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VALE BUFFALO BILL AND CAPTAIN JACK. These noted scouts and Indian Hunters will give their last performance at the Metropolitan Theater to-night when "Life on the Border" and the last act of t he "Red Right Hand" will be presented. The two heroes will appear upon the stage mounted upon real live horses and will engage in a deadly combat, at the close of which Buffalo Bill will take the scalp off Yellow Hand (Captain Jack) without dismounting. The house was well filled last night and everybody very highly enjoyed the exciting scenes and incidents in the play entitled "The Scouts of the Plains." a grand matinee performance was given to an overflowing house this afternoon.
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NATIONAL GUARD HALL, VIRGINIA.
TITUS & LOCKE.................MANAGERS
WEDNESDAY EVENING,
BUFFALO BILL'S
Lastest Eastern Sensation, in five acts, entitled
THE RED RIGHT HAND,
Or, Buffalo Bill's First Scalp for Custer.
BUFFALO BILL..........HON. W. F. CODY CAPTAIN JACK..........J. W. CRAWFORD
Incident to the drama will be a correct portrayal of some of the most exciting and thrilling episodes of the late Indian war, including the scalping of YELLOW HAND by BUFFALO BILL at Indian creek, July 17, 1876.
THURSDAY NIGHT, "Scouts of the Plains."
FRIDAY NIGHT, positively last night and next to last appearance of BUFFALO BILL. The greatest programme yet.
SATURDAY MATINEE for ladies and children, when will be presented "The Red Right Hand; or, Buffalo Bill's First Scalp for Custer" Juveniles, 25 cents; Adults, 50 cents. The matinee will be positively the last performance in Virginia City. Carson City on Saturday evening.
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National Guard Hall.
The popularity of the Buffalo Bill and Captain Jack combination is evidently on the increase. The people turned out well last night, and the National Guard Hall, Virginia, was filled with a first-class audience. The play, entitled "The Red Right Hand, or Buffalo Bill's First Scalp for Custer," is a superior production of its class, having been dramatized by Colonel Prentice Ingraham. A. D. Billings, in the title role, was remarkably good, and his acting was repeatedly encored. Buffalo Bill was, of course, personated by Hon. W. F. Cody, who acted naturally and splendidly. J. W. Crawford, better known as Captain Jack, did not lose any of his well deserved popularity. His salute to Pearl and Ruth Ramsey, whom he meets in the hills, is one of the neatest tricks ever executed with a gun. The motions are as quick, precise and clear-cut as sabre strokes. Lone Dick, who is an "old man, too," added much to the amusement of the audience. Mr. Simms made so good a Chinaman that people were inclined to think it a genuine production of the Flowery kingdom. Mr. Mortimer played the part of Kansas King in a manner to win the applause of all. Mr. Barrows was good as Dennis O'Gaff. Miss Granville was particularly noticeable as Pearl. Her costume was elegant and most becoming. Miss Adams and Miss St. John were also attractive. Mr. Bradley made a good Hermit of the Hills, and all the minor characters were well sustained. To-night the great sensation of "The Scouts of the Plains" will be given. A grand "Red Right Hand" matinee will be given Saturday afternoon.
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National Guard Hall. The audiences at National Guard Hall, Virginia, grow larger and more enthusiastic each evening. Last evening Buffalo Bill and his company presented the drama entitled, "The Scouts of the Plains," a play which gives an opportunity for a grand display of the wonderful talents of those two extrordinary men, William F. Cody and J. W. Crawford. Everything worked to perfection last night, and the play passed off satisfactorily. The audience was delighted. The friends whom Buffalo Bill has gathered around him during his brief stay here decided to make to-night the occasion of turning out en masse, and in return Bill has announced that he will appear in two dramas-"The Red Right Hand" and "the Scout of the Plains," and in the former will give an exact limitation of how he killed the famous Cheyenne chief, Yellow Hand, at the battle of Indian Creek, July 17, 1876. Bill will be mounted upon a fiery, untamed steed, and Captain Jack Crawford, who will impersonate Yellow Hand, will also be well mounted. The rencounter will occur on horseback, and a superlatively exciting sensation will be the result. To-morrow afternoon a "Red Right Hand" matinee will be given.
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National Guard Hall.
The engagement of Buffalo Bill and Captain Jack closed at National Guard Hall last night with great eclat. The new feature of real horse on the stage drew a great audience, and the plays were unusually well rendered. Two great plays were presented. "The Scouts of the Plains" was first given, the performance closing with the scalping scene in the "Red Right Hand." There was some shooting, however, that was not on the bills. The last act was in successful progress, and the fight between J.W. Crawford, alias Capt. Jack, who impersonated Yellow Hand, and Buffalo Bill was inaugurated according to programme, on horseback. Capt. Jack, before mounting his horse, had cocked his pistol and placed it in the holster. In attempting to draw it with his usual dexterity and celerity it caught, and in the endeavor to extricate it was discharged, inflicting a deep and painful wound below the left groin. The wounded man dropped from his horse, and it was with difficulty that he sustained himself long enough for the curtain to fall. The play was cut short by the accident, but the audience was compensated by knowing that somebody was really hurt. An examination showed that the wad with which the pistol was loaded had entered at the place indicated, ranged down some four inches and there lodged. An incision was made and the wad was removed. The wound is large, ragged and painful, but not necessarily dangerous. The company will appear in Carson tonight.