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# Told In a Few Words.
--At a meeting in City Temple, London, Dr. Parker, the well-known pastor of that church, spoke in an eulogistic manner of Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, the celebrated divine of Brooklyn, N. Y., who is well known to those who attend the City Temple. Dr. Parker said that the Christian public throughout the world ought to insist upon the withdrawal of Mr. Talmage's resignation as pastor of the Brooklyn Tabernacle. He was, Dr. Parker added, the most vivid and most pictorial of living preachers. Dr. Parker thought that should he decide to leave America he should come to London.
--In the prize-ring at Jacksonville, Fla., Thursday, James Corbett, champion pugilist of the world, defeated Charles Mitchell, champion of England, in the third round. The purse was $20,000, with $10,000 personal stakes. After the fight, both men were arrested, and held in $500 bonds.
-A boat containing six white men left Sullivan Island, S. C. Monday for the life-saving station on Morris Island. Wednesday the bodies of two of the men were found on the shore of Morris Island. One of them, B. R. Campsen, is a member of the life-saving crew on Morris Island. The other, named Fred Miller, was a resident of Sullivan Island. The other four men are missing and are supposed to be drowned. Nothing is known of the cause of the accident.
-Chicago officers raided the house where "Jack" Murrey lived with a woman who claims to be his wife, and captured a full outfit of counterfeiting tools and over $40 in bogus dimes and quarters. Mrs. Murrey denied all knowledge of her husband's illegal practices.
-Charles Hoyt, the playwright, it is reported, will marry Miss Caroline Miskell, the actress, next March.
-Members of a Methodist congregation at Salem, Ohio, are on trial for accusing a trustee of the church with having an evil eye and practicing witchcraft.
-John Reid, President of the Western Trust and Savings Association, of Kansas City, which, when it failed last summer, had only $30 in its vault, has been indicted on seven charges of grand larceny for receiving deposits when he knew the bank to be insolvent. Reid was arrested on a capias, and being unable to procure bail was locked up.
-John Meagher, a Petaluma, Cal., rancher, who, with his blind wife Nancy, was shot, was not fatally wounded, as at first reported, but has sufficiently recovered to denounce Fred Bryan, his nephew, as the man who did the shooting. Bryan denies the story.
-At Colorado City, Colo., the J. B. Wheeler Bank began paying all depositors in full. It failed last July.
-At Sherman, Texas, the frame mill of the Sherman Oil and Cotton Company burned. The loss is estimated at $100,000 and is covered by insurance.
-The First National Bank of Fort Payne, Ala., has suspended.
-Every indication seems to point to the recovery of George W. Childs.
-Controller Eckels has ordered an assessment of 100 per cent. on the defunct Citizens' Bank of Grand Island, Neb.
-Judge Coffey of San Francisco has made an order granting Mrs. Jane L. Stanford an allowance of $19,000 monthly pending the settlement of the Leland Stanford estate.
-The property of the Fort Payne Coal and Iron Company, Fort Payne, Ala, and the Sheffield Land, Coal and Iron Company, were sold Wednesday by order of the United States Court. The former company had floated $5,000,000 bonds in the East, and the latter company's property is valued at $1,000,000.
-The Lima Natural Gas Company commenced an injunction suit against the city of Lima to prevent the latter from publishing an ordinance just passed regulating the price of natural gas.
-Mrs. Georgia D. Scott sued A. L. Scott and Joseph Scott, wholesale shoe dealers of Pittsburg, for $50,000 damages for alienating the affections of her husband and their brother, William E. Scott.
-Miss Gena Moore Jones, daughter of Governor and Mrs. Jones, of Alabama, and Charles T. Holt, son of ex-Governor Holt of Raleigh, N. C. were married at St. John's Episcopal Church, Montgomery, by Bishop H. M. Jackson.
-John Allen, administrator, obtained a judgment for $5,000 against the Toledo, St Louis and Kansas City Railroad Company on account of the death of Chris Allen, a laborer.
-Beckley, of Pittsburg, is pushing a scheme for benefit ball games for Catcher Bennett, who recently lost both legs.
-D. G. Greer, foreman of a lumber company near Birmingham, Ala., was killed by a limb from a falling tree. Jim Benton, a negro lad, was killed by another limb.
-Fifteen persons lost their lives in a railroad accident near Samara in the southeastern part of Russia.
-Henry De Jaezer, an insane patient at the Chicago Detention Hospital, hanged himself with a towel in the bathroom.
-Senator Palmer's residence at Springfield, Ill., was badly damaged by fire. State Treasurer Ramsey occupied the house.
-John Brodie, at Valparaiso, Ind., was fined for denouncing the grand jury system to the body and court.
-Cold weather has reduced the pressure in the natural gas fields around Celina, Ohio, and suffering is the result.
-Milwaukee business men may form a concern to compete with the telephone company by reducing the rate.
-James Bamka, of Duluth, sued the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Road for $15,000 damages for injuries received at a grade crossing.
-In a quarrel at Painesville, Ind., Robert Lawson crushed the skull of Effie Arbuckle with a scale weight. Arbuckle will die and Lawson escaped.
