Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1880 — The Mysterious Messenger. [ARTICLE]

The Mysterious Messenger.

An orderly officer arrived at the Winter Palace, in Bt. Petersburg, in great haste, and demanded immediate admission to the presence, stating that he was the bearer of a most important dispatch to the Czai from Gen. Gourkho, the Military Governor of S;. Petersburg. Something in the man’s manner and appearance, although he was duly uniformed and accoutered, struck the Aide-de-camp .on duty in the imperial ante-chamber, who, asking the officer to wait while he inquired whether or not the Emperor could receive him, hurried into an adjoining bureau, and sent Go rkho au order to come instantly to the palace. Ten minutes later the Gen-eral-made his appearance in the antechamber, where his soi-disant orderly officer was waiting, and, npon being informed of what had taken place, at once denounced the travestied conspirator as an impostor. When the latter was secured and examined, he was fonnd to be possessed of concealed firearms; and it is not doubted that he intended to assassinate the Emperor. Mobs than $85,000,000 worth of tobacco was consumed in Germany lat# yfcar.