After Fix gets Passepartout drunk, causing him to nearly miss the boat from China (and unable to tell Fogg and Aouda that it's leaving earlier than expected), Passepartout runs into him on the boat to California, and immediately unleashes a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown on him... to the undisguised amusement of the American passengers who start taking bets.
A violent riot in San Francisco turns out to be the election of a Justice of the Peace.
Passepartout's opinion of Mormonism and polygamy, and his fear that some of the Mormon women are looking at him as a potential husband.