I was not before aware that the _Herald's_ files
went back so far, but it was a greater surprise to discover that
interviewing flourished at so early a date.
Yours, SARSFIELD YOUNG.
CAPTAIN KIDD!
THE PIRATE CHIEF IN A BOSTON JAIL!
BOUQUETS AND BAKED BEANS _vs._ PURITAN THEOLOGY!
CALUMNIATIONS OF THE PRESS!
DON'T CALL ME PET NAMES--WILLIAM _vs._ ROBERT!
ALL A MISTAKE ABOUT THAT CHISEL!
SARAH'S MUGS AND PORRINGERS!
"HOW IS MY FRIEND, COL. LIVINGSTONE?"
EAST INDIA RING _vs._ INNOCENCE!
CAN ADAMS AND CHOATE CLEAR HIM? etc. etc.
[From _Herald_ Special Correspondent.]
BOSTON, 16th July, 1699.
Your correspondent arrived here last evening, and found (as already
telegraphed) that the arrest and imprisonment of Captain Kidd, the
champion pirate of the world, continues to form the all-absorbing
topic of conversation. Little Boston has got a sensation at last, and
is determined to keep it. Merchants and brokers talk Kidd on 'Change.
Groups at the hotels discuss the nautical hero. Badly-executed
pictures of him stare at you from the shop-windows. Cotton Mather,
the great gun of the clergy here, blazes away at this "child of
iniquity" from the pulpit; and it is understood that a prominent
publishing-house has already arranged to bring out _The Autobiography
of a Buccaneer_.
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