Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1872-08-10

company with his mother, to the family
of Mr. Mex and had but arrived the
Thursday before he was stricken down
by the hand of death. Truly these are
affecting dispensations Of Providence,
but then "His ways are not as our ways >"
Capt. Richards was buried on Sab
bath evening last at the Presbyterian
Church in Gerardstown, by the fraterni-
ty of Masons, Of which order he was q
MISUNDERSTANDING Statesman.
THE English IN WEST VIRGINIA
There seems prospect of Virginia be
Ing settled over again by the English.
The White Sulphur Springs correspon-
dent of the New York World says:
Mr.. George Grant, an English CAPT
talist, who has passed the last ten months
or year in this country, has just pur-
chased in Greenbrier county. West Nir
ginia, about thirty miles hom the springs,
tract of land 5000 acres in extent,
1000 of which are under cultivation.
There are three houses on the estate,
but none very good ones. so Mr.. Grant
intends building. He will devote por-
ton of the land to stock-raising, and
Mr. Carr well known among agricultu-
rists as breeder of short-horns in the
north of England, will live on the farm
and devote his attention to the raising
ofstock But Mr.. Grant intends con
verting the greater portion Of his prop
erty into park and hunting grounds
after the English style. Nh. Grant is
one of the four gentlemen who have
projected picnic on large scale to
the West in the fall A grand buffalo
hunt is Included in the programme.
The four gentlemen will charter rail
road train, and each will invite a GER
tain number of personal friends as guests.
The party will probably number sixty.
A halfdozen ladies' and gentlemen,
friends of Mr.. Grant, will come from
England to join the party, and the ladies'
will probably assist in the buffalo chase,
being Of the English ladies' who enjoy
hunting. The eXcurtionists will stop
at various points en- route to San Fran
cisco, and will probably prolong their
picnic, to begin in September, into the
winter. Another English gentleman,
who has lately made large purchase of
land in Virginia, is Mr. X. Cantley, who
has purchased a tract of land about sew
enty miles from this place. This tract
is chiefly valuable for the camel coal to
be found therein, but it is also good
grazing country, and Nh Cantley in.
tends raising upon this farm the finest
breeds of sheep.
RAIN CLoUDs.-A few weeks ago a
rain cloud burst and washed away the
road-bed of the Honesdale branch of the
Erie railway for distance of about one
hundred feet ud-bursts are of un.
frequent occurrence in the Atlantic
States, but they are quite common in
Nevada and elsewhere in the extreme
West a cloud-burst is not water
spout, though the two are often con-
founded in the popular mind. A wa
ter-spout results from awhirlwind, which
gathers quantity Of water from the
face of the ocean or some other broad
surface, and whrls it upward and
through the air.
Cloud-burSts occur in the summer du-
ring heavy thunder storms, and are sim
ply rain showers of sudden and extraor-
binary violence An overladen cloud
suddenly condenses, and the water of
which it is composed falls to the earth
in torrents. In mountainous country
like Nevada the results of cloud-burst
are often terrible. So sudden is the
flood that sometimes where not drop
of water has been seen for months, a
large, turbulent torrent all at once comes
pouring down, washing away trees
houses, roads. rocks, and everything
that comes in its way. One of these
floods thus pouring down a steep, dry,
mountain canon, frequently shows an
advancing, resistless front Of logs, bowl
iers. and brush twelve or fifteen feet
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