Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-01-25
A CONFEDING REPORTER.
Julius NlcOIini's Chase After q
Maynard Daughter.

A LEDGER reporter, while lounging
about the Louisville depot at train
time yesterday, was attracted by the
manner of a remarkably old man, who
paced the platform anxiously, and
afterward boarded the outgoing train.
he was tall and extremely graceful,
and though at least sixty years of age,
his eyessparkled with all the brilliancy
Of youth. His step was firm and his
manner that ofextreme Impotence.
Striking person, that suddenly
remarked a gentleman to the reporter.
Very" was the answer. Recog-
nizing in the speakers citizen Of an
adjoining county, the reporter asked
if he knew him.
Very we'll" was the reTly, "and
his history is an interesting
one. Walk into the sitting room and
I'll tell you about him. He and l go
out on the train together in half an
hour, but that will give me time
enough, 1 think" The reporter
readily agreed, and heard the follow
ing
INTERESTING STORY.
Most of this, said the gentleman,
II learned from a former servant Of
this unfortunate man, who accompa-
MED him in his travels until he died
in this city while it was yet a village.
His name is Julius Nicolini, and
he is a member of a wealthy Ital-
ian family. His father gave him q
splendid education, and, bestOwing a
small fortune upon him, established
him at Florence, where be began the
practice Of medicine, for which he
had taste. a matrimonial alliance
was arranged
with dark eyed damsel of sun
ny Italy?' put in the reporter.
"0f course was the answer, "and
everything was progressing finely
when one dark night Eicolini was
called to await upon a prima donna
who had become suddenly ILL.,
Did the management pass back the
change, or did they substitute Mile.
Torrance" a~Dxiously inquired the re-
porter,
Neither petulantly answered the
narrator. 1T was after the perform
ance. To resume, the young physician
effected a cure but contracted a mala-
dy himself while 50 doing-hs fell in
love with the singer, and in spite Of
his fathers ~entresties and threats
o."
"Cut him off with a shilling" inter.
jeeted the reporter.
mo sir, not a shilling, for they
don t have shillings in Italy, but a
pistole," said the historian.
"0h, he was going to shoot him
then2" Inquired the reporteranxiously
NO, he was not going to shoot him
thenF" A pistole is a piece ofmoney.
But to cut a long story short, they
ran away and got married, came to
America, settled in Memphis"
"On the banks of the classic bayou
Gayoso of coursel' said the reporter.
"0f course not answered the
patient historian. "They lived in a
cottage on Wolf river"
Say, oh say, be was the inventor Of
the Wolf river conglomerate and l am
happy" exclaimed the reporter
b%eseechiDgly.
"a regard for truth forbids," the
gentleman replied. "As I was about
to say, the wife fell sick and died
and the only daughter, then a miss Of
sixteen, ran away with a strolling song
aud dance man. The father has fol-
lowed them all over the country for
twenty"
"Lies!' interjected tho reporter.
THAT man is borse-tbief and you
are an accomplish. There's the police
after him now, and I'll assist"
"In making a fool Of them" ejacu-
lated the glib-tongued scamp, as he
Joined tho horse-thief and skipped of
into the darkness.