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AMUSEMENTS.
Buffalo Bill.

Mr. Henry Selles, advance agent for Buffalo
Bill and company, called at the GAZETTE office
last night and announced the coming of the celebrated
actor-scout, [fixing?] the date at October
7, one night. In speaking of this attraction,
the Syracuse Daily Standard says:

The audience at Weiting opera house on Saturday
night was squeezed tight into the farthest
corner of the theatre, but it hung over the
edges like the froth on the top of a schooner of
beer. In all respects it was a reproduction of
the old assemblages which made the Mechanic's
fair memorable. The occasion of this popular
demonstration was the appearance of that
hero of the plains, Buffalo Bill. A wild shout
of approbation lifted itself from the throats of
the great crowd, while the timid ladies trembled
lest the roof be rent from its fastenings,
when its idol, the stalwart Indian fighter, stalked
out of the wings. Buffalo Bill is a great
deal more of a curiosity than he is an actor,
but he shows marked evidences of improvement
in his art during his short theatrical career.
He has an excellent company and a play
that keeps the figure of the idolized scout in
the eye a good part of the time, a requisite that
meets with general approval. Buffalo Bill's
author is not so prodigal of powder and ball as
he was wont to be, the number of slain being
comparatively small in the present play. Still
the Indians are made to bite the dust with sufficient
expedition to satisfy the gallery goers appetite
for gore. People who have neither a
wild desire to see the sturdy son of the forest,
whose unerring aim and magnificent prowess
are the theme of song and story, nor an insatiable
longing to witness a thrilling depiction of
civilization in the far West, where life is as
cheap as dirt and grit is better than gold,
should go to see Buffalo Bill's play to catch a
glimpse of an audience of 1,000 people moved to
ecstacy by the simplest word of the untrained
eloquence of one man. No small part of the
show is in front of the footlights.