Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-12-22
A TERRIBLE PROPHECY.
The Red Sunsets, Cyclones and Earth
quakes Foretelling Coming Disaster
How to Meet It.

Inc recent mysterious appearances
following sunset and preceding sunrise
have attracted wide attention from stu
dents of the skies and the people gen.
orally. During the days of recent
weeks the sun seems to have been OBJ.
scured by thin veil Of "a dull leaden
hue which, rs the sun receded toward
the horizon, became more luminous,
then yellow, then orange, then red !;
and, as night settles down upon the
earth, dull purple. At first it WAS
thought these appearances were ordi>
nary sunset reflections CT light but it is
now pretty certain that they are either
the misty substance of the tail of some
unseen comet, in which this earth is ell
veloped or surrounding stratum OF
world dust or very small meteors. Prot
Brooks, of the Red House Observatory,
Phelps, N. Y, has turned his telescope
upon these objects and discovered what
he thinks are myriads Of telescopic me
teOrs. If it is uuorganized world dust,
or decomposed vapors, as the Democrat
aud Chronicle of Rochester, N. Y,
remarks: "How is this matter to be
disposed Of? Will it settle. and form u
deposit upon the earth, or will it re.
main partial Opaque shell about the
earth to cut off q portion of the suns
light upon it?"
Whatever the mystery is, there is no
denying that some very strange forces
are at work in the upper airs. The
terrible tornadoes and cyclones which
have swept over our own country,
and the fearful volcanoes and earth.
quakes which have destroyed SO ma, y
cities and thousands of people-the IT,
dial waves which mysteriously rise and
fall on coasts hitherto unvexed by them
the tremendous activity which is evi.
dent in the sun by the constant revela-
ton of enormous spots upon its sur
facial indicate unusual energy in
the heavenly bodies.
These circumstance recall Professor
Grimmer's prophecies that from 1881
to 1887, the passage of the FIVE great
PLANETS -Mars, Neptune, Jupiter,
Uranus and Saturn-around the sun
would produce strange and wonderful
phenomena. He says The waters
of the earth will become more or less
poisonous. The air will be foul with
noisome odors. Ancient races will dis.
appear from the earth" He attempts
to prove his prophecy by the fact that
in 1920, when Mars and Saturn made
their passage around the sun coinciden-
tally, great mortality visited all parts
of the globe. He also found the same
result in previous perehilion passages
of the PLANETS, and argues that these
circumstances always produce epidem-
les and destructive diseases which will
bafae the skill Of the most eminent ply
sicians that the poor will die by thou
sands, the weak and Incorporate fall
ing first, those whose blood has been i'm
poverished by excess Of work or disipa-
ton next and only those who are in
comparative vigor shall escape to
enjoy tho era Of renewed activity and
prosperity which will follow the period
of destruction.
Inasmuch as the entire world seems
subject to the sway OF the heavenly
bodies no part of the earth, he thinks,
can escape scourging. He even pre-
diets that America will loose over ten
million Of people that farmers will be
stricken with fear and cease to till the
soil that famine will make human
misery more wretohed. That hun
dreds will fee to overcrowded cities
for aid 10 vain. That sudden changes
in ocean currents, temperature and sur
roundings will entirely transform the
face of nature and climate of countries
that the air will be so foul with mala
ria and other noxiOus gases that those
who survive will be troubled with dis
orders of the digestive organs. Tha
many who escape other ills will bloat
with dropsy and suddenly pass away
while Others will grow thin and DRAG
nut a miserable existence in indescriba
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