Michigan  Tradesman.

GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICHIGAN,  W EDNESDAY,  MAY  27,  1885.

Some  of  the  Dangers  Surrounding  Stock 

Companies.

Business men have had the  words  “stock 
company” dinned into tlieir ears so much of 
late that most  of  them  have  come  to  look 
upon corporations as  pretty lively concerns, 
although  they  are  supposed  to  be  minus 
souls.  The fact is that nowadays there is a 
perfect  mania  to  incorporate  everything. 
No one appears to be satisfied with  a  genu­
ine old-fashioned  firm  style.  The  “proper 
caper” is to  append  the  words  “a  corpora­
tion,” and that  settles  it  in  the  minds  of 
many; credit is no longer withheld, for sure­
ly a corporation must liave plenty of money. 
Since a corporation rarely lias less than $50,-
000 capital. 
I dare say that  you  have been 
pestered  half  to  death  to  “take  stock”  in 
this,  that or  the  other.  Talk  about  prom­
ises!  Well,  your  genuine  “corporation 
fiend”  beats  Colonel  Sellers.  The  funny 
thing about him is  that  the stock  lie  offers 
you is always  “full  paid  up  stock.”  He 
confidentially  informs  you  that  the  incor­
porators are old friends of his  and  have  let 
him have a small  block  of  the  stock  at a 
nominal figure,  thirty  cents  on  the  dollar, 
par value, and as he has  “always liked  you 
so much,” he is ready to let you in for a few 
hundred  shares  at  the  same  figure.  He 
doesn’t  want  to  make a cent out of  an old 
friend,  etc.

My advice to you is,  fight very  shy of the 
“corporation  fiend,”  and,  above  all  the 
“mining shark.”  Never  touch  a stock un­
less it represents  value;  that is,  a  genuine 
healthy speculation which will bear the clos­
est  scrutiny.  Don’t  be  dazed  by  Arabian 
night’s  entertainments,  in  which  dividends 
will knock Aladdin’s lamp higher than  Gil­
roy’s kite.  And don’t think  that  because a 
corporation  owns  a  patent, or a mine,  or a 
business of any kind,  it will not require any 
money to  run  it.  Pretty  generally it  re­
quires double the amount that an individual 
would  need,  and  somebody  must  put  the 
money  in.  Corporations  are  human  even 
if they do seem  a  bit  mysterious.  Let  me 
try to give  you  some  idea  what  a corpora­
tion is.

Chief-Justice Marshall said that a corpor­
ation was an  “artificial being,  invisible,  in­
tangible and existing only in  contemplation 
of law.”  In plainer lingo,  it is  “a collection 
of individuals  who have  a  lawful  right to 
act as one individual.”

The laws of  the  various  states  prescribe 
how corporations shall be created.  The us­
ual manner of proceeding is for a number of 
incorporators—never  fewer  than  three—to 
execute a certificate of incorporation and file 
it with some  designated  officer  or  officers. 
This certificate must contain the name of the 
corporation, nature of  its  business, amount 
of stock,  number of  shares, principal  place 
of business,  length of corporate life, and the 
names of the  directors  or  trustees  for the 
first year.  Of course it must have a corpor­
ate seal,  and  its  directors  must  meet  and 
elect officers and adopt by-laws.

Bear in mind that when you subscribe for 
fifty or  one  hundred  shares  of  stock  you 
have virtually given your notes  for the var­
ious calls or assessments  that  the  company 
may make.  You  will  have  to pay up and 
look pleasant, or forfeit  your cash subscrip­
tion or be sued.

There is another contingency.  The  com­
pany may increase  its  stock  and call  upon 
you to take your  pro  rata  share  of the in­
crease at a certain figure  or  lose  it.  There 
is still another.  The  directors  may  wreck 
the whole concern, and then you’d find your­
self hounded by a pack  of  infuriated  credi­
tors.

Just what your  liabilities  would  be  de­
pends upon what state you  live in,  whether 
your stock has been fully paid up—honestly
1  mean,  not by some  fraud,  trick or  device 
—and whether you are simply a stockholder 
or also a  director.

In moneyed corporations the stockholders 
are bound to  keep  their  capital  intact. 
In 
ordinary corporations,  as I have  said,  it de­
pends upon the particular state  law.  Some 
are  more  lenient  than  others. 
In  some 
states your liability as a  stockholder  would 
cease,  provided  the  company’s  stock  had 
been fully paid up within  two  years  and a 
certificate filed to that effect. 
In others you 
would be personally liable to a pro rata  as­
sessment—according to the amount of stock 
held by you—to pay the debts  of  the  com­
pany. 
If you are a director or trustee  your 
liability is greatly increased, for in the event 
of your filing a false report or  neglecting to 
do any act prescribed by  law,  you  and your 
co-directors would  become personally liable 
for the debts of the company.

See to it that you don’t  lend  yourself to a 
species of  fraud  committed  almost  every 
day in the name of  a  corporation.  I refer to 
the trick of  the issuing whole capital stock, 
say a million dollars,  for a worthless mining 
claim, patent right, or what not. 
In such a 
case,  the court would hold  your  stock to be 
“fraudulently paid up,”  and  you  would be 
liable for  the  whole  face-value  excepting 
any cash you may have paid for it.  A stock­
holder should always  make  it  a  point  to 
keep an eye on the trustees and see to it that 
they attend to their duties properly.  A cor­
poration can perform almost any act that an 
individual can,  save,  possibly  getting  mar­
ried or divorced.  It may be sued  for assault

and battery,  false imprisonment, for libel or 
slander,  or it may sue  for  any of  these it­
self ; and although a corporation is supposed 
to have “no soul,” yet it can and does die in 
several ways—1st,  by reaching the end of its 
corporate life; 2d, by failure to organize  af­
ter incorporation; 3d,  it  may  surrender  its 
fanehise; 4tli, the  legislature  may  kill  i t ; 
5th,  it may forfeit its life by doing an unlaw­
ful act.

Finally,  let me say that, like  many  other 
things,  corporations are  often  very  easy to 
get into,  but mighty hard to get out of again. 
“Prove all things and  hold  on  to  what  is 
good.”

Disastrous

Methods  of 
Trade.

Forcing  Retail

It has become a common  practice of  late 
years for retail merchants to buy  job lots of 
goods  which  wholesalers  are  desirous  of 
closing out, and 
to  sell  the same at  such 
rates as put them into the hands of consum­
ers at about or even  sometimes  below  the 
cost to manufacturers or importers.  This is 
done, of course, to attract  trade and to keep 
bargains  on  the  counters.  But  it is very 
questionable if this. practice is not'injurious 
both to the retailers themselves  and  to bus­
iness at large. 
In  dull  times,  especially,  it 
seems to the merchant that something must 
be done, and this feeling of necessity hastens 
the  adoption  of  a remedy  that,  properly 
viewed,  must  work  consequences  worse 
than the disease.

The whole  theory  of  advertising  goods 
down and selling  them  down  is  wrongly 
conceived. 
It is serious  matter  enough for 
trade when general causes  are  operating to 
let values  down  to  a  lower  than  normal 
plane,  as has been the ease for  two or three 
years past. 
It is  this  downward  tendency 
that produces stagnation  in  business.  No­
body wishes  to  buy  on  a falling  market. 
Every one will wait as much as possible for 
the lowest point that may be reached.  Now, 
when in such times the retailer can  buy job 
lots at slaughter prices,  and offer  them over 
his counters at about  the  same  he gives for 
them,  it is plain,  or  ought  to  be plain,  that 
while the public may take  these goods,  half 
given away, they are not going to pay regu­
lar prices for other goods.

The effect is rather to add to the demoral­
ization of values and to  keep  up,  if  not in­
tensify,  their downward  tendency. 
It does 
this in a  general  way,  affecting  trade  at 
large,  and it ^specially  weakens  the  posi­
tion of all the goods in the store when these 
remarkably low prices are  made.

We say the whole theory on which this is 
done is  wrongly  conceived. 
It  would  be 
sounder policy,  and  much  better in  many 
ways, to advertise goods  up  and sell  them 
up, than downward. 
If merchants can buy 
bargains at the end of the wholesale  season 
that would enable them to give  them  away 
without loss,  it is bad policy to do so.  Mer­
chants should uphold legitimate values,  and 
if they can buy anything at. an  exceptional 
advantage,  they  should  ask  its  value  and 
make money.  It is a puerile custom to write 
goods down in order to sell them. 
It aggra­
vates the difficulties that  suggest  it.  Ask­
ing a leading merchant of  this  city why he 
does not follow  this  practice,  he  replied: 
“We believe in our goods,  and we sell them 
in accordance  with  our  belief.  We  have 
nothing to complain of as to trade.”

We happen to know that one of the great­
est advertisers in  the  country  has  recently 
had his attention  called  to  the  impolicy of 
writing his goods down,  and that  he was so 
struck with  the  views  advanced  that  the 
whole tone of  his  advertising  has  been  al­
tered. 
It is all right for  merchants  to  sell 
at as small a profit as they may find to their 
advantage to  do,  but  nothing  is  gained  by* 
decrying one’s  own  goods. 
It is  very  im­
portant  that  merchants  should  assume  a 
different  attitude  toward  the  buying  com­
munity now,  for  there  are  abundant  evi­
dences that the tide has turned and that the 
forces are operating to harden values.  What 
is needed more than  anything  else  is that 
merchants should cease this internecine war­
fare and show their own faith in  their  own 
goods.  The long lane is  turning  and  will 
turn more rapidly  if  merchants,  retail  and 
wholesale, will  change  their  policy  in  re­
spect  of  this  mistaken  device  of  writing 
down their own goods.

The catch of codfish  off  the  Newfound­
land Banks during  1884  was  the largest on 
record.  The French take  annually  300,000 
quintals of  cod,  worth  $1,400,000.  Ameri­
cans take a large quantity, but no returns are 
kept.  The whole amount  taken  during the 
year was 1,830,417 quintals,  showing  New­
foundland to be the largest  and  most  valu­
able cod  fishery in the  world.  Next  to it 
comes Norway,  with  an  annual  catch  of 
700,800 quintals.

People who are guided in  their  selection 
of butter by the bright  yellow hue  they im­
agine all good butter  ought  to  possess,  are 
responsible,  however  unconsciously,  for  a 
certain species of  adulteration  often  prac­
ticed by butter makers in  order to  give  the 
desired color to the  article.  Butter  may be 
perfectly sweet and good,  yet not be of  this 
favorite color.

Twenty railroads have been  placed in the 
hands of receivers from January 1 to March 
81,  1885.

Man’s Willingness to Fight.

G. C. Mathews in the Current.

It was but  yesterday that  peace  reigned 
throughout the world.  People  had  begun 
to think  that mankind  had  forever  done 
with wars.  Among the grand events which 
have made the Nineteenth  Century so illus­
trious in history,  the evolution of the genius 
of  arbitration  is  conspicuous.  Many  had 
come to believe that the nations of the earth 
would hereafter settle their  disputes  by ap­
peals to their neighbors rather than to arms. 
Napoleon’s* figure  was  growing  dim  upon 
the background  of  Time. 
It  seemed  that 
each nation had found its  proper  territorial 
limits and that their statesmen could hence­
forward devote their  attention  to  domestic 
development.  Othello’s occupation  appear­
ed almost gone.  The  promotion  of  trade 
relations was regarded as the chief business 
of Emperor and Congress,  King  and  Presi­
dent.  Philosophers were  prone to look up­
on such a war-epoch as that  through  which 
the world passed between  the  time  when 
Washington took up the sword and Welling­
ton laid it down,  as the  last  of  the  great 
periods  of  readjustment  of  the  metes  and 
bounds of empire.  They were  disposed to 
look  upon  the  map-lines  of  the  present 
geographies as finally  accepted  facts.  The 
fear  was 
revolutions 
were about to occur; that the Democrat and 
the Socialist,  the Communist and the Nihil­
ist would change the  character  of  Govern­
ments.  Current literature  abounded  in the 
work of economists who were  proposing all 
kinds  of  processes  for  the  overtiming  of 
thrones and the bringing about  of  new gov­
ernmental conditions.  There was a scarcity 
of the literature of  that  patriotism which is 
absolutely satisfied with things  as  they are. 
But suddenly there was an  unexpected con­
junction of the stars, and the astrologers are 
found far out of their reckoning.  The Mahdi 
looms warlike on the sands of  the  Soudan; 
the French begin bombarding  the  Chinese; 
the Czar fires upon the Afghan Ameer; Bis­
marck forgets his etiquette  and runs  up the 
German flag in disputed territory ; the Turk 
begins to dicker; the  Italian  soldier  finds 
employment; the  bold  Guatemalan  aspires 
to  weld  together  the  Central  American 
States;  the  Canada  half-breeds  defy  the 
Government,  and American gun makers find 
business never  so  good.  Truly, the  times 
are very much out of joint.

that  great  local 

What is the meaning of it all?
The meaning is  that  the  world  has  not 
come to be the habitation of meii who differ 
in passions and desires and  ambitions  from 
their fathers.  Human nature has not chang­
ed.  People are still  willing  to go  to battle 
for the assertion of rights  and  for  the na­
tional glory.  The war-spirit was not dead; 
it only slumbered.  The soldier is still a fac­
tor in affairs.  Yesterday all  was apparent­
ly serene and the  round-the-world  traveler 
had no occasion to  avoid a  single  country 
on account of a war blockade.  A  glance at 
the register of the British  soldiery  revealed 
an immense  number of  high-tilted  officers 
paid out of the national  treasury for simply 
keeping  up  appearances.  No  one  could 
conceive of  the  probability  of  a  war  big 
enough to employ, them  all. 
l ret  we  have 
just been told by the  dispatches  that  there 
are barely enough to meet the  national  exi­
gency.

The century is indeed ending  as it began, 
with war a  universal  epidemic.  The  Gen­
ius of Arbitration and  the  Spirit of  Frater­
nization liave taken flight.  We  have had it 
again  demonstrated  that  political  convul­
sions and  revolutions  are  always  possible 
and that the map of the  world  may  yet be 
changed.  Warfare and  diplomacy are  still 
fine arts.  The  prestige of  the Caucasian’s 
prowess is not  sufficiently  potent to  save a 
Gordon from a Mohammedan’s dagger  or to 
cause the heathen Mongolian to tamely sub­
mit to  the  exploiting  Frenchman.  These 
are novel events and  they  show  the multa- 
bility of all things temporal.  Mankind  has 
not completed its circle.  Nations,  like  the 
hills and valleys,  are still transforming.

He Gained  His Point.

“Boss,” he whispered,  as  he  leaned  over 
the counter,  “de ole woman wants some tea 
mighty bad,  an’ I hasn’t got any money.” 

“Can’t help that,  sir,” was the reply,  “I’m 
giving more than  I  can  afford  to  without 
taking on any new applications.”

“ ’Zactly,  boss—I  presume  so.  Boss, 

please give me your full name.”

“John Y. Blank.”
“An’ dat of yer pardner.”
“His name is William J.  Jones.  What 

do you want of our names?”

“Well,  I didn’t get de tea,  but  you  used 
me like a gem’len,  an’ bein’ as we  has  got 
twins in our family I’ze gwine to name  ’em 
arter you an’ your pardner.”

“Oh! you said tea,  eh!  Why, yes,  I’ll be 
happy to put up half  a  pound.  Green  or 
Japan?  Twins, eh?  Hope the mother  is 
doing well.  Say,  if you want those boys to 
make smart men give ’em smart  names. 
If 
I were you, I’d call ’em John and William.”
Sibley  &  Bearinger,  of  East  Saginaw, 
have  bought of  Henry  Gamble a tract  of 
land  in  Ogemaw  county,  directly  back  of 
the disputed Devoe  dam,  for  $105,000. 
It 
is estimated that  they  can  cut  from it 33,- 
000, OO0 feet of pine.

NO. 88.

W hat Becomes  of the Trade Dollars.
Speaking  of  counterfeits  suggests  the 
question,  “What becomes  of  all  the  muti­
lated  coin  and  universally  rejected  trade 
dollars?”  In part,  it is answered below:

“A new use has been found for the much- 
abused trade dollar by an  enterprising  jew­
eler.  He  takes  the  despised  coin,  and 
makes it up into such shapes as he can with­
out destroying its identity.  Some of the de­
signs are copyrighted,  just  as  a  publisher 
would copyright a book,  to keep  the sharks 
and  guerillas  of  the  trade  from  stealing 
them. 
‘Here  is one,’ said the dealer,  pro­
ducing what appeared to be a new specimen 
of the coin,  ‘designed  for  a  pocket  piece. 
The piece is split.and hollowed out so that a 
picture can be placed in it.  The  pieces fit 
together so perfectly that no one would ever 
suspect the use to which it has been adapted. 
Here is a match box  made  of  four  of  the 
dollars.  You  see the coins, although split 
so that both surfaces show ou the face of the 
design, are so bent and  worked  into  shape 
that their outlines are undisturbed.  Noth­
ing else enters into the  composition  of  the 
box  but  the  hinge.’  Another  curiosity 
shown was a cigarette  case  made  of  coins 
of various denominations—dimes,  quarters, 
half-dollars, and trade dollars welded  on  to 
a silver  base  of  aligator-skin  design,  and 
so oxidized that the coins seemed a  century 
old. 
‘Is  there  no law against putting the 
coin  to  such  use?’  inquired  the  reporter. 
‘You can  do  as  you  please  with  United 
States  money,  if  you  do  not  attempt  to 
counterfeit it or try to pass it after you have 
mutilated  or  otherwise  tinkered  with  it. 
Speaking of counterfeiting  reminds  me  of 
the experience of a friend in the  same  line. 
Me conceived the idea of making a cigarette 
case  out  of  gold  and  enamel to resemble 
a roll of bills.  He carried out the  idea, and 
succeeded so  well  that  the  Secret  Service 
officers got after him,  and lie made only one 
specimen. 
It  was a beauty,  however,  and 
represented  a  roll  of  fifty-dollar  bills. 
The design  was perfect.’ ”

The  Drummer’s  Prayer.
From the Cincinnati Saturday  Night.

There is a  certain  merchant  traveler  of 
our acquaintance who, notwithstanding  the 
fact that he has a good time with  the  boys, 
never forgets to say his prayers.  One night 
nine or ten of them were in one  room,  and 
the traveler got down on his knees, as usual. 
The others began  to  throw  bootjacks  and 
pillows at the man on his knees, but he kept 
quietly at his devotions until he  had  finish­
ed.  When he got up lie said :

“Boys,  it is all right.  You  can  treat me 
as you please. 
I’m not praying for myself. 
I know the Lord  would  have  a  hard  time 
saving me and I don’t ask him to tackle  the 
job, but,  boys,  I’ve got a wife  and babies at 
home  without  my  protection,  and  I  love 
them, and I’m going to pray every  night  to 
the good Lord to care for  them  and  watch 
over them,  and all the bootjacks  and  shoes 
and pillows in the world can’t stop me.”

The boys were thoughtful after that,  and 
one or two,  who  had  thought  of  the loved 
ones at home, wiped their eyes just a  little.

Mutilated Silver Coins.

The director of the U.  S.  mint  lias issued 
the following circular in regard to  the  pur­
chase of mutilated silver coins:

The superintendents of the mints at Phila­
delphia,  San  Francisco  and  New  Orleans 
have been authorized to purchase  mutilated 
and itncurrent United States  silver  coin  of 
standard fineness at the rate  of 98 cents per 
ounce,  Troy  weight,  when  presented  in 
sums of $3 and upwards.  Coins can be for­
warded to these mints by registered  mail or 
by express  (charges prepaid),  and the value 
will be returned at the sellers  risk  and  ex­
pense by express, registered mail, check  or 
draft.

Persons  sending 

full  weight  United 
States subsidiary silver coins would receive, 
at the rate authorized,  about 78c  per  dollar 
of their face value, but  for  mutilated  coins 
a less amount, proportioned to  tlieir  defici­
ency in  weight.

Where the Corsets Go To.

Many men—married ones, of course—have 
doubtless often wondered what  becomes  of 
the old corsets.  They know that new ones 
have to be bought quite  often, depending on 
the qualtity of the article, and the  old  ones 
disappear. 
If it will be any satisfaction to 
know,  they  go  into  the  rag-bag,  and  are 
eventually transformed into  paper,  all  ex­
cept the iron or brass and whalebone used in 
their construction. 
The  very  copy of the 
paper you hold in  your  hands,  and  which 
you are enjoying so in reading, may possibly 
once have encircled the  waist of  your  wife 
or daughter.

Messrs. Ellis, Lever & Co., of Manchester, 
present a remarkable  contrast  to  the  ordi­
nary English trader.  The firm has a marked 
dislike for Russia,  being  from  an  English 
point of view pre-eminently patriotic.  They 
received an order for  25,000  tons  of  steam 
coal to be delivered in Russian ports.  They 
declined to supply the  coal,  Mr.  Lever an­
swering.  “I decline to sell a ton of  coal to 
Russia at any price,”  This would look very 
self-sacrificing, but it may be safely predict­
ed that with the aid  of  the  huge  advertise­
ment which the refusal Jias  given  the  firm 
they will be amply  recouped  by  increased 
Jingo patronage.

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44  CANAL  STREET,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  MICHIGAN.

McALPIN’S

Plug  Todacco

Is  the  most  Delicious  Chew  on  the 

Market.

SOLD  BY ALL JOBBERS.

Parties having potatoes in car load lots 

can  find  a  quick sale for them 

by writing us.

71 Canal St.,

Geo. N. Davis & Co.

GRAND  RAPIDS.

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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MICH.

No. 4 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids.

-MANUFACTURERS  OF-

AWNINGS,  TENTS,

HORSE  AND  WAGON  COVERS. 

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

Oiled  Clothing,  Ducks,  Stripes,  Etc. 

State Agents for the 

Watertown  Hammock  Support. 

SEND  FOR  PRICES.

73  Canal  Street, 

-  Grand  Rapids, Mich.

NEW  GOODS.  New 
Prices down to the whale­
bone.  Goods always sale­
able, and always reliable. 
Buy close and often.
ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED

Shoemaker bill for the regulation of  freight 
traffic,  allows a wrong impression to go  out 
regarding the jobbing  transactions  of 
this 
city.  Referring  to  the  petition signed by 
the thirty members of  the  Exchange,  Mr. 
Smith makes affidavit as follows :

Dr.  N.  J. Aiken has purchased  the  gen­
eral stock  of A.  C.  Gouschow,  at Clayton, 
and will continue the business until a favor­
able opportunity is presented for  its dispos­
al.

Albert  Kuppenheimer  is  fitting  up  the

A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE

Mercantile and lamifacturing Interests of the State.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

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

WEDNESDAY.  MAY  27,  1885.
Merchants and Manufacturers’ Exchange.
Organized at Grand Rapids October 8,1884.

Rapids, Mich., whose jobbing 
gates about $40,000,000 annually.

As a matter of fact, the entire jobbing and j 
manufacturing business  of the  city  during j 
j  1884 amounted to  only  $24,000,000,  while 
the thirty houses  composing  the  Exchange 
represent about one-quarter  of that amount, 
i certainly  not  to  exceed  one-third. 
T he 
I T radesm an is proud of  the  record  Grand 
Rapids is  able  to  present  to  the  business

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Rickard  Bros, 

intend  engaging  in  the 
manufacture of their patent extension  step- 
ladder on a large scale as soon as they close 
out their hardware business on South Divis­
ion  street.

 

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The new policy  of  the 

T ra n sp o r ta tio n   C o m m ittee—S a m u e l  S ea rs, 
Geo. B. Dunton, Amos. S. Musselman. 
ncnranw fiommitte—John G. Shields, Arthur .
Insurance Committe- 
Mpisrs. Win. T. LiQ.nior68.ux. 
Manufacturing Committee—Wm.  Cartwright,,
E  S. Pierce, C. W. Jennings. 
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Annual Meeting—Second  Wednesday evening |
Regular° l.Ieetings—Second  Wednesday  even-1 

Henry Barry and  H.  A.  Lewis  have  en-
P r e sid e n t—L e ste r  J. R in d g e . 
gaged in the drug  and  grocery  business  at
V ice -P resid en t—C has. H. L eon ard .
E^ecmive_ Committec—President,  Vice-Pres- j  ^ r id ,  and would gladly overlook any minor | Ravenna, under the firm  name  af  Barry  &
Lewis.  Fox, Musselman &  Loveridge  fur­
ld4 r- ^  ETHawkmr8’ ^ f . D .  S w t S t w o   exaggeration, but  the  discrepancy  between 
nished the groceries.
T  M  Clark  BenW  $6,000,000  or  $8,000,000  and  $40,000,000 
is  too  great to be passed by without correc-
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J.  H.  Killmer,  whose  store  building  and 
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i  stock at Saranac was destroyed by fire about
Secretary  of  th e! two years ago, has resumed the grocery bus- 
general  com-1 mess  in his new building.  Arthur Meigs & 

Co.  furnished the stock.

ing of each month.  ________ ____ ________

Michigan Dairymen’s Association.

Treasury  is  attracting  very  general  com 
ment in the leading journals of the country
the  policy  is  as  follows: j  Chas.  Sackrider,  of Hart,  and  J.  B.  Cros- 
Briefly  stated, 
First,  as long as $24,000,000 annually  must j  b
  0f Detroit,  have formed a  copartnership 
be used in the coinage of silver dollars,  the ; an(j engaged in general trade at Hart, under 
periodical payments on account of the bond-  ^ ie  firm name of Chas. Sackrider  & Co.  Ar- 
Organized at  Grand  Rapids,  February  25. 1885. | ed debt>  as formerly,  are to be discontinued.  J  tliur Meigs & Co. furnished the grocery stock.
No meaner sneak  exists  than  the  man 
. President—Milan Wiggins, Bloomingdale. 
Vice-Presidents—W.  H.  Howe,  Capac,  I_.  C. 
who seeks to injure the credit of a dealer by 
VStone  Saginaw  City;  A.  P.  Foltz  Dav.son 
Station;  F.  A.  Rockafellow,  Carson  City, 
sending his creditors an  anonymous  letter. 
Warren Haven, Bloomingdaie;  Cha^ E. Bel- 
Several of the jobbers  at  this  market were 
knap.  Grand  Rapids;  L.  F.  Cox,  Portage,
John Borst, Vriesland;  R. C. Nash, Hilliards,
the recipients, one day last week, of unsign­
D.  M.  Adams,  Ashland;  Jos.  Post,  Claiks-
ed letters  attacking  the  integrity  of J.  H. 
Secretary and Treasurer—E. A.  Stowe,  Grand
Loucks, the Sylvester  general  dealer.  Mr. 
N?xatP Meeting-Third  Tuesday  in  February, 
Loucks visited the city Monday and entered 
1886.Membership Fee—$1 per year.
a general denial of the  statements  made in 
Official O rgan—T h e  M ic h ig a n  T r a d e s m a n .
the letters—a denial that  was  entirely  un­
necessary,  as his creditors  have  too  much 
confidence in his integrity to  be  frightened 
by the malicious acts of a man who seeks to 
stab another in the back.

Organized at  Grand Rapids, June 28,1884.

Post A., I.  C.T. I

certificates,

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Second,  the issue of  silver  certificates,  so j 
called  (made  receivable  for  customs  and i 
taxes by the Treasury, and so virtually paid i 
for in gold),  is to be  stopped. 
Third,  the | 
certificates now out are to be  taken  in  and 
canceled as soon as they can be, expediently,  j 
and no new ones are to  be  issued  in  their | 
place,  excepting—Fourth, when a person de­
posits  silver  dollars  in  the  United  States 
Treasury,  and asks for a certificate  in  their 
place,  according to the  exact  letter  of  the 
law. 
Fifth, the United States Treasury is 
not going to compel the banks in the  Clear­
ing-House to receive silver or  silver  certifi­
cates in place of gold for  settlement  of  its 
The lumber firm of Wetzell Bros. & Pant- 
balances. 
It  is  because of these last posi­
lind terminated by  dissolution  on  May  1.
tions named that the first one named  is  de­
When the Wetzell  brothers  assigned  about 
termined upon,  so  that  the  Secretary  may
accumulate gold sufficient to insure  the sue- j eighteen months ago, the management of the 
I firm’s  affairs  devolved  upon  Geoige  1 ant
cess of his new policy. 
j  lind,  who immediately set himself about the
The agitation of  the  Bell  telephone  mo- | wor£ 0f extricating  the  business from  its 
nopoly is likely to secure the  passage of the  complicated condition.  So well  did he suc- 
Dodge bill, now  before  the Legislature.  A j  cee(b that he paid  every  claim  against  the 
committee from the  Massachusetts  Legisla- j  ¿j-m,  with  interest,  besides  being  able  to 
ture has just  made  a  report  which  reveals , keep the original capital nearly  intact.  As 
the actual condition of affairs.  The  capital  a  business man,  Geo. Pantlind  has  proved 
of the Bell company comprises $6,000,000 in j himself to  be financier of  no  mean  ability.
! cash and patents valued at $4,000,000 more, 
lumber, sawmill and other lumbering 
j making the  total  capital  $10,000,000.  On 
i of Montgomery,  Haire  &  Giddings, 
j this investment,  dividends  to the  enormous 
Mecosta
! aggregate of $400,000,000  have  been  paid 
since 1881.  The actual cost of the telephone
anufac- 
to the company is $3.42,  but it is  r 
s a con- 
tured by a company in which Bell h 
within 
trolling interest, thus making a rinj 
I to the 
a ring.  The annual  rental  charg 
¡phones
sub-companies for the use of the te 
is $14 each, or about 250 per  cent,  annually j  f 
on the cost of the  instruments,  which  the 
sub-companies are also  obliged  to  keep in 
repair.  Besides, the Bell company exacts a
considerable percentage of  the  stock of the 
sub-companies,  which is to a certain  extent | *>y m e xuuiu 
preferred.  The  Michigan  Bell  Telephone j 
Co. would be willing  to  reduce  rentals if a 
duction  could  be  obtained  from 
r  n 
su
it company; but the  Michigan coin- 
•eni
th<
ill be making exceptionally good 
pany vdll
; price per  telephone be reduced 
profits if 1
though  compelled  to  pay the 
to $30, ev
iy  $14  per  telephone. 
If  the 
B(ill CO»mp
can establish a rate  for  passeif- 
L(¡gisliitui
j  ger or freight traffic, or compell a newspaper 
to accept a fixed rate  for  legal  advertising, 
it  certainly  can  regulate 
the  excessive 
charges made by one of the greatest monop­
olies ever created  on the  American  eonti-
e

the Fourth National Bank, which has  prac­
tically  controlled  the  business  for  several | 
months  past.  The  property  comprises  a 
sawmill  and  about  six  and  a  half million | 
feet of pine lumber,  variously  estimates!  at 
?75,000  to  $100,000.  Geo.  Pantlind 
has been placed in  charge  of  the  property 
by the bank, with a view to closing it out as 
soon as possible and meeting  the  liabilities 
of the firm,  all but $5,000 of  which  is  held
w w w  +Uo
.
resources are sufficient to meet  the bank  in­
debtedness anil leave a margin for the unse- I 
cured creditors,  remains to be seen.  Messrs. 
Montgomery,  Haire  &  Giddings  have  not i 
made an assignment,  but are continuing  the j 
sale and purchase of lumber to  their regular j 
customers.  When they began business, two i 
years ago,  the firm was worth  $.>0,000,  and 
their failure is to be  attributed  to  their  ig- | 
norance of the lumber business.

G.  W.  Abbott has bought J.  W.  Holmes’ j 

Geo.  II.  Logan, druggist and grocer at Je-1 

' rome,  has sold out.

AROUND  THE  STATE.

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AMONG  THE  TRADE.

IN  THE  CITV.

O. D.  Russell has engaged in the  grocery 
business  at  Sturgis.  Arthur  Meigs & Co. 
furnished the stock.

L.  B.  Chaple has engaged in  the  grocery 
business at Ada.  Clark,  Jewell &  Co.  fur­
nished the stock.

D.  Burke has started in the grocery  busi­
ness at Nunica.  The  stock was furnished 
by Arthur Meigs & Co.

Cooper Bros, have engaged in the grocery 
business at  Charlevoix.  Arthur  Meigs  & 
Co.  furnished the stock.

grocery stock at Alma, 

s.  F.  Deatsman,  general dealer at Sebewa,

i 
] burned out Saturday night.
;  C.  B. Whitaker has  bought  the  grocery 
j stock of D.  Willis,  at Bronson.

R. Roscoe  succeeds Heilner  Bros,  in  the 

| bakery business at  Mancelona.

Michael Wagner,  general dealer at Brock- 

1 way,  was recently burned out.

Peter Snyder, of the firm of  Klein & Sny- 

! tier, millers at Vandalia,  is dead.

D.  A.  Downer  succeeds  II. J. Wright in 

the harness business at  Morenci.

S.  C. VanSlip succeeds M.  B.  Cyphers  in 

the organ business at  Greenville.

Enos Moore succeeds J.  J.  Garlinghouse 

in the drug business at Litchfield.

A. Hall succeeds Hall & Hoffman  in  the 

OFFICERS.

President—Wm. Logie.
First Vice-President—Lloyd Max Mills.
Second Vice-President—Stephen A.  Sears.
Secretary and Treasurer—L. W. Atkins.
Executive  Committee—President  and  Secre­
tary,  ex  officio;  Chas.  S.  Robinson,  Jas.  N. 
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Bradford and W. G. Hawkins. 
Election Committee—Geo.  H.  Seymour,  Wal­
lace  Franklin,  W.  H.  Downs,  Wm.  B.  Ed­
munds and D. S. Haugh.
Room  Committee—Stephen  A.  Sears,  Wm. 
Boughton, W. H. Jennings.
Regular Meetings—Last Saturday  evening In 
each month. 
Next  Meeting—Saturday  evening,  May  30, 
at “The Tradesman” office. 
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Oraml Rapids Post T.  P. A.

Organized at Grand Rapids, April 11,1885.
President—Geo. F. Owen. 
Vice-President—Geo. W. McKay. 
Secretary—Leo A. Caro. 
Treasurer—James Fox.
Next Meeting—Saturday evening 
“The Tradesman” office.

, June 20, at

The cotton crop in  sight  is  estimated  at 
5,558,416 bales.  Hardly any man is so poor 
that he will not be able to wear a clean shirt 
once or twice next year.

Mayor Grace, of New York, in his speech 
before the brewers’ congress  last  week, de­
clared that there is  an  intimate  connection 
between good beer  and  good  government, 
and cited as an example the fact that  Presi­
dent Cleveland is a stockholder in a Buffalo 
brewery. 

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Evmy traveling  man out of Grand Rapids 
is  authorized  to  reeeivp  subscriptions  for 
T he T r a d e s m a n ,  or the amount  due  can 
be included in  remittances to  any  jobbing 
h«use at this  market.  Either method  will 
save the dealer the trouble of  writing a let­
ter,  and is just as sure as to remit by postal 
note or express  order.

Another  new  correspondent  appears  in 
the field this week  in  the  person  of  Mrs. 
Mehitable Spriggs,  milliner  at  Cant  Hook 
Comers.  Mrs.  Spriggs’ initial letter is given j  n
up mainly to a championing of the  cause of 
her friend and partner, Soliman Snooks, but 
subsequent epistles will  detail  the  prevail­
ing styles at the Corners,  and other matters 
of  interest  to  the  lady  patrons  of  T he 
T r a d e s m a n .

Any merchant or  business man who is in­
terested  in the passage of  the  Dodge  tele­
phone bill would  do  well  to  communicate | 
with the senator and representative from his 
district,  setting forth his views on the  ques- j 
tion.  A strong pressure is being brought to 
bear against the bill, and unless active meas­
ures are taken in its behalf,  a  campaign  of 
bribery and  misrepresentation  will  accom­
plish its  defeat.

The  contents

The  next  issue  of  T h e   T r a d e s m a n  

Chubb & Wheeler,  meat dealers at Raven- 
will be a “boot and shoe edition,” a  feature  na,  have added a line of groceries, furnished 
which will receive more attention in the  fu-  by Fox, Musselman & Loveridge.
ture than it has in the past.  m e  contents  Wm.  Alexander has engaged  in  the  gro-
of that issue will be made up mostly of orig- j cery  business  at  Howard  City.  Arthur  Foley in the grocery business at  Lansing,
inal and selected articles of  special  interest 
to the craft; and with a  view  to  extending 
the circulation of the paper among that class 
of business men,  a sample copy will be sent j  at Vestaburg. 
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to every boot and shoe  dealer  in  the  State 
not now regularly receiving it.

Louis Vancousant succeeds Vancousant& 
Leland in the grocery business at St.  Johns. 
E.  A.  Griswold,  general dealer  at  Grand
Ledge,  has been closed on chattel mortgage.
& Hoffiimn guMeed M.  c .  Conley
¡n the manufacture of  jewelry at  East  Sag-

J. E. Bennett has engaged in general trade j 
Arthur Meigs & Co. furnish- |
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«1 the groceries and Spring &  Company the 
drygoods.  _________________ 

Geo.  J.  Noteware  succeeds  Noteware 

Herbert E.  Johnson  succeeds  Johnson  &

Bros,  in the drug business at Bellaire.

grocery  business at East Saginaw.

Meigs & Co. furnished the stock.

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Van Bruggen  &  Duppree  have  engaged ; biaw. 

in the  hardware,  furniture  and  crockery j  @e0-  Stevens,  general  dealer  at  Alpine, 
business in Dr.  H. E.  Locher’s building, 162 j bas  closed  out  his  stock, and retired from 
and 164 Summit street. 

j  business.

The deliberations  of  the National  Com­
mercial  Convention  at  Atlanta  last  week 
were marked  with a prevailing element  of 
sood sense,  as was  to  be  expected from  a 
gathering composed  mainly  of  representa­
tives of the commercial  classes.  The  con­
vention favored enlarging commercial  trea­
ties between the  United  States  and  other 
countries; it opposed the continued  coinage
Chas.  H.  Van Aerman,  who  lias 
of silver; it favored the  Lowell  bankruptcy j on a retail boot and  shoe  business 
bill; and it agreed that Congress had  a  con­
stitutional right to control railway transpor­
tation. 

Harrison & Murphy seeeeed S.  D.  Monroe ■ 
in the  grocery  and  restaurant  business  a t : 
Bangor.  The grocery stock was replenished 
by Arthur Meigs & Co.

Monroe street for some  time  past, has 
moved the stock to Albany,  N.  Y.

carried 
at  102

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Actuary  Smith,  of  the  Merchants  and 
Manufacturers’  Exchange,  in  his  praise­
worthy zeal to compass the  passage  of  the

W. A.  Feazell,  who  was  recently  burned 
out at Grand Junction,  has resumed the gro­
cery  business  in  a 
location. 
Arthur Meigs & Co.  furnished the stock.

temporary 

Jos.  Hanville succeeds Thatcher  &  Han-
villein the  drug  and  grocery  business  at 
Ravenna.

J. B.  & G.  C.  Clark,  meat dealers at Fife 
Lake, have started  a  branch  establishment 
at Kingsley.

W. R.  Boynton,  of Spring Lake,  lias pur­
chased  Geo.  W.  Scott’s  hardware  stock  at 
Coopersville.

Ed.  Bradford,  the  White  Cloud  grocery- 
man,  is erecting a new store building  24x40 
feet in dimensions.

Whipple Bros.’ grocery  at  Winfield,  five

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E.  W.  Ellsworth,  of Marlette, has his new
ated at and near  Upper  Paris,  Mecosta j  p
n
  in operation,  a little  over three 
ity, have  been  taken  possession  of  by j  weeks from tlie destruction of the  old  one.
Tolies Bros,  have  signified  their  willing­
ness to remove  their  bending  works  from 
Battle Creek to Hastings, providing they are 
given a location for the same.

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miles from Eaton Rapids,  burned  recently. 
Loss $1,500,  insured for $700.

Fredrick  D.  Jones’  hardware  stock  at 
Bronson has been seized on a  chattel  mort­
gage and will  be  disposed  of  at  sheriff’s 
sale.

Harry Tomb,  grocer  at  Adrian, has been 
closed on  attachment  by Secord & Berdan, 
of Toledo,  to whom Tomb is indebted to the 
extent of $600.

Evans Bros.,  the Bay  City  grocery  job­
bers, have admitted a new  partner  and  re­
organized under  the  firm  name  of  Evans 
Bros.  & Co.

Elk Rapids Progress:  A.  L.  Paine & Co., 
the hardware  merchants,  are  to remove  to 
Reed City.  Not that they  are  dissatisfied, 
but they have struck a snap  at above point. 
The firm tell us that they have made money 
while here,  but not enough of it.

The Dr.  D. W.  Connine general stock,  at 
Wexford,  which has been held  in  trust for 
some  time past by Spring & Company, was 
transferred to new owners by Wm. E. Coop­
er last week.  The new firm is composed of 
Ezra C.  Coblentz  and  Mrs.  I.  Foust,  and 
will be known as Coblentz & Co.  They will 
handle a full line of  general  goods,  having 
made considerable additions  to the Connine 
stock.  Dr.  Connine  will  resume the  prac­
tice of medicine.

M ANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

A stave mill is being erected at Fairgrove.
Hancock’s new smelting works have clos-

Douglass  is  negotiating  for a stave  and 

heading factory.

The  Union  Manufacturing  Co.  has  just 
been reorganized at Battle Creek, with $10,- 
000 stock.

The Lansing Wheelbarrow  Works  have 
shut down,  and will probably remain closed 
all summer.

A large heading mill  has  located at Ban- j 
nister,  and will  begin  operations  in  about 
three weeks.

The  Sheffield  Velocipede  Car  Co.,  of 
Niles,  has bought the  Stand Pipe Co.,  of R. 
R. Dodge.

Jones & Barnard  are  putting  in  an  oar 
factory  in connection with  their  saw  mill 
at Maple Rapids.

The Diamond Match Co.  advertises to buy 
all the pine lands it can put its  big  feet  on 
in Ontonagon county.

A.  D. Hansel & Bro.  are  building a new 
sawmill at Chippewa Station.  They  make 
Evart their headquarters.

Thomas Dawson has purchased the  inter­
est of Mr.  Curtiss  in  the  saw  mill  prop­
erty of Gray & Curtiss,  at Evart.
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THE  LEADING  BRANDS  OF
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PLUG  TOBACCO.

Offered in this Market are  as follows:

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.48
RED  F O X .................................'- 
BIG  D R I V E ......................................................50
..........................................................46
PATROL 
JACK  RABBIT 
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SILVER  C O I N ..................................................46
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PANIC 
.35
BLACK  PRINCE,  DARK 
BIG  STUMP 
APPLE  J A C K ..........................................

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2c less in orders for  100 pounds of any one brand.

FINE  CUT.

THE  MEIGS  FINE  CUT, DARK, Plug flavor 
STUNNER,  DARK 
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RED  BIRD,  BRIGHT 
OPERA  QUEEN,  BRIGHT  - 
FRUIT 
O  SO  S W E E T .........................................

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2c less in  6 pail lots.

SMOKING.

ARTHUR’S  CHOICE,  LONG  CUT,  BRIGHT 
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RED  FOX,  LONG  CUT,  FOIL 
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GIPSEY  QUEEN,  GRANULATED 
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OLD  COMFORT,  IN  CLOTH 
HEAT,  OF  GRAND  RAPIDS,  IN  CLOTH 
DIME  SMOKER,  IN  CLOTH  - 
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2c less in  100 pound lots.

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.22 
.26
.26
.27
.24 
.24

These brands are sold only by

A rth u r M eigs & Co.

Wholesale Grocers,

Who warrant the same to be unequalled.  W e guar­
antee  every  pound  to  be  perfect  and  all  right  in 
every particular.  W e cordially invite you, when  in 
the  city,  to  visit  our  place  of  business,  55  and  57 
Canal st.  IT  MAY  SAVE  YOU  MONEY.

Gh R.  M A Y H EW

G R A N E   R A P ID S ,  M IC H ,

J.  S.  Stearns will soon begin  the  manu­
facture of  shingles  at  the  Brown  shingle 
mill,  in Elk township,  Lake county,  where 
there is a large tract of timber.

The Grand Haven Lumber Co.  is building 
a logging  railroad  from  Jennisonville,  six 
miles,  to a tract of 35,000,000  feet  of  pine. 
The road  will  dump  the  logs  into  Grand 
river.

A. T. Bliss & Bro.,  of Saginaw,  are  con­
templating the building of a lighter,  with  a 
capacity for eight cars of lumber.  It will be 
used to take loaded cars from the  docks  to 
the several railroads for transfer  and  ship­
ment.

Owosso manufacturing  institutions are as 
follows:  Estey  Manufacturing  Co.,  furni­
ture; Woodard Bros., furniture; L. E. Wood­
ard,  sash,  door and blinds,  also  large plan­
ing mill; Owosso  Casket  Co.; M.  Wood & 
Co.,  handle  factory; J.  II.  Robbins,  exten­
sion  tables;  D.  Thompson  &  Co.,  Owosso 
Bending Works; Union Mattress Co., Bailey 
Manufacturing Co.,  engine  and  machinery; 
Howell & Co.,  foundry; Oakes & Co.,  plan­
ing  mill;  White  Bros.,  extension  tables; 
James Laverock,  cigar  box  factory;  Jacob 
Aberle,  tannery;  Dewey & Stewart, millers; 
Finley & Co.,  brewers;  H.  C.  Gates  and 
several other smaller firms—all running full 
time and some with night force.

STRAY  FACTS.

Bannister bids for  a  cheese  factory  and 

brick  yard.

Shafer & Powell succeed Shafer  & Meade 

| in the millinery business at Millington.

The Traverse City Business  Men’s  Asso- 

! ciation will soon have a hall of its own.

Hastings business men propose  to  secure 

! the location of a paper mill at that place.
|  A man proposes to move a  large  building 
across Pine Lake from South  Arm  to  East 
Jordan,  on scows.

J.  Halstead’s wagon shop,  at Shelby,  lias 
been closed by the assignees,  preparatory to 
closing out the  business.

J. J.  Johnson, formerly a prominent mer­
chant of Linden,  recently died at Augustine 
of softening of the brain,  aged 69.

E.  R. Reid,  of Otsego,  has  purchased  an 
interest in the grist  mill  and  feed  store  of 
J.  M.  Mendell  &  Co.,  at Allegan.  L.  G 
Stedman remains in the firm.

Bay City capitalists who have investments 
in alleged gold and silver lands in  northern 
Minnesota are much  exercised  over  reports 
of a collapse in the money-digging  boom in 
that section.

Grand Junction  is rapidly recovering from 
the effect of the recent conflagration at  that 
place.  W.  A.  Feazell  and  Rogers  Bros, 
have both  resumed  business  in  temporary 
quarters,  and  both  are  rebuilding  on  the 
same  foundations  on "which  their  former 
structures stood.  Jno. A.  Wright is making 
arrangements to build a better hotel than the 
town has ever had before.

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to the trade at $1 per bu.

The “WHITE STAR” takes 
the  lead.  We  have  a  fine 
stock that we offer to the trade 
at $2 for a 3 bu. bbl.

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This  Baking’  Powder makes the  WHITEST, 
LIGHTEST and most  HEALTHFUL  Biscuits. 
Oakes, Bread, etc.  TRY  IT  and be convinced. 
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Michigan  State  Pharmaceutical  Association.

OFFICERS.

Prpsidont—Geo. W. Crouter, Charlevoix.
First V ic e -P r e sid e n t—Geo. M. McDonald,  Ral-
Sec“ ndVice-President-B.  D.  Northrop,  Lan-
ThirchVice-President—Frank  M urzburg,  Grd
Secretarv-Jacob Jesson, Muskegon. 
S T w m .  Dupont  Detroit 
Executive  Committee-H.  J.  Brow 

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Stevens, Geo. Gundrum, W. H. Keller,  r.  vv.
Next°piace  of  meeting—At Detroit, Tuesday, 

October 13,1885.

Grand Rapids  Pharmaceutical  Society.

ORGANIZED  OCTOBER 9, 1884.

OFFICERS.

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President—Frank J. Wurzburg.
Vice-President—Win. L. \Y hite.
Secretary—Frank H. Escott.
Treasurer—Henry B. Fairchild.
Board of Censors—John Peck,  Cna 
Board  of  Trustees—The  President,

P.  Bige- 
low, Jas. S. Cowin. 
H.
Van Leeuwen, Isaac  Watts,  Wm.  E.  White, 
Wm. L. White. 
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Committee on P h a r m a c y —Hugo Thum,  M.  B.
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Kimm, A. C. Bauer. 
Committee on Legislation—Isaac Watts,  O.  H.
Richmond, Jas. S. Cowin. 
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Committee on Trade  Matters—H. B. Fairchil  , 
lohn Peck. Wm. H. VanLeeuwen.
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November. 
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LEECHES.

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The History  and  Present  Condition  of 

Peculiar  Trade.

From Cornliill Magazine.

Of the two  firms  in  London—and  there 
are only two—to whom  the  foreign  leeches 
are consigned from Hamburg, one  practices 
as a dental surgeon and the other sells pipes, 
tobacco,  and other trifles.  Both are of suffi­
cient  standing  to  recall  les  beaux  joun 
passes of the trade,  the great times of indis 
criminate blood-letting, when,  whether  the 
patient suffered from a  black  eye,  a  head­
ache,  a liver,  or a heart, he lost a  couple  of 
ounces of blood and was declared to  be  bet 
ter.  Now scarcely one is used where a cen­
tury  ago  a  hundred  flourished,  and  the 
sixpenny leech of ever so  recent  a  date  as 
1860 has  fallen  to  something  less  than 
halfpenny at wholesale  price.  No complet 
er proof of the popularity of the leech  with 
the early practitioner can  be  afforded  than 
by the fact that the  verb  “to  leech”  means 
to treat with medicine  and  to  bleed,  while 
the doctor  himself,  even so late as the  days 
of Shakespeare,  borrowed the  name  of  his 
favorite instrument of healing.  The slender, 
meager,  hungry leech comes  from  Turkey, 
within a radius of fifty miles  of  Constanti­
nople,  and  from  Buda-Pesth,  where  the 
country people bring  them  in,  like  water­
cress,  by  thousands, from  the  ditches  and 
sell them to the dealers.  They  are  found 
there in all ditches and ponds,  and  wherev­
er there are  pure  running  water, weeds for 
shelter,  and  muddy  banks  and  bottoms. 
They  are,  as a rule, netted in nets prepared 
with bait,  though we are also  informed that 
it is not rare for the hardy peasant  to  walk 
barelegged through the water and strip them 
off as fast as they  can  adhere  to  the  calf. 
However they are caught,—by plain  honest 
fishing or  by  human  artifice,—from  Buda- 
Pesth,  without  distinction of  age  or  size, 
they travel to Hamburg,  where  they  lie  in 
vast ponds or reservoirs until  the  time  for 
their selection arrive. 
In  these reservoirs 
they lie generally for a year,  and during  all 
that time,  if  they  are  properly  cared  for, 
they should receive  no  food,  or  rather  no 
more than they can  find  for  themselves  in 
the water.  But this is a rule that is not al­
ways observed as it should be,  for  there are 
many merchants who give them  blood,  and 
some liver, and some,  so that all tastes may 
be  satisfied,  the  entire  body  of  a  horse 
thrown among them; with the result that on 
. arrival  in  this  country  their  appetites  are 
fatigued,  and they are found to need certain 
stimulants to performance.  From Hamburg, 
when their time  of  probation  is  over,  they 
are imported here direct in bags and  boxes, 
and at the back of the surgers in Peutonville 
or among the pipes and tobacco  of  Hound- 
sditch  they lie  in  shallow  earthen  vessels 
tightly covered with gauze or linen, the halt­
ing stage on the way to  the wholesale drug­
gist and the hospital.  With  the  importer 
they rarely tarry for more than four  or  five 
days,  but are sent out almost as fast as they 
come in,  in small wooden boxes  similiar  to 
those used by fruiterers for honeycomb. From 
the wholesale druggist  they  pass  again  to 
the chemist and apothecary,  and  when  the 
perils of travel and the variations^ climate 
they- go through are considered,  the  intend­
ing purchaser must not  be  surprised  if  he 
finds himself asked sixpence  for  an  animal 
that cost the  first  dealer  a  shilling  for  a 
couple of hundred.  Many die on the voyage 
and many  in  the  short  time  they  remain 
with the importer,  and though in theory the 
selected leech will stand an  extreme of heat 
or cold, many of  the  five-and-twenties  and 
fifties ordered by the chemist, carefully treat­
ed as they  are, do  not  live  to  fulfill  what 
seems to be the sole reason of their existence 
—that of drawing blood.  The leech should 
never properly be applied  more  than  once, 
and can be applied  anywhere. 
It  fills  in 
about a quarter of ah hour,  and will  absorb 
altogether from  forty  to  eighty-five  grains 
of  blood,  or  in  all  about  half  an  ounce. 
There is an ingeuous instrument  known  as 
the artificial  leech,  one  occasionally  used, 
but now scarcely ever met with. 
It consists 
of a small, sharp steel cylinder worked by a 
spring,  with  which  a  circular  incision  is 
made,  and with  an  interior  glass  cylinder 
capable  of  being  exhausted  by  a  piston 
worked by a screw. 
It is not a good instru­
ment, and  is,  as  we  say,  not  used  now. 
There is a specimen to be seen in  the  mus-

eum of the College of  Surgeons  among  the 
Surgical Instrument Series.” 
In England 
there is a less  powerful  species  commonly 
found, though now never used.  It is known 
as the horse  leech,  from  its  habits  of  at­
tacking  the  membranes  lining  the  mouth 
and nostrils of animals drinking at the pools 
it haunts. 
It is in its way venomous,  and, 
when applied to the humau  subject,  inflam­
leading  to  erysipelas,  has  been 
mation, 
known to follow its  bite. 
There  must  be 
something in our waters unfavorable to  the 
growth and culture of the parasite,  for  not 
only is the indigenous leech useless, and in­
deed harmful, but foreign  specimens  which 
efforts have been made to  acclimatize  have 
never come to any good.  Thirty years ago 
prominent  English  firm  projected  and 
founded a farm at Norwood for the breeding 
and cultivation’ of  the  Turkish  and  Hun- 
arian leech,  but,  either from  ignorance  of 
treatment or changefullness of climate,  they 
all sickened and died,  and  the  scheme  col­
apsed.
Spontaneous  Combustion  of  Lampblack.
Fires occurring from spontaneous ignition 
of vegetable black are very common.  Oily 
rags are more liable to  self-ignition  during 
the  summer  after  a  continuance  of  dry, 
warm weather.  A sudden storm ora shower 
of rain appears to give life,  as  it  were,  to 
the parched-up matter,  and a fire is  the  re­
sult. 
It  has been also noticed that the re­
verse  occurs  after  a  continuance  of  wet 
weather.  A few days,  sometimes,  are suffi­
cient to set up active and rapid  combustion, 
especially  among  sweepings  in  paint  and 
oil  stores,  consisting  generally  of  wood 
dust, dried vegetable  and  animal  powder, 
colors  more or less saturated  with  varnish, 
turpentine,  oils,  etc.  Lampblack, if packed 
in a leaky cask when freshly prepared,  con­
denses the atmospheric gases on its surface, 
which,  owing to the porus nature of the sub­
stance, is  very  large  in  proportion  to  its 
weight. 
In  condensation  the gasses  give 
out a certain amount of heat,  which,  under 
favorable circumstances, is sufficient to cause 
the ignition of some inflammable  substance 
accidentally present, which,  by  combining 
with the condensed  oxygen,  liberates  heat 
enough to cause  the  ignition  of  vegetable 
black,  which,  when  once  started,  soon 
spreads until the contents  of  the  cask  be­
come red  hot.

This  spontaneous  ignition  is  not  infre­
quent in many large carriage  factories,  and 
builders’ shops have  been  destroyed  solely 
from this cause.  To put it in printed paper 
would insure ignition from the absorption of 
oil in  the  printing ink  by  the  lampblack, 
generating gas  which would soon ignite the 
soot or lampblack.  One  among  many in­
stances of well  attested  cases  of  spontan­
eous ignition is described in the  Paint,  Oil 
and Drug Review. 
It  occurred  at a large 
carriage works at Grantham,  England,  in  a 
shop far away from fire or the chances  of  a 
spark.  The paint shop was gradually illu­
minated on a mild summer's evening during 
daylight. 
It was noticed through the work­
shop windows,  and was seen to be a  tub  of 
loose lampblack slowly consuming the cask 
It was  easily  carried  out  on  the  grass  to 
finish its work. 
It was thought that,  being 
near the grinding-paint stone,  some  oil  had 
been splashed into it, or an oily rag dropped 
into the lampblack.  The  secret  was  soon 
found out by the palette knife  being  found 
among the ashes of  the  cask,  having  been 
carelessly dropped in with  some  wet  paint 
on i t ; or even without  any  wet  paint,  the 
dry,  oily- paint  which  accumulates  on  the 
blade near the handle would be sufficient  to 
cause ignition. 
It is not the large quantity 
of oil, but the small quantity,  which  is  the 
cause of it.  This is so  well  known,  that 
some  coach  makers,  when  they  receive 
lampblack, put it into a sound cask and pour 
enough linseed oil  into  it  to  saturate  the 
whole.

The Pharmacy Bill.

The Hueston pharmacy bill, which passed 
the Senate a couple of  weeks  ago,  came up 
on third reading in the  House  last  Friday, 
but  was tabled,  on account  of  small  atten­
dance and the absence of a number of friends 
of the bill. 
It is expected  to  come  up for 
action again  to-day or  to-morrow.  Repre­
sentative McNabb,  of Fremont,  and  Repre­
sentative Richardson,  of  Jamestown—him 
self a druggist—are understood to be loaded 
in opposition to the bill.

Representative Ford stated to a reporter of 
T he  T r a d e s m a n   that  he  was  heartily in 
favor, of the bill,  and  that  he  could see no 
chance of its failure to pass the  House.

Senator  Curtiss  has  somewhat  modified 
his views in opposition  to  the  bill,  having 
come to the conclusion that the intent of the 
measure is right.  His  objection  is  due to 
the Board of Pharmacists which is provided 
for by the  bill,  and  which  he  fears  would 
open the way to monopoly and bribery.  He 
thinks the bill will become a  law,  however.

A Connecticut Wonder.

From the Waterbury American.

We know of a  young  married  man  who 
has  persuaded  not  only  his  wife  but  his 
mother-in-law to leave  off corsets.
The Secret of Success.

From the Philadelphia Times.

Success is the reward of  men  who  mind 

their own business.

The cultivation of  ginger  in  Jamaica  is 
said to be dying out on account of  the  per­
sistent cultivation of the same plant  on  the 
same land for a long series of years.  Only 
the richest and  best  lands  are  suitable  for 
the cultivation of ginger,  and as it is a  very 
exhausting crop,  the production of the  arti­
cle on the island depends on the  reserve  of 
good land still  available  where  it  is  culti­
vated.

The Drug Market.

Business has continued good,  and  collec­
tions have maintained a fairaverage, during 
the past week.  The feature of the market 
has been the anticipated decline  in  quinine, 
which was not realized. Referring to the fight 
between the American and foreign markets, 
a New York advice says :

There is a sentiment gaining ground among 
outsiders, whose attention has been attracted 
to this articie by the prevailing  low  prices, 
that possibly bottom has been  reached.  As 
soon as there is evidence to this effect,  there 
will be an attempt to buy  heavily for specu­
lation, but it is not likely  that  any  makers 
or holders will supply this sort of a demand, 
and few  outside of the regular trade will hold 
much stock when the  expected  rise  occurs, 
if it should come in the near future.  Except 
that the market has  gone  for  several  days 
without change and that there is a  good de­
mand,  there is no evidence of  a  “cessation 
of hostilities,” and should the trade slack off 
for a  few  days  a  further  break  would  be 
looked for by those directly in the business. 
Indeed,  it would not surprise  them  at  any 
moment as the utmost uncertainty is felt re­
garding the  intentions  of  the  leading  do­
mestic makers. 
It  is  evident that the in­
terior trade  are  stocking  up  pretty  freely 
and the character of the orders coming  into 
the market indicates that the retail trade,  as 
a rule,  are making far more than their aver­
age purchases.  Whatever  may  be the fu­
ture course of the  market,  they  appear  to 
feel secure against loss at the  present price.
Cinclionidia is selling more freely than  at 
any  period  in  many  months, 
the  sales 
of domestic makers being equal  for  several 
days to their sales of quinine.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT,

Advanced- -Carbolic acid. 
ACIDS.

Acetic, No.  8....................................... 
9
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Acetic, C. P. (Sp. grav.  1.040)..........  30
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Carbolic............................................  
Citric...................................................  60 @
Muriatic 18  deg.............................. 
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Nitric 36 deg.................................... 
Oxalic...............................................   1^)4©
Sulphuric 66 deg.............................  
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Tartaric  powdered.................•  o*  ©
Benzoic,  English....................$  02
Benzoic,  German..............................  **
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Tannic................................................  
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Carbonate.................................^ ®
Muriate (Powd. 23c).........................
Aqua 16 deg or  3f............................
Aqua 18 deg or 4f............................

AMMONIA.

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BARKS.

BALSAMS.
Copaiba....................................
Fir..............................................
Peru...........................................
Tolu...........................................
Cassia, in mats (Pow’d 20c)...
Cinchona,  yellow....................
Elm,  select...............................
Elm, ground, pure..................
Elm, powdered,  pure.............
Sassafras, of root....................
Wild Cherry, select................
Bayberry  powdered.............
Hemlock powdered...............
W ahoo....................................
Soap  ground............................
BERRIES,
Cubeb  prime (Powd 80c) —
Juniper...................................
Prickly Ash............................
EXTRACTS.

Licorice (10 and 25 S> boxes, 25c)...
Licorice,  powdered, pure..........- •
Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 fi> doxes).
Logwood, Is (25 B>  boxes)............■ •
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Lgowood, V4s 
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Logwood, )4s 
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Logwood, ass’d  do 
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Fluid Extracts—25 $  cent, off list.

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The Gripsack Brigade.

F.  H.  Browne,  well  known  to  the  trade 
here,  is now working in  Wisconsin,  for  S 
J.  Foree & Co.

W. A.  Morse has  returned  from  a  three 
weeks’ trip through Northern  Michigan,  in 
the interest of Barlow Bros.

A  B.  Smith,  for four years  with  Arthur 
Meigs & Co., is now caring for Fox, Mussel- 
man & Loveridge’s city trade.

J.  L.  Joseph,  S.  J.  Foree  &  Co.’s  new 
Michigan agent, is spending a couple of weeks 
in this territory, working “Rum” plug.

G.  F.  Cole, of the Marshall Shirt Factory, 
has been in town  for  several  days  during 
the past  week.  He  contemplates  making 
Grand Rapids his permanent residence.

Jas.  Rooney lias just sold a  hand  engine 
and 1,000 feet  of  hose to Meredith,  and on 
Monday he received an order for  500 feet of 
hose from the Big Rapids  fire  department.
The regular  monthly  meeting of  Grand 
Rapids Post,  T.  P.  A.,  was  held  at  The 
T r a d e s m a n   office last  Saturday  evening. 
The next regular meeting  will  be  held at 
the same place Saturday  evening,  June  20.
C.  Crawford,  whose drug stock at Middle- 
ville was burned about two months ago,  has 
not yet effected a settlement with two of the 
insurance companies, and  pending  the  ad 
justment of the loss, he has resumed the po­
sition of traveling representative  for  A.  N. 
Wright,  pill manufacturer,  of  Syracuse,  N. 
Y. 

John Glass,  formerly engaged in trade  at 
Cadillac,  but now on the road for the M.  K. 
Bortree Corset Co.,  of Madison, Wis., spent 
Sunday at this market.  Mr. Glass’ territory 
includes the retail  trade of  Michigan  and 
Indiana,  and the jobbing  trade  of  several 
Eastern states.  He contemplates  removing 
to this city in the fall.

•

Geo Medes,  for some time past book-keep­
er for Jennings & Smith,  has  gone  on  the 
road for Hugo Schneider & Co.  His  terri­
tory will include all  the  trade  tributary  to 
Grand Rapids in Southern Michigan and In 
diana.  Geo.  Seymour will continue his visits 
to the Northern  trade,  and  in  lieu  of  his 
Southern trips will attend  to  the  wants  of 
the city trade,  a duty formerly devolving up­
on the late Fred.  Christ.

Jas E.  Ireland, for three years  past  trav­
eling  salesman for  Hawkins &  Perry,  has 
formed a copartnership with B.  F.  Parmen- 
ter,  and the two  will  engage  in  the  retail 
grocery business at Voorlieis’ old stand,  cor­
ner Monroe and North Division streets.  Mr. 
Ireland has been on the road continuously for 
seventeen years, and his retirement from the 
grip sack brigade after so long  a  period  of 
active service is a matter of genuine  regret. 
He requests T h e Tradesm an to say “good 
bye” to all the boys,  and invites them to call 
and see him in his new  quarters.

It is stated that the number of plants used 
by man at the present time does not  exceed 
3,000.  Of these about  2,500  are  cultivated 
in America.  The varieties used for food do 
not exceed 600.  Of edible fruits  and  seeds 
there are 100 classed  as  vegetables,  100  as 
roots and  bulbs,  fifty  varieties  of  grain, 
about  twenty  of  which  produce  sugar  and 
syrup. 
In addition  to  this,  perhaps  thirty 
kinds will  yield  oil  and  six kinds of wine. 
The  number  of  medicine-supply  plants  is 
nearly  double  that  of  the  fruit-yielding, 
amounting to 1,140,  about  350  of which are 
employed in the various  branches of  indus­
try.  Of the latter seventy-six  furnish  dye­
stuff,  eight wax,  sixteen salt, and more than 
forty supply food for cattle.  There  are  no 
fewer than 250  kinds of  poisonous  plants 
cultivated,  among which  are  only  66  of a 
narcotic sort, the remainder being classed as 
deadly poisons.

Doubtful  Advantage.

“Now,  then,” said a certain jobber to one 
of his traveling salesmen, who  was packing 
for his journey,  “let  us  see  that  you  sell 
more goods on this trip than you did before. 
Our firm is more generally known now.”

“In that case,” said the drummer, looking 
dubiously up from his  sample  cases,  “I’m 
a little afraid it will be up-hill work.”

Chamomile,  Roman.......................
Chamomile,  German.....................

GUMS.

Aloes,  Barbadoes.......................
Aloes, Cape (Powd  24c) ..... —
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd  60c)—
Ammoniac................ . • • ............
Arabic, powdered  select..........
Arabic, 1st picked.....................
Arabic,2d  picked.......................
Arabic,  3d picked.......................
Arabic, sifted sorts 
Assafoentida, prime (Powd 35c)
Benzoin.......................................
Camphor.....................................
Catechu. Is 04 14c, 34s 16c)............
Euphorbium powdered.................. 
Galbanum strained....................
Gamboge....................................
Guaiac, prime (Powd  4oe)........
Kino [“Powdered, 30c].................
Mastic.................................. 
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Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 47c)
Opium, pure (Powd 85.40)..........
Shellac, Campbell’s.......
Shellac,  English..............................
Shellac, native.................................
Shellac bleach ed..............................
Tragacanth *.....................................   dU
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Peppermint...................................
Rue.................................................
Sweet Majorant............................
Tanzy ............................................
Thym e...........................................
Wormwood..................................

IRON.

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

Buchu, short (Powd 25c)...............   13
Sage, Italian, bulk (54s & )4s, 12c)...
Senna,  Alex, natural..........• •• •• ••
Senna, Alex, sifted and  garbled..
Senna,  powdered............................
Senna tinnivelli...............................
Uva  Ursi...........................................
Beliedonna.......................................
Foxglove...........................................
Henbane.......................*.................
Rose, red...........................................

LIQUORS.

6 40
20

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6
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30 
22 
16 
10 
35 
30 
35 
2 35

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

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@1 75 
©3 50 
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Carbonate, Pattison’s, 2 oz..........
Carbonate, Jenning’s, 2 oz...........
Citrate, H., P. & Co.’s  solution...
Calcined..........................................

OILS.

45

...

18

Almond, sweet.................................
Amber, rectified..............................
Anise.................................................
Bay $   oz.........................................
Bergamont.......................................
Castor...............................................
Croton...............................................
Cajeput............................................
Cassia..................v ... —  ..............
Cedar, commercial  (Pure toe).......
Citronella.......................................
Cod Liver,  filtered................$  gal
Cod Liver, best................  
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16
Cubebs, P. &  W...............................
Erigeron...........................................
Fireweed...........................................
Geranium  ^  oz.....................{•,•••*
Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75c)..
Juniper wood..................................
Juniper berries................................
Lavender flowers, French.............
Lavender garden 
.............
Lavender spike 
.............
Lemon, new  crop............................
Lemon,  Sanderson’s.......................
Lemongrass......................................
Olive, Malaga....................
Olive, “Sublime  Ita lia n ...............
Origanum, red  flowers, French...
Origanum,  No. 1............................
Pennyroyal......................................
Peppermint,  white.........................
Rose $   oz.............................. •■••••
Rosemary, French  (Flowers 81 50)
Salad.................................................
Savin.................................................
Sandal  Wood, German..................
Sandal Wood, W. I ..........................
Sassafras...........................................
Spearmint.......................................
Tansy............................................... 4 50
Tar (by gal 50c).................................  10
Wintergreen............................
Wormwood, No. 1 (Pure $4.00).......
Wormseed.......................................

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

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Alkanet............................................  
“0
Althea, cut.......................................
17
Arrow.  St. Vincent’s...................... 
Arrow, Taylor’s, in )is and V%s—  
33
Blood (Powd 18c).............................  
12
29
Calamus,  peeled.............................. 
35
Calamus, German  white, peeled.. 
Elecampane, powdered..................  
20
10
Gentian (Powd  15c)......................  
Ginger, African (Powd 14c)...........   11  ©  12
17
Ginger, Jamaica  bleached............ 
Golden Seal (Powd 30c).................. 
25
Hellebore, white, powdered.......... 
25
Ipecac, Rio, powdered.................... 
1 10
30
Jalap,  powdered.............................. 
Licorice,  select (Powd 15).............  
18
Licorice, extra select...................... 
¿5
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Pink, true.........................................  
Rhei, from select to  choice......... 1 00  @1 50
Rhei, powdered E. 1........................110  @1 20
Rhei, choice cut  cubes.................  
2 00
Rhei, choice cut fingers................  
2 25

 

 

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

SEEDS.

Anise, Italian (Powd 200)...............
Bird, mixed i¡. tt>  packages..........
Canary,  Smyrna.....................
Caraway, best Dutch (Powd  20c).
Cardamon,  Aleppee.......................
Cardamon, Malabar........................
Celery................................................
Coriander,  Dest  English................
Fennel..............................................
Flax,  clean.......................................
Foenugreek, powdered..................
Hemp,  Russian...............................
Mustard, white  Black 10c)...........
Quince..............................................
Rape, English..................................
Worm,  Levant.................................
SPONGES.
Florida sheeps’ wool, carriage...... 2
........
Nassau 
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Velvet Extra do 
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do 
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Extra Yellow do 
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Grass 
........
do 
Hard head, for slate use................
Yellow Reef, 
.................

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6

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Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.26; $  gal—  
Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref. 
Anodyne Hoffman’s...............................  
Arsenic, Donovan’s solution........  
Arsenic, Fowler’s solution...........  
Annatto 1 fi> rolls....................................  
Alum.........................................  ft 
Alum, ground  (Powd 9c)............... 
Annatto, prime...............................  
Antimony, powdered,  com’l ........  
Arsenic, white, powdered
Blue  Soluble....................................
Bay  Rum, imported, best.............
Bay Rum, domestic, H., P. & Co.’s .
Balm Gilead  Buds..........................
Beans,  Tonka..................................
Beans, Vanilla.................................7 00
Bismuth, sub nitrate.....................
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c).......................
Blue Vitriol  .................................... 
Borax, refined (Powd  13c).............
Cantharides,Russian  powdered..
Capsicum  Pods, African...............
Capsicum Pods, African  pow’d ... 
Capsicum Pods,  Bombay  do  ...
Carmine, No. 40...............................
Cassia  Buds......................................
Calomel.  American.........................
Chalk, prepared drop.....................
Chalk, precipitate English...........
Chalk,  red fingers..........................
Chalk, white lump..........................
Chloroform,  Squibb’s....................
Colocynth  apples............................
Chloral hydrate, German  crusts.. 
Chloral 
cryst...
Chloral 
Scherin’s  do  ...
Chloral 
crusts..
Chloroform......................................  8E
Cinchonidia, P. & W........ *............  2f
Cinchonidia, other brands.............   2i
Cloves (Powd 23c)........... ,...............   If
Cochineal.........................................
Cocoa  Butter..................................
Copperas (by bbl  le).......................
Corrosive Sublimate.......................
Corks, X and XX-40 off  list........
Cream Tartar, pure powdered.......
Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 fi> box..
Creasote............................................
Cudbear,  prime...............................
Cuttle Fish Bone..............................
Dextrine...........................................
Dover’s  Powders............................
Dragon’s Blood Mass.....................
Ergot  powdered..............................
Etner Squibb’s.................................
Emery, Turkish, all  No.’s .............
Epsom Salts......................................
Ergot, fresh......................................
Etner, sulphuric, U. S.  P ...............
Flake white......................................
Grains  Paradise..............................
Gelatine, Cooper’s ..................! —
Gelatine, French  ............................
Glassware, flint, 76 off,by box 60 off
Glassware, green, 60 and 10 dis__
Glue,  caoinet..................................
Glue, white.......................................
Glycerine, pure...............................
Hops  )4s and )4s..............................
Iodoform ^  oz.................................
Indigo...............................................
Insect Powder, best Dalmatian...
Iodine,  resublimed.........................
Isinglass,  American.......................
Japonica ...'......................................
London  Purple...............................
Lead, acetate....................................
Lime, chloride, 04s 2s 10c & 34s 11c)
Lupuline...........................................
Lycopodium....................................
Mace.................................................
Madder, best  Dutch.....................
Manna, S.  F .................................... .
Mercury............................................
Morphia, sulph., P. & W........$  oz
Musk, Canton, H., P. & Co.’s........
Moss, Iceland............................fi>
Moss,  Irish.....................................
Mustard,  English............................
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 fi>  cans........
Nutgalls............................................
Nutmegs, No. 1.................................
Nux  Vomica....................................
Ointment. Mercurial, )4d...
Paris Green..........................
Pepper, Black  Berry..........
Pepsin....................................
Pitch, Ti-ue Burgundy........
Quassia  .................................
Quinia, Sulph, P. & W........
Quinine,  German................
Red  Precipitate...................
Seidlitz  Mixture..................
Strychnia, cryst....................
Silver Nitrate, cryst...........
Saffron, American.  ...........
Sal  Glauber........’.................
Sal Nitre, large  cryst..........
Sal Rochelle..................
Sal  Soda.........................
Salicin...............................................
Santonin..........................................
Snuffs, Maccoboy or Scotch..........
Soda Ash [by keg 3c].....................
Spermaceti.......................................
Soda, Bi-Carbonate,  DeLand’s—
Soap, White Castile........................
.........................
Soap, Green  do 
Soap, Mottled do 
.........................
Soap, 
do  do 
.........................
Soap,  Mazzini..................................
Spirits Nitre, 3 F .............................
Spirits Nitre, 4 F .............................
Sugar Milk powdered.....................
Sulphur, flour..................................
Sulphur,  roll....................................
Tartar Emetic..................................
Tar, N. C. Pine, )4 gal. cans  $  doz
Tar, 
quarts in tin..........
Tar, 
pints in tin.............
Turpentine,  Venice................$  B>
Wax, White, S. &  F. brand...........
Zinc,  Sulphate................................. 
Capitol  Cylinder.............................
Model  Cylinder...............................
Shield  Cylinder...............................
Eldorado Engine.............................
Peerless  Machinery.......................
Challenge Machinery.....................
Backus Fine Engine.......................
Black Diamond Machinery...........
Castor Machine  Oil.........................
Paraffine, 25  deg..............................
Paraffine, 28  deg..............................
Sperm, winter bleached.................
Whale, winter.................................
Lard, extra......................................
Lard, No.  1......................................
Linseed, pure  raw................ • —
Linseed, boiled..............................
Neat’s Foot, winter  strained.......
Spirits Turpentine.........................
No. 1 Turp  Coach..........................
Extra  Turp....................................
Coach  Body...................................
No. 1 Turp Furniture...................
Extra Turp  Damar.......................
Japan Dryer, No.  1 Turp.............

VARNISHES.

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PAINTS.

Bbl
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134
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Red Venetian............................
Ochre, yellow  Marseilles........
Ochre, yellow  Bermuda..........
Putty, commercial..................
Putty, strictly pure........ .........
V ermilicn, prime  American..
Vermilion, English..................
Green, Peninsular..’................
Lead, red strictly pure...........
Lead, white, strictly pure.......
Whiting, white Spanish.......  .
Whiting,  Gilders.....................
White, Paris American...........
Whiting  Paris English cliff..
Pioneer Prepared  Paints.......
Swiss Villa Prepared  Paints..

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PERKINS

W liolosale

Druggists !

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42 and 44 Ottawa Street and 8g, 91, 

93 and 95 Louis Street.

IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF

Pants,  Oils, famisles, 

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MANUFACTURERS  OF

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FLUID  EXTRACTS  A ®   ELLXIRS.

GENERAL WHOLESALE  AGENTS  FOR

Wolf, Patton & Co., and John L. Whiting, 

Manufacturers of Fine Paint and 

Varnish Brushes.

—Also for the—

Grand Rapids Brush Co., Manufacturers of 

Hair, Shoe and Horse Brushes.

Druggists' Sundries

Our stock in this department of  our  busi­
ness  is  conceded  to  be  one of the largest, 
best-assorted and diversified to  be  found  in 
the Northwest.  We are heavy importers of 
many articles ourselves and  can  offer  Fine 
Solid Back Hair Brashes, French  and  Eng­
lish  Tooth  and  Nail  Brashes at attractive 
prices.

We  desire  particular  attention  of  those 
about purchasing outfits  for  new  stores  to 
the fact of our  UNSURPASSED  FACILI­
TIES 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 received .from  hundreds 
of our customers the most satisfying recom­
mendations.

We  give  our  special  anil 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  satis­
factorily supplying the wants of our eustom- 
tomers with PURE  GOODS in this  depart­
ment.  We CONTROL and are  the  ONLY 
AUTHORIZED AGENTS  for  the  sale  of 
the celebrated

Withers Dade & Cos

Henderson  Co.,  Ky.,  SOUR  MASH  AND 
OLD  FASHIONED  HAND  MADE,  COP­
PER  DISTILLED  WHISKYS.  We  not 
only offer these goods to be excelled by  NO 
OTHER  KNOWN  BRAND  in the market, 
but superior in all respects to most  that  are 
exposed for sale.  We  GUARANTEE  per­
fect  and  complete  satisfaction  and where 
this brand of goods has been once introduced 
the future trade has been assured.

W e are also owners of the

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

entrais n i l s .

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 correspondence.

Mail orders always receive our special and 

personal attention.

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A. MERCANTILE  JOURNAL, PUBLISHED  EACH 

W EDNESDAY.

E.  A. STOWE  &  BRO., Proprietors.

Office in Eagle Building, 49 Lyon St., 3d Floor. 

Telephone No. 85.

L  Entered  at  the  Postofflce  at Grand  Rapids  as 

Second-class Matter. 1

WEDNESDAY.  MAY  27,  1885.

BUSINESS LAW.

Brief Digests of Recent Decisions in Courts 

of  Last Resort.

LESSOR  A N D   LESSEE— INSURANCE.

Where the property  of  the  lessors  in  a 
ginhouse,  gin, gristmill, boiler,  etc., was in­
sured by the lessees with the  consent of the 
owners,  the policy containing a  clause  that 
the loss,  if any,  was to be paid to the lesees 
(the lease providing for rebuilding any prop­
erty destroyed by accident or fire  at  the ex­
pense of the lessees) the  Supreme  Court  of 
Mississippi held that the  insurance  money, 
in case the  insured  property  was  burned, 
should be paid to  the  lessees  for  the  pur­
pose of  replacing  the  destroyed  property; 
and that if they refused to  so  apply  it  the 
owners would be entitled to recover  the  in­
surance money with interest from  the  time 
of the refusal to so apply it.

FIR E  INSURANCE— EXCEPTIONS  IN  POLICY.
Where a policy  of  fire  insurance, by its 
terms, covered goods of  a  certain  designa­
tion “held in  trust,  on  commission,  or sold 
but not  delivered,”  contained  in a  certain 
building,  and  a  subsequent  clause  recited 
that “this insurance  does  not  apply  to or 
cover goods held on storage or repair,  *  * 
unless separated  and  specifically  mention­
ed,” the St.  Louis  Court  of  Appeals  held 
that the latter  clause  ingrafted  an  excep­
tion upon the  former  clause  and  that  the 
former clause was  not  a  specific  mention 
within the meaning of the latter clause,  and 
consequently that the policy  did  not  cover 
goods which were held on  storage or for re­
pairs.

RESTRAINT  OF  TRADE— CONTRACT— SALE.
The case of  Clark vs.  Frank,  decided re­
cently by the  St.  Louis  Court of  Appeals, 
was one in which a wholesale agent for  the 
sale of thread agreed with  his  customers to 
allow them certain credits or  rebates at  the 
end of every six or  twelve  months,  on con­
dition that they would  strictly maintain the 
trade price of such thread  as  fixed by  such 
agent.  In this action brought by him against 
a customer on an  account  for  thread  sold 
and  delivered,  the  customer  pleaded  this 
agreement, but it appeared that the custom­
er had,  during  the  period  in  controversy, 
sold such  thread,  bought by him  of  third 
parties,  at less than the trade  price fixed by 
the agent.  The court  held  that  this  pre­
cluded the customer from claiming the cred­
its or rebates;  that  the  condition  that  he 
would maintain the trade price of the thread 
was as much broken by  selling  at less than 
the trade price thread which  he  had bought 
of third parties as that which he had bought 
of the  agent,  find  that  the  agreement  in 
question was not a  contract  in  restraint of 
trade.

TRADE  MARK— “ STRATHMORE  W H ISK Y .”
In the case of  Blair  vs.  Stock,  recently 
decided by the English  High  Court of Jus­
tice,  it appeared that the  plaintiff, who was 
a wine and  spirit  merchant,  registered  a 
trade mark together with the words “Strath­
more Blend,” which was the  name of a cer­
tain  blend  of  various  whiskies  made  and 
sold by him,  and advertised the  same  very 
widely.  Many of the  plaintiff’s  customers 
were in the habit of ordering  his whisky by 
calling it “Strathmore whisky” omitting the 
word ‘ ‘blend” and the whisky became known 
in the market as “Strathmore whisky.”  The 
defendent  subsequently  registered  a trade­
mark and  the  name  of  “Stratmore” for a 
whisky  blended  and  sold  by  him.  The 
question was whether the use of  the  word 
“Strathmore” by the defendent  was  calcu­
lated to deceive.  The  court  held  that  the 
word “blend” described  simply  the  opera­
tion of manufacturing,  and  was  not  an  es­
sential part of the  name  of  the  plaintiff’s 
whisky; that the word  “Strathmore” was a 
fancy name; that the  use of that  word  by 
any  person,  other  than  the  plaintiff,  as  a 
name for whisky would be  calculated to de­
ceive,  and that the  defendent  should  be re­
strained by injunction from  using the  word 
either  as  part of  his  trade-mark or other­
wise.  The court  further  held  that it  was 
not lawful for the defendant  to  register the 
word “Strathmore” in combination with his 
trade-mark,  and that the  register  should be 
rectified by striking out the word.

A letter describing  the  markets  of  New 
Orleans says everything is  sold by the  eye, 
and there is no standard of measure.  Nine- 
tenths of the hundreds who sell in the noted 
French markets of the  city  do  not  know 
what a bushel or a peck is.  They buy their 
vegetables by the lot and  place  them in lit­
tle piles on tables.  These piles are of differ­
ent sizes and  prices.  The  buyer  looks  at 
the piles and buys that which  he  thinks  is 
biggest and best.  Sometimes  buckets  and 
boxes are used to measure,  but  they are  of 
all kinds and shapes.

A man in the smoking car on a G.  It.  & I. 
train the other morning  leaned  over  to the 
man who  sat  in  front of  him  and  said: 
“Have  you a  match?”  “Yes, but I  hain’t 
got  any  cigar,”  was  the  prompt  reply. 
“Then you don’t want the match,” said  the 
first man, sweetly.

WHOLESALE  PEIOE  CURRENT,

WIDE  BROWN COTTONS.

BLEACHED COTTONS.

CHECKS.

OSNABURG.

Pepperell, 104....... 25
Pepperell, 114....... 2714
Pequot,  74............. 18
Pequot,  84.............21
Pequot,  9-4.............24
Park Mills, No. 90.. 14 
Park Mills, No. 100.15
Prodigy, oz.............11
Otis Apron.............1014
Otis Furniture..... 1014
York, 1  oz............. 10
York. AA, extra oz. 14
Alabama  plaid.......7
Augusta plaid........   7
Toledo plaid...........   7
Manchester  plaid..  7 
New Tenn. plaid.. .11 
Utility plaid...........   614
Greene, G.  44........   514
Hill, 4-4....................  714
Hill, 7-8..................  6%
Hope,  44.................. 6%
King  Phillip  cam­
  1114
Lin wood,  4-4..........  714
Lonsdale,  44............754
Lonsdale  cambric. 1014 
Langdon, GB, 44...  914
Langdon,  45...........14
Masonville,  44......8
Maxwell. 4-4..............914
New York Mill, 44.1014 
New Jersey,  4-4—   8 
Pocasset,  P. M. C..  714 
Pride of the West. .11 
Pocahontas,  44—   714
Slaterville, 7-8........   614
Victoria, AA..........9
Woodbury, 44........   554
Whitinsville,  4 4 ...  714
Whitinsville, 7-8___ 614
W amsutta, 44.........1014
Williamsville, 36... 1054

bric, 44....... 

Androscoggin, 9-4. .23 
Androscoggin, 8-4. .21
Pepperell,  7-4.........1614
Pepperell,  8-4.........20
Pepperell,  9-4.........2254
Caledonia, XX, oz.. 11 
Caledonia,  X, oz... 10
Economy, oz..........10
Park Mills, No. 50. .10 
Park Mills, No. 60. .11 
Park Mills, No. 70.. 12 
Park Mills, No. 80. .13
Alabama brown—   7
J e w e ll  b r iw n ............ 914
Kentucky  brown.. 1014 
Lewiston  brown...  914
Lane brown........... 914
Louisiana plaid—
Avondale,  36..........  814
Art  cambrics, 36.. .1114 
Androscoggin, 44..  814 
Androscoggin, 54. .1214
Ballou, 4-4...............  614
Ballou, 5-4...............  6
Boott,  0 .4 4 ...........   814
Boott,  E. 5-5...........   7
Boott, AGC, 44.........914
Boott, R. 34..........  514
Blackstone,AA44.  7 
Chapman, X, 44—   6
Conway,  44........... 7
Cabot, 4-4.................634
Cabot, 7-8.................  6
Canoe,  34...............  4
Domestic,  36..........  714
Dwight Anchor, 44.  9
Davol, 44...............  9
Fruit of Loom, 44..  814 
Fruit of Loom, 7-8..  714 
Fruit of  the Loom,
cambric,' 44........11
Gold Medal, 4-4..  ..  6;
Gold Medal, 7-8.......6
Gilded Age............... 824
Crown........
Coin.
Centennial.

PRINTS.

SILESIAS
..17 Mason ville TS....... 8
..1254 Mason ville  S........ 1054
..10 Lonsdale...............
954
16
..15 Lonsdale A ...........
Nictory  O.............
..  8 Victory J ...............
.14 Victory D .............
254
. .1254 Victory  K .............
..12 Phoenix A ............. 1954
..10 Phoenix  B ............. 1054
.5
..16 Phoenix X X .......
.6
...554 Gloucester............
...6 Gloueestermourn’g . 6
.6
Hamilton  fancy..
...554
...554
Hartel fancy........
.6
...6y* Merrimac D..........
.6
...654 Manchester..........
...554 Oriental fancy__ .6
.. .6 Oriental  robes__ .m
..  554 Pacific  robes........
.6
. . . 6 Richmond.............
...654 Steel River............
.554
.6
Simpson’s .............
...6
Washington fancy
...6
Washington blues 754
...654

Paconia.

Albion,  grey.

Allen’s pink.

Arnold fancy..

FINE BROWN  COTTONS.

checks,
new

d o m e s t ic  g in g h a m s.

HEAVY  BROWN  COTTONS.

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

royal  styles........   8
standard.............   754

Indian Orchard, 40.  8 
Indian Orchard, 36.  714
Laconia B, 74.........1614
Lyman B, 40-in.......1054
Mass. BB, 4-4..........  524
Nashua  E, 40-in__ 814
Nashua  K, 4-4........   754
Nashua 0,7-8..........  624
Newmarket N .......... 654
Pepperell E, 39-in..  7 
Pepperell K, 44—   754
Pepperell  O, 7-8___ 654
Pepperell N, 34___ 654
Pocasset  C, 44.......  624
Saranac  R...............  754
Saranac  E...............  9

Appleton A, 44—
Boott  M, 4-4...........   624
Boston F, 44..........  714
Continental C, 4-3..  614 
Continental D, 40 in 824 
Conestoga W, 4-4...  654 
Conestoga  D, 7-8...  514 
Conestoga G, 30-in.  6
Dwight  X, 34...........514
Dwight Y, 7-8..........  524
Dwight Z, 44 ..........  624
Dwight Star, 4-4—   7 
EwightStar,40-in..  9 
Enterprise EE, 36..  5 
Great Falls E, 4-4...  7
Farmers’ A, 44 
Indian  Orchard  14 714
Amoskeag.............7141 Renfrew, dress styl  714
Johnson  Manfg Co,
Amoskeag, Persian 
styles............. ......1014  Bookfold..............1214
Bates........................  7 541 Johnson Manfg Co,
dress  styles....... 1254
Berkshire...............  614
Slaterville, 
dress
Glasgow checks—   7 
styles...................  714
Glasgow checks, f’y  714 
White Mfg Co, stap  724
Glasgow 
White Mfg Co, fane 8 
White  Manf’g  Co,
Gloucester, 
Earlston...............8
14|Gordon...................  754
Plunket 
dress
8  IGreylock, 
Lancaster
Langdale................   7241  styles  .................. 1214
iPeppereli.  10-4...... 2714
Androscoggin, 74.. 21 
‘  ~  '  n   Pepperell,  114...... 32J4
Androscoggin, 84. .23
Pequot,  74..............21
Pepperell,  7-4.........20
Pequot,  8-4..............24
Pepperell,  84.........221
|Pequot,  94..............2714
Pepperell,  9-4.........25
Atlantic  A, 44.......7»4¡Lawrence XX, 44..  714
Atlantic  H ,4-4.......7  Lawrence  Y, 30....  7
Atlantic  D, 4-4 .......  654 LawrenceLL,44...  554
Atlantic P, 44........   554 ¡Newmarket N ........   654
Atlantic LL, 44 ....  554¡Mystic River, 4-4...  554
Adriatic, 36.............   754|Pequot A, 44..........  754
Augusta, 4-4...........   654|Piedmont,  36..........  654
Boott M, 44...........   6241Stark A A, 4-4..........  754
Boott  FF, 4-4..........  724lTremont CC, 4-4—   514
Graniteville, 44—   554 Utica,  44 ................  9
Indian  Head,4-4...  7  Waehusett,  4-4.......714
Indiana Head 45-in. 12 541 Wachusett, 30-in...  654 
Amoskeag,  ACA...14 
iFalls,XXXX..........1854
Amoskeag  “ 4-4..19  Falls, XXX..............1554
Amoskeag,  A ........13  Falls,  BB.................1154
Amoskeag,  B ........12 
| Falls,  BBC, 36........ 1914
Amoskeag,  C........11  Falls,  awning.........19
Amoskeag,  D........1014¡Hamilton,  BT, 32..12
Amoskeag,  E ........ 10  Hamilton,  D ..........  914
Amoskeag, F ..........  914 Hamilton,  H ..........954
Premium  A, 44__ 17 
¡Hamilton  fancy...10
Premium  B __....16 
¡MethuenAA..........1354
Methuen ASA....... 18
. . Bl  1UULUUCU ADA.......
..1454¡Omega A, 7-8........ .11
Extra 7-8.............
..15 Omega A, 44........ .13
Gold Medal44...
. .1254 ¡Omega ACA, 7-8... 14
CCA 7-8...............
..14 Omega ACA, 44... 16
CT 4 4 ..................
..14 Omega SE, 7-8....... 24
RC 7-8..................
..16 Omega SE, 4-4....... 27
BF 7-8..................
..19 Omega M. 7-8....... .23
AF4-4..................
..14 Omega M, 44........ .25
Cordis AAA, 32..
. .15 ShetucketSS&SSW 1154
Cordis  ACA, 32..
Shetueket, S & SW.12
..15
Cordis No. 1, 32..
Shetueket,  SFS 
. .12
..14
Cordis  No. 2.......
Stockbridge  A __ 7
..13
Cordis  No. 3.......
..1154 Stockbridge frncy 8
Cordis  No. 4.......
..  5 Empire..................
Garner...............
..  5 Washington.......... 4*
Hookset.............
..  5 Edwards................
5
Red  Cross..........
S. S. & Sons............ 5
Forest Grove__ ..
GRAIN BAGS.
American  A ........18 001 Old  Ironsides.........15
Stark A ...................2254¡Wheatland............... 21
Boston....................  654 ¡Otis CC....................1054
Everett blue.........1354 Warren  AXA.......... 1254
Everett brown......1354|Warren  BB..............1154
Otis  AXA............. 1254 Warren CC........... 1054
Otis BB.................. 1154 York  fanev.......... 1354
6 S. S. & Sons...........
Manville................
Masgnville............ 6 Garner..................
WIGANS.
754 Thistle Mills..........
Red  Cross.............
Berlin.................... 754 Rose.......................
Garner..................
754
Brooks.................. 50 Eagle  and  Phoenix
Clark’s O. N. F__ 55 Mills ball sewing.30
J. & P.  Coats........ 55 Greeli  &  Daniels.. 35
Willimantic 6 cord.55 Merricks............... 40
Willimantic 3 cord 40 Stafford................. 35
Charleston ball sew
Hall & Manning... 35
ingthread.......... 30 Holyoke................. 25

GLAZED CAMBRICS.

PAPER  CAMBRICS.

SPOOL COTTON.

TICKINGS.

DENIMS.

6
6

8

CORSET JEANS.

Armory................. 754 Kearsage...............
85#
Androscoggin sat. 854 N au mkëag satteen 854
6 Pepperell bleached 854
Canoe River..........
654 Pepperell sat........
Clarendon.............
9 54
Hallo well  Imp__ 6 % Rockport............... 7
Ind. Orch. Imp__ 7 Lawrence sat........ HV4
Laconia ................. 754 Conegosat.............
7

“ 

COAL  AND  BUILDING  MATERIALS.
A. B. Knowlson quotes as follows:
Ohio White Lime, per  bbl....................
1  00
Ohio White Lime, car lots....................
85
Louisville Cemeni, per bbl..................
1 30
Akron Cement per bbl
1  30
Buffalo Cement,  per bbl......................
1 30
..................... 1  05@1 10
Car lots 
“ 
Plastering hair, per bu.........................  25@  30
Stucco, per bbl.......................................  
1 75
Land plaster, per ton............................ 
3 50
Land plaster, car lots............................ 
2 50
Fire brick, per  M.................................. $25 @ $35
Fire clay, per bbl................................... 
3 00
Anthracite, egg and grate, car lots.. $6 00@6 25 
Anthracite, stove and nut, car lots..  6 25@6 50
Cannell, car lots...............................  @6 00
Ohio Lump, car lots.........................3 10@3 25
Blossburg or Cumberland, car lots..  4 50@5 00 
Portland Cement.............................3 50@4 00

COAL.

D.  W.  Archer’s  Trophy  Corn,
D. W. Archer’s Morning Glory Corn,
D. W. Archer's Early Golden Drop Corn

NO.  2.  AND  3  CANS.

YOUNG,  TENDER  AND  SWEET,

NATURAL  FLAVOR  RETAINED. 

GUARANTEED  PURITY.

$1,000  IN  GOLD.

NOT SWEETENED WITH SUGAR. 

NO  CHEMICALS  USED.

NOT  BLEACHED  WHITE. 
NO  WATER  IN  CANS.

The Trade supplied by Wholesale Grocers Only.  Respectfully,

TEE  ARCHER  PACKING  00.,  Chillicothe, Ills.
TO  T H E   TPI-A.IDE.

We wish to call the attention of the trade to the fact that we  are  manufacturing  a  line  of
OVERALLS,  SACK  COATS,  JUMPERS,  ETC.

Which we guarantee to be superior in make, fit and quality to be any in the market.

OUR  OVERALLS  AND  SACK  COATS

Comprise  all the best points it takes to make up good, durable and desirable goods.  The main 
points in our Overalls are the superior cut and high waist, making them perfect hip  fitting,  so 
that no suspenders need be used to keep them up in place.

OUR  SACK  COATS

Are cut full so as not to bind in any part and large enough for any  man.

EVERY  GARMENT  IS  WARRANTED  NOT  TO  RIP,

If in any case they should rip or not give perfect satisfaction, give the purchaser another pair 
and charge to us. 
than  any  other  factory  making  first-class goods.  All dealers will find it to their  interest to 
send for samples and prices before placing their orders elsewhere.
M idiigan O verall Co., Io n ia , Micli,

OUKOFRICES  AKE  LESS

No convict labor used in the manufacture of our goods.

T B S GRAND RAPIDS  ROLLER MILLS

MANUFACTURE  A

VALLEY CITY MILLING CO.

FANCY  PATENT  “ ROLLER  CHAMPION.”
Prices are low.  Extra quality guaranteed.  Write for quotations.

“SNOW-FLAKE,”  AND  “LILY WHITE  PATENT,”  AND 

Tlie  Favorite  Brands  are

EAST  END  BRIDGE  ST.  BRIDGE,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

The Old Reliable
3ST  I   HUE  P t  O
p l u g   t o b a c c o

Is  for  Sale  by  all  Grand Rapids Jobbers.

SAMPLES  FURNISHED  ON  APPLICATION.

Peterstourg,  Va.

S.  W.  VEUSTABLE  Sc  GO-
JENNINGS 
SMITH.
Arctic  Manufacturing  Co.,

PROPRIETORS  OF  THE

20  Lyon  St.,  Grand,  ria p id s.

ASK  YOUR  JOBBER  FOR

Jennings’  Flavoring  Extracts,

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^Arotio  BeGcing  P o w d er.
See  Onr  Wholesale  Quotations  else­

where in this issue and write for

Special  Prices in  Car  Lots. 
We are prepared to lake Bottoi Prices on anything we handle.
A. B. K N O W LSO N ,

3 Canal Street, Basement,  Grand Kapids, Mich.

Wholesale  Grocers,

Sole  O w ners  o f

A R A B   P L U G !

The Best and Most Attractive Goods on the  Market.  Send for 

Sample Butt.  See Quotations in Price-Current.

SPRING  &

COMPANY

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

Staple and  Fancy

DRY  GOODS,

CARPETS,

M ATTINGS,

O IL  CLO TH S

ESTO-,  ETC.

6 and 8 Monroe Street,

Grand Rapids,

Michigan.

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and  F ishF. J. Dfitteitlaler
O ysters 

117  MONROE  ST. '

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

DEALERS  IN

NOS.  122  and  124  LOUIS  STREET, GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

S ands’  P atent T riple M otion

WHITE  MOUNTAIN 

ICE  CREAM 

FREEZER  !

The  only  Freezer  ever  made  having  three  distinct 
motions,  thereby  producing  finer,  smoother  Cream 
than any other  Freezer  on  the  market.  Acknowl­
edged  by  every  one  to  be the best in the world.  Over 
300,000  In  use  To-day.  Outside Irons Galvanized, but 
all inside the  can  coated w ith  Pure  Block  Tin.  Tubs 
water-proof;  easily  adjusted  and  operated.  We  also 
carry  large  stock  of  Packing  Tubs, Packing  Cans,  lee 
Crushers, etc.  Send for Price List and  Trade  Discounts.

AddressFoster, t a s  & Co.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Agents for Western Michigan.

Wholesale Manufacturers of

PURE  CANDY!

AND  DEALERS  IN

Oranges,  Lemons,
Bananas,  Figs,  Dates 

NUTS,
E  T O.

West Michigan  Oil  Company,

(SUCCESSORS  TO  STANDARD  OIL  CO.,)

63 Monroe Street,  Grand Rapids, Mich.

Jno.  C.  Bonnell,  Pres. 

J.  H.  Bonnell, Sec’y.

HERCULES!
A nnihilator !

The Great Stump and Bock

and  Lubricating

O I L

CUTTING  U P   BEEF.

Som e  of  the  Advantages  of  the  Chicago 

W ay.

From the American Marketman.

The object of the  accompanying  illustra­
tion is to show: First how a side of beef is cut 
in the  three  principal  cities,  New  York, 
Chicago and  Philadelphia,  and  second,  to 
settle the vexed  question  of  what is a por- 
tor house,  sirloin,  and  rump  steak.  By re­
ferring to the cut the solid  lines  show  the 
Chicago and New York  method  of  cutting, 
and the dotted  lines  show  the  variations I 
make  in  the  Philadelphia  style.  For  ex- i 
ample a, b,  c and 6  being  their rump,  2 the 
round with veiny pieces or  knuckle  left  on 
the rump; the veiny piece  is  cut  either  on 
the round or rump at pleasure,  or as may be 
to the advantage of the  dealer  or  choice  of 
buyer; a is the pin  bone,  sold  for roasting. 
Then follow  the  rump steaks, parallel with 
the straight dotted line; the  sirloin  and sir­
loin steak is No.  1, below the  curved dotted | 
line.

It will be  seen  from  this,  that  consider­
ing the different  style of cutting,  a Chicago 
cutter,  strictly speaking, has no rump steak. 
The  nearest  equivalent  to  a Philadelphia 
sirloin is the Chicago porterhouse; the back 
cut sirloin is the  same  cut,  it  being in Chi­
cago and New York strictly the porterhouse; 
and in Philadelphia the sirloin steak.  With 
the above explanation we  think  it  will  be 
plain that it is not so much a different nom­
enclature as a  different  method  of  cutting 
that makes the confusion and  the difference 
of opinion as to what is a rump,  sirloin,  or 
porterhouse  steak.  The  solid  lines  repre- j 
sent the Chicago,  New York and nearly the |

W I L S O N ’ S

Cahiaei Creamery and Barrel Churn

AND  ALL  DAIRY  SUPPLIES.

To  first pur­
chaser  in  new 
locality,we will 
give  s p e c ia l 
terms.
The woman’s 
friend. It saves 
three-fourths 
of the  labor in 
b u tter -m a k ­
ing;  easily  op­
e r a te d ;  you 
raise 
s w e e t  
cream  f r o m  
s w e e t   milk: 
you have sweet milk to feed which  trebles its 
value.  Send  for  circular.  Agents  wanted. 
Address,  FLINT  CABINET  CREAMERY 
CO.,  FLINT,  MICH.

'G rin d   your« ow n  Bone,
1 U IIIIU   M e a l,  O y s te r  S h ells,  I 
1 E A H A M   F lo u r   a n d   C o rn  
lin the 
H A N D  OXXXjI j  I
(F.  Wilson’s  Patent). 
lO O   p e r  
c e n t, more made in keeping p o u l­
t r y .   « A lso   P O W E R   M I L L S   and  F A R M   ! 
F E E D   M IL L S .  Circulars  and Testimonials sent 
on application.  W IL S O N  B R O S ., E a s to n , P a .

_ 

DRYDEN &  PALMER’S 

HOGZ  CA1TDY.

Unquestionably the best in  the  market.  As 
clear as crystal and as transparent as diamond. 
Try a box.
Jo tm  Caulfield.,
Sole Agent for Grand Rapids.

c m

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SALT.

ONONDAGA F. F. SALT
AMERICAN  DAIRY  SALT  CO.

Sole Manufacturers.

(Limited.)  Chemically purified and W a r r a n t ­
e d  pure as any in the market.  Used by a great 
majority of the Dairymen of the country.  Un­
excelled for Butter, Cheese, the Table  and  all 
Culinary  purposes.  Got medal at Centennial 
“for  purity  and  high  degree of  excellence.” 
Dairy goods salted with it took first premiums 
at New Orleans  World’s  Fair,  N.  Y.  Interna­
tional Fair, Milwaukee Exposition, and always 
wins  when  there  is  fair  competition. 
It  is 
American, and c h e a p e r   and b e t t e r  than any 
foreign salt.  Try it.  Address
J. W. Barker, Sec’y, Syracuse, N. Y.
CREAM  TESTER.!
With six glasses for testing six  cows’  milk  at 
same  time.  Price  $1;  large  size  glasses  82, 
either free by mail.  Agents wanted. Circulars 
with  full  particulars  for  stamp.  WYMAN 
L.  EDSON,  Union  Center,  Broome  Co., N. Y.

G. S. YALE & BRO.

—Manufacturers  ot-

BAKING  POW DERS,

BliUIlSrOS,  ETC.,

4 0   and  4 2  S ou th   D iv isio n ,  St.

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

- 

MICHIGAN.

CRESCENT

P ro p r ie to r s  o f

FLOURING  MILLS

M a n u factu rers  o f   th e   F o llo w in g   P o p ­

u la r   B ra n d s  o f   F lo u r :

“ CRESCENT,”

“ W H IT E   ROSE,”

“ M ORNING  GLORY,”

“ ROYAL  P A T E N T ,” and 

“ ALL  W H E A T ,” Flour.

English style of cutting,  while  the  dotted 
lines in the hind quarter  show  the  Quaker 
and partly German method.

The first cut made in a side of  beef is the 
line below 20, cutting down  the  fore  quar­
ter, thus cutting close to, and leaving all the 
ribs  (13)  in the fore ;  sometimes  one  and 
even two is cut to the hind  quarter,  so as to 
give more loin, but this  is  what  is  called a 
“shoemaker’s cut,” and is not recognized in 
the trade; on the contray,  to make  the  loin 
and rib cut square a portion of the former is 
left on the latter.

The second cut is  along the  line  between 
b and 6, which takes off  the loin (Chicago), 
but this is varied  somewhat by  cutting  up 
toward C,  keeping close to  the * bone;  again 
the round is cut off first along  the solid line 
between 2 and 6,  and c and a,  keeping more | 
toward c. The leg, 18, is cut off at any time, as 
the flank may be.  In cutting the fore quarter 
the first cut is along  the 
line to right  of 5, | 
through shoulder  joint  down to the  plate j 
and brisket,  5 being  raised  up  and  cut  or j 
sliced as it were from the plate and brisket. 
Next, the knife is run along the line to right | 
of 11 and  12, over  top  of  ribs,  which  of I 
course are sawed to  point  left  of  15, thus 
leaving the back or rack of  beef; 10  and  13 
is separated from 11  and  12,  leaving  plate j 
and brisket.  The rack is cut at pleasure on I 
any of the cross lines.

The Chicago  method of cutting  is becom- 
ing more and  more  popular,  as its  advan- j 
tages to the dealer  become  known,  and as J 
the same  style is in vogue  in  New  York,  j 
The time is not far distant when all will cu t! 
alike,  as some one  way  must  be  the best, I 
and it is the general belief that the  packing 
houses and  wholesale  butchers  of  Chicago 
know how to cut beef to  about  the best ad- 
vantage for the trade.

The sales of leaf tobacco  for  April  show 
an immense falling  off  from  last  year.  A i 
good many people must have sworn off late-! 
ly.

It takes thirty-one  dollar  bills  to weigh 

as much as one silver dollar.

The  Connecticut  Legislature  lias  estab­

lished a labor bureau.

Strongest and Safest Explosive Known 

to the Arts,

Farmers, practice  economy  and  clear your 
land  of  stumps  and  boulders.  Main  Office, 
Hercules  Powder  Company,  No.  40 Prospect 
Street, Cleveland, Ohio.
L.  S. HILL & CO., AGTS. 

GUNS,  AMMUNITION  & FISHING  TACKLE,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

USE

D’OLIVEIRA’S
Parisian Sauce

THE  COOLEY  GAN,

Improved by the Lockwood Patent.

the  patrons 

Used  in  the  creamery  for butter only, they 
paid 
in 
July,  1884,60c  and  the 
skimmed  milk  per  100 
lbs.  Lowest  price  of 
the year.
In  the  creamery  for 
gathered  cream  they 
paid  the  patrons  from 
15c  to  27c  per  cream 
gauge for the year 1884.
In  the  factory  for 
butter and  cheese they 
paid  the  patrons  $1.75 
per 100 lbs. average, for 
the sea sou.  They show 
better  results  in  dol­
lars  and  cents  than 
anything yet  invented.
for 
actual 
Write 
figures  fur­
working 
nished  by  successful 
creamery  men 
of 
known reputation, who 

have used them as above.

JOHN  BOYD,

Sole Manufacturer, 190 LAKE  ST.,  CHICAGO.

TIME TABLES. 

Michigan Pîentral

T h e   N i a g a r a   F a lls   (R oute.

DEPART.

ARRIVE.

»Detroit Express...........................................   6:00 am
+Day  Express..........................................12:45 p m
+Atlantic Express................................    9:30 pm
»Pacific  Express...........................................   6:00 am
»Mail.
...................................................  3:20 p m
tGrand  Rapids  Express....................... 10:25 n m
+Daily except Sunday.  »Daily. 
Sleeping  cars  run  on  Atlantic  and  Pacific 
Express.
Direct  and  prompt  connection  made  with 
Great  Western,  Grand  Trunk  and  Canada 
Southern trains in same depot at Detroit, thus 
avoiding transfers.
The Detroit Express leaving at 6:00 a. m. has 
Drawing  Room  and  P8rlor  Car  for  Detroit, 
reaching that city at 11:45 a. m., New York 10:30 
a. m., and Boston 3:05 p. m. next day.
A train leaves Detroit at 4 p. m. daily except 
Sunday with drawing room car attached, Arriv­
ing at Grand Rapids at 10:25 p. m.

P

J. T. Schultz, Gen’l Agent.

Chicago & West Michigan.

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Leaves.  Arrives,
tMail.....................................   9:15 am   4:05 pm
+Day Express.....................12:25 p m  11:15 p m
»Night  Express..................  9:35 pm   6:00 am

»Daily.  tDaily except Sunday.
Pullman Sleeping Cars  on  all  night  trains. 
Through  parlor  car  in  charge  of  careful  at­
tendants without extra charge  to  Chicago  on 
12:25 p. m., and through coach - on 9:15 a.m. and 
9:35 p. m. trains.

NEWAYGO DIVISION.

Leaves.  Arrives.
Express.................................  4:15 pm   4:05 p m
Express.................................  8:05 a m  11:15 a m
All trains arrive and depart from Union De­
pot.
The Northern terminus of  this Division is at 
Baldwin, where close connection is made with 
F. &  P. M. trains  to  and  from Ludington  and 
Manistee.

. 

J. H. Ca r p e n t e r ,  Gen’l Pass. Agent.
J.  B.  M u l l i k e n ,  General  Manager.
Lake Shore & Miohigan Southern.

All trains daily except Sunday.
The  ntrain 

(KALAMAZOO  DIVISION.)
Arrive. 
Express...............................7:00 p m 
Mail.......................................9:35 am  

Leave.
7:35 a iu
4:00 pm
leaving  at 4  p. m. connects at 
White Pigeon with  Atlantic  Express  on Main 
Line, which has Palace Drawing  Room  Sleep­
ing Coaches  from  Chicago  to  New  York  and 
Boston without change.
The  train  leaving  at  7:35  a. m. connects  at 
White Pigeon (giving one hour for dinner) with 
special New York Express on Main Line.
Through  tickets  and  berths  in  sleeping 
coaches can be secured at  Union Ticket office, 
67 Monre street and depot.

J. W. McKenney, Gen’l Agent.

Detroit,  Grand  Haven &  Milwaukee.

GOING EAST.

Arrives. 

GOING WEST.

Leaves.
tSteamboat  Express..........  6:17am   6:25am
•(•Through  Mail....................10:10 am   10:20 am
3:35 p m
tEvening  Express............. 3:20 p m 
»Limited  Express...............  6:27 pm   6:30 pm
tMixed, with  coach...........  
10:30 am
tMorning Express__ ____  1:05 p m  1:10 p m
•♦Through  Mail..................  5:10 pm   5:15pm
tSteamboat Express..........10:40 p m  10:45 p m
tMixed..................................  
7:10 am
»Night Express....................  5:10am  5:20 am

tDaily, Sundays excepted.  »Daily.
Passengers  taking  the  6:25  a.  m.  Express 
make close connections at Owosso for Lansing 
and at Detroit for New York, arriving there at 
10:00 a. m. the following morning.
Parlor Cars on  Mail  Trains,  both  East  and 
West.
Train leaving  at  10:45  p.  m.  will make  con­
nection with Milwaukee steamers daily except 
Sunday.
The mail has  a  Parlor  Car to Detroit.  The 
Night  Express has a through Wagner Car and 
local  Sleeping Car Detroit to Grand Rapids.
D. P o t t e r , City Pass. Agent.
G e o . B. R e e v e , Traffic Manager, Chicago.

GOING
WEST
Ac. Ex.
PM.
4 50 Ar.
4 40
PM.
6 50 3 30
3 08
12 00 
1  10
12 15
11 25 11 02
7 30 AM.

A
D

Grand  Rapids  &  Indiana.

GOING NORTH.

Cincinnati & Gd Rapids Ex  8:45 p m 
Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex.  7:00 a m 
Ft. Wayne & Mackinac Ex  3:55 pm  
G’d Rapids  & Cadillac  Ac.
G. Rapids & Cincinnati Ex.
Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex.  4:0c p m 
Mackinac & Ft. Way r e Ex.. 10:25 a m 
Cadillac & G’d  Rapids  Ac.  7:40 p m

Arrives.  Leaves.
10:25 a i 
5:00 p i 
7:10 a i
7:00 a i 
6:15 p i 
11:45 p ]

GOING  SOUTH.

s l e e p in g  c a r  a r r a n g e m e n t s.

All trains daily except Sunday.
North—Train  leaving  at 5:00  o’clock  p.  ] 
has  Woodruff  Sleeping Cars for Petoskey ai 
Mackinac City.  Train leaving at 10:25 a. m. h 
combined Sleeping and Chair Car for Traver 
City.
South—Train leaving at 4:35p. m. has  Woo 
ruff Sleeping Car for Cincinnati.
C. L. L o ck w o o d, Gen’l Pass. Agent.

Detroit,  Mackinac  & Marquette.

STATIONS.

GOING
EAST
Ac. Ex.

Seney

Dep. 1 30

Ishpeming
. Negauneé...
. Marquette..
.  eedsboro..

.  Newbury ..

1  40 AM.
2 20 7 30
4 19 11 05 
5 45 
1 10
5 30
12 40
6 38 2 40
PM.
8 30 Dep.  . ...St. Ignace.. ..Ar. c9 00 6 30
7 00 Ar.  Iktaekinaw City Dep. 9 30
PM.
9 00 Dep. Grand Rapids Ar. 7 00
AM.
9 35
3 30

... Detroit__

D
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Connections made at  Marquette  and Negau- 
nee with the M. H. & O. R. R. for the iron, gold 
silver and copper districts; at Reedsboro  ivith 
a daily stage  line  for  Manistique;  at  Seney 
with tri-weekly stage for Grand  Marais; at St. 
Ignace with the M. C. and G. R.  & I.  Railways 
for all points east and south; also  daily  stage 
line to Sault St. Marie.
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WIDOW  SPRIGGS.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

44 
44 

ifornia Muscatel Raisins.

Advanced—Sugars; Eastern Dairy Salts; Cal­
Declined—Currants;  Sardines.
These prices  are  for  cash  buyers,  who  pay 

CANNED FISH.

AXLE  GREASE.

CANNED FRUITS.

BAKING  POWDER.

12  00 

. ..d o z. 
. ..d o z. 
..  doz. 
...  doz

.....1 00

11
...  10
........1 00

45 
35 
65
gross 4 00 
8  00 
2  00
3 00
4 50
No.  2  Hurl..............175
Fancy  Whisk.........100
CommonWhisk—   75

promptly and buy in full packages.
Frazer’s .................  2  80|Paragon  ........... .1 80
Diamond..................1 75 Paragan25ft pails.1 20
Modoc.......................1 651
Arctic yt ft cans....  451 Arctic 1 ft cans... .2 40
Arctic 14 ft cans__   75 Arctic 5ft cans— 12 00
Arctic % ft cans.  .. 1 40|
BLUING.
Dry, No. 2....................... ; —
Dry, No. 3...............................
Liquid, 4 oz,..........................
Liquid, 8 oz.............................
Arctic 4 oz..............................
Arctic 8  oz............................
Arctic 16 oz............................
Arctic No. 1 pepper box—
44  —
Arctic No. 2 
Arctic No. 3 
44  —
BROOMS
No. 1 Carpet............2 50
No. 2 Carpet........... 2 25
No. 1  Parlor Gem.. 2  75 
No. 1 Hurl............... 2 00
Clams, 1 ft  standards........... ......................¿40
Clams, 2 1b  standards.................................. *
Clam Chowder,  3 f t ................................"3!
Cove Oysters, 1  ft  standards.....................l  ¿0
Cove Oysters, 2 ft  standards....................  1 ™
Cove Oysters, 1 ft  slack filled....................  75 
Cove Oysters, 2 ft slack filled.....................1 05 
Lobsters, 1 ftpicnic..................................... |  ™
Lobsters, 1 ft star.................................
.......3 10
Lobsters, 2 ft star........... ....................
Mackerel, 1 ft  fresh  standards..........
.......6 50
Mackerel, 5 ft fresh standards..........
.......3 25
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 f t ........
.......3 25
Mackerel,3 ft in Mustard....................
.......3 25
Mackerel, 3 ft broiled..........................
.......1 55
Salmon, 1 ft Columbia river...............
.......2 60
Salmon, 2 ft Columbia river...............
.......1 35
Salmon. 1 ft  Sacramento....................
...   6
Sardines, domestic 14s.........................
.... 
Sardines,  domestic  14s .......................
Sardines,  Mustard  14s........................
.......  13
Sardines,  imported  14s.......................
Trout. 3 ft  brook...................................
Apples, 3 ft standards.......... •:..........
Apples, gallons,  standards, Erie.......
Blackberries, standards.....................
Cherries,  red  standard.......................
Damsons......................................
Egg Plums, standards 
............
Green Gages, standards 2 ft—
Peaches, Extra Yellow.............
Peaches, standards....................
Peaches,  seconds.......................
Pineapples, Erie.........................
Pineapples, standards...............
Quinces....................- • • • - •.........
Raspberries,  Black, Hamburg.............
CANNED FRUTTS—CALIFORNIA.
Apricots, Lusk’s ...2  401 Pears...............
Egg Plums............. 2  50i Quinces...
Grapes.....................2 50 Peaches  ..
Green Gages...........2 -501
CANNED VEGETABLES.
Asparagus, Oyster Bay....................
Beans, Lima,  standard....................
Beans, Stringless, Erie...................
Beans, Lewis’  Boston Baked..........
Com,  Trophy....................................
Peas, French......................................
Peas, Marrofat, standard................
Peas, Beaver..............................................
Peas, early small, sifted..........................
Pumpkin, 3 ft Golden...............................
Succotash, standard.................................
Tomatoes, Trophy....................................
CHOCOLATE.
...36|German  Sweet.
Boston
_381Vienna Sweet  .
Baker’s
Runklei
Green Rio —  
Green Java... 
Green Mocha. 
Roasted Rio.. 
Roasted Java
72 foot Jute .. 
60foot Jute.. 
40 Foot Cotton
Bloaters, Smoked Yarmouth...............
Cod, whole..............................................
............. 6@7
Cod,Boneless...........................................
.............3 50
Cod, pickled, V4  bbls..............................
.............  12
H alibut...................................
.............2 50
Herring V4  bbls.....................
........... . 18@20
Herring,  Scaled.....................
.............   65
Herring,  Holland..................
............. 5 50
Mackerel, No. 1, V4 bbls........
Mackerel, No. 1.12  ft  kits...
Mackerel, No. 1, shore,  V4  bbls.................6 25
Mackerel, No. 1, shore,  kits...................... 1 00
Shad, V4 bbl  . . . . . . . . ......................................? j*®
Trout, No.  1, V4  bbls....................................4 00
Trout, No. 1,12 ft  kits.................................  90
White, No. 1, V4 b b ls....................................6 00
White, Family, V4 bbls.................................- o0
White, No. 1,10 ft kits.................................  85
White, No. 1,12 ft kits.................................  9o

¡Roasted Mar...l7@18 
Roasted Mocha.28@30 
Roasted Mex... 17@20
Ground  Rio__ 9@16
¡Package  Goods  @1334
172 foot Cotton__ 2  25
60 foot Cotton__2  00
50 foot Cotton__ 1  75

..........  90
..........2 50
..........1 05
..........  90
..........1 40
..........1 40
..........2 40
, 1 75@1 95
..........1 50
........... 2 20
..........1 70
..........1 45
..........1  80

___  95
...... 1 60
...... 1  05
.......1  75>
.......1  70
.......  90
.......1 80
__ 85@95
.......  90

...................1  00

9@13 
17@27 
23@25 
10@15 
23@30 
co:
. 1 25 
.  1  00 
..1 50

.....1 00

...3 CO
..........2 90
........... 3 00

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FISH.

(B ro c e rie s.
Back from the South’

Ex-Mayor Belknap lias  returned  from a 
trip through the  South,  full  of  practical 
ideas picked  up  at  the  various  points  at 
which he tarried.  He kindly submitted to a 
brief interview with The Tradesm an, and 
promised to  give a longer  audience  for  a 
view of the mercantile  and  manufacturing 
interests of the South,  for  next  weeks’ pa­
per.

“In a trip both for pleasure  and  business 
in the  states  of  Tennessee,  Alabama  and 
Mississippi I  found  much  to  interest  and 
amuse—much  that  is  new  to  men  of  the 
North, and any man who  travels  with  his 
eyes open will find enough to  keep  himself 
busy.  Many Northern men are now engaged 
in business  at  Chattanooga,  Atlanta,  Bir­
mingham,  and in fact all  through the  states 
and cities above mentioned, and are meeting 
with fair  success.  There is no rush of bus­
iness any where, but at the  same  time  the 
towns and cities  are  rapiply  growing,  and 
there are a great many good chances for  in­
vestment in real estate.

‘ ‘At many points iron can be made as cheap, 
if not cheaper, than in Ohio or Pennsylvania. 
There are large  forests  of  oak.  pine,  and 
other valuable timber,  and the  little  towns 
that are springing  up  along  every  line of 
railroad reminds one of the  time  when  the 
G. It. & I. was built between  Grand Rapids 
and Petoskey.  There  is  a  new  town  or 
station  every  few  miles,  with  saw  and 
shingle and stave  mills. 
In  making  shin­
gles, the log is first cut into five inch  cants, 
then cut the proper length,  then sawed  into 
shingles, all five  inches wide. 
In  cutting 
lumber from pine the logs are  hauled to the 
mill hi the lengths most convenient,  and no 
effort  is  made to pile each length by  itself. 
You will see  twelve,  sixteen  and  twenty- 
four foot stuff all mixed on the same  car or 
pile, making unsightly loads or piles.

Near every station and mill is a collection 
of stores, where congregate  the  native  in­
habitants, who sit upon the soap  and  other 
boxes  or  on  the  steps,  smoking  com cob 
pipes,  chewing  tobacco,  spitting upon  the 
steps,  or anywhere else most convenient.  It 
takes  a  good  deal  to  stir one of these fel­
lows out of his roost, but they do move into 
the store when  it  rains.  Talk  about  3'0«r 
crazy quilts,  and about the several  hundred 
fancy stitches to be seen at our county fairs. 
You  ought  te  see  the seat of one of those 
fellow’s pants.  Great Scott,  it’s a  sight,  to 
be seen nowhere but in this  country  of  the 
poor white man.

“A  great  change  is  rapidly going on in 
the Southern  States.  The  people  are  fast 
recovering from the effects of the  war.  No 
country but a good one could recover so soon 
front such a terrible ordeal.  During the past 
two years there has been a quiet, steady im­
migration  from  the  North  to  the  South. 
Mills,  factories,  schools,  churches  and  re­
finement have been the  result.  Of  course, 
this manufacturing in  the  South  will  have 
its  effect  upon  the business  of  the North, 
but  that will  only  be  a  gain  to the whole 
I cannot but think that the  result 
country. 
will  be  cheap 
iron  and  cheap  lumber, 
for many years to come;  and with  cheap or 
low freights the fruits and vegetables  of the 
South  will  greatly  affect  the  price  of the 
same things grown here.

“Labor,  so far as I could see,  is cheap and 
good,  and both black and white freely  mix. 
A man with no ambition can live there  and 
get along after the  old fashion; but the am­
bitious man will soon get to the  front,  and 
\y ill make himself a home a great deal quicker 
than he can in a climate when  so  much  of 
his earnings have to go for  winter  clothing 
and fuel.  To  my  mind,  a  new child has 
been bom,  and  the  cry will  soon  be,  4 “go 
South,  old man,  go South.” ’
Tobacco  Consumption  at  Washington.
There is much more plug tobacco  seen in 
Washington now  than  ever  before.  “We 
sell much more plug than  any other  kind,” 
said the manager of a prominent tobacco es­
tablishment.  “There is a very  large  num­
ber of southern people  here,  you know,  and 
they all use plug tobacco.  You couldn’t get 
a southerner to  use  ‘soft  tobacco,’ unless it 
was the case of some old fellow whose teeth 
were so bad that he had to give up the plug. 
All the southerners use plug.  The  eastern 
men,  and those  from  the  north  and  west 
generally,  use fine-cut; but  you can’t  sell it 
to a genuine southerner.  The  eastern  men 
generally spend the most money for tobacco 
in one way or the other.  They buy the best 
they can get, and when they smoke run high 
up in the price.  These New York  fellows 
who come here  usually  buy 25 cent cigars, 
while your average congressman  and sena­
tor from the  south  buy  5  and  10  cent ci­
gars.”

The  Grocery  Market.

Business has been fairly good  during  the 
past week, and collections have held up to a 
fair  average.  Sugars  have  climbed  about 
y,c higher, and the prediction that granulat­
ed will touch 7 cents in New York is within 
of fulfillment.  Oil is still held  at  10K 
for Water White and %% for Legal Test,  at 
which price every dealer  would  do  well  to 
lay in good stocks.

Candy is active and slightly higher.  Nuts 
are  steady.  Fruits  are  active,  with good 
supply,  and prices are firm,

A Tidy Housewife.

A woman was in a grocery  store  looking 

at rolling pins.

said.

for bread.”

“You may give  me  two  of  them,”  she 

“Two of them?” queried the clerk.
“Yes. 

I want to keep one of them  clean 

She Rushes to the Defense  of  Her  Friend 

and Partner.

Cant  H ook  Corners,  May 23,  1885. 

Editor of T h e  T r a d e s m a n  :

D ea r  Sir—To say that  I  am  astonished 
at the attack of that creature Bilson  on  my 
friend and brother in the Lord, Mr.  Snooks, 
would be wrong; but to tell  the truth, noth­
ing else was  to  be  expected  from  such  a 
man.  The idea of his insinuating  that Sol. 
—I mean Bro.  Snooks—-intends to make  off 
with my property is too ridiculous  for  any­
thing.  As  to his store,  or rather shanty— 
for such it really is—being any  larger  than 
Sol.’s—dear  me,  I mean  Mr.  Snooks  why, 
the people out here  know  better.  He  in­
cludes in the measurement of  his store  that 
little twenty-foot lean-to.  Ask Mr.  Haugh 
or By Gee Crip Jennings—they know,  such 
nice men,  too!  And  then  the  idea of his 
buying more goods than Bro.  Snooks!  Why, 
he don’t even advertise,  he’s so  mean.  As 
to his buying for cash, why,  land sakes,  he 
couldn’t get a dollar’s worth of goods,  if  he 
didn’t pay in advance for them!  Now  as to 
that poetry that Soliman sent  you,  he wrote 
every word himself, /or I   seen  him  do  it. 
That Job Strong is a mean little scamp,  and 
I’ll tell him so first time I see him,  for  tell- 
sucli  a  whopper  on  poor,  dear  Bro.
mg
Snooks.  Mr.  Stowe,  I  do solemnly assure 
you,  that there is not a photographic camera 
in the  world  strong  enough  to  stand  one 
glimpse of Bilson’s face. 
It would drive an 
engraver into an early grave to try and make 
a cut of Bilson’s  phiz.

Oh, I have bought  such  lovely  hats  and 
trimmings,  and  if  you  will  come  up  here 
some Sunday with your wife, I’ll show  you 
that we (Snooks and I)  have  the  best  and 
most handsome stock at the Corners.

Now,  I don’t want to  be as mean  as  Bil­
son, but I must tell you what  a  small  man 
he is.  You know he is a batchelor and has 
to do all his own work.  Well, some months 
ago,  somebody gave him a canary bird,  and 
after taking care of it for a week,  he  found 
out that the bird was blind. 
So what does 
he do but mix the bird-seed  with  the  little 
yellow inside of Jimson weed,  and said 
the 
bird would never know the difference.”  But 
I know what ails him.  He  tried  to  make 
love  to me, but I could not endure him,  and 
told him so, and now that Mr.  Snooks,  kind 
soul that he is, has gone into  business  with 
me,  Bilson is mad  at  him,  and  he  is  also 
jealous because  Mr.  Snooks is Justice and a 
detective.  Why,  just look at it! Mr.  Snooks 
is a member of,  oh,  ever  so  many  societies 
and Bilson don’t belong to  any.  Don’t that 
prove that  Snooks is the best man?

Crook and  his  felon  were  up  here  the 
other day,  and I made  a  poultice  for  him. 
H e  told me that he was  in  Soliman’s  store 
once, and Bilson came rushing in and wanted 
Snooks to loan him one ounce of chloride of 
sodium,  as he was out of it and had to fill  a 
prescription,  and Soliman  told  him  that  it 
was a costly  article,  but  Bilson  said  “all 
right, how much is it?” and sure enough  he 
paid Sol.  $1 for an ounce of common salt.

Several of the traveling men have  looked 
over my stock and some of them  have  pat­
ronized me. 
Steve  Sears bought a 48 cent 
bonnet,  and A.  D.  Baker ordered  a $7 hat, 
trimmed with daisies,  to be sent to Traverse 
City. 
Johnny  McIntyre  wanted  to  get 
trusted for 124 cent hat,  and as Snooks guar­
anteed the bill,  I concluded to make the ven­
ture.

I  understand that  Bilson  has  ordered  a 
stock of millinery and intends  running  op­
position to us.

If you wish,  I’ll write  again  next  week, 
telling all about the latest styles here at the 
Corners.

Yours,  etc.,

■'MeHitable  Spriggs.

Testing  Kerosene Oil.

4 ‘How much cheaper are we going  to  get 
our kerosene oil if  the  Legislature  reduces 
the test to 110 degrees?” was asked of a dep­
uty  oil inspector the other day.

“About a cent a'gallon,” he replied,  “but, 
as it will bum faster, you will use more gal­
lons in a year,  and so  really  pay  more  for 
your light.”

“Will the oil be as safe if the  test  is  re­

duced?”

“Yes,  except under extraordinary circum­
stances.  The higher the test, the heavier the 
oil,  the more heat it gives out,  and the more 
it  chars  the  wick.  Chaired  wicks  have 
caused many accidents.  The  reduction of 
the test will slightly  reduce  this  source  of 
danger.”

“And its illuminating quality?”
“That will be slightly improved,  as  com­
pared  with  ‘Michigan  Test’  oil,  though  I 
doubt if it will  be  any  better  than  ‘Water 
White.’  The reduction of  the test will prob­
ably result in there being but  one  grade  of 
oil.”

A reputable authority says that all the ex­
deputy oil inspectors he has questioned  say 
the test can be reduced with perfect  safety, 
while  the  present  deputies  seem  inclined 
to favor the present test.  An inspector ac­
counts for this on the theory that as 120  oil 
is safer than 110 oil they want to be  on  the 
safe side and so advocate the  present test.

Conductor Hobson,  of the local freight on 
the Chicago & West Michigan Railway, was 
kicking like a steer last Friday morning be­
cause he was an hour late, caused by unload­
ing half a carload of freight  shipped by Ar­
thur Meigs & Co. to Fennville,  Grand Junc­
tion and Bangor.  And it wasn’t  much of a 
day for Meigs*either.

John Clark,  of Clinton,  Lenawee  county, 
has  contracted with Detroit  parties  for all 
his creamery  butter  for  the  season  at 34 
cents per  pound.

Catsup, Tomato,  pints..........................   @1 00
Catsup, Tomato,  quarts  ...................... 
.@1 35
Horseradish,  V4 pints............................  @100
Horseradish, pints.................................  @1 30
@3 50 
Halford Sauce, pints
@2 20
Halford Sauce, V6 pints.........................
@4 85 
Detroit Soap Co.’s Queen Anne..........
@3 30 
“ Cameo......................
@3 45 
“ Monday...................
@3 45 
“ Mascot.....................
@3 60 
44 Superior, 60 lft bars
@4 05
Galvanic.................................................

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

SOAP.

Ground. 

SPICES.

Whole.

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

STARCH.

Pepper................ 16@25|Pepper.................   @19
Allspice.............. 12@15  Allspice...............  8@10
Cinnamon...........18@30i Cassia...................  @10
Cloves  ............    .15@25 Nutmegs  ............ 60@65
Ginger................16@20  Cloves  .................  @18
Mustard..............15@30
Cayenne  .............. 25@35|
Kingsford’s, 1 ft pkgs., pure...........
3ft pkgs., pure............
lf t  pkgs., Silver  Gloss—
44  __
6 ft pkgs., 
1 ft pkgs., Corn Starch___
(Bulk) Ontario..................
Cut  Loaf.................................................
Cubes  ......................................................
Powdered................................................
Granulated,  Standard..........................
Confectionery A ....................................
Standard A ..............................................
Extra C, White.......................................
Extra C....................................................
Fine C......................................................
ieuQ
Yellow C...................................................
k
C............................:........................

@6 Vi
@6V4 
@8 
@8 Vi 
@5
a 734

@ 754 
@ 6% 
@ 6 V4 
@6 
@ 534 
@ 5V4 
@  5V4 
@ 5

@8 

SUGARS.

44 

.

do 
do 

Filberts, Sicily

TOBACCO—FINE C U T -IN  PAILS.

.70 Fox’s Choice..
.45 Medallion.......
. 49 [Sweet Owen...
PLUG.

SYRUPS.
28
Corn,  Barrels.....................
30
Corn, V4 bbls.........................
@  32
Corn,  10 gallon kegs...........
@1 6G
Corn, 5 gallon kegs.............
@1 45
Corn, 4)4 gallon kegs..........
23@  35
... .. .. . .bbl
Pure  Sugar..........................
Pure Sugar Drips............... ........V2  bbl
30@  38
Pure Sugar  Drips............... .5 gal kegs @1 96
........Vi bbl @  85
Pure Loaf Sugar Drips...
.5 sal kegs @1 85
Pure  Loaf Sugar...............
TEAS.
,...22@25
Japan ordinary..................
...30®35
Japan fair to good.............
__40@50
Japan fine.......!...................
__15@20
Japan dust..........................
.. ,.30@50
Young Hyson.....................
__35@5U
GunPowder.........................
Oolong................................. ..................33@55@60
__25@30
Congo...................................
The Meigs..................64¡Sweet  Rose.................45
Red  Bird.................. ,50|Meigs & Co.'s Stunner38
State  Seal..................60¡Atlas............................35
Prairie Flower......... 65  Royal Game................38
Climber.....................62  Mule Ear.....................65
Indian Queen...........60|Fountain......................74
Bull  Dog...................60iOld Congress...............64
Crown  Leaf..............66]GoodLuck.................. 52
Matchless.................65 Blaze Away....... ........ 35
Hiawatha........ .........67 Hair Lifter..................30
Globe  .........................70 [Governor...................60
May Flower__
........35 Brazils,
H ero................
........66 Pecons,
Old Abe. 
. 
@48 Walnuts, Grenobles
Red  Fox..........
@50 Walnuts, French
Seal of Grand Rapids............................  @46
@46
Durham.......................... 
Patrol......................................................  @48
Jack Rabbit............................................   @46
Snowflake................................................  @46
Piper  Heidseick....................................   @62
Punch......................................................   @40
Chocolate Cream....................................   @46
Woodcock  ..............................................   @46
Knigntsof  Labor...................................  @46
Arab, 2x12 and 4x12...............................   @46
Black Bear..............................................  @37
King 
......................................................   @46
Old Five Cent Times..............................  @38
Pi’une Nuggett, 12 ft..............................  @62
Parrot  .....................................................  @46
Old Tim e.................................................   @38
Tramway.................................................  @48
Glory  ...................  
@46
Silver  Coin..............................................  @50
Buster  [Dark]...........................  
  @36
Black Prince [Dark].............. 
  @36
Black Racer  [Dark]..............................  @36
Leggett & Myers’  Star..........................  @46
Climax.....................................................  @46
Hold F ast................................................  @46
McAlpin’s Gold Shield..........................   @46
Nickle Nuggets 6 and 12 ft  cads...........  @51
Cock of the Walk  6s............................  @37
N obby Twist...........................................  @46
Nimrod.....................................................  @46
Acorn......................................................   ©46
Crescent................................................   @44
Black  X ...................................................  @35
Black  Bass..............................................   @40
Spring............................... 
@46
Grayling.................................................   @46
Mackinaw................................................  @45
HorseShoe..............................................  @44
Hair Lifter..............................................  @36
D. and D., black......................................  @36
McAlpin’s Green Shield.........................  @46
Ace  High, black....................................   @35
Sailors’  Solace........................................  @46

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CANDY, FRUITS AND  NUTS. 

do 
do 

Putnam & Brooks quote as follows :

FANCY—IN  BULK.

FANCY—IN  5 ft BOXES.

STICK.
Straight, 25 ft  boxes............................  9)4 @10
............................. 10  @10V4
Twist, 
Cut Loaf 
 
@12
MIXED.
Royal, 25 ft  pails..................................... 10 @10V4
Royal, 200 ft bbls........................................9V4@934
Extra, 25 ft  pails........................................ll@llVi
Extra. 200 ft bbls........................................10@10Vi
French Cream, 25 ft pails......................12Vi@13
Cut loaf, 251b  cases..........................................13
Broken, 25  ft pails.....................................11@11V4
Broken, 200 ft  bbls........................................... 10V4
Lemon Drops................................................... 13
Sour Drops........................................................ 14
Peppermint  Drops..........................................15
Chocolate Drops...........................  
16
H M Chocolate  Drops.....................................20
Gum  D rops..................................................... 10
Licorice Drops..................................................20
A B  Licorice  Drops........................................12
Lozenges, plain................................................J5
Lozenges,  printed........................................... 16
Imperials..........................................................15
Mottoes.............................................................15
Cream  Bar........................................................ 14
Molasses Bar.....................................................13
Caramels............................................................20
Hand Made Creams......................................... 20
Plain  Creams................................................... 17
Decorated  Creams...........................................20
String Rock...................................................... 15
Burnt Almonds............................................   22
Wintergreen  Berries......................... 
15
Lozenges, plain in  pails....................... 12Vi@13
Lozenges, plain in bbls............................  @11 Vi
Lozenges, printed in pails....................13Vi@14
Lozenges, printed in  bbls....................12Vi@13
Chocolate Drops, in pails.....................   @13
Gum  Drops  in pails................................. 7Vi@8
6V4
Gum Drops, in bbls..................................  
Moss Drops, in pails.............................10Vi@llVi
Moss Drops, in bbls............. , .........................   9
Sour Drops, in  pails........................................12
Imperials, in  pails................................ 13®  14
Imperials  in bbls...................................  @12
Bananas,  Aspinwall.............................2 50@4 00
Oranges, Messina and  Palermo......... 3 50@4 50
Oranges, California...................."
@4 00 
.  4 00@4 50 
Lemons,  choice...............................
, .4 50@5 00 
Lemons, fancy...............................
Figs,  layers new,  $  ft....................
@12 Vi 
@8 
ft....................
Figs, baskets 40 ft 
Dates, frails 
do  ....................
@  4 
@ 6 
Dates, M do 
do  ....................
Dates, skin.......................................
®4Vi 
@5 
Dates, V4  skin..................................
Dates, Fard 10 ft box $   ft.............
,.  8Vi@ 9 
Dates, Fard 50 ft box $  ft...............
@7
ft..........
Dates, Persian 50 ft box 
.6   @  6Vi
.. 2 25@2 50
Pine Apples, $   doz..................:..,
PEANUTS.
ft.....................
Prime Red,  raw 
4 Vi 
@5
d o .....................
Choice 
Fancy 
do  .....................
..  5)4@  5Vi 
Choice White, Va.do  .....................
.. 
5© 5Vi
Fancy H P..  Va  do  ....................
..6   @ 6Vi
.........  18@18V4
........  
fe@ 8V4
........  
9@12
........ 12V4@14
........ 12V4@15
........ 11 V4@12V4

63 Almonds,  Terragona, $  ft........
d o .......
do  ........
d o ........
d o ........
“  ........

FRUITS.

NUTS.'

 

H I D E S .  P E L T S   A N D   F U R S .

Perkins & Hess quote as fol.ows:

HIDES.

Green__ ^ ft  6  @  6Vi|Calf skins, green
Part cured...  7  @  7 Vi  or cured__   @10
Full cured__   8  @ 8% Deacon skins,
Dry hides and 
Apiece.......20  @50

kips...........   8  @12

SHEEP PELTS.

WOOL.

Shearlings or Sum- 

¡Fall pelts............ 30@50
merskinspcel0@20[Winter  pelts...60@l 25 
Fine washed f) ft 20@22|Unwashed...........  
2-3
5)4
Coarse washed.. ,16@18|Tallow...............  
Bear.............  @12 00 Muskrat....... 
2@  10
Otter........... 1 00@ 4 00
Fisher
Raccoon....... 
5@  75
Fox,red.......
Skunk  ........  15@  75
Fox,  gray...
Beaver, ^ ft.l 00@ 2 25 
M artin........
Deer,  $ f t ...  10@  30
Mink...........

00@ 4 00 
25@ 1  00 
15@ 1 00 
25@ 1 00 
5@  40
PROVISIONS.

SKINS.

PORK  IN  BARRELS.

The  Grand Rapids  Packing  &  Provision  Co. 

7
7
7V4
754
734
8V4
7
7)4
7V4

SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED  OR  PLAIN.

....................14 50
....................13 00
..14 00 
..15 00

quote  as follows:
A. Webster, packer, short cut................
Clear back, short cut........
Extra Family Clear...........
Clear, A . Webster  packer.......................
Standard Clear, the  best.........................
Extra Clear,  heavy.......................................14
Boston Clear.................................................. 14
DRY  SALT MEATS—IN  BOXES.
Short Clears, heavy.................................
medium........................•...
light....................................
Long Clear Backs, 500  ft  cases.............
Short Clear Backs, 600 ft  cases.............
Long Clear Backs, 300  ft  cases.............
Short Clear Backs, 300 ft  cases.............
Bellies, extra quality, 500 ft cases........
Bellies, extra quality, 3001b cases........
Bellies, extra quality, 200 ft cases........
Boneless  Hams..............................  ...............10
Boneless Shoulders...............r...........
Breakfast  Bacon...............................
Dried Beef, extra  quality................
Dried Beef, Ham pieces....................
Shoulders cured in sweet pickle—
Tierces  ...............................................
30 and 50 ft Tubs.................................
50 ft Round Tins, 100 cases..'.............
20 ft Round Tins, 80 ft racks.............
8Vi 
3 ft Pails, 20 in a case..........s ............
Si’s 
5 ft Pails, 6 in a case...........................
10 ft Pails, 6 in a case.........................
8 Vi
Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 fts........... 11  25
Boneless,  extra..............................................15 00
Pork  Sausage..................................................7
Ham  Sausage................................................... 19V4
Tongue  Sausage....................................—   JO
Frankfort  Sausage..................... ...................10
Blood  Sausage.................................................   6)4
Bologna, straight............................................   6)4
Bologna,  thick................................................... 6)4
Head  Cheese....................................................   6)4
PIGS’ FEET.
3 25 
In half barrels.........................
1  75
In quarter barrels..................

SAUSAGE—FRESH AND  SMOKED.

........  834
........11
........12 Vi
........ 6 Vi

LARD IN TIN PAILS.

BEEF IN BARRELS.

7148

LARD.

O Y S T E R S   A N D   F I S H .

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: 

OYSTERS.

...35
...30

FRESH  FISH.

F. J. D. Selects.........................................
Standards  ...............................................
Mackinaw Trout.....................................
Whitefish  .................................................
Black Bass...............................................
Run Fish...................................................
Rock Bass.................................................
Perch  ........................................................
Duck Bill Pike.........................................
Wall-eyed  Pike.......................................
Smoked White Fish................................
Smoked Trout........................
Smoked Sturgeon..................

................  9
.................5
...............  5
................  4
...............  5
.......  6
.............10
.............10

............10

C O U N T R Y   P R O D U C E .

Apples—Russets are firm at $2.50@$3.  Choice 

Baldwins command $3.50®$4 and  are scarce.

A sp a r a g u s—40@50c $  doz. b u n c h e s.
B e a n s—U n p ick ed  

and 
c h o ic e   p ic k e d   fin d   g o o d   sh ip p in g   d em an d  at 
$1.25@$1.35.

c o m m a n d   75@90c, 

Butter—Dairy has greatly improved in qual­
ity, the supply  now  being fully  equal  to the 
demand.  Dealers hold choice solid  packed  at 
16.  Michigan creamery finds moderate sale  at 
18c.
Dealers quote prime at $5.50.

Clover  Seed—Good  local  shipping demand. 

C ab b ages—Old s to c k  is a b o u t p la y e d  o u t, an d  

n e w  ca b b a g e  is n o t y e t fit to  sh ip .

Cheese—New full cream Michigan is held  at 
10c, while old cheese is in small demand at 11c.
Cider—12c $  gal. for  common  sweet  and 15c 

for sand refined.

C u cu m b ers—75c 
Dried  Apples—Evaporated,  7@8c;  common 

doz.

quarters, 4@4J4c.

Eggs—The market is firm and the supply not 
equal to the demand.  Dealers are holding pres 
ent stocks at 12c.

Green Onions—20c  doz. bunches.
Green Beans—$2@$2.50 $   box,  according to 

size.  Wax  beans, $3.50 $  box.

Green Pdas—$2 box.
Honey—Choice new in comb is firm at 13@14c.

Hay—Bailed, $13@$I4.
Lettuce—16c $  ft.
Onions—Old stock is about exhausted.  Ber­

crate.

mudas command $3.75 
Parsnips—30c $  bu.
Pieplant—3c $   ft.
Pop Corn—Choice commands 4c 
Potatoes—Nearly dead, there being  very lit­
tle local demand and none from outside.  Deal­
ers pay 22@25c in small quantities.

Poultry—Very scarce.  Fowls, 9@10c.  Chick­

ft.

ens, 12@13e.  Turkeys, 14c.

Radishes—35c $  doz.  bunches.
Spinach—$1  bu.
Strawberries—$2.50@$2.75 

quarts.

crate  of  24

Turnips—25c ^ bu.
Timothy—Good  shipping  demand,  dealers 

holding  at $1.80 for choice.

Vegetable Oysters—35c $  doz. bunches.
GRAINS AND MILLING PRODUCTS.

Wheat—No change.  The  city millers pay as 
follows:  Lancaster,  1.00; Fulse,  97c;  Clawson, 
98c.

Corn—Jobbing generally at 58c in 100 bu. lots 

and 55e in carlots.

Oats—White, 45c in small lots and 41c@41)4 in 

carlots.

Rye—56c $  bu.
Barley—Brewers pay $1.25 $   cwt.
Flour—No change.  Fancy Patent, $6.50 $  bbl. 

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

Meal—Bolted, $2.75 $  bbl.
Mill Feed—Screenings, $15 
ton.  Ships, $15 
Corn aRd Oats, $22 

ton.  Bran, $14
ton.  Middlings, $16 $  ton. 
ton.

VISITING  BUYERS.

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

rider & Co., Hart.

Freeport.

ids.

ville.

Frace & Hulan, Saranac.

D. Burke, Nunica.
Chas. Sackrider and J. B. Crosby, Chas. Sack- 
Cooper Bros., .Charlevoix.
J. E. Bennett, Vestaburg.
J. H. Killmer,  Saranac.
Wm. Alexander, Howard City.
Jas. Colby, Rockford.
C. Blom, Holland.
Arthur Chesebrough,  Riegler,  Roush  &  Co.» 
L. Averill & Co., Frankfort.
E. R. Benedict, Cedar Springs.
Geo. P. Stark, Cascade.
L. Perrigo, Salem.
S. J. Koon, C. E. & S. J. Koon, Lisbon.
C. H. Adams, Allegan.
T. W. Preston, Millbrook.
P. A. Norris, A. Norris & Son, Casnovia.
J. C. Scott, Lowell.
L. K. Gibbs. Gibbs Bros.,  Mayfield.
B. Tripp, Bangor.
J. C. Benbow, Cannonsburg.
J. H. Spires, Leroy.
Walter Shoemaker,  Cannonsburg.
Paine & Field, Englishville.
J. Barnes, Austerlitz.
Norman Harris, Big Springs.
C. O. Bostwick & Son, Cannonsburg.
A. D. Ayers, Otia.
O.  F. Conklin, O. F. & W. P. Conklin, Ravenna. 
S. Cooper, Parmalee.
M. J. Howard, Englishville.
J. W. Mead,  Berlin.
J. Omler,  Wright.
G. H. Walbrink, Allendale.
W. S. Root, Tallmadge.
Thos. Smedley, Smedley Bros., Bauer.
A. M.Cburch,  Sparta.
Wm. Karsten, Beaver Dam.
Baron & TenHoor, Forest Grove.
F. H. Lester, Mendon.
J. H. Loucks, Sylvester.
Mr. McComb, with John Snow, Coral.
H. W. Beecher, Beecher & Kymer,  Elk  Rap­
C. W. Ives, Rockford.
Sisson & Lilley Lumber Co., Sisson’s Mill.
C. R. Johnson, Luther.
A. W. Fenton & Co., Bailey.
Walling Bros., Lamont.
Nagler & Beeler, Caledonia.
J. Q. Look, Lowell.
E. S. Botsford, Dorr.
R. Carlyle, Rockford.
Mr. Zuuder, Zunder Bros., Bangor.
Jay Marlatt, Berlin.
C. Cole, Ada.
S. C. Fell  Howard City.
F. Voorhoi-st & Co., Ov<3 risei.
Mr. F
Geo. A. Sage, Rockforr1.
A. D. Carpenter,  Manor¿lona.
I. N. Thorripson, Chase
B. Erisley, Ensley.
D.  O Watson,  Watsoi1  &DeVoist
Chauncey.
C. Pc
C. H. Smith, Crosby.
J. W. Fearns, Big  Rapids.
D. W. Shattuck, Wayland.
J. L. Handy. Kelley’s Corners.
G. B. Chambers, Wayland.
Mr. Judson, Hoag & Judson,  Cannonsburg..
L. B. Chapel, Ada.
C. E. Coburn, Pierson.
John Giles, J. Giles & Co., Lowell.
Henry DeKline, Jamestown.
H. W. Potter,  Jenuisonville.
B. Ballou, Cadillac.
Howard Morley, Morley Bros., Cedar Springs- 
G. N. Reynolds, Belmont.
Geo. W. Scott, Coopersville.
The following experience of the  creditors 
of a failed New  York  furniture  dealer,  as 
told by one of the victims,  is reported in the 
Trade Bureau:  “A day  or  two  after the 
asssignment we look for  our  property,  and 
it is gone.  We look  for the  assignor  and 
he is gone,  too.  We looked for  his  books, 
and they,  as alleged in this case, either nev­
er existed or they,  too,  are gone.  We  look 
for the bankrupt’s wife and  find  her snugly 
fixed in a house newly furnished  and a pre­
ferred creditor besides in the  assignment to 
an amount that will swallow  up any  possi- 
sible assignee  sale.  We look for the bank­
rupt’s lawyer,  and he  is  rejoicing  in  new 
furniture.  A friend or two  of  the  bank­
rupt then interest us in our  search,  and we 
find them all  enjoying new furniture.  Then 
we get together  and  tell the  story of  our 
grievances.  We find two or three have been 
smart enough to replevin their  goods.  The 
rest of us whittle and whistle and  talk sav­
agely for a time about  making an  example 
of the bankrupt, but we  get  our stick whit­
tled up and go  home  and  sell to the  next 
scamp that comes  along.  Only think of  it 
—in Finnen’s case all the money that any of 
us got in  payment  of  goods,  which  was 
mighty  little  when  scattered  about,  was 
money that Finnen had  borrowed  from an­
other of his creditors  in  addition to the bill 
he was running up.  We  ought  at  least to. 
return that creditor a vote of thanks.

A Fellow to be Trusted.

“What do you think of Bliffkins, Brown?”'
“Pretty fair sort of  chap  in  his  way,  I 

believe.”

“Do you know him well?”
“Oh, yes,  I am very well acquainted with, 

him,  indeed.”

ed?”

“And you consider him a man to be trust­

“No doubt of it.”
“What do you base your  opinion  upon?”'
“Personal experience.”
“How’s  that?”
“Well,  I began trusting Bliffkins  shortly 
after I became acquainted with him,  and  I 
am trusting him still.”

Silver

FLAVORING EXTRACTS.

1 

“ 

FRUITS

@11 *4 

Jennings’ 2 oz............................$   doz.l 00 
4 oz........................................ 150
“ 
“ 
6 oz.........................................2 50
9 oz.........................................3 50
“ 
“  No. 2 Taper.........................1 25
44  .........................1 75
“  No.  4 
“  V. pint  round.......................4 50
“ 
..................... 9 00
“  No.  8..................................... 3 00
“  No. 10....................................4 25

Lemon.  Vanilla.
1  40
50
4 00
5 00 
1 50
3 00 
7 50
15 00
4 25
6 00
454@5 

©7 Vi 
@814 
@16 
@25 
@4V4 
12@13 
@1 70 
5V4@5V4 
10@13 
@9V4 
@ 934 
7Vs@ 8Vi 
@2 50 
@3 20 
@4 25 
@2 50 
@2 25

Apples, Michigan..................................
Apples, Dried, evap., bbls....................
Apples, Dried, evap., box.....................
Cherries, dried,  pitted..........................
Citron......................................................
Currants.................................................
Peaches, dried  ......................................
Pineapples,  standards.........................
Prunes, Turkey, new............................
Prunes; French, 50 ft  boxes.................
Raisins. Valencias.................................
Raisins,  Layer Valencias.................—
Raisins,  Ondaras..................................
Raisins,  Sultanas..................................
Raisins, Loose  Muscatels....................
Raisins, London Layers.......................
Raisins, Dehesias..................................
Raisins, California Layers..................
Raisins, California Muscatels...........
Water White........10V4 I Legal  Test...
.  8
Grand Haven,  No.  9, square........................1  75
Grand  Haven,  No.  8, square........................1  50
Grand  Haven,  No.  200,  parlor...........................2 25
Grand  Haven,  No.  300, parlor...........................3 50
Grand  Haven, No.  7,  round..............................2 25
Oshkosh, No.  2.......................................................1 10
Oshkosh, No.  8.......................................................1 60
Swedish.............................................................  75
Richardson’s No. 2  square............................2  70
do 
Richardson’s No. 6 
............................2 70
............................. 170
Richardson’s No. 8 
do 
do 
Richardson’s No. 9 
............................2 55
Richardson’s No. 19,  do 
............................ 175
Black  Strap.............................................14@16@18
Porto  Rico..................................................... 28@30
New  Orleans,  good...................................... 38@42
New Orleans, choice.....................................48@50
New Orleans,  fancy.....................................52@55

KEROSENE  OIL.

MOLASSES.

MATCHES.

—  

V4 bbls. 3c extra,

OATMEAL.

do 

RICE.

SALERATUS.

Steel  cut................ 6 25|Quaker, 48  fts.......2 35
Steel Cut, V4 bbls.. .3 35 Quaker, 60  fts.......2 50
Rolled  Oats........... 3 60|Quaker bbls.............6 50
PICKLES.
.......4 50
Choice in barrels med.............
.......2 75
Choice in V4 
....................
PIPES.
25@3 00 
Imported Clay 3 gross..................
@2 25 
Imported Clay, No. 216,3 gross...
@1 85 
Imported Ciay, No. 216,2V4 gross.
@  90
American  T. D...............................
Good Carolina........6  ¡Java  —
Prime Carolina......6V4 P atna.........................6
Choice Carolina......7  Rangoon...........5-/j@634
Good Louisiana......5341 Broken.......................334
PeLand’s pure....... 5V4 ¡Dwight’s ....................5)4
Church’s  ................ 514 Sea  Foam................. 5V4
Taylor’s  G. M.........5)4lCap Sheaf.................. hW
60 Pocket, F F  Dairy............................
28 Pocket.................................................
100 3 ft  pockets.......................................
Saginaw F ine.........................................
Diamond C..............................................
Standard  Coarse....................................
Ashton, English, dairy *bu. bags........
Ashton, English, dairy, 4 bu. bags....
Higgins’ English dairy bu.  bags........
American, dairy, V4 bu. bags...............
Rock, bushels.........................................
Parisian, Vi  pints..................................   @2  00
Pepper Sauce, red  small.....................   @  75
Pepper Sauce, green.............................   @  90
Pepper Sauce, red  large ring.............   @1 35
Pepper Sauce, green, large ring........   @1  70

2  20 
2 45 
98
1 60
1 55 
80
2 80 
80 
25 
28

SAUCES.

SALT.

2c. less in four butt lots.

SMOKING

CIGARS.

SHORTS.

Conqueror................. 23
Arthur’s  Choice....... 22
Grayling.................... 32
Red Fox......................26[
Seal Skin.................... 30
Flirt............................ 28
Rob Roy......................26
Gold Dust..................26
Uncle  Sam.................28
Gold Block.................30
Lumberman........... .25
Seal of Grand Rapids
Railroad Boy..............38
(cloth)...................!
Mountain Rose...........18
Tramway, 3 oz...........40
Home Comfort.......... 25
Ruby, cut Cavendish 35
B oss............................15 Old Rip........................55
Seal of North Caro­
Peck’s Sun.................18
lina, 2  oz.................48
Miners and Puddlers.28
Seal of North Caro­
Morning  Dew............25
lina, 4oz...................46
Chain...........................22
Seal of North  Caro­
Peerless  .................... 25
lina, 8oz...................41
Standard.................... 22
Seal of North Caro­
Old Tom......................21
lina, 16 oz boxes__ 40
Tom & Jerry..............24
Big Deal......................27
Joker.
Traveler....................35jAppleJack..................24
Maiden.......................25 King Bee. longeut.. .22
Pickwick  Club..........40Milwaukee  Prize— 24
Nigger Head.............26|Rattler.........................28
Holland.....................22 Windsor cut plug___ 25
German.....................16 Zero  ............................16
Solid Comfort_____ 30 Holland Mixed............16
Red Clover................32 Golden Age.................75
Long Tom................. 30 Mail  Pouch.................25
National...................26 Knights of Lat or___ 30
Tim e..........................26 ¡Free Cob Pipe............. 27
Globe......................... 21| Hiawatha.................... 22
Mule Ear.'.................23|Old Congress............... 23
Michigan  Chief..................................  
@60 00
Roma..................................................... 
@60 00
@57 00
American  ........................................... 
La  Industria.......................................  
@50  00
Parker.................................................  
@50 00
Promenade......................................... 
@35  00
Old  Judge............................................  
@35 00
Pam ina................................................ 
@25  00
Comforter................................................. 
Lorifiard’s American Gentlemen.......  @  75
Maccoboy...............................   @ 55
Gail & Ax’ 
@  44
Rappee....................................   @ 35
Railroad  Mills  Scotch..............................  @ 45
Lotzbeek  ...................................................  @1 30
Pure  Cider..........8@12 White Wine...........  8@12
Lavine, single boxes, 481 ft papers...  @4 50
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 481 ft pap’rs  @4 25 
Lavine, single boxes, 100 6 oz papers.  @4 50 
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 100 6 oz  pap  @4 25 
Lavine, single boxes, 80 V4 ft papers..  @4  15
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 80 % ft paprs  @4 00 
Bath Brick imported............................ 
95
American.............................  
60
Barley......................................................  
@3
100
Burners, No. 1 .......................................  
do  No.  2...................................... 
1 50
Condensed Milk, Eagle  brand.............  
8 00
Cream Tartar 5 and 10 ft cans.............   15@25
Candles, Star..........................................   @13V4
Candles,  Hotel.......................................   @14
Extract Coffee, V.  C.............................   @80
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps.......................  @30
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps.......................   @40
Gum, Spruce.............................................  30@35
Hominy, $  bhl.......................................   @4 00
5
Jelly, in 30 ft  pails..................
@1  35 
Peas, Green Bush__
@ 3)4 
Peas, Split prepared.
@3 60 
Powder, Keg.............
@1 93
Powder,  Vi Keg........

F elix ..........................  

WASHING POWDERS.

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

MISCELLANEOUS.

VINEGAR.

SNUFF.

1 25

“ 
“ 

do 

do 

44 

@20 00

F R E S H   M E A T S .

John  Mohrhard  quotes  the  trade  selling 

prices as follows:
Fresh  Beef, sides....................................  6  @8
Fresh  Beef, hind  quarters..................  8  @ 8 Vi
Dressed Hogs.........................................   5Vi@  6
Mutton,  carcasses................................  7  @ 7Vi
Veal.........................................................   7  @ 8
Pork Sausage.........................................  8  @ 9
•Bologna........ ...............  
9  @10
Chickens............................................. 
11 @15
Turkeys  .................................................   @15

 

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

*  WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

T H E   L O U N G E R .

I heard a man speak  the  other  day  of  a 
street having its right and wrong side f 01 the 
businesses that deals in woman’s wares.  He 
contended that the west  sides  of  the  main 
streets  and  the  south  sides  of  the  cross 
streets are the right ones for  these  lines  of 
trade.  These are the chosen spots simply be­
cause they are the shady sides of the streets, 
even before the hour of noon  and the after­
noon stream of shoppers and idlers that make 
up  a street concourse drifts in the one direc­
tion be it summer or winter. Then, again, the 
merchants of the  chosen  spots  can  expose 
their  fabrics, of  an  entire  afternoon,' as 
temptations to  the  passer-by,  while  their 
brothers across the way  must  keep  theirs 
hidden from  the  destroying  effects of the 
sun.  That is the philosophy of  the matter. 

* 

*

I was roped in on a justice court  jury the 
other  day.  There  were  two  men  who 
couldn’t  read  English,  two  who  couldn’t 
read anything,  and the other man could read 
Hebrew,  and  didn’t  know  anything  else. 
Four or  five  representative  business  men 
were called,  but got excused.  And yet they 
insist upon having the right kind of men on 
juries,  and when  a verdict goes wrong they 
are the first to squeal.  Some day I'm going to 
print a list of the business  men  who refuse 
to serve on juries—the men who  have  kid­
ney trouble; those  who  have  consumption 
and go to the theater regularly twice a week; 
those  who  have  sick  wives,  and  come 
around the  next  morning and say,  “I was 
up all night with  my  wife,  and  wish you 
would excuse me to-day.”  In the millenium 
I trust everybody will be obliged  to  assume 
his  share  of  the  burdens  of  citizenship. 
Until then,  I  suppose  you  and  I,  gentle 
reader, have got  to  do  jury  duty  for  the 
communities in which we live.

commercial credit becomes of no value, 
fail is no longer a disgrace.

To

But this is not all.  The loss  of  commer­
cial courage has been followed by the stifling 
of commercial  conscience.  Among a  con­
siderable part of the trade no  subterfuge  is 
too small,  no trick  too  mean,  provided  it 
serves to gain the  slighest  advantage,  even 
if of the most temporary  character.  Lying 
has become a large part of the business cap­
ital of some men.  And  the  lies  that  are 
told are so manifestly lies that  they fail en­
tirely of their purpose,  and  serve  generally 
to  bring contempt upon the  person who ut­
ters them.  The dealer who  tells  Hammei'- 
slough Bros,  that he has  just  bought a bill 
of Banner Bros,  on four months’ time* gains 
no more credence from Mr. Julius Hammer- 
slough than he did from  Mr. Mendelson,  to 
whom he told a similiar  fable  an  hour  be­
fore.  And yet there are  buyers  who  will 
sit down and deliberately fill a page of their 
notebook with fictitious prices and  terms to 
show to competing  houses  in  the  hope of 
shading  down a purchase,  or to  exhibit to 
fellow buyers with a view of creating a feel­
ing of doubt which may result  in  a  general 
break.  Such men daily  violate  every rule 
of honorable  business  intercourse.  Claims 
for deduction are made which have no foun­
dation in right,  and are  as  deliberate  rob­
bery as pocket-picking.  Petty discounts are 
made, with the belief that the  amounts  are 
so small that they will be passed as  unwor­
thy of notice. 
Individual  checks  are  sent 
to avoid the cost  of  drafts.  The  giving of 
notes and thus furnishing the  manufacturer 
with evidence of  obligation  upon which he 
can raise the capital necessary to enable him 
to take advantage of the market  in  buying 
his  raw  material,  is  abhorrent,  open  ac­
counts pass  the  day  of  payment  without 
even the poor  recompense  of  an  apology, 
and unsigned checks are  sent  to  gain  the 
few days’ time occupied in making  the  cor­
rection by mail.

When I want to hear a good  story,  I usu­
ally seek the company of  traveling men,  for 
I am pursuaded that  there  are  more  good 
story tellers in the ranks  of  the  grip  sack 
fraternity than in any other class of  men on 
earth.  One of the boys  recently  unearthed 
an old yarn which  is  now  told  of  Derrick 
Adams, the Reed City resturanter. 
It  ap­
pears that a  few  years  ago,  when  Adams 
was running one of the hotels at that  place, 
he was summoned to  the  room  of  a  tran­
sient, who gave him a pillow,  with  the  re­
“Don’t you 
quest that it be taken care of. 
want a pillow?”  inquired  Adams. 
“No,” 
was the reply.  “Why not?”  asked Adams. 
“Fraid I might lose it in my ear,”  was  the 
laconic answer.

*

I am constrained to  say  a  word  or  two 
about commercial courage.  When  the  bu­
gles sang trace at Appomattox twenty years 
ago, the world,  which  had  for  about  four 
years listened to the  shock of lines  stretch­
ing a thousand miles away,  and had watched 
the smoke of a hundred deadly battles, will­
ingly  acknowledged  that  the  American, 
whether Unionist or Confederate, had prov­
ed the possession of undoubted courage, and 
when,  with  hardly  an  intermission,  the 
armies disappeared in the woikshop and the 
plantation,  and  a  great  people  set  them­
selves down  deliberately  to  wipe  out  the 
large debt  they  had  created,  the  United 
States became  the synonym  of  commercial 
integrity.

*  *  *

Can it be possible that  when  we  furled 
our flags we also laid away some part of the 
courage and endurance  with  which we had 
held them aloft during all our troublous  ex­
perience?  And yet it  would  seem  that in 
recent days the  American  merchant  is re­
trograding.  There is a lack of pluck among 
retail dealers  that  is  utterly  disgraceful. 
We have been through dark days before and 
have manfully waited for the dawn,  but  of 
late this spirit of determination seems utter­
ly dead.

Men who  a  few  years  ago  would  have 
thought failure a disgrace  now  apparently 
welcome it as an easy out  of  difficult}',  and 
shift the  burdens  they  should  bear  them­
selves upon  the  shoulders  of  others. 
In 
times like these every man  is  bound  to ac­
cept his share in  the  shrinkage  of  values. 
And yet thousands of dealers,  who find that 
the stock which was yesterday  worth  $10,- 
000 is to-day  worth  but  §8,000,  calmly  lay 
down and throw  the  loss  upon their  mer­
chandise creditors instead of  quietly  reduc­
ing expenses,  curtailing  their  private  lux­
uries  and  manfully  meeting  their  obliga­
tions  when  possible,  or  extending  them 
when the adverse tide is for the moment too 
strong.  On all sides there  is  such  an evi­
dent unwillingness to make any sacrifice for 
the sake of maintaining  credit  that  it  be­
comes an open question  whether  credit has 
any longer the slighest value  in the  eyes of 
the average dealer.  So far  lias it gone that 
juries hesitate to enforce  ordinary  business 
obligations,  and  allow  men  to  escape the 
most  binding  engagements 
through  the 
meanest loop-hole that  legal  ingenuity can 
devise.

*  ^ *

It must be confessed that the manufactur­
er  and  jobber  is  himself  very  largely  to 
blame for this state of affairs.  As  business 
has shrunk and profit margins grown small­
er he has been so  anxious to  keep  up  his 
sales that he lias taken  risks  with  utterly 
inadequate  protection.  Men  whose  credit 
among their own  neighbors  would  not suf­
fice for the  contraction  of  a butcher’s  bill 
can buy thousands of dollars worth of goods. 
Robinson fails  to-day, compromises at fifty 
cents and buys a new  stock.  Smith,  next 
door, cannot meet the  competition of a man 
who can then undersell  him  by twenty-five 
cents, and is in turn  obliged  to  succumb. 
As no distinction is made between  the two,

Just now there is apparently no hope of a 
change for the better, but  the  laws of trade 
are as absolute as the  laws  of  the  Medes 
and Persians.  Altough held in abeyance in 
times like these,  custom  cannot alter,  legis­
lation cannot repeal them. 
It  will  not  'be 
long before we shall have  shaken  off  the 
lethargy which  now  prevails.  When  that 
day comes,  gentlemen,  you will  look  back 
and sadly wish that you had maintained the 
credit you are so recklessly wasting.  When 
in the forge and on the  farm,  in the factory 
and the  counting  house  human  endeavor 
shall be again  taxed  to  its  utmost,  when 
every dollar you possess is turning over and 
over in the general  tide of  prosperity,  you 
may wish that you possessed  that  measure 
of credit which to  your honorable  neighbor 
answers  for  capital;  and  when  the  line 
which should be $10,000 is cut down to $500, 
while sellers in  1886  seek  to  give  advan­
tages to your  competitor  because  he  man­
fully strove to meet his  obligation  in  1885, 
you may at last give to  the  belief as old as 
trade itself  that  honesty  is  a  cheap  and 
profitable policy. 
It is not  a far  cry hence 
to prosperity.  When it comes you may find 
that through ways that are dark  and  tricks 
that are vain  you  have  debarred  yourself 
from enjoying the share in it to  which  you 
might otherwise have been entitled.

Purely Personal.

S. A.  Welling is confined  to  his house by 

illness.

B.  Fenton,  President of the Erie Preserv­
ing Co.,  put in a day  at  this  market  last 
week.

D.  W.  Archer,  manager  of  the  Archer 
Packing Co.,  Chillicothe,  Ills., paid a flying 
visit to Grand Rapids last Saturday.

Wm.  E.  Cooper is building  a  $1,200  cot­
tage residence on  the  elevation  of  ground 
southeast of the street carbarns on Sherman 
street.

Gains S.  Perkins,  of Perkins &  Hess,  re­
turned from the South Monday night.  Wm. 
T.  Hess is  fishidg  near  Munising  Station,' 
Upper  Peninsula.

Hon.  Clias. L.  Wilson,  of the  legal  firm 
of  Morse,  Wilson  &  Trowbridge,  Ionia, 
spent Sunday in this  city,  the  guest  of his 
friend,  D.  C.  Underwood.

Frankfort  Exqress:  Mr.  L.  Averill  has 
resigned  his  position  as  manager  of  the 
Frankfort Lumber Co.’s branch store  and is 
in Grand Rhpids for a brief visit.

Jerome Wood, the Hudson book-seller and 
stationer,  was  recently  married  to  Miss 
Yost, daughter of Lee Yost,  of  Ypsilanti. 
They  will visit Grand Rapids July 4.

F.  E.  Stevens,  formerly  with  Webber, 
Brown & Lee,  of Ionia,  and  later  with G. 
Gilbert & Co.,  at  Mecosta,  succeeds  Geo. 
Medes as book-keeper for Jennings & Smith.
Wm.  II.  Allen,  book-keeper  for  S.  A. 
Welling,  will buy milk at wholesale hereaf­
ter.  The  occassion of  such a  jobbing  ar­
rangement 
is  an  eight-pound  boy,  who 
made his appearance last Saturday.  Mother 
and child doing well.

“The outlook for cheese  the  present sea­
son is by no means re-assuring,” said a lead­
ing jobber in that  line  the  other  day.  “It 
starts in at about nine  cents  to the  factory- 
man and unless I am greatly  mistaken  will 
go down to eight cents and  touch  seven be­
fore the  season  is  over.  Still,  there  is  a 
chance that the  price  will be firm. 
If  the 
retailer is  able  to  sell  a  good  article  of 
cheese for  about a shilling,  many  working 
people will buy cheese to quite an extent, in 
place of meat, on account of the  high  price 
of the latter.  This would  tend  to consume 
the overplus incident to the  large  stocks of 
old goods on hand, and bring about a healthy 
condition of the market.”

Facts and Fancies Picked up at that  Busy 

Place.

Stevenson & Wheeler  are  moving  their 
drag stock from Pine street  to  lower town.
Andrew Miller has bought W. W.  Owen’s 
stock of books, stationery, sewing machines, 
etc.

King & Peterson have  opened  a  grocery 
and provision store in their new building on 
Yuba street.

C.  Seidenfaden has  retired  from  the  firm 
of  C.  Cayan &  Co.  The  business will  be 
continued by C.  Cayan.

The Woodard Manufacturing Co.’s factory 
has been attched by some of the creditors of 
the Muskegon Novelty Iron Works.

Johnny Garvey has severed his connection 
with Curtiss, Dunton & Co.  and Putnam  & 
Brooks,  and is  now  selling  oil  for  F.  H. 
Holbrook.

Jas.  Shavalier & Co.’s new store building, 
to replace the  one  recently  burned,  will be 
22x80 feet in  dimensions.  Work  on  their 
new mill at Bear Lake has also been begun.
Assignee Wood has completed  an  inven­
tory of the resources  and liabilities  of  the 
Muskegon Novelty Iron Works,  from which 
it appears that the total assets  are $30,313,- 
18.  The liabilities are $31,420.70,  compris­
ing the following amounts :  Notes secured 
by  collateral,  $22,001.48 ;  unsecured  notes,\ 
$6,126.06;  accounts  payable,  $1,667.20 
labor claims,  $614.75 ; salaries,  $1,011.21.
The Valley City Manufacturing  Co.’s  Ex­

hibit.

Prevailing  rates  at Chicago  are  as follows: 

AUGEHS AND BITS.

BELLS.

BOLTS.

BARROWS. 

BALANCES.

Ives’, old  style...........................................dis  60
N. H.C. Co............................................. ..dis 
60
Douglass’ ................................................... dis 
60
Pierces’ .......................................................dis  60
Snell’s..........................................................dis  60
Cook’s  ............................  .......................dis40&10
Jennings’,  genuine...................................dis  25
Jennings’, imitation................................dis-iO&lO
25
Spring.......................................................dis 
___
Railroad............................................... 
$  13 00
Garden....................................................... net 3^ 00
Hand.................................................... dis  $ 60&10
Cow......................................................... dis 
60
15
Call...........................................................dis 
Gong....................................................... dis 
20
55
Door, Sargent.........................................dis 
Stove......................................................dis $ 
40
Carriage  new  list................................. dis 
75
Plow  .......................................................dis  30&11
Sleigh Shoe.............................................dis 
75
Cast Barrel  Bolts..................................dis 
50
55
Wrought Barrel Bolts..........................dis 
Cast Barrel, brass  knobs.....................dis 
50
Cast Square Spring...............................dis 
55
Cast Chain..............................................dis 
60
Wrought Barrel, brass  knob..............dis  55&10
Wrought Square...................................dis  55&10
Wrought Sunk Flush........................... dis 
30
Wrought  Bronze  and  Plated  Knob
Flush...................................................  50&10&10
Ives’  Door..............................................dis  50&10
Barber................................................... dis $ 
40
Backus....................................................dis 
50
Spofford..................................................dis 
50
Am. Ball.................................................dis 
net
BUCKETS.
Well, plain.................................. :..............$  4 00
4 50
Well, swivel............................
Cast Loose Pin, figured........................dis  60&10
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed........ dis  60&10
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed.. dis  60&10 
Wrought Narrow, bright fast  joint..dis  50&10
Wrounht Loose  Pin.............................dis 
60
Wrought Loose Pin, acorn tip........... dis  60& 5
WroughtLoose Pin, japanned............dis  60& 5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silver
tipped..................................................dis  60& 5
Wrought Table...................................... dis 
60
Wrought Inside  Blind......................... dis 
60
Wrought Brass...................................... dis  65&10
Blind. Clark’s..............................  
dis  70&10
Blind, Parker’s...................................... dis  70&10
Blind,  Shepard’s...................................dis 
70
Spring for Screen Doors 3x2*4, per gross  15 00
Spring for Screen Doors 3x3__ per gross  18 00

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

BUTTS, CAST.

BRACES.

’ 

' 

. 

CAPS.

Assignee Corbitt has completed an inven­
tory of the effects of the Valley  City Manu­
facturing Co., recently assigned, from which 
it appears that the  appraised  value of  the 
engines, 
boiler,  machinery,  buildings, 
grounds,  lumber, nails,  glass, manufactured 
stock, etc.,  is  $10,025.38;  and  that  the ap­
praised value of the  notes  and  accounts is 
$2,931.50, making the total assets $12,956.90. 
Out of this is to come a  $5,500  real  estate 
mortgage,  held by L. H.  Withey & Co.,  re­
ducing the net available assets to $7,456.90. 
The liabilities are $7,469.74, divided  among 
twenty-three general creditors in the follow­
ing amounts:
C. F. Nason,  Grand Rapids...........
.....................
“ 
A. Leitelt & Co. 
.....................
“ 
C. C. Comstock 
......................
F. Raniville & Co.  “ 
— ...............
A. B. Long & Son  “ 
......................
H. M. Goebel 
“ 
F. Page 
.....................
” 
E. G. Studley & Co.  “ 
. —
Wetzell Bros. &Pantlind, Grand Rapids 
Mathenson & White 
Smith & Barrett 
Long & Fralick
Montgomery, Haire & G iddings  4 
H. G. Dykhouse
Osterhout & Fox Lumber Co. 
41 
Curtiss, Dunton  & Co.
C. A.  Folsom
M. Hayward, Moon....................................
William Reid, Detroit...............................
West Mich. Lumber Co., Muskegon.......
S. Biteley, Pierson....................................
Henry Henkel, Howard  City..................
Buswell, Carnes & Co., Grand Haven... 
A. J. Smith, New  York............................

Ely’s 1-10................................................per  m $ 65
60
Hick’s C. F ..............................
G .D.........................................
60
Musket....................................
CATRIDGES
50
new list
R;m Fire, U. M. C. & Winchester  new list
50
........ dis
Rim Fire, United  States-----
........ dis %
Central Fire............................
CHISELS.
75
__ dis
Socket Firmer.......................
75
__ dis
Socket Framing....................
75
__ dis
Socket Corner........................................dis
75
__ dis
Socket Slicks..........................................dis
..........2,300 00
40
__ dis
Butchers’ Tanged  Firmer...................dis
........  281 01
__ dis
20
Barton’s Socket Firmers...
...........   247 81
.......net
Cold.........................................
22 25 
COMBS.
235 38 
__ dis
Curry, Lawrence’s..............
1 98 
__ dis
Hotchkiss  .............................................dis
5 79 
COCKS.
3  78 
50
Brass,  Racking’s..................
113 09 
50
Bibb’s ....................................
550 13 
40&10
B eer......................................
131  78 
60
Fenns’....................................
252 58 
COPPER.
217 55 
Planished, 14 oz cut to size..................... $  ft  30
204 50 
14x52,14x56,14 x60................   .....................   36
287  15 
26 39 
35
35  15 
20
1,550 00 
30
228 72
383 14  Com. 4 piece, 6  in............................doz net $1 00
55 15  Corrugated.............................................dis  20&10
426 50  Adjustable............................................. dis  %&10
102 40 I 
11 92
20

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

EXPANSIVE BITS.

ELBOWS.

DRILLS

33^6
25

Grand Haven Gossip.

F.  F.  Sommers,  proprietor  of  the  Star 
match  factory, 
is  building  an  additional 
warehouse,  to store  the  accumulated  stock 
of the manufactured product.

The Grand Haven Broom Co.,  which  be­
gun operations about March 1, has now thir­
teen men on the payroll,  and  will  increase 
the force as the demand for the manufactur­
ed product increases.  Chas. N.  Dickinson 
represents the company on the  road  and  is 
meeting with good success.

Jas.  C.  Avery & Co.,  the  cigar  manufac­
turers,  have eight men in their  employ  and 
intend to increase the force  shortly.  Three 
new brands  have  lately  been  put  on  the 
market,  “Jewell,”  “Little  Scott” 
and 
“Tattoo.”

The Bridges, Snell & Co.  saw mill  is  be­
ing loaded on the City of  Grand  Haven,  at 
the dock, for transportation  to  Masonville. 
It required sixteen cars to transport the mill 
and fixtures from  Lumberton,  and  several 
carloads of brick,  repairs and  supplies were 
added.  The firm has a contract to cut thirty 
million feet at Masonville,  and will probably 
secure a tract of standing pine on  some  one 
of the three streams tributary to that  point. 
Mr.  II.  S. Thomas, the “Co.”  of  the  firm, 
has been at Masonville for some  time  past, 
putting  in  700  feet of boom,  and  sinking 
piers in twelve feet  of  water  for  a  piling 
ground 130 feet long by 52 feet in width.

Haight & Bretz will  soon  commence  the 
brick work on their  new  furniture  store at 
Saranac.

The Northville  School  Furniture  Co.  is 
making a $2,000 set of furniture for a church 
in Lowell, Mass.

A.  E.  Stockwell,  of the Stoekwell & Dar- 
ragh Furniture Co., has  gone to New  York 
on a two weeks’ absence.

Spencer & Barnes, the Buchanan furniture 
manufacturers,  will build a brick engine and 
boiler house,  and a new steam dry kiln.

Harry McDowell, traveling representative 
for  the  Muskegon  Yalley  Furniture  Co., 
writes T he  Tradesm an,  under date of the 
21st, that he has been in Boston  about  two 
weeks and expects to remain there  about  a 
week longer.  He had a good  trade at Port­
land,  and is meeting with excellent  success 
in the  suburban  towns  in  the  vicinity  of 
Boston.

Furniture  Facts.

D.  F. Wadsworth,  of the bankrupt  bank­
ing firm of Ishpeming, having been tried by 
a jury of  his  peers  at  Menominee  on  a 
charge  of  embezzlement,  was  pronounced 
not guilty,  under instructions of  the  court.
A Charlotte  correspondent writes :  Jolin 
Reed, of St. Johns,  will  establish  a  reaper 
and mower factory  at  Charlotte, and II.  S. 
Wing,  of New York, is looking for a site on 
which 
to  erect a carpet  sweeper  factory.
Birmingham,  Ala.,  now makes 400 tons of 

iron daily.

13 
GAUGES.
HAMMERS.

FILES.

Claris, small, $18 00;  large, $26 00.  dis 
Ives’, 1, $18 00;  2, $24 00 ;  3, $30 00.  dis 
__ dis
American File Association List.
—  dis
Disston’s ........................................
__ dis
New  American.............................
__ dis
Nicholson’s ....................................
.. .dis 
Heller’s ...........................................
.. .dis
Heller’s Horse Rasps....................
GALVANIZED IRON,
Nos. 16 to 20, 
14 
List 

22 and  24,  25 and 26,  27
15

12 

Discount, Juniata 45@10, Charcoal 50@10. 

60
60
60
60
30
33%
28
18

 

HINGES.

HANGERS.

10%8%

HOLLOW  WARE.

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ............. dis 
50
20
May dole & Co. ’s ......................................dis 
Kip’s ...................................  
25
dis 
Yerkes &  Plumb’s ................................ dis 
40
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel..................... 30 c list 40
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. .30 c 40&10 
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track dis  50
Champion, anti-friction.......................dis 
60
40
Kidder, wood track...............................dis 
Gate, Clferk’s, l, 2, 3...............................dis 
60
State............................................ per doz, net, 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to  12  in.  4%  14
3%
and  longer..............................................
Screw Hook and Eye,  %  ...................net
Screw Hook and Eye %......................net
7%
Screw Hook and Eye  %......................uet
Screw Hook and Eye,  %.................... net
7%
60&10
Strap and  T........................................... dis
60&10
Stamped Tin Ware....................................
Japanned Tin  Ware.................................
20&10
so
Granite  Iron  Ware..................................  
Grub  1  ..............................................$11 00, dis 40
Grub  2...............................................   11 50, dis 40
Grub 3.................................................   12 00, dis 40
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings —  $2 70, dis 66% 
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings..  3 50, dis 66% 
Door, porcelain, plated trim­
mings.....................................list,10  15, dis 66%
70
55, dis
Door, porcelain, trimmings
70
. .dis
Drawer and  Shutter,  porcelain........dis
....d
40
Picture, H. L. Judd &  Co.’s
50
. .dis
Hemacite..........................   .................dis
66%
.. .dis
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list.. .dis
__ dis 66%
Mallory, Wheelnr &  Co.’s....................dis
__ dis 66%
Branford’s .................................
__ dis 66%
Norwalk’s......................................
........ dis  65
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s __
Coffee,  Parkers  Co.’s........................... dis  40&10
Coffee,P. S.&W. Mfg. Co.’sMalleables dis 40&10
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s ........ dis  40&10
Coffee,  Enterprise......................................dis  25
Adze  Eye.....................................$16 00 dis 40&10
Hunt Eye.....................................$15 00dis40&10
Hunt’s  ....................................... $18 50 dis 20 & 10
Hunt’s.........................................$18

LEVELS.
MILLS.

LOCKS—DOOR.

MATTOCKS.

KNOBS.

noES.

NAILS.

6d
2

MAULS.
OILERS.

Same price as  above.
MOLLASSES GATES.

keg $2  35
....... 
25
50
....... 
1 50 
3 00 
1  75

Common, Bra  and Fenein
lOdto  60d............................................ ‘j
8d and 9 d adv......................................
6d and 7d  adv......................................
4d and 5d  adv......................................
3d advance...........................................
3d fine  advance...................................
Clinch nails, adv...............
4d 
Finishing 
8d 
I  lOd 
Size—inches  f  3 
2%
1% 
$1 25  1 50 
Adv. $  keg 
2  00
Steel Nails-
Stebbin’s Pattern  ......................................dis  70
Stebbiu’s Genuine..................................... dis  70
Enterprise,  self-measuring.....................dis  25
Sperry & Co.’s, Post,  handled.................  dis  50
Zinc or tin, Chase’s Patent.......................dis  55
Zinc, with brass bottom........................... dis  60
Brass or  Copper............. ........................... dis  40
Reaper......................................per gross, $12 net
Olmstead’s .................................................  
50
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy...............................dis  15
Seiota Bench............................................... dis  25
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy.....................dis  15
Bench, first quality.......................  ..........dis  20
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s,  wood  and 
50
Fry, Acme...............................................dis 
Common, polished..............................  . .dis60&10
Dripping................................................. ft  6@7
Iron and Tinned.................................. dis 
40
Copper itivets and Burs.....................dis  50&J0
“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10% 
"B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25  to 27 

PATENT FLANISAED IRON.

PLANES.

RIVETS.

PANS.

9

Broken packs %c 

ft extra.

ROOFING PLATES.

ROPES.

SQUARES.

IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal Terne.................5 75
IX, 14x20, choice Charcoal  Terne..............  7  75
IC, 20x28, choice  Charcoal Terne.................12 00
IX, 20x28, choicC Charcoal  Terne...............16 90
Sisal, 14 In. and  larger..................................   714
Manilla...................................................... L..  14%
60
Steel and  Iron.......................................dis 
Try and Be vels...................................... dis  50&10
Mitre  .....................................................dis 
20
SIIEET IRON.Com. Smooth.  Com.
$2 80
2 80
2 80
2 80
3 00
3 00
All sheets No, 18 and lighter,  over 30  inches 

Nos. 10 to 14....................................$4  20 
Nos. 15 to 17................... 
4  20 
Nos. 18 to 21...................................   4 20 
Nos. 22 to 24 ..................................   4  20 
Nos .25 to 26 ..................................   4  40 
No. 27 ..............................................  4 60 
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SHEET ZINC.
In casks of 600 lbs, 
ft............................ 
In smaller quansities, $   ft.....................  
No. 1,  Refined..............................................  
Market  Half-and-half...............................  
Strictly  Half-and-half...............................  

t in n e r ’s s o l d e r .

 

 

6
6)4
13 00
15 00
16

t in   p l a t e s .

Cards for Charcoals, $6  75.
10x14, Charcoal..............................  6  50
IC, 
10x14,Charcoal...............................  8 50
IX, 
12x12, Charcoal..............................   6 50
IC, 
12x12,  Charcoal..............................  8 50
IX, 
14x20, Charcoal..............................  6  50
IC, 
14x20,  Charcoal..............................   8 50
IX, 
IXX, 
14x20, Charcoal..............................   10  50
IXXX,  14x20, Charcool...............................  12  50
IXXXX, 14x20,  Charcoal.............................  14 50
/  20x28, Charcoal................................   18 00
IX, 
DC, 
100 Plate Charcoal............................  6 50
100 Plate Charcoal............................  8  50
DX, 
DXX,  100 Plate Charcoal.............................  10 50
DXXX,  lOOJPlate Charcoal.........................   12 50
Redipped  Charcoal  Tin  Plate add 1 50  to 6 

rates.

TRAPS.

WIRE.

StOel.  Game......................................................
Onaida Communtity,  Newhouse’s .......... dis
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s__   60
Hotchkiss’ ........................................................  60
S, P. &W. Mfg.  Co.’s ......................................  60
Mouse,  choker.......................................20c  $  doz
Mouse,  delusion................................. $1 26  doz
Bright  Market.....................................   dis  60&1P
Annealed Market................................. dis
Coppered Market..................................dis  55&10
Extra Bailing............................................   dis
Tinned  Market............................................dis  40
Tinned Broom............................................$ f t   09
Tinned Mattress....................................... ^ ft  8%
Coppered  Spring  Steel..................dis 40@40&1<
Tinned Spring Steel..................................dis 37%
Plain Fence.........................j..................... ^ ft 3%
Barbed  Fence........... s ....................................
Copper........ ....................................... new  list net
Brass................................................... new list net
Bright.....................................................dis  70&10
Screw Eyes.................................... 
dis 70&10
70&10
Hook’s ...................................................dis
70&10
Gate Hooks and  Eyes.........................dis
Baxter’s Adjustable,  nickeled...............
Coe’s Genuine........................................dis
Coe’sPatent Agricultural, wrought, dis
Coe’s Patent, malleable.....................dis
Pumps,  Cistern.....................................dis
Screws, new  list...........
Casters,Bed  and  Plate.
Dampers, American__

............. dis50&10
............... 
33%

MISCELLANEOUS.

50&10
65
70

WIRE GOODS.

W1ENCHES.

M ISC E L L A N E O U S.

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

■ NYONE wanting  a  clean  hardware  stock, 

located on one of the best business streets 
of  Grand  Rapids,  weuld  do  well to  call at  17 
South  Division  street.  Stock  will  inventory 
about  $4,000.  Terms,  casii.  Reason  for sell- 

r, owners have other business. 

Fr>OR  RENT—T ie  store  and  basement  at  11 

Ionia  street,  suitable  for  wholesale  or 
commission establishment.  Apply to  A  Kup- 
penheimer, on the premises, or at  119  Monroe 
street. 

90

88

IT'Oit  RENT—New store and basement,  22x80 

1 
lent location for dry goods store, as there is no 

feet,  on  Pine  street. Muskegon.  Excel­
business  of  that  kind  on the street.  Tenant 
can have second story, if he desires.  Address, 
O. Lambert, Muskegon, Mich. 

89*

WANTED—A  situation  by  a  young  man.

Can  write  short-hand,  and  use  type­
writer;  also has  knowledge  of  book-keeping. 
Address G, this office.
F OR SALE—Hotel in one of the finest towns
to engage in a well-established business can do 
so with a small amount of  capital, as the own­
er is going west.  For full  particulars address 
"Hotel,” care 36  West  Leonard  street,  Grand 
Rapids, Mich. 

89*

’ 

IjtOR  SALE—Our  stock  of  drugs, boots  and 

shoes, drygoods, groceries and hardware. 
Also  brick  store  building,  23x75,  warehouse, 
dwelling,  stable,  good  well  and  cistern  and 
one  acre  of  land.  Will  sell the buildings  for 
$2,500 and the stock at cost.  A.  Young & Sons, 
Orange, Mich. 
O ITUATION  WANTED—By young  man  in  a
perience.  Best  of  references 
Address Box 
96, Fremont, Mich.

91*

90*

Over  12,000  files 
sold the first year. 
Over 800 Nationals 
n o w i n   u s e   by 
parties  who  have 
discarded the most 
popular  of  other 
makes.  The  Nat­
ional  is  the  best, 
because it is  more 
complete,  m o r e  
durable  than  any 
other Cabinet Let­
ter File ever made. 
It is  the cheapest, 
because it has greater capacity than any other. 
Send for Illustrated Catalogue.  Manufactured 
under O. C. Mackenzie’s patents by 

National  Cabinet  Better File Company, 

186  and  188  Fifth Ave., Chicago.

.A. WELLING

WHOLESALE

FORK’S  PATENT.

FISHING  TACKLE
N O T IO ÏT S I

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

Particular  attention  given  to  orders  by 

mail.  Goods shipped promptly to any point.

I am represented on the road bv  the  fol­
lowing  well-known  travelers: 
John  D. 
Mangum, A. M. Sprague, John H. Eacker, 
L. R. Cesna and A. B.  Handricks.

24 Pearl Street 

- 

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Foster,  Stevens  &  Co.,  Agts. 

The Hubert Patent

READ!  READ! READ!

HAZELTINE,  PERKINS  &  CO.  have 

Sole Control of our Celebrated

The ONLY Paint sold on a GUARANTEE.

Read it.

When our Pioneer Prepared Paint is  put on 
any building, and if within three years it should 
crack or peel off, and thus fail to give  the full 
satisfaction  guaranteed,  we  agree to  repaint 
the  building  at  our expense,  with  the best 
White Lead, or such other paint as  the  owner 
may select.  Should any case of dissatisfaction 
occur, a notice from the dealer will  command 
our prompt attention.  T.  H.  NEYIN  &  CO.
Send for sample cards  and  prices.  Address

Hazels, Peris & Co.
Luminous  Bait

THE  ONLY

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

MICH.

- 

IN  THE
Patented Feb.  13,  1883.

WORLD.
Re-issue Aug.  28,  1883.

PISHING SURE CATCH  DAY  OR NIGHT.

HARD  AND  SOFT  RUBBER  MINNOWS. 
No. 7, 70c each;  No. 8, 80c each; No. 9,90eeach.
FLYING  HELGRAMITES.  No.  0,  80c  each; 
No. 1, 85c each ;  No. 2 ,90c each ;  No. 3,  $1 each.
Samples of above Balts  sent post paid on re­
ceipt  of price,  or any three for $2.
MALL.  GLASS  MINNOWS,  TRIPLE  HOOK 
FEATHERED, 60c each.
SOFT  RUBBER  FROGS,  TRIPLE  HOOK 
FEATHERED, 60c each.
SOFT  RUBBER  GRASSHOPPERS,  SINGLE 
HOOK, 60c each.
SOFT  RUBBER  DOBSON,  SINGLE  HOOK, 
60c each.
DEXTER TROLLING  SPOON AND MINNOW 
Combined, Triple  Hook  Feathered, 60c each. 
AKRON  TROLLING  SPOON,  Triple  Hook 
Feathered, No. 1, 50c  each;  No.  2,  55c  each; 
No. 3,60c each;  No. 4,65c  each.
Send for descriptive circulars and testimonials. 
Liberal discount to the  Trade.

Enterprise  I t  Co., Akron,  Olio.

Poster,

Stevens 
&  Co.

-AGENTS

10 and 12 Monroe St.,  Grand Rapids.

Send for Circulars and Prices.

Good Words Unsolicited.

Brown & Co., druggists, Trufant:  "We  like 

T h e  T r a d e s m a n  well.”

F. R. Goodrich,  boot  and  shoe dealer, Trav­

erse City;  "It is well worth the money.”

J.  A.  Sheffield  &  Son,  drugs and groceries, 
Yestaburg:  “Your paper suits  us  splendid.” 
Jos. Hanville, drugs and groceries. Ravenna: 
“I find your paper a necessity and  the  quota­
tions very reliable.”

J. L. Everett, general dealer,  Barker  Creek: 
“I think it is worthy of a large support.  It is a 
welcome visitor at this office.”

H.  W.  King,  groceries  and provisions, East 
Jordan:  '"I take three commercial  papers.  I 
think  T h e   T r a d e s m a n   is  the  most  correct 
market reporter and the most reliable of any.’

BRAND  RAPIDS  M’F’6  CO.,

MANUFACTURERS  AND  JOBBERS  OF

-------PROPRIETORS-------

BLANCHARD BROS. & CO
M O D E L   M I L L S .
eilt lie   Patent  ail Vie  Loat Brails  at Flair.

-MANUFACTURERS  OF-

Good Goods and Low Prices.  We invite Correspondence.

cheapens it so much that he is able to sell it 
at half price, but I don’t think he  will  sell 
very much more, as I had a hand-bill  print­
ed cautioning people to beware of  the  stuff 
he sells under the name of glycerine.

Another thing he does  is  to  manufacture 
his own vinegar out of acid.  This  is very 
unhealthy for anyone  using  it,  but  Snooks 
don’t care for that.  Some of his vinegar eat 
a hole in a man’s stomach the other day, and 
I  shouldn’t  wonder  if  the  invalid  would 
make the  old  fool  sweat  for  it,  when  he 
gets well. 
I  hear  that some of the hotels 
jin Grand Rapids are  making  acid  vinegar. 
They  ought  to  he  prosecuted  to  the  full 
extent of the law.

Snooks claims to have a comer on  Water 
White oil,  so that  he  can  sell  it  cheaper 
than anyone else  in  this  vicinity.  But  a 
friend of mine tells  me  that  he  buys  two 
barrels  of  Legal  Test  and  one  barrel  of 
Water White, and mixes them. 
I could sell 
oil cheap, too,  if I resorted  to such despica­
ble tricks,  but I won’t.

The more I think about  the  way  Snooks 
deceives people,  the  madder  it  makes  me, 
and the more determined I am to show  him 
up in the proper light before the community. 
He knows I am  on  the  look-out  for  him, 
and he  is  ti-ying  to  lay  low;  but  second 
nature crops out every now and  then.  He 
can’t keep down his crooked tendencies. 
I 
am onto all his little snaps, and  propose  to 
refer to them all in due time.

The best men of the town held a  meeting 
in my store the  other  evening  and  unani­
mously resolved to petition Snooks to resign 
the position of justice,  as he is not qualified 
to discharge the duties devolving  upon  him 
in that office. 
I don’t suppose he  will  pay 
any attention to our request,  so I suppose it 
will be necessary to get  up  an  indignation 
meeting  and  protest  against  him  on  the 
ground  of  incompetency  and  on  general 
principles. 
If we bring  public pressure to 
bear on him, I think he will yield.

You needn’t be surprised if you  hear of a 
little tar and feather episode up in this local­
ity before long, as the talk about Snooks and 
the  Widow  is  becoming  more  personal. 
Snooks evidently wishes to get  her  money, 
and skip; but we intend to keep a watch on 
his movements and  not  let  him  leave  the 
neighborhood without some  little  memento 
of his stay here.

Trade is pretty fair,  and  crops  are  look­
ing first-rate.  Some of the mills up  around 
here are begining to start up  again,  and the 
cant hook factory is running full blast.  The 
grist mill is being repaired,  and  the  black­
smith  shop  has  got  a  new  bellows. 
So 
Snooks isn’t the only wind bag in town now 

Yours, for Truth,

P h ilander  B ilson.

Try the Crescent Mills “All Wheat” flour 
made  by  an  entirely  new  process.  Yoigt 
Milling Co.,  Grand Rapids, Mich.

1 8 8 5

:7 Í°
!  Rose Leaf, Fine Cut 
j  Navy Clippings 
i  and Snuffs

V  

Ç,

''«»Ti»-"-4

Are Yon Soin tí 
» a  Store, Pan 
trr or Closet?

FARMING  TOOLS  OF  ALL  DESCRIPTIONS  !

Dairy  implements  a  Specialty.

Factory-Corner Front and Earl streets.  Office and Sales- 

room s-10,12 and 14 Lyron street,  Grand  Rapids.

F O R   S A L E   B Y

M a n u f a c t u r e r s   o f   t h e   C e l e b r a t e d

R. HARRIS & GO., C0H0CT0N, N. T.
“B rook T rout” Cigar.
Eaton  <&  Christenson,
W M . SEA R S & CO.
Cracker  Manufacturers,

SOLE AGENTS  FOR  MICHIGAN.

Agents  fo r

.AJMIBOIT  C H EESE.

37, 39 & 41  Kent  Street.  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

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Choice Butter always on hand.  All  Orders  receive Prompt and Careful Attention, 

CORRESPONDENCE  SOLICITED.

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97  and 99 Canal Street, 
Grand Rapids, Michigan
MVSHEG02T  BUSINESS  DIRECTORY.

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

P A C Ü E H S

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CANNED  MEATS  AND  BUTTERS.

SOLIMAN  SNOOKS.

He Pleads “Not  Guilty” to  Bilson’s  Alle­

gations.

Cant H ook Corners,  May 22,  1885. 

Mister Editer of Traidesman.

Dea r  Sir—I  never  was  more  surprised 
in my life than I was to find  such  an  abus­
ive  letter in The  T raidsm an  concerning 
me  and  the  Widder. 
I  didn’t  tlunk  you 
would allow such a scurrilous  attack on the 
carácter of your correspondent  to  appear in 
your paper.  My first intenshun was to take 
no notice of the  matter,  as  Bilson  stands 
very low in this community, and such accusa- 
shuns from him will have no effect on those 
who know us both.  But as  the  statements 
made might prejudice some strangers against 
me,  I have come to the conclusion  that per­
haps it is best to  enter a  general denial. 
I 
knew he was  writing  such  a  letter,  for I 
heard that he and old  Potts  sat  up all one 
night,'with a dietionery on their knees, find­
ing out how to  spell  the  words  korrectly. 
Old Potts has owed me a  grudge  for  some 
time, on account  of  the  postoffice  matter, 
and he uses Bilson  as  a  cat’s-paw  to  rent 
his spite.

In the first place,  Bilson’s  assertion  that 
liis store is the largest is  a  falsehood.  He 
says its size is 21x87, but  in  order  to make 
this  out he counts in his  wood-shed,  hen­
coop and pig-pen,  which  are in the  rear  of 
his store.

His story about his shelves being wider is 
too thin. 
I’d like to know  what  difference 
it makes about  the  width  of  the  shelves, 
when he sets his  soap  and  saleratus  along 
on the  front of the  shelves,  leaving  a big 
hollar behind.  One box of  soap  with  Bil­
son spreads out about  fifteen  feet,  while  I 
consolidate a box into about two feet.

He tells the truth  when  he  says  he  dis­
counts all  his  bills,  for  he  has  discounted 
them largely.  About two years  ago he dis­
counted all his bills 80  per  cent.,  in  short, 
settled with his creditors at  20 cents  on the 
dollar. 
If you don’t believe  this  statement 
ask Mr.  Voigt,  or  Jennings  &  Smith,  Ar­
thur Meigs or Eaton & Christenson.

The allegation about  my  poetry  is  a  lie 

and the allegator is a liar.

His peppermint story  is  older  than  the 
hills. 
I heard that  same  story back  in In- 
jeana about a dozen years  ago,  and it seems 
it.has just got around to Bilson’s.

Talking of my buying in small quantities, 
I never bought a gross of  pancake  turners, 
neither did I ever  order  2 pounds  of  alum 
and 1 pound of borax, as he did a  couple of 
weeks  ago.

His intimation that the Widder’s  opening 
a millinery shop in my store is  causing talk 
in the neighborhood  shows  the  kind  of  a 
man he is. 
In fact,  all the talk that I have 
heard can be traced to Bilson’s  store.

I have sent down to  Ohio,  where  Bilson 
used to live,  to get his  past  record,  and  as 
soon as it arrives I will  give  the  fellow  a 
good showing  up.

The millinery stock is beginning to arrive, 
and the Widder is arranging the things very 
nicely,  assisted by

Yours truly,
S on max Snooks,

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

PHILANDER  BILSON.

More  of  Snooks’  Questionable  Business 

Practices Unearthed.

Cant  Hook  Cornebi 

Editor of T h e  T r a d e s m a n  :

May

1885.

D e a r   S i b — Y ou ought to a seen the com­
motion my letter caused in  this community. 
Old Snooks was terribly  riled,  and tried  to 
get the prosecuting attorney to issue a  war­
rant for my arrest on the charge of  slander. 
He  told  the  officer  that  he  and  Widow 
Spriggs were  both  libeled,  but  the  former 
could not see it in that light,  and refused to 
entertain a complaint against me.  Before I 
get through with this  matter,'  I propose  to 
say a great many worse tilings  than I wrote 
you last week,  and I shouldn’t be  surprised 
if matters got  so  hot  for  Snooks  that  he 
would be compelled to  take  French  leave. 
I heard the other day that a jobber in Grand 
Kapids held a chattel mortgage on his stock, 
which was  liable  to  be  foreclosed  at  any 
time.  In ease Snooks is sold out, I mean to 
bid in the stock and carry  on  the  business 
under the name of a relative,  so as  to  shut 
out any more competition.  This would en­
able me to have things all  my  own  way  at 
the  Corners, and I think I could soon  close 
out my stock of pancake turners.

I have  heard  about  another  of  Snooks» 
scurvy tricks since my last letter.  He adul­
terates his  glycerine  with  glucose. 
This

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STIR  MILLS,

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Stores in Opera House Block, Packing and Warehouse Market and Water Streets.

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Factory
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Having resumed operations for the season is prepared to supply all kinds of

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At Bottom Prices.  Quality Guaranteed.

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FILES  AND  RASPS  OF  ALL  DESCRIPTIONS,
And Repairers of Saws.  Our long experience in both branches of  business  enables  us  to  do 
better work than any other firm in the State.  All work done promptly aDd^warranted  to  give 
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MUSKEGON,  MICH.

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Corner Winter and West Bridge Streets,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

CLARK,  JEWELL  &  CO.,
Groceries  and  Provisions,

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81,85 and 81  PEARL  STREET ¡mil lit, 116,118 and 120  OTTAWA  STREET, 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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M i ó l a . ,

16 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

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YOU  ALL  KNOW  IT.

Order of us while  stock  is  plenty  and 

prices remain at the bottom.

Gasoline  Stoves—Four  Hole Top. 

“ Monitor”  Oil  Stoves—Absolute Safety.

SOLD  AT  MANUFACTURERS  PRICES.

These are becoming necessary in every household  and  by 
buying of us you will be trying no experiments.  Our goods 
are  standard  and  guaranteed  in  every  respect  Write for 
our Price  List.

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W e  gladly  furnish  catalogue  and  discount  on  application. 

Notice our new GROCER’S  ICE  BOX.

The  New  Table  Glassware.

W e  have  colored  lithographs  of  the  new  goods in COLORED  GLASSWARE 
If not already received, writh to  us  for  a  set 
which we are very anxious to show you. 
with  net prices and see what is revolutionizing the trade for nice table glassware.
Above all make a note to visit our store the next time you are in  the  city, and  ask 
for our wholesale sample room.  WE  HAVE  BARGAINS  IN  QUICK  SELLING  GOODS.

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16  MONROE  STREET,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH

