Morning journal and courier., 1884-11-10
HAVEN, CONN MONDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 1o 1884

1 nraed were charged by Superintendent Lloyd,
 Aberyswith, with riotously assembling to
 disturb the public peace at Gorslwyd, Llan-
 Dadarntrefeglwys, on the 14th of July last;
 and David Davies Halfway, Llanbadarntre- felwys; David Jones Glanbran, Cilcennin;
 Evan Evans, Gondalfa, Llanbadarntrefegl- l wys; Thomas Jones Lleustimaen, LIansant-
 Hraed; John Jones, Ffynonnewyd, Llanba- darntrefeglwys; David Thomas, Hafodfawr,
 Lanbadarntrefeglwys; David Lloyd, Adsol-
 wen, Llansantfraed; Owen Evans; Talglas.
 Llanbadarntrefeglwys; Daniel Evans, Betha-
 mia; and James Davies, Tynlon, Llanba- l darntrefeglwys were also charged with the
 same otfense, at the same place, on the 29th of July
 York, Pennsylvania, is excited by a curi-
 ous local fight over the manner of teaching
 which prevails in the public schools there. One of the York papers charged that the parrot-like method was altogether too com ! mon, and that crowding the half mature
 mind with lot of dry, indigestible facts and figures was the substitute for proper rational instruction. Being challenged to produce its proofs it does so. It publishes in full the 1 history lesson assigned on given day to Ia grammar schooP' pupiI-a grade in which ages range from 13 to 16 years This lesson
 consisted of 674 words of the most severely condensed and drily stated facts about the military operations of the latter half ! of the year 1914, in the war between | this country and Great Britain. The incl I dents crowded in this task were Sir George
 Prevost's march against .Macomb at Platts- burg, the battle at that place on land and the simultaneous engagements of the fleet on Lake Champlain, the bombardment of Ston- ington, the landing of Gen. Ross in the Patuxent, his encounter with resistance at Bladensburg, his ravages in Washington, the capture of Alexandria by a division of the British fleet, Ross's return to Baltimore and death, the bombardment of Fort Me Henry, the occupation of Pensacola, the at tack on Fort Morgan, Jackson's march to Pensacola and return to New Orleans and the preparations of the British for the battle there. The pupil was required to commit to memory the 674 words relating to these events and to recite them verbatim; also to spell and give three definitions of each one of
 
 ened, skirmish, vanguard, cannonading, militia, fotilla, all of which occurred in the lesson. If this is a fair specimen of the per formances in the York schools, there seems to be good ground for criticism.
 Sarah, daughter of the old chief Winne- known as ''the Indian Princess Winne- mucca," has recently paid a visit to her old
 home at Virginia City, Nevada. A letter from that city gives "reminiscences of the time when she ran away from her fathers wigwam many years ago and went down to live among the whites at Virginia City. She was then a bright little girl, with irregular features and straight black hair. She was dressed in the costume of her tribe, which consisted of about the poorest stuff that could be found anywhere, and the least of it that frontier etiquette would permit of. A white family took her in and cared for her, giving her a calico dress, of which she was very proud Soon afterward she got some stockings and | shoes and bonnet. She worked in one | family after another, going to school when | she could, and in this way earned living | and obtained the rudiments of an English
 education. When she grew to womanhood | she ceased working in kitchens and took in ! washing. By this means she earned enough money to buy herself such books as she cared to read, and in course of time some Boston 1 travellers became interested in her and in
 duced her to go to that city, where she was 1 we'll received and found friends. She has been induced to make quite generous contributions to her tribe Instead 1 of being proud of her and grateful fol what she has done, the Flutes regard
 Sarah with suspicion. They know that she
 wears the dress of white women, and they
 cannot forget that she voluntarily worked
 Her old father, who, though he regarded himself as mighty chieftain, was not above fishing around swill barrels for dainties o1
 accepting cold victuals at back doors, regard ed his daughter with contempt because she | worked. Her brother Naches, the present
 chief of the tribe, does not speak to her te
 this day. The tribe, in fact, look on her al
 one who has disgraced herself by stepping to work and by associating with the whites