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Show COMING TROUBLES. PltOF. J. RODES BUCHAN.SAX, the well known scientist, author of "The Xew Education," claims to be able to foretell events of the future fu-ture on the principle of periodicity. tie lays that he cannot explain In a brief article the process by which he reaches his conclusions, but claims that they aro unerring Many of bis past predictions have been verified. In a paper written last May and published in the August number of the Arena, he makes a series of gloomy statements in relation to the future, of which the following is a synopsis. There are to be terrific Eelsmallc and tidal wave visitations on tlie Pacific coast, tbe Atlantic coast and along and contiguous to tbe Mediterranean, in which populous and beautiful cities are to fuller appallingly. But what about home'' The profesor predicts that the Atlantic and Gulf coasts will be nearly swci t away from below New England to Vera Cruz, and Vera Cruz and Havana are to suffer. lhe cities of our Atlantic seaboard, sea-board, unless situated fifty feet above the ocean level will be either partially or wholly destroy ed. If ew Orleans and Mobile will be half destroyed de-stroyed and Baton Rougo feel tbe rebound of the waters; south Florida Flori-da will be drowned and lost as was the continent of Atlantis; St Augustine Au-gustine will bo damaged severely; Charleston will be half submerged, Newbern tufler much more; Tort Royal will be swept from the coast of South Carolina; Norfolk and Pensacola will suffer equally; Petersburg and Rich, mond will not be disastrously Injured, In-jured, Washington will be submerged sub-merged in her low grounds (the White House and the great depart-mtn'al depart-mtn'al buildings and the Washington Washing-ton Monument are in this hollow). Baltimore and Annapolis will feel moroathe severity of the convulsion, the water front and the church steeples stee-ples and large buildings of Philadelphia Philadel-phia will bo Injured greatly; Atlantic Atlan-tic City and Cape May will be an-hllatcd an-hllatcd and Long Branch saved for the present by IU bluffj the waves will visit Newark nnd Jer.-e City b!ow the heights will be overwhelmed, over-whelmed, while New York City is to ha submerged south of Chambers Street and her water margin will suffer. Columbia Heights will save Brooklyn, but below to Rockaway will be new ocean depths lor fishes. bays the professor, whose programme pro-gramme of disaster lias been generally gener-ally followed in the above: "To those who have faith in my judgment, and especially the readers of my works,I would say, do not re main more than fifteen years on the lowlands of the Atlantic coast, south of New Englaud. Keep fully fire years between yourself and tbe great calamity, to be absolutely safe." According to Professor Buchanan, tbe greatest of all wars, one between the people and plutocracy, will occur in the On'ted States, after six years, years of calamity to the people, nineteen years hence, and will not be arrested until 1010. Besides being a labor and capital war, it will have for its side issues religion and Afro Caucasian-Im. Caucasian-Im. The Professor predicts the overthrow over-throw of monarchy iu Europe; tbo only throne surviving will be that of the Sultan of Turkey. lhe pope, lie say?, will die in two years; Queen YietoHa will not survive sur-vive the coming year, 1881, if that long; the Prince of Wale will have a brief reign, and then abdicate In favor cf democracy and pass away from this life ten years alter the death of his mother. The czar, Alexander, Alex-ander, will not be In existence ten years henco and less than three years will end the official career and personal existence of the two men who stand at the head of this administration ad-ministration of the republican party. The President will be the lost to take bis departure. A Boston Journal calls attention to tho fact that Manhattan Island and the New Jersey Coast are slowly sinking, quoting Professor W. J. McGeo inthe-PortunforJune, who quotes from tho New Jersey Stato geologist and this paper says in addition ad-dition that "there may corns a time when there will bo no longer a New Jersey, and Philadelphia will be a seacoastdty." |
