THE CONJUNCTION OF THE GREAT PLANETS IN 1881,
" Copernicus " in a letter to a Sydney paper thus refers to the prophecies which have been current, respecting the calamities which will take place in the above eventful year : — "For months, I may cay for years, the papers have been teeming with the accounts of horrors, such as the famines in India, China, Cashmere, and that so graphi- ! cally described ia your columns lately in the back settlements of Brazil, where more than half the population perished ; we have had volcanic eruptions with destruction of villages and property ; feartul flood?, attended with great loss of life ; a severe winter in Europe, where the sun in his glory was for weeks scarcely ever seen ; we have heard of plague and pestilence stalking abroad, as Kussia, the West Indies and the Southern States of North America can testify ; we have had wars — rumours of wara — almost the whole world under arms, disasters at sea, in fact men's hearts are in some places failing and wondering what will happen next, and in the midst of all these, we have had the conjunction of Mars and Saturn. Now, Sir, without absolutely asserting that all these disasters are caused by the combined influence of these planets, I think the fact that such conjunction has been attended with such horrora, should act as a warning to us all, and induce men to prepare for those more awful scenes that may be enacted upon this earth when exposed in 188 L to the malign influence of four of the largest planets then to be ia a position hitherto unknown to astronomers. Almost everyone is looking forward to some great event as likely to happen on this earth in the next few years. Mother Shipton's much-abused rhymes, aa well as the discoveries of Piazzi Smith in the great Pyramid, both point to 1881 as being the year such should occur. It is odd that this year is also that in which this extraordinary cotj unction of these planets takes place..'
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 201, 23 August 1879, Page 5
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