Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-07-18
A Picture OF the Nihilist Doings in
ST. Petersburg.

A universal feeling Of gloom prevails.
After . o'clock in the evening. nobody
is at liberty to show himself In the
street without q certificate, upon
which must be written and at
tested the place from which the
bearer comes and to which he is going.
The measures are stringent. but at the
same time the insecurity of st. Peters
burg is daily on the increase. Every
day we hear of grenades exploded in
the street. Happily there have not
been serious consequences. For the
present the intention Of the Nihilists is
believed to be to keep the police in q
state of constant excitement, and at last
tire them out or lull them to sleep with
the idea that the danger is exaggerated.
They claim that harsh measures and ar
rests are producing discomfort among
many people who, when the time comes
for grand attack on the government,
will join the revolutionists. On the
night between Friday and Saturday,
seditious placards were found stuck up
in the vicinity of the theaters, and at
the corners of the business streets, aud
although the city police and detectives
ut once hurried up and tore down the
manifestoes, they nevertheless APP
peared anew, as though conjured forth
from the walls of enchantment.
Passers by stopped to read the bills,
and in this one night the police arrested
over one hundred and fifty persons.
Among all those taken the police failed
to find in a single case as much as q
scrap of paper which appeared to have
anything to do with the proclamation.
The secret bill sticker, on the other
hand, went on with his work indefatiga-
bly,, and the police could not succeed
in discovering him. The alarm at last
became SO great that two companies
were marched out and posted at the
entrances to number of houses in the
street, but when the guard had its at
tention called to the right. bills were
posted upon the left, and after they had
been torn down ON the left they again
appeared on the right. Since the at
tempts on the life of the Gar, troops
have been in readiness day and night
in every regiment, two companies in
marching order, equipped with ball
cartridges and all the accessories re
quired for active operations. Batteries
stand ready horsed and mounted in the
barrack yards, and squadron of every
cavalry regiment stands in constant
readiness to mount both day and night,
divisions of Cossacks patrol the streets.
On the 10th peasant was arrested in
whose pockets were found assignments
for revolutionary troops. According
to this document active operations
were to commence on the night be-
tween April 10th and 18th. Instantly
the government made extensive prep
arations for defense. 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 the hussars of the guards
was quartered, while the barracks of
tie Pavloff and Preybrajenski regi
ments were crammed full OF troops, and
the whole artillery of the guards re-
ceived orders to hold itself in readi-
ness for immediate action. The troops
continued several days and nights in
the places assigned them, but the revo-
luton did not break out. Probably
the whole story of an intended out
break was an intentional mysthcation.
Cologne Gazette.