The Virginia Gazette

A few days ago as a young Gentleman, by profession a surgeon, from Wakefield in Yorkshire, was on a visit to a relation at Hathersage in Derbyshire, he joined an assembly of young persons of both sexes at a dancing room at that place (it being their wake, or fair) when he singled out a beautiful young Lady, with whom he danced; but this exciting the indignation of a farmer, who paid his addresses to the said Lady, a battle ensued, when several of the farmer's friends fell upon the young Gentleman (seeing he had the better of the engagement) and beat him in a very terrible manner, which so enraged him that he took down a loaded fowling piece from the chimney, and fired among them, one of whom had his arm shattered to pieces, and another was so much wounded in the belly that his life is despaired of.