The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-07-14
GENERAL NOTES.

A girls heroism saved number of lives
near LOUISVILLE, KY, a few days ago. A por-
ton OF a picnic party went to the picnic
grounds in covered furniture wagon, and
the driver having left his seat to fix some
thing about the wagon, taking the precau-
ton to unhitch the horse on the side next a
steep bluff along which the road ran, the
horses, becoming frightened, started of, and
the wagon was rapidly nearing the bluff
when Nellie Johnson, a girl Ia yeare OF age,
climbed 10 the drivers seat reached down
over the dashboard and secured the reins,
and by the exertiOn of all her strength
brought the team to q stand still.
At the recent teachers meeting at Putin
Bay, Walter Smith read a paper on cart
Education in Boston," Mr.. Smith is art
master in the Boston schools, and, in his es-
say, held that every human being can be
taught 70 draw successfully and well as do
anything else successfully. And he thoughtit
would be perfectly practicable for all child
rem everywhere in the schools to be taught
drawing. Drawing should not be forced. 1t
mnst be learned gradually, and the early
work OF the child will be necessarily bad.
The first failures are graduates of future sue
cess. No work should be done a, high pres
sure, and especially not drawing. The es-
sayist hoped for time when we shall have
developed and brought to some degree of
perfection a system of national art drawing.
The United States Mint at San Francisco
having closed for the yearly settlement, the
Alta California of that city publishes the
coinage statistics for the past year. The gold
coinage for the year was SO, 3O2, 500, as fol-
lows: Double eagles, S2I go, 000; eagles,
$4,000; half eagles, Sl55,000; quarter-ea-
giles, S67 900. The silver coinage was $780,
500, as follows: Trade dollars, S2,121. 900;
L. IoITo
dimes, IS, 800. The pieces coined during the
year were 4, SS2, 900, divided as follows: Gold
1,09S, 600 double eagles, u, 900 eagles, 81 900
half-eagles and p, 900 quarter eagles. Silver,
2,121, 900 trade dollars, $4,000 half.dollars,
$4,000 quarters, and 500, 900 dimes. The
coiner worked 2,l70, 1880 ounces in gold
ingots, and 4,S70,051.SS ounces in silver in
gots, equal TO "A tons of gold and 40 tons of
silver.
A dispatch from Harrisburg says that on
the afternoon of the 4th inst, two storms
met in the vicinity of Lewistown, the result
of which was a tornado attended with the
loss OF five lives, and the destruction of
property valued at about $50, 600. The storm
which traversed an area of about eight miles
wide, hurled from the piers and broke into
fragments q substantial, four span railroad
and wagon bridge, which spanned the
Juniata river at Lewistown. Two bows who
had gone Tor protection from the rain into
the bridge were killed, and four seriously
injured. 400 yards distant portion OF new
furnace was demolished, and three boys
crushed amid the wreck and one seriously
hurt. The building was damaged to the
amount of $4,000 On the Pennsylvania
railroad, two miles west of Lewistown, %
moving board stock cars were lifted from
the track and thrown over an embankment,
badly wounding q fireman who had gone
into one OF the cars. In the belt of country
l. 49,
blown down, trees snapped asunder and
uprooteC., houses and barns unrooted, build
ings dislOged, gable ends crushed in, ORCH
ards laid waste aud crops ruined.
A correspondent of the Hartford Courant
writes thus of the "crackers" of Florida:
The crackers are a class by themselves. and
to a considerable extent are governed by
their own well understood but unHritten
laws To some extent they resemble the
patrjsrchs of old, inasmuch as their prop
erty consists mainly in their stock, and no
county has any attractions for them which
does not afford good range for their cattle.
They squat" down in the pine woods with
out stopping to inquire whether the land
belongs TO the general government, the
state. or to individuals, and erect a log
cabin which is not much more than pen
made OF pine poles matched together at the
corners and covered with uDshaTen shingles
from pine tree. OF course, they have no
schools and no education-even the itinerant
Methodist preacher does not find them; but
still they are kindly, inOifensive people who
would share their corner of their cabin wish
a stranger and give him the best the house
afforded. They cook, eat, drink, and sleep,
in the one common room-mens women,
children and strangers, and still unchaste
. conduct OF bastardy is seldom known
among them. There are different grades OF
wealth and standing among them as with
other people. Many of them are very poor,
while some own from thirty to forty thou
sandhead of cattle.