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GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICHIGAN,  WEDNESDAY,  FEBRUARY  10,  1886.

NO. 125.

A Million Dollars.

Millions of dollars would be  saved  annually 
by the invalids of every community, if, instead 
of  calling  in  a  physician  for  every ailment, 
they were all wise enough to put their trustiu 
Golden Seal Bitters, a certain cure for  all dis­
eases  arising  from  an  impure  state  of  the 
Blood and Liver, such as Scrofula in its various 
forms. Rheumatism, Dyspepsia or Indigestion, 
Female irregularities, Diseases of the Kidneys 
and  Bladder,  Exposure  and  Imprudence  of 
Life.  No person can take these Bitters accord­
ing to instructions,  and  remain  long  unwell, 
provided their bones are not destroyed by min­
eral poison or other  means,  and  the  vital or­
gans wasted beyond the point of repair.  Gold- 
ed Seal Bitters numbers on its list of cures  ac­
quired a urreat celebrity, being used as  a  fam­
Sold  by  Hazeltine  & Perkins
ily  medicine.  M M  
Drug Co.
DRYDEN & PALMER’S 
Unquestionably the best in  the  market.  As 
clear as crystal and %s transparent as diamond. 
Try a box.
J o lm  OaulfioldL,
Sole Agent for Grand Rapids
GUSTAVE  A.  WOLF,

ROCK  CANDY.

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A tto rn o y ,

Over Fourth National  Bank.  Telephone  407. 

COLLECTIONS

Promptly att ended to throughout the State. 
References:  Hart&Amherg,  Eaton &  Christen­

son, Enterprise Cigar Co.

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Giving Her a Weigh.

She entered the store with a  charming  smile, 
Have you a moment to spare for me 

And said to the clerk, “Oh, Charlie, say?
And let me know how much I weigh?’

“One thirty is what the figures say.”
And the grocer saw with his weather eye 

“How heavy I am!  Assist me, please,
The young man give her a gentle  squeeze.
“Who was the girl?”  asked the grocer  man.
Then he softly said in a bashful voice,

For a moment the youngster  answered  not, 
“Oh!  that is the weigh I long have  sought.

W EIGHT  VS.  COUNT.

Supplemental Paper to the Article Publish­

ed Two Weeks Ago.

To the  Retail  Grocers’  Association  of  Grand 
Rapids:
Gentlem en—The  courtesy  extended  to 
the writer through the medium of your tem­
porary Secretary,  by  whom I  am requested 
to graphically state  “the form, of opposition 
received from  either  producer or  consumer 
relative to the purchase and  sale of  eggs by 
weight,” and also to  state  the  “measure ol 
weight  we  use  as  a  standard”  is  hereby 
acknowledged. 
In  reply  I  can  only offer 
the following facts:

The  arguments  used  by  the  producer at 
first were that it  was  prejudicial  to  his in­
terests,  as  “eggs always had been bought by 
count,” and if w e proposed buying by weight 
then the farmer who raised small eggs would 
not.stand  a  fair  chance  with  tiie one who 
raised larger ones,  and they would  not sub­
mit to it; besides  they s^id “egg sought to be 
sold by the dozen.”

On the part of those  in our  own concern, 
it was urged that it was breaking up an  “es­
tablished custom;” would not be  as conven­
ient,  and might prejudice the seller  against 
bringing his product  to  us to sell;  and as it 
never had been done,  there was no good rea­
son for doing it now.  When  the  justice of 
the  movement  was  urged,  they  could  not 
I avoid the concession;  hut they still contend- 
I ed tii at a dozen of eggs was a dozen of eggs

TO  TEE  TRADE.
We desire to call the attention of the Trade to 

our unusually complete stock of
SCHOOL  BOOKS,

School  Supplies

And a General Line of miscellaneous 

Hooks, Stationery, Paper, Etc.

We have greatly increased our facilities  for 
doing a  General  Jobbing  Business,  and  shall 
hereafter be able to fill all orders promptly.
Wo issue separate lists of Slates,  School  and 
Township  Books,  Blanks,  Etc.,  which  will  be 
mailed on application. 
Quotations on any article in our stock cheer­
fully furnished.  We  have the  Agency  ot  the
REMINGTON  TYPE  W RITER 

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F or  W estern  M ichigan.

20 and 22 Monroe St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

B aton & Lyon
DETROIT.
FREE 

PRESS 

CIGAR.

10c Cigar for 5c.

Brown  Bros.

MANUFACTURERS, 

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MICH.
C. ROYS  <&  GO.,
3  Pearl  St.,  Graud  Kapids,  Mich.

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STEAM LAUNDRY

43 and 45 Kent Street.

STANLEY  N.  ALLEN,  Proprietor.
WE  DO ONLY FIRST-CUSS  WORE  AND  IIS!  NO

Orders by Mail and Express promptly at­

tended  to.

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And Full Line Winter Goods.

JOBBERS of SADDLERY HARDWARE 
102  CANAL  STREET._________
ALBERT COYE & SONS
AWNINGS, TENTS

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We pay the highest price for it.  Address

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and fits its pupils for the vocations of busi­
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(Successor to P. Spitz,)

SOLE  AGENT  OF

F e r m e n t u m ,
The Only  Reliable Compressed  Yeast. 
Manufactured by RiverdaU Dist. Co.,

106 KENT  ST., GRAND RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.

Grocers  and  Bakers  who  wish  to  try 
“FERMENTUM” can get  samples and full 
directions by addressing  or applying  to,(the 
*above.

hetlier large or small.
The consumer  had,  like the  producer, al­
ways bought eggs  by the  dozen and did not 
like  buying  by weight; besides  he  did not 
know how  many eggs it  took for a  pound, 
and hence  did not know  how many pounds 
to order.  Many an  explanation  and  illus­
tration  had  to  be  made  to  tiie  former  to 
show him the  fallacy of  the  old way.  For 
instance,  that  the  man  who  raised  small 
apples  of  which 
hun­
dred  to  make  a  bushel,  should  just  as 
equitably insist  upon  getting  pay  for two 
bushels,  as the neighbor whose apples count­
ed one hundred to the bushel should get pay 
for the two bushels which  his  two hundred 
apples mevured.

The thinking farmer soon opened his eyes 
and sold  us  all  his  la^o  eggs,  and either 
used at home or sold  our  neighboring deal­
ers the small ones.

took 

two 

it 

Quite soon increased confidence was man­
ifest as to the certainty of convictions in tiie 
amount  weighed  in,  as  against  tiie  old 
counting method.  Tiie seller stood  by  and 
saw the beam  tip  at  say 25  pounds  gross. 
He waited calmly  until  the  vessel contain­
ing his product was  empty,  and then could 
see just what tiie tare was—say five pounds 
—and could readily decide  the  net result of 
20 pounds, and tiiei’e was  never a  question 
as to 10,  12 or 14 dozen, v^iile all questions 
of intentional or  accidental  “wrong count” 
were forever at an end.  The consumer con­
tinued  to  order  by  the  dozen,  as  before. 
When this occurred,  we  counted  them into 
tiie  scales and  weighed  them  the* same  as 
butter, cheese  or  anything  else; hut  before 
long our customers fell into tiie  habit of or­
dering so  many pounds,  tiie  same as  they 
would sugar,  tea, prunes or rice, which were 
placed in the scoop and  weighed  the  same 
as any of tiie articles named, put Into paper 
hags, boxes or  basket*, and  thus  delivered 
to the customer,  to  their  evident  and  con­
tinued satisfaction.  Whenever  we chanced 
to get out of eggs,  and, to fill  an order, had 
to send out  to  one  of  our  dealers we,  as a 
rule, found where the small  eggs went, fre­
quently  finding  a  difference  of  one-half  a 
pound on a dozen or a difference of 33% per 
cent.

The  community have  learned  tiie  equity 
of purchasing this product  by weight  and 1 
doubt their consent to going back to the old 
way.

As to the  measure  of  weight  used by us 
as a  standard, we  have  demonstrated  that 
good-sized  eggs  will  weigh  IK   pounds to 
tiie dozen; and,  while  we  purchase  strictly 
by weight,  we base our  price  on this  meas­
ure of  weight  per  dozen.  When  eggs  are 
worth 15 cents per dozen to  buy,  we pay 10 
cents per pound,  and usually sell at 12 cents 
per pound equal to 18 cents per dozen.

As to  arguments  adduced  by  dealers  in 
opposition to this plan,  they seem to be ful­
ly met by rejoinders which were sent by the 
writer to the American Grocer in November, 
1884, as follows:

First—No reputable dealer will for  a mo­
ment concede that eggs packed by count are 
received  without  being  repacked  and  re­
counted  by  the  seller,  and,  if  a  barrel  of 
eggs is reshipped to a second or third party, 
the number of pounds of eggs is of as muflti 
reliability  as  the  number  of  dozens  so
marked.

weights  seems  quite  as  .idle,  as  the  same 
claim would apply to any other packege; for 
instance, tierces  of  rice,  sugar  hogsheads, 
lard tierces,  packages for smoked meats and 
packages for foreign fruits, etc., ad libitum. 
Other  arguments  could  be  adduced  that 
would present  themselves  to  the  reflective 
mind in a  clear  and  intelligent  light,  but I 
have not the time to delineate them.

This hasty compliance with your  request 
is  respectfully  submitted,  in  the hope that 
good  may come  therefrom  in  the  near fu­
ture. 

S. Barnes.

Advertising Mediums.

The number of  copies a paper  prints, al­
though an important  point,  is  not the only 
one by which  to  judge  its wortli  as an ad­
vertising medium.  The character,  influence 
and standing of  the paper  in a  community 
are all equally  important  factors  in  deter­
mining its value  as a  medium by which  to 
communicate with the people of  the section 
in which the paper  circulates.  Experience 
teaches that careful  editorial  guidance  and 
superlative care  given to  statements in the 
news columns of  a paper,  as a rule,  render 
its advertising columns much more valuable 
than  a paper reckless in assertions and lav­
ish  in  its  indorsements  of  anything  and 
everything under the sun.  The influence of 
a  newspaper,  commercially  considered,  is 
as the  influence of  an  individual. •  A man 
careless of his statements  is  not .considered 
good  authority  or  a  reliable  source  of in­
formation; so a good newspaper with its ed­
itorial opinions at the beck  and call of any­
one with a bank account of sufficient dimen­
sions  soon  loses  its  weight  with  readers, 
who  quickly  discover  its  unreliability and 
are careless  even  of  statements  printed in 
the advertising  columns—tire advertising is 
then  about  equally valuable  as  so  many 
handbills.  The same rule  applies to papers 
depending upon sales effected through mak­
ing a specialty of low sensations; such news­
papers are bought  to  gratify  curiosity,  are 
culled  for  their  particular  attraction, then 
thrown  away,  and  a  reliable  newspaper is 
consulted for the news of  the  day, and the 
opinions of  the latter  are  respected.  This 
respect is to a certain extent extended to tiie 
advertising  columns,  and  a  subtle,  but in­
fluential  indorsement  js  by  the  journal’s 
character  given  to  the  statements,  even 
though known to he paid for and  in the ad­
vertising department.  For instance,  a com­
plimentary notice  in a newspaper of known 
reliability  and  careful  of  its  assertions, as 
all  advertisers  well  know  is  worth  more 
than the flippant  statements  of  one  whose 
praise is  unlimited  ami  whose  unqualified 
editorial  indorsement  of  anybody  or  any­
thing is obtainable for a consideration.  One 
word from the columns  of  the  former  wi 
weigli  a  ton  in  the  scales  of  public judj 
ment,  where a similar statement from a less 
reliable  paper  is  mentally  alluded  to  as 
hótinüg but a paid  “puff.”

Wives as Partners.

From the Cincinnati Grocer.

A  retail  dealer,  as  a  rule, can  have  no 
better partner than his wife in his  business, 
Witli her to help him,  he is sure of  at least 
one honest clerk,  and often a  most  efficient 
one.  The  wife  is  more  careful  than the 
husband  to look after  the  little  leaks  and 
wastes  about  the  store. 
If  possessed  of 
some business instinct,  she will soon feel an 
ambition  to  see  the  business succeed  and 
make money. 
If the husband  will give lie 
but  half  an  opportunity  to  exercise  he 
judgment  tiie  business  will  prosper  and 
grow.  When a woman does take  naturally 
to business, she takes hold with a closer and 
more intelligent grip than a man  does,  and 
seems to take more real pleasure than  he 
making  money.  Wives  do  not  generally 
know enough about tlieir husband’s  affair 
It frequently happens that a  merchant dies 
leaving his wife knowing less about liisfius 
iness  than  strangers  do.  Tiie estate  w 
then often be mismanaged  and  squandered 
by  an  incompetent  or  dishonest  adminiS' 
trator. 
If the wife had been  kept  well in­
formed of the condition of the  business  she 
could have stepped into her dead  husband’s 
place and brought his affairs to  a successful 
close.  As our country grows older  and  be­
comes more densely populated  the  problem 
of  making  a  living  grows more and  more 
serious.  Hence the need for a wife and her 
daughters to lend “the old man”  a  helping 
hand becomes more imperative. 
It  is meet 
that they should help.  Wives and daughters, 
as well as the father and tiie  sons,  are  the 
better for being kept  busy  in  some  honest 
employment.
German  State  Monopoly  of  Liquor  Sales 
Foreign advices indicate that  a  proposed 
government monopoly of the sale of  spirits 
in  Germany  will  be  brought,  before  tiie 
Reichstag.  Tiie fact that this body refused 
to grant the government a monopoly  of  the 
sale  of  tobacco  does  not seem to have de­
terred the  government  from  broaching  tiie 
scheme.  The general proposition  as stated 
is  that  the  state  shall  buy up all the raw 
spirits in the empire,  and after  refining,  re­
tail them at home and export  them  abroad. 
The granting of licenses to sell  would  nat-

WATCHING  TH E  CLERKS.

Raisin Making in California.

From the Orange (Cal.) Tribune.

dry  ^  

Private Habits.

From the  Chicago News.

A Detective Association to  Pry into  Their i 

The grapes  are  purchased  on  the  vines, 
some by actual weight,  others by estimating 
tiie crop from weighing the product, of every 
“The time has  gone  by,” said  a Chicago 
tenth vine.  The grapes are  picked by crews 
merchant,  “when  business  men  could  em- 
of men under  experienced foremen,  and are 
ploy help indiscriminately or even keep men
placed in trays or wooden frames, which are
whom they have had in positions of trust for 1 piled on top  of  each  other  in  wagons and 
years without knowing  more  of  them than . taken to )he scaleSj  weighed and then taken 
acquaintance in the store or  office can give.  to  tho  clrying  gr0linds.  These  consist  of 
Our confidence  is so much  abused  and our, about  sixty  acres  of  land(  SIQOothed  and 
pockets are so frequently rifled that we have L leaned likt, a briek yard? and the grapes are 
come  to  feel  that  protection  is  absolutely  Spread old jn iong  rows p, dly  jn the  sun. 
necessary.  About  the  only  thing  we  re-1 Ten  (lays  to  two  Aveeks from  the “laying 
ceive which gives  us  a favorable opinion of j down„ ¡s  lisually  abovlt  the  time  required 
a man when he applies for work is.an intro- 
and  then  those  thoroughly 
duction from a mutual  friend 
letter of  cured ore taken up  and  put  into the  sweat 
recommendation; but the friend or thewriter | boxes  Pro5ably one-third are not  yet cur­
of the letter rarely knows more of the man’s 
are turned  over and placed in 
ed,  and tiu
real character than we  do,  and  the  recom­
narrow rows until  tiie  action of Old Sol has 
mendations  in  reality  testify  only  to  his 
made them ready.  The enormous  quantity 
ability  to do work.  They  tell  us  nothing | 
>y  one  firm can be  esti- 
of grapes handled 
of  the  man’s  life  after  business  hours— 
known  that at  one time 
mated when  it  is 
whether he passes  it  in  a  respectable  and 
was  covered, and a por­
this sixty-acre plot
honorable way or devotes it to drinking ami j 
tion of it has  been  covered  a  second  time. 
gambling.  An association  is  to  be formed 
Teams  are  continually  coining  and  going, 
for the purpose of probing into this thing.
and a small  army of  men  are  employed to 
take care of the  grapes and  keep tin* teams 
on tiie move.  Many  women  and  girls  are 
also employed picking up  the  loose  raisins 
that have fallen from tiie stems.  The trays 
are of a number and  capacity to  hold  three 
hundred j’tons  of  grapes.  Another  tiling 
which  catches tiie eye at tiie  drying ground 
is the preparation  made for  possible rains, 
in the shape of rolls of  oil paper stacked up 
in all  directions.  This  paper  is  in  sheets 
about  four feet  in  width  and  sixteen feet 
long,  prepared to withstand rain by dipping 
it in boiled oil.  Two carloads of  paper and 
fifty barrels of oil have  been  used  this sea­
son, but as yet it lias not been  found neces­
sary to use the »paper.

“We think of  organizing  a detective sys­
tem for the  purpose  of  exercising  surveil- 
lance over  our  employees.  The number of 1 
lisreputable  places  in  Chicago  is  not  so I 
large but  that we  can  secure  a  pretty cor-!
et idea of a  man’s habits without going to I 
my very  heavy expense. 
I  was a member!
such a  society  in  New York,  and it was j 
of incalculable benefit tome.  As an example j 
of  its workings let me  show you  tills brief j 
eport,”  said  the  gentleman,  displaying  a | 
iled,  partially  printed blank. 
It  read  as j 
illows:
“To Subscriber 207:  The person of whom j 
ou inquire is about 26 years old, unmarried. 
Has  been  in  New  York  three  years,  and 
bears a good character.  Often  visits  gam- 
biing  houses.  Drinks, but  not  to  excess, 
jives expensively.

•‘This  young  man,”  continued  tiie mer- 
chant,  “came  to me  with tiie  very highest 
recommendations.  I wanted  a  cashier, and 
should have employed  him  had it  not been 
for  the report  from  the  protective  society. 
You can very readily understand  why I did | 
not wish a  man  who  frequented  gambling j 
houses,  even  though  so  quietly  that  his 
rieuds  knew  nothing  of  it  to  handle  my 
money.  Neither  would  I  knowingly  em­
ploy a man who drank, even if he never did 
let drunk.  This young fellow could not un­
derstand  why  I  refused  his  application. 
Many a trusted  employee in  New  York at 
that time wondered why his resignation was 
asked for or how his employer  learned that j 
occasionally played faro or went  out with 

a convivial party.”

But if a man is honest and faithful, and 
attends strictly to his business, do you store 
it up against him that  after  business hours 
he gambles or drinks a little?”

“We most assuredly do.  Among business 
people the sentiment  against  dissipation in 
employees is growing stronger and stronger. 
The first tiling we ask now about a new man 
is:  Does lie drink or  gamble?  and we pro­
pose answering these  questions through the 
new society.  Experience has taught us that 
the reliable men—those  most  to he  trusted 
^-are those who  abstain  from  whisky  and 
cards,  and I venture  the  assertion  that ten 
years from now tiie drinking  man  will find 
difficulty  in  securing  any  employment— 
much less  a  position  of  responsibility.  A 
young man may  drink  and  gamble in mod­
eration for years and still attend to his work, 
but he is sure to  come to grief,  and his em­
ployers must  suffer.  We  do  not  say that 
every drinking man and every gambler shall 
he discharged,  hut we  are  going to find out 
who of our employees have bad  habits,  and 
you may be sure they will he  given no posi­
tion of trust or profit.

“I do not care to give  you  the  names  of 
any of the members of the  new association. 
Suffice to say  that  there  will  be  over two 
hundred, that they include many of our prin­
cipal business men,  and that  enough opera­
tives will be employed to  keep us posted on 
what we wish to know.”

It is pleasing  to  note  that  several differ­
ences  between  employers  and  employees 
have  been  recently  settled  by  arbitration. 
These differences will always occur, and tliis 
means of  settlement  ought  to  prevail  to  a 
much greater extent than it does. 
It is sen­
sible and cheap; although  it has,  in  special 
instances, been  employed  for  years,  it has 
never  received  the  attention  it  deserves. 
Both  parties  to  the  controversy  appear  to 
.forget the existence of such a method, when 
trouble comes.  As  an  evidence  of  the  at­
tention which  arbitration  in  labor  disputes 
is receiving,  and the  favor  with which it is 
likely to be  received,  it  may be  noted  that 
the Governors of several states have alluded 
to it in recent messages.  Neither party to a 
labor dispute can hardly  ever  be  character­
ized as entirely unreasonable.  Both simply 
don’t want the other  party to have his way, 
which  is  rather  natural,  after  all.  Often 
they would  not  seriously  object  to a third 
party having his  way.

When properly dried the grapes are taken 
up and.put  into sweat boxes,  probably sev­
enty-five or one hundred pounds7 to tiie box, 
and  hauled  to  tiie  packing  house,  where 
they are  piled  from  floor  to  ceiling in the 
large front room.  They are  left  here some 
ten days and passed through a sweating pro­
cess,  the object  being to equalize  the mois- 
. 
contained  in ¡.them.  When  placed  in 
boxes some are.much drier  thaihotliers,  hut 
when ready for the  packer  tiie intention  is 
to make  them  as  nearly  as  possible  equal 
and  uniform  in  that  regard.  Four  layers 
are placed in a box, and each layer is weigh­
ed by the packer, and the wlioffi must make 
exactly 
required. 
When a box is filled,  the  packer takes  it to 
the scales near the  door,  presided  over  by 
on  expert  in  the  business,  w i^  carefully 
weighs and examines it,  and if all right it is 
carried to the next  room,  where it is nailed 
up  and the  corners  smoothed off,  and it is 
ready for  shipment.  Particular  care is ex­
ercised in grading and  weighing.

tw enty, packages 

the 

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The most  of  the“ packers  are  Chinamen, 
and,  as  usual,  they  soon become experts  at 
the business,  putting up from  ten to twelve 
boxes a day.  White juen till  all of tiie  re­
sponsible stations,  it evidently being consid­
ered necessary to keep a  close  and  vigilant 
watch over tiie  “heathen” to keep him  from 
resorting  to  “ways  that  are  dark.”  Occa­
sionally a box goes  hack to the  packer and 
iTupsefon his  table  as  a  gentle  reminder 
that first-class  work  must  be  done  all the
time.  !___ 
The box  lids  are. branded by a  powerful
cylinder press run by horse power,  unk  it is 
rather  amusing  to  a  printer  to  watch the 
modus  open nidi  of  this  coarse-grained 
printing.  Checks are used in  every depart­
ment,  a  packer  receiving  a  check  on each 
box  delivered  at  the  scales.  The  work 
promises  to  last  until  Christmas  or  New 
Years before the whole crop  is disposed of, 
hut the favorable weather which the  raisin- 
makers have  been blessed with  will  facili­
tate their operations, and if  it continues for 
another month  they  will  have the  most of 
the work done.

Inferiority of Rio Coffee.

From  Rio Janeiro,  \V.  E.  Curtis recently 
wrote:  “The coffee trade  of  Brazil  is just 
at present  in a very  demoralized  condition 
on account of the cheap price  of  the article 
which is  lower than it has  been since  1857. 
It reached the price  of 17  cents  a pound in 
1864, then  declined  and  remained  at about 
11 cents until 1871,  when it rose again to 17 
cents,  and in  1874  had  reached  23  cents a 
pound.  This  was  the  time  when tiie crop 
was  very  light.  Since  then  it  lias  been 
gradually coming down until  it is now from 
6 to 8 cents a pound delivered in New York. 
Tiie main causes of  the  low  prices  are the 
extremely  large  production  and  the  poor 
quality of  the  coffee  itself.  A  very  much 
better grade ol coffee is produced in Central 
America and  on  the  Spanish  Main,  which 
brings  9  and  It  cents,  but  the  Brazilian 
planters do not appear to encourage the cul­
tivation of  a superior  article  and  the  time 
will come when the product of Mexico, Cen­
tral America, and the  countries  on the Car­
ibbean Sea will drive out the Rio coffee from 
our  market.  Three-fourths  of  the  coffee 
shipped  from  Brazil  conies  to  the  United 
States,  and the Europeans express a wonder 
that we should continue  to buy it  when we 
could get a better grade at nearer places at a 
very small increase of price.”

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lercanUle and Sanniadurins Interests of the State.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

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

WEDNESDAY,  FEBRUARY  10,  1886.
Merchants and Manufacturers’ Exchange.
Organized, at Grand Rapids October 8,188t.

President—Lester J. Rindge.
Vice-President—Cbas. H. Leonard.
Treasurer—Geo. B.  Dunton.
Annual Meeting—Second  Wednesday evening 
Regular  Meetings—Second  Wednesday  even­

of October.
ing of each month.

Traverse City Business Men’s Association.

President,  Frank  Hamilton;  Secretary,  C.  T. 

Lockwood;  Treasurer, J. T. Beadle.

Business  Men’s  Protective  Union  of 

Cheboygan.

President,  A.  M.  Wesgate;  Vice-President, 

H. Chambers;  Secretary, A. J. Paddock.

Subscribers and others,  when  writing 
to  advertisers, will confer a favor on the pub­
lisher by  mentioning that they saw the adver­
tisement in the columns of  this  paper.

BE  TRUE TO  YOUR EMPLOYER.
It does not pay to betray  an employer for 
the sake of a few dollars’ gain.  There may 
be times when such  a  course  will  result to 
the financial advantage  of  the principal ac­
tor, but such exceptions  to the  general rule 
are very rare. 

,

As a ready instance of  tlxe  way in which 
betrayals  of  confidence usually result,  it is 
only necessary to  refer  to  a recent  case in 
point happening in  this  city:  Two  houses 
were bidding for the  same trade with a per­
sistence seldom  met with,  even  in the job 
bing business.  The  manager of  one house 
conceived the idea of hiring the book-keeper 
away from the  other firm,  and  accordingly 
made such arrangements with the employee, 
the latter agreeing to deliver  up  to the new 
employer all the points  he was  able to pick 
up regarding the business of  the old house. 
It was  not  his  sendees  the  new  employer 
wanted, but the private  information he was 
supposed 
to  possess—information  which 
should have been held as sacred as life.  The 
result was  that  the  book-keeper  secured a 
liberal  advance  in  salary. 
lie  understood 
that the advance was not paid out of consid­
eration for  his  value  as  a  worker,  but be 
cause the new  employer  placed a  premium 
upon the business secrets he was, supposed 
ly,  able to deliver to the purchaser.

The sequel of the  matter  is that as  soon! 
as the book-keeper was pumped dry he  was 
cast aside—not  because  his  work  was not 
satisfactory,  but for the reason that the new 
employer realized that if he could be bought 
once lie could be  purchased  again,  and was 
consequently, not  a  safe  man  to  entrust 
with the business secrets  common to a mer­
cantile establishment.  The  man  is  out  of 
employment  to-day,  and is  as much  an ob­
ject of scorn to the  business  public as if he 
were  a traitor to his country.  And so it will 
always  be  with  those  who  seek  to  build 
themselves up at the expense of others!

The Wolvervine State is destined to be the 
recipient of considerable  notoriety  through 
the valuable discoveries  new being made by 
Prof. Vaughan on the cause, nature and pre­
vention of cheese poisoning.  Although Mr. 
Vaughan is not  imparting  the  information 
of which  lie is possessed  as fast as  most of 
us would prefer, yet we have assurances that 
he is delving in the right direction,  and that 
as soon as he has come to a satisfactory con­
clusion regarding the nature  of the  poison, 
ami has hit  upon a  reliable  method  of pre­
venting the  same,  he  will  make a  full and 
free disclosure,  for the benefit of the world. 
Dr.  Vaughan’s determination  that  no other 
chemist shall  take up  the  subject  at  the 
present stage and  anticipate  him in the an­
nouncement of the final result  is  a  not un­
usual phase of  human  nature.  We all like 
to receive all the credit we deserve,  and it is 
not to be wondered at  that  Prof.  Vaughan 
desires to  secure  for  himself  tne  applause 
which will  necessarily  follow  the  consum­
mation of one of the most  prolonged  inves­
tigations  known  to  the  scientific  world. 
And Michigan, as the home of the discover­
er and  the  seat of  the  investigation,  will 
share with him the honor.

The  Retail  Grocers'  Advocate, of  New 
York,  reproduces  T he T radesm an’s edi­
torial on Smith  Barnes’ paper  on  “Eggs by 
Weight,” and  volunteers  the  following in­
formation on the subject:
In certain  portions  of  Europe  eggs have 
If will  never be 
long been sold by weight. 
possible  to  guarantee  the  sale  of  strictly 
fresh  eggs  until  they  are sold by  weight. 
After this reform has triumphed with green 
vegetables  it  may  be  possible to  do some­
thing  with  the  egg  question.  Belgium  is 
probably the best egg  country in the world. 
There the eggs are graded in three and four 
grades.  The first  reform  should be in get­
ting all eggs graded, and after that has been 
accomplished it may be  possible to get eggs 
sold by  weight._____________

The bank  clearings last  week aggregated 
$394,405.90 against $434,619.04 the week be­
fore.  The decrease is owing to the terribly 
cold water which  prevailed  five days of the 
week,  putting a dami*er on business and re­
ducing the  exchanges  to  the  minimum  of 
necessity. 

_______ ________

Monroe will  probably  be  the  next  tow'n 
n the  State to launch  a  grocers’  organiza- 
Paul P.  Morgan is  agitating the sub- 
->g his brother  merchants, and will 

secure their co-operation.

The cause of  prohibition  has  received  a 
severe blow from the decision of the United 
States Court in Kansas  that  the State must 
pay for a brewery  which  has been rendered 
useless  by  the  enactment  of  prohibition. 
The  principle  that  vested  rights  must  be 
respected  by  ev^ry  social  change  is  in- 
wrought  into  the  practice  of  the  English 
government,  and has  become a  part of that 
common law which is help to bind even  the 
national legislature.  But in  America there 
has been much less  regard  for these rights, 
and especially the  opponents  of  the  liquor 
traffic have spoken  and acted as though the 
manufacturers of  intoxicants  were no more 
worthy of compensation for their losses than 
was a band  of  robbers  whose  business has 
been broken up  by the  officers  of  the law. 
If this decision is to stand  in law,  and is to 
apply to liquor-dealers  as well  as manufac­
turers, prohibition will be a very costly bus­
iness  to  any  community  which  enacts it. 
And rural communities,  which are the most 
ready  to  pass  prohibitory  laws,  are  also 
about the last to vote for  anything that will 
add to the burden of taxation.

Mr.  Wilson in the  Senate  has proposed a 
law to increase the  postage  on  fourth-class 
mail matter.  This is the express  branch of 
the postal service, and it is objected that the 
bill  would  not  increase  the  receipts  from 
samples, seeds and the  like,  but  only hand 
the business over to the express  companies. 
This we think a  very  strong  argument for 
the  proposition.  The  post-office  has  no 
right to go into  the  express business.  The 
service it thus  undertakes  can  be  done  by 
private enterprises,  and therefore shouid not 
be attempted by government.  It is true that 
the English Post Office goes much farther in 
this direction than ours, but  this  is  one of 
the gross inconsistencies of the British  sys­
tem,  which opens the  door  for  all  kinds of 
socialistic 
and  semi-socialistic  experi­
ments.

The Michigan Dairyman is the title of  a 
handsome eight-page monthly,  in  magazine 
form, which has just been issued from The 
Tradesman office. 
It is  published  in the 
interest of the dairymen of this and surround­
ing states,  and  will doubtless succeed  Tin 
Tradesman as official organ of  the Miclii 
gan Dairymen’s Association.

The First National Bank of Whitehall has 
attached the stock of general  goods of Wm, 
G. Mason, at Whitehall.  The  action is the 
result of a series  of litigations and  compli­
cations.

Receiver  Nelson  has  sold  the  clothing 
stock of the insolvent  New  York  Clothing 
House,  at Kalamazoo, to J.  C. Lopker,  who 
will consolidate his stock with it.  The price 
paid was $4,000.

Sturgis Journal:  Wm.  H. Fox, the well- 
known dry goods man,  has opened a branch 
store at Burr Oak.  J.  C. Bracken,  for some 
time past clerk in the  store  here,  will have 
charge of the Burr Oak branch.

Thad.  B.  Preston  and  C. R.  Dye  have 
formed a copartnership at  Ionia  under  the 
firm name of T.  B.  Preston &  Co.,  succeed­
ing to the business of the late firm of T.  H. 
Preston & Co.  The house jobs oil, vinegar, 
cheese, tobaccos and cigars.

Howard City  Record:  The  grocery  and 
hardware firm of  Collins,  Robbie & Co.  has 
been  dissolved.  The  hardware  stock  was 
disposed  of  to  Denton  &  Lovely  and  the 
groceries  will  be  removed  to  the  store of 
John C.  Collins and  the  business continued 
at that place.

Anderson & Co., wholesale dealers  in ag­
ricultural  implements,  wagons,  etc.,  with 
headquarters at  Port  Huron,  and  branches 
throughout Eastern Michigan, have been in­
corporated.  Hiram  Anderson  and  Joseph 
L.  Stephenson,  of Port Huron, have become 
members of the firm.

H. T.  Lewis,  the  Hersey  grocer,  writes 
as follows:  I saw by last week’s paper that 
the “lawyers and postmaster are wandering 
up and down the street” which is a mistake, 
C. M. Beardsley has his office in the Hearth 
block, M. A.  Lafler is in  the Schlegel block 
and  the  postmaster  is  located  in  II.  T. 
Lewis’ store.

The stock of  Taleen, Jacliim  &  Co., the 
insolvent merchants of Ishpeming, has been 
sold to Alex.  Myers and F. Braasted & Co., 
also dealers in  general  merchandise at that 
place,  for $22,500.  The book  accounts were 
not disposed of and  the  assignee, John W. 
Jachim,  thinks that he can realize $7,000 or 
$8,000  from  them  alone.  This  will  bring 
the assets up to  $30,000,  which  is  slightly 
over half of the  liabilities.  Mr.  Taleen en­
deavored to secure a settlement  with Chica­
go and  Milwaukee  creditors,  but  was  not 
successful.

A peculiarity of the dairy business  is  the 
freedom with which one dairyman discloses 
all the knowledge he is possessed of for the 
benefit of his brother operators. 
In no other 
industry  are  to  be  found  men who are so 
willing  that  others  should  profit  by  the 
knowledge which has been gained at the ex­
penditure of labor and expense.

Michigan has every reason to be proud  of 
the rapid strides  she is taking  in  the  dairy 
business,  and the certainty that  she  is  des­
tined  to  take  front  rank among the  dairy 
states of the country.

AMONG  TH E  TRADE.

IN  THE  CITY.

Jas. Boylan, liquor dealer, will retire from 

business.

Olney,  Shields  &  Co.  have received  the 
greater  portion  of  their  stock  and  will  be 
ready to fill all orders by  the  latter  part  of 
the present week.

M.  C. Russell has sold  his  produce stock 
and the good will of his commission business 
to F. W.  Gibson & Co., who will consolidate 
their stock with  the new  accession and re­
move  to 20 Ottawa  street.

Dr.  II.  M.  Read has engaged  in  the  drug 
business at Woodville, purchasing the stock 
of  the  West  Michigan  Lumber  Co.,  and 
making  considerable  additions  from  the 
Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co.

AROUND  THE  STATE.

Geo.  P.  Messenger,  grocer  at  Manistee, 

has  assigned.

laud,  is selling out.

Andrew DeGroat, general dealer at Vries- 

MANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

The Ryan  Manufacturing  Co.  started up 

at Mason last week  with a partial force.

D. A.  Sperry  succeeds  Stevens & Sperry 
in the manufacture of toy wagons  at  Cold- 
water.

Molitor &  Thoan,  shingle  manufacturers 
near  Howard  City, have  dissolved,  Simon 
Thoan succeeding.

Englemann & Kitzfnger,  lumber  and salt 
manufacturers  at  Manistee,  have  merged 
their business  into a stock  company  under 
the corporate name  of  the  Manistee Salt & 
Lumber Co.

Leach & Forrester, shingle mill operators 
two and one-half miles southeast of Pierson, 
will shortly put  in  a  sawmill  suitable  for 
cutting pine and hardwood,  with a  capacity 
of 20,000 feet per day.

Tiffany Bros., carriage  manufacturers  of 
Jonesville,  have  received  and  accepted  a 
bonus of $30,000 from  citizens  of  Newton, 
Kan., to move their  business  to that place. 
One of the parties has already gone there Jo 
superintend the erection of  the buildings.

STRAY  FACTS.

A. W.  Rowley  succeeds  Rowley  &  De- 
Waters in  the agricultural  implement busi­
ness at Kalamazoo.

The Capital City Wagon Co.,  at Lansing, 
has been incorporated under the name of the 
Capital  Wagon  Co.  The  capital  stock  is 
$100,000,  $30,000 of which is paid in.

Miscellaneous Dairy Notes.

The Holly creamery will be ready to com­

mence business March 1.

Editor Potts, of the Saranac  Local,  is en­
deavoring  to  wake  up  the  people  of  that 
place to the advantages of a creamery.

A.  O.  Kelley  succeeds  H.  D.  Miller' in 

general trade at Fostoria.

general trade at Jackson.

general trade at Burton.

May, general dealer at Frankfort.

Croarkin & Son, of Dexter will engage  in 

G.  C. Rogers succeeds  Rogers & Green in 

Jacob May succeeds to the estate of Moses 

The  People’s  Creamery  Co.,  of  Romeo, 
with a capital of $5,000,  has contracted  for 
a plant,  with a capacity of 1,500 pounds per 
day, and will begin  business  May  1.  The 
directors are S.  O.  Giddings,  S.  A.  Reade, 
W.  R.  Imen, J.  N.  Pratt,  W.  H.  Tinsman, 
R. B.  Imen,  C. M. TachlesandE. S. Snarer.
For some time past, a project has been on 
foot to build a cheese factory near Vassar to 
accommodate the large dairying interests  of 
the section.  A company  has  been  formed 
and  commenced  the  erection of a building 
30  by  50  feet,  to  be  supplied  with  all
Robert J.  Ilovey succeeds Hovey Bros,  in I improved appliances.  The factory is of 300
Messrs. Tappan & Shaffer  are

Belcher Bros,  succeed  Chas.  R.  Huffman 

Ronig & McDonald succeed W.  H.  Iionig 

John Plantz succeeds  John  Plantz & Co. 

in the grocery business at Battle Creek.

in the dry goods business at Calumet.

in the grocery business at Dundee.

the confectionery business at Charlotte.

cow power, 
proprietors.

TH E  COMING  CON^feNTION.

Every  Indication of  a Large Attendance— 

The  Programme.

Every day serves to add to the probability 
of a large and successful gathering of dairy­
men at the second annual  convention of the 
Michigan Dairymen’s Association, to be held 
at  Kalamazoo  next  Tuesday,  Wednesday 
and Thursday.  The  people  of  Kalamazoo 
have perfected arrangements for  giving the 
delegates a cordial reception  and  the mem­
bers of the Association will retaliate by giv­
ing the Kalamazoo people a genuine treat in 
the way of papers, addresses and discussions 
of  interest to all  connected  with  dairying 
in any of its numerous branches.

The  following  programme  has  been  ar­
ranged as  well  as  it is  possible to present 
one  a  week  in  advance  ol  the  meeting. 
Other features will be  added  as  the  Secre­
tary is notified of the same:

TUESDAY  AFTERNOON,  FEBRUARY  16.
The convention will be called  to  order at 
2:30 p.  m.,  when the  folio whig  order of ex­
ercises will be held:

Address of Welcome—Col. Delos Phillips, 

Kalamazoo.

Response—G. B.  Horton,  Fruitridge. 
Annual Address of the  Presidont—Milan 

Wiggins,  Bloomingdale.

Appointment of Committees.

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EVENING.

Music.
Paper—“Practical  Cheese  Making”—W. 

II.  Howe,  Flint,

Reading of Correspondence.
Address—“The  Holstein-Friesian  Cow” 

—Martin L.  Sweet, Grand Rapids.

Music.
WEDNESDAY MORNING,  FEBRUARY  17.
Paper—“The  Jersey Cow”—D.  T.  Dell, 

Paper—“Winter  Dairying”—L.  F.  Cox, 

Vicksburg.

Kalamazoo.

son, Flint.

AFTERNOON.

Paper—“My  Experience  in  Dairying”— 

Warren Haven,  Bloomingdale.

Paper—“Care  of  Milk”—T.  M.  Robe, 

Kalamazoo.

Paper—“Good Milk a Necessity”—Frank 

E.  Pickett,  Milliards.

EVENING.

Music.
Paper—“Cheese Poisoning”—G.  B.  Hor­

Paper—“The Dairy  Cow”—Frank  Rich­

Paper—“Cheddar Cheese”—W. H.  Howe, 

ton,  Fruitridge.

mond,  Saranac.

Flint.

Music.
THURSDAY  MORNING,  FEBRUARY 18.
Discussion—“The Best  Feed for Cattle.” 
Paper—“The  Best  Rennet  and  Salt”— 

Jas.  Skinner, Davison Station.

Report of Secretary and Treasurer.

AFTERNOON.

Paper—“Book-keeping  on  the  Farm”— 

Prof. Parsons, Kalamazoo.

Election of  Officers.

EVENING.

Paper—“Farm  Creameries”—S.  J.  Wil­

lac,

Music. 
Address— 4 ‘Tyrotoxican,

Cause  and  Prevention- 
Vaughan, Ann Arbor. 

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its  Nature, 
-Prof.  Victor  C

Music.
Kalamazoo  Telcgrafih :  Considerable in 
terest centers in the coming  annual conven 
tion of the  Michigan  Dairymen’s  Associa 
tion,  and it will be surprising if it is not one 
of the most  interesting, meetings  ever held 
in the State. 
It certainly ought to be.  The 
farmers of Michigan are all more or less in­
terested  in  the  subjects  to  be  discussed. 
The work of the dairy and creamery will be 
considered  and  explained  from  every  con 
ceivable standpoint by some of the most ex 
perieneed men  in the  country,  and the far­
mers and  all  present  will  be at  liberty to 
criticize what is said and  to ask for  any in­
formation they want.

This is not a meeting  held in the interest 
of any one but those practically  engaged in 
the business.  It is for the purpose of throw­
ing light upon every part of dairy work from 
the dropping  of  the  calf  to the  putting of 
the  manufactured  butter  or  cheese  on the 
market.

The handling  of  cows  and  their  general 
management,  the  blood  required  to  secure 
the best results, winter  and summer  dairy­
ing  coitsidered  and  contrasted,  milking, 
churning,  packing, 
salting,  marketing, 
and  very  many  other  matters  perti­
nent to the occasion and  to  the dairy  busi­
ness will be considered.

There will no lack of speakers nor dearth 
of  information.  What  we  want  to see  is 
the farmers there with  their wives and their 
daughters to  listen to  what  is  said and ab­
sorb it for use throughout the future of their 
lives.

Clock & Herrick, general dealers  at  Fen­

wick,  have dissolved, each continuing.

L.  Geismer, clothing merchant at Albion, 

has been closed under chattel mortgage.

W.  A. Wesley,  boot  and  shoe  dealer  at 
Ovid, has been closed  under  chattel  mort­
gage.

Simon Sprietsma  succeeds  L.  Spreitsma 
& Son in the boot and shoe business at Hol­
land.

Russell & Son succeed Russell &  Bartlett 
in the grocery and fruit  business  at  Battle 
Creek.

I.  F.  Hopkins  has  purchased  the Third 
street drug  store  of  Alexander  Eckerman, 
at Muskegon.

J. S. Caswell,  formerly  of  Bedford,  has 
rented the store at Prichardville, and put in 
a stock of groceries.

The produce firm of W. M. Toles  & Son, 
of Eaton Rapids,  has sold out  to  Barnes  & 
Osborn, who will continue  under  the  latter 
firm name.

Purely Personal.

new home at 279 Lyon street.

Jas.  Hayes & Sons,  at Cadillac,  is dead.

Heman  G.  Barlow  has  moved  into  his 

Jas. Hayes,  of  the  planing  mill  firm  of 

Will Price and  John Shirts have  gone  to 
Lincoln,  Neb.,  where  they  will  engage  in 
the wholesale cigar business.

Kalamazoo  Gazette:  A  meeting  of  the 
citizen’s committee for the  purpose of mak­
ing  the  necessary  local  arrangements  for 
holding the second annual convention of the 
Michigan State Dairymen’s Association was 
held at the  Burdick  last  evening.  All  the 
members of the committee were present with 
the exception of  Messrs.  Cobb  and  Taylor.
Messrs. H. A.  Holmes,  T.  M.  Robe and 
J.  R. McCall, were appointed a special com-
mittee to secure rooms and fit  them up with 
Thos  S  Wilson  succeeds  Parker  Me-1 all  necessary  conveniences  and  appliances 
Auley as shipping clerk for  Eaton & Chris-  for holding the convention and for the prop- 
tenson and  Geo.  Hollaway  succeeds  John  er exhibit of  dairy  implements,  machinery
Shirts as custodian of  the books. 

Henry  Idema,  local  manager  of  Brad- 
street’s Mercantile Agency, is in New York, 
interviewing the fountain head

Will .Lamoreaux  failed  to  sell  enough  Mayor D e Y o e  and J .   B . Cobb were chosen 

and products.

beans to enable him to buy a  ticket to New  committee on finance.
Orleans on Monday, inconsequence of which 
he was compelled to  defer  starting another 
week.  The delay  will  enable  him  to take 
1 in the Mardi Gras.

t!ol.  Delos Phillips was  selected  to make 
the address of welcome in behalf of the citi­
zens of Kalamazoo.

H  is estimated froiji reliable  sources that

from four to five  hundred  delegates will be 
in attendance  at  the  convention.  The day 
and evening sessions of  the convention will 
be of  great  general  interest  to  the  public 
as well as to professional dairymen.

All who propose attending the convention 
should not fail  to send to the  Secretary for 
reduced rate certificates before  buying their 
tickets.

VISITING  BUYERS.

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

•

Chas. W. Peters, Bangor.
Nelson Pike, Moriey.
Geo. S. Powell, G. 8. Powell & Co., Sand Lake. 
Leach & Forrester, Pierson.
A. M. Church, Alpine.
Mrs. L. Dane. Cedar Springs.
M. B. Franklin, Fremont.
T. J. Sheridan & Co., Woodville.
C. S. Comstock, Pierson.
Den Herder & Tanis, Vriesland.
B. Gilbert & Co.,  Moline.
Mrs. D. A. Warren, Evart.
Cole & Chapel, Ada.
Herder & Luhuis, Zeeland.
Geo. Carrington, Trent.
J.  Bart/., North  Dorr. 
Cornell & Griswold. Griswold.
K. G. Smith, Way land.
M. Lutz, Caledonia.
A. F. Harrison, Sparta.
L. B. Chapel, Ada.
Thos. Cooley, Lisbon.
John W. Verhocks, Grand Haven.
Gorden Earje, Rodney.
Alex Patterson, Dorr.
Sisson & Lilley, Lilley.
M. J. Howard, Englishville.
Mr. Poland, Poland & Weftzell, Woodville. 
Henry DeKline, Jamestown.
F. L. Burdick & Co.. Mendon.
Eli Runnels, Corning.
I. J. Quick, Allendale.
John Danaher. Baldwin.
D. A. Boelkins, Muskegon.
Mr. Furber, Furber & Kidder, Hopkins.
D. Clelland, Coopersville.
Gus. Begman, Bauer.
M, A, Knox, Tustin.
O. D. Chapman, Stanwood.
J. C. Benbow, Cannonsburg.
Dr. John Graves, Wayland.
L. Perrigo, Burnip’s Corners.
Dr. H. M. Read, Woodville.
Sisson & Liliey Lumber Co., Sisson's Mills. 
Neal McMillan, Rockford.
E. Wilson,  Hopkins.
E. L. Whitney, Middleville.
N. Beatun of Raub & Beatun, Paris.
Chas. Drury, with  Samson  &  Drury,  Cadil­
J. Bersema, Muskegon.
C. W. Skellinger, Rockford.
A. J. Provin, Cedar Springs.
B. McNeal, Byron Center.
E. A. Hill, Coloma.
Mr. Dystra, Bottija & Dykstra, Grand Haven. 
J. S. Barker, Sand Lake.
N. W. Mills, Otsego.
L. A. Carpenter,  Baldwin.
D. D. Harris, Sbelbyville.
Chas. H. Loomis, Sparta Center.
Geo. P. Stark, Cascade.

FURNITURE  BUYERS.

Kelsey & Sampson, Atchison, Kansas. 
Dewey & Stone, Omaha, Neb.
Conant Bros., Toledo.
King & Elder, Indianapolis.
Vincent, Barstow & Co., Cleveland.
D adley & Fowle, Detroit.
James Moriarity, Cleveland.

Furniture Facts.

The  furniture  manufactory,  which  has 
just been secured by  Niles,  is  expected  to 
add  150  population  to  the  place. 
It will 
give employment to from 80 to 100 men.

Local furniture  manufacturers  are some­
what elated  over  the  prospects  for  a good 
spring business.  Visiting buyers  all report 
light stocks and advices from traveling men 
in all parts of  the  country are  to  the same 
effect.  In view of this condition of the mar­
ket, buying  is free  and  somewhat  spirited 
and  the  general  feeling  is  comparatively 
good.

The Barometer of Business.

6.

Balances.
14,547.48
22,234.37
6,167.08
9,088.26
22,322.98
14,179.69
$88,560.86

The following table shows  the  gross  ex­
changes and balances of  the  Grand  Rapids 
Clearing House  for the week ending Febru­
ary 6:
February  1.

Clearings.
.......85,489.78
...... 67,478.60
...... 58,646.56
...  .41,955.60
.......81,079.95
.......59,755.41
Total.........................$394,405.90
B. F. Emery, who has upheld  the banner 
of  Gray  &  Kingman,  of  Chicago,  for  the 
past four  years,  has  concluded  to sever his 
connection with that house, much to the lat­
ter’s regret.  This action is  rendered neces­
sary by his purchase of  his  partner’s inter­
est in the firm of  Cole &  Emery,  wholesale 
and retail dealers in oysters, fish and canned 
goods at 37  Canal  street.  Mr.  Emery  has 
just returned from  Chicago,  where  he pur­
chased  a  full  line  of  the  choicest  canned 
goods t<J be found in the  market,  which he 
will offer to the public in general at par and 
to the traveling fraternity  at  45  and  5  off. 
Give him a call.

The Gripsack Brigade.

Joe Reed wants to see a snow plow.
W.  II.  Fox,  representing  Sargent  &  Co., 

of New York,  was in town Monday.

Jas. McSkimin,  with  W.  F. McLaughlin 
& Co., of  Chicago,  put  in  Sunday  at  this 
market.

J. W.  Brighton, representing John Plank- 
erton &  Co.,  of  Milwaukee,  was  in  town 
over Sunday.

Parker McAuley succeeds  W. J. Price  as 
northern traveling representative  for Eaton 
& Christenson.

E.  D.  Whitlock  is  now  on  the  road  as 
traveling salesman for  the  Belknap Wagon 
and Sleigh Co.

Joe F.  O.  Reed  has  returned  from  Pitts­
burg, where he parted company with Frank 
E.  Leonard,  who is now in New York.

Contrary  to  previous  report,  Will  Ed­
munds  will  not  leave  Putnam  &  Brooks, 
having engaged with that house for another 
year.

Jas.  L.  Lees,  formerly  traveling  repre­
sentative  for  Pratt  &  Co.',  of  Buffalo,  has 
engaged  to  travel  for  the Gunn Hardware 
Co.,  taking the Central Michigan trade.

W. F.  Blake,  representing  C. A.  Morrill 
& Co., of Chicago,  put in  last  week among 
the retail  trade  of  Central  Michigan.  C. 
Crawford  pleads  guilty  to  steering  him 
around.

Phil. Gaubatz, otherwise^known  as “Job 
Lots”  and  “Cigar  Box,”  is  in  town for  a 
few days.  Phil talks chewing and smoking 
tobacco for B.  Leidersdorf  &  Co.,  of  Mil­
waukee.

Members  of Post  A, Michigan  Commer­
cial Travelers’  Association,  should  not for­
get the annual meeting  of  the  Post, which 
will be held at Th e Tradesman office Sat­
urday evening. 

.
Beatty,  Fitzsimons  &  Co.,  the  Detroit 
wholesale  grocers,  have  discharged  their 
six traveling salesmen without giving  them 
any notice and announce that hereafter they 
propose selling  the  trade  direct  by ¡means 
of price lists.

W.  M. Titus, representing C. E. Jennings 
& Co., of New  York,  and  the  Jennings & 
Griffin  Manufacturing  Co.,  of  Yalesville, 
Conn.,  in which latter  house  he is a stock­
holder, put in Sunday at  this market.  Mr. 
Titus sees Grand Rapids four times  a year.
O.  C. King has engaged to  travel for Fox 
&  Bradford,  taking  for  his  territory  all 
available  trade  in  Southern  Michigan  and 
Northern  Indiana.  Mr.  King  is  a  clever 
salesman  and  he  will  undoubtedly  be  ac­
corded  a hearty  reception  at  the  hands of 
the trade.

The regular  annual  meeting  of  Post A, 
Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’  Associa­
tion,  will be,held at T he Tradesman office 
Saturday  evening.  Besides  the election of 
officers  for  the  ensuing  year,  business  of 
importance will  be  brought  up for  discus­
sion and action.

If Steve Sears  has a failing,  it  is a fond; 
ness for  pie—a  fondness  which  knows no 
bounds and is  like woman’s “hunger of the 
soul,”  forever  unsatisfied.  The  chronic 
jokers up around  Woodville,  however,  as­
sert that Steve  is  not  particularly  fond of 
the variety of pie made at that place; partic­
ularly when  a  rather  unusual  quantity  of 
cotton  batting is  used  in  its  construction. 
Neither is he partial to bean pie, nor potato 
pie, nor slippery elm  bark pie.

Good Words Unsolicited.

Harter & Co., grocers, Ionia:  “Your paper is 

a good one.”

“Like the paper.”

“It is a fine paper.”

C.  C.  Liusley,  druggist,  Burnip’s  Corners: 

O. H. Young &  Co.,  druggists,  Constantine: 

John G. Owen, lumber. East Saginaw;  “I am 

pleased with the paper as a trado journal.”

j .  B.  Perharn, general  dealer. Spring Lake: 
“Th e  T radesman  is  the  most valuable busi­
ness paper that I know of.”

H. T. Lewis, grocer, Hersey:  “It is  the best 
paper  in  Michigan  for  a  merchant  to  take. 
Could not get along without it.”

Smith  Barnes, general manager of  the Han­
nah  &  Lay  Mercantile  Co., Traverse City, in 
ordering T he Tradesman sent to the  head  of 
each department writes:  “As the peanut man 
says,  ‘They  will  have  it, can’t  do without it.’ 
Hence you see what value is set upon it.”

Bulkley,  Lemon & Hoops have  placed an 
order  with  Fred  1).  Yale  &  Co. for  about 
$400 worth of extracts.

B.  LEIDERSDORF  &  CO,

MILWAUKEE, W IS ,

MANUFACTURERS  OF  THE  CELEBRATED

Uncle Sam, Rob Roy, Miners and  Pad­

dlers, Railroad and  Hurrah  Smok­

ing1; Commander and Hair Lift­

er Chewing Tobaccos.

J o b H   O a U l f l - O l C i ,   Wholesale  Grocer, Grand  Rapids, Mich.

Headquarters for above named brands at

JOHN  CAULFIELD,

WHOLESALE

GROCER,

0 -ra n d . Ilsw p id .s, h A io li.

H)ru08 & flfoebicines
STATE  BOARD  OF  PHARMACY.
One Year—Geo. M. McDonald, Kalamazoo.
Twn Yoars_F. H. j. VanEmster, Bay City.
Three Years—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon.
Four Years—James Vernor, Detroit.  _
Five Years—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor. 
President—Ottmar Eberbach.
Secretary—J aoob J esson.

March 2,1886.
Michigan  State  Pharmaceutical  Association.

o f f i c e r s .

President—H. J. Brown, Ann Arbor.
J.  Wurzburg,
Fir6t  V ice-President—Frank
Second^Mce-President-A. B. Stevens. Detroit. 
Third Vice-President—Frank Inglis, Detroit. 
Secretary-S. E. Parkell. Owosso.
Treasurer— ®* Dupont* Dctroiti* 
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Gundrum, Frank Wells, F. W.  K.  .ferry  aim
i S f t S S S ^ W D I L .  WhitebG^and Rapids. 
Next  place  of  m eeting-At  Grand  Kapias, 
Tuesday, October 13,188». 
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Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society.

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illce and enough  elixir  aurantto  make the 
whole measure one pint.

FLORIDA WATER.

Oil of lavender................................. * 2 oz>
“  bergamot...............................* n oz.
•‘  neroli.......................................................2 fl drachms.
•*  orange.......................................* “
“  clove....................................... j “ 

.

Pure  musk....................................... .. grains.
Cologne spirit, 96°  ........................ } gallon.
Tincture of tonka, sufficient to color.

Macerate 15 days and filter through paper. 

QUILI.AYA TOOTH WASH.

Star anise.............................................. 1 ounce.
Quillaya bark...................................................... 3 ounces.
Cinnamon............................................ .  drachms
Oil of peppermint.............................................. If minims
Cudbear  ..............................................A  drachm
Diluted  alcohol..................................................28 ounces.
Exhaust the drugs, coarsely powdered, bV 
maceration or displacement;  add the  essen­
tial oil and filter.  The  preparation  gives a 
foam like sozodont.

Pure Sugar for Pharmacists.

From the Druggists’  Circular.

O F F IC E R S .

ORG A N IZED   OCTOBER 9,1884.

President-FrankJ. Wuraburg.

A  correspondent  states  that  he lias long 
endeavored to obtain a sugar free from ultra- 
marine, but with  no  success.  As a last re­
sort he wrote to a firm of sugar refiners, and 
sends us their  reply.  We  take  pleasure in 
quoting the  following  extracts:  “We only 
use ultramarine in small  quantities because 
compelled to do  so  by  the  excessive, use of 
it by refiners elsewhere.  We shall act upon 
your suggestion and  consider  the advisabil­
ity of making  a  “Druggists’  Extra Quality 
Committee on Pharmacy-M- B.  Kimm,  « .
atent Double Dried Granulated,” absolute- 
lohn  E  Peck,  p*
Committee on Trade  Mattere-Jonn  k t « « .  1 i
]y
pure,  free from  ultramarine.  While ul­
Committee  on 
1
tramarine is not in  any way deleterious,  we 
Regular'Me^ings—First  Thursday eveningin
agree  with  you  that  sugar  entirely  free
ARnuaimMee«ngs—First  Thursday evening in I from it  WOuld,  no  doubt,  be  popular with
N ^ t i n V T h u r s d a y  evening, March 4,  at  manufacturing  druggists.”

K ^ n ^ i S i d e V v i c e - P r e s i d e n t
B o a ^ T u ^ e s - T h e  ¿ g - j t o t ,   Wm.  g  
Van Leeuwen, Isaac  Watts,  Win.  n..  wmie,
Wm.L. White. 
,  n  K-j,niT1  ji  e .
Loclier and Wm. 
H. B. Fairchild and Wm. H. V an Lee 

•‘The Tradesman” office. 

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Detroit Pharmaceutical Society. 

Organized October, 1863. 

President—Wm. Dupont.

OFFICERS.

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Assistant Secretary - -------—
~  Salt-
Ami u at Meeting-First W ^ ^ a y  in J u n ^  
Regular  Meetings-First  Wednesday  in eacu 

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month. 
Jackson County Pharmaceutical Asso- 

ciation.
O F F IC E R S .
President—R. F. Latimer.
Vice-President—C. D. Colwell.
Secretary—F. A.  Kink- 
K
 C.  E.  Foot
A n S u £ & tt^ K « t^ u ^ a ^ n N o v e n ^ r .
Regular  Meetings-First  Thursday  oi  eacu 

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month. 

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Saginaw  County  Pharmaceutical  So­

ciety.

TEM PO RA RY  O FFIC ERS.

Chairman—Henry Melchers.
Secretary—D. E.  Prall. 
Muskegon  Drug  Clerks’  Association.

_____ _

O F FIC E R S .

i f  the  druggists  really  desire  a sugar of
If the  druggists 
this  character,  it  would  seem  that  there 
would  be  no  difficulty  in  obtaining  it. 
Wherever there may be a demand, the  sup­
ply naturally follows.

‘Too Green to Burn.”

From the Chicago  News.

A number of traveling  men  were  sitting 
about the Palmer  house  rotunda  the  other 
night swapping chestnuts when a local light 
presented the following:  A  Chicago drum­
mer  sold  his  last  bill  of  goods,  died  and 
went  to  the  infernal  regions.  There  he 
was shown about the place by Lucifer  him­
self.  He was shown the pits of molten lead 
for New York  drummers,  and  the  sulphur 
caves designed for the  torture of  Minneap­
olis drummers,  and the  lakes of  fire await­
ing his own clan.  Then lie  was  taken to a 
room  of  great  heat,  where  a  number  of 
drummers  were  suspended  by  the  neck. 
“This,” said Lucifer,  “is the drying room.” 
“The  drying  room?”  asked  the  drummer. 
“Yes,” responded the  other,  “these are St. 
Louis  drummers.  They  are  too  green  to 
burn at first, so  we  hang  them  up to dry.”

trix. 

Druggists. 

FORM ULAS

of each mouth.

President—T. F. Hopkins. 
Viee-President-John Meyers.
Secretary and Treasurer—O. A. Lioyu.
Regular Meetings—Second and  fourth Friday 
Next Meeting—Friday evening, Feb. a . 

Introducing Foreign Medicinal Plants. 
Dr. Isaac Watts has received a letter from 
J. W.  Colcord,  Secretary  of  the  National 
Retail Druggists’ Association, asking him to 
being up before the Grand Rapids  Pharma­
ceutical  Society  the  subject  of  a  $25,000 
Of Remedies and Preparations Handled by j g0vernment appropriation  for  the  purpose 
0f 
introducing  and  cultivating  foreign
medicinal plants within our  borders,  as rec-
Powd. ext.  licorice...............................90 drops 8  omeiuied by  tbe  Americau  Pharmaceutics!
0Ü 0t cinnamon..!........ '. • • • • • • • " • • •15 drops  Association.  The project has  the approval
Mix with water to form a mass; roll thin, J 0f  the  Commissioner  of Agriculture,  who
j  recommended the measure  in  his  report  to 
Congress, in  December,  and  has  since  ad
vised the House Committee  011  Agriculture 
to  report  favorable  on  the  bill.  Drug­
gists  who  are  disposed  to  look  upon the 
measure with favor would do well to secure 
the co-operation of  their  representatives  in 
Congress.

BROWN
Powd. ext. licorice........
“ 
sugar....................
cubebs.................
“ 
“  gum  arabic........
Ext.  coniurn..................
Use sufficient water and  make troches of

and cut in small pieces to dry.

BRONCHIAL TROCHES

proper size.

An Item  for  Poplar  Shippers.

From the Ohio Lumber Journal,

There seems to be an important point up­
on which shippers of poplar  to  the Eastern 
markets are  wofully ignorant, which if cor­
rected  would  save  a  great  many  of  the 
misunderstandings which are constantly oc­
curring.

It is the common rule  of  inspection in all 
Eastern markets to grade poplar that is sap- 
stained  as  culls.  The  natural  query  is, 
what causes poplar to stain?  This  inquiry 
can be partially answered by citing  a trans­
action that has recently occurred. 
In Octo­
ber a mill  man in Kentucky sawed a certain 
quantity of  poplar  of  various  thicknesses. 
Early in December he decided to send a few 
carloads of boards to an  Eastern  market to 
be  sold by a commission  dealer.  The lum­
ber was carefully graded at the mill as firsts 
and  seconds,  and  the  seller  was  duly  in­
formed of the  character  of  the  stock.  On 
its arrival in the  East,  tfiree  weeks later,  it 
was found to  inspect nearly  one-half culls, 
and the cause  was  principally  stained sap.
When the lumber  was  loaded  it was but 
partially dry, and as long  as it remained on 
sticks  and  nature  was  accomplishing  its 
work of drying, the sap retained its original 
color,  but when  packed  solid  in a close car 
for three weeks,  during which  time  it was 
transported  from  a  high  and  mountainous 
country to the seaboard and at its destination 
was subjected to the  damp,  muggy,  salt at 
mosphere of the coast, the  entire  character 
of the lumber  was  changed,  and its  value 
most seriously depreciated.  The  mill man, 
who was  confident  that  the  lumber  when 
loaded was  bright  and clear,  could  not un­
derstand  the  real  cause  of  the  change  in 
quality,  and consequently  ascribed it to the 
thieving propensities of  an  Eastern inspec 
tor.

The sap in poplar stains  easily,  and it  is 
decidedly risky  business to  ship such lum 
her to the  seacoast  unless  it is  thoroughly 
dry. 

_  ______

A doctor opened a  drug  store,  but  for  a 
long time had no customers;  at last one cus- 
tomer  came.  When  supplying  his wants 
the vender observed that the  drug  was  full 
of weevils.  “What is this?” said the buyer 
“Klang  tsan"  (medicinal  larva?),  replied 
the doctor.  “But,” said the  man,  “Kiting 
tsan  are  always  dead.”  “Yes,”  said  the 
doctor,  “but you see they could not  remain 
dead after eating my medicine.”

A Montreal man lately sued a druggist for 
damages from having been deprived of wort 
for several weeks in consequence  of  taking 
a poison sold  him  by  mistake.  The  error 
was caused by the  wholesaler,  who  ImR la­
belled the package wrongly before semng 
to the druggist  The  Court held, however 
that  the  druggist  should  have  verified 
the contents of the package,  and gave judg 
ment for $200 and cost.

Order a sample package of Bethesda Min 
eral Spring Water  from  Hazeltine, Perkins 
& Co.  See  quotations  in  another  column.
Some  one  has  estimated  the  death  rate 

from chloroform at one in  1,000.

RETAIL DRUGGISTS

OF  THE  UNITED  STATES.

Gentlemen—The  constant  call  for  a 
good and low-priced COUGH  and  CROUP 
remedy has induced us to introduce our Lung 
Balsam  in  tlnee-size  bottles: 
Price,  25 
Cents, 50 Cents and $1  per  bottle.  The  25- 
cent bottles are put up  for  the  accommoda­
tion of all who desire simply  a  COUGH  or 
CROUP remedy.  Those desiring a remedy 
for  Consumption  or  any  Lung  Disease 
should secure the large $1 bottles.
May we ask you who-are not familiar with 
the merits of Allen's Lung Balsam to order 
from your wholesale  druggist  a  sample  lot 
of any of the sizes, and  you  will  find  it  to 
give satisfaction,  and that those  once  using 
it will call for it again.
It is for sale by all wholesale druggists at 
popular prices:  $1.75  per  dozen,  small  size; 
$3.50  per  dozen, medium  size;  and  $7  per 
dozen,  large size.
We hope you will consider your stock  in­
complete without  ALLEN'S  LUNG BAL- 
SUM on your shelves.
J. N. HARRIS & CO., Ltd., Props.,

CINCINNATI,  OHIO.

T R A D E   S U P P L IE D   BY'

Hazeltine & Perkins D n  Co.
MICHIGAN  DRUG EXCHANGE,
Mills &  Goodman, Props.
IrqNE  STOCK of about $5,000 in south eastern 

1 
1.  Will  exchange  for  farm  lands near some 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

MICH.

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Computation of Interest.

To find the interest on any  sum, multiply 
the  principal  by  the  number of days,  and 
proceed as follows:
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“ 
“ 
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For four per cent., divide by 90;
72:
“ 
five 
«0;
“ 
six 
45;
“  eight 
“  nine 
40;
“ 
36.
ten 

If the principal is expressed in dollars and 
cents,  point off four figures, and  the  result 
will be the interest in dollars and cents.

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The Drug Market.

Business  and  collections  are  good,  both 
averaging  over 25 per  cent, better than  for 
the corresponding period a year ago.  Oil of 
lemon  and  peppermint  have  sustained  a 
sharp  advance  and  still  high  prices  are 
looked for.  Quinine and opium are dull and 
featureless.  Other articles in  the drug line 
! are without  change.

Anxious to  Hear it All.

From the New York Times.

CROUP  SYRUP.
Decoct, senega.........................
Syrup ipecac.............................
“ 
squills..............................
Tartar emetic....
Slake mixture,

................v4n. “

.......... 
............................ 1 grain.
Dose one teaspoonful.

..............4  fi. OZS.

 

1 11. OZ.

PERRY  DAVIS’  PAIN  KILLER.

Take  20  pounds  powdered  guaiac. 

pounds camphor, 0  pounds  powdered  Cay­
enne pepper,  1 pound  caustic  liquor of am 
monia,  one-half  pound  powered  opium, 
Digest in 32 gallons  alcohol  for  two weeks 
and filter.

IMITATION  BAY  RUM,

Proof spirit,  deod.........................................,
Finest  bay oil............................................... .
Rum ether......................................................
Crushed cardamon.......................................
Acetic ether...................................................
Oil  Pimento.................................................. ..

Stand in a warm place  two weeks,  stir in 

X ounce magnesia,  and filter.

grove’s  chlorodyne.

.

Chloroform.......................................  * drachms.
Ether....................* ..........................  J*'*. 
Oil  peppermint— i........................  ° uiops.
Resin Indian  hemp..........................1*> grains
Capsicum.........................................  2

Macerate two  or  three  days,  and  filter. 
Then dissolve 16 grains muriate of morphine 
in 1 ounce  syrup,  and  ]/i  drachm  each  of 
hydrochloric acid  and water on water  bath, 
cool,  add  96  drops  hydrocyanic  acid 
(Scheel’s) and mix  the solutions.
QUININE HAIR  TONIC.

Glycerine........ ., ...............................  4 ounces.
Alcohol...............................................   ^ 
W ater................................................ iu
Tincture of cantharidos.....................................  2 drachms.
Sulphate of  quinine....................... 25 grains.
Oil of  roses.........................• •.............»drops.
Neroli  .......................... 
Tincture of cudbear.......................  sufficient.
Sulphuric acid  sufficient  to  dissolve  the  qui­

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nine.

EXTRACT OF LILAC.

 

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“ 
“ 

Extract of tuberose.................................*lzpV?t’
“  orange  flower.......................1  M
*•  civet.......................................   &  ft

  H
Tincture of  orris.*......................  
Rose  water, triple....................................   %

ELIXIR CA8CA11A SAORADA.
FI. ex.  cascara  sagrada............................ 5 JJ*
glycyrrhiza.....................................s JJ*
Fine cardamom comp................................ |  iy.
Syr.  tolu................................................. ,_______
Tinct. vanillse.........................................gtts,  ixx.
Acid  citric.................................  
  4?ns-  h i .
 
Bicart), potasse, q. #■ to neutralize.
Elix.  aurant (U. 8. P .)......................... OJ.

Mix both fluid exti*c|s with tincture,  card, 
co.  and  syr.  tolu, 4iss61ve  citric  acid,  and 
neutralize with bicarb,  potass*; add tr.  van-

 

junU

business. 

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tryman at the box office.

stage as you kin,  as I’m a leetle deaf.”

M.  K. R. cheap for cash only.  Doing good 

“What’s goin’ on to-night?” asked a coun­

_________________________
____

J   Stock  of  about  $1.500  can  be bought at 
liberal discount for cash. 

“Pantomine,” replied the  ticket seller. 
“All right.  Give  me  a  seat  as near the 

The Chicago drug  house  that  sued  Far- 
rand,  Williams & Co.  for  payment  of  cer­
tain patent medicines and was defeated  has 
applied for a new trial  on  the  ground  that 
the court erred  in allowing Alanson  Sheley 
to appear as attorney in the case,  as he  was 
not  an  attorney  at law and was a member 
of the jury commission.

part of the State.  Must be Bold by March 
grow ing iake tow n or will sell at great discount
for cash. 
\XT ANTED—Small  stock  of  $1,000  to $2,000, 
VV  near to or in Grand Rapids. 
SMALL stock in growing town on D., G. H. & 
É^OOD  LOCATION  on  Grand  Trunk  R.  R 
STOCK of about $4,000  in  northern  town  on 
G. R. & I. R. R., doing a large business can 
be bought on easy terms._____________ _____
A  NICE choice stock of about $1,600T.. A. A 
& N. M. It. R. must be sold at once on easy 
tewns.
G1 0OD location on the Lake Shore in lumber
supplied  all  its  employees  with  red neck |  -|-*.A:RQ.A.ifj_Fine drugstore in north-weste rn 
handkerchiefs,  the  wearing  of  which  is j 
Michigan, on  railroad, in  growing  town 
I Building for sale or rent on easy  terms.  Fin« 
compulsory.  The object is the providing of | ci,ance  for  physician.  Stock  about  $2,000
red  flags,  which  can  be  employed  in  the  buildings. $3,000.  Part on time.___________
event of any sndden aceidentor the derange-1
ment of the regular signals. 

1 $1,000  cash,  balance  on  easy time if secured
Glass and paper have a great future.  Tun-  Good paying stor^  Good reason for selling.
jHNE  STOCK in western  Michigan  on  C.  & 
"CJT  W. M. Railway.  Stock worth about $1,500
.  W. M. Rai 
Good location.
YX7E  HAVE  several  competent  registered 
W   pharmacists on our list and  can  supply 
druggists requiring assistants  with  well  rec 
omended assistants on very short notice.

ning forks and grindstones,  rails  and sleep­
ers,  are now made from the former; houses, 
furniture  and  clothing,  car  wheels  and 
boats,  are among the applications of the lat­
ter.

One of the English railroad companies has

ing town.  Stock about $1,600.

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ROOTS.

Alkanet............................................
Althea, cut.......................................
Arrow,  St. Vincent’s.....................
Arrow, Taylor’s, in J4s and Hs—
Blood (Powd 18c).............................
Calamus,  peeled.....................
Calamus, German  white, peeled..
Elecampane, powdered..................
Gentian (Powd  15c).........................
Ginger, African (Powd 14c)............
Ginger, Jamaica  bleached............
Golden Seal (Powd 25c)..................
Hellebore, white, powdered..........
Ipecac, Rio, powdered....................
Jalap,  powdered..............................
Licorice,  select (Powd 15).............
Licorice, extra select..................;
Pink, true.......................................  ^
Rhei, from seleot to  choice.......Jjl 00
Rhel, powdered E. I .....................™   10
Rhei, choice out  cubes..................
Ethel, choice cut fingers.................

11  ®

V A RN ISH ES.

PA IN TS 

lZ H i__lu 

No. ITurp  Coach.................................1  10@1  20
Extra  Turp...........................................1  60@1  70
Coach  Body.......................................... 2  75®3 OO
No. 1 Turp Furniture.......................... 1  00®1  10
Extra Turp  Damar.....................................155®1 60
Japan Dryer, No.  1 Turp........   ...........I&70®  75
I
c r  Lb
Bbl 
Red  Venetian............................  114 
2® 3
Ochre, yellow  Marseilles........  134 
_ 2® 3
Ochre, yellow  Bermuda..........  13£ ¿3J>r~r>2® 3
Putty, commercial..................  2)4 
2)4® 3
Putty, strictly pure..................  2)4 
2K® 3
Vermilion, prime American.. 
13®16
Vermilion,  English..................IZ1' 
i„  6S@60
Groen, Peninsular....................'  ~ '~7___  16®17
Lead, red strictly  pure........... .......  :  —1  6)4® 7
Lead, white, strictly pure.......i  ~"i 1__ ,16)4® 7
Whiting, white Spanish...................:  __;  ®70
Whiting,  Gilders ...................... 
K®90
White, Paris American.  ........ '  1 
< 1  10
Whiting  Paris English cliff.. 
140
Pioneer Prepared  T aints.............t*531 20®1 40
Swiss Villa Prepare«  Paints..CU    1 00®1 20

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT,

Advanced—Oil 
lemon;  oil  bergamot;  oil 
Declined—Carbonate ammonia; balsam tolu; 

peppermint.
cubebs; oii cassia; oil cubebs; opium.

. 

A CID S.

9 ®
Acetic, No.  8................
30 ®
Acetic, C. P. (Sp. grav.
34 ®
Carbolic............................................
65 ®
Citric...................................................  65
3 ®
Muriatic-18  deg...............................  
3
11 ®
 
Nitric 36 deg.............................. 
10 (a)
Oxalic.................................................   10
3 ®
3
Sulphuric 66 deg.............................. 
52 ®
Tartarie  powdered..........................   Ra
ip oz
Benzoic,  English....................)P oz
12 ®
Benzoic,  German..........  ......
12 ®
Tannic.....................................
AMMONIA.
$ lb 14 ®
Carbonate...............................
Muriate (Powd. 22c)...............
3 ©
.¿qua 16 deg or  3f..................
4 ©

U

40@45 
40 
1  75

3714

12  ®  15

60®

28®

J™
0?
~,>
f l
13
3j©  40
80®

BALSAMS.

Copaiba............................................
Fir......................................................
Peru...................................................
Tolu...................................................

BA RK S.

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

B E R R IES.

Cubeb  prime (Powd 95c)...............
Juniper............................ - ..............
Prickly Ash......................................

EXTRACTS.

Licorice (10 and 25 lb boxes, 25c)...
Licorice,  powdered, pure.............
Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 lb doxes).
Logwood, Is (25 tt>  boxes).............
do 
Lgowood, V4s 
...............
do 
Logwood, }4s 
...............
Logwood, ass’d  do 
...............
luid Extracts—25 $  cent, off list.

flowers.

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

GUMS.

Aloes,  Barbadoes............................ 
Aloes, Cape (Powd  20c)..................
Aloes, Socotrino (Powd  60c).......
Ammoniac.................. • •  ............
Arabic, powdered  select...............
Arabic, 1st picked..........................
Arabic,2d  picked............................ 
Arabic,  3d picked............................
Arabic, sifted sorts........... 
[Yssafcentida, prime (Powd 35c)... 
Benzoin............................................
Camphor..................... . • ................. 
Catechu, is (V4 14c, }4s  16c)............ 
Euphorbium powdered.................. 
Galbanum strained.........................
Gamboge.........................................
Guaiac, prime (Powd  45c).............
Kino [ Powdered, 30c 1.....................
Mastic..................................
Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 470...
Opium, pure (Powd$5 00)..............
Shellac, Campbell’s.........................
Shellac,  English.............................
Shellac, native.................................
Shellac bleached..............................
Tragacanth............  .......................

ANNOUNCEMENT.

Grand Rapids, Mich., Jan. 28,  1886.

We beg leave  to  announce 
that  the  business  heretofore 
conducted  by Hazeltine, Per­
kins & Co. has been  transfer­

red to the
HAZELTINE  & PERKINS

DRUG COMPANY.

a duly incorporated Company 
under the laws of this  State.
All  indebtedness of Hazel­
tine, Perkins & Co. is  assum­
ed  and  will  be  paid  by  the 
Hazeltine  &  Perkins  Drug 
Co.;  and all debts  due Hazel­
tine, Perkins  &  Co.  must  be 
paid to  the  Hazeltine & Per­

30
H ERBS— IN   OUNCE  PACKAGES

Hoarhound..................
Lobelia..........................
Peppermint..................
Rue................................
Spearmint....................
Sweet Majoram...........
Tanzy ............................
Thym e..........................
Wormwood..................

IR O N .

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

LEA VES.

Buchu, short (Powd 25c)...........
Sage, Italian, bulk 04s & V4s, 12c)...
Senna,  Alex, natural................ ...
Senna, Alex, sifted and  garbled..
Senna,  powdered............................
Senna tinnivelli...............................
Uva  Urei...........................................
Belledonna.......................................
Foxglove...........................................
Henbane...........................................
Rose, red...........................................

....25 
....25
....40
....24 
__ 3Î7
30
....25

4  00
20
7
65

13 ®  14
6
18 ®  20
30
16
10
t)ü
30
2 35

kins Drug Co.

All members of the old firm 
are members of the new com 
pany,  and  the  managemen 
will remain unchanged.

With increased capital and 
improved  facilities  we  confi­
dently hope for a continuance 
of past friendly relations. 
Very  Truly  Yours,
HAZELTINE & PERKINS

DRUG  COMPANY.

LIQ U O R S.

W., D. & Co.’s Sour Masti Whisky.
Druggists’ Favorite  Rye...............
Whisky, other brands....................
Gin, Old Tom....................................
Gin,  Holland.................................. -
Brandy............................................
Catawba  Wines...............................
Port Wines.......................................

M AGNESIA.

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

O IL S .

Almond, sweet.................................
Amber, rectified.............................
Anise.................................................
1 Bay $   oz.........................................
Bergamont.......................................
Castor...............................................
Croton...............................................
Cajeput............................................
Cassia.................................. 
.........
Cedar, commercial  (Pure 75c).......
Citronella.......................................
Cloves.........................................
Cod Liver, N. F....................... ^ gal
Cod Liver, best.........................
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16
Cubebs. P. &  W...............................
Erigeron...........................................
Fireweed...........................................
Geranium  $1  oz..................... .
Hemlock, commercial (Pure i5c)..
Juniper wood..................................
Juniper berries...............................
Lavender flowers, French.............
Lavender garden 
.............
Lavender spike 
.............
Lemon, new  crop............................
Lemon,  Sanderson’s .......................
Lemongra88......................................
Olive, Malaga....................
Olive, “8ublime  Ita lia n ...............
Origanum, red flowore, French...
Origanum,  No. 1............................
Pennyroyal......................................
Peppermint,  white.........................
Rose $   oz.........................................
Rosemary, French  (Flowers $1 50)
Salad, 
gal.....................................
Savin.................................................
Sandal  Wood.AJerinan..................
Sandal Wood, W. I ..........................
Sassafras...........................................
Spearmint..........................
Tansy ..................................
Tar (by gal 50c).................................
Wintergreen........................... • • •
Wormwood, No. 1 (Pure $4.00).......
Wormseed.......................................

do 
do 

POTASSIUM .

Bicromato.................................V
Bromide, cryst. and gran. bulk...
Chlorate, cryst (Powd 25c).............
Iodide, cryst. and  gran, bulk.......
Prussiate yellow..............................

2 00 ®2 50
1  75 ®2 00
1  10 ®1 50
.1 35 @1 75
.2 00 @3 50
.1  75 ®6 50
.1 25 @2 00
.1 35 @2 50
90

45  ®  50 
45 
2  00 50 
2 £0 
17V4®  19 
2 00

®

1 00 
4 50 
7 00
@9 00 
@4 25 
®  12
2 35
3 50 
2 00

12@14
40@43
3 00 
28

20

4 OO 
10

Serpent aria.
Seneka.............................................
Sarsaparilla,  Honduras.................
Sarsaparilla,  Mexican....................
Squills, white (Powd 35c)...............
Valerian, English (Powd 30c)........
Valerian, Vermont (Powd 28c)__

SEEDS.

1

1

00

do 

6  @

do 
do 

sponges.

do 
do Scherin’s  do  ...
do 

15
6
5  ®
4  ® 4)4
15  ® 18
1 50
1
15
10
15

314®
4  ® 4)4
7  ® 8
4)4® 5)4
10
<5
14
25  ®2 50
2 00
1 10UKOO
65
75
1 40
g 31
1 50
50
13
45
3)4
2)4®
3  ® 4
45
4)4® 5
6  ® 7
50
00
40
! 00
®9 75 
2 30 
50 
®  7
10®  12 
2 50 
18

Anise, Italian (Powd 20c)...............
Bird, mixed in &>  packages..........
Canary,  Smyrna.....................  
...
Caraway, best Dutch (Powd 20c).
Cardamon,  Aleppee......................
Cardamon, Malabar........................
Celery....................................   ........
Coriander, oest  English................
Fennel..............................................
Flax, clean.......................................
Flax, pure grd (bbl 3J4)..................
Foenugreek, powdered..................
Hemp,  Russian...............................
Mustard, white  Black  10c)...........
Quince..............................................
Rape, English..................................
Worm,  Levant.................................
Florida sheeps’ wool, carriage......2
Nassau 
do 
do 
.......
. . . .
Velvet Extra do 
do 
Extra Yellow do 
.......
do 
Grass 
do 
.......
do 
Hard head, for slate use................
Yellow Reef, 
................
M ISCELLANEOUS.
Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.21) $  gal__
Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref.
Anodyne Hoffman’s .......................
Arsenic, Donovan's solution........
Arsenic, Fowler’s solution...........
Annatto  1 lb rolls............................
Alum.........................................  ’p lb
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
Bismuth, sub  nitrate.....................
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c).......................
Blue Vitriol  ....................................
Borax, refined (Powd  12c).............
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,  rod  fingers..........................
Chalk, white lump..........................
Chloroform,  Squlbb’s....................
Colocynth  apples............................
Chloral hydrate, German  crusts..
cryst...
Chloral 
Chloral 
Chloral 
crusts..
63  @ 65
Chloroform.....................................
20  ® 25
Cinchonidia, P. & W........*............
18  ® 23
Cinehonidia, other brands.............
Cloves (Powd 23c)............................ 18  ® 20
40
Cochineal.........................................
40
Cocoa  Butter........  ............  ........
2
Copperas (by bbl  lc).......................
70
Corrosive Sublimate.......................
Corks, X and XX—40 off  list........
® 40
Cream Tartar, pure powdered.......
15
Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 lb box..
50
Creasote............................................
24
Cudbear,  prime........... ..................
20
Cuttlo Fish Bone...........’.................
12
Dextrine...........................................
10
Dover’s  Powders............................
50
Dragon’s Blood Mass.....................
65
Ergot  powdered..............................
Ether Squibb’s.................................
10
8
Emery, Turkish, all  No.’S.............
2  @ 3
Epsom Salts (bbl. 1%)....................
50
Ergot, fresh.....................................
60
Ether, sulphuric, U. S.  P ...............
14
Flake white......................................
15
Grains  Paradise.............................
90
Gelatine, Cooper’s..........................
Glassware, flint, 73 off,by box 60off 
Glassware, green, 60 and 10 dis....
Glue,  caomet..................................   13  ®
Glue,white.......................................   16  ®
Glycerine, pure.........................'.—   16  ®
Hops  Hs and 54s.............................  
25®
Iodoform *jj)  oz.................................
Indigo...............................................   85  @1
Insect Powder, best Dalmatian...  35  ®
®1
Insect Powder, H.. P. & Co,, boxes 
I«)dine,  resublimed......................... 
,■ ’  4
Isinglass,  American.......................  1 
1
Japonica..........................................J
London  Purple............................ ./.  10  ®
Lead, acetate............................../...
Lime, chloride, 04s 2s 10c & J43r'llc)
Lupullne................................. .'....... 
Lycopodium....................................
Mace.................................................
12)4®
Madder, best  Dutch..................... 
Manna, S.  F.....................................
_
Mercury............................................ 
Morphia, sulph., P. & VV........ ^ oz  2 95(2)3
Musk, Canton, H., P. &  Co.’s ........
Moss, Iceland.................................lb
Moss,,'Irish.....................................
Mustard,  English............................
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 fi>  cans........
Nut galls............................................
Nutmegs, No. 1.................................
Nux  Vomica....................................
Ointment. Mercurial, Hd...............
Paris Green....................................
Pepper, Black  Berry.....................
Pepsin...............................................
Pitch, True Burgundy....................
Quassia  ............................................
Quinia, Sulph, P. & W........... lb oz
Quinine,  German............................
Red  Precipitate.......................V
Seidlitz  Mixture.............................
Strychnia, cryst...............................
Silver Nitrate, cryst.......................
Saffron, American.  .......................
Sal  Glauber.....................................
Sal Nitre, large cryst.....................
Sal  Nitre, medium  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, 54 gal. cans  $  doz
Tar, 
quarts in tin..........
Tar, 
pints in tin.............
Turpentine,  Venice................$  B>
Wax, White, S. &  F. brand...........
7  ®
Zinc,  Sulphate.................................
Capitol  Cylinder.........................................
Model  Cylinder...........................................
Shield  Cylinder...........................................
Eldorado Engine.........................................
Peerless  Machinery........".........................
Challenge Machinery.................................
Backus Fine Engine..................................
Black Diamond Machinery.......................
Castor Machine  Oil....................................
Paraffin«!, 25  deg....................................... .
Paraffine, 28  deg........................................
Suerm, winter bleached.......................... .
Bbl  Gal
75
Whale, winter........................................  70 
60
Lard, extra.............................................  55 
55
Lard, No.  1...........................................  45 
Linsoed, pure  raw................................  43 
46
40
Linseed, boiled.....................................  46 
Neat’s Foot, winter  strained..............  70 7  90
Spirits Turpentine................................  46 
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A  M E R C A N T IL E   JO U R N A L , P U B L IS H E D   E A C H  

W E D N E S D A Y .

E.  A .  ST O W E   A   BK O ., Proprietor*.

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

Telephone No. 95.

{Entered  at the  Postoffice  at Grand Rapids  as 

Second-class Matter.1

WEDNESDAY,  FEBRUARY  10,  1886.

BUSINESS LAW.

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

Brief Digests of Recent Decisions in Courts 

of  Last Resort.

P O W E R   TO   S E L L   F IR M   P R O P E R T Y .

According to the decision of  the Supreme 
Court of Iowa in the case of Hunter vs. Way- 
neck,  one partner has no power  to  sell  the 
whole  firm  property  without  consultation 
with or consent of his absent copartner where 
the latter can be easily communicated  with 
by mail or telegraph.

P R O P E R   B A G O A O F ,— TO O L S  O F   W O R K M A N .
A reasonable quantity of his  tools is pro­
per  baggage  for  a  mechanic  working  as a 
watchmaker  and  jeweler,  according  to the 
decision of the Supreme Court of Kansas in 
the case of  the  Kansas  City,  Fort  Scott & 
Gulf  Railroad  Company  vs.  Morrison 
What  a  reasonable  quantity  is,  the  court 
held,  is a question for the jury.

B A G G A G E ------R E A S O N A B L E  

R E G U L A T IO N .
In the case of theTexas-Mexican Railway 
way  Company  vs.  Wills,  the  Texas  Court 
of  Appeals  held  that  a regulation  by  a 
railway  company  that  a  passenger  should 
surrender at the point of destination the cou­
pon ticket or check  for  any  excess of  bag­
gage before  he  could  demand  the  delivery 
of his baggage  was reasonable, and was not 
a  limitation  of  the  liabilities  of  common- 
carriers within the meaning of  the  statutes 
prohibiting such limitation.

Staple and  Fancy

DRY  GOODS
CARPETS,

MATTINGS,

OIL  CLOTHS

ETO.,  ETO.

6 and 8 Monroe Street,

Grand  Rapids,

Michigan

The Well-Known

J. S. F arren & Co.
O Y S T E R S

ARE  TH E  BEST  IN  MARKET.

PUTNAM  & BROOKS.

WHOLESALE  AGENTS.

J .  H .  THOM PSON  <&  CO.

BEE  SPICE  MILLS,

W H O L E S A L E   G R O C E R S   A N D   JO B B E R S   O F

Teas, C offees & Spices,
The  Celebrated  Butterfly  Baking  Powder,

M A N U F A C T U R E R S   O F

Dealers  in  Tobaccos,  Cigars,  Sto.,

59  JEFFERSON  AVENUE,

DETROIT,  MICH.

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Tobacco is packed in 30 pound butts, lumps 2x12, Rough  and  Ready Clubs,  16 oz., 
full weight.  A case of 30 knives packed  on  the  top  of  each  butt.  The  butt  of  Tobacco 
with case of Pocket Knives is branded “ Pen  Knives;”  the  one  with  Jacks,  “Jack  Knife.” 
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The consumer gets a 16 oz.  Plug  of the  Finest  Tobacco  that  can  be  produced  by 
purchasing a GOOD  KNIFE at 65 cents, well worth the money.

Big thing for the Consumer, equally so for the Retailer.  Send us your order.

V .  J. GODLD & GO., Detroit, H ick

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e v e r y   d e a l e r ! r i n DGtE, BERTSGH &  CO.,
BOOTS  AND  SHOES.

MANUFACTURERS  AND  WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

Should write  for sample sheets and 

description of the

R A IL R O A D   F R E IG H T   R A T E S — E X C E S S .
In a late  case  where  it  appeared  that  a 
shipper  of goods  by  railroad  had  for thir­
teen  years  paid  excessive  rates  of  freight 
without objection  the  New  York  Court of 
Appeals held  (Kilmer  vs.  New  Y ork Cen­
tral and Hudson  River  Railway  Company) 
that the  shipper  could  not  recover  the ex­
cess.  The court said:  “The  common  law 
duty [on the part of the railroad companies] 
does not preclude special  contracts between 
railroad corporations and shippers regulating 
the freight charges;  and  where,  as  in  this 
case,  freight  has  been  carried  for  a  long 
course of  years  at  the  schedule  price,  the 
shipper making no objection and no inquiry 
as to the reasonableness  of  the  charge  and 
where it  was  his  interest  to  object  if  the 
charge  was  unreasonable,  he  must,  we 
think,  be  deemed  to  have  assented  to  the 
charge as reasonable and to have voluntarily 
waived any objection thereto,  At least the 
receipt by the company of the freight at the 
tariff rate under such  circumstances  has no 
element of extortion.”

C O N T R A C T ------S T IP U L A T IO N -------W A R R A N T Y .
Where  one  party  agreed  to  put  into  a 
building  owned  by  another  an  elevator 
*‘warranted satisfactory  in  every  respect,’ 
the  Supreme  Court  of  Pennsylvania  held 
that  the  stipulation  meant  satisfactory  to 
the purchaser, and that  unless it was  satis­
factory' to him he need  not  accept  it.  The 
court said;  “The  proposition  was made to 
induce  him  (the  purchaser)  to  purchase  a 
kind of  elevetor  not  in  general  use.  The 
fair inference is that  he  desired  to procure 
one that would  be  satisfactory  to  himself. 
Tne  manifest  import  and  meaning  of  the 
language used is  that it should  be  satisfac­
tory  to  him.  This,  then,  was  the  agree­
ment.  To  him  alone  was  the  proposition 
made. 
It would not  have  been any clearer 
had it read warranted satisfactory to  you in 
every respect.  He, therefore,  was  the per­
son  to  decide  and  declare  whether  it  was 
satisfactory. 
lie  did  not  agree  to  accept 
what  might  be  satisfactory  to  others,  but 
what was satisfactory to himself.  This was 
a fact which the contract gave him the right 
to decide.  He was  the  person  negotiating 
for  its  purchase, 
lie  was  the  person  to 
test  it  and  to  use  it.  No  other  persons 
could  intelligently  determine  whether  in 
every respect he was satisfied therewith.

. 

He Had Grown.

A father was  very  much  annoyed  at the 

foolish questions of his little son.

“Johnny,  you are a great source of annoy­

ance to me.

“What’s the matter,  pa?”
“You ask so  many foolish  questions. 

I 
wasn’t a big  donkey  when  I  was  of  your 
age.”

“No,  pa;  but  you  have  growed  a  heap 

since.”

Clerk (to proprietor)—“What is  the  sell­
ing  price  of  that  new  lot  of  black  silk 
opened  this  morning?  Mrs.  S.  wants  to 
know.”  Proprietor—“Mrs.  S.  is  a  nuis­
ance; she always  complains  about the price 
of goods  and  yet  never  buys.  Tell  her  a 
dollar and a  half  a  yard. 
It  cost two dol­
lars.”  Clerk  (to Mrs. S.)—“One dollar and 
a half a yard,  madam.”  Mrs.  S.  (feeling of 
the silk)—“It seems  high at  a dollar and a 
half.  However,  you may cut me off twenty- 
two yards.”

Geneva is thinking  of  getting  up  an In- j 
ternational  Exhibition  in  1887, one  of  the j 
chief features of which  is to  be a  complete, 
exhibit of the  chemical and  pharmaceutical j 
industries.  A committee has been appoint- j 
ed consisting mainly of German apothecaries 
•established in Switzerland.

COMING to (RAND  RAPIDS

IIS’

C AR   LO A D S!

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D. W.  Archer’s TjnDEh]( Corn,
D. W. Archer’s Morning Glory Corn,
D. W. Archer’s Early Golden Drop Corn

I
An  improved  CASH  AND  SALES  BOOK, 
which contains columns with printed headings, 
arranged  to  record the results  ot  each  day s 
business, providing  also  for  weekly, monthly 
and yearly totals.  This book  will  show  at all 
times exactly how the business is running.

Over 35,000 Copies now in Use.

For all particulars, address 

H.  W.  FAMPHILON,  Publisher,

30 Bond Street, New York.

EDMUND  B.  DIKEMAN,

T H E —

—AND—

BOSTON  RUBBER  SHOE  CO.

AGENTS  FOR THE

W e have a splendid line of goods for Fall Trade and guarantee our prices  on Rub­
bers.  The demand for our own make of Women’s, Misses and Childs’ shoes is increas­
ing.  Send in your orders and they will be promptly attended to.

14 and  16 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

PORTABLE AND  STATIONARY
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From 2 to 150 Horse-Power,  Boilers, Saw  Mills, 
Grist Mills, Wood Working  Machinery,  Shaft­
ing,  Pulleys  and  Boxes.  Contracts  made  for 
Complete Outfits.

An Enterprising Firm.

The  Hazeltine  &  Perkins  Drug  Co. can  al-,  __  
ways bo relied upon not only to carry in  stock  j q j  
the best of drugs, but have secured the agency 
for Dr. Pete’s 35-cent Cough  Cure, which they 
warrant.  It  will  cure  all  Throat,  Lung and 
Chest diseases, and has the reputation of being 
the best Cough cure ever  discovered  for Con­
sumption.
FHTCHEE sfc SMITH
Boots, Shoes and Slippers

Wholesale Manufacturers

DETROIT,  AUCH.

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The  Archer  Packing  Co.

JEW E L E R

44  CANAL STREET,

OHILLIOOTHB,  XXjXj.

GRAND  RAPIDS. 

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Office  and  Factory— 11,  13,  15  and  17 
Woodbridge street West.  Dealers cordially 
invited to call on us when in town.

W ,  O,  D e n iso n ,

88,00 and 92 South Division Street, 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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Michigan Dairymen’s Association.

Organized at  Grand Rapid«,  February 2^1886.
P resident—Milan W iggins, Bloomingdale.
Vice-Presidents—W.  H.  Howe. 

¿¡lY’
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Stone,  Saginaw  City;  A-  P. 
Station;  F.  A.  Rockafellow,  Carson  City- 
Warren Haven, Bloomingdaie;  Chas.  E. Bel­
knap,  Grand  Rapids;  L.  ^  
riintards’
John Borst, Vriesland;  R. C-Nasl^ HiUiards, 
D.  M.  Adams,  Ashland;  Jos.  Post,  Clarks-
Secretary and Treasurer—E. A.  Stowe,  Grand
N^t*Meeting—At Kalamazoo, February 16,  17 
Membership Fee-$1 per year.
Official Organ—The M ichigan Tradesman.

and 18.

The Milkmaid.

Across the  grass, I see her pass;
She comes with  tripping pace—
A maid 1 know—and March winds blow 
Her hair across her face—

With a hey, Dolly!  ho, Dolly!
Before the spray is white with May, 

Dolly shall be mine.
Or blooms the elegantine.

The March winds blow.  I watch her go;
Her cheek is brown, and soft as down, 

Her eye is brown and clear;
(To those who see it near l)—

With a hoy, Dolly!  ho, Dolly!
Before the spray is white with May, 

Dolly shall be mine,
Or blooms the elegantine.

The Romance of a Coal  Stove.

From the Detroit Free Press.

One day last fall,  after  talking  until his 
throat was sore,  a  Detroit  stove dealer suc­
ceeded in selling a widow  a coal  stove, but 
it was with  the  proviso  that  if  everything 
didn’t work satisfactorily he whs to make it.
Two days after  delivering  the  stove  he got 
his first call.  A boy  entered  the  store and 
said:

4 ‘M rs.--------wants  yon  to  come  up and
fix that stove.  The house is full  of smoke.”
A man was  sent  up,  and  lie  found  the 
trouble to be with the chimneys.  Only three 
or four days had passed when  the boy came 
in again and said:

“That stove is  puffing  and  blowing  and 
scaring the widow to death.  She wants the 
same man to come up again.”

He was sent,  and  it  was  discovered  that 
she didn’t know how to arrange the dampers 
and drafts.  Everything seemed to run well 
for a week,  and  then  the  boy  walked in to 
announce:

“She sent me down to have you send that 
man up  again.  The  house  is  full  of  coal 
gas.”

The man went up and applied the remedy, 
but  inside  of  three  days  the  stove  got to 
puffing; two days after that the fire wouldn t 
draw;  then  it  drew  too  much;  then  gas 
escaped again.  At length  the  dealer went 
to the house and  said:

“Madam, you gave me  830  for the stove; 

how much will you take for it?”

“I wouldn’t sell  it.”
“But I can’t be sending  my man  up here 

every two or three days all winter.”

“You won’t have to. 

I have concluded to 
marry him in order to have  some  one  here 
in case of accident.”

And three days ago they were quietly and 

happily married.

Vegetable  Substitutes for Rennet.

A paragraph  is  going  the  rounds of the 
press to the effect that “the use of rennet is 
doomed.”  The  impending  crisis  is  “all 
along o f’  a  plant  called  Withania  coagu- 
lans,  from  Northern  India,  the  seeds  of 
which  contain  a  substance  similar  to  the 
pepsin of the calves’ stomach.  We are fur­
ther assured that extensive  experiments are 
now being made with the plant in England.
It is no new  tiling  to  find  vegetable  juices 
which will  act upon milk almost  exactly  as 
rennet acts.  For centuries  the  inhabitants 1 
of Lapland have made a kind of cheese from 
the  milk  of  their  reindeers  by  using  the 
leaves of Butterwort (Plnguieula vulgaris) j 
in the same manner as rennet is used in  less 
hyperborean  regions.  The  Sundews  and 
several other  plants  secrete  a juice  having 
similar properties. 
It is  scarcely probable, 
however,  that any vegetable  substance will 
he  found  to  possess  practical  value  as  a 
substitute for calves’ rennet in  cheese mak­
ing. 

______

Human Nature.

“Didn’t you sell  any peanuts?”  inquired 
the  experienced  train  boy  of  the  new  re­
cruit,

“No,”  was the reply.
“Qo through  the  car  an’  give  each  pas­

senger a peaaut.”

The new recruit did so.
“ Now,  try ’em  agin,”  said  the  train boy | 

of experience.

Presently  the new recruit came after more 

peanuts.

“You want to keep your eyes open in this 
business,  young feller,”’admonished the ex- 
pert,  refilling the  basket.  “Anybody’ll  eat 
a peanut what  don’t  cost  him  nothin’, an’ 
when  he  once  gits  the  flavor  he s  gone. 
You’ve got to study human nature.”

Wintei  dairying is  more convenient  than 
summer dairying for several  reasons.  The 
cows are  at  rest  during  the  cold  weattier, 
and all  the annoyances from  flies  and  heat 
are evaded.  The  farm  work  is  not  mter- 
ferred with,  and the labor is not  so irksome 
as if milking and  churning  had to be done. 
The care of the milk is  less  costly,  because 
it is cheaper  to  keep  a  dairy  warm  in the 
winter than to cool one  by the  use of ice in 
the summer; there is also  less  trouble  with 
the milk and butter in  various  ways.  The 
butter brings a better price and keeps better 
in the winter than  in the  summer.  Lastly,
it costs no more to  feed in  the  winter than
in the summer,  and the cows are more easi­
ly kept comfortable.

Objection  is  made  to  brewers’  grains by 
some dairymen,  because  the food  operates 
on cows very much as  beer does  on  human 
beings—stimulating  them  to  an  unnatural
activity  for a  time,  but  at  the  expense of 
permanently weakening the animal.

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New Sugar Process.

The  Journal  des  Fabrtcant  de  Sucre, 
gives an interesting account of  a  new  pro­
cess for  filtering  beet  sugar  through  sand 
instead  of  animal  charcoal.  By  the  new 
system considerable expense  is  saved,  and 
a brilliant yellow sugar superior to Demarara 
crystals  is  produced. 
It  is  impossible  to 
make white sugar by this process only,  and 
if charcoal is done without, carbonatatiou— 
that is,  the separation of carbonic acid from 
carbonate of lime,  and the use  both  of  the 
lime and the resultant gas in the saccharine 
I liquid—is substituted for it.

GRAHELLO.

MERCHANT

TAILOR

LEDYARD  BLOCK,

107 O tta w a  St.

Suitings for Manufacturers,

Suitings for Jobbers,

Suitings for Retailers,

Suitings for Traveling Men, 

Suitings for Clerks,

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FOREIGN  AND  DOMESTIC  WOOL­
ENS  AND  WORSTEDS,  THE  BEST 
MANUFACTURED.  FINE  AND  SER­
VICEABLE  TRIMMINGS.

SUPERIOR  WORK  AND  THE  PROP­

ER  STYLE  FOR  THE WEARER.

ALL  AT  PRICES  THAT  WILL  IN­
DUCE YOU TO LEAVE YOUR ORDER.

TIME  TABLES.

Lake Shore & Michigan Southern.

train 

All trains daily except Sunday.
The 

(KALAMAZOO  DIVISION.)
Arrive. 
Express...............................7:15 pm  
....................................... 9:o0 a m 

Leave.
7:30 am
4:00 pm
leaving  at 4 p. m. connects at 
W hite Pigeon w ith  Atlantic  Express  on  Main 
Line, which has Palace Drawing  Room  Sleep­
ing Coaches  from  Chicago  to  New  Yojfk  and 
Boston without change.
The  train  leaving  at  7:30 a. m. connects at 
White Pigeon (giving one hour for dinner) with 
special New York Express on Main Line.
I  Through  tickets  and  berths 
in  sleeping 
I coaches can be secured at  Union Ticket office, 
| 67 Monre street and depot.

J. W. McK enney, Gen 1 Agent.

Chicago & West Michigan.
Arrives, 
Leaves.
4:30 p m 
tMail....................................... 9-0? a m
9 :25 p m 
TDay  Express......................1«:35 p m
5:45 a m 
I »Night  Express...................10:40 p m
11:20 am
I Muskegon Express.............   4.20 p w
I  »Daily.  + Daily except Sunday.
Pullman Sleeping Cars  on  all  night  trains. 
Through  parlor  car  in  charge  of  careful  at- 
! tendants without qxtra chargo  to Chicago  on 
!  i ;qq p. xuM and through coach  on 9:15 a.  m. and 
j 10:40 p. m. trains.

NEWAYGO DIVISION.

.

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Leaves.
I Express.................................... 
p m
Express  ...............................8:00 a m

Arrives. 
7:30 p m 
10:50 a m
All trains arrive and depart from Union  De-
PThe Northern terminus of  this Division is at 
Baldwin, where close connection is made  with 
i  F. &  P. M.  trains  to and  from  Ludington  and
! Manistee. 
J. II. Ca r p e n t e r ,  G en1 Pass. Agent, 
j!  B.  Mu llik k n,  General  Manager.
Detroit, Maokinao  & Marquette.

Trains connect with G. It. & I.  trains  for St. 
Ignace, Marquette and Lake  Superior  Points, 
leaving Grand Rapids at 5:00 p. in., arriving at 
Marquette at 2:05 p. m. andJ5:3U p. m.  Returning 
leave  Marquette  at 7:00  a.  m.  and  1:40  p.  m., 
arriving  at Grand  Rapids  at 10:30 a.  m.  Con­
nection made at Marquette with the Marquette, 
Houghton  and  Ontonagon  Railroad  tor  tho 
I Iron, Gold and Silver and Copper Districts.
| Gen’l Pass. & Tkt. Agt., Marquette, Mich.
Detroit,  Grand  Haven &  Milwaukee.

b,  W.  ALLri^i,

GOING EAST.

GOING WEST.

Arrives.
..10:40 a m 
..  3:40 p m 
..  8:30 p m

Leaves. 
6.25 a m 
■(■Steamboat  Express.
10:50 am  
•(■Through  Mail..........
3:50 p m 
■(•Evening  Express...
10:45 p in 
»Limitod  Express—  
11 :(X) a m
tMixed, with  coach..
1:10 p ta 
•»•Morning  Express.............  1:(K p m
5:10 p m
I +Through  Mail..................  ,2:9«p m
I tSteamboat Express..........10:40 p m
7:10 a m 
I tMixed.................................. ..
5:35 a m
! »Night Express..................■I]a
j 
j  Passengers  taking  the  6i25  a.  in*  Express 
i  make close connections at Owosso for Lansing 
I  and at Detroit for New  York, arriving there at 
|  10:00 a. in. the following morning.
I  The  Night  Express  has  a  through  \\ agner 
I  Car  and  local  Sleeping  Car  Detroit  to  Grand
„   _  
I  Rapids. 
D. P otter, City Pass. Agent. 
Geo. B. Reev e, Traffic Manager, Chicago.

tDaily, Sundays excepted.  »Daily, 

_ 

.

Grand  Rapids  &  Indiana.

GOING NORTH.

GOING  SOUTH.

Arrives.  1.eaves.
11:30 a m 
5:05 p m 
7:00 a m
7:15 a m 
5:30 p m 
11:45 a m

! Cincinnati & Gd Rapids Ex  9:20 p m 
! Cincinnati 4c Mackinac Ex.  9:30 a in 
F t. Wayne4c Mackinac  Ex  4:10 pm 
I G’dRapids &Trav. City Ac.
| G. Rapids 4c Cincinnati Ex.
Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex.  5:05 p rn 
! Mackinac4cFt.Wayi eE x.. 10:30a m 
Cadillac 4c G’d  Rapids  Ac. 10:30 p m 
|  All trains daily except Sunday.
|  North—Train  leaving  at  5:05  o’clock  p.  in.
has  Sleeping  and  Chair  Cars  for  Petoskey 
land  Mackinac.  Train leaving at 11:30 a. m. has 
! combined Sleeping and Chair Car for Mackinaw
!  South—Train leaving at 5:30 p. m. has  Wood­
ruff Sleeping Car for Cincinnati.

SLEEPING CAR ARRANGEMENTS.

C. L. Lockwood, Gen’l Pass. Agent.

Michigan  Contral.

DEPART.

 

ARRIVE.

•»■Detroit Express....................................  6:00 a m
+Dav Express.......................................   12:45 p m
♦Atlantic Express...................................10:40 p m
tWay Freight..........................................   6:50 am
»Pacific  Express......................................6:00 a in
....................................................................3:30 p m
tGrand  Rapids  Express........................10:35 p in
i  W ay Freight.........................  
5:15 p m
| 
tDaily except Sunday.  »Daily.
Sleeping  cars  run  on  Atlantic  and  Paciflc 
'  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.  in. has 
I  Drawing  Room  and  Parlor  Cur  for  Detroit,
|  reaching that city at 11:45 a. m.. New Yor k 10:30 
j 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  10:35 p. m.

C h a s .  H. N o r r i s .  Gen’l Ageni

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yPUTNAM & BROOKS

PURE  CANDY!

ORANGES,  LEMONS,

INAS,  FIGS,  DATES,,

Ü ST xxts,  E t c .

See  Our  Wholesale  Quotations  else- 

. where in this issue and write for

Special  Prices  in  Car  Lots. 

3 Canal Street, Basement, Grand Rapids, Mich.

We are preparetl to male Bottoi Prices on apythmewe tattle.
A. B. K N O W L SO N ,
W M ^SEA R S & CO.
i  Cracker  Manufacturers,

A gents  f o r

LAMB

WHOLESALE DEALERS  IN

Fruits,  V egetab les,

B u tte r, B gss, O lieese, E tc.

8  «r»a 10 Ionia S t, Grand Rapids, Mich..

SPECIAL  ATTENTION  GIVEN  TO  FILLING  ORDERS.

Successors to Foi, Mnsselian & Loveriilp,

AGENTS  FOR

W h olesale  Grocers.
K n ig lr t   o f   L a b o r   IPTu-g-
FULLER & STOWE COMPANY,

Send  for  Sam ple  B utt.  See  Quotations  in  P rice-List.

The best and most attractive goods on the market.

E ngra v e rs an d  P rin te rs

D e s ig n e rs

Engravings and Electrotypes of Buildings, Machinery, Patented Articles, Portraits,

Autographs, Etc., on Short Notice. 

Cards, Letter, Note and Bill Heads and other Office Stationery a Leading  Feature.

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Address as above
49 Lyon Stroot, Up-Stairs, Grand. Rapids, Micb,

JENNINGS’

Flavoring*  E xtracts!
JEN N IN G S  &  SMITH,

MANUFACTURED  BY

Props.  Arctic Manufacturing Go., 

C H A 2TD  R A P ID S ,

M ICH .

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Offered in this Market are  as follows:

THE  LEADING  BRANDS  OF
rOBACC'
PLUG  TOBACCO.
RED  F O X .................................................
BIG  D R I V E .........................................
PATROL 
.................................................
JACK  RABBIT 
.................................
SILVER  C O I N .........................................
P A N IC .........................................................
BLACK  PRINCE,  DARK 
BIG  STUMP 
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APPLE  J A C K ..........................................
2c less in orders for 100 pounds of any one brand.

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F IN E   COT.

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THE  MEIGS  FINE  CUT, DARK, Plug flavor _ 
.64
STUNNER,  D A R K .........................................'3a
RED  BIRD,  B R I G H T ..................................... 50
OPERA  Q U E E N ,   BRIGHT  - 
.40
.............................................................-3*
FRUIT 
O  SO  SWEET 
30

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2c less in 6 pail lots.

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SMOKING.

ARTHUR’S  CHOICE, LONG  CUT,  BRIGHT 
RED  FOX,  LONG  CUT,  FOIL 
GIPSEY  QUEEN,  GRANULATED 
OLD  COMFORT,  IN  CLOTH 
- 
praA T .  OF  GRAND  RAPIDS,  IN  CLOTH 
DIME  SMOKER,  IN  CLOTH  - 
- 
2c less in  100 pound lots.

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.22 
-  .26
-26
.27
.24 
-24 \

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These brands are sold only by

Arthur  Meigs & Co.

W holesale  Grocers,

Who w arrant the same to be unequalled.  W e guar­
antee  every  pound  to  be  perfect  and  all  right  in 
every particular.  W© cordially invite you, when  in 
the  city,  to  visit  our  place  of  business,  77,  79 and 
81  South Division Street.  It may save you  money.

Maxxu-flactULX-ox-is’  P ric e s .

SAM PLES  TO  THE  TRAD E  ONLY.

HOUSE  &  STORE  SHADES  MADE  TO  ORDER

68  MONROE  STREET,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

N elson   Bros.  &  Co.
CLARK,

J E W E L L

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

&  CO.,
ELASTIC  STARCH!

SOLE  AGENTS  FOR

It requires  no  cooking.  Makes  collars  and  cuffs 
stiff  and  nice  as  when  new.  One  pound  of this 
starch will go as far  as  a  pound  and  a  half of any 
other  starch  in  the  market, and  all  we  ask  is  an 
order for a trial box «of

Elastic Starch.

W e have in stock a fine  line  of Foreign  and  Do­
mestic  Dried  Fruits,  Raisins,  Prunes,  Currants, 
Peaches,  Apples,  Plums,  Cherries,  Apricots,  Figs, 
Dates,  Etc.  W e  are  sole  agents  for  “ COMMON 
SENSE ” Cigar, the best five cent cigar in Michigan, 
I. M. C., the best ten cent cigar in  Michigan.

CLARK,  JEWELL  &  CO.

'  AMBO^-  CHEESE.

37,39 & 41 K ent "Street,  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

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WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

These prices  are  for  cash  buyers,  who  pay! 

promptly and buy in full packages.

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CANNED  F IS H .

BA K IN G   PO W D ER.

Arctic, hi ft cans

No.  2 Hurl........
Fancy  Whisk... 
CommonWhi8k.

Frazer’s................. 
901 Paragon  .................180
Diamond  X,...........   60 Paragan25lb pails.l 20
Modoc, 4  doz........2 50|Fraziers,25lb pails.l  25!
Thompson’s  Butterfly, bulk........................   25
6 or 10 1b cans.........   271
« , 4 doz. in  case...  95
,   „   “ 
H,2  “ 
...1 95
J. H. Thompson & Co.’s Princess, « s ..........1 25
)48........ 2 25
“ 
Is........... 4 25
“ 
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bulk........  28
............... 
45
..............................................  75
........................ . 
...............1  40
....................... f.................... 2 40
............................................  12 00
Silver Spoon, 3  doz.........................................7 50
BLUING .
Dry, No. 2..............................
25
.doz. 
Dry, No. 3.............................
45
.doz. 
Liquid, 4 oz,..........................
doz. 
35
Liquid, 8 oz...........................
'  65 
. doz. 
Arctic 4 oz.............................
• ¥   gross  4  00
.........   8 00
Arctic 8  oz............................
........  12 00
Arctic 16 oz............................
.........   2 00
Arctic No. 1 pepper box__
Arctic No. 2 
**  __
.............   3  00
Arctic No. 3 
“  __
............... 4 00
BROOMS.
No. 1 Carpet.............2 75
..200
No. 2 Carpet.............2 50
..100
No. 1  Parlor Gem..2 90
No. lH url....... .•___ 2 25
Clams, 1 ft  staudards....................
.1  15
Clams, 2 ft  standards..................................1 75
Clam Chowder,  3 ft......................... 
200
Cove Oysters,  1  ft  standards.....................1  15
Cove Oysters, 2  ft  standards.....................  1 90
Lobsters, 1 ft picnic..................................... 1  75
Lobsters, 1 ft star.........................................2 00
Lobsters, 2 ft star.........................................2 90
Mackerel, 1 ft  fresh  standards..................1  10
Mackerel, 5 ft fresh  standards..................3 50
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 ft................. 525
Mackerel, 3 ft in Mustard............................5 25
Mackerel, 3 ft broiled.................................. 3 ¿5
Salmon, 1 ft Columbia riyer.......................1 55
Salmon, 2 ft Columbia river.......................2 30
Salmon. 1 ft  Sacramento............................1 45
Sardines, domestic « 8 ................................. 
9
Sardines,  domestic  his.............................. 
15
Sardines,  Mustard  )4s.................................  12
Sardines,  imported  54s...............................   14
Trout. 3 ft  brook.......................................   4 50
Apples, 3 ft standards.................................  90
Apples, gallons,  standards.........................2 30
Blackberries, standards...............................   95
Cherries,  red  standard................................. 85® 1 00
Damsons........................................................ 1 00
Egg Plums, standards 
.............................1 40
Green  Gages, standards 2ft........................1  40
Peaches, Extra Yellow................................2 40
Peaches, standards............................1  75@1 95
Peaches,  seconds..........................................1 50
Pineapples, Erie........................................... 1  75
Pineapples, standards................................. 1 50
Quinces..........................................................1 45
Raspberries,  extra...................................... 1  10
Lusk’s.  Mariposa
Apricots....................................225 
200
1 8i
Egg Plums...................................2 10 
Grapes......................................... 2  10 
1 81
1 8i
Green Gages............................... 2  10 
Pears............................................ 2 65 
2 !
2 :
Quinces....................................... 2 75 
Peaches....................................... 2 55 
2 1
CANNED V EG ETA BLES.
Asparagus, Oyster Bay................................3 25
Beans, Lima,  standard.........................  90@1  10
Beans, Stringless, Erie...............................   80
Beans, Lewis’  Boston Baked......................1 65
Com,  Trophy................................................l 05
“  Red Seal..............................................  90
“  Excelsior.............................................l  00
Peas, French..................................................l  75
Peas, Marrofat, standard.............................1  60
Peas, Beaver................. 
70
Pumpkin, 3 ft Golden..................................   85
Succotash, standard....................................   90
Tomatoes, Trophy.................................l  05@1  10
Tomatoes.  Hillsdale.....................................l 05
Tomatoes,  Adrian......................................  1  05
Tomatoes, Three Rivers.............................. 1 05
Michigan  full cream..
11  @12
Half skim__
9  @10)4
Skim .............
5  @ 6
Boston............ ..........36iGerman Sweet...........25
9í\
Baker’s .......... ..........38 Vienna Sweet

CANNED  FRUTTS— C A L IF O R N IA .

CANNED F R U IT S .

c h o c o l a t e .

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hi barrels

Medium
Small.
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Imported Clay 3 gross. 
Imported Clay, No. 216, 
Imported Clay, No. 216, 
American  T. D.............
Choice Carolina. 
Prime Carolina. 
Good Carolina.. 
Good Louisiana.
DeLand’s pure..
Church’s  ..........
Taylor’s G. M...

P IP E S .

î gross.......
î)4 gross....

R IC E .

— 6)4¡Java  .................  @6
— 5)4 < P atna.......................6
—  5  ¡Rangoon.......... 5%®5/4
— 5  ¡Broken..............3«@3)4
SALERATUS.
—  5)41 Dwight’s .................. 5J4
—  5)4 Sea  Foam.................5H
5)4 [Cap Sheaf.................5)4

)4c less in 5 box lots.

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SALT.
60 Pocket, F F   Dairy..........
28 Pocket............., .................................
100 3 ft  pockets.......................*!!!!” !!!
Saginaw or  Manistee.........  .
Diamond C..................................
Standard  Coarse__ ...............................
Ashton, English, dairy, bu. bags.!!!.! 
Ashton, English, dairy, 4 bu. bags.... 
Higgins’ English dairy bu.  bags
American, dairy, hi bu. bags...............
Rock, bushels....................................

SAUCES.

Parisian, Yt  pints..................................
Pepper Sauce, red  small.............' ,
Pepper Sauce, green  ........................ "
Pepper Sauce, red  large ring...........
Pepper Sauce, green, large ring........
Catsup, Tomato,  pints..........................
Catsup,Tomato,  quarts  ................
Halford Sauce, pints.......................... * ‘
Halford Sauce,  hi pints..................... ",

30

@2  00 
@  75 
@1 (X) 
@1 35 
@1 70 
@1  00 
@1 30 
@3 50 
@2 20

SPIC E S.

SUGARS.

s t a r c h .

Ground. 

1u/S*)A 
18@30 Cassia......
____ _____
.. 15@25 j Nutmegs  .

Whole.
Pepper................ 16@25| Pepper............
@19
Allspice...............12@15jAllspice...............   8@10
1 
l'inno nr» nn 
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Cinnamon...
10® II
Cloves 
.......60@65
Ginger................ 16@S»jCÌove8°.
.......16@18
Mustard..........  ..15@30
Cayenne.......... 25@3öl
Elastic, 64 packages, per  box__
............  5 35
Cubes  ..............................................
....  @  7)4
Powdered........................ ..*.!!.*."!
@ 7)4 
G ranulated,  Standard__
... .6  81©  B%
Confectionery A ............................
—   @6)4
Standard A ............................
---  @ 6%
No. 1, White Extra  C.......
•...  6  @ 6)4 
No. 2, Extra C....................
....  6  @  6)4 
No. 3 C......................... 
........
....  524® 574 
.............
No. 4 C.....................  
• • •  5«@ 5)4
No. 5 c ............................
—   5)¿@ 5)4
New Orleans Yellows...............” ‘
—   5)4© 5)4
SYHU
Corn,  barrels  ................
24® 28 
Com, hi bbls.....................
26@30 
Corn,  10 gallon kegs........
@30 
Corn, 5 gallon kegs..........
30@31 
Corn, 4)4 gallon kegs.......
30@31 
Pure  Sugar, bbl...............
23@28 
Pure Sugar, hi bbl............ 
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35®30
Pure Sugar  5 gal kegs............. ............   @ r50

PS.

TEA S.

Japan ordinary.............................................15@20
Japan fair to good.......................... 
25@30
Japan fine................................................ !!!.'3o@45
Japan dust.....................................................15@30
Young Hyson................................................30@50
Gun PoVder...................................................3B@50
O°lo« g .....................................................33@55@6C
Congo...........................................................  25@30

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

Dark AmericanEagle67l Underwood’s Capper a5
The Meigs..................64jSweet  Rose.............4 5
S.e * 
\.................. 50 Meigs & Co.’s Stunner38
State  Seal..................60 Atlas........... 
%
Prairie Flow er........ 65 Royal Game.... .........38
Indian Queen........... 60 Mule Ear...............
Bull  Dog....................60 Fountain............!.
Crown  Leaf.............. 66¡OldCongress...
Hiawatha..................65|Good Luck....... !!
G lobe........................ 701Blaze Away.
May Flower...............70|Hair Lifter...........
Sweet Owen...............66jFox’s Choice
Old  Abe. 

...............491 Medallion..........

.......64

10)4@11

@5 50 
@3 25 
@7 00
55@3 00 
@2 25 
@1  85 
®  90

Hominy, ¥  bbl...........
in30Jb  pails....
[ Pearl  Barley...............
Peas, Green  Bush__
Peas, Split  Prepared.
Powder, Keg...............
Powder, 4   Keg..........
Sage  ........... :  ...........'
Sauerkraut, bbls__
hi  bbls...

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@1 35 
@ 3)4 
@3 00 
@1 90 
©  18 
@4 75 
©2 75 .

PROVISIONS.

The  Grand Rapids  Packing &  Provision  Co. 

quote  as  follows:

PORK  IN  BARRELS.

Mess, Chicago packing, new.........................j 1  75
Clear, short pork, Chicago  packing..........12 50
Back, clear short cut, Chicago  packing... 13 25
Lxtra tamily clear, short cut..................... 12 25
Clear. A. Webster  packer, new..................12 75 ,
Kxtra clear pig, short cut.......................... .12  75J
Extra  clear, heavy............ 
13 25*
Clear back, short cut...............13 50

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DRY  SALT MEATS—IN BOXES.
Long Clears, heavy................................. 
“ 
k  
lig h t................... ;;;;;;;;; 
Short Clears, heavy................................. 
do. 
medium................ ............. 
light............................. 6=4
do. 
SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED OK  PLAIN.
Hams, heavy.......................................  
gu
“  medium............. ...................................qlj
_  “  ,  ligh t............................!!!!!!!!!!!!"!!  924
Boneless  Hams.................... 
49*
Boneless Shoulders............. ...........................  ru
Breakfast  Bacon.............................................. 7«
Dried Beef, extra  quality............9
Dried Beef, Ham pieces...............'............... 4914
Shoulders cured  in sweet pickle.. ..........  6
Tierces  .................................................
. 
30 and 50 ft Tubs............................... 
50 1b Round Tins, 100 cases............!!...! 

LARD.

r5
6%  I

7
7)4
754
7O

LARD IN TIN PAILS.

20 ft Pails, 4 pails in  case....................... 
3 1b Pails, 20 in a case.................!!!! 
5 1b Pails, 12 in a case....................’.........  
10 ft Pails, 6 in a case..... 
............ 

BEEF IN BARRELS.

Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 fts........  
9 25
Boneless,  extra...........................................” 43 59

SAUSAGE—FRESH AND SMOKED.

Pork  Sausage.............................. 
Ham  Sausage...............“ ["****......................  
Tongue  Sausage............................................. 
Frankfort  Sausage.....................................
Blood  Sausage................................................
Bologna, straight........ ...................................
Bologna,  thick................ ................................
Head  Cheese..................... ...............................

PIGS’ FEET.

In half barrels.......................................  
In quarter barrels...............'.'.!" 

3 -5
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@10
@50

@25 
@ 4
2-3

HIDES, PELTS AND  FURS.

Perkins & Hess pay as follows:

HIDES.

Green__ $  ft  @ 7
Part cured...  8  @ 8)41
Full cured__ 8%@  9
Dry hides and 
kips............  8  ©18

¡Calf skins, green
or cured__
Deacon skins, 
piece.......20

SH E E P PELTS.
Old wool, estimated washed 19 ft
Tallow....................................._ 
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Fine washed $  1b 24@27! Unwashed.. 
Coarse washed... 18@22|

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fall.
kits 

...........................................................1  00® 12 00
.................................... . 00@6 00
Grey Fox.................................................1 00@1 20
M artm......................................................  25®1 00
Mink 
Muskrat,  winter.................................... 
jo
6® 
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8
@   2 
.4  00@5 00 
..  10© l  00 
.  10@1  20 
. 1 50@2 50 
.  10®  30

o tter ..................................... ;;;
Raccoon.......................!!!'.!!!'
Skunk.............
.........................
Beaver,  $   ft........ 
Deer,¡p  ft.....................!!!!!!!!!!!!"!!
OYSTERS  AND  FISH. 
F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follow

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Groceries.

Grocers’ Association of the City of Muskegon.

O F FIC ER S .

President—H. B. Fargo.
First Vice-President—Wm. B. Keift.
Second Vice-President—A. Towl.
Recording Secretary—Wm. Peer.
Financial Secretary—John Dellaas.
Board of Directors—O. Lambert, W. 1. McKen­
zie, H. B. Smith, Wm. B. Kelly, A.  Towl  and 
E.  Johnson.
Finance Committee—Wm.  B. Kelly,  A.  Towl 
and E. Johnson.
Committee  on  Rooms  and  Library—O.  Lam­
bert, H. B. Smith and W. 1. McKenzie.
Arbitration-  Committee—B.  Borgman,  Garrit 
Wagner and John DeHaas.
Complaint  Committee—Wm.  B.  Keift,  D.  A. 
Boelkins, J. O. Jeannot,  R.  S.  Miner  and 
Vincent.
and A. Towl.
drew Wierengo and Wm. Peer.
evenings  of each month.

Law Committee—H. B.  Fargo,  Wm.  B.  Keift 
Transportation Committee—Wm. B, Keift, An 
Regular meetings—First and third Wednesday 
Next meeting—Wednesday evening, Feb. 17.

THE  SILVER  LINING.

Mr. Bell’s Reasons  for  Thinking Business 

Has Touched Bottom.
East Sag inaw ,  Feb.  6,  1886. 

Editor Michigan Tradesman:

Dea r Sir—I promised  to  write  you  oc 
casionally from  this part of  the  State; but 
your paper comes so often that,  perusing it 
all subjects  seem  to  have  been  exhausted 
and  nothing  more  to  write  about.  You 
seem  to  know  more  of  the  doings  in  the 
Saginaw  Valley  than  we  residents  and 
you want a correspondent from this quarter, 
please give him a fair show  by  leaving him 
something to write about.

He Painted It.

From the Plainwell Independent.

During  the  replevin  suit  before  Justice 
Roberts  last  week,  in  the Norton & Wolff 
case,  a  well-known  Allegan  attorney  had 
Gabriel Wolff in the witness chair,  and was 
popping questions at him at the rate of 40 a 
minute.  Mr.  Wolff  is  a man  who  never 
hurries.  When asked if  he  had  bought  a 
house and lot in Otsego, he admitted that he 
had.  “Well,  sir,  what did you do with that 
property previous to  the closing up of  your 
firm?”  interjected  the  attorney,  expecting 
some  damaging  admission  from  the  self- 
possessed Hebrewr.  Gabriel half  closed his 
eyes, appeared in deep thought for a minute, 
and then drawled out in his peculiar Jewish 
intonation,  “I p-a-i-n-t-e-d  i-t.”

Ended at Last.

From the Ovid Union.

The  decision  of  the  Supreme  Court  is 
against  Charles  Root  & Co.  vs. J.  C.  Dar- 
ragh, assignee for  Sowers  &  White,  et  al, 
reversing the decision of  the  Circuit  Court 
with (fbsts.  This is a victory for J.  C.  Dar- 
ragh and the bank creditors,  against the un­
secured creditors of  Potter,  Beattie  &  Co., 
and  the  people  hereabouts will be glad  to 
learn of its final  settlement.  Had  not  the 
majority of the  Sowers  &  White  creditors 
settled for 40 cents on the dollar, they would 
possibly  under  this  decision have received 
more.  A final settlement will  now  doubt­
less be made with all of the  creditors of the 
late bank,  and the matter disposed of.

I will not close without saying something 
to give you some idea of what  we are doin 
over here in this land of  sawdust,  salt,  logs 
and red shirts.  It it thought  the log cutting 
will  equal  or  surpass  last  season’s,  with 
what is  claimed  to  be  the fewest  logs left 
over for several  years; yet  the other side of 
the report says that there will be many mills 
without  a  log  to  cut  next  season.  Time 
alone will tell,  which is always  the correct 
ing monitor of men’s  statements,  verifying 
truths  and  turning  fasehoods  to  truthful 
ness.  But the truth is, it is awfully dull on 
this  side  of  the  State.  Some  places  are 
dead, but not buried, there not being enougl 
life left in the  living to  inter the  dead; but 
the dead seem possessed with the faculty of 
getting out  in  the  night  or  in  such a way 
that,  aside  from  the  skeleton  there  is  not 
nnrch left for the  worldly to  seize upon,  so 
that most of them go to  the  happy hunting 
ground unemcumbered except by mortgages 
but perhaps they will all be settled when we 
get there.  Yes,  business  is  dull.  We are 
in  the eve of the  dull  times,  which,  when 
passed, better times will gradually approach 
hardly perceptibly for  a  time, yet  they will 
come.  They will come when that equilibrium 
has  been  established  that  must  be  estab­
lished between money and the products that 
money buys—between labor and capital, and 
especially so  between  the  day’s  labor  and 
the day’s  living,  when  the  day’s labor, cut 
and reduced  as  it  is,  will  buy  sustenance 
for the support of  the  laborer  and his fam­
ily.  Then will  we  see  better  times.  The 
patient will  then  become  convalescent and 
begin to improve, discard  his physician and 
take his  health  tonic  in  the  way of  daily 
savings from his labor. 
I look upon money 
as the medium of trade  and  until  the great 
triumvirate harmoniously settles the present 
disturbance of Labor,  Capital  and Products 
of Living  there  will  be  more  storms  than 
under 
the 
Romans.  The sting of the Capital Asp will 
pierce the foot of the Labor  Hyena and  the 
pallid  ghost  of  over-valued  products—the 
issue of  combined  capital  and  labor—will 
walk the  paths  of  both  the  capitalist  and 
peasant.

triumvirate  of 

that  ancient 

These times  are fast coming—not far dis­
tant.  Look at the  great  decline of all pro­
ducts  that  enter  into  the  daily use  of the 
poor and you will  see  pictured on  the hori­
zon a settlement  of  our  troubles.  See  the 
advertisements in all our departments  of hi 
and hi off  sales!  What  does  this mean,  if 
not  that  merchants,  anticipating  they  can 
buy at 9 reduced  price  another year,  prefer 
to exchange their old goods for new at even 
pricer».  Look at the decline of flour.  Go in­
to any wholesale house and have them enum­
erate the hundred articles  upon which--there 
has been a 10 or 20  per  cent,  decline in the 
past few months  and  see  if the  time is not 
coming  when  the  laborer  cannot  take his 
curtailed  day’s  work  with  the  two  hours 
chopped off,  and  buy  a  full day’s  flour and 
meal for  his  children.  See  the  decline in 
rents,  whereby the  ten  days  clipped  labor 
will rent the same house as  the 10 days full 
labor of two or three years hence.  Look in 
the  shop  window  and  see  the  dress  you 
bought  for  your  wife  two  years ago at SI 
per yard,  now marked 50 cents per yard then 
ask yourself  if  this  does  not  mean  some­
thing.

I have predicted for months that January, 
February and  March  would be the  turning 
point towards  convalescence,  and 1  believe 
the  prediction  true. 
In  three  months  of 
dullness  and  study,  the  problem  will  be 
solved  through  reflection of  what  is to be 
done to be saved. 

J.  T.  B ell.

Lay Aside Your Jealousy.

Monroe,  Mich.,  Feb.  6,1886. 

Editor Michigan Tradesman:

D ea r Sir—Please send  me full series of 
circulars,  blanks and  by-laws of  the Grand 
Rapids Grocers’  Association,  as  I intend to 
try and organize here,  if possible.  There is 
lots of  jealousy  here  in  the  trade. 
I  am 
anxious to try something to help me  collect 
some old matters. 
I have several customers 
who have moved to  other  towns, owing me 
accounts too small  to pay  to  put  in a law­
yer’s hands. 

Yours truly,

Paul P.  Morgan.

The Grocery Market.

Business is rather better than  the jobbers 
anticipated and  collections  are  better  than 
could reasonably be expected.  Sugars are a 
trifle weaker and tomatoes have  taken on  a 
more  decided  firmness.  Other  articles  in 
the grocery line are about steady.

It is reported that  Procter  & Gamble and 
N.  K.  Fairbanks & Co.  will follow  Kirk in 
the reduction of certain grades of  soap.

Candy  is  steady  and  fairly  active.  Or­
anges are steady.  Lemons are a shade low­
er.  Dates are firm at the advance and high­
er prices are  looked  for.  Nuts  are steady. 
Peanuts are firm at the advance and will go 
higher.

Not Over Particular.

“I can  give  you  a  cold bite,”  said  the 
woman.  “Why not warm it up?” asked the 
tramp.  “There  ain’t  no  wood  sawed.” 
That’s so?  Well, give it to me cold.”

Hides,  Pelts  and  Furs.

Hides are dull  and  unsettled.  Pelts  are 
quiet.  Furs are active.  Wooljis firm.  Tal­
low  has  sustained  another  decline  and is 
weak.

We would advise some wide-awake sales­
man to give the residents of this v icinity an 
opportunity to  examine  and  secure  a copy 
of the latest and  best  sectional  map  of the 
Wolverine  State,  a  copy  of  which  now 
adonis our office.  Nice little points of geo­
graphical accuracy have  received  the  most 
careful  attention.  The  location  of  towns 
and their population  from the  new  census 
of 1885 is readily round  by reference to  the 
index  which  now  accompanies  each  map. 
Rand, McNally &  Co.,  148  to  154  Monroe 
St.,  Chicago,  are  the  publisixers  and  we 
predict pleasant and profitable  employment 
for the fortunate agent who obtains the right 
to represent them.

P.  Lorillard & Co.  have  issued  a circular 
announcing the manner in  which the distri­
bution of the awards offered by them in their 
circular letter of October 1,  1885,  will  be ef­
fected.  The jobbers  of  New  York,  Phila­
delphia and Chicago are each asked to select 
representative  retailer,  and  the  three so 
chosen will meet at Jersey  City on the 17th 
and conduct the distribution.  P.  Lorillard & 
Co.  paying all traveling and other expenses, 
and also a $5 per diem allowance.

John  Caulfield  recently  placed  an  order 
ith  B.  Leidersdorf  &  Co., of  Miwaukee, 
for 25,000 pounds of “Rob Roy” and  “Uncle 
Sam”  smoking  tobacco,  being  the  largest 
der of the kind ever given by any house in 
Michigan at one time.  This is the strongest 
kind of testimony to the merit of the goods, 
as such an order would not  he  given unless 
the goods possessed absolute merit.

Kalamazoo Gazette:  All obtainable point­
ers seem  to  indicate  that  the  celery crop 
next season will be twice as great as during 
the season just  past.  Large  additional ex­
tents  of  low  lands  will  be  devoted to the 
production  of  the  vegetable in the  spring, 
and if the season is favorable  the  crop will 
be very  large indeed.

B.  Leidersdorf & Co.,  the  Milwaukee to­
bacco  manufacturers,  have  notified  their 
employees  that  hereafter  they  will  be  re­
quired  to  work  only  eight hours  per  day, 
but will  receive  the  regular  compensation 
heretofore paid for ten hours’ labor.

The  firm  of  Torrance,  Merriam  & Co., 
founders at Troy,  N.  Y.,  has been dissolved 
by  the  retirement  of the John O. Merriam 
estate.  The business will be  continued  by 
W.  M.  Torrance and J.  W.  Lawrence under 
the firm name of Torrance &  Co.

The day of the wooden nutmeg is not alto­
gether passed.  Two hundred  patents  have 
been issued at Washington for  machines  to 
polish low-grade coffee, that it may be palm­
ed off on the innocent  as first quality.

Whole cloves  are now  used  to extermin­
ate the merciless and  industrious moth. 
It 
is said they are more effectual as  a destroy­
ing agent  than  either  tobacco, camphor  or 
cedar-shavings.

Order a sample package of Bethesda Min­
eral Spring  Water from  your  grocery  job­
ber.  See quotations in another column.

The Pillsbury flouring mills at Minneapo­
lis  divided  $35,000  surplus  profits  among 
1,100 employees last year.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Advertisements of 25 words or  less  inserted 
in this column at the rate of 25 cents per week, 
or  50  cents  for  three weeks.  Advance  pay­
ment.
Advertisements  directing  that  answers be 
sent in care of this office must be accompanied 
by 25 cents extra, to cover expense of postage, 
etc.

I7011  SALE—Dry, hard maple  table  legs,  (in 

sion table slides, lHx3.  A.L. Spofford, Chester, 

squares.) 3x3 for sale cheap.  Also exten­

Mich. 
T17'ANTED—To  buy  an  interest  in  a  good 
I t  paying mercantile business.  Have some 
money to invest with services.  References ex­
changed.  Address E. M., care the Tradesman.

127*

comprises 222 pounds, with  italic,  and  can  be 

merly used on The Tradesman.  The font 
had for 30 cents a pound.  Apply  at the office.

I70R  SALE—The  font  of  brevier  type  for­
Dissolution of Copartnership.

125*

The firm of Cole & Emery have this  day dis­
solved, the partnership having expired by lim­
itation.  B. F.  Emery  succeeds  the  late  firm 
and all accounts due Cole & Emery, and  all ac­
counts against Cole & Emery will be settled by 
B.  F. Emery, who alone is authorized to settle 
for the late firm of Cole & Emery, B.  F. Emery 
continuing the business at the old stand.
J. C. Cole,
B. F. Emery.

Grand Rapids, February 3,1886.

COOPERAGE.

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HEADS.

STAVES.
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Quay, Killen &  Co.  quote  as  follows, f. o. b. 

at  Grand  Rapids.
Red oak flour bbl. staves............ M  6 00@  7 00
Elm 
............ M  5 00® 5 75
White oak tee staves, s’d and j’t.M  20 00@23 00 
White oak pork bbl.  “ 
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Tierce, dowelled and circled, set__  
15®  16
Pork, 
.... 
12®  13
Basswood, kiln dried, set.................. 
4®  4hi
White oak and hickory tee, 8 f’t.  M  11 50@13 00 
White oak and hickory  “  714f’t. M  10 00@11 00
Hickory  flour  bbl.........................M  6 50@  7 50
“  .........................M
Ash, round  “ 
6 25®  7 00 
Ash, flat racked, 6)4 f ’t................ M
3 50® 4 00
1 00®  1 10 
90® 1  90 
1 20® 1 30 
75®  90
1 00® 1 10
30®  3'
23®  2!

White oak pork barrels,>h’d m’d.M 
White oak pork barrels, machine..
White oak lard  tierces....................
Beef and lard half barrels.............
Custom barrels, one  head...............
Flour  barrels....................................
Produce  barrels...............................

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CANDY. FRUITS AND  NUTS.
Putnam & Brooks quote as follows:
Standard, 25 lb boxes............................ 
Twist, 
Cut Loaf 
Royal, 25 St>  pails......................................  ®  9
Royal; 200 ft bbls.......................................   @8
Extra, 25 ft  pails........................................10@10)4
Extra, 200 ft bbls....................................... 9 @  94
French Cream, 25 ft pails........................   @12!/4
Cut loaf, 25 ft  cases...................................124®
Broken, 25  ft pails.................................... 10@10)4
Broken, 200 ft  bbls............................................ 9® 94
Lemon  Drops............................ 
12@13
Sour Drops..................................................13@14
Peppermint  Drops...................................14@15
Chocolate Drops.............................................. 15
H M Chocolate  Drops..............................    "20
Gum  Drops  ..................................................... 10
Licorice Drops....................................... . ” !! !20
A B Licorice  Drops................................... !.'!l2
Lozenges, plain..................................... 
¡0
Lozenges,  printed........................................ .” i6
Imperials.......................................................” 15
Mottoes........................................................ ;;;i5
Cream  Bar............................................’ i3@i4
Molasses Bar......................................j 
13
........................................' ,'i8®20
Caramels. 
Hand Made Creams...
...20
Plain  Creams........ .....................
........ 17
Decorated  Creams.....................
........20
String Rock.................................
..14® 15 
Burnt Almonds..........................
22
Wintergreen  Berries................
!.!'!  15
FANCY—IN   BU LK .
Lozenges, plain in  pails.......................  @12
Lozenges, plain in  bbls.........................10)4@11
Lozenges, printed in pails....................  @12V4
Lozenges, printed in  bbls.................... 11)4@12
Chocolate Drops, in pails.....................   @12*4
Gum  Drops  in pails.................................  <$7
Gum Drops, in bbls...............................   @  54
Moss Drops, in  pails..............................  @10
Moss Drops, in bbls.........................................  9
Sour Drops, in  pails..................... 
12
Imperials, in  pails............................... j  @12V4
Imperials  in bbls............. ...................  
® jj
Bananas  Aspinwall..............................
Oranges, Jamaica, bbls.........................
Oranges, Florida...................................3 75@4  25
Oranges, Valencia, cases.....................6 50@7  00
Oranges, Messina..................................3 75@4  00
Oranges,  Naples....................................
Lemons,  choice..................................... 3 50@3  75
Lemons, fancy.......................................   @4 00
Figs, layers, new,  $  ft..........................13
Dates, frails do  ..................................
Dates, J4 do  do  ........  
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Dates, skin........................................."
Dates, hi  skin..................................    "
Dates, Fard 10 ft box $   ft............. .
Dates, Fard 50 ft box $  ft....................
Dates. Persian 50 ft box $  ft...............
Pine Apples, ¥   doz.............................
PEA N U T8.
Prime  Red,  raw  $   ft..........................
Choice 
do  ..........................
Fancy 
do  ..........................
Choice White, Va.do  ..........................
Fancy H P,.  Va  do  ..........................
H. P. Va.................................................
Almonds,  Tarragona..................
Ivaca.............................
California....................
Brazils............................................
Chestnuts, per bu.........................
Filberts, Sicily...............................
Barcelona.......................
Walnuts,  Grenoble.....................

........  @4
........4)4® 5
.......5  @  5)4
........  @5
.......  @  6)4
........  5)4®  6
.......  17@18
.......  16@17
.......15  @16
.......  @9)4
...."ll)4@12
.......   @10
.......14  @14)4
French............................. . ..8   @11
California....................
@12
Pecans,  Texas, H. P ..................
...10  ©13
Missouri............................ ...9  @10
Cocoanuts, ¥  100...............................
WOODENWARE.
Standard  Tubs, No. 1..................
............. 7 09
Standard  Tubs, No. 2....................
............. 6  00
Standard  Tubs, No. 3....................
........... 5 00
Standard Pails, two hoop...............
........... 1 40
Standard Pails, three hoop.............
........... 1  65
White Cedar, three hoop  ...............
........... 2 00
Dowell Pails....................................
........... 1 90
Dowell Tubs, No. 1.........................
............8 00
Dowell Tubs, No. 2............................
........... 7 00
Dowell Tubs,  No. 3.......................
..........ß ño
White Cedar, No. 1.......................
............7 50
White Cedar,' No. 2.........................
............6 50
Maple Bowls, assorted sizes...........
______2 00
Butter Ladles..................................
........... 1 25
Rolling Pins.......................................
........... 1 (IO
Potato  Mashers............................
Clothes Pounders.............................
........... 2 25
ClothesPins.................................
...........   65
Mop Stocks.......................................
........... 1 25
Washboards, single..........................
........... 1  75
Washboards, double.......................... ............2 25
Diamond  Market............................... ...........   40
Bushel, narrow  band......................... ........... 1 60
Bushel, wide band............................. ............1 75
Clothes, splint,  No. 1......................... ........... 3 50
Clothes, splint,  No. 2......................... ............3 75
Clothes, splint,  No. 3........................ ........... 4 00
Clothes, willow, No. 1......................... ........... 5 00
Clothes, willow, No. 2......................... ........... 6 00
Clothes, willow, No. 3.............   ........ ........... 7 Oo

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FRESH  MEATS.

John  Mohrhard  quotes  the  trade  selling 
prices as follows:
Fresh  Beef, sides..................................   4)4®  6)4
Fresh  Beef, hind  quarters..................   6  @  7)4
Dressed  H ogs........................................   42£@ 5
Mutton,  carcasses................................. 4)4@ 5)4
Veal™.......................................................  8  @9
Pork Sausage..........................................6)4@  7
Bologna..t.............................................. 6)4® 7
Fowls.................................................... 8  @ 8)4
Spring Chickens....................................9  @9)4
Ducks  ...................................................@11
Turkeys   
....................................... 
@11
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five 

Knife, single  butt.......................
@50
lots................
@49
“  .................
@48
Rum...............................................
@40
Money...............................
@48
Red  Fox.................................
@48
Big Drive..........................
@50
Seal of Grand Rapids.......
@46
Durham.......................................
@46
Patrol..................................
@48
Jack Rabbit.....................
@46
Snowflake............................
©46
Chocolate Cream...............
@46
Nimrod..................
@44
E. C.................................
@40
Spread Eagle...............................'
@38
Big Five Center....................
@35
Woodcock  ....................................
@46
Knignts of  Labor..............
@46
Railroad.....................
@48
Big  Bug........................
@32
Arab, 2x12 and 4x12........... .........
@46
Black Bear..................................
@37
King 
.................................. ... ‘  [
@46
Old Five CentTimes....................
@38
Prune Nuggett, 12 ft..................
@62
Parrot  ....................
@46
Old Time........................
@38
rramway...............................
©46
Glory  ....................................
@46
Silver Coin................
@46
Buster  [Dark]................ . .  .  .  . .
@35
Black Prince [Dark]..........
@35
Black Racer  [Dark]................
@35
Leggett & Myers’  Star.............! | j
@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
Nobby Twist. .*.......................... ”
@46
Acorn.................................'.!!!!".!!
@46
Crescent.......................... . . ’.........
@44
Black  X.
@35
Black  Bass......................................! ..“  @49
Sprin
70
@46
ayling..........................!.!!!!!.!!
@46
Mackinaw.........................................
@45
Horse Shoe................. ...!!.!!!",!!!!!
@44
Hair Lifter.........................!!!!” !'""
@36
D. and D., black....................."!."."
@36
McAlpin’s Green  Shield.......!!!!!!.
@46
Ace  High, black............................
@35
Sailors’  Solace........................!.!!!!!
@46
2c. less in four butt lots 

SMOKING

D ixie.........................28, Good Luck...................26
Old Tar......................40 Sweet Lotus.................33
Arthur’s  Choicq..... 22|Conqueror...................23
Red Fox....................26 Grayling.........  
"32
i’Wrt...........................28Seal Skin............ !!!"'30
Gold Dust.................26 Rob Roy........... 
26
Gold  Block............... 30 Uncle  Sam.............. ‘"28
Seal of Grand Rapids  Lumberman........ . . .25
(cloth)................. 25 Railroad Boy___ !!!! .38
Tramway, 3 oz.........40 Mountain Rose............18
25
Ruby, cut Cavendish 35 Home Comfort 
Boss  .......................... 15|Oid Rip................ .""'55
Peck’s Sun................ 18 Seal of North Caro-  '
lina, 2  oz 
Miners and Puddlers.281 
48
Morning  Dew........... 25 Seal of North  Caro^’'
lina, 4oz....................46
Chain......................... 22 
Peerless  ....................24 Seal of North Caro-
lina, 8 oz........ 
Standard...................20 
41
Old Tom..................... 18 Seal of North  Caro-' ’
Tom & Jerry.............241 
lina, 16oz boxes... .40
Jokc
.25BigDeal
Traveler.............
.35! Apple Jack........;___24
Maiden................
•25 King Bee, longeut.,.21
Pickwick  Club...
.40jMilwaukee  Prize__ 2
Nigger Head.......
.26 Rattler....................... 28
Holland...............
.221 Windsor cut plug__ 25
German...............
.16!Zero  ...........................it
Solid Comfort... 
.30 Holland Mixed.......... 16
Red Clover
.32|Golden Age..
Long Tom.................30 Mall  Pouch.!!!!.’."!![ J
National.................. 26 Knights of Lat or___ 30
Tim e.........................26¡Free Cob Pipe..............27
Mayflower............... 231 Hiawatha.................... 22
Globe.........................22 Old Congress...............23
Mule Ear...................22|May  Leaf....................23
Lorillard’s American Gentlemen.......  @  75
Maecoboy............................  @  55
Gail & Ax’ 
..........................   @  44
Rappee.................................  @  35
Railroad  Mills  Scotch..........................   @  45
Lotzbeok  ...............................................   @1 30
Star brand,  pure  cider...............................  8@12
Star brand, white wine...............................  8@12
Bath Brick imported............................ 
95
do 
American............................ 
75
Burners, No. 1 .......................................  
100
do  No.  2.......................................  
1  59
Condensed Milk, Eagle  brand.............  
7 80
Cream Tartar 5 and 10 1b oans.............   15@25
Candles, Star..........................................   @12)4
Candles.  Hotel.......................................   ® i4
Extract Coffee, V.  C..............................  @80
i  25
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps.......................  @25
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps.......................
Gum, Spruce..........................................

MISCELLANEOUS.

Felix ...., 

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VIN EGA R.

SHORTS.

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New  York  Counts..................
F. J. D. Selects....................
Selects..................
f. j. d .......................... .........................
Standards  ....................... . 
".......
Favorites..................!!!!!!!!!!!!........
Mediums  ..................!..!!!!! ! ! ! ! !
Primes......................... !!!!!!!!!!*"""
Selects, by bulk....................................
Standards, by  bulk..............................
Shrewsbury shells, $1  lui)
Princess  Bay  Clams, 
160! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! 
New  York  counts, «¡9  100................"!
Cod  .......................................
Haddock.....................
Mackerel....................'.!!!*.!!!!............
Mackinaw Trout.......!!!!!!.!.! .!
Perch,  dressed...................." ! ’ ' ’
Sm elts............................
Whiteflsh.........   !.!'."

FRESH  F IS H . ,

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@14 
@  7 @ 6 
@11 
@ 9

BETHESDA  MINERAL  WATER.

H. F. Hastings quotes as follows:

Barrel,  42 gallons....................... 
« e0
Half barrel, 20 gallons........ .’!........................Viw
Cans.  10 gallons..........................!!!!!."......... 2 50
Carbonated, cases  50 quarts..!!!!!!!.!  " " 7.00
100  pints............. ..!.!!.".8.'50
This water will bq  supplied  to  the  trade  by 
nny wholesale drug or grocery house in Grand

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COUNTRY  PRODUCE.

mand at $1.90@$2.

Apples—Choice  winter  fruit  is  in  fair 

dc-
Beans—Local buyers pay 50e@f90  $)  bu.  for 
unpicked  and  hold  ordinary  hand-picked  for 
$1.10@$1.30.

Butter—Michigan creamery is easy at 25@28. 
Sweet  dairy  is  in  fair demand and Arm at 16, 
while old is dull at 5@Se.

Butterine—Creamery packed commands 20c. 
Dairy rolls are held at 14®15c and solid packed 
it 12@14c.
Cabbages—In fairdemand  at $8@$10  100.
Cheese-The  best  grades  of  October  and 
oveniber make are  selling  at 11® 13)4. 
Cider—10c "# gal. and @1 for bbl.
Celery—2G@22c $  doz.  bunches  for  Kalama­

zoo or Grand Haven.

Cranberries—Cultivated  and  wild  Michigan 
command  $1.75@$3  <¡9  bu.  for  choice.  New 
ersey $2.25 ]9 bu. box.
Eggs—Fresh  are 

at  18c,
Honey—Choice new  in  comb  is firm  at  14c. 
Hay—Bailed is active and firm at $16 per ton 

and pickled are dull at 13@14c.

in  fair  demand 

in two and five ton lots and $14 in car lots. 

Hops—Brewers pay 8© 10c 
Lettuce—25c $  ft.
Onions—Home-grown. 75c $  bu. or $2.25$ bbl. 
Pop Corn—Choice new commands  2hic 
ft 

1b.

and old 3c $  ft.

Rose are in fair demand at  40c.

Potatoes—Burbanks command 50@55e.

Late
Poultry  Fairly  well  supplied.  Fowls  sell 
for  10@1 lc;chickens,  ll@12c;  ducks,  13c; and 
turkeys, 11c.

Squash—Hubbard, quoted nominally at lc $  
1b, although very little is moving.
Sweet Potatoes—Out of murket.
Turnips—25c $) bu.

G R A IN S AND  M IL LIN G   PR O D U CTS.

Wheat—Lower.  The  city  millers  pay  as 
follows:  Lancaster,  85;  Fulse,  82c;  Clawson 
82c.

Corn—Jobbing generally at 44@45c  in 100 bu. 

lots and 38@40c ln carlots.

car lots.

Oats—White, 38c in small lots  and 33@34c  in 
Rye—48@50c $  bu.
Barley—Brewers pay $1.25 ¡p cwt.
Flour—No change.  Fancy Patent, $5.50 <p bbl. 
In  sacks and  $5.75 In  wood.  Straight, $4.60  ]9 
bbl. In saeks and $4.80 in  wood.

Meal—Bolted, $2.75 ¥  bbl.
Mill Feed—Screenings, $14  ¥  ton.  Bran, $14 
¥  ton.  Ships, $15 ¥  ton.  Middlings, $16 ¥  ton,. 
Corn and Oats, $20 ¥  ton.

CO FFEE.

Green Rio....... .  9@13 Roasted  Mar.
. 17@18
GreenJava__ .17@27 Roasted Mocha.28@30
Green Mocha..,23@25 Roasted Mex. ..  @16
Boasted Rio..
. 10@15 Ground  Rio.. ..  9@16
Roasted Java ..23®30

CO FFEES— PA CKA GE.

100 f ts . 60 fts.

12%
12%

CORDAGE.

.............1214
..................12«
72 foot Cotton

McLaughlin’s
Arbuckie’s  .  .
72 foot Jute ... ..  1  25
60 foot Jute... ..  1  (10 60 foot Cotton ...2  00
40Foot Cotton. ...1 50 50 foot Cotton . .1  75
K
X .....................
X X X ...............

CRACKERS.

5 per cent, off in 10 barrel lots.

F IS H .

'5@80

Bloaters, Smoked Yarmouth...............
Cod, whole..............................................
..................  @5
Cod.Boneloss.............................
...............5)4 @6
H alibut......................................
..................11@12
Herring hi  bbls........................ ......... ................
Herring, Holland, domestic........................85@95
Herring,  Scaled.............................................18©22
Mackerel, Penny bbls................................ 4  75@5
Mackerel, shore, No. 2, hi  bbls..................5 00
“ 
...........  80
“ 
................  70
No. 3, )4 bbls...............................3 50
“ 
121b  kits...........................  62
..........................   55
“  10  “ 
Shad, hi b b l..................................................2  50
Trout, hi  bbls...............................................4  00
 
............................................  65
White, No. 1, )4 bbls....................................6 25
White, No. 1,12  ft kits................................l 00
White, No. 1,10 ft kits.................................  90
White, Family, hi bbls................................2  25

12ft  kits......................................  
10  “ 

“ 
“  10  “ 

12 ft kits 

“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 
“ 

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FLA VO RING EXTRACTS.

Jennings’2 oz.....................

Lemon.  Vanilla. 
....¥ d o z .l 00  140
4 oz..................... .................1 50
2 50
6 oz..................... .................2 50
4 00
8 oz..................... .................3 50
5 00
No. 2 Taper....... ................ 1 25
1 50
No.  4  ** 
....... .................1 75
3 00
54pint  round... .................4 50
7 50
1 
.................9 0« 15 00
No.  8.................. ................ 3 00
4 25
No. 10...............
................ 4 25
6 00
Apricots, 25 ft boxes.............................   @  25
Cherries, pitted, 50 ft  boxes................   @  15
Egg plums, 25 ft  boxes.........................  @  20
Pears, 25 ft boxes..................................  @  25
Peaches,  Delaware, 50 ft boxes..........  @  28
Peaches, Michigan.................................  @12)4
Raspberries, 50  ft boxes.......................  @  25

FR U IT S—DOM ESTIC.  -

“

F R U IT S —FO R EIG N .

Citron......................................................  @  30
Currants,  new.......................................   @7)4
Prunes, French, 60s...............................  @  15
Prunes, French, 80s...............................  @  10
Prunes, Turkey................ t...................  4%@  05
Raisins, Dehesia....................................  @4 00
Raisins, London Layers.......................  @3  25
Raisins, California  ** 
@2 00
Raisins, Loose Muscatels, now...........   @2  75
Raisins, Muscatels, 10 ft boxes...........   @  90
Raisins, Ondaras, 14s............................  @  13
Raisins, 
28s............................  @12)4
Raisins, Sultanas,  new........................   @ 9%
Raisins, Valencia..................................   @10?i
Raisins, Imperials, 101b  boxes...........   @1  00

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Water White........ 12%  | Legal  Test..............11)4

K E R O S EN E  O IL .

MATCHES.

Grand  Haven,  No.  8, square.............................. 1 00
Grand  Haven,  No. 200,  parlor...........................1 75
Grand  Haven,  No.  300, parlor...........................2 25
Grand  Haven, No.  7,  round.............................. 1 50
Oshkosh, No. 2.......................................................1 99
Oshkosh, No.  8.......................................................1 59
Swedish............................................................   75
Richardson's No. 8  square....................... !!l 00
................... 
Richardson’s No. 9  do 
159
Richardson’s No. 7)4, round.............................. .1 00
Richardson’s No. 7  do 
..............................150
Black  Strap...................................................15@19
Porto  Rico.................................................... 28@30
New  Orleans,  good......................................38@42
New Orleans, cnoioe.....................................48@50
New Orleans,  fancy.....................................52@55

MOLASSES.

hi bbls. 3c extra.

OATMEAL.

Steel  cut..................6 26
Steel Cut, hi bbl___3 00
Rolled  Oats.............5 50
Rolled Oats, Hbbl..S Of

Rolled  Oats, cases.3 50
Quaker, 48 fts.........3 25
Quaker, 60 fts.........2 50
Quaker bbls...........6 00

OUT  AROUND.

News and Gossip  Furnished  by  Our  Own 

Correspondents.

H a r t f o r d .

T. W.  Lander lias engaged in the produce 
and commission busings  here.
M. C. Conklin will open a meat market in 
connection with his grocery store.
The creamery building is  now completed, 
and the  machinery  is  being  put  in place. 
The  creamery will  be  operated  by a  stock 
company, composed of the  business men of 
the place.

B e l l a i r e .

Mrs.  Will  Flewellyn  has  sold  out  her 
stock of millinery and fancy goods to Misses 
Cook and Noteware,  who  wilt  carry on the 
business on an enlarged scale.
Snow two feet deep on  the  level—sleigh­
ing good—wood and logs moving lively—no 
complaints heard among business men.
The effort lately  made  here  to  secure  a 
morning mail from Mancelona and return in 
the  afternoon  of  same  day  has  thus  far 
proved a failure.

K a l a m a z o o .

Thos. Clarage &  Sons  will  remove  from 
their present  location  about  April  1  to the 
brick building  on  the  opposite  side  of the 
track now  occupied  by  the  Bird  Windmill 
Co.  They will put  in a  sixty  horse-power 
Corliss engine  and  erect  a  brick  foundery 
building,  50x80 feet in  dimensions.
The St. Johns Plow  Co. contemplates re­
moving  to  the  present  location  of  Thos. 
Clarage & Sons,  when  the  latter vacate the 
premises.
Rhodes & Dean have concluded to engage 
in the manufacture of sliding  valve engines 
as well as rocking  valve.  They  have  now 
in process of  manufacture ten  horse-power 
engines and boilers for Martin  L.  Sweet, of 
Grand Rapids, and I. B. Smith,|of Wayland, 
and a six horse-power engine and  boiler for 
A.  E.  Chapman,  of Hilliards.
T. M.  Robe,  the  city  dairyman,  now re­
ceives  and  delivers  nearly  200  gallons  of 
milk  per  day, the asylum  alone  taking 50 
gallons.  The milk is  supplied from his own 
dairy farm and  by milk shippers at  Bloom- 
ingdale,  Plainwell and Portage.

T r a v e r s e   C i t y .

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Mrs.  Davis,  saleslady  at  Hamilton  & 
Milliken’s,  is spending  a  short  vacation in 
Washington.
J.  E.  Greilick’s saw  mill started up Mon­
day,  with a full  force  of hands.  Mr. Grei- 
lick is purchasing  all  the  logs  that  can be 
bought. 
J.  B.  Weller, the square timber man,  is in 
town. 
A. C. Cutter is advertising for more teams 
to haul  logs forJus'Empire mill.
Nearly all tlPlIftuns in  this  vicinity are 
engaged in liammg lumber.  Over thirty are 
hauling from the Long Lake mills alone.
The Bay is  frozen  over as  far as  the eye 
can see.  Last year it froze over January 27.
E.  R. Kneeland,  of the pioneer meat mar­
ket,  has the contract for furnishing the asy­
lum with meat for the next three months.
Thirlby, Jackson & Co. have been turning 
out some excellent  work lately.  The edger 
just completed for Case & Crotzer, of Kings­
ley,  gives  perfect  satisfaction.  The  firm 
have several  more large  contracts on  hand 
which  will  keep  a  full  force  busy  some 
time.
Hannah,  Lay & Co.’s grist mill shut down 
Saturday for repairs,  after a continuous run 
of seven months,  with no accident whatever 
—a sure  indication  that  the  mill  is in the 
hands of first-class workmen.
February 4 was the coldest  day,  with one 
exception,  ever  known  in  Traverse  City. 
The thermometer registered 30 *  below.

Cadillac.

*

The coldest weather of the season was ex­
perienced  during  tlie  present  week,  when 
the thermometer indicated nearly 30 degrees 
below  zero. 
It  is  needless  to  add  that 
our  clothing  merchants  are  having a  good 
trade. 
The  well-known  figure  of  J.  G.  Mosser 
has been missed  on  our  streets  for several 
days.  Jack has been sick.
L.  C.  Briggs  is  a  new  employee at  the 
bench in J.  L.  Bennett’s jewelry store.
A.  P.  Wilcox,  a  painter,  has  gone  to 
Woodland, where he expects to  work at his 
old trade of milling.  His family follow him 
next week.
Mitchell  Bros.  &  Murphy  contemplate 
putting a band saw into their mill at Mitch­
ells.  Since the  successful  introduction  of 
band  saws  in  tins  vicinity  by Cummer  & 
Son, two other Cadillac mills have followed 
suit and a large  number  of  mill  men have 
come to this place to examine the saws while 
at  work.  This  method  of  manufaeturin 
lumber is rapidly gaining favor.
George Deitz,  the  oldest  employe  in  the 
City drug  store,  and  for  a time associated 
with A.  E.  Smith  in  the  ownership  of  the 
same,  leaves Cadillac about the 15th of next 
month and will locate  in  Florida  or  in  the 
far west.  Failing  health  compels  him  to 
make the  change.
F.  A.  Clary  &  Co.  have purchased  the 
Cummer shingle mill at Missaukee Junction 
and are cutting an average of 50,000 shingles 
per day.  W. J.  Williams  superintends  the 
work.
The faces of our lumbermen  are percepti 
bly  broadening,  caused  by  the  increased 
number of orders they are constantly receiv 
ing.  The  demand,  although  covering  all 
grades,  seems especially great  for  timbers, 
car sills, etc.,  and the poorer  grades of sea­
soned lumber.  During  the  first  four  days 
of the present  month  the  Cummers  report 
shipping  over  000,000  feet,  which is  a  re­
markable record for this season of the year. 
A prosperous year for this section is strong­
ly foreshadowed.

The Hardware Market.

Business is good and collections are  fair­
ly satisfactory.  Barbed wire is in better re­
quest  for  future  delivery,  and the feeling 
among the makers as  demonstrated at their 
recent meeting,  was unanimous  that higher 
prices should rule.  As  a  result  of  this  in 
part,  but more especially of the general con­
dition of the trade,  values  on  barbed  wire 
are steadier.  Builders’ hardware  holds  its 
own tenaciously,  and is now  moving  freely 
for the season.  There are rumors of an ap- I 
proacliing advance in cast  shelf  goods,  but i 
the same is delayed because of  lack of  con­
certed action on the part of makers.

Some idea of the extent that self  binders 
are used in Michigan can  be’  had  from  the 
fact that Curtiss, Dunton & Co. are  just re-1 
ceiving the first of a lot of one hundred and 
t w e n t y  tons of binders’ twine  purchased  by 
them tibds season.

Fortunes in Scrap Iron.

‘ ‘You’d never think it was much of a trick 
to sort out scrap metal,” said a dealer in old 
iron,  os he  stood  in  the  middle  of  a  yard 
heaped up with piles of rusty scrap of every 
description,  without  any  apparent  order or 
method.  “As  a  matter  of  fact,  though, 
there is quite  a  knack in it. 
It  requires a 
good deal of experience if you don’t want to 
get taken  in,  as  the  profits  of the business 
all lie in a  man’s  ability to  tell  at a glance 
what is good material and what is not.  The 
greenhorn will go  and  buy a wagon load of 
stuff in a lump,  and when  it  is  sorted over 
he  will  find  he  has  paid  probably  double 
what the lot is worth.”

“How  are  the  scraps  assorted?”  asked 

the reporter.

“Well,  you see here  is a seperate pile for 
the  best  scrap. 
It  is  nearly  all  in  small 
pieces—bolts,  nuts,  screws,  pieces of liores- 
shoe,  nails,  and  such  as  that,  all  of  the 
best quality of malleable iron.  It commands 
the highest price,  except  for  that of whole 
horseshoes,  of any iron that is bought by us. 
We pay from 70 to 80  cents  a  hundred  for 
it.  Horshoes are worth  SI  to SI.20 a hun­
dred pounds.  We pile the small  pieces  to­
gether so that  the  scraps  can  be  shoveled 
out  into  barrels  or  sacks,  while  the large 
pieces,  such as broken shafting,  boiler iron, 
and metal of that sort,  are  stacked  up  sep- 
erately.  There are the  steel  and  cast iron 
piles over there,  you  see,  and  here  are the 
borings  and  turnings  from  the  machine 
shops.”

“Of what  use  are  those  scraps  of  tin?” 
asked the reporter,  pointing toward  a  huge 
heap of cut and twisted  pieces  of  the shin­
ing metal.

“Oh,  that  goes  to  the  smelting  works. 
You see it mainly coiisists  of  the clippings 
and  fragments of tinned  iron  and wornout 
tin vessels.  These are sometimes dipped in 
hydrochloric  acid to dissolve the tin coating 
from the iron.  The  muriate of tin so form 
ed  is of  commercial  value  for  dyeing pur­
poses.”

Hanging up  on  the  walls  all  about were 
cog wheels, cranks, and  other pieces of ma­
chinery,  while  in  one  corner  was a collec­
tion  of  pick-axes,  axes  and pitchforks.

“Everything that we find  of  value in the 
masses of  scraps  that  come  in  here  every 
day by the wagon load,” remarked the deal 
er,  “or that  can  be  used  in the  shape it is 
received  in,  is  preserved  from  the  scrap 
heaps and sold separately.  There  are  peo 
pie who if they want a lot of  pick-axes,  for 
instance,  never think of going to a hardware 
store for them,  but come direct to the scrap 
iron dealer, where they can  find serviceable 
articles  of  the  second-hand  class.  Nearly 
all of these cranks and cogwheels will come 
into use in their present shape some day.

“Scrap iron,” continued the dealer,  “con 
sists of any kind of iron that will  serve the 
purposes of  remelting, but  more  especially 
that of  the  malleble  quality.  We  work in 
all the old ship iron  that  can  be  made ser 
viceable, and  there  is  one firm  in  the  city 
that makes a specialty of that branch of the 
business.  They have broken up several old 
vessels during the  past  year  and  taken out 
tons  of  good  scrap-iron.  They  are 
tearing the Mohongo  to  pieces over in Oak­
land,  and selling her plates and  sheeting to 
the  nail  manufacturers.  There  is  a  good 
deal of money in  that  kind  of trade if  one 
understands it.”

Of late years the  scrap-iron  business  has 
increased to such an extent as to make it an 
important feature of water-front trade.  Sev­
eral good sized fortunes have  been  made in 
the business.  Large lots of vacant land are 
covered with heaps of  the  rusty  metal,  for 
which there is always  a  brisk  demand dur­
ing the busy season at the iron works.  The 
smaller scraps make the best kind  of  shaft­
ing  and  pipe  material,  as the  fibers  of  the 
finished product  are  so  twisted  and  inter­
twined  as  almost  to  defy  an  attempt  at 
breaking,  while for  ordinary use it will last 
for years.

The  Ethics of  Trade.

From the Cincinnati Post.

“Am I my brother’s keeper?” was the first 
guilty question  ever  asked  in  this  wicked 
world. 
It has been asked ever since.  Com­
mercial ethics answers “No.”  “Every man 
look out for himself” is the rule of trade.

The true remedy has at last been discovered. 
It is Golden Seal Bitters.  It  is to  be found at 
your drug store.  It  makes  wonderful  cures. 
Use  it  now. 
It  is  the 
secret of health.

It  will  cure  you. 

¿re Tea Going to 
Sire a Store, Pan­
try or Closet?

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

These  prices  are  for cash buyers,  who  pay 

promptly and buy in full packages.

AUGERS AND B IT S .

Ives’,  old style.........................................
N.  H. C. Co................................................disflO&lO

BELLS.

BALANCES.

Snell’s ........................................................di860&10
Cook’s  ...................................................... dis40&10
Jennings’, genuine.......................... ...■ j.8,ni,r5
disoO&lU
Jennings’, imitation.................     
Spring.......................................................dis 
40
Railroad...................................................... $  1“ 00
Garden...................................................... net 3o 00
Hand..............................................dis  $ 60&10&10
60&10
Cow.....................................................dis 
30&15
Call.................................................... dis 
Gong................  
dis 
25
Door, Sargent.................................. dis 
60&10
Stove......................................................dis $ 
40
Carriage  new list...................................dis 
80
Plow  .......................................................dis  30&1C
Sleigh Shoe.............................................. dis 
75
Wrought Barrel  Bolts...........................dis  60&Í0
Cast  Barrel  Bolts...................................dis 60&10
Cast'Barrel, brass  knobs...................... dis 
60
Cast Square Spring................................dis 
60
Cast Cnain..............................................dis  60&10
Wrought Barrel, brass  knob...............dis  60&10
Wrought Square....................................dis  60&10
Wrought Sunk Flush........ ..................dis 
60
Wrought  Bronze  and  Plated  Knob
Flush..................................................... dis 60&10
Ives’  Door................................................ dis 60&10

BOLTS.

 

BRACES.

40
Barber...................................................dis $ 
Backus......................................................dis 50&10
SpoffdPd.................................................... dis 
50
Am. Ball................................................... dis  net
Well, plain................................................... $  3 50
Well, swivel.................................................  
4 00

BUCKETS.

BUTTS.  CAST.

Cast Loose Pin, figured......................... dis 70&10
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin  bronzed...........dis 70&10
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed.. dis  60&10
Wrought Narrow, bright fast  joint..dis  60&10
Wrought Loose  Pin.............................. dis 60&10
Wrought Loose Pin, acorn tip..............dis  60& 5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned..............dis 60& 5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silver
tipped........ .........................................dis  60& 5
Wrought Table........................................dis  10&60
Wrought Inside  Blind.......................... dis  10&60
Wrought Brass....................................... dis  70&10
Blind, Clark’s...........................................dis  80&10
Blind, Parker’s....................................... dis  80&10
Blind,  Shepard’s.....................................dis 
70

CAPS.

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

 

 

 

CA TRIDG ES.

Rim Fire, U. M.C. & Winchester  new list50&10
Rim  Fire, United  States....................... dis50&10
Central Fire.............................................. dis30&10

CH IS ELS.

Socket Firmer....................................... dis  75&10
5&10
.dis 75&10
75
.dis
.dis
40
.dis
20
.net

Barton’s Socket Firmers..................
Cold......................................................

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

COMBS.

.dis 40&10
25

Brass,  Racking’s.
Bibb’s ..................
B eer.....................
Fenns’..................

14x52,14x56,14 x60.............
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60
Cold Rolled, 14x48................
D R IL LS

Com. 4 piece, 6  in.........................

ELBOW S.

EX PA N SIV E B ITS.

12 

h i n g e s .

h a n g e r s .

HAMMERS.

f i l e s —New List.

13 
GAUGES.

Clar’s, small, $18 00;  large, $26 00. 
Ives’, 1. $18 00 ;  2. $24 00 ;  3, $30 00.
American File Association List__
Disston’s ............................................
New  American.................................
Nicholson’s.......................................
Heller’s Horse Rasps....................
g a l v a n i z e d   i r o n ,
22 and  24,  25 and 26,  27 
Nos. 16 to 20, 
14 
List 
15 
Discount, Juniata 50@10, Charcoal 60. 
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ................dis 
50
Maydole & Co.’s ................................... ..dis 
25
Kip’s ........................................................ dis 
25
Yerkes  &  Plumb’s.................................dis  40&1G
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  50&10
Champion,  anti-friction.......................dis  60&10
Kidder, wood track...............................dis 
40
Gate, Clark’s, 1,2, 3............................... dis 
60
State............................................ per doz, net, 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to  12  in.  454  14
and  longer..............................................
Screw Hook and Eye,  54  .................. net
Screw Hook and Eye %....................net
Screw Hook and Eye  24......................net
Screw Hook and Eye,  %.................... net
Strap and  T ..................................... dis
30
Stamped Tm Ware....................................  
25
Japanned Tin  Ware................................. 
25
Granite Iron  Ware................................... 
Grub  1..................... ..........................$11 00, dis 60
Grub  2...............................................   11  50, dis 60
Grub 3.................................................   12 00, dis 60
50
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings............dis 
50
Door, porcelain, jap.  trimmings...........  
Door, porcelain, plated  trimmings....... 
50
Door, porcelain, trimmings.................... 
50
Drawer and  Shutter,  porcelain..........dis 
70
Picture, H. L. Judd & Co.’s......................  40&10
50
Hcmacite................................................dis 
50
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list, .dis 
Mallory, Wheeler &  Co.’s ..................... dis 
50
Branford’s .........................   :............. dis 
50
Norwalk’s ..............................................dis 
50
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ....................dis  70
Coffee,  Parkers  Co.’s............................dis 40&10
........................................................... 
60
Coffee, P.S.&W. Mfg. Co.’s Malléables  dis
60
Coffee, Landers, Ferry &  Clark’s ........dis
Coffee,  Enterprise......................................dis
Adze  Eye..................................... $16 00 dis
Hunt Eye..................................... $15 00  diB
Hunt’s.........................................$18 60 dis 20 & 10

HOLLOW   W ARE.

LOCKS— DOOR.

MATTOCKS.

LEV ELS.

KNOBS.

M ILLS.

h o e s .

60
60
40&10
60

....ffilb  28
..  31
..  21
..  19
40
.dis
40
.dis
40
.dis
oz net  $.85
..dis 20&10
.dis 54&10
dis
20
25
dis
.dis 55&10
..dis 55&10
..dis 55&10
. .dis 55&10
.dis 55&10
.dis 55&10
28
18

prices  a n i 
ther  informali

Common, Bra  and Fencing.

N A ILS.

10d to  60d..................
8d and 9 d adv..........
P a M
6d and 7d  adv..........
4d and 5d  adv..........
IT
m u 3d advance...............
3d fine  advance.......
Clinch nails, adv__
4d
1  lOd
Finishing 
Size—inches  (  3
154
Ins Irens
$1 25 1 50 1 75 2  00
Adv. $  keg 
Steel Nails—2 65.

8d
254

6d
2

....¡jp keg $2  50
25
50
75
1 50 
3 00
1 *75

'TFTntJt-

in  Store  F urnish­
ing.  It  entirely su­
persedes 
the  old 
style  wherever  in­
troduced.
me**—  Satisfaction flusnui teed

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infringe- 
nientr pro* 
seemed-
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had  from 
1»  your local
-----Hardware
D e a le r, 
send  your 
orders  di­
rect  to

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Torrance  &  Co.,  Troy,  N. Y

MOLASSES GATES.

MAULS.

O IL E R S .

Stebbin’s Pattern  ...................................... dis  70
Stebbin’s Genuine.......................................dis  70
Enterprise,  self-measuring...................... dis  25
Sperry & Co.’s, Post,  handled................dis  50
Zinc or tin, Chase’s Patent......................dis60&10
Zinc, with brass bottom........ v.................dis  50
Brass or  Copper..........................................dis  60
Reaper......................................per gross, $12 net
Olmstead’s .................................................   60&10
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy............. , ................dis  15
Sciota Bench............................J................ dis  25
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy......................dis  16
Bench, first quality.................................... dis  20
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood... .dis20&10 
Fry, Acme..................... .........................dis 50&10
Common, polished...................................dis60&10
Dripping.................................................................«
Iron and Tinned.................................. dis 
40
Copper Rivets and  Burs.....................dis 
60

PLA N ES.

R IV E TS.

PA N S.

GUNN  HARDWARE

COM PANY,

E xclusively W holesale,

Present to the Trade the

OF

and  Heavy  Hardware

Our Stock Comprises Everything

Included in a First-Glass

STOCK

Dealers visiting1 the  City  are  Cordi­
ally  Invited  to  Call  and  Inspect  our 
Establishment.

PA TENT  FLA N ISA ED  IRO N .

“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10 
“B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25  to 27 
9

Broken packs 54c $  8> extra.

RO PES.

. 

554

,  ^

SQUARES.

T IN   PLA TES.

12 50
15 00
16 50

All sheets No, 18 and  lighter,  over 30 inches 

Sisal, 54 In. and  larger..................................   81
Manilla.............................................................  15
Steel and Iron... 
Try and Bevels.. 
Mitre  ...............

70!
....dis 
60!
...................................dis 
...................................dis 
20 |
SH EET IR O N .Com. Smooth.  Coin. I
$3 80
............................$4 20 
2 90 !
....................  4 20 
3 00
.................  4 20 
.....................   4 20 
3 10
.....................   4 40 
3 20
4 60

Nos. 10 to 14........................
Nos. 15 to 17.........................
Nos. 18 to 21.........................
Nos. 22 to 24.........................
Nos .25 to 26.........................
No. 27....................................  
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SH EET ZINC.
In casks of 600 lbs, $   lb..................
In smaller quansities, $   lb...........
T IN N E R ’S SO LDER.
No. 1,  Refined..................................
Market  Half-and-half....................
Strictly  Half-and-half....................
Cards for Charcoals, $6
10x14, Charcoal...................
IC, 
10x14,Charcoal...................
IX, 
12x12, Charcoal...................
IC, 
6
12x12, Charcoal  ................................  7
IX, 
1C, 
14x20, Charcoal..................................   5
IX, 
14x20,  Charcoal..................................  7
1XX,  14x20, Charcoal..................................   8
IXXX, 14x20, Charcool.................................  10
IXXXX. 14x20,  Charcoal.............................   12
IX, 
20x28, Charcoal.................................   15
DC, 
100 Plate Charcoal............................  6
100 Plate Charcoal............................  8
DX, 
DXX,  100 Plate Charcoal.............................  10
DXXX,  100 Plate Charcoal..........................  12
Redipped  Charcoal  Tin  Plate add 1  50  to  6
Roofing, 14x20, IC.................................
6 75
Roofing, 14x20,  IX ...............................
n  oo
Roofing, 20x28, IC.................................
14 00
Roofing,  20x28,  IX ...............................
.  5 50 
IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal  Terne.......
.  7 00 
IX, 14x20, choice Charcoal  Terne—
.11 00 
IC, 20x28, choice  Charcoal Terne.......
14 00
IX, 20x28, choice Charcoal  Terne—
Steel, Game.....................................................60&10
OneidaJCommuntity,  Newhouse’s ..........dis  35
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s. .60&10
Hotchkiss’  .....................................................60&10
S, P. & W.  Mfg.  Co.’s................................... 60&10
Mouse,  choker....................................... 18c $  doz
Mouse,  delusion.................................$1 50 %) doz
W IR E .
........  dis  6754 !
Bright Market....................
.......dis 
70 ¡
Annealed Market...............
..........dis  6254 !
Coppered Market...............
...........   dis  55
Extra Bailing.....................
..........dis  6254
Tinned  Market..................
........... $S>  09
Tinned  Broom....................
....¡pib 854
Tinned Mattress................ —  
Coppered  Spring  Steel...  ..........dis 40@40&10
Tinned Spring Steel.................................dis  60
Plain Fence...............................................IP 
354
Barbed  Fence...................................................
Copper................................................ new  list net
Brass................................................... new  list net
70&10&10
7Ü&10&10
70&10&10
70&10&10

Bright............................................. dis
Screw Eyes..................................... dis
Hook’s ........................................... dis
Gate Hooks and  Eyes...............dis
Baxter’s Adjustable,  nickeled...............
Coe’s Genu ine.......................................dis 
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought, dis  75&10 |
Coe’s Patent, malleable...................dis 75&10&10 \

T IN —LEA D ED .

W IR E  GOODS.

W RENCHES.

TR A PS.

80

_

M ISCELLANEOUS.

Bird Cages....................................... .
Pumps,  Cistern....................................dis  70&10 1
Screws,  new  list...............................
Casters,  Bed  and  Plate....................dis50&10&10 i
Dampers, American.................................  40&*y
Forks, hoes, rakes and all Bteel goods..60&10&O 
Copper  Bottoms..............................................  • • • • j

M ISCELLA N EO U S.

Hemlock Bark-The local  tanners  are offer­

ing $5 per cord delivered, cash.

Ginseng—Local  dealers pay  $1.69@1.60  ¥   lb 

for clean washed roots.

Rubber Goods—Local jobbers are authorized 
to offqr 40 and 5 per cent, off on standard goods 
and 40,10 and 5 per cent,  off on second quality.

LUMBER, LATH  AND SHINGLES.

The Newaygo Manufacturing Co,  quote f. o. 
b. cars as follows:
Uppers, 1 inch.................................. per M $44 00
Uppers, 154,154 and 2 inch........................   46 00
Selects, 1 inch..............................................  35 00
Selects, 154, 154 and 2  inch........................   38 00
Fine Common, 1 inch.................................  30 00
Shop, 1 inch.................................................  20 00
Fine, Common, 154, 154 and 2 inch............  32 00
No. 1 Stocks,  12 in., 12,14 and 16  feet—   15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet........................   16 q0
No. 1 Stocks, 13 in., 20 feet.........................  17  00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet........................   16 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet.........................  17 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 12,  14 and 16 feet........  15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet..........................   16 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 20 feet__ :...................   17  00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet.........................  13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet.........................  14 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 feet.......  12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet........................   13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet........................   14  00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 12,14 and 16 feet........   11  00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 18feet..........................  12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in.,  20 feet........................   13 00
Coarso  Common  or  shipping  culls,  all 
widths and  lengths.......................... 8 00® 9 00
A and B Strips, 4 or 6 i n ............................  33 00
C Strips, 4 or 6 inch....................................  27 00
No. 1 Fencing, all  lengths........................   15 00
No. 2 Fencing, 12,14 and 18  feet...............  12 00
No. 2 Fencing. 16 feet.................................  12 Oo
No. 1 Fencing, 4  inch.................................  15 OO
No. 2 Fencing, 4  inch.................................  12 08
Norway C and better, 4 or 6 inch.............   20 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, A and  B ...................  18 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, C...............................  14 50
Bevel Siding, 6 inch. No. 1  Common—  
9 00
Bevel Siding,  6 inch,  Clear.....................   20 00
Piece Stuff, 2x4 to 2x12.12 to 16 ft............  10 00
$1 additional for each 2 feet above 16 ft.  >
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., A.  B....................  36 00
Dressed Flooring, 6 in.  C..........................   29 00
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., No. 1, common..  17 00 
Dressed Flooring 6in.,No. 2 common—   14 00 
Beaded Ceiling, 6 in. $1 00  additiinal.
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., A. B and  Clear..  35 00
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., C..........................   26 00
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. 1  com’n  16 00 
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. 2  com’n  14 00 
Beaded Ceiling, 4 inch, $1 00 additional.
3  10 
1 XXX 18 in. Standard  Shingles.............
XXX 18 in. Standard  Shingles.
3 00 
■( XXX 18 in.  Thin......................................
3  75 
j XXX 16 in.................................................
1 75 
No. 2 or 6 in. C. B 18 in.  Shingles.............
1 40 
No. 2 or 5 in. C. B. 16  in..................
5® 2 00
Lath  .................................................

H A R D W O O D   LU M BER.

„@5» 00

The furniture factories  here  pay  as  follows 
for dry stock:
Basswood, log-run.............................  
®l« 00
Birch, log-run...........................................16 0J@20 00
Birch, Nos. 1 and 2.............................   @~» 00
Black Ash, log-run..................................   _  „@13 00
Cherry,  log-run........................................25 00@3o 00
Cherry, Nos. 1  and  2.......................... 
Cherry,  cull..............................................10 00@12 00
Maple,  log-run......................................... 14 00®16 00
12 00@14 00 
Maple, soft,  log-run.........................  ”
@18 00 
Maple, Nos. land2............................
@25 00 
Maple, clear, flooring.......................
@25 00 
Maple, white, selected.....................
@15 00 
Rea Oak, log-run...............................
Red Oak, Nos. 1 and2............... 
...
@20 00 
@25 00 
Red Oak, No.  1, step  plank.............
@55 00 
W aluut, log-run.................................
....  @75 00
Walnut, Nos. 1 and 2........................
@25 00 
Walnuts,  culls..................................
@13 00 
Grey  Elm, log-run.............
....14 00@16 00 
White Ash,  log-run...........
@23 00
Whitewood,  log-run..........

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

i  00
Ohio White Lime, per  bbl.................... 
85
Ohio White Lime, oar lots.................... 
Louisville Cemeni,  per bbl.................. 
1 30
Akron Cement per  Dbl........................
Buffalo Cement,  per bbl......................  
1 30
Carlots 
..................... 1 
J9
Plastering hair, per bu.........................  25®  30
Stucco, per bbl.......................................  
1  J»
Land plaster, per ton............................ 
3 50
Land plaster, car lots............................ 
- »0
Fire brick, per  M............................. .  $25@$3o
Fire clay, per bbl..................................  
3 00
Anthracite, egg and grate, car lots. .$5 75@6 00 
Anthracite, stove and  nut, ear lots..  6 ou@6 25
Cannell,  ear lots...................................„  @6 00
Ohio Lump, car  lots............................3  10@3 25
Blossburgor Cumber land, car lots..  4 50@5 00 
Portland  dement....................  ..........  8 50@4 00

COAL.

DRY  GOODS  PRICE  CURRENT.
The following quotations are given  to show 
relative values, but they may be considered, to 
some extent, “outside prices,” and  are  not  as 
low as buyers of reasonable  quantities can, in 
most  instances, obtain  them  at.  It  will  pay 
every  merchant  to  make  frequent  visits  to 
market, not only in  respect  to  prices,  but to 
keep posted on  the  ever-changing  stylos and 
fashions, many of which are never shown  “on 
the  road.”
Androscoggin, 9-4. 
Androscoggin, 7-4.
Pepperell,  7-4.......
Pepperell,  8-4.......
Pepperell,  9-4.......

.17 
¡Pepperell, 10-4........19
, 13541 Pepperell, 11-4....... 22
,13  Pequot, 74...............145*
.15  Pequot, 84...............16
.17 
94.18

W ID E  BROW N COTTONS.

¡Pequot, 

Caledonia, XX, oz. .10 
Caledonia,  X, oz...  9
Economy,  oz..........
Park Mills, No. 50.. 10 
Park Mills, No. 60.. 11 
Park Mills, No. 70.. 12 
Park Mills, No. 80.. 13

¡Park Mills, No. 90.. 14 
¡Park Mills, No. 100.15
Prodigy, oz.............   8J4
Otis Apron.............   8)4
Otis Furniture.......8)4
York, 1  oz...............  9Ji
¡York, AA, extra oz.1254

Plain.

OSNADUKGS.

Plaid.

.

44 

654
654

(Victory  O.  .

No.  10. 
Coin...
Centennial.

Alabama.......... __   654 ¡ Alabama........... ...  6%
Georgia........... __ 85^'Augusta.............. ...  6*
.  8  ¡Georgia............. ...  6H
Jewell  .............
Kentucky  ....... __   854| Louisiana.......... ■. •  6K
L ane................ __   854 Tennessee........ ...1 0
Santee............. __   7541 Toledo............... ...  614
BLEACHED  COTTONS.
Avondale,  36........  854 ¡Greene, G
Art  cambrics, 36.
Androscoggin, 44 
Androscoggin, 54.. 12 
Ballou, 44.
Ballou, 54........
Boott, 0 .4 4 ....
Boott,  E. 5-5__
Boott, AGC, 44. 
Boott, R. 34__

Hill, 44....................
854] Hill, 7-8....................
Hope,  44................
King  Phillip  cam­
bric, 44................
Lin wood,  4-4..........
Lonsdale,  44.

..  9541 Lonsdale  cambric. 105*
..  5!41 Langdon, GB, 44.. .  854
4  654 Langdon, 46.......... .11
. . .   534 ¡Masonville,  44__ .  754
..  6!S41 Maxwell. 44.......... .  8
.  .  6!4 ¡New York Mill, 44 .10
...  6 ¡New Jersey,  44... .  8
...  4 ¡Pocasset,  P. M. C. .  754
754 j Pride of the W est.. 1054
8  Pocahontas,  44__ 754
8  Slaterville, 7-8........   654
754 Victoria, AA..........  9
554

Conway,  4-4..
Cabot, 4-4.......
Cabot, 7-8.......
Canoe,  34__
Domestic,  36..........
D wight Anchor, 44.
Davol, 44...............
Fruit of Loom, 44..
Fruitof Loom, 7-8..  6%|Woodbury,44... 
Fruit of  the  Loom,  Whitinsville,  44.
cambric,  4-4........11  Whitinsville, 7-8..
Gold Medal, 44..  ..  6)4 j W amsutta, 44..
&
4 Williamsville, 36..
Gold Medal, 
Gilded Age.
.17  1M asonville TS... ...  8
.11  Masonville  S__ ...1054
.10  ¡Lonsdale............ ...954
15  Lonsdale A ........ ...14
..  554
.  8  ¡Victory J ........... • •.  654
.14  ¡Victory  D.......... ...854
.1254  Victory  K.......... ...1054
.12  ¡Phoenix A .......... ...1954
Paconia..................12
754  Phoenix  B.......... ..  1054
Red Cross..............   7
iPhoenixXX.......
.16 
..  5
Social  Imperial__ 16
PRINTS.
. i Gloucester.............554
Albion,  solid.......
G loucestermourn’g. 554
Albion,  grey.......
,554|Hamilton  fancy.. . .6
Allen’s  checks...
,554jHartol fancy........ ..554
Ailen’s  fancy__
,55ilMerrimac D.......... ..6
Allen’s pink........
.554 Manchester.......... . .0
Alien’s purple__
.554 ¡Oriental fancy__ ..554
American, fancy.
.6  ¡Oriental  robes__ -.654
Arnold fancy___
5  ¡Pacific robes...........6
Berlin solid.........
.6  ¡Richmond............. ..554
Coeheeo  fancy.. 
...45Ü
.654¡Steel River........
Cocheco robes—  
6 
¡Simpson’s ............... 6
Conestoga fancy 
6 ¡Washingtonfancy..6
...... ........... ............ 
Eddystone
Eagfe fancy.............5  Washington  blues.  6
Garner pink.............5541
6-k 1 Indian Orchard, 40. 7
Appleton A, 4-4...
6 
Boott  M, 4-4..........
6K Lacorlia  B, 7-4........ 13
Boston  F, 4-4........
654 Lyman B, 40-in.......
Continental C, 4-3.
1 754 Mass. BB, 4-4..........
Contiuental D, 40 ii 
524 Nashila  E,40-in.... 754
Conestoga W, 4-4..
.  4M Nash)ia  R, 4-4........
Conestoga  D, 7-8..
.  5  Nashua 0,7-8.......... 524
Conestoga  G, 30-in
.  4M Newnmarket N ...... 554
Dwight  X, 34.......
.  55*  Peppiereil E, 39-in.. 654
Dwight Y, 7-8........
•  524 Pepp<ereil  R ,4-4.... 524
Dwight Z, 4-4........
6  Pepp<ereil  0,7-8.... 5)4
Dwight Star, 4-4...
.  7  Pepptereil  N ,3-4....
Ewight Star, 40-in.
.  424 Pocas;set  C, 4-4....... 524
Enterprise EE, 36.
.  654¡Saraotac R...............
Great Falls E, 4-4..
•  5541 Saraolac E............... 754
Farmers’ A, 4-4—
>TIC GIN GE[AMS.
DOME!
iJohnfson  Manfg Co,
.  7 
Amoskeag............
ifOOKlOld............. 1254
1 9 
Johnson  ManfgCo,
styles....................
I  dress  styles.........1054
6 
Bates.......................
6  Slaterviile,  dress
Berkshire.............
styles...................   6
Glasgow,  fancy—  
654  White Mfg Co, stap  62£ 
Glasgow,  royal—  
I White Mfg Co, fane 754 
Gloucester, 
new
.  7541 White  Manf’g  Co,
standard  .............
. 
Earlston.......   754
754 
Plunket..................
. 7  Gordon........................7
Lancaster... 
.  7  Greylock, 
Langdown .. 
 
Renfrew,  dress—   9
W ID E  BLEACHED ÇOTTONS.
'gin, 7-4. .15  IPepperell.  104... ..22
'gin, 8-4...16 Pepperell,  114......24
7-4...... ,.15  !¡Pequot,  74........ ....16
8-4...... ..17 Pequot,  84........ ....18
94 ...... ..19  1Pequot,  94........ ...20
HEAVY BROWN  COTTONS.

Indiaia Orchard, 36. 6*4

F IN E  BROW N  COTTONS.

styles  ............. 

Pepperell,

dress

1054

T IC K IN G S.

Stark A A, 44.

Atlantic  A, 4-4.......  654 Lawrence XX, 4-4
Lawrence XXX 40. 
Atlantic  H, 4-4.......054
Lawrence LL, 4-4...
Atlantic  D, 44..
»24.
Newmarket N ........
Atlantic P, 44..
4%'Mystic River, 4-4...
Atlantic  LL, 44
754 Pequot A, 44..........
Adriatic, 36.......
654 ¡Piedmont,  36..........
Augusta, 44—
Boott  M, 44...........
Boott  FF.44..........  6)4 Tremont CC, 44----- 434
Graniteville, 44__ 524 Utica,  44...................10
Indian  Head,44...  624 Waehusett,  44 .......  654
Indiana Head 45-in. 11541W achusett, 30-in...  524
Amoskeag,  ACA... 1254 [Falls, XXXX..........1854
Amoskeag  “ 44.. 1554: Falls, XXX..............1554
Amoskeag,  A ........11  Falls,  BB.................. 1154
Amoskeag,  B ........10  Falls,  BBC, 36.......... 1954
Amoskeag,  C........10 
¡Falls,  awning;.......19
Amoskeag,  D........  9  Hamilton,  BT, 32..  954
Amoskeag,  E........  854 Hamilton,  D..........  854
Amoskeag, F ..........  8  ¡Hamilton,  H..........854
Premium  A, 44__17 
j Hamilton  fancy...  854
Premium  B...........16  Methuen AA........... 1154
Extra 44................. 16  Methuen ASA..........1654
Extra 7-8................. 1454 ¡Omega A, 7-8............1054
Gold Medal 4-4........15  ¡Omega A, 44--------1254
CCA 7-8................... 1254 Omega ACA, 7-8— 13
CT 44 .......................U  Omega ACA, 44— 15
RC 7-8......................11  Omega SE, 7-8..........21
BF7-8......................16  Omega SE, 44.......... 27
AF44......................10  Omega M. 7-8.......... 22
Cordis AAA, 32......14  Omega M, 44............25
Cordis ACA, 32......15  Shetucket SS&SSW 1154
Cordis No. 1,32......15  Shetucket, S & SW. 12
Cordis  N o.2........... 14  Shetucket,  SFS 
..12
Cordis  No. 3........... 13  Stockbridge  A ....... 7
Cordis No. 4........... 1154¡Stockbridge fancy.  8
IEmpire  ..........
....  5 
Garner...........
Hookset.......... —   5 W ashing! on...
434
5
Edwards..........
Red  Cross....... __ 5
....  5
S. S. ft Sons....
Forest Grove..
GRAIN
BAGS.
. .. .1 7 Old  Ironsides. .......15
American  A ..
..  .21V4!Wheatland .... 
Stark A ............
......... 20
....  654 Otis  CC........... .......»
Boston...........
....1154 Warren  AXA. .......11
Everett  blue..
Everett  brown — 1154 Warren  BB... .......10
....1 1 Warren CC__ .......9
Otis  AXA.......
.... 10 York,  blue— .......1354
Otis BB...........
P A PER   CAM BRICS.
.4K@5
S. S. ft Sons—
Manville.......... .424@ 5
Masonville — • 424@o  ¡Garner............
.424 @ 5
Red  Cross....... .......654 Thistle Mills.. .......6
Berlin............. .......6
Garner...........

Rose..,............. .......654

GLAZED CAMBRICS.

W IG AN S.

DENIM S.

SPO OL COTTON.

Clark’s O. N. T...... 55
J. ft P.  Coats......... 55
Willimantie 6 cord.55 
Willimantie 3 cord.40 
Charleston ball sew

ingi

ad.

Eagle  and  Phoenix
Mills ball sewing.30 
¡Green  ft  Daniels...25
Stafford................. 25
Hail ft Manning— 28 
Holyoke................. 25

3ET JE A N S .

Armory...........
• 6@654
Androscoggin  .
...  654
Canoe River—
Clarendon........
.¿@554
Hallowell  Imp. ....  524
...  554
Ind. Orch. Imp.
Laconia ............

Naumkeagsatteen.  654 
Pepperell bleached  SJ4
Pepperell sat
Hockport...........
Lawrence sat.... 
Conegosat..........

CH A RCO A L  P IG   IR O N .

John Otis, Mancelona, quotes as  follows,  f o 
b,at  Chicago:
No. 1 Lake Superior.......... ...................... 23 00
33 00
No. 2 
“ 
23 50
No. 3  “ 
No. 354  “ 
33 50
No. 4 
“ 
34  00
No. 5  “ 
34  00
34  00
No. 6  “ 

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BETAIL  GROCERS’  ASSOCIATION 

OF  GRAND  RAPIDS.

ORGANIZED  NOVEMBER  JO,  1885.

President—Erwin J. Herrick.
First Vice-President—E. E. Walker.
Second Vice-President—Jas. A. Coye.
Secretary—Cornelius A. Johnson.
Treasurer—B. S. Harris.
Board of  Directors—Eugene  Richmond,  Wm. 
H. Sigel, A. J. Elliott, Henry A. Hydorn  and 
W. E. Knox.
Finance  Committee—W. E.  Knox,  H.  A.  Hy­
dorn and A. J. Elliott.
Room Committee—A. J. Elliott,  Eugene  Rich­
mond and Wm. H. Sigel.
Arbitration  Committee—James  Farnsworth, 
M. J. Lewis and A.  Raseh.
Complaint  Committee—J.  George  Lehman, 
Martin C. DeJager and A. G. Wagner.
Annual meetings—Second Tuesday in Novem­
ber.
Regular  meetings—First  and  Third  Tuesday 
Evenings of each month.
Next  meeting—Tuesday evening, Feb. 16.

Regular  Meeting  of  the  Retail  Grocers’ 

Association.

At the  regular  semi-monthly  meeting  of 
the Retail Grocers’ Association, held  on the 
2nd, E. A.  Stowe read a supplemental paper 
from  Smith  Barnes,  of  Traverse  City,  de­
tailing the species of opposition met with in 
the  introduction  of  the  system  of  buying 
and selling eggs  by  weight.  The article is 
given in full in  another part of  this week’s 
paper.

I.  W. Van  Zandt—The  Eastern  associa-
tions are agitating this subject,  and some of 
them have already taken  advanced grounds 
on  the  subject  of  buying  and  selling  all 
kinds of  vegetables  by weight 
I consider 
the egg question a practical one,  and should 
be glad to see it solved here in the West.

President—I  apprehend  more opposition 
from the shippers in this  matter than  from 
the farmers. 
It  seems  to  me  we  ought to 
be as a unit on  the  subject  The  question 
of  dollars  and  cents  ought  to  dictate  our 
course in this matter.

B.  S. Harris—How would breakage affect 

the handling of eggs by weight?

President—I see no reason  why it should 
cause any more trouble than under the pres­
ent system.

J.  II. Terrill—The proper  place to  begin 
discussing this subject is in  the Legislature 
and the proper tiling  to do is to  secure  the 
enactment of a  uniform  law  governing  the 
whole subject.  The tendency of such a law 
would be to improve the  quality and size of 
fowls.  Fortunately,  it  takes  but  one  sea­
son to bring about such an improvement.

E.  A.  Stowe—I  think  the  proper  course 
to pursue is to  secure a  sentiment  in favor 
of a State  or  national  law,  after  which  it 
will be easy enough to secure the enactment 
of such a  measure.  To  me,  it  seems  that 
the subject rises above  the question of  dol­
lars and cents. 
It is a question of right and 
wrong—whether  you  sell  one  man  fifteen 
ounces for the same price you charge anoth­
er for ten  ounces.

Jas. A.  Coye—I move that  the communi­
cation be accepted and that a vote of thanks 
be  tendered  Mr.  Barnes  for  liis  contribu­
tion.

The motion was adopted.
I.  W. Van Zandt—1  wish to  compliment 
the members of this Association on the work 
they have accomplished  in  the  short  space 
of three  months.  You  have  already  made 
more progress  than  the  Rochester Associa­
tion did in a year and a half.  You ought to 
have a larger attendance, and  I  would sug­
gest that the Secretary be instructed to send 
out a postal  card to  each member  a  day or 
two previous  to  each  meeting.  The  ques­
tion of a state organization is being discuss­
ed 4n New  York,  and  Massachusetts  is  al­
ready moving  in  the  matter  of  a  national 
organization.  The  grocer  movement  is 
bound to be a power in the land.

President—One of the best features of an 
Association  similar  to  ours  is  the  cultiva­
tion  of  a  sentiment  against  adulterated 
goods,  short weights and other trade abuses. 
When this  comes  to  be  understood  by the 
consumer—that  the  Association is as much 
in his interest as  ours—I  think we shall be 
amply repaid for all  our efforts.

Jas.  A.  Coye—I  wish  to  state  that  the 
Law  Committee will  be  ready to  report at 
the next meeting  and I move  that  the sub­
ject of  huxters  and  peddlers  be  made  the 
special order of  business  for the next meet­
ing.

The motion was adopted,  when  the meet­

ing adjourned.

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LIGHTEST and  most  HEALTHFUL  Biscuits, 
Cakes, Bread, etc.  TRY  IT  and be convinced. 
Prepared only by the

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A superior Remedy for  the immediate relief 
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Asthma,  lironchitus.  Sore  Throat,  Earache, 
Toot hache,  and  all diseases of the throat  and 
lungs.
The neatest and most efficient way  of  using 
menthol.

Try Them.  They Sell  Readily.

For Sale by

Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co., G’d Rapids. 
Farrand,  W illiam s &  Co., j
Jas.  E.  Davis & Co., 
John J.  Dodds & Co.,
T.  H.  Hinchman  &  Co., 
time he calls.

Ask their traveler to show you one  the  next 

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I

ABOLISH  YOUR  PASS  BOOKS.

GROCERS!

Start in the New Year by Introducing the

SUTLIFF

C U PO N

The  only  Complete  Coupon  System  in 
existence,  making  business  *safe  both  for 
the merchant and his customers.

JL.  caplid.

In presenting to the trade my COUPON SYS­
TEM, which has been revised and  improved, I 
claim that I have the most complete, safe  and 
cheapest system  for  simplifying'  business  on 
the  market.  Customers  can  send  their ser­
vants with the Coupon Book  to the store  with 
no  danger  or  discrepancies, as  by the record 
which is kept on inside covers, amount of each 
sale  is  recorded.  All  books  are  numbered 
when Bo'd, and when not paid for  in  advance, 
are secured by note, one of which  is  in  every 
book.  Every Coupon has engraved  signature 
of the merchant,  together with the card;  cov­
ers have the merchant's advertisement on, and 
their  size makes them desirable to the custom­
er  as  well  as  the  cashier.  As  they are now 
made the smaller numbers below the five cent 
can be  detached, same as the larger ones, thus 
obviating the necessity of a punch and  stamp.
MERCHANTS  CONTEMPLATING  CHANG­
ING  FROM  CREDIT TO  CASH, can  still  hold 
their  old  customers  by  introducing this  sys­
tem, which I claim is  the  only  system  where 
both customers and merchants are  absolutely 
protected against all loss.  Send for sample.

J. H. SUTLIFF, Proprietor

ALBANY,  N.  Y.

A Business Chance.

The son  of a prominent  divine  went  out 
to Dakota with the intention  of  going  into 
business, but returned in  very  low  circum­
stances,  financially,  having  walked  about 
half the distance.

“Why,  I am surprised,  my  son,” said  his 
father;  “I thought there were  great  oppor­
tunities for making money in the territories. 
Didn’t you strike a  chance?”

“Well, yes,  in a measure;  but the fact  is, 
father,  I  didn’t  hold  the  right  kind  of  a 
hand. 
It was good enough,  so  I  bet  all  I 
had on it;  but the other fellow’s was better, 
and he raked in the pot.”

The next  Sunday  the  minister  preached 
on  “The crying need of missionaries  in  the 
West,”

There are shops in London where suits of 
clothes  may  be  hired  for  an  evening. 
In 
Paris an  agency  has  been  established  for 
hiring out  wedding  guests  for  the  special 
benefit of people whose  relations live in the 
provinces.  The  managers] say:  “We  can 
place at the disposition of the bridegrooms a 
choice  society,  well-educated  young  men, 
charming  talkers, elegant  dancers,  several 
of whom are  besides  endowed  with all the 
necessary  talents  appertaining  to  fine  so­
ciety.”

FRED. D. YAI.E. 

DANIEL LYNCH.

SUCCESSORS  TO

FRED. D. YALE A CO.
CHAS. S. YALE & BRO.,
Bating Powders, Extracts, Blninp,
GROCERS’  SUNDIÖES.
All orders addressed to the new  firm will re­

WHOLESALE  MANUFACTURERS  OF

AND JOBBERS OF

ceive prompt attention.

40 and 42 South Division St., 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

- 

MICH.

Heayenrioh Bros.
CLOTHIERS,
WHOLESALE 

MANUFACTURERS  OF  PERFECT  FITTING

Tailor  iMIacie  Olotlxing,
Mail Orders sent in care L.  W.  ATK IN S will receive Prompt Attention.

AT  LOWEST  PRICES.

138 and Ufl Jefferson Ave. aid 34 and 36 Woodlirinp St., DETROIT.
GOOD FOR ONE DOLLAR ~~

TO  ONE FIRST DEALER IN EVERY TOWN.  THIS ADVERTISEMENT,  IF CUT 
OUT  AND  SENT  TO  US  WITHIN  THE  NEXT  THIRTY  DAYS,  WITH  AN 
ORDER  FOR  500  OF  “ W A R R E N ’S  GRIP ”  CIGARS,  (PRICE  $35  PER M,  DE­
LIVERED),  IS  GOOD  FOR  ONE  YEAR’S  SUBSCRIPTION  TO  THIS  PAPER, 
“ THE  MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN. ”  WE  SELL  THIS  CIGAR  TO  BUT  ONE 
DEALER  IN  A  PLACE.  SO  SECURE  THIS  PAPER  FOR  ONE  YEAR  FREE, 
AND  THE  AGENCY  FOR  THE  BEST-SELLING  5  CENT  CIGAR  ON THE JtJR - 
KET  BEFORE  YOU  ARE  TOO  LATE.

GEO. T. WARREN & CO., Flint, Mich.
CUKTISS, DUNTON & 00,

FEBRUARY  1ST,  1886.

WECOXiESSALE

PAPER, W OODENW AEE,

TWINES,  CORDAGE,  ETC.

Siifior ail 1-2 ail 1-2 Elite’ Twice ail Will Twine.

LYON  ST.,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  M I C H .

CHOICE  BUTTER A  SPECIALTY-! 
CALIFORNIA  AND  OTHER  FOREIGN  AND 
DOMESTIC  FRUITS  AND VEGETABLES.  Care­
ful Attention Paid to Filling  Orders.

M.  O.  RUSSELL, 48 Ottawa st., Grand Ranids.

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Wholesale  k  Gonunission—Batter  k Eggs  a  Specialty.

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

CORRESPONDENCE  SOLICITED.

No. 1 Egg Crates  for Sale.  Stevens’ No. 1 patent fillers used.  50 cents each.

I 97  and 99 Canal Street, 

- 

Grand Rapids, M ichigan

H E S T E R   &  FOX,

M A N U F A C T U R E R S  A G E N T S  FO R

S A W   A N D  CRIST MILL MACHINER?
Send for 
C atalogue 

Pnces. ATLAS

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IN D IA N A P O L IS .  IN D .,  U.  S .  A .
__________ M A N U F A C T U R E R S   O F
STEAM ENGINES & BOILER
Carry Engines and  Boilers in Stock 

for  immediate  delivery.

Planers, M atchers, M oudlers and all kinds of W ood-W orking M achinery, 

Saws, Belting and Oils.

And Dodge’s Patent Wood Split Pnlley.  Large stock kept on  hand.  Send  for  sample  pulley 

and become convinced of their superiority.

W rite  for  P r ic e s.

1 3 0   O A K E S   S T R E E T .  G R A N D   R A P ID S .  M IC H

JOBBERS  IN

DRY  GOODS,

8 3   M o n ro e   St.,

AND  10,  12,  14,  16  AND  18  FOUNTAIN  STREET, 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Peerless Carpet Warps and Geese Feathers a Specialty.

APPLES!

W e have a large Western order trade for Apples in car lots, as well as a good local 
demand, and also handle both Evaporated and Sun-dried Apples largely. 
If you  have 
any of these goods to ship, or any Potatoes or Beans, let us hear from you, and we will 
keep  you  posted on market price and prospects.  Liberal cash advances made on dried 
fruit, also on apples in car lots.

EARL BROS., Commission Merchants,

Beferenee—Fiwt National Bank. 

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157  S.  WATER  ^T.,  CHICAGO,  ILL.

DEALERS fflBAff FURS A l DEES SÜNS.

SEND  FOR  PRICE-LIST TO

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Nos.  122 and  124 Louis St., Corner Fulton,

G rrana Hapid.te, M id i

W H O L ESA L E   D E A L E R   IN

Butter, Eggs, Pop  Corn,

Green and Dried Fruits,

POP  CORN A   SPECIALTY.

Write me for prices.

W .  T. LONG,  VICKSBURG,  MICH.

O. W. BLAIN &
Fornii  r i lie s !   Fruits, S it a   Veietils, Etc.

--------D E A L E R S   IN --------

We handle on Commission BERRIES, Etc.  All orders filled at lowest market price.  Corres­
pondence solicited.  APPLES  AND  POTATOES  in car lots  Specialties. 
NO.  O  IONIA  ST.
P E R K I N S   c§s  H E S S ,
Hides, Furs, W ool & Tallow,

D E A L E R S   IN

NOS.  122  am i  124  LO U IS  S T R E E T ,  G RA N D   R A P ID S .  M IC H IG A N . 

____________WE  CARRY  A  STOCK  OF  CAKE TALLOW  FOR  MILL  USE.

G .  R .  M A T H E W ,

JOBBER  OF

ALASKA  WITH  CRESCENT  IIEEL  PLATE. 

fears three times as loni amt Keeps from slipping

,

The Trade Supplied with Arctics, Alaskas and Sandals with 

the Crescent Heel Plates.

Agent for Woonsocket, Wales-Goody ear and Meyer 

Rubber Companies.

SB  Monro©  St.,  Grand Rapids,  Mich..

H. LEONARD & SONS

Grrand.  R a p id s ,  M ieli.
T H E   L A T E S T

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36
50
60

A  BIG  DEAL XXT  CROCKERY.

7 in., .96; 1  doz. 8 in.,  1.40 
60c;  1  doz. 24, 75 

No. 2 Two Cone Burner 
5.40 per doz.
6.30 per doz.
No. 2 Three Cone Burner 
Frosted Chim. for 2 or 3 cone burner  1.50 per doz. 
Plain Chim. for 2 or 3 cone burner 
1.25 per doz.
Assorted Crate KNOWLES,TAYLOR & KNOWLES, Thirds, Diamond K.
9 doz. 5 inch Plates
3.24
20 doz. 7 inch Plates
10.00
6 doz. 8 inch Plates
3.60
3 doz. Bakers,  1  doz. 6 in., .75;  1  doz.
3.11
3 doz. Bowls,  1  doz. 36, 50;  1  doz. 30,
1.85
1  doz. Covered Chambers, 9 
4.00
1-2 doz. Open Chambers, 9 
1.50
1.50
6 doz. Fruit Saucers, 4 in. 
1.60
1-2 doz. Covered Butters, 5 in. 
1-2 doz. Covered Dishes,  1-4 doz. 7 in.,
1.70
1-3 doz. Ewers and Basins, 9 
2.20
4 doz. Scollop Nappies, 1 doz. 5 in., 60;,1 doz.
3.76
6, 76;  1  doz. 7,  1.00;  1 doz. 8 1.40 
1  doz. Platters 1-4 9,  1 ; 1-4 10,  1.60;
1.90
1-4 11, 2.14;  1-4 12,2.84 
8.16
24 Sets Hand St. Dennis Teas 
6.24
14 Sets Unhandled St. Dennis Teas 
2.00
$56.36
A Ml lime of Bargain Counter Goods,  Send for lllnstrated Catalope.

3.20;  1-4 8 in., 3.60 

3.00 
.25 
3 20 

Package, 

.34 
.26 

6.60 

 

