Business Interests

The exporis oí cotton manufactures are steadiry 011 the increase. Thu peach erop in Soutliem Missouri is so large the people do not know what to do with it. Sixty MHitiiONS of dollars ia the sum set down as having been lost by the late railway strikes. A ten-acke orange grove in Florida, well cultivated, is sakl to be worth an annual income of $6,000. The oil country is said to have never been so completely overrun with stook as since the railroad blockacle. A depression of values is looked for. It appears tlmt while about 4,000 ships per annum visit American shoree in ballast for cargoes, not more than 500 American vessels go abroad in ballast for the same purpose. Business at the Cambria Iron Works, Johnstown, Pa., is kept up to a fair average, nnd the populntion of nearly 20,000 persons depending upon the enterprise of this single eompany is faii-ly supplied witli all comforts. Nearly every branch of the extensive works is more than fairly busy. The San Francisco Chroniclc tells some strango stories conceming the dishonest management of some of the mines in that State, whioh, though yielding largoly of gold, are continually running behind. The thievery is prevalent in every department of the management, and seems to surpass auything before known in the history of such afiairs. So fab as the simple effect of the strike of the anthracite miners upon the coal business is concerned there will accrue a beneflt, as the pioduction has been too great aud the prices too low; but the damage to property, and tho distress of laborers and traders consequent upon such a cessation of business, cannot be estimated by jirolit going to coal-dealers. Mlll, Shop and Labor Notes. Detroit boasts of shippiug stoves to Australia. Tiffin, Ohio, supplies the world with 5,000 churus and 10,000 dozen washboiurds per annum. Neahit all the oleomai'garine butter manufactured in this country is exported to Europe, averaging 1,000,000 pounds per month. The work of repairing damages on the Feiinsylvania railroad at Pittsburgh is going on very actively. The Union depot is to be rebuilt. The experience of the Pennsylvania railroad at Pittsburgh is tliat there are more good railroad men oftering to go to work than the compauy can fina ernployment for. The Burlington Glass Works, Hamilton, Out., have been compelled to sucoumb tocompetition f rom the States, and its blowers are looking toward Pittsburgh for employment. There seems to bc considerable doubt attnehed to the success of the Permanent Exhibitiou at Phüadelphia, neitlnr the exhibite nor attendance coming uptothe anticipatiori of the management As one of the rtsultsof striking, nearly 1,000 men will be kept out of employment with the Vulcan Irou Company, Carpndelet, Mo., three montlis, until tüe company can recover thtúr furnaces trom the ' cliill " given to their sticks by the strike. Over 2,000 men are still idle at the American Iron Works, Pittsbnrgh, becanse the fireinen of tho puddling furnaces decline work at the rate paid. It is a case in wliirh 100 dissatistied men are ruling 1,900 who want to work. The distress of the anthracite coalminers is a subject for genuine, benevoleuce, notwitlistanding the liard mOra] reputation which these men have. There are more thau doublé the number of them than aro needëd, and all are wrctcli(!cll poor. üestitute of work, money, or provisions, i( would not be strange if they beoome ..espérate. The fact was never more apparent than now that the laborer is nowhere so well situated as on a few acres of land, which will yield him a living in spito of all contingenties in other business. His labor puys him as sui'e as the sun sliines or the rain falls, and he loses nothing by breaking banks or faiïway blockadea unless from tho sur);us of labor which he is striving to nmrket.