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AMUSEMENTS.
Buffalo Bill.

[Mr. Henry Selles?], advance agent for Buffalo Bill and company, called at the GAZETTE office last night and announced the coming of the celebrated actor-scout, [flexing?] the date at October 7, one night. In speaking of this attraction, the Syracuse Daily Standard says:

The audience at Weiting opera house on Saturday night was squeezed tight into the farthest corner of the theatre, but it hung over the edges like the froth on the top of a schooner of beer. In all respects it was a reproduction of the old assemblages which made the Mechanic's fair memorable. The occasion of this popular demonstration was the appearance of that hero of the plains, Buffalo Bill. A wild shout of approbation lifted itself from the throats of the great crowd, while the timid ladies trembled lest the roof be [rent?] from its fastenings, when its idol, the stalwart Indian fighter, stalked out of the wings. Buffalo Bill is a great deal more of a curiosity than he is an actor, but he shows marked evidences of improvement in his art during his short theatrical career. He has an excellent company and a play that keeps the figure of the idolized scout in the eye a good part of the time, a requisite that meets with general approval. Buffalo Bill's author is not so prodigal of powder and ball as he was wont to be, the number of slain being comparatively small in the present play. Still the Indians are made to bite the dust with sufficient expedition to satisfy the gallery go [is?] appetite for gore. People who have neither a wild desire to see the sturdy son of the forest, whose unerring aim and magnificent prowess are the theme of song and story, nor an insatiable longing to witness a thrilling depiction of civilization in the far West, where life is as cheap as dirt and grit is better than gold, should go to see Buffalo Bill's play to catch a glimpse of an audience of 1,000 people moved to ecstacy by the simplest word of the untrained eloquence of one man. No small part of the show is in front of the footlights.

AMUSEMENTS.
Buffalo Bill.

[Mr. Henry Selles?], advance agent for Buffalo Bill and company, called at the GAZETTE office last night and announced the coming of the celebrated actor-scout, [flexing?] the date at October 7, one night. In speaking of this attraction, the Syracuse Daily Standard says:

The audience at Weiting opera house on Saturday night was squeezed tight into the farthest corner of the theatre, but it hung over the edges like the froth on the top of a schooner of beer. In all respects it was a reproduction of the old assemblages which made the Mechanic's fair memorable. The occasion of this popular demonstration was the appearance of that hero of the plains, Buffalo Bill. A wild shout of approbation lifted itself from the throats of the great crowd, while the timid ladies trembled lest the roof be [rent?] from its fastenings, when its idol, the stalwart Indian fighter, stalked out of the wings. Buffalo Bill is a great deal more of a curiosity than he is an actor, but he shows marked evidences of improvement in his art during his short theatrical career. He has an excellent company and a play that keeps the figure of the idolized scout in the eye a good part of the time, a requisite that meets with general approval. Buffalo Bill's author is not so prodigal of powder and ball as he was wont to be, the number of slain being comparatively small in the present play. Still the Indians are made to bite the dust with sufficient expedition to satisfy the gallery go [is?] appetite for gore. People who have neither a wild desire to see the sturdy son of the forest, whose unerring aim and magnificent prowess are the theme of song and story, nor an insatiable longing to witness a thrilling depiction of civilization in the far West, where life is as cheap as dirt and grit is better than gold, should go to see Buffalo Bill's play to catch a glimpse of an audience of 1,000 people moved to ecstacy by the simplest word of the untrained eloquence of one man. No small part of the show is in front of the footlights.