Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1899-05-03
Fine Display OF Millinery.

est fashions and best If goods and
that our department 10 under the
charge of Miss Adreon, who has Civ
en- satisfaction to many of our Gus
toners IN the past. You will find
ready trimmed hats of every descrip-
ton, straw hats of the latest STYLES.
and our trimmings are the best ma
terlai to be had-no shop worn goods.
tive our stock an inspection, and you
VIII find it the largest and most COM
plete ever brought to Berryville.
Prices are low down. Also. our stock
of Ladies' Furnishings has been re-
plenished with the newest and latest
of goods. Mrs. l.. +. RICAMoRE.
Briefs.
Miss Mary Tucker Magill. the
well known authoress, died at the
home of MIR. Joseph Bryan. relative
living near Richmond, last Saturday
morning, of aploplexy, in the 6sth
year OF her age. Miss Magil was
born IN Winchester, where she pass
ed until recently most of the years of
her life. Her History of Virginia"
Is one of the text books selected for
use IN our public schools. She was
also the author of the "The Hol-
combs" Woman, or Chronicles of
the late war" etc, and was contri-
butor to periodicals. She sometimes
gave recitationS Of her literary works.
having once appeared in the Berry
VILE court house before "a large ALL
dience.
See Wall u Hardesty before SELL
i"s your wool. They pay cash.
Thomas Laws, au aged colored
man of this town, died last Sunday
night. aged about 50 years. Tom
used to tell story OF having receiv-
eel dispatch. wrapped in tinfoil,
from two Federal soldiers, who di-
rccted him to deliver it to General
Sheridan. These soldiers belonged
TO force cut of from the main bod =
by Confederate movement. Tom
SAYS he delivered the dispatch. but
did not know its character. lie was
directed TO swallow it rather than let
IT fall into Confederate hands. Tom
was a quiet, sober and industrious
citizen, and beliked bv all who knew
him. George Kirk, another we'll
thought of colored man. died at his
home IN Long Marsh district on the
22nd of April
The funeral of Mrs. Charles f..
Undertake, who died at her home.
IN Brooklyn, y. Y, on Wednesday
last after a ten days illness of con-
gestive chills, took place in Winches
ter on Saturday last. Rev. d.. Jas.
X. Graham, pastor of the Kent Street
Presbyterian Church, officiated. Mrs.
Undertake was thirty-seven years of
age and is survived by a husband
and six children. The remains of
her twelve year-old son, Charles. who
died about year ago, were taken
there and inferred with his mother
Mrs. Timberlake was a native OF
Clarke county and was niece af MI
Charles Broadway Rouss. of New
York.
y dispatch to the Baltimore Sun
noting recent important real estate
deals in Roanoke, Va, says: Colonel
John Thomas Gibson, of Charles
town, W. Va, purchased business
property on jefferson street amount.
ing to $4,000, and one three. story
business house on Campbell avenue
paying $500. He also made some
other purchases, the whole aggregat.
ing about $4,000, paying the cash
down in every instance"
Wheat is little lower than it was
last week, No. , red being quoted in
Baltimore at 764 cents per bushel
The visible supply is 2S, l44,OOC
bushels, showing decrease of one
million bushels. Crop damage re
ports continue to reach Chicago, but
foreign demands have fallen off. Corn
is quoted at 3S3 cents per bushel.
The eleventh annual meeting OF
the Virginia State Bar will be held
at the Hot Springs, Va, next August
Judge Humphrey, of Kentucky, will
be the orator, but other papers will
be prepared by Marshall Mccormick
of Berryville, James p. Harrison, OF
Danville, and r. II. Irvine, of Big
Stone Gap.