Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-06-17
Barnum,S Show.

got their moneys worth of sight seeing,
whether they were there to see the animals
or the circus or both. Some of the papers
in the south eastern part of the state, with
their usual accuracy as to their facts, said
that this was O'Brien's show and not Bar
NUNS. We don't know how many other
shows Mr.. Barnum may have, or whether
the OBrien has any show at all this year.
but Phineas I've submit with confidence
that his name is Phineas, although folks
will persist in calling him Peter T., and
that is the reason why he has his biogra-
ply for sale so that historical truth may
not suffer-Phineas T., we repeat, was
here bodily and said this was his property.
There was enough of it to satisfy any rea-
sonable man. If anybody expected that
he was in addition to his four-ton rhinoc-
eros, going to transport his New York
hippodrome about with him, they may
charge over their disappointment to WV
id Imagination. 1t pays to run the hippo
drome right along through the summer in
the village of New York; at least it pays
from five to ten thousand dollars n day
besides expenses, and that ought to satisfy
a reasonable man, too.
Friday morning Barnum was here, hay
ing arrived the day before at the Pavilion,
and had already nude his usual expert
mens to fad out how much ozone there
was in the atmosphere. Now ozone is a.
good thing to have land the great Snowman
| is huntingi it, and says he found indications
that there is more of it here than anywhere
else that he has tried his experiments. We
| don't know but he intends to capture Il
section of Montpelier atmosphere-and
cage it and carry it Off so, of course
he will do it.
But though Barnum was here, his show
was ON the road-not on to Richmond but
from there, and not as far from there as
he would have been glad to have it, for ii
rained and was very wet besides, and alto
gether most unpropitious day for all his
fowls except the sea-lion. and rather fresh
for him. The darkness of the night and
the heavy condition of the roads prevented
the arrival of the procession until towards
noon, when the rain having stopped, his
" travelling" exhibition went by, and was
soon established on Hubbard's meadow.
The rain had been so abundant that We
thought there would be a small attend
ance. bnt the time for the afternoon enter
tainment had no sooner arrived than th'
immense circus tent was filled, and if more
had been present there would have beer
, no place to seat them.
The circus performances were good
though not up to the exhibitions given b,
: the New York circus that passed through
: here few years ago. There were tw
rings in which at the same time the exhi
btion proceeded. The riding of the Mel
0 ville's was the specially noticeable featur
t of this part of the entertainment, thong
, Admiral Dot would have been had he bee
+ large enough Mr.. Barnum appeare
during the performance and made a feH
5 remarks 1t is little strange that givin
:. so good an exhibition the owner there(
G should allow the sale of vile cigars through
d out his circus tent The revenue can't /
D., great, and their use inside the tent is f;
D. from pleasant to the great body of his pa
g rons Barring this nuisance the manage
IT ment of the whole concern is uneXcetion;
or bly, good.
The menagerie contained good cole
" ton of strange beasts of the kinds our rea
of els have seen advertised. The boys mu
# read up their natural history for a desert
% ton if they want one. The Incorporate fan
m ilv, we must say, was not a peculiarly e
+ hilarating sight We don't know thous
" how many shared the feelings of the i
or ebriate who beheld it, and thought g
was too bad He focused his eyes up
al the head of that forlOrn household, and ;
of ter Il few weaves back and forth, final
be reached out to get hold of that individual
va leg. The experiment convinced him I'll
nj it was as he had suspected, and that
4 was Il genuine skeleton. Impressed wi
,e the idea that Barnum had secured a fam
IL of inebriates. and was making a pub
if, spectacle of them after death, he freed
ro enraged mind: That's too - b.
NJ It's too much. Its all well enough
r., show his animals but to take 1lan af
be he's dead and set him up like that, Sp
to in he did take a little too much,
-es all wrong. Its carryin' the thing
I'm frr'
he The exhibition in the evening was W
ral attended, though not so largely as in
nv afternoon, and the concern moved o
; to appear at West Randolph the next d;
nr The rhinoceros which had caused
nj much trouble did not arrive until event
aan and was taken directly to the freight Y;
how of the Central, where he was shipped
an New York, it being useless to think
o+- carving about such monster in this h
on+ country The rhinoceros didn't st
avid to care what they did with him. I
use was the appearance of the beast, ut lie
for though it may be doing him injustice
,od think he was not grieved at the newt;
the disappointment of the many people
1ral had made arrangements to meet in
,tlv eastern part of the state. When we
mo seen him we didn't 90 to the show
vine more.
- UNION SCHooL.-The following is
order of exercises in the Union Sci
commencing Monday next:
and Mo orstnii and Tuesday.
o it. No Miss sweet "Wednesday A NJ
No miss Wolcott-Wednesday p NJ
avs No miss Abbott-Thursday
No 3-Niss Hill-Thursday.
and No 5-MIss Hunt rlday.
No. 4-Miss Bass-frlday-
Rhetorical Exercises OF the Grammar School
Hall Thursday evening.
Annual Levee Friday evening
tion ic extended fl