The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-08-04
ANOTHER CLERICAL ROMANCE.
CAN TaIs BE TRUE ?-IF SO, WHO Is he?

The New York Herald, of tie 31st uEtimo
publishes the following concerning a New
] Orleans pastor, which we most e&vnestlv hape
for the honor Of the cloth and fair fame of oul
city. Is untrue. Within our recollection. az
clergyman of New Orleans has rendered hiEa-
self liable to SO scand,.lous charge:
A singular story in connection with the
! falling from grace" Of another clergyman
was told to a He1al1 reporter yesterday, but
fol- the truth Of which the writer is not pre-
pared to vouch.
\ clergyman hiss been for some time past
administering to the spiritual welfare of a
large and respectable congregation IN New
Orleans IN the flock which this good
shepherd undertook to lead was woman of
bewltching personal attractions, who con-
ceiFed more than platonie affection for her
pastor, and which in time was fully and freely
reciprocated by the divine, who, it shosld be
stated, WAS married man. Some three
weeks ago the pastor and his paramour he
came invisible to their friends, and as it sub
seq1ientiy TRANSFERRED, We're cianaestinely mar
RED III the Crescent City. and Immediately
afterwards left on ncrthward- bound train,
doubtless to seek some outrageous mock
where first wives cease from troubling and al.
save conscience might be at rest
S,tspecting the cause of her husbands alb
sence, his spouse, accompanied by her little
son, Lost no time IN following her perfdious
lord, and ultimately traced the guilty pair to-
Armenia, thriving settlement on the line OF
the Harlem Railroad, and distant from New
York about eighty-hve miles. Here the indig-
nant wife arrived yesterday morning, and
found the object Of her search, together with
his morganatic mate, snugly domiciled at
fashionable hotel. Face to face the parties
met, and viii both women thought fit to
faint by way OF prelude to what followed,
the guilty clergyman looked on complacently,
as though asking the bystanders for an ex-
PLANTATION OF the sudden and extraordinary
sceac. Restor.tives having been applied both
females quickly recovered their senses, and in
an instant thereafter were diligently investiga-
ting each others hair The injured woman
the hotel keeper not to use unneces-
sary harshness towards her husband, since he
had Just promised to return home with her
When the landlord discovered yesterday
however, that the reverend scoun-
drel had no funds wherewith to iquidate his
the clergyman and his partner
We're unceremoniously elected from the house.
The entire party then took Harlem train for
the city, the first wife taking care not to let |
HIM leave her for a moment, although she re- !
fused to pay passage fare except for herself ;
and her little boy. This action on her part
compelled the impecunious husband to de- !
post diamond pin with the conductor as Sc
curty for himself and second wife, in order |
to escape being put off the train. 1t is also
stated that both women quarrelled turiously
during the entire length OF the journey, much !
to the amusement OF their fellow passengers !
On arriving at the Forty street depot
another exhibition took place, both women
claim ns right to the clergyman. The first
wife, however, carried her point by threaten
ing to invoke the assistance Of a policeman.
and finally escorted her truant husband out OF
the depot, while the other woman defantly
brought up the rear.