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GRAND OPERA HOUSE----BUFFALO BILL
A very amusing and instructive entertainment was given at the Grand Opera House last night. It was illustrative of a peculiar phase of American life and the principal character in it was Mr.Cody (Hon. Buffalo Bill). It was designed to show how citizens and the wards of our government conduct themselves in the Far West. The title of the play was "The Scouts of the Plains" Among the many American plays presented to the public of late years, this has certainly the merit of being the most lively in action. A large amount of gunpowder is expended upon it. Mr.Cody, as the hero, is armed with a repeating rifle, and he certainly succeeded last night in soaring away all the carpenters and their assistant from the "flies". It is remarkable that the dead shot, when aiming for a "supe," should shoot a carpenter in the stage regions above. The cabin, which for all the world looked like a Fulton market oyster stall of the older time. He was in company with an old man who whined constantly, a Quaker who dispensed tracts and said "Verlen," a young woman of serio-comic proclivities and an impossible Irishman. The oyster stall (log house) was attacked by fearfully and wonderfully dressed Indians, who were evidently suffering from the effects of the late torchlight processions. Mr. Cody had an interesting discussion with them and much paint was disfigured on the occasion. The dialogue of this remarkable play is very monoallyabic and therefore intelligible to the most tender intelligent and has probably has its origin in a primary school book or a dime novel. Mr. Cody may be congratulated on having produced one of the most extraordinary American plays of the prosent day.