Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-04-03

WILD SCENE AT A GRAvE-A DIvoRC.
ED WIFE ON THE GRoUND.-A very re-
lnarkable scene occurred at Greenwood
Cemetery Tuesday, in which Mrs Bishop,
the wife of Nathaniel G. Bishop, so noted
as the parties in the famous Bishop di.
vorce suit, occupied a position Of startling
conspicuousness. The Brooklyn IN. W
Union gives the following account of it
Mr. Bishop, the husband, died ON Mon
day at his residence in New York city. 1t
is said that he requested before his death
tnat his wife should not be permitted to
view his remains nor have any control
over the arrangements for his funeral or
interment. Arrangements for the burial
were made by the father-in-law of Mr.
Bishops daughter by his first wife. Ac-
vices took place at DR.. Tyng's church, ON
Madison avenue. AT the conclusion of
the funeral services a son of Mr.. Bishop
by his last wife, in accordance with in
structions from his mother, attempted to
induce the undertaken in charge of the in
terment, to take charge of the body and
keep it for his mother until the next day,
when she would give it a private buri-
al.
The undertaken, who had been told that
| if he obeyed any order of Mrs. Bishop in
the matter lie would not get his fee, de-
cllned his request. He was about to put
the remains in the hearse when Mrs.
| Bishop came up and positively forbade
| him to do so. After some delay and ex-
postulation. Mrs. Bishop consented to
have the body removed to Greenwood Gem
etery, provided she and her son could have
a separate carriage in which to ride there
| She was furnished with carriage and
the funeral cortege proceeded to the ceme
| terry gate without further disturbance. At
| the entrance Mrs. Bishop got out of her
carriage, and amid great excitement or
dered the coffin to be taken out of the
hearse and deposited in the receiving vault,
and not in the grave which had been dug
for 1t IN the family plot owned by Mr..
| Bishop. The undertaken persisted in ta-
| king the caSket conta, ming the body to
the grave prepared for it. At the grave
! Mrs. Bishop, in loud and firm tones. for
babe the undertaken to lower the casket
into the earth, saying that if he attempt
ed to do so she would jump into the grave
and compel him to lower the dead body
upon her.
The undertaken attempted to deposit
the casket IN the grave, when to the sur
prise of the spectators, Mrs. Bishop, true
to her threat, leaped into the grave. She
added to the intensity of the scene by ex-
claiming that the ladies present were Sim
proper women" had poisoned her husband
Wlshin. to ''get him out of the way"
The superintendent of the cemetery at last
reluctantly yielded to the woman's request
and placed the body in the receiving vault,
and then the excited woman and her son
took their departure.
( This morning Mrs. Bishop returned to
the cemetery with her son, and after some
conversation with the superintendent, con-
sented to have the body buried in the
grave prepared for it, which was DONE
The superintendent states that her appear
ance and dress indicated great poverty.
SURPRISING THE PRAYING BANDS IN
CGNCINNATI.-T movement of the cru
stdrrs III Cincinnati upon the favorite tip
pllng-place OF the Chamber of Commerce
precipitated their doom. The Mayor. on
complaint of sundry citizens, issued his
proclamation forbldding street-praying and
other street-blockading contriyances, and
the women do net yet know what to do
| about it,. To make the matter worse for
them, an immense meeting of all classes of
citizens lat which 2 1000 people were present
was held in Exposition Hall, in that city,
Saturday night, at which speeches were
made by Judge Whitman, Judge Taft.
Rabbi Lilienthal, and others in behalf of
the license law. A resolution was adopt
ed that judicious license law met the
wants of the times, and was the best solu-
tion of the liquor-traffic question. The
women's movement was spoken of respect
fully, though condemned by implication.