The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1884-06-19


white Or pied marks upon ears and
forehead, and his whole appearance
indicates that ne is vastly different
from the remainder Of the large
herd. lie was looked upoa with
great curiosity by the thousands
who either surrounded or passed by
the enclosure; all admitted the Gle
phant to be more than ordinarily
interesting. In the next pavilion
was grouped the herd Of elephants,
including Jumbo in charge Of Keep
er Scott, and the amusing dwarf
and trick elephant, Tom Thumb.
Frof. George Arstingtall, the popu-
lar trainer. here held q reception to
his legion Of friends. BY the aid of
2 ladder many children found an
opportunity to rest few minutes
upon Jumbo's towering form. He
is tho largest beast we ever saw,
and Is greedy as all elephants usu-
ally are. We judge his size to be
some where from piece of chalk up
to meeting house.
Leaving the monster and its
basket of little ones our wander
ing eyes were opened to the i'm
mense tent. which seats COM
forcably .ft1e9n housa'd people:
This assertion we know smacks Of
Munchausenism, but we assure the
reader that it is none the less true,
and by two O'Clock. when the grand
orchestra Of twenty-four soloists
struck up the opening piece the
great tent was 1liiied to "eDleticn,
and by the time that the CRANE en-
tree took place many had to lut up
with standing room. A marked
feature Of this immense audience
was the entire absence Of black IA
ces. 1t was altogether white. Ten
thousand fans futtered before tie
view, and never before have
we seen such an assemblage,
the eyes growing dazed in looking
at the stupcndous crowd. The
great tent is oval shaped, and
stretches out in its millions of yards
Of canvas over what appeared to
us to be at least two acres Of ground
On one side and about q third Of
the space is devoted to reserved
seats, capable Of accommodating
five thousand people. 1t is easy
now to form anidea Of the immense
sum Of money taken in at this show.
Count..it for yourself, reader, 1000
at so cts. and 5000 extra seats
they were all full-at so cts. each.
What does this amount to? Sim
ply $4,000. The daily expenses
Of this show are $4,000; enormous
isn't it?
Well, as we said this is a Cir
Gus letter, we will give faint idea
Of what was seen besides the $4,000
faces. and the 10000 waving fans.
First was the grand entree-the
band in splendid uniform heading
the procession, then followed sew
enty nine splendid horses, richly
caparisoncd, and finely mounted,
the male riders being variously
dressed; among these riders were
twenty four female cquestrians,
twelve or fifteen clowns fantastic
ally arrayed. a large number OF po-
nies, we have failed to rcmem-
Der the number-these were follow
ed by elephants, camels, dromeda-
ries and q variety Of other animals,
then came q fine specimen Of the
western cow boy with his lasso, fol-
lowed by Indians and all the other
tribes mentioned above, racing
chariots drawn by four horses each,
single one horse chariots, together
with all the other horse, foot and
dragons Of which the huge institu-
ton is composed. You can form
an idea of the immensely Of space,
reader, can you not. Ifyou cannot,
we are unable to give you a more
lucid idea Of it.
Inside, and in the centre, Of
this wonderful spread were three
rings, one Of which was covered
with q green carpet, with space
sufficient on its edge for the passage
Of horses, another was covered with
q brown carpet, with similar space
for horses, the third and centre one
was square and elevated. As soon
as the grand cavalcadc had made
its evolutions. the three wings were
each occupied and filled with q
quick changing and bright moving
variety Of performances, consisting
of riding, gymnastics, acrobatics,
wire walking. dancing and 4 hun,
dred other things, some familiar IS
circus accompanimcnts, and many
that we never saw before. The
feats OF riding were remarkably
fine. We were particularly impress
cd with the performance Of q lady
whose strength lay in her teeth.
She managed Z chair with these
members with more ease and dex-
terity than could be done with the
hands, and among other things she
lifted q full grown man lying upon
the ground,with apparent ease, ;;nd
all with he; teeth We feel how
ever that we have said enough of
Barnum's Circus for one time. and
hasten to close. SO much did we
see and so varying was it in char
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