The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-04-06

PREsENTIMKNT OF DEATH. The Sussex IN. J.)
Register relates singular story Of citizen of
Newton, in that State, II is Of Mr.. Lorenzo
Demarest who summoned his pastor to his
house last Wednesday and said that he should
certainly die that night, with the furthOr state
ment that the night previous his father who
had been dead many years, came to him and
kissed him, and drew his cold hand over his
breast. Here Mr.. Demarest showed with his
own the direction his fathers hand had taken.
''Thatp said he,a"means death; 1t Is cold here
already" He then said that he wanted his
body conveyed to a certain place for interment
that he wished funeral discourse to be
preached after his decease, and that great care
should be taken lest he be buried alive. At
midnight of the same evening he was found
dead in his bed.
LABoREBs NOT WANTED IN THE WBsT.-We fnd
in the Chicaeo Post the extraordinary state
ment that, contrary to all previous reports, there
is no demand for labor in the West II says
hundreds of poor laborers have been sent on
these wild goose chases to the Upper Missouri
from st. Louis and Chicago. The intelligence
Offices are at the bottom OF the knayerB as.
CROPS IN TExAs.-A Galveston despatch,
dated on the LIST of April says that cotton
is up and promising well; corn is depressed,
but wheat promises the largest crop ever
reaped. The exports of cattle are immense.
CRIME IN VBRAoET.--There was never so
much crime in Vermont as now, and the
officers say that tour-6iths of it is to be attri
buted to liquor. One county has fifteen crimi
mails, who will be sent to State Prison.
CooUETrIsH CLIMATE.-The editor OF
paper published in the mountains of California
tells OF gathering wild flowers in the morning,
and wading through snow in the evening. -.
CALIFORNIA VNYYARDs,-There are upwards
OF ftty thousand grape vines in the immediate
vicinity OF the Big Reservoir at Salt Spring Val
ley, Calaveras county, California.
SALE OF BoNAPARTE PRoPBRTY.-The property
in the Parish OF Plaquemines, La, belonging to
the late Lucien Bonaparte was recently sold
for thirty thousand dollars.
We see that a new theatrical star has been
brought out recently at McVlckar's theatre in
Chicago. Miss Johanna Claussen--that is the
name-ls described as ''naive, pretty, arch, and
the very personlfcation of refined humor." The
enthusiastic critic also pronounces her "the best
SOubTeHe we have had on American boards and
also, "a most charming vocalist" Miss Claus
sen is no stranger to Philadelphia, although she
Is too Germanic to be generally liked.
The French Emperor, at this moment (says
a Paris corTespondent), pays more attention to
his wlte than he has done Tor many years He
is constantly in her society Metaphy-
sicians of the Balzac school say that
he is at this moment undergoing a phase
of married life, which often happens
that of being In love with his wife for the second
tune. But the same philosophers observe this
second period of love, though intense, is apt not
to be of long duration. ..
"A Paris correspondent says:-"At the court
concert held the other evening at the Tuileries
ms Majesty walked over TO NJ. Allart 10 compll-
ment him on his brilliant performance, and,
taking up the artists violin. to the astonish-
ment of M. Allart and the persons near, began
to finger the instrument with the touch of a
master. Handing back the violin to its owner,
the Emperor remarked - Vous etes 1t1 neaitre,
monsieur, ct je uOus rends les dTnesp The Court
Circular people cannot make out where his Ma
iesty can have studied. l remember the En-
peror going up to Montmartre in an omnibus,
and no one could then make out how he got
sous to pay his place. When asked, he said
that he had taken proper measures to get at the
lower currency" ...