The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-11-13

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holds CT iminal and civil sessions
The annual expenditures Of Boston
amounts 70 about $l3,00O,OOO O, thu,
amount the schools received 1861 ,497 in
1868, and $l,329. .2S7.73 in 1858 9
The rlnded and unfuuded net debt o.
the city was (April 80. 1861 $l7,3U4,
435.SU. In May, 1868, Boston con.
tame more thsn $4,000 dwelling
hous es and sixty hotels. Its valuation
was 1893 573,7O0.
Hoston is connected With the interior
OF the United States, and also Canada
o,th by railways and river navigation
and has q most extensive trade both
tsifh foreign countries and also with the
Southern States OF the Union. 1t is
principally from the States of N ew
fork, Pennsylvania and Maryland tn at
her supplies of grain, breads uffs and
tobacco and coal are drawn. cotton and
rice are also largely imported from the
Southern States The returns are made
Ia the products o. her manu- iacturinp
industry, in which Massachusetts is de-.
cidedly pre.eminent over every other
State In the Union; and in the co.nmo-
dities furnished by her fisheries End her
foreign trade. Her exports to foreign
countries consist principally of the
same articles which she sends to the
Southern States; but she 9 also re- exports
large amount Of the foreign
produce she had previously i'm
ported. Her imports from abroad
CO leay comprise textile manufactures,
hardware and ear:henware, sugar, tea,
coffee. wines, brandy and liquors, indi-
60 and other dyestuffs, spices, etc. The
value OF the exports from Boston for
the fiscal year ending 30th June, 1867,
amounted to 81, ,29S,307. The tonnage
OF vessels belonging to this port (in-
cludng Charlestown) during the same
period showed an aggregate total of
2l4,Sl9 tons It's shipping statistics for
that year give 572 American vessels, or
2l6,535 tons, and foreign, 24I7, or SIS,
39:j tons, as having been en- tered from
sea; total 1929 vessels, 73i $50 tons;
while the clsarances numbered $40
American and 240l foreign vessels,
forming a grand total OF 2977 vessels,
| 6S9, ,79l tons Boston i, the emporium
OF the American ice trade, and there
are numerous companies engaged in
the business Of shipping ice for South
America, the East and West Indies. and
China.
, HISTORY OF THE CITY.
The Indian name of the Peninsula
was Shawmm The meaning Of the
name is probably diving springs of
water" Trimouataine was the name
given to the Peninsul. because Of the
bold appearance OF certain eminenceI
in it, Tne name OF Boston was given
by the first settlers to their chief colony
in com pliment to one OF the distin-
guished fir-t colonists who came from
Boston in Lincolnshire, England The
or g,nal pioneer of the whites in this
region was an eccentric Englishman,
Wm. Blackstone, the date OF who'e
arrival j., however, not accurately
known. 1t is conjectured that he came
into the country in l622-l623. The
town records OF Boston began about
1854. The first grand jury of the
,,untry met At Boston, September l,
1885; and in 1861 the place is described
bv an eve witness as being very -four
i-hing
A list of all the streets, lanes, and
alleys WAS made in l7O9 and they were
found to be 10 in number.
At the firsr news of the intention OF
the Erglish government to apply Its
revenue system comprehensibly 10 the
colonies, Boston assumed that deter.
mined stand in behalf Of liberty and
law. which gave it 80 imposing part
in the birth Of the nation. After
siege OF one year the British commander
was com pellei to abandon the place,
March II, 1776. and Washington en-
tered Boston Immediately a'ter the
enemv's retreat. Daring the war Bos-
ton supported the reputation 1t had ac-
ouired in the earlier stages Of the con-
test, and its people energeticallyg sup
ported the policv that ended IN the
adontion Of the Federal Constitution.
L 1922 Boston WAS made city:
The n'.' '-nsel belonging to Boston
. Of American bu''n' 80 the bark
, Blessins of the Bay, launched at NJ ye,:-
. July 4th, 1851. The first ship built at
. Boston was the Trial. in 1914 which
subsequently, made voyage 10 Spain.
From the 18th to the 18th Of June,
I 1869, a grand National Peace Jubilee
= was held in the city to celebrate the
!. reator .tion OF peace throughout the
Union. ,o-o
The population of the city in 1870
3 was 250, 0,526.