Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-04-04
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"A CURIOUS STORY.


TAe stnmese Twips- Their Life sinser
theus,s War, asegan-y ealousy and
Quarrels Through The 1mffuemce4
of TheIfotNfvss--Cahpi the Brothers
ExistSebarately Queg-
tiOns. :f3d9iT yii1 SIT 30 veiy4ssssr ,,oIf
From The Philadelphis Ledger.l
The Siamese Twins have been lost from
public view for the last few years: It,whs
well known of them that they had married
two sisters, and settled downsnear Sails
bury, in North Carolina, on wcll-stocked
plantation. In addition to this, thew, have
ample funds invested through their agent
in New York city. Through a North
Carolina medical gentleman now within
our lines, we had the otherday an oppor-
tunity Of minute and full particulars In re-
gard to them. Ever since the war began
they have continued to reside, onytheir
plantation, and lived in.the same quiet and
harmonyas eyerJ until within two years.
OF course no one ever thought Of drafting,
them, and their negroes prOspered, except
that when out Of temper from any cause les
was apt to work itself offoin striking the1t
first one that came te-hand, from which the
best escape was to- keep foutaofI the sway.
The brothers probably never! would have
had any difficulty, but that their wives,
though sisters, turned away their hearts,
huu WCTC bUG cause Oh bIIl6. eSs4t
trangementsi Uplto the period that each n
had five children, all prospered well enough.
but one of them had asixth, and this awoke
envy and Jealousy to such a degree that tiieD
two sisters, not being bound together olikeo
the twin brothers, would no longer liveup-.s
der the same roof though, we believe still ~
in different houses on the same plantatiofi.c
The brothers are now, it seems, about gfftyin
years of age, but one, we believe, the
smaller and feebler of the two,u looks, it is,
said, now full ten years older then the other.
They can turn back to back or face to face,
but that is as far as the remarkable bond
that unites them permits 7oi isds14i g4g
1t is almost certain that should either die
the other could not survive even for more
than few minutes, as there Is an artery as
large as the fBmoral artery that connects ,
them. A few years since they corresppnd-4
ed with some of the leading surgical opera
tors in London. as to the possibility OF the
umbilicus which unites them being cut sois
that in the case of the death OF the one, tliers
life of the other might be saved. AT, the.
request of the London surgeon they visited
that city, and many experiments were tried
to determine the safety of such an OPERA
tion. Among other things, ligature WAS
tied firmly for few minutes round the
connection between them, SO as to prevent
the circulation Of blood through the artery.ii
But it seemed as if each would expire ifd
this were longer persisted in. The smaller,s
of the two tainted away and lost all con-
sciousness, and there were symptoms that
the same effect would follow TO the other,j
but that the process could not be continuedbi
long without endangering the life Of, him
who was first to faint. Should the smaller,
and feebler die, it might be worth while
making the experiment of operating, but
the prospects of prolonging the life OF the q
other would be- very small. Should, how-,b
ever, the larger and more healthy of the
twin brothers die, there would seem ab- 20
solutely no hope of saving the feebler f0f
thetwo- FromIall this it is evident thatd
though the connection between these two,
unique, it's yet not SO absolute as has bee1Iq
usually supposed. 39uru !! 10bns1 liiw