The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1881-11-24
Swapping Partners; or EioPins
i'm Search of One.

Amarried farmer OF Knox county, U,
.loped with aneighbor's wife. and the
deserted partners philosophically 90
tanned divorces and were rnarred.
Bruce Cooper. OF Noreh-ad, ~,
eloped with Mollie DeHart, aged thlr
teen. but after going q few miles repent
Ell. advised her u 90 home, and shot
himself.
Alaby was sent 10 the New Haven
poor bouse not loLg ago under singular
circumstances. Both III parents oh'
elapci. the father with another man .
vile. and the mother with another 70
mans husband.
Gun people eloped from Ripon.
Wis. to Fond ia Lac. and telecraphed
back to the girls parents. MAJ We
oct married . Please wire consent ian
mediatelv. as ceremony viii he per
/ formed this evening anyhow.
\ Young woman of WailiEgfafd.
I Conn. vas married the other evening
and while festivities that followed the
ceremony were attheig height the brIde
e,oped with ore Of her old admirers,
who was among the guests.
s youag Lochigvar elOpei with an
Illinois girl. but at HAYS City, Kansas,
abandoned hel. giving her 800, and
telling acr he was going TO Texas.
She bought a horse, a revolver ana
/ some provisions and set out alter him.
A middle aged couple recently visit
ed Kansas City on their bridal tour and
STAYED at the house of the brides bro
ther. The bridegroom saw his wife
niece, that she was fair, Won her heart
eloped with her aud made the rest Of
the journey on the old tickets.
John Halvcy and Mrs. Anthony, OF
Albion. Miss, wore about to elope.
Each had 1 children, but they corclud-
ed that " would be as many as the
new household could support comfort
ably. So thev Dire lots, and she won
and took half OF her family with her.
A married woman elcped at Farewell,
Mich, recently, and took train for the
East with her paramount. Thank 1Ieav-
en-, I'm in time yelled the husband, as
he galiopcd up to the station, entered
the car, placed her child in the cover
ing woman's lap and rode happily
away.
A resident Of Buckner Staten, KY,
after arriving at the age Of eighty, and
having been married four times, eloped
at night on horseback With the youth
ful belle Of the county, was chased
twenty miles by her angry father, but
got away triunphantly and went on his
fifth honeymoon trip rejoicing.
Not long age q curious. elopement
case occurred in Bath, Ne. A woman
fell in love with a man who was not
her husband. The husband, taking
the matter coolly, said: "Wife, we've
saved up this winter 800; stay. and
we'll spend it together; go, and here's
SO" She took the money and went.
Mr.. Gowland. of Stocktvn on Tees,
England, lodged with Air. Peacock
and eloped with his wife. The hus
band, some financial arrangements not
being carried out, had them arrested
the larceny Of the woman's clothes, but
as it came out that he had helped them
to carry the trunk to the station and
had wished them a pleasant journey,
the charge was dismissed.
When DR.. j. G. Thompson was mar
ried at Sedalia, Mo-, he noticed that
Miss Collat. the bridesmaid. who be
then saw for the first time, was hand
somer than his wife. He told ner SO
a few days later, and that he was sorry
he had not married her, vhereupon she
remarked that tkey could easily N
dy that by clipping, and they elopes ac-
cordingly..
DR.. Hammond, of Minneapolis, was
engaged to marry Miss Bly,, bat he
made Miss Winter his wife instead.
Nobody could guess why he changed
his matrimonial plan, and the mystery
was deepened by the fact that Miss Bly,
ha. nothin. hard to say against him.
The matter wa made clear VIXEN he
eloped with her after getting possession
Of his wiie's fortune.