The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1886-03-30 00:00:00

MR... PARNELL IN LOW WATER.

The Wovainyton P.. 4 of the 20th February has the
following : in A common tenement, fourth floor, oVrr
a liquor 'tore, in A crowded portion of the city, lives
an ohl lady of in, whoa.. omdition is a reproach to her
American countrymen and her Irish partisen.. She
is Mrs. Parnell, mother of the popular lionise Rule
leader of Ireland. She was once a society belle .1
Charlesllalt tiu.,wut
inaor,dn agh.
'State. Navy of 110 year., reaching from the war of
1812 to that of the rebellion, subjected him to many
viciwitudrn, but his family lived in luxiiry. lb
'laughter Delia was A society favourite, and her hand
WAA songlit by many wealthy Maniere.. Yew
correspondent called on her today. Al flrst the people
in the vicinity declared that ni such woman lived
thereabout, but the liquor dealer handed him • key
and sai.l—'• Colock the dine outside aim 14)
top of the house." The direction, were billowed, after
rulling the lielbliandle in V4lll, and at the top of the
fourth flight of narrow stairs the invalid lady was
found. The halls emelt like Cmstantinople, Alld
plumbers are evidently much needed. The tenement
in which Mrs. Parnell is confined consist.% of four
small rooms, and the family who... guest she is num•
bees a man and his wife and son and two men
boarder.. Mrs. Parnell ism been continesl to her
ryom for four months with neuralgia and gout, only
climbing to the roof three or four times in that
period for a breath of air. She was so low a month
*go that she WIII believed to be dying, rhemnatism
having attacked the heart, but she rabied, .1118"nru'd
by vitality inherited from her father, the Admiral,
who died at 94. Your correspondent knew Mrs.
Parnell hear years ago, when she was living ham.
iously at the New York Ilotel, and not her fre,
quently in society here. At that time she and her
talented daughter, since dead, were doing .ervice for
the Irish camel stumping New Jersey and the New
England States, and raising funds for "Charley."
At this time the old lady does not went to have one
dollar that she can call her own. Her father left her
a small fortune and his slaperli estate at Bordentown,
N.. 1., on the banks of the lb.la ware, directly arness
the road from King .10sepli's Castle, and there she
lived in peace year after year. But in a fit of
generosity she gave it to her son Charles, and last
summer she did not go out there at all, mainly
because she had not nioney enough to live there.
Charles Parnell owns it now. " I am quite
comfortable with my g'cu.l friend here,"
said Mrs. Parnell (rem her bed in the
front MOM. "Yes. I hear from Charley often,
but he only writes an affectionate family letter;
never any politicist, your know. Some of his letters
were opened "nee. She feels rather bitterly towards
the Parnell fund people and the Irish ' patriots"
generally, who, she think.., ha*.' treated her shabbily.
The t„chei recently
t itrei ‘a'rri a Parnellcly sa were
r*:•11'..4
yes, 1 know • and the American people have raieed so
much for Mrs. Grant and Mrs. Hancock ; why can't
they give Mrs. l'arnell something?" An the visitor
left a tenant on the lower floor, in %flower to quea-
tions, said : " Yes ; the tmor woman taint got nothir g.
She sometimes sends down wool as our A 4.1111 smells
good, and we send her up a bowl in it."