Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1889-05-03
Grand Gala Day Parade.

SURVIVORS OF GEN. CUSTER S OLD REGI-
MENT-THEY WILL RIDE IN THE GRAND
PROCESSION OF THE COMBINED FORE
PAUGH AND WILD WEST EXHIBITION.
The famous Wild West exhibition, as
reorganized, will make it's first appearance
here tomorrow week, in combination with
the great Forepaugh show.
The street parade on the morning of eX-
hibition day will be a novel and imposing
affair. Both exhibitions will start from
the camping ground about II on the morn
ing of Saturday, the 18th of May. More
than hundred denizens Of the plains will
appear in this great frontier display and
large delegation of genuine far west Indi-
ans, in charge of DR.. Carver, the famous
scout and champion marksman of the
world. Conspicuous will be the survivors
Of Clusters command, who will appear in
the parade and afterwards take part in the
realistic representation of Clusters last
rally, OF the drama of the Little Big Horn.
There will also be seen veritahle cowboys,
lassoists, celebrated scouts, Mexican
vaqueros, and
HUNTERS, SHARPSHOOTERS, SCOUTS, .
and complete emigrant train, just as it
appears crossing the distant prairies. The
first wagon, it is believed, that ever crossed
the Mississippi river, and moreover 142
years old, is used in the parade. These
venerable old ''prairie schooners," filled
with the traps" of the emigrants, and
containing the wives and little ones, drawn
by oxen and mules, appear in parade, pre-
cisely as they could be seen not many years
past, slowly moving over the prairies,
''bound for Pike S Peak Oh elsewhere, away
beyond the Missouri. The old
DEADWooD STAGE COACH,
which in times past carried the mail be-
tween the Black Hills and Denver, and
which has been repeatedly the object of at
tack and pillage by savages and ''road
agents. on the distant frontier, will be put
whip of the Overland Mail Company will
draw the lines over six horses, which will
be attached to this historical relic of stag
ing days on the frontier. Wild buffaloes.
Indian ponies, antelopes, &C., will add to
the picturesqueness Of this realistic repre-
sentatiOn of
LIFE, LOVE AND DEATH ON THE
| BORDER,
graphically illustrating scenes in the ma
ton S progress and the advance of civiliza-
ton toward. the land of the setting sun.
This department of the parade is led by a
genuine Cowboy Brass Band.
The hippodrome racing chariots, with
their mettlesome steeds are driven in the
parade, and realistic representations are
presented of Cleopatra in her barge of beat
en- gold, surrounded by her dusky maids OF
honor, and attended with all the lavish
luxury and display of her time. Lalla
Rookh, departing from Delhi, with all the
accessories of an eastern monarch's court
is depicted in this peerless and poetic
pageant, which is only a prelude to what
will assuredly be the most interesting.
novel and instructive entertainment ever
given under white tents in this city,
The hippodrome pavilion will seat 20, OOC
people: the race track will be a quarter OF
a mile in circumference; there will be plen
ty of room for all; the best of order is
always maintained. Everywhere the great
show is receiving columns of commenda
tory notices, and during it's recent sojour1
in Baltimore every daily paper in that city
pronounced it the most novel, largest, bes
managed exhibition ever placed before til,
public Of that city. The present is tn
! 18th annual tour of the Forepaugh shOv
proper, and the addition of the entire Viii,
West exhibition to this colossal establish
ment, makes it show of the most tremen
dous magnitude, and by fan the most move
Aand attractive of any now travelling.