MRS PARNELL'S AFFAIRS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2602, 16 March 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)

MRS PARNELL'S AFFAIRS.

The Chicago Tribune publishes a despatch from New York, December 27th, which says :— Mrs Delia S. Parucll, the mother of the Irish leader, who four years ago sold all her valuable household furniture, will tomorrow sell the remaining articles which she had kept lo furnish a few rooms in t.he old Ironsides residences at Bordentown, N.J. She desires to leave Bordentown for various reasons, the chief one probably being her u.ipleasaut relations with her half-brother, Edwrrd Stewart, and half-sister, Mrs Smith, who, it is alleged, alien it.ed her from her father, Admiral Stewart.

Thero is now pending iu the Philadelphia courts a suit against Mrs Parnell for embezzling money, which, the wife of Edward Stewart says, she gave to Mrs Parnell for speculative purposes, and of which there has never, she avers, been any accounting. Mrs Parnell owns property in Philadelphia upon which there are two mortgages, one held by her son, Charles Stewart Parnell, and the other by a Mrne. Lefcored, formerly of this city, but, now residing in Paris. Tho latter Mr Knoud, of this city, an intimate friend of Mrs Parnell, said to-day was nearly paid off. Mrs Parnell has had much misfortune financially. She indorsed a note for her son, Johu, now a fruit grower in Georgia, for §300 a few years ago, and he failing to meet the note when it came due, the sheriff seized her furniture. But just before the seizure her friend, Mrs Knoud, had bought the furniture aud gone to Ironsides to keep a fashionable boardinghouse. The loss of a son by drowning a fow days after Mrs Knoud's advent at Ironsides, however, caused her to change lier plans, and she again returned to this city. Then it was determined to seize tho furniture, and again it was seized : but Mrs Knoud came forward with her claim to ownership, and it was saved and sold. Yesterday, forty-three cratos of furniture, all said to belong to Mrs Parnell, arrived at the rooms of an auctioneer in this city. It was supposed to answer tho description of au advertisement which called for a grand piano, costly painting, rarebrick-a-brac, superb parlour furniture, rich tapestries, divans, pedestals, easels, real lace curtains, 59 oriental rugs, costly silverware, Dresden china, articles of historical value, etc. When a reporter visited the auction rooms and asked one of the proprietors to indicate Mrs Parnell's furniture, ho pointed in a general way to all there was on two floors of the building, and the floors were pretty well filled, too. " This is pretty much of Mrs Parnell's," he said.

Thero was no catalogue. Much of it, however, was historical, just as his advertisement had said. When the advertisement was shown to Mrs Knoud, who really owns the furniture, sho laughed and said : " There is no truth iu that, and I don't see why Mrs Parnell should let her name be uspd, as she told mo un Saturday, when she started for Bordentovvu, that she would not do so. It will not do, you know. Au attompt will be mado to seize tho goods. Iler halfbrother charges her with embezzling money, but she says that she paid that money all back. The furniture is in my name, and he can't touch it. She was to come to tha city to-day, and I was going to transfer it back to her. Now Ido not know what we will do about it. It was consigned to her attorneys, Lancaster and Co., of Wall-street, aud t.hoy placed it in tho hands of auctioneers." "Are any of the things that are to be soid of historic character;-'" " No. Sho had nothing that belonged to her father, aud that which she has is of ordinary character. She still owns her farm at Bordcntowu, which Edward Sleviu rents, and has rented for a number of years, on shares. Thero are 2SO acres of it." " Why is not the farm seized ?" "Because it is in Charles Stewart Parnell's name. The rooms which she has occupied there she has rented to a piano-turner. She is not going to Europe, as is stated in tha papers. I expect she will spend the greater part of her time with mo. Sho has a number of friends in and around tho city, and she is fond of visiting."