" THE SCOUTS OF THE PLAINS."----- Buffalo Bill
and Texas Jack, the renowened American
scouts, and a company of dramatic perform-
ers, presented their exciting programme to
Hamilton audience at the Mecbanics' Hall
last evening. Before the drama was brought
on a langhable farce entitled " Servants by
Legacy" was played, in which the comic
characters of Dan and Pompey were well
sustained by Messrs. A . Johnson and Walter
Fletcher. This was followed by the " Scouts
of the Plains." This play depots frontier
life on the great praries as realized a few
years ago. The drama opens in the peace-
full log cabin, whose occupants were shortly
to be suprised by bloodthirsty Indains, led
on by the villian and renegade of the party.
Some of the peaceful settlers are murdered
in cold blood, and others carried
into captivity. The scouts, by their
courage and deoisive actions, are
enabled after numerous hair-breadin es-
capes and exciting Indain battles to ulti-
mately rescue the captive from the hands of
the Indians and to kill desperado of the
play. Of course the principal characters in
the play are those taken by Buffalo Bill and
Texas Jack, and the daring manner in which
their respective roles were rendered called
forth repeated and excessive rounds of ap-
plause. Their movements under excitting
circumstances, and dexterity in handling
the knif, rifle, revolver and Iasso were just
what would be expected of cool, determined
fellows who are at home in the midst of
danger on the plains. Mr. Frank Mordant
in the character of Jim Davis, renegade and
hourse-thief, made it, a remorseless villain of
the blackest dye, capable of any murderous
scheme. The assignment of this part to
Mr. Mordant was a natural cast, for this act-
ing was excellent. Uncle Henry was well
assumed by J . V . Arlington, while Nick
Blunder and Ebenezer Langsbank, to ex-
ceedingly comical parts, received every jus-
tice at the hands of Walter Fletcher and A.
Johnson. miss Hollis as Ella, and Miss
Hudson as Lettle, the daughters of the mur-
dered settlers, were characters played with
much feeling. An unlimted corps of In-
dains who seemed to know their business
completed the cast. the play never failled
to keep up its intersest to end. To-night
the same bill is repeated
