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Evening Star, Issue 3505, 18 May 1874, Page 2

A telegraph'operator summoned a doctor ri U ? : o* oine once to see procesjion of Carlo Spencer’s menagerie.” The message, when ( repeated,” read—“ Come at once with prescription—case of cerebro-spinal meningitis. A Yorkshire Clerical Scandal—A clerical scandal has occurred at Barnoldswick, near in the West Riding, The vicar was to have buried a parishioner, but. when the tuueral arrived at the churchyard he found that i the sexton, had, contrary to his orders, dug a grave yn a portion of the griund which had become too fijll. He then refused to bdry the i k°dy without an extra fee. This was refused, and the coffin was left in the church, where it : remained, Un Sunday morning the vicar was . followed home from church two miles by several thousand people, who hooted him and pelted him with mud. As he displayed a six-' barrelled revolver ho was not subjected to serious violence.