The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-07-24
REVIVING BUSINESS.


about twenty cents a bushel and flour eighty
cents barrel, owing to the augmented for
eign demand for American breadstuffs-a
demand that we would rather see brought
about from some other causes than the mis-
fortunes of the people on the other side of
the Atlantic, as happens in this instance.
foundations in France, England and Hun
gary have caused considerable crop losses,
but these are not the severest misfortunes
that shorten the foreign breadstutf supply.
Unfavorable weather has prevailed over the
best grain-bearing sections of the continent
of Europe just at the critical period of gath
ering the crops, and the gloomy details
have been coming to US by telegraph and
mail. Rains have drenched the already
over-wet fields in some sections, while
drought has parched them in others. For
month past, throughout Europe, the fears
of short crop of wheat have been accu
mulating, until now the necessity for pre-
pairing to meet the deficit has given sud
den impulse of activity to the grain and
shipping interests of the United States. 1t
so happens that this country is now in good
condition to make up European losses
Before the present American wheat crop
was harvested, our granaries contained
large reserve of last years crop-much
larger than usual, for prices had been low
and the demand poor, SO that there had
been no inducement to sell. Under the
stimulus of increasing prices this reserve
is coming forward in large amounts for
shipment abroad, for as yet but little of
this years crop has found its way to mar
ket, except from California, where the har-
vest is earlier than in the wheat growing
States on the Atlantic slopes of the CONT
81, Vol, FN,.
MIA has declined about ten per cent in guam
tity, yet elsewhere in the United States the
new crop promises to be a good one, as
large. if not larger, than last years. We
are therefore able, with new wheat and
old, to send to Europe all that may be
wanted there without seriously inconve
niencing ourselves, and in a very few weeks
the questions will be settled whether the
European wheat crop is to be very little
or a great deal below the average, and also
whether the demand for American bread
stutfs abroad is to continue brisk during the
balance of the year.-Phila. Ledger.
s The Democratic Gubernatorial Con-
yention has been the all-absorbing theme
in this State, the past week. Every day
for four or five days previous to Wednesday,
the Baltimore papers contained tables of
votes W ich each candidate was certain to
receive in the convention, together with
long opinions of the friends of the several
candidates, and finally interviews which
were had with the aspirants themselves at
their rooms in the city, on Monday night.
In this last showing Gov. Groome seemed
very confident, and spoke in the strongest
manner of his determination to remain in
the field to the very last. But on Wednes-
day morning came the intelligence that the
Governor had been, at 2 o'clock that morn
ing, induced to withdraw; accompanied by
the rumor that the price paid therefor was
the promise of the Presidency of the Ches
apeake and Ohio Canal, now held by the
notorious "A. p. German. The Baltimore
San, however, on Thursday, published the
following article, in regard to the matter:
Gov. GRooME's PosITIoN-We have the
very best authority for stating that the
rumors, which have obtained currency
through the press of this city, that the
withdrawal of Gov. Groome from the con-
test for the gubertatorial nomination was
in consequence of an understanding, ex-
press or implied, that he is to be supported
at some future time for some political or
other position, are wholly without founda-
ton. A number of his leading friends,
representing several delegations in the con-
venton, after full interchange of views,
were unanimously of the opinion that,
although he would receive large vote,
there was no possibility in any contingency
OF securing his nomination. He therefore
withdrew his name to relieve his friends
from all obligation to waste their strength
in hopeless struggle on his behalf and to
enable the convention speedily and har-
moniously to arrive at result. The Gov
ernor intends at the expiration of his
official term to resume the practice of law,
and neither expects nor desires again to
relinquish it to accept Office.