The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-05-16

:. THE PRIZE Eight.

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An American merchantbinow1 travelling
abroad who saw the prike fight, gives this ac-
count of itsinsa private letter: cSo5 !
"The ring was made at half-past seven, and
the men soon after entered. Both hooked well,
particularly Sayers, whose form and condition
seemed f~auitless; HeenaH's appearance,evident;
ly surprised the Englishmen, and the odds of
three to one on Sayers, which had been cur
rent for the last few days were no longer offer
ed. - s4e.. ssf -
H. f'The fight lasted over two hours, and the
people here sayeit was the best and hardest
fought battle that has ever taken place. Dow
hing, the editor of EeHs Life, who was stake
holder, referee, umpire, and everything else.
ran sway as soon as the troub 9 commenced, and
when Heenan's second claimed the fight in
consequence of Sayers remaining in his corner
when 'time' was called, behold there was no
referee.
at looked very like a perconcerted plan
They were not 'rowdies and roughs' who broke
into the ring and struck and kicked Heenan
but ofEcers of the army, men about town, no.
blemen, and altogether as respectable a body of
men in appearance as 1 ever saw at any kind
of an exhibition. The s3 los, the price of the
railroad tickets, kept all outsiders away.
~ had a front seat. and saw the whole from
beginning toqend. The interference at the
close. was most disgraceful and cowardly, and
ISuShSL4IlSu- u VI OIntIS, tiIS .ldSJ men, L
supposed. who could be guilty Of such an out
rage. The whole country has been insane
about this fight ever since my arrival here, and
Sayers, so great a pet that I d,n't believe the
people would allow him to be whipped by any
one. *
4'The police were present after the third
round, but never made any demonstration to
break it up, nor entered the ring until the men
were dressing and there were decided symp-
| tnpre &C n f-oa H,bt on,oo those braua En~
lishmen. If Heenan had fought the frs three
rounds as he fought the last three, it would
all have been over in twenty minutes. To
give you an idea of his immense strength, in
one of these rounds he took Savers up bodily
and threw him ON his back as if he were a bag
of meal. s&1G
"That Sayers is a game and brave man no
one can deny; but Heenan is equally game and
brave and by far the most powerful and endu-
ring."-Aew York Post. 24 @s71
CURE FOR INGRowING NAILs.-A cores
pendent of the Boston Aedical and Surgicat
Journal CDR. N. Green, of Hartford, Comm
states that cauterization by hot tallow is an inn
mediate curs1for ingrowine nails. He says {:
The patient on whom he first tried this plan
was a young lady, who had been unable to put
on a shoe for several months, and decidedly
the worst case that l have ever seen. The
disease had been of long standing. The edge
of the nail was deeply undermined, the granu-
latious formed a high ridge, partly covered
with skin, and pus constantly. oozed from the
root of the nail. The whole toe was swollen
and extremely tender and painful. My mode
of proceeding was this: ] put a very small
piece of tallow in a spoon and heated it over a
lamp till it became very hot, and dropped two or
three drops between the nail and the granula-
tons. The effect was almost magical. Pain
and tenderness were at once relieved, and in a
few days the granulations were all gone, the
diseased parts dry and destitute of feeling, and
the edge of the nail exposed SO as to admit of
The cure was complete, and the trouble never
returned. -