Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-09-24
PROPHET Virgins.
Colored People on the Verge Of Lunacy
and Churches and Camp. Meetings
are Throngod with sinners.
method'st minister Heoomes 80 Charged
with Electricity that he cap TEN
tho Approach OF shock.


ATLANTA, Ga, Sept 2s.--Tho prodlc.
tlon OF Prof. Virgins has created quite a
scare In this section, particularly among
the negroes, as will be seen BY the fol.
lowing telegram from Prof virgins.
That distinguished authority somewhat
wiggles from his first prediction aud
locates his show Of the 2gth on terri.
tory far enough away TO DO Of
no serious consequence 20 the
South-Auantlc states, The Con.
stltutlon sent dispatches to Prof.
Virgins At his home In Ottawa, Ont,
asking II he stood by his predictions as
published In the New York Herald, and IL
he had anything 10 add for the eunsola-
ton OF the region which was IN the path
Of the recent suhterranean disturbance.
The professor replied ~ follows, "Tho
earthquake wave that visited Charleston
and your region on August so has moved
eastward and from " there cau be no
more danger. The shocks are now NOV.
ing across the equator. There IL posi-.
lively no danger from earthquakes
Ia Your latitude east OF
the Rocky mountains. except on
Wednesday next, and even then the worst
will pass on westward, on parallel south
OF you, The greatest danger Is 10 Central
America, South America and California.
The forces that create the earthquake will
cause great storm, with high tides both
In the North and South Atlantic, on
"Wednesday next, which, however, viii
not be felt within 10 degrees OF tho eQuA-
tor, Signod, n. wI0GINa.h
Prof. MeGee teiegraphs the following 10
the Consultation
tUkansksf9..,s 40 ts4f.l...
stltuiioni No attention whatever should
DO paid TO Virgins predictions. You
will remember that no is the
ago predicted hurricanes, floods,
earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, wars,
postllence aud famine all over Europe,
and that they never came ia response %
his predictions His predictions OF that
day were based, ae his present prediction
Is, on conjunction OF tue principal
planets. II proved 20 DO absurd, and viii
prove 70 be absurd now.
(Slgned) W. j. MCGEE,
The colored people ot this section have
been on the verge of lunacy Tor the past
two weeks over the prediction that the
end OF the world would occur on tho 10Th
In Wilkes county four prophets have
arisen, who claim 70 have predicted the
iasef DAY a year ago. TnOuhAadso f pro.
pie place Implicit rust In the assertions
OF these men. Tbs announcement by
Prof. Virgins that another earthquake
would take place on the very day which
the colored people had pickle out for the
end OF The world has alarmed the whites
and TINS there exists a concurrent senah-
tion, which has the effect OF dem0raliklng
labor. Hundreds Of new members are
being added 10 the churches and camp
meetings are being attended by immense
crowds
pocroR's gTArEMESr
COLUMBIA, =. c., Sept, 28.--Dr B. Il.
Wyman'of Akin county, mgkas -tls fol
lowing statement concerning the peculiar
effects Of the great earthquake on the
night OF August 80, upon Rev. w Nose.
ly, Methodist minister Of that city "Be-
tween II and O'clock on The night q
August 80 was called 10 visit Mosely,
who had been taken suddenly sick. Dur.
ing the lfst shock | found him IN bed
talking cheerfnlly. He told me at once
that he was not sick; that be never felt
better ln his llfei that just preceding the
shock OK earthquake he would be seized
with peculiar tingilng sensation, begin.
ming In the toes aud feet, aud gradually
extending 10 MS thumbs ana whole BODY,
While speaking be suddenly screamed
ont, 'Anothers shock Is coming At the
same time no grew red In the face aud
all the muscles in his body became con-
vnlscd and drawn, and he appeared as
one under great strain or receiving an
ovcr.charge OF electricity from an eiecs
trcai battery. A singular fact connected
with all these attacks IL that he be same
aware Of the approach o. a shock con.
period Of lime before the other
members Of the family. Another singn-
lar fAct observed II that, while the shock
was ~ its height ana the house and furni-
ture were rocking, his muscles became
relaxed sud The attack passed OF. He de-
clared himself MS feeling all right, ard
was calm aud cheerful. He was certainly
suffering from an ovcr.charge Of electrical
fluid upon an excited and oyerstrained
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