Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-08-13
LOOK OUT.
Il Terrible Electro Magnetic Storm
Coming.
The 10th Of August Fixed Upon.

l1On, by recommendation III the w ASH
ington Herald of July u, that the
beautiful comet then exhibiting its
brilliant fan tail had been seen before,
and at each appearance the earth had
been visited by storms, floods, &c,
| with other violent electrical phenomena
| and that it would be followed shortly
by another comet that would aid in
disturbing the atmosphere of the earth.
That information has already been full
filed by the terrible storms of Eureka,
| Nevada, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and
othor places, and the new comet made
its appearance on Sunday last. Those
statements, as published month ago,
have therefore been already verified /;
and they were not based upon analogy,
the argumentative weapon of specula-
tive and superficial investigations, OF
reasoning, the common, fallacious pro-
cedure of protesting astronomers to
establish important positions; but those
statements were founded upon the
| indubitable testimonies of observa
| ton.
The immense fan tail and the pro-
digious velocity of this 18th of July
comet" enormously styled "Coggia's
comet" has already forced and scattered
our atmosphere into masses of whirl-
winds and floods upon our earth, while
the astronomers call those mighty, wan
dering planets "gas",-- gaseous bodies,
that finally fall into the sen. How
absurd, when the sun is known to be a
globe of fire, and heat, rsdiates, and
they who are paid largely by govern
ments to discover the laws of cee,tial
bodies, trace out their consequences,
and apply the results Of their discover
cries to alleviate the wants or comforts
of humanity, have failed to assure us
of the real existence Of comet, its cor
rect size, velocity, distance, or time, the
materials that compose it, OF the chief
object of its appearance and visits, and
declare them mysteries! All mystery
is ignorance there is no mystery. For
forty years past have carefully obser
we'd and noted the influences of comets
upon our earth and the objects and re-
suits Of their visits, and no comet has
] ever appeared that did not violently
disturb the atmosphere Of cur earth aud
supply us with a super abundance Of
electro magnetic forces, the life of our
earth, and that within thirty days be-
fore its appearance and thirty days after
its disappearance.
The orbit of each comet is the orbit
of all comets-the same track, the same
| path, from the northeast to the south,
west-the track, the path, the home of
comets, the world Of meteors, and each
and all have their periodical displays,
their brilliant revolutions and evolu-
tons, that frequently pierce the atmos-
phere of our earth in the shape ofrocks.
meteoric stones, composed Of iron,
cobalt, and nickel, the strongest mag
hectic ores, and thus we know their
composition, their influence, and their
power. The rocky nucleus of this fan
tail comet, travelling with its amazing
velcity, produces its own bright tail,
the result of friction. and leaves its
mark and shining particles behind it,
Gas the phosphoric friction match ex-
hibits its own glittering particles on a
wall) That fan-tail is composed of
angular bits of the magnetic ores of
the nucleus, sparkling by friction in the
crystal light of their own fires, and
some of them will be scattered upon
this earth in a shower, and they will
be attracted most by the magnetic ores
of the Allegheny and Blue mountains,
and the inhabitants of Pittsburg, Har~
pers Ferry, Harrisburg, Lebonon, and
Reading will be able to prove the
materiality Of this comets tail-the
particles Of which will reach the earth
at high noon on Monday, August 10,
and will continue to fall for forty eight
hours.
This storm or shower Of phosphofes-
cent minerals will be seen in the day
time, the sun and sky will be red with
the smoke Of mineral particles, and will
be clearly visible in the interior of the
| angel bounded by Pittsburg, New York
and Washington. 1t will not be mere-
ly an electric storm, but more magnetic
an electromagnetic storm that will
make the needle of the compass
culver, and twist the Geographic instru-
ments into mass Of confusion and l
hope hail storm will not eclipse the
grandeur ofthe scene; and as the swoop
of the COMETS tail hurled the lightnIngs
of our atmosphere upon Pittsburg, Erie,
and ehawkeen, the result Of that
whooping and expanding power viii
greatly increase the explosions and conf
bustions of the meteoric shower, ard
those silvery metallic phosphoresoent
angular bits of the comets tail will
spread their friction fires on the noun
tain nights.
At night the thickets and trees of the
mountains will be strongly Illuminated
with particles of phosphorescent red sill
yer ore. Gather and test it, and thus
it can be proved 1t will poison vege
triton, and, testing it by fire, it W i'll
emit a garlicky odor and prove its phos-
phoric qualities. On the morning of
August the 18th gather the leaves of
the trees, brush them off carefully so
that their dust falls upon glass or chs
ma plate, then empty the dust upon q
hot stove or plate of hot iron; you will
see and smell the phosphorus, and OBJ
tain the particles of red silver ore that
frightened the comets tail. AS the
telegraphic operators have an interest
in this cometary exhibition they should
carefully observe and note the COM
mencement of this magnetic storm and
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