The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-09-03


st. John gave specific details:
And every mountain and island we
moved out of their place.
And there is to come
A great earthquake; such as was N
= since men were upon the earth-s
{ mighty an earthquake and So grea
And the cities OF the nations fell an
every island fed away, andthe noun
: tains were not found. And there fe
upon men great hail out of Heaven, ey
cry stone about the weight of talent
The prevalence of earthquake
everywhere in the past two years
such as no historian has recorded
England has been startled with on
) severe enough to demonstrate tha
a few moments of continuation
would have levelled all her cities tt
the ground. Three minutes o
your New York movement woulC
probably have made a mass o
ruins, with three-fourths of the
people destroyed. Cannot the hano
which shook your city for ten sec-
onds-as q warning-send another
shock sufficient IN intensity to pro-
i duce results like those in the East
Indies six months ago, when 100,-
900 persons were destroyed in the
twinkling of an eye, and mountains
| 1000 feet high were engulfed, and
islands arose at sea where previous
| ly no bottom could be found, and
the deep sea swept over the spot
where territory half as large as
| New York State fourished in luxu-
rious cultivation only the day be-
fore !? The record of that terrible
event On the other side of the globe
has been long lost sight of in New
York, and the ten-second fright
produced more excitement and
alarm will not say consideration
than several terrible calamities
elsewhere could conjure up.
PROPHETIC HAILsToRMs.
Another sign of remarkable sig
| ni6cance has been occurring. Re-
peated hailstorms, during which
many persons have been destroyed
and houses been riddled as though
cannon had been fred against them
This is foretold az one of the terri@
BILE visitatiOns, from which mon can
not escape. Blocks of ice, " every
stone about the weight of a talent"
Seven pounds is a talent. Scoffers
have said this was impossible. Yet,
within the past month, in Europe
and in the United States, these
masses of lee, described as weighing
six or seven pounds, have fallen, car
rying destruction to man and beast
and crops and houses.
Do such things mean nothing? Is
it chance alone which sends to En-
gland the phenomena of150 degrees
of heat-nearly as high as the high
est e0er recorded in Africa by Hum
bolN, 169? To those who know
the English climate and the Ems
glish, this will be seen to be even a
greater phenomenon than their
earthquake. At 80 degrees in the
shade the English are almost melt
ing. The personal discomfort of
such heat as yesterdays appealed to
every inhabitaEt as the most start
ling incident within the memory of
THE CHoLERA's COURSE.
We have the cholera started in
Europe, and we must not expect to
escape pestilenees. These very
earthquake shOcks-though not de-
struotive of life and property-will
produce disease. The passage of
the great planets through the nodes
of electricity, which flow out in
space from the suns equator, must
produce great disturbances. Nox.
ious gases from the crust of the
earth must be liberated IN immense
quantities, injecting the air and hav-
ing deleterious effect not only upon
animal and human health, but also
vegetable life. We have had extra
ordinary cold in every month this
year in many localities. A frost in
September Of general area and SCI
verify would do more destruction IN
night for the United States than
year of war. We know from the
past that condolences of great pes
tilences did occur with tho passage
of Jupiter or Saturn through the
electrical or solar nodes, as for ex-
ample; in June, 1929, Jupiter's pas.
sage was followed by the outbreak
of the cholera in Asia, and 100000
people died in year. In 1855 the
cholera. ragged everywhere-U United
States included - Jupiter and Sat@
urn both passing through these
nodes.
These are merely condolences.
We have no proof that disease can
or cannot be affected by planetary
action. 1t is like all science, mere
conjecture. But we do know one
fact-the great planets have passed
through the special electrical nodes
at or about the. time of the outbreak
of every one Of the great epidemics,
which history records since 767
years before the birth of Christ,
when Saturn was in perihelion and
had passed through solar nodes to
86 degrees, and Jupiter was at the
corresponding node OF 26O. The
plague rayaged every known in
habitabIe spot in the world that
year.
The scoffers will say this means
nothing but science only discovs
cred many of the we'll known laws
of nature by observing condolences
and deducing therefrom absolute re-
suits. Daniel gives to the believers
the assurance:
None of the wicked shall understand;
but the wise shall understand.
Very truly, BLANTeN DUNCAN.
Louisville, August II, 1884.
Certain Savage papers, remarks
the Gallatin Eramincr, are con-
stantly asserting that twenty states
have railroad commissions, and