St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-05-23
Perihelia Predictions.
A GRIM PROPHECY BY CALIFORNIA
PROPHET.
rom the New York Tribune.l


PROPHET.
From the New York Tribune.
His name is not Grim, as it might be,
but Grimmer, which is preperer; and
he lives in San Jose, Cal. He has pub
lished a pamphlet called ''The Voice of
the Stars and a most melancholy
voice it is. 1t sets forth the intolerable
things which are to happen i'll cOnse-
quence of "the perihelia of the four
great planets, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune
and Saturn, III 1880, or between 1880
and 1887" The effect of the approach
to the sun simultaneously of so many
great bodies, Grimmer says, will be un-
speakably disastrous to our own. Ac-
cording to this San Jose astrOlOger,
among other pleasant results, ''every
drop of water in the earth, and above
the earth, and On,the earth will be more
or less poisonous" Then will come
seven sorrowful years. Ancient races
will be blotted from the face of the
earth. Fifteen millions of the inhabi-
tants of America will die, unless string
ent sanitary measures are adopted, as
they will not be, for everybody knows
that they never are. Then will come
storms and tidal waves and tOrnadOes,
with volcanic actions of the worst sort
mountains and valleys will change
places, and "navigatOrs grow pale with
alarm at the capriciOus defiexure of the
needle" The particular energetic way
in which volcanoes will "belch forth
their lava" the suffocating fumes of
sulphur which will escape from the
earth, the sudden disappearance of is
lands, including, perhaps, the island of
Manhattan, with an unprecedented
number of shipwrecks, will be followed
by fanaticism, blOodshed, murder and
robbery while (remarks Grimmer)
''every one will be absorbed in the try
ing task of keeping alive" The poor
will die by tens of thousands. The
doctors will raise their prices; but Mr..
Grimmer advises every body, when these
dying times arrive, to put no faith Ia
physicians, but to take copious draughts
of warm water, abstain from animal
food, and wear cotton dipped in cam
phOr in the n0strils. The pestilence
will ravage until 1885, and then will
come fires which will rage with fury
until 1887. The suns will discharge
oceans of flaming hydrogen gasses.
There will be tremendous showers of
meteors. Dense black clouds will veil
the sun for days. Binding flashes of
lightning will illume the sombre sky.
The fiesh-eater and alcoholic imbiber
will go hand-in-hand to the grave.
Strife, discord, war, floods, foundations
but enough. No longer let us dwell
upon the coming catastrophe 1t should
be mentioned, however, that according
to Grimmer, Gen. Grant will be elected
| - III ola -,
In 1887 he will be in special danger
from railway collisions, after which he
will have a series of years of peace and
happiness, and "die idolized by this
country, and respected and honOred
by the world"
The great Grimmer, as a citizen of
California, is naturally disposed to let
off that state easily. 1t will be the last
and least sufferer from ''the most ma
! lignant plague era the world has ever
known" The Pacific states we are
told, twill be a veritable paradise of
peace compared with the hellish strife
that will be waging throughout the
world" We see how it was Grimmer
was evidently afraid of the vigilance
committee, should he venture to in
clude San Jose in the general ruin. He
would have been waited upon by dep
utatiOn of the most energetic citizens.
and compelled to revise his calcula-
tions. With one end of a rope about
his neck and the other tied to some con-
venient branch, Grimmer would have
been made to figure out nothing but
good luck and plenty of whisky to San
Jose from 1880 to 1888. He sagacious-
ly escapes his fate. He kills off the
rest OF us, but he spares the Californi-
ans. What is there for us to do but to
appoint an opposition Grimmer of our
own, who will deduce for our comfort
flem 1.-THE perihelia of the four great
planets noting but health, prosperity
and good time generally