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THE POLITICAL EFFECT.
LONDON, Oct Tn an interview to-day,
Justin Mccarthy, member Of parliament
for Londonderry and leader OF the anti
Parnell faction of the Irish Parliamentary
party, discussing the politica! effect of Mr..
Parnell's death, said that it was impossible
totorecast the political effect Of the death
of Mr.. Parnell.
MoTHERs's GRIEF.
BoRDENToWN, N. r., Oct THE news OF
her sons death was first made known to
Mrs. Parnell by a reporter this morning.
When the reporter was announced Mrs.
Parnell evidently OWNED that he had some
information relating to Mr.. Parnell. icrshe
exclaimed: what has befallen my SOM"
Seeing that the reporter hesitated, she con-
tinued: ''Is he i'll, or worse, has he been
shot. or did he shoot HIMSELF"
The reporter broke the news to her as
gently as possible. and when he at last an
nounced that Mr.. ParnelI was dead the
white-h haired mother reeled backward and
fell on the floor. ~ ~
"Oh. my son; oh, my good, kind Charles,
they have killed you,' she shrieked. The
scene was heartrending. She was seized
with Mysteries and by turns she laughed and
wept.
''rhat viper" she exclaimed af ter she re-
coveed, pointing q long bony finger at the house
viper over there kept me away from him. He
began suit for $4,000 against me to dis
possess me from nv home, and I spent my all
defending it. When Charles wrote to me asking
me whether I needed anything told him the
crops were bringing me in plenty of money.
That cheered him, and it pleased me to say so,
although was i'll poverty. Oh, he was Il good
and dutiful son and never neglected me. Lies,
lies. lies, all lies, when they say he refused to
provide Tor me. l say it's SANDER, foul
Then the old lady paced ND and down
the room sobbing convulsively.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
Charles Stewart Parnell was born at Avon
dale, County Wicklow, Ireland, in 1916. He in
herlted his beligerent and aggressive qualities
from a source no further back than his grand
father. Commodore Charles Stewart, the famous
commander OF the frigate Constitution, whose
remarkable capture, in single fight, of the two
British en-of-War Levant and Cyane won for
him the surname OF Old Ironsides.
On the other side of the house MIR. Parnell was
the llneal descendant OF Thomas Parne Esq,
who owned estates in Congleton, Cheshire Eng
land, and settled in Ireland during the reign Of
On aries H. :, about 1880. 1t would be a laborious
task to follow out all the limbs of genealogical
tree as old and far-spreading as that which
sprung from Thomas Parnell of Cheshire. who
died about TOO, leaving his estates in England
and Ireland to his eldest son, Thomas Parne
Jr., then famous poet and afterward arch
deacon OF Cogher, prebendary OF dublin and vicar
After his death, in 1717, the baronetcy and
estates descended to John Parnell, Esq, mem
Der OF parliament for the borough of Granard
and subsequently one OF the judges of the kings
bench. He married Mary, daughter of Thomas
Whltshed, lord chief justice of the kings bench.
The issue OF this union three sons and one
daughter The estates ultimately descended to
John Parnell, BART. third SOIL, who was re-
turned to parliament for the town OF May
borough in 1761. He was commissioner OF the
baronet OF Ireland He married Anne Ward, a
descendant of the Lady Sophia Wondout and
the earl OF Petersboroueh, end died in 1882,
leaving one son, the Rt. Hon. Sir John Parnell,
chancellor OF the eXchequer, lord of the treas
ury and groom Of his majesty's most honorable
private council, who died in 1901, after a long
and distinguished life, leaving his eldest son,
John Augustus Parnell, heir to his baronetcy
and estates.
Shortly after the close OF the war of 1872 in
which Commodore Stewart, commander of the
old Constitution, played So glorious a part,
Miss Stewart, his only daughter. went to Eng
land, where she subsequently married Sir John
Right Hon. Sir John Parnell. chancellor OF the
exchequer. They removed to Avondale, in the
county OF Wicklow, Ireland, where
CHARLES STEWART PARNELL
was born in 1916. He was educated under a
private tutor, and when eighteen years of age
was seht to Magdalene college. Cambridge, Eng
into Irish politics, and at once took up the
cause OF the people: With the aggressive, ire
pressible blood OF the Stewards on one side and
the party spirit and political prestige OF the
Parnells on the other. the young graduate was
a politician by nature and inclination.
But" says Mrs. Parnell of her son, che did
not always possess the cool temper and presence
of mind that he now shows in his debates in the
house of commons. When q boy he grew 80
angry when his will was disputed that his face
became purple with passion. He was imperious
with the servants, as most young landlords in
that country are, and until his visit to America,
shortly after he became OF age, he was bitter
~ a iyyo " mol
His visit to this country was partly on private
business connected with his gOdfather's estate
ernment. After his return to Ireland his political
tenets are said to have changed maryelously.
He lowered the rates of his tenants and raised
the wages OF those in his employ. In bearing
and department he became quiet and we'll bal
anced. In 1874 Mrs. Parnell returned to Amer.
lea and settled upon Commodore Stewards es-
tate at Bordentown, N. j.. whereshe now resides.
In the same year Charles Stewart Parnell made
his first appearance before thepublic as high sher-
if County Wicklow, Ireland. He ran 70: par
lament on the Catholic and National ticket
and was defeated: The following year he
from County Meath. His freedom OF speech, re-
soon provoked the hostility OF his Conservative
fellow members. He always spoke whenever he
had anything to say, and refused to be put
He was not gifted with remarkable eloquence,
and was never what may be called brilliant.
But he was readyand fluent speaker. In 1878
he was elected president of the Home Rule con-
federation in the place OF Mr.. Isaac Butt. He
was subsequently elected to represent the city
OF Cork. He displayed remarkable ability both
DIS Il parliamentary debater and tactician. and
AS an organizer in the interest of the Irish Home
Rule party. He identified himself with the ten
ant farmers of Ireland in the struggles with ab-
senteeism and high rents and Was chiefly instru-
mental i'll forming and sustaining the land
league of 1S79-SO. .s..-. f"-&9
I i. CAUSED GLADsToNE's DOWNFALL.
The fall of the second Gladstone cabinet is
chargeable to Charles Stewart Parnell, the Irish
agitator. Ever since Gadstone's accession to
the premiership. the Irish member voted with
the government. Parnel however, thinking
that his party had been given little else than
promises, withdrew his support.
In 1879 Mr.. Parnell made visit to the United
States with the design of interesting the Irish
American population in the cause OF the land
league. While i'll that country he lectllred be-
fore several state legislatures and finally before
the house OF representatives at Washington.
The honor of addressing this branch of congress
had previously been conferred upon but three
persons-L lafayette, ,Kossuth and Bishop Eng
land OF Charleston. '55
Upon his return home he became bitter in his
attitude towards the landlords and the govern
ment, and it was charged that this led to disor-
der in Ireland From this charge he was subse-
Quently vindicated. In November. 1880, infor-
nations were laid by the Irish attorney general
against Mr.. Par1lell and other members of the
land league executive. The trial ended in q dis