The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-11-26
A KENTUCKY ELOPBMENT.


| Lexington, KY, Special to Cincinnati En-
quirer.
The surface of society in this favored Sec
ton is rippled BY little excitement over an
elopement, In which . young mother deserts
her husband and family, and goes of With
bible student. Mr.. and Mrs. John W..
Heffner own farm in this county, on what
Is known Is the Military pike. For some
time they have had boarding With them
young man named Henry Rial, who was At
tending lectures at the Kentucky university.
On last Wednesday morning Mr.. Rial left
the house of Mr.. Heffner, the latter convey
Ing him and his trunk to the railroad depot
in Lexington. On Mr.. Heffner's return in
the evening he found his wife had gone
also, and his children left motherless. He
found the following letter written on the
back Of piece of wall paper:
"Hr. Hefner, have left you forever:
will never see you again, nor can never live
with you any more. Oh! may God ever be
with you and my darling children. Oh, how
my heart aches for them. Lesser, you we'll
know how love my dear children, but it is
for their benefit leave them, and You vel!
know it. You know why am going away.
l intended to take Clay, but you told me af-
ter came home from Lexington that I could
not take any of them; SO, hard as it is, I
will leave them; and my precious baby; oh,
Lesser, If you ever loved me, be good to my
darling children. know you will never Sep
arste day from my baby, and Lesser teach
them to love and think of me often, for never
will their mother cause them to blush for her,
although can never live with them again.
Lesser, want you to take my baby and 90
to Lizzie Clay's to live, Thurston to Annis's
Never let one of them go to Buds nor
Mary's to live. Let Emmie have Ida.
know you all think have gone with Mr..
Rial. You we'll know Mr.. Rial is no more
to me than . dear brother. have intended
going away for some time. have good
home. will always be treated we'll and
have plenty, and give yourself no uneasi-
ness about me. Yes, am nothing more to
You. will be many, many miles away from
You and my darlings, but 1 will pray for you
all every day I live. Sofa will talk good
deal of you; don't tell her not to. The rea-
son I did notsleep with you, I wanted you
to get weaned from me, and, Lesser, never
attempt to find me, for you can not,
for never, never will live with
you sgain SO help me God! Oh
may God bless you and my dear little chill
dren. Kiss my baby every night for me.
Tell Ida that her mamma loves her dearly,
and te good girl, and my two boys to be
good and love their papa and my baby.
"Oh! heavens, how can I leave them
Good by. Ny eyes are blinded with tears
Loan not write any more. Forget me, fol
you will never see mo again. May God bless
you all. Be good to my children; never leave
them by themselves"
The explanation of this letter given by
Mr.. Hefner, and the only explanation be-
yond tho letter itself, is that some time ago
Mrs. Hefner spoke of going to her brother
in Colorado. This does not give eminent sat-
isfaction, however, and opinion among the
neighbors is very much divided upon the
question whether or not Mrs. Heffner had
just "a use to leave her home. There ap-
pears, however, to be q general belieflthst
the poor woman departed with Mr.. Rial.
since her departure no trace of her has been
discovered, although she took with her con-
siderable amount of property, consisting of
bedding, china and other household effects.
Mrs. Heffner is rather small, about 80 or SO
years of age, and remarkably good looking.
Rial is about 20 or 26 years of age, and q
smooth-spoken man, about five feet four or
tive, spare made, with mustache and side
whiskers. he came originally from Burks-
vile, in this State. It is supposed the elop-
ing couple have gone to Jacksonville, ILL.,, as
Rial said when he left Hefner's home that
that was his destination. Twas ever thus.