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BUFFALO BILL.

This evening Buffalo Bill and his company
will be at Music Hall. Of the wonders of the
performance in Hartford last evening, the
Courant says:

The princpal play of the evening introduced such
characters as Brigham Young and John D. Lee, and
pleasant scenes like the Mountain Meadow massacre.
The incidents were both comical and terrific. Altogether
the best thing of the evening was the shooting
by the Austin Brothers, each in turn with a Stevens
rifle exhibiting wonderful markmanship. The
shots included the shooting of potatoes held in the
hand and poised upon the head; the snuffing of a
candle, and the extinguishing of a lighted cigar held
in the mouth, besides other severe and apparently
hazardous tests, altogether surpassing the remarkable
fiction concerning William Tell. The entertainment
as a whole is of such a character that it will
probably draw large audiences in most places.

The play to be presented this evening,
while highly sensational, is not of the "blood
and murder" style, and gives Mr. Cody an opportunity
to display his talents in "parlor
drama."

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BUFFALO BILL.

This evening Buffalo Bill and his company will be at Music Hall. Of the wonders of the performance in Hartford last evening, the Courant says:

The princpal play of the evening introduced such characters as Brigham Young and John D. Lee, and pleasant scenes like the Mountain Meadow massacre. The incidents were both comical and terrific. Altogether the best thing of the evening was the shooting by the Austin Brothers, each in turn with a Stevens rifle exhibiting wonderful markmanship. The shots included the shooting of potatoes held in the hand and poised upon the head; the snuffing of a candle, and the extinguishing of a lighted cigar held in the mouth, besides other severe and apparently hazardous tests, altogether surpassing the remarkable fiction concerning William Tell. The entertainment as a whole is of such a character that it will probably draw large audiences in most places.

The play to be presented this evening, while highly sensational, is not of the "blood and murder" style, and gives Mr. Cody an opportunity to display his talents in "parlor drama."