Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-06-06
THIRTEEN, ALL DAUGHTERS.
Something About the Great Lawyer Who
Floored ssthe Thunderer."

| The name of Sir Charles Russell will
be given an honorable place in the
history of the struggle for home rule
for Ireland, says the New York Jour-
nal. He is the senior counsel for the
Parnellites and it was his incisive and
searching cross-examination that drove
the forger Pigott in terror from En-
gland. Sir Charles is remarkable
man in more respects than one. An
interesting sketch of his career is
furnished to the Journal by Florence
O'Sullivan, gentleman who has
conducted business in London for
many years and who is now on visit
to friends in that city. Mr.. O'Sullivan
is acquainted with the leading Par
nellite members of the parliament and
also with Sir Charles, whom he thus
describes:
''Sir Charles is a man of about 90
years. He stands feet II inches high
and is built like an athlete. His COM
plexion is fiorid and his hair a dark
brown, slightly tinged with gray. He
was born in County Wexford, Ireland,
and has practiced his profession with
distinction for a quarter of century.
Encouragement of England, and no
man ever left the Office with higher
reputation. When the Parnell COM
| mission was created Russell was ap-
preached by Solicitor Buckle of the
Times and offered f150 day to rep
resent the paper while the commission
sat. He declined the offer on princi-
pie, because he was convinced that the
letters were forgeries. The attorney
general, Sir Richard Webster, was re-
tanned at 9100 day. Russell is prob
ably not receiving more than half that
sum, because the Parnellite treasury
is limited and there are heavy expenses
to be met outside of counsel.
There is wrong impression in
England, and presume in this coun-
try, as to the ownership of the Times.
People generally imagine that the
paper is controlled by Sir John Wal
ter and his brother Henry. This is
not the case. 1t is a close corpora
ton. formed under the limited liability
act, and the policy of the men who
have divided its profits has been to
keep the public in the dark as to it's
affairs. Among its stockholders are
the premier, Lord Salisbury, the mar
quis of Butte, the notorious duke of
Buccleugh, and other rabid tory aris-
tocrats. The Walter brothers have
while these men have been drawing
the heavy portion of the dividend and
directing the policy of the paper. But
there were no dividends to draw last
year and they won't be heavy this
year. A description of the storm that
is now raging among the tory stock
holders would make interesting read
ing.
But to return to Sir Charles. His
domestic life is one that any man
might envy. He lives in princely
mansion at % Harley street, in the
fashionable West end. Nearly all the
property in that vicinity is owned by
the duke of Beaufort. His family
worship in the beautiful Catholic
Church in Ogle street, near by. They
are the admiration of the congrega-
ton, and no wonder they should be.
1t is sight to observe the handsome
lawyer with his graceful wife, with
their thirteen pretty daughters, as they
enter the church. Yes, thirteen splen-
did girls, who rise one above the other
like the steps of stairway. There is
no boy in the household. 1t takes
three pews to accommodate the family,
and father and mother always sit in
the last pew. They say in this eoun-
try that thirteen is an unlucky number,
but in part of County Wexford, from
which the Russells hail, no family is
considered complete till it numbers
twenty-one. By that time there may
be several sons"