A Poet Gone

.boston-, Aug. 11.- John Boy Ie O'Reilly, the poet, agitator and editor of the Boston Pilot, died at his summer residence at Cohassett, Mass., on Sunday, aged 46 years. He had been sufferinpf from sleeplessness for several days, and it is thought took an ovordose of medicine designed to afford him relief. [John Boyle O'Reilly had u bnlliant and varled career. He was bom at Dowth Castle, County Meath, Ireland, in 1844, of scholarly and patriotic parents, and after learning the printer's tradein Dublin, elistedin the.Tenth (Prtnce of Wales own) hussars, the crack drugoon regiment of the army, his intention being to spread Republican principies among the sokuers of his own and other regimcnts. He did his work so thoroughly that at the end of three years he was arrestod for high treason. After two years in chain gang-s in England the young patriot in November, 1867, was sent to the penal colony of West Australia in a convict ship crowded with MO crimináis. His sentence was for twenty years, but In February, 1868, he make his escape, putting to sea tn an open boat. Mr. O'Reilly carne to Boston in 1870, and within a few months went as correspondent of the Pilot with the Fenians who "attacked" Canada. Here he had a very narrow escape from being taken prisoner by the Brltish. He was In command of the Irish for a short time after O'Neil was taken prisoner. ReturninR to Boston Mr. O'Reilly soon became the editor of the Pilot and in 1876 its managing owner. He became a contributor to th Galaxy, Scribner's, the Atlantic Monthly and Harper'a, and was even a welcome contributor to the exclusive Dark Blue, the magazine of Oxford Universlty, England, until the publishers discovered that he was a Fenian. Hls frank, earnsst personality secured th friendship of Phillips, Whittier, Garrison and other staunch Americans. Hls countrymen have seemed to put more faith in him than in any one le, because of his unselflshness and generous consideratioa for the interests of otners. Amonghis books are: "Songs of the Southern Seas," "Songs, Legenda and Ballads," "Statues tn the Block" and "In Bohemia." His novel based on Australian perlences was entitled "Moondyne." Among hls noted orations was that on "The Common Citizen Soldier," deüvered in Boston on Memorial day, 1886, while his greatest public poem was delivered at the dedication ol the pilgrim monument at Plymouth a year ago. Kecently he had written a number of essays on athletic sports, of whioh he was a devotee.]