From the Richmond Dispatch, 6/25/1866, p. 1, c. 5

MURDEROUS FIGHT AT CHIMBORAZO. – On Saturday night two negroes living in the vicinity of Chimborazo got into a fight. For a time they used nothing but the weapons which nature had given them; but at last they seized rocks, and beat each other vigorously. One of them dealt the other a tremendous blow upon the head, fracturing the skull in two places. At a late hour on yesterday evening the fractured negro was in a very critical condition, and it is not expected that he will recover. The negro who inflicted the blow has not been arrested.

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