The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-10-08
LOSE AND FOUND.
Tks History of n ThoughtleEs Woman
and Slippery Parsen-A Hard

Tks History of n Thoughtless Woman
and Slippery Parsen-A Hard
Shell Record.
A Tell-known resident of East Dali
las appeared ct tho city rnarshal's Of
| tioe about noon yesterday in terrible
| peJ turbsd state Of mind. He said that
he and his two Oldest boys had gone
cut from home ia the morning 10 pick
cotton, leaving his wife and the three
remaining of his five children in
charge of tho Homestead. Upon bis
return, just prior 10 the noon houT,
no found but ono CHILD, who
said that its mamma hai Lett
with the otter two aud "a
perIpate.ic preacher Of tho Hard-Shel
Baptist variety. Now the theft OF his
wi.e and little ones. the gentlemaB
averrod, was irritating TO "A maa of his
sensitive Bnd bgn strung nature, and
ther eiore he wanted IS cepiss catch-up-
with-'em, or come such double bar
relied legal instrument by which he
could recover hia goods and at the
same time WrAek commensurate VEN
Eeance upon he person. Marshal Ar
mold BENT With plying sorrow and lis
tened TO his isle of woe, and Then gent
ly and kindiy Informed him tnat
he had nothing that would
fit his case, but btaJ perhaps Sheriff
Smith could rapeIiy equip him. 40
the shsriff's Office went h5 forthwith,
bat was seat th.nce to Attorney Clint.
sir. Clint heard his story and tympa-
thizsd with him, bus could aid HIM no
further than to wIito out complsiDt
against the skipping parson. About
thia stage Of the game some one sug
geste6 To the unhsppy husband that
he adopt the shotgun policy. Tho sue-
gasLion struck bis fancy, and he irnme'
Iiaseiy Left, swearing TO cary iG Que.
Later N the day the same gentleman
appeared in the pu lilo places OF the
city, and more especially at the news
paper offioes, and contradicted the |
whole story as originally related by |
himself His latest tale is that 3 day |
or Two since some facetious cuss living |
in the neigh borhood wrote him O mole |
saying that mis- wife and the parscn |
had made arraDg3 ments 10 elope to- |
gether. Although ne didn't really be- |
lieYe the story at the time, 1t found |
loagment ia his mind, and so when |
one OF his children came out where hs |
was at work to day and told him that |
mamma had gone away in q buggy |
with the preacher, he believed II, and |
4 IL itpA5b CdlllO liCAldNClt
to town. On his way down the
street he net several neighbors, who
told him that his wife and her lover
hsd gore, so he thought it was true.
When he went hoWe later he found
that his wife had, indeed, gone cut in
a buggy with the psrson, but their trip
only extended down through the city,
where she went to Go some shopping
or course this knocks the poor, over
worked reporter cut OF q good news
item, to compensate for tho loss OF
which ho investigated tbs history and
of tho aforesaid parsoD,
which was found rich ia romance and
full of startling Incidents and romantic
A number OF years ago.
ago there appeared In New Albany, In-
diana, 8 young Baptist divine of great
learning and wonderful power. His
fame es q revivalist soon spread
throughout the land and crowds
locked from far and near to sit under
me droppings of the sanctuary and
rink in the fervid eloquence of his
oratory. His Influence was {
yrest and scores were converted I'M
Ter his expeundipg of the word, and {
locked to the standard of tue church.
But soon 1t began to be whispered {