VOL. 1. ~The Michi a ; Oe GRAND RAPID S, MICHIGAN, WEDNES NOVEMBER 7, 1883. gan Tradesman. NO. 7. MICHIGAN COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS’ ASSOCIA. Incorporated Dec. 10, 1877—Charter tr Force for T "hirty Years. LIST OF OFFICERS: President—JAMES T. PHILLIPS, 44 Jefferson Aveuue, Detroit. : Vice-Presidents—H. H. Hopson, Detroit; JOHN H. McINTYRE, Grand maples THos. J. HAy- woop, Ypsilanti; WM. E. SAUNDERS, East Saginaw; T. J. PAXTON, Monroe. : Secretary and Treasurer—GEORGE W. HILL, 80 Woodbridge Street, West, Detroit. Board of Trustees, For One Year—K. W. HAwW- LEY, Chairman, J. F. COOPER E. H. McCurpy, Detroit; For Two Years—Sam. B. SINCLAIR, GEO. L. SAMPSON, WM. SAxBy, Detroit. MEETINGS: Annual Meeting—December 28, 1883. Last Regular Meeting for 1883—December 1. MRS. PARTINGTON’S GOMPANION. : How a Clever Commercial Traveler Overcame the Old Lady. B. P. Shillaber, in Commercial Travelers *Ma azine. After spring cleaning was over- and the; have at cost,—seventy-five cents,—delighted the Deep Cove | to accommodate you. two weeks’ spring vacation in Grammar School had commenced, Mrs. Partington gathered Ike and other traps to- gether for a brief journey to the seaside. It was rather early in the season, she knew, but as she expressed herself, “the room at, the beaches at such a time was not so cir- cumcised, and people could act just @s they wished, if they desired to, and be happy in proportion as_ they enjoyed themselves.” ‘And so she and Ike started over the Eastern Railroad for a popular destination along the beaches, the boy happy in his release from school. The boy was very happy. So much so, indeed, that by his exuberance in going five miles he had set seven children crying, provoking the anger of seven mothers, put peanut-shells in the conductor’s pocket, reached with his feet under the seat in front and kicked the heels of an old gentleman asleep over his paper, run up and down the aisle half-a-dozen times, jolting right and left, and ended with kicking over a lunch- basket that protruded, and scattering the ed- ibles on every side,—here a doughnut and there a pickle,—to his great, glee. At length he took a vacant window, and gazed on the flying landscape, while Mrs. -artington, oblivious as to his doings, sat half asleep, rolling like a Chinese mandarian as they flew along. “Ts this seat occupied, madam ?”’ Mrs. Partington had seen dimly a young and bright-looking man enter when they stopped at a way-station, and was wide- awake enough to realize this, and, moreover, that he had a small valise in his hand, a paper package, and an wnbrella. I forget how old itis a woman must be when she fails to appreciate the attractions of a nice- looking young man, but the voice inquiring if the seat was occupied startled Mrs. P., and she said “No,” quite forgetting Ike, who still was on his knees before the window, and seeing how very agreeable the young man looked, she thought she would not sub- ject him to seek farther. Therefore she re- peated the “ No,” adding “sir » to it, and he took the seat, first putting the umbrella and parce] on the rack over her head, and his va- lise beneath his feet. “Fine day for travelling, mum,” he said, in a gentle voice. “Yes, sir,” she responded, “the airis very invariegating, and the late rain has made the atmosphere quite moist and tumid.” ‘Humid, perhaps you meant to say, pardon me,”’ he replied. ‘Oh, yes, thank you: I frequently make such mistakes,” see replied: ‘but as Deacon Hanscom was wanted to remark, ‘A mistake aint no haystack, and to err is humane.’” “Cheese it!” said a boyish voice in the young man’s ear, who turned around, some- what surprised, to meet the mischievous look of an urchin who leaned over the back of the seat. He was about to make an an- gry demonstration when the old lady inter- posed. “Tsaac,” said she, ‘you must be be more reprehensible before strangers.” “Tm behind him,” said Ike, with a grin. “Did I eatch the boy’s name aright?” ask- ed the young man, with a smile. “Is this Ike, and am I in the honored presence of Mrs. Partington?” She modestly admitted that such might be the case, but immediately diverted the con- versation to external subjects. “Are you an admirer of national scen- ery?” she asked. “4 am: try me,” was the young man’s re- ply, and aman ona seat near by laughed aloud. “J do so love out-door landscape,” she continued. “The lovely rocks and rivers and ambiguous woods fill me with delight. There, is not that view charming, with the gentle hill and the villain on top?” She meant villa, of course, but a load of bricks on a side-track intervened, and the view was cut off forever. “This is a very interesting country that | we are passing through,” said the young man. “Has it any hysterical interest?’ she asked. ; “Yes,” he replied, “there’s Salem, that we just now passed, where Jotton Mather roasted all the homely old women for witches,—hundreds of ’em; and Beverly, celebrated as the birthplace of the bean; and Hamilton, where Roger Williams established the first camp-meeting; and yonder, where you catch a glimpse of blue water between the trees, is the place where Christopher Columbus landed.” “Dear me,” said Mrs. Partington, “how very interesting! Have you traveled much?” “Yes, my dear madam,” was the reply. “JT am of a traveling family. Lam a direct decendant of the Wanderng Jew. I live _ mostly upon the cars, and am just returning to my home on my semi-annual visit, having stopped in Boston only long enough to buy a few trifles as family presents,—at the great sale, you know, of Lady Doldrum’s effects, in Beacon street. They’re in the bag under- neath my feet.” “ What did the lady sell out for?” the old lady inquired. “‘ Oh,” was the reply, ‘‘ for many reasons. In the first place she was dead, and didn’t want ’em any more. Perhaps that was rea- son enough.” “ Most deciduously,” said the dame, with a sinile. “ Perhaps you would like to see them,” the young man said, reaching down to take up the bag. “Bless me, yes, by all means.” g-| two. j | | asked. 39 ued he, “articles for the toilet, intended not only to beautify, but to restore beauty when so far faded that the original texture cannot | : : : | “<7 invested chiefly in cosmetics, or { be perceived. Lady Doldrum was a hundred | and ten, and she was never set above forty- five by those who took the census.” “Indeed!” said his eager listener. “Yes,” he went on, “and those who never | had any beauty at all, by applying this ‘Balm of the Begum’ lotion, may become celebrated enough to draw a ten thousand-dollar prize in a moral circus.” Ike had drawn near and was overlooking the property “There, my little fellow,” said the young man, “don’t handle that soap unless you wish to buy a cake, of which I have several. That soap is made from the oil of spikes, and is a sure antidote against mosquito- bites.” *“ An antidote against mosquito-bites must be invulnerable,” said Mrs. Partington, ‘and | as you say you have purchased a number of cakes, I wish you would sell me a cake or 99 “Certainly; there are three, which youcan I bought a larger lot of the lotion than I need, and it strikes me that it would heighten and restore your beauties of complexion that time has some- what tried. I would not press the matter, of course, but one so celebrated should take all the pains possible to preserve features that may be cherished as part of our native scenery. I can spare you a couple of bottles of the preparation, for which there was great competition among respectable old ladies at the sale. Two bottles? very well. I am pleased to accommodate you. Two dollars. Thank you.” “Ts it to be put on extraneously ?” she | said. | “Externally, yes. And that reminds me | of alittle joke that occurred at the sale. | One asked the auctioneer if the wash was to | to be applied externally, and he said, ‘Yes’ | adding in a tone that the questioner did not | hear, ‘ and eternally, I should judge, in your | case, before it will make you beautiful.’ Ha, ha, ha! Impudent, but good, wasn’t it?” “But how will it infect me?” the dame inquired. * Excellently well,’ he said, ‘because it has something to work upon, and your face very much resembles that of Lady Dold- rum.” “What isin the other packages ?” she } | | { | | | ““Oh, they are preparations for a similar purpose as the ‘Begum,’ and excellent things, too, which I should be pleased to | show you. This is the greatest corn-allev- iator in the world. Lady Doldrum cured herself with it, and was thereby enabled to wear shoes two sizes too small for her. Fact, I assure you. That package contains a disinfecting vinegar, called the ‘Citric Samp- son,’ so strong that when applied as a puri- fier the servants have to wear a handkerchief over the head securely tied under the chin, to prevent the blowing the top of their skulls off by its pungency.” “Dear me,” said Mrs. Partington, ‘it must be dangerous to have it lying round where there are children.” “Not at all. Wewere told that it was composed of harmless acids, the stings of which had been extracted, and—this is New- buryport, madam, named to distinguish it from ‘Old Berry Port,’ a favorite resort for seasiders, kept by old Mr. Berry, down be- low. The town is likewise celebrated for being the former residence of Lord Timothy Baxter, the author of Baxter’s ‘Saints’ Rest,’ the ruins of which are plainly to be seen. And this,” he continued, “is the celebrated ‘Salt-Rheum Eradicator,’ which, we were told, was used by Lady Doldrum with great success. ‘The auctioneer, who seemed to be a very truthful man, said she was so afflicted with chaps in her younger days that she had to wear boxing-gloves at jer dress parties, and that, after using this ointment, her skin beeame as free as an infant’s. Please smell its delicate odor. This cannot be beat.” “It is very odious,” said Mrs. P., giving it a long sniff, “and not at all like beet. 1 should say it smelt more like parsnip. But 1 have no room for it, and I am going to the beach.” | “Well, my dear madam,” urged the young | man, “you will need it there, for the air is) salt and the room is plenty. You had better take a box.” She took one, of course, and conversation | continued uninterruptedly. “This is Greenland,” said the young man | as they stopped at a station; “ you can see} the ‘icy mountains’ ordinarily, but to-day, | am told, they are taken down for repairs, ‘ India’s coral strand’ is very near here.” At Portsmouth the nice young man got} out, with his valise, umbrella, and parcel, bidding Mrs. Partington a warm farewell, and begging her to write to him her opinion | of the purchases she had made. | “ What young man was that,” she asked | the conductor. phor, Cantharides & Co.” “Well, I declare,” she mused, ‘“‘only a drummer, and yet he has enough malady in him to make a whole brass band. What have you got there, Isaac ?” “PT is a brush that fellow dropped, said he, painting the car window next him vig- ourously with water held in the car dipper, which he had twisted off for the purpose; “we'll give it to him when we come back.” “T hope you didn’t abstract it,’’ said she. “That,” said the old gent on the front seat, looking back, “is an abstract proposi- tion.” But what he meant she didn’t know, nor he, probably, but he laughed, and Ike kept on dabbing the window with the new brush. Their destination at Old Orchard was gained, where they found all the room they wanted, and it was a matter of surprise to the old lady, when she asked about the faith cure, to learn that it was not bottled and for sale, like Congress water. I intended to weave a moral for this sketch, but to save my life I don’t know how to do it, and therefore must beg the reader, if he sees one, to put a pin in it and stick it to the wall like a rare butterfly. “There is one thing connected with your table,” said a commercial traveler to a West- ern landlord, ‘ that is not surpassed by the best hotels of Chicago.” ‘Yes,’ replied the pleased landlord; “and what is that?” “The salt.” The Travelers’ Protective Association of | business. the United States claims over 600 members. He Wasn’t Her Pa. A young woman went to the depot to meet her father. As the train came in she saw a middle-aged man, who resembled her parental relative, and she rushed into his arms, huddled down on his bosom, kissed on the mouth, the ear, the chin, and all over his patent celluloid. It was not her father, but a middle-aged drummer for a tobacco house. He took a long breath, and looked around at some.other drummers, and winked, as much as to say, “Oh! I’m such a dude!” Of course the scene could not last always, though he wished it could. After a climatic hug, she looked up in his face and shrieked, ‘You are not my pa?” He said probably she was right, as he had been on that route only eleven years. She asked his pardon, and he told her not to mention it, “‘we public men should always hold ourselves in readiness to support those who need it.” She smiled a sweet, sad, blushing smile, and went out in- to the wide world, and the drummer walked to the hotel with the other drummers, twen- ty kisses and six hugs ahead of the game. They asked him if it didn’t make him feel ashamed to have such a mistake made, and he said no, it was all right. He said of course it might look queer, but those things occurred very often to him, as they would occur to any fine-looking man. Besides, the girl probably enjoyed it. Then they asked him why he did not wear his Soe pin on such trying oceasions. He looked at his shirt-front, and it was gone. While he had been allowing her to play the daughter she had burglarized his shirt. He fainted, and when they had brought him to he said: “Tell my family I died with my face to the ; foe.” Winning Over a Tough Customer. From the Commercial Travelers’ Magazine. Not long ago a Hartford Commercial Traveler was warned of the crusty disposi- tion of a retailer in one of the central New York cities, and informed that while he had better call upon him, the firm would not be disappointed should he fail to transact any “T}] sell him,” said the Hartford boy, confidently. Arriving at the city in question, he paid his first call to the man he had been warned against. He found him ' sitting on a high stool before a desk, pour- ing over the pages of a ledger. As the Com- mercial Traveler entered he just turned his head, took in the sample-case, and said: “Humph,” and went on with his figures. | After a lapse of five minutes he said, with- out looking up: “If your a drummer I don’t want to see you, so don’t waste time here.” “But ’m not a drummer,” was the reply.” “What are vou, then ?” inquired the re- tailer. “JT am an ambassador of commerce,’ swered the salesman, nothing daunted. ‘A mbassador what? well, I can’t talk with you.” “Tf you only know it, there’s a man in one of the leading institutions in Hartford that would give a hundred dollars to talk with me.” ‘“ What sort of a man is he ?” “ He’s deaf and dumb.” At this response the retailer *came down from his high stool, and before he left, the Commercial Traveler had his name in his book for a handsome bill of goods. The Wise Man. No wise man will set out on a journey without providing himself with at least fifty cheap cigars. Those which can be bought for two eents are just as good as those sold for a dime, and the gift of one is rewarded with just the same courtesy. You are in a hurry to change trains and recheck baggage. The checkman don’t care two cents whether you are left or not, and the chances are that you would be left but for the cigar. Edge up to him and drop the cigar into his fingers, ask him to recheck you to Greenville, and you are fixed in six seconds. Hours later, when he comes to sit down and smoke, he may remember your phiz and bless it,—but you are far away. The brakesman on the passenger train studies grutiness. You can’t offer him money, nor ask him to take a glass of beer; but if you want to know exactly how long you have to wait at Walton Junction, and how long it takes you to run ? an- from there to Traverse City, just tender him | a two-cent cigar. His granite countenance will melt and run all over his face, and he will feel himself bound not only to answer all inquiries, but to tell you how to save two dimes in getting your dinner at the restau- rant. In fact, the influence of a two-cent cigar is almost boundless. It will stop any citizen and make him feel happy to answer a dozen questions. It will direct you to the best hotels, point out the best sights, make | street-car conductors talk, give you the best seat in the omnibus, and accomplish all that gold and silver can do. However much the farming classes may complain of the vicissitudes of the season and the consequent uncertanity of agriculture, | | yet there are more elements of certanity in| effects. “ He’s a drummer,” was the reply; ‘‘Cam- | this industry than in any commercial or manu- facturing enterprise. Statistics of business, records‘of bankrupt courts, the experience of merchants and manufacturers, all go to prove this proposition. The abject poverty and real suffering which exist in large cities and towns are largely out of proportion to the popultaion as compared with the rural districts. A Savannah factory is producing daily four tons of excellent paper made of rice straw and palm leaves. The paper is said to be of superior quality and can be manu- factured twenty per cent. cheaper than pa- per made of jute butts and rags. Up to within a short time rice straw and palm leaves have been allowed to go to waste. They now yield to this factory about $100 a day. On authority of the Grocer, a barrel of pickels should contain from twenty-eight to thinty gallons, and the net weight should be about 160 pounds for common pickles. The vinegar used in manufacturing common pick- les weighs about eighty-eight pounds, and the pickles seventy-two. Gherkins or fine pickles weigh somewhat more. Worth, the Parisian man-milliner, is not an invalid, as reported. He is 55 years old and is growing fat and bald. He furnished the costly dress for the Czarina at her late coronation, as well as many of the ward- robes worn by the princesses and royal ladies on that occasion. Mein Gott, Isaac! mark up eferyding in der sthore dree hundert und fifety ber cend. Here comes a man vot vants trust. * OWNERS OF MILLIONS. How They Have Multiplied in the Present Gen eration. Writing of his favorite bete noir, the millionaire, John Swinton, of New York, says: : Once upona time old John Jacob Astor was tottering along Broadway, near Union Square, when a friend in my company pointed him out and said: ‘That ancient is a millionaire—he owns a million dollars.” T had never before up to that time of my boyhood, heard of such a being, and so he was of course a curiosity. ‘A millionaire— a million dollars all his own!’ Ue wasa wonderful spectacle. ‘‘Are there any more of them?” was asked, to which my friend replied: ‘I’ve heard of but half a dozen in the country—old Stephen Girard of Phila- delphia, dead John McDonough of New Orleans, and two or three others in this town.” Itseems but a few years since this dialogue took place; yet it was before Com- modore Vanderbilt and A. T. Stewart had piled up their first million. Whata mon- strous crop of millionaires we have grown among us since then, is seen by the fact that the World, a few weeks ago, published the names of 200 of them living in this city, and it appears from letters sent to the Worid’s editor that many of them were left out of the list. ‘The city of Boston, according to the Globe, can show up over 100 of these millionaires, and you have no difficulty about hunting up many more of them, beside de- cuple millionaires and quinquagintuple millionaires, in San Francisco, St. Louis, | Chicago, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, and other places. Besides our long string of million- aires, we have now here the _ centuple millionaire and the bi-centuple millionaire; and perhaps there is truth in the remark made about the king of them all, that “‘as soon as he got to be a millionaire, he was seized with the mad ambition to become a billionaire.” The editor goes on to quote “Gath,” who estimates Wim. H. Vanderbilt’s fortune at at least $200,000,000, and his income at $10,- 000,000 a year. Then Mr. Swinton quotes the World, which, after saying that Van- derbilt’s income is $15,000,000 a year, adds: He has $45,000,000 in government bonds. He has $20,000,000 in Lake Shore and New York Central, probably more of it in Lake Shore. He has $10,000,000 in Northwest- | ern stock and bonds. He has stock in the Red Line and other freight companies, and the Wagner company. He has something in Michigan Central. In April last, when he held $40,200,000 in government fours, his quarterly check for interest upon them was $402,000: so that his annual interest upon that amount of government bonds for the present year is $1,608,000. “No fortune was ever accumulated by any individual in England equal even to the present fortune of Mr. Vanderbilt. The largest personalty was that of Mr. Brassey, the great railroad contractor, $30,000,000. The next largest was that of Mr. Morrison, dry goods, $20,000,000, with real estate equal to some $2,500,000 more. The Duke of Westminster’s realty can fall little short of $100,000,000, but his father only left 4,- 000,000 personalty, and this included a famous collection of pictures. Queen Vic- toria herself, who has always been a miser greedy for money, is not, as a private in- dividual, worth more than $10,000,000. The great nabobs of the East Indies,the wealthy slaveholders of Brazil, and the monarchs of continental Europe have no fortunes that will compare with that of this New Yorker. In old. Rome there were no such capitalists as W.H. V. Pliny estimates the fortune of the wealthy Crassus at a sum that would amount to but $10,000,000 in our money, though historians say that the enormous wealth of the millionaires of Rome was one of the worst signs of her decadence.’’ Keep Your Measures Clean. From the New York Commercial Enquirer. “T never go into that store, because the measures don’t look clean,” said one lady to another in our hearing. “Neither do I,” was the reply, “because I slipped on some greasy stuff that was on the floor the only time I was there.” Here are a couple of hints for the retail grocer. ‘Two customers lost for the want of a little care! The case is by no means an exceptional one. There are lots of others just like it. We have noticed them our- selves, and have no doubt that others have also done so. We have seen tea and sugar weighed in scales that were very plainly innocent of the good effects of a cleaning, for several weeks, at least. Some people do not object to such trifles, but anybody who is an ad- mirer of soap and water will look upa store where they are occasionally. used on the | premises. There is always plenty of soap | | in a grocery store, and customers should be | treated to an occasional example of its good Keep your counters, scales and measures clean and bright. Take and serape off the weights once in a_ while. If dirt collects on your pound weight for in- stance, you are selling overweight without knowing it, so that cleanliness in that re- spect will prove profitable to you. Don’t let any meat clippings or other greasy substances lay around on your floors. They will attract rats and drive away your customers. Keep a box near your meat block and throw all the waste into it. It will do no harm either, if you keep the box out of sight. If you have a box of oranges, lemons or other fruit displayed to view, put clean sheets of white paperaround it. They will make itlook twice as attractive. If you have any decayed fruit or vegetables throw them away. Don’t letthem remain in the basket with good articles, they will injure the sale of the latter. After taking a bushel of eoal out of your coal box shovel up what falls upon the walk. Loose pieces of coal do not improve the appearance of a sidewalk, and, besides, passers-by may slip on them, and they are sure to attract a crowd of small boys who will amuse themselves by throwing them around the street. There are very many snch trifles that should be looked after. It doesnot take much time to attend to them, and they are really important. Whenever any of them falls under another’s observation he will surely call attention to them. In the mean- time, let every man look out for himself and see what errors and omissions he can rectify. a_ knife | PEDEOLOGY. A New Scienc Front Rank. | A clever writer in an Eastern paper thus discourses on what he proposes as anew science: : | _ Pedeology, the language of the foot, isa ‘theme new to most of our learned profess- |ors, and possibly of too lowly nature to at- | tract their attention, yet it weilds vast in- fluence upon the world. Observe the variety in the size, shape and general characteris- tics of feet. Examine them in each _ indi- vidual part, then in their entirety, and heed the lessons there taught. The foot is a marked feature amongst peoples. One’s nationality is readily dis- tinguishable by their feet. Thus the French foot is of medium length, with small heel, and slightly tapering towards the toes, with but little hollow beneath the instep, and denotes restlessness, courage, and_ irrasci- bility. The English foot is long, broad and thick, with large heel and low instep, indi- cating determination, hardihood, self-reli- ance and untiring perseverence. The Ger- man foot is broad, thick, flat, and of uni- form width from heel to toe, showing care- less, phlegmatic sluggishness, with a mind readily susceptible to influence if properly manipulated. The Irish have narrow heels, high insteps, short feet usually, indicating strong attachments, generosity, patriotism and fondness for personal encounters. The Scot’s foot isa combination of the English and German, and is equally adapted for Highland or Lowland life, since, owing to the peculiar formation of their feet, they can climb up or down the steepest hills with ready facility, and for this reason they make good soldiers and the best of sheep herders. ‘The Chinese have feet like Oscar English brethren—denoting fondness for epicurean delicacies. The American foot must be divided into several types, since to each of: the various latitudes of our country belongs a distinct style of feet. The New Englanders have long, narrow, elastic feet, firmly fitted to the ankle, with projecting heels, clearly in- tended for mountain climbing, and there- fore adapted to thecharacter of their coun- try. These indieate lofty aspirations, per- severance, indomitable will and rare gen ius. The people of the Middle States have feet of moderate length, rather broad, with wide, flat heels, and when these feet are planted in any spot they are there to stay. They mean energy, determination, fondness for official station, and acquisitiveness. The Southerners have short, narrow feet, perfectly rounded heels, high arching in- steps, with quite a curve beneath, and these perfectly exemplify their character. In that the Southron is of luxurious tastes, easy and indolent, ordinarly, but firm, de- cided, and at times imperious, yet withal kind and amiable, open-hearted and _ free- handed, but with decided disinclination to manual labor. I offer this general outline of a new branch of science, hoping that it will prove of interest and benefit to each of you. Telling How to Make Butter Sweet. An enterprising Philadelphia woman is reported to have been doing a good business by advertising to furnish a new and infalli- ble process for making strong butter per- fectly sweet. The recipe would be fur- nished to applicants who enclosed 25 cents in stamps to “D. F.” in care of the paper containing the advertisement. The follow- ing is said to be the “Great Dairy Dis- covery: “It will be evident to all that as longas butter is strong it cannot be sweet. The first step, therefore, is to diminish its strength to the required degree of weakness. Now the strength of a human being is due to the assimilation of meat, eggs, etc., there- fore abstinence from an animal diet anda strict adherence to the vegetable tends to directly lessen strength. Butter possesses a capacity for assimilation unequaled by any human being, as can easily be demon- strated by placing a dish of butter and three salt herring side by side, in which case the butter will soon absorb and assimilate so much of the herring as to become entirely too strong to be eaten. Following this theory to its legitimate conclusion the great dairy discovery has been made. Place your butter ina wide mouthed dish or upon a plate, so as to allow free contact with the surrounding atmosphere. Then place the them. The butter will soon lose its abnor- mal strength and become quite weak. Now remove the vegetables and place a large | saucer of molasses next the butter, which ; will soon absorb the saccharine be desired.” Butter Past and Present. From the German-American Grocer. Butter is something which the average /man dislikes to suspect. If it fills the re- ‘quirements of butter in color, taste and |odor, he does not care to inquire rashly into ‘its family history. In olden times butter | that came up to these tests was good butter. ; | Tasting it a man had visions of broad pas- ‘tures sprinkled with daisies and buttercups, dew on the grass, and clear pools under the trees where the brook broadened out. ‘To be sure, a single hair would blur the,picture ; but he would strive to see a pretty dairy- maid in his mind’s eye as the owner of the hair, even if it were red hair. At this date butter has something of the speciousness of the confidence man about it. Its gold, one feels, may well be pinch-beck. The pastor- al picture is justas likely to be laid at Hunter’s Point with grimy men stirring greasy pots as the oleomargarine oil is mix- ed with lard oil, cotton-seed oil and yellow paint. Look at the little innocent pat of butter by your plate, and ask if it is guilty. It will not change color, though it may never have been near acow. Itis of this our great butter barons complain. It gives the butterine mana chance. He has a silent accomplice. The question is, if the butterman cannot always detect bogus butter, how is the poor consumer in his con- stitutional squeamishness to bring anindict- ment against his breakfast? A Chieago hackman is said to have made $40,000 in ten years by showing strangers around the city and getting a commission from traders on the goods he induced visitors to buy. e That Promises to Take, The Advance in Castor Oil. From the Oil, Paint and Drug Reporter. In our issue of September 5th we stated ' that the price of castor oil would probably go higher, although the new crop of beans would then soon be available, and gave our reasons for the belief. An advance of one cent per pound has been declared, and the prospects are that ere long a still further advance will be gained. The causes for this are not farto seek. Jast year the crop of castor beans amounted to 499,700 bushels, and the whole of this amount was- required to supply the consumption in this country, while this year the crop in Kansas will prob- ably not exceed 140.000 bushels, to which may be added 20,000 bnshels as the product- tion in the states of Missouri and Illinois, | making the total crop this year 160,000 bush- els, or less than one-third of the crop of 1882. The reason the production was so small this year is not owing to any failure of the crop, in fact, the yield per acre this year averaged ten and one-half bushels as against nine and one-half bushels last year. The small pro- duction, therefore, is entirely due to the de- creased acreage devoted to this crop, and this was owing to the low prices at which beans sold last year, the farmers finding other crops would have proved more renum- erative. It is apparent, therefore, that owing to searcity, if for no other reason, prices may be expected to go considerably higher. But there are many other influences which will have a bearing on market values. The con- sumption of castor oil the past year was barely up to the average, and it is known that the quantity of oil held outside of the manufacturers is very light, while some of the latter have very little on hand, and are behind in their deliveries. ‘The consump- tion during the year before us will without Wilde—who is an exception amongst his | doubt be largely increased by reason of the change of duty on alizarine assistant, which will probably hereafter all be made in this country. The imports of this article last year amounted to fully 500,000 pounds, and this represents over 200,000 pounds of castor oil, it will beseen that with no change in the consumption for other purposes, we shall require an increased production by just that amount. A considerable increase in price may naturally be expected to follow when the effects of this increased consump- tion begin to be felt, and there is already a disposition on the part of some dealers to hold their supplies off the market for higher prices. This will, of course, react on the price of beans, and those planters who have not already sold their crop will realize bet- ter prices, and this again will probably lead to an increased acreage devoted to this crop next year. It will probably be suggested that castor oil may be imported from Caleutta and that thereby the price can be kept from going much higher. This will prevent any undue advance, and there are two vessels now overdue, the St. Patrick with 200 eases, and the Alameda with 300 cases, but as it costs about seventeen cents per pound to import, and when the oil arrives, it is not uniform, the prospects are that another cent added to the price of domestic oil would not bring Calcutta oil in very close competition. The duty on castor oil is eighty cents per gallon or nearly ten and three-quarters cents per pound, so that there is very little chance that a declining market abroad would effect it much. With beans the case is somewhat different, although the duty on these being one cent per pound prevents these from being brought here to reduce the price of oil below the present market values. But with a demand for beans from America the probabilities are that the Calcutta market will advance and the price of oil be affected: thereby. It will be seen from all we have pointed out that although the present price of castor oil is higher than for several years the prospects are that still higher prices must follow. A Boston House- Warming. | Lack of enterprise cannot be attributed to the wholesale grocery merchants in Boston, judging by the methods which some of their | number employ to attract public attention. | | dish in a refrigerator containing no animal | matter, but only vegetabies and very few of | properties | of the molasses and become as sweet as can | ber a guinmy | | Ee | | A late instance of this is afforded by a re- ception given to the trade of that city by a prominent house which recently moved into anew store. On the occasion referred to an elaborate collation was served, the bill of fare consisting exclusively of artieles dealt in by the firm. California was repre- sented by canned apricots and cherries, the i production of a well-known canned goods | establishment in San Jose. The New Eng- land Grocer states that the atfair was a marked success, there having been over 5,- 000 visitors, of whom one-half the number partook of the eollation. Gum Arabic. In Morroco about the middle of Novem- . juice exudes spontaneously | from the trunk and branches of the acacia. | It gradually thickens in the furrow down whieh it runs, assumes the form of an oval or round drop, about the size of a pigeon’s egg, of different colors, as it comes from the white and red gnm tree. About the mid- dle of December the Moors enecamp on the border of the forest and the harvest lasts a fullimonth. The gum is then packed in large leather sacks and transported on the backs of camels and bulloeks to seaports for ‘shipment. This is the gum arabie of com- merce. The Hoyse Cat as a Fur-Bearing Animal. An importer and exporter of furs gives this information: : : The house eatis one of the most valu- able of fur-bearing animals, and when they mysteriously disappear from the back fence they often find their way to the furrier. It is an actual fact that in 1882 over 1,200,000 house eats were used by the fur trade. Black, white, Maltese, and tortoise-shell skins are in most demand, and are made in- to linings. As for skunks, 350,000 were used in this country last season, yalued from 50 cents to $1.20. They come from Ohio and New York principally. The thrifty manufacturers of tools in dif- ferent parts of Germany have resorted to the dishonest practices of marking their goods “American manufacture” and then shipping them to different countries. . Documents re- ceived at Washington from Russia, Turkey, and other countries report that this game is being played with success. The goods thus unloaded are poor material, sold at high prices, and tend to impair confidence in the standing of the American eagle generally among outside barbarians. ~ =~ MICHIGAN TRADESMAN, - . A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE Mercantile and Manufacturing Interests of the State. E. A. STOWE, Editer and Proprietor. Terms $1 a year in advance, postage paid. Advertising rates made known on application. WEDNESDAY, NOV. 7, 1888. gt 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. Disraeli once said that to be a great law- yer means to ruin a great man. EE Do not speak of the commercial traveler hereafter as a drummer. Hail him as an “ Ambassador of Commerce.” [EEE Competent authorities estimate that the net foreign immigration to the United States for the four years ending June 30, will be in the neighborhood of 2,500,000—enough to constitute a small nation. Cel Let no one fear ‘that the recent lumber failures will in the least affect the legitimate business ‘interests of the city. The causes that brought them about are entirely alien to the commercial honesty and reliability for which the city is noted, and they reflect discredit only upon the men who brought about their own downfall. At this time of the year, when money is tight and the prospects for the winter’s trade is not as flattering as it has been for some years past, it behoves the retail dealer to buy carefully, meet all bills promptly, and keep every expense down to the lowest possible notch. A little extra eaution at this time may enable him to avoid serious difficulty, if not positive embarrassment, later in the season. ee iene There is a determination to settle the question of liability for statements made to to the mercantile agencies. Another suit has just been brought against a firm which fail- ed in New York, their creditors alleging that they made fraudulent representations to an agency, on the strength of which they obtained goods from.the plaintiffs. The definite settlement of this question is of im- portance to all merchants. ane Chicago has been effervescing again on the Hennepin canal humbug and recently held one of its characteristically windy conven- tions to elaborate and repeat the specious arguments which it is hoped will bring Con- gress to the aid of that fraud. It is a fine scheme, to make a short cut from the Missis- sippi to the Lakes, but if there is really so much commercial need for this artificial wa- ter-route private capital ought to take it in hand as it has the ship canal across Florida. When Congress has put the natural high- ways in good navigable condition,—not ex- cepting Grand River—it will be time enough to call upon it to appropriate money for ar- tificial water-courses. There is pressing need of a good bank- rupt law, either State or National, to protect the credit business. The need is painfully demonstrated with each recent failure or suspension in business. The old National law was good as far as it went, but was very weak in its method of application. Attor- neys and assignees sat upon the corpse until the bones} were picked dry. Settlements were prolonged for months, and even years, which should have been closed up in as many weeks. The new State law does not promise to facilitate business. It allows an assignee to delay settlement as long as he chooses, and render his account as he sees fit. It gives the creditor no voice whatever in the distribution of assets, and compels him to waive all future claim on the debtor when he places his account in the hands of the assignee. This question of a new bank- rupt law is a vital one, and the best interests of the business world demand that it should have immediate attention. ALABASTINE! PERCE eee RRs 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, or glue, for their base, which are rendered soft, or scaled, in a very short time, thus necessitating the well-known great incon- venience and expense, which all have ex- perienced, in washing and seraping 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. bhbShbeeboR FOR SALE BY ALL Paint Dealers. ——MANUFACTURED BY—— THE ALABASTINE COMPANY M. B. CHUROH, Manager. GRAND RAPIDS, - - = MICHIGAN. A. H. FOwWLE, PAINTER AND DECORATOR, —AND DEALER IN— Artistic Wall Papers Paints, Oils, Glass, Ete., Ete. 37 NORTH IONIA STREET, So. of Monroe. TIME TABLES. Michigan Central—Grand Rapids Division. DEPART. Detroit Express..........- ... 6:20am Day Express........... .12:45 pm New York Fast Line 6:50 pm Night Express........ -10:40 p m Mixed -.. 2.5. 8s... -- ... 7:30am ARRIVE. Pacific EXpreSS............2-2.-eee eee 7:30 am Local Passenger...........----- .11:50a m OSEAN] LE ee A eee . 4:50 p m Mined .......5.-5..2..-. = ----- . 5:10pm Grand Rapids Express..............-- 10:50 p m The New York Fast Line runs daily, arriving at Detroit at 11:40 p. m., and New York at 9 p. m. the next evening. Direct and prompt connection made with Grent Western, Grand Trunk and Canada Southern trains in same depot at Detroit, thus avoiding transfers. THE UNITED STATES MOTUAL ACCIDENT ASSOCIATT 320 and 322 Broadway, New York. INSURES AGAINST ACCIDENTS AT HALF THE RATES OF STOCK COMPANIES. $70,000,000 of Insurance in Force’ NOT ONE DOLLAR OF INDEBTEDNESS. EIAS PAID 2,000 CLAIMS. NO CLAIMS UNPAID. CHARLES B, PEE. of Rovers, Pet & Go, President TAMES R, PIRCHER, Secretary Ragin baie CTURING Co, ™ We ea Pa Ay ‘ i : AY Es A A MN A BENOWLSON, ——WHOLESALE DEALER IN—— A 7 ire Br KRON SEWER PIPE, ck and Clay, Cement, ME, HAIR,COAL and WrooD. ESTIMATES CHEERFULLY FURNISHED. Office—7 Canal Street. Sweet's Hotel Block. Yards—Goodrich Street, Near Michigan Central Freight House. H. LEONARD & SONS, 16 MONROE STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. ——DIRECT IMPORTERS OF —— HOLIDAY GOODS The Detroit Express leaving at 6:20 a. m. has Drawing Room and Perlor Car for Detroit, reaching that city at noon, New York 10:30 a. m., and Boston 2:40 p. m. next day. J.T. ScuoutTz, Gen’l Agent. Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee. GOING EAST. Arrives. Leaves. +Steamboat Express....... 6:36am 6:45am #Through Mail............. 10:40am 10:50am +Evening Express......... 4:05pm 4:05pm *Atlantic Express.......... 10:05pm 11:00pm +Mixed, with coach........ 11:00 am GOING WEST. +Morning Express......... 1:5 pm 1:25pm +#Through Mail............. 5:15pm 5:25pm +Steamboat Express....... 10:25pm 10:30pm AMixed ....o2..5--4-54------ 7:45am *Night Express...........-- 5:40am 6:00am +Daily, Sundays excepted. *Daily. Passengers taking the 6:45 a. m. Express make close connections at Owosso for Lansing and at Detroit for New York, arriving there at 10:00 a. m. the following morning. oo Cars on Mail Trains, both East and Vest. 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. PoTTER, City Pass. Agent. on Elder Evans on Collecting Debts. | From the New York Tribune. \ All laws enforcing collection of debts | might safely be rescinded. The money paid out to collect the debts of the American people equals in amount the sums collected. Why, then, not let the debts go and save all the law machinery and personal vexation that attends the legal collection of money loaned? Let each person who lends money see to it thatit is repaid or lost. Whose business is it but that of the parties inter- ested? If the loaning is a matter of friend- ship—a favor conferred—the law should not intermeddle. If it is a business transaction it may safely be left in the hands of the parties concerned. The lender assumes the contingency that the borrower will be in better financial condition in the hear or re- mote future. If he miscalculates, it is his business, not another’s. Hear what Horace | Greeley said: . | “J hate lawyers; they do more mischief ; then they are worth. They cause disorder— demoralizing every form of equality, and are the chief obstacle to good government. If A lets B have his property without paying, I don’t see why C D Eandall the rest of the alphabet should be called upon as a police force to get it back. No such thing should be attempted by law. It is the most monstrous innovation upon man’s honor and integrity that was ever forced into the com- merce of the world. Leta man trust an- other at his own risk. .Even the gambler pays his debts contracted at the gaming- table. He is not obliged to pay, but he con- siders them debts of honor. Abolish all laws for the collection of debts, and thus abolish the whole credit system; this is the only safe, true basis; that would abolish most lawyers and all of the broker’s trade which now controls the commerce of Amer- ica.”’ To my mind that is good morality and sound logic. THOMAS TANDY, Gen’l Pass. Agent, Detroit. Grand Rapids & Indiana. GOING NORTH. Arrives. — Leaves. Cincinnati & G. Rapids Ex. 9:30 pm Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex. 9:50am 10:20am Ft. Wayne& MackinacEx.. 4:25pm 5:15pm G’d Rapids & Cadillac Ac. 7:45am GOING SOUTH. G. Rapids & Cincinnati Ex. 7:00 am Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex. 4:35pm 5:00pm Mackinac & Ft. WayreEx..10:55am 1:00pm Cadillac & G’d Rapids Ac. 8:20pm All trains daily except Sunday. SLEEPING CAR ARRANGEMENTS. North—Train leaving at 5:15 o’clock p. m. has Woodruff Sleeping Cars for Petoskey and Mackinac City. Train leaving at 10:20 a.m. has combined Sleeping and Chair Car for Mackinac ity. South—Train leaving at 5 p.m. bas Woodruff Sleeping Car for Cincinnati. A. B. LEET, Gen’! Pass. Agent. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern. (KALAMAZOO DIVISION.) Arrives. Leaves. FOXpresy ......-022----0-0008 7:25pm 8:00am MG ee 10:00am 4:25pm The train leaving at 4:25 p.m. connects at White Pigeon with Atlantic Express on main line, which has Palace Sleeping Coaches from Chicago to New York and Boston without change. : The train leaving at 8:00a.m. connects at White Pigeon (giving one hour for dinner) with special New York express on main line. R. E. ABBOTT, Gen’! Agent. Chicago & West Michigan. Leaves. Arrives, HMM oooh s ese nse noe 10:00am 4:35pm +Day Express.........-.-.: 1:15pm 10:45pm *Night Express...........-. 9:0 pm 6:35am *Daily. t+Daily except Sunday. Pullman Sleeping Cars on all night trains. Through parlor car in charge of eareful at- tendants without extra charge to Chicago on 1:15 p. m., and through coach on 9p. m. trains. NEWAYGO DIVISION. Leaves. Arrives MIZOG oo 555s ese y ees 6:20am 4:00pm EXpress....-.....,---22+053> 3:10 B m 10:10am A. M. NICHOLS, Gen’! Pass. Agent. MAMMOTEL STOCE. PRICES GUARANTEED AS LOW AS ANY HOUSEIN THESCOONTRY. SEE LEADING SPECIALTIES BELOW Dolls! Dolls! Dolls! One Hundred Styles, in Wax, China, Bis- que, Paper Mache, Rubber, Leather and cloth. Dressed and Undressed. Dolls’ Heads and Bodies Separate. Bathing Dolls, French Dolls, Crying and Sleeping Dolls. Bohemian Glassware. Cologne Sets, Card Receivers, Vases, Mugs, Bouquet Holders, Ete. | Lava Ware. Smoking Sets, Tobacco Boxes, Spittoons, Cuspadores, Match Boxes, and Many Other Articles. Tin and Wooden Toys. Great Variety, Both Imported and Do- mestic. : : Bisque Figures. Lovely Goods, from $2 to $24 per dozen. Motto and Shaving Cups. Fifty Styles, 30 cents to $12.50 per dozen. Silver Plated Ware. Immense Stock of useful and fancy articles, from the best makers, fully war- ranted and sold at manufacturers’ prices. Castors, Cake Baskets, Tea Sets, Water Sets, Pickles, Butter’s, Card Receivers, Napkin Rings, Knives, Forks, Spoons ete. Fancy Cups and Saucers. Three Hundred Styles, from %5 cents to $6 per dozen. Majolica Ware. Immense Assortment Pitchers, Creamers, Sugars, Fruit Sets, Butter Dishes, Begonia Leaves, Bread Plates, Bread and Milk Sets, Molasses Jugs, Fruit Plates, Salad Bowls, Etc., Ete. Mechanical Toys. For Show Windows. Dancing Figures, Walking Figures, Bears, Ete. Holiday Goods. ONE ASSORTED CASE NO. L 1 doz China Motto Teas assorted..... vis) 1 do do G0 sa... 1 50 % do do GO. 3. 23 200 100 wy do do coffees .do ..... 350 1 65 4% do do do dO. ..2:. 050 1:38 % do do moust coffe...... 325 1 62 1% do do do dO: .22:: 450 2 25 1-6 do do do do. ..2.. 6 50 108 1-6 do do do GO. .:... 700 117 1-6do do do GO" 2:20. 850 1 42 1-6do do tree baskets..... 2 25 37 1-6do Red Bohemian vases........-- 5 13 16do Silvered Bohemian vases..... 100 W 1-6do do G05. 2s. 125. 21 1-6 do po G05. 2 oo 1 60 27 1-6do Blue decorated do — ..---- 1% 29 1-6do Alab. do do Copp 46 1-6do Decorated Toy Tea sets......--- 2 25 38 1 do WO | as. 4 50 27 1-6do White G0 4. 32.3 1 75 29 % do Good child cup and saucer...... 90 45 % do do plates.............--+ 90 54 % do Alphabetical childs plates..... 7 35 % do do MUGS... ....--- 70-35 1 do China decorated mugs.......--- 40 1 do do Do a 5 1% do _ do do ass’d..... 1 20 y% do do do GO. i... 175 88 % do Toy knives and POUKG so co os 1 25 63 1 do Ghina open work baskets....... 65 1 do Assorted animal whistles...... 60 1 do do Ghina vases........---+ 35 1 do do Pitchers........--++-++- 40 % do do Baskets.........------ 2 1 00 14 do Toy casters.....----++++-++se250 2 50 1 Smoking BOs se aD 45 1 do OO oo vee oe 9 00 5 { do Gloth dolls [China heads]...... 45 Y% do do GOs sas 1% 63 vw do do G0 3 sc. 1% 44 y%do do GO. 7 (ic. 250 = 63 1-6do do GG... se 400 63 1 do Kate Greenaway China fig’s... 2 00 1-6do Ghina decorated wash sets..... 2 33 1-6do do Doll heads.........---++++- 2 33 1-6do do G00 4 sess 1 y Package, 40c : $33 63 Tin Toys. ONE ASSORTED PRCKAGE NO. 3. —Containing— 1 doz. Assorted Animals............ 35 1 do do QO 8s, 70 % do do GQ 222 32is ee: 1 00 50 1-3 do d OO. SoS 2 00 67 1-3 do Horseand Boy............... 22 6% 1-6 do do do 1 dO. WAGONS: . 0. es. ee. % do do 34 do DO eee 1 00 16 dO Treks: 20. .... 02.0... 75 1-12 do. EXpress...........:...-.- weed 5 1-6 do Train Cars..................-5 40 4% do Locomotives.................+ 2 00 67 1-6 do 0) 8 25 71 I-12 do Toy Kitchen.........:........ 225 19 1-12 do GO eee anc s 450 38 % do Steamboats................-.. 2 25 45 1 do. (oy Hanks... 2.0 2. ccc. 65 1 do Fancy Cups......-.-....005..: 65 1-12 do Mechanical Locomotive...... 9 12 83 Gall and See Us When in the City. We Are Headquarters for Staple Crockery, Glassware, Lamps, Chimneys, Lanterns, Etc SPRING & COMPANY —WHOLESALE DEALERS IN— FANCY AND STAPLE DRY GOODS CARPETS, OIL CLOTHS, MAT TINGS, ETC. TC. Sand 8B Monroe Strect, Grand Rapids, = Michigan. Sa a CODY, BALL & Co., Wholesale Grocers! 9 11, 13 & 15 Pearl Street, and 13, 15, 17 & 19 Campau Nireet, GRAND RAPIDS, =- ——WE ARE SPECIAL AGENTS ‘FOR THE SALE CF—— Weisinger & Bates’ “Hold Fast” Plug! McAlpin’s GOLD SHIELD Plug, Harris’ SENTINEL Plug, Harris’ HONEY BEE Flug, And We Particularly Invite the Attention of Buyers to these Brands, as THEY POSSESS REAL MERIT, and will Please Both Dealer and Customer. ——To Those who Appreciate a Really Fine Cheese, We Say, Buy Only the— “RIVERSIDE,” MIiCcHiGcAN, * Which We Guarantee Equal to Any Made, Both in RICHNESS OF FLAVOR AND KEEPING QUALITIES. Never Buy a Cheap Cheese for Winter Stock. © WE KEEP THEFINEST AND LARGEST LINE 0F—— * TEAS, COFFEES, SYRUPS and SPICES a In the City, and Solicit Your Orders When in Need of Anything in Our Line ir seo cerns ane yn needa s aca ek meget tee st ee a oe ate 7 TO STAPLE GROCERIES. ee : Senge Be 8 doz = oes. 8 doz . i G0 6655.70.85 BZOLN'R .<...---:- FURNISHED BY LEADING DEALERS. | ?!”° assumed Sry, NO S22. ois es ees see oe doz. 25 ‘STAPLE DRY GOODS. ory. NO. 3). 06 ee ee doz. 45 Spring & Company quote as follows: aaante, : igs sos sess eas sees capes Hed - : WIDE BROWN COTTONS. Liquid, 8 02. ....... oe cS oe A Androscoggin, 9-4..23 |Pepperell, 10-4......25 : z Androscoggin, 8-4..21 |Pepperell, 11-4......27% No. 1 Carpet...... 2... .ee cence cece reece 2 ? Pepperell, 7-4...... 16%4|Pequot, 7-4......... 18 | NO. 2 Carpet............-e ee ee eee e cree 2 26 Pepperell, 8-4...... 2) |Pequot, 8-4......... 21 Word Burl: oo. cs 5 oes sh te we s+ 8 2 00 Pepperell, u-4...... 2214|Pequot, 9-4......... 24 | No.2 Hurl ..........2eee seen ee ee ee eees 1 5 CHECKS Fancy Whisk.........---++eesseese sees 125 Caledonia, XX ll : Pp — Mills, No. 90..14 Common Whisk.........-+--:eeee secre 85 aledonia, XX, 0z.. ark Mills, No. 90.. S Caicdonin, X,oz-..10 |Park Mills, No. 100.15 | _. saeco dopa gees ‘ Economy, 02Z....... 10 \Prodigy, OZ... 11 | Pie Peaches...... 125 (Corn, Trophy... 115 Park Mills, No. 50..10 (Otis Apron......... 10% | 3ibStandard 2 00@2 25 Corn, Yarmouth 1 35 Park Mills, No. 60..11 |Otis Furniture..... 10% | Apples, 3 b...... 125 |Peas.... T5@1 25@1 50 Park Mills, No. 70..12 (York, 1 o7z.......... 10 do. 6%.......215 |String Beans... 85 Park Mills, No. 80..13 |York, AA, extra oz.14 do. gallons... 340 |Lima Beans...... 85 ae Strawberries 1@1 10 |Lewis’ B’d Beans.1 70 OPER E ERS Blackberries ....1 15 |Pumpkin..1 15@1 25 Alabama brown.... 7 [Alabama plaid..... 8 | Raspberries .... 140 Succotash ... 1 65@90 Jewell briwn....... 944' Augusta plaid...... 8 | Cherries, red.... 125 (Oysters, 1m.... 110 Kentucky brown..10!4|Toledo plaid........ 7% | Cherries white.. 190 (Oysters, 2Ib.... 1 85 Lewiston brown... 9%|Manchester plaid.. 7 Pineapples...... 175 jSalmon.... 1 60@ Lane brown........ 9i,|New Tenn. plaid...11_ | Damsons........ 125 (Lobsters, Stars.. 1 75 Louisiana plaid...) 8 |Utility plaid........ 614 | Egg Plums .....- 150 Sardines, Am... 3 i NS. Gages ......-.--.. 50 (Sardines Inport. 1 : 1 - series _ is “a g | PearS.-.-..---.- 135 |Corned Beef 2%5@2 80 Avondale, 36... .... ve\Greene, G, 4-4....-. 5 | Lusk’s Apricots. 2 95 |Cond. Milk, Eagle Art cambrics, 36... -1144/Hill, Bat ae ae es 9 Tomatoes ..1 05@1 20 | case 8 Androscoggin, 4-4.. 8% /Hill, 7-8.../......-+- . ii ew toll i 6 "is 9 Be Androscoggin, 5-4..1244|Hope, 4-4.........-. i S Ballou, 4-4.......... %iKing Phillip cam- . COFFEE. Ballou, 5-4.......... 6 pric, 44..... .:--. 11% | Green Rio....12 @15 |Roasted Mar. @18%% Boott, O.4-4........ 844|Linwood, 4-4....... 9 | GreenJava...18 @28 |Roasted Mex.18 @20 Boott, E.5-5........ 7” jLonsdale, 4-4........ 942! Green Mocha.27 @29 Ground Rio..10 @16 Boott, AGC, 4-4..... 9%|Lonsdale cambric.12_ | Roasted Rio. .114@18 Ground Mex. @l% Boott, R. 3-4........ 53; Langdon, GB, 4-4... 9%} Roasted Java23 @32 | Blackstone, AA 4-4. 134 Langdon, fo eee MD CORDAGE. Chapman, X, 4-4.... 6%4|Masonville, 4-4......0°3 | 7 root Jute ..... 125 [60 foot Cotton....2 00 Conway, 4+4........ 134|Maxwell. 4-4........ 10% BN tank Jute 105 |50 foot Cotton 15 Cabot, 4-4........... or zo sae 44.11% oo gan oy Gabot, 7-5.........-- 644: New Jersey, noes Se ee re Canoe, 3-4........-. 4 \Pocasset, P. M.C.. 7% oe ss Ag ete 2 Ely’s Waterproof 15 Domestic, 36....... 714|Pride of the West..12% | “nn 2 FRUITS Dwight Anchor, 4-4.10 Pocahontas, 4-4.... 8% : se Davol, 4-4........--- 914 |Slaterville, 7-8...... 6% | London Layers, new.........--++-.++++ 2 50 Fruit of Loom, 4-4.. 944|Victoria, AA....... 9 Loose Muscatels Raisins, old.......... ] 5 Fruit of Loom, 7-8.. 8144;Woodbury, 4-4...... 534 | Loose Muscatels Raisins, new......-- 1 95 Fruit of the Loom, | |Whitinsville, 4-4... 7%, | New Valencias Raisins..........------ 814@ 874 cambric, 4-4...... 42 |Whitinsville, 7-8.... 6% | Turkey Prunes ..........-----++e++s0+° 634@% Gold Medal, 4-4.. .. 7 |Wamsutta, 4-4...... 11% | Currants..... ........ bec ee 6%4@ Gold Medal, 7-8..... 614|Williamsville, 36...10% | Citron ...... 22.6.1 eee ee seer ee ee entrees 18@ 2 Gilded Age......... 834) Dried Apples ...........-.6.- ee cece eee 8 @9 CORSET JEANS. oa asaaea FISH. 640 Armory .......---++ "14\Kearsage........... 814 101e ZOE Gees aie cis ee eae eels es eit 6 v2 ee aoe eoeuin sat.. 8144/Naumkeag satteen. 8% ee cs eeer ec tes mene ccc et vec Canoe River........ 644|Pepperell bleached 8% Stace & Se 4 pee rere eee 300) 31 Clarendon.......... 614 Pepperell sat....... 9%4 Mec tolls Al sacha ae ones 1 10 Hallowell Imp..... 634\Rockport........... 7% White fi “a6 is 508 gs oe 6 00 Ind. Orch. Imp..... 6% | Lawrence pate fc: 8% —. Se an Ce 85@90 Laconia .......-.---- 744|\Conegosat.........- 7 went GoigtWis ee £ 85 PRINTS. ao Kats. os. ..-....-----. 85 Albion, solid........ 544 |Gloucester .......---. 6 Mackerel half Bois No.4. ..........-.. 6 50 Albion, grey....--.- 6 |Gloucestermourn’g.6 ao. Kats NO: d 2.14... ..------ 1 00 Allen’s checks...... 6 |Hamilton fancy....6 _ _MAaTCHES. Ailen’s fancy....... 6 |Hartelfancy........ 6% | Richardson’s No. 2 square.......-----+-+-+- 2 70 Allen’s pink......... 6%|Merrimac D......... 6% | Richardson’sNo.3 dO. .........-++++++5: 1 55 Allen’spurple....... 64%!Manchester ........- 6% | Richardson’s No. 5 GO 2 1 70 American, faney....6 |Oriental fancy...... 6 Richardson’s No. 6 GO 22 ee 2 70 Arnold fancy.......- 6%|\Oriental robes...... 6 {| Richardson’sNo.8 doO_.......-+--++++++: 1 v0 Berlinsolid.......... 544'Pacifiec robes........ 7 Richardson’s No.9 dO_ ......---.-+eeees: 2 55 Cocheco fancy.....- 6%4|Richmond........... 6% | Richardson’s No. 4 round ..........-.--++++: 2 “0 Gocheco robes.....-.- 7 |Steel River.......... 6 | Richardson’s No.7 dO ....---++-++eeer ees 2 55 Conestoga fancy....6 |Simpson’s,.....-..--- 6% | Kichardson’s No. 74% dO .....-- +e sere reer ees 1 70 Eddystone ..... ...-64%| Washington fancy..6 Electric Parlor No.17..........--+--+2++e20+ 3 80 Eagie fancy.........6 |Washington blues..6% | Electric Parlor No. 18....... Ce 15353238 a Garner pink......... 7 | 20 gross lots special price. é : MOLASSES. deus cqodascaad aoe Black Strap......19@20|New Orleans f'y .62@65 Sart > 4-4.... 8 oo exten. ag oY Porto Rico....... @35|Syrups, corn... @34 oott M, 4-4........ é ndian Orchard, o6. 7 sod. @45\Syrups, sug 27@35@45 Boston F, 4-4....... 81%4|Laconia B, 7-4...... 16% New Orleans g’d @EISY Pee Continental C, 4-3.. 7% Lyman B, 40-in..... 1073s Kerosene W. W.....------------------- 164% Continental D, 40in 8%|Mass. BB, 44....... 6% ao. Socal test. oo: 131% Conestoga W, 4-4... 7 |Nashua BE, 40-in.... 9 | sweet, 2.02. square.......--2-.20- 22s e ves) Conestoga D, 7-8... 5% Nashua RB, 4-4...... 741 Sweet, 2 02. YOUNG.........--- 00 ee ee 1 00 Conestoga G, 30-in. 6’4/Nashua O,7-8....... 141 Castor, 2.0%. SQUATC........ 0.22 eee eee "5 Dwight X, 3-4...... 6 |Newmarket N...... 74] Gastor, 2.0z. round........... -----+-++ 1 00 Dwight Y,7-8....... 614|Pepperell E, 39-in.. i% ae OATMEAL. Dwight Z, 44....... i \Pepperell R, 4-4.... 7 | Quaker 2 i cases, 48 Ibs B c@sc....---- 2 35 Dwight Star, 4-4.... 7%/Pepperell O, 7-8.... 6%) “qo 5 tb cases, 60 hs ® case........-. 2 55 Ewight Star, 40-in.. 9 Pepperell N, 3-4.... 64] Imperial bbls..........-------ee eee 6 00 Enterprise EE, 36.. 64 /Pocasset_C, 4-4..... a tuner Obs... s+ 6 75 Great Falls E, 4-4... 74 |Saranac R oo 74 PICKLES. Farmers’ A, 4-4..... 6%4/Saranac E.......... 9 | Dingee’s barrels med.......-.0 0 essere ee DT Indian Orchard, t-4 772) Dingee’s % Be 3 50 DOMESTIC GINGHAMS. Dincce’s’, do small.............-.-.. 4 50 Amoskeag ........- §14;Renfrew, dress sty110'4 | Dingee’s quarts glass fancy.......-------+-- 4 25 ‘Amoskeag, Persian Johnson Manfg Co, Dingee’s pints qo 2 ee 2 50 BEVIES.. 2. ..-..---- 10%| Bookfold......... 12% SUGARS. : Bates. 2... 6.2... 8 \Johnson Mantfg Co, GranmlateG ...-.....--..:. :-:-5----- £-94 Berkshire ......... 7% dress styles...... M2851 (ah oat... -..-.--.-.-....---------- 9-31 Glasgow checks.... 744 Slaterville, dress Powdered = = 9-20 Glasgow checks, t’y 712|_ Styles..........--- i341 Cont A ee 8-56 Glasgow checks, (White Mfg Co, stap 8 Stamcard A = 6. .- ss. se. oe royal styles...... 9 |White Mtg Co,fane 8 | Extra C..........--::.seeeeeeee rere eres 734@8 Gloucester, new {White Mant’g Co, Mine ©. | 14@i standard ......... 8 | Earlsten.........- 0141 Nollow 3... 633@7 Plunket ..........-- S (Gerdon.......-----. 8 SOAP. Lancaster .........- & jGreylock, dress Kirk’s American Family ........8 b 6% Langdale .........--. Weg) StvdeS 22 2: RY go india 5. 22... -. 5.6. 6% WIDE BLEACHED COTTONS. do. Savon ...........2- sees eee ees 6 Androscoggin, 7-4..21 {Pepperell. 104... 21% go eanmen ..............---...... 614 Androscoggin, 8-4..23 Pepperell, 11-4..... B2h% go. Revenue .....-........-..-.--: 534 Pepperell, 7-+......20 |Pequot, ie ee 21 do. White Russian..............-- 5 40 Pepperell, 8-4......224/ Pequot, S-4.... oo eee Bell’s German Family...........-.--- 5% Pepperell, 9-4.....- 25 \Pequot, 9-4......... 27% fo Mone... -- 2. .........34...-- HEAVY BROWN COTTONS. Goodrich’s English Family ........-.. 514 Atlantic A, 4-4..... 714 Lawrence XX, 4-4.. 8%4 do. Princess ....-........-...- 444 Atlantic H, 44..... 7144 Lawrence Y,30.... 7 Proctor & Gamble’s Ivory ..........- 6 75 Atlantic D, 4-4..... 61, Lawrence LL, 4-4... 64 do. Japan Olive ...... 5 Atlantic P, 4-4...... 6 ‘Newmarket N...... 74 Go. Town Talk ® box 37 Atiantie LL, 4-4.... 5%/Mystie River, 4-4... 6% do. Golden Bar........ 4 20) Adriatic, 36......... 7%4'Pequot A, 4-4....... 8 do. PAO cs: 3 45 Augusta, 4-4........ 6% Piedmont, 36....... 7 do. Aqmper. 3... . 3 75 Boott M, 4-4........ Tig iStark AA, 44....... 8 do. Mottled German.. 4 20 Boott FF, 4-4....... 734 'Tremont CC, 4-4.... 6 Sth Pe ee 3 00 Graniteville, 4-4.... 7 jUtica, 4-4........... 9 atabiiti Ss. 2. es 5 50 Indian Head, 4-4... 8 |Wachusett, 4-4..... W724 Mina ae 0... jw. ----------- se 4 25 Indiana Head 45-in.12'%4|Wachusett, 30-in... 6% | White enpstile DATS.........-.....--..-- 13 TICKINGS. Mottled castile.................-------- 12 Amoskeag, ACA...15 |Falls, XXXX....... Bi, 1 Old Aiyie... os: 2. Ge @ 5% Amoskeag ‘ 4-4..19 (Falls, XXX......... 15% SPICES. Amoskeag, A.....- 14 (Falis, BB... ..-.. 1144 | Ground Pepper, in boxes and cans... 16@22 Amoskeag, B...... 13. Falls, BBC, 36...... 19144 | Ground Alispice..............--0- 2200s 12@20 Amoskeag, C......12 (Falls, awning.... ..19 (Cimmamon 028s. is ees eos 16@30 Amoskeag, D...... il (Hamilton, BT, 32..12 Oleves =. a. 20@25 Amoskeag, E......10% Hamilton, D....... 10 “CL es oe 15@20 Amoskeag, F....... 10 (Hamilton, H.... .. 10 | Mustard.............. eee cece see 15@35 Premium A, 4-4....17 Hamilton fancy...10 Oayenne .....5.-.--...----.---------.- 25 Premium B........ 16 \Methuen AA....... 1444 | Pepper 14 Ib @ dozen............-..---- a iixivat-t ..........- 16 Methuen ASA...... 18 Adispice *42)..............-----------s 65 Meispeis...... .---- 144% Omega A, 7-8....... 11 Cinnamon +4 1D... ....-2....,-. ae. 70 Gold Meda! 4-4...... 15 \Omega A, 4-4....... 13 lowes % i... ..........-.2.----...-- 75 POA Ts... ...-- 12% Omega ACA, 7-8....14 | Pepper, whole.........-:..--2..0+++ 17 @I18 forest see 14 Omega ACA, 44....16 | Alispice .........--.-.-. eee seen eee @i2 eee? 14 Omega SE, 7-8...... SU ee @l2 Meh. eo ee 16 |Omega SE, 4-4......27 Clowes... a 20 G22 Aga 19 (Omega M. 7-8 ......22 Nutmeos, No.1. .2:.-...-..-------.. 50 @i5 Cordis AAA, 32..... 14 Omega M, 4-4....... 25 STARCH. Cordis ACA, 32..... 15) |ShetucketSS&Ssw 11% | Muzzy Gloss 1 b PACKOCE...- 25-5... ° ce @i Cordis No. 1, 32....- 15 |Shetucket,S & SW.12 Muzzy Gloss 3 th package............-. @6% Cordis No. 2........ 14 |Shetucket, SFS....12 Muzzy Gloss 6 tb boxes.............--- @i% Cordis No.3......-. 18 |Stockbridge A..... i. Muzzy Gloss bulk..............---+--+: @5 ordis No. 4......-- 1144'Stockbridge trney. 8 Mazzy Cora i ...........--:.-.-.--- 7 @1% ai Seo ao Liege ate Lee oe oe ee : PETS : 1 oETINGS. ... ........:.-.-...-...23 Strime ROCK... 3)... ee - 17 WummecAbmonds. 0) 600. .25 025-2 ol. 24 Wintergreen Berries.................-.- ey FRUITS. Oranges, @ box... .-...............:.... 5 50 Oranges, @ Ease ...........-...-...---- Qnranees, @ bbl. .:..............--.---- 10 50@ Lemons, fair to good.................-5 00 Lemons, choice to fancy.............. 6 00 Bananas #@ buneh..................---- 2 WO@3 50 Malaga Grapes, $ keg............6---- Malaga Grapes, # bbl.............--+-- ios, lnyers @ Ib -..........-...-...-. 15@16 ies fancy do ....:..-.....--...--.-. 18 Figs. baskets 30 Ih # Ib........-..-.---- 18 Dates. frails GO es: @ 6 Dates, 14 do dQ 2052 5.0... @ 7 ‘Wates, SKIN. 20) 0/612 .eo @ 6% Mates, te Sil. .-2...4.......--..-. @ Th Dates, Fard 10 i box @ D...........-. @i4 PEANUTS. Prime Red, raw @ ................-. Choice do CC es ee @9 Fancy do dQ @ 9% Choice White, QQ). 62s .. @10 Pancy HP, Va do .:..............-. @, NUTS Almonds, Terragona, ®@ ...........-. 20 @21 Almonds, Loaca, QO. 325. ec. 1g @I19 Brazils, €O (60: @138 Pecons, dO 02.2... ll @124% Filberts, Barcelona do ............. @11% Filberts, Sicily GQ... 124@13 Walnuts, Chilli dO 22. 26. @14 Walnuts, Grenobles do ............. @15 Walnuts, California do ..........-.. @14 Cocoa Nuts, # 100 os bs Ok) Hickory Nuts, large ® bu............. Hickory Nuts,small do °............ 1 50@ HARDWARE GOODS. Prevailing rates are as follows: Anvils—Peter Wright’s, @ Ib............ 11% Augurs—40 and 10 per cent. off. Babbett—X XX, #@ D.........-.--- ee eee 30 B., D. & Co., No. X, @W...........-- 21 B.D. & Co.. No.2, 8 D.........--:--- 12 Chain—3-16 inch Lake Superior, ®b..... 10% uy do dO. 2 7% 5-16 do do. 6% 3g do GO. 2 eee. jl, lg do GO 5 34 do QQ -8 5 3) 2. 4 70 Files—Nicholson’s best 40 per cent off. Forks—Hay and Manure 50 per cent off. Hammers—Maydole’s 15 per cent off. Hinges—Strap and T 60 per cent off. Horse Shoes—Burden’s $4.55 per keg. Horse Nails—Au Sable 30 and 10 per eent. off. Tron—Flat Bar $2 rates. Sheet No. 24 $3.96 rates. Swede’s bar 5%c # tb. Padlocks 30 per cent. off. Lead—Pig # tb.........--- ee ee ree 6 Sheet # I......... eee cess ete neces 6 Pipe P ........ eee eee eee eee ees 6 Bar B Ms oo kee wes Cada Smee wie tere ‘ Rope—Manilla @ t.....-----++++-++-+: 13 @l4 Sisal # 1. ... 2... cece eee eee ees 10 @ll Jute BWD.... 2. eee eee eee eee eee 84@ 9% Sash Weights # tb........ 6... cece cece eee 2 Shot—Buck $2.15. Drop $1.80. PG Pec ee chee ne ores et RWYw@u4% Steel—Best cast tool ® t..........-.-.-5- @i3 Round Machine # b..............-55- @8 Spring ® D........ 62. cee cece cece ees @ 4% Tin—Pig PW... 6. cee cee et eee cee ee @26 Bar @ D..... 1... e cece eee eee eee @28 Zinc—Sheet # ..........-2---2- ++ ; @ 6% Slab -@ Th. .... 0... 2. se eee sete ee es @'i% CROCKERY AND GLASSWARE. H. Leonard & Sons quote as follows: ONE CRATE WHITE GRANITE WARE. Knowles, Taylor & Knowles—Cable Shape— Diamond C. 6 doz Plates. .......:...- 5ineh 54 3 24 so € Ol gece 6&5 66 1 98 2a. * Oe ea ee. eS 78 15 60 ack OP See a 90 2 70 a SS Bakers. 20-0 os... ao 78 2 34 ~ Se eo 90 45 Wy Se. @ = 1 05 52 ye SS ee c 1 44 %2 yo He ooo en: ss 2 10 52 ES Bowls. .-. 2.0.2.2. No. 36 75 De eee * 30 90 Po ee: ae 110 % * Cov’d Butters....5 inch 4 20 1 05 2 “Indivi =<. ....2% “ 27 oy % ‘** Cov’d Chambers. No. 9 6 15 3 07 I “ Uneovd * oS 4 20 3, 5% Cake PIAtes: 6255.2 625... 4 20 1 05 1% ‘* Restaurant Creams......... 5 37 3 ~ Oup Plates... -<............ 30 90 4, «** Casséroles......... Tinech 5 10 1 27 wm _ ooo ae 5 70 148 2 © Dishes. ..:...2.2... ss 42 1 44 as BO een Cas 1 50 50 ae SO 19‘ 216 72 a cee Hi 2 85 95 1-6 ‘ Ewers and Basins, No9..... 9 90 1 65 5 ‘ Fruit Saucers..... 4inch 35 1 %5 4% <** Barrell Mugs....36 ** 8t 42 @ °° Seollops...-...-. 2% =“ 60 1 20 A Pe 90 45 PS (hee eee eee Gs 114 Pas Ce cs 1 50 ym ee cas & S 2 10 1 05 3G So Pues, NOodG..-.. 22. 2, 1 26 63 re eee So AN ec 1 50 15 mo oe 1 PT ee ee 3 06 76 Eg oe Ss Mee 4 80 80 4° Shell Biekles ....-.... 22.2. 1 80 90 % “ Sugars. No.d0:.....5..2:.... 3 15 7s % 6S Spoon Holders.............. 1 80 45 tg gross Un’hd Coffees, 12 sets in g 6 30 3 15 3. ‘* Teas, a “ 4 80 14 40 iL “6 Hd oe oe es 6 00 $86 11 Any assortment packed to order. ASSORTED PACKAGE MAJOLICA—NO. 33. 1 Tea Set, 44 Pieces, Shell........ 6 50 Edozen Sauce Plates, ‘* ........ 12 2 Fruit Sets, 7 Pieces tee een 2 00 4 00 4 Covered Butters eee 75 3 00 3 Hand Teas ooo oe. 30 90 3 Hand Coffees ee 40 1 20 8 Hand Moust. Coffees ‘° ........ 50 150 3 Molasses Cans, Sunflower........ 55 1 65 6 Bread Plates, Strawberry........ 18 1 08 6 Bread Plates. Oak.............:... 37 2 22 3 Pitchers, No. 12, Rose............. 58 1 74 3 — Me 3l 93 3 . “ ee eee 21 63 a on poe i 51 3 : SS 292 Pei... oo 58 1 74 3 se Se 42 1 26 3 “s So a 25 5 3 oe ss G Corl ...... 2.2. 62 1 86 3 - <2 Me oe cee 42, 1 26 ; 3 = So Ae Zl 63 42 Becomia Leaves............-..-.-:- 15 1 80 2 dozen Individual Butters......... 50 1 00 2 Bread and Milk Sets, Shell........ 67 = 1 bh 2 Cuspadores, Sunflower......... og 108 t Tea Pot, Sugar and Cream, Shell. 1 25 1 “ - ee Caulf 1 00 : $42 08 Less 10 Per Cent.......... 4 20 Package, $1. $37 88 t=" Packages assorted or repacked to order. ONE ASSORTED PACKAGE ROCKINGHAM AND YEL- LOW WARE. Diamond H. 14, doz. Rock. Chambers, No. 4....$450 $1138 34 ee “6 6 6 § 8 25 ° 43 MPM ties Ge eae ecco ere gin erae Tk a ace ae ange eLT aeat ote Seana Sa a a oO wt of * ee = ss < Ooo 125 iy“ Mixing Bowls, SO. 3 00 100 ee = - 9... 225 75 Ve . es 12... 250 50 1° Mugs, 6 30... 5) 1% * Tea Pots. se 38... 4.00 100 A a = a 81 iy Ge S80. Ab 69 ys Bakers. Tine ...........- 105 26 oe - S. . 1% 3l yi “ OO ee 155 389 wm : WS ....2...... 1S 46 mS S Ho 8. 2 30 58 Ma 2 2 80 70 % «6 Seallops, Gineh .._......... 120 30 VA ss (0 ceccecerrer: 150 38 Woe $< 2234. 180 45 AA oo 2 25 56 1% Nappies, Tinch ............ 105 26 uo 2 SS 125 31 yo - Qo 155 39 ye es HO ee; 18 46 yo = TS 230 58 mo Ss ie cece ececcore 280 70 to «Plates Simeh .........-.- 85 a a Qe oe. 95 190 a = Me gaa Sass 105 210 1, * “Our New” Pitcher, No.6 450 112 a = = = 12. 215 69 4 ae = ee “ce oe 2A oe 1 WD 44 ye S Spittoong, NO. ....2:....:-- 200 50 yw S See Ae ol cae 3 00 5 A = ee 8 ee. 4 00 100 mS rs Oe ae 5 00 125 2 * Yellow Bowls, No. 36 ........ 40 80 2° a s 30 |. 50 100 ye. = SS 2h 60 30 4 oo Nappies, Ginch...........22. 75 25 ag SS s | oh oo eee 90 80 1 * . & «& 2 ae 3 yo - OS 140 35 mS ss 10 17 43 % * Chambers, No.4 ....:-.....-. 4 00 160 Soe 6.2 3 00 2 25 yet ss SO a 225 112 $36 06 1 Package, $1 00. 60 days $25 20. HANGING LAMPS. Price Complete, with New Style Drip Fount. Our pendants are all manufactured by the Bradley & Hubbard Manufacturing Co, and will give better satisfaction than any others in the market. Send for complete catalogue of chandelier goods. F Bronze No 366, per doz................ 24 00 Silver and blue No 366 do. ..............-. 27 00 Ebony & gold No366 do ...............- 0 00 Nos. 465, or 466 French bronze, per doz.-...-..-...2..; 27 00 Verde bronze dO 2.0 27 00 Verde and Fr bronze do. ....... 27 00 Silver bronze dO. 22 30 60 Silver and blue br. dO 25 ae Ebony and gold QO. oo 33. 60 Extra gilt bronze O° = 525s ee 33 00 Gold or pol. bronze do ...............-- 45 00 Special prices for two dozen or more pen- dants in one order. CHANDELIERS. No 5902 light for stores, complete with 7 inch shades, each... ...- 22.02... ee eee eee eens 75 Over 100 styles of chandeliers constantly on hand. We have all the new and beautiful Brass pendants and Chandeliers. Special quotations made for churches. LAMP BURNERS. No 0 Any style per dOZ..........-.---- +220: 5 Nol do 6 ao 85 No2 do QO 1 35 GLASSWARE. Heavy Figured ‘‘ Horseshoe”? Pattern. Sets W dozen. ..........-..2-...--. $3 00 Pitchers, % gallon............ 2... eee e eee 3 00 @olevios = ck 2 10 Bowls, 7 inch, and covers......... via igus 3 Bowls,S * se So oe segeegs eee 3 8D Bowls,9 ‘* NO 2 2 ee, 3 60 Comports, 4 inch.......... 6.6... eee ee eee 30 Genlets a 5 NWWGS ooo ne ei ew ccees G 3d eis es eke ee 3 00 Nappies, 4 inch.................+. PB gross 2 2% Package at cost’ COAL AND BUILDING MATERIALS. A. B. Knowlson quotes as follows: Ohio White Lime, per bbl............. 1 10 Ohio White Lime, car lots............. 1 00 Louisville Cement, per bbl............ 1 40 Akron Cement per bbl.............--. 1 40 Buffalo Cement, per bbl.............. 1 40 NM IOGH. <6 cc 5k Sones see ea Sec cee 1 15@1 20 Plastering hair, per bu................ 5 38 Stucco, PERDD)..... <6... sce nese 1 %5 Land plaster, per ton..............---. 3 75 Land plaster, car lots..........-...+.-. 3 00 Pire brieks per MM... 0. <5... cence $27 @ $35 Fire clay, per bbi...........-....-..-.. 3 COAL. Anthracite, egg and grate............ $6 50@6 75 Anthracite, stove and nut............ 6 75@7 00 @anfiell GO8F. 2). oo. eee 7 00 OIG COGN cose es ees ares eek es 3 50@3 7d Blossburg or Cumberland ........... 5 00@5 26 21 | VISITING BUYERS. | ‘'The.following retail dealers have visited MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. | the market during tne past week and placed A MERCANTILE JOURNAL, PUBLISHED EACH | orders with the various houses: — |. O. Bostwick & Son, Cannonsburg. Waite Bros., Hudsonville. J. E. Bevins, Leroy. John Smith, Ada. G. Miller, Ryerson P. O. C. B. Moon, Cedar Springs. OFFICE IN EAGLE BUILDING, 3d FLOOR. | G. H. Force, Morley. _ LJ. Eckler, Westwood. WEDNESDAY, NOV. 7, 1883. | John J. Ely, Rockford. AMONG THE TRADE. | QO. S. Richards, Clarksville. Delo Bros., Bravo. G. W. Joscelyn, Venturia. Colborn & Carpenter, Caledonia. F. Doge, Stanwood. J. R. Harrison, Sparta Center. John Barker, of Barker & Lehnen, Pier- son. ; P. W. Travis, Otsego. Fred K. Hotehkiss, Hastings. D. M. Rice, Croton. T. J. Sheridan, Lockwood. S. A. Gardner, Cedar Springs. H. S. Farrell, Jamestown. R. V. MeArthur, Rockford. J. D. F. Pierson, Pierson. C. E. Blakeley, Coopersville. G. W. Hoag, Martin. F. A. Winslow, Saugatuck. C. H. Adams, Dual & Adams, Bradley. L. S. Dickenson, Fennville. W. H. Struik, Forest Grove. G. Bron & Ten Hoor, Forest Grove. U.S. Monroe, Berlin. Norman Harris, Big Springs. Geo. Heintz, Ross Station. G. H. Walbrink, Allendale. A. M. Church, Englishville. C. E. Kellogg, Grandville. McLeod & Trautman Bros., Moline. Oliver Seaman, Big Rapids. C: O. Bostwick & Son, Cannonsburg. R. Gilbert, Moline. Paine & Field, Englishville. J. Omler, Wright. A. Engberts, Beaver Dam. | Geo. Lentz, Croton. Smeadley Bros., Bauer. Wm. McMullen, Wood Lake. W.S. Root, Talmage. G. S. Curtiss, Edgerton. B. M. Dennison, East Paris. a J. Colby, Rockford. E. A. STOWE, Editor and Proprietor. | IN THE CITY. | Frost Bros., grocery dealers at 135 South ! Division street, have sold out. Will Butchart has taken the position of billing clerk at Cody, Ball & Co.’s. J. C. Shaw, dealer in groceries at 36 Leonard street, has sold out to Bragington & Seigel. ' L. J. Eckler, of Westwood, who lately en- gaged in general trade, purchased his dry goods stock of Spring & Company last week. Wm. H. Stewart, who operates a general store at Round Lake, was in town last Thursday. He was accompanied by his family. Sam. Tannebaum, of the Star Clothing House, started north yesterday on a visit to the patrons of the establisement along the line of the C. & W. M. The grocery brokerage business appears to ea lucrative one, as Mr. H. F. Hastings is understood to have lately purchased a block of stock in the Wolverine Chair and Furni- ure Co. ¢ U. S. Monroe, the general dealer at Berlin, recently teok to wife the accomplished Miss Wilson, of that place, and celebrated the event on the ocession of his visit here last Saturday by passing around a choice brand of smokers. | C. S. Yale & Bro. now occupy two stores, Nos. 40 and 42 South Division street, the in- crease in working space having been render- ed necessary by the growing demands of their business. The two stores will be con- nected by an arched passage way. The Grand Rapids Felt Boot Co.’s factory is running day and night to keep pace with their orders, with a capacity of 800 pairs each 24 hours. During October, 1,500 cases were turned out, the largest month’s busi- ness ever done by the establishment. The Bissell Carpet Sweeper Co. shipped six cases of their carpet sweepers to Haim- burg, Germany, Saturday, 12 cases on Tues- day, and nine cases to-day. Each invoice was sent to a different house, the orders hay- ing been obtained through exporters. The Stockwell & Darragh Furniture Co. did more business in October than during any previous month in the history of the corporation. Joshua Speed, general travel- ing agent for the company, expects to take the road the latter part of the week, visiting the trade in the far west. The recent cut in freight rates as far west as Ogden has brought to this market a num- ber of heavy furniture buyers, nearly all of whom have purchased largely. Among the buyers who have lately put in an appearance are Geo. W. Perkins, Pueblo, Colo.; Kilpat- rick & Brown, Denver; Robert Keith, Kan- sas City; Hiram Brush and Frank Barnes, Chicago; Geo. Neidhardt, Three Rivers. TRADE CHANGES. Bradstreet’s Mercantile Agency furnishes Tie TRADESMAN with the following busi- ness changes, embarrassments, etc., occurring up to the hour of going to press: Alpena—N. H. Epstein, clothing, sold out and left town. Berrien Springs—Dexter & Bolinger, gro- cer, dissolved, Bolinger Bros. continue. Bloomingdale—J. E. Matthews, tinware and hardware, is succeeded by J. E. Mat- thews & Son. Burnip’s Corners—Spencer Streng, gen- eral store, sold out. Bay City—Forsyth, Pierson & Tioleomb, hardware, dissolved, Forsyth & Pierson suc- ceeding. Centerville—E. D. Thomas, drugs, sold out to C. E. Sabin. Flowertield—J. N. Hoag & Co., millers and produce, sold out to B. J. Conrad. Edmore—J. B. & 8. C. Matthews, drugs, out of business. Erie—R. Green & Co., jewelers, left town. Ionia—VanAllen & Co., druggists, G. W. Webber retired, G. W. VanAllen admitted, style firm same. Ithaca—S. J. Thoenan & Son, hardware, about selling out. McBrides—A. B. McBrides, general store sold out to White & Maynard. Marshalli—Rock River Paper tached. Oak Grove—M. L. Davis, general store, sold out to Isaac M. Bush. Petosky—Shirk Bros., hardware and bankers, discontinued banking; Belknap & Strickland, grocers, advertising to sell out. _ Plainwell—J. W. Hitchcock & Co., tail- ors, style changed to Hitchcock & Heath, same partners. Roseommon—lH. Bartholomew, sold out to W. S. Washington. Sheridan—Stanton Bros., drugs, dissolved, M. B. Stanton continuing. Wyman—O. W. Avery, saw mill and store, burned out, loss estimated at $15,000, insured for $10,000. reported AROUND THE STATE. Alpena shipped 4,728,000 feet of lumber last week. The cheese factory project at Coopersville has failed to mature. The Harbor Springs toothpick factory will begin work this week. Ryerson, Hills & Co., Muskegon, will soon begin manufacturing salt. Port Huron hardware dealers have im- ported 100 stoves this month. The grocery firm of M. H. Brackney & Son, at Big Rapids, is succeeded by Grand- Gerard & Co. . McOmber & Fincham, dealers in groceries at Petoskey, are about to establish a branch store at Alanson. Pitman & Flower, of Pontiac, have pur- chased J. W. Chaddock & Co.’s hardware store at Battle Creek. The Newaygo Republican says that a business firm at that place sold $11,000 worth of goods during October. L. M. Handy, dealer in boots and shoes at Mancelona, has sold out to Haaris & Lay- man, who will continue the business. Bradstreet’s reports the opening of a new meat market at Reed City by J. N. Maynard, and a new millinery store by Mrs. E. Gilbert. Will W. Bailey, of Buffalo, N. Y., has purchased the general store af C. C. Bailey, at Fife Lake, and will continue the business. Brown & McLellan will build a new $10,- 000 roller-process grist mill at Bronson, and the citizens propose to help them to the ex- tent of $2,500. Charles B. Lovejoy, who has seen sixteen years’ service behind the counter, opened his new grocery store at Big Rapids on the 3d with considerable eclat. Geo. Lentz has purchased the interest of his deceased partner, Charles Merritt, in the general stock of Merritt & Lentz, at Croton, and will continue the business. Sheehan & Co., clothing dealers of Ann Arbor, have sold out to B. J. Conrad, form- | erly manager of the Register Printing and | Publishing Co. Sheehan & Co. go to Me-| nominee. | Bubl Sons & Co., of Detroit, the mort-| gagees, bid in the Shick bankrupt stock of | hardware at Marshall. Mr. Shick,’speaking after the ancients, “ bit off more than he could chew,” and was closed out by credi- : : ee other assertions. We venture the opinicn tors. : ; oe : | that neither will pay 40 per cent., and time The Big Rapids Herald says that a gen-| wil] prove the truth of this statement. tleman of that city, who knows whereof he| "he failures of Porter, Byrne & Co., Wet- speaks, estimates the total amount of lumber | ,¢]] Bros.. S. P. Swartz, ¢ ge Cae | zell Bros., S. P. Swartz, and others here handled at that placefrom Jan. 1 to Nov. 1 | ion & Moasmore. : 5 ae oe 994,000,000. This is exclusive of lath and | and Rice & Messmore, at Cadillac, are re- so sig la is Is exclusive OF Jath ane’ sujtant upon the other assignmenta, and like sningies. : | them are a standing reproach to the habit of L. A. Lyon, of Hudson, an old veteran in |“ swapping paper,” one of the most perni- the hotel business, has leased the Hudsoi | cious schemes ever invented to raise money. House in that place and proposes to run 4@| first-class hotel. Improvements and thorough renovation are now in order. son George will be manager. Co., at- drugs, THE LATE FAILURES. | “Swapping Paper,”’ and What Came of li— Reckless Lumbermer. The annoucement, last Friday, that Frank Chickering had madea voluntary assign- ment for the benefit of his creditors, and the announcement the day following that M. J. Bond had taken a similiar course, were received with considerable surprise, as it had been supposed that both gentlemen were doing a safe business. ‘That such was not & fact, however, will be understood when it isstated that they had both been in the habit of ‘‘swapping paper” at the banks, and that that practice brought about | their downfall. The local papers and the bank officers have been extremely careful to present the failures in the most favorable light, probably arguing thatif the true facts were made known, the showing would bea bad one, and possibly bring about disastrous results. That such aform of argument is defective, need not be demonstrated. Messrs. Chickering and Bond were not rep- resentative business men, having made their money suddenly and launched out too deeply. Their failure reflects upon them- selves alone,and not in the least upon the good name of the city. The statements in the | city papers that both men will settle in full, and have money left, isona par with the Wi , | Always Believe Everything They Read. | A daily exchange has the following: | ” the Sunday papers some one of the many ee : ee | cheap stores advertised to sell cotton cloth REEL OF TEE LATE FLU EES- | and calico fora centa yard. Hundreds of One of Messrs. Hazeltine, Perkins & Co.’s | women rushed to the store yesterday, pre- northern. customers recently wrote them, | pared to buy from fifty to 5,000 yards each, making inquiries relative to the excursion | and were disgusted on being informed that which left the city for Louisville yesterday. | not more than ten yards would be sold to They answered at length, detailing the time | any one person, and furthermore that the it would leave, giving the price of tick-| “special” sale closed at noon. The women ets, and naming the place where they could | knew that they had been fooled, and natur- be obtained. The customer appeared | ally wanted to get even with somebody, and at the house Monday, and upon being greet- | consequently they came to the newspapers ed and asked if he was ready for the ex-| in smallswarms. If the millennium will cursion, replied rather emphatically: ‘“Ex-| usher in the period when people will know eursion! H —1! I’ve got $3,500 worth of) that they can’t expect to get something for M. J. Bond’s paper!” nothing, it can’t come too soon. ‘ TRADE TALK. | Facts Gleaned from the Various Houses at this Market. | DRY GOODS. | Business continues good, and collections | are reported as exceptionally prompt. There is no change in quotations. | ae } | GROCERIES. Trade is fair, with little prospect of an immediate improvement. Jobbers are look- | ing up eredits very sharply, and are conser- | vative enough not to push sales, where the , party buying is at all shakey. Coffees are at a standstill, but firm at present prices. Sugars reached their lowest point last Sat- urday, at which time they advanced” ‘c, which still leaves the staple a little below last week’s quotations. Syrups are weak, in consequence of the dullness in sugars. New Valencia raisins are higher. Tobaccos hold their own, although both retailers and jobbers are pretty well loaded, in anticipa- ye of the late advance and another in pros- pect. DRUGS. The drug trade is moving along in the even tenor of its way, and seems to be the only branch of business that is not affected by the present slackness. Country dealers exhibit considerable conservatism in making purchases, but none express disappointment at the present condition of trade or appre- hension for the future. Arrow root and hemp seed have advanced since last week, and oil wormwood, balsam tulu, oil cubebs, canary seed and oil cajeput have declined. The statement made last week to the effect that castor oil had advanced in consequence ‘| of a “corner” on the staple was the result of a misunderstanding, and has no truth in fact. The advance is owing to entirely dif- ferent causes, as is pointed out in an article on the subject on another page. HIDES, PELTS AND FURS. Arrangements have been made with a leading house in the above line to furnish full quotations on hides, pelts and furs. The list will appear next week and be a reg- ular feature of the paper thereafter. CANDY, NUTS AND FRUITS. Trade in the above lines, whichthas beeu a trifle light for some time past, is picking up somewhat, and will doubtless be good until after the holidays. Oranges and lemons are in fair supply and prices steady. Almonds, brazils and filberts are higher. Peanuts are somewhat lower, although the new crop is not yet in market to any great extent. New figs are plenty and prices low- el COUNTRY PRODUCE. Cider—Selling freely at 20c @ gal. ity poor. Celery—Active at 30c @ doz. Cabbage—Firm at $1@$1.20 G doz. Clover Seed—Not much moving. Some sales made at $5.85 # bu. Timothy—Ratier searce at $1.65 P bu. Sweet Potatoes—Jerseys, firm $4.50 @ bbl. Grapes—Last pickings. Concords are selling at 6c. @ te. White California, $5,- 25 GF case. Pears—Good quality California $4 9 case. Cranberries-—-Cape Cod, $4 @ bu.; culti- vated Wisconsin, $10.50@$13 bbl. Poultry—Easy. Spring chickens in good demand, but old rather slow. Dressed chickens, 11¢ # Ib., and old fowls, 10c. Eggs—In fair supply at 25c. Jobbers and commission dealers anticipate still high- er prices. Dried Apples—Quarters, 8c ‘# Ib.; evap- orated, 15@16c. Honey—In comb, 18e ¥# Ib. Potatoes—Almost a drug in the market, in consequence of heavy shipments from Southern Michigan and Northern Indiana. Choice Rose and Burbanks are offered freely at 45¢e, and carload lots areeslow sale at 40c. Apples—Winter and fall fruit are selling at $3.25@$3.50 ¥ bbl. Butter—Dull. Western creamery, 24¢.; dairy, 18¢ @ 22c. Onions—Dull and slow. Sales of choice yellow were made at $2.25 % bbl., and 75e 9 bu. in sacks. Quinces—New York state fruit, $2.75@ $3 per bu. 21% Squash—Hubbard selling at 2c @ Ib. Buckwheat—New York patent, $4.60 per 100 Ibs. Quai- Now is the time of year when the way- faring man is beguiled with advertisements such as, “Going out of business,” ‘Stock must be closed out in thirty days,” “Slangh- ter sales,” ‘“Ruinous prices.” ‘‘Goods sold for less than cost.” ‘We retail goods at wholesale prices,” ete. This sensational sort of advertising may deceive the unwary, but intelligent people pay no attention to it. Merchants find that a plain, straightforward presentation of their goods is the kind of advertising that brings returns. In a spirit of unhallowed rivalry, two In- dianapolis clothiers went to selling jean pants cheaply, so that one finally put his goods down to ten cents a pair, the other following to five cents, when both let them go at last—about two thousand pairs in all —at one cent a pair. This will not be very profitable for the dealers, but two thousand Hoosiers can now afford jean pants. F. Shaw & Bro., the Boston shoe firm, have offered to pay their creditors 33}¢ cents on the dollar. Pee rE ER’sS GROCERY se Commission House! We have in stock and are constantly receiv- ing the finest stock of Eggs ever offered to the Trade at lowest Wholesale Prices. Dealers wishing to purchase by the Crate or Barrel should call and examine. All orders by tele- phone or otherwise promptly attended to. 86 South Division Street. R. J. KIRKLAND, M. D,, SPECIALIST IN DISEASES OF THE Har, Bye and Throat WITH DRS. JOHNSON & BOISE, 72 Ottawa Street, Corner of Monroe Street, Office Hours: 9a. m. te 12 m.;2 tod p.m. STEAM LAUNDRY : 48 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. = COMMERCIAL PRINTING ——AND—— Blank Book Manufacturing. Eaton, Lyon & Allen, 49 Lyon Street. Having purchased the Eagle Job Printing Establishment, and having added largely to its facilities, we would respectfully announce that we are prepared to execute in first-class style such orders for Book and Job Printing and Blank Book Manufacturing as may be en- trusted to us. Eaton, Lyon & Allen, BOOKSELLERS, STATIONERS PRINTERS, and BLANK BOOK MANUFACTURERS. CALEINS BROTHERS. 97 OTTAWA STREET, Agents for GUN AND BLASTING POWDER, and Dealers in SHOT, CAPS, WADS, CARTRIDGES, FISHING TACKLE, GUNS, REVOLVERS and GUN GOODS. DEALERS SUPPLIED. THE DEAREST TOBACCO Is a Poor, Common or Low-Priced Article, As It Gives Neither Pleasure Nor Satisfaction. THE PUBLIC IS NOT SLOW TO LEARN THIS FACT WHENEVER IT DISCOVERS AN ARTICLE THAT COMMENDS ITSELF TO THE TASTE AND OTHER SENSES. ———THE REMARKABLE SALE OF——— LORILLARD'S PLUG TOBACGU Is Ample Evidence of This. This Concern will Sell over 20,000,000 Pounds of their Favorite Brands this Year; or About Oue-Fourth of All the Plug: Tobacco Used in this Conntry: AND AS THERE ARE BETWEEN 800 AND 900 OTHER FACTORIES IN THE U. S., IT FOLLOWS THAT THEIR GOODS MUST GIVE Batter Satisfaction or Represent Better Value for the Money THAN THE BRANDS OF OTHER MAKERS. “CLIMAX,” with Red Tin Tag, is their Best Brand. HAZELTINE, PERKINS & CO.., Wholesale Druggists, AND DEALERS IN LUBRICATING AND CARBON OILS. Manufacturers’ Agents, ——IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF—— DRUCCISTS’ SUNDRIES %& BRUSHES, Nos. 42 and 44 Ottawa: Street.. 89, 91, 93 and 95 Louis St.. GRAND HAPIDS, - MICHIGAN. Agents for STEWART BRUSH CO. and GRAND RAPIDS BRUSH CO. FOX, MUSSELMAN & LOVERIDGE, SRE GE i nd | oT ERERY FI H| PH i 8 is f= = 2 WHOLESALE GROCERS, 44, 46 and 48 South Division Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. ——WE ARE FACTORY AGENTS FOR—— Nr, ker Chief, Grescent & Red seal Plug Tohaccos. Our stock of Teas, Co'fees and Syrups is Always Complete. —WE MAKE SPECIAL CLAIM FOR OUR— Tobpaccos, Vinegars and Spices ! OUR MOTTO: “SQUARE DEALING BETWEEN MAN AND MAN.” CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. PUTNAM & BROOKS, WHOLESALE Candy, Fruit and Nuts 68 and GS Canal Strect, Grand Rapids, Michigan. WW ELOLE SALE HAT & CAP STORE PRICHS GUARANTEED AS LOW AS CHICAGO AND NEW YORK! GOOD FUR CAPS, $22.50 PER DOZEN, WOOL HATS, $4.50 AND UPWARDS. GENUINE FUR HATS, $13.50 AND UPWARDS. LARGE LINE OF — Imported Scotch Caps, umbermen’s Goods, Wrackinaw Shirts c& Drawres. ——AGENCY FOR THE—— Pontiac Fulled Mitts, Socks and Boots! EVERY ONE WARRANTED. -——LARGE LINE OF—— Clothing and Gents Furnishing Goods. DUCK OVERALLS, THREE POCKETS, $3.50 PER DOZEN. (> Terms—7 per cent. off in 10 days; 5 per cent. in 30 days; net in 60 days ir Cc. GEV I, 86, 38,40 and 42 CANAL STREET, - - GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. i & ‘s ¢ , '