Morning journal and courier., 1880-05-05
Barnurn,s Great Show.

Immense thrOngS attended BarnumS man. l moth show in this city yesterday both after ! noon and evening. The city in the after l noon wors holiday appearance, remindin g l somewhat of Inauguration day times of old, I with the heavily laden passenger trains bring ! ing host of people from the adjacent towns, ' the multitude of teams from the country, the
 rush of people in the horse cars the numbers of extra omnibuses rolling along crowded to the utmost and busy times generally. The street procession in the morning also drew out multitudes of people of all ages, who en- joyed the display, and some even the hot sun and the dust, which the wind kept flying. The show is great aggregation worthy of the great Barnum. The menagerie and museum was of great interest to thousands and hosts of the young people of ths city feasted their eyes on the big elephant, the gnus tigers, etc., the musical automatons and the host of other attractions, and then went wild with interest and delight at the funny clowns, the flying circus horses and the wonderful skill of the riders, the beautiful Trakene stallions, and the wonderful performing oxen, the trained doves, the astonishing agility of the athletes, the leaping over the elephants backs and the highly sensational melodramatic feat of shooting Mile. Zazel out of the yawning mouthed cannon high in the air, the intrepid woman alighting in the out spread net and retiring amid grand boom of excitement and applause. Old and young took in the show with interest and
 pleasure, and then the last act over the street
 became alive again with horse cars, omnibuses, ol,
 stands, vehement outcries from the pop corn
 meH and men having catehpenny curbstone
 shows, while carriage wheels interlocked,
 horses pranced and kicked and many made
 full afternoon of it by remaining and attend
 ing BunnelPs annex, Cool Burgess and
 other after shows. A great mistake was made
 in the seating arrangements yesterday. There
 were several tiers of seats directly in front of
 the reserved seats. The result was that those
 occupying the three lower tiers of reserved
 seats were entirely deprived of the pleasure of
 the show. Next to nothing of the exhibition
 could be seen by the portion of the audience in this situation, and many of them re- tired at an early stage of the performance.
 Accidents.
 There was an exciting scene at the perform AucS lA6L 6VeuIuS MhUhLuS HhrtHh huO herE Neyggaard were completing their very suc- cessful 'Double Act de Manege." The
 Madame's horse, in leaping the bar or gate, struck his feet against tho ring rope, tripped and fell on his side. The Madame, fast to the saddle, was thus for a moment in haz- ardous situation. The struggling horse re- gained his feet and dragged his rider several feet outside of the ring, where he was caught by the attendants. Madame Mar tha hung limp and apparently lifeless in the arms of the attendants who bore her of to the dressing rooms. The audience was con- siderably worked up, and fears prevailed that the intrepid rider had been seriously injured. The performance went on with hardly Q break. After 8 few moments the audience was much relieved to see Madame come tripping into the ring unattended. Rowing, she retired amid great applause. Robbie Nel- son in his act 'sThe Fiddling Clown, with his father and brother, in attempting to throw 8 backward somersault missed his hold and landed on his head and shoulders. He walked out of the ring unattended, but the impression gained that his arm was broken. He wasrubbed with liniment and was soon nearly as well as ever.
 A man named Coleman, who was among the last of the throng passing out of the show last evening, tripped and fell against post, and lay stunned. doctor was found in the crowd, who attended to the patient, who was stretched out upon the green sward. He had only 1 received 8 severe bruise, and was able to walk home.