Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1884 — Some Remarkable Elopements. [ARTICLE]

Some Remarkable Elopements.

Mary Gileam was the 21-vear-old daughter of a citizen of Arkansas, and Charles Stover was her “Borneo.’ 1 Mrs. Qileam declared that Stover’s intellectual bank account wasn’t half as long as Ms ears. So the young couple decided to elope. Mary was caught slipping out of the back gate, and her mother tried to hold her. A scuffle ensued and Mary was divested of some of Tier garments, so that one of Charlie’s friends had the presence of mind to throw a riding-skirt over her in the nick of time. Meanwhile Charlie and Mr. Gileam were having it tooth and naiL The former triumphed,/and, mounting a horse with liis fainting sweetheart in liis arms, rode at a furious gallop to the preacher's, tw;o miles away. At Topeka, Kan., Charles Chambers, aged 18, and Lucy Prescott, aged 13, eloped and got married, hut were separated after a honeymoon of two days. Louis Badgeiy and Josephine Howard, respectively, 15 and 14, ran away early last spring from Oswego county, N. Y. They soon found a preacher willing to marry them. The boy-bridegroom rewarded bim with a punched trade-dollar, but the good man had ridden six miles in the cold, and did not think that enough, so the sympathizing spectators raised bim a purse of fifty eehts. Joliu L. Stanhope eloped with the daughter of Gov. AY. T. Hamilton, of Maryland, and they ran till they reached a mountain 3,500 feet high, where they were married, though in a few weeks’ time she sued for a divorce. Miss Daniels was as determined to get married as Miss Prue in Congreve’s comedy of “Lovefor Love,” who declared “Ecod r it’s well they got me & husband, or I’d married the baker.” Miss Daniels was heir to a valuable estate at Lockport, N. Y., and fell in ioye with a sewitTg-rnaeliine agent, but he was arrested for theft, and she immediately fixed the grappling-iron of her affections on Mr. H. H. Sommers, and eloped with him, escaping through a cellar window and getting married before morning. ; Miss Veriey Olokey, of Washington, Pa., aged 23, and possessed of some means, elopect with John Miller, a colored waiter, some three years her jiinior. She had been adjudged a lunatic on account of her fondness for him. Mr. Joseph Markowitz, a Kussian pole r has lately come to New York and reduced the elopement business to something like a science. He and his w ife operate together, carrying on the elopement industry on a large scale. The husband would select a woman who had a little money laid up, and elope with her. Soon his rightful wife came along and made a terrible fuss, but be had managed to secure what money the duped woman had, and, of course, returned with his rightful wife, only to repeat the game on some unsuspecting victim.