The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-05-06 00:00:00

THE STATE OF RUSSIA.

A telegram from —th;Tov—e;no7.—of Orenburg, to the
Minister of the Interior, dated Orenburg, the ffikts
11.50 p.m.. reports that • great lire has been raging in that
to•n since 10 o'clock in the morning of that day, a violent
storm prevailing at the same tirne. The telegram describes
the distress caused by the ounffsgration as terrible. The
fire was spreading rapidly, and it was impoedble to save
any part of the city that it attacked. A further despatch,
dated April va. &40 a.m.. says The conlagration
continued to rage all yesterday and throughout the night,
and several houses are stilt burning this morning, The
storm has, however, entirely ceased. The best quarters of
the town have been hurt down. Among the buildings
destroyed are two churches, the Artillery Barracks, the
Town Hall, the Engineer Headquarters, the Auction
Mark the Telegraph Station, the Seminary for Teachers,
the Customs Office, the Control Office, and the District
Military Court House. The public funds and the greater
part of the official archives have been saved. One church
has been damaged. The loss sustained by the inhabitants
is enormous. Three charred bodies have up to the
present been found in the ruins. More than half the pop-
ulation is now destitute of food and shelter. The persons
suffering from burns or other injuries are being tended in
the barracks outside the town, and in the Summer
Gymnasium." The Governor of Samara has leen
instructed by telegraph to send • supply of bread to
Orenburg, and measur.s have been taken in the neigh-
bouring villages to relieve the distress of the sufferers.
The formation of • relief committee is also contemplated.
Thelnumber of the sufferers is, however, so great that it is
feared that the local resources for rendering aaeistance
will fall far short of what is required. The Governor
appeals to the Minister for speedy pecuniary assistance.
No riots or excesses occurred during the c nollagration.
There is a large number of Government officials among
the persona injured by the Are. The Minister of the
Interior has up to the present sent 10.000 roubles in aid of
the sufferers. .

The Governor of Orenhurz, who is at present in St
Petersburg, return, immediately to his mast.
The village of Gratehenko, on the Volga, has also been
entirely burnt down.
.

A recent plot to anima,. General Drenteln at St.
the Emperor's life was the son of one of the superior officials,
Petersburg was frustrated by the presence of mod of
that officer himself. Among the applicants who waited
upon the General at one of Ins usual morning receptious
was a man in the full uniform of • &Irian colonel. who
when hi. turn came, was invited to state his tuuiness.
He began to I umble in one of his pockets, sail for pow..
when the General, suspecting treachery, promptly Rig
his hand and with it the pocket, until the stranger was
secured. In his pocket wa• found a loaded revolver, and
he proved to he no officer at all, but • Nihilist In (Sumba.
Among the arrests made before the recent attempt on
the wile of the Military Procurator, and the nephew of
General Drenteln. Among the persons arrested sines
the attempt are Senator Stapar, with whom S iforieTa
address was found, a bask director, named Pytin, and
his brother, as well as IL. Foinineyn, professor of botany,
and his brother. _

A few weska ago Serge Lawrowski, aka the ablest detec-
tives attached to the Third department, was scut from St
Petersberg to Poltava with the instructions to get at
the *area of the Nihilistic organisatioa there established.
Arrived at Poltava. Lanowski displayed great wtinty
In guiding the researches of the local police, wade many
acquaintances in different characters, being an ex oert
chaining his appearance and manner, and was hopeful of
success in his onsaion, when his evil fortune preutpted
him to fall in love with the pretty daughter of a priest,
named Achristoff. This girl. only 17 years of age, wm
affiliated to the Associations, and had been planted upon
L iwrowaki by order of the Poltava Committee, with the, j
object of betraying him Into their hands. After • high,
night's ardent courtship, tidlly. Achristoff allowed
to he persuaded to give ha admirer • rendavou. by-
in a garden Just outside the town. Wli a fate gight
reached the tryeting-place he was • •rowski
by five =eked men, armed with revoker, sod seized
who bound him to a tree, and Ikea . and knives,
care Bleeding and musbic to shout his nose nod
bad been gagged by his mutilatersa units/we, as he
they left hint In an of pup ti• remained where
when he was found a, s • wiill early morning,
wood.
An open lein
tter all but dead from bins of
following ferocious arenas- PG3ll,at coatitided the
nu
and his ears becausee because he le x 4111.' 'We cut off his
he hat proved bestial,,.
•°-"uuulk to _ of Uoras•,„ar. us, ia that he paid court
Ichristoff has vanished front
while .e proved utterly ineffectual.Mean-
her bidets-place 1,. -arts of the notice to track her to
lies Ins haulms condition; and, even
y from the utter exhaustion induced by the
ha, ere suffered during that terrible nigh; he will
eidepus witness on his disfigured countenance, as 1
oiug as hentay live,te the pitileu anger of the Poltava
Committee
A considerable numbor of outrages is reported from the
Provinces since the promulgation of the Imperial ukaae
dated the 17th inst. inc brief accounts of theso uceurrences
printed in the leading Russian papers me, be received
ILI authentic, for the Russian press lies just now under
curb severe official restrictions with respect to the publi-
cation of any intelligence touching the progress of the
Social Revolution that it does not venture to lend its
columns to the circulation of mere rumouni. however,
' seautional and thrilling The Si. Prterektre Seams re-
port, four attempts at assassination committed at Kama,
the victims of each have one and all been State officials of
high rank. Three of the four persons attacked have died
of their wounds. One of these latter, Nonkoff, the
President of the district, walked into the principal
restaurant of Kagan a few minutes before he was shot,
and add to oae of the waiters, "Friend, give • dram;
perhaps it will be the last I shall ever drink." A glass of
wad wee lagged to him, and the waiter notked that ,

ti.mik. fr, hand shook es he lifted the liquor to Ida Upe• i
• Luniethetely afterwArde be left the restaurant ; hut as ;
I Le °Peeled the d•vv, a bullet struck Mm full in the breast, ;
1 ied chug an injury which has since proved fetal. The 1
! mieets ..f tho c.intruittee actually engaged in these 1
1 .1. inure hare been arrested. Iwo are wurkius men. one
1. • Boyar, ami another a handsome and highly educated '
itirl u; seventeen. .

From Figaro.

In making • speech tTo--th-e-Bill—garlan Assembly, Prince
Rut& °Mud Karsakoff took ocramion to exclaim, "Ling lire
si•aad glorious Bulgaria r Need we &dd..' ter that,
that this princgly humbug I.a candidate tor the Bulgarian
tbr.me I Wh•t • cruel and hitter satire the recent pro-
iu Bulgaria mos: s.mu to the knoubrd. and
Imuished. and imprisoned wretches who are the victims of
the r Lign I terra,. DOW in forco in Russia I Tbourands of
ttie Cotes subjects are being packed of to pass a life of
fferidiah toiture to that hell upon earth. Siberia—end foe
what I Why. for simply daring to ask for that political
litiorty whicu the 'llOl7 C.:** shed rivers of RUIDDLD
blood to extend Li" glorious Bulgaria.**

LII AGIUCOLTUILAL lIIIIBITION.
An Agricultural Exhibition in Lundun shortly is
anuotuanad. Fur our part, we think the promoters had
better hurry it on as much as possible, or sloe, with things
smug on ai they hare of late in the country, there will he
really no English farmers left to take part in the show.

GAMBLING AT MONACO aND NICIL
The past season at Monaco and Nice has teen noted for
heavy play at both places; many Engliahmen and Amer.
Cans who had gone to Monte Carlo with confident deter-
mination to break the bank, having succeeded, as usual.
only in breaking themselves. At the Mediterrande. at .
Nice, more money has been lost and wen at baccarat Limn
can be reinewhead by the eklest member of that gambling
circle. At Monte Carlo, one Englishman won 200,0110
, francs in au afternoon with an original stake of 10 boos,
' and another et his countrymen pocketed 250A00 francs ins
few hours by steadily playing the maximum (UM !range/
at great-el qiusraraa. lheT la all got rid of their lama
within • week. .nd aoma 300.000 francs besides Count
Belgarde won 200.000 lianas one evening, and set a for
Vienna early next morning, to keep himself trona further
temptation. One of the most venturesome gamblers at
Mult,Co is Mr. WILIIOO, 1111 AtisuriCan, who, at last
acCOatits, was credited with • dellat, during the season,
to the green cloth, of not hes than 1,500,00 U francs. A
,uy.ter.oua and singularly headmane woman, apparenily
ids.ut Z. who has been staying for two mentos at the
Waal do 1.344. has loan noted for her heavy play. Mehl
ssert Ito ile] from New York; but nobody kneel.., she
speak. English, French. German. and Italian, with almost
tqual facility and purity. She seems to gamble for dis-
traction ; t be waiting for somebody; to be in the eve of
POMO tragedy which has cast tit shadow before. She has
no siwociedion with anybody, bat her person and manners
ere very distinguished, and she goes by the name of the
Beautiful Unknown.
RMTIMAT WITH 110NOCIL

Mr. Rivers Wilson returns to ho snug place Ls
Controller to the Counnisisioners for the Reduction of the
National Debt, his salary being J; trAU. Fortunate official !
Ile wax permitted to try his hand in Egypt without in the
aluminium risking his £l5Oll-a-year 'dam at home. Ile
has subetantial consolation for the Khedive's kick-out.
turd Beaconstield will he consoled by the sweet adulation
of his followers. Ilia Egyptian failure will be called •
Retreat with Honour. The invixible Conservative work-
ing men can present him with • *dyer wreath, or a bronze
statuette. If the latter is preferred. we leg to suggest •
motto for its base The pfintle, honor Cal a lido, hat
already been appropriated DI an anagram of the name of
Horatio Nelson, but Lbws, cat !luta would he something
like in sound.