Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1899-06-14

Bishop A. w. Wilson will preside
over the next session of the Virginia
Annual Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South. which con-
venes in Petersburg November Is.
Among the recent changes in ma
tional bank is that of j. B. McCabe,
vice president, in place Of @. S. Car
ter, and Q. K. Titan, assistant cash
Ter, in place of o. l.. Williams, in the
Peoples National Bank of Leesburg.
General Scott Shipp has received
many applications for appoin tments
as State cadets at the Virginia Mill
tsry Institute. The board of visitors
will meet in Lexington June 81, when
the appointments will be made.
One hundred and twenty eight APP
plications for license were before the
medical board at Richmond last week.
One is lady and four are colored
men. 1t will be two weeks or more
before the successful candidates are
announced.
John Tyler, negro, was sitting on
top of an empty whiskey barrel at
the corner of Sixth and Marshall
streets, Richmond, and dropped .
lighted match through the bunghole.
He was blown ten feet in the air and
fell on his head In the streets. He
was not seriously hurt.
The Legislature has decided to hold
q reunion In Norfolk and Old Point
this summer. Rev. Charles Single.
of Norfolk, former chaplain of the
House, is making the arrangements.
The members will probably come on
the 22d inst. The Governor and his
staff will also attend. The party will
number about seventy-fve or one
hundred.
1t is understood that the old Ex-
change Hotel Building in Richmond
will soon be put up at public auction
and sold to the highest bidder. An
offer of $4,000 was lately made for
1t by party who wished to convert
it into a warehouse. and it was de-
clined. The taxes and ground rent
due aggregate nearly $4,000.
Governor Tyler has issued an order
permitting the reorganization of four
teen military companies in the State.
All these companies except one were
IN the State military before the late
Standardization war. The Gov
ernor does not anticipate having but
two regiments of infantry in the
State.
The pastors Of the various churches
In Roanoke have instituted q move
ment looking to the reformation of
funeral practices as observed in that
city. They recommend greater econ
omy in funeral preparations, and
among other things that men should
keep their heads covered at the grave.
They are also opposed to opening the
coffin in the church or cemetery.
A lady who resides near Lynch.
burg wants to act as proxy for some
life-term prisoner in the penitentiary.
She wrote to Governor Tyler that her
life had been failure, and asks if
there is not law which authorizes
him to give life prisoner his or her
liberty, providing some one is willing
to serve out the sentence. The Gov
ernor replied that there was no such
act upon the statute books.
Farmer Calhoun, of Springwood,
paid visit to Clifton Forge last week
and telegraphed his wife to meet him
on mis- return with the family car
riage. In some way not explained,
the telegram got mixed up, and when
MIR. Calhoun stepped from the train
his wife was in mourning habiliments,
and a full set of pallbearers awaited
him. He and they were much sur
prised when he stepped among them.