Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1881-05-26
BADLY SCARED.
How the Present Gar is Guarded

| How the Present Gar is Guarded.
Correspondence london Telegraph.
A few days after the fatal catastro
phe of the 18th of March the Russian
ministers resolved on begging the em
peror to reside in one of the numerous
imperial palaces outside his capital
The explosion in the winter palace. tht
mine in the Mala a SadOva, and, man,
other attempts of which the public
know nothing, and, above all, the tragi,
death of the late ear, had proved t,
them beyond doubt that in st. Peters
burg neither the devotion of nineteenth!
of the population nor the increasing
vigilance of ministers, police, and lift,
thousand soldiers could guard the i'm
perial master from the murderOus at
tacks of small band of desperate
men and women.
The emperor showed some reluctance
at first to leave the Anitchkoff palace
where he has spent 50 many happy days
rs czareyitch, but consented when Lori.
MelikOff reminded him that he wa.
surrounded on three sides by privat,
houses, from the cellars of which al
that very moment nihilist mscreants
might be cutting their way to his palace
in spite of the great watchfulness OF
the part of the police.
As the emperor has decided never
to live in any of his favOrite residences
the winter palace, TsarskOe SelO, and
Liyalia-fOr reasons easily guessed
orders were sent to prepare the palace
at CATCHING IA small town about thirty
miles to the southwest of st. Peters,
burg) for the imperial court. Several
hundred artisans and mechanics, all
soldiers of the Preobrajinsky regiment
the Russian soldier is thoroughly
taught some trade, and allowed to earn
money by it while off duty-were
selected to make the necessary alterl-
tiOns. At midnight they assembled in
the church at GatchinO, and s0lemnly
swOre to never reveal the nature of the
work they were about to undertake.
Death or Siberia was the penalty if they
broke the oath; "krassny' 0en roubles,
or twenty-one shillings,) the reward if
they were silent and industrious. The
alterations We're made in fOrty-eight
hours, but secrecy was not kept much
longer. Vodka lOoscned the tongues of
the soldiers, and soon all GatchinO was
talking in whisper of the prccaution
taken to preserve the life Of the ear.
y subtcrranem passage leads from
his bedroom to the stables, where Il
number Of horses are kept saddled and
bridled day and night. Scntincls are
posted at intervals Of twenty yards all
round the building. hcimprrial bed
room, which has two windows pro-
tcctcd at night by massive shutters,
can only be reached from the outside
by passing through three spacious ante
chambers, in which are posted eighty
EoSsackS armed to the teeth. They are
allowed to speak and moyca about inthe
outer rooms, but in the lall adjoining
the cars bedroom perfect silence is
maintained all night. The general On
service for the day sits inmrlsy chair
his Cossacks ON Il diym, which runs
round the whole room. At The gcmrr-
ais right hand is the push Of an clcc-
tric apparatus, which rings Il bell in
every guard-housc within the palace
grounds. When the emperor is bout
to retire to rest, before shutting his
door he removes the outer handle, 50
that no entrance can he effected until
lie himself personally opens the door
from the inside. Unlike islate father,
lie can not endure the presence of an
armed soldier IN his urd-Uhambor.