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Buffalo Bill.

Buffalo Bill being now a citizen of West Chester, it becomes us to follow him in his wanderings and note whatever we may deem of interest concerning him. We take the following from the Omaha Republican of the 17th inst. :
The lions of the hour yesterday were Buffalo Bill and Texas Jack, who arrived here on the forenoon train. Bill looks as handsome as ever, and he sports as wealth of jewelry. He is "well heeled" financially, and he "loomed it up" for the boys right lively yesterday. Jack has changed wonderfully. We failed to recognize him. Instead of the buck-skin, bead-trimmed suit, he wears a faultlessly fitting suit of the best "store clothes," and that $1,000 chain he purchased at Tiffany's, New York.

Both wear valuable diamonds, and swing gold-headed canes very gracefully. They have made stacks of money playing "The Scouts of the Prairies" among the Yanks. Bill says it is a heap better financially than scouting or going to the Legislature, although he likes the prairie life the best.

They have a new equestrian drama, entitled "Alexis in America," which they will play on horseback next season, opening in New York August 25th, and afterward going to Europe.

They are accompanied by E.B. Overton a young English earl; E.P. Greene, of Amsterdam, N.Y., and Scott, the batter, of Chicago. They start to-day for North Platte, whence they will go on a buffalo hunt. Bill says he hasn't been in the saddle since he went on the stage. He has a bridle with him made of Indian scalps, adorned with $400 worth of silver, which he will put on his horse to-morrow for the first time. August Belmont, the New York banker, offered him $1,000 for it, which he refused.

Mr. Cody has purchased a placed in West Chester, twenty miles from Philadelphia, Pa., and there, he says, "Wife and babies are in camp."

In Bill's own words, we close this notice: "I'm not darned scout now; I'm a first-class star."