| Show CHANG AND ENG the peculiar family life or of the FATTI Sla ineis twins chang ind ell eng 1 the Sit onese twins who were brought broll 0 lit to this country by captain coffin of newburyport when they bete boys afterwards exhibited themselves and when they had accumulated some property determined to settle down and purchase a plant plantation atlon ja id the up country of north carolina there they induced the ti tio o daughters of a clergyman to become their wives the double nuptial knot was t tied let ind and as they could not have se pirate and distinct establishments they bee became line heads of a 1 double household jn in 1853 they came to washington having become rather tired tirca of coti country life and smarted out on a tour of exhibition accompanied by two of their children at that time they had eleven children cli ildren six ai of them belonging to mrs chan ching and tile the other rive five to mrs eng ell they had also about thirty slaves 03 with a good deal of stock when at home they attended industriously to till ilia business of their theia plantation kept the at work and were always ready and willing to plow chopwood climp cooj and do all 0 sorts O arts of farm work then when bubines busi bu sines iusi was not urgent t they would devote their timo to field sports and were amono among the keenest hunters fowlers and fishers fisher 7 of their district dib triet tho the chang cleall and eng seconded their lords right well in the niana management eident of tile the concern cone ern and remained behind to take cire of the lion during aurim M the absence of their distinguished consorts madame Clial chang lir t was said to devote her time to the general supervision of tile tho slaves and ami the direction of the lie work to lie performed on the plantation while madame eng charged herself with the caro care of all the young masters and misses inis ses instructing hi till them and the little nero ne F ro children ildren cli A few years afterwards I 1 saw it stated staled in the papers that the two wives had quarreled and another plantation hall had been bought so that each had her individual home the duplicate husbands not being able to livido divide thein themselves selves spent a fortnight furini lit alternately lit at each establishment lish ment ben perley poors in boston budget |
