Show civilization and barbarism we are humiliated that respectable papers publish all the details given in the english press of the late brutal fight between king and heenan the first telegraphic report seemed extensive elou enough h in all conscience but did not seem to satisfy to show our readers how really brutal more so than any ordinary dog fight could possibly be we copy a paragraph or two ft aiom om the conclusion of an extended account of the fi fight lit given in ill the london times ills his face soon became a fri frightful hatful spectacle although far less hideous th thin in at the cloe ot of his battle with sa bacis cis at last even the dull and opaque humanities of his hh friends were stirred and after another merciless round in which the falling strength of the gibat gi cat glodi gi adi ator was no longer capable of affording him a shadow of defense lie ho was at the close of the twenty fourth round withdrawn reluctantly there were great cheers as king won to which for a low lew moments ho be was very deaf for the pace had bad been deiy rapid and all powerful as ho be nv was as the heavy falls had shaken his vitality and the giant who had strode into the ile rin ring an avci match for all could scarcely cloo fils his fingers lound tho the glass of water which bich was to keep him from fainting inting ta yet there must be a soul of goodness fodness ness even in things evil for the first really conscious thought that flitted flirted through his mind was a wish io to malc make friends with his late antagonist and as he said it lie he lunged heavily through tho the crowd of his admirers admi rera to a little knot inot of curious lookers on amid whom what seemed the corpse of the redoubtable heenan now lay thus the cruel contest ended heenan though not nearly so much punished as when lie ho fought at farnborough darnborough Farn borough A was aas as evidently much injured he was puls e less at the wrists and even over tile the heart the palpitation was faint and low yet he be had not fainted it was the insensibility of exhaustion sheer want of vitality though almost till he collapsed so suddenly he was supposed to be the winner one man was trying to heave up ills his immense inanimate form while another tripped stripped the wet drawers stained deep with his own blood from the limbs of the stunned athlete there was a dreadful significance in the way in hi which he was hauled about limb b by limb as warmer clothes were dragged over g his unconscious form like di essing a corpse yet no one seemed to mind much for all were cron crowding ding round the ictor who with very little signs of punishment about his face came gaily up in the train back to town heenan was laft left with his seconds on oa the field he had bad had fought to win no one seemed to think much 0 ol 01 him bim ho was beaten and among pug alig cheze is no mercy for the defeated fair or foul there is 19 as yet only one morality NN ith them success still there are men alive who think they can revive the prize ling aini it would be as easy to restore the sports of the arena 1 and this in england the contre centre of the civilization of the century I 1 ane affair witnessed by a multitude most of whom nibe brutal thin the beasts of the field and tho accounts of it gloated over by the half of the british nation 1 I 1 sandusky Saw lusky 0 Be register registe Regi giste |