Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-11-05
A COLORED VIRGINS.
The Earthquake and Other Scientific
Problems Settled at Last.
FROM the 81. Louis Republican.

FROM the 81. Louis Republican.
Rev. c. A. Johnson, a colored gentle
man from Hamilton, Ontario, who, to
use his own expression, mas already ''set-
tied the wind, thunder and
electricity questions" lectured to an
audience of fifty or sixty
colored people last night at the Methodist
church on Wash street, near Eleventh,
on the subject, Earthquakes and Their
Causes" The gentleman preluded his
lecture with some remarks in regard to
his race, stating, for the announcement
OF his hearers, that their ancestors had
been learned in science, rhetoric and the
arts long before the white people knew
anything about them 81 claim" he said
in beginning his remarks on the earth
quake, that have no equal on earth as
scientist. The so-called great scientific
men of today have tried in vain to solve
the mystery of the earthquake; that task
is lett for me to accomplish, By the
study OF astronomy | have solved the prob
lem. In the first place the earth is con-
sGantly crumbllng away from the COM
blned heat of the sun on the outside and
the ire on the inside. The inside of the
earth is molten mass, which Is con-
stantly breaking out in different places,
manifesting itself in various forms. One
now 80 plentiful in and around Pittsburg.
Three years from now that gas will be all
exhausted and volcano Will be raised
up near tnat city. Now the cause of an
earthquake is simply this: Great masses
of rock in the interior crust of the earth
becoming lOosened by the action of fire
and electricity and falling to the other
side, crack open the earth and cause fear
ful havoc on the surface. | would not be
G1rnTIGnn a ~ ,f,.xTs
large as one of your States
hurled suddenly into the air by
this means. | have been making a
series of calculations in connection with
earth quakes, the sun and the planets
Jupiter and Saturn, dating back 600
years, and | find that the disturbances
which recently commenced with the
Charleston earthquake will increase dur
Ing the next i've years. Volcanoes will
burst out in various parts of the country,
and earthquakes will be frequent. The
South will be especially cursed and the
people will be forced to move North, and
all that country will be deserted. The
scientists seem to consider this earth
safe, but forty years from now the cleo
tricity within the surface of the earth
will come in collision and the entire
planet will be destroyed You ask me
how / know these things. / have found
IHeLh ouC W oeIl ohoAIOdI CalculdIlOhs,
and what say | know to be facts" The
speaker then referred to the thunder,
overturning the popular theory that the
thunder was the noise OF the lightning.
''The lightning" he says, ''never hurt
anybody, the thunder is the thing to be
afraid Of" He then turned his attention
to the sources OF the wind, saying that
although from Biblical point OF view
the winds come from the four corners OF
the earth, and no man knew where they
went or where they came from, yet ."from
a scientific standpoint know where it
comes from. 1t comes from certain
place, and that place is it's location" He
deded contradiction on this point.