CLERICAL VAGARIES.

Clutha Leader, Volume II, Issue 103, 30 June 1876, Page 2

CLERICAL VAGARIES.

M. G. W. titiM.%;-- the Vicar of St. Petrock Mariul, ©0! l !lw^ll,**wWf|ftr^pte < d i i some attention '^^b^' ! l&e i !,^4^mA'.!A! Keet tombstone ,^case ; was/ aecjciejj^byr the Judicial Committee oif' thej Eriyyo v Council, by advertising that he would reject all letters VJuchaddressedJiim'b^'l the now desecrated title of .f,' Reverend^ *n died oh April 22nd. He^appears itQ "ii have been a most eccentric individual, 1 and for a long time past iie ■ had taken . : to sleeping in his coffin. Nevertheless, he seems to have had a, wholesome dread of illness/for- the walls of hi_'befc { - room were papered with letters, .and, with . notices ofthe steps tha. 'were* .(The'" taken if he became ill. On one occasion, while in the pulpit, he actually gave his domestic,, servant public notice^ tO' .« leave his employ. Fortunately, the population^ of. his parish was lesa.^han_ : 100, so that the range of his freaks was very circumscribed. - * ii " '- i; - '-■' "■"■ A good deal of notice has been taken ( of a letter written to U"Liverpoolpap~eir' by the Rev. W.;Cl_mentsori,* a'Kefftisli vicar. He stated that on Easter jjjve / he strolled into the beautiful parish | church at Nantwich, Cheshire!,' but was j horrified by beholding t\vo clergymen, / in^ their cassocks, engaged iv scrubbing/ the floor of the chancel with " flannel J soap, and water,* 'one: of^them^bgitfgf 1 ' prostrate beneath the communion table/ Mr 'Clementson commented in eeyera terms upon this 3egraaa r tibn : ofWiAM /i7 isterial office, though he didnrrt publish his letter for ten days, after the occur-* »;* rencei The clerical charwomen themselves, appear, . to f have preserved a discreet silence' on; the' 1 subject, Haly ' fearing lest their floor^sbrubtiinf f bpera.

UUU9 BuuuHi.ge_.mem-into trouble with — their Bisho^jwho^erTOtih % pje^eiitfi t \ son- invokes upon their heads. * It is not, unlikely.) ,tba^w_teii^,__ttliiflldl^(l^T::i; them, Mr Clemen tsoQ^trplJedr^tp £lp* church; they were undergoing a penance" prescribed for tb'efri'by* a'HipmiM 1 " '''■ ' Superior!, —_.."' r A Victorian Twine agency has beer., ftf i opened at Galle.and frozen meat is i'egfo ••, J pected td bVsu-pplieMd fdolombo; f . <j Mr William Stanbridp/^lievonshlre^ I schoolmaster, has been tried^aT Exeter, f and sen teheed -to five • tude, for cruelly assaulting -a pupil, ' named Philip Cxpssm«n, f ag^ liayear§v,D/ai THe boy was " behind in his sums," and / Stanbridgel-told him- to hold-out-hisH hahdl-The; bqyoditlcn^^ldo so/u^ndiU^ Stanbridge then began to savagely beat %..abp^i*t^^ j, and in dojng so cut the lad over the eye, ; b T fhich; the sight wa»vip%fe>flTOen ; the schoolmaster beca*me aware of what > he had done he* fled, like a coward, and ' was captured *t3pl^ il ,-.i h ,;,^. m^^^