The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-03-18
Nhat VIII Happen This Year.
"To an e1i the world shall come
In eighteen hundred and eighty-One.' D

"To an end the world shall come
In eighteen huDdred and eighty-one."
Mother Shipton made some notable
prophociesi for instance, the "Tele-
graphs" the "Great Ironclads," and
sundry otter things equally astonish-
ing; but search reveals the fact that the
above prophecy, alleged to have been
made by Mother Shipton, as well as a
certain prophecy about the railways,
are spurious and false, and do not appear
in any Of the editions before 1862. They
were then published by Mr.. Kindly,
of Brighton, who subsequently acknowl-
edged the forgeries as is own in Notes
and Queries" 1t therefore amounts TO
this, that Mother Shiptoh never proph-
esied any such a thing as the world
coming to an end in 1881, and, 80 far as
she is concerned, my readers may not
disturb their minds. IT cannot, how
ever, he denied that 1881 will be a
remarkable year, chiefly on account of
the great conjunction OF Saturn and
Jupiter (and the proximity of the sun-at
the time) in the sign Taurus. Such an
event will alter the face OF the earth by the
prevalence OF great and continued earth
cuakes, the uprising of islands, and the
subsistence of land already above the
sea. Plato in his "Timon " mentions
that there was a gigantic island in the
place where the Atlantic ocean now is,
and that it was larger than all Lydia
and Asia together, and was inhabited
by very warlike race; but in succeed
ing times prodigious earthquakes and
deluges taking place, the whole island
was made desolate in one day and night,
and absorbed in the sea. There is not
the least doubt but that the subsistence
of this island caused the upheaving o.
the land now called America. Louis
Figuier also, in The World Before the
Deluge," says: "The upheaving of the
Caucasus and an adjoining range of
mountains was the cause of the Asiatic
deiuge in Noah's time" 1t is a fact
that in the bowels of the earth there
is a heat, generating steam, vapor,
and lava, 20 which we are infants, and
can form no idea OF its intensity, and
earthquakes are the results Of a COmbin-
alton of steam, water and gases, which
congregating together, at length bursts
the crust of the earth and escapes. In
the earthquakes at Manila the other
day the earth opened, and fire and
water were elected TO an immense ele-
walton. Vesuvius and other burning
mountains are outlets, or sa fety valves,
as they have been frequently called. In
mountainous countries shocks of earth
quakes are frequent, and mountains are
formed by the upheaving of the crust o
the earth.
In conclusion, although do not and
ticipate the approach of the " last day."
yet cannot close my eyes to the fact
that there will be startling phenomena,
and such as the oldest man living never
saw before. In the Cabala nine is
mystic number signifYing "comple.
tion," and 1881 has the singular prop
erty of being divided thus--l plus 8
equal TO 8. Nine is peculiar number,
for in all its mulGplcs the total is g.
Thus nine times 2 equal to lS, plus 8
equal 10 s, 9 times equal to q, 2 plus
equal to 8, 8 times equal to 36, ,
plus 6 equal to 0, and so on to any
amount; and this is the only number
w ich can be multiplied into itself.
This also marks an important year, and
| look forward to some grand physical
and martial events, to which ut present
we are strangers. 1t is true the world
may be destroyed, for the time when
this will happen is known to no one.
Everybody is in doubt about it, 80 l
must leave it, and / candidly confess
that neither I nor any one else know
when it will be.-RaphGeIS Prophetic
Messenger for 1881.