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Sensation story.

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Sensation Story
The San Francisco Mirror publishes
story of the sensation kind, from a CORES
pondcnt signing himself "Raphael," who;
on the night of the 18th July last pro-
fesses to have Witnessed the enactment of
the following scenes at Mountain Cemetery.
If it were not the exposure of secret which
would do violence to the sacred feelings of
parties still living, we could unfold TRUE
story, relating to the lone Mountain Genie
terry, which; without being at all sanguinary
or criminal In its details, is much more thrill
ling and romantic than that told in the Mir
ror. But here is the pith of what "Raphaep'
narrates:
II dismounted in the shrubbery, tied my
horse firmly to a small tree, and crawled
cautiously on my hands and knees towards
the resurrection party. l saw four udivid-
uals-three white young men and one China
man. The latter was shoyeling out the dirt
from q grave, as ] could see by the bulls eye
lantern which one cf them held in his hand,
and which threw its light directly into the
receptacle of the dead. Pretty soon the
Chinaman stopped, and one of the white
men went to digging. Thus they changed
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shovel upon the wooden case. One
of the men handed down hatchet, with
which the lid of the coffin was pryed off, In
an instant the body was lifted up, caught by
the head and shoulders, pulled out and laid
that of q (Spanish) girl, perhaps seventeen
years old. She was dressed as in
life, in muslin, shoes and stockings, and
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dark hair was loose and unconfned. Just
as huge sack was held open for the recep-
tion of the body the latter, of its own ac-
cord, slowly rose to a sitting position.
The Chinaman screamed. Gne said, "Stop,
y III black DEVIL p He screamed again, still
louder. The muzzle of pistol was placed
agar s, his head and discharged, and the
Chinaman, to my unspeakable horror, fell
over into the grave! With supreme
GOODNESS, one held bottle to the girls face,
ani she fell back again into a horizontal
position. The other twoas quickly shoveled
dirt into the grave on the dead Chinaman,
and actually filled it, and smoothed it of as
a grave should be. They then took the liv-
ing corpse and wrapped it in a blanket, and,
with considerable humanity, carried it 10 a
carriage or ordinary job wagon, laid it in"
ETC., etc.
The author is not very felicitous in the
choice of adjectives to heighten the effect of
his romance, and it will hardly survive as
lorg, or produce the excitement occasioned
by Ewer's fiction of the sEyentful Nights"
DEATH OF CONTAMINATION Thomas,
better known as s'Glutton Tom," says the
Baltimore Republic, recently died in that
city at the advanced age of SO years. He
was perhaps the most yoracious man ever
born. He has been known to eat moderate
sized ham, with vegetables, ETC., in proper
ton, at one meal. Six large loaves of bread
with more than quart of coffee or tea,
would scarcely suffice for his breakfast or
supper. good sized goose or turkey would
disappear from sight IN q short time. His
daughter would prepare plum pudding at
stated periods, and cook it in a bushel bag.
This would serve him and two others as a
dessert A number of instances wherin his
glnttinous appetite has been tested, have
occurred. Al other times, he would be con-
tent with more moderate share of edibles |
WONDERFUL HUMAN BEING.-The Frank
fort (Ky.) Yeoman, says of the two-headed
girl now on exhibition there: lie Christina
Milly is now in her ninth year and possesses
the extraordinary appendages of two fine
heads, four arms, and four feet all concentra-
ted IN one perfect body. She has pretty and |
intelligent faces, denoting rivacity of life |
and mirthfulness. She sings sweetly many |
of the most popular songs and ballads ofthe |
day, and can converse with two persons at I
once upon one or different subjects The |
of her body are easy and quick, |
enabling her to dance, walk or run with as |
much style and rapidity as any child of her |
age. Not the least dcformity will be found in
limb, body or features"
QUA REGULAR ARMY.-The total strength |
of the United States army on the first of July |
was as follows: Whole number of troops,
1861; apportioned thus: Two regiments
of cavalry, ten companies each two of dra
goons, ten companies each one regiment of
mounted ri6emen, ten companies; four regi<
ments of artillery, twelve companies each
and ten regiments of infantry, ten companies
each; besides $50 cavalry Dragons, 2l4
artillery, $50 infantry, and $50 other officers,
averaging one officer to every l3 men.
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