VOL. 1. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOB R NO. 3. Aacross the continent, that chiefly determines | Mexico Threatens Our Cotton Interest. By sus in supplying the demand for that staple ? Piabor is cheap in Mexico, and, if transpor- , GRAND RAPIDS. Seven Reasons Why People Believe in Our | City. 1. Because for fifty years she has stead- | ily progressed in population, wealth and in- | fluence, and at no period of her existence as a city has her advancement in these matters been more rapid than it is to-day. 2. Because her location, with reference to lines of transportation, is unsurpassed by | few inland cities in the west. Diverging lines of railways bring an extensive traffic to the city, and over the same avenues she sends her merchandise and msnufactures to cities and hamlets in all directions. 3. Because she is a’ manufacturing city. Manufacturing cities are always the most useful, wealthy and substantial. In the production of fine furniture, Grand Rapids leads the world in originality of styles and perfection of workmanship. Moreover, our other manufactures are likewise giving the town a world-wide reputation abroad. 4. Because it is located in the center of a territory of unlimited wealth-producing | power, and its growth and importance must correspond with the advancement of the re- gions that are tributary to it. The country to the north is rapidly filling up with a har- dy class of people, who will be our custom- ers. This heretofore sparcely-settled region has been a great drawback to the aggrega- tion of population and wealth; but the broad forests of pine and hardwood are rapidly succumbing to the axe and saw of the settler. 5. Because her natural features are un- surpassed anywhere. Her water-power is sufficient to operate a hundred workshops, and Grand River affords cheap transporta- tion to the lake. 6. Because our natural heathfulness of climate and surroundings makes this city a most desirable place to live in. Malaria has already been driven beyond our borders. Our uneven surface, sloping toward the riv-| er, is adapted to a thorough system of sew- erage and drainage, and greatly enhances the growth of the city. 7, Because Grand Rapids people are of the sort that wear well. They pay as they go. They do not build to any considerable extent on borrowed capital. Most of the wealth in Grand Rapids was made here. Our prosperity is real, not simulated. Our foreign-born citizens are industrious and | thrifty. We are not much afflicted with “blue blood.” We do not freeze out new- comers. Decent people soon feel at home here. Grand Rapids is a city of homes. It has seores of elegant dwellings, as well as thousands of less pretentious cottages. Our! tastes are becoming more intellectual and | refined. With the increase in wealth we shall gratify our love for literature, science and art. There is much in the habit of giving to noble uses, and we have not a few men who are willing and able to show how to give good gifts. The Beef Supply. Notwithstanding the enormous advance made in cattle-raising during the past twenty years or so, the inereased supply, even in favorable seasons, has not been at all com- mensurate with the increase is the demand for beef. ‘The ratio of increase in cattle is less than that in population, sq that even with the change in dietetic habits the demand fer beef would tend to steadily outrun the supply. But our appetite for beef increases much more rapidly than our numbers. The marketman makes his daily rounds with | fresh beef in hundreds of communities where salt pork was eaten almost exclusively twen- ty-five years ago; and generally throughout : the gountry beef has largely displaced pork on the tables of farmers, mechanics and. well- to-do people. This partly because of the universal improvement in the scale of pop- ular living, due to general prosperity, but | more, perhaps, to the influence of an active | school of would-be reformers who have per-| sistently decried pork as an article of food and created a wide-spread and unreasonable prejudice against it. Leaving out of consid- eration any possible increase in the demand for beef for exportation, we may reasonably anticipate that the home demand for beef will continue to increase as fast, if not faster, than the population does; and there can be no marked decline from the present exces- sive prices until the supply of beef-cattle is | prought up to the level of the popular require- ments. It is not the prime cost of beef cat- tle in the field, or their necessary cost at the shambles after being driven or carried half the cost of meat to the consumer, but the single fact that the supply is relatively so meager that the cattle-raisers can ask and get prices which enable them to make 20, 30 and even 50 per cent. profit per annum on the money invested.—Scientific American. | They raise cotton in Mexico. A cotton snner at Villa Lerdo paid $15,000 freight on his cotton marketed last year, and thinks he will do a larger business this year. It wouldn’t be funny, would it, if American capital should build railroads in Mexico to develop a cotton country that would “down’’ tation facilities are given, she could raise cotton at less cost than the American farm- er.—Fort Worth Gaame. TALENTED YOUNG MEN. The Ability Required to be a First-Class Dry Goods Clerk. “Smart? Of course they’re smart !” said a prominent Woodward avenue merchant, speaking of dry goods clerks. ‘It takes a mighty good man to make a good clerk, and he must be steady, polite, of good address, and possessed of a thousand other qualities which would never be called for in any other sphere. Good clerks are hard to get, and once we have them we’re not likely to let them goinahurry. They bring custom to the store, and make themselves valuable fix- tures of the business. “Yes, it requires tact to force sales on cus- tomers, and this forcing must be done. Very often really good goods do not seem to meet the demands of the public, and then they be- come a dead loss if not placed in the hands of a skillful salesman who knows his cus- tomer and can sell him what he pleases. Unsalable goods are at once reported as such by the wary salesman, and speedily marked down. The salesman is then given a _ per- centage for selling then:, and when he finds it impossible to sell other goods, his unsal- ables are brought out and their merits en- larged upon. Unsalable goods are almost invariably of good quality, and the salesman perpetrates no fraud in attempting their sale. If they cannot even then be sold, they are again marked down, and the marking-down process is kept up until the goods sell themselves by reason of their cheapness. It does’nt pay to keep unsalables in expectation of a change of fashion. Such changes are precarious, and even if they do come, the money invested in the goods can be more profitably turned over than by keeping goods until they rise in value. Silks and fine fab- rics are never unsalable because they are al- ways in demand. “It is’nt sales alone that make a dry goods clerk valuable. He must be able to wrap a bundle in presentable style. Bundle wrap- ping has become an art, and while larger stores have a bundle wrapping department it is nevertheless important that the clerk should be able to do the work. It requires very nice judgment to tell the size of paper and the exact amount of twine needed. No person wants to carry a bundle which is in- securely tied, and the clerk should always take care that the packages are secure. “No, there are not so many clerks who can dress windows as there used to be. Ex- perts find their way to the larger cities, where they get employment exclusively at their specialty. But I dare say that among the rank and file of Detroit dry goods clerks there are many who are artists in window- dressing. The window-dresser does a great deal toward the sale of unsalable goods by exposing them under favorable circumstan- ces, and in proper contrast with other goods. To contrast such goods requires some little art. ‘‘Besides these there are a score of essen- tial requirements for salesmen, and if they haven’t them we don’t want the men. It’sa fact that they are a sociable lot. All being smart fellows and brilliant talkers, they can pass an evening together almost as happy as millionaires. J know of aclub room where adozen of them congregate almost every evening, and you’! find that they’re as finea lot as you ever met.”’ “AN very true, but how. about wages? Why don’t you pay such talented young men something better than $9 to $12 a week ?” ‘‘ Well, there you hit upon the great law of supply and demand.” said the dry goods merchant.—Detroit News. The Thimble. The name of this little instrument is said to have been derived from ‘“thumb-bell,” being at first “‘thumble,” afterward ‘‘thim- ble.” It is a Dutch invention, and was brought to England about the year 1605 by John Lofting. Formerly iron and brass were used, but lately steel, silver, and gold have taken their places. In the ordinary manufacture, thin plates of metal are intro- duced into a die and punched into shape. In Paris gold thimbles are manufactured to a large extent. Thin sheets of sheet iron are cut into dies of about two inches diame- ter. These, being heated red-hot, are struck with a punch into a number of holes, gradu- ually increasing in depth, to give them prop- er shape. The thimble is then trimmed, polished, and indented around its outer sur- face with a number of little holes by means of a small wheel. It is then converted into steel by the cementation process, tempered, scoured, and brought to the color. A thin sheet of gold is then introduced irto the in- terior, and fastened to the steel by means of a polished steel mandrel. Gold leaf is then applied to the outside, and attached to it by | pressure, the edges being fastened to a small | groove made to receive them. The thimble is then ready for use, and finds a ready mar- ket. The Cotton Mill Boom. Within the past four years the consump- tion of cotton by. Southern mills has more than doubled. © This is a pointer to the rapid deveiopment of a state of affairs which must inevitably exist in the cotton states. The mills will keep multiplying.— Arkadelphia Ark., Standard. I | MERCANTILE CARES. Why Many Business Men Wear Out Prema- turely. Most of those who are moving and man- aging the vast amount of property comprised in the mercantile and business activity of the nation are men in the morning and vigor of life. Youth cannot do it. Age stoops under the burden, and withdraws. The load is too heavy. Your business man must have great bodily vigor, great strength of constitution, incessant application, and un- tiring labor. It is a fact that in time of war, no men make such soldiers as business men. This was thoroughly proven in the late war of the rebellion. It is not because they have so much to defend—the retired timid rich men have the property to defend—but it is because they have the habits of activity and energy which make them powerful anywhere. Your man of business, with his pale forehead and anxious look, has often a wiry frame and a body which can evince great endurance, else it had long since broken down. The load is so heavy that multitudes do break down, fail in business, because they first failed in body. then in energy, and then in judgment. No class of men work harder, as a class; none strive harder to bear up and carry their burdens manfully than these men; and often the intellect is taxed to an extent of which few dream. Instead of being surprised that so many, who undertake business, should break down, with the strength, and hope, and courage gone, it is rather a matter of surprise that there are not more. We should have much charity for men who fail honestly in busi- ness, when we consider how long and how hard they must have struggled and staggered under the load, and how they came out of the contest for which they were never fitted, with, perhaps, scattered health, with loss of self-confidence, with hopes that are crushed, and with the future covered wfth clouds. And probably these cases are far more frequent than they would be were the business affairs kept thoroughly and examined frequently, and the soundings and offings of the ship constantly recorded. The mistake is a great one, for a man to continue in business when he is not its master; when he finds that he lacks qualifications and adaption to his bus- ness to struggle on, hoping that some bright- er day will come, without courage to cut down expenses or to look truth in the face. A vessel is swamped and wrecked amid the storms of a great ocean, which would have safely crept along the shore, and coasted frony harbor to harbor. Every one ean think of men who are straightforward, and who mean well, but who would be wrecked were they to command a ship ina gale, or grap- ble with all the difficulties of commerce or of business, at the time when decision, promptness, and fearless energy only, can avail. The proper medium between timidity and weak caution, and rash confidence, is the medium which every business man needs, and he is most likely to achieve suc- cess who evinces those traits of character.— United States Economist. A New Fuel. A Mexican paper gives an account of a new fuel recently brought out in the city of Mexico. The article is called “‘turbato” and consists principally of bog peat, of which there are immense quantities in Mexico, mixed with a proper proportion of bitumen. The fuel is made for locomotives, stationary engines, smelting purposes, smiths’ fires and household purposes. It is said to burn free- ly and without much smoke, giving a higher dynamic equivalent of heat than the same amount of wood. It can be manufactured and sold in Mexico at a price considerably below coal or wood, and, looking at the daily increasing demand ofr fuel, the aug- mentation in the price of wood and its grow- ing scarcity, a large and successful market is consicered in store for ‘‘turbato.” What Constitutes a Ton. There is a confusion of tons, both in sta- tistics and in ordinary use, owing to the significance of the term. Sometimes it means 2,250 pounds, the figure fixed in the Federal statute; sometimes 2,000, the figure used in the ordinary trade and fixed by some of the state legislatures. A Philadel- phian, writing to one of the papers in that city, remarks that this confusion vitiates many statistics, though ihe Federal law is observed by all those gathered by the Bur- eau at Washington, and suggests that the use of the term “net ton” bo used whenever the ton of 2,000 pounds is meant. This would be an easy way of avoiding misunder- standing with all except coal dealers. But what sort of phrase must be used to describe the kind of ton they furnish ? Florida Negroes. The Florida negroes are said to be the most prosperous in the South. In one coun- ty they own 10,000 acres of land, 825 head of horses and mules, over 2,000 head of cat- tle and sheep, 2,500 hogs, and their personal property is valued at $12,000. In other counties they make an equally good showing. They do not want to leave the state, and most of them are anxious to have their child- ren educated.—Hot Springs Sentinel. Labor disputes on the subject of wages are unusually common in many districts. of England. In Wales, too, the managers of various iron and steel works terminated the contracts with their hands on the last of September, and it is believed that this action foreshadows a reduction of wages CANNED AND BULK OYSTERS. A Dealer Who Alleges that the Canned Goods Are Watered. “The sale of oysters in bulk in Detroit is growing larger every year, while the canned trade is steadily decreasing,” remarked a dealer in] the bivalves this morning. “A great many people have long had a preju- dice against buying oysters by the measure, being under the impression that they were of an inferior quality, but this view is pas- sing away as more is learned of the work- ings of the trade, and now when an epicure wants the fine article he always buys the bulk. I sell eight times more of them than of the cans.” “It isn’t a fact, then, that oysters deterio- rate when shipped in bulk?” “No, sir; not in the least. They are packed solid in barrels, kegs or tubs with a chunk of ice put in to keep them fresh, and sent through by express. When from Balti- more they are usually about 30 hours in transit, and having been previously washed and strained, reach here in practically the same condition as when taken from the water. The reason why they are better than the canned article is that they haven’t been watered. Now. there isn’t, probably, one customer in a thousand who knows that when he buys a can of oysters he gets nearly half water, but it is a fact, nevertheless. I don’t make this statement to depreciate any particular brand, and I don’t except any from it. It is one of the unwritten tenets of the trade to water the cans, and it is fol- lowed by all, from the largest jobber to the small dealer who puts up a few gallons at a time. The rule is to put one pint of oysters inacanand fillfthe balance with water. The cans are supposed to hold a quart, but they do not, and if the contents of eight of them were determined they would be found to contain just three pints of pure water. This downright fraud—it can’t be called by ;any other name—has been going on since the first can was made, but it now appears to be doomed. The country dealers are tumbling to the racket and prefer to buy in bulk so as to get the benefit of the watering, if there is any to be had.” “What are the prospects for the trade this season ?”’ “Fair. Prices are as low now as one year ago, and the quality is fully up to the aver- age. The yield promises well, and unless extreme cold weather prevails on Chesapeake bay last year’s figures will rule.”—Detrott News. The Need of a National Bankrupt Law. The recent failures, says the New York Shipping and Commercial List, have serv- ed to give emphases to the demand for a uniform law for the enforced collection of debts in this country. As it is now, every state has a statute upon this subject, but there is no uniformity in the machinery pro- vided for the collection of debts, and there can be no doubt that trade is greatly injured by the uncertainty and delay growing out of the varying insolvency statutes of the dif- ferent states. Business should never be hampered by anything so artificial as state and county lines, but under the present sys- tem of dffering and conflicting bankruptcy laws, bankers and merchants and manufac- turers are compelled to keep themselves thoroughly posted regarding the remedies provided by the various states for the col- lection of debts, and they are often forced to refuse the extension of credit when it would otherwise be both safe and desirable, simply because the local laws act as barriers against the commercial usages of the present. In many of the states the insolvency laws _per- mit or encourage debtors, either by secret confessions of judgment or the issue of other leins recognized as paramount by the local courts, and in this way great injustice is wrought to the deferred creditors, who, as a rule, are residents of distant states, the pref- erence usually being made in favor of rel- atives or neighbors. It is unnecessary to point out in detail the evils and weaknesses of the insolvency laws enacted by the vari- ous states; the financial and commercial classes of the Eastern and Middle States are united in denouncing the present system and in demanding the enactment by Congress of a National bankrupt law. Some two years ago the Boston Board of Trade requested Judge Lowell, of the Fed- eral judiciary, a recognized authority on bankrupt law, to draft a bill upon the sub- ject. The rough draft was sent to the vari- ous Boards of Trade and Commerce in the country, as well as to leading merchants, manufacturers, lawyers, and bankruptcy offi- cials, with a request for such criticisms and suggestions as might seem proper to the persons addressed. After having carefully studied the comments and considered the amendments thus procured, Judge Lowell proceeded to perfect his bill, and the ripened result of his labors was submitted to Con_ gress, where itis now pending. From the favor with which the main features of this measure have been received by the classes most interested in the enactment of a thorough and equitable bankrupt law, there is a possibility that the increased business disasters of this year may prompt its adop- tion next winter. Of course what Congress will do is not to be prognosticated, but it can hardly do a greater or better service to the country than to consider this important business in a broad and statesmanlike man- ner. TRADE IS ‘HEALTHY. General Improvement in the Business Situa- tion. The St. Louis Commercial Gazette thus summarizes the condition of trade at pres- ent: The general business outlook may be re- garded asimproving. The important crops are either harvested or mostly out of danger. This furnishes the merchants with a toler- able basis upon which to calculate the prob- able business in the near future. Money is easy and likely to continue so, for foreign exchange is weakening as our exports are increasing. It would seem that these con- ditions ought to impart confidence to the capitalists as to the future of the chief mar- kets, and should give assurance that the long process of liquidation in certain leading lines of trade is approaching an end. The very recent failures in the woolen trade somewhat shook the growing confi- dence that was apparent. When the fail- ures were first announced, many were su- perficially inclined to attribute them to some general and malign cause underlying the whole trade. Probably the general depres- sion of values so long in operation, together with the large surpluses of goods that had accumulated, had some influence in precipi- tating the failures, and probably it was feared that other suspensions would follow from the same cause. But it appears that at least one of these houses was brought to grief thruugh operations entirely foreign to the legitimate business in which it was en- gaged. The embarrassment of the other firms connected with the same naturally fol- lowed from the failure of the house which was first to succumb. It does not appear that these failures in the woolen trade must be accepted as showing that the dry goods trade in general is in an insecure condition. It is likely that when the facts underlying those failures become thoroughly under- stood, any suspicion of unsoundness in the dry goods trade will be removed. A decidedly encouraging sign in the situa- tion is the continued gain in earnings re- ported by the principal transportation lines. Tt reflects an active distribution of goods and a fair volume of mercantile business. A recent event of note has been the re- duction of the Bank of England rate of dis- count from 31% to 3 per cent. Very likely Europe?will have to buy largely of our wheat later on when stocks have been worked off. But meanwhile she is in the position of a man who has just had an ex- cellent dinner and could not possibly take any more, even if it should look never so in- viting. It may be, therefore, that we shall see a further fall in prices before the staple goes out in any considerable quantities. It is searcely reasonable to hope for large imports of gold so long as our breadstuffs exports remain so small and the cotton movement is not heavy. Still, many bank- ers expect the influx to begin early in No- vember, even though the most sanguine ad- mit that the import will be light, unless there should be a good demand from Europe for American securities, which at the mo- ment does not seem likely. A New Postal Order. A gentleman of Boston has obtained a patent for a ‘ Money Order Postat Card” to be redeemable at any postoffice at which it is presented. At the upper right. hand cor- ner isa postage stamp, at the upper left hand corner a value stamp, the space below being left free for the address. Theback of the ecard is tobe used for the communication, with the exception of the corner which forms the reverse side of the value stamp. Upon this space is to be printed a notice that it is not to be written upon. It is in- tended that the value stamp shall be punched or otherwise removed from the card, and re- tained as a voucher by the person paying the same, while the card itself may be retained by the person presenting it. ‘ Preferred the Necktie. Emory Storrs tells a story of a man who bought a bill or goods for $1,500. The firm being suspicious of their customer put an ad- ditional $300 on their usual prices. The customer could only raise $1,200, which was the regular rate, the remainder being the excess. He said he would give his note for the remainder, and they took it. Then he said he was in the habit of receiving a pres- ent on making so large a bill. They gave him a neektie. He bitterly objected to such a mean little present. The proprietors then concluded to present him with his note for the $300. He took it with alook of cunning, and then said: ‘ Well, Mr. Alexanders, I think I will prefer the necktie, if it’s just the same to you.” Healthy Business Rivairy. “Here y’are, now; two packages tor ten cents!” yelled a seedy-looking peddler in Grand street. “Here y’are, this way; two packages for five cents!” howled another envelope ped- dler, almost crowding his fellow-merchant off the sidewalk. Women out shopping noted the difference in prices, and soon bought out the two for five cents man. Then both peddlers drifted around the cor- ner, and the one who had sold no envelopes divided his stock with the other, remarking, with a chuckle: “Tt works boss, pard, York Sun. don’t it ?—New A number of cases of arsenical poisoning have recently appeared among |the women who count the new greenbacks in the treas- ury department. The fingers are moistened by asponge to facilitate counting, and the moisture brings out the arsenic in the green dye, which in some instances has been ac- companied by quite serious results. The traffic in frozen meat between New Zealand and England is now an undoubted suecess. Recently asingle cargo that was safely delivered consisted of 9,584 dressed sheep, which weighed 641,315 pounds. What is called the Haslem dry air freezing appar- atus is depended upon for the necessary re- frigeration. The last week of September we exported 6,710 packages of cotton cloth, prints, etc. Most of them went to China, and some to England, Mexico and South America. DANGEROUS COUNTERFEIT. It is Only Detected By the Half-Note in its Ring, There is a clerk in the New York Sub- Treasury who has a highly trained sense of hearing. With it he has been enabled to detect one of the most dangerous counter- feits ever made in this country. According to an official of the Washington Secret Ser- vice this clerk while engaged in counting silver coin, tossed each one upon a table in front of him. Ordinarily a counterfeit coin rings lower than the genuine. Each coin of the clerk’s count rang just right for some time, when he heard a note froma falling coin one-half a note higher than the genuine ring. ‘This attracted his attention. He picked out the coin and examined it careful- ly. It looked all right. Had his ear been deceived? He tested the coin again and it rang out the half a note higher than it should. This expert clerk now was convinced there was some- thing wrong about the coin. He picked up a bottle of acid and applied that test. The coin appeared genuine, for its surface stood the acid test. The coin was weighed. Its weight was correct. His associate clerk said, ‘‘The coin is genuine.” The clerk was about to pass the coin on, but he rang it again, and the persistent half a note too high made him pause. He took out a knife and cut deeply into thecoin. Now he again employed the acid. It was poured into the cut and at once revealed a center of base metal. The triumphant clerk now had the coin cut open, revealing the most successful counterfeit coin ever made in this country. The center is of base metal, compressed by heavy pressure until it has nearly the den- sity of silver. This center is then heavily plated with 30 cents worth of silver. This plating is so thick that it readily resists the acid. In appearance, weight and ring it is so close to the genuine that no one but the experts in the New York Sub-Treasury have discovered them. Not a single bank has reported anything of this counterfeit. It is fully six months since this counterfeit was discovered, and yet there is not the slightest clue as to where it originated or how large a quantity has been forced into general circu- lation. The skill with which the coin is made apparently baffles all discovery. At any other place than the Sub-Treasuries these coins are as good as any. Nota trace as yethas been found of where they are pushed upon the public. It is thought that the inventor ofthis skillful method of mak- ing money must pass them in very sma quantities, as the presentation of any large sum in silver dollars would attract suspi- cion. Brooks, Chief of the Secret Service, about this coin said: ‘It is the best coun- terfeit ever made, and the one that is giving us the {most trouble.”—New York World. ‘*Zante Currants’’ Not Currants at All. It is a common belief that the dried fruit sold as “Currents” or “Zante Currants,” is really a currant, and merchants are every now and then asked how currants can be preserved, so as to be like those sold in shops. It is not possible to prepare the enrrants of our gardens in this manner, for the reason that the imported fruit sold un- der that name is not a currant, but a very small grape without seeds. The dried fruit was originally brought to England from Corinth, and called ‘“‘Corinths,” a name which was readily changed to currants. This mi- nute grape is very sweet and has no other preparation than spreading the clusters up- on the ground and allowing them to dry; they are afterward removed from their stems and trodden down in large casks for export. They are mainly produced in the islands be- longing to Greece, where they are the prin- cipal crop. The annual importation inte England is over twenty thousand tons, and a large quantity is brought into this country. Buttered eggs are a new luxury in which residents of New York City are indulging. There are old women in the city who get from the authorities the right to keep hens, which are domiciled in the cockloft of the house, and they keep boys watching until they lay an egg. Nosooneris it laid than it is dipped into melted butter, and the shell, which is yet warm and susceptible, absorbs the flavor of the butter, and they are said to be very fine. They bring from sixty to eighty cents a dozen. One of the most important of the mer- cantile institutions of Berlin is an egg ex- change. As the city consumes more than twelve million dozen of eggs annually, it is a business of very great importance. On the forenoons of two days in the week the pro- duce exchange is wholly given up to the egg dealers, both male and female. Uniform rates for eggs are thus established, which are observed by all dealers. The fig crop is increasing very fast in sev- eral of the southern states. Few attempts have been made as yet to use the fruit for any other purpose than home consumption and the supply of the local market. Next season attempts will be made to ship fresh figs north, and to partially dry them so that they can be transported long distances and kept a considerable time. NO. ' stock on commission, MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE Mercantile and Manufacturing Interests of the State. E. A. STOWE, Editor and Proprietor. Terms $1 a year in advance, postage paid. Advertising rates made known on application. WEDNESDAY, OCT. 10, 1883. St. Louis is at last avenged. - Her papers now refer to Chicago as the “ great Cauldron ef Iniquity by the lake.” Contributions on matters pertaining to the material development of the city and State are earnestly solicited, and will be treated in a manner befitting their importance. The project to establish a permanent ex- position here appears to meet with growing favor. It has been the subject of much careful discussion among business men dur- ing the past week, and promises to increase in importance as the merits of the undertak- ing come to be better appreciated. Those who are doubtful as to the future ef Grand Rapids are respectully referred to a few of the many arguments existing in fa- vor of the city, printed elsewhere. The reasons given are well-founded and positive eonvictions, grouped in a pointed and _ effec- tive form, and ought to convince even the most skeptical. As Great Britain will require 150,000,000 bushels of foreign wheat before the next harvest, and the crop of Europe as a whole is less than it was a year ago, the demand for American wheat ought to be brisk, and eur entire surplus will doubtless be market- ed at prices satisfactory to ree and promoters of trade generally. The reports of the business failures in the United States for the past three months show a great increase in the number of sus- pensions and the amount of liabilities over last year. This year the failures were 1,803, with liabilities of $52,072,884; last year the number was 1,300 and the liabilities $18,942,- 893. The Eastern and Middle States furnish the larger part of the loss. The liabilities in the two sections were $39,147,187, against $11,340,737 last year.. The number of fail- ures during the first nine months of 1883 was 6,440 with liabilities of $118,261,918, against 4,897 failures and $69,523,813 liabilities in the corresponding months last year. These statistics show the importance of Congress passing a general bankrupt act. QVERPRODUCTION AND OVERSTOCKING. When stocks accumulate at the factories or in the hands of jobbers or other distribu- ting agents there is a strong tendency to crowd sales with such persistency and by means of such special inducements that buy- ers soon find their shelves and counters over- srowded and they, in company with the man- ufacturer and jobber, have to suffer the evils of overproduction. The means used to induce merchants to purchase more than their trade will demand are various, and often ex- ceedingly subtle and seductive. Frequently an extra discount of enticing magnitude is conceded for the purchase of a large quantity, or perchance a direct cut in the price is made, so great in extent as to influence the buyer to commit that exceedingly great commercial blunder, to-wit, the buying of more than his trade will warrant. There are many Mrs. Foodleses in the trade. Were there not, producers of manufactures would find a much harder time than they now do in dis- posing of their surplus stocks. Dating bills ahead is an especially alluring habit of many sellers, and buyers catch at this thinly dis- guised bait with a truly surprising avidity. Many dealers think that by obtaining an extra 30 or 60 days’ credit on their purchases | they are being especially benefited, forget- ting that they may not be able to turn their stock even in the length of time granted them. The seller probably thinks it is better to make an absolute sale, even by delaying the time of payment for a month or so, than to keep the goods on hand and make no sale. The buyer often gambles on the chance of selling, in the additional time given, the goods thus purchased and, as is too often the case, miscalculates, and instead of making a good investment finds himself crippled with an indebtedness which is both dangerous and annoying. One course pursued by many sellers is to make job lots of certain kinds of goods, mixing poor styles with good ones, cheap goods with better ones, and thus offer an at- tractive combination made more so by a very cheap price. Such “baits” are well enough in their way, and cash buyers often find it to their advantage to purchase them, especially when they have a trade that will take them. It{is otherwise with a merchant whose stock is'already all that he is warranted in carry- ing, and whose trade does not demand such goods, even though the price is a low one. It is not at all times best to buy a too large or, what is substan- tiallyjthe same, with the privilege of return- ing all goods left unsold after a certain pe- riod, although this would seem a harmless transaction. The trouble in such a case is that by taking in the new goods their sale interferes with the sale of the goods actually purchased by the dealer, thereby forcing him to stand the loss imcurred in carrying the latter over. Suppose that a dealer has in stock a hundred dozen files, all that he could reasonably sell for a year. If he takes an- other hundred dozen with privilege of re- turning all unsold at a certain date, it must be evident that if he sells fifty dozen of ‘the | latter he would have fifty dozen of his own’ files to carry over, in whieh he must stand the loss, if any. Theseller has gained out of the transaction the absolute sale of fifty dozen files which he probably would other- ALABASTINE! wise have had to carry in stock, and the | Bj fe by by bl Bi bg ay : : i a : dealer unwittingly has helped him out of his dfticulty in this respect. Overproduction begets overstoecking by the retailer, and the natural result of this is de- layed payments, failures, and no end of trouble to all concerned. There is nothing intrinsically wrong in effering special in- ducements to crowd sales into the hands of merchants able to dispose of the goods. Thus, an extra 30 days’ time to a man who usually discounts his bills may enable him to pur- chase a larger stock at one time as he may know that his trade will absorb the goods with sufficient rapidity to enable him to take his usual discounts. Such a buyer may prof- itably accept of special baits and all the ex- tra discounts which the seller in his gener- osity may offer. The former may, out of abundant caution, buy with the privilege of returning unsold goods, and may do so with perfect propriety. His situation is vastly different from the merchant whose stock is already too heavy, and whose indebtedness, perchance, is already enlarged beyond the safety point. There are times when the buyer should use great caution. He will be beset with urg- ent holders of goods who will leave no stone unturned to make a sale. If he is in need of goods, and can afford to buy them, he may indeed consider himself most fortunate in having so many and such fine inducements so freely ofiered tohim. But if his stock is already replete, let him be most cautious, as the gilded baits extended on every hand may indeed prove a snare and a delusion. Now is the time to buy cautiously and wisely. See that the stock on hand begins to move be- fore looking for another to sell in the future. This, however, should not induce the buyer . to let his assortment run down and get brok- en. Rather should he see to it that his stock is constantly replenished with articles ac- tually needed. When manufacturers find that there is act- ual overproduction, instead of glutting the market with their goods it would be far bet- ter to reduce the output and restore an equi- librium in the trade by limiting for a time the amount produced. This is a heroic rem- edy, but it is nevertheless an effectual one, a remedy which in all such cases must be resorted to first or last. TRAIN TIME TABLES. Michigan Central—Grand Rapids Division. DEPART. Detroit Mxpress. .....-...-...5..2-.2.2- 6:20 am Mny xpress: ..-.--...-.---:-..-- 52 12:45 pm New York Fast Line................... 6:50 p m Night xpress’... -....--........-..... 10:40 . m NUK OM es 7:30am ARRIVE. Pacific Express........0.......02ee eee 7:30 am Local Passenger.........-............. 11:50 a m WHEN cs ee 4:50pm MEROR 50 ogee se es 8 5:10pm Grand Rapids Express................ 10:50 p m The New York Fast Line runs daily, poe ing at Detroit at 11:40 p. m., and New York at 9 p. m. the next evening. Direct and prompt connection made with Great Western, Grand Trunk and Canada Southern trains in same depot at Detroit, thus avoiding transfers. The Detroit Express leaving at 6:20 a. m. has Drawing Room and Psrlor Car for Detroit, reaching that city, at noon, New York 10: 30 a. m., and Boston 2:40 p. m. next da a J.T. SCHULTZ, Gen’l Agent. Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee. GOING EAST. Arrives. Leaves. +Steamboat Express....... 6:36am 6:45am *Through Mail............. 10:40am 10:50am +Evening Express......... 4:05pm 4:05pm *Limited Express.......... 7:05pm 7:15pm +Mixed, with coach........ 11:00am +Muskegon Express....... 10:05 p m GOING WEST. +Morning Express.. 1:55pm 1:25pm +Through Mail..... 5:15pm 5:25pm +Steamboat Express 10:25pm 10:30pm MIXOd .... 3... ou.-- 7:45am +Muskegon Express. . we 6:00 a m *Milwaukee Express....... 3:52am 4:05am +Daily, Sundays excepted. *Daily. Passengers taking the 6:45 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. Limited Express has Wagner Sleeping Car through to Suspension Bridge and the mail has a Parlor Car to Detroit. Milwaukee Express has a through Wagner Car and local Sleeping Car Detroit to Grand Rapids. D. PoTreER, City Pass. Agent. THOMAS TANDY, Gen’l Pass, Agent, Detroit. ‘Grand Rapids & Indiana. GOING NORTH. Arrives. Cincinnati & G. Rapids Ex. 9:30 pm Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex. 9:50am 10:20am Ft. Wayne & Mackinac Ex.. 4:25 pm : G’d Rapids & Cadillac Ac. 7:45 am GOING SOUTH. G. Rapids & Cincinnati Ex. 7 Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex. 4:35pm 5:00pm Mackinac & Ft.WayneEx..10:55am _ 1:00 Cadillac & G’d Rapids Ac. 8:20pm All trains daily except Sunday. SLEEPING CAR ARRANGEMENTS. North—Train leaving at 5:15 o’clock p. m. has he depsgeyiri Sleeping Cars for Petoskey and Mackinac City. avein eaving at 10:20a. m. has ta aig Sleeping and Chair Car for Mackinac yit Syuth—Train leaving at 5 p.m. bas Woodruff Sleeping Car for Cincinnati. A. B. LEET, Gen’! Pass. Agent. Leaves. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern. (KALAMAZOO DIVISION.) Arrives. Leaves. EXpress ......-.----+--+40-+ 7:25pm 8:00am Mea es ee 10:00am 4:25 pm The train leaving at 4:25 R; m. connects at White Pigeon with Atlantic Express on main line, which has Palace Sleeping Coaches from Chicago to New York and Boston without change. The train leaving at 8:00a.m. connects at White Pigeon (giving one hour for dinner) with special New York express on main line. R. E. ABBort, Gen’l Agent. Chicago & West Michigan. Leaves. Arrives, WORN os es sa ees 10:00am 4:35pm +Day Ex = SPS i ae ss 1:15pm 10:45pm *Ni ht POSS sos oseuchee 9:00pm 6:35am *Daily. “Foaily except Sunday. Pullman Sleeping Cars on all night trains. Through coach to Chicago on 1:15 p. m., and 9 p.m. trains. NEWAYGO DIVISION. Leaves. Arrives MIRO So isis ieee ia sees aes 6:20am 4:00pm ES Press. oo oc piss eh eek es 3:10pm 10:10am A. M. NICHOLS, Gen’'l ass. Agent. Alabastine is the first and only prepara- tion made from caleined gypsum rock, for application to walls with a brush, and is fully covered by our several patents and perfected by many years of experiments. It is the only permanent wall finish, and admits of applying as many coats as de- sired, one over another, to any hard surface without danger of scaling, or noticeably adding to the thickness of the wall, which is strengthened and improved by each ad- ditional coat, from time to time. It is the only material for the purpose not dependent upon glue for its adhesiveness ; furthermore it is the only preparation that és claimed to possess: these great advantages, which are essential to constitute a durable wall finish, Alabastine is hardened on the wall by age, moisture, etc.; the plaster absorbs the admixtures, forming a stone cement, while all kalsomines, or other whitening preparations, have inert soft chalks, or glue, for their base, which are rendered soft, or scaled, in a very short time, thus necessitating the well-known great incon- venience and expense, which all have ex- perienced, in washing and scraping off the old coats before refinishing. In addition to the above advantages, Alabastine is less expensive, as it requires but one-half the number of pounds to cover the same amount of surface with two coats, is ready for use by simply adding water, and is easily ap- plied by any one. ReekhR eee eee ——FOR SALE BY-—— ALI Paint Dealers. THE ALABASTINE COMPANY M. B. CHURCH, Manager. GRAND RAPIDS, - - - MICHIGAN. A. EX. FOw LE, PAINTER AND DECORATOR, —AND DEALER IN— Artistic Wall Papers Paints, Oils, Glass, Ete., Ete. 37 NORTH IONIA STREET, So. of Monroe. Geo. Y7. Hill, {Fifteen Years with D. M. Ferry & Co.] SEED MERCHANT Vegetable and Field Seeds of All Kinds Kept in Stock. 80 Wooobridge Street, West, DETROIT, - - : MICHIGAN. * TROTH” Fourth Wear. THE BEST ONE-CENT PAPER EVER PUBLISHED! Contains More Reading Matter Than Any Other One-Cent Paper. INDEPENDENT AND FEARLESS. The News of the World Condensed into Convenient Shape. DAILY, FOUR PAGES; SUNDAY, 8 PAGES. Political and Theatrical Gossip; Telegraphic and Cable News from.all parts; Indus- trial Topics; Sporting; Financial Matters; Fashions; Novels and Stories ; Cream of the Press; Lively, Truthful and Frank Editorials. A. OAKEY HALL, Editor. 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MoAlpin’s COLD SHIELD Flug, Harris’ SENTINEL Plug, Harris’ HONEY BEE Plug, And We Particularly Invtte the Attention of Buyers to these Brands, as THEY POSSESS REAL MERIT, and will Please Both Dealer and Customer. ——To Those who Appresiate a Really Fine Cheese, We Say, Buy Only the — “RIVERSIDE,” Which We Guarantee Equal to Any Made, Both in RICHNESS OF FLAVOR AND KEEPING QUALITIES. Never Buy a Cheap Cheese for Winter Stock. ——WE KEEP THE FINEST AND LARGEST LINE OF—— THAS, COFFEES, SYRUPS and SPICES In the City, and Solicit Your Orders When in Need of Anything in Our Line. Musket........... CURRENT QUOTATIONS. FURNISHED BY LEADING DEALERS. DRY GOODS. Spring & Company quote as follows : WIDE BROWN COTTONS. Androscoggin, 9-4..23 |Pepperell, 14...... 2 Androscoggin, 8-4..21 | Pepperell, 11+4...... 2744 Pepperell, 7-4...... 1644; Pequot, 7-4........, 18 Pepperell, 8-4......20 |Pequot, 8-4......... 21 Pepperell, 9-4...... 22'4/Pequot, 4......... 24 CHECKS. Caledonia, XX, 0z..11 Caledonia, X, 0z...10 \Park Mills, No. 20. 14 Park Mills, No. 100.15 Economy, 02z....... 10 |Prodigy, 0z......... 1 Park Mills, No. 50..10 \Otis Apron......... 10% Park Mills, No. 60..11 jOtis Furniture..... 10% Park Mills, No. 70..12 lYork, I OA:. coc: 10 Park Mills, No. 80..13 |Yor k. AA, extra 02.14 OSNABURG, Alabama brown.... 7 |Alabama plaid..... 8 Jewell briwn....... 944) ‘Augusta plaid...... 8 Kentucky brown..10%|Toledo plaid........ 7% Lewiston brown... °° 'Manchester laid.. 7 Lane brewn........ § 4'New Tenn. po ae al Louisiana plaid.. = "lo tility plai . 6% BLEACHED COTTONS. Avondale, 36....... 8'4/Greene, G, 4-4...... 6 Art cambrics, 36. ..1144/Hill, 4-4............. 9 Androscoggin, 4-4.. 81, Hill, Age Ra ec ude 8 Androscoggin, 5-4. .1244 Hope, 4-4........... 7% Ballou, 4-4.......... iM King’ Phillip cam- Ballou, 5-4.......... 6 bric, 44.0... Ge Boott, O. 4-4........ 8'4|Linwood, 44....... Boott, E.5-5........ 7 \Lonsdale, 4-4....... 36 Boott, AGC, 4-4..... 9%|Lonsdale cambric.12 Boott, R. 3-4........ 5% Langdon, GB, 4-4.. ic Blackstone, AA 4-4. 734|/Langdon, 45........ Chapman, X, 4-4.... 642;/Masonville, 4-4..... 10M Conway, 4-4........ 73% |Maxwell. 4-4........ 10% Cabot, 4-4........... 74|New York Mill, 44.11% Cabot, Be oes. oocs 644|New Jersey, 4-4... 8 Canoe, 3-4.......... 4 |Pocasset, P. M. C.: 1% Domestic, 36....... 744| Pride of the Ayr "1244 Dviant. AERO 4-4. 1 Pocahontas, 4-4.. Bi Pooh 8 OEE pe oe ka neces 6% ruito om, ictoria, AA....... 9 Fruit of Loom, 18.. aig Woodbury, 4-4...... 534 Fruit of the Loom, Whitinsville, 4-4... 7% cambric, 4-4...... 12 |Whitinsville, 7-8.... 6% Gold Medal, 4-4.. .. 7 |Wamsutta, 44...... 11% ae one TSS. 6% Williamsville, 36...10% ilde BOs... 34 CORSET JEANS. AFMOFY .... 2.2 ..<:. 74\Kearsage........... 8% Androscoggin sat.. 8144;Naumkeag satteen. 82 Canoe River........ 64 Pepperell bleached 8% Clarendon.......... 614|Pepperell sat....... 9% i Hallowell Imp..... 6% Rockport........... U4 Ind. Orch. Imp..... 63% |Lawrence Sat....... 8% Laconia. ..........- 7% Conegosat.......... % PRINTS. Albion, solid........5%|Gloucester .......... 6 Albion, grey........ 6 \Gloucestermourn’g.6 Allen’s checks...... 6 |Hamilton fancy....6 Ailen’s fancy....... 6 |Hartel fancy........ 6% Allen’s pink......... 6%|Merrimac D......... 6% Allen’s purple....... 64¢|Manchester ......... 6% American, fancy....6 {Oriental fancy...... 6 a fancy eee aa le pag og ee 6 Cocheco fancy.......6%(Richmond...........6% Cocheco robes....... 7 |Steel Riv GE cre. 6 Conestoga fancy....6 |Simpson’s,........... 6% Eddystone .......... 614|Washington fancy. .6 ioe saney yesek oes 5 |Washington blues..6'4 warner pink......... % FINE BROWN COTTONS. Appleton A, 44.... 8 |Indian Orchard, 40. 8% Boott M, 44........ % (|Indian Orchard, 36. 8 Boston F, ee... 814! Laconia B, 7-4...... 16% Continental C, 4-3.. 7% Lyman B, 40-in..... 10% Continental D, 40in 8 3% | Mass. BB, 4-4....... 64 Conestoga W, 4-4... 7 |Nashua EK, 40-in.... 9 Conestoga D, 7-8... 54%|Nashua R, 4-4...... T4 Conestoga G, 30-in. 6% Nashua O, 7-8....... ver" Dwight X, 3-4...... |Newmarket New. TM, Dwight Y,7-8....... By 44|Pepperell EH, 39-in.. 7% Dwight Z, 4-4....... 7 |Pepperell R, 4-4.. ot Dwight Star, 4-4.. . 1% |Pepperell O, 7-8.. | Ewight Star, 40-in.. wilete ee: N, 3-4... . 64 Enterprise EE, 36.. 634/Pocasset_C, 24s... 7 Great Falls E, 4-4. \4\Saranac Re... 7% Farmers’ A, . i Saranac E.......... 9 Indian Orchard, t-4 7% DOMESTIC GINGHAMS. Amoskeag ......... 844:Renfrew, dress styl10'% aeons. Persian Johnson Manfg Co, styles.... 4%} Bookfold......... 12% Bates...... . 8 |Johnson Manfg Co, Berkshire . . 7%| dress styles...... 12% Glasgow checks.... 1h Slaterville, dress Glasgow checks, f’y 7%} _ styles............. 138% Glasgow checks, White Mfg Co, stap 8 royal styles...... 9 |White Mtg Co, fanc 8 Gloucester, new White Muant’g Co, standard ......... 8 Earlston.......... 9% Plunket .... 2... -..- § jGordon ............- 8 Lancaster .......... 8 iGreylock, dress Langdale ........... U3. styles «2.22.22... 12% WIDE BLEACHED COTTONS. Androscoggin, 7-4..21 |Pepperell. 10-4..... 274% Androscoggin, 8-4..23 |Pepperell, 11-4..... 3214 Pepperell, 7-4...... 20 |Pequot, 7-4......... 21 Pepperell, 8-4...... 2244|Pequot, 8-4.........24 Pepperell, 9-4...... 25 |Pequot, 9-4......... 2744 HEAVY BROWN COTTONS. Atlantic , t a | . Whole Cod.......... H Flour, Star Mills, in DbIS | : 4 000 ot acy Eo aaa do a = one Alcohol wood, 5 9 or cent ex. ib aa Boneless Od sagec wees or arte 64O7 eo Rubber 100 ee 5 15@ Walnuts, Ae i a ees ee 13” pum imported, four ex. ret. 15 | 2 ee eS : oe m e Sang a bees D & Co.'s. 2 Herring elt 23 33 Se 3 25 Gum, Snes 200 lumps Gi Walnuts’ eutce Oia. ---- Gols fas ae oe : ‘ Se coca 3% | Guim Spruce , 0 Tum) 10 | Socon i ornia do............. ae Alum, ground apitiy oO Rb 24@ 3% | we ish vebbls ee ee é ow I i Neo @35_~=«S| Hickory Note are *# b 6 00@ : peas pene ee se wa nai 2. kg : - | .. imony, jered, com’l...... = — “hate Sivan eee mes oo S idaes box von” ickory Nuts, small do °........... 17%5@ | Beans, 4 waite, powdered... 8 | ee 5 e ee = , con : Se oe ae % : ee ica a = e f Fee Red, raw ae ao Vani Boe. eee ee ae us . 60 | aoe : so Rag ta RPT MOS, VHT nena ne sone en: ser eae OD ee re @e | Fancy ae ee aav| Blue Vi BOE oars : : : a a boas eeaeeaee coon Cholge White, GO... --seoestsenees Gu | ay ie ee i | aa a acme 7 : oe ee a : 3 ee ee aue Cnrinanees acelin 190) os i%@ i K ONE CRATE WHITE GRANITE WARE | : sNo.5 4d ...156) BF Mee @, 6 | eae Se : ee eee Ree 0 1 36 oe aa 3 ees @ 6 psicum Pods, Af :- 1 25 ‘aylor & Kn i : a AG 0z # doze : Ca ee ae é Richardson's No. 9 . 2 10| on Tanks, Star 55 gal ae ae sq: DRUGS, DYES AND CHEMICALS. Capsicum Pods: “Auerieas fo’. B | gage Piaget nn = Richardson’s No. 4 do rice Oil Tanks, Patent 53 Ones 262s 12 00@ zeltine, Perkins & Co. quot : Jarmine, No. 40 n do... 18 see ar dete ; 540 4 .4 round. coe a gallons.... e as follows: Caan ll ¢ ae : 10 330 Richardson's No.7, do Clo Ole ee TM 00 | Acti, No.8. cece sie Calomel, America. son ee oe 3 oy C 7% do Pe oS ae Acetic, No.8. ...-...-is.a1.: bb alk, prepared drop....-......... : PE amie ooo 38 ia ee popoes fae ee an oo | Acetic, C. P. (Sp. grav. 10): 7 oe Ghionttnerate GMP nace. | 8 & Baker... a 150 4.50) eotrie Parlor NO-Ifer00 Se 58 ea Grogs Rusk. e550: 1 oe Citric .. ee, @ # | Choral rate, German crusts... te is oe em = = ‘0; Powder, Keg... POG ene 3% Muriatic 18 deg..................- 57 Ghioral Seherin's do iw | ee . a > Recon — 2255 ee ge Muriatic 18 deg. 120000000000000— sao loral do Oo... 19 |%4 “* pee 7 4 ea 83) Ney adquarters for Silve eon 3 a eee 5 | Chl do . crust 2 40 1 v catalogue ver Plated W Porto Rico...... @35|8 rleans f'y.62@65 | BiCO --...-. ee ce eee eee eters 3 50@ Bele lil @ BR ic choses Se “ Co iP - 5 Paha ‘Serer ae @ a i moe = ho eee: 1G 2 Sinehonidia oe ee 100 @1 05 Pit age ene No. 36 S!| Derby Silv' e Meriden Britannia an ication. g @45|Syrups, su tre Oil as ‘ Tart OR 8... ec Cloves (P’ pote 8% @ oe wi 1 any, and Maat & om , sugar. .35@45 oe dae. a vena Tartaric powdered................ 8 @ f | fen ves (POW BBC)... 0. +... “OS Bb te coma ieee “OF 1 50| We ausrants Middiotowen Plate Le - Kerosene W. W . ROL, TOP... eeee eee eeeeseer ees 50@6 », English............. #02 Cochimeal 5a. eeseseesescees 33 2 eS, ¢ 1% ninctarers eh ee 3 50a ee #8 oz 20 pperas (by bbl Ic).. oe 38 3 * Indi Uters. .5 inch 7 00 | manuf ur prices to be . as CC 16 Oe: ee Pe Go | Re " as 4 a oe = Ht Se, a wi site ne gPETE a, 3 oe r Deane os i y : te Corks, Xand XX—95 oe ageeee 1 a “ “ wee Camper ‘No. 9 10 7. ; i5 lowed for large ake is in the rebate or weet, 2 OZ. round:...................- 75 | Molass Oboes cere reese 7 agent BY : = Pi no , 3 - eee Big Cb 0 ise ets I NIA, Cream T » pure powdered..... 37 : A ey Cake Plates.. : 7 00 LAMP na €astor, 2 oz. BAR io.) «£21 -osn0 Et. : 5 Tobaced ¢ oe Oe 8 mo an ee (Powd wey 2m 19 @ 20 Creasote.....- grocer’s, 10 box.. e 2 % “ eee oe Creams......... 1 25 3 No. Londo - oe fo ve pes Sees un ae wiate (Powd. 336)... 0000 000s... 5 PORE aap rst ay 16s r oe ee . r box pr bx. 19% OATMEAL. yCleaners #@ doz............-.. @ A Soe ne ae ~ 1€ ? Cree ers ‘ 4 renal inch” 30 2 | Tn : Quaker 2 tb cases, 48 bs # ¢ aared Sifters # doz... ae ee @50 qua 18 deg or 4f.................. : & 8 Emery, 1 iisby rae ate a a iB i vi : : : : vas ai a : é : Bee. ee : 5 oe sasiskaee, Tpeom Batis ish, all No.’s......... . 2 a Dishes... Le 3 6 y 50 2 37 es quoted. oe, a quality—No 5.0 , seni : pei see 7 ie po ee 21 : me eas a 2 2 40 o1 Engra in box. es acs 6 25 Pinch: 2.0 A 18@25 ag rat a an any Mme 24@ 3 ae A Me Lanner gees 9 2! ; graved blue top chi a peereen seseneeneeeenees b 25 oe sain: acre a Se ee @ 6 Sei eer @ 2 oe er, sulphuric, U.S. P ee eee 50 ae Moootytttsssese 10 * 3 60 1 - No i L do do meyey pr doz...1 00 Dingee’s b PICKLES. es Nowe 1 # gross 8 box... 1 505 i yee 3 00 oe base Se. 0 3 Mruit: aid si, i 5 sey “ ager Ses 3 : : e’s barrels med... a Oe 8... a ® WFremeh oso. 5 bs Bar oe i ee Te wscmsmnmeweiimiooiain 5 5 do oo @65 ae BARKS. 85 Siacewane: flint, 60 and 10 fae 4 @ 70 |% * ta ae oat 4 inch 58 3 90 Nol op ae aaa = pe ; 72 do ll 2 40 Washing ora. 16 ®t 60@ esis. in mats (Pow’d 20c) Giue oare oe 60, 10 &714 dis... a “ Scollops ugs.. ae: 1 40 [ "0 | do a 1 25 2 eae : 10: ma yollow........0.,/0..0" 12 IMOU 2 oo sacs. ; Be ea e “ 1 00 ‘ | SSE Steer eee eee 50 Dingee’s pints & ca a 425) 5, do a Out pi ae 18 Glue, white. oes See ie @ i s _ B ae 1B uk ro me 2 59| Boraxine @ box............ co ‘3 ~i@10 Elm, ground, pure........... ee 15 | Ind Gage rere 26 & os ‘4 ‘ ee 5 : + Granulated.. ee Siok eh of Po ee 5@ Gaccatrnd ae pues. 2 ie. 2 Tnscit Paidoe host Dabwaatiag |. 85 @1 00 ys "Ne 1% Pov ee veeeeeteateseceeestees 9-18 Wild Cherry ee 10 | Isingla regublimed ae ee ie oe ao Bie etait = MRBOLCCU. . oo. oes. ces 5 aoe Sacetean 2 ¢ ae. 21 1 05 | pete ep ee 944 JENN FLAVORING EXTRACTS. Cubeb, prime (P: BERRIES. 12 Japoniea ns Ce . 1 50 its ae “ iG esescetieneeeeees ip = alg eee eg an de 8% NINGS’ D ee e (Powd $1).. cme: e.48 oo HM eee ss JENNINGS’ POUBLE iaannins seu nike aien Juniper ee ov eens 1 e Tne pes eRe a 2 _ Shell Pickles i ae 8 00 1 34 eee . ot ae g, | Prickly Ash..:........0.. 0.05000. : @ Mace .... e, (448 28 9c & 143 10¢). 8 ok Sugars. wa 3 00 1 50 aaa pe rte 4a Lemon. Ox. ea %5 @1 35 Maren best buen a 4 Noth Cotes gia is a san “NIL 6if@nig | 2 ounce B. N. Panel @ dozen Licorice (10 and 25 ® boxes, 2 Manna, 8. F we ee [bo meas if'sets in e109 2 Bl , P. a Li 25 OXeS, 25C).. o ee tee "5 ‘ — 50 5 50 Kirk’s American F 6 a do do ....1 00 | Licorise, powdered, pu : 3 7 ia, suiph., B. & : - | eo do. India = ...-8 b 64% | 8 ac do do ae ae 75 | Logwood, bulk (12 Bede 25 bd oxes). a Musk, Cs nton, HL P. ae | i ; ee a8 Bios a ae 75 | Logwood, 1s (25 tb boxes) oxes). 9 De Canton, H., P. & Co.’s 8 07 3 35 | BO IN nner: 6 "| No.4 aper Panel do 75 | Logwood, %48 Bena iene 1 {me Iceland........... ae 40 60 da $144 79 | Peo 6 NO. | a6 an 97, | Logwood, 448 ea 13 ope, Tash... .68 a. 8 10 We net.<........... $86 87 do. ‘White Ruasian 00.0002... 5x0 | 1. pint zou do 30 lee eeig oe 1h (eee teat: re 30 a | 5, a Sig i ‘ - : 50 xtracts—25 ® cent. off list. 14 Nutgalls. grocer’s, 10 cans.....! 18 oe . Good ee eee seees 56 0.10 do 25 Z FLOWER utmens, N Lee eeereeeneeeeeeeey | cn sg - gon sare Family .. 000.2... 4 eo oo 50 aie ese < sat Peed vous... Pe 55 1 Tea S ts ee cm ia alg 0 “le alin: momile, Rowman @ PB intment, Meare: © pete n eee eees 10 et, 44 Pieces, Sh | — ai co bs ni a st ‘ = Ge we ee 30 popper, Black aoe Dee 40 2 Peait Sauce erence: a ae : ae do. epee eres oe 5 6 do do d ee 2 %5 GUMS rite P oe oo. iS sconces utters ‘ 3 _ 2 oO i s : itch,True B mie aE bia ea) « 3 00 i ae “ 3 ‘Bappitt’s a. ge 8... ve : c | Ao. do do 4 00 aioe, Cope (Powd 24¢)........ Quassia Fpe Hargundy Pe eee ae i Ee Teas “s 3 00 | Tee tan 3a No. aper Panel Aah - 4 5 00 | ‘Arabic osotrine (Powd 60¢)....... _ See cainh be Wo Bes 6@ 7% a Rare Comece “s 90 | ees a | NOL an oe ae 175 | ‘Arabic. xtra select............... Seidlitz Mixture............. 1b oz 1 8% oat Moust. Coffees “ 1 20) Mottled castile We... et ete 13°11 do uit Ze Be 8k. ’ 5 Arabic, pees select.......... ey Sith rein sete cage intestine i b ee ae : : aa a Bho s font Co ee ee Arabic, 2d picked Oe, 40 | Red r itrate, eryst.... 00.0... . 15 6 Bread P1 es, Strawberry........ es 5D GLASS OIL CaN SPICES. No. 10 io 3 Fe : ed Precipitate............... fh se geo : te es ce s Bo 5 ae a ae ee = oo ee 2 Db 99 3 Pitchers, No. 12, Rose.... eon Bt 2 en or “Daisy.” No charge f Ground Alispice esandcans... 16@22 JENNINGS’ TRUE FLAVORINGS. __ ove Assafosti ted sorts........... o \eel Glauter <= ke 37 : : ce ee : 1 74 1 gal es Se ee cae Cinnamon.......-. cieeereeeritetesetees 12% Full Mao WanooL Camph ge prime (Powd 37c)..... 30 Sal Wine Iarge Cryst... oti : Sas i ‘ oe : a pee : a 25 oe Eben. 3 : ; pec : co cee: 20@25 1, Pint20 Lemon. Cates. . (% 8 14c, 48 16c)....... 3 2s eee m saree ; ; 3 focee ae ae Binz ounoe @ dozen neoee 1 5p (Moreh. hu ime (Powd 450)... Bp | Gal Bade cic ccscstclatn ee | fo Be ts = ee ie i Pint {do do Se eee 40 Balicim so... sees, ts 2@ 2 3 ‘ cL eo 124) ‘Allspice ig i # dozen....... a do rose eeee eet eteieees 5 00 | Snelae, Campbell’s $5.40).. 0.2.62. 1) 2 eee eS : Pca eis gy ee ee ewer reese wees eae 2 0 0:0: oer th ase ese ea ese sa . Tee on teh... : 2 a | aoa. ll 65 Ae aa ieee ras) Spe English...... a ee oc. 4 : et ise Be eee é pe anilla. shellac, native....... oe 33. | Spermaceti Vi keg 3c}.............. 12 Begonia Leavy ee onesies 2 63 | pe 2 \fets ao Pdonen................. sean ee a aia ee Bi-Carbonate, DeLand's 2 | oe i a Alay’ WhOle.....- 22 +++ a v0- 17 @18 % Pints do is ss SS i 00 Cit IRON = @1 10 Sean wate Castile eLand’s.... 4%@ 5 3 guaadores, Su Sets, aan se J . | a 3 a; - is a:b een «6 ee r 1 ee ° ’ Sm oe 00 sie gee cacae Ss, x sete eens ¢ | Gaeta occ gp [ARR BB cco es ian i eee Cs j | Sree Oe nc } ae 4 ° 1S... 40 |Meaw do do. 2: ’ . OF ey o! Loe cae Bee 20 eo Be dO. 2 . Cault. i “| oe ee ae " Spirits Ni t ee 3 Muzzy Gloss 1 hb PROVISIONS ae : ae : ack e u, short P 9 Spirits N Po a : i Matar. ines 8 puskane eee @7i | The Grand Rapids Packi Sage, Italian, aie fs Balt a 146 @ li Siar dene: ee aa 20 S = Package, $1. ee | Murat ‘loss m boxes a aby quote as follows: eking & Provision Co. Senne, Alex, So 15¢)... . 6 See, oe 384@ 4 Packages assorted or ser 58 He ; oe 2 ‘ a eens ex. sifted and garbled.. 20 oe ar Emetic...... ee ‘ repacked to order. | Se diigo ee , G8, | New Heavy Me . Senna, powdered................ 2 3 | ary “do auarts a 2 — Eieied Wtiisiae | BS Rarer a womers HE et Set eemar ae Mita a ee 912 oar Pork. A. Websters. oe Wax, Whi ee os we New Extra Clear P ebster’s .. 15 87% W., D. & Co.’ 8 So Ww e, Venice.... b 85 | hg: New E coin gable ncie 1% | Dru A ur Mash Whisky.2 00 @2 2 ax, White, S. & F.b ae 25 \ ee: @6 cae lear Fok... 16 50 geists’ Favorite R a eee ee SALT. 7 eee 0 | Whisk ee 1% @ ee 4 S 60 POKES ... ok.5 . On Se ae pear? bik ... Sea .. 1 2g Gin, old ae ode 1 i i z ei SE es ooo e ook ae 255 extra. Cee | eee neeariete ee 2 a : ‘Saginaw Fine .............cs.sssss0eee 2 40 Brandy.......... De. i t5 8 BD a ae NEY MIO e.g SS ods occ ce Cdenes 110 DRY SALT MEATS—IN BO Co we er 175 @6 50 Prevailing r as SEEDS. Long Cl XES. Port Wi OB 125 @2 Reel Ss ong ak Bi emp ........ & wo. heavy, 500 hb. Cases ; Mee 1 35 oe 30 Rome he Hie : emp | 7 : ee ie : WivGuee 1%, oS 2 ugurs—40 and 10 mS Ge Wee cess. te 11% | PACK = Ce eee veeteteneeitnetatens 6 g Clear medium, 500 ® faa 7'4 | Carbonate, Pattison’s ae Babbett XXX, ® oo | eontnne Meet gee CSUUUUIIUIIINIII2 § | ong Ctom tae, 50m ses 20 +4 r . ’ ee ed IO 6 ey io, WO. 4 ............. ‘ Sg osc hl bess eee ee 6 Long Clears light, 500 pe let sees iM Cie Sous BOD. soins 5c a oS Co, No.2, SS a Re a a JU, STONEWARE. Short cl otc 4 ,H., P. & Co.’s solution.... 225 Chain—3-16 inch rake ee 12 | rations, sold ae aT ch white shade, s : oe ora Be. wget ee m4 aes OILS. do mperor: #tb..... 10% | INuminator base and peed ace white shade, Milk “Crocs ie Ne ss 8 i. medium Se (3 Almond, sweet...........- : 516 do a cane 14 | Same with inch jhand r, per doz. $9 50. ees aa * haloes ae Aone 134 a rectified.... Soo uus. aD. @, 50 36 do do sees 6% faneecs per doz. $11 50 painted decorated spans we ee Oa ia. We Ne x ‘Rising S STOVE POLISH. : Tie LARD. ‘4 | Bergamont........... ; 2 10 44 do a. : ee 3 —- os Sag Cais os 3 ‘ F ao 5 | —_— Univers ixon’s gross... FAO iam are -tr be; (ees * fo ee oi : Paiver =f n TOSS... ; ‘ Dixon's eross...... 5 50 one _ = ee “6h Rags 814 foe we aa s 90 Hore ee ae ce sie oe v0 lw No. 28. ep eae . R eeeereecee x mm Dine, 9% fee. ‘tr to : : : SALERATUS. ’ LARD IN TIN A. os 83; Citronella a - (Pure 75e)..... 40 Hinges. Strap and T 60} per cent off. ff. | “poreeiain vse “Sota e mplete. With DeLand’s pure @ 5%4/C 3 bb Pails, 20 in PAILS. Pe ihc 99 | Horse Shoes—Burde B45 Ser kes ene Bes nie : - = = ss a a Pai, 2 i oy sap A . Cubebs a: ee 1 25 Horse ote aa ee ee per keg. | Decorated ee. shade, per doz $10 siareme Bie heat. oo GRE ins ca so Mle 0 Hemlock, commie ee 7 60 oe and 10 per | Can pack '% doz each Sa $12 se cece ec cesseeeresoc : fae : z Noss TEAS. SMOKED MEATS—CA O° gine eee 5 ae t rate Japa NVASSED OR z 3 PPIGB. ccc e ec. oes 9 2 Sa bar i Jeban fairy 20035 Young Hyson....25058 Hams cured in sweet pickle medion. Jasonter Sowers: Hronon........ 23 | Padlocks 0 see ome oe ang Hiypon... wsa| me¢ 1a \teeeeee Ook. 1 Lead s 30 per cent. off | Japan fine 30@87|Oolong ....... 33@55 | E oulders oured in sweet pickle.....__ ae ww er oe : % ee 7 aaa if avend rs ee s ees erm eee eee eee ee see | ‘Japan fine ......-ANBO|Congo «0.0... oe | Baar wrod in eweet piokle....". 14 | Remon: Sandereba go £ ee si a. % | Origanum, red flowers, French... cite Bar Bagi da t os Di TOBACCO—FINE CUT. ma 11 | Origanum, No. 1 rs, French... 125 Rope—Munilla SR ie Pitchers, se gullon.. 2 iamond Crown ...... Lee Re es 13 Pennyroyal Si aes 50 Sisal # De oe aces 13° @1 paces Mg gallon... eesti sien 33 aoa. 5D Extra Mess B . pe Meo aa Sisal BB... eee eee i ee 8 aaa cec se nececeteisescnss 210 MER oop Ptenene rene enerethoees 69 eef Chicago packed # bbl. 11 5 Rosemar me whit Pee oo enadte BD ste ene Pee 84 9% | Bowls, § ee et os Se i i e Se ee . ee , 1150 [ganaa) Brome ae wers $5)... ” 65 Shot Huck 85. a i eete 84@ 9% Bowls, 8 “ WEES 6 ou. tS 3 00 | : D Biss. | Soe i ails @ ou s Sandal W : US a a r es “ owls, 9 “ Bae cee cen: 3 8d re aie 65 ei Pane. 2303 ae cans, % doz. Bassatras. ‘Turkish Dark...... 8 00 solder “ii ae = i a 7 Se rr 3 | Ar 2 t cans, 1 doz. in case... woe ee as i) eer me ee RYw@144 Wane a ql ee 30 mour & Co., 14 B cans, % d ase. 2 85 Tar 8 a 4 00 Round Mae en o eric 3 ae CC 30 = "2 b cans, 1 doz on tn case 1900 | Wintergreen.............0...0000.. l @ Rk Spring 7 @b.... o Salvers, ee 35 | occ a Kenest Ole, vee d Ham, 1 oo see os Fe ane No. 1(Pure $7 50) a 2 35 gece fF .... @ 4% gee rar nos Gas Ante # giaas ; 3 amg y 5 cans, % do ‘ iver, filtered “DU, % (eee e oe i ‘Cock of ot a” ee oss | Loaf do iit intneitinesien a ine, cryst. and gran. bulk..... 1 40 is ao ao sirintibest estenebeneen : : at =~. = Gvectes seeeeees eee BY Se ee esac rece oGe snes R x : veestieeeseecseeeeeeneen ae Dime SMOKING. ee Royal, 25 tb MIXED. . ee cut..... gio do covered beeen pee teat eeseenees = : coe roc 1 TrO A peat cate cme ccee or g * eee tees 7 “ES ae ae rage Hoya, 3 b Dbl. vias CG age 1% fe ee es ce ae “A 2 do dlppers. owes ee sees igs . Big ce Berea ee 1084 Blood (powa ike)... ae A a =e - i ee Calamus, peed. Binot 4 eeaocre Th J me enya 19 Cut loaf, 25 tb case PAUIB...-.. esse sees “15 ——— powder ren : Ke ee : ape gg. i B pals. 2a! Mee pane, powdered.... 38 | No.9 Se ey as 5 ee 2 Account eer geal 1 |G an (Powd I7c(.......0.. 0.06. 23 ‘ Se 50 eS See aoe nee African (Powd oo : 13 o eoieepots. 55 ae ee ae =: Sour oe PS 14 ea aica bleached. oe. 133 @ - 2 pt Teapots, ee ee 2 00 y Dew ......... cttw snare 2 ae es eee einen 5 | He i Pe os : a ee 8 ae | Ceeerite prope oc ccc raiment SSB | ual a i ag ae Aan lad dah ae 35 ie q ; a | foimoot dk panse | : ees... ...2.. ncdesedel goose » Eo eee MTOPA os. Lo a Licorice, solect (Powd 124, yee: ' x as o oS a et Be eae 2 ote aps re ee : Licorice, coe 12%4)...- a a 4 ay Meehs. oe \ 50 - ee eos is ee J Pink tr ect: 2.5.3. ne 2 |e io ee ( ees 26 AB ico ES ean: 2 ek 15 s Fe ee 1 80 eee i co aR are rere 14 | Rhei, from select veeteeee eens 35 Meee hoe tins 2 2 : ; ; Seat, aes 5 Lozenges, oc ag aces 7 | Rhei, pape eae | » choice....... 1 00,@1 50 Med. do i eae 85 hae alee AE oes 3 ee eee ee me oe ia ccc a z — Har... pei Apron Sa See ee: 2 oD gat dinner pails it OUP 2 25 PRICE, COMPLETE W - ape i Malo Bar enon eo eeen ee nee 23 Molasses Bar. career 15 ee ae 35 per BRihtore ee 6 00 JETE WITH NEW STYLE DRIP FOUNT Queen Dash Lamp, per doz : poe m3 | CARAINELS ose eevee eeeee eee eeee tees 4 ae white (Powd ae i | 4 Meee a 1 BO) yee Hubbard} a wb . aint: a cari aoc esha acre nite (Powd 25), 1» |S eo 1 89| Bradley & Hubbard Aad ese by the | night driving. p inthe market Natural Grape... 16 | hite’Wine........ 12 Decorated MIB nooo sees eeeeeees eer - alerian, Vermont (Powd 280)... a int cups.... Ce ? . To the tn — eatefuction tha “ceners oe Joes Decorated Creams....... 2.2.20: 1e ‘ aed 2 oo ee ‘ e market. Guialboue te a Li bese aoe Pee poe 2 oe. ag ec PRESSED TINWARE - oe oc for complete catalogue No 0 Tubular, per doz LOBES. j ; OS. o35. eS 1 75 : Wi si ee ; I ’ Oss © ixty per ce nze oO : wery style of lantern globe on hand. > Gillett’s.........1 B ees soya } 75 intergreen Berries........................ _ Bae Vecyraa packages....... 5 @ ? prices if you ao soe miow the liat. oe Ebon} 7 old aa z : os eas Wie cele eee (oo es : : Blacki MISCELLANEQUS. - Oranges, # box FRUITS. ee (P owd 19¢).. 2 @ e dah come eae ve a 2 . E ‘ s : Der. eee ; Neue eae var * Malebar.... , oo see : i le LANHOUS. vos, s0000 | orate 0 once er vrei Cardamon, Malabar............-... 29 Crumb pan Verde bronz per doz....27 00 | eeeee *; 9 ee ee ee ee 2 igh... <.: : : “2 ~, be ama . : = 1 oe a ee oo : a fron m p an and Bites pe ee ae Ba e one Fr bronze © a - riean......... csenessas 9% eas eR ee 4 ire SHOVEIB...-..--.-s0 see eeoe ns eese ese erand Bh a Barley Boiss cae 70 Bananas $ bunch. {ONCY........05..,. a Foon pure grd (bbl 856)...0.0 000... ce ic Fae ine MOE ; : Ebony nd ld : a3 ae a 3 eee giee Saas Foonusnock, powdered. 0.0. : @ 4% 16 toh T tray... .... 0. cee ee ee Ebony and gold — a et ga eee eo Mustard, white (ack 106). 8 PB do eI a Extragilt bronze do “33 00 Babine Powder, ba 2000000000000 (20,00 | Bigs! ancy’ do a ae WUBO8 gages 100 1m T and cottes canisters oe ree * | canis in de ore coe Beans, band picked.....0.000..s.e0000 SS ei geo en eesilice Wen tae. io Rea er 1% ae ae ete eee a ne : eg ie ates 4 stem coe ee 1 a2 Dates Lao ~ ates teas ® 6% | Fl SPONGES. 14 do eee} ea 80 a, Cand MM os og ea Dates, sk a: Hides TZ orida sheeps’ wool, carria: 9 oF Large With DOME. secs .es onsen one ts : 7 rio patois iby Dates, i cag: @ ae vecoee : do Ber. 2 25 @2 69 Aone ee 85 | wo 500 tinh CHANDELIERS. ee ee 08) Hh SII on cece ee 2 asting spoons, 13 inch..................., a ades, em Pr ‘ es oh Velvet Extra do ie va 200 | Pasting. peas - oy Be ae 37 inch shades, safe eae complete with 7 % , | Grass do a a School bags........ ee a o hand. iW ° hav ot ees ee toes POM area eet ee ears 85 e hav. all util i 19 ann Bo COURIER conned. = pendants and eee = pecial quotations made for churches. 60 Gal. galvanized iron. POON: «oceans sk EO XL MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. A MERCANTILE JOURNAL, PUBLISHED EACH WEDNESDAY. E. A. STOWE. Editor and Proprietor. OFFICE IN EAGLE BUILDING, 34 FLOOR. WEDNESDAY, OCT. 10, 1883. AMONG THE TRADE. IN THE CITY. Mr. Henry Spring will return from New York next Monday. The Bedette Company recently received an order for its patent cot beds from Peru. Mr. Benjamin Hollister, with Peirce & White, is visiting the northern trade this week, Dr. J. A. Wheeler, of Whitehall, formerly of Grand Rapids, has sold his drug stock to Staples & Coville. Mr. O. R. Wilmarth contemplates re- engaging in the lumber business, with head- quarters at Big Rapids. Mr. H. M. Blivin is spending a fortnight with former friends and looking over real estate investments at Minneapolis. H. H. McKenzie has engaged in trade at Volney,. opening a general store. Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co. furnished the dry goods stock. __ Mr. James E, Granger, for several years past shipping clerk for Cody, Ball & Co., leaves Monday for a trip through the South, in search of recreation and pleasure. Mr. M. R. Bissell has gone to Washington on business with the Patent Office. He will visit the trade in New York and Boston be- fore returning, which will be in about ten days, J. R, Harrison, of Sparta Center, was in town yesterday, on his way to Hudson, where his wife wil] enter the noted “Zaube Wasser” senitarium, in hopes of benefiting her health, Mr. W. H. Jones, of the Phoenix Furni- ture Company, returned Saturday night from an extended western trip, and leaves next Monday for a flying yisit to St. Paul, St. Louis and intermediate points, The local y:apers announce the engage- ment of Mr. Will Butts, book-keeper for Freeman, Hawkins & Co., and Miss Kate, daughter of Supreme Court. J udge Champlin. The ceremony is to occur at St. Mark’s church, October 24. The Grand Rapids Felt Boot Company is running day and night to keep pace with the orders received from jobbers. For the past two years the latter have waited until cold weather before placing their orders, in some cases sending them by telegraph and _insist- ing upon immediate shipment. As a conse- quence, not to exceed three-fourths of the orders were filled, but this year they began coming in during May, and the probability | is that this season everyone can be supplied without delay. AROUND THE STATE. Whittemore, Iosco county, yearns for a saw mill. Cadillac has three hardware stores and the fourth is now talked of. The celery crop of Kalamazoo will bring over $300,000 this year. Sebawa, Ionia county, is said to be a good location for a general store. About 3,000 bushels of wheat are being marketed daily at Portland. O. L. Heath has engaged in the meat mar- ket business at Sparta Center. The first factory in White Pigeon was the fanning mill shop ereeted in 1831. A St. Johns dealer has bought since March 1, 40,000 dozen eggs, paying $6,000 therefor. Knight & Parks, of Big Rapids, have started up their shingle mill at Hungerford. (The Mancelona butter dish factory build- ings are 200 feet long. They will make 800 dishes per minute when in full operation. The Lapeer Democrat says: “There is some all-wool-and-a-yard-wide talk of build- ing a woolen mill at Columbiaville now.” The Michigan Overall Company manufac- tured overalls by steam on the Ionia fair grounds during the progress of the fair last week. A Detroit paper is responsible for the fol- lowing: Experienced apple buyers pronounce Tekonsha the best apple market in southern Michigan. This refers to variety, quality and quantity of the fruit. The James Stewart Flour Company, of East Saginaw, advertised a new brand of flour by offering ten prizes to the merchants selling the greatest amount by October 1. ‘They thus disposed of 3,175 barrels. Ground has just been broken for gas works at Big Rapids. The building will be located near the ironworks in Upper Big Rapids. The contractors intend to have the gas in the chief business houses within ninety days. A Portland dealer gives prizes to those who bring the most eggs to his market. At his last drawing, a $15 chair was awarded to Wm. Budd, he having brought in 272 dozen and eleven eggs. Mrs. Albert Barn- ard was a good second with 236 dozen. The Detroit News volunteers the follow- ing: ‘As a market for butter and eggs Port- land is not approached by any inland town in the state. Prices for the last two years have ranged up alongside of Detroit prices, and are sometimes better, it is claimed.” Edwin Butt, traveling salesman for Thompson & Hayden, of Chicago, commit- ted suicide at Bay City Monday, by cutting his throat. He had been on a protracted spree, and was not in his right mind at the time. He leaves a wife and children at Minneapolis. A new bank, to be called the Grand Ha- | ven National Bank, is being organized at | Grand Haven, the capital stock of $50,000 having been subscribed and all the prelimi- ‘nary work accomplished. H. P. Taylor a wealthy Chicagoan, is at the head of the in- | stitution, but the stockholders are mostly ' citizens of Grand Haven, so that the direct- ory will be local. A local paper states that there is plenty of business for another bank there, as the new concern will probably catch much of the business now done in Grand Rapids. TRADE CHANGES. Bradstreet’s Mercantile Agency furnishes THE TRADESMAN with the following busi- ness changes, embarrassments, etc., occurring up to the hour of going to press: Alma.—S. C. Blinn, stave manufacturer, burned out. Loss, $15,000; insurance, $8,- 000. Benton Harbor.—W. G. Emery, grocer, has sold out to A. H. Conkey & Son. . Lowell.—Aldrich & Foreman, marketmen, have sold out to Carr & Davis. Muskegon.—Dr. D. C. Low, druggist, is succeeded by Wm. T. Rogers. Galesburg.—Boise & Rogers, millers, are succeeded by Boise & Carson. North Adams.—Tucker & Flinn are suc- ceeded by T. W. Tucker. St. Ignace.—Mrs. Carrie Huff, groceries, has sold out to Ogle & Monteith. Williamsburg.—Potter & Crisp, grocers, have assigned. Muskegon.—H. G. Heinbach, flour and feed, has sold out to Van Zant Bros. Port Huron.—Henry F. Marx & Co., meat market, dissolved, and succeeded by Henry F. Marx. Peru, Ind.—E. A. Strauss, drugs, has sold out to Samuel F. Porter. Butler, Ind.—Wm. Vancousant & Co. grocers, have sold out to John W. Higgins. VISITING BUYERS. The following retail dealers have visited the market during the past week and placed orders with the various houses: E. L. Whitney, Middleville. J. Colby, Rockford. L. S. Pressburg. Big Rapids, Jennings & Delmarter, Edmore. John Chapple, Wayland. J. C. Bembow, Cannonsburg. U. S. Monroe, Berlin. Miss K. L. Kinney, Ensley. C. O. Bostwick, Cannonsburg. B. M. Dennison, East Paris. W. S. Root, Sand Creek. -A. M. Church, Englishville. Waite Bros., Hudsonville. John Ely, Rockford. Jacob Barts, North Dorr. Geo. W. Bevins, Tustin. John Stephenfield, Hastings. James Riley, Dorr. G. A. Estes, Tustin. G. Miller, Muskegon. J. R. Oden, Fremont. W. H. Goodyear, Hastings. C. Crawford, Caledonia. C. E. Blakeley, Coopersville. Mr. Dual, of Dual & Adams, Bradley. Mr. Dickinson, of Hutty & Dickinson, Grand Haven. R. B. MeCulloch, Berlin. A. & L. M. Wolf, Hudsonville. B. F. Hart, Vestaburg. O. M. Yates, Nashville. R. McKinnon, Wayland. Hill & Shearer, Cedar Rapids. John Dildine, Edgerton. Robinson & Adkins, Rothbury. Calvin & Durkee, Lake View. | Spring & Lindley, Bailey. | R.H. Woodin, Sparta Center. | Mathews & Stephenson,. Chase. W. S. Bartron & Co., Bridgeton. Wood Bros., Shaytown. I. J. Quick & Co., Allendale. McCowan & Warren, Hesperia. J. S. Marr, Sherman. | YD. R. Gibbs, Coopersville. - | ‘Thomas Sourby, Rockford. F. G. Thurston, Lisbon. T. J. Sheridan, Lockwood. G. A. Rumsey, Paris. E. P. Barnard, Maple Valley. John Henges, Dorr. A. A. Rosenburg, Reed City. T. W. Provin, Cedar Springs. W. H. Struik, Forest Grove. Geo. Lentz, Croton. Adam Newell, New Salem. Wn. Thompson, Nunica. McLeod & Trautman Bros., Moline. J. Jacobson, Lowell. J. Moerdyk, Zeeland. E. S. Botsford, Dorr. P. M. Lonsbury, Reed City. H. F. M. Treglown, Caledonia. N. De Vries, Jamestown. J. R. Harrison, Sparta Center. H. H. McKenzie, Volney. John Graham, Wayland. H. J. Leonaid, Belding. F. O. Lord, Howard City. J. E. Rice, Coopersville. Preston & Cook, Hastings. Mr. Graves, of Graves & Son, Shelby. C. Crawford, Caledonia. Mr. Chase, of Chase & Son, Ada. C. E. & S. J. Koon, Lisbon. Geo. Sage, Rockford. Patents Issued to Michigan Inventors. The following patents have lately been issued to Michigan inventors: Frank 8S. Belcher and J. B. Belcher, Char- lotte, fruit-dryer, Lebens C. Chapin, Kalamazoo, wheel-cul- tivator. Henry E. Fairman, Plymouth, post-driver. Harry A. Clapp and C. F. Baker, White Pigeon, ice-elevator. Himan Frank, Detroit, manufacture of glass. Frederick Gesking, Grand Rapids, folding table. Jacob Himelberger, Holt, flooring-jack, Riley J. Hosner, assignor of one-half to E. Mack, Romeo, stump-puller. Richardson, Petoskey, bake-oven. Luke A. Smith, Ludington, door-hanger. ‘Fills a Long Felt Want. ’’ We are in receipt of Vol. 1, No. 2, of Tux MICHIGAN TRADESMAN, published at Grand Rapids, Mich. Grand Rapids is one of the most enterprising cities in Michigan, and has | needed a good trade journal in which its growing trade should have a faithful repre- sentation, and from the appearance of THE TRADESMAN, we should judge that it will fill the long needed want.—Northwestern Grocer. A circuit court in Arkansas has decided that brandied peaches cannot be sold with- out a license. Wm. Marvin, assignor of one-half to G.|° TRADE TALK. : Satsfactory Business in Most Branches — Features of the Week. GROCERIES. Trade is brisk in all departments, partic- ularly in staples. Tobacco is the only thing that has an upward tendency. New Valen- cia raisins have put in an apperance and are unusually fine and very reasonable in price. Cheese is no lower, but on the contrary prom- ises to advance slightly in the near future. Dealers would do well to buy only for im- mediate use, as the October goods are far preferable for winter stock. Concerning the advance in tobacco, and the cause for the same, a prominent manufacturing house is- sues the following circular to the trade: Drouth, rain, storms and frost have effect- ually done their work, destroying and in- juring the growing crop of tobacco, largely reducing the future supply, while the de- mand for consumption is constantly increas- ing; forcing a large advance in prices of all kinds of raw material, consequently com- pelling us to advance our prices on the man- ufactured article, although we reluctantly do so, and shall make an advance at this time so small that we hope our customers will appreciate our forbearance. Therefore we respectfully notify you that on and after October 1st, 1883, we shall advance our prices for all fine-cut chewing and plug to- baccoes 2 cents per pound above our present prices, and on all grades of smoking tobac- coes which we have been selling for 20 cents and upward, 2 cents per pound, and on all grades under 20 cents, 1 cent per pound. © DRY GOODS. There is no change in the price current this week. Brown cottons are on an upward tendency, owing to the almost unprecedented demand, New York jobbers report a larger trade in this staple that at any time since the fall of 1876, Local dealers happen to have large stocks on hand, consequently will not advance the price until compelled to do so, and may not atall. Trade is reported as excellent in all departments. DRUGS, PAINTS AND OILS. The drug business is less active than it ‘| was a fortnight ago. In spite of the asser- tions that cinchonidia would be very scarce and very high in price, manufacturers have concluded to reduce the price ten cents per ounce. It must be recollected that this arti- cle was taxed 25 per cent. ad valorem, which tax importers paid under protest, until very recently the Secretary of the Interior decided in favor of the spirit of the new tariff law, which puts it on the free list. This decision has undoubtedly something to do with the decline. Balsam tolu is cornered in. New York, and prices are moving up rapidly. All the rest of the list is about as last re- ported. Paints and oils are moving off slow- ly, but prices are holding up. PROVISIONS. Provisions of all kinds are in active de- mand all over the country, and local dealers have never been so flooded with orders as at present. Clears are 14 cent higher than last week, but lard is down 1¢ cent and hams 14 cent. Pork in barrels is slightly higher. Whether prices will rule higher yet is diffi- cult to foretell, and no general opinion rel- ative to the future can be safely formed be- fore the first of next month. FRUITS AND NUTS. The Mediterranean crop of oranges and lemons promises well and will soon begin to reach this market. Florida oranges will begin to reach us in November. The Louis- ana crop will reach us about the same time, Jamaica oranges are now arriving, packed in barrels, and are of good quality. The last year’s peanut crop is almost en- tirely exhausted. The few remaining are bringing good round prices. The new crop is said to be very light, on account of dry weather. New nuts will be in the market in about thirty or forty days. The new crop of figs will soon begin to arrive and be gocd in quality and somewhat lower in price. Almonds, brazils, filberts and cocoa nuts are all higher and advancing. Grocery Failure—Full List of Creditors. The firm of J. H. Zoet & Company, com- posed of J. H. Zoet and his son John, who have been engaged in the retail grocery business on the corner of Broadway and First streets for about a year past, made an assignment last week to L. E. Kendall, and last evening the latter gentleman filed an itemized list of creditors and the assets with thecounty clerk. The list is as follows: Freeman, Hawkins & Co............... $1,042 38 i, A Randall ®@ Co; ksh cca ee. 146 82 Hatch, Blanchard & Co................. 120 00 Curtiss, Dunton & Co................... 21 30 Cony. Balle Coo... ks... 16 20 Shields, Bulkley & Co.................. 22 28 Jennings & Smith...................... 5 05 Eaton & Christensen................... 19 51 C.G. A. Voigt & C0... 62... 6 00 At OORMSBPI oe eee 28 85 Aneop A. South... 2... el ek 714 mc0. A. lstes & CO: 2s soos. cc: 8 50 Putnam & Brooks......,............... 8 75 Wane Seats WO. oo. 15 62 Bonn VOMer.. 2655 oo. sos ee es 12 86 Excelsior Starch Mfg Co., Elkhart Ind 20 33 Notier & Sokker, Graafschap, Allegan County; Mich. se. 7 99 OTA eee es oe ae $1,555 53 Stock as perinventory................ $786 22 BINS ROCIVADIC. 63 6655.0 occ oe oes 539 03 MOU oie a ee $,1825 25 Thoroughly Reliable in Every Respect. Mr. F. W. Wurzburg invites the attention of visiting buyers to his commodious dry goods establishment on the corner of Canal and Bronson streets. The stock is as large and complete as is carried by any wholesale house, while prices are guaranteed to be lower than at any other place in the city. In the cloak, shawl, carpet, underwear and hosiery department the assortment is second to none anywhere. Particular attention is called to the extra values of silks shown in great variety. Those who recognize the superiority of good goods invariably patron- ize Mr. Wurzburg, and new accessions to his already large list] of customers are being made eveiy day. MRS, LANGTRY’S HUSBAND. This is Mr. Langtry. See how beautiful and how fragile! He is the happiest man in the world. Why is he so felicitous ? Because he is the husband of Mrs. Lang- try, and Mrs. Langtry is the boss masher of the century. Does he appear to be mashed on Mrs. L.? Well, perhaps not so much as Freddie. Was he glad to see her? Very glad. Why ? Because she has brought back coin, and sealskin sacques, and United States bonds and railroad stocks, and other securities. Then Mrs. Langtry must be a good pro- vider. Isshe kind to her poor husband ? Very kind. She provides for all his wants, and supports him in a state of ele- gant leisure by her labor at her profession. He has nothing to wish for. Would you like to be Mr. Langtry and have a professional beauty to administer to your wants, and to care for you and protect you? And would you love, honor and obey her truly ? It would depend upon whether or not I could get any other situation, and how hun- gry I was, MERCANTILE MURMURS. A Representative House In the Trade. Many reasons exist why Grand Rapids is one of the leading cities of the west, for the jobbing of dry goods, as well as the seat of extensive manufacturing interests. Not because she is situated nearer the cot- ton and woolen factories of the east than other cities; but because she must, in the very nature of things, become the control- ling point for the distribution of staple and fancy dry goods for western, central and northern Michigan. In the main Grand Rapids has equal advantages with other cities in the country in securing dry goods from first hands; and as her merchants are content with smaller profits, and are able to carry on their business with less expense than the jobbers at the larger markets, on account of lower rents, etc., prices are al- ways as low, and frequently lower than in Chicago and Detroit, while the saying in time and transportation rates is considerable. Retail dealers are rapidly coming to realize these points of superiority and are taking ad- vantage of them. No house has done more to stimulate the jobbing trade of Grand Rapids than that of Voigt, Herpelsheimer & Co. Founded less than a score of years ago, the firm has made wonderful forward strides, and is at the present time in possession of one of the finest class of customers in the entire west. Backed by ample capital, and an immense retail stock, the wholesale department, which now occupies a building by itself,is able to meet every demand. The building is one of the handsomest and largest of the kind in the city, and the firm occupy the entire struc- ture from basement to garret, four floors in all. It is packed full of goods in every de- partment of the dry goods trade, and yet such excellent system prevails that orders are filled as soon as received. So far as low prices, large assortment, and variety and quality of stock are concerned, no market can show a finer or more complete establishment of its kind than this. Country buyers are cordially invited to visit their place of business when in the city and look over the stock and compare prices with those holding at the various competing markets. Notice.—Winter of 1883-84. The following articles will freeze, and can- not safely be shipped in cold weather: Constitution Water. Constitutional Catarrh Remedy. Dialyzed Iron. Graffenberg Catholicon. Gouraud’s Oriental Cream. Hagan’s Magnolia Balm. Helmpold’s Rose Wash. Ink of all kinds. Injection, Brou. Injection, Mathey Caylus. Laird’s Bloom of Youth. Liquid blueing. Liquid dye colors. Mother Noble’s Syrup. Minera! spring waters. Orange flower water. Perry’s Lotion. »” — Comedone. Rose water. Solution citrate magnesia. ” earbolie acid. ” phosphoric acid. Swift’s Specific. Thompson’s Eye Water. Vinegar Bitters. Winchester’s Syrup Hypophosphites, Wilhoft’s Tonic. Whittlesey’s Dyspepsia Cure. All goods liable to injury from frost, are wholly at risk of purchaser. HAZELTINE, PERKINS & Co. Wholesale Druggists. Grand Rapids. Jobbing October, 10, 1883. Four Minutes Cost $25,000, On the day of one of the great failures in Boston recently a check of the insolvent firm for $25,000 was deposited in a Boston bank and sent to the Clearing-House. It was then transferred to the account of an- other bank and was_ taken to that bank for redemption. The rules of the Clearing- House association provide that checks when proven to be worthless shall be returned to the bank from which they were received be- fore 1 o’clock on the day they are received. By courtesy the bank allows five minutes more. The bank which received the check in question, finding that it was not good, re- turned it to the other bank, where it was re- ceived just four minutes too late, and the holder of the paper loses $25,000.—New York World. HAZELTINE, PERKINS & CO., Wholesale Druggists, . AND DEALERS IN LUBRICATING AND CARBON OILS. Manufacturers’ Agents, ——INPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF—— DRUGCISTS’ SUNDRIES & BRUSHES, Nos. 42 and 44 Ottawa Street., 89, 91, 93 and 95 Louis St.. GRAND HRAPIDS, - MICHIGAN. Agents for STEWART BRUSH CO. and GRAND RAPIDS BRUSH CO. SS and Grand Rapids, ~ PUTNAM & BROOKS, WHOLESALE Gandy, Fruit and Nuts 63S Canal Street, CAL EINS BHROTaERSs. 97 OTTAWA STREET, Ajents for GUN AND BLASTING POWDER, and Dealers in SHOT, CAPS, WADS, CARTRIDGES, FISHING TACKLE, GUNS, REVOLVERS and GUN GOODS. DEALERS SUPPLIED. * ee EE E. L. WRIGHT, oe 14 and 16 NORTH DIVISION STREET. “BEEBE Hiv BE” ——WHOLESALE—— Notions, Tinware, Crockery & Glassware 5 and 10 CENT COUNTER GOODS. t=" See Quotations on Tinware, Glassware, Etc. acd MICHIGAN COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS’ ASSOCIA’N, Incorporated Dec. 10, 1877—Charter in Force for Thirty Years. LIST OF OFFICERS: President—JAMES T. PHILLIPS, 44 Jefferson Avenue, Detroit. *: Vice-Presidents—H. H. Hopson, Detroit; JOHN H. McINTYRE, Grand Rapids; THos. J. HAy- woop, Ypsilanti; WM. E. SAUNDERS, East Saginaw; T. J. PAXTON, Monroe. Secretary and Treasurer—GEORGE W. HILL, 80 Woodbridge Street, West, Detroit. Board of Trustees, For One Year—R. W. HAw- LEY, Chairman, J. F. COOPER E. H. McCurpy, Detroit; For Two Years—SAm. B. SINCLAIR, Geo. L. SAMPSON, WM. SAXBY, Detroit. MEETINGS: Regular Meeting for 1883—November 3, De- cember 1. Annual Meeting—December 28, 1883. a a Hundreds of tons of apples are being dried in Utah this season in place of peaches, which were almost totally destroyed by the severe weather of last winter. | | | | R. J. KIRKLAND, M. D., SPECIALIST IN DISEASES OF THE Har, Bye and Throat WITH DRS. JOHNSON & BOISE, 72 Ottawa Street, Corner of Monroe Street, Office Hours: 9 a. m. to 12 m.; 2 to 5 p. m. STEAM LAUNDRY 43 and 45 Kent Street. A. K. ALLEN, Proprietor. WE DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS WORK AND USE NO CHEMICALS. Orders by Mail and Express promptly at- tended to. it € -