Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1879 — Predictions About 1880 and 1887. [ARTICLE]

Predictions About 1880 and 1887.

In a pamphlet recently published the the author, Prof. Grimmer, asserts: “From 1880' to 1887 will be one universal carnival of death. Asia will he depopulated, Europe nearly so, America will lose fifteen million of her people. Besides plagues we are to have storms and tidal waves, mountains are to ‘toss their heads thro’ the choicest valleys,’ navigators will be lost by thousands owing to the 'capricious deflexures of the magnetic needle, and islands will appear and disappear in mid ocean.’ All the beasts, birds aud fishes will be diseased, famine and civil strife will destroy most of the human beings left alive by plague,” and, finally, “two years of fire”—lßßs to 1887—will rage with fury in every part of the globe. In 1887 the “Star of Bethlehem” will “reappear in Cassiopia’s Chair,” the immediate results being universal war and portentious floods and shipwrecks. North America is again to be involved in a civil war unless a “Napoleon” arises to quell it, but during these terrible days the Pacific States Will be a veritable paradise of peace, compared to the hellish strife that will be waged throughout tlie world. The few people that may manage to survive till 1887 will have reason to be thankful.