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Buffalo Bill To-Night
Buffalo Bill is a favorite in Lafayette and will, no doubt, have a rousing reception at the Opera House to-night. His new play, "Twenty Days, or Buffalo Bill's Pledge," is a powerful American drama and abounds in historical and picturesque scenes.
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The Buffalo Bill Performance.
As a matter of course the Opera House was flocked from pit to dome to witness the Buffalo Bill performance last night. There was a good deal of uproarous applause greeted "the hair-breadth escapes and dangers happily o'er" of the daughty hero and his intrepid band of the untutored sons of the forest and their dusky bride. Cody's new play, "Twenty Days, or Buffalo Bill's Pledge," is perhaps a trifle better than his former plays and the scout himself is not quite so much out of place on the stage.
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Buffalo Bill will read the election returns from the stage between the acts at Lafayette.
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ACADEMY OF MUSIC.
JOHN A. SCOTT, . . Manager,
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9.
Late guide and chief of scouts for the United States army, BUFFALO BILL--HON. WM. CODY--and his own mammoth combination consisting of twenty-five first class artists, who will appear in the new and startling sensational drama written for Hon. W. F. Cody, by Charles Foster, author of "Save at Seven," entitled, 20 DAYS, OR BUFFALO BILL'S PLEDGE. A band of genuine Indian chiefs, from the Winnebago, Sioux and Pawnee tribes. Also the beautiful and accomplished princess, HE-HU-KAW (the first born) will appear at each performance and in the street parade. Mr. Cody in fancy rifle shooting. Grand vocal and instrumental musical olio by Mr. Jule Kene and Miss Loie Fuller. TRICK DONKEY JERRY. Mr. Frank Thompson, the great cornet soloist. Military Brass Band and Orchestra. Look out for the grand street parade. Seats on sale at C. B. Woodworth's drug store, 75 and 80 cents.
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The past week is quite bewildering in its dizzy whirl of dissipation. Three operas and Buffalo Bill, that wonderful hero of the plains, to say nothing of the oft repeated minstrels, is enough to wake up the oldest inhabitant, who has been in a semicomatose state for the last twenty years or more. Then, too, even the gay butterflies of fashion have had the depressing or exhilerating returns of the election to contend with. The amusement loving public are satiated with minstrelsy, and every household where boys reign supreme will resound with the war cry of Buffalo Bill and his staff for a month to come. The timid housewife shuns the dark corners and by-ways of the household, where her young hopeful in the role of "Sitting Bull" or "Spotted Tail," trips her unsuspecting feet, and scalps her with a convenient broomstick.