Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-09-15
Il EVENING NEWS.
wednesday Rvsnlas.--.-sepr. is, 1859
Lively rsh. in Gold Hin Early Thi.

wednesday Evening.---Sept. Is, 1865
Lively FlsA' In M SsiS nn' Early Thu
Last night, in an uptown saloon,
where the boys'' like to get together,
and enjoy q few leisure hours over a pc,
Of beer, and to chat about present and
past times, q little dispute arose between
two Of them, which led to a "sligh'
onpleasantness," as Nasty would gently
remark, and which resulted in a chal-
lsngs being given by n to the other to
6ght it out like gentlemen early this
morning-all of which was agreed to by
the party of the eecond part. There
fore, o after sunrise this morning,
the disputants, their seconds and 20
witnesses made their appearance on a
IA. adjacent to Tunnel No. 3, V. & 7.
r. R., half q mile east OF Gold Hill,
smelling the psrfumed breezes afar of,
and painting for the fray, which can only
be likened unto one Of the set-up loco
motives of the railroad at Carson TO
take the first load Of passengers
down to Warm Springs to get a hot
bath. But We digress. The stakes
were driven this morning for the
fight, q half dollar toss decided the
positions for the c~ombatants, the
seconds took their stands, the ring was
made, and Johnny Sleeves cast his
beaver into the ring as q better man
than Johnny Dayy-both good, muscu.
lar miner boys Of thirty, or less, who
were reared in the pleasant country Of
Cornwall, England. No money was at
stake, but as to "who wa, the better
man" in the premises. Some consider
ate friend had taken q big tin bucket OF
water and q sponge TO the place Of bat
tie, thinking that cold water is good
to stop blood wounds and another had
taken q stop-watch and q bottle OF
"~soothing syrup" expecting that they
might do to call "time F" with.
The new candidates for pugilistic
fame presented q fine muscular appear
ance when they were stripped, and
looked none the worse for having been
On their beer" last night. Both were
posted as to the rules Of the pugilistic
ring, and time" being called they ap-
preached each other and shook hands,
after which they looked as serious as a
camp meeting deacon about to say pray
ers, and then commenced
Round First - Each fighter threw
himself into q genuine Joe-Coburn
attitude, and after a few harm
less passes, Sleeves let fly from
the left shoulder aud his fist came in
terribly sharp contact with Davy's
right eye, tearing off suudry skin
on the ~starboard side, and permitting a
few drops Of claret to exude. First
blood for Shelves.
Round Second-Time called, and both
came up all standing-Davy evidently
feeling coniiderably chafed around the
right eye, and knowing that the stom-
ach is q good place to hit before break
fast, he let fly q terrible sockdollager
from the right, which hit Sleeves into
the brsadbasket and curled him up
quite sxcruciatingly-so that he really
seemed as if he had eaten cucumbers or
watermelons for breakfast-so he went
to the turf-(ths battle was fought on
rich turf, to make falling easy)-Davy
being on top.
Round Third-Time called, and the
man with the bucket and sponge retired
10 the outside of the ropes. Johnny
Davy came to the scratch with a varie-
pateda and highly-colored rainbow around
his pepper, and looked as if he had pros
pected for specimens of purple-colored
quartz. Sleeves seemed to want to 60
right in, and struck of rather wild
Davy's pepper bothering him a little, be
was ready to clinch, which was his
strong forte, as he can, on a square
wrestle, throw Sleeves every time. So
they lust naturally ran together like two
lovers, and fell over just about as easy
-Davy, Of course, being on top.
Round Fourth-Skewes let fly from
the left, and hitting Davy on the right
side o: the head, made him see a num-
Der Of stars in Tunnel No. 3, and bis
pins giving away, he went down on the
turf to save punishment.
Round Fihh-Both came to their work
in bully styls."' The bottle holder
having encouraged them "ou to victory
or to death" Davy's demoralized con-
dition when he went to sod, and his
right pepper in mourning, made him
feel as if the fortunes Of war were
ufornenst" him, SO he bristled up with
John Morrissey in his minds eye-you
bet. Several sharp passes were made
on both sides, when Dary, with an eye
single to victory, let fly his right
mauler, so determined, so giant-like and
so direct towards Sleeves smeller, that
he lodged the aforesaid, and went on
his knees like q repentant sinner.
Round Sixth-Both men came up to
the scratch with swelled and bleeding
lips, and both considerably punished
Davy's eye evidently going to sleep,
while Sleeves blowed like a porpoise,
caused by the different heavy blows he
cot in the small of the ribs. Several
active FONTS and hard hits were made
but missed, when Dary concluded to
clineh his antagonist, and had just Crap
pied him, when down Sleeves went on one
knee, and just then Davy struck Sleeves
in the mouth, when the seconds sung
out foul blow" and Davy walked oil
to put on his clothes. Sleeves got up
and raised a good sized stone, saying
he was struck foul" and intended to
use it on the valiant but retiring Davy.
The seconds interfered, and prevented
the use Of the rocky weapon, when
Sleeves challenged Davy to come on
and SIGHT it OUT" but Dary replied that
he would fghti il out at some other time,
and the seconds declared it a draw
Thus ended our latest fght in Gold
Hill. Both patients are now presenting
the appearance of a small sized butcher
,bopEbeef all over the head.