VOL. 3. NO. 133. LUDWIG WINTERNITZ, » STATE AGENT FOR Fermentum, THE ONLY RELIABLE Compressed Yeast. Man’f’d by Riverdale Dist. Co. 106 Kent Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan, TELEPHONE 566. Grocers, bakers and others can secure the agency for their town on this Yeast by applying to above address. PLUG TOBACCO. TURKEY 39 Big 5 Cents, Dainty j A fine revolver | ) with each butt. { sacs catenins Ali above brands for sale only by BULKLEY, LEMON & HOOPS WHOLESALE GROCERS, GRAND RAPIDS, -_ oO 42 MICH. WHIPS AND LASHES AT WHOLESALE ONLY. GOODS WARRANTED AS REPRESENTED. G. ROYS & CO. 2 Pearl St., Grand Rapids, Mich. GUSTAVE A. WOLF, Attorney. Over Fourth National Bank. Telephone 407. COLLECTIONS Promptly attended to throu ghout the State. References: Hart & Amberg, Eaton & Christen- son, Enterprise Cigar Co. TO THE TRADE. 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MANUFACTURERS, DETROIT, - MICH. --AND— 44 CANAL STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, - MICH PLUG TOBACCO: RED TIN TAC. FSF WE 1 is valuable. ness with all that the term implies. Grand Rapids, Mich. ; ARTHUR R. ROOD, and LOANS, GREAT WATCH MAKER, JEWELER. LEA D—OTHERS FOLLOW, The O/ - Grand Rapids MMIFLE Business College is a practical trainer and fits its pupils for the vocations of busi- Send forJournal. Address C. G. SWENSBERG, PICTURES, PICTURE FRAMES, And a full line of Paints, Oil & Glass. Enamel Letters, Numbers Ornamental Glass. and furnishing of stained glass. 37 Ionia Street, South of Monroe. and Door Plates, and all kinds of Embossed, Cut and Special attention given to House Decorat- ing and Furnishing, and to the designing THE UNION LABEL. Some of the Trials and Tribulations of a Cigar Manufacturer. From the U. 8. Tobacco Journal. I met my friend Cohn, the cigar manufac- turer, the other day, and asked why he looked so downcast. He replied that he was looking fora grave. I sought to draw him out regarding the trouble which brought on such a depressed condition of mind, whereupon he unbosomed himself as follows: “T used to run a cigar factory—think I ran it twenty years—the Knights of Labor run it now. About a month ago I madea contract with Brown, the Nashville jobber, fora quarter of a million of cigars. He casually remarked that he would like to have them with the white label. Well, I knew very little about a white or a yellow label, and if he had said he wanted one in navy blue or paris green I would have prom- ised him the same also. Why not? Later on I found out that the white label could only be obtained from what they call the Knights of Labor, and so, believing anyway that workmen were entitled to have a club or so, the same as bosses, you know—play- ing poker now and then, you know—I made my shop a Knight of Labor shop. The next day some men came to me in my office and said that they were a committee from the Knights of Labor. Isaid: ‘Iam glad to see you.’ Well, they said they were just as glad, and even more glad, to see me, be- cause I showed myself a friend to the work- ingman. They then said they were a com- mittee, and had investigated the prices I was paying to the cigarmakers, and found that I ought to pay for the cigars I had been paying seven dollars a thousand for, nine dollars instead. Well, I told them I was glad to see them, of course, but I had taken a contract for a quarter of a million of cigars, calculating on wages at seven dol- lars a thousand; but now that they wanted nine dollars I would be losing money. Well, they said they were glad to see me, but, if I wanted the white label, I would have to pay the nine dollars or do without the label. ‘To make along story short, I gave them nine dollars, and went into my private office, and looked in the glass and said to myself: ‘What a damned fool I was? Herr Cohn paused for afew minutes in silence, during which he unloosened his necktie, permitting a volley of sighs to es- ‘ape with increased rapidity and force. ‘Well, the next day after I got to work under the nine-dollar International treaty with the Knights, another committee came to seeme. ‘What do you want?’ IT asked. ‘We want,’ they said, ‘we want you to dis- charge Bimmel, a cigarmaker working up stairs. He belongs to a certain union, and the Knights of Labor don’t work in any shop where members of that union are em- ployed.’ What do you think I did? I told Bimmel to bimme! himself out of the shop. Poor Bimmel! He had worked for me some twenty years. Then the committee said that there were other men around up stairs who were not Knights, and, in order to investigate, all work should be stopped for two days. What do you think I did? I stopped work fer two days. Then when all went along smoothly again, another com- mittee came to see me. They said that I was using a kind of wrapper that was en- tirely against the by-laws of the Knights of Labor, and if I did not pay an extra dolar per thousand, all hands would quit work. What do’you think I did? of me a suicidal thought. quiet for a few days. appeared. from the packers; they were all Knights of Labor. They requested me not to take any more boxes from my regular box-maker. Why? Because that box-maker bought his cedar wood from an importer whose uncle employed non-union people somewhere down in Mexico or elsewhere, and if I did not give up the box-maker or make the box- maker make the importer denounce his Granello, MERCHANT LEDYARD BLOCK, LOT Ottawa Sst. - | Suitings for Manufacturers, Suitings for Jobbers, Suitings for Retailers, Suitings for Traveling Men, Suitings for Clerks, (vercoats for Everybody. LUDWIG WINTERNITZ, | JOBBER OF Pure Apple Cider & White Wine drop a postal card and I will call. Telephone 566. 106 Kent St., Grand Rapids, Mich, VINEGARS! As the Vinegar season is now beginning, those in need of Vinegars warranted full strength and abso- lutely pure should send for samples of my goods, or VICEABLE TRIMMINGS. SUPERIOR WORK AND THE PROP ER STYLE FOR THE WEARER. ALL AT PRICES THAT WILL IN TATLOR, foREIGN AND DOMESTIC: WOOL- ENS AND WORSTEDS, THE BEST MANUFACTURED. FINE AND SER- uncle by getting his cedar from somebody else, they were bound to leave the shop, and if they did, the white label could not be had from the Knights of Labor. What do you think I did? I took another box-maker; but as I did not do so right away, but used up about a day to hunt up another box- maker, the packers demanded 25 cents a thousand extra pay in future. What do you think I did? I paid the extra 25 cents and had a tooth pulled. into that white label business. A few days after that E was sitting in my office when Maggie they are called. “Good morning, Herr Cohn.” said; and I said it quite nicely, too. I felt, you know, that something was coming. Well, said Lizzie: I paid the extra dollar and took a Russian bath to sweat out Then all was Another committee This time it was a committee Not that the tooth was bad or hurt me; no; but I had to inflict some sort of punishment on myself for hay- ing been such a damned fool for ever going down came two stripper girls; Lizzie and “Good morning Lizzie and Maggie,” I ‘Mister Cohn,” said she, ‘Mister Cohn, we are Knights of Labor—we got into that con- dition last night at a meeting, and, Mister Cohn, we have been made a committee to inform you that if your stripper foreman would have to quit, and you can then get your white labels anywhere else but from the Knights of Labor; and then we want you to give us chairs a great deal softer than we had them before, and if you don’t pay us a dollar more a week we must stop, and the white label will never get into your shop.” What do you think Idid? Isent upa lot of rocking chairs, my stripper foreman wears a muzzle, and the girls get a dollar a week more. But that isn’t all. Down comes Mike, alittle shaver of 14. He strips, too. He says: “Mister Cohn, Oi am a committee of the stripper bhoys; we all belong to them Knoights of Labor. Yer told me to schtripp Havana fillers, and de schtuff yer gave ne is seed. Anny feller kin see dat. It’s no use, Mr. Cohn, for yer to be decaivin’ us Knoights. Ef yer want me to keep on strhippin’ de schtuff ye must be payin’ me a dollar extra a week; if yer don’t, dem white labels wouldn’t be flyin’ around this here shebang in a hurry.” What do you think I did? I paid him an extra dollar and promised to give hima partnership in the business before the month was out. Well, in the mean time I had been packing up cigars, ready to ship to Brown in Nashville. I sent to the Knights Morality of the Traveling Fraternity. Correspondence New York Tribune. ‘“T hope you will excuse my criticising your remarks as to commercial travelers in your editorial article on *“iraveling Sales- men,” especially after the many complimen- tary expressions in it about the fraternity. The very practical and sensible views ex- pressed as to the license system in some parts of the country will be read with pleas- ure by every traveling man, but as to the supposed immorality of their conduct in other respects and its being at all peculiar or incident to their occupation, I think they will feel like protesting against it. After some thirteen years’ experience on the road, I will state as a fact coming under my ob- servation that no traveling man whose hab- its and morals are bad can continue for any length of time in that occupation. The ‘“drummer’s” time is too valuable to himself and his employers to be spent in the pur- suit of vice. Perhaps he is to a certain ex- tent responsible for the prevalence of the idea because of a looseness of talk which is unfortunately taken too seriously by listen- ers and not recognized as more in the nature of persiflage than of matter-of-fact. New men on the road very often talk too much, but everything they say is not to be taken literally any more than the usual extrava- of Labor for the white labels. I sent a doz- | S8uce of our American humorists is so en times. Every time they had another ex- taken. cuse. They were not ready with the inves-| ‘“‘Besides this view of it I would call tigation; they wanted me to sign this and that; they wanted me to do this and that, and I did this and that, till at last they promised to give them to me this morning. I had the whole 250,000 cigars ready. ‘The pasters were waiting for the labels to come; the cartmen were waiting to load them on their carts. Then the committee came, and instead of giving me the labels they told me that they understood these cigars were to go to Brown, in Nashville. But Brown had just discharged a Knight of Labor, had been boycotted by the Knights of Labor, and hence I could not get the labels for the goods to be shipped to Brown! As he closed his narrative, the poor man fell to the floor. Restoratives were applied, but to no effect. The coroner’s jury heard my evidence and promptly brought in a ver- dict to the effect that the ‘deceased came to his death by a too liberal dose of the Union Label.” We buried the victim in a sunny spot in the cemetery and reared a monument over his remains bearing the inscription, ‘Killed by the Union Label.” ——— Points for Retailers. “What is ease?” philosopher. Ease is a thousand-dollar salary and a hun- dred-dollar job. Some lies are made out of whole cloth. The cloth is made out of wool that is pulled over people’s eyes. Worry is a slow poison. It never did anyone aught but harm, even when taken in homeopathic dose. Pay your clerks living salaries; do not seek to work the life out of them because they are dependent on you for their daily bread. Keep your goods displayed attractively your windows should contain the lates asks a . t goods and novelties. Differ as much as you please in polities and religion, but when it comes to matters pertaining to your interests and the pros- perity of your town unite and pull to- gether. advertise, and use that amount judiciously, goods. g buying presence of customers is to run the risk of losing their good will and trade and gaining nothing. Business and theology, or poli- tics, never mix well. Each occupy separate spheres. It puts a good deal of backbone into & man, if he feels that every merchant along the street, in every case where he can con- sistently do so, will refuse credit to good men. It puts the competition on a better basis and leads to better results. The final end of business is accumulation, which is the best proof of one’s adaption to his calling. It represents industry, econ- omy, sound judgment, character, social and will-power. All these must work harmon- iously to attain the end in view— accumula- tion. Good houses always appreciate good men, and good men do not change positions un- less for exceptional reasons. Long service proof of adaptibility and the most practical recommendation. Such need never com- plain of salary; they can commancl it. trample the cares of earth under foot and can eclipse. nan a ~ cows as a Starter. already taken. At the commencement of the year make up your mind just how extensively you will bes for there is as much in advertising as in To air theological or political opinions in on the road for the same house is the best Away down deep in every human heart is something that makes one long at times to pillow the head on the clouds, but an oppor- tunity to make a dollar with apparent ease will bring the average man back to earth with a suddenness that nothing else in lite | about their accounts and obiigations. Leslie is trying to organize a creamery association and has the promise of 1,000 Most of the stock is your attention to the fact that there are many men who are reported in the press as getting into scrapes and who are classed as commercial travelers, who, if their charae- ters were investigated, would turn out to be simply frauds traveling under false colors. I have been approached by bunco steerers, gamblers and confidence men who have tried to palm themselves off as ‘‘drummers” upon me unsuccessfully, but who might de- ceive others who are not members of the craft like myself and who could not deceive business men after five minutes conversa- tion.” > - > <- A Grocer’s Accomplishments. Dr. Schliemann, who has achieved reputa- tion as a discover of relics of the Homeric age, was recently dined by the London Gro- cers’ Company, and made a speech, in whieh he said: “I feel an infinite pleasure in thinking that I am myself here the grocers’ business, I praise a trade which I have followed up with unremitting zeal for a period of twenty-eight years. I was hardly twelve years of age when I be- a grocer, and in praising came a grocer’s apprentice in a small coun- try shop in Mecklenburg, where, during five years and a half, I was engaged in selling herrings, butter, salt, whisky, sugar and coffee, by the half-pennyworths, and my master thought it a very lucky chance if we sold two pounds sterling worth of groceries in one day. “T was raisdd from that honorable situa- tion and became porter tothe wholesale gro- cer, F. C. Quinn, of Amsterdam. In that new capacity L succeeded in two years in making up for my sadly neglected edueation, and became correspondent and bookkeeper with the wholesale grocers, B. H. Schroder & Co., of Amsterdam, who, after an interval of two years, sent me out to St. Petersburg, as their agent to sell gro- ceries on commission. “A year later I established myself in the same city as a wholesale grocer on my Own aecount, and have conducted there an ex- | tensive trade for eighteen and a half years. But my business has never prevented me from continuing my studies, and when in April, 1864, I money enough to retire from commercial pursuits, thought I had [found myself in possession of sufficient theoretical knowledge to devote the remain- der of my life to Homeric archeology. “The habit I had acquired in my long career as grocer not to do anything super- ficialiy, but to proceed in everything with tact, system and perseverance, has been of immense advantage to me in my archeolog- ical explorations, and 1 feel bold to say that had I not been a grocer, I could never have sueceeded in discovering Troy, or the five royal sepulchers of Mycenz. -- = Valuable Suggestions. Retailers should insist upon a regular set- tlement of accounts. Dilatoryand doubtful not worth cultivating. The ledger should be inspected daily and collee- tions promptly made. patrons are Keep a close wateh Some worthy people are slow to settle a bill, but there is no exeuse for not pushing for a settlement. The rules of a store soon come to be understood in a community. If they are rigidly carried out customers will respect them, and if at first they are inclined to shirk their observance, they will eventually regard them, provided they are persistently enforced. Then, too, the business character and method of the retailer are known to his patrons. He is an example for his customers. If he is irregu- lar in his methods, they become indifferent on delinquents, abuse of the credit system is what causes it to be called acurse. A man who cannot succeed with credit is not likely to make a success with the cash plan. Men suceeed and fail under both systems, and the con- clusion is, the fault lies with the man. | DUCE YOU TO LEAVE YOUR ORDER. don’t stop hollering ‘work up, girls,’ we %e The The Wichiean Tradestal, A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE Hercantile and Manufacturing Interests of the State, E. A. STOWE, Editor. Terms $1 a year in advance, postage paid. Advertising rates made known on application. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7; 1886, a and Hanefacturers’ Exchange. Organized at Grand Rapids October 8, 1884. President—Lester J. Rindge. Vice-President—Chas. H. Leonard. Treasurer—Geo. B. Dunton. Annual Meeting—Second Wednesday evening of October. Regular Meetings—Second Wednesday even- ing of each month. Traverse City Business Men’s Association, President, Frank Hamilton; Secretary, C. T. Lockwood; Treasurer, J.T. Beadle. Business Men’s Protective Union of Cheboygan. President, A. M. Wesgate: Vice-President, H. Chambers; Sec retary, 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- sociation. President, Wm. FE. Kelsey: Vice-President, H. M. Lewis; Seeretary, Fred Cutler, Jr. Ovid Business Men’s Association. President, C. H. Hunter: Secretary, Lester Cooley. G2" “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. THE GREAT STRIKE. The strike of the Knights of Labor on the railroads of the Southwest has ended more happily than it began. There is a general disposition of the public to sympathize with the demands of labor upon the great corpora- tions for better remuneration and more fay- orable conditions of work. In the face of the proof that some corporations are never more inconsiderate than in their dealings with their men, there a break down of the old prejudice against united ac- tion on the part of the men. We hear far fewer homilies from the newspapers on the great truths that combination eannot affect the rate of wages, and that combined action by the workingmen is an invasion of the rights of capital or of so- ciety! Ina word, the social sanity is in- creasing in this matter. It is, therefore, the more unfortunate that just at this turn of affairs a strike like this has occurred. While Tam TRADESMAN does not guestion the moral right of the workingimen to refuse to work for employers who discharge men for belonging to the union, it most emphatically denies the moral right of the trade unionists to refuse to work with those who are not in the union. And when the workmen on every line of railroad running into St. Louis cease to work because one unionist is dismissed for another reason than his membership in the union, this seems as wanton and tyranical an exercise of power as any that a corporation is capa- dle of. ‘The national organization whose mem- bers struck in this case had given no assent to the strike. From first to last the nation- al executive of the Knights of Labor char- acterized the strike as hasty and unreason- able. As we have known for years past, Mr. Powderly, the Master Workman of the order, regards strikes with disfavor. He threw himself into the organization and ex- tension of the order with the hope of creat- ing an organ of labor opinion, which should supersede the old trades unions, and make strikes with their concomitant disturbances impossible and needless. He has the strong- est faith in the power first of arbitration and then of peaceful pressure to secure all that the workingman has a right to ask. And his labors in this case to bring the strike to an end have been suecessful, be- cause his attitude brought to his support the public opinion of the country. Why did he fail to prevent the strike, o to prevent its continuance for many weeks? The explanation seems to be found in defects in the structure of the organiza- tion. It has been built up in haste. It has accepted great bodies of people into its membership, without securing any proper attention to the orders of the central author- ity. By multitudes it has been accepted simply as a national trades’ union of all the trades instead of one, and as possessing no other weapon than trades unions possessed. Its future history is not doubtful. Either it will consolidate its authority so as to make the orders of the central authority obeyed or it will go to pieces. Of the two chief difficulties encountered by the order the first is that it cannot bind its membership by any oath or pledge of ab- solute obedience. The instant it does that it closes its ranks to all conscientious Cath- olics, and without them it can accomplish nothing. The Catholic church casts out of its communion all who bind themselves by oath or pledge to surrender their consciences into the hands of the heads of a voluntary association. With that bond of unity the order must dispense. The second is the want of homogeneity in tbe working classes themselves. America is a big place, and the laboring people like every other have local character. These railroad men of the Southwest evidently are of a temper very different from those of the North and West. The same differences sunder the laborers of the Pacific from the Atlantic coast. To bind men of such different ideals and inter- is sO task apparently beyond human power. Nevertheless, Mr. Powderly has conducted to a settlement this very awkward and em- barrassed controversy, and as the result en- courages the hope that future differences may prove equally adjustablelit also tends of course, to a greater degree of unity among the working people, who thus beeome ac- customed to expect a peaceful and orderly solution. \cocecvirliilliebenligiitainsLatacelansilegninenlipcligiasnbieaiaine AMONG THE TRADE. IN THE CITY. The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co. is out with a new one-horse rig for city work. ee Benj. F. Emery, dealerin fish and canned goods at 37 Canal street, will add a line of groceries. F. F. Allen general dealer at Hartford, has added a line of groceries. Amos S. Musselman & Co. furnished the stock. Hull Freeman and Wim. Jones have ferm- ed a copartnership at Mancelona under the firm name of Freeman & Jones and engaged in general trade at the furnace. Bulkley, Lemons & Hoops furnished the grocery stock. ‘In a business experience of thirty years, 1 have never seen tallow as low as it is at present,” said Wim. T. Hess, the other day. ‘T attribute the low price to the fact that cotton seed oil has entirely superceded it for many uses.” N. Strahan has leased the new three-story building recently erected by J. W. Converse on South Front street, opposite Pearl] street bridge, and will put ina line of machinery suited to the manufacture of fine parlor fur- niture. Hester & Fox furnished the motive power in the shape of a 25 horse-power Atlas engine. The Valley City Manufacturing Co., havy- ing effected a settlement with all its eredi- tors on the basis of 35 per cent., has secured an agreement from each stockholder to pay in 5 per cent. on the amount of stock held by him, which, it is thought, will give the management sufficient working capital to carry on the business successfully. L. V. Moulton is at work ona new engine which he expects will meet with a cordial reception at the hands of machinists. It will use kerosene as fuel, will be built on both horizontal and rotary plans, and be so constructed as to utilize heat and exhaust, as well as steam. Mr. Monlton is now at work on patterns for the engine, and a com- plete machine will probably be put in oper- ation within the next three months. The Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co. has attached the Hunter drug stock, at Lake- view, for a claim owing the concern at the time of the J. E. Hunter failure, on South Division street, several months ago. J. E. claims that the stock is owned jointly by him and a brother, W. C. Hunter, while a third brother has attached the stock for rent and begun a damage suit against J. E. Hun- ter, claiming that the latter has injured the former’s reputation by making the name Hunter odious in Lakeview. AROUND THE STATE. J. N. Galbraith, general dealer at Ama- dore, has sold out. John Ball, general dealer at Fremont, is removing to Kalamazoo. H. Kretsch sueceeds A. Himmelhock in the dry goods business at Caro. C. C. Duff sueceeds Duff & Banister in the grocery business at Owosso. M. M. Hodge is erecting an addition to his grocery store at Middleville. Daniel Irish succeeds Devine & Irish in the hardware business at Dexter. Falls & Truax, grocers at Spring Lake, have dissolved, each continuing. Eugene Shook sueceeds Law & Shook in the grocery business at Mt. Clemens. W. H. Wood & Co. succeed Miller, Wood & Co. in the crockery business at Detroit. Jacob De Spelder sueeeeds De Spelder & Balkema in general trade at Grand Haven. Johnson & Foote, general dealers at Stockbridge, have dissolved, each continu- ing. M. M. Hodge succeeds Maggie Wood in the grocery and bakery business at Middle- ville. A. Ryerson & Co. sueceed John W. Sey- mour & Son in the hardware business at Tonia. Wim. Rebeck succeeds Rebeck & Hack in the grocery and saloon business at East Sag- inaw. Shipman & Kinne sueceeds Shipman Bros, in the gents’ furnishing goods business at Jackson. D. M. Cooley sueceeds W. H. Randall the grocery and confectionery business Paw Paw. David Williams will move his boot and shoe and harness business from Woodland to Bonanza. J. Colestock has closed out his harness business at Woodland, and will move to Eaton Rapids. i T. J. Jennings has sold his bakery, at Cadillac, to A. Rathman, formerly of Cad- illac, but for the past year a resident of Owosso. McLeod & Sawyer, hardware and agricul- tural implement dealer at Schoolcraft, have in at Pursel Bros. MANUFACTURING MATTERS. The Ioseo Lumber Co., at East Tawas, is about selling out. Hester & Fox have putin a full line of emery wheels. There will be six different mills run at | tape worms. sold their stock of agricultural implements to | C. B. Chatfield succeeds Gates & Chattield in the grist mill business at Bay City. W. Fox & Son will build a saw and plan- ing mill at Middleville at a cost of about $7,000. Springstead & Co. succeed P. B. Nar- more in the planing mill and lumber busi- ness at Lansing. P. J. Richter, of Bay City, has invented a buggy spring, and a company with $20,000 capital stock has been organized to push the invention. The Grand Haven Lumber Co paid last year for 11 hours. A. J. Harrington & Sons, of St. Louis, will move the machinery of their planing mill to Montague. They are to receive as an inducement a cash bonus mill property at one-third its value. O. S. Richmond, who has been manufac- turing pumps for years near Richmond, has patented a spring-tooth leveling and pulver- izing harrow, and has received offers from Port Huron and St. Clair caiptalists looking toward its manufacture on an extensive seale. STRAY FACTS. A. H. Brown, has assigned. meat business at Ovid. Minden City is to have a salt block, a creamery and a new brick hotel. Ayers & Stewart, meat dealers at Coral, have dissolved, Stewart retiring. at Saginaw. Mining Co. will establish three stores in | the vicinity of their. works and will sell | goods to employes at actual cost. A Disgusted Gramouer. From the Brooklyn Union. A tall young man in jumper and overalls stood in the ergine room of one of the larg- est factories of this city the other morning. He was the assistant engineer, and his chief was out. A brisk little drummer in full} dude vestments opened the door and ap- proached. ‘‘Are you the engineer?” ‘‘Yes.” “You smoke?” ‘‘Yes.” ‘‘Have a cigar?” “Certainly.” ‘Use a great deal of oil, I suppose?” ‘*Yes.” ‘‘Every drink?” ‘‘Yes,” “Got a few minutes tospare?” ‘‘Certainly.” “Come across the street with me?” ‘All right; Johnny, mind that crank and look after the engine.” They went across tife road and when they returned the young man in the jumper and overalls had the con- tents of asmall bottle of wine under his belt, and his poeket was full of choice cigars. ‘I would like to introduee my oil here.” ‘‘Yes.” ‘‘Here are some sam- ples.” ‘‘Yes.” ‘‘How do you like them?” “Well, the chief engineer has come in; there he is. You had better talk with him.” A look of wild surprise, rage and scorn played on that drummer’s face one instant—then he turned sadly away and approached the person indicated. The wily assistant wink- ed at his chief, grinned like a fiend and ex- posed the cigars to view. ‘Don’t want any oil; got in four barrels yesterday. Well sat- isfied with the brand I’m using. Good day.” But the drummer answered not. He was gone. > -9 =< The Grocery Market. Business is good, but collections are not as free as could be wished, owing to the condition of the roads, which tends to reduce mereantile transactions to the minimum. Confectioners A is off a sixpence, but with this exception the sugar market has sustain- ed no change during the week. The stead- iness of the general market is something re- | markable. : | The eracker manufacturers announce a decline of 1g cent on crackers, but make no change on sweet goods. . Oranges are a little higher. Lemons are firm at last week’s prices. Bananas remain | in short supply. Nuts are steady at former | prices. | | ~e 9 «

Miscellaneous Dairy Wotes, Potter & Harris will start up their Maple | River creamery, at Ovid, on April 12. The meeting at South Lyon in the inter- | ests of a creamery was a dismal failure, but | few attending. Morenci Observer: Peleg Lee’s cheese | factory will begin the season’s manufactur- | ing next week at the rate of $1.25 per hun- dred. All patrons are now obliged to sign | a contract agreeing neither to water nor skim their milk. Any violation of this contract | will be punishable by a fine of $25 or more, | and in extreme cases to expulsion from the | factory association. <0 --- Purely Personal. M. W. Fisher has taken the position of. billing clerk for Spring & Company. Samuel M. Lemon claims that he can cure | asthma or hay fever, even in their most severe form, and substantiates his claims | by the testimonials of several persons who | have obtained complete relief by the use of | his remedies. The Gripsack Brigade. Frank E. Chase is achieving considerable | | notoriety through his sueceess in treating | | His treatment is rational and | | never fails to accomplish the complete ex- | pulsion of the animal. a | Hides, Pelts and Furs. Hides are flat. Peltsare quiet. Furs are | firm. Wool is lower. Tallow is much low- | er and dull. ent Aerts Make your own baking powder. See ad- ests into a great national labor league is a Pinconning the coming season. vertisement in another column. -, Of Grand | Haven, has started its three mills, running | 10 hours a day, and paying the same wages | and a $6,000 | meat dealer at Jackson, | J. B. Hire succeeds Hire & Webb in the | Henry Lapworth sueceeds Meyer & Guider | § in the furniture and undertaking business | ke tumor has it that the Calumet & Tecla | F | Lenawee County Dairy Notes. The larger factories are getting from 2,000 to 3,000 pounds of milk daily. B. E. Peeples started March 15 already made several consignments. Rufus Baker, who started his ‘‘Home” factory about March 1, is selling new cheese. and has a lively rate. Dealers say all the old cheese was closed out some time ago. Pratt & Green, of South Fairfield, are putting up a new cheese factory, which will be in running order in a few days. MOULTON & REMPIS, Manufacturers of SETTEES, ROOF CRESTING AWN VASES, | And Jobbers in Gray Tron Castings. WRITE FOR PRICE-LIST. 54 and 56 North Front Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. L. §. Hill & Co. 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 Ibs., new Cane Poles, Artificial Baits, etc., and a general line of Sporting Goods. i. S. MIG & Co. 21 PEARL STREET, GRAND RAptIps, Micn. GRAND RAPIDS GRAIN AND SEED 60. SEED MERCHANTS, Office and Warehouse: 71 CANAL ST. GRAND RApips, April 6, 1886. DEAR Sirs—Below we hand you jobbing prices for to-day: ishing Tack A Specialty at Clov er, Prime eC HliG ead. Shsecs 60 bu 6 50 ai alee teas " 6 25 ’ Mammoth PRIMO.) cess, ” 7 00 vis MIG ele aks 20¢ 92 Tb “ 9 00 ARO o.i i c ays we ** . 9 00 ” AlfalfaorLucerne20e *‘ - 9 00 TPUGUN SE, FIO oni occ et nae 45 @ bu 210 e Phi tO Good... .... <: 0s 2 00 TRO Occ Vide hence es 14 b bu 1 00 TEI OORGN oo eee cea, 2 50 RPP RIPOBR cecci cee deckeues ° 2 50 Pee ee ee 48 D bu 90 Millet, OTTO i a cholic can 90 PIAA eo eee - 1 00 TAOWWOR ioe sib ce ec lie s 1 00 Peas, White Field. ...... Saas 60 Ib bu 1 25 Rye, WM es, 56 Ib ‘bu _ Spring Den asa eesuenses cu ceae as 1 00 i 60 Th bu 1 25 a ie ee Bewt 1 75 Oats, sholee MUP isk a vck aa cos 82 bu «450 Corn, Early 8 Rowed Yankee.....! 56 tb bu 1 % Improv ed Leaming Dent.......... 1 50 Onion Sets, Red or Yellow........ 4 00 a We ee cick ae d 00 Onion Tops, Evergreen.......... 1 00 Prices on Rape, Canary and all other seeds on application. The above prices lots of five or more begs ata time. | smaller quantities. Wecarry the largest line of Garden Seeds in | Bulk of any house in the State west of De troit, /and would be pieased at any time to quote | you prices, All ‘Field Seeds are spot-Cash on receipt of VW. TE LAMOREADX, Ag are free on board cars in Cartage on or IMPROVED BAKING POWDER This Baking Powder makes the WHITEST, LIGHTEST and most HEALTHFUL Biscuits, Cakes, Bread,ete. TRY IT and be convinced. Prepared only by the Arctic Manufacturing Co., © GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. at Orders are coming in to the factorymen at 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 merehan- 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 milis and camps and pect trade of three more. Expenses very ight. Have done an average business of $2,000 per month retail for the past two years. Have no poor accounts to sell, nothin: g but BATON & CHRISTENSON, Agents for a fulj line of PETERSBURG, VA., FLvG SOBACOCR, bright, new, staple goods. Will guarantee a bright, active, economical man ean pay for} NIMROD, the stock in one year. Purchasing party can Ek. C i Gis also handle shingles in connection, if desired. It is really the best business chance for a BLUE RETER, SPREAD EAGLE, BIG FIVE CENTER. young man who js not afraid to rough it a lit- Terms strietly cash Address Box 399, Big Rapids, Mich. tle that has been offered. or good security on part if desired. WwW. C. W., FRED. D. YALE. DANIEL LYNCH. ED) YALE -@ 00. SUCCESSORS TO CHAS.S. YALE & BRO., WHOLESALE MANUFACTURERS OF Baking Powders, Extracts, Bluings, AND JOBBERS OF GROCERS’ SUNDRIES. All orders addressed to the new firm will re- ceive prompt attention. 40 and 42 South Division St. GRAND RAPIDS, 4 For eas Sania use * ¢ Electric Lustre’ § ’ ® Starch. It is all prepared for immediate im iscin One Pound Packages, which § g0as far astwo pounds of any other Starch, Ask your Grocer for it. The Electric Lustre Starch Co, 4 | 204 Srankiin St., New York. rs OETIT CAULFIELD | Wholesale Age ent, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. We 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 market price and pros- pects. Liberal cash advances made on car lots when desired. Agents for Walker's Patent Butter Worker. EARL BROS., Commission Merchahts. Ls7 S. Water St., Chicago, I. Reference: FIRST NATIONAL BANK. JOHN CAULFIELD WHOLESALE GROCER, Grand Rapids, Mich. B. LEIDERSDORF & CO, 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. Headquarters for above named brands at SORBN CAUTLI:EIEL:D, WHOLES AMOS §. MUSSELMAN & C0, ; Successors {0 Fox, Musselman & Loveridge, holesale Grocers. AGENTS FOR MUSSELMAN’S CORKER PLUG AND RUM CIGARS, The best and most attractive goods on the market. ALE SEND FoR SAMPLE Butr. SEE QUOTATIONS IN Pricre-List. WALL PAPER & WINDOW SHADES at Manufacturers’ rPrices. SAMPLES TO THE TRADE ONLY. House and Store Shades Made to Order. 68 MONROE STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, \Nelson Bros. & Co. S. W. Venable & G0.'s¢ “ ¢ time, I hope. Drugs & Medicines STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY. Two Years—F. H. J. VanEmster, Bay City. Three Years—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon. Four Years—Jaimes Vernor, Detroit. Five Years—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor. Six Years—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo. President—Ottmar Eberbach. Secretary—Jacob Jesson. Treasurer—Jas. Vernor. fan as : : ae Michigan State Pharmaceutical Association. OFFICERS. President—H. J. Brown, Ann Arbor. First Vice-President—Frank J. Wurzburg, Grand Rapids. ‘ Second Vice-President—A. B. Stevens, Detroit, Third Vice-President—Frank Inglis, Detroit. Secretary—S. E. Parkell, Owosso. Treasurer—Wm. Dupont, Detroit. Executive Committee—Jacob Jesson, Geo. Gundrum, Frank Wells, F. W. R. Perry and John E. Peck. : Local Seeretary—Will L. White, Grand Rapids. Next place of meeting—At Grand Rapids, Tuesday, October 12, 1886. Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society. ORGANIZED OCTOBER 9, 1884. OFFICERS. President—Frank J. Wurzburg. Vice-President—Wm. L. White. Secretary—Frank H. Escott. Treasurer—Henry B. Fairchild. i Board of Censors— President, Vice-President and Secretary. : Board of Trustees—The President, Wm. H. Van Leeuwen, Isaac Watts, Wm. E. White, Wm. L. White. a : Committee on Pharmacy—M. B. Kimm, H. E. Locher and Wm. E. White. Committee on Trade Matters—John E. Peck, H. B. Fairchild and Wm. H. Van Leeurven. Committee on Legislation—Jas. D. Lacey, Isaac Watts and A. C. Bauer. : : Regular Meetings—First Thursday evening in each month. . : Annual Meetings—First Thursday evening in November. Next Meeting—Thursday evening, May 6, at “The Tradesman”’ office. Detroit Pharmaceutical Society. Organized October, 1853. OFFICERS. President—Wim. Dupont. : First Vice-President—Frank Inglis. Second Vice President—J. W. Caldwell. Secretary and Treasurer—F. W. R. Perry. Assistant Secretary and Treasurer—A. B. Salt- zer. Annual Meeting—First Wednesday in June. Regular Meetings—First Wednesday in each month. Jackson County Pharmaceutical Asso- ciation. OFFICERS. President—R. F. Latimer. Vice-President—C. D. Colwell. Secretary—F. A. King. Treasurer—Chas. E. Humphrey. Board of Censors—Z. W. Waldron, C. E. Foot and ©. FH. Haskins. Annual Meeting— First Thursday in November. Regular Meetings—First Thursday of each month, Saginaw County Pharmaceutical So- ciety. TEMPORARY OFFICERS. Chairman—Henry Melebers. Secretary—D. E. Prall. Muskegon Drug Clerks’ Association. OFFICERS. President—John K. Meyers. : Seeretary and Treasurer—O. A. Lloyd. Regular Meetings—Second and fourth Wednes- day of each month. < Next Meeting—Wednesday evening, April 14. The Spotter—No. 2. Hello, pard, around once again, eh? Trade picking up? Tain’t? Well, shucks, it will soon, anyhow. Say, I got a good one on that same nibs, what checked him- self up on his mother’s ride with him. Well, sir, just before he resigned, he had a row with a fellow up to Walton Junction. Fel- low didn’t pay him enough money, so just before the train pulled out, old Gruff he shakes his fist at the man that was stand- ing quiet on the depot platform. Well, the fellow come running at Gruff, put his hand behind him, and pulled out an old clay dudeen, pointed it at the old man, and the old man he just hollered and run toward the train engine, yelling at every jump, ‘‘For God’s sake, Bill, [Bill Smith was the engin- eer} pull out,” and old Gruff swung onto the baggage car, and went in and told the bag- gage man as how a woodsman was going to shoot him. About the best thing [ eversaw was what Sam B——, the man what hooked the local tickets, once done. Some darn fool traveling man, that thought everybody was like him, sat down alongside of a Jady and insulted her. When Sam passed through the ear, she told him and Sam he told the pup, in pretty plain language, to get out of the car. Well, the feller went into the smoker, and he looked blacker’n a cloud, he was so mad. Sam is a little man, but just chuck full o’ grit, and when this feller what had insulted the lady got off the train at P———,, and ealled Sam a low name, why Sain he just climbed onto him, and did give him Jesse. Secin’ a little article in the paper this morning about them fellers that robbed the train in Indiana the other day, puts me in mind of Westfall’s death. Oh, yes, 1 was there. Isawitall. I always did and al- ways will think that it was a put up job to kili Westfall. The whole snap looked just like it. You see, after they stopped the train and told us to hold up our hands, why he did just what the rest done, held up his hands. He was sittin’ along of me and was just a tellin’ me about the new boy baby they had to his house, and little did he or I think that in ten minutes that baby would be without a father. Such is life in rail- roading or in traveling. You can’t tell what minute a rail may break or something give way and psitt! a broken limb, or maybe a funeral at your house with you as the corpse. Well, after them fellers left our ear, Westfall he said tome, “Iam going into the next car to see they don’t insult any ladies.” Well, sir, he had no more than got up from his seat, than someone fired a shot in our direction and Westfall fell dead. Oh, it was just awful! No, they never found out who killed him. Never will, I reckon. Good-day, sir, see you again some Leo. A. CARo. eggs as for a girl to gossip, this insures a Maxims for Merchants. The best merchant is he whose business talent is of the highest order and improved to the highest pitch. Of all quarrels the most senseless, the most bootless, the most worrying, is a quar- re] with your circumstances. Every man has three characters—that which he exhibits, that which he has and that which he thinks he has. Some merchants are prolific in schemes, but miserably poor in execution. Like some trees, they spend themselves in blos- som and never bear fruit. A. T. Stewart was deliberately, consist- ently and methodically keen. He would buy as seareely any other man could buy; he would sell as scarcely any other man could sell. Many merchants object too much, consult too long, advertise too little, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but, content themselves with a mediocrity of suc- cess. Half of the heavy hearts and broken spir- its and sleepless eyes among the merchants of New York might be spared, were they only willing to conform their appearances to their substance. In business there are many who cannot rise, many who cannot help descending, many who of neeessity fall, many who earn their bread many who only waste it when once in theirown hands. Some men seem to take failure quite com- fortably; they stop and go on again, with- out changing their style of living or lower- ing their heads. That is a feat that no hon- est business man ean admire. The true merchant is not the man who best understands his business and contrives to bargain others out of their profits, but he who best understands his business and never takes advantage of any man’s ignorance or of any man’s necessity. Great merit or great failings will make you respected or despised, but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked in the general run of the world. ‘“‘Leading articles’ in commerce, like leading articles in journalism, are meant to make a character for the whole. But it is questionable whether a merchant is justified in taking such modes of attracting the at- tention of the publie unless he has actual advantages to offer. 2 VISITING BUYERS. The following retail dealers have visited the market during the past week and placed orders-with the various houses: Will Ashton, Ashton Bros., Traverse City. EK. Conklin, Ravenna. Rk. K. Hesseltine, Casnovia. T. J. Sheridan, Wright’s Siding. C. G. Jones, West Olive. John Koopman, Falmouth. Joshua Colby, Rockford. T. Stadt, Spring Lake. Win. DePree, Zeeland. J.E. White, Pentwater. J. Riley, Dorr. C. H. Deming, Dutton. I. J. Quick & Co., Allendale. A. Patterson, Dorr. A. Wagner, Eastmanville. N.C. Kingsbarge, Sparta. H. Brinkman, Overisel. Duff & MeMurray, Ada. Kamps & Weatveld, Zeeland. G. Bots, Grand Haven. E. B. Wright, Woodville. A. Cuddefoot, Casnovia. Wesly Hanna, Casnovia. Wm. Irving, Grandville. A. Patterson, Dorr. C. A. Youngquist, Big Rapids. ©. Sanders, Rockford. W. D. Hopkinson & Co., Paris. Henry DeKline, Jamestown. Mr. Wheeler, Wheeler Bros., Shelby. J. F. Clark, Big Rapids. Henry Strobe, Morley. Frank Sommers, Dorr. A. Norris & Son, Casnovia. Gien & Porter, East Jordan. A. Mulholland, Ashton. B. A. Jones, Leetsville. M. P. Shields, Hilliards. A. & L. M. Wolf, Hudsonville. J. Farraway, Vriesland. J. M. Sutherland, Caledonia. L. Perrigo, Burnip’s Corners. Jorgensen & Hemmingsen, Grant. Jno. Koopman, Falmouth. Mr. Smith, Smith & Bristol, Ada. John Gunstra, Lamont. N. DeVries, Jamestown. Dr. J. M. Sutherland, Caledonia. Den Herder & Tanis, Vriesland. Herder & Lahuis, Zeeland. Wm. Black, Cedar Springs. J. V. Crandall & Son, Sand Lake. N. DeVries, Jamestown. J. M. Doak, Grand Haven. John Smith, Ada. B. Gilbert, Moline. T. J. Sheridan & Co., Woodville. J. H. Spires, Leroy. C. Bergin, Lowell. ©. 8. Comstock, Pierson. Mr. Fisher, Carrel & Fisher, Dorr. W.S8. Root, Talmadge. John W. Mead, Berlin. E. P. Burnard, Maple Valley. Hi. M. Freeman, Lisbon, L. J. Cody, Woodville. C. H. Milner, Big Kapids. Sisson & Lilley Lumber Co., Sisson’s Mills. Higgins & Allen, Scottsville. A. A. Weeks, Grattan. Neal MeMillan, Rockford. E. 'T. Van Ostrand, Allegan. C. Stocking, Grattan. Thys Stadt, Spring Lake. oe Bros., Lamont. R. A. Hastings, Sparta. John Van Eenan, Zeeland. N. K. Jepson, Clarksville. Nelson Degrow, Cedar Springs. H. W. Potter, Jennisonviile. Clark, Russell & Co., Bonanza. | Hoag & Judson, Cannonsburg Bode & Keeney, Ferry. C. K, Hoyt, Hudsonville. Geo. W. Sharer, Cedar Springs. Scoville & McAuley, Edgerton. ee et > A dry goods house is spoken of in the Shoe and Leather Reporter, which purchased a | certain grade of shoes at $1.50 a pair and sold them at $1.49. It was an effective ad- | vertisement, but the proprietors took pains | to limit the sale of them as much as they | could; they gave a gratuity of 5 cents to the clerk who succeeded in persuading a shop- per to take something instead that paid a profit. New York egg dealers complain that the trade has been seriously affected by the late- ness of Lent’s comihg this year. One of them says that the cause for the decline in| eggs is that as this year Easter falls on the last possible day, and at a time when it comes as easy and natural for a hen to lay full supply during the entire forty days. The Drug Market. Trade and collections continue good. Citrie acid, balsam tulu, balsam peru, borax and gum arabie are easier, although not quotably lower. Cubebs and German chamo- mile have advanced and both are very firm. Senna leaves are firm at the advance. Lyco- podium is advancing. Oil anise, ‘cassia, wintergreen and sassafras have declined. Oil bergamont and lemon have advanced and the advance is firmly maintained. Most brands of cheap oil are quotable at al- most any price. Opium is weak. Morphine has declined. Quinine is dull. ee The Dime Museum. Tur TRADESMAN has refrained from say- ing anything of the Dime Museum, either in praise or disparagement, until it was sat- isfied that the entertainment given possessed genuine merit. The Museum has now been in operation about two months and the best evidence of its popularity is the large num- ber of people attending every performance and the handsome returns pocketed by the proprietors. The show is legitimate in every respect and deserves the liberal pat- ronage it is receiving. _ Oo A bill aimed at the pernicious custom of boycotting has been introduced into the Kentucky legislature. It provides that ‘any two or more persons who shall bind themselves together to prevent any com- pany or corporation from transacting its lawful business shall be punished with a heavy fine or be imprisoned in the county jail for not mere thana year.” Petitions with immense numbers of signatures have been received from all parts of the State favoring the passage of the bill. The idea advanced by all the petitioners is that, while a man has a perfect right to work or not as he pleases, he has no right to con- spire to enforce idleness on those who want to work, or to destroy the busines of a con- cern simply because it will not hire him at his own terms, however extravagant or un- reasonable. Hichigal rng Exchange. Mills & Goodman, Props. GRAND RAPIDS, - MICH. PLA DAMM ere eee ee by registered pharm- acists and assistants. Also situation by young man of some experience but not regis- tered. Will work for very simall salary. Can furnish good references. ss wee SALE—Stock of about $2,000 in central part of State on railroad can be bought at great discount and on easy terms. ous of $3,500 on L. S. & M.S. R. R. for sale KI oneasy terms. Doing best business of the place. STOCK of $1,5000n C.& W. M. R. R. doing WO fine paying business. QTOCK of about $1,000 on D., G. H. & M. R, R. KO Will sell for cash only. ‘ TOCK of $1,500 in southern part of State. No WO other drug store in town. ree STOCK of $3,50C on two R. R.’s in northern part of State, in town of 2,000 inhabitants. Doing the best business of the place. a7 ee of $1,600 in town of 8,000 inhabitants WO ontwo railways in central part of State. Must be sold on account of other business. ~ TOCK of $1,500 in Northern lumbering town. W Doing the best business of the place. LSO many other stocks, the particulars of which we willfurnish free on application. CINSENG ROOT. We 4 the highest price for it. Address Peck Bros,, Drugyists, tirand Rapids, Rich, Cushiman’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., | Jas. E. Davis & Co., t John J. Dodds & Co., T. H. Hinchman & Co., _ Ask their traveler to show you one the next time he calls. Detroit, Mich. Prices, 25c, 50e and $1 per bottle; $1.75, $3.50, $7 per doz. A JUSTLY CELEBRATED REMEDY. Perry Davis Pain Killer! TAKEN INTERNALLY relieves the most accute Pains instantly, affording relief and comfort to the patient | suffering from Pains and Cramps in the Stomach, Rheumatic or Neuralgic Pains in any part of the sys- tem; and in Bowel Complains it is a sovereign remedy. USED EXTERNALLY it is equally efficacious, and as a Liniment, nothing gives quicker ease in Burns, Cuts, Bruises, Sprains, Stings from insects, and Scalds. irections accompany each bottle. Price, 25c, &c and$1 per bottle. Sold by all druggists.: Trade supplied by HAZELTINE & PERKINS DRUG CO. WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT, Advanced--Alcohol; cubeb berries; chamo- mile flowers, German. Declined—Morphia; oil anise; oil cassia; oil sassafras; oil wintergreen. ACIDS. Meetio NO, Boe. ais, eee sas 9 @ 10 Acetic, C. P. (Sp. grav. 1.040)...... 30 @ 35 RP aoe peas ees 384 @ 36 RN i naka ce each chee. 8% @ 9 MeCrighic 18 GOR oo... os cacae ss 38 @ 5 PENEYIO OO GOR os. coe o seas cece s .- 2B Ga eB eR or a poe eae 10 @ 12 Sutpunyvie G6 GOR... cc. cc. cece ae cns 3 @ 4 TEMPTATIO POWOOPOG. ..6 6. 560s cs esse 52 @ 55 Benzoic, English............. @ OZ 18 MeNZOIC, GOTMAan.. 6... eee ssc se 12 @ bb ANG oo, ele ea ae dkevn LB @ 1b AMMONTA, MOON on ck ee anes nee gh 4 @ 16 Murinte (POwd, 220) 2. i.e. cs ceeees 14 ae Mi dag OF Blot. aise o es cae: 38 @ 5 Bae 15 Cer OF Ocean ccacd 4@ 6 BALSAMS. I a a a a ee ke 40@45 eka wk leks whee 40 ay ks bac oe ates kw eens cas 1 75 OE eee a Ase ace sens 45 BARKS. Cassix, in mats (Pow’d 20¢)........ ll MONONA, YOUOW 6.4. cs se scas can as 18 BN, BOO a ios aks bad cv ca nn ens 13 MTA, DYOUNG, PUTO. 65.5 cs sep ecp oss 14 Him, powdered, Pure. ....... <2... 15 MOBERITER, Of TOOU, . os sacscece es cece 10 Wild Cherry, select... .......00..595 2 Bayberry powdered............... 20 Hemiock powdered................ 18 TO rik i aa a hea 30 PHMED OU co ei chee ec aces 12 BERRIES, Cubeb prime (Powd 1 00¢)........ @ 9% Ue eas 22 Ff TOMA BB ik os oan dade nde sas 50 @ 60 EXTRACTS. Licorice (10 and 25 fh boxes, 25¢)... at Licorice, powdered, pure..... aah 87% Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 i doxes). 9 Logwood, 1s (25 boxes).......... 12 Lgowood, 448 OO fees, li Logwood, 4s Oo a. 15 Logwood, 8060 GO | ...c..5s.. 4 Fluid Extracts—25 8 cent. off list. FLOWERS. PO a ea ccs ei cc dace Ib @ is Chamomile, Homan. ......- ««....- 25 Chamomile, German.............. 30 GUMS. Aloes, Rarbagoes..........1.-<-5->- 60@ %5 Aloes, Cape (Powd 20c)............ 2 Aloes, Socotrine (Powd 60c)....... 50 TOWN ORIAD ea an vee cans 28@ 30 Arabic, powdered select.......... 90 Avetro, 1b PiOROd. . ccc ass. ee 90 POO A DIGHOR oo ook occa ee eck 80 Aranic, 34 piemed.....,.:....-...4<- 5 Apebic, sifted s0rte.. .............-. 55 Assafcentida, prime (Powd 35¢)... 20 PRON so sc ese es ae os 55@60 MORTNOR ooo oo oni coe ca ose cess 2Q 27 Catechu. Is (44 14e, 4s 16¢) ...... . 13 Kuphorbium powdered............ 35! 40 Galbanum strained..... Ce eee 80 POO ee a kk ree sae 80@ 20 Guaiac, prime (Powd 45c)......... 35 Kino | Powdered, 300] ....... 566004. 20 PAMUIG 5 So oeuce chy sc scn es EN a 1 25 Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 47c)... 4 Opium, pure (Powd $4 60)......... . 3 30 Shellac, Campbell’s................ 30 BHOUEG, MMSE. 6 oi... se cce. ses as 26 PPLIOS, TIGQUIVO aaa aan sas eee 24 Paceline DICAGNEd. ou... sence ence eee 30) UOT oe ae es een oe ae 80 @l bv HERBS—IN OUNCE PACKAGES. PIOAVROU io esa ceeds ecu ay eee Te es nape ks cas sn neue cn sscas 25 POO OOLTAUING co oo osteo gees ne ech eckennns 25 Pes ay iy ne ce ee ke wee: 49 PUIG iis ee sk oe ua oa esse oh ae we nen ens « 24 or EE SS ee 3d Ms a ec ok be ok see cee neds anaes 25 ood we ha cn ices anes 4 on ee enemas eeeee 30 MOTE WODG oo eng ce eatin ee es ecanns 25 IRON. Olirate and Quinine ........ 6.56.55 4 00 Solution mur., for tinctures...... 20 Sulphate, pure crystal............ % Re acca cc ceee scene ee se RO ey cere wesc evet ess 65 LEAVES. Buchu, short (Powd 25c)........... 188 @ 4 Sage, Italian, bulk (48 & 4s, 12¢)... 6 Senna, Alex, natural.............. 383 @ 35 Senna, Alex. sifted and garbled.. 50 Senna, powdered.................. 25 Benes tingivell., .. <2... ioe t es 2d UVR UCU as ck oe a ee ase 10 PR ee ce ca ce oka oe ak ae ns 35 OOO i eek ce ka 30 PIORROO oaoags ce bccn bccn es oe eee os 35 POO PO Ca eae ee eka eas 2 35 LIQUORS. W., D. & Co.’s Sour Mash Whisky.2 00 @2 50 Druggists’ Favorite Rye.......... 1 75 2 O00 Whisky, other brands............. 110 @1 50 OA, OD POM oi ns ds cs oa cs ccc cce aes 135 @l1 75 OPI, PROUAMG 6b. in ww acc eee ee 200 @3 50 PO. kk ects hanes 175 @b6 50 CtewA WINGS... .icccscee ances es 125 @2 00 OES VB oo ic enn vce ae as ee 135 @2 50 MAGNESIA. Carbonate, Pattison’s, 2 0Z........ 22 Carbonate, Jenning’s, 20Z......... 37 Citrate, H., P. & Co.’s solution.... 2 2 Os oo ci ni eee ad ese 65 OILS. PONG, BOGE. Se os cnc cc ae vars as 45 @ 50 PANEL. POCUIHOG ck. soci gcc cose 45 eas une ts i cekenasnae 1 50 Be aa ed ieee nse cee tas 50 POG ac oa oa che oo ee sc ch ecees 3 25 cick sta es sc nceses 1 44@1 65 RN os oe occ oa ces ce ec nn chus cane 1 %5 De ly ek cae ck a bo ee 15 ON a at oi ce ass 85 Cedar, confmercial (Pure 75e)..... 35 COPE oc ks ede ees een Aix. 75 ee caus ce ce cuceaes 1 26 Cod Liver NF... esac -®8 gal 1 20 Cod Liver, best......... we 1 50 Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16 6 00 Oriene, F: Wo ccc. eke went 8 50 MO go a ik eae as 1 60 PEON og oi ene sce cee ceks aula 2 00 COVA TH OF. oo. cas acc cn sees 75 Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75c).. 35 IOP WO oa descr uc eue css 50 PMMAPOR DOTTIOR 555s 0 dss oeees se 2 00 Lavender flowers, French......... 2 01 Lavender garden OO ogi 1 00 Lavender spike GO ivan cs 90 SsOTAGN, VOW GOD. . on cs. secs cee seas 3 00 Lemon, Sanderson’s............... 3 50 DOTA OUR ooo ks ok icc es cease Bu Olive, Malaga........... < @ 0 Olive, ‘Sublime Italian . eens 2 5 Origanum, red flowers, French... 1 25 CPA: NO. Bo es kas cea cov caas 50 POMNVIOURE 65 ioc is Sans cok cea dh aace 1 30 POODETMINT, WHITC.... .. 660.055. as 4 50 PEO OR a ok ocr s a ck eens ons 8 00 Rosemary, French (Flowers $1 50) 65 Pe, Oe can cnacen cea: 2% i ae cae ie es cack 1 00 Sandal Wood, German............ 4 50 MO dOl VWEOOU, Ws bag cos ccnccdaxcee 7 00 TPR. ok bss eens ceca cies owas 50 ROOIUUINE oe pik alice nacedae ccs cs @9 00 educa cs chew ca caek 5 ot 00 @4 2 TE OW 01 BO a in ks kek cocc cea 10 @ 12 ME OPVOGE ok os an cess bac ess 2 25 Wormwood, No. 1(Pure $4.00)..... 3 50 OW OPE oo ci os van deca nee s 2 00 POTASSIUM, PRICE os dace secu ewan cs 8 12@14 Bromide, eryst. and gran. bulk... 40@43 Chiorate, cryst (Powd 28¢c)......... 22 Iodide, eryst. and gran. bulk..... 3 00 Prussiate Youow.. ..... 0.665 cece s es 28 ROOTS. OG i a ei eek ci cee sce aee as 20 TO, ONG oi oc os 5 es ae ws bas 25 Arrow, St. Vinoent's............. 17 Arrow, Taylor’s, in 44s and ¥s.... 33 PIO0G (POWG 180). ooo ines cnc cess ‘ BRB UBIGIOUS, DOCIOG sie iia ac cee cds 20 Calamus, German white, peeled.. 85 Elecampane, powdered............ 20 Gentian (Powd 1l5c)................ 10 Ginger, African (Powd l4c)........ hh @ R Ginger, Jamaica bleached........ 17 Golden Seal (Powd 25e)............ 20 Hellebore, white, powdered....... 20 Tpecac, Rio, powdered............. 120 Jalap, powdered............ccceces 30 Licorice, select (Powd 15)...... .. 18 Licorice, extra select.............. 20 Pe TUG ia ee hee 85 Rhei, from select to choice.......100 @1 50 Rhei, powdered E. I................ 110 @1 B Rhei, choice cut cubes............ 2°00 Rhei, choice cut fingers........... 2 25 Serpentaria............ aul Cha ke 65 OI ois oes so wan chess wuss 60 Sersaparilla, Hondurus........... 2 Sarsaparilla, Gi aaclyueasay Squills, white (Powd 35e).......... 15 Valerian, English (Powd 30¢)...... 25 Valerian, Vermont (Powd 28¢).... 20 SEEDS. Anise, Italian (Powd 20¢).......... 15 Bird, mixed in th packages....... 5 @ 6 Cmnery, BIGTOS.. ooo. cs occ 5 os 4 @ 66 Caraway, best Dutch (Powd 20c), 15 @ 18 Cardamon, Aleppee............... 1 56 Cardainon, Malabar...........-.... i 75 OM i es ck cs bce ce 15 Coriander, pest English........... 10 ON ads as ocicculesceees 15 WN ON haa cose es caces 3%@ Flax, pure grd (bbl 334)............ 4@ 4% Foenugreek, powdered............ 1 @& os PROUD, POOMUO ois is cae co 44@ 5% Mustard, white Black 10c)........ 10 MO oo ol coun s seece seas 75 ROE, BON ooo eck oe aca sc bak &@ 7 WOEUA, TMVONG oo o5 oc es ace es 14 : SPONGES. Florida sheeps’ wool, carriage.....2 25 @2 50 Nassau do i 22 2 00 Velvet Extra do do sk ee 110 Extra Yellow do do See 85 Grass do on less 65 Hard head, for slate use....... fe v5) Yellow Reef, OG. 1 40 MISCELLANEOUS. Alcohol, grain (bb! $2.21) @ gal... 2 30 Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref. 1 50 Anodyne Hotlman's............... 50 Arsenic, Donovan’s solution...... 27 Arsenic, Fowler’s solution........ 2 Amnaetto 1D ros... ...... 5... 0055s 45 PO eee cic. Rh 24@ 3% Alum, ground (Powd 9¢c).......... 3@ 4 PTIMEOO, DITO. oo. oe. cece ccc cs 45 Antimony, powdered, com’l... .. 44Q@ 5 Arsenic, white, powdered......... & @ Ff RTIEOE POI oe iis ce cece cas. 50 Bay Rum, imported, best......... 2 5 Bay Rum, domestic, H., P. & Co.’s. 2 00 berm Gueed Mids................. 40 WONG, TOM ec ac, 2 00 oe DS ek 700 @9 75 Bismuth, sub mitrate.............. 2 30 mine Pill (Powd We).............5. 50 PEO WPI ooo hon ecicacccceccccc, 6@_ 7 Borax, refined (Powd lle)..... ... 9@10 Cantharides, Russian powdered.. 2 25 Capsicum Pods, African.......... 18 Capsicum Pods, African pow’d... 22 Capsicum Pods, Bombay do... i4 Ree, OO Ol, 4 00 RP I oi cin ose, 14 Calomel, American................ 5 Chalk, prepared drop.............. 5 Chalk, precipitate English........ 12 Chalk, red fingers................. 8 Chalk, white hain... 6.6.65... a Chioroform, Sauibb’s............. 1 25 Colocynth apples. ................. 60 Chloral hydrate, German crusts.. 1 50 Chloral do do eryst... 1 76 Chloral do Scherin’s do ... 1) Chioral ao do crusts.. 175 ORONO oo oe cha. we, @ 47 Cinchonidia, P. & W...... Sis chanas 20 @ 2% Cinchonidia, other brands......... 18 @ 23 Cloves (POW 260)... 6... coi ccc ccs, 18 @ 2 lai ccd, MES TE 40 Socom Milter... 2... 6c... 6... 40 Copperas (by bb] Ic)............... 2 Corrosive Sublimate............... jv Corks, X and XX—40 off list...... Cream Tartar, pure powdered..... @ 40 Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 Ib box.. 1d CR ROEG eg. 50 OE 24 Auteie Pies One... cl. 20 WRU ee 2 overs Powders.................. 110 Dragon's Blood Mass,............. 50 rel POwdered...,............... 65 po Cg ge 1 10 Emery, Turkish, all No.’s......... 8 Epcom Salta (bbl. 154)... ..... 2@ 38 CS a ee 50 Ethor, sulphuric, U.S. P.......... 60 PCR oO a 14 arene POradine...............0<.. 15 Gelatine, COOner’s.........-...-... 90 Gelatine, Wronoh ......:... ....... 45 Glassware, flint, 70 & 10, by box 60 & 10 less Glassware, green, 60 and 10 dis.... OG, Cf vet. 6... 2 @ IT Me Whe... . 06 @ Merveerine, HUE. .................. 16 @ WwW OS eo 25Q 40 WOGOTOr WOn.. 40 TAGIOO.. ...., es eee a eta 85 @L OW Insect Powder, best Dalmatian... 35 @ 40 Insect Powder, H., P. & Co,, boxes @1 00 lomine., Fosublimed...........:.... 4 00 Isinglass, American............... 1 50 OOS a se, ‘ Bonudon: Purcie..................., 10 @ 1b EGAG: COCALO occ so ays. 15 Lime, chloride, (4s 2s l0e & 4s le) 8 Pn ls cing se 1 00 PCODOGIIEN 6026 e 5... io ec. 50 Oe. 50 Maddor, beat Duteh.............. BK@ 13 Me 75 a 60 Morphia, sulph., P.& W...... Boz 2 35@2 60 Musk, Canton, H., P. & Covs...... 40) MOG, ICON: .. |... 8... s..,: # b 10 NO oe ie oekca succes, “ Deseara, Beith. .2...........:... 30 Mustard, grocer’s, 10 cans...... 18 Te eo, 2 WO ESORS, INO. ance ae cause 60 Pome VOUS 60 ico. cise 10 Ointment. Mercurial, 4d.......... 45 Vg a eae ae M@ & Pepper, Black Berry.............. 18 Co ee ee 2 50 Piten, True Burrundy.........«... t ORE a. 6° @ f Quinia, Suiph, P. & W........ boz 8 @ &%& Orinine, German. ........<.s.cescs 70@ 75 Mea Proecipitate..............- Bb 86 poe Ul at 28 PUP VORIAL CPYBE. oo ok oc ba ca cc cc ce ce 1 60 Bilver Nirare, Orvat............... 74 @ 78 PTEROML, AINOTIOOE. | 5 oo cs ccc cnc 35 po EE a @ 2 Sal Nitre, large oryat.............. 10 Sal Nitre, medium cryst.......... 9 RT ceca cseecc cs 33 et er 2@ 2 ii ae os cu cw cecdes cs anus 215 lo ceca cece aes aces 6 50 Snutts, Maccoboy or Scotch....... 35 Boda Ash {iy kom Gal... ...... <4. 4 gh a ee 48 Soda, Bi-Carbonate, DeLand’s.... 4%@ 5 Boe, Write Castile................ 14 Pre, ENC OO kk ccha es ones 17 Boa, MOMed dO | 2... oe ccc cc cce 9 Soap, OO A ce ee at WO RN ood occ co yd on oc awd oes i4 rte PRIETO, BP os. a ii ccs ceca 26 @ 28 pte Peer OOo coc havc mo oo cn ce 30 @ 38 Sugar Milk powdered.............. 35 co LL eS ae es B4@ 4 PP ONE es, 3@ 33% TROORE Fe ooo oc oc cc nas ke cea 60 Tar, N.C. Pine, 4% gal. cans ® doz 2 70 Tar, do quarts in tin....... 1 40 Tar, do Dintawitin......... 85 Turpentine, Venice........... 8 25 War, White, 5. & &. brand.. ...... 5D Met, PUNO ee so ec ie cee pr OILS. Bbl Gal WI WOE 5 ooo aces cine sc dees 70 7d DONG, OHUTE . onc cic kcs sc: ee cee 55 60 ME TR ce yn ac caugess 45 55 PAMECOR, DUCG TOW. o.oo. cen ck c ce doc 43 46 POO, WIG ha kpc os veo e ccaoess acs 46 49 Neat’s Foot, winter strained........ 70 90 MDICTES TUPPORTING.. .. 0... oe 55s ccases 46 50 VARNISHES. Ge FE PUP COGCD aioe esc ccceccceal L 10@1 20 WE RT ooo oes cc ac he ence peadcece cs 1 60@1 To as ee ss ok cy caves 2 75@3 00 mO. & Pt PPREONO... oo... sek a a cee L OO@L 10 etre TCM TIBIAE ooo oe cn va os ce ds 1 55@a1 60 wanean Dryer, NO, 1 Turp..........03.. 70@ 75 PAINTS Bbl Lb BOO YT ORO, ooo sos cues 5s 34 2@ 3 Ochre, yellow Marseilles...... 1% 2@ 3 Ochre, yellow Bermuda....... 1% 2@ 3 Putty, commercial ............ 214 244@ 3 Putty, strictly pure... .......... 2% 2%@ 3 Vermilion, prime American.. 1I3@i6 Vermilion, English............ 5S@60 Green, Peninsular............. 16@17 Lead, red strictly pure..... .. 7@ 7% Lead, white, strictly pure..... 1@ 7% Whiting, white Spanish..... @iv OVE SHAN: CRN 8 ca ce ci ecco as @90 White, Paris American........ 110 Whiting Paris English cliff.. 1 40 Pioneer Prepared Faints..... 1 20@1 40 Swiss Villa Preparer Paints.. 1 O@1 20 OILs, ILLUMINATING. COE We Ro ioe ek ce erie s ccaeccccccececs 12% PORN Oe ncn os blu odae eke sc 10%4 LUBRICATING. CRPIEOL CPOE oon s hac dids caicaacewes vaces 36% ROO CPM ois coc cicccncennseaees cacase 31% rN COU OE ini lca ose coassesescsecece 26% TOUGONAO MING oa os bs sk bd de caw dacces 24% Peerless Machinery. ........4..cccccenccsses 2214 Challenge Machinery...............cceceeees 20% Paratiine ........ fa use weal Sodan geuas ee uent 20% Black, Summer, West Virginia.............10 PURO, SO 0 BP oo ed oe Na cc cvscuesdiecescdd Black, 167 C. T.......000005 Oe adsind cea Ac dh idonduawds eehebemeaussnves ee eee newer enenes HAAEL TINE PER URUG 60, WHOLESALE Drugeists! 42 and q4 Ottawa Street and 89, g1, 93 and 95 Louis Street. IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF rugs, wietlicines, Chemicals, Paints, Qils, Varnishes, And Draeeist’s Sundries, MANUFACTURERS OF ital Prepara- cls aud iiixirs GENERAL WHOLESALE AGNTS FOR Wolf, Patton & Co. and John L. Whiting, Manufacturers of Fine Paint and Var- nish Brushes. THE CELEBRATED Pioneer Prepared Paints, ALSO FOR THE Grand Rapids Brush Co., Manu- facturers of Hair, Shoe snd Horse Brushes. WE ARE SOLE OWNERS OF Foothonin’s Mirhiran Motann Weatherly’s hiiehigan Catarrh Cure Which is positively the best Remedy of the kind on the market. 4. 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. Wine aud Liquor Department _ 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. WeCONTROL and are the ONLY AUTHORIZED AGENTS for the sale of the celebrated WITHERS DADE & C0,°S Henderson Co., Ky., Sour Mash and Old-Fashioned Hand-Made, Copper- Distilled WHis ky & We not only offer these goods to be ex- celled by NOOTHER KNOWN BRAND in the market, but superior in all respects to most that are exposed to sale. We 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 Hragaists Favorite Rye, Which continues to have so many favor- ites among druggists who have sold these goods for a very long time. Buy our Gins, Brandes & Fine Wines, We call your attention to the adjoining list of market quotations whic’. 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 as Patent Wledicines, Etc., we invite your correspondence. Mail orders always receive our special and personal attention. Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co, — ~*~ a m The Wichigan Tradssma. A MERCANTILE JOURNAL, PUBLISHED EACH WEDNESDAY. KK. A. STOWE & BRO., Proprietors. Office in Eagle Building, 49 Lyon St., 3d Floor. Telephone No. 95, {Entered at the Postofice at Grand Rapids as Second-class Matter.) "WEDNESDAY, APRIL % 1886, “BUSINESS LAW. Brief Digests of Recent Decisions in Courts of Last Resort. EMPLOYER AND EMPLOYEE—GROUND FOR DISCHARGE. The mere fact that an employee brings a suit against his employer to recover a debt due him arising out of a transaction indepen- dent of the relation of master and servant is not a ground for discharge, according to the decision of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in the case of Clay Commercial Telephone Co. vs. Root. CHATTEL MORTGAGE—FRAUD AS AGAINST CREDITORS. ‘The Minnesota Supreme Court held in the ‘ease of Bannon vs. Bowler that while a mortgage of chattels (as a stock in trade) left in possession of the mortgagor, which by its terms authorized the latter to dispose of the property as his own without satisfac- tion of the mortgage debt, should be deem- ed fraudulent as against the creditors of the mortgagor, yet thata stipulation inthe mort- gage providing for the application of the proceeds of sales directly to the mortgage debt would be liable to no such objection. PAYMENTS BY ASSIGNEE FOR CREDITORS. Payments by an assignee for the benefit of creditors do not prevent the running of the statute of limitations as to a debt of the assignor, according to the decision of the Michigan Supreme Court in the case of Par- sons vs. Clark. The court said: ‘‘It is the duty of an assignee to pay and discharge the debts of his assignor, so far as he is enabled to do so, from the assets, and he has no authority in virtue of his trust to renew, re- vive or continue in force the undischarged portion thereof, or to bind his assignor by either an express or implied promise of pay- ment. Theright of action by the creditor against the debtor is not barred by the as- signment. He may bring his action, not- withstanding the assignment, as soon as itis made. The assignment, therefore, did not operate to prevent the statute from run- ning.” SALE OF ORGAN—SATISFACTION OF PUR- CHASER. An organ-vender set up an organ in a per- son’s house under an agreement that the lat- ter should keep it and pay for it if it proved satisfactory to him. The buyer felt dissat- isfied, and so notified the vender. The lat- ter thought that the dissatisfaction was without reasonable ground. The Supreme Court of Vermont held, McClure vs. Briggs, that provided the buyer acted in good faith he was, under the agreement, the sole judge as to his satisfaction with the organ. The court, in giving judgment, said: ‘‘It is said that he was bound to be satisfied, as he had _ho ground to be dissatisfied. He was bound to act honestly, and to give the instrument a fair trial, and such as the seller hada right, under the circumstances to expect he would give it, and herein to exercise such judgment and capacity as he had, for by the contract he was the one to be satisfied, and not another forhim. If he did this, and was still dissatisfied, and that dissatisfac- tion was real and not feigned, honest and not pretended, it is enough, and plaintiffs have not fulfilled their contract, and all these elements are gatherable from the re- port.” INSURANCE POLICY—MEANING OF PANCY. An insurance policy issued on a dwelling house and farm buldings contained a pro- vision that if the premises became vacant and remained so for ten days without the consent of the company, the policy should be void. At the time the policy was taken out the premises were occupied by a tenant who left after a year’s time. It appeared that the insured lived two miles from the place, and that the premises were only occu- pied by hands going to and fro when they had work to do on the insured premises; when they had no work the premises were vacant. The Supreme Court of Wisconsin held that the premises were not occupied under the terms of the policy. The court said: ‘‘Fora dwelling to bein a state of occupancy there must be in it the presence of human beings as at their customary place of abode, not absolutely continuous, but it must be the place of usual return and hab- itual stoppage. * * * Adwelling-house and a barn are unoccupied within the mean- ing of an insurance policy which provides that buildings unoccupied shall not be cov- ered by the policy when the house is only OcCcU- used by servants in taking their meals when | | working a contiguous farm and the barn is only used in storing hay and tools.” PRIVILEGED TILE AGENCIES. The law governing communications made | Maga by mercantile agencies to their subscribers in the course of thei> business was much discussed by Judge Harmon, of the Super- ior Court of Cincinnati, in charging the _ jury in the recent case of Crist vs. Brad- _/ street Company. This anaction brought COMMUNICATION-——-MERCAN- | against the Company for alleged misrep- resentations made by it to certain of its sub- seribers regarding the mercantile standing and credit of the plaintiff. The judge in his charge made the following clear and forcible statement of the principles of law applicable to the case: ‘‘In the ordinary case of a publication by one person of another, if the publishing be admitted and the statement be one which from its nature is calculuted to injure the business reputa- tion, standing or credit of the person com- plaining, his case is made out, unless the publisher prove his statements to be true. * * * But where the person making the statement was under some obligation or duty to make a statement on the subject to the persons to whom it was made, a differ- ent rule applies and for a manifest reason. Ordinary publications are purely voluntary. The only duty the maker of them owes to any one is to the person whom they con- cern—the duty not to injure him by stating anything false about him, and this duty is absolute. Where, however, the publica- tion is made because the maker is under obligation to the person to whom it is made, to give information about the person con- cerned, he also owes a duty to the person to whom the statement is made, not to mis- lead him by withholding information re- ceived and honestly believed to be true. The law, therefore, which is reasonable in all things, does not in such cases impose on the person making the statement the absolute risk as to its truth, as in other cases, but protects him, although it proves to be false, if it was made in an effort, in good faith, to discharge his duty of giving information, and with an honest belief in its truth. Statements made in the discharge of such a duty are called ‘privileged,’ and the priv- ilege extends to them whether the duty be imposed by law, as where one is called as a | witness; by circumstances, as where one is | inquired of concerning a person formerly in his employ by one about to employ him, or voluntarily assumed by undertaking to pro- cure information on the subject dealt with by the statement for persons whose interest makes it proper for them to haveit. The duty of defendant was of the latter class, the others being mentioned merely for il- lustration. It was engaged ina business which the commercial! world has found use- ful, and which the law recognizes as legit- imate and proper, viz.: the business of col- lecting for the use of its customers informa- tion concerning the reputation, standing and credit of persons engaged in the various branches of trade and commerce. Persons having or liable to have commercial deal- ings with others have a right to make such inquiries upon all subjects relating to such others as are calculated to inform them to what extent they would be justified in deal- ing with or trusting them. Such subjects include the means, past history, present standing, reputation for honesty and fair dealing, personal habits, so far as they affect business standing, ete., of such per- sons. * * * Those desiring such infor- mation for such purposes not only have a right to make inquiries themselves, but send their employes or special agents to make them, or may employ persons engaged, like defendant, in the general business of collect- ing and furnishing such information. And in order that the duty of supplying such in- formation. And in order that the duty of supplying such information may be freely and faithfully performed, the law, from motives of sound policy, confers on persons bearing such relations to each other the privilege of freely communicating on such subjects so long as they have an eye single to the discharge of such duty. * * The business of the mercantile agency estab- lished and conducted by the defendant, as disclosed in the evidence, is lawful and use- ful, and the defendent had the right to com- municate the information it possessed as to the character, credit and financial standing of plaintiff to any person or firm entitled to use and receive it for his or their guidance in dealing with the plaintiff, and if the de- fendant, in obtaining and giving such infor- mation to such persons so entitled to receive the same, acted in good faith, and believed such information to be true, there is no ground for action, even though the informa- tion communicated should prove to be incor- rect and unfounded in fact.” 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 s0 as to derive the greatest medicinal effect, and is making wonderful cures. 135 Are You Going to Shelve a Store, Pan- try or Closet ? If 80, send jor prices ard jur- ther _tnformation. Eagleston & Patien’s PATENT Adjustable Ratchet Par AND Bracket Shelving irons Creates a New Era in Store Furnisu- Inc. It entirely su- fame persedes the old style wherever in- troduced. Guaranteed All tnfringe- mentspro- seculed. Ifnottobe had from our local ardware Dealer, send your orders dis & Oo, Troy, Ni, ¥. PUTNAM & BROOKS Wholesale Mannfacturers of PURE CANDY ORANGES, LEMONS, BANANAS, FIGS, DATES, ce From WATER + FREE Foy, DIRECTIONS ij We have cooked the corn in this can ¥| sutliciently. Should be Thoroughly jp Warmed (not = bag adding piece of Good Butter (size of hen segs) at id gill NS of fresh milk (preferable to water.) . Season to “i ¥ when on the table. None N genuine uuless bearing the signature of f “ty f ny A 2 Mal (rch Ceckirr, bj Zz CHILLICOTHE ILL. - £N AT THIS Every can wrapped in colored tissue paper with signature and stamp on each can. P. STEKETER & SUNS, JOBBERS IN DRY GOODS, B38 Monroe st... AND 10, 12, 14, 16 AND 18 FOUNTAIN STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Peerless Carpet Warps and Geese Feathers a Specialty. FJ. DETTENTHALER, JOBBER OF OYSTERS & FISH, BUTTER AND EGGS, CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED, 117 MONROE ST, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. JENNINGS Flavoring’ Hxtracts! MANUFACTURED BY JHNNINGS & SMITH, Props, Arctic Manufacturing Op, \ ‘MICE. CURTISS, DUNTON & CO, apecr Twines, Cordage, Woodenware, WOOL TWINE, BINDERS’ TWINE Tarred Felt, Tarred Board, Building Board, Ee. LYON ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. RINDGE, BERTSCH & CO, MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN BOOTS AND SHOES. AGENTS FOR THE BOSTON RUBBER SHOE CO. 14 and 16 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. WM. SEARS & CO. Cracker Manutacturers, Aasents for AMBOY CHEESE. 87, 389 & 41 Kent Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan. ¢ s @ GO TO Puan & Brooks FOR URANGES, LEMONS Figs, Dates, ETC. atid? . BULKLEY, LEMON & HOOPS, ° Importers and W holesale Grocers. Boilie Agonts For Daniel Scotten & Co.’s “HIAWATHA Plug Tobacco. Lautz. Bros. & Co.'s SOAPS. Niagara STARCH. Dwinell, Howard & Co.’s Bova Mocha and Java. Royal Java. Golden Santos. Thompson & Taylor Spice Co.’s “Mag- nolia” Package Coffee. SOLE PROPRIETORS “JOLLY TIME” Fine Cut Dark and sweet, with 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 Tonia St.aud 51, 53, 59, 97 and 59 Island Sts, Grand Rapids, Mich. | . a a ag es The Michigan Tradesman, Making Electric Lamps. From the New York Tribune. The ineandescent electric light has be- come a familiar object to every one. The little glass bulbs with their brilliant horse- shoe of glowing filament attract no more attention than the flickering gas-jet. But the facts about the gas-jet are easily and generally understood, while the electric lamp is still a puzzle to many people. Both produce light by incandescence. The mole- cules of gas are rendered incandescent by the heat generated by the combustion of other molecules. The blue portion of every gas flame is where combustion is taking place, and from that comes the heat which keeps the rest in a state of incandesence. With the electric lamp it is the heat pro- duced by the friction of an electric current compelled to go through a fine earbon fila- ment, which raises that filament to a condi- tion of incandesence and produces light. The three substances which enter into the composition of an electric lamp are glass, platinum wire and bamboo or paper. Glass bulbs are readily prepared by the usual methods of glass-blowing, but the prepara- tion of the bamboo is a delicate piece of work. In the best lamps the little horse- shoe is made of bamboo, and this material has proved its superiority to its rival, paper, in several ways. The bamboo comes from Japan in the bundles of slips a foot in length. Japanese bamboo is of finer qual- ity than the Chinese. It is first split up into little square strips. Girls round these off by running them through dies until they look like little broom straws. These are put in crucibles with graphite and subinit- ted to 2 white heat for several hours. This earbonizes thein thoroughly. The filaments are not all of exactly the same size when taken out of the crucibles, and if used in that state would present varying resistances to the current, and the lamps would not be even and economical in their working. ‘To make them uniform, they are put one by one into a glass jar from which the air can be exhausted and a hydrogen gas—the lightest of the products of petroleum—can be added. A current of electricity is run through the horseshoe filament and it ab- sorbs carbon from the gas until the operator sees that its resistance has been reduced to the regulation amount. The standard used in the factory from which this description was cbtained is 250 ohms. The moment when the resistence has reached the desired point is told by means of an apparatus fam- iliar to electricians—the Wheatstone bridge. Now, the lamp is in three parts: the bulb, the carbon filament, and the stopper containing the two platinum wires which are to connect the horseshoe of carbon with the system of wires that carries the current all over a building to the hundreds of lamps. It only remains to put the stopper in its place at the larger end of the pear-shaped glass bulb, seal it air-tight in the flame of a blow-pipe, extract the air from the bulb by amercury pump, and then seal the other end. The bulb is made of the thinnest glass, and before the air is exhausted from it, it will break easily. After the vacum is created, however, it can be handled care- lessly without injury; and when it does break there is a report like that of a dozen pop-guns. The lamps are expected to burn six hun- dred hours. Sometimes, like other articles of human manufacture, they fall short of expectations. The competitive trial recent- ly made at the Franklin Institute of the lamps of the various companies furnished several wveful examples of this truth. A well-made lamp will last that length of time, however. If, by bad workmanship, air is allowed to leak in, the carbon burns out quickly. If itis run at too high a ten- sion—that is, if too much current is sent through it, the friction wears out the little horseshoe in a shorter time and it breaks. It is the necessity for a practically absolute vacuum that requires the employment of the platinum connecting wires. Platinum is the only metal which expands and con- tracts with heat at the same rate as glass. This keeps the joint, where the wires pass through the glass, always tight so that no air can enter. There is a fortune in store for the inventor who can get up some kind of cement that will prevent the passage of air, and at the same time admit the use of cheap copper instead of costly platinum wires. The problem may be capable of solution, for this whole matter of electrle lighting is still in its infancy, though nota most vigorous state of infancy. ———<_ -9 > See ‘‘Baking Powder” advertisement else- where. TO THE RETAIL GROCER. Why don’t you make your own Baking Powder And a lrundred per cent. profit? Ihave made mine for years. Twelve receipts, including the leading powders of the day, with full directions for preparing,—the re- sult of 30 years’ collecting, selecting and experiment- ing, sent for a $1 postal note. Address Cc. P. Bartlett, Baldwinsville, N. Y. BULL DOG Tobaccos. TRADE UNION ——AND—— LABOR UNION, The largest amount of good tobacco for the least money. AND EXTRA GOOD These goods are all UNION MADE, and each box is duly stamped with the Union Label. No scap work goes from this fae- tory. Every employee is a Union man and aK. 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 Works, Covineton, Ky. Dissolntion of Coparinership Notice is hereby given that the copartner- ship heretofore existing under the firm name ot Leach & Forrester, manufacturers and deal- ers in shingles, is this day dissol , WwW. W. Forrester succeeding. All accounts due the late firm must be paid to the said W. W. For- rester and al) debts of the late firm will be paid by the said W. W. Forrester. Cc. N. LEACH, W. W. FORESTER. Dated at Pierson, March 16, 1886. : a FRESH MEATS. John Mohrhard quotes the trade selling Prices as follows: Fresh Beef, sides...................6.. 8 @7 Fresh Beef, hind quarters........ «+. 64@ 7% Dressed Hogs............ccccecccccceee DA®@ 5% Mutton, cargasses................ seeee OHO 1% WOOL is ccc ec i pe ucats das suaieose Sasnc a: @ Pork SAQUSBRC.... 6.5.05 0525% ny case te ae PUSAN a cs ask kl os calc ae anes 64@ 7 Ba ok hs we koe ok oc wd edd dk 138 @l4 Brrr CUIGMOBS. ois os capers cases 14 @15 TO og is sc ws Sak ee @l4 MNWUMN 5s airs as bs ick oko cen es enee @l4 OYSTERS AND FISH. ¥. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: OYSTERS. WOW VOPR COUNT eek ois Ee cede ec denne 35 Me, COS BeeCte es ao os vee oe ce eae é RO a eek as ce ee eas oe ck ise es 2 PPOWOVS 8. cok adie ke pub asd peas fede cee, 20 POP MANU A a oa nko e ek eda e eee ae Ret TA NE a ek ho ec siceeen's ca ce 1% Srendanae, DY DWE 6 ie. s ecco cs ce oc ae is Shrewsbury shells, @ 100.................... 1 65 Princess Bay Clams, # 100.................. 1 00 New York Counts, @ 100.................... 1 40 FRESH FISH. Re ee eae d @10 URN an io sien @it oN PELE SN SS Lee reap ne er res 12 @12% DIAORINAW THOU. ooo io cece soc s aves @% Oo oe aa kc eons nee s @ 4 PORN a ee ae ls ee cas 10 @i1l WWHIUCRBR oo 5 oes ee GS ck eee @9 HARDWOOD LUMBER. The furniture factories here pay as follows for dry stock: Basswood, log-run................02- @13 00 BRUPON, LOR PUN ss uc oo snk we boo se ce os 16 00@20 Biren, NOs. 2 and 2... .... o.....cs nes A @25 00 Black Ash, 10m... .... cc access @13 00 Cherry, log-run....... St eee aie eed 25 00@30 00 Cherry, Nos. 1 and 2......... wikis n 45 00@50 00 SET OM a a ci al @10 00 MABDIO. WORT ooo bac i iecen scans 15 00@17 00 MABDIiC, BOTb, 1OR-TUN. ..5 2... eee see cs 12 00@14 00 Manic, NOS: 1ANG?. ook cs esc s ccs @20 00 Maple, clear, flooring................ @25 00 Maple, white, selected............... @25 00 MOQIRE, ORTON. ies a a ee @18 00 mec Oak, NOS. 1 And 2................ @22 00 Red Oak, No. 1,step plank.......... @25 00 Wy AIG, LOR EI. oo oe es os vec Se se : @ad 00 Wainnt, Nos. 1 and2..:... cis s.., @75 00 Wy PIA, CUUIR, occ ae @25 00 Srey lm, toe-PUN 2... occas es @13 00 Weaite Ash, lop-rn, ws. 5 2k. 14 00@16 00 Whitewood, log-run................. @23 00 TIME TABLES. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern. (KALAMAZOO DIVISION.) Leave. Arrive. Bx.and N.Y. Nox. ONLY. Mail. Mail. Mail. Ex. p.m. A. im. a.m, Dp, m. 4:49 7:50 Dp..Grand Rapids...Ar 9:50 9 7:15 Bros: 9207... 44: PUORAT coo. 0. 8:32 6:55 10:05...... Kalamazoo......... 7:30 9:50 11:40...... White Pigeon...... 5:50 am. p.m. p. m. £216. 5710.,.... TOGO aa 215 Be). O80... .. Cleveland ;......... 6:40 p.m. a.m. a.m. 9:40... 3280. .2... BuMalo .2.0 ks: 11:55 a.m. p.m. p.m. 5:40. 8200,.....Ohicago......... Ly 11 30 A local freight leaves Grand Rapids atl! p.m., carrying passengers as far as Allegan. Al! trains daily except Sunday. J.W. MCKENNEY, General Agent. Chicago & West Michigan. : Leaves. Arrives, Tc ee 9:00am 4:30 pm TARY TOXDPORE..... 2-62.05 5. 12:35pm = 9:25pm *Night Wxpress,........... 10:40pm 5:45am Muskegon Express......... 4:20pm 11:20am *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 on9:15a. m. and 10:40 p. m. trains. NEWAYGO DIVISION, Leaves. Arrives. Express beaee te bah ek ace cia - 4:20pm 7:30 pm BOROYORS ee oa, 8:00am 10:50a m All trains arrive and depart from Union De- pot. The Northern terminus of this Divisionis at Baldwin, where close connection is made with F. & P.M. trains to and from Ludington and Manistee. J. H. CARPENTER, Gen’! Pass. Agent. J. B. MULLIKEN, General Manager. Detroit, Mackinac & Marquette. Going West. Going East. a2 OT Houghton....... .. 8:30am 3:00pm, D..... Marquette ........ A, 1:00 pm 2:05 pm,A..... Marquette......... D, 1:40 p m 10310 BM:... 6s. ONO esi aa ae 4:50 pm 73001. .....-: Mt. 20000... ... 5... 8:15pm 6:15am........Mackinaw City....... 9:30 p m 6700 Om... .,.- Grand Rapids........ 10:30 am Express trains Nos. 1 and 2 make close con- nections at Magkinac City with Michigan Cen- traland G. R.& 7. 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. - A. WATSON, Gen. Supt., Marquette, Mich. E. W. ALLEN, Gen. Pass. and Ticket Agent, Marquette. Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee. GOING EAST. Arrives. Leaves. +Steamboat Express. ..... 6:25am Tr nrougn Mall ......:..... 10:40am 10:50am tEvening Express......... 3:40pm 3:50pm *Limited Express.......... 8:30pm 10:45pm +Mixed, with coach........ 11:00 a m GOING WEST. +Morning Exxpress......... 1:05pm 1:10pm NA prOugn MAU... 8: 6:00pm 56:10pm +*Steamboat Express....... 10:40 p m WOR ee 7:10am *Night Hxpress............; 5:10am 5:35am +Daily, Sundays exeepted. *Daily. Passengers taking the 6:25 a. m. Express make close connections at Owosso for Lansing and at Detroit for New York, arriving there at 10:00 a. m. the following morning. The Night Express has a through Wagner Car and local Sleeping Car Detroit tc Grand Rapids. D. Porter, City Pass. Agent. Gro. B. REEVE, Traflic Manager, Chicago. Grand Rapids & Indiana, GOING NORTH. ce : Arrives. Leaves Cincinnati & Gd Rapids Ex 9:20 pm Jincinnati & Mackinac Ex. 9:30am = 11:30a m Ft.Wayne& Mackinac Ex 4:10pm 5:05pm G’d Rapids & Tray. City Ac. 7:00a m : GOING SOUTH. G. Rapids & Cincinnati Ex. 7:15am Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex. §:05pm 6:30pm Mackinac & Ft.WayreEx..10:30am 11:45am Cadillac & G’d Rapids Ac.10:30 p m All trains daily except Sunday. SLEEPING CAR ARRANGEMENTS. North—Train leaving at 5:05 o’elock p. m. has Sleeping and Chair Cars for Petoskey and Mackinac. Trainleaving at 11:30 a.m. has — Sleeping and Chair Car for Mackinaw Jity. South—Train leaving at 5:30 p.m. bas Wood- ruff Sleeping Car for Cincinnati. C. L.. LOCKWOOD, Gen’! Pass. Agent. Michigan Central. DEPART. *Detrolt Hxpresa. 2.06... oes: 6:00 am TIORY FUROR: oo. ka sect occas) 12:45 9 m *ATANLIC MAPICS... 6-6 6.5-0 ines vcs ces 10:40 p m Way trent. ee. 6:50 a m ARRIVE. MPACING TPXDTORS. «oi oii oie os cok 6:00 am RMR a ss 3:30 p m +Grand Rapids Express............... 10:35 p m “7 POUR ess cck as es .-- 5:15pm +Daily except Sunday. *Daily. Sleeping cars run on Atlantic and Pacific Express. Direct and prompt connection made with Great Western, Grand Trunk and Canada Southern trains in same depot at Detroit, thus avoiding transfers. The Detroit Express leaving at 6:00 a. m. has Drawing Room and Psrlor Car for Detroit reaching that city at 11:45 a.m., New York 10:36 a.m.,and Boston 3:05 by m. next day. A train leaves Detroit at 4 p. m. daily except Sunday with drawing room car attached, ‘ve ing at Grand Rapids at 10:35 p. m. Cuas. H. NorxIs, Gen’] Agent * Apricots, 25 hb boxes.....! Cherries, pitted, 50 Ib bo Bex plums, & © WOROG 5 Be si ceicis Peaches, Delaware, 50 b box WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT. These prices are for cash buyers, who p promptly and buy in full packages. AXLE GREASE. FYAZOr's... 0.0552. a WARP are@or 225... 6k. 2 Diamond X........ 60) Paragon 25 bb pails. Modoc, 4 doz....... 2 50| Fraziers, 25 bb pails.1 BAKING POWDER. Thompson’s Butterfiy, bulk................ . nt Gorl0D eans...... “ “ 4,4 doz. in case... ‘ 77 L 3 “ ue 2» J. H. Thompson & Co.’s Princess, 4 oe “ 77 “e % “ “ ee “ss “cc be ss ee “se yy “ec » oe 2 o “ I “cc > “ “ se ry’ 1 oe 5 River MOOG, Gh OANS oo iowa es ecu aes 10 Victorian, 1 B cans, (tall,) 2 doz..... ...... 2 MI, Oo a ei in kn cece BLUING. BP, Ie Boks creek ees cetaceans eacn de doz. Pe ecu ees ch aes doz. Re 6 OF og es doz. DA Oe oi ii cos ci eee na doz. OU OF. oes ice calececn aan eens gross OUI ss oa ti cee de saeeantiges 8 SAPOUN B ON. oe cia ious ewe ees casa ch 1 APOtG NOx: l pepper DOX.. 0... 6. cs sees os Dry, Arctie No. 2 - : Arctie No.3 bas - BROOMS. No, 1) Hurl. ...... <<: 2 00|\Common Whisk.... No. 2Carpet........ 2 25;Fancy Whisk...... No. 1 Carpet........ Oe OE is oan ke ela ces No. 1 ParlorGem..2 75 CANNED FISH. Cyaeig, FT Little Nee... .. ccc ese sv eee Clams, 2 tb. Little Neck.......... Ab COOWGOE, Bo cok keds eee cs wae cele Cove Oysters, 1 i standards.............. Cove Oysters, 2 tb standards............. BMEEER. 1 OOO. oo nok co cones edness d EO DBEOTO DU, TIOIIC. «oo vei sce gece scenes 2 POR URE, Rr RUE, 5 ci kg oe ns ob oak cece TD OMOOTE. GF ty UME co. coc cote kcdetsaeuh es ‘ Mackerel, 1 ih fresh standards............ Mackerel, 5 i fresh standards............ Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 th........... 3 Mackerel,3 in Mustard.............5.--- t PRROCKOPOL 0 BOUSEC. ... osc c cece enc once es é Salmon, 1 ih Columbia river.....-......-...- Salmon, 2 ) Columbia river..............- 2 PAFGIROR, CGOMOGHOC WG... soon vs a ee ees BAPdines, GOMCEHC 368... 0.62. cece sence Bardines, Mustard 466.) occ cc isk se we ue Maraines, Waported 368. ..5. 2... 55. see ss Wet, 3 DPOOK. . oi. ke ek. « CANNED FRUITS. Applies, 6 standaras ......-......<.25.2.% Apples, gallons, standards................ 2 BIGGDeSrries., STANGATGS. . 6... cn cee e es norrios, POG Stangard.... ... 6... see ess ONO ee ees ace ee ce Egg Plums, standards Green Gages, standards 2 I............... Peaoncs, Mxira 7 euOW ......-....24.-2.5-. POBOD OR GEANGRIGA 2 ooo een ccc oe oes 1 60 FORO OGM ROOTS ok oe a be cc ke ea spas ec 1 25 WirOSN DOS, IG oc ccc ccc nse neues 1 50 PINCAPPIOR, SLAMGATOS, .. 2.0... ..ccenecr ees 1 40 Pineapples, Johnson’s sliced... .......... 2 60 Pineapples, Johnson’s, grated...... ..... TO ee cs oe awd es bean ee be 1% WOMSDOGEFICR, OXUIA. 66 occa cc cece eka es 115 OUGAWOOPTIOR: ooo. teens ete ee ee 1 35 CANNED FRUTTS—CALIFORNIA. Lusk’s. PPIOIR ois chon cs aie cee eee 2 25 BO PUB oo oes bcc e case 210 Me aa cca pean es 240 Prreen Cares... 6. ees 2 10 ie deren ei cee oe. 2 50 OMIOCR ee a ice ae os 2 50 PORCHES Coos fcc cievaecs pe: 2 3d CANNED VEGETABLES. Asparagus, Oveter BAY. ...........0.000--- BGR ENG. RIBNART. . 8... css oc aes BOGS, BUTIN@ICHR, FVIC... . cies cos. ceca n cee Beans, Lewis’ Boston Baked.............. 1 6: A, COT 6 ETO oi nie koe ce ccke ee ee ea ee Oh RO ERR oe hc oki a ce eceee ase. We OB oo ke Shane ccc ce ae PO, BOON oo ns va eee cececar ks cee reas, Marrotat, standard... .......-<.s< GOTUOD. owen kook cc csaoas ces: PICOOTHB, BURTICIIIEC:< Co csc ac ccc ne se ceaes PE ee ea er dawns 6 Tomatoes, standard bratds............... I 25 CHEESE, Mronigeh Till CORI. <2 oo... ce0s se ck ee eimtr GRIM... Skim . CHOCOLATE. Maker @ ..:..35...55 3744'German Sweet.......23 Pages 6.6 cs. 35; Vienna Sweet ....... 22 COCOANUT. BOHODDG, CAKE DOK, ... 02. ..052<+0ceee> ee We aes es ae oa ee ek MAO GE POURRA. ow. cece s onan ce io assort “cc oe hice ee aks case wae cases MIATMAUAT BAIR oi as Coe caso vanes COFFEES. Green. | Roasted. BO coset caso SOR NG. 6c. nes. T@15 Golden BRio......... 2 iGolden Hio......... 16 BeNtO8 cc ane... .......... I MSrICADO. ...:....55 13 /Maricabo Rice kas 17 Go oa en on CORD WAVE ec uc as. PAG@26 , SOVE...... 6... me 0). G. dave... ...6.: 28 DROGRA oo. c es sane 25 |Mocha.. COFFEES—PACKAGE, 60 hs 100 Ths 300 Ibs POOP Oi as soci ce sc ess 1334 RO a, ag ae a Re 1334 WPOUCHIO @ io ck 5... cases tus. ee MRP en oe weak aces AR oa i cl ek cee cess 1344 CORDAGE. 60 foot Jute..... 100 (50 foot Cotton... %2 foot Jute ..... 12% (60 foot Cotton,...1 75 40 Foot Cotton....1 50 (72 foot Cotton....2 CRACKERS AND SWEET GOODS. Kenosha Butter.............+.. Bevmour Hutter............... Pe cee MMROY TRUGIOY ooo oi cece cen os Fe, CNG ae ens aie cane ce ON ee vee on cee MOnOCyY OVBUCE, oo. ok. csc aces cs ‘ I TOR ooo ok ioe caine ues RR PO aes cacan ocees ei cac eee see ei cae Pe ee aa kes RPE ck ioe cece vans OO OO ov oo cae Sas ce es Pretzels, hand-made........... RO oes cade oe cc cas ccees CARRIE oo bo ce cack saa ve aes POOR COPOOT oo. beck sla anes Frosted Cream. ...........00.- Ginmor SOAS. ......5. 62-6655 No. 1 Ginger Snaps............ PIOTRON BREET oii ak cc cones ns ROR OO COR eee sc ce cence BIMINON, WALORR Cooks ices ces Beg UT SSP an te Oe a Sah asin Extra Honey Jumbles......... Frosted Honey Cakes......... CA GOS. os ioe ec cc ee was PIAPIOVS COIOR. oc. ies is sees BOG CARGH.. sci ccics scenes cs B: @ Mt. CHNOS. 2... oe c oes FISH. Bloaters, Smoked Yarmouth.............. TH@S80 OM IO og hence cae oie hhc ae ace eue 4@5 Oe rs oes acca ac case ccc, 5@6% ME oe recs ne wks ca cc du avedce senses caens l0@11 Prerring, TOU, 46 BE. ows coca - ccc e dese cs 2 2! Bierring found, DD)... 6. ice cass ccc Rlerriig, FIOQUARG, WHIG. ood. ois Scie kes 11 00 erring, HOuand, Kees: .: 20... 2... 80@9% WIGEPIUG, CRO’ |. oe, voc ek ics cui ckess 22 66 DDIS.. i. och .2 ee 5! Mackerel, shore, No. 2, } “ " “12 b kits “6 rv ‘“ cas ss No. 3, % bbis....... Cie atkh aes. ee I ee i ee a ee ey f RR ie encewh cscs ckcrsd chess cu, 2 Trout, ‘6 DOM ie seve cede eb ck mig OR iy eas eke ca ck ea case White, No. 1, 4% bbis ............ eee burahese 6 50 Wirite, NO. 4.92 WIR. a oc ce es 1 00 White, NO. 1,36} Kits. ........2 2... biedeacs White, Family, 4 DDIS:... 66.0.0 ak. 2 50 FLAVORING EXTRACTS. Lemon. Jennings’ 2 0Z............. -.+..8 doz.1 00 * MOBS, vei bcs es 1 50 “ OOhrs ee a OO ae as 35 + MOce TARO. oes cee casei 1 25 Ns BOO eer se aede tO - % pint round..............4 50 ae i See ee ee pr " No. fac Ae se - NO. 90 ous cs FRUITS—DOMESTIC. % ears, 25 ib boxes........... eaches, Michigan........... aspberries, 50 tb bo: . t oro 4% 30 -t a otek Sos i So SUT CO ee OU OS Base SRSSSESSy a tee ee eene Pee eee Steel cut...........5 25) RolledOats,Shields’3 25 Steel Cut, 4% bbl....3 13) Rolled Oats, Aeme.3 25 Rolled Oats........ 6 50; Quaker, 48 tbs...... 5 25 Rolled Oats, 4bbl..3 0¢ Quaker, 60 tbs...... 2 50 Rolled Oats, cuses.3 25|Quaker bbls........ 6 00 PICKLES. PO a, @5 00 - WG OSPOIS oe eee cc @3 00 Oe @5 00 PIPES. Imported Clay 3 gross.................2 25@8 00 Imported Clay, No. 216,3 gross..... .. @2 25 Imported Clay, No. 216, 2% gross...... @1 85 POON TE Tse. 75@ 90 RICE. Choice Carolina..... OA FAVE 2. cc... cas. Prime Carolina... 644) Patna ............... 5% Good Carolina...... 5 |Rangoon.......54@i% Good Louisiana..... > (eypouen.. §..... 348% SALERATUS. DeLand’s pure......5%/Dwight’s ........... 4 Church’s oss ba kh wd ee Oe POMEL. se 5% Taylor’s G. M.......544/Cap Sheaf...........5% 4c less in 5 box lots. SALT. GO Pocket. FB Psiry........<... 2.2... 2 25 We POOROG i ce i, 215 We) WOGMOUR. koe. oc ee sk 2 35 parinaw or Manistee, ................ 1 00 Ome ee 1 45 Prmucgere COaree...... 6... 6... : 1 25 Ashton, English, dairy, bu. bags...... 75 Ashton, English, dairy, 4 bu. bags.... 2 75 Higgins’ English dairy bu. bags...... 70 American, dairy, % bu. bags.......... 25 oem. pene a Warsaw, Dairy, bu. bags.............. 45 ‘ . eo 25 SAUCES. Parson, 4 pimie.... ... 66.1... ce. s., @2 00 Pepper Sauce, red small.............. @ 70 Pepper Sauce, wreen ....0..5. 5.6.4. 02. @ 80 Pepper Sauce, red large ring......... @1 25 Pepper Sauce, green, large ring...... @1 50 Cateup, Tomar, pints.............<... @ 80 Catsup, Tomato, quarts .............. @1 20 PaOrd Salioe, Hints... .............. @8 50 Halford Sauce, % pints................ @2 20 SOAPS. Acme, Dars........5 THNGDNIN............. 4 85 Acme, blocks..... POW! 46:5, 0... t 75 Best American....: Cireus ... 8 White Marseilles..5 60 5 White Cotton Oil..5 60 3 2 > 3 2 3 { 7 Big Five Center...3 90'Shamrock.......... 3u POM OR deuce vik, 3 45 Blue Danube.......2 95 a 3 55 London Family....2 60 SPICES. Ground. Whole. PONOEY ......-5. 16@25|Pepper ........... @i8 Allene .......... 2G 15 Alispice .......... S@.10 Cinnamon........ IS8@30| Cassia ............ 1O@ 11 Cloves ........... 16@25 Nutmegs, No. 1.. @é60 Ginger ...........16@20'Nutmegs, No.2.. @50 DHBIArG. ......... Ib@aoiCloves ......:.... 16@18 Cayenne .........25@35 ’ STARCH. Electric Lustre........ ee aa @3 20 Dibeare. PAU... ooo ociccc se. 3144@ 4 Permenyen, M1088... ..-...... @ 5% ries Corn... @, 644 Ova O06 a HOMIES ooo oes ee. 4 @5. Caker, Iaungry. G60)... .......... 8... @+ 50 SUGARS. ee @it POMOCTOG oe @ 7 Granniated, Standard................. @ 65 CONTECHONONY Boos 6 ooo cece ccc ce scn @ 644 ee ee @ 6 m0. s. Weeite extra C.-.... kc... @ 5% mG Serta Ce . & 5% BN ied os iddc buds ecsendecwssevs @ 5% y , > . Rae. enna @5 SYRUPS. ON, TORRVONR oe oi ce on ccc cas Wa dees 22@26 MI ik cok k sc cee. 24427 en; waster Gee |... Q29 rr, © Wee BOGe ok ecco cce, 135 Vg ge ee en 22@26 Wr coe oc 24@28 Pure Suwar Goal kees................. @I1 50 TEAS. OO OUONABEE oe ovine cc cack oc, 15@20 Oe 2530 WT eg oc ivec celica ee Bd@ADS MO cel oe luc cece uote sac aac 15,20 ee i ead i occ acc B0@50 Od Bek a ee 35.50 MI oo ia ee. ee sc, BIG@SI@EC CO ~ 25@30 TOBACCO—FINE CUT—IN PALLS. ir Wook... .:,.......O000ld Time... 5... 5.85 Yum Yum...........25 Underwood’s Capper 35 Sweet Rose.......... az| Sweet Rose.......... 45 May Queen....... .65 Meigs & Co.’s Stunner35 SOUY RING... ccc ese. AY UNE nc oc ccs cy. 35 Dark AmericanEagle67 Royal Game.......... 38 The MOIGS. 22.50. 606: G2 Mule Bar............. 65 mee Gitd.....,...... OPOuntain............. 74 Mtate Soal............ 60;Old Congress......... 64 Prairie Flower ......65|Good Luck...........52 Indian Queen........ 60/Blaze Away.......... 35 Bull Dog... .......:.. *SiiHair Lifter........... 30 Crown Leaf..... .... 66\Jim Dandy...........38 Enawatha ............€5\0ur Bird.............98 CO oa iv co cece eee 65 Brother Jonathan,. .28 May Flower.......... TU) *Delivered. SMOKING eee CR. . SOY. 26. co 30 fuby, Gut plug...... Oo Ge ec. Navy Clippings...... zu cwO Nickel..........94 EMO oes lc cease 15 Duke’s Durham..... 40 BEATS FOG Los, neo o2 Green Corn Cob Pipe 26 BPORNO ceva evens POI ose dciccieciic 16 OG oc. cs MEP ROU HOY oo oo coc occ ce 26 Arthur’s Choice..... oui UneCle SAM,.......... 28 BOG PON, fn k. oss, 26;Lumberman ......... 25 Be is oni ne cece 28 Railroad Boy......... 38 Gold Dust............26;Mountain Rose....... is Gold Block......... .80 Home Comfort....... 25 Seal of Grand Rapids Old Rip............... 60 (cloth)............25 Seal of North Caro- Tramway, 5 Of...:...40 “ina, 2 On... ....... 48 Miners and Puddiers.28 Seal of North Caro- POGTIGRO ooicc sce as sss a tina, 400............4 CORE ous dec ness 20 Seal of North Caro- OO SO os cia ce las Mm ee, On... cc... 45 Tom © JOrry. 6c acs: 24 Seal of North Caro- JOROP. oo. cose cicassss coe) UNE 16.08 boxes... . 42 ETEAVOION o0k 6c ssk cass 35 King Bee, longeut.. .22 MAIGOR |... as. sss bs ee WOCt LOLUB.. .....,. 32 Pickwick Club....... PEGWAP OE oes oe ei 32 Niewer Head....... .20\Seal Skin............. 30 PIOUADO 0. 6... Reed Clover. .... 32 Corman 26.2. .665. 2. 2: IOGO00 EMGE. 2... 2... 5: 26 PLUG. GON OR ccc es. 28;/Trade Union........ *36 Bel POG. oes ss a *36, Labor Union........ *30 Hiawatha ...........< 42\Splendid ............ 38 WOUN TAN ccs scaeaes ae|Old Solder............ 40 eOuyv Time:......-... SeGuey ... |. 8k... 44 Paverite .. i... 3... 42) Red Fox....... Wa cuaus 42 Blaek Hird,........<: aie DOPIVO.. 2... 60655 40 Live and Let Live...32 Sealot Grand Rapids 40 WOO oc cece, Oe ORNOR sce ie asia... 40 We is i cae 37| Jack Rabbit.......... 38 Spear Head.......... 39 Chocolate Cream... .44 Old Honesty......... MOR ETIOIOE i oe cs sca ag 40 Whole Barth inc oeaes Creve cess eae decane 38 oa 001 ST eek 32; Spread Eagile........ 36 Cow wu bene haku cee: 40 Big Five Center...... 33 Spring Chicken...... DEEPONVOO Bois caus wacacus 2 BGHDSG 6... cci es cces- PEN AGO oon oink noeas 35 AOI oss Cone asasea 34, Black Prince......... 35 Black Jack.......... .32 Black Racer......... 85 Hiawatha............ GRO ovis ccc uc cs aes an Musselman’s Corker.30 Climax .............. 42 REO ces deedes is CO BOOP 6 os ss Ces bevie 40 Dainty ......... .....44/Horse Shoe..........36 *Delivered. 2c. less in three butt lots. SHORTS. Leader ...............16/Hiawatha............22 ron ging I .....20/O0ld Congress......... GrODO oii ckce ess OG. Wace | Mule Ear.............23) 22\|May Leaf............22 Dark ob. dc ccces ccs 0 Anthracite, egg and Anthracite, stove and n Cannell, car lots eee ee, 8... Royal, 200 tb bbls Batre. 20 Dale..... ... . Extra, 200 ® bbis........... French Cream, 25 pail! Cut loaf, 25 ib cases..... Broken, Broken, 200 D bbls Ss FANCY—iIN 5 b BOXES. Por One... re Peppermint Drops...... Chocolate Drops H M Chocolate Drops.......... Cui Crone ............... Licorice Drons.......... A B Licorice Drops.. Lozenges, Oh ee Lozenges, printed Imperials FANCY—IN BULK. _ Lozenges, plain in pails..:.......... Lozenges, plainin bbis........... i: Lozenges, printed in pails...... Lozenges, printed in bbis........ . 14@12 12 i d C000 da ceec ence scesie GE Con rope, Mm bbie :........ |. "@5 moss rOpe. I nals... Chocolate Drops, in pails... Gum Drops in pails.. Moss Drops, in Dbis.............._. Sour Drops, in pails........ Pipers. 10 fails....... niperiais in bile... ......... . [ FRUITS paunanas Aspinwall...... Oranges, California, fancy. / ; : i : 8 Oranges, California, choice........ ...3 00@3 50 Oranges, Jamaica, bbls........... Oranges, Florida Oranges, Messina.......... AON. Oranges, Naples........... Bemus, ChGICG............_. Romone f0nGV,............ . a Vigs, layers, new, @ ib.......... Figs, Bags, 50 2 Date aia ds...) On mde G0 6 Dates, skin. Dates, Fard 10 th box = ..... Dates, Fard 50 bh box 2D... Dates, Persian 50 box # tb...” rine Apples, 2 doa............._. PEANUTS, Prone Hed, raw @h.............. Choice do do .. Faney H.P. do do Chien wie. Vado... 5 pails...... ie cee oe ON bee FRUITS—FOREIGN. | SNUFF. | Citron chen CUbann neat lant ee bres aenue'ss @ 24/ Lorillard’s American Gentlemen..... @ ®R CMRP raIee, HOW ese ye. oe ” PRUE 8 oo ove co caus cs @ 55 Tenens VOC ye. . cc. ek, Pea eas @ 14} Gail & Ax’ i @ 44 PAIR POON le foi ged oven oc ces @ i4} _ EE EIT IS @ 35 F PPUMeR, PPOBON OUR oo oo cece, RY@ | Railroad Mills Scoteh................. @ 45 Prunes, Prenen, 800; . oo. .4 6. kes « «. S%@ PIMUNOOK ............ He. @l 30 PE ROUOG, SENOS oo. eee cekeeckcd acces @ 4% aan ' Raisins, Dehesia De ci seaecua, Acct dass @3 %5 Te, Salat Ko | Raisins, London Layers...............3 00@3 20 Thite Wina we a” gr. | Meaisine, California’ “3... cl... @2 40 = a WING. -s-ssecreendon ens ros - | Raisins, Loose Museatels.............. pO | isnt dr ale oleeabatahsnts Aeaniokovoae o 10 | Raising, Ondaras, 268.20 ooo... 8. @I13% | MISCELLANEOUS. | Raisins, Sultanas......... Di weuekie ses G10 S| Bath Brick imported..... 95 eet, VOIONOIN. oc acc ac cece 1054@10% | do Arian, "5 on| mining, Imperials..................... ae eon wot... I 00 i _ MATCHES. do BOB 1 50 Grand PIAVON, NO.'S, BAVAIO.. 6. cok 5s cca 1 00 | Condensed Milk, Eagle brand te 7 60 Grand Haven, No 9, square, 3 gro........... 120 | Cream Tartar 5 and 10% eans........_ 15@Q25 Grand Haven, No. 200, parlor.............. Ones ee “@12% Grand maven, NO. #0, parlor. ............. oo Cantos, Hotel... @l4 ' Grand Haven, No. 7, round................ Y | Extract Coffee, V, ©.................. @30 I oi ce os ge cs ds ee ca a 1 00 do OUR dsk seas cca 125 Oshkosh, POG BOS eu ccc Eee 1 50 | Gum, Rubber 100 DME ci ccacc. @25. Br OUR ae vida es soc sada ees sleeve cucu Ld 75 | Gum, Rubber 200 lumps. ; @35 | Richardson’s No.8 square.................. 1 00 | Gum, Spruce....:... Sa 3000 Richardson’s No. 9 Oe es Li honor Gbhl........ a3 50 Richardson’ No. 7%, round................. LO ial ie pale... @ 4% Richardson’s No. 7 eee ele, oo pow eee 2%@ 3 e . MOLASSES. Pose Gicen Hush. “@l 25 an hone OEE SE OS Serre ee 15@19 | Peas, Split Prepared... .1.7.21..720": @3 RE MA oa sone cache uc ce, meee Powter Ree...) @3 00 ae ee mae | Pander, 4% Bee...............0 @1 W New Orleans, good........................ 38@42 | Sage ... ce @ 18 Bow Gricans, OG 8@50 Pee en na 7” Now Orleans, fanoy...... ................ 52@55 ‘ANDY, FRUITS AND NITsc Ti ae 55 CANDY, FRUITS AND NUTS, OATMEAL. Putnam & Brooks quote as follows: 84@9 9B 9% STICK. standard, 26 B boxes.................. Twist, GO 8 a. Cut Loaf oo. |. .. 10O4@11 MIXED @9 @8&% - LOG10% i @ 9% ‘ 2 es 12@12% .-2%@ MIO I@ 9% PAIS ‘B@1 ‘ @l4 15 .- HOW L@i6 I 1@15 Is@l4 i4 20@22 H@1s . 11%@12 - 104@11 1OLZ @in% @I2% @ 5% @10 9 sored ..12 @12% . 104@0 — @4 00 . @6 50 @3 dU --4 50@4 7% ..5 00@5 50 1244.@16 T%4@ 8 @ 4he @ 5 Go NUTS. Almonds, Tarragona................. i @li ’ BVGGG........5..5,.:,..., Ge “ CAbWhie 1 @16 Brazils Ds Chestnuts, per eo wie le... 114 @212 mois... @10 Walnuts, Gronoble.................. waa 15 ” MO oy - Lo EE Ee ie 8 @lil “ CesT. .................. 12 Pees, Tewse WP... @13 * oe Bm Romie we IO. PROVISIONS. @4 50 The Grand Rapids Packing & Provision Co. quote as follows: PORK IN BARRELS. Back, clear, short cut....... Extra family clear, short cut... ; 2 ; 0 thick. PIGS’ FEET. Mess, Chicago packing, new................ Il 00 Clear, 8. P. Booth........ S006 ddecdseaics te PIE CUN MOM Hl 2% 2 50 sive ehees 12 00 Clear, A. Webster, new ..........._. 12 50 Extra clear pig, short cut.;............... 12 75 Patra Goer BOGVY.. |... 12 75 Clear Guill. hort out................ | it 00 Hosten clear, short cut..................... 13 00 NOAY DOCE BUOPE GOL...) 13 00 Standard clear, short cut, best... ioe 25 DRY SALT MEATS—IN BOXES. tang Clears, hoavy.................... 5% a” MOQ ooo occas cca... Bag MOWW 534 pour Viear heave... ...... 61, do. MOG... .....,.... 64 do. YORE 614 SMOKED MEATS--CANVASSED OR PLAIN. _ pou nave. o4 Os i AR eae Gig FN i iig andes ce aoe ae Boneless Hama. best.................. . PI merous HOG 9 Poneman mnouliere.... 4... 6% CME INGe OUR ee: 7% med peel, oxtra quality................... 6 ¥ Dried Heol, Ham nieoes....:................ 11% Shoulders cured in sweet pickle............ q LARD. oo cca co, 6% me Or eg cc. 654 50 ib Round Tins, 100 cases.............. 6% LARD IN TIN PALLS, 20 Pails, 4 pailain case............... 6% om Ele, a) OT) @ COBOL... 6. ccc occ. 714 & @ Pan, Ii @ Caee. ........6..000 0... i Mere Giheges............ 7 BEEF IN BARRELS. Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 bs........ 9 00 WO, ORONO icc cee ec 13 00 SAUSAGE—FRESH AND SMOKED. Vg WE eee i ee PON a ee UG HAG Wranwret Sdueige.................. MORe POON cc POG U OUR Bolognat ; Head Cheese... ay Bete ORRPOIN 2. 2. s 3 50 AM GUMGOe DENVOIS. «occ. oso occa cc cc, COAL AND BUILDING MATERIALS, A. B. Knowlson quotes as follows: Ohio White Lime, per bbl............. Ohio White Lime, car lots............. Louisville Cement, per bbl............ Akron Cement per bbl................ Brdalo Cement, Car lots * Plastering hair, per bu Stucco, per bb COAL. Land plaster, per ton.................. Land plaster, car lots.................. ire DEIOM, DOE MA ioc. >! a Pine Cy, DON WOM " a @6 00 31 25 4 00 3 00 2 50 00 te, car lots. .$5 75@6 00 ut, car lots.. 6 00@6 25 Ohio Lump, ear LES ono or m d, ee Portland Gemeente: at" OUT AROUND. News and Gossip Furnished by Our Own Correspondents. Kalamazoo. Julius Bader & Co. are now represented on the road by the following travelers: H. C. Kendrick, Southern Michigan and North- ern Indiana; E. A. Weleh, Central Michi- gan; J. P. H. Armstrong, the Lake Michi- gan towns; John Roe, the Upper Peninsula. Mr. Bader now attends to the wants of the city trade himself. W. C. Davis claims his house to be the pioneer grocery establishment of Kalama- zoo, the business having been established by his father thirty-one years ago. It is claimed by those who are in position to make a careful estimate that the celery crop will be three times as large the coming season as it ever has been heretofore. A competent authority on the subject asserts that last year’s crop amounted to about an even 1,000,000 dozen bunches, which netted the grower about 15 cents a dozen on the average, making total net receiptsfrom that souree of $150,000. “The celery business is in a deplorable condition,” said a veteran shipper, ‘tin con- sequence of the great number of small grow- ers engaged in the culture. They all think they can get along without the help of the shippers, and the consequence is they flood every available market at certain seasons of the year, thus demoralizing prices and bring- | ' ing the whole business into disrepute through the non-uniformity of the product. The amount of poor celery now shipped from Kalamazoo is sufficient to give the en- tire industry a bad black eye, unless the practice is stopped.” Newaygo. Hon. E. L. Gray will shortly erect an office building on the spot previously occu- pied by him. Miss Mary Edwards has staken the posi- tion of book-keeper for the Newaygo Furni- ture Co S. D. Thompson is painting his store. Muskegon. H. Muldoon and Charles Lecus have formed a copartnership and bought the saw -and shingle mill on Duck Lake known as the ‘‘Miner Mill.” They expect to have it in running operation in about ten days. They have also bought a quantity of standing timber, pine and hardwood. The firm will be known as Muldoon & Lecus. Dr. J. Bedard has purchased the Bareus drug stock, on Pine street, of C. L. Brun- dage. Traverse City, Harry Montague is in Chicago, buying goods for the Mercantile Co. J. Steinburg is in New York, buying his spring stock of goods. C. M. Bell has refitted the store lately vacated by Duval & Huelmantel and moved in. J. A. MeManus is ‘‘outside” after goods for the ‘*Famous.” Capt. Aldrich has been in town, looking after business for the Faxton the coming season. M. E. Haskell has purchased the legal blank business carried on for a number of years at the Herald office, making his stock the largest north of Grand Rapids. Otter Lake. W. E. Cumings has moved into his new brick hotel. Dr. J. W. MeMeekin intends removing to West Bay City in a short time Otisville. It is now stated that there is a prospect of a fine brick hotel being erected on the site of the one just burned. Cadillac, J. W. Cobbs, of the lumber firm of Cobbs & Mitchell, has returned from his California trip. F. A. Koegle is adding a bay window to the upper story front of his store, improy- ing its appearance. Win. Goodman, the Clare hardware mer- ehant, has been here the past week ona visit to his son, F. H., who has charge of C. & N. E. Railway here. S. V. Albertson will soon remove his fur- niture stock to the building recently occu- pied by Anderson’s shoe stock and the store vacated by Albertson will be taken by C. R. Smith, the grocer. Cadillac has been a disastrous place for the North American Accident Insurance Co., three members now drawing a weekly indemnity. Jas. C. MeAdam, the dry goods merchant, has just returned from a trip to Philadelphia and other points East. Jno. Parsons has just returned from an extended visit to the British Isles. Luther. John Goodman and John Berner, the firm name of Goodman & Berner, opened a meat market. G. A. Osborne, of the firm of Osborne & Hammond, druggists, has been appointed postmaster here. Frank Taylor, book-keep- er in the L. C. & L. Co. store, has been placed at the head of the store. P. Hiowell has opened a_ confection- ery store on State street. under have Big Rapids. The M. B. Wiseman grocery stock and fixtures sold for $245.70, which included $25 worth of the Dailey stock, which was assigned to Wiseman early in the fall. Wiseman had claimed that he was carrying about $2,000 in stock and fixtures. Glidden & Marsh are out about sixty dollars and John W. Wiseman is out about $100 on in- dorsed paper. M. B. says his wife will soon be doing business at the same location. Will Harmon left last week with the bal- ance of dry goods stock to locate at Ionia. J. W. Slawson has his building nearly ready for his agriculture stock. T. H. Clayton, of Reed City, came within $150 of buying out Walker & MeNaughton furniture undertaking stock last week. The latter are now glad that he did not take them at their offer. ae ae ee The Hardware Market. The hardware market has a healthy tone, as the demand seems jo be actuated by the actual requirements of consumers. lnple- ments and tools continue to show the great- est activity, while cutlery, shelf goods, builders’ hardware and tinners’ stock are moving satisfactorily. Heavy nardware is in moderate request. Wagon and carriage nardware shows a small improvement but sells chiefly in light lots. Barber wire is al- so a trifle more active and is steady. Changes in values have been very few dur- ing the week, and of the most part of no consequence. Tacks are unsettled, but are scarcely as much so as the circumstances might seem to warrant the trade in next: ing. * % 4 Good Words Unsolicited. Mrs. J. A. Holmes, grocer, Battle Creek: “Good, liye paper.” A. A. Watkins, general dealer, Clarion: “Wish you success.” Frank P. Merrill, druggist, Ithaca: “I like your paper very much.” Wm. Neilan, general dealer, Weldon Creek: “I might get along without it, bat don’t want to. Itis one of the dandies I like.” MISCELLANEOUS. Advertisements of 25 words or less inserted in this columin 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, ete. SOR SALE—C 2 “ap and. onterms to suit, store with dwelling eee np in the liveliest manufacturing town of 2,000 population in the State. Splendid opening ‘tor grocery or drug store. Only one drug store in the place. Will not rent. For terms, ete., address J. W. Her- rick, Muskegon, Mich. 135* xOR SALE—General stock, comprising lines of dry goods, groceries, boots and shoes, hardware, Gruss, etc. Owner is postmaster, at salary of $300 per year. Am doing a good pay- ing business, but compelled to ‘close out at sacrifice, on account of ill-health. ieee R. B. Jennings, New Troy, Mich. \ ANTED—To sell a good hotel in a live lumber town, Will exchange for stock of merchandise. It is the only hotel in the place. Address “D,’’ care TRapesM AN. 133* 7OR SALE—The font ‘of brevier ‘type for- merly used on THE TRADESMAN. The font x net 222 pounds, with italic, and can be had for 80 cents a pound, Apply at the office. JUDY ce COE., JOBBERS of SADDLERY HARDWARE And Full Line Winter Goods. 102 CANAL STREET. HESTER & FOS, Agents for Manufacturers’ Saw and Grist Mill Machinery, Planers, Matchers, Moulders and all kinds of Wood-Working Machin- ery, Saws, Belting and Oils. ITTOMATIC INJECTOR. “LAME VN FHL NO LSha MICH!ICAN Al Depot for Independence Wood Split Pulley. Large stock kept on hand. Send for sample pulley and be- come convinced of their superiority. Write for prices. 130 Oakes St., - Grand Rapids, Mich. WOODENWARE. RR MIGAINS FSIDR, UO, Tf. ia xs ho eek k nbs 7 00 Standard Tus, No.2... ... 2... assesses 6 00 Meprnee Bee, NO. 8c. oes 5 Ov Standard Patis, twohoop.................... 1 40 Standard Pails, three hoop.................. 1 65 White Cedar, three boop .......:...:,.....- 2 00 TOW io oie ees keke ek. 1 99 Dowell Tubs, No. i Poo a cee eens oka 8 00 TOOWRT TUE, NOL. oie sie cs obec neces scans 7 00 Dowell Tubs, BNO, hos ho ds os packs bo oe ae 6 00 White Cedar, No. 1 SOEs Lub4s ta ae ae osu sheer 7 50 Wet ORURE, NO oe oe ok vise asics cise é 50 Maple Bowls, assorted B1Z@8..............00+ 2 00 RRUUUEASE REO cs ce cade osc cue bees 1 25 Rolling Pins... Potato Mashers. Clothes Pounder PINRO IU, ois sd ss oe se 5 65 ED OOO an ow os oad oo ce So becca dee eeaua ss 1 25 WORT DOAOUG, BINOIS. oo oo ay 1 75 We OORNND, GOUUIO, 6 ooo oc 5 ee cue ts 2 25 BASKETS. PIB MAPKGE. . oon oi os oo cos esas coos asus 40 Busnel, narrow band........:....55...-5.065 1 60 Bushel, wide gE 5 be 66g es Ubue es aun se on 1 75 Clothes, aplint, NO. 1.00. 6.62... ese cease 3 50 Ciotmes, epliit, NO. 2. oo c6 ooo eo occu caanle OO UNOS, SUE, NG. Boo ecco eae es 4 00 Clothes, willow, NO 1 5 00 CAOTHOR, WIHOW, NNO, 2. ooo sone 5 ck ase aeess 6 00 Clothes, willow, No.3.. 7 00 COUNTRY PRODUCE, Apples—Choice winter fruit is in fair de- mand at $1.75. Beans—Local buyers pay 50e@75e ® bu. for uppicked 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@8e. Butterine—Creamery packed commands 20ce. Dairy rolls are held at 14@1ld5e and solid packed at 2@l4e. Cabbages—In fairdemand at B8@S10 ® 100. Cheese—The best grades of October and November make are selling at 114%@12%. Cider—New sweet commands 10e ? 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, 8@3e. ivaporated, 64@7c, according to quality. Dried Peaches—Pared, lie. Eggs—aA little firmer, jobbers now holding at 1i@12e: Honey—Choice new in comb is firm at 14e. Hay—Bailed is active and firm at $15 per ton in two and five ton lots and $13 in ear lots. Hops—Brewers pay 8@10c ®@ b. Lettuce—20c @ bb. Onions—Home-grown, 75¢ 8 bu. or Pop Corn—Choice new commands and old 3e @ b. Potatoes—Buyers Burbanks, Pieplant—&se # b. Poultry—Searce and high. 10@10%e; chickens, turkeys, le Sweet Potatoes—iKiln dried Jerseys, $4 8 bbl. Turnips—25e @ bu. GRAINS AND MILLIN Wheat—No chunge. $2.25 8 bbl. 24%c 8 hb are paying 30c for Rose or Fowls sell for li@ll4c; dueks, 12e; and NG PRODUOTS, The city millers pay as follows: Lancaster, 8; Fulse, 82e; es 8&2. Corn—Jobbing generally at 44@45e in 100 bu. lots and 88@40e in carlots. Oats—W hite, 38c in small lots and 33@35e in ear lots. Rye—48@50c ® bu. Reray— Died ers pay $1.26 ® ewt. Flour—No change. Fancy Patent, $5.50 @ bbl. in sacksand $5.75in wood: Straight, $4.60 @ "Meal “Holted, #215 B bb. one eal— a Mill Feed— n, Bran, $15 nings, $15 % to ton. Ships, $16 @ ton. Middli 6 Donnan m. ‘sip ane re WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT. These prices are for cash buyers, who pay promptly and buy in full packages. AUGERS AND BITS. EBVOR, Ol BEVIG. Fide os hice ss dis60&10 NM: 0. 06..:, 2... is vides ee dis60&10 Dougiass’..... bev isheblbe casi ahacs ese dis60&10 PIOTOOR ic. becca ack Sek ae ScvaNs dis60&10 BHO 8 eo a a ce ees dis60&10 OE Bete ase ces on ee aac ceeeis Te Jennings’, genuine............ Sees 25 Jennings’, imitation........... .......- “Gis50810 BALANCES. MIN - 0c. ue. 4D BARROWS. PROBE a ye a sc eee ees $ 13 00 POPORR oe is weeeseee Net 33 00 BELLS. MAM oe dis $ 60&10&1¢ CMake es a dis 60&10 ROR i dis 80815 ON ee a dis 25 s9008, Sargent... i dis 60&10 BOLTS. RNR ee cee dis $ - aoe new list....... phaehe as cae te UA ekW ak RiG Ke weeabad (oak ceakis Co dis 3x PCIe BOO ee ec ais ne Wrought Barrel MOUS osc ccc. sc dis 60&10 COOe OTTO BOMB. <6... ss aca cees s dis 60&10 Cast Barrel, brass knobs............. dis 60 Cast Square Spring................... dis 60 ROSE OO Re a dis 60&10 Wrought Barrel, brass knob......... dis 60810 Wrought Square oie eee se lea cuse dis 60&10 Wrought Sank Hie dis 60 Wrought Bronze and Plated Knob PUT ac ee is 60&10 WOR DOOM. ee dis 60&10 BRACES. Barber ....... heehbUhes eee baa bees eel ss: dis$ 40 BOROMU os ce cee cscs. oc dis 50&10 ON, ee a dis 50 PU OB. eee Ba a dis net BUCKETS. OPO) DI oc $ 350 WG BWIVR). oc ee . 400 BUTTS, CAST. Cast Loose Pin, figured............... dis T0&10 Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed...... dis 7&0 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, acorntip........ dis 604 5 Wrought Loose Pin, japanned tee seia dis 60& 5 Wrought.Loose Pin, japanned, silver BRO fo fis 60& 5 PY UOUMBU TAO. oo ee dis 10&60 Wrought Inside Blind................ dis 10&60 WrOuURKE Brass...) 6c... vec cuts dis 5 ee ClAP Be dis 80X10 Bid, PareAr se. dis S0&10 Blind, BUbRBra S66 dis 70 CAPS, Mee BO er m $ 65 ee Bee ee es . 60 BRR oo cee ie as ee 35 Stus ORO. yc 60 CATRIDGES. Rim Fire, 0. M.C. & Winchester new list? 50K 210 Rim Fire, United States... 30. dis50& Ged fis... " disd0K10 CHISELS. Bocwet Firmen... dis 75&10 ROCKOE STAIN | os cake seen ns ees dis 75010 Socket Corner.......... bi cee ea asc ee dis TO&10 POON OG ONS ee dis 75 Butchers’ Tanged Firmer..........., dis 40 Barton’s Socket Firmers............. dis 20 OO ee net COMBS. Curry, Lawrence’s........... ieee e. dis wt RIOICA SIG eo dis a COCKS. Brass, RCI A 60 ice ADS 60 BPR cet ae 40&10 WOME se eee 60 COPPER. Planished, 14 oz cut to size.............. Bb 28 14x52, 14x56, Ae ge 3i Cold Rolled, i4x: pom t4"60 0 21 Ooi Rolled, ets 19 DRILLS Moraes Bit Stock... . 4... 5... ..- dis 40 Taper and Straight Shank............ dis 40 Morse’s Taper Shank................. dis 40 - ELBOWS. Com. 4 piece, 6 in.................. doz net $.85 OPPUATOe © 6. ccs. dis 20&10 AGeIeOle 5... ee dis 4&10 EXPANSIVE BITS. Clar’s, small, $18 00; large, $26 00. dis 20 Ives’, i. $18 dO: 2 2, $24 00; 3, $380 00. = dis 25 FILES— —New List. American File Association List...... dis 55&10 PMPMOO DS oo. coe, gis 55&10 NOW AMOMGAN oo oe. a. dis 55&10 Nicholson’s...... pect bess acdc Oe dis 55810 PUGS ee dis 55&10 Heller’s Horse Rasps................. dis 55&10 GALVANIZED IRON, Nos. 16 to 20, 22 and 24, 25and 26, 27 28 List 12 14 af) 18 Discount, Juniata 50@10, Charcoal 60. GAUGES. Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s......... dis 50 HAMMERS. mavdoe @O0. 6. 2... 6... cies es dis 25 Roe a dis 25 Y erkes Me PUD 6 io oe acc sical. dis 40&10 Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.............. 30 ¢ list 40 Bilacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. .30 ¢ 40&10 HANGERS. Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track 50&10 Champion, anti-friction.............. dis 60&10 Kidder, wood track................00. dis 40 HINGES. Gare, Ciarksé, 1.2, 3... . oo. cs dis 60 State Dobe hhaneeeas ue ee per oom net, 2 50 Screw Hook and Strap, to 12 in. 4% 14 ONG 1ORROP eo. clk. cask . oa kde 3% Screw Hook and Eye, % ............ net 10% Serew Hook and Eye IN eR net 8i4 Serew Hook and Eye %.............. net 7% Screw Hook and Eye, %............. net 7% MIB ORG dis 65 HOLLOW WARE. MiAmned Fin WATE. 0... 5. kk occ ce ec ace 380 saamneG 23m Whe... ce 25 Granite Tron Ware...: 2... 605 ks 25 HOES. SOP Bs $11 00, dis 60 Ot eo 11 50, dis 60 ROU ako ee 12 00, dis 60 KNOBS. Door, mineral, jap. trimmings....... dis 45 Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings........ 45 Door, porcelain, plated trimmings..... 45 Door, porcelain, PyYUGUININGS os 6s 5s 45 Drawer and Shutter, porcelain ae dis 7 Picture, H. L. Judd & Co.’ Ro. 40&10 Hemacite pink ere Sees Gk eae dis 45 LOCKS—DOOR. Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list. .dis 4h Mallory, Wheeler & Co.’s............. dis 45 rer 8 a dis 45 MORWAUR SD oe insyac kk ce dis 45 LEVELS. Staniey Rule and Level Co.’s............. dis ‘0 MILLS. Uotiee, Parkers 00.'8........5. 6. ..2244 dis 40&10 Coffee, P.S.&W. Mtg. Co.’s Malleables dis 60 Sotfee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s;..... dis 60 Coffee, Enterprise hes se taiee ch apBcer cde dis 25 MATTOCKS. BAO PVR gee $16 00 dis 60 pnt Ve. ek $15 00 dis 60 RUNG Boo hee ike $18 50 dis 20 & 10 NAILS. Common, Bra an’ 4 Fencing. 1001 O08: ce #8 keg $2 50 BOG YO AO hl as 2% OG BAG TE BOY eo ob acces chess 50 iO ORO BG BOW: Be se se 75 Be AW MNOR ee isa, 1 50 3d fine advance....... Be era chs akan 3 00 Clinch nails, adv..... We an acs 1 % Finishing t Wd | 8d 6d 4d Size—inches { 3 2% 2 1% Adv. # keg $125 150 175 2 00 Steel Nails—2 65. ‘ MOLASSES GATES. BteDvDin' Ss PAC oo os ccc inesnensenees dis 70 Stebbin’s Gonwine. ..... 2 occ... eee sone dis 70 Enterprise, Vageeris abe oee es dis 25 AULS. Sperry & Co.*s, pus. Tea nind: peak es k dis 50 OILERS. Zine or tin, Chase’ STATON. bosses sacs: dis60&10 Zine, with Maran WOME. ooo sok sca kdl dis 50 Brass or ROT os ss ws becca de Sakae ou ees dis 50 PRO eo ca conwsse a res per gross, $12 net OUR Ie oud ince inet i awoie eee PLANES. Ohio Tol Co.’s, fancy. ............-.00+- dis 15 BORON TIO ii ic ep ion ceccee eee dis 25 Sandrisky Tool Co.’s, fancy.... ... .. dis 15 Benga, firstquality.............6.-ceeeee dis 20 Stayer Rule and Level Co.’s, wood. .. .dis20&10 PANS. , Ac TEE Ga dag astetiaey ir Co mon, polish ane Cede ne Gl sene 6s +e: ROUale: DUI ois bine nn bees 5 6b os nine enceee em 6 RIVETS. peg hc Re eR 40 ae - GUNN HARDWARE COMPANY, Exclusively Wholesale, Present to the Trade the Largest and Most Complete OF shelf and Heavy Hardwar EVER SHOWN IN WESTERN MICHIGAN, Our Stock Comprises Everythin Included in a First-Class HARDWARE STOCK. Dealers visiting the City are Cordi- ally Invited to Call and Inspect our Establishment. PATENT FLANISAED TRON. ‘A’? Wood's patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 “B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27 9 Broken packs 4c ® tb extra. ROPES. Rimes, I. week Taree. ss... ee se 8% PM ee ce, 15 SQUARES. REPCOE IR NOR icc ck dca nce dis 70 MUNG MG HOVER. co ees ede cca ce cc dis 60 a a ee ee na es an dis 20 SHEET IRON. Com. Smooth. Com. Pe TO Ge cs is vance ces $4 20 $2 80 Ge cc 4 20 2 90 Nos. 18 to 21...... Deep seueca CeeLus 4 20 3 00 Nos. a PR ce a 4 20 3 10 PHO cy ove boas ce cans 4 40 3B 2 i 60 All sheets No, 18 and lighter, over 30 inches wide not less than 2-10 extra. SHEET ZINC. avi Casks Of G0) a, @ D.. ........ 050-05. 5% In smaller quansities, ® .............. 6 TINNER’S SOLDER. Pek, PO se kn 12 50 Market Halt-and-haif............. ...; 15 00 Striptiy Fisifand- halt... ... 6. csc eess 16 50 TIN PLATES. Cards for Charcoals, $6 75. IC, BORIA, CROTOORL oie sks cece ea ee oe 5 75 IX, TORR ORSPOOR 5 ia oc ok ns ce cee 7% 25 IC, MENS, CMONOORL 6 o.oo occ ds enn eens 625 IX, TRE, CRAP COR ook ooo ca apse eese 1 @ IC, Bp ee 5 75 IX, TORP TP ANOOR! bone cca c acs 1 2 Ra, JAR, CHAPCORL S.C... ook va ores ase 8 75 ‘<<<. TA, CUOAIOOE oo gc ive ck oo te 10 77 EA Be, Pee, COMPCORL. . oo... c cnc ens ‘12 55 IX, 30x28, CRBPCOR oars causes 15 50 DC, 100 Plate Charcoal................. 6 50 ape AOU ISUO CMGPOORL., . oo ions ce cs ccus 8 5U DXX, 100 Pinte Charcoal... ..... coc. e as es 10 50 DX ss WO Piate Cnarcoal... 26.0... ecu ss 12 50 Redipped Charcoal Tin Plate add 1 50 to 6 75 rates. Mogg, 1450) 80 e.g cee Gee coe § 25 BOOED, base Ti os ce ee fcc a ec teen 6 %5 BAAN, POM ER bo og ie sad cay ces dace 11 00 PE, PON ie a ved os coe 14 00 TIN—LEADED. IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal Terne........... 5 50 LX, 14x° 20, choice Charcoal Terne........ 7 oO IC, 20x28, “choice (nercoat Terno.. -........ “11 00 [X, 20x28, choice Charcoal Terne........ 14 00 TRAPS. RR ie ce casas 60&10 OneidaiCommuntity, Newhouse’s....... dis 35 Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s. .60&10 AE a iv c rk elds ceeds i Gauss 6O&10 Mm Pa W, Mie. O00... coe elke se eek 60&10 MUNG, COONGN. 2 bck cc. seedy ecb ecus 18c¢ 8 doz Mouse. GOIUSION.... «oo... ee. ss $1 50 B doz WIRE. Reriet MOCEOl. Co. ... i . ee: dis 67% Anmentod Market... ooo. . oie nc we wk dis 70 Coppered Market... oc. ess cee ee eleca es dis 62% ee es es Sac ccs cans dis 55 imen MGELKGE..o) occas ceeds cedvsnews dis 62% TIONOU TCO ooo oink ok cred news ec ch ccs 8b Ov ME PTIOG MERION G ho a wack bees an ues th 8% Coppered Spring Steel............ dis 40@ 40810 IOC BPPIIPIOOOL. so ob. 4 oc ccs ceaee ee dis 50 Baty BORG, 5 cas ns sha ve as ec cha oes 8 Ib 3% BRET BONG i eg oe oak ee eek NT aoa obs bn vce os cide ha eee new list net TAN ak oo oe a oc fae a Cans oe secs new list net “WIRE GOODS. PE ee aoa ..dis TO&1IN&10 MOPOW EVO. «6 cio sic secs ccc ee ea ss dis 70&10&10 TROON ik i a dis 70&10&10 Gate Hooks and Eyes............ dis T0&10&10 WRENCHES. Baxter’s Adjustable, niekeled.......... ROG OG OT ee ck aes dis 60 Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought, dis 75&10 Coe’s Patent, malleable............ dis TD&IOKIO MISCELLANEOUS. POCORN ae ca acs ces wha we 50 We CMT ec vc cca ens dis 7O&i0 POLOWN, DOW FSG. cc cick ccs ce cess dees 8324 Casters, Bed and Plate............. disboa10st0 Dampers, PICVIGODY ooo vod ca ceed bece 40&10 Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods. .60&10&5 Copper Hoes) tas: 19¢ LUMBER, LATH AND SHINGLES. The Newaygo Manufacturing Co, quote f. o. b. cars as follows: Unpere, neh. oi ce i cde aie per M ro 00 Uppers, 14, 1% and 2 inch........... ee 6 00 BelGtS, T INCH. oo. ioe cece acc psec eteee a 35 00 Selects, 1%, 1% and2 ineh.....).: cwacce OOD Fine Common, linch............. coer. 80 00 igi teataat ae age Pcise ashen. ne 4s5 2 Oe Fine, CORRE D8 and 2inch. ....... 32 00 No. 1 Stoe Binns 14 and 16. feet.... eo No. 1 Stocks BO TOO Gs ook io Fi ceacesce OO Wo, 3 Stoeke, 12 in., Mieet........ .... 06. 17 00 No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 12, 14 and 16 teet..... 15 00 No. 1 Stocks, 10 in. BS EOGR, c,h ss cc ades 16 090 NO, £ etoces, 10 in. feet... ......... .... 17 00 No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 12, 14 and 16 feet...... 15 00 No.1] ptocks, 5 in., IS feet................. 16 00 No. 1 Brocks. & in. Si toet.......... 4.5 ..; 17 00 No. 2 2 Stocks, 12 in. «> 12, 44 and 16 feet..... 12 00 No.2 Stocks, ]2 in., 18 ‘teet Nia eis Ges ae cea 13 00 MO. & toons, 12 in... A) feet................ 14 00 No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 12, 14 and 16 feet..... 12 00 INO, & Boeke. 10 in., 18 feet... ......:....... 15 00 INO. 2 OCOCKS, 10: In., 20 fOGL.... ..... oo oc coe 14 00 No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 12, 14 and 16 feet...... Li 00 NO. 2 EeOGRS. Sin. IB TOCt., .... 0... 50560 cs 12 00 No. 2Stocks, Ore: mr feee..... 13 00 Coarse Common or shipping “— all widtns and loneths......... ....... 8 W@ 9 00 Aand © Gtring, 40r Git ........s.cc csc 33 00 re, 4 OT GN oa cc ciccecins G: 27 W No. 1 Feneing, all lengths................ 15 00 No. 2 Fencing, 12, 14 and 18 feet.......... 12 00 PaO, & POU. TO TOCE oe oo oi cc ba oa 12 00 DO. F POG, © TG oi cock cvs ic ccc 15 00 Oo POGOe 4 TROD, gg. occ cca cnss 12 90 Norway C and better, 4 or 6ineh......... 20 U0 Bevel Siding, 6inch, A and B............ 18 00 peverourmr Gineh ©........... os... 14 50 Bevel Siding, 6inch, No. 1 Common.... 9 00 Bevel Siding, 6 inch, Clear.............. 20 00 Piece Stuff, 2x4 to 2x12, 12 to 16ft........ 10 00 $1 additional for each 2 feet above 16 ft. Dressed Fiooring, 6in., A. B............. 36 00 Dressed Fioorma, Gin. ©........6cccences 29 00 Dressed Flooring, 6in., No. 1,common.. 17 00 Dressed Flooring 6in., No.2 common.... 14 00 Beaded Ceiling, 6 in. $1 00 additiinal. Dressed Flooring, 4in., A. Band Clear.. Dressed Wiwoortng, 410... C2... oo. cca a sau 35 00 26 OO Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5in., No.1 com’n 16 68 Dressed Flooring, 4 or5in., No.2 com’n 14 00 Beaded Ceiling, 4 inch, $1 00 additional. XXX 18in. Standard Shingles......... 8 10 ee ON a cs or a toca wae 3 00 ee OO ce ee a io No. Zor6 in. C, B18 in. Shingles......... 175 mG 2OrG in. ©. Th. 16 in... |... 6... 1 40 Te a. 75@ 2 00 HIDES, PELTS AND FURS. Perkins & Hess pay as follows: HIDES. Green .... 28 b @6 |Calf skins, green art cured... 6@ 7 or cured.... 8 @10 Fulleured.... @ 8 |Deacon skins, Dry hides and #® piece..... 20 @50 BIA osc cccn 6 @8 SHEEP PELTS. Old wool, estimated washed # th...... @25 RO ea ac cach as 384@ 3% WOOL. Fine washed # b 24@25 \U nwashed........ 2-3 Coarse washed... L8@22! FURS. Pee el. bea ph es ocki sass 1 00@12 00 NN a css Whee cov cessss cee 2 00@6 00 Noe aw nn ok ch ae canes 1 O0O@L 25 I Oe ci kieckcss side ass 1 OO@L 2 MA a 25QL 00 MN eine cece idn dyes ceeees 05@ TW Or aa 4 bk hc oe evo ee cane cess 18 Muskrat, WT occ ca ae Vina ceneuee R@ 14 OE so oe oe aa cae es 6@ 8 » PR ch ia ei ec en ees @ 2 ON os haa es hk so wicked baci eeewass 4 00@6 00 Os coca cca vecckesdeevaece cs 1041 00 Oe a ca el a. l@1 35 BPO, a. cia ck elie siacce ees 1 50@3 00 NO iis soy a a i eb vce ats W@ 2% COOPERAGE., Quay, Killen & Co, quote as follows, f. 0. b. at Grand Rapids. STAVES. Red oak flour bbl. stav sO ae M 6 00@ 7 00 ee a ees M 5 00@ 5 75 White oak tce staves, s'd and j’ t. M 20 00@2% 00 White oak pork bbl. M 18 50G@20 00 HEADS. Tierce, dow elled and circled, set “ 16 Pork oe: oe Basswood, Bln dried, G6b. oo. oie 4@ 4% HOOPS. White oak and hickory tce, 8f’t. M 11 50@13 00 White oak and hickory * 74t’t.M Hickory flour DDI. ......2.......- M Ba POU ee ee sciuae Ash, fiat racked, 6% f’t...... osc BARRELS. 10 CO@LL 00 6 50@ 7 50 6 25@ 7 00 3 50@ 4 00 White oak pork barrels, h’d m’d.M 1 00@ 1 10 White oak pork barrels, machine.. 90@ 1 90 White oak lard tierces....... cekane Com 9 1 30 Beef and lard half barrels......... 90 Custom barrels, one head.......... 1 boo 1 a SOUL WAEEGIB i oi iin Uva cic otededs Produce barrels...............2+55- 5 DRY GOODS PRICE CURRENT. “ The following quotations are given to show relative values, but they may be considered, to some extent, “outside prices,”’ and are not as low as buyers of reasonable quantities can, in most instances, obtain them at. It will pay every merchant to make frequent visits to market, not only in respect to prices, but to keep posted on the ever-changing styles and fashions, Jmany of which are never shown “on the road,’ WIDE BROWN COTTONS. Androscoggin, 9-4..17 |Pepperell, 10-4...... 19 Androscoggin, 7-4..13% Pepperell, 11-4......22 Pepperell, 7-4...... 13 Pequot, 7-4. .-14% Pepperell, 8-4...... 15 |Pequot, oa 16 Pepperell, 9-4...... At \Pequot, 04.. ..<...:38 CHECKS. Caledonia, XX, 0z..10 Park Mills, No. 90..14 Caledonia, X,0z... 9 *ark Mills, No. 100.15 Economy, 02....... PYOGISY OF. 6.5. as. 844 Park Mills, No. 50..10 |Otis Apron......... 8% Park Mills, No. 60..11 (Otis Furniture..... Sig | Park Mille, No. 70..13 (York, 1 o8........<. 914 Park Mills, No. 80..18 | York, AA, extra 02.12% OSNABURGS. Piain. Plaid. Alabama dec eueres 6%) Alabama. ......... 7 coum 69 ~=69 6 doz. Fruit Saucers, 4 im............. 32 1 92 6 sets Handled Teas...............--- 2 2 62 18 sets Unhandled Teas. as gies z 85 6 30 15 platters 7 in. Sin. #in. Win. lin. Win. 2 54 8 9 16 22 27 4 each. 16 Bakers5in. 6in. Zin. 8 in. OT 08 12 Ai 1 80 6 each. 24 Scollops, fin. 6in. Tin. 8in. OF 09 12 AT 2 7 2 Covered Dishes, 7 PA. asks doz 4 46 ve 2 Rd ace ace ee 5 10 85 1 Sauce Boat, 14e; 2 Pickle, llc....... 3b 4 Oovered Butters........ 2.022520. 3 83 1 28 Oe Pte. PU gc kes ase ee cus ee ese 8 40 57 6 Sugar Bowls, 24s............- ...2 87 1438 6 Creamers, Oe hie 10 2 5d 6 Soaps, 27c each; 6 Mugs, 07 ‘euch. 2 06 OT ae sees 2 50 58 55 Lines of Crockery Carried in Original Packages or Repacked to order: W edge wood & Co., White Granite; Knowles, Taylor & Knowles, White Granite: T.& R. Boote, Royal Semi Porcelain; Wedgewood & Co., Lustre Band; W.H. Grindley & Co., Dec- The Square “Windsor” Dinner W are. Price-List on Application. per set of 125 prices. somest set on the market. ASSORTED CRATE oration “Albion” Square This new decorated pattern is the success of the trade and readily retails at $48.50 Positively the hand- “A, Meakins” Lustre Band Dec- Shape. DIAMOND L. 4 doz. Plates, 5in. or Pie............. 73 2 92 4 doz. “4 6 in. Or TOR... 2.25.52. 89 3 56 10 doz. - Zin. or Breakfast..... 1 06 10 60 3 doz. " 8 in. or Dinner........ 112 3 66 6 doz. Fruit Saucers, 4im......... ... 49 2 94 2 doz. Soup et 7 ‘“ Ci iaeseee ie ? 2 2 3 © 21 Platters,8 in. 9in. 10in. iin. 12in. 14 i in. 14 16 24 ~ 83 AL «57 6 30 4 each. 12 ines: Jin. 8 in. 9in. 16 4 28 2 92 6 each. 24 Scollops, 6 in. Tin. 8 in. 9 in. 14 6 24 .33 5 25 2 each. 6 Covered Dishes, 7 i - 8in. 9in. .65 13 3 90 6 Boats, 2 60; 4 Pickles, 1 % 1 95 2 Sauce Tureens, complete Oe doz 9 75 1 63 4 Covered Butters, 5 im............... 5 83 1 95 12 doz. rn wearers ck. 33 3 96 4Casseroles,7in. Sin. 9 a .65 13 2 92 3 Tea Pots, 248, 5 20; 6 ‘sig : 248, 4 39 349 UG, OO... is ec as ec ences 195 97 ‘ 9 6 18 — 24s 30s 36s 63 130 108 1 93 3 6 3 6 6 24 Pitchers, 6s 12s 24s 30s 36s 58 890 228 195 1 63 5 76 3 pairs Ewers and Basin, MO ccs cues 12 35 63:09 3 Covered Chambers, 98.............. 780 195 2 Soaps, 41; 2 Vases, 44; 6 Mugs, 1 24 2 26 24 sets Handled Teas.......... per Set 65 15 60 4 sets Handled Coffees........ %6 3 04 Oe oe se aes 2 50 97 14 orated Ware; T. & R. Bootes, Decorated Ww are. Spontaneous Combustion. Nearly all animal and vegetable oils, in combination with animal or vegetable fibre, will ignite spontaneously under favorable and some kinds of bituminous coal. thus be seen that where oils are used the No. 101 Hobnail Tumbler. No. 101 Hobnail Tumbler. One Box Containing 1% doz. No. 101, Canary Tumblers. 1% . Amber 3 b, “cs “ec Blue Ty 1s * ” Crystal an Total, 6 doz. @ 70............. 4 20 Tc a ase shee cane 35 $4 55 Plain Table Tumblers. Plain Table Tumblers. One Barrel Containing 18 dozen ASSORTED COMMON TUMBUERS. 4 doz. Plain ig pint. 4 doz. ics star bottom. 4 doz. Star ' 3 doz. Fluted, *“ 3doz. Panel ‘ 18 doz. 2 ~ MOOR. 52k, oe 5 40 ee 35 $5 75 Half Gallon Water Pitchers. Half Gallon Water Pitchers. 25 CENT BARGAINS. “Empire,” 1% doz. in bbi. .......:. per doz “Patience,’’ Assorted,1 doz.in bbl. per doz “Owl,” Assorted, 1 doz.in bbl....perdoz 2 00 New Glassware for Spring Trade New Glassware for Spring Trade) The “No. 100 Lace” Pattern. Most Graceful and Stylish Shape in Amer- 1 95 | 2 25) ica. Sets, Blue Amber or Canary........ each 80 Be CNG occ ak hans ce each 65 | Sauce Plates, any color............... doz. 80 | | “ OA ieee, esse doz. 65 | Salv ers, 10 in. Boy CGMP. 1... 428s doz. 6 00 | 0. OPVRUAL. 5c... a ee .doz. 5 = i Individual Butte rs, assorted colors....... 45 Covered Sauce Bowls, any color.......... 6 00} Or OPUOIAE bose ccass 5 00 ILLUSTRATIONS MAILED. ‘sw Swore He’d Never Buy Goods in Ghiewe 4 > = FR K. 7 NT a ee = Sor Ss s| | | danger of fire is imminent, and the only |‘ safeguard is to at once burn all oily, greasy or paint rags, waste, sawdust, etc., when no longer needed for use. They should be the building every day, and never be left on floors, under benches, etc., over night. Painters’ overalls should be hung up in such position as to permit a free circulation of air about them, as they-are liable to ignite spontaneously if allowed to lie in heaps on the floors or benches. Mineral or earth oils have not as yet developed this quality of spontaneous combustion, but a due caution would suggest that they be treated with the same rigid care so essential to safety with oils known to possess this qual- ity of self-ignition. A writer on the subject of fires in wood shops, states that the average time for the more common kinds of wood-working con- cerns to burn is in eight years, while the average life of iron-working shops is about twenty years. And he cannot see why so many wood-working establishments burn, nor why a planing mill should burn any oftener than any other shop, if proper care is taken to prevent fires. We think he goes a little too far here. A wood shop, once a fire is started, is nearly always doomed, while a machine shop may have a dozen fires started in it and extinguished. The great difference in the nature of the estab- lishments precludes comparison as a fire risk. But the writer alluded to is about right when he says; ‘‘With the improved devices for taking away the shavings and dust, a planing mill can be kept as clean as any other shop, and if the machines were brushed off and the vile accumulations of Gust and grease scraped off every day, there would be but little danger from that source.” <> The Salem, Mass., city council committee on public property, says the Lynn Reporter, having reason to believe that the hand gren- ades distributed in the public buildings were deteriorating, thought it would exper- iment with some in a school-house base- ment one day last week. So the committee built up a little fire, and then began to break hand-grenades on it. After throwing twen- ty-five, the fire still burned briskly, but a handful of snow extinguished it. The Oxford Creamery Co. has been or- ganized and 4,000 shares sold. The build- ing, which is being constructed, is to cost $800. Clias. Randall is manager, and the company expect to begin operations about the middle of April. sense of | conditions, as will also lamp-black, chareoal | Weeks ago I was out in Northern Michigan It will | | in our line. | exclaimed; ‘tyou Shekawgy beoples all dam j g kept in metal receptacles, and removed from | swindlers. | From the Chicago Herald. | | “Tt takes nerve to make a sale some- | times,” said a Chicago drummer; ‘‘a few and called on a German who handles goods When I went into his store I asked him how he would like to talk toa Chicago drummer to-day. ‘““*No Shekawgy trummer in mine,’ he I have nodings to do with She- kawgy vellers no more already. Von he peat me owut seexty tollar swi week ago. I don’t vant any goots to-day. I haf swore everything to puy from Grand Rapids some more.’ ***But I’m not from Chicago,’ I replied, at once seeing how the wind blowed, ‘?’m from Grand Rapids, and represent so-and-so,’ giving him the name of my firm, and run- ning my risks on his recognizing Chicago as our location. ‘Youre right—the man who buys in Chicago must expect to be rob- bed. They’re aregular gang of skinners there. Let’s see, how is your stock of sugar to-day? I can do something nice for you in sugars. We have contracted for the whole output of a big refinery, and can beat Chi- cago all to pieces on prices.’ “Well to make a long story short, I sold him a good bill of goods, shipping them by Grand Rapids and arranging with a friend of mine there in another line of business to see to the waybills and also to look out for our mail, which I told the German to send to his street number. Since selling that bill we have had a number of nice mail orders from him, and have found him good pay, too. In his last letter he said: ‘I like to trade mit you Grand Rapids pizniz men. Shekawgy vos no goot.’ ” A A Student of Human Nature. Stranger (to fellow passenger)—Excuse me, but am I not right in taking you fora professional man? Fe ves, sir. Stranger—Thanks. It is not often that I make a mistake in judging my fellow men. Your work is head work altogether, of course? Fellow passenger—Oh, yes sir, entirely so. Stranger—Er—lawyer? Fellow passenger—No, sir; barber.