Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-02-10
What VIII Happen This Year.
"Jo m eEd tho world shall come
In eighteen hundred and eiRhty-ene.f

In eighteen hundred and eighty-oBe.'
Mother Shipton made some notable
prophecies; for instance, the "Tele-
graphs" the Great IYonclads," and
sundry other things equally astonish-
ing; but search reveals the fact that the
above prophecy, alleged to have been
made by Mother Shipton, as well as T.
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 az is own In Notes
and Queries" 1t therefore amounts 10
this, that Mother ShiptOn never proph-
esied any such II thing as the world
coming to an end in 1851, and, 30 far as
she is concerned, my readers may not
disturb their minds. IL cannot, how
ever, be denied that 1851 will be q
remarkable year, chiefly on account Of
the great conjunction Of Saturn and
Jupiter (snd the proximity Of the sun at
the time) in the sign Taurus. Such an
event will alter the face otthe earth by the
prevalence OF great and continued Garth
quakes, the uprising Of islands, and the
subsistence OF land already above the
sea. Plato in his "Timon mentionz
that there was gigantic island in the
place where the Atlantic ocean now is,
and that IL wa larger than all Lybia
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 uphcaving Of
| the land now called America. Louis
| FiRuicr also, in The Word Before the
| De.uge,' says: The upheaving OF the
Caucasus and an adjoining range of
mountains was the cause Of tue Asiatic
| de.uge in Noah's time" I; il a fact
| that in the bowels Of the earth there
| ie LcEt, generating steam, vapOr,
| and lava, ~ which we are infants, and
| can form 10 idea Of its intensity, and
earthquakes are the results Of q cunbin-
alton Of steam, water and gases, which
| congegatinR 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 10 an immense ele-
walton. Vesuvius and other burning
mountains are outlets, or fety valves.
as they have been frequently called. In
mountAirou countries shocks Of earth
quakes are frequent, and noun tains are
formed by the upheAving or the crust Of
the earth.
In conclusion. although DO not and
ticipatc the approach o! the .est day.
yet | cannot close ms 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 a
mystic number signifyins "comple-
tion," and 1881 has the singulai prop
erty Of being divided thus-l plus 8
equal 10 o. Nine is q peculiar number.
for in all its multiplcs the total is ..
Thus nine times 2 equal to Is. plus 8
equal 10 s, 9 times 3 equal 10 u. 2 plus
equal TO 8, times 4 equal 10 80, ,
plus equal TO Q. and so on TO any
amount; and this is the only number
which can he multiplied into itself.
This also marks an important year, and
/ look forward to some grand physical
and martial events. TO which at present
we are strangers. IL is true the world
may he destroyed, for the time when
this will happen is known to no one.
Everybody is in doubt about 1t, so ]
must leave it, and / candidly confess
that neither l nor any one else know
when it will be.-RaphaeTS Prophetic
Messenger for 1881.