The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-02-17
PRESENTIMFNTS.

Il feel as if 1 were fated to die on this
beautiful river. said a young English actress,
as she talked 10 i comrade on the deck of a
Hudson River steamboat. \ week later,
going from Albany TO New York on the
Oregon, she was suddenly taken i'll, and died
off West Point, on the most beautiful part of
the river she so much admired. Other players
have had presentments justified by the event,
or the author of = Thirty years in Gotham
to whom we stand indebted for the following
histronic examples. sadly deceives US =
An American actor named Chapman, who
was also a dramatist in a modest sort of way.
found it so difficult to arrange the details of
a piece which he called The Mail Rob-
bers - exactly to his mind, and he observed
10 a friend that the play would be the death
of him. A day or two afterwards 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 3 bruised shoulder.
Congratulating him upon coming off so
lightly. his friend joked him about his pre-.
| sentiment, but the actor was not to be
laughed out of MS notion, and persisted that
his words would yet come true. And so they
did. though in somewhat roundabout way.
In n part he was then playing Chapman had
to wear a suit of brass armour and the night
being very hot he discarded his undercloth-
Ing altogether. The Grmor chatting the
bruised shoulder, some ~verdigris got into the
wound and poisoned it, and of that poison
ing he died.
Fulfil your engagements like a sensible
creature was the well-meant advice of
Mdlle. Louisette's confdante, hen that
tight rope dancer consulted her upon the
advisability of canceiling an agreement to
appear at the Volks Theatre, in New York,
for no better reason than that she had a
presentiment the engagement would prove a
fatal one. Sure enough it was so. Her
first appearance was her last. She went
through the performance without q 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 SO badly burnt that medical 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 without knowing why,
except that he felt it was destined to bring
him misfortune. He wore it, however, out
of respect for the giver, and wore it for years
without anything unpleasant coming of it.
One night, when he was playing at the
National Theater. 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. Un-
willing to lose the mement0 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
fulfIment, resembIed that which troubled
Mrs Brownrigg. AS the e%xecutioner was
doing the last office save one for the
wretched woman, an expression of horror
came over her face, causing the clergyman
to ask what new temptation assailed her.
Il have many times y sid she, pissed by
this place, and always when near this spot
of ground a dreadful horror seized me, for
fear that some day or other ] should come
to be hanged, and the recollection ~terrifes
me exceedingly" Well aware of Ter de-
servings, it was no wonder if the apprentice
terturer had a bad quarter of an hour when
ever she came within hail of Tyburn Tree; :
her prophetic fe rs were born of a coward /
conscience.
Such was not the case with the honest
miner who, talking to his wife of the dan i
gerous character of the seam he Was work.
ing. said: 'Hennie, I'm feared if there should
be an explosion I'll be knocked about worst
This fear lmpelled him the next night, when
the dread of something happening was strong
upon him, to return home again after start
ing for the pit, only to shake off the feeling
and go to his work. and his death.
At an inquest upon the body of a collier
who was killed by the falling of a rock in a
Staffordshire mine. his wife deposed that the
night before the accident her husband woke
that he had a ton of rock upon
his head and so sure was he of some i'll
befdlling him that it was only by dint of
coaxing that she persuaded him to go
to work. Before leaving the house he bent
down to her child saying. "Let me nave
my last kiss" To make the story still
stranger. it came out in evidence that the
poor fellows death had hardly reached his
home when a cousin, much attached to him.
looked in to inquire for him. impelled to do
so by seeing, or by thinking he saw, the
dead man standing before him in the road
way.-AU the Year Ronnd.
Who the Original Judge Lynch Was.