Weekly Trinity journal., 1869-06-26
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The Late Prize Fight.

| The Late Prize Fight.
CHICAGO, June !Gth.-The following is an ac-
count o. the prize fight between Tom Allen and
Mike McCooe, at Fosters island, twenty-five
miles below ST. Louis, to-day:
Aliens appearance much The best. Nc
Coole fat, and showed unskillful training.
At the first round the men approached each
other cautiously but with confidence. A few
exchanges, and then hasty hitting at close quar-
ters. Finally, McCoole planted heavy blow
near Aliens eye, knocking him down first.
Knock down and first blood claimed for McCoole,
although blood appeared on both faces.
Second Round-Terrifc blows in rapid succeS-
sion on each others faces resulting, finally, in
favor of McCooe. ~
Third Round-The men eyed each other fero-
ciously after few severe blows clinched and
fell together. The struggle caused intense ex-
citement. McCooles friends realized that the
giant had met man worthy of his muscle.
Fourth Round-McCooe came to the scratch,
with face bleeding profusely from a terrible cash
under the right eye. Allen fought cautiously,
evidently outstanding his strength. McCoole
: got in a heavy blow on Aliens ribs. The latter
went down to avoid another. The widest ex-
citement now begun to prevail at the seeming
!, change in the prospects of the fight.
Fifth Round-Heavy throughout; desperate ex-
changes, during which Allen administered two
or three terrific blows on McCoole's face, which
seemed to be a mass of blood from forehead to
chin. He had terrible gashes under both eyes
and the face terribly disfgured. The combat
ants cinched; after q desperate struggle, both
down together near the ropes. The round was
decided in favor of Allen.
, Sizh Round - Heavy hitting. Allen, who
seemed the freshest of the two, looked very COM
placent, dancing round his opponent with ease.
: After some hard hitting, the round resulted in
Aliens favor.
l SeventhA Round-McCoo presented forlorn
appearance. He was not very rapid in respond
ing to tirSe Allen looked fresh and cheerful.
After some exchanges rather damaging to Nc
Coole, Allen went to grass to escape terrific
blow from the giants maulers.
u Eighth Round-The prestige of the giant was
rapidly being demolished before the superior
d skill and tactics of his antagonist. Mike struck
d out wildly with his right but missed his mark
/ his opponent lighting on his potato-trap with
e terrible effect. McCooe received terrible pun
shment. In this round it became evident that
the fight would come to a speedy termination,
the giant being knocked partly off his pins,
a which terminated the round.
IS Ninth and last, Roundabout men responding
to call, the excitement intense. The COM
a batants approached each other and engaged in
G terribly close quarters for n few seconds, then
It clinched and rolled side by side in close
r conflict. The cry of foul raised from Nc
! Coolies corner, the ropes cut and the Wild
est excitement prevailed for few moments the
S referee afraid to give decision-seyeral
e pistols being presented at his head.
, Allen outfought McCoole all the way through,
d and to all appearances would have won the fight
: if allowed to proceed. McCoole was much
blown and badly punished, and really whipped.
d The fight lasted about twenty minutes
o
CITY OF PALMYRA OR TADMoR.-Tadmor signi-
It ies palm-tree. An ancient city said to have
s been founded by Solomon, and one of the finest
oIfin Of tbn
l. was situated abou. one hundred miles east of
l. Damascus, twenty west of the Euphrates, and
1t one hundred and twenty from the Aleppo, on a
l. kind of island, separated from the habitable
earth by a vast expanse of barren sands. Alex
ander the Great, who conquered it, gave it the
O name OF Palmyra, or the city OF palms, because
. of its position amid palm groves. There is eX-
tant folio volume with fifty plates, illustrating
the ruins of this ancient city. Its desoate situ-
>, alton in the midst of vast and arid plain its
high antiquity, and its almost countless remains
of architectural splendor, claim for it the first
- attention among the famous monuments of past
- ages. At present, it may be said to consist of
~ ~ forest of Corinthian pillars erect and fallen.
- So numerous they, that the spectator is at a
loss to reduce them to any order, or to conceive
for what purpose they were designed " In the
2 space covered by these ruins, says celebrated
- modern traveller, we sometimes find a palace OF
which nothing remains but the court and the
:. walls sometimes temple whose perlstyle Is
:. half thrown down; and then portco or gal
u lery or trumphal arch. Here stood groups Of
columns whose symmetry is destroyed by the
: fall of some of them there we see ranged in
rows of such length, that like rows of trees they
=, deceive the sight, and assume the appearance Of
u solid walls. Andfwe cast our eyes on the ground
we behold nothing but subverted shafts, some
above others shattered to pieces, dislocated in
u their joints. And whichever way we lock the
earth is strewed with vast stones half buried, with
+o1 &c.
relics, effaced sculptures, violated tombs, and
affairs deGled by dust" OF all the ruins those
of the temple of the sun are the most magnif-
a cent. Situated on the great commercial thor
: oughfare between Syria and Mesopotamia, it is
probable that Tadmor was place of Importance
long before the time of Solomon, and was used
by him for purposes of commercial enterprise
1t is very obvious that the present ruins belong
l to different and far distant ages. The place is
E now occupied by some twenty or thirty huts or
hovels which afford shelter to few wild Arabs.
SAMARKAND.-This ancient city lately consti-
tuted the capital of the newly organized Russian
f province of Torkestan, is of the oldest in the
r world. 1t was here that Alexander the Great
e murdered Clitus and married Roxana. 1t was
at that time twelve leagues in circumference, in
5 closed by strong wall, having six forts and
twelve gates, with battlements, and deep ditch
a filled with water from the Sodg. Every street
was supplied by a canal and every house with
+ fountain and every garden with abundance of
water. In Tamerlane's time the city was his
capital, and famous seat of learning Tanner
lanes remains here buried. The city had
over hundred and fifty thousand Inhabitants.
, The buildings of Samarkand are of no mean Or
der. The finest of them constructed of stone.
of which excellent qualities are near by. The
mosques are much decayed The markets fur
nish pears, apples, melons and grapes, etc. in
the greatest abundance: and the silk paper
manufactured here is the finest to be had in
! Asia Under the fostering hand of Russian en-
terprlse, the city will undoubtedly become again
what 1t was for more than a thousand wears the
metropolis of Asia. railroad is now in pro
gress by way of Orenberg and the mouth of the
Cyr; and within year the traveller NAV On bv
steam from st. Petersburg to Samarkand. at
which point he will be but about five hundred
miles from the nearest railroad station in Hin
dostan. - ~