The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-05-02
The Reign Of Terror in st. Pc
tersburg.
Stringent Measures Taken by the
Police
The Power Of the Nihiiists.

COLOGNE May 1.-The Gazette's St. Petersburg
letter dated April p, says universal feeling of
gloom prevails. After O'Clock in the evening no
body is at liberty to show himself in the street with.
out a certificate, upon which must be written and
attested the place from which the bearer comes and
to which he is gong The measures are stringent,
but at the same time the insecurity in St. Peters
burg is daily on the increase. Every day we hear of
grenades exploded in the street. Happily there has
not b:en serious consequences. For the present the
intention OF the Nhisls is believed to be to keephe
police in state of constant excitement and at last
tire them out or lu them to sleep with the idea that
the danger is exaggerated They also reckon on the
harsh measures and arrests producing discomfort
among many people who when the time comes for n
grand attack the government, will ion the reyo-
lutioDsts. In the right between Friday and Satur-
day seditious pacards were found stuck up in the
vicinity OF the theatres and at the corners of the
busiest streets, and although the city police and de-
tectives al once hurried up and tore down the mani
festos, they nevertheless appeared anew as though
coulured forth from the wall by eDchant ment.
Passers-by stopped and read the bills, and in this
one night the police arrested upward of $50 persons.
Among all these taken the police failed to find in
single case as much as scrap Of paper which ap-
peared to have anything to do with the proclama-
on with his work indetatgably and the police could
not succeed in discovering him. The alarm at last
became SO great that two companies under Col. De
Berg marched out and were posted at the entrances
number CT houses and in the street but when the
guard had its attention called to the right Hills were
posted up the LETT and after they had bsen torn
down the left there the right again appeared
the manifestos of the OF the revolution. Since
the attempt the life of the Gear the troops are
held in readiness day and night. In every regiment
two companies in marching order, equipped with
| ball cartridges and all accessories requisite for
| action. Batteries stand ready hor.ed and mounted
| in the barrack yards. squadron of every cavalry
| regiment standsin constant readiness to mount on
day and night, and divisions of Cossacks patrol the
| streets.
| Arrest of a NihiIist with Important Pa.
| pers.
On the 18th peasant was arrested in whose pock-
cts were found dispositions for the revolutionary
troops. According to this document. active opera
lions were to commence in the night between the
18th and 18th. Instantly the Government made the
most extensive preparations for defence The Grand
Duke Nicholas took up his quarters with his entire
staff in the offices of the general staff opposite the
| Winter Palace In the riding school of the guards
the regiment Of hussars OF the guards quartered
while the barracks of Pavof and Preobrajensk reg
iments were crammed full of troops, and the whole
ley of the guards received orders to hold itself
in readiness for immediate action. Troops continued
several days in the places assigned them, but The
revolution did not break out. Probably the wi ole
j story of the intended outbreak was an intentional
| mystifcation.
Protection in France.
PARIS, May Ia meeting of delegates of protec-
tional chambers of commerce was held to-day.
Among the cities represented were Amiens, Caen,
| Orleans, Rouen, Tours and Valenciennes. M.
Pouyer Quertier presided. In his address he de-
clared that free trade had merely played into the
hands CT England, who was in danger of Ii sing her
| European and American markets. The meeting
adopted petition demanding the establishment Of
retaatory tariffs which would insure the existence
| of native industry.
HanIon ami Hawdon.
| LONDON, May la smart fall of snow on the
hank of the Tyne occurred this morning, but it soon
| ceased. Hanlon was atloat at 1880. The wind was
easterly and cold but the water was in excellent
rowing condition. Hanlon did not exceed his usual
regulation stroke Hawdon was aaoat at II O'Clock
and after rowing up river distance returned at
clipping pace to Scotswood, keeping an average
stroke of 81 to the minute.
Another Flood Threatening szegedin
VIENNA, May Lowing to the late heavy rains in
Hungary and the food consequent upon tne melting
of the SHOWS in the mountains, the water has every
where risen The work of closing the gaps in the
dykes al Szegedin is not yet beng finished and the
waters have lisen in that town. re.occupying some Of
the ground already dry.
PEsTH. May la violent hurricane at Szegedin
yesterday destroyed the works prepared for restoring
the railway and filling breaches in dams. Barses
filled with building material and earth were sunk
The storm caused extensive fresh breaches in the
railway embankment, and laborers are in great dan.
ger. Relief has been sent to them.
Another OF LOfillard's Horses Comes in a
| Victor.
| NEWMARKET, Eng, May 1.-LorillaId's spa
poose" won the two year-old stakes to-day. spa
poose" is a sister to "Parole''
The New French Cable
| LONDON, May 1.-FuIther obstacles to the prose.
cuton of Ponyer Quertier's trans Atlantic Gable
scheme has arisen in the shape of protest by VIM.
| Cornell Jewett who claims to have been the real
organizer of the project through concessions he held
In circular addressed to the syndicate and intended
for subscribers of the ompany be declares any
organization such as theirs to imperative withou
his consent The Telegraph says on the subject
that even should the capital ever be subscribed the
first result would apparently be that litigation on
both sides Of the Atlantic might miss the project in
| the bud.
News from ZuIand,
CAPE Town, April 15.-Aprll Sth the colonial
forces unsuccessfullp assaulted the strong hold Of
the BesutO Chief Moirosi. They lost two officers A
friendly native chief was killed and an officer and
twenty-five men were wounded.
The Ores burg Fire
| ORENBURG, May 1.-The fire in this city is attri.
bued to carelessness. Nine hundred and forty mine
dwellings were burned together with one mosque
four mills, two hundred and pinety-two shops
several tar, coal and firewood stores, timber
yards, meat market, fruit market, gymnasium
lie club house, work house, police station
aud Justices c ,urt, besides buildings named yester-
day. The Gar contributed len thousand roubles for
| the relief of the sufferers.