The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-01-13
Presentiments,


rade on the deck of a Hudson River
steamboat. A week later, going from
Albany to New York on the Oregon. she
was suddenly taken ill, and died of
West Point, on the most beautiful part
OF the river she so admired. Other
players have had presentiments justi-
fled by the event of the author of
Thirty Years in Gotham" to whom
we stand indebted for the following his
toric examples sadly deceives us:
An American actor named Chapman,
who was also dramatist in modest
sort of way, found it so difficult to ar
range the details of piece which he
called 1.-The Mail Robbers" exactly to
his mind, that he observed to 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 bruised
shoulder. Congratulating him upon
coming off so lightly, his friend joked
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 a somewhat roundabout way
In q part he was then playing Chapman
had to wear suit of brass armor, and
the night being very hot, he discarded
his Undertaking altogether. The
armor chatting the bruised shoulder
some veridigris got into the wound and
poisoned it, and of that poisoning he
died.
"Fulfillyour engagements like asensi-
BILE creature" was the well-meant ad-
vice of Mile. Louisette's conidante,
when that tight-rope dancer consulted
her upon the ACCESSIBILITY of canceling
an engagement to appear at the Volks
Theater, New York, for no better reason
than that she had p presentiment the
engagement would be fatal one. Sure
enough, it was so. Her first appear
ance was her last She went through
the performance without hitch, but as
she was stepping from the cross-trees to
the stage her gauzy dress caught fire at
the footlights, and before help reached
her she was 50 badly burned that medi-
cal skill was of no avail. :;
There is nothing repulsive about a
gold watch, yet when Sheppard, the
actor, took one from his mothers hand,
as her birthday gift, he shuddered with
out knowing why, except that he felt it
was destined to bring him misfortune.
He wore it, however, for years without
anything unpleasant coming of it. One
night, when he was playing at the Ma
tional Theater, 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-room; unwilling to lose the
memento of his dead mother, he went
back to the theater and was never seen
alive again. His charred body was found
the next day under the gas-pipes; the
fateful watch was in his pocket. The
actors presentiment in hardness of full
fillment resembled that which troubled
Mrs Brownrigg. AS the executioner
was doing the last Office save one fol- the
wretched woman, an expression of
horror came over her face, caus-
ing the clergyman to ask what
new temptation assailed. 'Ihave many
times" she said, :'passed by this place,
and always when near this spot of
ground dreadful horror seized me. for
fear that some day or other should come
to be hanged, and the recollection terri
fies me exceedingly"
Well aware of her deservings, it was no
wonder if the apprentice torturer had a
bad quarter of an hour whenever she
came within hail of Tyburn Tree; her
prophetic tears were born of a 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: "Hennie,
Pm feared if there should be an expo-
sion L IL 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
to shake off the feeling and 60 to his
work, and his death.
At an inquest upon the body Of col
lier who was killed by the fall of q rock
in Statfordshire mine, his wife deposed
that the night before the accident her
husband woke, complaining he had ton
of rock upon his head; and so sure was
he of some ill Detailing him that it was
only by dint of much coaxing that she per-
suaded him to go to work. Before leav-
ing the house he bent down to her child.
/ saying: "Let me have my last kiss"
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
PEELED to do so by seeing or thinking he
saw the dead man standing before him in
the roadway.-AH The Yeqr Round.
james Paul, an Austin, (Nev., } boy