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BUFFALO BILL.

On Wednesday and Thursday evenings of next week the well known characteas, Buffalo Bill and Texas Tack, assisted by the talented danseuse, Mlle. Morlachi, will appear at the Opera House in the sensational play, "Scouts of the plains." Of their performance, the Springfield Journal says: "Buffalo Bill and Texas Jack performed marvelous feats of bravery, and met with various hair-breath escapes while attempting to rescue to lovely maidens from the ruthless savages. The interest of the play was kept up from the first, and the bloodthirsty nature of the savage was well portrayed by six or eight persons in all the war paint, and all the paraphernalia of the frontier war path. The crack of the rifle and the shrill warwhoop of the Indian rang out with all the earnestness and vivid reality of actual frontier life. The captive girls, in all the trying situations of prisoners in the hands of border outlaws, acted their parts to perfection. The burlesque of the Government Indian peace commission was admirably carried out and placed the peace policy in a most ridiculous light. Mlle. Morlacchi as "Pale Dove," or the stolen child, was a prime feature of the play, and her singing and dancing very fine. Frank Mordaunt as "Jim Daws," a horse thief and outlaw, filled the bill in dress, expression of countenance, voice and action. Walter Fletcher, as "Nick Blunder," was magnificent success."