Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-05-02
FOREIGN NEWS.

two thousand guineas stakes yester
day, is now the favorite for the race
for the Derby stakes, which takes
| place at the Epson summer meet
ing, Wednesday, the 28th inst, al
| FIVE to one against him. Betting
now against Parole for the race fol
the Chester Trades cup, which will
be run on the 7th, is two to on.
Lord Zetland's four years old bay
colt, Flatsam, is quoted at three tc
one against him. -
BERLIN, May Emperor Viii
liam will return to this city on the
9Th inst. -a q sL
The grand spring military review
has been postponed to the 28th
inst.
The Czar of Russia viii come
here to attend the Emperor's golden
wedding, direct from Lavidia, by
way of Warsaw. He will pass the
summer at Petenshof, the Imperial
residence, and return to Lavidia in
the autumn.
COLOGNE, May 1.-The Cologne
Gazette's St. Petersburg letter,
dated April 22nd, says: ga uni>
versal feeling of gloom prevails.
One feels that he must be prepared
for the wsrst. Rigorous police reg
ulations are already in force re-
specting the watching of the
entrance of houses /; visits and
searches by night, and so on, are to
be rendered still more stringent.
After 9 o'clock in the evening no
body will be at liberty to show
himself in the street without GER
tifeate, upon which must be written
and attested the place from which
the bearer comes and to
which he is going. If this
ordinance, which was planned
by Gen. Gourko, the Governor
General, is promulgated, then we
shall have nothing to do but quietly
squat down in our chambers in the
evening, for how are we going to
get such certificate and attestation
after that hour i? Soon it will not
be necessary to light a candle be-
fore half past nine o'clock, and yet,
at nine o'clock, just as in the bar
racks, every light must be
put out. The measures are cer-
tainly very stringent, but, at
the same time, the insecurity at st.
Petersburg is daily on the increase.
Every day We hear of grenades ex-
ploded in the streets. Happily,
there have not been serious conse-
quences. For the present, the in
tention of the Nihilists is believed
to be to keep the police in state of
constant excitement, and at last
tire them out or lull them to sleep
with the idea that danger has been
exaggerated. They also reckon on
harsh measures and arrests as
producing discomfort among
many people who, when the time
comes for the grand attack on the
Government, would join the rev.
olutionists. On the night between
Friday and Saturday seditious pla-
cards were found stuck up in the
vicinity of the theatres, and at the
corners of the business streets, and
although the city police and the
detectives at once hurried up and
tore down the manifestoes, they
nevertheless appeared anew, as
though conjured forth from the wall
by enchantment. Passers by stopped
to read the bills, and in this one
night the police arrested upwards of
$50 persons. Among all those
taken the police failed to find in a
single case as much as a scrap of
paper which appeared to have any
thing to do with the proclamation.
The mysterious bill sticker on the
other hand went on with his work
indefatigably and the police could
not succeed in discovering
him. The alarm at last became so
great that two companies, under
the command of Col. DeBerg
marched out, and were posted at
the entrance to a number of houses
and in the street. When the guard
had its attention called to the right,
bills were posted up on the left, and
after they had been torn down on
the left, there on the
right again appeared the
manifestoes of the men of the revo>
luton. Since the attempt on the
life of the Car, troops have been
held in readiness day and night. In
every regiment, two companies in
marching order, equipped with
ball, cartridge and all accessories re-
quisite for active operations, are
Kept constantly under arms. Bat
teries stand ready horsed and mount
ed in the barrack yards. A squadron
of cavalry stands in readiness to
mount, and day and night divisions
of Cossacks patrol the streets. On
the 10th, a peasant was arrested, in
whose pockets were found disposi-