Morning journal and courier., 1886-05-17
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. THE UNHAPPY GEAR Penned Up At Livadia By
 The NihiIists. SINECURES IN THE HOUSE. Hopes That Congress May
 Soon Adjourn. ANOTHER VICTIM OF THE BOMB. A Battle With GerOnimO's
 Forces.
A Battle With GerOnimO's
 Forces.
THE CHARS UNHAPPY LOT.

Hemmed In by NthiIfsts He is Afraid to Leave Livadia.
 CoNsTANTINoPLE, May 16.-A Cable News correspondent who has just returned from Livadia says everybody there is wondering at the continued presence of the Czar. He has three times announced the date of his depar- ture, but it has each time been postponed. He has apparently completed his military duties, for he now devotes his time entirely to sport and amusement. He follows the chase during the most of the day and is teaching the Czarewitch to be like himself, an admirable sportsman. The official reason given for his detention is that he wishes to inspect the fortresses and troops at Sebasto- pal, but spearing boars and dancing at his wife's receptions have nothing to do with in specting forts. The Nihilists have another theory to account for the Czar's delay. They boldly announce that the Czar dare not leave Livadia because he knows that he is sur rounded by hundreds of Nihilists in his own army and that his footsteps are everywhere tracked by invisible enemies. An old Cos sack captain, who is himself probably Mini list, said to your correspondent that the re- cent discoveries of concealed dynamite car
 tridges under the railway only blind. The Nihilists had probably placed the car tridges there, but it was only to 1nislead the police into the belief that this was the way in which they proposed to do their work. But railway mines have lately become unfashionable among the Mi hilists. When arranged to be operated by the passage of train they only wreck the pilot engine running ahead of the imperial train to enable the latter to be stopped when anything happens. The other method, that of exploding the mine, is certain to cause the arrest of the operator and has therefore been abandoned, but the plot for the remo- val of the Czar has not been given up and His Majesty is undoubtedly in great peril
 Another fact which increases the wonder at the Czars delay is that he is thereby abandoning at least postponing 8 project to which he looked forward with ambitious pride for the last two years. It was on the 24th of this month that he was to lave been crowned emperor of central Asia. This pageant was to have taken place at 8 grand durban 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 gorge ousness, outrivalling all the barbaric magnif- cence of the sensuous orientals. The date was announced at St. Petersburg before the Czar departed on his journey. It is no light thing that changed the Czar's plans regard ing the ceremonial. If it be, as claimed by the Nihilists, that terror keeps the Czar away from the pageant they have already that is very current is that the Czar is still plotting for an attack upon Bulgaria, but there is certainly nothing either military or political in his majesty's present occupations.