AN ELOPEMENT Until Monday last there resided over in Hollidaysburg a family composed of Mr. and Mrs. George Jenkins, with no children. Mr. Jenkins is a miner employed in the ore mines in the vicinity of the county capital, to which place he removed from Pittsburgh some six months ago. For the past nineteen years he has led a happy life in the society of her alone whom he called by the endearing and sacred epithet of wife. When the husband and wife left Pittsburgh for the purpose of locating at the county capital, they were accompanied by a young man named Daniel Osborne, also a miner, between whom the social relations were of a most friendly character, too much so, it fact, as the sequel proved. During all the long term of years that Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins lived together, the husband saw nothing in every day life of his wife that would lead him to suspect her infidelity to the marriage vow, even up to the morning of the eventful day on which she gathered up her robes around her and silently stole away. On Monday morning of the present week, Mrs. Jenkins prepared the breakfast as was her wont, which was partaken by both husband and wife, and afterward Mr. J. repaired to his daily toil. In the evening, with a light heart and a buoyant step, thinking only of her whom he supposed would be in waiting to receive him and to greet him with a holy kiss at the close of the labors of the day, he retraced his steps homeward bound, yet upon arrival there he was surprised beyond measure to find the house cold and tenantless, his wife being nowhere to be found. Discovering a letter on the floor he picked it up, and excitedly devouring the contents of the envelope was dumbfounded as he read the letter in his wife's handwriting, which was addressed to a friend in England informing her that she (Mrs. Jenkins) was soon to leave the shores of America and sail once again to her old home in a foreign clime. With crushing force did this intelligence come to the kind and honest-hearted husband. He could hardly realize that the woman who had been the wife of his bosom for a period of nineteen years could thus desert without a moment's notice. Upon making inquiry in the neighborhood, the still more unwelcome news awaited him, Mrs. Jenkins had been seen leaving, accompanied by a male, but with whom? With a man who was a fellow workman, a man who had been treated with all the kindness and respect of an intimate friend, a man who had frequently been invited by the husband to partake of his hospitality, the man Daniel Osborne. It was learned that Osborne and Mrs. Jenkins had left Hollidaysburg on the noon train for Altoona, but it is not known whether they took their departure eastward or westward bound from here. The perfidious wife and the scoundrel that enticed her to leave her home, took nothing with them but a small sewing machine and some eight or ten dollars belonging to Mr. Jenkins, although it is said that Osborne had succeeded in laying away some money for a rainy day. The latter and the Jenkins' family had been acquainted for a period of nine months only. It is thought by Mr. Jenkins that the letter referred to was simply a ruse and that the guilty parties are still in the State. Both parties are of English birth. Mrs. Jenkins being thirty seven years of age, has a mole on her left cheek and when she left home was dressed in a blue velveteen dress. Osborne is about twenty-five years of age, is slightly pock-marked and is said to be a shrewd and cunning individual. Mr. Jenkins was in the city yesterday, and had an interview with Mayor Gilland, to whom he related the facts of the case in substance as noted, and asked the aid of that officer in the effort to ascertain the whereabouts of both his wife and the villain who was instrumental in ruining his happy home. Mr. J. is not blessed with an abundance of this world's treasures, but is exceedingly anxious to have the guilty parties apprehended, and will be thankful for any information that will lead thereto. Exchanges, especially between those of Pittsburgh and Hollidaysburg, will confer a favor by making a note of the elopement and the description of the parties. ----------------------------------------- The Court Second Week-Civil List W. W. Jackson for use vx. Kittanning Coal Company and Blair Iron and Coal Company. An action of ejectment in which defendant pleads not guilty. Continued by consent. Peter McKenzie vs. James Rainer. Sei.ja to revive. Defendant pleads payment with lease. Continue. H. and F. McIntosh vs. William Maitland. Appeal. Defendant pleads non assumpsit. This case came to trial, and the verdict of the jury awarded the plaintiff sixty-four dollars and forty-four cents. John B. Robinson vs. John Potter. Appeal. Defendant pleads payment with leave. Settled. John Brotherline vs. Ed. Malone, et al. Trespass. Defendant pleads, liberum tenementum. Continued. Elizabeth Harris vs. George W. Tatham. Dower. Defendant pleads never indebted. Continued. Samuel Milliken vs. B. F. Bell. Trespass quare clansum fregit. Defendant pleads libcrum tenementum. Continued by consent. E> M. Jones & Son vs. Whitcomb and Townsend. Assumpsit. Defendant pleads non assumpit. Continued. G. W. Mauk vs. Samuel Walters, administrator. Covenant. Defendant pleads convenant performed. Continued. Jacob Bollinger vs. W. K. Piper. Trespass on the case. Defendant pleads not guilty. Continued. A. Thomas vs. John Costlow. Quare clansum fregft. Defendant pleads not guilty and liberium tenementum. Settled. J. S. Burkhart vs. William Burkhart. Debt. Defendant pleads never indebted. Continued. Sarah Stuff vs. J. H. Stiffler's administrators. Assumpsit. Defendant pleads non assumpsit. Continued. J. S. P. Harris et al. vs. James Patterson, et al. Ejectment. Defendants plead not guilty. A. McFadden vs. S. Hammond. Assumpit. Defendant pleads payment with leave. Continued. John K. Neff vs. Harrison Crorsuch. Appeal. Defendant pleads non assumpsit and payment with leave. Continued. John Riley and wife vs. M. McCullough. Ejectment. Defendant pleads not guilty. Continued. D. A. Winters vs. Andrew Boyles. Sci. fa. sur. Mechanics' lien. Defendant pleads payment with leave. Plaintiff becomes non suit. Wm. Ritchey vs. P. R. R. Lease. Defendant pleads not guilty. Continued. J. S. Cupples vs. City of Altoona. Assumpit. Defendant pleads non assumpsit and payment with leave. Continued. W. N. Barclay vs. Samuel Milliken & Son. Assumpsit. Defendant pleads non assumpsit and payment with leave. Settled. Safeguard Insurance Company vs. James Lowery. Assumpsit. Defendant pleads non assumpsit. Continued. A. M. Lloyd & Co. vs. E. Hammond. Appeal. Defendant pleads non assumpsit. and payment with leave. Settled by defendant. Annie Whiteman PABlair Rootsweb List Administrator Annie Whiteman/Steve Patz Blair County Coordinators http://www.rootsweb.com/~pablair