St. Paul daily globe., 1886-05-17
A NIHILIST VICTORY.
The Postponement Of the Cars Great
Pageant at Samarcand Taken as a
Nihilist Triumph.
Nothing Political or Military in the Cars
Unexplained Delay in Leaving
Livadia.
Labor Organizations In Germany
Said to be Controlled by the So
cial Democrats.
Mr.. Gladstone Thought to Have De
ctded to Appeal to the Country
If Defeated.
what Ails the Czar.

Speclal TO the GLOBE
CoNsTANTINoPLE, May 16.-A cable
News correspondent, who has just returned
from Livadia. says that everybody there is
wondering at the continued presence OF
the cZar. He has three times all
nounced the date of his depar-
ture, but it has each time been
postponed The czar has apparently
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 teach
ing 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 and troops at Sabastopol and el;e-
where, but speaking and dancing at recep-
tions have nothing to do with inspecting
forts. The nihilists have quite another
theory to account for the cars delay.
They boldly announce that the cZar dare
not leave Livadia because he knows that he
is surrounded by hundreds of nihlists in his
own army, and that his footsteps are every
where tracked by
INVINCIBLE ENEMIES.
ably nhillst himself. said to your cor
respondent that the recent discoveries Of
concealed dynamite cartridges under the
railway to st. Petersburg was only blind.
The nihilists had probably placed the cart
ridges there, but it was only to miSlead the
police into the belief that this was the way
III which the nihilists proposed to do their
work. But railway mines have lately be-
come very questionable among the nihil-
lists. When arranged to be operated by the
passage OF train, they only wreck the
pilot engine, which always runs sufficiently
far ahead of the imperial train to enable
the latter to stop when anything happens
to the pilot. The other method, that of
exploding the mine by means of an electric
wire, is certain to cause the arrest of the
operator, and has therefore been abandoned
But the plot for the removal OF the cZar has
not been given up, and his majesty is un-
doubtedly in great and imminent peril
Another fact which increases the won
der at
THE CARS DELAY
is that he is hereby abandoning, or at least
postpOning, project to which he has
looked forward to with ambition for the
last two years. 1t was on the oath of this
month that he was to have been crowned
emperor OF ASA. InlS pageant was TO
have taken place at grand durbah
to be held at Samarcand, and at
tended by all the native Khans and
princes. The scene was to have been one
of unexampled splendor and gorgeousness,
ourrivaling all ..the barbaric magnifcence of
the sensuous Orientals. The date of this
pageant was announced officially at St.
Petersburg before the czar departed on his
present journey. 1t is no light thing that
has changed the czar from his
plans regarding this ceremonial.
If it be, as claimed by the nihlltsts,
| that terror keeps the czar away from his
pageant. they have already achieved not
able victory. Another story is that the
czar is still plotting for an attack upon Bull
garia, but there is certainly nothing either
military or political in his majestys pres
ent occupations.