Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1892-08-19
THE NEWS OF THE DAY,

Hon. James q. Normile, judge OF the Grim
inal Court at st. Louis. committed suicide last
week by taking poison. His administration
Of the law had been severely criticised by the
'Post-Dispatch OF that city and he had entered
suit against that paper and others that copied
its criticisms, for S4O0, 900 damages He left a
note written just before killing himself saying
that he had concluded to kill the managing
editor of the paper, but he shrunk from taking
life, especially while being JUDGE and
"must seek rest i'll the grave" 1t is coinci
dence that Judge Van Wegner. Mlto assisted
Normile some years ago in pros ecuting Max.
we'll who murdered Preller, also committed
suicide abUut year ago.
FoH some time great rivalry over corset
sales hats been going CIR between two dry
goods houses i'll Zal.esIille, Ohio, kept re.
apectively By Druc,.eI and Sturtevant. The
prices have been cut every day, until last
Tuesday morning one house advertised corsets
at cents A few hours later the other house
advertised them at one cent. An immense
gathering of women took possession OF each
store and in their eagerness to buy broke show
cases and counters. One proprietor closed his
store, and going to the second story threw the
corsets out OF the window to the struggling
mob below. Several women were SO badly
crushed that they tainted.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis and her daughter.
Miss Winnie, are at the St. Elmo cottage
Narragansett Pier. Their escort is Worthing-
ton w. Davis, cousin, and private secretary
of the late President Davis. A letter from
there says: "Miss Winnie Davis wore one of
the prettiest costumes-a white wool dotted
with blue bells, and zouave jacket of blue
silk. embroidered. Mrs. DAVIS is very stout
and impressive looking. She goes everywhere
and seems to enjoy the gayety and the atten-
ton paid her,"
Last week, the body of Turner johnson, a
we'll known colored man of Covington ALLIE
ghany, was found on the railroad track near
that town, cut completely in two by the train,
Near it lay four chickens with their necks
wrung which he had stolen that night from
Morgan Keyser who lives some distance off.
johnson had gotten drunk, then stole the
chickens, and on his way home had laid down
on the track to sleep.
For fishing party of four in boat near
North Lyme, Ct, last week, stroke of
lightning melted the watch chain Of Anson
freeman, split the parasol of Mrs. Royce
Knocked Mr.. Royce overheard, bent and
twisted Mrs. Freeman's corset, and Thoroughly
cooked half dozen fish in the bottom of the
boat. Some of the human sufferers lay insen
sible for hours.
A remarkable fact can be discovered with
the aid Of a pencil. In the twentieth genera
ton preceding the present each person now
alive had 100000 of ancestors The exact
figures are 1.04s,5 76. Every person had two
parents, four grandparents, eight great
grandparents, etc. Keep on doubling until
the Goth generation, and you will verify the
immense aggregate given above.
Rev. Mr.. Bell, pastor of the Presbyterian
church at Armenia, Duchess county, N. Y.
mistook bottle of vitriol for communion
wine and served it to the congregation. The
mistake was discovered and physicians sum
moned The poisoned persons were made very
sick. but all are out OF danger.
Typhoid dysentery is prevailing around
Fairfield, Rockbridge. Mr. W. A. Lucas
died OF it on the 9TH inst, his little girl Lula
died of it two weeks ago, and another child is !
not expected to live. MI. George Swoope is |
ill of it.
Ex-Governor William E. Cameron of Vir-