Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-06-21
TORTURING A LADY.
Nadia LltVani's Sufsrlngs Under Co.'S
sack ScOurges.

S1SN SesA' 9Sof
New York Msrcary.l
eFour decidedly queer.looking indi
viduals waited Tor the Inman steamer
City of Brussels to come into her
dock last Thursday. They might be
briefly described as q fat man, a lean
man and a very tall man, and a gentle
man with a thirty-inch long yellow
beard. All wore slouched hats, and
had their legs incased in very tight
pataloOns and lIessian boots with
spurs. As soon as the gangway was
opened they rushed aboard and sur
rounded a lady who stood on the up
per deck with a canvas sachel ia her
hand. They had previously been
gesticulating wildly to the lady. Now
they each embraced her in turn,
IMPRlNTING A KISS UPON HER LIPS.
Before the b~ystanders had barely time
enough to be astonished, the whole
party was ashore, each member bear
ing some article of the lady's baggage.
They were driven off in a roomy car
rage, drawn by two shaggy horses,
and splashed with the mud of country
roads.
A Mercury reporter found this
same vehicle in the yard Of an extern
sive and well-cared-for farm near
Seeaucus. y. j. The estate is that of
Ivan DOleourOuki. the gentleman with
the yellow beard. and IS known in the
neighborhood as the Russian Farm.
1t is cultivated exclusively By Mr..
DolgourOuki and his three queer
friends. In the comfortable sitting
room Of the farmhouse the reporter
met a lady Of about thirty years. but
who might from her appearance have
been sixty--to judge from her very
wan and careworn face, hollow cheeks
and suuken blue eyes, Her hair was
very thin and quite white. aud her
face absolutely bloodless. ike that of
a corpse. She spoke in German, in a
low but clear voice, constantly inter
rupted By a hollow cough, and the
hand with which she frequently en-
phasized her remarks was large, har-
dened by labor.
TO commence properly then | must
state my name is Nadia Lityanl !
am a Pole, born Of q Russian father
and a Polish mother, at Warsaw, but
educated at Moscow. Ny father held
a minor government Office there.
Eight years ago he died. Ny mother
was a helpless invalid. To support
her i became q goyerness in the fami.
4, iy Of a wealthy merchant Of Moscow.
A stronger affection sprangup between
my employers eldest son aud myself.
and
WE BECAME SECRETLY BErROTHED.
In the intimacy born of This close
connection | learned that my be
trothed was an aetige Nihilist.
was Mortified at the discovery, for !
had been educated to a strict and
blind belief in the inflllibility of the
2 But when Ivan explained the
tenets of his political creed to me |
became imbued with his own enthu-
siasin, and was soon asactiye a worker
in the cause as himself. lie obtained
q post for me in the great Moscow
Female Seminary. There | propogat.
q ed the Nihilist doctrines among my
pupils, and was soon the head Of q
quite extensive party Of proselytes.
The indiscretion OF one OF IN
young converts betrayed me. and no
only me but the club of which IYar
was president. 4 sweeping arrest wa
made, and men and women to tn,
number of sixty were thrown int
prison. The government was not 81
meroiless in its punishments at tina
time as now, and we would have es
capped with simple banishmeut haC
not a determined effort been made b,
Our friends
TO RELEASE rs by FORCE.
On the night OF Easter Monday
1872, at II o'clock, we were mustered
into the great corridor of the Moscow
Jail. Men and women were mustereC
in separate gangs. | formed one Of
party OF twehty-three women. and w,
were In charge OF iOur female guards
Each Of Us. was given a black eloal
with a hood. with a numbered bras
plate on the breast, stout shoes Of an
dressed leather, and a tin pau aud
wooden spoon which we slung 70 oa
waists. After m%ustering us by
written list, each OF us had her hand
nANDCUFPED BEHIND HEa BACK.
The men started first and we fol
lowed on into the city. Our iemal
slaye-drivers rode ina wagon behinI
us. A guard Oh COssacks gaiiaped U.
and dow on either side Of Us, crack
iug their whips loudly to warn off al
the crowds which IA spite Of the late
ness Of the hour. lined the streets.
wrenched my ankle between twl
stones in the rough street aud ipyel