Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-10-08
CHARLES STEWART PARNELL.
Active Career of the Gifted Grandson o1
 an American Admiral.

American Admiral.
 Charles stewart Parnell was born at Avon dalc. in County Wicklow, Ireland, in 1SL6. He descendant of the poet, Parnell, ani his family have been associated with British parliamentary life for upwards of q century. His great grandfather, Sir John Parnell, was Chancellor of the Exchequer in Grattans par liamcnt, and the most vigorous opponent of the Act of Union, for his denunciation of which he was dismissed from office, he having pre- viousy resisted all efforts of tho Imperial Government t allure him into acceptance of their proposals.
 The family came originally from Congleton, Cheshire. and Sir Henry Parnell, grand uncle of Mir. Parnell, and prominent member of the English Parliament in the timo of Lord Grey and LorI Melbourne, under whom he
 held offices of distinction. when raised to the Peciagc took the title of Lord Congleton. Mir. Pdrnell, whose mother Is a daughter of
 Admiral Charles Stewart, a celebrated Ameri- can naval officer, was educated at Cambridge University, but did not take any degree. After a tour of America he settled down on his
 property in Avondale, was High Sheriff of the county in 1924 wished to stand for the county, but was not allowed to resign the shrlevalty. A month later, when Colonel Taylor, on ap- pointment to the Chanoellorship of the Duchy of Lancaster, sought reelection, Mr. P&rnel oppOScj him, but was defeated. On the death of ohm Martin, i'll 1875, MT. Parnell stood for | County Meath: and wus elected. MT. Purncll first took an active part k par l IameutQry auHlrS In the season or lSG0. when | iIl association with MT. BGgor, he initiated | what was known by the various names of the "obstrucHva" and the active" policy. He op- posed with great persist teuce the bill for Cn | nexing the TransvGal tine hogging clause in 1 the Mutiny Act and the Prisons Bill; and there l were many SceneS Of violence and excitement, and several all night sittinaS of the House. He l finally succeeded in getting some modihcationt | in the treatment of political prisoners intro | duced into the Prisons Bills, and being joiAe cd | by MT. Chamberlain and other leading Radi | calls, he led to the abolition of hogSing in tho | army.
 He joined in the foundation of the Land | League, and October, 1875, was elected it's | first pT resident. He went to America in De cemb er 1879, raised tho sum of 70, ,000 poundl | in aid of the distress then widespread in Ire l land. for the Land League movement. At tn | general election of 1887, he was elected fo | County Meath, County Mayo, aud the City O | Cork; and elected to sit for the last mentione, | place.
 | He elected in May, 1880. leader of tn
 new party by twenty three to eighteen vote | for Mir shaw. He took an eotive part in tn
 Land League agitation outside Par lament, an l in the debates In the House.
 After the Land Act was passed Mir. Parnel
 was arrested in October, 1881, on a charge O
 intimidation and obstructing the working o
 that Act. He was released on parole in April
 1SS2, and finally in May.
 At the general election of 1885 he was re | elected for Cork.
 l Mir Parnel's name has been prominently h1
 fore tho public in connection with the HoA1