The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1869-07-16
Deafh Of .4rChes- IN. Jarrett, Esq.

The brief telegram we published last week
announcing the death of this gentleman, at
Cumberland, Md, unfortunately turned out
to be true. Mr.. jarrett had been to Jordan
Springs, in Virginia, and had left there on his
way to Bedford, in Pennsylvania, travelling
in company with John Richie, Esq, of
Baltimore On reaching Cumberland City,
on the line of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road, on Wednesday evening, 9TH July, these
gentlemen concluded to remain over night,
and resume their journey on the following
day-Mr. Jarrett, we learn, wishing to call
upon gentleman residing at Cumberland
for letters to parties at Bedford. They part
ed for the night, between the hours of eleven
and twelve o'clock, each retiring to his
room, Mr.. Jarretts being located in the third
story of the Revere House. at which hotel
they were stopping. About three, quarters
of an hour after Mr.. Richie had retired, he
was alarmed by noise as of person having
fallen to the ground below, and fastening
to the window of his room his fears were re-
allied by seeing some one lying in the area
beneath. He Immediately gave the alarm,
and on arriving at the scene was shocked to
find the body of Mr.. Jarrett, life being already
extinct. The right leg and right arm were
broken, and the skull crushed in upon the
right side of the head, and no sign of life
could be discovered, although every effort
was made to revive him, and but moment
had elapsed before Mr.. Richie reached
the scene. 1t is supposed that Mr.. Jarrett
had arisen from his bed and gone to the win.
dow of his apartment for fresh air as he was
in the habit of frequently doing at home,
being sometimes troubled with difficulty in
breathing, and from some cause lost his bal
ance and was precipitated to the pavement
below. The remains were brought on to
Baltimore at once and from thence to his
home in Bel Air, in this county, and inferred
on Saturday morning last, at Christ Church
(Rock Spring.. The order of Free Masons,
of which Mr.. Jarrett was a member, turned
out on the occasion of his funeral in large
numbers, in respect to the memory Of their
departed brother.
Thus, by one of those sad casualties which
sometimes shock communities, we have lost
widely known and valued citizen of our
county Mr. Jarrett was in the forty fourth
year of his age, a member Of the bar of Har-
ford for the last fifteen or sixteen years. and
intimately connected, during that period,
with the business and political affairs of this
his native county In addition to his business
capacity and scrupulous integrity of charac-
ter-eyerywhere recognizable was endear-
ed to all who knew him by the cultivation of
manner and generous attributes of heart that
stamped him as the gentleman and the honest
man-honest in the broad and truest sense of
the word No person in distress ever applied
to Mr.. Jarrett in vain, if it lay in his power
to afford relief The impulses of his heart
were generous to degree that ever prompt
ed "his pity to give, ere charity began
His untimely death is q shock, indeed, to this
community that will be long and keenly felt.
He leaves widow, who has the heartfelt
sympathy of all in her great bereavement.
MD. STATE AGRICULTURAL CoLLEeE.--
The board of trustees of this Institution
recently elected the Rev Samuel REGISTER,
of Prince Georges County, President, and
E. Madison Mitchell, of Hartford, Registrar.
tE- Western Texas has exported quai-