The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-11-24
The --latest Nevada Sensation-The
Man who Fails Dead and Revfves


From the Virginia City (Neyada) Enterprise,
November 10th. t>Ffs =
A new importation to this city kicked up
such q row about town night before last
that the police and many others began to
think about half the people In town we're
dropping down dead In their tracks. First,
man had dropped down dead ut house
on such q street, then q man had fallen
down In dying condition in another place,
and soon it was in another place, that O
man "lay dying" AT length it was dis
covered that one man was doing all the
dying. He had then died about halt dozen
times, and had been SO often restored
to life that he was almost too drunk
to die naturally. '.He first went into a
house on D street, took fit, and fell ESQ
be poured down his gullet he refused TO
come to life until the woman of the house
became half frightened out Of her wits
and blew her whistle for q policeman,
when 10 a miracIe-the dead man got upon
his pins and ran away. He next went into
another house of the same class in the same
street and died there, falling headlong to
the floor with such utter abandon as to
shake the whole house. The women were
terribly frightened; ; they poured water on
his face, bathed his head, and as fast,as he
revived q little turned brandy (the only
thing besides whiskey or gin that he could
swallow. down his throat. He went for
brandy like kitten after new milk, and as
soon as he had swallowed all in sight
relapsed In the hope of being revived
again with the congenial resuscittaor. :. ~ :,
Finding that q physician had been sent
for, he recovered and got out Of the house.
When he next fell dead we do not know,
but during the night he went to Scott's
dance-house, on south G street, and fell
dead as door-nail. Water outside and
brandy inside, with a talk of bringing in q
policeman, set him on his pins, and he de-
parted. He atterward wentto EVans's chop
house, corner of G and Union streets, and,
going back to the. filter. drew, q glass Of
water, and while trying to drink it took two
or three steps. backward, jumped high. in
the air, then came down like thousand OF
brick between the rows of tables, to the
great CONSERVATION OF the two. walters.
There he lay OF full length, bis head
thrown back, and only the whites OF
his ewes visible, to all appearances
as dead as door-nail. The boys
sopped him and mopped him with cold
water, rubbed his head, and. did all they
could for him, but he was to all appearance
stone-dead. a His face was white, no pulse
could be felt, and his eyes We're set in his
head with not a bit Of '"speculation" In
them, One Of the walters was about going
for q doctor, when the dead man suddenly
lifted his head and began laughing. Leay-
Ing the dumbfounded walters, he ,stalked
away, no doubt to die In some place where
his fayoriee reYiyers we're more likely to be
found. Those who saw his performance
ard assisted in restoring him say that they
would have sworn that he was a dying, and
then a dead man, not believing such piece
of acting possible with any human being:
he seemed, they say, to have the power OF
Instantly stopping the beating OF his pulse,
and of changing the heslthful appearance
of his face to the pailor of death.