Sights in Boston and suburbs : or, guide to the stranger . abroad and at home. Not a steamer arrives but we heraldthe news. And then, as the folds roll out with an indig-nant flap, they seem to flirt out that the last news fromKansas or Washington was not to their liking; then theystop, and leave us to search in the papers they severally THE OLD STATE HOUSE. 21 represent for particulars ; and it is no easy job to make aselection, for there is the Journal, Atlas, Bee, Ledger, andChronicle close at hand, and the Traveller, Transcript,Advertiser, Post, Herald, and I know not how manyothers, whose
Sights in Boston and suburbs : or, guide to the stranger . abroad and at home. Not a steamer arrives but we heraldthe news. And then, as the folds roll out with an indig-nant flap, they seem to flirt out that the last news fromKansas or Washington was not to their liking; then theystop, and leave us to search in the papers they severally THE OLD STATE HOUSE. 21 represent for particulars ; and it is no easy job to make aselection, for there is the Journal, Atlas, Bee, Ledger, andChronicle close at hand, and the Traveller, Transcript,Advertiser, Post, Herald, and I know not how manyothers, whose shadows do not fall on the hundred-year-oldwindows of the Old State CHAPTER III. OLD SOUTH CHURCH. BIRTHPLACE OF FRANKLIN. CITY HALL. COURT HOUSE. STONE CHAPEL. CEMETERY. The Old South Church stands on WashingtonStreet, not far from the Old State House. So much his-torical interest is attached to this time-honored buildingthat we must be pardoned if we are rather minute in ournotice of it, for which we are indebted to a sketch inGleasons (now Ballous) Pictorial. During the first of the seven years war, a church ofthis then town of Boston of ten thousand inhabitants, thatexternally appeared much as it now does, internally pre-sented a strange scene. The sanctuary was profanelyconverted into a riding school for Burgoynes pulpit and the pews, all hallowed by devotion, hadbeen taken out to light the fires of our enemies, the libraryof the good pastor being used for kindlings. Hundredsof loads of dirt and gravel were carted into the church,that it might better answer the strange use to which it wasput. A box was suspended four feet from the flo
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