The Michigan Tradesman.

 

 

 

 

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VOL. 1.

 

 

 

GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1884.

NO. 48.

 

FACTS ABOUT STOVES.

Fall Patterns—Interview with a Manufac-
turer.

“The fall trade in stoves is just begin-
ning,” said an old manufacturer, and we
shall soon be very busy. ‘There are no very
striking novelties this year, but there are
fashions in stoves, just as in millinery, and
we have to change our designs each season.
Last year, for instance, the square stoves for
heating were brought out, and this season
every manufacturer has a supply, but in no
case are the designs identical with those of
1883. Each has been changed, involving
great expense to the founders. The bills of
some of them for patterns alone mount up
to $50,000 or $60,000 a year, as there are
changes to make nearly all the way through.
You must not suppose because you seea
parlor base-burner named ‘Washington’ or
‘Columbus’ that a single set of wooden pat-
terns will supply all the stoves of that name.
There are seven or eight sizes, some with
cooking extensions and some without, and
they are fully nickel-plated or half nickeled.
Each of them has different designs, and
each must be carefully wrought out by the
pattern-maker. In 1885 the trade will be
obliged to remodel those which are the best
this year, in order to introduce some novel-
ty. Afew years ago in cook-stoves the
fashion was to have large fire-boxes. After-
ward came large ovens, necessitating the
cutting down of the fire-boxes. Then in
the same stoves there was an air-chamber to
heat the air before it entered the fire-box.
When mica went into general use the front
had to be illuminated and of course the hot-
air chamber was done away with. It is a
continualround of change,and perhaps not for
the better. The largest founder in the West,
with fifty years of experience, says the so-
called improvements are of no advantage.
Stoves thirty years ago performed their work
just as well as now.

“The United States use more stoves than
all the rest of the world put together. There
are 8,000,000 of them in use here, costing the
possessors perhaps $180,000,000. They
range in size from little toy affairs, which
could be carried up stairs, one under each
arm, by an ordinary man, up to the colossal
stoves intended for summer hotels and wood-
burning districts, which will do the cooking
for a hundred persons. Their price is cal-
culated by their weight. The founders sell
them at rates ranging from 4 to 8 cents a
pound, and the retailers at about 50 per cent
advance on these figures. One stove lasts
on an average about five years. Some large
founders show nearly 500 kinds. Many also
make stationary and Baltimore heaters,
wrought-iron and stationary ranges and gas
and vapor stoves, but these are not consid-
ered as parts of the trade. The chief pro-
ducing places are Troy, Albany, Cincinnati,
Buffalo, St. Louis, Detroit, Philadelphia
and Cleveland. The largest foundries are
in Albany, one in Troy, one in Buffalo and
in St. Louis. Each of them makes from
$500,000 to $750,00 worth of stoves annu-
ally.

“Noman can beagood drummer fora
stove firm unless he knows how to make
good bread. He must be able to show how
his stove will cook. Moreover, he must be
able to produce far better results with his
stove than the ordinary housewife can with
hers, and this can only be accomplished by
learning every detail himself. It will not
do to trust to getting women for this labor,
for few American housekeepers know how
to make good bread.

“The stoves come from all parts of the
East. They are no longer simple masses of
iron fastened together. The esthetic craze
has reached them. The terra-cotta and tile
manufacturer is called upon to put on orna-
mental plaques; then there are brass orna-
ment on top, and nickel is used profusely.
Even the boards on which a stove stands are
ornamented.

“The scientific principles of a stove are
not yet determined. We know that a very
large part of the heat goes up the chimney,
but we cannot yet prevent it. The two great
innovations in stoves within the memory of
this generation are on the base-burning prin-
ciple and the clinkerless grate. By putting
a large quantity of coalin an upright cylin-
der, which is open at the bottom, fire can be
retained for a long time. As fast as the bot-
tom of the column of coal is burned away
the coal above falls down and keeps the fire
supplied. This was discovered about 1850.
Clinkerless grates are alater device, the
first ones having been manufactured in 1870
or 1871. When coal has been ina state of
ignition for some time it partially cakes to-
gether, and most of the support beneath can
be taken away. That support has generally
been given by a grate, upon which the ashes
and other refuse from the coal gathered,
thus choking the draught. It is, however,
possible to remove the grate, leaving the
coal suspended by its lateral pressure, and
to take a poker and lightly sweep away the
ashes which hang toit. The bed of coals
will thus shine downward as well as above.
Spear, of Philadelphia, was the first who
produced parlor stoves based on the this dis-
covery. They attracted the attention of N.
S. Perry, of Albany, who was traveling in
Pennsylvania, and he conceived the idea of
making stoves somewhat like them. «The
head of the firm, John &. Perry, at his cous-

in’s solicitation, also examined them, and
they determined to go into the manufacture.
Spear demanded $10,000 a year for a license
to use his invention. The Perrys thought
this was excessive; but in the meantime
Mrs. John S. Perry, a highly-accomplished
lady, began a search in the State Library to
ascertain whether Mr. Spear’s patent was a
good one. A stove patent, very rarely is good
and this proved no exception. A patent
had been granted three or four years before
toa man living ina small town in Massa-
chusetts, involving the same principle. A
trusty agent of the firm was sent over there
with instructions to buy it, but on arriving
in the village he foundgthat the inventor
was dead, never having used his patent but
in a single case, which was that of a church
in which he had placed a furnace. Some-
thing was wrong with it the first night it
was used, for the ashes and coal were pre-
ciptitated on the floor in the night, and the
church was burned down. That ended his
experimenting, and inclined the heirs to
dispose of their interests at a nominal sum.
But of his half-dozen children who held the
right of the patent one had gone to Texas,
and his address was unknown. Armed with
a photograph and a description, the agent
sailed for Texas, and after two month’s
search found the man, from whom he pur-
chased the remaining interest. Perry & Co.
accordingly did not take out a license from
Spear, but went on manufacturing the clink-
erless grates without permission. They
were immediately sued by Spear, a compli-
ment which they at once returned. Other
manufacturers also began making these
grates, and were sued by both Spear and
Perry. The novelty was, however, too tak-
ing for them to desist, and within two years
every manufacturer in the United States
was producing this kind of stove, under li-
cense from the Perrys or Spear, or as an in-
fringer. Those who were sued as infringers
formed an association to defend each other,
the amount spent in litigation being enor-
mous. Spear and the Perrys joined forces,
but it was of little. avail, for the Supreme
Court of the United States decided that their
claims were not good, and the making of
clinkerless stoves is now free.

The Cut-Nail Industry.

At presedt the capacity of the nail mills
of the country is greatly in excess of the de-
mand. At the close of 1882 the annual ca-
pacity of the nail mills was about 8,500,000
kegs. During 1883 the mills west of the
Allegheny mountains(Western Nail Associ-
ation) suspended operations several times to
prevent accumulation of stocks. The mills
of the Atlantic States Nail Association, how-
ever, were in operation during the year with
but few exceptions. Notwithstanding this,
activity in building in 1883 was so marked
that new mills and enlarged old ones became
conspicicuous in the western district. Even
mills of the Western Association, which sus-
pended work at times, added mill after mill
to their plant, in a number of cases doubling
the old capacity. The consequence of this
is shown in the report of nails produced in
1883 by James W. Swank, secretary of the
American Iron and Steel Association. In
that year the production of cut nails (includ-
ing cut spikes) was 7,762,737 kegs, an in-
crease of 1,615,640 kegs, or over 26 per cent.
upon the year before. In 1883 the number
of mills increased from sixty-eight, contain-
ing 4,108 nail machines, with an annual ca-
pacity of about 8,500,000 kegs to seventy-
nine mills, with 5,650 machines, and with
an annual capacity of nearly 12,500,000,

About two-thirds of the total nail produc-
tion of 1883 was madein the western dis-
trict. The center of nail production in the
United States lies in West Virginia, the sec-
tion ineluding that partJof Ohio lying pear
Wheeling. The increase in the Wheeling
district in 1883 was nearly 44 per cent. of
the total increase in the country.

The manufacture of steel nails in 1883
was not of very much importance, but pres-
ent indications point to alarge production
during 1884. The Bellaire nail works, at
Bellaire, Ohio, have completed and set in
operation two four-ton Bessemer steel con-
verters for the production of low-carbon
steel for the manufacture of nail-plate to be
cut into nails. The Riverside Iron Works
at Wheeling, W. Va., have each built two
Bessemer converters for the production of
steel for use in making steel nails. » As the
production of these six converters will be
more than sufficient for the three works
named other nail mills in the vicinity will
doubtless draw a supply of steel from these
converters. Nail millin other sections of
the country will this year produce nails from
steel, and a number will produce nails from
iron and steel combined.

 

Beating the Gas Companies.

The latest economic invention is an ar-
rangement for lighting cigars. Gas is gene-
rated from a water battery, and is blown
into a narrow, pointed flame by the move-
ment of asmall lever. The battery is con-
cealed beneath the counter. The lighting
apparatus is attached to a a nickle-plated
standard, on the top of which is a_ recepta-
ele for wooden lighters. The component
parts of the battery are water, a small po-

tato, and common sulphuric ‘acid. Fifteen
cents a year covers the cost of the solution.
An Ionia street firm is in possession of one

 

of these lighters. ‘ *

BUSINESS ACTIVITY.

Some of the Elements Necessary to Success.
From the Grocers’ Criterion. ‘

Business success is the result of business
activity. A man must go to business, and
not wait in idleness for business to come to.
him. Asa proper amount of physical ex-
ercise develops and invigorates the muscles
of the body, so a reasonable amount of
mental activity strengthens and sharpens
the human mind. Few men have won
merited success without patient and exact-
ing labor. Our leading merchants, our
prosperous manufacturers, our wealthy
professional men have gained their promi-
nence by persistent and determined mental
and physical work. They have by an extra-
ordinary amount of will power overcome all
obstacles in their way to prosperity. <A
lack of ‘backbone?’ is what causes many
men to fail in business. When in the com-
mencement of their careers they find them-
selves in straightened cireumstances, instead
of energetically collecting what is due them
with which to meet their obligations, instead
of putting the best possible face on the
matter and getting an extension from their
creditors, they weaken when there is no
imperative necessity for it and step down
and out, leaving their establishments to be
closed out at a frightful loss by the sheriff.
They collapse because they are destitute of
that indomitable spirit that urges a man on
and upholds him in the hard devious road to
riches.

In business a man must keep within the
reasonable limits of his capital. To accum-
ulate a fortune with small means to operate
with is a slow and wearisome undertaking,
and with the temptations that are presented
to merchants at the present moment for
speculation, it requires all the will-power
they can command to resist the delusive
propositions that are presented to them by
which it appears plain to their mistaken
eyes that they can come into immediate
possession of a handsome fortune. How
many unfortunates there are in country
villages who are bewailing their losses occa-
sioned by reckless ventures outside of their
regular business in butter, cheese, corn,
wheat, wool or potatoes. In speculations
and transactions of this character it is very
easy to lose in one short season the hard
earned and carefully hoarded accumulations
of many years. Merchants who attempt to
avoid the precipitous sides of the hill of
difficulty by going around it instead of over
it, are very sure to be ‘‘swamped.”

A distinguished author has said: “The
tortoise on the right road will beat a racer
onthe wrong. It matters not though a
youth be slow if he be diligent. Quickness
of parts may often prove a defect, inas-
much as the boy who learns readily will
often forget quite as readily, and also be-
cause he finds no need of cultivating that
quality of application and perseverence
which the slower youth is compelled to ex-
ercise, and which proves so valuable an
element in the formation of every charac-
ter.” Take the right road in business, keep
straight on over every difficuly, take Riche-
lieu’s motto, ““There’s no such word as fail,”
and in the spirit of determination that it
breathes keep steadily toiling at your grand
purpose in life; be industrious, active,
patient, persistent and honest, and you
must, under ordinary circumstances, become
ultimately succesful. The difficulties that
you encounter will make you stronger if
you overcome them. If you meet them
with energy and heroism they cannot over-
come you. When you meet with similar
obstacles further along in the highway of
your commercial life you will have learned
wisdom and gained strength by previous
experience and can force your way ahead
with less difficulty. Difficulties, then, de-
velop strength, and the man who comes
out of a struggle successful is always strong-
er, more self-reliant and independant by
reason of his victory.

Young men who are jyst starting in a
commercial career must be energetic and
ambitious, but must not recklessly go be-
yond the bounds of prudence and safety in
their business; they must not dodge difficul-
ties, they must not be crushed by the first
obstacle they encounter. They must have
brave hearts and they will grow strong in
manhood and rich and prosperous in their
business undertakings and accomplishments.
Se

The Reason Why Chimneys Smoke.
From the Builder.

Asa matter of fact they never do,—it is
the wood that smokes. We make this state-
ment not by way of facetiousness, but to
bring the discussion to a strictly scientific
basis. Since the new birth of the open
wood fire, the old question of how to coax
the smoke to go straight up the chimney
flue at all times and under all circumstances
has come again to the front and the old
controversy as to the relative magnitude of
two stupendous but familiar domestic evils
is liable to berevived. It is not our purpose
to give here and now all the infallible rules
by which one of these—and doubtless the
minor—can be cured, or better still, pre-
vented, but simply to refer to one of the
common reasons why smoke from a fire on
the hearth falls out in the room occasionally,
if not constantly, instead of going up to

 

 

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ing stated chimneys never smoke, it may be
well to observe that they never ‘“‘draw”
either. Whatever goes up chimney—from,
Thomas Hood’s chimney sweep to the steam
from the kettle nose—is poked up from be-
hind. Of course this amounts to the same
thing practically as being drawn up, but it
is well to remember that the same pushing
force will just as readily lift air, shavings,
ashes, steam, or anything else that comes in
its way as smoke. The point, therefore, is
to so arrange the throat of the chimney that
the smoke shall be caught first, and, like
proud Korah’s troope, be swallowed up be-
fore it has a chance to spill over into the
room and before something else can be
crowded into its place. Left to its own de-
vices it would fall out of the fire-place, and
run over the floor like water. As the air in
the room happens to be usually cooler and,
therefore, heavier than that in the fire-place,
it forces the latter upward and the smoke
with it. Now the tendency of the smoke,
as soon as it is lifted against the back wall
of the fire-place, is to fall forward, and this
tendeney is favored by the curving back
against which itascends. There is no objec-
tion to this curve which seems to keep the
smoke within bounds, and it doubtless radi-
ates more heatthan if it stood erect, but the
one point which should be insisted upon, is
that the face of this curve along which the
smoke rises, should strike, if it were contin-
ued (which it is not, being cut off by the
broad throat of the flue), several inches
above the lintel at the top of the fire-place
opening. The smoke is then fairly caught
in the ascending current of warm air and
carried up and away.

A smoking fire-place may often be cured
without any changes of flue or chimney by
simply bringing down the top either with a
row of bricks or tiles, or;by a piece of
metal fitted in between the jambs. And
this cure is effected not because the fireplace
was originally too large or too shallow to
“draw,” but because the properpr-ovision
had not been made for entrapping the
smoke and turning it into the rising stream
of warm air. -

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SUGAR AND MOLASSES.

A Surfeit of Sweet Things at Gotham.

There is to-day over 170,000 tons of sugar
in the bonded- warehouses in Brooklyn, N.
Y. Such a large amountin store has never
before been known in the history of, bonded
warehouses. There are on hand 118,829
hogshegt!s of sugar, against 105,591 at the
same tiine last year, aud 1,293,782 mats and
bags, against 633,359 last year. This, ata
rough average, will give 170,000 tens of
sugar wasting its sweetness between the
walls of these warehouses. Woodruff’s,
Robinson’s, Merchants’, the Union, the
Empire, the Atlantic, the Dock, and the
Erie Basin stores in Brooklyn are all nearly
full of sugar. In fact, with the exception
of the marine stores, there isan unbroken
line of sugar from the Empire stores above
Fulton Ferry d6wn to the Erie Basin. It is
consigned toa number of firms, and em-
braces every grade that is brought to this
country. The importations exceed the de-
mand, and, as a consequence, the market
has fallen off about oneanda half centsa
pound on nearly all grades. Sugar men say
that the enormous shipment of beet-root
sugar is primarily the cause of the Cepres-
sion in the market. One house has used
200,000 bags of this within a short time
without mixing it with other sugars. The
importations are mostly from Germany and
France, and are landed at Jersey City.
Every steamer from Germany and France
continues to bring large quantities of it.
Outside of this there isa sale only for the
commonest kind of molasses sugar. There
is some demand for this on account of the
low prices. Another reason for the depres-
sion in the market is found in the fact that
many o° the larger refining companies have
imported largely themselves this year aside
from buying in the market. This has had a
tendency to create dullness in the trade jand
lower prices. “As the market stands at
present,” said a prominent dealer to-day,
there is nothing to be made by the producer
or the importer. Even the best grades
hardly realize enough to pay advances.
Only a few days ago we sold on commission
acargo of respectable Cuban sugar to a
Philadelphia firm at 234 cents a pound, the
latter paying the duties and transportation.
Figuring up the war and export tax in Cuba,
amounting to $7 a hogshead, transportation
to this eountry at from $3 to $5 a hogshead,
casks, cooperage, and commission, there was
little margin left for the producer.” The
Havana steamers are now bringing sugar as
ballast, taking it at rates that ordinary bal-
last would cost.

It is the same with molasses as with sugar.
Molasses was never ebeaper in New York
than to-day. A prime article can be had at
15 cents a gallon. It is lower than before

the war.
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Brooklyn has the largest tin-box factory
in the country. A feature is the manufac-
ture of decorated tin ware. This consists of
tin plate on whose surface there is a picture
or other design. The work is done by a tin-
lithographing press similiar to that employ-
ed upon paper. The decorated ware costs
buta trifle more than the plain, and is in
great demand.

 

THE CORSET,

 

The Various Kinds and Some of the Wear-
ers,

Going down a street in crowded Boston we
came suddenly upon a narrow front contain-
ing two long windows, one on the alley and
the other facing the street, and before these
windows we stop in wondering contempla-
tion. Both are filled from top to bottom
with corsets of every style, shape and form,
no two alike and all handsomely mounted on
wire frames of graceful proportions. Each
has its own suggestive name and over these
the eye roves with increased interest. Here
is the “Bernhardt,” fearfully and wonderful-
ly made: hereisthe plump, yea, exuberant
“Davenport;’”? here a short, curved “‘ballet;”’
here a filmy lace work“‘summer” and ascore
more in hues of rose, pale-blue, lilac, cream,
and gorgeous black silk or satin, stiched in
scarlet or gold, elaborately embroidered in
the same color and softened with rich,
creamy lace until it is a picture, a poem, a
thing of beauty. Can these exquisite crea-
tions bear the same name and answer the
same purpose as that stiff combination of
coarse cotton, starch, steel and horn which
wesaw dangling froma pole in Tremont
Row marked, ‘‘This stylish corset for twen-
ty-five cents?” Let us enter and see.

Here is only a long, narrow passage be-
tween plain wood counters, and on the
shelves behind nothing but long, narrow
boxes. Plainly the attractions are all in
the windows, unless the bright-faced girls
stationed behind the counters might be enu-
merated among these which is doubtful, the
customers being exclusively feminine, and
therefore not to be influenced by the con-
templation of bright eyes and rosy cheeks.

Half a dozen ladies sit at the counters.
One walks briskly in, singles out a sales-
woman, says concisely with a business air;

“Send me a P. D., size twenty-three,” and
she walks out. Evidently an old customer
who knows by past “‘fittings’? what she
wants.

Another sits before a dozen different limp-
looking articles, looking from them to the el-
egant (wire) form in the window, and trying
to find some resemblance between the two
collections. The girl before her clasps one
about her own plump waist.

‘You see,” she says “the shape is the
same, but there is no stiffening in them.
You must get them on to know what they
are.”

The customer looks doubtful. At this
juncture a dark-eyed, dark-haired, middle-
aged lady advanced with an air that bespeaks
her the proprietress of all these boxes of
satin and lace shapeliness. She is, of a truth,
“the great corset maker’”’—not only of Bos-
ton but also of that peripatetic and floating
population seldow seen but for a price,
actresses and public singers.

“Will Madame step into the fitting room?”
she asks with a charming mixture of suavity
and deference. She recognizes at a glance
the new customer, discouraged between the
array of limpness before her and the shape-
liness of the gracefully outlined marvels in
the window.

“Tt isthe cut of our corsets that gives
them their beautiful shape,” she continues,
preceding her customer to the small room at
the rear of the store, while the shop-girl fol-
lows with an armful.of these articles—‘‘not
starch and bones pressed into fixed curves,
but the common corset. These look shape-
less as you see, when not worn; but once on
—ah! see how soft, and how exquisite! Of
course where the natural form is defective
we supply roundness and curve, so our ladies
are sure of an elegant form when fitted.
You, Madame, are long waisted and slender ;
you need this corset, which all the actresses
and singers wear. I made four of them for
Bernhardt when she was_ here at $15 each.”

“Ffteen dollars! Oh that is much more
than I want to pay,’’ protests the customer,
“And for this plain jean corset!”

“But this is not $15,” continues Madame,
the corset maker, reassuringly, “although it
is of precisely the same material as Bern-
hardt’s. No one can understand what it is
to make a corset for Bernhardt. Every part
must be rounded and padded from the hips
to the shoulder. Bernhardt is so thin! one
absolutely straight, unbroken line, from the
shoulders down. To fit her would be absurd ;
instead, we fit what she ought to be.

“But Ihave surely heard or read that
Bernhardt wears no corset.”

‘Neither does she on the stage when she
dies, but on the street andsin that marvelous
fitting riding habit does Madame suppose
she wears no corset? She wears the very
ones we made for her; such as the one
Madame must have seen in the window.”

“What! that one with a curious arrange-
ment under the arm and over the shoulders
like a horse collar!”

“Precisely! ‘That horse collar’ com-
mences under the arm to give a beautiful
curve to the waist; itis carried over the
shoulder where it fills up the dreadful hol-
low just above the shoulder bone and around
thearm. Thatis what itis for. Then the
hips are rounded out with padding and the
bust. Oh, it is all padded; but so luxurious
and comfortable. Bernhardt says she shall
never wear another style. They all wear
these, plump and lean. Now, Davenport,
we lave made her corsets for years. She

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is growing so stout, poor Fanny! She had
had some made in New York but she came
here soon after and got a full supply. ‘Oh,’
she said, ‘this is the only corset that one can
lie down in.’ I made corsets for Jenny Lind
—so long agoas that. Jenny was a sweet
girl. Goldschmidt that she married came
here with her. He went everywhere with
her. Itold my husband that she would
marry Goldschmidt and that it would end

her public singing. It all came out as lL
prophesied. I doubt if he is kind to her,
and she so sweet. Ah, we see every one of
note here, ladies. Many public singers
come to me for their corsets. They are hard
to suit. They want a good fit, but not at all

tight. No singer or actress wears a tight or
stiff corset. They know too well the beauty
of a pliant; yielding form, and to a singer a
tight corset is dreadful. They talk to me
about breathing and the necessity of giving
full play to the diaphragm until, I assure you,
I am quite bewildered..”

“But what is this broad band of webbing
for?”

“Ah, that in itself isa feature. It length-
ens the corset and holds it in place and pre
vents it from slipping down—a_ shocking
fault with a common corset—brings the bust
too low and destroys the form.”

“Well, these corsets with different names,
are they all of the same cut?”

“Precisely; all these high-priced ones.
The padded are the ‘Bernhardt,’ the unpad-
ded the ‘Davenport,’ and the short ones
without webbing, the ‘Ballet.’ ”’

“Send this one up.”

“Certainly, madame. You are sure to be
suited as you have been fitted.”

“Good afternoon.”

“Thanks, madame.”

SILK CULTURE.

 

The Government Collecting Statistics About
an Infant Industry.
From the New York Herald.

One of the last bills passed by the late
Congress was the appropriation of $15,000
for the encouragement of the infant home
industry of silk-eulture. The plan of those
interested is to form a silk-culture bureau in
the Department of Agriculture, the head.
quarters to be at Washington. Commission-
er of Agriculture Loring set to work imme-
diately to find out the best method of reach-
ing the culturists and benefiting them by the
distribution of the sum appropriated, The
Commissioners will, as soon as they have
obtained the necessary information, pur-
chase mulberry trees of the best varieties
(principally the ‘“‘alba,” “‘moretti,” and ‘‘ja-
ponica,” and distribute them, with silk-worm
eggs, to those who have already started in
the industry who are unable to procure all
the material needed. The officials will cor-
respond with all who have practical knowl-
edge of silk-culture, and what information
is gained will be given ina pamphlet that is
to be prepared as soon as possible. Al-
though the appropriation is small, still it is
a beginning in the right direction, for the
cocoons raised in different parts of the Unit-
ed States are equal to any in the world. The
lack of mulberry trees or Osage orange for
food is the chief obstacle to the extensive
culture of the silkworm.

July 30 the Government representative,
Mr. Walker, visited the silk-farm at Park
Ridge, N. J., on the line of the New Jersey
& New York Railroad, on his tour through
the various parts of the country where the
industry has been established. He was
shown over the farm of about thirty acres,
examined the growing trees, took notes
of their number and condition, and secured
specimens of the beetle with which some of
them are infested; examined the work of the
pest in its progress from the end of the
branees of young trees down to the place
where the branches join the trunk, the lat-
ter place being the spot where the insect de-
posits its eggs. The cocoonery was next
visited, ‘The strings of cocoons procured
from those who had been furninshed with
the best eggs were hung around the walls.

The season’s crop of worms at this farm,
which is under the direction of the New
York Silk Exchange, met with the same fate
as those of last year, only eighteen out of
100,000 worms living to spin their cocoons.
The greatest care has been taken to procure
only the best American cocoons in order
that none but first-class stock can be raised
by those obtaining their eggs there. One
lot of the deep salmon Turkish variety
shown yesterday brought out moths so darge
and perfect that from about two pounds
of cocoons three ounces of eggs were obtain-
ed, the usual amount being from two to two
and a half ounces. Mr. Walker took speci-
mens of a peculiar moth which resembles
the buffalo moth, and which eats its way in-
to cocoons and devours the silk moth before
it is matured from the worm state.

The whole farm was visited and the diff-
erent plots that had been purchased chiefly
by young women were examined. The diff-
erent ways of planting the mulberry, in or-
chards or hedges, was discussed, with the
comparative success in growing imported
and native trees. The visit showed that the
Agricultural Department is really in earnest,
one of the last questions of Mr. Walker be-
ing, ‘‘How many trees would be needed to
help the industry in this locality?” to which
the ready answer was made, “About 2,000.”

ee”

 

 

 

The Michigan Tradesman.

A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE

Heroantile and Manufacturing Interests of the State.

 

 

E, A. STOWE, Editor.

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

 

 

 

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1884.

 

 

POST A.

 

Organized at Grand Rapids, June 28, 1884.

 

OFFICERS.
President—Wm. Logie. :
Vice-President—Lloyd Max Mills. |
Secretary and Treasurer—L. W. Atkins.
Official Organ—The Michigan Tradesman.
Committee on Constitution and By-Laws—Wal-
lace Franklin, Geo. F. Owen, Geo. H. Sey-
mour. :
Next Meeting—At Sweet’s Hotel reading room
Saturday, August 30, at 8 p.m.

 

ts 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.
te
eer oro
The dealer who buys goods, knowing that
he is insolvent, and that failure is’ inevit-
able, is a dishonest man.

TS

In response to an inquiry from an Iowa
groceryman, the Chicago Grocer alleges that
borax powder placed around and under
sugar barrels will prove a successful exter-
minator of ants. This is worthy of a trial,
and if it proves to be effective, should be
noted down in every grocer’s memory.

Eee

The man who borrows money of a relative
or friend with which to engage in business,
and who is given credit on the strength of
his having such money, should not make the
person loaning the money a preferred credi-
tor in ease of failure, but should compel him
to accept a pro rata with the other credi-
tors.

ED

The glass manufacturers hold frequent
conventions, and suspend their factories and
boost up the prices, and make themselves as
conspicuous and important as if the only in-
dustry in the country were the manufacture
of glass. Why, we can subsist without their
exceedingly fragile products. We do not eat
glass, nor drink glass, nor wear glass, and if
it is necessary to take the conceit out of
them we can cease using it for window
panes and plug up the sash with old hats.

———————

 

THE TRADESMAN is in receipt of a com-
munication from E. Lovejoy, who repre-
sents himself to be a former employe of the
late firm of E. R. Barrows & Co., of Even-
wood, taking issue with the statement made
in a recent paper to the effect that Receiver
Tate is winding up the business of the firm
to the satisfaction of all those interested in
the matter. Mr. Lovejoy alleges that he
holds a labor claim against the estate, con-
tracted previous to the failure, which he has
been unable to collect, and that a number of
other laborers are in the same position as
himself. THe TRADESMAN sees no reason
why it should detract one iota from the
statement made relative to Mr. Tate, as he is
placed in a position, as receiver, which for-
bids him taking cognizance of any claims
against the estate except such as are brought
by suit. Therein a receiver differs from an
assignee, being governed by altogether dif-
ferent statutes. If Mr. Lovejoy and his co-
workers will assign their claims to one per-
son, and instruct that person to bring suit
against Mr. Tate for the aggregate amount,
they will speedily receive an honorable ad
justment of their claims.

In a hopeful article on the financial out-
look, the Chicago Tribune say: “Ata recent
meeting of the Board of Directors of one of
the richest and most conservative banks of
this city the President said to his associates :
‘Take out your memorandum-books and put
me on record as making now and here the
prediction that this country is on the eve of
the most prosperous days it has seen
since 1854.’ And the Tribune adds: “It is
a delightful change in the inharmonious
notes of predicted evil that have overcome
us likea flood for, now, three years to hear
once again the language of hope and the ac-
cents of confidence. There is, it must be
confessed, a great deal in the development
of events that promises to make the proph-
ecy good. The most important of these is
the crops, the next is the crops, and the next
to that is the crops. Froin Maine to Califor-
nia and from Dakota to Texas the bounty of
Nature has been poured on the ground with
golden generosity. Hundreds of millions of
dollars have been spread over the surface of
the farms of the entire country. This treas-
ure has but to be picked up from the agri-
cultural placers, our real gold-diggings; a
great deal of it has been already picked up and
put out of harm’s way, and the weather is the
best possible ‘for the garnering of the
rest in magnificent shape. With such a min-
tage of wealth out of propitious skies and
kindly earth it matters but little to the peo-
ple of this country whether the swapping of
jack-knives in Wall street turns to the ad-
vantage of this side or that. The one su-
preme fact is that the country has made a
profit of hundreds of millions of dollars out
of its investment of a year’s toil in the fields.

“That in wheat and other things is already

secured. Three weeks more of weather
without frost will give us hundreds of mill
ions additional out of the corn crop, which
never looked so well as now.

al
The brick work on Watt & Cahoon’s and
E. P. Gifford’s new stores at Saranac is com-
pleted.

AMONG THE TRADE.

 

IN THE CITY.

 

Aylsworth & Catheart succeed H. S.
Pressburg in the clothing business at 18
Canal street.

Co ge

H. Leonard & Sons’ long-promised cata-
logue has put in an appearance. 1t contains
98 pages and cover, and is suitably illustra-
ted.

M. McArdle has moved his grocery stock
and business from 83 to 79 Plainfield avenue,
the location_lately vacated by W. B. Thomp-
son.

A.M. Church, formerly engaged in the
grocery business at Englishville, has started
in the same business at Sparta. Cody, Ball
& Co. furnished the stock.

B. J. Robertson, who was recently burned
out at Breedsville, has resumed the drug
business at that place, Hazeltine, Perkins
& Co. furnishing the stock.

 

Wm. F. Stuart, who wasin town last
Friday, states that his shingle mill on the
Slaght timber tract, west of Tustin, will go
into operation in about two weeks.

Chas. F. Heinzelman has purchased the
branch bakery and grocery business of
Julius Vogel on the corner of Summit and
Oaks streets, and will continue the business
at the same location.

Every honorable man will rejoice in the
present peculiar predicament of one W. E.
Hunt, a west side jeweler. In order to de-
feat his creditors, he put his property in his
wife’s name, and now she refuses to return
it to his custody. Surely ‘rogues are some-
times repaid for trickery and downright dis-
honesty.

It is stated—and on the best of authority
—that negotiations are now pending for the
organization of a stock company for the pur-
pose of engaging in the manufacture of
matches. The project is in the hands ofa
few energetic and capable men, who will
doubtless bend every energy to accomplish
the object in view.

 

 

AROUND THE STATE.

Eastport has a new drug store, L. R.
Rogers proprietor.

Chas. Carmichael has opened a notion
store at Petoskey.

Prius & Geerlings, of Holland, have dis-
solved, Mr. Prius continuing.

Moon & Wade have engaged in the bakery
and grocery business at Cadillac.

DenHerder & Lahuis succeed John Den
Herder in general trade at Zeeland.

Woodhull & Wade, of Fremont, have en-
gaged in the fruit business at Cadillac.
M. L Thomson & Co. succeed Fenn &
Earle in the grocery business at Stanton.
Scoville & Rich, bakers and grocers at
Manistee, are succeeded by Tost & Wook-
row.
LeGrand A. Jones, druggist at Benton
Harbor, has been closed out on chattel mort-
gage.
J. Riley will remove his grocery and no-
tion stock from Dorr to Silver Creek, Alle-
gan county, next week.
F. Sauerbier has removed his grocery
stock from Lakeside to Big Rapids, where
he has resumed business.
Arthur H. Webber succeeds Dr. W. A.
Hendryx in the drug business at Big Rapids.
Dr. Hendryx will remove to Idaho in a few
weeks.

 

 

 

T. S, Barber and F. B. Jones have formed
a co-partnership at Saranac under the firm
name of Barber & Jones and engaged in the
crockery business.

W. H. Kanaga has bought of Barry &

 

 

| Downing the building formerly occupied by
| them, at Nashville, as a bank, and will oc-

cupy it with boots and shoes as soon as the
| present incumbents vacate.

The sale of Aylsworth & LaDouceur’s
| clothing stock, at Big Rapids, to W. H.
Smith, has fallen through, but Mr. Smith
will engage in the business at that place, put-
ting in a complete new stock.

In order to prevent the execution of an at-
tachment, the Northwestern Manufacturing
Co., at Boyne Falls, made an assignment on
the 12th, immediately calling a meeting of
the creditors, to whom the present status of
the corporation was disclosed. On satisfy-
ing themselves that the company was worth
fully $25,000, and that the total indebted-
ness reached only $8,200, the creditors will-
ingly allowed the assignment to be set aside,
and appointed L. J. Rindge and Chas. Root
trustees, to whom a trust mortgage for $8,200
was executed. The company then resumed
operations as before, and the temporary sus-
pension will in no way affect the credit or
standing of the concern.

 

 

STRAY FACTS.

Big Rapids is to have an artificial stone
manufactory.

Brown & Co. are erecting a lamp black
factory in Royal Oak.

A Petoskey dealer shipped two and a half
tons of raspberries during the season.

Charlevoix thinks a fish canning establish-
ment in that village would be a good paying
investment.

The charter of the First National Bank at
Flint will soon expire, but efforts will be
made to renew it.

Port Huron is endeavoring to get Dr.
Fanning, of Lapeer, to start a factory for
his patent wagons.

Parties are looking over Bellaire witha
view to building afoundry and machine
shop in that village.

Goodsell & Crawford, of Ludington, are
puilding eight logging cars for the Danaher
& Mellendy company.

Nearly $800,000 worth of building im-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

provements have been made at Pgrt Huron
during the present year.

Slabs are selling for $1 a cord at the mill
docks, Ludington—a decline of 25 cents a
cord on last year’s prices.

Since poplar pulp has come to be used for
paper making, the worthless poplar lands of
northern Michigan are looking up.

Midland has a stock company formed to
manufacture wooden ware with a capital of
$75,000. R. G. Peters is president.

It is reported that hemlock bark is so low
at Manistique and vicinity that it does not
pay to peel it. It sells at $1.50 per cord.

Thos. Wells, formerly of the firm of
Wells & Greenwood, has engaged in general
trade and the grain business at Pewamo.

The manufacturing interests of Otsege are
assuming important proportions. They have
a fine site and water power for such pur-
poses.

The Vermontville Brick and Tile Co. is
the style of anew enterprise, consisting of
Warner, Hammond & Martin, for the pur-
pose suggested in the title.

Some of the creditors ofthe Pullman &
Hinchman estate, at Shelby, have purchas-
ed the firm’s executions, and the probability
is that the mill will soon be running again.

The Luther Lance says: Mr. Comstock
informs us that. there is prospect of imme-
diate settlement of Copley’s affairs at Carey-
ville, and that he, Mr. Comstock, will run
the mill by the thousand.

The Stanton Buggy Co. succeed Weather-
wax & McFadden in the manufacture of the
Bush gear buggies at Stanton. N. Sheford
is president and W. S. Pierson secretary.
The business will be enlarged.

F. F. Sommers, proprietor of the Grand
Haven Match Works, now employs about
seventy-five hands, and turns out about 250
gross’ of matches per day, four-fiths of which
are sulphur. Ready sale is found for the
entire product as fast as manufactured. Mr.
Sommers has lately invented anew compo-
sition for parlor matches which is bound to
revolutionize the trade in those goods.

Saranac Local: Strangers coming into
our village express themselves as surprised
at the activity and bustle during the dull
times. The new buildings are furnishing
employment for a large number of hands,
which creates a lively look, and the fact that
Saranac merchants are selling goods at as
low prices as can be obtained in the State,
brings custom. The merchants nearly all
say their trade has kept steadily increasing
for the past two years.

—___—»> et &>___—_—_
Purely Personal.

Heman G. Barlow, the accomplished and
versatile groceryman, is taking a week’s rest
from active business cares, and will put in a
portion of the time at Macatawa.

W. T. Lamoreaux has a natural curiosity
in the shape of a three-legged cat, which is
as sprightly as ordinary felines with the
full complement of pedal extremities.

Wm. G. Herpolsheimer, of Voigt, Her-
polsheimer & Co., is spending the heated
term at Petoskey. John Schnitzlet, of the
same firm, spent last Sabbath at the same
resort, accompanied by his family.

It is said that Messmore contemplates re-
turning to practice in his former profession,
which recalls the criticism of a former friend
of the gentleman to the effect that he is
“better red in the nose than in the law.”

Wm. H. Allen, formerly with I. E. Mess-
more, but for the past few months identified
with the Star Union Line, has accepted the
position of book-keeper for S. A. Welling,
John DeJonge will be employed in the house
for the present.

ee
Stove Pipes Again.
Ernest in the American Artisan,

You will hit the nail on the head by giv-
ing people a hauling over the coals for meas-
uring stoves and stove pipe with all kinds
of measures. As a rule a customer wanting
a new joint of pipe measures the old pipe
with the first thing in the shape of a
string he can get his hands on. Sometimes
it is a quarter or half inch rope, a piece of
carpet rag, a shoe string, or a bit of common
wrapping twine. You might as well take
the measure with arubber band. Or the
thoughtless customer will measure across
the diameter of the pipe, which having been
jammed out of shape, gives no correct idea
of what the size really should be. In all
such cases the new piece of pipe is certain
not to fit, and the tinner gets a “blessing.”
By free use of a hatchet they sometimes get
the pipe together, or hammer it up so it is of
no account.

I would suggest that where people do not
know enough to measure a stove pipe cor-
rectly, they employ a tinner. But any one
can take the measure accurately if they will
set about it properly. Ifa tape line is not
at hand, take a strip of strong wrapping pa-
per about one inch wide, and measure
around the pipe,having the ends of the paper
square. Anything thin that will not stretch
will answer. Then there will be no guess
work about it, and the new piece will fit on
the old. This is seemingly a very small
matter, and yet it is one which gives tinners
trouble every year.

 

 

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

  
  
 
 

Ohio White Lime, per bbl...........-- 1 10
Ohio White Lime, car lots.........--+- 95
Louisville Cement, a PHL oes 1 40
Akron Cement per bbl..........---+++ 1 40
Buffalo Cement, per bbl...... ‘ 1 40
CBr lOtS: . oo ieee os ee ess .1 15@1 20
Plastering hair, per bu... . 8@ 38
Stucco, per bbl.......... 1 %5
Land plaster, per ton... 3 75
Land plaster, Car lots........---.+++++- 3 00
fire brick, per M........--e.esseeeeeee $27 @ $35
Fire clay, per Db1.........-..2-eeeeee et 3
COAL.

Anthracite, egg andgrate.........--- $6 50@6 75
Anthracite, stove and nut.........-¢ -. 6 T5@T 00
Cannell Coal.........:2..seeeseeceer ees % 00
Ohio COAL... 2... cece eee rete erence eee 40@3

Blossburg or Cumberland ........+.. 00@5 25

 

~~

To Butter Dealers !

(TREAT AS IF WRITTEN TO YOU!)

CLEVELAND, Ohio, August 18, 1884.

TO THE TRADE:—

The Season of the year has now advanced when it is almost impossi-
ble to obtain a choice article of Rich FLAVORED Burrer, with the approach of Autumn
and Winter the demand increases and the supply is decreased. The result is the merchant
must either resort to packed butter or a Butter Substitute. This naturally calls the ques-
tion to your consideration, what shall I sell and yet retain my trade? To do this you
must give them a fine flavored product, The dry season has made it impossible to do this
so far as natural butter is concerned. But, fortunately for the trade and the consumer,
we have prepared the remedy whereby they can have their tastes catered to and their ap-
petites appeased. We therefore offer for your consideration our FAMOUS BRANDS OF
Darry AND CREAMERY BUTTERENES, which for FLAVOR, RicHNEss, Puriry and
WHOLESOMENESS are not surpassed by the natual product. Our ‘‘ Rose of Sharon ” and
“Qld Cuyahoga” Creameries, and “ Milk Maid” and “ Forest City”? Butterenes are
churned from the purest ingredients and contain no foreign or deletrious substances, but
natural and healthy products such as are used every day and eaten at every meal through-
out the world. So satisfied with the health-giving properties of our products, we are
willing to place our goods at the disposal of any chemist in the country and ask his
analysis. If any UNHEALTHY INGREDIENT IS FOUND THEREIN we are Willing to con-
tribute $1,000 to any charitable institution in the country. We are the ONLY practical
Butter manufacturers in the trade, and the only ones that give the business of churning
artificial butter individual attention. Having spent many thousands of dollars in perfect-
ing our product, we come to the trade this season with the positive knowledge that we
have a product equal in every respeet to any Dairy or Creamery Butter manufactured.
All articles that enter our Butterenes are subjected to the severest test by our individual
examination, which enables us to go to the trade and consumer with a full knowledge of
what every ounce contains. We, therefore, have practically No COMPETITORS and recog-
nize no other manufacturers’ product when merit is considered—our only opponents being
Dairy and Creamery Butters, which we verily believe that, with our long experience in
handling, we are not surpassed, and the majority of cases not equaled. Our Foundation
for the manufacture of our goods is Pure, Fresh Alderney Cream and Milk, and our process
of manufacture peculiar to ourselves, the result of many years experimenting and at the cost
of many thousands of dollars in perfecting. All we ask of the trade and consumer is a
comparison of our goods with the finest dairy and creamery products. <A trial order will
demonstrate just what we claim of our goods. It was our intention at the beginning of
the Summer to run through the entire season, but owing to the increased demand side by
side with the natural product we were compelled, by the anticipation of our increased
trade, to double our former capacity. In so doing, we have neither spared pains or ex-
pense, and to-day our Dairy is running at full capacity and we are prepared to fill unlim-
ited orders.

Our BUTTERENES are of two grades, Cream products known as “Creameries,” and
These goods are packed in 30, 40 and 50 Tb. tubs, in
ash, oak or spruce in Rolls, Prints or Solid Packed, varying with the season and demands

Milk products known as “Dairy.”

of the trade. Our prices are regulated entirely by the price of Dairy and Creamery But-
ter, ranging from four to six cents less.

This season we are making a specialty of churning for our regular customers, either pro-
duct bearing their own fancy as to brand, which we in every way warrant equal to our
standard and famous brands. This enables the dealer to have at all times a standard
brand for his customers.

We have now contracted with many Grocers and Butter Dealers to supply them with
their supplies during the entire winter, and are prepared, after a trial of our goods, to
make special prices with the trade for their “known marks” of goods if desired, and by
onr special arrangements with transportation companies we are enabled to deliver to any
point at the lowest rates, freight prepaid.

WE SoLicit A TRIAL ORDER, and if our goods are not in every way as represented they
may be returned at our expense. Those that do not contemplate handling until later in
the season are respectfully requested to correspond with us as to prices and samples,
which shall receive our prompt attention and return post reply. In order to obtain our
goods make your first order direct to the Dairy, it matters not how small your order is, it
shall receive that careful attention that larger ones require.

Yours very truly,

: CLARK & CoO.
“rere COHURNERS,”

Office: 288 Bridge Street, CLEVELAND, OHIO.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS.

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

   
   
 

 

 

 

OR SALE—I have a fine new store building
dwelling house and 40 business and dwel- ’
mee in Elmira for sale on easy terms. D
C. Underwood.

 

We good merchant tailor. Must
be a good cutter and be able to do good

work. Address E, B. Slocum & Co., Hesperia,

Mich. 48tf

 

ANTED, to sell, or exchange for Dry
Goods, Notions, Mens’ Furnishing goods
or clothing, one 7 yeay old sound black geld-
ing. Good driver and elegant ‘saddle horse.
Perfectly safe for a lady to ride or drive.
Very kind every way. Also top trinkin
spring buggy, elegant harness and common
harness, wagon, Bobs and Cutter; alsoa com-
plete outfit for starting grocery business such
as show eases, oil tanks, counter and platform
scales, scoops, coffee mill, caddys, cheese
safes, patent syrup gates ete., too numerous
to mention. Any part orall of the above
cheap for cash or reasonable equity in trade.
Will entertain any other proposals of ex-
change. AAA care of “The Tradesman.”

 

 

2OR EXCHANGE-—I have 80 acres of choice

hard wood land lying within three anda

half miles of Tustin, six acres cleared and 150,-

000 of cork pine standing on same, which I

will exchange for city lots in Grand Rapids or
sell on reasonable terms. D. C. Underwood.

yo SALE—At a bargain, a double door,

combination lock safe, and two 6 foot,
oval front, walnut show cases, nickel trimmed,
all as good as new. Or will exchange for mer-
chandise. G. B. Wright, 14 North Division
street, Grand Rapids.

 

ANTED—Position as drug and prescrip-

tion clerk by a young man of five years’

experience. Can speak French. Address
GGG, care “The Tradesman.”

 

Eo SALE—A general stock of goods at a
go00d location on the Toledo, Ann Arbor
& Northern Michigan Railway. Depot to be
built immediately. Address S. M. Scott, North
Star, Gratiot County, Mich. 49

 

Te RENT—A desirable store, size 18x80 feet,

eorner of Monroe and Division streets,
jrand Rapids, Mich. Suitable for boots and
shoes, millinery, clothing, dry goods, gro-
eeries, ete. This store is connected by an arch-
way with the popular variety store, known as
the “Bee Hive,” and can be run in connection
or separately as desired. Rent $600. For fur-
ther particulars, address Gilbert B. Wright, 14
North Division street.

M. M. HOUSEMAN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,

ROOMS 7 AND 8 HOUSEMAN BUILDING,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
COMMERCIAL LAW A SPECIALTY.

 

 

 

School Books

—AND—

School Stationery «.

—AT-

wholesale,

EATON, LYON & ALLEN, *

22 and 24 Canal Street,
The only general jobbing house in

Michigan in our line. Send for cata-
logues and terms.

a

MASONS °
FRUIT JARS , |

 

 

Large stock on hand at bottom prices for
immediate shipment. Also EXTRA RUB-
BERS for MASON Jars. We quote porce-
lain lined Mason jars as follows:

Pints, $13 per gross.
Quarts, $14 per gross.
1-2 Gallons, $17 per gross.

To meet the demand for cheap storage for
fruit, we offer:

tf
Quart Barrell Jars, per QrOSS.......+++++++ 9 50

1% Gal. Barrell Jars, qer SrOSS......-..++++- 250 ¢
These are glass cans with glass covers toseal

 

with wax. Also
Per Dozen.

¥% Gal Stone Preserve Jars and Covers..... 85

1 Gal Stone Preserve Jars and Covers..... 1 rs
¥% Gal Stone Tomato Jugs and Corks....... 85

1 Gal Stone Tomato Jugs and Corks. ...... 1 40
Sealing Wax, ® Ib.....-..--2- eee ee eer erste 4c
H. Leonard & Sons

16 Monroe Street, «

mone

The Harbor Springs Independent says:
B. F. Wagley left for parts unknown last
week, leaving behind numerous creditors
who will probably have something to re-
member him by. It is estimated that alto-
gether he dropped them about $2,100 wort

GRAND RAPIDS ~

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Drugs & Medicines

 

French Lavender Flowers.

“The best lavender flowers,” said a whole-
sale druggist, “come from France. The
flowers are small and blue in color, and are
mixed with short stems as big as small pins.
They are very fragrant, and when rubbed
on the hand leaye a pleasant and delicate
odor. I'll guarantee that nine out of ten
persons who use lavender water in their toi-
let have not the vaguest idea what lavender
flowers look like. Speaking of lavender
water reminds me that, although it is so call-
ed, the perfume used is not lavender water
but lavender extract.”

“How does it come to this country?”

“In packages of about three hundred
pounds each. It is not very expensive. We
sell it at twelve cents a pound.”

“In what form is it imported other than
the flower?”

“The extract and the essential oil. The
latter is a votatile oil upon which the odor
depends. The ordinary oil sells from $1.75
to $8 a pound.. Witcham’s oil of lavender,
which gets its name from Witcham’s garden
in London, costs $4.25 an ounce. An ounce
of fairly good oil will perfume four or five
gallons of alcohol.”

“Ts lavender not also used for medicinal
purposes?”

“It is aremedy for nervous debility and
one or two other complaints. It is very
pleasant to the taste, and for this reason is
often mixed with other medicines. The
best lavender extract is made in Germany.
In fact, many ot the French perfumes have
all their extracts made in Germany, because
they make them better there than anywhere
else.”

—_——» __—_
The Origin of Petroleum.

Bershelot maintains that the interior of
the globe contains free alkaline metals
which, in presence of carbolic acid, yields
metallic acetylides, which on being decom-
posed by watery vapor furnish acetylene.
But it has been already proved that acety-
lene may be polymerized, so as to produce
aromatic carbides or the derivatives of marsh-
gas by the absorption of hydrogen. All these
reactions have been. demonstrated experi-
mentally, but the presence of alkaline met-
als in the interior of the globe is an unprov-
ed and improbable hypothesis. According
to Byasson, the hydrocarbons of petroleum
are formed by the action of water, carbonic
acid, and sulphuretted hydrogen upon in-
candescent iron. Mendelejeff likewise ad-
mits that the action of watery vapor upon
iron corbides may give rise to the formation
of petroleum. To these hypotheses is oppos-
ed the absence of iron in voleaniec products.
Other investigators consider that petroleum
is formed not synthetically, but by the de-
composition of organic matter.

 

 

Elnira on the Boom.

A leading business man of Elmira writes
as follows of the present growth and future
prospects of the place:

Elmira still continues to flourish, more
buildings being under process of construction
here than at any other town of its size along
the line of the G. R. & IL. Its future pros-
pects are very flattering. A large church is
nearly completed, and several other good
buildings are under way. Several Grand
Rapids parties have lately made purchases
of realty here, among them being five travel-
ing men and four passenger conductors. Geo.
W. Bevins, the Tustin general dealer, owns
both land and lots here. Mrs. L. 8. Jenks’
new store building hasbeen leased by the
new firm of Watson & Wright, who will
open up about the 25th. Mr. Locey, a prac-
tical mill operator, has built a largesaw mill
a mile and a half south of the village and
the G. R. & L. has put in a switch to the
same.

——————>_

There is no lack of invention in chemis-
try. Of new dyes having a commercial im-
portance the following have been introduced
within a few years: African red, alizarine
blues; alneine, anthracene blue, orange, and
violet; aureosin benzaurine, beth-a-barra
wood, Biebrich scarlet, blackey blue and
orange, benzyl blue, Bordeaux, calliatura
wood, campobello yellow, cannelle brown,
cauline, chlorozone, chrome alum, chryso-
line, coccine, cceruline, cyanogen purple, the
malachite, solid and methyl greens; en-
thylrosine pink, eosine and its modifications,
galleine, the indophenols and _ indulines,
laureline, the oranges and tropzolines, rose
Bengale, saffronsine, crorceine scarlet, etc.
On the other hand many of the old dye-
woods are now superseded, and their timber
may rest in primitive forests.

—>.>——_

For adhesive labels dissolve 114 oz. com-
mon glue, which has laid a day in cold wa-
ter, with some candy sugar, and 3 oz. gum
arabic in 6 ounces hot water, stirring con-
stantly till the whole is homogeneous. If
this paste is applied to labels with a brush
and allowed to dry, they will then be ready
for use by mere moistennig with the tongue.

—_——————»>-o——____—_

The President of the United States can
not draw his salary until four persons have
pondered over the subject and signed their
names.

 

 

 

—>-2 <> —__—

The Leonard glass works, of Detroit, shut
down on July 31 for repairs to the furnace
and also to enlarge their capacity for hand-

ling glass insulators.

One hundred and forty tons of chloride
of lime are used daily in London for the
purpose of deodorizjng the outlets of the
sewers.

— oO
There is not a single wax match factory in
the United States. They are all made in

The Indigo Market.

From the Oil, Paint, and Drug Reporter.

There being an entire absence of any
disturbing element in the indigo market,
the fluctuations in values have been com-
paratively light for some time, and prices at
present writing are ruling steady. Con-
sumers are large buyers in the home market.
They were led to believe that money could
be saved by purchasing in foreign markets,
and, as a consequence, most of them have
been importing indigo on their own account.
The experience has taught them, however,
that the disadvantages of the practice out-
weigh the benefits and many consumers are
returning to their old custom of buying
after arrival. The spot stock of Bengal is
large and the only recent change in values
to be noted is the slight better appreciation
of the Kurpah grade. At the third periodi-
cal sale of East India indigo, held by Messrs.
Hess & Erdmann of London, in July,
9,200 chests ofas sorted grades were offered,
of which 3,965 chests were sold under the
hammer and 1,050 chests privately. As
usual at the July sales there was a large
attendance of buyers and observers, most of
whom were attracted for the purpose of
being informed on London July rates for
use later in the year forCalcutta. Many
opportunities were presented at this sale
to buy indigo cheaply, especially in the case
of plant oudes and oudes, their price having
given away under the influence of cheap
kurpahs. All through the sale a tone of de-
pression prevailed, even fine Bengals being
touched by a decline to three pence per pound,
although it is still given out that the Bengal
and Tirhoot crop of next year is expected
to turn out much smaller than the last two
or three years. Kurpahs were not so plen-
tiful as in April or up to the average in
quality. Good parcels brought a small
advance, but the mixed grades are not
altered in price. An excellent quality of
Bengal was offered, and this tended to
influence foreign buyers to lay in a larger
stock than usual. They covered the re-
quirements at about three to four pence
per pound, discount on Calcutta prices,
exclusive of interest. Dry leaf declined
about three pence per pound, but there is
still a searcityof desirable medium grades.
Blimlipatams were in more limited supply
than at any sale for some time past. Man-
illa was in light request; only a few chests
were sold out of fifty chests offered.

Sa ee
Good Words Unsolicited.

W. T. Long, wholesale fruit and produce,
Vicksburg: “I find it almost impossible to
do business and get along without THE
TRADESMAN.”’

VanderLinde & DeJongh, grocers, Muske-
gon: ‘Your TRADESMAN is a very interest-
ing paper for dealers in any line, particular-
ly us grocers.”

Dr. W. H. Andrews, druggist, Fennville:
‘Received two copies of your valuable pa-
per. Got more than $5 worth of informa-
tion from them. Count mein fora sub-
seriber as long as I can borrow a dollar from
my prospective brother-in-law. Expect to
visit your city before long and will run in
and leave you a basket of choice Fennville

peaches.”
————q@— > -

He Preferred It.

“T see you’ve got this confounded rye
bread again,” hissed Plunkett at the break-
fast table.

“Yes, dearie,” smoothly replied the lady,
“T got it because you love it.”

“Me love it, madam? Ugh, the very
smell of it makes me sick. Who was so
wise as to know that I loved rye bread?”’

“Nobody,” stammered Mrs, Plunkett, ‘‘ex-
cept I heard you tell Fitzgoober a few days
ago that you preferred rye to corn, and I
didn’t know in what you preferred it unless
it was bread.”

When he went to work Plunkett kicked
himself out of the door.

——————_—__2 << _____
A Mill Owner.

“No, young man, I shall not give my
daughter to any one unable to support her.
Why, youare not worth a fraction of a
cent.”

“You certainly labor under a mistake. I
own ten mills.’’

“Ten mills?”

“Ves,”

“Pardon me.
her.”

N. B.—After the wedding the old man

was reminded that ten mills make a cent.
oe Oe

A revolution in the match-making indus-
try may be expected. The Russian depart-
ment of commerce and manufactures has re-
cently awarded a patent to the inventor of a
means of so impregnating wood with a liquid
that, when dried, it lights with slight fric-
tion, and can be used several times over,
thus securing, according to the inventor, an
economy of at least 75 per cent.
9
The Best Weight for Market Pigs.
From the Live Stock Journal
The style of market pig has undergone a
great change within a few years. The large
400 or 500 pound hog is now seldom found.
The overgrown hog is no longer sought af-
ter, and pig feeding has been more care-
fully studied of late years. Shrewd feed-
ers have found that the older the hog the
more its carcass costs per pound. It is also
found that the flesh of the large hog is coars-
er and stronger, and not as sweet and fine
flavored as a ten or twelve months’ pig. It
is true, the older over-fattened hog yields
more lard, but this does not carry profit with
it, as lard often brings no higher price than
the side pork. The inducement, therefore,
to grow these large hogs no longer exists,

Take her, my boy; take

   

 

France and Italy. seis

Eng ig land, 0

and the 300 oo pig ie displace! 1 ie 500

1 UO”

VISITING BUYERS.

The following retail dealers have visited
the market during the past week and placed
orders with the various houses:

J. Riley, Dorr.

E. G. Maxwell, Sands & Maxwell, Pent-
water.

J. C. Benbow, Cannonsburg.

W. S. Root, Talmadge.

B. M. Dennison, East Paris.

A. W. Blain, Dutton.

Wm. F. Stuart, Sand Lake.

T. J. Sheridan, Lockwood.

Geo. W. Bartlett, Ashland Center.

Wm. Black, Cedar Springs.

A. M. Church, Sparta.

B. M. Dennison, East Paris.

J. W. Mead, Berlin.

My. Paine, of Paine & Field, Englishville.

M. J. Howard, Englishville.

C. O. Bostwick & Son, Cannonsburg.

G. H. Walbrink, Allendale.

Baron & TenHoor, Forest Grove.

W. S. Root, Talmadge.

Mr. McLeod, of McLeod & Trautman
Bros., Moline.

Norman Harris, Big Springs.

Smedley Bros., Bauer.

W. H. Struik, Forest Grove.

J. Barnes, Plainfield.

J. C. Benbow, Cannonsburg’

Falls & Truax, Spring Lake.

J. W. Closterhouse, Grandville.

G. J. Shackelton, Lisbon.

John Smith, Ada.

Jay Marlatt, Berlin.

R. B. McCullock, Berlin.

~ Jacob Omler, Wright.

Geo. Bliss, Plainwell.

J. Gunstra, Lamont.

Mr. Selkirk, Kalkaska.

Geo. W. Crawford, Big Rapids.

R. H. Woodin, Sparta.

Byron McNeal, Byron Center.

W. F. Rice, Alpine.

B. Steketee, Holland.

S. S. Dryden, Allegan.

J.S. Barker, Sand Lake.

Geo. Carrington, Trent.

J. DeHart, Casnovia.

John Neis, Saugatuck.

B. H. Rose, Sherman.

Mr. Denton, ot Robbie & Denton, Howard
City.

Geo. Lentz, Croton.

Richard Purdy, Fremont.

Mr. Huhn, of Frace & Huhn, Saranac.

Geo. A. Sage, Rockford.

S. T. Colson, Alaska.

J. R. Wylie, Martin.

G. S. Putnam, Fruitport.

John Scholten, Filmore Center.

B. Tinkler, Hastings.

S. T. McLellan, Denison.

D. B. Galantine, Bailey.

Corneil & Griswold, Griswold.

Thos. Cooley, Lisbon.

Colborn & Carpenter, Caledonia.

D. W. Johnson, Muskegon.

J. H. Spires, Leroy.

Mrs. E. Deacon, Cedar Springs.

S. A. Colby, Rockford.

J. A. Spooner, of Spooner Bros., Cedar
Springs.

J. R. Dibble, of Dibble Bros., Burnip’ s
Corners.

M. Jonkman, Holland.

Mr. Davis, of O’Dell & Davis, McLain.

G. P. Stark, Cascade.

A. A. Bleazby, Kalkaska.

O. P. McClure, Spencer’s Mill.

Howard Morley, Cedar Springs.

Geo. Roys, Cedar Springs.

Geo. W. Sharer, Cedar Springs.

C. E. Kellogg, Jennisonville.

Wm, Black, Cedar Springs.

Mr. Camp, of Cole & Camp, Kingsley.

A. B. Foote, Hilliards.

John Andre, of Andre Bros., Jennison-
ville.

Jos. Newman, Dorr.

P. H. Bennega, Fremont.

Mr. Lahuis, of Den Herder & Lahuis,
Zeeland.

E. Pryce, Chase.

Holland & Ives, Rockford.

Sisson & Lilley, Spring Lake.

Walling Bros., Lamont.

Roup & Williams, Chippewa Lake.

S. T. Colson, Alaska.

O. E. Close & Co., Sand Lake.
2. ___—_
VISITING SALESMEN.

Representatives of the following houses
have been in town since our last issue:

H. P. Boylan, John Copeland & Co., De-
troit.

C. H. Cole, Lord & Taylor, New York.

Mr. Hutchins, E. 8S. Jaffrey & Co., New
York.

Mr. Coolidge, Gibson, Parish & Co., Chi-
cago.

 

+O -
Cheerful View of the Situation.

“The business outlook,” said a leading
banker, to a reporter, the other day, “‘is
good. I think everything points toan ex-
cellent fall trade.”

__ “How is it now?”

“Matters are pretty quiet at present. The
late financial disturbances have caused a
feeling of conservatism among business
men, and they are not branching out much,
they are getting down to hard pan. Our
local banks, 1 know from personal observa-
tion, are putting themselves on a_ better
footing than they have been for a number
of years. There has been a decrease in the
amount of assets, it is true, but there has
been a reduction of liabilities ina greater
ratio.”

“Then you feel rather cheerful over the
situation, do you?”

“Certainly. The false bottom has been
knocked out, men are more careful than
they were before, having profited by the
lessons, and trade ison amore substantial
basis than it has been for years. With good
crops I anticipate a season of prosperity.”
—>—_9

Jurubeba, a drug that is quite popular in
Brazil, has been recently introduced into the
United States. It belongs to the Solanum or
tomato family, and is said to possess all the
virtues and none of the vices of mercury.
Dr. Carvalho of Rio de Janeiro and Dr. De-
Champs of Paris call it “the vegetable mer-
cury.”

 

 

pe

“Don’t give me any of your lip,” said an
ugly country school teacher to a pert young
miss who had “sassed” him. “Oh, you
needn’t worry,’’ she retorted; “I would not
kiss you even if the freckles on your face
were gould dollars.”

a

Fresh milk from America sold in London

 

is a new wringle made practicable by refrig-

orators ang

 

WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT,

Declined—Quinine, P & W, and German.
Advanced—Oil Peppermint, Celery Seed.

 

ACIDS.
Acetic: NO: 8200. ei... se Bh 9 @ 10
ee C. P. (Sp. grav. 1.040)...... 30 @ 35
Carbo. 62) eee. 50
UNG So ee es 55
Muriatie 18 deg... 2.2.0 ....06. see 3 @ 5
INGSIG 36 GOR. ooo... ce eee ll @ 12
ORANG ee aes eee, oe @ 15
Sulphuric 66 deg................... @ 4
Tartaric powdered................ 48
Benzoic, English............. 8B Oz 20
Benzotc, German...............++ 12 @ 15
PDR Ge ae Seo pees acca tess 1b @ ii
AMMONIA.
Carbonate... 6.0066 s Bb 1b @ 18
Muriate (Powd. 22¢).............06. 14
AQgualé deg or 3f.......5.......6.- 6 @ 7
Aqua 18 deg or 4f.................. 7@ 8
BALSAMS.
oe Bo Meenas ae. (lai on ese @ 50
ME ee ea eeu a 40
ROG oo oe agro  coos ee te ale 2 50
OW ee: 50
BARKS.
Cassia, in mats (Pow’d 20¢e)........ 2
Cinchona, yellow................- 18
Hin, Select). 3. ico 5 eo) ee es 15
Hin 2rOuUnd, Pure... 666.0... c. 18
Elm, powdered, pure.............. 15
Sassafras, of root................6- 10
Wild Cherry, select................ 12
Bayberry powdered............... 20
Hemlock powdered................ 18
WAKOO Gols ok 30
Soap ground. . ...5.......... 4... 2
BERRIES,
Cubeb, prime (Powd $ 85).. @ 80
Juniper Ro ences oe eas 6 7
Prickly ASH... 2 ..20.23.0.008 ss 1.60 G1 10
EXTRACTS.
Licorice (10 and 25 ib boxes, 25c)... 2
Licorice, powdered, pure......... 37%
Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 Ib doxes). 9
Logwood, Is (25 Ih boxes).......... 12
Lgowood, 4s do : oe. 13
Logwood, 48 do 15
Logwood, ass’d_ = do 14
Fluid, Extracts—25 # cent. off list.
FLOWERS.
PAVTMCR ai a sce. oa ee oe 10 @ il
Chamomile, Roman............... 25
Chamomile, German.............. 25
GUMS.
Aloes, Barbadoes.................. 60@ 75
Aloes, Cape (Powd 24¢)............ 18
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd 60c)....... 50
FATMINONINC foe es 2B@ 30
Arabic. extra select............... 60
Arabic, powdered select.......... 60
Arabic, lst picked.............:... 50
Arabic,2d pieked.. .:.... 2.2.5.2... 40
Arabic,c3d pickod.................- 35
Arabic, sifted sorts................ 30
Assafoentida, prime (Powd 35c)... 30
eOnZOIN eee eee coe. 55@60
Camphor.) oo. 6. eos kee 21@ 24
Catechu. Is (% 1l4c, 4s 16c) ...... ‘ 13
Euphorbium powdered............ 35@ 40
Galbanum strained................ 80
Gamboge. ... 0.6.0... e. ke. ese cs 60@1 00
Guaiac, prime (Powd 45c)......... 35
Kino [Powdered, 30c].............. 20
MMARUIC. Cos Bo ee cc sal sues oe ee 10
Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 47c)... 40
Opium, pure (Powd $6.00).......... 4 50
Shellac, Campbell’s................ 30
Shellac, Engltsh....:...........:.. 26
Shellac, native...........5........- 24
Shellac bleached................... 30
TPPSPACANUN oe oe oe ee cs 30 @1 10
HERBS—IN OUNCE PACKAGES.
Hosrbound 32.0 es. se. 25
MOWCWR oe ee se eee 25
IREPPCrMNING 6 ccc 25
PRATOR ee ce ee 40
BpPeaIMINe 62.666... leo. ote. 24
Sweet Majoram.. 02.00... 55.55.5555 6. ee 35
PURINA eo ec css es cee ace 25
PEIVANG oo once ee cee wee ss 30
WOPRMWOOd (200 e066 ee se 25
IRON.
Citrate and Quinine............... 6 40
Solution mur., for tinctures...... 20
Sulphate, pure crystal............ ts
Citrate 4600655. cad. eee ee 80
iPHOSPNALC . 0.2.5. :.. eee tk 65
LEAVES.
Buchu, short (Powd 25c)........... @ 13
Sage, Italian, bulk (448 & 4s, 12c)... 6
Senna, Alex, natural.............. 8 @ 2
Senna, Alex. sifted and garbled.. 30
Senna, powdered.................. 22
Senna tinnivelli:................... 16
Wiva Wrst... 2 t...s ee. k ews 10
BelieG@Onna:... ..........2..2055- see 30
HOXPIOVE...05. 65. cases c eee 30
HICH URNS 65050. oe ose abe occ es 35
WLORO, FOG: oo ee. cole eee ee 2 35
LIQUORS.
W., D. & Co.’s Sour Mash Whisky.2 00 @2 25
Druggists’ Favorite Rye.......... 175 @2 00
Whisky, other brands............. 110 @1 50
Gin Old Tom. 2020 oe cee 135 @l 75
Gin; MIOMAMGs! oo. ok eek. 200 @3 50
IBYANOY os oe coe ca 175 @6 50
Crauha WANCS: 2 ce 8. 125 @2 00
Port Wim@8..6 25.2... os coke see ck 135 @2 50
MAGNESIA.
Carbonate, Pattison’s, 2 02Z........ 23
Carbonate, Jenning’s, 20Z......... 37
Citrate, H., P. & Co.’s solution.... 2 25
CaicmneGg. o.oo eee eos. 70
OILS.
Almond, SWeeCt....3 5. 66 is0.5 52 cee 45 @ 50
Amber, rectified................... 45
PATUISG 8 ooo oe ee ae cs oe 1 80
ISB O27) gene eee ee 50
Berpamont,.. 30.6066 8... .2.05.2. 05. 2 00
CBBIOR re oo en. eae cn 18%@ 20
@TrOQtone 606 oe 2 00
@ajeput < ... eee ccc ee ec eke 75
@ASSIQ 2. a 1 00
Cedar, commercial (Pure 76e)..... 40
Citronella. 28.6. oso ee. 85
PlONOS oo eee sea es cea cs 1 25
@ubebs, BP. & W.....:.:.. 3.2.5... 7 25
BIVIP CTO 66. os esis oc ca cies oa ts ee 1 60
IPO WOCG 6 ie 6.5 os ec cae eee ce 2 00
Geranium # 0Z.................... Tb
Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75c).. 40
Juniper WO0d....:...5-..0...-0--6- 50
Juniper berries.................... 2 00
Lavender flowers, French......... 2 01
Lavender garden GO % 2oc5cs05. 1 00
Lavender spike G0 2.2.2... 90
Lemon, new CYrop.............-.08- 1 70
Lemon, Sanderson’s............... 175
POGMONOTASS oon occ oe sae os 80
Origanum, red flowers, French. . 1 25
Orivanum, NO. boo... se ccee. 50
Pernnyroval. -.... gsc. ss. cs ees 1 %5
Peppermint, white................ 4 (0
HOSO- OZ. 2. os. 60s ose ec ses 9 75
Rosemary, French (Flowers $5)... 65
Sandal Wood, German............ 4 50
andal Wood, W.T.....c...5 2k. ee 7 00
ee eerie oa ces cob ete ee cee ess 60
TRS ee cece e ces fee e as 4 50
Tar as Pal60e). 2 oo, 2s 10 @
WADBTOTRTCCD. . 2... 6.3 ics cca eee 2 2%
Wormwood, No. 1(Pure $6.50)..... 4 50
DAVIN eos oe eee cane oes oe ce seeps 1 00
WOrmseed 06k ce eee 2 50
Cod Liver, filtered..... ...- 8 gal 1 90
Cod Liver, Dest. :.-...-. we 3 50
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co. ‘316 6 00
Olive, Malaga........... @1 20
Olive, “Sublime ee ee 2 50
Geet ee, 6 @ 67
Rose, Inmsen’s............... 8 Oz 9 75
POTASSIUM.
Bicromate.... 5. 6. nese ee, g 4
Bromide, cryst. and gran. bulk... 85
Chlorate, cryst (Powd 28¢)......... 20
Iodide, cryst. and gran. bulk..... 1 40
Prussiate yellow...............000 30
ROOTS.
AUBRONOG 0. oe oss ie 15
AICNGR CHE... 5 eS ek 27
Arrow, St. Vincent’s.............. 1%
Arrow, Sevaor, 8, in \s and 4s. 35
Blood (Powd 18¢)...............008 : 12
Calamus, peeled................... 18
Calamus, erman white, peeled.. 38
Elecampane, powdered............ 23

Gentian (Powd l4c)................
Ginger, African (Powd l6c)........
Ginger, Jamaica bleached........
Golden Seal (Powd 40c)............
Hellebore, white, powdered.......
Eeeoee, Rio, powdered.............
alap, powdered...................
Licorice, select (Powd 24) beuee
Licorice, extra select..............
PUM, CPUC orcs hic ves oes acess 35
Rhei, from select to choice....... 100 @l
Rhei, powdered E.I.............. -110 @1
Bae choice cut cubes.. eeu’ 2
ei, choice cut agers... Pesca 2
Serpentaria Se :
Seneka ..

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Sarsaparilla, Mexican............. 18
Squills, white (Powd 35c).......... 10
Valerian, English (Powd 30c)...... 25
Valerian, Vermont (Powd 2&¢)... 20
SEEDS.

Anise, Italian (Powd 20¢).......... 13
Bird; mixed in t packages....... dd. @ 6
Canary, Smyrna 2.0.6 3. 34@ 4
Caraway, best Dutch (Powd 19c).. 11 @ 12
Cardamon, Aleppee............... 2 v0
Cardamon, Malabar................ 2 25
@elery ee 25
Coriander, pest English........... 12
MONNOL 2 ee 15
Bigx clean 2 3%@
Flax, pure gerd (bbl 3%)............ 4@ 4%
Foenugreek, powdered............ 8 @ 9
Hemp, Russian.................... 5 @ 15%
Mustard, white( Black 10c)........ 8
QuInee oo 1
awe: Ibnolish . 2.060.052 25 00 7T%@ 8

Worm, Hevant... 0.5 ee
SPONGES.
Florida sheeps’ wool, carriage..... 2 25 @ 50
do 2 00

Nassau dO. 26:
Velvet Extra do GO ls 1 10
Extra Yellow do GO... 3.. 85
Grass do do 65
Hard head, for slate use........... 75
Yellow Reef, dO 8. 1 40
MISCELLANEUS.
Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.15) @ gal.. 2 23
Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref. 1 50
Anodyne Hoffman’ Bec eo. eles, 50
Arsenic, Donovan’s solution...... . 27
Arsenic, Fowler’s solution........ 12
Annatto £1 rolls. . 2... 200... 55... 30
Blue Soluble... 35.00. . 50
Bay Rum, imported, best......... 2%)
Bay Rum, domestic, H., P. & Co.’s. 2 00
AU ee #bh 24Q@ 3%
Alum, ground (Powd 9¢).......... 3 @
Annatto:; prime. ............. 2.2... 32
Antimony, powdered, com’l...... 4%@ 5
Arsenic, white, powdered......... é @ 7
Balm Gilead Buds................. 40
Beans, Tonks...) .... 6.260... oe 2 2
Beans, Vanilla...) 6). 7 00 @9 75
Bismuth, sub nitrate.............. 1 60
Blue Pill (Powe (0e)}s 2. .3....005.: 45
Blue VitriOls, os, 4@ 9
Borax, refined (Powd 18¢e)......... W
Cantharides, Russian powdered.. 1 8%
Capsicum Pods, African.......... 18
Capsicum Pods, African pow’d.. 20
Capsicum Pods, American do ... 18
Carmine, No: 40.0000... 062... 4 00
Cadaia, Buds....~.........20..-. 1, 12
Calomel, American................ 70
Chalk, prepared drop.............. 5
Chalk, precipitate English........ 12
Chalk, red fingers................. 8
Chalk’ white lump............-.... 2
Chloroform, SoOUIDD S... 5.0. os, 1 60
Colocynth apples ee ae 60
Chloral hydrate, German crusts. 1 60
Chloral do do _eryst.. 1 7@
Chloral do Scherin’s do ... 1 90
Chloral do do _crusts.. 1 %5
Chloroform 0 100 @1 10
Cinehonidia, P.& W.....-5.. 0... |: 50 @ 55
Cinchonidia, other brands. Peeecec 50 @ 55
Cloves (Powd 28¢).................. 20 @ 2
@ochineal (i. 30
Cocoa Butter... ....-............. 45
Copperas (by bbl Ic)............... 2
Corrosive Sublimate............... 65
Corks, X and XX—35 off list......
Cream Tartar, pure powdered aoa 88 @ 40
Cream Tar tar, grocer’s, “ Ib box.. 15
@reasote:. 2. ae 50
Cudbear, prime............ 00.2... 2
Cuttle Fish Bone................... 24
WextINe ee 2
Dover's Powders............5..... 1 20
Dragon’s Blood Mass.............. 50
Ergot powdered................... 45
Heher Squibb's........ 0.00000. 8. 110
Emery, Turkish, all No.’s......... 8
Hpsom Salts)... ek 24@ 3
EBSOU, EreOsIf ooo kee. 50
Ether, sulphuric, U.S. P.......... 69
Wiake white... .0..65....5..0 022... 14
Grains Paradise...) :....... 2.6... 25
Gelatine, Cooper’s................. 90
Gelatine, F rench_ ee 45 @ i
Glassware, flint, 79 off, by box 60 off
Glassware, green, 60 and 10 dis..
Glue. cabmey. 12 @ li
Giueswhite 2.0 17 @ 28
Glycerine, PUEG eu le, 21 @ 2
Hops %4s and Ms......-.....0....-. 25@ 40
lodotorm: OZ. 0.0.6.0. 60 39
MNGIEO 3 oo 8 @1 00
Insect Powder, best Dalmatian... 23 @ 25
Iodine, resublimed................ 210
Isinglass, American............... 1 50

SHPOMICA 9

 

Kondon Purple... 0... .2.....2_. 10 @ 35
head acetate... oe. 15
Lime, chloride, (4%8 28 10e & 4s 11¢) 9
wane. 1 00
yseoposiam eee 50
Eu ee 60
Manaér, best Dutoh.............. R¥@ 13
Mamma: Si Bo eos, Ll:
Mercury. 920. a0

Morphia, sulph., P. oh. 0z 3 25@3 50
Musk, Cana. H., P. & Co.’s 3 — 40

Moss, oad 8 b 10
Moss: Inishe 02 1
Mustard, Bnglish.................. 30
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 ib cans...... 18
Nut rale ee, 20
Nutmegs, Noob. 66. oo. bck, 70
Nuxe Vonca:: 8 ces 10
Ointment. Mercurial, %d.......... 40
Pepper, Black Berry.............. 18
IOVS eas 3 00
Pitch, True Burgundy............. 7

 
 
  

Quassia eee oe ce
Quinia, Sulph, P, & W.

 

Quinine, German.................. 05
Seidlitz Mixture.............. nes 28
Stryehnia,cryst.... 2... 02... 50285. 150
Silver Nitrate, cryst............... 79 @ 8&8
Red Precipitate............... 8 Ib 80
Satfron, American................. 40
Sal Glauber 2. oe. @ 2
Sal Nitre, large cryst......... as 10
Sal Nitre, medium cryst..... a 9
Sal Rochelle... 1... ee ook. oe. 33
Bal SOQa 6c... oe: sf 2 @ 2
Salicin....: Reece 2 00
SAMTONID 26. ose 6 75
Snuffs, Maccoboy or Scotch....... 38
Soda Ash [by Keg de]...... 02... 2. 4
SPOrMACOED «6. Bese. 25
Soda, Bi-Carbonate, DeLand’s.... 44@ 5
Soap, White Castile................ 14
Soap, Green do  ..... .+........ 17
Soap, Mottleddo .................... 9
Soap, GO, dO ooo ee. 11
Soap, Mazzinicc. <0 2.3 08... 14
Spirits Nitre: dF ...... 0.20500. 000.. 26 @ 28
Spirits Nitre, 4H... 38... ee. 28 @ 82
Sugar Milk powdered..............

Sulphur, HOUP.. oo... kee eee cc 34@ 4
Sulphur, oll... oo... 38@ «38%
Martar Hmevie.: oo... voces secs. cs 60
Tar, N.C. Pine, % gal. cans # doz 2%
Tar, do quarts in tin....... 1 40
Tar, do pintsintin......... 85

Turpentine, Venice........... bis) 25

60
7 @ 8

8
Wax, White, S. & F. brand........
Zine. Sulphate... ois... k.

OILS.

Capitol Cylinder..............
Model Cylinder...........

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
  

Shields Cylinder........ 50
Eldorado Engine...... -45
Peerless Machinery.. 3d
Challenge Machinery..... 25

Backus Fine Engine........
Black Diamond Machinery...

Castor Machine Oil............. iC
Paratnne, 20 GOL... 6... ccc e cc e ce 22
PPAEAINMOC AS GOO: foo oe ones eleee steal: 2
Sperm, winter bleached............5........ 1 40
Bbl Gal
WHI, WINLOD.. os. oe cle cece 80 8&5
iE Oe OMORR 6 os oo oo coos cues cade ue 64 7%
Merde NO. toe. oo eee ae 55 65
Linseed, pune raWw..............cecc5 57 60
inseed, DOUG .. cc. ees ce cea 60 63
Neat’s Foot, winter strained........ 90 95
Spirits Turpentine................... 37 45
VARNISHES.
Not Purp Corel. 2... coe. 1 10@1 20
Bixtre (BUrp oo. og cc cows ae secs vc es 1 60@1 70
Coneh: Body: se oon soos ccc cece ees q ay ¢
No. 1 Turp Furniture..................

Extra Turp Damar... ... 0... cc. c00. cs i Beat 6b
Japan Dryer, No. 1 Turp.............. 70@ 5
PAINTS.

Bbl Lb
Boralumine, White bulk} ....<... 9
Boralumine, IDS fc. ives.

8

Boralumine, Tints bulk, i off..
Boralumine’ se Oe ik
Red Venetian..............cc00
Ochre, yellow Marseilles......
Ochre, yellow ar giana ees .
Putty, commercial ............
Putty. strictly pure.. bt eo ic poe.
Vermilion, rime American..
Vermilion, English............
Green, Peninsular.............
eae, red ee. Once.” ee

white, strict 7 pe ee
Whiting, we iS Epes Me civ c

wi ng, Gide Amer)

eS

rn
SOOSerse
os Go GO GO CO

pSae

 

HAZELTINE,
PERKINS
& OO,

Wholesale

ruggists

2and 44 Ottawa Street and 89, 91, 93 and
95 Louis Street.

IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF

rags, Medicines, Chemicals,
Pauls, Oils, Varnishes,
and Drageists
ULassware,

MANUFACTURERS OF
ELEGANT PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS,
FLUID EXTRACTS AND ELIXIRS,

GENERAL WHOLESALE AGENTS FOR

WoLr, PAtTton & Co., AND JoHN L. Wuit-
ING, MANUFACTURERS OF FINE
PAINT AND VARNISH
BRUSHES.

—Also for the—

GRAND Rapips BrusH Co., MANFGS. OF
HAtr, SHOE AND Horse BrusuEs.

Drugoists’ Sundries

Our stock in this department of our busi-
ness is conceded to be one of the largest,
best-assorted and diversified to be found in
the Northwest. We are heavy importers of
many articles ourselves and can offer Fine
Solid Back Hair Brushes, French and Eng-
glish Tooth and Nail Brushes at attractive
prices. Ourline of Holiday Goods for the
approaching season will be more full and el-
egant than ever before, and we desire our
customers to delay their fall purchasers
of those articles until they have seen our el-
egant line, as shown by our accredited repre-
sentative who is now preparing for his an-
nual exhibition of those goods.

We desire particular attention of those
about purchasing OUTFITS for NEW STORES
to the fact of our wnsurpassed facilities
for meeting the wants of this class of buyers
without delay and in the most approved and
acceptable manner known to the drug trade.
Our special efforts in this direction have re-
ceived from hundreds of our customers the
most satisfying recommendations.

Wine and Liquor Department

We give our special and personal atten-
tion to the selection of choice goods for
thedrug trade only, and trust we merit the
high praise accorded us for so_ satisfactorily
supplying the wants of our customers with
Pure Goods in this department. We con-
trol and are the only authorized agents
for the sale of the celebrated

Withers Dade & Co’s

Henderson Co., Ky., SOUR MASH AND
OLD FASHIONED HAND MADE, COP-
PER DISTILLED WHISKYS. We not
only offer these goods to be’ excelled. by No
OTHER KNOWN BRAND in the market, but
superior in all respects to most that are ex-
posed for sale. We GUARANTEE perfect
and complete satisfaction and where this
brand of goods has once been introduced the
future trade has been assured.

We are also owners of the

Drugeists Favorite Rye,

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

Gils, Braudies & Fine Wines,

We call your attention to the adjoining
list of market quotations which we aim to
make as complete and perfect as possible.
For special quantities and for quotations on
such articles as do not appear on the list such
as Patent Medicines, etc,, we invite your cor-
respondence.

Mail orders always receive our special and
personal attention.

   

 

 

 

 

 

The Michigan Tradesmal.

————<—<—<———a

A MERCANTILE

 

 

 

JOURNAL, PUBLISHED EACH
WEDNESDAY.

E. A. STOWE & BRO., Proprietors.

OFFICE IN EAGLE BUILDING, 3d FLOOR.

 

{Entered at the Postofiice at Grand Rapids as
Second-class Matter.1

—— ——

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1884.

 

 

 

SETTLING BY NOTE,

 

An Unfounded Prejudice among Dealers.

When the agreement against dating ahead
was being passed around and universally
signed, says the Carpet Trade and Review,

 

 

 

trade, to which every man in active busi-
ness is liable, the country dealer who had
been in the habit of settling by note could
receive extension or accommodation with as
much readiness and much more heartily
than the one who had dealt upon open ac-
count.

—— i oo,
An odd sort of straw hat is made from sea
grass. The maker says that rain strength-
ens and improves the fabric.

RETATLERS,

If you are selling goods to make
a profit; sell

 

 

 

amilton Carhartt & 60.,

 

WHOLESALE

Men’s Furnishing Goods

MANUFACTURERS OF

The “Carhartt” Pantaloons, Overalls, Engineers’ Jackets,
manufactured goods, we guarantee to

118 Jefferson Ave.

Jumpers’ Shirts, ete.
save the trade the Jobbers’ Profits.
for Comparison.

Upon our |
Samples sent

 

 

Detroit. |

 

anty

We manufacture a full line,
the best material obtainable, and

use

one of the clearest-headed jobbers, as he A \" ] I h | ] guarantee our 200 ds t, O b Q fi rst-
affixed his name, remarked: cl ass. |
“T do not consider the practice of dating |

bills ahead by any means the worst abuse
connected with the business. The system
of open accounts is equally if not more
annoying and costly. It affords the same
opportunity to the customer to gain addition-
al time, and not unfrequently puts the seller
to extra and unnecessary expense in raising
the money required in carrying on his busi-
ness.”

There seems to be among many dealers a

WASHING POWDER,

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

uts

We carry an
Virgidia and
Almonds,Erazils,
cans, Wralnuts and Cocoanuts,

Tennessee

and compete with any market.

immense stock of |
Peanuts,
Filberts, Pea:

4

|
We are agents for Gorden S|

Coal, Wood, Lime, Cement,

REMOVAL!

 

  

Sewer Pipe, Etc,

Office removed to 3 Canal street, Basement.

 

WM. SEARS & CO.

Cracker Manufacturers,

Agents for

AMBOY CHEESE.
37, 39 & 41 Kent Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

 

celebrated Wrag Jaws, Olym-
pian, D. &., and many other well-
known brands and carry a full line

 

 

curious and unfounded prejudice against | Price-List.

(
giving notes in the settlement of account. als

F. J. LAMB & COMPANY,

 

 

This feeling we are satisfied, after consider-
able inquiry, prevails to a wider extent in
the carpet business than in almost any other
department of trade. A moment’s reflection
will convince any one that such feeling is
wrong and works equally to the disadvan-
tage of all concerned.

The manufacturer must have money with
which to carry on his business. He must
buy his exchange to meet his wool as it ar-
rives at the various shipping points, and
must have money ready from week to week
for the payment of his hands and other ex-
penses. Very few have capital enough to
meet the demands of a large factory which
must run months before its production can
be placed in the jobbers’ hands and turned
into cash. He must obtain accommodation
from some source.

This necessity enures, in the first place, to
the benefit of the wholesale dealer who
stands ready to take the goods and pay the
cash. Just in proportion to his ability to ao
this is he enabled to reap the advantages of
the market and obtain his goods at prices
which give the retail dealer a stock at fig-
ures which will stimulate consumption, en-
chance profits and widen operations. The
amount of money required by large carpet
jobbers at certain portions of the year is
something enormous. They are buying
from many sources, and have their money
locked up in thousands of accounts which,
no matter how good, are practically of not
the slightest use until they are due.

If they have the evidence of obligation, in
the shape of their customers’ notes, there is
no difficulty in obtaining the money to car-
ry on their business, and there is little doubt
that, with the keenness of modern competi-
tion, the customer will obtain his share of
the advantages thus gained by the house
with which he is accustomed to deal. Notes
are the lubricator which keeps the wheels of
commerce moving easily and steadily.

Probably the men from whom the remark
is frequently heard, “I never give notes,”
have a sort of vague idea that some disad-
vantage attaches to the practice, and yet, if
they would look at the matter calmly and
dispassionately, we imagine they would find
it hard to give any valid reason for such an
opinion. An honest merchant not only in-
tends to pay his debts, but intends to pay
them when due. Ifhe buys goods and
agrees to settle for them in sixty days, he
no more obligates himself by giving a note at
sixty days than by leaving the account open.
His status is not altered, either legally or
morally. Of course, it is understood we are
speaking of that large class of merchants
who read this jouanal, and not of those,
fortunately few in the trade, who stand pre-
pared to dispute bills, gain a few days’ time
by any means possible, or rely upon acci-
dents to delay the payment of their accounts.
This class of men are thoroughly known,
and in one way or another, in the long run,
gain nothing by the practice of which we
speak. Merchants do not like to sue bills,
and no matter how solvent a man is, no
matter how readily accessible his property
may be to the ordinary processes of the law,
they are not anxious to sell him, and if they
do, take good care that the probable cost of
collection or -the interest lost by delay is
added to the price of his goods. Moreover,
any favor that a house may have to give to
its customer, any trouble that he may be
be compelled to put it to to obtain scarce
, goods, any little courtesy out of the ordin-

Harttond Chemical C0.
HAWKINS & PERRY

STATE AGENTS,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

KEMINK, JONES & 60,

Manufacturers of

 

Fine Perfumes,
Colognes, Hair Oils,
Flavoring Extracts,

Baking Powders,
Bluings, Etc., Etc.

 

ALSO PROPRIETORS OF

ERE MINEXY’sS

“Red Bark Bitters”

—AND—

The Oriole Manufacturing Co,

%8 West Bridge Street,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

COLE & STONE,

Manufacturers and Jobbers of

GENTS’ FINE SHIRTS.

 

Samples and Prices will be Sent to Close

Buyers in our Line.
Address,

Marshall Mich.

SHEDS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FIELD AND GARDEN,
A
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL,

SEED STORE,

91 Canal St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

W. 1. LAMOREAUX, Agent

 

 

 

 

 

ary line of trade will be conceded much
more readily to those who show a desire to
assist the opperations of that house and
facilitate its business.

There is one view of the matter which,
though seldom referred to in discussing the
subject, is of grave importance, and should
have considerable weight. The country
merchant who places his paper in the hands
of a prominent and reputable city house
thereby helps his own credit. When such a
house requires money, the notes which it
endorses and sends to the bank or to the
capitalists are always those which it feels
reasonably certain will be paid at maturity.
It is a notice that the firm, which ought to
know the standing of its customer, has con-
fidence in him. Sooner or later the fact be-
comes known. Such houses do not allow
the paper they have had discounted to go to
protest. Andin case of the accidents of

re :

   

an sme

EDMUND B, DIKEMAN,

—THE—

—AND—

JHEwWHELER,

44 CANAL STREET,

 

  

  

GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN

See Se

of his goods ai factory prices.

Fruit

We handle Oranges,
Bananas, Figs, Dates,
large quantities from first-hands
are headquarters for ev

our line.

PUTNAM & BROOKS.

erything in

 

|

Wemons, |
Estc., in

and

‘Butter,

——_WHOLESALE DEALERS IN——

Cheese, Eges,

Apples, Onions, Potatoes, Beans, Ettc.
State Agent for the Lima Patent Egg Cases and Fillers.

NO. 8 AND 10 IONIA STREET,

GRAND RAPIDS. MICEIIGAMN,.

 

A
rs,

WHOL

  

 

 

 

   

Al

 

 

aie
ae

as

44, 46 and 48 South Division Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

——WE ARE FACTORY AGENTS FOR

Nimrod, Acorn, Ghief, Crescent & Red Seal Plu Tobaccos,

 

Our stock of Teas, Coffees and Syrups is Always Contplete.
—WE MAKE SPECIAL CLAIM FOR OUR—

Tobpaccos,

wWinegar

OUR:-MOTTO: “SQUARE DEALING BETWEEN MAN IAND MAN.”

CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED.

FOX, MUSSELMAN & LOVERIDGE,

. GROCERS,

s and Spices

Fe
z=

 

PEHEREINS & HESS,

——DEALERS IN——

Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,

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

 

 

BARBOUR’S CAMPAIGN TORCH

The only Torch that can be taken apart and shipped in a

Small space.

300 to 500 Torches complete (except handles) can be packe
barrel, thus making the freight or express charges very low.

A Child can Put them together in one Minute.

As good as any Torch Made. The Cheapest in Price.

WILL BURN FOR FIVE HOURS.

Ask for price or send for sample order.

FOSTER, STEVENS & CO,

10cand 12 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

d in one

 

 

 

 

voor wy wate, WALLPAPER & WINDOW SHADES

At Manufacturers’ Prices.
SAMPLES TO THE TRADE ONLY.

Flouse and Store Shades Made to Order.

68 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids.

WELSON BROS. & CO.

     
  
  

PHCK BROS, *
UTholesale Druggists

A Complete Stock of all that pertains to the wants ot the Retail ?

Drugeist.
We Employ No Travelers. Send for Prices.

129 and 131 Monroe Street,

Grand Rapids Mich. a:

SPRING & COMPANY

 

--WHOLESALE DEALERS IN—

FANCY AND

STAPLE DRY GOODS

CARPHTS,

MATTINGS«

OIL CLOTHS, . »#

 

ETc. ETC.

Gand 8 Monroe Stroet.

™

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Michigan.

 
    

 

 

 

BUSINESS LAW.

¥ ae 1 | much an ineident to their being there as is CRIPPEN, .
The Michigan Ti alecmall, the loitering or playing by children outside g A WEL | NG :
gor OLAS traveled part of the highway as they WHOLESALE
; Bee | go upon it to school or upon errands. And a a I dll Wn ( dll dll)

 

Brief Digests of Recent Decisions in Courts
of Last Resort.

 

BANKING.
The president of a bank has no right, un-
less authorized by the board of directors, to
part with a collateral security which the

‘children wherever they go, must be expect-

ed to act upon childish instinct and impulse;
and others who are chargeable witha duty
of care and caution toward them must cal-
culate upon this, and take precautions ac-
cordingly. If they leave exposed tojthe ob-
servation of children anything which would

GRAND RAPIDS, -

 

Hats, Caps and Furs

54 MONROE STREET,

MICHIGAN.

WHOLESALE

MEN'S FURNISHING GOODS

—I WOULD CALL THE ATTENTION OF MERCHANTS TO MY-
Spring Styles of Fine Hats,
Spring Styles of Wool Hats,
Spring Styles of Stiff Hats,

225

Spring Styles of Soft Hats,
Wool Hats $4.50 to $12 per Dozen,
Fine Hats 18.50 to $36 per Dozen,
Straw Hats for Men,
Straw Hats for Boys,
Straw Hats for Ladies,

bank has obtained from one of its creditors. | be tempting to them, and which they in
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. their immature judgment might naturally
suppose they are at liberty to handle or play
* CONTRACT—BY LETTER—ACCEPTANCE. | with, they should expect that liberty to be
In the opinion of the Supreme Court of} taken.”

Iowa, when a proposal is accepted by letter,

the contract is deemed to become complete

, when the letter is mailed, provided the offer
is standing and the acceptance is made with-

EUMDETMAN'S SUpDLES

—AND—

NOTIONS!

PANTS, OVERALLS, JACKETS, SHIRTS,
LADIES’ AND GENTS’ HOSIERY, UNDER-

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

 

 

 

    
       

De ge
Extending Assistance.

“Can you help me a little?” asked a tramp
y 5
“Pm hungry, and can’t get any work at my

BOOK-KEEPING MADE EASY

FOR

RETAIL CROCERS.

By using our Combined Ledger and Day-Book,
STOMERS’ ACCOUNTS are kept and

 

 

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trade.” ITEMIZED STATEMENTS rendered in half | WERAE ‘ Q
. ae : = ene : . rende: é AR, MACKINAWS, NECKWEAR, SUS- S 7
, in a reasonable time. The contract is deem: “What is your trade?” asked the gentle- the time required by any other process. PENDERS, STATIONERY, POCKET CUT- Straw Hats for Misses.
ed complete when the letter 1s mailed, be- Send for descriptive circular to HALL & gf)" ; oe . :
ae we man. Be eee a aie et Chicas, Ul TLERY, THREAD, COMBS, BUTTONS, SMOK- 1 be :
. cause the mailing constitutes the overt act) «7 am a glass worker?” a co ERaRRNNRaUE SENSES ERS’ SUNDRIES, HARMONICAS, VIOLIN CMO ) f id f 7ei al | York Prices I]
vs ot

by which the acceptance is manifested. ‘What kind of a glass worker?” STRINGS, ETC.
¢ as Ade .

“Beer glass worker.”
GARNISHEE—JOINT ma ASie ety. | “Here is a penny for your frankness.”
ee a eee es
; ly, “Vl put part or it in the bank.
pal debtor is joint, and this is so whether :
the proceedings relate to the possession of
* the property or the indebtedness. Where

 

 

a

———__——- ——LARGE LINE OF —

EVERY KIND AND SIZE} -

pride >| Tam represented on the road by the fol-| Glothin an Fes i
TACK itrank, Clout and Finishing | lowing well-known travelers: JOHN D. MAN- & a Gent + Furnishing Goods,
N AILS a ale edt a a pe A. M. Spraaur, Joun H. EACKER, Cottonade Fanits and z.osiery.

a ee 9 _ | L. R. Cesna, GEo. W. N. DE JONGE. D

NPATRHAVEN MSE ire acu eee ces " Sa UCK OVERALLS, THREE POCKETS, $3.50 PER DOZEN AND UPWARDS.

Call and get our prices and see how they will compare with those of firms in larger cities.

ee
An Illustrated Weekly.
From the Cadillac Times.

 

 

: . Oe ee ae anc Tue MicuIGAN TRADESMAN, of Grand : 1 ‘

the garnishee admits no property in his pos- ; ? D4 Poort Sirnat - rand Ranids. Wie

session belonging to the dette: atthe time| Rapids, comes out as an illustrated weekly 21 Pearl Street rand Rapids, Mich i. co BE v i.

of the service of summons, or any indebted- this week, and gives an illustrated account 36, 38, 40 and 42 CANAL STREET, - GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN

 

of the great game of base ball played in that
city between the wholesale grocery men of
that place and the wholesale grocers of Sag-
= inaw.

ness to him, the proceedings as to the garni-
shee should end.—Supreme Court of Michi-
gan.

®

The Old MReliabic

 

 

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Ee
Pleasant for Jones.

“T say, Jones, dine with me at the house

CORPORATION—STOCKHOLDER’S CONTRIBU-
TION.
stockholders can not

One cf several : | to-night, will you ?” BEST ROASTED PACKAGE COFFEE ON

back out of an agreement, which all have “Certainly, with pleasure. Will your f S Y ALE &, BRO THE MARKET

entered into, to contribute a number of | wife expect me?” a i ny “ids EL. S Cc; EL NT ke T D Ee RR. QZ co oO

shares each, to be sold for the benefit of the “No: that’s the beauty of it. We ada FOR SALE BY

a corporation, after the rest, in reliance upon quarrel this morning about the seashore .
the agreement, have contributed their propor- | }yciness, and 1 want to make her mad.” . : -
tion. Andif his shares have been taken | , a FLAYVG Nu EXTRAGTS | bX Massalmnal & LOveridae
and used accordingly, he can not bring tro- Needed by every retail grocer or contec- Lt de 3 V 5

Conrad vs. LaRue, Supreme

—THE—

 

Pioneer Cigar Factory,

—Manufé ‘ers of— <
fanufacturers of PROPRIETORS.

21 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids.
tioner, one or more of Kenyon’s Patent
Court of Michig: Spring Paper Bag Holders. Each has ca-
P sl eta ata pacity of containing about fifty bags. Their
great convenience can be learned by having | $2370 ,;U7 ICN Gr, Ere... ALBERT COYE & 3 ONS

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FIRE INSURANCE—RECEIPT OF PREMIUM. | one mailed for 30c, four for $1, or one dozen

The following brands are our own make and Union labelled goods: Dick and George,
Peninsular Club, Los Dos, Sehr Fein, Louise, Mocking Bird, Evening Star and K, T.
We are jobbers of all kinds of Tobaccos ann Smokers’ Articles.

ver for them.

BAKING POWDERS, Factory Agents for Western Michigan.

 

 

    

 

@ The Supreme Court of Hlinois holds that} expressed for $2.50 from Kenyon Brothers, 40 and 42 South Division St., State Agents for
j -ecei a premi after a breach of the Wakefield, Rhode Island. MOAWN WAI Ye @nppapm™
a receipt of a premium, after a breach of the te Se GRAND RAPIDS, a a MICH. OWN HAMMOCK SUPE ORT.

condition for its payment has oceurred, is OUR SUBSCRIBERS can do us a
doubtless a waiver of the forfeiture; but the kindness that will be duly appte ciated by
payment must be made to the eee pean mentioning THE TRADESMAN always in re-
an agent haying authority to receive it, and plying to the advertisements that appear in
it must be made fairly and honestly, without
any misrepresentation or concealment of ee

¥ material facts known to the party making Elgin creamery butter, the choicest the
the payment, of which the insurer can not market affords, at M. C. Russell’s.
reasonably be presumed to have knowledge.

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our columns.

 

Deaiers in
Awnings, Tents, Horse Wagon and Stack
Covers, Oiled Clothing, Htc.
%73 Canal Street.
GRAND RAPIDS, -
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LIEN OF CREDITORS.
In law, the first entry of judgment is al-
ways a first lien, provided due diligence has

TIME TABLES.
i been made in making alevy. This is also

Michigan Central—Grand Rapids Division.
A mortgage on

true as regards partners. eh DEPART :
the individual property of one partner was gpotrelt EXPpYeSS.....-2.2+-0 ee eee e ees 6:00 am
oS = 5 py GXDIeSs.. -.---. 2-52. - s-. oe os 12:25 ©
foreclosed, and both an individual creditor Xs. S. HEI: Decl CO. *New fe Fast Tine 2. “6100 a = a a

and a firm creditor claimed the surplus WHOLESALE ee ee n=

money. Both had judgments, the latter be- FISHING TP Oe Tea “Pacific xpress. ...----------e eo 6:4 am rN

: : : +tLocal Passenger......--..-+.+-++: 32
ing first entered. The former claimed a 21 PEARL STREET pre ee eee aaa
2 DARL 5 LET,

Manufacturers of
ine ae a eee 3:20 p m
efere as individual creditor. “aS s jrand Rapids Express..........--.-- 10:25 p
preference as an indiv i} creditor, but was} gp AND RAPIDS p pres 5pm
, defeated. He carried the case(London vs.

+Daily except Sunday. *Daily. :
The New York Fast Line runs daily, arriving j
Ball)to the Supreme Court of Iddiana, at Detroit at 11:59 a. m., and New York at9p.
; : m. the next evening. i ;
where the judgment was aflirmed. Judge Du PONT’S Gunpowder. ao ee prompt comnegu On made with |
: : A aa cata SE Gc Great Western rand Trunk and Canada Westfield, Mass.
Elliott, in the opinion, said: It is not Southern trains in same depot at Detroit, thus \ eee.

 

 

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AGENTS FOR

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doubted that the general rule is that partner- | 128; Blasting and Cannon Powder guarant eed. a ede tenes 1 > "er Lc Fo
: ee e ne The Detroit Express leaving at 6:00 a, m. has
ship creditors are postponed as to individual Drawing Room and Parlor Car for Detroit, \ _AND—
property, and individual creditors preferred. . : reaching that city at 11:45 a. m., New York 10:30 :
. a. m., and Boston 3:05 p. m. next day.
- But this general rule does not apply where : A ae ae Detroit at 4 p.m. me except SALESROOM
» : : Se coe ee unday with drawing room car attached, arriv-
’ a lien has has been obtained by judgment | ~~ er ramen ing at Grand Rapids at 10:25 p. m. :
rendered prior to the creation of the individ- J.T. SCHULTZ, Gen’! Agent. XO. 4 PEARL S
some : NO, 4 PRARL STREET,
: a af Snares $2 Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee.
GOING EAST.
SALE—FRAUD—CHANGE OF POSSESSION. WV es Arrives. Leaves.| # GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 3 e
~ aco af (radu We. Baker rece a Steamboat Express....... 610.1 m 6:20 am
: ‘The ease of Grady vs. Baker, recently de Through Mail.........-.-- 10:15am 10:20am as O I aC l Oo 1
. : cided by the Supreme Court of Dakota, was +Evening Express........- 3:20pm 3:55 pm } = .
. *Atlantic Express......-.-- 9:45 0:45
@ a case wherein the purchaser of goods could bode & & a coh oe eee 1, " ell Ol §
not pay for them, and he sold them to per- SOCK . sacecine foo ees pia ete p es The Castor Machine Oil contains a fair percentage of Castor Oil and is in all re-
sons who employed him asa salesman. The CX " Through Mail.........-.- 5:00pm 5:10pm = : : _ “ e 7
vendor attached the goods, claiming that the QO Q tSteamboat EXxpress......- 10:30 pm 10:3 pm spects’superior as a lubricator to No. 2 or No. 3 Castor Oil. The
ee 1b D.¢ 616 Gee 710 am
purchase and sale was fraudulent, and that eas, 5:10am 5:30 am OHIO OL l , « CD N A PA NM Y
the employment of the purchaser by his ven- Lao coun ee a i. see Express -
dee was conclusive evidence of fraud as to ae eS Cone A Dmosee for Lamaine Is’the only firm in the United States that has sueceeded in making a combination of Veg-
‘ oe ods cc is We : : e Se : ‘ and at Detroit for New York, arriving there at
9 the fraudulent sale by him. The trial court Manufacturers of All Kinds of 10:00 a. m. the following morning. etable and Mineral Oils, possessing the qualities of a Pure Castor Oil. It is rapidly com-
decided against the attachment, which opin- eo Carson Mall Frain, both Hast sud hoe
ion was affirmed by the higher court, which VAT IRE V7 ORK j Train panies a o p, m. will mak con- ingcinto popular favor. We Solicit a Trial Cader.
: a. . : a nection with Milwaukee steamers daily except
¥ held that that the employment of the vendor * | Sunday and the train leaving at 5:10 p.m. will

connect Tuesdays and Thursdays with Good-
rich steamers for Chicago.

Limited Express has Wagner Sleeping Car
through to Suspension Bridge and the mail has
a Parlor Car to Detroit. The Night Express

‘es but when proved it does not beeome conclu- . a ie 2 through Ree Car an local Sleeping
, . ate Ja troit to Gran apids.
sive of the question, but only an element | 0 li) Ol S ee D. Porren, Cie Pace, Scent.
of proof to be weighed by the jury. Aftera Tuomas TANDY, Gen’l Pass. Agent, Detroit.
Grand Rapids & Indiana.

sale of goods and chattels, and an actual "By INT Cr+ LL INT "By S
GOING NORTH.

change of possession, the em yjloyment of the 7 n 2 oj
g I ’ pioy From 2 to 150 Horse-Power, Boilers, Saw Mills,

vendor by the vendee, in the capacity of a} BOTTLED LAGER, pints, per doz to ot : _ Arrives. Leaves. | Grist Mills Wood Working Machinery, Shaft-
jerk or salesman, is not, in itself | =e ] 02., 50 cts Cincinnati & G. Rapids EX. 9:00 pm 21:00 p ming, Pulleys and Boxes. “Contracts made for
elerk or salesman, iS Not, Sell, CONCU- BOTTI ite rs Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex. 9:20am _ 10:25 am | Complete Outfits.

LED ALE, pints, per doz., 75 cents. Ft. Wayne & MackinacEx.. 3:55pm 6:00pm

sive evidence of fraud which admits of no L ; :
i : ok ; G’d Rapids & Cadillac Ac. 7:10am | QRZ CG DWenison
Py explanation. After a sale of goods and} BOTTLED PORTER, pints, per doz., 75e. GOING SOUTH. mT a i 3
88, 90 and 92 South Division Street,

chattels, and an actual and notorious change o OT eke
of possession, the employment of the vendor | MICHIGAN. e ee Boston and Bay State.
Cadillac & G’d Rapids Ac. 7:40 pm or inspection.

bythe ane, eee or ates venient Our Goods are Specially Adapted fur the Michigan Trade,

is not a fraud which vitiates the sale, for the | SLEEPING CAR ARRANGEMENTS.
14 and 16 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

by the vendee after a sale may be proved as
a fact tending to show that there has been
no actual or continued change of possession ;

92 MONROE STREET.

Hazeltine, Perkins & Co,, Grand Rapids.
RINDGE, BERTSCH & CO, J

MANUFACTURERS AND JOBBERS OF .

HOB,

We are agents for the Boston Rubber Shoe Co. and keep a full line of their Celebrat-
Our fall samples of Leather Goods are now ready

 

   

 

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G. Rapids & Cincinnati Ex. 6:30 pm :00 am

7
BOTTLED CIDER, quarts, per doz., $1.2. Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex. 4:10pm 4:35pm | ¢ a
. Er 02, $1.2.0 Mackinac & Ft. Wayre Ex..10:25 am 11:42 , m GRAND RAPIDS, -

 

 

 

 

 

 

: : 1 . : : ‘ North—Train leaving at 10:00 o’clock p. m. CHRIVER
change of possession is not continued. ATl Goods WARRANTED the BEST in the Market. hay Woodruff Sleeping Gars for Petoskey pee j

Mackinac City. Trainleaving at 16:25a.m. has
Grand Rapids, Mich., Wholesale and Retail C1, RK. JHW HLL
IRON PiIPse, A ’ & CO.

go : | combined Sleeping and Chair Car for Mackina
PNJURY TO CHILD—EMPLOYE’S CARELESS: | City. Pane inac
ony NESS. Telephone No. 272. South—Train leaving at 4:35 p.m. bas Wood-

: \ ruff Sleeping Car tor Cincinnati.
The case of Powers vs. Harlow, appealed |

¢. L. LocKWwoopb, Gen’! Pass. Agent.
to the Supreme Court of Michigan by the | W
plaintiff, involved some novel points. The | | Y l. A. Clark

 

Chicago & West Michigan.

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action was brought in the lower court to re-| HMail......2..---56- serene : 9:15am 4:00pm) B :Ass Goops, InoN AND Brass Frrrines
. : Se finer sat 10 | +Day EXpress.....--.-+-+++ 12:25pm 10:45pm ae : eae ae co
cover damages for injury to plaintiff’s child | | eNig Perce: nae, o ae
5 cone ee : ight Express............ 8:35 pm 6:10am MANTLES, GRATES, GAS FIXTURES GAT
from a dynamite explosion, the explosive | 80 South Division Street. wae ene ge 4 eee deta k a a 6 ol am 10:05pm Leh Aa E URES, LIOLESALE
é s | *Daily. +Daily except Sunday. -LUMBERS, STE: MTTERS
ty having been left in the street by the defen- | tan Sleeping ts on ail night trains. PLUMBERS, STEAM FITTERS,
—And Manufacturers of—

ee 4 A arn & as : | Through parlor car in charge of careful at-

¥ dant s employe, W here it was found by the | STEAM LAUNDR y tendants without extra charge to Chicago on

child, who exploded it by striking it with a) 12:25 p. m., and through coach on 9:15 a.m. and
) XY

‘ ‘ 8:35 p. m. trains.
43 and 45 Kent Street. NEWAYGO DIVISION.

Galvanized Iron Cornice.

stone, fhjuring his hand. The defense was |

 

Groceries and Provisions,

83. 85 and 87 PEARL STREET and 114, 116, 118 and 120 OTTAWA STREET,
MICHIGAN.

 

set up that the plaintiff should have prevent- | 4. K. ALLEN, Proprie Leaves. Arrives.
| A. kh. i prietor. ee ee 5:00am 5:15
ed the boy from trespassing on defendant's | Pom 1:10pm 8:80pm MOSELEY BROS.,
| EXXPY@SS ....02 se cece ence ees 8:30am 10:lam Wholesale

premises. Judge Cooley, in reversing the

decision of the lower court, said: “The Trains connect at Archer avenue for Chicago | (Joyer, Timothy and all Kinds Field Seeds

T } 3 \ r y
| We D0 ONLY FIRST CLASS WORK AND USh NO as follows: Mail, 10:20 a. m.; express, 8:40 p. m
The Northernterminus of this Division is at Seed Corn, Green and Dried Fruits, Oranges

» moving about of children upon the land CHEMICALS. Baldwin, where close connection is made with | and Lemons, Butter, Eggs, Beans, Onions, etc.

where they were at liberty to go, while} Orders by Mail and Express promptly at- F. & P. M. trains to and from Ludington and) GREEN VEGETABLES AND OYSTERS
Manistee. ‘|\GRAND RAPIDS - - =
they were not actually employed, was as| tended to. sree: 5, H. PALMER, Gen’l Pass. Agent. 1% Monroe Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. ’

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Groceries.

PENCIL PORTRATTS.

 

 

Wm. G. Hawkins, the Tall Man of the Gro-
eery Trade.

William George Hawkins was born in the
village of Hayzlettville, Kent county, Dela-
ware, March 12, 1853, and at the age of two
years removed with his parents to a farm in
the same county, on which he subsequently
worked summers, and attended common
school winters. In the fall of 1867 he en-
gaged with Arthurs & Graham, proprietors
of a general store at Kenton, as a boy of all
work, with whom he remained a year and a
half, subsequently occupying the more ex-
alted position of head salesman with their
successor, W. H. Moore. After remaining
there another year, he attended school a
year, when he engaged as clerk in the office
of the Mayor, Jonathan Pratt, of Dover, re-
maining there two years. He then wentto
Long Green, Baltimore county, Md., where
he clerked in the general store of J. G. Pain-
ter, and afterward for his successor, H. E.
Bartleson, remaining with the two gentle-
men about four years. In the spring of 1876,
he went to Cincinnati, where he accepted
the position of stock man for the wholesale
dry Zoods house of John Shillits & Co. Af
ter filling this position one year, he was
compelled to resign on account of ill health,
and put in a year at his old Delaware home,
recruiting. Upon regaining his health, he
entered the employ of G. W. W. Naudain,
general dealer at Middletown, Del., as head
salesman, remaining there until the spring
of 1879, when he came to Grand Rapids and
engaged to travel for the wholesale grocery
firm of Arthur Meigs & Co., and during the
past five years he has at different times visit-
ed almost the entire trade of the house. At
present, his territory includes all available
towns on the G. R. & I, from Grand Rapids
to Reed City, the F. & P. M., from Evart to
Ludington and Manistee, and both branches
of the D. L. & N., north of Ionia. He sees
his trade every three weeks.

Mr. Hawkins attributes his success as a
salesman to indefatigable industry, but there
are those who affirm that his ever-present
good nature has much to do with it. He is
invariably happy, and does not believe in
treating his trade otherwise, even when he
feels that way. As a consequence, he has
many friends on the road, both among the
trade and outside, and it is needless to say
that he is esteemed by his house, and is ev-
erywhere considered an A 1 salesman and
collector, having the reputation of selling
more plug tobacco than anyone else in the
business. Coming from a locality famous
for canned goods, and being thoroughly ac-
quainted with all the branches of the busi-
ness, he is able to handle that line under-
standingly and successfully. The fact that
eyery change he has made in employers dur-
ing the past eighteen years has been at his
own option speaks stronger than any wordy
commendation of his merits and his ability
to discharge any duties that may be entrust-
ed to him.

——————————»>> >
Features of the Week.

The past week has been characterized by
a still further improvement in business, and
collections are reported as growing easier
every day. The grocery market has been
about steady, but pork and pork products
have taken a decided leap, in consequence
of the gigantic Armour corner.

The Chicago Grocer says: The grocery
trade 1s beginning to improve, and collec-
tions are better. Values as arule are firm,
and with present prospects, the future
promises at least satisfactory returns.

Oranges are more plenty and prices are
lower. ‘The quality is very good. Lemons
are also in good supply and a little lower in
price. The new crop is coming in and
though hard is good stock and sound. Ba-
nanas are not plenty at present. Peanuts
are steady and firm at present quotations.

fe Se
Ready to Skip Town.
From the Chicago Grocer.

A little bound volume lay snugly tucked
away behind the dishes in the pantry of
Mrs. Poor Pay.

“Have you an account of me?” asked a ten
pound package of sugar.

“Somewhere, yes.”

“And of me?” asked the tea caddy.

“Guess so.”

“And of me?” asked the flour barrel.

“Certainly.”

“And of me?” asked the coffee can.

“Correct.”

“And of me? and me? and me?” chimed in
the soap box, the dried fruit caddy and the
butter dish.

**AJ] here! you bet! and we’ll have a jolly
old vacation.”

“Where we going?”

“Going to leave town.”

‘When we going to start?”

“Between two days.”

‘What for?”

“The jig is up.”

“How is that?”

“My credit it gone.”

“The grocer gets duped?”

“Oh? my yes! he is badly left.’

“Well! Well! you’r an uncertain little
cuss.”

“Oh, yes! a regular bank cashier skipper.
I’m the festive pass book.

>.<

The growing tobacco crop is the largest
ever planted in this country. Virginia,
North Carolina and Kentucky planted more
than ever before.

— o>
It is proposed to hold a national conven-
tion of lumbermen at New Orleans during

 

Brisbin Ready to Offer a Compromise.
The following letter has been addressed to
the creditors of F.C. Brisbin, the Berlin
general dealer, who recently gave a couple
of chattel mortgages, but assured the credit-
ors that all claims against him would be paid
in full:
CoOoPERSVILLE, August 13, 1884.

DEAR Sir—I will meet the creditors of
F. C. Brisbin at the office of E. G. Sttidley
& Co., in Grand Rapids, on August 20, 2
o’clock p. m., for the purpose of negotiating
a settlement of all claims against him.
Please be present or represented, at such
meeting, that the matter may be settled to
the best advantage of all parties. *

Yours, etc.,
ARTHUR LOWELL,
Attorney for F. C. Brisbin.

‘That means a settlement,” said a jobber
heavily interested in the matter, ‘in other
words, a clear steal of all they think they
can get away with. But they won’t get me
to attend the meeting, or any gathering
called for any such purpose. T’ll have 100
cents or nothing, and the sooner Brisbin
comes to understand the matter in that light,
the better it will be for all concerned.”

So far as can be learned, very few of the
Grand Rapids creditors will pay any atten-
tion to the meeting, for the reason that they
look upon the failure as a fraudulent one,
and do not propose to assist Brisbin in his
endeavor to defraud the creditors.

It is thought that but one creditor in the
city has any faith in Brisbin’s promises to
pay in full, and that gentleman recently
stated to a reporter of Tae TRADESMAN:
“T have no faith in Brisbin as a man, but I
have faith in his promise to pay me in
full.”

“No, sir, I shall attend no meeting,” em-
phatically exclaimed Mr. S. A. Welling. I
understand Brisbin recently boasted that he
now had his creditors just where he wanted
them and that they could take 10 cents or
nothing. Forme, I willtake nothing. I
consider the failure a downright steal, and
Brisbin a first-class scoundrel.”

“Brisbin considers himself a very sharp
buyer, and to hear him talk about the quan-
tities he purchases one would think he was
doing a jobbing business,” said a house
salesman, the other day. ‘He came in here
a few months ago, and after looking over
our stock of overalls, asked for the bottom
price in ten dozen lots. I gave it to him,
and he ordered one dozen. Again he gota
price on shoe laces in large quantities, and
then placed an order for a single gross. He

seems to think he is too sharp for anything.”
—————___—_ >_>

Settlement of the Selkirk & Morrill Matter.

The showing made by the assignee in the
Selkirk & Morrill assignment was so dis-
couraging that the principal creditors were
of the opinion that it would be useless to ex-
pect any considerable precentage on their
claims in case the stock was closed out at
forced sale, but that if a compromise could
be effected, fully 50 per cent. could be real-
ized. Messrs: John Caulfield and Hawkins
& Perry, whose claims aggregate nearly
$1,200,accordingly proposed to the other cred-
itors that they give or take 50 per cent. in full
settlement, and have thus secured the claims
of all the other creditors, and obtained pos-
session of the stock, etc., from the assignee.
They have paid Selkirk his exemption, and
placed Messrs. Ramsey and Morrill in charge
of the stock, with instructions to carry on
the business as expeditiously as possible un-
til the jobbers in question secure ample re-
muneration for the money they have advanc-
ed. It is thought that the business will final-
ly pass into the hands of the gentlemen now
managing it.

Referring to Selkirk’s return to Kalkaska,
and his subsequent actions, the Leader, of
that place, says: Our county clerk gravitat-
ed back last Sunday, and since then the air
has been filled with rumors of libel suits,
etc., and instead of feeling penitent over the
course he has pursued in this matter, as-
sumes an air of injured [innocence, that is
unbecoming, to say the least. Coupled with
an invitation to retract what we said last
week in regard to the affair in which he so
prominently figured, came an intimation
that in performing a manifest, though pain-
ful duty, we were prompted by malicious
motives. The charge wis utterly false, and
we assured the gentleman of that fact in
plain terms, and here repeat it. As for
fears of a libel suit or of personal injury,
we are in no wise alarmed. And until we
find that we have misrepresented the matter
we shall take nothing back.

~<a —
The Berry Trade.
From the New York Tribune.

The berry trade in this city amounts to
nearly $3,000,000 each season, and is car-
ried on by about 200 houses on small com-
mission. The season begins in the early
part of May and continues until the middle
of August. Strawberries come first from
Maryland, and then follow from Delaware,
New Jersey, and along the Hudson river,
while the last of them come from Oswego,
about June1. Raspberries begin to arrive
in June, and they last until August 1. Black-
berries and whortleberries begin to come
July 1, and last until August 15. The rasp-
berries are sent first from Maryland and
Deleware, and others follow from New
York, while the whortleberries are received
chiefly from Pennsylvania, though there are
some raised among the Catskills. The trade
from points upon the North river is a heavy
one, and the berries are mostly brought to
the city by two lines of boats—the King-
stone line and the Poughkeepsie company.
The berries are in cups packed in crates.
When a retailer purchases a crate of berries
he is required to deposit $1 for the crate,
which he receives back upon its return, the

 

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AXLE GREASE.
Frazer’s....... Soca ene Sess s 85
DIRMONG 4 oka sc hee se ce sees 60
MOdOC :.. BiGOs. 0.2... 3.3... 60
Paragon... Y G07. :........-.--.:55.------> 70
Paragon, 20) pails.................-3----- 90
BAKING POWDER.
Arctic % Ibcans.............- EARS $@doz. 45
ATretic 4 ID CANS.......-..-2..2.-2.00+-+---- 45
TATCHIC 4% 1) CANS... oo... 5. ete wee os lee, 40
PAPCHIC 410 CANB. 2562 a cos anc Sec ee ewer 2 40
fAretic > i) CANS: <. 3... 6... 1.22 nn ce eee nese ie 12 00
BLUING.
Woy NO) So. 5. 6 ese se doz. 25
Mr, NO. Bs. 6.5 5s os. oe Sees cs wee ows doz. 45
TAGUIO. 4 O27, 5.53.0... -5 02 -s ss - ss doz. 35
TAGUIGS 802, .. 25.8. ss be ws ee olel- doz. 65
PAPOTIO A OF. oe sc seve nt so sincies si # gross 4 00
ATCO S O20 5 ces oo as ne ss ce cee ceeness 8 00
ATCbICIB OZ... .:.62....--.5. 12 00
Arctic No. 1 pepper box.. -. 200
Arctie No. 2 * ee -- 800
Arctic No. 3 ss BO Se ek is. Se Osis 4 50
BROOMS.
Nios 1 Carpet. 5.6 ese ce ccs 2 50
NO: 2 Campet... 556. 65.5. . 6s ees eee s- 2 25
No.1 Parlor Gem..........----+5---0+5+ 2 75
OA a ee se See ecco 2 00
NiO. 2 Pee) eos 1 75
Pancy WaIsSK,..5.......2-- 52.2 - pee ~~ 1 25
Common WhISK....................-.--- 85

CANNED FISH.
Cove Oysters, 1 ib standards
Cove Oysters, 2 Ib standards..

  
  

 
  
  
 

  

 

  
 

Cove Oysters, 1 ib slack filled............. iE
Cove Oysters, 2 tb slack filled.............. 1 25
Clams, 1 h standards................----.- 1 65
Clams, 2 i standards................--206- 2 65
Lobsters, 1 tb standards...................
Lobsters, 2 th standards...................
Mopsters, Picnics....-.-.. ..--...........--
Mackerel, 1 i fresh standards............ 1 20
Mackerel, 5 ib fresh standards............ 6 50
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 Ib........... 3 50
Mackerel,3 bin Mustard.................. 3 50
Mackerel, 3 tb broiled..............-...-24- 3 50
Salmon, 1 fb Columbia river............... 1 60
Salmon, 2 t Columbia river............... 2 60
Salmon, 1b Sacramento.................- 150
Salmon, Wm. Hume’s Eagle.............. 1 85
Sardines, domestic 48............-..-2000- 7
Sardines, domestic 148.............-.-0+6- 124%
Sardines, Mustard 4S.................-66- 12
Sardines, imported 148............-....+-- 15
Sardines, imported 48..................¢ su. 20
Sardines, imported %s, boneless.......... 32
Sardines, Russian kegs.................-- 50
Trout, 510 DTOOK..............<--.-....-.- 3 00
CANNED FRUITS.
Apples, 3 lb standards ...............-..--- 90
Apples, gallons, standards, Erie..........2 50
Blackberries, standards............-.....- 1 25
Wberries; red... 5... .-..--2. 22... --; 110
(herrics: white -....... 6.55.3 c sass 1%
AOAMNSOIS 600 i. es ets se “1 20
Egg Plums, standards ..................- 1 35
Mem dims, Hie. 3 = .25...........--..- 145
Green Gages, standards 2 ........-.....- .1 40
Green Gages, Erie................202eece0 1 50
Peaches, 3 f) standards.................... 1 75
Peaches, 3 tb Extra Yellow................ 2 00
Reaches, SCCOUGS....................--2--- 1 65
IPi6 PesCnes a... 5.2.5... . 8. ease 115
Pears, Bartlett 2............:....-..---.- 1 30
Pineapples, 2 i stand..................-.. 1 40
Muinces ss... see se 1 45
Raspberries, 2 t stand..................4- 125
Raspberries, 2b Erie.................-+--- 1 40
Strawberries, 2 ih standards............... 110
CANNED FRUITS—CALIFORNIA.
Apricots, Lusk’s............ 0.20. ceceseeeee 2 75
MOG Plas .9..- 2.4... .5.s------------- 2 85
Green GASCS...........-:--.. 2222... - sees 2 85
PORTS eo ee eee ae 3 00
OWIMCCS 0-2. a ese see.s-d 00
PEACHCS 26 oe ee 3 00
CANNED VEGETABLES.
Asparagus, Oyster Bay.................--- 3 25
Means: uae. ce ee see 85
ews: SEVIS |... 285. ett ee 90
Beans, Boston Baked.................2.-.: 1 65
Gans: SwUMRIOSH. -o- ssh... cst see 1 00
ora IO 2 6 oe ces. ee 115
(orn ROVCEO™. .2. 2-5-6666. ec ac ese 1 20
Corn. Heyptinn. ...-.......:.-..2...:..--- 110
Corn) Varmouth: ...-).: 2.2... ses 120
Corn Teapny.: -.--) 2.63: 2 cscs. se oe 115
Corn, 2%) Onandaeo...................-... 1 50
Mushrooms, French.........5....-----+06- 22@2A4
Peas, standard Marrofat............,..... 140° >
Peas, 2 ib Early, small (new).............. 1 60
Peas, 2 ib Beaver............... <5
Poas: EPORCH 200... 5-608... wee 23G@26
Pumpkin, 3 i Golden....................-. 110
Succotash, 2 ib standards.................. 85
Succotash, 2 1b B.&M....................-. 1 %5
Squash, 3 ib standards..................... 1 20
Tomatoes, 3f Dilworth’s.................. 1 05
Tomatoes, 3 ib Job Bacon.................. 1 05
CAPS.
GD. 35 |Ely’s Waterproof 75
Musket........... 75
CHOCOLATE.
Boston premium... ..:.--................ @36
Baker's premium. ..........-..--5-. 5... @40
WRUIKIOR ee noe els sce cee ee @35
German AWeCt.... 2... 2.05. ee se or oe @25
Wienne SWECl.. 6056.65. 6.. oe ee ees. @25
COFFEE.
Green BiO 2262 ee 12 @14
TPO JAVA. 005 5.26 c eee el sce 17 @27
Green MOGhA.. 22... 266 6. os esc. 2 @2i
ROARTEG RAO... 6-200... ee ee 12 @I7
MONSLOG JAVA... 6226. 5. ccc ese cee 24 @34
MPOUStCG MAM. oe ccc cece cee, 17 @lgy
Rmogsted MOCHA... . 22... 25 ee eee} @34
Moasted MOK... 65.0... esos eee e nc. 174@19
Ground Bio. .465...6562 5565-526, ee 94@1T
Ground Mex. .5. 25. .5..5:.; .6....-...- @16
ADDNICHKIC 8 oe eos ok eck ee @15%
ORO oe eee ee @15%
PUMPS 65 6. ee he @15%
TEOVETING@S .0 665.0: @15%4
MA GMONG: 6.65) -2 25s sees @i1b\%
CORDAGE.
"2 foot Jute ..... 1 25 (60 foot Cotton....1 75
60 foot Jute..... 1 05 (50 foot Cotton....1 50
FLAVORING EXTRACTS.
Lemon.
FONMINOR 2 OF... cs 5-02 nce ce os ose a 8 doz. 1 00
ae AGT ee. os es oe 1 50
+s BOF. oi occ os Usage oe coos see 2 50
ra BOT oe es ca eos wees Se 3 50
oe NO: 2 Taper. 056. ee 1 25
of NODA ett. 1 75
fe Ww pint YOUNG... 2... .668i. ses 4 50
es 1 OO ee ee oe Cosas sees 9 00
bad INO Se eos oa e Kos cae seats
. INO, Ooo oe ieee cee 4 2%
Vanilla.
FeOuRINGS 2 OF... 3... 3st. se a 8 doz. 1 40
tf AOD eek ours cy os ae tees dae 2 50
A BOG ore ee 4 00
a BOF oe oss ed eee ess 5 00
$f NO? TAROT. oo. esis eee sees 1 50
+ NO, A TADCY 66 eee. 3 00
ad 4 pint POuNG: 26.0205 0.623633. 7 50
is 1 pint round... cone . 15 00
a NO, 6.555.632 30055 Meee ss be us 4 25
ts NO. 100345 osteo Saesie case 6 00
FAUCETS.

Faucets, self measuring.............. @2 50
Faucets, COMMON...............-. 004. .@ 3d
FISH.

WVNOIG COG 2.6 sos see ee es 4% @6%
MOnCiess O00. 6c. ee ee he cs ccc ees 5@7@8B
Herring % bbls. 100 b................ 2 75@3 00
Herring Scaled.....................00 @24
Herring Holland...................... @1 10
White, No.1, % bbls .................. 6 50
White, Family, % bbls................ 2 50
White, No. 1, 10  kits................ 95
White, No.1, 12 ib kits.............. Ae 1 05
Trout, No. 1, % bbls.................. 5 25
Trout, No. 1, 12. kits............3... 90
Mackerel, No. 1, % bbis............... 6 50
Mackerel, No.1, 12 i kits............ 1 60

FRUITS.

London Layers, new..................- 2 85
Loose Muscateis Raisins, new........ @2 7
New Valencias Raisins................ 74@1%
PIGRCHIA 6 oe ei de sce obscene @3 25
OUGAVRSS ee Ss os ca eve os <8 @10
Wry. PRUNES . . 2.65 os oe eee ce dco se @6
CUNT oo ea ee 5 @6
Oe nes eis die cee ces @22
DPICG ADPIOS coos ode sees ok eee cs 8 @8%

MATCHES.
Richardson’s No.2 square.................. 2 "0
Richardson’sNo.38 dO. ...............06 2 55
Richardson’sNo.5 dO. ..........-...008 1"
Richardson’s No.6 dO. ............ccee ee 2 0
Richardson’sNo.8 do. ................:- 1 70
Richardson’s No.9 dO. ............0.00:- 2 55
Richardson’s No. 4 round................. ..2 70
Richardson’s No.7 do ...... Diapers. ---2 55
Kichardson’s No. 744 dO... . 2... eee eee eee -1 70
Electric Parlor NO.17..............-..-2.000 3 20
Electric Parlor No. 18................0ceeeeee 4 64
Grand Haven, No. 9....
Grand Haven, No. 8..

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TEs 05) 0d beg eae Peer eae Re @3 75
SOOM PRON 2k ec foc @3 25
Pmperial bbis:..........2.. 3... cee eee @5 50
@unker DDIS.. 60. oe ee @6 75
DUOC CUb. ces. s cee cls ence oe @5 75
OIL.
ICTOSEDS OW. Wie orcs ces i cesses 138%
do. TGCRAL COS so. cc ees c 1934
Sweet, 2 OZ. SQUALC. ... oc. esis ccc ee ce os 45
Sweet, 2 O07. TOUNG:.. 2... 652. ec. eee 1 00
Castor, 2 02. SQUATC. 2.2. cece ccc eee ee 75
©astor, 2 OZ. TOUNG. 208s ects s 1 00
PICKLES.
Choicein barrels med......... ae cua eee 7 00
Choice in % GO 6 eae: oe 4
Dingee’s % do SMall . 2s sas. eee 4 25
Dingee’s quarts glass fancy................. 4 25
Dingee’s pints Oe oo ee 2 25
American g¢. in Glass.) 2. os. 0.5. ccs es 2 00
American pt.in Glass... 3.0.0... i. esc cone ee 1 2
CO & B. Hnelish quarts... ......:....<..: .-6 00
©”& B. Bnglish pints. ... 0... 0.50.6. 55.... 3 60
Chow Chow, mixed and Gerkins, quarts...6 00

: pints....¢
Dingee & Co.’s C. C. M. & G. Eng. style,qts.4 50
. : 2 pts..2 75

PIPES.
Imported Clay 3 gross...............+. 2 25@3 00
Imported Clay, No. 216................ @2 25
American TU. Deo... 2... oe oc ee. ct. ee 90@1 00
RICE.
Choice Caroling... 0... ..2065 co eee 6%
PTIMe Carouma so. cee eee es oe 7%
UV ee rc oo ee ce aes os ee 672
POONA ee eo eee ee ccc ee eae 6
HUANOOOM soc es cee eo cere s oe 5%
SALERATUS. |
DeWang’s Pure... 2. es eae @ 5%
COURCIIS ee el. oo, @ 5%
Mayvioris G: Mico ose. foe oes 54
Cap Sheath ee ae. @ 5%
MD WAGIGS Ce ees oo ce @ 5%
OA, HOMM ee ee @ 5%
Si; BeOS US Best. 22.05 eo @ 5%
SALT.
GO ROCKCH ees 2 50
POPEOCKCE. ek eek eee s 2 35
1003 1D pockets... 0.....2... 2.2 2. 2 65
Saginaw WING ¢... 6.6.6. c. ks. ec ee 1 00
Digmond Coe. sk, sie. ee 1 75
Standard: Coarse...2............:.-.. : 1 55
Ashton, English, dairy, bu. bags...... 80
Ashton, English, dairy, 4 bu. bags.... 3 20
American, dairy, % bu. bags.......... 25
mock, bushels. 2. .:..60.5.5.. 53-02... 30
SAUCES.
Lee & Perrins Worcestershire, pints. @5 00

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

 

  
 
  
 
   

   

  
 

  

  

  
 
   
 
 
   
  
    

Picadilly, 4% pints..:..2...0.....5...... @1 50

Halford Sauce, large.................. @3 5

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

Pepper Sauce, green...............2.. @ 9

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

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

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

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

Horseradish, % pints.................. @I1 00-

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

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

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

Olives, Queen, 16 0z bottle............ @3 85

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

Olive Oil, quarts, Antonia & Co.’s.... @i7 00

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

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

SEEDS.

OME 668 oes eee. e ee ve 5

@anary <2. eects. cee. 5

IRS ee ee es %

MAXCQUBINGQ. (0 0 oe, 54@6

SOAP. :
Lautz Bros. & Co.

mcme, {0 11D bars. .......2... 25.0. .... @ 64

ACME; 20 GD DAES... 5-060. occ cc cs @ 64

Mowel, 2) DANS 220.2. 6558s. ke cc. @d 2%

INe@pkin, 25 DRS... 6.2... 2. sk @5 2%

Best American, 601 ib blocks..........

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

Shamrock, 100 cakes, wrapped........ @3 7%

Master, 100-3% tb cakes ....... oo ee @5 00

Stearine, 100 % Ib cakes............... @4 85

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

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

Lautz’s 60-1 Ib blocks, wrapped........ @ 7

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

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

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

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

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

London Family, 4-t bars 80 tb......... @4 00

Gem, 100 cakes, wrapped.............. @3 8d

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

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

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

Marseilles Castile, Toilet,3 doz in box @l1 2%

Kirk’s American Family........ ® b . 64

GO: AMGIG ee 5%
GO) (Savon... 534
do.  Satinet. .°. 036.0002. sek. 53%
GO: Revenue... :...2..6. 2.6. 5%
do. White Russian................ 5 10

Goodrich’s English Family .......... 54
do. Princess ........ a 44

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

do. Japan Olive ...... 5
do. Town Talk # box 3 60
do Golden Bar........ 410
do. AYADs ooo oes ee 3 40
do AMDOL. oor. 6... 3 75
do. Mottled German.. 4 20

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

Procter & Gamble’s Good Luck....... @3 20

Procter & Gamble’s Wash Well....... @3 05

BAAROR ee: 60 Ibs @ 6%

Galvanic o.oo. ee ee. @4 20

Gowan & Stover’s New Process 3 b br @183%

AMD PLODi cc. css 8 ol ck oases 3 Ib bar @ 16

Wara's White Lily..................... @6 75

HMandkerchiet i. oo. 3 o.oo ee ee @A 20

IGA R oe ee eee eee 3 00

BaDDItUS ooo. ses ee kk. 5 50

ISN RAS 6666.56 cele ceo. ee ee 415

MUN ec ec oe 5 00

IMR ONEUG Se ee sek 4 20

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

BOOM fos eee acs elas 5 00

Anti-WasnDOaTd oo... 6 6c les. ek oes 5 00 -

WiRTODIMOG oe eee ae, 3 25

WACO ee, coe ce. aoe 4 20

PRIUCS PURER. is. ss le es: 4 00

IBOGICIS Foo oes le ee eee se es 6 75

White castile bars.......:............. 12

MOostied Castile... 2.20.0. coke. 10

Old Countey. 65.5.0. 5%

SPICES.

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

Ground Alispice.................020.23 12@20

GinMOMOn. 666s. 16@30

WIOVOCR es as ee aes 20@25

GUNGOP csc acces oo ee -- 17@20

MUGTANG <0) oc. 26. oe ee é

WAVEDNO. ooo. .00 cs tk. os 2:

Pepper \% tb # dozen...... 75

Allspice 4 tb.......... 75

Cinnamon 4% b......... 1 00

WlOVOR34 ID) oo. hoon ie ck e sees 55

Pepper, Whole:..;.....0.......00..5- @18

PANISDICG 665 ees aides ce @10

WOGRIA oe ee, @12

CAOVOS. o.oo Coho cack oan oes as cs 20 @22

Mutmers, No.l... o.oo. eect. 70 @j75

STARCH.

Niagara Laundry, 40 i box, bulk..... @5
oe Laundry, bbls, 186 fbs........ @434
Gloss, 401 tb packages........ @6%
as Gloss, 863 8 packages....... @6
a Gloss, 6 ib box, 72  crate.... @i
66 Corn, 401i packages........ @i%

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

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

Muzzy Gloss 6 i boxes............. ae @i4

Muzzy Gloss bulk..............cc.0 cece @54

Muzzy Gorm TiD..... 0.2... 3.3.5... ee. @it

Special prices on 1,000 orders.

Kingsford Silver Gloss................ @8

Kingsford Silver Gloss 6 Ib box....... @8%,

Mingstord COP. 2.00.0. . ose ec ce an es @8

Oswezo GIOSS. 2... oo. cece cle cee ee @b%

Mirror GilOsS: . 2.52. soos see ee oe @6%

Mirror Gloss, corn....... bool ie @6%

PICU SPORT ee a ea Pe oe es cc @A4

American Starch Co.’s

1% Gloss.... @bY%

10 oz Gloss.. @3%

Bw GOSS. .s coco c eo oo ole cee de ccc ees @6

6 Tb Gloss, WOOd DOXES............020-- @t

TADIG CORN: 55 oo. coe caw es icee cnc 40 Ib @bY

Tapia COVn:. 63s. oe cs seb c eens eee 20 Ib @7

BANNOC DMI co. ccs cee does ea @A4

STONEWARE.

Jugs ® gallon............ pose daeeshecet @8

OPOGHS ois so oe cd cok cook a oe cc un ces 7

WILE CLOCKS, 0.3 fis sec cce seb csc et eecce. 7

STOVE POLISH.

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

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

TR ii ccd ea oes 5 50

SUGARS.

Cut Loaf..... Ueki sciue eos aah ess cane

OUNCE ooo ik cos es y cae vet versa ces:

Powdered............... Poel Veins

Granulated ....... Gales eae ees

Conf. A....... Le tes oro bas dee ee ea

Standard A........ di esseheae ihe eke

Extra C white............ a

Extra C.',.......:.

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Comm Barrels. oo). ee. eo 8. 33
Corn, % bbls.......... 36
Corn, t0 gallon kegs.. @ 35
Corn, 5 gallon kegs... @1 80
Corn, 4% gallon kegs................... @l1 65
Pure Sugar........... bl 26@, :
Pure Sugar Drips................ % bbl 380@ 36
Pure Sugar Drips........... 5 gal kegs @1 85
Pure Loaf Sugar Drips... ...... % bbl @ %
Pure Loaf Sugar. ........ -.5gal kegs @1 90
TEAS.
Japan ordinary. 24@30;) Young Hyson.. ..25@50
Japanfair........ 32@35iGun Powder..... 35@50
Japan fair to g’d.35@37|Oolong ....... 338@55@60
Japanfine........ 40@50|Congo ............ @30
Japan dust....... 15@20
TOBACCO—FINE CUT.
ROSE Bude. oo. ek ees @50
Or a a ees sae es @45
Our Bind eee @30
IROACHOS a eee @38
Morrison’s Hruit.. 2... oc. ce cece 5
NACTOR 0 ee ee: @60
Diamond Crown.............0...26.22. @5i
ed Birds 207. @52
Opera Queen. ..... 2... 2. sk ce. @40
Sweet Rose)... ese. @45
Green Back 2) @38
TEMG ee @3:
OlSo Sweet. o.oo, @31
Pramie HlOwer 2.0 66 o ec @65
Climber [light and dark].............. .@62
MIRCCRICSS 600k. ee cs coe ce @b65
IS TCA UG ea @69
GION oe ee ee. @70
May Blower... ............ Ae ee @70
IGE @45
PAUIAS eS oe @35
Royal Gemeente kok Q:
Silver Phread. 2. 2... c. .. @67
SC @60
INOMGUCKY 2 oe eo @30
Mile Hate ee, @67
Peek-a-Boo...........-. @82
Peek-a-Boo, % barrels @30
Clipper, Fox’s.......... @32
Clipper, Fox’s, in half barrels @30
Bountaim.......5.2.-.... eck @i4
Old Congress. @64
Good Luck.... @b2
Good and Sweet @A5
INO AWRY occas ce ck: @35
lane Pinter @30
Old Glory, HEH)... i. es. @60
Charm of the West, dark.............. @60
Governor, in 2 oz tin foil.............. @60
PLUG.
IBUW. Pos Havorite...0.0:.5............ @50
Old Kentucky: -.. 6 22.02.05 oe. @50
Ye FOUR, ONU2 soos kk @50
BIg HOUR: OXIA ee ee cs ae wee @50
Darby and Joan, all sizes.............. @50
ihurkOy, 16'07:, 2x12)... k sl. @50
Blackbird, 16.0Z., 3x12..0.............. @34
Seal of Grand Rapids.................. @A8
GOW occ cs, @50
MUP ee ce @48
Silver Com e2 2. @5
Buster fiDarkl 2.0.2.6: 6: ceo... @36
Black Prince [Dark]... ...........0..... @36
Black Racer [Dark]................... @36
Leggett & Myers’ Star................. @50
OHI ee @50
IMOIG TH RSt esac eee. @A8
McAlpin’s Gold Shield................. @A8
Nickle Nuggets 6 and 12 ib eads....... @51
Cock of the Walk 6s................... @37
Black Spun Roll... 0). ...2.......2... @38
INTINBOGE os oc. @48
ARCOM Geese G48
eG SCA ee a @46
WreSGeNt 0. ee. et cl se. @44
BIACK OM ge @35
lgek BASS. eae @A0
Mnue Grits co... @35
Nobby Spun Roll...........8......... @50
SEIN} se ee kee @50
Crayling, all styles.................... @50
NCU AW 6 os ac @AT
HOrRe: SHOG.. 2.0.2. 6..5 5.606... @50
Good Luck... @50
Bie Chumk ord. ©. 2... .......-.20..2.. @A0
isin fatter... s.6.00.. es oll. @37
iy and WD. DIS@K. 6.0. ...0.4. 0.2 b eee O37
McAlpin’s Green Shield............... @48
Ace High black. ..20.....2.5.0.5..5... @35
Champion Avo... ee. @48
Sailors? SOlace. 2... 0.065006. @48
RegStar ee a @50
DHOG GIN @48
IDG ee @i8
UIMNDO Le @40
Apple Jack........... Woe eGo dees @50
Jae Rape. 25.05.1000 eee. @42
SMOKING.
MoOnpIne DOW. oe. 5. 6c s ol. @26
GWG ee, @22
Seal of Grand Radids.................. @25
WO ee ek. Boe sac @30
EG ee @28
PW ee a @30
Ten Penny Durham, % and 44......... @24
Amber, % and bib... i. ..... 0 coke. @15
Red Rox Smoking... .. 62... .2.... 5... @26
ime Kiln @lab | ......6.5.2.......-... @AT
Blackwell’s Durham Long Cut........ @90
Wamity, War @90
OPO oo ee oe ee a ces 18@25
IPG@RICSR sc ce ee @25
SCANGSEC Coe cela. : @22
Old Pom eee, G21
Momus, JOVey 205... ee @2
WOMOR se ee, @2%
(MATA) ge @35
IMSIGOR eo Foe a ke. @26
MODSY Goose ee @2%
Navy Clippings ............... @24
Honey Dew .°..:...........: @25
Gold Bloek.....-.......... @32
@Camip Hine, 2.) oc... ko: @22
Oronoko......... @19
Nigger Head.. @26
Durham, % b.. @60
do 44 b.. @57
GO, 360 @55
do BD @51
IOUANG 20 @22
Gece ooo @16
Long Tom............ See @30
IN@CTONAE 2 8): @26
PRIN ieee es es @26
HOVers Dregm oo. @28
@ONGQUCKOR ooo. eee. @23
ORS es ae @22
Grayling se @32
SCAN SBI roe ee @30
Mime DULNAM so. @2i
ROD ROY. 266. ss @26
WNGle: Same eo @28
TOU OVMIAM oe ee @26
Matroad BOY. oo 660. ec elo. @37
MOuntain ROBO... 6... ce cee @20
Good Bnough.. 3... @23
Home Comfort, 48 and S............ @25
Old Rip, lone Cut... 2.2... es... @db5
Durham, long cut, No. 2.............. @d5
Miwo NiGKle: 4b. ei eS, @25
Mwo INICKIO: 368. 056 eo kok. @2
Star Durbam 2.22. ..20.., <0... 5.6. 22. a. @25
Golden Flake Cabinet.................. @40
Seal of North Carolina, 2 0z........... @52
Seal of North Carolina, 4 0z........... @50
Seal of North Carolina, 8 0z........... @A8
Seal of North Carolina, 16 oz boxes... @50
Big Deal, 48 longeut.................. @27
Apple Jack, 48 granulated........... @24
King Bee, longeut, 4s and \%s........ @22
Milwaukee Prize, 448 and 4%S.......... @24
Good Enough, de and 10e Durham.... @24
Durham, S., B. & L, 48 and 4s........ @24
Rattler longeut:. 62.20. os. 2 oslo. @28
Windsor cub plug...:.....0...00...... @25
SHORTS.
MMNDIO MAT ooo oe ese ceo sce. kee ee 24
Hiawatha ...... Devoe: 93
Old Congress......... 2
PINGING. 00 5. ee 23
SNUFF.
Lorillard’s Macoboy................... @55
se American Gentleman...... @i2
Rappee, A. Beck & Co.’s............... @35
Gail & Ax’s Macoboy.................. @A4
Scotch, Railroad Mills................. @44
VINEGAR.
Bure ClO’. 2... ee ke sls 10@12
White Win@... 2.) sce. 10@12
WASHING POWDERS.
PING HATO eo ei ce es ca @10%
let 6 ooo ese seo @ %
Sonpine@ pKa... 20. ee 5@10
POBVUNG PW DOK... sess cs ve cde eee caus @4
Lavine, single boxes, 48 1 Ib papers... @4 5
Lavine, 5 or more boxes,481bpap’rs @é4 25
Lavine, single boxes, 100 6 oz papers. @4 50
Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 1006 0z pap @é4 25
Lavine, single boxes, 80 % Ib papers.. @4 15
Lavine, 5 ormore boxes, 80% ib paprs @4
YEAST.
Twin Bros.......1 75 |Wilsons .......... 1 %5
Gillett’s......... 175 |National......... 17%
MISCELLANEOUS,
Blaeking ..06..5.05 202 oocc eke 30, 40, 50@60
do > waterproof . 2.00.0... .26. 558 1 50
Bath Brick imported .................. 95
do Amerioan. 26.65 .ccc ees Gs
PROTO ey oc ee wea eee cce nt ees 14
Coe eo vcas 110
NOUN owe ges eos tran bee 1 50
Bags, American A...........c...eceeee 20 00
Condensed Milk, Eagle brand......... 8 00
Condensed Milk, Swiss................ 7 50

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Cocoanut, Schepps’1&%Ib do. =  @27%
Extract Coffee, ey CG. - Reece 90005"
oO Hele 2 a 1 30@
Flour Sifters @ doz .................0. 3
Fruit Augurs each..................0.. 1 2@
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps............... @3¢
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps. ............ @40
Gum Sprude.. 80@35
Ink @3 dozen box.................... 1 00@
divin ee ee
do Glass Tumblers # doz............ @i5
bye ®2 doz. cases.-................... @1 55
Macaroni, Imported................... @13
Homestio @ 0 2 @20
French Mustard, 8 oz # dozen........ @0

_ do Large Gothic........ @1 35
Oil Tanks, Star 60 gallon.............. @10 00
Peas, Green Bush. :........-........ @1 75

do Split prepared....:.............. @ 3%
“Powder, Hog. 0350.2... so. 4 00@

do We WG 2 @
Sarg 20 5@6
SHOC GQEOp: 2.0... 2. 2 1 60@

@0, Dug. 1
Sag@ @I5
Tobacco Cutters each ................. 1 @
ENING oe 18@20:
REINOG ee 5@6
Wicking No. 1 ® gross................. @AO

de Noe 6 @65.
dq. Aveand 1 50@
CANDY, FRUITS AND NUTS.
Putnam & Brooks quote as follows:
STICK.
Straight, 25 ib boxes................... @
Twist, dQ 2 Clee
Curtaste do 2 @2-
MIXED.
Moyal, 2001p pas... < 2.2... D104
Noes
Wetes, 25 16 Pas... oe. l%
Pie Seg a
French Cream, 25 fb pails................... 14
Cutloat.2nib cases... a
Broken, 25 i pails... 11%
Broken, 200i) DIS... .. 0220.2... 1042
FANCY—IN 5 Ib BOXES.
IBOmOn PROS o.oo. o.6 oe 14
SoumPrOpse 15
Peppermint Drops...:................... 16
Chocolate Dropss. 2. 17
HM Chocolate Drops....................... 20
Gum Drops 0 1
Wiconice Drops... 2. 20
A B Licorice Drops.. ee a 1£
Hozenges, plain 2. J6
Hovenges printed... 17
NHGRI 16
IMOttOGs ee 16.
Cream Bam 15
Molasses Bar 4
Caramel 20
Hand Made @xeame,.. 6 oe
Blam Creams: 20
Decorated Creams....... .................. 2
Sewer la
Burnt Almonds... ... 0.2... 00.2... oo 24
Wintergreen Berries........... .... ae
Fancy—in Bulk.
Lozenges, plain in pails.................... 14
Lozenges, plain in bbis...................... oO
Lozenges, printed in pails...................18
Lozenges, printed in bbls................... 14
Chocolate Drops, in pails.................... 14
Gum Drops, i pails. ..... 5.6... 8
Gum Drops, in bbis............0.... 00... a
Moss Drops,.in pails.........................u
Moss Drops, in bbIs................. ge
Sour Drops, in pails.........................12"—
Pmperials, i pas... 14
Ioupermis tn bbls... ........
FRUITS.
Oranges @ box. .................. i S@T
Oranges OO # box............ Vo “ao
Oranges, Imperials, # box............
Drakes, br a GRSE.. 20... 5.6.

emons, Choice... ....... 2... 50@S
oe ERG 8. —

MBANAS WB DUNG. ........... 2... ....e. 2 (
Malaga Grapes, #@ keg................. ogee
Malaga Grapes, ® bbl..................

Wigs, layers iW... 2.88... 12@16
Wigs taney do... 18@20
Figs. baskets 40 Ib ® Ib..........5...... @l4
Dates. frails QO 2... ® 6
Dates, 4% do GQ 5. 2 o., @t
Dates sing @ 6
Dates, A sale tee ee @ T%

ates, Fard 10 tb box We, @ll
Dates, Fard 50 box e We ee: q 68
Dates, Persian 50 Ib box #@ D........... 6%4@ 7

PEANUTS.

Prime Red, raw # 1..................

Choice do QQ... 00 @it
Fancy do dO 2... 8. G@ i%
Choice, White, Va.do .................. @8
Haney RP. Va do... | @9

NUTS.

Almonds, Terragona, # b............. 18@19:
Almonds, Ioaca, 7 sees isolt
Brazils, dO... t@190
Pecons, @€0 =: 10@14
Panos. Bascotona @Q 2.2...

ilberts, Sicily QO 22.2: @
Walnuts, Chilli dq. 2 oe
Walnuts, Grenobles’ do ............. 14@15 :
ens: California do. . .......

Ocoa Nuts, PIG © 22... @4 50
Hickory Nuts, large ® bu............. —
Hickory Nuts.small do ............. 25.

PROVISIONS.

The Grand Rapids Packing & Provision Co

quote as follows:
PORK.

Heavy Mess Pork. 0-2 ................1... $18 75.
Pig Pork, short cut, better than mess... 18 00
amily Clear Pork... .. 2... 6.00. 2.5. css 20 00.
Matra Clear POrk ........ 2... ...5:. 5-1 ee
Clear Back Pork, new......-2......s..-..-
Boston Clear Pork.................. megecae
Standard Clear Pork, the best.............

All the above Pork is Newly Packed.

DRY SALT MEATS—IN BOXES.

 

Long Clears, heavy, 500 fb. Cases....... 10
do. Half Cases......... 11%
Long Clear medium, 500 tb Cases..... 11
Oo. Half Cases ....... 11%
Long Clears light, 500 tb Cases.......... ll
do. Half Cases.......... 11%
Short. Clears, heavy ...-......2.2.2...... 10%
do. MICGIUME. fo: oe. ccc. 10%
do. bet. oo... 10%
Extra Long Clear Backs, 600 ib cases...
Extra Short Clear Backs, 600 ib cases...
Extra Long Clear Backs, 300 fb cases..
Extra Short Clear Backs, 300 tb cases..
Bellies, extra quality, 500 ib cases...... 114
Bellids, extra quality, 300 fb cases...... 11%
Bellies, extra qulaity, 200 Ib cases...... 10%
LARD.

PRIGREG@S eee es es 844
30 and 50 Pubs .... 2... oc. ce cece ck 834
LARD IN TIN PAILS.

20 ) Round Tins, 80 fb racks............ 834
50 ft Round Tins, 100 Ib racks.......... 834
3D Patle, 20 im @ Gase........ 2... 2. ..... 914
5 D Pails, in a case ................... 96

10 i Pails, 6in acase................... 9
SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED OR PLAIN.
Hams cured in sweet pickle, heavy.... 14
Hams cured in sweet pickle medium.. M%
do. Hgeht...... 14%
Shoulders, boneless....................
Shoulder, cured in sweet pickle....... 9
Extra Clear Bacon... .... 5. ..0.. ceed nese 2
Dried Beef, Extra........ See ae 15%
BEEF IN BARRELS. ®
Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 ibs...... 11 00
Plate Beef, extra quality. ................ 12 00s
CANNED BEEF.
Libby, McNeil & Libby, 14 ib cans, 4% doz.
in case...... ep re Te ne ee 18 25
do 2 i cans, 1 doz. in case.... 2 90

Armour & Co., 14 cans, % doz in case 18 25.
do. 2 Ib cans, 1 doz. in case... 2 90.
do. 2 i Compr’d Ham, 1 doz. incase 4 00

SAUSAGE—FRESH AND SMOKED.
PORK SAHRAMG: oo. o.oo a 5 ook co eee oe cdc cece 9

       

 

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bate SAUSAEOc <5. 5. So cn cs kee ccnckecdeccecs 15
Tongue Sausage.................. eee. ~~
EAVOE RAUISR RCs. 6. 5... we fs co seve cca v el aekccs c. 8
Frankfort Sausage.................4 Mee soe 10
Blood Sausage. ........... ccc cece cees ae 8
IGOR TID. os Po oe vcs kc cece ewcwsleick ce 8%.
Bologna, straight... ............ 0. cece eee cee ee 8%
Helogng. GHiGk: «52. os. eek cc ck ee ccesce ccs 8a.
EGR CHOGHG 6) vee oo oe os oo oes coc ccc ccc tac 8

: PIGS’ FEET.
In half barrels................2... Sacks oes 3 90:
In quarter barrels.................. cece ee 210
Fn Wate... ie SeUeae Poe ees Goce cea dbec.

TRIPE.

In balf barrels. ... 0.25.02. . eec ccc css ...$3 75
In quarter barrels.................. eeeewes 00
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COUNTRY PRODUCE. LUMBER, LATH AND SHINGLES.
Or Go0d g The Newaygo Company quote f. 0. b. cars as tb a r 0 Ww a r e Ohio-Tool Co.’ eee The Gripsack Brigade. 237
; of Apples—The market is well supplied with orate fecan per M $44 00 ¢ Geinta Houok. re ue: a = E.S. Hipkins, the Blanchard druggist,
ww home-grown fruit, which sells at 25¢@50c | ti pers, 14, 1% and 2 inch.............+. TTB Gescadtan oaies at Gul "| Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy.... .-...--.. dis 15| has named a new-born boy “Max,” in honor
Spring & Company quote as funuwe: er bu. Be EBON os cece sekececentnee- . 35.00 oe & cago are as follows: | Bench, firstquality.....................-. dis 20| of Lloyd Max. Mill i
wiua mann DOTsane Buckwheat Seed—$1.25 ¥ bu. Selects, 1%, 1% and 2 inch........ LIIIID 88 00 AUGERS AND BITS. Stanley Rule and Level Co.'s, wood and yd Max. Mills, and the latter has re-
94°93 IP 1 ca 25 Butter—Choice dairy packed is held at Shop een ne se teeeeeeees eee > - aye. aia fivie Oe dis 50 ie PANS. torted by sending the young man a silver
‘ i — epperell, 10-4...... ee A ana 2 ot RURODs A Decne sso 80: La egeeeces er) eeeee OURO s COL one conc nce ece secs ee totes is Dd »Acme...... i ‘
‘ a areponetn, 6-4. at eerie 11-4... 81s | ee Se Cremeey at 20@2I1c. | Shop. common, ig, 1% and Sinch. ...... 32 00| Douglass’ oe oo to ltecaen poled eee | cup, Sulably engraved.
Andosge, Th lpebbog Phncrcak | | Meus Handpleked sears a et | MGs d Stocks, Bing foster cnes o> 1998 nelly ccrcecene nc er et fi") 8.8. Cole, general traveling representa
8-4. 2... equot, 8-4......... moving at $2. : ~ bu. npicke 0. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet...........--+-- Be oe ee ee aw le : Se ys
poor Q-4......22% Poanet 04... 4 S2@$2.25 @ . ”| No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 20feet...........-.-+- O00 a dis40&10 RIVETS. tive for Bickford & Francis, jobbers in belt
’ ones No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 12, 14 and 16 feet..... 15 00 | Jennings’, genuine..............-.2066: dis 25} iron and Tinned..................+... dis 40; and hose at Buffalo and Chi ri
CHECKS. Beets—50c P doz. bunches. | No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet........-.+-+++- 16 00 | Jennings’, imitation........... ....-++- dis40&10 | Copper Rivets and Burs.............. dis 40 Pe coe ees will spend
Caledonia, XX,0z..11 |Park Mills, No. 90..14 Berries—Whortleberries are in steady sup-} No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet...... pense tees 17 00 | BALANCES. PATENT FLANISAED IRON. the heated term in this city until Sept. 1, at
ia X 10 |Park Mills, No. 100.15 {| ply at $2.25 bu. Blackberries are in good | No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 12, 14and 16 feet...... 15 00 : i - | “A” Wood’ ; ay . : : as ae
Q Caledonia, A, 02... ar ills, NO. 10U. : No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 18feet........:...--++- 16 00 | SPYING... 6... eee eee eee e eee e eee e eee ee ee Gis 25). =, 7ood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10% which time he goes to St. Louis, Louisville
Economy, 02Z..--.-- 10 |Prodigy, 0Z....----- 11 |demand, and comparatively scarce at 8c@9 | NO 1 Stocks, 8 in., 20 fect 17.00 ‘B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25 to27 9 IN ee ; ’
Boo ills, No- 80.10 {Otis Apron....0...: 10% 150 at. No. 1 Stocks, Sin. feet os cc". 18 50 | Rattroad BARROWS. : Broken packs 4c # bb extra. New Orleans and other important Southern
Park Mills, Not oe aegis a0 | Cabbages $5, 100. No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 18 feet........----+++ ee ee ROOFING PLATES. points.
Park Mills, No. 80..18 |York, AA, extra oz.14 Celery—25c # bunch. ; ee Se 2 oT " a a eis a oete a e ea 10, 14x20, choice Charcoal, Terne cee 5% The Chicago Grocer says: A drummer has
7. cine oA 2 Aihes » 44 ANG IO ICCL.....- ~ ay, 12X6U, , Bt Erne. oc. .2c: ads = : .
OSNABURG, oo ull cream is slow sale at 874@ No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet es 13 60 Hand Oe ee dis $ 60&10 10, 20x28, choice Charcoal ean ai 12 00 | Sued the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
ge. 0. Pin, feeb... g ee. BO COW neo 8228. see ae is X, 20x28, choi cae away
Alabama brown.... 7 |Alabama plaid..... 8 oe ce Seed—Choice medium $6@$6.50 | No.2 Stocks, 8 in., 12, 14 and 16 feet...... ee a os pe tee ren fn 16 90| Railway for $2,000 damages for an attempt-
Jewell briwn.....-- 9%, |Augusta plaid...... 8 ip : No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet.......-.-+-+ +++ AP PU GONE 0.0008 aes oe e. dis 20 | Sisal. % . Ores ed ejection from the train That
* Kentucky brown. .10% Toledo plaid... : 2 bu. and mammoth at $6.75 % bu. Slow|No.2Stecks, 8in., 20 feet................ 18 50 | Door, Sargent........... ic 5 eye Ii, amid argon... 3..........,2--- @ 28 han ° 2 an lat same
, Lewiston brown... 9%|Manchester plaid.. sale at these prices. Coarse Common’ or shipping culls, all searneeses ONS OE MEAUIIR oc o--mcen nnn ennen site son crecenseass 5% | blushing youth would let a desirable cus
Lane brown.......- 94|New Tenn. plaid...11 s—Sti n to 14¢, with no upward] | widths and lengths......... -.----- 8 00@ 9 00 ian SQUARES. - Se ;
Louisiana plaid.... 8 |Utility plaid........ 6% oe ’ p Alan an Strips, : or ee % ap Stove... oe (e ay s$ 40 Steal and, Tron Pe dis 50 tomer poe (ee over a house without a mur-
: : ie ‘Strips, 40r 6 inch.........-.-eeeeeee eo 28 00 | LaTrlage NEW LBL........-..-. 02... ee is 1D ae VEIS. oes eee seen eee eee eee es dis 50| Mur. ius the inconsistent thrive
BLEACHED COTTONS. Grapes—California, $3 for one-half case | No.1 Fencin MG 8 ee i “i¢ | Mit is : ;
; : g,all lengths.........-..---- 15 00 PWV oe econ ese cle see oe ce nels dis 3081¢ | OG ee eosin a cae oe dis 20 , :
A Avondale, 36......._84|Greene, G, 44....-. 5y | of 20 ibs. No. 2 Fencing, 12, 14 and 18 feet...... sie 00 Be Shee teeter teeter eeee eee ae dis 50815 SHEET IRON. Jas. McInnes, who has been on the road
“Art cambrics, 36. ..1144|Hill, 4-4........+-++- 84 | Green Onions—25¢ 42 dozen bunches. ee Fencing, oie SE ee B 09 Woe Barrel 3 HOME. ass eoaseeee seen dis 50 oo. Com. Smooth. Com.| for sometime past for Lantz Bros. & Co.,
j i 7-8 % N | . Pac: dee 006) 0 Wer ee ee ea ee a ates SS ee oF NOte dé: BA 6 RQ « :
ern. ee ope, 4a deen ge iy Green Corn—10@12¢ %B doz, ears. No.2 Fencing, 4 inch............-.0ss+++ 12 00 pel Barrel, brass booe dis Mi Noo io... S30 83.35 | the Buffalo soap manufacturers, covering
: * 54.1244 a. 1 ; : . : ] 1 50 | N ME... senna ee nese 2 2
t Rn v4 King Phillip cai ee tiers — P bu. Noreny: - ee ee f pen Re e e igi 2 la = _ ne 18 i“ a Bee . = : 2 the Eastern states, has returned to this city,
iia, BS... -k--- rio. 44 2... 5.--2 be — : ° 1ding, 9 AX AT Deas cero eres Ww Bese eee : e es a seo tia nica = 2 3 2 = .
e Bote 0.44........ 8%|Linwood, 4-4....... 9 Hops—Brewers pay 35@40c for Eastern es oe oe ae Sue - . Wienene Boece Lukeag oP as oe pepe LO Bec ens 4 40 og) 1d how manseing Gene branch store
Boott, eo £ —— a4... .7- ao |anawestem and 18@20e for Michigan. Revel Siding, 6 inch, Clear "2. 29 09 | Wrought Sunk Flush. -. 5... Me Gal aienetaNe li ena ales ‘over on inches of the New York Tea Co., at the corner of
a : hy ms . € ) 2 ’ : cts gcc sccie > as, 4 8 R ’ g ar, = 3 ae
Boott, m4... 5% Langdon, GB, 4-4... 9% b aoe for new, and $12@$18 for pre xk to ee i a i oo 50 a Bronze and Plated Knob casted) wide not less than 2-10 extra. South Division street and Fifth avenue.
Blackstone, AA 4-4. 744|/Langdon, 45........ 14 allied. additional for each 2 feet - 9g 00 | Ives’ Jae ees ae SHEET ZINC. Every traveling man is diniky javited
Chapman, X, 4-4.... 6%4|Masonville, 4-4..... 9%| Maple Sugar—Dull and plenty at 123<e, | Dreseed Mlooring, Gin, A. B...---------- Song) = ststs*é«C RAR Se In casks of 600 ons ee
Conway, ff... +... Tg MARC Eis £4 toss | FOE Pure, and 8@10c for adulterated. Dressed Flooring, ite Gna caon”” 11 00 | Barber ee ies 4 | 22 Smaller ee ee attend Me neat monthly megtng
oe eee " * gig|New Jersey, 44.... 8 - oe eee at per Lael Dressed Flooring oi 2 come: 14 00 ee ue a TINNER’S SOLDER. A, at the reading room at Sweet’s Hotel,
Tauoe, B4.....:---- 4 |Pocasset, P.M.C...7%|01 a dozen. atermelons, $25 1 or | Beaded Ceiling, 6 in. itiinal. . Spomord. 005.0)... 0. ie dis 60 | Nook, Refined. ...,....<....-.-.2... ‘ Saturday j 3 A sig
Domestic, 36......- 744 |Pride of the West..12% | good. Dressed ee Seer Band Clear.. a . oe ie a oe aera x e y evening, August 30. All resident
Dwight Anchor, 4-4. 9 Pocahontas, 4-4.... ay Millet Seed—$1 % bu. ~~ eons De ia a Ob aus. Strictly HWaltandhalt. 0 6 members of the M.C. T. A. are requested
" pei of Loin, “i. 9” vitoria, a 9 | Onions—New, 75¢ # bu. Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in- No. a 00 | Well, plain. ........+ssessseeeererenee $ 400 TIN PLATES. to identify themselves with the new organi-
Fruit of Loom. 7-8.. 8%|Woodbury, 4-4...... 5% Peaches—65e % peck basket. Beaded Ceiling, 4:inch, oF 00 a itional. c ell, Swivele: |. 2.0. ese. 4 50 Cards for Charcoals, $6 75. zation, and thus help along a most excel
Fruit of the Loom, Whitinsville, 44... i% Peas, for field seed—$1.50 #P bu. XXX 18 in. Standard Shingles......... : a BUTTS, CAST. IC, Welt chara. 6 30 ne I Pi ee ce lent
pibiin, 44. .15-- 12 |Whitinsville,7-8...: 61 pears—California $4.75 @ case of about ce ~ . = Thin...... prerernsetnernsctt 3 40 | cast Loose Pin, figured... ae a oe 10x14,Charcoal..............0..0+. 8 59| Project. Ample opportunity will be given
son Beas - ‘ Weansatte ta ane 225. : Ara in GC. Bi8in, Shingies...02011. 2 00 Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed......dis 60 | TX’, Dele, Ghaceoat Pee aes € 30 to join the Post, previous to the election of
yy nngeeaad oe Plumbs—California $2.25 crate of about No. 2 orbin. © B. 16 in..))..........--..- 1 ® Wok oe Moco origi & Mais oe of a IC, Jax20, Charcoal. Oe 6 z0 | Officers for the government of the new asso-
: ee 2 Weaunht Loose Pin.” * Sia 60 $ xeaU, PCOal..............-..--- 50 | ejati
CORSET JEANS. : . es TIL. os esse eee ee eee f 60|TXX, 14x20, Charcoal ater.
8 3: Wrought Loose Pin, acorntip.......- iY 5 one ’ Peeaveteg A eos ace Gee 10 50 a
coc. co... Sta Potatoes The market is well supplied OYSTERS AND FISH. WroushtLoote Gin anna . a ae IXXX, 14x20, Charcool.........-..-++0++++ 4250) ‘“Youecan talk about the meanness of
eee i’” 8i\Naumkeag satteen. 8% with home-grown, which find slow sale at] 4 J, pettenthaler quotes as follows: Wirouaht Loose Pin. isp: cares TROXOCK. 14520, Charcoal... . 1.0.0.5. 2.. 14 50] ; : :
‘Androscoggin sat.. 8%) . 8% 2 Js ‘i ‘oug in, japanned, silver TX, 20x28, Charcoal......... 8 stealing swill froma blind pig’,” said
* Canoe River.....--- 6 |Pepperell bleached 8% | 40@50c $ bu. : - OYSTERS. Sipped a, dis @&5ine 100 PlateCharcoal..... 18 00 : f PIS» .
: Clarendon.......---- 64|Pepperell sat....... 9% Poultry—Fowls 15@16c. Spring plielcens, | au, Vouk Gounta, per O00...---------2 ++ ant WromehtFanle. 0.0... 6... .- 2c ese: dis 60 ee eee oso nes 6 50| leading commercial tourist, “but an incident
Csronaen. a Soe meee 4 »P oo Weouate tcida Blind = 60|DX, 100 Plate Charcoal... 20... 8 5
aon Orch: anes 7" |Lawrence sat... . me eis a ss Extra Belocts....--.--- ee ee Be eeean ee ee Onrcea ee 10 50 occurred up at Newaygo last Monday even-
Laconia .......----- 714\Conegosat........+- i Red Pepper at “3 “is yg 8 pane. Clans e Ce a 704610 Redipped Cac Oe pine ndat 6 By - ing that places L. C. Bradford, A. C. Sharp
ee [ A : ind, t Retest cer ete same cnc qi sUW, rates. 1G H. Sey j
PRINTS. Turnips—50c#? bu. Blind, Shovagd's.............5------:; dis "0 : es and Geo. H. Seymour in the category of
Albion, solid.......- 5Y4|Gloucester .......--- 6 Timothy—Choice is firmly held at $1.75 @ Mackinaw. fo - Ceue ae Heo pes —* Dee reas - . Bied. ee eas sige ees ¥ Sey mighty mean men. They took a glass of
Albion, grey...----- 6 |Gloucestermourn’g.6 | bu. ROTOR eee ee iG 7 ieee noida Communtity, Newhouse’s....... dis 35/]Jemonade before going to supper at th
‘Allen’s checks.....- 5%|Hamilton fancy....6 Tomatoes— ~re@s ; Whitefish ....-.-.-..+ 2.0: tacreee tee et CAPS. Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s.... 60 : going PECE Se me
‘Ailen’s fancy....... ath Hartel faney....-.. 6 Tomatoes—Acme 75e@$1 per bu Smoked Wiitefiah wid'Prouts Pe por m $65 | HOten bss’ o.oo vsecsesesseeeeeseees 6) | Courtright House, and Dud. Courtright, the
’ * i,\Merrimae D......--- Smoked Sturgeon......----s2- cesserrsssrcee Oo oe Oe eMio. COl8.2.22.5... 10000... ee 4 ‘
Allen's pink: .------o4/Manchester .......- 6 GRAINS AND MILLING PRODUCTS. fo ee ee aka  onemser at tet ote
American, fancy..--97s paar acne teeees a Wheat—White, 80¢; new Laneaster, 82c; HIDES, PELTS - FURS. MASROt so sss. 60 | Mouse, Se OR ts cess! $1 26 @ doz! that he was going to have brook trout that
n w-eeeee-D JUTICNTAL TODCE.....- 2A a c mw * © : : i : i : :
paaincomd 5% \Pacific robes........ 6 |new Fulse, 78. sa ee oo Rim Fire, U. M 0. & Wincheste list 50 Pope ay ay as TNs anaene ee
E : ; ‘ 2 . re, U. M.C. & Wine r new lis 5 nnealed Market................ dis 60} j : : j 7
a cee eae Bion | Com as@ble P bi ee em @t_ | Kim Fire, United States..............., ee | oem article of dict a
Conestoga fancy....6 |Simpson’s.....-.-.-- 6 Oats—White 40c bu. BG 8 @ 8% | Central Fire..........-..--..22-2eee eee Gis 36 | tra Bane. |... oo nesses dis 35| thereupon ‘put up a job,’ on Dud. to get the
Eddystone ......---- 6 |Washington fancy.. Rye—52@54e ¥# bu. Full cured...... A 84@ 8% CHISELS. eee Market........-.-02. 0-505 ..:kis 40| trout away from him. ‘Telli tl ait
Eagle fancy....----- 5 /Washington blues. .8 Barley—Brewers pay $1.30@$1.40 %® 100 | Dry hides and kips....... ee: a a Socketmunee dis 65410 wee oe Pe #2 Tb 09 ay . . telling the walter
Garner pink........- " tbs. Se or cure ooo 2 | Socket Framing......00000luus dis 65810 cane aoe ope ee ee yee that Dud. had given the fish to them, as he
FINE BROWN COTTONS. Flour—Faney Patent, $6.20 @ bbl. in oot oe ps. : oe Corner ee, dis peed Tinned Spr adicd: ae 3y1, | was not feeling well that evening, they suc-
. a 4 me “ . : DOCKET SLICKS. 2... cc eee ee ee ee ee eee ne 1 Q1T7 ° . s
ae ty 4-4.... mg ee ae te -. i ese eae — ee $5.20 PB ea or Summer skins B pier a patches eee Seen ues = a feciea Ponce ee nae ® b 3% | ceeded in getting away with most of the
00 Yh, EE ee occ ee ‘% : 2 , VO. 5 4 do. ; Ui CMO aie ein eee eee 100 @1 50 bi ‘tons socKe HIYMeEPs.....-2.2--- 18 2 Copper Wa ect mimes we oes 00 es scan ee o su tro tb fc : D 1 S : < [
Boston F, 4-4......- 8 |Laconia B, 7-4...... 16%{| Meal—Bolted, $1.50 Y ewt Winter pelts........-.--s2s2eerere oa ae PPE. eee e eee sent ener teen ees new list net | trout before Dud. came In to supper with his
( E a+ 8 3 0 cw. ap — RE ec 2 ne ‘ = ‘
en D ‘in bs Mase BB a L "Be Mill Feed—Screenings, $15 4 ton. Bran, | Fine washed ®D........---+++++s2e0 0 25@ COMBS. ities new list net} wife, for whom the fish were intended, as
Conestoga W, 44... 7 i e ot: 9 |$14 per ton. Ships, $15 fo ganas coe eered ee ee 2 @20 Curry, Lawrence's ee ais 3314 Wien Ss she was just recovering froma recent illness
‘ 7-8... 544|Nashua K, 42...... 7 ings : . ats. $23 Ge | Unwashed....-.-------seserceerte cree 2. BSS Ce ee lis 25 : Bee eee to eens ma og Ea popes : ue :
Sean fe Se ee ee he — $18 @ ton. Corn and Oats, $23 % So ee oo 34@ BY : Pam Screw Hyes.......... le --- dis 6010810 When the imposition to which he had been
aul gaa BY Pepperell B, 3-10. ist — FRESH MEATS rach) Wackiuw a... ee sogio | Gate Hooks and Byés..12.121111/ ais eosiosio | Subjected by the boys was made known
wig S4c8-. => e , 39-in.. 7% as oS. a : Bibb’s ..:.-- 49&10 WYENCHES to him, h : 7 j
6 ore oe lr CC lee te 98 NCHES. e threatened vengea
9 ee Share a iy en 8° ae 64 The total output of refined copper from} John Mohrhard quotes the trade as follows: Boer ee soo Baxter's Adjustable, nickeled.......... ie as go pn pees
Ewight Star, 40-in.. 9 |Pepperell N, 3-4.... 644 | the Lake Su erior mines since their open- Fresh Beef, sides........-.--esesseeees G4@ 8 bee ee 60} Goes Genuine... 6.4... dis 50810). ee s . . j
Enter rise EE, 36.. 5%/Pocasset_C, 4-4..... ole P : y Fresh Beef, hind quarters.........--- 8 @9 COPPER. Coe’s Pat Agricultural, wrought. ...... dis 65 | vention of Will and his father that he was
Great Falls EB, 4-4... 7 Saranac R........-- + |ing would loada solid train of cars over} Dressed Hogs.....-..----++++-0se00007 @8 | Planished, 14 oz cut to size..........---. 72m 37 | Coe’s Pat., malleable. ...............-.-- dis %0| prevented from carrying out the muscul
Farmers’ A, 4-4..... 6% Saranac E.......... 9 | eighty miles long, while the total salt pro- Mutton, Carcasses........----e.seeeeee ee ae 14x52, 14x56, 14 x60........... ee 39 MISCELLANEOUS. 2 : ty § , uscuar
Indian Orchard, 4 77 : : Weal 660i eos see eee 4 s DRILLS. Domne Oto : _,,| punishment the trio so richly deserved.
luct of the S > yall ould 1 Fowl 15@16 mips, Ciscerm. ....9....- 2... dis 60&10
DOMESTIC GINGHAMS. woe aginaw valley wour require a pa siulaane preeretreiaeetae esse 10 @10¥; | Morse’s Bit Stock...............0605 aid Be SC ee ee 70 | When you come right down to the facts in
: solid train fully 1,100 miles long. ee ee: @l0 | Taper and Straight Shank (000 dis 99 | Casters, Bed and Plate................. dis 50 .
Amoskeag cc 8 po soos ae 9% PM see ee Me Tape: Seeak dis 5) | Dampers, American.............---- == 3314 the case, I think that the men who would
on - . . ». -10%| Bookfoid a ADM | ELBOWS. steal brook trout from a sick woman, would
S| Bates Bacsre or trees et ants seer Com: mec 6 in — ei dig up their father’s coftin to slide down hill
erkshire ......--++- a) ress Styles.....- a7 | PORVU@SRECG. 0.005 .5..-.5. 5-7. dis 208] ”
Glasgow checks.... 7 |Slaterville, dress Adiustable cl Ce dis 40&10 . on.
Glasgow checks, f’y 7% styles......-...+-- 9 EXPANSIVE BITS es Ze
Ghaner ta . mee ne oo oe se élar’s, small, $18 00: ues #2 age a s The Traveling Men Downed.
{ roy TICB.. 20s 1 QO; So ne aS a 5 Cs DH . a ey 5 TY ne f ae 2
Gloucester, new White Manf’g Co, ives’, 1, $18 00; 2, $24 00; 3, $30 00. dis 25 1e game of base ball at the park Satur-
eee Cee 8 ee day afternoon between a picked nine from
Lancaster .....---+- 8%|Greylock, qness aay ee awe ee wee ae as s among the traveling men and a similar col-
Langdale........--- 134| styles .......----- 2% Now aeeriosn ee ee 50 Jection from the house salesmen, resulted in
-TONS. 1¢ SOM S 055 co es ewe te cen cece S df >
iv oe ae V4. ....273 Ne dis 3 | the defeat of the former by a score of 27 to
Androscoggin 14. peer erell, Uk... 32% eo ee ee ” |18. The house men, taken asa whole, were
eel ge eee cana ot Nos. 16192, Band 2, 25 and26, 2% 28 | superior players, as several of them were
‘ci on | toa O74 ist 12 ‘ 14 15 «18 z | semi-professionals. But they received thei
Pepperell, 9-4......25 |Pequot, 9-4......... 27% Discount, Juniata 45, Charcoal 50 : ie ey received their
HEAVY BROWN COTTONS. Office of J OHN CAULFIELD, *" “GAUGES. 7 1 greatest assistance from the rank decisions
Atlantic A, 4-4..... 714 \Lawrence XX, 4-4.. 8% 85 87 89 Canal Street Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s......... dis 50 |e of the rankest umpire who ever stood be-
‘Atlantic Da by (Lawrence Lined... 5% : : . . a Maydole & Co.'s oe dis 5 ™ a“) EE Se
” Atlantic eae ba newman 4 Grand Rapids, Mich. Ria lk . as 25 tribute his wrong decisions to anything but
tlantic , 4-4.... 544 Mysti iver, --- G ee ° Yerkes & Plumb’s..................-- dis 30 ae j ranee of ee
‘Adriatic, 36......--- 74 Pequot A, 4-4....... 8 Japan Teas are now arrivin uite freel ANC | Mason’s Solid Cast Steel. 30 c list 40 —WHOLESALE— ignorance of the game, but the fact that
Augusta, 4-4.....--- 6%|\Piedmont, 36....... 7 ‘i Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. .30 c 40&10 they were all directed against the traveli
OE Bp opens ri stark AA e--: | prices are fairly settled. I desire to advise thetrade|; — ee ed seats aveling
Boott FF, 4-4...---- 734 ‘Tremont CC, 4-4.... 5% y . HANGERS. men would seem to indicate that he was
eee ens a velwasuscte, “il ty | that, within a few days, I will be in receipt of the Champion, antitriction. ee af eo actuated by prejudice, and this view of the
Indiana Head 45-in.12%;Wachusett, 30-in... 6% ° . ° : Kidder, wood tra.K.............+5.5+5 dis 40 matter was held by every occupant of the
. TICKINGS. following INVOICES: : ees — eS és 4 grand stand, except a near relative of the
Amoskeag, ACA. AB Falls, Gs oe 18% 125 ee by ony of ee No. 424, My _ ce aes = : = 30 State. Ce per doz oe. 2 50 young gentleman. Indeed several members
& ee A.B ells BB...) ads sated | No. 75, oe oe Be borew Mook et etran. 0 Bin. 4% 4 ee of the opposing nine stated that if the um-
moskeag, A...- >. eu + BBC. 36 19 | 97 Ce «“ ie No. 25 fe cc x L a 25 and longer...........-.--...-.-..-----. 3% 10 and 12 MONROE STREET, gos pein Ae
SS 2 228s ii rolls’ canine 2 125 : ns + 9, ; Screw Hook and Lye, Ae net 10% pire’s foolish decisions had been directed
skeag, C.....- jPaus, g.... 2 Ts ac uez eamer “ “ ee a S 6 Serew Hook and Kye %.............. net 8i4 acainst their si ow tw :
Amoskeag, DD 5.3; 10% Hamilton, BT, 2..12 Serew Hook and Eye 34 net Yy% GR Er > IIMA X against their side, they W ould have refused
; : Z : Sere c DYC 24 --2e seer ee eees 7% |GRAND RAPIDS MICHIGAN.
a ceeas: eT eannton. a oi Also large assorted lines of Young Hyson, Gun Beer ane ies Gidek amauec tment ee oe ' r to play longer. Another combat in the
Premium A,44....17 |Hamilton fancy...10 ee ll ae near future is not improbable, in which case
tase ia AC 31 - HOLLOW WARE. St : :
Premium B......16 [Methuen AA,....--13%4 Powders, both Muyone and Pingsuey, Formosa Oo-| goa Chieasy prices duplicated ai.} au honorable umpire will be chosen.
Extra4-4......---++- 16 |Methuen ASA...... 18 : Stamped Tin Ware..........---.0+++ee+ 60&10} Detroit and Chicago prices duplicated al I
pee a eae or - et Eo . longs, and M oning Congos at lowest figures. joe ae Cece 20810 ee a 6 ee ae Store: Steve Sears hired asmall boy to assist him
old Medal4-4.....-15 | Neg At : > Ir BO el pecans cs cree 20 re pr y ke Gre ds sheapest | . é iu i
@ CCA 7-3 bs es ee eee 2Y% Omega ACA, 7-8. os 14 I h ll i HOES market. I in running for balls in left field.
O44 3... 2.----- 14. Omega ACA, 4-4... 16 wis to ca. Sg ecia atttention to m new bi j Wm. G. Hawkins was somewhat *
sR 7 ‘ Ub Loe. ES ‘ x - G. He S wa chagrin-
ase 14 |Omega SE, 7-8......24 Pp y Grub Lo... eeeeeeee tere eee $11 00, dis 40 WE SOLICIT THE g
anee ee 16 ‘Omega Bad... 27 ie ‘ Grub eae ces eset e dace et: i 50, dis 40 4 ed at the impending defeat of the trav li
; ae 6 lOmega SE,A4..---3) | prands of roast Coffees. I have taken special pains | Grub}... 20,45/ DDALER’S TR ae FEE NUS
fk 1 \Omega M44 os |, ' 7 : KNOBS. 5 men, and exclaimed in elephantine tones:
Cordis AGA, #..---15 Shetucket SSeS u% jin selection and blending, and roast fresh daily. I Door, mineral, jap. trimmings’. ....$2 00 dis Fr is eesecene “They don’t seem to have any good material
ordis No. 1, d/..... a 8 0 cae ; oor, porcelain, Jap. trimmings.... 2 50, dis 60 = rs. for ball players Bie ict? SS 999
pene =o; oes ic [Shetucket, SES....12 guarantee better values than those furnished by Door, porcelain, plated trim- | Lplayers. Why didn’t they ask me?
ee No. 3..----- Hy, Stockbridge feacy. 8 it ‘ 1 Tm ibel ae ee = dis a - But when requested to act as substitute later
ry GLAZED CAMBRICS astern par les or No sale. Drawer and ‘Shutter, porcelain. ....dis 60 | We are prepared to quote specially low prices on in the game, he declined on account of
ane oO : ° Picture, H. L. Ju WOR a cee d 4() on any of the following: i aft his suit ¢
Garner ........--+-- 5 |Empire.........-.-- 4 Imperial Roast, a blended coffee = ea ns 18 TICINBCIEO 12.60.0556 6 eens ee see dis 50 ee having left his suit at Home.
Hookset.......--++- 5 |Washington........ % LOCKS—DOOR
Red Cross.....----+ 5 \Edwards.........-.- 5 O. G. Roast Java - - - = = - 293 : pemaac gt : : : Ni h 1 Fj He Asked a Blessing.
Forest Grove.....-- iS. 8. & Sons........ 5 Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co,’s reduced list dis 60 icnoison iles, From the Merchant Traveler.
; Mallory, Wheelnr & Co.’s..............-. dis 60 :
GRAIN BAGS. Mandehling Java 8 ee eee dis 60 Lew Campbell, the “One Spoon Baking
en A 19 jOld Ironsides...... 1b 66 “ end Mocha : 3 : - 98 Norwalk’s.... --.--- Ea ees dis 60 Tin Fruit Cans Powder” man, who travels South, was in
Stark A.....-.---- .23%4 Wheatland ......... 21 M ] d ij x d : ce oe — a oe ’ vited by a lady to dinner. The guests were
DENIMS. aul oraers sO icited. Lowest market prices eed. Si a. 6 all seated, and the lady, turning to Lew,
~ oerott bine...” ah Waren AS64008 guananteed. Coffee, Parner oie Gores Walléables dis 43 re Te a seul cient
Everett brown..... 134%|Warren BB......-- 11% . ? Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s........ dis 45 iat. Ue 7 W i ask a essing?
otis AXA oa 124 |Warron CO. ees 10% I have secured the agency of Gilbert's BCA PC bcc Enterpee.<. eee dis 25 Foster Axe “Wha—wha—wha—I beg your pardon,
Sp aeec > teue fe 2 cosnsoeem : ° ° f =e e 2 : zi
eee OS factories at Buffalo and Des Moines. Their goods oo MATTOCKS. a de madam,” he stammered, dropping his nap-
4 a De S LC Docs cee etree ee e664 cae ©0 6:9 a 8 iQ :
: i | VO. co ees a ee oe $15 i vy 7. kin.
ci 6 |8.8.&Sons......... 6 thave always been regarded as e ual to any of Hast- | Hutt Pre ae eae. oe
Hunt’s $18 50 dis 20 & 10
Masgnville.......-- 6 |Garner ...........+- 6 M f. t d h 1 h id th : UNt’S.....---2--e ees = coke 5 2 AGENTS FOR THE Will you please ask a blessing?” she re-
WIGANS. ern Manufacturers, an ave always he elr own ee . peated.
Common, Brad and Fencing.
; "14 ''Thistle Mi 7 $2 45 hen sh re r head, and so di
a Heed C088... ry hitle MAS... , |in the Eastern States. I am now able to compete | 4%. Pay ccc RIVERSIDE STEEL N AIL ee eee
ee . . ee ta 50 Se, ¢ ew looked down
re peal with Western manufacturers in price and guaran-|idandsa adver 3 at his plate and stuttered:
. - ° é TATICE. cc. ccc cece cece cece ccc ere ns escns «
Brooks ....--..-++++ 50 |Eagle and Phoenix tee quality. om fs wacance a aa ne ahs 3 00 ‘“Jor—Lord, have mercy on these poor
Clark's 0. NF. ----B | gneoh & Daniele--.25 JOHN CAULFIEL ao apenas ar” ames 175] 4 stock of which we now have in store—ana | Vittles. Amen.”
Willimantic 6cord.55 |Merricks ........... 40 I D. Size—inches { 3 2%, 2 1% solicit Sample Orders. i i
Willimantic 3 cord.40 |Stafford...........- 35 ‘Adv. @keg $125 150,175 2 00 Grip—Sack.
Caseieeton bell we, ae Ane: a -30 Steel Nails—Advance 10c from above prices. | From the Burlington Hawkeye.
ing t ATORO . wc. e es |FLOLYORE.... eee eens wo MOLLASSES GATES. a ss 99? : *
hy SILESIAS. Stebbin’s Pattern ........-..eeee eres eeees dis 70 We are carrying to-day as large a stock, oe : : ae a. mebecs
; CroWN.......---2005 17 {Masonville TS...... 8 Stebbin’s Genuine...... ee dis 7 | and filling orders as complete, as any house! er asked his colleague who was looking
Ho 10. eee: BY Mason vule So: Enterprise, self-measuring.......-.-.--- dis 25] in Michigan. very dismal on the train. ‘“No,” replied the
WEEE ovo vec ese 1 vonsdale .... z3 MAULS. x yee .
PRCHOL | oo os cee or> 15 |Lonsdale PA Faces Sperry & Co.’s, Post handled..........-. dis 50 7 from Market street, looking sadly at
Centennial......... Nictory O........-- . : . — the pretty girl three seats front, whose side
Blackburn ......... 8 |Victoryd.........-. OILERS. he had just left, “I’v t th ”
TIOGOL. «5. 65 35 0059 14 {Victory D.......... Zine or tin, Chase’s Patent...........-.-- dis 55 he had just lert, ve got the sack.
nee weeeteeeeees ws Mage? - seeeseeeee 2% zine, with, prass bottom..........66. ses dis 50 3 4 : aa ellie
ACONIA .....-..++6- cenix A.......... 9% Brass OY COPper........ eee eeeeeeeer scenes is he stock of i ,
Red Cross.......... 10 |Phoenix B........-: 10% pee ne Ie rs per gross, $12 net 0S I evens 4 0 : Visser & Mastenbrook, at
- Phoenix XX..... ..15 CHABASHE are eo oe: 50 J < i | Lamont, is to be sold on chattel mortgage.

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“The Michioan Tradesman

MUSKEGON MATTERS.

 

 

 

Facts and Fancies Picked Up at that Busy
Piace.

G. F. Sperry & Co. have put ina new
Fairbanks dormer scale, purchased of Wal-
lace Franklin.

Thos. M. Lander, of the late firm of Car-
ey & Lander, contemplates engaging in the
apple business at Benton Harbor.

H. J. Morris of the firm of S. S. Morris &
Co., is off on a month’s trip through the
Eastern states, combining business with
pleasure.

Dr. Zerah Mizner, who was recently burn-
ed out at North Muskegon, has resumed the
drug business at the corner of Western av-
enue and Seventh street.

Two new grocery stores are about to be
launched in the city, the locations having
been determined, and the purchase of the
stocks having been arranged for.

The work of improving pavements and
sidewalks goes bravely forward, and each
week new changes for the better are to be
noted. The people of Muskegon surely
have an abiding faith in the future of the
place.

W. W. Barcus, of Bareus Bros., has re-
turned from a three weeks’ tour through the
manufacturing district of Pennsylvania. He
reports a better feeling among the producing
class, with genuine reason for an encourag-
ing business outlook.

Impelled by the growth of his business,
M. A. Olsen has found it necessary to be-
gin the erection of a new store building, on
the corner of Hudson street and Michigan
avenue. It will be 24x50 feet in size, two
stories and basement, and will be complet-
ed about October 1.

Attention is directed to the card of Wm.
D. Carey & Co., which appears for the first
time with this issue. As the successors to
Carey & Lander, the firm is heir to a large
and constantly increasing trade, and the new
arrangement gives them added capital and
increased facilities for the prosecution of
the business.

The latest triumph achieved by the cred-
itors in the Schimmel ease is the refusal of
Judge Russell to dissolve the injunction
holding against the stock. This leaves the
way open for the appointment of a receiver,
which will probably be the next thing in or-
der; but as this cannot be done until court is
again in session, the time intervening may
be taken advantage of by the late firm to se-
cure a compromise with the creditors. Such
a course is not altogether improbable, for the
reason that the members of the firm are un-
derstood to be somewhat unfriendly, the
mortgage to the elder Schimmel having been
uttered for the sole purpose of effecting a
settlement with the creditors, whereas the
person holding the same now presents the
amount of the mortgage asa valid claim
against the estate, and states that he intends
to force the collection of the same. How
well he will sueceed in this determination,
remains tobe seen, but itis fair to infer
that he will have some difficulty in main-
taining his claim, as the law is very explicit
on the question of one man acting both as
assignee and trustee, which the elder Schim-
mel is endeavoring to do. The final out-
come of the matter will be looked for with
considerable interest, as the case is a pecul-
iar one in many respects, and the chances
between an honorable division or dishonor-
able preference are about evenly divided.

Had Been There Before,
From the Detroit Journal.

“Sir,” said a clerk in a Jefferson avenue
wholesale grocery store, to the proprietor this
morning, ‘‘my grandfather is dead and I
would like to have the day off to attend the
funeral.”

“Well, replied the proprietor, “I don’t
mind letting you off a day now and then to
attend your grandfather’s funeral, but I
think you ought to have the courtesy to send
a few of the fish around to my house.”

It is needless to say that he will get them.

—_—_—_—<_6§ <<. __

A man in Iowa when a draft was pre-
sented to him for payment wrote on the
back of it “Kiss my foot,’? and signed his
name. He was sued for the draft and the
case having reached the supreme court, that
grave body discoursed at much length over
the problem whether the man meant to ac-
cept or reject the draft by the expression
“Kiss my foot.” It decides that he could
not have meant to accept and so he must
have refused. The country will now be
able to know just what aman means when
he replies toa dun with “Kiss my foot,”
even if he does not use his foot on the dun-
ner.

His Confidential Clerk.
From the Chicago News.

“But, oh, papa, George and I do love each
other so devotedly.”

“J don’t care; I say you shall not marry
him. How onearth can he support the
daughter of a wealthy merchant when his
salary is only $5,000 a year?”

“But, papa, you forget he is your confiden-
tial clerk, your trusted employe.”

“What of that?”

“Why, he probably owns more of the store

than you do, already.”

eo

Philadelphia dealers in second-hand cloth-
ing have formed a protective association and
will boycott all pawnbrokers who permit the
general public to make a critical examina-
tion of their goods before the articles are

sold at auction.
oe Oo
A new kind of bug has been discovered
which bores holes in lead pipes. It is call-
ed the “plumber’s friend.”

 

 

 

COMPLIMENTS AND COUNTERFEITS.

 

Tricks of Customers to Cheat Lady Cash-
iers.

“JT don’t mind the smirks and quips and
quiddities and attempts at familiarity of the
customers who come in here,” said a lady
cashier, the other day. “It is part of the
business ofa woman who accepts such a
position te endure very many things that
would shock many sensitive persons. Ina
short time one can get used to such things
ana simply not notice them. Butitisa
constant trial and a perpetual annoyance to
be compelled to be on the lookout for all
sorts of tricks and devices by which many
persons seek to cheat the proprietor.

“But the most difficult thing to do is to es-
cape taking bad money. It seems as if all
the men who have bad money to pass try to
pass it on lady eashiers. They seem to think
we don’t know bad money when we see it.
They will hand out a regular old-time coun-
terfeit note and try to distract our attention
with a joke or acompliment. The game of
deceiving lady eashiers with that sort of thing
is very transparent. I have got so used to it
that when a man pays me a compliment now
I always take the second leok to see wheth-
er he isnot giving me bad money. The
other day a dude came in here with one of
the new counterfeit silver certificates. I
had read about it ina newspaper, and a
policeman had just called at the door to
warn us not to take them. The young man
bought a quarter’s worth of cigars, and
threw out one of the new counterfieit silver
certificates. I saw at a glance that the note
was bad. I did not like to offend him by
refusing it at once, so I took it up to inspect
its”?

“¢Twenty-five cents,’ ”
ly.

“ “Rxcuse me,’ I remarked,
has a strange look to me.’

“‘Oh, that’s all right,’ he said; ‘it’s one of
the new issue. ‘Your hair looks very neat
this morning.’

“Yes, I said. Could you not give me an-
other note?’

“ ‘Really,’ he said, ‘I would not have troub-
led you, but I wanted the change for car fare.
You may give me all silver if you have no
small bills. Your eyes are very bright.’

““‘T am sorry I have not change enough in
the drawer,’ I said. ‘I will send out one of
the waiters to get change.’

“This staggered him, and he took the note
back, handed out twenty-five cents change,
and 1 was so well pleased at detecting him
that I did not discover until after he had left
that he had given me a lead ten-cent piece.
I know several lady cashiers who lost from
20 to 50 per cent. of their salaries for months
before they learned to detect bad money.
When you once learn itis surprising how
quick you can tell it. You cannot tell how
you tell it, but you do, as the saying is, ‘feel
it in your bones.’ At first it made me nerv-
ous and apprehensive, and almost sick, to
keep up the constant strain of being on my
guard. Even now I wonder how the cash-
iers in the big banks do it so quickly. They
have so much to handle that they can hard-
ly give a glance at each note. Butof course
they do not labor under the disadvantage of
having soft nonsense talked to them to dis-
tract their attention.

“It seems as if counterfeit money is grow-
ing much more plentiful all the time, and
the variety of notes is now considerable
when the different issues are considered. It
is really no easy task to learn the appear-
auce of all genuine notes.

“Then we must look out for pasted notes
and mutilated notes and all sorts of light
and bogus coins. I assure you that with all
this responsibility a lady cashier has not

much time for silly talk with customers.”
~~. -9- <> -____—__

The remarkable increase in the use of
steel has greatly benefited junk dealers and
rag pickers. Formerly iron and steel were
sold together as “‘serap” or “junk,” and
brought from one-quarter to one-half cent
per pound. Now the steel is separated and
finds a ready market at from one-half to two
cents per pound. A few junk men, who
have learned to easily distinguish the differ-
ent varieties of the metal, have made con-
siderable money.

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Care should be taken with the trick toys
known as magical spoons. These are made
of a very fusible alloy, and when put in hot
tea or coffee by the victim of the joke melt
immediately. Unless continually cleaned
and polished they rust rapidly, and the rust
in some instances is very poisonous. Among
the dangerous metals used in making these
spoons are antimony, bismuth, zinc, lead,
cadmium, and mereury.

9 -

Fashionable palm leaf fans are covered
with silk or cretonne and have a loose piece
of the same material attached so as to form
abag. There are pompons around the edge
at regular distances. They are hung against
the wall, handle upward, and serve as recep-
tacles tor odds and ends. The outsides
are painted, gilded or covered with silk or
satin fitting tightly.

i

Edison promises to get out a new crop of
inventions during the next year in the elec-
trical line.

MICHIGAN COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS’ ASSOCIA’N,

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

he said careless-

‘but this note

 

 

 

 

 

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

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

Board of Trustees, For One Year—J. C. PON-
T1IvUs, Chairman, 8. A. MunNGER, H. K. WHITE
For Two Years—D. Morris, A. W. CULVER.

MUSKEGON BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

W.D.CAREHY & CO.

Successors to Carey & Lander,

GENERAL

Commission Merchants

—AND JOBBERS 0F—

E'ruits and Produce.
ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED. BEST GOODS AT LOWEST PRICES.

Kline’s Patent Candler and Ege Carrier.

The Best om the Market,
Can be made any Size, Round or Square, with any Capacity. State Territory
for Sale by G. C. SAYLES, Sole Agent for the United States, P. O. Box 1973,
Muskegon, Mich. :

ANDREW WIERENGO,

GAR holesale :

GROCER,

WIERENGO NEW BLOCK

 

 

 

Pine Street - -

TO FRUIT

: Tis 6

Muskegon, Mich.

CROWERS

MUSKEGON
BASKET FACTORY

Is now in full operation manufacturing all

aL kinds of
Prices the Lowest.

Quality Guaranteed. FRUIT PACKAGES, BIG.

ORCUTT & COMPANY,

WHOLESALE AND COMMISSION :

Batter, Rows, Cheese, Fruit, rain, Hay, Beef, Pork, Produce

Consignments Solicited. MUSKEGON , MICH.

$. §, MORRIS & BRO.

PACH EES
—AND—

Jobbers of Provisions,
CANNED MEATS AND BUTTERS.

Choice Smoked Meats a Specialty.

 

     
  
 

   

 
 

 

 

 

 

Stores in Opera House Block, Packing and Warehouse Market and Water Street.

 

MUSKEGON NOVELTY IRON WORKS

Manufacturers of the

Williams’ Patent Novelty Pipe Wrench

Best, Strongest and Most Durable Made.

 

We also build Mill and Marine Engines and Boilers and conduct a General Machine
Shop, Blacksmith, Foundry and Boiler Shop Business. 361 Western Avenue.

Choice Butter a Specialty!

BANANAS, LEMONS, CALIFORNIA FRUITS,
EGGS, CHEESE, VEGETABLES, APPLES.

Careful Attention Paid to Filling Orders.

M,C, Russell, 48 Ottawa Si., G’d Rapids,

LOVERS OF A GOOD SMOKE

ALL USE

Raton & Christenson's
L. C.B. CIGAR.

 

 

 

 

 

ELS, BULLET & LEMON,

 

 

 

 

IMPORTERS

Wh lesale Grocer

Cor. Ionia & Island Sts., Grand Rapids.

   

 

New Japans.

We invite the special attention of the trade to several large invoices of the new crop
of 1884-5 Japan Teas, including all grades of Pan Fired, Basket Fire and Sun Cured,fand
embracing about 1,000 chests in all, a large portion of which we are now receiving per
Steamers San Pablo and City of Rio de Janeiro. These Teas are positively our own im-
portation, and we believe we are safe in saying that they are the first Teas ever im-
ported to this market direct from Japan.

They are selected with a view to the wants of Michigan trade and our friends will do
well to send for samples and quotations before buying new Teas.

Soaps.

Again we remind the Trade that we are the Sole Agents in this market for the well-
known and popular Soaps of LAUTZ BROS. & CO., Butfalo, N. Y. Below wegmention
a few of their best-known brands:

Acme, Towel, Napkin, Best American,
Palma, Shamrock, Nickel, White Marseilles.
White Cotton Oil, Gem, Stearine, Boss,

Blue Danube, Mottled German, Lautz Soap, Savon Republique,

Master, ete. :

These goods we sell regularly at the Manufacturers’ Prices, and deliver themjin 16
box lots and upwards to all rail points in Michigan, freight prepaid. Please send for'price-
lists and samples. See quotations on Grocery Page.

Starch.

We are also the Sole Agents here for the NIAGARA STARCH WORKS’ Starch, of
Butialo, N. Y., which we sell at the manufacturers’ prices, freights prepaid on all
shipments of 10 box lots and upwards to all railroad points in Michigan. Send for
See prices on Grocery page of this paper.

Tobaccos.

We carry the largest and most complete line of Cigars in Michigan. We not only
earry a full line of staple and popular brands of plug, fine cut and smoking tobaccos,
but are factory agents for the following, with which we are able to offer the trade special
inducements:

price lists.

| Our Bird Fine Cut Chewing Tobacco.

 

B. F. P.’s Favorite Plug Tobacco.

Big Four es te Morrison’s Fruit as és
Black Bird Hf ff Victor ‘6 és
Z0o0 ZOO a ‘ Peaches é “
Pirate “c Big Deal Smoking Tobaccos.

Old Kentucky ef fe | King Bee ee “

Turkey % « | Apple Jack “

See quotations on grocery page.

Hancy Groceries.

We earry not only a complete line of staple goods, but also a full assortment of every-
thing in the Fancy Grocery department, and are now considered headquarters in this line.
Please send for Circulars and Price-lists relative to this department. Parties desiring new
stocks will find it to their decided advantage to come and see us before purchasing.

Crosse & Blackwell’s English Pickles. Curtis Bros.’ Salad Dressing.
Lea & Perrins’ English Sauce. Durkee & Co.’s “ <

Holford’s " o A. Lusk & Co,’s California Peaches.
Piccadilly . . s ‘* Green Gages.
Colman’s - Mustand. ss Apricots.
James Epps’ "e Breakfast Cocoa. 6 si Egg Plums.
Choice Brands of French Peas. “ & Pears.

fe ‘¢  Mushroons. < Quinces.

ce Italian Macarroni, 1 tb pkg. = Grapes.

fe “  Vermicella. : Cherries.

Queen Olives, 16 0z* and 27 02. bottles. China Preserved Ginger, all size jars,
French Capers, genuine imported in bottle. Knowles & Anderson’s Jams and Jellies.
Choicest Salad Oil, Antonini & Co., Leghorn.

We are sole agents for the Rochester Ready Cooked Food Co.’s Desicated and Cooked
Oat Meal, Hominy, Wheat, Beans and Peas, Send us a trial order for these goods. AI}
correspondence and mail orders receive prompt attention.

 

 

SHIELDS, BULKLEY & LEMON.