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Show CENTENNIAL ANIMALS. Mr. W. W. Summers, formerly of this city, says tho lyjninville Courier-Journal, Courier-Journal, but now of Wart race, Bedford Bed-ford county, Tenn., and Mr. William Young of the same place, arrived in l-ouisvilli) yesterday with a collection of wonders that will form an attractiTc featuro among the curiosities of the Centennial exhibition. Mr. Summers wtut to Tennessee about nine yearn ago, and there engaged in farming Dd stock raising. During the time, a few very singular freaks ol nature oacurring coinculently in his stock and cattle raiding enterprise, has brought to him some very queer specimens of the various apecief, and developed quite a nice little fortune in his tiands. This queer menagerie ot domestic animals consists of a fleer, a mule, a cow and a sheep. Tho most wonderful animal, perhaps, per-haps, is tiie steer, which is eight years old, and as Urge as tho average rlephant, weighing 5,1 la pouiidit; measures 12 feet arunnd the girth over 16 feet Irnm the nose to tail, 3 feet "j inches from hip to hip, by cow measurement meas-urement stands l.sj bands high. Tins oi is supposed to be, uad doubtless doubt-less is, tho largest Bpccimon of the Irvine xpecies in the world, and is a curiosity worth seeing. The mule is a black mare, standing 2H hands or 7 feet 2 inches high, j'lio averago height of mulrs i -Jji feet. She is a nuble, looking animal, finely formr-d, and very lively in spirit. The cow represents a very fiinj;iilr freak of nature, having only three legs. There in no deformity in her' bf.dy, nnd her health is always good. Her two fore-IegH are of natural proportion, pro-portion, but the rest of her body is HUpported ou one largo hind leg, the tail growing where the other leg ought 1 lobe. Sim baa two udders, one ofj which is well formed, and, although she never had a calf, gives milk from eight teats. In this particular, especially is she n remarkable pheno-mneon. pheno-mneon. The sheep lias iivo legs, tho filth limb growing down from its left side, near tho shoulder. Besides this show, Mr. Young haa a fifty (Kpiininh-milk'd) dollar bdl of 1779 payahin in gold or silver at the treasury of Virginia. Tho bill belongs be-longs to Dr. J. K. I'lutcher, of Wart-race, Wart-race, who is sending it to tho Centennial. Centen-nial. Mr. Summers will soon start fur I'hiladelphia, intending to exhibit hm animals there during tho en tiro exposition ex-position season. |