The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1857-06-10
From "Tke States"
Z the COMET OF JUNE 10, 1867.

f. u. ..A,7HE from "Ine 6uteS."
the COMET OF JUNE 10, 1867.
Geology teaches us that there have been
three great eras when the surface Of the
earth has undergone changes such as might
have resulted ftom&s universal deluge, eff
fecisd, perhaps, by the collision of comets
with the earth. giving new direction 10 lis
Rotary motion, or making il revoive around
anew axis.
Geology teaches, as plainly as anything in
Holy Writ, thaithe seas have thrice forsaken
their beds, and, by the universal rushing of
the waters 10 q new equator, have over.
whelmed continents, the abode OF men and
ANIMALS. SO.
Now, however, men-may differ in regard
10 lne Mosaicy hIstdly .ef tho food, as To-
whether ii ever took place in The manner in
which il Is literally set forth in the Bible,
and however they may ridicule the probable
or possible contact Of comet with the earth
on the 10th day of June next, one thing is
certain that neither their sneers, ridicule, nor
unbel,ef will affect the laws of geometry and
motion nor the mechanism Of the universe.
What has been, may be again; like causes
produce like effects. If there have been
three deIuges, which at different erss have
overwhelmed and destroyed every vesiage
Of the races Of men and animals thsn on The
surface of the earth, what astronomer OF
philosopher 10 prepared TO show that there
will NOT be fourth, a fifth, sixiha
OF 99.comeis whose elements have been
calculated by astronomers, 30 passed be.
tween the sun and Mercury, 20 between the
orbits Of Mercury and ysnus, 81 between
the orbits of Ceres and Jupiter.
It's not well known fact tina. Blela's
comet, whose diameter is nearly twice that
OF the earth passes so very near, That at The
moment the centre Of the come, is at The
point nearest to the earih's path, the matter
Of the comet extends beyond that path, and
portion of ii within il This is the comet
which it was predicted would come in COL
lision with and destroy the earth on the 26lh
of November, 1889; but happily the comet
anticipated the earth by passing the point
were the fight was TO come off on the Goth
of October, so that eaher the astronomers
were 80 days behind, or the comet 80 days
before lime.
Il was the opinion of DR.. Winston. the
friend and successor of Newton, thai the
comet known as Halley's delueed the world
in The time Of Noah. This is the same com.
Ell which, in l456 spKssd universal terror
throughout Eafope, insz4s.ag the belief that
il would destroy the earth, and that the day
Of judgement was ct hand; 10 avert which
awful doom, Pope CaIixtus added 10 the Ava
Maria the prayer, "Lord save US from the
devil, the Turk and The comet"
Now, there are men in the world so hard
ened in sin, that they will say in regard 10
the predicted. .smash-up in 1892, that miss
is as good as mile; and in regard to the
one which SO horribly frightened old Calix.
,us, that ii, is Of no son of consequence, as
il will not arrive at ils perihelion again until
1911" but lei these sinners remember thai
there are other comets which are continually
crossing the earlh's path; and whether we
shall escape the one of the 10th of June
next. ae luckily as we did that Of 1892, time
may or may not unfold to us. The collision
of the earth with comets al certain epochs is
not only possible but unavoidable; and the
writer of this article believes that all the del
uges which The different strata of the earlh
prove TO have taken place, Gin an antiquity
10 be measured, perhaps, only by millions Of
years,) have taken place through cometary
influences. w
There is no doubt in the minds Of mosl
astronomers that the asteroids between the
orbits of Mars and Jupiter are the fragments
of great planet, which, from some cause,
has been burst asundsr. If that cause was
exterior, il must have been comstary, fol
there are no bodies In our solar system
whose orbits interaect those of the planets.
The fact is well known 10 astronomers
that the remarkable comet OF l770, which
was fouLd to revolve in moderate ellipse in
period of about FIVE years, was thrown
out Of lis orbit by the attractions of Jupiter
and has not been heard of since. What the
effect Of the collision vas. 10 that planet il i.
impossible 10 stale; for although no percepli-
BILE change took place in its motions, yet a
change might have taken place in its auxil.
iary motion sufficient to have thrown ils
oceans from their beds, and TO overwhelm
every inhabitani on lis surface.
There are great many phenomena as
cribed to the influence of comets; it is even
the opinion ofsome thai Sodom and Gomor-
rah were destroyed BY one Of these erratic
visitors, molten with perihelion heat; but who
knows2 ALPHA.
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has reached heIght in the West, thai The
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