The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1874-02-07

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movcs, aud % tic eamc time, aud
frequently played against each other.
Afttr attracting vast amount Of
ate lin from scientists and physio-
logi, Is in Tie Oh world, tLcy married
two sisters and settled down near
Salisbury, N. @, on a well-stock
plantation. IT, addition they had at
one period ample funds invested.
through their agent, in New York.
During the war they continued to re,
side on their plantation, and lived
in tie same quiet and harmony as
ever, until some few years after
ward. OF course, 10 one ever
thought of drafting them, and their
negroes prospcred, except when out
of temper from any cause, it was apt
t. work itself off in striking the
first one that came to hand, from
which the best escape was TO keep
out Of the way. Tic brothers prob
ably never would have had any diff
liculty, but that their wives, though
sisters, turned away their hearts,
and children were tn, cause of this
estrangement. Up TO tile period
that each had five children all pros.
Dered well enough, but one Of them
iad a sixth, aud this awoke envy and
ealousy to such degree that the
win sisters, not being bouad togeth,
n like the twin brothers, would no
onger live under the same roof.
Vhe brothers were, it seems, about
Is years of age, but one, we believe,
he smaller and feebler of the two,
ooked, it is uaid, ten years old than
he other. They could turn either
,ack to back or face to face but that
5 as far as the remarkable band that
lnited them permitted 1t was all
most certain that should either die
he other could not survive even
nore than q few minutes, as there
vas "a artery as large as the iemoral
rtery that connected them. A few
ears since they corresponded with
ONE Of the leading surgical opera
ors in London, as TO the possibility
# the unbilicus being cut, SC that
n the case of the death of one, Tao
ife OF the other might be saved
1t the request CT the London surgeon
hey visited that city, and many ex>
'eriments were tried to determine
he safety Of such and operation.
lmong ether things ligature was
led firmly for few minutes around
he connection between them, so as
0 prevent the circulation of blood
trough the artery. But it seemed as
each would expire If this were per-
listed in. The smaller Of Of the two
ainted away and lost all concious-
iess, and there were symptoms that
he same sffect would follow the 9th
r, but the process could not be con-
inued long enough without endang>
ring the life of him who was the
rst TO faint. since the breaking
mt of the rebellion the twins both
Iresssd in the Confederate gray. and
nd were both members Of the same
hurch, having united with O small