New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-08-01

And in sleep their gray heads touched.
and his arm found its way along the back
of the Seat, and his hand rested on her
shoulder. 1t was only their way.
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The Last Riots In Boston.
! Only the l6est people in Boston remem
Der any riot within her limits. The last
ope that occurred 1--WE quote from the Bos-
ton correspondence of the Hartford Cou-
rant grew 0utOf racMentipathies. 1t was
in 1887. The prejudice against the Irish
4 was very strong at that tine, and we had q
svvOlunteer fire department that embodied q
large share Of the rowdy element that ex-
4 listed among Americans. An engine COM
! pany of this department., in returning from
| fire, met an Irish funeral procession, and
ran across it Of INTO it. A row resulted.
which soon get the worst passions afame.
The fremen rushed into Broad street, where
| most OF the Irish then lived, and began an
assault upon their dwellings,. Women and
men fought lilB tigers. and the whole city
was under alarm. An inter(ting incident
connected with this affair is related
by DR.. S. G. Howe. He who was
| always the soul of chivalry, rushed
| in to help protct the women among
the Irish who were most in need of aid.
While Standing guard over their property
to keep it, from destruction, he encountered
| stalwart young man engaged in the Same
office. He did not know him by eight even,
but they held council, engaged in plan
of operations, and continued their efforts
until the danger was over. That young
man proved to be Charles Sumner, and it
ship which ever after existed between them.
The riot ended through the frmness Of the
maybr. and theeeficiency of the military
company, which HAD then but lust been
Termed. SaWel A. Eliot, one of the most
determined fen Boston ever knew, was
plenty of soldiers, but Bq6ad street was
literally packed with people, and to FIRE
into the mass was to achieve q massacre.
1t was fight along the whole line between
the houses and the street. The MAYOR re-
sortedto the aid. of the la6cers. They were
a compan5sof horsemen, largely made up
of teapsters of the city. Their appearance
effect They formed Ne at the head of
the street, which occupied every finch of
area from house to house in the ground it
covered. The word was then given to ad-
vance, and those horses moved steadily for.
ward, and the mass retr94ted as BY one
impulse before them. 1t waea form of mil
itart power for which tb6 mob was not
before. Improved far better than mrisketry.
A panic instantly besot Che rioters of both
factions and in ten minutes the street was
cleared. Those wonderful horses and stall
wart men put an end to that riot, and did
much to p1Avent all others. The name OF
the iancl9 became such terror to the tur-
6ulent that there was no further attempt at
disturbance, even while the same rowdy
element existed, as it did exist fer many
years afteINard.
Boston has had an enviaAe reputation az
an orderly city from that Time to the pres.
ent She bps twice since aroused the race
md religious antipathies in which resided
an early danger. Once III 18A-5, when.
after the speeSh Of Daniel Webster in Fa
nenil Hall, charging the election of James
X: Polk TO the Presidency to the foreign
vote, the FIRST native American crusade was
SET on foot, and the church burnings in
The Know Nothing movement so thoroughly
swept the city that those engaged in It
chose every officer they put in nomination
at the State election. There was
agge amount of inhammatory talk in