| Show FROM PULPIT TO the bad end of a preacher who would not let lot liquor aloa alone troy press prima one pleasant afternoon twenty years ago a man of intelligence wa arrested on third street in this city for public intoxication he ile was taken to 10 the police station on state 11 treet unable to give his name or residence the officer on desk duty ascertained both from papers in his pockets pocket his ilia name was wits carson parker bis his residence Bus kirks bridge Bri dP and he was pastor of a methodist Metho diat church at the latter place after he had bail become sober the rev baresin parker was allowed to go his way he ile was not prosecuted in the police court and no mention of hie his conduct was made in the newspapers not many days afterward parker was again on the streets grossly intoxicated he was again arrested and again the fact of bis his disgrace was concealed from the public within a week he was taken to the station the third time for public intoxication this time he was presented in the police court on monday afternoon he stood before justice donohue cowering before the fact that he be was a die disgraced graced minister and that henceforth he was a castaway he ile was a man whose face betray betrays I 1 abilities ofa of a high order and also indicated sensuality and weakness judge donohue discharged the inebriate the ecclesiastical superiors of parker interfered in his case hie his parchments parch ments menta were called an I 1 he was forbidden to exercise exercise any ministerial functions parker then prof professed ed liberalism and repentance he ile was subsequently permitted to appear in in the pulpit of one of unaffiliated churches in this city and he after ward made the efert to organize a s society biety here that should profess in much ill and believe little but dru rendered his efforts in that direction a failure after a while parker disappeared P eared from this vicinity in a general way the fact was known that he was somewhere out west I 1 few ew however knew of his location until a telegram was received announcing noun cing 3 g that he bad had been found dead in a barroom at pueblo col on monday batice he left troy he had alternately preached and arid war worked ked on newspapers he died a drunkard and an outcast |
