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An AWFUL DEATH.-Galignani' Paris
Messenger relates circumstance in rela-
tion to a death in Spain, which might well
have for its heading the modern caption.
''horrible if true," as often applied to para
graphs conveying extraordinary statements.
A dealer in leeches was travelling in Es.
tremedura, Spain, when be was stopped by
band of thieves, who demanded his mon
ey. He assured them that he had none a
bout him, having expended all that he had
brought with him. Having ascertained that
he had told the truth, they, in revenge for
their disappointment, thrust his head into
the sack in which he carried his leeches,
and bound it tightly round his neck Some
country people passing by not long after
wards, found him dead, he having been bled
to death by his own stock.