Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-11-12
Judgment Day.
1t Is RI ling ROuntl---SOme Old Proph-
ecies---A Grand Picnic Predicted for
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git ON Board, git OH BOard.''

| to have determined to hustle this
little mundane sphere of ours out of
existence in 1881, regardless of the
change of circumstances such an
event might bring to the business
interests of the country. They were
wont to propbesy and foretell i'm
portant events that took place in
startling coincidence with their
prophecies. 1t seems strange,
therefore, that oil the wonders fore.
told by any OF them cease in 1881.
Mother Shipton may have given the
cue to those who came after her,
in her prophetic rhyme, which every
few years gets into print afresh and
goes the rounds of almost the entire
press. After foretelling many i'm
portant events, which subsequent
developments proved to be correct,
she winds up her little composition
supposed to have been written in
14SS-with the startling piece Of
information that
The world II to an end shall come
In eighteen hundred and eghty-oue.
In view of her correctness in the
past, all we can do is to tremblingly
await the denouement in 1881.
Numerous other prophets on a
small scale have ventilated their
ideas on the subject, but all seem
to find an effective barrier to the
farther penetration of their visions
into futurity, Rut now, as if We
had not been shaken up enough, up
comes the ghost of an old prophesy
written by Mrs. Abby Marsh, at her
home in Sherbrook, Canada, in 1887
Like that of Mother Shipton, it is
written in verse, and is now in Abe
original on a dilapidated piece of
parchment, in the possession of DR..
Albert Marsh, of Brooklyn. It had
faded almost entirely out of exist
snce. but one OF those prying re-
porters found it out and brought it
to light and started it Oh a mission
Of soaring poor humanity. And, by
the-way, We earnestly advise oil
such, in their own interest, to be
very, very good, for the next few
months to come. To the rising
generation of young women and
men we would say, sail in, have all
the fun you can for the nsxt few
months, then move out in the coun-
try, go West or take to The woods.
As for politicians, we advise them
to stop" mud-throwing" Immediate
ly, as it makes no difference whether
Hancock or Gal field is elected. We
give the prophesy with few ex.
planatory remarks. Thus it runs
Columbia, home of liberte,
Shall not twenty rulers see,
Ere there shall be battle smoke.
Ere peace shall seem to be broke,
And In waves of peril toss,
The ancient order shall be deemed lost.
1t is significant fact, when taken
in this connection, that r. B. Hayes
is the nineteenth ruler of the United
States, as will be seen by the order
in which the Presidents succeed each
other.
The first shall to the second be,
If the iates tell Truth as even he;
Where sits the sire as sits the son,
But not the sons son.
And ere the son shall ruler be,
One place shall send three;
| O Three with one shall make her four
| And there shall be no more.
Reference is undoubtedly made to
General Washington's proverbial
truth telling, in the second line. and
to the succession of John Quincy
Adams to the place of his father
in the third line. "But not his
sons son." seems to point to Charles
Francis Adams, who has uniformly
failed in his aspirations to become
President. Between the Adamses
did come three from one place, (Vir-
ginia), who, with the accidental Ty-
ler made the fourth; nor has the
Mother of Presidents" (Virginia)
since borne son distinguished by
even nomination to the chief mag
istracy.
| The first sprang from these fecund loins,
| ln death his predecessor joins
| Who beneath his son shall pass
| And i'll a house that different was,
| The next one shall have peace and war:
The third shall bro ok.no kingiy star
Uhov,th tha to