The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-01-15
THE PARNELL FAMILY.
The Various Unclcs and Aunts OF the
Irish Leader.
An Interesting Story OF Two Round
Towers.

settled at Congleton in Cheshire, whence
the title held by the head of the house
was derived, they passed over to Ireland
and bought lands there in the regin of
Charles IL The eldest son of the first
emigrant was the one famous poet Thorn
as Parnell, archdcacon of Clogher. IL
would appear thatthis Officially vener-
able ecclesiastic followed conscientsously
his own advice to bis hero,
Turn, gentle Hermit of the dale!
since, having been an ardent Wing when
Whiggery was ia the ascendant, he cast
in his lot at later period with the Tor
les, when Torylsm appeared to be the
more promising road to promotion. In
the latter part of his career he become
intimate with Pope, who eventually
edited his poems, aud with Swift,
who obtained for him the rich living of
Finglas in the County Dublin John Par
nell, the younger brother Of the poet,
succeeded to the family estate, and be,
came the patriarch of all succeeding Par
nells-whose name by the way is never
pronounced In Ireland, as is in England,
ParRsU, with the accent on the last syl-
liable. 1t IS there called ParnelI like
"charnel," ''darneil" "sharpnell,' ETC.,
and the most distinguished bearer of the
patronymic, being of somewhat peuuri-
Gus habits, bore in that land of witty sob
riquets the nickname Of Sir Henry Pare
nail" accordingly. John Parnell died
Judge OF the queens bench and to him
succeeded his son, another John, created
baronet in 1866; and he again was fol-
lowed by his son, the second baronet of
the name. who was chancellor of the Irish
exchequer. Witt this last gentlemen the
oddities of the family seem to have
commenced. There were five sons and a
daughter born to him and his wife, who
belonged to the eminently respectable,
well>ordered house OF Brooke of Col
brooke. Their eldest son, Sir Augustus,
was a poor dumb cripple, and by an act
of parliament the estates passed in his
lifetime to his brother Sir Henry This
last made up for his brothers defects by
talking necessarily in public and running
up and down perpetually between Lon
don and Dublin, being the principal ORR
ginator of the great highroad from Shrews.
bury TO Holyhesd. which opened up
Woles for the first time to ordinary trav-
ellers The Menal bridge, which constitut-
ed the GROWING glory of the achievement
was looked upon in its day as one of the
wonders of the world. In ecoguition o:
this and other public services. Sir Hens
Ty Parnell was created Baron Congleton,
in 1871.
THE THIRD BROTHER.
after Sir Augustus and Sir Henry. was
William Hayes Parnell, who acquired the
estate of Avondale, Bounty Wicklow
The handsome 'demesue, In Irish phrase,
is situated, as may be gathered from: its
name, on the Irish Avon-(Avon or Atom
means river in all Celtic tongues) the
stream which Moore celebrated
o there's not in this wide world a valley
so sweet
As the vale in whose bosom the bSight
waters meet.
There are certainly a good many lovelie T
valleys up and down the world, but all
Irish geese evolve into swans and Wick =
low is undoubtedly pretty country. If
peaceful scenery only produced peaceful
minds in its inhabitants, the heir of
Avondale should have been as mild as
his great unce's Hermit himself. Mr.. d
). ParneIfs mother was an American
lady, Miss Della Stewart daughter of
commodore Charies stewart OF the Unit
eu 7, Is navy II mas oeeh commonly
saiI lfu!y OF laiseIy' we iaVe no means
VI hho"iD5l inat MIS- tarhell was per-
lecty raDia IA her hatred OF England
ana mat she taught her young son, like
another Hannibal 10 swear enmity to the
hloue'u i'ohie even IN MS petllcoats.
10 return 10 the son OF or John Far
hei' secohu oatohet besides Or Angus
tuo ms, ,ne iool anu OH i1ehry the cIeVer ana
Niliirn Vi A'oIualu, lhere We're Two
sons, inouias ana Arthur ana one daugh =
Iei' oo I,,, ino,iaS rarheil, 'oid Tom
amen "9 ",' H"o'iu MIC" MN LOT 'orty
years hlu hn9e' hngaihiv hsure Ike
Dr: Johnson ana one OF the sweetest,
soltest races ever worn by mortal man.
lie haa at some remote and, long-for-
s't'ei PcFIou neen seized with a ferVent
aHu SCH -ueHt,u% feHgions ehthusiamsm
Vi 'ne ultra ioVSstaht type ana TINS had
somehow gwen biflh 10 scheme for ar
ranging texts OF 'he b'Die IN mysterious
order when when completed should have
anoraed iniailoie answers to every ques-
tioh OF lhe human mind. 10 construct
the lhterihlnabie tables required for this
wonderful plan, poor Tom Parnell deyot-
go MS HE ana fortune, For years, which
mus nave amounted to many decades,
ne Injured at Inc WORK IN bare, gloomy,
uusty room IN a Protestant ONCE IN Sack
Yi!ie street Money went TO clerks and
printers; and no doubt the good man, who
himself hved' as he used to say laughing
~ on second>nand bone, gave money
also Freely III aims. One way or another
MI farneh grew poorer nd more poor,
ms coat looked shabbier nd his beauti-
lui ioh9 white hair more obviously in
need OF barber. Once or twice every
summer ne was prevailed on by his sister
10 tcar himself from his work and pay
her lew days visit in the country ten
miles on land to her and all her visitors he
preached necessarily his monotOnous ap~