Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1875-09-11
Howss eREAr LONDON CIRCUS.

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The Courier-J ournal, OF the I'd inst,
has the following notice of the above
mammoth exhibition, which performs
here this friday afternoon and to-
night. Welearnif from parties who saw
it in Louisville that the street parade
is the finest ever given 10 this country,
and the inside performance in keeping
with the outside show:
For the second time this season
Howes' Great London Hippodrome,
Circus and Menagerie has appeared in
Louisville. Since the last visitof this
tented combination, it has been travel
ing constantly through the North and
West, and has thus, far, made fine
business season oft. Having thorouh-
~ canvassed that section Of the coun-
try, and as the sun meris beginning to
lapse into autumn, the sGrcat london
in common with all shows, sets out
upon its southwark tour, seeking gold
en- harvests, and leaving behind it the
frosts that foretell the winters nearing
advent Louisville being the most ad-
vantageous point from which to enter
upon the new field, the 1st of Septem-
Der. found it once more in this city,
with the banners it had flung to the
breezes in the spring still flying, and
its equipments and appointments still
complete, everything indicating that
the people among whom it had spent
the interval had been abundantly ap-
preciative of the many and diverse at
fractions which are aggregated beneath
thespreading canvas. The show travels
by railroad only, and it requires forty
cars, built expressly for its use, to'con-
yey its people, features and effects. At
the Ohio Falls Car Works, 10 jeffer
sonville, the gauge of the trucks has
been changed to that of the Southern
roads so that II can now proceed to the
Gulf without difficulty sand rapidly.
For this reason the exhibitions are not
given at points remote from the rail-
way lines. ut will therefore be seen at
once that the Great London is no
y-by- night affair, hut an enterprise
that requires money and brains to in
and the appreciation ofgthe
people at large to be maintained. That
it has proven a bonanza to its prOprie-
tors is sufficient evidence that ttraVels
on its merits and commapds the patron
age of the public. The exhibition
yesterday afternoon was largely attend
ed, despite the oppressive temperature.
In the morning the street parade took
place, which attracted dense masses
all along the route. The pageant was
very fine. There were six golden
chariots, each of which was resplend-
ent with mirrors, -grOtesque, carving,
classic and allegorical representations
in elaborate stucco. The horses form
ing the cayalcade were in excellent
condition, allshowing that their groom
ing and stabling had received careful
The glittering and varied |
costumes of the riders, and the gleam- |
ing caparisons Of the horses, shone in
the sunlight with fine effect. The |
cages are highly ornamented, and al |
together the procession as it wendell |
its, slow way through the crowded |
thoroughfares. stretching along nearly |
q dozen squares, wasa sight to be re-
The performances were |
in every respect to the usual |
run. The programme embraced a |
variety of arenic features, including |
trapeze acts, bareback riding,
the remarkable movements and feats |
executed by the five elephants, the
trained dogs, and the Indian scenes,
All of which evoked the hearty ap-
plause of the spectators. go EaoW IEA /
In the menagerie department were
ranged the cages and stalls OF some Uf
The rarest and strangest creatures, of
the animal kingdom. Among them
we're the African Gland, Bless Book;
the potoquaine, or sable antelope the
zebu, or sacred bull the brindied gnu,
ichneumon, the black tiger of India,
The only one in America, and the South
American tapir.- In addition to these
we're five elephants, camels, zebras,
an ayairy ofbeautiful tropi-
,al birds, nine hyenas, five Bengal
tigers, leopards, lions, from Asia and
Africa, drove of mustangs, and, in
ine, representatives of almost every
department. Of natural history. One
feature was the litter of
Tiger whelps, three in number, and
only four months old. All in all,
Howes' Great London" is an sune-
luivocal success. The reserved seats
IRE an appreciated accommodation.
The police regulations are strict and
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