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GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 1884.

 

 

NO. 42.

 

 

 

 

COMMERCIAL REPORTING.

Some of the Difficulties that Have to Be En-
countered.

There are difficulties surrounding every
line of occupation, and those that beset com-
mercial reporting are perhaps no greater than
those attendant upon the pursuit of other vos
cations. But they are different, and arecom-
paratively unknown, or, at least unrecogniz-
ed. The first difficulty that the reporter
meets with in his rounds amongst business
men is to find the right man in the right
place. It is an astonishing thing, but it
seems almost literally true, that in every bus-
iness firm there is only one partner who
knows enough about what is going on to be
able to talk to a reporter; and this is not on
account of unwillingness, but to all appear-
ances is due to inability to know what to say.
“Well, no, there’s nothing new,” says an
active, energetic prominent member of the
firm, perhaps the head of the house, ‘“there’s
nothing new. I should be glad to give you
any information in my power, but the fact is
I haven’t given my attention to these things;
you had better see my partner—he’s out just
now—he may bes ‘tell you something.”
And this is a fair sample of what would be
received in a great majority of leading whole-
sale houses. This difficulty being overcome
through finding the right man, others follow
quickly. The merchant oftentimes seems to
regard the reporter as he would a rival in
business, and at once sets himself on the de-
fensive, as if saying to himself: “This man
has come to find out something, but he’ll
have to wake up pretty early to get ahead of
me, Let me see: I won’t tell him the first
word about our business, but I will tell him
a lot of stuff that don’t amount to anything,
and if he can make anything out of it he’s
welcome.” With a little tact the reporter
sometimes manages to get some real inform-
ation out of such a customer, but the task is
not an easy one. Then there is the merchant
who has an axe to grind. He regards the
reporter simply as an instrument that he can
use to further his own interests, and so,
whatever may be the actual state of the mar-
ket, he reports it, honestly enough no doubt,
in accordance with what his books and _ his
opinions declare it ought tobe. Out of such
a party, if the reporter knows how to weigh
and sift news, he can often glean much ex-
cellent material for a true report. But, un-
fortunately, there is the merchant who has
little or no regard for the truth. He will re-
port dealings in volumes and at prices that
others in his line know nothing about and
that many will not hesitate to say it is im-
possible should have taken place without
their knowledge. This makes a real stum-
pling block for the reporter. He knows not
whether to accept or reject the statement
made, and the correctness of his report nec-
essarily hinges upon his decision. To leave
out important matter must greatly impair, if
not wholly destroy, the value of all the rest
of his work, but to make a misstatement of
facts and so give the market a false coloring
is far worse. Of course it is open to him to
give the statement and throw as much doubt
upon it as the occasion seems to warrant,
and this is perhaps usually done, but the dif-
ficulty is to know to what extent it may be
doubted, and as the reporter himself has been
driven into confusion as to the actual state of
the market, his report can hardly be a clear
and satisfactory one. Of all the difficulties
that beset commercial reporters, misrepresen-
tation is undoubtedly the worst. ;: Then there
is a spirit of playfulness or jest often found
amongst the merchants, who so far forget the
difference between business and pleasure as
to seek to make the reporter the victim of a
joke by giving him, with all apparent seri-
ousness, a greatly exaggerated or purely im-
aginative account of what has been going
on. This class is not so difficult to deal with;
the reporter soon learns to know their ways,
and is then prepared to make them valuable
auxillaries in throwing lights and shades up-
on the markets. Finally, there is the com-
petent, common-sense, outspoken man of
business, who recognizes the importance of a
a faithful report of the market, and gives all
the information he deems fit freely. For-
tunately there is usually more than one such
business man in every line of industry, and
so itis that notwithstanding many an obstacle
and many a disappointment, it is generally
possible to give not only a faithful, but rea-
sonably full and intelligent report of the
markets, but the task, as we eave endeavor-
ed to point out, is not an easy one.

 

Dull Trade and Its Remedies.

 

From the St. Louis Grocer.

The general business situation in all parts
of the country is one approaching stagna-
tion. The only movement of merchandise
put is taking place is to fill immediate
wants, and this makes orders small. There
are occasional spurts of business, to be sure,
that nothing that partakes of a general and
permanent improvement. As is usually the
case, the western markets are less effected
than the eastern by the prevailing dullness.

While this is naturally the dull seaaon of
the year, the dullness has been intensified
by the New York bank panic, and also by
the fact that this is the presidential election
year, which always causes more or less dis-
turbance in all industrial interests. | he

‘country has plenty of financial ‘strength\ as

 

 

panic, but it must not be forgotten that the
evils which caused the panic have not been
removed. ‘The rascals and swindlers who
mismanaged the banks have not yet been
punished, and each day brings to light new
cases of villainy among those who hold posi-
tions of financial responsibility. Bank after
bank goes down because the -nanagers have
been unfaithful to their trust, and the idea
is rapidly spreading tnat none of our banks
are what they should be, and this impair-
ment of public confidence is one of the most
serious features of the times.

The facilities for gambling on our so-call-
ed trade exchanges are so great that thous-
ands are drawn into the snare only to ruin
themselves and drag down their frends with
them. People with money do not know
whom t6 trust, and consequently the funds
are kept out of investment, and we have the
anomalous condition of a surplus capital and
a searcity of loanable funds. There is now
a general demand for laws regulating our
banking institutions, but whether this de-
mand will ever amount to anything remains
to be seen. Certain it is that so long as dis-
honest men and speculators are allowed to
remain at the head of banks, all the laws in
the world will avail nothing. The gam-
blers and embezzlers must be punished, or
no bettering of conditions can take place.
One of the most discouraging features of
the times is the ease with which embezzlers
secure immunity for their crimes. Their
“high social position” anda “regard for
their innocent families” allows them to go
free, and they may again be reinstated if
they only promise to disgorge. Add to this
misrepresentations of railroad and other cor-
porations as to their earnings, and it is not
hard to understand why public confidence,
that indefinable something, should be badly
shattered. Under such circumstances trade
will be kept down to the narrowest limits of
necessity. When public confidence is again
restored, capital will once more seek invest-
ment, and trade and industries will soon be
in a rapidly improving condition.

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Antiquity of the Corset.
From the London World.

As long ago as the days of the Greeks and
Romans, a slight elancee figure was admir-
ed, and stoutness looked upon asa deformi-
ty. Martial ridiculed fat women, and Ovid
put large waists in the front rank of his
remedies against love. Several remedies
were tried then as now, not only to restrain
an expanding figure, and to enhance the
beauties ofa very slight one. But they
were of a different kind from those with
which we are familiar. Bandages were
worn with the generic name of fascie mam-
illares. These consisted of the strophium,
the cloth worn around the bosom; then tenia
a simple band below, and the zona, or
waist-belt. When bandages failed, those
who valued the beauty of their figures had
recourse to a remedy perscribed by Serenus
Sammonicus. They enveloped their busts
with garlands of ivy, which were thrown on
the fire as soon as withdrawn, and after-
ward rubbed all the upper part of their bod-
ies with goose fat mixed with warm milk or
with an, egg of a partridge. Men wereas
vain as women, if we are to believe Aristo-
phanes and other writers. The great comic
dramatist mocked his cotemporary Cinesas
for wearing busks of lindenwood, and Capi-
tolinus, in his biography of the Emperor
Anthony, mentions that he also had recourse
to them to compress his swelling figure.
Testimony is conflicting, however. Some
contend that the ancients wore veritable cor-
sets, arguing that when Homer in describing
Juno’s toilet when she wishes to captivate
Jupiter speaks of the two girdles worn
around her waist—the one bordered with
gold fringe, the other borrowed from Venus
—he was really describing a Greek corset,
and that the egide or cuirass of Minerva
which Virgil describes is to be interpreted
in the same manner. But this View is sure-
ly mistaken, for no monument of antiquity,
no artistic work, no evidence gleaned from
other scorces, point to the use of stiff, un-
yielding whalebone corsets.

Strawberries and Peas.
From the Baltimore Trade.

The packing of strawberries is over, and
the commission men who handle these goods
for the growers, say that the packing houses
have not taken over one-third as many as
last season. Early June peas are also clos-
ed, and the conditions of the market have
been unusual. Prices have been 30 per cent
higher than last year for peas, due entirely
to the smallness of the yield. Marrow peas
are even shorter than were early Junes, and
the season will be over by the end of next
week. ‘The result is a supply one-third less
than was provided for, and consequent high
prices. On peas, especially of fine grades,
most of the pack has passed out of first
hands at low prices, considering the cost of
green stock, but as a rule buyers are exceed-
ingly shy of taking hold of goods.

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Every one has heard of condensed milk,
but condensed, or rather solidified, drinks of
a more potent nature are a novelty. Anin-
genious French chemist has discovered a
method by which any wine, spirit, or malt.
liquor can be solidified into a cake, like choe-
olate, and so conveniently carried about in

STOCK SHIRTS.

 

Some of the Changes Time Has Wrought.
From the Western Furnishing Reporter.

In spite of a bad spring trade, shirts have
been sold, and very many of them at that,
by firms who make first-class, well known
brands. It is true, general trade has not
been up to what was expected, but it has
been felt more by the smaller makers and
those who donot make first-grade goods
than it has been by the largest and most
popular houses. This sustains the often-
printed assertion that the manufacturer who
aims at a high standard of work is the one
who has the steadiest and most reliable pat-
ronage. To be sure, his prices may some-
times strike the superficial observer as being
high, but upon careful inspection of details
one can readily see that it costs more to pro-
duce a perfect article than it does to turn
out slop-work; consequently the honest
manufacturer does not try so dispose of his
goods by underselling, but rather by giving
his customers good value and a good article.
Adherance to this principle is the secret of
the good business done this spring by a few
of the shirt manufacturers.

The writer was shown a few days since a
stock shirt made before the war, and sold at
a high figure. The wonderful improvement
made since then in stock shirts was very ev-
ident to anyone. This article was made of
very inferior muslin: a long, straight, wide-
plaited bosom; the shirt was cut like a bag;
‘seams sewed without felling, body very small
and short; no yoke and no shaping, except-
ing a hole cut in the neck, with a collar and
cuffs attached. It was certainly a primitive
garment, and no wonder everyone desiring a
shirt was compelled to have it made. Now
it is entirely different. Any person not ab-
solutely deformed can go toa first-class men’s
furnisher and buy a stock shirt that will fit
him perfectly. Thousands of well-dressed
men who would not think of buying a ready-
made shoe or suit of clothing, no longer have
their shirts custom-made, but buy from
stock, as their requirements demand. This
is not only true of white shirts, but applies
to the colored shirt trade. ‘These same man-
ufacturers make large quantities and in great
variety of patterns; and as they are also col-
lar and cuff manufacturers, they readily en-
sure a better made and more perfect-fitting
collar than do most of the custom-shirt mak-
ers.

The laundering of shirts seem to have kept
place with the other improvements in shirt
manufacturing. Most of the largest manu-
facturers have their own laundries, and
strive to excel in fine work. The writer vis-
ited one of them a few days ago, and was
very much surprised with the peculiar excel-
lence of finish which is attained by the most
elaborate machinery and appliances. ‘There
may be improvements yet to be made, but
one can scarcely see where it can be done.

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The Influences of Modern Trade.
From the Baltimore Trade.

There are some truisms not sufficiently
well known to the hard working merchant
and manufacturer of these over-busy times;
perhaps not properly brought to his atten-
tion. The new powers and consequent
methods of commerce, have brought a knowl-
edge of the conditions of the crops of all
things that have a value, into the office of
the merchant, so that he knows better than
the grower and as soon, just what the mar-
ket value of anything is from day to day. If
in business, ignorance is bliss, then do we
live in the days of most glorious wisdom.
The story is told of a certain Scotch grocer
of Auld Lang Syne, that having ordered a
“pun” of indigo from the jobbers in London,
the latter read it for a “tun” of the article
and though sore pressed to find it, shipped
that amount to fill the order. By the time
the letter reached Edinburgh, the indigo was
half way there, and the canny Scot was at
his wits end what todo. But he did noth-
ing in haste, and waited for the stuff to ar-
rive. Meanwhile news came to London
from the East of disaster to the crop, and
the jobber jumping at the conclusion that
the Scotchman had acted on knowledge and
cornered the market, sent off a special mes-
senger who rebought the entire amount at
double or treble what it cost. Those ways
have gone forever, so far as we ale concern-
ed. The merchant knows just when it is
advisable to pick up such lots of any goods
as will pay, but he is also ‘aware when it
will pay him to let the producers carry the
goods for him. The world has shrunk won-
derfully during the last fifty years, and we
have catalogued and labeled everything
within its bowels, and on its back, know the
quantity and the value, and lack nothing so
much as customers to consume it. But this
knowledge is only a trifle of our progress.
We have transposed the mental powers of
inventive genius into tireless metal, and
though Prosper has* passed into dust, his
spirit is forever harnessed in the treadmill
of production. But here again we lack
nothing so much as consumers. Many new
branches of business have developed with
this progress, but they have merely resulted
in shifting a portion of the population from
old labors into new. The quantities to be
consumed have immensely increased, but
the number of consumers or their means to
purchase have not been proportionally aug-
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those who will buy, and the goods seek the
consumer, rather than than the consumers
seek the goods. The result is a continual
depression, only those who can sell below
others are worth listening to, there is no lon-
ger any such thing as demand, except for a
customer, and if the latter has any means,
he knows he is at a premium, and that it is
a favor for him to give an order. The mer-
chant princes of the earth have become men-
dicants begging for trade. It is immatertial
that they beg by deputy, the overproduction
of everything except the circulating med-
ium, makes his stock of a most uncertain
value, and produces a feverish anxiety to
exchange for money, lest it depreciate on
his hands. Competition then drives him to
the lowest possible margins of profit, and of-
ten conscienceless competition will takes his
trade from him at prices below cost and he
can only meet the prices by doing as do
those who care little whether or not they
pay for the goods they sell.
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An Island of Cocoanuts and Bananas.

Correspondence New York Times.

Bonacea is an island and in its way 1s one
of the liviest places in Spanish Honduras.
Its liveliness, however, is peculiar to itself,
and there are few places like it. The island
has two uses. It grows excellent bananas
and cocoanuts and affords a refuge for all
the flies of the surrounding islands.

There are many bananas raised at Bon-
acea, but they do not run so large as on the
mainland; the cocoanuts do splendidly. In-
deed it is to encourage the cocoanut growers
that the fruit men take their bananas. At
present there is a sort of a boom in the co-
coanut business, and many are starting co-
coanut plantations, or “cocoanut walks,” as
they are called here. Itisasafe invest-
ment for money, but the return is slow.
The trees are planted aleng the seashore
in a sandy soil mixed with loam. From the
time a tree is planted it takes seven years
before it is sufficiently large to bear nuts.
But just as soon as the cocoanuts form on
the trees then a steady income sets in. The
average number of cocoanuts to the tree is
120 per year. In the best places trees will
bear 150 per year. They are sold according
to the season of the year, from $16 to $30
per thousand. Our captain was paying $20
per thousand for good nuts. The cocoanut
walk needs hardly any care. When ripe
the nuts fall off themselves, and all that is
necessary is to pick them up. The husking
of cocoanuts is the most tiresome work ona
plantation, but the native inhabitants are
very skillful at it, and they charge very lit-
tle for their services. After being huskee
the nuts are piled up, and when the first
steamer arrives are loaded into dories and
paddled to the ship. As they are passed up
the sides they are counted, anda check giv-
en immediately to the planter, who on going
to the captain or purser, receives his money.
The whole business is conducted on a cash
basis. There are plenty of small islands
which can be bought cheap on which there
are now sufficient trees to pay for the money
invested in ashort time, as well as to sup-
port the planter while waiting for his new
trees to grow.

The cocoanut industry is increasing every
year, while the demand for the nuts in New
York and New Orleans is always equal to
the supply. The usual method of a planter
wiho comes into this country to start a new
plantation is to begin with the banana
Nine months after the banana sucker is
planted a yield is obtained. The young
shoots are planted eighteen or twenty feet
apart, and between them a cocoanut tree is
placed. The heavy growth of the banana
shades the young plant until it is well root-
ed, when it soon shoots up ahead. The soil
is so rich that banana and cocoanut will
soon interfere. Then the banana suckers
are cut down and the trees kept clean.
Thus, while the planter lives upon and
makes a profit from his bananas, the future
fortune in cocoanuts is rapidly nearing its
There is little trouble in
making plantations in the country. Land
costs nothing, and large concessions may be
obtained from the Hondurian government.

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The Usefulness of Trade Papers.
From the Montreal Moniteur.

The best proof of the value of trade papers
may be found in the fact that all successful
merchants, dealers and retailers acknowledge
that they have derived great benefit from
them, and continue reading them as long as
they do not retire from active business. But
there is, on the other hand, a class of dealers
and retailers who declare that they have not
got time to read trade papers, and that if they
have the leisure to read them, they would
know beforehand what they contain. To
these the Moniteur replies, that a business
man, however little leisure he may think he
has left to bestow on reading, ought to find
time to inform himself about what in his
trade concerns him most and is to him as much
a matter of dollars and cents as his current
business—t. ¢., the price of goods and ten-
dency and state of the markets in his special-
ty; and that the trifling sum of the annual
costof subscription is made up a hundred or
often a thousand fold, by the valuable hints
a trade paper may contain, not left unheeded
by any intelligent reader in his specialty.

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The Duties of a Grocery Clerk.

A true and industrious grocery clerk will
always appear clean and sober, and will
make it his earnest duty to arise from his
bed in the morning at a regular time. This
will enable him to arrange everything in the
store in good order and in good condition.
He will see to it that the floor is swept, the
counter brushed clean, and what is on the
same laid inagood shape, and held ina
good condition. The scales should be kept
constantly in a bright and clean condition,
and also the shelf goods, including the tea
canisters should be dusted off regularly and
often, and all goods should be kept as clean
as possible whenever the opportunity is
there to doit. Theshow windows should
also be one of the principal objects with its
goods, the same nice and clean, and the veg-
etables should be nicely fixed up and be in
a good trim, as such practice will increase
the sale of the same, but he must pay still
more attention to the goods which are placed
in the cellar, as they are often spoiled be-
fore discovered. He should keep over all
other goods in the store a watchful eye, and
by the sale of the same in time will secure
no loss to his employer.

The clerk’s duty is further that he must
be always. both friendly and polite when
wating upon customers, and he will study
to please one and all; he must act lively at
all times, but will be careful and avoid mis-
takes in weighing or measuring, receiving 0
giving change, and he must never stand
idle, as there is always something to fix up,
or goods wanting overhauling, or whatever
it may be to do, he will keep good hours at
night and if his time admits he should read
some good book to improve himself, but on
the other hand, he will not use his time
which is due to his own personal rest to an
outward ill-practice, which would not alone
ruin or harm himself, but would also be a
great interference with the business, as he
would not be able to attend to his duties in
the morning following; it is his duty that
when abroad, or when gone to customers,
that he may not use more time than requir-
ed, and at the close of the place at night he
will see to it that everything is in good or-
der and in its proper place, all the tender
goods to be covered so that the dust or dirt
will not get in, or whatever it may be neces-
sary to be done, as it isthe clerk’s duty to
take as much interest in the business as if it
were his own.

If his fellow-clerk is second or younger
the older clerk’s duty is to watch over him
as an elder brother would over his younger,
and will always be ready for him, with good
advices and good examples for him, and if a
mistake has been made by the younger the
former will correct him by using easy and.
frank language and by showing Him the
proper and correct way, and it is the older
clerk’s duty to assist the second or younger
clerk at any time when required, such as in
helping him in carrying out a basket or two
of goods or whatever it may be in the line
of business as he should make it as agree-
able as possible and should help another as
one can.

It is the clerk’s duty to respect and obey
the orders and also wishes of his employer.
Follow your master rather than show an in-
clination to outrun him, yield to him: rather
than oppose him, love him and look up to
him as to a parent, give credit to his obser-
vations and esteem them to be correct; and
in case of his employer’s absence the clerk
will with still more attention watch over the
business, and will be polite and be faithful
and honest with the money he is trusted
with and the goods which he is handling,
and aid him on all occasions in regard to the
business.

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The Necessity of Small Things.

Men pursue business for profit. Details
play an important part in business success.
They are the foundation on which the after
super-structure is reared. Pennies multiply
into dollars. Small savings gradually in-
crease the bank account. The merchant
who achieves a fortune is practical in de-
tails. Little things are carefully scrutin-
ized.

One of the wealthiest merchants in New
York always saves the envelopes of his let-
ters, the back of which he utilized for mem-
orandums. This is indicative of his method
in business details. Another gathers up loose
nails, twine and paper, saving them for fu-
ture use. How many thousand sweep them
aside as rubbish. Little do they imagine
that indiscriminate sweeping is but the key
to business character which, in succeeding
years culminates in loss and failure.

The smallest leak will in time sink the
largest ship that floats. And so the small
losses in business that daily ocevr through
neglect of details swamp at last the wealth-
iest firms.

Figures are important to consult. They
never lie. Twoand two never make five,
and yet how many merchants act upon this
principle of expansion. Their hopefulness
is larger than their caution. Hopefulness
within itself never brought fortune. It isa
poor anchor in business, for it has no stay-
ing power.

Profit and loss should be a daily study.
Neglect at this point is dangerous. To
many, the dry, practical details of everyday

‘| mercantile life are irksome. They shun

them, neglect them, avoid them for more
pleasant duties. Do you wonder at their
final failure? Why? Have they not ignor-
ed the primary principles of commercial suc-
cess? Must they not, therefore pay the pen-
alty?

The merchant who carefully scans the
most insignificant details of his store is
master of the situation. Heis skilled to
plan and organize, and his affairs are con-
ducted by rule and method. Every arch has
its keystone, which gives strength and sta-
bility to the whole, and so every merchant
has a pivotal point which determines the
strength or weakness of his business ability.
The important thing to do after having dis-
covered the weakness is to overcome it by
every effort, care and patience. As single
spears of wheat aggregate in their fulness a
bounteous harvest so painstaking in busi-
ness multiplies at last into ample fortune.

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The Amount of Wheat in a Barrel of Flour.

E. H. Walker, Statistician of the New
York Produce Exchange, gives the follow-
ing in regard to the amount of wheat neces-
sary for a barrel of flour:

Previous to what is known as the new
process in milling, a barrel of flour of 196
pounds was reckoned as equal to five bush-
els of wheat. The Produce Exchange of

1870 made the change from 5 to 44
bushels. A large majority of the

mills still make flour by the old process.
Some of the best flour made takes 514 to 6
bushels of wheat. The new process takes
an average of about 41g bushels of wheat to
the barrel of low grade flour. The year 1879
will be a probable average for the change to
41¢ bushels. Some of the verylow grades of
flour are made from four bushels of wheat
tothe barrel. The quantity of wheat re-
quired depends upon its quality. Years ago
New York dealers in wheat made contracts
for the manufacture of flour from spring
wheat at four bushels and thirty pounds,
four bushels and forty pounds, or four bush-
els and fifty pounds, the miller turning out
and delivering a barrel of flour at these
rates, he furnishing the barrel and retaining
the offal; but the flour turned out was
known as Extra State, a low grade of flour.
The better grades of flour required more
wheat then for their manufacture than they
do now. It can, in fact, be said that a bar-
rel of flour is made from 4, 41%, 5, 544 and
6 bushels of wheat, the quantity of grain re-
quired depending on its quality as well as
upon the grade of flour to be made. Five
bushels were about a fair averagé@ in 1879,
while now, with many mills changed to the
new process, 414 bushels is probably a fair
average, and has been since 1879.
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Tobacco Show Cards and Romance.

“Pretty girls in Richmond? I should say
we had!” exclaimed a passenger from Vir-
ginia. “The State is full of them. Ever
been there? No? Well, you ought to go
down. But I'll bet you’ve seen the photo-
graph of the prettiest girl in our town a thous-
and times. You don’t think you have, but
you have all the same. I'll tell you. You
have certainly seen the show window adver-
tisements of a Richmond firm that makes a
popular brand of smoking tobacco, the adver-
tisement being adorned by the photograph of
a beautiful young lady.

“Of course you have seen it hundreds of
times. They are in every tobacco store.
Well, that is a real photograph, and the girl
is the belle of Richmond. There is a littie
romance connected with it, too. The young
lady was courted by a young man of our
town, but he made poor progress in winning
her affections. Like all beauties she was
vain and ambitous. She became actually en-
vious of Mrs. Langtry and wanted to go on
the stage herself.

“One night she was saying how she would
love to have her picture hung up in show
windows and admired by everybody like Mrs.
Langtry’s. ‘What would you give to have
it? inquired her suitor. ‘Anything, every-
thing,’ she replied enthusiastically, but not
thinking it meant anything serious. So a
bargain was made, playfully on her part, that
in case within six months her photographs
were on exhibition all over the country, she
would grant the young man any honorable
request. He is a member of the tobacco man-
ufacturing firm spoken of, and is a smart
young chap, with an eye to business, as you
can see. They are to be married in June.”

—__—>_2-.____—_
Growth of the Cream Industry.

Ten years ago butter factories were little
known. Five years ago little was thought
of the most recent plan—that of collecting
the cream for butter making into a central
establishment, leaving the milk to be fed on
the farms. While it has attracted less atten-
tion, the growth of this gathering-cream sys-
tem has been perhaps as remarkable and
rapid in the West as was that of the cheese
factory system. It has been estimated that
there are now 1,000 creameries in the West,
at least 600 in Iowa alone, and the numbes
is steadily increasing. Illinois has 412 but-
ter and cheese factories, most of them in the
northern counties.

Sue! sa eee

A number of Chinese farmers in Merced
County, California, have begun to cultivate
the opium-yielding poppy. Asthey are mak-
ing a success of it, it is likely that others

 

 

 

 

 

will follow in their steps.

 

  

 

 

 

The Michigan Tradesina.

A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE
Mercantile and Manufacturing Interests of the State.
E. A. STOWE, Editor.

Terms $1 a year in advance, postage paid.
Advertising rates made known on application.

 

 

 

 

WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 1884.

 

 

POST NO. 1.

 

Organized at Grand Rapids, June 28, 1884.

 

OFFICERS.

President—Wm. Logie.

Vice-President—Lloyd Max Mills.

Secretary and Treasurer—L. W. Atkins.

Committee on oe and By-Laws—Wal-
lace Franklin, Geo. F. Owen, "Geo. H. Sey-
mour.

Next Meeting—At Sweet’s Hotel reading room
Saturday, July 19, at 8 p. m.

 

 

(es _‘ 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.

 

Hardware dealers should not fail to note
the new earriage bolt list which has lately
been mailed to their address.

 

As financiers, Colonel Sellers, Ferdinand
Ward and Benson Bidwell shrink into insig-
nificance when compared with the inimitable
Dunlap. This fertile genius proposed to loan
$5,000 from a $37 bank account and still
have money enough left to conduct his busi-
ness. The parable of the loaves and fishes
is not more wonderful than this!

 

The attention of druggists is called to the
eard of Secretary Jesson, printed on the
drug page, referring to the coming meeting
of the State Pharmaceutical Association at
Detroit. The objects of the organization,
and the subjects to be discussed at the
meeting are near to every druggist, and the
call ought to meet with ready response all
over the State.

 

In their gathering on Saturday the commer-
cial men of Grand Rapids proved beyond ques
tion that they can bury individual differences
and throw aside the little asperities which
invariably attend an active business life, in
order that all may meet on common ground
and enjoy aday of social and fraternal
pleasure. And the royal good time exper-
ienced by every one present convinced even
the most skeptical that the results amply re-
paid the exertion.

 

P. Lorillard & Co. have issued a circular
to the trade announcing that they have con-
cluded to abolish the contract system in the
sale of their goods, as it has been found after
a thorough test to be inoperative, on account
of the non-co-operation and opposition of a
‘portion.of the jobbing trade. Messrs. Loril-
‘lard & Co. are the originators of the contract
system on a@arge scale, and were consider-
ed the firmest adherents of the policy.
Their abandonment of the scheme, after a
thorough trial, is significant, and gives rea-
son for the belief that the other manufactur-
ers will follow suit.

 

The Detroit Commercial came out last
week with its usual quota of matter stolen
from THE TRADESMAN, and reproduced with-
out thanks or credit. The Commercial isto
be congratulated on the convenient source it
has for obtaining whatever of brightness or
originality appears in its columns, but the
wholesale appropriation of such matter sug-
gests a point of honor which newspaper men
,would readily appreciate. But as the Com-
mercial is run by men without newspaper
experience, and without the training requis-
ite to a proper understanding of the duties
and responsibilities attending that profession
the above stricture will have no effect.

 

Active Building Operations at Allegan.
From the Gazette.

Building operations continue active and
on a large scale, and the town is fast assum-
ing a city-like air, as the new structures show
their clean and imposing fronts. The addi;
tions to the list since our last report, are the
two stores of Sherwood & Griswold, those of
H. Vosburgh, Mrs. H. Stanley, and C. S.
Facer’s saloon. The Jenner estate having
decided not to build, the National bank
will be built alone. Dryden & Sons have
their front finished and bricklaying is in
progress on other parts. They expect to
occupy the new place by the first of August,
and will have a large and handsome store.
Mr. Sawyer’s building is well toward com-
pletion and will be occupied by H. P. Dun-
ning with his drug and book stock. Fred
Hall’s is nearly done. Those of H. B. Peck
and L. W. Watkins are about half done
E. B. Bailey, grocer, will occupy the latter
place. Calkins & Dunning will go into A.
E. Calkins’ building, and F. Franks, butcher
into Mrs. Wilkes’ store. Work isin progress
upon the foundations of Sherwood & Gris-
wold’s, H. Vosburgh’s, and Oliver Bros.’
stores, while the walls are nearly up and the
floors laid for H. F. Marsh’s and Spohn &
Vanderhook’s block. C. W. Calkins’ corner
building shows a handsome front and will
be completed by August 1, when it will be
oceupied as before by 8. D. Pond and Ed. T.
Van Ostrand. All in all, the prospect for

future growth and business is very favorable.
—_—__—>_2-<.

It is said that a substitute for genuine hu-
man hair is now made out of the bud of the
palmetto tree. It can be made of any length,
and dyed any color.

—_—____—»>-++ >

Last year Arizona produced over 17,000,-
000 pounds of copper, and this year the
yield will probably be about 25,000,000
pounds.

 

AMONG THE TRADE,

 

IN THE CITY.
Chas. W. Jacoy succeeds J. W. Crater in
the billiard business on Pearl street.

Dr. C.S. Hazeltine now spends his Sab-
baths on Mackinac Island, where his family
are comfortably situated for the summer at
the Old Mission House.

J.S. Cowan, the East Bridge street drug-
gist, has formed a co-partnership with S. P.
Barnard under the firm name of Cowan &
Barnard and engaged in the manufacture of
flavoring extracts, baking powders, ink, blu-
ing, ete., at 210 East Bridge street. Mr.
-Barnard will represent the firm on the
road.

Another of the stores in the new
Gilbert block on Ottawa street has
been rented, leaving but one store without a
tenant. The store spoken for will be occu-
pied by a wholesale firm from Detroit, but
the nature of the business is not known, and
Mr. Gilbert refuses to disclose it.

John W. Pugh, of this city, has invented

a belt fastener, which consists of two pieces
of metal, each slotted, so as to form on one
side of it a series of tongues adapted to be
bent into U-loops, the two parts being hing-
ed together so that the free ends of the
loops will project in opposite directions from
the sides of the fastener.

“The abolition of the contract system in
the tobacco business,” said a prominent job-
ber, “will result in every jobber hav-
ing brands of his own, in order that com-
petitors may not cut prices. In the end, the
brands will be so numeitous and meaningless
that the manufacturer will step in and sell
the retailer direct. The jobber protects the
retailer as a matter of business and the man-
ufacturer does not stand by the jobber.”’

“The time has gone by when there is mon-
ey in the jobbing trade,” said an old-time
wholesale clerk the other day. ‘Fifteen or
twenty years ago the jobber’s expenses were
nothing, compared to what they are now,
and the profits were twice asgreat. The
house I was with in those times sold $850,-
000 worth of goods per year, and only kept
two menon the road. The annual profits
amounted to $60,000. Now it takes a half
dozen men to swell the sales to that amount,
and then the profits don’t pan out more than
a third as much.”

The Kendall matter came up for final ac-
tion in the Circuit Court Monday. Turner
& Carroll, who had hitherto put in a bill for
$250 against the estate, could not itemize
but $150 worth, and their claim was conse-
quently cut down to that amount. Included
in the $150, was a charge for $50 ‘as re-
tainer,” but it did not retain worth a cent, as
the same firm acted as the attorneys for both
the other parties to the failure—the assign-
or and the creditors. Such a proceeding is
irregular and unprofessional, and receives
the merited condemnation of every business
man acquainted with the circumstances.

 

AROUND THE STATE.

Perry Bros. have started a 99 cent store at
Petoskey.

B. Booth has started in the harness  busi-
ness at Potterville.

Clyde Keep is building a feed and provis-
ion store at Rodney.

G. W. Francis is building an addition to
his store at Nashville.

Peter Tresche has started in the grocery
business at Manistee.

D. C. Bacon, grocer at Charlevoix, is suc-
ceeded by E. M. Clark.

E. G. Haney has sold his hardware stock
at Big Rapids to his son, Will.

Clark & Hunter succeed W. H. Yerrick in
the boot and shoe business at Ovid.

L. E. Woods succeeds W. A. Witherly, in
the boot and shoe business at Niles.

R. Waldron succeeds Waldron & Burnett
in the grain and feed business at Jackson.

J. W. Bragington succeeds J. L. Davis in
the drug and grocery business at Hopkins
Station.

Boelkins & Son, grocers at Muskegon, have
dissolved. The business will be continued
by the son.

Hammond, Standish & Co. have a branch
establishment at Mackinaw City, in charge
of W. R. May.

E. Rich, clothing and dry goods dealer at
Pentwater, has decided to close out his busi-
ness, on account of failing health.

The Saginaw Salt Association disbursed
$160,000 to manufacturers on Wednesday.
The sales of salt have been active of late.

B. B. Forbes has purchased an interest in
the entire general stock and business of A.
M. Weston, at Harbor Springs, instead of
the grocery stock, as stated last week.

Whitman & Barrass have engaged in the
crockery business at Ionia. Mr. Whitman
was formerly with R. W. King & Co., of De-
troit, and Mr. Barrass is from Troy, N. Y.

Rk. G. Archer succeeds Walden & Archer
in the grocery business at Alba. Mr. Walden
will settle up some outstanding accounts at
Leroy, and re-engage in business at Alba in
the fall.

Wm. L. Tilden and W. E. Ambler have
purchased the hardware stock of Mr. F. O.
Gardner, at Pentwater, and will conduct the
business under the name of Tilden & Co.
Mr. Tilden will have charge of the bus-
iness.

 

STRAY FACTS.
Furnaceville has a’ population of 338.
King Bros., near Lyons, have 60 acres of
peppermint,
Wm. Peck is arranging to build a carriage
shop at Mecosta.
Gleason & Stevens succeeds B. F. Ball,

billiard hall at Charlotte. -

i Ps era ee teage o

 

C. H. Haines succeeds A. De Long in the
hotel business at St. Johns.

G. W. Van Buren &Son have taken pos-
session of the Montreal House at Big Rap-
ids.

F. N. Chase succeeds Hicks & Chase in the
blacksmith and wagon making business at
Boyne City.

Creditors of Pullman & Hinchman, the
Shelby handle manufacturers, now expect to
realize 27 per cent. of their claims. |

Jake Struble has moved his saloon from
Petoskey to Harbor Springs, and opened up
in the basement of the Lake Park House.

The following changes in the names of sta-
tions on the G. R. & IL. have been announced:
Conger changed to Reynolds, Beitners to
Keystone, and Carp River to Carp Lake.

S. P. Creasinger, of Maple Rapids. has
rented his banking office to Isaac Hewitt
and Fred A. Travis, who will open a bank
about the middle of the month. It has stood
empty since Creasinger’s failure.

Trouble Among the Furnace Companies at
Pine Lake and Furnaceville.

The recent failure of R. M. Cherrie & Co.,
of Chicago, and the consequent embarrass-
ment of the Pine Lake Iron Co., of Pine
Lake, and John Otis & Co., of Mancelona,
have resulted in considerable uneasiness dur-
ing the past week. The Pine Lake Iron Co.
has not yet made an assignment, but as the
stock is all, or nearly all, held by Cherrie it
is difficult tosee how it will be possible to
avoid such acourse. Several of the Grand
Rapids creditors have been secured and sev-
eral others are on the verge of uncertainty.
In the firm of John Otis & Co., the ‘Co.’ is
merely nominal, Otis being the sole proprie-
tor of the concern. He visited Grand Rap-
ids on the 4th and gavea chattel mortgage
to W. O. Hughart, for $6,000. On the day fol-
lowing he made an assignment to Willard
Barnhart, of this city. Otis wasin Grand
Rapids again Monday, and personally assur-
ed all his creditors that his available assets
are in excess of his liabilities, and that there
is no occassion for alarm, as he would be on
his feet again within a few weeks. Such ex:
uberance Is characteristic of most failures in
their early stages, buta few days usually
bring about a differeut view of the condition.
It is tobe sincerly hoped that Mr. Otis can
bear out his statements by facts, as other-
wise disaster to several dealers will attend
the failure. Otis claims that his plant, real
estate, stock and product are worth $80,000,
while his indebtedness is only $40,000—$20,-
000 on real estate and $20,000 for merchan-
dise and labor—and that he can pay all claims
and havemoney left.

The embarrassment of Otis cripples sever-
al dealers at Mancelona and Furnaceville, as
they had been in the habit of taking the pa-
per of the concern. H. Freeman immediate-
ly gave a chattel mortgage for $1,900, in
favor of Shields, Bulkley & Lemon. T. C.
Prout gave a chattel mortgage for $1,000 to
his wife and came to Grand Rapids Monday
with a proposition to settle. He did not make
any offer, but stated that he wished to sound
creditors with a view to ascertaining what
percentage would be likely to be accepted.

“T know Otis well,” said Mayor Charley
Belknap, ‘‘and any statement he makes can
be depended upon, If he says he is solvent
and can pull through all right, that settles it.
Otis is no rattlehead, but a shrewd business
man, who deserves the sympathy of every one
in this trouble.”

Otis’ failure is due to the fact that he holds
$17,000 worth of Cherrie’s paper, on which
he will not realize anything like face value.

SS SS Se
The Gripsack Brigade.

C. H. Bayley left Monday on his regular
three weeks’ Northern trip.

Graham Roys, of the firm of G. Roys &
Co., left Monday for a two months’ trip
through Ohio and Indiana.

Arizona’s ‘‘drummer tax” is $200 a year.
Montana’s tax is $100 per year for each
county, with $25 local extra for Butler City.

F. B. McGraw, secretary of the Grand
Rapids Wheelbarrow Co., is off on a fort-
night’s tour through Wisconsin and Minne-
sota.

N. S. McConnell, with Nelson Bros. & Co.,
is taking a fortnight’s vacation. He proposes
putting in the time at Detroit, Pontiac and
Tonia.

Gid Kellogg left yesterday for a six weeks’
tour of California, Oregon and Washington
Territory, in the interest of the Simonds
Manufacturing Co.

Denis P. McCarthy, who was identified
with the early jobbing trade of Detroit, is in
town for a day or two. He is now on the
road for a Chicago house.

Thos. A. Stephens, traveling representative
for C. A. Jackson & Co., Petersburg, Va., is
spending a week or ten days in the city, re-
eruiting his health and rushing the girls.

B. Frank Emery, traveling representative
for Gray, Burt & Kingman, is accompanied
by nine of his Lake Shore customers—all
Democrats—at the Democratic Convention at
Chicago this week.

Ed. Krekel, formerly with Rindge, Bertsch
& Co., has gone West for six weeks’ rest and
recreation. On his return, he will go to Reed
City and assist his partner in the boot and
shoe business of Fletcher & Co.

Wm. Logie, Wm. A. Rindge and John H.
Palen, Rindge, Bertsch & Co.’s traveling
salesmen, started out Monday with the new
fall samples. This is Mr. Palen’s first trip
out. He takes the territory formerly cover-
ed by Ed. Krekel.

E. J. Goodrich, for several years past in the
employ of F. W. Wurzburg, is now on the
road for W. H. & A. D. Rowe, manufactur-
ers of shirts and underclothing at Troy, N.
Y. His territory includes the states of Mich-
igan, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and West Vir-
ginia. He sees his trade but twicea year. .

 

TRAVELERS’ PICNIC,

 

The Most Enjoyable Gathering of the Sea-
son.

Barring the heavy wind which prevailed
until nearly sundown, a more perfect day for
a picnic could hardly be conceived than last
Saturéay, the occasion of the first annual
summer reunion of the -traveling men of
Grand Rapids. The scene of the festivities
was at Reed’s Lake, and the boys and their
families began to arrive as soon as 10 o’clock,
from which time every car brought fresh del-

egations until the time of adjournment in the

evening. Some who could not spend the en-
tire day hurriedly made the rounds, and de-
parted, feeling that the acquaintances form-
ed had amply paid them for the exertion,
while those who went early and staid late
voted the occasion the pleasantest of the kind
within their remembrance. It is seldom that
a party so miscellaneous in its make-up is
able to throw aside the formalities ordinarily
observed, and give itself up to social enjoy-
ment, but the gathering in question found no
difficulty in accomplishing that end. Every-
one appeared to be bent on making the occa-
sion as pleasant as possible for everyone else,
and in that way succeeded in making him-
self or herself individually happy. ‘There
were no uncongenial spirits—no clashing of
opinions or sentiments—no incidents to mar
the pleasure of the day. As a consequence,
July 5, 1884, will be noted in the memory of
every one present on the auspicious begin-
ning of a series of reunions from which all
have a right to expect beneficial results. Con-
sidering the number present, it was almost
impossible to secure a complete list, but the
following is believed to include everyone
who appeared on the grounds during the day.
If there are any omissions, it is not inten-
tional:

Wm. Logie, wife and two children.

L. M. Mills, wife, two children, and Miss
Flora Me Dowell.

Mrs. L. W. Atkins.

Geo. H. Seymour and wife.

Wm. Boughton and wife.

J. N. Bradford and wife.

W. J. Hawkins and wife.

W. H. Downs and neice.

Wallace Franklin, wife and daughter.

Geo. F. Owen and wife.

N. S. McConnell.

Ed. P. Andrew and wife.

W. S. Horn and wife.

D. S. Haugh and wife.

Dick Warner and daughter.

Geo. P. Cogswell and wife.

_L. M. Cary, wife and child.

E. J. Goodrich and wife.

A. C. Sharp and wife.

Thomas P. Ferguson.

Joe Reed and lady.

Wm. A. Rindge.

Algernon E. White and wife.

B. F. Emery, wife and two sons.

Valda A. Johnston and wife.

Wm. B. Collins and wife.

Frank H. White and wife.

Wn. N. Rowe.

R. D. Swartout and wife.

Al. M. Love and lady.

C. L. Love and wife.

Thomas A. Stephens and lady.

Frank Jewell and lady.

Silas IK. Bolles and wife.

Henry Ward Beecher.

P. Coppen and wife.

L. A. Caro and wife.

Fred W. Powers.

Frank K. Drake.

John F, Gill.

Chas. J. Hall.

E. J. Coppens and wife.

W. H. Allen.

Mrs. D. E. Stearns.

G. Frank Miller and boy.

Robert Hyman.

W. R. Keasey and lady.

E. L. Raymond and wife.

Dr. J. B. Evans and wife.

J. C. Watson and wife.

R. B. Orr and wife.

Jas. B. McInnes, sister and lady friend.

J. P. Vough.

A. J. Brown and wife.

A. B. Cole and wife.

Nathan D. Ward and wife.

Walter Holmes.

E. Holbreok.

M. H. N. Raymond and wife.

Gid. Kellogg and wife.

W. H. Kathan.

Wm. M. Clark.

W. A. Beneke, wife and child.

As soon as a sufficient number had arrived
to play a match game of base ball, Geo. P.
Cogswell and A. B. Cole chose sides and then
followed the most exciting game of the sea-
son. Thomas P. Ferguson officiated as um-
pire and scorer. After each side had played
nine innings, the score stood 27 to 27, but on
the tenth innings, Cogswell’s nine won the
game, the score standing 31 to 27.

Then followed the fat man’s race, the en-
tries being as follows: Gid. Kellogg, Robert
Hyman, Dick Warner, L. M. Cary, R. D.
Swartout, Geo. P. Cog8well and Thos. P.
Ferguson. Dick Warner won the honors
easily, and was subsequently presented with
an imported leather medal and a bottle of
liiament, {the latter to be used where Cogs-
well’s head came in contact with his knee.

In the lean man’s race, the entries were as
follows; Silas K. Bolles, W. G. Hawkins,
L. A. Caro, D. 8S. Haugh, Fred Powers, Geo.
F. Owen, A. J. Brown, Frank K. Drake, Ed.
P. Andrew, Wm. B. Collins and M. H. N.
Raymond. The race was won by D. S. Haugh,
the Hero of Mancelona, Powers second, and
Wn. B. Collins third.

The champions of the two races, Dick
Warner and D. S. Haugh, then measured de-
grees of fleetness, resulting in a victory for
Dick.

In the free for all race, there were six-
teen entries as follows: Gid. Kellogg, L. A.
Caro, Geo. F. Owen, Geo. :P. Cogswell, J. N.
Bradford, W. 8. Horn, W. G. Hawkins, W.
H. Downs, A. C. Sharp, Dr. J. B. Evans,
John F. Gill, W. H. Kathan, Jas. McInnes,
Fred Powers. A. B. Cole and Wallace Frank-
lin. Victory perched on the banner of W. S.
Horn.

A dispute then arose between Cogswell,
Cole and Caro as to whom belonged the hon-
or of being the last man in the race, and a
test accorded the title to Sonewal Cole ae
ent ane cee last.

SID eS

 

|
Speeches being in order, a platform was |

improvised from a lunch table, and Cogswell
was assisted to the rostrum. Billy Logie in-
troduced the speaker as one “imported from
Australia especially for the occasion,” where-
upon Cogswell gave an eloquent discourse
which was listened to with rapt attention.
No ordinary report would do the effort jus-
tice. The speaker began by referring to the
windyness of the weather, and was not at all
disconcerted when some one suggested that it
was in perfect keeping with the speech. He
complimented his audience as the finest he
had ever addressed, whereupon he was _pre-
sented with a bouquet of chips and a lemon-
ade. Tears and applause greeted the speak-
er in turns as he swayed the audience by the
power of his eloquence. He closed with a
thrilling Shakespearean rendition, and al-
most ruined his pants in the endeavor to be
tragic.

Theo. A. Rowley, the designer, was then
introduced. He stated that although not a
traveling man the boys had his sympathy,
whereupon some one in the audience cried
out, ‘We need it.” He gave a character se-
lection from “Solon Shingle” and closed with
a fine rendition of the ‘‘curse scene”’ in ‘‘Rich-
elieu.”’

Geo. Owen was then importuned to speak,
but as he had left his “speeching machine’
at home, he was unable to reply.

L. M. Cary, W. R. Keasey and several oth-
ers were asked to favor the audience with ex-
positions of their views, but none were in
the humor and were consequently excused.

Supper was then announced, and all did
ample justice to the tempting viands spread
forth on a score or more of tables. After
supper, those who “‘trip the light fantastic”
were given an opportunity to display their
agility of foot and form, and at 7 p.m. a
meeting of Post No. 1 was held on the north
piazza. President Logie occupied the chair,
and in the absence of Secretary Atkins, Geo.
Seymour filled the position. The minutes of
the previous meeting were read and approy-
ed, and after a rambling discussion the meet-
ing adjourned to meet at the reading rooms
at Sweet’s Hotel, Saturday evening, July 19.
The following new names have been added
to the membership list since the last meet-
ing: D.S. Haugh, R. J. Coppes, John Mce-
Intyre, Geo. P. Coswell, Wm. H. Pittwood,
Geo. F. Miller, W. R. Keasey, Dick Warner,
Frank K. Drake, Nathan D. Ward, P. J.
Coppens,:L. M. Cary.

Dancing continued until about 10 o’clock,
when the party broke up, well satisfied with
the events and pleasures of the day.

PICNIC NOTES.

Needed a new hat—Cogswell.

The biggest boy in the crowd—Brad.

The little barefoot—Geo. P. Cogswell.

Conspicuous by his absence—John MelIn-
tyre.

The clown of the occasion—Geo. P. Cogs-
well.

A poet as well as a runner—Walter Scott
Horn.

The homeliest man in the crowd—W. R.
Keasey.

The champions for 1884—Dick Warner, D.
S. Haugh, W. 8. Horn.

The heavy weight—Gid. Kellogg; the light-
weight—E. J. Goodrich.

Frank Conlon was too busy talking poli-
ties to find time to attend.

Frank Parmenter forgot all about the pic-
nic until too late in the day to attend.

The handsomest man in the crowd—Rob-
ert Hyman, better known as “Up and Up.”

M. Wait & Son, Homer, have assigned to
James Cook, jr. Liabilities, 37,000; assets,
$17,000.

Although Haugh was defeated by Warner
in the championship race, he still wears the
belt that entitles him to the title of ‘‘Michi-
gan’s Sullivan.”

Frank Jewell remarked that he was “born
to suffer,” and afterwards attempted an op-
eratic selection. Then his hearers thought
they were “born to suffer,” too.

“Pa” Evans, otherwise known as Dr. J. B.,
was not asked to read his play. He tried to
get several of the boys to go off with him to
the woods and listen to one act, but they all
pleaded previous engagements.

Too mueh praise cannot be accorded Mes-
srs. Logie, Mills and Seymour, on whom de-
volved in great part the management of the
gathering. They pertormed their part of the
programme to the satisfaction of all concern-
ed, and added greatly to the pleasure of the
occasion.

The next entertainment in prospect is a
banquet and ball to be given under the aus-
pices of the Post at one of the hotels next
winter. By that time the organization will
be thoroughly perfected and the minor de-
tails will be arranged with systematic thor-
oughness.

While the boys were at the height of their
enjoyment, a delegation of the Salvation
Army approached and anxiously inquired
for John McIntyre. They said that John
hadjlately manifested considerable interest in
their meetings, and that they were confident
of finally bringing him into the fold. After
vainly pleading with Keasey and Orr, the
party departed with the remark that ‘““Drum-
mers are about as hard to move as stones.”

——_—_—-_~> +9 <>
Honorable to the End.

“T will venture a prediction concerning N.
G. Burtt,” said a well-known northern travel-
er, speaking of the tradesmen at Cross Vil-
lage the other day, ‘‘and that is before ten
years have rolled around, he will pay his
creditors in full—all but Hannah, Lay &Co.,
who, he thinks’ crowded him to the wall.
You remember he settled at 35 per cent., but
I have the best of reasons for thinking that
he never considered that settlement final,
and that as soon as he is able he will quietly
‘pay each ew haere oa in fall.”

 

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JOHN
CAULFIELD

WHOLESALE GROCER,

—AND JOBBER IN—

Teas, Tabaccos, Spices Ete,

8, 87 and 89 Canal Street
FACTORY AGENT

For the following well-known brands of To-
baceos and Cigars:

FINE CUT.

OUINGAIN 3. 8. oo eek ee 74
Old Congress...... folate ee os ee 64
Goo Pek: . 2.3... ec. oe ck. 5d
Good and Sweet. ......... 0.0: 25... 45
AMerican QUEEN. 2... 2... cece teed s cee Oo
laze “Away... ... 3... 22. 22 coo ee cs 8D
fair Wer... 2.2... te. foe cece a0
Govermor 202. foil... .. 2... 1 eee 60

In half barrels or four pail lots, 2c # i off
above list.

* tet Ce.

Erorse SNOG). oo 5. oc ue. 47
McAlpin’s Green Shield. ................ 48
McAlIpin’s Sailor’s Solace...............48
McAlpine’s Chocolate Cream........... 48
Red Star, extra quality, same style as
Sailor’s SOmMeC@s: 2 48
Big Chunk or J. T. Mahogany Wrapper. .40
Hair Lifter, Mahogany Wrapper......... 37
D. & D. Dark, 14 and 16 oz. pounds. ....37
BGs LAE ee 35
Duek. Sul? and flat... ..........-<-.... 48
Nonby Spum Roll...............2...2., 48
Black ‘Spum Roll... .. 2. 2... 2. kee 38
Canada Plug (Virginia Smoking)........50
Cresent Plug, 6 Ib cads................. 45

In 60 tb quantities 2c per tb off.

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Peerless. . : 25
Rob Roy.. eee so eke ec 25
Uncle Sam....... Wee ee 28
Pome and Verby. oc... oc. cc ee ee 2
Good Pmough. 22.2. os ec ee. 23
Mountain ROSG.. 6.2... 5 oe oe ca ce ce ew 20
Lumberman’s Long Cut..............4. 26
Efome COMfOrt. 2... oo. co a ce. 24
Green Back, Killickinick............... 25
Two Nickel, Killickinick {............. 25
Two Nickel, Killickinick, a Soa ae ce 26
Star Durham, Eoin, ¢ oot 25
Rattler, Killickinick, 14. eee eneiey-

Honey ‘Dew, Killickinick, \Y Bc aoe ocs eae 25
Posey, Killickinick, 14, Paper... ....-...25

Canary, Killickinick, Extra Viroinia. 2... 36
Gold Block, Killickinick, 44............. 32
Peck’s Sun, Killickinick, 14s and tbs. .... 18
Golden Flake Cabimet. 2.5... 025.- 02 40
‘Mraveler, 3.02. fOl.. oo... coe es coe ee 35

Rail Road Boy, 3 0z. foil................! 7
Nigger Head, Navy Clippings........... 26
Scotten’s Chips, Navy Clippings, paper. .26
Leidersdortfs’ Navy Clippings, cloth bags .26

Old Rip Fine Virginia Long Cut......... 55
Paime Kiln Club. ..................2-2-- 45
Durham Bong Cut... 2.0.6. 60
Durham, Blackwell’s ............. :--60
Durham, Blackwell’s, ................57
Durham, Blackwell’s, 34................55
Durham, Blackwell’s, tb................ 51
Seal of North Carolina g............... 52
Seal of North Carolina ve pe eee ee
Seal of North Carolina $¢............... 48
Seal of North Carolina tb Boe 46

Special prices given on large lots.

CIGARS.

Smoke the Celebrated ‘‘After Lunch” Cigar.

Able MMe: . 2.2.2 $30 00
@larbissa 2220. 2.2: 45 00
Glare eo cn: 32 00
INBROUFA ee 35 00
@ueenm Marys... 3... oes ec ke 25 00
VOSCDDINGS 2. oc. oo ee en hn ke Sone 25 00
Whittle Hatehets. .... occ eo ce ee 30 00
Ola @lonies. oo do 23 00
"Ewin SISGERS. ...... 0 2.2 so... - 2S OO
Moss Amote 2.5.8 oc 18 00
Maomonae o.oo ec cs oe 12 50
COMMERCIAL oo. ss wc. we ee oe ee 55 00
RYQWMNMOS | eo cl 60 00
Mialc Pwait. 2. 22... 05... 55 00
Golden Simke......0.5.6...2.. 22: 2.355 00
Stormes Boquet: . 2... . oc. ed one. 65 00
Ow! Captains... 2.2... 2. e. 60 00
S. & S. Capadura....... See cabo ce ces 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 ordinary................ a: aug ee 23@30
eh SRPI MEE EDIE sooo sc oa ae 32@35
seupale ERI CO LOOM... 2. so. rece 35@37
JRO AN PNG Soe co a 40@50
PEDAL CLUISU Ses gn ose ee pee ey 15@ 1@18
Woume Eryson oo ooo 25@50
GumPowder. 2... 35: 50
ClOIONS 6. ee 39@45@55@60
Congo Me occu scree t asec cs oe 30@35
SYRUPS.
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@oOEnn. 56 WIS... @ 33
Corn. 10 gallon kegs.....0............. @ 36
Corn,5 gallon kegs.................... @1 90
Corn, 4% gallon kegs... @1 85
Pure Sugar Drips, bbl.. 30@ 37
Maple Syrup, 5 gal kegs............... @3 10
Maple Syrub, 10 gal kegs.............. @6 00
SUGARS.
Sugars firm at following quotations:

Cut Eoat.. .:.....:.:. eo. ce 737@8
Powdered Standard...........2.. 737 @8
Granulated Standard. ..........6. % {-lg
Standard Confectioners’ A......, 634 @6 4
PE eos eons oa ceca ce @6%
Mixtra Wiite ©... oc oo oo oe 64% @63¢
Extra eee Oeste. ee as 6 @64%
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OV OLOW Ct ce oy ca 54@5K

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facilities for meeting their wants. Our guar-
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Drugs & Medicines

 

PERFUMES,

 

Fancies and Freaks of People who Use
Them.

“Jo men and women buy the same kind
of perfumery, as a general rule?” I asked the
proprietor of a large drug store, whose trade
in odors is very extensive.

“No,” was the answer. ‘Men generally
prefer the strong, penetrating combination
odors, particularly Jockey Club and West
End. The ladies ask for the more delicate
and subtle perfumes, such as White Rose
and Violet. Of course there are exceptions
to this; some men of refined tastes reflect the
same in the perfumes they use, and there are
women who are fond of loud odors, but in the
main the rule holds good.”

“Do ladies often adopt one perfume, and
adhere to it, using no other?”

“No, they do not. They generally want to
change about every threemonths. They get
tired of one kind, or they take a fancy tosome
odor they have noticed somewhere, and they
want totry it. 1 have one customer, though
—a gentleman—who has bought from me the
same kind of perfumery, and no other, for
the past twelve years. It is the old fashioned
Ess Bouquet, put up by Bailey & Co., Lon-
don, England.” And he set upon the show-
case a tiny bottle of the golden liquid, val-
ued at $1.50.”

“Ts it very nice?” I asked, judging from
the bulk and the price thereof that it ought
to be.

“IT don’t know. I never smelled it,” he
answered,” but this gentleman—he’s getting
to be elderly now—comes just about once a
month, as he has done for all these years,
for his little bottle of Ess Bouquet. I don’t
know how ong he had used it when he begun
to buy of me.”

I looked at the label meditatively, and
thought of this man, who had loved one
odor for twelve years. It is not oftenaman
will love anything, even a woman, for that
long, and I fell to wondering what manner
of man he was. Was this a mere mechanical
chain of habit he had gotten into? Did he
go just so often for his perfumery, as he did
for his box of socks or his shaving soap, or
was this a kind of devotion to a lady who had
in years back loved this perfumery, and a
faint, half tangible way of keeping alive her
beautiful memory. 1 wondered whether he
was elegant, handsome, and Sybaritish, or
simple common-place, business-like and re-
spectable; whether he was tall and stately,
or short and fat; given to festivity, swallow-
tails, and white ties, or wedded to cutaways,
newspapers and the home circle, and wheth-
er his friends always knew him by this rare
old-fashionded perfume, as the Corsican in
“Two Nights in Rome” knew tne presence
of the fair but treacherous Antonia by the
odor of Parma violets inthe room. I won-
dered if he had ever been on a campaign, or
shipboard, camping out, or in exile “twelve
miles from a lemon,” where it was impossi-
to get Ess Bouquet, and what his feelings
were under those circumstances; and I men-
tally pictured him shipwrecked on a desolate
island, but the thought was too horrible, and
Iawoke from it, as from a bad dream, as
the druggist shut the showcase with a
click and set out several bottles for my in-
spection.

“All English odors,” he said.

“Do you not think perfumes can be made
in this country to equal those imported?”

“Perhaps they can be, but they are not.
You see, they are manufactured here from
the oils and essences and have not the deli-
cate, exquisite odor of those made right from
the great flower farms of France and Eng-
gland. They are in the county of Mitcham,
and Mitcham lavender water is famous the
world over,

I took up the bottle he set before me. Lav-
endar! Ah, what memories and associations
the name brought forth! If the precious
attar of rose, worth its weight in pearls, and
the faint, pungent musk and sandal wood
conjured up visions of dark-eyed Sultanas
and entrancing Lalla Rookas of the wondrous
“serpent of old Nile,” dusky-eyed Egyptian
queens, and Persian beauties such as Gautier
pictured and Constant paints, how different
were the thoughts aroused by this old-time
perfume of our grandmothers, those. pure
fair Puritan maidens in their folded ker-
chiefs and modest gowns. It meant the sub-
tle aroma of the spare room sheets, the linen
they had spun with their own fair hands, and
laid away with sprigs of lavendar in old
chests that had come over inthe “Mayflow-
er.” Why, even the garments of Priscilla
must have shaken this perfume from their
folds when she said ““‘Why don’t you speak
for yourself, John?” and how odorous of it
the linen of the ‘seting-out? when John took
her through the Plymouth woods to his own
little cabin.

How often are sweet odors associated with
the lovely women of poetry and song. Who
does not remember the “white, little fragrant
apartment” of Owen Meredith’s “Lucile,”
the “hair that floated odors as she went,” or
the gloves smelling of violets that have been
immortalized in fiction and song.

“Do not ladies buy more perfumery than
gentlemen?” I asked.

“Well, no, the trade is about evenly bal-
anced; but when to comes to Bay Rum,
gentlemen are almost exclusively the pur-
chasers.”

“Where does the best come from?”

“St, Thomas, West Indies. The Lord
only knows where the barber shop article is
made.”

“How about the creature known as the
dude—1 don’t mean where is he manufactur-
ed—but is he a good customer, and apt to be

more fastidious than the rest of mankind

 

“No, he does not purchase as much as oth-
ers, nor is he as exquisite in his tastes as
many quiet-looking, unfashionable gentle-
men, who are not noticeable on the street.
Sometimes he rushes in to have his handker-
chief perfumed when he is going some-
where, and he isn’t particular what itis; but
then his chief end and aim in life is to be
seen, and when he has accomplished that he
is happy.”

“Does the demand for perfumery increase
or decrease?”

“It is greatly on the increase. Colognes of
the finest quality are used extensivly in the
bath of my lady or gentleman, sachet pow-
ders perfume the wardrobes, and odors of
the most delicate kind are for the handker-
chief.”

I glanced up at the ranks of shelves, and
as I looked at the almost innumerable array
of bottles, I asked how many different kinds
of perfumery do you keep in stock? to
which I received the reply, Between sixty
and seventy.—And at what price? Oh, from
the cheap cologne to the most expensive es-
sential oils, at $25 to $30 per ounce.

————q@ o>
Colored Fires.

As this is Presidential year, the following
formule for colored fires will be found use-
ful to druggists, as they will be in consider-
ble demand. ‘These are unlike the colored
fires used for theatrical exhibitions, but are
especially for pyrotechnics:

LIGHT BLUE.

Sulphur, 4 ounces.

Burnt Alum, 6 ounces.

Chlorate of Potassium, 15 ounces.

Powder them separately and mix with a
wooden spatula.

DARK BLUE.

Sulphur, 6 oz.

Sulphate Copper, 134 0z.

Chlorate Potassium, 17 0z.

Powder them separately and mix carefully
with a wooden spatula.

CRIMSON.

Nitrate Strontium (dry) 17 0z.

Sulphur, 524 oz.

Charcoal, willow, 114 02.

Chlorate Potassium, 1 0z.

Powder them separately and mix careful-
ly with wooden spatula.

GREEN.

Nitrate of Barium, 20 oz.

Sulphur, 12¢ oz.

Chlorate of Potassium, 114 0z.

Sulphate of Antimony, }¢ 0z.

Charcoal, willow, 14 0z.

Powder them separately and mix carefully
with a wooden spatula.

RED.

Sulphur, 2 0z. .

Sulphate Antimony, 2 02.

Nitrate of Potassium, 1 0z.

Nitrate of Stronium (dry) 10 oz.

Powder them separately and mix carefully
with a wooden spatula.

DARK RED.

Sulphur, 4 0z.

Nitrate Stronium, 6 0z.

Chloride of Potassium, 15 0z.

Powder them separately and mix carefully
with a wooden spatula. 6

ROSE RED.

Charcoal, Willow, 34 02z.

Chloride of Potassium, 114 oz.

Sulphur, 3 oz.

Nitrate of Stronium, 10 0z.

Powder them separately and mix carefully
with a wooden spatula.

ORANGE RED.

Sulphur, 3}4 0z.

Chalk, 814 oz.

Chlorate of Potassium, 13 07.

Powder them separately and mix carefully
with a wooden spatula.

VIOLET.

Alum, 3 02.

Carbonate of Potassium, 3 02z.

Sulphur, 4 oz.

Chlorate of Potassium, 15 0z.

Powder them separately and mix carefully
with a wooden spatula.

WHITE.

Zine filings, 414 oz.

Sulphur, 6 oz.

Nitrate of Potsssium (powdered), 11}4 oz.

Gunpowder, 3 02.

Mix them carefully with a wooden spatu-
la.

YELLOW.

Charcoal, willow, 3}4 0z.

Sulphur, 10 oz.

Mix them.

As all colored fires are liable to spon-
taneous combustion, do not make them far
ahead in stock.

>>
Red Ink.

Cochineal, 14 oz.

Gum Arabic in powder, 34 02z.

Potassium tartrate cryst, 1 02.

Distilled water (hot), 8 0z.

Make a solution, filter, and add

Burnt alum, 2 drachms.

Oil of cloves, 4 minims.

This makes an exceptionally fine ink.

oO

The total number of cinchona trees in Ben-
gal at the end of last year was 4,711,168,
while the crop was the largest ever gathered,
being 396,980 pounds of dry bark. All this
was sent to the factory, except 41,800 pounds,
which was forwarded to London at the re-
quest of the Secretary of State, to be made
up in different forms of febrifuge and to be
afterwards returned for experimental pur-
poses to India. The revenue derived from
the sale of plants and barks was equal to 634
per cent. on the capital invested.

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An English firm of soap manufacturers
spend from $120,000 to $160,000 a year in
advertising. To each of the babies whose
birth is announced in the London Times,

 

they send a package gratuitously.

Se Ste

gait

 

Call for the Second.Annual Meeting of the
State Pharmaceutical Association.
The Michigan State Pharmaceutical Associ-
ation holds its second annual meeting in Mer-
rill Hall, Detroit, Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday, Sept. 9th, 10th and 11th. A one
and one-third rate of fare has been secured
on the C. & W. M., G.R. & L, D. L. & N.,
D. G. H. & M., Grand Trunk, Mich. Central,
L. S. & M.S., Chicago and G. T., and F. &
P.M., also reduced rates at the hotels in
Detroit.
the discussion of trade interests, as well as
scientific subjects. ‘The wholesale and re-
tail druggists of Detroit are making great
preparations for entertaining the druggists
while there. All are cordially invited to at-
tend and become members. The larger the
association the more influence it will wield.
Many abuses that have crept into the phar-
macists’ business need correction. A large
and intelligent body of men by united ac-
tion, can accomplish a great deal, where a
small number would fail. The association
now has a membership of 200. It is desired
to enroll 300 or more at the next meeting,
and I therefore ask every druggist, whether
proprietor of a store or in the employ of an-
other, to become a member. Application
blanks can be obtained by addressing me at
Muskegon. JACOB JESSON,
Secretary.

>< ——____
The Abuse of Opium.
To the Editor of ‘‘The Tradesman.”

The habitual use of the preparation of
opium, as a means of intoxication, is an evil,
the extent of which is scarcely appreciated
by the profession or by the community at
large. There are stores to my knowledge
in the outskirts of this city in which laud-
anum is not only sold, but made. I do not
refer to druggists, but shops that keep gro-
ceries, notions and odds and ends. They
use a “general receipt book” by which all
things are compounded, and peddled out to
every poor victim who can produce a few
pennies to purchase a temporary relief from
imaginary pains. So common is this article
of trade, that even little children are
furnished with it on application, as if it
were the most harmless of drugs. Itisa
conumdrum to me that Chief Moran’s ser-
vices are not required more than they are.
In these shops, laudanum is sold at half
the price maintained by respectable estab-
lishments, and there can be no doubt that
its intoxicating effects are sought by many
who use it asasubstitute for alcoholic
drinks. Individuals who would shrink
from the habitual use of spirituous liquors
employ this medicine under a false persua-
sion that it is useful or necessary to allay
some symptoms of chronic disease, until
they become victims to the worst of habits.
There is scarcely a druggist in this city,
who cannot relate instances of opium intox-
ication that come under his own notice and
has been served at hisown counter. Fe-
males afflicted with chronic disease, widows
bereft of their earthly support, inebriates
who have abandoned.the bottle, lovers dis-
appointed in their hopes flee to this powerful
drug either in its crude form, in the form of
a tincture or some of its salts, to relieve
their pain of body or mind, or to take the
place of another repudiated stimulant.
Such, too, is the morbid taste of those that
they think they require the soporific infiu-
ence of opium to fill this measure of their
life enjoyment, just as the drunkard is wed-
ded to his cups, or the tobacco user to his
weed. CHEMIST.

That Husband of Mine.

A woman hastily entered a Muskegon
lager beer saloon and demanded of the pro-
prietor:

“Has my husband been in here?”

“T don’t know him. Is he a tall man?”

*Ves,??

“Red headed?’

“Yes, and red complected.”

“Full beard?”

“Ves,”

“Wear a slouch hat?”

“Ves,”

“He was here not five minutes ago. He
came in, drank a glass of lemonade, and
then walked down the street.”

“Drank what?”

“Lemonade.”

“Wrong man!” she said, shooting herself
out of tne door.

————»—> 2. _

Fly and mosquito poison, to be applied to
the hands and faces of those who go into
the woods in summertime, has become a sta-
ple article of forest men’s supplies, and its
manufacture a recognized industry. It is
now made so that the smell is not particu-
larly offensive.

ae A ee

Industry and trade in Russia are depres-
sed. Complaints, says a correspondent, in-
crease every day. Money is scarce and cred-
it hard to get. Among the small manufac-
turers failures are frequent occurrences. The
stock market is extremely dull.

—_—___—-2 <> _____

THE TRADESMAN has arranged with an
experienced and practical chemist to answer
any queriesf that may be propounded by the
traderin regard to pharmaceutical prepara-
tions. All queries should be written plainly
and briefly, to insure reply.

F. W. Fincher, the Pentwater druggist
has had the misfortune to lose his fine sail-
ing yacht, “Evangeline,” through the covet-
ous proclivities of some clever thief.

I nnn —
A German entered a Dexter drug store the
other day and asked for “lemonade mit a
glub in it.”g He probably meant a “stick.”

rn

Howell & Blackmer succeed Howell &

 

 

Brown in the drug business at Kalamo.

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The programme will consist of.

 

Sarsaparilla,

    

WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT,

 

Advanced—Oil peppermint.

  

Declined—Balsam Peru,
ACIDS.
wmcetic, NO-8.......-....-...-- Rh 9 @ 10
Acetic, C. P. (Sp. grav. 1.040)...... 80 @ 3
Carpeno.. 6.0. et ede c ws 85
OIG ae 55
Muriatic 18 dez......°...'....---.-. 38 @ 5
INDDNIC S60 GCA 2.50.4... 05 5.06... 11 @ 12
OSOUC a. ee ees 144@ 15
Sulphuric 66 deg...............0005 3 @ 4
Tartaric powdered................ 48
Benzoic, English............. B Oz 20
Benzoie, German..............0008 12 @ 15
PEAMNG Oe eso eed cc ots 1 @ Ili
AMMONIA.
@arbonate.. 022 2..0.0.6.055. 5. Ph 1 @ 18
Muriate (Powd. 22¢).............-6- 14
Aqua 16 deg or 3f...........-...66- 6 @ 7
Aqua 18 deg or 4f..............0005 7@ 8
BALSAMS.
@opaiba <2. ee. @ 50
SA ee ce. 40
OTE een ee nose esis 2 50
MOM Ue eee 50
BARKS.
Cassia, in mats (Pow’d 20¢)........ 12
Cinchona, yellow................- 18
lm select: 5205.03. 2c s.: ac 15
Elm, ground, pure................. 13
Elm, powdered, pure.............. 15
Sassafras, of root.................- 10
Wild Cherry, select................ 12
Bayberry powdered............... 20
Hemlock powdered................ 18
WanOO 62000852, 2. 30
Soap ground... .......22...235.. - 12
BERRIES,
Cubeb, prime |(Powd § 85)........ @ 80
Juniper ..........--..-...-------- . 6@ 7
ricky Ashi. ci c6 6 oes. 1¢0 @1 10
EXTRACTS.
Licorice (10 and 24 Ib boxes, 25c)... 27
Licorice, powdered, pure..... ae 87%
Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 ih doxes). 9
Logwood, 1s (25 ib boxes).......... 12
Lgowood, %8s GO. eos... 13
Logwood, 48 dO 6s... 15
Logwood, ass’d QO . .. 14
Fluid_Extracts—25 # cent. off list. .
FLOWERS.
ATMNCR oo. cs essa ore c= 10 @ ll
Chamomile, Roman............... 25
Chamomile, German..............- 25
° . GUMS.
Aloes, Barbadoes...............+6+ 60@ 75
Aloes, Cape (Powd 24¢)............ 18
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd 60c)....... 50
SATMIMOMIAC 9 65.0.2 6. 2. - cee es 28@ 30
Arabic. extra select............... 60
Arabic, powdered select.......... 60
Arabie, Ist picked Bee acs os 50
Arabic,2d picked..............-.+. 40
Arabic,c3d pickad.............-.6-4+ 35
Arabic, sifted sorts............. as 30
Assafcentida, prime (Powd 35c)... 30
BOBZOID. 202060. cs ok ee oe: = 55@60
Camphor 32.00 ee 22@ 24
Catechu. 1s (4% 14c, 48 16c) ...... ‘ 13
Euphorbium powdered...........- 35@ 40
Galbanum strained................ 80
Gamboge........:-..........-..--., 90@1 00
Guaiac, prime (Powd 45¢)......... 5
Kino [Powdered, 30c].............. 20
IMGSUIC oo. ooo ese es ccs e 110
Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 47c)... 40
Opium, pure (Powd $5.50).......... 415
Shellac, Campbell’s...............- 30
Shellac, Englitsh...............-.-- 26
Shellac, native..............-.-2-+> 24
Shellac bleached...............-05+ 30
Mragacantn 7... ....2..-.-0..--.---- 30 @1 10
HERBS—IN OUNCE PACKAGES.
HMoarhound ....-..4....5........°-....------- 25
WIODOUR 6 coos aces cece a scewn eons 25
PepperMint.......... ce cece cece ee cece ec eeee 25
PERT ee os ee oe ee een seers 40
Spearmint .......... 6. cece ee cece ee ee ee eens 24
Sweet Majoram...............-. eee occ 35
DRAIN) oo oe ce cece cwalcs once cciecn- 25
Thyme .....: Oe is oe. ee 30
WOLrMWOOG .... 0.0550. 5- oot cece we we we 25
IRON.
Citrate and Quinine.......... ees 6 40
Solution mur., for tinctures...... 20
Sulphate, pure crystal............ 7
OCitmate 20 ee ee. 80
hosphate.:..-....-:....--.......- 65
LEAVES.
Buchu, short (Powd 25c)..........-. 122 @ 13
Sage, Italian, bulk (4s & 4S, 12¢)... 6
Senna, Alex, natural.............. 8 @ 20
Senna, Alex. sifted and garbled.. 30
Senna, powdered...............++- 22
Senna tinnivelli........... ......-- 16
Wa Wralo 222. i.e eee ccs ese se 10
Beltedonna.......ccccsccccccscceecs 35
IOXGIOVEG.........:.:....:..-.------ 30
IP@NWaANe. 62. kee ee 35
ROSE; Ted: =... 2 cee ces css 2 35
LIQUORS.
W., D. & Co.’s Sour Mash Whisky.2 00 @2 25
Druggists’ Favorite Rye.......... 175 @2 00
Whisky, other brands............. 110 @1 50
Gin, Old Tom. 3.02.0... .6.-.. 2. 135 @1 75
Gin, Holland....:..-..........:-.-- 200 @3 50
BCANGY | ose ls eee. coeds. 1% @6 50
Catawba WineSs..........--..... -- 125 @2 00
POrt WiNGS. 2.6.0.5... oc. ee ee co ee 135 @2 50
MAGNESIA. ”
Carbonate, Pattison’s, 2 0z........ 23
Carbonate, Jenning’s, 20Z......... 37
Citrate, H., P. & Co.’s solution.... 2 25
@bhleinedi.| 3. 68. ee... ce sees 70
OILS.
Almond, SWECt...........20ce cece 45 @ 50
Amber, rectified.............2--665 45
BAMISG, (6 ee he es ees 1 80
Bay OZ. 22.62. s ec... oo ee -
Bergamont.............cceceeceeaes 2 00
@astor 6. es ee 19 @ 20%
@roton: 2355. ks eee 2 00
Cajeput ............ sees ee ee eee e eee 15
Wassian 9)... +... a... snes ee 1 00

Cedar, commercial (Pure 75c).....
Citronelig.c. 2.32.2... .. 253s

GlONGS 2250 Be. cs. 5... sees ee
@Gubebs; PB. & W.........- > -4...---
PICTON 2... cee ss eo ee = oe
PiveweGd. oo. 26 a55. oes ce ce cece es
Geranium # OZ...........eceee ees
Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75c)..
Juniper WOOd..............2--ee0es
Juniper berries.........:--..--++06
Lavender flowers, French.........
Lavender garden do
Lavender spike do
Lemon, new Crop........-.---..-+-
Lemon, Sanderson’s............+.+
Lemongrass...................2--+:
Origanum, red flowers, French...
Origanum, No.1
Pennyroyal ............-2 cece ceceee
Peppermint, white.............--.
ROSC ® OZ... ... 2. 000s ee eee eee
Rosemary, French (Flowers $5)...
Sandal Wood, German............
andal Wood, W.I.............. ---
MRSSHEPAS. 0.5 cess cece es scccee esse

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MQMSY, 6 ooo. eee ee =
Tar (by gal 60C)...........-- 02 eee e ee 10

Wintergreen ..............-..----
Wormwood, No. 1(Pure $6.50).....
SIN org e es aco c ete scene
WOrMRGCG 286 occ cs ce wees
Cod Liver, filtered..... .....® gal
Cod Liver, best......... Bees 4
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16

Olive, Malaga........... :

Olive, ‘‘Sublime Italian .. .....
SOlAQ 20 hose bea tas eee ee
Rose, Ihmsen’s...........-.-- 8 Oz

POTASSIUM.

Bicromate...........22--ee00s 8 Ib
Bromide, cryst. and gran. bulk...
Chlorate, cryst (Powd 2d3c).........
Iodide, cryst. and gran. bulk.....
Prussiate yellow...............ee0-

ROOTS.

ANKAMOG <3. 602. 7.5-5 35 - ce eee,
AMUHOG. CUD. 2002.5 c cee ens
Arrow, St. Vincent’s..............
Arrow, Taylor’s, in 48 and %S8....
Blood (Powd 18c)...............06-
Calamus, oe a ee amaeeige
Calamus, German white, peeled..
Elecampane, powdered............
Gentian (Powd I7c(............--+-

Ginger, African (Powd I6c)........ 13 @

Ginger, Jamaica bleached........
Golden Seal (Powd 40c)............
Hellebore, white, powdered.......
Ipecac, Rio, powdered.............
alap, powdered.........-......0++
Licorice, select (Powd 12%).......
Licorice, extra select.............-
Pik, (lO. es ce ete tes weee se ce
Rhei, from select to choice.....

.»e-k 00
Rhei, powdered E. I..............4- 110

Rhei, choice cut cubes..........

Rhei, choice cut fingers...........
Serpentarid.........eseceseeeeccnes
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Sarsaparilla, Mexican............. 18
Squills, white (Powd 35c).......... 10
Valerian, English (Powd 30c)...... 25
Valerian, Vermont (Powd 28¢).... 20
SEEDS.

Anise, Italian (Powd 20¢).......... 13
Bird, mixed in f packages. ..... 5 @ 6
Canary, SMYyIMMna...- 52... 8. eee 384@ 4
Caraway, best Dutch (Powd 19c).. 11 @ 12
Cardamon, Aleppee.............-. 2 v0
Cardamon, Malabar................ 2 2
@elery oe ee ces, 20
Coriander, best English........... 2
EMME] 25 esc. ees 15
Wax, clean 2306.62). oso: 3%@
Flax, pure grd (bbl 3%)............ 4@ 4%
Foenugreek, powdered............ 8 @ 9
Hemp; Russian. .0.. io... lc. 5 @ 5%
Mustard, white( Black 10c)........ 8
QUINC@ ee ee. 1 00
Rape, Dmelish ) 02620: il... T%@ 8
Worm; Heovant...22....2........,.- 14

SPONGES.
Florida sheeps’ wool, carriage..... 225 @2 50
Nassau Oo dQ: 5.2... 2 00

 

Velvet Extra do QO i202. 110
Extra Yellow do do. ..... 85
Grass oO dQ 2225. 65
Hard head, for slate use........... 75
Yellow Reef, dG. 1 40
MISCELLANEUS.
Alcohol, grain (bb] $2.17) ® gal.... 2 25
Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref. 1.50
Anodyne Hoffman’s............... 50
Arsenic, Donovan’s solution...... 27
Arsenic, Fowler’s solution........ 12
Annatto Ei ros. 2.02.2. .........- 30
Bilne Soluble. eo 50
Bay Rum, imported, best......... 275
Bay Rum, domestic, H., P. & Co.’s. 2 00
ATM ee Bib 24@ 3%
Alum, ground (Powd 9c).......... 3@ 4
Annatto, Prime. ..... 2. 6... 5... ees 32
Antimony, powdered, com’)...... 44@ 5
Arsenic, white, powdered......... 6 @ 7%
Balm Gilead Buds................. 40
Beans: Wonka... 60... at 2 25
Beans: Vanilla oo. oo aks cook ke 700 @9 75
Bismuth, sub nitrate.............. 1 60
Blue Pill (Powd 70¢e)............... 45
Bue Witriol 6.000.560 2500 oes 74@ 9
Borax, refined (Powd 18¢e)......... 12
Cantharides, Russian powdered.. 1 85
Capsicum Pods, African.......... 18
Capsicum Pods, African pow’d... 20
Capsicum Pods, American do ... 18
GCarminé, No. 40... 00.00.66. ceo es 4 00
@assia Buds... 60.6. co. oe, 2
Calomel, American................ 7
Chalk, prepared drop.............. 5
Chalk, precipitate English........ 2
Chalk, red fingers................. 8
Chalk, white lump................. 2
Chloroform, Squibb’s............. 1 60
Colocynth apples.................- 60
Chloral hydrate, German crusts.. 1 60
Chloral do do eryst... 17
Chloral do Scherin’s do ... 1 90
Chloral do do crusts.. 1 75
@hloroform: |. .05. ce. 100 @1 10
Cinchonidia, P. & W......:........ 53 @ 6C
Cinchonidia, other brands......... 55 @ 60
Cloves (PoWd 28C)...........sscceee 20 @ 2
@Cochtmeal | 2.0 6. ee. ce 30
Cocoa Butter... 5... . 250.120... es. 45
Copperas (by bbl I¢)............... 2
Corrosive Sublimate............... 65
Corks, X and X X—35 off list......
Cream Tartar, pure powdered..... 38 @ 40
Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 ib box.. 15
@reasote. 2s. 50
GCudbear, prime.................... 24
Cuttle Fish Bone................... 24
Dextrine..... ee a cc, ae 12
Dover's Powders.................- 1 20
Dragon’s Blood Mass.............. 50
Ergot powdered..-.....:....-.....- 45
Hther Squibb’s.....:.....-..... .-. 110
Emery, Turkish, all No.’s......... 8
Wpsom Salts 0 es 24@ 3
Hreot, fresh... os ooo. sce... 50
Ether, sulphuric, U.S. P.......... 69
laice WEG) 06.0 ks 14
Grains Paradise..................- 25
Gelatine, Cooper’s................. 90
Gelatine, French .................. 45 @ i0
Glassware, flint, 79 off, by box 60 off
Glassware, green, 60 and 10 dis....
Glue} CabMiel 660.06 csc. 2 @ li
Glue white. 205k. 17 @ 28
Giyeerine, pure... ... 2.2.52 5... se 21 @ 25
Hops 48 and 4s................... 25@ 40
Todoform @ 0Z.......... 2.2.6.3... 35
MNGISO 8 @l1 00
Insect Powder, best Dalmatian... 23 @ 25
Iodine, resublimed................ 210
Isinglass, American............... 1 50
SAMOMICA ee ccc. ke 9
Hondon Purple..............54.... 10 @
Head, ACCA. 4.5... 3... soe ee 15
Lime, chloride, (4s 2s 10¢c & 4s 11c) 9
IPAUPUNNE 22.2. ee 1 00
Ibyecopodium .. 2. ..0......00.80 50
MEG ee ae. 60
Madder, best Dutch............... RY@ 18
Mamma. S: ooo ce 1 35
IMGROUEYV:. 000.0000 i och. senda 50
Morphia, sulph., P.& W...... #oz 3 10@3 35
Musk, Canton, H., P. & Co.’s...... 40
Moss, Iceland................. #2 tb 10
Moss, ERIGN): (20.0....0. 0.2. $6. e. 12
Mustard; English....:............. 30
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 ib cans...... 18
INCAS ooo ee. 20
Nutmeg, No.1........... eee aes 7
Nx VOMIER.. 2.5.0... 2. 10
Ointment. Mercurial, 4d.......... 40
Paris’ Green... 0... 2 es. cece cose ye 18%@ 27
Pepper, Black Berry.............. 18
IPEDS os see cll: 3 00
Pitch, True Burgundy.............
QUassIa es. 6 @ 7
Quinia, Sulph, P, & W........ tiboz 1 30@I 35
Quinine, German.................. 125 @1.30
Seidlitz Mixture................... 28
Stryehnia, cryst.............-..-... 1 50
Silver Nitrate, cryst............... 79 @ 8
Red Precipitate............... 8 Ib 80
Satfron, American................. 40
Sal Glauber... 6.252.502.2005. s 25. 3. @ 2
Sal Nitre, large cryst.............. 10
Sal Nitre, medium cryst.......... 9
Sal Rochelle. co... 26s... 33
Sal SOGas 606s 2@ 2%
WaliGiy ooo aoe 2 00
Samtomin ..... 2-0... ce. tsk ee 6 75
Snuffs, Maccoboy or Scotch....... 38
Soda Ash [by keg 8¢].............. 4
Spermaceti..............-.....20- 25
Soda, Bi-Carbonate, DeLand’s.... 4%@ 5
Soap, White Castile................ 14
‘Soap,Green do ..... .......... 17
Soap, Mottleddo_.................. 9
Soap, dO dO ....2....:.-.5.: 11
Soap, Mazzimi.... .-.......-:.....- 14
Spirits Nitre,3 F................... 26 @ 28
Spimts Nitre, 46... 0.2.0... ..... 28 @ 8
Sugar Milk powdered.............. 30
Sulphur; four... ..-...2:.....2-..: 3%4@ 4
Sulphuy, roll. .....:....5..:...-.. 3@ 3%
Tartar Pmetic........5......ss-----
Tar, N. C. Pine, % gal. cans # doz 2 70
Tar, do quarts in tin....... 1 40
Tar, do pintsin tin......... 85
Turpentine, Venice........... bb 2
Wax, White, S. & F. brand........ 60
Zine, Suiphate..........-. 0.20.0... 7@ 8
‘ OILS.
Capitol Cylinder.............. ee ee eee ee eee eens 75
Model Cylinder................0-ecceee seen eee 60
Shields Oylinder......2....5.2...00..-2 +. 65 2 3 50
Bldorado Engine.. .... 2.2... cece ceccccecccees 45
Peerless Machinery..........-..sceee cece eeee 3d
Challenge Machinery.............2seeseeeeee e020
Backus Fine Engine..................0.-.e0e-- 3
Black Diamond Machinery.............-ese0-- 30
Custor Machine Oil...............c cc eeeceeeees 6C
Paramine, 2b GOs... .... 35. co 5c ee cece cw ie ese 22
Paramine, 28 GGG... . 2 oe ose ce cee peewee 21
Sperm, winter bleached..............-....-- 1 40
Bbl Gal
Whale, winter...........2.cesseecceee 80 8&5
Ward: GXUra.: .. 5...) .. sce oc eee: 64 75
Hard: NO 1... 2... 8. ese aeeees 55 65
Linseed, pure raw..............-0 58 62
Tinseed, boiled .........:...-..----0 61. 65
Neat’s Foot, winter strained........ 90 95
Spirits Turpentine................... 35 45
VARNISHES.
No. 1 Turp Coach............seeeeeeees 1 10@1 20
Mixtva (RUErp............--.---<:---+ <0 1 60@1 70
Coach Body...... <2... 2.0... scenes wees 2 75@3 00
No. 1 Turp Furniture...............64- 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,  ‘ 8 | eekieue 10
Boralumine, Tints bulk. +50 off.. 10
Boralumine G ths. lo... 5. 11
Red Venetian.............++-- 3% 2@ 3
Ochre, yellow Marseilles...... 1% 2@ 3
Ochre, yellow Bermuda....... 1% 2@ 38
Putty, commercial ............ 2% 2%@ 3
Putty, strictly pure............ 2% 2%@ 38
Vermilion, prime American.. 18@16
Vermilion, English............ 55@5
Green, Peninsular............. 16@17
Lead, red strictly pure..... .. 64
Lead, white, strictly pure..... o%
Whiting, white Spanish.......° ai
‘Whiting, Gilders’.............. @90
White, Paris American:.... sae 110
Whiting Paris English cliff..

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HAZELTINE,
PERKINS
& C0.,

Wholesale

rugoists!

42 and 44 Ottawa Street and 89, 91, 93 and
95 Louis Street.

IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF

Dries, Medicines, Chemicals,
Paints, Oils, Varnishes,
and Droggist’s
Glassware

MANUFACTURERS OF
ELEGANT PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS,
PLUID EXTRACTS ANH ELIXIRS.

GENERAL WHOLESALE AGENTS FOR

Wo tr, Patron & Co., AND JOHN L. Wuit-
ING, MANUFACTURERS OF FINE
PAINT AND VARNISH
BRUSHES.

—Also for the—

GRAND RaApips BrusH Co., MANFGS. OF
HAtr, 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. Weare 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
tothe 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 Litnor Bepartment

We give our special and personal atten-
tion to the selection of choice goods for
the drug trade only, and trust we merit the
high praise accorded 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

Drogwists Favorite Rye,

Which continues to have so many favorites
among druggists who have sold these goods
for a very long time. Buy our

Gils, Brandes & 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

e

as Patent Medicines, etc,, we invite your cor- |

respondence,

Mail orders always receive our special and
personal attention.

VHAZELTING, PERKIN & GO

  
    

 

 

 

 

The Michican Tradesivad.

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, JULY 9, 1884.

 

 

Condition of the Clothing Market.
From the Western Clothing Reporter.

In the manufacture of clothing woolens
the trade demands not cheap grades, but fin-
er goods at lower prices. This demand the
manufacturers realize, and are doing their
best to meet. Thesame tendency to curtail
production, which was adopted at the begin-
ning of the season, continues ina marked de-
gree, and this must have a, beneficial effect
upon the market. A necessity of realizing
upon stocks accumulated last year has forced
some manufacturers to unload. The pros-
pect of an immediate improvement is not very
good, but it is safe to say that over-produc-
tian will not be risked to add to the disturb-
ing elements against which the trade is con-
tending.

Good Words Unsolicited.

F. L. Tucker, general dealer, Sumner: “TI
would miss your paper more than several I
could name.”

O. H. Richmond & Co., druggists and med-
icine manufacturers, Grand Rapids: ‘We
feel called upon to congratulate you. THE
TRADESMAN is better and better all the time.
We could not ‘keep house’ without it now.”

————q@2 o> _—

A bill prohibiting the importation of the
article known to commerce as “‘tea dust” has
been passed by the Senate, and it is expect-
ed to be passed by the House of Representa-
tives as soon as it reaches that branch. The
article prohibited is found on analysis, to con-
sist of tea dust and other articles deleterous
to health. The Senate bill is supplementary
to the bill to exclude adulterated teas, which
has met with popular approval, and the ne
cessity for which has been generally recog-
nized. It is understood that the leading tea
importers have been urging the passage of
the bill. The importation of tea dust was
recently forbidden by the Canadian govern-
ment.

The professors of the University of Jena
who have been investigating the effect of to-
bacco upon the human system, report that
moderate quantities of the weed may be us+
ed without injurious effects. They say that
in the German army soldiers in active ser-
vice are very properly furnished with smok-
ing tobacco, because smoking enables them
to endure severer fatigue upon smaller nu-
trition and with greater alacrity and confi-
dence than would otherwise be the case.

——_—~>-* <>

It has recently been proposed to pre-
vent petroleum fires by placing a bottle of
ammonia in each barrel of the oil. On igni-
tion, by accident or otherwise, the bottle
would break, and the effect of the ammonia
eal yapors would be to extinguish the fires.

 

 

“Took here. This piece of meat don’t suit
me. It’s from the back of the animal’s
neck,” said the man in the market to an Is-
raelite butcher. ‘Mine frien’, all dot beef
vot L sells is back of the neck. Dere vos
nooding but horns in front of dot neck.

——_—_—~<>4<____

“Well, I do declare!” exclaimed old Mrs.
Dusenberry, as she looked up from the even-
ing paper, ‘ they first invented liver pads an’
now they are telling about foot pads in Chi-
cago. What an age of invention we are liv-
ing in, to be sure.”

es a

A colored man came into a newspaper of-
fice and wanted to subscribe to the paper.
“How long do you want it?” asked the
elerk. “Jess as long as it is, boss; if it
don’t fit the shelves I kin t’ar a piece off my-
self.”

—_-o<—___—

If matches are made in heaven, how can
the sulphur and brimstone that are on them
be accounted for? Will D. M. Richardson
try to overcome his diffidence for once and
gend in a solution to this conundrum?

————————_—>_ 2 <a —__—

“A man is worth more to himself and his
family in the United States than in any other
country under Heaven,” says the Boston
Herald. Why, then, should he run away to
Canada as soon as the bank breaks?

ee ee

“Yes,” said the schoolmaster, as he jump-
ed wildly from the chair, “I have always
been in favor of tax on raw material, but
bless me if { am in favor of raw material on
tacks!’

_—___ >_>

A “genteel”? washerwoman in Washington
takes the House of Representatives’ laundry
work on contract, hires the work done at $4
a week, and pockets $200 a month.

—__—»>_.- >

According to the directory, Chicago has
increased 45,000 in population during the
past year.

$<

Within three years the number of saw-
mills in Arkansas has increased from 319 to
over 1,200.

———_—>-_—>—__——

The fig is said to be a sure crop in most of
the Southern States. The cost of cultivation
is trifling.

—_—_— o-oo

New Orleans has a successful lady drug-

gist.

5,

Busted in Business but Not in Society.
From the Chicago News.

“Now that the drop in wheat has swept
away our fortune,” said a -sympathetic and
sentimental Chicago wife to "her bankrupt
husband, “‘we must, of course give up every-
thing. Our house, our horses, carriages, ser-
yants, diamonds, and all must go, and we
must begin at the foot of the ladder and
work our way up again. Do you know, Al-
gernon, that I sometimes find myself rejoic-
ing over our misfortunes. It takes me back
to our early life to think of our living once
more inacottage and being alone by our-
selves. Let them take everything, and we
will be happy yet.”

“You evidently are a little off your bal-
ance, Maria,” said the bankrupt merchant,
removing a;three-for-a-dollar from his mouth.
“J bought in your name only this morning
a $40,000 house on the boulevard, and I have
with the family plate about $100,000 in Gov-
ernment bonds, which are yours, do you un-
derstand? 1 have conveyed some other prop-
erty to my friend Jenkins, whom I once
helped out of a similar scrape, and we are
all ship-shape, I am glad to say. We are
busted in business, but not in society. No,
no; we may come to want in time, but not
this summer. The giving up everything and
going to live in a flat is what you read about.
It isn’t the style in this town.”

“Youre an angel man,” replied the fair
one. “I think I’m catching on.”

—_—< -e<___
Drummer Wisbom.

A load of Boston tourists was recently
traveling in a sleeping car; also a commer-
cial traveler. In the morning, when the
porter went around to collect his assessments
on boot-blacking, there was a great commo-
tion among the Boston tourists. Some paid
him a five-cent nickel, and those who had no
nickel, were compelled to yield up short bits.
All the while the traveling man, dressed in
ordinary clothes, sat reading his paper.
When the porter reached him he looked up
inquiringly,—

“Did you black my boots, sir

“Yes, sah.”

“You did a splendid job; never had my
boots blacked so well before on this line.
Here’s three dollars.

When the porter pocketed the money, the
Boston peeple looked up astonished, and
presently it was rumored than John Mackey
was aboard, or Vanderbilt was out on a cam-
paigning trip. In afew minutes the com-
mercial man and the porter met (by chance)
in the smoking room.

“When does my sleeping ticket run out?”

“Your time was up, sah, at Ogden, but if
you wants to ride to Reno, boss, it’s all right,
sah.”

The traveler gave the darkey a drink out
of a black bottle, and the porter winked con-
tinuously for nine seconds, as he drank the
traveler’s health.

Six dollars saved. Economy is the road to
wealth.

1

————_——>_9<___

The Kind of Business That Suited Him.

. “Pap, I thought you said the other night,
when you read that piece in the paper, that
if you’d cateh any one huggin your wife,
you’d leave her.”

“Yes, I did.”

“Well, then, I reckon you'll have to leave
mother, fur yisterday when that dentist fix-
ed her teeth he all the time had his arm
right around her neck.”

“Oh, well; that’s a different thing. That’s
part of his profession.”

“And kin he hug girls, too?”

“Yes,”

“Well, then, by golly, ’m goin’ to learn
the tooth doctor trade.”

——_—__—._9<<____-
Why the Name is Appropriate.

“Tsn’t ‘Collar-button’ rather an odd nick-
name to give a boy?” asked a gentleman of
a friend, who had just addressed his son by
that title.

“Well, I don’t know,” replied the father
laughingly. “It may sound a little curious,
but it suits the boy first-rate.”

“Why do you think thenick-name ‘Collar-
button suits the boy?” :

“Because,” was the reply, “when he slips
out in the evening, Iam never able to find
him.”

————_—~<_9—<__
A Fine Quality of Sugar.

“That, sir, is a very fine quality of sugar.”
said the groceryman. “It is used mostly for
making desserts.”

“Why is it used mostly for making des-
serts?” asked the customer.

“On account of its superior qnality, sir.”

“Oh, that’s it? 1 thought it might be used
for making desserts on account of the large
amount of sand in it.”

—————+.>-2- > __
Worthy of Its Name.

Jrate Customer—‘‘See here, sir, I bought
one of those lightning ice-cream freezers of
you last week.”

Dealer—‘‘Well, it proved worthy of its
name, didn’t it?”

Irate customer—‘‘Worthy of its name!
Why it turned the cream sour.”

“Dealer—‘Yes, that’s what lightning
does.”’

 

—~—> 2

 

A Bankrupt’s Lament,

Had I known all that 1 know now,
Had I sown that which I sow now,
And my better sense controlled me,
Had I heard what it told me,

Had the future condescended

An horizon more extended.

To have granted, poor and ailing,
Thad ’scaped the pangs of failing;
Had I been a good deal wiser

I’d have been an advertiser.

—_-—_»> +>

New York’s yearly product of men’s and
women’s clothing is $80,000,000; of furs,
$5,000,000; of hats: and caps, $4,000,000; of

 

shirts, $5,000,000.

 

ELDS, BULKLEY & LEMON,

IMPORTERS

—_—AIND—

Wholesale Grocers,

CORNER IONIA & ISLAND STREETS.

 

Fireworks

Cigar

We have the largest and
best selected stock ever
brought to this market,
suitable for public or pri-
vate display, and are the
Headquarters for FIRE
CRACKERS, TORPE-
DOES, FLAGS, LAN-
TERNS, ETC. Send for
catalogue and prices.

We are carying a full line of Gor-
dons’ Cigars of Detroit, among
which are the celebrated “ D. F.”
and “Olympian” and although the

latter is being imitated, the stock
and workmanship is much inferior
to the genuine, for which we are

‘ exclusive agents.

order.

Showcases

Give us a trial

We carry in stock such
cases as there is most
demand for, of the best
makes, and will meet
Chicago prices. Give us
a call before purchasing.

PUTNAM & BROOKS.

 

 

WALLPAPER & WINDOW SHADES

At Manufacturers’ Prices.

SAMPLES TO THE TRADE ONLY.
Flouse and Store Shades Made to Order.
68 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids.

NELSON BROS. & CO.

 

FOX, MUSSELMAN & LOVERIDGE,

 

eo

WHOLESALE GROCERS.

44, 46 and 48 South Division Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.
E ARE FACTORY AGENTS FOR——

Nimrod, Acory, Chie Crescent & Red Seal Plog Tohaccos.

Our stock of Teas, Coffees and Syrups is Always Complete.
—WE MAKE SPECIAL CLAIM FOR OUR—
Tobaccos, Vinegars and Spices '!!
OUR*MOTTO: “SQUARE DEALING BETWEEN MANGAND MAN.”

CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED.

 

$e 4335

WM SEARS & CO.
Cracker Manufacturers, -

Agents for

AMBOY CHEESE.
87, 89 & 41 Kent Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

F. J. LAMB & COMPANY, ‘!

é

 

—WHOLESALE DEALERS IN Pa c

Butter, Cheese, Eees,

Apples, Onions, Potatoes, Beans, Etc.

 

State Agent for the Lima Patent Egg Cases and Fillers.

4

NO. 8 AND 10 IONIA STREET,

  
   

GRAND RAPIDS. MiCHmiGoAN,.

Choice Butter a Specialty! «

Also Foreign and Domestic Fruits, Cheese,
Eggs, Jelly, Preserves, BANANAS and EARLY
VEGETABLES.

Careful Attention Paid to Filling Orders.

M.C, Russell, 48 Otfawa St., G’d Rapids, <:

A BENOWLSON ”**

—WHOLESALE DEALER IN——

AKRON SEWER PIPE,

Fire Brick and Clay, Cement, Stucco, -

LIME, HAIR, COAL and MOOD.

ESTIMATES CHEERFULLY FURNISHED.

 

 

#

 

Office 7 Canal Street, Sweet,s Hotel Block. Yards—Goodrich Street, Near Michigan Cen- y
tral Freight House.

SPRING & COMPANY

&

--WHOLESALE DEALERS IN—

FANCY AND

STAPLE DRY GOODS

CARPETS,

MATTINGS,~.

iF

OIL, CLOTHS,

ETC... ETC.

Gand 8 Monroe Street,

*

 

Michigan.

Grand Bags.

 
 
 

 

 

 

 

137

 

 

 

A favorable location of a mercantile estab-
lishment, or habit of customers to resort toa
particular place will bring trade. This ad-
vantage may be designated by the term
“ood will,” and what the trader gains from
the trade so acquired are profits.—Cary vs.
Gunnison in the Supreme Court of Lowa, by
Juuge Beck.
+>
Imparting Valuable Instruction.

“Papa,” asked a little boy, “a man who
steals a loaf of bread is a thief, isn’t he?”

“Yes, a dastardly thief.”

“Js a man who steals $10,000 a thief,
too?”

“Well, no, my boy, scarcely. Defaulter,
I think, is the more appropriate word.”

“And what is he called when he steals a
million dollars?”

“There is no such thing as stealing a mil-
lion dollars, my son. It is termed ‘divert-
ing.’ When a gentleman diverts a million
dollars he is spoken of as a financier.”

—————————>2<___
Husband and Wife.

“You are an awful fool, John Smith,” she
said to her husband with emphasis.

(“I know I am,” he humbly acknowledged.

“And you have been ever since the day I
married you.”

“Longer than that, my dear, longer than
that.”

“Quite likely.”

“Yes,” he went on, sadly, “I have been an
awful fool ever since the day I asked you to
marry me.’ :

—_—_—<>_2-<___

In order to keep machinery from rusting,

take one ounce of camphor, dissolve one

The Michigan Tradesman,

BUSINESS LAW.

 

 

 

Brief Digests of Recent Decisions in Courts
of Last Resort.

 

Deeds—Construction—Intention.

The Supreme Court of Illinois holds that
in construing deeds or other writings courts
must seek to ascertain and give effect to the
intention of the parties, and for that purpose
they may and will take notice of attendant
circumstances and by them determine the in-
tention of the parties.

 

Must Perform Debtor’s Contract.

In the opinion of the Illinois Supreme
Court a judgment creditor who levies upon
and purchases the land of his debtor who
has bought the same, acquires only the inter-
est the debtor had in the premises. Before
he can obtain any title, he must pay what
his debtor was obligated to pay as purchase
money and taxes accruing on the land.

 

Mistake in Description of Leased Property.

When a mistake is made in the description
of land leased in drawing the lease, and it is
clear what property was in fact leased, the
lessee will have a clear right against the
lessors to have the mistake corrected, and so
will one succeeding to his rights by purchase
of the leasehold property under execution
against the lessee.—Bradshaw, admr. vs. At-
kins, Supreme Court of Illinois.

 

Good Will.

The case of Pearson vs. Pearson, recently
decided by the Chancery Division of the
High Court of Justice, England, was a case | pound of melted lard; take off the scum and
of dissolution of a partnership where one| mix in as much fine black lead as will give
partner was to have the business and the | it an iron color. Clean the machinery and
good will, and where the outgoing partner | smear it with this mixture. After 24 hours
had set up in business in the same place and | rub clean with a soft linen cloth. It will
had sent out circulars soliciting orders from | keep clean for months under ordinary cir-
the old customers of the firm. Mr. Justice} cumstances.

Kay, in accordance with earlier decisions, —_—_—._- .____

granted an injunction restraining the out-| Needed by every retail grocer or Confec
going partner from in any way soliciting| tioner, one or more of Kenyon’s Patent
business from the customers of the old| Spring Paper Bag Holders. Each have capac-
firm. ity of containing about fifty bags. Send thirty
eents to KENYON BROTHERS, Wake-
field, Rhode Island, for sample by mail, and
learn their great convenience.

gt

Choice Butter can always be had at M. C.

Russell’s.

City Bottling Works

BOTTLED _LAGER,

“TINTS, PFR DOZ.
50 CENTS.

BOTTLED ALE,
PINTS, PER DOZ.

 

Good Will—Profits of Trade.

The good will connected with the estab-
lishment of any particular trade or occupa-
tion may be the subject of barter orsale. It
is a valuable right, and, if it be unlawfully
destroyed or taken away, the law will award
compensation to the injured party. It is de-
fined to be “the advantage or benefit which
is acquired by an establishment beyond the
mere value of the capital, stocks, funds or
property employed therein, in consequence
of the general public patronage or encourage-
ment which it receives from constant or hab-
itual customers on account of its local posi-
tion or common ability or reputation for

 

 

 

    
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 

skill, affluence or punctuality, orfromother| 75 CENTS.

accidental circumstances, or necessities, or

even from ancient partialities or prejudice.” ud hd eee

It is claimed here that the plaintiff is seek- PINTS, PER DOZ.
ing to recover for his loss of profits in trade, 75 CENTS.

and not for the injury of his good will. But| BOTTLED CIDER, fj
the attachment complained of drove his cus-; Q,TS, PER DOZ.,/
tomers away, and he lost their trade. Now,| $1.20.

 

it is plain that if, by any means, customers
are driven froma particular locality to which

All Goods Warranted | !

 

they resort to trade, that trade loses that the BEST in the
which we have described as good will. The Market.
distinction between profits and good will is
: : : : TELEPHONE NO.
obvious; profits are gains realized from
272.

trade; good will is that which brings trade.

 

 

 

The True Inwardness of Dunlap’s Much Talked-About Bank Account.

Everyone who did any business with Dunlap while he was in trade at Nashville last
winter will remember that he was continually referring to his “bank account,” and offer-
ing to give checks to anyone who would trust him for goods. He also endeavored to se-
eure credit on the streugth of the statement that a draft could be madeon him at his bank;
and, as stated last week, he offered to loan a certain jobbing establishment here $5,000 that
was “lying idle” at his bank. In order to ascertain what ground Dunlap had for these
representations, THE TRADESMAN has secured an exact transcript of his banking transac-
tions, and presents them below. The account does not conform to the statements made,
so far as amount is concerned, and will only tend to strengthen the opinion already form-
ed regarding Dunlap’s untruthfulness and chicanery:

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. BARRY & DOWNING, Bankers, in ace’t with W. A. DUNLAP & Co. Cr.
1884. 1884.
Feb. | 41 To Draft By Cash 23 | 7

| 5 | To Cash By Cash 3 | 00
| 7 |} To Cash to Balance By Cash 4 | 20
te By Cash 3 | 45
| | By Cash 3 | 20
}
| |

 

 

M. B. Church “Bedette” Co.,

Manufacturer of : “Bedette.’

 

PATENTED JUNE 15, 1883.

This invention supplies a long felt want for a cheap portable bed, that can be put away in
a small space when not in use, and yet make a roomy, comfortable bed when wanted. Of the
many cots that are in the market there is not one, cheap or expensive, on which a comfortable
night’s rest can be had. They are all narrow, short, without spring, and in short no bed at all.
While THE BEepETTE 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 ean be
taken off and put on again by any one in afew 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-
sity, and no family after once using, would be without it. It is simple in its construction, and
- likel ee a out of repair. It makes a pretty lounge, a perfect bed, and the price is within
the reach of all.

Price—36 in. wide, by 624 ft. long, $3.50; 30 in wide, by 614 ft. long, $3.00; 27 in.
wide, by 414 ft. long, cover not adjustable, $2.50. Forsale by furniture dealers every-
where. If not for sale by your dealer it will be sent to any address on receipt of price.

Bost is
Se ee eae

 

CARPETS AND CARPETINGS,

Spring & Company quote as follows:
TAPESTRY BRUSSELS.

Roxbury tapestry......-..--.--... @ 90
Smith’s 10 wire...............2-000s @ 90
Smith's Oxtras. ii... 5... e eee ss @ 8%
Smith’s B Palisade................ @ 0
Smith’s C Palisade................ @ 65
BARO PUN Fe ee ccs eo sees @ 82%
Pie oins oie, secs @ 0
Santord’s extra....2....5...02 6046. @ 8%
Sanford’s Comets................+. @
THREE-PLYS.
Hartford 3-ply.............:..:.... @1 00
Lowell d-ply...)..2 2.3... .35 6s... @1 00
Higgins? a-ply.........-..----..-5-- @1 00
Sanford’s'e-ply :.:..2..;.-...:2...-.- @ 97%
EXTRA SUPERS.
Wartford ,.....:...:..-....-.-:-.... @ T%%
WOWO 3s ese oo a ee eke ee @ &%
Other makes........2......:....2.. 75 @-T%
Best cotton chain.................. 60 @ 62%
ALL WOOL SUPERFINES.
Bost 2:plV... 2565-5265. se ess 57%@ 60
Other grades 2ply................+ 524%@ 5d
WOOL FILLING AND MIXED.
All-wool super, 2-ply.............. 55
Extra heavy. double cotton chain. 42%@ 45
Double cotton chain............... 3 @ 40
Heavy cotton and wool, doublec. 30 @ 32%
Half d’l chain, cotton & wool,2-ply 27%@ 32%
Single cotton chain................ 19 @ 2
HEMPS.

3-ply, 4-4 wide, extra heavy........ 27 30
Beat WAAC. ee... 22
Imperial, plain, 4-4 wide........... 18%
19; 63 ANCHES..-. 65. . 662 eee 17

OIL CLOTHS.

No. 1, 4-4, 5-4, 6-4 and 8-4............ 45
No. 2, C0 8 ee. 37%
No. 3, GG 2 oss... 30

No. 4, CO. 3) Ge ee

MAaTTINGS.

Best all rattan, plain............... 621%

Best all rattan and cocoa, plain... 52%
N@pICn Ao.) 6... eee 8k... 50
Napier Boo. 0522.25. k ee 40

CURTAINS.

Opaque shades, 38 inch............ 15

-
€B GOSH OOOO OOOO
ES

Holland shades, B finish, 4-4....... 18
Pacific Holland, 4-4....... NT oce sae etees @ 10
Hartshorn’s fixtures, per gross... @36
Cord fixtures, per gross........... @10

COAL AND BUILDING MATERIALS.
A. B. Knowlson quotes as follows:

Ohio White Lime, per bbl.............
Ohio White Lime, car lots............. 95

 

Louisville Cement, per bbl............ 1 40
Akron Cement per bbl................ 1 40
Buffalo Cement, per bbl.............. 1 4
Marloes... 25.6. os ee ol oe 1 15@1 20
Plastering hair, per bu................ 30@ 38
1

Stucco, per bbl 1 %5
Land plaster, per ton.................. 3 75

Land plaster, car lots.................. 3 00
Hire brick, per Mo... 2.232... 2. 6-268 $27 @ $35
Hire clay, per Dbl..:..-...-.. 52. ..--. :: 3 00
COAL.
Anthracite, egg and grate............ $6 50@6 %5
Anthracite, stove and nut............ 6 75@7 00
Gannellcoal). ... 6 .ce55. os ce cae sees 7 00
Ohio COA... 6.7.8 2 ce es 40@3 60
Blossburg or Cumberland ........... 00@5 25

MICHIGAN COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS’ ASSOCIA’N.

Incorporated Dec. 10, 1877—Charter in Force far
Thirty Years.

 

 

 

LIST OF OFFICERS :
President—RANSOM W. HAWLEY, of Detroit.
Vice-Presidents—CHAS. E. SNEDEKER, Detroit;
L. W. ATKINS, Grand Rapids; I. N. ALEXAN-
DER, Lansing; U.S. LorD, Kalamazoo; H. E.
MEEKER, Bay City.

Secretary and Treasurer—W. N. MEREDITH,
Detroit.

Board of Trustees, For One Year—J. C. PON-
TLUSs, Chairman, S. A. MUNGER, H. K. WHITE
For Two Years—D. Morris, A. W. CULVER.

TIME TABLES.

Michigan Central—Grand

 

 

 

Rapids Division.

DEPART.
*Detroit EXpress................2...;. 6:00 am
Hay, HXDLOSS: 055... 5 ss. eck ee es 2:25 9m
*New York Fast Line.................. 6:00 pm
tAtiantic EXPress..:2.......-...-....-. 9:20 pm

ARRIVE.
FP ACC TXDLOSS: 6.0.60 ses. os ck ec. os 6:4 am
duoesl Passenger... 2.0... .6 ie 11:20am
GAT ee ee ean tes 3:20 pm
+Grand Rapids Express............... 10:25 p m

+Daily except Sunday. *Daily.

The New York Fast Line runs daily, arriving
at Detroit at 11:59 a. m., and New York at9p.
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 6:00 a. m. has
Drawing Room and Pgrlor 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 6:15am
*Through Mail............. 10:10am 10:20am
+Evening Express......... 3:20pm 3:35pm
*Atlantic Express.......... 9:45pm 10:45pm
+Mixed, with coach........ 10:00 am

GOING WEST.
+Morning Express......... 12:40pm 12:55pm
+Through Mail............. 4:45pm 4:55pm
+Steamboat Express....... 10:30 pm 10:35pm
7MAIRCOi oes occ. ess <a 8:00 am
*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.
or? 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, Gity Pass. Agent.

THOMAS TANDY, Gen’! Pass. Agent, Detroit.

Grand Rapids & Indiana.

GOING NORTH.
Arrives. Leaves.
Cincinnati & G. Rapids Ex. 9:00pm 11:00pm
Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex. 9:20am 10:25am
Ft. Wayne& MackinacEx.. 3:55pm &:00pm
G’d Rapids & Cadillac Ac. 7:10am
GOING SOUTH.

 

G. Rapids & Cincinnati Ex. 6:30pm 7:00am
Mackinac & CincinnatiEx. 4:10pm 4:35pm
Mackinac& Ft.WayreEx..10:25am 11:42pm

Cadillac & G’d Rapids Ac. 7:40pm

All trains daily except Sunday.

SLEEPING CAR ARRANGEMENTS.

North—Train leaving at10:00 o’clock p. m.
has Woodruff Sleeping Cars for Petoskey and
Mackinac City. Trainleaving at 10:25 a.m. has
yo aa Sleeping and ‘Chair Car for Mackinac

ity.

South—Train leaving at 4:35 p.m. bas Wood-
ruff Sleeping Car for Cincinnati.

Cc. L. LOCKWOOD, Gen’! Pass. Agent.

Chicago & West Michigan.

 

Leaves. Arrives,

PMA 3s. sagas te 9:15am 4:00pm

*#Day Express.......:...... 12:25pm 10:45pm

*Night Express............ 8:35pm 6:10am

MIXG0 oe es 6:10am 10:05pm
*Daily. +tDaily except Sunda.

Pullman Sleeping Cars on at night trains.
Through parlor car in charge of careful at-
tendants without extra charge to Chicago on
12:25 p. m., and through coach on 9:15 a.m. and
8:35 p. m. trains.

NEWAYGO DIVISION.

Leaves. Arrives.
NEROG oe. estas 5:00am 5:15pm
POX PIOSE.. 0. 5 ccs boeken 5 4:10pm 8:30pm
FIRDVCRS ocho eke ocas vase 8:30am 10:15am

Trains connect at Archer avenue for Chicago
as follows: Mail, 10:20 a. m.; express, 8:40 p. m
The Northern terminus of this Division is at
Baldwin, where close connection is made with
F. & P. M. trains to and from Ludington and
Manistee,
J. H. PALMER, Gen’! Pass. Agent.

5A. WELLING

WHOLESALE

MEN'S FURNISHING GOODS
Limberman’s Supplies

—AND—

NOTIONS!

PANTS, OVERALLS, JACKETS, SHIRTS,
LADIES’ AND GENTS’ HOSIERY, UNDER-
WEAR, MACKINAWS, NECKWEAR, SUS-
PENDERS, STATIONERY, POCKET CUT-
TLERY, THREAD, COMBS, BUTTONS, SMOK-
ERS’ SUNDRIES, HARMONICAS, VIOLIN
STRINGS, ETC.

 

I am represented on the road by the fol-
lowing well-known travelers: JoHN D. MAN-
GuM, A. M. SPRAGUE, JOHN H. EACKER,
L. R. CesnA, Gro. W. N. DE JONGE.
FRANK BERLES - House Salesman.

24 Pearl Street

SEED BUCKWHEAT

We have a choice lot of
Seed Buckwheat, which

(trand Rapids, Mich.

 

o/we offer to the trade at

$1.25 per bushel.

SEED STORE,
91 Canal street.

 

A. FT. FrOoOw Lise,
HOUSE DECORATOR
—And Dealer in—

FINE WALL PAPER

Window Shades, Room Mouldings,
Artists’ Materials !

Paints, Oils, Glass, Ete.

37 No. IoNIA STREET, SOUTH OF MONROE.

 

Special designs furnished and Estimates
given for interior decoration and all kinds of
stained and ornamental Glass work.

L. H. BEALS & SON

MAAN M

 

Manufacturers of

‘Whigs & Lashes

Westfield, Mass.

) OF FT CE

AND

 

 

SALESROOM
NO. 4 PEARL STREET,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

G ROY & GO, Gent Agents

 

   

PORTABLE AND STATIONARY

BN GIN HS

From 2 to 150 Horse-Power, Boilers, Saw Mills,
Grist Mills, Wood Working Machinery, Shaft-
ing, Pulleys and Boxes. Contracts made for
Complete Outtits.

ww. Cc Denison,
88, 90 and 92 South Division Street,
GRAND RAPIDS, - MICHIGAN.

SHRIVER, =
WEATHERLY & OO,

Grand Rapids, Mich., Wholesale and Retail
IRON PIPE,

Brass Goops, IRON AND BRASS FITTINGS
MANTLES, GRATES, GAS FIXTURES,

 

 

PLUMBERS, STEAM FITTERS,

—And Manufacturers of—

Galvanized Iron Cornice.
MOSELEY BROS.,

Wholesale
Clover, Timothy and all Kinds Field Seeds
Seed Corn, Green and Dried Fruits, Oranges
and Lemons, Butter, Eggs, Beans, Onions, etc.
GREEN VEGETABLES AND OYSTERS.
122 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

ORCUTT & COMPANY,

WHOLESALE AND COMMISSION

Butter, Hoos, Cheese, Fruit, Grain, Hay, Beef, Pork, Produce

MUSKEGON , MICH.

NOTING and Sumer Hats and Cap

—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 $86 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 Coods,

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.
rt Cc. Es EHV XI.
36, 38, 40 and 42 CANAL STREET, - - GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN,

Consignments Solicited.

 

 

 

 

 

PHREINS & HES

— DEALERS IN——

Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,

NOS, 122 and 124 LOUIS STRERT, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

Castor Machine Oil.

The Castor Machine Oil contains a fair percentage of Castor Oil and is in all re-

spects’superior as a lubricator to No. 2 or No. 3 Castor Oil. The

OHIO OT, COMPANY

Is‘the only firm in the United States that has succeeded in making a combination of Veg-

 

etable and Mineral Oils, possessing the qualities of a Pure Castor Oil. It is rapidly com-

ingZinto popular favor. We Solicit a Trial Order.

Hazeltine, Perkins & Co., Grand Rapids,
RINDGE, BERTSCH & 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 Michiean Trade,

14 and 16 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

CLARK, JEWELL & CO,

WEROLESALE

Groceries and Provisions,

83, 85 and 87 PEARL STRERT and 114, 116, 118 and 120 OTTAWA STREET,
GRAND RAPIDS, “ - “ MICHIGAN.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Groceries.

A Challenge from the Grocery Jobbers of
Saginaw.
To the Wholesale Grocers of Grand Rapids.
The wholesale grocers of the Saginaws desir-
ous of cultivating a closer acquaintance with
their fellow grocers of Grand Rapids, and
feeling that a friendly social gathering will
redound to our mutual advantage, do hereby
challenge their brother grocers to a friendly
game of base ball, same to be played upon
the grounds of the Saginaw Base Ball Club,
subject to the rules of the Northwestern
League, areturn match to be played at
Grand Rapids, and proceeds of both games
to be donated to the regular clubs of the
respective cities, both games to be played
during the month of July, if agreeable and
convenient to both parties, no player to be el-
igible to play in the match unless a member
ber of the firm he represents.
WELLS, STONE & Co.
PLuMB, McCAUSLAND & Co.
Symons, SMART & Co.
R. Boyp & Co.
JOHN P. DERBY,
THE JAMES STEWART Co. LIMITED.
By Jas. Stewart.

 

 

Immediately upon the receipt of the chal-
lenge, the fact was communicated to the
various wholesale houses, aud it was decid-
ed to accept it at once. Several of the job-
bers left their desks, covered with—not or-
ders or remittances, but requests for exten-
tions—and repaired to the rear of the stores
to engage in practice. An attempt will be
made to fix the time about the 15th, and ev-
ery athletic jobber—and Grand Rapids job-
bers are all athletes, by the way—will repair
to Saginaw with the firm determination of
pulverizing any nine that Eastern Michigan
can place before them,

—_—————~< -@ <>
Failure of C; G. McCulloch & Co.

C. G. McCulloch & Co., jobbers in coffees,
spices and gtocers’ sundries have made a vol-
untary assignment to Jas. Gallup. The firm
is composed of C. G. McCulloch and John
H. DeLaney, and has been in existence since
last October. McCulloch claims to have fur-
nished the capital, $3,500, and is inclined to
attribute the failure to the fact that DeLaney
was unable to contribute anything to the
funds of the firm, although he says his part-
ner has acted honorably from beginning to
end. The latter part of June an inventory
was taken, which resulted in the following
showing:

 

ASSETS.
BOOK ACKONMIS... ..........-..2-...0-20 $4,547.24
(Caen Onn... te 241 33
(oan em nm cs ee 255 66
MerGuanGi5C.......-.....--.--+---.-<-.- 2,757 26
CCST ETc ig 531 91
Personal property......................- 603 00
BreemAnt. 2... +. so. 1,000 00
Total $10,136 40
LIABILITIES.
Bilemayenie 6... =... 5 $2,734 03
Notes payvable.............--.....--.-.- 4,197 57
Total $6,931 60

“When I saw these figures,”” said Mr. Mc-
Culloch, “I knew that all our original capi-
tal had disappeared, and that unless we could
get help from some of our friends, it would
be all day with us. I tried hard to interest
a number of moneyed men by way of a third
interest in the business, but it was no go. I
then realized that the only way left open
was to make an honorable assignment, Jeav-
ing the stock to the creditors, without pref-
erence, which I accordingly did. Of course
the stock will have to be sacrificed, and it is
extremely unlikely that creditors will realize
to exceed 50 per cent.”

$$$
A Business Scene. :

“Well, sir,” he said, rubbing his hands
and smiling pleasantly, as a young man en-
tered the store, ‘‘what can we do for you
to-day?” .

“You keep a good many things here, don’t

you?” the young man responded, looking
about.

“Oh, yes; we ees most everything in
stock. If there is anything you want that
you don’t see, just ask for it. We can sup-
ply you.”

“Well, I don’t see any money. My boss
sent me around with this old bill to collect,
so I'll just ask you for the amount.”

“Oh, yes; I remember the bill. DU’msorry,
but I guess you will have to wait a little for
the money,”

“All right,” replied the young man sitting
down in a chair, ‘‘that’s what the boss told
me.”

‘“‘What did the boss tell you?’’

“He told me to wait for the money.”
4
Features of the Week.

The grocery market has been about steady
during the past week. Sugars are a trifle
higher, and are firm with an upward tenden-
cy. Pickles area little lower. Whitefish
have declined, in consequence of the arrival
of the fresh catch and will go still lower with-
in the next week or ten days. Java rice and
Muzzy Gloss starch have advanced.

Provisions are higher and firmer.

a HO

Muskegon News: With such vast quan-
tities of pine and hard timber; which sur-
round Muskegon, the opening for manu-
facturers would bea profitable one. Tubs
and pails, wooden rolling-pins, bowls,
broomhandles, wheelbarrows, staves and
barrels, matches, shoe lasts, pegs, furniture
of all kinds, and a great variety of other
useful and necessary articles of commerce

can be produced here at the lowest possible

cost. A tannery would be a profitable ven- |

ture, as the hemlock is inexhaustible, and
so would other enterprises unnecessary to

enumerate.
———_—>_4+—__—-

Buffalo has more miles of railroad track
within her corporate limits than any other
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OATMEAL.
ASD ID DEMS 3... 5. oe. ook oe es ce es
BGOZIN DROS... oe see oe ae ek. we
Imperial bbls............... cae
Qurinkor DbIs.: 25 oes.
Star and Cresent, steel cut............
OIL.

Werosene We Wess s. )  cee

do. eral test. ... 3... 6.35.2.
Sweet, 2 OZ. SQUAre.... 6... cece eee
Sweet, 2 02. rOUNG..............0c cece
Castor, 2 OZ. SQUATC.... 2... ccc cc cece ee
Castor, 2 0Z. round........... .......6-

PICKLES.

Choicein barrels med..........
Choice in 4 oO
Dingee’s % do ,
Dingee’s quarts glass fancy...........
Dingee’s pints GQ eee
American qt. in Glass.................
American pt.in Glass..................
C. & B. English quarts................
C. & B. English pints..................

 

1

Chow Chow, mixed and Gerkins, quarts..

_

ae 4 25

eons 2 00

ada 1 25
wees 6 00
Gasca 3 60

  
   

    

   

 

  

VISITING BUYERS. WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT.
The following retail dealers have visited enn
the market during the past week and placed | 1. og scat cae meee .
orders with the various houses: Diamond Oe, 60
. . Modoc .. GOR oe eee a es
A. P. Waldo, with Bridger, Snell & Co.,| Paragon... 8 dom. 70
Lumberton. Paragon, 20 Ib pails.............20ee eee eee 90
Len Pelton, Morley. : BAKING POWDER. >
O. Green, Martin. apetic is = ce Bees eo ® doz. -
Chas. Lovejoy, of Loverjoy & Herrick, Big | Ayetie Phe a ae
Rapids. Beebo tH Cos. oe 2 40
M. B. Nash, Sparta. Arctic h CANS... 6606666... c ek 12 00
Jay Marlatt, Berlin. BLUING. Cc
F. B. Watkins, Monterey. Devs a : Beebe lose ae sce c ee aor, .
R. A. Woodin, Sparta. Liquid, 4 02, EU Ea CRS ee doz. 35
Sumner Koon, Lisbon. Tiemlt 6hr ee doz. 65
Geo. W. Sly, Muir. Archie 072. 25. .55..) 0.5 cies es #8 gross 4 As
H. P. Dunning, Allegan. er a
G. W. Sly, Muir. Arctic No. 1 pepper box. Cee 2 00
Ben West, of J. C. West & Co., Lowell. Meme Noe ie 3 00
Heber Walsh, Holland. Arctic No.8. 88) foe... 4 50
Dr. John Graves, Wayland. BROOMS. oi
M. V. Wilson, Sand Lake. “a Tote nee es tae 2 95
Dr. J. R. Hathaway, Howard City. ieee 25
Walling Bros., Lamont. NO Dur 0. esses .. 2 00
J. C. Benbow, Cannonsburg. No. 2 Hurl a oie ’ 6
John J. Ely, Rockford. ee
Peter Zalsman. Paris. pe a
Smedley Bros, Bauer. Cove Oysters, 1 ib standards.............. 115
J. W. Bragington, Hopkins. Cove pre oe shades te 1 85
Cove Oysters, slac Yes ase ene 15
Burne © Telex, Beuley- Cove Oysters, 2 tb slack filled.............. 1 25
Gringhaus Bros, Lamont. Clams, 1% standards..........0....00-0+ 1 65
Jorgensen & Hemingsen, Grant. Clams, 2 standards.................0000 2 65
Parkhurst Bros., Nunica. Lobsters, 1 ib standards.............-..--- 1 65
M. R. Griffin, Coopersville. see as ib Siandarae- cea : 2
F. C. Brisbin, Berlin. Mackerel, 1 Saas ee
Barker & Lehnen, Pierson. Macker el, 5 tb fresh standards............ 6 50
Geo. W. Bartlett, Ashland Center. Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 Ib........... 8 50
F. E. Davis, Berlin. Mackerel, 3 tb in Mustard............--.- 8 of
Andre Bros., Jennisonville. oe See ee
Cass Scoville, of Scoville & McAuley, Ed-| Salmon, 2 Columbia river........... 152 280
gerton. Salmon, 1 b Sacramento. belo ea 1 50
Kellogg & Potter, Jennisonville. Salmon, Wm. Hume’ alag Or ore... 1 a
7 Sardines, domestic }, 48 Bee ecb auc cea. Vy,
H. E. Clark, Lowell. _ Sardines, domestic 148......csseeseeeeeee. 12%
Geo. Sharer, Cedar Springs. Sardines, Mustard 148..............0.e000s 12
B. McNeal, Byron Center. Sardines, imported 48..................5- 15
0. Groen Martin Sardines, imported Jae oe, 20
2 q ; orte S, poneless.......... on
John D. Merritt, Olive Center. pb ean en, 50
W. C. Ball, of Greenwood & Ball, Grand- MTGut, Bi DLOOK... 66s... es yb . 300
deen CANNED FRUITS.
Jotin Scholten, Filmere Center. Apples, 3 i standards .....:...........006 90
C. H. Deming, Dutton. Apples, gallons, standards, Brie... 2 0
Nix, Campbell, Fowlet & Campbell, Nash-| Bitekberties oe. ee |
ville. : Cherries, white . oe 1 %5
C. Rk. Bunker, Bailey. WammsOns oe cae ee ces 1 20
R. Carlyle, Rockford. Egg a signaanee eee eae ; =
S. C. Fell, Howard City. Go aes senda deem a
J. R. Harrison, Sparta. Green Gages, Erie€.................--.eeees 150
J. H. Spires, Leroy. Peaches, 3 tb standards.................66- 1 ap
O. F. & W. P. Conklin, Ravenna. Peaches, = er Yellow......---+-- ae
S. A. Colby, Rockford. SA
Mrs. J. Ensing, Kalamazoo. Pears, Bartlett 2B ........seeeceeeeeereee 130
Johnson & Seibert, Caledonia. epee OOD Shands 6.00. 0f.. _ -
J. A. Stocum, Rockford. ulne . Berk oie ie inickes ici olate sis es seis c s'cie eo eo cre'e 125
DenHerder & Tannis, Vriesland. ee ae
J. C. Paris, Kent City. Strawberries, 2 tb standards............... 110
W. S. Root, Talmadge. CANNED FRUITS—CALIFORNIA.
Gc aealcar LeBarge en: MUSICS, 83s. = 27 2
Be re? : replame:. 6 2 85
C. 0. Bostwick & Son, Cannansburg. fo > 8S
Lee Deuel, Bradley. Pens 3 00
M. Minderhout, Hanley. rare Bt eee kee aces : ”
G. H. Walbrink, Allendale. Co ee SC aig
Baron & TenHoor, Forest Grove. 2 os aes
McLeod & Trautman Bros., Moline. Asparagus, Oyster Bay.........-..-..----5 a
13 . ibyerherch Viktils) (ak 58 Sapo h as ons oNecoeode 5
O. F. Conklin, Coopersville. Beans, String =e... ese 90
M. J. Howard, Englishville. Beas, Boston Baked..................---- 1 65
A. Engberts, Beaver Dam. Beans, Sernelons De ee eee coe i ie
Bs Sk, Melee: Grove: eee ae
B. M. Dennison, East Paris. (orn: Hegotine. o-oo selec cec sn eeee 110
J. Barnes, Plainfield. = a noun Ey ee 0
i iver. Or Trophy... 3). --..-.555...----.-.--.. 5
ae bleee ee oe Corn, ae Onandago:. 2-26... .. 28 k.. i 1 50
Sa aaa 3 ae Couns Acme. 2 565.405. see 25
Bert Tinkler, Hastings. Mushr rooms, FreENCh.........0.20. cee ceees Bees
John Van Eenaan, Zeeland. Peas, standard Marrofat................-. 1 40
H. Freeman, Mancelona. ee 2 2 ae (new) Be oes a Seta et ata 1 :
A. B. Foote, Hilliards. Be ae
H. Baker & Sons, Drenthe. Pumpkin. 3 "y standava Dn Saas 1 io
a Succotash, 2 tb standards..................
eed ~~ _—_____— ~~
fy ee Succotash, 2 fb B.& M........ 0... eee eee 1%5
Visiting Salesmen. Sauach, Bap atangards -.....:...... 2605 1 20
The following representatives of outside | Tomatoes, 3 ib Dilworth’s. . --1 00
: oe : : Tomatoes, 3 fb Job Bacon.. .-1 00
jobbers have visited this market during the | Tomatoes, gal. Erie..................00006- 2 95
past week, and paid their respects to the var- | Tomatoes, Acme 3. ------.....-..-...-+-. 120
ious wholesale houses: GD. 35 Ely’s Waterproof 5
Denis P. McCarthy, Towle, Carle & Co., | Musket...-------- -
Chicago. CHOCOLATE.
W. C. Richmond, Bean, Hughes & Co., Chi-| Bakor's premium... 0/00 Ga
cago. : : munkios! 6 ee @35
D. W. Kimball, Marshall Field and Co., | German sweet....................66 255 @25
Chicago. Wienna Sweet... .....2-265-...2.52--....-, @25
Mr. Chick, John H. Pray & Co., Boston. dain ou
Thos. A. Stevens, C. A. Jackson & Co., Green Rio Re 2 @I
GTOCDUAVA.. 2266... oes bese Yi @27
Petersburg, Va. Green Mocha: (2.6... 25 @27
Mr. Leedorn, Thos. L. Leedorn & Co., Honetnd ato ee eas z ol
Philadelphia. OUStOG JAVE.......5........... 2.525... é
John V. Farwell & Co., Chicago. ee a Ge
Si Wicks, Hemphill, Hamlin & Co., New | Roasted Mex...............0c0cceeee ees 174%@19
York. Ground WiOe 22... 94@1"
Mr. VanDeventer, VanDeventer & Horne, Ground Mex...) cii6s66 sc eee eee ee
New York. eoene Boe coos cscs cs cies. ce ccioc sca cs 6 art
Geo. P. Mills, Tonquin Bitters Co., Cin- Dilworth’ So es ee
cinnati, Ohio. oe @15%
Frank Conlon, C. E. Andrews & Co., Mil- | Magnolia.......... eo @b%
waukee. 72 foot Jute ..... 135 (60 foot Cotton....1 75
Mr. Cones, S. W. Venable & Co., Peters- | 60 foot Jute..... 115 |50 foot Cotton....1 50
burg, Pa. av one EXTRACTS.
>) emon.
How They Swindled Him. Jennings’ 2 es os oe oe eteek eccee sess ss 8 doz. 1 00
: BOT 8 oes GG hoe cee eel es 1 50
The neat manner in which a hotel keeper Cg 2 50
; . : a BOW oa ee cs se ee 3 50
was swindled is thus described by an ex- & No. z oe 125
change: A few days ago four well dressed o No. 4 oe ie
men entered the hotel and had dinnert i % pint nanan oe a
When the moment came to pay they said - No. Boveri cries 8 00
that they had no money with them, but Saale
would leave a valuable diamond ring. A Jennings’ ao Beene ee eee ® doz. 3 40
few days later they called, settled the pre- . OOM oo een sae 4 00
vious account, had another dinner, talked Mis Hed Stas ee
to the proprietor, and finally sold him the “© SNo. 4 Taper....................- 3 00
. 2 i 44 pint TOUN |. 2. 2... eee b ccs, 7 50
ring for $75. He considered that he had e tent wound... 15 00
made a good bargain, because, while it had ee ee
been in his possession, he had taken it to a : FAUCETS. a5 5
jeweler, who pronounced it to be worth| faucets; common... @ 88
$150. The guests, however, had, on their FISH.
te . stags WROIOCOR oso a 44 @6Y%4
second visit, substituted an imitation fac Boneless Cod........ .....3.... 2.22.5: 5@T@S
simile for the genuine ring. Borie Zh eee MD ees eee 2 re o
oe PITA SOMIOE oss oc ce
5 ‘ % WANA: oo Se ick. co cee
Among customs in Siam is a method of | White No. 1,36 DDS oD or 9
deciding a lawsuit by putting the litigants hs ae ~~ ete nnescobenses 3 e
under cold water, the one remaining the} White, No.1 12  kits................ 108
: ‘ Trout, No. 4,.% bbs... 2 .c6..33.85.. 4 50
longest being declared the victor. Trout, N 0, a 2 t kits ee 80
ackerel, No. 1, Riese ices 6 50
HIDES, PELTS AND FURS. Mackerel, No. 1, 2 1 WIGS. ec. 1 0
Perkins & Hess quote as fol.ows: FRUITS.
HIDES. qonioe. Layers, nee; ME ere as foes ae oak 75
en. 2 oose Muscatels Raisins, new........ aa 60
pe peneeee| ee , - se ig New Valencias Raisins..............- TH@i%
Full cured. ...... pelea iba ee oes Me 8% ee Wesensrenecssrsttoederersronvens a
IGOR ANGTADS. 2... seks 55. osc k 5 ie eee cece cence cence seer ececeees 2
ae skins, green orcured............. 5 on TUPKOY PIUNOS 6 625 ee aS ca 64@6%
pas SkING. 2650 2 asian @50 ets Bete ah che sels ee aieseciga tees ones
SHEEP PELTS. Dried Apples ..;..-....-.--s.:-s.s-0:. 8 @8%
pearing or Summer skins # piece. a one @20 hares
ON OMS os oe oS ie assess ees °
Winter pelts. «25... isccsessicss ess ce 1 00 Gi 50 | Richardson’s No. 2 square.................- 2 %0
WOOL. oo, a> @ 3 Behe cee : 5
Fine washed @ B..........00..2.000000 a ga tere 3 40
Coarse washed.............secceeeceses 18 @20 Richardson’sNo.8 do .................. 170
WOWHGHEG, oo oe a ee es 2-3 Richardson’s No. 9 do 9
Tallow........ Soe sgede pst aces ibe ieee 54@ 5% | Richardson’s No. 4 round ................. ..2 %0
eee eens og i ° ee pets x @ s
FRESH MEATS. chardson’s No. (sore RA era
John Mohrhard quotes the trade as follows: | Hlectrle Parlor No.18..00000000000000000000
Fresh Beef, sides............222ceee% 7% @ 8%/ Grand Haven, No. -: eee FOS eg ha veeo sl ees 2 50
Fresh Beef, hind eters bps ae +10 @10% Grand Haven, No. 8.............s.scseceeeee 1 60
Dressed Hogs.......... sescecceee TH@ 1% 20 gross lots special price.
oo CAarcasses...... boob ii ecase es 1 @ bye a os MOLASSES. ous
Oe rece ee ccce snes seenecerscrosroseses MAD occ cess ccc acerenserenccnessvey
WOW ay ia ee en ee ek as 16 | Porto RicO........ 0... cece cece cece ee cece «+p O0@35
sade Be os cad is New Orleans, YOOd. oes e see seeeseees
BOlOGNA.... 0.0.46 sceceeererereseeseee . GIO New Orleans, fancy.............4-+.++++ 4

 

   
 
 
 

 

      

Reece wn eenroes tons

a G..... eeet

eS ag

pints.. '3 60

Dingee & Co.’s C. c. M. &G. Eng. ae ais. 4 50

pts..2 75
PIPES.

Imported Clay 3 gross................. 2 25@3 00

Importeé Clay, No. 216...............- @1 85

American ID oe. oo. oe oe we 90@1 00

RICE.

Choice Carolina... oo. oo. s oeo ss eee seek 6%

iprime Caroling, -:... 0602. .62...3. eee ee 7%

PV oes Pee oe ae oe 6%

MU eh sc cake: 6%

PUAN OOO fie eee oe ec ees was 5%

SALERATUS.

Deliand’s pure... 226.8... ets @ 5%

@hurehis so en @ 5%

Waylows G; Mio ees. ee. cee ce @ 54

Cap Sheaty oo oe. piteceee @ 5%

DD WAGRGS oe ee ees eee 54

Sea HOM oe ee ek. @ 5%

Soy se OS OSU tie ee co. cose ec es @ 54

SALT.

60 Pocket -..6..00..2. 626... 2 50

28 Pocket........++ ties tee et cco cee es 2 35

1OO'S TD POCKEUS. ook oe cece cc ccc ee ee ' 2 65

Paeinaw WINE | eck. 1 00

Diamond Cite ei) cece 1%

Standard Coarse.....0.........0.-.... : 1 55

Ashton, English, dairy, bu. bags.. 80

Ashton, English, dairy, 4 bu. pags... 3 20

American, dairy, % bu. bags.......... 25

Rock, bushels Be ee Ce eh cues ccece . 30

SAUCES.

Lee & Perrins Worcestershire, pints. @5 00

Lee & Perrins Worcestershire, 4% pts. @3 00

Picadilly, 4% pints:.:.................<+ @1 50

Halford Sauce, large..............2.6- @3 75

Pepper Sauce, red small.............. @ %%

Pepper Sauce, BTCOM: 22020508 coca. @ 90

Pesper Sauce, red large ring.......... @1 30

Pepper Sauce, green, large ring...... @1 60

Catsup, Tomato, pints................. @ 90

Catsup, Tomato. quarts .............. @1 30

Horseradish, % pints.................. @1 00

Horseradish, pints...............--200- @1 30

Capers, French surfines............... @2 25

Capers, French surfines, large........ @3 50

Olives, Queen, 16 0Z bottle.:.......-.: @3 85

Olives, Queen, 27 0z bottle...... ..... @6 50

Olive Oil, quarts, Antonia & Co.’s @7 00

Olive Oil, pints, Antonia & Co,’s...... @4 00

Olive Oil, % pints, Antonia & Co.’s. @2 50

SEEDS.

HEOMIP . oe eco ek. Dec e coc iee cn 5

ee Vee on cae oo a. oe 5

RAPE Ce uc

Mixed Bird)... .-.. 54@E

SOAP.

Kirk’s American Family ........ 8 Ib 5%
Go:  Wndia oe eo ee 5%
Go Segoe.

GO. Satinet...... 0.0.2... 5. 6t 2.6... 54
fo, IOVENUC 60008. cee ce 53%

White Russian................ 4 %5
Goviaen’ s English Family .......... 5%
do. IPYINGCOSS foes ee a 44

Proctor & Gamble’s Ivory ........... 6 75

do. Japan Olive...... 5

do. Town Talk # box 3 70

do. Golden Bar........ 4 20

do. AVAD oo ec oce esses c. 3 45

do. AMMbeOns 5.5.6... 375

do Mottled German.. 4 20

Procter & Gamble’s Velvet...........- @3 40

Procter & Gamble’s Good Luck....... @3 25

Procter & Gamble’s Wash Well....... @3 15

BaAdGOr bt 60 tbs @ 6%

Galvanic: oe cle cee cecc ees. @4 20

Gowan & Stover’s New Process 38ibbr @18&%

MAD TOD seco esl sae. bar @ 16

Ward’ S White Wily... 23... 65. oe. @6 75

Handkerchiet....:. 0.005... .0..2..0 508 @A4 20

BIGSHIS Fe Cc ee 3 00

ISP DIGLS eo ee ee 5 25

DISD RAGE ees ee. 4 25

IHN eee eee seek oa 5 00

MAGN CHIC i658. ee sin ce ce 4 20

New French Process.................- 4 50

SpOOn 2 coos eae es ak. cs. 5 00

AntioWasnboard:.. 2... 6.0.0 ces see 5 00

Weterland ooo. eee i cee 3 25

IMBOIG see eck es 4 20

Pittsburgh Se ee eee 4 00

WOSUCS Glee oc occ es 6 75

White Gastile Dare. 5.662.665 s5. oe: 13

Mottled Castile... ..0. 0... 02 ess. 12

Old Style. oe ce @ 5%

Old Countny. oc. oe cee. 5%

Lautz Bros. & Co.

Acme, 10 1) Darts... 2... @ 6%

ACMe, 255 Dars.....2.. 2.2050. 6 2c. @ 64

Powel, 25. Oars... 20.0065. oe... oe fe @5 25

Napkin, 25 Pars. ..o.. 6.2.6... . 5 ss. @5 25

Best American, 60 1 ib blocks.......... @ 5%

Palma 60-1 ib blocks, plain...... ...... @ 5%

Shamrock, 100 cakes, a cane Sees @3 7

Master, 100-34 tb cakes ee @5 00

Stearine, 100 % b Canes. @5 00

Marseilles, white, 100 % tb cakes...... @6 25

Cotton Oil, white, 100 % Ib cakes...... @6 25

Lautz’s 60-1 ib blocks, wrapped........ @it

German Mottled, wrapped............ @ 6%

Savon, Republica, 60 tb box............ @ 5%

Blue Danube, 60-1 ib blocks........... @ 5%

London Family, 60-1 i blocks........ @5

London Family, 3-ib bars 80 fb......... @4 00

London Family, 4-f bars 80 Ib......... @4 00

Gem, 100 cakes, wrapped....... Se G3 85

Nickel, 100 cakes, wrapped..... eee @A 00

Climax, 100 cakes, wrapped........... @3 25

Boss, 100 cakes, wrapped.............. @2 30

ee Castile, Toilet,3 doz in box @1 2
A. No. 1, Floating White.............. @ 7

SPICES.

Ground Pepper, in boxes and cans... 16@22

Ground Alispice. ....52,...5.05....63< 12@20

CINMAMON Sooo bse oss ooo eee se 16@30

WlOVES fee ee ee 20@25

GUN GOR eo. oes es cai es 17@20

MaIstard oso. ooo. cee ie cas, 15@35

Cavyennes... 6s. e ot ec hee 25

Pepper 4 ib ® dozen.............4..... 75

PALISDICG MoIDi eee oi ek 75

Cinnamon  I................. 1

ClOVeR 36-10... oc eee, 75

Pepper, whole: ...:...:..22..... @18

Allspice .. @10

Cassia .... @12

CLOVES: .: 3.6... WE oie oe aoe aoe 20 @22

Nutmers, NOt. 26... ole. 70 @75

STARCH.

Muzzy Gloss 1 h package.............. @6%

Muzzy Gloss 3 Ib package.............. @6%

Muzzy Gloss 6 ib boxes................ @i%

Muzzy Gloss bulk....................-. @6%4

Muzzy Corm 110... .. 02... 35.02... es 6%@7
Special prices on 1,000 ib orders.

Kingsford Silver Gio @8

Kingsford Silver Gloss 6 b box....... @8%

KMingeastord Corn... 6... cts lees 84@8%

OSWEGO GIOSS.. 2.222... eile se @6\%4

Mirror GIOSS. 03.066 oos ee eee @b%

Mirror GOSS, COTN............ cece eceee @b6%

ICV SRGAL) 6.066.665. es ce. ee ee @A

Niagara Laundry, 40 tb box, bulk..... @5

“ Laundry, bbls, 186 tbs........ @5
fe Gloss, 401 tb packages pee es ce. @t
Gloss, 363 8 packages....... @6
af Gloss, 6 tb box, 72 Ib crate.... @7

Corn, 401m packages................. @i%

American Starch Co.’s

1D GIORS 622 on see es @b6%

10'0G GOSS oo os oes cee wea ccs @3%

Si GIORG eee ca cele cee tees @6

6 ib Gloss, wood boxes................. @i

Ree COM. 20 eo es le tone 40 tb @6%

Waple COrms x. oo ieee wes 20 b @it

SANNOL, DIK soca os ce oc caine te be es @4

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TIME DALOB. ooo eso eh es ces ese

CROCS Fy G cnc oes aces sees oe 7

Milk ences Bey oda b ec cet weak cece 7

STOVE POLISH.

Rising Sun gross..5 88|Dixon’s gross...... 5 50

Universal .......... 5 88| Above # dozea..... 50

Pe oes 5

SUGARS.

Cit LOSE ooo boss cue sk vaca e sees eae @8

MOS ioe eee poses e ese @8

POW GOTOG oon Seen s fa cies teriekeess ces @%%

he ar ppt Sent e Vicditcckes ulaseces @1%
- Ds a oe da ees aie pica @6. %

OIE Ae oes oe cu ones ones eas cee @6b %

Extra C Wille. 6 ie Soicea® 64@6%

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: SYRUPS. ;
Corn, BBrrels. ... 0c. @ 32
@orm. 36 DDI): eo eo @ 34
Corn, t0 gallon kegs.................... @ 35
Corn, 5 gallon kegs.................0008 @1 80
Corn, 4% gallon kegs................... @1 65
Pure SUMAN. soso oe ee eo ce css bbl 28@ 32
Pure Sugar Drips................ bbl 80@ 36
Pure Sugar Drips........... 5galkegs @1 8
Pure Loaf Sugar Drips... ...... ¥% bbl @ 9%
Pure Loaf Sugar. .......... 5galkegs @l1 90

TEAS.
Japan ordinary. poses Pletea 3 Hyson.. ..25@50
Japanfair........ 5\Gun Powder..... 35@50
Japan fair to g’d. Sha Oolong eoeceas 338@55@60
Japan fine........ veal” ONO... 0.20 @30
Japan dust.......15@20
TOBACCO—FINE CUT.
OSG BUG... oe cb. eee. ee ce @50
Oe a eee @45
Our Bird) 230 ee. @30
IBOREGNES ©. 6.52 ek @38
MOrrIsOnS HIG... 0.005... 020256222 -- @50
WHCEOE ce. @60
Diamond Crown.............. 0.260 @57
Red Bind i eee: @52
Opera@ueen.....0.. 2... @40
pweet Hose. ees @45
Green Back... ee @38
PUG ae @33
O So Sweet... ose @31
Pramio BlOWer: 62.5 oes: @6d
Climber [light and dark].............. @62
Miateniesss ie oy ee @65
RAW aACN a oo cee @69
GONG ee ee @70
May BIOWGR soo. be kl... @i0
CRO oe ee @45
GIRS ee ee oe @35
Royal Game,.......... oe ee @38
Silver ERRORG, 2.250062. @67
Nea oo es... Wa Oe dees ec sacs ces ces @60
Kentucky ........ Peele caskcoes sacs cee cs @30
Mule Ear......... Pec eo eae. @67
ROCK BSROO ee soe cess cscs coe cous @32
Peek-a-Boo, % Herre. @30
Clipper PoOx’s: 0050.05. 2............ @32
Clipper, Fox’s, in half barrels... 2.12. @30
WOUNGAIN Fee @i4
Old Coneress. oe, @64
Good Timek 5... @52
Good and Sweet.................. e @45
WAZ AWRY. 28). c lk! oe @35
Iain Ditters... 0. 6.5. e es kee ae @30
Old Glory. Weht.: 6.6.5. oo. ck. @60
Charm of the West, dark.............. @60
Governor, in 2 0z tin foil.............. @é60
: PLUG.
BoB PS BBVOMEO@. c.cccue i.e @50
Old Kentucky Rous suadee ee uc cac usec @50
i HOWE 2x ee @50
Bie HOU GR es cee ce wc @50
Dar by and Joan, SIPSIZOS. 2.2... @50
Murkey. 16 O25, 2x12... 00 cc. oie cc ee @50
Blackbird, 16 0z., 3x12................- @34
Seal of Grand Rapids.................. @48
GIOBY oe eo. @50
DUGAN oe. @A8
Silver Come 6) ee, @a0
muster: [Wark :.c........:........-..- @36
Black Prince [Dark]................... @36
Black Racer [Dark}.............-..... @36
Leggett & Myers’ Star................. @50
VUNG c cee e sects tee e case @50
Old Hast: oo ese ese. @48
McAlpin’s Gold Shield................. @48
Nickle Nuggets 6 and ie Tb cads....... @51
Cock of the Walk 6s.............. -. Gat
Black Spun Roll......... @38
Nimrod? .........- @A8
PNCOED Foo Boe coe : S48
REG Seal oo c ale, @46
@resCGnt. ec ee ce ees... @44
IBIROR NC ce: @35
Black Hasso ee. @40
ne Guitte oss e. @35
Nobby Spun Rollo... 2... ..3. 22.2... .. @5
SEDO oe soa eo coo ase oat cs oe @5
Grayling, all styles. ... 2.02.20... 2.205: @50
IMR CIA os occ ce @AT
ITOTPSE SMOG o.oo a, @30
Good Wiel. oo. ee @5
Big Chirk op JE. oc... ko cee @40
ai PAGter oo ee se fcc: @37
me and P. blackK. oo. cae @37
McAlpin’s Green Shield............... @A8
Ace High: black. .......2......2.+---<e @35
Ghampionm A. eee. @48
DaHORSs, SOMCE.: .: 0... ieee elke @48
ed Sta ee @50
SHOt GU @48
MUCK eee oo on @48
UID OR oo ol. @40
Apple Jack........... POE UO @50
deek Rabbits. 2656000 os oes. @42
SMOKING.
Morning Dew. (0.000.060: ote, @26
Chain eee @22
Seal of Grand Radids.................. @25
@30
@28
Pug i @30
Ten Penny Dur ee. wand \......... @24
Amber 4 and b..:.....5...20.00. 052. @15
Dime SMOKING... 6s... clk tls @22
Red Hox Smoking. ......0...0.0-0...0.- @26
jaime: Kan @luibes 22... os eek, @AT
Blackwell’s Durham Long Cut........ @90
Wantty Wain 2:22. el ce, @90
DING eee ae, 24@25
IPGERICRRi.. 2 22002 03) 0 @25
StenGgard 29 ‘ @22
Old Bom oes ce, @21
Mom & Jory 2.6.60 ae. @24
ORG ee @2
IMEVGIG @35
WCC GS ee ee O26
ROMS ee @27
INSiVy CHppIngs 2.20.06... 6 lk. @24
Honey Dew......... Be ae @25
Gold Block @32
Camp Biren @22
Oronoko...........5.. me Ue a ee @19
Nigger Hoot Be gee UCL. @26
Dur a % tb Bee as @60
4 le ed wea ieic os area G sicie aie ac sola s @57
Pe VOD ee @55
do Pe @51
ONAN oe eee @22
German oo. y @16
one Rom ee oe @30
INSTIODS ee @26
PBT a @26
Hove's Dream... 06.000: @28
CORGQUELOR (hoo ooo co @23
WORN oe. @22
Grayling oo... ee @32
edt CRIM ee. @30
Dime Durham .............. @25
ROD ROY... 0.6.2.2 ee @26
Uncle Sam........ @2
Lumberman .. @26
Railroad Boy.... @37
Mountain Hose... _......,.......... @20
Good Bmoueh:. ........ clk @2
Home Comfort, 4s and %s............ @25
Old Rip, lone cut:... 5... 2.52... @ad
Darham, long cut, No. 2.............. @55
MEwo Nickle, 45.52. oe. ecco... @25
Mwo Nickle, 48.00.0262 002 oes @26
Stan Durham oo... @25
Golden Flake Cabinet.................. @A0
Seal of North Carolina, 2 0z........... @52
Seal of North Carolina, 4 0z........... @50
Seal of North Carolina, 8 0z........... @A48
Seal of North Carolina, 16 oz boxes.. @50
Big Deal, 4s longeut.................. @2
Apple Jack, 48 granulated........... @2
King Bee, longeut, ys and 4s........ @22
Milwaukee Prize, ys and s.......... @24
Good HnOGes, 5¢e and 10e Durham.. @24
Durham, S., B. & L, %s and \4s........ @24
Rattler, longeut Mie oe cis ore ole @28
Windsor cut plug. ....-.. 0.265000 00 cs. @25
SHORTS.
MGI Bat eee eee ek 23
FRG WRGRS 60805 coe ae a 23
Old: CONRTCSS. oc... coe. oes oak 23
RQMOe eer e cee a cee eee ee, 23
SNUFE.
Lorillard’s Ma&GODOW .. 2: ceee ecco Se. @55
American Gentleman Saws @72
Rappee, A. Beck & Co.’s............... @35
Gail & Ax’s Macoboy.................. @44
Scotch, Railroad Mills................. @44
VINEGAR.

Pure. Cider. . ....ce se ak eee 10@12
White Wine... 2622. oo ch ccs... 10@12
WASHING POWDERS.

DIG GO WD oo eo sa cnet le oe ccc ck @10%
Gillett 8 @ MW <0: ioc. ee @i%

BOGDING PERy 6.5 ei ice eee c tcc ce eee 7@10
Pearline  DOX...... oi cece woes cues @4
Lavine, single boxes, 48 1 Ib papers.. @4 50
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 48 1 ib pap’ rs @4.25
Lavine, single boxes, 100 6 0z papers. @4 50
Lavine, 5 or more ote 1006 0z pap @é4 25
Lavine, single boxes, 80 % Ib papers.. @4 15
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 80 % i paprs @4 00
YEAST.
Twin Bros....... 175 |Wilsons .......... 1 %5
Gillett’s......... 1% |National......... 1 75
MISCELLANEOUS.
BIROKING . . 02.6 ke erases 30, 40, oe
do  waterproof..................
Hate Brick imported .................. 1%
do AMOPGRR 6605. ee %5
PAPIOG Ss oh wees Coa es @3%
Parner, NOs De oo ee cats ew epee 110
G6 GNOGS. fo. bees ccke eee, 1 50
Bags, American A................00085 00
Condensed Milk, Eagle brand......... 8 10
Condensed Milk, WISH ook swe eck 7 50
Curry Combs Oh ee 1 25@
Cream Tartar 5 and 10 cans........ J @25
Candles, Star......... PELs Peet ac hab ucins @15%
Candles, POEL 4. ca vk sic pesceceace yp Q@ABY

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— No. 1 Decale eo eee ete ce @35
ING oe. a @46
cecuaut. Schepps’ 1b packages. 26%
Cocoanut, Schepps’1&%hb do . @27%
Extract Coffee, Vv Mc 6s ee 90@95
do Felix Se oe 30@
Flour, Star Mills, in DbIs | eo eo ee 5 75@
do In Sacks. 2... 2.252: 5 50@

Flour Sifters # doz
Fruit Augurs each.................
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Gum, Rubber 200 lumps. @
Gum, Spruce............... 35@,
Ink @ 3 dozen box..................... a
MOV i bale. @ 6
do Glass Tumblers '% doz..........., @i5
Lye @2 doz. cases..................... @1 55
Macaroni, Imported................... @13
DOMOCSHG.. |... @ 5%
Hpouoh Mustard, 8 0z @ dozen........ @80
"Large Gothie........ @1 35.
Oil Tanks, Star 60 gallon.............. @10 00
Fee aieen Bush. @1 65
do Split prepared................... 2 3
Powder, Keg. / Bg 5 g ”“
: do % Keg ees cele 3
UO oa ae ence. 5@
SHOU GEOM... 6.2. 1 sce
do, buck. 2 10@
Bae6 @15
Tobacco Cutters each... 5. L 2%@
DG ee ee 18@20
apiOCH 0 5@6
Wicking No. 1 58 @XOSS.. 6 @40
do) No-2 6 @65.
do Aoi See ee tc 1 0@
CANDY, FRUITS AND NUTS.
Putnam & Brooks quote as follows:
STICK.
Straight, 25 tb esas: }
Twist, do eu
Cut Loaf do @12
MIXED.
Royal, 26% pails. ........0.-....... 404
Royal: 200 I bbls... ... 2... oo... e io”
Bots, Ziel PES o.oo lly
Eortra, 200 i bbls... - 11
French Cream, 4b pails... 14
Cut loaf, mul CARO yoo. ld
Broken, 25th pails.............. 11%
Broken, ! aGe DMS... 10%
FANCY—IN 5 Ib BOXES.
Memon) Drops. 20.66. coco cece obo ca. 14
Sour Drops. 3... 6 15
Peppermint Draps.............. 2.06... 16
@hoeolate Drops. ...... 62.062 ...0. 17
HEM Chocolate Drops.............. 22.2.2... .20
Gum Drops ....... 4.6... a
iecorice Props... 20
AB Wicorice Drops.  ...- 1.1.2. 14
Fozenees pigin..-... 2... J6
Hozenresy primted............ oe 1
EWIDGRIBIN 16
WOUCOCS Ee 16
Oreamt Har... 15
WolassesBar 2 ag
Caramels. 20
Hand Made Creams.......................... 23
igi @veams. 8 20
Hecorsted Creams....... _.................2 23
Peni ey OGK 16
Burne Almonds: -. 2... ... oc 24
Wintergreen Berries........... .... ca eec sl
Fancy—in Bulk.
Lozenges, plain in pails..................... 14
Lozenges, plain in bbls...................... 13
Lozenges, printed in pails................... 15
Lozenges, printed in bbls................... 14
Chocolate Drops, in pails..............-..2.. 14
Gum Drops, in pails... .. 2... :
Gum Drops, im bbIS..:..-.. 2.2.3...
Moss Props, in pails... .................. u
Moss Drops, tm bbls... ............ 22.2.2. ok 9%
peur Drops. im pails... .. 22... al. 12
NMIpPeriais, In patie... kc, 14
bmrperiais. i DBIS...... 22.2... eo 13
FRUITS.
Oranges @ DOM. o. 5 oes. cele, 5 00@6 00
Oranges OO @ box... -... 20.20...
Oranges, Imperials, #% box............
Oranges, Valencia 2 GaS@. ce...
Lemons, choice......-.-...........:.. 4 00@5 06
Lemons, MMNOW eo 5 50@6 00
Bananas # bunch...................... 2 00@4 00
Malaga Grapes, @ keg.................
Malaga Grapes, # bbl..................
Bigs, layers qi. ....6...-.0. lee. 12@16
Wigs, famey GO. ..5.0.-. 2... 18@20
Figs. baskets 40 Ib @ tb... 0... ele, @l4
Dates. frails QO 2 ® 6
Dates, 4 do GO... 2s. sees : @7
Wetes shine... @ 6
Dates, 4% skin......2.......: a @ 7%
Dates, Fard 10 t box ®@ fb............. 10 @11
Dates, Fard 50 tb box # Ib.............. 7 @8&
Dates, Persian 50 fb box ® tb........... 64@ 7
PEANUTS.
Prime Red, raw B a eee cee eo
Gidea da. de. @ &
Fancy do ae bees oc e es @ 8%
Choice White, Va.do .................. @9
ancy EEE. Va de-.....2....35.... @10.
NUTS.
Almonds, Terragona, # b............. 18@19
Almonds, Ioaca, GQ 65.2 ee. 16@17
Brazils, GO. . 9@10
Pecons, dO... 2... 10@14
Filberts, Barcelona do .............
Filberts, Sicily €0 2.052. @14
Walnuts, Chilli €0 .. 22: @12%
Walnuts, Grenobles do ............. 144@15
Walnuts, California do. . .......
Cocoa Nuts, @ 100  —s_...... ese @4 56
Hickory N uts, Javee @ bu... ..........
Hickory Nuts.small do ........... . 12

PROVISIONS.

The Grand Rapids Packing & Provision Co
quote as follows:

PORK.
Heavy Mess Pork... .. .25. 22)... 0... 3. $16 75
Back Pork, short cut.......:............ 17 00:
Family Clear Pork, very cheap........... lj 75
Clear Pork, A. Webster PAOKEL.. ooo. cc. oe 18 00
Daas Garo ......... 19 00.
Clear Rack Pork, new....... 2.0006... 550k 19 50
Boston Clear Pork, extra quality......... 19 25
Standard Clear Pork, the best... .. ......; 20 0G
All the above Pork is Newly Packed.
DRY SALT MEATS—IN BOXES.
Long Clears, heavy, 500 as Cases....... 9
do. Half Cases........ . 914
Long Clear medium, 500 ib Cases........ 9
do Half Cases ....... 914
Long Clears light, 500 i Cases.......... 9
do. Half Cases.......... 914
Short ‘Siena, Reauy. (1. 9%
Oo. IGG eo se 9%, °
z Tighe oe. 9%
Extra Long Clear Backs, 600 Ib cases.. 9%
Extra Short Clear Backs, 600 Ib cases... 10
Extra Long Clear Backs, 300 ib cases.. 10
Extra Short Clear Backs, 300 Ib cases.. 10
Bellies, extra quality, 500 tb cases. 914
Bellids, extra quality, 300 tb cases...... 9%
Bellies, extra qulaity, 200 ib cases...... 934
LARD.

MNICKEOGR 25002 asc ae 8
30 and 50 ib Tubs: .................-.00000 814
LARD IN TIN PAILS.

20 Ib Round Tins, 80 f racks............ 814
50 I Round Tius, 100 fh racks.......... 814

3b Pails, 20 in a case................... 9

5 Ib Pails, 12 in. a case .................. 8%

10 Pails. 6 im & Case 2... 2. oe 8
SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED OR uae

Hams cured in sweet pickle, heavy. . 3
Hams cured in sweet pickle medium.. i 34%
do. Hght...... 1334
Shoulders, boneless.................... 914
Shoulder, cured in sweet pickle.. : 8%
Extra Clear ACO.) 88. 11%
Ribbed Bacon, ..--.<..: 00.22 8s cco 10%,
Dried Beef. Extra... ..... oso... 0.5. i6

BEEF IN BARRELS.

Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 tbs...... 11 00
Rolled Beef, cordless................0.005 16 7d.
CANNED BEEF.
Libby, McNeil & Libby, 14 ® cans, % doz.
UUs CSCO ee ee ee ee eee 18 25
do. 2 ib cans, 1 doz. in case.... 2 80
Ar moe & Co., 14 Ib cans, % doz in case 18 25
9 Tb cans, 1 doz. in case. 2 80.
a 2b Compr’ d Ham, 1 doz. incase 4 00
SAUSAGE—FRESH AND SMOKED.
POek SAUSARE. 2 lis o oo oes be ce 9
RAM SAUSARO. . eos es oo oes cece 15
Tongue Sausage............ EAs ae Ceseun fas ll
IVON SRURELO) 7 oo a. eo ees ccc 8
Frankfort Sausage.............. ccc ccc ues 10
Blood Sausage... .. . ese. oe ec ce ck eden 8
IROIOGHE, TING... 65 ce ak one reco o-
Bologna, straight... .. 0.02.00 ccc eve ccaccese 8%
Bologna, thick: ...5. 06. ccs ode ccc bbw eek oh
Peat ©neese. 2.66 2
PIGS’ FEET.
in hale barrels... oo oo eee esc 3 90:
In quarter barrels............0... 0... .c 000. 2 10
BYERS ccc ce ee,
TRIPE.
Pahalé barrels... oo. .coc.0c. 5 cs ccc 8 15
In quarter barrels............ ccc cc ccucceee =
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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...... 2244|Pequot, 9-4......... 24
CHECKS.
Caledonia, XX,0z..11 |Park Mills, No. 90..14
Caledonia, X,0z...10 /Park Mills, No. 100. .
oR OF... .5 10 (Prodigy, 0z.........
Park Mills, No. 50..10 jOtis Apron......... 10%
Park Mills, No. 60..11 (Otis Furniture..... ae
Park Mills, No. 70..12 |York, 1 0z..........
Park Mills, No. 80..13  |York, AA, extra 02. it
OSNABURG,
Alabama brown.... 7 {Alabama plaid..... 8
Jewell briwn....... "9% Augusta plaid...... 8
Kentucky brown..10%/Toledo plaid........ 7%
Lewiston brown... 94|Manchester plaid.. 7
Lane brown........ 9144|New Tenn. plaid...11
Louisiana plaid.... 8 |Utility plaid........ 6%
BLEACHED COTTONS.
Avondale, 36....... 844/Greene, G, 4-4...... 5%
Art cambrics, 36...11%4/Hill, 4-4............. 844
Androscoggin, 4-4.. 844) Hill, 7-8............. 74
Androscoggin, 5-4. "12% Hope, 4-4........... 7%
Ballou, 4-4.......... Ty, | King Phillip cam-
Ballou, 5-4.......... 6 ric, 4-4..:........ 11%
Boott, O. 4-4........ 8% |Linwood, 4-4....... 9
Boott, E.5-5........ 7 \Lonsdale, 4-4....... 8%
Boott, AGC, 4-4..... 9%|Lonsdale cambric.11%
Boott, R. 3-4........ 53,| Langdon, GB, 4-4... 7"
Blackstone, AA 4-4. 7%4/Langdon, 45........
Chapman, X, 4-4.... 6%4|Masonville, 4-4..... ou
Conway, 4-4..... .. 734 Maxwell. Adee 10%
Cabot, 4-4........... 714'New York Mill, 4-4. is
Capo, JS... --. 64% New Jersey, 4-4...
Canoe, 3-4........-- 4 |Pocasset, P.M. Cc. 74
Domestic, 36....... 744| Pride of the West. ets
Dwight Anchor,4-4.10 |Pocahontas, 4-4.... 8%
Davol, 4-4........-- 914|Slaterville, 7-8...... 6%
Fruit of Loom, 4-4.. 9 |Victoria, EN le
Fruit of Loom, 7-8.. 814| Woodbury, 4-4...... a
Fruit of the Loom, Whitinsville, 4-4... 7%

ecambric, 4-4...... ig Whitinsville, 7-8.... 6%
Gold Medal, 4-4. . Wamesutta, . fae (1644
Gold Medal, 7-8..... " 6% Williamsville, . 10%
Gilded Age......... 834

CORSET JEANS.

SINOLy ...-.-.----- 7% |Kearsage........... Si
ae oesin sat.. 8144 Naumkeagsatteen. 8%
Canoe River........ 6 Pepperell bleached 8%
Clarendon.......... 6% ‘Pepperell sat....... a
Hallowell Imp.:... 6%/Rockport...........
Ind. Orch. Imp.... a4 Lawrence sat....... a
Daoconia _.-........- w%|Conegosat..........

PRINTS.
Albion, solid........ 5¥4|Gloucester bee 6
Albion, grey.......- 6 \Gloucestermourn’g.6
Allen’s checks...... 5%|Hamilton fancy.. ..6
Ailen’s fancy....... 5%4|Hartel fANCY........ 6
Allen’s pink......... ere aac D......... 6
Allen’ ‘spurple.. 6%|Manchester ......... 6
American, fancy.. ..5% Oriental fancy...... 6
Arnoldfancy........ 6 |Oriental robes...... oh
Berlinsolid......... 54%4|Pacific robes........ 5
Cocheco fancy...... § |Richmond........... 4
Cocheco robes....... 7 |Steel River Ao ee 5%
Conestoga fancy....6 |Simpson’s........... 6
Eddystone ........-- 6 |Washington fancy..
Eagie fancy.........5 |Washington blues..8
Garner pink......... 7

FINE BROWN COTTONS.
Appleton A,44.... 8 |Indian Orchard, 40. 84

Boott M, “C aeeetes 1% ‘Indian Orchard, 36. 8

Boston F, Aa. ee 8 “Laconia 3, i-4.....: 16%
Continental C, 4-3.. i Lyman B, 40-in..... 10%
Continental D, 40in VA

os nee BB, 4-4....... 64

Conestoga W, 4-4.. Nashua E, 40-in.... 9

Conestoga D, 7-8.. * 5%|Nashua Raid 73%
Goussusn G, 30-in. 644|Nashua O, s a
Dwight X, 3-4 es 6 |NewmarketN......
Dwight W393... 6%4| Pepperell E, 39-in.. By
Dwight Z, 4-4....... s |Pepperell R, —
Dwight Star, 4-4.. - om Pepperell O, 7-8.. 6%
Ewight Star, 40-in.. |Pepperell N, 3-4.. - 84
Enterprise EE, 36.. 53c|Pocascet Cc, a
Great Falls E, 4-4.. “iSaranac R.......... iM
Farmers’ A, a. * 634) iSaranac E.......... 9

indian Orchard, 47%
DOMESTIC GINGHAMS.

 

Amoskeag ........- 8 |Renfrew, dress styl 9%
Amoskeag, Persian Johnson Manfg Co,
SLyIG5-<.........-. 10%) Bookfold ......... 12%
Bates... ..-....--.- 7%| Johnson Manfg Co,
Berkshire .......... 6%| dress styles...... 2%
Glasgow checks.... 7 |Slaterville, dress
Glasgow checks, P y 7 134) styles... .- 9
Glasgow checks, |W hite Mfg Co, stap 7%
royal styles...... 8 |White Mtg Co, fane 8
Gloucester, new [White Mant’g Co,
- standard ........- 74,1 #ariston.....-...- 9%
Phmnket .....--...- 74% Gordon............. 8
Lancaster .......... 8% Greylock, dress
Langdale ........... Weg SEVACS ..... -:.--- 12%

WIDE BLEACHED COTTONS.

    

 

ndroscoggin, 7-4..21 |Pepperell. 10-4..... 27%
ae cireacie. 8-4..23 |Pepperell, 11-4..... 32%
Pepperell, 7-4...... 20 |Pequot, 7-4......... 21
Pepperell, 8-4...... 22% Pequot, 8-4......... oe
Pepperell, 9-4...... 25 (Pequot, 9-4.. 1%

HEAVY BROWN COTTONS.
Atlantic A, 4-4..... 714 \Lawrence XX, 4-4.. 84
Atlantic H, 4-4. .... 7 \Lawrence Y, a0... 7
Atlantic D, 4-4..... 644 |Lawrence LL, 4-4.. - 5%
Atlantic P, a 53% Newmarket ie 7%
Atlantic LL, 4-4... : 5% Mystic River, 4-4.. : 6%
Adriatic, 36......... ie) ‘Pequot A, 4-4....... 8
Augusta, 4-4........ 6% |Piedmont, 36....... 7
Boott M, 4-4........ 4 ‘Stark AA, 44....... 7%
Boott FF, 4-4....... o% | ‘Tremont cc, 4-4... o74
Graniteville, 4-4.. M\Utiea, 4-4........... 9
Indian Head, 4- 4-4.. Te ‘Wachusett, 4-4,.... 7%
Indiana Head 45-in. "12% | Wachusett, 30-in... 634
TICKINGS.
Amoskeag, ACA...14 |Falls, XXXX....... 1814
Amoskeag ‘ 4-4..19 /Falls, XXX......... 15%
Amoskeag, A...... 13 Falls, Bis... cane 11%
Amoskeag, B...... ie \Falls, BBC, 36...... 19%
Amoskeag, C...... \Falls, awning...... 19
. Amgskeag, D...... 10%. Hamilton, BT, 32..12
Amoskeag, E...... 10 |Hamilton, D....... 10
Amoskeag, F....... 9% Hamilton, a. 10
Premium A, 4-4....17 |Hamilton fancy...10
Premium B........ 16 Methuen AA....... 13%
ee. Beebe 7 Methuen ASA......18
Pixtvai-3.....-.-.--- 14% |Omega A, 7-8....... 11
Gold ‘Medal as... -- 15 |Omega A, 4-4....... 13
CA 7-8 12% Omega ACA, 7-8....14
jOmega ACA, 4-4....16
Omega SE, 2
Omega SE; 4-4......2

F44 ¢ pueee er ga 7-8. ed

rdis AAA, 82..... 14 mega M, 4-4....... 2
Cordis ACA, 32..... ap Shetucket Ssasew ie
Cordis No. 1, 32..... Shetucket, 8 & ee
Cordis No. So id Shetucket, SFS. /
Cordis No.3........ 13 |Stockbridge A..... a
Cordis No. 4........ 11% |Stoekbridge frncy. 8

GLAZED CAMBRICS.
Garner ..........--. 5 |Empire.............
Hogkset.....-...-.. 5 |Washington........ 4%
Red Cross.........- 5 |Edwards............ 5
Forest Grove....... |S. S. & Sons......... 5
GRAIN BAGS.

American A....... 19 ‘Old Ironsides...... 15%
Sink A. o2...---s 2344|Wheatland ......... 21%
DENIMS.

Boston |... ss: iOS CC... 8.5.55. 10%
Everett blue....... 144%\Warren AXA...... Ry
Everett brown..... 14% :Warren BB........ 11%
(otis AX A......---- 12% Warren CC......... 10%
lis BB... .-.--.5:- 114%\York fancy........ 15

PAPER CAMBRICS.
Manvilie.......-.--- 6 18.8. &Sons......... 6
Masgnville......... & IGARer .. c=. <a sss 6
WIGANS.
Red Cross.......-.- 74|Thistle Mills........
SSCCMU os cs ics ee: 19% ROBE. . 5s 0-3-5650 ope 8
re ge | o) deery re TH)

SPOOL COTTON.

Red Gross :
Social imperial... 20

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Dosevae ee

 

Eagle and Phoenix
Mills ball sewing .30

¢ & P. oe eye g 55 iGreeh & Daniels...25
Willimantic 6 cord.55 {Merricks........... 40.
Willimantic 3 cord.40 (Stafford ............ 35
‘Charleston ball sew Hall & Manning... .30
ing thread........ 30 iHolyoke............ 25
SILESIAS.
Wh... «....17 {Masonville TS...... 8
No. Os. secs r ss 12%|Masonville 8....... 10%
sae - Lonsdal

stew wseres

see esanet

 

Pheenix B.

        

for two.weeks only.
10% soar Gi Address for one week T, 33

 

COUNTRY PRODUCE.

Asparagus—A bout out of market..

Bailed Hay—Searce and firm at $15@
$16 % ton.

Buckwheat Seed—$1.25 P bu.

Butter—Choice dairy packed is worth 15@
16c. Creamery packed 19c.

Beans—Handpicked readily command
$2.25 @$2.50. Unpicked are not much mov-
ing.

Beats—40c ¥ doz. bunches.

Cabbages—$6@$8 Y 100, according to
size.

Cheese—Full cream 9@924c.

Clover Seed—Choice medium firm at $6
@$6.50 # bu. and mammoth in fair demand
at $6.75 $ bu.

Cucumbers —45¢e ¥ doz.

Dried Apples—Quarters active at 7@9c PB
tb, and sliced 8@9c. Evaporated dull and
slow at 1214 @14e.

Eggs—Firm and ready sale at 16@1’%c.

Green Onions—30@35c ¥ dozen bunches.

Hungarian Grass Seed—$1 bu.

Honey—Choice new, 16c ¥# Ib.

Hops—Brewers pay 35@40c for Eastern
and Western and 18@20c for Michigan.

Lettuce—In fair demand at 10c # fb.

Maple Sugar—Dull and plenty at 12)¢ce.
for pure, and 8@10ce for adulterated.

Millet Seed—$1 4 bu.

Onions—New, $2.50 # sack and $4 PB
bbl. .

Pieplant—Ordinary stock in fair demand
at 2c @ ib.

Peas—60@75c @ bu.

Peas, for field seed—$1.50 4 bu.

Radishes—16ec $ dozen bunches.

Potatoes—Old are about played out.
Choice new are worth $2.75@$3 per bbl., but
are no a downward tendency.

Powtry—A little more plentiful.
seling at 15@16ce.

Timothy—Choice is firmly held at $1.75 PB
bu.

Tomatoes—lIllinois $1 4 box of 3¢ bu.

Wax Beans—$1 Y bu.; Green, 75c per
bu.

Watermelons—Large scaly bark Georgia
are worth $40@$45 per hundred.

GRAINS AND MILLING PRODUCTS.

Wheat—White, 95@98c; Lancaster,
$1.05.

Corn—45@60e # bu.

Oats—White 40c # bu.

Rye—52@54e # bu.

Barley—Brewers pay $1.30@$1.40 # 100
Tbs.

Flour—Faney Patent, $6.50 @ bbl. in
sacks and $6.75 in wood. Straight, $5.50 @
bbl. in sacks and $5.75 in wood.

Meal—Bolted, $1.45 @ ewt.

Mill Feed—Screenings, $14 % ton.
$13@$14 @ ton. Ships, $15 % ton.
dlings, $17 # ton. Corn and Oats, $23
ton.

 

Fowls

96@

Bran,
Mid-

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LUMBER, LATH AND SHINGLES.

The Newaygo Company quote f. 0. b. cars as
follow:
Uppers, Linch. ..............:..-... per M 7 ’
Uppers, 144,1% and 2inch................

  
  

Beiects, 8 meh oe se oe: 35 00
Selects, 144,1% and 2 inch......... ...... 38 00
Fine Common, linch.................... 30 00
Shop, 2inch..-.. 60... 3... ss 22... 20 00
Fine, Common, 4 1% and2inch. ...... 32 00
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 12,14 and 16 feet 15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet Pe eae See 16 00
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., Poteet... .. 2s... 7 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 12, 14 and 16 feet..... 15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet................ 6 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet................ 17 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 12, 14.and 16 feet...... 15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet................. 6 00
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 20feet................. 7 00
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 12, 14 and 16 feet..... 12 50
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet................ 3 50
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet................ 4 50
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 12, 14 and 16 feet..... 12 50
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet................ 3 50
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet................ 14 50
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 2, 14 and 16 feet...... 11 50
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., eo 12 50
No. 2Stecks, 8in., 20 feet................ 3 50
Coarse Common or shipping culls, all

" widths and lengths....-.... .......-... 9 00
A and B Strips, 4 or6in............... .. 35 00
O Straps, forGinch. .... 2... 2s..3 se 8. 28 00
No. ¥¥encing, all lengths................ 15 00
No. 2 Fencing, 12, 14 and 18 foot 12 00
No 2 Fencing, Mie 12 00
No. 1 Pencing.4 inch... ..c. lee 15 00
No. 2 Fencing, 4 inch.....:............... 12 00
Norway C and better, 4 or 6inch.@....... 20 00
Bevel Siding, 6inch, A and B............ 18 00
Bevel siding, 6 inch, C..............2..... 14 50
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, No.1 Common.. 9 00
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, Clear.............. 20 00
Piece Stuff, 2x4 to 2x12, 12 to 16ft... 15 50@11 00
$1 additional for each 2 feet above 16 £t.

Dressed Flooring, 6in., A. B............. 6 00

Dressed Flooring, 6in. C................. 29 00

  
 

Dressed Flooring, 6in., No.1,common.. 17 00
Dressed Flooring 6in., No.2 common.... 14 00
Beaded Ceiling, 6 in. $1 00 additiinal.
Dressed Flooring, 4in.,A. Band Clear.. 35 00
Dressed Flooring, 4in., C................. 6 00
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5in., No.1 com’n 16 00
Dressed Flooring, 4 or5in., No.2 com’n 14 00
Beaded Ceiling, 4 inch, $1 00 additional.

XXX 18in. Standard Shingles......... 3 50
RRS In, TI 68... s st 3 40

DOR AB A 3 00
No. 2 or6in. C. B18in. Shingles......... 2 00
No. 2or5 in. C2738. 16 4m os 1%
TAT oc ee. 2 00

OYSTERS AND FISH.
F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows:
OYSTERS.

New York Counts, per can................... 38
Hixtra BCICCB.. oo ee ois os es 35
FRESH FISH. |
MOORTIB eo eg ee 8
MAUGOCK ee eee 7
SINCE oe eee 5
Mackinaw Trout... 2. .-...2.22. seed os sass 7
ACEO 8 8s eee ee eed fi

Whitefish .
Smoked Whitefish and Trout. . 3
PINOKEASIITCCON.. 5. 5.5 ol ane oe cece 8

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS.

 

Adv poeeemeat: of 25 words or less inserted
in this column at the rate of 25 cents per week,
each and every insertion. One cent for each
additional word. Advance payment.

ws TED—A position as traveling salesman
or head clerk ina mercantile establish

ment by an experienced and thoroughly com-

ee man. Address T. M. Stryker, Coral,
ich.

OR SALE-—Stock and good will of retail gro-
cery store in one of the best locations in
Grand Rapids. Will either rent or sell building.
Stock and fixtures will inventory about $1,000.
Address XXX, care THE TRADESMAN.

ANTED—A first-class baker. Apply to C.
A. Lockinaw, Kalkaska, Mich.

yee A position in a first-class drug
store by a young man of experience.
Address A.,

 

 

 

 

 

care THE TRADESMAN.

 

ANTED.—A number of traveling sales-

men to handle a line of shirts in connec-

tion with their other line: Liberal Commission

paid, Address, Marshall Shirt Manufacturing
Co., Marshall, Mich.

AVING WITHDRAWN from the business
formerly carried on under the firm name
of Graham & Sweeney, at Hopkins, Mich., I
will not hold myself responsible for any debts
contracted under the above name.
June 11, 1884, N. SWEENEY,

OR SALE—A stock of new, fresh staple gro-
ceries and fixtures complete. Willinvoice

$500 or $600. This is an extra chance for some
young man, with a small capital to make mon-
ey. The town has 3,500 inhabitants, one rail-
road, and will have a cross road within four
months, and new water works. The place is
ane fast. Very low rent. Reasons for

8e. have business in another town and
can not be at both ro “ offer this chance
Would take a oon rusty
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3, or Box

 

10, Hastings, Mich -

A STRANGE STORY.

 

A Cheboygan Merchant Interviews a De-
funct Clerk.

From the Cheboygan Democrat.
For some years one of our prominent

merchants has been a firm believer in spirit-| N. H.C. ¢

ualism and all its manifestations—visible
and invisible. Whether Deacon Williams
is responsible for this or not we cannot say,
be that as it may, the subject had been a
prolific source of conversation between the
merchant and his clerk and intimate friends.
Some year or two ago an agreement was
made between the merchant and one of his
clerks, that whoever should die first should
return if possible, and bring the other tid-
ings from that ‘unknown bourne”. At that
time both were strong, hearty men, and to
all appearances it would be a long time be-
fore either would join the silent majority.
But the clerk sickened and after a long ill-
ness he died. As it became evident that he
was dying he spoke to his employer again
on the subject, and solemnly promised to
return again if it were possible, A month
or so after the remains of the departed were
deposited in the cemetery, the merchant be-
gan to anxiously await tidings from the
Land of the Leal. At first nothing occurred
out of the ordinary run of things terrestrial,
but as time passed the merchant began to be
conscious of a presence—

“An impalpable impression on the air,—
A sense of something passing to and fro,”

And jumped to the conclusion that his
friend was trying to break through the veil
of mystery that shrouds the other world, and
was so excited that he retired to his room,
where, after the feelings of the merchant
had been worked up to the proper pitch to
enable the shade to approach, it began to
materialize, until the portly form of the
clerk stood beside the merchant the same as
in life, and then ensued a long conversation,
during which the spook volunteered if the
merchant would go to Chicago, to perform a
miracle and cure a slight lameness the mer-
chant suffered from while working through
the medium of a ‘“‘healer.”’ The visit was
made and the lameness was greatly relieved,
and another visit will be made, when the
cure, it is expected, will be completed. The
intimacy between two friends of two differ-
ent worlds has now become so great that
the merchant keeps some of his intimate
friends up all night in his room while he
talks to the departed, who, however, is in-
visible to all but himself, and whose voice
he alone can here. ‘The story is a strange
one, but there is no doubt but that the mer-
chant is firm in the belief that he sees and
talks with the departed, and so sincere is
he that several of his friends have been
convinced.

——>-2- <<. -
The Campaign.
From the Industrial World.

Indications now point to a very active
and exciting Presidential Campaign.
acertain extent this will injure the regular
business of the country. In some branches,
however, there will be increased activity.
Flag-makers, manufacturers of regalia and
uniforms, torch-light manufacturers, and
makers of transparencies will have their
hands full. Ready-made-clothing dealers
already report a large business in Grand
Army of the Republic suits, and campaign
hat-makers also are crowded with orders.
These are special industries brought into in-
creased activity by the political contest.

Will regular business be neglected? Why
should it? Men need not stop working be-
cause of their intense anxiety to elect the
President of their choice. There will be
large numbers of public gatherings, no
doubt, and these will attract many from
their stores and shops to attend them, but
this, at best, will be only a temporary inter-
ruption to business.

It may be expected that all kinds of
trade will be less active for the months of
July and August than for the two or three
previous months. At least, there are few
indications looking to activity during these
months, but the dulness, if it should prevail,
will not be all due to political excitement.

Many are forced to the belief that the
best interests of the country would be sub
served by extending the Presidential term
from four to ten years, thus preventing the
too-frequent recurrence of Presidential cam-
paigns, with all of their unsettling and de-
moralizing effects. In the present contest
the people will not loudly complain of the
ill effects of the political agitation if the re-

sult. of the election shall prove satisfactory.
a
He Wasn’t From the South.

“Yes, sir, I was up to the Chicago Conven-
tion,” replied one drummer in response to
the inquiry of another as they both looked
around in vain to see if there were any pretty
girlson the car; “had a royal time, too.
Walked about the hotels and made people
believe I was a big politician. Tried to
make Steve Elkins believe I was a delegate
from the South, and hard up for stuff to pay
my hotel bill with. But he was too flip for
me—couldn’t work him.”

“How did he catch onto you?”

“Well, Vl tell you. He took me into room
40, Grand Pacific, clear into the little back
bedroom. ‘Now,’ says he, ‘we want all
the friends we can get in the south. We're
going to have a glorious foreign policy, and
—hbut let’s take a drink first,’ sayshe. ‘Cer-
tainly,’ says I. ‘Whitelaw,’ says Steve, ‘pass
the bottle.’ They gave methe bottle, butI
hesitated. ‘What now?’ says Elkins. ‘A
glass, if you please,’ says I. ‘Young man,’
says Steve, as he took me by the collar,
‘your name may be Brown, and you may be
a delegate from Georgia, but I believe you
are an infernal liar. You’re the first man

from the South I’ve seen—and I’ve seen
about all of ’em—that asked for a glass to
drink whisky out of. Joy: or. hoi out of

here.’ le GN tal ove alice

 

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-| Olmstead’s.

Dardware.

Prevailing rates at Chicago are as follows:
AUGERS AND BITS.

 

 

  

  

  

   

  

Ives’, old ae Res Gee Shei s eo. cas dis

oe « MOMMING: 563k cece. dis 25

Jennings’, imitation........... ........ dis40&10
BALANCES.

PDMS eo ee dis 2
BARROWS.

UARIPOSG ee $ 15 00
Garden.) eee net 33 00
BELLS.
ANG dis $ 60&10
COW ee dis 60
Cae ee dis 15
Gone ee dis 20
Door, Dargvent. 6.0 oe dis 55
BOLTS.

SLOVO. soo ee dis $ 40
Carriage and Tire, new .ist........... dis 75
IBIOW. ee dis 30&1C
Sleigh Shoe.) dis 50&15
Cast Barrel Bolts:........-...0...0..- dis 50
Wrought Barrel Bolts................ dis 55
Cast Barrel, brass knobs..... ee dis 50
Cast Sqnare Spr dis 55
Cast Chain dis 60
Wrought Barrel, brass knob......... dis 55&10
Wrought Square eect a os 55&10
Wrought Sunk Flush................. dis 30

Wrought Bronze and Plated Knob
Flust ee ae ee 50&10&10
Ives: DOOR 02.00). be dis 50&10
BRACES.
Barber... dis 40
BACKS. ee dis . 50
SVOROLG] oe dis 50
Am. Balle ee dis net
BUCKETS,

Wel Digimon $ 400
Well, SWIVEL Set ee 4 50
BUTTS, CAST.

Cast Loose Pin, figured............... dis 60
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin br onzed...... dis 60
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed..dis 60
Wrought Narrow, bright fast joint..dis 50&10
Wrounht Loose Pin... .......2. ..dis 60
Wrought Loose Pin, acorntip.. ..dis 60& 5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned........ dis 60& 5

Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silver
tippe CO dis 60& 5
Wrought@able: 0000 dis 60
Wrought imside Blind... 3. 5.70 dis 60
Wroucht Brass: .. 00.0 2...2.0. 2, dis 65&10
Binds @larkss 6 60025051 dis T0&10
Blind, Parker's. ..050.) 0. oe. dis 70&10
Blind, Shepard’s..............2......, dis 70
Spring for Screen Doors 3x2%, per gross 15 00
Spring for Sereen Doors 38x8....pergross 18 00
CAPS.
Hy 10 Pee m $ 65
Hacks ©. Ho : 60
G. D label enusis) siete sy a) aie el plcliciet cia oie ale 35
MUSKet. 6. oo ee 60
CATRIDGES.
Rim Fire, U. M.C. & Winchester new list 50
Rim Fire, United States................ dis 50
Central Hire.) oe dis 4%
CHISELS.
Socket Hirmer. 2000) dis 65&10
socket Praming:.. 06.520... dis 65&10
Bocket Comers... 02.0. 0055.2 0 20. dis 65&10
NOCKCL SUCKS: 0585, dis 65&10
Butchers’ Tanged Firmer............ dis 40
Barton’s Socket Firmers............. dis 20
COMM es ecco net
COMBS.
Curry, Lawrence's)... 2.2.5 5..1. 8. dis 38316
PROUCCHIASS 22506600570, dis 25
COCKS.
Brass, RAGING Soe 40&10
ISIDDIS oe 49&10
Beer: ee Ste 40&10
ONRS ee ee 60
COPPER.
Planished, 14 oz cut to Size.............. Bb 3
NAXOe AA OOS 14X00. ooo 39
DRILLS.
Morse’s Bit Stock.................,.% dis 35
Taper daind Straight Shank............ dis 20
Morse’s Taper Sodnk................. dis 30
ELBOWS.
Com. 4 piece, 6 in.................. doz net $1 10
COMMPATCG ee dis 20&10
AGU MBtADIC 2 Fe ee, dis 40&10
EXPANSIVE BITS.
Clar’s, small, $18 00; large, $26 00. dis 20
Ives’,.1, $18 00; 2, $24 00; 3, $30 00. dis 25
FILES.
American File Association List...... dis 4010
IDISSTON'S (25. ck el dis 40&10
New American.......... ..dis 40&10
INICHOISONS.. 502500 ee dis 40&10
Hellers dis 30
Heller’s Horse Rasps................. dis 3344
GALVANIZED IRON,

Nos. 16 to 20, 22 and 24, 2and26, 27 28
List: 12 13 14 15 18
Discount, Juniata 45, Charcoal 50.

: GAUGES.
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s......... dis 50
HAMMERS.
Maydole & Co.’8.. -. ... 6... .3.22..0..-.. dis 15
HGUDIS Fis ee ee dis 25
Yerkes & Plumb’s. 2.00.00. 6 occ 5k... dis 30
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.............. 30 ¢ list 40
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. .30 c 40&10
HANGERS.
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track dis 50
Champion, anti-friction.............. dis 60
Kidder, wood tra.k................0.. dis 40
HINGES.
Gare Clark's; 1,2, 8.00... dis 60
Biase co er a oe 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to 12 in. 54% 1
and 1ONPeOr ec. 4 25
Screw Hook and Pye; 34. .......... 4: net 10%
Screw Hook and Kye %.............. net 8i4
Screw Hook and Eye 4 eG. net 1%
Serew Hook and Eye, %............. net 7%
SECA ANG ee ee we dis 60&10
HOLLOW WARE.
Stamped Tin Ware.............. 60&10
JapannedsTin Ware.............. nee 20810
Granite Tron, Ware....:......2....2. 5... 25
HOES.
Grup fe ee $11 00, dis 40
Gren 2 11 50, dis 40
Grub 3 oo ee ee 12 00, dis 40
KNOBS.
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings...... = 00, dis 6¢

Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings..
Door, porcelain, plated trim-
THINGS. eee oe list, 7 25, dis 60

. 2 50, dis 60

Door, ‘porcelain, trimmings list, 8 25, dis 60
Drawer and Shutter, porcelain coe. dis 60
Picture, H. L. Judd & Cov’s.. ..-..2.6 d 60
PIOMACIG 40080. os es ce ss dis 50

LOCKS—DOOR.

Russell & Irwin a: Co.’s reduced list dis 60

Mallory, Wheelnr & Co.’S................ dis 60

Brantord’s 05.5 .cee eso eee dis 60

INOPWHIKCS 6 3 oe ee ek ae dis 60
LEVELS.

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............. dis 65
MILLS.

Coffee, Parkers Co.’S..............020005 dis 45

Coffee, P.S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables dis 45

Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s........ dis 45

Coffee, EMtOrpris@. 3) .2 20.065. ces. ss dis 25

MATTOCKS.

INO7O HYG). os. oe: $16 00 dis 40&10

EUUMG WV Co. 5. oo ice oe ses $15 00 dis 40&10

PUNUS oo. ce es $18 50 dis 20 & 10
NAILS.

Common, Brad and Fencing.

JOG tO: GOG. oo 3. oss ie oe ss 8 keg $2 2

Sa and 0G BAV: oo. oc oes Hee eek

6G Sma TO BAV 6. noe ees Se cece sau 30

@4 ONG DO BGV ee cee. ee det "5

Ba BAVONGCE (25.5 ose o ec occ ie ks cc eee co eeees 3 a

BU TNO BAVANCO. 2. kei ks es ee eS

Clinch nails, @OV. o.oo i ie eka : ".

Finishin t 10d 8d 6d 4d

Size—inches § 3 2% 2 1%

Adv. @ keg $125 150 175 200

Steel Nails—Advance 15c from above prices.
MOLLASSES GATES.

  

 

Stebbin’s Pattern 2... .6.6.600 cs cence eee dis 70
Stebbin’s Genuine...... ....... cece eee ee dis %0
Enterprise, self-measuring........... ...dis 25
MAULS,.
Sperry & Co.’s, Post, handled............ dis 50
OILERS.
Zine or tin, Chase’s Patent.......... Live .dis 55
inc, with brass bottom..................dis 50
Brass or COP ese: Fine aus ....is 40
Reape: wagietrssersnsseseesees t|

PLANES.
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy.............2..0005 dis 15
SciotaBench................. oe ee dis 25
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy.... ......... dis 15
Bench, first quality...............0....... dis 20
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood and
PANS.
Bry, AGM6).3. 5.060 dis 40&10
Common, polished. ’................. ...ais 60
Dripping. eee ceo ocd eg co ee 8 Ib 8
RIVETS.
Iron and Tinned..................2... dis 40
Copper Rivets and Burs.............. dis 40

PATENT FLANISAED IRON.

‘““A’’ Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10%
“B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25 to27 9
Broken packs \c # bb extra.

ROOFING PLATES.

IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal Terne........... 5 75
IX, 14x20, choice Charcoal Terne.......... 7 75
IC, 20x28, choice Charcoal Terne........... 12 00

IX, 20x28, choicC Charcoal Terne.......... 16 90

ROPES.
Sisal, % In. and larger.................. Bg PB 1”
Manilla eRe eo lec eccg Coeur eee eee
SQUARES.
pteeland Trom..9...02 0... 25. 0c. dis 50
iIRuviand Bevels. 60...) ee dis 50
IMETGRE: eo soe ee dis 2
SHEET IRON.

Com. Bmoet- Com.
INOS. 10 tO 14 tt. 3 20 $3 20
INOS. 40 to LG. 3s. 20 3 20
INOS: IStO 2h oo. eee 130 3 30
INOS: 22.t0 24, 0. cee 4 20 3 20
INOS) .2b/bQ) 262 20) ooo, 4 40 3 40
INO2i ees 4 60 3 60

Alt sheets No, 18 and lighter,
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SHEET ZINC.
In casks of 600 Ibs, #% fb..............00..
In smaller quansities, WD... occ. e.
TINNER’S SOLDER.
INO: EP Reined ec.
Market Half-and-half............. 2...

over 30 inches
6%
q

13 00
15 00

Strictly Half-and-half.................. 16
TIN PLATES.
Cards for Charcoals, $6 75.

IC, 10x14, Charcoal... ...0...5.......... 6 50
IX, HOmi4 Charcoal:.. 6 ..06.6:..00. 8. 8 50
IC, Pexi?: Charcoal... 612. 6 50
Ix, 2x1. Charcoal ..........62.2..... 8 50
IC, dw), CHAFCOOl. ooo 6 5
IX, 14x20, Charcoal..... Gece ea. co. 8 50
IxXx, 14x20, @harcoal.. 6... 10 50
Ixxx, Wx20) Charcool <...:.. 00.02. 2 50
IXXXX, 14x30, Ciarcoal .. 6006) lec... 14 50
Ix, 30x28, Charcoal ee gee eal au. 18 00
BDC, 100 Plate Charcoal.................. 6 50
DX, 100Plate Charcoal.................. 8 50
DXX, 100 Plate Chareoal........... 52.0... 10 50

DXXX, 100 Plate Charcoal................ 12
Redipped Charcoal Tin Plate add 1 50 to 67
rates.
TRAPS.
Steel, Game...
Onvida Communtity, Newhouse’s....... dis 35

  
 
 

Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s. 60
HVOtGHIISS) ee ie 60
Sb. w We Mie Covs. oe 60
Mouse, Gioner = 20e 8 doz
Mouse, delusion.............. Heo. $1 26 # doz
WIRE.
Briche Market: 80 0 ee, dis 60
Annealed Market... 6:0... 600c20. 0. dis 60
Coppered Market: ..........5...2...:...2. dis 55
Eixura Bathing oo. dis 55
Tinned, Market. ... 0.6. 60555. 25005... kis 40
Winmed Broom. ........ 4. .......- 4.1... 8 tb 09
Pinmed: Mattress... 20. oo. , tb 8%
Coppered Spring Steel.... .. dis 37%
Tinned Spring Steel ee .. dis 37%
Plain Fence.....7..... .. 8 ib 314
Barbed Fence... Wee ee Nee
COPDGW. o.oo ok a new list net
WSRASS ee new list net
WIRE GOODS.
Bright eee ae dis 60&10&10
BOrew HVeS.0. 0 es dis 60&10&10
INOOKSSE ge eee oo oe dis 60&10&10
Gate Hooks and Eyes.............. dis 60&10&10
WYrENCHES.

Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled..........

@oe’s Genwine: 7... 6s. coc ose. dis 50&10
Coe’s Pat Agricultural, wrought. ....:.dis 65
Coe's Pat:, matieable: <.i.0..2.2:52...... dis %0

MISCELLANEOUS.

IRumps, Cisterm..<.. 00... ot. dis 60&10
Screws’ eee ee ee ore ee eas 70
Casters, Bed and Plate................. dis 50
Dampers, American..................... 3334

 

 

FOSTER,
STEVENS
& CO,

—WHOLESALE—

HARD WARE

10 and 12 MONROE STREET,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

WE

DEALER'S TRADE,

And NOT the Consumer’s.

SOLICIT THE

 

We are Manufacturers’ Agents for the

Crown Jewel Vapor Stove,
New Era Roller skates,
Jowelts Bird Cages,

ALL OF WHICH WE QUOTE AT BOTTOM
PRICES.

AGENTS FOR THE

RIVERSIDE STEEL NAIL

A Stock of which we now have in store—and
solicit Sample Orders. PRICE ONLY FIF-
TEEN ue CENTS ABOVE COMMON NAILS.

 

 

Weare carrying to-day as large a stock,
and filling orders as complete, as any house
in Michigan.

 

 

The Introduction of Steel Nails.

The long-talked-of steel nail is now a
reality and has become a bona fide article
of commerce, with every appearance of hay-
ing come into the market to stay. Small
stocks of them are in the hands of the job-
bers, and the next few months will deter-
mine whether the nail will meet the popu-
larity which has been predicted. The pro-
duction as yet has been very small. Only a
few scattering car-load lots have been ob-
tainable, the bulk of the shipments from the
mills even being in less thancar-loads. The
experimental stage, in so far as it effects the
value of steel for nails, is now passed, but
many minor details of production are yet in
question, and itis a definite settlement of
these that is awaited before the manufac-
ture is begun in earnest. Stee Inails have been
made in small quantities in this country for
some time, but they were held at fancy
prices and occupied no important place in
the general trade. The price at which they
shall be put upon the market is not yet
definitely settled, because the cost of pro-
duction as compared with iron nails is not
yet ascertained. For the present, the Ben-
wood nails are selling at the same price of
iron, and the Riverside are held at 15 cents
per keg higher than iron. The nails now
in the market are made entirely of soft
steel, neither Bessemer or open-hearth, and
of course the necessity of puddling is done
away with. The local makers are using
with success the same machines formerly
used for iron nails. At the East some alter-
ations in the machines have been made, the
value of which is not yet developed.

The question of making the nails suffi-
ciently lighter to make up in number the
additional cost per keg to the consumer has
received considerable attention. While it
is pretty generally admitted that the greater
strength and rigidity of the steel would ad-
mit this, the change to a lighter nail is held
by the hetter-intormed to be of very doubt-
ful advantage, to say the least. The nails
would not only have to be cut light enough
to make up the difference in price to the
consumer, but also to admit of that price be-
ing raised to recompense the manufacturer
for the increased cost of the light cutting.
The most important claim for steel nails is
their rigidity, and this advantage would be
lost in making the nail enough lighter to
meet the above requirements. Furthermore,
experience teaches us that a certain amount
of cleavage is essential and any reduction
of the same is cf doubtful advantage. In
fact, it has of late years been the custom to
make the iron nails as light as admissable.
The small] additional cost named above, it is
thought, however, will not prove an obsta-
cle to the popularity of steel nails, and their
use is, it is believed, destined to become gen-
eral. The extra cost is, in many instances,
more than offset by saving in breaking and
in labor for boring holes for nails in hard
wood. ‘The chief advantage, as has been
said, lies in their greater rigidity, and it is
for use in hardwoods that they are mainly
in demand. They are especially adapted to
flooring and molding purposes. The nails
are said to finish somewhat better than iron
nails and to have fewer flaws.

et
Glucose in Leather.

According to the Shoe and Leather Re-
view, the falsification of the weight of leath-
er by adding glucose, or grape sugar ap-
pears to be carried on rather extensively in
Germany, and the shoe trade societies are
taking steps to protect themselves from the
imposition. A simple test is recommended,
which consists in placing pieces of the leath-
er in water for the space of twenty-four
hours, when the glucose will be dissolved by
the water, and the result will be a thick,
syrupy liquid. When two pieces of the
leather are placed together and left in that
position for a time, it will be found difficult
to separate them, as the gummy exudations
will stick them together. It is stated that
some samples of sole leather were found to
contain as high as 30 to 40 per cent. of extra
weight. Another test recommended is to
cut off small pieces of the leather, and,
wrapping them in a damp cloth, lay them
away fora few days in a temperate place.
If the leather is adulterated, the pieces will
be found to be stuck together, and surround-
ed by a syrupy substancein proportion to
the quantity of the adulterant used; and the
peculiarity about leather treated with grape
sugar is that, after wetting, it is difficult to
dry, and resembles gutta percha or untanned
leather more than the genuine article.

1
Canes and Umbrellas,

The manufacture of canes and umbrellas
in the United States extends from Massa-
chusetts to California, and from Michigan to
Texas, including nineteen different states,
although the production in some of them is
very small, notably in [Couisana, where the
product amounts to only $500, and Virginia
producing only $900 worth. The number
of shopsin the United States is given as
172; number of males employed, 1,504; fe-
males, 1,863, and children, 245 ; total amount
of capital, $2,646,425; material used, $4,502,-
777,

8
What May Be.
From the Ishpeming Agitator.

Geologists claim that at the junction of
the granite and slates of this region there
ought to be indications of tin. Nothing has
yet been found of this metal, but the rocks
which are so prolific in other minerals may
yet prove to contain this. There might be
a search of a systematic kind ‘made for it
with good results. Little is known of tin
by explorers hereaways and mines of it may

 

 

{have been trampled under foot for ages past

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The Michigan Tradesman.

PENCIL PORTRAITS—NO. 21.

 

 

 

Dr. J. B. Evans, the Handsome Man of the
Grocery Trade.

Josiah Bidwel Evans was born at Water-
town, N. Y., Dec. 23, 1849, and about a year
afterward his family removed to Walton,
Delaware county, same State, where they still
reside. Josh. attended the village school at
Walton, subsequently studying the higher
branches at Deposit, and completing his edu-
cation at Cornell University. While getting
an education, he taught school winters, and
all his studies were pursued with the single
idea of fitting himself for the profession of
teacher, in which vocation he subsequently
attained considerable success. He was mat-
ried Aug. 17, 1870, and in the spring of 1872
removed to Missouri, where he was principal
of graded schools at St. Francisville and
Athens. In 1875 he accepted the principal-
ship of the public school at Farmington,
Iowa, where he had charge of four depart-
ments, his wife being intermediate teacher.
He filled the position acceptably for three
years, when he resigned to remove to Michi-
gan, teaching the school at Berlin the coming
year. He then attended a course of medical
lectures at the Hahnemann Medical College,
at Chicago,—from which comes the designa-
tion “Dr.”—and afterwards practiced with
Dr. Marvin, of this city‘ several months. *In
1880, he engaged with J ohn Caulfield to at-
tend to the wants of the city. trade and make
short trips outside, which position he filled
for about a year, when he accepted an
offer extended him by W. W. Kimball, to
sell musical instruments. On the sale of the
business to McIntyre & Goodsell, he contin-
ued with the house, remaining in the position
until June, 1883, when he engaged to travel
for Cody, Ball & Co. His territory includes
to D., G. H. & M., east and west, the G. R. &
L, from Howard City to Plainwell, the C. &
W. M., as far as Watervliet, and east to Eat-
on Rapids on the Michigan Central. He sees
his trade regularly every three weeks, and
there is every reason for thinking that his
visits are as acceptable to the trade as they
are satisfactory to the house he represents.

Mr. Evans is a genial companion as well
as a polite and accomplished gentleman. He
is a capital collector—very much better than
the average—and takes front rank asa sales-
man. Ile holds his trade by ‘doing the
square thing by his customers, and making
everything right,” as he expresses it, and to
this fact is to be attributed the success that
has attended his career as a traveling sales-
man.

 

—_—__ > 22>
Logs Run on Rogue River.

Mr. Wim. H. Powers, secretary and treas-

urer of the Rogue and Grand River Log Run-

ning Co., furnishes THE TRADESMAN with

the following table, showing the number of

   

logs handled by the company during the pres-
ent season, and the individual owners of the

same:
C. C. Comst0ck..........-2ee eee ee er eree 6,022,620
A. B. Long & Soms.......-----++2+-r eee? 3,194,000
Grand Haven Lumber Co........------ 2,992,920
C.F. Nason..........--------2- eee ec eeee 2,718,672
Robinson, Letellier & Co.........------- 2,637,783
Cape Woodenware Co........--.+-+: 1,920,490
R. H. Woodin............--0- 2-202 -ee eee? 303,391
Buswell, Cairnes & Co.........----+-++- 267,720
Michigan Barrel Co........-------+--+++- 172,132
Total 20,224,728

This is a considerable falling off from the
figures of last year, the logs run during 1883
amounting to 39,090,000 feet. It is estimat-
ed that the next two years will completely
exhaust all the pine worth running on the
river, the most of which will be cut next
year, and even then the total amount will
probably not exceed 10,000,000 feet. The re-
mainder, which will be for the most part
small and scattering, will be worked up into
shingles on the ground.

—__< 0
That’s What He Failed For.

“Well, Messmore, do you propose to accept
the fifty per cent. compromise offered by
John Wingler?” asked John Caulfield of the
more or less illustrious Colonel the other
day.

“Yes, I shall advise my wife to that effect,”
was the reply.

“That’s a pretty fair margin—get fifty per
cent. and settle at 10—I understand you pro-
pose making such an offer,” said Caulfield.

“What am I in this business for, anyhow,
if it ain’t to make a good percentage?” re-
plied Messmore.

—_—_—___< o> __—_

D. W. Kendall, designer for the Berkey &
Gay Furniture Co., J. N. Murray, until re-
cently traveling representative for Sidney
Norris & Co., of Baltimore, and Wm. Strid-
iron, traveling salesman for Berry Bros., of.
Detroit, have formed a co-partnership under
the firm name of Murray, Kendall & Co., for
the purpose of engaging in the manufacture
and sale of hat cases for hotels. The case is
the invention of Mr. Kendall, who has ar-
ranged with the Novelty Furniture Co. for
the manufacture of several, and Mr. Murray
has gone on the road in the interest of the
new firm.

D. E. Stearns, general western traveling
overseer for the Broadhead Worsted Mills,
Jamestown, N. Y., left yesterday for a six
weeks’ tour through Illinois, Missouri and
Kansas. He has just arranged with W. W.
Williams, of Kalamazoo, to represent his
house in Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri.
Vernor Wooley continues in possession of
the Illinois trade end W. B. Kindale the
Michigan trade, while 8. K. Lindley attends
to the Chicago retailers.
acinar

\Jas. Fox has just completed a summer res-

idence at Macatawa Park, and his family are

__ now enjoying the cool breezes and fine fishing

RUINED HOMES.

 

A Villain Who has Wrecked the Peace of \‘vhe Finest eae Mill in Grand Rap-
q ds.

Nine Families.

“Do you expose trade frauds?” said a call-
er at the office the other day.

“Of course we do, that’s one of our spec-
ialties,” responded the fraud reporter, who
then recognized the interrogator as an old
friend who once lived on the West Side. A
closer scrutiny of the man’s face revealed the
fact that his eyes wore a dead look and that
his lips were tightly compressed.

“J hardly recognized you,” apologized the
newspaper man. “You look as though you
were in trouble. 1 didn’t know that anything
ever worried you. Why, afew months ago
you were counted the jolliest man on the
West Side.”

“T know I was,” said the other as he wip-
ed away a tear; “but just look at me now.
See how thin I’ve grown, and how pale
and careworn. Oh! but I’ve suffered. Lis-
ten.”

He drew nearer to the reporter, pulled a
flask from an inner pocket, took a long pull
at it, and replaced it. The scribe was
thunderstruck. Mr. Blank was a deacon in
a West Side church once and was known as
a total abstainer.

“Yes, listen to me,” continued the ‘man,
wiping his lips, ‘‘and learn how the happi-
ness of six families may be wrecked by one
heartless, unfeeling fiend, for if ever there
was a fiend that boy is one. But to begin at
the beginning. When you knew me last fall
I lived in peace and quiet, but in an evil
hour a friend persuaded me to move into a
tenement house over on street.
Everything moved along smoothly for sever-
al weeks when it was discovered that one of
the tenants hada piano. Nothing strange
in that, yousay? Ah, but wait, wait. The
piano was all right, perhaps, except that it
was sort of ‘tinpanny,’ but oh the fiend in-
carnate who performs upon it. Performs
upon it, did I say? Rather let mesay pounds
it, hammers it, jumps on it, smashes it. He
seems to have no use for any music but his
own. We stood it for a few days, and hop-
ed he would die from over exertion, but it
daily grew worse until it has wrecked the
lives and blasted the hopes of the occupants
of the row, your unfortunate servant among
them. We tried to get a sight of the fiend
who was driving us mad and a neighbor sat
for three days with a Winchester rifle trying
to get a sight at him, but to no purpose. We
have never seen him, but we know from the
way he plays what he looks like. He is
hump-backed and his body is covered with
red hair. He has but one eye, and that is in
the center of his forehead. His mouth is a
cavern, and he has teeth like a shark. His
arms are so long that his hands touch the
ground as he stands before‘his instrument of
torture. His hands are as big as hams, and
his fingers are like sections of a bologna
sausage. No one but a person who looks
like this could be cruel enough to do as this
fiend does. He laughs in glee as heruns his
enormous paws across the keys. He slashes,
he thumps, he slaps, slams, bangs, punches,
batters, beats, whacks, pummels, bastes,
lashes. The instrument groans, yells, and
prays for mercy, but he never lets up. The
neighbors are all beginning to look like me—
thin, careworn, and emaciated. There have
been two deaths in the block which mays be
directly traced to this monster. We serious-
ly contemplate blowing up the house, but
have not quite decided what to do. In the
meantime we are gradually and surely ap-
proaching madness and are driven from our
homes.” Poor blank groaned deeply and
dropped his head upon his breast.

“But what has all this got to do with
trade?” suggested the reporter.

“Why, don’t you see the fiend is employ-
ed in a subordinate capacity in some one of
the wholesale houses here, and as soon as we
discover his whereabouts we propose to make
it lively for the firm that will have such a
villain around.”

 

Miscellaneous Trade News.

Sand Lake cries aloud for a good meat
market.

The Dundee cheese factory uses 3,500
pounds of milk daily.

L. L. Bissell has purchased the grocery
business of A. T. Call at Lakeview.

A wagon and carriage factory is among
the probabilities at Howard City in the near
future.

Q. E. Close, the Sand Lake druggist, is an
expert numismatist, and has a large and val-
uable collection.

D. E. Wilber has moved his stock of gen-
eral goods from Birmingham to East Jordan,
Charlevoix county.

The handle factory at Ovid has shut down
until September. The company has manu-
factured 10,000 dozen rakes, 1,000 dozen
scythe snaths, 300 dozen cradles and other
articles too numerous to mention.

Joseph O. Jeannot and Merrit F. Reed
have formed a co-partnership at Muskegon
under the firm name of Jeannot & Reed and
engaged in the grocery business. A. Weir-
enga, the Muskegon jobber, furnished the
stock.

    

Styles in Pocket Handkerchiefs.

Ever since the depreciation in qualities of
domestic silk handkerchiefs commenced, the
tendency to revive the linen handkerchief
trade for men’s ware has been very noticea-
ble. The coming season bids fair to bea
very active one in this line, as the styles to
be introduced are so radically different from
those shown heretofore. This will be par-
ticularly in the eolorings, which show that
the new color, “gray mode,” will be a lead-
ing favorite. In place of the two inch hems
the fashion will be one-half inch, but there

 

 

will be some offered as narrow as one-quar-

ter of an inch in Wiath.

A MODEL ESTABLISHMENT.

 

Of the recent changes in the ownership
and management in the Valley City Mills,
the readers of THE TRADESMAN have al-
ready been made acquainted. Since taking
possession of the property, several months
ago, the new proprietors have expended
about $10,000 in enlargements, improve-
ments, and new machinery, until they now
have one of the finest and best equipped
flouring mills in the West. Other mills, to
be sure, have a larger capacity, but none turn
out finer goods, or excel the Valley City in
the strength or color of their flour. Eight
double sets of rolls are in constant operation,
day and night, except Sunday, the mill hav-
ing a daily producing capacity of about 200
barrels of flour, which amount will probably
have to be increased in the near future, in
order to meet the growing demand for the
product of this establishment.

Accepting the invitation of Manager
Rowe, areporter of THE TRADESMAN re-
cently took a walk through the various floors
comprising the mill and noted the superior-
ity of the machinery and the general excel-
lence of the flour. The mill building proper
is 90x60 feet in size, four stories and base-
ment. Connected with it is a two-story
brick office building, 45x25 feet in size. The
wheat passes through five separate cleaning
machines before it reaches the roll, which re-
moves all foreign substances. None but the
best grades of wheat are used, a good pro-
portion being Minnesota hard spring. Sever-
al grades of flour are used, the fancy patent

rank. The next grades, “Snowflake” and
“Lily White,” both patent roller process
flours, are meeting with exceptional success,
“Snowflake,” particularly, having obtained
wide popularity.
has been extremely difficult to keep pace
with the demand for these brands, and on
the day Tue TRADESMAN reporter looked
through the mill the orders on the books
greatly exceeded the amount on hand. Such
an unusual demand is due entirely to the
merit of the goods.

The new establishment is particularly for-
tunate in the personel of its officers and
working staff. Messrs. C. G. Swensburg and
M. S. Crosby, as president and vice-president,
respectively, are well and favorably known
as successful business men. Mr. Wm. N.
Rowe, the manager, on whom has devolved
the labor and discretion incident to the se-
lection of new machinery and the placing of
the goods of a comparatively new establish-
ment on the market, has developed manager-
ial qualities that place him in the front rank
among successful millers. Mr. R. M. Law-
rence, the secretary and treasurer, has per-
formed the duties incident to his position
with singular fidelity. Messrs. Jesse Owen
and G. H. Jacobs, who occupy the posi-
tions of foreman and millwright, respective-
ly, are both conspicuous examples of the
right men in the right places. Taken as a
whole, the officers and employees are far
above the average, and give strength to the
assertion that no institution was ever in bet-
ter hands.

2...

Mr. S. K. Bolles, traveling salesman for
Messrs. J. W. Coughtry & Son, of Cigarville,
N. Y., is pushing trade this month in antici-
pation of the hay fever season, as he says
the 15th of August always floors him, and al-
though he may not be visible to the naked
eye from that date until the arrival of Jack
Frost, he desires to say to the cigar trade that
his address is Grand Rapids. AIl orders by
mail will receive prompt attention.

DILWORTH,

—THE—

 

 

BEST ROASTED PACKAGE COFFEE ON
THE MARKET.

FOR SALE BY

Fox, Musselman & Loverides

Factory Agents for Western Michigan.

W. J. P.

The Best
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brand, “Roller Champion,” taking the first | &

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CIGAR!

  
 
 

FRUITJARS

Write or Telephone us for

BOTTOM PRICES

—ALSO—
Jelly Cups,
Ice Cream Freezers,

Refrigerators and
COMPLETE STOCK

CROCKERY & GLASSWARE

—AT—

H. Leonard & Sons,

16 Monroe Street,

GRAND RAPIDS = MICH.

MASON'S RETAILERS,

If you are selling goods to make
a profit, sell

LAVINE
WASHING POWDER,

This Washing Powder pays the Retailer a
larger profit than any in the Market, and is
put up in handsome and attractive packages
with picture cards with each case. We guar-
antee it to be the best Washing Powder
made and solicit a trial order. See prices in
Price-List.

Hartford Chemical Co
HAWKINS & PERRY

STATH AGENTS,

GRAND RAPIDS, = MICHIGAN.

 

ALBERT COYE& SONS

State Agents for

 

Dealers in

Awnings, Tents, Horse Wagon and Stack
Covers, Oiled Clothing, Htc.

73 Canal Street.
GRAND RAPIDS, - MICHIGAN.
te Send for Prices.

TACKS EVERY KIND AND SIZE,
—ALSO—

Trunk, Clout and Finishing

NAILS Steel Wire Nails and Brads.

A.

American Tack Oo.,

 

FAIRHAVEN - MASS.
. A. CRIPPEN,
WHOLESALE

Hats, Caps and Furs

54 MONROE STREET,

GRAND RAPIDS, - MICHIGAN,

 

We carry a Large Stock, and Guarantee Prices
as Low as Chicago and Detroit.

EDMUND B, DIKEMAN,

—THE—

aREAT WATCH MAKER

 

JEW HLER,

44 CANAL STREET,

GRAND RAPIDS, = MICHIGAN.

STEAM LAUNDRY

43 and 45 Kent Street.
A. K. ALLEN, Proprietor.

WE DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS WORK AND USE NO
CHEMICALS.

Orders by Mail and Express promptly at-
tended to.

 

 

BOOK-KEEPING MADE EASY
4 FOR
RETAIL CROCERS.

By using our Combined ene and Day-Book,
CUSTOMERS? ACCOUNTS are kept and

ITEMIZED STATEMENTS rendered in half
the time required by any other process.

Send for descriptive circular to HALL &
CO., Publishers, 154 Lake St., Chicago, Ill.

 

 

Grand Rapids Wire Works

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Manufacturers of All Kinds of

 

 

 

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ALABASTINE!

PERRET R RRR eS

Alabastine is the first and only prepara-
tion 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, ete. ; 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.

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——FOR SALE BY.

ALL Pain Dealers.

 

—_—_ MANUFACTURED BY——

THE ALABASTINE COMPANY

M. B. CHURCH, Manager.
GRAND RAPIDS, - .- - MICHIGAN.

SHEDS

—FOR THE—

FIELD AND GARDEN,

—

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL,

—AT THE—
SEED STORE,

91 Canal St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

W. T. LAMOREAUY, Agent
COLE & STONE,

Manufacturers and Jobbers of

Cents’ FINE SHIRTS,

 

 

Samples and Prices will be Sent to Close
Buyers in our Line.
Address,

Marshall -

 

 

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Li. Ss. HILT & CO.
WHOLESALE

21 PEARL STREET,
GRAND RAPIDS ae
AGENTS FOR

Du PONT’S Gunpowder.

MICH.

 

SATIRE SATORK!

The lowest market prices for Sport-

HEADQUARTERS !

GRAND RAPIDS, -

 

GRAND RAPIDS, =

FISHING TACKLE.

 

 

 

 

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—FOR—

Sporting Goods

—AND—

OUT DOOR GAMES,
Base Ball Goods,

Marbles, Tops,
Fishing Tackle,
Croquet, Lawn Tennis,
Indian Clubs,
Dumb Bells,
Boxing Gloves.

We wish the Trade to notice the fact that

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,

MICHIGAN.

 

KEMINK, JONES & G0,

Manufacturers ot

Fine Perfumes,

Colognes, Hair Oils,
Flavoring Extracts,

Baking Powders,
Bluings, Etc., Etc.

 

ALSO PROPRIETORS OF

= EMIN ES

“Red Bark Bitters’

AND——

 

The Oriole Manufacturing Co.

78 West Bridge Street,

MICHIGAN..

 

 

¢ YALE & BRO,,

—Manufacturers of—

FLAVORING EXTRAGTS °

BAKING POWDERS,

BLUINGS, ETC.,.

40 and 42 South Division St.,

GRAND RAPIDS, - ~

MICH..

        

 

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