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PRAIRIE SCOUTS
Charles Melville advance agent of Prairie Scouts arrive in town last night and has completed arrangements for the presentation od the exciting drama at the Opera House on Tuesday night next. In this play are three extraordinary characters mainly, Ned. Buntline, the story writer and Buffalo Bill and Texas Jack the "boss scouts of the great prairie. In speaking of this drama in Washington, the star of that city say:
The rate at which Buffalo Bill and Texas Jack disposed of the red skins at Wall's Opera House last night, would be very satisfactory if practiced in earnest at the lava beds, but from some mistake in the arrangements out there. it is the Modocs who do the shooting and our men who do the dying. If the Indians got up a drama for an Indian audience, they would probably pressed the war of extermination in a light more in accordance with Captian Jack deas. Anyhow the audience at Wall's Opera House last night seemed to greatly admire the dexterous way in which Buffalo Bill and Texas Jack handed their pistols and threw their lessons, showing a facility with both weapons which would make it lively for a real opponent. The ease too, with which the athletic Buffalo Bill picks up a hundred and fifty pounds dead Indian by the belt and carries him off as if he was a kitten, shows there is no make-believe about the hero's muscle. There was a large audience present last evening, and the frequent and hearty applause testified that all were well pleased.