The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-12-07
CHARLES STEWART PARNELL
Anecdotes and Personal Traits of the
Popular Irish Leader.
Ills EDUCATION And ENTRY INTO POLITICS.
What Is Known Of Admiral Stewards Grandson
in a Retired Jersey Village.
"OLD R0NSDES" AND The "INC0RRUPFBLE"


BonpENrowN, N. j.. Dec 6. 1879.
This quiet little town is awakening from sleep OF
years. The forge aud iron works . mile down the
Delaware are going at full blast the hum OF indus
Try is heard in the various shops; new houses are
being built and old ones repanted; and firm Of
shrtmakers. having occupied SUCCESSFULLY the Opera
House and the Town Hall. is now testing the capa-
city OF huge brick factory in which thousands OF
dollars of local capital were sunk some years ago.
During the lethargy. from which the place IL re-
covering the villagers have had little to 40 but talk
of the good old days when Joseph Bonaparte lived
here and Prince Murat made his life wretched by
cesses of every sort. From the hour of the exie's
departure until his grand nephew. the Prince I'm
perial. pierced by Zulu spears Bordentown
watched the varying fortunes of King Josephs fam
lily with eager interest. For time she rejoced over
the successes of Louis Napoleon. whose youthful
feet had trod the village streets. and when the EN-
peror died. exile at Chiselhurst. her heart went
out in sympathy with the widowed Eugene, whose
friend and constant comforter, the Duchess de
Mouchy, is by birth. Bordentonian. But at the
death OF Napoleon w."
The eyes, fore duteous. then converted were
From his low tract and looked another why.
That other way was in the direction OF England.
Imperial. these provincial eyes peered into the
House Of Commons and fell upon the figure Of
rising man. On him they have rested ever since.
and nowhere in America are the HERALDs dispatches
"elating to Mr.. Charles Stewart Parnell read with
'aore interest than in this retired town.
pARNELL's PRoaENIToRs.
Nor is 1t surprising that "thc Irish Dictator" -
he is sometimes called. should engage the attention
OF community SO remote from the scene Of his
labors. To him Bordentown must be forever dear
as the home Of her who gave him birth; while to
every villager his career Is interesting as that
Of grandson of one of Bordentown's
departed worthless 1t is. moreover deserving Of re-
mark that the most popular of living "Irishmen"
should have Irish blood in his viens but that
which Gomez through his descent from an American.
AS preface. then. to brief sketch Of Mr. Parnell
himself your correspondent will take the liberty Of
peeping high enough into the branches of his family
tree to show to what degree he is strictly natural
growth.
poems which enjoyed some popularity half CEN
fury before the 1rars.ler appeared. the following
ancestry of the obstructionist:-
Thomas Parnell ID. D.. descended from ancient
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large personal proper.y which ho laid i out s'' 10
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things are told OK ms memory a. ihas EeT n
n, a. cha s wa. No sbir,aan a. cis.sirsl scboIsr
faw coniS canal him - pone WAS NOT only cxccs.
svey fond of his company but under several literary
obligations him for his assistance in tho translation OF
Homer. Gay was obliged to him upon another account;
for being always poor he not above roesivng from
snt;wms ' sPs P.rn.s nv What have h"sn aha 20
collect from my father and mother who knew him Was
Of those he conversed WITH and the least able TO his
own He wanted that evenness OF disposition which
bears disappointment win pniegm anu Joy Win ihoner-
snce'
He who wrote the tale OF TUB wrote TO
esteemed; ana the autnor OF An Essay on Man.
IN dedcating to tho Earl OF Oxford his friends col
lected works. exclaims:-
Absent or dead, still lot friend be dear
"a sigh the absent claims, the dead tear.
ZEE, those nights thie So s inv iosom days.
e'i'' near 'nS faihei' III n'' nv'ns 'AsS'
"YoU AND l.
From this last line may be leafned the proper pro-
nunciaton of the poets name the accent being cor
rectly placed on the first syllable, and in one Of
Popes witty letters addressed to his collSborator
to be derived from the Northman French. You are
generous author. writes the genius OF Twicken-
ham; ~ hackney scribbier: you Grecian and
my own educating: you reverend parson;
wag; in short you are Dr. Parnelle with an
Obliged and afectionate friend and faithful servant
Parnell married about l7o5. Miss Anne Minehin. -
i., two sons Who died young and oiM danyhter
He was made vicar of Finglas. but died soon after
lin 17ls, at the age of thirty nine and buried in
Trinity Church. Chester. No monument yet marks
his resting place. The points OF between
this poet, wit and preacher and the member OF his
family most conspicuous at the present day are
neither numerous nor striking. The former. so
Goldsmith says. was never an earnest student; tho
latter has studied hard since hrst he learned to read
The former was full OF fun and sprghtliness; the
latter wears rather "a weighty and serious BROW;
tho Arch Deacon OF Clogher was sensitive to de-
Home Rule leader Is man whom nothing can move
Parneli, the poet, sang OF "bacchus. Comus, Love
and Jocus; tarneil the politician, speaks or land
lord and tenant. rack rents and resistance to evic
ton. The particulars in which the two men resem-
Bile one another are these:-Each achieved fame at
early age and neither was driven into the service
OF the muses. on the one hand or the muses. on the
other by the sordid necessity OF lettering his con-
diton.
Both the English and the Irish estates OF "tho