Michigan Tradesman. _

G R AND  R A P ID S .  M ICHIGAN,  W E D N E S D A Y ,  A P R IL   21,  1886. 

NO. 135.

The Drummer and the  Preacher at 

York Revival.

New

From the New York Times.

Among  the  Rev.  Henry Ward Beecher’s 
many accomplishments,  not the least  is his 
ability  as a story-teller.  To  much  amused 
listeners he  recently told  this  one  about a 
New York drummer.  A typical “knight of 
the grip sack”  was detained at a small town 
in Western New York a while ago, where a 
revival  meeting was  in  progress.  He had 
met a party of convivial  friends  during his 
stay  there,  and  had  what  is  popularly 
known  as),“a  load  on.”  • Nevertheless,  he 
drifted into the  revival  meeting and took a 
seat well up in front. 
It  was  rather  close 
in the  church,  and  the  warm  air  was con­
ducive  to  sleep.  The  drummer  yielded to 
the drowsy  god,  and  after  nodding a little 
sank  into  a  profound  slumber  and  slept 
through the minister’s  rather  long and dry 
discourse.  The audience sang a hymn,  and 
the drummer slept  on.  Then  the evangel­
ist began his address, and wound up his fer­
vid appeal with this request:

“Will all of  you who want to go to heav­

en please  rise.”

Every one in the church except the sleepy 
drummer arose.  When the evangelist asked 
them to be seated one of the brothers in the 
same pew as the sleeping drummer accident­
ally brushed against him as he sat down.  The 
drummer  rubbed  his  eyes,  and,  partially 
awake, heard the last portion of the evangel­
ist's request,  which  was:

“Now,  I want all of  you who want to go 

to hell to stand up.”

The  drummer  struggled  a  little,  leaned 
forward unsteadily,  and  rose from  his seat 
in a dazed sort of way.  A sort of suppress­
ed laugh he heard from some of  the young­
er people, and  an  expression  of  horror  he 
noticed on  the faces  of  some of  the  older 
ones.  Steadying himself against the rail,  he 
looked at the evangelist an instant and then 
said: 

“Well,  parson,  I don’t know  just exactly 
what we’re voting on, but you and I seem to 
be in a hopeless minority.”

*

Fooling a Merchant.

From the San Francisco Alto.

A youthful ventriloquist  had  a good deal 
of fun with  a  well-known  wholesale  mer- 
liant  on  Market  street  recently.  The lad 
was  passing by and  saw  a  number of  big 
dry-goods boxes standing  on  the sidewalk. 
He stopped in front of  one  of  them.  The 
merchant happened to be standing  near  by 
in the doorway of  his  establishment.  The 
ad looked up and with a  sober  face said to 
the merchant:

“D’ye hear that?”
“What?”
“There’s somebody in this here box.”
The  merchant  stepped  up  to  where the 
boy was  standing.  Sure  enough lie  heard 
a voice,  apparently coming  from  inside the 
case crying out:  “For heaven's sake let me 
out of this, I’m smothering to death.”  With 
alacrity the  merchant ordered an  employee 
to open the box.  A mallet and  iron wedge 
were brought out at  once, and the  cover of 
the box quickly removed.  It was filled with 
calico goods.  But  still  the  cries for  help 
continued to be heard.  The  merchant lift­
ed package after package from the  box and 
piled them in the boy’s arms who  stood by, 
until lie filled them with all the youth could 
carry, then he threw them  on the sidewalk. 
The  plaintive  appeals  still arose  from  the 
depths of the box.  The merchant was  in a 
terrible state  of  excitement.  He  threw off 
his  coat  and  worked  in  his  shirt-sleeves. 
The perspiration  rolled  down his cheeks in 
rills.  Finally,  when the last layer  of  cali- 
i coes was  reached,  it  began  to  dawn  upon 
his opaque vision  that  he  had  been  made 
the victim of a ventriloquist.  He looked at 
the boy, and the  boy looked at him.  Then 
suddenly from the  box  came a quiet “good 
morning,” and  the  lad lit  out,  leaving the 
merchant surrounded by a coterie of curious 
people, who  eyed  him  with  a  smile as he 
grabbed  his  coat,  protested  against  such 
d—d nonsense,” and  skipped to hide him­
self in the confines of  his private office.

Liquid  Fuel.

The question of liquid  fuel  is still engag­
ing  the  attention  of  inventors  in  Great 
Britain.  The  latest addition to the various 
systems is an invention  of a Mr.  Henwood. 
A recent trial of a screw steamer of 120 tons 
was made on Shadwell basin of the London 
docks.  The  screw was  driven  at  a speed 
of 120 revolutions  per  minute,  with  steam 
steadily  maintained at 62 pounds  pressure. 
As  the  result  of  experiments,  it  is stated 
that the consumption of  fuel is  three-quar­
ters of a pound per  indicated  horse,  with a 
very high rate of evaporation.  The  princi­
pal feature of the new invention  is that the 
petroleum reaches the  furnace  entrance by 
gravitation and  is  injected  by steam taken 
from the boiler,  air being admitted in  regu­
lated quantities.  The  furnace  is primarily 
started  by steam taken from a small  auxil­
iary  boiler  placed  upon  deck.  The  most 
important  feature  of  the  invention  is  the 
proper  proportioning of  the  steam used in 
the  furnace,  so  that  its  hydrogen  is fully 
realized.

Bill Nye’s Experience  in  Milking.

I  once  had  an  experience  with  a  heifer 
who was a self-made cow, bom in obscurity, 
wore her brow low,  and  her  tail  high,  and 

s  the  head  of  a  family. 

I  addressed 

common remark  to  her,  which  should  not 
have offended her,  for I have  used it in the 
best society. 
I  simply  said  “so”  and  she 
soed. 
I  then  told  her  to “hist”  and  she 
histed. 
I heard something  go  through the 
window  with  a  dull,  sickening  thud, and 
when  my parents  came  out  they found 
was  me.  "When  I  was  convalescent  mj 
father said he intended to speak to me about 
that  red  cow. 
I  wish  he  had.  He  said: 
“You  probably went  out  singing,  for  you 
have driven away a  great  deal of  our stock 
in that way.  When I  go  out  to  milk that 
cow I bang her hair with a  stool,  and milk 
her  with  a  pitchfork.  You  did  perfectly 
right,  if you could  not  get  along  with  the 
cow,  to leave her.”

To Remove Nitrate of Silver Stains.
The  following  is  suggested  by  Geo.  R. 
Underwood:  Dip the fingers  into a  strong 
solution of cupric chloride.  In about a min­
ute the silver  will  be  converted  into chlor­
ide,  and may then be washed off with hypo.

Persons who  have  a  superstitious  dread 
of Friday will  not  be  pleased to learn that 
this is a thoroughly  Friday  year. 
It came 
in  on  Friday,  will  go  out  on  Friday,  and 
will  have  fifty-three  Fridays.  There  are 
four months in the year  that  have five Fri­
days each; changes of the  moon  occur  five 
times  on  a  Friday,  and  the  longest  and 
shortest day of the year eacli  falls on a Fri 
day.

The Sun says it  is  found that when par 
tiffin is thoroughly  mixed  with  linseed oil 
cast into small blocks,  and cooled, it may be 
used to make  any fabric,  as  cloth-felt  and 
leather,  water-proof,  by  rubbing  it  with 
such a block,  and ironing afterward to equal 
ize the  distribution  of  the  material  in  the 
pores. 
If too much  is  not put on, the ma­
terial may be made to be only impervious to 
water, but not air.

YOL. 3.

Sweet  16

•Laundry Soap
OBERNE, HOSICK & CO.

m a n u f a c t u r e d   b y

CHICAGO.  ILL

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Boots, Shoes and Slippers

W holesale Manufacturers

D E T R O IT ,  M IC H .

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Office  and  Factory—11,  13,  13  and 

Woodbridgc street West.  Dealers cordially 
invited to call on us when in town•

Our  Special

Tobaccos

Plug
SPRING CHICKEN .38 
’-35 
MOXIE 
ECLIPSE 
-30. 
Above brands for sale only by

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

The Tower of Strength.

Golden Seal  Bitters, a  perfect  renovator 

the system,  carrying  away  all  poisonous de 
posits, enriching, refreshing and  invigorating 
both mind and body.  Easy of administration, 
prompt in action, certain in results.  Safe and 
reliable in all forms of liver,  stomach,  kidney 
and  blood  diseases. 
It  is  not  a  vile,  fancy 
drink, but  is  entirely  vegetable.  This medi­
cine has a magic effect in liver complaints and 
every form of disease where the stomach tails 
to do its work.  It is a tonic.  It will cure dys­
pepsia.  It is an alterative and the best remedy 
known  to  our  Materia  Medica  tor  diseases 
of the blood 
It will cure kidney diseases  ner­
vousness,  headache,  sleeplessness  anu_en 
feebled condition of the system.  1 he tormula 
of Golden Seal  Hitters  is  a  l\reseription ot  a 
most successful German physician, and thous­
ands can testify to their curative poweis.  Sold 
by the Hazeltine  &  Perkins  Drug Co., Grana 
Rapids, Mich.

DETROIT 
FREE 

PRESS 

CIGAR.

10c Cigar for 5c. 

Brown Bros

MANUFACTURERS,

DETROIT,

MICH.

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M a n u fa c tu re rs' a g e n ts,

2 Pearl St., Grand Rapids, Mich.
GUSTAVE  A.  WOLF,
Over Fourth National  Bauk.  Telephone  40' 

Attorney,

COLLECTIONS

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

son, Enterprise Cigar Co.

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  «RAIN  ASD  SEED CO.

71 CANAL STREET.

ALBERT  COYE & SON
A W N IN G S, TEN TS

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HORSE AND  WAGON  COVERS.

W H O LESA LE  D E A LER S  IN

Oiled Clothing, Ducks, Stripes, Etc.

73  C anal  S treet, 

-  G rand  R ap id s,  M ich,

PIONEER

PREPARED

PAINTS.

Order your  stock now.  Having just  re­
ceived a large stock of the above celebrated 
brand  MIXED  PAINTS,  we  are  prepar­
ed to fill all orders.  W e give the following

G-uaranto© :

When our Pioneer Prepared Paint is put 
on any building, and if within  three years 
it should crack or peel off, and  thus fa il  to 
give  the  fu ll  satisfaction  guaranteed,  we 
agree to repaint the building at our expense, 
with  the  best  White  Lead  or  such  other 
paint as the ownci' may select.

Hazeltine & Pertias Drni Co.
EDMUND  D.  DIKEMAN,

GRAND RAPIDS,  MICH.

CHEAT  Iltffl

JEWELER.

'44  CANAL  STREET,

MICH.
GRAND  RAPIDS,
W E   L E A D - O T H E R Sis  valuable.  The 
G r a n d   R a p i d s  
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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.

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STANDARD,
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KEY  VEST,
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BUNNY,
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DICTATOR.
Coldwater Goods,

ABOVE  AKE  ALL

OF  WHICH  WE  HAVE  THE 

EXCLUSIVE  SALE.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

A. H. FOWLE,
FINE  WALL  PAPERS, 

House Decorator and Dealer in

Room Mouldings,

Window Shades,
Artist Materials
PICTURE FRAMES,
Paints, Oil & Glass.

.  PICTURES, 

And a full  line of

Enamel  Letters,  Numbers  and  Door 
Plates, and all kinds of EmbossedCut and 
Ornamented 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.

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.

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

Maxims for  Merchants.

In  business,  men  must  be  estimated  by

their business attainments.

Beware of  idle  moments.  Men  learn to 
do ill by doing what is next to it—Nothing.
Times  of  great  calamity  and  confusion 
have ever been  productive  of  the  greatest 
merchants.

In whatever calling a  man may be found, 
he ought to endeavor to be  the  best in that 
calling.

Many a  merchant  has  missed  being suc­
cessful by  splitting  himself  into  two  mid­
dling  ones.

Superiority to circumstances is one of the 
most prominent characteristics of great mer­
chants.

Of all poisons  and  plagues, the deadliest 
you can  admit to  your  heart  is  gain which 
fraud has won.

No abilities,  however  splendid, can  com­
mand success without intense labor and per- 
servering application.

Much tongue and much  judgment seldom 
go together, for talking and thinking are two 
quite different  faculties.

There are  three  things  which most won­
derfully  reduce  a  man’s  moral  strength- 
hunger,  dependence and debt.

If society is bound to care for one  man it 
is bound equally to care for  another,  ami so 
on till it must care for all.

Fortune does not stop to take any one up. 
Favorable  opportunities  will  not  happen 
precisely in the way you imagine.

Many a man  who  dances because  he has 
promised to be  at  the ball,  seems,  at every 
step,  to awake a rustling of return bills.

Where  some  think  and  others  do  not, 
there is  developed  aristocracy.  Where all 
have come to think, we have democracy.

Poor  circumstances  are  like  poor  rela­
tives; if you  try  to  deny  them  they  will 
humble you; if you take to them kindly you 
will raise them.

As ceremony is the invention of wise men 
to keep fools  at  a distance, a  moderate oh 
servance of  it in business  life  often proves 
highly advantageous.

Bankruptcy is a woe which no man should 
wantonly provoke.  He  that  has  once  de­
scended that fall has enough  to weigh upon 
his heart for years.

Men  seem  neither  to  understand  their 
riches nor  their  strength.  Of  the  former 
they believe greater  things  than  than they 
should; of the latter,  much less.

The most  useful  habits  of  business are, 
now-a-days,  admirably  combined  with  an 
extensive  intelligence  on  the  part  of  our 
leading business men.

‘Oh!  That my influence could be gather­
ed up  and  buried  with  me,”  said  a  dying 
merchant. 
It could not be.  That man’s in­
fluence  survives  him; it  still  lives,  is  still 
working on,  and will live  and work evil for 
centuries to come.

Credit does occasionally enable  a  man of 
energy to take a  position  he  could not else 
have taken; but for one to whom it proves a 
ubstantial  benefit,  it  allures  thousands  to 
uninterrupted trouble,  and  a  whole  spawn 
of unfair practices owe  their  existence to it 
alone.

CANDLES.

W hat Remains of a Once  Great Industry.
Notwithstanding the great  improvements 
made in the  methods  of  lighting  since the 
time when our ancestors were content to sit 
by the  flickering light  of  an  old-fashioned 
tallow candle and  read the  Bible, the “Pil­
grim’s  Progres,”  or  the  religious  weekly 
paper,  a great  number of  candles  are  sold 
every year. 
It was thought, when kerosene 
oil was  introduced  and  finally  came to  be 
generally used, that candles would be a drug 
on the market.  Later,  when  gas came into 
use,  it was concluded  that the  demand for 
oil  would  soon  amount  to  nothing.  Still 
later,  when the electric light  was taken  up 
as a  means  of  illuminating  the  darkness, 
some were bold enough  to  predict that  gas 
would ere long become a  thing of  the past 
But,  as  a matter of  fact, more  gas  is used 
now than ever  before  on  account of the in 
creased number of uses for it.

The production and sale of kerosene oil is 
enormous,  and the demand  for  candles has 
appreciably increased  during  the  past  ten 
or fifteen  years.  They  are used  more 
tensively for church and other religious pur­
poses,  and  for  dinner  parties.  Plumbers 
require a great many of them.  Nearly every 
housekeeper has a candle in the house to light 
her way down  cellar  or  upstairs.  A great 
many bum them '.in  their sleeping-rooms in 
preference to the  kerosene oil, especially in 
the summer  time at seaside  resorts.  They 
are more largely used for  festival days,  and 
a great  many  well-to-do  persons  purchase 
many of the finest for ornamentation.  Their 
use for dinner parties  especially is  increas­
ing.

A millionaire grocer in New York recent 
ly purchased for his  own  use at  a fashion­
able dinner  party  twelve  dozen of  candles 
worked  in  beautiful  forms  and  having  a 
truly artistic  appearance. 
In fact, the dec 
oration  and  ornamention  of  candles  has 
come to be quite  an  art.  The  best candles 
for  ornamentation  are  of  pure  beeswax. 
When the wax is hot  they are  worked into 
very beautiful shapes and ornamented  with 
a great  degree  of  nicety.  The  wax  when 
hot is drawn up  by  nippers  into  great var 
iety of forms and  colored  red,  green,  blue, 
yellow,  purple,  etc.  The  wax is drawn up 
by  nippers  in  the  form  of  flowers,  fruit, 
green leaves,  etc.  Some of the candles thus 
worked  are  purchased  solely  to  look  at 
These beautiful candlegy burning at a dinner 
party, either on the table or  in the chandel 
iers  arranged expressly for  them,  present a 
very  pleasing  appearance.  A  great  many 
of  these  are  produced  in  Western 
York.

¿Among the various kinds of  candles now 
sold  may  be  mentioned  paraffine,  sperm 
stearine,  adamantine, tallow and  beeswax. 
The last named are  cheaper  now than they 
have been  in  ten  years,  although  the  de 
mand  for  them  is  increasing.  Beeswax, 
when  hot,  can  be  worked  into  different 
shapes better  than  the  other  kinds, which 
are  comparatively brittle. 
In  many places 
bees are  now  grown  simply  for  the  wax, 
which they make and many beeswax  manu­
facturers take care of and feed their bees in 
such a way as to produce the  most possible 
and best wax.  The bee that lives on clover 
blossoms,  it is  generally  conceded,  usually 
produces the best  wax; and it is stated that 
there are some persons so expert in the bus­
iness that they can, by tasting  the wax,  tell 
what the  bees  have  fed  on.  Some of  the 
bees thus grown  are  very  costly, instances 
being cited where they are worth more than 
SI each.

Points of Retailers.

Broken Down Invalids.

¿Ability is of little account  without oppor­

tunity.  Make the opportunity.

Better is  little,  provided  it is  your own, 

Probably never in the history of Cough Med­
icines has any article met success equal to that 
which has been showered upon  Dr.  Pete’s 35- 
cent Cough Cure. Thousands of hopeless cases 
of Coughs, Colds and Consumption have yield­
ed  to  this  truly  miraculous  discovery.  For
this reason, we feel warranted  in  risking our  --------
.. 
reputation and money onits merits,  bold by 
the Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co., Gfand Rap-1 matters, 
A coward  in  business  is  like  the  wise 
ids, Mich.
man’s  fool—his heart is  at his  mouth, and 
he knows not what  is best to do.

It is one thing for a  dealer to understand 
customers and another  thing to  understand

than an abundance of borrowed capital,

STATE  AGENT  FOK

LUDWIG WINTERNITZ,
Fermentum,
Compressed Yeast.

THE  ONLY  RELIABLE

M an’f’d b y  R iv erd ale D iet. Co.

106 Kent  Street, Grand  Rapids, Michigan, 

TELEPHONE  566.

G rocers, b a k e rs a n d  o th e rs  can  secu re th e  a g en cy  fo r 
their to w n  o n  th is  Y east by a p p ly in g  to  above ad d ress.

PLUG  TOBACCO.
4  TURKEY .39

Biff 6 Cents, 
U f t l B L X y  

1 A   fin e  r e v o lv e r  I 
( w ith   e a ch  b u tt, f 
All above brands for sale only by

.35

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WHOLESALE  GROCERS,

MICH.

GRAND RAPIDS,

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As  th e   V in e g a r  seaso n   is  now   b eg in n in g , th o se   in 
need  o f  Vinegax-s  w a rra n te d   fu ll  s tre n g th   a n d   ab so ­
lu te ly  p u re  sh o u ld  send  fo r  sam p les  o f  m y  goods,  o r 
d ro p  a  p o sta l c a rd  a n d  1 w ill call.  T elephone 5 6 6 .
1 0 6   K e n t S t.,  G rand R a p id s,  M ich .
CXXTSSXTC HOOT.
We pay the highest price for it.  Address
Peck Bros., Druggists, Grand Rapids,Mi(

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FOR  SALE.

A Good Opening for a  Small Amout of 

Capital.-

Parties  doing  a  good general  merchandise 
business,  desiring  to  remove  from the State, 
offer their  entire  stock of  general  merchan­
dise for  sale  at  a low  price.  Have  the  only 
store in the town of  any kind  and  post office, 
the entire trade of  two  mills  and camps  and 
part  trade  of  three  more.  Expenses  very 
light.  Have  done  an  average  business  of 
$2,000 per month retail for the past two  years. 
Have  no  poor  accounts to  sell,  nothing but 
bright,  new,  staple  goods.  Will guarantee  a 
bright, active,  economical  man can  pay  for 
the stock in  one  year.  Purchasing party can 
also handle shingles in  connection, if desired. 
It  is  really  the  best  business  chance  for  a 
young man who  is not afraid to rough it a lit­
tle that has been offered.  Terms strictly cash 
or good security on part  if  desired.  Address 
i  1—m i  W. C. w., Box 899, Big Rapids, Mich.

Merchants  Need  It for Marking Signs, P la­

cards,  Boots  and  Shoes,  Crockery, Etc.
Can be used with any ink  or  fluid  One  each  of the 
two different sire* of Pena for; 50c.;  tlwee  for 
;  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-cent stamps.
On receipt of $1,1 will send with  the  marking  *e® * 
package of powder th at will maketwo quarts of m a il­
ing fluid.  W in . T r e n k le , P o r tv llle , CattCo. J i.Y .

Speculation—purchasing something which 
you do not want either in your  family or in 
the way of  ordinary trade.

How can you  make  a fool  perceive  that 
he is a fool?  Such a  person  can  no  more 
see his own folly than  he  can see  his own 
jars.

Each man should know his own concerns 
The seller should  not  pretend  to  judge  of 
the buyer’s  business,  nor  the buyer of  the 
seller’s business.

Self-reliance  and  self-denial  will  teach 
any man to drink out of his own cistern, eat 
of his own bread,  and  learn  to  labor  truly 
to get his own living.

Dull fellows frequently prove  good  busi­
ness men, because business relieves them of 
their own natural  heaviness  by  furnishing 
them with what  to do.

The  successful  dealer  should  beware of 
It is a weed  which grows upon 
It is from  the  rankness of the 

arrogance. 
a dunghill. 
soil that it has its height  and spreadings

Jas. Rooney will  attend  the  State  Fire­
men’s Convention, to be held at Big Rapids, 
May 5, 6 and 7.  He  will  exhibit a Button 
«team fire engine and hose.
1  

M i i S .   A

‘. 

Arthur Meigs & Co.  have been  appointed 
sole  agents for this  State for the celebrated 
“Knight of Labor”  smoking  tobacco,  man­
ufactured  by the  National  K.  of L.  Co-op­
erative Tobacco Co., of Raleigh,  N.  C.  See 
advertisement in next week’s paper.

MISCELLANEOUS.

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

S OR SALE—At a bargain, a  grocery and pro­

vision  business,  located  in  a  thriving 
northern county  seat. 
Ill  health  requires a 
change of climate.  Inquire of A. T. Page, un­
der Fourth National Bank, Grand Rapids. 139*

FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE—T w o  pieces of 

store property situated on  a  main  busi­
ness street.  Will sell cheap  or  exchange  for 
stock of general merchandise.  Address Gerrit 
Yonker, box 1,790, Muskegon, Mich. 

» OR  SALE—Grocery  stock  and  fixtures.

Stock fresh and in  good condition.  Will 
inventory  about $800.  Business  situated on 
West  Side,  in  excellent  location.  Address 
XYZ, care T h e   T r a d e s m a n . 

136*

137

136*

cist.  Strictly temperate, can keep books 
and furnish good reference.  Address  box 40, 
Fremont, Newaygo Co., Mich. 

■ ANTED—Situation by registered pharma­
IX)R SALE—Cheap and on terms to suit, store 

'  with  dwelling  attached,  in  the  liveliest 
manufacturing town of 2,000 population in the 
State.  Splendid opening for grocery  or drug 
store.  Only one drug store in the  place.  Will 
not rent.  For terms, etc., address  J.  W. Her­
rick, Muskegon, Mich. 
135*
IF YOU WANT—To get into business, to sell 
your business, to secure additional capital, 
to  get  a  situation,  if  you have anything for 
sale or want to buy anything, advertise in the 
Miscellaneous Column of T h e   T r a d e s m a n .  A 
twenty-five word  advertisement  costs  but 25 
cents a week or 50 cents for three weeks.

FOR  SALE—General stock, comprising lines 

of dry goods, groceries, boots  and  shoes, 
hardware, drugs, etc.  Owner is postmaster, at 
salary of $300 per j’ear.  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*

70 S ,

H E S T E R  

M a n u fa c tu re rs’  A gents fo r

Saw and Grist Mill  Machinery,
Planers,  Matchers,  Moulders  and  all 

kinds of W ood-W orking Machin­

ery, Saws, Belting and Oils.

D epot fo r  In d ep en d en ce  W ood  S p lit  P u lley .  Large 
sto c k  k e p t o n  L and.  Send  fo r  sam p le  p u lley   a n d   be 
com e co n v in ced  of th e ir su p e rio rity .  W rite  fo r prices
130 Oakes St.,
G rand  R a p id s,  M ich

Eaton & Lyon,

Importers,

Jobbers and

Retailers of

BOOKS

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

Are Yon Going: to 
M íe a Store, Pan- 
try or Closet?

I f  to,  rrvd fo r 
prices  and  fur­
ther  information.

A JO U R N A L DEVOTED TO TH E

Mercantile and Manufacturing Interests of the Siate.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor.

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

WEDNESDAY,  APRIL 21,1886.
Merchants and Manufacturers’ Exchange.
Organized at Grand Rapid8 October 8,1884.

President—Lester J. Rindge.
Vice-President—Cbas. 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.  Wesgate;  Vice-President, 
H. Chambers;  Secretary, A. J. Paddock._____

Luther Protective Association.

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

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

sociation.

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

At the time of the Kellogg & Sawyer fail­
ure,  eighteen  months  ago,  T he  T rades­
man  asserted  that  the  assets  of  the  firm 
would not  realize to  exceed 50 cents on the 
dollar,  whereupon  the  juvenile member  of 
the  firm  denounced  the  paper  as  an  irre­
sponsible  sheet and its  editor  as a vilifier. 
Time sometimes deals  gently with  the  err­
ing,  however.  The  assignees of  the bank­
rupt concern  have  just  declared  a  40  per 
cent,  dividend and hope to pay the creditors 
about 10 per cent,  more  in  the near future. 
In  view of  these facts,  the  question  natur­
ally arises,  Who is irresponsible?

Notwithstanding  the  statements  of  cer­
tain Grand Rapids grocers to the effect  that 
they can get along  without  any  assistance 
from the  Retail  Grocers’  Association,  it is 
noticeable that the shifting dead-beat classes 
invariably cluster around those grocers who 
do not belong to the  Association.  Sensible 
men will draw their  own  conclusions from 
this inference.

The Shoe  and  Leather  Review, of  Chi­
cago,  has  continued  to improve  until it is 
now the leading  exponent of  the shoe  and 
leather  trade  in  this  country. 
It  affords 
T he T radesman no  small  pleasure to ac­
cord the palm in  this  respect to a  Western 
journal.

Nashville  comes to  the  front  this  week 
with  a  fully-fledged retail dealers’  associa­
tion.  Tins makes twenty-two towns which 
are battling the dead beat.

Liberty and the  boycott cannot both exist 
in free America.  One or the other must go.

VISITING  BUYERS.

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son’s Mill.

The following  retail  dealers  have  visited 
the market during the past week and placed 
orders with the various houses:
M. V. Wilson, Sand  Lake.
H. E. Hogan, South Boardman.
L. F. Davoli, Boyne Boyne Falls.
H. P. Whipple, Kingsley.
Yeakey A Wharton, Wayland.
Chas.  E. Westlake, Mt, Pleasant.
Neal McMillan, Rockford.
G. P. Stark, Cascade.
John A. Wagner, Eastmanville.
Mr. Lilley, Sisson &  Lilley  Lumber  Co.,  Sis­
B. McNeal. Byron Center
It. A. Hastings, Sparta. 
Hunt & Hunter. Lowell.
Walling Bios.. Lainont.
<3. H. IiOomis, Sparta.
Wm. DePree, Zeeland.
Miss Belle Miller,  Shelby.
A. E. Landon, Nunica.
G. W. Bartlett, Ashland.
G. W. Bevins, Tustin,
W. Wise,  Mancelona.
M. A. Knox, Tustin.
G. N. Reynolds, Belmont.
Cole & Chapel, Ada.
F. Boonstra, Drenthe.
C. K. Hoyt, Hudsonville.
Michael Lutz, Caledonia.
Moerdyk, DeKruif & Co., Zeeland.
Herder & Lahuis,  Zeeland.
Geo. Carrington, Trent.
R. G. Smith, Wayland.
J. A. Shattuck, Sand Lake.
G. C. Baker, Lebarge.
Henry DeKline, Jamestown.
J. M. Reid, Grattan.
•C. Stocking, Grattan.
Mr. Carrel. Carrel & Fisher, Dorr.
Wm. Gardner, Boyne City.
Henry Strope, Morley.
H. L. Newton, Hastings.
A. Purchase, South Blendon.
C. L. Howard, Clarksville.
R. R. Perkins, Boyne  City.
Scoville & McAuley, Edgerton.
Darling & Roberts, Sparta.
Jesse M. Tennant, Elbridge.
John Ramps, Zutphen.
8. H. Sweet,  Kalkaska.
D. W. Shattuck, Wayland.
John Gunstra, Lamont.
Mr. Smith, Smith & Bristol, Ada.
H. E. Hogan, South Boardman.
John Koopman, Falmouth.
8. M. Geary, Maple Hill.
C. O. Smedley, Byron Center.
T. J. Smedley, Lamont.
C. O. Bostwick & Son, Cannonsburg.
W. H. Struik, Forest Grove.
A. C. Barkley, Crosby.
J. W. Closterhouse, Grandyille.
M. B. Nash, Sparta.
Stanley Monroe, Berlin.
J. C. Benbow, Cannonsburg.
Jay Marlatt, Berlin.
Jonn Smith, Ada.
L. Cook, Bauer.
L J. Quick, Allendale.
G. H. Walbrink, Allendale.
J. V. Crandall & Son, Sand Lake.
C. K. Hoyt, Hudsonville.
W. S. Root, Tallmadge.

Ashes are Cheaper.

From the Philadelphia Herald.

“No,“-said the  honest  grocer.  “It’s  all 
bosh about  us fellows  sanding  our  shgar. 
We’ve learned that  finely  salted  ashes are 
cheaper, have less^grit  and  leave less  sedi­
ment.”

AMONG THE TRADE.

IN  THE  CITY.

John Pruin has  engaged  in  the  grocery 
business at  Montague.  Bulkley,  Lemon & 
Hoops furnished the stock.

John VanderZalm has engaged in the gro­
cery  business  at  Grand  Haven.  Bulkley, 
Lemon & Hoops furnished the stock.

Peter Peterson, late of Reed City, has en­
gaged  in  the  grocery  business  at  Leroy. 
Cody, Ball & Co. furnished the stock.

Sietse W. Bush has engaged in the grocery 
business at 254 South Division street.  Bulk- 
ley, Lemon & Hoops furnished the stock.

A Grand Rapids  produce  dealer  shipped 
8600 worth of lettuce  last  week.  This in­
volved the handling  of about  4,700 pounds.
S. G.  Stadon,  the  West  Bridge  street 
woolen mill owner,  has put in a  five horse­
power Atlas engine and an  Erie boiler,  fur­
nished by Hester & Fox.

Holden  &  Miller  have  engaged  in  the 
manufacture of cigars and the retail tobacco 
business  at  Reed  City.  Fox  &  Bradford 
furnished the tobacco stock.

Redpath & Murray have  engaged  in  the 
hardware and paint and oil business at Mar­
tin.  The  Ilazeltine  &  Perkins  Drug  Co. 
furnished the paint and oil stock.

The attorneys of Geo.  W.  Hart have sent 
out notices to all the creditors of  the latter, 
offering 25 per cent, cash in full settlement. 
So  far  as  heard  from,  every  creditor  will 
jump at the  offer, as it is  a question  of 25 
cents or nothing.

A ROUND  T H E   STA TE.

T. T.  Rawson,  the  St. Joseph  grocer,  is 

dead.

sold out.

at St.  Louis.

been attached.

John M.  Harr,  grocer at Grass  Lake,  has 

Nathaniel White has  sold  his drug stock 

C.  A. Yankee,  grocer  at  Vicksburg,  has 

Henry Watkins succeeds  Henry Smith in 

general trade at Burlington.

Jas. Flower succeeds  P. Flower & Co. in 

the clothing business at Caro.

I).  F.  Davoli h a s  bought the general stock 

of Wm. Hears,  at Boyne Falls.

Sweet & Newell succeed C. J. Cook & Co. 

in the grocery business at Howell.

V.  V.  Perry has sold his grocery stock  at 

Nashville to E. H. Van Nocker.

Geo.  E.  Dixon  succeeds  Brown & Dixon 

in the grocery business at Jackson.

Jas.  F. Grant succeeds Jolinrowe& Grant 

in the grocery  business at Alpena.

Chas. J.  Fox, Jr., clothier at Pontic, has 

been closed under chattel mortgage.

A.  Wolf, of the firm of A. & L.  M. Wolf, 

general dealers at Hudsonville,  is dead.

Benj.  Sandiford  succeeds  Sandiford  & 

Conlan in general trade at St.  Charles.

Fred. Schroeder succeeds Schroeder & Gor­

don in the hardware business at Howell.

A. M.  Stein,  clothing  dealer  at  Scotts- 

ville,  is removing his stock to Ludington.

J. R. Corson, Jr., succeeds  J.  R.  Corson, 
Jr.,  & Co.  in general  trade  at  Birmington.
Turner  &  Ranahan  succeed  Foster  & 
Turner in the  hardware  business  at  Alle­
gan.

S.  S.  Hasbrook  succeeds  Ilasbrook  & 
Dodge  in  the  grocery  business  at  Union 
City.

M.  D.  Slocum  succeeds  Geo.  A. Hoetzel 
&  Co.  in  the  grocery  business  at  Union 
City.

Phelps, &  Barney,  dry  goods  dealers  at 
Bellevue,  will  open  a  shoe  store  at  that 
place.

Wm.  Rowe &  Co., druggists at Manistee, 
have bought  the  H.  M.  Cameron  stock of 
sporting goods.

W.  S. Johnson, general dealer at Sutton’s 
Bay, will erect a store  building  and engage 
in  general trade at Good Harbor.

school seat factory on  Champion srreet and 
employ 200 hands.

A company has been organized at Cadillac 
for the manufacture of  Elliot  Mather’s cli­
max  window  shades.  The president is  J. 
Cummer; G. A.  Cummer,  secretary,  and D. 
F.  Diggins  treasurer.  William  W.  Cum­
mer will superintend  the  enterprise.  San­
ders’ old mill  will at  first  be  used for  the 
factory, but  a new  building  is  in  contem­
plation.

STRA Y   FA C T S.

Ann Arbor has eleven  millinery stores.
C. Bergman,  restauranter  and  grocer  at 

Hart, has sold out.

H.  E.  Cobb succeeds Clark & Cobb in the 

furniture business at Bay City.

J. M. Heim succeeds  Heim  Bros,  in  the 

gristmill business at Hesperia.

The log input on  Molasses river this year 

is  estimated at 15,000,000 feet.

J. J.  Keyfuss succeeds  J. J. Reik in  the 

grist mill business at Blissfield.

J. Baker & Sons  have  begun  the  manu­

facture of brooms at Grand Haven.

Hall & Buell  expect  to  have  their band 

mill at Manistique completed by May 1.

Hall & Buell have  put 15,000,000  feet of 
logs into the South  Manistique  this season.
M. Durkee will succeed  E.  R.  Conrad as 
proprietor of the hotel at  Plainwell  May 1.
The Doherty-Baars  Lumber  Co.,  at  Me­
nominee,  is  putting  a  new  engine  into its 
mill.

Mrs.  Brooks  Tiffany succeeds  Mrs. Effie 
E.  Burroughs  in  the  milinery  business at 
Otsego.

The Kalamazoo Cart Co. has incorporated 
under the same  style.  The  paid in capital 
is 810,000.

Lumber on  dock  at  the T.  R.  Lyon mill, 
Ludington,  has been  sold  to the amount of 
6,000,000 feet.

John H.  Holtenhouse succeeds to the bus­
iness of the  Kalamazoo  Tubular  Well Co., 
at Kalamazoo.

Doty  Bros.  & Co.,  St.  Charles, are  saw­
ing  2,000,000  feet  of  logs  into  plank  for 
the Eureka Hoop Co.

There are 1,800 men employed  in the fish 
industries in Michigan and 81,200,000 is in­
vested  in the business.
Haley &  Covert, camp  operators, cut and j 
banked  14,500,000  feet  of  logs  in  Clare! 
county during the past  season.

Van  Eldred  &  Pratt  succeed  Marza  & 
Luther Van Eldred  in  the  agricultual  im­
plement business at Plainwell.

Begole,  Fox & Co., Flint,  have  sold their 
season’s input of logs to the Sturgeon River j 
Lumber Co., of Bay de Noque,  Mich.

Ingalls & Co.,  oil dealers at Detroit,  have 
incorporated under the  style of  the Ingalls 
Oil Co.  The paid in capital is 850,000.

The Flint  &  Pere  Marquette  Railway is 
running  eight to ten  log trains  a day  into 
Saginaw, each train carrying 100,000 feet of 
logs.
1  The  Cedar  river  is  open  from  head  to 
mouth,  and driving is in progress. 
It is es­
timated that  30,000,000  feet will  come out 
of the stream.

Nashville  News:  H.  L.  Walratli  has 
made arrangements to  open  a harness shop 
at Woodland,  to be a branch of his business 
here. 
II. W.  Walratli will  have  charge of 
it.

Assignees Byles and Phelps have declared 
a dividend of  40 per  cent, in the Kellogg & 
Sawyer matter, and expect to be able to pay 
at least 10 per cent,  more from  the remain­
der of the assets. 

Fletcher, Pack & Co.,  Alpena,  have  just 
had  a  new  refuse  burner  completed,  and 
Bewick, Comstock & Co., of the same place, 
are to have a burner 95 feet  high, 20 feet at 
the base and  requiring  eight  tons  of  new 
iron in its structure.

Glen Haven correspondence  Grand Trav­
erse  Herald:  Mr.  Butler,  of  Cleveland, 
and Mrs. Chamberlin  have  sold their furni­
ture  and  rented  the  dock,  store,  railroad 
track, tug on  Glen Lake  and  saw  mill  to 
John Tobin.  They also rented the hotel, 13 
cows and fann to Young Bros.

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Grand Haven Tribune:  Jas. Balkema has 
purchased a stock of goods at North Muske­
gon, and will make  that  place  his home in 
the future.

Valentine  &  Beach,  general  dealers  at 
Millington,  have  dissolved.  The  business 
will  be  continued  by C.  A. Valentine  and 
H.  G. Beach & Sons.

F. A. Winslow & Co., who sold their dry 
goods stock at Saugatuck  to  E.  A.  Trow­
bridge  & Co.,  have  lately  sold  their  drug 
stock to Mrs.  Stimison.

Chas.  E. Westlake, of  Mt.  Pleasant, who 
is soon to engage  in  the  drug business at 8 
Canal street, was in town  a couple of  days 
last week,  making the preliminary arrange­
ments.

Some of  the  heavier  creditors of  Talen, 
Johnson & Co.,  Ishpeming’s  bankrupt gro­
cers, not satisfied with the present assignee’s 
showing,  ask  for  his  removal  and  the ap­
pointment of a new man.

Damm Bros.,  who  have  been  running  a 
clothing  house  at  Bronson  for  several 
months,  have left that  place and a  number 
of  bills  payable.  Bronson  people  speak 
their names  frequently  and  with  peculiar 
emphasis.

Bellaire Breeze:  Dr. F. E.  Woolsey  and 
H. W. Stewart have purchased  the stock of 
drugs,  stationery,  etc., 
lately  owned  by 
Palmer & Co.  The new firm, which will be 
known  as  Woolsey  &  Stewart,  will  un­
doubtedly build  up  a  successful  business. 
Dr.  Palmer will go to Buffalo, N. Y.

M AN U FA CTU RIN G   M ATTERS.

The  Henry Harper  mill,  at Crofton,  has 

been removed to Cadillac.

Gillans & Ramsey are  putting up a  saw­

mill one mile east of Croftou.

It  is  understood  that  the  new  knitting 
factory at Battle Creek will materialize in a 
short time. 
It  will  be  located  in  the old

T he T radesman is in receipt  of  a  pri­
vate  letter  from  Big Rapids,  in  which the i 
recent change  in  the  iron  works  there  is 
thus referred to:  “It is the impression here 
that  Mr.  Hudnutt’s  purchase  of  Cannon’s 
half interest is a stunner  to the other stock­
holders, as they  expected  to freeze him out 
until  they could  buy his  interest for  mere 
nothing.  The half  only  cost  Hudnutt  be- 
tween two and three  thousand dollars.  Mr. 
Hudnutt  is a  hard-worker,  a pusher,  has a 
host of friends  and  dosn’t allow  any  fool- j 
ishness around him.”

Woodenware.

The market is badly demoralized,  in con­
sequence of the failure  of  the  manufactur­
ers to renew the  compact,  and a disposition 
on the part of the jobbers to  sell  the goods 
at only a slight advance  on first cost.  The 
quotations published in  another column are 
fair figures, allowing a  decent  margin over 
cost, but it will not  be  difficult  for careful 
buyers to shade the prices named.

Probably a Canard.

From the Leelanau Enterprise.

We understand that  a  transfer  of  some 
magnitude  and  importance  has  just  been] 
consummated  at  Traverse  City,  whereby 
Hannah, Lay <&  Co.  dispose  of  their  im­
mense lumber  interests  in this  region,  in­
clusive of their  sawmills  and dock at Trav­
erse City, and their large  tracts of pine and 
other timber to a syndicate for a  considera­
tion of 81,500,000.

Hides, Pelts and Furs.

Hides  are  steady.  Pelts  are  weak  and 
dull.  Furs are steady.  Wool is dull.  Tal­
low is lower and weak.

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O X U 3 B B .

Leader Smoking,  !  Leader Fine Cut,
Leader  Cigars,

Leader  Shorts,

33c per pound.

15c per pound.

16c per pound.

$30 per M.
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Clark, Jewell & Co.,.

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J U D D   tfc  O O . ,

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And Full Line Winter Goods.
1 0 2   C A N A L   ST R E E T . 

W hy d o n ’t  yo u  m ak e  y o u r ow n

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TO THE  RETAIL  GROCER.
B a k i n s   P o w d e r
And a  h u n d red  p e r cent,  p ro fit ? 
I h a v e   m ad e m ine fo r 
y e a rs.  Tw elve rec e ip ts, in c lu d in g  th e  lea d in g  pow ders 
o f th e  d ay , w ith  fu ll d ire c tio n s fo r  p re p a rin g .—th e   re­
s u lt o f 30 y e a rs’ co llectin g ,  se le c tin g   an d   e x p e rim e n t­
in g , se n t fo r a  $1 p o sta l n ote.  A ddress

C.  P .  B a r t le tt,  B a ld w in s v llle ,  N .  Y.

Grand Rapids, M ichigan

STEAM LAUNDRY

43 and 45 Kent Street.

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

CHEMICALS.

O rders  b y  M ail and  E x p ress p ro m p tly  a t­

ten d ed   to.

SEED  CORN.

AND

PATENT

Eggleston  & Patton’s
Adjustable Ratchet Ear
Bracket Shelving Irons
Creates a New Era 
in  Store  Furnish­
ing.  It  entirely su­
the  old 
persedes 
style  wherever  in­
troduced.

.  Satisfaction OmrnntMd

*jtinüh

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infringe- 
ment ¡‘pro­
secuted.
Itn o tto  be 
had  from 
-. your local 
'  H ardw are 
D e a l e r ,  
send  your 
orders  di­
rect  to
Torrance  &  Co.,  Trov,  N. Y-

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ÏEL

ÜN1

B a k i n g
POWDER

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

Arctic Manufacturing Co.,

G R A N D   R A P ID S ,  M IC H .

W hile our stock lasts, we of­

fer to the trade FOR  SEED:
Learning Early Dent, Corn, 50 B> to bu. for $1.50
Red Blazed, 8 Rowed......... 
1.75
Yellow Yankee,8Rowed... 
1.75

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QUAND  RAPIDS, MICH.

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S > r u g s  &  f l f t e b i c i n e s
STATE  BOARD  OF  PHARMACY.
One Year—F. H. J. VanEmster, Bay City.
Two Years—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon.
Three Y e a r s —James Vernor, Detroit.
Pour Years—Ottmar Eberbach. Ann Arbor. 
Five Years—Geo. McDonald. Kalamazoo. 
President—Ottmar Eberbach.
Secretary—Jacob Jesson.
Treasurer—Jas. Vernor. 

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Michigan  State  Pharmaceutical  Association.

O F F IC E R S .

_  . 

.  _ 

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—ffm. Dupont, Detroit.
Executive  Committee—Jacob  Jesson,  Geo. 
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.

OR G A N IZED   OCTOBER 9,1884. 

O F F IC E R S .

President-Frank J. Wurzburg. 
Vice-President—Wm. L. White.
Secretary—Frank H. Escott.
Tri>!isurer_Henry B. Fairchild.

of  Censors-President,  Vice-President
B oa^So ftru stees—The  President,  Wm.  H. 
B<Van Lrouwen, Isaac  Watts,  Wm.  E.  White.
Committee on Pharmacy—M. B.  Kimm,  H.  E.
Committee on Trade  Matters—Jolm  E.  Peck, 
Committee  on  Legislation—Jas.  D.  Lacey, 
Regular Meetings—First  Thursday evening in
Annual™Meetings—First  Thursday evening in
N e x t V Meeting—Thursday  evening,  May 6,  at 
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T/\phr»r fin d  W ill. E . W hitG .
H  B. Fairchild and Wm. H. \  an Leeu^en. 
Isaac Watts and A. C.  Bauer.

“The Tradesman” office. 

Detroit Pharmaceutical Society. 

Organized October, 1863.

O FFIC ERS.

^resident—Wm. Dupont.
Pirst Vice-President—1 ™nk Iw lls.
Second Vice President-J. W -Caldwell. 
Secretary and Treasurer—F. W. K. Fony. 
Assistant Secretary and Treasurer-A. B. Salt-
\nnual Meeting-First Wednesday in June. 
Regular  Meetings—First  Wednesday in each 
month. 
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rackson County Pharmaceutical Asso­

ciation.
O F F IC E R S .

President—R.F. Latimer.
Pice-President—C. D. Colwell, 
îecretary—F. A.  King, 
treasurer—Chas. E. Humphrey.
Joard of Censors—Z.  W.  Waldron, C.  E.  Foot
Innual Meeting- First Thu^davM n November.
Regular  Meetings—First  Thursday  of  each 
month. 
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aginaw   C ounty  P h arm aceutical  So­

ciety.

TEM PO RA RY  O FFIC ERS, 

lairman—Henry Melchers, 
îcretary—D. E.  Prall. 
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luskegon  Drug  Clerks’  Association.

OFFICERS, 
resident—John K. Meyers.
¡ c r e ta r y  a n d  Treasurer-^). A. Lloya. 
ï g u l a r  M e e t i n g s — S e c o n d  and fourth \\ e d n e s -  
day o f  each m o n t h .
ext Meeting—Wednesday evening,  April  3».

Gold  Leaf  Manufacturers  Combining. 
The attempted organization of  the nianu- 
cturers of  gold  leaf  for  the express pur- 
)se of  effecting  a  uniform  and  more  re- 
unerative scale of  wages  to  be  paid em- 
oyees has  attracted  some  attention.  To 
is end a majority of the  manufacturers of 
[liladclphia  and  New  York,  numbering 
►out twenty,  met at the latter  place on the 
tli,  and without eifecting an organization, 
►pointed a committee  to  visit Boston  and 
liicago manufacturers  to  secure  their co­
reration. 
If this committee  is  successful 
their  mission,  as  there is  reason  to ex- 
>ct they will be,  the gold  beaters will find 
ieir incomes considerably augmented with- 
i a few weeks. 
It should be said here that 
►is movement on the part of the employers 
not the result of  a  recent appeal  or  any 
jmonstration from  the  gold  beaters,  but 
►pears to be  a spontaneous  act of the for- 
er,  resulting  from  a  conviction  that the 
resent rate of wages is  not  commensurate 
ith the amount of skill and  labor required 
! the workmen.  The  employers  have for 
►me time past  favored  a  higher  scale  of 
ages, but lacking unanimity, have been up 
i the  present  time  unable to  agree  upon 
hat should constitute such a scale.  Should 
ieir  effort  to  combine  on  this  question 
rove successful, one of  its first results will 
j to cause an  advance in the market prices 
: gold leaf.  The present rates  admit  of a 
?ry small  profit  and  any  addition  to  the 
►st of  production  would  render  the busi 
ess unremunerative  without  a proportion 
re increase in the  selling  price.  So far as 
e  can  leara  the  manufacturers’  project 
teets the approval of  all  who handle  gold 
:af, with the possible exception of the con 
liner,  but in  the  event  of  an  advance in 
rices the additional  cost to  the  consumer 
ould be so slight as in no way to offset the 
ivantages gained by the producers.

Purely Personal.

C.  W. Jennings  spent  Sunday  with  his 
rother at New Troy.
J.  Ely Granger went  to  Chicago Monday 
iglit for a three days’ stay.
C.  H.  Cornell,  who  has  been  at  Kansas 
ity during the winter  in  the interest of O 
T.  Blain  &  Co.,  has  returned  to  Grand 
apids.
Christian  Bertsch  and  party  landed  at 
rew York yesterday.  Mr.  Bertsch proceed 
I to Boston,  while  his  wife  and  Mr.  and 
[rs.  Metz started homeward.

The Drug Market, 

ness and  collections  are  both  excel 
The market is remarkably steady,  no 
5S of  importance having occurred dur 
e week.

*‘Fermentum’L the  only  Reliable  Com 

pressed Yeast,  ^^advertisem ent,

Protecting the Reputation of a Proprietary 

Medicine.

A case of  unusual  interest  to  druggists 
was tried last week in Common Pleas Court 
No.  4,  of  Philadelphia,  before  Judge  Ar­
nold.  The point at issue was as to how far 
a lecturer before a  medical  class  could ad­
versely criticise  a  proprietary  preparation, 
and whether he  could  be  held  responsible 
for such criticism.

Frank E.  Engelman,  the  proprietor  of  a 
nostrum for the cure of  hay  fever, brought 
suit against Dr.  Carl  Seiler,  of the  Univer­
sity  of  Pennsylvania,  for  damages  alleged 
to have been sustained on  account of  a lec­
ture delivered  by the  defendant on October 
14,  1884, before the alumni of the Philadel­
phia College of  Pharmacy,  in  which he ad- 
ised his hearers not to use the article man­
ufactured  by Mr. Engelman.  The plaintiff 
a lleged that in consequence of these remarks 
the druggists ceased recommending his pow­
ders  to  customers,  and  in  some  instances 
had removed the  article  from  their  show­
cases.  He  was  unable  to  tell  just  how 
much his  trade  has fallen  off,  but believed 
that he had lost  SI,000, though  he  did not 
producç  any  books  to  show  this. 
It was 
offered in evidence that  Dr.  Seiler  had  ad- 
ised the druggists not to  use  the nostrum, 
and  the  following  language  used  by  the 
physician in liis  description  of  the  article 
was also produced:  “I don’t  know what it 
is. 
I suppose it is nothing  but  a little sili- 
:ate of soda,  or a little borax or quinine and 
borax; but don’t use it,  or any of  these nos­
trums.  They are bad for the simple reason 
that  they  themselves  irritate  the  mucous
membrane.  They all  have,  to a certain ex­
tent,  an effect good or  bad,  hut  that effect 
will not last.  Yery  soon the secretion will 
cover tlie mucous membrane  again,  and the 
trouble will still he  there.  Also,  very soon 
the system becomes accustomed  to the nos­
trum and prevents  tlie  thorough impregna­
tion of the  mucous  membrane,  having  its 
peculiar effect upon  the  circulation  of  the 
nose itself.”

The  plaintiff  called  a  number  of  drug­
gists,  with  a  view  of  showing  that  their 
sales had  fallen off  in  consequence  of Dr. 
Seiler’s  lecture, but  these  witnesses  could 
not say that their sales  had  been  curtailed 
in consequence of  any  remarks of  Dr.  Sei­
ler.  One druggist testified that  he had rec­
ommended the article because it was put up 
in convenient boxes and was handy to carry 
in the pocket.

Tlie defense did  not consider it necessary 

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to offer any evidence.

Judge Arnold charged the jury briefiy and 
ordered them to render a verdict in favor of 
tlie défendent.  He  said  that  Dr.  Seiler’s 
statement before the alumni  of the College 
of Pharmacy was a mere expression of opin­
ion and that it was  devoid of  any  element 
of malice. 
It  was  the  lecturer’s  privilege 
under the circumstances, to  give his  views 
to his class,  and it was  the  occasion of  the 
highest privilege for the  defendant to  give 
such expression of his  views. 
It  was  not 
shown  that  Dr.  Seiler  had  any  malicious 
motive, and  some  people  might  think the 
défendent did the public a great benefit, hut 
it was not for  the  court to say  whether he 
had or not. 
It was enough for the Court to 
say that it was  the defendant’s right to lec­
ture upon the  medicine.  As  there  was no 
evidence  to support the plaintiff’s case, and 
it was not shown that the defendant had act­
ed in a spirit of spite  or  had  tried  to dam­
age the plaintiff, the  Court  was  compelled 
to direct the jury to return a verdict for  the 
defendant.

An Easy Place.

A lad once stepped into an office in search 

of a situation.  He was asked:

“Are you now employed?”
“Yes,  sir.”
“Then why do you wish  to change?”
“Oh,  I want an easier plaee.”
There was no place for him; no one wants 
a boy who is seeking an easy place; yet just 
here is the difficulty with thousands.  They 
want easy work  and are  afraid of  earning 
more than their wages.  They have strength 
enough to be out late at night,  to indulge in 
vices  and  habits  which  debilitate  them; 
they have strength enough to waste on wine 
or beer or tobacco, all  of  which  leave them 
weaker  than  before;  they  have  strength 
enough  to  run  and  leap  and  wrestle,  but 
they think they have  not the strength to do 
hard  work.

Will the boys let us  advtse them?  Go in 
for the  hard  places;  bend  yourself  to  tlie 
task of  showing  how  much  you  can  do. 
Make yourself serviceable to your  employer 
at  whatever  cost  to  your  own  personal 
ease, and if  you do  this  he  will soon  find 
that he  cannot  spare  you,  and  when  you 
have learned how to work  you may be sent 
to teach others,  and so when the easy places 
are to be  had they  will  be  yours.  Life is 
toilsome at best to most of  us,  but the easy 
places are at  the end,  and  not at the begin­
ning,  of life’s course.  They are to be won, 
not accepted,  and a  man  who  is  bound to 
have an easy place may as  well understand 
that the grave is the only easy  place within 
the reach of lazy people.

Oil from pine wood is manufactured  on a 
considerable scale at the South.  The mater­
ial is subjected to intense heat  in sealed re­
torts, and  one  cord  of  it  is  said  to  yield 
fifteen gallons of turpentine,  eighty gallons 
of pine wood oil, fifty bushels  of  charcoal, 
oûe hundred and fifty gallons of wood vine­
gar,  and a quantity  of inflammable gas and 
asphaltum.

Patent turpentine is a  new  article on the 
London  market. 
It  consists  of  selected 
fractions of one or  more series of hydrocar­
bons,  Including  turpentine,  whose  boiling 
points are pretty close together. 

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Dyspeptic on the  Subject  of Adulteration. 
From the New York Mail and Express.

“Give me a  quarter  of  a pound  of black 
pepper,” said a customer to an up-town gro­
cer recently.  “I want it pure.”

The grocer  took  down  a  little  package 
done up in tin foil and adorned  with a  yel­
low label bearing  the  legend,  “Pure  Pep­
per.”

“This is  what  sells  for  black  pepper,” 
said the grocer,  “but seeing I know you pret­
ty well I don’t mind telling  you there’s not 
a grain of black pepper in it. 
I worked for 
five years  in  the  milling-room  of  a  spice 
mill, and I’m  on to  the business  from end 
to end.  Now, this particular  spice is made 
this way:  Take eighty-six pounds of finely 
ground bran mixed with pulverized charcoal 
—the last to represent the black hull of  tlie 
pepper  grain; then  add  fifteen  pounds  of 
ground cayenne  pepper, and  there  you are 
with 100 pounds of pure black pepper.

“It’s the  same  way  with  mustard,”  the 
grocer continued.  “Fifteen to twenty pounds 
of  cayenne  pepper,  the  balance  of  cheap 
wheat flour colored yellow, make 100 pounds 
of  genuine  mustard.  The  highest grades, 
which  are  not  often  retailed,  contain  as 
much  as  one-half  of  real  mustard.  But 
cream of tartar is  tlie  biggest  swindle.  A 
fifteen-pound can of the  low grade contains 
one pouiid of tartaric  and  fourteen of terra 
alba.  The terra  alba  is a  mild  alkali and 
neutralizes the effect  of  the  acid.  Higher 
grades of the mixture contain  a trifle  more 
tartaric acid.

“You probably think you have eaten some 
cinnamon in your time,’’the grocer went on. 
“Well,  you  haven’t.  I don’t suppose  there 
is ten pounds of cinnamon bark in the Unit­
ed States.  What passes for cinnamon is the 
bark known as  cassia vera.  The article  is 
also mixed  with  peas  and  roast  bran. 
I 
need not tell you about  roast  coffee, every­
body knows about that. 
It’s  just the same 
way throughout the whole list of spices.  If 
you could" smuggle yourself  into the  base­
ment of some spice mill you would find bins 
of bran, peas,  terra alba, etc.

THE  OLD  RELIABLE

Perry  Davis  Pain  Killer,

Established 1840.

All Druggists Should Keep It.

PRICES  TO  THE  TRADE:

Small Size..........................  
  35 
Medium Size............................   50 
Large size.....................  
 
100 
K iller.  G et th e  G enuine.

B ew are o f Im ita tio n s.  T h ere Is b u t One P a in  

Per Bottle.  PerDoz.
180
3 60
7 30

J.  N.  Harris  & Co., Ltd., Cincinnati, O.

P ro p rie to rs  fo r th e  S o u th e rn  a n d  W e ste rn  S tates. 

For Sale by all Medicine Dealers.

Allen’s Lung Balsam

The Great Remedy for Curing

Coughs, Colds, Croup,

C02TSUMFTI02 T,
And  Other  Throat  and  Lung  Affections.
tiT W e   c a ll  y o u r  a tte n tio n   to   th e   fa c t th a t th e   old 
S ta n d ard   R em edy,  ALLEN’S  LUNG  BALSAM,  is  now  
p u t up in th re e  sizes—£5 cen ts, 00 c e n ts an d  61 p e r b o ttle.
Small.........................................$1  75 per dozen
Medium....................................  3  50 
Large  ....................  
7 00 
J.  N.  Harris & Co., Ltd., Cincinnati, O.

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Cusliman’s

MENTHOL INHALER

A superior Remedy for the immediate relief 
of Neuralgia,  Headache, Cararrh, Hay Fever, 
Asthma,  Bronchitus,  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, Williams & Co., j 
Jas. E. Davis & Co.,
John J. Dodds & Co.,
T. H. Hinchman & Co.,
time he calls.

Ask their traveler to show you one the  next 

Detroit,  Mich.

Mills & Goodman, Props.

GRAND  RAPIDS,

MICH.

"ITTANTED—Situations by registered pharm- 
VV  acists and assistants.  Also situation by 
young man of some experience but  not  regis­
tered.  Will work for very  small  salary.  Can 
furnish good references.

1  portion of  State.  Surrounded  by  finest 
farm lands in Michigan.  Doing a  business of 
$1,500 per annum.  Rare chance.

Ir'OR SALE—Fine stock of $5,090 in southern 
17K)R  SALE—Neat  and  clean  stock of $1,500 

'  Grand  Rapids.  General  stock  of  about 
$15,000.  Would prefer to sell whole stock,  but 
will sell any section separate.

. 
in northern town.  Can be bought  at  lib­
eral discount.  Good reason for selling.  Good 
chance for physician.
TX)R SALE—Desirable stock of  about  $1,200 
J? 
in southwestern portion of State.  Must be 
sold on account of other business;  terms very 
easy.
IpOR  SALE—The . finest  business  north  of 
IX>R SALE—Stock of $3,000 in growing town 
SX)R SALE—Small stock and fixtures of about 
‘  $350 now boxed and stored in Grand Rap-
ids.
F OR SALE—Very desirable  stock  of  $6.000. 
well located  in  Grand  Rapids.  Will  sell
whole stock on very easy terms, or  half inter­
est for cash.
■ LSO many other stocks, the  particulars of 

'  on the lake Bhore in midst of peach region.
Doing business

Will sell only with residence, 
of $10,000 per annum.

which we willf urnish free on application.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

ACID S.

Acetic, No.  8.................................   9
Acetic, C. P. (Sp. grav. 1.040)........  30
Carbolic.........................................  34
Citric.............................................   70
Muriatic 18  deg............................. 
3
Nitric 36 deg................................. 
11
Oxalic............................................  10
Sulphuric 66 deg...........................   3
Tartaric  powdered.......................  50
Benzoic,  English.................. $ oz
Benzoic,  German.......... ...............  13
Tannic...........................................  12

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AMMONIA.

Carbonate..............................TP lb  14
Muriate (Powd. 33c).......................
^ qua 16 deg or  3f..........................  3
Aqua 18 deg or 4f.......................... 
4

@

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

BALSAMS.

BARKS.

38@42 
40 
1 75 
45

H
Cassia, in mats (Pow’d 20c)........... 
Cinchona,  yellow........................  
>'
13
Elm, select....................................  
14
Elm, ground, pure........................  
15
Elm, powdered,  pure.................... 
1
Sassafras, of root.......................... 
13
Wild Cherry, select....................... 
Bay berry  powdered.....................  
20
18
Hemlock powdered....................... 
30
Wahoo..........................................  
Soap  ground.................................  
12
Cubeb  prime (Powd 1 00c)............ 
@  95
Juniper.........................................   6  &  7
Prickly Ash...................................  50  @  60

BERRIES,

EXTRACTS.

Licorice (10 and 35 lb boxes, 35c)... 
Licorice,  powdered, pure............  
Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 lb doxes). 
Logwood, Is (25 lb boxes).............. 
Lgowood, 54s 
do 
.............. 
Logwood, 
do 
.............. 
Logwood, ass’d  do 
.............. 
Fluid Extracts—25 $  cent, off list.

FLOWERS.

27
37V
9
;
13
15
14

Arnica............................................  13  @  15
Chamomile,  Roman..... ...............  
25
Chamomile,  German.................... 
30

GUMS.

60®  75
Aloes, Barbadoes.......................... 
Aloes, Cape (Powd  20c)................. 
12
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd  60c).........  
50
28®  30
Ammoniac....................................  
Arabic, powdered  select.............. 
90
Arabic, lBt picked........................
80
Arabic,2d  picked.......................... 
75
Arabic, 3d picked.......................... 
Arabic, sifted sorts.......................  
55
20
Assaf oentida, prime (Powd 35c)... 
55@60
Benzoin......................................... 
Camphor.......................................  
25®  27
13
Catechu, is (14 i4c, Ms 16c)........... 
35®  40
Euphorbium powdered................. 
80
Gafbanum strained....................... 
Gamboge.......................................  
30®  90
Guaiac, prime (Powd  45c)............  
35
Kino TPowdered, 30c].................... 
20
Mastic..........................................  
1 25
40
Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 47c)... 
Opium, pure (Powd $4 60).............. 
3 30
30
Shellac, Campbell’s....................... 
Shellac,  English...........................  
26
Shellac, native..............................  
24
Shellac bleached................................ 
„ 3 0
Tragacanth...........  .....................   30  @1 00
HERBS—IN  OUNCE PACKAGES
Hoarhound.........................................
Lobelia
Peppermint................................
Rue..
Spearmint
Sweet Majoram........................
Tanzy 
Thyme
Wormwood...................................

IRON.

65

4 00 
20

LEAVES.

Citrate and  Quinine.....................
Solution mur., for tinctures........
Sulphate, pure  crystal.................
Citrate..........................................
Phosphate....................................
Buchu, short (Powd 25c)...............   13  ®  14
6
Sage, Italian, bulk (Ms A  Ms, 12c)... 
Senna,  Alex, natural....................  33  ®  35
Senna, Alex, sifted and  garbled.. 
50
25
Senna,  powdered........... 
Senna tinnivelli.............. 
25
Uva  Ursi........................ 
10
Belledonna..................... 
35
Foxglove........................  
30
Henbane........................ 
35
Rose, red.......................................  
2 35
W„ D. & Co.’s Sour Mash Whisky.2 00  @2 fO
Druggists’ Favorite  Kye..............I  75  @2 00
Whisky, other  brands..................1  10  ®1  50
Gin, Old Tom.................................1 35  ®1  75
Gin,  Holland.................................2 00  @3 50
Brandy......................................... ..175  @6 50
Catawba  Wines.............................1 25  @2 00
Port Wines.....................................1 35  ®2 50

LIQUORS.

MAGNESIA.

 

 

2 75

1 20

do 
do 

OILS.

2 00
2 01
1 00

90
3 00
2 75
80
@ 90

Carbonate, Pattison’8,2 oz........... 
22
37
Carbonate, Jenning’s, 2 oz............  
2 25
Citrate, H., P. & Co.’s  solution.... 
Calcined.......................................  
65
Almond, sweet..............................   45  @  50
45
Amber, rectified...........................  
Anise.............................................  
1  80
Bay $   oz...................................... 
50
Bergamont....................................  
3 00
Castor............................................  1 44@1 65
1 75
Croton............................................ 
75
Cajeput......................................... 
85
Cassia............................................ 
Cedar, commercial  (Pure 75c)......  
35
Citronella....................................  
75
Cloves............................................ 
1 40
Cod Liver, N. F ..... 
...... gal 
150
Cod Liver, best....................... 
6 00
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16 
8 50
Cubebs, P. &  W............................. 
Erigeron.......................................  
1 60
2 00
Fireweed.......................................  
Geranium $  oz............................. 
75
Hemlock, commercial (Pure 76c).. 
35
Juniper wood................................ 
50
Juniper berries................................... 
Lavender flowers, French..................  
Lavender garden 
................... 
Lavender spike 
............  
Lemon, new crop.......................... 
Lemon,  Sanderson’s.....................  
Lemongrass................................... 
Olive, Malaga..................  
Olive, “Sublime  Italian  . 
1 25
Origanum, red flowers, French... 
Origanum,  No. 1.......................... 
50
Pennyroyal......................................... 
1 30
Peppermint,  white.......................  4 00@4 25
Rose 
oz............................................ 
8 00
Rosemary, French  (Flowers $1 50) 
65
Salad, ^   gal................................... 
2 75
Savin.............................................  
1 00
4 60
Sandal  Wood, German................. 
Sandal Wood, W. 1........................  
7 00
50
Sassafras.......................................  
Spearmint....................................  
@9 00
Tansy............................................. 4 
00 @4 25
Tar (by gal 50c)..............................   10  @  12
Wintergreen..............................  
2 25
Wormwood, No. 1 (Pure $4.00)......  
3 50
Wormseed....................................  
2 00
Bicromate...............................................12® 14
Bromide, cryst. and gran. bulk... 
37@40
Chlorate, cryst (Powd 23c)............  
22
Iodide, cryst. and  gran, bulk,—  
3 00
Prussiate yellow...........................  
28
20
Alkanet......................................... 
Althea, cut....................................  
25
Arrow,  St. Vincent’s.................... 
17
33
Arrow, Taylor’s, in Ms and 148—  
12
Blood (Powd 18c)...........................  
Calamus,  peeled...........................  
20
Calamus, German white, peeled.. 
35
Elecampane, powdered................. 
20
10
Gentian (Powd  15c)....................... 
Ginger, African (Powd 14o)...........  11  @  12
Ginger, Jamaica  bleached........... 
17
20
Golden Seal (Powd 25c)................. 
Hellebore, white, powdered.........  
20
Ipecac, Rio, powdered..................  
1  20
Jalap, powdered...........................  
30
Licorice,  select (Powd 15)............  
18
Licorice, extra select.................... 
20
Pink, true...................................... 
85
Rhei, from select to  choice......... 1 00  @1 50
Rhei, powdered E. 1......................110  @1 20
2 00
Rhei, choice cut  cubes................. 
Rhei, choice out fingers...............  
2 25
Serpentaria................................... 
85
Seneka................................. 
 
60
Sarsaparilla,  Honduras...............  
43
Sarsaparilla,  Mexican..................  
20

POTASSIUM.

ROOTS.

f  

 

1

00

@

@

do 

SEEDS.

2M@

SPONGES.

do 
do 
do 

do 
do 

4M® 
6  @

M ISCELLANEOUS.

50
2  00 
40 
2 00 
@9 75 
2 30 
50 
@  7
9®  10 
2 25 
18

Squills, white (Powd 35o).............
15
25
Valerian, English (Powd 30e)........
Valerian, Vermont (Powd 28c)...
20
Anise, Italian (Powd 20c).............
15
Bird, mixed in lb packages.........
5  @ 6
Canary,  Smyrna...........................
4  ® 4Vi
Caraway, best Dutch ^ow d 20c).
15  @ 18
Cardamon,  Aleppee.„.................
1 10
Cardamon, Malabar......................
25
1
Celery............................................
15
Coriander, Dest English...............
10
Fennel..........................................
15
Flax, clean....................................
3%@
Flax, pure grd (bbl 3M)................
4  © 4*
Foenugreek, powdered.................
7  @ 8
Hemp,  Russian.............................
4H@ 514
Mustard, white  Black 10c)..........
10
Quince..........................................
75
Rape, English................................
6  @ 7
Worm, Levant.............................
14
Florida sheeps’ wool, carriage......2 25  @2 50
Nassau 
do 
do 
2 00
........ 
. . . .  
Velvet Extra do 
1 10
do 
.......  
85
ExtraYellow do 
do 
........ 
Grass 
do 
65
do 
Hard head, for slate use...............
Yellow Reef. 
...............
1 40
Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.21; $  gal__
2 30 
Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref.
1 50
Anodyne Hoffman’s.....................
50
Arsenic, Donovan’s solution........
Arsenic, Fowler’s solution...........
Annatto 1 fl> rolls..........................
Alum...................................... 
ib
Alum, ground  (Powd 9c)..............  3
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.............................. 1
Bismuth, sub nitrate....................
Blue  Pill (Powd 70c).....................
Blue V itriol.................................
Borax, refined (Powd  lie)............
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,  Squlbb’s..................
Colocynth apples..........................
Chloral hydrate, German crusts..
cryst...
Chloral 
Chloral 
Scherin’s  do  ...
Chloral 
crusts..
Chloroform...................................
Cinchonidia, P. & W....... *...........
Cinchonldia, other brands............
Cloves (Powd 23c)..........................
Cochineal......................................
Cocoa  Butter...............................
Copperas (by bbl  lc).....................
Corrosive Sublimate.....................
Corks, X and XX—40 off  list........
Cream Tartar, pure powdered......  
Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 lb box..
Creasote.........................................
Cudbear, prime.............................
Cuttle Fish Bone...........................
Dextrine...... .................................
Dover’s  Powders.......................... 
Dragon’s Blood Mass....................
Ergot  powdered...........................
Ether Squibb’s..............................  
1
Emery, Turkish, all  No.’s............
Epsom Salts (bbl. 1M)....................  2  @
Ergot, fresh...................................
Ether, 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,  cannet................................  12  @
Glue,white....................................   16  @
Glycerine, pure.............................  16  @
Hops  Ms and Ms...........................  
25®
Iodoform ^   oz..............................
Indigo............................................  85
Insect Powder, best Dalmatian...  35 
Insect Powder, H., P. & Co,, boxes
Iodine,  resublimed.......................
Isinglass, American.....................
Japonica.......................................
London  Purple.............................  10  @
Lead, acetate.................................
Lime, chloride,(Ms 2s 10c & Ms lie)
Lupuline.......................................
Lycopodium.................................
Mac».............................................
Madder, best  Dutch.................... 
Manna, S.  F ...................................
Mercury.........................................
Morphia, suiph., P. & W....... oz
Musk, Canton, 11., P. & Co.’s........
Moss, Iceland......................... ^  lb
Moss,  Irish...................................
Mustard,  English..........................
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 ft  caus........
Vutgalls.........................................
\T ut megs. No. 1..............................
Nux  Vomica.................................
Ointment. Mercurial, Md..............
Paris Green.................................
Pepper, Black  Berry....................
Pepsin............................................
Pitch, True Burgundy..................
Quassia  .........................................
Quinia, Suiph, P. & W.......... lb oz
Quinine,  German........
.. $ lb
Red Precipitate.........
Seidlitz  Mixture.........
Strychnia, cryst.............................
Silver Nitrate, cryst.....................
Saffron, American.  .....................
Sal  Glauber...................................
Sal Nitre, large cryst....................
Sal  Nitre, medium cryst..............
Sal Rochelle...................................
Sal Soda.........................................
Salicin............................................
Santonin.......................................
Snuffs, Maccoboy or Scotch.........
Soda Ash [by keg 3c]....................
Spermaceti....................................
Soda, Bi-Carbonate,  DeLand’s__
Soap, White Castile.......................
.......................
Soap, Green  do 
Soap, Mottled do 
.......................
Soap, 
do  do 
.......................
Soap, Mazzini................................
Spirits Nitre, 3 F ...........................   28  @
Spirits Nitre, 4 F ...........................   30  @
Sugar Milk powdered....................
Sulphur, flour................................  3M®
Sulphur, roll.................................
Tartar Emetic................................
Tar, N. C. Pine, M gal. cans  $  doz
quarts in tin.........
Tar, 
Tar, 
pints in tin............
Turpentine,  Venice 
.......... $1 lb
Wax, White, S. &  F. brand...........
Zinc, Sulphate..............................   7

3M@ 4
3® 3K
602 70
1  40
85
25
55
7  @ 8
Gal
Bbl
Whale, winter.......................
7ft
..  70
60
Lard, extra.......................................   55
..  55
55
..  45
Lard; No.  1...........................
Linseed, pure raw...........................   42
..  42
45
48
..  45
Linseed, boiled................................  45
Neat’s Foot, winter  strained...........  70
..  70
90
Spirits Turpentine...........................   47
..  47
52
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 10
Extra Turk  Damar............................1 55@1 60
Japan Dryer, No. 1 Turp....................  70®

17 ® 25
182 50
6 @ 7
80 @ 85
70® 75
85
28
1 60
74 @ 78
35
O 10
9
33
2 @ 2)4

7060
2 35@2 60 
40 
10 
12 
30 
18

17 
28 
20 40 
40
@ 1  no
@  40 
@1  00 
4 00 
1 50

V A RN ISH ES.

12)4®

4M®

do 
do 

O ILS

PA IN TS

Bbl
Red Venetian..........................  13i 
Ochre, yellow  Marseilles......  13£
Ochre, yellow  Bermuda.........   13£
Putty, commercial.................  2M
Putty, strictly pure.................  2)4
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  J aints......
Swiss Villa Prepare*  Paints..»

Lb 
2® 3 
2<
2® 3 
2® 3 
2M@ 3 
2SÍ® 3 
13®16 
53@60 
16@17 
7® 7M 
7® 7H 
@70 
@90 
1  10 
1 40 
1 20® 1 40 
1 00® 1  20

OILS.

ILLU M IN A TIN G .

LU B R IC A T IN G .

Water White................................................UM
Michigan  Test............................................ 10?»
Capitol Cylinder..........................................36M
Model  Cylinder............................................ 31M
Shield Cylinder............................................ 26M
Eldorado  Engine........................................24M
Peerless Machinery....................i.............. 22M
Challenge Machinery..................................20M
Paraffine  .....................................................20 H
Black. Summer, West Virginia...................10
Black. 25° to 30°......................................... 11
Black, 15® C.  T............................................ UM
Zero.............................................................13

WHOLESALE

Druggists!

42 and 44 Ottawa Street and 8g, gi,

93 and 95 Louis Street.

IMPORTERS  AND JOBBERS OF

M A N U FA CTU RERS  OF

H ep t  Pharmaceutical  Prepara­

tions,  Unii  Extracts  aid 

Elixirs

G E N E R A L   W H O LESA LE  A GNTS  FOR

Wolf, Patton & Co. and John L. 

W hiting, Manufacturers  of 

Fine Paint and  Var­

nish Brushes.
THE  CELEBRATED

ALSO  FOR  THE

Grand Rapids Brush Co., Manu­
facturers of Hair, Shoe snd 

Horse Brushes.

W E  A R E   SOLE  OW NERS  OF

Weatherly’s Michigan Catarrh Care

Which is positively the best Remedy 

of the kind on tlie market.

We  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 
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
fying recommendations.

We give our special and  personal atten­
tion to the selection of choice goods for the 
DRUG TRADE ONLY, and trust we merit 
the high praise accorded  to us for so satis­
factorily supplying the wants of our custom­
ers  with  PURE  GOODS  in  this depart­
ment.  We 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 IS K 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.

We are also owners of the

Druggists’  Favorite  Rye,

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

Dins.Branflies&Fme Wines.

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 

Drug Co.

A  M ERCA NTILE  JO U RN A L, PU BLISH ED   EA CH  

W EDN ESD AY .

K.  A .  ST O W E   &  B R O ., P ro p rieto rs.

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

Telephone No. 95.

[Entered  at the  Postofflce  at Grand Rapids  as 

Second-class Matter.~\

WEDNESDAY, APRIL  21,1886.

Mysteries of Sauer-Kraut.

From the N. Y.  Mail and Express.

This is the time of the year when our Ger­
man fellow-citizens  of  bibulous  tendencies 
regard with longing eyes the  signs display­
ed in front of lager beer  saloons  which an­
nounces ¿that  sauer-kraut  mit Frankfurters 
can be had within.  And already after dark 
the bowery glows with  the  portable boilers 
of the Italian venders  who funiish a sauer­
kraut  and sausage  sandwich  to all  classes 
of night wanderers for the sum of five cents. 
Without  this  kraut  the  average  German 
could not exist.  Just as an Irishman would 
pine away if deprived of his beloved potato, 
the  German  grows  sour  and  unsociable 
when compelled  to  forego his  partially de­
composed  cabbage.  Sauer-kraut  is  made 
of the best cabbage,  prepared  in  a peculiar 
way,  and  really is  nothing  more than sour 
cabbage,  as its German name implies.  Long 
Island furnishes the  supply of  cabbage for 
New York.  The area of low,  level land sur­
rounding the  towns of  Jamaica,  Newtown 
and New Lots is one vast cabbage farm.  The 
largest individual  holding is  that of Ascan 
Backus,  at Jamaica,  where nearly 400 acres 
are  devoted  to  the  cultivation  of  cabbage 
alone.  Six thousand  plants  are  generally 
placed in an acre.  The  greater  number of 
the cabbage  gardeners  send their  products 
to this  city in their  own farm  wagons, but 
those whose establishments  are  further to­
ward the  eastern end  of  the  island utilize 
the open  freight cars  of  the  Long  Island 
Railroad.  Loading  these  cars  with  early 
cabbage is  of  itself  a  work  of  art.  The 
stalks  and  the  outside  leaves  are  cut off. 
The first layer on the  bottom  of  the cars is 
placed with the  stalk  butt  resting  on  the 
layers  are  placed 
floor.  The  remaining 
the  head  downward. 
with  the  top  of 
layers  three 
The  heads  are  placed  in 
feet  deep,  when  decks  are  placed 
in 
horizontally  and  perpendicularly,  so  as  to 
equally  divide  the  layers,  prevent  lateral 
and downward  pressure  and insure perfect 
ventilation.  Loaded  in  this  way the  cab­
bage reaches its  destination in  good order.
The  largest  sauer-kraut  factory  in  New 
York is  situated in  Forsyth street. 
It is a 
dingy,  dull-looking  building  on  the  out­
side,  but on mornings wiien the Long Island 
•cabbage arrives,  it  springs  into sudden and 
seething life.  The huge farm  wagons dash 
up in front of the building,  and  the canvass 
■covers are w hipped off  them in an  instant. 
At the same time the three  big  front  win­
dows of the  factory fly open,  and the team­
sters and their helpers  begin  throwing  the 
cabbages  to  two  men  who  stand  in  each 
window'.  They are the  cabbage inspectors, 
and if  a head  looks  unsound, they  toss it 
back to the  wagon,  while  if it  is  all right 
they  pitch it to  the  woman  dressers,  wrho 
with a sw ift  movement of  a  curved  knife 
lop off the outer leaves, and dress it for  the 
cutter.  The cutter  is run  by  a five horse­
power engine,  and  requires  four feeders to 
keep it busy. 
It cuts 150 tons of cabbage a 
day.  When it is cut and  properly prepared 
the cabbage is passed to the vats.  They are 
three in number,  and  sixteen  feet  in diam­
eter by eight feet high.  When  the cut cab­
bage has covered  the  bottom of  the  vat to 
the depth of three feet,  it is  covered with a 
certain quantity  of coarse  salt.  Then  half 
a  dozen  powerful  Germans  wearing  high 
rubber boots, which  are  never used for any 
other puiqiose, enter the  vat  and begin  the 
task of  stamping down the  cabbage.  Cab­
bage possesses  65 per  cent,  of water,  and, 
as the fine  fibers are  pushed down,  this be­
gins to assert itself  and  the brine begins to 
form and rise above the solid mass.  When 
the vat is filled the contents  are  held dowrn 
by  a  cover  on  which  heavy  weights  are 
placed.  Fennentation  in  making  sauer­
kraut is about the same  as in making wine, 
only the process is  slower. 
It  takes about 
six or seven  weeks  to  mature.  When the 
“taster” pronounces it  perfect it  is packed 
in barrels and  tubs, and  sent  forth  on  its 
mission  of  supplying  free-lunch  counters 
and gladdening the Teutonic heart.

Well Up in  the Business.

Young man—Do you  want  a  drug clerk?
Druggist—I do; have you studied any?
Young man—Ah,  yes.  I’m well up in the 

business.

Druggist—Can you tell the  difference be­

tween morphine and quinine?

Young man—Ah,  yes; easily. 
Druggist—IIow?
Young man—By watching  the  purchaser 

•

and seeing if he dies.

In the matter of adulterated  drugs the re­
tail dealer ought to have^the knowledge nec­
essary to detect,  and honesty enough to pre­
vent  him  dealing  in  frauds.  Always  be 
willing to pay a good  price  for a good arti­
cle. 
It never pays to  be a party  to sophis­
tications.

It is reported that  proceedings  are about 
to be instituted in  Germany against a num­
ber of persons  styling  themselves  “doctor” 
on the strength of diplomas purchased from 
America in aJjsentta.  In Berlin alone there 
are* said  to  be  3,400  of  these  “doctors,” 
either of medicine, philosophy, or law.

Lake Shore & Michigan Southern.

(KALAMAZOO  D IV IS IO N .)

Leave.

Arrive.
Ex.and  N. Y.
N. Y. N. Y.
Mail. Mail.
Mail« Ex.
a. in.
p. in.
a. m. p. m.
4:40
7:50 Dp. .Grand Rapids. ..Ar 9:50
7:15
5:58
9:07...... .Allegan......... ......  8:32
5:58
6:55 10:05...... .Kalamazoo__ ......7:30
5:00
9:50 11:40...... . White Pigeon.......5:50
3:30
a. m. p. m.
p. m. a. m.
4:15
5:10...... .Toledo............ ......11:15 10:40
8:20
9:30...... .Cleveland...... ......6:40
6:30
p. m. a. m.
a. m. p. m.
3:30...... .Buffalo.........
2:40
....11:55 11:55
a. m. P. 111.
p. m. a. m.
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. McKenney, General Agent.

Chicago & West Michigan.

Leaves.  Arrives,
fMail— .............................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 D IV IS IO N .

Leaves.
Arrives. 
Express................................4:20 p m
7:30 p m 
10:50 a m
Express................................8:00 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 u l l i k e n ,  General  Manager.

Detroit,  Mackinac  & Marquette.

Going West. 
Going East.
7:30 p m ..........Houghton...........  —   8:30 am
3:00pm, D..... Marquette  ............ A, 1:00pm
2:05 p m, A..... Marquette.............. D, 1:40 pm
10:40 a m ..........Seney..........................  4:50pm
7:45 a m ..........St.  Ignace..................  8:15 pm
0:15am..........Mackinaw City..........   9:30pm
5:00 p m .......... Grand  Rapids........... 10:30 am
Express trains Nos. 1 and 2 make  close con­
nections at Mackinac City with Michigan  Cen­
tral and G. R. & I. 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. Pa68. and Ticket Agent, Marquette.

A. WATSON,
E. W. ALLEN,

Detroit,  Grand  Haven &  Milwaukee.

GO ING EA ST.A rrl ves.  Leaves.
tSteamboat  Express......... 
6:25 am
+Through  Mail.................. 10:40 a m  10:50 a m
tEvening  Express............. 3:40 pm   3:50 pm
♦Limited Express..............  8:30 pm   10:45 pm
tMixed, with coach........... 
11:00 am

GOING W EST.

tMorning Express............  1:05 p m  1:10 p m
tThrougn  Mail.................  5:00pm   5:10pm
tSteamboat Express.........10:40 p m
7:10 a m
tMixed................................ 
♦NightExpress...................  5:10 am   5:35 am
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. R e e v e , Traffic Manager, Chicago.

Grand  Rapids  &  Indiana.
GOING NORTH.Arrives
Cincinnati & Gd Rapids Ex  9:20 pm  
Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex.  9:30 a m 
Ft. Wayne & Mackinac  Ex  4:10 pm  
G’d Rapids & Trav. City Ac.
G. Rapids & Cincinnati Ex.
Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex.  5:05 p m 
Mackinac & Ft. Wayn e Ex.. 10:30 a m 
Cadillac & G’d  Rapids Ac. 10:30 p m 

All trains daily except Sunday.

G O ING  SOUTH.

.  Leaves
11:30 a m 
5:05 p m 
7:00 a m
»7:15 a m 
5:30 p m 
11:45 a m

SLE EPIN G  CAR ARRANGEM ENTS.

North—Train  leaving  at 5:05  o’clock  p 

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.

D EPA R T.

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

A R R IV E .

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. in.,and  Boston 3:05 p. m. next day.
A train leaves Detroit at 4 p. m. daily except 
Sunday with drawing room oar attached, arriv­
ing at Grand Rapids at 10:35 p. m.

Char. h . N o r r is,  Gen’l Agent

DIRECTIONS 

W e have cooked the com  in this can 
sufficiently. 
Should  be  Thoroughly 
Warmed (not cooked) adding  piece  pi 
Good Butter (size of hen’s egg) and gill 
of fresh  m ilk  (preferable  to  water.) 
Season to suit when on the table. None 
genuine unless bearing the signature of

CHILLICOTHE 

III.

Op

£7V a t   t h i s "cti0 ’

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  -AJSTD E G G S ,

JOBBER  OF

CONSIGNMENTS  SOLICITED,

117 MONROE ST., 

- 

GRAND  RAPIDS, MICH.

JENNINGS’

Flavoring Extracts!
JENNINGS  &  SMITH,

MANUFACTURED  BY

Props. Arctic Manufacturing Co.,

CH ANS  RAPIDS, 

- 

MICH.

JOHN  CAULFIELD,

WHOLESALE

GROCER,
B.  LEIDERSDORF  &  CO.,

GS-rand FLa/picls, ILAioli.

MILWAUKEE, WIS.,

MANUFACTURERS  OF  THE  CELEBRATED

UNCLE  SAM,  ROB  ROY,  MINERS  AND  PUD- 

DLERS,  RAILROAD  BOY  AND  HURRAH 

SMOKING;  COMMANDER  AND 

HAIR  LIFTER  CHEWING 

TOBACCOS.

J O S N  

r i  A  T T f  .T r»T T 7 1 T .T > ?  WHOLESALE  GROCER

Headquarters for above named brands at

JOBBERS  IN

DRY  GOODS,

8 3   M o n r o e   S t . .

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

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Peerltss Carpet Warps and Oeesc Feathers a Specialty.

L. S. Hill & Co.
Fishing Tackle

A Specialty at

Wholesale and Retail.

Dealers are  invited  to  send  for  our 
new Illustrated Catalogue for the trade 
only.

Don’t purchase your Spring Stock of 
Tackle  until  you  have  received  our 
prices, as we have many new and desir­
able goods, with  prices  guaranteed  as 
low as the lowest, on Rods, Reels, Lines 
and Leaders, Snelled Hooks and Hooks 
of  every  variety,  all  sizes  of  French 
Trout Baskets with capacity 6 to 25 lbs., 
new  Cane  Poles, Artificial  Baits, etc., 
and a general  line  of  Sporting  Goods.

Z|. S. XXXLL  <&  CO.

21 P earl Street,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Never to our knowledge  has  any  medicine 
met with the success as  has  Golden  Seal  Bit­
ters.  It  comprises  the best  remedies  of the 
vegetable kingdom so as to derive the greatest 
medicinal  effect,  and  is  making  wonderful 
cures. 

135

TIME TABLES.

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A M B O Y   C H E E S E .

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

A TICKET TO THE DKAfflNB OF

REDMOND’S  GRAND  OPERA  HOUSE

REDMOND’S

OPERA  HOUSE 

CIGAR.
Big

Sole Agents. 

TELFER  <&.  BROOKS,
WM. SEARS & CO.

46 Ottawa St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

Cracker  Manufacturers,

PUTNAM & BROOKS
Wholesale Manufacturers of

PURE  CANDY!

ORANGES,  LEMONS, 

BANANAS,  FIGS,  DATES, 

IDTixts,  E t c .

BULKLEY, LEMON  & HOOPS,
W holesale  Grocers.

I m p o r t e r s   a n d

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  j 3 L g o n t s   f o

r

Daniel Scotten &  Co.’s “HIAWATHA” 

Plug1 Tobacco.

Lautz. Bros. & Co.’s SOAPS.
Niagara STARCH.
Dwinell, Howard & Co.’s Royal Mocha and Java.

Royal Java.
Golden  Santos.

Thompson & Taylor Spice  Co.’s  “ Mag­

nolia ” Package Coffee.
SOLE  PROPRIETORS

“JOLLiY  TINAE”  Fin©  C u t

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.

25,27 and 29 Ionia St. and 51, 53, 55,57 and 59 Island Sts.,

Grand Rapids, Mlolx
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♦

:s SPRING  &

COMPANY,

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

Staple and  Fancy

DRY  GOODS,
CARPETS,

MATTINGS,

OIL  CLOTHS

ETOm  e t c .

6 and 8 Monroe Street,

Grand  Rapids, 

» 

M ichigan.

THE  LEADING  BRANDS  OF
T O B A C C O
PLUG  TOBACCO.

Offered in this Market are  as follows:

RED  F O X ........................................................ .42
BIG  D R I V E .................................................... .44
PATROL 
..........................................................40
JACK  RABBIT 
............................................ .36
SILVER  C O I N ..................................................42
P A N IC ......................................................................42
BLACK  PRINCE,  DARK 
.35
.................................................36
BIG  STUMP 
APPLE  JACK 
......................................... .44

- 

-

-

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

FINE  CUT.

- 

- 

2c less in 6 pail lots.

.62
THE  MEIGS  FINE  CUT, DARK, Plug flavor 
STUNNER,  D A R K ........................................ .35
RED  BIRD,  B R I G H T .................................... .48
OPERA  QUEEN,  BRIGHT  - 
.40
............................................................ -32
FRUIT 
O  SO  S W E E T ..................................................30
s m o z h t g .
- 
- 
- 

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

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

- 

- 

These brands are sold only by

Arthur Meigs & Co.

Wholesale  Grocers,

Who warrant the same to be unequalled.  We guar­
antee  every  pound  to  be  perfect  and  all  right in 
every particular.  We 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.

Brief Digests of Recent Decisions in Courts 

of Last Resort.

B E C E IP T   OF  MONEY  “ ON  D E P O S IT .”

The words  “on deposit” used  in a receipt 
import a contract,  according  to the decision 
of  the  Supreme  Court  of  Indiana,  which 
held that an instrument reading,  “Received 
of  Joseph  S.  Long,  SI,600, on  deposit, in 
national currency,” was more than a receipt, 
and embodied or  implied  a  contract on the 
part of the receiver to  pay back the  money 
to the depositor on reasonable demand.

S A L E   OF  M F.KCHAXDISE— PA SSA G E   O F  T I-

Certain  flour  was  ordered  by brokers on 
behalf of a firm,  with the direction:  “Ship
as soon as  you can,  45  days’ draft,  B. D. & 
Co.”  A draft was sent with the bill of lad­
ing and an  invoice  stating the  terms as 45 
days’ acceptance.  The  Supreme  Court  of 
Georgia held that the signing  and return of 
the draft was a condition  precedent  to  the 
passing  of  title,  that  on  an  assignment 
made before  sucli return  the  assignee took 
no more title than the firm had, and that the 
vendor could recover  the  property in an ac­
tion of trover.

P A R T N E R S H IP —B E P A Y M E N T  OF A D V A N C ES.
The Supreme Court  of  the United States 
has just aflirmed  a  decision  of  the Circuit 
Court  for  the  Southern  District  of  Iowa, 
holding that  where  three  persons  form  a 
partnership and agree to bear the losses and 
share the profits of the  partnership in  pro­
portion  to  their  contributions,  and  two of 
the partners furnish  all  the  money  and do 
all the work, they are  entitled  to be repaid 
their advances out of  its  assets before pay­
ment of the individual creditors of the part­
ner who  said  nothing  and  did  nothing  to 
promote the partnership business.

L IF E   IN SU R A N C E  PO LICY — M U RD ER  OF  IN ­

SURED.

In  December,  1877,  the  Mutual  Life In­
surance  Company of  New  York  issued an 
endowment policy on  the  life  of one Arm­
strong for  810,000.  The  policy  was made 
payable to the assured or  his assigns on the 
8tli day of December,  1897, or,  if  he should 
should die before that time, then to his legal 
representatives.  The  policy was  assigned 
by Armstrong to  one  Hunter, who paid the 
premium thereon.  Six  weeks  after the is­
suance of the  policy  Armstrong  died from 
the results  of an  assault,  and Hunter  was 
convicted of the murder  and  was executed. 
The required notice and  proof  of the death 
of Armstrong  was  made, but  the company 
refused to pay, whereupon suit was brought 
by the widow upon the policy.  At the trial 
of the suit the reading of  certain testimony 
showing  that  Hunter  intentionally  caused 
the death of Armstrong was excluded.  The 
Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States  has 
just  reversed  a  judgment  rendered  in  the 
United  States  Circuit  Court  for  the  full 
amount of the policy, and has remanded the 
case for a new trial.

R UCKBOARD  W AGON!

RETAIL  PRICE,  $80,

With 750 Dorothy  Cigars at 
$60 per 1,000, 
And  750  Pansy Blossom  Cigars at $35 per 1,000, 

M aking 1,500 Cigars in all.

We will  give  free  a  New  Style  Buck- 
board Wagon like above cut.  The Wagon 
is  made  of the  very  best  material,  with 
improved  springs;  handsomely  trimmed 
and varnished.  Yon get this wagon for a 
limited  time  only, with  $71.25  worth  oi 
Cigars.
"NAT". T. Q.TJ-A-3ST  <&, C O .

OHIO-A-O-O,  I L L .

Terms 4 months or 4 per cent, discount for Cash in ten days.

FIP.E  

IN SU R A N C E  POLICY — A RB ITR A TIO N .
A fire insurance policy lately construed by 
the United States  Circuit  Court  at  Boston 
contained  the  following  provisions,  viz.: 
“In case of  any  loss  or  damage  the  com­
pany,  within  sixiy  days  after  the  insured 
shall have submitted a statement as provid­
ed in the preceding  clause,  shall  either pay 
the amount for winch it shall be liable or re­
place the  property.  *  *  *  In  case any 
difference  of  opinion  shall  arise  as  to the 
amount of loss  under  this  policy,  it is .mu­
tually agreed that the  said  loss shall be re­
ferred to three  disinterested  men, the com­
pany and the insured each  choosing one out 
of three persons to be named  by the others, 
and the third being  selected  by the  two  so 
chosen; provided,  that neither party shall be 
required to choose or accept any person who 
has served as referee in any like case within 
four months,  and the decision of a majority 
of said referees m writing shall be final and 
binding on the parties.”  The question was 
presented in  the  case  of  Crossley vs.  The
Connecticut Fire Insurance Company wheth­
er these provisions  constituted  a  collateral 
contract,  or  whether  performance  under 
them was  a condition precedent to recovery 
on the policy or to any proof  of the amount 
of loss.  The court ruled that the provisions 
constituted a collateral  contract simply and 
that the plaintiff could bring  suit to recover 
on the policy without  first  complying with 
those provisions.

London  Milk Supply.

The increased competition to  supply Lou­
don with  milk  is  being  felt  by  the  large 
dairy companies which first  broke the price 
of milk to consumers in the British metrop­
olis.  Some interesting  particulars were re­
cently given by  the  secretary  of  the Dairy 
Supply Association’s  annual  meeting. 
In 
declaring a dividend of 6 per cent., he stated 
that  this  represented  a  net  profit  reduced 
from 0.30 per quart in  1884 to 0.14 per quart 
in 1885,  the reduced value of dairy products 
being accountable for  the  reduction.  Dur­
ing the year the  mileage  of  the  company’s 
vehicles amounted  to 360,000  miles,  or  an 
increase  of  56,000  miles  over  1884.  One 
mile was  traversed  for  every 27  quarts of 
milk  sold.  This  is  in  a  wholesale  way, 
therefore  it  can  be  imagined  how  much 
greater it must be in  the  retail trade.  The 
average price of butter was  2%c.  under the 
previous  year,  presumably  caused  by  the 
large sale  of  butter  substitutes, 12,300,000 
pounds of which  were  imported  daring the 
month of  February.

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.
PORTABLE AND  STATIONARY
E IsT G I N E S
From 2 to 160 Horse-Power,  Boilers, Saw  Mills, 
Grist Mills, Wood Working  Machinery,  Shaft­
ing,  Pulleys  and  Boxes.  Contracts made for 
Complete Outfits.

J.  T.  BELL  <&  CO.,

Saginaw  Valley  Fruit  House
And  GOMMISSION'MERCHANTS,

Dealers in all kinds Country Produce & Foreign Fruits.

Reference:  Banks of East Saginaw. 
C O N S I G N M E N T S   S O L IC IT E D .

East Saginaw, Mich.

i l l n p r v

TWINES,

CORDAGE,

W00DENWARE.

Wool Twine, Binders’ Twine, Tarred  Felt, 

Tarred Board, Building Board, Etc.

LYON  ST.,  -  OjR.AKTX>  RAPIDS,

W,  O.  Denison,

88,80 and 82 South Division Street, 

GRAND  RAPIDS, 

-  MICHIGAN.

< 3 r o c e r i e s .

Grocers’ Association of tlie City of Muskegon.

„   „ 

.  _ 

President—H. B. Fargo.
First Vice-President—Wm. B. Keift.
Second Vice-President—A. Towl.
Recording Secretary—Wm. Peer.
Financial Secretary—John DeHaas.
Board of Directors—O. Lambert, W. 1. McKen­
zie, H. B. Smith, Wm. B.Kelly, A.  Towl  and 
E. Johnson. 
.
Finance Committee—Wm.  B. Kelly,  A.  Towl 
and E. Johnson.
Committee  on  Rooms  and  Library—O.  Lam­
bert, H. B. Smith and W. 1. McKenzie.
Arbitration  Committee—B.  Borgman.  Garrit 
Wagner and John DeHaas.
Complaint  Committee—Wm.  B.  Keift,  D.  A. 
Boelkins, J. O. Jeanuot,  R.  S.  Miner  and L. 
Vincent. 
_  _   ....
Law Committee—H. B.  Fargo,  Wm.  B.  Keift 
and A. Towl. 
. _
Transportation Committee—Wm. B, Keift, An­
drew Wierengo and Wm. Peer.
Regular meetings—First and third Wednesday 
evenings  of each month.
Next meeting—Wednesday evening, April»!.
RET ATT.  GROCERS’  ASSOCIATION 

_  Tjr  ... 

_ 

OF  GRAND  RAPIDS.

ORG A N IZED   NOVEM BER  10, 1885.

TI

_  

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. Kasch.
Complaint  Committee—J.  George  Lehman, 
Martin C. DeJager and A. G. Wagner.
Collectors—Cooper & Barber, 69  Waterloo  bt., 
Eagle Hotel block. 
Annual meetings—Second Tuesday in Novem- 
ber.
Regular  meetings—First  and  Third  Tuesday 
Evenings of each month.
Next meeting—Tuesday evening. May 4._____

.

Be Careful W hat you Write.

caught;
can  shake 

Ill writers of letters this warning should take: 
You’re sure to be caught, you’re  sure to be 
¡Tou  may  think  that  no winds  your opinion 
..
But the future is full of its dangers unsought,
Ind  6ome  muggy  morning  you’re  sure  to 
And  find  that  your  views  don’t consist as 

.  ,

. 

awake 
they ought.

iTou  may talk, but  don’t  write  your  convic­
You’re sure to be caught, you’re  sure to  be 
Use words of the mouth, for the words of your 
Are  most  treacherous  means  of  express­
iVnd have a queer way of appearing again 
To teach you a lesson you should  have been 

tions, for then
caught 
pen
ing a thought,

. 

, 

.

taught.

A. word that is  written  don’t  know  when  it’s 
You’re sure to be caught, you’re  sure  to be 

At times most unseemly ’tis sure to be read 
And  to  glory  in  mischief  its  nature  has 
But the word that  is  spoken,  when  echo  has 
,  .
May be safely denied ora new setting bought.

wrought; 
lied 

. 

,

dead;
caught;

Early Closing, 

romthe Merchant's Mail, 
he grocer stood and weighed his i 
At the counter all day  long!
.nd late at night by the gaslights’ 
He tended the hungry throng.

roods,
glare,

For the customers often through sheer neglect, 
Goods that should furnish a  household  stock, 

Failed to purchase throughout the day
And be kept at their hand alway.

So t he people came and the people went.
Nor curtained the busy scene;
Till weary and tired and worn at last,
The noon seemed a mere machine.
But the grocer now has found at last.
To spend an hour of pleasant rest.

That lie can, if he will be free;
For his customers all agree

That a man is a fool who will crook and toil 
And make of himself, through their neglect, 

Till his brain and nerves careen;
A drudge or a mere machine.

OUR  ROLL  OF  HONOR.

We,  the undersigned wholesale dealers of 
Grand Rapids,  hereby  pledge  ourselves to 
the Retail  Grocers’  Association, not to sell 
goods in our  respective  lines  to consumers: 

Oeney,  S h ie l d s  & Co.,
Hawkins & Perry,
F.  J.  Lamb & Co.,
Belkley,  Lemon & Hoops,
Amos Musselman & Co.,
Fox & Bradford,
O. W. Blain,
Ira O.  Green,
Moseley Bros.,
B unting & Siiedd,
W. F.  Gibson  & Co.,
S. C. Peer,
Clark, Jeweli, & Co.,
Cody, Bali,  & Co..
Jennings & Smith,
John Caulfield,
Fred D. Yale & Co.,
Telfer & Brooks,
Ea t o n Christenson,
Ludwig  Winternitz,
Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co.

The  Grocery  Market.

Business and collections are both good.  Su­
gars have taken a decided upward movement, 
in consequence of a shortage in  Europe and 
Cuba and  threatened  strikes at  several  of 
the New York refineries.  The sugar quota­
tions presented this week  are  not  likgly to 
hold good for  any  length of  time.  Toma­
toes are lower again.  Other  articles in the 
grocery line are about steady.

Candy  is  steady  and  firm.  Lemons and 
oranges are gradually advancing.  Nuts are 
without change, except California almonds, 
which are lower.

So Say W e  All.

From the Nashville News.

A Merchants’ Union, whose object is  “To 
protect themselves  against  dead-beats  and 
for the better  enforcement of  the collection 
of debts,” has been organized in this village. 
An  election  of  officers occurred  Thursday 
night at the office of Webster & Mills.  Wal­
ter Webster is their attorney.  Men who are 
able to pay their debts  and  won’t do it will 
be  summarily dealt  with,  and  this  is  as it 
should be.  Success to the organization.

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

“Fermentum” the only reliable compress­

ed yeast.  See advertisement.

RANDOM  REFLECTIONS.

Rumors are  rife  of  the  establishment of 
an exclusively  wholesale  dry goods  estab­
lishment at this market in  the  near future. 
The rumors are not  yet  sufficiently definite 
to locate, but  the  existence of  smoke is in­
dicative of a smouldering fire  somewhere in 
the background.

*  *  *

I had a talk last week with a leading fur­
niture  manufacturer  of  Milwaukee,  who 
stopped over  at Grand  Rapids  on  his way 
East.  “I expect the men in my factory will 
strike within ten days,” said  the  manufac­
turer,  “and I don’t  care to be at  home and 
be made the target of newspaper  interview­
ers  and  arbitration  committees.  Before 
leaving, I told my superintendent to pay off 
every man in the factory as soon as the men 
struck  and  shut  down. 
I  have  furniture 
enough in  my warerooms to  fill orders  for 
six months and don’t mind taking a rest un­
til the men come to their senses.”

*  * •*

Regarding  the  probability  of  a  strike 
among the furniture workers  here May 1,  I 
have talked with about a dozen  representa­
tive  manufacturers.  All • expressed  them­
selves as willing to run their factories eight, 
nine or ten hours,  as the men may elect, but 
as  to  running  eight  hours  for  nine  hours 
pay—such a  thing  is  out  of  the  question. 
If  the  men  strike—and  the  irresponsible 
elements are heartily in  favor of striking 
the factories  will be  closed  until the  men 
come to their senses.  Nearly every factory 
here  has  a  large  supply  of  manufactured 
goods on hand and a period of enforced idle­
ness would enable them to work off  surplus 
stocks and transact about the  usual amount 
of  business  without  compelling,  them  to
meet a weekly pay-roll.
*  *  *

It has been asserted that the Southwestern 
strike has had no  effect on  Grand  Rapids, 
but such is not a fact.  The Wallin Leather 
Co. received an order the other day counter­
manding a previous order for  two  corloads 
of leather and orders for at least  thirty car­
loads of furniture have been countermanded 
from the Southwestern  States  since the be­
ginning of the strike.  Many other  lines of 
business  here have  also  suffered  from the 
same cause.

*  *  *

And  while  foreign  strikes  have  caused 
considerable  loss  and  inconvenience  here, 
the apprehension of a  local  strike  is disar­
ranging  business  to  a  deplorable  extent. 
Business  men  generally  are  entering  into 
transactions  which  are  to  occur  in  the 
future,  or which  are  likely to  extend  into 
the  future,  only  with  the  express  under­
standing that  they  are  not  to  be  held  re­
sponsible in case of a  strike.  This precau­
tion is becoming  more  and  more  manifest
as we approach the first of May.

*  *  *

The better elements of  workingmen  con­
demn the present agitation,  and will  refuse 
to strike  unless  forced  to do so.  The men 
who are responsible for the present spirit of 
unrest are  inferior  or  ignorant  workmen, 
professional agitators and  men who expect 
to rise  to the  surface in a  political  way in 
case of a general upheaval.  For the sake of 
themselves,  as  well  as 
their  employers 
and the business  public,  it  is  to  be  hoped 
that the better classes, who are undoubtedly 
in the majority,  will see  the  evil results al­
ready attending  their  brethren’s efforts and 
refuse to  be  cajoled  into  concerted  action 
with men who  cannot  possibly afford them 
any relief, but will surely precipitate trouble 
which they must  bear  in  larger proportion 
than the irresponsible element.

*  *  *

I heard a good story on J im Fox the other 
day,  which I consider too good to keep. 
It 
will be remembered that  Jim  took  a flying 
trip through several Western States last fall, 
and my informant tells me  that  on  his  re­
turn  home  he  bought  a  show  ticket of  a 
scalper in Omaha, which called  for  a  first- 
class passage at a reduced rate.  There were 
two changes of conductors between  Omaha 
and Chicago, and  no  difficulty  was  exper­
ienced until the third ticket puncher put  in 
an appearance, when the  latter casually en­
quired  of  Jim,  “Where  is  your troupe?” 
Fox was not prepared  for  such  a  question 
and, following his invariable practice of tell­
ing the truth, replied that he did not  know. 
Such a reply gave the conductor good  ground 
for taking up the ticket and  collecting  full 
fare,  which  Jim  subsequently  recovered 
from the scalper from whoui  he  purchased 
the  ticket.  During  the  remainder  of  the 
the trip,* however,  all that was necessary  to 
cause  a  stampede  to  the  refreshment  car 
was  the  innocent  query,  “Where  is  your 
troupe?”

A New York firm has  set  aside a certain 
percentage of their earnings,  which will  be 
divided among their employees according to 
the amount of pay received during the year, 
virtually making each  employee  a  partner.

F R E S H   M E A T S.

John  Mohrhard  quotes  the  trade  selling 
prices as follows:
Fresh  Beef, sides................................  5ft@  714
Fresh  Beef, hind quarters.................  6ft@ 8ft
Dressed Hogs......................................  5ft @ 5%
Mutton,  carcasses...............................6ft@  714
Veal..................................................... «  @7
Pork Sausage......................................  7  @  714
Bologna............................................... 6ft@  7
Fowls................................................... 13  @14
HimVfl
Turkeys  ............................................. 12  @14

OYSTERS  A N D   F IS H .

F. J. Dettentbaler quotes as follows:

OYSTERS.

F R ESH   F IS H .

New York  Counts...........................................35
H. F. H. & Co.  Selects.....................................32
Selects.............................................................28
Cod  ...................... 
@10
Haddock..............................................  @7
Mackerel.............................................12  @12ft
Mackinaw Trout.................................   @  7
Perch................................................  @4
Sm elts....................... .....................10  @11
Whiteflsh.........   ................................  @9

 

GRAND  RAPIDS

SEED  MERCHANTS,

Office and Warehouse:  71 CANAL ST.
Grand Rapids, April 19,1886.
Dear  Sirs—Below  we  hand  you  jobbing 
prices for to-day:
Clover, Prime........’.......................60 R> bu  6  50

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6 25
“  No. 8................................... 
“  Mammoth 
Prime......... 
7 00
13 00
“  W hite...........20c ¥  ft 
9 00
“  Alsyke.............20c 
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12 00
“  Alfalfa or Lucerne20c  •* 
Timothy, Prime...........................  45 $ bu  2 10
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Fair to Good.................... 
2  00 90 
Red Top........................................ 14  lb hu
2 50 
Blue Grass...................................... 
2 50 
Orchard Grass.....................4........ 
90 
Hungarian  ................................... 48 lb bu
90 
Millet, common..............................  
“  German..............................  
1  00 
75 
Buckwheat....................................  
1 25
Peas, White Field.........................60  lb bu
Bye, Winter.................................. 56  lb bu
1  00 
1 25 
Wheat.  Spring..............................60  lb bu
1 60 
Barley' 
................................  $  cwt
50 
Oats, choice white........................32  lb bu
1  75 
Corn, Early 8  Rowed Yankee......56 ft bu
1 50 
.  “  Learning, Early Dent.......... 
1 75
“  Red  Blazed.........................  
4 00
Onion Sets, Red or  Yellow..........
5 00 
White  .......................
Onion  Tops,  Evergreen..............
1  00
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 tha largest line of Garden Seeds in 
Bulk 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 
goods.
W.  T.  Lamoreaux, Agt.

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FR E D .  D.  YALE.

D A N IE L  LY N CH .

i f l l l #1
F H . D. M E  & CO.
CHAS. S. YALE & BRO.,
Bakins Powders, Extracts, Bluings,
GROCERS’  SUNDRIES.
All orders addressed to the new  Ann will re­

W H O LESA LE  M A N U FA CTU RERS  OF

A N D   JO B B E R S  OF

SUCCESSORS  TO

ceive prompt attention.

40 and 42 South Division St., 

GRAND RAPIDS. 

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MICH.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

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B A K IN G   PO W D ER.

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BROOMS.

Arctic, 14 ft cans, 6 doz. case—  

These prices  are  for  cash  buyers,  who  pay | 
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promptly and buy in full packages.
Frazer’s...............   90|Paragon  ............... 2 10
Diamond  X ..........   60 Paragon 25 ft pails.  90
Modoc, 4 doz........2 50|Fraziers,25 ft pails. 1 25
Thompson’s  Butterfly, bulk..................   25
BorlOftcans...  271
ft, 4 doz. in case...  95
3.8  “ 
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J. H. Thompson & Co.’s Princess, fts.........1 2o
148........  2 25
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Is..........4 25
bulk..  28
....................  45
.  1 40 
.  2 40 
12  00 
.10  00 
.  3  00 
15

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Silver Spoon. 50 cans.................
Victorian, l ft cans, (tall,) 2 doz.
Diamond,  “bulk,”.....................
.doz.
Dry, No. 2....................................
45 
.doz.
Dry, No. 3...................................
35 
doz.
Liquid, 4 oz,................................
65
..doz.
Liquid, 8 oz.................................
..»  gross 4 00 
Arctic 4 oz...................................
8 00 
ArcticS  oz.................................
12 00 
Arctic 16 oz.................................
2 00
Arctic No. 1 pepper box............
3 00
Arctic No. 2 
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4 00
Arctic No. 3 
............
No. 2 Hurl............. 2  00iParlor Gem.............3 00
No. 1 Hurl..............2 25 Common Whisk—   90
No. 2Carpet..........2 50 Fancy  Whisk.......... I 00
No. 1 Carpet..........2 75|Mill..........................3 75
Clams, 1 ft. Little Neck..............................1 30
Clams, 2 ft. Little Neck..............................2 00
Clam Chowder,  3 ft.......................  ......... 2 15
Cove Oysters, 1  ft standards.....................1 00
Cove Oysters, 2  1b  standards..................   1  75
Lobsters, 1 ft picnic...................................1 75
Lobsters, 2 ft, picnic...............................2  ai)
Lobsters, 1 ft star................................. -GO
Lobsters, 2 ft star......................................3 00
Mackerel, lf t fresh standards.................1  10
Mackerel, 5 ft fresh standards.................4 25
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3  ft...............300
Mackerel,3 ft in Mustard..........................3 00
Mackerel, 3 ft soused............................... 3 Oil
Salmon, 1 ft Columbia river..................... 1 50
Salmon, 2 ft Columbia river..................... 2 35
Sardines, domestic Ms.............................. *  *
Sardines,  domestic  Ms...........................  12
Sardines,  Mustard  Ms.........................   12
Sardines,  imported  Ms........................  H
Trout. 3 ft  brook....................................   4 GO
Apples, 3 ft standards..............................   75
Apples, gallons, standards...................... 2 20
Blackberries, standards...........................   95
....  95
Cherries,  red standard.............................
....  90
Damsons...................................................
Egg Plums, standards 
............................1 25
Green Gages, standards 2 ft.......................1 25
Peaches, Extra Yellow .............................1 90
Peaches, standards.................................... 1 90
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......................................................1 25
Quinces
Raspberries,  extra................................
Strawberries  .........................................
CANNED FRUTTS— C A L IF O R N IA .

CANNED F R U IT S .

CANNED  F IS H .

Lusk’s.  Mariposa.
2 00
1 80
2 0(1
2 20

............ 2 10 
Egg Plums..............
............... 2 10 
fírapos....................
............... 2 10 
Green Gages...........
...............2 50 
Pears.......................
..............2 50
Quinces..................
Peaches..................
CANNED VEGETABLES
Asparagus, Oyster Bay.................
Beans, Lima,  standard.................
Beans, Stringless, Erie.................
Beans, Lewis’  Boston Baked........
Corn,  Archer’s Trophy.................

....3 00 
....1  00 
....  95 
.... 1 65 
....1 0«
Acme................................................1 00
Maple Leaf......................................  90
Excelsior..........................................1 00
Peas, French.............................................. 1 65
Peas, Marrofat, standard...........................1 40
0 
Peas, Beaver
5
Pumpkin, 3 ft Golden........................
......75@1  40
Succotash, standard............
Squash....................................................
.1  00 
.1  15
Tomatoes, standard brands....................
@12M 
Michigan  full  cream.......................... 12
@10M @ 6
Half skim..............................................9
Skim ....................................................  5
Baker’s .................37ftjGerman Sweet..
Ruukles’................. 351 Vienna Sweet  ..
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Scliepps, cake box..............................
>* 
1Z g.........................................
Maltby’s 1 ft  round.............................
“ 
assort  ...................................
“  Ms..........................................

CHOCOLATE.

COCOANUT.

CH EESE.

Manhattan,  pails__

@27 M @28 
@26 
@27 
@28 
@30

CO FFEES.

Roasted.

Green.

Rio................. ,.9®12 |Rio................... 7@15
Golden Rio__ ......12 Golden Rio............16
Santos............ ......13 Santos....................17
Maricabo....... ......13 Maricabo............... 17
J a v a .............. ,20@25 ¡Java.................24@26
O. G. Java...... ......24 O. G. Java............. 28
Mocha  ........... ......25 1 Mocha....................28
COFFEES--P A C K A G E ,60 fts 100 fts 300 fts
13ft  Lift
............  
............ 
13
............  13ft  13ft  12ft
.......  ..  13ft  13ft
............ 
12ft
13 

Dilworth’s . .
Lion...............
McLaughlin’s
Arbuckle’s  ...
German.........

It is  “• 

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For easy Ironing use “ Electric Lustre’’ 
Starch.
all prepared for immediate
nee in One Pound PackogM, which 
go as far as two pounds of any other Starch.
Ask your  Grocer for it.
The Electric Lustre Starch Co.
204 Franklin St.,  New York.

JOHN CAULFIELD 

Wholesale Agent,

GRAN D   R A PID S ,

BULL  DOG
Tobaccos.
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TRADE  UNION 
LABOR  UNION,

The largest amount of good tobacco for the 

least money.

A N D   E X TR A   GOOD

F INE  CUTS
These goods are all UNION  MADE, and 
each box is duly  stamped  with  the  Union 
Label.  No  s c a b  work goes from  this  fac 
tory.  Every employee  is a Union man and 
a K. of L.

If your jobber don’t sell it, your order  di­
rect will be filled promptly at prices quoted, 
and delivered to your railroad depot free  of 
freight.

Bull Dog Tobacco W orks,
Covington, Ky.

CORDAGE.

60 foot Ju te... ..  1 00 |50 foot Cotton__1  60
72 foot Jute ... .. 1 25 |60 foot Cotton__1  75
40Foot Cotton. ...1 50 ¡72 foot Cotton__2 00

CRACKERS  J(ND  SW EET  GOODS.

X  XXX  $ ft
8M

4M

F IS H .

4M
4ft

88

7M
7M
7M

11M 
9M 
15 ft
8M

8M
8M
12M
8M

Kenosha Butter..
Seymour Butter.......................
Butter..............................••.........
Fancy  Butter............................ 
8.  Oyster....................................
Picnic.........................................
Fancy  Oyster............................ 
Fancy  Soda............................... 
City Soda...................................
Soda  ...........................................
Milk............................................
Boston.......................................
Graham......................................
Oat  Meal....................................
Pretzels, hand-made................
Pretzels......................................
Cracknels..................................
Lemon Cream............................ 
Frosted Cream..........................
Ginger  Snaps............................ 
No. 1 Ginger Snaps.................. 
Lemon  Snaps............................
Coffee  Cakes..............................
13M 
Lemon Wafers..........................
11M 
Jumbles......................................
12M 
Extra Honey Jumbles.............
13M 
Frosted Honey  Cakes.............
13M 13> 
Cream Gems.............................
Bagleys  Gems..........................
12> 
Seed Cakes.
81,
S. & M. Cakes..........................
Bloaters, Smoked Yarmouth.................... 75@30
Cod, whole................................................ 4@5
Cod, Boneless............................................. 5@6 M
H alibut......................................................10@11
Herring, round,  M  bbl............................. 2 25
Herring .round,  ft  bbl............................. 1 25
Herring, Holland,  bbls............................11 00
Herring, Holland,  kegs...........................80@95
Herring, Scaled........................................ 23@23
Mackerel, shore, No. 2, M bbls.................5 50
“  12 ft k its ............ 1 00
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“  10  “ 
No. 3. M bbls.......... ..................3 50
“  12 ft  kits.........................   62
........................   55
“  10  “ 
Shad, M b b l............................................... 2 50
Trout, M  bbls............................................ 4 00
.........................................  80
White, No. 1, M bbls................................. 6 50
White, No. 1,12 ft kits..............................1 00
White, No. 1,10 ft kits..............................   90
White, Family, M bbls...............................2 50
Lemon.  Vanilla.
Jennings’ 2 oz......... ................$  doz.l 00  1 40
4 oz.......................................1 50  2 50
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8 oz.......................................3 50  5 00
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“  No. 2 Taper......................... 125  150
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No. 4 
........................ 1 75  3  00
“  M pint  round......................4 50  7  60
....................9 00  15 00
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“  No.  8....................................3 00  4  25
“  No. 10 ............... 
  4 25  6  00
Apricots, 251b boxes...........................   @  25
Cherries, pitted, 50 ft boxes...............   @  12
Egg plums, 251b  boxes.......................  @  20
Pears, 25 lb boxes................................  @  15
Peaches,  Delaware, 50 lb boxes.........   @  28
Peaches, Michigan...».......... .............  ©12ft
Raspberries, 50 ft boxes......... 
@  23

D R IE D   F R U IT S —DOM ESTIC.

FLA V O RIN G  EXTRACTS.

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30 gr. 

...  08
...  08

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!ft@
lft®

@  24 1Loriilaird’s American Gentle*oen...
@ 7ft
@  14  1Gail & Ax’ 
@  14 1

D R IE D   FR U IT S—FO REIG N .
Citron................................................
Maccoboy............
Currants,  new...................................
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Lemon Peel.......................................
Rappee................
Orange Peel.......................................
Hailro;ad  Mills  Scotch..........
Prunes,  French, 60s...........................
Lotzbtick  ..............................
Prunes, French, 80s...........................
© 4 ft
Prunes, Turkey.................................
VINEGAR.
@3 75 
Raisins, Dehesia................................
00@3 20 j White Wine...........................
@2 40 
Raisins, California  “  __
@2 00 Cider .
Raisins, Loose Muscatels...
Raisins, Ondaras, 28s..........................  @13ft
Raisins, Sultanas................................  @1(M
Raisins, Valencia................................ 10ft@l(Pi
Raisins,  Imperials..............................   @3 50
Grand Haven,  No.  8, square............................1 00
Grand Haven, No 9, square, 3 gro.................... 1 20
Grand Haven,  No. 200,  parlor.........................1 75
Grand  Haven,  No. 300, parlor........................ 2 25
Grand Haven, No.  7,  round............................1 50
Oshkosh, No. 2..............................................1 00
Oshkosh, No.  8..............................................150
Swedish...................................
Richardson’s No. 8  square__
....................1 00
Richardson’s No. 9 
do  __
....................1 50
Richardson’s No. 7M, round...
...................... 1  00
.................... 1 50
Richardson’s No. 7 
do  __
MOLASSES.
................. 15@19
Blaok Strap.............................
................. 25@28
Cuba Baking...........................
................. 34@38
Porto  Rico..............................
.................38@42
New  Orleans, good.................
...... 48@50
New Orleans, choice.................
New Orleans,  fancy.................
......52@55
M bbls. 2c extra.

MISCELLANEOUS.
Bath Brick imported...............
do 
American.................
Burners, No. 1 ..........................
do  No. 2..........................
Condensed Milk. Eagle brand.. 
Cream Tartar 5 and 10 ft cans..
Candles, Star............................
Candles,  Hotel..........................
Extract Coffee, V.  C.................
Felix..............
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps..........
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps...........
Gum, Spruce............................
Hominy, $  bbl........................ .
Jelly, In 301b  pails...................
Pearl Barley............................
Peas, Green  Bush.................. .
Peas, Split  Prepared...............
Powder, Keg........................... .
Powder, M  Keg.......................
Sage  ........................................

do 

@ 73
@ 55
@ 44
© 35
@ 45
@1 30
50 gr. 
10
10

1  00 
1 50
15@25 
®12M @14 
@80 
1 25 
@25 
@35 
30@35 
@3 50 
@  4M 
2ft@ 3 
@1 25 
@ 3 
@3 00 
@1 90 
®  18

OATM EAL.

R IC E .

P IP E S .

PIC K LES.

Steel  cut...............5 25| RolledOats,Shields’3 25
Steel Cut, M bbl__3 00 Rolled Oats, Acme.3 25
5 Quaker, 48 fts.......2
Rolled  Oats__
(H-j Quaker, 60 fts.......2 85
Rolled Oats, Mbbl.
..6 25
Rolled Oats, cases.3 25;Quaker bbls..
@5 CO 
Medium...............................................
@3 00 
“  M barrels..............................
Small...................................................
@ 3 00
2 25@3 00 
Imported Clay 3 gross....................
@2 25 
Imported Clay, No. 216,3 gross......
@1 85 
Imported Clay, No. 216,2M gross...
75@  90
American T.D................................
Choice Carolina.
...6ft!Java  ............
Prime Carolina.
.. .5ft¡Patna........... ......... w*
Good Carolina.. __5  ¡Rangoon....... . .5ft@5ft
Good Louisiana. __ 5  ¡Broken.......... .. 3ft@3ft
DeLand’s pure.. __5ft ¡Dwight’s ....... ......... 5ft
Church’s  ......... __SftlSea  Foam__ ......... 5ft
.. .5ft¡Cap Sheaf__ ......... 5ft
Taylor’s G. M...
0 ox
2 15
3 35
1 00 
1 45 
1 25

60 Pocket, F F  TI
28 Pocket..........
100 3 ft pockets..
Saginaw or  Manistee.
Diamond C...................................
Standard Coarse..........................
Ashton, English, dairy, bu. bags. 
Ashton, English, dairy, 4 hu. bag 
Higgins’ English dairy bu.  bags.
American, dairy, M bu. bags......
Rock, bushels..............................
Warsaw, Dairy, bu. bags............

ftc ess in 5 box lots.

8AUSRATUS.

SALT.

28
45

SAUCES.

SUGARS.

@2 00 
@  70 
@  80 
@1 25 
@1 50 
@  80 
@1 20 
@3 50 
@2 20
@ 7ft 
@ 7ft 
© 7 
® 6%
....................  @«%
....................  © 6M
....................  @ 57a
....................  @ 3/8
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© 5%
....................  @ 5M

Parisian, M  pints........................
Pepper Sauce, red  small............
Popper Sauce, g reen ..................
Pepper Sauce, red  lurge ring__
Pepper Sauce, green, large ring.
Catsup, Tomato,  pints.................
Catsup, Tomato,  quarts  ............
Halford Sauce, pints.................. .
Halford Sauce, M pints...............
Cut  Loaf.............................. .......
Powdered....................................
Granulated,  Standard................
Confectionery A..........................
Standard A...................................
No. 1, White Extra  C..................
No. 2, Extra C..............................
No. 3 C..........................................
No.4 C..........................................
No.5 C..........................................
Acme,  bars............... 3 75!Napkin 
4 85
Acme,  blocks......  3 22|Towel.........................4 75
Best  American__ 3 08 White  Marseilles..5 60
Circus  ...................3 75 White Cotton  Oil..5 60
Big Five  Center...3 OOlShainrock...................3 30
Nickel.................... 3 45jBlue Danube 
2 95
Gem.......................3 351 London  Family 
2 60
Whole.

Ground. 

SPICES.

SOAPS.

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SMOKING

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

16@20 Nutmegs,  No. 
15@30 Cloves 
2560351

@3 20 
3ft@ 4 
@ r>H 
© «M
("I .V/j
@ 5 
@4 50
2J@‘J6 
24@27 
@29 
1 35 
22@26 
24@28

Pepper...............16@25 ¡Pepper................   @18
Allspice............. 12@15 Allspice...............  8@10
Cinnamon.......... 18@30 Cassia.................. 10@11
Cloves  ............. .15@25|Nutmegs,  No. 1..  @60
..  @50 
Ginger ...
..16® 13
Mustard..
Cayenne  .
STARCH.
Electric  Lustre..................
Niagara,  Laundry..............
Niagara, gloss....................
Niagara, corn.....................
Royal,  corn......  ...............
laundry..................
Quaker, laundry, 56ft.........
8YRUPS.
Corn,  barrels  ....................
Corn, M bbls........................
Corn, (0 gallon kegs............
Corn, 5 gallon kegs.............
Pure Sugar, bbl..................
Pure Sugar, M bbl...............
Pure Sugar  5 gal kegs.......
TEA S.
Japan ordinary......................................... 18@20
Japan fair to good.....................................25@30
Japan tine.................................................. 35@45
Japan dust.................................................15®20
Young Hyson............................................ 30©50
GunPowder............................................... 35@5U
Oolong.................................................33@55@6C
Congo......................................................  25@30
Our Block................60:Old Time....................35
Yum  Yum.............. 25 Underwood’s Capper 35
Sweet  Rose.'...........32 Sweet  Rose................45
May  Queen.............65 Meigs & Co.’s Stunner35
Jolly  Time.............. 40 Atlas.......................... 35
Dark AmericanEagle67 Royal Game..............38
The Meigs................62 Mule Ear....................65
Red  Bird................. 50 Fountain....................74
State Seal................60 Old Congress..............61
Prairie Flow er.......65|GoodLuck.................52
Indian Queen..........60|Blaze Away................35
Bull  Dog.
iHaiF Lifter............
Crown Leaf.............66!Jim Dandy.
Hiawatha................65'0ur  Bird..................
Globe......................65|Brother  Jonathan..
May Flower............. 70iSweet  Pepsin..........
♦Delivered.
Big Deal...................27 Lucky  .....................
Ruby, cut  plug....... 35 Boss  ..........................15
Navy Clipplugs........28 Two  Nickel...............24
Leader.....................15'Duke’s  Durham....... 40
Hard  Tack........... .. .33 Green Corn Cob Pipe 26
28 Owl........................... 16
Dixie.....................
40 Rob Roy...................
26
Old Tar..................
Arthur’s  Choice..,.. .22
,28
Uncle  Sam...............
Red Fox................ ...'M Lumberman............ 25
Flirt...................... ..  28¡Railroad Boy............,38
Gold Dust............ ...26 Mountain Rose.........,18
Gold Block.......... ...30 Home Comfort..........25
Old Rip.....................
Seal of Grand Rapids  1 
60
Seal of North Caro-
(cloth).................251
lina, ! oz.
Tramway, 3 oz.
.40! 
............48
MinersandPuddlers.28!Seal of North Caro-
lina, 4oz.................48
.24 
Peerless  ___
.. .20' Seal of North Caro-
Standard.....
Old Tom....................18)  lina, 8 oz..................45
Tom & Jerry............24! Seal of North Caro-
Joker........................25 
lina, 16 oz boxes___42
Traveler..................35|King Bee, longeut.. .22
Maiden.....................25|Sweet Lotus...............32
Pickwick Club.........40;Grayling................... 32
Nigger Head............26|Seal Skin................... 30
Holland....................22jRed Clover................ 32
German....................15' Good Luck................ 26
Quaker..................... 23|Trade Union............*36
Bull  Dog................*36  Labor Union........... *30
Hiawatha...............42  Splendid.................  38
Jolly Tar................32  OidSolder................. 40
Money......................44
Jolly Timo...............32
Red Fox.................... 42
Favorite........;.........42
Big  Drive................. 40
Black Bird...............32
Live and Let Live.. .32lSealof Grand Rapids 40
Punch......................36 Patrol........................ 40
Big  Nig...................37 Jack Rabbit............... 38
Spear Head.............39 Chocolate  Cream.... 44
Old  Honesty........... 40 Nimrod..................... 40
Whole Earth........... 32IE.C.............................38
Crazy  Quilt.............32'Spread  Eagle............36
P.  V.........................40 Big Five Center..........33
Spring Chieken.......38 P arro t....................... 42
Eclipse  ....................30 B uster...................... 36
Moxie......................34 Black Prince..............35
Blackjack.............. 32 Black  Racer..............85
Hiawatha................42 S tar........................... 39
Musselman’s Corker. 30 Climax  .................... 42
Turkey.................... 39|Acorn  .......................40
Dainty.................... 44iHorse  Shoe............... ?6
♦Delivered. 
2c. less in three butt lots.
SH ORTS.
Leader.................... 16IHiawatha...................22
Mayflower..............23|01d Congress..............28
Globe.,.................... 22 May  Leaf...................22
Mule Ear............ . 
.SSIDark...................... .20

PLU G .

CANDY, FRUITS AND  NUTS.
Putnam & Brooks quote as follows:

do 
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FANCY—IN  BULK.

FANCY—IN 5 ft BOXES.

STICK.
Standard, 25 ft boxes..........................  8M@9
...........................   9@ 9M
Twist, 
Cut Loaf 
................ 10  @10ft
MIXED
Royal, 251b  pails...................................  @ 9
Royal, 2001b bbls....................................   @8M
Extra, 25 ft pails.....................................10@10M
Extra, 2001b bbls.................................... 9 © 9ft
French Cream, 25 ft pails.......................  @12
Cut loaf, 251b cases................................ 12M@
Broken, 25 1b  pails.................................   ©10
Broken, 200 ft bbls.........................................9@ 9M
Lemon  Drops......................................... 12© 13
Sour Drops..............................................13@14
Peppermint  Drops.......   .....................   @14
Chocolate Drops...........................................15
H M Chocolate  Drops..................................18
Gum  Drops  .................................................10
Licorice Drops..............................................22
AB Licorice  Drops.....................................12
Lozenges, plain...................................... J4@15
Lozenges,  printed..................................15@18
Imperials............................................... 14@15
Mottoes........................................................ 15
Cream  Bar..............................................13© 14
Molasses Bar.................................................13
Caramels................................................  
18
Hand Made Creams...................................... 18
Plain  Creams......................................... 16@17
Decorated Creams........................................20
String Rock............................................ 
14
Burnt Almonds....................................  20@22
Wintergreen  Berries............................. 14© 13
Lozenges, plain in  pails......................11M@12
Lozenges, plain In bbls....................... 10ft©ll
Lozenges, printed in pails..................   @12M
Lozenges, printed in  bbls.................llft@12
Chocolate Drops, in pails...................12  @12ft
Gum  Drops  in pails............................ 6M @7
Gum Drops, in bbls.............................  @ 5M
Moss Drops, in  pails...........................   @10
Moss Drops, in b b ls...................................... 9
Sour Drops, in  pails.....................................12
Imperials, in  pails..............................12  @12M
Imperials  in bbls........................  
..  10ft@ll
FR U ITS
Bananas  Aspinwall..........
..2 OC@3 50 
Oranges, California, fancy. 
..4 00@4 25 
Oranges, California,  choice
.3 00@3 50
Oranges, Jamaica, bbls......
Oranges, Florida.................
Oranges, Valencia, cases...
Oranges, Messina...............
Oranges,  Naples.................
Lemons, choice..................
Lemons, fancy..
Figs, layers, new 
Figs, Bags, 50 ft.
Dates, frails do  ....................
Dates, ft do  d o ....................
Dates, skin.............................
Dates, M  skin........................
Dates, Fard 10 ft box ’p  ft__
Dates, Fard 50 ft box p ft......
Dates, Persian 50 ft box p ft..
Pino Apples, ‘p  doz...............
PEA NU TS. "
Prime  Red,  raw 
1b............
Choice 
d o ............
Fancy II.P. do 
do  ............
Choice White, Va.do  ............
Fancy H P„  Va  do  ............
11. P. Vu.................................

4  ©4M 
@ 5 
@ 5M
5  © 5ft 
6*í@ 7
@ 6
Almonds,  Tarragona............ ............16  @17
I vaca  .................... ............15  @16
California............ ............15  @16
Brazils...........................
............  8  @9
Chestnuts, per b u ....................
Filberts, Sa-iiy....................... ..............llft@12
Barcelona............... ............  @10
Walnuts,  Grenoble............... ............14ft@15
Marito...................
French.................. ............  8  @11
California............. ..............  @12
Pecans, Texas, H. P ............. ............  9  @13
Missouri................. ............8ft®  9
Cocoanuts, p  100.

’P ft........................12M@16
..............................   7M@ 8
..............................   © 4M
..............................   @5

@7 00 
. .3 50@3 75
.4 75@5 00 
00@5 50

@10 
© 9

@4 50

NUTS.

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PROVISIONS.

The  Grand Rapids  Packing & Provision  Co. 

quote  as follows:

9

PO R K   IN   BARBELS.

 

Mess, Chicago packing, new........................JO 50
Clear,  S. P. Booth............. 
li 00
Shortcut,new.............................................u  25
Back, clear, short  cut.................................12 50
Extra family clear, short cut.....................12 00
Clear,  A. Webster, n ew ............................ 12 50
Extra clear pig, short cut...........................12 75
Clear quill, short  cut.................................. 13 00
Boston clear, short cut............................... 13 00
Clear back, short cut.................................. 13 00
Standard clear, short  cut, best..................13 25
DRY  SALT MEATS— IN   BOXES.
Long Clears, heavy..............................  
medium...........................  
lig h t................................ 
Short Clears, heavy..............................  
medium...........................  
light.................................  

6
“ 
6
“ 
6
6ft
6ft
do. 
do. 
6ft
SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED  OR  PL A IN .
Hams, heavy.................................................. 9ft
“  medium-...............................................9ft
light.................................................. 10
“ 
Boneless  Hams, best................................... 10
Boneless  Hams..................................... 
 
Boneless Shoulders......................................  6ft
Breakfast  Bacon.........................................  7ft
Dried Beef, extra quality............................. 9
Dried Beef, Ham pieces...............................lift
Shoulders cured in sweet pickle..................6
Tierces  ................................................  
30 and 50 ft Tubs...................................
501b Round Tins, 100 cases.................... 
20 ft Pails, 4 pails In case.....................  
3 ft Palls, 20 in a ease................................ 
5 ft Pails, 12 in a case............................ 
101b Pails, 6 in a case...........................  

LARD IN  T IN   P A IL S .

LARD.

 

6ft
6?i
6ft
7
6%
6ft

B E EF IN  BA RRELS.

SAUSAGE—FR ESH  AND SMOKED.

Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 fts...........  8 50
Boneless, extra.......................................... 13 00
Pork Sausage...............................................
Ham  Sausage...............................................
Tongue  Sausage.......................................
Frankfort  Sausage......................................
Blood  Sausage.............................................
Bologna, straight.........................................
Bologna, thick.............................................
Head Cheese................................................
In half barrels............................................  3 50
In quarter barrels......................................

P IG 8 ’  FEET.

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

Ohio White Lime, per bbl..................  
1  uo
Ohio White Lime, car lots..................  
s5
Louisville Cement,  per bbl................. 
130
Akron Cement per bbl....................... 
1  30
Buffalo Cement,  per bbl..................... 
1 30
....................1 05@1 10
Car lots 
Plastering hair, per bu.......................  25@  30
Stucco, per bbl....................................  
175
Land plaster, per ton.......................... 
3 50
Land plaster, ear lots.......................... 
2 50
Fire brick, per  M................................$25 @ $35
Fire clay, per bbl................................ 
3 00
Anthracite, egg and grate, car lots.. $5 75@6 00 
Anthracite, stove and nut, car lots..  6 00@6 25
Cannell, oar lots................................  @6 00
Ohio Lump, car lots..........................  3  in@a 25
Blossburg or Cumberland, car lots..  4 50@5 00 
Portland  Cement.............................. 3 50@4 off

COAL.

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News and Gossip  Furnished  by  Our  Own 

OUT  AROUND.

Correspondents.
_

B a ile y . 

Quay,  Killen & Co.’s  stave  and  heading 
factory here  has  started  up  again  after  a 
In  the  interim 
three  week’s  shut  down. 
the firm  made  several  necessary  additions 
to the mill,  built  a shavings  and  dust bin, 
reset the boilers and  gave everything a gen­
eral  overhauling.  The  firm  compromised 
with its employees  on  the  eight hour ques­
tion,  and  the factory is  now  running  nine 
hours,  while the men receive ten hours pay. 
Both parties to the  agreement  appear to be 
perfectly satisfied.

A d rian .

An Adrian tobacco  salesman is  authority 
for  the  statement 
that  a  Monroe  cus­
tomer chews four pails of his fine cut month­
ly, to say nothing  of  an  occasional  pound 
purchased by way of variety.
W.  II.  Hamilton,  late  of  Jackson,  has 
purchased  the  W.  D.  Witherlngton & Co. 
grocery stock. 
The Maple  City  Manufacturing  Co. will 
engage in the manufacture of hardware fur­
niture about May 1.  J. A.  Whalen is man­
ager of the concern.

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T raverse  C ity.

The ice,  instead of  being  earned  out  by 
the wind,  is melting in the  Bay,  and  is  so 
soft that the  Cummings  ploughed  through 
from Greilick’s dock Saturday.
Frank  Votruba,  of  Wilhelm,  Bartak & 
Co.,  is visiting relatives in East Jordan.
L. M. Bennett has made  recent  improve­
ments in his store.
The Bridge Street House,  at  Charlevoix, 
has been leased by R. A. Campbell, who will 
move there in a few weeks.
McCoy & Gresser are to open a restaurant 
May 1  in the  Stevens’ building, lately occu­
pied by Mrs. W. J. Backer.
There is not an idle  carpenter  or  painter 
in town.

B ig  R ap id s.

C. J. Whitney,  of Detroit,  has  rented the 
south  half  of  the  crockery  store of C.  B. 
Bennett,  in  the  Harwood  block,  and  has 
put in a stock of pianos and organs.  A. M. 
Harwood,  with J. S. Evans  &  Co.  for  the 
past five years,  has charge of the same.
S.  H.  Plough, J.  Plating and W.  M.  Bin- 
ney,  who for the  past  ten years have  been 
connected with the Big Rapids Iron Works, 
have formed a copartnership for the  repair­
ing and manufacture of mill machinery,  the 
style of the f i r m  being the Alert Iron Works. 
They have rented the Steam Laundry build­
ing,  at the foot of Michigan avenue, and ex­
pect to be in good working order shortly.
S. J.  Sachen, the clothier, is trying to sell 
his  residence  property  here,  as he intends 
removing  his  business  to  Grand  Rapids 
sometime in June.
The Muskegon river is  higher  here  than 
ever known before.  The Boom Co. has had 
to quit assorting and S.  II.  Gray & Co. have 
had to shut down their mill,  and since shut­
ting down have lost most of their logs.
S. II. Rosenvelt, proprietor of the Northern 
Hotel, will vacate the same  at  the  expira­
tion of his lease,  about Octobei  1, at  w Inch 
time M. P.  Gale  will  assume  the  manage­
ment.
D.  II. Killeher,  blacksmith  and  carnage 
builder here,  will this week  locate  at  Cad
iliac. 
M. B. Wiseman,  Agt., is again doing bus­
iness at his old stand. 
C. G.  lliidnutt has purchased Edwin Can 
noil’s half interest in  the  Big  Rapids  Iron 
Works, and will undoubtedly put  an end to 
the little freeze-out game of  the  balance  of 
the stock-holders,  as Mr.  Hudnutt  is one of 
those men who looks an enterprise over well 
before investing, and when  once  interested 
in an enterprise it must move. 
It is rumor­
ed that he will put the machinery in motion 
at once  and  use  his  present machine shop 
for his electric plant.  Mr.  Cannon has since 
his  connection  with  the  Iron Works sunk 
$2(5,000 and sold  out  at  an  extremely  low 
figure to get the elephant off his hands.
It  is  reported  that  C.  I).  Harwood  has 
sold the lot 25x100 feet now occupied by N. 
H.  Beebe with his grocery and that the latter 
has got to vacate by May 1,  as there is to be 
a brick building put on the lot at once.

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China pigs, and Michigan mosquitoes.  Mr. 
Orr  still  maintains  his  connection  with 
Arthur Meigs &  Co., engaging  in  the  live 
stock business merely as a side issue.
Miscellaneous  Dairy Notes.

The new Alma  creamery is ready to com­

mence operations.

J.  R.  Gilkey,  of  Adrian,  contemplates 

starting a creamery at Morenci.

W .. N.  Camp  started  up  the  Valley 

Creamery, at I'onia,  on April 14.

It is settled  that  Bellevue  is  to  have  a 
creamery,  which will begin operations some 
time next month.

Whitehall Forum:  The  creamery  build­
ing has progressed as far as the  roofing and 
it will not be long before a choice  article of 
home-made creamery butter  will be  on  the
market. 

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Hemlock  Bark Prospects.

Interviews with local tanners disclose the 
fact that they are making contracts for new 
bark  on the basis  of  $5.50, delivered,  and 
that no difficulty is experienced in contract­
ing for full supplies at that figure.  The tan­
ners are of opinion that a large  quantity  of 
bark  will  be  peeled  this  season,  and  are 
quite confident  that  the  price  named  will 
rule  throughout  the  summer.  Occasional 
lots  of  old  bark  are being received by  the 
tanners,  for which they pay $4.75.
W e Will “Keep It Up.”

From the Denver Retail Grocer.

The State  of  Michigan  is  coming to the 
front  in  organizing.  Twenty  associations 
have already formed  and  several  cities are 
about to organize.  The  prospects are that a 
State convention will soon be called.  Keep 
it up.

Cooperage.

Flour barrel staves are stronger at slightly 
advanced  prices.  Hoops  and  barrels  are 
weak and lower.

“Fermentum”  the  only  Reliable  Com­
pressed Yeast.  See advertisement._______

WOODENWAKE.

Standard  Tubs, No. 1...................................700
Standard Tubs, No. 2...................................® JJ{
Standard Tubs, No. 3...................................5 00
Standard Pails, two hoop.............................l 40
Standard Pails, three hoop..........................1 05
White Cedar, three hoop  ..............................^00
Dowell Pails..................................................J
Dowell Tubs, No. 1....................................... ° 00
Dowell Tubs, No. 2.......................................7 "¡f
Dowell Tubs,  No. 3......................................... 00
White Cedar, No. 1.......................................7 50
"White Cedar, No. 2.......................................» *?0
Maple Howls, assorted sizes........................2 00
Butter Ladles.............................................. J
Rolling Pins................................................. 1 00
Potato Mashers............................................
Clothes Pounders........................................ 2 M
ClothesPins..................................................  ”5
Mop Stocks...................................................J ;*?
Washboards, single..................................... l 7j
Washboards, double....................................2 2
Diamond  Market.........................................  40
Bushel, narrow band.................................. 1 00
Bushel, wide band.......................................1  *5
Clothes, splint,  No. 1.................................. «60
Clothes, splint,  No. 2.................................. «
Clothes, splint,  No. 3.................................. 4 00
Clothes, willow, No. 1..................................*> 6®
Clothes, willow, No. 2..................................0 00
Clothes, willow, No. 3..................................‘  00

BA SKETS.

H A R D W O O D   L U M B E R .

...................... 
*i 

The furniture factories  hero pay  as follows 
for dry stock:
Basswood, log-run...........................   _ „ 
oo
Birch, log-run.♦................................16 00®20 00
@25 00 
Birch, Nos. 1 and 2.........
@13 00
Black Ash, log-run.........
..25 00@30 00
Cherry,  log-run.
Cherry, Nos. 1  and 2 ...................... 45 00@50 00
— 
.. 
@10 00
Cherry,  cull.......
. .15 00@17 00 
Maple, log-run......................... ...
..12 00@14 00 
Maple, soft,  log-run.....................
Maple, Nos. Iaud2........................
@20  00 @25 00 
Maple, clear, flooring...................
@25 00 
Maple, white, selected..................
@18 00 
Red Oak, log-run...........................
@22 00 
Red Oak, Nos. 1 and 2.............. 
..
@25 00 
Red Oak, No.  1, step plank.........
@55 00
.. 
Walnut, log-run...........................
@75 00
.. 
Walnut, Nos. 1 and 2....................
.. 
@25 00
Walnuts,  culls.............................
@13 00 
Grey  Elm, log-run.......................
. .14 00@16 00 
White Ash,  log-run.....................
@23 00
Whitewood,  log-run.....................

The Gripsack Brigade.

“Birdie,  I am tired  now.”  For  full par­

ticulars, ask W.  G.  Hawkins.

Walter Scott Horn carries  a  gold  watch, 
consequent  on  the  sale  of  500  boxes  of 
Magic  yeast.

Win.  Logie, wife and son spent Sunday at 
Defiance,  Ohio, visiting  Mrs.  Logie’s  sister 
and husband.

The  Lake  Shore  &  Michigan  Southern 
Railway will place on sale week end tickets 
to members of the T.  P.  A.  May 1.

M.  A.  Brown  lias  gone  on  the road  for 
taking  the  Lake 

Eaton  &  Christenson, 
Shore towns and the Upper Peninsula.

Frankfort Express:  Traveling men have 
been thicker than sketers  in  summer time, 
during the past week.  The  hotel  registers 
show a large increase in travel.

The  mane  on W. G.  Hawkins’ horse  lias 
nearly all grown  out  again.  Hawkins  has 
the satisfaction  of knowing that he obtained 
$50 from the person who despoiled hi* prop­
erty,  however.

Suel A.  Sheldon,  general  Western travel­
ing representative for  Austin, Tomlinson & 
Webster, of Jackson,  was  in  towti  several 
days last week and  left Sunday night  for a 
trip through Iowa.

Hub Baker  writes  T iie  T radesman as 
follows:  “Please express my sincere thanks 
to Dr.  I.  L. Quimby for liis  kindness to me 
on the trip home from  Petoskey,  while  suf­
fering with rheumatism.”

Leo.  A. Caro  is  rejoicing  over  tiie  fact 
that the T.  P.  A.  managers did not dare  re­
ply to  the  hot shot throw n  into their camp 
through their  own  official  organ,  but hired 
space 
in  tiie  Northwestern  ComrrwreUil 
Traveler to reply to his allegations.

Tiie  nuptials  of  A.  D.  Baker  and  Miss 
Sybil A.  Day,  of Traverse  City,  will  take 
place in J une—tiie month of roses.  Pleasant 
apartments  have  been  secured  by  AI.  at 
Park Place,  where tiie  boarders  are prepar­
ing  a warm reception for the happy couple.
R.  B. Orr  lias  leased  the  Harrison place 
on West Leonard street, consisting of eight 
acres and buildings,  and wrill  engage in the 
breeding and sale of  Hambl§tonian  horses, 
Jersey cows, English setter dogs,  high bred 
poultry, Chinese  geese  and"ducks,  Poland

COUNTRY  PRODUCE.

Apples—Choice  winter  fruit  is  in  fair  de­

mand at $1.75.
Beans—Local buyers pay 50c@75c  $  bu.  for 
unpicked and  hold  ordinary hand-picked for 
$1.10@$1.15.

Butter—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 5P 100. 
Cheese-The  best  grades of  October  and 

November make are  selling at 1154@1254. 
Cider—New sweet commands 10c p gal. 
Cranberries—New  Jersey  berries  are  slow 
sale at $2 per bu. box, and Wisconsin Bell and 
Cherry berries are held at $5 per bbl.
Dried Apples—Quartered and sliced,  3@354c. 
Evaporated, 634®7e, according to quality.

Dried Peaches—Pared, 15c.
Eggs—Somewhat  scarce,  as  the  pleasant 
weather  enables  the  farmers  to  work,  and 
keeps  them  from  coming  to  town.  Dealers 
quote present stocks atI054@1154c.

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

in two and five ton lots and $13 in car lots. 

Hops—Brewers pay 8@10c fl ft.
Lettuce—15c $ lb.
OnioÄ—Green,  25c  $   doz.  bunches.  Ber­
Pop Corn—Choice new commands  254®  $  ft 

mudas, $4 $ bu. crate.

and old 3c $ lb.
35c for Burbanks,

Potatoes—Buyers are paying 30c for Rose and 

Pieplant—6c $  lb.
Poultry—Scarce  and  high.  Fowls  sell  for 
10@1054c; turkeys, 12c.  Ducks are out of mar­
ket.

Spinach—$15P bu.
Strawberries—$8 $  24 qt. crate.
Sweet Potatoes—Kiln  dried  Jerseys,  $4.50 $ 

bbl.

Turnips—25c $ bu.

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

Wheat—No change.  The city  millers pay as 
follows:  Lancaster,  85;  Fulse, 82c;  Clawson, 
82c.
lots and 38@40c in carlots.

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

Oats—White, 38c in small lots  and 33@35c  in 

car lots.

Rye—48@50c $  bu.
Barley—Brewers pay $1.25 $  cwt.
Flour—No change.  Fancy Patent, $5.50 $  bbl. 
in  sacks and  $5.75 In  wood.  Straight, $4.60  $ 
bbl. in sacks and $4.80 in wood.

Meal—Bolted, $2.75 $  bbl.
Mill Feed—Screenings, $15  $ ton.  Bran, $16 
«ton.  Ships, $16 $  ton.  Middlings, $16 $  ton. 
Corn aad Oat», $18  $  ton.

I

OC,'

W ID E  BROW N  COTTON8. 

The following quotations are given  to show 
relative values, but they may be considered, to 
some extent, “outside prices,” and are  not as 
low as buyers of reasonable  quantities can, in 
most  instances, obtain  them  at.  It  will pay 
every  merchant  to  make  frequent  visits  to 
market, not only in  respect  to  prices,  but to 
keep posted on  the  ever-changing  styles and 
fashions, many of which are never shown  “on 
the road.”
...19
Androscoggin, 94. .17 
22
Andrbscoggin,|
:& t|
.13 Pequot,  7-4....... ...1434
Pepperell,  7-4..
.15 iPequot,  8-4....... ...16
Pepperell,  8-4..
.17  1Pequot.  9-4....... ...18
PeppejeU,  9-4..
CHECKS.
iPark Mills, No. 90..14 
Caledonia, XX, oz. .10 
Park Mills, No. 100.15
Caledonia,  X, oz...  9
Prodigy, oz..............854
Economy, oz.........
Otis Apron..............854
Park Mills, No. 50. .10 
Otis Furniture......854
ark Mills, No. 60. .11 
York,  1  oz............... 954
Park Mills, No. 70..12 
I York. AA, extra oz.l234
Park Mills, No. 80.. 13

[Pepperell, 10-4... 
Pepperell, 11-4...

OSNABURGS

Plain.

Plaid.

6

.  8

654
654

BLEACHED  COTTONS.

DOMESTIC GINGHAM S.

F IN E  BROW N  COTTONS.

Williamsville, 36. 
SIAS.

cambric,  4-4....... 11  ¡Whitinsville,7-8....  6

.  ..
■  8341Greene. G  4-4 
..  934 Hill, 4-4..................
:..  734 Hill, 7-8..................
Hope,  44...............
..  534 King  Phillip  cam-
..  6 |  brie, 44...............
..  834!Lin wood,  4-4.........
...  934¡Lonsdale  cambric.

Alabama...............  654 Alabama .
...654
1 Augusta 
Geor
¡Georgia.
Jewell
Kentucky  ............   854 Louisiana..............  624
L ane.....................  834|Tennessee.............1154
Santee..................   754|Toledo..................   634
Avondale,  36......
Art  cambrics, 36.
Androscoggin, 4-4..
Androscoggin, 5-4.
Ballou, 4-4___
Ballou, 5-4......
Boott, 0.4-4..,
Boott,  E. 5-5...
554|Langdon,GB,44...  854
Boott, R. 34.........
654 Langdon, 46.......... 11
Blackstone, AA 44.
554 Masonville,  44 ......  754
Chapman, X, 44__
6*4 Maxwell. 44..........   8
Conway,  44..........
654 New York Mill, 44.1054 
Cabot, 44...............
6  ¡New Jersey,  44....  8 
Cabot, 7-8...............   6
4  IPocasset,  P. M. C..  754 
Canoe,  34..............  4
7541Pride of the West.. 1054 
Domestic,  36.........   7
Pocahontas,  44....  754 
Dwight Anchor, 44.  8 
Slaterville, 7-8........  654
Davol, 44..............  8
Fruit of Loom, 44..  754 Victoria, AA......... 9
Fruit of Loom, 7-8..  634 Woodbury, 44........  554
Fruit of  the  Loom,  Whitinsville,  44...  634 
.  634 Wamsutta, 44__ -  934
Gold Medal, 44..
.  834
Gold Medal, 7-8... 
•  534 
Gilded  Age.........
.  7h
SILK
.1734'Mason ville  S......
Crown................
.11
.11 Lonsdale............
-  934
No.  10.................
.14
.10 Lonsdale A.........
Coin....................
.15 Victory  O...........
.  534
Anchor...............
Blackburn ......... ..  8 Victory J ............
.  6Î4
Davol.................. ..14 Victory D...........
.  834
. 1234 Victory K..........
.1034
London...............
Phoenix A...........
.1934
Paconia............. ..12
..  734 Phoenix  B........... -1034
Social  Imperial.. ..16 Phoenix X X ..,..
.  5
jffasonville TS....
PRI 1NTS.
..534;Gloucester......... ...534
Albion, solid......
Albion,  grey...... ...6 G loucestermourng. 534
Allen’s  cheeks... ...534 Hamilton  fancy. ...6
Ailen’s  fancy__ ...534 Hartel fancy...... ...534
Allen’s pink....... . --5V2 Merrimac  1)........ .. .6
Allen’s purple__ .. .534 ¡Manches te r ....... ...6
American, fancy. ...534¡Oriental fancy... ...534
Arnold fancy...... . ..6
[Oriental  robes... ...634
Berlin solid......... ..  5 1 Pacific robes...... ...6
Cocheco fancy....... 6  Richmond................ 534
Cocheco robes.........634 Steel River...............534
Conestoga fancy— 6  Simpson’s ............... 6
Eddystone..............6  Washington fancy..5
Eagle fancy.............5  Washington blues.  5
Garner pink........... 5341
Appleton A, 4-4— 6 
|Indian Orchard, 40. 7
Boott  M, 44.......... 734[Indian Orchard, 36. 6
Boston F, 44......... 6% | Laconia  B, 74....... 13
Continental C, 4-4.. 634: Lyman B, 40-in...... 9
Continental D, 40in 734¡Mass. BB, 4-4......... 534
Conestoga W, 4-4... O&lNashua  E,40-in.... 734
Conestoga  D,7-8... 43i|Nashua  K, 44....... 634
Conestoga  G, 30-in. 5  ¡Nashua 0.7-8......... 6
Dwight  X, 34........ 43£;Newmarket N ...... 534
Dwight Y, 7-8......... 53a 1 Pepperell E, 40-in. 634
Dwight Z, 4-4......... 5H¡Pepperell  R, 44__ «3*
Dwight Star, 44 — 63i|Pepperell  O, 7-8__ 534
Dwight Star,40-in.. 73 j Pepperell N, 3-4__ 534
Enterprise EE, 36.. 4?i; Pocasset  C, 44__ 634
Great Falls E, 4-4... 634[Saranac  R............
Farmers’ A, 44...... 534¡Saranac E............ 734
Amoskeag............  7  [Johnson Manfg Co,
Amoskeag, Persian 9 
|  Bookfold........... 1234
styles..................  
Johnson Manfg Co,
Bates...................... 6 
1034
dress  styles 
Berkshire............   6  Slaterville, 
dress
styles....................6
Glasgow, fancy 
Glasgow,  royal....  634 ¡White Mfg Co, stap 6% 
Gloucester, 
| White Mfg Co, fane 734 
standard.............   7341 White  Manf’g  Co,
Plunkct............... .  73¿!  Earlston............. 7*
Lancaster............ .  7  [Gordon................. 7
Langdown.......... .  7  Greylock, 
Renfrew,  dress... .  9  1  styles  ......   ...... 1034
Androscoggin, 74. .15  [Pepperell.  104...... 22
|Pepperell,  114...... 24
Androscoggin, 84. .16 
Pepperell,  74...... .15  [Pequot,  74........... 16
Pepperell,  84...... .17  [Pequot,  84........... 18
Pepperell,  94...... .18  [Pequot,  9-4........... 20
Atlantic  A, 44— .  6341 Lawrence XX, 44. 6%
Atlantic  H, 44— .  631 ¡Lawrence XXX 40 7*
Atlantic  D, 44— .  5?i¡Lawrence LL, 44.. Ö
Atlantic P, 4-4--- .  5  Newmarket N...... 534
.  43i Mystic River, 4-4.. 53Í
Atlantic  LL, 44..
.  754 Pequot A, 44.......
634
Adriatic, 36.........
.  654'Piedmont,  36........ 6
Augusta, 44........
. 
(Stark A A, 4-4.......
634
Boott  M, 44........
.  634 Tremont CC, 44... 4%
Boott  FF, 44......
.  53i ¡Utica,  44............. 10
Graniteville, 44..
.  63£ |Wachusett,  44__ 634
Indian  Head, 4-4.
Indiana Head 45-in. 1134 [Wachusett, 30-in.. 534
TICK IN G S.
.17  ¡Falls, XXXX........ .1834
Amoskeag, ACA.
Amoskeag  “ 44 .12 34 ¡Falls, XXX........... .1534
Amoskeag,  A__ 1134¡Falls,  BB............. .1134
Amoskeag,  B — .11  ¡Falls,  BBC, 36...... .1934
Amoskeag,  C— .1634¡Falls,  awning...... .19
.10  ¡Hamilton,  BT, 32. 934
Amoskeag,  D....
Amoskeag,  E........  934¡Hamilton,  D
934 
Amoskeag, F .........  9  Hamilton,  H.
634 
Premium  A, 4-4.... 17  [Hamilton  fancy
834
Methuen AA.........1134
Premium  B.......... 16
Methuen ASA.......1634
■  16
Extra 4-4............
..1434[Omega A, 7-8. 
....... 1034
Extra 7-8............
15  Omega A, 4-4.
Gold Medal4-4...
.1234
.. 1234 [Omega ACA, 7-8.... 13
CCA 7-8..............
Omega ACA, 4-4__ 15
CT 4-4.................
14 
(Omega 
RC 7-8.................
16  Omega 
BF 7-8................
19  Omega M. 7-8.......22
AF 44................
14  Omega M, 4-4..........25
Cordis AAA, 32.. 
15  ShetucketSS&SSW 1134
Cordis ACA, 32.. 
15  Shetueket, S & SW.12 
Cordis No. 1,32..
14  Shetueket,  SFS  ...12
Cordis No. 2......
13  Stockbridge  A........7
Cordis No. 3......
1134Istockbridge fancy.  8
Cordis No. 4
Garner..................... 5  Empire...................
Hookset.................  5  Washington...........  4%
Red Cross.............   5  Edwards.................  5
Forest Grove.........  
S. S. & Sons...........  5
American  A.........1434¡Old  Ironsides........15
Stark A..................20  1 Wheatland............ 20
Boston..................  634[Otis CC...................9
Everett blue.........11341 Warren  AXA.........11
Everett brown......1134 Warren  BB............ 10
Otis  AXA...............11  Wurren  CC..............9
Otis BB................... 10  I York, blue............. 1234
Manville.......... 434®634|S. S. & Sons...... 4%®5
Masonvillc......534@6J* ¡Garner............ 53i®634
Red  Cross..............  6 34 ¡Thistle Mills..........   6
Berlin....................  6  Rose.........................  634
G arner.................. 7  I
Brooks...................50
Clark’s O. N. T......55
J. & P.  Coats.........55
W11 limantic 6 cord. 55 
Willimantic 3 cord. 40 
Charleston ball se 
30
ingthread.......
iE T  JE A N S .
iKearsage...............   7
7 
734 Naumkeag satteen.  7 
5341 Pep pore 11  bleached 834
534 Popperell sat..........  8
5%  Rockport................   634
534 Lawrence sat......... 6
iConegosat.................534
7 

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

HEAVY BROW N  COTTONS.

W ID E  BLEACHED COTTONS.

GLAZED CAMBRICS.

P A PER   CAM BRICS.

Ind. Orch 
Laconia.

SPO OL COTTON.

 
new 

G R A IN   BAGS.

W IG ANS.

DENIM S.

dress

MISCELLANEOUS.

Hemlock  Bark—Local  tanners  are  paying 
$4.75  per  cord  for  old bark, and making con­
tracts for new bark on the  basis  of  $5.50  per 
cord, delivered, cash.
Ginseng—Local  dealers  pay  $1.73  $   ft  for 
clean washed roots.
Rubber Boots and Shoes—Local jobbers  are 
authorized  to  offer  40  and  5 per cent, off on 
standard goods and 40,10 and 5 per cent, off on 
second quality.  After May 1, the  jobbers will 
offer  standard  goods  at 35 and 5 per cent, off, 
and second quality at 35,5 and  10 per cent. off.

SE, 7-8.24
SE, 4-4.27

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

These  prices  are  for cash buyers,  who  pay 

promptly and buy in full packages.

ACOEBS AND B IT S.

Ives’,  old style......................................
N.  H. C. Co............................................

BELLS.

BOLTS.

BALANCES.

BARROW S. 

Jennings’, genuine................................di8 
fo
Jennings’, imitation.............................aisouaciu
Spring.....................................................dis  40
«  13  nn
Railroad........................................... •
Garden.................................................. net
H and.......................................... dis  $ 60&10&10
Cow................................................dis 
60&10
30&15
Call................................................dis 
Gong............................................. dis 
25
Door, Sargent............................... dis 
60&10
40
.dis $
80
.dis
.dis 30&1C
.dis
75
.dis 6Ü&10
.dis 60&10
60
.dis
.dis
60
.dis 60&10
.dis 60&10
.dis 60&10
60
.dis
b
..dis 60&10
..dis 60&10
40
.dis $ 
.dis 50&10
50
.dis
net
..dis
Well, plain...............................................$  3 50
Well, swivel.............................................  
4 00
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
Wrought Brass...................................dis 
To
Blind, Clark’s....................................... dis  80&10
Blind, Parker’s.................................... dis  80&10
Blind,  Shepard’s..................................dis 
70

Wrought  Bronze  and  Platt
Flush.................................
Ives’ Door............................
BRACES.

BUTTS.  CAST.

BUCKETS.

CAPS.

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

CA TRID C ES.

C H IS ELS.

Rim Fire, U. M.C. & Winchester  new list50&10
Rim  Fire, United  States..................... dis50&10
Central Fire...........................................dis30&10
Socket Firmer.....................................dis
75&10
Socket Framing..................................dis
75&10
Socket Corner.....................................dis
75&10
Socket Slicks...................................... dis
Butchers’ Tanged Firmer................. dis
Barton’s Socket Firmers...................dis
Cold.....................................................net
Curry, Lawrence’s............................. dis
Hotchkiss  ......................................... dis

40&10
25

COMBS.

6DNN  HARDWIRE

C O M P A N Y ,

Exclusively Wholesale,

Present to the Trade the

OF

Shelf  and  Heavy  Hardware

EVER SEOIR IR WESÍBRR U H M .

Our Stock Comprises Everything

Included in a First-Class

HARDWARE  STOCK

COCKS.

 

12 

D R IL LS

C O PPER .

ELBOW S.

HA NG ERS.

HAMMERS.

EX PA N SIV E B ITS.

files—New List.

13 
GAUGES.

55&10 
554:10 550C 10 
55&10 
55 4:10 
55&10
28
18

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

Brass, Racking’s....................................
60
Bibb’s .....................................................
60
B eer............... ........................................
40&10
Fenns’.....................................................
60
Planished, 14 oz cut to size....................f} ft  28
31
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60........................   21
Cold Rolled, 14x48.........................................  19
40
Morse’s Bit  Stock................................dis 
Taper and Straight Shank................... dis 
40
Morse’s Taper  Shank...........................dis 
40
Com. 4 piece, 6  in..........................doznet
85 
Corrugated......................................... dis
20&10 
Adjustable......................................... dis
54&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
Nicholson’s......................................... dis
Heller’s ..............................................dis
Heller’s Horse Rasps.........................dis
Nos. 16 to 20, 
List 

GALVANIZED IR O N ,
22 and 24,  25 and 26,  27 
14 
15 
Discount, Juniata 50@10, Charcoal 60. 
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.............. dis 
50
Maydole & Co.’s.........V..................... dis 
25
Kip’s ................................................. dis 
25
Yerkes  &  Plumb’s.............................dis  40&1C
Mason’s Solid Cast  Steel....................30 c list 40
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. .30 c 40&10 
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track  50&10
Champion,  anti-friction...................diS  60&10
Kidder, wood track.......................... dis 
40
Gate, Clark’s, l, 2, 3...........................dis 
60
State.........................................per doz, net, 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to  12  in.  434  14
and  longer..............................   .........  
334
1034
Screw Hook and Eye,  34  .................net 
834
Screw Hook and Eye 36....................net 
Screw Hook and Eye  34....................net 
734
Screw Hook and Eye,  %.................. net 
734
Strap and  T .....................................dis 
65
Stamped Tin W are.......................................  30
Japanned Tin  Ware..............................  
25
Granite Iron  Ware................................ 
25
Grub  1  .......................................... $11 00, disdO
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....................  4uatiu
Hemacite........................................... dis 
45
45
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list, .dis 
Mallory, Wheeler & Co.’s................... dis 
45
Branford’s ..........................................dis 
45
Norwalk’s ..........................................dis 
45
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s..................dis  70
Coffee,  Parkers  Co.’s..........................dis 40&10
Coffee, P. S.&W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables  dis  60
Coffee, Landers, Ferry &  Clark’s........dis 
60
Coffee,  Enterprise.................................. dis  25
60
Adze  Eye..............................,..$16 00 dis 
Hunt Eye...................................$15 00 dis 
60
Hunt’s......................................$18 50 dis 20 & 10

HOLLOW   W ARE.

LOCKS—DOOR.

MATTOCKS.

H IN G ES.

LEV ELS.

KNOBS.

M ILLS.

HOES.

N A ILS.

Common, Bra  and Fencing.

MAULS.

MOLASSES GATES.

6d  4d
2 
134

I  lOd  8d 
234 
$1 25  1 50  1 75  2 00 

lOd to  60d..................   ....................keg $2  50
25
8dand9d adv............................................ 
6d and 7d  adv......... .................................. 
50
4d and 5d  adv............................................ 
75
3d advance................................................   1 50
3d fine advance........................................  3 00
Clinch nails, adv.......................................   1 75
Finishing 
Size—inches  (  3 
Adv. «  keg 
Steel Nalls—2 65.
Stebbin’s Pattern  ................................... dis  70
Stebbin’s Genuine.................................... dis  70
Enterprise,  self-measuring..................... dis  25
Sperry & Co.’s, Post,  handled..................dis  50
Zinc or tin. Chase’s Patent.................... dis60&10
Zinc, with brass bottom........................... 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............................................. die  25
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy.....................dis  15
Bench, first quality..................................dis  20
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood— dis20&10 
n  „
Fry, Acme................:.........................dis 50&10
Common, polished................................ dis60&10
Dripping............................................*8*  ® 
6
Iron and Tinned..........................  
dis A 40
Copper Rivets and  Burs..................dis 
60

PLA N ES.

O IL E R S .

R IV E T S.

PA N S. 

 

 

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

PA TENT FLA NISAED IR O N .

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

Wood's pat,, planished, Nos. 25  to 27 

Broken packs 34c $ ft extra.

R O PES.

534
6

rates.

SQUARES.

T IN   PLA TES.

12 50
15 00
16 50

T IN N E R ’S SOLDER.

Sisal, 34 In. and  larger................................  83
Manilla........«...............................................  15
Steel and Iron__
Try and Bevels... 
Mitre  ................

Cora. 
$2 80
2 90
3 00 
3 10 
3 20
All sheets No, 18 aud lighter,  over 30 inches 

...dis 
...dis
............... ................dis
SH EET IR O N .Com. Smooth. 
........................ $4 20
Nos. 10 to 14
Nos. 15 to  17................................  4 20
Nos. 18 to 21................................  4 20
Nos. 22 to 2t.......... . ...................  4 20
Nos .25 to 26 ................................  4 40
No. 27..........................................   4 60
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SH EET ZINC.
In casks of 600 lbs, 3?  ft.......................... 
In smaller quansities, 
1b.................... 
No.l,  Refined....................................
Market  Half-and-half.......................
Strictly  Half-and-half.......................
Cards for Charcoals, $6 75.
IC, 
10x14, Charcoal....................
IX, 
10x14,Charcoal.....................
IC, 
12x12, Charcoal.....................
IX, 
12x12,  Charcoal.....................
5
IC, 
14x20, Charcoal.....................
IX, 
14x20,  Charcoal.....................
8  75 
IXX. 
14x20, Charcoal....................
10 77
14x20, Charcool.....................
IXXXX, 14x20,  Charcoal...........................  12 55
IX, 
20x28, Charcoal.................. ..........15 50
DC,  100 Plate Charcoal...........................  6 50
DX,  100 Plate Charcoal...........................   8 50
DXX, 100 Plate Charcoal..........................  10 50
DXXX,  100 Plate Charcoal.......................  12 50
Redipped  Charcoal  Tin  Plate add 1 50 to 6 75 
Roofing, 14x20, IC.......................................   5 2;>
Roofing, 14x20,  IX......................................   6 75
Roofing, 20x28, IC.......................................  11 00
Roofing, 20x28,  IX.........................................  14 00
IC, 14x2(Whoice Charcoal Terne............... 5 50
IX, 14x2$ choice Charcoal  Terne..............  7 00
IC, 20x28, choice Charcoal Terne............... 11 00
IX, 20x28, choice Charcoal Terne...........  14 00
Steel, G ame................................................60&10
OneidaKJommuntity,  Newhouse’s......... dis  35
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s. .60&10
Hotchkiss’  ................................................ 60&10
S, P. & W.  Mfg.  Co.’s................................60&10
Mouse, choker..............................18c $ doz
Mouse,  delusion........................... $1 50 $ doz
Bright Market......................................  dis  6734
Annealed Market.............................. dis 
70
Coppered Market...................................dis  6234
Extra Bailing............................ 
Tinned  Market...................................... dis  6234
Tinned  Broom........................................(&lft  09
Tinned Mattress.......................................V  634
Coppered Spring  Steel................dis 40@40&10
Tinned Spring Steel.................................dis  50
Plain Fence.............................................. $  334
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............... dis 75&10&10

T IN — LEA D ED .

W IR E  GOODS.

W REN CH ES.

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M ISCELLANEOUS.

BirdCages........................................... 
  ^„50
Pumps,  Cistern................................. dis  70&10
Screws,  new  list..................................... 
63%
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, 114,134 and 2 inch.......................  46 00
Selects, 1 inch..........................................   35 00
Selects, 114,134 and 2 inch.......................  38 00
Fine Common, 1 inch..............................   30 00
Shop, 1 Inch. r.    .................;..................  20 00
Fine, Common, 134« 134 and 2 inch...........  32 00
No. 1 Stooks,  12 in., 12,14 and 16  feet,...  16 oo 
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet.......................  16 q0

No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet.......................  17 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 feet......  15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet.......................  16 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet.......................  17 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 12,  14 and 16 feet........  15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet........................   16 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 20 feet........................   17 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 12,14 and 16  feet......   12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet.......................  13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet.......................  14 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 12,14 and 16 feet......   12 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet.......................  13 00
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet.......................  14 00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 12,14 and 16 feet........  11  00
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 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 90
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 oO
Norway C and better, 4 or 6 inch............   20 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, A and  B.................  18 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, C.............................  14 50
Bevel Siding, 6 inch. No. 1  Common__ 
9 00
Bevel Siding,  6 inch.  Clear....................  20 00
Piece Stuff, 2x4 to 2x12.12 to 16 ft...........  11 00
$1 additional for each 2 feet above 16 ft.
Dressed Flooring, 6 in., A.  B..................   36 00
Dressed Flooring, 6 in.  C........................   29 00
Dressed Flooring, 6 in.. No. 1, common..  17 00 
Dressed Flooring 6 in.. No. 2 common—   14 00 
Beaded Ceiling, 6 in. $1 00  additiinai.
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., A. B and  Clear..  35 00
Dressed Flooring, 4 in., C........................   26 00
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. 1  com’n  16 0t 
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in.. No. 2  com’n  14 00 
Beaded Ceiling, 4 inch, $1 00 additional.
( XXX18 in. Standard  Shingles............  3 10
XXX18 in.  Thin...................................  3 00
( XXX16 in.............................................  
No. 2 or 6 in. C. B 18 in.  Shingles............
No. 2or5 in. C. B. 16 in...........................  
Lath  ................................................   1 75® 2 00

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HIDES, PELTS AND  FURS. 

Perkins & Hess pay as follows:

Green__ft
Part cured...
  8
Full cured 
Dry hides aud 
kips...........  6

H I D E S .
6  Calf skins, green

'@ 734  or cured__8  @10
@ 8 >4 Deacon skins,
7 piece......20  @50
@  8
SH E E P PEL TS.

FU R S.

W OOL.

Old wool, estimated washed $  ft........  @25
Tallow..................................................  334® 3:
Fine washed $ ft 24@25|Unwashed........... 
2
Coarse washed... 18@22|
Bear................................................... 1 00@12 00
Fisher  ................................................ 2 00@6 00
Red Fox.............................................. 1 00@1
dis 55
Grey Fox.............................................1 00@1 20
M artin................................................   25@1 00
M ink...................................................   05@  70
“  Spring.......................................  
16
Muskrat, winter.................................   12®  14
fall...................................... 
8
kits  ....................................   @  2
O tter.................................................. 4 00@6 00
Raccoon...............................................  W®  60
Skunk..................................................  10@1 25
Beaver, 
1b...................................... 1 50@3 00
tt>............................................  10®  25
Deer, 

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

at  Grand Rapids.
Red oak flour bbl. staves..............M  6 25® 7 00
M  5 25® 6 00
Elm 
White oak tee staves, s’d and j’t.M  20 00@2 < 00
“  M  18 50®20 00
White oak pork bbl. 
Tierce, dowelled and circled, set__ 
15®  16
Pork, 
.... 
12®  13
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Tierce  heads, square............. $  M 23 09®26 90
Pork bbl. “ 
..............^  M  18 00®20 00
Basswood, kiln dried, set................. 
4®  434
White oak and hickory tee, 8f’t.  M 11 00©12 50 
White oak and hickory “  734f’t.M 10 00@11 00
M 7 00® 8 25
Hickory flour  bbl......
M 6 25® 7 00
Ash, round  “ 
“ ......
.M 3 50® 4 25
Ash, flat racked, 634 f’t ............... M
.M 1 00® 1 10
White oak pork barrels, h’d m’d.M 
85® 95
e..
White oak pork barrels, machine..
1 15® 1 25
White oak lard  tierces
75® 90
Beef and lard half barrels............
1 00® 1 10
Custom barrels, o
30® 37
Fiour  barrels__
23® 25
Produce  barrels.

BA RR ELS.

H O O PS .

J O L L Y   TAR  PLUG  TOBACCO.  1  BUT .KLEY,  LEMON  &  HOOPS.

PR IC E  LIST.  HOUSEHOLD  DEP.A.R.TI.IEISrT.  PART  I.

Terms Cash.  30 days allowance on approved credit.  1 per cent, discount for cash in ten days.  No charge for package or cartage on this line of merchandise.  You  can  save  money  by 
buying  these  rapid  selling goods of us. as the following “knock down” quotations will convince any careful buyer.  This is the first section of our reduced Spring  Price-List,  and  will  be  fol­
lowed by others each week until completed.  Cut this out and keep them  together.  W e solicit your inspection of these goods when you are in the city.

Our tinware is warrant­
ed strictly first quality in 
every particular.  No  in­
ferior  goods  sold,  and 
anything not entirely sat­
isfactory  may  be  return­
ed.

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Pans, plain stamped, 1 quart............ 28
............ 32
............ 37
............ 43
............ 60
69
............ 80
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.................. 89
........................10 
“  retinned, ex. h’vy 1 X Tin, 4 a t.. 87
*• 
6 qt.l 00
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pudding, 3 qt., stamp’d 67
“  deep, 
78
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pieced... 70
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70
... 89
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Milk Pans, 6 quart, pieced...............1 15
Pans, 9 inch (Mountain Cake)...........  40
“  square Biscuit, 6x12.................. 45
“  Deep Bread, 6x10  inch.............. 48
“ 
6x10 in., extra heavy 
extra deep, wired 89
Jelly Cake Pans, 9 inch..................... 28
9  “  deep............. 40

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“  oval,  “ 
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Pie Plates, 9 in., plain, not 8lA in ---- 24
not 9%  in...... 33
Gem Plates, 9 in.,  scollop................. 25
Funnels, 1 pint................................... 33
1 quart................................ 50
1  “  corrugated............... 48
Homs, Regular  Dinner.................... 36
Basting Spoons, oval  threaded, 12 in 39
Wood hand., 10 in.... 39
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12 in.... 45
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14 in.... 50
r’d iron hand., 10 in. tin’d 35
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Points for Retailers.

3 25
3 75
4 25
5 00
6 75

8 00
9 25
10 40
10 75
12 00
7 75
9 00
8 25
8 25
10 50
4 75
5 40
5 40

10 50
3 25
4 75

2 75
3 90
3 00
3 75
5 75
5 40
4 25
4 50
4 50
5 40
6 00
4 25

4 25

No man can tell  what  lie  can do until he 
It is weak  to  be  scared  at  difficul­

tries. 
ties.

“I find,” said  a  shrewd  trader,  “I make 
most money when I am least  anxious about 
i t ”

If you cannot do all  your  business  with­
out grinding men to the  death,  abridge it— 
do less.

Tour business  must be  the main drain of 
your  intellectual  faculties  day  by  day,  if 
you wish to succeed.

Some dealers,  like  their  shops,  hang ev­
erything in their  show  windows; when one 
goes inside very little is to be found.

Confidence of  success is  almost  success, 
and obstacles  often  fall  of  themselves  be­
fore a determination to overcome them.

Habits of  business  include six  qualities: 
Industry,  arrangement,  calculation,  pru­
dence,  punctuality and perseverance.

The buyer should not give more for goods 
than they are worth  to  him,  and the seller 
should not take less for goods  than is equal 
to their value  to him.

Be always precisely true in  whatever you 
may relate of your own  knowledge,  so that 
you may have an undoubted and settled rep­
utation for veracity.

There  is  one  distinctive  beauty  of  the 
credit system,  and  that  is honest men have 
to  pay  for  articles  bought  by rogues,  and 
wise men for articles bought by fools.

No advantage  results from  telling  one’s 
business to others,  except to create jealousy 
or competitors when we  are  fortunate, and 
to gratify our enemies when  otherwise.

It is one thing to go to the  cheapest mar­
ket, and  another  thing  when  there  to set 
your  heart  on  buying  so cheaply that  you 
will  wrench from the  anxious seller  every 
hope of an honest profit.

You are bound to secure a fair  profit,  for 
it is the divine law  that labor  should  have 
its reward,  and  that  you  shall  provide for 
your own; but you are not justified in urging 
your profits to a point which robs another of 
his just reward.

“I owe  my  success  in  business  to  you. 
Let  me  ask  how  a  man  of  your  caution 
came to give credit  so  freely to a beginner, 
with  my  slender  means?” 
“Because  at 
whatever  hour in the  morning I  passed to 
my business, I always observed you without 
your coat on at  yours.”

The Instrument of  Hell.
From the Shoe and Leather Review.

There is nothing  in the  world  which at­
tempts such a  weak  and  cowardly revenge 
as the boycott system. 
It  is in one sense a 
lawful way of obtaining unlawful ends—it is 
bom of a spirit of revenge,  and is  therefore 
unworthy to be entertained  or  practiced byj 
any honest  man. 
It  seeks to  obtain  ends 
by coercion  more  potent  than  brute force, 
because it strikes  at  the  daily bread of  its

Graters, Box, Japanned..................

14
Ebony wood hand., wired.. 44
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“  — 47
“  % sheet, 
Scolloped 8 in. Tubed Cake Pans__ 38
52

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1 60
5 25
4  75
5 60
4 25
6 00

Dippers, 1 qt., plain, stamped.........   43 
1 qt., retinned,  “ 
 
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2 qt.. 
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3 qt., pieced........................  75 

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Dippers, No. 50, Cocoa Shape, ebony

hand.,  returned..............  75 

“  No.  51,  Cup,  Iron  shank

ebony hand., retinned...  77 

8 75

9 50

Perdoz.  Pergr. 
6 50
8  50

 

1 qt.  Covered  Pails..........................  56 
75 
3 qt. 
 
 
3 qt. 
110
..........................1 50
4 qt. 
6 qt. 
 
190
Covered Pails by the Case.

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1 Box containing 3 doz. 3 quarts__  70 

3  “  3  “ 
3  *‘ 4  “ 

3 10
....1  00  3 00
....1  40  4 30

1 Box containing 13 doz. 3  qt.  Cov’d

Pails, every one warranted......  70 

8 40

Its  voice commands  obedience or 
victims. 
destruction.  The  very term  boycott,  as  it 
is now  used,  is  odious to  every  honorable 
man.  The man who  practices it  raises his 
hand against the  spirit of  our free  institu­
tions which  guarantees  to  every man  free­
dom  of  action  in  all  lawful  pursuits. 
It 
proposes  to  enforce  its  own  degrees  and 
terms, no matter how repulsive, even though 
they produce actual want and starvation.  If 
an organized mob of men,  who fancied they 
had a grievance against a tradesman,  should 
swoop  down upon  him  in  a body, destroy 
his goods,  throw his  family into  the street 
and bum up his house, they would be guilty 
of riot  and  of  arson,  and  the  whole  com­
munity would rise up and demand their pun­
ishment; but, if the same body of men, actu­
ated by the same devilish spirit of  revenge, 
by a well-orgauized  system  of  persecution 
drive all customers  away from  the  trades­
man,  paralyze  his  business  until  expenses 
eat up his substance and  his  creditors take 
the remnant  of  his  assets,  we  call  that  a 
boycott,  and  the  community  smiles.  The 
difference is only in degree; the  same  spirit 
of  lawlessness  is  at  the  bottom  in  both 
cases.

A  Test for  Eggs.

Among the minor  troubles  of  city life is 
the difficulty of procuring a  regular  supply 
of fresh eggs.  When we cannot remove our 
woes,  the next  best thing is  to try and un­
derstand them.  An egg is  generally called 
fresh when it has been laid one or two days 
in summer,  and two  to  six  days in winter. 
The shell  being  porous,  the  water  in  the 
interior  evaporates,  and  leaves  a  cavity of 
greater or less extent.  The yolk of the egg 
sinks,  too,  as may be easily seen by holding 
it  towards  the  candle  or  sun;  and  when 
shaken a slight  shock is  felt if  the  egg is 
not fresh.  To  determine  the  exact age of 
eggs, dissolve four ounces  of  common  salt 
in a quart of pure water,  and  then immerse 
the egg. 
If it  is  only one  day old,  it  will 
descend to the bottom of the vessel; if three 
days old it will float in the  liquid. 
If more 
than five days old it  will  come  to the  sur­
face, and project  above  it  in  proportion to 
its increased age.

Oleomargarine  in  England.

The importations of butter substitutes in­
to  England continue to  increase, and cause 
considerable anxiety  to the  dairy interests. 
In  February  alone  from  Holland  and Bel­
gium 86,969 cwt.  of butter  substitutes were 
imported,  against  only 20,600  cwt.  of but­
ter.  Continuing at this ratio nearly 10,000,- 
000  pounds  per  month, 
those  countries 
would furnish 120,000,000 pounds annually, 
or about  one-thirteenth  of  the  amount  of 
butter  produced by  the  15,000,000  cows in 
this country.  Besides this  there is a  large 
quantity of  these  substitutes  made  in Ire­
land and in England.

Perdoz.  Per gross. 

Pails,  Graduated,  with  marks  and
quantities from 1 pt. up stamp’d 
in the tin, thus  always  showing
exact contents, 3  qts.................  85  10 00

5 00
6 00

8 50

Same, 4 qts....................................... 1 75
Pails, Graduated,  packed  in  boxes 

9 35

containing—

3 doz. 3  quart.................  84 
3  “ 4  “ 
.................1 70 

3 53
5 10
7 63
5 40
“  3 qt., Oval, covered.................  95  1135

Pails, Daisy, Painted.......................  45 

Doz.  Gross.

3 00
4 00
4 00

4 90
3 00

2 90
8 75
3 75
3 60

2 40

4 00

9 00
4 25

4 50
5 70

5 00

3 60

5 40
5 40

4 75

4  75

Animal Cake Cutters.......................  28 
Apple Corers....................................   35 
Toy DustPans, ass’d colors............  35 
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Cups, toy  painted, small.................  35 
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medium............   30 
“  pint, pieced.............................  25 
“  2 qt.,  ** 
75 
“  pint, stamped..........................  33 
“  or Daisy  Mugs,  planished__  30 
“  decor., ass’d colors  45 
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Pails 
45 
Milk Skimmers, flat..........................  23 
handled..................   43 
No. 2 Gravy  Strainer.......................  35 
No. 3 

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ebony  handle,

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retinned bowl.................  75 
Pot Covers, new pattern, 9% in.  .  .  35 
10% in......  43 
Scoops,  spice...................................  40 
family, tinned handle........  50 

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extra  large,  ebony

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handle.......................—   88 
Wash Basins, plain, No. 6, no rings.  44 
.  46 
.  58 
.  63 

5 50
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7 50
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“  retin’d,No.7withringsXXX  90  10 50
9 50
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“  No. 6, with “ 
“  No. 7, no  “ 
“  No. 7, with “ 

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“  70 

“  no 

3 qt. Milk  Can,  made  of heavy tin,
with wood handle bail...............  
Sprinklers, 4 qt., assorted colors__ 

Per doz.
3 15
3 35

Perdoz.  Per gross.
Measures, qt.. Graduated...............  48  5  50
pt., Lipped.......................  43  4  75
Biscuit Cutters, V/% in.....................   17  180
3 in.,  pieced_____  18  1  95

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“  10 qt., 
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85 
1 75
2 GO

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where in . this issue and write for

See  Our  Wholesale  Quotations  else­
Special  Prices in  Car  Lots. 
We are prepared to make Bottom Prices on anjtM ipe handle.
A. B. KNOWLSON,
POTATOES.

3 Canal Street, Basement, Grand Rapids, Mich.

W e make the handling of POTATOES,  APPLES and BEANS 
in car lots a special feature of our business.  If you have any of 
these goods to ship, or anything in the produce line, let us  hear 
from you, and will keep you posted  on  m arket  price  and  pros­
pects.  Liberal cash advances made on car lots when desired.

DEALERS IN

Agents for Walker’s Patent Butter Worker.

EARL  BROS.,  Commission  Merchants.

157S. W ater St., Chicago, 111,

WE CARRY A STOCK OF  CAKE TALLOW  FOR MILL  USE.

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

Reference:  FIRST  NATIONAL  BANK.
P E R K I N S   &  H E S S ,
Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,
o. w. blain &   co., Produce Commission Merchants,
Foreign  and  Domestic Fruits, M em   Vegetables, Etc.
RINDGE, BERTSCH  & CO.,
BOOTS  AXTD  SHOES.

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

pondence solicited.  APPLES AND POTATOES in car lots Specialties. 

MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

AGENTS FOR THE

BOSTON  RUBBER  SHOE  CO.

 

 

Per doz.
Pans, Itinsing, stamped, retinned, 8q t__  1 90
Same, 10 quart...........................................  3 25
Same, 14 q u art..........................................   2 70
“  17 
3 25
“  10  “  XXX, extra heavy...........  2 75
“  14 
3 60
Pans—Dish, pieced, 12 quart....................  1 90
....................  2 50
Cullenders,  Footed.... ..............................   1 35
Tin Oils Cans, Vi  gal..................................  1 60
...............................  2 0C

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Dinner  Pail,  Tin,  with  Cup  and  Coffee

Compartment.................................   2 00
Dinner Pail,oval,4 qt.,with cup&compart.  2 85

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Per doz.
90
3 q t.........................................   1  25
4 qt........................................ 
1  90
.  185
2  qt., XXX, extra  heavy... 
3  qt.,  " 
..........  2 50
4  qt.,  “ 
..........  3 00
No. 180.  Preserve Kettle,  retin’d, lipped  1 35 
1  75
No. 200. 
1 90
No. 240. 
Sauce Pans, No. 012, retinned (9 40 "¡a gro) 
80
1  25
1 50
90
175

No. 016, 
No. 018, 
2  qt., cov’d, p'c’d,(10 50 $  gro,) 
4  qt.,  “ 
 

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Per doz.
10 qt. Hotel Slop Jar, banded, ass’d colors  4 50
3 50
10 qt.
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10 qt. Chamber  Pail, raised  cover..
4 80

plain, 

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Octagon Tea Pots.

No. 20. Bright Burn’d Tin, wrapped,, 2 pt. 1  10
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No. 30.
3 pt. 1 50
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No. 40.
4 pt. 2 00
W 6 pt. 2 35
No. 60.

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Fry Pans, Acme, Iron, 8  in.,  bright  cov­

ered handle............... (10 50 $} gross) ~  89
No. 4 Acme, same as above, 10Vi  inch dia.  2 25 
No. 5  “ 
2 50

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No. 23 B Ebony Handle, with bolster.  See cut  ............
No. 1878 Cocoa 

no

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Doz.  Gross. 
9 00
5 35

78 
45 

OLNEY, SHIELDS  &  CO.,

And  IM PORTERS  OF   TEAS.

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

a t latest declines and for cash.

W e  have  specialties  in  TOBACCOS  and  CIGARS  possessed 

by no other jobbers in the city.
A^c-A.lp>ixi’s   P e a v e y   IPliag.

SOLE  AGENTS  FOR

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

ALSO  SOLE  AGENTS  FOR

MEXTDEX.  <&  BROS.’  Celebrated  CIGARS,

Finer quality and lower prices than any handled 

in the market.

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, 

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Grand Rapids, Mich.

FULLER  &  STOWE  COMPANY,

Designers

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 us above
49 Lyon Street, Up-Stairs, Grand Rapids; Mich.

F. J. LAMB & CO.,
Fruits,  Vegetables,

WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

Butter, Bggs, Cheese, Etc. 

W holesale Agents for the Lima Egg Crates and Fillers.

14 and  16 Pearl Street, 

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Grand Rapids, Mich.

8 and 10 Ionia St., Grand Rapids, Mi6h.

