Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-13
pRoeSosr1cAroR wIGGINs.
What Has Become of the World sweeper
The Trouble the Weather Guesser
Has Caused.

What Has Become Of the World sweeper
The Trouble the Weather Guesser
Has Caused.
The much talked of Virgins destroyer
has failed thus far to put in appearance,
and the people Of Savannah breathe freely
Of the dreaded disaster. The Canadian
is not merely a humbug, but he Is ma
grant evil. Both Of his famous predlc-
lions have proved failures, and the people
have suffered from their evil effect on the
superstitious classes. He mOnopoliZed
the stock Of credencs given TO his first
urediction. and uttered q second
prophecy Of a hurricane that would
ravare the Atlantic coast States on sun
dav. Ii failed. and this, with all the other
failures. is now developing its effects. A
fish famine, due to the faith put IN
the guessing prophet by the fishermen. on
the Northern coast States, Is impending.
The superstitiOus coast men have become
alarmed. and the lighthouse keepers ON
the Chesapeake bay coast have pe1uoned
the government TO be allowed TO go 10 the
interior country till the dreaded blow is
over.
In order that the value Of Mr.. Virgins
predictions may be appreciated by the
timorOus part Of the public, il is only
be glanced at. March comes in like
lion,- says the prOyerb, land goes out
like lamb Ii is rarely, however. that
the saying comes true in this latitude.
Mr.. Virgins. like a sensible prophet,
chose that one Of the months Of the year
during which nature, in the struggle be-
tween winter and summer. tries to assert
itself. The following brief synopsis OF
the storms Of March for ten years Will
hr~r e. a Storm
on any three days Of March:
March, 1872. shook its name like true
monarch Of the desert, and rOared at SUM-
dry times to the tune Of sixty miles an
hour throughout the Gulf Of Mexico and
South Atlantic States.
In 1873 March also proved to be a very
stormy nOnth, eleven severe disturbances
having passed across the country.
In 1874 there were no less than twelve
storms or cyclones that traYersed the
country from the Rocky mountains, doing
great damage.
March. 1875, showed a severe storm
raging along the New Jersey and Gulf
coasts during the ID, Sd, 4th, 9Th and 9th.
Eleven storms, most of which were severe,
visited the country that month.
The storms Of March, 1876. were eight
in number. In many places the wind
blew over fifty miles per hour. The At
sufferers.
In March, 1877, there were twelve dis
turbances, accompanied by destructive
gales.
March, 1873, will be long remembered
by the terrific storms both on the Allan
tic coast and in the Northwest. The snow
storm in the latter district was the most
severe on record.
The meteorological record of March,
1879, would impress any one who studies
il that il is very simple matter 10 pre-
Dict a great storm during the month,
with immense chances Of success. No
less than eighteen storms crossed the ter
ritOry between the Rocky mountains and
the Atlantic coast, many OF them being
traceable from the Pacific.
In March, 1880, sixteen disturbances
crossed the country, mainly from the
northwest, but some Of which caused
gales of wind amounting to fifty-siX miles
an hour along the Atlantic coast.
In March. 1881, there were nine storms
reported, during the movement OF which
such wind yelocities were attained as
Delaware Breakwater, 20 miles; Cape
May, A miles; Sandy Hook, 80 miles;
Thatcher's Island, So miles; New York,
As, and Hatteras 80 miles.
From the above it will be seen that 1t
would he by far more difficult to guess at
a clear day than a bad one during this
month, and the nervous inclined may
rest in peace without fear of their houses
being unrOOfed.
A reporter approached several pilots
yesterday on the subject of the weather,
but when it came to the characteriZa-
ton of Virgins, the general sentiment
was very emphatically expressed with
'1big, big d.