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Show FOREIGN. RUSSIA TIOIKMMJ. 1,'ncIeSnm Healini: Her Fai m-et-N iu the Ktili-h lurke(S The Bear Muttering. T.ind.-in. 1 - Tl. :"..-, Ill Its financial article, has the following: It seems from recent articles in the Moscow Oaztttc that great stagnation prevails in the gram trade in southern Rus-ia. Ilus-ian agriculture and commerce are threatened with a collapse. col-lapse. Chief iimo tig the causes is the keen competition ot America. Since, tho civil war in that country the British imports of American wheat have increased, and until p, stands now where the Russian Importation stood in 1807. Then Russia sent out forty-four one hundredths of the total import and the Un.led States only fourteen one hundredths. In 1873 the United States sent out forty-four one hundredths and Russia only fourteen four-teen one hundredths. This does not represent a decrease, to that extent of Russia's total exports; on the contrary con-trary they have slightly increased, but America's have increased much faster. Tne causes are declared chielly to be America's superior traiibit advantages, her virgin soil, and her more scientific agriculture. Tho U'izdtf, therefore, urges Prussian agriculturists lo incorporate new lands, use belter appliances and moro skill, but says tuat cheaper inland transportation is tho chief need. The Gazette's Odessa correspondent wriles that the oldest, inhabitants declare that Odessa was never at such a .-tandsiill since its foundation, no transactions are ellecteil and bankruptcy bank-ruptcy follows bankruptcy, llousm have fallen to 30-100 of their value, and wheat is lying in the storehouses. Tho condition ot affairs ia luridly influenced in-fluenced by the misplaced activity of private banking houses, which made credit absurdly easy and cheap, which created a storm of ephemeral undertaking?, under-taking?, now forced to curtail credits they have reduced to the matt awkward awk-ward position many who thought such a stato of things would lust for EJVlT. |