The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-08-25

A Great ShO " with Menagerie Attach
ment. A Grand MardIgras Carnival
Most Intense Excitement. 10000
Tickets Sold on the Opening Day, at
Chicago Yesterday.
HOwes' London Circus and Sanger's
Menagerie made its grand entry into Chi
cago on yesterday morning with one OF
mere. The procession was headed by a
large military band in a gOrgeOusly gill
ded and ornamented chariot of immense
size. This was followed by caValcade
Of some 30 horsemen in Spanish court
costume; these, by wagons carrying men
in mardi-gfas Mosques of birds and beasts
to the number of twenty tive or thirty,
and these by charlOts Of the most ornate
description, one of them being suFmount-
ed by q gilded elephant, upon the back
of which was placed q chair, in which
sat young lady representing America.
The circus performance Is one Of the
old circus kind, without any of the hip
podrome nonsense to which the public
have been almost exclusively treated dur
ing the three or four seasons last gone.
1t includes some extraordinary riding,
some very line leaping, trapese acts, and
little of all those acts which formerly
made cIrcuses so attractive. The horse
back riding by mile Dockrill is princi-
pally remarkable in that il is done by q
lady-a thing unheard of before. Mile
also EluGS IOuE HORSES at Once-h
feat frequently performed by men, but
never before by q woman. Mile Dock
rill accomplishes it with all the ease aud
skill of perfect equestrienne, and on
yesterday afternoon got round after round
Of applause.
Mr.. Frank Melville rides an "Irish Jock
ey act'' which is a break-neck exhibition
Of daring and skill. The grand riding of
the entertainment, however, is done by
Mr.. James Melville, whom the bills call
1.-The Australian horseman." He carries
little boy through what seems to be the
most pe-ilous performances a circus mind
Is capable OF inventing. The most start
ling of these is that in which, with the
boy erect upon his head, he makes sever
al rounds OF the ring, Jumps banners and
hurdles.
Mr.. W. H, Batchelder, the leading ath-
lete Of the company, makes at one stage
Of the entertainment, the most extraor-
binary Of conceivable leaps. This is q
jump Of twenty five 1eet, after run Of
about thirty feet. He leaves the board
and springs into the air, turning several
times, apd passing over the back OF a
horse, clearing twenty 1--we feet at one
bound, and landing upon q mattress
placed Just beyond the equine. Another
and really more difficult exploit of his is
to leap into the air, and turn several
somersaults over the backs of five eIe-
plants and camel placed side by side.
Mile. Jutau, the trapese star of the com.
6ination, is marvel of beauty aud skill.
she is 2 blonde, very prettys and 1.-the
from a tfapese on one side OF the ring to
another on the opposite side, is enough to
make ones hair stand upau eRd. The
Times has haFet5lope spoken In condem-
nStiOa of this style Of gymnastics, on &C
count Of the risk Of life it involves,
and cannot now see that the pleasure de-
rived from witnessing it compensates for
the danger to the performer. This trick
OF the Jutau's is far more dangerous and
exciting than any Of its kind hitherto