Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1857-04-02
Premonitions of Death.

The first symptoms of approaching death
with some is q strong nresentment that they
! are about to die. E
Ozanam, the mathematican while in appa-
rent health, rejected pupils from the feeling
that he was on the eve of resting from his la
bors : and he expired soon after of an apo-
plectie stroke.
Fletcher, the divine, had dream which
| shadowed out his impending dissolution, and
believing it to be the mercifn warning of
Heaven, he sent for sculptor and ordered
his tomb
Begin your work forthwith" he said at
parting, there is no time to spare"
And unless the artist had obeyed the admo-
nition death would have proved the quicker
workman of the two
Mozart wrote his requiem under the convic-
ton that the monument he was raising to his
genius would, by the power of association
prove universal monument to his remains
When life was feeting very fast he called for
the score, aud musing over it, said, Did not
tell you truly that it was for myself that |
composed this death chant ?"
Another great artist in different depart
ment, convinced that his hand was about to
lose its cunning, chose a subject embmaticaI of
the coming event. His friends inquired the
nature of his next design, and H0garth repli-
ed !: "The end of all things"
In that case" replied one, there will be
an end of the painter" ..,..
What was uttered in jest was answered in
earnest, with a solemn look and heavy sigh
"There will" he said, "and the sooner my
work in done the better"
He commenced next day labored upon it with
unremitting diligence, and when he had given
it the last touch seized his pallet, broke it in
pieces, and said Il have flushed"
The print was published in France under
the title of Finis," and in October, the curl
Gus eyes which saw the manners in the face
were closed in the dust.
Our ancestors, who were prone to look in the
air for causes which were to be found upon
upon the earth attributed these intmations to
various supernatural agencies.
John Hunter has solved the mystery, if
mystery it can be called, in single sentence
We sometimes he says, feel within our
selves that we shall not live for the living
powers become weak, and the nerves commu-
ncate the intelligence to the brain" . r..
His own case has often been quoted among
the marvels of which he offered this rational
explanation. He intimated, on leaving home,
that if the discussion which awaited him at the
hospital took an angry turn, it would prove
his death. colleague gave him the lie
the coarse word verified the prophecy, and he
expired almost Immediately in an adjoining
room There was everything to lament in the
circumstance, but nothing at which to wonder,
except that any individual could show such
disrespect to the great genius, single year of
whose existence was worth the united lives of
his II Huutnp tho
dlction, had only 10 take counsel in his own
experience, without the Intervention of invis-
ble spirits. He had long labored under a dis
ease of the heart; and he felt the disorder
had reached the point ct which any sharp agi-
tation would bring on the crisis.
Foote, prior to his departure for the Cont
nent, stood contemplating the picture of
brother author, and exclaimed, his eyes full of
tears /: Poor Weston p In the same dejec-
ted tone he added, after pause : "Soon 9TH
ers shall say, Poor Foote =" and to the sur
prise of his friends, few days proved the JUS
tice of his prognOStieation. The expectation
of the event had a share in producing it for
slight shock completes the destruction of
PROSTATE energies.
The case of Wolsey was singular The
morning before he died he asked Cavendish
the hour, and was answered :" Past eight"
Eight of the clock ?" replied Wolsey,
that cannot be eight of the cock-nay, nay,
it cannot be eight Of the clock, for by eight Of
the clock you shall lose yonr master"
The day he miscaIcuIated, the hour came
true. GA the following morning, as the clock
struck eight, his troubled spirit passed from
life. Cavcndish and the bystanders thought
that he must have had revelation of the
time Of his death and from the way in which
the fact had taken possession Of his mind we
suspect that he relied upon astrological predc
ton, WHICH had the credit of a revelation in
his CHn esteem.