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West Chester Local News
W. H. HODGSON, Proprietor.
W. W. THOMSON, Editor.
MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 1878.
TERMS.-To Subscribe rs in the Borough, the NEWS will be served at Six Cents a Week. payable in the Carrier every Friday. To Mail Subscribers, per month, or $3 per year, payable in advance.
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 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.
of himself and amiable wife, and three lovely children-two girls and a boy. The boy, second in age, bears the name of Kit Carson Cody, and is a bright little fellow, already giving evidence at this early ago of inheriting the daring of his father.
Mrs. Cody speaks of her life on the plains with much evident pleasure, and rather gives them preference to West Chester.
Both of our heroes above mentioned wear grand and Costly mementos from numerous friends for valor and esteem, and they relate ith much enthusiasm the stories incidental is their histories.
In a few weeks J. B. Hickok, better and well known as Wild Bill, will also be the guest of Buffalo Bill. This noted scout is a native of Illinois and is forty-two years old as his name suggests, is full of a daring spirit, and acts more from impulse than deliberation, and is considered a "terror" by the "red skins." more than once endangered his life unnecessarily, and his scarred face and furrowed scalp bear lasting evidence of a life of rough usage and remarkable fortitude. He is cunning and we may on good authority add that he is tricky.
During the late war he filled the position of scout in both armies - that is, he made it so appear, from the fact that he secured the confidence of the Confederates when lie was ou his most important errands of trust for the Union army. It has been said, and we believe it to be true, that he received pay from both armies, but his devotion to the latter was never doubted, and to him is due many valuable results in the contest.
He is a larger man than either Bill or Jack and has a face lighted up with good expression and considerable intelligence.
Many persons may regard these men as rough and uncouth in their manners, but in such though we assure readers they are in error. It is true they have necessarily inherited from their long wild Western associations some eccentricities of character, but these are to be admired rather than deprecated coming from the men whom we have above briefly described. For instance, a few days ago Bill and Jack indulged in a game of tenpins. Which exercise and pastime they now refer to as "horse billiards," and Jack says he would rather "whack" cattle than be compelled to make that game an occupation. He also tells a shoe-blacking story, the scene of which is laid in "Ole Vigiuny." He says during the war negroes were so scarce at times that white men were compelled to black their own shoes. 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 the 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 the 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 frontier - namely Buffalo Bill, Wild Bill, and Texas Jack.

West Chester Local News
W. H. HODGSON, Proprietor.
W. W. THOMSON, Editor.
MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 1878.
TERMS.-To Subscribe rs in the Borough, the NEWS will be served at Six Cents a Week. payable in the Carrier every Friday. To Mail Subscribers, per month, or $3 per year, payable in advance.
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 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.
of himself and amiable wife, and three lovely children-two girls and a boy. The boy, second in age, bears the name of Kit Carson Cody, and is a bright little fellow, already giving evidence at this early ago of inheriting the daring of his father.
Mrs. Cody speaks of her life on the plains with much evident pleasure, and rather gives them preference to West Chester.
Both of our heroes above mentioned wear grand and Costly mementos from numerous friends for valor and esteem, and they relate ith much enthusiasm the stories incidental is their histories.
In a few weeks J. B. Hickok, better and well known as Wild Bill, will also be the guest of Buffalo Bill. This noted scout is a native of Illinois and is forty-two years old as his name suggests, is full of a daring spirit, and acts more from impulse than deliberation, and is considered a "terror" by the "red skins." more than once endangered his life unnecessarily, and his scarred face and furrowed scalp bear lasting evidence of a life of rough usage and remarkable fortitude. He is cunning and we may on good authority add that he is tricky.
During the late war he filled the position of scout in both armies - that is, he made it so appear, from the fact that he secured the confidence of the Confederates when lie was ou his most important errands of trust for the Union army. It has been said, and we believe it to be true, that he received pay from both armies, but his devotion to the latter was never doubted, and to him is due many valuable results in the contest.
He is a larger man than either Bill or Jack and has a face lighted up with good expression and considerable intelligence.
Many persons may regard these men as rough and uncouth in their manners, but in such though we assure readers they are in error. It is true they have necessarily inherited from their long wild Western associations some eccentricities of character, but these are to be admired rather than deprecated coming from the men whom we have above briefly described. For instance, a few days ago Bill and Jack indulged in a game of tenpins. Which exercise and pastime they now refer to as "horse billiards," and Jack says he would rather "whack" cattle than be compelled to make that game an occupation. He also tells a shoe-blacking story, the scene of which is laid in "Ole Vigiuny." He says during the war negroes were so scarce at times that white men were compelled to black their own shoes. 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 the 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 the 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 frontier - namely Buffalo Bill, Wild Bill, and Texas Jack.