The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-18

Nihilists Say He Fears to Leave Livitlia Be-
cause Of Perils That Beset Him

Nihilists Say He Fears to Leave Lividia Be-
cause Of Perils That Beset Him.
CoNsTANTINopLE May ia correspondent
who has just returned from Lividia says that
everybody there is wondering at the continued
presence of the Car He has three times an
nounced the date of his departure, but it has
each time been postponed. The Gar has ap-
parently completed his military duties at this
place, for he now devotes his time entirely to
sports and amusements He follows the chase
during most of the day, and is teaching the
Czarovitch to be like himself. an admirable
sportsman. Every night he attends the ball,
reception or whatever other form of festivity
the Czarina is giving. The official reason given
for his detention is that he wishes to inspect the
fortresses ard troops at Sebastopol and else
where, but spearing boars and dancing at his
wifes receptions have nothing to do with in
specting forts.
The Nihilists have quite another theory to ac-
count for the Cars delay They boldly an
nounce that the Gar dare not leave Lividia
because he knows that he is surrounded by hun
dreds OF Nihilists in his own army and that his
enemies An old captain of Cossacks, who is
probably Nihilist himself, said to your corre-
spondent that the recent discoveries of concealed
dynamite cartridges under the railway to St
PeterSourg was only blind. Inc N1hlllStS had
probably placed the cartridges there, but it was
only to mislead the police into the belief that
this was the way in which the Nihilists proposed
to do their work But railway mines have lately
become very Questionable among the Nihilists
Whom arranged to be operated By the passage Of
a train, they only wreck the pilot engine which
always runs sufficiently far ahead of the i'm
perial train to enable the latter to be stopped
when anything happens to the pilot. The other
method, that of exploding the mine by means of
an electric wire, is certain to the arrest of
the operator, and has, therefore, been abandoned.
been given up and his Majesty is undoubtedly in
great and imminent peril
Another fact which increases the wonder at
the Cars delay is that he is thereby abandon
ing. OF, at least postponing, a project to which
he has looked forward with ambitious pride for
the last two years. It was on the Oath of this
month that he was to have been crowned EN-
peror of Central Asia. This pageant was to
have taken place at a grand durbah, to be held
at Samarcand and attended by all the native
khans and princes The scene was to have been
one of unexampled splendor and gorgeousness,
outrivaling all the barbaric magnficence of the
sensuous Orentas. The date of the pageant
was announced officially at St Petersburg before
the Gar departed on his present journey. 1t is
no light thing that has changed the Gear from
his plans regarding this ceremonial. If it be, as
claimed by the Nihilists, that terror keeps the
Gar away from this pageant, they have already
achieved notable victory.
Another story that current is that the Gear
is still plotting for an attack upon Bulgaria, but
there is certainly nothing either military Or po-
itical in his Majestys present occupations.