Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-09-21
STORM THEORIES.

EDS RECORD UNION: zee by your paper
of the 18th instant that William Wiggin
Smith, of Antioch, Cal, thinks he has dis.
covered something new in the way of predict.
ing OF forecssting the weather for some time
ahead by the conjunction, etc, of the plan
cts. While / was in charge Of the Signal
Office in Denver, Col, from 1875 to 1879
Ill. published an almanac for 1877, also
lS1S. He forwarded one to each Signal Ser
vice Observer. ] received mine and used to
make copious notes from his Almanac on
Planetary Meseorology for the Rocky Noun
tain Ners, of Denver, and as l keep scrap.
by myself, 1 copy the following
as published in the Rocky Mountain
Neios during July, 1878 Mr.. Mansill
had been publishing these almanacs for sew.
eral years before that time. | think that
Prof. Tice, Prof. Mansill and Mr.. Vennor,
base their weather representations on the
different positions of the planets as affecting
fhe electrical equilibrium of our globe, thereby
causing atmospheric disturbances in some
parts Of the earth at or near the dates OF con.
junction, longitudinal lines, etc. 1t will
therefore be seen, by reading the following
extracts from the Denver NetcS, that William
Wiggin Smith has been forestalled in pre-
dieting weather by planetary conjunc.ions,
years ago, the method being so old that no
notice is now taken Of it save by few of
MspsiIls followers, and probably William
Wiggin Smith is one of them. The follow.
ing are the extracts spoken of
"Fhe following is a summary of the meteoric
disturbing positions of the planets for July,
1873, set forth by Professor Richard Man.
sill, of Rock Island, Illinois. in his Almanac
of Planetary Meseorology' for that year, viz:
Mercury will be in superior conjunction with
the SUI on the 4sh. Mercury will be in o
longitudinal line with Mars on the 12sh, and
in similar lie with Uranus on the 18th.
Mars will be in a LONGITUDINAL line with
Uranus on the ooh. Mercury will be in
conjunction with Mars on the 22i. Jupiter
win be in opposition on the oath. Venus will
be in longitudinal line with Neptune ON the
same date. The sun will be eelipsed on the
18th. Mars will be in aphelion on the Both.
Tne moon will be in conjunction with
Jupiter the 14sb. and Mercury
on the 3lst. The principal disturbing
positions of the planets for July. 1873, appear
to be located about the % to the 4th, the 18th
to the 18th, and the 221 and oath to the 3Oth,
There appears to be more disturbing positions
of the planets this month than for june,
There Is another of those lineal conjunctions
of the moon on the 14th, similar to that on
June 18TH"
To show ths readers of the RECORD. UNION
that Professor Msnsill in his weather prog.
nostications by planetary meteorology means
no particular part of the United States, or
the world either, for that matter, I quote
again from his book and furnished by me to
the Denver Rocky Mountain Neacs, which, &C.
cording, to his theory, is verification of his
demonstrations of the weather for July,
1877, and is as follows:
Professor Mausill's pro2nosticstions for
Juy. 1877, were verified upon the data named
by MIN as follows: July LIST. tornado at
Keene, n. H.; 4th, 9TH, Oh aud 7sb, severe
sunstrokes at Bloomington, H., and intense
heat at Rock Island, Ill. There was also
violent thunderstorm in Berks county, Penu-
sylvania, doing much damage to property.
A terrific tornado in Butler county, Ohio, and
water-spout at Tybee Island, South Caro-
lima; very heavy gale at Fernandino,
Florida destructive tornado DESTROYED the
town of Z,Dsaukee, Wis, and killed six or
seven persons. There was longitudinal line
between Venus and Uranus on the 9th, also
longitudinal line between Mercury and Nep-
tune on the same date. Telegraph wires were
meited in London, England July 9th there
was violent storm in Platte county, Neb.
Mercury was In its ascending node on the
same date. July 9;h an earthquake was felt
at Sacramento July 14sh sharp shock of
earthquake at Memphis, Team, and one in
Illinois on the 18th. Mercury was in its peri.
helion on the 18th. A shock of earthquake
was felt at R!viere du Loup, Canada, on the
l7sh. Mercury was st its superior conjuac-
tion on the 10Th. A tornado at Elizabeth,
n. j., on the 19:h. A severe earthquake in
Buenos Ayres, Sjuth America, ON the och.
A violent hurricane at Fort Sully, d. T, in
which the wind attained velocity OF 100
miles per hour on the 26, Mercury was in
q longitudinal line with Uranus on the 25th"
We see that Mr.. Mansill goes to England
and also South America to verify his predic.
tionF. Every one knows tina. there must be
storms almost every day on some parts of this
globe of ours, and it would be. strange were
there no atmospheric disturbances when the
planets are in conjunction, apheliop, peri
helion, longitudinal lines, superior GENUINE.
tioas, appositions, eclipses, etc If Mr.. VIM.
Wig2ia Smith, of Antioch, California, will
base his predictiors for the coming season on
the climate OF the Pacific slope, and make
success of it, then Mr.. VIM. Wiggin Smith
will go ahead of ManslI, Tics and Vennor.
Respectfully, ETC.,
JAMES A. BARwICK,
Sergeant Signal Corps, U. S. Army.