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the fact of the bold hunter after the red man in the West and the equally successful hunter o the pungen red eye in the East.
It is a well-known fact taht not the most trivial incident of the great escapes the eye of history; thus it was with untamed hunter of the buffalo, his dejected looks ere nighfall were accounted for: He had grown tired of the slow monotony of life in the gay cities and longed once more for the bracing air and untammedled freedom of his native plains, even as the thirsty toper after a lively attack of the jim-james pants for the flowing bowl. But he did not intend to fly alone. The arrow of Cupid had pierced his heart and long association with Dove eye, of blood and thunder troupe, in which Bill is a shining light, had made him a slave to her charms. It may be as well to state here that Dove Eye, who passes for a dusky maiden -- an [word?] and gentle denizen of the forest - is a native of the County of Wexford, and passed her early years in the City of Cork in the Gem of the Sea. How she derived her Indian descent, according to the bills and posters of the copany, is not stated adn remains a but for the conming ethnologist to crack. However that may be, bill was in love with Dove Eye, as before remarked. He loved her with a devotion which was only equaled by his love for red eye. Yesterday he approached the object of his affectiong and in accordance with the dime novel code of etiquette, cast a longing look at Dove Eye, and explained: "Fly with Me. Let us once more live on the boundless prairie, never to return to the haunts of the pale face. Toward the setting sun we will rear our dusky race, and swear them to eternal enmity to the whites in general and constables, and other varminis in particular. My steed awaits, let us go; or I meant to say, we can take the Kaukakee route time shorter, and far as low as any other routhe" - siad Bill remembreing that steeds were played out. "Dove Eye, fly with me to the desert: rememebr that there is but one change of ears on the great Kangaroo thourhg line.
"The Heart of the Buffalo Slayer"
Is lonely there is no one to share his wigwam, none to cook the leathery buffalo when he returns home wearly from the change, and he boils the join of roast dog and other aboriginal luxuries in solitude. There is no charge for omnibus transfers, and two expereinced doctors with a full comp[?]ment of amputating apparatus on all through trains."William would have said much more had he not been pretty well charged with fire-water, and had he not tired to encircle the slender waist of Dove Eye to give emphasis to his wooing. This change of tactics brough conversation to a sudden close, Dove Eye, the real and loving for further particulars see small hills -- has a temper of her own, the warmth of which is accounted for by her auburn ringlets.
She made no reply, but picked up a war club used on the stage and laid it with [word?] gentle forced and percision over bison hunter's [word?] that he rolled to the floor. "I'll tache yes ye long0haird spalpeen to be calling a dacent girl all them names," said she, in a brogue of the mintutored man from over the waters. With this solve observation she proceeded to sid down on William's manly but prostrate from with a heftiness tha left him little breath for war-whoops in the evening performance. He hasalso a dim recollection that a few handfuls of blonde locks taht he lost were twisted out of his scalp in the fray. As soon as Dove Eye got out of breath, William left the room a sadder and a wiser man, and will at once advertise for another Indian maiden, prefacing the same with the positive assurance that no red-haired ones need apply.
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CINCINNATI,
The Scouts at Pike's Opera House,
Ned Buntline and his scouts, Buffalo Bill - or "Boefalo Bull," as the Dutch Comedian calls him - and Texas Jack have been crowding Pike's Opera House nightly during the week. They perform in a sensational drama written by Ned Buntline, entitled "The Scouts of the Prairie." It is chock full of "Injuns," tomahawks, bucksink, moccasins, bead work, war clubs, paint dances, death songs, feathers, scalps and scalping knives. The play opens with a scene on the Plains. There isn't a great deal seen on the Plains, but there is probably as much seen in this scene as is seen in any other like scene. Ned Buntline comes on in a buckskin suit and long rinlets of supernaturally black hari. He represents Cale Durg the trapper, although he has no "traps" about him except a rile and a knife or two. he talks to his rilfe and calls it his "trusty friend." It is a good thing to have a trusty friend, particulary when yo want "trust." Cale wonders were his comrades Buffalo Bill and Texas jack are tarrying, although he left them in the dresssing-room a few minutes before, and he knows it. The scouts at length arrive - they relate a wonderous story of a hunt, and in the midst of it "Dove Eye," a noble red girl, daughter of a hostile chief, comes on and warns . them they are in danger. Wolf Slayer is on their trail. He couldn't get on her trail for she don't war any, short dresses being her weakness. The scouts . delcare they will "wipe the red-skins out," and then disappear with a war-whoop. Dove Eye disappears in a war-hoop-skirt.
Scene second represents the renegades, camp. The renegades came there. Mormon Been is the boss renegade. He has forty-nine wives in Utah, and wants the fiftieth before he can die happy. Ben's companions are Carl Preztel, a Dutchman, who sings a capital song, and a boozy Irishman, who is continually hunting a drink. The author of the play, who is a strict totaly abstienence man, employs this character very frequently as a text for a temperance lecutre, which is quite effective sometimes. Three young men who sat near us the other night, were so much affected by one of these lectures that they went out and got a drink. A few words spoken in season do a great deal of good frequently - to Doc. Hickey.
Hazel Eye (Morlacchi) Comes on in the third scene and recites a poem to the effect that Cale Durg was "born in March," during a particularly severe portion of that tempestuous month, as was likely to durg out in March finally. it was very "durgey." At the conclusion of the peom, which was rendered with no inconsiderable power, Hazel Eye is Suprised by the Indians, which is not surprising under the circumstances, and after a hard fight on her part, and the orchestra has a severe tussle with their insturments, Hazel Eye is overpowered and bound for over thrity days. Cale bursts in at this crisis, and fights them all single-handed. But the contest is too unqueal. Cale is made a prisoner and bound to the stake. (We have seen men bound to the st steak very often before, but they were bound to their dinner.) The Indians circule around him, singing the Death Song. They are going to cook him. Oven wood is brought in for that purpose, and heaped about his moccasins. We have sins to answer for, but we wouldn't want to answer for those mocca-sins if the fire gets started. Durg, who isn't one big frightened, knowing very well how the play is coming out, calls them "Injun dogs" and scornfully tells them to "burn and be -- quick about it."
Dove Eye the Indian maiden, who seems to be tripping over the Plains just to resecue folks from her relations, dances in, and takes in the situation at a glance. She severs the bonds ofHazel Eye, and together they release Cale Durg, which of course brings on a fight. Buffalo Bill and Texas Jack arrive just in the nick of time, and of course the red men are wiped out. There is a fearful slaughter of Indians all through the play. Ned Buntline didn't think any more of killing forty or fifty Indians when he works up a story . than he does of eating his breakfast.
In the second act the Indians take the war path, and other by and forbidden paths, accompanied by Mormon Ben, in search of his fiftieth wife, the boozy Irishman in search of a drink, and the Dutchman who wanted to catch " Boefalo Bull unt Shackas Tex." Wolf Slayer, leader of the band, is seized with the temperance disorder, and makes a very effective cold water speech, inspired by the sight of the Irishman's bottle, in which he says "red-eye" is the scourage of the red men. By the way, why is it that an irishman is invariably selected on the stage to represent drunkenness? There are as many drunken Americans as drunken Irishmen.
We cannot follow all the vici[?]itudes of the play. There is much bloody fighting, in which the scouts invariably figure. The two I's, Hazey Eye and Dove Eye, are again made prisoners by the Indians Durg comes to the rescue, but, unfortuantley, it is the month of March, and he is killed. Before expiring he snatches his rifle and deliberate shoots an Injun, when he immediately lies down and dies with a serene and happy smile upon his countenance. The scouts take terrible vengence for his his death; slaughtering and scalping copper-colored "supes" on every hand. Being a little short of Injuns, they had to be killed several times over. We counted sixteen times that one poor "supe" was killed during the play.
Buffalo Bill and Texas Jack marry Dove and Hazel Eyes, and the play closes with a magnificent scene of a prairie on fire, the fire being commuicated, as we judged, from the buring ador of the scouts' love. There are many exciting situations in the play, and it is recieved with the most unbounded applause. Buffalo Bill is a magnificent specimen of a man, and has a native grace of movement that is quite captivating. Jack has a fine physique also.
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INDIAN SLAYERS ON OUR STREETS. [line] They Pay Their Respects to the Press. [line] Ned Buntline's famous tales of the career of the Great Wester notables, "Texas Jack" and "Buffalo Bill," have been read by the thousands, and the breath-taking deeds therein record
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CORINTHIAN HALL, THREE NIGHTS ONLY, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, APRIL 11th, 12th, and 13th. SUSAN DENIN AND BUFFALO BILL Combination Will be Produced Fred Meder's [word?] of Ned Buntline's Great Border Story Published in New York Weekly. BUFFALO BILL KING OF THE BORDER MEN, Miss Susan De[?] [dots] Littie. Mr. Edwin F. Thorse as [dots] Buffalo Bill. Admission 50 and 75 cents, Seats can be secured at Dewey [word?] Wanted - Fifty young men to assist in the production of Buffalo Bill. Apply Wednsday. [word?]
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MARK THE GREAT EVENT [line] Announcement Extraordinary. [line] [?????] Saturday & Monday Evenings, December 7th and 9th, at HODGE OPERA HOUSE [line] [?]E MORIUS TURCK, From Booth's Theatre, New York City, in [?] [?] Great Story from the New York Weekly, Dramatized by FRED G. [?], Esq., of BUFFALO BILL! "King of the Border Men." Assisted by Miss Bubie Stevens, and a full and talented company of NEW YORK ARTISTS [?] Band And Orchestra. For Particulars see Programmes [??????] News Dept. A. G. CAMBRDIGE, Business Manager. Claude De Haven, General Agent. [?]