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He was born in Eastern Virginia and commenced a Texas life when a mere boy. During the rebellion, he was a scout in the rebel army under General Floyd and was wounded in the left thigh by a musket ball. At the close of the war, on the very day of the fall of Richmond, he turned his horse towards Texas, and in a few days afterward was again back to his old haunts pursuing the cattle [?] as peaceably as though nothing more flan ordinary had occurred. In the course of his cattle trading movements, he met Buffalo Bill in Nebraska, in 1868, and who recognizing in him the requisites for a good scout, induced him to quit the cattle business and join him in the scouting duty in the service of the United States, At this time Bill was chief of scuts of the department of the Platte, and consequently was happy in adding to his command so valuable an accession as his Texas friend, Jack, and with whom he as since associated in wild and civilized life, both being endeared to one another with mutual admiration supported by love and love only. The Christian name of Texas Jack St. John Omohundro, his present title having been given him while a "cowboy" in Texas. He is a ready taken is quite intelligent and delights in reading. His accent is yet tainted with that tongue peculiar to Virginians generally.
Buffalo Bill was born Iowa, in 1839, He is father was an Indian trader and lost his life in an encounter with the savages, When Bill, whose name is Wm. F. Cody, was ten years of age, his parents removed to, the promote frontier, since which time he has almost incessantly been in the employ of the government. During the building of the Kansas and Pacific Railroad, he was employed hunt buffaloes, with which to feed the Fourteen hundred men employed in its construction. During this engagement, he shot Forty-two hundred and eighty buffaloes, and it was thus for his exceeding skill, that he acquired his present name, which is known far and wide and abounds in history as well as storied romance. All of these buffaloes were shot by him with one gun, which weapon s now on exhibition in New York City.
He has suffered a number of wounds from Indian arrows and bullets, besides some rough handling in contests with buffaloes. Over two years ago in an exciting moment in a fight with a buffalo, and when the chances of life and death were about evenly balanced, he narrowly escaped death. He had just shot a buffalo which had passed him, when his horse slipped upon some ice, falling upon him, producing severe internal injuries, which will most probably serve to shorten his life, and for which he is constantly under medical treatment.
Buffalo Bill is thirty-four years old He tie has a tall, commanding appearance, which with his quick, weird eyes and long, dark, flowing hair, strikes all with that admiration which is sort of instinctively treasured up for those who figure in the far West in the dangerous vocation of scout in saving and preserving our soldiers from the treachery and cunning of the Indians. In the year 1866, he was married to Miss Louisa Frederici. Of St. Louis, a young lady of refinement and intelligence, and who accompanied her “noble lord' to the distant plains and there with him shared the excitement and dangers of frontier life until a few months ago, when they came to the States and finally located in West Chester. The family of "Buffalo Bill" is now composed.

In lieu of Annear's or Mason's shine" a polish was made from elderberries, and on one occasion he, Jack, saw a bottle containing some of the fluid and applying it to his nasal organ, and finding it right in point of smell, he drank it thinking it was a wine of harm came from the dose only the draping of his "innards" in deep mourning for a period of thirty days. In this connection we will here add that Buffalo Bill is a teetotaller, drinking nothing but water. Jack does take "a little somethin' " but never to excess.
In throwing the lasso Jack is an expert. If he has any one particular weakness it is certainly for a rope, and no such article is left to lie still that meets his eye. instinctively is led to take it in hand, and forming it into a lasso takes prisoner anything that stands within reach of his unerring skill and he length of the rope.

During the celebrated hunt of last fall, gotten up for the benefit of Earl of Dunraven, England, these scouts led the sport and the result was a grand success. Sp Delighted was the Earl with the enjoyments afforded him that at the close of the hunt he made Jack a present of a breech-loading shotgun valued at $650. It was Buffalo Bill who “got up" the noted buffalo hunt for the Grand Duke Alexis upon his late visit to America, and Bill is the happy possessor of many valuable tokens of appreciation from that noted personage. This week both of these scouts leave us for a brief stay in New York, during which time Buffalo Bill will fill a private dramatic engagement in taking his old character in the play known as Buffalo Bill, the King of Border Men."
About the middle of October, the three scouts which we have named will enter upon a dramatic tour, in company with some twenty characters, commencing in New York, the play of the “Scouts of the Plains, or Life in the Far West," which is now being dramatized by Fred. G. Meader, of New York. This play contains a faithful delineation of incidents that have actually occurred on the plains. The intention ọf Buffalo Bill, who is the leading star, both in the dramatic and management sense, is to make a tour of the entire South, stopping for short engagements at the principal cities, and then going northward. We are gratified in saying to our readers that about middle of December, this troupe will visit West Chester, and give one entertainment in Horticultural Hall, which will afford our citizens a chance to see three leading men of the wild, wild west, and who have contributed much forwards developing the froniter - namely Buffalo Bill, Wild Bill, and Texas Jack.