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Show A Sunflay Xight Knock-Out. . Last night between 9 and 10 o'clock a fisticuff scrimmage occurred on Main street, near -Third South, which proved exceedingly interesting to both spectators and participants.- It appears that three young gentlemen, members of the Young Men's Christian Association, were walking walk-ing up the street after attendance at the Methodist Church, discussing as they walked the different points and purport of the sermon they had just heard. The religious discussion attracted the attention at-tention of a crowd of young "toughs" near the Union block, and one of them, I Lfciand by name, without the fear of the Lord in his heart, and not knowing the outward physical " capabilities which sometimes accompany the inward spiritual attributes of: members of the above association, rashly remarked that he could whip any religious s. b. in the crowd, adding force to the" remark by push-mS push-mS up against one of the eaidyoun me?u Prize 2 rales were nt called for ?1 b.y?ng man assaulted, but leading with his right he countered on Leland and sent him to mud, being ablv a Tv y 3 ne of his companions. Another round followed, in which the young church member got a sockdolager on the nose which drew the claret, but, having faith in Davy Crockett's motto he was again sure of his right, and amlris opponent was knocked out in the river of mud. The third round resulted in another quick, muscular victory for the Lord, and this so irritated the voune "tough" that he drew an infant.- snickersnee .and proclaimed his intention of performing a dissection dis-section on the young man's "liver and otherwise disorganizing his delicate Christian digestive apparatus by a large and miscellaneous insertion of cold steel winding up with a threat that he would probably kill him whea he saw him later. . The sequel has Tiot yet been determined, deter-mined, but in all probability the victor of last night's encounter lias instituted a very healthy respect for muscular Christianity Christ-ianity into the soul of the young "tough" who was vain enough to imagine he could whip the entire Young Men's Christian Association. |