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Show FOKEPAUGH'S CIRCUS j To be in this City the Early Part of; August Next. P. S. Mattox. press agent of Fore-paugh's Fore-paugh's gigantic circus, was in the city the early part' of the week announcing an-nouncing to the public that that vast army of men and animals will appear in i'rovo the early part of August next and give an exhibition superior to anything ever seen in the west. ! The Philadelphia Times of April 19 i says: Under the biggest circus tents ever erected the vast comb, nation known as the Adam Forepaugh shows opened its season of one week jester-day jester-day at Forepaiigli's Park, Broad and Dauphin sireets. The afternoon performance per-formance was given before an immense audience, the young folks in particular being out in force, and a rainstorm did not deter 8000 people from attending attend-ing in the evening. The exhibition easily surpassed the efforts of former seasons, magnificent as they were, and in fact it is the best ever seen in this city. The circus, which is but one of the live departments, depart-ments, was given simultaneously in three rings and on an elevated stage for the ground acts, wlubi the air ws thick with performers doing '..-azardous feats of every conceivable kind on all manner ot circus riggiug. The great anialists, the Ilanlon-Volters, Ilanlon-Volters, were then given full possession posses-sion of the vast space for their difficult feats upon the Hying trapeze. It Was the Jikt appearance of these arial meteors under canvass, and their double somersaults from bar to bar, great wings sixty feet in length and perilous leaps were greeted with loud bursts of applause. |
