Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1881-01-13
The Terrible Year at Hand.
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New York Sun
The world To an end shall como =
Tn eighteen hundred and eighty-one.
Ilfother Shiptoms Prophecy
It would be difficult to describe all
the sinister predictions that have, as as
by common consent. been concentrat-
eauponthe coming The sooth-
7syers, OWNERS, o-aole makers, as
trologers and wizards seem 10 have
combined to cast their spell upon it,.
superstitious people of ev.ry sort,
and some who are not willing to ad.
NIT thatthey are superstitloqs, regard
tae year 1881 with more or less anS,
ious expectation and dread. AS the e
earth on New Years Day swings - .
into another round abaltssfe sun, it
Hi II 50 to to meet host Of evil omens.
1t will go cursed! by theomancy and
bibliomanoy. Acromancy and mete-
oromancy will glare att from comets
aud shooting stars. oniel onanoy will
intercept its path with visions OF evil
and nomancy will shape the omlnous
backward reading numerals "lS8t@
before it;., 1t will be beset with scare
crow figures by arithmacy, Yet there
is no reason why rersona Of good dl-
gestion shoald not go to sleep on New
Years night confident that after hav-
ing encountered the averqge, quantity
of storm and sunshine, the one-horse
hall that we cali the world will bring
them safe through the perils OF lis
FIVE hundred million mile flight round
to the starring point ag in.
Timia persons first began to look
forward with some alarm to the year
, that is about to open, when, several
years ago, the key to the 50; called
prophetic symbolism Of the greatPyr,
amid of Egyptwas made public, back
ed by the name and reputation oi The
British astronomer, plakzi- smyth
Others using Mr.. smyth'ss obserVa,
!
tons aud measurements, have gone
much further than he did in drawing
! startling inferences; but no one col
read his book without perceiving.ho
poweriullyit must affect those Wh'
, have the slightest leaning toward gu
: psrstition or credulity. Besides, thi
record Of explorations and experienc
,, es in the heart of Egypt's creates
: marvel has all the charm. and lnteres
of DR.. Schliemann's description Of HI
discoveries in Homer's Troy. Suoh!
:" book coulI not we'll be neglected b
:, the world Of readers; and by the ms
sure of the human mind, many OF Il
readers were sure to-be imbued wis
its ominous dogmas. So the.e belle
= or at4ssst the suspicion, spread ths
the :ecret chambers Of the great py'
amid, under divine guidance by th
most mystical characterin all histor.
Melchiaedek, King Of Salem, foretel
among other things, that the Chris
:, tiau era will end in 1881.
: Mother Shiptons so-called proph'
v cy fxea upon the same date fol tt
= end Of the world. TIE ominous jill
- gle Of her rhymes has probably dor
- at least as much to disturb the equ'
i nimity Of. .credulous persons as tt
= more elaborate Vaccinations of tt
N pyramid Interpreters. Moreove
Mother Shipton isrepre:ented as for
. telling that in The latter days Eng
Il land will "accept Jew" AS EaI
{ land has, with considerable emphas'
and more than once. accepted the T
a. markable son Of old Isaac Dlsrae
~ u for her Prime .Ainisteff, this has bee
% taken as d fulfllment Of the propbec
~ So Lord Beaconheld's dramatic pc
IL sonality is made principal figure
the mnrky cloud Of theevil prophe'
,e that hangs over 1881.
ar As if the evil eye of Mother shl
st, ton and the mystical menace OF t
lie Great Pyramid were not enough
:ir one pocratwelve month to bear, t
d, "horrors Of the pe:ihelia' have he
n denounced upon the coming YET
in About two years ago certain pa
To phlets were circulated about the cou
ng try, purporting to beiiwrltten by N
he of science, and predicting that awi
'e. consequences to mankind would !
ot. suit from all The great planets reec
I'm ing their perihelia, or nearest pen
ad to the sun, together, According
lie these rrophets the'ainistei' effects
le, the perihelia were to begin maxi
he their appearance ibis fall, when
'ar piter passed his perihelenie the ne
IT, years the scythe of, death T~as to
put to tie harvest in the far east, a
to sweep westward, with q $ svat1he 7Is1,
e@. broad; as the continents, until ltrea
" ed the Pacific Ocean. The narr
on- Atlantic was to be no more than
'oo brooklet in the Iath Of this terri
7e- harvester Plaques famines, pe'
ng lenoea, fire, earthquakes, k!eas,, floods a
tornadoes were to acourgee the the huu
race until only q fsw irematined. ea.i j
Noah and his familysto re.people
.orib u,;tJ, O. stre edie, and more G.,