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West Chester Local News
W. H. HODGSON, Proprietor.
W. W. THOMSON, Editor.
MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 1878.
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Drive with Buffalo Bill and Texas Jack.
BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THEIR LIVES-PRAIRIE LIFE VS. THE STAGE.
On Saturday afternoon last we had the pleasure of taking a drive with Buffalo Bill and Texas Jack behind two spanking steeds ironic Messrs. Mercer & James' livery stable. Texas Jack is the guest of Buffalo Bill, to whom he is endured by a life of exposure, hardship, and daring on the plains, and in whose company he for several years served as Scout, hunter, and guide in the employ of the Government and or private parties. These noted scouts serve to add a zest to our everyday walks of life, proving as they do that the stories of frontier life are not magnified, but to the contrary, fall short in depicting the focus and excitement incidental thereto.
In the course of our drive through the coral suburbs of our borough we were somewhat surprised at both Bill and Jack taking such an interest in the flowers and trees which selected our course. They noticed everything in the way of flowers and Jack's conversation gave ample proof of his being of quite botanical turn of mind.
Jack is of medium height, and 28 years of age. His complexion is what we might appropriately term a "rosy" one. His features are moderately fine, while his eyes denote a quickness in cunning and his whole physiognomy a man of coolness and deliberate forethought. He wears a slight mustache and imperial, while his hair curly and very lack is rather long but inclined to thickness. He is compactly built, with elastic stop, and shows powers of great endurance.
He was born Eastern Virginia and commended a Texas life when a mere boy, During the rebellion he was a scout in tho rebel army under General Floyd and was wounded i the left tiigh by a musket ball. At the clore of the war, on the very duy of the fall of Kiclnond, ho turned his horse towards Tesas, and inu a few days afterwards was agaiu P.k to his G haunts pursuing the cattle e peaccably as though nothing nore Uran ordinary bad occurred. In thc course of hin cattle 1.rading movements. lhe mct Buf- 1Älo Bill in Nei-ranka, in 1868, and who recog- izing in Inn thhe requisites for a guod scout, ndueel Lim to qnit tho cattlc busiuess and ia Jim the scouting duty in the eervice n7 ll Unitaen States, At this timo Bill wag sier of seunts of the deparimeit of the Piutte, aad couseqnently was bappy in add- g to his comiaand so valnable an1 accesRiou *y his Texas friend, Jack, and with whgn lhe N binco 1990ciated in wild and civilizod hie. both being cndeared to one another with itnal admiration supported by love and Culy. The christian nane of Texas Jack + present title haviug b.en given hin whe cow boy" ju Texas.

He isa realy talker, is quite intelligent, and telights in reading. Hir accent is yet tainted ritli that tougue peculiar to Virginians gen- rally. linitalo 1B31 was born lowa, iu 1839, Tather was an Indian trader, and lout bis 1ife in an enconmter withh the savages, When u, whose name is WVID. F. Codv, was teu vetrs of age, his pareuts removed to the inrie froutier, since which time he has almost incessantly been in the employ of the ovemment. Daring the buildiug of the Lanras and l'acific Railroad, he was employed a lumt bnfaloes, withh which to feed the urteen lndred nien employed in its con- Etruction. Duriug this cngugement he shot orty-two iandred and eighty buffaloes, and E was thus for his cxceeding skill, that he armired his present name, which is kuown ar and wide, and abounds in history a8 well '.AS 6toried romance. All of these buffaloes Jere shot by him with one gun,which weapon 1W ou exhibition in New York city. Hc bas suffered a number of wounde from 1ndian arro!wa and bultets, besides some rough 1andling in contesus with buffaloes.

Livo years ago in an exciting moment in a fight vith a buffalo, and when the chances of ifs and deatlh were about eveuly balanced, ho narrowly escaped death. He had just which had passed him, a iffalo lhen his horse slipped upon some ice, falling epon hin, producing severe internal injuries, which will most probably serve to shorten his tife, aud for which he is constantly under înedical treatment. Laffalo lill is thirty-four years old. He tia has a tall, cominanding appearance, whicu Mih bis quick. woird eyes and long, dark, Gowing htir, strikea all with thhat admiration which is sort of instiuctively treasured up or those who figure in the far West in the dangerons vocation of BCout in saving and preserving our sol liers from tho treaclhery and cuuning of the Indians. In tlhe year 1966 he was niarried to Migs Louisa Frederici, of St. Louis, a young ladly of refinement and intelligeuce, and who accompauied 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 ocated in West Chester. he family of "Buffalo B is now composed

ot himself and amiable wife, and threo lovely children-two girls and a boy. The bor, sec- ond in age, beare he namo oi Kit Carson

Cody, and is a bright little fellow, alrcady giving evidence at this early ago of inlıerit- ing the daring of his father. Mrs. Cody speaks of her life ou the plains with much evident pleasure, and rathor gives them preference to West Chester. Both of our heroes above mentioned wear grand and Costly mementoes from numerous irieuds for valor and esteem, and they rolate ith much euthusiasm the stories incidental i *9 their histories. In a few weeks J. B. Hickok, better and well known as Wild Bill. will also be theguert of Buffalo Bill. This noted scont ie a native of Illinois, and is forty-twołyears old. as his name suggests, is full of daring spirit, and acte more from inpulse than delilheration, and is cousidered a terror" by the "red Bkins.' more than once endaugered his life unneces-! sarily, aud his ecarred face and furrowed scalp bear lasting evico+ of a life of rouglh ueage and reinarkalro fortitudo. He is cun- He, His reckloesuess and dariug have

He is enn- ning, and we may on good authority add that he is tricky. During the late war he filled the position of YUout in both armies-that is, he made it so appear, from the fact tlhat he secured the i coufidence of the Confederates when lie was ou his most important errands of trust for the Union army. It lhas been said, and we be lieve it to bo true, that he received pay from both armies, but his devotion to the latter was never donbted, and to him is due many Valnable results in the contest. He is a larger tfan than either Bill or Jack. aud has a face lighted np with good expres- sion and connidorable iutelligence. Many persous may regard these men as rongh and mcou!h itn theit nners, but in Buru thonglsts we assliro on readors thy a in error. It in truo they have necCHrarily in- herited from their long wild Western associa- tions some excentricitie- of claractor, bnt these are to be admired rather than depreca- ted.coming fronthe ncn whom we have above briefly de cribed. For instance, a few davs ago Bill and Jack indulged im a game of tempius. which exercise and pas- ad horse billiarás," amu vack says lho would pa-n+liey now refer to'

a8 horse billiaras," and Jack says he would ratlıer whack" cattle than be coipelled to liake .t game an ocenpation. He also tells a slioc.-blacking story, the scene of which is laid in Ole Vigiuny." IHe says during the war negrocs were so Ecarce at times that white men were couipelled to black their own Aunear's or Masou's "sline" a polish was made from clderberrios, and on cne occasion hhe, Jack, saw a bottle containing some of the ilnid, and applying it to his niasal organ, and finding it right in point of Himell. he drank it thinking it Jack says nothng in the way of harın came from the dose only the drap- ing of his "innards" in deep mourning for a period of thirty dayH. Itu this counec- tion we will hore add thhat Buffalo Bill is a teetotaller, driuking nothing but water. Jack " but never to khoes. In lieu of was wine does take a littlo sonmethhia" It never to excess. In throwing 1he lasso Jack is an expert. If lhe hus any oue purticular weakness it is cei- tainly for a rope, aud 110 Knch article is left to lie htill that meets lin eye. i.tively is led to take it in laud, and form idg it into a lasko take ri+ er auything that stands within reach of e unerring ekifl and He in-

idg it into a lasko takes prisoner auything that stands within reach of his unerring skill and he length of the rope. During the celebrated hunt of last fall. got- ton np for the benetit of Earl of Dunraven, England, these bcouts led the sport and the result was a grand sneees. the Earl with the eujoyments afforded him that at the close of the lannt he made Jack a piesent of a breech-loading shot gun valued at 650. IL was Baffalo Bill who “got up" tlio noted bu ffalo hunt for the Gralnd luke Alexis upon his late visit to America, and Bill in ths lhappy possepsor of mauy valuable to- kens of appreciation froni that noted person- age. This yeek bot! of these scouts leave 18 for a brief stay in New Yorn, during whicn time Buffalo Bill will till a private dramatic eugage nueut in taking lis old character in the play known as Baflalo Biil, the Kig of Bordei Men." About the middle of October the three scouts which we lavo aamed, will enter upon a dramatic tour, in conipany with some twenty characters, commenciug iu Now York, the play of the Scouts of the Plains or Life n the Fur West," whichh is noW Fred. (G. MMeader, of New 1ork. «lu So deliglhted was dramatized by This play