The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-17
MILLENNIUM AT HAND.
LIEUT.. TOTEM DECLARES THE
DAY OF GRACE IS ABOUT OVER.

DAY OF GRACE Is ABOUT OVEN.
Now Living in Time of Fsct-Jupiter
at Periheliou the Cause of All the
Woes of Late-A Long List OF Hor-
rors Piled Up.
From the Pittsbur0 Dispatch
NEW HAVEN, Conn, July 12.-Lieut.
Totten, Fourth artillery, United States
army, who is about returning from Yale
University as military instructor. was
found at his home yesterday afternoon and
he talked freely regarding his ideas Of the
advent OF Christ and the millennium
Jupiter goes into perihellon," he said,
ION July "a at o'clock p. m. At this time
the giant of our solar system is $4,000, 900
miles nearer the sun than when he is 10
aphelion. His magnetic influence upon the
central orb is therefore at the maximum,
and from that date onward, as from noon
onward in ordinary days, we may expect
severe demonstrations of solar power.
'All of the disturbances in climate that
have been the daily record of the past few
months are due directly to the perihelion
passage Of Jupiter, and just as the sun u
warmer from noon onward to 8 o'clock o.
m. so will we have more and more of varied
cataclysms from now until the planet passes
well beyond hls sphere Of maximum infiu-
enceh
In reply to specific questions Lieut. Tot
ten said:
1T seems useless to reiterate my predic-
tions; they are all in black and white, and
though few heed them facts bear them out
and justify me in every scientific position
have taken.
DOESN'T THINK HRS AN ALARMIsT.
81 am more concerned about this than
can express, for while the mass of men take
It for granted l am merely a crank and an
alarmist' | have ample testimony from
| thousands who have read my books, that
they are absolutely IN accord with current
events.
I'VE are living In the most critical DAYS
the world has ever seen, and am perfectly
wlllJnR-nay, anxious--to go on record that
| things will by no means get better, but
rather worse-so it is peculiar-so it is full
| filing day by day, and those are blind who
do, or will not, see il.
Take this partial summary Of events:
Since Jan. there have been four destruct-
ivawind storms, killing nearly 200 persons,
viz: April l, Missouri and Kansas rs; May
10, Texas 10; May u. Wellington, Kan, ST.
June IL, Southern Minnesota 80.
ZIP the same period there have been four
great floods, viz; April II, Tombigbee
river $50; May Is, Sioux City, Ia, SIS; May
90, Lower Mississippi Sc; June 5, fire and
flood, OIL creek, Pennsylvania, 1856.
There have also been four mining dis
tiers, viz; Jan. Z, McAllister, !. T., IS; April
20, Minersvllle, Pa, IL; May 10, Roslyn.
Wash, a May IA, Butte, Mont, IL.
Three fires have been unusually disas-
trous to life, viz, Jan. 81, Indianapolis,
Ind, surgical institution, 10; Feb Z, Hotel
Royal, New York 80; April Is, theater,
Philadelphia, IL
BESIDE these there were: On March 81,
an explosion at Jordan, Mich, by which III
lives were lost; June Is, the explosion at
the Mare Island navy yard, which killed 70,
aud June Is, the fall of the bridge over the
Licking river, by which 80 lives were sacri-
feed.
LOSSES BY MINOR ACCIDENTS.
These are the principal disasters of the
year, and they involve an aggregate of $50
lives. Adding 10 this total the sum of losses
by minor accidents we have the following
sad and unusual record: By fire, S76; by
drowning 1854; by explosions, 313; by
falling structures Of various kinds, 267; by
mine disasters, 30e; by wind storms, $40; by
lightning. 800; grand total, 1858.
The total loss of life by these causes
during the whole of last year-and 1891 was
ord-was 5,762. So it is evident that 1899
will far surpass its predecessor.
The best way for the individual to dem
onstrate this to his own satisfaction 10 to
mark the concurrent events recorded in bis
daily newspaper for a single month. They
range through all classes of phenomena,
moral quite as well as physical, and the
public press seems TO have long ago ex-
hausted its vocabulary expressive OF their
unusual aud astonishing character.
1T Is also generally admitted that the
frequency Of disaster due TO atmospheric
causes is not to be explained by the facility
of modern nevsgathering," and the lieuten-
ant maintains that such general and aston
lshing matters as those of late date must
have q super terrestrial origin"
But did not your predictions as 30 March
20 fail q. as to its being the last day Of
gracep
81 PREDICTIONS BORNE OUT BY FACTS.
-s4Byenp mesps. have been psrsistentIy
misrepresentsd and misunderstood as 10
that statement. believe we are IN the
time of the end, and that it began on March
90, aud, as a matter of fact. all OF the I'M
precedented events OF this year seem to have
occurred since then.
1.-THE human race owes a debt to its
maker; its legal time ran out, as though it
were note, on March 20. Its three days
Oh us III WoI6. 6AJouu6Q from uhTcu,
1889 to March, 1892; and whether the world
will see 1t or not they exactly cover the
period of my own testimony here in New
Haven.
"All this is quite as surprising to me as
10 can be to those who have actually fol-
lowed that testimony as borne out 10 the
seven volumes have published during that
period. My own constituents know 1t, and
they already number many thousands, as
evidsnced by the sale of my books.
II never said or meant that grace as a
beatitude was to be over with the late pass
over, nor that the holy spirit would be
withdrawn at that time, nor that repent
anoe as such would be fruitless thereafter. /
have written just the opposite, and am not
responsible for what others have assumed.
/ meant we are now In the days of fact
and this will be mora and more apparent in
the future.
"We were in the days Of faith Now,
as faith is no more faith when fact supplauts
it, 80 the day OF grace is necessarily over
when the period Of payment, or Judgment
If you will-haa begun; and in that perioi
we certainly now are"
"You certainly failed, professor as to the
new star in the east which you predictedp
RIGHT TO THE VERY INSTANT.
''No, SIR. There, again, I was right to
the instant. referred to this very planet
Jupiter, which that day became the bright
and morning star at sunrise at JerusaieTn