Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-01
A Secret Bill StiCker Ubiquitous
as a Ghost.
WarIike Measures to Protect the
Cars Person.
Nine Hundred and FOrty-nine
Dwellings Burned at
0renburg.
Another Great Disaster at Sze-
gedin.

ST. PETERSBURG, May la feeling
of gloom prevails. Rigorous police
regulations respecting watching houses
and visits and searches by night are
to be made still more stringent after 9
o'clock in the evening. Nobody will
be at liberty to show himself in the
street without a certificate, upon
which must be written and attested
the place from which the bearer comes
and to which he is going.
General Gourko, governor general,
planned this ordinance. Soon it will
not be necessary to light candles be-
fore half-past nine, yet at nine every
one must be in doors, and after ten, as
in the barracks, every light must be
out Notwithstanding, the insecurity
of st. Petersburg increases and
every day grenades are exploded in
the streets. The intention of the
Nihilists is believed to be to keep the
police in a state of constant excite
ment, and wear them out or lull them
to sleep with the idea of danger.
They also reckon on harsh measures
and the arrests are producing discon-
tent among many people who, when
the time comes for the grand attack
on the government, would join the
revolutionists.
One night recently sedicious pla-
cards were stuck up in the vicinity of
the theaters and at the corners of the
busiest streets, and although the city
police and detectives at once hurried
up and tore down the manifestoes,
they nevertheless appeared anew.
In this one night upward of $50 per-
sons were arrested and among all
these the police failed to find a scrap
of paper which appeared to have any
thing to do with the proclamation.
The secret bill-sticker, on the other
hand, went on with his work. The
police were unable to discover him.
The alarm at last became so great
that two companies under Decomte
were posted at the entrances to a num-
Der of houses and in the street, but
when the guard had it's attention
called to the right bills were posted
on the left, and after they had been
torn down on the left they reappeared.
Since the attempt on the life of the
czar troops have been held in readi-
ness day and night. In every regiment
two companies in marching order,
equipped with balls and cartridges, are
kept constantly under arms. The
batteries stand ready horsed and
mounted in the barrack yards. A
squadron of every calvary regiment
stands in constant readiness to mount
day and night. Divisions of Cossacks
patrol the streets.
On the 10th peasant was arrested,
in whose pockets were found DISPOSE
tions for the revolutionary troops. Ac-
cording to this document active oper-
ations were to commence on the night
between 10th and 18th. Instantly the
government made most extensive
preparations for a 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 regiment Of Huzzars, where the
guards was quartered, while the bar
racks of the Pavoloff and Preobra-
ianski regiments were crammed full of
troops, and the whole artillery of the
guards received orders to hold itself
in readiness for immediate action. The
troops continued for several days and
nights in the places assigned them.
LONDON, May This being the
semi-annual settling day is a holiday
in the Bank of England and on the
stock exchange.
Silver, 5Ol pence; bullion in the
Bank Of England, decrease, e75,OOO
during the past week proportion of
reserve to liability, sos per cent.
A telegram to the Lloyds states that
the Chilian feet has retired from the
Peruvian coast to protect Valparaiso
and other ports threateAed by the
Peruvian feet.