The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1855-03-14
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Letters from the West.-No. 90.

Letters from the West.-No. 80.
The oath--Prevaifing prices of farm products
-I'ofatoes a iu1nry-dypeoranc Of he
fcAcaf fetds--I TIE prodigy, or double infant
Ohio LiqV0r lar restored-IHe Kaop-
! Nothtngs and their creed-An unforiua ote
case, not hoteerer hopeless.
COLUMBUS Ohio, Feb, 1855.
There were two kings in the west
Two kings, both great and high;
And they had sworn a solemn oath,
John BarleycorD should die
They took aplough, and ploughed him down.
Put clods upon his head
And then they swore solemn oath,
John Barlcy-corn was dead.
But the warm spring came kindly on,
And showers beganito fall,
John Barley-co Corn got'up again,
And soon surprised them ALL
/ The beautiful contest, referred to
above, was, throughout nearly all the
great corn regions of Ohio, the present
season, decided greatly in favor of the
kings, DrontltsanM I0t sceather. Que
field was shown us, which last year yield.
cd eighty bushels of sheled corn to the
acre-thls year not enough to pay for
harvesting, consequently it was turned
over to the hogs. When we consider
that the annual corn crop of the United
States equals quite 100000, ,OOO-or
three times the amount of our wheat
crop, wo can realize the pecuniary loss to
the country, by a partial failure of the
crop. Owing to the money drouth, corn
rules only about twenty FIVE per cent
above last years prices. 1t is worth
here fifty cents per bushel. Some Whis-
key distillcrs, however, are Offering high.
er rates. The potato crop is nearly an
entire failure. They are bringing 81 so
per bushel. Sorry place this, for Yan.
KEGS and Irishmen. What a luxury is
a cold potato. Our mouth waters as we
write about them. Only when Sunday
morning appears, or some cousin.gu st
arrives, do they initiate their grand
mothers of '76 in slipping a cup of green
tea on meeting day, and indulge in meal
made up, in part, of this very wholcs ome
and ar-bought vegetable.
Oats are worth from so to 40 cents
per bushel. Good apples bring from rs
cents to 81. Hay, although generally
a medium yield, is worth $40 per ton.
Wheat sl50 and -four 50 per barrel.
Wheat fields look remarkably well and
big with promise. The unusual body
Of snow throughout the west is har-
binger of good to the coming harvest.
Some three weeks since, prodigy was
born in the immediate neighborhood
where we put up. 1t is called
The DOUBLE BABy.-It is strange
case of mnlformation, and jescrip ion
of the curious production may prove in.
teresting to such as like to philosophise
on Natures freaks" and to the general
reader. From the lower extremity Of
the breast bone-where the junction of
the two bodies takes place, upwards, there
are the upward parts of two perfect and
well'developed infants-two heads, two
pairs of arms, two chests, two stomachs.
two hearts. two pairs of lungs, and two
livcrs. From the same point downwards.
the blending of the two systems into
one becomes more and more intimate,
until it seems almost perfect and com
plete. The intestines and all the lower
organs are in common with common ter.
mini, and the legs made up of the right
leg of one, and the left leg of the other,
are pair, standing in the proper posi-
tion, relative to each other In tho rear.
hewever, the union is less perfect, there
being two well developed spines, each
terminating in separate " os coccv gis,"
and what is peculiarly strange, the two
inner legs, dislocated at the hip joints.
are thrown backwards and upwards, and
joined together, are found passing under
the true skin of the back of tho body.
upon the right, the feet being extrcated
and standing up heel to hcel, nearly in its
face.
The child is female. The bodies
| do not exactly face ench other. but are
more nearly face to face ttan side to
side One is apparently more robust
than the other, and it is evident that in
many OF the characteristics of their con.
stitutions, they are different. AS one
is capable of suffering, while the other is
unconscious of pain, it follows that their
nervous systems are several, from which
it is, we SUPPOSE, to be inferred, that in
case they should survive, each will pos
sess a character and individuality of its
own.
This strange phenomenon is the of.
spring of respectable parents, at Lancas-
ter the capital of Fairfield county, Ohio
Although delicate, it is thought the
chances arc in favor of its surviving, au6
that it may grow up to act its part in
the drama Of life. The case is In the
hands of DE- Boestler, one of the oldes,
physicians of the State, whose skill in its
treatmcn. is spoken of in terms of high
communication.