Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1859 — AN Idiana Elopement. [ARTICLE]

AN Idiana Elopement.

The Aurora Commorci d tells the following story of a Housier elopement, and what came of it: A man by the name of R. M. Dunlap called at the office olj.the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad on Monday evening of list week,.and deposited some baggage, saying jhe wanted to go to Cincinnati on the ten o’clock train, it he could make his arrangements. Later lie called and said the train would he too early for him, and he would have to take his baggage down to tire wharf and goon the packet.- Mr. Bush then told him that the train was four hours behind time, when lie appeared to be joyously elated, and said that that would suit, him exactly. lie then departed; but “a short time before the train arrived (between two and three o’clock) lie returned, having in his company a woman closely veiled. After pureoasing tickets they went out and sat on the back platform till the train came along, j when they got-on board, and were rupidlv j whirled a way to their destination. In five minutes thereafter a mail came riding up in hrea.th.le s haste, and in great excitement asked Mr. Bush if thejtrain was gone. “Yes,’) was the reply. “Did / man and woman get on here!” “I believe so.” “Can’t I catch trie cars?” was the next query ot thee-cited individual, as he gazed wist fully up the track. “No. No chance of that.” “II 1 and d tion !” growing hopeless j and desperate—“l would have give a thouI sand dollars and the g;ay mare il I had only j got here five minutes "sooner.” Thereupon,he told the“t.ale ofhis wrongs,” His name is Augustus Harvev, and lie is a renter on the lurm of Moses Turner, in Ohio I county, about one mile below L uighery. ! He had hired Dunlap to assist him in his ! work, when, it is presumed, that an “affini-! ty” sprung up between him and Mrs. llarvey; and tii it they had just eloped, she carrying: off all her clothing and .forty dollars ot his; hard-earned money. No other course being *ett, a dispatch was forwarded to Cincinnati, requesting t. e arrest ait the eloping couple; and when the live o'clock train came along, Harvey git aboard and toilowed in hot. pursuit. When he arrived at the depot in the city, he found a police officer watching the b iggage. P e*ty soon a baggage wagon. Irom the Madison House, arrived, into which the Officer and Harvey seated themselves, and repaired at once to the hotel. There they were found: and alter some persuasion the woman was induced to return. Sliehad spent twenty dollars oft).he money for a suit of clothes lor Dunlap; but the balance, with the baggage, was recovered. He returned with his truent wife on the ten o’clock train, and when he reached here lie appeared to he in the greatest good humor with himself and everybody else in general. Why shouldn’t lie! He had got his wife, whom he had almost given up for lost, and the future, with its wealth of domestic bliss, was again smiling joyously before him. But the end was not 'yet. On the next night (Wednesday) Dunlap returned. It is presumed that he prowled around the premises till ti late hour, when lie supposed the now happy inmates were locked i n't he drowsy embraces ol Somnns. He then ipproached the house, and, clambering up to a window, endeavored, by punching the fair lady in the libs with a long stick, to awaken her. But this “gentle hint,” intended for her alone, reached the I' iI is ol her siloaring lord insteae. and iroused him from Ins pie.is mt dreams j Veaiigetully lie awoke from his sleep H. intuitively lelt that his “evil genius” h id nr-j I rived, and tens bent upon again biirglaroiisly !

obf.a in ing possession ofhis heart’s treasure—the wile of his “boosom.” With in rderous intent he hastily seized fire-arms, and discharged a heavy load at the midnight destrover of his happiness and—sleep. It failed to take effect, the persevering individual returned the fire, and several shots passed between the parties without doing anv damage. But Harvey gained the victory,for his annoyer retreated and left the field'in quiet possession of the intrepid husband. Fearing, however, that Dunlap would return the next n ght with a sufficient reinforcement to carry ot)'his wife vi el ctrmis, he called in a number ol neighbors to assist him in guarding the sanctuary ol his domestic bliss, which had been so ruthlessly invaded by such a gallant foe. And here we must abruptly break off our narrative. We have heard nothing further from the belligerent parties, but live in hopes that thuT campaign is' closed and that a treaty of peace has-been entered into by the hostile parties.