The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-02-01
PreSentiments.

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81 feel as if / were fated to, die OF.
| this beautiful -riYer,a said a'iyoung
| English actress, as she talked to com
rade on the deck OF Hudson River
| steamboat. A week later, going from
/ ALBANY to New YorlEon the Oregon, she
was suddenly taken Ill, and sdiegtl of
| West Point, on the most beautiful part
of the river she SO admired. Other
! players have hal presentiments justi-
I fed byiIthe event of the author of
''Thirty Years i'll Gotham, - to whom
we stand indebted for the following his
toric examples sal lly deceives U.S.
l. An American actor named Chapman,
who was also, a dramatist in modest
sort of way, found it SO difficult to ar.
| range the "details OF q piece which he
| called 1.-The Mail Robbers exactly to
mis-, mind, that he observed to a friend
that the play would be the death of
him. A day or two afterward he rode
out of town to survey the. surroundings
OF the place where he had laid the chief
scene of the drama, and was thrown
from his horse, escaping with q bruised
| shoulder. Congratulating him upon
coming off so lightly, his friend ioked
| him about his presentiment, but the
actor was not to be laughed out of his
| notion, and persisted that his words
would yet come true. And so they did,
though in somewhat roundabout way.
In part he was then playing Chapman
mad to wear q suitof brass armor, and
the night being very hot, he discarded
his un3erclothiny altogether. The
sarnlor chafng the. bruised shoulder.
some Yeridigris got into the wound and
poisoned it, and of that poisoning he,
died. 80 .las ia 7aI reg aAas ~ 'ii
/ 'FulflTyogir en- gagements like a sensi-
bic creature was the well-meant ad-
vice. Of Mile. Louisette's conidante,
when that tight-ropes dancer consulted
her upon the adVisability of c;neeling.
an engagement TO appear at the Volks
Theater, New York, for no better. reason
! than that she had a presentiment the
1 |iengagement would be fatal one. Sure
enough. it was SO. Her first appear
ance was her last. She went through
the performances without hitch, but as
shewas stepping from the eross-trees to
the stage her gauzy dress caught fire at
the footlights, and before help reached
hershe was SO badly burned that medi-
cal skill was OF no avail. 4a za.ss,8s.sg
There is. nothing repulsivea about. a
gold watch, yet when Sheppard, the
actor, took one from his mother hand,
as her.birthday gift, he shuddered, with
out knowing why, ex1ept that he felt it
was destined to- bring him misfortune.
He woreit, however, for years without
sany thing unpleasant coming of it. One
might, When he was playing at the Ma
l.tional Thealer.v Philadelphia, the house
took fire. while he was on the stage.
Sheppard got safely into the street, and
then remembered that his watch was in
his dressing-roon; unwilling to lose the
menento of his dead mother, ne went
back to the theater- and was never seen
haliVe again. Hischarred body was found
theneyt day under the gas-pipes; the
fateful watch was in his pocket The
actors presentiment in tardiness of full
| fillment resembled that which troubled
/ + Mrs. Bfownrigg. As the exeeutioner
was doing the last Office save one for the
| wretched woman, an expression OF
/ horror came over her face. caus-
ing the clergyman to ask what
finew temptation assailed 81 have many
tines she said. passed. by this place,
and always when near this spot OF
| ground dreadful hQrror seized me, for
fear that some dayorotherT Should come
4 to be hanged, and the recollection terri
lies me exceedingly" f.e.it - - Z
| Well aware other deserVings, it was no
wonder if the pprehtiee-tor6urer had a
bad quarter of an hour whenever she
came within hail of Tyburn Tree; her
prophetic tears were born of q coward
conscience. Such was not the case with
the honest miner, who, talking to his
wife of the dangerous character of the
seam he was working, said: f'Hennie,
| Pm feared if there should be an sexplo-
sion ], b be knocked about worst This
| fear impelled him the next night. when
the dread of something happening was
strong upon him, to return home once
and again after starting for the pit, only
ito shake off the feeling and 90 to. his
work, and his death.
Atan inquest upon the bodyof a col,
lier who was killed byth fall of . rock
in Stafordshire mine, his wife deposed
that the night before the accident her
husband woke, complaining hehad ton
OF rock upon hISf headdand sozsure was
/ heof some i'll ,befalling him that it was
only by dint of ofnluchcoaxingt that she per-
suaded him to 90 to work. Before leay-
ing the house he bent down to her child,
saying: '.Let me have my last kiss. y
To make the story Still stranger, it came
out in evidence that the news of the poor
fellows death had hardly reached his
home. when.a cousin, much attached to
him, looked in to inquire for him.. i'm
i PEELED to dosso by seeing or thinking he
saw the dead man standing before him in
the roadway Az The Year Round.
"A literal translation from the File
gende; .Bletters Pastor (On Saturday
| evening to the very late out from the
| gossip-eifele-heme-returning wife9-
''Whv remainest thou, then, so fright
fully long out, wifep PSI sWife-"Ah, /
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