Business Interests

Nokfolk cxpects to ship many oystcrs o Europe this winter at fair ra es of remunera tion. Boston reporte great aotivity in the lry-goods trnde, eepecinlly from the ifouth and West. Cincinnati reports thnt lier fall txade will be vastly larger than it has been or several years bm . Wiscoksin lamber manufacturera on hé lake ports havo commenced shipiiig oertaju grades of lumber to Europe lirect. Impoütehs and jobbers at New York report the fall trade unconinionly brisk. Southern merchants ara buj'ing more iberally than at auy season since the war. The Philailelphiu Presa notiecs the act that American wall-papers are being exported to Italy ; also American oilloths to Italy and Germany. These orlers are part of the resulte of the Cenennial Exposition. Tjib New York Jlerald asserts that it ïas carefully examined soveral hnndred of its exchanges in all parts of the coun;ry, and that iu no cae has it failed to isoover indioations of a revival of business, improvement of prospects, and enargement of confidence. A commercial agent who has reeen tly eturned to Chicago from a tour iu the South, embracing visite to New Orleans, tfobile, Charleston and all prominent eities in tho South, report, that trade is slowly pioking up in that soction of the country. There are, ho says, everyvhere signs of coming business proserity. The total importa of inorehandise ftt Uew York siuco Jan. 1, this year, werc ■Í2:!7,8;35,'.)21, agaiust %28&ftl$969 for ,he corresponding peripd in 1876, and ■■! trvs48,718 in 1875. The total exporta )f produce; were $192,081,220, agaipsf 5185,544,053 in 186, nnd $177,722,154 m 1K75. The total exporta of Specie weie $29,282,076, agaiust 830,908,852 in 187G, aud $62,220,172 in 1875. In eomplianoe with requirement of tl ie late Legislatura of Kansas, returns have boen made to the State Auditor showiug that the railroad debt of sixtysix of the counties of the State amounts In ir 12,505,000. The returns f rom the other couutios will increaso tiiis sum to about 15,000,000. Thn total taxftble weulth of the State is .$150,000,000. The two latcst returns-at hand of the J5:iuk of Franco compare as follows : ASSKTS. A"'i. 'M. Auy. 23. Cnshand biillion... $4föïS3,8i7 Í li:t;.V2i.i;i7 Bill discouuted and advaiuw 111.857,:: 103686,067 Trcasnry IhiihIs f)7,"(;'J,()00 i;7,769,000 j.iAiïn.n n.s. Activo note, circulatiou. .$i7S.",j.-,, icr, 1173)886,411 1'ublU: di'liosit 43,52ajeö 43,318,20: Trivatc ileiiosits 97,0S3,2-J 94,508,728 Shop, MUI :unl r:iljor Notes. All the zinc works of IjaSalle aiu: JVru, 111., are now again in full blast. Tiir himber milis at Clinton, Iowa, are idle, waiting for higner water and more logs, Tiiebb are nearly 1.000 men employee at the various stovc mannfactories oi Cleveland. ITeakly 100,000 tons of iron ore liave been received at the port of ClevelanO this season up to dato. A rapt contaiuing 138,280 cubic feet, sakl to be the largest ever iu those waters, passed through Lake Champlain the other day. - . Ti ie Baltimore and Ohio railroat shops at Zauesvillt?, CL, have been ordered to start full time and forcé on freight ears. Repohts trom all over tl ie country concerning the iron trade are still gloomy enough, with but little to build a hope that it will soon be befcter. V a rocont invontion buttons are fast ened upon cards by machinery instead o by hand, as heretoforo. One machine will do the work of twenty skilled workers. Harvest Cileanings. The Dallas Commercial estimates the wheat erop of Texas this year at 7,500 - 000 bnshels. TnK harvest in Spain in wheat, fruit aud wine has boen so magnificent tlia it is estimated that over half can be exported. The 1872 erop of Wisconsin tobiusco is now shedded, and has exceetled in quantity and quality the lughest dreams of the gi-owers. The rice erop of Louisiana increased from 20,000 barrels iu 1865 to over 175,000 barrels in 1876. The yield for this year is estimated by the New Orleans Democrat at nearly 170,000 barrels, on a decreased aereage. Aocokding to the reporte of the English Agricultura!, Gazette, the wheat erop ia thethrce kingdoms is considerably below the average ; but it has been a good year for graziers and dairy farmers. Thk Omaha llernld publishes detailed reporta from all couuties in Nebraska and Wostoru Iowa, showing the condition of the corn erop. It is generally conceded that the yield will bc larga than in any previousyear, averaging from fii'ty to seventy-fivo bushels per acre. AYhoat averages tweaty-tewo busliels, and the quality is botter than last year. Barley ranges irom twenty-five to fifty bushels, and oats fifty to seventy-five. Very littlo of the harvested erop is comiug to rnarket, the farmers beiug disposed to liold for botter pricos.