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Buffalo Bill.

Another crowded house at the theatre last
night attests the popularity of Buffalo Bill as a
delineator of the western scout and guide. At
each visit to this city the character of the piece
as presenting frontier life undergoes improvement,
and now the combination is one that
gives, better than ever before, scenes upon the
plains. By omitting promiscuous Indians,
retaining only two or three veritable ones introducing
an Irishman for the fun, substituting
tableaux for indiscriminate firing of guns and
pistols, a near approach to the genuine thing is
given. The Austin brothers gave an exhibition
of their accurate marksmanship, using the
Frank Wesson rifle, and one of the characters
showed what it is possible to do with the mule
whip, with which he kept the nervous ones in
anything but a happy condition by the rapidity
of the cracks, loud as musket reports, he
discharged over the heads. The efforts of the
company were received with vociferous applause,
and such a yell of welcome as went up
for Buffalo Bill has not been very recently
heard here.