Elopement

the act of eloping; private or unlicensed departure from the place or station to which one is a igned by duty or law, particularly of a wife from her husband, or of_a daughter or ward with a gallant. In almost every one of the States, the male principal in an elopement is held guilty of an abduction provided his a ociate in the act is under age, El Paso, city, port of entry, and capital of El Paso county, Tex.; on the Rio Grande river and several trunk line railroads; 712 miles N. W. of Austin. It is opposite Ciudad Juarez, the N. terminus of the Mexiean Central railroad in Mexico, and near El Paso Del Norte, the principal mountain pa between Mexico and New Mexico; is ic a gold, silver, lead, and iron section; has large smelting works, vineyards, and manufactures of machinery, Wine, and tanned leather. Pop. (1910) 39,279.