Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1858 — A Prize Figth at Lafayette, Ind. [ARTICLE]

A Prize Figth at Lafayette, Ind.

Fancy stock is going up, and prize figlitk are not without their effects: Robt. Jones and B. \V. Chase, two limbs of the law, hail a fist-fight ini Court, at Lafayette, on Wednesday last. The Lafayette Courier gives the following graphic account Of the first round : [ “Mr. Chase gave Mr. Jones the lie, whereupon Mr. Jones planted a well directed blow between the two eyes of the aforesaid Mr. Chase, and was about tq fellow up his advantage, when Mr. Clmse aforesaid ‘got home,’.as the-fancy’ exp ess it, with a beautiful ‘right counter’ on the frontispiece of the aforesaid Mr. Jones, and the attorney for the plaintili’ dropped, as limber as four cent muslin. He came to ‘time’ however, and | closing with the railroad attorney, piled him i into the jury-box in a very uncomfortable shape.” ■ As the parties were both exhausted, friends j interfered, and iuul tlie second round post-i poned. Cff7*As indicative of the desperate betting j spirit so prevalent in sporting circles just, previous todlie brutal fight between Morrissey and lloonan. the Troy Times instances the case of a master mechanic of that, iffy, who, by years of persevering toil and careful economy, managed to aceuuuiJute about six thousand do! ars’ worth of property in real estate. All this lie mortgaged, and bet every cent bt the money thus secured upon Morrissey.