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GRAND OPERA HOUSE.
FRIDAY and SATURDAY, Feb. 24th and 25th, and Saturday Matinee, Buffalo Bill! (HON. W. F. CODY), Supported by a first-class Company, forming a brilliant Dramatic Combination of 24 Artists. The new and beautiful Drama of PRAIRIE WAIF. Mr. CODY (Buffalo Bill) will give an exhibition Fancy Rifle Shooting, in which he is pre-eminent and alone.
Prices 75c, 50c and 25c Reserved Seats at Geo. D. Smith's Music Store, 40 State st.
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ACADEMY OF MUSIC. E. J. MATSON....... Lessee and Manager! Monday, February 27th. THE NOTED SCOUT, BUFFALO BILL, HON. WM. F. CODY, AND HIS Mammoth Combination
THE beautiful Sioux Indian Princess, He-Nu-Kaw, the first born, Harry E. Burgess, boy chief of the Pawnees, the Youngest Chief of whom any record is given. Flying Cloud, the oldest Man Chief of the Sioux Nation. A genuine band of noted Winnebago Indian Chiefs, supported by a Powerful Dramatic Company, producing Buffalo Bill's New Drama, written expressly for him by John A Stevens, entitled: The Prairie Waif, a Story of the far West
Fancy Rifle Shooting by Buffalo Bill, who is acknowledged pre eminent and alone. A Grand Street Parade, Buffalo Bill's Silver Cornet Band and Orchestra.
Admission 35, 50 and 75 cents. Reserved seats 75 cts, at Sutton's drug store.
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"ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE,"
A Big Week at the Amusement Halls,
ENTERTAINMENTS EVERY EVENING THIS WEEK AT EITHER THE OPERA HOUSE OR ACADEMY-SOME FIRST-CLASS ATTRACTIONS.
BUFFALO BILL TO-NIGHT-BRIEF SKETCH OF HIS HISTORY.
Buffalo Bill, the beau ideal of all that is brave in the eyes of dime novel readers, and many others besides. appears at the Academy this evening, in "The Prairie Waif." It is a foregone conclusion that the house will be filled to overflowing, as is always the case in every city where Bill appears. So much has been said and written of this redoubtable hero of the plains that the following brief sketch of his career will doubtless be read with considerable interest. This noted scout and guide, whose handsome personal appearance and genial bearing are well known to many of our citizens, and whose many strange and romantic incidents make a life which is more fit to adorn the pages of romantic reality than any fancy of the brain which could suggest any of the heroes of the "Leatherstocking" tales, was born upon the Western prairies, and reared amid wild scenes of tumult.
His father was murdered in their early days when Kansas with the struggle of a young giant was shaking off the yoke of African slavery. Bill was a trained Indian fighter, taking his first scalp at the age of twelve, and having served his young state in earliest manhood as a trusted and honored member of the legislature, it is probable that William F. Cody is as well acquainted with all taht pertains to the west as any other living man.
His acquaintance and fame as a great western scout and actor is as broad as the nation. There are but few better genuine and typical western men than Mr. Cody.
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pertains to the west as any other living man.
His acquaintance and fame as a great western scout and actor is as broad as the nation. There are but few better genuine and typical western men than Mr. Cody. His familiarity with the great plains of the west, coupled with his experience as a scout and warrior with the Indians, places him alongside of the representative men of the nation, of which the historian must speak when it comes to recording the incidents incumbent upon the production of civilization of the red man. Cody, although young in years, has filled a prominent place in the history of the west. His services to the United States have been far in excess of the compensation received. His gentlemanly instincts, linked with his good nature and ability, made him a great friend of General Phil. Sheridan. So polished and gentlemanly in manners, combined with his fitness, he was made by the government a special guide to go with the Duke Alexis, of Russia, on his celebrated buffalo hunt through the west.
As a pony express rider when fifteen years of age under the famous Alf Slade, Buffalo Bill was known as being a rider of marvelous skill and endurance, making on one occasion a continuous ride of 322 miles, and accomplishing the whole distance in 22 hours. Truly a wonderful feat, But it was when he became scout in the army that he made his greatest name; and the general officers under whom he served, and those who served with him, give him the credit of being a man of incomparable skill in prairie craft, indomitable courage, a miraculous marksman with rifle and revolver, and at all times a gentleman.
Becoming famous through his own deeds, Mr. Cody was seized upon as the hero of many an "o'er true" tale in the weekly papers, and was urged to go east and engage in a dramatic enterprise--in which he has been successful as an actor and made a snug fortune. Mr. Cody and his mammoth combination will appear in this city, producing the great border drama, written by John A. Stevens, author of "Unknown," entitled "The Prairie Waif," a story of the far west. Mr. Cody is accompanied by Harry E. Burgess, the Boy Chief of the Pawnees, the youngest chief of whom any record is given; also the beautiful Indian Princess of the Sioux, He-Ne-Kaw (the firstborn), the handsomest Indian girl in the world, together with a noted band of Sioux Indian chiefs, who will appear in the scalp and war dances, supported by a full and effecient dramatic company.
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-- "Buffalo Bill at Bay," is the sensation at the Academy of Music this evening. It is in four acts, and is said to be more civilized than any play this actor has yet presented. In it he abstains from either stabbing or shooting anybody, but he finds an opportunity for displaying his marksmanship. Of course there are Indians in the play, and many climaxes of an exciting character. Reserved seats on sale at Stutton's drug store.