Pugilists, Variety Actors and Opera Bouff People on a Grand Hurrah.

The Long Island Sound steamboat, "City of New York," had a strange conglomeration of characters on board on her trip from New York to New London, Conn., the other night. It was Sunday night, and the Aimee opera troupe, Harrigan & Hart's variety troupe, Johnny Dwyer, who recently fought and whipped Elliott; Dooney Harris, Dwyer's backer, and several gamblers, roughs and sporting men were on board. Aimee played poker with three male members of her troupe all the way up. Dwyer and Dooney entered into friendly gin-hiding competition, and the variety people shocked the Sunday sanctity with variations upon the ballad “Such an education has my Mary Ann." During the voyage Dwyer and Harris discussed theological questions with more energy than discretion, especially Mr. Harris, who, feeling himself aggrieved at being called a Roman pup, gave one of his gang an unanswerable argument in the shape of a knockdown blow. The two troupes numbered one hundred and fifty people, and there were fifty or sixty other passengers. By the time the boat reached New London the bibulous element in the party had succumbed to the insidious character of their beverages, and were quiet as lambs, but Aimee obligingly sang now and then for the benefit of those who had ears to hear. It was a red-hot time all round, and there were some sore and swelled heads in the party of amusement artists which landed in Boston on Monday morning.

Illustrated Police News, June 21, 1879.