The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-01-21
COMING To AN END.
The Present Year to witness the De-
Struction of the World Accord
ing to Mother Shipton.

The Present Year to Witness the De-
Struction of the World Accord
ing to Mother Shipton.
The world to an end shall come in
1884," So says Mother Shipton in the
celebrated prophecy bearing her name,
which has attracted attention all over
the ERglish- Ing Wsxlsl, and has OH
tanned no little credence, notwithstand-
ing the statement that the alleged proph-
ecy was no prophecy at all, but the pro-
duction of a London Bohemian who
pretended that it dated back 10 the six
teenth century. Whether this allega-
ton be true or not, certain il is that the
period between 1881 and 1877 has long
been regarded as time full of awful
significance, whether of good or evil.
The Mormons, a portion of the spiritual
lists, the Second Adventists, and others,
hold that the millennium is near at hand,
and many agree in placing it between
1879 and 1887. But the prophecies of
evil seem by far the most abundant.
Astrologers, wizards and soothsayers
have concentrated all manner of SIMS
ter predictions upon the year 1881, and
people who are not willing to admit
that they are superslitions, regard the
year with more or less anxious eXpecta-
ton and dread.
PROPHECIES OF EVIL
The representations of evil takes all
manner Of forms and shapes, and are
based upon all conceivable kinds of cal
culatIon. People were called upon,
some years ago, to observe what was
called the prophetic symbolist of the
great pyramids of Egypt. Prof Piazzi
Smith, the English astronomer, commended
that they were not only memorials of a
system of weights and measures, intended
to be perpetual, but that the channels of
the pyramids represented the important
epochs in history, and thus indicated
events still TO come. Starting with the
proposition that an inch represents a
year, il was clearly reasoned out by
many that not only was the birth of
Christ foretold, but the date of the year
given at which Moses received his first
command to take the children of Israel
out of Egypt.
THE PYRAMIDS AND CHRONOLOGY.
Thomas Wilson, of Chicago, it is said
recently developed geometrical rela-
ton of the pyramid to chronology, by
which a number of remarkable dates
were correlated by trIangulation. DR..
Everett w. Fish, also of Chicago, in a
recent book on the pyramid, holds that
the impending wall at the south end of
the grand gallery in the interior of the
pyramid and the narrow passage beyond,
symboliZes the closure of the present
epoch and the end of the age, though not
of the world. 1.-The narrowness of the
passage out of the grand gallery" he
says, signifies great tribulation to fall
upon the earth from 1872 TO 1886.
AS this is the age of the great planetary
perihelia, the probabilities of its correct
prophecies are startling indeed"
PLANETARY DISTURBANCES.
The last sentence refers to the fact
that about two years ago pamphlets be-
gan to appear, arguing that the most
awful consequences were about TO betall
mankind, from all the great planets
reaching their perihelia, or nearest
points to the sun, together. According
to these prophets, the effect of the per-
Italia were 10 begin making their Gp-
pearance this fall, when Jupiter passed
his perihelion, and next year the scythe
would begin TO sweep westward, with a
swathe as broad as the continents, until
| it reached the Pacific Ocean. Plaques
| famine, pestilences, fire, earthquakes,
| floods and tornadoes were to scourge the
human race, till only a few people re-
manned, like Noah and his family, to re-
people the earth. 1t was argued that
| the ravages of the black death in the
middle ages followed the nearly-coinci-
dent perihelia of four great planets,
and therefore similar consequences
could be expected from the configCra-
| ton of the planets now.
| sun SPOTS.
| B. G. Jenkins, F. r. S. A, found that
the outbreaks of cholera in 1915 through
out the world were synchronOus
with the maxima and minima occur
rences of the spots. and predicted
another great cholera season N 1884.
| He found a connection between
the proximity of Jupiter to the
sun, and the black death,
and also saw the more deplorable con-
ditions would result from the perihelion.
fIr. Proctor, the astronomer, has taken
pains TO show that the pretended facts
upon which these statements rest arc
bascless, and to prove that the great
planets will not be in perihelion in 1881
and they will not all be in perihelion al
any time.