Show A THOUSAND ROWDIES it way wata a sight Y yesterday eat erday those two old dingy steamboats 11 with ith their throng of people en route to the prize fight as they touched at the alton levee A harder lo looking oldrig crowd has lias never looked alton in in the face outsize of the penitentiary A friend informs us that he made an actual count of a part of the boat from fro the shore and found one hundred and sixty two of them with each an eye gouged out we do nt not vouch for the statement but from all accounts it was the hardest looking assemblage ever seen an fn m these pat ts we understand that healir horrible scenes seen were enacted by these desperadoes both on the steamers an anil at the island pistol shots and oaths and yells were heard at the alton levee levea shore from the boats one of the steamers in returning at e evening had to stop her headway and back up tip when just past antonto Al alton tonto to pick up persons who had bad fallen overboard while fighting two men were shot dead and several island the fight was for between two rather noted brul bruisers sers byrnes and shanghai connors they had enjoyed one or two battles with each other previously the contest was very short some say 8 slid and some 15 rounds round were i ere fota fought glit it ended bya by a foul blow from byrnes so judges decided neither of the bullies were w ere seat sea rely injured the whole thing seemed to be made mad up beforehand ard and the crowd at once became ditt outrageous fights pistol shots and quarreling commenced among the outsiders one roan mail tells us it w vas as dangerous to run and dangerous to stand still the people were w ere mostly inflamed with liquor many of them very much so and it seemed as aa though pandemonium L lad ad broken up for a season ard and alexion of devils were let loose alfou Dio democrat crat |