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New York Clipper, March 24, 1877. Not complete. Information should be checked with additional sources.
"The Showman Abroad" writes us as follows, under date of Melbourne, Feb. 6, 1876 [sic 1877]: Dear Clipper. The International Circus and Menagerie closed its season at Sydney Jan 12, and sailed 13 for this city. There was a three days' unpleasant trip down the rough Australian coast, and it arrived here on the 16th. An Amphitheatre had been erected for it, a procession was given 18, and the exhibition opened on the evening of that day to a light house. Since then two performances have been given daily, the afternoon exhibition being lightly attended, but those of the night have been crowded. The prices here have been 50 cents, 75 cents and $1.25, and the receipts average $2,000(?) per day. So far the visit to Australia has been a decided success, although the concern as now organized is much too large for this country, and it is questionable whether it will pay after leaving this city. Its season will close here on Feb. 17, when it will travel by rail into the interior, making six one day and three two day stands. After which it will return to Melbourne and reopen at “popular prices.” The company is in fine condition, all of its members enjoying good health. The privileges have done well, Mr. Middleton, the proprietor, amassing a small fortune. The sideshow and concert have been crowded daily. . . Wilson’s Circus (American) is a Adelaide. . . . W. G. C.
Circuses, New York Clipper, April 14, 1877. Not complete. Information should be checked with additional sources.
The Great Australian Circus Company, organized in Mr. Clemens, Mich. The officers are as follows: General director, Wm. H. Dwyer; assistant manager, Geo. B. Van Houton; contracting agent, J. J. Simpson, assistant, Henry St. Ormand; press agent, Theo Wink; treasurer, J. B. Walsh; assistant, Henry St. Clair; equestrian director, S. W. Davis; . . . master of stables, Charles Murry; chief of past brigade, Joseph Morris, assistants Del Ward and Sam Scovill; master of wardrobe, Harry Buckley; master of transportation, Henry Wise; director of parades, C. W. Collins; layer out, Harry Amalor; . . . ushers, Lem Phillips and Steve Babcock.
Clowns - Lem Quinlin and George Long.
Company - Riders - The Misses Annie Worland, Eva Albernita, Maude Vanderbilt and Grace Brockway; Messrs. David Castello, Geo. De Vere, Hurd Ranton and Lew Tilden. Leapers - J. H. O’Neal, Geo. Robinson. Vaulters - W. L. Merrick, Geo. Quimbey. Jugglers - Prof. Sands, Robert Shook. Gymnasts - Thomas Whalen, C. W. Stephens, Leopold Sisters, Sig. Montanna, Le Claire Bros. Lecturer - Prof. James Hutchinson.
Number of ring horses, 16; trick horses, 3; ponies, 2; round top canvas; . . . horses, 65. Railroad cars - 10 flat cars, 5 box cars, 2 passenger coaches, and a Pullman palace drawing room car. Musicians, 14. Total number of people, 80. This company has imported the Golden Chariot of Cleopatra at a cost of $6,500 in gold. They will travel by rail and boat. The concert will be run by the Great Australian Circus Co. Its principal features are Capt. Charles Robinson, man-fish; Simpson Sisters, sketch artists, James Fields, humorist; with 10 more star performers. Owners of candy privilege, Mead & Peltier, run by C. J. Mead. This company will open in Mt. Clemens on or about May 1.
Burr Robbins’ Great American and German Allied Shows. The proprietor and officers are as follow: Proprietor and manager, Burr Robbins; general agent, Geo. K. Steele; press-agent, Matt Leland; zoological director, Richard Brooks; treasurer, Geo. F. Selleck; boss canvasman, Ed. Smith; master of stock, Spencer Bunker; chief of paste brigade, Harry Broadway; leader of band, Prof. John Smith.
Clowns - Pete Conklin, John Leslie and H. Marks.
Company - Miss Minnie Marks, A. D. Van Zandt, Geo. Holland, Willie Marks and Harry Stephenson, riders; Wm. Ashton, John Leslie, J. H. Jeffrey, James Coyl, Geo. Holland, Ed. Holland, Shedman Bros., Millie Marratta, Rosa Renfrew, gymnasts and acrobats.
Four tableau cars, two band chariots; 25 cages of animals, two elephants, two camels.
Number of horses, 200; men, 155; two canvases, 120 ft. round top, 50 ft. middle piece for circus, 80 ft. round top, three 40 ft. middle pieces for the menagerie; 30 ponies; 2 pony chariots. First show will be given in Janesville, Wis., about May 1.
Miss Alice Willard, a performer with the European Circus, died in Fort Worth, Texas, March 30.
Circuses, New York Clipper, April 21, 1877. Not complete. Information should be checked with additional sources.
Van Amburgh & Co.’s New Great Golden Menagerie, Circus and Coloseum. The proprietors and officers are as follow: Proprietors, Hyatt Frost and O. J. Ferguson; manager, Hyatt Frost; assistants, Moses Crane, J. M. Unger; treasurer, O. J. Ferguson; assistants, W. L. Bouton, John Steele; door-keepers, W. C. Boyd, H. K. Wilson, B. R. Thurston, and R. Hover; ticket-sellers, C. B. Hazelton, R. M. White, Oliver Gregory, and Hiram Watts; advertising agents, B. Crosby, C. H. Scott, J. F. Crawford, A. Ogden, W. Reid, and R. Martin; billposters, H. Goodman, M. Whitelaw, G. R. Howard, F. T. Jones, M. Harlan, and Geo. Lingard; keepers in the menagerie, Joseph Rogers, James Ralston, Joseph De Lorne, Edward Holland, Thos. Manlove, R. H. Trowe, G. R. St. Charles, H. Gibson, M. Philips, B. W. Lengle, John Townsent, and Robert Aiken(?); master of canvas, Henry Johnsonbaugh; assistants, Walter Wilson, M. R. Morris; master of grooms, Chas. K. Woods; assistants, John Wassen, Silar Conway; master of stable tents, Leonard Loucks; master of properties, G. H. Little’ master of wardrobe, M. Soneja; master of ring-stock, P. Davids; steward, James P. Cole; cook, G. A. Goble; master of transportation, N. T. Humphreys; assistant, Wm. L. Bowron; master of repairs, T. T. Thomas; director of the arena, Joseph Jee.
Clowns - John Foster, George Dunbar, and M. McCollum.
Company - George Melville, Mlle. Melville, Mons. Toorinsk(?), Mlle. Clarinda Lowande, Wm. Dubrow, . . . Napoleon Lowande, Mons. Pastrana and Son, riders; Mons. Charvat, crystal pyramid, light and heavy balancing; Wm. Arlington, slack-rope; Dunbar and Lowande, La Perche; . . . H. Lamkins, magic-barrel; Louis Langlois, juggler; Felix Langlois, balancing; Mlle. Pastrana, lady of the iron-jaw; Mons. Puteaux, Roza and Seybo, Polandric ladders.
Trick horses - Lady Godiva, Pauline, Minnie, Cuba, Lady Audley, and Maud; trick ponies, Charles Dickens, Shelbark, Highflyer, and Wicked Will; trick mules, Toby, Darby, Sam, and Rob Roy. Also performing elephants, camels, ibex, reindeer, goats, and dogs.
Wagons and cages have been completely covered with gold leaf and vermilion, excepting the original Dore paintings on the panels of the chariots, tableau-cars, and animal cages. A new wardrobe has been manufactured. Many prominent and rare animals have been added to the collection during the past Winter. Louis Dreve’s Great Chicago Band has been engaged; also Pimento’s Silver Cornet Band. The street parade will be an imposing spectacle. . . .
New York Clipper, April 28, 1877. Not complete. Information should be checked with additional sources.
Mlle. Jeannette Berdau has been engaged by Thayer & Noyes for their circus company.
John H. Murray has re-engaged C. A. Potter for his assistant agent this season, which will be Mr. Potter’s fifth with this circus.
John O’Brien’s Six Shows consolidated inaugurated the season at Chester, Pa., April 16, and exhibited in Wilmington 17, Smyrna 18, Dover 19, Milford 20, Georgetown 21. Route: Berlin, Md. 23, Snow Hill 24, Newton 25, Princess Anne 26, Salisbury 27, Seaford, Del. 28, Easton, Md. 30, Centreville May 1, Chestertown 2, Newark, Del. 3, Middletown 4, thence into New Jersey and to New England.
Lem Quillin, clown, goes with the Great Australian Circus this season.
Prof. Neil Smith and dogs are engaged with the Great Australian Circus, of which A. A. Beckett is to be assistant manager.
The license fee for circuses in Paterson, N.J. is $200 per day.
Dan Rice’s Show was in Cairo, Ill., April 16, 17. They travel in a steamboat called the Damsel, and were to have left 18, but the engine broke a shaft.
Circuses, New York Clipper, May 12, 1877. Not complete. Information should be checked with additional sources.
Correction. Our St. Louis, Mo. correspondent reported in effect that the Roman Hippodrome, which exhibited in that city, has no paper on the wall, and no advertisements in the papers. Dan Rhodes, the general agent, writes us that he had 7,000 sheets of paper posted, 15,000 programmes distributed, and 1,000 lithographs hung up, besides advertising two insertions each in five American and four German newspapers.
Curtis & De Haven’s Roman Hippodrome is to show in Dayton, O. May 7, Springfield 8, Columbus 9, Delaware 10, Gallin 11.
Howe’s London Circus and Menagerie and Story & Harris’ Sideshow gave two performances at Patrson, N.J. May 3 to good business, and showed in Jersey City 4,5. Route: Bridgeport, Ct. 7, Hartford 8, Springfield, Mass. 9, Holyoke 10, Northampton 11, Meriden, Ct. 12, New Britain 14, Waterbury 15, Willimantic 16, New London 17, Norwich 18.
O’Brien’s Circus and Menagerie is billed for Passaic, N.J. May 18.
The Canvas Show, New York Clipper, July 14, 1877. Written for the New York Clipper by F. W. Information should be checked with additional sources.
The canvas shows for 1877 are now fairly launched on the tide of success. The “Paste Brigade” revel in paste and twelve-sheet cuts, and the big stands of bills go up as if by magic, to be a wonder and study for the inhabitants until the day for the show arrives. And what a day it is! The local venders of pop-bber, gingerbread, etc., are out in full force, taking good care, however, not to encroach on “the lot.”
By twelve o’clock the inhabitants of the surrounding country commence to arrive; for the menagerie must be seen, and so must the museum; and then for a good seat near the band, to get which everybody must be on hand early. In the evening the townspeople and many of the afternoon visitors who have remained in town, fill the canvas and cheer the boys on.
With a grand flourish of trumpets and a shout of applause, the dazzling and astonishing performances are brought to an end. Billy has done a “cutaway” from the bar, Fanny has “balanced on the trapeze,” Same has . . . “spotter” on his brother’s shoulders, Charley has “turned both a back and forward somersault on the bare back of his running steed,” the clown has told his “gages,” the trick dogs and horses and many other acts have all received their share of applause, and for the wind-up there remains the concert, “which takes place in this ring immediately after the conclusion of the circus performance, those hold tickets, etc.” During the concert most of the seats are down and loaded. The concert is at an end, the canvas is “struck,” etc., soon everything is packed, the “people” are all seated, and we bid good-bye to the town and start on our long drive. Bad roads and steep hills, and we make but slow progress. By the help of the moon, however, we succeed in “pulling through,” and by daylight we are in sight of the town. We pass the first house. The noise of the horse’s feet and the rattling of the cages are sufficient to bring a head to the window. I said head; I meant heads, for every window is filled - in fact, they number more than a thousand - at least, it appears so to the sleepy showman.
Once in town, no time is to be lost; the canvas must be pitched, the parade made. At the end of the day, the former night’s experience must be repeated. If the night is dark or stormy,it adds to the showman’s troubles. A great many stories could be told of sleepy drivers waking and finding themselves anywhere but in the road - in a field, in a farmer’s yard, or waking just in time to find the wagon going upside down into the gutter or ditch.
During the season of ‘74 the D___ Show fed the canvasmen and drivers on the lot (and they were well fed, too). The culinary department was superintended by a darky - a good cook, but possessed of his share of “shiftlessness.” The cook-tent had the use of a large two-horse Concord-covered wagon. This generally contained a good supply of everything. After supper the darky’s business was to pack this wagon, but usually the packing consisted of setting things in the most careless manner. One night they had an all-night drive to make. As soon as they were well under way, the darky proceeded to crawl into the cook-wagon amongst the supplies and go to sleep. In a short time the driver commenced to nod, the horses followed the wagon ahead, and everything went well until it became necessary to take a cross-road. The driver, about half awake, knew that he must turn to the right; but, the night being dark, he could not see the road, and drove too far; and when he did turn, instead of going into the road, he went up a bank by the side of the road, and over went cook-wagon - fortunately not breaking any part of it. But when it was righted, what a sight the inside presented, being beautifully frescoed with everything in the wagon! And what an object that poor darky was, tattooed from head to foot with coffee, flour, lard, salt, etc., one ear beautified with a big lump of butter, his eyes full of flour, etc. - not a part of him escaped. It was a long time before he allowed himself to go to sleep again on the road.
Circuses, New York Clipper, July 28, 1877. Not complete. Information should be checked with additional sources.
Montgomery Queen’s Circus and Menagerie is now on this side of the Rocky Mountains, working Eastward. The show is to be in Council Bluffs, Ia. July 28, and ships direct to Peoria, Ill. for 30. From the last place the route will be East, stopping at a few stands in Indiana, and reaching Toledo, O. Aug 10, thence into Michigan, where it will exhibit in sixty towns; then back through Indiana and South for a Winter campaign.
W. W. Cole’s N. Y. and N. O. Menagerie and Circus showed in Flora, Ill. July 14, Onley 16, Washington, Inds. 17, Mitchell 18, Seymour 19, New Albany 20, Columbus 21, and is billed in Madison 23, Shelbyville 24, Rushville 25, Franklin 26, Indianapolis 27, 28.
Circuses, New York Clipper, August 4, 1877. Not complete. Information should be checked with additional sources.
The Railroad War has seriously interfered with circuses traveling in the West. Forepaugh’s Show, Barnum’s, and the Metropolitan Olympiad were compelled to return to Chicago, Ill.
Barnum’s Show . . . A correspondent says: “The Lake Shore road was unable to receive the show trains from the Western road, which was to haul them from Elgin to Chicago, en route to Laporte; consequently the show was obliged to remain in Elgin 26, and at 12 midnight the trains left there for Chicago, with the understanding that the show must protect their own property and persons. The locomotives had upon them placards which read: ‘This train is under the protection of the United States Government.’ The U. S. Marshal accompanied it, and all the company were armed. Asa Berry, the master of horse, had his force all armed with six-shooters; Charles McLeon [sic McClean], master of canvas, commanded the canvasmen, forty in number; and Ben Maginley had charge of the performers, who were all armed with six-shooters. The ladies and children were sent forward on the regular passenger train, ahead of the show train, and the latter steamed out of the Elgin depot at 12 o’clock midnight, amid an avalanche of good wishes for a safe arrival at their destination.”
Curtis’ Hippodrome exhibited at Buffalo, N.Y. the past week to fair business, considering the [railroad] strike excitement. Michael Dunn, the boss canvasman, had an altercation 27 with the manager, George W. De Haven, resulting, it is alleged, from a refusal of the latter to pay him his wages. A detective near by arrested Dunn after he had struck De Haven with a heavy club, cutting his face severely, and upon a hearing Dunn was sentenced to the City Workhouse for five months. Letter of July 29.
Circuses, New York Clipper, September 22, 1877. Not complete. Information should be checked with additional sources.
Condee & Conch advertise that they are organizing a circus, menagerie and museum for the season of 1878 . . .
Burr Robbins’ Circus is to exhibit in Rockville, Ind. Sept. 20, Brazil 21, Bowling Green 22, Spencer 24.
W. H. Batcheler, champion leaper, and Prof. Chalet, ventriloquist, have been engaged by Cooper & Bailey for Australia.
Howe’s London Circus is billed to perform at Xenia, O. 24, Washington 25, Circleville 26, Chillicothe 27, Zanesville 28, Newark 29.
Hilliard & Hunting’s Circus is to show in Powellsville, Md. Sept. 19, Pittsville 20, Delmar, Del. 21, Quantico 22, Laurel 24, Federalsburg 25, and East New Castle 26.
Thayer’s U. S. Circus, organized at Bellair, O. Sept. 10, and opened with an exhibition 15. The company will travel by boat on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers and have secured the steamer Ida. Route: Newport, O. 17, Parkersburg, W.Va. 18, Pomeroy, O. 19, Gallipolis 20, Huntington, W.Va. 21, Ironton, O. 22, Portsmouth 24, Maysville, Key. 25, Ripley, O. 26, Dayton, Ky. 27, Aurora, O. 28, and Jeffersonville, Ind. 29.
Circuses, New York Clipper, September 27, 1877. Not complete. Information should be checked with additional sources.
Cooper & Bailey shipped from New York Sept. 15 to San Francisco, Cal., their first invoice of animals, paper, etc., for their second Australian tour. Four cars were completely filled, and these were to go directly through by the fast freight line. Among the animals was a double-horned rhinoceros, the first and only one ever sent to Australia. There were twenty-four large bales of canvas, averaging 600 pounds in weight. The largest tent is a 150 ft. round-top, with two 50 ft. middle-pieces. The paper filled forty boxes. Two more car loads will shortly be shipped containing other pictorial printing, lithographs, a Mardi Gras wardrobe made in this city, and a new wardrobe for general use. All of the above will be shipped from San Francisco, Cal., to Australia by the steamship City of Sydney, which sails early in October.
Howe’s London Circus exhibited in Louisville, Ky. Sept. 17, 18, and the canvas was completely crowded at all of the performances. President Hayes and the circus both arrived there upon the same day.
Harry Barnum, Homer Davis, Wm. Simpson and John Coss, all of Howe’s London Circus, are at their homes in Connersville, Ind., visiting their families. . . .
Montgomery Queen’s Circus is to show in Hudson, Mich., Sept. 24, Adrian 25, Manchester 26, Ypsilanti 27, Jackson 28, Angola, Ind. 29, Fort Wayne Oct. 1, Warsaw 2, and Plymouth 3.
C. A. Potter, press and advertising agent, terminated his engagement with Murray’s Circus Sept. 20. This circus will close a season of twenty-two weeks in New Rochelle, N.Y., 25.
New York Clipper, October 6, 1877. Not complete. Information should be checked with additional sources.
John H. Murray’s Circus closed the season in New Rochelle Sept. 25, with considerable money due each one of the company and attaches. The latter were notified to meet at Bull’s Head Hotel 27, in this city, to be paid off, but upon their meeting they were informed that the managers had no money to pay them. Business was bad during the entire season.
Billy Austin, leader of the band with Hamilton & Sargeant’s New York Circus, was taken ill with typhoid pneumonia Sept. 20, and died within twenty-four hours. His remains were sent to his home in Waterford, Pa., where he left a widow and two small children.
The Great Eastern Circus is to make a Southern tour this winter. The officers and company are as follow: H. C. Lee, proprietor; G. W. De Haven, manager; T. F. Walters, treasurer; H. D. Dabella, contracting agent; Dan Rhoades, R. R. contracting agent and advertiser; Miles Orton and family, . . . the Lee family - Mr. and Mrs. H. C., Miss Levartie, Harry, Master Robert E. and Little Fussy - Blumenshine and Swartz, Rosa Lee, Mlle. Levater, Romansnoff; and P. H. Seamons and Billy Johnson, clowns. They are to show in Cairo, Ill., Oct. 6.
Hamilton & Sargent’s New York Circus performed in Iowa City, Ia., Sept. 26, Gilman 27, Marshalltown 28, State Centre 29, and is billed in Union Oct. 1, Eldora 2, Iowa Falls 3, Ackley 4, Parkersburg 5, Grundy Centre 6, Reinbeck 8. They expect to go into winter quarters in that State about Oct. 14.
The Great Pacific Circus showed in Federalsburg, Md. Sept 25, East New Market 26, Vienna 27, Cambridge 28, 29, and is billed in Millersville Oct. 1, Laurel 2, Brookville 3, Rockville 4, Darnestown 5, Clarksburg 6, Barnesville 8, Poolesville 9, where the season is to close.
Circuses, New York Clipper, October 27, 1877. Not complete. Information should be checked with additional sources.
Joseph Cushing, Frank J. Howes and Andrew Cullen began a suit in the Supreme Court, this city, to recover from Robert J. Getty $500 in cash paid him in advance, to cancel their notes for $2,000 given to him, and for damages caused them by his breach of contract. In the Autumn of 1875, proposing to take their circus to the West Indies and South America, they contracted with Getty for the use of the veteran propeller Artisan. As owner, Getty undertook to have the propeller ready at a certain day, Howes & Cushing to pay $2,000 a month for her use, and to insure themselves for $500. Subsequently they found that the vessel had been libeled for seamen’s wages, that she could not be insured to the extent desired, and that they could not get her at all. On Oct. 19 Judge Barrett gave judgment for the $500 paid, together with $4,5?8 damages, and ordered the notes to be canceled.
James Barker, one of the attaches of Barnum’s Show, who was injured and once reported killed by the railroad accident near Rock Island, has left the hospital, and is expected to arrive in this city Oct. 22 or 23.
Montgomery Queen’s California Circus and Menagerie will open in St. Louis, Mo., Oct.22 for one week. The season will be brought to a close Oct. 27, the company paid off, and the entire effects shipped to Louisville, Ky., to be placed in winter quarters.
New York Clipper, January 4, 1879. Not complete. Information should be checked with additional sources.
Mrs. Elizabeth Robinson, wife of John Robinson, the veteran circus manager, died of cancer of the liver, in the family mansion, corner of Seventh and College streets, Cincinnati, O., at ten o'clock in the morning of Dec. 24. Elizabeth Frances Bloomer was born in Madison, Ind., March 4, 1825, and when she was three years of age her parents removed to Cincinnati, where they resided until 1837, when they went to New Orleans, La., and subsequently there she first met Mr. Robinson, who was professionaly engaged in that city. On Jan. 5, 1841, they crossed the Mississippi River to Algiers, and wre there married. The fruit of this union was six children, five boys and one girl - John F., Gilbert, James H., Frank M., Katie V. (afterward Mrs. Robert Stickney), and Charles M. Mrs. Stickney died in Cincinnati Feb. 6, 1874. The female portion of the family has passed away, leaving the male intact. Mrs. Robinson was for some years a performer in her husband's circus, riding a menage act. She was an exemplary woman, a devoted mother, and much esteemed by a large circle of friends and acquaintances. Her funeral took place Dec. 26, . . .
New York Clipper, January 11, 1879. Not complete. Information should be checked with additional sources.
Dibolo, the fire-king, . . . is engaged with Sells Brothers' European Circus for the coming season.
W. C. Coup's Equescurriculum, after a season of twelve weeks, closed in Philadelphia Jan. 4. . . .
Basye's Cosmopolitan Circus came to a dead stand in Vicksburgh, Miss. An occastional correspondent writing on Dec. 31 last, says: "The doors were opened, but, as it rained heavily, the people did not turn out. For three days the management fought agains the elements, but management fourght against the elements, but were obliged to succumb. The party disbanded. DeVere, McFlyn and Andrews gave a concert and gymnastic entertainment, which proved another failure, owing to the continued storm. They leave to-day for the interior towns, on their way South."
New York Clipper, January 4, 1879. Not complete. Information should be checked with additional sources.
John Williams, lion performer, who has been in the circus business many years, died of consumption in Scranton, Miss., Oct. 31.
Pete Valentine, a tuba player, for many years engaged with circus and negro minstrel companies, died in Little Rock, Ark., Oct. 28, and was buried the following day.
License. A correspondent writing from Alexandria, Va., informs us that the circus license has been reduced to $100 per day from $100 each performance. Five per cent of the gross receipts is ??? added. Mrs. Elizabeth Robinson, wife of John Robinson, the veteran circus manager, died of cancer of the liver, in the family mansion, corner of Seventh and College streets, Cincinnati, O., at ten o'clock in the morning of Dec. 24. Elizabeth Frances Bloomer was born in Madison, Ind., March 4, 1825, and when she was three years of age her parents removed to Cincinnati, where they resided until 1837, when they went to New Orleans, La., and subsequently there she first met Mr. Robinson, who was professionaly engaged in that city. On Jan. 5, 1841, they crossed the Mississippi River to Algiers, and wre there married. The fruit of this union was six children, five boys and one girl - John F., Gilbert, James H., Frank M., Katie V. (afterward Mrs. Robert Stickney), and Charles M. Mrs. Stickney died in Cincinnati Feb. 6, 1874. The female portion of the family has passed away, leaving the male intact. Mrs. Robinson was for some years a performer in her husband's circus, riding a menage act. She was an exemplary woman, a devoted mother, and much esteemed by a large circle of friends and acquaintances. Her funeral took place Dec. 26, . . .
New York Clipper, January 11, 1879. Not complete. Information should be checked with additional sources.
Dibolo, the fire-king, . . . is engaged with Sells Brothers' European Circus for the coming season.
W. C. Coup's Equescurriculum, after a season of twelve weeks, closed in Philadelphia Jan. 4. . . .
Basye's Cosmopolitan Circus came to a dead stand in Vicksburgh, Miss. An occasional correspondent writing on Dec. 31 last, says: "The doors were opened, but, as it rained heavily, the people did not turn out. For three days the management fought against the elements, but management fought against the elements, but were obliged to succumb. The party disbanded. DeVere, McFlyn and Andrews gave a concert and gymnastic entertainment, which proved another failure, owing to the continued storm. They leave to-day for the interior towns, on their way South."
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