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EVERY EVENING-WILMINGTON, DELAWARE. TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1888.

AMUSEMENTS.

Tony Pastor and his specialty company opened a three-nights' engagement at the Academy of Music last evening before a large and highly delighted audience. Every number of the programme found faovr with the house and at times the enthsiasm reached such a pitch as to find expression is vociferous cheers. The company as a whole was by odds the finest ever appearing in a vaudeville bill in this city, and the performance was excellent of its kind. Tony himself contributed two comic songs to the evening's performance and the audience cheered his rendition, "Little Tich," the man with educated legs, did some admirable dancing, and gave a "big shoe act," which was wonderously funny. Miss Annie Oakely, the rifle queen, gave an admirable exhibition of her skill at trap shooting. She opened her act by breaking swining balls with her back to the target and siting through the aid of a mirrior, with the piece invered above her head. She sent bullets creashing through the glass balls without appartent difficulty. With a "No. 20" hammerless gun she did some splendid trap shooting and closed the act with a colt's repeater, breaking a number of balls as fast as they could be tossed into the air. Her performance was exceptionally interesting and her feats with the gun are hte talk of the sportmen of the town today. The performance will be repeated this and tomorrow afternoons and evenings. "Davy Crockett" will be presented the last half of the week by Edwin Mayo.