The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-18

of the warden and several guards and
condemning several of the plotte-s TO soil
tary confinement on bread and water in
DARK cells. There were rumors that he
had instigated the conspiracy, but as
there was only convict testimony to that
effect, and as the information he had
given furnished conclusive proof that
there was plot and that another fellow
was the leader of the movement, the
young Russian was given the benefit of
the doubt.
PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER.
Returning from Columbia the Young
fellow lost himself in the Businesses of
Berkeley county for awhile Then he
turned up at St Stephens-ouaiut old
81, stephens, where Francis Marion used
TO live, and which Prof" David Theo-
dore Hines, the philosophical thief and
villain, made famous by his letters To
James Gordon Bennett. Abosu that time
he had come to young manhood, and there
wasn't so much manhood about it either
He was probably feet in hight weighed
about 100 pounds, had small hands and
feet and trim little figure His Column
bia experience had made him little more
careful, probably. But he was still a
talker; my, what talkerl Politics was
his favorite theme, though he would quote
poetry, or history, or whatnot upon invi-
tation. II was the pleasure of some of
the young men to request him TO quote
love poetry or sing love songs in the
original Russian. And being of an oblig-
ing disposition, il was always his plea
sure to comply. His extreme affability
won him friends, and it was not long
before he was given a public school TO
teach,
WANTED A STATE OFFICE.
Once fairly settled in his pedagogue's
chair, the latent ambition began to crop
out again. He wanted to be an editor
he wanted TO be the principal of the
graded school in the town of Mt. Pleas
ant, across the river from Charleston: he
wanted to be candidate for county
school commissioner, and finally he
wanted to run for the Office of state SUI
perintendent of education. But, as ne
was in politics democrat, the demo-
Gratis, knowing his record, wouldn't let
him. That record the "count"-he
didn't claim To be count then-seemed
| himself to forget when he was talking
politics, which was on every possible oc-
casion. So he was forced to stick for
awhile to his st. Stephens school and
make his political speeches in the back
woods districts
PREACHER OF THE GOSPEL.
Teaching school, however, became too
slow for him after awhile, and he got re-
lgion,' joined the church and went to
preaching. nc ldAlu budb uONSu MIN
was then known as the "Campbellite"
The doctrine, since known as the Chris
tian faith and recognized as a great
church, was new in the community, and
Nicholson fitted its tenets to suit his elo-
Quence. He was quite successful, too. in
so far as making an impression goes, and
it is said his collections for the benefit of
the pastor, and for other purposes, were
the best ever taken in his neigh borhood.
WINS WIFE.
While at st. Stephens Nicholson wooed,
won and welded Miss Polly" Russell.
the daughter of native farmer. Miss
Polly was neighborhood favorite, a girl
as much above the average size of her sex
as Alexis was below the average size of
his She was nearly six feet tall, woman
of Drawn and determination; one of those
women who are sometimes described as
being able TO swing five-gallon pot in
one hand and bucketful of water in the
other while she kicks a dog out of the
door. That, by the way, is merely a
simile; Miss Polly wouldn't have been a
neighborhood favorite if she hadn't been
amiable and good-looking, Yet it was
the talk Of St. Stephens year or so after
their marriage that Mistress Polly had
| found it necessary to acquaint her little
! husband with the meaning OF the patter
of the single"
| GONE POLLY LEFT BEHIND.
Those by the way, were not the only
rumors that tloated around ST. Stephens.
IL was said, and Trial Justice Ricken ba-
ker could possibly elucidate, that there
were certain lapses on the part of the
| young Russian that made the neighb ors
lower their eyebrows when he was men
toned or appeared, and after awhile he
ceased appearing. But Mrs Polly re-
manned, and remains in evidence there,
so far as is known to the contrary, I'M
aware that she is countess, by virtue Of
! Floridian credulity. She may or may not
have known that her spouse was helping
TO make laws for the Land of Flowers,
but nobody knows that she cared one way
| or the other
Niche son, while man of pleasing ad-
dress and slick talker, was not a man
to fool those who look deeper than the
surface His cleverness was only super
fetal. 1t required only slight scratch
to take off the veneer; and if there was a
| projecting corner anywhere he would him
self knock ii of. Nevertheless, he is in
teresting, as the people of Quitman will
find out upon more intimate acquaint-
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