, 1880-11-14
CQPpss HILL. BOSTON

Lady Jacksons "Oid Paris " will remind
Americans OF old Boston. The Westernef :
who Jumps out Of his cab at the fremont i
House, to be confronted by an old-fashioned
pile of gray grant which resembles prison,
and sees on his right chnrchyard a century
old, and OIL his left another battle-ground ,
two centuries old, is apt to have chill, to !;
feel like an animated corpse, and to think ths !
Hub rather queer old place. The Bosto' J:
nian Of an early day was as proud OF the
little city Of three hills as the modern Athe-
ntan is Of the metropolis Of New England .
So proud was he Of his birthplace and hona
that, when he gave up the ghost, he was faln.
to lie where he had lived. Like the Indian
who was born on Cape Cod, all along shore.
the early Bostonian was buried in Boston
all along the streets, and there lle remains
to this day. If our Western pilgrim could
have "dropped down" i'll Boston one hun
tlred and seycnty-tive years ago he would
have been puzzled to account for the deslra
Of even n citizen of the Hub to have his re-
mains laid away In grave fronting those
streets with such queer and horribly suggest
i've names,-Frog lane, :nogg alley, Blind
lane, Crooked alley. Col.l lane, Paddy's alley.
Beer lane, Elbow alley, Crab lane, Moon
street. and Sliding alley But there are tha
little old churctyards, the sunken mounds,
and the leaning slate headstone6, ami tne
crooked lanes ard dark alleys with new and
more imposing names, better benttmg sna
Athens Of America fremont, washington,
State, School, and Hanover. II the Western
pilgrim succeeds in shaking off the corpse
like chill which makes his teeth chatter, al1d
walks down Hanover and up Salem street,
he will encounter nothing but human misery
III It's most sQunlld aspects,-tumble-down
wooden terelnents, biear-eycd men ana
women clothed in rags. and children whosa
poor, little, wretcheu persons disclose only
all inheritance Of the filth and consequent
| vice of-shall. we say it it?-forty generations
of Christians And in the midst OF the
scene stands Christ's Church, its tall spl1o
| pointing the way to Heaven, and OH the front
| of the tower appears this inscription:
Tho signal lanterns Of Paul Revere: dsp'ayso e
| In the stecplc uf this church april l3. 1.53,
| wurnctf the country uf the mnrch Of the Br1f12o
| troops to Lexington and Concord.
| The churcl-structure Is one hundred ano
| fifty ycarsnlh. Tie Bible, prayer-books, and
| communion silver now III use there were pre-
sented by George tho Second in 173s. It's
chime Of eight bells is the Oldest In Amer
len, having been brought from England In
1744. It contains the first bust made Of
| Washington. .. III 1t the first Sunday.schooi
in the United States was organized. From
its stecple Gen. Gage witnessed the burning
| of Charlestn;sn and the battle of Bunker Hill.
| To the left OF tile church. Just out OF Salem
street, is "Old Copp's Hiil,"-a spot repIete
with historical interest, and full to the top OF
the memories of Bo$ton's WORTHLESS. The old
'bnrytng-ground" Is lnclosed by wall OF
masonry surmountel with m iron fence
The houses about the place are decreplt Win
age. They remind ope of old men 'loobtlng
along on crntchcs, quite ready to be en-
tombed with the remains OF those who occu-
pied the.n. In one Of them the Aassachu-
sets Spv was printed in ITo. In another
the first New England shilling was coined
by John Hull IN another, built in 1Hn,
Sir Henry Vane lived. In another
| Maj. Pitcairn died. Here still stands
the brick n.ansion-house bequeathed oy
DR.. Franklin "to his dear sister," Jane
Mccain. 1t was on Copp's uil that tho