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AMUSEMENTS.

Comstock's Opera House.

Buffalo Bill - Hon. W. F. Cody and his excellent combination have the credit of drawing the largest house of the season in this city. Comstocks's Opera House was literally packed last night. All the standing room was even taken in the gallery and in the auditorium. The boxes also were filled. It was an immense house and an immense performance. Mr. Cody is still the great impersonator of the scout, hunter and marksman, a true character of a Western hero. He is well supported and it is impossible to speak in detail of the excellent parts of the different members of the combination. The Indians are a curiosity and bring out more vividly the scenes and adventures of Western life, but they are no artists as actors on the stage. The play of May Cody deals with the Mormon Danites and the Mountain Meadow massacre, as well as other frontier events, and it takes with the masses in a most remarkable way. The audience was wild with enthusiasm over the presentation of these scenes with all the blood and thunder that could be put into a stage exercise. Mr. Cody is both an actor and a marksman of great parts. Miss Denier is excellent and Chas. Wilson, as Darby McCune, creates rounds of laughter. It is altogether a show for the period.