Michigan  Tradesman.

VOL. 3.

GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICHIGAN,  W EDNESDAY,  MARCH  24,  1886.

A. H. FOWLE,
FINE  W ALL  PAPERS,

House Decorator and Dealer in

Room Mouldings,

Window Shades,
Artist Materials

PICTURES,

PICTURE FRAMES,
Paints, Oil & Glass.

And  a full  line of

Enamel  Letters,  Numbers  and  Door 
Plates,  and all kinds of Embossed,  Cut and 
Ornamental Glass.

Special attention given to House Decorat­
ing and Furnishing,  and  to  the  designing 
and furnishing of stained glass.

37 Ionia Street, South of Monroe.

Only 35 Cents.

So confident are we that  Dr.  Pete’s  35 cent 
Cough Cure will not disappoint  the  most  san­
guine  expectations  of  a  single  broken-dawn 
consumptive invalid that we warrant it.  Had 
we not the most perfect confidence  in  its vir­
tues, we would not thiuk of  offering  it  as we 
do.  Sold by Hazeltine, Perkins &  Co.,  whole­
sale druggists. Grand Rapids, Mich.

GRANELLO,

MERCHANT

TAILOR,

LEDYARD  BLOCK,

107 Ottawa St.

Suitings for Manufacturers,

Suitings for Jobbers,

Suitings for Retailers,

Suitings for Traveling Men, 

Suitings for Clerks,

AND

Overcoats for Everybody.

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.

Merchants  Need  It for Marking Signs, Pla­
cards,  Hoots and Shoes,  Crockery, Etc, 
Can be used with any ink  or  fluid  One  each  of  the 
two different sizes of Pens for 50e.;  three  for  60e.;  to­
gether with Charts showing the construction  of differ­
ent styles of letters, directions, etc.,  sent  post-paid  on 
receipt of postal notes or two-eent stamps.
On receipt of $ 1,1 will send with  the  marking  set  a 
package of powder that will make twro quarts of mark­
ing fluid.  Wm. Trenkle, Portville, Catt.Co.,N,Y.

NEW  BRANDS
CIGARS 1

OF

SUNSHINE,
STANDARD,
ROYAL  BIRD,
KEY  VEST,
LOVE  LETTER, 
BUNNY,
I  SHOULD  BLUSH, 
DICTATOR.
Coldwater Goods,

ABOVE  ARE  ALL

OF  WHICH  WE  HAVE  THE. 

EXCLUSIVE  SALE.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Our  Special

Plug  Tobaccos.
3 butts.
.36
SPRING CHICKEN
.33
MOXIE
.30
ECLIPSE

1 butt.
.38
.35
.30.
Above brands for sale only by

OLNEr, Shields & I¡0.
DETROIT
FREE

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

PRESS

CIGAR.

10c Cigar for 5c.

Brown  Bros.

MANUFACTURERS, 

DETROIT, 

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M ICH.

LUDWIG WINTERNITZ,
Ferm entum ,

STATE  AGENT  FOK

THE  ONLY  RELIABLE

Compressed Yeast.

Man'f’d by Knrerdale Dist. Co.

106 Kent  Street, Grand  Rapids,  Michigan,

TELEPHONE  566.

Grocers, bakers and others can secure the agency for 
their town on this Yeast by applying to above address.

A Warning.

Pain is given for the wise purpose of inform- 
ntr us  of  the presence  of danger and disease, 
iny little  excitement  of  an  unusual  nature 
listurbs  the  balance of  the  system, the ner­
vous  energies  are  exhausted,  and  headache 
md a hundred other disturbances  are  the  re­
sult.  Many  of  the  miseries  of  modern man 
ind womanhood might be cured and  prevent­
ed were their  approach  heeded  and  resisted, 
taving  their  origin  in  derangements  of the 
iver and blood, dyspepsia,  jaundice,  indiges- 
ion, costiveness and other unwholesome  con­
ations.  Evils of a diseased nature find  a cer- 
;ain cure by the use of Golden Seal Hitters.  In 
his  medicine, nature,  aided  by  art,  has  pro- 
luced a rare combination  of  medicinal  prop­
erties, wisely adapted for>ihe cure of  diseases 
¡omraon to mankind.  The vitilizing principles 
embodied in Golden Seal Bitters will assuredly 
eure the broken down dyspeptic.  Sold by Haz- 
eltine,  Perkins  &  Co.,  wholesale  druggists, 
irand Rapids, Mich. 

PLUS  TOBACCO.
TURKEY .39
Big 5 Cents, 
.35
A  Q
Dainty  , with  each butt, f  ■

I A  fine  revolver I 

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All above brands for sale only by

WHOLESALE  GROCERS,

R A N D   R A P ID S, 

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MICH.

Agents  for a  full  line  of

S. I. Venable & Co.’s

PETERSBURG,  VA.,

FZ.TJG  TOBACCOS,
NIMROD,
E.  C.,

BLUE  RETER,

SPREAD  EAGLE,

BIG FIVE CENTER.

Sweet  16
Laundry Soap
OBERNE, HOSICK & CO.

MANUFACTURED  BY

CHICAGO,  ILL.

FZXTGBBB A SMITH
Boots, Shoes and Slippers

Wholesale Manufacturers

DETROIT,  MICH.

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Company.  flFf

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

JOBBER  OF

LUDWIG  WINTERNITZ,
Pure  Apple Cider & W hite Wine
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As  the  Vinegar  season  is  now  begrinningr. those  in 
need  of  Vinegars  warranted  full  strength  and  abso­
lutely pure should send  for  samples  of  my  goods,  or 
drop a postal card and I will call.  Telephone 5 6 6 . 
106 Kent St.,  Grand Rapids,  Mich.

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PLUG TOBACCO 7 
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GUSTAVE  A.  WOLF,

Attorney,

Over Fourth National Bank.  Telephone  407. 

COLLECTIONS

Promptly attended to throughout the State. 
References:  Hart <fc Amberg,  Eaton &  Christen­

son, Enterprise Cigar Co.

TO  TU B  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,  an4  shall 
hereafter be able to fill all orders promptly.
We 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 of the
REM INGTON  TY PE  W R IT E R

For  Western  Michigan.

Eaton & Lyon
20 and 22 Monroe St., Grand Rapids, Mich.
G. KOTS  c&  CO.,
2  Pearl  St.,  Grand  Kapids,  M idi.

W liips cfe? Laslios

Having been witnesses of the  truly  miracu­
lous cures made by Golden Seal Bitters, we do 
not hesitate to say that there is uo other  rem­
edy for blood, liver, stomach, and  kidney  dis­
eases, half its equal.

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JOBBERS of SADDLERY HARDWARE

And Full Line Winter Goods.

102  CANAL  NTKKET.

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

GRAND  RAPIDS  GRAIN  AND  SEED  CO.

71 CANAL STREET.

ALBERT  COYE & SON,
2LWXTXXTGS, TEN TS

---------MANUFACTURERS  OF---------

HORSE  AND  WAGON  COVERS. 

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN 

73  Canal Street,, 

-  Grand  Rapids, Mich.

Oiled Clothing, Ducks, Stripes, Etc.
GZXTSBXTG BOOT.
We pay the highest price for it.  Address
Peck Bros.,  Druggists, Grand Rapids, Mich.
A R T H T O  B.. FOOD,

ATTORNEY,

C O M M E R C IA L   L A W   and  L O A N S , 

43 Pearl St., Grand Rapids, Mich. 

Refers by  permission  to  Foster,  Stevens & 
Co.,  Peck  Bros.,  Nat’l  City  Bank,  Morgan  Sc 
Avery, E. A. Stowe. 

EDMUND  B.  DIKEMAN,

Telephone  call  375.

JEW E L E R

44  CANAL  STREET,

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GRAND  RAPIDS,
MICH.
W E   L E A   I>— O  T H E R S   F O L L O W .
is  valuable.  The 
G r a n d   R a p i d s  
Business College is 
a  practical  trainer 
and fits its pupils for the vocations of busi­
ness with all that the  term  implies.  Send 
for Journal.  Address C. G. SWENSBERG, 
Grand Rapids,  Mich.

The Old Country Store.

How well I remember,
(Perhaps you do too),
When the towns were much smaller, 
And the country was new,
How the mails came on horseback, 
Once a week, past our door,
And were straightway delivered 
At the old country store.

There were dry goods and  blankets 
Mixed up with the news;
There was ready-made clothing. 
Hats and caps, boots and shoes; 
There were large candy apples, 
Which were red to the  core;
And fat candy babies 
At that old country store.

How often I  ventured,
While awaiting the mail,
To price the toy playthings 
I found there for sale.
There were no “Five-Cent Counters” 
In those glad days of yore;
And ’twas seldom I purchased 
At the old country store.
A cheap line of hardware,
Filled up the back end,
And a few crooked scythe-snaths, 
With a natural bend.
Were kept in a barrel 
Which stood near the door,
With things large and small,
In that old country store.

There were needles and thimbles, 
Tobacco and licorice.
New Orleans molasses,
All under one roof.

Horse-collars and cheese,
Live rats and brisk flies;
Almost too thick to pour.
In that old country store.

COUNTERFEIT  MONEY.

A Bank Cashier  W ho  Says there is  Little 

of It in Circulation.

“Is there much counterfeit  money in  cir­
culation here?” was  asked  of  a bank cash­
ier.

“But  little,”  was  his  reply.  “It  is  not 
often that I come across a counterfeit Ameri­
can bill,  but  there  is considerable  counter­
feit Canadian money afloat.  There are more 
spurious silver dollars  than  any other kind 
of money.  By  more,  I  mean more  pieces. 
Li paper  money the  85  bills  take  the lead 
and the 810 come next.

“How do you tell  a  counterfeit bill from 

a good one?”

“By the feeling,  I guess,  as  much as any 
other way.  One  who  is continually handl­
ing  money  becomes  so  familiar  with  the 
feeling  of a  bill  that he  can tell  when he 
gets hold of a bad one.  There is something 
about the  paper  in  an  American  bank bill 
that counterfeiters can’t imitate.  After sus­
picion is aroused as to  the genuineness of a 
bill a careful examination will usually bring 
to light some defect that  leaves no doubt of 
the counterfeit.  We  have a  description of 
all counterfeit  money  afloat  that  has been 
detected.  This gives the  denomination,  is­
sue and all defects in the bill.”

“What do you do  with  a  counterfeit bill 

when it is discovered?”

“The law compels us to cancel it.  There 
are  different  ways  of  doing  this. 
I use  a 
rubber stamp  and  red  ink  and  stamp  the 
word ‘counterfeit’ across the face of the bill. 
Some use clippers that  cut  the word ‘coun­
terfeit’ in tire bill,  and still others use a clip­
per  that  makes  an  ordinary  hole  in  the 
bill.”

“How do you detect counterfeit silver and 

gold coins?”

“Usually by the  weight,  but  sometimes 
by the color,  which is  seldom good.  Coun­
terfeiters have  as  yet  been  unable  to  find 
metals of less value than gold and silver that 
will readily pass for them.  Counterfeit sil­
ver dollars have a  peculiar  greasy  appear­
ance  that  a  practiced  eye  will  detect  at 
once.”

“Do you destroy  counterfeit  coins  when 

they are offered at the bank?”

“Yes.  A little muriatic aqid poured upon 
them will deface them so that they can nev­
er be passed again.”

“What  is  done  with  mutilated  coins? 
There is not much mutilated silver  in circu­
lation.  Whenever  a  piece is palmed off on 
us we sell it for old  metal.  There is a dis­
count of  30  per  cent,  on  mutilated  silver. 
There is more mutilated gold in  circulation. 
Gold is treated  iu  the  same  manner as sil­
ver,  but  the  discount  is  only  5  per  cent. 
Still that is enough to destroy the profit that 
might  otherwise  be  made  by  punching or 
drilling out a piece of coin.  The heavy dis­
count on silver  has  done  away  almost  en­
tirely with the mutilation of that coin.”

The Spotter—No.  i.

Henderson  is  my name—Clark  B.  Hen­
derson.  Yes,  I’ve  been  with  the  C.  & A. 
about seventeen year  now.  How  did I get 
my posish?  I went to work for them when 
I was a kid,  sweepin’out offices and cleanin’ 
windows,  doin’  odd  chores  for  the  high 
joints,  and by-and-by I used  to go out with 
the tack hammer men and help them put up 
the  quarter  sheets  and  posters.  And  one 
day the high-joint of  the  passenger depart­
ment,  he  came  to  me  and  said,  said  he, 
‘Look here,  Clark,  come up to my office this 
evening; I want to  talk  with  you.  And I 
ducked my  head  and  says,  ‘Yes,  sir,’  and 
when evenin’ come,  why,  I went  up to his 
office,  and  he  told  me  like  this:  “Now, 
Clark,  we want  to  do  something  for  you. 
You’ve been with us a long  time,  and prov­
ed satisfactory to us.  How would  you like 
to travel and advertise  the  road and get up 
excursions and  see  that  all  our  offices are 
supplied with folders,  etc.?  Just  travel on 
our own road,  you know.”  “Well,” says I,
“I wouldn’t want anything better, M r.----- ,
and I.think I could  do the  work  first-rate,

seein’ as how I’ve  been tack-hammerin’,  off 
an’  on,  for some  time.”  “Hum,”  he says, 
kinder dry like,  “that  would  not  be  all  of 
your duty.  We would  also  require  you to 
send in weekly reports  as to  how much the 
conductors  collected.  You  understand?” 
And  he  looked  at  me  sharp  and  piercin’ 
like.  “Oh-h-h,”  says I.  “Yes,”  says  he.
Well,  I undertook the job of  spottin’ and 
the next Monday I made  my first  trip,  and 
I’ve been at it ever since, off an on, for eight 
years now,  on the  main  lines and branches 
of this road and its leased lines.

No,  there’s  nothing  near as  mean  about 
it as you’d suppose,  not if  you  work it as I 
do.  You see,  I kinder give  the boys to un­
derstand what I was adoin’ and they are sor­
ter careful when  I’m aboard,  and then once 
in a while they hands me a fiver or a tenner, 
and  it sort o’ works  around  all O.  K.,  you 
see.

Oh, yes,  I  could  tell  you  lots  o’ things 
about  conductors,  but 1 won’t  tell  you but 
two or three.  We once  had a man  on this 
same run,  who was  the  meanest  old duffer 
you  ever  saw;  and honest?  well,  I  should 
say  so.  Why,  say,  that  feller  once  brung 
his old mother from one  station  to another, 
and when he sent in  his  report,  he charged 
himself  up  with  her  ride  of  three  miles. 
Well,  it made the  company suspicious,  and 
by-ahd-by,  one day I caught  on to him,  and 
he got the  G.  B.  Why,  the  travelin’  boys 
give me a vote of thanks for that,  he was so 
hated by one and all.  And then  there was
Sam B----- ,  the best hearted  man that  ever
punched  a  ticket,  but  he  was  crazy,  just 
looney,  sir.  We  missed  a lot  o’ local tick­
ets,  and suspicion fell  onto  him,  and when 
we searched his house, we  found over three 
hundred  local  tickets  in  an  old  valise  of 
his.  Nobody knows  what  he was going to 
do with them.  Then  we  had  another one. 
He was a dandy at  the  biz,  you bet.  That 
feller was only with us three year, and then 
he owned a  business  block  and  three resi­
dences in I----- ,  and his  wife  used to bring
him to the  train  and  fetch  him  home in a 
phaeton.  No,  I  didn’t  report  him; he  re­
signed.  He’s in the  grain  trade,  in I----- ,
now.  Ah,  thanks;  I’ll  smoke  this  after a 
bit.  Got to get  off  here,  eh?  Well,  good- 
by.  Hope you’ll sell lots o’ stuff here.  See 
you again some time. 

Leo. A.  Caro.

Maxims for  Merchants.

Never sell the  bear  skin  until  you have 

killed the bear.

Receive 

the  gifts  of  fortune  without 
pride,  and  part  with  them  without  reluc­
tance.

Many a man who prides  himself on being 
self-made is simply  a  product  of  his  good 
wife.

Habit is the deepest law of human nature. 
It  is  our  supreme  strength  and  our  most 
miserable weakness.

But it out of  the  power  of  truth  to give 
you an ill-character,  and if  anybody reports 
you not to be an honest man let  your  prac­
tice give him the lie.

There is none made  so  great  but he may 
need both the help and service and stand in 
fear of the power  and  unkindness  even of 
the meanest of mortals.

Dishonest  gain is  a  hoard  of sorrows,  a 
heap  of  miseries,  a  mass of  corruption,  a 
consuming rust and  canker,  and  if  this be 
not enough,  a treasure of wrath.

The qualities of a true gentleman  depend 
not  upon  fashion  or  manners,  but  upon 
moral worth,  not upon  personal possession, 
but upon personal qualities.

A rule, proper to be observed in all occur­
rences of  life,  but  more  especially  in  the 
domestic or matrimonial part of it,  is to pre­
serve always a disposition to be pleased.

If you wish success  in  life  make  perse­
verance your bosom friend,  experience  your 
wise counsellor, country your elder brother, 
and hope your genius.

It is base to filch a  purse,  daring to steal 
a hundred thousand, but great beyond meas­
ure to embezzle  millions.  The  sin  lessens 
in  human  estimate  only  as  the  guilt  in­
creases.

Obstinacy,  or the dread of control and dis­
cipline,  arises not so much from self-willed­
ness as from a conscious defect of voluntary 
powers; as fool-hardiness is not  seldom the 
disguise of conscious timidity.

ft is not wise to fret under our  trials; the 
high-mettled  horse  that  is  restive  in  the 
yoke only galls his  shoulder;  the  poor bird 
that dashes  itself  against  the  bars  of  the 
cage only ruffles its feathers and aggravates 
the suffering of captivity.

Fxperience keeps  a dear school, but fools 
will learn in no other,  and  scarcely in that, 
for it is true  we  may  give  advice,  but  we 
cannot  give 
this: 
They that will not  be  counseled  cannot be 
helped.

conduct.  Remember 

Hope is a prodigal young heir and Exper­
ience is his  banker, but  his drafts  are  sel­
dom honored, since there  is often  a  heavy 
balance against him, because he draws large­
ly on a small  capital  he  is  not  yet in pos­
session of,  and,  if he were,  would die.

Economy is the parent of integrity, of lib­
erty and of ease; and the beauteous sister of 
temperance,  of  cheerfulness  and  health. 
And profuseness  is a cruel  and  crafty  de­
mon, that  gradually involves  her followers 
in dependence  and  debt,  that  fetters them 
with  “irons that enter their souls.”

NO. 131.

The W est  Side  Grocer.

My pa keaps a  store  and  sells  grocerys, 
and pa tuk me from scule and put me in the 
store to help him.

Pa has got a  Customer  that  trades  with 
him  who  is  a  Demy  Krat,  and  when  he 
cums in the  store  pa  tanks  like  he  was a 
Demy  Krat  tu,  but  pa  is a  Green Backer, 
caus he  said  so tu ina.  When  a kustomer 
cums in that is a re-Publican  pa  tauks like 
he was a re-Publican,  he  told  ma it pais tu 
do  so,  and  pa  says  those  blasted  Demy 
Krats are the caus  of all the hard times and 
then he and the re-Publican man goes in the 
next door and sees a man.  Pa  always says 
he wants to see a man when he is dri.

Pa has got a new  man  to drive the  horse 
and deliver  goods,  but  the  new  man  does 
not  no  mutch  about  delivering  grocerys. 
Pa told him not to  put all one  man’s goods 
in one baskit,  but to take 3 or 4 baskits and 
make it look  like  busy niss  and then when 
the man starts off  with  a big wagon lode of 
goods he has got  2 or 3 kustoniers  goods in 
about 20  baskits  and  pa  told  him to  driv 
like hell and  make  folks  think  he has  got 
lots of busy niss  and  is  in  a  hurry to  get 
bak for more.  When the new man was go­
ing tu take the baskits out of  the wagon pa 
said not tu caus it wild  show better than an 
empty wagon.

Trade is awful dull  and pa  says he can’t 
stand  it.  When  pa  asks  a  kustomer  for 
some  money and says he  has to  meat some 
drafs,  the  kustomer  always  has  a story to 
tell about sickness in the family and  dokter 
bills tu pay. 
I hurd  pa  say tu  our dokter 
that  his customers always  pay dokter  bills 
first and  let  the  grocery  bills  run  and the 
dokter says taint  so, caus  his  pashents al­
ways tell  him  they hav  tu  pay  thayr  gro­
cery bills and let him wate.

Pa bot  some  blitter  from  a  onest farmer 
the other day and the  butter  was  in 2 nice 
big  rolls,  it  looked  so  nice  and  smelt  so 
sweet that pa didn’t tri  it and  when a kus­
tomer cum in and  wanted a half  of one roll 
pa cut it and inside of it was the  skunkiest 
butter lever saw,  it smelt so lowd pa tuk it 
and put it  in  an  empty  sour  krout  barral 
back of the store  and it  busted the hups off 
the barral.  Pa  sais he will  get even  with 
the onest fanner. 

Pa lias got some horseradish in the store 
and tother day a lady cum in for some horse 
radish and pa tanked  about it being so nice 
and I  wanted  to  say  something  tu  and I 
told the  lady that  this  horse  radish  want 
made from the  old white  horse I saw them 
take to the gin factory,  then  the lady didn’t 
want the horse radish and pa said goldarnye 
and kicked me out of the  store and I  didn’t 
show again ontil the  next day. 
I got  even 
with pa tho when  he tuk off  his buuts that 
nite I slipped a 10 ownz tack in one of them 
and now pa can’t  hardly  wank.

Pa sent me down cellar to pick over pota- 
tos and I got tired  of it and  commenced to 
fire rotten  potatos  at  his  pet Kat  and  the 
Kat run up stairs  and  jumped in a chest of 
tee,  and when I looked in thair the Kat had 
a  nest  of  Kittens  in  the  tee.  Pa  didn’t 
no anything about it  and  when a  lady cum 
in and wanted a Chois Japan  tee pa put the 
dish in the chest  tu taik  out some to put in 
the Skail  and dipped out a measly dirty lit­
tle Kitten and pa tuk  the  Kitten  by the fly 
switcher and threw it over  the  counter ami 
the kitten  lit in a  baskit of eggs  and broak 
2 dozen.  Pa was awful  mad  and he empt­
ied  the  rest  of  the  Kittens  in  the  suar, 
and then he sold the Tee for Chois Tee tu a 
boarding haus.

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Digestibility  of  Cheese.

From the Jour. Chemical Society.

Of  the  eighteen  varieties  experimented 
with,  Cheddar was  digested in the shortest 
time  (four hours),  while unripe skim  Swiss 
cheese  required  ten  hours  for  solution. 
There is no difference in the  digestibility of 
all sorts of  hard  cheese,  or all  soft cheese, 
but all fat  cheeses  are  dissolved  the most 
rapidly,  because,  being  open  by reason of 
the fat,  they are the  more  readily attacked 
by the solvent.  There is no  connection be­
tween the digestibility  and  the  percentage 
of water present in the cheese.,  but there is 
some connection with the  percentage of fat 
and the degree of ripeness.  From  examin­
ation of the quantity of  nitrogen  dissolved, 
the author concludes  that,  on account of its 
great digestibility,  cheese  is the most nour­
ishing of all foods, meat and eggs excepted.

A  Sharp  Grocer.

A grocer who  suspected  a  competitor  of 
crookedness in his dealings with  customers 
saw an  advertisement  in  one  of  the  local 
papers,  in  which  the  aforesaid  competitor 
offered twelve pounds  of  granulated  sugar 
for one dollar.  So he called a boy that was 
passing  his  store,  gave  him  a  dollar  and 
sent him for a dollar’s worth  of  granulated 
sugar.  When the  boy  returned,  he put the 
dollar’s worth of sugar  on the  scales and it 
weighed  eleven  pounds  and  five  ounces. 
When customers say now that they can  buy 
twelve pounds of granulated  sugar at a cer­
tain  store for a dollar,  the  aforesaid  dealer 
exhibits  the  dollar  package  purchased  by 
him and puts it  on  the  scales  to  convince 
them that the  heathen  Chinese  are not the 
only ones proficient  in  “ways that are  dark 
and tricks that are vain.”

A JOURNAL. DEVOTED TO THE

Mercantile and Manufacturing Interests of the Slate.

.  E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

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

WEDNESDAY,  MARCH  24,  1886.

Merchants and Manufacturers’ Exchange.
Organized at Grand Rapid* October 8,1884.

President—Lester J. Rindge.
Vice-President—Chas. H. Leonard.
Treasurer—Geo. B.  Dunton.
Annual Meeting—Second  Wednesday evening 
of October.
Regular  Meetings—Second  Wednesday  even- 
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.  Wosgate;  Vice-President. 

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

L uther Protective Association. 

President, W. B. Pool:  Vice-President, R. M. 
Smith;  Secretary. Jas.  M.  Verity;  Treasurer, 
Geo. Osborne.
Ionia  Business  Men’s  Protective  As­

sociation.

President, Wm.  E.  Kelsey;  Vice-President, 

H. M. Lewis;  Secretary, Fred Cutler, Jr.

Ovid Business Men’s Association.
President, C.  H.  Hunter:  Secretary,  Lester 

Cooley.

0 F   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.

POSTAL  SAVINGS  BANKS.

The  House  Committee  on  Banking  has 
been  hearing  an  argument  from a number 
of philanthropic  people  in  favor of a  post- 
office  savings  bank  system.  The  case  of 
the New York savings banks was especially 
urged as  showing  the  need  for  a Govern­
ment  guarantee.  Nearly  four  and  a  half 
millions of dollars  has  been  lost to deposi­
tors in that  State  by  the dishonesty of the 
managers  of  savings  banks.  This  is  not 
much more than one per cent,  of  the depos­
its in that  State,  but  the  effect in discour­
aging not only  such  deposits,  but the very 
habit of saving,  is much more serious.  For 
this  reason,  if for no  other,  it was said the 
Government  should  do  as  much  for  its 
poorer people, as England, France and Can­
ada do for theirs.

While The Tradesm an is inclined to the 
opinion that building and  loan  associations 
are much  better  in  their way than savings 
banks as depositories for  the savings of the 
poor,  the absence of the former would seem 
to render  necessary  the  establishment of a 
national savings bank system in  connection 
witli  the  postoffice  department.  The only 
difficulty that lies in the way is this:  What 
is the  Government to do  with the money it 
thus  receives?  In England an  investment 
js found for it by the  Commissioners of the 
Sinking Fund for  the  extinction of the na­
tional debt.  France  and  Canada  are  bor­
rowing countries,  and  are  glad of access to 
these small  accumulations.  America alone 
has no use  for them. 
It is not  possible to 
invest them in our Governsnent bonds to ad­
vantage,  and it would be a delicate business 
for the  Nation  to create a privileged list of 
State,  municipal and  corporation  bonds for 
such  a purpose.

The  recent  death  of  P.  Chamberlain,  at 
Glen Haven,  is a  pathetic  ending to an ex­
istence  which  met  more  of  the  ups  and 
downs  incident to human  life  than falls to 
the lot of most mortals.  Twenty years ago, 
when the grain carrying  trade of  the Great 
Lakes was at the height of its prosperity Mr. 
Chamberlain  owned  a  controlling  interest 
in  the  fifteen  staunch  vessels  comprising 
the Northern  Transportation Co.  The fierce 
competition engendered  by the construction 
of rival trunk railway  lines  transferred the 
bulk  of the grain  from  water to  land,  and 
the loss of this  business,  coupled  with  the 
destruction  of  several  vessels  by fire  and 
shipwreck,  brought  him  face  to  face with 
comparative  adversity. 
Instead  of  losing 
heart and  giving  up,  as  most  men  would 
have done  under  similar  circumstances,  he 
diligently  applied  himself  to  the manage­
ment of  a small  sawmill  business  at  Glen 
Haven.  Although  broken  in  health  and 
strength,  he pursused the  only avenue open 
to him.  until death overtook him at the post 
of  duty.  Such  a  career  furnishes  abun­
dant proof of the elasticity of  modern  busi­
ness life and the apparent  ease  with which 
it can adapt itself to circumstances.  It should 
also  serve  as  an  inspiration  to those  who 
have not achieved the success they aspire to 
and encourage them to further and continued 
effort.

The great strike on what is known as the 
Gould System of railways  is  an instance of 
the injudicious use of  power which associa­
tion confers upon workingmen.  There was 
no  question  of  hours  or  wages  at  stake. 
There was  nothing that  called  for arbitra­
tion or  even  concession.  The  only  griev­
ance was  the  dismissal  of a man  from the 
Texas Pacific road because—as was believed 
—he had  been absent  from  his  post to at­
tend  a  meeting  of  the  Knights  of  Labor, 
whereas subsequent events have established 
the fact that he was  “off on a  drunk.”  On 
the suspicion that the former  was the cause 
of  his dismissal,  thousands  of  men on that 
and  a  related  road  ceased  working,  and 
tliose  who  continued  at  their  work  were 
threatened  with  the  most  serious  conse­
quences to  themselves  and  their  families. 
In some cases.  Afolence  to  person  and  to

property  was  offered. 
In  this  case  the 
strikers have alienated rather than attracted 
public opinion,  and the prospect  that  these 
roads may resume  operations without them 
is contemplated  with  no  regret  Little as 
Mr. Jay  Gould  is  liked  or  respected,  it  is 
felt that in this case his managers  stand for 
justice and fair  play in  resisting  these de­
mands.

That boycotting is not likely to remain in 
the hands of  the  working  classes  only,  is 
shown by the  action  of  the merchants and 
fanners at  Hastings,  Nebraska»  They are 
disgusted with  the  treatment they have re­
ceived from a railroad  which  runs through 
the place,  and they have resolved to  extend 
no further patronage to it until they get sat­
isfaction.  As the town is happy  enough to 
be situated at the junction  of two railroads, 
the  boycotting  may  be  effective.  But the 
worst oppressed places are those which have 
but one such  connection,  and  which cannot 
resort to this remedy.

The national  meeting of  dairymen,  to be 
composed of  delegates  from  the State and 
district dairy  organizations,  to consider the 
subject  of  congressional  legislation for the 
suppression  or  regulation  of  the  sale  of 
bogus butter and cheese, has been postponed 
until  early  fall.  The  convention  will  be 
held at Chicago.

The  present  week  winds  up  the  oyster 
business 
for  the  season,  the  Baltimore 
packers having put-up a forfeit agreeing not 
to fill any orders after  April 1.  New York 
packers will continue  to  receive and fill or­
ders for high-priced stock, but the increased 
transportation charges  will serve  as a prac­
tical shut out.

Muir is alive to the benefits of  a retailers’ 
association and  one  of  her  merchants  has 
written  The  T radesm an  relative  to  the 
proper course to  pursue to effect  an organi­
zation of the kind.

Luther comes to the front this  week with 
a  full-fledged  retail  merchants’  organiza­
tion.

AMONG  THE  TRADE.

IN  THE  CITY.

Colton & Yercade, meat dealers, have sold 

out.

Simon  Jauskefsky,  grocer  and  saloon 

keeper,  has sold out.

J.  H.  Brown succeeds M.  H.  Johnson & 
Co.  in the dry goods  business on South  Di­
vision street.

E.  P.  Kidder & Co.  have effected a settle­
ment with all their creditors  on the basis of 
25 per cent.  cash.

T.  M.  Sweetland has sold  his confection­
ery business  at  Bay  City  to  Geo.  P.  Hall 
and Edward J.  Buzzard.

M.  C. Sessions & Co., after an experience 
of less than six months  in the grocery busi­
ness,  will retire from trade.

J.  11.  Fraser has  engaged  in  the grocery 
business at 87  Monroe.  Bulkley,  Lemon & 
Hoops furnished the stock.

James D.  Sturtevant  has  engaged  in the 
grocery busiuess at  Whitehall.  The  stock 
was  furnished  by  Andrew  Wierengo,  of 
Muskegon.

Harvey  Cockell,  who  purchased  G.  A. 
Wagar’s  dry  goods  stock  at  Mears,  has 
added a line of groceries.  Arthur  Meigs & 
Co.  furnished the  stock.

H.  M.  Harroun,  general  dealer  and  saw­
mill operator at McLain,  obtained judgment 
in  the  Circuit  Court  here  Saturday  for 
$1,225.25 against J.  H.  Simmons and John 
J.  Williams for non-fulfillment of  contract.
Ludwig Winternitz,  State agent for “Fer- 
mentum,” has  recently established  the fol­
lowing  agencies:  E.  E.  Chase,  Lowell; 
Watt  &  Cahoon,  Saranac;  Geo.  Robson, 
Muir; J. G.  Watkin,  St.  Johns; J.  & W.  F. 
Pricker,  Belding;  Vine  &  Burley,  Ovid; 
Deloise Roosa,  Greenville.

The  Hazeltine  &  Perkins  Drug  Co.  has 
leased the three  story  brick block  fronting 
on Louis street,  in the rear of the store now 
occupied by the corporation,  and  will  con­
nect the two buildings  by  a  series of  arch­
ways.  The increase in room will enable the 
company  to  arrange  its  stock  much  more 
advantageously than  formerly.

Voigt,  Herpolsheimer  &  Co.  have  pur­
chased of R.  C.  Luce  the  block  comprising j 
the two stores at 46  and  48  Ottawa  street, 
and  have  already  taken  possession  of  the 
one adjoining their own block  at 50 Ottawa 
street.  The other store will be  occupied as 
soon as the lease  of  the  present tenant ex­
pires,  about four months  hence.  The three 
stores  will be  used  entirely  by the  whole­
sale department.

AROUND  THE  STATE.

W.  H.  Davis succeeds  J.  J.  Cretsinger in 

general trade at Richfield.

Green & Stanton have engaged in the gro­

cery business at Nashville.

Chas.  Kelly  succeeds  Chas.  Kelly &  Co. 

in general trade at AuSable.

Van Slyck &  Densmore  have engaged in 

general trade at Maple City.

A.  Sickles,  general  dealer at Walton,  has 

removed his stock to Elmira.

Hall  &  Co.  have  removed  their  grocery 

stock from Hillsdale to Detroit.

Obert & Sherman  succeed  Watson,  Obert 

& Co.  in general trade at Bancroft.

A. J.  Renan & Son,  grocers and druggists 

at Adrian,  have made an assignment

Herlick Bros,  succeed John F. Mack, Jr., 

in the grocery business at  Marquette.
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E. H.  Chamberlain succeeds  Bailey Bros, 

in the grocery business at Northville.

Babcock  Bros,  succeed  L.  E.  Taylor  & 

Co.  in general trade at North Bradley.

R.  B.  Holmes succeeds  Holmes  &  Leon­

ard in the clothing business at  Croswell.

Armstrong & Trevedick succeed N.  Budd 
& Co.  in the grocery business  at  East Sagi­
naw.

Chas.  Manke  succeeds  Manke  &  Kne- 
bush in the boot  and  shoe  busiuess at Ad­
rian.

Geo.  W.  King  succeeds  King & McCor­
mick in the grocery  business  at  East Sagi­
naw.

Oakes  &  Bidleman,  hardware  dealers  at 
Kalamazoo,  have  dissolved,  Bidleman  suc­
ceeding.

Retan  &  Son,  dealers  in  groceries  and 
drugs,  at  Hudson,  have  assigned  to  Ira 
Swaney.

Tompkins  &  Williams  succeeds  E.  H. 
Tompkins in the furniture  and undertaking 
business at Pontiac.

Will Boone,  general dealer  at  Bridgeton, 
has sold out to Geo. H. Rainonard, who will 
continue the business.

D.  W.  Brady—somewhat noted for crook­
edness-lias sold his furniture stock at Mor- 
ley to W. J. Arnett.

Jas.  L.  Crawley has purchased  an  inter­
est in the general stock of L. E. Stauffer, at 
Hastings.  The  firm  will  be  known  as 
Stauffer & Crawley.

W.  J.  Sloss has retired from the hardware 
firm of S.  S.  Wilcox &  Co.,  at Big Rapids, 
and will engage  in  the  agricultural  imple­
ment business at  that  place.  S.  S. Wilcox 
will continue the  hardware  business alone.
John W.  S.  Pierson,  the  Stanton  hard­
ware dealer,  has  moved  into a new  store, 
and has now one of the best displayed stocks 
in the State.  His  brother  has  been admit­
ted to partnership,  and  the  firm name will 
hereafter be John W.  S.  Pierson & Co.

M ANUFACTURING  MATTERS.

Bronson’s broom factory is turning out 15 

iozen brooms-pet day.

Mrs.  Geo.  Brown, has  sold  the  Bronson 

sawmill property to  F.  D.  Ellis.

Jones & Son will add a  band saw to their 

planing mill business at Muskegon.

The George L. Burtiss mill, at Marquette, 

will start up for the season on April 1.

Hills Bros,  succeed  Welsh  & Hills Bros, 
in the planing  mill  business  at  Frankfort.
Newton & Colby  succeed  N.  A.  Newton 
in the manufacture  of  buggies  at  Kalama­
zoo.

G.  M.  Smith  &  Co.  succeed  Temple, 
Smith & Co.  in the manufacture of shingles 
at Wilson.

D.  A.  Sperry has  bought  the  Coldwater 
wheelbarrow factory and will  convert it in­
to a road-cart factory.

Ingham  &  Denton  succeed  H.  C.  Camp­
bell & Co.,  in the ownership  of  the Centre- 
ville Knitting Mill Co.,  at Centreville.

The Port Austin  Manufacturing  Co.  will 
succeed Thos.  Winson & Co.,  general  deal­
ers and salt  manufacturers at Port  Austin, 
April 1.

Battle Creek  Knights  of  Labor  are put­
ting all their energies  into a project to start 
a co-operative  manufacturing  institution in 
that city.

P.  Chamberlain,  sawmill operator at Glen 
Haven,  was  found  dead  in  bed  recently. 
The  remains  were  taken  to  Cleveland  for 
interment.

The Blackmer  Paper Co.,  whose mill  at 
St. Joseph has been closed for over two years 
started  up  on  the  18th.  Employment  is 
given to 50 hands.

The rebuilt fruit package factory of R.  T. 
Pierce  & Co.,  at  South Haven,  now  blows 
its familiar  whistle,  a  cheering  sound that 
indicates returning business.

STRAY  FACTS.

Henry Baker succeeds  S.  Baker & Son in 

the coal business at Cheboygan.

Fully 1,000,000 pieces of cedar will be  the 
product of  Presque Isle county, this season
Nearly all the mining  corporations of the 
Marquette district have advanced the wages 
of underground employees 10 per cent, since 
March 1—an excellent method of preventing 
strikes.

Isaac  H.  Maqueston,  a  leading  business 
man  of  Sherman,  recently  died  suddenly. 
He had been assisting  in  putting out a fire, 
and over  exertion was the immediate  cause 
of death.

The  Tradesm an  is  informed  that  the 
item published in last week’s  paper relative 
to the recent change in the  Fairman  Bank, 
at Big Rapids,  was incorrect.  Wm. Judsou 
purchased an  even  half  interest  in the in­
stitution,  the  other  half  being  held  by  F. 
Fairman.  Geo.  F.  Fairman  remains  in the 
employ of the Bank as cashier.

The Gripsack Brigade.

D.  C.  Underwood  has  gone  North  for a 

few days.

S.  A.  Bowers,  representing  the Dingman 
Soap Co.,  of Buffalo,  was  in town a couple 
of days last week.

A.  F.  Peake,  Michigan representative for 
H.  A.  DeLand & Co.,  put in Sunday at  this 
market,  the  guest  of  Leo.  A.  Caro.  He 
was accompanied by his wife.

Wallace Franklin is out again after being 
confined to bis  house  about  three weeks as 
the result of a bruise sustained  in alighting 
from a train in motion at Owosso.

C.  M.  Falls,  formerly  of  Marion,  Ind., 
succeeds B.  F.  Emery as Western Michigan 
traveling representative for  Gray,  Kingman 
& Collins.  He has taken up  his  residence 
in Grand Rapids,  having  settled  his family 
on the West Side.

Wm.  Logie  has  exhibited a subscription 
paper on  diverse  occasions during  the past 
two weeks,  and  the  result is a contribution 
of $60  toward  the  furnishing  of a room in 
the  new  Union  Benevolent  Association’s 
Home,  on  College  avenue.  Mr.  Logie  ex­
pects to  increase  the  amount  to  $200,  and 
wishes  any  traveler  who  has  not  yet con­
tributed,  and  feels  disposed  to  do  so,  to 
send his  contribution  to  him,  at  Rindge, 
Bertscli & Co.’s,  or leave it at T he Trades­
man  office.

C.  B.  Lamb,  the  Plainwell  trunk manip­
ulator,  sued  C.  M.  Henderson  &  Co.,  of 
Chicago,  about fourteen months ago for sal­
ary claimed to be due him.  The matter was 
first tried in justice court, which gave Lamb 
a judgment  for the amount.  Henderson & 
Co.  then  appealed  to  the  Allegan  circuit 
court,  but Judge  Arnold  refused to try the 
suit,  on the  ground  that he was prejudiced 
against Henderson & Co. on  account of cer­
tain business  transactions he  had had with 
the  firm.  The  matter  was  consequently 
transferred to the  Kalamazoo circuit,  which 
last week  gave Lamb a judgment  for more 
than the amount of his claim and costs.

Purely Personal.

Gaius W.  Perkins  is  expected back from 
the East the latter part of the present week.
Geo.  H. Hobart, manager of the Newaygo 
Manufacturing Co.’s store, at Newaygo, was 
in town Monday.

It is I. M.  Clark—not  M.  J.  Clark—who 
has  returned  from  California.  M.  J.  will 
arrive home about April 15.

Frank E.  S.  Hodge has been c^nmission- 
ed by Wallace Franklin  to  represent  Fair­
banks,  Morse & Co.  at Ludington and Man­
istee.

Jas.  E. Granger left yesterday for Chicago, 
where he will  spend a week or ten days in­
terviewing  the  jobbers and manufacturers, 
with a view to securing desirable  brokerage 
connections.

W.  W.  Barcus,  general  manager  of  the 
Heap Patent  Earth  Closet  Co.,  at  Muske­
gon,  was in  the  city Saturday,  on business 
connected with the  Carbonatine  Hard Fin­
ish Co.,  in  which  corporation  he is a lead­
ing stockholder.

Indian  Honey.

At  the  present  time  considerable  atten­
tion is being  paid  in  British  India  to  bee 
culture. 
In all parts of  the country and in 
the Island of Ceylon  bees can  be kept with 
the most satisfactory  results.  A correspon­
dent  from  Munich,  who  recently returned 
from  India,  and  who  paid  especial  atten­
tion to  this  question,  concludes  a lengthy 
communication  to  a  contemporary  as  fol­
lows:  “I look  forward to  the  time  when 
bee-culture will be no inconsiderable revenue 
and I fear the time will come when Brother 
Jonathan will find that his tons of  delicious 
nectar  will  have  to  compete  with  honey 
gathered in India.”

GRAND  RAPIDS

SEED  MERCHANTS,

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“  Alfalfa or Lucerne20c  •* 
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Office and  Warehouse:  71 C A N A L  ST.
Grand  Rapids, March 23,1886 
Dear  Sirs—Below  we  hand  you  jobbing 
prices for to-day:
Clover, Extra recleaned.................60 ft bu  7 00
6  75
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Timothy. Prime.............................   45  bu  2  15
Fair to Good.....................  
Red Top....................  ..................... 14ft bu  100
BlueGrass......................................... 
Orchard Grass..................................  
Hungarian  ........... *........................48 ft bu  100
Millet, common................................. 
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Peas, White Field. 
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Rye, Winter..................................... 56 ft bu 
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Wheat,  Spring.................................60 ft bu  12«
Barley,  ** 
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Oats, choice white.......................... 32 ft bu 
50
Prices on Rape, Canary  and  all  other seeds 
on application.
The above  prices are free  on  board  cars  in 
lots  of  five  or more  bags at a time.  Cartage 
on smaller quantities.
We carry the largest line of Garden Seeds in 
Bulb of any house in the State west of Detroit, 
and would  be  pleased  at  any  time  to  quote 
you prices.
All Field Seeds are spot  Cash  on  receipt  of 

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C.  C.  Fowler,  representing  Dan  Tal- 
madge’s Sons,  of New York, put in Monday 
at this market.

J.  T.  BELL  <&  CO.,

goods.W. T. LAIOREAUX, Alt
Saginaw  Valley  Fruit  House
And  COMMISSION  MERCHANTS,

Dealers in all kinds Country Produce & Foreign Fruits.

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Successors to Fox, U sseln & Loveriilp,

W holesale  Grocers.
mosselman’s corker  plug  and rum cigars.

AGENTS  FOR

The best and most attractive goods on the market.

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Choice Butter always on hand.  All Orders  receive Prompt and Careful Attention.
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No. 1 Egg Crates  for Sale.  Stevens’ No. 1 patent fillers used.  50 cents each.

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Grand Rapids, M ichigan
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Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,

DEALERS IN

NOS.  123  and  124  LOUIS  STREET,  GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICHIGAN.

WE  CARRY  A  STOCK  OF  CAKE TALLOW  FOR  MILL  USE.

Heavenrich  Bros.

WHOLESALE 

CLOTHIERS,

MANUFACTURERS  OF  PERFECT  FITTING

Tailor  IhÆsicie  Olotlxing,
Mail Orders sent in care L.  IF.  A T K IN S  will receive Prompt Attention.

138 and MO Jefferson Avo. and 34 and 36 WooflMnp St, DETROIT.

A T   LO W EST  PR IC E S.

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 
ORDER  FOR  500  OF  “  W A R R E N ’S  G RIP  ”  CIGARS,  (PRICE  $35  PER M,  DE­
LIVERED),  IS  GOOD  FOR  ONE  YEAR’S  SUBSCRIPTION  TO  THIS  PAPER, 
“ TH E   M IC H IG AN   TRAD E SM A N . ”  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 MAR­
KET  BEFORE  YOU  ARE  TOO  LATE.

GEO. T. WARREN & GO.,  Flint, Mich.
o. w .  blain & co., Produce Commission Merchants,
Fruits, Solera  Vegetáis, Etc.

FEBRUARY  1ST,  1886.

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

We handle on Commission BERRIES, Etc.  All orders filled at lowest market price.  Corres­
NO.  y  IONIA ST.

pondence solicited.  APPLES  AND  POTATOES  in ear lots  Specialties. 

WHOLESALE  DEALER  IN

Butter, Eggs, Pop  Corn,

Green and Dried Fruits,
__. 

POP  CORN  A   SP E C IA L T Y .

Write me for prices. 

W .  T. LONG,  VICKSBURG,  MICH.

FULLER  &  STOWE  COMPANY,

Engravers and Printers

IDesisners

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.

Address as above
49 Lyon Street, Up-Stairs, Grand Rapids, Mich.

Brugg & flftebidnes

STATE  BOARD  OF  PHARM ACY.
Two Years—F. H. J. VanEmster. Bay City. 
Three Years—Jacob JesRon, Muskegon.
Four Years—James Vernor, Detroit.
Five Years—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor. 
Six Years—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo. 
President—Ottmar Eberbach.
Secretary—Jacob Jesson.
Treasurer—Jas. Vernor.

Michigan  State  Phannaceutical  Association.

OFFICERS.

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Grand Rapids. 

President—H. J. Brown, Ann Arbor.
First  Vice-President—Frank  J.  Wurzburg, 
. . .
Second Vice-President—A. B. Stevens. Detroit, 
Third Vice-President—Frank Inglis, Detroit. 
Secretary—S; E. Parkell,  Owosso.
Treasurer—W m . Dupont, Detroit. 
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Executive  Committee—Jacob  Jesson,  Goo. 
Gundrum, Frank Wells, F. W.  R.  Perry  and
Local Secretary-Will L. White, Grand Rapids. 
Next  place  of  meeting—At  Grand  Rapids, 

Tuesday, October 13.1886.

Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society.

ORGANIZED  OCTOBER 9,1884.

OFFICERS.

 

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President—Frank J. Wurzburg.
Vice-President—Wm. L. White.
Secretary—Frank H. Escott.
Treasurer—Henry B. Fairchild. 
Board  of  Censors—President,  Vice-President 
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and Secretary. 
Board  of  Trustees-The  President,  Wm.  H. 
Van Leeuwen, Isaac  Watts,  Wm.  E.  White, 
TX  w
Wm. L. White. 
Committee on  Pharmacy—M. B.  Kimm,  n.  is. 
Loctaer and Wm. E. White. 
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Committee on  Trade  Matter8 - John  E.  Peck, 
H. B. Fairchild and Win. H. \  an Leeuwen.
Committee  on  Legislation  J^s.  D.  Lftcey» 
Isaac Watts and A. C.  Bauer. 
Regular Meetings—First  Thursday evening in 
each month. 
Annual  Meetings—First  Thursday evening in 
November. 
.
Next  M e etin g —Thursday  evening, April  l,  at 
“The Tradesman” office.

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D etroit Pharm aceutical Society.

Organized October, 1883.

OFFICERS.

President—-Wm. Dupont.
First V ic e -P re sid e n t—F r a n k  Inglis.
Second Vice President—J.W. Caldwell. 
Secretary and Treasurer—F. W. R. Perry. 
Assistant Secretary and Treasurer—A. is. bait-
Annual Meeting—F ir st Wednesday in June. 
Regular  Meetings—First  Wednesday in each 

month.

Jackson County Pharmaceutical  A sso­

ciation.
OFFICERS.
President—R. F. Latimer.
Vice-President—C. D. Colwell.
Secretary—F. A.  King.
Treasurer—Chas. E. Humphrey.
Board of Censors—Z.  W.  Waldron. C.  E.  Foot
Annual Meeting- FirstThursday in November. 
Regular  Meetings-First  Thursday  of  each 

and C. H. Haskins.  _ 

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month.

Saginaw  County  Pharmaceutical  So­

ciety.

TEMPORARY  OFFICERS. 

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

OFFICERS.

President—John L. Meyer.
Secretary and Treasurer—O. A. Lloyd.
Regular Meetings—Second and  fourth  Friday 
Next Meeting—Friday  evening, March JS.

of each month.

Explosives to be Met With at the Prescrip­

tion Counter.*

[Concluded froni last week.J

40.  Nitric  acid,  mercury, 

turpentine. 
Exploded with tremendous  violence, nearly 
destroying the  eyesight of Dr.  Oadwell,  of 
Cleveland.
41.  Nitric acid,  oil  succine.  Mix. 
lias 
been known to explode.
42.  Nitric  acid,  glycerine.  Dr.  Hamden 
relates that,  having  poured a  few  drops of 
nitric acid,  C.  P.,  into  a  three  dram  case- 
vial,  lie put it  into liis vest pocket,  and in a 
few minutes heard an explosion,  realizing a 
sensation as if  he  had  been  shot.  The re­
port was as loud as th;d of a small revolver. 
Afterwards,  on 
inveftigation,  he  learned 
that there bad been  glycerine  in the bottle.
43.  Dr.  Hamden also related that,  while 
preparing a liniment of  oils,  glycerine  and 
an acid,  a slight  explosion  took place,  and 
the  contents  of  the  bottle  shot  up  to  the 
ceiling like  a  Hash,  the  flame  being  of a 
bluish  tint.
44.  Nitrie acid,  hypochlorite of  sodium. 
Explodes when mixed.
45.  Nitrous  acid,  one  ounce,  glycerine, 
one ounce.  This compound  resulted  in an 
explosion.
46.  Antim.  Sulpli.  Aurum,  Half  a grain, 
Lac  Sulpliuris,  three  grains,  Zinci  Valer, 
two  grains,  Potas.  Chlorate,  two  grains. 
Mix.  This mixture  will  explode, however 
carefully prepared.
47.  Antim Sulph. Aurum, twenty grains. 
Soda Clilor,  two  drams.  Mix.  This  com­
bination,  if even  gently  triturated,  is liable 
to inflame with a crackling noise.
48.  Chloride lime,  flowers sulphur.  Mix. 
The trituration caused  a  series of small de­
tonations,  followed  by  the  whole  bursting 
It is thought the chlorid must 
into a flame. 
have contained some chlorate.^
49.  Chloride  of  lime,  Mur  Ammonia. 
When mixed  copious  fumes  of  a spontan­
eous inflammable gas are evolved.

50.  Chloride lime,  glycerine.  Mix.
51.  Chloride  lime,  honey.  Mix.  Both 
these compounds produce evolution of gases, 
which are apt to fracture tightly corked bot­
tles.
52.  Chloride  lime,  six  ounces,  arsenic, 
four  ounces,  soft  soap,  sufficient  quantity. 
For killing flies.  The lime and arsenic hav­
ing been mixed with a spatula on a piece of 
common  paper,  and  wrapped  up  and  set 
aside,  after  a  few  minutes  there  was  a 
slight  report  and  a  violent,  effervescing 
noise was heard  in  the  vicinity of  the par­
cel,  and  immediately  the  store  was  filled 
with a dense,  grayish-white  smoke,  of  the 
most choking and  irritating properties. 
In 
making a fresh  lot,  the  arsenic  was mixed 
with the soap and the lime  put by itself.
turpentine,  acid  sulphuric. 
Mix.  This has,  on many  occasions, caused 
violent  explosions  and  serious  accidents. 
Should be mixed gradually  in  an open ves­
sel.
54.  Potassium  Sulph.,  two  drams,  Aq 
Pura,  two ounces.  Dissolve and add Tiuct. 
Benzoin,  three drams.  This  has  exploded.
55.  Soda  Biborate,  Soda  Bicarbon,  of 
each half a dram,  glycerine,  aqua,  of  each 
one and a half  ounce.  Mix.  This  will ex­
plode, if tightly corked.
56.  Phosphorous,  potash.  Mix.  While 
making a solution  of  these,  Charles  Link, 
of New York City,  was  severely  wounded 
in the abdomen and hands by its exploding.
Paper read by Isaac  Watts  before the last 
etlng of  the Grand Rapids  Pharmaceutical

53.  Spts. 

57.  Bismuth  Nitrate,  in  crystals,  sup­
posed  to  have  had  nitric  acid  adhering. 
While set aside to  effect  solution, exploded 
violently.
58.  Calcium  hypophosphite, three parts, 
soda hypophosphite,  one  part.  Mix.  This 
compound exploded like gunpowder.
59.  A young  pharmacist  was  killed by 
shaking a vial of solution of  hypophosphite 
of lime.  From N. Y. Westchester Co. Phar. 
Association report.
60.  Hypophosphite potash,  chlorate pot­
ash,  lactate  of  iron.  Mix.  This  compound 
has exploded.
61.  Calcium  hypophosphite while  being 
dried  on  a  sand-bath,  both  exploded  and 
killed the  pharmacist.
62.  The trituration  of  hypophosphite of 
lime alone has resulted in an  explosion. 
It 
is said  to  be  most  dangerous  when  quite 
pure.
63.  The fact that  accidents  with  hypo- 
phosphites  are  not  more  numerous  is  by 
some ascribed to the general impurity of the 
salt,  as the Aianufacturer rarely risks carry­
ing the process to an end.
64.  Soda Hyposulph, Tinct.  Ferri. Chlor­
ide,  glycerine,  water.  There  is  imminent 
danger of the above mixture exploding,  if it 
be made a little acid  or  heated.  A student 
nearly lost  his  eyesight  by  evaporating an 
acidulated  solution  of  hypophosphite  and 
chlorate of  potash.  While  chlorate  potas­
sium,  sodium  hyposulphite  and  agpeerine 
are in a neutral, cool  solution,  the™nay be 
mixed without  much  danger.  But if  Acid 
Tinct.  Ferri.  Chlor  is  combined,  an  explo­
sion will ensue.
65.  The  action of Potassium Chlorate on 
lycerine in  neutral  solutions  is  probably
nil.  But  Potassium  Permangate  acts  on 
glycerine in both neutral and acid solutions, 
witii dangerous violence.
66.  Aqua Regia,  Alcoholates,  Epsences. 
Will  often  cause  explosion,  when  mixed 
together.
67.,  Oxalate and citrate of  calcium  have 
exploded at a high temperature.
68.  Potassium  Nitrate,  and,  in  fact,  all 
Nitrates,  should not be  heated to high tem­
peratures,  with organic substances.  When­
ever this is  done, the  mixture  should,  as a 
rule, either be deflagrated in small portions, 
or only a small quantity of  the organic sub­
stance should be added at a time. 
If potas­
sium  nitrate,  100  parts,  be  mixed  with 
sodium  acetate,  59-100  parts,  each  being 
previously fused,  and  then  both  be melted 
together,  the  mixture  will  explode  with 
great violence,  if highly heated.
59.  Saltpeter,  washed sulphur,  charcoal, 
metallic  antimony,  chlorate  of  potash,  rye 
in 
flour,  chromate  of  potash.  Dissolved 
water,  evaporated,  dried,  and  powdered is 
very explosive.
70.  Phosphorous, if combined with nitric 
acid or  iodine,  or  bromine,  is  liable  to ex­
plode.
¡1 .  Under all circumstances, the greatest 
care should be exercised,  not  only in handl­
ing and storing phosphorous, but  especially 
in treating it with chemicals.
72.  Picric  acid  and  picrates  explode, 
when  strongly  heated,  especially in closed 
vessels.  The force  of  picrates  is  about 40 
times that of gunpowder.
R.  A.  Wilson, of  Neilsville,  Wis.,  sends 
the  following  prescriptions,  with  the  re­
mark  that,  although  the  different  ingre­
dients were  mixed  in  a  mortar,  and  stood 
several minutes before being put in the vial, 
explosion took place in each instance:
73.  Fluid extract  uva  ursi,  spts.  ether 
Nit.,  of each one  ounce,  water,  sufficient to 
make three ounces.  Mix.
74.  Potassium  Acet,  four  drams,  fluid 
extract,  uva ursi,  one ounce,  aqua, sufficient 
to make three ounces.  Mix.
75.  Soda bicarb, one  dram,  fluid  extract 
buchu,  one  ounce,  fluid  extract,  uva  ursi, 
one  ounce,  aqua,  sufficient  to  make  three 
ounces.  Mix.
I am indebted to the following periodicals 
for  selections:  New  Remedies,  Western 
Druggist,  Michgtan  Drug  News,  Martin's 
Chemists and Druggists' Bulletin,  Oil  and 
Drug News,  Weekly Drug News, Druggists' 
Circular,  and one or  two  other  drug  pub­
lications.

Disqualified for  Druggists.

“Why  are  women  never  employed 

in 
drug stores?” a Buffalo Cmirier  writer ask­
ed a local  druggist.  “Because  they find it 
so difficult to keep a secret,”  responded the 
the  compounder  of  drug  and  medicines. 
“A pharmacy becomes a regular confession­
al.  Here  it  is  that  we  learn  who  paints, 
who powders,  who is  addicted to the opium 
habit  and  whose  house 
is  infested  with 
vermin.  Then,  again,  we  learn  all  about 
people’s bodily afflictions  and  weaknesses. 
Of  all  abominations  loose  tongued  gossip 
about a drug store is tlie worst, and the gen­
eral impression is  that  a  woman  will  talk 
no matter what may be at stake.”

Every n^Buid again hard tilings are said 
by tlie lay press,  and  even  by  members of 
our profession,  writing  “at  large,” against* 
practitioners  who  dispense. 
It  should  be 
generally understood  that  when a qualified 
medical  man  dispenses  his  own  prescrip­
tions,  it is done not  because  he likes to do 
so,  but  because  there  is  some  reason  why 
tlie course taken  appears  necessary,  or  at 
least  expedient.  Endeavors  to  make  tlie 
public suppose they are not  as  well  served 
when tlie practictioner is also  tlie dispenser 
are  unworthy.  Everyone who  knows any­
thing about  the  facts  must  be well  aware 
that this is not true.  Meanwhile we are clear­
ly of opinion that it is better that practition­
ers should only prescribe,  not dispense; and 
anthing like an overture an the part of drug­
gists to render this  universally  practicable, 
in towns at  least,  will,  we  are  assured, be 
hailed  by tlie  profession  as  a  boon.  Tlie 
difficulties of  solving  problems  of possibil­
ity are,  however,  very  great,  and  no  hasty 
measures or sweeping change in this matter 
will succeed.—Lancet.

Geo.  McDonald,  who  was  appointed  by 
Governor Alger to serve on the  State Board 
of Pharmacy for one year,  lias been notified 
of his appointment to serve  five  years after 
tlie expiration of the first year, and will con­
sequently serve nearly six years yet.

A daily exchange states  that Prohibition­
ists in Marthon,  la.,  went in force to a drug 
store  where  whisky  was  sold,  destroyed 
thirteen  packages  of  liquors,  forced  the 
druggist to pack up  and  ship away the rest 
of his goods,  and close his store.

During 1885 only 846  barrels of  oil were 
rejected in Michigan,  out of  192,728 barrels 
tested.

WHOLESALE

Druggists!

42 and 44  Ottawa Street and 8g, gi,

53 and gs Louis Street.

IMPORTERS AND JOBBRRS  OF

fis , Medicines, denials, 
Paints, Oils, Varnislies,

MANUFACTURERS  OF

Elepat  Piaraiaceaiical  Prepara­

tions,  Flail Extracts  and 

Elixirs

GENERAL  W HOLESALE  AG NTS  FOR

Wolf, Patton & Co. and John L. 

W hiting, Manufacturers  of 

Fine Paint and  Var­

nish Brushes.
THE  CELEBRATED

Pioneer Pranarafl Paints.

ALSO  FOR  THE

Grand Rapids Brush Co., Manu­

facturers of Hair, Shoe snd 

Horse Brushes.

WE  ARE  SOLE  OWNERS  OF

Weatherly’s lichipn Catarrh Care

Which  is positively tlie best Remedy 

of the kind on the market.

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W e  desire  particular  attention  of  those 
about purchasing outfits for new  stores  to 
the fact of our  UNSURPASSED  FACIL­
ITIES for meeting the wants of  this  class 
of buyers WITHOUT  DELAY and in the 
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most  approved  and  acceptable  manner 
known to the drug trade.  Our  special  ef­
forts in this  direction  have  received  from 
hundreds or our customers the  most satis­
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fying recommendations.

60
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Wina anfi Linnor Deparinient  *

W e give our special and  personal atten­
tion to the selection of choice goods for the 
DRUG TRADE ONLY, and trust we merit 
the high praise accorded  to us for so satis­
factorily supplying the wants of our custom­
ers  with  PURE  GOODS  in  this depart­
ment.  W e CONTROL and are the ONLY 
AUTHORIZED  AGENTS for the  sale  of 
the celebrated

WITHERS DADE & CO.'S

Henderson Co., Ky.,

Sour  Mash  and  Old-Fashioned 

Hand-Made, Copper- 

Distilled

W H ISK Y S.
W e not only offer these  goods  to  be ex­
celled by NO OTHER KNOWN  BRAND 
in the market, but superior  in  all  respects 
to  most  that  are  exposed  to  sale.  W e 
GUARANTEE perfect and complete satis­
faction and where this brand of  goods  has 
been once introduced  the  future  trade  has 
been assured.

W e are also owners of the

D rills’  Favorite  Rye,

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

fills, B raiss iF i#  W is.

W e call your attention to  the  adjoining 
list of market quotations which we  aim  to 
make as complete and perfect  as  possible.
For special  quantities  and  quotations  on 
such articles as do not appear  on  the  list, 

such asPatent  Medicines,

Etc., we invite your correspondence.
and personal attention.

Mail  orders  always  receive  our special 

Hazeltine 

& Perkins 

Drag Co.

W ants  a  Druggists’  Mutual  Fire  Insur­

ance  Company.

E vart,  Mich.,  March 22,  1886. 

Editor Michigan  Tradesman:

is  with  pleasure  that 
Dear  Sib—It 
the  organization  and 
I  have  watched 
the  different  pharmaceutical 
growth  of 
societies  of  the  State  and  I  feel 
in­
terested in the good work they are doing.  I 
have noted the different subjects brought up 
for discussion and have waited patiently for 
some abler  pen than  mine  to  advance  the 
idea of a Druggists’ Mutual  Fire  Insurance 
Co.  Please blow  a  blast  from  your bugle 
that will awaken the  working  members  of 
every society in the  State  to the fact that a 
Druggists’ Mutual would lessen  our present 
rates of insurance 75 percent.,  in order that 
thousands  of  dollars  now  paid  to  foreign 
companies  may  be  kept  at  home.  Please 
urge a discussion of the subject by the socie­
ties of the State so that we may be  ripe and 
ready for action at  our  next State  meeting 
at Grand  Rapids. 

Respectfully,

F.  H ibbar d.

An exchange says that  ultramarine mak­
ing is reckoned one of the secret arts.  Gui- 
met,  a French chemist of  Toulouse,  discov­
ered it in 1828,  and almost at the same time 
the famous German chemist, Gmelin,  work­
ed  out  a  process  which  lie  made  public. 
Guimet’s process has  never  been disclosed. 
The general method  of making  the color is 
well known,  but every manufacturer claims 
to have a special and superior process of his 
own,  which he  carefully guards from  pub­
lic scrutinty.

Say an engine or machine  develops a cer­
tain difficulty,  and  a  machine  shop man is 
called in  and  asked  if  he  can  remedy the 
trouble.  Say he  says  he  can,  is  told to go 
ahead and  do so,  but tries and  finds he can­
not.  He sends in His bill for the work done 
by his establishment.  Is the owner justified 
in refusing to pay it?

It is said that  in  Southern  Russia  an oil 
is made from the yolk  of  tlie egg, which is 
used for cuts,  bruises,  etc.  The extraordi­
nary cures attributed to the original Russian 
salve are said to  be  due  to  the presence  of 
egg-oil in the ingredients.

Cuslimazi’s

MENTHOL INHALER

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A superior Remedy for the immediate relief 
of  Neuralgia,  Headache, Cararrh, Hay Fever, 
Astluna,  Bronehitus,  Sore  Throat,  Earache, 
Toothache,  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.,'I 
j  Detroit  Mich.
Jas.  E.  Davis &  Co., 
f ^  
John J.  Dodds & Co., 
J 
T.  H.  Hinchman &  Co., 
time lie calls.

Ask their traveler to show you one tho  next 

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CDU5HS

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«"tini

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Prices, 25c, 50c anil 81 per bottle;  81.75, $3.50, $7 per doz. 

A JUSTLY  CELEBRATED  REMEDY.

Perry  Dam’  Pain  Killer!

TAKEN  INTERNALLY relievos the  most  accute  Pains 
instantly, affording relief and comfort  to  the  patient 
suffering  from  Pains  and  Cramps  in  the  Stomach, 
Rheumatic or Neuralgic Pains in any  part  of  the  sys­
tem; and in Bowel Complains it is a sovereign  remedy.
USED  EXTERNALLY  it is equally efficacious, and  as 
a Liniment, nothing gives quicker ease in  Burns, Cuts, 
Bruises, Sprains, Stings from insects, and Scalds. 

OTDirections accompany each bottle.

Price, 35c, 50c and  $1 per bottle.
Sold by all druggists.  Trade supplied by

HAZELTINE  &  PERKINS  DRUG  CO.

MICHIGAN 
DRUG 
EXCHANGE, 

Mills &  Goodman, Props.

G RAN D   R A P ID S,

MICH.

■ ANTED — Thoroughly  competent  dru 

clerk.  Must speak German and  if  pos­

sible French.
\ \ T  ANTED—Situations by registered pharm- 
v » 
aeists and assistants.  Also situation by 
young mau of some experience but  not  regis­
tered.  Will work for very  small  salary.  Can 
furnish good references.

Ir'OR  SALE—Wo have on sale  stocks of from 

1  $500 to $5,000 value in almost any  part of

state.  Stocks for sale on easy terms.
QMALL  STOCK of about  $500  with  building 
O   and lot in Grand Rapids will exchange for 
real estate in some small town.
STOCK  of about $5,000 in  midst  of  splendid 
farming region doing  business  of  $15,000 
per annum for sale on very  reasonable terms.
ANTED  TO  EXCHANGE-Real  estate, 
W
■ E  HAVE also many other stocks for sale, 

the  particulars  of  which  we  shall  be 

village and farming, for drug  stocks.

pleased to furnish on application.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT,

Advanced—Arnica flowers;  senna leaves. 
Declined—Morphia; chloroform; gum opium.

ACIDS.

Acetic, No.  8....................................
Acetic, C. P. (8p. grav.  1.040)........
Carbolic............. ..............................
Citric.................................................
Muriatic 18  deg...............................
Nitric 36 deg....................................
Oxalic...............................................
8ulphuric 66 deg.............................
Tartaric  powdered........................
Benzoic,  English....................oz
Benzoic,  German..........  ...............
Tannic..............................................

AMMONIA.

Carbonate.................................¥
Muriate (Powd. 22c).........................
j* qua 16 deg or  3f............................
Aqua 18 deg or 4f............................

BALSAMS.

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

b a r k s .

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

BERRIES.

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

9  ©  10 
30  @  35 
34  @  36 
85  ©  90 
3  ©  5
11  ©  13 
10  ©  12
3  ©  4
52  @  55 
18
13  @  15
12  ©  15

14  ©  16
14
3  ©  5
4  ©  6

@  90 
6  ©  7
50  ©  60

EXTRACTS. *

Licorice (10 and 25 ft boxes, 35c)... 
Licorice,  powdered, pure.............  
Logwood, bulk (13 and 35 ft doxes). 
Logwood, Is (35 ft  boxes).... 
Lgowood, J4s 
............... 
do 
............... 
Logwood, 54s 
do 
.............. 
Logwood, ass’d  do 
Fluid Extracts—35 $1 cent, off list.

13

 

27
375
9
13
15
14

FLOWERS.

Arnica...............................................  15  ©  18
Chamomile,  Roman....................... 
35
Chamomile,  German.....................  
25

60©  75
Aloes,  Barbadoes............................ 
Aloes, Cape (Powd  20c).................. 
12
50
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd  60c).......... 
28©  30
Ammoniac.......................................  
Arabic, powdered  select............... 
90
90
Arabic, 1st  picked..........................  
Arabic,2d  picked............................ 
80
75
Arabic,  3d picked............................ 
55
Arabic, sifted sorts......................... 
20
Assafcentida, prime (Powd 35c)... 
Benzoin............................................  
55@60
Camphor..........................................  
25©  27
Catechu. Is (54 14c, As  16o)............ 
13
35©  40
Euphorbium powdered.................. 
80
Galbanum strained......................... 
80®  90
Gamboge........................................... 
Guaiac, prime (Powd  45c).........  
35
 
20
Kino TPowdered, 30cl...................... 
1 25
Mastic.............................................. 
40
Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 47c)... 
Opium, pure (Powd $4 60)............... 
3 30
30
Shellac, Campbell’s ......................... 
26
Shellac,  English.............................. 
Shellac, native................................. 
24
30
Shellac bleached.............................. 
Tragacanth......................................  30  @1 00

HERBS—IN  OUNCE PACKAGES.

Hoarhound...................................................... 25
Lobelia...............
Peppermint...........
Rue.....................
Spearmint........
Sweet Majoram__
Tanzy .................
Thyme....................
Wormwood.............

IRON.

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

LEAVES.

Buehu, short (Powd 25c)................   13
Sage, Italian, bulk (Ms & 54s, 12c)...
Senna,  Alex, natural.....................   33
Senna, Alex, sifted and  garbled..
Senna,  powdered............................
Senna tinnivelli...............................
Uva  Ursi...........................................
Belledonna.......................................
Foxglove...........................................
Henbane...........................................
Rose, red...........................................

LIQUORS.

W., D. & Co.’s Sour Mash Whisky.2  00
Druggists’ Favorite  Rye................ 1 75
Whisky, other brands..................... 1 10
Gin, Old Tom..................................... 1 36
Gin,  Holland..................................... 2 00
Brandy...............................................1 75
Catawba  Wines................................ 1 25
Port Wines.........................................1 35

©  14 
6
©  35 
50

©2 50 
@2  00 
@1  50 
@1 75 
©3 50 
©6 50 
@2  00 
©2 50

MAGNESIA.

 

6 00

do 
do 

OILS.

22
Carbonate, Pattison’s, 2 oz............ 
Carbonate, Jenning’s, 2 oz.............  
37
2 25
Citrate, H., P. & Co.’s  solution.... 
Calcined........................................... 
65
Almond, sweet.................................  45  ©  50
45
Amber,  rectified.............................. 
Anise.................................................  
2  00
Bay $}  oz........................................  
50
Bergamont.......................................  
3 25
Castor................................................  1754©  19
Croton...............................................  
1  75
75
Cajeput............................................  
90
Cassia...............................................  
Cedar, commercial  (Pure 75c)....... 
35
75
Citronella.......................................  
1 25
Cloves...............................................  
Cod Liver, N. F..... 
.........$  gal 
1 20
Cod Liver, best......................... 
1  50
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16 
Cubebs, P. &  W............................... 
8 50
1  60
Erigeron........................................... 
2 00
Fireweed........................................... 
Geranium 
oz...............................  
75
35
Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75c).. 
Juniper wood..................................  
50
Juniper berries............................... 
2 00
Lavender flowers, French.............  
2 01
Lavender garden 
1  00
.............  
Lavender spike 
90
.............  
3 00
Lemon, new  crop............................ 
Lemon,  Sanderson’s.......................  
3  50
80
Lemongrass...................................... 
Olive, Malaga.................... 
©  90
Olive, “Sublime  Italian  . 
.... 
2 75
Origanum, red  flowers, French... 
1 25
Origanum,  No. 1............................ 
50
1 30
Pennyroyal...................................... 
4  50
Peppermint,  white......................... 
8 00
Rose  $9 oz......................................... 
65
Rosemary, French  (Flowers $1 50) 
2 75
Salad, 
gal...................................... 
Savin.................................................  
1  00
Sandal  Wood, German.................. 
4 50
Sandal Wood, W. I ..........................   " 
7 00
Sassafras........................................... 
55
Spearmint.......................................  
@9 00
Tansy...............................................4 00  @4 25
Tar (by gal 50c).................................  10  ©  12
2 35
Wintergreen................................. 
Wormwood, No. l(Pure $4.00)....... 
3 50
Wormseed.......................................  
2 00
12@14
Bicromate.................................^ ft 
40@43
Bromide, cryst. and  gran. bulk... 
Chlorate, cryst (Powd 23c).............  
22
Iodide, cryst. and  gran, bulk....... 
3 00
28
Prussiate yellow.............................. 
Alkanet............................................  
20
Althea, cut.......................................  
25
Arrow,  St. Vincent’s..................... 
17
33
Arrow, Taylor’s, in !4s and A s__  
Blood (Powd 18o).............................  
12
20
Calamus,  peeled.............................. 
36
Calamus, German  white, peeled.. 
Elecampane, powdered..................  
20
Gentian (Powd  15c)......................... 
10
Ginger, African (PGwd 14c)............  11  ©  12
17
Ginger, Jamaica  bleached............ 
Golden Seal (Powd 25c).................. 
20
Hellebore, white, powdered.......... 
20
Ipecac, Rio, powdered.................... 
1  20
Jalap,  powdered........................ 
30
Licorice,  select (Powd 15).•........... 
18
Licorice, extra seleet.....................  
20
Pink, true.......................•................. 
85
Rhei, from select to  choice..........1 00  @1 50
Rhei, powdered E, 1....................... 110  ©120
Rhei, choice cut  cubes..................  
2 00
2 25
Rhei, choice cut Angers................. 
Serpentaria...................................... 
65
60
Seneka........... .................................. 
Sarsaparilla,  Honduras................. 
40
Sarsaparilla,  Mexican.................... 
20

POTASSIUM.

ROOTS.

 

12

do 

SEEDS.

6  © 

do 
do 

SPONGES.

©  454 

do 
do Scherin’s  do  ...
do 

20
15 
5  ©
6
4
15  ©  18 
1  50

254©  35
3  ®  4
45
454©  5
6
‘  ©  7
50
2  00 
40 
2  00
.7 00  @9 75 
2 30 
50
6©  7
9© 10

Squills, white (Powd 35c).
Valerian, English (Powd 30c).......
Valerian, Vermont (Powd 28c)...
Anise, Italian (Powd 20c)...............
Bird, mixed in ft  packages.......... 
Canary,  Smyrna.....................  
... 
Caraway, best Dutch (Powd  20c).
Cardamon,  Aleppee.....................
Cardamon, Malabar.......................
Celery..............................................
Coriander, Dest  English...............
Fennel............................................
Flax, clean..................................... .  3X@
Flax, pure grd (bbl 354).................. 
‘  ~
© 
Foenugreek, powdered..................
© 
Hemp,  Russian...............................
454©
Mustard, white  Black  10c)...........
Quince.............................................. 
75
Rape, English..................................  
7
Worm, Levant................................. 
14
Florida sheeps’ wool, carriage.......2 25  @2 50
Nassau 
do 
do 
2 00
........ 
. . . .  
Velvet Extra do 
1  10
do 
Extra Yellow do 
do 
........ 
85
........ 
65
dc 
Grass 
do 
Hard head, for slate use................
Yellow Reef, 
................
1  40
MISCELLANEOUS.
Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.19) $  gal__
Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref.
Anodyne  Hoffman’s.......................
Arsenic, Donovan’s solution........
Arsenic, Fowler’s solution...........
Annatto 1 ft rolls............................
Alum.........................................  $  ft
Alum, ground  (Powd 9c)...............
Annatto,  prime...............................
Antimony, powdered,  com’l ........
Arsenic, white, powdered.............  
Blue  Soluble........... .........;.............
Bay  Rum, imported, best.............
Bay Rum, domestic, H., P. & Co.’s.
Balm Gilead  Buds..........................
Beans,  Tonka............................. .
Beans,  Vanilla..........................
Bismuth, sub  nitrate...............
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c)................ ” ”
Blue Vitriol  ....................................
Borax, refined (Powd  11c).............
Cantharides, Russian  powdered..
Capsicum  Pods, African...............
Capsicum Pods, African  pow’d ...
Capsicum Pods,  Bombay  do  ...
Carmine, No. 40...............................
Cassia  Buds......................................
Calomel.  American........................
Chalk, prepared drop.....................
Chalk, precipitate English...........
Chalk,  red  fingers..........................
Chalk, white lump..........................
Chloroform,  Squibb’s ....................
Coloeynth  apples............................
Chloral hydrate, German  crusts..
cryst...
Chloral 
Chloral 
Chloral 
crusts..
Chloroform...................................... 
_
© 47
Cinehonidia, P. & W........*............   20  @
20 © 25
Cinchonidia, other brands.............
18 © 23
Cloves (Powd 23c)............................
18 © 20
Cochineal  .........................................
40
Cocoa  Butter..................................
40
Copperas (by bbl  lc).......................
Corrosive Sublimate.......................
70
Corks, X and XX—40 off  list........
Cream Tartar, pure powdered.......
© 401X
Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 ft box-..
Creasote............................................
Cudbear,  prime...............................
Cuttle Fisn Bone..............................
Dextrine...........................................
Dover’s  Powders............................
Dragon’s Blood Mass.....................
Ergot  powdered..............................
Etner Squibb’s .................................
Emery, Turkish, all  No.’s .............
Epsom Salts (bbl. 1%).....................
Ergot, fresh......................................
Etner, sulphuric, U. S.  P ...............
Flake  white......................................
Grains  Paradise..............................
Gelatine, Cooper’s..........................
Gelatine. French............................ 
_
45  @
Glassware, flint,70 & 10, by box 60 & 10 less
Glassware, green, 60 and 10 dis__
Glue,  ca nnet..................................
12  ©  17 
Glue, white.......................................
16  @  28 
Glycerine, pure...............................
16  ©  20 
Hops  54s and 54s..............................
25®  40 
Iodoform $1  oz.................................
40
Indigo...............................................
85  @1  00 
Insect Powder, best  Dalmatian...
35  ®  40 @1 00 
Insect Powder, H., P. & Co„ boxes
Iodine,  resublimed........................
4 00 
Isinglass,  American.......................
1  50
Japonica.................................................... 
London  Purple...............................  10  @  15
Lead, acetate........... ................................ 
Lime, chloride,(54s 2s 10c & 54s 11c) 
8
Lupuline........................................... 
1 00
Lycopodium....................................  
50
Mace.................................................  
50
12)4®  13
Madder, best  Dutch..................... 
Manna, S.  F.............................................. 
Mercury............................................ 
60
Morphia, sulph., P. & W........$  oz  2 45@2 70
Musk, Canton, H., P. &  Co.’s......  
40
Moss, Iceland............................^ ft 
10
Moss,  Irish............................................... 
Mustard,  English............................ 
30
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 ft  cans....... 
18
Nutgalls............................................  
23
Nutmegs, No. 1.........................................  
Nux  Vomica............................................  
Ointment. Mercurial, 54d...............
Paris Green....................................  
17
Pepper, Black  Berry.. , ................
Pepsin...............................................
Pitch, True Burgundy....................
Quassia  ............................................  
6  @
Quinia, Sulph, P. & W........... ft oz  80  ©
Quinine,  German............................
70© 75
Red Precipitate.......................$5 ft
85
1*8
Seidlitz  Mixture.............................
Strychnia, cryst...............................
1 60
Silver Nitrate, cryst.......................
74  @ 78
Saffron, American..........................
35
Sal  Glauber.....................................
Sal Nitre, large  cryst.....................
10
Sal  Nitre, medium  cryst...............
9
Sal Rochelle......................................
33
Sal  Soda............................................
2  © 254
Saliein...............................................
15
Santonin...........................................
6 50 
Snuffs, Maccoboy or Scotch..........
35 
Soda Ash [by keg 3c].....................
4 
Spermaceti.......................................
48
Soda, Bi-Carbonate,  DeLand’s __
454® 5
Soap, White Castile.........................
14
Soap, Green  do 
........................
17
Soap, Mottled do 
........................
9
Soap, 
do  do 
.........................
11
Soap,  Mazzini............................. .
14
Spirits Nitre, 3 F.............................
26  ® 28
Spirits Nitre, 4 F.............................
30  © 32
Sugar Milk powdered.....................
35
Sulphur, flour..................................
354© 4
Sulphur,  roll....................................
3© 354
Tartar Emetic..................................
602 70
Tar, N. C. Pine, A gal. cans  $  doz
Tar, 
quarts in tin..........
1 40
Tar, 
pints in tin..............
85
Turpentine,  Venice................ $  ft
Wax, White, S. &  F. brand............
55
Zinc,  Sulphate.................................
7  © 8
Gal
Bbl
.  70
75
.  55
60
55
.  45
46
.  43
.  46
40
90
.  70
.  56
60

do 
do 

2f  ©

OILS.

©

©

Whale, winter.............................
Lard, extra..................................
Lard, No.  1..................................
Linseed, pure  raw.....................
Linseed, boiled..........................
Neat’s Foot, winter  strained........
Spirits Turpentine...................
VARNISHES.
No. 1 Turp  Coach........................................1  10@1 20
Extra  Turp..................................................1  60@1 70
Coach Body................................................. 2 75@3 00
No. 1 Turp Furniture................................. 1  00@1 JO
Extra Turk  Damar.....................................1  55@1 60
Japan Dryer, No. 1 Turp.....................   70©

PAINTS

Bbl 
Red Venetian............................  13£ 
Ochre, yellow  Marseilles........  194 
Ochre, yellow  Bermuda..........  194 
Putty, commercial..................  254 
Putty, strictly pure..................  254 
Vermilion, prime American.. 
Vermilion,  English.................. 
Green, Peninsular.................... 
Lead, red strictly pure............ 
Lead, white, strictly pure....... 
Whiting, white Spanish.......  . 
Whiting,  Gilders^.....................  
White, Paris American...........  
Whiting  Paris English cliff.. 
Pioneer Prepared  I aints — . 
Swiss Villa Preparer  Paints.. 

Lb
2© i
2@ 3
2® 2
254© 3
294© 3
13@16
5S@60
16®l
7© 754
7© 754
©70
@90
1  10
140

1 20@1 40
1 00© 1 20

OILS.

ILLUMINATING.

LUBRICATING.

Water White............................................ 
  1254
Michigan  Test..................................................1094
Capitol Cylinder....................................... 
36J4
Model  Cylinder................................................3154
Shield  Cylinder................................................2654
Eldorado  Engine.............................................2454
Peerless  Machinery........................................2254
Challenge Machinery......................................2054
Paraffine  ..........................................................2054
Black. Summer, West  Virginia...................10
Black, 25° to 30®.............................................11
Black, 16° C.  T................................................1154
Zero...................................................... ........1 3

JOBBERS  IN

DRY  GOODS,

88  Monroe  St.,

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

GRAND  R A PID S,  M ICH.

Peerless Carpet Warps and Geese Feathers a Specialty.

JENNINGS’

Flavoring  Extracts!
JENNINGS  &  SMITH,

MANUFACTURED  BY

Props. Arctic Manufacturing Co.,

GRAND  RA PID S, 

- 

MICH.

PUTNAM & BROOKS
Wholesale Manufacturers of

PURE  CANDY \

ORANGES,  LEMONS, 

BANANAS,  FIGS,  DATES, 

USTu-ts,  E to .

A.  M ERCA N TILE  JO U RN A L, PU BLISH ED  EA CH  

W EDN ESD AY .

K .  A .  S T O W E   &  H K O ., P r o p r ie t o r s .

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

Telephone No. 95.

[Entered  at  the  Postofflce  at  Grand  Rapids  as 

Second-class Matter.1

WEDNESDAY. MAECH  24,1886.

R E T A IL   GROCERS’  ASSOCIATION 

OF  GRAND  RA PID S.

ORGANIZED  NOVEMBER  10,  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. Rasch.
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, April 6.

Live Grocers in Council.

The regular semi-monthly meeting of  the 
Retail Grocers’ Association, which was held 
on the 16tli,  was largely attended.

Fred H.  Emery was  elected  to  member­

ship in the Association.

E.  E. Walker  and  Geo.  Dunaven  of  the 
special committee  appointed to  secure legal 
advise on the subject  of  exhibiting  the  de­
linquent lists  in  conspicuous  places in  the 
stores  reported  that  several 
lawyers  who 
were seen by the committee  advised against 
such a measure,  giving as their opinion that 
such  exposure  would‘render  the  Associa­
tion liable to prosecution for damages.  The 
report was accepted and the  committee dis­
charged.

A. J.  Elliott  read  a  paper  on  “Sugar,” 
which is given in  full in  another column in 
this week’s paper.  Mr.  Elliott  was excus­
ed  from 
the  Com­
mittee on Entertainment, and Messrs.  Knox 
and  Harper  continued  until  such  time  as 
they are able to make similar reports.

further  service  on 

Jas.  A.  Coye,  chairman of the  Law Com­
mittee,  to whom was referred the subject of 
curtailing the  huxtering  nuisance,  reported 
in favor of  delaying  action  on  the  subject 
until after the petition now before the Coun­
cil relative to the establishment of a market 
is acted upon.  The report was accepted.

Henry A.  Hydoni,  of the special  commit­
tee on market place,  reported that  the com­
mittee  had  met  a  similar  delegation  from 
the  Grand  River  Valley  Horticultural  So­
ciety,  that  the  joint  committee  had looked 
up several desirable sites and  petitioned the 
Council to designate  one  of them  as a mar­
ket place.

Jas.  A.  Coye referred  to  the fact that the 
Arbitration  Committee  had  not  yet  taken 
any action in regard to obtaining  the signa­
tures of  those  wholesalers  who  will  agree 
not to sell at retail,  and moved that the mat­
ter be taken from the  hands of the Arbitra­
tion  Committee  and  referred  to  d  special 
committee of  three  members.  The motion 
was adopted and the President appointed as 
such committee  Messrs.  Coye,  Walker and 
DeJager.

Secretary Johnson  read a  letter  from the 
Secretary of the  Cincinnati  Retail  Grocers’ 
Association,  inquiring  as  to  the  standard 
of weights in  selling  vegetables,  and  eggs 
in  use  by  the  Grand  Rapids  Association. 
The Secretary was  instructed  to  reply that 
the  only steps  yet  taken  in  that  direction 
was  the  acceptance  of  a  paper  on  the 
subject,  which  was  published 
in  T he 
T radesm an of March  10.

President  Herrick  referred  to  the  injus­
tice of some jobbers  in  compelling retailers 
to buy cheese at box  weights,  which almost 
invariably  fall  short  from  three  to  five 
pounds to the cheese.

E.  A.  Stowe referred  to  the  carelessness 
of some dealers in  leaving  their delinquent 
sheets in conspicuous  places  in their stores 
and  presented  the 
following  resolution 
which was  adopted:

Resolved—That we can  best subserve our 
own interests and  those  of  our  patrons  by 
keeping  the  delinquent  sheets  secluded 
from the general public,  and that we use all 
reasonable caution  to  prevent  the  lists,  or 
any knowledge pertaining thereto, from get­
ting into the hands of  those  outside our or­
ganization.

President Herrick announced that Samuel 
M.  Lemon  would  give  the  Association  a 
talk on  “Adulterated  Goods”  on  the  even­
ing of April 6,  and that  Smith  Bames was 
expected to  address  the  Association .either 
at that meeting or  on  the  evening of April 
20.  The meeting then adjourned.

Anti-Bogus  Butter  Bill.

Senator Miller has introduced  in the Sen­
ate at Washington a bill  requiring all  man­
ufacturers of and dealers in  oleomargarine, 
butterine,  lardine and suine to display signs 
in a  conspicuous  place,  at  their  places of 
business,  indicating that  they  manufacture 
or sell such articles,  imposing a special tax 
of $500 on  manufacturers,  $250  on whole­
sale dealers  and  $100  on  retail  dealers in 
such products,  and  requiring  them to take 
out an annual license to carry on such busi­
ness,  under  penalty  of  fine  and  imprison­
ment,  and requiring all  persons  engaged in 
such business to keep books and enter there­
in an accurate  and  detailed  account  of all 
imitation  butter  manufactured  or  sold  by 
them,  such  books  to be subject at all times 
to the inspection of the Treasury officials.

New Hand Button Setting Instrument.
The race can be detached.  3 go  with 
Save one-half the cost o f ¡fasteners  by 

each instrument.
using the Peninsular.

G. R. Mayhew, Grand Rapids, Mich.

F o r   S a le   b y

CUKTISS, DTOT0N & CO.,

W H O LESA LE

PAPER, WOODENWARE,

TWINES,  CORDAGE,  ETC.

LYON  ST.,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Snnarior a i  1-2 and 1-2 Binders’ Twine and Wool Twine.
WM. SEARS & CO.
Cracker  Manufacturers,

Agents  for

a t   t h i s

Every can wrapped in colored tissue paper w ith 

signature and stam p on each can.

F. J. DETTENTHALER,
OYSTERS & PISH
B U T T E R  .AJSriD E G G S ,

JOBBER  OF

CONSIGNMENTS  SOLICITED,

AMBOY  CHEESE.

117 MONROE ST., 

- 

GRAND  RAPIDS, MICH.

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

ROASTED  COFFEE,
A  GOOD  COMMON  RIO  COFFEE,

insr  l   zpotthshd  p a c k a g e s .

Packed in Attractive Shape in I lb. Packages Only.

Price, 10 Imperli.  M  for Sample.

C H I C A G O ,   I LL.

"W. J. GTJ-A.3ST <&CO.
BULKLEY, LEMON  & HOOPS,
STEAM  LAUNDRY
W holesale  Grocers.
Daniel Scotten &  Co.’s “ HIAWATHA” 

STANLEY  N.  ALLEN,  Proprietor.
WE  DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS  WORK  AND  USE  NO 

Importers  and

Sole Agents for

TIM ETABLES.

Lake Shore & Michigan Southern.

O rd e r s   b y   M a il a n d   E x p r e s s   p r o m p tly  a t ­

43 and 45 Kent Street.

(KALAMAZOO  DIVISION.)

CHEMICALS.

te n d e d   to .

Plug Tobacco.

7 

Lautz. Bros. & Co.’s SOAPS.
Niagara STARCH.
Dwinell, Howard & Co.’s Royal Mocha and Java.
Thompson & Taylor Spice  Co.’s  “Mag­

Royal Java.
Golden  Santos.

nolia ” Package Coffee.
SOLE  PROPRIETORS

’ 
“JOLLY  TIIMHi”  Fine  Cut,

Dark and sweet, w ith plug flavor, the best goods 

on the market.

In  addition to  a full line  of staple  groceries,  we  are the 
only house in  Michigan which carries a complete assortment 
of fancy  groceries  and table  delicacies.

Mail orders  are  especially  solicited,  which  invariably 
secure the lowest prices  and prompt shipment.  Satisfaction 
guaranteed.

Grand. Rapids, Mioli.

25,27 an4 29 Ionia St. and 51,53,55,57 aid 59 Island Sts.,
The  Peninsular
Button A ttain! U acle

HAND

Peninsular Novelty’s Co.’s 

Arrive.
Leave. 
N. Y. N. Y.
Ex. and  N. Y.
Mail. Ex.
Mail.  Mail.
a. in. p. in.
p. m.  a. in.
4:40  7:50 Dp. .Grand Rapids. ..Ar 9:50
7:15
5 ;58
5:58  9:07....... .Allegan.......... .......8:32
6:55  10:05....... .Kalamazoo__ .......7:30
5:00
9:50  11:40....... .White Pigeon. .......5:50
3:30
p. m. a. m.
a. m.  p. m.
4:15  5:10....... .Toledo............. .......11:15 10:40
8:20  9:30....... .Cleveland....... .......6:40
6:30
a. m. P. 111.
p. m.  a. in.
2:40  3:30....... .Buffalo  .......... __ 11:55 11:55
P. Ul. a. m.
a. m.  p. in.
5:40  8:00....... . Chicago.......... .Lv  11  30
8:50
A local freight leaves Grand Rapids at 1 p. m., 
carrying passengers as far as Allegan.
All trains daily except Sunday.

J . W. McK enney, General Agent.

Chicago & West Michigan.

Leaves.  Arrives,
rMail.....................................9:00 am   4:30 pm
tDay  Express..................... 12:35 p m  9:25 p m
♦Night  Express..................10:40 pm   5:45 am
Muskegon Express............. 4:20 p m  11:20 a m

♦Daily.  tDaily except Sunday.
Pullman Sleeping Cars  on  all  night  trains. 
Through  parlor  car  in  charge  of  careful  at­
tendants without extra charge to  Chicago on 
1:00 p. m., and through coach  on 9:15 a.  m. and 
10:40 p. m. trains.

NEWAYGO DIVISION.

Leaves.  Arrives.
Express.......  ....................... 4:20 pm   7:30 pm
Express.................................8:00 a m  10:50 a m
All trains arrive and depart from Union De­
pot.
The Northern terminus of  this Division is at 
Baldwin, where close connection is made with 
F. & P. M. trains to  and  from  Ludington and 
Manistee.

J. H. C a r p e n t e r ,  Gen’l Pass. Agent.
J.  B.  M i i l u k e n ,  General  Manager.
Detroit, Maokinao  & Marquette.

Going West. 
Going East.
7:30 p m ...........Houghton..................... 8:30 am
3:00 p ra, D......Marquette  ............. A,  1:00 p m
2:05 pm , A ......Marquette...............D,  1:40 pm
10:40 a m ...........Seney..............................4:50 pm
7:45 a m ...........St.  Ignaco...................   8:15 pm
0:15 a in...........Mackinaw  City...........9:30 pm
5:00pm........... Grand  Rapids............ 10:30am
Express trains Nos. 1 and 2 make  close con­
nections at Mackinac City with Michigan  Cen­
tral and G. R. & 1. R. R.
Connections  also  Made  at  St.  Ignace  with 
steamers of the Detroit  and  Cleveland  Steam 
Navigation Company and all lake steamers.
At Marquette with the Marquette, Houghton 
& Ontonagon Railroad, for  all  Lake  Superior 
points. 

Gen. Supt., Marquette, Mich.
Gen. Pass, and Ticket Agent, Marquette.
Detroit,  Grand  Haven &  Milwaukee.

A. WATSON,
E. W. ALLEN,

Arrives. 

GOING WEST.

Leaves.
tSteamboat  Express.......... 
6:25 a m
^Through  Mail................... 10:40 am   10:50 am
■(■Evening  Express.............3:40 pm  3:50 pm
♦Limited  Express...............  8:30 p ra  10:45 p m
tMixed, with  coach...........  
11:00 am
tMorning  Express.............   1:05 pm  
1:10 p m
tThrough  Mail..................  5:00pm   5:10pm
tSteamboat Express..........10:40 p m
tMixed..................................  
7:10 a m
♦Night Express....................  6:10 a m  6:35 a m
tDaily, Sundays excepted.  *Dailv. 
Passengers  taking  the  6:25  a.  m.  Express 
make close connections at Owosso for Lansing 
and at Detroit for New York, arriving there at 
10:00 a. m. the following morning.
The  Night  Express  has  a  through  Wagner 
Car  and  local  Sleeping  Car Detroit  to Grand 
Rapids.

D. P o t t e r , City Pass. Agent. 
Geo. B. Reeve, Traffic Manager, Chicago.

GOING EAST.

Grand  Rapids  it  Indiana.

GOINO NORTH.

GOING  SOUTH.

Arrives.  Leaves
Cincinnati & Gd Rapids Ex  9:20 p m 
Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex.  9:30 am   11:30 a m 
Ft. Wayne & Mackinac Ex  4:10 pm  
5:05 pm 
G’d Rapids &Trav. City Ac. 
7:00 a m
G. Rapids Sc Cincinnati Ex. 
7:15 a m
Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex.  £ :05 pm   5:30 pm  
Mackinac & Ft. Wayre Ex.. 10:30 am   11:45 am  
Cadillac & G’d  Rapids  Ac.10:30 p m 

SLEEPING CAR ARRANGEMENTS.

All trains daily except Sunday.
North—1Train  leaving  at 5:05  o’clock  p.  m. 
has  Sleeping  and  Chair  Cars  for Petoskey 
and  Mackinac.  Train leaving at 11:30 a. m. has 
combined Sleeping and Chair Car for Mackinaw 
City.
South—Train leaving at 5:30 p. m. has  Wood« 
ruff Sleeping Car for Cincinnati.

C. L. L o c k w o o d, Gen’l Pass. Agent.

Michigan  Central.

DEPART.

tDetroit Express..............................................6:00 am
tDav  Express..........................................12:45 p m
♦Atlantic Express...................................10:40 p m
+Way Freight...........................................  6:50 a m
♦Pacific  Express..............................................6:00 am
tM ail..........................................................3:30 p m
tGrand  Rapids  Express............................... 10:35 pm
Way Freight......................................................5:15 pm

ARRIVE.

tDaily except Sunday.  *Daily.
Sleeping  cars  run  on  Atlantic  and  Pacific 
Express.
Direct  and  prompt  connection  made  with 
Great  Western,  Grand  Trunk  and  Canada 
Southern trains in same depot at Detroit, thus 
avoiding transfers.
The Detroit Express leaving at 6:00 a. m. has 
Drawing  Room  and  Parlor  Car  for  Detroit, 
reaching that city at 11:45 a. m., New York 10:30 
a. m.,and  Boston 3:05 p. m. next day.
A train leaves Detroit at 4 p. m. daily except 
Sunday with drawing room car attached, arriv­
ing at Grand Rapids at  10:35 p. m.

C h a s . H . N o r r i s ,  G e n ’l A g e n t

W. J. LAMB & CO.,
Fruits,  Veg,etables:

WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

T O

Butter, Eggs, Cheese, ZESto. 

W holesale Agents for the Lima Egg Crates and Fillers.

8  and  10 Ionia St.,  Grand Eapids,  Mich.

where in this issue and write for

See  Our  Wholesale  Quotations  else­
Special  Prices  in  Car  Lots. 
We are prepared to male Bottom Prices on anjtliipe handle.
A. B. KNOWLSON.

3  Canal Street,  Basement,  Grand Rapids,  Mich.

WHOLESALE

1

I

 

FULL  LINE  OF  ALL  STAPLE 

PLUGS  KEPT  IN  STOCK.

Sole Agents for Celebrated

F.  &  B.  Boquet,  Spanish  Fly, 
.  Pantilla, Rosa DeOro, Amer­

ican  Club,  Jim   Fox 

Clipper, Moxie.

76 South Division St., Grand Rapids, Mich.
Exclusively Wholesale.

GO  TO

POli

Figs, Dates,

ETC.

THE  LEADING  BRANDS  OF

Offered in this Market  are  as follows:

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 
APPLE  J A C K ..........................................

- 

-

-

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

FINE  CUT.

THE  MEIGS  FINE  CUT, DARK, Plug flavor 
.62 
STUNNER,  DARK 
 
.35
RED  BIRD,  B R I G H T .................................... .48
OPERA  QUEEN,  BRIGHT  - 
.40
FRUIT 
..............................................................32
O  SO  S W E E T ..................................................30

-

-

-

-

-

2c less in 6 pail lots.

SMOKING.

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

- 

.22 
.20
.26
.27
.24 
.24

These brands are sold only by

Arthur Meigs & Co.

Wholesale Grocers,

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

SPRING  &

W HOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

COMPANY,

DRY GOODS,

Staple and  Fancy

To the Members of the T. P. A. W ho Love 

[Communicated.]

Justice.

Some time in February the  National Sec­
retary-Treasurer called in the  certificates of 
certain members of  the Michigan  Division. 
On  February  18th  the  Michigan  Board  of 
Directors,  at their meeting,  passed a resolu­
tion  requesting  the  National  Secretary  to 
give his reasons and authority for the above 
action.  He  turned  the  resolution  over  to 
the National  Board  of  Directors,  who re­
quested  him to send  me a marked  copy of 
the  constitution.  On  receipt  of  this  copy 
of the  constitution,  I  wrote  a letter  to our 
official  organ,  the  Merchant  Traveler,  and 
received the following letter:

Dear Sir—Your letter relative to the re­
cent action of the Board,  submitted for pub­
lication to the Merchant Traveler,  has been 
turned over  to  the  editing  committee  and 
will  undoubtedly  be  suppressed. 
I regret 
very much that  members in  good  standing 
are  unable  to  express  themselves  in  their 
official  organ,  but  my  understanding  and 
arrangements with the Association  compell 
me to submit all  correspondence  relative to 
the Association to a committee appointed to 
act on same.  Much  matter  of  importance 
to the Association is  for  “obvious reasons” 
suppressed. 
I would be  glad to  hear from 
you any time, 

Yours  Very Truly,
Manager of the Merchant Traveler.
The editing committee  referred  to  in the 
above is composed solely of members of  the 
National Board of Directors, hence the  “ob­
vious reasons.”  The following is  the letter 
I sent for publication:
Editor Merchant Traveler.

A. J.  Gessw ein,

For  nearly one  whole year,  I  have  kept 
my fingers out  of  newspaper  disputes; but 
the pent-up feelings  that  surge  around my 
heart,  m ust  out  and  therefore  the follow­
ing:
1 am  in receipt of a  marked  copy  of the 
constitution of the T.  P.  A.,  same  old con­
stitution,  with  the  same  old  loop-holes  of 
escape, that I have poured over so carefully, 
and cursed so heartily  (with  all due respect 
to the makers thereof.)

The marked paragraph is  as follows:
Article 2,  Sec.  1.

“Any  person  of  good
inoral character,  engaged  as  a  commercial
traveler,  is  eligible to  membership  in  this
Assoe iation.”  The Honorable Board of  di-
reéters neglected to have  Article 6,  Section
3, marked,  which ruads:  “The annual dues
of this Association shall be  one dollar,  paid
witili i sixty days after the annual meeting.”
F or three years  or more  we  have been ac-
•eepthlg the  dollars of  insurance  men,  for
three years or more the  aforesaid insurance
men lave  been  enjoying  the  privileges(?)
of  Oilir  fraternal  crder  (at  one  dollar  per
nil.
No v,  all of a sudden,  the  Board rises in
virtuous 
indignation,  and  declares  insur­
ance  men  are  not  commercial  travelers. 
May I be so  bold  to  inquire,  if  the  Board 
has instructed the National Secretary-Treas­
urer to  remit  back to  these  insurance men 
their two or  three  dollars  which they have 
paid  into  our  national  treasury?  If  not, 
why not?
Is not this sudden  change of base  caused 
by the fact that certain railway officials have 
made certain threats that  if  certain  insur­
ance men were not thrown out o f our Asso­
ciation,  so-and-so would he dxme.
Why are not the certificates  of  all insur­
ance men called in? why only a chosen few.
How do I  know  that  I   may  not  be the 
next victim  of railway official’s  malice  and 
a cowardly Board’s fear?
The Board knows as  well  as 1 do  that if 
we once allow  railway companies to dictate 
to 11s the stipulations will never cease.
The  dissatisfaction  caused  by  the  per­
verse  action  of  the  Board  ever  since  the 
meeting in June,  1885,  is shown  by the last 
report of  the  Secretary-Treasurer  whereby 
we find that less than one-half of  our mem­
bers have paid their dues for '85-'8(1.
It is not also a fact that  the Board has in 
several  instances  contradicted,  not  only it­
self,  but the constitution  which they would 
have us  believe  they  swear  by,  by  giving 
more time to delinquent members?
One  of  our  respected  Directors  recently 
said to me:  “You have a bad  habit of ask­
ing conundrums,  that  a  man  can’t  answer 
without giving himself away.”  So? Fellow- 
inembers—aye,  brothers—there  is  not  one 
of you can say that 1 have not  the  interest 
of  our order  at  heart;  there  is not  one of 
you can say that I have not worked  as  hard 
as any of you  for the  best  interests of  our 
Institution.  I am no disgruntled office seek­
er,  1 have no personal  complaint to render; 
I am not an insurance agent.  All I demand 
is justice,  “do unto  others  as you would be 
done by.”
Well do you speak the  truth,  Mr.  Editor, 
when you  say  “surface  indications  show a 
warm time to be  anticipated  at  Baltimore, 
at the National Convention.”
Secretary-Treasurer Mich. Div. T. P.  A.

Leo.  A.  Caro, 

Yours truly, 

His  Trade  was  Bad.

Two men were  on  a  street car  the other 
■day,  who  were  debating  the  condition  of 
trade.  One was  gloomy.  The other failed 
utterly by argument to  raise  him to a more 
sanguine view of  things.  He  at  last said:
“Well,  I didn’t  like  to  tell  you,  but  my 

latest line of business lias proven  bad.”

“What  are  you  in,”  asked  the  gloomy 

■chap.

“Lime,” was the reply.
“What’s the matter  with the lime trade.” 

was the unsuspecting inquiry.

“Slack,”  said  the  sanguine  man,  as  he 
grinned broadly,  while the people in the car 
laughed at the  way  he  had  entrapped  the 
man of shadows.

ORDER  Au  CASE  OP

Leader  Shorts.

Leader Smoking

15c per pound.
16c per pound.
The Best in the World.

CLARK,  JEWELL  &  CO.
OLNEY, SHIELDS  &  GO.,
WHOLESALE
GROCERS,

And  IM PORTERS  OF   TEA S.

Our Stock is complete in all branches.  New, fresh and bought 

a t latest declines and for cash.

by no other jobbers in the city.

W e  have  specialties  in  TOBACCOS  and  CIGARS  possessed 

.  

easy  Ironing use  “ Electric Lustre’’ 
Starch,  ft is  all prepared for immediate 
use in O ne P o u n d  P a c k a g e s, which 
go as far as two pounds of any other Starch.
Ask your  Grocer for  it.
Tie Electric Lustre Starch Co.

204  F ranklin  S t.,  New York.

JOH2T CAULFIELD 

Wholesale Agent,

GRAND  RAPID S, 

-  

MICH.

* 4 k T N G
POWDER

This Raking Powder  makes  the  WHITEST, 
LIGHTEST and  most  HEALTHFUL  Biscuits, 
Cakes, Bread,etc.  TRY  IT  and be convinced. 
Prepared only by the

Arctic Manufacturing Co.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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

SOLE  AGENTS  FOB

IMio-AJ/pixi’s  P e a v e y   ¡Plmg.

The P. V. is the Finest Tobacco on the market.

ALSO  SOLE  AGENTS  FOR

MENDEL  <&  BROS.’  Celebrated  CIGARS,

Finer quality and lower prices than any handled 

in the market.

CARPETS,

VISITING  BUYERS  ARE  CORDIALLY  INVITED  TO  CALL  AND  EXAM­
INE  OUR  STOCK,  AND  MAIL  ORDERS  WILL  RECEIVE PROMPT AND CARE­
FUL  ATTENTION.

5 and 7 Ionia Street,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

MATTINGS,

RHSTDGB, BERTSCH & CO,
AITS  SHOES.
BOSTON  RUBBER  SHOE  CO..

MANUFACTURERS  AND WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

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.

OIL  CLOTHS

ETC.,  DESTO.

6 and 8 Monroe Street,

Grand Rapids,

M ichigan.

A recent English  invention  is a combina­
tion potato-chipping  and  pie-moulding ma­
chine.  This invention ought  to  be supple­
mented  with  a  east-iron  man  to  eat  the

W.  O.  Denison,

88,90 and 93 South  Division Street, 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  MICHIGAN.

(Svoceries.

Grocers’ Association of the City of Muskegon.

OFFICERS.

„   ,, 

.  _  

President—H. B. Fargo.
First Vice-President—Win. B. Keift.
Second Vice-President—A. Towl.
R e c o rd in g  S e c r e ta r y —W m .  P e e r .
Financial Secretary—John DeHaas.
Board of Directors—O. Lambert, W. 1. McKen­
zie, H. B. Smith, Wm. B. Kelly, A.  Jowl  and 
E.  Johnson. 
,
Finance Committee—Wm.  B. Kelly,  A.  Towl 
and E. Johnson.
Committee  on  Rooms  and  Library—<J.  Lam­
bert, H. B. Smith and W. 1. McKenzie.
Arbitration  Committee—B.  Borgman.  Garrlt 
Wagner and John DeHaas.
Complaint  Committee—Wm.  B.  Keift,  D.  A. 
Boelkins, J. 0. Jeannot,  R.  S.  Miner  and L. 
Vincent. 
„   ...
Law Committee—H. B.  Fargo,  Wm.  B.  Keift 
and A. Towl. 
Transportation Committee—Wm. B, Kent, An­
drew Wierengo and Wm. Peer. 
Regular meetings—First and third W ednesday 
evenings  of each month. 
Next meeting—Wednesday evening, April 7.

_ 

.
.

,

Sugais.*

Prominent  among  the  several  kinds  of 
sugar are cane,  beet,  inaple and palm.  Pile 
manufacture  of  sugar  is  now  one  of  the 
largest branches of human industry.  Sugar 
cane is a perennial  grass,  with a solid stem 
front six  to  twenty  feet  high,  and  leaves 
three feet  or  more  long,  and  three  inches 
broad.  The  juice  of  the  plant  contains 
from 15 to 20 per  cent,  sugar. 
It  has  not 
been found wild in  any  part  of  the world, 
but it probably  orignated  in Bengal,  where 
the manufacture of sugar  was  begun in the 
ninth century, and in the tenth and eleventh 
centuries,  in  Avicinia  and  other  Eastern 
countries.  Physicians used  sugar for med­
icine, after  the  discovery of  America. 
Its 
distribution was very rapid,  and other coun­
tries undertook its culture  in quick  succes­
sion.

The plant appears to have been cultivated 
in this  country  for  the  first  time  in about 
1751,  near  the  site  of  New  Orleans,  by 
some Jesuit  priests.

In  1758,  the  first  sugar  mill  was built a 
little  further  down  the  river.  After  the 
Revolutionary war, the  industry was  pros­
ecuted  so  successfully  by  emigrants  from 
the United States, that  in  1803  there  were 
81  sugar  estates  in  the  Mississippi  delta 
alone.
The 

is  always  propagated  by 
cutting; and,  as  the  lower  portion  of  the 
stem is  the  richest  in  sugar,  the  upper  or 
worthless portion is used for cuttings.

cane 

More than one-third of  the  sugar used in 
the world is obtained from sugar beet.  The 
beet first began to be  used  for  the  produc­
tion  of  sugar  about  the  beginning  of  the 
present century.  Now,  nearly all the sugar 
made and consumed  in  Continental Europe 
is from this plant.  The  method  of  manu­
facture  does  not  differ  very  greatly  from 
that used in making cane  sugar.  The beet 
is first  washed  and  then  grated  to  a  fine 
pulp; being then placed in sacks, it is press­
ed between iron plates,  in a hydraulic press. 
Good beets contain 91  per  cent, of juice,  of 
which  about  12  per  cent,  is  cane  sugar. 
The  juice,  after  extraction,  is  purified  by 
boiling with lime, then filtered through bags 
and bone black filter.  The  introduction  of 
the  manufacture  of  beet  sugar  into  the 
United States  has  been  tried  to  some  ex­
tent,  but without great success.

In the East,  large quantities of  sugar are 
made from the  juice  of  various  species  of 
palm tree.  The tree is  usually  tapped and 
spout inserted,  the same as with maple trees 
in this country.  The sugar is of a dark col­
or, but is tolerably pure.

The amount  of  cane  sugar  sold  in  1884 
was  1,195,000  tous;  beet,  1,670,000  tons; 
maple sugar.  28,443,645 pounds.  The high­
est price  raw  sugar  reached  for  57  years, 
from 1825 to  1881,  was  25c,  in 1864.  The 
lowest was 6c,  in  1849, ’51,  ’53 and ’54.

*  Paper read  by A. J. Elliott before  the last 

meeting of the Retail Grocers’ Association.

Luther Merchants  to  the Front.

L utiier,  Mich.,  March  19,  1886. 

Editor Michigan Tradesman:

D ea r  Sir—The  merchants  of  Luther 
have formed a protective association with W. 
B.  Pool as  President,  It.  M.  Smith,  Vice- 
President,  J.  M.  Verity  Secretary  and 
George  Osborne  Treasurer. 
I see in  your 
paper  you speak of the merchants of Grand 
Rapids having an  excellent  collection  sys­
tem.  Can you give us the  plan of it,  as we 
desire to adopt  the  best  we  can find—and 
even then we will lose more than we can af­
ford to. 

Yours Respectfully,

J a s. M.  V erity,  Sec’y.

The  Grocery  Market.

Business and collections are both satisfac­
tory.  Sugars are  about  a  sixpence  lower, 
while Ondara,  Sultana and Valencia  raisins 
are a trifle higher.  Other articles is the gro­
cery line are about  steady.

Oranges  are  active  at  a  shade  higher 
prices and are in good supply.  Lemons are 
scarce and much  higher,  with  every  pros­
pect of  a firm  and  high  market  for  some 
weeks to  come  and  perhaps  much  longer. 
Nuts are steady,  excepting  walnuts,  which 
are one  cent higher  and  scarce.  Figs and 
dates  are  steady  and  firm.  Bananas  are 
scarce.

A Dairy  Board  of  Trade.

At a meeting  of  the  patrons  of the pro­
posed  creamery  at  Rockford,  held  on the 
15th,  the  following  resolution  was  unani­
mously passed:

ResoOoedr—That  it  be  the  sense  of  this 
meeting that the dairy interests of this State 
are now  sufficiently  developed  to  warrant 
the establishment of a dairy  board of  trade 
in Michigan,  and  that  Grand Rapids be re­
commended as the most  central  and advan­
tageous point for such a market.

“Silver King” coffee is all the rage.  One 
silver  present  given  with  every  1  pound 
package.

Miscellaneous  Dairy Notes.

Watervliet is anxious to secure a creamery 

or cheese  factory.

H. A.  Farrand succeeds Farrand & Shank 
in the  manufacture  of  creamery butter and 
the  wholesale produce business at Lansing.
It  is  said  that  one  of  the  largest dairy 
salt works in the world will be in  operation 
the present year  on  the  site  of the burned 
McGraw mill,  Bay City.

Brighton is to have a creamery.  Chicago 
parties have been negotiating for the sale of 
an outfit,  and  the  stock  is  all  subscribed. 
The building will be erected at once.

The creamery at Otsego is nearly ready to 
begin operations. 
It is officered as follows: 
President,  W.  Cv  Edsell;  Vice-President, 
Joseph  Lindsey;  Secretary,  C.  A.  Barnes; 
Treasurer,  Jas.  Smith;  Directors,  D.  A. 
Drew,  W.  C.  Edsell,  Joseph  Lindsey,  Milo 
Hart,  Chas.  Stratton.

The patrons of E.  J.  Savage’s  cheese fac­
tory,  at Coopersville,  have formed an organ­
ization under the  name of  the Coopersville 
Dairymen’s  Association.  Ezra  O.  Phillips 
is  president,  R.  Lillie  secretary and  R.  D. 
McNaugliton  treasurer.  The  Association 
has contracted  with Mr.  Savage  to  deliver 
and  manufacture  the  milk  for  SI.25  per 
hundred.  Wm.  Dorgan  has  been  engaged 
as cheese maker another season.

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. 
____________ ___

fr'OR SALE—Cheap and on terms to suit, store 

1  with  dwelling  attached,  in  the  liveliest 
manufacturing town of 2,000population in the 
State.  Splendid opening for  grocery  or drug 
store.  O n ly one drug store in the  place.  Will 
not rent.  For terms, etc., address  J.  W. Her­
rick, Muskegon, Mich. 

tW lt  SALE—General stock, comprising lines 

1  of dry goods, groceries, boots  and  shoes, 
hardware, drugs, etc.  Owner is postmaster, at 
salary of $:100 per year.  Am doing a good pay­
ing  business,  but  compelled  to  close  out  at 
sacrifice, on account of ill-health.  Address R. 
B. Jennings, New Troy, Mich. 

135*

135*

bargain.

rundage, 79 W.

Muskegon, Mich.

Tons  are  sent  to  England  in rough j  inthe general 

Ad-
1  dress C. L. Iirundage, 79 W. Western ave.,

IWR  SALE—Drug  store  at 
WANTED—To  sell  a  good  hotel  in  a  live 
The Secretary of the British  Dairy Fann­
lumber town.  Will exchange for  stock 
of  merchandise. 
It  is  the  only hotel  in  the 
ers’ Association says he  does not know of a 
place.  Address “D,” care T r a d c s m a n .  133*
better method  of  packing  butter  than that 
IX) R  SALE—I wish to engage in a special line 
adopted by the  consignors of  Brittany but­
of business and offer for sale half interest
ter,
pine boxes,  holding two dozen pounds each.  | ^
L E _ D ru g  8tore and  houae  and  lot.
^
The butter is made up into two-pound rolls,
F o r further particulars inquire  of  or ad­
F  
_  132*_
dress Box 172, Muskegon, Mich. 
,
and wrapped in muslin, with an outside cov 
rp, 
u-viia  T>ARTNER WANTED—A grocery  merchant
ln e   ooxes i  j-  with fifteen years’ experience  and  doing
enng  ot  clean,  white  payer, 
measure fourteen inches in length, U>4x6X   a business of 830,000 per year in one of the best 
^   | towns in Northern Michigan  desires a partner
measme louueen  iiicu ls 
inches deep;  and as the lumps  of butter are
with  82,000  capital.  For  particulars, address 
132*
CB., care T he  T radesman. 
made  of  uniform 
length  and  diameter, 
twelve of them  can  be  easily,  but closely, 
packed on  end  in  each  box.  This  butter 
arrives  in  London  beautifully  fresh,  per­
fectly  clean,  unbruised,  and  uninjured in 
any way.

merly used on The Tradesman.  The font 
comprises 222 pounds, with  italic,  and  can  be 
had for 30 cents a pound.  Apply  at the offiee.

FX)R  SALE—The  font  of  brevier  type  for- 

Apples—Choice  winter  fruit  is  in  fair  de­

COUNTRY  PRODUCE.

, 

• 

. 

C.  B.  Lambert  makes  the  following  in­
genious suggestion relative to  the  designa­
tion  of  bogus  butter, 
lie  proposes  that a 
law be passed compelling  manufacturers to 
put their product on  the  market in one and 
two  pound  prints  and  three  pound  rolls, 
each  package  to  be  branded  “Butterine” 
and stamped  “No.  1,”  “No.  2” or  “No.  3,” 
according to  quality.  He  would  also  sug­
gest that solid packed be put only in square 
boxes,, containing from fifty to sixty pounds, 
each box to be  branded  on  all  six  sides by 
burning the word “Butterine” into the wood 
with letters at  least  an inch  in height. 
In 
order that the brand  on the  prints and rolls 
may not be  concealed,  lie  would  incorpor­
ate in the  measure a  provision  that no but­
ter cloth be used in handling  or  selling the 
article.  This suggestion is pertinent at this 
time  and  should  receive  the  consideration 
the importance of the subject demands.

VISITING  BUYERS.

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

land.
P. O.

A. E. Johnson. Sparta.
S. A. Bowers, Ding-man & Bowers, McBrides 
C. K. Hoyt, Hudsonville.
C. E. Coburn, Pierson.
E. G. Harrington, Holland.
Jas. Wyngarden, Grand  Haven.
J. C. Townsend, White Cloud.
O. Green, Martin.
Geo. A. Sage. Rockford.
Will Boone, Bridgeton.
Mr. Farraway, Beaver Dam.
Mr. DenHerder. Den Herder &  Tanis, Vnes- 
Mr. Lilley, Sisson & Lilley Lumber Co., Lilley 
H. M. Harroun, McLain.
A. & L. M. Wolf. Hudsonville.
Mrs. Jacob Debri, Byron Center.
M. P. Shields, Hilliards.
Rose  Bros., Allendale.
H. Harding, Bridgeton.
W. W. Forrester, Pierson.
Eli Runnels, Corning.
S. C. Harrow, Traverse City.
H. W. Potter, Jennisonville.
Geo. W. Sharer. Cedar Springs.
T. J. Knowles,  Volney.
E. V. Nash, Bravo.
Forman & Aldrich, Lowell.
F. O. Lord, Howard City.
D. Well brook,  ltoekl'ord.
N. DeVries, Jamestown.
Morley Bros., Cedar Springs.
Johnson & Seibert,  Ca'edonia.
Cornell & Griswold, Griswold  P, O.
Cole & Chapel, Ada.
G. N. Reynolds, Belmont.
Moerdyk, DeKruif & Co., 5
S. A. Colby, Rockford.
John Smith, Ada.
A. C. Barclay, Crosby.
O. D. Chapman, Stamvood.
Rutgers & Tien, Graafschaps.
Den Herder & Tanis, Vriesland.
W. F. Rice, Alpine.
Gordon Earle, Rodney.
Chas. McCarty, Lowell.
C. Bergin, Lowell.
A. Shook, Coral.
Walling Bros., Lament.
O. W. Messenger, Spring Lake.
Henry Baar, Grand Haven.
R. A. Hastings, Sparta.
G. S. Putnam, Fruitport.
Lon A. Pelton,  Morley.
Charles Drury, Sampson  &  Drury,  Cadillac.
C. W. Skellenger, Rockford.
A. E. Landon, Nunica.
L. It. Rogers, Eastport.
G. H. Walbrink, Allendale.
D. Vinton & Son, Willamsburg.
Mrs. E. Hoyle, Grove P. O.
M, J. Howard, Englishville.
Mr. Fisher, Carrel) & Fisher, Dorr.
Geo. Scribner, Grandville.
Ed. Roys, Roys Bros., Cedar Springs.
Jay Marlatt, Berlin.
G. B. Chambers,  Wayland.
C. O. Bostwick & Son, Cannon6burg.
Geo. Lentz, Croton.
Baron & TenHoor. Forest Grove.
W. S. Root, Tallmadge.
A. M. Church, Alpine.
T. J /-Sheridan & Co.,  Woodville.
H. M. Freeman, Lisbon.
J. Omler, Wright.
Joe Rogers, Hastings.
Geo. H. Hobart, Newaygo Mfg. Co., Newaygo.

i Zeeland.

mand at 8L75.

Beans—Local buyers pay 50e@75c  $   bu.  for 
unpicked  and  hold  ordinary hand-picked for 
81.10@ifl.15.
B u tter—Michigan creamery is easy at 28@30. 
Sweet  dairy  is  in  fair  demand and firm at 16, 
while old is dull at 5@8c.

Butterine—Creamery packed commands 20c. 
Dairy rolls are held at 14@15c and solid packed 
at 12@14c.

Cabbages—In fair demand  at $8@$10 IP 100.
Cheese—The  best  grades  of  October  and 

November make are  selling  at 1154@1254-
Cider—New sweet commands 10c rtP gal.
Celery—Scarce  and  nearly  out  of  market. 

Quotations are  variable.
Cranberries—The  Michigan  crop  is  about 
played out.  New Jersey berries are  slow  sale 
at  82  per  bu.  box,  and  Wisconsin  Bell  and 
Cherry berries are in occasional demand at  $5 
per bbl.
Evaporated, 654@7c, according to quality.

Dried Apples—Quartered and sliced,  3@354c. 

Dried Peaches—Pared, 15c.
Eggs—Somewhat  firmer, on  account  of  the. 
cold weather and bad roads.  Dealers  are hold­
ing  present  stocks  at  11c,  but  a further  ad­
vance is not improbable.

Honey—Choice new in  comb is firm at 14c.
Hay—Bailed is active and firm at $15 per ton 

in two and five ton lots and 813 in car lots.

Hops—Brewers pay 8@10c $   fl>.
Lettuce-JJae $  lb.
Onions—Home-grown, 75c IP bu. or $2.25 IP bbl.
Pop Corn—Choice new commands  254c  $  

and old 3c $  to*

Potatoes—Weaker.  Buyers  are  paying  30c 

for Rose or Burbanks,

g r a i n s  a n d   m il l i ng  p r o d u c t s.

Pieplant—8c IP to.
P oultry—Scarce  and  high.  Fowls  sell for 
10@1054c;  chickens,  ll@1154c;  ducks,  12c; and 
turkeys, 12c.
Sweet Potatoes—Kiln dried Jerseys, $4 IP bbl.
Turnips—25c IP bu.
Wheat—Lower.  The  city  millers  pay  as 
follows:  Lancaster,  85;  Fulse,  82c;  Clawson,
82c.
lots and 38©40c in earlots.
car lots.

Corn—Jobbing generally at 44@45c  in 100 bu. 
Oats—White, 38c in small lots  and 33@35c  in 
Rye—48@50e $  bu.
Barley—Brewers pay $1.25 $  cwt.
Flour—No change.  Fancy Patent, $5.50 IP bbl. 
in  sacks and  $5.75 in  wood.  Straight, $4.60  $  
bbl. in sacks and $4.80 in  wood.

Meal—Bolted, $3.75 IP bbl.
Mill Feed—Screenings, $15  ¡¡p ton.  Bran, $15, 
$  ton.  Ships, $16 f  ton.  Middlings, $16 $  ton. 
Corn and Oats, $18  IP ton.

FRESH  MEATS.

John  Mohrhard  quotes  the  trade  selling 

prices as follows:
Fresh  Beef, sides..................................   5 @
Fresh  Beef, hind  quarters.........-........  6*4© 7jA
Dressed  Hogs.........................................   554© 5%
Mutton,  carcasses.................................  654© 7
Veal...........................................................  8 ©9
Pork  Sausage..........................................   7 ©  754
Bologna...................................................  654© 7
Fowls................................................ 
11 
Spring Chickens........... .........................12  @13
Ducks  ....................................................   @J2
Turkeys  .................................................   @42

 

OYSTERS  AND  FISH.

F. J. Dettentbaler quotes as follows: 

OYSTERS.

New  York  Counts.............................................. 113
H. F. H. &  Co.  Selects........................................30
Selects..................................................................26
Anchors................................................................ 48
Standards  ............................................................46
Favorites.........................................................   45
Mediums  .........................................................   14
Pxlmes...................................................................., 43
Selects, by bulk..................................................-.1 60
Standards, by  bulk...............................1  00@1  10
Shrewsbury shells, (P  100.................................. 1 40
Princess  Bay  Clams, ^ 100................................80
New  York  Counts, $   100..................................1 40
Cod  .........................................................  @4
Haddock.................................................   ®
Mackerel................................................ 43  @1
Mackinaw Trout............. 1.....................  @
Perch.............................................................. ©
Smelts  ....................................... ............16  @1
Whiteflsh..........  ...................................  ©

FRESH  FISH.

Hides, Pelts and  Furs.

Hides are without change.  Pelts are dull 
and lower.  Furs  are  dull  and  will  prob­
ably remain so until after the London sales, 
a week  hence.  Wool  is  quiet.  Tallow is 
weak.

Professor Winehell fully twenty years ago 
pointed out in a published work on the geol­
ogy of tKe Grand Traverse region and North­
ern Michigan  that a  salt  stratum underlay 
Manistee  and  St.  Ignace.  And  yet  those 
fellows paid no attention  to  the  professor, 
and went without salt until two  years  ago.

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

1  00
Ohio White Lime, per  bbl....................' 
85
Ohio White Lime, car lots.................... 
Louisville Cement,  per bbl..................
Akron Cement per  obi........................  
1  30
Buffalo Cement,  per bbl....................... 
..4  B0
Car lots 
..................... 1 05@1  10
Plastering hair, per bu........................  25©  30
Stucco, per bbl.......................................  
4  75
Land plaster, per ton............................ 
3 50
2 50
Land plaster, car lots............................ 
Fire bnck, per  M.................................. $25 @ $35
Fire clay, per bbl.
3  00
Anthracite, egg and grate, car lots. .$6 
Anthracite, stove and  nut, car lots..  6
Cannell, car lots...................................
Ohio Lump, car lots............................  3
Blossburg or Cumberland, oar lots..  4 
Portland  Cement..,..........................5 3

COAL.

Dissolution of Copartnership.

Notice Is hereby given  that  the  copartner­
ship heretofore existing under the  firm  name 
of Leach & Forrester, manufacturers and deal­
ers  in  shingles,  is  this  day dissolved, W.  W. 
Forrester  succeeding.  All  accounts  due the 
late firm must be  paid to the  said  W.  W.  For­
rester and all debts of the late firm will be paid 
by the said W. W. Forrester^

Dated at Pierson, March 16,1886.

W.  W.  FORESTER.

MISCELLANEOUS.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

AXLE GREASE.

These prices  are  for  cash  buyers,  who  pay 

BAKING  POWDER.

promptly and buy in full packages.
Frazer’s ................  HOlParagon.................2 10 j
Diamond  X ...........   60 Paragon 25lb pails.  90
Modoc, 4  doz..........2 50|Fraziers,25 lb pails. 1  25
Thompson’s  Butterfly, bulk...................  25
6 or 10 lb  cans..  27
54,4 doz. in case... 
3 ,2   “ 
» ...195

95
J. H. Thompson & Co.’s Princess, 54s..........1 25
y*s..........  2 25
Is.............4 25
bulk.......  28
45

Arctic, % lb cans, 6 doz. case....................... 

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FRUITS—FOREIGN

Citron......................................................  @  24
Currants,  new.......................................   ©  7
Lemon  Peel...........................................   ©   14
Orange Peel............................................  @  14
Prunes, French, 60s...............................1254©
Prunes, French, 80s...............................  854©
Prunes, Turkey.....................................   @454
Raisins, Dehesia................................... 3 75@4 00
Raisins, London Layers...................... 3 00@3 20
Raisins, California  “ 
.......................  @3 50
Raisins, Loose Muscatels.....................  @2 00
RaisiDS, Ondaras,  28s............................  ©1354
Raisins,  Sultanas..................................   @10
Raisins,  Valencia................................. 10?g@_l0%
Raisins,  Imperials.................................  @3 50
Grand  Haven,  No.  8, square.........................4  00
Grand Haven, No 9, square, 3 gro............'. .1 20
Grand  Haven,  No.  200,  parlor...........................1 75
Grand  Haven,  No.  3o0, parlor.......................... 2 25
Grand  Haven,  No.  7,  round.............................. 1 50
Oshkosh, No. 2..................................................1  00
Oshkosh, No.  8..................................................1  50
Swedish............................................................   75
Richardson’s No. 8  square.............................4  00
Richardson’s No. 9 
............................ 150
Richardson’s No. 7)4, round...........................1  00
Richardson’s No. 7 
............................ 150
Black  Strap...................................................15@19
Porto  Rico.....................................................28@30
New  Orleans,  good......................................3S@42
New Orleans, choice.................................... 48@50
New  Orleans, fancy.................................... 52@55

MOLASSES.

MATCHES.

do 
do 

54 bbls. 3c extra.

OATMEAL.

PIPES.

PICKLES.

Steel  cut................ 5 001 RolledOats,Shiolds’3 25
Steel Cut, 54 bbl__ 3 00: Rolled Oats, Acme.3 25
Rolled  Oats........... 5 50; Quaker, 48  tos........3 25
Rolled Oats, 54bbl..3 (H  Quaker,60  tos........ 2 50
Roiled  Oats, cases.3 25|Quaker bbls............6 00
@5 00 
Medium...................................................
@3 00 
54 barrels.................................
© 3  00
Small........................................................
5@3 00 
mported Clay 3 gross.......................... 2
@3 25 
mported Clay, No. 216,3 gross...........
@1  85 
mported Clay, No. 216,254 gross........
©  90
American  T. D.......................................
Choice Carolina......654! Java  ..................
Prime Carolina......554 Patna.........................554
Jood Carolina.......5  Rangoon............554@5?4
Good Louisiana......5  ¡Broken. 
.........3%@354
Do Land’s pure....... 5541 Dwight’s ....................5%
Church's  ................ 554 Sea  Foam..................554
Taylor’s G. M.........554ICap Sheaf...................5%

8ALERATU8.

RICE.

12

J4c less in 5 box lots.

SALT.

SAUCES.

2 25
2  15
3 35
1 00
1 45
1 25
75
2 75
70
25
28
45

60 Pocket, F F  Dairy............................ 
28 Pocket................................................. 
100 3 to  pockets....................................... 
Saginaw or  Manistee...............................  
Diamond C.................................................  
Standard  Coarse........................................ 
\shton, English, dairy, bu. bags........ 
Ashton, English, dairy, 4 bu. bags__  
Higgins’ English dairy bu.  bags........ 
American, dairy, 54 bu. bags............... 
Rock, bushels......................................... 
Warsaw,  Dairy, bu............................... 
Parisian.  54. pints..........................
Pepper Sauce, red  small...........
Pepper Sauce, green  ..................
Pepper Sauce, red  large ring__
@1 50 
Pepper Sauce, green, large ring
©  80
Catsup, Tomato,  pints.................
Catsup, Tomato,  quarts  .....................   ©1  20
Halford Sauce, pints............................  @3 50
Halford Sauce, 54 pints.........................  ©2 20
Shamrock............... 3 30lAcme,  bars............ 3 75
Blue Danube..........2 95| Acme,  blocks.........3 22
London  Family__2 60 Best  American___3 08
Napkin....................4 85 Circus  ....................3 75
Towel......................4  75!Big Five  Center...3 90
White  Marseille*!. .5 60 Nickel...........................3 45
White Cotton  Oil..5 OOlGem.............................. 3 35

@2 00 
©  70

SOARS'

Ground. 

SPICES.

Whole.

Pepper................ 16@35|Pepper.................   @18
Allspice.............. 12@15 Allspice...............   8@10
Cinnamon........... 18@30 Cassia....................10@U
Cloves  ................ 15@25i Nut megs.  No. 1..  @60
Ginger................ 16@20 Nutmegs,  No. 2..  @50
Mustard...............15@30 Cloves  ....? ......... 16@18
Cayenne.............25@35|
Electric  Lustre.....................................   @3 30
Niagara,  Laundry.................................  354
Niagara, gloss.......................................   5
N iagara, corn...............................

STARCH.

SYRUPS.

Corn,  barrels  .............................
Corn, 54 bbls..................................
Corn,  10 gallon kegs.....................
Corn, 5 gallon kegs.......................
Pure  Sugar, bbl............................
Pure Sugar, 54 bbl........................
Pure Sugar  5 gal kegs................

SUGARS.

22©26 
24® 27 
@29 
1 35 
32@26 
24@28 
@1 50

©  7 
Cubes  .  ......................................
© 7 
Powdered.....................................
Granulated,  Standard................
©©  6*, 
Confectionery A ..........................
Standard A ....................................
@  6 
57s® 6
No. 1, White Extra  C..................
No. 2, Extra C.........................................  5%@  5
No. 3 C......................................................  5%@ 5%
No. 4 C....................................................   5%@ 554
No. 5 0 ...............:.....................................  554© 5%

TEAS.

15@20
Japan ordinary............. 
Japan fair to good........................................25@30
Japan tine...................................................... 35@45
Japan dust.....................................................15@2l
Young Hyson................................................30@50
GunPowder...................................................35@5U
Oolong....................................................33@c5@6C
Congo...........................................................  25@30

TOBACCO—FINE C U T -IN   PAILS.
Yum  Yum................ 251 Old Time..........
Sweet  Rose...............32 Underwood’s Capper 35
May  Queen...............65 Sweet  Rose................45
J oi ly  Ti me................ 40  Meigs & Co.’s Stunnei'35
Dark AmericanEagle67 Atlas...........................3c
The Meigs..................62  Royal Game............... 38
Red  Bird................... 50  Mule Ear.................... 65
State  Seal..................60  Fountain.................... 74
Prairie Flow er........65 Old Congress.............. 64
Indian Queen........... 60|Good Luck..................52
Bull  Dog................... 601 Blaze Away...............35
Crown  Leaf.............. 66  Hair Lifter.................3<
Hiawatha..................65  Jim  Dandy.................38
Globe  .........................65 Our  Bird.................... 28
May Flower.............. TOIBrother  Jonathan...28

7

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SMOKING

BigDeal.....................27  Lucky  ....................... 30
Ruby, cut  plug....i .35 Boss  ...........................15
7
Navy Clippings........20 Two  Nickel................24
Leader...................... 15 Duke’s  Durham.........40
8
Hard  Tack................32  Green Corn Cob Pipe 26
8
415
Dixie......................... 28  Owl.  ........................... 16
95-
Old Tar...................... 40  Rob Roy......................26
4ov
Arthur’s  Choice.......22 Uncle  Sam................. 28
Red Fox.....................261  Lumberman..............25
85
Fli rt............................28 Railroad Boy..............38
Gold Dust................. 26  Mountain Rose...........18
Gold  Block............... 30 Home Comfort............25
Seal of Grand Rapids  Old Rip....................... 60
(cloth)................. 25! Seal of North Caro-
1^5
Tramway, 3 oz.........40! 
'ina, 2  oz.................. 48
Miners and Puddlers.28 Seal of North Caro-
Jl’
125
lina, 4oz................... 48
Peerless  ....................24 
135
Standard...................20 Seal of North  Caro-
135
Old Tom.................... 18 
lina, 8oz....................45
135
Tom & Jerry.............24¡Seal of North Caro-
425
Joker......................... 24 
lina, 16 oz boxes___ 42
Traveler...................35  King Bee, longeut.. .22
85
Maiden......................25  Sweet Lotus............... 32
Pickwick Club.........40 Grayling......................32
Nigger  Head............26;  Seal Skin.................... 80
Holland....................22  Red Clover.................32
German....................15|Good Luck...................26

PLUG.

Hiawatha....................................
Jolly Tar......................................
Jolly  Time..................................
Favorite......................................
Black  Bird..................................
Live and Let  Live.....................
Punch  .........................................
Big Nig.........................................
Spear Head.................................
Old  Honesty...............................
Whole  Earth...............................
Crazy  Quilt.................. .,.............
P.  V .............................................
Spring Chicken..........................
Eclipse  .......................................
Moxie...........................................
Black Jack..................................
Hiawatha....................................
Musselman’s Corker..................
Turkey  .......................................
t y .........................................

K M ve Cent.............................

@38
@36
@33
@42
@44
@35
@35
@35
©39
@42
©40
@39

E. C.
Spread Eagle........................................
Big Five Center.....................................
Parrot  ....................................................
Tramway.................................................
Buster.....................................................
Black Prince...........................................
Black Racer............................................
Leggett & Myers’  Star..........................
Climax....................................................
Acorn......................................................
Horse Shoe..............................................
2c. less in three butt lots.

SHORTS.

Leader.......................16 ¡Hiawatha___
Mayflower................23'Old Congress.
Globe..........................22-May  Leaf....
Mule Ear................... 231

3NUFF.

“ 
“ 

Lorillard’s American Gentlemen__
Maceoboy..........................
Gall & Ax’ 
..........................
Rappee...............................
Railroad  Mills Scotch........................
Lotzbeck  ..............................................

“ 

VINEGAR.

Star brand,  pure  cider.......................
Star brand, white wine.......................

@  73 
@  55 
@  44 
©  35 
©  45 
©1 30

.......8©12
.......8© 12

MISCELLANEOUS.

do 

Bath Brick imported............................ 
95
do 
American............................. 
75
Burnors, No. 1 .......................................  
100
do  No. 2.......................................  
1  50
Condensed Milk, Eagle  brand.............  
7 so
Cream Tartar 5 and 10 to cans.............   15®25
Candles, Star...........................................  @1254
Candles,  Hotel.......................................  
©14
Extract Coffee, V.  C..............................  ©so
F elix..........................  
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps.......................  @25
Gum,  Rubber 200 lumps.......................   @35
Gum, Spruce...........................................  30@35
Hominy. $   bbl.......................................   @3 50
Jelly, In 30 to  pails.................................  454© 5
Pearl  Barley...........................................2%@ 3
Peas, Green  Bush.................................  @1  35
Peas, Split  Prepared............................  @ 3
Powder, Keg..........................................   @3 00
Powder, 54  Keg......................................  @1 90
Sage  ........................................................  ©  is

1  25

CANDY, FRUITS AND  NUTS. 

do 
do 

Putnam & Brooks quote as follows :
Standard, 25 to boxes............................ 
Twist, 
Cut Loaf 

STICK.
........................ 
MIXED

854@9
9© giz
........................1054@11

©  9
Royal, 25 to  pails............................ 
Royal, 200 to bbls............................@854
Extra, 25 to  pails...............................’  " ‘ 10© 1054
Extra, 200 to bbls..................................  
.9 © 954
™reneh Cream, 25 to palls................ 12® 1254
ut loaf, 25 to  cases................... . . . . . . . . . 1254©
Broken,25  to  pails.......................@10
Broken.200ft  bbls...............!!!!!...!!...  9©  95%
FANCY—IN  5 to BOXES.

Lemon  Drops............................ 
12© 13
Sour Drops.......................13©14
Peppermint  Drops................................   @14
Chocolate  Drops.......................’ 
¡5
H M Chocolate  Drops........18
Gum  Drops  .....................................................10
Licorice Drops................................................ '.22
A ll  Licorice  Drops............................... 
 
Lozenges, plain..........................................¡4@15
15©16
Lozenges,  printed..................... 
Imperials..................................................14@15
Mottoes..................................... .. 
j5
"ream  Bar......................................’.'.’..‘!"i3©14
Molasses Bar..................................................... 13
Caramels................................."  18
Hand Made Creams......................................... 18
Plain  Creams.............................................16© 17
Decorated  Creams............. ..!.... . . . . .  ___20
String Rock..........................  
14
Burnt Almonds...............!!”.!!”.!'!........20@23
Wintergreen  Berries.....’..’.”.'.**'.."  ”  14©15

 
. 

42

FANCY—IN  BULK.

Lozenges, plain  in  palls.................. 
1154® 12
"jozenges, plain in  bbls.................. 
  1054@11
¡jozenges, printed in pails..........@1254
Lozenges, printed in  bbls.................... 1154@12
Chocolate Drops, in pails..................  12  @1254
Gum  Drops  in pails........................  
654  @7
Gum Drops, in bbls.......................!...! 
© 554
Moss Drops, in  pails........... . . . . . . .  .  .  @10
Moss Drops, in bbls................ ... 
9
Sour Drops, in  pails.......! ” ............................43
’mperials, in  pails........... .....................12  @12*4
mperials  in bbls.................................  1054@11/

FRUITS

Bananas  Aspinwall.............................
.3 50@4 50
Iranges, California, fancy........ 
iranges, California,  choice................ 3 00@3 25
Oranges, Jamaica, bbls........................
Oranges, Florida................
Oranges, Valencia, cases.. . .. . . .. . . ...  @6 00
Oranges, Messina...................... ' . @
 00
Oranges,  Naples........................ .
Lemons,  choice................ @4 50
jcmons, fancy................ @3 50
Figs,layers, new,  |1 ft........... 
125i@16
Figs, Bags, 50to......................................  754@  8
Dates, frails  do  ....................®)  45j
Dates, 54 do  d o ........   ................................@5
Dates, skin...............................
Dates, 54  skin.............
Dates, Fard 10 lb box $   to........ . . . . . . .  @10
Dates, Fard 50 ft box $  to.....................   © »
Dates, Persian 50 to box 19 to............... 
Pine Apples, f! doz............................’

© 754

3

do 

PEANUTS.
Prime  Red,  raw  $   to..................
Choice 
d o ................
Fancy H.P. do 
do  ...............”
Choice White, Va.do  ..................
Fancy H P„  Va  do  ...............
H. P.Va.........................................

NUTS,

“ 
“ 

Ylmonds,  Tarragona................ .............
.16
@17 
Ivaca........................................ir,
@16 
California..............................15
@16 
Brazils....................................................   s
@ 9
hestnuts, per bu............................. .
Filberts, Sicily.......................................1154© 12
Barcelona...............................  @10
“ 
Walnuts,  Grenoble................................1454©15
“  Marbo.....................................
French..................................   8  @11
“ 
California..............................  @12
Pecans,  Texas, H.  P..............................9  @13
“  Missouri.......................................854© 9
Cocoanuts, $! 100....................................  @4 50

PROVISIONS.

PORK  IN  BARBELS.

The Grand Rapids  Packing  &  Provision  Co. 

quote  as  follows:
Mess, Chieago packing, new........................ 11 25
Clear,  S. P. Booth.........................................11  25
Short Cut, new................................................. 11 25
Back, clear, short  cut....................................12 75
Extra family clear, short  cut.......................12 00
Clear,  A. Webster, n e w ............................. 12 75
Extra clear nig, short cut............................. 12 75
Extra clear, neavy..........................................13 00
Clear quill, short  cut..................................... 13 25
Boston clear, short cut.................................13 25
Clear back, short cut....................................13 25
Stundard clear, short  cut, best..................13 50

5%
5%
5%
6J£
H>4
654

DRY  SALT MEATS—IN  BOXES.
Long Clears, heavy................................. 
medium............................... 
“ 
“ 
ligh t.................................... 
Short Clears, heavy................................. 
do.  medium............................... 
light..................................... 
do. 
SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED  OR  PLAIN.
Hams, heavy....................................................   954
“  medium.................................................   954
ligh t......................................................  9-44
“ 

Boneless  Hams, best...................................... 10
Boneless  Hams............................... 
9
Boneless Shoulders..........................................   654
Breakfast  Bacon.............................................   7%
Dried Beef, extra quality..............................  9
Dried Beef, Ham  pieces................................1154
Shoulders cured  in sweet pickle................... 6

 

LARD.

Tierces  ..................................................... 
30 and 50 to Tubs.....................................  
50 lb Round Tins, 100 cases.....................  

LARD IN TIN PAILS.

20 lb Pails, 4 pails in  case.......................  
3 to Pails, 20 in a case.............................. 
5 lb Pails, 12 in a case..............................  
10 to Pails. 6 in a case.............................  

854
6%
6%

6%
7%
75*
7

2 50
4 00
5 00
3 00
7 50
4 25
6 00

Splendid.................................................
Old Soldier..............................................  ©40
Knife, single butt...................................  @50
“ lots.............................   @49
“  “  ............................  @48

two 
five 

“ 
« 

Rum..............................................
Money..........................................
Red  Fox.................................. .
Big Drive....................................-
Seal of Grand Rapids................
Patrol.........................................
Jack Rabbit...............................
Chocolate Cream.......................
Nimrod.......................................

BEEF IN BARRELS.

Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 tos............  9 OO
Boneless,  extra....................................................13 OO

SAUSAGE—FRESH AND SMOKED.

Pork  Sausage..................................................
Ham  Sausage...................................................
Tongue  Sausage...........................................
Frankfort  Sausage.....................................
Blood  Sausage.................................................
Bologna, straight..................
Bologna,  thick.......................
Head Cheese...............t .........
PIGS’  FEET
In half barrels.......................
In quarter barrels.................

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BLUING.

CANNED FISH.

CANNED FRUITS.

»» 
•* 
likOOMS*

Fancy  Whisk. 
Mill.

.......................2 40
..................... -12 tX)
Silver Spoon. 50  cans....................................10 00
Victorian, 1 lb cans, (tall,) 2 doz..................2 00
Diamond,  “bulk,” ......................................... 
15
Dry, No. 2........................................... doz. 
25
45
Dry, No. 3...........................................doz. 
Liquid, 4 oz........................................ doz. 
35
Liquid, 8 .............................................doz. 
65
Arctic 4 oz.........................................1? gross 4 00
ArcticS  oz...........................................................  3 00
Arctic 16 oz....................................................   lb 00
Arctic No. 1 pepper box....................................  2 00
3 00
9 
a 
Arctic No. 2 
4 oo
Arctic No. 3
No. 1 Hurl.............. 2 00 Common Whisk—   90
I 00 
No. 2 Carpet............2 25
3 50
No. 1 Carpet............2 50
No. 1  Parlor Gem..2 75
Clams, 1 1b, Little Neck...............................1 39
Clams, 2 to. Little Neck...............................1 7o
Clam Chowder,  3 ft.........................  ..........2 15
Cove Oysters, 1 ft  standards.....................1 00
Cove Oysters, 2  to  standards.....................  1 75
Lobsters, 1 to picnic..................................... 1*5
Lobsters, 2 to, picnic....................................2 .*>
Lobsters, 1 ft star.............................................. 2 00
Lobsters, 2 to star.............................................. 3 00
Mackerel, 1 to  fresh standards........................1 10
Mackerel, 5 to fresh standards....................... 4 25
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 to......................3 00
Mackerel,3 to in Mustard.................................3 00
Mackerel, 3 to  soused....................................... 3 00
Salmon, 1 to Columbia river.............................1 40
Salmon, 2 to Columbia river............................ 2 25
Sardines, domestic 54s................................. 
8
Sardines,  domestic  54s.....................  
 
 
Sardines,  Mustard  54s...................................  J2
Sardines,  imported  54s.................................   14
Trout, 3ft  brook.......................................   4  00
Apples, 3 to standards...................................  *5
Apples, gallons,  standards..............................2 10
Blackberries, standards...............................   95
Cherries,  red  standard.................................   95
Damsons..........................................................  90
Egg Plums, standards 
..............................1 2o
Green  Gages, standards 2 to............................ 1 25
Peaches, Extra Yellow.....................................1 75
Peaches, standards...........................................1 60
Peaches,  seconds...............................................1 25
Pineapples, Erie.......................................... I 50
Pineapples, standards.................................1 40
Pineapples, Johnson’s sliced..................... 2 60
Pineapples, Johnson’s, grated..................2 75
Quinces.............................................................. |  25
Raspberries,  extra..................... 
.1  Ijj
Strawberries  ................................................I  35
Lusk’s. Mariposa.
2  10
....2  30
2  00
....2   10
1  80
....2  10
2 00
....2   10
2  20
...2  50
....2 50. 
2 25
....2  40
CANNED VEGETABLES.

 
CANNED  FRUITS—CALIFORNIA

Qui
Pea
Asparagus, Oyster Bay.............................. 3 00
Beans, Lima,  standard...............................  7.j
Beans, Stringless,  Erie...............................   95
Beans, Lewis’  Boston Baked.................... 1  6o
Corn,  Archer’s Trophy.............................. 1  00
“  Acme..................................................1 00
“  Red Seal..............................................  90
“  Excelsior........................................... 1 00
Peas, French................................................ 4  65
Peas, Marrofat, standard........,..................1  40
Peas, Beaver.................................................   70
Pumpkin, 3 to Golden..................................   ¿p
Succotash, standard....................................   75
Squash..........................................................1 00
Tomatoes, standard brands...................... 1  25
Michigan  full  cream............................ 1154@1~
Half skim......................... 
Skim 
.................................................   6
@   6
Baker’s ..................3754!German Sweet.
unkles’ ....................35] Vienna Sweet  .

...............  ?  @10(4

Egg Plums..

CHOCOLATE.

CHEESE.

 

COCOANUT.

Schepps. cake box.................................
54s............................................
Maltby’s 1 to  round...............................
assort  ......................................
54 s..............................................
Manhattan,  pails..................................

COFFEES.

Green.

Roasted.

©2754@28
@26g

@20

Rio.....................9® 12
Oden Rio..............12
Santos......................13
Marieabo.................13
la v a .................20@25
,1. G. Java............... 24
Mocha  ....................25

Rio......................7©15
Golden Rio..............It!
Santos......................17
Marieabo.................17
Java.................. 24®2tt
O. G . J a v a ...................28
Mocha.. 
............... 28
COFFEES—PACKAGE.

60 tos 100 tos 3* 6 tos

13

@4^

654
754

to
6%

X  XXX 

554
654
654
654

72 foot J u te .......1
60 foot Jute.......1  00
40 Foot Cotton— 1 50

Dilworth’s .
Lion............................................
M cL au g h lin 's  ..............................   13%  1354  12%
A rbuckle’s  .......
12*
............. 
German.............
................  1454  Vá*4  14
CORDAOE.
1  25 172 loot Cotton.....2 00
1  00 |60 foot Cotton.. ..1  75
..1   60
.1 50 ¡50 foot Cotton.
CRACKERS  AND  SWEET  GOODS.
Kenosha Butter.....................................  
Diamond  Butter............................... 
Seymour Butter....................... 
Butter......................................... 
Fancy  Butter............................ 
5
S.  Oyster..........................................  
Picnic......................................... 
Fancy  Oyster............................ 
6
Fancy  Soda............................... 
5
City Soda................................................. 
Soda  ..................................................  
Milk.................................................... 
Boston.................................................... 
Graham..................................................  
Oat  Meal................................................. 
Pretzels, hand-made............................ 
Pretzels.................................................. 
Cracknels.............................................. 
<54 
Lemon Cream............................ 
Frosted Cream....................................... 
Ginger  Snaps............................ 
754 
No. 1 Ginger  Snaps.................. 
754
Lemon  Snaps............................ 
Coffee  Cakes..................................... 
Lemon Wafers...................................... 
Jumbles.................................................  
Extra Honey Jumbles......................... 
Frosted Honey  Cakes......................... 
Cream  Gems.........................................  
Bagleys  Gems...................................... 
Seed Cakes............................................  
S. &  M. Cakes........................................  
Bloaters, Smoked Yarmouth......................75@80
Cod, whole.................................................... 4@5
Cod, Boneless.................................................5@65( i
H alibut........................................ 
10@11
Herring, round,  54  bbl...................................2 25
Herring .round,  54  bbl...................................4 25
Herring, Holland,  bbls..................................II 00
Herring, Holland,  kegs..............................80@95
Herring,  Scaled............................................ 22@23
Mackerel, shore, No. 2, 54  bbls..................5 50
..........I  00
...............  70
No. 3, 54 bbls...............................3 50
12 to  kits...........................  62
..........................   55
Shad, 54 b b l..................................................... 2 50
Trout, 54  bbls...................................................4 00
............................................  80
White, No. 1,54 b bls................................... 6 50
White, No. 1,12 
to kits............................... 1 00
W b ite, No. 1,10 to kits..................S£...........   90
White, Family, 54 bbls................................... 2 50
Lemon.  Vanilla.
1  40

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FLAVORING EXTRACTS.

“ 
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8 54
854
4254

12 to kits 

Jennings’2 oz............................*p  doz.l 00 
4 oz..........................................1  50 
6 oz..........................................2 50 
8 oz..........................................3 60 
No. 2 Taper.........................125 
No.  4  *r 
...........................1  75 
54 pint round..........................4 50 
1 
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No.  8.....................................3 00 
4  25 

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FISH.

150

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FRUITS—DOMESTIC.
Apricots, 25 to boxes....................
Cherries, pitted, 50 ft  boxes.......
Egg plums, 25 to  boxes.............
Pears, 25 lb boxes.........................
Peaches,  Delaware, 50 to boYes.
Peaches, Michigan.......................
Raspberries, 50 to boxes.............

OUT  AROUND.

delaying many-contemplated improvements, 
and hindering the  onward  march  of one of

News and Gossip  Furnished  by  Our  Own | the busiest cities oUhe country. 

Correspondents.

O t te r  L a k e .

Chas.  A. VanZandt, of Davenport, N. Y., 
•will occupy the north  store of  the Mansard 
block with a line of watches and jewelry.

Jackson.

a  _   _  _  

E.  G.  Hunt, of Mason,  has  purchased the 
C.  M.  Elliott grocery stock for  S3,750 cash. 
The stock invoiced $5,500.  Mr.  Hunt will re­
move his stock from Mason to this place, but 
will continue his interests in  stores at Ionia 
and Holt. 
Messrs.  I.  Ii.  Parker  and  D.  S.  Fleming, 
under the firm name of  Parker*  Fleming, 
purchased and took possession of the grocery 
stock of Hull & Co.  on  the  20th.  Mr.  Par­
ker has been with the firm five  years.  Mr. 
Fleming  for  the  past  thirteen  years  has 
been chief train despatclier of  the Michigan 
Central Railway here.  Mr.  Hull thus closes 
a prosperous business  of  twelve years’ con­
tinuance. 
v

.

Traverse  City.

,

.  , 

Jno. Barry,  IJ.  S.  Express agent, received 
the $25 prize  offered  by  the  company  for 
selling the largest  proportionate  amount of 
money orders during the  past year.
At a late  meeting  of  the  Traverse  City 
Driving Club,  it  was  decided  to  raise the 
shares from $10 to $25.  The following offi­
cers  were elected:  President,  J.  S.  Han­
nah;  Vice  President,  B.  J.  Morgan;  Secre­
tary,  E.  L.  Sprague;  Treasurer,  T.  G.  Shil-
son. 
Mrs.  C.  E.  Closs  has  moved  to  her new 
rooms,  in the Parmelee  building.  Duval & 
Huelmantel,  merchant  tailors,  will occupy 
the store just vacated by Mrs.  Closs.
N.  B.  Eastman’s  newly  completed  saw 
mill is being run to its fullest  capacity with 
Jackson gang 
custom work.  A Thirlby 
edger and planer will be put in this week.
Pope & McElcheran  have  repainted  and 
refitted their store.
J.  W.  Milliken is in Chicago, after spring
A.  Wrisley has purchased of W. F. Steele 
the mail route  between  Traverse  City and 
North port.
Ashton Bros,  are  having  their  store re­
painted.
The rain of the past few days has entirely 
destroyed the sleighing,  making some of the 
roads nearly impassable.

Luther.

Two  trials  at  Luther  the  past  week be­
tween professional  and  business  men have 
caused a great deal of excitement.  The first 
was the trial of  C.  I).  Barghoorn, justice of 
the peace,  for assualt  and  battery on L.  A. 
Yanugner.  The  only  defense  made  was 
that Barghoorn was  temporarily insane and 
did not know  that  he  did  the  deed.  The 
jury stood three for  guilty and three for ac­
quittal.  Both parties  decided not to have a 
new trial.  The second case was against A. 
E.  Marven,  editor of the Luther Herald,  for 
not  supporting  his  wife.  This  case  was 
brought by N.  H.  McKee,  superintendent of 
the  poor.  The  trial 
lasted  nearly  three 
days, resulting  in a  verdict  of  guilty,  and 
Marven was sentenced to a  fine  of  $10 and 
costs or 30 days in the Detroit House of Cor­
rection.  He was given until Monday to ap­
ply for a new trial.
Miss Esther Michener,  clerk  in W.,  L.  & 
W.’s  store, 
is  taking  a  vacation  of  two 
weeks,  visiting friends in Ionia county.

THE  LOUNGER.

“I predict the  organizatiou'of  the  Sixth 
National Bank in this city before two years 
have  elapsed,” said  President  Dunham,  of 
the  Fifth  National  Bank,  the  other  day. 
“The bank will be located  on  South  Divis­
ion street,  which is growing faster than any 
other thoroughfare in the city.

# 

#

I was  talking  with  Lew.  Hawkins  the 
other  day  regarding  the  prospects  for  a 
brick block on  the  triangular  lot  he owns 
opposite  his  new  block  on  Fulton  street. 
“I intended to build  this  season,” said the 
shrewd grocer,  “but do you suppose 1 want 
to get my walls  partly up,  and then have a 
strike for  $4  or  $5  a day wages?  No,  sir; 
I’ll wait awhile and see how the thing goes.” 
And yet two  jobbing  houses are anxious to 
secure the  lease  of  such  a  building  for a 
long  term  of  years,  at a rental  which will 
yield a handsome return on the  investment.

* 

**■

1 subsequently  talked  with  a gentleman 
who was announced to put several thousand 
dollars into new  buildings  the  present sea­
son.  “All my contemplated  building oper­
ations  are  declared  off,”  said  the  man of 
money.  “I don't  like  the  looks of things,
I  made  a  contract  with  an  old  business 
friend for a stone  wall,  when I was  waited 
upon by a  committee  from  the  Knights of 
Labor,  and  told  that I would be boycotted 
if I allowed  any  one  but  a  union man to 
build that  wall.  1 don’t  relish  the idea of 
being  boycotted,  so  I  paid  the  contractor 
$200 to let me off  on  the contract. 
I don’t 
mean to be  bulldozed  into  giving  work to 
men who are not competent,  simply because 
they happen to belong to some  labor organ 
ization;  so  I  have  concluded  to  erect  n< 
buildings  this  year. 
I  know  of  $200,000 
worth of building which was intended to be 
done this year,  which  has  been  postponed 
on account of this duced labor  agitation.”

*  *  *

Thinking the last gentleman might not be 
entirely unprejudiced,  I took the  trouble to 
investigate the subject on my own  account 
and am  sorry  to  say  that I found a worse 
state of  affairs  than  most  labor advocates 
would be willing  to  admit. 
Instead of be­
ing the  most  prosperous  year  for building 
operations  in our  history,  as it promised to 
be,  the indications are that the  construction 
of several  imposing  edifices,  which  would 
otherwise  be  completed  and  occupied  by 
fall,  will  be  deferred  until  the  outlook is 
juore favorable.

*  *  *

Judging from these  conclusions,  I am led 
to the  belief  that it is not unlikely that the 
men who  have  brought  about  the present 
chaotic condition of the  labor  market have 
•  overreached  themselves  in their determinar 
tion to keep all  building  operations within 
certain comparatively narrow limits-thereby

WHOLESALE  PBI0B  CURRENT.

These  prices  are  for cash buyers,  who  pay 

promptly and buy in full packages.

AUGERS AND BITS.

BELLS.

BALANCES.
BARROWS.
 

Ives’,  old sty le .....................................disOO&lO
N.  H. C. Co..............................................disflO&lO
Douglass’........................................  
  dlsfiOitlO
Pierces’ 
.............................................dls60&10
Snell’s ........................................................ dis60&10
Cook’s  ...................................................... dis40&10
Jennings’, genuine................................d i8 _ 2 5
Jennings’, imitation..............................dis50&10
Spring...................................................... dis 
40
Railroad...........................................................$ 13 00
Garden............... 
net 33 00
Hand..............................................dis  $ 60&10&10
60&10
Cow....................................................dis 
30&15
Call....................................................dis 
Gong.................................................dis 
25
60&10
Door, Sargent..................................dis 
Stove...................................................... dis $ 
40
Carriage  new list................................ dis 
80
Plow  ......................................................dis  30&1C
Sleigh Shoe............................................dis 
75
Wrought Barrel  Bolts........................dis  60&10
Cast  Barrel Bolts................................ dis  60&10
Cast Barrel, brass  knobs....................dis 
60
Cast Square Spring............................. dis 
60
Cast Chain............................................dis  60&10
Wrought Barrel, brass  knob.............dis  60&10
Wrought Square................................. dis  60&10
W rought Sunk Flush.......................... dis 
60
Wrought  Bronze  and  Plated  Knob
Flush..................................................dis  60&10
Ives’ Door.............................................dis  60&10

BOLTS.

BRACES.

Barber.................................................. dis$ 
40
Backus...................................................efts  50&10
Spofford.................................................dis 
50
Am. Ball................................................dis 
net
Well, plain.................................................. $  3 50
Well, twivel.................................................  
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
WroughtLoose 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
75
Wrought Brass....................................dis 
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
35
G. D........................................................ 
Musket................................................... 
60

CATRIDGES.

Rim Fire, U. M. C. & Winchester  new  list50&10
Rim  Fire, United  States......................... disSO&lO
Central Fire.............................................. diB30&10

CHISELS.

Socket Firmer..................... ................. dis  75&10
Socket Framing...................................dis  75&10
Socket Corner......................................dis  75&10
Socket Slicks........................................dis 
75
Butchers’Tanged  Firmer..................dis 
40
Barton’s Socket Firmers................... dis 
20
Cold........................................................net

Curry, Lawrence’s..............................dis  40&10
Hotchkiss  ............................................ dis 
25

COMBS.

COCKS.

Brass, Racking’s........................................ 
60
Bibb’s .........................................................  
60
B eer.............................................................  40&10
Fenns’.........................................................  
60

COPPER.

55&10
55&10
55&10
55&10
55&10
55&10
28
15 18

12 

DRILLS

ELBOWS.

HANGERS.

EXPANSIVE BITS.

files—New List.

22 and  24,  25 and 26, 

13 
GAUGES.
HAMMERS.

GALVANIZED IRON,
14 

Planished, 14 oz cut to size..................... $1 ft  28
14x52,14x56,14 x60 .........................................  31
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60..........................   21
Cold Rolled, 14x48............................................   19
Morse’s Bit  Stock............................... dis 
40
40
Taper and Straight Shank.................. dis 
Morse’s Taper  Shank..........................dis 
40
Com. 4 piece, 6  in............................ doznet  $.85
Corrugated.............................................dis  20&10
Ad j ustable.....................t .................... dis  *6 &10
Clar’s, small, $18 00;  large, $26 00.  dis 
20
Ives’, 1. $18 00 ;  2, $24 00;  3, $30 00.  dis 
American File Association List........dis
Disston’s ...............................................dis
New American......................................dis
N icholson’s.......•..................................... dis
Heller’s ..................................................dis
Heller’s  Horse Rasps..........................dis
Nos. 16 to 20, 
List 

27 
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 
50&10
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track
Champion,  anti-friction.................... dis
60&10
Kidder, wood  track.............................dis
40
60
Gate, Clark’s, l, 2, 3........... :................dis
State........ «.................................per doz, net, 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to  12  in.  4*4  14
and  longer.................................  ..........
Screw Hook and Eye,  *4  ..................net
Screw Hook and Eye %..................... net
Screw Hook and Eye  24..................... net
Screw Hook and Eye,  %....................net
Strap and  T ........................................ dis 
Stamped Tin Ware....................................
Japanned Tin  Ware.................................
Granite Iron  Ware..................................
Grub  1............................................... $11 00, dis 60
Grub  2...............................................  11 50, dis 60
Grub 3.................................................   12 00, dis 60
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.......... dis
Door, porcelain, jap.  trimmings............
Door, porcelain, plated  trimmings.......
Door, porcelain, trimmings....................
Drawer and  Shutter,  porcelain.........dis
Picture, H. L. Judd & Co.’s .....................   40&10
dis 4
Homacite..................................... 
LOCKS—DOOR.
4
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list, .dife 
Mallory, Wheeler &  Co.’s..................... dis 
4
Branford’s ..............................................dis 
4
Norwalk’s ..............................................dis 
4
70
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ...................dis
Coffee,  Parkers  Co.’s............................dis 40&10
Coffee,P. S. &W. Mfg. Co.’sMalleables  dis
Coffee, Landers, Ferry &  Clark’s ........dis
Coffee,  Enterprise.................................... dis
Adze  Eye......................................$16 00 dis
Hunt Eye..................................... $15 00  dis
Hunt’s.........................................$18 50 dis 20 & 10

HOLLOW  WARE.

MATTOCKS.

HINGES.

LEVELS.

KNOBS.

MILLS.

HOES.

65

NAILS.

Common, Bra  and Fencing.

1 50 
3 00 
1 75

Cd 4d 
1*4 
2  00

lOd to  60d............................................$  keg $2
8d and 9 d adv...............................................
6d and 7d  adv................................................
4d and 6d  adv....................
3d advance.........................
3d fine  advance................
Clinch nails, adv...............
I  lOd 
Finishing 
8d 
Size—inches  j  3 
2*4
Adv. f  keg 
$1 25  1 50 
Steel Nails—2 65.
MOLASSES GATES
„ .dis 
Stebbin’s Pattern  ........................
...dis 
Stebbin’s Genuine........................
...dis
Enterprise,  self-measuring........
50
Sperry & Co.’s, Post,  handled*.................. dis
Zinc or tin, Chase’s Patent... t ...............dis60&10
Zinc, with brass bottom.............................. dis 50
Brass or  Copper'.......................................... dis 50
Reaper......................................per gross, $12 net
Olmstead’s ...............................................   50&10
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy.................................dis  15
Sciota Bench..................................................dis  25
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy....................... dis  15
Bench, first quality......................................dis  20
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood— dis20&10 
Fry, Acme............................................... djs 50&10
. ..disOO&lO
Common, polished...
6
..$  ft
Dripping......................................................$  lb
.dis
40
Iron and Tinned........ ......................... dis
60
.dis
Copper Rivets And  Burs...................dis

MAULS.
OILERS.

PLANES.

RIVETS.

pans.

f

BURN  HARDW ARE

COMPANY,

Exclusively Wholesale,

Present to the Trade the

OF

and  Heavy  Hardware

Our Stock Comprises Everything

Included in a First-Class

H A R D W A R E  STOCK

Dealers visiting tlie  City  are  Cordi­
ally  Invited  to  Call  and  Inspect  our 
Establishment.

PATENT FLANI8AED IRON.

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

Broken packs *»c $  ft extra. 

ROPES.

8*4

SQUARES.

Sisal, *4 in. and  larger...............................
Manilla.........................................................
Steel and Iron........................................dis
Try and Bevels...................................... dis
Mitre  .....................................................dis
SHEET IRON.Com. Smooth. 

Com. 
$2 80
2 90
3 00 
3  10 
3 20
All sheets No, 18 and  lighter,  over 80 inches 

.....................$4 20
Nos. 10 to  14___
Nos. 15 to  17..................................   4 20
Nos. 18 to 21..................................   4 20
Nos. 22 to 24 ..................................   4 30
Nos .25 to 26 ..................................   4 40
No. 27 ..............................................  4 60
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SHEET ZINC.
In casks of 600 lbs, 
fi>............................ 
In smaller quausities, $   lb.....................  
No. 1,  Refined..........................................  
Market  Half-and-half............................ 
Strictly  Half-and-half............................ 

•>**
6

12 50
00
16 50

TINNER’S SOLDER.

TIN  PLATES.

Cards for Charcoals, $6 75.

TRAPS.

TIN—LEADED.

10x14, Charcoal...............................   5 75
IC, 
10x14,Charcoal................................  7 25
IX, 
12x12, Charcoal..................'............  6 25
IC, 
12x12, Charcoal  ..............................   7  75
IX, 
14x20, Charcoal.................................  5  75
IC, 
IX, 
14x20,  Charcoal................................  7 25
1XX,  14x20, Charcoal................................  8 75
IXXX. 14x20, Charcool................................  10  77
IXXXX, 14x20,  Charcoal..
20x28, Charcoal...............................  15  50
IX,
--------1 
-------^  
6 50
100 Plate Charcoal..........................
DC, 
8 50 
100 Plate Charcoal.......
DX, 
10 50 
DXX, 100 Plate Charcoal.......
12 50
DXXX,  100 Plate Charcoal.......................
Redipped  Charcoal  Tin  Plate add 1  50  to 6 75
Roofing, 14x20, IC...........................................  5 25
Roofing, 14x20,  IX .........................................   6 <5
Roofing, 20x28, IC..........................................  11 00
Roofing, 20x28,  IX ........................................   14 00
IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal  Terne.................5 50
IX, 14x20, choice Charcoal  Terne............  .  7 00
IC, 20x28, choice  Charcoal Terne................ 11 00
IX, 20x28, choice Charcoal  Terne............  14 00
Steel, G ame................................................... 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 YP doz
Mouse,  delusion................................. $1 50  doz
Bright Market.......................................   dis  67*4
Annealed Market.................................dis 
70
Coppered Market....................................dis  62*4,
Extra Bailing............................................   dis  55
Tinned  Market....................................... dis  62*4
Tinned  Broom.......................................... $ ft  09
Tinned Mattress....................................... *jp ft  8*4
Coppered  Spring  Steel...... ........... dis 40@40&10
Tinned SpringSteei..................................dis 
50
Plain Fence.......1?................................... $  ft  3*4
Barbed  Fence....................................... ...........
Copper................................................ new  list net
Brass................................................... new  list net
Bright.............................................. dis  70&10&10
Screw Eyes......................................dis  70&10&10
Hook’s .............................................dis  70&10&10
Gate Hooks and  Eyes..................dis  70&10&10
Baxter’s Adjustable,  nickeled...............
Coe’s Genuine.......................................dis 
60
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought, dis  75&10
Coe’s Patent, malleable...................dis75&10&10

WIRE OOOD9.

WRENCHES.

WIRE.

MISCELLANEOUS.

BirdCages................................................... 
50
Pumps,  Cistern....................................dis  70&10
Screws,  new  list.......................................  
83
Casters,  Bed  and  Plate.................... disSO&lO&lO
Dampers, American.................................  40&10
Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods. .60&10&5 
Copper  Bottoms.......................................  
10c

LUMBER. LATH  AND SHINGLES. 

The Newaygo Manufacturing Co,  quote f, o. 
b. cars as follows:
Uppers, 1 inch.................................. per M $44 00
Uppers, 1*4,1*4 and 2 inch........... ............  46 00
Selects, 1 inch..............................................  35 00
Selects, 1*4,1*4 and 2  inch.........................  38 00
Fine Common, 1 inch........ ‘.......................  30 00
Shop, 1 in c h .............................................  SO 00
Fine, Common, 1*4,1*4 and 2 inch...........   32 00
No. 1 Stocks,  12 in., 12,14 and 16  feet....  15 oo

No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet........................   16 o0
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 20feet.........................  17  00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 feet........  15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet.........................  16 00
No. 1 Stoeks, 10 in., 20 feet.........................  17 00
No. 1 Stoeks, 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., 18 feet..........................  12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in.,  20 feet— :................   13 00
Coarse  Common  or  shipping  culls,  all
widths and  lengths.......................... 8 00® 9 00
A and B Strips, 4 or 6 in ............................  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 00
No. 2 Fencing, 4  inch.................................  12 o0
Norway C and better, 4 or 6 inch.............   20 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, A and  B..................  18 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, C...............................  14  50
Bevel Siding, 6 inch. No. 1  Common__  
9 00
Bevel Siding,  6 inch,  Clear.....................   20 00
Piece Stuff, 2x4 to 2x12,12 to 16ft........ ..  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 Flooriug 6 in., No. 2 common__   14 00
Beaded Ceiling, 6 in. $1 00  ndditiinal.
Dressed Flooring, 4 in.,A. B and  Clear..  35 00
Dressed Flooring, 4in., C..........................   26 00
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. 1  eom’n  16 00 
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. 2  com’n  14 00 
Beaded Ceiling, 4 inch, $1 00 additional.
3 10
(XXX 18 in Standard Shingles... ........  
3 00
........ 
^ XXX 18 in. Thin.......
2 75
1 XXX 16 in
1 75
No. 2 or 6 in. C. B 18 in. Shingles..
........  
1 40
No. 2 or Ö ill. D.  B. 16  in
.  1 75© 2 00
Lath  ..

HIDES, PELTS  AND  FURS. 

Perkins & Hess pay as follows:

G reen....$  ft 
Part cured...
Full cured__
Dry hides and 
kips............  6

HIDES.

© 7  I Calf skins, green
8@10 
@  8

or cured__ 8
I Deacon skins,
$  piece.
20

©  8 

|

SHEEP PELTS.

@10
©50

2-3

FURS.

WOOL.

Old wool, estimated washed $  ft........   ©25
Tallow.....................................................   @*
Fine washed $  ft 24®25 ¡Unwashed...........  
Coarse washed... 18©22|
Bear  ......................................................1 00@12 00
Fisher...............•....................................2 00@6 00
Red Fox..................................................1  00@1 25
Grey Fox.................................................1 00@1 20
..  25© 1 00 
Martin
..  05©  70 
Mink ..  .................................
18
“  Spring.........................
..  12©  14 
Muskrat,  winter..................
fall.......................
8 
.. 
..  »  ©  2 
kits  .....................
..4 00@6 00 
Otter.....................................
..  10©1 00 
Raccoon.................................
,.  10@1 35 
Skunk....................................
. .1 50@3 00 
Beaver,  $   ft........................
..  10®  25
Deer, $   ft..............................

“ 
“ 

6© 

COOPERAGE.

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

“ 

HEADS.

STAVES.
“ 
 

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

at Grand  Rapids.
Red oak flour bbl. staves..............M  6 00© 7 00
M  5 00© 5 75
F,lm 
White oak tee staves, s’d and j’t.M  20 00@23 00 
White oak pork bbl.  “ 
“  M  18 50@20 00
15©  16
Tierce, do welled and circled, set—  
Pork, 
.... 
13
Basswood, kiln dried, set.....................  
4© 4*4
White oak and hickory tee, 8 f’t.  M 11 50© 13 00 
White oak and hickory  “  7*»f’t. M 10 00© 11 00
Hickory  flour  bbl.........................M  6 50©  7  50
Ash, round  “ 
“  ......................... M  6 25©  7  00
Ash, flat racked, 6*4 f’t.................M  3 50©  4 00
White oak pork barrels, h’d m’d.M  1 00@  110 
90® 1  *J0
White oak pork barrels, machine.. 
White oak lard  tierces....................  1 20©  1 30
Beef and lard half barrels................. 
75© 90
Custom barrels, one  head...............  1 00@ 110
Flour  barrels.....................................  
30© 37
23@ 26
Produce  barrels................................... 

BARRELS.

HOOPS.

V id e   b r o w n  c o t t o n s.

The following quotations are givnn  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  styles and 
fashions, many of which are never shown  “on 
the  road.’’
Androscoggin, 94. .17  IPepperell, 10-4... ...19
Androscoggin, 74. .13*4 ¡Pepperell, 114... . . .22
Pepperell,  74...... .13  ¡Pequot,  74........ ...14*4
Pepperell,  84....... .15  ¡Pequot,  84........ ...16
Pepperell,  94 ....... .17  ¡Pequot,  94........ ...18
iPark Mills, No. 90.. 14 
Caledonia, XX, oz. .10 
Park Mills, No. 100.15
Caledonia,  X ,o z...  9
Prodigy, oz............... 8*4
Economy, oz..........
Otis Apron..............   8*4
Park Mills, No. 50..10 
Otis  Furniture.......8*4
Park Mills, No. 60. .11 
York,  1  oz.................9*4
Park Mills, No. 70.. 12
Park Mills, Ño. 80..13  1 York! AA,extra oz 1

CHECKS.

Plain.

OSNABURQS.

Plaid.

Greene, G  44 

Avondale,  36..

BLEACHED COTTONS. 

Ballou, 5-4..............
Boott, 0.4-4..........
Boott,  E. 5-5..........
Boott, AGC, 4-4___
Boott, R. 3-4..........
Blackstone, AA 4-4 
Chapman, X, 4-4...
Conway,  4-4..........
Cabot, 4-4.............
Cabot, 7-8...............
Canoe,  3-4.............
Domestic,  36........
Dwight Anchor, 4-4
Davol, 4-4...............
Fruit of Loom, 4-4. 
Fruitof Loom, 7-8. 
Fruit of  the  Loom
cambric,  4-4.......
Gold Medal, 4-4..  .
Gold Medal, 7-8__
Gilded Age...........

Alabama........ .......6*4 Alabama.................
624
Georgia.......... .......8*4 ¡Augusta.................
624
.1 ewell  ........... ___ 8  ¡Georgia................... 6*4
..  8*41 Louisiana.............
624
K entucky__
L ane............... .......8*4¡Tennesseo.............. 10
Santee........... .......7 *4 ¡Toledo....................
6*4
.  . 5*4
7
9*4 Hill, 44..................
8*4 Hill, 7-8.................... 6*4
6*4
12*4 Hope,  44..............
5*4 King  Phillip  cam
brie, 4-4.......  ....
9*4
6
Linwood,  4-4........
7*4
Lonsdale,  44........
7*4
9*4 Lonsdale  cambric 10*4
5V6ILangdon, GB, 44.. 8*4
6*4 Langdon,46.......... 11
•  5V Masonvilie,  44__ 7*4
.  6%Maxwell. 44..........
8
.  6*4 New York Mill, 4-4 10
.  6 New Jersey,  44...
8
.  4 Pocasset,  P. M. C. 7*4
Pride of the West. 10*4
.  8 Pocahontas,  44... 7*4
Slaterville, 7-8....... 6*4
8
.  7*4 Victoria,  AA........
Woodbury, 44....... 5*4
L, Whitinsvllle,  4-4.. 624
.il Whitinsville, 7-8...
.  6*4 Wamsutta, 4-4....... 92£
Williamsville,  36.. 8*4
.  5V4
.  7*4
BILEBIAS.
.17 Masonville TS....... .  8
.11 Masonvilie  S........ .10*4
.10 Lonsdale............... .  9*4
.15 Lonsdale A ........... .14
Victory  O............. .  5*4
.  8 Victory J .............. .  6*4
.14 Victory  D............. .  8*4
.12 V, Victory  K............. .10*4
.12 Phceuix A ............. .19*4
.  7*4 Phoenix  B............. 10*4
.16 ¡Phoenix X X .......... .  Ö
PRINTS.

Crown....................
No.  10....................
Coin.......................
Anchor..................
Centennial............
Blackburn............
Davol.....................
London..................
Paeon ia ................
Rod Cross.............

9

6

dress

DOMESTIC GINOHAMS.

FINE BROWN COTTONS.

HEAVY  BROWN  COTTONS.

WIDE  BLEACHED COTTONS.

I styles  ................... 10*4

standard.............  7*4 ¡White  Manf’g  Co,

Albion, solid...........5*4 ¡Gloucester................5*4
Albion,  grey...........6  Gloucestcrmoum’g.5*4
Allen’s  checks....... 5*4 Hamilton  fancy. . . . 6
Allen’s  fancy......... 5*4|Hartel fancy............ 5*4
AUen’spink.............5*4 Merrimao D..............6
Allen’s purple..........5*4 Manchester..............6
*4
American, fancy... .5*4 Oriental  fancy........5
Arnold fancy........... 6  ¡Oriental  robes.........6*4
Berlin solid.............  5  ¡Pacific robes........... 6
Coeheco  fancy........6  Richmond................. 5*4
Cochecorobes..........6*4 Steel  River................454
Conestoga fancy— 6  Simpson’s ................ 6
Eddy ston e...............6  W ashington f aney.. 6
Eagle fancy............. 5  Washington  blues.  6
Garner pink.............5*41
Appleton  A, 4-4__ 6*4¡Indian Orchard, 40.  7
Boott  M, 4-4...........   6  ¡Indian Orchard, 36.  6*4
Boston  F, 4-4..........6*4 Laconia  B, 7-4.......... 13
Continental C, 4-3..  6*4 Lyman B, 40-in.......9
Continental D, 40in 7*4 Mass. BB, 4-4............6*4
Conestoga W, 4-4...  524 Nashua  E, 40-in....  7*4
Conestoga  I), 7-8...  424 Nashua  R, 4-4........6
Conestoga  G, 30-in.  5  ¡Nashua 0,7-8............524
Dwight  X, 3-4........   424 i Newmarket N........ 5*4
Dwight Y, 7-8..........5*i  Pepperell E, 39-in..  6*4
Dwight Z, 4-4..........  524 Pepperell  R, 4-4----- 524
Dwight Star, 4-4__ 6  Pepperell  0,7-8—   5*4
EwightStar,40-in..  7  Pepperell  N ,34—   5
Enterprise EE, 38..  424 Pocassct  C, 4-4.........524
Great Falls E,4-4...  6*4 Saranac  R...............6
Farmers’ A, 4-4.......5*41 Saranac  E...................7*4
iJohnson  MarifgCo,
Amoskeag.............7 
Amoskeag, Persian 9 
Bookfold...............12*4
Johnson  ManfgCo,
styles.................... 
Bates..........................6 dress  styles................10*4
Berkshire.............   6  Slaterville, 
dress
Glasgow,  fancy.... 
styles...................... 6
Glasgow,  royal__ 6*4  White Mfg Co, stap  624
Gloucester, 
new 
¡White Mfg Co, fane  7*4
Plunket..................  7*4  Earlston...............  7*4
Lancaster...............   7  Gordon.....................7
Langdown............. 7  Greylock, 
Renfrew,  dress....  9 
Androscoggin,7-4. .15  ¡Pepperell.  104.......22
Androscoggin, 84. .16  Pepperell,  114.......24
Pepperell,  74........15  Pequot, 74..............16
Pepperell,  84........17  Pequot, 84..............18
Pepperell,  9-4........19 
¡Pequot, 9-4............. 20
Atlantic  A, 44.......6*4¡Lawrence XX, 44..  6*4
Atlantic  H, 44.......6*4 Lawrence XXX 40.  724
Atlantic  D, 44.......  524 ¡Lawrence LL.4-4...
Newmarket N ........5*4
Atlantic P ,44... 
424'Mystic River, 44...  524
Atlantic  LL, 44.
7*4!Pequot A, 44..........  624
Adriatic, 36.............
6*4 Piedmont,  36..........6
Augusta, 44...........
6  Stark AA, 44..........  6*4
Boott  M, 44...........
6*4 Treraont CC,4 4....  424
Boott  FF, 44..........
524 Utica,  44................ 10
Graniteville, 44—  
624|Wachusett,  44.......6*4
Indian  Head, 4-4.
30-in...  524
Indiana Head 45-in. 11*4 ¡Wachusett,
Amoskeag,  ACA... 12*41Falls, XXXX..........18*4
Amoskeag  “ 4-4.. 15*4  Falls, XXX.............15*4
Amoskeag,  A ..........11 ¡Falls,  BB.................. 11*4
Amoskeag,  B..........10 ¡Falls,  BBC, 36.......... 19*4
Amoskeag,  C..........10 Falls,  awning..........19
Amoskeag,  D.........   9 ¡Hamilton,  BT, 32..  9*4
Amoskeag,  E........  8*4 Hamilton,  D..........8*4
Amoskeag, F...........  8 ¡Hamilton,  H........... 8*4
Premium  A, 44___ 17 Hamilton  fancy...  8*4
Premium  B.............16 Methuen AA............ 11*4
Extra 44................... 16 Methuen ASA...........16*4
Extra 7-8..................14*4 ¡Omega A, 7-8...........10*4
Gold Medal 4-4..........15 ¡Omega A, 44............12*4
CCA 7-8....................12*4 Omega ACA, 7-8__ 13
Omega ACA, 4 4 .... 15
CT 4-4.......................14
Omega SE, 7-8.........24
RC 7-8.......................14
Omega SE, 44.........27
BF 7-8.......................16
Omega M. 7-8.........22
AF44...................... 19
Omega M, 4-4.......... 25
Cordis AAA, 32...... 14
Shetucket SS&SSW 11*4 
Cordis ACA, 32...... 15
Shetucket, S & SW.12 
Cordis No. 1, 32.......15
Shetucket,  SFS  ...12
Cordis  No. 2........... 14
Stockbridge  A.......7
Cordis  No. 3........... 13
Stockbridge fancy.  8
Cordis No. 4........... 11*4
Garner............. ....  5 Empire...........
Hookset........... ....  5 Washington...
Red  Cross........ ....  5 Edwards.......... .......5
....  5
S. S. st Sous__
Forest Grove..
BAGS.
GRAIN
American  A ... ....17 Old  Ironsides. .......15
.......20
..  .21*4!Wheatland .... 
Stark A ...........
....  6*4 Otis CC........... .......9
Boston...........
... .11 lÁ Warren  AXA. .......11
Everett blue..
Everett brown __ 11*4 Warren  BB... .......10
....11 Warren CO__ .......9
Otis  AXA.......
....10 York,  blue__ .......12*4
Otis BB...........
I»A PE R   CAMBRICS.
Manville.......... 424@5 IS. S. st Sons.... .424@5
Masonville__ 4 & @5 
¡Gamer............
.424 @5
ANS.
WIG
.......6
....  6Mi¡Thistle Mills..
Red  Cross.......
....  6 ¡Rose................ .......6*4
Berlin.............
----7
Garner...........
SPOOL COTTON.
..........50
Brooks....
Clark’s O. N. T ..
J. & P.  Coats..........55
VVillimantic 6 cord.55 
Willimantic 3 cord. 40 
Charleston ball sew
iug thread........... 30

1
¡Eagle  and  Phoenix 
Mills ball sewing.30 
Green  &  Daniels...25
Stafford................. 25
Hall & Manning__ 28
Holyoke................. 25

GLAZED CAMBRICS.

DENIMS.

TICKINGS.

424

CORSET JEANS.

Armory............................6@6*4 iKearsage..6*4
6*4
Androscoggin.6*4 Naumkeag satteen. 
Canoe Hiver...........   5  ¡Pepperell  bleached 8*4
Clarendon............5©5*4 ! Pepperell sat........8*4
Hallowell  Imp......... 52i Roekport..............  6
Ind. Orch. Imp...... 5*4 Lawrence sat..........   6
Laconia............................6©6Ji ¡Conegosat.524

MISCELLANEOUS.

Hemlock Bark-The local  tanners  are  offer* 

ing $5 per cord delivered, cash.

Ginseng—Local  dealers  pay  $l.oQ®1.60 

ft 

for clean washed roots.

Rubbor Boots and Shoes—Local  jobbers  are 
autBdtized  to  offer  40  and  5 per  cent, off  on 
standartl goods and 40,10 and 5 per cent, off on 
second quality.

“I have  seen  strong competition in busi­
ness before now,” renmrked  Arthur  Meigs, 
the other day,  “but  I never  witnessed such 
strife as at present exists between the Grand
Rapids grocery jobbers. 
*  *  *

It beats h----- .”

“The  superior  reputation  of  Kalamazoo 
celery is a thing of the  past,” said a whole­
sale dealer in  that  esculent  the  other day. 
“The growers down there no sooner brought 
their product  up  to  a  high  standard  than 
they began putting  out  poor  stuff,  and the 
result is that  Kalamazoo  celery has  depre­
ciated in value  to  a  more  alarming  extent 
than the growers and  shippers at that place 
would be willing to admit.  We are getting 
better goods from Otsego and  Grand Haven 
than Kalamazoo  is  supplying,  and  unless 
the growers at Kalamazoo  use concerted ac­
tion in putting out a  more  uniform product 
they will  eventually  be  superceded  in  the 
principal markets of the country.”
The Hardware Market.

The condition of the hardware  trade is in 
the majority of its branches quite encourag­
ing,  and a further increase in business is re­
ported for the week.  The improvement has 
been largely in the line  of  farm and garden 
implements,  lawn mowers, tools and general 
shelf goods,  all of which are moving freely. 
There has also been an improvement in car­
riage and wagon hardware for  repair work. 
Heavy hardware,  though hardly to be called 
active.  Barbed wire is  picking  up a little, 
and  the  prospects  are  brightening.  The 
meeting of  manufacturers  at  Chicago  last 
week  re-affirmed  the  schedule  of  prices 
adopted at the previous meeting, which will 
doubtless have a tendency to strengthen the 
market.  The Lock Manufacturers’  Associ- 
tion has advanced prices to 45 per cent,  dis­
counts—an 
improvement  of  5  per  cent. 
Sargent & Company, of New Haven,  united 
with the Association.  Brass  butts  are un­
steady,  and  some  low  figures  are  being 
made.  The  quotation is  75  per  cent.  off. 
Lawn  mowers  are  quoted  at  50 per  cent, 
off.

An  extensive  grist  mill  has  just  been 
opened at Orland, Iud., by George T. Smith, 
of the purifier works at Jackson.

HARDWOOD  LUMBER.

0J@20 00

00@35 00
00@12 00
00@10 00
00@14 00

The furniture factories  here pay  as  follows 
for dry stock:
Basswood, log-run.............................  
00
Birch, log-run.......................................Id 
Birch, Nos. 1 and 2..............................  @25 00
Black Ash, log-run.............................   @13 00
Cherry,  log-run................................... 25 
Cherry, Nos. 1  and 2..........................   @55 00
Cherry,  cull..........................................10 
Maple,  log-run.....................................14 
Maple, soft,  log-run........................... 12 
Maple, Nos. 1 and 2.............................   @13 00
Maple, clear, flooring........................   @25 00
@25  00
Maple, white, selected....................... 
Bed Oak, log-run.................................  @15 00
Bed Oak, Nos. 1 and 2........................  
@30 00
Bed Oak, No.  l.step  plank...............  @25 00
Walnut, log-run..................................  
@55 00
Walnut, Nos. 1 aud 2..........................   @<5 00
Walnuts,  culls....................................  @25 00
ey  Elm, log-run.............................   @13 00
White Ash,  log-run.............................14 
Whitewood,  log-run..........................   @23 00
BESTEB <St FOX,
Saw and Grist Mill  Machinery,
Planers,  Matchers,  Moulders  and  all 

Manufacturers’  Agents for

kinds of W ood-W orking Machin­

ery, Saws,  Belting and Oils.

00@16 00

Depot for Independence  Wood  Split  Pulley.  Large 
stock kept on hand.  Send  for  sample  pulley  and  be­
come convinced of their superiority.  Write for prices. 
130 Oakes St., 
-  Grand Rapids,  Mich,

Are Yon Going to 
SaelTc a Store, Pan­
try or Closet ?

jjP//7cJ

If 80,  tend Jrtf 
prices  and  f„r- 
ther  information.

Eggleston & Patton’s
AdjnstaMe BatcMîar

PATENT

Creates  a N ew Era 
in  Store  Furnish­
ing.  It  entirely su­
persedes 
the  old 
style  wherever  in­
troduced.

SaUifaetion Guaranteed

All

infringe-
mentspro-
secuted.
lfnottobe 
had  from 
5 your local 
Hardware 
D e a le r, 
send  your 
orders  di­
rect  to

“"¿finch'

Ce/j*

Torrance  &  Co.,  Troy,  N. Y .

H .  L E O N A R D   &   S O N S ,  MD RAPIDS, ICH.

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P fflr®   WN f *i l

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TABLE SET

Of 9-D Pattern.

Extra Heavy  Flint Glass.
ASSORTED  CASK  NO.  9-D  WARE.

HSi
t j r

No. 101 Hobnail Tumbler. •. 
No. 101 Hobnail Tumbler.
lVt doz. No. 101, Canary Tumblers.
114 
1V4 
114 

One Box Containing 
“
“
“

“ 
“ 
“ 
Total, 6 doz. @70....................4 20
Box...........................................  35
$4 55

“  Amber 
Blue 
“ 
Crystal 
“ 

Plain Table Tumblers. 
Plain Table Tumblers.
One Barrel Containing 18 dozen 
ASSORTED  COMMON  TUMBLERS.
4 doz. Plain %  pint.
4 doz.  “ 
“ 
4 doz. Star 
“
3 doz. Fluted,  “
3 doz. Panel  “
18 doz. @ 30c $  doz.........................5 40
B bl.......................................   35
$5 75

star bottom.

Yt doz. 9-D  Sets.....................................3 75 
1  87
46
H- doz. 9-D Celeries  ...........................1  40 
Yi doz. 9-D Pitchers, half gallon...... 2 25 
75
60
2 doz. 9-D Comports, 4  in..................   30 
2 doz. 9-D Tumblers..........................   50  1 00
2 doz. 9-D Goblets...............................  48 
96
35
14 doz. 9 D Comports,  8 in...................1 40 
5(5
J4 doz. 9-D Salver, 9 in......................... 2 25 
M, doz. 9-D Salver. 10 in........................2 75 
69
23
Vt doz. 9-D Pickles...............................   45 
15
\  doz. 9-D Oval Berry. 8 in.................  60 
14 doz. 9-D Oval Berry, 9 in.................  80 
20
\  doz. 8-D Bread  Plates...................... 1 50 
38
8 20
75
8 95
82
$8 13

Package...................................... 

Less 10 per cent, on $8 20........  

Five and Ten Cent

Ti

New  Packages  for  1886,  su-| 

perior to any goods now sold.

THE  OLD  RELIABLE

MASON'S PORCELAIN CAP
Eru.it  Jars.

Bock Bottom Prices Guaranteed.

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Our Great Specialty of

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25  CENT  BARGAINS.

Increasing in favor every year.

The  “No.  100 Lace” Pattern.

P aten ted   Jan.B.'TK . 
Ke-Iasuod dune 6,’T 7.,
P a te  A p r il 2 5 i ’ S ii. ’

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The  “Lightning”

H alf Gallon W ater Pitchers. 
H alf Gallon W ater Pitchers.

y ,H T N II§
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CELEBRATED

Suitable for all lines, that may  be  retailed 
at the popular prices  of  5c,  10c  and  25c, 
continues in favor  with  the  trade,  and  is 
a help to every merchant who uses it.

“Empire,” 114 doz. in bbl...............per doz  1  95
“Patience,”Assorted,! doz. in bbl. per doz  2 25 
“Owl,” Assorted, 1 doz. in  bbl__ per doz  2 00
New Glassware for Spring Trade 
New Glassware for Spring Trade 

Illustrations  of  all  lines  of 
new glassware will be forward­
ed on request and  we would be 
pleased to have  the  trade  call 
and examine our new  goods  in 
person when in the city.

Most Graceful and Stylish Shape in Amer­
Sets. Blue Amber or Canary...........   each 
80
65
Sets,  Crystal.......................................... each 
Sauce Plates, any color........................ doz. 
80
crystal............................. doz. 
65
Salvers, 10 In., any color........ ............ doz.  6  00
10 in., crystal............................doz. 5  00
Individual Butters, assorted colors........
Covered Sauce Bowls, any color.............
crystal..................
ILLUSTRATIONS  MAILED.

ROASTED COSTA RIGA COFFEE
APPLESI

Fancy Mexican, Jaav & Select Santos Coffees

60 
36 
, J. (StXT-A-IKT

JOHN  CAULFIELD,

500 pounds and over 1-2 cent per  pound  rebate.

Price,  100 pound Cases,  15 

C H I C A G O ,   I L L S .

IN  1  llo*  PACKAGES.

cents per ponnd.

A Mixture of

15  1-8
15  1-4

“ 
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“ 

MICH.

- 

WHOLESALE

FKED. D.  VALE.

DANIEL LYNCH.

FID. D. YALE & CO.
CHAS. S. YALE & BRO.,
Bakins Powders, Extracts, Blniis,

YVHOLESALE  M AN U FA CTU RERS  OF

SUCCESSORS  TO

A N D   JO B B E R S  OF

GROCERS’  SUNDRIES.

All orders addressed to the new  firm will re­

ceive prompt attention.

40 and 42 South Division St.,

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

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,

Reference—First National Bank.

157  S.  WATER  ST.,  CHICAGO,  ILL.

.£Lt  Manufacturers’ Prices.

SAMPLES  TO  THE  TRADE  ONLY.

House and Store Shades Made to Order.
Nelson  Bros.  &  Co.

68  MONROE  STREET,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

GROCER,

G-ra-nd PLa/picls,  AAiolx.

B.  LEIDERSDORF  &  CO.,

M IL W A U K E E , W IS .,

MANUFACTURERS  OF  THE  CELEBRATED

UNCLE  SAM,  ROB  BOY,  MINERS  AND  PUD- 

DLERS,  RAILROAD  BOY  AND  HURRAH 

SMOKING;  COMMANDER  AND 

HAIR  LIFTER  CHEWING 

TOBACCOS.

Headquarters for above named brands at

J O H N   O A U X i F I H I i p ,   W H O L E S A L E   OHO

The  Square  “Windsor”

Dinner W  are.

Price-List on Application.

This new decorated pattern is the success 
of the trade  and  readily  retails  at  $48.50 
per set of 125 prices.  Positively the hand­
somest set on the  market.

ASSORTED  CRATE

“A. Meakins” Lustre Band Dec­

oration “Albion” Square 

Shape.
DIAMOND L.

4 
.41

4 
.33

6 
.24 

4 doz. Plates, 5 in. or Pie................ ..  73  2 92
4 doz. 
6 in. or  Tea.....................   89 3  66
“ 
10 doz. 
“  7 in. or  Breakfast...........1 06 10 60
3 doz. 
“ 
8 in. or  Dinner................1  12 3 66
6 doz. Fruit Saucers, 4 in...................   49  2 94
2 doz. Soup Plates, 7 in...................... 1 06  2 12
2
21 Platters,8 in.  9in.  10in.  11 in.  12in.  14in
>7  6 30

2 
14 
4 each.
12 Bakers, 7 in. 
.16 
6 each.
24 Scollops, 6 in. 
.14 

3 
.16 
8 in.
.24
7 in.
.16
2 each.
8 in. 
6 Covered Dishes, 7 in.
.65 
6 Boats, 2 60;  4 Pickles, 1 95
2 Sauce Tureens, complete........doz 9  75
4 Covered Butters, 5  in............................. 5 85
12 doz. Individual  Butters..................  33
1
4 Casseroles, 7 in. 
.65 
3 Tea Pots, 24s, 5 20 ;  6 Sugars,  24s, 4 39
6 Creams, 24s........................................ 1 95
9 
6
36s
18 Bowls, 24s  308 
1 30  1 08
6 
3 

1
2
8 in.  9  in.
.81

9 in. 
.33
9 in.
.73

3 
163 

 
.73 

2 92

6 

3 

6

24 Pitchers, 6s  12s  24s  30s  36s 
5 85  3 90  2 28  1  95  1  63 
3 pairs Ewers and  Basin, 9s............. 12 35
3 Covered Chambers,  9s.....................7  80
2 Soaps, 41;  2 Vases, 41;  6 Mugs, 1 24
24 sets Handled  Teas...............per set  65
4 sets Handled Coffees...........  
76

Crate..............................................

“ 

Assorted Package

“ 

Fine Glazed Earthenware
“Common Sense” Stew Pans.
12 u-tral. Milk Pans,  flat bottom........  
72
6 
8  1»3
24  1-gal. 
“ 
.............  
12  1-ga!. 
“ 
round  bottom....... 
8 
96
14 doz. 1-gal. Stew Pans, round bottom2 00 
67
1 50__ 56
H doz. 14-gal. 
4 77
• 
Package......................................... 
25
5 02
A  complete  stock  of  AKRON  OHIO  STONEWARE 
constantly on hand.  We are agents of Akron Stoneware 
Association and will make special  prices in car lots de­
livered to any point in Michigan or Indiana.

“ 

“ 

O I L   O-AJSTS.
Per doz.
3-fral. “Good Enough,” Tin..............................13 00
5-gal. 
“ 
.........................15 00
5-gal. 
Wood Jacket........ 18 00
“ 
10-gal. 
........ 24 00
H-gal. Glass Can, Tin Jacket............................  3 00
1-gal. 
.......................   3 50
Vi-gal> Tin Can..................................................   1 60
1-gal. 
3 00

 
No charge for boxes.

“ 
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“ 

“ 

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One Crate Assorted

“Burgess  &  Goddards”  W hite 

Granite  English  W are, 

“Grown” Shape.

Diamond X.

4 doz. Plates,  P ie....................................  18  1  92
T e a .................................. 
•»  2 32
“ 
4 doz. 
“ 
B reakfast......................   69  7 59
11 doz. 
3 doz. 
“  D in n er...........................   80  2 40
ld o z. 
“ 
Soup................................   69 
69
6 doz. Fruit Saucers, 4 in .....................  32  1  L
6 sets Handled  Teas.............................   41
6 30 
18 sets Unhandled Teas.......  ................  8
3
2 54
15 platters 7 in. 8 in. 9 in. 18 in. 11 in. 12 in.
27

3 
22 
16 Bakers 5 iu.  6 in.  7 in.  8 in.

3  3 
11  16 

2 
1 
8 
9 
4 each.
.07 

1 80

“ 

.17

.09 
8 in ____

.09 
6 each.
.07 
“ 

8 in.
.17
.......doz  4  46
.5 10

.12 
24 Scollops, 5 in.  6 in.  7 i 
.1
2 Covered Dishes,  7  in ...
2 
1 Sauce Boat, 14c;  2 Pickle, 11c..........
4 Covered  B utters.......................................3 83
2TeaPot8,  24s............................................. 3 40
6 Sugar Bowls,  24s...................................... 2 87
6 Creamers, 24s............................................. 1 28
3 Bowls,  quarts.................................  . .1  06
6 
pint and a half.......................   85
6 
pint............................................  71
6 
24 Pitchers, 6s  12s 
.22 
4 pair Ewers and  Basins, 9s............8 08
6 Covered chambers,  9s...................5 10
6 Soaps, 37c each;  6 Mugs, .07  each..

6
4 
30s  36s
.11 
.09

4 
24s 
.13 

4 
.33 

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64

C rate.............................................
Lines of Crockery

Carried in Original  Packages  or  Repacked  to 
order:  Wedgewood  &  Co.,  Whit«  Granite; 
Knowles,  Taylor  &  Knowles, White  Granite; 
T.& R.lloote,Royal Semi Porcelain; Wedgewood 
& Co., Lustre Band; W. H. Grindley & Co.. Dec­
orated Ware;  T. & R. Bootes, Decorated Ware.

she came by it  otherwise  independently of 
her husband.

NOTE  R E C IT IN G  CO N SID ERA TIO N .

An instrument in writing  in  the form of 
an ordinary  promissory  note,  payable on a 
certain day,  but containing a clause reciting 
that the instrument  was  one of  a  series of 
notes,  and  providing  that  “each  and  all 
shall become due and payable  to the holder 
on failure of the maker to  pay the principal 
or interest of any one  of  the  notes  of  said 
series,” and also reciting  that  the consider­
ation  of  said  notes  was  certain  railway 
freight  cars  manufactured  and  sold by the 
payee  to  the  maker,  and  providing  “that 
the  title  of  said  cars  shall  remain  in  the 
payee until all the notes of said series,  both 
principal and  interest,  are  fully paid,” was 
held to be  a  negotiable  instrument  by the 
United States Circuit Court for the Western 
District  of  Wisconsin in  the  case  of  Mer­
chants’ National  Bank  of  Chicago vs.  Chi­
cago  Railway Company.

VALIDITY’  OF  S PE C U L A T IV E   TRA N SA C­

TIONS.

A  decision  of  importance  was  rendered 
by the Supreme Court  of  the United States 
in the recent  case  of  lliggins et al.  vs.  Mc- 
Crae.  The appellee,  a dealer in  Cleveland, 
Ohio,  engaged 
in  extensive  speculative 
transactions in  mess  pork and  lard in Chi­
cago  through  the  appellants’  commission 
house. 
In the course of these  transactions 
losses were  sustained  by  the  appellee to a 
large amount in excess of the sum deposited 
by him as  margins.  Being  called  upon  to 
make good his margins lie failed to respond, 
whereupon  the  Chicago  firm  brought  suit 
for the losses  sustained—over $30,000.  The 
appellee filed a counter-claim for the amount 
of  margins  previously  deposited  with  the 
appellants, and recovered judgment by them 
in the United States Circuit Court at Cleve­
land.  This judgment has now been revers­
ed  by  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United 
State*, which  has  directed  the  entry  of  a 
judgment for the appellants.

A Fever Easily Cured.

“Are you  successful,  as  a  rule,  in fever 
cases,  doctor?” asked a druggist of a  young 
physician.

“Well—er,  1 haven’t had very many such 
cases  as  yet,  but  I  have no  doubt  I shall 
be.”

“There is one kind of fever  that I  imag­

ine you might cure without difficulty.”

thanks.  Do  you  mean  scarlet 

“Ah, 
fever?”

“No; life’s fitful  fever.”

Just now there  appears  to  be  a  genuine 
“boom”  in  natural  gas.  Wells  are  being 
sunk in localities  where  there  has  been no 
suspicion of the existence of gas; they don’t 
always strike gas,  but  boring  them  makes 
work,  so some good is accomplished.

Assorted Package

Glass  Standard  Lamps.

NO.  46.

14 doz. No. 171 A. Stand Lamps.......
... .
H doz. No. 171 B 
14 doz. No. 191A 
.......
.....
14 doz. No. 191B 
.......
14 doz. No. 191C 
14 doz. No. 191D 
.......
14 doz. No. 155 B 
.......
14 doz. No. 700 Low Hand Lamps—
1 doz. No. 702 
14 doz. No. 85 Footed Hand Lamps.

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Less 10 per cent on  $7

414 doz. No. 1 Burners__
1  doz. No. 0 
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...1  00 
..1 40 
..1   10 
...1 60

.1 35

50

50

50

Sold either with or wit hout the Burners.

10  20

BUSINESS LAW.

Brief Digests of Recent Decisions in Courts 

of  Last Resort.

DISSO LU TIO N — T R A N SF E R   O F  FIR M   PR O P­

ER T Y .

Upon a voluntary dissolution one partner 
may  agree  that  the  partnership  property 
shall  belong  to  his  copartner,  and  when 
such an agreement is made in good faith the 
property  will  be  held  by  the  partner  to 
whom it has been transferred free from any 
lien or  equity  in  favor  of  the  partnership 
creditors.  So held by the New York  Court 
of Appeals in the base of Stanton vs. West-

REM O V A L  OF  CA USES— SU IT  ON  ACCOUNT.
The Supreme Court of Louisiana  recently 
held that a suit upon  an  account  by a  Mis­
souri commercial  firm  against  a  Louisiana 
firm and the members thereof in  solido con­
stituted a single controversy,  which was re­
movable to the  United States  courts by the 
parties on either  side,  but  held also that in 
order to entitle either  side  to a  removal all 
the parties on the same side must concur  in 
the application.

LOCAL  TA X A TIO N — EX PR ESS  CO M PA NIES.
The Court of Appeals of Kentucky  lately 
held,  in the case  of  Adams  Express  Com­
pany vs.  City of Lexington, that foreign ex­
press companies being  exempted by  statute 
from  local  taxation  by  the  payment  of  a 
state tax for the privilege of doing business, 
a provision in the quarter of the city of Lex- I 
ington  authorizing  it  to  impose  a  license 
tax upon  “each”  express  company must be 
held  to  apply  to  other  than  foreign  com­
panies.

TA X A T IO N — “ RA ILR O A D   TR A C K .”

Lands  held  by  a  railway  company  for 
right of way  when the road  is  located  and 
in process or construction are required to be 
returned  as  “railroad  track”  for  taxation, 
and this even though some  of  the lands ac­
quired for right of way are occupied by ten- 
nants residing thereon.  Actual use for rail­
road purposes is not  essential  in order that 
the property be  classified as  railroad track, 
but it is  enough  that  it  has  in  good faith 
been acquired and is held for  right  of way. 
So held by the Supreme Court of Illionis.

M A RRIED   WOMAN’S  PR O PER TY .

In Pennsylvania a married woman cannot 
buy personal estate  upon  credit  unless she 
is the owner of a separate  estate,  in which 
case she  contracts  upon the  credit  of such 
estate,  and if  she  purchases  property with 
borrowed money or on credit her  husband’s 
creditors  may  seize  and  sell  it as his. 
In 
order to retain the property as  against such 
creditors  it  is  not  enough  that  she  had 
eans to pay for it; she  must  prove affirm­
atively that  her  means  paid  for  it, or that

