The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-11-23
A FAMILY HISTORY.
Full of Trouble and Hinged with 10

FUN of Trouble and Hinged with Romance.
Some six years ago there moved to this
city from the state of Minnesota family
mother and two daughters, who came here
to retrieve, if possible, large fortune lost
in that state. Mr.. Day engaged in the cat
tie business on his arrival here, but he was
again unfortunate and lost nearly al
of the small amount OF money
he had brought with him, and selling out
for what he could he came back to this city,
where he had left his family, and opened
what used to be known as the old Kentucky
house, situated just west of the Texas Cen
trail track at the foot of Swiss avenue.
They ran it for some time, but it APP
peared that ne was doomed to mis-
fortune and sadness, for one of his
daughters was taken i'll with the
fever and died. The other, bright, intel
ligent and interesting girl fell i'll love with
young man named Pool, to whom her
and winning in her ways, and had great
deal of attention from young men far supe-
rior in every way TO the one she showed
her preference for. But like most
young girls, she decided to elope
with her lover and the shotgun scene in
the yard of Captain r. S. Rosser, who lived
close by, is no doubt still green In the
Young Pool came at night into the house
and carried her off, and in their flight they
were chased by the father who rushed close
after them as they passed through
shotgun in hand, but they
made their escape by jumping into hack
in waiting for them and were driven to the
fair grounds and were married by a justice
ofthe peace on the prairie. This settled 1t
with tho thar. Win forbid Z ham biS bpuan
Pool and his wife moved to Parsons, Kan
sas, where he shortly afterwards died,
leaving his wife in destitute circumstances.
In The meantime Mr.. Day moved back with
his broken-hearted wife to Minnesota,
having barely enough money To pay their
transportation thither. His wife died and
he moved to one of the mountain counties
of eastern Kentucky, where he labored in
the coal mines as day laborer
for time, and subsequently as boat
man in carrying coal barges. Barnes, the
celebrated evangelist, went through
the mountain regions scattering the seeds
OF everlasting life during his stay
in that section, and he was among
the many who tocked to hear the
eminent divine, and was converted. 1t was
then that he thought of his daughter.
He wrote to Parsons and learned that
she had gone to Marshall Texas.
Here all trace of her ceased. He wrote TO
other points, but to no purpose, and he had
despaIred Of ever finding his daughter,
when he saw notice in the personal col
umn of the Cincinnati Enquirer, to which
the name of his daughter, Mary Il. Pool,
was signed, stating that if it met the eye of
her parents that she desired to
hear from them, and that her address
was Friotown. Texas. He wrote to her and
received an answer, in which she stated
that she had married a man by the name OF
John Taylor, who was then owner of a cat
tie rancho in southwest Texas, and begging
him to come and live with her. Yesterday
Mr.. Day, who is now some 60 years old,
passed through the city on his way TO the
home of his daughter, with whom he ex-
poets to spend the remainder of his days.
He stopped off at the Union depot and Mr..
NJ. L. Hodges showed him the old Kentucky
house, which he has been occupying oflate.