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Show UL'SIXESS MATTERS. The reduction of the wara of over 30,000 cotton operatives in Lnuca- . jhire 10 per cent, showa how depressed de-pressed are times in Europe. Real estate is very low in S.m Francisco, Fran-cisco, and the Call snrsta that it is a cnod time for laboring men to secure cheap luts in that city. It is estimated that there is about $20,000,000 of Rold coin in California in circulation at the present time, ami that there was only sonio $10,000,000 at the time of the hank panic last August. Owing to tho prolonged period ol cheap money, eastern bank managers manag-ers are abandoning the system ot pitying pity-ing interest on deposit!, which, in times of business activity, they found very profitable. Tne building trade of New York city this Bummer has lH'it kept, up to .the average of former years, tho prevailing pre-vailing low rate of wages enabling people to build much more cheaply Lhan for many years past. Notwithstanding tho faet that a great many while laborers in all parl of the country are out ol employment and would be glad to acr.ept work at nlmobt any rate- of nagew, there are advocates ol Chinese immigration on the ground that cheaper labor in essential to the interests of the ceuntry. The advices reporting damage to ! cropa by Hoods in the west and northwest north-west arc discredited by the boat i ii i formed operators, it ia not denied that some damage has buen sustained : in certain areas of the wiinat belt, but j these, it is claimed, are, limited, and Uhe loss to be deducted from the ag-: ag-: gregate yield will be trilling. A California paper Bays: "Our farmers havo gone mad over wheat raising. They have planted the back yard, and tbo front yard, and the ground that hbould be devoted to orchard or-chard and garden, to wheat; tiiey are jealous of the leuce corners, which deprive them of a few feet of ground, afraid to build n barn or corral, lest they have a sack o( wheat hss. And when the harvest ia over it requires the product of an acre of wheat to buy the potatoes which would have grown on one tenth the ground; the price ol another acre to buy vegetables thai could have been raised on a few rods square; the price of another acre or two to furnish fruit; the income Irom a dozen acres or more to pay tor beet, unit ton or bacon, which might have been raised on the bum. These are . the farmers whs are bled to dtath by the grain ring, the sack ring and the money lenders. They buy everything, even to iluur. They buy the hay which the work horses eat. They buy butter, in many instances, becau.-e they can no', ."pare the land for pasture pas-ture for cows. And when pl iwing time comes, everything that goes on the table comes from tho 6lore. Money must be borrowed to pay lor help; money mut be borrowed to pay the reapers, the threshers, tho sack- ( and hundreds of little expenses incident inci-dent il to taking off tho crop. |