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REYNOLDS'S NEWSPAPER.

SUNDAY, MAY 15.

SUNDAY'S EDITION.

After some very clever shooting by Miss Annie
Oakley, who seems to be a feminine Dr. Carver, and
illustrations of "cowboys' fun" in throwing the
lariat, and picking up objects from the ground while
riding at full speed, the audience were treated to a
spectacle of some very clever riding, several
members of Buffalo Bill's troupe mounting bucking
horses and ponies, which dash about in a manner which
threatened to dislocate their own backbones, and much
more to injure anyone who dared to try to ride them.
In almost every case, however, the cowboys were
successful in mastering their steeds. More rifle shoot-
ings by Miss Lilian Smith, and horseback riding by
American frontier girls, led up to the attack on
the Deadwood stage coach by Indians, and their
repulse by vowboys commanded by Buffalo Bill.
This was very mych a repetition of the previous part
of the programme, the attack on an emigrant train.
The Deadwood coach, with its solid india-rubber
springs and ancient woodwork, was drawn rapidly
along the ring by its team of mules. Suddenly the
Indians appear on the horizon, and with a wild
war-whoop bear down upon it. The passengers in the
coach respond vigorously with their revolvers, and in
the end Buffalo Bill and his followers give a good
account of themselves, and the Indians are obliged to
sheer off. The warfare, as in the previous contest,
hurts nobody, and it was quite amusing to see the
attackers and attacked galloping off in such happy
guise. A race between Sioux Indian boys on bare-
backed Indian ponies, and another between Mexican
thoroughbreds, were followed by an illustration of
the phases of Indian life. As the nomadic tribes
were seen camped on the prairie, an attack by hostile
Indians was made, and this was followed by a scalp,
war, and other dances. The latter were novel, if not
musical nor particularly picturesque. Buffalo Bill,
"America's pratical all-round shot," then gave an
exhibition of roping and riding of wild Texas steeds by
cowboys and Mexicans. The latter, however, ap-
peared to be a little cruel, and was not quite so suc-
cessful as the other parts of the entertainment. After
an illistration of the buffalo hunt came an attack
upon a settler's cabin by hostile redskins, which was
id to a degree.