Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-12-16
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A HUMAN MONSTROSITY.

AHUMAN MONsTROSITY.
DoNKEY's HEAD ON A MANS BoDY-A
STRANGE CASE OF MALFoRMATIoN.
At No. 785 Freeman avenue, a couple OF
doors above Bank street, there resides, says
the Cincinnati Enquirer, an aged and respec-
table German and his wife, who make liv-
ing by keeping family grocery and provis-
ion store. The husbands namei is Philip Volz.
Mr.. Volz is large, feshy, good natured, hon
est, temperate German, who is content to
mind his own business and deal out to his
customers all the commodities usually found
in grocery and meat store, save cigars to.
bacco and liquor. His wife is kind pleas
ant old lady-probably sixty-and the peo-
pie in the neighborhood call her "grandmoth-
er." She is very neat and clean in her ap-
pearance, and is one of those sensible bodies
people like to talk to, either on business or
merely for pleasure.
This good couple are the parents of one of
the most wonderful specimens ofhumanity that
the world ever saw, and certainly the most
wonderful ever known to exist in Cincinnati.
1t is man having the head of donkey on
its shoulders 1t almost always happens that
monstrosities born of either women or animals
die shortly after birth, if born alive at all,
but this is an exception to the rule, for the
subject of this article is alive now, and is thirty
years old. The name of the unfortunate crea-
ture is George Volz When visited by our
reporter, says the Enquirer, the cripple stared
at him in an unpleasant way and began to
kick violently, as though he were trying to
get at the stranger, the while his hands,
Or what correspond to a human beings hands,
pounded each other with frightful rapidity
and apparent viciousness. The reporter f.
nally became sufficiently at ease to make
close observation, and he saw that the face of
the cripple was as near the shape of a donkey
az could be, the only feature that at all ap-
preached the shape of the genus homo being
the nose.
This was noticed to be more prominent
than that of genuine specimen of the don.
key, but the outline was exactly the same.
The mouth could not be told from donkey's,
and when it came to observing the upper part
of the face and the head, the resemblance
was exact. The head is very large and
nearly square like the donkey's. 1t is Gov.
cred with coarse black hair, as stiff and
straight as ever seen on the animal referred
to- The eyes are the eyes Of donkey to
perfection but the most perfect resemblance
to the animal are the ears They stand
straight up and run out to sharp peak, in
the exact shape Of the ears of the donkey.
They are about three inches long, but are
not covered with hair. The expression-the
lower portion of the face-is covered with
short growth of hair, which is sheared by the
mother at, regular intervals. The body OF
the cripple is also covered with growth of
long, stiff, coarse hair.
The reporter, noticing the fact that the
upper part Of the head between the ears was
much larger than the lower part, at first
thought this vas due to the growth of hair.
In order to satisfy himself on this point he
advanced toward George to place his hands
upon his head. As soon as he got within
range he received couple of vicious kicks
from one of the monsters feet. Mrs. Volz
also advanced at the same time and she also
was kicked. The reporter, however, succeed
ed in getting his hands on Georges head and
found that the shape noticed was the shape
of the skull and was not caused by the hair.
All of the hairs grow upward. AS the visit.
or stood looking at the object before him, it
kept swinging its head from side to side, and
the expression of the face was precisely that
Of the donkey. George cannot talk at all.
He makes no sound that approaches to the
human speech.
Georges mother informed the reporter that
he had sufficient intelligence to comprehend
enough to have his wants supplied, which
were few. He expressed wish for a drink
or something to eat by signs. Georges hands
were mentioned above. There are really no
hands, but the stumps of three or four fingers
in the aggregate are attached to what would
be the hands if he were perfectly formed
human being. The shoulders are very mar
row and the spinal column is not sufficiently
strong to enable George to stand up long at
time He crawls when he wishes to move
about One of his legs is that of g human,
but the other is shapeless. George is power.
less to wag his ears. He eats the ordinary
food that is served on the table. Mrs. Volz
stated that his appetite was good, usually, and
that he was allotted a place at the family
board. Sometimes be refused to eat the sub.
stantial food Of an every day meal, and he
was then fed on cake or some other delicacy.
GENUINE SOUTHERN SENTIMENT.-ln an
interview with the correspondent of north
ern newspaper, Governor Marks, Of Tennes.
see, is reported to have used the following
language:
II was in the Confederate service as Colo
mel, and I accept the results of the war with
out reserve believe an overwhelming
majority of the people down here feel as |
do. The Northern people do not understand
US. They think we are ripe for secession
still. What possible interest could we have
in seeding noaui We went out Of the Union
because we wanted the worth of our slaves
in our own way. We believed then that
slavery could not flourish unless we seeded.
Let us be frank. We did secede and got the
worst of it by large majority. What. in
Gods name, have we to make US think of Sc.
cession under our altered circumstances ? We
have nothing to secede for since slavery was
abolished, which I am heartily glad Of, and
we are much better off within the Union,
where we belong, than we would be outside
of it, where We do not belong. Recognizing
this fact, it looks absurd to Southern people
to be charged with entertaining secession
sentiments The people of the North must
certainly think, if the ey are in earnest about
that that we are pack of simpIetons or
worse. We do believe that the Government