The Portland daily press., 1867-09-12
Miscellany.
EGes, of the .slsimao on Litern,are.

Eueet OF tMe on lItef010PP.
A correspondent of the Springfield Repub-
lican, referring to the late brutal prize fight.
reported all over the country by the tele-
graphic agents OF the Associated Press, holds
forth as follows: slg
Do not imagine that am opposed to prize
lighting. Pit all the brutes in the country
one against the other; let them fight il out on
their chosen lines. if it takes all summer. and
encroaches on the better part OF winter If
the desirable consun.mation of the celebrat-
ed Kilkenny cat case be not reached, let the
gallows sep into The ring, and "put UP its
inns, sending those who come up ..fresh and
smiling most emphaticalIy and permanently
"to Srass'-fight the devils with their own
fire, and get them transferred to their own ell
ement, where they can batter away at each
other to all eternity without outraging hui
matity, as soon as possible. Optics peep
ers," spectacular organs" smelling boxes"
"bugles," ''claret jars 'proboscises, shorns,'
"sniifers," potato traps" "kissers," scheese
boxes" are these phrases to become incor-
porated into our literature, through their
damnable iteration in the dailies? Fancy a
love scene written up as folows:-
Twas night, and the aromatic Arabella and
the tullSlnous Fitzfoodle, in accordance with
previous arrangement-play or pay being
49, Wv WSAS oCdtCu Ill Tile garden. Both
were IN excellent condition, and showed the
benefit of good training. -
AfaDeha was little too much in flesh, per-
haps, but FitzfOodle didn't carry an ounce of
spare weight and stepped smilingly into the
ring, looking confidens Of winning.
Inc moon In the far heavens Law smiling
and serene like bottle-holder, while the stars
looked down with their mild spectular organs,
seemingly ready to act as referees.
A clock in the naiUhh0rino E;tol,ox. ..uol
time.
Little was lost in preliminary sparring: side
by SIDE sat the amative amateurs crashing
each others mawleys. Indeed, it was a beau
tlful scene, calling back memories of the hal
cyon day when. the Cohoes Chicken had a
mill with the Skeneateles Sockdollager.
A counter or ito, and Fitzfoodle neatly got
his left fin round Arabella's ribs, his right still
grasplng her small and delicate bunch of
f7es. -
rs your money mine % asked Fitzfoodle in
in tender accents. 80 -.
No reply was heard; it was evident that
this side winder had knocked the breath out
of Arabella.
but the decentralization was but momenta-
rry. Il don't see it," she said, getting her left
i'm out of chancery. ll
This was one on Eitzfoodle's mob. He
went down on his knees in order to 10 avoid
further punishment. At this there were
cries of fowl" "fowl," in a restaurant near
by, and the victory was claimed for Ara
bella. :. -. 5sI i - : 7lE-1-l
But Fitzfoodle refused to give it I'M. and
both retired to their corners. -.
Arabella came up looking game to the back
bone; Fitzfoodle, notwithstanding his late
puni :hment, still smiling and confidert
My parents are wealthy" he murmred,
and again got his left duke in on Arabejla's
ribs, and fibbing away there unit, there was
danger of row outside the ropes. -
THE fgure?" she gasped.
"A peach orchard in New Jersey" he re-
turned, and with that put one on her potato
trap, which she returned with interest on his
kisser There was lively round of SOUNDING
exchanges, and it was plain that from thai
forth titztoodle had the fight his own way
Finding it useless to longer bold out, Ara
bella row threw up the sponge. closed her
lovely peppers, and reposed her curly knowl-
edge-6ox peacefully upon Fitzfocdle's manly
breadbasket, utterly regardless of the fact
that huge m 'squito had tapped her bugle
ana was drawing the claret at a fearful rate
object to having love scenes done IN like
that, but such will be the result if prize fight
ing. be permitted to engross columns that
claim to be respectable, forcing its techpicaIi
ties and slckenlng details uuon the notice of
susceptible generation. = iI IA. ~ :