VOL. 3. he Michigan Tradesman. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 1886. / NO, 137. 4 PINGREE &SMITH Wholesale Manufacturers Boots, Shoes and Slippers DETROIT, MICH. Warranted, Daily Capacity 2,000 PAIRS Every Pair (§"Michigan Agents Woonsocket Rubber Company._&] Office and Factory—1i1, 13, 15 and 17 Woodbridge street West. Dealers cordially invited to call on us when in town. Our Special Plug Tobaccos. SPRING CHICKEN 38.36 MOXIE oh ECLIPSE 2 Above brands for sale only by OLNEY, SHIELDS & CO, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. A Simple Cure for Dyspepsia. Probably never in the history of proprietary medicines has any articfe met success equal to that which has been showered upon Golden Seal Bitters. Why, such has been the success of this discovery that nearly every family in whole neighborhoods have been taking it at the same time. GolJpen Seal Bitters combines the best remedies of the vegetable kingdom, and in such proportions as to derive their greatest medicinal effect with the least dis- turbance to the whole system, In fact, this preparation is so balanced in its action upon the alimentary canal, the liver, the kidneys, the stomrch, the bowels, and the circulation of the blood, that it brings about a healthy ac- tion of the edtire human organism that can hardly be credited by those who have not seen the remarkable results hat have followed its use. Sold by Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. BATON & CHRISTENDON, Agents for a full line of ° W. Venable & Co.'s PETERSBURG, VA., FLUG TOBACCOS, NIMROD, E. C., BLUE RETER, SPREAD EAGLE, BIG FIVE CENTER. 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, <5 Dainty SA fine revolver | 42 BULKLEY LEMON HOOPS WHOLESALE GROCERS, GRAND RAPIDS, WHIPS & LASHES AT WHOLESALE ONLY. Goods at jobbing prices to any dealer who comes to us or orders by mail, for cash. Ga. ROYS c& CO., Manufacturers’ agents, _2 Pearl St., Grand Rapids, Mich. GUSTAVE A. WOLF, Attorney. Over Fourth National Bank. Telephone 407. COLLECTIONS , Promptly attended to throughout the State. MICH. BELKNAP Waoon and Sleigh bo MANUFACTURERS OF ‘ Spring, Freight, Express, Lumber and F'arm WAGONS! Logging Carts and Trucks, Mill and Dump Carts, Lumbermen’s and : River Tools. We carry a large stock of material, and have overy facility forma king first-class Wagons of all kinds. ("special Attention Given to Repairing, Painting and Lettering. Shops on Front St., Grand Rapids, Mich. STEAM LAUNDRY 43 and 45 Kent Street. STANLEY N. ALLEN, Proprietor. WH DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS WORK AND USE NO CHEMICALS. Orders by Mail and Express promptly at- tended to. DEALER IN AWNINGS, TENTS, Horse, Wagon and Stack Covers, Hammocks and Spread- ers, Hammock Supports and Chairs, Buggy Seat Tops, Etc. Send for Price-List. 73 Canal St. JUDD c& COO.,., JOBBERS of SADDLERY HARDWARE And Full Line Winter Goods. We earry a full line of Seeds of every variety, 102 CANAL STREET. both for field and garden. arties in want should CEE) \ write to or see the GRAND RAPIDS GRAIN AND SEED C0. 71 CANAL STREET. PIONEER PREPARED PAINTS. Order your stock now. Having just re- ceived a large stock of the above celebrated brand MIXED PAINTS, we are prepar- ed to fill all orders. We give the following Guarantee : When our Pioneer Prepared Paintis put on any building, and if within three years it should crack or peel off, and thus fail to give the full satisfaction guaranteed, we agree to repaint the building at our expense, with the best White Lead or such other paint as the owner may select. Hazelting & Perkins Drug Co. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. EDMUND 8, DIKEMAN, THE— GREAT WATCH MAKER, —AND— JEW HLAR. 44 CANAL STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. WE LEAD—OTHERS FOLLOW, is valuable. The O , Grand Rapids MMIFLE’ Business College is a practical trainer and fits its pupils for the vocations of busi- ness with all that the term implies. Send forJournal. Address C. G. SWENSBERG, Grand Rapids, Mich. LUDWIG WINTERNITZ, JOBBER OF Pure Apple Cider & White Wine 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 drop a postal card and I will call. Telephone 566. 106 Kent St., Grand Rapids, Mich. « CINSENG ROOT. , Grand Rapids, ‘erences: Hart & Amberg, Eaton & Christen- me son, Enterprise Cigar Co. % Pe Pec Pi the highest price for it. Address, Bro, esi A, H. FOWLE, House Decorator and Dealer in FINE WALL PAPERS, Room Mouldings, Window Shades, Artist Materials PICTURES, PICTURE FRAMBS, * And a full line of Paints, Oil & Glass. Enamel Letters, Numbers and Door Plates, and all kinds of Embossed, Cut and Ornamental Glass. Special attention given to House Decorat- ing and Furnishing, and to the designing and furnishing of stained glass. 37 Ionia Street, South of Monroe. Granello, MERCHANT TAILOR, LEDYARD BLOCK, LOT Ottawa St. Suitings for Manufacturers, Suitings for Jobbers, Suitings for Retailers, Suitings for Traveling Men, Suitings for Clerks, AND Overcoats for Everybody. FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC WOOL- ENS AND WORSTEDS, THE BEST MANUFACTURED. FINE AND SER- VICEABLE TRIMMINGS. SUPERIOR WORK AND THE PROP- ER STYLE FOR THE WEARER. ALL AT PRICES THAT WILL IN- DUCE YOU TO LEAVE YOUR ORDER. Money Rufunded. The true remedy has at last been discovered. It was long known in his practice as Dr. Pete’s Lung Food for Consumption. It is now called Dr. Pete’s 35-cent Cough Cure. It is the safest, the surest and the best. No other Cough, Cold, and Consumption remedy is half itsequal. We warrant it and will promptly refund the money paid foa it if a beneficial effect is not exper- ienced py the time two-thirds of the contents of the bottle is used. Sold by the Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. EATON & LYON, Importers, Jobbers and Retailers of BOOKS, Stationery & Sundries, 20 and 22 Monroe St., Grand Rapids, Mich. NEW BRANDS CIGARS | SUNSHINE, STANDARD, ROYAL BIRD, KEY VEST, LOVE LETTER, BUNNY, I SHOULD BLUSH, DICTATOR. ABOVE ARE ALL Coldwater Goods, OF WHICH WE HAVE THE EXCLUSIVE SALE. Raton & Christenson, “A WOMAN IN THE CASE.” Typical Trick Played by a Michigan Mer- chant. “TI don’t care about having the propor- tion of incendiary fires in our total fire risks published in any paper, but I may say that it is large,” remarked a Detroit under- writer to a reporter. “Selling out to the insurance company,” is a contingency we have all got to calculate on in our business. It is a glaring fact which we meet every day. As Mr. Chad- grind would say, it resolves itself into a per- centage. So many policies, so many holders who set fire to their premises. We find them out if we ean and make them settle. If we can’t, we pay them up in full and say nothing. We can’t stop to reform the world, purify human nature and punish crime. We are organized to do business and make money—if we can. “Instances? Hundreds of them. youafew? Well, I'll give you one, and you'll find that enough. Recollect, I will not give you 4ither names or places, and my name must not appear, Take out your pencil. Here goes: ‘‘A few years ago I was notified of a loss by our local agent at F , which is about 100 miles of Detroit. I proceeded there and learned that the store and contents of R . one of our policy holders, had been burned to the ground. Our risk on the building was for $1,000 and was a total loss. The contents, which was general merchandise, had been insured in another company for $2,500, and that amount had been paid to on the day previous to my arrival. I Give R met R——, who appeared to bea very nice sort of a man, but something in his manner made me distrustful. I talked with him, and before long he intimated to me, in an indirect way, that he was a man of popular- ity and integrity, a member of the church, superintendent of the Sunday school, and a pillar of society generally. ~ ‘Inquiry in other quarters confirmed his own statement. He was well liked and generally esteemed—in short, a man of spotless reputation, both in social and busi- ness life. “The stock burned up was worth from $3,800 to $4,000. The building burned up was worth at least $1,700, and there was no mortgage. Neither was there any incum- brance on the building. I could not learn that he was in debt to any considerable extent. He was credited with doing a fairly profitable business. I reasoned against my own distrust of the man. Why should he burn out for $3,500 when his property was worth $5,500? It seemed absurd. And yet, reason or no reason, I felt in my bones that the man was ‘crooked.’ I concluded to wait, and retufned to Detroit, on the truth- ful plea of pressing business. ‘About 10 days afterward I returned to F There were a good many people in the street who recognized me from my pre- vious visit, and some talked ‘at? me as I passed. ‘* *That’s the fellow that didn’t pay R loss,’ said one. *¢ F)__n such a company?’ said another. ‘Public opinion was evidently in favor of R and decidedly against me. During the two days Ispent there I received a num- ber of such insults, and I talked a good deal with everybody. I had several talks with R——. He wasa smart, brainy man—cool, collected and self-possessed. Still, 1 felt instinctively that he was uneasy because the $1,000 had not been promptly paid; but his manner was well calculated to hide his real feelings. He dropped most of the talk about his own popularity and integrity, and en- deavored to impress me with the idea that he had great influence in the community. Oh, ho! thought I, you are threatening me, old fellow. Weli, we will play this game to the end. ‘© ‘T understand that you wished to sell the property,’ said Il ‘Now, why did you want to sell when you were doing sucha good business?” ‘+ ‘I didn’t want to sell it,’ he answered, ‘and, for that matter, people thought I was doing more business than I was. Still, if I could have got a big price, cash down, I would have sold, of course?’ ‘¢*T understand that you set your own price, and that a party offered it, but you re- fused to close the bargain.’ ‘¢ *Y-¢-e-s,’ he answered, with a depreca- tory smile, ‘I was offered a small cash pay- ment, with security on the property and a chattel mortgage on the goods.’ ‘Now, I knew that he was fibbing to some extent, as I had learned that he had offered to sell the property, stock and good will for $4,000 cash down, and had been offered $5,500 on the following terms: $1,000 cash and the balance in four install- ments, payable quarterly, with security on stock, building and lot. ‘* ‘T suppose,’ said I, in a careless manner, ‘you wanted to go into some other business, where you needed your capital all in cash, and where you could get better returns.’ ‘‘He was too smart to fall into this trap. He answered: ‘¢*Ves, there was an opportunity for me in a cash investment in Grand Rapids. I *S there, but the opportunity went by more than six weeks ago.’ “This antedated the fire. Hehad ‘check- | ed’ me, but I had determined to play the | game out. I wanted to make further in- quiries, but he stuck to me that afternoon. Every person we met was apparently his particular friend. He was very affable, and demonstrated his widespread popularity, and I saw that his influence was consider- able. After supper at the hotel I mapped out a diversion in the campaign. I had be- come well known among the idle people who lounged about the streets and stores of the country town, and I stepped into a little shop which the principal gossips had made their headquarters. I entered into general conversation, and, directing it to the recent fire, said: ‘¢*There has been to me something mys- terious about our fire, but as Mr. R plains it, I am now satisfied that it is a straight loss. He has told me all about it, and about his trade and his attention to bus- iness and all that.” “The bait took beautifully. Tongues were unlocked immediately. Every one of | the gossips related all he knew about R and in the quantity of chaff 1 picked out a; few interesting kernels of good wheat. There is a boss cow in every pasture and there is always a Sir Oracle in every village. The boss gossip was present and I managed to get him to take a walk with me. He had been a clerk and then proprietor of a store at one time in the town and knew all about exX- goods. He did most of his trading with R , who, he thought, was a square man, and he was a personal friend of R-——’s clerk and had been in the store on the even- ing of the fire, about 9 o’clock, at the time it was closed. I pumped him dry. I se- cured some interesting information, but was still unable to diseover why R had sac- rificed his property. *T called on R the next morning. He had a fine residence elegantly furnished. His wife was a ladylike woman and he had several interesting children. The talk, of course, was about the fire. IH said he had no doubt that it was of incendiary origin, but it must have been done by a stranger; he had not one enemy in town. His wife came inf the room and he introduced us. In the conversation between the husband and wife before myself a curious little incident was developed which will be explained in due | time. Tle went with me to the Detroit train at 10 o’clock that night, and I told him to get up the usual estimate of value and proof of loss and other conditions set forth in the insurance policy. * * * * * * ‘Twenty days afterward I returned to the town on a night train. I had gathered noth- ing tangible in the way of accounting for R *s sacrifice of his property, but I still had an unwavering conviction that the man was an unscrupulous hypocrite and an in- cendiary. I called at his house early in the morning and found him at home. After the usual polite greetings, Lunfoldeda diagram, made by myself with pen and ink and laid it on the table before him. ‘The store on the left belonged to R——. It was a two-story frame building witha cellar. The ground floor was divided into two rooms. At the division to the left there was a stairway leading to the cellar. Over this stairway, and approached from the rear of the store, was another stairway to the upper floor. This floor had not been plastered or finished in any way, and was used as a store room for paper, rags, feath- ers and other articles. The star at the side in the back room onthe ground floor showed where the fire originated. Between the store and the adjoining building, which was also burned, was an outside stairway which filled all the space between the buildings. It gave access to several law offices on the second floor of the adjoining building. “We were sitting at a table together as I unfolded the diagram, and turned to him. He looked at it intently, his gaze being centered on the star. I leaned back and commenced to speak, watching him closely. But he did not lift his eyes. “Mr. R——,’ I commenced, ‘I have be- come satisfied that you were right in your belief that it was the work of anincendiary. In fact, I may say that I know it was.’ His countenance changed slightly and he looked up. “That spot you have been looking at is the place where the fire originated. It broke out, as you see, in the back room of your store, just in the rear of the stairway between the two buildings. Now, I will ex- plain to you just how this fire occurred. ‘‘He rested his head on his hand, placing his elbow on the table, and resumed his study of thediagram. I went on: “The man first provided himself with four gallons of kerosene oil. On the even- ing of the night of the fire, you went into the back room and split some soap boxes into kindling wood. You preferred doing it yourself rather than tell your clerk to do it. You made a good deal of noise back there. You were really preparing for the fire. ‘‘He started in his chair as if he had been GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. could have got into a good paying business ** ‘Did I understand you to say that I did this?’ ‘* ‘Yes, I mean every word I say to you.” “We were looking each oiher square in the eyes, but in his I did not see the indig- nation of innocence. 1 went on: ** ‘You prepared the kindling wood that evening, and while doing so you also broke a hole through the plastering just at that spot you have been looking at. You made all the preparations that- involved making a noise.’ ‘I waited fora response of some kind, but none came. He was looking at me with a half vacant stare. ** ‘You did not put up the big wooden bar across your back door that evening, but you locked that door, put the key in your pocket, and went to your own home. About mid- night you complained to your wiie of feel- ing ill (as I have heard her say in your pres- ence), and you back lot. You then climbed the fence and crept up in the dark to the back door of your store, unlocked it and entered, closing the door noiselessly behind you. You glid- ed silently to the kerosene ean, which was standing on the stone ledge of the founda- vent out doors into your tion of the store, just at the head of the cellar stairs. You took it up stairs. Here you gathered together a quan- tity of paper rags and placed them in the space between the weather-boarding and the studding, directly over where you had eut a hole in the plastering in the floor below. You saturated with oil the paper rags which you had selected for the purpose the same day. You dropped most of them down the hole, but left some at the top. Then you brought the ean down stairs into the back room, and proceeded to the hole. You satur- ated the kindling wood and piled it up. Then you listened. No one was stirring. You struck a match applied it to the kindl- ing, andas the blaze mounted, you went out of the back door, locked it and returned to your house. But you forgot to return the oil can to its usual place.’ “T said all this slowly, calmly and im- pressively. When I had finished he rose up and, without saying a word, commenced walking backward and forward in the room. Lsat stilland silent. Finally, after a su- preme effort of will, he gathered himself to- gether and said, with effort: ‘**Ts thisa dream? It must be, for me to be talked to in this way.’ Then he became agitated. I confess that, for a moment, my convic- tion of his guilt wavered. Then meneed to speak excitedly on his favorite theme—his My belief in his guilt erystalized in a second. ‘Mr. R——’ I said, “‘if you have any doubts about this yourself I will waive the question as to formal proofs under the con- ditions of your policy, and allow you to com- mence suit against the company at once. I will then prove to your satisfaction and to the satisfaction of your fellow townsmen, in whose estimation you have stood so high, that I have told the exact truth as to the eause of the fire.’ “He sat down, saying nothing. was silence for about half a minute. ‘*‘I*think,’ he said finally, ‘that some- body has been filling you with a pack of lies.’ ‘“**What I have said,’ I replied, ‘will stand the strongest test of ecross-examina- tion. You know whether my statement is true or false. I know it to be true.’ ‘‘For the next two minutes he walked and sat down and walked again several times,’ showing great agitation, and breathing hard. Then he turned to me fiercely and sudden- He was a consummate actor and he com- reputation. There Me ‘lll take half of the $1,000 insurance, and give you the other half, if you will tell me the name of your informant.’ ** ‘Tf you gave me the whole amount I would not tell you.’ “There was more wavering and inconse- quent talk, but finally his nerves gave way and he said: ‘What can I do?’ “Tt was surrender. ‘Tt cost me $60 for my three visits to> this town. Pay me thatand surrender your * policy and it will end the matter. We have plenty of such cases.’ “He pleaded that the matter be not made public, and I promised to keep it secret. Then he brought the policy, paid me the $60, and we went down town. He chatted ostentatiously with me through the streets, went to the hotel, where he insisted on pay- ing my bill, and with great grace waived his. adieu as I left on the train. * * * * *% * “But why did that man burn his property? This was the problem that kept me on the rack of curiosity for some time afterward. But the solution came at last. ‘About four months afterward I received a letter from our local agent at F——— ask- ing how much money the company had paid on that loss, adding that there were some people in that place who were so un- charitable as to think that he got nothing, I answered that the company had settled with R to the satisfaction of both par- ties, and that the terms were nobody’s else business. ‘That settled that. ‘“*A few months from this R sold his dwelling house and lot at a very low figure for cash. There had been some undefined rumors of a scandalous nature in the com- munity before the sale. But when he got the money he deserted his wife and children and eloped with another man’s wife. Then it came out that R was rotten clear through. His surpassing hypocrisy had imposed on the whole community. I might have guessed the reason why he wanted to convert all his property into cash, because nine-tenths of these apparently unexplain- able actions may be hit off in one sentence —‘There’s a woman in the case.’ ” * shot. \ The Michigan Tradesman. A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE ‘Hercantile and Manufacturing Interests of the State, E. A. STOWE, Biitor. Terms $1 a year in eavenss. postage paid. Advertising rates made known on application. WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 1886. Merchants and Manufacturers’ 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 Haméiton: Secretary, C. T. Lockwood; Treasurer, J. T. Beadle. Business Men’s Protective Union of Cheboygan. President, A. M. Wesgate; Vice-President, HH. Chambers: Secretary, A. J. Paddock. Luther Protective Association. President, W. B. Pool: Vice-President, R. M. Smith; Secretary. Jas. M. Verity; Treasurer, ‘Geo. Osborne. fonia Business Men’s Protective As- sociation. President, Wm. E. Kelsey; Vice-President, H. M. Lewis; Secretary, Fred Cutler, Jr. Ovid Business Men’s Association. President, C. H. Hunter: Secretary, Lester Cooley. " Subscribers and others, when writing to advertisers, will confer a fave> on the pub- lisher by mentioning that they saw the adver- ’¢tisement in the columns of this paper. LEGALITY OF THE BOYCOTT. The question of the legality of the boy- eott has been sharply raised in New York, and is likely to come up elsewhere. In that city, the contest over Mrs. Gray’s bakery aroused much public iuterest, and finally three or four men were arreste® and fined for carrying the boycotting placard and dis- tributing similar circulars on the pavement in front of her shop. It was not charged that they had used violence or resorted to intim- idation; but they violated the section of the crimimal code of the State of New York, which says: ff two or more persons conspire either to prevent another person from exercising a lawful trade or calling, or doing any other unlawful act, by force, threat, intimidation, or by interfering or threatening to interfere, with tools, implements or property belong- ing to or used by another, or with the use or employment thereof, or to commit any act injurious to the public health, to public morals, or to trade or commerce, or for per- version or obstruction of justice, or of the due administration, each of them is guilty of a misdemeanor. This section is derived from the old En- glish law of ‘‘eonspiracy in restraint of trade,” and finds an exact counterpart in the laws of several states, notably Michigan and Pennsylvania. The statute of this State relating to the subject is found in Howell’s Compilation, chapter 321, Section 9275, which reads as follows: Jf two or more persons shall willfully and maliciously combine, or conspire together, to obstruct or impede, by any act or by means of intimidation, the regular opera- tion and eonduct of the business of any rail- read company or any other corporation, firm, or individual in this State, or to im- pede, hinder, or obstruct, except by due process of law, the regular running of any locomotive engine, freight or passenger train on any railroad, or the labor and busi- ness of any such corporation, firm or indi- vidual, such persons shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for a period not more than three months, or in the State prison fora period not exceeding two years. Much in the same spirit as the New York eode in the decision of Judge Pardee in the U.S. District Court in Texas, in the case -of the strikers on the Texas Pacific Rail- road. The road is in the hands of a receiy- er appointed by the court, and this was used to bring them within the court’s jurisdiction for ‘‘contempt.” With the merits of the case, so far as it concerned violence offered to persons or property, we are not here con- cerned. But we observe that Judge Pardee ruled that ‘‘the employees of the receivers, * * * where they combine and conspire to quit, with or without notice, with the ob- ject or intent of crippling the property or its operation, commit a contempt, and all those who combine or conspire with em- ployees thus to quit, or as officials of pre- tended labor organizations issue pretended -orders to quit or to strike, with an intent to embarrass the court in administering the property, rendered themselves liable for contempt of court.” Judge Pardee’s reference to the status of ‘the Knights of Labor organization in his famous decision deserves the commendation of every honest man in the land. It is as follows: ‘‘Labor organizations are lawful and generally laudable associations, but they have no legal status or authority and stand before men and the law on no better footing than other social organizations, and it is preposterous that they should attempt to issue orders that free men are bound to obey; and no man can stand in a court of justice and shelter himself behind any such organization from the consequence of his awn unlawful acts.” The newspapers are beginning to find mames for the Knights of Labor more in keeping with their actions. One speaks of them as ‘‘Tyrants of Labor” and another as “Knights of Disorder.” Keppler, of Puck, and Nast, of Harper’s Weekiy, are doing telling work in portray- ‘}ers and professional men like physicians Stimulated by the success attending the Retail Grocers’ Association, a number of representative business men have determin- ed to inaugurate a Business Mens’ Ex- change and Collection Bureau, to include every line of retail trade except liquor deal- and dentists. The project has been under consideration for some time and has been received with so much favor that the pro- jectors have determined to make a move in the matter during the next month. A nom- inal fee will be charged for membership, which will entitle members to all the priv- ileges of the Exchange. A room will be se- cured in a central portion of the city anda record kept of every consumer in the city. When asked to extend credit to a stranger, the member can secure a full report as to the liability of the person by recourse to the telephone. THE TRADESMAN commends the movement as practical and expects to see it result in great good tothe trade at large. During the street car strike’ here over a year ago, the Knights of Labor not only boycotted business men who owned stock in the railway company and those who rode on the ears of the line, but threatened to boycott merchants who would not purchase tickets to ride in their second-hand ’buses. And within a month the Knights of Labor have formally boycotted a St. Louis dry goods firm because it refused to advertise upon the demand of a Knight in a reference book of the order. Such criminal perver- sion of the power supposed to be possessed by the labor organizations deserves the severest censure. Puck for last week contains a series of illustrations which are pertinent to the present time. An old Hebrew clothing merchant is doing a losing business in a di- lapidated store. The experience of Mrs. Gray, the baker, suggests a bright idea and he hangs out a sign reading, ‘I am boycotted.” Crowds of people begin to flock in and purchase goods, his wife exchanges the washtub for the cashier’s desk, and the old gentleman is soon able to retire from business and spend his entire time in clip- ping interest coupons from Government bonds. The Milwaukee Knights of Labor have boycotted the goods of the International Cigar Makers’ Union for the purpose of driving the members of the Union into the order. The Knights are free to direct their weapon against their friends, but it is a no- ticeable fact that it is seldom used against the workingman’s greatest enemy—the sa- loon. Abolish the saloon, and the labor question is settled forever. The statement of the final outcome of the the Helgerson failure, at Manistee, will pro- voke an indignant remonstrance from every honest man in the State. It is to be regret- ted that the laws of Michigan cannot be so construed as to land every such rascal in the State Prison for a period commensurate with the offense. One of Tue TRADESMAN’s mercantile friends writes that he has a hen which laid twoeggs in one day. We refrain from giv- ing the name of the owner, as the Knights of Labor might otherwise boycott the hen for over production. This would certainly be a foul proceeding. AMONG THE TRADE. IN THE CITY. Fred Varin & Co., harness dealers, have been closed on chattel mortgage. Gerald Fitzgerald succeeds Burr & Fitz- gerald in the plated ware and clock busi- ness. A. Bush has engaged in the grocery busi- ness at Baldwin. Jobn Caulfield furnished the stock. Ce N. Strahan, manufacturer of parlor furni- ture, is succeeded by the Strahan & Long Furniture Co. Jas. Colby has engaged in | the grocery business at Rockford. Clark, Jewell & Co. furnished the stock. F. S. Webber has engaged in the grocery business at Mendon. Arthur Meigs & Co. furnished the stock. Geo. Ketchum das engaged in the grocery business at Howard City. John Caulfield furnished the stock. I. J. McClellan has engaged in the gro- cery business at Mendon. Arthur Meigs & Co. furnished the stock. Wm. Hiess & Bro. have engaged in the grocery business at Sand Lake. Cody, Ball & Co. furnished the stock. A. L. Carpenter & Co. have engaged in the grocery business at Baldwin. John Caulfield furnished the stock. Chas. Van Sickel has engaged in the gro- cery business at Mackinaw City. Amos 8. Musselman & Co. furnished the stock. John 8. Dykstra has engaged in the hard- ware business at the corner of West Leon- ard and Turner streets. Thestock was pur- chased here. The L. Smalheer grocery stock, on West Leonard street, was furnished by John Caulfield—not by Cody, Ball & Co., as stat- ed last week. The Grand Rapids School Furniture Co. has been awarded the contract for furnish- ing 254 seats for the Traverse City schools. The order aggregates about $1,000. are erecting a brick store building, 25x100 feet in ‘dimensions, at 136 West Fulton street, and will engage in the hardware bus- iness about June 1. The Farmer Roller Mill Co. has lately shipped sixteen pair of rolls to G. K. Wil- lard, Red Bluff, Cala.; twelve pair to H. C. Dutton, Muir, Mich., and four pair to A. Beall, Uniontown, Pa. F. C. Beard, the Morley general dealer, was in town last week and secured a con- tract for furnishing 40,000 ties for the Mus- kegon branch of the Grand Rapids & In- diana Railroad. The ties are to be either hemlock, oak, cedar or tamarack timber and must all be delivered within six months. AROUND THE STATE, J. W. Saunders, general dealer at Aurel- ius, has sold out. Klein & Moon, grocers at Sturgis, are re- moving to Ludington. O. P. Schuler succeeds Schuler Bros. in the drug business at Charlotte. Nelson G. Ashley has opened a grocery and supply store at Whiteville. F. G. Richards has removed his grocery who has been operating a yard there for two years. A new foundry is in process of erection at Sterling. The building will be 40x60 feet feet in size and will make anything from a stove hook to a stove. Jackson & Church are building it and have begun putting in the machinery. ~~ —O-- ~-o —~ -9- =< ‘“‘Fermentum”? the only Reliable Com- See advertisement. Ionia Standard: The Business Men’s Protective Association appointed T. B. Preston, J. T. Webber, P. T. Bates, A. 8. Wright and W. E. Kelsey as a committee to confer with the railway companies to see if Ionia cannot be placed on the same basis as Grand Rapids in the matter of freight rates. STRAY FACTS. Ionia will have new celery on the market May 20. Wright & Ketcham are building a shingle | ‘mill at Averill. | paying job in every town in the United States. F. F. Spiegel & Co. sueceed Niver & Co. | in the flourand feed business at Oakley. Stfickland & Wittenbrook, of Caro, have | bought the Jewell house, at Vassar, for | in this column at the rate of 25 cents per week, sent. in care of this office must be accompanied ete. MISCELLANEOUS. eee Advertisements of 25 words or less inserted or 50 cents for three weeks. ment. Advertisements directing that answers be Advance pay- ag 5 cents extra, to cover expense of postage, OR SALE—Drug store at a bargain. A splendid chance for a man with small cap- ital. Address Dr. Z. Mizner, Box 1517. Mus- kegon, Mich. 139* GENTS WANTED—For an article used in every house. I can give alive man a good | For particulars, address with stamp, A. Resen, | Pewamo, Mich. 148 rok SALE—Desiring a change of climate, on account of poor health, I will sell at a $10,000. J. Hoare, late of Pentwater, has engaged | in the bakery and confectionery business at Ludington. The meat sellers at Dundee are at war. The best cuts of steaks can be had for seven cents per pound. More wood, ties, posts, ete., are awaiting shipment at Boyne City than ever at any one time before. The Petrie Lumber Co.’s mill at Mus- kegon, will run nights as well as days, throughout the season. Butters & Peters and ,T. R. Lyon, who have been boring for salt at Ludington, have | nearly reached the bed salt rock. The test well for coal being drilled on the farm of James R. Ward, near Merrill, is down 180 feet and no indications of coal. A Lansing paper announces with justifi- | able pride that ‘‘sixteen new stores are pro- | jected or are already in course of erection | on Washington avenue. MANUFACTURING MATTERS. Traverse City longs for a potato starch | factory. F. L. Burch, cigar manufacturer at Owos- | so, is succeeded by the Owosso Cigar Co. C. N. Shaw, of Petoskey, has invented | and is manufacturing a new style of refrig- | erator. Tiffany Bros., | manufacturers, are taking down one of their large frame buildings and will ship it to' and re-erect it at Newton, Ks., in connection with their new factory there. A stock company is to be formed at Deep River to manufacture brick, ete., from the} very excellent clay near there. ing the monster evil of the age—boycotting. Blakeley & Co., late of Newark, N. Y., the Jonesville carriage | The com | | bargain my stock of merchandise, consisting | of dr y goods, groceries and boots and shoes. Stock will invoice about $2,500. I will sell or rent store building on tert ms to suit purchaser. If you mean business, call on or address. C. L. Howard, Clarksville, Ionia Co., Mich. 142* VOR SALE—A neat, new grocery stock and fixtures in the growing part of city. Rent low. Location, the best. New block, is” — and Division. W. D. Brewster. OR SALE—A general stock situated about twenty-two miles south on the L. S. & M. 8. Railway. eee about $1,500. All new goods. Address, F. B. A., care THE TRADES- MAN, 138* ee. SALE—At a bargain, a grocery and pro- vision business, located in a thriving northern county seat. Ill health requires a change of climate. Inquire of A. T. Page, un- der Fourth National Bank, Grand Rapids. 139* OR SALE OR EXCHANGE—Two pieces of store property situated on a main busi- ness street. Will sell cheap or exchange for stock of general merchandise. Address Gerrit Yonker, box 1,790, Muskegon, Mich. 137 F YOU WANT —To get into business, to sell your business, to secure additional capital, | to get a situation, if you have anything for | sale or want to buy anything, advertise in the Miscellaneons Column of THE TRADESMAN. A twenty-five word advertisement costs but 25 | | cents a week or 50 cents for three weeks. FRESH MEATS. | John Mohrhard quotes the trade selling | prices as follows: Worse Than Highway Robbery. September 15, 1884, Harvey Helgerson, who for several years previously had ear- ried on the grocery business at~Manistee, gave two chattel mortgages on his stock, one to his mother for $2,050.78 and one to a clerk for $400. On the 24th of the same month, Helgerson uttered another mortgage for $350 and made an assignment to C. R. Giesman. An inventory of the debts and assets disclosed liabilities amounting to $12,900 and assets of $3,700. Up to the py of the failure, Helgerson discounted every bill, which caused him to be regarded as good credit by jobbers here and at Mil- waukee and Chicago. On April 27th, the assignee sent the creditors a final aecount- ing, showing total receipts—over the mort- gages—of $427.97 and net receipts of $43.85, which will give the creditors a divi- dend of about one-third of one per cent. Such a failure speaks for itself, and honest men can draw their own conclusions. <> -9- <> “Silver Kifg” coffee is all the rage. silver present given with package. One every 1 pound Golden Seal Bitters is meeting with grand suecess wherever used. It isan article of great merit. Every family should have ft in the house. It is the coming family medicine. TO THE RETAIL GROCER. Why don’t you make your own Paking Powder And a hundred per cent. protit?) [have made mine for years. Twelve receipts, including the leading powders of the day, with full directions for preparing,—the re- sult of 30'ye ars’ collecting, selecting and experiment- ing, sent er a $1 postal note. Address Cc. P. Bartlett, Baldwinsville, Are You Going fo Relves a Store, Pau- try ox Cleset 3 N. Y¥. If so, send jor prices and jure ther _faforna tion. Ess seston & Pata’ Bracket Shelving Irvug Creates a New Era in STORE FuRNISH- ING. It entirely su- persedes the old style wherever in- troduced. ls sernnen, Satisfaction Guaranteed All Le infringe sf = mentsnroe on secuied. pb ae cle we fnottobe had from peta our local etinth niwars ealer, . send your Cine orders cis rect to TORRANCE & CO., Troy, N. Y. RCTIc 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. POX & BRADFORD WHOLESALE TUBACCULNTS FULL LINE PLUGS KEPT ALL STAPLE IN STOCK. OF Sole Awe a Colebeated F. & B. Boquet, Spanish Fly, Pantilla, Rosa DeOro, Amer- ican Club, Jim Fox Clipper, Moxie. 76 South Division St., Ciand henise, Mich. Exclusively “Wholesale. MOULTON & REMPIS, Manufacturers of SETTERS, ROOF CRESTIN G FRA eee EOL LAWN VASES, And Jobbers in Gray [ron Castings. WRITE FOR PRICE-LIST. 54 and 56 North Front Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. GRAND RAPIDS GRAIN AND SEED CO. SEED MERCHANTS, Office and Warehouse: 71 CANAL ST. GRAND RAPIDS, May 3, 1886. DrAR Strs—Below we hand you jobbing prices for to-day: Clov er, NG onc cic cs ss can acee 60 ih bu 6 25 No. 2. (if in-atook)......... ” 6 00 a Mammoth PRUNG 5. osc: ” 7 00 ” 3 ae Pe b “ 12 00 ” PRUE oo gcc cenas ao “* “ 9 00 “ Alfalfa orLucerne20e * " 12 00 Timothy, os i cca bocce 45 e bu 2 00 Fair to Good (if in stoek) 1 90 PO occ scene sc cccccadiake, 14 th bu 90 oe oiic ics ek, 2 i OU Tg re ai _ 2 50 ee ee ee eae 48 Db bu 90 DENIC CITATION 6 5 5 oo 5s on ccc cccccess 90 ye, ee . 1 00 eo as 75 Wee WO POM. | 2. cs kk cn ccan 60 t bu 1 15 Rye, ‘Winter Meee sume hd ove ocec tec. 56 » bu 75 De WN occ acca ce eccucs 85 Mk a eee 60 tb bu 110 Woah ceked ind acces ae ewt 1 50 Oats, choice white.. 2 th bu 50 Corn, Early 8 Rowed Yankee... . 6 b bu 1 75 ** Leaming, Earl: Dent........ 15 1 See SEO. 2. * 1 Prices on Rape, Canary and all other seeds on application. The above prices are free on board ears in lots of five or more bagsatatime. Cartage on smaller quantities Wecarry the large ‘st line of Garden Seeds in Bulk of any house in the State we st of Detroit, and would be pieased at any time to quote you prices, All Field Seeds are spot Cash on receipt of goods. W. T. Lamoreaux, Agt. Snocessors to Fox, Mo SEND FOR SAMPLE Butt. Amos $. Musselman & Co. selman & Loveridge, W holesale Grocers. AGENTS FOR MUSSELMAN’S CORKER PLUG AND RUM CIGARS, The best and most attractive goods on the market. SEE QUOTATIONS IN Price-List. SPORT: TOOL, BIGOR oss ok ks bs ccecn dss 54%4@ 7% | Fresh Beef, hind quarters 8 Dressed Hogs bug sek chuegs eo bee os cues 5Y4@ 5% | Mutton, Carcasses................02026 i @8 OO celia ee ee a vake 6 @7 | Pork Sausage...........cccececcccc cece 7 @7 b PMNTN oi ok oc a ce we's bak bess ink cd va 640 7 VR. osc ils s 0k ves vas Wacene ce el aacacace 138 @l4 MN ioe be cl ees ebuneaeul ec ccs PROCS eae 12 @l4 OYSTERS AND FISH. ;{ FE. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: OYSTERS. VOW DOME COMNMIB§. ois felis oe es 40 | Selects Phe UA ease eiiece Wh ci Wadd ceuei oe Les ce 35 FRESH FISH. Coa peeve cireiahs hick kes @10 MEO os oo 6 Gs Ves Pas occas @it AGUNG EOE coi ic di Valais wiedarkaceneea 12 @12% | Sagkionw IG io ss ove Fisch ean: dacs @it , Perch..... eSNG ie a - @4 I soo nga ck Soca ove oe ek ..10 ar PA ITORSR oss kaa a Scuidhes 8 Wall Paner2 Window Shades At Manufacturers’ Prices. SAMPLES TO THE TRADE ONLY. House and Store Shades Made to Order. 68 MONROE STREET, GRAND RAPIDS. Nelson Bros. & Co. a ® waar a STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY. One Year—F. H. J. VanEmster, Bay City. Two Years—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon. Three Years—James Vernor, Detroit. Four Years—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor. Five Years—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo. President—Ottmar Eberbach. Secretury—Jacob Jesson. Treasurer—Jas. Vernor. ichigan State Pharmaceutical Association, OFFICERS. sident—H. J. Brown, Ann Arbor. 4 First Vice-President—Frank J. Wurzburg, d Rapids. : soncwn Viee-President—A. B. Stevens, Detroit, Third Vice-President—Frank Inglis, Detroit. : Secretary—S. E. Parkell, Owosso. a Treasurer—Wm. Dupont, Detroit. Executive Committee—Jacob Jesson, Geo. Gundrum, Frank Wells, F. W. R. Perry and hn E. Peck. : ast Secretary—Will L. White, Grand Rapids. Next place of meeting—At Grand Rapids, Tuesday, October 12, 1886. 4 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. Board of Censors— President, Secretary. : Pen of Trustees—The President, Wm, i. Van Leeuwen, Isaac Watts, Wm. E. White, Wm. L. White. 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 Leeu‘ren. Committee on Legislation—Jas. D. Lacey, Isaac Watts and A. C. Bauer. oe Regular Meetings—First Thursday evening in Vice-President @ ‘ each month. : : > Annual Meetings—First Thursday evening in : November, - Next Meeting—Thursday evening, May 6, at “The Tradesman” office. Detroit Pharmaceutical Society. Organized October, 1883. OFFICERS. President—Wm. Dupont. ‘ First Vice-President—Frank Inglis. Second Vice President—J. W. Caldwell. : Secretary and Treasur@p-F. W. R. Perry. me Assistant Secretary and reasurer—A. B. Salt- zer. : Annual Meeting—First Wednesday in June. Regular Meetings—First Wednesday in each <4 month. Jackson County Pharmaceutical Asso- ciation. OFFICERS. President—R. F. Latimer. Vice-President—C. D. Colwell. Seqretary—F. A. ye * Treasurer—Chas. K. rey. : Board of Censors—Z. W. Waldron, C. E. Foot and C, H. Haskins. : Annual Meeting— First Thursday in November. Regular Meetings—First Thursday of each month. Saginaw County Pharmaceutical So- ciety. President—Jay Smith. First Vice-President—W. H. Farwell. Second Vice-President—R. Bruske, Secretary--D. = —. Treasurer—H. Melchers. : Committee on Trade Matters—W . B. Moore, H. G. Hamilton, H. Melchers, W. K. Keeler and R. J. Birney. Regular Meeting—Second Wednesday after- noon of each month. Muskegon Drug Clerks’ Association. OFFICERS. President—Fre@. Heath. Vice-President—J. C. Terry. Secretary and Treasurer—L. B. Glover. Regular Meetings—Second and fourth Wednes- day of each month. : Next Meeting—Wednesday evening, May 14. « * Muskegon Drug Clerk’s Association. MuskEGoON, Mich., May 3, 1886. Editor Michigan Tradesman: DEAR Str—The regular meeting of the M. D. C. A. was held on the 28th ult. The paper bearing the subject of “‘Belladona,” which was to be read, was dispensed with and the semi-annual election of officers took place which resulted as follows: President—Fred. Heath. Vice-President—l. C. Terry. Secretary and Treasurer—L. B. Glover. The Association meets again on the 14th inst. O. A. LiuoyD, Ex-Secretary and Treasurer. ————_ oa The Drug Market. Trade is active and collections are good. P. & W. reduced their price on quinine May 1 5e per ounce. Morphia and gum opium are steady. , For further changes see price current. a ———>-9-—- Somebody proposes to facilitate identifi- cation at banks and elsewhere, where iden- tification is necessary, by means of thumb- marks, as no two thumbs make the same impression. A man applying for a letter of credit might be required to furnish his thumb-mark to the bank. It could be sent to the corresponding institutions, and when application was made for the money, a cor- responding thumb-mark would be sufficient identification. Each bank might keep a Book of thumb-marks of large depositors. Forgery would be impossible where thumb- marks are used. The thumb-mark might be added to the signature in the form cf a seal in all cases where much depends upon a signature, as in deeds, wills or marriage contracts. Thumb-albums would replace autograph albums, and would furnish a rec- ord of more characteristic marks than could the signature of sentimental friends. Charts would be prepared of thumb-marks of great men, and books be written on the common characteristics. Season tickets to the fair, passes on all railroads, and all non-trans- ferable tickets could be signed with the thumb-mark. One point inconnection with the subject does not seem to have been no- ticed. Forgery, by mere manual copying, would certainly be impossible, but forgery by the camera would be easy enough. Hay- ing obtained a negative from the thumb- mark, it is no difficult matter to make a photo-typie block in india-rubber, a sort of reproduction of the thumb-seal. Where, then, is the security as regards the deeds or wills? Still, the idea seems goods, as far as circular notes are concerned. A Pittsburg boy’s curiosity induced him to touch a match to a natural gas pipe to find aleak. He found the leak, but all efforts to find the boy since have proved futile. h ‘ ‘Drugs & didedicines- Four Money ‘Making Rules. Rothschild commonly ascribed his early success, in a great degree, to the following rules: First—$ combined three profits. I made the manufacturer my customer, and the one I bought of my customer—that is, I sup- plied the manufacturer with raw materials and dyes, on each of which I made a profit, and took his manufactured goods, which I sold ata profit, and thus combined three profits. Second—Make a bargain at once. off-hand man. Third—Never have anything to do with an unlucky man or place. I have seen many clever men who had not shoes to their feet. I never act with them, their advice sounds well, but fate is against them. They cannot get on themselves. How can they do good to me? Fourth—Be cautious and bold. It re- quires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune. And when you have got it, it requires ten times as much wit to keep it.” a A Principal Requisites to Insure a Profitable Business. A writer, in the Monetary Times, gives the following as the principal requisites to insure a profitable business: 1. That parties must be able to invest the necessary capital in business. 2. They must possess a thorough know- ledge of every branch and department of the business in which they engage, and de- vote the whole of their time to it. 3. They must adopt and carry out a thor- ough and accurate system of bookkeeping, especially adapted to the nature of the busi- ness. Where a record of the history of every item of cash or merchandise received or purchased, sold or paid, is kept in sys- tematic order so as to be able to trace the exact cost and expense of each transaction, as well as where and when the goods were purchased, and when and to whom sold, how paid for, and in what manner the pro- ceeds have been used or disposed of. ——— +8 Russian Tea. The Russian government has decided to attempt tea cultivation upon a large scale. Under advice it is the intention of the gov- ernment to import Chinese coolies, and the position chosen for the first plantation is Soukhum Kale. That tea can be successful- ly cultivated in the Caucasus has been often proved, but whether it will prove a success commercially is questionable. Itis urged that there is quite an extensive home market, the imports amounting to about 72,- 000,000 pounds annually, valued at $30,000,- 000, the Russians drinking tea of much super- ior quality than is consumed in this coun- try. It is questionable if there will be the kind of labor available to compete with the Chinese and Hindoostan laborer. At the same time it is impossible to develop the industry to any extent without the assis- tance of foreign capital. Be an Business Legislation in Maryland. During the recent session of the Mary- land legislature little of a positive character was enacted, although much evil was choked. A law affecting canned goods was passed, which is much like that of New York. 80@ 90 Guaiac, prime (Powd 45c)......... 35 Kino [ Powdered, 30C]...........+.. 20 A sk es ea rcke ns ewe 1 2 Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 47c)... 40 Opium, pure (Powd $4 60).......... 3 30 Shellac, Campbell’s................ 25 BaGinG, WGA, . ooo. secs keen cece 22 BNEUAC, NATIVE. ....0.ccceacssccnere 20 Shellac bleached... 30 TEPARORORDEN oo ogc oo sc cence inser 30 @1 00 HERBS—IN OUNCE PACKAGES. POT occa cad cose nec vdnsescecnesias 25 OR ks 2s a ad cca dain cs eea ces eceas 25 OI oo os ga ks dan en beak cosdpacenen 25 a eas ok ca cece cans ones sae e 40 ROI i vind ccs Os os wan Gn ae oe cs sand eeaae 24 OG TENN iiss che eancarsewesaasasas 35 OP ood swe eck vack che wo nnbeceaaan bs dans 25 PN a ks vp van een se acka cece aeuns 30 PUOQRTIIWOOG ooo i cccccn | wa cree Hep ddeeca’ 25 IRON. Citrate and Quinine............... 4 00 Solution mur., for tinctures...... 20 Sulphate, pure crystal............ 7 ee is hes ota ce cus PTY oo hoes cnc cada ca kaceens 65 LEAVES. Buchu, short (Powd 25c)........... 13 @ 14 Sage, Italian, bulk (4s & s, 1c)... 6 Senna, Alex, natural.............. 33 @ 35 Senna, Alex. sifted and garbled... 50 Senna, powdered.................. 25 BONDS TIANIVEUL.. 6.5... es acu ences 25 Oe eo cn lapevess 10 POE ics oss kde bode th ones nes 35 MOMMIOWG. (oil ec ceacccneasacecdes de 30 POITIRTIG 6k v5 ncinv aki euneeéaccicer cee 35 CR Fae Re Fe a 2 3d LIQUORS. W., D. & Co.’s Sour Mash Whisky.2 00 @2 50 Druggists’ Favorite Rye.......... 1 %5 2 00 Whisky, other brands............. 110 @1 50 GU OIA TIOUR, Fi ccc codecs sincceqeens 135 @1 75 Ch FUOMAI oo. oo ce insures vanneenes 200 @3 50 PUN i ou ca ads veasaeseans 1% @é6 50 Catewb Wines... .....cccccreee oe 125 @2 00 Ore Ws ls hics cokes nsaues 135 @2 50 MAGNESIA. Carbonate, Pattison’s, 2 0z........ 22 Carbonate, Jenning’s, 202Z......... 37 Citrate, H., P. & Co.’s solution.... 2 25 MOTB oe pica bowed eases 65 OILS. Almond, 8WEECT.. 2... Fes cccceescens 45 @ 50 Amber, rectified................... 45 as ay Gi nese ce ag eaane 1 80 PRG TE OM oon eke a oe cece ee ns 50 PROP RTOOI Wo sk cas ed's s chan ss stent 3 00 ci eae u cdc sy coon anes 1 44@1 65 oie cence Ges os dacs ns ee ne 1 75 Cajeput ..........5. cece ce ee eee e eens 75 hs ce hse os cn eee cease 85 Cedar, commercial (Pure 75c)..... 35 ON ds os abd a ce on ccenece 75 MOOG S ok nics Gin ka sk ceceee wens 1 40 Cod Laver, Nek. ..k - owes -8 gal 1 20 Cod Liver, best......... a 1 50 Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16 6 00 DBOCUR FTE OW coc che cok ec eeunes 9 00 ONO is 5 oe vc cece oi wes cw dast ves 1 60 WIPO WORE oc ib ke ces char es peccccues 2 00 Geranium # 02Z...............0008- 75 Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75c).. 35 Jumiper WOOd................ceeeee 50 Juniper berries................0006 2 00 Lavender flowers, French......... 2 01 Lavendergarden do ......... 1 00 Lavender spike cc idecl 90 Lemon, new Crop..............ee. 3 00 Lemon, Sanderson’s............... 2 7 PiBTOVGTORS ook oo cee ce eke sccccuee 80 Olive, MOIRGG. oon. oe. ccc sc cnesss 90@1 00 Olive, ‘Sublime Italian .......... 275 Origanum, red flowers, French... 1 2 Origanum, No. 1...............+6 50 PODRGTOVE) 05 oie. ac se scadessacces 1 00 Peppermint, white................ 4 00@4 25 MI TE OB os ake hove ceases cae 8 00 Rosemary, French (Flowers $1 50) 65 PI Te BOE oven ec enncanse cusses 2 %5 es os bs ss oc ve ne eran « 1 00 Sandal Wood, German............ 4 50 Sandal Wood, W.I................. 7 00 BO Se ii vn So ch su os ce chen hpaes 45 RAMRIINE noc cance ccgvenccsree's @7i 50 POO aa ck cs bus hasan cps in pene ce 400 @4 2% Par (DY GA) G00)... cn. cece csc as cocees 10 @ B WEIR OTOCR on oo oak ivinecs docs 2 25 Wormwood, No. 1(Pure $4.00)..... 3 50 MV GYUUBOOG. 2. none ipccctccesseccess 2 00 POTASSIUM. PHOPOVIATO «oo 6 osc cnccecresaes és 8 Ib 12@14 Bromide, cryst. and gran. bulk... 387@40 Chlorate, cryst (Powd 2c)......... 22 Todide, cryst. and gran. bulk..... 3 00 Prussiate yellow.............esee0- 28 ROOTS. ING es oa ca shiv us ck co cee 20 AUNOR. OU oo ick cookies cack cene's 25 Arrow, St. Vincent’s.............. 1% Arrow, Taylor’s, in 4s and \4s.... 33 Blood (Powd 18C)..........c.ce eens R Calamus, a ache een bine caees 20 Calamus, German white, peeled.. 35 Elecampane, powdered............ 20 Gentian (Powd l5c)................ 10 Ginger, African (Powd l4c)........ li @ Rk Ginger, Jamaica bleached........ 17 Golden Seal (Powd 25c)............ 20 Hellebore, white, powdered....... 20 Ipecac, Rio, powdered............. 1 20 alap, powdered................6.. 30 Licorice, select (Powd 15)...... .. 18 Licorice, extra select.............. 20 BP BIND ick char dhe oven nk os bans es 80 Rhei, from select to choice....... 100 et 50 Rhei, powdered E. I................110 20 Rhei, choice cut cubes........... 2 00 Rhei, choice cut fingers.......... ‘ 2 2 Serpentaria..............scceseeess - 665 Sarsaparilla, M ciad cea eeaay 20 Squills, white (Powd 35c).......... 15 Valerian, English (Powd 30c)...... 25 Valerian, Vermont (Powd 28)... 20 SEEDS. Anise, Italian (Powd 20¢e).......... 15 Bird, mixed in packages........ 56 @ 6 Canary, Smyrna.............. - £ @ & Caraway, best Dutch (Powd 20c). 165 @ 18 Cardamon, Aleppee............... 16 Cardamon, Malabar................ i 25 WOO ick ices eee blk ak 15 Coriander, pest English........... 10 OUR cele eerie ccc kc, 15 Bige, GOR eek 38%@ Flax, pure grd (bbl 3%4)............ 4 @ 4% Foenugreek, powdered............ 7 8 Hemp, Russian.................... 44@ 5% Mustard, white Black 10c)........ 10 OG ee acices 75 WOO: TOU ooo oo sok oc oc cceccc ce 6 @ 7 Wr, TOVONE. oc. eis ce, 14 : SPONGES. Florida sheeps’ wool, carriage. .... 225 @2 50 Nassau do OO A. 2 00 Velvet Extra do do 110 Extra Yellow do On A. 85 Grass do GOr ics 65 Hard head, for slate use........... 75 Yellow Reef, Oe, 1 40 MISCELLANEOUS. Alcohol, grain (bb1 $2.21 ee Alcohol, wood, 95 per seul ee. ref. Anodyne Hoffman’s....:.......... Arsenic, Donovan’s solution...... Arsenic, Fowler’s solution........ Sana FO POMG oi oo. eae Oe ee eae b 2%@ Alum, ground (Powd 9¢c)...... ‘ a © Annatto, prime.................... 44@ 6 @ bet BO wR Antimony, powdered, com’l... .. Arsenic, white, powdered......... as ee Bay Rum, imported, best......... pay Rum, domestic, ., P. & Co.’s. Balm Gilead Buds................. vemos Fa 3 A ass eek ucevinese co eans, Vanilla.......... We sca, Bismuth, sub nitrate.............. nt ons Blue Pill (Powd 70e)............... n2 20 ww ww a SSnSstensranke whi SSSS BU WIRE ee icc ce cees ccc cs 6@ Borax, refined (Powd lie)..... ... 9@10 Cantharides, Russian powdered. . 2 25 Capsicum Pods, African.......... 18 Capsicum Pods, Atrican pow’d... 22 Capsicum Pods, Bombay do ... 14 Carmine, Wo. 4.... 4 00 Oaesia MGE. 6s. cok. ce ce: 14 Calomel. American................ 75 Chalk, prepared drop.............. 5 Chalk, precipitate English........ 12 Chalk, red fingers................. 8 Chalk, white lump................. 2 Chloroform, Squibb’s............. 25 Colocynth apples.................. Chloral hydrate, German erusts.. — ms -IC'tS SHzE Chloral do do cryst... Chloral do Scherin’s iG Pee ‘ Chloral do do crusts.. to CONE @ 47 Cinchonidia, P. & W......3........ 18 @ % Cinchonidia, other brands......... 13 @ 18 Cloves (Powd 25€)............c0005. 20 @ 22 SOMINOR occ ie. 40 Cocee Bitter... 40 Copperas (by bbl 1e)............. in 2 Corrosive Sublimate............... 70 Corks, X and XX—40 off list...... Cream Tartar, pure powdered..... @ 40 Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 Ib box.. 15 COON ieee ec. 50 Cudbear, primeé.............00005.. 24 Cuttle Fish Bone................... 20 Po ee eae R Dover’s Powders.................. 1 10 Dragon’s Blood Mass.............. 50 Ergot powdered................ oe 65 maner Gem €.....:.....:.,... ... 110 Emery, Turkish, all No.’s......... 8 Epsom Salts (bbl. 13).............. 2@ 3 Mn, TOON ok ccs. 50 Ether, sulphuric, U.S. P.......... 60 OS eA 14 Creare ~Feredine................... 15 Gelatine, Cooper’s................. 90 Gemtine, Premeh .................. 45 70 Glassware, fiint, 79 & 10, by box 60 & 10 less Glassware, green, 60 and 10 dis.... te, OR MME, kk ce ccc cue 2 @ ili I I oe icon acy. 16 @ 2% GCipmertee, wie... . 555... 16 @ 2 HOOR 40 ONG ME... ...... «0.5.0.0... 23@ 40 peroree WON... .....s. ccc... 40 SS ae 8 @l1 00 Insect Powder, best Dalmatian... 35 @ 40 Insect Powder, H., P. & Co,, boxes @1 00 Iodine, resublimed................ 4 00 Isinglass, American............... 1 50 yout “ogg a ei ey bebe ueec sca: 7 WO PUNOIO ooo dec cco ce. 10 5 DUE NME, oie cc ak ° is Lime, chloride, (%s 2s 10c & \s 11c) 8 BN ooo io eked eles ccs. 1 00 a ean ee eee 50 ek coco ce cde, 50 Madder, best Dutch.............. ReK®@ 13 Mee. ec 75 SeerOury . moms tact ar sacesseasaee 60 Morphia, sulph., P.& W...... 0zZ 2 35@2 60 Musk, Canton, H., P. & Ga. a * 40 Moss, Iceland... .........0000: 8 b 10 WO FOTO oo os os ook ov cedcan cs BR Mustard, English.................. 30 Mustard, grocer’s, 10 b cans...... 18 AUN ooo al sos accek vc ceases 23 PRUIGINOMR. Oi Dos oo ooo cs ce co scene 60 Pee VOU a. oc... 10 Ointment. Mercurial, ¥d.......... 45 I Oh oa aos cic cc a, li @ 2% Pepper, Black Berry.............. 18 oo shit head cess ds tc cndees 2 50 Pitch, True Burgundy............. 7 MIRREN obec id ussnerese tans asad ices 6@ 7% uinia, Sulph, P, & W........ boz 75 @ 80 uinine, German.................. i0@ 75 ed Precipitate............... 8 b 85 Seidlitz Mixture................... 28 Strychnia, cryst................08 >. 1 60 Silver Nitrate, cryst...... ... 14 @ 78 Satfron, American........ 35 Sal Glauber............... @ 2 Sal Nitre, large cryst..... 10 Sal Nitre, medium cryst. 9 Sal Rochelle............... 33 RE Eo ic ca cc oe cana ee 2@ 2% ac ail ee i dacans 215 WED he hoc dowsc accuse ewes 6 50 Snuffs, Maccoboy or Scotch. . 35 Soda Ash [by keg 3c]........ ‘ 4 ROGUE ios cncccecsscccnecces 48 Soda, Bi-Carbonate, DeLand’s.... 4%@ 5 Soap, White Castile................ 14 Soap,Green do .......... a 17 Soap, Mottleddo......... 9 ap, GO: GO ....... ll Soap, Mazzini........... 14 Spirits Nitre,3F........ 2% @ 28 Spirits Nitre, 4 F.............. ... 8 @ 8 ~ = _ powdered....... cas 35 MANNER, SQ 6 oss cate ce acaccsease 34@ 4 PTT, FO. nos vs cw anenosacecccnse 42 3% Tartar Emetic...........0cccccseces 60 Tar, N. C. Pine, % gal. cans # doz 270 Tar, do quarts in tin....... 1 40 Tar, do pintsintin......... 85 Turpentine, Venice........... # b 25 Wax, White, S. & F. brand........ 55 BinG, BURIDRAIC. «oo coco nc cccecccccse 7@ 8 OILs. Bbl Gal MP MIG, WINN 5 ac ovo cka es cece ce sawees 70 15 WM, WRONG oo ck occ ce cn cscunesncecss 55 60 OE RO Fi oo ow co ccd vnnccec ce 45 55 Linseed, pure raw.............. 41 45 Linseed, boiled ................. - & 48 Neat’s Foot, winter strained........ 7 90 Spirits Turpentine................... 47 52 VARNISHES. MO. t Par CORON... os ccc ccccescec ence 1 10@1 20 MERTON CU. ok nc sb ap ca cda bec ea bane 1 60@1 7 Coach Body........... ..-2 75@3 00 No. 1 Turp Furniture... -1 00@1 10 Extra Turk Damar........... ...1 55@1 60 Japan Dryer, No.1 Turp.............. 7 75 PAINTS : Bbl Lb Red Venetian.................. 1% 2@ 3 Ochre, yellow Marseilles...... 1% 2@ 3 Ochre, yellow Bermuda....... 1% 2@ 3 Putty, commercial ............ 2% 2%@ 3 Putty, strictly pure............ 2% 2%@ 3 Vermilicn, prime American.. 18@16 Vermilion, English............ 5 Green, Peninsular............. 16@17 Lead, red strictly pure..... .. "@" Lead, white, strictly pure..... 1@ 7% Whiting, white Span Besse @i0 Whiting, Gilders’.............. @90 White, Paris American........ 110 Whiting Paris English cliff.. 1 40 Pioneer Prepared Faints..... 1 20@1 40 Swiss Villa Prepare? Paints.. 1 00@1 20 OILS. ILLUMINATING. ODO WE IR oak Soc chico Cichedecdscesteneus 1% DEPIRRT TONG i isc 5 ca ccccincececuscieacabe 10% LUBRICATING. Capitol ee eters tesetersenvensscee eile WROGGT CPOE. 5 oo 6a cscs chine cccecsccse seve ne 31 TG IE CUOGOK ois icc hceescccdacenedes elwaus 26% Eldorado Engine..............ccce cece ceeees 24% Peerless Machinery...............-0sseeeees 22% Challenge Machinery.............0..sseeeees 2044 WAP OTIG onc ok ccc ce cica pe akan cs coda esenay ss 20% Black, Summer, West Virginia............. 10 Black, 252 to 30>........ SLahei peak ais beepuae Binge, WO STs aces cesses juaapbueeeunaebe 11% PCE aes dine oe 1484 kod eka Nk a CEs Aa Kee ER OR HAAEL TINE & PERKIN) UnUG C0, § WHOLESALE Druggists! 42 and 44 Ottawa Street and 89, gr, 93 and 95 Louis Street. IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, ald Draggist's Sandries, MANUFACTURERS OF Elegant Pharmacentical Prepare- tious, nid Uxtracts and Elixirs 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 Weatherly’s Michigan Catarrh Cure Which is positively the best Remedy of the kind on the market. We desire particular attention of those about purchasing outfits for new stores ta 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 and 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 andare the ONLY AUTHORIZED AGENTS for the sale of. the celebrated WITHERS DADE & €0,’S Henderson Co., Ky., Sour Mash and Old-Fashioned Hand-Made, Copper- Distilled WHISKYS. 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 Driggists Favorite Rye. Which continues to have so many favor-. ites among druggists who have sold these: goods for a very long time. Buy our Gils, Braddles & Fine Wines. We call your attention to the adjoining” list of market quotations which we aim to. make as complete and perfect as possible. For special quantities and quotations on: such articles as do not appear on the list, such as Patent Medicines, Etc., we invite your correspondence. Mail orders always receive our special and personal attention. Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co. \ The Michigan Tradesmal, A MERCANTILE JOURNAL, PUBLISHED EACH WEDNESDAY. E. A. STOWE & BRO., Proprietors. Office in Eagle Building, 49 Lyon St., 3d Floor. Telephone No. 95, {Entered at the Posto, at Grand Rapids as S Matter.] WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 1886. BUSINESS LAW. Brief Digests of Recent Decisions in Courts of Last Resort. GENERAL LIEN——-SEPARATE PROPERTY. The case of Wolstenholm vs. The Shef- field Union Banking Company, decided re- cently by the English Court of Appeals, arose upon the following state of facts: One Wing had a private account with the defendant, and also a trading account for hissfirm. Both accounts were overdrawn, and Wing asked the Bank to allow a fur- ther overdraft, depositing as security a lease of some property of his own, and saying that it did not matter to which account credit was given. The depositor became bankrupt,*his property was sold, and his trustee (plaintiff) sued to recover the sur- plus proceeds of the sale over and above the samount which the bank had actually advanc- -ed on the security. The Court of Appeals affirmed a judgment given for the plaintiff, holding that the bank had no right to hold the surplus of separate property as if it were a security of the firm. The general lien of a banker, the court held, could not enable him to take the property of one man to pay the debt of another, which would be the legal effect of the banks’ action. BANKER’S EXEMPTION F ‘The Illinois Central Railroad Company in 1881 erected on its right of way in Cairo, and near the Ohio river, a grain elevator at a cost of $200,000 or $300,000, and leased the same to private parties who received | tolls and compensation for all grain stored | therein. It appeared thatsuch elevator was ‘quite convenient and beneficial to the com- pany in its business, but not more so than if built and owned by private persons. The Supreme Court of Illinois held that under the company’s charter such elevator was not exempt from taxation, it not being devoted exclusively to the business of the company as a common carrier and not being essential to the operation of its road. The court held, however, that if an elevator of the company were used exclusively by it in re- ceiving grain for shipment or for storing it after shipment without any additional -charge therefor, except on neglect of the owner to take it away within a reasonable time after its arrival, it would be clearly ex- empt under the charter of the company. ROM TAXATION—ELEVATORS. PEPOSITORS—EXAMINATION OF PASS-BOOK. "The case of Leather Manufacturers’ Na- tional Bank vs. Morgan et al., decided lately bythe Supreme Court of the United States, turned upon the question as to the right of the depositor in a bank to question an ac- count rendered by the bank so far as it charged him with certain checks which he signed, but which before payment were ma- terially altered by his confidential clerk without his knowledge or consent. The suit was brought by the defendants in error, partners under the name of Ashburner & Co., to recover a balance alleged to be due on a deposit account opened at the bank in the name of William B. Cooper, Jr., agent for Ashburner & Co. A confidential clerk of Cooper, under his direction, was accus- tomed to fill up all checks drawn upon that account. Certain of these checks were al- tered by the clerk, and the full raised amounts were drawn by him. These for- geries were discovered by Cooper in March, 1881, while the clerk was absent from the office. Cooper had looked at his check book from time to time, but left the balanc- ing to his clerk. He admitted that if on any of the several balancings he had made such examination of his check-book and pass- book as was done in March, 1881, he would have ‘‘easily discovered” that his account had been charged with altered checks, and also that for the previous five or ten years he had known of various means adopted by bankers and merchants to prevent the rais- ing or alteration of checks, but that he had not employed or used any of them. The ‘Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York instructed the jury to find for tthe defendants in error on the ground that ‘Cooper was under no duty whatever to the bank to examine his pass-book, and the vouchers returned with it in order to ascer- tain whether his account was correctly kept or not. The Supreme Court of the United States reversed this judgment, holding that the question whether the defendants in er- ror were estopped by the negligence of their representative from questioning the correct- ness of the account as rendered by the bank from time to time was, in view of all the circumstances of the case, a mixed one of law and fact. Touching the legal principal involved, the court said: The depositor can- not, therefore, without injustice to the bank, omit all examination of his account when thus rendered at his request. His failure to make it or to have it made within areasonable time, after opportunity given for that purpose, is inconsistent with the objet for which he obtains and uses a pass- book. * * * We must not be under- DUTY OF the depositor of his account;must be so close and thorough as to exclude the possibility for any error whatever to be overlooked by him. Nor do we mean to hold that the de- positor is wanting in proper care when he imposes upon some competent person the duty of making that examination and of giving timely notice to the bank of objec- tions to the account. If the examination is made by such an agent or clerk in good faith and with ordinary diligence, due notice given of any error in the account, the de- positor discharges his duty to the bank. But when, as in this case, the agent com- mits the forgeries which misled the bank and injured the depositor, and therefore has an interest in concealing the facts, the prin- cipal occupies no better position than he would have done had no one been designat- ed by him to make the required examina- tion, without at least showing that he ex- ercised reasonable diligence in supervising the conduct of the agent while the latter was discharging the trustcommitted to him. In the absence of such supervision the mere designation of an agent to discharge a duty resting primarily upon the prineipal cannot be deemed the equivalent of performance by the latter. ; —— No Capital Required. Wife—Can you let me have a little change, dear? Husband—How much do you want? Wife—Twenty cents for car-fare. , Husband—Will that be enough? Wife—Oh, yes, I am only going shop- ping. TIME TABLES. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern. (KALAMAZOO DIVISION.) Leave. - rive. Ex.and N.Y. N.Y N. Mail. a Mail. Ex. P. m, -m. p.m. 4:40 1: 50. bn. .Grand Rapids.. a 9: 50 (7:15 O68 «(9207.....; BUOVAR So enna cars 8:32 5:58 6:55 10:05...... Kalamazoo......... 7:30 §©5:00 9:50 11:40...... White Pigeon...... 5:50 3:30 am. p.m. p.m. a.m. A715 . §230...... SBD ios nok bs nse a 11:15 10:40 8:20 9:30...... Cleveland .......... 6:40 6:30 p. m. . m., a.m. p.m, 2:40 7 eee Buffalo .... ...... 11:55 11:55 a.m. n. p.m. a.m. 5:40 3:00 ee Chicago ........ Lv 11 30 8:50 A local freight leaves Grand Rapids at1p.sn., carrying passengers as far as Allegan. All trains 7, except Sunday. J. W. MCKENNEY, General Agent. Chicago & West Michigan. Leaves. Arrives, op 1 TRS ee GIS ek a Ole 9:00am 4:30pm +Day Express.............. 12:33pm 9:25pm *Night Express............ 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- caenenes without extra charge to Chicago on 1:00 p. m., and through coach on 9:15 a. m. and 10:40 p. m. trains. NEWAYGO DIVISION. Leaves. BONING ooo ia co ekp oes caees er m %: PORE ig oo os hbase sss 8:00 ; m 10:50am a trains arrive and depart from Union De- Arrives. The Northern terminus of this Divisionis at sarge where close connection is made with ’, & P.M. trains to and from Ludington and caniae J. H. CARPENTER, Gen’l Pass. Agent. J. B. MULLIKEN, General Manager. Detroit, Mackinac & Marquette. Going West. Going East. 7:30) M1... ...s. Houghton ....... .. 8:30am 3:00 pm, D..... Marquette ........ A, 1:06 p m 2:05 p m,A..... Marquette......... D; 1:40 pm 10:40am........ BONGV oo kes. bhess toes 4:50 pm TAS GM. ...--.- Mi. T0ACe,........,-. 8:15pm 6:15am....... ‘Mackinaw Oty. ass 9:30 p m 5:00 p m........ Grand Rapids........ 10:30 am Express trains Nos. land 2 make close con- nections at Mackinac City with Michigan Cen- traland G. R.& 1. R. R. Connections also made at St. Ignace with steamers of the Detroit and Cleveland Steam Navigation Company and all lake steamers. At Marquette with the Marquette, Houghton & Ontonagon Railroad, for all ee Superior points. WATSON, Gen. Supt., Marquette, Mich. E. W. ALLEN, Gen: Pass. and Ticket Agent, Marquette. Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee. GOING EAST. Arrives. cae +Steamboat Express. ..... 6:25 am +Through Mail........ ..-10:40am 10:50am +Evening Express... .340pm 3:50pm *Limited Express..... ... 8:30pm 10:45pm +Mixed, with coach........ 11:00 am GOING WEST. +Morning Express......... 1:05pm 1:10pm *Through Mail............ 56:09pm 5:10pm Hooper a Express....... 10:40 p m WRI oon orate tas coys oe eras 7:10am *Night Express............. 5:10am 6:35am +Daily, Sundays excepted. *Daily. Passengers taking the 6:25 a. m. Express make close connections at Owosso for Lansing and at Detroit for New York, arriving there at 10:00 a. m. the following morning. The Night Express has a through Wagner Car and local Sleeping Car Detroit tc Grand Rapids. D. Porrer, City Pass. Agent. Gzo. B. REEVE, Traflic Manager, Chicago. Grand Rapids & Indiana. GOING NORTH. Arrives. Leaves Cincinnati & Gd Rapids Ex 9:20pm Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex. 9:30am 11:30am Ft. Wayne & Mackinac Ex 4:10pm 5:05pm G’d Rapids & Trav. City Ac. 7:00 a m GOING SOUTH. G. Rapids & Cincinnati Ex. 7:15am Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex. §:05pm 5:30pm Mackinac & Ft. Wayne Ex..10:30am 11:45am Cadillac & G’d Rapids Ac.10:30 pm All trains daily except Sunday. SLEEPING CAR ARRANGEMENTS. North—Train leaving at 5:05 o’clock p has Sleeping and Chair Cars for Peteker and Mackinac. Trainleaving at 11:30 a. m. has combined Sleeping and Chair Car for Mackinaw City Soath—Train leaving at 5:30 p.m.bas Wood- ruff Porn Car for Cincinnati. c. L. Lock woop, Gen’! Pass. Agent. Michigan Central. DEPART. +Detroit Express.........-.s.0s0ssecce. 6:00 am PUIAY TOXTIPGGS, 50055 ones cade desvcccens 12:45 9m *Atiantic EXpress.............2eeeeeeee 10:40 pm TWay Freignt.........20sccccecesessoness 6:50am ARRIVE. ae PURMTOOG ois sons iso cc c-dce nn ois 6:00 am NE i nsec seco bas Feces ee eanaes 3:30 pm Grand Rapids Express..............- 10:35 p m MOE oe ches siarsdndvcnsacsed> 5:15pm +Daily exoept Sunday. *Daily Fcc eid cars run on Atlantic and Pacific ress. irect 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 Pesrlor Car for Detroit ee city at 11:45 a. m., aaa York 10:30 a.m.,and Boston 3:05 p. m.mext da; A train leaves Detro: tat4 p.m. day exoe Sunday with drawing room car attach e ‘stood as holding that the examination by F.J. DETTENTHALER, OYSTERS & FISH, BUTTHR AND EGGS, CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED, 117 MONROE ST, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. WM. SHARS & CO. Cracker Manufacturers, Agents for AMBOY CHEESE. 37, 39 & 41 Kent Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan. JENNINGS Flavoring Hxtracts! MANUFACTURED BY JENNINGS & SMITH, Props. Arctic Manufacturing Co., GRAND RAPIDS, P. STEKETEE & SUMS, JOBBERS IN DRY GOODS, AND NOTIONS, 33 Monroe Sst.. MIC. AND 10, 12, 14, 16 AND 18 FOUNTAIN STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. eathers ‘A Specialty. Peerless Carpet Warps and Geese F American and Stark A Bags JOHN CAULFIELD, WHOLESALE GROCE 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 JOHN CAULEIEI:D, WHOLESALE GROCER : G, + DIRECTIONS hy # We have cooked the cornin this can =) sutticiently. Should be Thoroughly Warmed (not cooked D adding p piece of [f a Good Buiter (size of hen’segg) and gill |G aN wy of fresh milk (preferable to water.) Season to suit when onthe table. None ing the signature as Op PEN AT THis EN? Every can wrapped in colored tissue paper with ing at Grand ids at 10:35 p. ” nye H. Nomers, Gen oe signature and ¢tamp on each can. PUTNAM & BROOKS Wholesale Manufacturers of PURE CANDY |! ORANGES, LEMONS, BANANAS, FIGS, DATES, BULKLEY, LEMON & HOOPS, Importers and W holesale Grocers. Sole Agents for Daniel Scotten & Co.’s “HIAWATHA” Plug Tobacco. Lautz. Bros. & Co.'s SOAPS. Niagara STARCH. Dwinell, Howard & Co.’ S Royal Mocha and Java. Royal Java. Golden Santos. Thompson & Taylor Spice Co.’s “Mag- nolia” Package Coffee. SOLE PROPRIETORS “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. 05,97 and 29 Tonia St.aud 51, 53, 55, 57 and 59 Island Sts Grand Rapids, Mich. ABSOLUTE SPICES Warranted to be Pure Goods Manufactured Only by TELFER & BROOKS 46 Ottawa St., Grand Rapids. & e The Michigan Tradesman. The Spotter—No. 4. Do I know anything about “train butch- ers”? Where do yousuppose I keep my eyes? The slipperest mortal on earth, and the most abused is the train news agent. Well, see here. Every time the boy or man comes along and offers you a book or paper, or lays a box of candy or figs in your lap, don’t you cuss him to yourself? Ain’t that silent abuse? Doesn’t the Book, or some- body, say something about curses low but deep? Trick®? Say, what a butcher doesn’t know about schemes and ways that are dark is hardly worth mentionin’. You'll see him come along and distribute candy, books, paper and such like on every seat, kind 0’ promiscous like. Does he know how many articles he lays down? Well, you just bet he does. And when the old farmer or old lady opens a box of figs or candy, and then tries to close it up, doesn’t he say, ‘“*Ten cents, please, I can’t use that again—you’ve opened it”? And doesn’t he take care to leave the prospectus of some new book lay- in’ around loose, so one will pick it up and read it, and then ask the innocent agent if he has the book? And doesn’t he at first invariable say no, he has not? And when the verdant becomes anxious by the denial, and desires the book at any price, doesn’t the newsboy find it and get double price? Tricks? Oh, no. Take the fig box trick, for instance, He shows the ‘sucker’ a five dollar bill, places it ina fig box, with the end of the bill stricking out of the box. He shuffles three or four boxes about. The greeny sees the‘end of the bill, buys a box of figs for two or three dollars and the ac- commodating ‘‘butch” says to him, “Now keep to yourself what you get, and don’t say anything, for it would only make trouble for me and you’d get the laugh.” And what does he find? The torn end of a Dill of some kind, and in return for his two or three dollars he gets a box of back number dates or figs. But the biter gets bitten just the same. For the men at some of the main offices are just as fly or flyer than the “gang.” For instance, everything that the agent takes along on his trip is laid out on a counter, by the man in the office, and checked to the agent. Whatever is short (sold or otherwise) when the agent returns must be accounted for in cash, or it will be taken out of the security (twenty to fifty dollars) that every agent must put up. Well, while the office man is checking the goods, and the agent is putting them in his box on the other side of the counter, how easy for the office man to slideja box or two off the pile on the counter, while the agent’s head is down in the box. Do they do it? Well, ask any of the boys. Once in a while some of the boys will get left at a way station— actually left, or perhaps drunk. When he gets back to head quarters, he is told, ‘Twenty dollars short out of your box this trip.” Do they stand it? Got to. Can’t prove who took. Stock all taken out of the boxes and placed on the shelves, and the office man holds the security. Seeg No, they could not make their salt, if they didn’t make a little ‘scale money,’ as they eall it. How? Easy enough. Some by tricks. Most of them buy their own cigars cent apiece, and sell them three They buy their own fruit, and some buy their own books and sell them. Does the company kick? Suppose they would if they could catch them at it, but so long as the agents turn in a certain amount for every day’s work, they say noth- ing. Some of them have two complete out- fits, one theirs, the other the news com- pany’s. When they arrive at a station or so this side of the terminus, they quietly drop their own box and carry in the company’s. Some of them have made money at the bus- iness and own their own homes, and have a little nest egg laid by. Such men, gener- ally, are those who have worked main lines. Others have grown gray in the service and haven’t acent. ‘‘Easy come, easy gone.” Not long ago, one of the boys working from the C office, “struck a granger with a boot” (took his wallet) about§3112. Well, when he came in from the trip, he took the office clerk aside, handed him the money and said, ‘‘Found it. Keep it for me a few days.” Ina day or so the office man says to him, ‘‘Fly cop around here to-day asking questions. Guess I can settle the matter for you.” Agent scared to death, says, ‘Set- tle.” Office man settles; that is he keeps $100, and gives the poor boy $12 as his share in the crime he has committed. Leo. A. Caro. rrr A verdant housewife, fresh from her rural home, came to the city to purchase various household necessities. She glanced timidly about her, and was evidently confused by the countless shops which took the place of the village store. There was a bucket-shop near by, with the usual sign over the door: “Stocks, Grain and Oil.” She read the words and entered the place. ‘‘l want to buy some oil,” she said. The proprietor gave hera 1 per cent. margin smile, and winked at the telegraph operator to get some Oil City quo- tations. ‘‘I—I want to buy a great deal.” The bucket shop man wondered if his safe would hold all the margin money. ‘‘I can buy 50,000 barrels for you, madam,” he said. ‘I don’t want as muchas that.” “Or 10,000 barrels—” ‘“‘I don’t want as much as that.” “Or even 1,000 barrels. The charges for carrying it will be—” “Oh,” she exclaimed, ‘‘you see I don’t live very far from here, and the train stops just beyond our farm; so, if you'll put me up a gallon, Vil Ory it myself.” She was shown at 13¢ to 2 for a quarter. 5. T. sagina And COM Reference: Banks of East BELL & CO., CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED. Valley Fruit House MISSION MERCHANTS, Dealers in all kinds Country Produce & Foreign Fruits. Saginaw. East Saginaw, Mich. Pl 1 ORANGES, LEMONS, > Figs, Dates, O TO rooks ETC. YON BE HREN & SHAFFER, STRYKER, OHIO, Manufacturers of Every Style of WHITE ASH aon Spoon Oars FULLER made of Best Spruce Timber. ROWING SPOON OARS FOR BOAT CLUBS MADE TO ORDER. & STOWE COMPANY, Designers Engravers and Printers Cards, Letter, Note and Engravings and Electrotypes of Buildings, ss aiasee Patented Articles, Portraits, Autographs, Etc., on Short Notice. Bill Heads and other Office Stationery a Leading Feature. Address as above ' 49 Lyon Street, Up-Stairs, Grand Rapids, Mich. SPRING & COMPANY WHOLESALE DEALERS IN Staple and Fancy DRY GOODS CARPETS, MATTINGS a Crt, &,37 FA I,iA SS, Cortlandt Sts Wholesale & Commission-Batler & Hoes a Specialy. All Orders receive Prompt and Careful Attention. CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. Sale. Stevens’ No. 1 patent fillers used. 50 cents each. - Grand Rapids, Michigan ational K. of L. Co-operative Tobacco Co, RALEIGH, N. CGC. Arthur Meigs & Go. CRAND RAPIDS, MICH., Wholesale agents for the STATH OF MICHIGAN. This is the uke Sutheeined K. of L. Smoking Tobacco on the market. The stock of this corporation is all owned by the K. of L. Assemblies in the U.S., and every member will not only buy it Himself, but do his utmost to make it popular. Dealers will therefore see the advisability of putting it in stock at once. We will fill orders for any quan- tity at following prices, usual terms: the corner grocery without unnecessary courtesy or deliberation. LYON sT., CURTISS, DUNTON & C0 Napecr Wool Twine, Binders’ Twine, Tarred Felt, Tarred Board, Building Board, Etc. GRAND RAPIDS. TWINES, WOODENWARE. CORDAGE, 202.46: 402.44: 802.43: 16 02,42. ARTHUR MEIGS & CO., holegale Grocers, > Dry Goods. The following quotations are given to show relative values, but they may be considered, to some extent, ‘outside prices,’’ and are not as low as buyers of reasonable quantities can, in most instances, obtain them at. It will pay every merchant to make frequent visits to market, not only in respect to prices, but to keep posted on the ever-changing styles and fashions, many of which are never shown “on the road.’ WIDE BROWN COTTONS. Androscoggin, 9-4. .17 |Pepperell, 10-4...... 19 Androscoggin, 7-4..13%| Pepperell, 1l-4...... 22 Pepperell, 7-4...... 138 |Pequot, 7-4......... 14% Pepperell, 8-4...... 15 |Pequot, 8-4......... 16 Pepperell, 9-4...... 17 |Pequot, %4......... 18 CHECKS. Economy, 0Z....... |Park Mills, No. 100. * Park Mills, No. 50..10 |Prodigy, 0z......... Park Mills, No. 60..11 (Otis Apron......... Bie Park Mills, No. 70..12 Otis Furniture..... Sig Park Mills, No. $0..13 | York, | oz.......... 9 Park Mills, No. 90..14 | York, AA, extra 02.12% OSNABURGS. Plain. Plaid. PIMDOIOD oo 66 oc ccs 6% ‘Abeien , .. .cacs-< 6% GOOrgia ...... 206. Bly 4| Augusta peehene daa: es MOOEE a5 cous voces « O HOOMIIIN -- << OUR ROLL OF HONOR. We, the undersigned wholesale dealers of Grand Rapids, hereby pledge ourselves to the Retail Grocers’ Association, not to sell goods in our respective lines to consumers: OLNEY, SHIELDS & Co., Hawkins & PERRY, F. J. LAMB & Co., BuLKLEY, LEMON & Hoops, Amos MUSSELMAN & Co., Fox & BRADFORD, O. W. BLAIN, Ira O. GREEN, MOosELEY Bros., Buntine & SHEDD, W. F. Gipson & Co., S. C. PEER, CLARK, JEWELL & Co., Copy, BALL & Co.. JENNINGS & SMITH, JOHN CAULFIELD, FreD D. YALE & Co., TELFER & BROOKS, EATON & CHRISTENSON, Lupwia WINTERNITZ, HAZELTINE & PERKINS DruG Co. —_—__~»> + > The Grocery Market. Business is good, considering the appre- hension existing in some localities relative to the labor situation. The market has been remarkably steady with the exception of sugar, which has sustained a strong downward movement. Two or three re- fineries have nearly reached a settlement of the trouble with their workmen and it is thought that the end of the present week will witness a resumption of operations at all the refineries. The present condition of the market, coupled with the fact that raw sugars have sold at an extremely low figure during the strike, gives good ground for the belief that refined sugars will touch bottom prices again before the June boom puts in an appearance. THe TRADESMAN advises dealers to purchase only for present wants, believing that any attempt at speculation cannot fail to result disastrously. Candy is steady and firm at the advance. Oranges and lemons both show higher prices and the market is very firm. Nuts are un- changed. a Strong Point in Mercantile Success. It is said that one of the strongest points in the character of Stephen Girard, the Na- polean of commerce, was that no man ever heard him boast of what he could do. He remained quiet and silent until the time eame for action, and then he _ struck the blow with unerring aim, which insured him success. He was studious to learn all he could from others and as care- ful to impart nothing in return. erence ey — Aeneas “Mr. Trialbalance,” said Old Hyson to the bookkeeper, ‘tyou were away two days last week.” ‘‘I was, Mr. Hyson; I was summoned suddenly to attend the funeral of my grandmother.” ‘‘Ah, yes,” said the merchant. ‘‘Quite right, quite right. Ac- cept my condolences. Did you bury the old lady?” ‘Yes, sir.” “Ah, yes; buried her. I thought from your breath, you had em- -balmed her.” (Loud and long-continued silence. ) “TO. How to Keep Store. From the Dry Goods Chronicle. Good common sense is the first requisite. A person who has that can learn to do al- most anything, and doit well. Storekeeping is an art partly acquired and partly natural. Some men are natural-born merchants. Stewart, Claffin and Shillito were men of this stamp. Others who have attained high eminence in trade were not noted for any special aptitude for business aside from abilities common to men in general. To be a successful merchant, it is not necessary to be a born genius. other qualities more important. The first question to ask is, Have I experience? It would be almost as foolish in this age to at- tempt storekeeping without any previous knowledge of the business as it would be to attempt to build a house without a knowl- edge of the use of tools and of architecture. The house would prove a failure and so would the merchant. The time is past when a man could sell his farm, or quit his profession, or give up his handicraft and take to storekeeping with the hope of making maney. The news- paper, the railroad and the telegraph have introduced new methods of business man- agement. Profits ranging from 25 to 40 per cent. can no longer be made. Old goods cannot be carried from one season to anoth- er, to be sold finally above cost. The masses have some knowledge about styles and fash- ions, and are well posted as to prices. The best way, therefore to keep store is to begin as a young clerk and grow up with the bus- iness. The best commercial school in existence is a general country store. The elementary branches of business are taught in it. The young beginner learns to know himself—an important lesson; learns to acquire confi- dence in himself; learns improvement in manners, in conversation, and also learns to study human nature. Knowledge is also gained as it regards merchandise, not in any particular line, but in all commodities com- mon to the wants of the people. This is useful information in after life, whether the clerk ever becomes a merchant or not. In fact, the practical philosophy of business even in its greatest magnitude is first learn- ed in a general store. The clerk who graduates with honor from the country store is well equipped for the large marts of trade in any part of the world. He is possessed of a_ practical knowledge that can be turned to good ac- count in any department of business. His diploma is common sense, fortified by ex- perience as to the elementary principles of trade and barter. He has laid the founda- tion upon which a solid business superstruc- tion can be reared. For himself he can an- swer the question ‘Show to keep store,” by having learned the first rudiments, after which was gained a wider knowledge as _ to the wants of the community and how best to supply them. As arule, the most successful merchants began as clerks and worked their way up from a boy to the head of the firm. This is in accordance with the natural order of things. Few men have made a success of merchandise who previously were engaged in some other pursuit. In nature abnormal growths are considered unhealthy, and it would be equally out of the common order of affairs fora man to become a good mer- chant who nearly all his life had been en- gaged in something else. Itis not in ac- cordance with the fitness of things. The best way to keep store is to know how to do it from the standpoint of practi- cal experience, beginning young in life. —~> -9 <> _____- Cranberry Notes. The departure of John Clarke and Henry Manley from their winter homes at Meaford, Ont., to their cranberry plantations at Whitefish Point, U. P., means the inaug- uration Of a vigorous summer’s campaign. Whitefish Point is evidently destined to be the Cape Cod of Michigan. A party of Grand Rapids business men are talking of forming a stock company for the purpose of purchasing a tract of swamp land and engaging in the cultivation of cranberries on an extensive scale. S. H. Comings, the St. Joseph grower, has written a long and pertinent letter to the American Cranberry Growers’ Associa- tion, setting forth a method by which the glutted condition of the market which ruled during the past season can be obviated. Mr. Comings suggests that representatives be sent to Europe to introduce the cranberry to the notice of the English, French and German people, with whom the American cranberry is now practically unknown. Mr. Comings’ plan deserves careful considera- tion, as the rapid increase in productive ca- pacity is sure to overstock the market worse than was the case last year, unless new out- lets are found for the surplus crop. Thestatistician of the American Cranberry Growers’ Association estimates the crop of 1885 at 560,000 bushels, placing the product of each section as follows: OW FOURS | cs 5 dae teseac pcous eee 175,000 BHT MURINE Fs i vi sinc os onva xs sv us céastans 225,000 Wisconsin ................ ihn cobskdacenaeee 150,000 Other Western States.................25+ 10,000 The nearest approach to this product was in 1881, when the crop aggregated 461,- 025 bushels. _ or - Oo Peanuts in India. The successful cultivation of peanuts in Virginia has been the means of calling the attention of Indian agriculturists to a new source of profit. The Indian Gardener states that ground nuts grow there freely, and that an attempt is about to be made to cultivate the peanut. —————+. +s ____ ‘‘Fermentum” the only reliable compress- ed yeast. See advertisement. There are | GRAND RAPIDS, While our stock lasts, we of- fer to the trade FOR SEED: Leaming Early Dent, Corn, 56 f to bu. for $1.50 Red Blazed, 8 Rowed....... * ” 1.75 Yellow Yankee,8 Rowed... ‘ * 1.75 Grand Rapids Seed Go GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. FRED. D. YALE. DANIEL LYNCH. PRED, YALE & GO. SUCCESSORS TO CHAS.8S. YALE & BRO., WHOLESALE MANUFACTURERS OF Baking Powders, Extracts, Bloings, 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, - MICH. BULL. DOG Tobaccos. TRADE UNION ———-AND=—r— LABOR UNION, The largest amount of good tobacco for the least money. AND EXTRA GOOD FINE CUTS These goods are all UNION MADE, and each box is duly stamped with the Union Label. No scas work goes from this fac- tory. Every employee is a Union man and a K. of L. If your jobber don’t sell it, your order di- rect will be filled promptly at prices quoted, and delivered to your railroad depot free of freight. Bull Dog Tobacco Works, CovINGToN, Ky. Ha ee goasfarestwo pounds of any other eck. Ask your Grocer for it. The Electric Lustre Starch Co. 204 Franklin St., New York. JOEN CAULFIELD Wholesale Agent, MICH. WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT. These prices are for cash buyers, who pay promptly and buy in full packages. AXLE GREASE. Brazer’s........... 90/Paragon ........... 2 10 Diamond X........ 60| Paragon 25 pails. 90 Modoc, 4 doz....... 2 50|Fraziers, 25 i pails.1 25 BAKING POWDER. Thompson's Butterfly, bulk................ 25 " bbs 6 or 10 i cans...... 2T . - 4,4doz.in case... 9% hy oy ‘ 2 7 oh) i a. 95 J. H. Thompson & Co.’s Princess, 4S.......1 25 - . a - Me. 2 2 ee e - Berek nscs 4 25 iy be “ oe bulk 28 ae 1 “ee » “ce a 2 " > .* 1 OO es cas oh caus "12 00 Silver Spoon, 50 cans..............e000 eee 10 00 Victorian, 1 cans, (tall,) 2 doz..... ...... 2 00 RMBPOOOG, “OU oe icet ice asceac tase sess 15 BLUING BOOS IOs Gas ua vs co va nnepeesanenase ans doz. 25 EM NO Bo oaks sb ikeenc chchceviannaes doz. 45 Mat 6 OBE ive cs cic clue sk apne oe doz. 35 Ra, ORG b iv'c ip caso adodabacaceses doz. 65 PN Oa rok) hae ibd bese ce as #8 gross 4 00 MI MR ia as ack g ps alin swag as adkan oaee che 8 00 POI ROO. ie esi ed Wie cae see 12 00 Arctic No. 1 pepper box...................- 2 00 Arctic No. 2 oa Or soa at ic acasaeecaeute 3 00 Arctic No.3 ‘* OF ee Caen cen waeus . 400 BROOMS. No. 2url.......... 2 00)Parlor Gem........ 3 00 NO: PPI)... ecco 2 25;Common Whisk.... 90 No. 2Carpet........ 2 50/Faney Whisk...... 1 00 No. 1Carpet........ Be a on hha cae ees 3 75 CANNED FISH. Clams, I fh, Little Neck.................... 1 80 Clams, 2 tb. Little Neck..... Cee eee Clam Chowder, 3....... asus cleus ae Cove Oysters, 1 standards.............. 1 00 Cove Oysters, 2 ib standards. 1 15 Lobsters, 1 picnic. ..... Lobsters, 2 tb, picnic.... Lobsters, 1 tb star......... Lopaters, 2 1 BtAl.. . isk occ eos s ue Mackerel, 1 ib fresh standards............ 110 Mackerel, 5 i fresh standards............ 4 25 Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 bb........... 3 00 Mackerel,3 thin Mustard.................. 3 00 Mackerel, 3 soused.............-....0008 3 00 Salmon, 1 fh Columbia river............... 15 Salmon, 2 ib Columbia river............... 2 35 Sardines, domestic 4S............-.....06. Sardines, domestic %8..............ceeee 12 Sardines, Mustard 8.................-06. 12 Sardines, imported 48..................5. 14 pont, BW DROOK... 0. cen. se kel see ec eso 4 00 CANNED FRUITS. Apples, 3 standards ..................55- %5 Apples, gallons, standards...............- 2 20 Blackberries, standards................+4: 95 Cherries, red standard..................- 95 DOO os a oa os dies de btn deacons 90 Egg Plums, standards ..................- 1 25 Green Gages, standards 2 I........-...... 1 25 Peaches, Extra Yellow ...................- 1 90 Peaches, Standards... ...........cs ee cccnee 1 60 PRRGTOR, BOOCOIGE. oo. oo. oni ose be cc ce cnaces 1 25 PINGRODICR, TEPIG,.... wc oseccccasecs s+ .1 50 Pineapples, standards........ a. .1 40 Pineapples, Johnson’s sliced... ... -2 60 Pineapples, Johnson’s, grated... .2 75 OT sy ei ha ke hae os ces .- 125 Raspberries, extra................. ...1 35 OUP PW OGNPIOR ooo cas cia ces eck ac eancaees 1 35 CANNED FRUITS—CALIFORNIA. usk’s. Mariposa. OOS oes ons oo cco e ake snes 2 25 2 00 Mee FP IUIOS, oie cas ees cian aes 210 2 00 a cca cane ce eas cas 210 1 80 Green Gages, . 6... ces cesses 2 10 2 00 PO es caincscans saan 2 50 2 20 OE os cc ea kde w ean w es 2 50 POOOHOR cs. ce vccie cen eae OO 2 25 CANNED VEGETABLES. Asparagus, Oyster Bay.................... 3 00 Beans, Lima, standard.................... 1 00 Beans, Stringless, Erie.................... 95 Beans, Lewis’ Boston Baked.............. 1 65 Corp, Archer’s Trophy... ....5:.....0. cence 1 00 OO TO i ios Ga vande choc ch bans ul caus 1 00 A EO ORE oo icc g ces cence cae 90 A | PROUD oe Civ ccs ha ounce wo owes 1 00 POOS, WRORO oii. ico ccs ae cc esha ce oe ol 1 65 Peas, Marrofat, standard.................. 1 40 POA ee cack cyacan ca cdnae 70 Pumpkin, 3 tb Golden..................... 7d Succotash, standard..............ccecees 75@1 40 Re aah was open nus cena 1 00 Tomatoes, standard brands............... 115 SHEESE. Michigan full cream.................. ll @12 ear GM kk icc siceaes brn eaees Gaus 9 @10% i a 56 @6 CHOCOLATE. BAKOr’R...5. 0000s. 374% |German Sweet....... 23 TUUMIOR ow isc cecaes 35! Vienna Sweet ....... 22 COCOANUT. Scheppys, CAKC DOK... . 6. a. sees en censces @27% - celia cack wehaces @28 Mailtby’s.i.® round... oi... 0-50.20 @26 vid aa he ie en cena @27 a. TS IG Se og eee Oe sis @28 MBODStIAM, DAIS. o.oo... csc. ce vee @20 COFFEES. Green Roasted. WO O@is |HiO |. .......+...- I@15 Golden Rio......... 12 jGolden Rio......... 16 Bante. koa css Th PPRMIOB es cee ec cas Ij Maricabo........... 13 |Maricabo........... ag FA 2... cs... OOD [JAVA.......... -24@26 OG. Java... ocecs.. 24-10. G. JAVA... .. 2... 28 MOCOR 2... is5cec? > [MOORE coo. ss aes 28 COFFEES—PACKAGE, 60 hs 100 hs 300 bs PUUIWOPCN Bs oaks bo cc ce cece ones 1344 12% on nk co ees hes ees é PAGE AURIS ois. once cscceeacs 1333 1384 12% POMC Hoe io cece nes et. 133, 138% MOREE ich ia eed wckksen css 13 12% EBM OG oe ic ek bo eae eae 184% 184 12% CORDAGE. 60 foot Jute..... 100 {50 foot Cotton....1 60 %2 foot Jute ..... 125 |60 foot Cotton....1 75 40 Foot Cotton....1 50 {72 foot Cotton....2 00 CRACKERS AND SWEET GOODS. 5 c XXX Pb Kenosha Butter................ 6% Seymour Butter............... 5 MRE os ic bi abba se cca hase 5 POANGY TOGGOP.. o.oo cece cs ccs es 4% Pe PTE, ok kb cave tnnssrcanace 5 Be i rece ie cd ce nnnecsss 5 Paney Oyeter. . oi... cir cescs se 4% MOT BOG cc cess ccateccte ds 46 My OE ake acess anca sacs 7% OO ee ck 5 es re as ig ac bcs t WO occa sek dew dce ces 7 Graham ......... oiiae oleae as 8 Oe OO ee ee 8 Pretzels, hand-made........... 11% TRO oy ck oe vce ed anes ae 9% TOM OIN 5505 cae si ucne as bo eecs 154% Lemon Cream...............055 7% 8% Frosted Cream................. 8% Ginger Snaps.................. 7% 8% No. 1 Ginger Snaps............ 1% Lemon Snaps.................- 12% Coffee Oakes... ...ccecsceececs 8% Lemon Wafers................. 13% Jumbles............. Cie e dich ds hy Extra Honey Jumbles......... 12% Frosted Honey Cakes......... 13% Cream GOmMS...........5ccceces 138% Bagleys Gems................. 138% BOGE CAR CR ooo. cnc ceases ccese 12% B, & OE, COROS. 22... cc ceik Sune 844 FISH. Bloaters, Smoked Yarmouth.............. 75@30 poe oo beech id oes clekss chek) 5 PRON cobs an kecs bh aN S054 ah weda cbe 5@6% Wy oa hc ras cid cw ban cnee ecitcnds eo 10@11 Herring, round, % bbl.................... 2 25 Herring ,round, % bbl.................... 1 25 Herring, Holland, bbis................... 11 00 Herring, Holland, kegs................... 80@% PAOPEIEG, CCQIOG iia so is cic eu ecw cain dss os 22@% Mackerel, shore, No. 2,.% bbls............ 5 50 * - eB RR © nk ees. Y i Me aay 7 IOs i WE OI oot os elec ei als 3 50 o : 12 ib kits ip thiis oles cee. 62 Aga tad cies ce tae es 55 OB FE DOE boc deh abides ancu vis ecdecenciss 2 50 ET, We Os oo ook ink noe vs ok cles weet ok ak 4 00 # Bhs ewok bs cae sacdicae as. 80 White, No. 1,% bbls .................. . 6 50 White, No.1, 12 kits......... -1 00 White, No. 1, 10 bh kits........... . 90 White, Family, % bbls........... oe .2 50 FLAVORING EXTRACTS. 2 Lemon. Vanilla. Jennings’ 2 0Z..........0.eceees 8 doz.100 1 40 a ROR kali ss ieee aks 150° 250 * DOB ia vic deck astans alla ets 250 400 ” ac oon ca ncdade st yicns 850 500 ” No. 2 Taper Wh OE NAs wa as hal 125 150 * No.4 ‘ Meitevauicns wens 1% 3800 * % pint round.............. 450 750 a 1 OP Peevewees aves -.9 00 15 00 * MO Boi isicese sees epeaeaeey 300 425 - TRAD Civ astucs awe teas 425 600 DRIED FRUITS—DOMESTIC. Apricots, 25 hb boxes................ pee 25 Cherries, pitted, 50 boxes..... a4 eg plums, 25 boxes..... ws 20 Pears, 253] DOXeS...... 0.0.6... cece cess 16 Peaches, Delaware, 50 boxes....... 28 Peaches, Michigan..............0.0.00. 3 Raspberries, 50 b i DOXOB.) ces cece eee DRIED FRUITS—FOREIGN. a RR EPINE Foiph os es eae ce hak ek ok @ 4 CUPFANIR, TOW es oo se cee oo sees @ 7% BOUARITE POON oo so os beck ave ccs @ CORO PON ooo co sin ceases cacuact @ Prunes, French, 608.................005 RY@ Prunes, French, 80s............... . ... 8%@ Prunes, Turkey...... Fei g seca vik suc, @ 4% POGIGING, DGNOGIS . os. ooo c cs. cee cece @3 Ts Raisins, London Layers............... 3 00@3 20 Raisins, California “ ............... @2 40 Raisins, Loose Muscatels.............. @2 00 Raisins, Ondaras, 28s... ........ ..... @13% Hateing, Suitanas, ..; .. i... .. 66.3. odes. @10 WeAlsing, VAIONCIA...:.. © 6. ......00050- 105g@10% Raisins, Imperials..................... @3 50 MATCHES. Grand Haven, No. 8, square................ 1 00 Grand Haven, No 9, square, 3 gro........... 1 20 Grand Haven, No. 200, parlor.............. 1 % Grand Haven, No. 300, parlor.............. 2 2 Grand Haven, No. 7, round................ 1 50 MO FE sg ek oe bik ccc nc cc acnck 1 00 ONT, Ae a cic asass 1 50 ea haba ek cis ve kaka aces 75 Richardson’s No. 8 square.................. 1 00 Richardson’s No. 9 Oe heer lacdedes ca 1 50 Richardson’s No. 7%, round................. 1 00 Richardson’s No. 7 CO ee 1 50 MOLASSES. MO NII ek onc on a vc do concen cceunccces 15@19 Ot PUN oka idee ke ccbaccsuceceecccac. 25@28 I id on boas ccc ke ckdeue cebeuse 34@38 New Orleans, good.................... “a 2 New Orleans, choice..... .........cccccece 48@50 ROW CIOGTIM, FROG. oo onc. koa ccc ces 52@55 % bbls. 2¢e extra. OATMEAL. Steel cut........... 5 25| RolledOats,Shields’3 25 Steel Cut, % bbl 3 00) Rolled Oats, Acme.3 25 Rolled Oats........5 75 Quaker, 48 Ibs...... 2 25 Rolled Oats, 4bbl..3 06 Quaker, 60 tbs...... 2 85 Rolled Oats, cases.3 25|Quaker bbls........ 6 2% PICKLES. WORN ie a, @5 00 ae Se MOIS oo cia isusas @3 00 PONE hho ca chee dc vcs cua uel ee ci cdekec. @3 00 PIPES. Imported Clay 3 gross................. 2 25@3 00 Importeée Clay, No. 216,3 gross..... .. @2 25 Imported Clay, No. 216, 24 gross...... @1 8 PAOCRIOOD Tos oo sss oace ds bincauce 75@ 90 RICE. Choice Carolina..... 64iJava ........... Prime Carolina..... kg een Sn 5% Good Carolina......5 |Rangoon....... 54@5x Good Louisiana..... 5 iBroken.. ..... 34@3% SALERATUS. DeLand’s pure......5%|Dwight’s............ 54 CHUPOGN ES oooh a seess 54/Sea Foam........... 5% Taylor’s G. M.......544|Cap Sheaf........... 544 ye less in 5 box lots. SALT. OO Pocket, F ¥ Dairy... ............0. 2 25 RO a acca ce soiesiclccecs 215 Bo eae 2 35 Saginaw or Manistee.................. 90 Te i ea Se ele si ae 1 45 Standard Coarse...............cscees , 1 25 Ashton, English, dairy, bu. bags...... 75 Ashton, English, dairy, 4 bu. bags.... 2 75 Higgins’ English dairy bu. bags...... 70 American, dairy, 4% bu. bags.......... 25 oe eS ee ee = Warsaw, Daity, bu. bags.............. 45 pny - MT ee as cau ket ua. 23 SAUCES. Pariian, 4 Mite... oo... sconces @2 00 Pepper Sauce, red small.............. @ 70 Pepper Sauce, green .................. @ 80 Pepper Sauce, red large ring......... @1 25 Pepper Sauce, green, large ring...... @1 5 Catsup, Tomato, pints................. @ 80 Catsup, Tomato, quarts .............. @1 20 Halford Sauce, pints.................. @3 50 Halford Sauce, % pints................ @2 20 SOAPS. Acme, bars........3 75|/Napkin............. 4 85 Acme, blocks..... a) ee 4 75 Best American....3 08| White Marseilles..5 60 Circus .... ........3 75 White Cotton Oil..5 60 Big Five Center...3 90|\Shamrock.......... 3 30 WIOMOR i is ccs 3 45| Blue Danube....... 2 95 Gem...... Me cis 4 3 35|London Family....2 60 SPICES. Gr@ind. Whole. Pepper........... 16@25|Pepper........... @18 Allspice......... 412@15|Allspice.......... 8@10 Cinnamon........ 18@30 Cassia ............ 10@11 Cloves ........ ...15@25|Nutmegs, No.1.. @60 GInger .. .. 66... 6: 16@20 Nutmegs, No.2.. @50 Mustard....... ..-15@30\Cloves ........... 16@18 Cayenne ......... 25@35) STARCH. Electric Ne ri @3 20 PIGGOrA, LBUNGFY... «ooo. os os cc cccc ccs 34@ 4 neat ieee @ 5% Peer COP es @ 6% Morel OC6re oe ee. @ 5% a MONE W 5 Ged uceys cdacec ecules 4 @5 Quaker, laundry, 56%... .............. @4 50 SUGARS. Eos oa ois oc cae @ 1% WONG a ee @ 734 Granulated, Standard................. Gi 19 ROUITOOUIOUONYS Ae on oe cak ceccene @ 63 WR i coos ce ccc cecsele. @ 63% NO. T, White Extra C...... 0.22.0... @ 6%4 MO. mw BRAC, o.oo ck. eens tau @ 6 TOR elie ces ocd ec scans, @ 5% Bese... 3k. @ 58 ea @ 5% SYRUPS. rm oe oe is ecnce case, 22@26 I, ona ck vc acicce cc coehccee 24@27 Corn, t0 gallon kegs.................... @29 Corn, 5 gallon kegs..................... 1 35 PUre Meee, ON ooo sos oe sc cc cee ce 22@26 Pure Sugar, 4 OD)... .. o.oo ccc ccccuce 24@28 Pure Sugar 5 gal kegs................. @1 50 TEAS. OVA OFOIMAPY. 0... occ cece cc cccaccc alec 18@20 Japan fair to 00d ...... 0. ce eee 25@30 WBPNIMMI TU ok oe oes ve rics ca ec ck cas .30@45 PROT oe a chive ce cdes vise ka -15@20 Young Hyson................; .30@50 Gun Powder................. ...35@50 CHAO oo 5 a oo cabs os dle ceesa ccs ca BI@S5SQ@EC OA i ica cc bet edce oa ee 25@30 TOBACCO—FINE CUT—IN PAILS, Our Leader.......... 33;Old Time............. 35 Our Block............ 60! Underwood’s Capper 35 Yum Yum....:...... 25|\Sweet Rose.......... 45 Sweet Rose.......... 82| Meigs & Co.’s Stunner35 May Queen....... fe a 35 Jolly Time........... 40| Royal Game.......... 38 Dar AmericanEagle67/Mule Ear............ 65 The i ee 62) Fountain............. 74 Red WING ce ciccaaccc 50)Old Congress......... 64 State Seal............ 60|Good Luck........... 52 Prairie Flower ...... 65|Blaze Away.......... 35 Indian Queen........ 60|Hair ORO oc ece hie 30 Bull Dog............ *57 Jim Dandy........... 38 Crown Leaf..... ....66\0ur Bird............. 28 Hiawatha ............ 65|Brother Jonathan.. .28 CO nce sc ak 65\Sweet Pippin........ 45 May Flower.......... 70| *Delivered. SMOKING Our Leader.......... ME oie hi acs 30 CNG VOR. 6... po5k ss es. 30| Eight Hours......... 24 BE OM vc co candace cs MUORY cies ai vec csaiic 30 Ruby, cut plug...... 35) ie 15 Nayy Clippings...... 26|Two Nickel.......... 24 LOGO ooo. ois hc 15|Duke’s Durham..... 40 Hard Tack........... 82!Green Corn Cob Pipe 26 A ee Oe ei iia ie 16 OM 2OPr,...4......)., S0ROD HOV... .. 66... 26 Arthur’s Choice..... 22/Uncle Sam........... 2 MG POM. goin cc cca u as 26|Lumberman ......... 2 MOE ek ue daccleuah 28 Railroad Boy......... 38 Gold Dust............ 26, Mountain Rose....... 18 Gold Block........... 30,Home Comfort....... 25 Seal of Grand Rapids (Old PRD ss Ch we nissan 60 (G1OGD) . 6 oc cece cs 25|Seal of North Caro- Tramway, 3 oz....... Se ORD OR... 48 Miners and Puddlers.28/Seal of North Caro- Peerless .... 24; lina, 40z............ 48 Standard... 20 Seal of North Caro- Old Tom, 025005002006. ae, NS, BON, ws... 45 Tom & Jerry......... 24 Seal of North Caro- MOOR oo ieee es uke 25| lina, 1602 boxes. ...42 SEMVONEE coe iss acices 35'King Bee, longeut,. .22 Maiden ............... 25|\Sweet Lotus.......... 32 Pickwick Club....... 40/\Grayling ............. 32 Nigger Head......... 26\Seal Skin............. 30 PEON 6 ooo oe ok oe 22|Red Clover. ......... 32 German ............. 15|Good Luck........... 26 Me OF Ui iced. 42@46 PLUG. CPIOROM i. oie ious cose 28;Trade Union........ *36 Bull Deg............ *36| Labor Union........ *30 Hiawatha ............ ee bh ced chavcace OO sOHly TAR... on ctses 32)Old Solder............ 40 Jolly Time........... 32| Money ive ceaiunes cad 44 WOAVOPIO 65 eee close 42\ Red Fox... ............ 42 Black Bird........... 82\Big Drive............ 40 Live and Let Live...32)Sealof Grand Rapids 40 oy es lien ncesass Ge MOPON bo oc cc oe cca vale 40 1 ee 37\ Jack Rabbit.......... 38 Spear Head.......... 39 Chocolate Cream... .44 Old Honesty......... 40, Nimrod .............. 40 Whole Earth......... MG ccc es. 38 Crazy Quilt.......... 82\Spread Eagle........ 36 We re eave cisccavas 40, Big Five Cente .33 Spring Chicken..... 38) Parrot ........ 42 Ecli 30; Buster .... 35 .. 34! Black Pri 30 32| Black Racer. . 85 Hiawatha............ 42\Star bakaus ..39 Musselman’s Corker.30/Climax .............. 42 EM OY Sivcccc devises TRA GORT oes sn isan 40 PIO oo oo cnn is bcos 44\Horse Shoe.......... 86 *Delivered. 2c. less in three butt lots. SHORTS. Our Leader.......... 16|Hiawatha........ «+522 Mayfiower ...........23/Old Congress..... eed seh nb cody cusses cee eee Pa se scosstae G Mule Ear.............23|/ Dark SNUFF. : Lorillard’s American Gentlemen..... @ 72 + MN i oo kas kc @ 55 Gail & Ax’ ih ee TAS A ee: @ 44 ” PUG ge ce idvc cass cudic ess: QG Railroad Mills Scotch................. @ 4 MPP a ag neg oo si eed kencs cade @l 30 VINEGAR. 30 gr 50 gr. Rt FR ok cco ede vk ches on 0 io nice. oo es 4a eas 08 10 MISCELLANEOUS. Bath Brick imported .................. 95 do PTO oo cocci cede 75 MOP TN ons a cak velo cuunecess 1 00 WO inion cack kc cn eccccedes 1 50 Condensed Milk, Eagle brand......... 77 Cream Tartar 5 and 10 f cans......... 15@25 MPI OM oo as ca des occ ce dcesscus @12% RII, BRUNO on dacs ccceececoecdecics @l4 Extract Coffee, V. C..........9.5.0.00- do MONE icke aeie ease 1 2% Gum, Rubber 100 lumps......... @.... @25 Gum, Rubber 200 lumps. ............ @35 oe ee ee a 30@35 MORN FF NN ooo ovo beck kvn vac cce @3 50 Jelly, in 30D pails.......... ccc ce ccece @ 1% NE MON ooo cco cckciccccecevcaccs Peas, Green Bush...... @1 2% Peas, Split Prepared.................. @ 3 Ca ee @3 00 OO, SE on ok dances ccda caceec @1 9 MO ok rac bccn cco ac ckhovdccccss @ 1 CANDY, FRUITS AND NUTS, Putnam & Brooks quote as follows: STICK. Standard, 25 ) boxes................0. 94@10 ist, Oe a cee bacacs 10 @10% Cut Loaf I ll @l1% MIXED ee @10 MM WE I 6 oo ovo occ cececencacs @9% po ene ee ll @ll% MeN Wi Ms MANE We WEI ooo canes cs cccacccee 10 @10% French Cream, 25 pails.............. @I13 OUGHT, BO ORBOE. «6. oa 65 cose ce cence @13% Broken, 25 B® pails..............cccecce @u Broken, 2300 ® DbIS. ... o.oo. scans cc cc 10 @10% FANCY—IN 5 bb BOXES. MI NIPODE «55 os ce oe ccdcce loncc cs AR WO Rg os ooo nec Socc ca dc ecdedauis HM@15 MOMUONOAING EIOUG.. 0.6 soc cc sc vcccenuc @15 Ee ee 16 HMChocolate Drops................... 18 Nt BO oy ce ccc kc sca ei dacas 10 PA BO cc eves cease cs. gs, 22 AB Licorice Drops.. wd adeaueesecces 2 RN oo ooo ik Kons cada cuccac 15 MR, TOPIC 6g oo oo vc vc cc cs na cectece 16 po a a eae 15 NEI on 5s a kc ch cc's dates isceuasons 15 Od ee ee I@14 I oe ooo c vec ccccccc. osu. Is@14 I ces bn dc cc inekes ce. 18 Hand Made Creams................000.0 18@2v I TN oa oo vic ode cess sccck 17 Decorated Creams....... ........c6..... 20 MBN ors odes cceceiccceccc.., 15 Ee -. V@2Z Wintergreen Berries........... .. “15 FANCY—IN BULK. Lozenges, plain in pails............... 124%@13 Lozenges, plainin bblis................ 11%@l2 Lozenges, printed in pails............. Lozenges, printed in bbls............. 184%@14 Chocolate Drops, in pails.............. 138 @13% Gum Drops in pails................... Gum Drops, in bbls.................... Moss Drops, in pails................... @ll Moss Drops, in bbls.................... @10 Sour Drops, in pails................... @13 Properiaia, in pails..................... 138 @1B3% Imperials in bbls... ...... A . 14@12 FRUITS Bananas Aspinwall................... Oranges, California, fancy............ 4 25@4 50 Oranges, California, choice........... @A WO Oranges, Jamaica, bbls................ Craraee, Pirin. ................... ' Oranges, Messina......................4 50@4 75 Oranges, Naples. BMRA, CHOLOG ooo ooo oo se ok cc cc ce @6 00 Lemons, fancy..........6.6....... .... 6 25@6 50 Lemons, California, .............6000. @5 25 Figs, layers, new, @ D................. 1I24@l6 eS eS @i% mnt OO GOP 8... koa we, ®) 4% pene ee Oo Gg. @5 a ae BIN, 08 ORI. oc ccc ce ues... y..e.. Dates, Fard 10 t box ® tb............. @10 Dates, Fard 50 tb box #® tb.............. @ 9 Dates, Persian 50 ih box # b.......... @8 Wine Aviles, @ dod. ................. 2 PEANUTS. 25@2 50 Prime Hod, raw @ &.................. 4 My Choice do %. phoebe eds deus dial g 5° Fancy H.P. do OO ods cana, @ 5% Chaieo White, Va.do .... 5... cccc ccc ce 5 @5% meee ea OM GO 6 cocci. 64@ 7 Boos oka bho ee ccive cc cues, @ 6 NUTS. Almonds, Tarragona.................. lb @16 * Been ae. @15 by CMRCONUE oo onc ccc cec ccc: 14 @16 Ui A eh ee 8 @9 Chestnuts, por DU... ..... 2.5... cccccecs MUON, FN sok oo ke ke cc caccdcccacs 114@l2 bp I con we ccieccsca, 10 @ll Walnuts, Grenoble.................... 144%@1b - Des seks dco scdcdéclacecs “ NOUN gio cuccidiseces 5: 8 @ll ” California............ wheseee @12 Pecans, Texas. H, P............005..., 9 @13 + WI os coc avincsccscs 84@ 9 Cocoanuts, B 100... 2... cc. cc cece cca ces @4 50 PROVISIONS. The Grand Rapids Packing & Provision Co. quote as follows: PORK IN BARRELS. Mess, Chicago packing, new................ 10 25 CIOGE, BP. OOO i oo cock coco cccsc cc, it 00 MO ON OW oon co occ cicecs ec, 11 00 Back, clear, short cut...............0.00.- 12 50 Extra family clear, short cut.............. 12 00 Clear, A. Webster, new ................... 12 50 Extra clear pig, short cut............. .... 12 75 Extra clear, h@avy............ccccccce ene, 12 75 Clear quill, short cut.............0..000000, 13 00 Boston clear, short cut..................... 13 00 Clear back, short cut....................... 13 00 Standard clear, short cut, best............13 25 DRY SALT MEATS—IN BOXES. Long Clears, heavy..............ccccce. 6 - SS ee a 6 “ WE ecu a 6 Short Clears, heavy................. SG 6% do. WOMN INS sk ods co ccccccacs 644 On MAN 6% SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED OR PLAIN. BOM NG ooo coco cece ccc ccc cs 9% WT MONON 6 bso va ov ac sek dicec cdi 934 OT MR eon bean ice 10 Boneless Hams. best........................ 10 MOU UR ooo vo eaac Seco es 9 Boneless Shoulders... ..........ccccccccccucce 6% INOW ENON TIMOONN ook 65 co cc cen ces, 7% Dried Beef, extra quality................... 9 Dried Beef, Ham pieces..................... 11% Shoulders cured in sweet pickle............ 6 LARD. PN oi reseed a cake cede cckci cy, 6% Ar IE OP MY A ok on oc cc cack akc. 6% 50 Ib Round Tins, 100 cases.............. 6% LARD IN TIN PAILS. 20 Ib Pails, 4 pailsin case.............. 5 Seve winecee 7 5 Pails, 12 in a case. .................. 6% 10% Patis. 6 in u cbse ................... 6% BEEF IN BARRELS. Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 Ibs........ 8 50 WUOMUONOON, CHUNG 6 ooo oo vic bios os ce ceicckcccic., 13 00. SAUSAGE—FRESH AND SMOKED. TR TI ooo coco cc nace Cheakaaa oA WEOIN ORIO iio ions ocd aucslaccccascedcye MORMON NN avin docs ceccuk ovesic. PranerOrt. SAUSAGE. ... .. 5... 6. cccc neces cae BOWE NNN Soon occ nn is Gecdsckoec cu ccud. MOOG, WEPOIONG 660k 6 oo oc de oe deccccc cu BUM GIONS 6 ado es chsh bdeddededs ence co. MO SOI ois s oa ooo oe i cocccas dic ce, PIGS’ FEET. Oe PEN I ooo ok ba ode cans ncickelseck, 8 50 EM QUGrtOr DAFVElS. . oo... occ ce cc ce cence COAL AND BUILDING MATERIALS. A. B. Knowlson quotes as follows: Ohio White Lime, per bbl............. 1 00 Ohio White Lime, car lots............. 85 Louisville Cement, ger WHR on cnckacce 1 30 n Cement per bbl................ 1 30 Bn@alo Cement, per bbl..... aeceeecccs 1 30 Carlots ‘“ We ows ckauaunb ease 1 06@1 10 Plastering hair, per bu................ 25@ 30 ROO’ DOE DD. 5 ced sisuccccs veccccécs 175 Land plaster, per ton.................. 3 50 Land plaster, car lots.................. 2 50 Fire brick, per M.... 2.0.2... ..ccceeces $25 @ $35 Fire clay, per bbl...................... 3 00 Anthracite a oeaee, ar) racite, egg an te, car lots. .$5 7 00 Anthracite, stove and nut, car lots.. 6 25 Cannell, car lots...............0.00005 00 Ohio Lump, car lots.................. 31 25 Blossburg er Cumberland, car lots.. ‘ 00 CO. COMMONS so foes coe ss cides » > ( IF SHE BE GUILTY, WHY NOT HE? ‘The lamps are lighted, the streets are full, For, coming and going like the waves of the sea, ‘Thousands are out onthis beautiful night: They jostle each other, but shrink from me! Men hurry by with a stealthy glance, Women pass with their eyes cast down, Even the children seem to know The shameless girl of the town. Hated and shunned, I walked the street, Hunting—for what? For my prey, ’tis said; 1 look at it, though, in a different light, For this night’s shame is my daily bread; My food, my shelter, the clothes I wear! Only for this I might starve or drown. ‘The world has disowned me—what can I do But live and die on the town? ‘The world is cruel. It might be right To crush the harlot; but grant it so, What made her the guilty thing she is? For she was innocent once, you know. "Twas love. That terrible word tells all. She loved a man, and blindly believed His vows, his kisses, his crocodile tears; Of course, the fool was deceived! ‘What had I to gain by a moment’s sin, To weigh in the scale of my innocent years, My womanly shame, my ruined name, My father’s curse, my mother’s tears? "The love of aman! It was something to give. Was it worth it?&The price of asoul paid down, Did I get a soul, his soul, in exchange? Behold me here on the town. “Your guilt was heavy,” the world will say, “And heavy, heavy, your doom must be: For to pity and pardon woman’s fall Is to set no value on woman’s chastity!” You undervalue the virgin’s crown, The spotiess honor that makes her dear; But I ought to know what the bauble is worth When the loss of it brings me here! But pity and pardon! Who are you To talk of pardon or pity to me? What I ask is justice—justice, sir? Let both be punished or both go free! If it be in woman ashameful thing, What is itin man, now? Come, be just} (Remember, she falls through her love for him, He, through his selfish lust). Tell me, what is done to the wretch Who tempts and riots in woman’s fall?j His father curses and casts him eff? His friends forsake? He is scorned of all? Not he; his judges are men like himself, Or thoughtless women who humor their whim— “Young blood”—“Wild oats” —“Better hush it up,” They soon forget it in him. Even the mother, who ought to know The woman's nature, and how it was won— Frames a thousand excuses for him, D Because, forsoot! hy the man is her son! You have daughters, madam (he told me so), “vair, innocent daughters. Woman, what then? Some mother may have ajson like yours— Bid them beware of men! siesta am I saw his coach in thejstreet to-day - Dashing along on the sunny side{jCo With a liveried driver on the box; Lolling back in her]listiess pride,§ ‘The wife of his bosom took the air; She was bought in the mart where hearts are sold. I gave myself away for his love— She sold herself for his gold. — hammond meres He lives, they say, ina princely way, eae Flattered and feasted, One dark night °"% Some devil led me to pass his house. : i, IT saw the windows ablaze of light, — bea The musie whirled in a maddening round, I heard the fall of dancers’ feet; Bitter, bitter the thoughts I had, Standing there in the street! Back to my gaudy den I went, Marched to my room in grim despair! Dried my eyes, painted my cheeks, And fixed a fiower or two in my hair! Corks were popping: wine was flowing, I seized a bumper and passed it down; One must do something to kill the time And fit one’sself for the town. 1 meet his boy in the park sometimes, And my heart runs over toward the child, A frank little fellow with fearless eyes; He smiles at me as his father smiled. T hate the man, but I love the boy! For I think my own, had it lived—would be— Perhaps it is he, come back from the dead, To his father, alas! not me! But I stand too long in the shadow here, Let me out in the light again. Now for insult, blows perhaps, And bitterer still, ny own disdain, I take my place in the crowd of men, Not like the simple women I see You may cheat them, men, as much as you please, You wear no masks with me! I know ye! Under your honeyed words There lurks a serpent; your oaths are lies: ‘There's lustful fire in your hungry hearts, I see it flaming up in your eyes! Cling to them, ladies, and shrink from me, Or rail at my boldness—Well, have you done? Madam, your husband knows me well; Mother, I know your son! But go your ways, and I'll go mine; Call me opprobrious names if you will; The truth is better—think I have lied? “A harlot?” Yes, but a woman still. God said of old to a woman like me. “Go, sin no more,” or the bibles lie; But you, you mangle his merciful words To “Go, and sin till you die!”’ Die! The word has a pleasant sound, The sweetest I’ve heard for many a year; It seems to promise an end to pain— Anyway, it will end it—here! Suppose I throw myself in the street? Before the horses could tramp me down Some would-be friend might snatch me up, And thrust me back on the town. But look, the river! From where I stand I see it, almost hear it flow. Down on the dark and lonely pier— It is but a step—I can end my woe! A plunge, a splash, and all will be o’er, The death-black waters will drag me down— God knows where. But no matter where, So I am off the town. R. H. Stoddard, ——_ — +9 A Scheme Which Defeats Itself. From the Seranton (Penn.) Republican. Surely the time has come to abandon this wretched practice. Let it be understood that public sentiment and sympathy will rally around a boycotted business aud more than make up any possible losses, and the the coffee trade you outsiders possess. should put in beans at their present price, I'd be bankrupt ina month. Bring me carrots and parsnips and old corn, and I'll talk | OUT AROUND. News and Gossip Furnished by Our Own Correspondents. Cusiovia. R. K. Hesseltine, of the hardware firm of R. K. Hesseltine & Son, is spending the Fsummer at McMinville, Tenn., in hopes of benefiting his health. The business is being continued under the same firm name by H. E. Hesseltine. Thenew hotel is now all plastered and will surely be ready for occupaney by July 4. John Falconer is building a neat two-story frame dwelling house. A. Norris & Son’s new store is about com- pleted. The grist mill will soon be disposed of at foreclosure sale. - It is understood that the property will pass into the hands of W. C. Denison, of Grand Rapids, and a practical miller from Shelby, who will thoroughly overhaul the mill and put in full roller pro* cess machinery. Otter Lake. W. A. Wallace ha#taken a position with Edmond Hall, at Bay City, as manager of his lumber yard and retail lumber trade. He may also take an occasional trip on the road. W. F. Browning will open up ina few days with a line of boots and shoes. W. C. Cummings is now planing lumber for Bay City parties. Kingsley. C. Camp has purchased the hardware stock of Hatch & Co. and will continue the business. Jas. Broderick, general dealer, will start a meat market in connection with his store. A. Stanton has moved his meat market into his new building. Cadillac. James McConnell has started a meat mar- ‘| ket at Jennings, which makes two at that village. Sampson & Drury are putting in a com- plete set of Morley Bros.’ patent ladders, the first in this place. John Vosberg, one of the proprietors of the south end meat market, is browsing in Allegan county. Crosby wields the cleaver during his absense. Lumberman Peter Haifley has just treated himself to a $340 bedroom set. Traverse City. Between three and four million white fish fry have been placed in the Bay from the State hatchery at Paris. Wm. Langworthy, the grocer, has been closed up by Arthur Meigs & Co., of Grand Rapid The Northern Transportation Co. proper- ty, at Glen Haven, has been purchased by D. H. Day, of this place. It includes the dock, store and goods, sawmill, tugs, hotel, several dwellings, barns, shops, the tram- way from Glen Lake to Lake Michigan, farm of 2,000 acres with a lot of live stock and 1,500 fruit treess. ‘ The Cummings, Morley and Grand Rap- ids ard making regular trips on their differ- ent routes. Mrs. Hensler has closed the St. James restaurant and opened her hotel, the Oak- wood House, two miles distant on the East Bay road. By reason of increase in business, E. McNamara moves into the Hannah building, just vacated by Mrs. Hensler. Hon. Perry Hannah returned from his European trip last Friday. A. C. Hoxie left Monday to take charge of S. R. Boardman’s stock farm on the South Manitou. Volney. Jas. Jewell has completed the erection and equipment of F. C. Selby’s sawmill here and the mill will shortly be put in opera- tion. It has a capacity of 20,000 feet per day. ~ Big Rapids. C. G. Hudnutt has closed a contract for the Thompson & Husten electric light plant, buying the highest candle power plant. It will be putin at once and the city wired readp for furnishing lights to any who may wish to use them. There will be two cir- cuits, one closing at 8:30 and one at 11 o'clock. Trowbridge Bros., manufacturers of shin- gles and short siding, started their mill Mon- day. S. H. Gray & Co. have again started their shingle mill and are repairing their boom and piers, which were carried away by the high water. Their sawmill at the lower dam is still closed on account of high water. Oe The Lard and Butter Contest. From the American Agriculturist, That is a serious fight which is now going on between iard and butter. Each has its origin on the farm, and the tendency of this war is to divide the farmer’s household. The son that makes a specialty of butter has no liking for his brother who breeds hogs as a specialty. Each goes on producing his kind after its kind, and sends his produce to market; there it is handled by the mer- chants,and the lard dealer tries to force his product into the market that has heretofore belonged to the butter merchant. The at- tempt to substitute one healthy food pro- duct for another in the market may be rea- sonable and commendable; but when a plain imitation is made to resemble a superior ar- ticle, with the intent to deceive’ the con- | sumer, and rob the better article of its mar- ket, it should be prevented. Besides lard, there is quite a list of these articles, and it would seem that one common law could be drawn that should cover them all, lard but- ter, shoddy cloth, glucose syrup, table oils, etc., and compel each one to be sold under its proper name, and plain legal brand. re ; Beans Too Expensive. From the Wall Street News. A dealer in ground. coffee in a Western city was approached the other day by a com- mission merchant who desired to dispose of | @ hundred barrels of beans at a low figure. ‘*Beans!” exclaimed the merchant. ‘‘Why, what use can I put them to?” ‘*Use them in your coffee.” “In my coffee? How little knowledge of If I onli rr The Gripsack Brigade. covering the city trade for Cody, Ball & Co. Frank Dix succeeds Jas. MeSkimin as Go., of Chicago. spent several days at this market last week. day for the Saginaws. Wm. Boughton, formerly with R. & J. Cummings & Co., succeeds Dave Kenyon as Western Michigan representative for H. S. Robinson & Burtenshaw. E. D. Whitlock, formerly with the Gunn ‘Hardware Co., is now oh the road for the present calling on the trade in the Upper Peninsula. The advent of warm weather reminds the boys that the season for their annual picnic is nearly here. The majority of those heard from seem to be in favor of holding the pic- nie at Reed’s Lake. The traveling men who visit Muskegon are hereby informed that John J. Amiott, the popular liveryman, is a masher of no mean pretensions. The boys will therefore gov- ern themselves accordingly. Frank E. Chase went to Detroit last week to meet his mother-in-law, Mrs. C. F. Swift, of Yarmouth, Mass., who will spend a month or six weeks here, after which the family will go to Massachusetts for the sum- mer. Lloyd Mills and Steve Sears have pur- chased a handsome silver cup, caused it to be suitably engraved, and forwarded it to Mrs. Soliman Snooks in token of their ap- preciation of her naming her first-born after them. Jas. McSkimin has severed his connec- tion with W. F. McLaughlin & Co., of Chi- cago, and left last Friday for New York, where he has been offered a position as Michigan traveling representative for an im- porting tea house. He will remove his fam- ily from Peoria, Ill., to this city sometime during the summer. Dave Kenyon went to Detroit Monday to settle up with H.S. Robinson & Burten- shaw, with whom he has been associated during the past nine years. Mr. Kenyon has received several desirable offers from other houses in the same line and will doubtless decide upon his future connection before returning home. Downey, the lightweight Milwaukee trav- eler, tells a good story on a certain individ- ual whose borrowipg propensities are some- what pernennial. It appears that Downey, the phenominal borrower and a friend of both parties were in Chicago, on a trip of mingled business and pleasure. The bor- rower struck Downey for a ten and was in- formed that he was short and would have to secure a loan of his friend to enable him to get home. The chronic then hurried to the third party before Downey could get to him, but was informed that he, too, was short and was awaiting an opportunity to negotiate a loan with Downey. The ruse worked well and the disgusted would-be borrower soon parted company with the men who had succeeded in beating him at ‘his own game. _—————_—_—_—_—— a oe The Hardware Market. Business continues good in nearly all branches, and local jobbers freely assert that -the volume of trade is proportionately larger than at any other hardware market in the country. The chief activity is in build- ers’ hardware and other goods peculiar to the lower, although the demand continues good. fron nails are now selling at $2.30 and steel at $2.50. It will be noticed that a line of tack quotations is added to the hardware price.current this week. —— a ~O— Good Words Unsolicited. Geo. Cooke, grocer, St. Ignace: good paper. I wish you success.”’ Wood & Walton, groceries and hardware, Lake City: ‘We find it a good paper.” “Ttis a very HARDWOOD LUMBER. The furniture factories here pay as follows for dry stock: Basswood, log-run................... @13 00 PRUPOR, BOR ooo os coos aes cc kes es 16 00@20 00 Biroh, NOS; TON 2... oo vac coc sce cne @25 00 Black Ash, log-run..................- @13 00 CONT, MOR AUT os ko. oo ockc ck scans cee 25 00@30 00 Cherry, Nos. 1 and 2................. 45 00@50 00 MOONE, ON ie ck eas cise ee: @10 00 DiAple, 1OR-TUN. . 05.6 cece cae e es ae 15 00@17 00 Maple, soft, log-run.. Maple, Nos. land2.... Maple, clear, flooring. . Maple, white, selected............... Red Oak, log-run..................... @18 00 Red Oak, Nos.1 and 2.......... ee @22 00 Red Oak, No. 1, step plank.......... @25 00 Walnut, log-run...................0.. @i5 Walnut, Nos. land 2................. @75 00 WARIO GUUIB Sooo is occ cc ose deus ac @25 00 Grey Elm, log-run................... @13 00 White Ash, log-run’................. 14 00@16 00 Whitewood, log-run................. @23 00 PORTABLE AND STATIONARY Grist Mills, Wood Working Machinery, Shaft- ing, Pulleys and Boxes. Contracts made for utfits. Complete John De Neut is assisting Fred. Ball in jobbing salesman for W. F. McLaughlin & H. C. Kendrick, traveling representative for Julius Bader & Co., of Kalamazoo, | J. H. Brown, general manager for P. Lor- | illard & Co. for Michigan, Indiana and | Ohio, was in town Monday and left Tues- Belknap Wagon and Sleigh Co., and is at season. Barbed wire is weak and prices are | ENGINES From 2 to 150 Horse-Power, Boilers, Saw Mills, | Beets PATENT FLANISAED IRON. mR co rok, tbh a r o Ww a rt € : “A” Wood's patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 Masufacturers’ Age tor on ee a. —— Nos.25 to27 9 ; : : roken packs 4c ® & extra. ‘Saw and Grist Mil’ Machinery,) These prices are for cash buyers, who pay | q, ROPES. promptly and buy in full packages. Sisal, 4 In. and larger...................... 8% Planers, Sherchers. Mouldecs ‘and. all ‘abasnd Ain ioe. Manilla. .......... satassesacsstent seen’ aeail 15 kinds of Wood-Working Machin- Be Neo ik. ase dis60£10 | Stee] and oa“. enchedans dis 7 ery, Saws, Belting and Oils. Bee Bi Oy Oi cod ning dns nude cissnesaal ene: dis60&10 | Try and Bevels.... 2.2.0... ccc ccc cee e es dis 60 eee MeN Ca vew ida Lien ce lus cuedwonss —e UR Cs cheer ce csc uo. dis 20 E PAN esd eek eae uaee Ca Woe hds ose i cea e dis60&10 SHEET IRON OE cies urs okt as ei veu ea dis60&10 Com. $ t Cook's dirt NOLb SA stan dhe iad muacan S »1%4,1% and 2inch. ...... 25 00 Produce bar rels. abe i bhasadre nape 23@ 25} Heller’s Horse Rasps......... dis 55:19 | No.1 Stocks, 12 in., 12, 14 and 16 feet... 15 00 GALVANIZED IRON No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet............. 6 oat Nos. 16 to 20, 22and 24 426. 2 No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet al i § a oe os. 20, 22and 24, 2and26, § 2g | NO. I Stocks, 12 in., 20feet................ 7 COUNTRY PRODUCE. List 12 8 4’ 15 48| No.2 Stocks, 10 in., 12, 14 and 16 teet..... 15 00 Apples—Even choice fruit is in light de- Discount, Juniata 50@10, Charcoal 60. No. 1 Stocks 10 eae ir : : Sea GAUGES. 0. | Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet........... 2... 17 00 as oe hold the best varieties at Stanley Rule and Level COB. ic dis 50 x : es - in., sate and 16 feet...... 15 00 754 : ‘ . HAMMERS. NO. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet................. 16 00 _Aspamagus-$1.75 8 doz, bunches. Maydole ROO6. dis 27 | No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., WIGS. cin iceg. s,,. ii 00 : res t if % ; on vo. 2§ oK 21 2, i fee 2 Beaps—Logal buyers pay 50e@75e #@ bu. for woven & Danks - 40. 2 No: 2 Stocks i in % ie tect “aie 3 00 mnpicked and hold ordinary hand-picked for | Mason’s Solid Cast ee list 40 No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., OM vos saks casei 14 00 $1.10@$1.25, Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. .30 ¢ 40&10 teats ag 2 in., ny 14 and 16 feet..... 12 00 o +> Admired Their System. From the San Francisco Chronicle. One of those gentlemen who peddle odds and ends and oscillate between suspenders and neckties, carried about in a basket and offered to people who don’t want them at yery low prices, found his stock running low. He strolled into an establishment de- voted to the sale of sundry useful but care- fully hidden articles of men’s apparel. He was shown upto the fourth story, where the senior partner of the firm was very busy. ‘“‘Yat do you vant for your suspenders?” said he. “‘Buttons,” said the partner. “But vat do you sell your suspenders for?” : *To hold up trousers.” “But how wuch do you charge?” “Two dollars and a haif a dozen.” “Ti give a dollar and a quarter.” ‘The proprietor incontincntly took him partner chucked him down another flight, where the managing clerk received him and threw him down to the ground floor. There the janitor took him and flung him into the street. He shook himself together, and turning, looked up at the building admir- ingly. He rubbed his hand and soliloquized: “Vota bootiful system they have in dot establishment.” —_—_-o > Seconds Brands Packed in Baltimore. From the Baltimore Price List. Below will be found a list of seconds brands packed at this market which go out under fictitious names. Our purpose in keeping these latter before the public is to prevent unscrupulous meddlemen from im- posing them on buyers as standards, after having bought them as seconds: Carroll Co. Packing Co. Frank Albert. Brown, Tatem & Co. Barnes & Connor, H. Byer—Cambridge, —Beckwith, Chesapeake, Chester River, Dexter & Co., C. R. Dayton & Co., Edwards & Perry, Elder, Brewster & Co., J. Greenwood & Co., Samuel Hodges & Co., John Hall & Co., C. C. Lawrence & Co., Lord & Wallis, Marsh & Brown, M. Martyn & Co., Nunley, Hynes & Co., Ross & Co., Stewart Bros., Stanley Bros. & Co., R. Scott & Co., — J. B. Thomas & Co., Tyler & Dolman, J. T. Williams & Co., R. Williamson & Co., P. Wheeler & Co., J. Walker & Co., Harry Webster, McShowfaith & Co., Archer, Allen & Co., Baker & Brown, J. M. Berry, H. Brill & Co., Coltingham Canning Co., J. W. Durham & Co,, W. H. Elmore & Son, John Fisher & Co., Griffith Preserving Co., J. Jones & Co., E. H. Lyons & Co. L. Lutz, Wm. Maxwell, W. H. Myer, H. Nelson & Co., Russell & Bros. John Sheppard, Spencer Wright, a Somers, Foote & Co., Vinton, Baker & Co., P. Werner & Co., Webster & Co., Winfield & Co., W. Young & Co. litle It isa strange thing that the man. who knows exactly how to runa newsp@per is * O.W.BLAIN & CO., Produce Commission Merchants, ——DEALERS IN—— Foreion and Domestic Fruits, Southern Vegetables, Ete We handle on Commission BERRIES, Ete. All orders filled at lowest market price. Corres- pondence solicited. APPLES AND POTATOES in car lots Specialties. NO. 9 IONIA ST. PHREINS & HESS, DEALERS IN Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow, NOS, 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. WE CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL USE. POTATOES, 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 Merchants. 18587 Ss. Water St., Chicago, I11. Reference: FIRST NATIONAL BANK. See Our Wholesale Quotations else- where in this issue and write for Special Prices in Car Lots. Weare prepared to make Bottom Prices on anything we handle. A.B. KNOWLSON, 3 Canal Street, Basement, Grand Rapids, Mich. RINDGE, BERTSCH & CO,, MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN BOOTS AND SHOES. BOSTON RUBBER SHOE CO. 14 and 16 Pearl Street, - and threw him down a flight of stairs. He always engaged in some other kind of bus- _ Grand Rapids, Mich,|_ OLNEY, SHIELDS & CO, WHOLESALE GCROCERS, And IMPORTERS OF TEAS. Our Stock is complete in all branches. New, fresh and bought at latest declines and for cash. We have specialties in TOBACCOS and CIGARS possessed by no other jobbers in the city. SOLE AGENTS FOR McAlpin’s Peavey Flug. The P. V. is the Finest Tobacco on the market. ALSO SOLE AGENTS FOR MENDEL & BROS.’ Celebrated CIGARS, Finer quality and lower prices than any handled in the market. VISITING BUYERS ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO CALL AND EXAM- INE OUR STOCK, AND MAIL ORDERS WILL RECEIVE PROMPT AND CARE- FUL ATTENTION. 5 and 7 Ionia Street, - Grand Rapids, Mich. ORDE ET Leader Smoking, | Leader Fine Cut, 15c per pound. 38c per pound. | esti etegrcicii | Leader Shorts, Leader Cigars, 16c per pound. $30 per M. ‘The Best in the World. Clark, Jewell & Co. SOLE AGENTS FOR Dwinell, Hayward & Co.’s Royal Java Coffee. F.J. LAMB & CO., WHOLESALE DEALERS IN Hruits, Vegetables, Butter, Hass, Cheese, Etc. Wholesale Agents for the Lima Egg Crates and Fillers. 8 and 10 Ionia Sty Grand Rapids, Mich. 1 4 i 4 iN P|