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CARRION-HAWK. especially the carancho {Polyhorus tharus). See Cauacara.

CARRIZO, kare'tlu', (Sp., from Amer. Indian). The tollei-tive Spanish name for a group of tribes formerly occupying both sides of the lower Rio Grande, in Texas, and Tamaulipas, JMexico. They built houses thatched with reeds (carrizo), wlience the name. They have been practically exterminated by the raiding tribes of Texas, among whom are still many Carrizo captives. Some years ago tJatschet found in the neighborhood of Camargo a few families still speaking their language, which, with otliers of the adjacent portion of Texas, constitutes a distinct stock, the Coahuilteean.

CARROLL, Charles, of Carrollton (1737- 1S.J2). An American patriot. He was born in Annapolis, yid., but at an early age went abroad and was educated in the Jesuit colleges of Saint-Omer, Rheims, and Louis le Grand. He tlien studied law in Bourges, Paris, and London, and returned to America in 17ti4. He inherited the largest of the old manorial estates of Jlary- land, and was considered the wealthiest private citizen in the thirteen Colonies. In 177.5 he was chosen a member of the 'Committee of Observa- tion' at Annapolis, and in the same year was sent to the provincial convention. In 1770 he was one of the commissioners sent to persuade the Canadians to join in the war against Eng- land. Returning to Maryland, he became promi- nent as an advocate of union and independence, and in .July, 1776. was sent to Congress, Avhere on August 2 he signed the Declaration, writing 'of Carrollton' after his name, so that there could be no doubt concerning his identity, 'Carrollton' being the name of the family mansion. In Con- gress he was a member of the Board of War. In 1776 he was one of the committee that drafted the Slarviand Constitution, and was chosen to the State Senate. In 1777 he was again sent to Congress, and in subsequent years was repeatedly elected to the State Legislature. In 178f) he Avas United States Senator, and in 1799 was a member of the ^Maryland and Virginia boundary commission. His last public act was the laying of the corner-stone of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, July 4, 182S. He died in Baltimore on November 14, 18.32, aged 95, the last survivor of the fifty-six signers of the Declaration of Independence. Consult his Life, by J. H. B. Latrobe (Philadelphia, 1824). Consult, also, !Mayer (editor), Jovrmil of f'hnrlcs Carroll of Carolltov Diirbif) His Msit io Canada in IIIG, as Otie of ihr Coininissiotirrs from Congress (Balti- more, 184i5) : and Rowland. Life of Charles Car- roll of CnrroUton (2 vols.. New York, 1898).

CARROLL, Henry King (1848—). An American clergynuui, born in Dennisville, X. J. He was religious and political editor of The Inde- pendent (1876-98), and in 1890 had charge of the religious census of the United States. In 1898-99 he served as a special United States com- missioner to Porto Rico, and since then he has been assistant secretary in the Methodist Episco- pal Clmrcli Missionary Society. Besides Govern- ment reports and numerous reviews, he has pub- lished The Reliiiious Forces of the United States (2d ed., 18!h;).

CARROLL, f 17.'?.">-181.5). An Ameri- can prelate, the first Roman Catholic bislioj) in the United States. He was born in Marvland, and was the cousin of the celebrated Charles Carroll of Carrollton (q.v.). He was educated in the Jesuit College of St. Omer's. Belgium, and was professor at St. Omer's College and Lifege, from 18.59 to 1871. He then joined the Jesuits and was jjrcfect of the Jesuit College of Bruges. hen the Order of Jesus was supi)ressed on the Continent in 1774, he retui-ned to America. Two years later he was chosen by Congress, with his cousin. Dr. Franklin, and Samuel Chase, to urge the people of Canada to join the Colonies in the war against England. In 1784. on the rec- ommendation of Franklin, Dr. Carroll was ap- pointed by the Pope Superior of the Catholic Clergy in the United States. In 1789 he was appointed bishop, and in 1808 his see was made the Arclidiocese of Baltimore. He founded George- town College in 1791. His writings were mostly controversial. Consult Shea. IJfe and Times of the Most Her. John Carroll (New York, 1888)^ being Vol. II. of his History of the Catholic Church in the Vnited States.

CARROLL, Lewis. See Dodgsox, C. L.

CAR'ROLLTON. A town and county-seat of Carroll County, Ga.. 52 miles west by south of Atlanta, on the Little Tallapoosa Kiver, and on a branch of the Central of tieorgia Railroad (Map: Georgia, A 2). It is the princijial town in an agricultural ccmnty producing cliielly cotton, corn, and fruits, and has an annual cotton trade of 2.3,000 to 25,000 bales. The industrial establishments include cotton, cotton-seed oil, rolling and planing mills, and a ffuano-factorv. Population, in 1890, 1451; in 1900^ 1998.

CARROLLTON. A city and county-seat of Greene County. 111., 58 miles north of Saint Louis, Mo., on the Chicago and Alton and other railroads (Map: Illinois, B 4). It contains a fine court-house and city school, and a public lilirary. The city is the commercial centre for the fertile region adjacent, and hiis a flouring-mill and a vegetable cannery. There are municipal water-works, the supjily being pumped directly from a spring which has a steady and abundant flow. Carrollton was settled in 1819, and was surveyed two years later. Population, in 1890, 2258; iii 1900, 2:555.

CARROLLTON. A city and county-seat of Carroll County,!Mo., 60 miles east by north of Kansas City, on the Wabash, the Chicago, Bur- lington and Kansas City, and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Ft' railroads ( ilap : Missouri, C 2). It is in a fertile agricultural region, of which it is the commercial centre, and has Hour and woolen mills, wagon and harness factories, cigar-factories, foundry and machine shops, a furniture-factory, farm-machinery factory, tile- works, etc. Carrollton was settled in 1837 and incorporated twelve years later. Population, in 1890, 3878; in 1900, "3854.

CARROLLTON. A village and county-seat of Carnill County, Ohio., 41 miles northwest of Wheeling, A'. a., on the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad (^lap: Ohio, 11 4). Deposits of coal and clay are found in the adjacent region, which is largely agricultural. The principal maiuifacturing industry is a granite paving-brick plant. Population, in 1890, 1228; in 1000, 1271.

CAR'RON village in S(irling>liire, Scotland, on the right bank of the Carron Water,