The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-05

trivial perhaps to the public az large. but
wonderfully interesting TO the newspaper
man.
II was known he was confined 10 his
bed il had been understood he was even
dangerously sick, yet tho characteristic
deiberation Of English editorial
methods was responsible for the
utter lack Of reporters at the
house or even in the city Of Brighton to
follow closely the fluctuations Of his all
ment, to report his progress if he made
any, or watch for his death II 10 were inn
minent. Random rumors concerning him
reached the newspapers in one way or an
other, mostly accidental, and despite the
fact that every resident of Walsingham
Terrace was discussing his chance of
recovery, no reporter thought it worth
his while to make trip to the house and
be the first to make public n piece of
news the entire world was interested in
And so on the evening of October at
IL o'clock Charles s. Parnel breathed his
last with no one near him but his wife
and his physician, and while the neigh
bors knew of the death within the hour
the great London papers appeared the
following morning containing the regula-
ton conjectures as to Mr. Parnells future
movements, his non-appearance in parlia-
ment, his probable treatment of the
Metaphysics.
BY "a mere chance some gossip coming
up to London on an early train brought
with him the information of Parnells
death and in the same unconventional,
incidental manner the news found its way
into the Exchange Telegraph Company, a
corporation that furnishes stock and pro-
duce quotations to the city brokers by
means of "tickers" set in the various
offices
Thus it came about that at II o'clock
exactly in the morning the tickers began
to tell the mournful story, and those who
were watching the tape" read:
I'VE regret to announce the death last
night of Mr.. Charles ---." Then there
was a break, the instruments were out
of order, and for ten minutes there was
an interregnum of intelligence, the little
machine ticking desperately and making
heroic efforts to complete its sentence.
The tape failed to print, and after half
yard of paper had been reeled off with its
immaculateness unimpaired, the disabled
instrument resumed work and the brOk
ers then saw the message, rounded off
with the words, Stewart Parnell."
oRIGIE OF BAsELEss REPORTS.
The excitement was extreme Editors,
reporters, correspondents suddenly real
lied they had missed a valuable item, and
as If to correct it, a stampede was made
for the l o'clock express from Victoria,
and that train went down TO Brighton
loaded as it was never loaded before
1t is worthy of remark here that this
experience was lesson to English
journalists, and when Lord Tennyson was
dying his homo was surrounded con-
stantly by n Gordon of reporters, and the
breath had no sooner left his body then
they were scampering in every direction,
burdening the wires and the cables with
the fact and narrative of their vigils.
Unable to ascertain at once the cause
of Parnelrs death, the army of writers,
smarting under the defeat already sus-
tanned, gave currency to the baseless re-
port of suicide, charge that was set at
rest within twenty-four hours by post
mortem examination, after which the
physicians announced the cause to have
been rheumatic fever and heart failure.
And Mrs. Parnell feels that she lives
nearest to her idol beneath the roof where
his last days were spent she clings to the
spot that was the scene of her lite's hap
piness. She remains there, and unless her
resolutions weaken with years, she will
continue to remain there until at some
future time She too, will pass away, her
| eyes fixed upon the same scene as were
those of Charles Stewart Parnell, when
his failing sight fell upon the shoreless
sea that stretched from beneath his
window A CURTIS BOND.