Georgia Historic Newspapers

    A PICTURE OF PARNELL.
'SMALLEY’S PEN DRAWING OF THE
FAMOUS IRISHMAN.
He is Careless of All Propriety and
He Ifjn res All Personal and Social
Obligations, and Yet is a Great
Leader of Men-Something About
Mrs. O’Shea, the Woman in tne Case,
and Also About the Captain.
FYom the Xmc York Evenin'; Pott.
The most interesting pen-picture of Mr.
Parnell yet printed is furnished by the con
fessedly unfriendly hand of George IV.
Smalley, one of the best known of London
correspondents : “Mr. Parnell, be the mer
its or demerits of his homo-rule policy what
they may, has been, at any rale, a great
figure in public life. He has led not a great
party, but a party large enough to hold the
balance of power in English politics with ex
traordinary ability aud power. * * *
When ha entered the House of Commons
the cause of home rule was the cause of a
despised and powerless minority. To-day
Mr. Parnell’s watchword is written
on the banners of all that is left—
and the greater part in numbers is
left—of the Liberal party of Great
Britain. He accomplished this amazing
result by methods not less amazing. He
defied the house, trampled on its traditions,
broke its rules of deliberate purpose, organ
ized a conspiracy against the very life of
parliamentary government, set himself to
degrade aud dishonor the oldest parliament
ary assemblage in the world—the mother of
parliaments; the prototype and pattern of
every legislature, state or federal, in the
United States of America. He endured
censure and suspension; ho courted both.
Ho allied himtelt first with ono partv, then
with the other; used both, despised both,
hated both, and was by turns the muster of
both.
‘•Mr. Parnell has always been the mys
tery mau of politics, and people now think
that the mystery is cleared up. The mys
tery was Mrs. O’Shea. When Mr. Parnell
was not in the House of Commons he was
at Eltham in her society or at someone of
the many other places in which this long
intrigue was at different times carried on.
His absences woro often commented on,
never publicly explained. Never did any
man carry secrecy and mystery so far. It
was supposed at one time that Mr. Parnell
cloaked his movements because he dreaded
assassination. That was more particularly
after the Phoenix park murders, when the
relations between the Irish leader and the
invincible!, as with the dynamite ar.d other
extreme wings of the party, were strained.
It is difficult to say whether danger really ex
isted, or whether Mr. Parnell believed it to
exist. What is certain is that long after it
was over the mystery was still kept up.
His own party, his own followers—com
rades ho hod none—never know where to
find him or how to reach him. During the
sessions he gave no address but the House
of Commons; often he waa not at the House
(or days, sometimes uot for weeks. A great
pile of unopened letters and telegrams
would be waiting for him when he came;
they were never forwarded, because no
body knew where to forward them. When
he arrived ho opened the telegrams a r and
sometimes the letters. Sometimes, not al
ways. He has been seen to put a great
packet of sealed letters into the tire without
looking at them.
“He cared nothing for society, but of late
years some of bis new liberal allies or their
wives bnve sought him and asked him to
dine. If they knew his ways they sent their
invitatious by telegraph; nor were they
even then always received. There was one
case which will serve as well as many. A
telegram was sent inviting Mr. Parnell to
dine at a well-known house a specified day.
A large party was to be given. Perhaps
Mr. Gladstone was to have been present.
No answer came from Mr. Parnell. The
day arrived and the dinner took place
without him. It was a Wednesday.
The Wednesday following, about noon, his
hostess rooeiveil a telegram in which he
excused himself on the ground of absence
for not having answered earlier, adding
that he would dine with her and her hus
band that evening with pleasure. Her hus
band meantime had gone abroad; she herself
w3 engaged to dine elsewhere. But she
was a woman of resource and of flexible
mind; saw at once that he had mistaken the
date—an easy thing to do with a telegram—
threw over her engagement, sent off a
dozen different dispatches to intimate
friends who could be asked without cere
mony for the same evening, and when Mr.
Parnell arrived he found a company
assembled, though not a large one, and
went in to dinner without dreaming that he
was a week late.
"The difficulty for those who had business
relations with him was not less. His party
never knew whether they might count on
him not. What they did know was that
messages and entreaties were thrown away
on him. If a great Irish debate were on
Mr. Parnell might or might not be present.
No o but himself was in his confidence.
“But the odd thing is i hat lie had the
same n gal mauners toward others of far
higher position. He was not careful to
keep an appointment, even though the ap
pointment was with Mr. Gladstone and the
subject of conference one vital to the policy
ho had a heart. Nay, even ins confidential
advisers in the two most imp rtautant
masters of business he has ever had to
trausacc were not trusted with his address,
or not for a long time. With them, as with
his political puppets, the samo mystorv
prevailed; there was the same suggestion of
some occult influence that was nll-con
trolling and all-powerful with Mr. Par
nell.”
It has become the custom among some
Irishmen to call Mrs. O’Shea "Dervorgill
jo-cecund.” Der vorgill is somew hat of a
legendary character, who is made responsi
ble for 700 years of Irish misfortunes,
ihoinas Moore has immortalized her as the
'falsest of women,” and Irish men and
women still love to sing his charming
melody proclaiming that "on our side is
virtue and Erin; on thoirs is the Saxon and
guilt.” She was the wife of O’Ruarc,
prince of iireffny, and is supposed to have
ek ped with Dormot MacMurrough, king
of Leiuster and ancestor of the legless
hjid armless Irish Tory leader, Arthur
Eavanaugh, who died receutl} 1 . The el >pe
ment is probably a myth, as she was a
woman of middle age at the time, but Mrs.
vj Shea is “fair and forty,” if not fat also.
Dermot brought the English over to help
hnn in his war with O’Ruarc, who had
beaten him, with the aid of Roderick O’Con
nor, King of Connaught and last monarch
of Ireland. Mrs. O’Shea has set the Irish
chieftain and clausmen of to-day fighting
utnong themselves, and the hated Saxon
"ill bo the only gainer by the fratricidal
strife.
, Mrs. O’Shea is no ordinary woman, and
lee.i-t of all is she an adventuress. She is of
the bluest English blood, and is a woman
nf intellect and refinement. Her brother,
hir Evelyn Wood, is one of the best gen
erals in the British army and, after Lord
' olseley and Sir Frederick Roberts, who
are both Irishmen, next in the line of pro
motion for commander in chief. He
has a bitter quarrel with his sister
°'er a fortune of |IOO,OOO left her
by an aunt, recently deceased, and is
known to have beeu for a long time
urging O’Shea, with Joseph Chamberlain,
whoso motive was political, to the action
which has brought disgrace on the Irish
ie-Oer. Mrs. O’Shea is hamDoms. with a
pearly white skin, a wealth of golden hair,
atfl a graceful, voluptuous figure. She has
a fai-cinatmg maimer, and is charming in
conversation, with cultivated literary ta.tea
fbd a man’s knowledge of politics. The
breath of uspiclou ha<l never touched her
jintu stie met Parnell. She started in to help
him politically, and ended by becoming 1U
1 stunted with him. This fascination was
mutual.
O’Shea is the sou of a Limerick attorney ]
'ho left him „ large fortune, which he
j'lmilder.d iu horse racing aod gambling.
,l ” *** *“ officer in a crack eava ry rein- |
men!, a dashing lady killing feilow wi h a
gxsl fi; re and attractive manners. Ho
marriei Kitty W <>l when she was in her
teens, but the pleasure* of the m ss-rm
nud ihe race course iad a o ~e attrac.iveness
for him tb m toms. VYnea h • lost his
raorey he left the army and lived on his
wife's, spending it freely on wine, women
aud hors w. He often remained ni mths away
f ’oni home and utterly neglected h:s wife.
Getting into Parliament for County Clare
through the irfiuence of the Cat .nolle bish
ops, he foisted himself on Parnell through
his wife’s entreaties and proceeded to earn
a g od government b?rth by making h:m
se.f useful. He closed his eyes to what
everybody knew, and finally only acted
from mercenary motives. He is the most
thoroughly desp,sed cad in London to-day.
I nder other circumstances and with a man
fora husband Mrs. O’Shea would base
made a good wife. Tnere can be no doubt
that Parnell will marry her.
WILLIAM’S YhNKHR FAVOFITF.
A Boston Hotel Servant That Had a
Remarkable Career in Europe.
From the Philadelphia Telegraph.
Old King William of Holland, during fcis
long, disgraceful career, indulged in in
numerable love affairs more or less serious,
but of all the five females that he set at the
left side of bis throno the mest remarkable
was an American woman, the celebrated
Mine. Musard. She was a realization of the
well-known line of Byron: “Born in a gar
ret, in a kitchen bred.” Yet. notwithstand
ing the obscurity of her origin and her lack
of education and breeding, she bloomed
forth into one cf the most elegant women in
Europe. She was a Now Englander by
birth, and began life in some menial capa
city in a hotel in Boston. She is said to have
been extremely beautiful in her youth in a
Spanish style, her figure being at once
slender and shapely, and perfect euough in
its contours to have driven any sculptor to
despair who might have tried to reproduci
it
Her eyes were large and dark, her head
small aqd finely formed, and her features
of a piquant delicacy of outline. Her vast
fortune came to her from her royal adorer
in a very singular way. He flew into a
passion with her on one occasion, and catch
ing up tho nearest object that came handy,
he hurled it at her head. The lady cleverly
dodged the missile, which was a bulky
package of papers, hut taking possessisn of
it, s.e carried it off in triumph. It was
made up of shares in certain unproductive
oil wells in Galicia. A few years later the
company “struck oil,” and that qu rrel
with King William made of Mine. Musard
one of tne riches:, women in Europe.
Like Mme. Dubarry, who, in her child
hood, peddled pins and staylaces about the
streets of Paris, and began life as a dress
maker’s apprentice, the ex-hotel drudge of
Boston became noted for the extreme ele
gance of her surroundings and the perfect
propriety of her demeanor. Her taste in
dress was faultless, her hotel, her equipages,
her jewels were all renowned for their
splendor. She came to reside in Paris, and
was a munificent patroness of all artistic or
charitable enterprises. A stroke of paralysis,
which brought about an incurable droop of
one ot her eyelids, deprived her of her beauty
before she had attained middle age. She
always sat, when at the theater or the
opera, in a proscenium box, with the disfig
ured side of her face turned away from the
audience.
Covered with magnificent jewels, her
slender waist encircled with a girdle of
gems that matched the rest of her parure,
and shielding her eyes from the light w ith
an antique fan, paintsd by Watteau or
Boucher, and worth in itself a fortune, her
dark hair decked with roses, and her still
exquisite figure set off by ti.a best efforts of
the Parieian dressmakers, she was a noted
and noteworthy figore to the last. Will it
be believed that the last years of her magni
ficent existence were embittered by a vain
craving to be received in respectable so
ciety? She did everything that tact and in
telligence and lavish liberality could suggest
to bring about that end, but all to no pur
pose.
She subscribed to all fashionable chari
ties. She patronized all the reiief funds
and benefits, the bazaars and the bails,
making munificent gifts to each of them.
She always engaged the most expensive box
in the house whenever anew operatic enter
prise was started. Her life from the hour
that she quitted Holland was entirely sans
reproche. But none of the fashionable
ladies of Parisian society would receive her
or invite her to any entertainments. Once
she offered to a certain philanthropic duch
ess a subscription of S 10,000 for that lady’s
pet charity in return for an invitation to
dinner. The offer was declined.
Finally stie fell a victim to the insidious
effects of the malady that bad robbed her of
her beauty. She went mad and died. The
sale of her effects at her sumptuous hotel
near the Arc de Triomphe was one of the
most extraordinary scenes that I have ever
witnessed. Her choice laces filled a huge
Saratoga trunk. Her silk stockings were
brought out by the clothes basket full. The
display of her fans took up half a dozer,
glass cases. Her tiny gloves and miniature
Bliopers were tho admiration of all the be
holders. Nobody was sad aud nobody was
especially interested.
AILUICAL.
For Women
Who suffer from nervous and physical debil
ity great help is found in taking Ayer’s Sar
saparilla. It produces the rapid effect of a
stimulant, without the injurious reaction
that follows the use of stimulants. The re
sult of taking this medicine is a permanent
increase of strength and vigor, both of mind
and body.
“ 1 find Ayer’s Sarsaparilla just what I have
needed for a long time. I have tried different
medicines or tonics, but never found a cure
until I used this. My trouble has been a low
state of the blood, causing faint turns.”—
Lena O’Connor, 121 Vernon st., Boston, Mass.
“ I have been a victim for the past two
years of general weakness with turns of
fainting. Have tried various remedies, but
with little relief till I used Ayer’s Sarsapa
rilla. Some six months since I began to use
this remedy, and am greatly benefited.”
Miss K. E. White, Somerville, Mass.
“ This is to certify that I have been using
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla for some time, and it has
done me a world of good. It has cured my
headache, cleared my blood, and helped me
in every way, and I am determined to use it
it so long as I need sucli a medicine.”
Mrs. Tail, 152 First street. Lowell, Mass.
Ayer s Sarsaparilla
PREPARED BY
Dr. J. C. AYER Sc CO., Lowell, Mass.
Sold by Druggists. sl,sixss. Worth (5 a bottle,
LUMBER.
McCauley, Stillwell k Cos.,
Yellow Pine Lumber,
ROUGH OR DRESSED.
Planing Mill, yard and office,Gwinnett street,
eaetufS., F. and W. Ry.
Dressed Flooring. Ceiling, Moulding., Weatte
erboardmg. Shingles, lat t hot, Elc.
Katlmnles f urn tilled and prompt delivery
gua an teed.
REAL ESTATE.
D. J. Mclntosh & Cos.,
Heal B tt fExolutiigf.
. City Lot*. Small Farm*. Yellow Ho.
Timber Land, bought and wild.
ep.ii.douc oatioita*
Offlc c rner I rai.cm awl Iteuiekart atrsete,
u- a t f ’M/ HK H t
I**l LIV
THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY. DECEMBER 2G, 1890.
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FURNITURE AND CARPETS
Christmas Aimmincement
Don't put off until the last moment. Come at once and
make your selections. We will put them aside lor you. We
have the finest line of Christmas Goods. Our stock com
prises almost everything. We want you to come and see
what we have. If we have not what you want we will get
it for you. We have just received another lot of those
ELEGANT PORTIERES. If you want to see something
nice call and see them. If our line of Music Racks and
Cabinets, Wall Pockets, Foot Rests and other small novel
ties don’t just suit you, then you can’t very well be suited.
Look at the large assortment of Table and Piano Covers.
We have a larger stock of Lambrequins than all the other
stores put together.
“Now is the Winter of our Discontent” was written
before Lounges were made. Ilad Shakespeare lived in our
day and enjoyed the quiet rest that comes to one who is the
happy possessor of one of our Elegant Couches, he would
never have written the famous tragedy wherein the wicked
Gloucester is made to prate of “our winter of discontent,”
for in the enjoyment of such a luxury such a feeling would
never have come over the famous bard, or to any one else
who will invest in one of those Luxurious Lounges or Re
clining Chairs. Our stock of Chairs is beyond comparison.
We have plenty of money, so you can get plenty of
time on anvthing you may want to buy for CHRISTMAS
or NEW YEAR’S.'
Same Old Mansion,
Same Old Corner,
BROUGHTON AND BARNARD STS.
P. S.—We think we are good looking, so we keep our
ictures in this u ad” to let you admire us.
rURNITURK. ETC.
IOX 'EM ALL OUT!
Prices, Quality and Variety.
We are back at our old quartern, and have on exhibition in our mammoth OOx'tO show
room a full and complete line of Fine Medium end Cheap Furniture, Carpets, Matting,
Shades, Lace Curtains, Hugs, Hoed aud Hattan Goods, Fancy Hookers in Tapestry ana
Flush.
SO patterns of Bed Room Suits of OUR OWN MARK, front OUR FACTORY on Lum
ber street.
We offer for the next thirty days Wholesale Prices to Retail purchasers.
M. BOLEY & SON,
186,188,190 Broughton street.
FACTORY, LUMBER AND CANAL STREETS.
JdEDlt Al„
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CURES STPHIUS
I>rcrlb K wiib p*i far th - ire of
all f and tint** *4 Primary, Scv>J*rv *ni IWtlarv
r R R
Curls seftoFulA.
Fvi.il u, SwpfcTl tie
£" rm * OUuaular Swrlltegt, Rlwintaitam. Malar!*. old
m.mm
CurUl Pnitoa, Totwr, 8- eM Item!, clc., Mr.
F t*. P w a w-fnl t*nS: ~and >r mV Unit t -,
Valid r”up tha lyst-m r^pO'iy^
Laritra whwa iviVum ar* poiaonad ar.d whoa# blood h\
nn tinrnrc oi.c to meniinn! trririiUrtt■ e
P.RP. Malaria
fwvui.arly bouolm-d i.v Ml^wmt^*rtlllulDCnTbo^^ ,
ClMii.ln* prop.tli.B of P. P. p. t Prk kly Ajh, Fok Kool
and roMiMluni.
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CuresdyspepsiA;
L IPPKAN BHOS., Proprietors,
Druggists, Lippmaa’a Block, BAVARSAH, GA.
FURNISHING GOODS.
L£IF.A_R,
LATEST ARRIVALS FOR MEN
Men’s elegant Neckwear in
4-in-hands. Tucks and the new
Puff Scarfs, dark and light,
colors.
Dunlap’s Fine Hats, Silk and
Derby s.
Lyon's Fine Umbrellas for
Ladies and Men, with Silver,
Gold and Ivory Handles.
Walking Panes in Malacca,
Palin, Snakewood and Rose
wood.
Ladies' Riding Gloves and
Riding Crops, Driving Gloves,
Castor Gloves, Kid Gloves.
Reautiful Silk Mufflers and
Initial Handkerchiefs.
Buggy Robes, in Plush and
Seal.
Black and Fancy Handker
chiefs and Suspenders, and
Men’s Fine Underwear in va
riety, at
LaFAR’S,
27 mJI.Ui.ST.
HAKUWAOL
Holiday Goods.
Ivory and Stag Carvers and
Forks.
Ivory and Celluloid Table
Knives.
Plated Spoons, Forks, Etc.,
Etc.
Pocket Knives in Great Va
riety, for Ladies, Gents and
Children.
Fine Breech-Loading Guns.
Boys’ Breech-Loading Guns.
Winchester and Colt’s Rifles.
Hunting Coats, Hats, Vests,
Leggings, Bags, Etc., Etc.
Palmer Hardware Company
WALL PLASTER.
Adamant Wall Plaster.
The new and only superior
substitute Tor common Lime
Mortar.
BECOMES PERFECTLY DRY AND HARD
IN 24 HOURS
Indorsed by the leading Architect, and Build
ers throughout the country, and needs only a
tidal to be appreciated.
Any further Information will bo promptly
given on application.
SOITHEASTERN PLASTER CO,
Savanrisli, Cfa.
Wous—OLD UPPER RICE MILL
GRAIN AND PROVISION".
M Rost Proof Seed Oats
DIRECT FROM TEXAS.
SEED BYE, COTTON SEED MEAL;
Corn, Hay, Oats, Etc.
“#OU AORVT rOK ~
ORSOR'S MANHATTAN FOOD.
T. J*. DAVIS.
It* BAY MULLT '
MlOKi.
A
Hsie
In Your
Stocking
Comes from ill
litiing Shoes; the inner soles
are fastened with Taeks,Nails
and Wax threads. What you
want is Shoes made with
Smooth lnnersoles. Do you
know that you cau buy them
Irom us at the same prices you
pay others for inferior stock.
A GLANCE
In our store windows will
surely convince you that our
assortment of
SHO E S
Overtops anything in tho city.
You cannot give your Hus
band, Sweetheart or Brother
a present that lie will appre
ciate more than a pair of our
lovely
Christmas Slippers.
Come and see them at tho
Molt Ste Stott,
Pi!* BROUGHTON ST.
liquors.
Have you tried our Good Liquors ? For Quality and Prices we are unrivalled. J\flßilßd
SEND YOUR ORDERS.
HENRY SOLOMON & SON, SAVANNAH. Gfl. F,ee
MACHINERY.
McDonough & Ballaatyoe;
IRON POUNDERS,
Machisuti, Boiler Makers aad Elarksaillu,
M-iirurArrritEnji of
STATIONARY AND PORTABLE F.NOtNSE
VERTICAL AND TOP RUNNING CORN
MUX." SUGAR MILLS and PANS.
AGENTS tor Alert and Union Injectors, IB*
sunniest and nn.*e .-ff -ouve on tbs market!
Uulisu light Draft Magnolia (Jottae Ota, Mt*
beet la the market.
AU or-lev. promptly attended to. tarn* ta
Pries Llet.
LEATHER UOODtk
NEIDLINGEB & RABUN,
-sole agent* for—
HOYT’S LEATHER BELT!NO. REVERE RUB
UKR OO.’B GIANT BTICHK.D BELT,
LACING. RIVETS and BELT HOOKS.
1124 hi. Julian and IM Bryan turrets.
SAVANNAH . . GEORGIA
CLOTHING.
ECONOMI OPlilT
You have so much buy
ing to do these days for
yourselves and to' give
away that you can't afford
to waste a great deal of
time looking around. Make
a "bee-line'’ for where you
know you will find an as
sortment worthy of vour
consideration.
Our list of “giveable”
things is absolutely com
plete. Mostly haberdashery
—but that lias come to be
one of the popular mines
for gift-buyers to search.
Our inimitable variety of
U NECKWEAR.
II ANUKKRC'FS.
O MUFFLERS.
I ULOVES
SUSPENDERS,
I UMBRELLAS.
EmbdNightrobes
Smoking Jackets.
A bath robes.
Y Robes d’Chambre.
In fact, all through the
house—every department
is stocked to the season. No
discounts—but the BEST
QUALITIES for the
LEAST OUTLAY. Wo
believe that is tho most,
satisfactory to you. Isn’t
it?
A. FALK & SONS,
Tho Ttoliablo Outfitters.
SHOES.
IT II I I TT!
EVERYTHING
IN YOUR FAVOR.
A ligLt More, fresh stock, atten
tivs i'lories, gi>odi the choioeat
picks, prices I ho lowost possible oqn*
aistunt with fair dealing. Can you
not see where your filtered lies!
Don’t loavo your interest and princi
pal both at tha high priced stores,
but
Come to Butler & Morrissey.
|
The
Leaders
IN
Low Prices
\ F*\ |\ I 1 T* Confound thl* claim with
LmJ >—t INi I the claims of others which
are notsiihstanllatod by facte. Our good* are
back of our pries*, an! we eland back or our
goods, ready to make every promise good.
BUTLER & MORRISSEY,
Broughton St.
CARRIAGES. BI GGIE*, *TC.
ANOTHER
•
Reason why vehicles will bo
higher: All materials which
go into their construction
have gone into “trusts,” and
your Buggy will cost you sev
eral dollars more. Our prices
aro still unchanged! That
means a Saving if you buv
NOW. Remember, this only
a few days longer, at
THE SAVANNAH
CARKIAGE AND WiGON
oonyc^-A-isr-y.
UACIimMY.
J. W. TYNAN,
ENGINEER and MACHINIST.
SAVANNAH. GEORGIA
Corner Wat Broad and Indian Street*
All kinds or machinery, r n r—_
. Etc., made and repaired AT RAM FtTHFC
OOTKRKOK*. INJECTORS AND STEAM
Waxes nmNueo* au
ESTABLISHED I*A
M. M. Sullivan & Son,
WUcials Fish and Oyster Deafen,
!M> Hr,an at. and IU Bay lane. Saraunak, Oa.
Kith .wdan for Puata Ourl* reoMoad tar*
bare rrvtopt HWUu.
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