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" THE SCOUTS OF THE PLAINS."----- Buffalo Bill and Texas Jack, the renowned American scouts, and a company of dramatic performers, presented their exciting programme to Hamilton audience at the Mechanics' Hall last evening. Before the drama was brought on a laughable farce entitled " Servants by Legacy" was played, in which the comic characters of Dan and Pompey were well sustained by Messrs. A. Johnson and Walter Fletcher. This was followed by the " Scouts of the Plains." This play depots frontier life on the great prairies as realized a few years ago. The drama opens in the peaceful log cabin, whose occupants were shortly to be surprised by bloodthirsty Indians, led on by the villain and renegade of the party.
Some of the peaceful settlers are murdered in cold blood, and others carried into captivity. The scouts, by their courage and decisive actions, are enabled after numerous hair-breadtn escapes and exciting Indian battles to ultimately rescue the captive from the hands of the Indians and to kill desperado of the play. Of course the principal characters in the play are those taken by Buffalo Bill and Texas Jack, and the daring manner in which their respective roles were rendered called forth repeated and excessive rounds of applause. Their movements under exciting circumstances, and dexterity in handling the knife, rifle, revolver and Iasso were just what would be expected of cool, determined fellows who are at home in the midst of danger on the plains. Mr. Frank Mordant in the character of Jim Davis, renegade and horse-thief, made it, a remorseless villain of the blackest dye, capable of any murderous scheme. The assignment of this part to Mr. Mordant was a natural cast, for this acting was excellent. Uncle Henry was well assumed by J. V. Arlington, while Nick Blunder and Ebenezer Langsbank, to exceedingly comical parts, received every justice at the hands of Walter Fletcher and A. Johnson. miss Hollis as Ella, and Miss Hudson as Lettle, the daughters of the murdered settlers, were characters played with much feeling. An unlimited corps of Indians who seemed to know their business completed the cast. the play never failed to keep up its interest to the end. To-night the same bill is repeated.