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

SCENE AT A PRIZE FIGHT.

A prize fight lat2ly came off between Tom Daly
and Billy M'Grath, at the Washoo race track,
Virginia. After 14 rounds had been fought, a blow
was struck which was voted" foul," which resulted
in the following scene :—" Harry Lazarus had been
betting freely on M'Grath, and was loud in his
denunciation of the referee, and everybody who
agreed with him in his decision. A Mexican named
Maldonado, alias " Muchach," had been betting on
Daly, and kept crying out that the blow was foul.
Lazarus called him a liar, and pistols were immedi-
ately drawn. It is impossible to say who drew first ;
it was enough to do to get out of the way. As soon
as Lazarus and "Muchach" commenced firing, two
or three
were otherl,o
partiesoo joined
oro o m
12i n
,a . e
n Aboutlarge
r g the e
r i n g
numberat
of
thil: timeorses, in vehicles and otherwise, and the excite-
ment and confusion that ensued beggar all descrip-
tion. The firing and the deafening shouts and yells
of the combatants and surging crowd frightened
many horses, whose rearing and plunging
iongaslelrivnedthtoe
add to the danger and consternationuu
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 so shattered the
fin2ers of his right hand that it was found necessary
to ampatate two of them after his removal to
Waslaoe city. His hand was struck while he lc"
in the act of levelling his pistol, and it is thought
that the bail which entered his breast wss the same
that shattered'his fingers.—American Paper'

ovEDG WOOD,"
SILVERPEN'S " LIFE OF SWIM"
the Messrs. Hurst and Blackett announce, will b.ei chiefly
compiled from his private correspondence and farnoio y papera
in the possession of Mr. Joseph Mayer of Liveryl
of Miss
Meteyard enters upon her labours as upon a labour. love,
issnehoases er e a
attachingd a p a petr
and the work will be illustrated with five portraits and other
engravings. , the Medico-Surgical
MEDICAL JOTTINGS.--A. -- ...,
Congress recently held at Ronal.,
gave a rapid
on the curability of consumption,: 1 which•Pnthr.eljde
sketch of the different
farvaSese's observations
much importance to D regarding
„,, rof Nauheim in the resolution)
the efficacy of the - tell° concluded with th resolution of
lymphatic ganglions.
th® remark that
phthisis is capable of
if acute or gallopingCure, granulous
sidered mortal.
phthisis must bo con At the same
meeting,
of injecting
Dr. Gourdin gave an account of his practice
nitrate of silver into the respiratory organs
in
con-
sumption in which the patient is exhausted cases of
expectoration. In one of these cases an •
by excessive
was introduced into the windpipe t lndia-rubber probe
metres, and, by the aid of a glass o a depth of 12 coati-
' solution of nitrate of silver in the syringe, 15 grammes of a
and proportion of 2 of nitrate
98 of water were
introduced.
penetrated into the respiratory
About 12 grammes
organs; the consequence
was a
violent fitof
. coughing with a feeling of
suffocation; but this
fit only lasted two minutes,
of a slight son later the patient only complained
tion of the brox h'sation of heat about the bifurca-
c la). All those who witnessed the operation
were astonished at •
occasioned, the slight degree of inconvenience it had
. From that time the expectoration ' • • diminished
considerably; • injection
.. , the injecti was repeated nine days later,
and a further diminution of expectoration was perceived.
Hence it appears that the introduction of nitrate of silver
into the respiratory organs is attended with no danger, and
may 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 on
its decline,

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