The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-17
THE PARNELLS.
The Mother of the Great Leader is Fighting
Starvation in New Jersey.

The Mother of the Great Leader Is Fighting
Starvation in New Jersey.
Especial to THE Observation-Disclosures Dispatch.
BoRDENTowN, n. j., Nov. 16.-While
Charles Stewart Parnell is fighting Ire
lands enemies in England, Isays Herald
reporter, his aged and infrm mother is
lighting starvation in New Jersey. The
information they have of him is that the
enormous expense of the London Times
trial and parliamentary work have left
Mr.. Parnen almost as poor as his mother.
They have reports of the rigid economies
he is said to be practising. Mrs. Parnell's
honse stands on a hill about mile from the
village. L rdrove there this aftern DON;
the rooms were stripped bare, the paper
hung in shreds on the walls, few trink
cts and old clothes were piled on taSle in
the centre of the hall, they were the last
collection of the effects which Mrs. Parnell
had gathered. for sale, there was scarcely
any other furniture, the rooms were dark
and damp and wretchedly cold.
Mrs. Parnell sat beside the kitchen
stove, which was the only warm
and cheerful thing in the whole house.
She wore a cotton handkerchief over her
head to protect her from the draught that
blew about in the old house. An old shawl
covered her shoulders. 1t was fastened by
heavy gold emblematic pin, which is
about all she has left of her jewelry She
wore an old and WORKOUT dress. There
were two other wooden kitchen chairs be-
sides the one she sat on, the remains of a
scanty luncheon stood Oh the kitchen table,
otherwise the room was bare. Mrs. Par
nelf's cat and guitar, which are her only
companions now, We're close at hand. She
has no attendant and takes care of herself,
old as she is. l asked her if she didn't
get lonesome. She said: II don't get time
to be lonesome; finding and preparing pa
pers in the law suit takes up nearly all my
time. l have scrupulously preserved all
papers and letters that could be of any
value and the mass of them has got
to be enormous. Papers connected with the
matter go back through fifteen years.
1t has been great work to find them all. 1t
has not been ali lost labor however. l have
found many things that will be of interest
hereafter, and among them many things
valuable in connection with my sons af-
fairs. Il was disappointment to me that |
could not go to England when the case
was up before the commission. | have
documents and know facts that would have
been Of great weight in the inquiry. A good
many OF them are matters my son never
knew, or has forgotten. / have found pri-
vate papers of his that will clear him,
think, from any charge of favoring violent
methods in the Irish agitation. 1 should
! like to take them to him now, but, to be
frank, there are good many things lack
that are much more necessary than to get
to England. [ would not appeal to my son
for assistance to go to abroad for obvious
reasons. Very few know his circumstan-
ces as well as l know them. He is at the
end of his means. His estate is bringing
him in almost nothing. His tenants pay
when they feel like D9ViuC and he WON'T
press them. He is almost in want and his
expenses have been great. 1 have made
up my mind to get along the best can
without bothering him.