The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-03-19
OLD BOSTON NEWSPAPER
Extracts From the Boston Gazette
and Country journal Of
March IL, ITO.
Full OF Incendiary Expressions and
Breathing Hatred Against
Old England.
----
4 RIOT In which Citizens Were Massacred
by British Reconsideration to
s the King.

In rummaeing through an old safe recently
Goorro Graf, of 22l West Market street,
cane aorosn u COPY of the boston Gazette
and Country Journal published on Mon
day, March u, ITO. Graf boueht out .he
business stand in December last, including
the furnishings and an old. time worn SAFE,
saws Tho Louisville Courier j Journal. ~
was some time after this that No dlsoov-
cred what he thought was an old bill. or
else some loose paper lying in n OF she
at.vers. II was closely folded together.
and the edges were worn OF with age. Inc
printing was perfectly prose we'd, rave
vher. the paper had fallen apart in tie
creases OF the folds.
TIL paper was finally pieosd together,
and a haaty rerusal of its curiously phrsssa
n.rapraphs and odd headlines revealed Its
AGE and historical interest. Tbs lettering
ia Of the old style, the ''f' shaped =" be-
inr used throughout. The paper IL about
eighteen inches long and ten inches wlae,
With three columns of printed matter 70
tho page. In the first column is an account
Of ! Boston politician who ha dbeen proven
guilty Of "impertinence, absurdity. sophas-
trv ana f%alsehood.' Tho only headline -
. couplet from Shakespeare;
Like 1 sourvy politician seem #
To see the things thou dost not"
Ons OF the most interesting articles On
ths hrst cage il an account Of Z mass meet
;nc bald in the town Of Boston, for the pur-
nnss Of considering 'tths distressed elrcui1-
stances that the province and all Nortn
America are involved in by reasons Of the
scts Of parliament imposing dutles ana
A.. , ~ k;k~N . of North A Nl Ar-
lea for the sole urpose to RAISE 2 roysl
revenue" The article continued 70 ex-
nrass the distress Of the colonies, and the
writer rebellsd against the fact that ths
..roval ear, was stopped to all petitions.
Following the account of the meeting anu
the reasons for calling it, we're resolutions
voted by those assembled, embodylnR tins
intentions to oppose all unjust taxation.
The paper il full OF revolutionary artl~
elias. The most interesting appears IN the
first column Of the second page. IL IS M
account of the burial of four citizens who
had been killed in what is termed in one
parao aph a massacre. which had occurred
Monday, March S. Tho article 10 full OF
incendiary illusions to the city being filled
With troops. A detailed account of the
riot appears in fall on another page OF the
parer. In the center of the accouns OF the
burial are the pictures of four cof1ns. wlth
a flarinp display of skull and crossbones.
49, OS DOOl6S vi VIZ oVaN - Si'eAA = t'ASA>
burial, as the following paragraph WI.
show: ~
stIast Thursday. agreeable to a general
request Of the inhabitants. and by the con
sent Of parents and friends, we're carried t.
their graves the bodies Of Samuel Gray
Samuel Meverick, James Caldwell ana Girls
pus Attacks. unhappy victims who fell II
the bloody massacre OF the Monday even
ing proceeding"
the bodies were being borns to the graves
all the shops were closed, and "persons Q
rank followed the collins. Tne artiol
closes with the paragraph:
I'll aggravated circumstances of thei
death, the distress and sorrow visible O
ayery> countenance, together with the pc
culiar solsmnity with which the Who'll
funeral was conducted. surpasses descrip
tion."
In a later description OF the soldiery be
ing kept in the city on guard appears thi
short paragraph, which illustrates the feve
Of tho time:
ga more dreadful tragedy has been acte
by the soldiery in King street. Boston. Ne,
England, than was some time since ez
hibit.d in ST. Gsorge's field. London, oil
England. which may servo instead of bes
cons for both counties"
The whole of the third page is take
up with a description of how Gray, Nave
lex, Caldwell and Attucks, the account
whose burials APP ears or tho second pag
were attacked by the English soldiers an
messacred. Attacks. the article state,
was a "mulatte man." and who had stoppe
over in Boston on his way to his home
North Carolina. Besides the four who We
killed, Il score of others were weunde,
three Of whom wers supposed to be fatal
hurt.
Following the account of the massac
was a 1epor. of q meeting of the TOW
~ cpunc1l at wh1rh reHNlntiOnH wan raaac
beseechine the king to withdraw at on.
this troops from the city. The col
sentative Inhabitants were called upon
turn watchmen and guard against furth
evils.
Tho paper has little else in it but Unfair
matory articles against the conduct of t
English, and reports Of the insults offer
hx the EnldiarY