St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-06-13
rERRoRs OF THE RUSSIAN POLICE.

The greatest excitement prevails
in our beautiful city, and a cloud
blacker than midnight hangs over
our heads. No one is sure of his life,
for at any moment the storm of auto
cratic thunder may descend and
sweep thousands, the innocent as
well as the guilty, into the whirl-
wind of its tremendous wrath. That
pen we are well aware, and the peO-
pie, convulsed with the agonies of
suspense, are awaiting its fulfillment
not with patience, but with name
less terror.
The press is silent as the grave.
Not a word has appeared in print in
regard to the attempt made on the
life of the Car in the garden yester
day. Rumor says the Gar was shot
at twice by an officer of the Izmaij-
lovski regiment, that he was wound
ed in the left arm, and that afterward
the officer shot himself in the temple
and was taken away by the police
in an unconscious condition. His
name is believed to be Izioloo Pavlo-
witch Nazimoff, one of 40 men select
ed by lot from different circles of the
national secret society, ''Zemila VO-
lila" to assassinate our despot at the
first convenient opportunity.
1t is known that at least $50 Of
ficers of the army are confined in the
fortress suspected of completely in
the plot. The victims selected fol
incarceration are from all ranks of
life, but people high in society are
known to contribute the greatest
number of suspects.
large number of bombs have been
found in the possession of persons of
whom the police had previously not
the slightest suspicion. Many ladies
of high social position have been
found in the ranks of the Nihilists
and placed under arrest. All last
night the work of raiding houses
went on, and the gendarmerie were
the reverse of gentle in their treat
ment of prisoners.
People wrapped in slumber were,
without a moments warning, drag
ged from their beds, and in the name
of the Gar ordered to enter the black
kareta. Men, women, even children,
all received the same treatment.
Fifty-three persons were taken from
the house of POviOff, 35 BOlshay
Morskay. Among them was a beau
tiful princess, Anna Narishkina, 16
years old Her brother, a young
man of 1S, maddened by the brutal
way the police were treating her,
rushed, sword in hand, to protect his
sister, when he, too, was beaten into
insensibility and carried off in the
black kareta. 1t is feared the shock
will upset theirpoor mothers reason.
The story of these terrible scenes is
told in whispers and only among
friends. Most persons maintain 81
lence, fearing to speak lest it be to
an enemy, and almost every face
bears a look of deepest sadness.
Members of the secret police are the
only persons whom the gift of Ian
guage has not forsaken, and they in
fest the hotels and public places,
openly expressing their feelings, APP
parently with all sincerity. Their
talk is but a snare to allure their vic
tins. Yet orr people (the Nihilists),
as you are aware, are always on
their guard, and refrain from giving
utterance to their thoughts. We
work in the silent hours of the night,
and i'll the unthought of places of
the great city. The poor peasant
from the inland parts of the empire
is the one most easily led into the
trap.
The Gar has lost all control of
himself and acts more like an infuri-
ated mailman than a being possess
ing reasoning powers, and the officers
of his court trenhle for the safety of
their lives and fear to approach him.
His orders are more than ever Do
potic, as if his tyranny would crush
the feeling out of our people. The
Czarina is completely Frustrated and
has gone to the Yar-Shoyesela Gears
VILLAGE. The Gar, after attending
a mass in Isaak cathedral (most
likely to offer prayers for his safe de-
hverance) took an express train and
also retired into seclusion at the
same place.
The issuing of foreign passports is
for the time suspended by order of
the Gar, and all letters to and from
foreign countries are opened and
read without the least ceremony.
Among the ladies of our circle who
were arrested was Elena Isakoff
She was dragged from her bed and,
with nothing but her nightdress and
an old blanket, which a gendarme
threw around her to protect her from
the chilly night air, was carried to
the black kareta and cast inside with
several other prisoners.-[St. Peters
burg Letter, May IA.
The first modern temperance soci-