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Show A FRIGHTFUL FIGHT. On Saturday afternoon last, a most shameful fight occurred in a lot near the Main street of this city. Two little boys not more than seven or eight years of age, were induced by their chief companions to engage in a combat; and both being possessed of a considerable grit, the affair became serious. They struck, scratched and kicked each other; pulled hair and swore, while larger boys among them brothers of the two young pugilists, instead of preventing their encounter, seemed rather to cheer them on. Finally the weaker of the two succumbed, and without making any effort to prolong the contest, laid quite motionless upon the ground receiving the blows of his opponent. At this juncture a boy in the service of Doctor Ormsby discovered the situation and immediately went to the rescue. He lifted the prostrate child and finding that he was badly hurt and unable to walk, carried him into the doctors office. There he presented a shocking spectacle being bruised, and the face and hands being covered with blood. So utter was his exhaustion, that during the few minutes he remained at the drug store, he swooned three times. These children had been taught better, but on account of the extreme youth, they cannot be held as responsible as those who surrounded them and induced them to engage in the fight. The affair points a lesson to parents which they would do well to heed. |