Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-06-04
Barnun Coming

Barnum Coming
The attractive advertisement in another column
announces the fact that Barnum's "Grestest Show
on Earth" will exhibit 10 Augusta, Wednesday
June 18th. The New York Spirit of the Times
good authority ON such matters, speaks Of Bar.
NUNS show in the following enthusiastic terms
THE GREATEST SHOW on EARTH.'-The hu
gle of the great Snowman Ban is blown with
exceeding loudness and remarkable perseverance
hut there Is this distinction between ITS p9ans and
those which usually accompany other similar
vauntings, that the realty fully sustans the
boast. Il is large claim that Barnum has the
grcai est show on earth, but the thousands who
daily and nightly crowd the vast amphltheatre o {
the American Institute on Third Avenue, near
Sixty third Street, unanimously return a corrobo-
ratve verdict after witnessing the exhibition.
Barnum has this season fairly outdone himself
and ecpsed all hi own stupendous etfoIts of the
past Regarded as q circus, meuageric, or a mu-
scum, 'he show is not only complete bat bewier-
ing. The rng performances are really without
comparison. The star of the arena Is the cham
p,on bareback rider, Fish, without rival in his
profession, whose daring iests thrill the nerves
and dazzle the eyes. Ii is the poetry of motion to
see HIM leap from the ground and slight on his
feet the back of a naked and flying horse. 9th
er male riders are good, and the lady riders are
not to be surpassed. The Deotard Brothers are
now the greatest living gymnasts, and o.her AS
torishing feaIs are performed with the utmost pre-
c>ion and neatness. The "Japs" do the balanced
pole and feet balancing tricks to perfection; the
woman with the iron jaw is the wonder of the
age while the tumbling and lesping is one Of the
finest portions of the show. The flying leap, turn
ing double somersault in the air over eight ele-
phants is "a tremendous pt foImance. The crown
ing glory of the great show, however, is the e1-
qnisite performing stations, twenty in number.
Trained TO unparalleled degree of docility,
they perform, at the word of their taner. Mr.
Cail Antony, feats which no man sould be expect
ed to credit without seeing them, while their
perfect beauty and the large number of them 10
the ring at once, enhances the wonder greatly.
la every respect the arena performances are un-
equalled, and while We cannot go into the DEF ais
regarding the menagere and museum, the same
superlatiye language applies to them.
All coacede that this show surpssSes all Of Bar
NUNS previous efforts. lie will give two perfor-
mances here, afternoon and evening. Reserved
scat tickets be had on the day of exhibition at
Parker c. kallock's drug store, Water street.
Superior Court Kenneb.c County.
June 3, 1873.
BY assignment at the April term of this court,
cases for the jury will be in order for trial at the
June term as follows.
TUESDAY, June llth.
No 9, Rowe v. Kicker,
" IL, ialde V. keaher,
q" TO- Richardson v. Withee.
WEDNESDAY, June 18th.
No l6, Wtham v. Wade.
" 49, Me. Cen. r. CIV. ODonnell,
q" &c. Foss v. Judkins,
" II. lnmsn v. johnson,
" l0i, Sprsgue ct ais, Y. City of Hallowell,
" 90, Rollins v. Fowler ct ux.
THURSDAY, June 18th.
No. 20, Gould v. Steward
49, Over v. Dunn.
" &C. Blake v. Nicholas,
" 81 Morse v. Watson,
" &C. Percival, admx., v. Tlbbetts,
%, Hodgkins v. Whitman.
MONDAY June 18th.
No >, Jewett V. Monmouth.
Per order,
WM. NJ. STRATToN, Clerk