The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-03-22
PIATTS PLAY.
A WESTERN JOURNALIST FOR A
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PIATTs NEW DRAMA-A. O. B.-A CAPABLE
BULL-ALoNzo @. BUELL..
The following from the Washington
Capital is evidently from the pen of Dom
Piatt in response to q communication TO
A. @. Buell. in the st. Louis Times: The
fact is, we have always suspected we had
dramatic turn, and wheBever we see
striking, picturesque person, the impulse
comes upon us to utilize that individual
by putting him upon the stage and have a
plot, love-making situations and things.
This impulse came upon us with irresisti-
bic force one day when we saw q young
man upon the avenue, of medium height,
muscular built and q Bowery walk. His
eyes were black and piercing, and seemed
| TO guard, like two dragons, q nose that
looked as IL, in spite of such guardianship,
it had been smashed on more than one oc-
casion. The jaw was full and prominent,
the mouth was of the pre-Adamite period,
| when the only use OF that organ was to
receive its food. The face was composite,
| for
and simply immense. This picturesque
and imposing person was clad in dra-
matte costume. His intellect was covered
with seal-skin cap. His coat was a very
delapidsted coat indeed, warning off vir-
tuous people of both sexes; and while
from his manly bosom of Immaculate
linen sAOne an Alaska diamond, like a
Defy hummer of the first magnitude, his
little finger flashed another, and massive
chain iestooned impres sively on and below
his velvet vest. To say this young man IVES
gorgeous but feebly expresses the impress
sion bis appearance made in the eyes of
little milliner girls, colored bootblacks
and hackmen. We made inquiry con-
cerning this youth, and found he was
from the far West; yea, even unto the
land of Josquin Miller, where buffaloes,
bowie-knives, red men and revolvers do
most abound. His name? 1t was Buell.,
originally Bull AloDZo @. Buell. Il but
known to the frontier A. Capable Bull,
from his prowess and famous achieve
ments. he was
/ THE HERO OF A HUNDRED FIGHTS.
he has punched and punished, cut, carved,
shot and eaten more of the enemy than
any man of his size and years in the far
West. Yet was he modest withsl. He
did not boast of these great victories.
He was distinguished by the softness OF
, his voice and the sweetness of his
manners. He ats with his knife
He did not eat with the knife from any
ignorance OF the usages of polished society
mot he-but from pardonable desire 10
show how dexterously be could handle
the dangerous cutlery. We incontinently
determined to dramatic this remarkable
youth. This is our original and ingenious
; plot: In the wild OF the far West, weary
OF his triumpts over barbsrous and semi
barbarous men; weary OF loVe-msk-
ing to Indian maidens and frontier
| lx.yix, he s. xxysth m
vague desire for mental Immortality. he
suddenly resolves to write the rise and
fall of the Russian empire. Suddenly for
saking the haunJs his deeds have rendered
famous, he comes to the national capital
One can not write history without some
little Information. A. Capable Buil has
everything but information. To gain that
he joins Newspaper Row and turns CORE
spondent.
NEWSPAPER ROW Is FAMOUS
for its historical research and accuracy Of
information. The third act dis
: covers our hero in great distress and pow
city. The Nestor, Shaw, has cheated him
out of the proceeds of both sword and suit
lership. he is, moreover, sadly depressed
to find that in the brief absence from News
paper Row the world has enjoyed
peace and quiet that sur
paSSeth understanding. 10 make
,, mp for lost time and regain his power, he
throws a bombshell into congress, has a
pugilistic encounter with old Zach. Chan
dler, scslps Senator Conkling and marries
Susan B. Anthony. Driven wild by these
terrible events, Secretary Robson de-
, clares war on Cuba and sends out a fleet OF
! iron-clad canal boats armed with proc,sma-
tions. Bristow assassinates Pierrepont
and in turn has his (Bristow's)
HEAD SEVERED FROM HIS BODY
by Lieutenant Colonel Fred. Grant, with
la sabre de mon pere. Jewell puts him.
self in a mail bag and fast train, and
reaches Cincinnati three weeks after bis
> suffocation. The Hon. Hamilton Fish Ii
solemnly replaced In the family vault or
the. Hudson, Grant appears in white
table-clotb, crowned by Belknap as Julius
/. Caesar riding in a chariot made up of bar
I rel marked "crooked whisky" end Nor
I ton, as the Devil on two sticks" fddles
, while the army and navy buildings are
burning, and all the office-holders pro-
claim the third term. The curtain tails on
/ a grand transformation scene, in which
appears the apotbeosis OF our hero sup
[ ported by Susan b. Anthony and Doctor
Mary Walker in tights. Ford rejected
, this sensational drama because he said he
I had been mixed up in one assassination
and die not care to try another,