ie GRAND -RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1884. ~~ o Loa per wise HEADQUARTERS! —FOR— Sporting Goods —AND— OUT DOOR GAMES, Base Ball Goods, Marbles, Tops, Fishing Tackle, Croquet, Lawn Tennis, Indian Clubs, Dumb Bells, Boxing Gloves. THE MILK IN THE COCOA-NUT. For many centuries the occult problem how to account for the milk in the:cocoa-nut has awakened the profoundest interest alike of ingenious infancy and of maturer scien- tific age. Though it cannot be truthfully affirmed of it, as of the cosmogony or crea- tion of the world, in the ‘Vicar of Wake- | field,” that it ‘has puzzled the philosophers of all ages,” yetit may be safely asserted that for the last three hundred years the philosopher who has not at some time or other of his life meditated upon that ab- struse question is unworthy of such an ex- alted name. : The cocoa-nut, in fact, isa subject well de- serving of the most sympathetic treatment at the gentle hands of grateful humanity. No other plant is useful to us in so many diverse and useful manners. It has been truly said of thatfriend of man, the domes- tie pig, that he is all good, from the end of his snout to the tip of his tail; but even the pig, though he furnishes us with so many necessaries or luxuries—from tooth-brushes to sausages, from ham to lard, from pepsin wine to pork pies—does not nearly approach, in the multiplicity and variety of his virtues, | the all-sufficing and world-supplying cocoa- nut. A Chinese proverb says that there are | as many useful properties in the cocoa-nut | palm as there are days inthe year; and a Polynesian saying tells us that a man who plants a cocoa-nut plants meat and drink, i hearth and home, vessels and clothing, for We wish the Trade to notice the fact that himself and his children after him. In fact, we are Headquarters on these Goods And are not to be undersold by any house in the United States. Our Trade Mark Bats —ARE THE- BEST AND CHEAPEST In the Market. (= Send for our New Price List for 1884. Order a Sample Lot Before Placing a Large Order. EATON, LYON & ALLEN, 20 and 22 Monroe Street, GRAND RAPIDS, = MICHIGAN. G. S, YALE & —Manufacturers of— FLAVORING EXTRACTS | BAKING POWDERS, BrLOUINGSs, E'TtC., 40 and 42 South Division St., MICH. GRAND RAPIDS, - - CMI JONES & C0. Manufacturers of Fine Perfumes, Colognes, Hair Oils, Flavoring Extracts, Baking Powders, Bluings, Etc., Etc. ALSO PROPRIETORS OF BREMIN Es “Red Bark Bitters’ AND g, The Oriole Mannfactaring Co. 42 West Bridge Street, GRAND RAPIDS, - MICHIGAN. | the palm-tree might modestly advertise itself as a universal provider. The solid part of the nut supplies food almost alone to thous- | ands of people‘daily, and the milk serves | them for drink, thus acting as an efficient | filter to the water absorbed by the roots in | the most polluted or malarious regions. If | you tap the flower-stalk you get a sweet | juice, which can be boiled down into a pecu- | liar sugar called (in the charming dialect of ' commerce) jaggery; or itcan be fermented ‘ into a very nasty spirit known as palm-wine, | toddy, or arrack; or it can be mixed with | bitter herbs and roots to make that delect- | able compound “native beer.” If you squeeze the dry nut you get cocoa-nut oil, | which is as good as iard for frying, when ' fresh, and is ‘tan excellent substitute for but- ' ter at breakfast,” on tropical tables. Under | the mysterious name of copra, it forms the ; main or only export of many Oceanic Is- lands, and is largely imported into the Unit- ed States, where the thicker portion is called stearine, and used for making sundry candles with fanciful names, while the clear oil is employed for burning in ordinary lamps. Inthe process of purification, it yields glycerine; and it enters largely into the manufacture of most better-class soaps. The fiber that surrounds the nut makes up the other mysterious article of commerce known as coir, which is twisted into stout ropes, or woven into cocoa-nut matting and ordinary doormats. Brushes and brooms are also made of it, and itis used, not always in the most honest fashion, in place of the real horse-hair, in stuffing cushions. The shell, cut in half, supplies good cups, and is artistically carved by the Polynesians, Japa- ' nese, Hindoos, and other benighted heathen, | who have not learned the true methods of | civilized machine-made shoddy manufacture. The leaves serve as excellent thatch; on the | flat blades, prepared like papyrus, the most famous Buddhist manuscripts are written; the long mid-ribs or branches (strictly speak- ing, the leafstalks), answer admirably for rafters, posts, or fencing; the fibrous sheath at the base isa remarkable natural imita- tion of cloth, employed for strainers, wrap- pers, and native hats; while the trunk, or stem, passes in carpentry under the name of porcupine wood, and produces beautiful effects asa wonderfully colored cabinet- maker’s material. These are only a few in- stances out of the innumerable uses of the cocoa-nut palm. Apart even from the manifold merits of the tree that bears it, the milk itself has Inany and great claims to our respect and esteem, as everybody who has ever drank it in its native surroundings will enthusiastic- ally admit. In this country, to be sure, the white milk in the dry nuts is a very poor stuff, sickly, and strong-flavored, and rather | indigestable. But in the tropics, cocoa-nut | milk, or, as it is oftener called there, cocoa- nut water, is a very different and vastly superior sort of beverage. At eleven o’clock every morning, when you are hot and tired with the day’s work, your black servant clad from head to foot in his cool clean white linen suit, brings you in a tall soda glass full of a clear, light, erystal liquid. The lump of ice bobs enticingly up and down in the centre of the tumbler, or clinks musical- ly against the edge of the glass as he car- ries it along. You take the cool cup thank- fully and swallow it down at one long draught; fresh as a May morning, pure as a New England hillside spring, delicate as— well, as cocoa-nut water. None but itself can be its parallel. It iscertainly the most delicious, dainty, transparent, crystal drink ever invented. How didit get there, and what is it for? In the early green stage at which cocoa- nuts are generally picked for household use in the tropies the shell has not yet solidified into a hard stony coat, but still remains quite soft enough to be readily cut through with a sharp table knife—just like young walnuts picked for pickling. If you cut one across while it is in this uusophisticated state, it is easy enough to see the arrangement of the interior, and the part borne by the milk in the development and growth of the mature nut. The ordinary tropical way of opening coco-nuts for table, indeed, is by cutting off the top of the shell and rind in successive slices, at the end where the three pores are situated, until you reach the level of the water, which fills up the whole interior. The nutty part around the inside of the shell is then extremely soft and jelly-like, so that it can be readily eaten with a spoon: but as a matter of fact very few people ever do eat the flesh at all. After their first few months in the tropics, they lose the taste for this comparatively indigestible part, and confine themselves entirely to drinking the water. A young cocoanut is thus seen to consist, first of a green outer skin, then of a fibrous coat, which afterward becomes the hair, and next of a harder shell which finally gets quite woody; while inside all comes the actual seed or unripe nut itself. The office of the cocoa-nut water is the disposition of the nutty part around the side of the shell; it is, so to speak, the mother liquid, from which the harder eatable portion is after- ward derived. This state is not uncommon in embryo seeds. Inavery young pea for example, the inside is quite watery, and only the outer skin is at all solid, as we have all observed when green peas first come into season. But the special peculiarity of the cocoa-nut consists in the fact that this liquid condition of the interior continues even after the nut is ripe, and that is the really curious point about the milk in the cocoa-nut which does actually need accounting for. In order to nnderstand it one ought to ex- amine a cocoa-nut in the act of budding, and to do thisitis by no means necessary to visit the West Indies or the Pacific Islands; all you need to do is to ask a fruit dealer in one of the large cities to get you.a few ‘“‘grow- ers.”’ On the voyage, a certain number of pre- cocious cocoa-nuts, stimulated by the congen- ial warmth and damp of most shipholds, usually begin to sprout before their time; and these waste nuts are sold by the dealers at alow rate to children and inquiring botanists. An examination of a “grower” very soon convinces one whatis the use of the milk in the cocoa-nut. It must be duly borne in mind, to begin with, that the prime end and object of the nut is not to be eaten raw by the ingenions monkey, or to be converted by lordly man into cocoa-nut biscuits, or cocoa-nut pudding, but simply and solely to reproduce the cocoa- nut palm in sufficient numbers to future gen- erations. For this purpose the nut has slow- ly acquired by natural selection a number of protective defences against its numerous enemies, which serve to guard it admirably in the native state from almost all possible depredators. First of all, the actual nut or seed itself consists of a tiny embryo plant, placed just inside the softest of the three pores or pits at the end of the shell, and sur- rounded by a vast/quantity of nutritious pulp, destined to feed and support it during its earliest unprotected days, if not otherwise diverted by man or monkey. But as what ever feeds a young plant will also feed an animal, and as many animals betray a feloni- ous desire to appropriate to their own wick- ed ends the food-stuffs laid up by the palm for the use of its own seedling, the coco-nut has been compelled to inclose this particu- larly large and rich kernel ina very solid and defensive shell. And since the palm grows at a very great height from the ground —I haveseen them up to ninety feet in fav- orable cireumstances—this shell stands a very good chance of getting broken in tumbling to the earth, so that it has been necessary to surround it with a mass of soft and yielding fibrous material, which breaks its fall, and acts as a buffer to it when it comes in contact with the soil beneath. Now, when the cocoa-nut has actually reached the ground at last, and proceeds to sprout in the spot where chance has chosen to cast it, these numerous safeguards and solid envelopes naturally begin to prove de- cided nuisances to the embryo within. It starts under the great disadvantage of being hermetically sealed within a solid wooden shell, so that no water can possibly get at it to aid it as most other seeds are aided in the process of germination. Fancy yourself a seed-pea, anxious to sprout, but coated all round with a hard covering of impermeable sealing wax, and you will be ina_ position faintly to appreciate the unfortunate pre- dicament of a grower cocoa-nut. Natural se- lection, however, has come to the rescue of that unhappy plant by leaving it a little hole at the top of the shell, out of which it can push its feathery green head without diffi- culty. Everybody knows that if you look at the sharp end of a cocoa-nut you will see three little brown pits or depressions on its surface. Most people also know that two of these are firmly stopped up, but that the third one is only closed by a slight film or very thin shell, which can be easily bored through with a pocket-knife, so as to let the milk run off before cracking the shell. So much we have all learned during our pur- suit of natural knowledge on half-holidays in early life. But we probably then failed to observe that just opposite this soft hole lies a small roundish knob, embedded in the pulp or eatable portion, which knob is in fact the embryo palm or seedling, for whose ultimate benefit the whole arrangement has been invented. That is very much the way with man: he notices what concerns his own appetite, and omits all the really important parts of the whole subject. We think the use of tha hole is to let out the milk; but the nut knows that its real object is to let out the seedling. Theknob grows out at last into the young plantlet, and it is by means of the soft hole that it makes its escape through the shell to the air and the sunshine which it seeks without. This brings us really down at last to the true reason for the milk in the cocoa-nut. As the seed or kernel cannot easily get at much water from outside, it has a good supply of water laid up for it ready beforehand within its own encircling shell. ‘The mother liquid from which the pulp or nutty part has been deposited remains in the centre, as the milk, until the tiny embryo begins to sprout. As soon as it does so, the little knob which was at first so very small enlarges rapidly and absorbs the water, until it grows out intoa big spongy cellular mass, which at last al- most fills up the entire shell. At the same time, its other end pushes its way out through the soft hole, and then gives birth to a growing bud at the top—the future stem and leaves—and to a number of long threads beneath—the future roots. Meanwhile, the spongy mass inside begins gradually to ab- sorb all the nutty part, using up its oils and starches for the purpose of feeding the young plant above, untilit is of an age to expand its leaves to an open tropical sun- light and shift for itself in the struggle for life. It seems at first sight very hard to un- derstand how any tissue so solid as the pulp of cocoa-nut can be thus softened and absorb- ed without any visible cause; but in the subtle chemistry of living vegetation such a transformation is comparatively easy to per- form. Nature sometimes works much greater miracles than this in the same way: for example, what is called vegetable ivory, a substance so solid that it can be carved or turned only with great difficulty, is really the kernel of another palm-nut, allied to the cocoa-palm, and its very {stony particles are all similarly absorbed during germination by the dissolving power of the young seed- ling. Why, however, has the coeoa-nut three pores at the top instead of one, and why are two out of the three so carefully and firmly sealed up? The explanation of this pecul- iarity is only to be found in the ancestral history of the cocoa-nut kind. Most nuts, in- deed, start in their earlier stage as if they meant to produce two or more seeds each; but as they ripen, all the seeds except one become abortive. The almond, for example, has in the flower two seeds or kernels to each nut; but in the ripe state there is gen- erally only one, though occasionally we find an almond with two—a philipoena, as we com- monly call it—just to keep in memory the original arrangement of its earlier ancestors. The reason for this is that plants whose fruits have no special protection for their seeds are obliged to produce a great .many of them at once, in order that one seed ina thousand may finally survive the onslaughts of their Argus-eyed enemies; but when they learn to protect themselves by hard cover- ings from birds and beasts, they can dis- pense with some of these supernumerary seeds, and put mote nutriment into each one of those that they still retain. Compare, ‘for example, the innumerable small round seed- lets of the poppy-head with the solitary, largeand richly-stored seed of the walnut, or the tiny black specks of mustard and cress with the single compact and well-filled seed of the filbert and the acorn. To the very end, however, most nuts begin in the flower as if they meant to producea whole capsuleful of small unstored and unprotect- ed seeds, like their original ancestors; it is only at the last moment that they recollect themselves, suppress all their ovules except one, and store that.one with all the best and oiliest food-stuffs at their disposal. Now, the cocoa-nuts are descended from a great tribe—the palms and _lilies—which have as their main distinguishing peculiari- ty the arrangement of parts in their flowers and fruits by threes each. For example, in the most typical flowers of this great group, there are three green outer calyx-pieces, three bright-colored petals, three long outer stamens, three short inner stamens, three valves to the capsule, and three seeds or three rows of seeds in each fruit. Many palms still keep pretty well to this primitive arrangement, but a few of them which have specially protected or highly developed fruits or nuts have lost in their later stages the threefold disposition in the fruit, and possess only one seed, oftena very large one. There is no better and more typical nut in the whole world than a cocoa-nut. It has the largest and most richly-stored seed of any known plant; and this seed is surround- ed by one of the hardest and most unman- ageable of any any known shells. Hence the cocoa-nut has readily been able to dis- pense with the three kernels which each nut used in its earlier and less developed days to produce. But though the palm has thus taken to reducing the number of its seeds in| each fruit to the Jowest possible point con- sistent with its continued existence at all, | it still goes on retaining many signs of its ancient three-fold arrangement. The ances- | tral and most deeply ingrained habits persist in the earlier stages; it is only in the mature form that the later acquired habits begin fully to predominate. Hence the cocoa-nut in its unstripped state is roughly triangular in form, its angles answering to the separate three fruits or simpler palms; and it has three pits or weak places in the shell, ! through which the embryos of the three original kernels used to force their way out. But as only one of them is now needed, that one alone is left soft; the other two, which would be merely a source of weakness to the plant if unprotected, are covered in the existing nut by harder shell. Doubtless they serve in part to deceive the too inquisitive monkey or other enemy, who probably con- cludes that if one of the pits is hard and im- permeable, the other two are so likewise. Though I have now, I hope, satisfactorily accounted for the milk in the cocoa-nut, and incidentally for some other matters in its economy as well, 1am loath to leave the young seedling whom I have brought so far on his way, to the tender mercies of the winds and storms and tropical animals, some of whom are extremely fond of his juicy and delicate shoots. Indeed, the growing point or bud of most palms is a very pleasant suc- culent vegetable, and one kind—the West Indian mountain cabbage—deseryes a better and more justly descriptive name, for it is really much more like seakale or asparagus. I shall try to follow our young seedling on in life, therefore, so as to give, while l am about it, a fairly comprehensive and com- plete biography of a single flourishing cocoa- nut palm. Beginning, then, with the fall of the nut from the parent-tree, the troubles of the future palm confront it at once in the shape of the nut-eating crab. This evil disposed crus- tacean is common around the sea-coast of the eastern tropical islands, which is also the region mainly affected by the cocoa-nut palm; for cocoa-nuts are essentially shore- loving trees, and thrive best in the immedi- ate neighborhood of the sea.. Among the fallen nuts, the clumsy-looking thief ofa crab makes great and dreaded havoc. To assist him in his unlawful object he has de- veloped a pair of front legs, with specially strong and heavy claws, supplemented by a last or tail-end pair armed only with very narrow and slender pincers. He subsists entirely upon a cocoa-nut diet. Setting to work upon a big fallen nut—with the husk on, cocoa-nuts measure in the raw state about twelve inches the long way—he tears off all the coarse fibre bit by bit, and gets down at last tothe hard shell. Then he hammers away with his heavy claw on the softest eye-hole till he has pounded an opening right through it. This done he twists round his body so as toturn his back upon the cocoa-nut he is operating upon (erabs are never famous either for good manners or gracefulness) and proceeds awkwardly but effectually to extract all the white kernel or pulp through the breach with his narrow pair of hind pincers. Like man, too, the robber-crab knows the value of the outer husk as well as of the eatable nut itself, for he collects the fibre in surprising quantities toline his burrow and lies upon it, the clumsy sybarite, for a luxurious couch. Alas, however, for the helplessness of crabs and the rapacity and cunning of all appropriat- ingman! The spoil-sport Malay digs up the nest for the sake of the fibre it contains, which spares him the trouble of picking junk on his own account, and then he eats the in- dustrious crab who has laid it all up, while he melts down the great lump of fat under the robber’s capacious tail, and sometimes gets from it as much asa good quart of what may be practically considered as limpid cocoa-nut oil, The cocoa-nut palm intends the oil for the nourishment of its own seed- ling; the crab (feloniously appropriates it and stores it up under his capacious tail for future personal use; the Malay steals it again from the thief for his own purposes; and ten to one the merchant beguils it from him with sized calico or poisoned rum, and transmits it to Europe, or America, where it serves mankind in a dozen different ways. If, however, our cocoa-nut is lucky enough to escape the robber-crabs, the pigs, and the monkeys, as well as to falling into the hands of man, and being converted into the copra of commerce, or sold from a_ confec- tioner’s front door, it may very probably succeed in germinating after the fashion I have already described, and pushing up its head through the surrounding foliage to the sunlight above. As a rule, the cocoa-nut has been dropped by its mother tree on the sandy soil of a sea-beach; and this is the spot it best loves, and where it grows to the stateliest height. Sometimes, however, it falls into the sea itself, and then the loose husk buoys it up, so that it floats away bravely until it is cast by the waves upon some distant coral reef or desert island. It is this power of floating and surviving a long voyage that has dispersed the cocoa-nut so widely among oceanic islands, where so few plants are generally to be found. In- deed, on many atolls or isolated reefs, it is the only tree or shrub that grows in any quantity, and on it the pigs, the poultry, the ducks, and the land-crabs of the place entirely subsist. In any case, wherever it | happens to strike, the young cocoa-nut sends up at first a fine rosette of big spreading leaves, not raised as afterward on a tall stem, but springing direct from the ground in a wide circle, something like a very big and graceful fern. In this early stage noth- ing can be more beautiful or more essential- ly tropical in appearance than a_ plantation of young cocoa-nuts. For the first two or three years the young palms must be well watered, and the soil around them opened; after which the tall graceful stem begins to rise rapidly into the open air. At eight or ten years old the tree flowers, bearing blossoms of the ordinary palm type, degraded likenes- es of the lilies and yuecas, greenish and in- conspicuous, but visited by insects for the sake of their pollen. The flower, however, is fertilized by the wind, which carries the pollen grains from one bunch of blossoms to another. Then the nuts gradually swell out to an enormous size, and ripen very slowly, even under the brilliant tropical sun. Even as things stand at the present day, however, it is wonderful how much use we modern Americans now make in our own houses of this far Eastern nut, whose very name still bears upon its face the impress of its originally savage origin. From morning to night we never leave off being indebted to it. We wash with it as old brown Windsor or glycerine soap the moment we leave our beds. We walk across our passages on the mats made from its fibre. We sweep our rooms with its-brushes, and wipe our feet on it as we enter our doors. As rope, it ties up our trunks and packages; in the hands of the housemaid it serubs our floors; or else, woven into coarse cloth, it acts as a cover- ing for bales and furniture sent by rail or steamboat. The confectioner undermines our digestion in early life with cocoa-nut candy; the cook tempts us later on with co- coa-nut cake. We annoint our chapped hands with one of its preparations, after washing; and grease the wheels of our car- riages with another to. make them run smoothly. Finally some of us use the oil to burn in our reading lamps, and light our- selves at last to bed with stearine candles. Altogether, an amateur census of a_ single small cottage results in the startling discov- ery that it contains twenty-seven distinct articles which owe their origin in one way or another to the cocoa-nut palm. And yet we affect in our black ingratitude to despise the question of the milk in the cocoa-nut. The soap manufacturers in all the leading centers of production are having a prosper- ous business just now. The business has been marked down to close margins of late years, but the demand is large and is con- stantly inereasing with the steady growth in our population. The consuming public are more or less whimsical in their demands. Bar soap is largely out of fashion, the trade mostly demanding pressed cakes in wrap- pers. At present soap makers’ stock, the base of which is tallow, is moderately low. Considerable cotton seed oil is used, as it imparts an excellent color. Cocoanut oil is being dropped, not only because # is apt to grow rancid in soap, but because it gives ita reddish color. Many of the best selling soaps to-day are bright yellow. 2 -e <= : A lace factory is about to be started at Wilkesbarre, Pa., which will be the only one of its kind in the United States. The project was introduced by J.C. Atkin, a manufacturer of Nottingham, England, who has been interesting Americans in the enter- prise. The capital required will be $150,- 000, and 25 per cent of this is already sub- seribed. It is proposed to give workingmen a chance to become stockholders in the com- pany, and the shares have been placed at $100 each. The machinery will be import- ed from England, and when in running order the factory will give employment to over 200 persons. <9 The Standard Oil Company has, for some time past, been prospecting for oil through- out the State of Tennessee, and if the tele- graphic reports are correct, it has succeeded in discovering some immensely rich fields. The dispatches say that ‘in the test-well, after a depth of a little over 1,000 feet had been reached, the oil gushed out at the rate of 1,000 barrels a day. Five wells have been drilled, and all of them showed up largely.” ___—<>—9-<>—— Bank of England notes will stand almost anything. They will hold together at the bottom of the sea, and come out of a furnace intact, but they will not outlast the scrub- bing, the bleaching, and the mangling of the laundry. That trial, to which they are some- times subjected through the inadvertance of ladies who send them to wash in their pock- ets, usually defaces them, though even after it their genuineness is still recognizable. $< Hemlock bark, for use by Western tan- ners, will be peeled earlier than usual this year. The peeling usually begins in June. This year it will begin in May on account of the sap mounting into the trees earller than usual. Milwaukee tanners are at present paying $6.50 per cord for old bark, and offer- ing $7.50 for new. 14 The Michigan Tradesmeal, A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE Mercantile and Manufacturing Interests of the State. E. A. STOWE, Eiitor. Terms $1 a year in advance, postage paid. Advertising rates made known on application. WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1884. ge 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. eS The Messmore fiasco began with wind and bluster, and ended in humiliation and disgrace. The retirement of Messmore from the gro- cery business is the most auspicious event that has happened at this market for a long time. It is not the correct thing now to speak of ‘a “corner.” The sensitive manipulators sug- gest the substitution of the word “concentra- “tion.” The legal status of the railway pools is made the subject of an important paper in the Railway Review, by Judge Cooley, whose position as a jurist and whose study of railway subjects gives his opinion much authority. The Judge sums up the decisions pearing on the pooling policy in this country, ‘and announces the conclusion ‘“‘that the _eourts will declare that such contracts are ‘not sanctioned by law.” iene The final outcome of the Messmore re- gime, which was self-evident from the be- , ginning, and which has been hourly expected . for months past, was reached last Friday. Aside from any personal application which _ the remark may have, the failure emphasiz- esa principle which some seem unable to _ learn—that it is utter foolishness for a man to engage in any business for which he has _ had no previous training. TE - The decision of Judge Ramsdell in the Lackey matter, set forth in another column, will be welcomed by all honorable dealers as - a'step in the direction of a protest against fraudulent transfers, a species of business dishonesty that has become altogether too - common of late. Let this decision be follow- ed up by others of a similar nature,’and it will eome to be ‘looked upon as risky business . fsra dealer to “‘sell out’ to a brother-in-law or other relative. And the latter will be very careful to let crooked transactions alone, for _fear of the litigation such an act involves. For postmasters in general, THE TRADES- . MAN has nothing but praise. But several : isolated exceptions eall for sharp and severe -eriticism. The official at Lowell, for in- stance, recently sent this office a notice to . the effect that A. B. Sunderland refused to take THE TRADESMAN from the office. As A.. B. Sunderland happened to be a subscriber, -having nearly a year yet to run, inquiry re- vealed the fact that the paper was invalua- . dle and that the postmaster’s notice was un- authorized. And now comes an Official notice from the same postmaster to stop the paper addressed to J. W. Covart—a name that does not appear on the mailing list. With such carelessness to contend with, it is not surprising that it is sometimes im- possible to serve our patrons satisfactorily. It has come to the notice of Tue TRADES- MAN that certain jobbing houses are in the habit of placing their wholesale price-lists in the hands of boarding house keepers and the foremen in lumber camps. It too frequent- ly happens that the lists are not kept prop- erly secluded even then, but are bandied ‘about in careless fashion, and left open for inspection by every lounger. Such flagrant disregard of the retailer’s interests is mani- festly: unfair, as it is from the retailer that the jobber receives the lion’s share of his business. It is the boast of TRADESMAN that no one not connected with trade can se- cure a copy short of underhanded means, ‘ which are seldom resorted to. Dealers real- ‘ize that they are thus protected, and to this one fact is due in great part the generous re- ception accorded the paper from the start. Elmira Gleanings. Albert Losey, of Union City, has purchas- ed 680 acres of land adjacent to the village, lying along the line of railroad, and is build- ing a large saw and handle factory thereon. A seventy pense power engine will furnish _ the motive power.; Elbert Pettis, of Flint, has purchased a _ desirable residence and store property of D. ’ G. Underwood, and will shortly engage in the hardware and lumberman’s susplies bus- iness. Geo. W. Bevins, the Tustin general dealer, has lately purchased a forty acre tract of land near the village and some residence lots of D. C. Underwood. A survey will be made directly for a branch railroad from Elmira 16 miles northwest to East Jorden, then 14 miles further north to Charlevoix, touching South Arm and Iron- ton. The survey will be made to determine the grades and the expense of building such @ spur. el “ Have you heard from Smith 97: .& Mo, What about him?” “Why, they say he’s _ lying at death’s door.” “Indeed. Well, merely shows the truth of the oF pale AMONG THE TRADE. IN THE CITY. A. Sommer & Son succeed C. Vaelnagle in the grocery business at 10 Plainfield ave- nue. S. Millis, druggist at Denver, has added aline of groceries. Arthur Meigs & Co. furnished the stuck. Wm. Bristol has engaged in the grocery business at Lacey. Shields, Bulkley & Lem- on furnished the stock. C. Helmus has engaged in the grocery bus- iness at 88 South fonia street. Arthur Meigs & Co. furnished the stock. A. L. Sibley has sold his stock injthe Pen- insular Furniture Co. to A. B. Knowlson, and retired from that institution. A. W. Blain has engaged _in the grocery business at Dutton. The stock was furnish- ed by Shields, Bulkley & Lemon. W. T. Lamoreaux left Sunday night for Boston, where he will spend a week or ten days looking over the wool market. Mr. Henry Spring is in receipt of an ele- gant present from a lady friend at Pent- water in the shape of a quantity of trailing arbutus. Judge C. S. Edwards is putting ina stock of groceries and drugs at Furnace. Arthur Meigs & Co. furnished the grocery stock, Mr. Underwood placing the order. J. F. Trout, manager of Spring & Com- pany’s wholesale department, is building a fine $4,000 residence on his farm on Madison avenue, just south of the city limits. The furniture business continues to exhib- it the same degree of activity that has char- acterized the market during the past month. Mail orders continue to come in in consider- able quantities, and collections are generally quite easy. Hi. B. Carhart has retired from the firm of Welling & Carhart, the business of which will hereafter be carried on by S. A. Wel- ling. Mr. Carhart has formed a co-partner- ship with a man of capital, and under the firm name of Hamilton, Carhart & Co. will engage in the jobbing trade at 118 J efferson avenne, Detroit, occupying four floors and basement. The line carried will be exclus- ively gents’ furnishing goods, and two floors will be given up to a manufactory of such goods. Itis the intention of the firm to cover the entire Michigan trade, and three travelers will be put on the road about August 1. AROUND THE STATE. Ells Bros., grocers at Evart, have sold out. Mrs. R. A. Quigley, dealer in hardware at Evart, is about selling out. Wyman Bros., general dealers at Wyman, have sold out to Winchester & Loveless. A. J. West, lumber dealer at Edmore, is closing out his business and will go west. Geo. McCurdy succeeds Drake & McCurdy in the drug and grocery business at Sumner. E. R. Saxton, general dealer at Lakeview, has trade his stock and business for a stock farm. W. M. Kennedy has disposed of his meat business at Cadillac, and formed a co-part- nership with Wm. Capenick under the firm name of Kennedy & Capenick, putting in a line of groceries and provisions. STRAY FACTS. W. J. Hyatt succeeds S. F. Frye in the furniture business at Altona. H. J. Kolfage, of Detroit, has purchased the C. F. Watson stock of boots and shoes at Belding from W. D. Robinson & Co., of De- troit. The Acme Creamery and Butter Cooler Manufactory has been removed from School- craft to Kalamazoo. The people of Goble have offered to take $7,000 worth of stock in a bedstead factory, t in case some one will establish such an in- stitution there. ©. Green, of Martin, hung the picture of a horse upside down, and when reproached by a Grand Rapids drummer replied that “It is the way business is now.” William T. Stewart, of Flint, has gone in- to partnership with A. 8. King and Ed. B. Emmons, of Pontiac, and will manufacture buggy and cutter bodies. Dead menmake alive town. This may not appear strictly true, but the Owosso Casket Co. is forced to erect a new four- story building, which makes the third. The store of Stiles & Brown, Howell, has been closed by Allen Shelden & Co., of De- troit, by virtue of a chattel mortgage given on demand. The firm began business _last September, and all was supposed to be right until the closing up. A Constantine correspondent writes: Bus- iness of all kinds is good in this portion of the State. Farmers are prosperous, crops of all kinds look exceedingly well, fruit is beginning to blossom, and altogether the out- look is very promising. J. B. Smith’s new cheese factory near Wayland is now completed and begun oper- ations on the 12th. A cheese box factory will berun in connection. Motive power for both establishments are furnished by a new steam engine, built in Kalamazoo. The Rathbun cheese factory, two miles north of Saranac, will be again in operation this season, a sufficient number of cows hav- ing been pledged. J. O. Chapman and brother, of Brockville, Ont., both practical cheese makers, will attend to the mechani- cal details. Under the new arrangeme: The Gripsack Brigade. i On the Easel—Wm. H. Downs, B. F. Par- menter. Frank Long, with the Hammond Paper Co., Jackson, is interviewing the city trade. F. L. Kelly, formerly with Cody, Ball & Co., has gone on the road for S. A. Welling, covering the C. & W. M., north. M. C. Field, formerly engaged in the boot and shoe business in this city, is now travel- ing for A. R. & W. F. Linn, Detroit, cover- ing a portion of Western Michigan. Those who are acquainted with “Max” Mills, the subject of this week’s ‘Pencil Portrait,” need not be told that he is a mar- ried man—happily married, too,—and the father of two bright children. The original idea embodied in the write- ups of commercial men under the caption of “Pencil Portraits’”—that of presenting them in the order of their years of service on the road—has been abandoned, as it has been found impossible to determine each one’s rank in this respect. It is the present in- tention to present one subject each week un- til the material is entirely exhausted, which promises to be a year or more hence. This statement is madefat this timejthat no one of the “boys” need feel that he will be slighted, as such will not be the case. The direction in which lightning will strike will be indi- cated two or three weeks in advance, «nd those mentioned in this manner will kindly govern themselves accordingly. = ee Attachment Sustained. A decision of interest to every business man was rendered in the Antrim County Circuit Court at Bellaire last week. The case is known as the “Lackey sell-out,” and the points involved are substantially as fol-. lows: Sanford F. Lackey engaged in busi- ness at Mancelona in May, 1882, carrying dry goods and boots and shoes. Jan. 22, 1883, he made an alleged sale of the stock to his brother-in-law, Leroy Reed, a general dealer at Langston, Montcalm county, who assumed two chattel mortgages aggregating $900, held by Fox, Musselman & Loveridge and Spring & Company. The claims of the unsecured ereditors amounted to $2,800, Welling & Carhart and E. G. Studley & Co. each being interested to the extent of $400. Believing that the transfer was a fraudulent one, the two houses mentioned attached the stock on that ground, whereupon Reed re- plevined it and removed Lit to Langston. The matter came up before Judge Ramsdell at Bellaire, Peter Doran representing the at- taching creditors and M. A. Dowling, of Mancelona, presenting Reed’s side of the case. Judge Ramsdell sustained the attach- ment, giving thema judgment for $800, costs and interest. ————___ +. << He Couldn’t Fail. A Grand Rapids drummer the other day ran across a retail grocer in this State who had been in the business and in the same store for thirty-four continuous years. “And didn’t you ever fail?’ asked the drummer. “How could I?” ‘Why, any business man can fail.” “Perhaps he can; but when a fellow can’t get credit for over $75 before they draw on him, I don’t see the object of shutting up shop.”’ “And didn’t you take advantage of the panic?” “Not a copper; I didn’t owe anything, and the only goods which went up were clothespins and codfish, and I was short on both.” “Never got burned out?” “Never. Every fire jumps right over me, no freshet comes within ten feet of my walls, and the only cyclone we ever had missed me by forty rods. I tell you, stran- ger, when I think of how honest ve been obliged to be, it makes me shudder.” o> __—_ Good Words Unsolicited. John Maartman, hardware, Filmore Cen- er: “I find it a good paper.” D. E. Lattin, general dealer, Cob Moo Sa: “Well pleased with the paper.” E. E. Lee, general dealer, Burton: “Like it very much. Could not do without it.” F. H. Spencer, drugs and groceries, Sara- nac: “In view of the numberless trade and price lists which I am constantly receiving, I find the average commercial paper of very little practical use, but the manner in which Tne TRADESMAN is conducted makes it a noticeable exception to the general rule and a welcome weekly visitor.” —_—~>-2 > Things Heard on the Street. That Wm. H. Hoops, traveling represent- ative for W. J. Quan & Co., Chicago, has saved an even $25,000 from his earnings in past years. That a young man in Meigs’ employ has traded his cheap piano for a dog with a cracked voice and a midnight howl, and that the musical standing of the community is greatly improved thereby. —_————>>-2<—_——_ One of the largest jobbers in Philadelphia says that nearly one-half of all the silks now sold in the United States are of home manu- facture, spun by American-bred silkworms and woven on American-made looms. “The best remedy I know for this foot and mouth disease,” remarked old Mrs. Blinker, as she looked up from the paper, “is for folks to stay at home more and talk less.” And then she resumed her reading. In Liege, pears and apples are boiled down without sugar into a thick syrup, which is eaten on bread instead of butter. It costs but eight cents a pound. The tomale packers of New Jersey have ‘or tomatoes for this season at $6 | from attachment as a homestead—Taylor at NORTHERN NOTES. Five Towns, and the Points Picked Up Therein BUSINESS HISTORY OF EDGERTON. The pioneer merchant at Edgerton was Friend E. Tryon, who built a small store facing the railroad track in 1868, and carried a general stock and liquors. March 1, 1877, the business was purchased by George Tompsett, who discontinued the saloon busi- ness, and continued in general trade until July 16, 1883, when the building and con- tents were burned. He immediately began the erection of a larger and more commodi- ous store building, in which he resumed business Oct. 29, only to be again burned out on Dee. 14. Heis now carrying ona small business in the depot, with the inten- tion of eventually resuming with a larger stock and building. The single store build- ing now standing in the place was erected in 1872 by David Monroe, who, engaged in general business there, subsequently selling out to his brother, Chas. Monroe, who failed about eight years ago. John Harding next tried his hand at the business, and was suc- ceeded by Mrs. Hattie L. Stevens, who re- mained at the helm but a few months, to be succeeded by Fred Moore—husband of the more or less immortal Julia A.—who carried on the business three years. In Dec., 1883, John Dildine and John Post formed a co- partnership under the firm name of Dildine & Post, and took a turn at the business, closing out in February, of the present year, when Dildine removed to West Campbell and engaged in general trade. About three weeks ago the building was again occupied by the new firm of Scovill & McAulay, who have put ina stock of groceries and will shortly add a line of dry goods. Edgerton is the center of a fairly good farming country, which will in time be thick- ly settled and afford the business men of the place a steady and profitable support. At present considerable business is derived from the mills in the immediate vicinity, which look toEdgerton for their supplies and make that place their shipping point. Of shingle mills, there are five, owned by the following men and employing hands re- spectively as follows: P. J. Dahley, 5; John Anderson, 8; Dan Porter, 6; H. R. Davis, 4; M. Davis, 5. L. R. Burch operates a lumber and shingle mill, employmg 12 men, and Geo. S. Curtiss a lumber and heading mill, running about 25 hands, and doing an extensive business. Monroe & Nenan oper- ate a grist mill with a capacity of 25 barrels per day. R0CKFORD MATTERS. The building now in progress at this point is surprising, even considering the number of buildings destroyed by fire last winter. The new buildings area great im- provement in every way over the old struc- tures, and reflect credit on the town ‘and their owners. John J. Ely announces that he will close out his present stock as soon as possible and enter the employ of some large house, al- though he has not yet definitely accepted any of the several offers tendered him. ‘Ely is the best dry goods merchant Rockford has ever had,” said one of his business rivals. “Te understands how to keep his stock in shape and make it look clean and attractive. But the fire fixed him, financially.” CEDAR SPRINGS WISDOM. “Speaking of the evils of the credit sys- tem, and the means used to lessen them,” said a Cedar Springs dealer, “reminds me of the rule adopted by Roys Bros., of this place. The boys own a mill over at Coral, -and em- ploy about 60 hands. They give their men to understand that they must pay their store | bills or suffer discharge, and the first inquiry from a dealer results in the man’s discharge. The men have come to realize that this rule means something, and pay their bills with the alacrity of clock work.” For downright justice and fairness to all concerned this sys- tem commends itself to every thinking per- son. ‘ C. F. Stout contemplates retiring from the grocery business to engage in the profession of detective. He has already performed two very clever pieces of detective work. SAND LAKE. A. Giddings has purchased his old stock, forclosed under chattle mortgage, of John Caulfield and is feeling more independent than he has for years. He states that the bitter experience of the past has served to open his eyes to the necessity for greater caution in all business transactions, and that the lessons he has learned continuously loom up before him as a warning. TOLD ABOUT TAYLOR AT PIERSON. The retirement of Fred F. Taylor from general trade at Pierson, with whose _busi- ness interests he has been so long identified, naturally creates more or less surprise among the people of the place who had come to fear, if-not to respect, him. It is stated as a fact that he leaves no outstanding in- debtedness, as the result of his mercantile career, as he was one of the shrewdest col- lectors in the State. As an_ illustration of his skill in this direction the following rem- iniscence israked up: It appears that a farmer owed Taylora Dill for about $5, which the latter was unable to collect by any hook or crook. Finally the farmer be- came involved in some petty litigation, and engaged Taylor to ‘‘pettyfog” the case for him, subsequently paying the costs and fees asked. Shortly afterward the farmer bought a piece of land for a home, but be- fore moving upon it—it would be exempt tice court case. Of course the man was ¢com- pelled to pay both claims in full, together with the costs involved, amounting in all to about ten times the original account. This experience is but one of many peculiar to Taylor’s career, and serves to show the causes that led the people to regard Taylor with fear and a feeling nearly akin to super- stition. ‘The worst dead-beat in the com- munity,” said a Pierson dealer, “always paid Taylor in full, and to the latter’s won- derful tact in this respect I attribute in great part his success.”’ “Fred must be worth $50,000 er more,” suggested the reporter. “Fifty thousand!” exclaimed the dealer. “That isn’t a circumstance. He is worth $200,000 at the least calculation, and I un- derstand he claims to go $100,000 better.” Mr. Taylor is removing his family to Wood Lake, where his mili is located. ee es ie The Messmore Failure. I. E. Messmore, who began business as a grocery jobber a little over a year ago, under the firm nameof L. H. Randall & Co., has gone to the wall. The City National Bank holds his paper to the amount of $20,000, $7,500 of which is endorsed by Geo. H. White. Last Thursday he gave that gentle- mana chattel mortgage on the stock to se- cure the endorsements, and subsequently gave the bank a second mortage to secure the remainder of the paper. Both mort- gages were foreclosed the following morn- ing, when John H. McIntyre and Capt. H. N. Moore were engaged to inventory the stock. The inventory revealed $15,500 worth of goods, which at forced sale will probably not bring more than enough to satisfy the White mortgage, leaving the bank in the lurch, and also $13,000 worth of unsecured accounts. The book accounts, which aggre- gate about $12,000 and are probably worth about half that amount, were assigned to his wife, and Charley Messmore_ brings in a claim for $2,000, for “borrowed money.” The reason for the failure may be attribu- ted to the loose manner in which the busi- ness was conducted. Itis a matter of com- mon report that the business was by no means a profitable one, and that Messmore was heartily sick of it. The stock was so near to hard-pan, however, that it was thought he would close it out, and pay all claims dollar for dollar. That he has not done so, forfeits for him the little respect in which he has hitherto been held, and cuts off any sympathy that might otherwise be expressed fora man who has made an un- fortunate business investment. —_—__—<.-9<____—— VISITING BUYERS. The following retail dealers have visited the market during the past week and placed orders with the various houses: D. M. Rice, Croton. C. E. Clapp, Martin. Quick & Morton, Howard City. Graham & Sweeney, Hopkins. r ©. F. Sears & Co., Rockford. oe M. Dameron, Bangor. S. C. Butler, Montieth. Eno F. Brown, Grant. L. A. Gardiner, Cedar Springs. J. C. Benbow, Cannonsburg. Wm. Black, Cedar Springs. Jackson Coon, Rockford. J. H. Payne, Ganges P. O. A. B. Foote, Hilliards. Robert Carlyle, Rockford. B. N. Pettingill, Rockford. John Graham, Wayland. Byron MeNeal, Byron Center. John Glupker, Zutphen. hk. B. MeCullock, Berlin. Rockafellow & LaDue, Carson City. Chas. Mead, Coopersville. H. J. Moore, Lake View. F. E. Davis, Berlin. J. A. Spooner, Cedar Springs. O. P. McClure, Spencer’s Mill. Gordon Earl, Maple Hill. Jay Marlatt, Berlin. J. Omler, Wright. Mrs. Anna Keazer, Muskegon. ¥. C. Brisbin, Berlin. E. T. McClure, Spencer’s Mills. Rose & Carner, Cedar Springs S. Millis, Denver. A. C. Lewis, Lake City. E. T. Conrad, Cadillac. W. F. Stuart, Sand Lake. Fred Ramsey, White Cloud. G. C. Barker, LaBarge. C. McCarty, Lowell. Geo. P. Stark, Cascade. Lester B. Rice, representing Winchester & Loveless, Wyman. M. Heyboer, Drenthe. H. Bakker & Son, Drenthe. A. Vollmer, Big Rapids. F. E. Deming, Freeport. A. W. Blain, Dutton. Jobn Den Herder, Jr., Zeeland. Waite Bros., Hudsonville. N. Bouma, Fisher. Geo. A. Sage, Rockford. Geo. J. Shackelton, Lisbon.j H. B. Chapman, Big Springs. Eli Rnnnels, Corunna. C. R. Smith, Cadillac. C. H. Deming, Dutton. J. E. Thurkow, Morley. A DeKruif, Zeeland. F. Stadt, Spring Lake. P. M. Lonsbury, Reed City. M. V. Wilson, Spring Lake. C. I. Biddle, Ft. Wayne. J. B. Watson, Coopersville. Nagler & Beeler, Caledonia. T. Colson, Alaska. Waite Bros., Hudsonville. G. F. Richardson, Jamestown. Visser & Mastenbrook, Lamont. Holland & Ives, Rockford. C. E. & S. J. Koon, Lisbon. D. M. Rice, Croton. ——————»—-2-—_—_ From ten to fifty percent. of the fruit shipped from foreign countries to New York is rotted on the way, the greatest loss being in oranges and the least in cocoanuts, Some of the butter in cold storagé is get- ting gray-haired. It is never old enough, however, to be bald, though the balled but- ter often seems oldest. The A. B. Page referred to on another age as having rich mining claims on Ala- er of Abel T. Page, of aN notations JOHN CAULFIELD —THE— WHOLESALE GROCER, —AND JOBBER IN— Teas, Tobaccos, Spices Ete, 85, 87 and 89 Canal Street FACTORY AGENT For the following well-known brands of To- baecos and Cigars: FINES CUT. IBQUIERED |... os oe oo ee ss oo en ee 4 Old Gonsress: 2... 7... cn ce. 64 Good Ene 2. 2. wc kw ews cn nc ce nee 5d Good and Sweet. ...........0...06..02-- 45 American Queen. .:....... ss. we eee ees 38 RAG AWAY. oo os oa ww cw we nn ow we we 35 Pane PMMOR. 6. ea oe aa 30 Governor, 2 02. foil. ................--- 60 In half barrels or four pail lots, 2c # i off above list. ee Horse Shoe. . ao. 2 « 00 McAlpin’s Green Shield. . ae ee ee 48 McAlpin’s Sailor’s Solace.. ...48 Red Star, extra quality, s same ‘sty le as Sailor’ S SOMEO 2. oc ee. 48 Big Chunk or J. T. Mahogany Wrapper. .40 Hair Lifter, Mahoyany Wrapper......... 3 D. & D. Dark, 14 and 16 oz. pounds..... 37 ae f Se eae we oe Duck, 2x12 ‘and. flat. Mes wee oo ec ack ae 48 Nobby cae Roll. . Sole ae a oe Black Spum Roll... ... 2... ee occ ne ee 38 Canada Plug (Virginia Smoking)........ 50 Cresent Plug, 6 tb cads.............000- 45 ee Se Peerless, ease lots. . e 2.25 Rob Roy, ease TOUS. . oo... ce. kee cae 25 Wnele Sam. oo... es ook Sc cc ee. 28 Tom and J oe < .. 224 Good Enough. . a Mountain Rose. . : .-20 Lumberman’s Long Cut.. ~240 226 Frome Comfort... .. - - 6... so ce ec 24 Green Back, Killickinick...............25 Two Nickel, Killickinick 14............. 25 Two Nickel, Killickinick, 1¢............26 Star Durham, Killickinick, 1¢...........25 Rattler, Killickinick, 17................5 Honey Dew, Killickinick, 14 25 Posey, Killickinick, 1 yf | oun We ew vas 25 Canary, Killickiniek, ‘Extra Virginia. ....36 Gold Block, Killickinick, 14............ 32 Peck’s Sun, Killickinick, 1¢s and Ibs..... 18 Golden Flake Cabimet........:...-.--... 40 ipraveler. 3 07. fowl. .:..............2..- 35 Rail Road Boy, 3 oz. foil................ 37 Nigger Head, Navy Clippings........... 26 Scotten’s Chips, Navy Clippings, paper. Leidersdorfs’ Navy Clippings, cloth bags 26 26 Old Rip Fine Virginia Long Cut......... 55 Hime Wilm Club, ..-.. 2.22... 2c. 6. es 45 Durham hone Cut............-..-.---2 60 Durham, Blackwell’s 1¢...............- 60 Durham, Blackwell’s, 44...............- 57 Durham, Blackwell’s, 1¢...........:...- 55 Durham, Blackwell's, I.....2....5..-2. 51 Seal of North Carolina } “a eel ese es see 52 | Seal of North Carolina %............... 50 Seal of North Carolina 1g............... 48 Seal of North Carolina fh............... 46 CIGARS. Smoke the Celebrated ‘‘After Lunch” Cigar. Aten, Wameli. = 3... 2 cS $30 00 @lappissa: 266 oo ok en ee es 45 00 OlAba oo esse. oo oe ce cee 32 00 Mamelia | 3.0... a os tt esc 00 @ueen Matys.......-......-2. 6... 2s 25 00 SOSGMNENES .- ... 5... . 0. es eee 25 00 battle Eratehets.. .... . oe ce cc. 30 00 Old: G@IGEIES. ce... woo oc oe oe eee 23 00 DART BISUGTEe eee ee eee 23 00 Mass Acate. 3... 3... ce cee. 18 00 NEaemOna. o.2 2) oe se, ck 12 50 Commercial... as aos ose, Oo UO DICHUIMNOS | 6 oo ee 6s oo ho we ce cee, 60 00 Mark (SWAlh ... 250-5. cae oe eke 55 00 Golden Spike... .. 2... 20.2 ee eee 55 00 Storm?s -Boquet. .. 6.5.6 ccc cs eee. 65 00 Owl Captauhic. 2: 25.6. es Seek 60 00 S. @S Canadura. 3... 6... coe can 32 00 In addition to the above brands of Tobac- cos and Cigars, [I keep in stock an ample supply of all other well-known brands of Plug and Fine Cut. Our stock in the Tobac- co and Cigar line is one of the largest and best assorted to be found in the city. TEAS. Japan OLrdimary. <.. 2... 2225058 23@30 Japan fair.......... “ rues sea, 32@35 Japan faire to 200d... 2.26.6 es. 35@37 ope ONO ce cco. ec 40@50 Sapa QUSh. =. 5. 2 eo ae 18@20 Woune Evyaon. 2. i ee 25@50 GAEPOWOCER. 6 voc oe coe ce 35@50 CONON GS oe eos ok 85@45@55@60 @ON2G ee 30@35 SYRUPS. Gorn, Barrels... 95. 2.2.4.6. .c 2s @ 33 Goren % Onis. «2... @ 35 Corn. 10 gallon kegs.................0. @ 36 Corn,5 gallon kegs.................24. @1 90 Corn, 4% gallon kegs..... ee @1 85 Pure Sugar Drips, Mt 30@ 37 Maple Syrup, 5 gal kegs............... @3 10 Maple Syrub, 10 gal kegs.............. @6 00 SPICES. Ground Pepper, in boxes and cans....... 16@22 Ground AlISpice.. -. 2... 2... eo beeen 12@: 20 GRUEIPRILO oo 5s oy eed ee ee 16@30 QlOVeR: 2 2k... i. Sees ae ee ee hs 2s Ginger |. oo ee 17@25 IWERISESUESE 2g a Se eve 15@35 Cayenne. ah | cae oa ees u eee ices 25@35 Pepper, } %3 Wy Gt OOA. 5.565) 5. cee @%5 ATSpiee 86 I ooo a coe eels ee @%5 Cinnamon Mees Citas oes 00 Cloves 4 Ip... .. 52... e ec: 5 Pepper, whole........ Reece es @ Se TUES SSE As pes ites oy ea ie ec Se @10 Cassin @12 OClGVGS a te 20@22 INGIEMOGS NOwED sok ck eee eee ceed, W@iT5 We call the especial attention of those de- siring to purchase new stocks to our superior facilities for meeting their wants. Our guar- antee is first-class goods and low prices. Careful attention given mail orders. Spec- ial quotations mailed on general line of gro- ceries when requested. # ® 4 7 Drugs & Medicines The Examination of White Lead. The most common attendant of white lead is permanent white or sulphate of baryta. This admixture may be recognized by boil- ing a small quantity of the pigment in a glass tube or flask with nitric acid diluted with an equal measure of water. The white lead dissolves, but the sulphate of baryta remains as a white residue. To prevent any chance of error, the residue should be allowed to settle, the clear liquid poured off, and the de- posit again treated with nitric acid, and the boiled with water. Other adulterants of white lead, such as whiting and plaster, can- not be detected by any simple test. OOo Rubbing Out the Cents. There are several men engaged in buying up all the new five-cent pieces which do not bear the word “‘cents” from the conductors of the street car lines, paying from 15 to 20 cents apiece for them. Each buyer has his own price. Theconductors say the pieces are becoming very scarce. ‘‘ Among the things that we have to look out for,” said a buyer of these coins, “are five-cent pieces which have the word ‘cents’ scraped off. These pass for the genuine with some people, but the real coins of the suppressed issue have the inscription ‘E Pluribus Unum,’ where the word ‘cents’ is in the corrected is- sue.” ——_—»> +> “Do you keep arsenic for rats?” she ask- ed in a Woodward avenue drug store yester- day. “Yes’m.” “I’ll take a dime’s worth.” When it was weighed out and paid for she stood for a moment in deep thought and then said: “Lots of people mistake arsenic for baking powder and put it in the biscuit.” “Yes’m.” “Well, Ldon’t want to commit any such foolishness. Here is a half-pound can of baking-powder. You may empty it out and do it up in paper and put the arse nic in the box. When I see the words ‘pak- ing-powder’ on the box I can remember that it’s arsenic, and if you’ll write ‘poison’ on the baking-powder I won’t forget that it’s all right for biscuit. Nothing like being a leetle keerful about handling dangerous things.” i Teething—Bromide of Sodium. From the Medical Summary. A few grains dissolved in a tumbler full of water, so that each teaspoonful may rep- resent halfa grain, will quickly quiet the nervous disturbance of teething infants, or fever not dependent upon the onset of an inflammation or other grave trouble, but rather such as may follow excitement of any kind. The dose should be repeated every ten or fifteen minutes. —_—____—~—_2..>—_- A Cruel Thrust. From the Merchants’ Review. The patent medicine men are busy trying to protect the retail druggists. When aman gets ten cents a grain for a salt that costs two cents a pound, and sells a glass of soda at a thousand per cent. profit, he don’t seem to be suffering for “protection” so much as his customers do. oO Who are sustaining the Campion plan? Nearly or quite nearly every drug gathering that has convened, either regularly or spec- ially, during the past month, have passed resolutions favoring it. The druggists of Albany and Greenbush, the R. 1. Pharma- ceutical Assoclation, N. Y. Druggists’ Un- ion, and a large number of other bodies. ————_—>_o>_—_—_ It is to be hoped that the Druggists’ League will succeed in raising the price of patent medicine. The stuff has been getting so cheap lately that people are beginning to lose their faith in it. There’s nothing likea dollar a bottle, and three Washington Terri- tory testimonials to establish a reputation for new nostrum.—Boston Globe. ————___——> 2. ____—_ An effort was made in the British Parlia- ment to secure the passage of a bill intro- duced by Mr. Wharton to “restrict the sale of patent medicines,” this being, however, confined to those articles which on analysis were found to contain poisonous articles.” It appears to have elicited much discussion, but finally failed to pass. > As a necessity, warm weather brings in- creased thirst which must be assuaged. Stimulants of an alcoholic nature should be avoided. In England the authorities have offered a large reward for a new and accept- able “Temperance Drink.” ——_—>>-?>_—_ This is a Joke. From the Cedar Springs Clipper. The patent medicine combination has re- solved to put up prices on its goods, but the life insurance companies have not yet low- ered their rates on policies. —————>-_ 0 It is asserted that if bees are kept in any locality where aconite grows, and collect the sweets from its flowers, that such honey will exhibit the poisonous quality of that drug. ——__ The druggists of Racine, Wisconsin, have decided not to sell liquor for any purpose, as they decline to pay a license of $50. >.<. What She Wanted, Give him urb called Boanecet. in feld country. 5 cents. —————_—__—>>-o_>——_ In 1878 the importation of quinine was 17,549 ounces; in 1883 it was 1,055,764 ounces. Urb grose There are 28,000 retail druggists in the United States. Seneka@ .........02+ 2-200 ee Sarsaparilla, Hondurus........... WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT. Hazeltine, Perkins & Co. quote as follows for quantities usually wanted—for larger amounts write them for quotations: Advanced—Balsam, Peru; Oil Wintergreen; Terpentine. Declined—Gum oium; Gum Camphor; Oil lemon; Balsam Tolu. ACIDS. Acetic, No. 8..........-+--205: eh 9 @ 10 Acetic, C. P. (Sp. grav. 1.040)...... 30 @ 35 Parhcuie 2... cs... foc eke weet a 35 MOIGTAS os ccc oe acess ot eeeee os ome 55 Muriatic 18 deg.........--.-- sees 3 @ 5 Nitric 36 deg...........2 cece eeeeeee 1 @ 2B OORBIIC os eke we te ete 144%@ 15 Sulphuric 66 deg........----+++++++ 3@ 4 Tartaric eS ete) cieca eee 48 Benzoic, English......... eee B OZ 20., Benzotc, German............------ 12 @ Db Mannie. oe keto see ose 1 @ Ili AMMONIA. Carbonate..........--.-eeeees Rh 1 @ 18 Muriate (Powd. 22¢).............++. 15 Aqua 16 deg or 3f............-+.++ 6 @ 7 Aqua 18 deg or 4f...............-.- 7@ 8 BALSAMS. @opaibs -..>.....-:..-...----------> @ 50 Fi seckuee 50 2 50 50 BARKS. Cassia, in mats (Pow’d 20c)........ 12 Cinchona, yellow..............++- 18 Him. Se1CCE........::.--- .<,--- s+ . b@ 7 Prickay ASH. :.°.. 3.25. ... 2.2... 160 @l ll EXTRACTS. Licorice (10 and 24 ib boxes, 25c)... 27 Licorice, powdered, pure......... 37% Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 tb doxes). 9 Logwood, 1s (25 Ib boxes).......... 12 Lgowood, %s8 G0. 63.62... 13 Logwood, 448 G0 =.) 15 Logwood, ass’d do _.......... 14 Fluid_Extracts—25 8 cent. off list. FLOWERS. PAgmaiCH. 6. cc. 5 kes == 10 @ il Chamomile, Roman.............-- 25 Chamomile, German.............- 25 GUMS. Aloes, Barbadoes..........+--++++- 60@ 75 Aloes, Cape (Powd 24¢).........++- 18 Aloes, Socotrine (Powd 60c)......- 50 AMMONIAC ..........-. cece ceeceeees 28@ 30 Arabic. extra select..........-..-- 60 Arabic, powdered _ select.........- 60 Arabic, Ist picked................- 50 Arabic,2d picked... 40 Arabic,c3d pickod.......... 35 Arabic, sifted sorts..............-- 30 Assafcentida, prime (Powd 35c)... é 30 BenZOin.. ...:. =... 222. coves sees 55@60 Camphor ...........-.-esseeeee sense 22@ 24 Catechu. 1s (4%, 14c, 48 16c) ...... : 13 al ama powdered............ 35@ 40 Galbanum strained..............-- 80 GamboZe.........eeeeeececeeceeeees 90@1 00 Guaiac, prime (Powd 45c)......... 35 Kino [Powdered, 30c]...........-.- 20 Mastic 4.5; 5s -c.-. == ---- 110 Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 47c)... 40 Opium, pure (Powd $5.50)........-. 415 Shellac, Campbell’s..............+- 35 Shellac, English.............-.--+- 30 Shellac, native...........-..-..-ee- 2d Shellac bleached...........---++++. . 33 Tragacanth .............eee sees eeee 30 @1 10 HERBS—IN OUNCE PACKAGES. Hoarhound .......... cece cece eee ee cee eecece 25 WO COL ee Se pee oo 25 Peppermint..........-..e ee ee eeee cee ee er eees 25 Me ee cc sees aee e e- 40 Spearmint ..........-.- eee ee eee eee ee eee eeees 24 Sweet Majoram............ sce e eee ener ee ee 35 TANZY ..22.- cece cece cer cece ee cent ee seen cence: 25 TWYME .....- eee ce cece cece cee een e eens eeeeeees 30 WOYMWOOG 2... . 2.2 eee wee e ce cece ec cc ec ceccee 25 IRON. Citrate and Quinine............... 6 40 Solution mur., for tinctures...... 20 Sulphate, pure crystal............ 7 (Giuente . 2. oss. 5. . -e - 80 Phosphate ...........eceeeee cece ees 65 LEAVES. Buchu, short (Powd 25c)..........- 122 @ 13 Sage, Italian, bulk (145 & 4, 12c)... 6 Senna, Alex, natural.............-. 20 Senna, Alex. sifted and garbled.. 30 Senna, powdered............-..++- 22 Senna tinnivelli........... .....++- 16 Mga UTA)... 5.2... 2 5-2 10 Belledonna...........-....e2ceccees 35 FOXGIOVE...... eee ee eee ee eee eens 3 Montane... 2.2.2.2. .,..--.---- 35 Rose, red......... cdeccecdeceecees 2 85 LIQUORS. W., D. & Co.’s Sour Mash Whisky.2 00 @2 2% Druggists’ Favorite Rye........-- 1% @2 00 Whisky, other brands............- 110 @1 50 Gin, Old Tom.............-.e-ee00% 135 @1 7% Gin, Holland...............----+-+- 200 @3 50 Brandy... .---2---2--2:----------- 1%5 @6 50 Catawba WineS...........-e++06 «- 125 @2 00 Port WiMeSs......-...---5-.--- >» -2-- 135 @2 50 MAGNESIA. Carbonate, Pattison’s, 2 02........ 23 Carbonate, Jenning’s, 20Z......... 37 Citrate, H., P. & Co.’s solution.... 2 2% Calecined............... Se ae 70 OILS. Almond, SWCCt.......... 22 eee ee eee 45 @ 50 Amber, rectified................++- 45 PAIS. 62. ooo oe ceed ees see 2 00 Bay @ OZ........0. 22s e cece ec eceeees Bergamont..........-...eeee cece ees 2 00 (nator. 2. 8... cs 18%@ 20 CrtOn 6k as ioe tee ese 2 00 Cajeput .........-.2.0..e2sesees cess vine "GEASS ee 1 20 Cedar, commercial (Pure 75c)..... 40 @itmonela .........-,--2.--2 +... CIOWOES 6 ee ose ces eee oes 1 Cubebs, 2. & W.........: -.------ 8 Erigeron ..........ceeeeeceee ee ceece 1 WITEWRED. 5... ono s se cee nee > 2 Geranium @ OZ........---+++esee- Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75c).. Juniper WOO.........---s.eeeeeeee Juniper berries.........-....--++e+ Lavender fiowers- French......... Lavender garden do Lavender spike do Lemon, new Crop........---se+ee+- Lemon, Sanderson’s..........----- Lemongrass.......--.-+-2eeereeee ee Origanum, red flowers, French... Origanum, No.1 Pennyroyal ..........0. ee ee ever eeee Peppermint, white...........-.-.. ROSC # OZ... 2. eee ee ee eee esas eees Rosemary, French (Flowers $5)... Sandal Wood, German...........- Sandal Wood, Turkish Dark...... SASSATTAB. . 2... 25s eee tec ct cece reece TANBY .. 2.2.0.2 20 2ccn ee ccc orececes Tar (by gal 60C).........---.--ee eee 10 Wintergreen .........---+--.s2eee Wormwood, No. 1(Pure $6.50)..... SAGAR os oo se os pce cones WoOrmsée ....... ee eee cece eee ees Cod Liver, filtered..... . . gal Cod Liver, best......... Suda s Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16 Olive, Malaga........... : Olive, ‘‘Sublime Italian . Salad a eee eee scores ecee SHASNSASSSSHRASSSRASSSRSRASSESTERSSSHS 2). Sewanee COCR ORD ht ODO Rose, Ihmsen’s..........-.--- 8 POTASSIUM. Bicromate.........2.--.-2-000+ 48 Ib Bromide, cryst. and gran. bulk... Chlorate, cryst (Powd 28¢).......-. Todide, cryst. and gran. bulk..... Prussiate yellow...........-+-+-0++ ROOTS. AIOE 655 ses oi wees oo Althea, Cut........ 2.6. cece cece ee eee Arrow, St. Vincent’s.............- Arrow, Taylor’s, in 448 and %8.... Blood (Powd 18C).....-....-+e- ce eee Calamus, peeled.................--. Calamus, German white, peeled.. Elecampane, powdered............ Gentian (Powd Il7¢(.............--- Ginger, African (Powd I6c)........ Ginger, Jamaica bleached........ Golden Seal (Powd 40¢)..... Hellebore, white, powdered Ipecac, Rio, powdered...... ee alap, powdered.............-.+.+- Licorice, select (Powd 12%4)....... Licorice, extra select.............- Pink, true...........-..-. Rhei, from select to choice Rhei, powdered E. I........ Rhei, choice cut cubes.. Rhei, choice cut fingers. Serpentaria...........-.. 2S ht 13 @ 12 15 83 wee SESRSSEE Sarsaparilla, Mexican............. 18 Squills, white (Powd 35c)........-. 10 Valerian, English (Powd 30c)...... 25 Valerian, Vermont (Powd 28c).... 20 SEEDS. Anise, Italian (Powd 20c).......... 13 Bird, mixed in ® packages....... 5 @ 6 Canary, Smyrna.............-.++++ 4@ 4% Caraway, best Dutch (Powd 19c).. 11 @ 12 Cardamon, Aleppee.............-+ 2 00 Cardamon, Malabar............--++ 2 2 WOCIBIN is ee es ok ene es 20 Coriander, best English........... 12 MOWNNCL eee ls oon es cces 15 Flax, clean........ fe eo a. 384%@ Flax, pure grd (bbl 334)............ 4@ 4% Foenugreek, powdered............ 8 @ 9 Hemp, Russian................++++ 5 @ 15% Mustard, white, Black 10c)........ 8 OUINGCE 2 ois ae hoe cw eg se nts sie 1 00 Rape, Lnglish...................+-- T%@ 8 Worm, Levant... .... 6.1.62. ee oe 14 SPONGES. Florida sheeps’ wool, carriage..... 225 @2 50 Nassau do G00 792: 2 00 Velvet Extra do G0). 2s. 110 Extra Yellow do go. (4. 85 Grass G0 A... 65 Hard head, for slate use........... 4d Yellow Reef, G0. 5.8: 1 40 MISCELLANEUS. Alcohol, grain (bb]l $2.23) ® gal.... 2 31 Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref. 1 50 Anodyne Hoffman’s..............- 50 Arsenic, Donovan’s solution 27 Arsenic, Fowler’s solution. 12 Annatto 1% rolls........... : 30 Blue Soluble.............. : 50 Bay Rum, imported, best......... 25 Bay Rum, domestic, H., P. & Co.’s. 2 25 PATI cee oe Bib 2%@ 3% Alum, ground (Powd 9¢c).......... 3 @ 4 Annatto, Prime...........0..0cc000 Antimony, powdered, com’l...... 44@ 5 Arsenic, white, powdered......... 6 @ 7 Balm Gilead Buds................. 40 Beans, Tonka: .-...:.......22.06 «- 2 25 Beans Vanilla. .................... 700 @9 %5 Bismuth, sub nitrate.............. 1% Blue Pill (Powd 70¢)............... 45 Blue Vatriol’ ss ee. eee 1%%@ 9 Borax, refined (Powd 138¢c)......... 12 Cantharides, Russian powdered... 2 25 Capsicum Pods, African.......... 18 Capsicum Pods, Afriean pow’d... 2 Capsicum Pods, American do ... 18 Carmine, NO. 40.............00-0-s- 4 00 Cassia Buds........ 14 Calomel, American.. 70 Chalk, prepared drop. 5 Chalk, precipitate English 12 Chalk, red fingers......... 8 Chalk, white lump... 2 Chloroform, Squibb’ 1 60 Colocynth apples...... a 60 Chloral hydrate, German crusts.. 1 60 Chloral do do cryst... 1 70 Chloral do Scherin’s do ... 1 90 Chloral do do crusts.. 1% CDIOTOLOIIN .6 6.0 555.5. o ca 115 @1 20 Cinchonidia, P. & W......5........ 6€ @ 65 Cinchonidia, other brands......... 60 @ 6 Cloves (POWG 28¢).........-02.- 00s 20 @ 22 @ochineal 3... 6. i .603.. es. 3s... 30 Cocos Butter:....- ..............- 45 Copperas (by bbl Ic)............... 2 Corrosive Sublimate............... 65 Corks, X and XX—35 off list...... Cream Tartar, pure powdered..... 38 @ 40 Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 b box.. 15 OTeRROLO: 6. ele ie... 50 Cudbear, prime.. 24 Cuttle Fish Bone 23 POKATING (ooo. c tees sce 3c: 12 Dover’s Powders..............eee8 1 20 Dragon’s Blood Mass............ 2 50 Ergot powdered................... 45 Mther Saquibh's.....6.5-.....65. ..e 110 Emery, Turkish, all No.’s......... 8 HMipsOmSalts. 2 6 te... es 24@ 3 Hircot. Presi... 2......56..-...2 0222. 50 Ether, sulphuric, U.S. P.......... 69 WMlake waite. 20.6...) bse oe 14 Grains Paradise:................6- 3d Gelatine, Cooper’s................. 90 Gelatine, French .................. 45 @ 0 Glassware, flint, 65 off,by box 55 off Glassware, green, 60 and 10 dis.... Glue; cabinet.. ...........-........ 122 @ li Gine white. 666. osc o ies cokes 17 @ 28 Glycerine, pure.................... 23 @ 26 Hops %8 and 148...............0005 25@ 40 TORGOTOVM B OZ. ....5 50... 5 ess oct 85 WndigO: 8 @l1 00 Insect Powder, best Dalmatian... 32 @_ 34 Todine, resublimed................ 2 30 Isinglass, American.. 1 50 Japonica ........... 9 London Purple 10 @ 1 Dead, Acetate: os 6. aks. ey teas oe 15 Lime, chloride, (4s 2s 10¢c & 4s 1c) 9 AMMULING) 2. eo eos oe ss coe es 1 00 DyCOpOdiuM |... . 02.5.2... 23.38. ss 35 IMECO ee si: 60 Madder, best Dutch............... RY@ 13 Manna,S. E.. oo... 22.3... ta ees 1 35 MICKCUEY, 2. eo eee ese 50 Morphia, sulph., P.& W...... #8 0z 3 40@3 65 Musk, Canton, H., P. & Co.’s...... 40 Moss, Iceland................4. 2 Ib 10 Moss: trish... ee 12 Mustard, English.................. 30 Mustard, grocer’s, 10 cans...... 18 Natralls. so. 6s) ee 20 WNutmers: NO: 1.) ......2.........4.. 75 Nai VOMmICR. (6. 2 io. oes. 10 Ointment. Mercurial, 4d.......... 40 Paris GYOCN:: 55. 062.025..5205 8s. 8s 164@ 24 Pepper, Black Berry.............. 18 IPepsinnn 9 63s. s es 3 00 Pitch, True Burgundy............. Quassia 22.2. ss 6 @ 7% Quinia, Sulph, P. & W........ boz 1 380@I 35 Quinine, other brands............. 130 @1 35 Seidlitz Mixture................... 28 Strychnia., cryst.................-.- 1 50 Silver Nitrate, cryst............... 19 @ 8 Red Precipitate............... 8 Ib 80 Satfron, American................. 40 Sal Glawper:. 6.26 eos... sc eee ces @ 2 Sal Nitre, large cryst.............. 10 Sal Nitre, medium cryst.......... 9 Sal Rochelle. ...........;....+..2... 33 Mal SONG. 666 sass cow ase oe 2@ 2% UCM ee ascitcs ee se 2 50 Samtontn 66k eae se ss 6 %5 Snuffs, Maccoboy or Scotch....... 38 Soda Ash [by keg 8c].............. 4 Spermaceti.........-5..0.---.--+--- 25 Soda, Bi-Carbonate, DeLand’s.... 4%4@ 5 Soap, White Castile................ 14 Soap,Green do. ............6+-- 1% Soap, Mottled do .................- 9 Soap, GO) (00 eset 11 Soap, Wagzing. --).. «2... 2... ...--. 14 Spirits Nitre, 3 F................6-. 2% @ 28 Spirits Nitre, 4 F................6-- 28 @ 382 Sugar Milk powdered.............. 30 Sulphur, flour...............-.-++-. 384@ 4 Sulppur, yOll...-..2........-.-.--- 383Q@ 3% Tartar Hmetic............-.2...0666 65 Tar, N. C. Pine, % gal. cans # doz 2 70 Tar, do quarts in tin....... 1 40 Tar, do pintsintin......... 85 Turpentine, Venice........... 8 Ib 25 Wax, White, 8. & F. brand........ 60 Zine, Sulphate................5.-6% 7 @ 8 OILS. Capitol Cylinder.............. cece cess cree eens 15 Model Cylinder...............cccccesessceeeeee 60 Shields Cylinder ooo... se i we cece cen es 50 Eldorado Bngine.............. cece ccc eececcees 45 Peerless Machinery.............-ceeceeeeceees 3d Challenge Machinery.............ceeeseeeeeeee 25 Backus Fine Engine.............cceeeeee cece 30 Black Diamond Machinery................0+4: 30 PNSROTINOC! sa obs ess aes cp views cece ee eee 6C Paraffine, 25 deg...........ececece ce ceecerecees 22 Paraffine, 28 G@®..........ce cece cece eee ceecees 21 Sperm, winter bleached.............-..+.4.- 1 40 Bbl Gal Whale, winter..............esceecees 80 85 Lard, Oxtra.........s ee ee cece cece eens 75 80 Miard, NO. bere asec cs yee ten oh ee 65 40 Linseed, pure raw..............eeeee 59 4 Linseed, boiled ................--.++- 62 65 Neat’s Foot, winter strained........ 90 95 Spirits Turpentine...............++.- 39 45 VARNISHES. No. 1 Turp Coach.............cecccseee 1 10@1 20 Pxtra TUrp....0.5.2. ets) eee see eee 1 60@1 70 Coach Bogy............scccesseeceeccoee 2 16@3 00 No. 1 Turp Furniture..................1 00@1 10 Extra Turp Damar................. «..1 55@1 60 Japan Dryer, No. 1 Turp.............. 0@ %5 PAINTS. Bbl Lb Boralumine, White bulk) ........ 9 Boralumine, ‘ BIDS 1 co... s:: 10° Boralumine, Tints bulk. ;40 ff.. 10 Boralumine ‘ § 1B. Vise wees 11 Red Venetian.............24-.- 1% 2@ Ochre, yellow Marseilles...... 1% -2@ 8 Ochre, yellow Bermuda....... 1% 2@ 3 Putty, commercial ............ 2% 2%@ 3 Putty, strictly pure.........--+ 2% 2%@ Vermilion, prime American.. 18@16 Vermilion, English............ 556@5 Green, Peninsular............- 16@17 Lead, red eee. UPC. i266 ss 6% Lead, white, strictly pure..... 61 Whiting, white Spa Bosco 5 @i Whiting, Gilders’.............. @90 White, Paris American........ 110 Whiting Paris English cliff.. 1 40 HAZELTINE, ERKINS & 00, Wholesale ruggists! 42 and 44 Ottawa Street and 89, 91, 93 and 95 Louis Street. IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals, Paints, Oils, Varnisives, and Druggist' Glassware. MANUFACTURERS OF RLEGANT PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS, FLUID EXTRACTS AND ELIXIRS. GENERAL WHOLESALE AGENTS FOR Wo tr, Patron & Co., AND JOHN L. WuHiT- NEY, MANUFACTURERS OF FINE PAINT AND VARNISH BRUSHES. —Also for the— Granp RaApips Brush Co., MANFGS. OF HAtrr, SHOE AND HorsE BRUSHES. Drugeists’ Sundries Our stock in this department of our busi- ness is conceded to be one of the largest, best-assorted and diversified to be found in the Northwest. We are heavy importers of many articles ourselves and can offer Fine Solid Back Hair Brushes, French and Eng- glish Tooth and Nail Brushes at attractive prices. Ourline of Holiday Goods for the _| approaching season will be more full and el- egant than ever before, and we desire our customers to delay their fall purchasers ‘of those articles until they have seen our el- egant line, as shown by our accredited repre- sentative who is now preparing for his an- nual exhibition of those goods. We desire particular attention of those about purchasing OUTFITS for NEW STORES to the fact of our wnsurpassed facilities for meeting the wants of this class of buyers without delay and in the most approved and acceptable manner known to the drug trade. Our special efforts in this direction have re- ceived from hundreds of our customers the most satisfying recommendations. Wine and Lignor Department We give our special and personal atten- tion to the selection of choice goods for thedrug trade only, and trust we merit the high praise accorded us for so satisfactorily supplying the wants of our customers with Pure Goods in this department. We con- trol and are the only authorized agents for the sale of the celebrated Withers Dade & Co’s Henderson Co., Ky., SOUR MASH AND OLD FASHIONED HAND MADE, COP- PER DISTILLED WHISKYS. We not only offer these goods to be excelled by No OTHER KNOWN BRAND in the market, but superior in all respects to most that are ex- posed for sale. We GUARANTEE perfect and complete satisfaction and where this brand of goods has once been introduced the future trade has been assured. We are also owners of the Druggisis Favorite Rye, Which continues to have so many favorites among druggists who have sold these goods for a very long time. Buy our Cins Brandies & Fine Wines. We call your attention to the adjoining list of market quotations which we aim to make as complete and perfect as possible. For special quantities and for quotations on such articles as do not appear on the list such as Patent Medicines, etc,, we invite your cor- respondence. Mail orders always receive our special and personal attention. HAZELTINE, PERKINS & GO HOW GOULD WORKS. The Difficulty Experienced in Getting an Audience. A New York correspondent gives an inter- esting pen picture of the manner in which Jay Gould conducts his daily routine of work. Since the great speculator’s return from his recent cruise, there has been an un- usual pressure at his office, but few, how- ever, are favored with an interview. No man has more enemies on Wall street than Jay Gould, and there is no telling what shape their enmity may assume. Scores, and even hnndreds, of ruined speculators ascribe their misfortunes to him, and many of them are only waiting a suitable opportunity of re- venge. Gould seems to be concious of this, and therefore keeps concealed as much as possible. He is,.indeed, the hidden power of Wall street. He rarely leaves his office, and no one can obtain admittance until a series of statements has been made. A card is placed in the visitor’s hands, on which is printed as follows: “State name,” “State residence,” “State business.” These being printed one above the other, with long blanks to be filled out, have a rather forbid- ding appearance, and many who wish to see Gould are deterred at the very outset. When the card is sent in the chances are much against an interview. There are not more than a score of persons whem Gould wants to see. Among these are Russell Sage, H. N. Smith, Washington Conner, Col. Hain, John T. Terry and General Eckert. When Gould was the moneyed man of the Tribune, he al- lowed its reporters admittance, but at pres- ent he excludes all of this class. Gould reaches his office with a perfect scheme of operations. He is not obliged to look at the morning paper for stock reports, as these have been read from the ‘ticker’ as they took place and if he should be at his house they are sent up by telegraph. Before he goes to bed Gould has a complete idea of all that has been done in Wall street, and he awakens in the morning with a clear and de- cisive system for the day’s work. It is this anticipation of the future which gives him such advantage over other operators. As soon as he is seated at his desk Morosini brings in the telegrams and also all newspa- per articles that have a financial importance. This is all Gould wants to know. He cares nothing for politics or other public matters, except as they bear upon his interests. It will take from one to two hours to reply to dispatches and telegraph orders, and as Gould controls nearly 5,000 miles of railroad track, this is no small task. While sitting in his office, he may be conferring with men in St. Louis, Chicago, and San Francisco al- most at the same time. Then the Stock Ex- change ticker begins its report, and a half- dozen brokers are kept under telegraphic orders. By this time business calls are made and each man whose card is approved has a brief space given him. In this manner Gould does a tremendous amount of busi- ness in a short time. He seems self-posess- ed and generally holds the vantage ground, but even when cornered he concedes in a handsome manner what might be demanded under a legal process. DELINQUENT DEBTORS. Sand Lake. E. Pangborn writes: Again I send you a list of delinquent debtors: Geo. Neges, removed to Alba..........---- $7 45 John Cavins, removed to Iowa.........--. 9 00 John ALSnoe.......... cece eee erect tees 4 25 This ‘last account has been standing since last June, The man now lives near Grand Rapids, and keeps a boarding house for the Plainfield and Grand Rapids Gravel Road Co. Every dealer ought to keep up his list of de- linquents. Seasonable Suggestions. The Haverhill, Mass., retailers have, pretty effectually solved the problem of extending credits, for themselves. None of the dealers there will open an account with a person who has an unpaid Dill with some other dealer. Thisis mutual protec- tion of the best kind. No ‘one but a con- summately thick-headed dealer will fail to furnish his fellow trader with information as to a customer’s standing. Should he do so, it would only react upon him. He is almost certain at some period to need a like favor, and should he not obtain it, he may contract a bad debt. Ina place the size of Haverhill such a measure can be easily car- ried out. In large cities, however, a differ- ent course must be pursued. It isnot likely that a dealer can keep track of all his cus- tomers and warn the dealers in the neigh- borhood to which they may have removed. Under these circumstances each grocer should ask of anew customer desiring to open an account the name and address of the dealer from whom they had recently bought their goods. No honest man would feel of- fended at, or refuse to answer, such a ques- tion. If the name and address be given the dealer can easily make enquiries as to the eustomer’s reputation. If the information be refused it will be safe, nine times out of ten, to refuse to give credit to the applicant. Dealers who know the destination ofa party moving out of their neighborhood and leaving bills unpaid might take the trouble to warn those in the same line of business in that district. It might prove some trouble at first, but eventually every other dealer would imitate their exampie and the result would be a large saving all around. At all events the plan is well worth trying. se eee co One of the Boston papers says that the weekly sales of oleomargarine in that city amount to 100,000 or 150,000 pounds, that all the regular jobbing stores down-town keep it for sale for just what it is at prices ranging from 12to015 cents a pound. A choice article can be bought for 15 cents, and itis largely consumed in manufacturing communities. ALAMOSA CREEK, Camp On the Alamosa River. Correspondence of the Summitville Nugget. This wonderfully rich camp is located along the Alamosa river, one of the finest streams in Southern Colorado for mills and water-power. The valley is beautifully lo- eated, having a delightful climate both winter and summer; so that mines and mills, without any trouble from snow or cold, can be operated as well in winter as. in summer. A town site has been located south of Summitville at the foot of Look- out mountain, and arrangements are being made to start a store there soon. The near future certainly has in store for this camp a very brilliant future, and we anticipate that ere very many months the whistle of the iron horse and the rumbling, thundering noise of the stamp-mill will greet the ear as it echos and re-echos from peak to peak above this beautiful valley. ; The Alamosa camp is on one of the finest mineral belts in the state; and when devel- oped will show up equal to any camp in Colorado. Commencing at Jasper, some very rich discoveries have recently been made, the ore running several hundred dol- lars per ton. Although the Jasper mines have heretofore been in a dormant state, they will now be opened up in good shape, considerable work being done on the prin- cipal claims. 750 feet of tunnel and shafts have been run on the various mines up to the present time. We say let old Jasper wake up; “there isa good time coming,” and it is not far distant either. In going up the Alamosa we find a_ large number of fine prospects; the Alps, owned by the Timber Line Co., in which a tunnel is being run, shows up well.. The owners con- template shipping ore from this property at an early day, as they now have an abundance of ore that mills from forty to sixty dollars per ton. On the south side of the river we find several promising claims owned by Chicago parties. Next we come to the Red Mountain. After carefully examining the immense wealth displayed here we can no longer say that South Mountain is the only place where untold millions lie buried beneath the terra firma. This mountain when further devel- oped will open wide with wonder the eyes of the entire world. The ore is mostly free milling, and runs as high as $700.00 to the ton. The oldest locations are the Ute Chief, Silver King and Golden Eagle; owned by E. G. Okerlund and A. B. Page. The Ute Chief at a depth of 18 feet assayed $88.00 per ton. The Tenderfoot and Nugget are owned by O. P. Bulow. The ore from these claims is among the richest on the mountain. The Dew Drop, owned by E. T. Loy seems to be a little Aztec, it carries a large body of sul- phurates, running as high as $700 and $800 to the ton; we think this the boss: go down on it Loy and your fortune is made. Among the rest of the future bonanza kings of this mountain we notice Cy. F. Newcomb and J. M. Hanks of Del Norte. Hanks thinks he has the best mine on the mountain and we have no reason to doubt it. There are other valuable claims on this mountain that are being worked by Chicago parties. ; Next to Red Mountain comes Lookout; here we stop and wonder, for such a ‘vast body of quartz we never saw before. Could we only look into the bowels of this gold- ribbed monument it is our opinion that Bowen’s Ida would have to take a_ back seat. Mr. Abbey is the oldest locator on this mountain, and owns the Empire and Mam- moth lodes; the former has a vein of free milling ore 150 feet in width; {joining the Empire is the Uncle Sam and Josaphine lodes, owned by Judge Jones of Jasper, which is alse valuable property. On the south-eastern slope is the Prima donna group of mines, {six in number, owned by Loy and Bulow. ‘This property is excellent- ly located and very promising, with large veins of ore similiar to that of Red Moun- tain. We might say a great deal more about this camp, so wonderful in mineral wealth, but will not tax your patience too much at once. Visit to the New & __—» -@-~<»—______—_ A Swindle That May Be Imported. A gentleman writing to the London Times says: A cheat of an impudent sort has just come tomy knowledge. One dark evening in March last a “gentleman” entered a large shop in Baker street, and, giving my name, selected a prime York ham, which he order- ed to be sent tomy house as soon as possible. was presently dispatched. When it arrived, I was at dinner, but my servant received it. Soon afterwards ‘“‘a highly respectable look- ing female” called and asked “If a ham in- tended for Colonel Wilson, of Montague square, had come here by mistake.” My servant, impressed by the air of the plausi- ble lady, surrendered the dainty to her. The result may be easily imagined; Messrs. G were swindled. As the lady and gentleman may attempt the “plant” else- where, you would kindly put tradesmen on their guard by publishing this note? It isnot improbable that so ingenious a swindle may find its way to this country, and our dealers would do well to keep their eyes open for it and give those who try ita warm reception. ———————_>_- Last year one factory made 28,000 spec- tacles. Occulists tell us that the number of perfect eyes does not exceed five per cent. Just now there is a return to the old fashion of wearing lorgnetts, and fashionable ladies are using them instead of nose glasses. Va The van being then atthe door, the ham — The Michigan Tradesman, | A MERCANTILE JOURNAL, PUBLISHED EACH WEDNESDAY. .E. A. STOWE & BRO., Proprietors. OFFICE IN EAGLE BUILDING, 3d FLOOR. {Entered at the Postoffice at Grand Rapids as Second-class Matter.| WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1884. BUSINESS LAW. Brief Digests of Recent Decisions in Courts of Last Resort. Mental Capacity—To Make a Contract. Although the mind of an individual may be to some extent impaired by age or dis- ease, still, if he be able to transact his ordin- ary business—if he understands the nature of the business in which he is engaged, and the effect of what he is doing, and can exer- cise his will with reference thereto, his acts will be valid and binding.—Supreme Court of Illinois, English vs. Porter. Transferring Note. The Supreme Court of the District of Col- umbia, in the case of Keyser vs. Shepherd, holds that “when a holder chooses to part with a promissory note during the pendency of a suit, it may be agreed upon between him and the assignee that, although delivery takes place, the legal title shall be consider- ed as remaining in the original holder for the purpose of prosecuting the suit.” Tender—To Stop Interest Must Be Kept Good. A tender of the amount due by the pur- chase for land to his vendor, who isjnot in a position to make a clear title according to his bond, by reason of an incumbrance placed by him on the premises sold, to be available to stop the running of interest after such tender, must be kept good. To have that ef- fect the tender must be kept in money at all times ready to be paid and subject to the order of the creditor at any time when he shall comply with his contract so as to be authorized to receive it.—Supreme Court of Illinois, ease of Aulger vs. Clay et al. Notes and Payment. A bank lent H money on seven promissory notes as collateral security. The notes were not due and were endorsed by H, but on pre- senting them for payment when due the makers said that they had fully paid them to H. Action whs brought and the court said: “The law presumes the assignment of the notes to the bank to be for value, and no proof was offered to show that the consider- ation was not sufficient to sustain the right of the bank to the notes. Unless, therefore, the bank authorized the makers to pay H, or consented before or after the payment, the bank was entitled to judgment on the notes.” —City Bank vs. Taylor, Supreme Court of Iowa. Good Will—Subject to Barter. The good will connected with the estab- lishment of any particular trade or occupa- tion may be the subject of barter and sale, according to the decision of the Supreme Court of Iowa in the recently decided case of Carey vs. Gunnison. The court in this case defined the good will as being ‘‘the ad- vantage or benefit which is acquired by the establishment beyond the mere value of the capital, stocks, funds or property employed therein in consequence of the general public patronage and encouragement which it re- ceives from constant or habitual customers on account of itslocal position or common celebrity or reputation for skill, affluence or punctuality, or from other actual circum- stances or necessities, or gven from ancient partialities or prejudice.” Payment to Broker by Purchaser. A broker who was not entrusted with pos- session of the property, contracted in his own name to sell the same to a vendee who had no knowledge that the broker was not the real owner but dealt with him as such. The broker notified his principals that he had sold for them and directed where to ship the property to the purchaser., The owners, without any knowledge that the broker had contracted in his own name, and without any conduct on their part clothing the broker with authority to receive payment for them, ‘or any possession, actual or constructive, of the property, delivered the same to the ven- dee. Held, that payment by the purchaser to the broker, under such circumstances, is not a bar to the right of recovery by the) owners.—Crosby vs. Hill, Supreme Court of Ohio. —_—_—_—>_2<__- “T see you are shipping a good deal of prime butter to the city,” said a gentleman toa farmer living in the vicinity of New York. “Yes.” he replied, “Iam doing very well this year.” “How many cows do you keep?” “Cows,” said the farmer; “I don’t keep any cows.” “How do you make your but- ter without cows?” was the astonished query. “T guess you don’t know much about the dairy business, replied the farmer, some- what amused. ‘I am the proprietor of that bone-boiling establishment over there.— Philadelphia Call. ———— a oo Shippers of butter and eggs would do ' well to cerrespond with E. Fallas, whole- gale dealer in butter and eggs, Grand Rap- ids; Mich., who is pickling eggs, as well as selling on the market. ——_—_=<»>0 <=> Watch in this paper for the new brand of fine 10 cent cigars, which will be out soon. Manufactured only by Albert Kuppenheim- er. Choice Russell’s. —— oo butter can always Le had at M. C. DANGER IN THE PIE. The Trouble Caused by Hurried Eating and Hard Work. “Doctor, how do you account for the alarming increase of insanity in this coun- try?” This was the interrogative with which a reporter recently met one of the medical at- tendants at aninsane asylum. For a moment the eminent medical expert was at a loss how to reply. His six feet of stature seemed all at once still higher in the scale of meas- urement. His fingers toyed with the oddly designed charm that was pendant from his heavy watch guard. His eyes grew sudden- ly larger and mischievous until at last the spell was broked by a hearty laugh supple- mented by the monosyllable. “Pie 1? The reporter was puzzled. “Funny, isn’t it?’ “Very,” answered the reporter. “When I say pie,” said the doctor, “1 mean dyspepsia, I mean insomnia, and by insomnia I mean melancholia, hallucination, delusion, illusion, and mania.” “Oh-h-h-h-h?”’ “Yes. The Americans are a pie-eating nation. They feed their stomachs and starve their brains. Rush, rush, rush, work, work, work, is the one thing characteristic of the American people. They are always inahurry. They will not take enough time to eat. Look at the business men who lunch down town. ‘They spend less time at the table than they consume in getting to it. And as for sleep, well, some take more and some less time than nature intended.” “How much sleep does a man in good health require?” “That depends upon the man, his occupa- tion, disposition and the place where he sleeps. Theold way of dividing the day into three parts is to my mind a good one. Eight hours for work, eight for play and eight for sleep.” “In other words, man should really spend one-third of his life in bed?” “They should take more sleep than they do at any rate. Insomnia, was until late years, a trouble seldom brought to the notice of the medical practitioner. Now it is a daily occurance. Besides sleep, man should develop his mental powers by work. There is such a thing as mind-strengthening work. Brains can be strengthened and developed. The exercise of the centers of the nervous system is as essential to their nutrition as activity to the healthful growth of the mus- cular system.” “But work can be carried too far, can it not?” “Undoubtedly; work is one thing, over- work another. Just as extreme weakness of the body produces restlessness and loss of control, so extreme exhaustion of the brain produces mental agitation. One of the first indications is irritability. Next comes insomnia or sleeplessness. This is of two kinds. One that makes it impossible to cease to think, and another which renders concentrated thought impossible.,’ —>—_o-<— Smoke the celebrated Jerome Eddy Cigar, manufactured by Robbins & Ellicott, Buf- falo, N. Y. For sale by Fox, Musselman & Loveridge, Grand Rapids, Mich. CARPETS AND CARPETINGS. Spring & Company quote as follows: TAPESTRY BRUSSELS. Roxbury tapestry................. @ 9 Smith's 10 wire... ........--....-... @ 90 Smiths Cx4TAR.... 0.2... -22 2.2. ss @ 8 Smith’s B Palisade................ @ 0 Smith’s C Palisade................ @ 65 Wiiwoms: @* 8s; - @ 8% Saagppins: 27... ses ee @ "0 Santord'’s extra. .........:...-..... @ 8% Sanford’s Comets.................. @ 65 THREE-PLYS. Hartford S-ply...........-.......-. @1 00 WOW S-Oly.. : ce 2 see a ake @1 00 Hiewins: Sply.........--...--.---s- @1 00 Sanford’sS-ply.....:...--.---...--- @ 9% EXTRA SUPERS. Hartiord 9.0 2.2... = 2.6 es se bowel... Other mAKeS: 0 a,c ses cas: 95 oO Q@POO w * Best cotton chain.................. 60 62% ALL WOOL SUPERFINES. Mesh PV... .- 6s. s. se ee ee 5T4@ 60 Other grades 2-ply................- 524%@ 5d WOOL FILLING AND MIXED. All-wool super, 2-ply.............. 50 @ 55 Extra heavy double cotton chain. 42%@ 45 Double cotton chain............... 35 @ 40 Heavy cotton and wool, doublec. 30 @ 32% Half d’] chain, cotton & wool, 2-ply 274@ 382% Single cotton chain................ 19 @ 2% HEMPS. 3-ply, 4-4 wide, extra heavy........ 27%@ 30 a2 4 Wide: oo se @ 2B Imperial, plain, 4-4 wide........... @ 18% ap m@iChess. 2. ee. @ ii OIL CLOTHS. No. 1, 4-4, 5-4, 6-4 and 8-4............ @ 45 No. 2, GO. Bee. @ 37% No. 3, G0. 6 534500... @ 30 No. 4, q6 > @ 2 MAaTTINGS. Best all rattan, plain............... @ 62% Best all rattan and cocoa, plain... @ 52% MAMIGU Ae tee ss @ 50 Napier B.......... eee oe @ 40 CURTAINS. Opaque shades, 38 inch............ @ ib Holland shades, B finish, 4-4....... @ 18 Pacific Holland, 4-4................ @ 10 Hartshorn’s fixtures, per gross... @36 Cord fixtures, per gross........... @10 MILLINERY GOODS. J.J. Van Leuven quotes as follows: HATS. CANTOUS, oo ke ek perdoz 2 25@ 3 00 MEANS ee 4 00@ 6 00 MiNi MUBNS. os, 6s sso eee 6 as cas 9 00@12 00 pupertine Milans...... 222... 5.2. 24.05 15 00@18 00 OID 7 a a ee 5 00@12 00 BLACK CRAPE. Samuel Courtland & Co.’s brand. MA ec ka oe hee ak is Ss per yard 50@ 75 Bee oes c eae ee thai ee eee ees 85@1 25 Mg oe eh ee oe ss ae ee 1 50@2 00 Be ie 75@2 50 er eee ree pa ie 2 15@3 00 Oe ee a es ie oes 3 25@4 50 RIBBONS. Satin and GG, all silk, extra heavy, all colors. DAs Bios oy es eae os Fes sss ae 1 00 NG oe oe chs oo de ees 1 25 INOS 3s ey as So ee os ee 1 50 TAO aio oe as ik ps eee 1 85 NS Ae ioc es os ss ee eae ek 2 25 DAs 1B os os i as ig AG ph oe 2 75 Second quality, all colors. No. 4 40 50 ARTHUR MEIGS & CO, W holesale Grocers, 55 and 57 Canal Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Offer the Trade the following Choice Line of Plug Tobaccos—all our own Brands— and positively the Best ever Offered at the Prices. RU I a a a os eae ve ec cee ee ree eet ee ieee te cc ene nacee sissies Red ee ee RUDI IAC he es Aa oo oe os ese eee see cece ne cece coat Sees og ote side wrie ee sa nine en se 50 PUR RPO NOUG ee asks oe oe eecie sere yee eee ae ce se clelels coe sa ce cieeseiies ce 42 Be a eee seat oss bees ae Caen vce cae Po So ae car eeess cee 35 1e less in5 butt lots; special price on large quantities. Send us a trial order. We guarantee satisfaction every time. Arthur Meigs & Co. We manufacture all our stock 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. We carry a heavy stock of Bra- Nuts zils, Almonds, Filberts, Walnuts, Pecans and Cocoa Nuts, and will sell against any market. We lately bought 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 Candy PF. J. LAMB & COMPANY, — WHOLESALE DEALERS IN Butter, Cheese, Eggs, Apples, Onions, Potatoes, Beans, Etc. NO. 8 AND 10 IONIA STREET, GRAND RAPIDS. MIiCMmiGAN. —WHOLESALE DEALER IN—- AKRON SEWER PIPE, Fire Brick and Clay, Cement, Stucco, LIME, HAIR, COAL and MWFOOD. ESTIMATES CHEERFULLY FURNISHED. Office 7 Canal Street, Sweet,s Hotel Block. Yards—Goodrich Street, Near Michigan Cen- tral Freight House. SPRING & COMPANY e -~WHOLESALE DEALERS IN— FANCY AIND STAPLE DRY GOODS CARPETS, | MATTINGS, Ottl, CLOTHS, ETC. ETC. Sand 8B Monroe Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan. FOX, MUSSELMAN & LOVERIDGE, WHOLESALE GROCERS, : 44, 46 and 48 South Division Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. E ARE FACTORY AGENTS FOR—— Nimrod, Acory, Chie Crescent & Red deal Ping Tobacces, Our stock of Teas, Coffees and Syrups is Always Complete. —WE MAKE SPECIAL CLAIM FOR OUR— ING B OF 70 Tobaccos, Vinegars and Spices !! MANCAND OUR MOTTO: " SQUARE DBA SORRESPG M. B. Church “Bedette” Co., Manufacturer of 2 “Bedette.” .THE 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 wante : many cots that are in the market there is not one, cheap or expensive, on which a coritortanie night’s rest can be had. They are all narrow, short, without spring, and in short no bed at all While TH& Brpertte 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 addition OF anything; for cold weather it is only necessary to add sufficient clothing, The “* BEDETTE” is a household neces- . and ae after once using, would be without it. It is simple in its construction, and noe betede ba get out of repair. It makes a pretty lounge, a perfect bed, and the price is within Price—36 in. wide, by 634 ft. long, $3.50; 30 in wide, by 614 ft. lon 3.00; 27 i de, by 4% ft. long, cover not adjustable, $2.50. For sale by semntnte loniens sea not for sale by your dealer it will be se dress on receipt of e. be sent to any ad 4 #4 J, J. VAN LEUVEN, WHOLESALE Millinery —AND— FANCY Goons LACES, Real Laces a Specialty. Gloves, Corsets, Ribbons, Fans, Hand Bags, Pocket Books, Ruchings, Yarns, Silks, Satins, Velvets, Flowers, Embroidery Materials, Plumes, Feathers & Ornaments, Stamped Goods. STAMPING PATTERNS 70 MONROE STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, - MICHIGAN. TRY Our, RAW HIDE WHIP! SELLS FOR $1. OUR TWO SHILLING WHIP IS SURE TO SELL. Do not sell our goods at cost. We will DO BETTER BY YOU Come and see us. We are here to stay. Gq. ROoOYS cw CO., No. 4 Pear! Street, GRAND RAPIDS, = MICHIGAN. ma mAcHihe pss of PORTABLE AND STATIONARY ENGIN HS From 2 to 150 Horse-Power, Boilers, Saw Mills, Grist Mills, Wood Working Machinery, Shaft- ing, Pulleys and Boxes. Contracts made for Complete Outfits. WwW. SC Denison, 88, 90 and 92 South Division Street, GRAND RAPIDS, = MICHIGAN. BURLY EE, WEATHERLY w G0, Grand Rapids, Mich., Wholesale and Retail RON Pipe, Brass Goons, Iron AND Brass Firrrncs MANTLES, GRATES, GAS FIXTURES, PLUMBERS, STEAM FITTERS, —And Manufacturers of— Galvanized Iron Cornice. MOSELEY BRO6G., Wholesale Glover, Timothy and all Kinds Field Seeds Seed Corn, Green and Dried Fruits, Oranges and Lemons, Butter, Eggs, Beans, Onions, etc. GREEN VEGETABLES AND OYSTERS. | TIus, Chairman, 8. A. _ For Two Years—D. Mo 4LABASTINE! SEPTTTRTTRG Alabastine is the first and only prepara- ‘tio made from calcined 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. BRR eee Rekee ALL Paint Dealers. ——MANUFACTURED BY—— THE ALABASTINE COMPANY M. B. CHURCH, Manager. GRAND RAPIDS, - - - MICHIGAN. Grand Rapids Wire Works Manufacturers of All Kinds of VA7IRE VA7ORK! 92 MONROE STREET. JOHN MOHRHARD, —WHOLESALE— Fresh & Salt Meats 1009 CANAL STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. SHED CORN We offer a choice lot of Early Red Cob Dent Corn, and the Round Yellow or Yankee Corn, Clover and Timothy, Hungarian, Red Top, Millet, Spring Wheat Seed Oats, Peas, Beans, Genuine White Star Seed Potatoes. In fact every seed usually kept in stock at a Seed Store, at whole- sale and retail. WoT, LAMOREAUX, Agent 91 CANAL STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, “ MICHIGAN. MICHIGAN COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS’ ASSOCIA’N. 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. Lorp, Kalamazoo; H. E. MEEKER, Bay City. : Secretary and Treasurer—W. N. MEREDITH, Detroit. Board of Trustees, For One Year—J. C. PON \ MunGer, H. K. WHITE ¥or Has the Standard of Mercantile Business Been Lowered. From the San Francisco;Grocer. It is not an uncommon thing in these days to hear prominent merchants say that they have no desire to bring up their sons as mer- chants. Recently this remark was made by a merchant who is known to have a high standard, who on being questioned stated it had come to be next to impossible to make mercantile business profitable without re- sorting to many things wholly inconsistent with the standard of mercantile integrity which prevailed in former years. The re- mark was not intended for local application merely, but appliee generally to trade. Is it true that the mercantile standard is being constantly lowered? Itis apparent that in some respects trade is astupendous false- hood; that there is deception in weights, qualities and values, and that many things have by usage and familiarity become com- mon, which it were vastly better to have conspicuous only by being rare. For in- stance, the terms “pure,” “full weight,” “strictly pure,” and others, have really no significance commercially, for the reason that manufacturers of pure, and adulterated, full weight, and short weight articles em- ploy the terms with equal freedom. In great part the language used on labels really is entitled to no weight at all. In other in- stances, domestic wines and oils are orna- mented with foreign labels; in fact, the sit- uation with reference to labels is so distort- ed and abused that one is often led to ask if trade is not a gigantic school of fraud. It would seem that in these days the chances for deception in mercantile affairs are many as compared with former years. >-—— Butter Initations from a Medical Stand- point. From the Independent Drug Record. The members of the New York Legisla- ture have at length succeeded in passing a bill absolutely prohibiting the manufacture and sale of oleomargarine and other substi- tutes for butter. Isis understood that the Governor had doubts of the constitutionality of the bill, but in view of the litigation al- ready had in similar cases in other States he has decided to let the courts pass upon it, and consequently signed the bill. We be- lieve this action of the Legislature and of the Governor is ill-advised. but that the law is unconstitutional, and re- lief from misrepresentation could very easily have been secured by passing laws punishing deception, or by enforcing those already on our statute books. The prohibition is con- tained in the following words: ‘No person shall manufacture out of any oleaginous sub- stance or substances, or any compound of the same, other than that produced from un- adulterated milk, or of cream of the same, any article designed to take the place of but- ter or cheese produced from pure unadulter- ated milk or cream of the same, or shall sell, or offer for sale, the same as an article of food.” The penalty is a fine of not less than $100, or more than $500, or imprisonment for not less than six months, or more than a h such fine and i There is no doubt} Cit The Commissioner is to receive a salary of $3,000, and the sum of $30,000 is to be placed at his disposal to be used in enforcing | the law. There is a great deal of misunderstanding | about this oleomargarine butter, and the pop- ular mind has been prejudiced against it by articles written in the interest of the dairy- men. When honestly made and of the best materials, and most of it is so made to com- pete successfully with the best dairy pro- duct, and it is fully as healthy as butter made of pure cream only. None of the in- gredients are unhealthful in themselves, and the process of manufacture is cleanly and tends to remove any objectionable substance that may perchance have been introduced accidentally. Suet is being eaten every day by the consumers of butter without a mur- mur, and, as used, generally with a smack of lips. Lard is also in daily use in every household. But it,is the ignorant cry against cottonseed oilthat has been largely relied upon to prejudice the people against the use of imitation butter. Whatever objection may be urged against tallow or lard, not a word can be said against the unhealthiness of cottonseed oil. A hog may be measly and its fat rendered into lard, and a bul- lock may not have been in the best physical condition, and its fat be cooked and eaten, but there can be no such objection to cotton- seed oil, which, being vegetable, is ‘healthy under all circumstances. It is a prejudice, however, that many people have against oils of any kind, and to this the opponents of oleomargarine butter appeal lustily. If there is imitation butter made of a poor quality of lard or tallow, then the product is unques- tionably also of an inferior quality and the purchaser can find no fault with the manu- facturer. But why not cry out equally against poor butter, some of which is rank enough to turn an ordinary stomach. Surely such stuff, even through made of cream, can- not be healthy food. a A fine lithograph of the celebrated trot- ting stallion, Jerome Eddy, with every 500 of Jerome Eddy cigars. For sale by Fox, Musselman & Loveridge, Grand Rapids. ~~ -4- Bear in mind that the new brand of 10 cent cigars that will be out soon will be one of the best 10 cent cigars that ever was put on the market. —___—<.¢ <.- — Try the celebrated Jerome Eddys. finest 10 cent cigar in the market. by Fox, Musselman & Loveridge. <2 o—__— The new brand of cigars is strictly hand made, and only manufactured by union workmen. We do not employ any others. TIME TABLES. Michigan Contral—Grand Rapids Division. DEPART. The For sale *#Detroit EXMress. ...:.-:<.......-..25.- 6:05 a m thay PXPKORS.... es tk ee 12:20 pm *New York Fast Line.................. 6:00 pm +A tantiC HXpres8... oo... .0. 6.02... 9:20 pm ARRIVE. *Pacific Xpress. .2...5.......5.5.2..-- 6:45 am thoeal: Passenger... os... gcse. 11:20am A Miail oi eae ee 3:5) p m +Grand Rapids Express............... 10:25 p m +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 Pevrlor Car for Detroit, reaching that city at 11:45 a.m., New York 10:30 a. m., and Boston 3:05 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. GOING EAST. Arrives. Leaves. +Steamboat Express....... 6:10am 6:15 am #Through Mail............. 10:10am 10:20am +Evening Express......... 3:20pm 3:35pm *Atlantic Express.......... 9:45pm 10:45pm +Mixed, with coach........ 10:00am GOING WEST. +Morning Express......... 12:40 pm 12:55 p m +Through Mail............. 4:45pm 4:55pm +Steamboat Express....... 10:30pm 10:35pm TMiIXO@GS 2255.05... 8:00am *Night Express............. 5:10am 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. so Cars on Mail Trains, both East and est. Train leaving at 10:35 p, m. will mak con- nection with Milwaukee steamers daily except Sunday and the train leaving at 4:55 p:m. will connect Tuesdays and Thursdays with Good- rich steamers for Chicago. 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 Car Detroit to Grand Rapids. D. PorrER, City Pass. Agent. THOMAS TANDY, Gen’! Pass. Agent, Detroit. Grand Rapids & Indiana. GOING NORTH. Arrives. Leaves. Cincinnati & G. Rapids Ex. 9:02 pm Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex. 9:22am 9:50am Ft. Wayne& MackinacEx.. 3:57pm 4:45pm G’d Rapids & Cadillac Ac. 7:15am GOING SOUTH. G. Rapids & Cincinnati Ex. “6:32 am Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex. 4:05pm 4:32pm Mackinac & Ft. Way: eEx..10:25am 12:82 pm Cadillac & G’d Rapids Ac. 7:40 p m 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. Trainleaving at 9:50a.m. has combined Sleeping and Chair Car for Mackinac ity. South—Train leaving at 4:32 p.m. bas Wood- ruff Sleeping Car for Cincinnati. c. L. LOCKWOOD, Gen’! Pass. Agent. Chicago & West Michigan. Leaves. Arrives, WMD ech etg hee ote eee 10:15am 4:00pm +Day Express.............. 12:50pm 10:45pm *Night Express............ 8:35pm 6:10am MAROd oii ee ss oa 6:10am 10:15pm *Daily. t+tDaily except Sunda Pullman Sleeping Cars on an night trains. Through parlor car in charge of careful at- tendants without extra charge to Chicago on 12:50 p. m., and through coachon 10:15 a.m. and 8:35 p. m. trains. NEWAYGO DIVISION. eaves. Arrives. MamOG sei ae 0am 5:15pm PIN PYOSSe 650055 oi Gis ae cy 4:10pm 8:30pm or be Li epiey since cera 8:30am 10:lbam rains connect at Archer avenue for Chicago as follows: Mail, 10:20 a. m.; express, 8:40 2 m The Northern terminus of this Division is at. Baldwin, where close connection is made with F. & P.M. trains to Manistee. : J HP and from Ludington and | Choice Butter a Specialty ! Also Foreign and Domestic Fruits, Cheese, Kiges, Jelly, Preserves, BANANAS and EARLY VEGETABLES. Careful Attention Paid to Filling Orders. M,C. Russell, 48 Ottawa St., Gd Rapids, RINDGEH, BERTSCH é& CO, MANUFACTUREES AND JOBBERS OF BOOTS & SHOBS, River Boots and Drive Shoes, Calf and Kip Shoes for Men and Boys, Kid, Goat and Calf Button and Lace Shoes for Ladies and Misses are our Specialties. Our Goods are Specially Adapted for the Michioan Trade, 14 and 16 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. JENNINGS & SMITH, PROPRIETORS AND MANUFACTU RERS OF re f ) TET eR TA Sn | Sd Rusa met F rtf ; Reser iran MEN iay ha nas Ae vennings’ Flavoring Extracts AND DRUGGISTS’ AND GROCERS’ SPECIALTIES. 20 Lyon Street, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. CLARK, JAWELL & CO, WW ETOLESALE Groceries and Prov 83, So and 87 PEARL STREET and 114, 116, 118 and 120 OTTAWA STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, Se 8 MICHIGAN. SIPING and SMmMMer Hats ad Caps —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 13.50 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. rc. LEV I, 86, 38,40 and 42 CANAL STREET, - - GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, Castor Machine Oil. The Castor Machine Oil contains a fair percentage of Castor Oil and is in all re- The OHIO Olt COMPANY Is the only firm in the United States that has succeeded in making a combination of Veg- spects superior as a lubricator to No. 2 or No. 3 Castor Oil. etable and Mineral Oils, possessing the qualities of a Pure Castor Oil. It is rapidly com- ing into popular favor. We Solicit a Trial Order. \ Grand Rapids, Groceries. POISON IN THE COFFEE CUP. Factories in Brooklyn Where the Coffee Bean is Colored. From the N. Y. World. The Board of Health have received a report from Sanitary Superintendent Day upon coffee adulteration. The fraud in question consists in coloring the coffee in the bean, so that Guatemala and Maracaibo coffee look like Government Java. Two mills in Brook- lyn, the locations of which are not at present made public, are said to be engaged in color- ing coffee in this way. Among the ingredi- ents of the coloring mater are chromate of lead, or chrome yellow; Prussian blue, known to chemists as ferro-cyanide of potas- sium; yellow ochre, which frequently con- trins arsenic; umber, Vennetian red, lamp- black or drop black, gumarabic, soapstone and charcoal. - The analysis shows that every cup of cof- fee made from the dyed bean contains 1-60 of a grain of arsenious acid, a poison. In medicine 1-20 of a grain of this acid is con- idered a heavy dose. Rio coffee, in the unroasted bean, is of a green color. This tint isimparted to infer- ior coffee by putting it in a revolving cylin- der with chrome yellow and Prussian blue. Dealers are reported as saying that they did not know that the Brooklyn dye-stuff was injurious. While admitting its use, they affirm their belief that the poisonous matter would evaporate in washing. The health Officials say that only amost intense heat would destroy the arsenic, while the lead and other poisonous substances would re- main. Tne Board will not reveal the names of dealers who sell dyed coffee, because the evidence against them is incomplete. In due time they will be warned to stop selling the stuff on penalty of fine and imprison- ment. The “Soaked Goods” Bill. The following is the bill passed by the Maryland Legislature relating to soaked can- ned goods: SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That any person, firm or corporation now engaged or who;may hereinafter engage in the business of canned fruits, vegetables and other products and who shall can or preserve in cans by hermet- ically sealing, any description of fruits or vegetables that may have been previously evaporated or dried by the application of heat, and known under the general name of dried fruits or vegetables, shall stamp or cause to be stamped in the cap covering the mouth- of the can into which the said dried fruits or vegetables are to be put up or canned, the following words, ‘Soaked Goods,”’ as also the bona fide name of the person, firm or corporation, canning the said dried fruits or vegetables, and the said vege- tables, and the said words to be stamped in the cap of the can shall be of letters not less than three-fifteenths of an inch in height and one-fifteenth of an inch in breadth. Src. 2. Any person, firm or corporation who shall neglect to comply with the pro- visions of section one of this Act, and every person or persons who shall render illegible, conceal or hide in any manner the words to be stamped in the cap of the can as men- tioned in section one of this Act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall for every such offence, forfeit and pay a fine of not less than five hundred dollars, to be recovered by indictment by any Court of this State having competent jurisdiction for the trial of a misdemeanor, and one-half of said fine shall be paid to the informer and the other half into the Treasury of the State. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect on the first day of July, eighteen hundred and eighty- four. A Features of the Week. The grocery market has been about steady during the past week. Sugars have taken an upward turn, in consequence of the de- feat of the Morrison bill, but it is not prob- able that the advance is permanent. Corn syrups are bound to advance, on account of the scarcity and high price of corn. Both Muzzy and Kingsford have reduced the card price on their productions, and mackerel are declining, on account of the arrival of the new catch. Oranges are in good demand and prices have advanced quite sharply, and still high- er prices are looked for. Lemons fare also in good demand and prices are working up a little. Going to Raise Sheep. “ Father,” remarked a promising youth to an Ohio wool raiser,’ ‘‘I guess you’re go- ing to have opposition pretty soon.” “Eh,” returned the old gentleman witha look of alarm. “Farmer Hayes is going into the sheep business.” “ Who told you so?” ** Nobody. I heard him talking toa friend this morning about introducing hydraulic rams on the farm.” ———_—_—-9 The latest thing in the way of an adver- tising card is being distributed by a soap manufacturer of Philadelphia, It illustrates in a graphic manner the process by which Barnum and Forepaugh have managed to convert the ordinary-every-day-Saturday-af- ternoon sort of mud-colored elephant into the genuine white Burmese sacred animals. aoe The Duluth, Minn., Match Co. recently filed articles or incorporation. It proposes to manufacture matches in Duluth. > -9 M. C, Russell is receiving the very best of Aspenwall bananas and lemons in car lots. Cove Oyster Bill. passed by the Maryland Legislature. We ‘| publish this bill, notwithstanding its great length, believing it of great interest and im- portance to the trade everywhere: Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, Tnat every per- son, firm, joint stock company or corpora- tion, packing oysters for sale in this State, in hermetically sealed tin cans, commoniy known as ‘Cove Oysters,’”’ or by whatsoever name or names the same may be known, shall stamp or caused to be stamped, in leg- ble letters and figures, the word “Oysters,” in the cap end of each can, and also the true weight in ounces of the oysters in each of said cans after the liquor or water is proper- ly drained off, which draining of liquor or water shall consist in pouring the contents on a number ten (10) sieve, and allowing it to drain one minute before weighing; and any sale of such packed oysters not so stamped shall be void and the vendor shall not be en- titled to recover the price thereof. Src. 2. And be it enacted, That every person, joint stock company or corporation who or which shall sell or offer to sell, or have in his or its possession with intent to sell contrary to the provisions of this Act any oysters hermetically sealed in tin cans and required by this section of this Act to be stamped as herein stated, not so stamped, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined one hundred dollars, for each offence, to be paid to the State Treasury, and placed to the credit of “The Oyster Packer’s Fund,” and shall also forfeit the oysters not so stamped, to be destroyed by the Examiner hereinafter provided for, unless already destroyed as hereinafter provided for. Sec. 8. And be it enacted, That the Governor upon recommendation of the Can- ned Goods Exchange of Baltimore City, shall appoint two persons who shall give bonds to the State of Maryland in the penalty of ten thousand dollars for the faithful discharge of his duties, which bond shall be liable for any failure or fraud in the discharge of the same, whose duty it shall be to visit, at least once a day, if possible, and as much oftener, as in their judgment may be necessary, and as the duties of their office will permit, every fac- tory or place where cove oysters are being packed in this State, and to examine the goods there packed or being packed, and if the Examiner shall have good reason to be- lieve the cans there packed do not contain the weight as stamped thereon as directed by the first section of this Act, he shall se- lect six cans indifferently from the said lot he suspects and cut them, and after properly draining the liquor or water from the same as herejntofore provided, shall weigh the contents, and if the weight of the contents of the said six cans shall be found to be less than the weight stamped thereon, the lot of goods from which said six cans were select- ed shall be by him condemned as fraudulent- ly packed in violation to the provisions of this Act, and the same shall be forfeited and destroyed by the said Examiner; pro- vided, however, that if the packer or owner of any such geods demands the same, the Examiner shall cut the same in presence of acommittee of not less than five persons to be appointed by the Canned Goods Exchange aforesaid. sons, firms, joint stock companies or corpor- ations; who use shell oysters for packing as hermetically sealed cove oysters as a condi- tion upon which they shall be permitted by the State to carry on said business shall ren- der a sworn statement at the end of each month to the Comptroller of the State Treas- ury, of the number of bushels of such oysters so used, and at the same time pay into the State Treasury, one-tenth of one cent for each and every bushel of such oysters used for said purpose to constitute a fund to be called the ‘‘Oyster Packer’s Fund,” from which the said persons so as aforesaid ap- pointed Examiners shall be paid the salary and allowances hereinafter provided, if and so long as the same may be sufficient for that purpose. Src: 5. And be it enacted, That the said Examiners shall at the end of each month, make a sworn statement to the Comptroller of the Treasury of the amount of expense, not personal, necessarily incurred in the dis- charge of their duties under this Act, and the Comptroller of the Treasury shall thereupon draw his warrant on the Treasurer {to the order of the said Examiner for the payment of the same, together with one hundred and twenty-five dollars as monthly salary of such Examiner; provided, there be in the Treas- ury funds to the credit of the fund aforesaid sufficient to pay the same. Sec. 6. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect upon September the first, eighteen hundred and eighty-four. ae White Star Potatoes. I see our friend O. W. Blain, at 152 Ful- ton street, agent for Mr. Ensley’s White Star Potatoes, takes some exceptions to my offering the genuine White*Star Potatoes for $2 for a 3 bushel barrel, and no charge for barrel, claiming that they may be some- thing else than the genuine. If any one has any doubt of their being such, we refer them to D. M. Ferry & Co., of De- troit. GRAND Raprips GRAIN AND SEED Cc., 91 Canal street, W. T. LAMOREAUX, Agt. ——_—_—__—.-4<_—_—_ White Star Potatoes. We have a quantity of choice White Star Potatoes, grown by D. M. Ferry & Co., which we offer to the trade at $2 per 3 bushel barrel, and no charge for barrel. SEED STORE, 91 Canal street, Grand Rapids, Mich. The following is the Cove Oyster Biil, as | Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That all per- | WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT. we Advanced — Sugars; Corn Syrups, very strong, higher tendency, Declined—Gallon apples, Mackerel, Muzzy and Kingsford Starch. AXLE GREASE. Modoc .... #doz 60 |Paragon... ®doz 60 Diamond......... 60 Ors .....2> ee BAKING POWDER. Arctic 4% Ibcans................... ... doz. 45 Arctic 44 Ib cans...............-. : geet Ab IAPCTIO 26 DD CANS. 6.66. ois ccc aka cases cess 1 40 AYCHIC 1D CANS... 3... ose cece es ec eeb ieee ees 2 40 ATCC 5: WM CANS. 866. o.oo ie aes 8 12 00 BLUING. HONWAONO. Ooo. s se sos coe as tenes sss ee doz. 25 ry. NO Bo o.2 cod. esos s se ce ce eee doz. 45 Uigwid, 4 OZ... 032... 6.2600. 3 eee doz. 35 TAQGMIO, SOZ. oo i ee doz. 65 Arctic 4 0z.. ...-8 gross 4 60 Arctic8 02........... .... 800 MATCTICIB OZ: 5.5 os oec ec wes - ... 12 00 Arctic No. 1 pepper box.................63. 2 00 Arctic No. 2 . OR eee e ee eedis ca es 3 00 Arctic No.3 “ ee ab eae eda cuss 4 50 BROOMS. INO. Carpet. oie os eee ea 2 50 INO. 2 Carnet. 6... se he ess eee e's 2 25 ONO: 1 BAT ss es ce ie es. 2 00 ING: 2 TAUrl os sss ek coe eck. 1% MANCY. WHIBK. oo oie. cca ce Se ches oe 1 25 Common WHISK. 2.6.2 .s.2o 5. uc. ee eke 85 CANNED GOODS. Apples, 3 ib standards ..................26. 1.20 Apples, 6 b standards ..................... 2 00 Apples, gallon standards.................. 2 80 Apricots, UMSKS... 20... cc hc. es se ee cs ae - 2 95 MCN, TAMA oo oss sos ie ws cee Saisie sce 85 Beans; Strins se. eee oo oe oe 85 Beans, Boston Baked....................6. 1 75 Blackberries, standards................... 1 25 Cherries, white ....:.....-.5--.6.- 20625. .65- 1 90 CNErVICS: TOG i oe ih Sto case see os 1 05 Condensed Milk, agle Eorand............. 8 10 AOGTIN HONIO ee so os oe a cle oe ec ais eles 115 Morn: ROVOLe. 5 oe ec ok vers cea des es ccess 1 20 Worn. Byyptian: .... 0... 2. oe cae ee 110 Gorm, Yarmouta. 225.0... ec oss 1 30 Mor TROpnye 6.5... 6 es. sca c ec see es « 115 Corn, 2% Onandago 1 50 Corn, ACMO 608i. oe ee ues oe aes 12 Worn: WANSIOW. <3. 6... - 6c. c. ee 8 eee 1 30 WOAMSONS 2555s ks i se eet os es 1 20 Egg Plums, standards...............+2005. 1 40 Egg Plums, California.................... 2 8 Green Gages, standards..........-.....06. 1 40 Green Gages, California................... 2 85 Lobsters, Stars ..... Cena deci oseascese ce 2 00 Mobsters, PiCGMICS ... 5... .. 66. cee 2 ose ce se 175 Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 ........... 4 00 Oysters, 1 fb standards.................+6- 110 Oysters, 1 i slack filled................... "5 Oysters, 2 fh standards..................- 1 8 Oysters, 2 tb slack filled.................... 12 Peaches, all yellow standards............ 210 Peaches, 3 tb Extra Yellow Heath......... 3 00 Peaches, white standards............... .-1 90 Peaches, SCCONGS............ cc cece seen eens 1 65 BiG PEACHES 65. oss ecco hee ts oe 1 20 Pears. Bartiett..........-.:....--.-------.- 1 35 Pears: (Califormmia.. 36.2.2... 02 ces 6 6s ete 3 00 Peas, standard Marrofat.................- 1 50 Peas, good Marrofat.................2000-- 1 35 EAS. BOAKCG 2. 266. 655. 5.6 ee se ce ce cee ese es 65 PINCADDICS 6.6 ses se ese cee ees oe 1 60 Pine Apple, 2 ] Sugar Loaf............... 2 50 Quinces, California.................2..00e- 2 90 Raspberries, Hrie.................-.-+--.- 1 50 Raspberries, other brands................ 1 20 Salmon, standard................scee eens .1 60 Sardines, imported 48... : 15% Sardines, imported ¥4s.... 20 Sardines, domestic 448.............. 8 Sardines, domestic 48............... 12% Sardines, Mustard..:.............20se-se0e. 15 Strawberries, standards................... 110 Succotash, standards.................0000. 1 05, Succotash, other brands.................. 85 Succotash, 2 Ib B.& M...............222 200° 1 75 Tomatoes, standards................ 1 00@1 05 Tomatoes, Sl. HVC. |. 22.5... le. ie oe ee 3 25 Tomatoes, Acme 8 I........... 0... e eee ener 1 20 Tomatoes, Dilworth’s.............-...0008- 1 05 Mrous, 31D DLOOK....0.5 2... oe tbo ee es 3 00 CAPS. Gi WD. ees sss. 35 |Ely’s Waterproof 75 Musket........... 75 CHOCOLATE. German sweet.........-...-.--.-.¢- --:- @25 ROKOUS) 62 es. 8s ee ae @4n MRUITICICR ci cc ies oe cis oe eee ss sees @35 WICHNASWECL.6 5.5. . Pice ees donne eee 25 COFFEE. Green Rio....12 @14 |Roasted Mex.174@19 Green Java...17 @27 (Ground Rio.. 9%@17 Green Mocha.25 @27 |Ground Mex. ‘@16 Roasted Rio..12 @17 |Arbuckle’s «| @15% Roasted Java24 @34 4XXXX..... . -@15% Roasted Mar.17 @l19 (|Dilworth’s....... @15% Roasted Mocha @d+t : CORDAGE. %2 foot Jute ..... 1 35 (60 foot Cotton....1 75 60 foot Jute..... 115 {50 foot Cotton....1 50 FLAVORING EXTRACTS. Lemon. JENNINGS 2:0F.63.. 20... 6.0. see ss #8 doz. 1 00 see BOW os 1 50 as BOD. re ee a. ee 2 50 BOF eee ee ee oe 3 50 z 1 25 ‘ 1% ie 4 50 ee 9 00 2 BB cee ea oes cee ae 3 00 oe INO] 10.02 ee: 4 25 Jennings’ : OD ee Se solic ese 8 doz. 1 40 aS COG ee as ea, 4 00 “oe 5 00 ae NO. Taper. 2.2. o sete 3s 1 50 ie No. 4 Paper. ...... 00% .0. <0. wets 3 00 +s ‘A pint round......-......5..5.5. 7 50 of I pint POUNG.. .. 20.6 ss. cen 15 00 £ NOs Boos hes hoe iee cok. eke ne 4 25 * No. 10:....... Sao ee ce eee 6 00 FAUCETS. Faucets, self measuring.............. @2 50 Faucets, COMMON...............22 0008 @ 35 FISH. AVNOIG COG 0.5. coc. ees cel eas eae 44{,@614 BONCICSS COG 0.6 oes cscs cee ce we cee 54@7%.@8-4 Herring % bbls.7100 h............6... 2 75@3 00 Herring Sealed.. ee Herring Holland.................+260 -@1 15 TIOBLOTS osc os oes ook ee Hiss ce co oes @1 00 White, No. 1, % bbls .................. 8 00 White, Family, % bbls................ 4 00 White, No.1, 10 kits................ 110 Whise, No.1, 12 ib kits.............. ae 1 25 Trout, No. 1, % bbls.................. 4 75 Trout, No. 1,12 I kits................ 90 Mackerel, No. 1, % bbis............... 6 50 Mackerel. No. 1, 12 i kits............ 110 FRUITS. London Layers, new...............--.+ 2 75 Loose Muscateis Raisins, new........ 2 50@2 60 New Valencias Raisins.......... ..- T4@iT% Denese 3.56255... ..s-- 5 @3 25 Ondaras........ @l1 Turkey Prunes 64@6% Currants..... .. weeeee 5%@E CUPOR aoc as oa iste ce es 18@20 Dried APPS «...o veces ce ccseice es oe 8 @8% MATCHES. Richardson’s No. 2 square...............20. 2 70 Richardson’s No.3 dO. ........ ee eee ee es Richardson’s No. 5 GO 7 acs... sews 1 %0 Richardson’s No. 6 GOOF oo cases acu es 270 Richardson’s No. 8 OO ie ise 170 Richardson’8 No.9 dO. ..............0eee 55 Richardson’s No. 4 round ..............e00. 2 70 Richardson’s No.7 dO ............ eee eee 2 55 Kichardson’s No. 74% dO... see eee eee eee 1 70 Electric Parior No, li... cc ccce cece cc os ence 3 80 Electric Parlor No. 18.............0ceeseceees 5 70 Grand Haven, No. 9........0cc0csesceec sees 2 40 Grand Haven, No. 8.........0cc0ecceeccwe des 1 70 20 gross lots special price. MOLASSES. Binek Stray sissies cence cs capes rest ees @18 POTtO BiOO eo se es oe oes beeen ssa eee 80@35 New Orleans, Z00d............0. cece ee eens 40@50 New Orleans, fancy...............c2--e0ee 56@60 BYTUDS, CUGBL i eo os ce oe os 27@35@45 OATMEAL. ABAD PERS. nce see @3 5 OT DUO oso do vn se essne van su ves @3 25 Mpermal DIS. sii os eke ss 5 5 DUBKOCr TRIS. oak oe eee ee ees s ke ent 6 75 OIL. Kerosene W. Wo. oo. sche e cs een cones 14 do. Depal test. 0.5 os conc ccees 11% Sweet, 2 OZ. SQUALEC............ 0. cee eee 15 Sweet, 2 02. round................0000- 1 00 Castor, 2 0Z. SQUArC..............06256- 15 Castor, 2 0Z. round................2.66- 1 00 PICKLES. Choicein barrels med......... 0 ...eeeeeeeee 7 50 WROIGD TY Oi sii cock cece sce tk 4 50 Dingee’s% do OMA a 4 50 Dingee’s quarts glass fancy..............+.. 4 2% Dingee’s pints G0. isa. Saas. 2 60 v genni esnie in Glass.............. ig merican pt.in Glass........ PIPES. Imported Clay 3 gross..........2...... 2 3 00 American T. D Bee ae paar os cee eres WO! 00 RICE. Choice Caroling... c00. eee 614 Erime Carona. oe ee ee 7 PPR Sock ee eee sels a 6% TRANS OOR oe oe oe ee cs ee 5% SALERATUS. Deband's pure... .. 2.0)... ce ee 5% Church’s oe Taylor’s G. M.. Onn Sheath @ igs aA s OA OGM: ee res ee 5% 8. bi @ bis Best. g Bly SALT. DG POGKCL so ee ee 2 60 28 Pocket........ 2 40 100 3 Ib pockets 275 Saginaw Fine . 110 Diamond ©..: 2... occ 1 75 Standard Coarse..................... ; 1 55 SEEDS. GIO ees ee ke 5% CARBEY Coo ee eas 4% ABC es es, 7 Mixed Bird. 30. occ eicc cee eee 54@6 SOAP. Kirk’s American Family ........ 8 Ib 6% QO; India, 300... 64 GO.) SAVORS 6 GO. Satinet 6). ole. 6144 @O. ( Mevenue 216650. oo 5% do. White Russian................ Goodrich’s English Family .......... 54 do. PHINCCSS) ec 4\y Proctor & Gamble’s Ivory ........... 6 75 do. Japan Olive ...... 5 do. Town Talk # box 3 70 do. Golden Bar........ 4 20 do. AVA oso. 3 45 do. AMNORS, 2.20505. : 3 5 do. Mottled German.. 4 20 Procter & Gamble’s Velvet............ @3 40 Procter & Gan#ble’s Good Luck....... @B 25 Procter & Gamble’s Wash Well....... @3 15 BAGPOr sie ceccs chee eee vec ce 60hbs @6% Galvanie? os) se, ae @4 20 MA Hlectric.. 2s. ose 5 @6 50 PNONOX BOTSK Se @4 20 Gowan & Stover’s New Process 3 fh br @ 21 Mip POPs s., pice.e se basen soe ce bar @ 16 Ward's White Wily... ..5 05.0 .0..0..3... @6 5 bandKkerchiel 6626.6... seo. see. @4 20 DIGQUER eee ce a ocd. 3 00 BaDbDIthS oe. eee 5 50 MISH RAG eee eee Lek cae 410 BU ee es ee aie ace bees caee: 5 00 IMR ONOLIOC, ios. ec sce ce se cee es 4 20 New French Process..............e+0- 4 50 SDOOM esse eee ee eae eens 5 00 Anti-Washboard .............cccceecces 5 00 VIGUOTIAN GG coco c oo lee vel cidcs ons ou 3 25 UOTE ee a A 4 20 ibtspUren ee ee 4 00 WBOSUCIB ee cease ec as 6 5 White castile bars.............c..00006 13. Mottled castile.... 2. ..3...).55.52555-. 12 Old Styles ee ea ole ccd @ 5% OlG COUDULY... os. es oo ees: 5% SPICES. Ground Pepper, in boxes and cans... 16@22 Ground Allspice....................... 12@20 Cimmamon ees eos ick. clare ct GIOVOR Goo o eos son os eicce ss couse ne « 20@25 GENPOr oe eae sce. es cc 1%@20 IMRISCALG oo 8 ooo elo ere eo, 15@35 WAVCNNC obese ee ose eee ceca se 25@35 Pepper 4 ib @ dozen................... 75 AUISDICO Ae Des cerca caves eee %5 @mmnamon 24 1b... eo cece eel ts 1 00 (ClOVOS 84D. a aes ee 75 Pepper, whole......-......0 2.622265: @18 Po US On (STS) A A A ene @10 CASK ee eee ces genus, 2. @12 ClOVOSE es cece eco ee ek. 20 @22 Nitmers, NO. 1 coe. es... 70 @i5 STARCH. Muzzy Gloss 1 th package.............. @6% Muzzy Gloss 3 Ib package.............. @bY4 Muzzy Gloss 6 Ib boxes................ @i Muzzy Gloss bulk.................-..-- @6 Muzzy Corm U). 23.00. .es 6%@7 Special prices on 1,000 ib orders. Kingsford Silver Gloss................ @8 Kingsford Silver Gloss 6 fb box....... @8% Kinpstord Corn: 2.0.0.0 2. occ c eee coe ss 84@8% Oswego GIOSS.. .).. 5. eect eesc es ce ees @6% Mirror GlOSS. 0) 266s... cc. ke cee @6% Mirror GOSS; GOTH. ...50 0.56... 60 66... @6% iels Peano o.oo ok ee oo @4 American Starch Co.’s @bY% @8% @6 6 Ib Gloss, wood boxos. @i Table Corn... .......... a3 @6% Mable COrm....... 56. .6....65-55 2s 20 Ib @7 Banner Dil eos. oe see cs nk. @A Hovey’s 1 tf Sunday Gloss............. @i% Hovey’s 3 ib Sunday Gloss............. @7% Hovey’s 6 ib Sunday Gloss, wood box. @8 One Mrs. Potts’ Polishing Irons given free with each box or crate of Sunday Gloss Starch. STONEWARE. Jugs 2 palon.. 3... ee. ki. @8 OLROCKR eo oe ese se 6 MDTK CrO@CKSi o.oo es) ec. 7 STOVE POLISH. Rising Sun gross..5 88|/Dixon’s gross...... 5 50 Universal... 2... 5 88: Above @ dozea..... 50 Te ae 5 50| SUGARS. Granwlated .. 00. 66.5..005.. 666. ee @7 44 Cuttoat. 20 ee @8% CUOR oe ks ae f @8%% POWGCECG i.e ooo eee. @8% CONnte Ae ee secs ogee @7 % Standard Ay. es eek cscs: @7 KG Oe ees. 644@6% MING Ohio 2 ai eee @6%4 MCUOW ©. . oo. ees ee eee. ek ke 514@6 SYRUPS. Gorm, Barrels... 6... ose lecew. cs. -. @ 30 Gorn. 44 ODIS.8 ee. @ 32 Corn, t0 gallon keg’s...................- @ 33 Corn, 5 gallon kegs...........cccccceess @1 75 Corn, 4% gallon kegs...............000 @1 60 Pure Sugar Drips.................. bbl 382@ 35 Pure Sugar Drips................ Y%bbl 385@ 40 Pure Sugar Drips........... 5 gal kegs @1 85 ure, MAplO........ ssc. s cece ks ¥% bbls @ 80 Pure Maple....../.......... 10galkegs @ 80 Pure Maple... ...2.0..5..5.- 25 5galkegs @ 85 Pure Loaf Sugar Drips... ...... ¥% bbl @ 9% Pure Loaf Sugar............ 5galkegs @l1 90 TEAS. Japan ordinary. 23@30|/ Young Hyson....25@50 Japan fair........ 82@35|Gun Powder..... 35@50 Japan fair to g’d.35@3?|Oolong....... 38@55@60 Japan fine........ 40@50'Congo ............ @30 Japan dust....... 15@20 TOBACCO—FINE CUT. Our Binds eae ee @30 PERCHES : 5. oo oes osc eee Sesee ess @38 MOrrison’s PRUE. .3...5....055.52... 50% @50 Don’t Give Me Away................6% @45 WACTOR Ge a ice cae ces @60 Diamond Crown. ..... 00... .. ee sc sees @57 Red) Bird.) 2200s @52 Opera Queen). ess 2g @40 Sweet ROSG’, 3. o.oo sce @45 Green Back ooo. eee sc ec cncl ea. @38 rit... .... ES a aa ee oe aioe ee 3 OSO SWEG0 ee bo ee @31 Prairie PlOWE?. 2. 065.65. . be vecceas cole @65 Climber [light and dark].............. @62 Matehioss 0060.6 sori ioc ues @65 MA WATDE: <6. cae tole cae ses cs cen ese @69 GONG oo ee ee ose t eee @i MAY HIOW OR 020 eco. oc as oe oes cece ees @i0 ROTO oes coco clas wes cngeee cas @A45 AWA Se ee cer ties coke swaeees @35 MOVALGAIIC: 24.025 2.5. 06 ccc cscs eect e eee @38 Silvior POPORG. ooo. cca see cise Cues boas @67 MOON oie ee oo hes ens cue cen ches @60 FEONtueky.. co occ. este cssoe cs castasauess @30 Mule War cc .o. os. ois ks ce @67 PeGK A BOO.. acc. ones es ie cn eet clas @32 Peek-a-Boo, 4 barrels.........:....... @30 Clipper, POMS... 2.5.6. be... ioe ee @32 Clipper, Fox’s, in half barrels......... @30 MOUNEAII Soc secs fb oc cb oct ee ctns cons O74 Old COMPOSE 06605 ec). coe ees @64 Good Luck............ co en cbc bec o ces @52 Good and Sweet... .........ccece ce eeee @45 BlnZe AWAY. oc ccc es ee dae cscs @35 anit LALOR. 6. oso. c cc ces feet bewess @30 ne Glory, Ment... 2.0 ccs. see @60 Charm of the West, dark.. ae @60 Governor, in 2 oz tin foil.............. @60 PLUG. Bo BUP.’s Favorite... 5. seseccec. @50 Old Kentucky. 26... ccc ees a cts oo @50 Big ROUT, B¥IZ.. co... see ee ee need ces @50 Big Pour, 8512. ieee eee ee ks @50 Darby and Joan, all sizes.............. @50 Turkey, 16 02.,; 8X12... 6. ese oe ge @50 Blackbird, 16 0z., 3x12................. @34 WEOO HOM i Sis el kes be eee eves eis @50 Bigs Drive... ote a ese sc sees @52 Seal of Grand Rapids.................. @48 RI i Sera e een es eees os @50 PIPUOND | 5 ooo cis) ee @48 Silver COM... oil seeks @50 Buster (Dark): 2.5 6.06.6... tee cee. - @36 Pie oe Oe @36 Black Racer [Dark]................... @36 Leggett & Myers’ Star................. @50 CUP Fs ck a cea cece Dai eas @50 Hold Fast ........... CAs, eet seen es @AS McAlpin’s Gold Shield............ cere @AB Nickle Nuggets 6 and 12 D cads.. ‘| Beaver, clean and dry # Cock of the Walk 6s8................... @37 Black Spun Roll....................... @38 DRIEEGS oe a ee @50 PROBE or ieee des ee eS, @50 MOU MORE koe cc cos @A48 CRCSCONE oes eA a @A4 PUMAOM Re ee ce aa. @35 Minow Bash 22.26. bo ee oo, @40 HERuO GYIU 6 ooo oo ae. @35 Nobby Spun Roll...................... @50 DDE ce ce a: @50 Grayling, all styles.................... @50 WER CHAM AWE ee ok ees cass @AT TROPEG DOC! coc coc e eben. ce ec ceee @50 Good Duck) 2... o.oo ee! @50 Dis Ohunwon doh... 2... eck. ee @A40 EPGID EIECOR eos esc idk Se, @37 DD and PD. bigek. 2.2... 2. oe. ok @37 McAlpin’s Green Shield............... @48 ACG High Diack. 2.2.2.2. cece ese @35 GHampion An... 7s... cece es @48 matlorsy Solace. oo... cco. @48 MOG SCA. ho ks onc oe. ech @50 SEE GI se @A8 WGK eco es @18 SUMO. gs @40 Apple Jack.... @50 ack Rabbite. 090.002.) @A2 eee a as @35 SMOKING. Chain oc @22 Arthur's Choice... .. 6... @22 Seal of Grand Radids.................. @25 IM ee @30 ORG ee @28 BU @30 Ten Penny Durham, % and \......... @24 Amber, 4% and dip... Dime Smoking... 2... 6... @22 Red Fox Smoking.................. @26 Fame Kiln €lub... 63... eo. @A7 Blackwell’s Durham Long Cut.. @90 Wamity Hair. ooo. i @90 PG ee 24@25 Beerlonge oe @25 Standard oe, @22 Old Tom ee @21 fom & Jerry 2.00. @24 VORCE eee ekg @25 Weavelere 7.000 eC @35 Maiden ee @26 HROUSYs sees ecees ee se ee ee, @27 INNaVWONDpINGS 66 @24 Honey DOW oct @25 Gold Block ia. @32 Camp hire 2c O22 OPONOKO 2 @19 Nigger Head). 3.60. @26 Duran 30 @60 G0 Few @57 do WeDo ee @55 do BD ee : @51 POUR @2 Geeman eg @16 Mong Om es @30 INAGION Se @26 WEIN a ee @26 OVEIS PRCA ce @28 @ORGHEKOE oi. ce, @23 WOMB ee @2 Grav ec ee @32 Deal ST ee @30 Dime Murham: .. 5... <2 2.22... 5.. ee @25 OD HOW o.. oo @26 Unele Sam................. @28 Lumberman ............... @26 Railroad Boy......... @37 Mountain ROSe.................5.-... 52. @20 Good Hnough:. 2: 2.60.5... cc. @23 Home Comfort, 4s and %s............ @25 Old Rip, long cut....:-...... 8... oe. @60 Durham, lone cut...... 2.0.5 ...0.2 62. @60 wo Nickle, 326... oo... 0. 8. @25 Two Nickle, 348.....3..........2:-. 0... @26 Star Durham. oo... so. @25 Golden Flake Cabinet.................. @A0 Seal of North Carolina, 20z........... @52 Seal of North Carolina, 4 0z........... @50 Seal of North Carolina, 8 0z........... @48 Seal of North Carolina, 16 vz boxes... @50 SHORTS. Mile Mar 2) ey 23 PUWaeha 23 Old Congress! 2s. 23 VINEGAR. ure Cider: oe 10@12 White Wine.) 0 10@12 WASHING POWDERS. UG oe ee 0101 Gilets Wb eo @ te Soapine pre... 2... one %@10 Boraxine Pibox...........000. 00052 ce ne @3 "5 Pearline @ DOxX.... 6.5. ee ke @4 50 YEAST. Seneca Falls ‘‘ Rising Sun’”’.............. 1 75 Twin Bros....... 1id |Wilsons .......... 1 75 Gilleté’s:::.....:. 175 |National......... 1 75 MISCELLANEOUS. BISCKING oo. cs 30, 40, 50@60 do WALEEProot ......5 le ce. 1 50 Bath Brick imported .................. 95 do AMOMCAM. 2.0 b5 0555 oa 75 BOUlIGV ccs oe @3% IBUEMOrSUNOS To. 110 GO. NOve ee: 1 50 Bags, American A... 58... co... 20 00 Beans. medium ........ 0.002000... @2 10 Beans, hand picked.................... 2 40 BUCLOr. 22 Sil oo ee ceca nes 18@20 ISUGLErING 2605050650. oe 18@2 Curry Combs # doz.................... 1 %@ Cream Tartar 5 and 10 fb cans......... @25 Candles. Star: 20.6... ooo @15% Candles, Hotel. ooo. 205502. oe, @16% Catsup quarts ® dozen............ 2... 1 40@1 60 Chimneys No. boot css @35 do INO. Feo ge @46 Cocoanut, Schepps’ 1 ib packages. @26% Cocoanut, Schepps’1&%mb do . @27%4 Evaporated Hulled Corn 50 fh cases... @ U Extract Coffee, V.C. ..5............... 95 do Welk i060 ee: 1 30@ Flour, Star Mills, in bbls .............. 5 15@ do TUSACKS. ¢.. 6. 5... 5 50@ Gum, Rubber 100 lumps............... @25 Gum, Rubber 200 lumps............... @40 Gum Soruee. 3200. 35@40 Horse Radish, pints................... @1 40 PMGIPO. = ee ee 10@ — Ink @ 3 dozen boOx.................005- 1 W@ dally in Patle. 2285.20 @ 6 do Glass Tumblers # doz............ @i5 Dicoriee, SIeuy.. ooo. os co @20 Hicorice: Calaprea ce oe eee. occ ec ee 28@30 Lieorice: Hoot... 6.5... L. @12 Lye #2 doz. CaS€S..........,.. 5.0000. 1 55@ Macaroni, Imported......... ......... @13 OMICSUIC. oc cas See @ 5% Mince Pies, 1 gross cases, # case...... @6 00 French Mustard, 8 oz # dozen........ @80 do Large Gothic........ 1 3@ Oil Tanks, Star 60 gallons............ 12 00@ Oil Tanks, Patent 60 gallons.......... 14 00@ IPOPPOr SHUGCE. oo os seek 90@1 00 Peas, Green Bush............ 2.0.5. 1 do Split prepared................... @ 3% Powder, NOG... oso... ee ace. 5 50@ do - 4 Keg... oc. cc. 3 00@ Sag ee ee 5@6 SHOtCGtON ce 1 90@ G6 DUCK... 2. se 2 1b@ SARC a ee @l5 Tobacco Cutters each ................. 1 25@ "PUING) 05 oe oe ec 18@23 Chimney Cleaners # doz.............. 5 Flour Sifters # doz ..................6. 3 00@ Fruit Augurs each..................... 1 @ ENGWIOCE: fos 66 cocky ce cee c cesses uss 5@6 Washing Crystal, Gillett’s box........ 1 50@1 65 Wicking No. 1 ® gross................. @A0 do INOGS 2.502 o ate ee, @65 do Argand -.20....4... 50522. 5. 1 50@ HIDES, PELTS AND FURS. Perkins & Hess quote as fol.ows: HIDES. Green. 6s... ae, BhT @T% PArh, CUNEO. |. oso. eee eee 8 @ 8% Will GUPCR. oo. cabo. bcs bas cen Boe cos ses 84%4@ 8% Dry hides and kips..................... 8 @12 Calf skins, green or cured............. 10 @12 Deacon skins.................. 8 piece20 @50 SHEEP PELTS. Shearlings or Summer skins # piece..10 @2 WMA Peles i ce ces ce ss sce eee ns us 30 @50 Winter pelts... ...-...5. 2.) eee: 100 @1 50 Woo.L. Fine washed # b................0.0e 00. 25 @27 @oarse Washed... <. 0.6.0.2 eo Sct nee 18 @20 WinwashOd. 2.050 .5 ocsee tc eee 2-3 FURS. Mir LAN POs oo. eo es des ce accent aes 60@ 75 Milles BRIS coe ho cee ccs cece coe sce 25@ 40 Muskrat, Spring Rieke Sealicnhe ices ieee Lb@ li Miaskret. WIRGGR. 02... 6. ccece sc. ce seen 18@ 14 Mriskrat, (Balls. oc os. 26sec cs ideas 8@ 10 EMIS POE. FIBA ioc. cde oecc as cc ccceee 8@ 4 Raccoon...... Wasae ccc cle eceealbanc cccces 40@ 8 rane. BIA ooo a oc wee ces cues. oe 80@ 90 Skunk, half stripe..................... 50@ 60 Skunk, narrow stripe.................. 25@ 30 Skunk; DOGG. x... coos soso ee de ee ck 10@ 15 ROG: WOM 6 6c ov ols cag a oa ce as woe clas cs 1 00@1 15 Gray BOX, 2. cc. ik ee ee cs 60@ 90 Marten, yellow....................2.... T5@1 00 PSHE. 25.8. c does cont seb ee ce eecs ft cc CODD OF ONE goo okgk s coos i oe cate ew ance dees Len 6 00@8 00 BOar.c. 6. ck 5 0e% Lak CasleU ce bass Cee 5 09@12 00 Deer skins, red and blue, dry.... @ b 25@ 30 Deer skins, gray and long haired..... R@ 25 ...........2 00@3 28 Above prices are for prime skins only—un- ne in proportion. POO. cers ccs ccc te testes ners vcovesncen OG OM CANDY, FRUITS AND NUTS. Putnam & Brooks quote as follows: STICK. Straight, 25 boxes................... @10 ist, GO os @10% Cut Loaf WO ee @12 MIXED. Moval 2b i Pails... 104 HoOyal, 200 Ib DDIS=: -. . ooo ec or Hietrn, co pala oc... 11% xtra 2001 DDS... ci il French Cream, 25 f pails.............00..0005 14 Cut loaf, 25 Ib cases......2 2.2.08... o.oo eee. 14 Broken, 20 i) pails... .....02. 6... 11% Broken, 200th bbIS. <2. 0% FANCY—IN 5 tb BOXES. Hhemon Drops..:.....-......... 8. 14 Boum Prens.. 2.6007 5. 15 Peppermint Drops...... ................. 16 Chocolate Drops... ... HM Chocolate Drops................ Gun Drops 3: oo. : . 12 Eacorice Drops...... 222.03... 120 AB Licorice Drops.. ee 14 Hozenges, plain. 4 0.6 36 Lozenges, printéd..................... it INBCRIAIS 2 ee 16 IMORUNES 2c ee 16 Cream Har 15 MolacsewBan.-. 2. 14 Carameles 20 Hand Made Creams.......................... 23 Dian @reamsa 20 Decorated Creams....... .............. 23 Stemne ROCK. 16 Hurmnt Almonds... 24 Wintergreen Berries................00 07 16 Fancy—in Bulk. = Lozenges, plain in pails............ 14 Lozenges, plain in bbls..............000000" 13 Lozenges, printed in pails...._ 1177 77"°°°77"" 1b Lozenges, printed in bbls................7"" 14 Chocolate Drops, in pails.................°." 14 Gum Drops, in pails. ................ 0 8 Gum Drops, in bbis................. c Moses Drops, in pails..-.......... ll Moss Drops, in bbls ........... 0 944 Soun Drona, in pails... RB Imperiais,i pails............ 14 Ripomsis tees... 1... FRUITS. Oranges @ DOM... 2... 20... oo. 5 Oranges 20 B DOK. = ranges, Imperials, # box............ D4 5 Oranges, Valencia hapa Rove e se cccees die Lemons, choice,...................... 2 75@3 25 emons: fanéy.s 660.5. 3 50@4 00 Bananas # bunch...................... 2 00@4 00 Malaga Grapes, @ keg................. ae Grapes, #8 DbI.................. ies, layers M1... 2 Higgifancy do 2... 1820 Figs. baskets 40) @b................. @i4 Dates. frails do ae 6 Dates, 4 do ok % ACES SRO Dates, % Shi Dates, Fard 10 b box @ b...... 1"! Dates, Fard 50 box # D..... : Dates, Persian 50 Bice 1 ae ae bu PEANUTS. Steady. Prime Red, raw #@ b..... : sed uecd Choice do do @8 Fancy do do ee ae @9 Choice White, Va.do .................. 9%@10 WaneyH PP. Va do ..........._ «--- LOY¥@U NUTS. Almonds, Terragona, # ......... Almonds, Ioaca, ¥o ag 3 iso? Brazils, do 2 9@10 Pecons, daa 10@14 Filberts, Barcelona do............. Filberts, Sicily de O14 Walnuts, Chilli QO 22 @i2% Walnuts, Grenobles’' do........... 14@15 Walnuts, California do : Cocoa Nuts, # 100 fe 5 Hickory Nuts, large ® bu...... a. oe Hickory Nuts.small do PROVISIONS. The Grand Rapids Packing & Provisi quote as follows: a ae PORK. Heavy Mess Pork..................... Eaem Pork, short out..................... oe oe Family Clear Pork, very cheap........... 19 50 Clear Pork, A. Webster packer........... 20 00 S. P. Booth’s Clear Pork, Kansas City.... 20 00 Extra Clear Pork ..2........2 2 20 00 Hixtra B Olear Pork... .. 0... 00.c0.. oe, Clear Back Pork, new..................... 21 00 Boston Clear Pork, extra quality......... 20 7 Standard Clear Pork, the best............. 21 50 All the above Pork is Newly Packed. DRY SALT MEATS—IN BOXES. Long Clears, heavy, 500 tb. Cases....... 914 do. Half Cases......... 914 Long Clear medium, 500 Cases....... 914 do | Half Cases ....... 9% Long Clears light, 500 tb Cases.......... 914 do. Half Cases.......... 94% Short Clears, heavy................0.... 63% do. MCCUE 2 9% do. ents. 2 9% Extra Long Clear Backs, 600 ib cases... 30% Extra Short Clear Backs, 600 i cases.. 10% Extra Long Clear Backs, 300 Ib cases.. 10% Extra Short Clear Backs, 300 ib cases.. 10% Bellies, extra quality, 500 Ib cases...... 934 Bellids, extra quality, 300 tb cases...... 10 Bellies, extra qulaity, 200 tb eases...... 10% LARD. PRIGRCOS 200 9 d0 anid 50) Pubs .... 2... 6... -2.. 02... 914 LARD IN TIN PAILS. 20 tb Round Tins, 80 f racks............ 914 50 Ib Round Tius, 100 ib racks.......... 9% 3 bb Pails, 20 in @ case................... 10 OD balls, (2 in 8 @ase o.oo cL, 9%. 10% Pails, 6in a ease ................... 934 SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED OR PLAIN. Hams cured in sweet pickle, heavy.... 1344 Hams cured in sweet pickle medium.. 13% do. light...... 4 Hams, California. .........2.25.......; Shoulders, plain. ... 2.6.2. 91% Extra Clear Bacon. .... 2... oo. eee eas 11% Dried Heef, Extra... 2... 2... 2.2. 14 Dried Heel. Hams... ow. occ cos co es 16 BEEF IN BARRELS. Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 Ibs...... 12 00 CANNED BEEF. Libby, McNeil & Libby, 14 ib cans, % doz. WE COBO oso oe ik coke cvs aaa 20 00 do. 2 tb cans, 1 doz. in case.... 3 00 Armour & Co., 14 ib cans, % doz in case 20 00 do. 2% cans, 1 doz. in case.. 3 00 do. 2 Ib Compr’d Ham, 1 doz. in case 4 00 SAUSAGE—FRESH AND SMOKED. Pork Sausage... 6. oo. lo 10 amr Sausare. ...... oo oo sk ee 5 TROUSUG SAUSREO. 2... 8 ecco. os. calle ll WAVON SAUSAEO So cl be ck ck occ Ce ae ok 84 Frankfort Sausage....................c0 sees 10 WlOOd (BAUSARO.. . . 5... Seb hoo eckecce 8% OOO PINE ooo. occ heck ees 844 Bologna, straight. «oo. 2... sce Cac s doe 8% Bologna, thick. 2... 2... ci oes se 84 WpOad CHeGSG 6s. os 5 5. oo. coi ncn a 84 PIGS’ FEET. EM GUE Daevels: — 2.5... ok occ oi In quarter Darrels... <0... ccc. ccc ncs nsec VERE ee TRIPE. Prmharé barrels. 0. oo... 2. oe cs $3 50 dy Quarter barrels... <0. eo. cee woe ones 1 70 RNG. oe os oe a ee 7d Prices named are lowest at time of going te press, subject always to Market changes. FRESH MEATS. John Mohrhard quotes the trade as follows: Fresh Beef, sides................ 22000 T%@ 9% Fresh Beef, hind quarters............ 10 @il Dressed Hogs: oc. cc co ccc ce cece cece 8 @9 Mutton, Garcasses.................c eee id @ll ORE eee ght ee 84@ 9% MONG IS: coe soho cea eh 16@18 Pork SAusag@cs os (oo. us (2 cn bce es Suk 10 @10% Pork Sausage in bulk.................. @10% Orogns.. o.oo sesso ba. gk @10 OYSTERS AND FISH. F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: OYSTERS. New York Counts, per can................... 38 Pewtre SOlGGUS oe ce oc ee 3o PRE BEICCES: sos ook aces oe ee NE he ee ee oe ee HSE VOUIEE Bi. occ cic boa ceus ees ck cancel ks New York Counts, solid meats, per gal..... Selects, solid meats, per gallon...._.. Standards, solid meats, per gallon.... Can prices above are for cases and half cases.. FRESH FISH. COGTBN oo. eke wale dee cd oe ies 8 RGGI OCE so oes oe ck Wee eco 7 BINGEN. os ce, recede ghee cae 5 Mackinaw Trout. :.. 2... 0.0.0. cc ce cence Gc tie 8 Mackerel ................ pe ceue eben Line cncde Whitefish ...... Die iAH nic oew es oe ce Grieg ea ek, Oia f ww s ? s a * a rf yd , wa « rs Dry Goods. The Progress of Hosiery Manufacture. In the fifteenth century there was worn in Spring & Company quote as tvuuwo: WIDE BROWN COTTONS. Androscoggin, 9-4. .23 Pepperell, 10-4......25 Androscoggin, 8-4..21 Pepperell, 11-4...... 27 Pepperell, 7-4...... 16%|Pequot, 7-4......... 18 Pepperell, 8-4...... 20 |Pequot, 8-4......... 21 Pepperell, 9-4.....-. 22% |Pequot, 9-4......... 24 | Europe, by the male population, a garment called hose, which consisted of the entire dress below the waist. It was a tight-fitting specimen of apparel, which was either plain or pleated at the top, and in some instances ruftied, to suit the taste or caprice and fash- ion of the period. From this form of cloth- CHECKS. Caledonia, XX,0z..11 {Park Mills, No. 90..14 ing, in course of time, there were several Caledonia, X,0z...10 |Park Mills, No. 100.15 itil the upper portion of Economy, 02Z....... 10 |Prodigy, 0z......... ll changes of style, unt pper P Park Mills, No. 50..10 |Otis Apron......... 10% | the garment was made separate and toek the : : f ? ese§ i a a a name of trousers, which were first made to Park Mills, No. 80..13 |York,AA,extraoz.14 | end at the knee, and subsequently at the OSNABURG, ankle. The short kind of trousers were Alabama brown.... 7 Alabama plaid..... 8 | called by the English and Scotch, breeches, ee Bone. Bi Saad ce ou while the word trousers is of French origin. Lewiston brown... 9%|Manchester plaid.. 7 | When the garment was separated the lower Zane brown.......- 9%4|New Tenn. plaid...11 : : Louisiana plaid.... 8 |Utility plaid........ 6% | portion or foot covering took the name of BLEACHED COTTONS. hose, which it has ever since maintained, al- bh th r i i r the avonieie ©... 8 |Greene, G, 4-4.....- 5y, | though the word stocking is used for t ‘Art cambrics, 36. ..11%|Hill, 4-4........----+ 814 | same fabric, in respect to its various lengths, Androscoggin, #41354 ee 7% | as worn by both males and females. The Ballou, 4-4.......--- 7%4\King Phillip cam- original hose was a sewed article of apparel, Ballou, 5-4.......-.- 6 brie, 44..... See es 1% 5 . Boott, O. 4-4........ 6%|Linwood, 4-4....... 9 | but in the sixteenth century when the gar- Boott, E.5-5.......- 7 \Lonsdale, 4-4....... 8% | ment was divided, the stockings were knit- Boott, AGC, 4-4..... 9% Boott, R. 3-4 53{|Langdon, GB, 4-4... Blackstone, AA 4-4. 744|Langdon, a 14 Chapman, X, 4-4.... 6% Masonville, 4-4..... 9% “Conway, 44..... -- 7% Maxwell. 4-4........ 10% Cabot, 4-4.....----++ %34|New York Mill, 44.10% Cabot, 7-8.....- . 6% New Jersey, 4-4.... 8 Canoe, 3-4......---- Pocasset, P.M.C.. 7% Domestic, 36......- 1% Dwight Anchor, 4-4. 0 Davol, 4-4.....-.- so wr “a Lonsdale cambric.1!% 9% Pride of the West. .12% Pocahontas, 4-4.... 8% 14 'Slaterville, 7-8...... 6% ted by hand, an art which is said to have originated in Spain, and to have been intro- duced into that country by the Moors. Dur- ing Shakespeare’s time the mystery of knit- ting was a common domestic occupation, not only in rustic households, but to a consider- able extent in the abodes of the opulent. Fruit of Loom, 44.. 9 |Victoria, AA....... 9 Fruit of Loom, 7-8.. 84/Woodbury, 4-4..;... 5% | Bones at that time were used in the place Fruit of the Loom, Whitinsville, 4-4... 1% : : : cambric, 4-4...... 12 Whitineville, 75...-.09 ot needles, the implements being smooth, of ld Medal, 4-4.. .. 7 |W amsutta, 4-4...... fe 5 : Gold Medal, #4.- -- G..lwilliamsville, 38...10% | Small size and equal length, and they were Gilded Age.....---- 84 handled in the most dexterous manner by CORSET JEANS. experienced persons who employed their Armory ....------++ 744\Kearsage.......--.. oy | leisure time for such purpose. ndroscoggin sat.. 84|/Naumkeag satteen. 8% : ae : ; — gga 8" |Pepperell bleached 8% The word stocking is derived from the Clarendon. ......-- 6% poe er sat....... 4 Saxon word Slican, to stitch, because after Li he coe. 3 piinessaecen 5 gig | the invention of knitting needles (at first Laconia .......----- 714 Conegosat........-- 7 | known as sticking pins) the yarn was stuck PRINTS. or made up by such aids. The stocking Albion, solid........ 5% |Gloucester .......-.. 6 | loom was invented by a clergyman of Not- bion, grey......-- 6 |Gloucestermourn’g.6 ‘ a73178 ; ae ae 5y\Hamilton fancy....6 tingham, named William See, and the first Ailen’s fancy.......5%4/Harte! fancy fee : machine was set up at Culverton, and after- Y Ve | rrimac D......... c Allen's pink: ------6¥|Manchester seen tes 6 | ward taken to London, but the inventor met American, fancy. ...5%/Oriental fancy...... 6 | with such poor encouragement at home that ‘Arnold fancy.....--- 6 |Oriental robes...... 6% , : : Berlinsolid........- 5% |Pacitic robes........ 6 jhe transferred his machine to Rouen, in Cocheco fancy......6 |Richmond..........- 6 | France, where he met with considerable suc- Gochecorobes.......7 |Steel River......--2-8 Ye : 634, : ae Conestoga fancy....6 Sipe Speck n 6 |cess. After his death, in Paris, one of his OL, taney 8 Pe neue Lines.’g | apprentices went to England and establish- Garner pink.....---- 7 | ed the industry in Leicester, from which it FINE BROWN COTTONS. Appleton A, 4-4.... 8 jIndian Orchard, 40. 8 Boott M44... 7 |Indian Orchard, 36. 8 Boston F, 4-4......- 8 |Laconia B, 7-4...... Continental C, 4-3.. 7% \Lyman B, 40-in. Continental D, 40in 834 | Mass. BB, 44... 6 Conestoga W, #4... 7 |Nashua E, 40-in.... 9 Conestoga D, 7-8... 5\%|Nashua R, 4-4...... i Conestoga G, 30-in. 64 Nashua VO, 7-8......- (| Dwight X, 3-4...... 6 |NewmarketN...... 7 Dwight Y, a oe 644) Peppers a oo 7 i Z,.44...--- 7 (Pepper a4... 7 Orient on a. “3,| Pepperell 7s... 6 Ewight Star, 40-in.. 9 even a os 6 Enterprise EE, 36.. 534|Pocasset i, 44.8. 7 Great Falls E,44... 7 (Saranac R.......... 7 Farmers’ A, 4-4..... 6% Saranac E.......... 9 Indian Orchard, !-4 ni4| DOMESTIC GINGHAMS. ‘subsequently spread to Nottingham and 4% | Derby, where it has since flourished in a re- y,;markable manner. Large quantities of hos- % | iery are also made at Harrick and other localities in Scotland. -Silk hosiery of ex- “4 quisite texture and finish is produced at Nottingham and Derby, and cotton hosiery at Hinckley, Derbyshire and Tewksberry. % | In 1756 the stocking loom of See was im- proved apon by a stocking weaver or Derby, who adapted it to the manufacture of ribbed stockings, such as are frequently made by hand. The machine-made Derby hose were Amoskeag ...... se Renter ios styl 9% | at first known as “‘Derby Ribs.” In colon- ae Perle orktoln |. a On ous ial times, stocking knitting was a leading BniOs ....-.----2---- 7% Johnson Manfg Co, | branch of household industry in New Eng- Berkshire ....-..-- 614| dress styles...... 12% : : : 2 : Glasgow checks.... 7 |Slaterville, dress land, and, in fact, in most of the Northern Glasgow checks, f’y 7144| styles...... 8 WIDE BLEACHED COTTONS. Androscoggin, 7-4. 21 Androscoggin, 8-4. .2 checks, | |White Mfg Go, stap 7% \Pepperell. 10-4..... 27% ‘Pepperell, 11-4..... te States. With the Dutch settlers of New - Glasgow ( ? royal styles...... 8 vee , oy — 8 | York and the Germans of Pennsylvania, Gloucester, new _, | Wiariston.......-. 9% | hose made of worsted, and of red, blue, yel- Plunket .......-..-- 7%| Gordon ........-..+. 8 | low, and green colors, were among the most Lancaster ........-- 8% |'Greylock, dress s : : 3 Langdale........--- "%| styles ..... ----.. 12% | valued articles which a thrifty housekeeper exhibited to her guests. Stocking looms were introduced into the United States inthe eighteenth century. Pi erell, 7-4.....- 20 |Pequot, 7-4.....--.- : : Pavuprell a 2214'Pequot, 8-4......... 24 The Germans established a very prosperous Pepperell, eo . hides sits ee 214 | business in Philadelphia and Germantown, eee 5 se while the Duteh and English respectivel g I y Atlantic A, 4-4....-. 714\Lawrence XX, 4-4.. 8% dactad ‘oetilc indie : e Atlantic H, 4-4..... 7 pewzense 2, i as started the same textile industry in New Atlantic D, 4-4..... 64% |Lawrence LL, 4-4... 5% | York a y ‘Atlantic P, 4-4...... 5% Newmarket No 1% and New England, and for many years ‘Atlantic LL, 4-4.... 5%4|Mystic River, 4-4... 7 Adriatic, 36.......-- 7% Pequot A, 4-4....... Augusta, 4-4.....+.-. 6%4|Piedmont, 36....... 7 Boott M, 4-4......-. 744 Stark AA, 4-4....... 7 Boott FF, 4-4.....-- 7% ‘Tremont CC, 4-4.... 5 Graniteville, 4-4 6% \Utica, 4-4........... 9 indian Head, 4-4... 744/Wachusett, 4-4..... 7 ndiana Head 45-in.124| Wachusett, 30-in... 6 TICKINGS. Amoskeag, ACA...14 /Falls, RAK. ...-. 18 ‘Amoskeag ‘ 4-4..19 Falls, XXX......... 15 ‘Amoskeag, A..... 2 Pelle, OH... 11 Amoskeag, B...... 12 |Falls, BBC, 36...... 19 Amoskeag, C.....-. 11 iFalls, awning...... 19 Amoskeag, D...... 10% /Harilion, BT, 32..12 Amoskeag, E...... 10 |Hamilton, 19.2 .5., 10 ‘Amoskeag, F....... 9!4/ Hamilton, H.... 0 Premium A, 4-4....17 |Hamilton fancy...10 Premium B... .16 (‘Methuen AA....... 13 Extra44..... ‘116 |Methuen ASA...... 18 Extra7-8...... ..14%\Omega A, 7-8....... 11 Gold Medal 4-4 ..15 jOmega A, 4-4....... 13 OCA J-B.. 5. so <= 12% Omega ACA, 7-8... .14 Me og see se 14 (Omega ACA, 4-4....16 PEO get es cone 14 \Omega SE, 7-8...... 24 ite... + ee 16 |Omega SE, 4-4...... 27 AMES owe ese 19 jOmege M75. U..... 22 Cordis AAA, 32..... 14 |\Omega M, 25 At os on Cordis ACA, 32..... 15 \Shetucket SS&SSW 11 Cordis No. 1, 82.....15 \Shetucket, S & SW.12 Shetucket, SFS....12 the more common varieties of hosiery were produced very largely, while the better de- scription worn by the prosperous classes were imported from England, France and Germany. The first power loom ever in- vented for knitting hosiery was made by Timothy Bailey, of Albany, in1832. It was % | a wonderfnl advance onthe old stocking % | frame of William See, as it enabled one per- son to weave ten pairs of drawers in the same time occupied in making one pair by the assistance of hand looms, the latter be- y, | ing operated by two persons. The Bailey machine was set up at Cohoes, New York, and produced a perfect revolution in the hosiery trade, by quickening and cheapen- ing the manufacture of all the various fab- rics of this description. In the course of several years subsequent other improve- ments were made in the construction of % st or eae Stockbridge A... ; | knitting looms, and the process has now Cordis No. 4......-- 11%4|Stoekbridge frncy. 8 | reached a wonderful degree of perfection, GLAZED CAMBRICS. and as a consequence the styles, shapes and Garner .........-+- .5 |Empire............. “ elegance of this article of the clothing has Hookset............ 3 Wastingion..----- 54 | been most noticeable in connection with Forest Grove....... iS. S. & Sons......... 5 the development and taste displayed in Woy- GRAIN BAGS. en tissues of the better varieties. In a fac- American A....... 19 |Old Ironsides...... 15% | tory where steam and water power is used, Stark A....... Lions 234%4|Wheatland ......... 21% several looms are easily tended by one per- — son. Ribbed work can also be made on the a. a ee Ek a ane machine that produces plain work, and this eta owe June sy een ieee Hs is accomplished by bringing into service a Otis AKA. ....-.--- He vik faney.......15 |Setof vertical needles so arranged as to PAPER CAMBRICS. work in connection with the horizontal ones. Manville............ 6 |8.8.@Sons..:...... ¢ | Until within the last quarter of a century, Masgnville........- 6 |Garner ........-..-- 6 {this country depended almost entirely upon WIGANS. c | foreign manufacturers for the better makes Red Cross........-- 7 (Thistle Mills........ | of hosiery, but within the last named period +t acm a OS : pore eee Et 8 | such wonderful progress has been made in SPOOL COTTON. wenneseseeee BIRGOKS .. 05 55 ess 50 |Eagle and Phoenix Clark’s O. N. F..... 55 Mills ball sewing.30 J.&P. Coats.......55 |Greeh & Daniels...25 Willimantic 6 cord.55 (Merricks..........- 40 Willimantic 3 cord.40 (Stafford ...........+ 35 Charleston ball sew Hall & Manning....30 ing thread........ 30 j|Holyoke..........-- 25 SILESIAS. €rown.. .17 {Masonville TS...... 8 | 6: IO ge eh sas 12% Masonville 8.......10% COM oops aoe 10 |Lonsdale ........... 93 BUONO, . vce os coc b> 15 \|Lonsdale A......... 16 Centennial......... Nictory O.......... Blackburn ..........8 |VietorydJ......... sie “Pavol... sco. -1sts «sdk a i A ge ae 0 Soonke A seseeeere oe os the perfection of our own domestic products, that we make knit goods equal in every re- spect to the foreign make, and, as a conse- gence we import much less hosiery from abroad. >.<. _ The agony in woman’s spring hats is a ‘brownish kind of straw, smoke stock in %, | shape, nine stories high with mansard roof, tower and observatory. lt is said there is still outstanding $6,984,- 000 in fractional currency, the most of which is either lost or destroyed, or in the hands H d EXPANSIVE BITS. arawar e. Clar’s, small, $18 00; large, $26 00. dis 20 Ives’, 1, $18 00; 2, $24 00; 3,$3000. dis 25 A Huge Combination. eed dah nk ‘ei ‘ : merican File Association List...... dis 40&10 Combinations are the order of the day. In| Disston’s 1.0.2... eeeeeeeeeeee dis 40810 fact, it seems there is a combination craze, New American See he cs chase artes ae dis 40&10 nee : : Nicholson’... 2.2... .0. 20.0.2. c nse - ese: dis 40&10 which, if permitted to continue at the pres-} Heller’s .................0:eeeeeee eee dis 30 ent rate must ultimately engulf, in disrup- | #eller’s Horse er siseeeseneeeeeees dis 33% . : ; eS : GALVANIZED IRQN, tion or destruction, the industr ial fabric of Nos.16+0%, 22and 24, 2and26, 27 28 : the land. The craze is infectious, and there-| List 12 18 14 5 18 fore very dangerous, and is invading every Discount, Juniata 45, Charcoal 50. branch of trade, mannfacturers pooling | . GAUGES. : 3 ; pO $ Stanley Rule and Lveel Co.’s......... dis 50 against their employes and the consumer, HAMMERS while on the other hand mechanics and Maydole Oe ees: dis 15 i i heir employers Oe oe ee ee dis 25 laborers combine against = of eee Yerkes & Plumb’s..............---... dis 30 each successive move widening the gap be- | Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.............. 30 ¢ list 40 tween labor and capital. The last to enter the Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. .30 c 40&10 lists is the window glass workers, and of the ee F snes . : Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track dis 50 movement, President Cline, of the Window eeupion, pe ee pea aes dis 60 Glass Workers’ Association, says: It is pro- ean ee sores cs a posed to form an association whose member- | Gate, Clark’s, 1,2, 3........ Roos dis _ 60 ship will include all the window glass | State..............-----sesseeses per doz, net, 2 50 i i Screw Hook and Strap, to 12 in. 54 14 workers in the world. We believe that by| and longer......... r ee -? 4 25 x ‘ Screw Hook and Eye, % ............ net 10% so doing we can better regulate the wages | So ew Hook and Rye So not Bie and secure the rights of all. In our travels Eolas Hook ang Bye Mee net 1% ; A crew Hook and Eye, %............. net 1% we will gather data interesting to glass | Strapand T.........0...00. 0c ees dis 60810 workers, so that in our efforts to make the HOLLOW WARE. proposed combination we can work intelli- Stamped Tin Ware..............-...+++-- 60&10 ji : Japanned Tin Ware... 30 gently. Our trade is peculiarly adapted to a | Granite Iron Ware...............:6000++ 25 union of this kind, as we can at all times HOES. get accurate estimates of the consumption oa Voices cee eee ee eee e eee e eens eo ao one and supply of window glass in every quarter | Grub3... 0 2 00, dis 40 of the globe. We hope to forma consolida- KNOBS. 4 : : a _ | Door, mineral, jap. trimmings...... $2 00, dis 66 tion that will protect the prices of manu- | p,,,' porcelain, jap. trimmings.... 2 50, dis 60 CORNER ION] A &Z facturers and wages of workmen on both | Door, porcelain, plated trim- hae : ‘ : : : : MPR. oo ec cs ist, 7 25, dis 60 sides of the Atlantic, and thus insure peace | ngor, porcelain, trimmings list, 8 25, dis and prosperity for all interested in our | Drawer and Shutter, porcelain...... dis 60 LUMBER, LATH AND SHINGLES. s Picture, H. L. Judd & Co.’s.. ......... d 60 trade. For some time past there has been @| Hemacite .......... 2.20065 ceeeeeees dis 50| ae Newaygo Company quote f. 0. b. cars as nominal union between the window glass LOCKS—DOOR. zs a ae oi ns : , Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s reduced list dis 60] Uppers, Linch... ..;. ctceeeeecae es per M $44 workers of panne and those of Belgium, Mallory, Wheelur & Co.’s..............+. dis 60| Uppers, 1%, 1% and 2inch.............-.. 46 00 but we now intend to make the bond closer. | Branford’s ..........-.-.+::seeeeee eee eees dis 60| Selects, Linch.....-......... 35 00 Norwalk’s.... ....... dis 60 Serge 14,1% “ a See Sees ... 38 00 ee ee “ine Common, linch............-......-- 30 00 LEVELS ‘ : : : = : Shopel men oi. 20 00 To prevent the smoking of a lamp: This | stantey Rule and Level Co.’s...........-- dis 65| Fine, Common, iif, 134 and’3 ineh,..2.10. 32 00 may be easily effected by soaking the wick MILLS. No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 12, 14 and 16 feet.... 15 00 in good vinegar for a few minutes, then dry- | Coffee, Parkers Co.'s... -0.-.-2..7 +. 4. ais sg) oe pe rae a a — Coffee, P. 5. & W. Mfg. Gos Maileables dis 45| NO- 1 Stocks, 1 in, 20 toot id i6 foot...” ao ing it well before using it. A good clear | Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s........ dis 45 Ne 1 eee ay Bee Bee te f0e8 + br : light will be the result. In the case of a| Coffee, Enterprise....................-.-- dis 25 No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., S0feet. oo 3 t 2 afi nt oe MATTOCKS. No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 12, 14 and 16 feet...... 15 00 glass chimney there may not be sufficient air ea 916 on aie soaan| No. LGtocks, Sin, Iafeot... fc. 16 00 draught. Hunt Hye. a #15 00 dis 40&10 | No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., Wfeet........-....---. 17 00 _~.» Pants |. $18 50 dis 20 & 10| No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 12, 14 and 16 feet..... 13 00 More than three-fourths of the cedar used NAILS. oa 3 aes Z a ee a en in the manufacture of cedar pencils in the Common, Brad and Fencing. No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 12, 14 and 16 feet..... 13 00 : : : Be 10d to GOd.......ceccce ceceseeses sei. 2 Keg $2 69 | No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet...............- 00 s ; : . 8 keg $ : world is shipped from Florida. Large groves | gq ana9d adv. Se es » *" 95, | No. 2Stockg, 10 in., 20 feet... ............ 15 00 of cedar grow up and down the coast and on ig aed ce aay Te 50 A 2 Se oe eae 16 feet...... - a ie 3 d na 5a adv..<.....< 45 ~~ DLOCKS, ¢ ae Ue ble eh Gai cinta Sa wiaia a ‘ the Suwanee river, and the supply seems IN- | 3d advance.............- 1 50 No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 20 feet..............-. 14 00 ‘cc hanchible sa fine Bavaee ou 3 00 ees oe S shipping culls, all | ‘a oe : slineh nails, adw. 35.85... TS eee ee Umer es sete c eS Finishing ) 10d 8a 6a 4d = - ane B Chee a Gin ose: 35 00 ee en : . aan Size—inches § 3 2Y, 9 1% } Strips, 4 or @inch...........+........--- 28 00 A very large plate of glass, of American ‘Adv. ®@ keg $125 150 175 200 No. 1 Fencing, all lengths..............-. 15 00 manufacture, can be seen in Cincinnati, yoOrtaceueasene. Ne 2 Vener’ ®, ies end U8 feet. 603... 12 00 which during the riot there, had nine bul- ee ese ee Ce dis 70 No. 1 Roncine 4 me 7 te Ea ei a . Stebbin’s Genuine...... ...-....-.. +2 eee dis 701 No. 2 Wencing, 4 Ineh............-........ 12 0 lets fired through it, making me clean Enterprise, self-measuring.............. dis 25 Norway Cand fetter, 4 of 6inch......... 20 00 holes without cracking the glass in any di- MAULS. Bevel Siding, 6 inch, A and B...........- 18 00 rection. Sperry & Co.’s, Post, handled........... dis 50 ater eee ae aS 4 Common... y rs >.> OILERS. Bevel Siding, 6 inch, Clear.............. 20 00 The coming season Kentucky expects to | Zine or tin, Chase’s Patent... ........... dis 55 Danan car to ae ie re ft. p Pp t ‘ = Spring for Screen Doors 3x2%, per gross 15 00 pp 15} rent barn and grounds. The best location in Spring for S cmnon Doors 3° Pp @ Sessa 18 00 rates. the best livery town in the State. Address, P. ae one Ce TRAPS. O. Box 318, Big Rapids, Mich. ; = _ | Steel, Games: 2... ccnp se cercccersrene nee cee: Ely’s 1-10... 22. -e0ee eee sree rece cerns per m $65 Onoida Communtity, Newhouse’s....... dis % SITUATIONS WANTED. Hick’s C.F... 60 | Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s.... 60 : G. Do... eee eee eee eee e eet | FRORGNMIEE ocak ce ess foc qens eecb estes et ae . AMMSKOb, ce Mia op BW. Mic. 00.6. 3.0.5 oscec-c ess 60 ANTED—A situation in atin shop. Can CATRIDGES Hace ahoker 20c # doz} ae i ore . ee B North a S- ’ sR Te EC e et ee 5 | Bi apids preferred. ddress, Box 42, St. Rim Fire, U. M.C. & Winchester new list 50 Mouse, delusion...........:..2.0006: $1 26848 doz Louis, Nich. E . Rim Fire, United States................ dis 50 WIRE. Central Fire.........-..----seeeeereee eee dis | Bright Market..............ccceeeeeeeeee dis 60 S TYPEWRITER OR COPYIST, by a young CHISELS, Annealed baa Bee ieee Veco e ants as 60 aa, yey eo aon ee for such a ny , : Joppered Market............c cece ee eeees is 55} bo y education and experience. Address, ee Gis OPENO | ieee Bolling... cose nceecreaseeeee dis 55| XXX, care Miss Sila Hibbard, 35 First street, eceeyOOP8er | ce css isotypes weeneet 24 meiner imeih ic i Inne TOON... ccc cece ce sere eves ce ccens Be aed incurs 0 gte «ap | Summed MEMBERS, eee nen wD 84 Barton’s Socket Firmers............. dis Oh Coe acl dingy; | Lhe Austrian glass manufacturers are de- Cold net Tinned Spring Steel.......... is 37% : : : pele cba beacdscctceesessetervestserscrse ‘ Bipin Pence... .ccce cele 5 #2 3% voting a great deal of attention to making COMBS. Barbed Fence.......-0...-cessececrereser sees eo 1 out of the brittle stuff. T! Curry, Lawrence’s.........-.5.2++-+++ Gis 3334 | Copper.......-----ee cere eseeeeeeegs DOW list net wearing apparel out of the brittie stu. ine FIOTCHIIGS fo oon sip ces bee se se eee dis 26 PBPASS. oi oo conic ce ee oe este ocean ce’ new list net glass is spun into threads, like ordinary silk m ba ace oo ais WIRE GOODS. or cotton, and woven into different colored TD Bio ces esate cae aa bee I : * i. . ° 0 vege tial scab UTE BRAGS ele 49810 i ae weeeeteeeeee ceeneeceenees or ee fabrics, sometimes entirely of glass, and CLOW HYES.... .. cece eee eee wees ence ‘ ‘ i Seal Bee a gue Glide ogtk alae pb a Sale e OBL ais o-bc80Ls ohio ee teoea”. oe " Pe ets a is 60810810 sometimes with a warp of silk or eotton. ee ee ere N ctaend ten, eis 10&10 : COPPER. nate S eect P. Lorillard & Co. have opened a free Planished, 14 oz cut to size...........+-- ib 37 FEMOHUS: i ine- 5 : Tene, EKER, ABOO. css ose BD 3) | paxter’s Adjustable, nickeled........ io | Men moet rending ors for the 3,000 em DRILLS Coe's GONUING.. 00.256. 6. be cc cence ts dis 50&10| ployes of their tobacco factory in Jersey x ; Coe’s Pat Agricultural, wrought. ...... dis 65) ,: Mone Bit OR sec eee? a 85 | Coe's Pat., malleable. '.....+6+.s 000.003 dis 70| City. ‘aper and Stra PNK es) cesses . i : : Marse’s Taper Sopnk ee Be ee a dis ~ 30 MISCELLANEOUS. California now produces over . 100,000 ELBOWS. — ' | pumps, Cistern.........+0066 go | boxes of raisins every year. Com. co erento noe OM Oh OD ser unacus zB There are fifty illicit distilleries in one CHIELDS. BULKLEY & LEMON IMPORTERS —_A IN D— Wholesale Grocers, ISLAND STREETS. COUNTRY PRODUCE. Apples—Out of market. fill orders. Asparagus—60c % doz. bunches. Bailed Hay—Searcer and firmer at $15@ $16 4 ton. Barley—Scarcer and firmer. Best quality now readily commands $1.35 4 100 ibs. Butter—Choice dairy packed,is worth 22@ 23e. Elgin creamery 25c. Butterine—Best quality is still in good de- mand at 18c@19¢e. Beans—Handpicked are a trifle firmer at $2.35 and unpicked are not much moving at $1.75@$2. Cabbages—Southern new, of about 4 dozen. Cheese—Skim 10c@11e. is active and firm at 14@15ce. Clover Seed—Choice medium firm at $6 @$6.50 # bu. and mammoth in fair demand at $6.75 4 bu. Corn—Local dealers stand in readiness to supply carload lots of Kansas corn at from 45@60c ¥ bu. It is all of the same quality, but the former price is for damp, and the latter for dry, stock. Cucumbers —Mississippi stock $1 doz. Dried Apples—Quarters active at 7@9c PB tb, and sliced 8@9c. Evaporated dull and slow at 12'4 @l14e. Eges—Jobbing at 15c, with good demand. There has been a material advance in the Eastern markets, and the tendency here at home is firm. They will not go lower than 15¢e, and may advance a cent or two in the next ninety days. Green Onions—25@35e $ dozen bunches. Honey—lIn comb, 18¢ # Ib. Hops—The Michigan crop’ is almost completely exhausted. Good command 20@ 22e, and fair 15@18¢ P tb. Lettuce—In fair demand at 20c # tb. Maple Sugar—Dull and plenty at 12)¢¢ for pure, and 9@10ce for adulterated. Onions—Old out of market. Bermudas have advanced, and are firm at $2 4 crate. Pieplant—Hothouse stock in fair demand at 5c $? tb. Potatoes—Still a drug and likely to re- main so. There are vast quantities in the market, and large amounts still lie in pits. Burbanks are sold in small quantities at 45e, and Rose at 30@35ce. Peas—Holland $4 GF bu. Parsnips—Moving slowly at $2.50 # bbl and 80¢ # bu. Poultry—Fowls are firm, and readily com- mand]i6@1%c. There are no ducks and geese in market, anda few turkeys, which find ready sale at 17e. Radishes—40c # dozen bunches. Strawberries—The Tennessee fruit is sell- ing at 30c a quart for crates of 24 quarts. There is a prospect that they will be consid- erably cheaper before the week is out. Seed Oats—White English Sovereign, 75c. Seed Potatoes—White Star, $1; Selected Burbanks, 50¢; Early Ohio, 50e; Beauty of Hebron, 50c. Squash—Southern white readily command $1.75@$2 ¥ box of 40 tbs. net Timothy—Choice is firmly held at $1.60@ $1.85 @ bu. Fancy, $2. Vegetable Oysters—40e # dozen bunches. Wax Beans—$2.50@$3.50 GP box. Green $2@$3. Wheat—Local dealers are paying 75@80c for No. 2 Clawson and 95e for No. 1. Lan- chester commands $1@$1.05. —___>-@—<>______— Deaiers cannot $8.50 $ crate Full cream How to Make Painter’s Cream. This is a._preparation sometimes employed by painters when they are obliged to leave work unfinished for any length of time. They cover the parts already painted with it, which preserves the freshness of their col- ors, and can be easily removed when they return to their work. It is made as follows: Take half an ounce of the best mastic, finely powdered, and dissolve it over a gentle fire, in three ounces of very clear nut oil. Pour the mixture into a marble mortar, with two drams of pounded sugar of lead at the bot- tom of it. Stir this with a wooden pestle, and keep adding water in small quantities till the whole is of the appearance and thickness of cream and refuses to admit more water, so as to mix freely. —___—_—<>0-<.___— A joke is being passed around among the spice dealers at the expense of a prominent petroleum broker. Someone had’ informed this broker that people were using red pep- per quite extensively, and the demand for the same was quite large. Going into the office of a dealer in black pepper, he expres- sed commiseration at the prospect of a de- creased demand for black peper. He was assured, however, that the firm was equal to the emergency, and that they were coloring their black-pepper red to meet the new de- mand. This was apparently accepted asa fact, as the broker gave it out as a piece of | gecret information that black pepper was be- ing colored red in large quantities and being sold as Ca, enne. ee \15 7 a The Michigan Tradesman, . PENCIL PORTRAITS—NO. 13. L. M. Mills, Better Known as “ Max.” Lloyd Marcellus Mills was born at Saeg- erstown, Pa., May 20, 18538, and will con- sequently celebrate his 31st birthday on Tuesday of next week. His father was a Baptist minister, to which fact may be attributed the frequent changes of resi- dence made by the family during the youth of young Mills. After living at Northeast, Pa., for eight years, the family removed to Line’s Mills, Pa., where yonng Mills gained his first experience in the drug business, en- tering the store of H. V. Line when but ten years of age. He remained there three years, when the family removed to Boston, N. Y., and “Max” entered the employ of Mark Whiting, a retail druggist, remaining with him two years. In 1868, his father’s health broke down, and the family removed to Northport, Mich., then a mere backwoods settlement. Spending one winter on the farm, young Mills went to Trauerse City in the spring of 1869 to accept a position as drug clerk with L. W. Hubbell & Co. He remained with that house until the spring of 1873, when he identified himself with the firm of Page Bros., general dealers at the same plare. Four years later he bought the drug stock and business of C. P. Selkirk, at Kalkaska, remaining there until 1881, when he sold out to the present firm of Goodrich & Son, to accept an offer of partnership ex- tended by S. E. Wait, of Traverse City. The new firm of Wait & Mills began busiuess in 1878, and continued with success until Jan. 1, 1881, when “Max” sold his interest to his partner to accept a position as traveler, ten- dered him by the then firm of Shepard, Haz- tine & Co.—now Hazeltine, Perkins & Co. His territory at that time included all avail- able towns south and east of Grand Rapids, the “fighting ground,” as he appropriately designates it. He still continues his visits to the trade in both directions, and- has late- ly added to his route all the Lake Shore towns between Muskegon and Manistee. Mr, Mills is a typical salesman, possessing all, or nearly all, the points that characterize a successful traveler. He is very careful, never selling a new customer until satisfied that he is reliable, and his knowledge of the resources and liabilities of his patrons in a matter of common acknowledgment. His skill in this direction is evidenced by the fact that during the three years and over he has represented his house on the road he has made but one bad account, and that amounted to only $9.75. Another peculiar- ity of his career as a traveler is that he has never offended a customer, and is still sell- ing the same men who bought of him on his first trip out. Heenjoys toa marked de- gree, the confidence of his trade, and has the respect of his house and all who know him. at -@- tee A Town with a Future. A North Star correspondent writes: This town is booming, with every pros- pect of a depot being located here. son & Gillett, late of Lakeview, have just opened a drug store here, and in addition we have two general stores, a church, a brick yard and a town hall in process of construc- tion. There is an excellent opening here for a physician, who would be assured a good practice from the surrounding country. Ifa depot is located here, and there is every rea-. son to think that such will be the case, an elevator and grist mill will follow. —_—~ +2 << Away from the Business Center. The cluster of stores “‘on the hill’’ is about to be supplemented by a bakery, jewelry store and photograph gallery. There are at present four groceries, two drug stores, two meat markets, a boot and shoe store and a barber shop, the combined sales of which probably amount to $100,000 annually. The “hill” merchants have always been noted for shrewdness in buying and a proper regard for profits in selling, and their prosperity is a matter of common congratulation. ‘ —————»>_2 > --- ‘‘What’s your impression of Texas?” said a traveler to his fellow passenger on a south- western bound train. “It’s a great place for life insurance clerks.” ‘I don’t understand you.” “Why, they’re sure of pretty steady employment.” “Explain yourself.” “If one is discharged, he shoots a policy holder or two, and the company is glad to take him back again.” ——__ +2 A Hartford, Conn., paper makes the charge that there are farmers in the surround- ing country who have for years brought into the city butter for dealers and families, who are now, and for a year or two have been, buying oleomargarine in Hartford, moulding it over at home, and’ supplying it to their customers as the genuine product of their , own dairies. Sl a ee A recent advertisement reads as follows: “Tf the gentleman who keeps the shoe store with a red heatl will return the umbrella of a young lady with whalebone ribs and an iron handle to the slate-roofed grocer’s shop he will hear of something to his advantage, as the same is the gift of a deceased mother now no more, with the name engraved on it.” —$—$—$$$—$$ 9 “He that takes a wife takes care,’ says Franklin. Yes, he takes care that his wife doesn’t catch him hugging the servant girl, — oOo It is estimated that the dairy region of which Elgin, Ill., is the center, produces 20,- 000,000 gallons of milk a year. Dicker- - ALL SORTS. Howard City has 12 grocery stores. Eighteen commercial travelers make their home in Hudson. A. C. Philo has engaged in the agricultur- al implement business at Trufants, John Bell & Co. succeed Dr. J. D. Bow- man in the drug business at Benton Harbor. L. W. Hammond will engage in the man- ufacture of brackets, mouldings, ete., at Har- bor Springs. Abbott & Co., formerly engaged in the grocery business at Hastings, have embark- ed in the same business at Bellaire. The Bailey Manufacturing Co., Owosso, manufacturers of all kinds of machinery, are soon to be incorporated with a large increase of capital. The Detroit Commercial of the 38d _ pub- lishes an item to the effect that Cole & Stone’s shirt factory, at Paw Paw, has been closed up. Mr. Geo. F. Cole called at THE TRADESMAN Office last week to deny the statement in toto, claiming that there was no foundation whatever, for the report. Assignee Tolford has paid the creditors who filed proofs of their claims it the Alfred W. Fisher estate their pro rata on the basis of 22.83 per cent. The as- sets of the estate, after paying all expenses, were $525.41, and the ciaims amounted to $2,301. About $100 worth of claims were not proven, and the creditors holding them consequently did not participate in the divi- dend. Donald M. McClellan, formerly in general trade at Reed;{City, now a temporary resident of Aiken, 8. C., was in town last Wednes- day, and was shown some of the interesting features of the city outside the principal business thoroughtares. He expressed gen- uine surprise at the resources of Grand Rap- ids, and was free to admit that the spirit of the South was not at all in keeping with the ideas characteristic of a Northern business man. He intends to return to Michigan event ually for a permanent residence. oe What He Figured On. From the Wall Street News. “It was flaxseed that ruined me,” he said, as he crossed his legs and heaved a sigh from the bottom of his soul. “You tried to make a corner, eh?’ “Oh, no. Iwas simply calculating on the natural and average demand in the Middle States.” “And did the price go down?” “Yes, 15 cents per bushel.” “What was the cause?’ ‘Almost total lack of boils in the States of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and Illinois, that season,” he calmly replied. ‘The number of boils dropped from 750,000 to three or four old carbuncles and a felon or two, and I'll be hanged if even those weren’t poul- ticed with cornmeal! to save expense.”’ ~~ -0 Mistook His Meaning. From the Detroit Free Press. There is a sign over a butcher’s shop on Michigan avenue which reads: ‘Beef by the quarter.”” One day lately a man wentin and asked for a ten-cent roast, giving the name and number it was to be sent to. Then he was walking out, when the proprietor stop- ped him and told him he had forgotten to pay for it. ‘“Doesn’t your sign read: ‘Beef by the quarter?’ Send round your bill when the quarter’s up and collect.” ‘Look here!’ shouted the angry butcher, “‘you’l pay down now or you’ll get no beef. It’s war to the knife and no quarters, d’ye hear?” > -2 Patents Issued to Michigan Inventors, Ed. R. Annable, Paw Paw, whiffletree. Ralph H. Beach, forging machine. S. D. Brown, Farmingtom, potato digger. James M. Carver, Grand Rapids, condenser for steam or smoke. John D. Gilchrist, Ishpeming, electric bell and annunciator. Chas. H. Magoon, Muskegon, feed water heater. James A. Roberts, Detroit, bell fastener. John B. Wheatley, Detroit, process for manufacturing flour. S. B. Zimmerman, Hudson, car coupling. ——___ 2. A New York shipper of butter and cheese, now traveling in England, writes that Aus- tralia, |New Zealand and even Russia are shipping butter into England, and selling at lower prices than United States and Cana- dian butter can be sold for. ———————~_2 Congressman Murphy, of Iowa, says: “Every man who comes to Congress, has only two ideas. The first is that without himself the Government could not exist for a day, and the second, how shall I best se- cure my re-election?/ ———— a +9 The price of this fine Havana cigar will be $65 per thousand and $6.50 per hun- dred. Send in your orders now, so you will be the first. If the goods don’t sell return them to us. ee The best musk comes from China. Twenty- five pods are packed in a leaden box, which is enclosed in pasteboard inscribed with Chi- nese characters. oe The coming new brand of cigars is made of Vuelta Abajo Havana tobacco and war- ranted not to be flavored and all straight filler. 0 A pile of 1,000,000 $1 bills would be 45 feet high. Youcan prove it by making a pile yourself, FOSTER, ~ STEVENS” & C0 —WHOLESALE— HARDWARE 10 and 12 MONROE STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. WE SOLICIT THE DEALER’S TRADE, And NOT the Consumer’s. We are Manufacturer’s Agents for the Crown Jewel Vapor stove! And quote factory prices. Send for catalogue We are Manufacturer’s Agents for aa Jeweit’s Bird Cages And quote factory prices. Send for catalogue We are Manufacturer’s Agents for Jewett’s Filters, And quote factory prices. Send for catalogue We are also Headquarters for Grand apids Wheelbarrows and Bacon. & Priestly Express Wagons, Allof which are sold at factory prices. We would be pleased to send catalogue to those wishing to buy. We are carrying to-day as large a stock, and filling orders as complete, as any house in Michigan. Foster, Stevens ‘Co, _ 2. Eo “WHITE STAR’ POTATO. To Gardeners and Farmers. About two years ago, Mr. Marshall Buchanan, Postmaster 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, and planted by the undersigned, and the result was one gratifying beyond measure. potatoes, for size, color and quality, as were ever seen in the State. flavor, for seed purposes. The second planting yielded 7,000 bushels of as fine They were pronounced by all who tried them of the very finest The potatoes were procured, YIELDING FAR BETTER THAN ANY OTHER VARIETY KNOWN to this section of the country, never troubled with blight, and very seldom showing a bu as to the merits of the White Star Potato, all agreeing that they h qualities. 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, a reference to all seed catalogues and the regular price lists, will show to be a great reduction from the ruling prices. patrons: y g of any sort. Such is the universal testimony : I ave never met its equal for endurance, All farmers and gardners are interested in these facts, and all who have seen the White Star Potato, and tested it, are united productiveness, and fine eating We make this liberal offer to We will furnish the White Star Potatoes at the rate of $1.00 per bushel, and will allow a liberal discount to dealers. We will also furnish, at cost prices, all barrels sacks or bags, or patrons may send their own, adressed to Ensley & Son, Maple Hill, Mich. may be sent to either Ensley & Son, Ensley Postoffice, Mich., or to O. W. Blain, General Agent, Grand Rapids, Mich. should be written out plainly, to prevent mistakes. Orders All addresses Patrons should also furnish us with their names and postoftice addresses, and state to what railroad station they wish to have their.shipments made. Orders will be filled promptly, and must be accompanied by the money, New York draft, money order, or registered letter. Readers are cordially invited to refer to Marshall Buchanan Banker, Howard City, Mich., for the truth of all of the above statements regardin White Star Potatoes. , Postmaster at Ensley, Mich; C. J. Burtch, Postmaster, and N. W. Mhther, g the superior quality and extraordinary yield of the We warrant these potatoes, all that has been represented, and true to name. B. HENSLEY & SON , Growers, Emsiey Postofiice, Newayso County, Richisgsan. FOR FULL PARTICULARS AND TERMS TO DEALERS, ADDRESS O. W. BLAIN & CO, General Agents, Produce Commission Merchants, Fruits, Vegetables, Etc., 152 Fulton Street, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. Also have 2,500 bushels ot the Celebrated White English Sovereign Oats—a sure crop—50 to 90 bushels per acre. Price, 75¢ per bushel. U. PRETER, 386 South Division Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. Dealer in All Kinds of Gonntry Produce —Also— STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES, CANNED AND DRIED FRUITS. HGGS AND BUTTER Pays Cash on Receipt of Prop- erty. A Specialty. Buyers of Eggs by the Crate or Barrel will be supplied at the lowest Wholesale Price with Sound, Fresh Stock.. This House does not handle Oleomargarine, Butterine or | ' Suine. Telephone Connection. A. HF. FOwWwW iE, HOUSE DECORATOR —And Dealer in— FINE WALL PAPER Window Shades, Room Mouldings, Artists’ Materials ! Paints, Oils, Glass, Ete. 37% No. Ion1A STREET, SOUTH OF MONROE. Special designs furnished and Estimates given for interior decoration and all kinds of stained and ornamental Glass work. STEAM LAUNDRY : 43 and 45 Kent Street. A. K. ALLEN, Proprietor. WE DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS WORK AND USE NO CHEMICALS. ~ Orders by Mail and Express promptly at- tended to. a WALLPAPER & WINDOW SHADES At Manufacturers’ Prices. SAMPLES TO THE TRADE ONLY. Eiouse and Store Shades Made to Order. 68 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids. NELSON BROS. & Co. PHREINS & HESS, — DEALERS IN—— Hides, Furs, Wool é& Tallow, NOS. 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. | ALBERT GOYE & SON, —Manufacturers and Jobbers of— A.wnines, ‘Tents, Horse, Wagon and Stack Covers, Flags, Banners, Etc. All Ducks and Stripes Kept Constantly on Hand. 73 Canal Street. GRAND RAPIDS, - MICHIGAN. tt" Send for Prices. A. A. CRIPPEN, WHOLESALE Hats, Caps and Furs 54 MONROE STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, - MICHIGAN. We a Large Stock, and Guarantee Prices as Low as Chieago and Detroit. - GRAND RAPIDS Flower Pots Hanging Vases ‘MANUFACTURED FOR H. LEONARD & SONS, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. HAND OR MACHINE MADE POTS FOR SAE BY THE PACKAGE OR RE- PACKED TO ORDER, Sold at Manufacturers’ Prices. Send for Price List at once for the Spring Trade. SHEDS FIELD AN D GARDEN, — A T——— WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, SEED STORE, 91 Canal St., Grand Rapids, Mich. W. 7 LAMOREAUY, Aga a ~