The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1892-12-02
PECULIAR TREND OF EVENTS
SOME FOOD FOR THE sUpERsTITroUs.
Strange Fatalities and Omens of the Har-
risons' Administrations.
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There is food for superstition in
a long line Of events that begin at
the election of the elder Harrison
to the Presidency of the nation and
the retirement of his grandson from
the same high Office. The nuances
of propriety would not suggest that
they be made glaringly public, but
the events are, in themselves, the
property of history, and it is only
when taken collectively and consec-
utively they form strange chain.
At the time Benjamin Harrison's
grandfatherwa Presidentth Dem
ocraticpapers found ominous events
thatforeshadowed his untimely end.
The Wings celebrated their victory
with such pomp and display that the
sturdy Democrats foresaw a great
fall as a rebuke to the idolatry of
the Wings in that campaign. The
fall was foretold in curious circum-
stances that ended in the sad death
Of William Henry Harrison. In
the administration of his grandson
were many gruesome events thatare
to be compared with those events
preceding the death Of the elder
Harrison.
The elder Harrison's journey to
Washington was likened to a prog
ress OF royalty by the Democratic
editors of the period. They main
tained that such arrogance would
bring just retribution on the party
abetting IT. They set forth omens
as precursors of the doom that was
to come upon the party, and these
omensw were exemplars of those that
marked the fall of Cesar-his de-
jected horses, the wren dropping
her laurel near Pompey's statue,
the prophetic tomb of Capuas, and
the last warming in the dreams of
Calphurnia and her ambitious hus-
band. His was an administration
given power by majority second
only to that accorded the immortal
Washington. "Could Caesars fall
have been greater?"
In the city of Washington there
was published the Globe, and after
the death of the President it chro-
nologically arranged these omens
The editor insists that from the day
the inflated ball, consecrated in the
Baltimore convention and trundled
before the Philadelphia convention
collapsed in front of Independence
Hall, to the catastrophe to DAME
Webster's eorduroys at Patchouge
nothing happened to convince hin
that "the gods watched over Troy
The morning after General Har
Tison's election, and while he was
taking a morning ride, the earth be
gan to sink under him, and he saw
ed his life by leaping Is feet from
his horse. This was according t.
/ the report of the Whig journals
, Harrison's trip to Washington wa
anunfortunate one. Asheleft Gin
) einnati the shock of an earthquake
was very distinct. AS he passe,
= through Chambersburgh a chil
: bearing his name died. The omen
: were graver as he progressed, fo
: as Baltimore was reached the bank
| in that city suspended. Even th
!, elementsseemed to conspire agains
: the newly elected official. He en-
g tered Washington in the midst of
4 terrific snow storm. Within fiv
minutes afterward an organize
o band Of thieves robbed a multitud
n of visitors right and left. Their
J, were many decorations along tn
o street over which the march was
= be made to the capitol, and anon
n them was a LONG line of faos re1