Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-08-08
BELMONT CHRONICLE.
ST, CLAIRSVILLE OHIO.
THURSDAY. AUGUST 8, 1878.
A Fulfilled Astrological Predic-
ton.

Thomas Lister, q sexagenarian astrologcr,
died in New York the other day. He con-
fessed to reporter not long before his death
that there was good deal of deception in
bis art. He could read his visitors minds
pretty well, as they were generally so swed
by the darkened apartment in which he re-
ceived them that they accepted the generali-
ties concerning their future which he uttered
fer prophecies as wonderfully acute and exact
predictions Yet he seems to have had q
belief in Judicial astrology-that drawn from
study of the stars. A knowledge Of the
day and hour Of ones birth was essential to
drawing correct horoscope. He claimed
to have made one remarkably fulfilled pro-
phecy, and the Boston Herald substantiates
him by reprinting it from its issue Of October
2, 1864, ii having been drawn up on the 29th
of the preceding month. 1t is as follows.
"Persons born under Jupiter are ever des-
tined to be fortunate. We believe that the
finger of God points TO Abraham Lincoln as
the right man in the right place to put down
this wicked rebellion and, further, we believe
that he will be elected at the coming election
Ou lUt OIL O1 NOttllDcI uCAb, lIOii tuC lhCb
Jupiter, his ruling planet, Will be transiting
over his ascendant in his own house, astrolog-
ically speaking. The transit of the evil plan
ct Mars, in opposition with his ascendant,
plainly shows that the struggle will last until
the month OF April, 1865, about which time
the foes to the Union cause will be compelled
to lay down their arms. In December OF
1864, and again in January, 1865, some deep,
base plot will be got up against the person OF
the President, shown by the transit of Mars;
and that planet shows danger by pistol shot,
or by some internal machine. During these
months more than ordinary caution and
wstchfulness are highly necessary. After
February that evil transit will have passed
away. We could increase our remarks in re-
gard to the personal danger, but believe that
forbearance in this case would be virtue"
This certainly beat all that the spirituaIists
have done before or since. 1t did not require
much foresight TO see that Lincoln would he
reelected, and the danger Of his assassination
was not impossible. The papers abounded in
accounts OF rebel plots. If killed, it was not
likely that murderer would plunge dagger
in his breast, or poison his food. The pistol
and internal machine, instrumen.aliiies which
could be operated at an unusually safe dis
lance, were therefore the most available
means to be employed. He does not say, it
will be observed, that the end OF the rebellion
and the death OF the President were to be CO.
Incident The termination of the war early
in The campaign OF 1865 was only in accord
ance with public belief, the wish being father
to the thought. A year earlier it was re-
garded as almost certain that the summer
campaign in Virginia would end matters.
When that expectation failed, the cousumma-
ton was postponed until 1865, just as each
successive twelvemOnth since 1851 was be-
lieved to witness the last of hostilities, for
the burden of long continuance was too
much for the popular nerve. Still, when so
many points were rightly foreshadowed, the
Professor must be admitted to have made an
excellent hit. If he had made money, or even
any more. with the same success, we
should certainly have heard of them to his
credit and to that of sstrology., AS nothing
has leaked out to show this, we must pro-
nounce his achievement solitary one, attrib-
utable to careful study of the situation, and
chance coincidence, rather than to any influ-
ence of the movements Of Jupiter and Mars.