492 SIBERIA

1886. June 24. The use of Moody and Sankey hymns in Russia is forbidden. [I do not know when this prohibition took effect. I have given to it the date of the day when the fact was communi- cated to me by the agent in St. Petersburg of the British Bible Society.] July 10. The censorship of the Cossack Messenger, of Novo-Cherkask, is again transferred from the place of its publication to Mos- cow — distance 740 miles. Sept. 4. Mr. Kartamishef, editor of the Siberian Messenger in Tomsk, is sentenced to three weeks' imprisonment. Sept. 21. The Irkutsk newspaper Sibir is fined 200 rubles for publishing defamatory matter relating to the chief of police of Yakutsk. Oct. 18. The Novorossisk Telegraph is prosecuted for printing an ad- vertisement without the permission of the police. Oct. 22. Street sales of the Moscow Russkia Vedomosti are forbidden. Nov. 5. Mr. Notovich, editor of the St. Petersburg Novosti, is sentenced to three months' imprisonment ; Mr. Polevoi, editor of the Picturesque Bevieiv, is sentenced to two months' imprisonment ; and the editor of the Petersburg Leaflet is fined 100 rubles for libel. Nov. 27. Permission to publish a newspaper in the Baltic town of Revel is denied. Nov. 27. The Bourse Gazette receives a second warning on account of its "pernicious tendency." 1887. Jan. 9. The newspaper Russian Affairs is suspended for attacking Germany. Jan. 29. The Gazeta Gdtsuka is suspended and its office closed and sealed by the police. Its offense is said to be the printing of two kinds of papers — one sort for St. Petersburg and one for the provinces — the latter containing articles that the censor would not allow. Jan. 29. The newspaper Russian Workman and a number of religious tracts are prohibited by the Holy Synod. April 23. The retail sale in public places of Count Tolstoi's " Powers of Darkness " is forbidden. May 7. The Tomsk Siberian Gazette is suspended for eight mouths. May 28. Street sales of the Sovremmenia Izrestia are forbidden. June 18. The St. Petersburg Bourse Gazette is suspended for one month. July 30. The Irkutsk newspaper Sibir is finally suppressed. July 30. Street sales of the Russia Kurier are forbidden. Oct. 8. Street sales of the Minuta and the Son of the Fatherland are forbidden.

Oct. 15. The Gazeta Gdtsuka is suspended for eight months.