GILDED MISERY.
Lately the Czar hardl) r ever left the Winter Palace. When he went abroad he was surrounded by a cloud of officers, who concealed the carnage and protected the inmate with their bodies. In the palace he was accessible only to diplomatists, dignitaries and officers of the household. At the chapel, detectives occupied seats that were formerly reserved fur distinguished visitors. Detectives infested the kitchen. Every dish was tasted by persons of rank, specially selected for the purpose. The Emperor did not even venture to open his letters, documents steeped in poison having been repeatedly sent to him. Yet, with all these elaborate precautions, it occurred to nobody to search for an advertised and placarded mine in the basement. The Emperor and Duchess of Edinl urgh were seated in an apartment next the dining-room, when the}' heard the report of the explosion. The lights were extinguished and the gas-pipes burst. The Princess, officers, and valets went blindly through the dark, and then poured promiscuously through the doors of the royal apartments. The sovereign was found groping his way from the fatal quarter. All who saw the sight of the picture of Alexander the Second leading his daughter away from the mine of dynamite, say it was one that could never be forgotten.— Standard .
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Patea Mail, Volume VI, Issue 509, 17 April 1880, Page 3
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