,000 miles, being 
3,600 less than in 1883, and 7,600  under  the 
figure of the great year 1882.

The Detroit Paper Co. will start a  branch 

at Port Huon.

PENCIL  PORTRAITS—NO.  36.

Albert  C.  Antrim,  One  of the  Veterans  in 

the  Harness.

A. C. Antrim was born in New York City 
the last day of the year  1833.  He  attended 
school in the  metropolis,  graduating  at  the 
Fally school at Croton, N. Y., in 1852, when 
he  came to Grand Rapids as the  representa­
tive  of  an  extensive  Eastern  machinery 
house,  making  this  city  his  headquarters 
and  selling  mill  machinery  and  supplies I 
throughout the State.  Two  years  .later  he 
made an engagement with the  then  firm  of 
Montague, Ferry &  Co.,  proprietors  of  the 
Ferrysburg Iron  Works, to represent that es­
tablishment in the South, with  headquarters 
at Jackson, Miss.  In 1857, his health failed, 
and he spent a couple of years  in  the  Lake 
Superior  iron  region,  at  the end  of  which 
time he had completely recovered.  In the fall 
of 1859, he engaged with the then firm of Mer- 
ryfield & Dumphy, one of the  pioneer  cigar 
manufacturing firms of the city, covering the 
Michigan trade.  From 1860 to 1862, he sold 
the goods of the Essex Rubber  Co.,  of  Bos­
ton, on his own account,  when  he  engaged 
in the patent  medicine  business,  which  he 
carried on three years,tcovering about a doz­
en states. 
Ill health compelled  him  to  lay 
idle for about a year and a half, when he en­
gaged with C. B. Allyn, who  was  then  en­
gaged in the business of manufacturing mer­
chant’s invoicers, visiting  the  trade  in  the 
Eastern, Western and  Southern  States. 
In 
1872, he accepted a position with the  Grand 
Rapids File Works,  covering  Michigan,  In­
diana and Wisconsin for five years, when he 
engaged in Eaton, Lyon & Allen,  represent­
ing that house in Northern  Michigan.  Sev­
ering  his  connection  with  that firm a year 
later, he went on the road with a line of files 
on his own account, covering the same states 
as when in the employ of the Grand  Rapids 
File Works.  J anuary 1,1881, he engaged to 
travel for the Alabastine  Co.,  taking as  his 
territory  the  Gulf  and Atlantic States,  the 
West and Northwest.  January 1,  1885,  he 
became  identified  with  the  Church Finish 
Co., and during the present year he will visit 
the entire jobbing trade of the country.

When asked to state the reasons to  which 
he attributed his success as  a salesman,  Mr. 
Antrim summarized them as follows:  “Not 
being in a  hurry;  fairly good  judge  of  hu­
man  nature;  remembering  that  honey  at­
tracts more flies than vinegar;  that  it  costs 
nothing  to  be  a  gentleman,  and  that  the 
average salesman rarely finds a  dealer  who 
will not return the courtesy, provided  he  is 
approached at  the  proper  time  and  in  the 
proper  way.”  And  to  the above cardinal 
principles of success may be  added  sterling 
honesty,  untiring  energy  and  unswerving 
persistance, all of which virtues Mr. Antrim 
possesses to an unusual  degree.  These  at­
tributes, coupled with a manly  bearing  and 
a dignified conversational  manner,  serve  to 
mark the man as an exceptional character.

Struck  the  Wrong  Man.

A certain boot and shoe traveler approach­
ed a stranger, as the train was about to start 
from the Union depot a day or two ago, and 
said:

“Are you going on this  train?”
“I am.”
“Have you any baggage?”
“No.”
“Well, my friend, you can do me a  favor, 
and it won’t  cost  you  anything.  You  see, 
I’ve two rousing big trunks, and they always 
make me pay extra for  one  of  them.  You 
can get one checked on your ticket and we’ll 
euchre them.  See?”

“Yes, I see, but I haven’t any ticket.”
“But I thought you said  you  were  going 

on this train.”

I’m the conductor.”

“So I am. 
“Oh!”
lie paid extra, as usual.

Hound  to  Sell.

When a drummer has made up liis mind to 
sell a merchant goods,  the  merchant  might 
as well make up his  mind  to  buy.  A  Big 
Rapids merchant refused to  buy any whisky 
from a  certain  liquor  drummer.  “It’s  not 
worth  while  showing  me  your  samples,” 
said  the  merchant,  in  a  very  determined 
manner;  “I have no cellar to store any wine, 
even  if  I  wanted  to buy.”  The drummer 
put up his samples  and  disappeared.  Half 
an hour afterwards, he burst  into  the  mer 
chant’s counting-room, his face radiant  with 
joy.  “Allow me to congratulate you.  Every­
“What’s  arranged?” 
thing  is  arranged.” 
“All about the  cellar. 
I  Jjave  hunted  you 
up a cellar,  and  rented  it  for  you  at  $40  a 
month.”

Unclaimed  Funds.

There is said to  be  about  $40,000,000  in 
the United States Treasury due  people  who 
do not call for it, because they do not  know 
it is there, or have lost the evidence of  their 
claims.  The Government pays  this  money 
over when  the  right  persons  appears  with 
evidence  of  hi8  claims, but does not  assist 
claimants in making out a case.

The  London  Telegraph  has  purchased  a 
very large tract of land in the  Mojave  Des­
ert and will utilize the yucca plant, or Span­
ish bayonet, as  material  for  paper-making, 
instead of wood pulp, heretofore used.  The 
land has been  purchased  outright,  and  the 
yucca plant will be taken to  some  point  on 
the Colorado river, there to  be  ground  into 
pulp, thence by rail to New Orleans, whence 
it will be shipped to Liverpool.  The  yucca 
plant  is  what  Is  commonly  known as the 
Spanish  bayonet. 
Experiments  hitherto 
made have shown  that  the  manufacture  of 
paper from this plant can be carried on  suc­
cessfully.

Geo.  E.  Taylor  will  engage  in  the  book 

and stationery business at Newaygo.

BOARDS.- D
DLinderm an’s

OVE-TAILED  BREAD  AN 

The Best Thing of the Kind Ever Invented.

WESTERN  MEDICINE  CO.’S  TONIC  LIVER  PILLS.
Purely  Vegetable; contain  no  calomel,  mineral 
poison or quinine.  Act directly on the Liver,  “tone
-------------  — ■up”  the  system,  aid  digestion  and
purify  the  blood.  POSITIVELY CUBE 
HEADACHE  AND CONSTIPATION. 
In­
valuable  for  Biliousness,  Indiges­
tion, Hypochondria, etc.  Sent free 
on  receipt of price,  25  ets.  Sample 
^ y  package free.  W est er n  M e d ic in e 
Co m pan y., Grand Rapids, Mich.

SURE  TO  SELL.

A. T. Linderman, Manufacturer,  Whitehall, 

Michigan.

We carry a full line  of 
Seeds  of  every  variety, 
both for field and garden. 
Parties  in  want  will  do 
well  to  write  or  see  the

Send for sam ple dozen.  20x26, $4  per  dozen. 
Sells fo r 50 cents apiece.  Sold to  the  trad e  by
Shields, Bulkley & Lemon, Grand Bap- 
ids; W. J. Gould & Co., Geo. C. Weath- 
erby & Co., Wm.  Donnan  &  Co.,  De­
troit;  Gray,  Burt  &  Kingman,  Cor­
bin, May & Co., Gould Bros., Chicago.
P E R K I N S  
H E S S ,
Hides, Furs, W ool & Tallow,

GRAHD RAPIDS  GRAB  AND  SEED CO.

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

91  CANAL  STREET.

NOS.  133  and  134  LOUISSTREET,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

E .   F A L L . A S ,

Wlotalt k Goinissloi—Bnttor k Ms a

Choice Butter always on hand. 

126  and!27 Canal Street,

All Orders receive Prompt and Careful Attention. 
i 

Grand Rapids, Michigan

. 

j

A R R IV E .

D EPA R T.

TIM ETABLES. 

The Niagara,  Falls Route, 

W e manufacture a full line, use 
the  best  material  obtainable,  and 
guarantee  our  goods  to  be  first- 
class.
W e  carry  an  immense  stock  of 
Virginia  and  Tennessee  Peanuts, 
Almonds, Brazils, Filberts, Pea- 
cans,  W aln u ts  and  Cocoanuts, 
and compete with any market.

M i c h i g a n ( T e n t r a l Gandy 
Nuts
Oranges
Oysters
PUTNAM  &  BROOKS.
ARAB  PLUG 1

•»Detroit E xpress......................................   6:00 a m
•»Day  E xpress............................................ 13:45 p m
*New Y ork F ast L in e..............................  6:00 p m
t  A tlantic E xpress.......................................9:30 p m
♦Pacific  E x p ress..............................................   6:00 a m
•»Local  P assenger.............................................11:30 a m
3:30 p m
•»Mail....................................... 
•»Grand  Rapids  E xpress.........................10:25 p m
■»Daily except Sunday.  *Daily.
Sleeping  cars  ru n   on  A tlantic  and  Pacific 
E xpress.
The New Y ork F ast Line ru n s daily, arriving 
a t D etroit a t 11:59 a. m., and New Y ork  a t 9 p. 
m. th e  n e x t evening.
D irect  and  prom pt  connection  m ade  w ith 
G reat  W estern,  G rand  T runk  and  Canada 
Southern tra in s in sam e depot a t D etroit, th u s 
avoiding transfers.
The D etroit E xpress leaving a t 6:00 a. m. has 
D raw ing  Room  and  P arlo r  Car  fo r  D etroit, 
reaching th a t city a t 11:45 a. m., New Y ork 10:30 
a. m., and Boston 3:05  p. m. n e x t day.
A tra in  leaves D etroit a t 4 p. m. daily except 
Sunday w ith draw ing room  car attached, arriv ­
ing a t G rand Rapids a t  10:35 p. m.

W e are agents for the CEL­
EBRATED  J.  S.  FARREN  & 
CO.’S Oysters and are  prepared 
to  fill  orders  for  large  or  small 
lots, cans or in bulk, at the  low­
est rates.

W e handle  FLORIDA  Or­
anges  direct  from  the  groves. 
The crop is large  and  fine  and 
low prices are looked for.

Chicago & West Michigan.
Leaves.
■»Mail........................................  9:15 a m
+Day  E x p ress.......: ..............13:35 p m
♦N ight  E x p ress..................... 9:35 p m
M ixed........................................ 6:10 a m

A rrives, 
4:07 p m 
11:00 p m 
6:00 a m 
10:05 p m
♦Daily. 
P ullm an Sleeping  Cars  on  all  n ig h t  train s. 
T hrough  parlor  car  in  charge  of  careful  a t­
ten d an ts w ithout  e x tra   charge  to   Chicago  on 
13:25 p. m., and through coach  on 9:15 a.m . and 
9:35 p. m . trains.

J .  T . S c h u l t z , G en’l A gent.

tD aily except Sunday.

NEWAYGO D IV IS IO N .

...................................  4:00 a m  

Leaves.  A rrives.
Mixed 
5:15 p m
E x p ress.....................................3:50 p m   4:15 p m
E x p re ss...................................  8 “10 a m  10:30 a m
All train s arriv e and d ep art from  U nion  De­
pot.
The  N orthern term in u s of  this Division is a t 
Baldwin, w here close connection is m ade  w ith 
F. &  P. M.  train s  to   and  from   L udington  and 
M anistee.

J. H . C a r p e n t e r ,  G en’l Pass. A gent.
J.  B .  M u l l i k e n ,  G eneral  M anager.

Lake Shore & Michigan Southern.

(KALAM AZOO  D IV IS IO N .)
A rrive. 
Express...........................7:00 pm 
M ail.........................................9:35 a m  

Leave.
7:35 am
4:00 p m

All tra in s daily except Sunday.
The  ntrain 

leaving  a t  4  p. m. connects  a t 
W hite Pigeon w ith  A tlantic  E xpress  on  Main 
Line, which has Palace D raw ing  Room  Sleep­
ing Coaches  from   Chicago  to   New  Y ork  and 
Boston w ithout change.
The  tra in   leaving  a t  7:35  a. m. connects  a t 
W hite Pigeon (giving one h o u r fo r dinner) with 
special New Y ork E xpress on Main Line.
in  sleeping 
coaches can be secured a t  U nion T icket office, 
67 M oure stre e t and  depot.

tickets  and  b erths 

T hrough 

J.  W. McK b n n e y , G en’l A gent.

Detroit,  Grand  Haven &  Milwaukee.

G O ING EA ST.

GOING W EST.

A rrives.
•»Steamboat E x p ress..........
•»Through  M ail......................10:15 a m
■»Evening  E x p ress........................ 3:20 p m
♦A tlantic E x p ress................  9:45 p m
•»Mixed, w ith  coach............
•»Morning  E x p ress...............13:40 p m
•(•Through  M ail...................   5:10 p m
•»Steamboat E x p ress...........10:40 p m
tM ix ed ............................... .
♦N ightE xpress.....................  5:10 a m

Leaves. 
6.20 a m 
10:20 am 
3:35 p m 
10:45 p m 
10:30 a m
12:55 p m 
5:15 p m
7:10 a m 
5:30 a m
tD aily, Sundays excepted.  *Dailv. 
P assengers  tak in g   the  6:30  a.  m.  E xpress 
m ake close connections a t Owosso fo r Lansing 
and a t D etroit fo r New York, arriv in g  th ere at 
10:00 a. m. th e  follow ing m orning.
P arlor  Cars  on  Mail  Trains,  both  E ast  and
T rain leaving  a t  5:15  p.  m.  will  m ake  con­
nection w ith M ilwaukee steam ers daily except 
Sunday. 
The m ail has  a  P arlo r  Car  to   D etroit.  The 
N ight  E xpress has a through W agner Car and 
local  Sleeping Car D etroit tc G rand Rapids.
D. P o t t e r , City Pass. A gent. 
G e o . B. R e e v e , Traffic M anager, Chicago.

V

Grand  Rapids  &  Indiana.

GOING NORTH.

GOING  SOUTH.

C incinnati & Gd Rapids Ex  8:45 p m  
Cincinnati & M ackinac Ex.  9:20 a m 
Ft. W ayne & M ackinac  Ex  3:55 p m  
G’d Rapids  & Cadillac  Ac.
G. Rapids & Cincinnati Ex.
p m
M ackinac & Cincinnati E x.  4;05 
M ackinae& Ft.W ayi  e E x ..10:35a m  
Cadillac & G’d  Rapids  Ac.  7:40 p m

A rrives.  Leaves.
10:25 a  m 
5:00 p m  
7:10 a m
7:00 a m 
4:35 p m 
11:45 p m

SLE EPIN G   CAR ARRANGEMENTS.

All train s daily except Sunday.
N orth—T rain  leaving  a t  5:00  o’clock  p.  m. 
has  W oodruff  Sleeping Cars for  Petoskey  and 
Mackinac City.  T rainleaving a t 10:25a. m. has 
com bined Sleeping and Chair Car for  Traverse 
City.
South—T rain leaving a t 4:35p. m. has  W ood­
ruff Sleeping Car for Cincinnati.

C. L . L o c k w o o d , G e n ’l P a s s . A g e n t.

PLE ASAN T TO TAKE . A C T S  M ILDLY,  C U R E S  QUICKLY

DDKHAi’S  SDEB  CURB  FOE  FEVER  &  AGUE.
One  Dose  taken  during the  Chill, 
a rrests  th e   disease  in 20  minutes.
NEVER  KNOWN  TO  PAIL.  M oney re ­
tu rn e d   i f  it  does n o t cu re.  P rice, 
50c.  A sk d ru g g ist for it.  S en t p re ­
p a id  fo r6 0 c ts.  A ddress,  W estern 
M e d ic in e C o .,G ran d  R ap id s, M ich.

Tie Best ant lost Attractive  Boots on tie Market.
Bntt.  See Quotations in Price-Current.

Fox, Musselman & Loveridge

Sole  Owners.

J E N N I N G S ’ 

H ANDKERCH IEF  PER FU M ES!

TRIPLE  EXTRACTS,

S p e c i a l   O d o r s ,

F leur de lib, M arie A ntoinette, Jockey Club, W hite Rose, F leur D’O range.

Also a full Assortment  Standard Odors, put up in  1,  2, 

and 4 oz.,  1-2 pint and pint Glass Stoppered Bottles.

Jennings and Sm ith

Perfumers. 

( M  Rapids, Micl.

See  Our  Wholesale  Quotations  else­

where  in  this issue  and  write  for

Special  Prices  in  Gar  Lots. 
We are prepares to male Bottom Prices 01 aaytMape M e .
A. B. K N O W LSO N ,
RINDGE, BERTSCH & CO.,
B O O T S  A N D

3  Canal Street,  Basement,  Grand Rapids,  Mich.

MANUFACTURERS  AND  JOBBERS  OF

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

M r   A t t a in  ior ino  n e o n

14 and 16 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

O H E W   T H E

New Dark American  Eagle

f i n e   c u t .

T B S   B E S T   IK   T H E   MAXUSET.
Send an Order to your Wholesale Grocer for it.  Manufactured by

Detroit,  Mieli.

WHOLESALE

OYSTER  DEPOT!
F.  J.  DettfintM er.

117  Monroe  St-

2)r\> (5oobs.

— ------------------------- - 

K r u p p ’ s N e w   G u n p o w d e r .  

Krupp, great new gun maker, has introduc-  Pepperejj,
ed a new kind of powder, which is deserved- J  Peppereii,  9-4.........2314
ly creating quite a sensation  among  experts, 
inasmuch as it may lead to the disuse of  the 
black powder. 
It is known undei the  mod­
est name of brown powder, owing to its  pe­
culiar color,  which resembles that of  choco­
late or cocoa-nut, and owes its discovery to a 
mere accident.  According to reports on  the 
trials hitherto made, the brown powder  has 
a decided advantage over the  black  in  pro­
ducing a  greater  velocity,  with  an  equal 
pressure of gas, and being applicable to guns 
of every caliber.  The remarkable fact about 
it is that it explodes only in a tightly  closed 
space, while in the open air or  in  the  pow­
der-box it ignites slowly, and without explo­
sion, although it is said to consist  of  saltpe­
tre,  sulphur  and  charcoal,  like  the  black 
powder, the difference consisting in the rela­
tive proportions of these  ingredients. 
It  is 
supposed that the degree of carbonization of 
the wood from which the  charcoal  is  made 
plays a prominent part in the new discovery, 
as the color of the powder seems to indicate; 
also that the explosions in  mixing  and  pre­
paring it may henceforth be  prevented.  Of 
special strategic importance is the  fact  that 
the smoke  of  the  brown  powder  is  much 
thinner,  and  hence  will  disappear  more 
quickly than that produced by the black pow­
der.  Trials are now making in all the  larg­
er services on the continent, and if they con­
firm the improvements claimed, there can be 
no doubt that the new invention will produce 
an entire revolution in the military world.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

WIDE  BROWN COTTONS.

.  514 

CHECKS.

PRINTS.

S IL E S IA S .

OSNABURG.

Androscoggin, 9-4. .23
A ndroscoggin,84..21

Peppereii, 10-4......... 25
Peppereii, 11-4............ 27 k
Pequot,  7-4...............18
Pequot,  8-4.............. 21
P equot,  9-4...............24
P ark  Mills, No. 90.. 14 
P ark Mills, No.  100.15
Prodigy, o z..............11
Otis A p ro n..............10k
Otis  F u rn itu re .......10k
York,  1  oz............... 10
York, AA, e x tra  o z. 14

BLEACHED  COTTONS.

F IN E  BROW N  COTTONS

M asonville T S.........  8
M asonville  S ...........1014
L o nsdale....................914
Lonsdale A ............. 16
N ictory  O................
V ictory J ..................
V ictory  D ................
Victory  K ..................2 k
Phoenix A ................ 1914
Phoenix  B ..............  1014
Phoenix X X ........... 5

A labam a  p laid.......7
A ugusta p laid .........7
Toledo plaid ............   7
M anchester  plaid..  7 
New  Tenn. p la id .. .11 
U tility p laid............   6k
Greene, G.  4-4.........  514
Hill, 4-4.....................   754
Hill, 7-8.....................  694
Hope,  4-4....................694
K ing  Phillip  cam ­
bric, 4-4..................1114
Lin wood,  4-4.............714
Lonsdale,  4-4...........  7k
Lonsdale  cam bric.1014 
Langdon, GB, 4-4...  914
lLangdon,  45............14
Masonville,  4-4.......8
Maxwell. 4-4............   914
New Y ork Mill, 4-4.1014 
New Jersey,  4-4—   8 
Pocasset,  P. M. C..  714 
Pride of th e W est. .11 
Pocahontas,  4-4—   7k
Slaterville, 7-8.........  614
V ictoria,  Ä A ....... .  9
W oodbury, 4-4.........  5k
W hitin8ville,  4-4...  714 
W hitinsville, 7-8—   614
W am sutta, 4-4......... 1014
W illiamsville,  36... 1014

Caledonia, XX, oz.. 11 
Caledonia,  X, oz... 10
Economy,  o z.......... 10
P ark Mills, No. 50.. 10 
P ark Mills, No. 60. .11 
P ark Mills, No. 70.. 13 
P ark Mills, No. 80.. 13
A labam a b ro w n ....  7
Jew ell b riw n .......... 014
K entucky  brow n.. 10k 
Lewiston  b ro w n ...  914
Lane  brow n............? k
Louisiana  plaid
Avondale,  36..........   814
A rt  c a m b ric s , 36.. .1114 
A n d ro s c o g g in , 4-4..  814 
A ndroscoggin, 5-4 ..1214
Ballou, 4-4................  614
Ballou, 5-4................  6
Boott,  0.4-4............   814
Boott,  E. 5-5............   7
Boott, AGC, 4-4.......914
Boott, R.  3-4—  
BI ackstone, A A 4-4.  7
Chapman, X, 4-4----6
Conway,  4-4............ 7
Cabot, 4-4................. 6%
Cabot, 7-8.................   6
Canoe,  3-4................  4
Domestic,  36...........  714
Dwight Anchor, 4-4.  894
Davol, 4-4................  9
F ru it of Loom, 4-4..  8 
F ru it of Loom, 7-8..  7k 
F ru it of  th e  Loom,
cam bric,  4-4.........11
Gold Medal, 4-4..  ..  694
Gold Medal, 7-8.......6
Gilded  A ge..............8 k
C row n.......................17
No.  10............... .-...1214
C o in .......................... i0
A n chor.....................15
C entennial..............
B la c k b u rn ..............  8
D avol........................ 14
L ondon.....................1214
P a c o n ia ...................12
Red  Cross................10
Social  Im p erial— 16
_•••?
Albion,  so lid ..,........554 G lo u cester 
G loucesterm ourn’g . 6 
Albion,  g re y .............6
H am ilton  fa n c y — 6
Allen’s  checks......... 514
H artel fa n c y ............6
A den’s  fa n c y ...........514
M errim ac  D .............6
Alien’s p in k ............. 6k
M an ch ester.............6
Allen’s p u rp le..........614
O riental  fan cy ........6
A m erican, fancy —  514 
O riental  ro b es........614
Arnold fancy.  . . — 6
Berlin solid..............  514 Pacific  robes............ 6
R ic h m o n d ....................6
Coeheco  fa n c y ........6
Steel  R iver...............514
Cocheco ro b es......... 614
Simpson’s .................6
Conestoga fancy —  6
W a s h in g to n  f a n c y . . 
E d d y sto n e........— 6
W a s h in g to n   blues.  714
Eagle  fan cy .............5
G arner p in k .............614
Indian Orchard, 40.  8 
A ppleton  A ,4-4... 
Indian Orchard, 36.  714
Boott  M, L-k 
Laconia  B, 7-4........1614
Boston  F
1014
Continental C, 4-3..  6 k  Lym an  B, 40-in.......1014
C ontinental D, 40in  8 k   Mass. B1L4-4. . .......5k
Conestoga W, 4-4...  6 k   N ashua  E, 40-ra—   814
N ashua  R, 4-4.........  7k
Conestoga  D, 7-8...  514 
N ashua 0,7-8.......... 6k
Conestoga  G, 30-in.  6
N ew m arket N .  —   6 k  
Dwight  X. 3-4.........ok
Peppereii E, 39-in..  7 
Dwight Y, 7-8..........   5k
Peppereii  R, 4-4—   7k 
Dwight Z, 4-4...........6k
Peppereii  0,7-8—   614 
Dwight Star, 4-4—   7 
Peppereii  N, 3-4—   6k
Ew ight Star, 40-in..  9 
5k Poêàsset  C, 4-4....... 6k
E nterprise EE, 36.. 
Saranac  R ............... 7 k
G reat Falls E, 4-4...
Saranac  E ................ 9
6
i 72
•d,  1-4
I n d ia n
"IC GINGHAMS.
7 72 Renfrew , dress styl  9k 
Amoski 
Johnson  M anfg Co,
Amosk 
L0k B ookfold..............
12k
styles 
Johnson  M anfg Co,
B a te s.. 
dress  sty les.........
12k
Berksh 
Slaterville, 
dress
Glasgow 
V chc 
vein
sty les..................... 7k
7k
Glasgo1 
W hite Mfg Co, stap 7 k
Glasgo1 
V
8 W hite Mfg Co, fane  8 
styl
royal 
(White  M anf’g  Cô,
Gloucester 
E arlsto n ................ 8
standard 
* Vi G ordon.....................
7k
P lu n k e t.. 
dress
L ancaster 
< 2¡í1  styles  ................... 12k
L angdale.
AC II ED  COTTONS.
21 ¡Peppereii.  104....... 27k
Andn
23 ¡Peppereii,  11-4....... 32k
A ndr
¡Pequot,  7 4 .............. 21
Peppi
! Pequot,  8 4 .............. 24
Pepp
! Pequot.  9-4..............
27k
PepP1
WN  COTTONS.
7*4 Law n nee XX. 44.. 7k
A tlantic  A, 4-4.. 
I Law rence  Y, 30.... 7
A tlantic  H, 4-4.. 
0/4 ! Lawrence LL. 4 4 ..
5V4
A tlantic  D, 4-4.. 
¡Newm arket N .......
6k
A tlantic P, 4-4... 
5^i Mystic River, 4 4 ... 5k
A tlantic  LL, 4-4.
¡Pequot A, 4 4 .........
7 k
A driatic, 36.........
¡Piedmont,  30.........
6 k
A ugusta, 4 4 .......
1 Stark A A, 4 4 .........
7k
Boott  M, 4-4.......
5 Vi
T rem ont CC,4-4...
Boott  FF, 4-4....
9
U tica,  4 4 ...............
Grai
W achusett,  4 4 ....
7k
Indi
12V[¡W achusett,  30-in..
6k
Indi
1814
Amo skeag,  ACA. ..14
“ 44 ..19
1514
Amoskeag 
Amoskeag,  A ........13
1114
1914
Amoskeag,  B -----..12
Amoskeag,  C ___ ..11
Amoskeag,  1)-----. .10=
Amo skeag,  E .........10
Amoskeag, F ........
PrenHum  A, 4 4 .. "l7
Prenlim a  B ......... ..16
E xtra 4 4 ............... ..16
.. ..14
E xtr a 7-8......... 
Gold Medal 4-
CCA  7-8.........
CT 4 4 ............
RC 7-8............
BF 7-8............
AF 4 4 ............
Cordis AAA, I 
Cordis  ACA, i 
Cordis No. 1,1 
Cordis  No. 2. 
Cordis  No. 3. 
Cordis  No. 4.

fan cy .. .10
..13!
in A A .......
..18
in A S A ....
11
A, 7-8.......
A  4-4
VS
ACA, 7-8.. ..14
ACA, 4-4.. ..16
24
SE, 7-8....
27
SE, 4 4 ....
22
M. 7-8  ....
Omega M, 4 4 ..........25
ShetucketSS&SSW 1114 
Shetucket, S & SW.12 
Shetueket,  SFS 
..12
Stock bridge  A .......7
_ Stock bridge frney.  8

1C, 36
-n in g ......... 19

Greylock, 

ite file

i Falls

-  ‘ 

-  

G a rn e r.........
H ookset.......
Red  Cross... 
Forest Grove
A m erican  A 
Stark A .........

¡Empire  ...................

GLAZED  CAMBRICS.
.......... 5 
.........  5  W ashington.............  4k
.........  5  Edw ards...................   5
..........  
IS. S. & Sons............   5

G R A IN   BAGS.

.........18  00: Old  Iro nsides......... 15
.......... 2214! W heatlan d ..............21

B o sto n ..............
E v erett  b lu e ... 
E verett  brow n. 
Otii
Otis B B .....................H141 York  fan cy .............15

DENIM S.
69| iOtis  CC.....................10k
H   W arren  AX A .........1214
14  W arren  B B ............ 1114
1214 W arren CC..............1014

P A P E R   CAMBRICS.

Man ville...................  6 
M asgnville..............  6 

IS. S. & Sons...............   6
|G a m e r......................  6

W IG AN S.

SPO O L COTTON.

Red  C ross................  714 ¡Thistle M ills............
B e rlin .......................  754!Rose...........................   8
G a rile r.....................   7141
B ro o k s......................50
C lark’s O. N. F .......55
J. & P.  C oats.......... 55
W illim antic 6 cord.55 
W illim antic 3 cord. 40 
Charleston ball sew 
ing th re a d .............30
A rm o ry ...................   7 k
A ndroscoggin sa t..  8k
Canoe R iver............  6
C larendon..................6k
Hallowell  Im p .......6k
Ind. Orch. Im p .......7
L a co n ia...................   7k

Eagle  and  Phoenix 
Mills hall sew ing.30 
Greeh  &  D an iels...25
M errfcks..................40
S taffo rd ....................25
Hall & M anning__ 25
H olyoke....................25
K earsage................. 8 k
N aum keag sa lte e n .  8k 
Peppereii  bleached  8 k
Peppereii s a t.......... 9 k
R ockport.................   7
Law rence sa t...........  8 k
Conegosat................  7

CORSET JE A N S .

COAL  A N D   BUILDING   M ATERIALS.
A. B. Knowlson quotes as follows:

Ohio W hite Lime, p er  b b l.................... 
1  05
Ohio W hite Lime, car lo ts..................... 
90
1  40
Louisville Cemeni,,  p er b b l...................  
A kron Cem ent per  b b l........................ / 
1  40
Buffalo Cement,  p e r b b l......................  
140
Car lo ts....................................................... 1  05@1  10
P lasterin g  hair, per b u ..........................   25®  30
Stucco, p er b b l.......................................... 
175
Land plaster, p er to n .............................. 
3  75
3 00
Land plaster, car lo ts.............................. 
F ire brick, p e r  M.....................................$25 @ $35
F ire clay, p er  b b l..................................... 
3 00
Anthracite, egg and grate, car lots.. $6 00@6 25 
Anth racite, stove and  nut, car lo ts..  6 25@6 50
Cannell, car lots..................................... 
@6 75
Ohio Lump, car lots............................  3 25@3 60
Blossburg or Cumberland, car lots..  4  50@5 00

COAL.

H e H ad  Seen B e tte r H ays.

From  the D etroit F ree  Press.

“Hello, Tommy!”
“Hello, George!”
“I am surprised to see you engaged in this 

kind of work.”

“To tell the truth, 1  am  myself,  but  it’s 
my own fault.  Please  don’t  speak  to  me 
about it.  God knows the misery I  am  in.”
This conversation took  place  on  Gratiot 
avenue,  between  a  middle-aged  man  who 
was  carrying  in  coal  and  an  old  friend. 
“Tommy” had not been seen  by  the  latter 
for over a year.  Then, he was  a  well-to-do 
merchant in an up-town street, and was pros­
perous.  He enjoyed a large  trade, and was 
assisted in his store by his wife,  a  painstak­
ing 'woman. 
In the midst of his success, he 
succumbed to dissolute habits, and  gradual­
ly went down the road of  self-inflicted  mis­
ery.  His wife did all a woman could  do  to 
turn him from the patli he had selected,  but 
without avail.  He was compelled to sell out, 
aud went from bad to worse, which  resulted 
in his being estranged from his family. 
Ilis 
friends would no longer counsel him,  as  he 
turned a deaf ear to their entreaties, and  he 
soon  found  himself  penniless.  He  could 
not obtain employment, and, in order to save 
himself from starvation, he resorted to doing 
such odd jobs as he  could  pick  up  on  the 
streets.  The friend who met him  said  to  a 
reporter: “I was grieved to find ‘Tommy’ re­
duced to  poverty.  He  can  blame  himself 
for it, however.  Few men  have  had  such 
oportunities as he, but he has misused  them 
and now has to suffer the consequences.

S h o p p in g , M e re ly .

“You must be selling a great many goods, 
now,” remarked Mr. McSwiven to a Monroe 
street merchant, the other day.

“Why so?” asked the  merchant.
“I see so many ladies in your store.”  . 
“Oh, that’s nothing; they're  not  buying,” 

said the merchant.

“What are they doing,  then?”
“Shopping, merely.”

A D ifferen t D ifference.

Mr. Bobaround  had  just  told  the  baker 
that it was not overproduction but undercon­
sumption that ailed this country.  .

“How much for this  bread? ’
“Ten cents a loaf.”
“My stars, man, that’s too much!”
“No, the price of bread is  all  right 
the value of money that’s gone  wrong

It’i

A  R e m a rk a b le   A ct.
“ I tell you all men are bars!”
“ Oh, not so bad as that. ”
“Yes, sir; every one of them. ”
“ How about George Washington? ”
“ Why, he told the truth just once, and  it 
was so remarkable an act that they made  it 
a part of history.”

The reports from New Orleans are  all  to 
about the same effect—that there is  a  great 
deal there to see, but not nearly  so  much  as 
there was at the Centennial; that the exhibi­
tion  is not yet in  order;  that  adequate  ar­
rangements have not yet been made  for  the 
transportation of visitors, and  that  the  ho­
tels  and  boarding  houses  and  restaurants 
propose to make all that they can out of the 
crowd of visitors.*  It is added by  most  cor­
respondents that there is no  need  of  being 
in a  hurry  to  see  the  show,—that  a  few 
weeks later, say February or March, will do 
quite as well, or better.

A New Hampshire  swindler  advertises  a 
fine steel  engraving of  the 
father  of  his 
country, sent by mail on receipt of ten cents. 
In reply the  expectant  possessor of  a por­
trait  of  Washington  receives  a  one  cent 
stamp.  This is a pleasant joke to all except 
the victim.  He gets what he  bargained for, 
but  is  nevertheless  badly  swindled.  The 
sharpers  rarely put as  much as  this  into 
their statements.

Indiana having no special laws  protecting 
hotel keepers, the most promient of  the lat­
ter in that State have  organzeid  for  opera­
tions,  offensive 
and  defensive,  against 
“beats.”

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The  Grocer’s  Wooing.

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b l u i n g .

Fam ily

Resolved

..2  40 
.12  00

T rout. 3 ft

CA NN ED  F IS H .

CANNED  F R U IT S .

About  Eggs.

tm ble’8 Ivory

B A K IN G   PO W D ER .

Naked  Truth.

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BROOMS.

Texts  for the  Times.

worse than a  lie.

what it is capable.

G r o c e r i e s .

often be fairly  d ealt w ith

A  I 
hard to 
it.

A  Wide-Awake Salesman.

From  the Philadelphia Times.

Fancy W hisk.........
Common W h isk ...

ciety would be destroyed.

Cairn
K irk s Am ei ica n

ask him to do what you cannot.

H e  w ho m eekly bears  injustice,  w ill  not 

Were men judged  as  women  are,  all  so­

To withhold a part of  the  truth  is  often 

The brain that never rests never proves of 

A X LE  GREASE.
.......... 801 P a r a g o n ...............— 70
.........60 P aragon, 20 ft  p a ils..60

L ittle drops of p rin te r’s ink 
A little ty p e  “displayed,”
Make o u r m erchant princes 
W ith all th e ir big  parade.

L ittle bits of stin g in e ss- 
D iscarding p rin te r’s ink,
“B usts” th e m an of business.
A nd sees his cred it sink.

Each of us has a double.  Neither in char-  | | S s ,  impoi-ted %8, bo'iboneless. 

A dvanced—Sugars.
Declined—Muzzy’s  starch,  P roctor  &  Gam 
le’s soaps.

To remind a person of  a  favor  you  haye 
done him when asking his aid is not to have 
done a  favor at all, but a service  for  which

‘My dear Miss Sally R atus,”  sighed 
The grocer, on his knee,
‘I canned-corn-ceive no b u tte r bride 
T han you would beef fo r m e.”
‘You are a silly m an,” replied 
The maid, ‘‘as one m ace see—
“If verm ieilli m an,” he cried,
“I m ustard-adm ire th ee.”

“Yes, there is a great  difference in eggs,” j 
said an egg merchant as he landed a crate  of | 
new-laid  on  the  floor  of  the  store.  “Of j 
course you know tiiat fresh eggs  are  better | 
than stale  eggs, and  that is no  more  true , 
than that one  egg  is  better  than  another,  j 
White eggs are good  for  angel  cake.  Did I 
you know that not long ago everybody want­
ed angel cake,  whatever  it is'.’  It  takes an 
egg with a  lot of  the white init, and besides 
that, it takes a lot of the eggs.  There is less 
demand for eggs now because they are high. 
Eggs are an article that folks cut off as soon 
as anything.  Take  the  Brahma egg. 
It is 
the biggest egg on  the  market.  Next to it 
come the big Houdan eggs  and  the  Langs- 
han.  Leghorns,  Plymouth  Rocks,  Ham- 
burgs, Seabrights,  Dominiques  and  Barn­
yard fowl and many other  kinds  lay  white 
eggs.  The Brahma  egg don’t  spread  over
a pan when dropped  for a fry or for a toast,  pay was always expected, 
the way that the white  eggs  do.  One  man J  To Jock away a letter you know the writer 
who comes into  this  city, I’ve  seen  some- j  would wish destroyed is to  prepare  to  be  a 
where, gets three cents a dozen more for his  scoundi’el.
If you ask a man to keep your secret, you 
Brahma eggs.  They don’t begin to come up , 
to the w’liite egg in flavor.”

Good  C arolina.. 
P rim e Carolina. 
Good Louisiana. 
Ja v a   ...................
DeLand’s p u re ..
C hurch’s  ...........
F razer’s .......
Taylor’s  G.  M ... 
Diamond —  
Cap  S heaf...........
Modoc..........
60 P o c k e t...................................................
A rctic %  ft c a n s ....  451 A rctic  1 B>  cans.
28 P ocket...................................................
A rctic 14 fi> c a n s__   75 A rctic 5 lb c a n s..
100 3 ft  pockets.........................................
A rctic 54 ft cans.  .  1 40]
Saginaw F in e ...........................................
Diamond  C................................................
Dry, No. ...............................................d °z*
. .doz. 
Standard  Coarse......................................
Dry, No. 3.....................
,.  doz. 
Ashton, English, dairy, bu. b a g s.........
Liquid, 4 oz,............■■■ ■
............ doz.
A shton, English, dairy, 4 bu. bags —
Liquid, 8 oz.......................................... - —
A m erican, dairy,  54 bu. b ag s................
Arctic! 4 oz........................................... $   gioss  4  00
8  00 
ltock,  bushels...........................................
A rctic 8  oz
12  00 
A rctic 16 oz..........................................
Parisian, 54  p in ts....................................
2  00
A rctic No. 1 pepper b o x .................
3  00
Lee & P errin s  W orcestershire,  pints. 
A rctic No. 2 
..................
4 50
Lee & P errin s W orcestershire, 54  pts.
A rctic No. 3 
.................
Picadilly,  54 p in ts....................................
1  75 
P ep p er Sauce, red  sm all......................
No. 1 C arpet............ 2  50 No. 2 H url
.1  00
P epper Sauce, green  ..............................
No. 2 C arpet............2 35
P esper Sauce, red large rin g ................
No. 1  P arlo rG em ..2   75
P ep p er Sauce, green, large rin g .........
No. 1 H u rl...............3 00
Catsup, Tomato,  p in ts............................
t  40 
Catsup, Tom ato,  q u arts  .......................
C lam s,lib   sta n d ard s.....................
.2  65 
H orseradish,  54 p in ts..............................
Clams, 21b  sta n d ard s.......................
.2  20 
H orseradish, p in ts...................................
Clam Chowder,  3 lb..........................
.1  10 
Capers, F rench sui’fines........................
Cove Oysters, 1  ft  stan d ard s.........
Capers, French surfines, la rg e ............
2  00 
Cove O ysters, 2  ft  stan d ard s.........
75
Olives, Queen, 16 oz  b o ttle ...................
Cove O ysters, 1 1b  slack  filled.......
....1 
Olives, Queen, 27 oz  b o ttle...................
Cove O ysters, 2 1b slack filled.........
....1   75 
Olive Oil,  q uarts, A ntonia &  Co.’s —
Lobsters, 1 lb picnic..........................
....2   25 
Olive Oil, pints,  A ntonia & Co.’s .........
Lobsters, 1 ft s ta r .............................
....3   25 
Olive Oil,  54 pints, A ntonia & Co.’s —
Lobsters, 2 1b s ta r .............................
....1 00
C elery Salt,  D urkee’s ............................
M ackerel, l f t   fresh   stan d ard s—  
__ 6  50
H alford Sauce, p in ts..............................
M ackerel, 5 ft fresh   sta n d a rd s... 
................3 25
H alford Sauce,  54 p in ts..........................
M ackerel in Tom ato Sauce, 3 lb 
3 25
Salad Dressing, D urkee’s, la rg e ...........
M ackerel, 3 ft in M ustard
Salad D ressing, D urkee’s, sm all.........
M ackerel, 3 ft broiled....................................3 25
Preserved G inger, Canton,  p in ts.......
Salmon, 1 ft Columbia riv e r.....................  .1  50
.2  60
Salmon, 2 ft Columbia riv e r..........
SOAP.
, 80 fts.,  w rapped 
35
OldC Oliintry 80 b
Salmon. 1 ft  S acram ento.............................1
80 lbs., unw rapped
85
OldCo untry 80 ba
Salmon, W m. H um e’s E ag le......................   J
634 OldC ou n try 80 1
Sardines, dom estic 54s...................................
1334 Queea A nm
I  Sardines,  dom estic  54s...............................
12
i  Sardines,  M ustard  54s— ............................
A little, shriveled-up man, who  wears the 
14 Monehi y __
Sardines,  im ported  54s.
20
sleeves  of  his  red,  flannel  undershirt  for
32
India
do.
cuffs turned up over  the  sleevs  of  his coat, j  aC£gr  n o r appearance do we see  ourselves as i  Sardines, R ussian  kej 
55
Savon  .
do.
75
Satinet
do.
walked into Green’s  restaurant  last  night,: Quid's see  us. 
do. Reve nn
knowledge  of  the  worst  is seldom so j
îan. 
90
do. W hitel* u
checked his overcoat  and plug hat, and  put 
.........2  50
on a silk skull cap.  Then he  began to pace 
o  bear as the suspense which preceeds  Blackberries, sta n d ard s..............
Jap an   O liv e .........
........ 1  15
Town T alk..............
.........1  55
Blackberries,  Erie
the tiled floor, biting the end of a half smok­
.........1  30
(J olden B ar............
I Cherries, Erie, re d ..........................
ed cigar.  At midnight he sat up at  the eat- j 
.......1  90
A rab........................
r Cherries, E rie,w hite w a x ..............
A m ber.....................
.........2  50
!  Cherries, French  Brandy, q u arts
ing  bar  and  ordered  supper.  By  twenty 1 
M ottled  G erm an..
........ 3  55
Cherries, W hite...............................
.........1  10
P ro c ter & G am ble’s V elvet...................
minutes after one he had  eaten  four  times, i 
D am sons...........................................
.........]  35
P ro cter & G am ble’s Good L uck...........
Egg Plum s, standards 
................
He eats, he  says, to  pass  the  time  away, j 
.........1 45
P ro cter & Gam ble’s Wash  W ell...........
I  Egg Plum s,  E rie..............................
.........1  00
B adger............*..................................60 fts
Gooseberries, K raft’s B e st— ...
Every night he  can  be found  either at  the 
.........1  40
G alv an ic....................................................
Green  Gages, standards 2 f t.........
.........1 50
Gowan & Stover’s New Process 3 ft b r
eating bar or pacing up and dowrn the  floor.] 
G reen Gages,  E rie..........................
.........3  10
Tip T op..........................................3 ft b ar
Peaches,  B ran d y ............................
He stays until six o’clock and then vanishes.: 
.........2 40
W ard’s W hite L ily...................................
Peaches, E x tra Y ellow .................
.........1  75
H andkerchief...........................................
Peaches,  sta n d ard s........................
For a year he has not missed more  than five 
.........1  50
B abbitt’s ..................................................
Peaches,  seconds............................
nights.  Last night he said:
.........1  10
Dish R a g ..................................................
Pie Peaches,  K ensett’s .................
.........1  70
B luing.........................................................
Pears. B artlett, E rie .......................
“I’m in the fur business on Arch  street, 1. 
.........2 20
M agnetic..............................................-<• • •
Pineapples,  E rie .............................
lay. around to  catch  customers.  Sometimes j 
........2  85
New  French  P rocess.............................
Plum bs, Golden  D rop...................
Spoon  .........................................................
Q u in ces...........................................................J 4»
I  watch  the  Continental,  sometimes  the 
A nti-W ashboard......................................
R aspberries, Black,  E rie .............................1  4o
1  40 
V aterlan d ..................................................
Raspberries, Red,  Erie
Girard House. 
I  know a  customer  w’hen I
1 35
M agic..........................................................
Straw berries,  E rie.......
see him.  Don’t you want to buy a seal coat?  turners.
P ittsb u rg h .................................................
W hortleberries, M cM urphy’s .................... 1  40
CANNED F R U IT S — C A L IF O R N IA .
When  do  I  sleep?  Very  seldom.  Some­
Acme, 701 ft  b a rs....................................
A pricots, L usk’s . . .2  60!P e a rs...............
times two  hours;  that’s  enough  for  any­
Acme, 25 3 ft b a rs....................................
Egg P lu m s............... 2 50 Q u in ces..........
Towel, 25 bars  ..........................................
G rapes  ....................2  50 P eaches  ........
body.”
N apkin, 25  b a rs........................................
G reen G ages............2 50]
B est A m erican, 601 ft blocks................
Palm a 60-1 ft blocks, p la in .....................
A sparagus, O yster B ay............................
...1  65 
Sham rock, 100 cakes,  w rapped............
Beaus,  Lima,  E rie ....................................
...  90 
M aster, 100-% ft c a k e s ........................
Beans, String, E r i e ...................................
...  90 
Stearine, 100  % ft cak es........................
Beans, Lima,  sta n d ard ............................
...  90 
M arseilles, w hite, 100 % ft  cak es.........
Beans, Stringless,  E rie .. : .......................
...1   60 
Cotton Oil, w hite, 100 % ft  cak es.........
Beans, Lewis’  Boston B aked.................
...1  15
Lautz’s 60-1 ft blocks, w rapped............
Corn,  E rie....................................................
G erm an  Mottled, w rapped__
..1 10
Corn, Red  Seal...........................................
Savon República 60 ft b o x __
..1 10
Corn,  A cm e....................................—
..1 25
Blue Danube, 60-1 ft blocks__
Corn, R evere..............................................
London Fam ily, C( -1 ft  blocks.
00
Mushrooms, French,  100 in  case..........
Londo i Fam ily, 3 ft bars 80 ft.
.. %25
Peas, E arly ex tra,  sm all sifted  E rie ...
Londo n Fam ily, 4-ft bars 80  ft.
.23 00
Peas, French, 100 in c a s e ........................
Gem, 100 cakes, w rap p ed .........
..1 50
Peas, M arrofat, sta n d ard ........................
Nickel , 100 cakes, w rapped__
Y5
Peas, B e a v e r ................................. ...........
Clima.1c, 100 cakes, w rapped...
..1 60
Peas, early sm all, sifted ..........................
rap p ed.........
.  1 00 ■  Boss, :
P um pkin, 3 ft Golden.,..............................
..1 10 Marse lies Castile Toilet,3 doz
R hubarb,  E rie ...........................................
ak es..............
..1 25
A 1  FI
Squash, E r ie ...............................................
..1 20
Succotash, E rie ..........................................
Succotash, sta n d ard ..............
...  1 00
Tomatoes, Red S eal................
CHOCOLATE.
B o sto n ....................... 36! G erm an  Sw eet............ !
B aker’s ......................40 V ienna Sweet  .............'
R unkles’ ....................351
Green R io.........12@14 
[Roasted M ex... 17@20
9@17
G round  Rio. 
G reen J a v a .......17@27
@14%
A rbuckle’s .......
G reen M ocha.. ,25@27 
x x x x ...........
@14%
Roasted R io— 10@17 
@14%
D ilw orth’s .......
Roasted Ja v a   ,.24®32 
@14%
L evering’s .......
Roasted  Mar...l7@19 
@14%
I M agnolia...........
Roasted Mocha.  @32
2  00
¡60 foot C otton 
72 foot J u t e .......1  15
50 foot C otton 
1  75
60 foot  J u te .......1  00
Bloaters, Smoked Y arm outh.......................  85
Cod, w h o le.....................................................434@5
Cod, Boneless....................................................5@7 %
Cod, pickled,  14  b b ls...................................... 3 25
H a lib u t..................................................   .......
H erring 34  b b ls...............................................2  2o
H erring,  Scaled.............................................. 20@21
H erring,  H olland...........................................@80
Mackerel, No. 1,14 b b ls.................................5  00
Mackerel, No. 1,12  ft  k its............................1  00
Shad,  Vi b b l .....................................................2  50
T rout, No.  1,  14  b b ls......................................4  50
T rout, No. 1,12  ft  k its ...................................  90
W hite, No. 1,14 b b ls ......................................6  00
W hite, Fam ily, 34 bbls.................................. 2  50
W hite, No. 1,10 ft k its ...................................  85
W hite, No. 1,12  ft k its.................................. 1  00

The children were playing at keeping shop. 
Tom  was  the  shopkeeper,  May,  the  cus­
tomer, and Ethel her daughter.  Taking her 
cue from her own  mother, May  sends  her 
make-believe daughter  to  shopkeeper  Tom 
“How many oranges for a quarter?” asked
to buy sugar, flour, coffee, etc., adding,  “Be
sure and  get a memorandum.”  Ethel, after j  Judd Mason of a Monroe street fruit  dealei.
asking for the groceries,  says,  “And I w ant! 
a ’randum, too.”  Tom purses his  chin, and 
is very sorry,  “but we  are all  out  of ’ran- j 
dums.”  So Ethel has  to go  home  without j 
one; but May sends  her  back  to  tell  Tom 1 
that a memorandum isn’t  groceries;  it’s on- j 
ly a bill.  Ethel runs back to Tom.  “Tom,” 
she  says, “ ’randum  means  a  hill.”  Tom 
(with importance):  “If you  wanted a bill, 
why didn’t you say so?  What d’ye  want to 
come  around  here  asking  for a  ’randum 
for?”

The report of the State Salt  Inspector  for 
the month of December shows the number of 
barrels of salt inspected, as  follows:
County. 
Saginaw ....  . 
M anistee  ................................................
H u ro n ......................................................
S t.C lair............................................................   7,857
M idland............................................................   7,400
Iosco..................................................................  6,809
T o ta l........................................................258,450
There has been a  very  brisk  demand  for

Large qualities  of  low-grade  flour  from 
Minneapolis are  being  sold  to  distillers in 
Cincinnati for §19.50  per  ton.  This  helps 
to reduce the consumption of  corn  and rye 
by the  whisky  men.  They  used  up  only 
(_] about 19,000,000 bushesl of grain in the year 

At au egg-eating  match at Petersborough, 
Canada, a short time since, one  man ate for­
ty-one eggs and the  other  forty.  The  eggs 
were raw and taken  from a  basket in a gro­
cery store.  The  basket  was  emptied  and 
the winner said  he could  eat a dozen  more.

Seventy-five years ago  the  first  tomatoes 
grown in tiiis country  were  cultivated  as  a
..... . " . . . .  ’. . . . '. . . . .   9s’,023 j  stran g e and show y h o rtic u ltu ral curiosity  in

By the Retail Grocers of Michigan, that
We will not sell goods at cost.
We will deal only in pure goods.
We will expose every fraudulent  concern.
We will keep a sharp  lookout  for  confi­

Four for a quarter,” was the reply.
“Can I pick them  out?”
“No,  you  must  take them as they come, 

salt  during  the  last three months. 
ember the Salt Association shipped 3,200  car 
loads from the Saginaw Valley by rail.

ago, or a little more, they began to  be  used 
j s a vegetable in the season.

........................................I a garden in Salem, Mass.  Forty-five  years

j  Have  any  of  our  grocer  readers  tried 
In I)e-  sprjnkiing potatoes with air-slacked lime, to
prevent their  rotting?  This  is  frequently 
recommended, and  could do no  harm  if it 
did no good.  Try it, and report results.

We  will  demand  correct  weights  and 

“Well, if you buy the whole lot, then  you 

“How many must you buy before you will 

We will weigh and measure all goods pur­

We will deal honorably with  all  pur  cus-

when you buy only a quarter’s worth.” 

.  T lie  S alt  B u sin ess  V ery  A ctive.

let me pick them  out?”  .

Taking  Them  as  They  Come.

ending with last June.

may pick them out.”

Out  of ’Randums.

L autz Bros. & Co.

FLA V O RIN G  EXTRACTS.

.CANNED V EG ETA BLES.

chased by  us.

dence  men.

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

3 CO
2 90
3  00

CORDAGE.

tares.

CO FFEE.

SPIC E S.

Bbls-

F IS H .

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Complaint is made by residents of Califor­
nia of the poor  quality  and  high  prices of 
i  A Neapolitan tradesman,  about to open  a ] 
fruit in the home market.  After  the  ship-
great  dry  goods  establishment,  persuaded I 
pers, canners and great hotels  have  succès-  his Archbishop to bestow a  formal  benedic- 
sively  skimmed  the  market,  a  small  per j tion  on  the  enterprise.  This  novel adver- j 
cent, of fruit  of  passable  quality  comes to j tisement attracted many customers.
town imperfectly ripened, dirty and  dishon-1 
estly packed, and double a fair  valuation in j 
“What kind of dogs are these, Mr. Briggs?” 
price.  Fruit  growers  seem to  undervalue  inquired a customer, pointing  to a group  of 
their opportunities,  and  then  complain  of j  crockery canines.  “Terrier  cotta,”  replied 
anxiety as to what will be  done  with  Cali- j  the genial china man, his face  beaming like
fomia fruit.

-------- ♦   •   ♦ --------

the full moon.

An illustration of the way iu which a town j 
may be completely  blotted  out  by a change j 
in the tide  of  traffic, says  an  exchange, is j 
shown in the fate which has  overtaken  Lis- j 
bon, Ga., which a few years  ago  was at the j 
head of navigation on  the Sayannah  River. j 
It had  thirty  stores, and  did a flourishing i 
business.  Now  there is not a single  house 
left to mark the  spot  where the  old  town 
stood.

“I understand you’ve gone into  farming,” 
said a dentist to his victim.  “How  large  a 
farm have you?”  “Well, I’ve had four  ach- 
ers for the past week,” was  the ‘painful  re­
sponse.

The orange industry of Florida is develop­
ing so rapidly that new methods are impera­
tively called for to market the fruit.

The  Grocery  Market.

, 

„ 

.. 

, 
, 

... 

..  . 

.  .  ... 

Winter  family  flour  will  produce  270 
Business has been better  the  past  week 
loaves, of about the  average  weight  of  18 
than during  the  corresponding  week  last 
ounces, from each  barrel,  the  weight  of  a
year, which is  considered a good  indication
barrel of flour being 196  pounds.  Of spring, 
of the approaching business revival.  Sugars
„or  . 
,
family flour it is estimated  thatfrom 285 to 
and teas are firmer, and the former have ad-
290 loaves can  be  made.  The  majority of 
vanced from  % to J^c.  Procter  &  Gamble 
good  bakers  use  a  mixture  of  one-half  of 
follow  Kirk in a  general  decline  in  their
each.
soaps, and Muzzy  starch is down Kc.  Oth-
The wine crop of California  is  increasing i  erwise the market is steady, although several 
faster than  the  consumption,  and  though i staple articles are somewhat firmer, 
wine, unlike other products does  not  deter- i  Confectionery is somewhat  firmer, in con- 
iorate, but improves with age, says the A lta : sequence of the upward tendency in  sugars,
Oranges are firmer and lemons and  nuts are 
California, the disproportion cannot contin­
steady.
ue a great many years without  exciting ser­
ious fear.

______ ^   ___  

. 
.  .. 

6 

^ 

. 

0

, 

, 

. 

Potatoes Wanted.

. 

I will pay the highest  market  price  for
It is fun to stand on a street corner, a fine
choiceKose, Burbanks and White  Star pota-
aftemoon,  and  watch  the  men all rushing. 
delivered on board  cars  at  any  point
around trying to make money,  and  the  wo-  south  of  Cadillac.  Correspondence solicit- 
men all floating around trying to spend  it. 

O. W. Blain.

ed. 

,  , 

., 

FR U ITS

Lemon.  Vanilla. 
....^ d o z .1 0 0   140 
2 oz.......................
i  r.n  2 so
6 oz....................... ..................2  50
4  00
8 OZ....................... ..................3  50
5 00
1  50
No. 2  T ap er....... ................. 1  25
3  00
“  — ................. 1  75
No.  4 
7  50
................. 4 50
34 p in t  round..
................. 9  00 15  00
1
No.  8................... ................. 3  00
4  25
..................4  25
6  00
No. 1 0 ................
@5
Apples, M ichigan....................................
@8
A pples, Dried, Y ork State, evap., bbls 
@9M
Apples, Dried, Y ork State,  evap., box
@16
Cherries, dried,  p itte d ............................
@37
C itro n .........................................................
@5
C urrants, crop  1884.................................
13@14
Peaches, dried  ........................................ 
P runes, T urkey, new ............................. .  @534
>@11 
P runes, French, 50 ft  boxes..............
@1054 
Raisins, V alencias...............................
@1334 
Raisins,  O ndaras.................................
@10 
Raisins,  S ultanas.................................
@3  15 
Raisins, Loose  M uscatels.................
@3  40 
Raisins, London L ay ers.....................
@3  80 
Raisins, Im perial C abinets................
@4  25 
Raisins, D enesias.................................
@1  50
Raisins, Dehesias, 34 b oxes..............
.11
W ater W hite.........13 
1 Legal  T est.
....2   15
G rand  H aven,  No.  9, sq u a re ..........
__ 1  65
Grand  H aven,  No.  8, sq u a re..........
.. ..2  50 
Grand  H aven,  No.  200,  p arlo r.......
... .3  75
G rand  H aven,  No.  300, p a rlo r.......
G rand  H aven,  No.  7,  ro u n d ...........
.......1  10
Oshkosh, No.  2 ....................................
.......1 60
Oshkosh, No.  8....................................
.......  55
Sw edish................................................
.......2 70
Richardson’s No. 2  sq u a re..............
.......2 70
..............
Richardson’s No. 6 
.......1  70
Richardson’s No. 8 
..............
.......2 55
Richardson’s No. 9 
..............
...  @16 
Black  S tra p .........................................
,28@32
P orto  Rico...........................................  
OQ/a, ,
New  Orleans,  good........................................ 38@4~
New Orleans, choice.......................................48@50
New  Orleans,  fan cy .......................................o2@55

K E R O S EN E  O IL .

MOLASSES.

M ATCHES.

do 
do 
do 

34 bbls. 4c ex tra.

OATM EAL.

do 

do 

P IC K L E S .

32 3 1b  packages__ 3 25|Steel Cut, 34 bbls.
.3 50
Steel  c u t................. 5  00|Rolled  O ats.........
5  50 
Choice in barrels m ed....................................
3  40
Choice in 34 
.....................................
Dingee’s q u arts glass fa n c y ........................... 4 2o
Dingee’s pin ts 
..........................  *  4U
A m erican qt.  in G lass........................................\  ou
A m erican pt. in G lass........................................ i
C. & B. English  q u a rts......................................? 7o
C. & B. English  p in ts................................ ■•••■“  «>
Chow Chow, m ixed and G erkins,  q u a rts.. .5 75 
p in ts ....3 50
Dingee & Co.’s C. C. M. & G. Eng. style,qts.4 50 
p ts ..2 75
Im ported Clay 3 gross...........................2 25®3  00
Im ported Clay, No. 216,3 gross............  @1  80
A m erican  T .D .......................................... 
00

«« 
B «* 

PIPES*

“ 

•• 

“ 

Whole.

* 

STARCH.

I dozen..

Special prices on 1,000 ft orders.

P e p p e r................. I6@25!Pepper..................   @18
A llspice............... 12@18 A llspice.................  8®10
C innam on............ 16@30iCassia................ ,.  @10
Cloves  ................. 15@25| Nutm egs  .......... ’..65@76
G in g e r.................16@20iCloves  ...................  ©81
M ustard............... 15@30
C a y e n n e ............. 25@35l
G ilbert’s Gloss 1 f t......................................  
“ 3 ft cartoons..................... 
“ 
“  c ra te s.............................. 
*  “ 
“ 
“  b u lk ......................  
“ 
Corn, l f t ......................  
•‘ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

634
6
7
5
7
@5
N iagara Laundry, 401b box,  b u lk ....... 
@4%
Laundry, bbls, 186 fts............. 
Gloss, 401 ft packages............ 
@654
@6
Gloss,  363 $   p ackages........... 
Gloss, 6 ft box, 72 ft c ra te __  
@7
@7
Corn, 401 ft  p ackages............ 
@654
Muzzy Gloss 1 ft package....................... 
@634
Muzzy Gloss 3 ft package....................... 
@7
Muzzy  Gloss 6 ft boxes......................... 
Muzzy Gloss b u lk ....................................  
@5
Muzzy Corn  l f t ........................................ 
@6%
@8
K ingsford  Silver Gloss............................... 
K ingsford Silver Gloss 6 ft  b o x ..........  
@854
@8
K ingsford C orn............................................. 
Oswego  G loss...........................................  
@634
  @654
M irror  Gloss.............................. 
@6%
M irror  Gloss, co rn ................................... 
@4
Piel’s P e a rl.....................................................  
A m erican Starch Co.’s
1 ft  G loss....................................................  
@654
.@3%
10 oz  G loss................................................. 
@6
3 ft  G loss......................................................... 
6 ft Gloss, wood  boxes................................  
@7
@634
Table Corn.........................................40 ft 
Table  C orn........................................20  ft  @7
B anner, b u lk .................................................. 
@4
STOVE PO L IS H .
Rising  Sun g ro ss..5  88|Dixon’s  gross.........5  50
50
..5 63 A b o v e1 
U n iv ersal... 
,.5 50| 
I X L ............
SUGARS.
Cut  L oaf.................................
C u b e s......................................
P ow d ered .................................
G ranulated,  S tan d ard .........
G ranulated, Fine  G rain —
Confectionery A ...................
Standard A .............................
New  O rleans  A .....................
E x tra C, W hite......................
E x tra C....................................
Fine  C......................................
Yellow C...................................
SY RUPS.
Corn,  B arrels........................
Corn, 34 bbls...........................
Corn,  10 gallon kegs..............
Corn, 5 gallon k eg s................
Corn, 434 gallon kegs............
P u re  S u g ar.............................
P u re Sugar D rips.................
P u re Sugar  D rips.................
P u re Loaf Sugar D rips...  .
P u re  Loaf S u g ar.................
TEA S.
Ja p a n   o rd in ary .....................
Ja p a n  fa ir to good................
Ja p a n  fine................. .............
Ja p an  d u st............ .................
Y oung H yson........................
G unP ow der...................... v .
O o lo n g....................................
C ongo.........
State
B rother  Jo n ath an . ..32
Diamond  C row n... ..58
.59
Rose B ud.................
O  K
..45
O ur  B ird................. ..30
Peaches  ................. ..38
M orrison’s F ru it... ..50
V ic to r ..................... ..60
Red  B ird................. . .52
O pera Q ueen........... ..40
Sweet Rose..............
G reen  B ack............ ..38
F r u i t ........................ ..33
31
O  So Sw eet..............
P rairie F low er....... ..65
C lim b er................... ..62
Indian  Q ueen......... ..60
D oak’s  60c e n te r... ..38

@  33 
@1  75 
@1  50 
22©  34 
.........bbl
30®  38 
__ 34  bbl
@1  96 
i gal kegs 
@  85 
.... 34 bbl 
®1  85
> gal kegs
.......................20@25
....................... 30@37
.......................40@50
....................... 15@20
.......................30@50
.......................35®50
................ 33@55®60
.......................25@30
S eal....................601 M atchless....................65
H ia w a th a ....................67
G lo b e ...........................65
May F low er................ 70
H e ro .............................45
A tla s.............................35
Royal G am e................ 38
Mule E a r..................... 65
P eek-a-B oo..............   32
F o u n tain ......................74
Old Congress...............64
Goofl L u ck..................52
Good and Sw eet......... 45
Blaze A w ay.......  .s. .35
H air L ifte r..................30
G o v e rn o r.................. 60
Fox’s C hoice...........  63
M edallion................: .35
H uckelberry  ............ 30

@  7 
®   7 
@  6% 
@  634 
@  634 @ 6 
@  5% 
@  5% 
@  534 
@  534 
@  5

___________  
2c.  less  in fo u r pail lots or h alf barrels.

TOBACCO—F IN E  C U T - IN   P A IL S .

PLU G .

K nights of  L abor...................................
A rab, 2x12 and 4x12.......\ .....................
Red Star, Rough and Ready, 2x12... 
Red Star, Rough and Ready, 3x12—
Red Star, flat, 3x12.................................
Red Star, black, 24 o z............................
Old F ive Cent T im es.............................

@46
@46
@46
@46
@46
@45
@38

|

SALT.

R IC E .

SAUJJES.

50
2  65 
1  00 
1  60 
1  55 
80

.........  @48
T ram w ay.......................................
Big Sevens, dim e c u ts ................. .........  @45
,.6 3 4 |P atn a................... . . . 6
.........  @35
..7  R an g o o n .............. •. .5 ^   1Black D iam ond.............................
. .5% B roken.................. ...3% T rotter, rum  flavor....................... ...... 
©70
Boot  ................................................. .........  @44
..6-/4|
B. F. P .’s  F av o rite........................ .........  @48
iALERATUS.
. .5341 Dwight’s .............. ...5% | Old K en tu ck y................................. .........  @48
..5%|Sea  F o am ............ ...534 | Big Four,  2x12............................... .........  @43
. .5%jS., B. & L.’s Best. ...5% Big Four, 3x12................................. .........  @48
| Spearhead, 2x12 and 3x12............ .........  @46
T urkey, 16 oz.,  2x12....................... .........  @48
Blackbird, 16 oz.,  3xlS 
m
@48
Seal of Grand Rapids.
@48
Glory  ............................
©48
D u rh am ........................
@50
Silver  Coin...................
@36
B uster  [D ark ]............
@36
Black Prince [D ark]..
@36
Black R acer  [D ark]..
@46
Leggett & M yers’  Stai
@46
C lim ax..........................
@46
Hold F a s t ....................
@46
McAlpin’s Gold Shiel 
id.
# 2   00 
@5  00 
@51
Nickle N uggets 6 and 12
@3  00
, Cock of the W alk  6s.............................
@37
@46
@1  00  Nobby T w ist...........................................
@46
@  75  N im rod.....................................................
©46
@  90  A c o rn .......................................................
@44
@1  35  C re sc e n t.................................................
@35
@1  70  Black  X ..................................................
@  90  Black  B ass..............................................
@40
@48
@1  20  S pring.......................................................
@48
@1  00  C ra y lin g ................................................ .
@1  30  M ackinaw ...............................................
@45
@2  25  H orseS hoe.............................................
@44
@36
@3  50  H air L ifte r.............................................
@3  85  D. and D., black....................................
@36
@46
@6  50  McAlpin’s G reen  Shield.....................
@7  00  Ace  H igh, black ...................................
@35
@46
@4 00  Sailors’  Solace......................................
@2  00  | Black B ear.............................................
@37
@  90 
@48
G ray lin g ................................................
@3 50  I 
@46
......................................................
K ing 
@2  10 
2c. less in fo u r b u tt lots.
@4  85 
@2 90 
Tram w ay, 3  o z.......... 40|Long T o m ..
Ruby, c u t Cavendish 35 N ational  ...
@1  25
Boss  ............................ 15 T im e ..........
@4  20 
P eck’s S un..................18  Conqueror  .
@4  10 
M iners and P u ddlers.28 G rayling ...
M orning  Dew ............ 26 Seal  S k in ...
@  514
@5  00  I C hain............................22  Rob R oy__
@3  30  Seal of G rand Rapids 25 Uncle  Sam.

ft  cads.

SMOKING

CANDY,  F R U IT S   A N D   NUTS. 

 

 

 

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P u tn am  & Brooks quote as follows :

FANCY—IN  BULK.

FANCY—IN  5 ft BOXES.

STICK.
................................. 934@10
 
@12
MIXED.

Straight, 25 ft«boxes...............................  9 @  934
Twist, 
Cut Loaf 
Royal, 25 ft  p ails...........................................10@1054
Royal, 2001b b b ls..........................................  9@  914
E xtra, 25 ft  p ails.......................................... U@ll*4
E xtra, 200 ft bbls................................................. 1034
French Cream, 251b p ails................................. 13
Cut loaf, 25 ft  cases............................................ 13
Broken, 25  ft  pails..............................................1114
Broken, 200 ft  bbls..............................................103s
Lem on  D rops...................................................... 14
Sour D rops............................................................15
P epperm int  D rops.........................................   15
Chocolate  D rops................................................. 16
H M Chocolate  D rops...................... ; ..............20
Gum  D rops  ........................................................ 10
Licorice D rops.................................................... 20
A B  Licorice  D rops.......................................... 12
Lozenges, p lain ...................................................J5
Lozenges,  p rin te d ..............................................18
Im p e ria ls.............................................................15
j M o tto es................. 
15
Cream  B a r........................................................... 14
! Molasses B a r........................................................14
Caram els.......................................  
20
H and Made Cream s............................................22
P lain  Cream s...................................................... 18
! D ecorated  C ream s............................................. 23
15
String R ock..................    
I  B urnt  A lm onds...............................................  22
j W intergreen  B erries............................. 
15
Lozenges, plain  in  pails__ .*..................1334@14
Lozenges, plain in  b b ls..................................... 12
Lozenges,  printed in  pails............................. 1414
Lozenges, printed in  b b ls..............................13
Chocolate Drops, in pails................................. 14
I Gum  Drops  in pails................................... 734@8
Gum Drops, in bbls..................................... 6li@7
Moss Drops, in  pails.......................................... 11
I Moss Drops, in bbls  ..........................................  914
1  Sour Drops, in  p ails.......................................... 12
Im perials, in  pails.............................................14
Im perials  in  b b ls...............................................13
j Oranges, Florida, <j9 b o x........................
Lemons,  choice......................................  3  00@4  00
Figs,  layers new,  ^  f t............................ 12!4@15
I Oranges, Messina and  P alerm o...........3 00@3  50
Oranges, V alencia.
00@7  50 
@ 8 
1b............
Figs, baskets 40 ft 
D ates, frails 
do  ............
©   4 
D ates, 34 do 
do  ............
©   6 
Dates, sk in .................................
©   4 
Dates,  14  sk in ..............■............
@  5 
D ates, Fard 10 ft box $1  1b__
@  9 
Dates, Fard 50 ft box 
f t___
@  7 
| Dates, P ersian 50 ft box $  f t ..
©   61
PEA NU TS.
F’rim e Uc;d,  r;aw
f t................
d o ..............
Choice
5@ 534
..........  
F cincy
do  ...............
............  534® 534
Choice w hite , Via.do  ............... ............ 
5@ 534
F'ancy H P,.  \f  a
do  ................ ............  
634<a   7
Almonds
Almonds, Ioaea, 
Brazils,
Peeons,
Filberts, Sicily 
W alnuts, Grenobles 
Cocoa N uts, $   100

f t.....................  21@2i
@2i
fc@10
9@13
15@16
15@1&

NUTS.
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d o __

Terragona, 

FRUITS.

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HIDES, PELTS  AND  FURS. 

P erkins & H ess quote as  follows:

G re e n __ $  ft  6  @
P a rt  c u re d ...  734@  8
Full cu red __   8  @  83i
Dry hides and
8  @12

kipi

H ID ES.

Calf skins, green
or cu red __
Deacon skins,
<8 piece.......20

@10
@50

30®5
60©7

IE E P  PELTS
11 p.

i pcel0@20
$  ft 20@22 
id.. .16® 18

llov
iskr

50@10 00! Mu 
00@  8 OOlOtt 
25®  1  10] Ra 
15@  85 Ski
25@  1  00  Be; 
5@ 
50 De

534
12 
5  00 
85- 
90 
3 00 
36

2® 
4  00© , 
. 
5®
15© 
2 00@ 
10®

$ f t
i f t . .

OYSTERS  AND  FISH.

OYSTERS.

New Y ork C ounts.................................................33
F. J. D. Selects  ...................................................... 30
S e le c ts......................................................................26
F. J . D ........................................................................19
S tandard  .................................................................18
F av o rite.........:................................................... . ..17
M edium .................................................................... 15-
P rim e  ....................................................................   14
New  York  C ounts..............................................2 0«
Selects, per gallon............................................. 1  63
S tan d ard s..................................................1  00@110
Codfish...................................................................   9
H addock................................................................  7
Sm elts....................................................................12
M ackinaw T ro u t..................................................  8
M ackerel...............................................................12
Whiteflsh  .............................................................7@8

FR ESH   F IS H .

17  Sii

Fin
Coa
Bei
Fis
Foi
F o iMa:
Mil

F. J.

COUNTRY  PRODUCE.

A pples—Som ewhat weaker, although  choice* 

lots readily com m and $2.

Beesw ax—Small dem and a t  30c. 
B uckw heat—$4.75 $  bbl.
Beans—No  local  dem and.  Unpicked  com­
m and 75@90c, and choice picked find good ship­
ping dem and a t $1.40.

..13 00 
B u tter—The receipts greatly  qxceed  the  de- 
..13 50
.. 13  75  m and, every dealer being loaded up w ith large
14  00
q u an tities of dairy, which  finds slow sale  a t 15- 
14  00
@17c for choice rolls and lo@16c fo r good  solid 
15  75
packed.  An inferior article is to be had in end­
14  25
15 25 
less v ariety  a t from  8@12c.
15 00

B utterine—Solid  packed  cream ery  com­
m ands  20c,  while  dairy  is  quoted  a t  15@16c 
fo r solid packed,  and 15@17c for rolls.

Beets—No shipping dem and.
Clover  Seed—No  local  shipping-  dem and. 

D ealers quote choice stock a t $4.50.

Cabbages—$5@$6 $  100.  V ery little m oving. 
Celery—The w inter  stock  now  in  m ark et  is 
very undesirable in quality,  selling  a t  15@18e 
p er dozen.
Cheese—Michigan full  cream   stock readily 
com m ands 1134®1334c,  while  skim   find  occas­
ional sale a t from  934@10c.

Cider—12c 
C ranberries—Firm  a t $13 for bell and  cherry, 

gal. fo r common sweet. 

and  $14 for bell  and bugle.

Eggs—D em and fa ir and  m arket  ra th e r  firm­
er, on account of the closing  out  of  th e  vast 
stocks held in cold storage a t Chicago.  Fresh 
readily com m and  21@22c,  and  limed  are  fre­
quently preferred a t 18c.

Hops—Brew ers are paying 15c fo r best Mich­

igan, w ith few  offerings.

H o n e y —C h o ic e n e w  in  c o m b  is  firm  a t  14c. 
H a y —$9@ $ 10  f o r  n e w ,  a n d   $12@$13  f o r   b a il­

e d .

ft fo r hom e m ade.

Mince Meat—7c 
Onions—$1.75 $  bbl. fo r yellow or red.
Pop Corn—3e ^  ft to r choice.
P otatoes—No  firm er,  although  considerable- 
shipm ents are being m ade to  Southern  cities, 
purchases being m ade  a t 25e.

P o u ltry —Fowls,  9@10c.  Chickens,  10@llc. 

T urkeys, 11c.  Ducks, 14c.

Squash—Slow sale a t 34c ]it 1b.
Sweet  P otatoes—Jerseys are  ab out  o u t  of 
m arket, occasional kiln-dried lots  finding  sale 
a t $6 $  bbl.

T urnips—25c $  bu.
Tim othy—No shipping dem and,  and  dealers 
buy  only  fo r  prospective  w ants,  holding  at 
$1.65 fo r choice.

G R A IN S AND  M IL L IN G   PRODU CTS. 

W heat—2c  higher this week.  Lancaster,  79; 

Fulse and Clawson, 76e.

Corn—Jobbing generally a t 46c in 100 bu. lots 

and 40@43c in carlots.

Oats—W hite, 33e in small lots and 30c  in  car- 

lots.

Rye—52@54c $  bu.
B arley—Brew ers pay $1.10@$1.20 $   cwt. 
Flour—Unchanged.  FancyPatent,$b.50!g bbl. 
in sacks  and  $5.75  in  wood.  S traight, $4.50 $  
bbl. in sacks and $4.75 in wood.

Meal—Bolted, $1.50 $  ewt.
Mill Feed—Screenings, $14  $  ton.  B ran ,'$13 
¡g ton.  Ships, $14 $  ton.  Middlings, $17$ to n - 
Corn and Oats, $23 $  ton.

i3 50 
3 60 
3 30 
3  15 
3 30
3  15
4  85

2  80
3 60
4  00
3  35
3  60
4  20
@3  15 
@3 20 
@3  00 
@  6% 
@4  05 
@18% 
@  16 
@6  75 
@4;20 
5  25
4  10
5  00 
4  10
4  50 
5 00 
5  00
3 25
4  20 
4  00
@  6% 
@   6 % 
@5  25 
@5  25 
@  6 
@  5% 
@3  70 
@5  00 
@4  85 
@6 25 
@6  25 
®   7 
®   6% 
@  5% 
@  5% 
@  5 
@4  00 
@4 00 
@3  85 
@3  75 
@3 25 
@2 30 
©1  25 
@4  20

¡
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’ 

SHORTS.

50 L um berm an  ... 
28 Railroad B oy... 
30 M ountain Rose. 
,24 Good  E nough.. 
,15] Home Com fort.
.18 Old R ip..............
,47 Two N ickle.......
90 Star D urham .

K in g ..........................
F lirt  ..........................
P u g ............................
Ten P enny  D urham  
Am ber, 34 and l f t . ..
John  G ilpin..............
Lime K iln  Club.......
1 Blackwell’s D urham
V anity  F a ir__ .......90 D urham  No. 2..........
55
D im e................... .......25 Golden Flake Cabinet 40
Peerless  ............ .......25 Seal of N orth  Caro-
.48
lina, 2  oz..............
.......22| 
Standard ..........
.......21 ¡Seal of N orth  Caro-
Old Tom ............
lina, 4oz................
.......241 
.46
Tom &  J e r r y ...
Jo k e r............................24 Seal o f N orth  Caro-
T ra v e le r....................35 
lina, 8 oz.................... 41
M aiden........................ 25 Seal of N orth  Caro-
Topsy, p a p e r.............27 
40
lina, 16 oz boxes 
Topsy, clo th ................30 Big D eal.............
Navy  Clippin,
26 Apple Ja c k ..................24
! B oots.................
__ 30] K ing Bee, lo n g e u t.. .22
! H oney  Dew __
__ 25M ilwaukee  P riz e___ 24
__ 30 [Good  E nough.............24
Gold  Block.......
__ 251 R a ttle r..........................28
Camp F ire .........
Oronoko  ..........
__ 19|Windsor c u t p lu g ___ 25
__ 60'Zero  ............................. 16
D urham , % 1b .. 
__ 57 ¡Holland M ixed............16
do  % f t .. 
__ SolGolden  A ge..  ............75
14  f t - .  
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__ SljMail  P o u ch .................25
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l f t . .
Pickw ick  Club......... 40 K nights of L a to r____30
N igger  H ead.............26 F ree Cob P ip e ...............27
H o llan d ..................... 22 H oney B ee....................27
G erm an ..................... 14'
Mule E a r................... 23|A cm e................
H iaw ath a..................23 G lobe..................
... .231
Old Congress 
VINEGAR.
8@12 W hite W ine.., 
P u re  Cider..
1776 $  f t ......................................................
G illett’s $  f t .............................................
Soapine p k g ...............................................
P earline $  bo x ..........................................
Lavine, single boxes, 4 8 1 1b  p a p e rs...
Lavine, 5 or m ore boxes, 481 ft pap ’rs 
Lavine, single  boxes, 100 6 oz papers.
Lavine, 5 or m ore boxes, 100 6  oz  pap 
Lavine, single boxes, 80 54 ft p a p e rs..
Lavine, 5 o r m ore boxes, 80 34 ft paprs
Twin Bros.......... 1  65  ¡W ilsons............
| M agic.................. 1  75  ¡N atio n al..........
| B ath Brick im p o rte d ..............................
A m erican..............................
B arley.........................................................
B urners, No. 1 ..........................................
No.  2..........................................
| Condensed Milk, Eagle  b ran d ..............
Cream T artar 5 and 10.1b can s..............
Candles, S ta r..... .....................................
Candles,  H otel..........................................
E x tract Coffee, V.  C...............................
F e lix ............................
Gum, R ubber 100 lum ps........................
Gum, R ubber 200 lu m p s.........................
Gum, Spruce.............................................
Hominy, $   b b l.........................................
Peas, G reen B ush....................................
Peas, Split p rep ared ...............................
Pow der, K eg.............................................
Pow der,  34 K eg........................................

..  S@12
©1034 
@  734 
7@10 
@4 50 I 
@4  50 ! 
@4  25 
@4  50 
@4  25 I 
@4  15 
@4  00
.  1  65 
.  1  65
85 
60 
@3 
1  10 
1  50 
7  35 
15@25 
@1334 
©14 
75@85 
@30 
@40 
30@35 
@4 30 
@1  30 
@  3 
@3  50 
@1  93

W ASHING PO W D ERS.

M ISCELLANEOUS.

YEAST.

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PRO V ISIO N S.

The  G rand Rapids  Packing  &  Provision  Co. 

quote  as  follows:

P O R K   IN   CARRELS.

LARD.

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H eavy Mess, new  ...................................
Pig, clear, short  c u t................................
E x tra  Fam ily C lear.................................
E x tra  Clear P ig ........................................
Clear, A. W ebster  p ack er.....................
Standard Clear, th e  b e st......................
E x tra   Clear,  h eav y .................................
Boston C lear.............................................
Clear Quill, short c u t.............................
DRY  SALT MEATS—IN   BOXES.
Long Clears, heavy, 500 ft.  Cases..........
H alf Cases..............
do. 
Long Clear m edium , 5001b  Cases..........
H alf C ases...........
do 
Long Clears light, 500 ft Cases...............
do. 
H alf Cases  ..............
Short Clears, heavy...................................
m edium ................................
lig h t.......................................
E x tra Long Clear Backs, 600  ft  cases..
E x tra Short Clear Backs, 600 ft  c a se s..
E x tra Long Clear Backs, 300  ft  cases..
E x tra Short Clear Backs, 300 ft  case s..
Bellies, ex tra  quality, 500 ft cases.. —
Bellies, ex tra quality, 300 ft cases.........
Bellies, ex tra quality, 200 ft cases.........
Tierces  ........................................................
30 and 50 ft T u b s........................................
50 ft Round Tins, 100 cases......................
20 ft Round Tins, 801b  rack s...................
3 1b Pails, 20 in a  ease...............................
5 ft Pails, 6 in a case..................................
10 ft Pails. 6 in a c a s e ...............................
H am s cured in sw eet pickle, h eav y —  
H am s cured in sw eet pickle m edium .. 
lig h t......... 
Shoulder, cured in sw eet  p ickle..........
E x tra Clear B acon....................................
Dried Beef,  E x tra ....................................
E x tra Mess Beef, w arranted 200 fts—
E x tra  Mess Chicago p acking.................
SAUSAGE—F R ESH  AND SMOKED,
P o rk   Sausage.............................................
H am   Sausage.............................................
Tongue  S ausage........................................
Liver Sausage.............................................
F ra n k fo rt  Sausage...............................
Blood  Sausage...........................................
Bologna,  rin g .............................................
Bologna, stra ig h t......................................
Bologna,  th ic k .......................................
H ead  Cheese..............................................

LARD IN   T IN   PA IL S .

B E E F  IN  BA RR ELS.

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P IG S ’  FEET.

SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED  OR  PL A IN .

V.  I

10
1034
1034
10
1034
.10 75 
.10 50

.10
9
.  634 
.  9 
.  634 
.  634 
.  634 
.  634 
.  634
3  50 
1  90

In  h alf b a rre ls...........................................
In q u a rte r b arre ls....................................
In  k its...........................................................
$3  00 
In  h alf b arre ls...........................................
1  50 
In q u a rte r b arre ls....................................
80
In  k its...........................................................
Prices nam ed are  low est  a t tim e of going to 
press, and are good only for th a t date, subject 
to m ark et fluctuations.

T R IP E .

F R E S H   M EATS.

Jo h n   M ohrhard  quotes  the trad e as follows:

Fresh  Beef, sides...................................   5  @  7
Fresh  Beef, hind  q u a rte rs..................634  @  8
Dressed  H ogs............................................
M utton,  carcasses...................................  @534
V eal.............................................................  ®H@l0
P o rk   Sausage................. .........................  JJ  @“9

T urkeys  ....................................................
D u c k s.........................................................   @1“
G e e s e .........................................................   @J1

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AMBASSADORS  OF COMMERCE.

Final Publication of the  List  of  Traveling 

Salesmen.

T he  T radesman  hereby  presents—for 
the last time tiiis year—its  alphabetical  list 
of the  traveling  salesmen  residing at  this 
market.  Several  important  changes  have 
been made  since  the  last  publication, and 
there is every reason for  thinking  that  the 
list as it stand will  be  substantially  correct 
for several months to come:

Allen, Stanley, Allen Bros.
A ntrim , A lbert C, Church Finish Co.

*  Adams, W J,  G rand  Rapids  Fire  Insurance 
Co.

Adderley,  Stanley.
Alden, Qjeo W, Foster, Stevens &  Co.
Ames, Ja s E, M ichigan P latin g  W orks. 
Anderson, Wm D.
A ndrew, Ed P.
A tkins, Law rence W.  H eavenricii  Bros,  De­
A very, Ja s T, Je nnings & Smith.
A verlli, W W,  H arrison W agon W orks. 
Ayers, R B,  Berkey & Gay F u rn itu re Co. 
Allen, G H, G rand'Rapids Chair Co.

troit.

11.

Mfg Co.

Y ork.

Chicago.

B radford, Jo h n  L. K niseley, W itter & Co, New 
B eneka, Wm A, Sherwood & Co, Boston, 
B eneker, B, John  Benjam in.
B ranford, Jam es N,  A rthur Meigs & Go. 
B anker, W S,  Anglo-Am erican  Packing  Co., 
Bradford, Lewis Cass, E aton  &  Christenson. 
Baker,  H erbert, Shields,  Bulkley  &  Lemon. 
Bayley, Christopher H, Clark, Jew ell & Co. 
B aker, Allison D, Foster,  Stevens & Co. 
B anghart, Lorenzo C.
Barclay, W arren Y, E G Studley & Co. 
B arker, D exter, Spiral Spring Buggy Co. 
B arber, Addison  A, G rand Rapids  Chair  Co. 
B arnett, Wm S, P en in su lar Stove Co, D etroit. 
Brown, A lford J, I O G reen.
B arnes, Joseph A.
Brown, F rank.
Barrell, Charles L, M cIntyre & Goodsell Piano 
Brown, Wm A, New  England  F u rn itu re   Co. 
Bass. Charles H, Bissell  C arpet  Sweeper  Co. 
B arr, Jas, C W. Allen, Chicago.
B eacraft, Wm A.
Beecher, H enry W ard, Eaton, Lyon &  Allen. 
Blackman,-Charles F.
B lakestree, F rank M.
Buddington,  R D, K ent F urnittfre.M fg Co. 
Blickle, Jo h n  J, Wm Hake.
Blocksma,  Ralph,  Voigt,  H erpolsheim er  & 
Buckley, John D, K ortlander & Grady.
Bolt, A lpheus E, W  W  Kimball & Co.
Bolles, Silas K, J   W Coughtry  Sc  Son,  Cigar- 
Boughton, Wm, R & J   Cummings  &  Co,  To­
Brasted, Alby L. C G A V oigt &  Co.
Burrow s, John, M C Russell.
Bell, John  W, Phoenix F'urniture Co.
Barber,  N H, Phoenix  F'urniture Co.
Black, Chas, Oriel  C abinet Co.
Barber,* A A, G rand  Rapids Chair Co.
Buss, Geo,  Buss M achine W orks.

ville, N  Y.
ledo.

Co.

C.

Philadelphia.

C arhartt,  II  B,  Y oung,  Smith,  Field  & Co, 
Christ, Fred, Hugo Schneider &  Co. 
Chickering, F rank, self,
Carroll, P  H,  Seitz, Schwab & Co, Chicago. 
Cooper, W E,  Spring & Company.
Cole, A dolphus B,  Bickford  &  Francis,  Buf- 
alo.
Cady, W O, O’Brien & M urry, Bingham ton. 
Oesna, Ledro R,  S A  Welling.
Caro, L A,  E nterprise Cigar Co.
Cavanaugh, Geo, M orris H Treusch.
Cary, L M, Mosier, Bahman & Co, Cincinnati. 
Corson, R W, Berkey & Gay F 'urniture  Co. 
C arpenter, Napoleon,  H a rt & A m berg.
" Chapman, Chas 0.
Chase,  Frank E, A CMcGraw  &  Co,  D etroit. 
Chase, H erbert T, Chase & Sanborn,  Boston. 
Church, Isaac R, W C Denison.
Clark, Wm M, G rand Rapids B rush Co. 
Cloyes, Ja s G, Clark. Jew ell & Co.
Coffin, Chas P, King & Co.
Cogswell, George P.
Collins,  F’rank, Z E Allen.
Collins, Wm B, H Leonard &  Sons.
Compton, Shelby, Cleveland V arnish Co. 
Conlon,  Frank,  G rand  Rapids  Packing  and
Pro
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J.
J, Curtiss, D unton & Co.
1 T Brown & Co.
¡e A, Pow ers & W alker.
', H art & Amberg.
W, Worden  F'urniture Co. 
Em pire  Laundry  M achinery
Iter E.
H azeltine, P erkins & Co.

sH  
J, E
itt F

Co.

Drew, Al, U S Billiard Table Co.
D unn, O  W,  Bissell C arpet Sweeper  Co. 
D angrem ond, H arry M, M orris  H Treusch. 
Doak, A lgernons, H aw kins & P erry. 
Davidson, A Judd, F'olding  Chair  and  Table 
Disbrow, Chas W, K ent F u rn itu re Co.
Downs, W  H, Spring & Company.
D ana, Edwin P.
DeJonge, Geo W  K.
Dennis,  W ilber It.
Desner, H arry. 
D evereaux, John.
Drew, Chas C, Putnam  & Brooks.
Drew, W alter J, Bissell  C arpet  Sw eeper  Co. 
D uncom be, Chas  R.
D ustan, Henry, Wm. H arrison.
Dykem a, Leonard, P Dykema &  Son. 
Dykhouse, H enry G.

,

E asterbrook, Geo.
Eacher, John H, S. A. Welling.
E vans, D r Josiah  B, Cody,  Ball & Co. 
Edm unds, Wm B, P u tn am  & Brooks.
Em ery, Benjam in F, G ray,  B urt Sc  Kingm an,
Em ery, Fred H, Morton. Lewis & Co.
Em ery, Wm S, New England  F urniture Co. 
Ensign, F'rank E, M  II Treusch.

Chicago.

troit.

Foster, W  R.
F’itz Gerald, — - ,-----Collier, Chicago.
F'isher, A lfred W.
Ferguson, Thomas P, J H Thompson & Co, De­
Fletcher, D C, W C Denison.
Franklin,  W allace  W,  Fairbanks,  Morse  & 
Fitch, Milford L, Nelson, M atter & Co.
Foster, A lfred, Newaygo  M anufacturing Co. 
F’ox, Jas, F'ox,  Musselman & Loveridge. 
Frick, Edw ard, Shields, Bulkley & Lemon.

Co, Chicago.

Co, Covington,  Ky.

Gottlieb,  S  J,  K entucky  Railroad  Tobacco 
Goodrich, H enry P, Chippew a L um ber Co. 
Goodrich,  E I, A  R & W F' Roe, Troy.
G reen, F'rank E, Jennings & Smith.
Ganoe, H enry C, P erkins Sc Co,
Gill, John F.
Goetchius,  Edwin E, Firm erich  Mfg  Co,  P e­
Goodrich, H enry P.
Goodspeed, F'rank  W.
Gould, Chas E.
G reulich, F'rank J, K usterer Brew ing Co.

oria, Hi.

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E.

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H eystek, H enry J, H arvey & H eystek. 
H auck. Geo,  K u sterer Brew ing Co.
Hufford, Aaron, G A W risley, Chicago. 
H arley, C  C, Cappon Sc  Bertsch  L eather  Co. 
H irth, Frederick,  H irth & K rause.
Hatfield, D r D S, K ortlander & Grady. 
H i-km an, G W,  E nterprise Cigar Co. 
H ondorf, Manus, Brown, Hall & Co.
H ubbard,  Will, Cutler & Crossett, Chicago. 
H agy, J   H,  Hazeltine, P erkins & Co.
H opkins, T E, Phoenix F'urniture Co. 
H errington, J T, S A W elling.
H udson, H  A, Clark, Jew ell & Co.
H awkins,  W G, A rth u r Meigs & Co.
H augh,  D S, Cody,  Ball & Co.
H orn, W S, Fox, M usselman & Loveridge. 
Holloway, Geo, E aton & Christenson.
*
H adley,  H enry. 
Hoops,  Will  H,  W J  Quan & Co.
Hill, Thos, M erchants’ D espatch.
H ollister, Ben, P eirce & W hite.
H am pson, T P S , Church F'inish  Co.
Hess, Wm T,  P erkins & Hess.
H ym an, R B, Van Slyke & Co, Albany. 
Haskell,  L  H,  Ordway,  Blodgett  & Hidden, 
H urter, Jackson, Morse Shepard  &  Co,  Bos­
H urter, Geo W, F rost Bros & Co,  Boston. 
H unting,  Wm E,  W orden  F u rn itu re Co, 
Hewes, Geo W , G rand Rapids Stave Co. 
Holden, H enry, L uther & Sum ner  F u rn itu re 

New York.
ton.

Co.

Ireland, Ja s E, H aw kins & P erry.
Ives, Edward L, Wm Hake.

1.

j .

L.

Jones, W J, K em 'nk, Jones & Co.
Jennings, W H, Jennings & Smith.
Jones. M anley, Jo h n  Caulfield.
Jones, W m H, Phoenix F u rn itu re Co.
Jones, C W, W iddieomb F u rn itu re Co.
Judd, Chas B,  Bissell C arpet Sweeper  Co. 
Jacobs. G H,  Valley City Milling Co.
Judd,  E E, Judd &  Co.
K .

D etroit.

K athan, W FI, Pow ers & W alker.
K endrick, H enry C, Curtiss, D unton & Co.
K e n y o n ,-----  Robinson,  B uttenshaw   Sc  Co,
Kellogg, Gid, F  Raniville & Co.
Kelly. Geo H, Morris H  Treusch.
K endall,  Jo h n  C, A S Gage Sc Co, Chicago. 
Kipp, Harry T, I) M Osborne &  Co.
K enning, Jo h n  E,  Mohl &  K enning.
K eate; E J, S tar Union.
K napp, Geo, Nelson, M atter & Co.
K easey,  Wm R, Bell, Conrad &  Co,  Chicago. 
K rekel, Edw ard G, Rindge, B ertsch & Co. 
K uppenheim er,  A ugustus,  A lbert  K appen- 
K ym er, J   Leo, E aton, Lyon & Allen.

hoimer.

cago.

ton.

Co.

Leggett, C W, F ranklin McVeagh  &  Co,  Chi­
Leonard, Fred, H Leonard & Sons.
Lewis, Pearly, Morton, Lewis & Co.
Lee, Edwin A, D etroit Safe Co., D etroit. 
Lincoln, Ed A, F J  Lam b & Co.
Lyon, F’red D, L ent & Braham , New York. 
Logie, Wm, Rindge, B ertsch Sc Co.
Loveridge, L L, Fox, M usselm an & Loveridge. 
Liesvelt, John, J  S Cowin.
Larabee, M clvah,  Morse, W ilson  &  Co,  Bos­
Lewis, Geo B, New England F u rn itu re Co.
L eo n ard ,-----, Sligh F u rn itu re Co.
Lucas, G II,  Sligh F'urniture  Co.
Langley,  Thomas  C,  W iddieomb  F u rn itu re 
L ankaster, P eter, H aw kins & P erry .
L atta, N apoleon B.
Levi, M aurice, Jacob Brown, D etroit. 
Livingston, A delbert L.
Livingstone. Chas, E G Studley  &  Co. 
Loomis, Lewis L, Rice &  Moore.
Love, A lbert  M, S H Shepler Sc Co.,  Chicago. 
Love, Chas L.
McSkimmin, Jas, W J  Gould, D etroit. 
M attison, E S.
McCarthy, D H, sells fo r self.
McClave,  E  Wilkes, W W K im ball & Co. 
M ather, Geo B, Corunna Coal Co,  Corunna. 
Malloy, M M, A rth u r Meigs Sc Co.
Moseley, Edw ard A, Moseley Bros.
M organ, C E, Jennings Sc Smith.
McDowell, Harry,
M cCarthy, D ennis  P.
Morrison, Ja s A, Shields,  Bulkley  &  Lemon. 
Moyer,  M artin  N,  Berkey & Gay F'urniture 
M angum , Jo h n  D,  S A W elling.
McConnell, N Stew art, Nelson  Bros & Co. 
McDonald, Jo h n  D.
McDonald, Jo h n  X, T II Redmond.
M cIntyre, Jo h n  H.
McKay, Geo, P u tn am  & Brooks.
McKelvey, Jo h n  H, Noble Sc Co.
M aybury, F'rank I, G R & I Ry.
Mangold, Edw ard C, C G  A V oigt Sc Co. 
Mangold, Richard C, C G A V oigt Sc Co. 
Mansfield, C W,  B radner,  Sm ith Sc Co.
Marsh, Chas C, W  C Denison.
Miller,  F'rank, D etroit Safe Co,  D etroit.
Mills, Lloyd M, H azeltine, P erkins Sc Co.

M.

Co.

N.

P.

Nelson, Geo K, Nelson  Bros & Co.
Nelson, Jas, Nelson Bros ¡.V Co.
Nolan, John E.
Owens, John, A labastine Co.
Olmsted, Joseph  P,  Bissell  C arpet  Sweeper 
Orr, R obert B, A rth u r Meigs & Co.
Owen, Geo F', B rew ster & Stanton,  D etroit.

o .

Co.

on.

Co.

Pow ers, Fred E, Spa B ottling  W orks.
Palen, Jo h n  H, Rindge, B ertsch Sc Co.
Peck, C J, Spring Sc Company.
P arm enter,  Ben F, Shields,  Bulkley  &  Lem-1 
Price, W J, Eaton & Christenson.
P arm enter, Chas B, Gleason Wood O rnam ent 
P ratt, J  M, W C Denison.
Pantlind, Geo  E,  W etzell Bros & P antlind. 
Peck, Chas W, Grand Rapids  Brush  Co. 
Phillips, D aniel C, Wm H arrison.
Pierce, H arry H, Noble & Co.
Pierce, Silas K, E. S.  Pierce.
Putnam , Geo S, D M Osborne & Co.
Putnam , Thos C, P u t nam  & Brooks.
Post, John C, M ichigan P laster  Agency. 
Pearsoll,  O K, Grand Rapids B rush Co. 
P ark h u rst, R, Stock well Sc D arragli F’u rn itu re 

Co.

q .

Quinu, Jas, L J  Quinn.  *
Quigley, B urt C, R osenberg & Bro, New York 

It.
Rem ington,  E S Pierce.
Rem ington, A li, G ardiner & Baxter.
Rilynor, George, Eatem , Lyon & Allen.
Rtlymond, M H N, SUir In su ran ce  Co.
Ri udge.  Will A, Rind)je, B ertsch & Co.
R(jonev, Jas, F.
Re>ys, G raham , G  Rot,-s & Co.
Rejbinson,  Chas  S,  i.fraud  Rapids  Packing
Riehards, Theo F', Widdicomb  F 'urniture  Co.
ReJ we,  Wm N,  Valley City Milling Co.
Rt■ed. Jo s F O, H  Leo nard &  Sons.
Rejynolds, Richard W, M uskegon Valley F'ur-
Richmond, Wm U, E T Brown & Co. 
Robertson, H iram  S, A Meigs Sc Co.
Russell, A lbert  L, Chas Schm idt Sc Bros, 

and Provision Co.

n itu riu g  Co.

s.

Co.

shall.

Triggs, Chicago.

S tandart, Chas, P eninsular F u rn itu re Co. 
Seym our, Glen,  M arshall  F u rnace  Co,  Mar­
S tocking.-----, Reese & Co.
Shattuca, E, E S Pierce.
Sears, Stephen,  W m Sears & Co.
Seym oui\ Alonzo,  Wm Sears Sc Co.
Seym our, Geo M, Hugo Schneider Sc Co. 
Savage,  H arrison  R,  H artm an,  Ciai’k  & 
S tuart, A rth u r II, W orden F u rn itu re   Co. 
Sheldon, Suel, Jackson Wagon Co.
Schroder,  H erm an,  Wm.  Hake.
Scott, Richard T, Cappon Sc B ertsch  L eather 
Sharp, A ugustus C, Cody, Ball & Co.
Shelley, Ja s R, McCord Sc Bradlield F’u rn itu re 
Sherwood, A lfred  H,  G rand  Rapids  V eneer 
Shriver, Fred D, Shriver,  W eatherly & Co. 
Smith,  Win  H, K ent F'urniture Mfg Co. 
Snyder, Eben F\  W C Denison.
Sprague, A Milton, S A  Welling.
Sprague, E M, E J  Copley.
S tarr, 1 sake N, Standard Medicine Co. 
Stearns,  D aniel  E,  Bi’oadhead  W orsted 
Mills, Jam estow n, N  IT.
Steiuberger, Joseph.
Stevens, A ivant T,  Singer  Sewing  Machine 
Stew art,  Robert, P erkins & Hess.
Stoddard, Geo, Nelson, M atter Sc Co.
Sm ith R 11,  P erkins Sc Hess.

Co.
and Panel  Co.

Co.

T.

chine Co.

T rout,  E m erson  W,  A m erican  Sewing  Ma­
Threlkeld, T B, W eisinger & Bate, Louisville. 
Thayer,  Ed,  W  R Peoples Sc  Son,  Cincinnati. 
T reusch, M H, M orris H Treusch.
Treadw ay, E A, Blue Line.
Taylor, Lorison J, K ent F 'urniture Mfg Co. 
Tooker, John  V.
Tuoerger, Geo, U Feeter.
T anner, J B, P erkins Sc  Hess.

U.

V.

w .

Underwood, D C, A rth u r Meigs & Co.
U tter, A lbert L.

V an der W erp, Rine, S tar Clothing House. 
V er Venne, Jo h n  H,  Eaton Sc Christenson. 
V an Stee, Jacob E, G rand Rapids  Broom  Co. 

ing Co.

W hittier, Chas, Plum b & Lewis  M anufactur­
Watson, Chas E, S A Maxwell & Co,  Chicago. 
W incueil,  V  E,  A labastine  Co.
W ailing, Sam uel A, Cavanaugh & Co, Chicago. 
Williams,  VV J, E aton & Christenson.
W arner, Richard, Clark, Jew ell & Co.
W hite, A lgernon E, Cody, Ball Sc Co.
Wilcox, C S, H aw kins Sc Perry.
W ard, N athan D, O E Brown  M anufacturing 
W hite, F ra n k  H, Curtiss, D unton &  Co. 
W atson, Jesse C, C S Yale & Bro.
W hit ..orth, Geo G, Foster, Stevens & Co. 
W ise, H enry L, S S Adams.
W olcott, Jo h n  M, W orden F u rn itu re  Co. 
W atkins, J   B,  L u th e r  Sc  S um ner  F'urniture 
W heeler, J  L, F arm er Roller Mill Co.

Co.

Co.

Yale, Chas, C S Yale &  Bro.

Zunder, A aron, Jacob B arth.

Y.

Z.

Ibarbware.

American  Chains  as  Good as foreign.
A writer in  the  American  Agricultur­
ist complains that his trace  chains break, al­
though he purchases at the best  agricultural 
warehouses, and buys the best chains he can 
find.  He attributes his  experience and that 
of others, which he says  is  similiar,  to the 
use of “cheap American make chains.”  The 
inference suggested is  that  the  American 
made chains are not so good  as  others,  i.  e., 
foreign made chains.

The best  logging  and  trace  chains  are 
made by hand, each link  being  formed  and 
welded on  the  horn  of  the  anvil.  They 
have been made so here for generations, and 
the method is the same in foreign  countries, 
and as good  iron  can  be  obtanied  here as 
there, no sufficient reason exists  why Amer­
ican chains are or cannot be as good  as oth­
ers.

A liand-welded  chain of tough  iron is no 
It 
better for having come across the  ocean. 
is possible  there  is  an 
inferior  article  of 
home make which  this  correspondent  pur­
chased; there is little actual value  in  cheap 
jewelry.  Small, unwelded chains are  made 
by machinery, and  some  heavy  log  chains 
and farm trace chains  are  called “machine 
made,” the links  being  bent by  machines, 
and the welds being  made  by  belt  drops. 
But these machine made  chains are of  less j 
market value than the  hand  made  chains, 
being rated at half  a cent a pound  less than | 
those made by hand.

Some of the largest dealers in logging and I 
farm chains in  the  country  state  that  they j 
have few complaints of breakages of Araeri- J 
can made chains; they have  far  more  from j 
those of foreign make.  The  principal  fault] 
found with the  home  made  chain is in the 
attempt to weld by machine drop  instead of 
"by hand, the machine  weld  showing a good j 
surface from the die, but not  being reliable,  j 
The best chains are those  which  are  hand 
welded.  These  chains  seldom  go  to  the 
market gurried over with coal  tar;  but  fre­
quently have been  “tumbled” and  polished 
so as to show their make.

Sometimes too much work is exacted from 
a chain; when iron is  bent  and  welded it is 
not responsible  for  more  tensile  strength 
than one-fourth of that of the rod when test­
ed in a straight line.  The fact is, American 
made chains are fully equal to those import­
ed ; and in many  other  productions of  the 
hardy metals  the  American  manufacturers 
lead the foreign producers.

To Ke-tin Copper Vessels.

the  copper 

The Scientific American  gives  the  fol­
re-tinning  copper 
lowing  directions  for 
vessels:  “Make 
chemically I 
clean  by  washing  with  a  saturated  so­
lution of zinc in muriatic acid, the acid to be 
weakened with water to half  strength  after 
the dissolving of the zinc.  Heat the  copper 
vessel and pour in a small quantity of metal 
—of tin one, lead one—and shake or  tip  the 
vessel until the tinning runs over  the  parts. 
Or ‘wipe’ the melted tin over the bare places 
with a cotton canvas  pad.”

Here is another method:  To tin old  cop­
per utensils,  thoroughly  clean  them  with 
sand and oxalic acid, a%d  tin  Avith  a large 
copper soldering iron, using muriate of  zinc 
and a salammoniac  (soldering fluid) for flow­
ing the tin. 
It can also be done by  heating 
the vessel and flushing melted  tin  over  the 
surface,  first  sprinkling  the  surface  with 
powdered resin.

BOPES.

W HOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

g

f t.

15
16

AVIRE

..  9

a d d i

BOLTS.

TR A PS.

rates.

CAPS.

BUCKETS.

W IR E  GOODS

SQUARES.

T IN   PLA TES.

BUTTS,  CAST.

TIN N E R   S SOUDER.

AUGERS AND BITS.

tip p e d ............................

.  $4  20
.  4 20
.  4  20
.  4  20
.  4  40
.  4  60

50&I0&10 
dis  50&10
.dis $ 
.dis 
dis

.........dis
60 
.......... dis
55 
.......... dis
55 
.......... dis
40 
...........kis
......$ fl>
09 
.........8*4
.........dis 3754
.........dis 3714
.........$fi>  354
.new  list net 
.new   list n et

20x28, Charcoal...........
)5&10 I IX, 
100 P late C harcoal.......
30  DC, 
DX
100 P late C harcoal.......
DXX,  100 P late C harcoal.......
DXXX,  100 P late C harcoal... 
Redipped  Charcoal  Tin  P lat 

dis  50
dis  50
dis  20
Com. Smooth. Com.
$3 00
3 00
3  00
3 00
3  20
3  40
All sheets No, 18 and  lighter, over 30 inches

Sisal, V4 In. and  la rg e r..............
M anilla............................................
j  P revailing  rates  a t  Chicago  are as  follows:
Steel and  Iro n ..............................
50 Try and Bevels............................
i Ives’, old  sty le.................................... __ dis 
55 M itre  ......................................
|  N. H. C. Co........................................... ....d is  
| Douglass’ ............................................. __ dis 
50
SHEET IRON.
I  P ierces’ ................................................ ....d is  
50
Snell’s ....................................................
50 Nos. 10 to  14.................................
...d is 
|  Cook’s  .................................................. __ dis40&10 Nos. 15 to   17.................................
1 Jennings’,  g en u in e............................ __ dis 
25 Nos. 18 to  21.................................
| Jennings’,  im itatio n.......................... __ dis40&10 Nos. 22 to  24.................................
BALANCES.
Nos .25 to  26.................................
1  Spring............................................. ...... __ dis 
25 No. 27.............................................
BARROWS.
1  R a ilro a d ...................................
__ $  15  00 wide n o t less th an  2-10 extra.
1 G arden..................................................
... n et 33 OO
SH EET  ZINC.
In  casks o f  600 lbs, $   lb............
BELLS.
H and
dis  $  60&10  In  sm aller quansities, 
Cow
.di
80
Call
.dis
15 I No. 1, Refined.
G o n g ................................................. —  dis
20 M arket H alf-and-half............................
Door, S argent................. »............. —  dis
55 Strictly H alf-and-half............................
Stove.................................................. ....d is  $
Cards fo r Charcoals, $6  75.
40
Carriage  new  list.......................... __ dis
75 IC,
10x14, < harcoal.......................... ....  6
Plow  ................................................. .......dis
IX ,
10x14,Charcoal.......................... . . . .  
30&1Í
8
Sleigh Shoe............................. . | ” ..  ..dis 50&15 IC,
12x12, Charcoal........................ __   6
Cast B arrel  B olts.......................... __ dis
50 IX ,
12x12,  C h a rc o a l........................ ___  
8
W rought B arrel B olts................... __ dis
IC,
14x20, C harcoal.......................... __   6
Cast B arrel, brass  k nobs............ —  dis
50 IX,
14x20,  Charcoal........ ................. __   8
Cast Square S pring.......................
55 IX X ,
....d is
14x20, Charcoal.......................... ....  10
Cast  Chain......................................
60 IX X X , 14x20, Charcool.......................... ....  12
....d is
W rought Barrel, brass  k n o b__ —  dis 55&10 IXXXX 14x20,  C harcoal....................... ....  14
.dis
W rought Sunk M ush.
dis
W rought  Bronze  and  P lated  Knob
F lu sh ......................................................
Ives’  Door
B arber  ..
4 0 1 
B ackus..
50 
Spotford.
50  Steel,  G am e...........................................
Am. %J1.
n et  Onoida Com m untity,  Newhouse’s . . 
I Oneida Com m unity, Hawley & N ort
Well, p lain ......................................................^
H otchkiss’ ............................... .............
4  00 
AVell, sw ivel........................................... .! . . .
S, P. & W. Mfg.  Co.’s ..........................
4  50
Mouse,  choker......................................
Cast Loose Pin, flgui’ed......................... dis
Mouse,  delusion..................................
60 
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin  bi*onzed.........dis
60. 
Cast Loose Jo in t, genuine bronzed, .dis 
B right  M a rk et....
60 
W rought Narrow , bright fast  jo in t..d is
A nnealed M arket..........
50&10 
W rounht Loose  P in .............................. dis
Coppered Mai’k e t...........
60 
Wi’ought Loose Pin, acorn tip __ ... .dis
E x tra B ailing.................
60&  5 
AVroughtLoose Pin, jap an n ed ............dis
0Ü&  5
Tinned  M arket..............
W rought Loose Pin, japanned, silver
Tinned  B room ...............
................dis  60&  5
Tinned M attress............
W rought T able.......................
Coppered  Spring  Steel.
..............dis 
60
W rought Inside  B lind........• ..............dis 
60
Tinned Spring Steel.......
W rought B rass..............
P lain F ence.....................
................dis  63&10
Blind. Clark’s ........................
Barbed  F ence.................
................dis  70&10
Blind, P a rk e r's..............
Copper...............................
................dis  70&10
Blind,  Shepard’s .................
..............dis 
70
B rass........................ .......
Spring fo r Screen Doors 3x2%, p er gross  15  00
Spring lo r Screen Doors 3x3 ....p e r  gross  18 00
B rig h t........
Sci’ew Eyes
Ely’s 1-10................................... ..............p e r  m  $ 65
Hook’s ___
H ick’s C. V ............................... .............. 
60
G ate Hooks
G. D ...........................................
35
..............  
M usket...................................
B axter’s Ac 
60
Coe’s G enuine 
Rim Fare, U. M. C. & W inche ste r  new list 
50
Coe's P aten t A gricult ural, w rouj
Rim F’ire, United  S tates__ ................. dis 
50
Coe’s P atent,  m alleable...............
Centrai F ire ............................
................. dis  %
■ANEOUS.
M ISGEL
CHISELS.
Pum ps,  C istern............
Socket F irm er........................
..............dis  65&10
S c re w s.............................
Socket F ram ing.....................
..............dis  66&10
Casters, Bed and  P late. 
Socket C orner.................
..............dis  65&10
Dam pers,  A m erican__
Socket Slicks..........................
..............dis  65&10
B utchers’ Tanged  F irm e r..
..............dis 
40
B arton’s Socket  F irm ers__ ..............dis 
20
Cold........................................... ................net
COMBS.
Curry, Law rence s .................
............ dis 
H otchkiss  .......... ..................
..............dis 
COCKS.
Brass,  Racking s ................... .....................  40&10
Bibb’s ...................................
...................  49&10
B e e r .......................................... .....................  40&10
Fenns’........................................ ...................  
60
Planished, 14 oz cut to siz e.. ................... $»n>  37
...................:...  39
M orse's Bit  Stock................. ..............dis 
35
T aper and S traight S hank... ..............dis 
20
Morse’s T aper  Soonk............ ..............dis 
30
ELBOWS.
Com. 4 piece, 6  in .................
.........doz net $1  10
C orrugated..............................
..............dis  20&10
Adj u sta b le............................... ..............dis  %&10
dis
Clar’s, small, $18  00;  large, $26  00. 
20
Ives’, 1, $18  00 ;  2, $24  00 ;  3, $30  00. 
dis
A m erican F'ile A ssociation  L ist......... dis
D isston’s ...................................................dis
New  A m erican.........................................dis
Nicholson’s ................................................dis
H eller’s .....................................................dis
H eller’s H orse R asps.............................dis
Nos. 16 to 20, 
List 

b. cars  as follows:
U ppers, 1 in ch .....................
Î44  00 
46  00 
U ppers, 1%, 154 mid 2 inch
Selects, 1 in ch .....................
35  00 
38  00 
Selects, 1%, 1*4 and 2  inch
30  00 
Fine Common, 1 in c h .......
S hop,1 in c h ........................
20  00 
32 00
Fine, Common, 1%, 15 
No. 1 Stocks,  12 in., 1
15 00
16 00 
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 18 f e e t..........................
17  00
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 20 fe e t..........................
15  00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 te e t.......
16  00 
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 18 f e e t..........................
17  00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 20 f e e t .........................
15 00
No. I Stocks, 8 in., 12,  14 and 16 fe e t.........
16  00 
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 18 fe e t............................
17  00 
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 20 fe e t............................
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 12,14 and 16  fe e t.......
12  00
13  00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 18 fe e t..........................
14  00 
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 20 fe e t..........................
12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 fe e t.......
13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 18 fe e t..........................
14  00 
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 20 fe e t................. »___
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 12,14 and 16  fe e t.........
11  00 
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 18 f e e t............................
12  00 
13  00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in.,  20 f e e t.......................
Coarse  Common  or  shipping  culls, all
w idths and  len g th s............................8 00@  9  00
A and B Strips, 4 or 6 i n .............................   33  00
C Strips, 4 o r 6 in ch ......................................   ^57  00
No. 1 Fencing, all  lengths..........................  15 00
No. 2 Fencing, 12,14 and 18  fe e t................  12 00
N<
12  00 
15 00 
Nc
12  00 
I  Nt 
20  00
•h, A and  B...................  18  00
Be 
14  50
Be 
9 00 
Be 
Be
20  00
10  00
S i a *
36  00 
29  00 
17  00 
14  00
ar> 00 
26  00 
16  00 
14  00
3  50 
3 40 
3  00 
2  00
1  75
2  00

4 o r 6 inch.
C.................................
, No. 1  Common__
1,  Clear.......................
v!2. 12 to 16ft............
jh 2  feet abo\-e 16 ft. 
in., A.  B .....................
in.. No.  1, com m on..
n., No. 2 com m on__
. $1  00  additiinul. 
in., A. B an d   Clear..
in., C............................
o r 5 in., No. I  com ’n 
o r 5 in., No. 2  com ’n 
eh, $1  00 additional, 
ird  Shingles..............

1 Fencii
2 Fencii 
rway C a 
,-el Sidin 
ælSidini 
,-el Sidin, 
,-el Sidin 
ce Stuff,
I Flc 
ressed F'lc 
ressed F'lc 
ressed F'lc 
jaded Ceil 
ressed Flc 
ressed F'lc 
ressed Flc 
ressed Flc 
jaded Ceil 
XXX 18 ii 
X X X lS ii 
XXX 16 ii

LU M B E R ,  L A T H   A N D   SH IN G LE S. 
The Newaygo M anufacturing  Co.  quote f 

COPPER.
14x52,14x56,14 x60..............
DRILLS

and  E yes................
W l’ENCHES. 
.Instable,  nickeled.

GA LV ANIZED IR O N ,
14 

50&10
60&10
5U&10
50&10
30
33%
2 8
18

and :: me. 
14 and 16 feet

EX PA N SIV E B ITS.

C ATRI DOES.

Shingles.

. p er M

H IN G ES.

33^i
25

P IL E S .

ht,

13 

OUiVIU

GAUGES.

HANGERS.

HAMMERS.

.O ff  W ARE.

>,  %  .................. . 

22 and  24,  25 and 26, 

r 
2r<
12 
IE
i 
D iscount, Ju n ia ta  45, Charcoal 50. 
Stanley Kulc and Level Co.’s ..............dis 
50
15
Maydole & Co.’s ......................................dis 
Kip’s .........................................................dis 
25
Y erkes&   Plum b’s .................................dis 
30
Mason’s Solid Cast  Steel......................30  c list 40
Blacksm ith’s Solid Cast Steel, H and. .30 c 40&10 
B arn Door K idder Mfg. Co.,  Wood tra c k  dis  50
Champion, an ti-frictio n...................... dis 
60
Kidder, wood  tr a .k ...............................dis 
40
G ate, Clark’s, 1,2,  3...............................dis 
60
S tate...............................................perdoz, net, 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to  12  in.  4%  14
8A4
and  longer................................................. 
Screw Hook and Eye,  A 
10%
. n e t
Screw Hook and Eye 
....................... . . .  n e t
8%
Screw Hook and Eye 
>  â£ ....................... . . .  n e t
Screw Hook and Eye,
i,  % ..................... .. . n e t
Strap and  T
Stamped Tin W are.................
eo& io
Japanned  Tin  AVare...................................  20&10
G ranite  Iro n   W are..................................... 
25
Grub  1  ................................................ $11  00, dis 40
G rub  2..................................................   11  50, dis 40
G rub 3....................................................  12 00, dis 40
Door, m ineral, jap. trim m in g s........ $2 00, dis 60
Door, porcelain, jap. trim m in g s__   2 50, dis 60
Door, porcelain, plated trim ­
m ings........................................... list,  7  25, dis 60
Door, porcelain, trim m ings  list, 8  25, dis
D raw er and  Shutter,  porcelain......... dis
P icture, H.  L. Judd &  Co.’s ....................d
H e m a c ite................................................. dis
Russell & Irw in Mfg. Co.’s reduced list dis
Mallory, W heelnr  Sc  Co.’s ...........................dis
B ranford’s .......................................................dis
Norw alk’s ........................................................ dis
Stanley R ule and Level Co.’s ___
.. dis  65
Coffee, P arkers  Co.’s ...................
.. .dis
Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s M alléables dis
Coffee, Landers, F erry &  Clark’s ..............dis  40
Coffee,  E n terp rise......................................... dis  25
Adze  E y e.......................................$16 00 dis 40&10
H unt E ye....................................... $15  00dis40&10
H u n t’s ........................................... $18  50 dis 20 & 10

LOCKS—DOOR.

MATTOCKS.

LEATELS.

K N O B S-

M ILLS.

HO ES.

N A ILS.

Common, B ra  and Fencing.

254 

MAULS.

O IL E R S.

8d  6d 
2 , 

2Ò
50
1  50 
3 00 
1  75

lOd to  60d...............................................keg $2  25
Sd and 9 d  adv..................................................
6d and 7d  ad v ...................................................
4d and 5d  ad v ..........................................
3d  advance................! ............................
3d fine  advance......................................
Clinch nails,  ad v ....................................
Finishing 
4d
I  lOd 
Size—inches  f  3 
1‘/,
Adv. $  keg 
$1  25  1  50  1  75  2  00 
Steel Nails—Same price as  above.
M OLLASSES GATES.
Stebbin’s P a tte rn   .................................
. . .d is  
Stebbln’s G enuine.................................
. . . d i s
E nterprise,  self-m easuring....................... dis
Sperry & Co.’s, Post,  handled..................... dis  50
Zinc o r tin, Chase’s P a te n t...........................dis  55
Zino, w ith brass b ottom ................................dis  50
Bra88or  Copper............................................. dis  40
R eaper........................................p e r gross, $12 n et
Olmstead’s .................................................... 
50
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fa n c y ................................... dis  15
Sciota B ench.....................................................dis  25
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fan cy .........................dis  15
Bench, flrstq u a lity ........................................ dis .20
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s,  wood  and 
Fry, A cm e.................................................. dis 40&10
Common, polished...............................   . .dis 
60
D ripping......................................................¥  ft 
8
40
Iro n  and  T inned.......................................dis 
Copper R ivets and  B u rs........................dis 
40
“A ” Wood’s p aten t planished, Nos. 24 to  27  1054 
“B” Wood’s p at. planished, Nos. 25  to  27 

PA TEN T FLA N ISA ED  IR O N .

PLA N ES.

R IV E T S .

PA N S.

9

Broken packs 54c $  lb extra.

Protecting Steel  and  Iron  from  Rust,
Professor Calvert has  recently  made  the 
interesting discovery by practical tests,  that 
the carbonates  of potash  and  soda  possess 
the  same  property  of  protecting  iron and 
steel  from  rust  as  do  those  alkalies  in a 
caustic state.  Thus it is found,  that,  if  an 
iron  blade  be  immersed  in  a  solution  of 
either of the above  carbonates,  it  exercises 
so protective an action, that  that  portion of 
the iron Avhich is exposed to the influence of 
the damp atmospheric  air  does  not  oxidize, 
even after so extended a period as two years. 
Similar results, it  appears,  have  also  been 
obtained with  sea-water,  on  adding  to  the 
same  the  carbonates  of  potash  or soda in 
suitable proportion.

Tempering  Hammers.

Tempering a hammer is a job which a great 
many men cannot do as it  should  be  done. 
A foreman of a  shop  gives  the  following 
method of  tempering:  After  the  hammer 
has been dressed in good  shape  and  every­
thing is ready to temper, get  an  old  coffee 
pot or some vessel with a small spout attach­
ed; heat your hammer  to  an  ordinary heat, 
and, holding it over the slack  tub,  pour wa­
ter from the coffee-pot spout  into the center 
of the face  until  cold.  This  hardens  the 
center to a greater depth than it can be  har­
dened by plunging  the  whole  face of  the 
hammer into the tub in  the  ordinary  way. 
The temper can afterwards be  drawn on the 
edges.

Idunium.

“Idunium” is the name proposed by Prof- 
fessor Websky for the metal just discovered 
by him as one of the  components  of  native 
vandate of lead.  The  mineral  is  rather  a 
scarce one of yellow color, and contains sev­
eral other metals, of  which  zinc,  iron,  and 
arsenic are among the most prominent. Idun­
ium resembles vanadine in  several  respects, 
both physically  and  chemically,  while  the 
only oxide hitherto  examined  forms  stable 
salts with alkaline  bases,  and  thus  would 
appear to possess distinctly acid  properties. 
It  will  probably  be  known  by  and  by as 
“idunic acic.”  Its general characteristics and 
reactions  correspond  to  those  of  vanadic 
acid. 

_

To remove bluiug from steel immerse in a 
pickle composed of  equal  parts  of  muriatic 
acid and oil of  vitriol.  Kinse in pure water 
and dry in tissue paper.

RO O FIN G  PLA TES.

IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal  T em e....... /........ 5  75
IX , 14x20, choice Charcoal  T ern e................  7  75
1C, 20x28, choice  Charcoal T e rn e ................12 00
IX , 20x28, choice Charcoal  T ern e................16 90

Foster,

Stevens

The Hew Era All Clamp Skate

New  Era  Rink  Skate.
.  The original cost of a roller skate is of m inor 
im portance to you, proidded you buy  th e   one 
th a t  can  be  ru n   a t  the  least possible cost in 
tim e and money.  AVe claim the New E ra to  be 
the m ost econom ical roller skate in th e  world, 
and this in connection with their im m ense pop­
ularity  with those who have  used  them ,  com­
m end them  to the atten tio n  of every rink own­
er  in  the  country.  O ur  Clamp  Skate is the 
ouly screw clam p made which  operates all the 
clam ps with one key at th e sam e tim e.
The “VINEYARD” Skates are very popular.

The  above  cut  represents  th e   New  H alf 
Clamped and Heel Strapped Roller Skate, with 
Steel  Top,  Engraved  Electro  Gold  o r  Nickel 
Plated  Heel  Band  and  Nickel  P lated  P late. 
This Skate is m uch sought for by those having 
ten d er feet  and  requiring  a  support  fo r  the 
ankle.

The V ineyard Roller All Clamp w ere  p aten t 
ed  Ju ly   13,  1880,  and  A pril 27,1881,  They are 
adapted fo r both Lapies and Gentlem en.  D ur­
ing the short tim e this skate has  been  in  use, 
it has w jn  rapid  popularity.  We also carry in 
stock The VINEYARD  “C,”  which  is  sim ilar 
in style to the “ New E ra  Rink.”
Rowlett’s  Star  Roller  Skate.

TH E  PERFECT  ROLLER  SKATE

We claim  for this  Skate:  Lightness,  P erfect 
A djustability, P erfection of Mechanism,  Easy 
of R unning and D urability, all tending to m ake 
w hat  we  claim  fo r  th e  “ S tar,”  the  P erfec t 
Skate.  The  adm irable  running1  qualities  of 
this Skate, together  w ith  the  elastic  tension, 
capable of delicate adjustm ent, m ake it a  fav­
orite  w ith  ladies  and  children,  avoiding  all 
tiresom e straining of the m uscles, th u s render­
ing skating tru ly  th e “poetry of m otion.”
A  nice  line  of  SKATE  BAGS  AND  BOXES 
carried in stock.

Men’s Skate Bags for ail clam p Skates.

Ladies’  Skate  Bags  fo r  all  sole  clam p Skates.

(filili

Men’s Skate Boxes fo r all clam p Skates.

Ladies’ Skate Boxes fo r sole clam p  Skates. 
W e solicit inquiries,  and  should  be  glad  to  
quote prices to dealers and rin k  m anagers.
FOSTER,  STEVENS  &  CO.,

WHOLESALE  HARDWARE, 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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Choice Butter a Specialty!

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Oranges,  Lemons,  Apples,  Cranber­

I

ries,  Cider,  Buckwheat  Flour,  Etc.
Careful  Attention  Paid  to  Filling  Orders.

M. G. Russell, 48 Ottawa St., B’d Rapids.
CLARK,  JEWELL  &  CO.,
Groceries  and  Provisions,

W H O X i H S A X i H

83,85 and 87  PEARL  STREET and 114,116,118 and 12»  OTTAWA  STREET, 

GRAND  RAPIDS. 

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Cracker  Manufacturers,

So lim a n  Sn o o k s,

G.  D., P. M. and J.  P.

Agents  for

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SO L IM A N   SNOOK S.

H is O p in ion  «>f D r u m m ers—W iddqr S p riggs 

itr o p s in to  P o e tr y .

Ca n t H ook Co r n e r s,  M ich.,  Ja n .  12, ’85. 
M ister editor of T raidsman :

Dear Sir—Things  has  settled  back to 
the old rut at the Corners,  after  all  the ex- 
sitement of the holidays, law su its,  fire, fes­
tivals, etc.  But we have some  fun, just the 
same, all the time, if the times is dull.

One way I  have  fun  is  with  drummers. 
You know  drummers  most  generally  go in 
kind of squads when they strike these  little 
towus?  And  the  stage  gets  in  hear at 4 
p. m. and don’t go out till next moruin. ’  Ev­
ery little while a lot of drummers will come, 
and they spend most of  the  evening  at  my 
offiss.  First  they  will  have  me  bring in a 
box of  my  best  cigars, a  bottle  (empty of 
corse), and some times a gallon of cider, and 
then they smoke and drink  (cider)  and  tell 
yams by the our.  And such rusty old yarns 
too, as some  of ’em  is.  The “Nights of the 
Road,” as they  call  themselves,  are  filled 
clear up to the chin with cute storys.

Somehow I always did like  the  boys, and 
I make it a pint, if I can't give ’em  a  little 
order,  to  treat  ’em  with  respeckt  anyhow 
and  give  ’em a smile. 
I kno  how I  wood 
feel if  I was  off  from  home,  month  after 
month, sleepin’ in cold  beds,  ridin’  in  cold 
stages, eatin’ cold late suppers and  tryin’ to 
sell goods to cross old fellers that don’t want 
nothing, and woodden’t kno it if they did.

All the drummers seems  to  like  me,  and 
they call me “Sol,” as if they  was  my  boo- 
som frends, and such a grip as  they  give  a 
fellar, after they have  leaned  their  sample 
case down by the end of  the  counter.  One 
jolly drummer I  used  to  know  was  called 
Graddy, I haint seen him in sum time.  Then 
there was a fellar the  boys  called  “Hank” 
used to be on the road sellin’ drugs,  he  was 
a lite complected chap, and he cood  tell  me 
what I needed better than I cood myself. 
I 
wonder what has become of him?  I remem­
ber  one  drummer  that  the  boys  called 
“Crook.” 
I dont know why,  cause  he  was 
not a crooked feller by any means.  He wood 
tell  a  funny  yarn  and  look as solem as  a 
undertaker all the time.  Then tliere> was  a 
mighty funny fellar named John  McIntyre, 
who borrered $2 of me and never came round 
enny more.  And a  slick-looking  old  chap 
named  Banker  comes  around  every  two 
months with one of his  darters—a  different 
one every time—he has a heap of  girls,  and 
every  one  his  own.  Then,  I can’t forgit 
Dick  Savage,  who  can  drink  more  cider 
than any other man in the business.  He al­
ways pattemized me, too.  Doc Evans comes 
around onct in a while and pats me under the 
chin, and tells me about  his  play  they  are 
acting down at Grand Kappids.  Geo. Owen 
tells  the  same  old  jokes every time, but  I 
can’t help likin.  the fellar for all that.  Gid. 
Kellogg came up onct to  sell  Potter  a  new 
mill  outfit,  and  as  long  as  he was at  the 
Comers, there was short rations for the rest of 
the citty.  I buy my boot sof Billy Logie, who 
won’t  buy  no  likker  or cigars or tobaceer, 
but  is  otherwise  a  pretty nice boy.  Tiien 
there’s|a fellow named Price,Nvho’s bin pretty ; 
near all over the world, and is getting pretty 
near  big  enough  to  reach  around  hisself. 
And then there’s the  three  Brads,  but  the 
less said about them the better.  One of ’em 
sold  me  vinegar  for  sand  refined  cider— 
claimed it was an  improvement  on  the  old 
kind, you know.  But about  the worst  case 
I  ever  saw  is  Henry  Ward Beecher, who 
was called that because he is  like  the  great 
pulpit pounder. 
I was going  to  say  some­
thing about Steve Sears, Geo.  Seymour,  M. 
H.  Treusch,  Dick  Warner  and  the rest of 
the  fellers  that  come  to  the  Corners, oc- 
asionaly,  but  I  guess  I’ll  leave  them  for 
another  time.

I  asked a drummer a while ago, why they 
was called “Nights of  the Road.”  He  said 
it  was  becoss  they  had  to  ride  so  much 
nights on the ears, and becoss once in a great 
while some drummers was seen out  late,  in 
the road, apparently looking for some boddy.
I allers like to get  all  the  infermation  I 
can and the grip sack boys never fale to give 
it, whether they have it or not.  Well,  it  is 
pretty late, so I must lock up  and  retire  to 
the arms or  Morphineus. 
I  wish  it  was— 
but uever mind—I was about  to say  that  1 
wished it was not so late, as I have  a  thing 
on my mind I want to tell you of, but it will 
keep until  morning.

ONE  D A Y  LA TE R .

Bro. Stowe, I  am  all  broke  up  over  a 
tuching tribute that appeared  this  week  in 
the Grumbleton  Orahbag, and I  have good 
reason for thinking it is ment for  your  um- 
ble servant, the undersigned. 
I do not have 
to guess twice to see  who  it  is  from, and I 
am sorry I ever treated sister Spriggs with a 
certain degree of hauteour, as I have hereto- 
for previously. 
I must mend  my actions in 
respect to the dear widder.

1 cut out the whole poem with remarks of 

editor and all, and hear it is:

Poetic  Department.

We have the pleasure of laying before our 
readers the  following  touching  lines  from 
the pen of our gifted  correspondent at  Pine 
Hollow.  It reflects much  approval  upon a 
well known  business  man,  not a  hundred 
miles from Grumbleton:

WHO?

Who is it th a t on th e ladies w ait?
And m akes th e ir h earts to palpitate,
*  A ud sm ilingly m arks it on th e slate.

Or sets it down upon his books,
Who?  b u t o u r  blessed

S------------ g-------------

W ho tears off p rin ts w ith sm iling face?
Who weighs o u t te a  w ith charm ing grace?
Who welcomes ladies to his place?
And greets them  all w ith pleasant looks?
Who?  O ur dear m erchant,

g------------ s-------------

Who keeps the very best Japan?
Who m easures kerosene  In can?
Or sells you salts o r pills, dear m an.
A nd only frow ns on beats and crooks.
He only—o u r own

S--------------- S----------------
Who needs a loving, charm ing wife?
To help him down th e vale of life;
Some widow, w ith experience rife;
N ot some young chit with only “looks,”
Who?  Cant Hook Corners’

S--------------- S----------------

Who helped th e chui-cty bell fund to raise?
Who leads the choir in songs of praise?
Who closes store on Sabbath days?
Who donated n u ts and flgs?
Who stole the heart of

Sister S---------------

I tell you what, that poem  just  brot  the 
tears to my eyes. 
It is  the  neatest  thing I 
have ever come across.  Then,  as an  adver­
tisement to my  bizness, it is  worth  all  of 
$2.75 at the lowest calkalation.

They had a  New  Years’  artch  at  Pine 
Holler totlier night, and  I  sent  down  ten 
yards of nice red caliker and blue  trimmin’s 
for it, a glass cake dish, and a bottle of  hair 
ile I made myself, all marked for Mehidable 
Spriggs.  So I feal better in  my  mind  than 
I did when I wrote you last.

We are going  to  have a  privit  amatoor 
dramatic performance at the Corners  before 
long,  a  temperance  peece,  I  understand. 
The young folks is pracktissing  and  rehers- 
ing every night for it.  The head  chap in it 
is a young feller named Kalahand.  He is a 
2nd Ed. Booth at the act bizness. 
I will in­
form you further when the play  comes  off.

Yours ever,

Brief Digests of Recent Decisions in Courts 

of  Last  Resort.

“ M ERCHANDISE”  INCLUDES LIVE STOCK.
Live stock are included in the term  “mer­
chandise,” according to  the  decision  of  the 
Supreme  Court  of  Texas,  in  the  case  of 
Gregory et al. vs. Beauchamp.

PA TEN T— PROCESS— MECHANISM.

A process by which a result is  attained  is 
patentable, as distinct from  the  mechanism 
by which the article is  produced,  according 
to the  decision of the United  States  Circuit 
Court, for the district  of  California,  in  the 
case of Scrivner vs. Oakland Gas Co.

MEANING  OF  “ M A Y ”   IN  STATUTE.

The  word  “may”  in  a  statute  means 
“shall” whenever the rights of the public or 
third persons depend  upon  the  exercise  of 
the power or the performance of the duty to 
which it refers, according to the decision  of 
the Supreme Court of Illinois,  in the case of 
James, assignee, vs. Dexter et  al.

CA R R IER ’ S 

L IA B IL IT Y — THROUGH 

CON­

TRACT.

A railroad  company  contracting  to  trans­
port goods to a point beyond its own termin­
us is liable for  delay  or  damage  occurring 
upon connecting roads, according to the  Su­
preme Court of  California,  in  the  case  of 
Pereira vs. Central Pacific Railroad Co..

PARTNERSH IP  DISSOLUTION— NOTICE,
A note given in the name of a firm by one 
of its members after dissolution  to  one who 
extends credit to the firm, and who  has  had 
no notice of such dissolution, and  where  no 
notice of any kind has been given, binds the 
firm,  notwithstanding  the  dissolution,  ac­
cording to the decision of the Supreme Court 
of Georgia in case of Ewing et al. vs. Trippe 
et al.

A G E N C Y — AUTHORITY  TO  R E CEIVE  P A Y ­

MENT.

According to the decision of the  Missouri 
Supreme Court, in the case of Hirskfield  vs. 
Waldron,  the  presentation  of  a  bill  by  a 
merchant’s  employee  does not  warrant  the 
debtor thereon in paying it to him, unless  it 
is within the scope of his employment to re­
ceive payment, and his mere  statement  that 
he is authorized to receive it is  not  enough, 
nor is it enough that the bill is  in  the  mer­
chant’s handwriting  and  on  one  of  his  bill 
heads.

COMMON CARRIER— L IA B IL IT Y   A F T E R  TR A N ­

SIT.

According to the decision of  the  Supreme 
Court of Missouri, in the ca$e of  Gashneiler 
vs. Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway Co., 
the liability of a railroad as  a  common  car­
rier ceases after  transit  is  ended,  which  is 
when  the  goods  are  discharged  from  the 
cars, and notice to the consignee is not  nec­
essary when the contract  of  shipment  pro­
vides “that the goods must be removed from 
the station during business hours on the day 
of their arrival or be stored  at  the  owner’s 
risk and expense.”

More Unprofessional Practices.

Carroll & Turner,  which is  only  another 
way of expressing the relationship supposed 
to exist between Turner & Carroll, are up to 
their old  tricks  again—writing  around  for 
claims.  A large Eastern house recently  ad­
vised their legal  representative  in this city, 
as follows:  “Carroll & Turner write us that 
they have investigated the Harrington  mat­
ter, at Holland, and wish our  claim,  to  put 
| with  two  heavy  Chicago  creditors,  whom 

J  they  claim  to  represent,  with  a  view  to 

i bring  pressure  to  bear  and getting a  good 
I compromise.  But we have  tried  them  and 
> have no faith in them.”  Hence,  the  house 
i paid no attention to the begging  appeal.

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