The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1891-10-16
REVIEW OF THE WEEK.
OLD WORLD.
PARNELL's OBsEOUIEs.

| A Great Outpouring of the Irish People
| Rcverent Respect of EngIishmen Aoni
| the ROute-Laid at Rest In u Cemetery o
The Poor With O'COnneli, Emmett ant
Other Irish Heroes.
Parnell's funeral Sunday was the most i'm
posing ever held IN Ireland. The body WA
taken from Walsingham Terrace, where hi
died, at Brighton, Eng, Saturday for remov'
al TO Dublin. There was sOrrOwful scent
inside the house where the casket was about
to be removed. The grief of Mrs. Parnel
was most poignant and she could with diff
Guilty be persuaded to allow the coffin to be
taken away. AS the hearse passed enormous
crowds on the way to the station, despite thu
downpourlng rain, the spectators took of
their hats and stood uncovered until the last
carriage had gone by. At London. Chester,
Holyhead and various points along the route,
there were demonstrations OF sympathy and
of reverent respect. The place selected for
the burial was the cemetery OF Glasnevin,
near Dublin. 1t Is largely cemetery for the
poor, but there also sleep there. fittingly
considering the history of the country, the
historic leaders Of the people, Daniel OCon-
nell, John Philpot Curran, John Blake Dill.
lion, Robert Emmett and Others whose lives
were consecrated to Irish liberty. Some OBJ
lection WAS made to this selection, by Par
Roman Catholic yard and they made
an appeal to his mother to inter-
fere, but she would not Special trains from
all parts of the country brought tens of thou.
sands of mOurners to Dublin. When the
body arrived at Z a. m. Sunday morning a
vast but silent crowd, with uncove red heads,
awaited the train as 1t rolled into the station.
+ orty thousand persons viewed the body as
1t lay In state In the council room. 1t rained
In torrents but still the crowds kept coming
aud many we're unable to gain admission. 1t
was a great procession, the march TO the
grave surprising In point of numbers any.
thing Of the kind ever witnessed In Dublin.
No systematic plan seemed to regulate the
yet the same fine instinct OF rev.
erentia order pervading everywhere gave the
march an aspect of drilled regularity. IL was
motley mob of weI-cad citizens side by
.iue with the raggedest that followed the pro-
,ession and extended some miles. The pa
,eant of the funeral. II not grand spectacle,
lad an especially solemn interest. Ihe In
ense seriousness OF feeling prevailing the
nyriads partaklng therein gave unique
character to the whole manifestation. Apart
rom the accidental disorder at the cemetery
he day was without incident. Prob. bly,
ever anywhere was great popular demon
tration attended by 50 little excitement. Rev
4. G. Vincent. the chaplain of the Rotunda
ospital, Ofiiciated at the grave. Conspicuous
n the coffin were three wreaths from Mrs.
'arnell, a cross, anchor, and circle with the |
my own true love; best and
ruest friend my husband. from his broken.
earted wife," Inside this inscription was
ne following: "My dear love; my husband,
rom his heart.broken wife" and still within
his was the following: my uear love, my
my king, from his heart.broken
'ife." There were also two Lovely little
reaths from Mrs. Parnelps daughters, with
lie words, "From little Clara and little Kitty
} our dear mothers husband" Another
oral tribute from Miss O'Shea bore the sug.
estive words: I'm loving memory OF moth
IS land" Rev. Stephen Gladstone, refer
ng In sermon at Hawarden Sunday to Mr..
arne's death said:
A great life has passed away from the battle
I'D of the world-a life OF which it was lately
,ped that its sun wouli set Without cloud
III lately 1t seemed that his name would go :
ccessful man his country ever produced But 8
It'll his moral fall becoming known to the q
Grid his power TO lead q moral religious PEG =
G ended. Death suddenly swept down on him =
hen he had lost forever the mighty pr. G for :
nich he had striven and so much endured the q
ize OF leading on the people of his country to +
lain the rights and liberties they so passion n
lily longed for. The preacher added that the
sh people might humbly trust that this 1lnal ,
eek to great career and the loss of earthly
pes were, in Gods providence intended for
me deep purpose of love or mercy.
Parnell's Last Words. 4
During the PATIENTS derium, some hours c
fore he died, he talked constantly of Ire o
I'd, and told what he would do fer her If he T.
ed. In brief lucid interval, just before
ath, he said, and they were almost his last h
rds: ;.
Let my love be conveyed to my colleagues a
d the Irish people," When these words y
re subsequently communicated to meet
of the delegates, many of them burst Into a a
RS. =