The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1880-10-28
A CURIOUS PREDICTION.

III 5 stated that Dr. Albert Marsh OF BROOKLYN n Y
has original Of this collection rhymes which were
composed 7S Sherbrook Canada and aferward pub
lshed in 1873 in the Green Mountain VERMONT
OF which DR.. Marsh has in his possession Notes are
IN with the predicton.l
Columbia, home of Libertie,
Shall not twenty rulers see,
Ere there shall be battle smoke,
Ere peace shall seem to be broke,
And in waves OF peril tost
The ancient order shall be lost.
ayes is the nineteenth President.
The first shall, too, the second be,
4 the fates tell truth even he;
Where sits the sire sits the son,
But not the sons son.
And ere the shall ruler be,
One place shall send three
Three with one shall make four,f
And three shall be more.
Charles Francis Adams can't be President
yler was the fourth from Virginia
The first sprung from these fecund loins
In death his predecessor joins,
Who beneath his shall pass
And in "a house that different was
The next one shall have peace and war; +
The third shall brook no kingly star;
When the quarter century's run,
Where sat the sire shall sit the sOn.t
herson and John Adams died the day, July
adison's administration had war with England, and
IN quincy Adams inaugurated.
Then comes who should have been before
soldier who shall not have any
rold Hickory.
After the fox@ the lion shall
BE lordly ruler over all
But death shall in the mansion WELD
sword sUrer than on the tented hed.t
After him there comes anon
one who had friends, but shall have none;t
he hickory shall sprout agaln;z
soldier come from battle plain,
utishall not long remain,
or shall his heir bear sway again
Then a youth shall follow who sic
Al shall know, though none knew.
Van Buren, was called "a fox.
Harrison died almost Immediately after his Inaugural
ryler quarreled with his party.
Pierce was almost unknown until nominated
While the neXts to bear the rule,
To-norrow's sage is this days fool;
There shall be trouble manifest,
North and South and East and West;
The strong man shall the weak befriendt
But it shall not be the end.
rs rs sSn4R %a4 o, Rebellion.
5favery the cause.
Under the next shall widows mourn,
Thousands be slain, but mllionsf born;
Death, in the strife shall pass him by,
BIt when peace cOmeth he shall de.-
4 soldier after him shall bee,
Nho shall see his century,
s. loss OF life by the war.
- seeing the Centennial.
sile afterward shall be got
q tho one whose 10 not
sn shall roar and rage, and rave.
Bat he shall have who should not have-f
Fhen the tide Of storm is DER
- or shall make six and not four;-
Tss who is shall be no more
AID ali that's past not make a scorez
~ reianed his office.
R Fsoposiion TO make the Presidential term six i'm
-. funr years
ttlis r-fer, cannot yet told. indi-
Gre ihaf there VIII Dee President after Hayes dies, when
81 'iueniial term IS extended
IT Columbia shall again
Sc and fairer be than then. lsicl
trother shall with brother speak
hom he hath not seen "a week
tiers shall 90 beneath the deep
- kewlse over the mountain steep;
shall speak To brazen ears,
Iat shall be mouths in after years;f
81 1nls spoken shall be sent through post
no syllable be lOst;t
drop of water shall have then
1he force OF many thousand men,
sslirnarnc telegraph
tRllloEraph.
kf r's motor ~ perhaps
All these things shall happen when?
ey shall happen not before
@i,t wears shall be reckOned four,
Ihirteen shall be thirty-niner
This shall be a certain sign
atfne and eight reversing take,
Right and one the nine shall make.
When ninety-twO are eightY-one,z
Ail fhese marvels shall be done.
Pres. dental term heightened 10 six years - ,. D.,
sf,sr5een states Doe thiuy-niue. Another Territory b'
s3-esop ,r,s inauguratcd in l7Sa and nney-two
thai time viii Doe ISL
les a. Dana. editor Of the New York S"1
y spent about $1,000 in the construction o