Staunton vindicator and general advertiser. (Staunton, Augusta County, Va.) 1858-1860, 1859-01-08
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The Dead Alive,

English papers give accounts OF a singh
lar restoration to life of a young girl. The
following particulars of this remarkable at
fair are published by the Birmingham Post:
The girl, whose name is Amelia Kinks,
is II or 10 years Of age, and resided with
her parents in Bridge street, Nuneaton, and
dwindling away under some unaccountable
complaint, about three weeks ago she, as
her friends imagined, died. The corpse
was then removed to another room. The
body was rigid and icy cold. It was wash
ed and laid out with the usual deathly ac
compartments, penny-pieces being placed
over the eyes, and the coffin was order
ed.
For more than forty-eight hours the sup
posed corpse lay beneath the winding sheet,
when it happened that her grandfather, a
very aged man came from bennington to
the neighhorhood of Nuneaton. On going
with female relative to see the corpse, the
old man removed one Of the copper coins,
and although the eye remained closed, he
fancied he saw movement beneath the lid.
The woman with him at first ridiculed the
idea, but on looking more closely she too
observed movement. The medical atten-
dant was then appraised Of the circumstance;
and although he at first treated the matter
as delusion, the application of an instru-
ment to the region Of the heart soon con-
WINGED him that there was life within the ap-
parent corpse.
The body was then removed to warmer
room, and the existence of life soon became
apparent. BY degrees animation was re-
stored, a loud sneeze placing the fact Of her
being living subject beyond all doubt
When speech was restored, the girl describ-
ed everything that had taken place from the
time of her supposed death. She knew who
closed her eyes and placed the coppers there
on. She also heard the order given for her
coffin and could describe the various remarks
made over her as she lay in her death
clothes.
At first, on her restoration, she refused
all sustenaDce and on some aliment being
forced upon her she became frightfully ex-
cited, and though in state Of extreme de-
bility, it required great force to hold her
Since chat period her conduct has been very
strange. She entertains wish to destroy
her father and mother; and on one occasion
when they were asleep in the same room
with herself, she arose from her bed in the
dead Of night, went down stairs for light,
and having first destroyed, by burning, some
needlework, which she knew her mother
.set great store" upon, she set fire to the
| curtains, and then retired to bed, from which
| it was thought impossible she could have
moved.
| In fact, so mysterious was the origin of
the fire, that her parents were quite at a
loss to account for it, until the girl herself
confessed having been the cause. She now
| lies in such a state that she can neither
be called alive nor dead, the former state
being only ascertained by a careful exami-
nation of her pulse. Were it not that there
, is no motive for deception, and the parents
being creditable people, we would imagine
there was some ruse in this very extraordi-
nary affair, which is causing considerable
excitement in Nuneaton and the neighbor-
hood
SURE CURE FOR A CoLD.-The following
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