The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-12-17

ELOPEMENT IN NORTHERN s-1OWAs-
Somewhere about the LIST Of September the
good people Of the village of Charles City,
Floyd county, woke up ono morning and
found they had y sensation in town or =
case that promised one if diligently Guilt
waited. On0 Of the prominent citizens 81
the place, Of the name Of Montgomery, well
known through all that section as the for
lner landlord of the Union Hotel, which
he left last spriug, disappeared quite sGd-
ldenly, and after he was gone some of his
friends remembered that he had forgotten
TO say good bye to them. He made an ex-
cuse to visit Mc6regor or some other point,
and took with him 4 flt1o -span OF black
Frencbip0nieslof his ownandx light wagon,
the whole outfit Icing worth $3.50 to 500.
Montgomery IL man some fifty years OF
age. and has daughter married and living
in that vicinity. III srS - 3 sf4ts
About the same time . buxom war wild.
Ow named Mrs. 4chermerhOrn,f whose
husband has been for some time In the
service, fighting no. doubt ~ q good colder
should fight, 4 man full Of war and valOr
by day, and whose dreams at night were Of
the loved homes at home, left town and
forgot likewise e Say good. bye to ! her "er
were put together, and with them sundry
Fecollections Of the assiduity with which
Montgomery had been solacing her for the
loss Of the patriotic and wHr.like Schemef-
horn. who is still making the prowess Of
his valiant arm felt in behalf of Father
Abraham, aud go people naturally enough
concluded they had ran away. 1t was,
however, . mysterious elOpement, for
nothing has been heard Of them to this day
in Charles City; but this very mystery ad-
ded to the interest Of the thing, and gave
the vivid imaginations of the gossips full
play in coDjuring up facts and incidents to
suit themselves and make first class
elOpement of IL, surrounded by all the
dreamy localities that should cluster about
such case, when the barren fact, il
known, might divest it OF much Of tho po-
etical little halo that should surfound II.
The thread, however, that promises to
unravel the whole knot, has been picked
mp in Dubuque. On Saturday two gentle
men, residents of Charles City. were pass
ing up street, and near the post Office saw
a pair OF little black, curly-tailed ponies,
which attracted their attention from their
similarity to Montgomery's team, and
which, upon closer inspection, prov ed to
i be the identical ponies, wagon, harness
and all. They awaited the arrival Of the
towner, vino seemed to be an honest APP
pearing Teuton, and In reply to their ques-
lions give them an account of how he came
in possession of the team. He bought them
on the 18th Of September At an auction
eale Of Chapline, Burton 4 Co.. the owners
dame being, as he gave 1t, Montgomery
who had just sold ont back In the country,
and, being in q hurry to 60 to Michigan,
had put up his team at auction and sold II
for 4S33 He had come hero from Metre
gor and with his wite was stopping at the
Farmers Home. KeF
This il the last that has been heard Of the
uxorious Montgomery. He II at this wri-
ting without doubt lux 1riating In the love
OF the viftuous Mrs. Schermerhorn some.
where down among the sandhills and
scrub oaks Of Michigan. II any of his or
her friends are anxious upon the point,
they can take up the thread at this point
and trace it to it's end. Even the patriotic
aud loyal Schermeahorn ie ut liberty to
pitch ia and do what he can to heal his
wounded honor, for the facts tend csnclu.
sively TO show that the ex.landlord and
| fifty year old roue has been making very
free with II since he left Charles City,
Dubuque Times. 's.s
"Ioa WlNDER."-When the sufferings