Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-10-15

committee attending to the funeral ar
engagements at Brighton making sugges-
nous similar to those he had made to Mrs.
Parnell.
WISH OF THE PEOPLE TO PREVAIL.
Mr.. Mahoney replied MRS. Parnell
considers that the strong wish of the
people should prevail. Mr.. McDermott is
not only 9 relative of the dead man. but
ne is also the family solicitor.
SHARP SHOT FOR M'cARrHYIrEs.
4. The Express to-day, commenting upon
the dilemma in which the McCarthyites
are placed, owing to the opposition to their
attendance at the funeral of Mr.. parnell
says: Twill they venture to follow to the
grave the man whom they fawned upon
for years and then hunted to death Their
vile and cowardly insults failed to crush
his proud spirit, but they broke his heart.
With what feeling would they regard their
handiwork2''
DILLON CALLED MuRDERER-THR STU
ALTON CRITICAL.
DUBLIN, Oct. 10.--As Mr.. John Dillon,
member of parliament for East Mayo, was
passing down Sackville street yesterday
evening, he was met by rough who
shouted YOU'RE murderer" Mr.. Dillon
managed to pass without further trouble,
bub ~ lhIus luTtlcr Oh lc Was aLtOsteu DN
two other men who approached him, say
ing. in = threatening manner. Here's
Dillon, the murderer" Mr.. Dillon saws
that they had been drinking, but it is as
serted that the language used WINS the re-
suit of secret meetings of Parnellites The
mutation OF affairs is regarded as critical.
csblegram to New York Herald.
DUBLIN, Oct. II, 1s91.-Charles
Stewart Parnell was buried to-day in
the presence of an immense assemblage
As scene of great but suppressed ex-
element and still greater impressiveness
the funeral and its surroundings will
never be forgotten by those who wit
messed it and will long furnish land
mark in the history of Ireland.
There was but one rendezvous for the
citizens of Dublin to-day-the city hall,
where Parnell's body lay in state for
several hours. There was but one topic
OF versation-Parnel's death.
NO REUNION POSSIBLE.
The belief that his demise would
close the chasm in the Irish rank is no
longer tenable Parnel's death has
made it too wide even to be bridgcd.
His old opponents may have felt in
clined to forget and forgive, but this
spirit was crushed almost before it was
born, and his old adherents are simply
ferocious in their enmity. Threats Of the
most violent character were made on all
sides, and the mere appearance Of a
member Of the opposition in the streets
of Dublin to-day would have been the
signal for wild work.
FLocKING TO THE CITY.
The city was astir at an unusually
early hour, and there was a crowd Of
thousands in and around Westland Row
station before 7o'clock. Rain fell heavily
and continuously, but the crowd was
insensible to it.
Curiously enough, 1t has rained pitt.
lessly every day since PanelI died. II
was raining when the body was placed
aboard the train at Brighton, and it was
raining when it was put aboard the boat
at Holyhead at $50 o'clock this morn.
ing. The boat was greatly crowded and
hundreds were unable to find place tc
lie down. The passage TO Kingstown
was very rough, and two-thirds of the
passengers were unable to hold their
heads up.
THE ESCORT ACROSS THE CHANNEL.
Accompanying the body were all but
half a dozen of Parnell's parliamentary
supporters, and those who were missing
met the body at Kingstown. Also oil
board the boat were Lord Mayor Meade
fof Dublin, High Sheriff Shanks and
Town Clerk Beveridge. There were also
adherents Of the dead leader from hall
the towns in Ireland. The ladies of the
party were Mrs. Dickinson, Parnell'.
sister; Miss Harrison, sister of Parnell'.
closest political friend, Hugh Harrison
Miss Maude Some and the Counties.
Won Setback. The ladies were in the
careiof Henry Tudor Parnell, brother oil
the dead man.
THE ARRIVAL AT JAMESTOWN.
The boat arrived at Kingstown soon
after 9 o'clock. The regular and specia
train had already arrived, and upon the
quay, bareheaded in the rain, stood
about 100 men. In the van was 0
platoon of police.
Among those who came to meet the
body were Members of Parliament Cor.
bett, Conway, p. O'Brien, O'lIanlon and
Nolan.
An hour was spent at the landing
The crowd was very quiet, though every
now and then one heard the expression
"He was murdered !"
At last the coffin was brought from
the boat and put aboard the train. Ii
was carried on the shoulders Of siS
sailors, all bareheaded.
PECULIAR SHAPED COFFIN.
Its curious shape attracted instant at
tention. The coffin was enclosed in {
plain wooden shell, 1t did not look like
a coffin, but rather like rough box. L
was not only larger than ali ordinary
coffin, but was Of an entirely diiferen
shape, being nearly seven feet long anl
about three feet wide at the end where
the head lay, and about two feet wide
at the other end.
MADE TO SUIT PARNELL.
The coffin was made according Il
Parnells orders. lie was intensely
approximations, and during his life b,
gave orders that his coffin should y,
made after an old English design, with
out shoulders, for he seemed to think h,
would not rest easily unless he Id,
more room than was usually given Il
the dead The coffin was really mad,
on four straight lines. 1t was covered
with the Irish flag.
Nearly all those who came to Kings
town wore armlets Of crepe, to whiel
were attached knots Of green ribbon
The crowds that thronged the neighbor
hood OF the city hall during the day
We're decorated in Tie same way.
At various stations along the lin