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Show DEATH OF JASR. RANDALL Author of "Maryland, My Maryland" A Popular News Writer and Able Editor-Type Editor-Type of Southern Gentleman Convert to the Catholic Faith. Mr. James R. Randall, author of the famous war poem, "Maryland, My Maryland," and late editor of the Morning Star, New Orleans, died on Tuesday at his old home, Augusta, Ga, Mr. Randall contracted con-tracted a cold on Sunday, which developed into pulmonary congestion, carrying him off suddenly, as stated. After relinquishing the editorial chair of the New Orleans publication named above, last summer, sum-mer, Mr. Randall went east, visiting his alma mater. Georgetown uniersity, where he was' given a public . reception by the faculty. ' Later he was the guest on Maryland day of that state at the Jamestown exposition expo-sition and was presented with a handsome purse. From Norfolk he went to his old home. Mr. Randall was born in Baltimore, Jan. 1, 1839. On his mother's side he was descended from Rene LeBlanc, the gentle notary in Longfellow's "Evangeline." "Evan-geline." He was educated at Georgetown university, univer-sity, traveling in South America, settled in New Orleans Or-leans and became a contributor to the Sunday Delta and professor of English literature at Poydras college. col-lege. The account given in the Delta of the attack by citizens of Baltimore on the Massachusetts troops as they passed through that city April 19, 1861, so excited Mr. Randall's feelings that he- could not sleep. He was anxious to do something that might cause his native state to join the confederacy, and at midnight left his bed, and, by candle light, wrote "Maryland, Myfaryland." It was widely copied throughout America and Europe. A few days after the pcem was written Miss Hetty Cary of Baltimore heard it declaimed by a friend and began singing it to the classic melody of Lauriger Horatius." From that time on it was sung in every southern army camp and in thousands of southern homes. The funeral took place from the "Church of the Sacred Heart. . |