The Sun.
London, England, 1863-11-09 00:00:00

SCENE AT A PRIZE FIGHT.

A prize fight lately came off between Torn Daly
and Billy M'Grath, at the Washoe race track,
Virginia. After 14 rounds had been fought, a blow
was struck which was voted " foul," which resulted
in the following scene :—" Harry Lazarluosdhaidnbeheins
betting freely on M‘Grath, and was u
denunciation of the referee, and everybody who
b e e n Mexican
betting named
Maldonado, alias "Muchaeb," had
on
agreed with him in his decision. A
out that the blow was foul.
Daly, and kept crying
Lazarus called
himt
ately drawn. is impossible to say who drew first ;
i
it was enough to do to get out of the way. As soon
as Lazarus and " Mucha ch" commenced firing, two
or three other parties joined in. About the ring at
this
were 1,000 or 1,200 men, a large number
of
e horses, in vehicles and otherwise, and the excite-
mconfusion that ensued beggar all descrip-
tion.hnotrs time
and ,
w
The firing and the deafening shouts and yells
of the combatants and surging crowd frightened
many horses, whose rearing and plunging served to
add to the danger and consternation of all in the
vicinity. Two horses were shot in the melee, and
the only wonder is that more men were not struck
by the random pistol balls that flew singing through
the air in every direction. Returning to the ring
we found it almost deserted, the wounded men.
" Muchach" and Lazarus, having been carried to
the saloon near the gate of the enclosure. Thither
we repaired, and found " Muchach" lying on a
table, stripped to the waist, with a ball hole in his
right breast close to the nipple, another near the
pit of his stomach, and we were told that another
ball had entered his side, and another struck one of
his arms, On another table, stripped likewise to
the waist, lay Harry Lazarus. One ball struck him
in the breast, pretty high up, about two inches above
the right nipple ; another ball had eo shattered the
fingers of his right hand that it was found necessary
to amputate two of them after his removal to
Washoe city. His hand was struck while he Was
in the act of levelling his pistol, and it is thought
that the bail which entered his breast was the some
that shattered:his fingers.—American paper.

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~ the Medico-Surgical
MEDICAL JOTTINGS.--A 6 '''.
Dr. Desnos read a paper
Congress recently held at Rouen,
.n
the disease, attaching
in which he gave a rapid
Nauheim in the resolution of
on the curability of consuni_*.P"c:f
' 0 observations regarding
sketch of the different foies
abAletotfhoeusraem,
much importance to Dr:,
the efficacy of the waters:
eg rma ne
meeting,
0 concluded with the remark that
lymphatic ganglion&
if acute or galloping i?
phthisis must be ooanns
account of his practice t • •
o injecting
Dr. Gourdin 0"
into the respiratory organs
'Oh:ILI:di smiosr mortal.
in cases of con-
nitrate of silver
_web the patient is exhausted by excessive
sumption in "
expectoration.
In one of these cases an India-rubber probe
intoAthe windpipe
duce,. to a depth of 12 centi-
was intro
and, by the aid of a glass syringe, 15 grammes of a
metres,
of
nitrate of silver in the proportion of 2of
solution
nitrate
and 98 of water were introduced. About 12 grammes
pone,.
4 into the respiratory organs ; the consequence
penetrated .
a violent fit
was of coughing with a feeling of
suffocation; but this fit only lasted two minutes,
and half-an-hour later the patient only complained
of a slight sensation of heat about the bifurca-
tion of the bronchiaa. All those who witnessed the operation
were astonished at the slight degree of inconvenience it had
occasioned. From that time the expectoration diminished
considerably; the injection was repeated nine days later,
and a further diminution of expectoration was perceived.

lience it appears that the introduction of nitrate of silver
into the respiratory organs is attended with no danger, and
tßay be very beneficial.—Another member, Dr. Bourgeois,
described the good effects of breathing sulphurous waters in
a pulverised state, as it is called—that is, reduced by me-
chanical means to a sort of steam, or state of extreme divi-
sion resembling it.—Dr. Lavasseur read an account of an
epidemic typhus fever, which attacked 10 persons out Of a
family of 17. All of them were cured by the administration,
of aconite during the first 12 days, and of bark and broth
during the following nine days, when the disorder was ou
its decline.