Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-07-10
NIHILTSM NOT DEAD.
The News Abou, NihiIis,s Has simplS Been
Carefully Suppressed.

NIHILTSM NOT DEAD.
The News Abou, SihiIis,s Has slmpIT Been
Carefully Suppressed.
For the sake of his Gar and father
land, writes n st. Petersburg CORE
spondent to the New York Sun, Count
| Dmitry Andrcevitch Tolstoi, the Min
lister Of the Interior, undertook to per-
form very clever feat, not Smacking of
wise craftsmanship and genuine diplo-
macy. 1t is generally known that
for many years past all the
Powers Of Europe have looked
upon NihiliSm as a smarting thorn IN
the Cars heel. The home troubles.
it was believed, would not allow the
Russian autocrat to WELD all his huge
forces against any foreign enemy. This
matter was greatly annoying his Ma
iesty's Government. Therefore Dmitry
Andreeyitch made up his mind that Nj
hilism must be dead, or at least pro-
claimed 10 be so. Certainly the r6ie Of
a trickster was not becoming to a man Of
three score and ten, administer, a senator,
a president Of the Academy Of Sciences,
an actual priyy counsellor, a count, and
n knight Of all the imperial orders, but
if in holy Russia it is bliSSful to be a
- fool for Christ's sake" then why
could not a high dignitary Of Russia
descend to the role of trickster for the
Cars sake? lie it what ii may, the
illustrious Count dug himself grave
FOR Nihilism, performed a funeral SER
vice, and delivered an obituary grafton
over it, and all that in dead secret.
His Grafton. however, he took pains to
make known all over the world.
N,hilism is dead" said the Cars
minister, and 1t was flashed through the
wires that encircle the globe. AS all
the Governors in Russia are under the
immediate command Of the Minister of
4 the Interior, and all the newspapers are
/ under the unavoidable control Of the
same minister. it has for the last three
wears looked here indeed as if Nihilism
had turned unto plain nihil. Even
abroad it was lately admitted that the
Nihilists had degencrated and gone.
Suddenly news came here from the
city of Kharkoll that Nihilism was yet
alive. As the Minister Of the Interior
and the Governor of Kharkof are now
on leave of absence this inOpportunC
discovery asnOt smothered i'll the very
bud. These are the facts;
A few days ago, at midnight, in th'
city of Kharkon, graced with a uni
yersitv, there was arrested in the stree
man who proved to be armed like
regular terrorist. He had on his person
a pistol, a dagger, and some poison
In order to get all the glory to them
selves, the gendarmes, without inform
ing their superOrs, tried to find th'
house in which the captured Nihlllst re
sided. In suburb they found houS
IN which one Of the two bOarders wa
missing, and they guessed that that wa
the place they needed. Though it wa
past 9 in the morning, yet the other ma
f was fast asleep. They awoke him ant
asked him to dress himself. Two gen
darmes sat on the bed Of their man
; waiting for him. Suddenly he thrus
his hand under his pillow, snatched
! big pistol. and fired at one of the tw
, gendarmes. lie missed his aim, an
= the two men grappled with hiu
Another shot was fired, and one of tn
two gendarmeS, FesSenko, fell mortal
wounded. A third gendarme rushe
! into the room, and his wrist wa
pierced with bullet. More me
o rushed in, and the Nlhilist was oyei
=. powered and secured. His name, as
Q appeared from his pass, was Plato
s Lebedinsky. The wounded gendarn
is was taken to a hospital. but he died 0
d the way. In few minutes all the al
h thOrities Of kharkolr -yice-goycrno
It colonel of gendarmes, the province a
n toIney, and the chief of the polio
e with hundreds Of policemen and ger
d darmes-were at the place of shooting
4 In broad daylight, before a crowd
g. people, they had discovered the Nth
" lists quarters in regular running orde
Y, There was secret prlnting-pres
< and piles of orders Of the much-dreadC
I'm executive committee dynamite, Mir
lie glycerne, and bombs ready for use
ne little armory Of pistols, daggers, al
is cartridges; different masks and VII
~ and dyes, and other accessories Of n
rs hi'ist quarters. There was an oven fl
Sc of explosives, which no man in Kha
r, koii dared to approach, and so an e.
pert on the Nihilist bombs was sci
,s here from this city. The expert place
n. bomb in hollow tree and explode
it by means Of the electric curren
The supplemented residents Of Kha
kohl thought that an earthquake shoe
y them. Wooden splinters flew for la
T. a mile.
le When Dmitry Andreeyitch Tolst
10 heard Of the kharkoif incident
e swooned, and, on coming TO himself,
z. sworc that all the kharkofr authorize
l. should be put in sacks and drowned
:. the Donetz river at midnight. alon
5. with their two captured Nihiiists.
a. Now it transpires that during II
r last three years, which appeared s
quiet, the number OF the arreste
Nihilists was as large as in the liyeliei
times Of terrorism. But everythiu
i was done quietly. The victims, will
i out any trial, were hidden beyon
+ SHINE iron DOORS as q Russian fair,
/: tale runs, and the tongues Of the wi
!: nesses Of their arrest were sealed undo
!, the penalty Of Siberia.
. No. Nihilism will not die till th
: people Of Russia will long fer annihils
ton Of the monstrous system of au
; tocraey.