The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-08-04

as already described, it will strike south
ward. A mighty tidal wave and earth
quake shock will develop in the Gulf of
Mexico and Caribbean sea- 1t will strike the
western coast of Cuba and severely inJure
Havana. Our sister republic, Venezuela,
bound to US in destiny by the law OF
periodicity, will be assailed by the en-
croacaing waves aud terribly shaken by
the earthquake. The destruction of her
chief city, Caracas, will be greater than IN
1912. when 900 were said to be destroyed.
The coming shock will be very near total
destruction.
From South America back TO the United
States, all Central america and Mexico are
severely shaken; Vera Cruz suffers with
great severity, but the City Of Mexico
realizes only a severe shock. Tampico and
Matamoras suffer severely; Galveston is
overwhelmed; New Orleans is in a danger
Gus condition-the question arises between
total and partial destruction. l will only
say it will be an awful calamity. If the
tidal wave runs southwark, New Orleans
may have only its rebound. The shock and
food pass up the Mississippi from 100 TO $50
miles, and strike Baton Rouge with de-
structive force.
As it travels along the Gulf shore, Mobile
will probably suffer most severely and be
more than half destroyed; Pensacola some
what less, Southern Flori la is probably en-
severely injured; Charleston will pr0ba ply
be half submerged, aud Newbern suffer
more severely; Port Royal will probably be
wiped out; Norfolk will suffer about as
much as Pensacola; Petersburg and Rich
mond will suffer, but not disastr 1usly:
Washington will suffer in its low grounds
Baltimore and Annapolis much
more severely; Philadelphia will suffer
severely on its waterfront, its spires will
topple and its buildings be injured; but do
not think its grand city hall will be
destroyed. Probably the injury will not
Affect more than one-fourth. But along the
New Jersey coast the damage will be great
Atlantic City and Cape May may be
destroyed, but Long Branch will be pro-
tected by its bluff from any severe calamity
The rising waters will affect Newark, and
Jersey City will be the most unfortunate of
large cities, everything below it's heights
being overwhelmed. New York, below
the postotfice and Trinity ichurch, will
be flooded, and all its water margins will
suffer.
What shall we see after the crash and the
war? The divers and wreckers will be busy
10 saving some of the submerged wealth
Politicians after the war will look for the
crushed fragments of their demolished
par les; but the people, the common people,
will be democratic power that the world
hos never seen. The measures which
nationalism hopes to introduce by clubs
will be introduced by war. The rebellion
against the old OF Ter Of society will
be In conflict with government, and
conservative government will seem to
put it down, but as it brushes it spreads,
and finally triumphs in demolishing every
form of monopoly. The people by their
government will hold the railroads, the
mines, the transportation, the money
the great manufactures and the
great products, grain, cotton, to-
bacco. etc, and supply consumers at
cost. But at what a terrible cost of human
life will these results be attained, and how
terrific the destruction in our great cities.
Europe, too, has its great calamity, but
secondary in Importance to that of Amer
lea. The beginning Of the tragedy will ap-
proach with the beginning of the century,
and the war develop in about fifteen years.
Two years of sanguinary revolution will be
her volcanic outburst from the pent-up
fires that are smouldering now in human
bosoms land in the fiery sea that supplies
Vesuvius), for Europe has not the statesman
ship that could meet its crisis-neither has
America. The result will be the utter de-
structton of monarchy, an etfete 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 constitu-
tional government. Victoria may not sur
vive 1890; but it is possible her vitality will
carry her into 1891. Her physicians will
not be abe to understand her condition or
to overcome it. The tendency will be to
an apoplectic shock and comatose conditi on,
in which she will pass away. The
gentlemanly Wales will have q short rel On,
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 fortu-
nate than the continent, on which the stu
alton will be grandly melodramatic, for
after torrents of blood and dem ollshed
thrones have reused the world-the limit
less power of the globe introduces the
grand climax in a terrific CONFUSION Of the
entire Mediterranean region, the coast Of
Africa, Spain, France, Italy, Egypt, Pal
estine, Asia Minor, and the Arch
ipelago. Exhausted nature and ex-
hausted humanity will then end their
Pope Leo and Gar Alexander will have
disappeared. July will be dan ferrous
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 nova death by violence seems
TO be his destiny. Less than three years
will end the official career and personal
CAloVOuCO Va Utc bHO WIZ bbdAQ az bu6 u6du
of this administration of the Republican
party. The President will be the last of the
two to take his departure.
Italy, which is at this time troubled by
priestly Vaccinations for the restoration Of
the pope's temporal power. of which the
public will soon hear Though | believe the
press is not yet ALVAREZ. will suffer severely
in the shock and the inroads of the sea
along her coasts. Rome will not escape
and Naples will suffer. Egypt will be
more unfortunate-Cairo and Alexandria
half destroyed, and the Suez canal de-
molished-its bed washed cut. The mari
time cities of the Levant will be nearly de-
stroyed-Palestine and Asia Minor suffer,
and even Constantinople be badly shaken,
though Greece the favorite of the gods,
will seem to be shielded. Here we drop the
curtain, as the tragedy is over in Europe.
And now, kind reader. | presume it will be
as difficult for you as it was for me to realize
these horrors. 1t will be still more diff
cult for the ingenious gentlemen who write
to entertain the public, and who manufact-
ure tictions designed to catch the unwary,
or devote themselves to sensationalism or to
seudo-philosophies concocted of imagina-
ton. They may suppose that | have entered
their gulld, for they do not know that l
would like to demolish it.
Difficult as it may be to realize these
things, | am compelled to believe them,
because they are demonstrated by the
SCleRcaS that I haVa as0tarjca1lu cultivated