New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-05-28
Eto,,en.ent Cases.

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/ Scattered through single number of the New
| York Herald we find the following cases Of
/ elopement:
thrown into great state Of excitement on Satuis
day evening, caused by the elopement OF Miss
4 Phipps with General Bynum Of Tennessee. The
gallant General, Il appears. had been paying ms
attentions to Miss Phipps for some time, succeeded
| by a coup de grace in hoodwinking Mrs. Abbott,
the principal of the school, and in getting possess
ion Of his fair inamorita before any alarm could be
raised. A reverend gentleman soon afterwards
tied the knot and the happy couple repaired to the
St Nicholas Hotel.
Mr. Sears, a married man, some So years of age,
and q Miss Barnes, aged l6, eoped from Camden
| last week. They went to Utica and stopped over
night, since which time no trace of them can be
found by those interested in their whereabouts.
The runaway girl is a sister Of Sears wife.
tennessee planter, named Stephen Ct ken
nedy. eloped from Memphis, last March, with a
grass widow, one Mrs. Calhoun, a goyerness in his
family, taking with him his little daughter. The
deserted Mrs Kennedy recently found her ruant
spouse IN Cleveland, Ohio. The police arranged
an interview. The woman behaved frantically,
and probably has had reason to feel angry with her
fast and loose liege lord. She stated that she was
rich and Kennedy poor when they married, since
although he and Mrs. Calhoun had lived under one
roof, keeping house. their conduct had been per-
Perfectly correct. The Plain Dealer thinks Mr. and
Mrs. Kennedy will kiss and make -up
The town of Ashburnham, Mass, has been some
what agitated for few days, says the Worcester
(Mass.) Spy of the 18th inst, by an elopement
which took place on Friday of last week. 1t APP
pears thas some on eight years age Ellen NJ, only
Bile citizen, and for quarter of o century post
master Of that town, now deceased, married Rev.
Mr.. Root, a Congregational minister, then settled
moved to Springfield, Ohio, where Mr.. Root is now
settled and where the present unhappy troubles had
their beginning. Mrs. Root, some time since
formed an attachment for gentleman of that
place, the husband of devoted wife, the father of
five children a member and one of the pillars of
her husbands church. How long this attachment
continued does not appear; but about three weeks
came to Massachusetts, together. The woman de-
string to see her friends in this country before she
left them forever, came to Asburnhnm, while her
companion went to Fitchburg. Suspicion rested
the parties there, and accounts came from Ohio
that all was not right. On Friday of last week he
hired horse in Leomnster, intending to carry the
lady to Fitchburg and take the cars for the South
Disappointed as to the time, they drove on to
New Hampshire, leaving the team at Thornton's
Ferry, and pursued their way to the North. Of |
fcer Wetherbee, of Ashburnham, as soon as the |
facts became known started in pursuit, found the
deserted team at Nashua, and the fugitives at |
Montreal. The authorities at Montreal refused to |
give up the man on the charge of larceny-the |
only charge that could be sustained against him.
and the officer was compelled to return alone. |
The man, who had given various names, was regis
tered at Montreal as j. w. Brochaw. His age is |
about forty -one years, and he claims to be man
Of good reputation, high social position and excel
lent business connections, all of which he has /
abandoned in pursuit of Naturalization. Mrs Root
who is about thirty years of age, complained bit |
terly Of the unhappness Of her marriage relations
and declared her determined purpose to abandon |
husband, friends, honor everything for the only /
person whom she had ever loved. Her friends in |
Ashburnham stand very high in the estimation of |
that community, and are deeply grieved by the in
fatuation Of which she has become the too willing |
victim.