» _— e @ / , 2 VOL. 1. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1884. Several Hundred of our readers are still in arrears en their subscriptions. They all meaa to pay, and a large number have written that they will “call around when they come to the city;” but the chances are that their time is so fully occupied when in town with other and more important business duties that they omit io call at THz TRADESMAN office. The comparative safety of the mails for the transmission of small amounts of currency renders it almost certain that a $1 bill enclosed in a sealed envelope will reach its destination, and we should be glad to hear from a considerable number of our readers in this way. YOU CAN BUY Withers Dade & Co’s Old Fashioned, Hand Made, Sour Mash WHISKHY —ONLY OF— Hazeltine, Perk & CO. The finest brand of goods in the market, and specially selected for the Drug Trade. Their Draggisis Favorite Rye Also has a very large sale and gives univer- sal satisfaction. 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The habits of years cannot be cast aside ina day, and to be lavish, or even liberal, needs, as most other qualities do, a certain amount of edu- cation. This, as regarded expenditure, Mr. Silverpenny had neverhad. He had come to Grand Rapids, where he lived, when a mere boy, had worked his way upwards from clerk to master, and, retired now from business, he lived in an unpretentious house, his wants attended to by a faithful, honest housekeeper, who closed her hand as tightly over her master’s money as she did over her own. The two had grown old together, and their peculiarities and the practice of their small economies were now a part of their nature. To alter his surroundings, go toa more fashionable quarter of the town, live in any other way than he did, never occured to Mr. Silverpenny. One care alone weigh- ed heavily on him, and that was to decide what he should do with his money. Noth- ing in the newspapers interested him half as much as the wills of the various persons, their bequests, and how they disposed of their property; but though these perusals— extending over many years now—had afford- ed him much varied and strange informa- tion, up to the present date he had not come across any favorable precedent for the solu- tion of his difficulty. There were hospitals, orphanages, chari- ties without number, each and every one calling loudly for support from him; bat even while living, Mr. Silverpenny turned a deaf ear to such appeals, agreeing with his old houskeeper, Martha, that such places went mostly “to harbor idle vagabonds.” No, he had not toiled for such as these. Churches? In his opinion there were al- ready toomany. Schools? It was enough if boys could write and read. Poor Mr. Silver- penny! Had he carried his $300,000 on his back he could hardly have felt its burden more heavily. The 20th of May was his birthday, and according to custom, Martha, who had mark- ed the festival by her choice of his dinner, was detained after clearing the cloth away to drink a glass of wine to the health of her master. “Sixty-seven you be,” she said, setting down on the-table the glass from which she had sipped—“‘twelve months older than you was this day last year. H’m! Well, you looks it,” and she regarded him fixedly. Mr. Silverpenny winced under Martha’s searching eye. He knew, as well as she did, that there was truth in her candor. Dur- ing the past year, for some reason unknown, he had felt that he was sliding down life’s hill two steps at a time, and it was witha sigh that he answered, ‘‘Quite true, Martha, I’m beginning to feel an old man.” “Oh, ’twan’t o’ that I was thinking, for I follows so close behind ye that when you dies through fright of old age I shall quake for fear, but—well, you ain’t the man you was, master.” Mr. Silverpenny nodded his head assent- ingly. “And,” continued Martha, ‘‘tis time that if I was you Ishould put my house in or- der.” Mr. Silverpenny did not answer, but he stroked his chin meditatively. “Ha’n’t ye got no relations o’ no kind no- wheres?” Martha had long been acquainted with her master’s difficulty. No. Mr. Silverypenny had no relations whatever. “Mine is a very uncommon name,” he said, ‘‘very.”’ “J’ll be bound if you went to Chicago you'd find Silverpennys in plenty. Oh, now, you don’t know, master’—for Mr. Silver- penny had given her to see how hehe dis- sented from her—‘“‘why, look to me, Martha Green, I’ve neither kith nor kin'so far as I know by; but if ’d got money to leave away, take my word if there wouldn’t spring up a reg’lar crop 0’ Greens to claim relation with me. And so with Silverpennys—there ain’t any other here ’tis true, but in Chicago, don’t tell me; V’ll wnger you’d find ’em there in scores.” . This argument had frequently before been advanced by Martha, and as frequently pooh-poohed by Mr. Silverpenny; but driven to his wits’ ends to know what else to do, although he did not say so to her, he enter- tained the thought now more seriously, brooded on it that night, and the result was that some six weeks later Mr. Silverpenny announced to Martha his intention of start- ing for Chicago on the morrow. “That’s right,” she said, approvingly, “and what you ought to have done long ago.” The root of many of our paradoxical ec- centricities might be traced to vanity, and without doubt some feeling of this kind had prompted Mr. Silverpenny to desire that the fortune he had to leave should be inheri- ted by some one who at least bore his name. As he had said to Martha, it was a singular one, and when, the morning after his arrival in Chicago desiring the waiter of the hotel to procure for him the directory for that year, he opened the book to begin his search, he felt a certain degree of trepidation. There were Silversides and Silverstones, Silverlocks and Silverthornes, not a Silver- penny—stay though. Yes, and he read, “Silverpenny, John James, baker, 21 New street. Martha was not right, although not absolutely wrong; the scores of Silver- pennys, like the cats, had turned out to be one. Summoning the waiter, Mr. Silver- penny desired that he might be directed to New street. An omnibus which passed close by he found would take him there, and he was soon deposited some twenty yards distant from the baker’s door. : The shop was a modest one, with its win- dow full of bread, at which Mr. Silverpenny stood staring, trying to find some ex- cuse for going in. Naturally he did not wish to at once blurt out his reasons for coming. Yet what could he ask for? there was nothing but bread there—not a biscuit —nota bun. He walked past and back again, and then, not being given to hesita- tion, he stepped in. “A roll,” echoed the baker’s wife; “‘cer- tainly,” and she handed him two, saying, “That’s to-day’s; this is a stale one.” Mr. Silverpenny made his choice. At the same time asking might he be allowed to eat it there. “I’m a trifle tired,” he said, “and it will rest me.” “Johnny, bring out a chair here.” “That’s good,” thought Mr. Silverpenny; “they’ve aboy;”’ but, to his disappointment, the bearer of the chair was the baker, who, placing it for him, remarked that the weath- er was hot but tseasonable, and then, pre- suming that his customer came from the country, he inquired how the crops might be looking down his way. Mr. Silverpenny gave the best answer he could to the question, for being a town-bred man, except in the grain he didn’t know cockle from corn. Whatever he said, how- ever, seemed to satisfy the baker, who need- ed only the very smallestopportunity to let his tongue run glibly, and, to Mr. Silver- penny’s satisfaction, the roll was not half through before he was able to introduce the subject which he had kept ready all the while, by saying, ‘““Your name, Silverpenny, is a very uncommon one.” “Ah, 1 believe you,” said the baker com- placently. ‘‘There ain’t another Silver- penny in all Chicago.” “Not as you know of, Johnny, said his wife, circumspectly. “Not that nobody knows of, “‘asserted the baker, confidently; ‘“‘and more than that, I don’t believe you’d find more than one oth- er than me if you was to search through all America.” “And he is, I suppose, related to you?” said Mr. Silverpenny, cautiously. “No, not as 1 know of, in any way; though he’s the sort of friend that sticks closer than a brother, and so he’s proved himself to me, and I’m proud to be beholden to one who bears the name of Silverpenny.” “He always holds to it,” said the wife, “that you two must be related to one an- other; he’s a grocer,” she added, to Mr. Silverpenny, ‘‘and’s got astore of his own in the country.” Fortunately, for the satisfaction of Mr. Silverpenny’s curiosity, the attention of the baker’s wife was’at this moment engrossed by the advent of a street vender, and while that worthy housewife chaffered over the prices of cabbages and onions, Mr. Silver- penny adroitly made himself master of the baker’s history. It was a very simple one, —he had fallen ill, and left his situation to go to a hospital, from which he was sent out weak, and all but penniless. At a coun- try town in Michigan he had completely broken down, and declared that he must have died from want had not the grocer there—the other Silverpenny—heard his name and helped him on; “and. that did not end all he did for me,” he added; he lent me money, he gave me clothes, and he wrote a letter to a friend he had here—well, the parson of that very church which, if you come to where I’m standing, its spire you can see; and, as it turned out, Mr. Webber, that was the clergyman’s name, knew ofa party here, a baker, as from being old and infirm, wanted a brisk young chap to keep this going. Mr. Silverpenny answered for me, and whether he was foolish or wise in his man, is best shown, insomuch as that business is now mine. The old gentleman is gone and I standin his shoes as master here. She,” and he indicated his wife, “was his niece. I tell her I took her with the fixtures. Ah, well, I might ha’ done worse. The bad job is, we’ve got no chil- dren yousee. ’Tis a pity, ain’t it, a tidy business like this, and nobody to leave it to?”’ : “The other one—the grocer, I mean—is a rich man, I suppose.” ‘Rich! Ah, bless ye, not he; he’sas poor as achurech mouse, and would be if he’d got double the trade he’s got now; but he’s a gentleman, every inch of him, and a Chris- tian too; and,as I say,if he don’t go to heaven I don’t know who will. ’Twill bea poor lookout for such as you and me.” Mr. Silverpenny did not pick up the stone cast at him. - “Where might this gentleman Ifve?” he said. ‘‘and is he married—has he a family?” “Yes, there’s a boy—one—and a tine chap he is. He’s schooling at Kalamazoo. They pinched themselves to let him go, and I send him a cake whenever I gan—a real good one, too, no mistake,” and he {winked his eye. ‘“He’d tell ye, would Master Charlie, that it ain’t half a bad thing to havea friend a baker.” “T should agree with him,” said Mr. Sil- verpenny. “Ah, I'd do more than that for the son of his father,” said the baker. “I was a strang- er, and he took me in—hungry, and _ he fed me—naked, and he clothed me. That’s what I call acting up to Scripture, I do.” “And all because of your being called Sil- verpenny?” ‘Well, so he said; but, bless you, if not, he’d ha’ done the same; not, mind, but he’s proud of the name, oh very, and so am I too, and rightly I take it, when there’s but the two, John James Silverpenny, baker, 21 New street, and Anthony Charles Silver- penny, grocer, Silverville, Michigan.” Once in possession of the information he wanted, Mr. Silverpenny soon brought his visit toa close. At parting, he shook the friendly baker by the hand, and as soon as he was out of sight of the shop he hailed a cab, and telling the driver where he wished to go, was soon deposited at the Michigan Central station. Fortune favored his plans so far, that a train for Michigan was shortly starting; and having arrived at the end of his journey of seven hours, he started for the grocer’s place of business. This time he meant to adopt another plan —he would no longer suppress his cogno- men, but boldly presented his ;card bearing the name of Silverpenny. “Silverpenny! and not my friend, the baker.” The merchant, into whose office Mr. Sil- verpenny had been taken, looked at him with curiosity. Assuredly it never entered into the gro- cer’s mind to suppose that the possessor of a fortune stood before him. Our good friend, always a little inclined to look shabby, was now, inaddition, dusty and travel-stained ; the heat, excitement and hurry had inno ways improved him, and he had not Martha near to set out his proper linen. In the merchant’s sight here was a man old and needy, and it was in a softened voice he next spoke to him. “And so, my friend, you bear the name of Silverpenny; well, Iam glad to see you, for I thought there were only two left of that name.” “And I,” said Mr. Silverpenny, ‘‘feared there was but one.” “No, no,” and the dealer laughed cheeri- ly; ‘not so badly off as that yet; each Sil- verpenny has two to help | him—ah, isn’t it so?” and he wondered into what straits the old man’s necessities had reduced him. “You speak there, sir, with authority,” said Mr. Silverpenny, and then to enlighten him further, he added, ‘‘l have been to New street and seen the baker, who told me _ his story.” “Oh, ah—I see—yes—but don’t rely too much on that fellow, he has too long a tongue and too good a memory, I tell hin. A mere nothing the helphe got from me. He owes everything to his own industry— he’s a fine specimen—a very fine specimen —a credit to the name of Silverpenny.” “May I ask if you came from New Hamp- shire?” said Mr. Silverpenny, anxiously. “T was born at Wishton, there.” “Wo, my friend, no. We are Massachu- setts peeple—all, so far as Ican tell. I was born the other side of the Berkshire Hills, the only son of my mother, and she a widow, and I, myself,” and he stifled a ris- ing sigh, “‘ am ina very similiar condition; my poor wife is recently dead,‘and I am left with one ewe lamb—an only son.” “Master Charlie?” “Ah, that fellow, the baker, spoke of him to you, did he?”—the rascal, he stuffs him with cakes and sweets of all kinds, sends them to his boarding school, spoils him, you know: but he’s a good boy, is Charlie, and, I trust, will grow up tobe a good man. I pray that he may prove worthy of our name of Silverpenny, and you, my friend, must ask it for him, too. The world is full of pitfalls. Youth needs a steady helmsman.” “You must give me his proper name,” said Mr. Silverpenny. “) will; V’ll write it down for you, toas- sist yourmemory. Anthony Charles Sil- verpenny, aged thirteen, born the 1st of May. There, now, you won’t forget him,” and he handed over the slip of paper, add- ing, ‘You have not told me yet how I can serve you.” ‘“You’re very good; but my object in com- ing was merely to satisfy the curiosity I had to see another man who bore the name of Silverpenny.” “In that case you must stay andsee my son; he is home for a holiday—not in now, but he will be presently.” : And he offered an invitation that Mr. Silver- penny should remain.and accept from him some hospitality, but this his visitor declin- ed—he had to get back to the station, and he did not wish to miss the next train, so, after a little more conversation as to the town he was born in, the occupation he fol- lowed—questions answered with great reti- cence—the two parted; the tradesman at his store door, watching Mr. Silverpenny out of sight. Lost in thought, some half-way on, the old man found he had missed his turning, and standing a little perplexed as to what he should do, over the fence a boy sprang up, who Mr. Silverpenny felt at once must be Charlie. “T have come out of my way,” he began; “eould you put mein the right track for the station, young gentleman?” “Yes; I’ve just come from there.” “Oh, what, that way, over the fields, can I go?” “And by it yowll save a quarter of an hour. I ain’t in much hurry, Ill go that far with you, because, if you took the wrong turn then, you’d go a mile out of your way.” “T suppose you ‘know this place well?” said Mr. Silverpenny. ‘Rather; my father’s a merchant over there—Mr. Silverpenny.”’ “Silverpenny !’’ “Yes; avery uncommon name ours is; some of our fellows laugh at me for it; but I think it’s a capital name, don’t you?”’ “Yes, I think it is.” Mr. Silverpenny said this so slowly that Master Charlie was induced to look at him more observantly. ‘‘You’re tired, ain’t you?” hesaid. “Have you walked far?” “Pretty well for an old man like me; ’m not so young, you see, as you are.” “No,” said Charlie, and then he added rather irreverently, as Mr. Silverpenny thought, “I’ve been to town, and had some candy. I wish I hadn’tnow.” Mr. Silverpenuy smiled. ‘“I don’t know about candy, but [fancy if I hada little more inside me I should manage to step out a little more nimbly.” “You're close by now. You’ve only to turn down this street—look, there’s the sta- tion, you see,” and coming to a standstill, Charlie eyed Mr. Silverpenny furtively, blushed furiously red, and catching hold of his hand, which he shook awkwardly, he ranas fast as he could away. Feeling something in his palm, Mr. Silverpenny looked down. Into it the boy had pressed a penny. His regret at having eaten the can- dy was because he had spent all but fthat of his money. On the following day Mr. Silverpenny started on his return to Grand Rapids; he reached his house in safety, and was wel- comed back by Martha, who, sagacious woman as she was, made neither comment nor asked a question respecting the business of his journey. That it had not been made without some result she guessed from the arrival of Mr. Stock, the lawyer, with whom Mr. Silver- penny was closeted for several days after at various times. Clearing the table one evening as usual, her master detained her. ‘“Martha,” he said, pouring outa ylass of wine, ‘drink that to the health of Anthony Charles Sil- verpenny.” “Ah!” she held up her finger to him, “what did I say?” “Why, what isn’t true.” he answered quickly—“‘that I should find in Chicago seores of Silverpennys; whereas, search from end to end, there is only one.” “No matter,” continued Martha stoutly; “for all you wants one’s so good as_ twenty; and it’s he, is it, whose health I’m to drink to??? “No,” answered her master stolidly, “it is not he.” Martha pushed the glass, which she had taken, away from her. ‘‘Awh!’ and she crossed her arms resignedly. Mr. Silverpenny enjoyed the momentary satisfaction of her defeat, and then in a more friendly tone he said, ‘“Never be over- hasty in jumping at conclusions, Martha; it is a woman’s failing. Wait, and you shall hear the whole story.” And thereupon he related his interview with the baker—his visit to the groceryman, and how he had fallen in with Charlie. Martha listened attentively. ‘‘And’tis he you’ve left your money to?” she said inquir- ingly. ‘Well! to think of his giving youa penny—-have’e got un, master? Let me have a look at un, do.” Slowly the penny was drawn from out of Mr. Silverpenny’s pocket, he unfolded it from the paper he had wrapped it in, and solemly handed it to Martha, who held it in her hand turning it over and over again. “Take it, master,” she said, handing it back to him, “‘and keep it so long as ever you live—I should if I was you.” Mr. Silverpenny smiled asif he had al- ready arrived at that decision. “And I’m took with that baker, too,” con- tinued Martha reflectively; “he makes good bread, V’ll warrant un too.” Mr. Silverpenny did not dispel Martha’s illusion by telling her that judging by the roll he had eaten, he should pronounce the baker’s bread to be heavy. “T have not forgotten him,” he said, “and I have not forgotten you, Martha” “Oh, I ain’t afraid,” she said shortly; “I don’t ask what you’ve done, or what you haven’t; all I wants to .know is, that the matter’s settled so that your mind’s at rest and you feel easy.” “Yes, quite, so far as others go.” ““Well, and don’t that satisfy you?” For amoment Mr. Silverpenny did not reply. ‘I expect, he said reflectively, ‘that most of us, if we had our time to go over again, would act differently.” “Why, what now?” said Martha sharply. “Nothing, Martha—nothing—only I can’t remember that I ever held out a helping hand to anybody—gaye away anything—did any good with my money.” > ‘“‘And suppose not,” said Martha irately, “vou ha’n’t a done no evil, and if that’s all you’ve got to lament over, you may lie down in your bed easy, and it’s my opinion that you wouldn’t be doing wrong in going there,” and she surveyed him critically; “jaunting about and your time o’ life don’t overwell agree together, master.”’ “TJ think I'll take your advice,” said Mr. Silverpenny, rising slowly; ‘and Martha, we’ll turn over a new leaf, and you|andl we'll try between us to do somebody a little good before we die.” “Oh, there’s time enough yet to talk about dying,” said Martha gruffly. ‘You ain’t bound to do that the very minute you’ve made your will and settled your money.” Mr. Silverpenny smiled cheerily. She had brought him over the candle, which, lighting, he tookfrom her. ‘Now,” he said, “drink up your wine. Charles Anthony Silverpenny, health, wealth, and prosper- ity.” The next morning Mr. Silverpenny was long in coming down, and Martha, thinking it time to awaken him, tip-toed softly into his room. ‘“Master,’’ she called, but he did not answer. ‘“‘Master,’’ she repeated louder, drawing aside the curtain, “how sound you be sleeping,” and then she bent down in terror—it was the sleep from which there is no waking. Tranquil and calm, Mr. Silver- penny lay dead. >_< —_—_—_ The Shoe and Leather Review, in an article addressed particularly to retail deal- ers in boots and shoes, gives advice concern- ing advertising which is of general applica- tion to persons engaged in the retail trade. The Review says: “Do not be afraid to spend money for printer’s ink. The results may not always appear directly, but they will be found invariably in the footings of the year’s business. Then in advertising never announce simply that you have a full stock of boots and shoes. That is always taken for granted. Advertise some special- ty. Let it be a $5 boot or an $8 shoe, or even a 50 cent slipper. Itdoes not matter so much what the line or specialty is, so long as it is seasonable and something that will be likely to attract attention. The advertisement should be chanfied from time to time so as to take in different lines. The public does not care to be informed that you have boots and shoes for sale, but if you have boots ordinarly worth $6 that you can sell for $5, or shoes ordinarily worth $3 that you can sell for $2.50, everyone is interested in the knowledge of the fact. If you have some new styles or novelties, let the people know it, but always ina specific, definite way. When they come to look for the particular thing advertised, they will see for themselves that you havea full stock in other lines.” >a Few things go further in aiding the estab- lishment of a successful business than con- siderate and gentlemanly treatment of cus- tomers. It is the cheapest kind of an in- vestment, yet yields the largest returns. This will be readily admitted by all who have been long in trade, if the subject is brought to their consideration, yet it is one of the very things that not only clerks but even proprietors are apt to forget. It rare- ly occurs to them to look at it in the same way as does the man on the other side of the counter. As a practical test let any dealer put himself in the customer’s place and call ata dozen stores and offices, and take careful mental notes of the effect the different styles of treatment he receives makes upon him. In one place. he finds himself perhaps neglected or kept waiting without any apparent reason, until he is re- solved to go away. At another he buys things he does not really want merely —be- cause he was treated with extreme courte- sy and attention. It will be found, in short, nothing more than a realization of the old adage, “politeness is the cheapest and most profitable of the virtues.” ———————> «ae ——___— Among the new applications of cotton is its use, in part, in the construction of houses, the material employed for this purpose be- ing the refuse, which, when ground up with about an equal amount of straw and asbes- tos, is converted into a paste, and this is formed into large slabs or brick, which ac- quire, it is said, the hardness of stone, and furnish a really valuable building stock. ee “The staining of bricks red is effected by melting one ounce of glue in a gallon of water, then adding a piece of alum as _ large as an egg, one-half pound of Venetian red and one pound of Spanish brown; redness or darkness is increased by using more red or brown. For coloring black, heat the bricks and dip in fluid asphaltum, or ina hot mixture of linseed oil and asphalt. + ~>- 9 <> P. D. Armour, the great pork paeker, is a clerical-looking man of 45 and wears a pleas- ant expression and mutton-chop whiskers. \2\ ‘The Michigan Tradesman, A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE Mercantile and Manvfacturing Interests of the State. E. A. STOWK, Editor. ————— Terms $1 a year in advance, postage paid. Advertising rates made known on application. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1884. g" Subscribers and others, when writing to advertisers, will confer a favor on the pub- lisher by mentioning that they saw the adver- tisement in the columns of this paper. A The tea market is in a demoralized condi- tion East in consequence of a sharp decline at New York, throwing a large quantity of options on the market. The worth of Tur TRADESMAN can searcely be testified to more briefly and forcibly than the following,,by W. 8. Barn- ard, of Lyons: Out of the many papers that I take, I had rather discontinue all of them than do with- out THE TRADESMAN. Hides are up \& @ Xe, on account of seareity and the recent advance in leather. The advance is out of proportion to the up- ward tendency in leather, however, and will probably not be permanent. Furs have de- clined very materially, in consequence of the low prices obtained at the March auc- tion sales in London. There was a surplus production of furs in this country dur- ing the past season, while the European season was unfavorable to a heavy consump- a and to these facts is due the recent de- cline. Under the caption “Deserved Prosperity,” the Grand Rapids Leader has the following pleasant reference to our ‘recent enlarge- ment: THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN, Mr. E. A. Stowe proprietor and editor, is out this week enlarged from four to eight pages, and filled to overflowing with matter of special inter- est to business men, added to a great variety of entertaining miscellany. Mr. Stowe, in the inauguration and carrying on of his bright and really valuable journal, has de- veloped stable business qualities, and ap- proved himself a wise manager and editor. Tue TRADESMAN acknowledges the re- ceipt, from the Bay City Chamber of Com- merce, of a 50 page pamphlet, containIng an annual review of the progress, business, manufactures and commerce of Bay City and tributary territory. Beginning with a recapitulation of the lumber, salt and ship building industries of the Saginaw Valley, exhaustive showings are made of the growth and material resources of the two Bay Cities, followed with an article showing the attrac- tions nessessed by both places as the seat of manufactories of wood and iron. A. subse- quent chapter is devoted to the advantages .Bay county has to offer to the agriculturist. .. Rey. A. Kriekard, Grand Rapids eepeo i. $ 4 * Hill: Taken as the whole, the pamphlet has a per- manent yalue, in a statistical sense, aside from the impetus which a compilation of such as a character gives to the commercial prosperity of the town whose enterprise renders such an undertaking possible. Stewart’s Offerto his Creditors. The attorney for W. H. Stewart, of Round Lake, was iu the city Monday, endeavoring to secure a compromise with the latter’s creditors on the basis of 3314 per cent. All agreed to take that amount with the excep- tion of Welling & Carhart, who propose to hold out for a better offer. The total lia- bilities are $1,960, distributed among nine reditors in the following amounts: Shields, Bulkley & Lemon, Gr’ d_ Rapids e 72 . 452 Welling & Carhart Eaton & Christenson a 105 E. G. Studley & Co. tf 53 és F. J. Lamb & Co. - 39 82 Hannah, Lay & Co., Traverse City........ 690 00 Srmers Creditors. es sss 283 00 ——————_—>_2- =< _____ De Vree’s Figures. Henry J. W. Chapman, of Grand Haven, assignee of Andrew De Vree, a light-weight jeweler doing business on West Bridge street, has filed the result of an inventory of the stock, from which it appears that the same is worth $838.99. A house and _ lot, valued at $700, is included in the list of assets, but as it is the homestead of the as- signor, it may as well be omitted. The lia- bilities are $985.39, divided among seven creditors in the following amounts: 75 00 Ralph Kioster house 30 00 A. DeVree and Peter Burst, Vriesland.. 200 00 J.M. & F. M. Solomon, Chicago er es 307 02 Panpoint Manufacturing Co., , Chicago... 80 87 Ingraham Clock Co., .. 30 00 Henry West &Co., okben< .cal. 162 50 + <-____- Good Words Unsolicited. Dickinson and Raymond, hardware, Fenn- yille: “Are well pleased with your paper. Chester D. Woodbury, general merchan- dise, Portland: ‘‘Your paper is certainly worth all you ask.” S. M. Geary, general merchandise, Maple “J think your paper is a good one, and well worth the price asked for it.” W. H. H. Brownson, general dealer, Mon- roe Center; “I think that every business man ought to take THz TRADESMAN. It would be of great interest to them.” Levi Stuck, Hart: “It is not only a unique enterprise, displaying the point and pith of trade, but absolutely indispensible, if its rel- ative value to itr cost is considered. 1 hope its success may equal the most sanguine expectations of its proprietors.” H. MeNitt, general dealer, “Your paper looks well in its new dress. Haring: I consult its columns nearly every day for - necessary information in my business. I think in some way dealers should exchange ideas, Your columns would serye the pur- AMONG THE TRADE. IN THE CITY. O. H. Richmond, the Pear! street druggist, has removed to South Division street. “They talk about money being close,” said an Ottawa street gunsmith; “but it is not close enough for me.” H. R. Savage, who has been sick and off duty for some time past, is back to his for- mer post at John Caulfield’s. Mr. R. B. Jennings, general dealer at New Troy, was in the city last week, the guest of his brothers, C. W. and W. H. Jennings. G. F. Cole, of the firm of Cole & Stone, shirt manufacturers at Paw Paw, pulled Tue TRADESMAN’S latch string Monday. Wm. M. Robinson, assignee for the wily Newmans, will declare a dividend in the matter the latter part of the present week. J. M. Arthur, an extensive fruit packer at Kenton, has been in the city several days looking over the trade. Itis his first visit here. Mr. C. L. Wilson, of the legal firm of Morris, Wilson & Trowbridge, of Ionia, was in the city over Sunday, the guest of D. C. Underwood. The growing popularity of prepared cereals has led Arthur Meigs & Co. to se- cure the sole agency for Western Michigan for the patent evaporated hulled corn. Assignee Baker has sold the book ac- counts of the J. C. Kendall estate to Geo. D. Conger for $450, thus realizing $5,100 from the sale of both stock and accounts. Hi. Principall and C. DeYoung, of the new grocery firm of H. Principall & Co.. Muskegon, were in the city Monday, and purchased a complete stock of Fox, Mussel- man & Loveridge. Albert F. Hazeltine, who has been at Fife Lake the past four months running the F. D. Caulkins drug store in the interest of As- signee Fairchild, has returned to his desk at Hazeltine, Perkins & Co.’s. We hope to present next week a sketch of Mr. Joseph F. O. Reed, better known to the trade as “Joe,” and an agreeable and popu- lar salesman withal. Mr. Reed has been with H. Leonard & Sons about twelve years. The Montague Lumberman recently re- ceived the following note from Grand Rap- ids with a request to publish: ““Young ladies should be careful how they flirt with travel- ing men; most of them turn out to be mar- ried.” C, N. Hyde, ef Rockford, has purchased the handle factory and general store of A. D. Botsford & Co., at Alba, and will con- tinue the business. He purchased a new grocery stock of Hawkins & Perry last week. Frank F. Kutts, attorney for Jackson Coon, the embarrassed Rockford boot and shoe dealer, states that his client is formu- lating an offer to his creditors by way of compromise. He does not think the offer will exceed 40 per cent. “T see THe TRADESMAN recently placed George Kendall’s property at $200,000,” said a shrewd business man. “I happen to know something of the inside management of Mr. Kendall’s finances, and am in a position to state that his property to-day is worth at least half a million dollars.” “Whata team D. D. Cody and Arthur Meigs would make in the grocery business,” said an intimate triend of both gentlemen the other day. ‘Cody hasn’t tact enough to hold the trade of a single dealer, so far as personal-ties are concerned, but as a shrewd and careful business man he has few equals in the State. He is well posted, has a pro- digious memory,,and seldom makes a mis- take. Meigs, on the other hand, is not a master of either the generalities or details of the business, but is personally the most popular man on the road. He can attract men by the mere power of his personality and hold them through thick and thin. IL don’t think I have ever seen his equal in this respect.” It would be the height of cruelty to reveal the identity of the traveler who was the hero of the following incident, related by. the Harbor Springs Independent, so the name is withheld for the present: ‘Drummers are great fellows for practical jokes, but the traveling representative of a Grand Rapids grocery house had one played on him by one of our merchants afew days ago. He left his sample case in a store while waiting for a rig to drive out to Ayr, and the merchant took out his samples and substituted ‘three or four nice turnips and onions. When the drummer reached Ayr he began to talk up his fine line of syrups, and Mr. Snyder asked to see his samples. His surprise on opening up can be imagined, but he only said: ‘“Let’s take a smoke.” The story leaked out, and his traveling friends all speak of him as the man who sells vegetables by sample.” By one of those annoying oversights that oceurs .periodically in every . newspaper office, Tok TRADESMAN was led to substi- tute the word Shattuck for Giddings, in re- forcing iP the Sand Lake, eee meee last stock, showing $2,907.74 worth of goods at cost value. John Caulfield claims that it is not his mortgage, but Chas. Root & Co.’s, that is in dispute, as the latter’s mertgage had three years yet to run, and but $600 was due at the time of foreclosure. The firnf failed to furnish Giddings with a statement of his indebtedness, foreclosed without mak- ing a demand for payment, and has since re- fused to furnish a statement. On these ir- regularities Caulfield basis his claim that even if the Root mortgage is not illegal in itself, the subsequent actions of the parties have invalidated it. AROUND THE STATE. I. Gibson & Son, of Clarksville, have re- moved to Petoskey. Dr. R. Brodeur has. removed his drug store from Leroy to Cadillac. Harry Stowe has engaged in the confec- tionery business at Nashville. Shirley & Thompson-have engaged in the grocery business at Schoolcraft. Motley & Lehnan have engaged in the boot and shoe business at Allegan. H. A. Cornell, dry goods dealer at Ionia, is succeeded by Fred Culter Jr. & Co. James Hullinger, of Mecosta, is arranging to remove his drug store to Big Rapids. S. B. Fuller, has engaged in the hardware business at Ionia. He was foimerly in the same business at St. Johns. : E. W. Sherwood, druggist, at Otsego, has sold out to C. H. Adams, of the former firm of Deuel & Adams, Bradley. Pettingill & Young succeed B. N. Pettin- gill in the drug business at Rockford, and R. V. McArthur, grocer, at the same place. J. W. Closterhouse, of Jennisonville, has purchased the general stock and business of C. E. Kellogg, at Grandville. The transfer will occur May 1. Mr. Grover, of the former firm of Noel & Grover, of Palo, will shortly engage in the drug business at Fenwick, in a building to be erected by C. R. Herrick. Rusch & Schafer, dealers in dry goods and groceries at Ionia, have been closed on a chattle mortgage for $1,450 held by J. K. Burnham & Co., of Detroit. S. D. Flowers, the Sturgis boot and shoe man, is advertised to be sold out on two chattel mortgages held by his father and his wife. Uahappy creditors are looking for fraud. W. H. H. Brownson, the Monroe Center dealer and postmaster, is authority for the statement that the firm of McVey & Rey- nolds, formerly in trade at that place, has “abseconded and left for parts unknown.” STRAY FACTS. Patterson & Weeks, billiards, lonia, have sold out to J. D. Stewart. Henry Cobia, saloon-keeper at Lowell. is succeeded by Patterson Bros. es Mrs. Howe, of Eaton Rapids, will open a millinery store at Diamondale. Joseph Post has purchased the Clarksville cheese factory of Edwin Nash. Goodell & Harvey, millers at Saranac, are succeeded by Thrace & Haivey. E. W. Hastings, music dealer at Traverse City, is sueceeded by Hastings & Chipman. Cogswell & Rogers, wagon makers at Plainwell, are succeeded by Cogswell & Cobb. : Mrs. D. Stincheomb, lately of St. Louis, has engaged in the millinery business at Tonia. Williams Bros., Grand Ledge grocers, have sold their stock to W. H. Taylor, of Lansing. W. J. Babeock and S. B. Granger, of Grand Ledge, will each build new stores this spring. A stock company, with $10,000 capital, has been organized at Bay City to engage in the manufacture of sole leather. E. H. Pope and A. W. McElcheran, both formerly with Hannah, Lay & Co., have opened a clothing store at Traverse City. W.N. Adsit and H. H. Skinner, both formerly with Broadfoot & Carrier, will en- gage in the agricultural implement busi- ness at Traverse City. The Union School Furniture Co., of Battle Creek, has started a. new industry, the man- ufacture of dustless crayons. There are but two other factories in the country which make them. Another fruit evaporation company has been organized at Charlotte, with J. B. Bel- cher, manager. The company will be known as the Enterprise Manufacturing Co., and the chief industry at present will be the manufacture of a new evaporating machine invented by J. B. Belcher. Nashviile News: The maple sugar season has, thus far, proved anything but satisfac. tory to makers. There has probably been but about 15,000 Ibs. marketed here so far. Although we have had several apparently fine sap days, the flow has been exceedingly thin and most farmers seem to think that the season is about at an end. Arrangements are about completed for the establishment of a national bank at Traverse City. The'movers in the enter- prise are Messrs. A. H. Marsh, of Fredonia, N. Y., and W. H. Smith, of Alleghany, N. Y., who have been there looking over the ground. They were welfpleased with the prospects, have ample capital, and will no doubt organize such an association with the least number of shareholders and directors permitted by law. —_———_--o-— A hundred different styles of spoon baits and hooks, lines and rods in endless variety. Call and see us. Calkins Bros. Boralumine is unexcelled by any other BRANCH RAILROAD. Kalkaska Tributary to More Pine Than Cadil- lac Ever Had. Mr. D. E. MeVean, the Kalkaska mer- chant and lumberman, was in the city last Thursday, having been summoned here by President Hughart, of the G. R. & I. Rail- road, to consult with him relative to the de- sirability and practicability of building a branch road east from Kalkaska, to tap the immense tract of pine controlled by Mr. Mc- Vean, White & Friant and David Ward. Mr. McVean’s pine land lies about eleven miles east of Kalkaska, and consists of 7,000 acres, estimated to cut 65,000,000 feet. White & Friant own a similar tract near by, which is estimated to cut from 65,000,000 to 80,000,000 feet. The land lies in two town- ship, about midway between the G. R. & I. and J., L. & S. Railroads. The question of building a narrow guage road to one or the other main lines has been discussed for some time past, but has been about abandoned, on account of the transfer involved in tne change from narrow to standard guage. Of late Mr. MeVean has been agitating the question of building a branch standard line to carry out the timber, with strong proba- bility that the movement would become an assured fact. The project coming to the ears of President Hughart, he immediately requested an audience with Mr. McVean, and was surprised to learn of the magnivude of the timber tract in Kalkaska county. |’ Aside from the 150,000,000 feet which can be touched by an eleven mile spur, there is another tract of 14,000 acres, which will cut fully 150,000,000 feet, eight miles further north, while an extension of six miles still further, will open up a tract estimated to cut 300,000,000 feei. Both of the latter tracts are the property of David Ward, who would as soon see the timber go out over the G. R. & I. as the Michigan Central, the road making the best terms having his preference. The Michigan Central is anxious to put ina spur communicating with the tract, but Mr. MeVean is naturally anxious to see the tim- ber go out by way of Kalkaska, and has many good reasons for the eonclusion that the latter is the most direct and advantageous route. Upon being made acquainted with all the facts surrounding the matter, Mr. Hughart stated that he would build and equip a siandard guage road, beginning as soon as the weather settles, and agree to have the first eleven miles in operation by fall. Tbe only point yet unsettled is the ques- tion of an arbitrary freight rate, which wi!l undoubtedly be amicably adjusved, in which case White & Friant agree to cut 10,000,000 feet the coming winter season. The advantage of such a road, to Kalkaska in particwar and Northern Michigan in gev- eral, would be almost beyond conceptiov. It would open up to settlement a dozen townsb'ps, in several of which there is not as yet a single inhabitant, and be the means of developing a fertile portion of Kall.aska covn y. It would make Kalkaska tribuvary to twice as much pine as Cadillac had, and could not fail to augment the popula:irn of the place several thousand people, besides giving it an immense impetus in a comme-- cial way. Long after the pine is gone—and there is pine enough to last for twenty years —the'e will still be left an equal amount of hard wood timber, there being in the segion an abundance of hemlock, bird’s-eye man e, elm and basswood. Th's will find a ready warket surther south, but in all probab: lity it will not be shipped in a rough stage, but be first converted in ihe manufactured pro- duct. The railroad will also develop a num- ber of towns along its line. which cannot fail to play no inconsiderable part in the devel- opment of the region. Finally, the route will eventually be made a cornection be- tween the two main lines, and will undoubt- edly be extended to Elk Rapids, 26 miles further west, thus giving Kalkaska the ad- vantage of lake freights, and Elk Rapids an outlet for the winter product of her mapu- Sacturies, which at present she is compelled to pile up, until the opening of navigation. <> 9

> ___——_ Proposed Exclusion of Opium. A bill has been introduced in the House of Representatives by Mr. Budd, of Califor- nia, which has for its object the prohibition of the importation into, and (the sale of, opium in the United States. The bill re cites that the habit of opium smoking among the people of the United States is spreading with frightful rapidity under the fostering care of the Chinese; that the importation of opium has increased from 85,075 pounds in 1881 to 289,052 pounds in the year ended June, 1883, and that it is now proposed to reduce the duty thereon twenty per cent.; that the habit of opium smoking once ac- quired cannot be overcome, and that its vic- tims will not live in any place where the drug cannot be procured, and that nearly 50 per cent of our Chinese population are slaves to the opium pipe, and that the cessation of the importation of the drug would cause a large exodus of that people. The bill pro- vides that the importation ef opium, except aqueous extracts for medicinal use and tinctures, shall be prohibited under penalty of fine and imprisonment, and sellers or those who knowingly aid or abett its impor- tation or sale shall, upon conviction, be pun- ished by a fine not exceeding $500 i and an imprisonment not exceeding five years. Opium imported, sold or offered for sale, shall be declared forfeited to the govern- ment and destroyed. Severe penalties are provided for concealment of or connivance at violations of the act by the government officials. To a disinterested observer, it would ap- pear as though several of the representatives at Washington were bent on the destruction of some of the important chemical indus- tries. The exclusion of opium would of course prevent the manufacture of mor- phine and all the products of opium, and even our supplies of laudanum and paregor- ic would haveto be imported. This isa direct attempt to legislate infavor of Eng- land and against our own interests, or itisa piece of stupidity or ignorance on the part of the representative that is a disgrace to our halls of legislation. One can scarcely con- ceive of a more ridiculous proposition. Had the bill been for the suppression of the traffic in opium prepared for smoking there would be little if any serious objection to it, although it is not easy to believe that the exclusion of any article could be effected. The present duty on smoking opium is al- ready well nigh prohibitive, and this could be increased, though experience has taught that the higher the duty the larger the amount smuggled into the several ports of the country. ———————_——> = What Does He Want of the Stamps? From the New York Sun. The following singular advertisement ap- peared in a morning paper yesterday: O DRUGGISTS ALL OVER THE COUN- TRY :—I willpay face value for all propri- etary stamps [with name of manufacturers, not ordinary revenue stamps] that you may have on your shelves on packages of medicine of per- fumery, the tax being no longer required by law. With a little moisture on these — they can be removed without injury to the packages, and in these hard times will fully re- pay thetrouble. Address, stating kinds and quantities. One druggist, who was asked what he thought of it said: “It is a game of some kind. The advertiser will get correspond- ence from a lot of druggists who are on the make. He is sharp enough to tell from the letters who will bite at his hook.” Another druggist said: ‘‘Possibly the man wants to imitate well-known goods, and believes that the stamp will complete the deception.” Another said: “It’s a stamp collector. Since the law requiring such goods to be stamped was repealed no more of those stamps are made. Some proprietary stamps are very beautiful. Ina short time all of them will be rare. A full set, or evdh a large set, will bring much more than the face value. I have frequently had inquiries from private collectors. That chap will make a good thing.” —_—_—_»-0-———— The best finish for walls is Boralumine. Try it. ’ ivy A New Departure in Quinine. Messrs. Powers & Weightmen have issued a circular announcing that “during the re- building and re-appointing of our quinine manufactory, we have made arrangements that no break of importance shall occur in the production of our article, by availing ourselves of facilities that have been offered us, of making it in Milan, Italy.” Mr. Alex- ander Boehringer arrived in this country, on a contemplated trip through the country, a day or two after the fire in Philadelphia, and at once tendered the use of one of the factories in which he is interested, and Messrs. Powers & Weightman have made arrangements to operate the factory at Milan, the largest quinine manufactory in the world. To this end they have already shipped about 3,000 bales of bark to Genoa, and Dr. John F. Weightman, with his fami- ly, departed for Milan, where he will sup- erintend the manufacture of quinine as he has heretofore done at Philadelphia, employing the same processes that have produced such satisfactory results here; and, although the quinine will be made at Milan, it will prac- tically be the same American quinine that has always been produced by this firm. This transfer of the manufacture to a foreign country at first caused some surprise in the trade, but there were none but ac- knowledged the wisdom of the course. What the outcome of this move on the part of the Philadelphia firm will be is not cer- tain, although if it is proved that the article can be manufactured cheaper at Milan than at Philadelphia, it would be folly to expect that the firm will again manufacture quinine in this country as extensively as heretofore. Other manufacturers will watch this experi- ment with interest, and some are of the opinion that this is the beginning of the end of this industry in the United States. 2» a Surely this Is Cheering. “It’s going to be an early spring,” said a Northern dealer to the weather reporter of THE TRADESMAN the other day. “Why so?” “Because the winter was so tarnal cold. I have noticed that whenever the winter is coldest that spring comes the soonest and that summer is warmest.” “Ts that always so?” “Yes, a cold winter means a boiling hot summer. It never misses. But then there are other signs. The birds appeared this year two weeks earlier than they usually come from the South. Then the frogs are already croaking, and that is a sign of spring. Not only this, but the buds on the trees and are larger than I ever saw them in March, and the sap in the maple trees began to run some time before it was expected.” ———————_—> ‘Worth the $1 Over and Over Again.” From the Grand Traverse Herald. Tre MICHIGAN TRADESMAN, of Grand Rapids, has been enlarged to a quarto, and is one of the best trade journals in the coun- try. It is especially meant for western Michigan and is intended to circulate among merchants, manufacturers and business men generally. Itisbut $1 per year and no business man in Michigan should be with- out it. The weekly price lists are alone worth the dollar over and over again. ———-_ 6 <> A stranger recently used an ingenious and roundabout method to “work” a West Side drug store for a drink. He informed the proprietor that he wanted to buy alotof barrels, and, being shown some thirty that were in the cellar, promptly bar- gained for the whole lot. After being care- ful to see that they were marked with his name and address, he said that [he would send around for them in a day or two. Then he said that he hada fine article of cider brandy that he would like to trade off for the barrels. Would the proprietor allow him to taste a sample of the article they were using so that he could tell how it com- pared with his? The agreeable proprietor brought a big graduated glass of his own brandy, which the stranger gulped down with more eagerness than those who critic- ally sample such a beverage gusually show. “Not near so good as mine,” was a com- ment. “I’ll bring around a sample of mine to-morrow, and you can see the difference.” Although several days passed, the drug man has not yet seen the difference—neither the stranger. Some idea of the magnitude of the busi- ness of raising sweet-scented flowers for their perfume alone may be gathered from the fact that Europe and British India con- sume about 150,000 gallons of handkerchief perfumes yearly; that the English revenue from eau de cologne is $40,000 annually, and that the total revenue from other per- fumes is estimated at $200,000 annually. There is one great distillery at Cannes, in France, which uses yearly 100,000 pounds of acacia flowers, 140,000 pounds of rare flower leaves, 32,000 pounds of jasimine blossoms, 20,000 of tuberose blossoms, and an im- mense quantity of other material. The manufacture of perfumeries from Florida-grown flowers bids fair to become an extensive industry in that State. One firm at Jacksonville is already at work. It is re- ported that a gentleman from South Florida has patented a process for the utilization of the bloom of the mangrove and sapodilla, and to extract the sweet fragrance from the cassava plant as well. “J wouldn’tlike to go into the business you are in,” remarked a friend to an apothe- cary. ‘And why not?” asked the knight of the mortar and pestle. ‘For the simple reason,” said the friend, “that your goods are a drug on the market.” The trade of the Boralumine Co. is increasing very rapidly showing that the merits of the article are appreciated. Send for samples and prices. Sarsaparilla, Hondurus...... cele WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT, Hazeltine, Perkins & Co. quote as follows for quantities usually wanted—for larger amounts write them for quotations: ACIDS. Acotic, NO. 8. 3.46.00. ees ss gh 9 @ 10 Acetic, C. P. (Sp. grav. 1.040)...... 30 @ 35 MOAPRCHC . oh ee oo so ds oe a ec 35 ONE ae a as sa nak 57 Muriatic 18 deg...................- 3 @ 5 Witric 86 de@@ os .......64:55.... 505.60 li @ 12 ROC. ee os oe ceo es - 14%@ 15 Sulphuric 66 deg................... 3 @ 4 Tartaric powdered................ 48 Benzoic, English............. 8 oz 20 Benzotc, German...............+.+ 122 @ 1b MATRIC 6 oes ac ois Saisie siesecatc 1b @ li AMMONIA. Carbonate. .2 0.35.4. 700-e.. Bh 17 @ 20 Muriate (Powd. 22¢).............26. 15 Aqua lé deg or 3f.............2 00s 6 @ 7 Aqua 18 deg or 4f............-.056- 7@ 8 BALSAMS. OOPRIDA oe os oie sees sae ees @ 50 ON ace Se peas wu cs oie a es 40 OU ne ca eae ca ee 2 00 MU ee ase ee os 60 BARKS. Cassia, in mats (Pow’d 20c)........ 12 Cinchona, yellow......... 18 Elm, select.......... 15 Elm, ground, pure.. 13 Elm, powdered, pur 2 15 Sassafras, of root... 10 Wild Cherry, select... 12 Bayberry powdered.. 20 Hemlock powdered....... 18 WAROO 9.2.06. 63 35 sees 5 30 Soap ground................eeeeees 12 BERRIES, Cubeb, prime (Powd $1 20)........ @1 00 JMNIDCL 02... 5. se ee ke -. 6° @ Prickly Ash: ....::........2.-..--s- 1¢0 @1 11 EXTRACTS. Licorice (10 and 25 ib boxes, 25c)... 27 Licorice, penees: pure..... Sos 37% Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 ib doxes). 9 Logwood, 1s (25 ib boxes).......... 12 Lgowood, 4s GO. 2.62.25. 13 Logwood, 4s dO 22230328 15 Logwood, ass’d On ee. 14 Fluid Extracts—25 # cent. off list. FLOWERS. PADINIGCR 6 ses eae ee ee ee ec cc ee 10 @ ll Chamomile, Roman............... 2 Chamomile, German.............. 25 GUMS. Aloes, Barbadoes...............-.- 6@ 7 Aloes, Cape (Powd 24¢c)............ 18 Aloes, Socotrine (Powd 60c)....... 50 ATMINONIBE (2.6255... to ee ce 28@ 30 Arabic. extra select............... 60 Arabic, powdered _ select..... 4:5. 60 Arabic, Ist picked................. : bo Arabic,2d picked.................- 45 Arabic,c8d pickod..............6..- 40 Arabic, sifted sorts................ 35 Assafoentida, prime (Powd 35c)... BeNZOIN | 2.6. ess oe es ess sess ae 55@60 Campnor...........:..--.----.--.-- 23@ 2% Catechu. 1s (4% 14¢c, 48 16¢c) ...... : 18 Euphorbium powdered............ 35@ 40 Galbanum strained................ 80 GAMbDORC..... 225-15 sees ee se ee oe 90@1 00 Guaiac, prime (Powd 45¢)......... 35 Kino [Powdered, 30c].............. 20 MASHIC. (5666.6. e. ees eeee eo 110 Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 47c)... 40 Opium, pure (Powd $5.50).......... 4 00 Shellac, Campbell’s................ 40 Shellac, English................4.- 33 Shellac, native..............e.seees 28 Shellac bleached................4-- 3d Trapacanth ........---<...s------- 30 @1 10 HERBS—IN OUNCE PACKAGES. Moavvound -4.5..6...-... 52... 20 sees --- 25 MOO ee cc ise nse es co ee 25 PeppermMint...... 0... cece eee cece cee ee ee ecee 25 WMO a eee 40 Spearmint ........ 0... cece ee eee ce eee eee eens 24 Sweenr Majoram..............-..-....-..----- 35 ONANATN sc ee ee ee 25 Miiwame . .- 8 ss eee 30 WormwOOG ......52.-...-...5:...-.-..5.------ 25 IRON. Citrate and Quinine............... 6 40 Solution mur., for tinctures...... 20 Sulphate, pure crystal............ 7 OMMAGO 66 es Soccer cee caiee es 80 PROSPBALC . 6.4.52. 5 eee. wees 65 LEAVES. Buchu, short (Powd 25e¢)........... 122 @ 13 Sage, Italian, bulk (48 & 485, 12¢)... 6 Senna, Alex, natural.............. 20 Senna, Alex. sifted and garbled.. 30 Senna, powdered.................. 22 Senna tinnivelli........... ........ 16 Wye Wrsl: o oes 5 ik cies ee. 10 Belledonna.....5 0... se. esc. 35 HMOXGIOVO... 6.55. et wc ca eee ee 30 TIONDANE 262.5. oss ens ce eee ee , 35 MOSO, TCO.) 36s. als see ces 2 3d LIQUORS. W., D. & Co.’s Sour Mash Whisky.2 00 @2 25 Druggists’ Favorite Rye.......... 175 @2 00 Whisky, other brands............. 110 @1 50 Gin, Old Tom... 6... 3... ws. se. .es 135 @1 75 Gin. Holland. .....2:.....7......2.:- 200 @3 50 MOTANGYV: . 0.2552. --32.. 265 eesices 1% @é6 50 Catawoa WiNeGB..........1,..265 s6 125 @2 00 Port WANES: .. os oe oes soe 135 @2 50 MAGNESIA. Carbonate, Pattison’s, 2 02........ 23 Carbonate, Jenning’s, 2.0Z......... 37 Citrate, H., P. & Co.’s solution.... 2 25 MaCimed 6.2.0 ise ees 70 OILS. Almond, SWECE.... 0... c ccc ceereeeee 455 @ Amber, rectified................-+- PRAMIAD ccs cece 2 BY BP O06... eee ee cece ee BergvamMont: .....-....... see sees ess 2 (ROUTAN 86 oo. ee oe ek tees ese 2 Maiepue.... 6... 22... 732. tee eo -' MCDBSIR ee Se cie ee s 1 Cedar, commercial (Pure 75c)..... Citronella...) 6s. e. set ees ese CIOVES 6 fous ee bocce sees Rives 1 Cubeps, ©. & W....6.2... ewes 8 MPIPOTON 2. 2-3. ss os eo eh es 1 MUPOW OCG. seis osc os aces 2 Geranium # 02Z.................6- Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75c).. Juniper WOOG..1...............<..- 50 45 10 50 00 00 15 40 85 25 00 60 00 75 40 50 Juniper berries8..................06 2 25 Lavender flowers- French......... 2 40 Lavendergarden do ......... 100 Lavender spike GO 2.2555... 90 Lemon, new Crop...............-6 1 8 Lemon, Sanderson’s............... 2 00 TiCmMONRVABS......--.---...5....-6-- 30 Origanum, red flowers, French... 12 Origanum, No. t..................- 50 Pennyroyal...............-.2.----- 2 00 Peppermint, white................ 2 85 OSC GH O72... 5 ssc esos se 9 75 Rosemary, French (Flowers $5)... 65 Sandal Wood, German............ 5 00 Sandai Wood, Turkish Dark...... 8 00 BARSAETAR c.5 cco. os bynes cles cee case 60 PAAY, sooo ds ee hes cae ss ccae 3 5 Tar (by gal 60C)...........20eeceeeee 10 @ 12 Wintergreen .................06-- 2 2 Wormwood, No. 1(Pure $6.50)..... 4 50 RSW NT oe oss eee ccmea' ss cece s 1 00 WOMmnseed 0 Seer cise sacs 2 50 Cod Liver, filtered..... . ~.€ gal 1 90 Cod Liver, best......... oe. 4 00 Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16 6 00 Olive, Malaga........... : @1 20 Olive, “Sublime Italian ...... 2 50 Malad oo es 65 @. 67 Rose, Ihmsen’s............... 2 Oz 9 75 POTASSIUM. PIGTOMALE, .. 062 os se ees oe 5 oe ® Ib 15 Bromide, cryst. and gran. bulk... 35 Chlorate, cryst (Powd 28¢)......... 20 Todide, cryst. and gran. bulk..... 1 40 Prussiate yellow..............0e008 30 ROOTS. PIKBMOD os oo oes oo a co noise bee wee 25 AdthOR, Clit... sss cess ae esses eee 27 Arrow, St. Vincent’s............+65 17 Arrow, Taylor’s, in 48 and %s.... 45 Blood (Powd 18€)...........20cee0 z 12 Calamus, oe Ene sic ls darcbee.s 18 Calamus, German white, peeled.. 388 Elecampane, powdered............ 23 Gentian (Powd Ilic(.............++- 13 Ginger, African (Powd l6c)........ 13 @ 14 Ginger, Jamaica bleached........ 20 Golden Seal (Powd 40c)...........-. 35 Hellebore, white, powdered....... 20 Ipecac, Rio, powdered............- 110 alap, powdered............-..++++ 37% Licorice, select (Powd 12%)....... 12 Licorice, extra select... ..........4+ 15 Pink, trye...... bie ysl wane te eaw euieee 35 Rhei, from select to choice....... 100 @1 50 Rhei, powdered E. 1.............+6- 110 @1 20 Rhei, choice cut cubes............ 2 00 Rhei, choice cut fingers........... 2 2% Serpenta@ria..........-csecseeeeeeee 60 RONOKA | O66 bs aves i ceases primase ° Sarsaparilla, Mexican............. 18 Squills, white (Powd 35¢).......... 10 Valerian, English (Powd 30c)...... 25 Valerian, Vermont (Powd 28¢).... 20 SEEDS. Anise, Italian (Powd 20¢).......... iB Bird, mixed in h packages. ...... 5 @ 6 Canary, Smyrna................... 44@ 5 Caraway, best Dutch (Powd 19c).. 11 @ 12 Cardamon, Aleppee............... 2 20 Cardamon, Malabar......... ele 2 50 COMORY se a ee eet aie ce 3c 20 Coriander, best English........... 12 GMO oe ee * 1 Hila Clan oc icone cc es 38%@ 4 Flax, pure grd (bbl 35)............ 4@ 4% Foenugreek, powdered......... a 8 @ Hemp, Bussian..:..i...5........66 54@. 6 Mustard, white{ Black 10¢)........ oe ee eer 1 ape, bnehsh. oe... 7 8 AWOL, LOVANG. 0. esc c ec s cs ne ae SPONGES. Florida sheeps’ wool, carriage..... 225 @2 50 Nassau oO GO 2.25. 2 00 Velvet Extra do qo .... 110 Extra Yellow do GQ. 2.2. 85 Grass do AQ 22.2... 65 Hard head, for slate use....... ale 45 Yellow Reef, (O09 se es nee 1 40 MISCELLANEUS. Alcohol, grain (bb1 $2.27) @ gal.... 2 35 Aleohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref. 1 50 Anodyne Hoffman’s............... 50 Arsenic, Donovan’s solution...... 27 Arsenic, Fowler’s solution........ 12 Annatto 1 rolis......:... 2.5.0... 30 Blue SolWble: 50 Bay Rum, imported, best......... 2% Bay Rum, domestic, H., P. & Co.’s. 2 2 PAPI ooo ee Bib 24@ 3% Alum, ground (Powd 9¢e).......... 3 @ 4 Annatto, prime................008. 82 Antimony, powdered, com’l...... 44@ 5 Arsenic, white, powdered......... 6 @ 7% Balm Gilead Buds................. 40 Beans, Vonka. oc. oe 2 25 Beans, Vanilla: ol. 700 @9 %5 Bismuth, sub nitrate.............. 2 30 Blue Pill (Powd 70e)............... 45 INE VAtHIO! oe 74@ 9 Boralumine, White bulk} ........ 9 Boralumine, ss DBS os. 10 Boralumine, Tints bulk. | io if... 10 Boralumine ‘ Babs. Jo... 11 Borax, refined (Powd 15c)......... 18 Cantharides, Russian powdered.. 2 75 Capsicum Pods, African.......... 18 Capsicum Pods, Afriean pow’d... 20 Capsicum Pods, American do ... 18 Carmine, No. 40. 0.00.03. 6. o ees ce 4 00 Cassia Buds... coos 6 6.2. pe 14 oe oe cone Da deies Sues cules 70 Astor Ole coo 174 ly Chalk, prepared —- Bie aes cs eles ao 5 Chalk, precipitate English........ 12 Chalk, red fingers................. 8 Chalk, white lump................. 2 Chloroform, Squibb’s............. 1 60 Colocynth apples..................- 60 Chloral hydrate, German crusts... 1 60 Chloral do do cryst... 1 %e Chloral do Scherin’s do ... 1 90 Chloral do do crusts.. 1% ChHIOVOROIM: 6500 ee 115 @1 20 Cinchonidia, P. & W............... 6 @ 65 Cinchonidia, other brands......... 60 @ 65 Cloves (Powd 28¢):..........5...0.. 20 @ 2 Cochineal ess. ek ec ce sec. 30 @ocoa Butter... 6.06... 3. sec. s 45 Copperas (by bbl le)............... 2 Corrosive Sublimate............... 65 Corks, X and XX—35 off list...... . Cream Tartar, pure powdered..... 38 @ 40 Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 i box.. 15 CregSOtO; a es. 50 OCudbear, prime. -2.2.............5. 24 Cuttle Bish Bone:.................. 23 IOMETING | ore cso. ct aes 12 Dover's Powders:................. 1 20 Dragon’s Blood Mass.............. 50 Ergot powdered................0006 45 HORE? SGUIDD'S) 6). 0560. ccc. 110 Emery, Turkish, all No.’s......... 8 MpsOm Salts. 665 eee oe 246 3 HPO, PROS. 6.656 oes 50 Ether, sulphuric, U.S. P.......... 69 Migike Whites toe ooo. 14 Grains Paradise................... 33 Gelatine, Cooper’s................. 90 Gelatine, French .................. 45 @ 70 Glassware, flint, 65 off, by box 55 off Glassware, green, 60 and 10 dis.... Glue. cabinet): os) se oe 12 @ 1% Glue white: oe eee, 17 @ 2 Glycerine; PUTE.....00..00.0....605 23 @ 26 Hops 4s and Ys.........:.......-. 25@ 40 Fodoform: ® Of. 0... 2.55. cs 35 WMGIBO co eee eee 8 @1 00 Insect Powder, best Dalmatian... 32 @ 34 Iodine, resublimed................ 2 30 Isinglass, American............... 1 50 JApPOMICH 3.6... ce kes ee. e's 9 MGA; ACOULALER os So cece es 15 Lime, chloride, (4s 2s 10¢e & 4s 11c) 9 Hupuline ee 1 00 MyCcOpodium ....:5.....-.2........- 35 MACE eo eee 60 Madder, best Dutch............... 2Y4@ 13 Manna, S. F 1 Mercury....... 50 Morphia, sulph., P.& W...... Boz 3 0@3 75 Musk, Canton, H., P. & Co.’s...... 40 Moss, Iceland................. 10 MOSS; IMISH ese eee ees cakes 12 Mustard, Enelish.................. 30 Mustard, grocer’s, 10 Ib cans...... 18 INGUUP Ce Ae Ee a ae 20 Napmers. NO: lo. ee ee ac. ok 75 INU: VOMICR. 26052005.) .. ae 10 Ointment, Mercurial, 4d. 40 Pepper, Black Berry....... 18 PODSING ee oa. och eo 3 00 Pitch, True Burgundy............. 7 QUASBIA ce: 6 @ 7% Quinia, Sulph, P, & W........ tboz 1 40@I 45 Quinine, other brands............. 140 @1 45 Seidlitz Mixture...............:.:. 28 Strychnia, cryst..................0. 1 50 Silver Nitrate, cryst............... 39 @ 8 Red Precipitate............... 2 Ib 80 Satfron, American................. 40 Sal Glauber, 0.002.565.0028 ees @ 2 Sal Nitre, large cryst.............. 10 Sal Nitre, medium cryst.... e 9 Sal Rochelle................ 33 Sal Soda... . 2... ss... 2@ 2% SANGIN. 6.0220 cs 2& Santon... 60-4300 6-50 0 oe c ee Ae 6 75 Snuffs, Maccoboy or Scotch....... 38 Soda Ash [by keg 8c].............. 4 Spermacetl 2.0006... toes 25 Soda, Bi-Carbonate, DeLand’s.... 442@ 5 Soap, White Castile................ 14 Soap, Greem. do .......:........ 1% Soap, Mottled do .................. 9 Soap, do dO ...............- il Soap, Mazzini.....-.... 2... 2... -... 14 Spirits Nitre, 3 F................0.- 28 @ 28 Spirits Nitre,4 F..........:........ 28 @ 3 Sugar Milk powdered.............. 30 Sulphur, fOur....-...:.........-.-. 8%@ 4 Sulphur, roll....................... 3 Tartar Hmetic.............-....--- 65 Tar, N. C. Pine, % gal. cans # doz 2 70 Tar, do quarts in tin....... 1 40 Tar, do pintsin tin......... 85 Turpentine, Venice........... 8 bb 25 Wax, White, S. & F. brand........ 60 Zinc, Suiphate...............0.0506 7@ 8 OILs. Capitol Cylinder............... eee cess eee eeeeee 75 Model Cylinder. -..............-2..s+e++-ce ones 60 SHIOICS CVEMGCR 66.5. Soe as oe ela cece es cnne 50 WidoradO HHPINE. ....... 2.5... sect ewe ecco pcos = 45 Peerless Machinery...............ceeeeceeeeee 35 Challenge Machinery...........ccceceseseeeeee 25 Backus Fine Engine................0eeeeeee 42-30 Black Diamond Machinery.................+-- 30 CURTOVING 660 oo sense coe coe ees cease cers 60 Paraffine, 25 Geg...2....... cece cc ececerecceese 22 Paraftine; 28 deg. .........-.-..----..-. 0.05 ss sak Sperm, winter bleached..............-...... 1 40 Bbl = Gal Whale, winter...........-..-22e scenes 75 80 Lard, extra...........-------- oo WS 80 ard; No. lo, .2... 22-33... 65 70 Linseed, pure raw....... 56 60 Linseed, boiled .............. 59 63 Neat’s Foot, winter strained .2- 90 95 Spirits Turpentine................... 41 50 VARNISHES. No. 1 Turp Coach............s.e.eeeees 1 10@1 20 extra TUEP oo... ec acs ose e eos 1 60@1 70 @oach BOdv.. 22... 60.5.3 oats cess eee 2 15@3 00 No. 1 Turp Furniture...............+.. 1 00@1 10 Extra Turp Damar...............5266- 1 55@1 60 Japan Dryer, No. 1 Turp.............- 70@ %5 PAINTS. Bbl Lb Red Venetian...............+-- 15% 2@ 3 Ochre, yellow Marseilles...... 1% 2@ 3 Ochre, yellow Bermuda....... 1% 2@ 3 Putty, commercial ............ 2% 24%@ 3 Putty, strictly pure............ 2% 24%@ 3 Vermilion, prime American.. 138@16 Vermilion, English............ 55@5' Green, Peninsular............. 16@17 Lead, red eee P epee aus 6% Lead, white, strictly pure..... 6% Whiting, white Spanish..... ay @i0 Whiting, Gilders’.............. . @90 White, Paris American........ 110 Whiting, Paris English cliff... 40| Syrup, Marshall’s Lung............ i @ PATENT MEDICINES AND PROPRIETARY ARTI- Acid, Horsford’s Phosphates.............. 4 00 Acid, Horsford’s Phosphates.............. 8 00 Alterative, Jaynes’... ......... cee cece eee ees 7 60 Aperient, Tarrant’s Seltzer................ 8 00 August Flower, Green’s, trial.............. 85 August Flower, Green’s..............-..45- 5 25 Balm, Ely's Cream >... 06 oc. sees eee xe 3 75 Balm, Hagan’s Magnolia..............-...+ 5 25 Balsam, Allen’s Lung... .........-...000085 7 00 Balsam, Hall's Lung. 2). 2. 6... ence ses: cos 7 50 Balsam, Jaynes’ Carminative.............. 2 85 Balsam, Jaynes’ Carminative.............. 2 85 Balsam, Parker’s Hair....................-. 3 90 Bitters, Baxter’s Mandrake................ 1 85 Bitters, Boerhave’s Holland............... 7 00 Bitters, Brown’s Iron.,................0006- 8 00 Bitters, Bucklen’s Electric................. 4 00 Bitters, Burdock, Blood...................- 7 50 Bitters, Burdock, Biood, trial.............. 83 Bitters, German Hop...................-26+ 6 50 Bitters, Hop and Malt.....................- 7 0c Bitters, Hostetter’s Stomach............... 8 00 Bitters, Shepard’s Wahoo.................- 3 50 Bitters, Warner’s Safe................---66- 3 7d Bitters, Warner’s Safe...............-.--+4 7 00 Blood-Searcher, Lindsey’s..............-.- 7 00 Bloom, Laird’s, of Youth................... 5 25 Bougies, Allan’s No. 1, Short (Gonorrhoea)10 00 Bougies, Allan’s, No. 2, Long, (Gleet)...... 10 00 Bromidia, Battle & Co................00 000 8 00 Butter Color, W. BR. & Co..................- 1 88 Butter Color, W: H.& Co............-....:- 3 75 Butter Color, W. BR. & Co... ......... ee 5. 8 00 Camphor Ice, H. P. & Co. rolls............. 75 -Carminative, Jaynes’. .............. 206 cee 2 8 Cascara Cordial, P. D. &Co................. % @astoria, Pitchers. ..-......:. 22... ae eke 2 80 Cement, Freeze’s American Mender....... 1 35 Cholagogue, Osgoods............... eee eee 12 50 Compound, Lydia Pinkham’s......... .... 8 00 Conquerer, Greene’s Ague...............-- 7 50 Conquerer, Green’s Ague................-- 3 75 Cordial, Fosgate’s Anodyne................ 2 15 Cordial, Godfrey's. ...........--. 2-65... : 6C Cream, Richmond’s Cubeb..............-.. 8 00 @ure, Ayer’s Acue..........................- 7 75 Cure, Harter’s Fever and Ague............ 5 25 Cure, Hall’s Catarrh [Toledo].............. 5 30 Cure, Jaynes Ague...................-. -.- 7 60 Cure, Kendall’s Spavin..............-..-05 8 00 Cure, Kendall’s Spavin, Refined........... 4 00 Cure, Piso’s for Consumption.............. 2 00 Cure, Richmond’s Cough................+5 4 00 Cure, Richmond’s Ague.................05. 7 50 Cure, Sykes Cartarrh, Liquid...........-... 7 50 Cure, Warner’s Safe Diabettes............. 10 00 Cure, Warner’s Safe K. & L................ 10 00 Cure, Warner’s Rheumatic.......... ee 10 00 Cure, Weatherly’s Catarrh.................. 3 50 @VUbiGUER (oc e 4 20 Dermador, Anderson’s................ee eee 1 80 Destroyer, Steketee’s Worm............... 1 75 Drstroyer, Steketee’s Worm, in capsules... 3 75 2 Discovery, Kennedy’s Medical............ 12 50 Discovery, King’s New.............-..--+-- 7 50 Discovery, Pierce’s Golden Medical........ 7 50 Dissolvent, Kennedy’s.................0eee 12 50 Drops, Koenig’s Hamburgh................ 3 50 Drops, Peerless Toothache................. 1 50 Drops, Steketee’s Neuralgia................ 3 75 Dyes, Diamond.............-.............-. 75 Dyes, Execelsion.........-...-...-....-..-... 65 Dyes, Handy Package........... .---.-+++- 85 Elixir, Nichols’, of Bark and iron......... 7 50 Elixir, Richmond’s Liver................... 4 00 Hlixir, Wayne’s Diuretic................... 7 50 Emulsion, Scott’s, of Castor Oil........... EG Emulsion, Scott’s, of Cod Liver Oil........ 7 50 Expectorant, JAYMES’.............. ee ee ee ee 7 60 Extract, H. P. & Co.’s of Ginger........... 3 30 Extract, H. P. & Co.’s of Ginger.......... 1% Hecbract, PONGS.... 22.62.22. 2055 -- cae 3 75 Wxteact: MONG)... ...-...0....... 2... 7 50 Pixtract, Pond’s...........4.....-...-.---.-- 15 00 Extract, Shaker’s, or Roots................ 4 80 Extract, Tarrant’s, of C. and C............. 8 00 Ely Paper, Shoo-Fly.........---.-.-seeseees 20 Fly Pads, Briggs’.........-. .------seeeeees 60 Food, Mellin’s Infant ...............-..---- 4 00 Food, Mellin’s Infant..................--56- 6 50 Wood, NEsviG@'S....00005.-... 5.00.02. 4 50 Food, Ridge’s, No. t..............-....-.-- 2 52 Food, Ridge’s, No. 2.........-+-2-----++-s- 4 68 Food, Ridge’s, No. 3.............--+-. eee 9 00 Food, Ridge’s, No. 4...........-0. 2 eee sees 12 60 Pood, Victor's Baby..............-.....-.-» 1 75 Food, Victor’s Baby..............2..-+--0+- 7 00 Friend, Pengelly’s Woman’s............... 7 50 Ginger, F. Brown’s Jamaica............... 3 75 Hair Dye, Hill’s [black or brown]......... 3 75 Hair Vigor, AVer's....... .-.... see ee cere 6 75 Honey, Hale’s, Horehound and Tar....... 3 75 Hydroleine....... 2.2... 02. eee eee eee eee 8 2 Hypophosphites, Winchester’s Syrup of.. 7 75 LATEST a Quotations JOHN CAULFIELD Wholesale Grocer 89, 87 and S89 Canal Street —HEADQUARTERS FOR— Choice Butter, Cheese, Mince Meat, Jellies, Buckwheat Flow, Maple Syrup, ried Peaches,’ Apples, Blackberries, Huckleherriss, The following sugar quotations shows a decline since last issue. The indications are that tha bottom has been reached.” We think it is a safe time to lay in a supply. SUGARS. Cut Loaf Cubes......... ge nee 814 Powdered Standard................... 84 Granulated Standard.... ............. 13 Standard Confectioners’ A............ 7-31 Standard A... 6. ec. ee 7-19@74 exten White ©... 2... 23... oc ee 634 xtra Brieht C... 2.0622... ee 6% @63% Batra, ©. og oh oe 63g @61¢ ovollow ©. ....:................. 534 @6 CANNED GOODS We continue the CLOSING OUT SALE Invigorator, Sanford’s WIVER. 0056s. 7 35@7 90 Jodin, Battle & Co-'s.....-.++ +-+--+:1-7-7" 8 os | Of our present stock of canned goods. Blank Kidneywort, Dry........... 0 -s-se.--+-+ -- 8 25 | quotations indicate the line all sold. Kidneywort, Liquid. ............-.---+-- 525 8 25 peep: N. Se ae See oe Sauls 8 00 iniment, Centaur, Horse and Family.... 3 60 , ; . Liniment, Herrick’s German.............. 3.75 JOB BACON’S TOMATOES Liniment, Johnson’s Anodyne............. 2 80 : i Tisimonts Kennedy's Ge oe Ne a 3 751 Have the Highest Endorsement of the best iniment, Kennedy’s Scattering.......... 7 50 na we ae mesic Tuan eo cee e cus 1 80 dealers in the country. iniment, Mexican Mustang............... 3 60 Nervine, Richmond's Good Samaritan....12 00 |3 tb Job Bacon’s Tomatoes, Standard. .1 05 Nervine, Warner’s Safe..................-- 3 75 ; tala? < Nervine, Warner’s Safe... ...........-+5- 7 00 3 tb Smith & Wicks Tomatoes Sis Oil, cant Wizard eo 3 50 2 To Sweet Corn, Erie................ 115 il, Hamlin’s Wizard............-...+-+-+- ie . Oil; Haarlem [Medicamentum]............ 40 |2 tb Sweet Corn, Mitchell’s........... Oil, Leeson’s Tiger.............--.seeeeeees 11513 th Sweet Com. ........2. oc. se ok. 5 Oil, Leeson’s Tiger. ........-..-ssseee eee eee 3 50 : ; Oil, Leeson’ Tiger... cao agen cee sesecenens i 00 oi) Cor, F. & Dis... <2. <2 5. oe. eek il, Merchant's Gargling, fam............. 9 ore . Oil’ Merchant's Gargling, horse........... bag) Ue ees Pees Eoely.. -- > 22 ee Oil, Merchant's Gargling, horse............ 3 60 2 Th Peas, Platts’ Erie................ Oil Merchant's Gargling.---------- 777711 § 9 [2 tb Peas, Equity Brand, Extra. ......1 25 Oil, Thomas’ Electric........ ee .... 8 75|2 Tb Peas, Ex. F. V. Canning Co...... 1 20 Ointment, Kennedy’s Healing........ ~ 8 9 th Li : Ointment, Kennedy's Salt Rheum cee 3 i 2 Tb Lima Beans, Standard........... 85 Ointment, Kennedy’s Scrofula............ “e ‘ eo : Ointment, Trask’s Magnetic..............-. i 75 2 tb Lima Beans, Extra...... Coes 1:00 Ointment, = Ban eie. =. Hel seaeeN ; i 2 Tb String Beans, Shawnee,white wax. 90 intment, Williams’ ia. HG. oc oe. . ce Oo rcicr, Porky Davis, Pe * 0) | 3 tb Climax Pumpkin, Standard....... 1 20 Pain-Killer, Perry Davis........--..++-+++++ 3 60 |2 tb Succotash, Standard............. 90 Pain-Killer, Perry Davis.........--....+++- 7 20 : . Pectoral, Ayer’s Cherry...........065 ++ : i i 2 tb Succotash, Yarmouth............ 1 48 Pellets, Pierce’s Purgative..............+-- ‘ ak ¢ ae Pepsin, H. P. & Co.’s, Sacchar’d, ozs. #oz 30 3 ib Boston Baked Beans Se 1 60 Pepsin, H. P. & €0.’8........-.-+.4++- 8 b 2 50 Apples, Gallons, Erie................ 3 00 Dae esi oir doz 3 | Apples, Gallons, Extra Erie County... .3 00 ae Gotten ee Liver........-..----+-+ : - 3 tb Peaches, Standard............... 1 75 , Carter’s BVO. ea, 5 bei ee 5 9 |3 Tb Peaches, All Yellow..........-.. 2 00 Pills, Harter’s Liver....... -.-++-++++2+ +00 1 35 13 th Erie Pie Peaches.............05- 118 Pills, Herrick’s. ........0.-..ceeeee eee e ees 1 50 : : Pills, Jaynes’ Sanative ......... --.sse+++- 1 65 2 tb Blackberries, Madison........... 1 00 Ses ere te MARTA =v e779 ap |S We Binehientics, Detwoll. |<<... ve 1 25 Pills, Rinehart’s Liver............-.-.-.2+65 1 40 | 2 Tb Red Cherries, Standard.......... Pills, Shallenberger’s Fever and Ague... 7 50 |, Pills, Warner's Safe... a 1 40 | 2 tb Green Gages, Extra.............. ills, Wright’s Sugar-Coated. : Pilules, Moore’s............---- 2 Ib Egg Plums, Extra... ... sees eees Plaster, Allcock’s........ i : 2 tb Strawberries, Extra........ 1 25@1 50 Laie pale pol hes ae 3 tb Bartlett Pears, Echert’s Standard. .1 25 Plaster, Hamburg | Koenig’s].. 1 tb Salmon, Standard.......... 1 45@1 55 Plaster, Herrick’s Kid.......... : Plaster, Herrick’s Pretorated..... 1 tb Lobsters, Standard............4.. 1% Plaster, Herrick’s Red Pepper....... Powders, Harvell’s Condition........ Powders, Herrick’s Condition..... Powders, Sheridan Condition...... be Powders, Sloan’s Condition........ 2 SE ee EID ta ae fed fd tad fad fed Fad 9 pad SSSSSSERRRRRS Prairie-Week, Kennedy’s............---++-- 50 Prescription, King’S........-..--+ sees esses 7 50 Prescription, Pierce’s Favorite............ 7 50 Regulator, Simmons’ Liver [Zeilens|...... 7 50 Relief, Radway’s Ready........ ....------- 3 75 Remedy, Hunt’s Kidney.............-..--. 10 00 Remedy, Kennedy’s Favorite.............. 8 00 Remedy, Sages.........-2- ceeecee eee e cece 3 50 Remover, German Corn.........-..--++++++ Renewal, Hall’s Hair.................----+ 6 75 Resolvent, Cuticurad........... cece seen ees Resolvent, Radway’s..........05 cee ee ees Rough on Rats, Wells.............--- Rough on Rats, Wells...............- Salicylica, Washburn’s............... Salve, Bucklen’s Arnica. . ge oe e eee vos Salve, Henry’s Carbolic.............-+++-+- Salve, Page’s Climax......... seen peeeeee Salve, Peleg White Sticking.. ...........-. 75 Salve, Petit’s Eye........... ie Secgeauecsa 1 50 Sarsaparilla, AYer’s..........-..eee eee sees 7% Sarsaparilla, Guyott’s Yellow Dock and... 7 75 Sarsaprrilla, Hood’s............2++++seeeeee 8 00 Sarsaparilla, Johnston’s.........-.-.--+-+-- 7 00 Smartweek, Pierce’s Extract of........... 3 7 Snuff, Marshall’s Catarrh................-. 1 75 Soap, Cuticura...........- 2. ee ce eee ee ee ee ee 1 85 Soap, Glenn’s Sulphur.................2055- 1 75 Soap, Packer’s Tar........-.-20s-eee seen eens 1 %5 Sozodont, Van Buskirk’s...............-.4- 6 00 Specific, Harter’s AgUe.............--. 6-6. 5 2 Specific, Swift’s ........----. cece e eset eee eee 8 0G Specific, Swift’s ...........+-sesee eee e renee 14 00 Sure Shot, Johnston’s................- occ: 1 50 Syrup, Boschee’s German.................. 5 2 Syrup, Boschee’s German, samples....... 85 Syrup, Bull’s Baby..............+..seeeeees 1 8 Syrup, Bull’s Cough...............2..eeee es 1 8 Syrup, Bull’s Cough................++-++4.+ 3 70 Sprup, Bull’y Cough...........-s.sessseeees 7 40 Syrup, Clark Johnson’s Indian Blood...... 3 50 Syrup, Clark Johnson’s Indian Blood...... 7 00 Syrup, Fellows of Hypophospites, Comp..11 50 Serum, Marshall’s Lung.......... a : : Coffees are 1c lower. The Coffee Ex- change speculators of the East are sick. Al- ready the news of a few of the smaller fry show signs of coming to grief. But there are still enough stiff leaders at the head of the corner to keep the bottom from falling out, as was the case in 82—83. Not of a speculative disposition, we are out, and therefore able to give our trade the full ben- efit of the drop. Syrups are sympathizing with sugars. Rice unchanged. Raisins and figs are higher, currants a little lower,—good grades are difficult to obtain. Prunes strong and 1¢e higher. They are cheaper and bet- ter than dried apples. Dried blackberries, higher. Have a few dried whortleberries left at 14c. Readers of THE TRADESMAN will find it to their interest to keep a business eye on this column headed STANDARD QUO- TATIONS. Mail orders solicited and care- ful attention given them. Special quotations mailed on a general line of groceries when requested. Joun Cael 33 The Michigan Tradestas, A MERCANTILE JOURNAL, PUBLISHED EACH WEDNESDAY. E. A. STOWE & BRO., Proprietors. OFFICE IN EAGLE BUILDING, 3d FLOOR. [Entered at the Postofice at Grand Rapids as Second-class Matier.] nner WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1884. BUSINESS LAW. Brief Digests of Recent Decisions in Courts of Last Resort. Title Transferred. The Supreme Court of Nebraska, in the case of Kuhns vs. Banks, decided recently, held that where a note payable to order was indorsed by the payee, and with a mortgage securing it delivered to indorsee, that the title to the mortgage was thereby transfer- red. Partnership Funds. Supreme Court of New Hampshire: Real estate purchased with partnership funds for the use of the partnership, and used in the partnership business, is, in equity, regarded as assets of the partnership, and will be ap- plied to the liquidation of partnership in preference to individual liabilities. Not a Sale. The transfer from one person to another of moveable property on ;condition that the latter will sell it, pay himself out of the pro- ceeds what the former owes him, and dis- tribute the remainder to certain named persons, does not constitute a sale, and the transferee does not thereby become the own- er of the property, but a bailee or trustee, and the seizure of the property under execu- tion by a judgment creditor of the transferor is lawful.—Supreme Court of Louisiana. Stock Certificate—Right to Vote. A, transfer of stock not entered on the‘ books of the company has no validity out- side of the parties to sucha transfer. A transfer of stock, until entered upon the books of the company, confers on the trans- feree, as between himself and the company, no right beyond that of having such transfer properly entered, Until that is done, or de- manded to be done, the person in whose name the stock is entered on the books of the company, is, as between himself and the company; the owner to all intents and pur- poses, and particularly for the purposes of an election.—Supreme Court of California. Fraud of Agent—Liability of Principal. When an agent, acting within the scope of his authority, commits a fraud, the fact that his principal is ignorant of the fraud, did not receive any profit therefrom and never ratified it, does not relieve him from liability for the fraud. So held the Supreme Court Commission of Ohio, in the appeal of Wapple vs. Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railway, it appearing that a railroad agent, by adding to the weight of goods, had de- frauded the shipper of $307.80, for which fraud judgment was entered against him, but no part of it was paid. An action was then brought against the railroad company to recover the sum so fraudulenty taken. by its agent while acting within the scope of his agency. The company made three de- fenses: 1. That the frand had not been committed within four years, and therefore the action was barred. 2. That there was a judgment in full force against the agent for the sum claimed. 3. That the company were entirely ignorant of the fraud and had never received any of the excessive charges. Partnership Libel. One of a firm of dealers in furniture and draperies put upon a piece of furniture placed on the pavement, ‘‘Taken back from A. B., who could not pay for it; to be sold at a bargain.” Ina suit for libel upon this act, two questions were decided against the defendants, the firm: 1. That the eourt could determine whether or not the placard was a libel. 2. That every member of the firm was liable, though only one put up the libelous matter, and without the knowledge, direction or consent of the others. In this case, Woodling vs. Knicker- bocker, the Supreme Court of Minnesota, on appeal, reversed the court below. The Chief Justice, Gillfillian, in the opinion, said, 1. What meaning, whether injurious or not in- jurious to the plaintiff, these words convey to ordinary men who read them without a knowledge of the transaction to which they referred, was for the jury to determine, in view of the circumstances under which they are exposed to the public perusal, and whether they are libelous or not, ought to have been for the jury tosay. 2. A per- son ‘can not be held liable for a libel pub- lished by another unless he has authorized him to make the publication. There is nothing in the nature of the business of this firm—that of dealing in furniture and draperies—from which authoriiy to one partner, or to a servant, to gratuitously pub- lish a libel can be implied. The case is dif- ferent from that of a partnership whose bus- iness is publishing or selling either books or newspapers, where each partner is supposed to have authority to publish or sell, and to determine what shall be published or sold, and also from that of the necessary corres- pondence of-the firm, where each partner is presumed to be authorized to conduct it and to determine on its substance and terms. ni It is said that the reason why Bismarck ob- jects to the American hog is that he doesn’t propose Safe Limitations of Credits. The whole system of trade, in all commer- cial countries, is so largely based on _bor- rowed capital, that, without an extended system of credits, or, in other words, without the existence of that feeling of mutual con- fidence which is necessarily the basis of all credits—it could not be sustained fora day; and, indeed, it is doubtful’ if it could be carried on at all. With the gigantic mone- tary transactions common to the daily _busi- ness of our times, it has naturally followed that credits have been in many cases extend- ed far beyond the limits of prudence and safety, with the inevitable result of disaster. It would be difficult if not impossible, to lay down a hard and fast rule to govern the proper proportion of credit to capital in all lines of trade; yet that there should be such a recognized proportion is clear enough. No doubt the safe limit of indebtedness as against working capital might and should vary widely in the different branches of mer- cantile business, for the sufficient reason that certain classes of goods are far more readily handled, and therefore bring quicker returns than others; but there canbe no question of there being a limit of ratio be- tween capital and credit which cannot be ex- ceeded without danger of serious loss. Just what this ratio should be is a problem not easy of solution. It is often said that every merchant must judge for himself as_ to the amount of liabilities which his business may safely assume, but experience teaches that this is »very apt to be an unsafe reliance. The sharp competion now met with in al- most every trade, frequently leads merchants to exceed the bounds of prudence in order to outdo their rivals in the same line, with the not uncommon result of being overstocked, having their means locked up, and, after struggling to carry their load for a time, finding themselyes compelled to compromise. In discussing this subject recently a lead- ing bank president placed the safe indebted- ness of a firm at twice their capital. On the other hand a highly successful merchant de- clared that his business could safely be ex- tended, by vigilant management, until the liabilities are three times as much as the capital. Others expressed more conserva- tive opinions, several deeming it perilous to permit the liabilities of a firm to exceed their capital, while representatives of other and less staple lines; thought they could safely carry stocks worth three times the amount of their capital, because they could turn their money so quickly. From these conflicting opinions the only conclusion to be drawn is that, while con- ditions may, and doubtless do, vary widely in different branches of trade, conservative merchants must, if they would be secure, draw a line beyond which they will not ex- tend credits, basing their rule on what, in their line of business, seems a proper and safe proportion between capital invested and the credit sought. —————@q@2 a _— In moments of peril there is nothing like presence of mind, unless it is absence of body. One moonlight night old Dr. Bazem- bee was returning from a patient, near Mis- sion Bay, when he discovered that his steps were being dogged by a ruffian, evidently in- tent on robbery. They were in a lonely part of the town, near Townsend street de- pot, when the doctor, after buttoning up his coat to his chin, turned up his cellar and pulling his hair over his eyes, suddenly turn- ed back, and, walking up to his pursuer, said: “Please give me a dime to get a cup of coffee, sir. T don’t want to buy whisky; indeed I don’t. I’ve just walked up from San—” “Great King!’ growled the sand- clubber, with intense disgust; ‘“‘to think I’ve been piping over a cussed old pauper for over a mile!’ and he walked off, swearing like a pirate in the last act.—San Francisco Post. ———_—_——___—_ New Corporations Authorized. Aspinwall Manufacturing Co., Three Rivers; capital $1,000,000. Roberts Duplex Planing Machine Tool Co., Detroit; capital $10,000. W. A. Hammond Paper Co., Jackson; cap- ital $24,000. Woodenware Manufacturing Co., Big Rap- ids; capital $10,000. Jackson Electric Light & Power Co., Jack- son; capital $10,000. Eaton Rapids Baking Co., Eaton Rapids; capital $10,000. Babbit Sandstone Co., Ypsilanti; capital $30,000. Hargrave Shingle Mill Co., Bay City; cap- ital $12,000. Salem Co-operative Association, Salem; capital $15,000. ————>_ €* The following formula, showing what sum to add to the cost price of an article in order to obtain a certain percentage upon or out of the selling price will be found useful for reference: The addition of | of the cost ee } will produce One-whole to itself 50 per cent. One-half ? a One-third a aD a One-fourth be 20 ae One-fifth ve 16% One-sixth . 144% “ -One-seventh “ ly * One-eighth . 11 ey One-ninth as 10 - One-tenth e 9 dg One-eleventh es 8% “ One-twelfth . ihe One-thirteenth . ete One-fourteenth ve 6 ae One-fifteenth oe 6% ‘ One-sixteenth ee 5% One-seventeenth és 5y% Ss One-eighteenth + Bag |S One-nineteenth # 5 *§ —————— p> o> In spite of the advantages offered by the cash method, the great bulk of merchants will adhere to the credit system, and they should bend all their energies to make their to have a rival while he lives losses as small as possible.-—St. Louis Gro- M. B. Chureh “Bedette” Co., 31 HURON STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, Manufacturer of 2 “Bedette.” PATENTED JUNE 15, 1883. This invention supplies a long felt want for a cheap portable bed, that can be put away in a small space when not in use, and yet make a roomy, comfortable bed when wanted. Of the many cots that are in the market there is not one, cheap or expensive, on which a comfortable night’s rest can be had. They are all narrow, short, without spring, and in short no bed at all. While THE BEDETTE folds into a small space, and is as light as anything can be made for dura- bility, when set up it furnishes a bed wide and long enough for the largest man, and is as com- fortable to lie upon as the most expensive bed. It is so constructed that the patent sides, reg- ulated by the patent adjustable tension cords, form the most perfect spring bed. The canvas covering is not tacked to the frame, as on all cots, but is made adjustable, so that it can be taken off and put on again by any one in a few minutes, or easily tightened, should it become loose, at any time from stretching. It is a perfect spring bed, soft and easy, without springs or mattress. For warm weather it is a complete bed, without the additionfof anything ;ffor cold weather it is only necessary to add sufficient clothing. The “* BEDETTE” is a household neces- sity, and no family after once using, would be without it. It is simple in its construction, and not med - get out of repair. It makes a pretty lounge, a perfect bed, and the price is within the reach of all. Price—36 in. wide, by 614 ft. long, $3.50; 30 in wide, by 63¢ ft. long, $3.00; 27 in. wide, by 414 ft. long, cover not adjustable, $2.50. For sale by furniture dealers every- where. If not for sale by your dealer it will be sent to any address on receipt of price. We manufacture all our stock Candy and can always give you the best goods. We buy in large lots from Oranges first hands and ship only in full car lots. We handle 20,- 000 boxes of Oranges and Lemons in a season and our Lemons facilities for buying and han- dling are unsurpassed. Nuts We carry a heavy stock of Bra- zils, Almonds, Filberts, Walnuts, Pecans and Cocoa Nuts, and will sell aEarees any ae Z e latel ought eight car Peanuts loads of the best re-cleaned : and hand-picked Tennessee and Virginia Nuts, and are prepared to fill the largest orders, ° PUTNAM & BROOKS ' Wal) HU a) i Tint OAR Nita i Ty WHOLE 44, 46 and 48 South Division Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. | —WE ARE FACTORY AGENTS FOR—— Nimrod, Acorn, Chief; Crescent & Red Seal Ping, Tobaccos. Our stock of Teas, Coffees and Syrups is Always Complete. —WE MAKE SPECIAL CLAIM FOR OUR— Tobaccos, Vinegars and Spices ;! OUR MOTTO: “ SQUARE DEALING BETWEEN MANCAND MAN.” RRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. F. J. LAMB & COMPANY, —WHOLESALE DEALERS IN—— Butter, Cheese, Eggs, Apples, Onions, Potatoes, Beans, Etc. NO. 8 IONIA STREET, GRAND RAPIDS. «- MICHIGAN. A BENOW LSON, ——WHOLESALE DEALER IN—— AKRON SEWER PIPE, Fire Brick and Clay, Cement, Stucco, LIME, HAIR, COAL and WOOD. ESTIMATES CHEERFULLY FURNISHED. Office—7 Canal Street. Sweet’s Hotel Block. Yards—Goodrich Street, Near Michigan Central Freight House. SPRING & COMPANY —-WHOLESALE DEALERS IN— FANCY AND STAPLE DRY GOODS CARPETS, MATTINGS, Ortl CLOTHS, ETc. ETc. Sand 8 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan. THH DEAREST TOBACCO Is a Poor, Common or Low-Priced Article, As It Gives Neither Pleasure Nor Satisfaction. THE PUBLIC IS NOT SLOW TO LEARN THIS FACT WHENEVER IT DISCOVERS AN ARTICLE THAT COMMENDS ITSELF TO THE TASTE AND OTHER SENSES. ———THE REMARKABLE SALE OF——— LORILLARD'S PLUG TOBACCOS Is Ample Evidence of This, This Concern will Sell over 20,000,000 Pounds of their Favorite Brands this Year; or About On6-Fourth of All the Plug Tobacco Used in this Country’ AND AS THERE ARE BETWEEN 800 AND 900 OTHER FACTORIES IN THE U.S., IT FOLLOWS THAT THEIR GOODS MUST GIVE Balter Satisfaction or Represent Better Value for the Money THAN THE BRANDS OF OTHER MAKERS. . with Red Tin Tag, is their Best Brand. é £ * 2. = | (25 . oT Co aT Be nt ee i J, J, VAN LEUVEN, WHOLESALE Millinery —AND— FANCY GOODS LACES, Real Laces a Specialty. Gloves, Corsets, Ribbons, Fans, Hand Bags, Pocket Books, Ruchings, Yarns, Silks, Satins, Velvets, Embroidery Materials, Plumes, Flowers, Feathers & Ornaments, Stamped Goods. STAMPING PATTERNS 70 MONROE STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, = MICHIGAN. TIME TABLES. Michigan Central—Grand Rapids Division. DEPART. +Detroit Hxpress..............-.......- 6:05 a m *Day ExXpress.............-..---------- 12:20 pm *New York Fast Line.................. 6:00 p m tAtiantic Mxpress......--.-....:...-.-. 9:20 pm ARRIVE. *Pacific Express..............-..-+-2-6 6:45 am +Local Passenger..................-+.: 11:20 am OMG 2 ee ee, 3:55 p m +Grand Rapids Express............... 10:25 pm +Daily except Sunday. *Daily. The New York Fast Line runs daily, arriving at Detroit at 12:35 a. m., and New York at i0 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 6:05 a. m. has Drawing Room and Psrlor Car for Detroit, reaching that city at 11:45 a.m., New York 10:30 a. m., and Boston 8:05 p. m. next day. A train leaves Detroit at 4 p. m. daily except Sunday with drawing room car attached, arriv- ing at Grand Rapids at 10:25’p. m. J.T. SCHULTZ, Gen’! Agent. Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee. ING EAST. Arrives. Leaves. +Steamboat Express....... 3:15 am +Through Mail............. 10:10am 10:20am +Evening Express......... 3:20pm 3:35pm *Atiantic Express.......... 9:45pm 10:45pm +Mixed, with coach........ 10:00 a m GOING WEST. +Morning Express......... 12:40pm 12:55pm *+Through Mail............. 4:45pm 4:55pm +Steamboat Express....... 10:30 pm +Mixed.....-.-...--------.-- L 8:00 am *Night Express............. 5:l0am 5:30am +Daily, Sundays excepted. *Daily. Passengers taking the 6:15 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. Parlor Cars on Mail Trains, both East and West. Limited Express has Wagner Sleeping Car through to Suspension Bridge and the mail has a Parlor Car to Detroit. The Night Express has a through Wagner Car and local Sleeping ar Detroit to Grand Rapids. D. PoTTER, City Pass. Agent. THOMAS TANDY, Gen’! Pass. Agent, Detroit. Grand Rapids & Indiana. GOING NORTH. Arrives. Cincinnati & G. Rapids Ex. 9:02 pm Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex. 9:22am 9:50am Ft. Wayne& MackinacEx.. 3:57pm 4:45pm Leaves. G’d Rapids & Cadillac Ac. 7:15am GOING SOUTH. G. Rapids & Cincinnati Ex. 6:32 am Mackinae & Cincinnati Ex. 4:05pm 4:32pm Mackinac & Ft. WayreEx..10:25am 12:32pm Cadillac & G’d Rapids Ac. 7:40pm All trains daily except Sunday. SLEEPING CAR ARRANGEMENTS. North—Train leaving at 4:45 o’clock p. m. has Woodruff Sleeping Cars for Petoskey and Mackinac City. Train leaving at 9:50 a.m. has combined Sleeping and Chair Car for Mackinac ity. . South—Train our oe at 4:32 2 m. bas Wood- Sleeping Car for Cincinnati. aT TG . Lock woop, Gen’! Pass. Agent. Chicago & West Michigan. Leaves. Arrives, WMG... ose e eee e once eee 10:15am 4:00pm +Day Express.....--.--+++- 12:50 pm 10:45pm *Night Express......---+-- 8:35pm 6:10am TE ee 6:10am 10:15pm *Daily. +Daily except Sunday. : Pullman Sleeping Cars on all night trains. ‘Through parlor car in eharge otf careful at- tendants without extra charge to Chicago on 12:50 p. m., and through coach on 10:15 a.m. and 8:35 p. m. trains. NEWAYGO DIVISION. Leaves. a PASE soi cae noeecc teers s* 5:00am 5:15pm EXpress..... 2-2-2 sreseeeee 4:10pm 8:30pm EXPTIess ...-.6---- ee eceeerers 8:30am 10:1am ains connect at Archer avenue for Chicago - as follows: Mail, 10:20 a. m.; express, 8:40 e tig The Northern terminus of this Division _ Baldwin, where close connection is made with P.M. trains to-and from Ludington and J. H. Paumer, Gen’) Pass. Agent. — ALABASTINE! FURR RR TRS 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 is 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, and 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. PRE eRe eB EB ALI Paint Dealers. ——MANUFACTURED BY—— THE ALABASTINE COMPANY M. B. CHURCH, Manager. GRAND RAPIDS, - - - MICHIGAN. WESTFIELD WHIPS | a BEALS THN . & Som, MANUFACTURERS. \lomezon AND SALESROOM NO. 4 PEARL STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. G.ROYS & 00, Gen! Agents, A. A. CRIPPEN, WHOLESALE Hats, Caps and Furs 54 MONROE STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, - MICHIGAN. We carry a Large Stock, and Guarantee Prices as Low as Chicago and Detroit. SHEDS —FOR THE— FIELD AND GARDEN, AT— ‘ WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, —AT THE— SEED STORE, 91 Canal St., Grand Rapids, Mich. W. 7. GAMOREAUX, Agent A. EF. FrOoOw Like, PAINTER AND DECORATOR, —AND DEALER IN— Artists’ Materials ! FINE WALL PAPERS AND ROOM MOULDINGS, WINDOW SHADES, PAINTS, OILS, AND Glass, Plain and Ornamental 37 IonIA STREET, SOUTH OF MONROE. JOHN MOHRHARD, —WHOLESALE— Fresh & Salt Meats 109 CANAL STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, e MICHIGAN. R. J. KIRKLAND. M. D., SPECIALIST IN DISEASES OF THE Bar, Hye and Throat WITH DRS. JOHNSON & BOISE, 72 Ottawa Street, Corner of Monroe Street, o Bs : to5p. Me The Wants of the Trade. If the grocer instead of wasting his time in repining and lamentation would but study more carefully the wants and demands of his customers; exert himself a little more in improving the general appearance of his store and in making his wares more attrac- tive by the order of his display, he would meet with greater success. Any business well conducted must yield a profit to the owner. There are some, of course, who make the mistake of engaging in a business for which they are nowise adapted and others who though well adapted to the busi- ness select a bad location for it. It would be folly, for instance, to start a grocery in competition with an Indian Post-trader or to test your ability to secure the trade ofa well established firm by entering into a business rivalry next door. But the proper location once selected an intelligent and careful management of one’s business must eventually lead to success, no matter how bad_ the times or how low the prices. Gro- ceries are always in demand and are not de- manded or sold at cost. The condition of the market may lead to a loss in the sale of one class of goods but not in many. If sugar or coffee be sold at cost other articles will yield a profit. The grocer is not the only one who is sometimes forced to sell at aloss.. Every merchant is occasionally com- pelled to doso. Nor should it be thought that exertion will lead to wealth. Honesty is not incompatible with the merchant’s love of gain and though every one in disposing of property seeks to get the most money he can for it he should not try to obtsin more than is just, more than its commercial value. The law of supply and demand regulates the profits and a violation of the law must lead to a diminution of sales and a decrease instead of an increase in the number of cus- tomers. The grocer’s stock, unlike that of other merchants, never goes out of season so long asit remains fresh and to avoid sell- ing stale goods he sholud never purchase more than he needs to supply the wants of hiscustomers. His selections should be made with a view to the requirements of his trade and not to the cheapness of the pur- chases and he should lose no opportunity to improve the tastes and cultivate the judg- ment of his customers by supplying them with goods of the best quality. To secure a good custom it is necessary, above all things else, to have the reputation of selling the best goods. A single mistake in this respect may lead to incalculable losses. Give a customer bad butter or a bad article of any kind and when butter and eggs and lard and potatoes and other commodities are needed a visit will probably be made to your rival through fear of being badly treated by you again and from a disinclination to go to two different stores when the order ean be filled by one. In this way thecareless gro- cer loses ten times as much as the occas- ional profits he makes on the sale of bad goods. The leakages of the{grocery trade are very numerous and no business requires more careful watching andicloser attention, but if properly and closely managed the profits though small are numerous and cumu- lative and will’always adequately compen- sate the dealer for whatever he may display of industry and'close application. Personal supervision of one’s business is absolutely essential to success as well as careful man- agement in the regulation of expenses and the prevention of waste. Waste of any kind is ruinous toa grocer. Be just but not too generous should be the motto of the grocer in his relations with his customers. Where sales are numerous, assthey must be by the very nature of the business, and pro- fits sometimes infinitestimal, half ounces given away in weight reduce the profits im- perceptibly but disastrously. There is wealth in the grocery business for those who understand it and are cap- able of closely applying themselves to the fulfilment of the duties devolving upon them. The success of the many who have proceeded cautiously and diligently is proof of the opportunities the business affords. There are more persons engaged in the gro- cery business than in any other mercantile pursuit but there are also more indepen- dent’grocers than any other kind of mer- chants. A determined will, intelligence of the business, close application and courte- ous treatment of customers must at all times and under the most untoward circumstances lead to success and fortune on the part of the grocer. —_—~<—-6§<—__— Her Share of the Work. “Js your sister at home?” asked a Big Rapids gentleman of the little brother who answered the bell. ‘Yes, she’s home,” said the boy; “‘we’re going to have cocoanut pies for dinner to- morrow, and she’s out in the kitchen help- in’ mother make ’em.” “Indeed !” replied the yonng man, evident- ly very much pleased, “and what part of the pie does your sister make?” “She cracks the cocoanuts with her teeth.” —_—_—<-¢- <> He Wert In, They were standing at the front gate. “Won’t you come in the parlor and sit a little while, Georgie, dear?” “N-no, I guess not,” replied George, hesi- tatingly. “J wish you would,” the girl went on. “It’s awfully lonesome. Mother has gone out and father is upstairs groaning with rheumatism in the legs.” “Both legs?” asked George. “Yes, both legs.” “Then I’ll come in alittle while.” nO The beet root sugar manufacture is being overdone in Germany : Account Books. Every dealer who does a credit business, and we know of few who do not, should ex- ercise great caution in such matters. Itis not sufficient to supply each customer with an account book, but care should be taken that every article be entered at the time of sale in the customer’s as well as the dealer’s own books. A great many complaints would thus be avoided. People who bought goods could then check them off on their books as soon as received, and if there were any difference between the goods entered and those delivered the mistake could be rectified there and then. Every dealer knows that after he has_ en- tered an order on his own and the buyer’s books a careless clerk may omit some one of the articles when delivering the goods. The buyer not having the book returned at the time of delivery, may not notice the omis- sion of one article, but when he gets the books and finds it charged against him, the chances are that he will growl very loudly. Of course the dealer will be accused of wil- ful deception, and his excuse _ that “it Zwas due to the clerk’s carelessness will have little weight with a suspicious person. For these reasons, therefore, we would advise every merchant to return his custom- er’s account book with every order. If it be kept for two or three days at a time there is sure to be some dissatisfaction. Be- sides this, when the buyer sees the price of everything in plain black and white before him when he gets the goods he can have no possible excuse for aecusing the grocer of overcharging him when his bill is settled. So many scheming people are in the habit of doing this that it would be a great bene- fit to the dealer to keep a check upon them. ——__—.-2<—____ Patronize the Home Dealer. From the Fremont Indicator. Farmers or mechanics wanting any kind of machinery, should always consult the local hardware dealer, in preference to pat- ronizing agents who are always traveling through the country. Even the honorable agent has no interest with us in common, while the local dealer’s house is a fixture of the neighborhood—a place many are obliged to seek for, and are granted, accommodations unobtainable outside the bounds of your im- mediate vicinity. This patronizing an agent and paying him cash, often for an inferior article, and then dodging the sight of the home merchant whom you owe for necessary articles bought when you probably hadn’t a dollar in money, is far from right. ————————».>-<—_ A Chicago Oath. “Why is my darling so sad to-night?” “T cannot help thinking, my own, that when you are my husband you may be less devoted than now.” “How could I, my peerless queen? I swear by yonder moon—”’ “Oh, swear not by the moon, the incon- stant moon—” “JT swear by yon bright star looking down on—” “No, no! That staris a planet, and changes with each passing season.” “Then, precious one, what shall I swear by?” “Swear by the pork crop. That never fails.” __—<>_ 9 <>—___ Many of the tiny screws used in this country in watch making are turned out on three little automatic machines in Danbury. The marvel of the machine is best grasped when the size of the screw formed is under- stood. They are aneighthof an inch in length, and it would require 200 of them to weigh anounce. The thread on the stem is so small that it is scarcely discernible to the naked eye. Each machine will make 5,000 screws a day. “John,” said the buiter dealer, always put in a couple of sheets of paper when you weigh. Customers will think you are neat and cleanly in your business. They don’t like to have their butter slopped on to a scale that, for all they know, has never been washed. And besides, there’s a good profit in buying paper at half a cent a pound and selling it for twenty-five or thirty.” Artificial cork is among the recent Ger- man inventions. The method of production consists in mixing powdered cork with starch and water, and kneading the mass while boiling hot until it is thoroughly mix- ed. The substance is then poured into molds for forming the articles, and after- wards dried at a very high temperature. The material is described as quite light, and pos- sessing non-conducting properties. How often do you present your bill to that young fellow?” said a gentleman to a_cigar- store man, whom a dude told to charge’ him with a package of cigarettes. ‘Quarterly, sir.’ ‘What! You don’t mean to say you trust him for three months?” “Oh, no, of course not. Quarterly in this case means every time the bill amounts to a quarter.” Glasgow already concedes to American flour a premier position, while the new Flour Trade Association in London largely owes its establishment to. the increased importance of the American trade. Large horses are generally most admired by farmers; but dealers invariably admire farmers who pony up. MOSELEY BROS., Wholesale Clover, Timothy and all Kinds Field Seeds Seed Corn, Green and Dried Fruits, Oranges and Lemons, Butter, Eggs, Beans, Onions, etc. GREEN VEGETABLES AND OYSTERS. 122 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. JENNINGS & SMITH, ——PROPRIETORS OF THE—— ARCTIC MANUFACTURING COMPANY, ——AND MANUFACTURERS OF— Jennings’ Flavoring Extracts Arctic Baking Powders, Arctic Bluing and Inks, Arctic Kid Dressing, Arctic Mucilage, Hitc., Hte., Hite. 20 Lyon Street, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. CLARK, JAWELL & CO, WW EILOLESATIiE Groceries and Provisions, 83, 85 and 87 PEARL STREET and (14, 116, 118 and 120 OTTAWA STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, : - = MICHIGAN. RINDGE, BHERTSCH & CO., MANUFACTURERS AND JOBBERS OF BOOTS & SHOES, River Boots and Drive Shoes, Calf and Kip Shoes for Men and Boys, Kid, Goat and Button and Lace Shoes for Ladies and Misses are our Specialties. Our Goods are Specially Adapted for the Michwan Trade, 14 and 16 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. Oring and Sommer Hats and Cay —I WOULD CALL THE ATTENTION OF MERCHANTS TO MY— Spring Styles of Fine Hats, Spring Styles of Wool Hats, Spring Styles of Stiff Hats, Spring Styles of Soft Hats, Wool Hats $4.50 to $12 per Dozen, -Fine Hats 138.50 to $386 per Dozen, Straw Hats for Men, - Straw Hats for Boys, Straw Hats for Ladies, Straw Hats for Misses. Hammocks Sold by the Dozen at New York Prices ¢ ——LARGE LINE OF—— Clothing and Gents Furnishing Goods, Cottonade Pants and Hosiery. DUCK OVERALLS, THREE POCKETS, $3.50 PER DOZEN AND UPWARDS. Call and get our prices and see how they will compare with those of firms in larger cities. xr.c. Gun WV 36, 38,40 and 42 CANAL STREET, - - GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. Fruit & Produce at Wholesale Choice Butter, Eggs, Cheese, Buckwheat Flour, Maple Syrup, Jellies, Foreign and ‘Domestic Fruits and Vegetables, and Sand Refined Cider. Careful Attention Paid to Filling Orders. MC. Russell, 48 Ottawa St., G’d Rapids, Castor Machine Oil or Castoring.” The Castor Machine Oil contains a fair percentage of Castor Oil and is in all re- spects superior as a lubricator to No. 2 or No. 3 Castor Oil. The OHIO OIL, COMPANY Is the only firm in the United States that has succeeded in making a combination of Veg- etable and Mineral Oils, possessing the qualities of a Pure Castor Oil. We Solicit a Trial Order. It is rapidly com- ing into popular favor. Hazeltine, Perkins & Go., Grand Rapids. Groceries. PENCIL PORTRAITS—NO. 7. Dewitt C, Underwood, Better Known as ¢ ‘D. C., the Wideawake Grocery Drummer.’ Dewitt C. Underwood was born at Nor- wich, N. Y., Sept. 9, 1848. When quite young his parents removed to Friendship, Allegany county, where he was educated in the Friendship Academy, an institution of learning that has graduated a large num- ber of men‘now prominent in commercial and professional life. Graduating from the Academy, after six years’ continuous atten- dance as a pupil, he was offered the position of instructor in bookkeeping, penmanship, and mathematics, which he held for two years, resigning in 1868 to remove to Brigh- ton, Mich., wheré he entered the employ of Jas. B. Lee & Son, general dealers, as book- keeper and salesman. In 1869, he removed to Bay City, and accepted a position with the wholesale grocery firm of Supe & Radc macher as salesman, covering the lake shore territory as far north as Alpena, where he remained two years and a half. In 1872, he removed to Detroit, which he made his headquarters for the next two years, travel- ing on the road on his own account, selling goods on commission. He then accepted a position with the firm of Cody, Olney & Co., as traveling "salesman, being the only trav- eler on the road for that house for twoor three years. Histerritory at that time in- cluded all the available towns on the D. & M.,L. S. &M.S., GR. &L, F. &P. M., D., L. & N. and the Newaygo division. Her mained with that house until April, 1881, when he accepteda more desirable offer from Arthur Meigs & Co., in whose empioy he is at the present time. His route was changed to the north, where he covers all the towns on the G.R. & L, above Reed City. The strong attachments he had form- ed with the trade in that region served him to good purpose on making the change, as be was able to hold nearly all of his old customers, andhas since made many new ones: That his services are i good demand is evidenced by the exceptional record he has made as a salesman, the books of Messrs. Meigs & Co. showing that during the year 1882 his sales aggregated $178,- 508.18, the largest months being June and October, the former month amounting to $17,309.22, and the latter to $17,906.33. Mr. Underwood has made a thorough study of the grocery business for years, and is known among the trade is one of the best posted man on the road. Particularly is this true of teas, a branch of the business he has given painstaking attention and thorough investigation, and in which he is acknowl- edged to be an expert. To this fact may be attributed his success as a salesman. Mr. Underwood has been particularly fortunate in a number of real estate invest- ments, outside his regular business. A year or so ago he conceived the idea that the little town of Elmira, then a struggling hamlet of 20 inhabitants, possessed peculiar advantages as a business point, and pur- chased a tract of land adjoining the vil- lage plat, and a large number of business lots. By systematically advertising and setting forth the advantages afforded by the place, Mr. Underwood has seen the town increase to about 400 inhabitants, with a corresponding increase in stores, shops and factories. The first building he erected found ready sale for $2,000 before its com- pletion, and he has now several buildings in process of construction. The rapid growth of the place is not due to any species of booming or excitement, but is the legitimate outcome of the steady settlement of an ex- ceptionally good farming country. —>>_ - ———___— Sickening the Consumer of Gift Schemes. General Grant onee remarked that the best way to secure the repeal of an obnox- ious law was to enforce it. Following in the same line of thought, the representative of a Chicago spice house recently stated that the best way to make the consumer sick of gift enterprises was to deluge the trade with schemes and literally drown out the craze that has taken possession of people gener- ally, to get something for nothing. “We are getting up a scheme now that will para- lyze the trade, in the shape of pound boxes of baking powder, every one of which con- _ tains a solid silver spoon or napkin ring. We believe that the only way to get trade back to a healthy basis in this respect is to sicken the people completely with cheap glassware and iron silverware, until the words ‘chance,’ ‘gift enterprise’ or ‘scheme’ will have become distasteful to them. Then, and not until then, can goods be sold on their merits.” ——_—__—>_9 << _____ Fruit and Nuts. Oranges and lemons have been in better supply for the past few days, witha brisk demand. Oranges show another advance. Lemons, owing to the cool weather, remain at about the same prices as last quoted, al- though a few days of warm weather will tend to put prices up. The orange crop is not large, and so far the fruit has not kept well, and good round prices may be looked forward to on choice sound stock. Lemons are said to be a large crop and of good qual- ity, and it is only fair to predict a good sup- ply and reasonable prices for the season. Peanuts are without change, but are held very firm. Foreign nuts are fairly steady though filberts and cocoa nuts show as light decline. Dates are unchanged and very low. are firm at a slight advance. Figs Send to M. C. Russell for sample barrel of Sand Refined Cc ider. €%% . Present Worih of David Ward’s Property. “Did you see the article ina recent num- ber of the Northwestern Lwmberman. imputing David Ward’s wealth to be $35,- 000,000?” asked THE TRADESMAN’S finan- cial reporter of Mr. D. E. McVean, of Kal- kaska, a few days ago. Mr. McVean has been for years an active lieutenant of Mr. Ward, having superintended the selection of a considerable portion of his immense pine land possessions, and having seccompanied him on several southern visits to his enor- mous coal and oil interests. “As near as L can determine the matter,” was the answer, “the estimate is about twice the actual reality. 1 place Mr. Ward’s prop- erty at from $15,000,000 to $18,000,000. Of course the advances that will come with the next twenty or thirty years will treble or quadruple this amount. A year ago I visited the scene of Mr. Ward’s coal investments, and was surprised to find that experieneed + coal operaters placed the value of his plant at $90,000,000. That is, there is coal enough on his property to bring that amount, but it will require two or three generations to mine it. In Mr. Ward’s lifetime, he will probably not realize to exceed $5,000,000 from that source.” —_—_—>_4<.__- Selling Sugar for Pieasure. We fail to see any reason why the retail- er should persist in this policy of selling sugar at cost. From a business point of view there is no excuse for their so doing. Why sugar should be thus treated any more than tea or coffee we are at a loss to vnder- stand. : It may be claimed that dealers use sugar as a “leader” to draw trade, but when al- most all do the same thing it must neces- sarily fail to produce the desired results. Why tea should not be made to serve as well as sugar it would be hard to explain. One is as much a necessary of life as the other. If anybody supposes fora moment that in buying sugar at cost from the retailers he does not indirectly pay a profit on it he is decidedly mistaken. The sugar may possi- bly be sold at a loss, but this is made up by adding to the price of some other article. It is the only way in which the retailer can make things balance. We know of men in this city who do not and never did sell su- gar at cost, and they lost no trade by acting in that sensible manner. They were thus enabled to sell some other article at a lower not only held their regular eustomers, but attracted new ones. It seems to us that every sensible grocer will find little difficulty in selling this article at a fair profit, no matter whether his rivals agree to adopt the same pclicy or no. No man will try to do a heavy trade in sugar aloneataloss and if the customers find that while his sugar is cheap some other article is dear, they will readily see that there is no advantage to be gained by deal- ing with him in preference to any one else. Every man in the business should cease to favor the sugar manufacturer more then the manufacturers of other goods, and if he ex- plains things tohis customer, we venivre the prediction that the change can be readi- ly effected. +2 Cannery Project at Muskegon. From the News. There is no question but that Mr. Keating is right when he urges the importance of the establishment of a cannery in this city. Such an industry would have a_ tendency to recfaim and put into actual service a large area of land contiguous to the city which is now uncultivated. This land cannot be put to better use than in raising supplies to sup- port a cannery, while at the same time the investment would be profitable. a Somebody is recommending honey as the best food. Honey let it be. So long as we can manufacture this delicious article with- out bees, there is no reason why it should not go on our tables along with butter made without cows, maple syrup made without trees and eggs laid without hens. “Have you any more hams like that one I got last week?” she asked. ‘Yes, Mrs. Plumbottle, we have six more just like them.” “If they are not the same kind, I don’t want ’em.” ‘Why, madam, I assure you they are all from the same animal.” Burbank seed potatoes, choice quality, for sale by M. C. Russell at 50 cents per bushel. Counterfeit 25 cent pieces, of lead, are ex- asperatingly plentiful in Boston and vicini- ty. Complete assortment of fishing tackle at Calkins Bros., 97 Ottawa street. + A good laying hen will lay her weight in eggs in 35 to 40 days. Calkins Bros. can supply dealers with fishing tackle at bottom prices. Try Boralumine. Any one can use it. rate than their competitors, and in this way|@, p WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT. SALERATUS. LOG SEAR i ee ses ce @50 DeLand’s pure..........-.s.eeceeeeeee neers @ 54 BGO Gar ee occ eee ~ ee —~ | Ohurh’s ....... @ 54% Duck ie oe 9 <.4b 6 9g tae 46 0ip ce «0 ws a elehey comes @18 Advanced. Taylor’s G. M. PDOs Cos sc = Soe Selenk oRe Soto eles @40 Nothing. Cap Sheaf... oe. Declined. Dwight’s .......... a OIE eo ete oe css baie noe eee @22 : Sea Foam oe @ 5% | Arthur's Choice.. ................ eee ee @22 Coffees; Sugars \%c lower. es Ss of Grand Radids.................. @25 eee WEE a oe ee oo Modoe vant g doz 60 Paragon... : 2 doz 60 28 Pocket 3 10 © ORs Da gasp rae ae as iamond......... AZEL'B ......---- 1003 pockets.............-...2s..-- 250 | Ten Penny Durham, % and 4.11.1...) 02 BAKING POWDER. BSIMAW BENG «oops. one eso eg een eons 1 10 dunber 4 nea ibe” oe Gis Arctic is Beans ea es @ doz. 45 ca poss pete teen eee teens i fe Dee emer JE Ry SE ees @22 TCUIG 34 Cans... ft... ee cess es TBO. eee eee ee cee ee eee : ed Fox ee ee oe aees Sel ek cea v @26 Arctic % a Canes ee 1 40 SEEDS. Lime Kiln Club Goth aw one ins ee Ont ArctiG 1) GANS... 5. lee. ae sol ee ee 240 Hemi. 0) Pee 5% | Blackwell’s Durham Long Cut........ ATCHOD CHUB. 6.0... 680. .c osc c leis lies 12 00 Canary Oe ee ea ass 4% one BD ee @90 APG ies ee EPO ee oe aces wceciae + 2: 5 ae BLUING. a . Mixed Bi oe 5Y4@6 Peerless. ee — Pe eee eee =e ne . Bandera. 0 ee : 22 ee doz. 45 soap. Old T ‘1 DAM, POG oo ccs doz. 35 | Kirk’s American Family ........ @ bb Cn at Liquid, 8 oz. Pe 88 an. tania I Oi lace MIOERY =) 226.2508 5 oss... 24 Chis ds be spc eh ees eee . gE “a, oer... ee 25 IAGCHE £00706 Sia eee # gross 400} “do. SAVON ................ cece cece 6 ae . AECHCE Os ccncscssscsne eerste 800] do. Satiner 2111.00 Ge cs oe. APOC BO 07 502 eo eo oe Ve ae = aa 2 oO. OVOGMDUC 6052. t. cae. oe Be imapsy. oe $ Arctic No. 1 pepper DOX............seeeee 200} do. White Russian................ 5 40 ae te a Navy Clippings . 24 Archie NO:S 8 fh oie sce we ss 3 00 Seoul s English Family .......... 54 | Honey Dew <.... 25 Arctic No; 7 a, 4 50 do. Princess ...0 8.2.0)... 4) Gold Block 62... 39 BROOMS. Pnocten & GAB BITES a nes oa NOwp ie leet cigeee 22 apan Olive...... c Oronekor: os ae. No. 1 CANDEG ac. al ee 2 50 do. Town Talk % box B20 | Niower Head 19 RG 2B NOE, foe sae nesses 2 25 Be io sccnnn esate ee nes o No.1 Hutt : 3 00 da. Sulaen Bar........ : Z ———, Dae sei ccna dase es cas 60 NEG ee Ce eee : Ree ae ee 7 ee ee eee 35 Common WHISK: . 02 .6.6.2.622.2.54..4-2- Procter & Gamble’s Velvet @3 H DEW eee eee eee sees eee ee os ol eee eae ; oll aes piano ane abc ae ae ou a ei CANNED GOODS. Procter & Gamble’s Good Luck....... @3 25 poe ee ee ee SS Apples, 3 standards ................0206 129 | Procter & Gamble’s Wash Well....... QS 2) Gone POU... |... oes sce cre cee cece @30 Apples, 6 i standards ..................06 200 | Badger..................eeee ee eee ORs @O4 National (........ occ. cc ccaecc ees @26 Apples, es eontaes RARE cc ieee es Se cote ees ee ce tc ete c ene cceees a a Time, «as oo eeeeceeeeeeeeee cere eceeees @26 eo ae eeor ES aa oni, SO oo oc een 85 | Gowan & Stover’s New Process 3b br @ 21] Fox’s.........cc ccc eceececeeeeeeeeeeeens @2 Beans, Boston Baked.................000++ 175 | Tip Top... ........eeeeee ee ee ees Bwbar © Wi Grayling... oo. oc ccha sees GR Blackberries, standards............-..+0+ 125 | Ward’s White Lily..................... @G tS | SealiSkine (50 2298s @30 Ciare ies, WRG ong ooo os coves tene eo 1 90 esarerchiet Bee eee a Dime Durham 62 @2% Condensed Mii; Page biaind. 2270000027899 | RaBbwS Bat nets Samco III as SL U5 | PISO DRAG .. 2.1 eee cece eee eee eee eee EF UYU | LUMDEFIMAN 2... eee eee ee ee ee eee 2 ee a ie ce. SO. eater oor Corn. Mryeuan.. o.oo seen end see 110 | Magnetic... ......... 420 | Mountain Rose......................... @20 (orn, Narmouth...........3..2.2...5--5- 1 50 Beopn French Process...........- ee beat F a coe eons ee ae ee Corn TRGpny.s... 62.2 oo. bie css Fo | SPOON .. wo eee eee eee ee ee ee ee eee eeee ; ome Comfort, 14s and 4S............ @25 Corn, 2 2 Gadaeo ee 1 50 ae ne ce ee eeeece ce escceeees : Old Rip, long cut........ eee en Gao de occ cen cecnccnnecececeeecd 20 | Vaterland ...... 0... se. cess cece ee ee ees u ; ee Damsons OG ieee ee 1% leo ee ie Green Gages, Standards..........-...2006 160 | Pittsburgh..................2.--.0000-- 40) luo Nickle 46. @26 ee a 200 | Bogue’s ......... ss seeeeeeeeeeeeeer eres UD | Shoe Pena oo. acs vamos oe ec @2%5 Lobsters, Picnics ........s.s..c00e0ceeeee ee 175 | White castile bars..................++- 13 | Golden Flake Cabinet.............. b... = @AO Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 Ib........... 400 | Mottled castile.................ee sree 12 | Seal of North Carolina, 2 0z........... @52 Oysters, 1 b standards. .... Se eee 1 10 o Cas vette eee e sees eceeeceeeeeece @ fb: Seal of North Soles * Ce @50 1b Allied re | Old Country............-...-.-.--------- 2 | Seal of Nor arolina, 8 OZ........... OL ene 2b standards eee ! 5 SPICES. Seal of North Carolina, 16 oz boxes... 50 Oysters, 2 i slack filled.................-- . SHORTS. Peaches, all yellow standards............ Se ate ne Ta BR ect erecta ncn ees 28 Seek 3 i oe eer Heath......... : 2 fess 7") 16@30 Seales oe ee 23 Peaches, white standards................. ee 20@25 ONBTESS .... 0.22. ee cece rere eee ee e Peaches, SCCONGS.......... 6. cece ee eee eee 1 65 faa VINEGAR. Pie Peacnes...9.. 2... sss s ees n es eee 1 20 Mead Pune Oiler 12 Sel EE esse 0) eat ornare Bee eee eine: WasitiNG POWDERS. r Peas, good Marrofat................00-000- 135 | Alispi b Se a ee "5 Spice 14 D.......... 6... eee eee eee 4 RUC ID Se cok... @10% ROSCA ae aA ene 65 | Cinnamon \ tb 100 illett’ Pineapples i ee 1 oem 7B oe terete .@ 1% Pine Ap pple, 2 Pi Sugar Loaf............/.- 2 50 Pepper, whole..... a. @18 | Borxine @box... Ot aspberries, Eri€.............--seeeeee eens 66 0 peerage eet - Raspberries, other brands...............- 1 20 se ie ee ae Pearline ® DOX........eseeseveeeeeeeees @4 50 Salmon, standard...............0ceeceeees lege 20 @2 YEAST. — Sardines, imported 48................008 15% | Nutmegs, NO. L.cscsecececeeeceececes "0 @75 Seneca Falls ‘‘ Bisse SUR es. 1 65 Sardines, imported 45..........-.eeeee ee ee 20 2 os Twin Bros....... 165 {Wilsons .......... 1 65 Sardines, domestic 48 eae 8 a a cp oo a Gillett’s......... 165 |National......... 1 65 ardines, GOMESTIC 725h........ cece seen eee. 12% uzzy Gloss packaee.<...°.......- 7 MISCEL Sardines, MaIStard 2 oo. ioc sie: 15 Muzzy Gloss 3 ib package.............. Ora Blackin See 30, 4, Strawberries, standards..:..............-. 110 Muzzy Gloss 6 Ib boxes.............--- ae & waterproof... a ee standards. sae 1 ® el Gloss poe. en ee ;: oe B aie Brick imported 11. ‘2 uccotas oa er brands...%..:..........- Se 4 Muzzy Corn 1tb............ 2-2... - eee A, 0 Succotash, 2 ME yes cece caine Special prices on 1,000 ib orders. oe American... 15 Tomatoes, ceeitiards Bela isc eas 1 00@1 05 Kingsford Silver Clos 3: @84 B ae ma Noob. @3% Tomatoes, gal. Erie..............cceeee eens 325 | Kingsford Silver Gloss 6 box....... @ou, | Pur a ers, No Gahe . q a Trout, oi VEOOK 2.5.5... ce cee. 3 00 ee Des oe eee Seco os e's ae Baca Oe eat oe 50 Sweeo GOSS. ..60.2.....0...0500..10.. ’ , . . ee Waterproof 75 | MIREOr Gloss..-c..c usin Qt ae : or teste terse ees v0 : irror Gloss, COrM,............--.+---- 7 ES Pe ; a Mausket...0..5.... "5 Pics Pearl ee @4 . tera aoe sot te esse cee e cece eee . Br CHOCOLATE. Americad Starch Co.’s leu counaeea Pe German sweet..-...-..2....--..--.+ -)-- @25 | LM GOSS... 0. ss eeeeesseee reese ener ees @8% | Cream Tartar 5 and 10 b cans.. eo @25 Raise ee @40 NO.OF, GIORS. 22. 6.500. 22358... @3% Candles, Star es @bY% Benes ee ee @35 Pe a acc Cee ee or Candles, FO ges ee cases @16% Vienna SWeet.. 50). 0.2 sete: @25 abl a m a ee 4 i 6 one pines sop choice ae a viol a COFFEE. able, Come 2.0 eae 2 @ DED eS eer ct cece s see Ch INQe Boe ee a ee. é Green Rio. ...124@14% Roasted Mex.174@19% | Banner, DUI, «.-. oo oes eeeeer sree e "do, No, 2. Gas Green Java... .174@27%|Ground Rio.. 94@17% Hovey’s 1 i Sunday Gloss............. oo Cocoanut, Sche ps’ 1b pack: see 266 Green Mocha.25%4@2734|Ground Mex. | @16%| Hovey's 3m Sunday Gloss............. @7% | Cocoanut, Sch pbs 1 t na ore ae me ee 721 Hovey’s 6 i Sunday Gloss, wood box. @8 ut, Schepps’ 1 & % gs @xi% Roasted Rio..138 @17%|Arbuckle’s....... @15% Evaporated Hulled Corn 50 fb cases @ il Roasted Java24%4@344iXXXxX @15% One Mrs. Potts’ Polishing Irons given free | Rytract Coff ie os o . Roasted Mar 1714@19 |Dilworth’s ...._..@15% | With each box or crate of Sunday Gloss Starch. ae one PSA OG eet a ae 1 ee meen Steen ee STONEWARE. Flour, Star Mills, in bbls .....222.0221 5 CORDAGE. ee PaNOM ee et ee ae, eS 6 ee a 00s Sacks.....:. ...2.8 50@ ae i ~ | CLOCKB........ ccc cece cree eee e cece cccees um, er 100 lumps. .............. . Aes ’ ae abe : = e ao oa .- 3 S Milk Crocks. 3/205) Ue ” |Gum, Rubber 2 200 pr Ce a bore eee Es STOVE POLISH. G 3 & Recor e cas Coes eee 5 FLAVORING EXTRACTS. Rising Sun gross..5 5 Bi Above gross...... 5 50 Hotes Radish, ae ae 40 oc i ore ane ae DO PVR oe oo e shes tecc ss BO Jennings! 2 02.....-.--s-seeese esses Bee oe a Nee a e: Wh ne on ee cre tes ee renee ee nt ise } WAMUMISted sos @75% 1 do Glass Tumblers oe en o ae sect ete e sees sees see eees ccc ece : a Cupoat..... ...---.-...-.. : 814@8% | Licorice, Sicily ...... . — Coe G20 si oe 1 95 CUDCS ec ca: 844@8% | Licorice, Calabra .......0..........000. 28@30 5 O- fe APO 2 seen ene eee ea nn 7 2; Powdered................ 844@ 8% | Licorice Root.... ........ @12 : eee round sect e eee ee ee ee eeee ree San ae oF Lye @2 doz. caseS............+.-.+c-..1 B@ fe a ee ure es VG Ao. e eee cece eee ee eee eens 4 | Macaroni, Imported......... ......... B Ne = eee 5 : Extra C 64@6% | Domestic..... r Le @ 2% a ee ee Ween [tee ere een ey @6 00 7 oe aa ee eee eee ae J eee POL. eee @ doz. a Corn. Barrels... 1.00.03. @ 30] Oil Tanks, Star 60 ee oe a a ee Foo | Corns 7 dbis......... Oil Tanks, Patent 60 gallons.......... 14 0@ is MOPS oie acs oie e 5 se cele wesc os cals ccs =e Corn, tU gallon kegs Pepper Sauce.. 90@1 00 2 BOM. eo ns ek oie oe ees 5 00 Corn, 5 gallon kegs. Peas, Green Bush ee ee 150@ RA ee foptercst rere: 2 59] Corn, 4% gallon kegs. do | Split prepared. ..... 2 @ 8% A 1 ine ee ae nue suse he ae Powder, Mea. 5 50@ oe gee MOUNG! 260 oss sete. y - Pure SASAr Drips... eee isa 5 ar kegs oS a” eee ee ae ‘easyer BRR oe cere te nate tse ee ett enes ure Maple.......... Sago ..... NO; 10.007... bok: 6 00} Pure Maple................. 10 gal kegs @ 80 Shot, drop. tal pas FAUCETS. pune Maple... .:5...-5.....- 5 gal eee @ 85| do buck 1112 B@ Faucets, self measuring.............. @2 50| Pure Loaf Sugar Drips... ...... %b @ % |Sage......... @15 Faucets, COMMON............eeeeeeeees @ 35| Pure Loaf Sugar.. coat -5gal ious @t 00 Pa CEARes pte Sach. @45 ‘obacco Cutters eac 1 25 FISH. Japan ordinary. .26@30|Young Hyson.. ..2% Twine 18@23 Meee 4%@6% | Japanfair........ 5|\Gun Powder..... 35050 ChimneyCleaners ® doz 05 Mamelods Od cs os ..3. 5-2 os BOTs Japan fair to g’d. bast Oolong ....... 88@55@60 | Flour Sifters # aoe : 3 00 as Spl. PAGO TD 2. ssc 75@3_ 00 . apan ane eee. thaeD 40@50\Congo ............ @30 | Fruit Augurs each. 113@ erring Scaled..................+.0e0+ Q apan dust....... TRODIOCH 2, a sisted MoUand.: .: 6.6... ik 5. ee a B Siawiond a CUT. @st Washing Crystal, Gillett’s box. cE 50M 65 Gates ee ooo | Diamond Crown:.).. 060.0220... 5 icki 4 ee 0. 1% ee sartestetreenrenes 8 . nee ar Wee ues Somuee eae ce oes as ao fonne ee ae o. ite, Family, Bo a 4 Ee renee 4 GO. “Argan ...00..00.65..2.. i White, No. 1, 10 0 kits ye 1 10 on a os —_— RE a ise, No.1, 12 MER oe ee oe reen Back. Trout, No. 1, % bbis.................. 445 | Bruit .0...... @33 ae aaa ens Trout, No.1, 12 i kits................ 90 | OSo Sweet.. : @31 Prevailing rates at Chicago are as follows: Mackerel, No. 1, % bbls.............4. 700 | Prairie Flower .- @65 | Anvils—Peter Wright’s, # tb............ i Mackerel. No. 1, 12 kits............ 115 | Climber [light and dark].............. @62 | Augurs—50 and 10 per cent. off. eRUITS, Matchless ............-..-....----+,---- @65 -| Babbett—Genuine @ b.......... @30 H 2 BAWAUDE o.oo os oie 1c eee seco eee s 69 PEetriee. co. 6. bees @26 London Layers, new.................6- M1 Globe 7 No.1 @20 Lope cmeapesrigre Raisins, new. +2 a2! ORT May Mlower 2.5. .05 00.0.0. p oe 70 No. : @18 ew Valencias Raisins............... RONG @45 No. : @10 ONnGATHS oe ee ee. se ies 10 munkey Brune .....000c0c0..s1sc0000 ge Cae er ae Chain Pee eee oS ee ee 6 @6% | Silver Thread..............0. cece eee @6T 16 do do oe. 64% Citron «.... esse eee e ee ee ee eee ec eee es ee, Gn fe alle ee BGK | Kentucky 0000000000 G30 i< do a meee MATCHES. EG OR oe es caine cee ceass oe @67 % do oe 436 3 ’ POOR BOO. oo os ne ae cee ese cinee ces @32 S| Fi les—Ni h i s best ae acca epeadkee ed eee ; = Peek-a-Boo, i Barrels... obi. @30 Ree ae a Maceret Co nek cent oak Richardson’sNo.5 do 1220202002202 10 | QUPper, Fox's. ee ons aes ee sees @2 | Hammers—Maydole’s 10@15 per cent off. Richardson’sNo.6 do 2 79| Clipper, Fox’ s in half barrels......... @20 | Hinges—Strap and T 60 per cent off. we ohatenshes do... ae HOQUMEAIA ee a ce @ji4 | Horse Shoes—Burden’s $4.00 per keg. Hihardschatio.) do 2 55 | Old Congress..........-- sees eres sree ees @64 |Horse Nails—Au Sable 30 and 10 per Richardson’s No. 4 round ........ 2... 1......2 70| GOOd LUCK... 2... reese eeees eee ee sense @52 cent, off. Richardson’s No.% dO. ............eeeeaee 55 oo ae COE... seen aeeeerenereeeeee @45 ea : ; ae ee | RIO AWAY os «ccs occ pe oes ces en ess @35 eet No. see Bleotrio Parlor Nocti... .200.00000000000000°3 go] Mate fter. eos. Gi | Swotele barbie D. Gee er ge oe a i ieee eee ORO RMR OE Wg PERE RENs oie 6's 0 so 0/5 6) «0 ce ce se we et a Ce ne ee ee: 5 70) Charm of the West, darie..2..0000.100 On bee fee 6 Grand Haven, No. 8........ eee Governor, in 70% tin foil.. ee ae @60 pices sete ee eee e cnet eee t ere ree eens 14 heaieeceens Seyuge tiie Bete a es @52 Rar oe oe eae MOLASSES a Big, Drive... fitiag Gee Rope—Manilla @ Be... 14 ars eg GlODY ooo eee ee eevee tence eeeiceae @50 ae e Bb ee sue 1% ew Orlean OOG 25 ee ee ae 45@E EET ons ce ee wicn cece cc cn ces sescnias @48 Sash ay ht; Te 4.0 cea. New rma acy Pe ee BO) Pilver COM oi... c eee secs ae co ee @50 Shot Buck S15. = Bywind; BUGGE. -.. 6. os. se-s vo svec eben es 27@35@45| Buster [Dark]....................20005 @36 Drop $1.80. OATMEAL. Black Prince [pare Ee ee ig 14 @15 Black Racer [Dark]................... @36 =| Steel—Best cast tool @ tb.... 2.22.22... ou 18 as » hoes ee te saa Se eeehy ona e e Leawett & Myers’ Star......2.66005.5.3 @50 Round Machine # tb.................. @8 pio hae eee cee oeaG ce. é NOI es oe ech L ese. cies Ve ucwerees @50 Spri Biter ee ce sey winches Uucas cee y Tuer! DOIB. 5 5hs coi tau cece s ere sess 8 4b | Bold WASt oe eee scree cous @A8 Tin Pig # D.. Dee eens eee eS Gon MUAKOY DDIB.. 2... heck ee ce eee te. 6% | McAlpin’s Gold Shield................. @48 | . Bar@ mm ....... 6... 2... 3. ‘ ME eco ec ces eet ie een. @22% ae poe F uaeee fan and 12 ib cads....... Zine—Sheet We eee te. 5%@ 6% + OV OE OB se wcee sc cccde cee 6 ) —-_—--_- Kerosene ea Be mee ROll..... 0. esses eee eee eee @38 COAL AND BUILDING MATERIALS. Sweet, 2 oz. square... "5 eee @50 A. B. Knowlson quotes as follows: Sweet, 2 oz. round... 1 00 PCO SCR 8. Soot cies ote seks cones @48 Ohio White Lime, per bh. coc. 120 Castor, 2 0z. square.. i MR | LOSCCNE 62 08) eee eee poets @44 | Ohio White Lime, car lots............. 95 Castor, 2 02. round........... .eeeeeees 100) ee sc ee @35 | Louisville Cement, per bbl.........,.. 1 40 SroKrie. nace gadech cheoeseUess eres soe eae e @40 oes ecm wELes So eiv ee os ‘ 4 Choicein barrels med ok ea 1 35 Nobby Spun aa ee fae ee AO one tart ecstsccngacnness MTA es eng se ce cos cc eve @50 | Plastering hair, per bu................ 35@ Dingee’s% do BINA, fcc ch Se. oy cane 4 25) Grayling, all styles.................... @50 Bianoac yer bbl. a go Ea Oe eo Al 7 pines, : — slate fancy: sep haa ‘ io ae pede Reece: gents be cbuecies @AT pe reso nee bah Gch ean e ves ¢ os Roast a in Glass. Sis LS 8 50 GOO EMO posers sete nesses @50 pie bce, per M....cccccccceces cess e827 @ $35 Re ee ee ee ee eae - American pt. in Glass...............20002 200s 1 25| D. and D., black...... 0.0... cc cece ce eces * @37 | Anthracite, egg and grate............ $6 50@6 ereen. -— at 2 Greet Shield «. oi. esc. @48 Anthracite, stove and nut........ *.... 6 T5Q@T 00 pickdwelas Cedi Wess ccses @35 BHO GOBL, 605.5. hie ons tees papoune mays REPOS. eh es 2 25@3 e Ghampion Aio.iss oo ees ce tees ee GAS | ONIO COB) oi coos ook vce ec cece be 4003 80 ie Olt Po Di, occ i hoc cece sceesdcs NOL Sailors’ Solace. ii... 0. ccc caeccccesess @A48_ | Blossburg or Cumberland........ «.. O0@5 25 CANDY, FRUITS AND NUTS. Putnam & Brooks quote as follows: STICK. Straight, 25 boxes................... @10 Twist, G6 po ak. @10% Civtast Ge a @12 MIXED. Royal, 20D pails... oo... 2. cece cent cde 1 10% Mowal AN ODIs... . 2. o.oo. cok ss = Extra, 25° pais... oo. S. oo. occ ec ce ie Extra, 200 WW DBIS.. . 12%| Victory K.......... 12% Paconia ...:.-.....- 12 |Phoenix A.......... 9% Red Cross....... 1.10 [Phenix B.... :..:- -10% Social Imperial....16 {Phoenix XX..... .. 15 MILLINERY GOODS. J.J. Van Leuven quotes as follows: HATS. OBTOTS 2g 2.0 ob cscs per doz Z ae : 00 MUIR a ace bos hoes ese gee ees 6 00 MAUS MUANG). iol. ec csee soe se ee 9 Wee 00 Superfine Milans..................+5. 15 00@18 00 WO os eee ee 5 00@12 00 BLACK CRAPE. Samuel Courtland & Co.’s brand. Be ee oases eee oes per yard pt 75 Wee eer ea es 85@1 25 Be ib ae eae Me ee a i se ces 1 50@2 60 Bl os ey ee as 1 75@2 50 Beh ee is ee as ss oe 2 15@3 00 G4 ee ea a ee 3 25@4 50 RIBBONS. Satin and GG, all silk, extra heavy, all colors. M0 5 oe Se eas 1 00 WEG re os oka dG eek ee es 1 25 Os ae ie i ie ea 1 50 Second ys ail colors. ae ise ta Pease iene gees QO. Dag ee cscs cece scnrees mee Gs Ties os vei seen Pores revetesae wee eeeeereereene Cee ree ee near esenee CARPETS AND CARPETINGS. Spring & Company quote as follows: TAPESTRY BRUSSELS. Roxbury tapestry................. @ 90 Smith's 10 wire... 5.2.6.0... este @ 90 Binith’ Ss CXbras 2. eae. ane: @ 8 Smith’s B Palisade................ @ 0 Smith’s C Palisade................ @ 65 Mies eae ees @ 82% PAN pUNS) AA se kee @ 0 Santor@’s Oxtra..........:...:...2. @ R% Sanford’s Comets.................- @ THREE-PLYS. Hartford 3-ply..............-----+- @1 00 Lowell 3-ply Pa eo ee aces @1 00 ious? SPL. 8... ss co @1 00 Sanford’s'd-ply....................- @ 9% EXTRA SUPERS. MAnitOrG .....:-.5..-2. @ 11% Howell. ...2.2..2.35.--..% Fe igs es: @ 8% Other makes. ............-:.:...-. 15 @ Ti% Best cotton chain.................. 60 @ 62% - ALL WOOL SUPERFINES. Best 2p oe ee 744@ 60 Other ais Pais. so. seo ese 524%@ 5d . WOOL FILLING AND MIXED. All-wool super, 2-ply........:..... 5d Extra heavy double cotton chain. 42% 45 Double cotton chain............... 35 @ 40 Heavy cotton and wool, doublec. 30 824% Half d’] chain, cotton & wool, 2-ply 27%@ 382% Single cotton chain................ 19 @ 2 HEMPS. 3-ply, 4-4 wide, extra heavy........ ae 30 Imperial, plain, 4-4 wide o @ 18% 79.35 INCHES: :. 5.52... es. s =s @ ii OIL CLOTHS. No. 1, 4-4, 5-4, 6-4 and 8-4. @ No. 2, do : @ 31% No. 3, do @ 30 No. 4, do @ % MATTINGS. Best all rattan, plain............... @ 2% Best all rattan and cocoa, plain.. @ 52% Napier A... 2. 5-20.) sos ee cee. @ 50 Napier B...2.6. so eee eee @ 40 CURTAINS. Opaque shades, 38 inch............ @ 15 Holland shades, B finish, 4-4....... @ 18 Pacific Holland, 4-4............... @ 10 Hartshorn’s fixtures, per gross... @86 Cord fixtvres, per gross........... @10 HIDES, PELTS AND FURS. Perkins & Hess quote as fol.ows: HIDES. Groen 8 a ee ghé6 @T Past Cured: .5...-5--:-- secs sess eee 8 @ 8% My ISCUPOG: oo coi ees es o4@ 834 Dry hides and kips..................... @12 Calf skins, green or cured............. 10 @12 Deacon skins.................- #8 piece20 @50 SHEEP PELTS. Shearlings or Summer skins # piece..10 @20 HA POLES. 2. cs See cis sees ms 80 @50 Winter pelts... 2... 6.50. loc eee 100 @1 50 WOOL. Fine washed #D..........-.0..- 62.22%. 380 @32 (OATSO WABREO.. 6 ooo os cc ee cee 22 @25 TMWASNCO: os os ie oes. cae 2-3 FURS. Miike Jar pe os oo cs fae case Se 60@ 75 NPIS SINAN ooo. 5. clas oe se ac ese oe oe 40 Muskrat, Ss ring. ale 15 7 Muskrat, Winter 1@ 14 Muskrat, Fall.. 8@ 10 Muskrat, kits... 8@ 4 BSCCOON.. 3.60.5 652565 .- 40@ 85 Sia DIACK = oo 5. 2... keen cs te oe 80@ 90 Skunk, half stripe..............4....0. 50@ 60 Skunk, narrow stripe................4. Hes 30 Skunk, WPORG 2 os case es 15 mitoses 1 Oot 15 RTO OR 8s os a eh 60@ 90 Maton, WOMOW. 62-255. . 56.5 -4sc5. ose 75@1 00 ISTO ob a sys ys ce ac as Heep oes 4 00@8 00 OTEOR ee es ee ae 6 00@8 00 MOAT oe ee es ees 5 00@12 Deer skins, red and blue, dry.... ® b 25@ 30 Deer skins, gray and long haired..... R@ 25 Beaver, clean and Ory BD: voc. ces: 2 00@3 25 Above prices are for prime skins only—un- prime in proportion. ONMOW 6 coor ees, ei ek daccae oe 6@ 6% DELINQUENT DEBTORS. Falmouth. John Koopman writes: Ilike the plan of your Dead-Beat List and think if followed up by all dealers it would prove a protection to the trade. I submit the following: Andrew G. Larcom...........0.ceee cece ee $25 74 Jas. McGarvey, moved to Clio............. 413 Wm. Smeade [a smooth city-tongued PORUO) Gon 5s oss ewes eee ek cee ees John Gardner. ......6 05. cece dee eee scenes Wm. F. Smith [a thorough dead-beat. Is or has been residing at Vogel Center].. 10 41 Eugene W. Larcom..... Cieicieee Pipes ceads 8 50 The former has moved to Lake City and left 1% 3 00 90, the above account, open besides; several pthors, this vicinity. Visiting Buyers. The following retail dealers have visited the market during the past week and placed orders with the various houses: Wm. Black, Cedar Springs. R. B. Jennings, New Troy. D. E. McVean, Kalkaska. R. H. Woodin, Sparta. E. W. Sherwood, Otsego. L. J. Eckler, Kalkaska. T. W. Provin, Cedar Springs. G. A. Estes, Tustin. Wm. Parks, Alpine. W. B. Thompson, Lowell. J. Gibson, Petoskey. J. M. Dameron, Bangor. R. M. Smith, Campbell & Smith, S. C. Fell, Howard City. Andrew Green, Hungerford. M. B. Farran, South Boardman. S. Frost, McBride’s. Geo. A. Sage, Rockford. C. Porter, Chauncy. C. N. Hyde, Alba. John R. Wylie, or Wylie Bros., Martin. F. Dodge, Stanwood. Geo. W. Bartlett, Ashland P. O. H. Baker, Baker & Son, Drenthe. N. Bouma, Fisher’s Station. Wait Bros., Hudsonville. J. E. Mailhot, West Troy. C. L. Howard, Clarksville. T. J. Sheridan & Co., Lockwood. A. V. Chapman, Fruitport. Delos Bros., Bravo. Chas. Glascow, Saranac. Barker & Lehnen, Pierson. H. Coykendall, Allegan. Stauffer & Salisbury, Hastings. A. G. Fleury, Chester. W.S. Root, Talmage. Carrel & Fisher, Dorr. Colburn & Carpenter, Caledonia. G. J. Schakelton, Lisbon. J. & W. F. Bricker, Belding. I. S. Boise, Hastings. Norman Harris, Big Springs. Smeadley Bros., Georgtown. D. R. Crane, Fennville. J. E. Bevins, LeRoy. S. D. Thompson, Newaygo. M. Miller, Wyman. Spoon & Thompson, Spoonville. Fred Ramsey, White Cloud. Henry DeKline, Jamestown. Geo. Carrington, Treut. Geo. S. Curtiss, Edgerton. M. Hedges & Son, Lamont. E. Plumb & Sons, Mill Creek. W. F. Stuart, Sand Sake. D. H. Lord, Howard. Jay Marlatt, Berlin. J. B. Jewell, Fremont. G. P. Stark, Cascade. F. N. Edie, Casnovia, Wm. Vermeulen, Beaver Dam. J. O. Sabin, Luther. G, H. Walbrink, Allendale. Jas. Toland, Ross. Luther. ————~_--<>—______——_- Late Furniture Gossip. Hall & Lewis’ furniture store at Hersey was burned on the 25th ult. The Phoenix Furniture Co. has added to its line of pillar extension: tables four new patterns. A company has been formed at Sherwood to engage in the manufacture of extension table slides. Henry S. Holden has gone East on a busi- ness trip for the Luther & Sumner Manu- facturing Co. Chas. W. Jones, of Widdicomb Furniture Co., has returned from an extended Southern and Eastern trip. Bellaire people are discussing the project of forming a $50,000 company to manufae- ture the Harriman patent table. _ H. O. Lange has retired from the firm of Truesdell, Lange & Co., furniture dealers at Muskegon. Country Produce. Apples-—Stock light, and market not very well supplied. Baldwins and Russets readily command $4@$4.50, and extra faney find frequent sale at $5. Beets—Choice find ready sale at $3 ® bbl. and $1 # bu. Butter—Good dairy rolls are firm at22@ 25e and packed from 10¢c up. Elgin creamery, 27. Butterine—Active at 20@21¢ for choice. Buekwheat—New York patent, $3.50 per 100 ths, and 36.50 $B bbl. Beans—Prices are looking up, the Eastern market having advanced very materially. Handpicked are firm at $2.25 and unpicked are in active demand at $1.75@ $2. Barley—Choice $1.30 % 100 tbs. Cheese—Firmer and stiffer. Full cream is active at 15c, and skim is in good demand at 1214 @13l¥¢e. Cider—20c # gal. for ordinary. fined, $6.50 % bbl. Sand re- at $6.75@$7 4 bu. Corn—Loeal dealers stand in readiness to supply earload lots of Kansas corn at from 45@60c F bu. It is all of the same quality, but the former price is for damp, and the latter for dry, stock. Dried Apples—Quarters active at 7@9c # tb, and sliced 8@9c. Evaporated dull and slow at 14@15ce. Eggs—Still uncertain as to price, although everyone seems to be well loaded up. Job- bers are holding them at 16c, but whether the next move will be up or down it is im- possible to state. The probability, however, is that they will reach 14¢ before the end of the week. Green Onions—50c # dozen bunches. Honey—In comb, 18¢ # Ib. Hops—Choice New York 25@28c # tb; low and medium grades 18@24c; Pacific coast paetes Wisconsin 12@20e; Michigan 20@22 Eevee Hothome stock selling readily, with good demand, at 25¢e # tb. Maple Sug gar—In consequence of a light erop, the price is up le, and choice readily commands 13ce. Onions—Choice yellow 75¢ # bu. in sacks and $2.50 4 bbl. Pieplant—Hothouse stock in fair demand at 12!¢¢ @ ib ‘As much a drug as ever. Bur- banks are sold in small quantities at 40c, and Rose at 30@35e. Peas—Holland $4.2 5 e bu. Parsnips—Firm at $3 # bbl and $1 ¥ bu. Poultry—Chickens and fowls are firm, and readily command 16@17ec and i15@16c, respectively. There are no ducks and geese in market, anda few turkeys, which find ready sale at 16ce. . Radishes—50e 4 dozen bunches. Ruta Bagas—Selling readily at 65e ¥ bu., and $2 bbl. Seed Potatoes —White Star, Burbanks, 50c. Timothy—Choice is firmly held at $1.50@ $1.75 GP bu. Vegetable Oysters—50e Y dozen bunches. Wheat—Local dealers are paying 82@88e $Y bu. for No. 2 and 92@95c for No. ft: —————_ 2 <__—_ ‘‘ Brimfull of Interesting Business Items.”’ From the Sparta Sentinel. Tur MICHIGAN TRADESMAN reaches us this week enlarged to an eight page paper and is as usual brimful of interesting busi- ness items. $1; Selected Calkins Bros., wholesale and retail dealers in gun goods and fishing,tackle. Agents for gun and blasting powder, fuse, ete. <0 “Found a Good Field.’’ From the Charlevoix Journal. The Grand Rapids TRADESMAN evidently found a good field. It started six months ago as a six-column folio, and its second en- A. C. & L. Pareenel: will con- Me lagement 1 makes it a six-column quarto, with -ed by the public. | MAN, Clover Seed—C hoice medium weaker at $6 : @$6.50 # bu. and mammoth in fair demand | “‘Comes from Genuine Merit.”’ From the Rockford Register. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN, of Grand Rapids, which is but six months old, comes out this week enlarged to an eight page paper, just double its former size. This success comes from genuine merit. Noman doing business finds it possible to get along without it. 9 a “Is Duly Appreciated.’’ From the Mancelona Herald. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN comes to us a 48 column paper. It must be gratifying to Editor Stowe to note the growing popu- larity of his paper. The editor has brains, pluck and energy, which are duly appreciat- Success to THE TRADES- ———~<>-9 <2 ‘Presents a Very Neat Appearance.’’ From the Cadillac Times. THe MIcHIGAN TRADESMAN has been enlarged toa six column quarto and pre- sents a very neat appearance. — en oe ae “Is Prospering.’’ From the Grand Rapids Radical. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN is_prosper- ing. It appears this week enlarged and in eight page form. Mississippi cane fishing poles $4 per hun- dred at Calkins Bros. Good length and se- lected. Boralumine cannot be beaten. MISCELLANEOUS. Advertisements of 25 words or less inserted in this column at the rate of 25 cents per week, each and every insertion. One cent for each additional word. Advance payment. FOR SALE. RUG STOCK FOR SALE. A stock worth $1,500, in a good location in this city. Will invoice. Good reasons for selling. Ad- dress, Druggist, care of Carrier No. 10. OR SALE—A stock of drugs, groceries, - hardware and agricultural implements, located at New Troy, Mich. Will invoice $3,500. Loss of pealth the reason for selling. Terms easy, or will exchange fora good stock farm. Address Jennings & Smith, Grand Rapids,Mich. 36 ACRE FRUIT FARM to exchange for ) livery or drug store, 24% miles west of Holland. Fine, large house, nearly new, large barn, best hen house in the county, 1,000 bear- ing fruit trees, 500 apple trees, one acre straw- berries, grapes and all kinds of fruit. C. Craw- ford, Caledonia, Mich. ] RUG STORE FOR SALE in Grand Rapids, for $2,500 or invoice. Owner has other business. Address Hazeltine, Perkins & Co., Wholesale Druggists, Grand Rapids, Mich. ee CHANCE to purchase a first-class Livery Stock including one of Cunning- ham’s best hearses. Will take as part payment good improved farm property. Will sell or rent barn and grounds. The best location in the best livery town in the State. Address, P. O. Box 318, Big Rapids, Mich. MISCELLANEOUS. OOD SECOMD-HAND SAFE wanted at this office. Must be cheap. Address, stating size and price. 5 CHROMO CARDS 10cts. Address W. D. Hollister, Grand Rapids, Mich. Notice of Sale NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received for the entire assets of the es- tate of D. R. Stocum, of Rockford, Michigan, until the 15th day of ‘April, 1884. Full informa- tion can be obtained by an examination of the schedules in the County Clerk’s office and from the undersigned at the store in Rockford. Two hundred dollars must be deposited as an evi- dence of good faith, and it will be returned at - once if the bid is not acce ted. The right is reserved to re ra res all bids. advertising patronage. = Rockford, ao mat MoMixzax, The Michigan Tradesman, PROMPT PAYMENTS. How Such a System Works to Advantage— Disadvantages of Slow Payments. “The points you made last week on the question of prompt payments cannot be em- phasized too strongly,” said a Canal street confectioner a day or two ago. “Retailers frequently allow thirty day bills to mature and several days to elapse before they remit for the amounts due, thinking that one such case will not make any difference with the jobber. One case of the kind would not work much injury, but fifty orone hundred delays at a time sometimes cause serious in- convenience. With Eastern jobbers and manufacturers 30 days mean 30 days and 30 days in New York at that. It is not enough that the bill be paid here on maturity, but the remittance must reach the house the day itis due. No such cast iron regulations are required of the retailer, but some of our cus- somers impose upon our good nature too fre- quently and too heedlessly. Orders from such men are always the last to be filled, and we are not over careful to shade prices, knowing as we do that the parties are not sharp pay, and therefore should not be close buyers.” “J wish you could impress en the mind of every slow-paying retailer the penalty the jobber pays for not meeting all bills prompt- ly,” said a prominent wholesale groceryman. “When we first started in business a few years ago we did not understand the neces- sity of remitting for sugar bills two or three days before maturity, and asa consequence soon found that one of the refiners would not sell us. The broker here wrote the house stating that the failure to get the re- mittances there on time was an oversight, and that it should not happen again; but the house replied that one breach of their rules subjected the party making it to in- stant suspicion, and that the custom of the trade compelled them to decline any further business from that source. All remonstrance was in vain, and the only consolation is that we are not the only house in the same _ boat at this market. “Now, suppose we were as severe with our trade as that, and there was an under- standing among the jobbers here, so that we would act incommon. Would not half the retailers rise in a body, and remonstraie against such an arbitrary system of credits? Of course it is not advisable to establish any such expedient here, but a knowledge of the regulations to which the jobbers are obliged to conform may serve to make the retailers a little more careful to consult our interests as well as their own convenience.” “Your reference to the advisability of meeting all bills promptly finds a parellel in my own business practice,” said a prominent produce dealer. 1t frequently happens that I have orders for more goods than I happen to have on hand. 1 then look over the orders, and select out those from prompt-paying cus- tomers, leaving the others unfilled, some- times for days. And occasionally when they are filled, it is because I have some second- class stock that cannot be disposed of to ad- vantage to the best class of customers. The man who is slow in paying his bills cannot complain if I charge him a round price for inferior goods, and there seems to be a mu- tual understanding that both parties are to be imposed upon —one in the quality of the goods and the other in the matter of cred- its.” “A J understand the term,” said Mr. Minchener, the Detroit manager of R. G. Dun & Co’s Mercantile Agency, who was in the city several days last week, “the jobber is not also a banker, unless he choses to con- stitute himself such. There is no reason why he should go outside his legitimate field and extend almost unlimited credit to his customers, thus usurping the business of the country banks. There area number of coneerns in Detroit which make a practice of carrying their customers, charging them 7 per cent. for the use of the money; butif the same money was invested in goods and turn- ed over and re-invested, there is no reason why it should not bring them in far better returns. I see no reason why the retailer should make the jobber his banker, and am ata loss to understand why the jobber al- lows himself to do double duty in this re- spect.” —_——-_ 0 ——______ Mcintyre, the Bible Student. No one who has the slightest acquaintance with John McIntyre would suppose that he was “up” on Biblical incidents, but a recent dinner party in Walker township developed the fact that he was posted—on one subject, at least. One of the ladies present was com- plimenting him on his superior gifts as an entertainer, and reproaching him for absent- ing himself from home for such long periods. “We all want to see more of you,” she de- clared; “you ought really to let us lionize you a little.” “My dear madam,” replied the suave and burly traveler, “I never heard of but one man who was not completely spoiled by be- ing lionized.” ‘Who was that?” asked the lady. “The Prophet Daniel,” responded John. —_—_—_+ +. New Town in Gratiot County. A North Star dealer writes: ‘“‘We have founded a town at the center of North Star township, for which we have not yet select- edaname. It will be on the line of the T., A. A. & N. M. Railway, and as the sur- - youndings are favorable, the prospects are excellent for a flourishing little town.” _Sold at Manufacturers’ Prices. Send for The Picture Card as an Educator. “These things are a nuisance and should be abated,” said an outside dealer at a cer- tain jobbing house the other day, pointing to a fresh arrival of picture cards and bright chromos. “They are the curse of trade. Every child in town constitutes itself a committee of one to make the rounds of the stores every day on a begging expedition, and every time a woman goes to a store for 25 cents worth of anything she expects a half dozen cards of different design. For one, I’m tired of catering to the demand for such things.” A city dealer happened to be in the store at the time, and overheard the vigorous de- nunciation. “I beg leave to differ with you,” said the city dealer, “‘for I consider the men who dis- seminate picture cards public benefactors. Aside from a discussion of their merits as an advertising medium, I hold that they have cul- tivated a taste for better things. They are bright, and generally cheerful, and bring joy to the hearts of many a poor child and even to older people with young hearts. The seamstress gets a chromo at the tea store to take the place of the shadow she used to thank for falling on the bare wall. A chromo is much more exhilarating than a shadow. People who go into the rooms occupied by the very poor find the walls less repulsive than form- erly. Especially is this true in rooms occu- pied by the thousands who have known bet- ter days.” “But how can an unreal picture cultivate taste?” asked the outside dealer. “Indirectly, of course. Suppose they are unreal. They are bits of bright color. The housewife and the children arrange them on the walls. Pretty soon some one notices that the color of one does not match well with its neighbor. A re-arranging follows with an improved effect. That has been a lesson in art to the wife or daughter or son, or all three, of a hod carrier, perhaps. Cul- tivation has begun atthe roots. You will see the result in the next generation. From free tea store advertisements, the house- keeper is lead to admire cheap chromos, and from chromos finally turn to paintings and engravings, and in the course of time the latter succeed the imitations of works of art. In my opinjon, the picture card’s chief mission is among the poor, and is fulfilling its mission beautifully:and effectively.” ——_—_——_ <--2- <> —_____— Rockford Business Points. From the Register. Never were prospects better for Rockford taking a big boom than they are this spring. E. B. Lapham is getting ready to build on his lots on Main street. His building will be 24x60 feet, two stories in height, and veneered with brick. James Colby expects to open a grocery again in the room now occupied by Robt. Carlyle as soon as vacated by him, which will probably be about the last of April. Mr. George Blakeley, who has been in the drug store of B. N. Pettingill since before it was sold by R. V. McArthur to the present owner, has gone to Fife Lake, to take charge of a drug store there which has been pur- chased by his brother, Mr. C. E. Blakeley, of Coopersville. The foundation will be commenced im- mediately for J. Colby’s new block, which will probably be the largest that will be put up in town this season. It will be 42 feet front by 70 feet deep, two stories high, and will be veneered with brick. It is to con- tain two store rooms below. Such a build- ing as this more than replaces five or six of some of those destroyed by the fire. The coming year will be a booming one for Rockford; all outward and external ap- pearances point directly toward it, and in- ternal signs and appearances are favorable. Business inall branches begins to pick up and the people generally are settling down into a spirit of confidence that dull times will soon be a thing of the past; property is changing hands, real estate is moving more briskly than for many years, and new comers are looking for locations in our midst. <9 <-_____— Good Words Unsolicited. “We like it J.J. Bowen, grocer, Ovid: very much.” J. E. Rice, general merchandise, Coopers- ville: ‘I consider it a very worthy sheet.” Jorgensen & Hammingsen, general deal- ers, Ashland P. O.: “Like the paper very much.” Cole & Stone, proprietors Paw Paw Shirt Factory, Paw Paw: ‘‘We cannot get along without it.” I. Foust, general dealer, Wexford: “I think the paper is just what every business man needs.” Dr. D. W. McConnine, drugs and groceries, Wexford: “I think it well worth the money, and every tradesman should have the paper.” S. M. Scott, general dealer, North Star: “A very valuable paper. It is a ‘boon com- panion to me, and I appreciate its value in the mercantile business.” GRAND RAPIDS Flower Pots Hanging Vases MANUFACTURED FOR H. LEONARD & SONS, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. HAND OR MACHINE MADE POTS FOR SALE BY THE PACKAGE OR RE- PACKED TO ORDER, at once for th HAZELTING, PERKINS & Ci WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS, 42 and 44 Ottawa St., and 89, 91, 98 and 95 Louis $t., Grand Rapids, Mich. + pS w aes BS cS IMPORTERS SND JOBBERS OF Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals, Paints, Quis, Varmisies, Glassware, Anda Drusgssists’ Sundries. Also Manufacturers of Fine Pharmaceutical & Chemical Preparaticns. SHEED CORN We have achoice stock of Seed Corn, both Yellow Dent and the Yankee, or Hight Rowed, which we offer to the Trade. We have given it a thorough test and warrant it to grow. Send for Samples and Prices to THE SHED STORE, Grand Rapids. W.T. Lamoreaux, ¢ «nt. H. WALSH &SON, Holland, Mich., Wholesale Dealers in Clover, Timothy Seed and Ground Oil Cakes Write for quotations. ALBERT COYE & SUNS, —Manufacturers and Jobbers of— Awnings, 'Teuts, Horse, Wagon and Stack Covers, Flags, Banners, Etc. All Ducks and Stripes Kept Constantly on Hand. 73 Canal Street. GRAND RAPIDS, - MICHIGAN. tay” Send for Prices. FJ, DETTENTHALER Successor to H. M. Bliven, —WHOLESALE— OYSTERS AND CANNED GOODS. Agent for Farren’s Celebrated “F” Brand Raw Oysters. 117 MONROE STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, ~ = MICH. 6, §, YALE & BRO,. —Manufacturers of— FLAVORING EXTRACTS ! BAKING POWDERS, BLOINGS, EYTC., 40 and 42 South Division St., GRAND RAPIDS, - - . oe ‘WHITE STAR’ POTATO. To Gardeners and Farmers. and planted by flavor, qualities. patrons: furnish, at cost prices, New York draft, money order, Readers are cordially invited Banker, Howard City, Mich., for Incorporated Dec. 10, 1877—Charter in Force for Thirty Years. LIST OF OFFICERS: President—RANsoM W. HAWLEY, of Detroit. Vice-Presidents—CHAS. E. SNEDEKER, Detroit; L. W. ATKINS, Grand Rapids; I. N. ALEXAN- DER, Lansing; U.S. LORD, Kalamazoo; H. E. MEEKER, Bay City. Secretary and Treasurer—W. N. MEREDITH, Detroit. Board of Trustees, For One Year—J. C. POn- mus, Chajrman, $. A. MUNGER, H. K. WHITE For Two Years—D. Morris, A. W. CULVER. White Star Potatoes. potatoes, for size, color and quality, as were ever seen in the State. We will furnish the White Star Potatoes at the rate of all barrels sacks or bags, or patrons may send their own, adressed to Ensley & Son, Maple Hill, Mich. Orders may be sent to either Ensley & Son, Ensley Postoffice, should be written out plainly, to prevent mistakes. to what railroad station they wish to have their shipments made. Orders will be filled promptly, and must be accompanied by the money, or registered letter. 4a to refer to Marshall Buchanan, Postmaster at Ensley, Mich; C. J. Burtch, Postmaster, and N. W. Mhther, the truth of all of the above statements regarding the superior quality and extraordinary yield of the We warrant these potatoes, all that has been represented, and true to name. About two years ago, Mr. Marshall Buchanan, Postimaster at Ensley, Newaygo County, Michigan, sent to D. M. Ferry & Co., the well known seed firm of Detroit, for one-half bushel of the celebrated White Star potatoes, for seed purposes. The potatoes were procured, the undersigned, and the result was one gratifying beyond measure. The second planting yielded 7,000 bushels of as fine They were pronounced by all who tried them of the very finest YIELDING FAR BETTER THAN ANY OTHER VARIETY KNOWN to this section of the country, never troubled with blight, and very seldom showing a bug of any sort. Such is the universal testimony as to the merits of the White Star Potato, all agreeing that they have never met its equal for endurance, productiveness, and fine eating All farmers and gardners are interested in these facts, and all who have seen the White Star Potato, and tested it, are united in its praise, and others will find it to their profit to make inquiries. We are now making a sbecialty of handling this splendid potato, and are prepared to supply patrons at a price which, all seed catalogues and the regular price lists, will show to be a great reduction from the ruling prices. We make this liberal offer to a reference to $1.00 per bushel, and will allow a liberal discount to dealers. We will also Mich., or to O. W. Blain, General Agent, Grand Rapids, Mich. All addresses Patrons should also furnish us with their names and postoffice addresses, and state B. HENSLEY & SON, Growers, Einsley Postofiice, Neowayso County, Michigan. FOR FULL PARTICULARS AND TERMS TO DEALERS, ADDRESS O. W. BLAIN, General Agent, PRODUCE COMMISSION MERCHANT, Eagle Hotel or 152 Fulton Street, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. oO. FP. BIGHLOw , - —WHOLESALE DEALER IN— JSURGICAL INSTRUMENTS —AND— APPLIANCES, NO. 8 CANAL STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, ” MICHIGAN. STEAM LAUNDRY 43 and 45 Kent Street. A. K. ALLEN, Proprietor. WE DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS WORK AND USE NO ~ CHEMICALS. tended to, ee ore _, Orders by Mail and Express promptly at RISING SUN YEAST BEST ON THE MARKET. EVERYONE USESIT. Sold by all Wholesale Grocers. Factories, Seneca Falls, New York. ed PEREKINS & HESS — DEALERS IN—— Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow, NOS. 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. + é t