The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-11-10
ELopEMENT ECCENTRICITIEs.
How People Have Got Rid of Undesirable
Partners and Got Other Ones.

How People Have Got Rid of Und desirable
Partners and Got Other Ones.
Bruce Cooper, of Moorehead, Kentucky
eloped with Mollie De Hart, aged thirteen
but after going a few miles repented, adj
vised her to go home, and shot himself.
A resident of Bucker county, Kentucky
after arriving at the age of eighty, and hav
ing been married four times, eloped al
night on horseback with the yoethfnl belle
of the county, was chased twenty miles by
her angry father, but got away triumph
antly, and went ON his fifth honeymoon re-
joicing.
Two young people eloped from Ripon,
Wisconsin, to Fon du Lac and telegraphed
back to the girls parents, May we get mar
ried? Please wire consent Immediately, rs
ceremony will be performed this evening
anyhow
x married farmer of Knox county, Ohio,
eloped with a neighbours wife, and the de-
serted partners philosophically obtained di-
vorces and were married.
When DR.. J. c. Thompson was married
at Sedalia, Missouri, he noticed that Miss
Collet, the bridesmaid, whom he then saw
for the first time, was handsomer than his
wife. He told her so few days later, and
that he was sorry he had not mar.
ried her, whereupon she remarked that
they could easily remedy that by clipping,
and they eloped accordingly.
The elopement of two young lovers at
Lexington, Ky, was followed two days
later by the death Of the bridegroom OF
measles.
"A married woman eloped at Farwell,
Mich, recently, and took a train for the
east with her paramour. 'tThank Heaven,
I'm in time!" yelled the husband as he
galloped up to the station, entered the car,
placed her child in the covering woman S
Zap and rode happily away
John Halyey and Mrs. Anthony, of AL
bion, Miss, were about to slope. Each had
four children, but they concluded that two
would be as many as the new household
could support comfortably. So they drew
lots, and and she took half of her family
with her.
A middle-aged couple recently visited
Kansas City OH their bridal tour and stayed
at the house of the brides brother. The
bridegroom saw his wife's niece, that she
was fair, won her heart eloped with her and
made the rest of the journey on the old
tickets.
DR.. Hammond, of Minneapolis, was-en-
gagged to marry Miss Bly,, but he mad, 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, had nothing hard to say
against him. The matter was made clear
when he eloped with her after getting pos
session of of his wifes fortune.
Jacob Ropp, of Pine City, Minnesota,
went out for walk with Annie Ryder, the
daughter of his employer, and induced her
to elope. The groom's capital amounted to
four cents, and they lived for two days in
crackers, when he obtained work in brick
yard, and they were getting along quite
comfortable when the brides parents found
them, and, after a stormy scene, relented
and took them home.
A young Lochnivar eloped with an Hi
nois girl, but at Hays City, Kansas, aban-
doned her, giving her 800, and telling her
he was going to Texas. She bought horse,
revolver and some provisions and set out
after him.
? A baby was sent to the New Haven poor
house not long ago under singular circum-
stances. Both its parents had eloped, the
father with another mans wife and the
mother with another woman's husband.
Mr.. Gowland, of Stockton.on-Tees,' Eng
land, lodged with Mr.. Peacock and eloped
with his wife. The husband, some financial
arrangements not being carried out, had
them arrested for the larcency of the
woman's clothes, but as it comes out that
he helped them to carry the trunk to the
station and had wished them pleasant
Journey, the charge was dismissed
A young woman of Wallingford, Conn,
was married the other evening, and while
festivities that followed the ceremony were
at their height, the bride eloped with one
of her old admirers, who was amo lg the
guests.
Not long ago curious elopement case oc-
Cured in Bath, Me. A woman fell in love
with q man who was not her husband. The
husband taking the matter coolly, said
"Wife, we've saved up this winter 500; stay
and wen spend it together; go, and here's
$40" She took the money and went.