Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1881 — Elopemen Eccentricities. [ARTICLE]

Elopemen Eccentricities.

Gathered from the Exchanges; A married farmer of Kqox county, 0., eloped with a neighbor’s wife, and the deserted partners philosophically obtained divorces and were married. Brucj Cooper, of Morehead, Ky. f eloped with Mollie DeHart, aged thirteen, but after going a few miles repented, advised her to go home, and shot himself.

A baby was sent to tbe New Haven poor house; not long ago, under singular circumstances. Both'its parents had eloped, the father with, auo'her man’s wife and the mother with another woman’s husband. A you Hg Loch invar eloped with an Illinois girl, but at Hays City. Kan., abandoned her, giving her SIOO, and telling her he was going to Texas. Bhe bought a horse, a revolver, and some provisions and set out after him. Two young people eloped from Ripon, Wis., to Fon du Lac, and telegraphed back to the girl’s parents: “May we get married? Please wire consent immediately, as the ceremony will ba performed anyhow.’-’ A young woman of Wallingford, Conn., was married the other evening, and while the festivities that followed the ceremony were at their height the bride eloped with one of her old admirers 1 who was among the guests. A middle-aged couple recently visited Kansas Gity on their bridal tour, and stayed at the house of the bride’s brother. The bridegroom saw his wife 's niece, that she was fair, won her heart, eloped with her, and made the rest of he journey on the old tickets. John Halvey and Mrs. Armstrong;, of Albion, Miss., were about to elope. Each had four children, but they concluded that two would be as many as the new household could support comfortably. Bo they drew lots, and sho won and took half her family with her. A resident of Butler county, Kv., after arriving at the age of eighty, and having been married four times,eloped at night on horseback with the yourhful belle of the county, was chased twenty miles by her angry father, but got away triumphantly and went on his fifth honeymoon trip rejoicing. A married woman eloped at Far well, Mich., recently, and took the train for the East with her paramour. “Thank heaven, I’m in time!” yelled the husband as he galloped up to the station, entered the car, maced the child iu the cowering womanHt lap aud rode happily away. A When Dr. J. C. Tntompson was mairied at Belalia, Mod he noticed that Miss Collett, the whom he then saw for the Apt time, was handsomer than his Wire. He told her so a few days later, and that he was sorry he had not married her, whereupon, she remarked that they could easily remedy that by eloping, and they eloped accordingly. .$> Dr. Hammond, of Minneapolis, was engaged to marry Miss Bly, bat be madej Miss Winter his wife instead. Nobody could guess why he changed bis matrimonial plan, and tbe mystery was deepened by the fact that Miss Bly had nothing hard to say against him. The matter was made clear when he , eloped with her after getting possession ■ of his wife’s fortune. Mr. Gowlau, of Stockton-on-Tees, England, lodged with Mr. Peacock and eloped with his wife. The husband, some financial arrangements not being carried out, had them arrested for the larceny of the woman’s clothes, but as it came out that be had helped them to carry the trunk to tbe station, and had wished them a pleasant journey, the charge was dismissed.