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Buffalo Bill.

Buffalo Bill had the grand jam of the the season at Harper's Theatre last night. In addition to a heavy sale of reserved seats beforehand, 800 tickets were sold at the box office. Not only was every seat in the house occupied but the aisles, were crowded with standers. The play, "Twenty Days, or Buffalo Bill's Pledge" is a highly sensational one, written by the Hon. William himself, whose success is largely due to the fact that he is his own dramatist and furnishes his incidents from his own lively experience and imagination. In the first act Buffalo Bill spoils a necktie sociable that Judge Lynch had decreed. In the second act he digs out a man who had been "buried alive" in a shaft. In the third act he captures a murderer. And in the fourth act he clears up a terrible mystery-gives the whole thing away- and thus redeems his "pledge" in the allotted time, "Twenty Days." Incidental to the piece are exhibitions of Buffalo Bill's dexterity and accuracy in rifle shooting, tricks by Buffalo Bill's trained donkey, a war-dance and singing by six Indians, a cornet solo by Frank Thompson, and a vocal and instrumental olio by Jule Keene and Sallie Adams The play was well-cast and the company a good one.