Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-13
SELLS BROTHERS BIG SHOW
They Draw Big Crowd to the City-A First Class Performance Lowlow in
 the South Again.

Sells Bros circus attracted a large crowd to the city yesterday and enter taned them with two very creditabe performances. Sells Bros have been on the road many years. and the aggrega- tion of riders. trapeze performers. jug glers, tight rope walkers, acrobats and the other various features that go to make up a first-class circus. are well known to the public
 The two performances yesterday, one in the afternoon and the other at night, were up to the usual standard main tained by the Sells for the past several years The immense crowds that gath cred under the tents seemed well pleased with the amusements there seen.
 There were a few new features pre- sented, which added to the attractiveness of the show.
 With Sells Bros. this season is Mr. John Lowlow, the world-renowned clown, whose name is yet familiar to the boys of thirty years ago. MT. Lowlow is only 56 years old, but having been in the cir GUS business nearly all of his life and travelled the wide world over he Is con- sidered the oldest, as well as the clever est, clown living. He is quite clever gentleman and met many old friends in Birmingham. It has been several years since he last travelled in the south, but his absence has not weakened his mem ory of his old friends 9Gad inquires par ticularly after them. He was exceed ingly sorry to hear of the death of Ed itor Richardson of the Columbus (Ga) Enquirer-Sun, whom he had known in Savannah years ago.
 As MT. Lowlow is now passing through the south a short sketch of his history may prove interesting:
 Lowlow was born in Savannah, Ga, in 1S41, and is therefore 54 years of age. He of n n TTf r1x in fn nv,6 Ina gan his career when but boy. His guardian tried to control him and sent him to school at various places, but he tarried at each but day or two. Final 1y he was sent to the University of North Carolina when about 12 years of age. He and Henry and Tom Tate, he says, got away from there by riding off on a mans OK wagon. and for three months no one knew where he or the wagon was. Fi- nally he ran away one day in Savannah, accompanied by Colonel Estell, the pres ent editor and proprietor of the Savan- nah Morning News, and went to the cir GUS. He liked the crowd and life and at- tached himself to the show as lemonade seller. MT. Estell, however soon grew tired and returned to his home in SaVan- nah, where he has since established the Morning News, one of the ablest and best paying newspapers in the south. That soon got too tame and he went to old John Robinson, the snowman, and told him he wanted to be an actor. He asked him what he could do. He told him, so Robinson told him to go in the ring; he did so and at his first appear ance did mid-air act His experiences from that on would fill book and are as interesting as any novel. After be- coming associated with the Robinsons- and that was in 1S56-he never left them but once, and then only for a short time. until he joined Sells two weeks ago, and has since been drawing a salary of $125 a week. He married lady from Utica, N. Y., and has a beautiful home, costing s14, 900, In Cleveland, O. He has one son a lawyer-28 years of age, who is married and living in Cleveland.