Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-11-02
A PROPHECY OF WOE.
Predictions OF wars, Earthquakes, and
Revolutions i'm tho Near Future
lRoview Of ReyiowsL

lRoyiew Of ReyiowAl
Professor ]. r. Buchanan, NJ. D.,
who published book some years ago
pleading for the establishment OF ethical
and industrial education, and who has
further published q manual OF pyschom-
ctrv, in which he made several pre-
dictions which have been verified,
publishes liz the AreHa II most alarm
ing paper, entitled The Com
inc Cataclysm of America and Europe"
He maintains that periodicity is law OF
nature, and that We are now approaching
our revolutionary period. From l9lOto
1916 America will be devastated by
most frightlul war, labor and capital
war and black and white war, in which
the Church will be shattered and the
marriage relation approximatod to free
dom.
1.-THE cycle OF woman is approach
ing" and it is somewhat consoling to
know that "this will be full compensa-
ton for the horrors through which we
are 10 pass" The Atlantic coast Of the
United States will DO devastated by n
great tidal wave, all the cities that are
not more than fifty feet above tho sea
level are doomed to destruction, and
"the grandest horror will eliminate
at New ! ork and Jersey City" All the
cities Of the coast viii perish in twenty
three or twenty-four years. The Mis-
sissippi will become the sc0urge OF
America. The deforestation Of the con-
tinents leads 10 devastating floods and
barrenness extending over vast regions
In the midst of ell these horrors OF war
and food thero will occur a geological
convulsion before which all the earth
quakes Of tho past will seem the merest
trihes.
After six years the war and horror will
eliminate efter terrible loss Of human
life and immense destruction Of great
cities in tho establishment Of the no
tionalization of everything on Edward
BelIamy's principles.
The following is this terrible prophets
forecast al 10 what is to happen In Lu-
rope:
Europe, too, has its great calamity,
but secondary in importance TO that Of
America. The beginning OF the tragedy
will approach with the beginning OF the
century. and the war develop IN about
fifteen years. Two years Of sanguinsry
revolution will be her volcanic outburst
from the pent-up fires that are smolder-
ing now in human bosoms tand
in tho fiery sea that supplies
Vesuyius), for Europe has not the states
menship that could meet its crisis
neither has America. The result will be
the utter destruction OF monarchy, an
efFete absurdity which the enlightened
have outgrown. Every throne will be-
destroyed except that OF the sick man
in Europe. The Sultan will remain,
and the German Emperor will yield
slowly to the progress Of constitutional
government.
Victoria may not survive 1890; but
it Is possible her vitality viii carry her
into 1891. Her physicians wall not be
able to understand her condition or to
oyercomeit. The tendency will be toan
apoplectic shock aud comatoee condition,
in which she will pass away. The gentle
manly Wales will have a short reign, for
England is ripe for change, and he will
realize the propriety OF an abdication.
Ten years after his mothers death
will probably end his life. England
will be more fortunate than the Cont
nent, on which the situation will 10
grandly melo. dramatie, for after tor
rents OF blood and demolished thrones
have reused the world, the hmitless
power Of the globe introduces the grand
climax in terrific convulsion OF the
entire Mediterranean region, the coasts
OF Africa, Spain, France, Italy, Egypt,
Palestine, Asia Minor, and the Arcbi-
pelago. Exhausted nature sud exhausted
humanity will then end their struggles.
Long before that time arrives Pope
Leo and Gar Alexander will have disap-
peared. July will DO dangerous
month to the health Of the Pope. He
will not last two years, probably not one.
Neither will Alexander be in existence
two years from now-a death by violence
seems TO be bis destiny. Less than
three wears will end the official career
and personal existence Of the two who
stand at the mead OF this Administration
of the Republican party. the President
will be the last Of the two TO take his
departure. NTH .,h,..
"Italy. which is OF this time troubled
by priestly Vaccinations for the restora-
ton of the Pope's temporal power, oil
which the public will soon hear Though
/ believe the press is not yet aware, Will
suffer severely in the shock and the IN
rosds ~ the sea along her coasts. Rome
suffer Nli Egypt viii be more IN.
sortunate-Csiro and Alexandria half
DESTROYED, aud the suez canal de-
molis6edoits bed washed out. The
mer;time cities OF the Levant will be
nearly I destroyed, Palestine and Asia
Minor suffer, aud even Constantinopls
be badly shaken, though Greece the
favorite OF the gods, viii seem to be
shielded.