Note: the microfilm of the Clipper is sometimes difficult to read. Information with a word or words underlined indicate that the transcription may not be correct. Unreadable words are indicated by ___, questionable words are followed by a question mark (?). There will be typographical errors.

New York Clipper, January 6, 1872, p. 315. All information should be checked with additional sources.
    Sam Rhinehart claims that he vaulted over eighteen horses at Independence, Iowa, on September _th, inst., he being at that time a member of J. W. Robinson's Circus and Ames' Menagerie, and that the feat was performed in the presence of P. A. Older, of Older's Circus and Menagerie; Wm. Cole, John Ames, Wm. B. Carroll . . . If this is so it surpasses the best recorded performance of George M. Kelly, the champion vaulter. . . .
    Heywood's American and European Combination have just returned to Northbridge, Mass. . . . where they are now reorganizing . . . will take all the principal cities as far as Galveston, Texas, and will return early in the spring and re-organize for a summer tour.

New York Clipper, January 13, 1872, p. 1872. All information should be checked with additional sources.
    The Great Commonwealth Circus . . . John and Pete Conklin have sold their interest in the concern at a large figure to George M. Kelley and Col. ___, formerly proprietor of the Allegheney House, Philadelphia. Billy Burke, the clown, has been engaged for this show.
    G. G. Grady's Old Fashioned American Circus will start from Kenton, O., about May 1st with a new ___ and a three centre pole canvas. . . .
    Leona Dare, the lady gymnast, and the Wilson brothers, gymnasts, have been secured for J. E. Warner & Co.'s Museum, Menagerie and Circus for the coming season.

New York Clipper, January 20, 1872, pp. 334, 335. All information should be checked with additional sources.
    "Yankee" Robinson, who has been traveling with a dramatic company for sometime past, has been compelled to retire in consequence of the illness of his wife, who is suffering from ovarian dropsy, which her physicians pronounce incurable.
    Howe's London Circus and Sanger's English Menagerie is being completely overhauled and pout in condition for the coming season. It will again be under the management of Egbert Howes.
    J. E. Warner & Co.'s Great Pacific Menagerie and Circus, in winter quarters at Lansing, Mich., is to have an addition of several new cages of animals and museum stuff. They intend to run three tents, and in procession will have a new chariot . . . Joel E. Warner and Pat Ryan, partners in this establishment . . . Ben Maginley . . . Wilson Brothers and Frank Barry were secured for the "Great Pacific" for next season.
    George Batcheller and John Doris have secured for next season all the inside and outside privileges with John O'Brien's big show. O. H. is to be agent for John O'Brien's show and his son is to be its treasurer.
    Adam Forepaugh is having all his cages repaired and repainted, and will add several new ones this season. He will also use two new pavilions. R. S. Dingess will be his agent, and fred. Lawrence his writer. Charley Burroughs and Henry Burdeau have been engaged.
    James Robinson has removed from his late residence at Covington, Ky., to his farm near Mexico, Mo., some forty miles west of St. Louis.
    "Doc" Clarke and his wife, Madame Hallean, the "American bearded lady," has been secured by Jake Read for next season. Mr. Read has again secured the side-show privilege with Adam Forepaugh's Menagerie and Circus.
    Ben. Lusbie, for two years past treasurer of Adam Forepaugh's Circus and Menagerie, has been secured to fill the same position with P. T. Barnum's Museum, Menagerie and Circus. Mr. Lusbie has the reputation of being the most expert ticket-seller in the country.
    James De Mott has secured the outside privileges and candy stands with Rosston, Springer & Co.'s Circus and Menagerie during the coming season. Mr. De Mott does not again enter the arena. . . .
    Dan Rice's Paris Pavilion Circus is to open at Mobile, Alabama Jan. 24th. . . . at Columbus, Ga. Jan 15th, and Montgomery, Ala., 17th.

New York Clipper, January 27, 1872, p. 343. All information should be checked with additional sources.
    The co-partnership heretofore between George M. Kelley and John Conklin, in the Commonwealth Circus, has been dissolved by mutual consent.
    Harry Emmett, leaper and stilt performer, with Dr. Brackenstone's [or E. Backenstose] Cosmopolitan Circus, died at Vicksburg, Miss., Jan. 4th, of typhoid pneumonia. He was well cared fro by the company, and Dr. Backenstone kept two doctors in attendance upon him until he reached Vicksburg, where, by their advice, he was placed in the hospital, where he died. His remains were forwarded to Waverly, O., where his father resides, by the Odd Fellows of Vicksburg. Mr. Emmett having been a memeber of that order.
    Peter Murett and James Jourdan, of Dr. Backenstone's [or E. Backenstose] Cosmopolitan Circus, who were both ill with typhoid pneumonia at the hospital in Vicksburg, Miss., have recovered and rejoined that company.
    Harry Codona and wife have been engaged for next season by Geo. M. Kelly & Co., for the Great Commonwealth Circus.

New York Clipper, February 3, 1872, pp. 350, 352. All information should be checked with additional sources.
    [New York City] A circus, called the "European Hippotheatron Company," commenced at the Grand Opera House . . . W. Waterman is the ringmaster, Sam Long and W. Aymar the clowns . . . Messrs. Avery Smith and John Nathans are the managers of the circus company. . . . John Henry and Henry Welby Cooke performed their wonderful juggling act upon horseback . . . Charles Conrad and sons, in a series of acrobatic feats . . . Miss Lucille Watson, one of the best equestrians in this country, rode with dash and fearlessness. . . .
    [Advertisement] Frank Stanselle, the young American clown . . . now engaged with the Great Atlantic and Pacific Circus . . .

New York Clipper, February 17, 1872, pp. 363, 366, 367. All information should be checked with additional sources.
    [Advertisement] Circus property for sale. The entire stock of chariots, wagons, horses and lions belonging to the Great European Circus Company. Sixteen highly trained horses, thirteen ponies and mules, five performing lions, four performing lion dens, one lion tableau chariot, one globe tableau chariot, one band chariot, one pony chariot, two passenger wagons, one property wagon, one trunk wagon, one advertising wagon, one canvas wagon, five platform wagons, one trick pony wagon, two two horse buggies, two one horse buggies . . . nine sets of four horse harness, two sets of eight horse harness, three sets of six horse harnesses, together with pads, saddle, bridles, and all wardrobe necessary for a first class exhibition. Apply to Avery Smith, John J. Nathans, or L. June, New York. . . . Smith, Nathans & Co., proprietors.
    Avery Smith, John J. Nathans, and L. June, who have been prominently identified with the successful management of various circuses during the past thirty-five years, by which they have accumulated a competency, have at length determined to retire from active business pursuits, and engy, in the domestic happiness of private life, the fruits of their labors. . . . Their last business enterprise is the circus performing at the Grand Opera House, the season of which is to close with the present week, and with the expiration of Feb. 17th, the connection of these three gentlemen with active business will cease. . . .
    Adam Forepaugh is having a new performing den manufactured, to be open all round, and which will contain two magnificent Bengal tigers, two black-maned African lions and a black panther. These animals have been broken this winter, and will be performed during the summer . . . George Forepaugh has been hard at work all winter breaking the dwarf elphant ___, to do a double act with the great elephant "Romeo" . . .
    Klicker and Kelley's Great Monster Circus, Menagerie and Museum is the new name of the big Commonwealth Circus. During the past week Messrs. Kelley and Klicker bought a menagerie of ten cages of animals, two camels and an elephant from John O'Brien. Frank Rivers will be general director, and Charley Whitney agent.
    John and Peter Conklin, it is said, will have a circus on the road this season to travel in the far west.
    George W. Murray, the favorite young clown, has been secured for the coming season by John O'Brien. Mr. Murray traveled last season with J. E. Warner & Co.'s show as second clown; this season he is principal.
    Luke Rivers, rider, has been engaged for next season by Cooper & Hemmings.
    James E. Cooper, of Cooper & Hemmings' Circus and Menagerie, is at Hillsboro, O., where the show is wintering, looking after the concern preparatory to starting in the spring. Richard Hemmings, of the same firm, is in Philadelphia.
    J. W. Wilder will manage a circus of his own to be called the North Western.
    Haight's Empire City Circus and Menagerie . . . The show will be reorganized and start out in April next, under the firm name of Haight & Co., with four tents, twenty cates of animals, an elephant, and camels. They will travel by rail, occupying twenty-two card. . . .
    Dan Rice's Circus is to remain at New Orleans only until the carnival season, which will be upon us in a few days. It will then continue its southwestern tour.

New York Clipper, February 24, 1872, pp. 370, 375. All information should be checked with additional sources.
    Sidney Thompson, sideshow orator, goes with Batcheller & Doris this summer.
    Wm. Munroe, four horse rider, and his equestrian dog, "Dollars," have been secured for the coming season for Adam Forepaugh's show.
    Felix McDonald, animal trainer, goes with Cooper & Hemmings the coming season, James E. Cooper, of the same firm, returned to his home in Philadelphia last week from a visit to Hillsboro, Ohio, the winter quarters of the concern.
    James W. Wilder has purchased canvases, tents, wagons &c., to the value of several thousand dollars from Smith, Nathans & Co., of the great European Circus.
    Peter and John Conklin will run a railroad show this season in the far west, to be called the Conklin Brothers Crystal Palace Circus. Charles C. Pell is to be agent.
    George Fr. Bailey has bought out the interest of his late partners in the Geo. F. Bailey & Co.'s show, and will run it himself this season.
    Tom Foy, boss canvasman, goes with John O'Brien this season . . .
    Claude De Haven states that he will not travel with Barnum's show the coming season.
    . . . Signor Sebastian, Master Romeo and Lucille Watson are engaged for the coming season with George F. Bailey.
    Lazelle & Millson, trapeze performers, are engaged with P. T. Barnum's museum, circus and menagerie the coming season.
    Jule Kent, the clown, is engaged with Lent's New York circus for the coming season.
    "Old" John Robinson has purchased the large rhinoceros weighing some five thousand pounds, lately with Van Amburgh & Co.'s Golden Menagerie. "Old" John Robinson's Circus intends traveling through the eastern country, Canada ___, by rail, during the coming tenting season.
    George F. Bailey has purchased nearly all the valuable ring stock owned by Smith, Nathans & Co.
    D'Atalie, "the man with the iron jaw" . . . and young Zephyr have been engaged by John O'Brien for the coming tenting season. They are now performing with success in the towns of Virginia.

New York Clipper, March 2, 1872, pp. 378, 379, 383. All information should be checked with additional sources.
    G. G. Grady will start from Kenton, Ohio, in the spring, with a menagerie belonging to J. M. French, in addition to the circus he has hitherto run. It is said that Mr. French receives a percentage on gross receipts . . . At present O'Grady is running a minstrel show in Ohio.
    A. Haight & Co.'s Circus and Menagerie closed the season at Atlanta, Ga., on Feb. 17th, the last stand having been Covington, Ga. The show will be shipped to Cincinnati, where it will re-organize for the coming season and start from there in the spring. Hoyt & Jones, bankers of Atlanta, Ga., George W. DeHaven and Andrew Haight are proprietors. They were, with the exception of Dan Rice's, the only show ___ during the present winter, and have consequently had a very successful season.
    Sam Long, clown, goes with John O'Brien's Consolidated this summer.
    Richard Hemmings, on Feb. __th, sold his interest in the show known as Hemmings & Cooper's menagerie and circus, to his late partner, James E. Cooper, who will run the show alone hereafter. . . .
    R. G. Hall, Billy Gardner's assistant last season, goes with John O'Brien this season.
    [Advertisement] Older's Museum, Circus and Menagerie, refitted and enlarged for the tenting season of 1872. . . . The show expects to open in April at Council Bluffs, and from there travels by wagon through the state of Missouri. . . . Principal people are: Madame Sanyeah, Mons. Sanyeah, Fred Watson, Mlle. Watson, Kingcade family . . . Jerry Hopper . . . clowns: Austin Bros. and Harry Long.
    Cole's Museum, Hippodrome and Menagerie is to start from Detroit, Mich., early in April, with twenty dens of animas, six cars of moving wax figures, one hundred and sixty horses, and one hundred and twenty men. . . . Among the performers already engaged may be mentioned Miles Orton and family . . . Henry Cooke, the Van Zandt Brothers . . .

New York Clipper, March 9, 1872, p. 391. All information should be checked with additional sources.
    James E. Cooper, having purchased the interest of his partner, Richard Hemmings, as stated in our past issue, will run the show under his sole management, starting from Hillsboro, O., this spring under the title of James E. Cooper's Combined Menagerie and Circus. . . . The following is a list of the company and officers: Dan Gardner, James Ward, Felix McDonald, Ferdinand Tournaire, Master Eddie Gardner (who rides a bare back set), George Derious, . . . Luke Rivers, Charles King, Fred Herbert, Mrs. Felix McDonald, known as Pauline Lucca, "Lion Queen," and Mrs. Charles King. Charles Kidder, assistant manager; W. H. Gardner, general director; E. W. Gardner, agent; G. B. Russell, treasurer. James A. Bailey, the well known agent, has secured all the privileges - concert, side show and candy stand. The exhibitions will be given under two separate tents.
    J. W. Wilder's North American Circus is now fitting out at the race track in New Haven, Conn., and will start on the road about the middle of April. The wagons are to be decorated in gold and black. There will be a double centre pole canvas, sixty men and sixty horses. The list of the company, as far as engaged is as follows: M'lle Arrilla, principal rider; Mrs. J. Foster, Miss Virginia Smith, Miss clement, Little Vic, La petite Mamie, Master Willie Showles, bareback rider; John Barry, principal somersault rider; Jake Showles, globe act, slack rope, &c.; Frank Donaldson, "man monkey;" John Foster and Robert Butler, clowns; Leon de Leon and Albert de Leon, gymnasts; J. W. Naylor, ring master; Chas. McLean, boss canvasman, and J. W. Wilder, manager.
    Romelli & Co.'s Great Novelty Circus and Performing Animal Show is to start out early in April and will travel by wagons. There will be several cages of performing animals . . . Eugene Romelli and Harvey Johnson, proprietors; Prof. James T. Johnson, manager . . .

New York Clipper, March 16, 1872, pp. 398, 399. All information should be checked with additional sources.
    Levi J. North, a veteran equestrian, is to take a benefit at the New York Circus on March __th, on which occasion he will ride a personation act, making his first appearance in this city during many years. A large number of performers have volunteered their services . . . John Henry Cooke, the celebrated rider; James Melville and sons; P. T. Barnum, who will deliver an address at the matinee performance; M'lle Marie Elise and Lucy Watson, equestriennes; Burnell Runnels . . .
    George Sloman, who does a globe act on horseback, barrel and ___ act, also perch, is engaged for the coming season with "Old" John Robinson's Circus, Museum and Menagerie, being his sixth season with that company.
    Harry Enochs . . . goes with John O'Brien this season.
    John O' Brien will open the season with his "Consolidation" by exhibiting one week in three different sections of Philadelphia, on either the 1st or _th of April.
    James A. Bailey and Middleton, proprietors of the privileges with James E. Cooper's Circus and Menagerie, have secured the following curiosities for the coming season: Prof. James Howell and wife (Circassian lady); . . . an educated hog, performing dogs, parrots, a large monkey, snakes, etc. These are for the uptown show, which will be under the direction of James Howell. For the lot show they will have Charlotte Moxly, fat lady; . . . Madame Minnie Shaw, the little lady, 27 inches high, with her infant child, two years old; Commodore Nat. Smith, dwarf; a gorilla and two very large snakes.
    John H. Murray's Great Circus will open the season at the ring, Newark, N.J. early in April.
    George W. Murray, the clown, who was engaged by John O'Brien, does not travel with him this season, the engagement having been thrown up. He is at his home in Philadelphia, waiting for something to turn up.

New York Clipper, March 23, 1872, p. 407. All information should be checked with additional sources.
    The Great Eastern Menagerie, Museum, Aviary, Circus and Balloon Show is the title that has been given the consolidation of Haight & Co.'s, Madame Lake's and Geo. W. De Haven's circuses and the late Col. Ames' menagerie. It is organizing in Cincinnati, O., and will open in the exposition building in that city March __th, for one week, taking the road immediately. . . . They will travel by rail, requiring twenty-five cars for transportation. Dan Carpenter and R. E. J. Miles and Co. are proprietors; Andrew Haight, advance manager; W. W. Durand, general agent; A. R. Scott, advertising agent, and W. Scott, programme agent. With the menagerie, circus and museum, George W. De Haven in manager. Jacob Haight, treasurer; W. B. Carroll, equestrian director . . .
    Billy Gardner, agent of James E. Cooper's Menagerie and Circus, left for Hillsboro, O., last week, to start the concern on the road.
    Francoise Siegrist and his children, who were with Hyatt Frost's show last season, have been re-engaged for the same establishment this season.

New York Clipper, March 30, 1872, p. 416. All information should be checked with additional sources.
    [Advertisement] Geo. Constable's Railroad Overland Circus, will leave Omaha April _th, for Colorado . . .
    {Advertisement] The Great Pacific Railroad Circus and California Menagerie, under the management of James Heywood, will travel the eastern states, the tenting season of '72 . . .

New York Clipper, April 6, 1872, p. 7. All information should be checked with additional sources.
    The Great Eastern Circus and Menagerie inaugurates the season at the National Theatre, Cincinnati, April 1st.
    E. Backenstoe's Cosmopolitan Museum, Circus and Menagerie performed at Nashville, Tenn., March 29th and 30th . . .

New York Clipper, April 13, 1872, p. 12. All information should be checked with additional sources.
    Now it will be seen . . . that three, four and even six separate tents are employed to accommodate the public satisfactorily to view the many attractions they present. Museums, circuses and menageries combined, though exhibited under separate pavilions, are getting to be quite common affairs. As a much larger capital is now required than formerly to successfully manager a show, it is but natural that greater returns for the investment should be looked for, and therefore many of the largest shows during the coming season will travel almost entirely by railroad, chartering for this purpose special trains, and visiting only the larger cities and towns. This will not only give additional comfort to the performers and attaches, but they, as well as the ring stock, will be in much better condition to give their performances, and consequently much better satisfaction to their patrons.
    When traveling by wagons, the long nocturnal journeys, in all kinds of weather, make sad havoc with the health, both of men and horses. To the railroad trains sleeping cars will be attached, thereby giving the employees much needed rest. As the cages, chariots and horses are all transported by rail; they will appear in good condition in the "grand procession" through the town which precedes the performances. As many of the large shows will travel in the above manner, a large tract of country will be left without opposition to smaller shows, which will travel by wagons, thereby enabling them to carry through a season successfully, which hitherto could not be done, as when all traveled by wagons, the large shows were compelled, in order to break the journey, to exhibit in small towns, where they were certain to lose money, and by reason of their more attractive bills and larger numbers thereof, combined with greater features in their entertainments, they so completely over-shadowed the small shows, that even if the latter exhibited two or three weeks in advance of the former, the festive rural population declined to patronize them, preferring to wait until the "big show" came.
    Another important feature is rapidly coming into usage among the show people. More of less difficulty is ever experienced in the towns where they exhibit in getting suitable accommodations for the men and horses. The wild animals of a menagerie consume large quantities of raw meat daily, and the circus boys, from the very nature of their avocations, are proverbial for good appetites, and in many towns the butchers, who may have been disappointed by some show mot "coming to time," refuse to take any risks in the way of providing extra provender. Therefore, many proprietors of shows prefer to board and lodge the people in their employ, and for that purpose carry with them a large number of waterproof tents, which are applied to the uses of sleeping apartments, stables, kitchen, laundry, etc. The contracting agent, who precedes the show several weeks ere the performances are given, makes the necessary contract for the delivery of all article of food, hay, oats, &c., that may be required. Probably more capital is invested in the circus department of the show business for the present season than ever before. Predictions as to the success or non-success of the approaching tenting season, we thin, are futile, because teh weather has so great an effect upon such undertaking. Yet there are points which may be legitimately considered. The spring thus far, is very backward; this may affect the forthcoming crips, and as a large proportion of the patrons of those entertainments are closely identified with agricultural pursuits, naturally, if the former suffer, the shows must feel it pecuniarily. Furthermore, we do not think the season will be prolonged as far into the autumn as usual, on account of the Presidential election. Political affairs will engross the public attention, to a certain extent, which will naturally be withdrawn from amusements.
    During the past winter some of the oldest and most successful managers have withdrawn from public life, and will devote themselves to the enjoyment of the fruits of their industry. Although they will not actively participate in the excitement of the coming season, they will no doubt watch with interest the career of their former confreres. Many shows which were announced to start upon their tour early in April have not done so, the managers wisely preferring to wait for a milder temperature and better condition of roads.

    Backenstose's Cosmopolitan Circus, Museum and Menagerie. Officers: proprietors, Dr. E. Backenstose and Capt. G. W. Thompson; manager, Dr. E. Backenstose; general business agent, Sid. Stevens; treasurer, J. Charles Davis; ring master, Harry Raynor; equestrian director, Charles Covelli; leader of band, Prof. Frank Spurl.
    Riders: Mrs. Charles Warner, M'me Whettony (accidently shot at Cincinnati, O., on March 22d, by James C. Davis) and La Belle Anna.
    Clown, Billy Ward.
    Gymnasts, tumblers and leapers: M'lle Gracie and Harry Clarke, Thomas Clifford, Richard Emmet, Johnny Adams, Dick Weston, Charles Spencer, Frank W. Hull, Samuel J. Hinds, James Gallagher, Charles Royce and M. Whettony.
    This show has been traveling by steamboat on the Mississippi river since December _th. They make a street parade in each town, and Prof. d'Orville, aerial tight rope performer, gives a free show outside of the canvas. Now traveling in the west.

    Noyes' Crescent City Circus. Officers: proprietor and manager, C. W. Noyes; general business manager, George K. Steele; contracting agent, F. H. Quick; equestrian director, T. W. Poland; leader of band, C. Merline.
    Riders: Fred. Bailey, Wooda Cook, Mrs. Noyes, Miss Cordelia and F. Barclay.
    Clowns: Jimmy Reynolds and Frank Aymar.
    Gymnasts, tumblers and leapers: Millie Tournour, trapeze; W. Batchelor, the Leslie Brothers, Prof. Gengel, lion performer; and J. W. Martinez, juggler.
    The show was organized at Galveston, Nov. 7th, 1871, and has since been traveling in the interior of Texas.

    Grand Forest City Circus. Officers: proprietors, the Newton Brothers; manager, Prof. S. W. Newton; general business agent, L. L. Newton; contracting agent, Doc. Day; treasurer, S. W. Newton; press agent, Colonel Fish; master of canvas; M. T. Bowen; master of horse, Lorenzo Miller; equestrian director, Wm. T. Aymar; leader of band, Prof. E. Miller.
    Riders: Levi J. North, Wm. T. Aymar, M'lle Jennie Watson and Frank Mitchel (colored).
    Clowns: Wm. T. Aymer, Jack Clinton and G. Lee.
    Gymnasts, tumblers and leapers: the Hazelback Brothers, four in number; Brooks; the Gaston Brothers, three in number; Jack Clinton and Frank Mitchel.
    Trick horses: "King Charles" and "Wild Nellie." Ponies: "Jeff Davis" and "Mrs. Lincoln." Trick mules: "Pete," "bony" and "Old Dan Rice."
    Proprietors of sideshow and concert: the Newton Brothers; candy privilege, Wm. T. Aymar.
    Chief bill poster: Bingham.

    Van's Great Olympic Show. Officers: Henry D. Van Luven, proprietor; Lee Powell, general director; Walter Williams, agent; Kit James, treasurer; John Latham, master of canvas; Geo. Schoonmaker, stud groom.
    Performers: Geo. Phillips, Jas. Smith, Shell Allard, Wm. Johnson, A. Tutsell, H. VAn Luven, Chas. Griffiths and Billy Thompson. Clown: Lee Powell . . .

    Romelli & Co.'s Great Novelty Circus and Performing Animal Show. Officers: proprietors, Eugene Romelli and Harvey Johnson; manager, J. T. Johnson; general business agent, Harry Parker; treasurer, Richard Renel; master of canvas, James Jourdan; equestrian director, Francois Nicoli; leader of band, Prof. Bouton.
    Riders: La Belle Eith, M'lle Marie Romelli, Miss Millie Loraine, Mons. de Saville, Harry Jennings, the Clifton Brothers, Louis and Henri.
    Clowns: James Smith and William Barry.
    Gymnasts and tumblers: Robert G. Miller, cannon ball and feasts of strenght; the Ronconi Brothers, Auguste and Julien, gymnasts; Mons. Le Forte, juggler; the Loraine Family and Charles Romelli.
    Chief bill poster: Frank Motaw; assistant Bill poster, Oscar Devine.
    This show will have new wagons, canvas, cages, &c., which will all, save the band wagon, be drawn by dappled grey horses. Ten beautifully spotted horses will be attached to the band wagon.
    In the performing animal show there will be several cages of wild animals, the trained dogs, "Damon," "Pythias," "Caesar" and "Nero;" trick mules, goats, monkeys, &c. The wild buffalo, "Rolling Thunder," and the sacred bull, "Don Juan," will be performed at each exhibition by Prof. J. T. Johnson.
    The show is organizing at Covington, Ky., where the first performance will be given about April 10th, and then go south.

    Older's Museum, Circus and Menagerie. Officers: proprietor, P. A. Older; manager, W. R. McLane; general business, contracting and press agent, J. M. Chandler; assistant agent, E. A. Alexander; treasurer, Frank Stevens; master of canvas, S. S. Phillips; master of horse, J. Thompson; equestrian director, Robert Fryer; leader of band, C. Lederhaus.
    Riders: M'me Watson, Fred Watson, R. Fryer and H. A. Kingcade.
    Clowns: Jerry Hopper and Harry Lamkins.
    Gymnasts, tumblers and leapers: Mons. and M'me Sanyeah, Kingcade Family and the Austin Brothers, James Kingcade, Watson, Long, Fryer, Hopper, John Kingcade, George Kingcade, William Kingcade, and H. Lamkins.
    Trick horses: "Diamond" and "Brilliant." Ponies, six. Trick mules, two.
    Proprietor of sideshow, Geo. Castello; concert, McLane and De Weyer; candy privilege, J. M. Chandler.
    Chief bill poster, C. L. Rowan.
    In the menagerie and museum there will be sixteen cages of animals and birds, and ten cages of museum curiosities, with an elephant.
    The show will be given in three separate tents, the museum in one, and the circus in another, and the menagerie in the third. One ticket admits to all. The show is organizing at Independence, Iowa, where the first performance will be given early in April.

"The Canvas Shows," New York Sunday Mercury, March 24, 1872. Another view of the 1872 cicuses and season. Not complete. [Paper notes 31 circuses and menageries, last year 40.] All information should be checked with additional sources.
    From the putting of the first gorgeous posters until the street procession, with its live lions, helmeted riders, an golden chariots enters the town, the hearts of the village urchins bump with hopes and fears - hopes that they may feast their eyes and ears with the sights and sounds of the animal cages or the arena, and fears that they may miss so delectable an experience. All of us have passed through this youthful experience, and not a few, judging from the patronage bestowed upon shows of this class, still retain a hankering for the inside of the canvas.
    The glitter and glory of the sawdust ring may be familiar to our readers, yet comparatively few are aware of the extent of the canvas show business, nor of the immense capital invested in its management. During the coming month the great circuses and menageries of the country will move, and never before have preparations been on so colossal a scale. The outlay has, necessarily, been enormous. A circus season lasts from twenty-four to thirty weeks, including from one hundred and thirty to one hundred and eighty show days. The distance traveled when by wagon is from four thousand to six thousand miles, and when by railroad vastly more.
    Some uncertainty exists in regard to the effect the coming Presidential campaign may have upon the success of canvas exhibitions. Meetings and political processions will be numerous, and may largely attract those who would otherwise attend. The fact, also, that raveling dramatic and variety theatres of superior quality have largely increased of late, may likewise have a due effect.
    But few towns can bear a frequent recurrence of circus visits, and those are thoroughly known to proprietors. The capacity of each locality of the Union is well understood, and it has become easy to judge whether a stand may be made at any particular point, after one or more establishments have passed over the ground. Canada, never hitherto a promising region for shows, will be especially visited this year.
    Although circuses retain most of the old-time features, there have lately been many innovations. The introduction last season of double and triple pavilions has inaugurated a change in the spreading of canvas. The extent of canvas will now largely be considered in estimating the probably merits of a show. A number of the leading circuses have adopted a system of advance announcements, without definite date, and are now flooding the country with circulars and hand-bills. Among the new features of this season will be riding dogs and goats, and the cannon feat, lately popularized in England by Herr Holton, who catches a ball as it is fired. This trick, however, is old, and can be found in English announcements of one hundred years date. Salaries, especially of leading performers, remain about the same as last year, the tendency being toward a decrease.
    The circuses of last season that have been disbanded or consolidated were the European Circus of Smith, Nathans & Co., Hyatt Frost’s Menagerie, and Siegrist’s French Circus; Sheldenburger’s Circus and Menagerie, Handenberger’s Circus and Menagerie, Stowe & Orton’s Circus, Macarte Sisters Circus, Madame Lake’s Hippo-Olympiad, J. W. Robinson’s Circus, E. Stowe’s Circus, Miles Orton’s Circus, Nixon’s Southern Circus, and Yankee Robinson’s Circus. The new shows are those of Henry Barnum, J. W. Wilder, Newton Bros., Conklin Bros., Sells Bros., Kleckner & Kelly, and Saxby, Dunbar & Co.

    Howe’s Great London Circus and Sanger’s English Menagerie of Trained Animals. This magnificent and costly establishment was brought entirely from London last year, and made a triumphant pecuniary success upon the occasion of its first tour during the past summer. It is being reconstructed and embellished in even more sumptuous style than before for the coming tenting season, and is now at Brewster’s Station, Putnam county, New York. Egbert C. Howes, manager; Green Berry, general agent; J. J. Showles, assistant agent; and will employ over two hundred imported Flemish horses, and one hundred and fifty-five people; four massive pictorial tableaux cars drawn by a herd of ten African and Asiatic elephants and twenty horses. The arenic performances will be inaugurated by a grand hippodromatic pageant, in Which the entire troupe of English performers, all the trained animals, and the stud of magnificent horses will appear. They will conclude with a classical epilogue by twelve young and attractive English girls. The collection of trained wild beasts includes six trained zebras; six trained tigers, six trained elephants, twelve trained hyenas, the largest den of trained lions and lionesses that have ever traveled in America, and twenty cages of the largest and rarest collection of living wild animals.
    The circus department comprises a superb English troupe of artists, including four premiere equestriennes, Mlle. Alice, Mlle. Marie, Mlle. Jennie, . . . W. H. Morgan, the great bareback hurdle rider; Joseph Jee, character and graphic equestrian; Leon Sentia, bareback trick performer; James Jee, forward somersault bareback rider; John Saunders, English leaper; the Brothers Dane, Leon and Lucian Tremaine, horizontal bar and trapeze performers; The Byron Brothers, acrobats; Echor & Faust, gymnasts; Paul Dailey, aerialist; W. Winter, champion vaulter; Samuel Bradley, principal perche; William Sautley and Eugene Robinson, still vaulters; Monsieur Franco, general performer; William Bliss, acrobat and leaper; James Earley, velocipedist; Arthur Jamison, double somersault man; three clowns, James Cooke, first privileged clown, Signor Almonte, grotesque buffo, and Jos. Jee, trick and somersault clown; performing ponies, trick horses. Miss Lillie will appear at each entertainment in her pleasing six pony flying act. Prof. Emide and his accomplished British cornet band have also been engaged. The grand procession of Howe’s Great London Circus and Sanger’s English Menagerie of Trained Animals has never been equaled for magnificence, splendor, and dazzling effects in this country or Europe.

    Forepaugh’s Museum, Menagerie, Circus and Aggregation has passed the winter in Philadelphia. The following is a complete list of the organization: Adam Forepaugh, sole proprietor and manager; R. S. Dingess, general director; Kit Clarke and G. Hirst, assistant directors; Fred Lawrence, master of publications; John Adam Forepaugh, treasurer; Prof. Tony Franck, musical director; Nat Austin, equestrian director; Charles Herrerod, paste brigade; Dan Buckley, chief bill-poster; George Forepaugh, elephant trainer; Herr Alexander Darious, animal trainer. Performers: Chas. Lindell, Wm. Franklin, Henry Nathans, Le Jeune Burt, Sam Burt, Henry Mack, Wm. Munroe, . . . Jeannette Armstrong, . . . Charles Burroughs, Henry Burdeau, James De Forest, Robert Hanlon, Joseph De Brent, Harry Mack, juggler, with performing dogs; Nat Austin, clown and equestrian director; Sam Melville, clown and ringmaster; Henry Burdo, clown. The lady riders will consist of Mlle Virginia, Jeannette Armstrong, Miss St. Clair, and Miss Reiche. Bandmaster Tony Frank, with Buffalo cornet band of sixteen pieces. Boss canvas-man, Charles Bowles, with twenty canvas-men; boss hostler of cage train, Wm. Hutchinson; hostler of baggage train, Wm. Platt; chandelier man, Wm. Warner; watchman, Isaac Long; boss animal man, Prof. Darious, of Hamburg, Germany; layer-out of show, Charles Reynolds.
    The ring horses comprise the trick horses, Mahomet and Snow Flake; the dancing horses, Campeador and Lexington; four pad horses; five bareback horses, and the hurdle horse, Peacock. The three trick ponies, Minnie Warren, Washington, and McClellan; three monkey ponies; two trick mules. There will be all told, in the entire show, 246(?) horses, 14 ponies, 2 mules, and 72 wagons.
    The menagerie is composed of a rhinoceros, a giraffe, a black tiger, a silver lion, panthers, white, black and brown, a wolf, a moose, a reindeer, a horned hare, a sacred bull, a yak of Tartary, a gnu, a South American tapir, a grax, a cassowary, a condor, a king vulture, a liliputian cow, a . . . a porcupine, an ermine, four green parrots, a pair of white owls, 17 monkeys, 4 Moscow birds, 2 wild hogs, 2 cub lions, 2 Brazilian tigers, 2 leopards, 2 African lions, 2 Asiatic lions, and 2 royal Bengal tigers.
    The museum has was figures representing the Lord’s Supper, the Swiss Bell Ringers, King William of Prussia, the Grand Duke Alexis, James Fisk, Jr., Edward S. Stokes, Josie Mansfield, and the Siamese Twins; a mechanical monkey, dog, and goat; two pots of flowers with singing birds, a mechanical lady playing the banjo, mechanical gymnasts, and a double-headed baby; a fat boy, a skeleton, a giant, and a small man, a case of stuffed birds and fish, with numerous other curiosities. Prof. Hutchinson, lightning calculator, will elucidate his rapid-transit schemes in mathematics at each exhibition of the museum.
    Five tents will be erected daily. No. 1 contains a menagerie of 34 cages of living wild animals. No. 2, a museum of 16 cages of living curiosities, etc. No. 3, an aviary of 12 cages of richly-plumed exotic birds. The elephants, camels, dromedaries, etc. will also be found in this pavilion . . . No. 4, hippodrome, richly ornamented with silken banners and flags of all nations. Every seat will be covered with a carpet cushion, and have new patent backs. No. 5, a retiring pavilion, dressing-rooms, aquaria department, property rooms, etc.
    Color of menagerie cages, emerald and gold; museum cages, purple and gold; aviary cages, crimson and gold; baggage wagons, white and gold; band chariot, solid gold; mechanical musical “Car of the Muses,” plate mirrors on sides and end, and golden organ pipes on top, with a rubber canopy lined with purple satin; advertising wagons, gilt-back mirrors.
    The campaign will be inaugurated at Washington, April 1. Thence the establishment will go to Baltimore for one week, after which it will make the tour of New York State.

    O’Brien’s Four Shows Consolidated - Museum, Menagerie, Caravan and Circus, under four separate tents for one price of admission. Conductors: John O’Brien, sole proprietor and manager; C. H. Farnsworth, agent; R. G. Ball, advertiser; William Scattergoose, treasurer; Phil. Dieffenbach, ring-master; Thomas Foy, boss canvasman; S. Delevan, master of caravan; Sam Long, clown; Prof. Jose G. Wittle, director of menagerie and animals; Major Harry Cooley, elephant trainer and driver; Charles Daggert, wagon master baggage train. Performers: The Brazilian Family, eight in number; the Lowandes; Victorelli Brothers, gymnasts; Mons. D’Atalia, the man with iron jaw, and Mlle. Angelia, the female sampson, the finest formed woman in the world; Prince Sadi D’Jamis, the man of mystery. The show consists of 30 cages of animals, 10 cages of museum curiosities, 3 elephant, 8 camels, and the largest rhinoceros ever on exhibition. The cages are painted green, blue, red, and yellow; 100 imported Spanish mules are required to move the baggage train; . . . finely matched dapple gray horses to draw the cages, dens and vans. The $10,000 golden chariot “Creation,” containing Prof. Walker’s military band. The side-show privileges are to be run by Bachelor and Doris, $18,000 being paid for them. The side show will comprise the Circassian girl, the Aztec children, several snakes, Sid Thompson, box orator; Hannah Battersby, fat woman; John Battersby, skeleton; and Fan, the cannibal child. The consolidation will comprise 160 people . . .

    Lent’s New York Circus from Hippotheatron Iron Building, Fourteenth street, opposite Academy of Music New York, will take the road about the middle of April and open either in Bridgeport or its neighborhood. It will travel by rail. L. B. Lent, director; Frank M. Kelsh, manager; William McHugh, treasurer and assistant manager; Charles F. Haskins, superintendent of processions; Charles W. Fuller, contracting agent; C. C. Moore, director of publications; John W. Abbott, superintendent of bill posting; Jonas Hutchinson, assistant bill-poster; J. W. Godfrey, assistant bill-poster; Stokes Stubbs, assistant bill-poster; E. A. Armstrong, assistant bill-poster . . . Equestrian and pantomime troupe: Richard Rivers, John Henry Cooke, Charles W. Fish, William Dutton, Arthur Dutton, Mlle. Caroline Rolland, Mlle. Annetta Le Point, Mlle. Carlotta Nice, George E. Levantine, Fred Levantine, Le Petite Franklin, Albert Victor, the Novello Family, William Henry Jee, Henry Albert Jee, Kit Carson, George Nice, Julian Kent, John Batchelor, Burt Forest, Charles Seeley, William Organ, Charles French. The concert troupe will be run by the management, but is not yet completed. Alice Somers, Polly Daly, Hugh Haggerty, and Harry C. Melville have been thus far engaged. All privileges will also be controlled by Mr. Lent. Orchestra: Charles Boswold, conductor; Frank Ferry, piccolo; L. Walter, John Bosweld, H. Maholz and F. Miller, clarinets; A. Stine, . . . Wm. Rolland, George Woodill, and F. Loman, cornets; H. Boswold, solo althorn; F. Schagman, first tenor; Ch. Rossman, second tenor; Wm. Ritter, third tenor; L. Krob, baritone; M. Graber, euphonian; H. King, trombone; Jas. Ritter, bass tuba; P. Krokel, bass tuba; Geo. Oakley, side drum. Property and Wardrobe - Albert Morris, super. of props.; John Abbot, Hugh Gaffney, Frank Barton, John Gaffney, and James Jones, ass’t props.; James Paulding, master of wardrobe; Chas. F. Jones, Herschel Johnson, and Chas. Davis, ass’t wardrobe. Grooms - John S. Strickland, stud groom; Wm. C. Shepard, driver of chariot team 24 horses; Wm. F. Whitney, driver of 12 pony team; Eph Nichols, John Feeney, Frank Allen, Jas. Fitzgerald, John Chapman, Hugh Smith, John Brown, Joseph Burnham, John Tanner, Joseph Woodruff, John Elmendorf, Hugh Watson, Benj. Winehold, and Rufus Macentyre. Tent Construction, Etc. - Cady E. Howe, sup’t of tents; Thos. Foley, ass’t sup’t of tents; B. A. Kelly, sup’t of gas; J. B. Williams, Martin Vautassel, H. Decker, Peter Sofield, John Heper, Sylvannus Snyder, Mahlon Graber, A. J. Nash, Gilbert Scott, Reuben Johnson, James C. Jones, Ch. H. Williams, Chas. Coons, Jas. Fitzgerald, and J. B. Thompson, canvasmen; Geo. Smith, sup’t of trains; James Wood, ass’t sup’t of trains; John Williamson, stable watchman; Michael Shaffer, car watchman. The pavilion will be illuminated with gas. The street parade will be made with a splendid gilt chariot drawn by 24 horses, followed by a team of 12 ponies. The wardrobe will be entirely new, and, as usual, superb.

    P. T. Barnum’s Great Traveling Museum, Menagerie, Caravan, Hippodrome, Polytechnic Institute, International Zoological Garden, and Dan Castello’s Mammoth Circus in six separate colossal tents. P. T. Barnum, proprietor and general director; W. C. Coup, manager; Dan Castello, manager of Grand Oriental Circus; S. H. Hurd, treasurer; W. C. Crum, general agent and editor of publications; Geo. McDonald, assistant contracting agent; Mons. L. Houdin, of Paris, France, purchasing agent for the Continent of Europe; . . . William H. Squires, superintendent of picture gallery and statuary; Prof. O. Farroday, director of the Polytechnic Institute; D. J. Kahn, director of aquarium and exhibitor of sea lions; G. E. Wells, curator of natural history department; Dr. A. O. Berry, veterinary surgeon and master of horse; Joseph Baker, master of pavilions; W. B. Harrison, preceptor of the wonderful dwarf, Admiral Dot; L. Tilden, assistant manager; John Fish, secretary; W. S. Pease, publication agent; Benj. Lusbie, ticket agent; C. C. Pell, railroad agent; Robert Fillingham, London, Eng., purchasing and forwarding agent; W. F. Heagarty, of Geneva, Switzerland, expert in automatic musical mechanism, etc.; W. L. Jukes, superintendent of automatic and mechanical department; J. Hatcher, exhibitor of living American and Fijian curiosities; Col. Chas. White, lion king and master of the zoological department; D. Norris, superintendent of “Happy Family;” S. Q. Stokes, superintendent of the hippodrome; Fred Hamilton, master of the wardrobe, assisted by Mr. and Mrs. Reid; W. Smith, N. Batty, and J. L. Smith, managers of grooms; W. L. Jones, R. W. Manning, J. P. Beers, Henry Wales, and N. B. Gunn, assistant masters of pavilions, with thirty-two subordinates assistants.
    J. McLaughlin, N. G. Pinkman and J. Ross, police detectives from New York; A. Sherwood and C. F. Brenthall, managers and superintendents of the grand procession and street pageant; Fritz Hartman, director of brass band; R. S. Hessler, director of string band; J. Townsend, agent for the autobiography of P. T. Barnum; Harry Buckley, surveyor and commissary for the Barnum Hotel and Caravansary; cooks, waiters, messengers, butlers, etc.
    It was the intention of Mr. Barnum to travel this season, the same as last, by wagons, but he has at last concluded to abandon the road, and take to the rail. To transport the great show through the country in the ordinary way would require more than one thousand men and horses! Mr. Barnum has, therefore, chartered sixty freight and five passenger cars, with sleeping cars attached. These will be divided into two separate trains, of 33 cars each, with two locomotives for each train. The series of entertainments will be given under six mammoth pavilions - more than were ever used before by any show, and three more than were employed by the same establishment last year. The entire exhibition will travel by the leading railroads of the country, stopping only in cities and large towns.
    At the close of the traveling season in November, 1872, the entire show will be shipped to Europe, as it is the intention of Mr. Barnum to make the tour of the Old World. It is eminently fitting that the distinguished American showman, who met with a brilliant reception with Tom Thumb in Europe nearly thirty years ago, should return to the field of his former triumphs, and demonstrate to the people of the Old World what has been accomplished by private enterprise in the new, in the way of organizing, equipping, and setting in motion the largest combination of exhibitions ever known.
    Among the novel features which have been added during the past six months, are the four Fiji cannibals, the equestrian performing goat, Alexis, 2 living giraffes, a fresh arrival of mammoth sea lions from the North Pacific, two giant ostriches from South Africa, eight feet high. A museum collection from Polynesia and the Cannibal Islands, the “What is It?” two barking seals, many be heard nearly two miles. A grand Oriental entree pageant of 24 camels and elephants, 50 Arabian thoroughbred ponies, and a hundred performers, knights, heralds, Turks, Arabs, Moors, Mamelukes, Bashaws of many Tails, etc. attended by a grand retinue of officials bearing rich banners, shields, and spears, a unique and gorgeous arenic demonstration, occupying both rings of the grand hippodrome. This scene is entirely new, and will make one of the most beautiful features of the opening exhibition. Such is the variety and extent of the performances in the circus and hippodrome that two rings, a feature never before seen, are required. Also life-size moving, mechanical, musical, and animal automatons from Paris, France, and Geneva, Switzerland, such as the roaring lion, Ballam and the asp, automaton lady bell ringers, mechanical singing and flitting birds, shipwreck of Medusa, the magic drummer, monkey velocipedist and violinist, automaton musicians, sleeping beauty, dying zouave, moving figures representing a Tyrolese hunting party, the siege of Paris, . . . gallery of art, classic statuary, oil paintings, and figures of distinguished personages, steam glass engines, and many other extremely curious and diverting features which have never before been introduced to an American audience. The collection of animals embraces almost every rare specimen known to zoologists, there being very few of the common varieties usually seen in menageries.
    The Museum and Polytechnic Institute are replete with curiosities - animate, inanimate, and representative. These are set forth, and illustrated in “P. T. Barnum’s Advance Courier,” a twenty-four page pamphlet, which is folded, cut, and stitched. Half a million of these will be distributed gratuitously in advance of the show. We give below a list of the principal names of Dan Castello’s Mammoth Circus performers. The company is the largest ever organized, numbering some of the best talent in the profession. Dan Castello, jester, conversationalist, and horse trainer; James Melville and his son, Clarence, riders, together with his other sons, Frank, George, and Donald; Katie Stokes, rider; Celeste Pauliere, dashing bareback equestrienne; . . . Master Frank Melville, champion pony and hurdle rider; the Marion Sisters, riders; Lazelle and Millison, trapezists, acrobats, and tumblers; S. Q. Stokes, arenic director, and horse and pony trainer; George Madden, clown; Mons. de La Rue, champion bareback rider; Masters Harry and Johnny Castello, riders without saddle or bridle; Master Willie, bud of the enchanted bower in the play of the “Fairies.” Also Messrs. English, Morse, Thatcher, Smith, Fish, McDonald, Cook, Corrine Poyner, Hartnette, Walker, Rochambeau, Giovani, Billings, Harper, Fitzgerald, Buckley, Owens, Reynolds, Godfrey, Randel, Sanford, Dutton, Jamison, Robinson, . . . DeTocville, Tusso, and Bergh, all first-class English, French, German and Italian performers, who will appear in the rejuvenated classic sports of Olympus, as tumblers, leapers, gymnasts, acrobats, . . . trapezists, equilibrists, equestrians, athletes, . . .

New York Clipper, April 27, 1872, p. 31. All information should be checked with additional sources.
    The Great Eastern Menagerie, Circus and Balloon Show is billed to perform at Vincennes, Ind., May 3d, Terre Haute 4th, Mattoon, Ill., _th, Decatur 8th, Bloomington 9th, Peoria 10th and La Salle 11th.
    John Robinson's Circus and Menagerie is billed to exhibit at Richmond, Ind., on Tuesday, April 30th.
    The North American Circus and "Humpty Dumpty" pantomime troupe is announced to exhibit at New Haven, Conn., April 30th and May 1st . . .
    James Robinson’s Circus, though bereft of the animal department of their show by the late Mississippi disaster, performed to crowded houses during their stay in St. Louis, Mo., the past week. Dan Rice’s Circus and Animal Show follow next in order, opening on the 22d.
    A suit for damages was commenced in the Fourth District Court, San Francisco, Cal. on April 13th, against the North Pacific Transportation Company by John Wilson, . . . This is an action brought by John Wilson, proprietor of Wilson’s traveling circus, against the company for damages. He alleges in his complaint that on Oct. 28th, 1866, he engaged the defendants for a valuable consideration to transport some of the animals belonging to the circus - to wit, eight horses, two ponies and one llama - from Portland to San Francisco, and that they agreed to deliver them safely for said consideration. He alleges that, contrary to their agreement, they abused the animals and used them so negligently that six of the horses and the llama died on the passage. Wherefore he prays judgement against them for the value of the animals, which he fixes at $7,500.
    O’Brien’s Monster Combination, consisting of four separate shows combined into one, exhibited in Philadelphia every afternoon and evening during the past week . . .
    P. T. Barnum’s Colossal Show exhibited in Camden, N.J., on the afternoon and evening of the 20th inst. to remarkably large audiences. Will open in Philadelphia, corner Broad street and Montgomery avenue on the 22d inst. four days, giving two exhibitions the first day and three each subsequent day. The city has been most extensively billed, and large numbers will doubtless be present, although the location is rather out of the way. Will also exhibit corner 32d and Chestnut streets, West Philadelphia on the 26th and 27th.
    Bailey’s Circus and Menagerie commenced their season in Danbury, Conn. on April 15th, giving a performance in the afternoon, but none in the evening, owing to the severe snow storm. This concern pitched its tent in Bridgeport on the 16th, on the Iranistan grounds. They gave no performance in the afternoon, the wind blowing so strong they could not keep the tent up, but in the evening they gave an entertainment to a packed canvas. . . .
    J. E. Warner’s Museum, Menagerie and Circus exhibited at East Saginaw, Mich. on April 16th, and at Saginaw City on the 17th. The show is an excellent one throughout. The canvases are all new (three tents), the horses are in good condition and the performers first class. The show exhibited at Owosso 18th; Mason 19th; Jackson 20th; and is billed ahead as follows: Toledo, O., 22d; Wausaon, 23d; Bryan 24th; Loquim 25th; Waterloo 26th; Elkhart 27th; Kalamazoo 29th; Grand Rapids 30th; Lowell May 1st; and Iona May 2. The show travels by rail, requiring two engines and twenty-two cars for transportation. So wrote our correspondent on April 18th.
    Backenstoe’s Cosmopolitan Circus and Menagerie is billed to give two performances at Peoria, Ill. on April 29th.

New York Clipper, May 4, 1872, pp. 39, 40. All information should be checked with additional sources.
    The Central Park Menagerie, Circus and Indian Show will be at Troy, N.Y., May 1st and 2d.
    Rosston, Springer & Henderson's Circus pitch tent at Cleveland, O., May 6th and 7th.
    Bailey's Circus and Menagerie is to exhibit at Providence, R.I., April 29th and 30th.
    Dan Rice's Circus had crowded houses for four nights at St. Louis, Mo., commencing on the 22d.
    While the Great Eastern Circus and menagerie was performing in Bardstown, O.(?), thieves got at the effects of the company, Madame Lake losing about three hundred dollars worth of wardrobe, and Charles Lowry still more in wardrobe and jewelry.
    [Advertisement] Route of International Circus. Kansas City, Mo., May 1st, Olathe, Kan. 2d, Paoli 3d . . . Fort Scott 6th . . . Columbus 8th . . . Saxby, Dunbar & Co.

New York Clipper, May 11, 1872, p. 47. All information should be checked with additional sources.
    The Crystal Palace Circus, J. A. Dodge, director, peformed at San Jose, Cal., April __th.
    George Ryland's Circus started from San Francisco, Cal., during the week ending April 20th for a tour of the country towns. Among the performers were Leon Samwells and Ed. Montague, acrobats and gymnasts . . . Dave Long, clown. Their first performance was given at Half Moon Bay.
    James Robinson's Circus showed at Leavenworth, Kansas, May 2d.
    Robert T. Stickney, the well known and popular pad rider, is also the lessee of a museum of curiosities with "Old" John Robinson's circus, with which he is performing the present season. An occasional correspondent, writing from Hamilton, O., on May 1st, says: "The curiosities of the Stickney show are exhibited under a handsome pavilion, and consist of a fat woman . . . a large python, a double headed baby with four arms and three legs, and a Fejee mermaid. A performance is also given by Charlie ___, ventriloquists, with his magical illusions, and a troupe of marionettes. William Sullivan is treasurer . . ."
    The management of the Heywood Brothers' Palace Pavilion Show having bought a set of good wagons and horses, have decided to travel by that mode of conveyance instead of by rail, as hitherto announced, and will commence their third season on May _th.
    Jas. M. Nixon is about to commence operations on his new amphitheatre in Chicago, Ill., intending to have is ready for occupancy sometime during the present month. . . .
    Lent's New York Circus . . . Tom Brown, the veteran agent, closed a contract with Mr. Lent for the season to assist Charlie Fuller as contracting agent.
    During an exhibition of O'Brien's Circus and Menagerie at Pottsville, Pa., on May _d, when the performance was but half over, the canvas split, and almost immediately after, before anyone could get out, the whole thing, canvas, poles and rigging fell. It was raining and blowing very hard at the time, and the scene can barely be described; numbers of ladies fainted, and the whole thing created a perfect panic for a short time. The canvasmen were promptly organized, and raised the canvas and cleared the ground. No one, as far as could be learned, was seriously injured, although hardly anyone in the tent escaped without getting some hard knocks and bruises. Mr. Diefenbach, the ring master, had is leg pretty badly bruised and one of his eyes injured. The ring was empty, with the exception of the clown, at the time, the elephant having just been taken out. . . . Shortly after the place was cleared the proprietors set the men at work to repair the damages, being fully determined to exhibit at Mahanoy City the next day. The main pole was broken off short in the middle, and about one half dozen of the smaller ones were twisted and shattered. The canvas was damaged considerably by persons cutting themselves out. . . .
    The remains of the late Col. C. T. Ames, who was killed a little over a year ago, have been taken to Syracuse, N.Y., by his father, Mr. John Ames, and interred in Oakwood Cemetery.

New York Clipper, May 18, 1872, pp. 55, 56. All information should be checked with additional sources.
    C. W. Noyes' Crescent City Circus exhibited at Baton Rouge, La., May _th, and . . . to travel by rail a short time. We are informed that their trip through Texas during the past winter did not prove a great financial success, owing to inclement weather a great portion of the time. The Lee family, from California, and been added to the company, which now comprises the following performers: Mrs. C. W. Noyes, Jennie Tournour . . . Lehman and wife, Mrs. R. C. Lee, Polly Lee, Rosa Lee, Leah Noyes, E. Martinez and wife, Dr. James L. Thayer, Arthur Lee, Charley Lee, R. K. Lee . . . Wooda Cook . . . Jimmy Reynolds and Albert Aymar.
    Miss Millie Tournour, trapeze performer, and Wooda Cook, equestrian, were married at Shreveport, La., during the month of March last.
    [Advertisement] Charlie Seely, the great trick clown, with L. B. Lent's New York Circus.

New York Clipper, May 25, 1872, p. 63. All information should be checked with additional sources.
    George M. Kelley and Robert Stickney, while performing at Greenville, Pa., with "old" John Robinson's Circus, performed two separate acts with the managers claimed were never performed before. The Greenville Argus, of May __th, states that "Kelley turned a somersault over twenty horses, and that Stickney turned a double somersault over twelve horses."
    C. W. Noyes' Crescent City Circus performed at Canton, Miss., May 15th, Goodman 16th, Winona 17th, Water Valley 18th, and show at Holly Springs 20th . . . and Jackson, Tenn. 22d.
    The San Francisco Circus and Roman Hippodrome was announced to commence its season of 1872 on the Jackson street circus lot, San Francisco, Cal., on May __th, with the Mathews Family, ten in number . . .
    Alex. Robinson's Circus performed at Georgetown, N.Y., May 13th, De Rutter, 14th . . . Charles Covelli recently joined the company as equestrian director.
    Smith and Baird's Excelsior Circus will make its first stand this season at ___, Ill., May 22d. The following is a list of the company: Mme. Carron, rider; Fred Castle, somersault rider . . . Prof. Carron and his two children, acrobats; the Leslie Brothers, Frank Ashton, Harry Blood, Willis Wolfe . . . Frank Rivers, the Marble Brothers . . . John C. Rivers and Harry Gibbons, clowns. The thoroughbred stallion Fire King is a feature of the performances. . . .
    Stone & Murray's Circus was at Manchester, N.Y., May 17th, Concord 18th, and is billed for Rochester 20th, Spring Vale, Me. 21st . . .

New York Clipper, June 1, 1872, pp. 67, 70, 71. All information should be checked with additional sources.
    [Advertisement] Claude De Haven, joined James Robinson, the champion equestrian of the world, at Hannibal as newspaper writer.
    Edith Miles, a daughter of R. E. J. Miles, one of the proprietors of the Great Eastern Circus, and last manager of the National Theatre, Cincinnati, O., died at the residence of her parends May 22d, of whooping cough and measles at the age of five years. The ___ mother was safely delivered of twins (girls) the same night at 12 o'clock.
    The San Francisco Circus and Roman Hippodrome commenced its season at San Francisco, Cal., May __th. The company numbers twenty-three performers, among whom are: the Matthews family, ten in number; Omar Kingsley, rider . . . Howard Door, horizontal bae; George Sharp, Spanish clowns; Clarence Ducrow, somersault rider; Joseph Illliams and Clarence Ducrow, trapeze act; John Cook the boy wonder and youthful clown, also rides a two pony act; Horatio Nelson, clown, also "musical rock" performer; Frank Lee, vaulter; Jack Lee, character rider; James Leroy, hurdle rider. There are two performing horses, "Cincinnatus" and "Napoleon;" three ponies, "Leopard," "Peanuts" and "Dash."
    The Crystal Palace Show performed at Oakland, Cal., April __th. The officers and comapn are: Sam Carrington, proprietor; George F. Ryland, equestrian director and ring master; Dave Lond, principal clown; Mrs. Helen Ryland, principal rider and running globes . . . James Lee, character rider and juggler . . . The show is a small one, but they are working people and give an excellent entertainment.
    Saxby, Dunbar and Co.'s International Circus collapsed a few days since, at Fort Scott, Kansas, where the effects are in the hands of the "___ of the law," and the proprietors have returned home sadder and wiser men.

New York Clipper, June 8, 1872, p. 79. All information should be checked with additional sources.
    Prof. Atkins, aeronaut, attached to Mike Lipman's Circus, made an ascension in a hot air balloon at Decatur, Ala., on May 27th, which resulted in the loss of his life. A large crowd had gathered, and just before the process of inflation had been fully completed, Prof. Atkins expressed great uneasiness as to the safety of the ascension. . . . after he had gotten into the basket of the balloon preparatory to its being let off, he remarked to the spectators in a sad tone "This is the last ascension I'll ever make." Very soon the balloon was released from its moorings and shot up, ascending to the height of about half a mile. It was steadily driven by a current of wind over Decatur, hovered over the Tennessee river, and then descended as rapidly as it has ascended, falling about the middle of the river. Prof. Atkins soon rose to the surface, but having become entangled in the rope attached to the basket, he succeeded in releasing himself only after a desparate struggle, which, it is supposed, exhausted his strength. He swam heroically toward the show opposite Decatur, while the balloon floated down stream. A fisherman, who was half a mile away to the time the balloon fell into the river, rowed toward it as fast as possible, to save the daring aeronaut. Not being able to see him after the balloon had struck the water, and believing that he would cling to it until it sunk, Nichols made for the balloon. On nearing it, however, he discovered Prof. Atkins some distance off, and at once tried to row to him, but in vain, for just as he got within about twenty or thirty feet of him, Prof. Atkins, who had himself nearly reached the shore, sand and rose no more. His real name was Flynn. He came from Toledo, O.
    George F. Clarke, who makes balloon ascensions in conjunction with C. W. Noyes' Crescent City Circus, in making an ascension at Memphis, Tenn., May 31st, struck against a building, and the ropes supporting a trapeze upon which he was seated, gave way, and he was precipitated to the ground, a distance of some fifty feet, being bruised in a horrible manner. He died the same evening.
    "Old" John Robinson's Show exhibited at Buffalo, N.Y., May 31st and June 1st. The performances were up to the standard, and were witnessed by packed houses. Their route ahead is: Batavia, June 3d, Dansville 4th, Rochester 5th and 6th, Bath 7th, Corning 8th, and Elmira 10th.
    The Central Park Menagerie, Circus &c., is heavily billed at Buffalo, N.Y., for June 7th and 8th.
    G. G. Grady's Circus and Menagerie exhibited at Petersburgh, Mich., May 27th . . . Adrian 29th, Manchester 30th, Brooklyn 31st, and Hudson June 1st.
    James Robinson's Circus gave two performances at Hannibal, Mo., May 27th. . . . Robinson's riding is great, Clarence is wonderful, and Frank Pastor is a graceful and finished rider. . . . Claude De Haven joined this show recently as press agent. . . .
    Van's Great Olympic Show exhibited at Burlington, Pa., May 31st, Troy June 1st, and is billed ahead as follows: Williamsburg June 3d . . . Mansfield 5th, Tioga 6th, Lawrenceville 7th . . . and Andover 10th. . . .
    Romelli & Co.'s Circus is doing the small towns in Illinois, having exhibited at Raleigh, May 31st, Marion June 1st, and is billed ahead as follows: Benton 3d, DuQuoin 4th, Pinkneyville 5th, Tamaroa 6th, Dubois 7th, Ashley 8th and Nashville 10th.
    Conklin & Co.'s Circus, under Yankee Robinson, follow Lent's Circus at Detroit, Mich., appearing June 4th and 5th.
    Lent's New York Circus gave two shows in Saginaw City, Mich., May 31st; and two performances in East Saginaw, Mich., June 1st, to fair audiences.
    G. F. Bailey & Co.'s Circus performed at Portland, Me., May 28th and 29th . . .
    C. W. Noyes' Crescent Circus performed at Memphis, Tenn., May 30th, 31st, and June 1st.
    Chiarini's Circus performed at Havana, Cuba, on May 25th and 26th.

New York Clipper, June 22, 1872, p. 95. All information should be checked with additional sources.
    The concert given in Adam Forepaugh's Circus and Menagerie is an innovation upon the old style of running these kind of entertainments. It is owned by Jake Reed, and is given by Dick Sands, the well known clog dancer . . . Miss Mary Howes, who is doing new songs and dances that are received with much favor, and several other ladies and gentlemen. . . . the sideshow . . . under the management of "Doc" Clarke, historical expounder. . .
    Burnell Runnels recently left J. E. Warner and Co.'s circus and at present employed at Nixon's circus, in Chicago.
    Romelli and Co.'s Great Novelty Circus performed at Coulterville, Ill, June 10th, Sparta 11th, New Athens 12th . . . Lebanon 14th, Trenton 15th, and will show at Highland 17th, and Butler 21st.
    Master Willie Matthews, the boy clown, has made a great hit with the San Francisco Circus at San Francisco, Cal.
    The San Francisco Circus and Roman Hippodrome is now in its fourth week at San Francisco, Cal., drawing crowds. Messrs Door, Worland and the Midget have made their first appearance and created a sensation with a startling act upon the trapeze. Omar Kingsley, by special desire, appeared in the celebrated impersonation of Ella Zoyara . . . The two boxers, Mace and Edwards, were to have closed their engagement on Sunday, the _th.
    John Bates, an attache of Rosston, Springer and Henderson's Circus, was arrested in Cincinnati, O., on the 10th, when lying in the hospital, on a charge of murder. It appears that last month, while the show was exhibiting at Carrollton, O., a man intruding upon the show was beaten by some of the employees and died of his injuries. The authorities of the town charged the affair upon Bates and Tom Rivers. Bates was sent to Carrollton, although according to his own statement, he was not within a mile of the affray when it occurred. So wrote our correspondent on June 14th.

New York Clipper, June 29, 1872, p. 103. All information should be checked with additional sources.
    Newton's Forest City Circus performed at Uniontown, Pa., June __th. A little son of William F. Aymar, seven months old, died on June __th, of inflamation of the bowels.
    Leona Dare and Tommy Hall, trapeze performers, traveling with J. E. Warner's circus, made recently, near Indianapolis, Ind., and experimental hot air balloon ascension successfully. When the balloon ascended, Miss Dare was suspended from the trapeze by her feet and held in her teeth the ends of a strap which encircled the waist of Mr. Hall. They continued to perform various feats until the balloon has ascended nearly out of sight. Mr. Warner has ordered a balloon to be made, and they will shortly give public exhibitions in connection with the show.
    The San Francisco Circus and Roman Hippodrome . . . A campaign through California and Nevada was to have commenced at Oakland on the 17th.
    G. F. Bailey & Co.'s Circus and Menagerie performed at Manchester, N.H., June 20th, by special request of citizens who could not get admission on their first visit, and did a fine business, having a large crowd, both afternoon and evening. . . . E. D. Colvin, the manager, evidently understands his "biz," and is ably assisted by the ring master F. J. Howes. Howe's London Circus is billed for July _th. "Old" John Robinson's Circus comes July __th. . . .
    C. W. Noyes' Crescent City Circus is to performe at Louisville, Ky., June 27th and 28th.
    Kleckner and Co.'s Circus, Museum and Menagerie are billed ahead as follows: Fleetwood, Pa., Monday July 1st, Millerstown 2d, Bethlehem 3d, Daston 4th, Bath 5th . . .
    The North American Circus and "Humpty Dumpty" pantomime troupe is billed to perform at Sing Sing, N.Y>, June 27th, White Plains 28th, Port Chester 29th, Mount Vernon, July 1st, and Yonkers 2d. Business is reported as being very good. They have recently purchased a new band chariot, which is drawn by twenty horses.

New York Clipper, July 6, 1872, p. 111. All information should be checked with additional sources.
    Nixon's Circus . . . M'lle Tournour and Wooda Cooke, after obtaining $__ from this institution and $__ from S. Q. Stokes, who is soon to start our with a circus company, in advance, concluded to jump their engagement and join Rosston and Springer's Circus, thus leaving Jas. Nixon and Stokes in the lurch. . . .

New York Clipper, July 13, 1872, pp. 118, 119. All information should be checked with additional sources.
    [New York City] Chiarini, the circus manager, is here, making arrangements for the transportation of his stock and company from Havana, Cuba, to this city. Not being allowed to perform in that city has somewhat disconcerted his future plans.
    John Henry Cooke, the six horse rider with Lent's New York Circus, met with a severe accident while performing at Oshkosh, Wis., on June __th. He was riding his first horse, and called for the second, which came rushing to the side of the principal horse, and just as Cooke raised his foot to place it on the horse's back, the animal sprang forward, causing the rider to miss this footing, and he fell to the ground heavily, while the horse stumbled and rolled over Cooke. He was taken out insensible and carried to the hotel, where physicians were called in, who soon resuscitated him. HIs injuries, though not of an alarming nature, will prevent his appearance in the ring for some time.
    Kleckner & Co.'s Circus, Museum and Menagerie are billed to perform at . . . Hazleton, Pa., 9th, Wilkesbarre 10th, Plymouth 11th . . . and Bloomsbury 13th.
    J. Warner's & Co.'s Circus and Menagerie performed at Lafayette, Indiana, July 4th. Burnell Runnells and sons and James Maguire recently left this show. They met with poor success in Ohio, but expect better business in Indiana.
    Newton's Circus performed at Bellair, O., July 4th. W. T. Aymar, Levi J. North, Jenny Watson, Mr. and Mrs. Hunting and Bob Smith are among the company.
    Conklin Brothers' Circus and Samwell's troupe of trained animals performed at Sheboygan, Wis., July 4th. "Yankee" Robinson is with the show.
    Burr Robbins and Co.'s Circus and Museum gave three performances at Fort Wayne, Ind., July 4th, to big crowds . . . Among the troupe may be mentioned G. W. Mankin, a contortionist; the Victorellis; Miss Annie Worland, tight rope dancer and rider . . . The proprietor report business good, the show having been on the road since May 1st. . . .
    Burnell Runnells and sons have joined the Great Eastern Circus and Menagerie.
    The Queen City Circus is to perform at Richmond, Va., July 8th, 9th and 10th.
    J. E. Warner gave three exhibition on July 4th at Indianapolis to an immense business. The mayor of that city issued an order preventing the monster elephant Empress from forming a part of the street parade.

New York Clipper, July 20, 1872, p. 127. All information should be checked with additional sources.
    Lent's New York Circus is billed to show at Kansas City, Mo., August 2d and 3d.
    The Queen City Circus, under the management of Mike Lipman, collapsed at Norfolk, Va., during the week ending July 4th. Some sixty men with a dollar were suddenly thrown out of employment. During last week many attachments were served upon the property, and affairs finally culminated in a grand "burst up." Among the people thrown out of engagements were Mme. Tourniaire and daughter . . . Micao . . . William Nichols, pad rider . . . Frank Whittaker . . . Wilcox, clown.
    S. Q. Stokes, and Mitchell, agent of the Japanese troupe, have formed a combination which is to be called Stokes and Mitchell's Roman Hippodrome and Circus. They are doing business this week at Chicago, Ill., on the south side, and are meeting with indifferent success. The company will take the road July __th . . . S. S. Babcock is the general agent; James Duncan, last with Manning's Minstrels, assistant agent. The Royal Yedda Japs, Stokes family . . . and the greater protion of the late Nixon's Circus company are engaged to travel with the above troupe. . . .
    At the closing of Nixon's Circus, at Chicago, Ill., on July _th, according to the Chicago Tribune: There was quite a commotion behind the canvas. A the conclusion of the third act, Mr. Stokes, the ringmaster, approached Mr. Nixon and demanded pay for his services, amounting to $1,000. Mr. Nixon, he claims, refused to give it, whereupon he, Stokes, seized the contents of the cash box in the treasurer's office . . . took his "blind horse," and such other novelties belonging to him as performed in the show, and departed from the establishment . . .

New York Clipper, July 27, 1872, p. 135. All information should be checked with additional sources.
    Kleckner's Museum, Circus and Menagerie are to show at Snow Shoe, Pa., July 22d, Philippsburg 23d, Clearfiled 24th, Lumber City 25th, Luthersburg 26th, and Reynoldsville 27th.
    Robbins & Co.'s Museum and Circus are billed to perform at Clyde, O., July __d, thence to Monroeville, Republic . . . Plymouth, N. London, West Salem . . . Wooster, Masillion, Canton, Akron, Ravenna, Warren, Youngstown and Newcastle.
    Conklin's Commonwealth Circus is reported as doing a good business in Minnesota, showing at one dollar a ticket. They are to perform at Duluth July __th, at which place William Sparks will join the company, which already embraces John and Pete Conklin, Prof. Samwell's troupe of trained animals, including the clown dog Grimaldi, and the equestrian goat "Humpty Dumpty," Billy Warner and wife, Dan Bushnell and wife, Mme. Sanyeah . . .
    Stokes' Circus and Mitchell's Japanese Troupe are billed to perform at Manistee, Mich., July 24th.
    Romelli & Co.'s Circus suspended operations at Washington, Ind., July 10th, owing to a disagreement among the proprietors. The show will be re-organized and start out again under the management of Eugene Romelli, traveling through Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee. Eugene Romelli advertises for sale a trained bull, a performing buffalo, trick mules and pad horses.
    Fatal Accident. Charles Carter, one of the drivers belonging to Barnum’s Circus, was accidentally drowned in the hydraulic and Hamilton, Ohio, on the 13th inst. It seems that he took six horses into the hydraulic about 11 o’clock A.M., to wash and water them, being mounted on one, when unfortunately he rode into a deep hole, whence gravel had been taken out. Both himself and horse went under the surface. The horse struggled a little, and then rose and swam out. Carter was seen to come up once or twice and then finally disappeared. His body was recovered half an hour after the casualty, and it was found that the horse, in its struggles to get out, had kicked its rider in the head, fracturing the skull, which of itself was sufficient to produce death. There were also marks of the iron shoes on Carter’s side, and the probability is that he was stunned by the blows received, and rendered helpless to save himself. The body was taken in charge by Coroner Spencer, a jury impaneled and an inquest held in the lower room of the court house. The above circumstances were developed, and the verdict was “accidental drowning.” The funeral services were held Sunday morning at 9 o’clock, under the large circus pavilion . . .
    Barnum’s Mammoth Circus opened at Cincinnati, O., for four days, commencing July 16th. Our correspondent writes: “During the whole week up to last night, we have had a series of heavy rains, which made the grounds almost a mud-hole. In consequence of this, the great canvas was only comfortably filled on Tuesday. However, by using great quantities of hay and saw-dust, the mud was overcome inside the tents, and on Wednesday and Thursday the tents were packed full to overflowing, some two thousand people being refused admission Thursday night. . . .
    James Robinson’s Circus is billed ahead as followed: Detroit, Mich. July 26th and 27th; Chatham, Ont. 29th; London 30th; Woodstock 31st; Brantford Aug. 1st; Toronto 2d and 3d; Hamilton 5th; St. Catherine 6th; . . . During the route through Canada a balloon ascension will be made daily, and Louise Boshell will also do a wire ascension from the ground to the top of the pavilion.
    C. W. Noyes’ Circus exhibited at Detroit, Mich. July 18th and 19th.
    Sells Brothers’ Circus exhibited at Monticello, Ind. July 15th, and Remington 16th.

New York Clipper, August 3, 1872, p. 143. All information should be checked with additional sources.
    Julian Kent, clown and vocalist, and his wife Fanny Kent, danseuse and serio-comic vocalist, having severed their connection with Lent's New York Circus, can be engaged.
    Wilder's Circus gave four entertainments at Scranton, Pa., on July 30th and 31st.
    Kleckner & Co.'s Circus, Museum and Menagerie are billed ahead as follows: Pauxantawney, Pa., July 29th, Brookville 30th, New Bethlehem 31st . . . St. Petersburg 2d, and Lawrenceburg 3d.
    The Central Park Menagerie and International Circus is billed to exhibit at Allegheny City, Pa., August 5th, and Pittsburgh 6th and 7th.
    Chiarini's Circus Company are to appear at Nixon's Amphitheatre, Chicago, Ill. on the _th of August for three weeks.

New York Clipper, August 10, 1872, p. 151. All information should be checked with additional sources.
    When G. F. Bailey & Co’s Circus exhibited at Peekskill, N.Y. on July 19th, after the close of the day performance, the entire company, band, and attaches of the circus, visited the cemetery where the remains of Pierre Howland, formerly a member of that company, who died May last, were interred, and after some appropriate remarks by George M. Clark, the clown, the ladies decorated the grave with flowers, and the band performed a dirge with has been composed for the occasion by their leader, Mr. Withers.
    Adam Forepaugh’s Aggregation is meeting with success in the state of Wisconsin, where, according to old showmen, it is doing the largest business ever known in that state. This show travels through the states of Iowa and Illinois during August, using two complete corps of bill posters, and advertising thirty days ahead, both states being thoroughly programmed already.
    Adam Forepaugh has been east during the past week, negotiating for one of the finest theatres in the country, for the purpose of opening a permanent zoological institute. Mr. Forepaugh has offered $120,000(?) for the edifice, and if the offer is accepted he will open, during the coming winter, one of the handsomest places of amusement and instruction in the world.
    Doctor Backenstoe’s Cosmopolitan Circus, Museum and Menagerie are to exhibit at Albany, Wisconsin, on August 10th. The show is now traveling by wagons, and will keep the road until November, when it meets its two boats at Keokuk, Iowa, intending to go south again in the winter. This circus is leaving an excellent reputation wherever it exhibits, and is doing a good business.
    Stoke’s Circus and Mitchell’s Japanese Troupe have chartered the steamer Chicago Belle, and are exhibiting at the towns along the eastern shore of Lake Michigan.
    Miss Ada Dingess, the beautiful and accomplished daughter of Mr. R. S. Dingess, director of Adam Forepaugh's Aggregation, was married in Chicago, Ill., on July __th, to Mr. E. S. Ireland, a wealthy and influential merchant of that city.
    M'lle Tourniaire, Miss Mollie Brown . . . are engaged to join Kelckner & Co.'s Circus, Museum and Menagerie at Lawrenceburg, Pa.
    Cole's Circus, Museum and Menagerie were exhibiting at Williamsport, Pa., Aug. 1st, to a fair attendance in the afternoon, but the rain in the evening interfered with the patronage. An alligator escaped from one of the side shows, but was recaptured the next day, being found in the canal. The company went to Jersey Shore, Lock Haven, and thence west.

New York Clipper, August 17, 1872, p. 159. All information should be checked with additional sources.
    L. B. Lent's New York Circus performed at Ottawa, Kansas, on Aug. 1st, and while making to the train for Kansas City, Mo., the following morning, about four o'clock, a spark from the locomotive set fire to the baggage car containing most of the personal effects of the entire company, besides considerable circus property. . . .
    Chiarini's Royal Italian Circus will commence a season on Sept. _d on the Jackson street lot, San Francisco, Cal. . . . the first appearance of Chiarini's Royal Italian Circus at Nixon's Amphitheatre, Chicago, Ill. . . . The attendance has not in any way been commensurate with the excellent entertainment since the opening night, which is owing, not doubt, to the advance in prices. Our correspondent says: ". . . The horses are all really first class, and well trained, the trappings and costumes are rich and elegant. The performance opens with a grand entree of four ladies and four gentlemen, let by Sig. G. Chiarini . . . Next comes Frederick Carlo, who performs a very difficult ladder feat. Harlequin, the Mexican trick pony, is introduced, and does his work finely. The Carlo Bros., William, George and Frederick, next appear playing violins while they go through a series of ground tumbling, somersaults, etc. Chiarini brings out his hight trained horses, Prince and Duke. The riding consists of some of the most difficult and graceful pad and bareback acts by the ___, Theodore and ___ Cuba, brother and sister.

New York Clipper, August 24, 1872, p. 167. All information should be checked with additional sources.
    Cheyenne, Wyoming territory, has put an effectual bar against traveling shows visiting that town by charging $300(?) a day license for circuses, and $30(?) for hall shows. The mayor says, “the shows take away all their money.” But he loses sight of the moral influence they exert in that terribly wicked place.
    Charley Bartine’s Circus performed at New Bramen [Bremen?] , O. Aug. 12th; Minster, 13th; . . . Newport 15th, . . . The Vantini Family, gymnasts; Eddie Trainer, Andy Morris and Nat Strouse, hat spinners and acrobats joined the show . . .
    The San Francisco Circus and Roman Hippodrome traveled through California and Nevada by wagons, and at Reno took the railroad for Salt Lake City, Utah, where they have been performing to large sized audiences. They will now travel by wagons through Salt Lake valley, performing at Cottonwood . . . Payson, Provost, Ophir, Teilla, and thence to Salt Lake. Messrs. Wilson, Thompson and Kingsley are the managers. Chris Breatle has the concert and side show, and the attractions of the latter are a large sea lion, two mermaids, and a sword swallower.
    James Robinson publishes, in another column, a challenge offering to ride a principal bare back and somersault act with any man in the world, for a purse of $50,000 and his champion trophies, at any time and in any state in America.
    J. E. Warner’s Circus and Menagerie are to exhibit at Pontiac, Ill. Sept. 6th; Dwight, 7th; Kankakee, 9th; Wilmington, 10th; Morris, 11th; Ottawa, 12th; La Salle, 13th, and Bureau, 14th. Business with this concern has been very good in Egypt, Ill.
    On the afternoon of Aug. 13th, at the conclusion of circus entertainment of Forepaugh’s Menagerie, Mr. Nat Austin, the equestrian manager, and president of the Softed(?) Club, organized by the company for benevolent purposes, was approached by the members, and after a neat little speech from John A. Forepaugh, was presented with an elegant portrait of Nat’s god, Horace Greeley. The portrait is an excellent one in colors, and was beautifully mounted. After the presentation the club visited the Wachusa House, Dixon, Ill., and partook of a sumptuous repast.
    As Dan Rice’s Circus was being transported this morning, Aug. 19th, by a train of cars over the Sandusky, Dayton and Cleveland railroad, the engine ran over a horse near Tiffin, O., throwing the train from the track and greatly damaging the circus property. Four of the circus men were seriously, and a brakeman was fatally injured. So a telegram informs us.
    Stone & Murray’s Circus performed at North Adams, Mass. Aug. 17th, and is billed at Winsted, Conn. the 23d.

New York Clipper, September 7, 1872, p. 183. All information should be checked with additional sources.
    Circus matters are red hot, just like the weather here in central Illinois, at present, wrote a correspondent on Aug. __th, from Princenton, Ill., adding that: "During the week Barnum shows at Peoria, Forepaugh at El Pason, Warner at Monticello, the Sells Brothers at Clinton, and Lent's New York Circus at Henry. These towns are all within an hour's ride of each other, and the shows are billed very heavy in all directions. Forepaugh and Barnum will unquestionably do the business . . ."
    Several members of the band attached to Lent's New York Circus seceded recently. Cause said to be "internal dissatisfaction."
    Harry Weston has joined Robbins & Co.'s Circus, Museum and Animal show, as general agent.

New York Clipper, September 14, 1872, pp. 187, 191. All information should be checked with additional sources.
    [Advertisement] The Brothers Orrin and Mlle Lucia, acrobats and gymnasts, late of Chiarini's Royal Italian Circus and new with C. W. Noyes' Crescent City Circus.
    [Advertisement] Sheriff's sale of Romelli & Co.'s Novelty Circus and Performing Animal Show at Washington, Ind. . . .
    Grady’s Circus and Menagerie will show at Shelbyville, Ind., Sept. 9th; Rushville, 10th; Knight-town, 11th, Cambridge City, 12th; Germantown, 13th and Richmond, 14th. They are reported as having done a good business for some weeks past, save at Attica, Ind., where, it is alleged, some of the inhabitants try to beat every show that comes there by renting a lot that a number of them own and for the use of which they all claim pay.
    Charley Whitney, of the Great Eastern Menagerie, has returned to Philadelphia, Pa. on account of illness, his position as contracting agent being temporarily supplied by John Dingess.
    The Great Eastern Menagerie Circus and Museum performed at Wilmington, N.C. Sept. 7th, and the route ahead is Marion, S.C., 9th; Sumter, 10th; Comumbia, 11th; Augusta, Ga., 12th; and Charleston, S.C. 13th and 14th.
    Forepaugh’s Mammoth Aggregation is to perform at Pekin, Ill., Sept. 9th; Peoria, 10th, and Canton, O., 11th.
    Kleckner & Co.’s Circus, Museum and Menagerie is announced to perform at Volcano, W.Va. Sept. 9th; Parkersburg, 10th; Coolvill, O., 11th; Syracuse, 12th; Middleport, 13th, and Gallipolis, 14th. Business reported excellent.
    C. W. Noyes’ Crescent City Circus performed at Steubenville, O., Spet. 5th; Moundsville, 6th; Parkersburg, W.Va., 7th; and are to be at Marietta on the 9th.
    The North American Circus and “Humpty Dumpty” pantomime troupe is to exhibit at Tolland, Conn. Sept. 9th; Glastenburg, 10th; and Middletown, 11th and 12th, at which latter place they will close the season. W. J. Metchear, who had the side show privilege has taken his company for a tour of the state fairs.
    “Old” John Robinson’s Circus, Menagerie and Museum exhibited in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 6th and 7th, and attracted immense crowds. Over five thousand were said to be present at the evening performance on the 6th, and numbers were turned away from the ticket wagon.

New York Clipper, September 28, 1872, p. 207. All information should be checked with additional sources.
    C. W. Noyes' Crescent City Circus was announced to perform one day at Steubenville, O., Sept. _th, but on the following day an announcement was mad "that in consequence of the non-arrival of their steamboat on account of low water" they would continue their performaces . . . The true cause of their dely was a "little unpleasantness" of a business character, one having ___ an unexpected attachment for the show.
    The Central Park Menagerie and Den Stone's Circus will exhibit in Philadelphia, on Thompson street . . . commencing Sept. 30th and continuing until Oct. 4th, inclusive. Master Willie O'Dale, the Perry Family, M'lle Cordelia, the Snow Brothers and Den Stone, Wambold and Holland, are connected with the company.
    W. C. Brown, Louise Brown, late Madame Tourniaire, and little Mollie Brown, child rider, at present with Kleckner & Co.'s Circus, can be engaged, with their horses, from about the second week in November.
    Chiarini's Royal Italian Circus finished its second week in San Francisco . . . John Wilson's California Circus opened its season at Sacramento during Fair week . . . Pete Conklin's Circus, with Mlle Sanyeah as principal attracting, exhibited to immense business at Virginia City, Sept. 10th, 11th and 12th. The concern is moving toward San Francisco, via Sacramento, to be at the latter place during the fair . . .

New York Clipper, October 12, 1872, p. 223. All information should be checked with additional sources.
    Prof. J. L. Davis, with his troupe of performing dogs, who recently closed a ten month's engagement with Dan Rice's Circus, opens at the Holiday Street Theatre, Baltimore, Md. . . .

New York Clipper, October 19, 1872, p. 231. All information should be checked with additional sources.
    Rosston, Springer and Henderson's Mastodon Menagerie, Museum and Circus was sold and delivered to Adam Forepaugh on Wednesday, October _th. On that day it exhibited at Reading, Pa., and after the night show was closed it became Mr. Forepaugh's sole property. The show was organized in the spring of 1871, and was owned by A. Forepaugh, Frank H. Rosston, Andy Springer and Abe Henderson, the former owning one-third, and the others two-thirds. During the season of '71 the show met with fine success, and went into winter quarters at Girard, Pa. This spring it took the road greatly augmented by the addition of new cages, a new and excellent museum, new tents, etc., but did not meet with its former successes, though not having lost any money. The co-partnership was for two season, and this fall Messrs. Rosston, Spring and Henderson, desiring to retire, their interest was purchased by Adam Forepaugh. It is the owner's intention to make several additions to the show, and send it out next spring in fine condition, with twenty cages, under the management of Jno. A. Forepaugh.
    John O'Brien's Four Show Consolidated return to the states at Suspension Bridge on Oct. __th, after a tour or three months and six days, through the upper and lower Canadas, meeting with success. During their stay at London, on September __th, the proprietors of the privileges, John B. Doris and Geo. H. Batcheller were each presented with a gold headed cane. . . .
    Alex. Robinson's New York State Circus and Menagerie will close their season at Mohawk, N.Y., Oct. 19th.
    Howe's Circus and Sanger's Menagerie exhibited at Albany, N.Y., on Oct. _th. The canvas was packed both afternoon and evening. They performed at Troy 10th . . . their route ahead is: Cambridge 14th, Bennington, Vt. 15th, North Adams, Mass. 16th, Pittsfield 17th, Lee 18th, and Gread Barrington 19th.
    J. E. Cooper's Museum, Menagerie and Circus are billed to perform at Little Rock, Ark., Nov. 1st.
    Chiarini’s Royal Italian Circus closed a season of extraordinary success at San Francisco, Cal. on Oct. 6th. The concern at once started upon a tour through the interior, from whence it will return previous to embarking for Australia on Nov. 6th.

New York Clipper, October 26, 1872, p. 239. All information should be checked with additional sources.
    Backenstoe's Circus was sold out by the sheriff on exhibition in Memphis, Tenn., on the 17th.

New York Clipper, November 2, 1872, pp. 243, 246, 247. All information should be checked with additional sources.
    [Advertisement] Sig. Coumbus, contortionist, now with the great Stone and Murray Circus, is at liberty to treat with managers of variety halls, &c., for the winter season. Address Clipper office.
    [Advertisement] For the West Indies, two good ground performers wanted for J. Hudson's Great North and South American Circus, for season six months. Salary paid in gold coin. Comapny start from this city by sailing vessel about the 1st or 2d of Nov. . . .
    [New York City] The Central Park Menagerie, Den Stone's Circus and the Iroquois Indians commenced a series of exhibitions at the foot of Thirty-fourth street, East river, on Oct. __st., and continued afternoon and evening during the week, attracting a good attendance, the inclemency of the weather being considered. Prominent among the performers in the circus department were M'me Carlotta De Berg, equestrienne; Miss Cordelia, rider; James Cooke, who rides four horses at one time . . . and Wm. O. Dale, whose pirouettes are a feature of his riding. The clowns are Den. Stone, John Foster and Roland, the latter being a trick clown. The Snow Brothers and their performing dogs, attracted much attention. The menagerie contains a good collection of rare animals, and the cages are a model of neatness. A very interesting lecture upon animals is delivered in that department, prior to each circus performance, by Robert Ellingham. The show will continue during the present week, and as much longer as the weather will permit.
    At San Francisco, Cal., the Robinson-Conklin Circus closed at the Temple on the 19th, after two weeks' moderate business. The troupe will set sail for Japan on Nov. 1st. Yankee Robinson will not accompany it, but intends remaining in San Francisco. Chiarini's Royal Italian Circus is doing an immense business in the interior towns. John Wilson's Circus is at Salem, Oregon, where he is meeting with encouragement. Mme. Sanyeah and Mlle. Millie Grace had a war of words in San Francisco lately about some fellow, which resulted in their being brought before the police judge on a charge of using vulgar language, reports our correspondent.

New York Clipper, November 9, 1872, p. 255. All information should be checked with additional sources.
    Mert C. Sexton and his entire band are now traveling in the south with James Robinson's Champion Circus, having engaged therewith immediately Rosston, Springer and Henderson closed their season.
    Barnum's Circus, Caravan and Museum, as organized for a southern tour, is to commence its season at Louisville, Ky., on Nov. 4th. Among the circus company are Signor Sebastian, his son, Romeo, Fred. O'Brien, Fred. Watson and wife, the Austin Brothers, George Madders, Matt. McCollum, Harry King, Jerry Hopper, Wash. Antonio and wife, with numerous general performers. Harry Buckley has the concert privileges; Chandler, the candy stand, and George Costello the outside privileges.
    C. W. Noyes, of the Crescent City Circus, is making his way south, having got through his difficulties, and is showing at the principal towns on the Ohio river. . . .
    J. E. Warner & Co. . . . The partnership existing between Mr. Warner and Mr. O'Brien was dissolved by mutual consent, their contract expiring with the close of the present season. Mr. O'Brien purchased the one-third interest of J. E. Werner, also the one-third interest of Mr. Ryan. The show was turned over the Mr. O'Brien at Chicago, and he shipped it to Girard, Pa., where it will be winterd and re-organized. Mr. Warner states that his has been one of the most successful shows on the road, and has made upward of fifty thousand dollars during the two seasons that it has been under his management. It is further stated that Mr. Ryan has retired from business . . .
    James Robinson's Champion Circus performed at Augusta, Ga., Oct. 30th and 31st . . .
    Robbins & Co.'s Museum, Circus and ___ are now in winter quarters at Paw Paw, Mich., having closed the season . . . A "round house" has been built there for practice and breaking horses, and during the present winter the show will be re-organizing for the season of 1873 . . .

New York Clipper, November 30, 1872, p. 279. All information should be checked with additional sources.
    There is only one show entitled to use the name of Van Amburgh & Co., and that is the Great Golden Menagerie under the proprietorship of Hyatt Frost & Co., now in winter quarters . . . We are informed that during the past season, although the receipts were less than in previous years, the profits were larger. During the past week the following animals were added to the show: A very large royal tiger, one hyena . . . three porcupines and some antelopes. The cages, wagons, etc., are being reparied and painted for the coming season.
    Montgomery Queen, of Brooklyn, N.Y., has, we learn, purchased an interest in the concern known as Rosston, Springer & Co.'s Circus and Menagerie, from Mr. Forepaugh, and the exhibition will be run next season with twenty-two cages.
    Chiarini's Royal Italian Circus company did not sail from San Francisco, Cal. for Australia on Nov. _th, on account of the vessel leaving on that date not having sufficient carrying capacity. They now intend sailing on Dec. _th . . .
    We are pleased to learn that Robert Jones, an attache of Forepaugh's Circus, who was shot by the city marshall of Jerseyville, Ill. . . . has recovered from his injuries and returned to his home . . .

New York Clipper, December 14, 1872, p. 290. All information should be checked with additional sources.
    Dr. Thayer, the well known circus manager, is about to resurrect a traveling show, remarks our correspondent, who claims to have authentic information, adding that: "The work has been commenced by Tyler, Horner and White, of the Girard, Pa. Union Carriage Factory, who are building a number of fine rigs, which, when completed, will be an ornament to the road. Everything is in rapid preparation, and the doctor will be once more on his pins when the spring opens and weather permits.

New York Clipper, December 21, 1872, p. 299. All information should be checked with additional sources.
    [Advertisement] Imperial Brazilian Hippodrome and Great California Circus . . . Philadelphia, Pa. Pete Conklin, general director; Kit Clarke, business manager; S. T. Williams, treasurer; Martino Lowande, equestrian director . . .
    John O'Brien intends to consolidate his shows next season - Kleckner & Co.'s, J. E. Warner & Co.'s and O'Brien's Menagerie . . .

1873

New York Clipper, January 4, 1873, p. 319. All information should be checked with additional sources.
    James E. Cooper's Circus and Menagerie closed the season at Natchez, Miss., on Saturday, Dec. __th. The business of the concern had been very prosperous up to the 1st of December, when the epizootic got among the horses and compelled the show to close its season some two months earlier than it would otherwise have done. From Natchez the show was shipped, per steamboat, to Louisville, Ky., but we are afraid the boat has been caught in the ice gorge in the Mississippi, below Memphis . . . James W. Ward, clown, who was out with the show, reached his home at Philadelphia on last Saturday.
    The Brazilian Hippodrome and Californian Circus, Philadelphia, has done a large business during the past week. Three performances were given Christmas, many persons turned away afternoon and night. . . . Martino Lowande, receiving much credit in his beautiful and dashing four horse act. Pete Conklin, the jester, and Alamonte, trick, trick clown, have become favorites, while the watson Brothers, Fred Levantine, and ___, gymnasts, are excellent. New acts are to be introduced during this week, including performing elephants, ponies, dogs and monkeys. The prices of admission have been reduced to twenty-five and fifteen cents.
    The Victorelli Brothers, John and William, gymnasts, who are engaged for Lent's Circus next season, are to open at Shelby's, Rochester, N.Y., on Jan. 4th, 1873, from whence they go to the Theatre Comique, Washington, D.C.
    "Old" John Robinson's Museum, Menagerie, and Circus is to exhibit at Mobile, Ala., Jan. _th, 1873. The show has been doing a fine business all winter, under the management of John F. Robinson, Jr., and closes the season Jan. __th, shipping direct to Cincinnati, from whence it starts out in the spring.
    Montgomery Queen's Menagerie, Circus and Hippodrome is the name of a new show which will take to the road early in the spring, under the general direction of Frank Rivers.
    L. B. Lent has secured the services of Andy Springer as general agent ahead.

New York Clipper, January 11, 1873, p. 327. All information should be checked with additional sources.
    Haight and Co.'s Great Eastern Menagerie, Museum, Aviary, Circus and Roman Hippodrome, at present in winter quarters at Selma, Ala. . . . Ben Maginley as manager . . .
    Ben Maginley and ___ have rented the concert privileges with the Great Eastern Circus during the coming tenting season.
    Lewis B. Lent will run a menagerie in connection with his circus, and has already engaged some of the finest talent in the equestrian profession. . . . G. W. De Haven has purchased all the privileges, and Weightman, the "Man Fish," has been engaged to travel with it.
    Phil. Diefenbach has been engaged as ring master with Pat. Ryan & Co.'s Circus for the coming season.

New York Clipper, January 18, 1873, p. 335. All information should be checked with additional sources.
    John J. Justice will be manager of G. F. Bailey's Circus and Menagerie during the coming season, and Fred Couldock advance agent.
    James A. Bailey has purchased an interest in J. E. Cooper's Circus and Menagerie.
    The Pullman Brother, of Buffalo, will have the outside show with Forepuahg's Aggregation next season.
    W. H. Gardner, agent of Cooper's Circus, returned to Philadelphia on the _th, and reports the show safely in winter quarters after some rough experiences with the epizootic and the ice gorge in the Mississippi river.
    Andrew J. Forepaugh, the well-known and intrepid lion tamer, will travel with M. Queen and Co.'s Circus, Musuem and Menagerie next season.
    James T. Johnson's Novelty Circus performed at Barnard, Ark., Dec. __th, and was then to have visited the towns on the Mississippi River. O. Arbuckle is the clown, and the Clifton brothers, gymnasts, are with the show.

New York Clipper, January 25, 1873, p. 343. All information should be checked with additional sources.
    Henry Burdeau and wife, formerly Mrs. Jeanette Armstrong, have been engaged for the coming season by John H. Murray.
    Little Mollie Brown is practicing at the ring home of John O'Brien, Frankford, Pa. It is said that this child throws somersaults on horseback. If so, she is the only female in America who accomplishes the feat.
    Charles King, the well-known rider, and his wife, equestrienne, have been engaged for James E. Cooper's circus.
    "Old" John Robinson's Great Zoological Exposition and World's Great Fair of Wonders, with nine living sea lions, opened at Tivoli Circle lot, New Orleans, on Jan. __th, for five days, and was to have closed the season there and shipped home to Cincinnati.
    Charles Burrows is engaged to travel with M. Queen & Co.'s Circus next summer.
    Howe's London Circus . . . old John Tryon is press agent the coming season. The show will make a western tour.
    James E. Cooke and wife, Carlott De Berg, will travel with the Central Park Menagerie and Circus duing the coming season.

New York Clipper, February 8, 1873, p. 359. Not complete. Information should be checked with additional sources.

At the Olympic Theatre, St. Louis, Mo., James Robinson and his circus combination were to have opened on Jan 27th, but failed to do so, not being able to make the connection at Belmont, the river being so sensely packed with ice. On Tuesday night, however, the house was opened. The attendance was not large, but it increased during the week. The clowns are Messrs. Julian Kent and Tom Burke. The company is very nearly the same as accompanied Mr. Robinson on his tour at the openeing of the season from that city.

Jerry Hopper, clown and comic stilt performers, is engaged with the Barnum Show for the coming season.

The Lee Family, eight in number; the Leslie borhters, and Fred Barclay, have been secured for J. E. Cooper's show for the coming season.

H. Eppstein has secured the candy privileges with Robbins & Co.'s Circus for the coming season.

Circus licenses in Texas. We have information from a gentleman who traveled with Cole's Circus recently in Texas, that since Jan. 1st the license has been raised from $75 per day to $250. Besides that amount, shows have to pay a heavy county tax, amounting in total to the sum of $400 per day. The corporation tax varies from $10 to $150 per day. Transportation by rail averages from $500 to $700(?) daily. Under such regulations, it will be next to impossible for a show to make money in Texas.

J. J. Showles, advance agent with Howes London Circus during the past season, will resume that position this.

Prof. Tony Franks, of Brunswick, Me., will be leader of the band with Forepaugh's Aggregation this season.

W. W. Cole, of Michigan, proprietor of Cole's Museum, Menagerie and Circus, was in Philadelphia during the past week.

The Matthews Family, acrobats; Wm. F. Aymar, clown; Frank Whittaker and Robert Ellingham, go with the Barnum show this season. Ben. Lusbie, ticket-seller of this concern, exhibited himself in Philadelphia during the past week to the infinite delight of his many friends.

Lou Camblos, Dr. J. A. Clark . . . are engaged for Lent's Museum this season.

Ferdinand Sagrino, the well-known equestrian, has been engaged for Forepaugh's Circus.

William Munroe, the four-horse rider, will be equestrian manager of Forepaugh's Aggregation.

Thomas Rivers, John Shang and John O'Brien, who have been confined during the past six months in the jail at Carrollton, O., charged with causing the death of Lucien H. Gage at that town, on May 18th last, were tried recently before the Court of Common Pleas . . .

New York Clipper, April 5, 1873, p. 6. Not complete. Information should be checked with additional sources.

Barnum's Show commenced a brief season at the American Institute Building (Rink) on Saturday afternoon, March 29. At the evening performance every seat and all the available standing room were fully occupied long ere the commencement of the performances, and a large number of persons, estimated at some two thousand, were unable to procure admission. The southerly side of the building was fully occupied by the animal cages, and the northerly by the museum curiosities. The collection of animals is much larger than that previously exhibited with htis show, and is rare and valuable. Among them are lions, leopards, tigers, a seal, a rhinoceros, a seacow, and Asiatic yak, monkeys, alligators, rare birds, snakes, four elephants, a number of camels, and others too numerous to mention here. A geat improvement is likewise noticeable in the circus department, performances being given simultaneously in two rings. The entry was one of the finest we ever witnessed. Both rings were filled with men on horseback clad in rich armor, and the housings of the horses were of the richest description. While they were going through various evolutions, a procession composed of elephants, camels and mounted men gorgeously caparisoned passed around a larger circle inclosing both rings, presenting to the view of the spectator a scene of magnificence which beggars description. The living curiosities were then introduced. The consist of Admiral Dot the California dwarf, a bearded girl, an Albino boy, the Aztec children, a young man born without arms, two Fiji cannibals, and a "wild man." Arthur Gregory and Master Matthews then gave gymnastic performances upon triple bars in one ring, while Prof. Bushnell performed juggling feats upon a slackwire, and with his wife an impalement act in the other. Equestrian performances were simultanteously given by a man and a boy, during which a clown entertained the audience with his jibes and merry sayings. The Datallie Troupe gave their excellent performances, which we have often reviewed, and at the same time a performer who skillfully juggled cannon-balls appealed to the public favor. Two trick horses were simultaneously exhibited, and elicited great applause. In response to loud and repeated calls, Mr. P. T. Barnum stepped into the ring, and was greeted with cheers and vociferous applause. In a brief speech he returned thanks for the patronage extended, and gave the audience an inkling of his future intentions. The vaulting by some twenty-four performers, the equestrian performance of a trained goat, the acrobatic fests of the Mathews FAmily, equestrian feats by female riders, act of contortion by Monteverde, performances by the trained elephant, etc. Faber's Talking Machine attracted a great deal of attention. It is operated by Mme. FAber, and so constructed that the auditor is able to see that there is no deception. It utters many words with remarkable distinctness, while others have a foreign accent and the enunciation is somewhat slow and prolonged. Mr. Barnum's present show by far surpasses any hitherto put upon the road under his management. A procession passed through many of our principal streets on Friday, an account of which may be found upon an outside page. The seating capacity of the building has been greatly enlarged, work having been commenced immediately after the close of Saturday night's performances. Entertainments are to be given each afternoon at two, and evening at eight o'clock.

New York Clipper (Supplement), April 19, 1873. Not complete. Information should be checked with additional sources.

The tenting season has commenced, and from all parts of the country pour in upon us notes of preparation for the summer campaign. Some few managers more venturesome than the rest have already taken to the road, and, despite the inclement weather which generally prevails in all sections during the early part of April, are reported as doing a good business. In New York City three circuses have already commenced their season. The shows this season will be less in number than during the past, but with very few exceptions will be upon a larger scale, nearly all of them using not less than three tents for the purposes of exhibitions, and many others for lodging their employees, stabling their horses, etc. Most of the companies will travel by railroad or steamboat, thereby saving a great del of time and giving the performers needed rest, so that they will be in a much better condition for their artistic performances in the arena than they would be traveling by wagons, as has hitherto been the custom. Activity prevails in every department. Already the advance agents are in search of eligible sites for the display of the pictorial printing announcing the coming to the great show with its multifarious titles. The contracting agents are busy arranging with hotel and stable keepers for the board of the performers and horses. The press agents are making friends with the country editors in order that a good report of the show may appear, in the next issue of the various papers, and possibly praying that some slight accident may happen so that their ingenious skill may be called into requisition, and their report “the terrible calamity,” when prepared for publication with startling headlines, shall create a marked sensation, and being widely copied by the press throughout the country, give the show much gratuitous advertising. The acrobats, gymnasts, etc., are assiduously practicing their various feats, and recovering their suppleness of limb which the past winter’s rest had interfered with. The living curiosities are getting into condition for the sideshow. “The Living Skeleton” for weeks past has confined himself to his regular summer diet of one light meal per day, while the fat woman dines sumptuously several times daily. Shaughnessy and other of our foreign relations have given up the situations they have held during the winter, and are now prepared to show our rural friends how “The Fiji Cannibals” perform their war dances, fight their battles, etc., and some of “The Fifteenth Amendments” from Sullivan street will be seen as “African Earth Women,” and “Digger” and “Modoc Indians.” But, seriously speaking, the joys of the circus are perennial, for as fast as one generation cloys of them another springs up to whom they give great delight and innocent recreation. What pleasure can equal that experienced by a child on its first visit to a circus? Ye, who are passing down the vale of life amid its shadows, recall with memory’s eye the bright spot of years gone by, and see if you can find among them all one around which clusters a brighter halo of joy and happiness than the recollection of that first glimpse of arenic splendors. Circus performers are as a rule an honest, industrious and thrifty class of people. The very nature of their business prohibits intemperance in any form. Even a cup of coffee or tea has been known to so affect the nerves of a trapeze performer as to endanger his life during a performance. In the summer they work hard, and when the season has ended they prepare for rest and recreation through the winter months, but even during that period they devote certain hours to practice and the perfection of new feats for the following season. The gathering together of a few professionals in a season of rest is ever an enjoyable occasion. The experiences of the past campaign are conned over, anecdotes of old time professionals are told, and memories of those that have passed away are revived. We present our readers with a reminiscence of the season of relaxation of twenty-three years ago, from which it will be seen that some wag of commercial turn of mind gave the profession his views of the then approaching season in the following:

Show Prices Current. New York, March 28, 1850. . . .

    Principal performers . . . expected to remain about show until exhibition is over, and make themselves generally useful.

    Scene Riders . . . expected to performer in afterpieces, and sing in sideshow.

    Tumblers, vaulters, and cannon ball feats, included . . . all these are expected to ___ for the sideshow, and assist in putting up and taking down canvas.

    Two and Four Horse Riders, $14 - $16 - expected to take care of and pad their own horses.

    Bareback and Devil Riders, $15 - $17.50, with privilege of blowing their own gas.

    Clowns, $12.50 - $15, expected to find their own paint and towels, and straws to measure size of names on bills.
    N. B. Twenty-five cents additional allowed for each original joke, and twenty-five cents deducted from the above for each one stolen from another clown.

    Ringmasters, $5 - $7, to find their own ships and snappers. N.B. Where these artists have but one ring suit, clowns will be prohibited from rolling them about in the arena.

    Treasurers, as much as they can conscientiously take.

    Doorkeepers, without privilege, $10 - $12, with privileges, a charge of $5 per week, and bound to pay their own board.

    Advertisers, a liberal percentage on their own stealings.

    Managers, Pedestrian, all the chances neglected by the other portions of the company.

    Managers, Equestrian and Performing, $3 for each horse or pony used, with the express understanding that but one-half of the duration of performance be devoted to telegraphing.

    Newspaper Writers, peck, and poor peck, too.

    N. B. Since the above was reported, a decline of 12 - 15 percent has taken place, and managers are firm in determination to reserved 75 per cent of salaries till end of season, to insure fulfilment of contract.

    In various parts of the country reside gentlemen who during their early life have sought fame and distinction by performing in the arena. Some of these, having accumulated a competency, are enjoying the fruits of their industry; while others have dropped the tights and spangles to engage in other pursuits which promise a more lucrative pecuniary return for their labor. But their love for the circus never dies out. Let a show be advertised to perform anywhere within twnety miles of their residence, and on the arrival of the show they are sure to be present, welcoming with a hearty grasp of the hand such performers as may enjoy their acquaintance, and affably greeting the new comers, who, before their departure, are enrolled in the list of warm friends. During the few hours of relaxation allotted to the performers the time passes rapidly and merrily in reviewing the scenes of the ___ professional's career. He eagerly inquires after his associates of former days, of many of whom he had lost all trace. "The old time comes o'er him," and when the hour of parting arrives, a feeling of sadness and regret that he is not still in the active pursuit of his profession mingles with his leave-taking. We give place to the following sketch entitled "Circus Memories," written for The Clipper by a retired professional ("Frank E. C."), as apropos of the subject.

    "It is five years since I retired from the ring - equestrian, remember - and, like the ponderous O'Baldwin, I shall probably never again don the spangles and hosiery for any reappearance in the sawdust circle. No weekly stipend will allure me from my private calling; yet in the secluded life and sedentary pursuits which I have followed since my 'wild oats' were sown, I many a time and oft' revert to those rare old days so brimful of youthful joy, when 'we boys' were the gayest, freest and heartiest band in the world. In the gathering twilight of a summer's day I lounge beneath the umbrageous branches of far-reaching elms, lulled into peacefulness by falling waters, and soothed by the many voices of ever-sympathetic nature. I toss the last Clipper at my feet, having scanned the circus department for familiar names (always bona fide) and the doings of managers, etc. A few non de plumes I recognize as old-time friends, and vary many are strange to me - aspirants who have been charmed by that wonderful necormancer, the 'Hoopla' and the arena of the enchanting sawdust circle. I am with the ___ in 'rising to remark' that the circus rider and general performer awaken to something far less fragrant and poetical after a first season out than their early dreams pictured, when they flock to the town in childhood to stare, open-mouthed, at the gold and crimson chariots, and the blazing banners held aloft by gallant knights to armor on Arab steeds which were fully up to their childish standard of oriental grandeur. Ye gods! what a thrill of admiration tingled through me when I first stepped withing the folds of Doc Thayer's show when I was in my teens! I can recall the genial 'Doc' in the centre of the ring singing in his mellow voice:

    'John Heenan and Tom Sayers had a gallant little mix - John Heenan hit Tom Sayers a belt like the belt of '76.'

    The doctor never could tumble much. I am pleased to notice, however, that he has struck on his feet once again, and this his caravan will 'spoil our roads' another season. We are united at intervals by the 'showman and his show, who like the shadows into shadows go,' and do you wonder that my heart warms to the fraternity as the gorgeous cavalcade two miles long (look out for the lion) moves majestically along to the fair-ground? I am standing with a group of friends who wonder 'how a man can follow such a life,' but I can satisfy his queries, for I know how that 'life' is myself, and I frequently demonstrate to a select few how 'flip-flaps' can be turned as daintly as does Bridget flop a griddle-cake, and that 'the champion bar-performers in the world' can still gyrate on his ashen rod to their satisfaction and to my own delight. During one of my 'lay offs' from the profession I attended Eastman's College at Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and at the old Market-street Gymnasium kept the sinews and bellows in good shape, while the muscular movement of actual biz suited me to a dot. Tom Zimmer, Fraser, and Frank McGinn were all likely gymnasts, though they never 'tumbled for hash.' Frankie, my boy, how is the Thanksgiving turkey and dislocated elbow? Write me a letter from home! I've missed you at the front! The same infatuation steals over me on circus day as ten years ago, though tempered with some wholesome experience, and a dash or two of the real, in this queer world. This life is made up of 'ground and lofty tumbpling.' Some go through the routine with flaming posters and elevated appointments, while the less venturesome are whirled near the surface in insignificant display, and the effort, though often more worthy of applause, shrinks before the more gaudy undertaking."

    The circus "boys" ever entertain a fraternal regard for each other, and in hours of sickness and distress are prompt in alleviating the sufferer's wants. Performers through accident are oftimes suddenly summoned to a better world, and from the nature of the business of their brother performers but lettle time is afforded for paying their last tributes of respect to their deceased comrade, which are nevertheless heartfelt and sincere. But when in subsequent seasons a show may visite the town where his ashes repose, it is no umcommon thing for the performes to join in procession, and, headed by the band, proceed to his grave and there stand with uncovered heads and in respectful silence while the band performs a dirge in memory of the departed. Numbers of the towns-people are often attarced to the spot by such a ceremony, and become convinced that there may beat beneath the motley garb a heart as warm, loving and true as in the breast of one clad in priestly vestments. . . .

New York Clipper, May 3, 1873, p. 39. Not complete. Information should be checked with additional sources.

The City Council of Minneapolis, Minn., at a regular meeting held on April 16 revised the tariff of licenses for that city, and changed those governing amusements as follows:
    Last year the license fee for a circus was $75 for the first day, and $50 for each additional; for a circus and menagerie combined, $100 for the first day and $62.50 for each additional. The report was as follows:

Circuses (alone) for the first day, $100
Circuses, each succeeding day, $75
Menageries (alone) first day, $50
Menageries, each succeeding day, $25
Circus and menagerie combined, for the first day $100
For same, each succeeding day, $75

New York Clipper, May 17, 1873, p. 55. Not complete. Information should be checked with additional sources.

Forepaugh’s Aggregation exhibits at Chicago during the present week - the first four days of the week on the West side, and the two last at the corner of State and Twenty-second streets, South side. This show has been traveling by railroad hitherto, but at Chicago it takes the road with wagons. The members of the company have formed an organization for, as its constitution states, “the promotion of fraternity and mutual assistance.” Its title is the “Order of the Silver Ring,” and none but those connected with the circus profession can become members under any circumstances. Business with Forepaugh’s show has been good, in spite of bad weather and strong opposition. So wrote an occasional correspondent on May 9.

Hudson’s Great North and South American Circus, now performing at Kingston, Jamaica, will ship from there to Halifax, N.S., on or about June 10. They will travel through the provinces, and will play in New York City some time in July or August and from there will go direct to California. The company will travel by railroad and steamboat. Ed. D. Wenban, general agent, is in New York City making arrangements and has engaged Almonte, the English clown; also several other European artists lately arrived, who will leave the latter part of this month for Halifax. There will be thirty-five performers. All the harnesses and tent will be new and the wardrobe from England.

The Great Novelty Railroad Circus, recently organized at Grand Rapids, Mich., will inaugurate a traveling season by performances there on the afternoon and evening of May 17. Geroge Nyce, T. S. Hansley & Co. are the proprietors; T. S. Hansley, manager; George Nyce, treasurer; William Knight, ticket agent; W. H. Morse, advertising agent. Among the performers are Miss Carrie Cornell, rider; Mlle. Zoletta with her trained horse Black Prince; the Beldon Brothers, gymnasts and acrobats; the Castello family, trapeze and leapers; Billy Ward and Burt Smith, clowns; Charley Ziegler, dancing barrel, crystal pyramids and ladder of life; Herr Eugene, cannon ball performer; William Ward, juggler . . .

The Great Eastern Circus is billed to exhibit as follows: Hillsdale, Mich., May 12, Jackson 13, Ypsilanti 14, Ann Arbor 15, Marshall 16, Battle Creek 17, Kalamazoo 19, South Bend, Ind., 20, Niles, Mich., 21, St. Joseph 22, Muskegon 23, Grand Rapids 24, Lansing 26, Saginaw 27.

Dan Rice’s Circus, Museum, and Menagerie - Spalding, Ryan & Henderson, proprietors - are to be exhibited at Detroit, Mich., May 30, 31, thence goes into Canada. Charles H. Castle is general agent.

J. E. Warner’s Circus, Museum, Art Gallery and Menagerie exhibited at Plymouth, Ind. May 10, to good business.

Barnum’s Great Exhibition drew large audiences at Providence, R.I. on the 5th and 6th. A second arenic performance had to be given on the afternoon of the 5th to accommodate the people who could not get into the large tent, but were patiently waiting their turn. Upwards of 50,000 tickets were sold during the two days. . . .

Bailey’s Menagerie and Circus exhibited at Albany, N.Y. May 5, 6, on the lot corner of Hudson and Swan streets. The menagerie is a rather slim affair, and the circus not much better, the only redeeming features of the latter being James Melville, the rider. Miss Watson and the clowns De Haven and Clark, who are good in their line. The concern went to Troy for two days. So wrote our correspondent on May 10.

P. A. Older’s Circus performed at St. Joseph, Mo. May 5.

New York Clipper, May 31, 1873, p. 71. Not complete. Information should be checked with additional sources.

Dean & Pell's Circus is billed to perform at Rondout, N.Y., May 26.

Howe's Circus and Sanger's Menagerie exhibit at Lebanon, Pa., May 27, Harrisburg 28, Carlisle 29, Hillsburg 30, York 31.

Van Amburgh's Menagerie will be at Palmyra, Pa., May 28, Harrisburg, 29, and Middletown 30.

The Central Park Menagerie and Den Stone's Circus shows at . . . Mauch Chunk 28, White Haven, 29.

William Banks, the minstrel and clown with Older's Transatlantic Circus, is lying dangerously ill of smallpox at his mother's residence in Chicago, Ill.

Ben Lusbie, the "lightning ticket-seller," now traveling with Barnum's Great Show, can, it is said, sell more tickets in one minute than most other treasurers could in two. His activity and skill are thus commented upon by the Boston, Mass. press: . . . Barnum's lightning ticket-seller justly ranks as one of the "living curiosities." Lusbie is in his element only when surrounded by an immense crowd, all eager to be supplied at once. It is said that he has often sold eight thousand tickets in an hour, but what is more remarkable is the fact that, when through, the receipts invariably correspond with the tickets sold. Where the money goes or where the change comes from is a mystery, but the rapidity of his movements suggests the supicion that steam and intricate mechanism are in some manner applied to his physical make-up. - Boston Times, May 18.

New York Clipper, July 12, 1873, p. 119. Not complete. Information should be checked with additional sources.

The event of July fourth in Peoria, Ill., was decidedly Lent's magnificent menagerie and circus. Our correspondent writing on July 5 says: "At an early hour the streets were thronged with busy crowds, anxious to see the street parade, and when that took place, it was evidently a wonderful treat. The show during the three exhibitions was densely crowded, and Mr. Lent's enterprise must have been rewarded with a good profit. The circus performance was undoubtedly one of the best of the kind ever witnessed in our city, while the whole exhibition has been characterized by an air of refinement and good taste. In noticing, an entertainment comprising some eighteen or twenty separate and distinct acts, it is impossible to speak of the most prominent features in detail, but it is sufficient to say that it would be difficult to point out a single act which is not of more than ordinary merit. The orchestra is large and efficient, and their music is a very interesting feature of the entertainments; in fact, this circus is complete in all its appointments. The museum pavilion contains a great array of wonderful, curious and strange attractions. In the menagerie there is a large collection of rare wild animals in good condition. The largest lion is the finest specimen ever exhibited in our city. They go hence through Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota."

Proprietors of menageries are notified by E. W. Woolcott in a card in another column that he will deliver to them in any part of the country such animals as they may commission him to purchase for them in Europe. This should prove a great convenience.

New York Clipper, July 19, 1873, p. 127. Not complete. Information should be checked with additional sources.

Cole's New York and New Orleans Circus closed its season at San Francisco, Cal., on July 6, after taking in $32,760 for seventeen nights' performances. Its route, after leaving San Francisco will be as follows: Hollister 7, Salinas 8, Watsonville 9, Gilroy 10, San Jose 11.

The Buislay Family gave a performance at ___, Cal., on July 4, with a balloon ascension.

G. F. Bailey's Circus is to show at Monroe, Wis., July 15; Warren, Ill. 16; Darlington, Wis. 17; Platteville 18; Dubuque, Iowa 19; Dierville 21; Montecello 22 . . . Cedar Rapids 25, Mount Vernon 26.

At the close of the performance of the Great Eastern Show in Astoria, L.I., on Saturday, July 12, the bands, with Messrs. Haight, Maginley, Durand and others of the company proceeded to the residence of Jas. D. Torrey, the printer, and gave him a delightful serenade. Mr. Torry, with commendable liberality, served up a splendid collation. Songs, dances and brief speeches enlivened the hour, making it an occasion to be remembered by all parties concerned.

New York Clipper, August 16, 1873, p. 159. Not complete. Information should be checked with additional sources.

James Lobdell [Lobell?], an equestrian connected with “Old” John Robinson’s Circus, died at Omaha, Neb. on August 5, from the effects of a pistol shot wound in the heart, received at Council Bluffs, Ia. on July 26. On the night that he received his death-wound, he, in company with some others of the troupe, went on a spree after the conclusion of the evening entertainment, and the circus boys got into a difficulty with some Council Bluffers. It is said that one of the former drew a knife, when one of the Council Bluffers discharged his revolver, and Lobdell stepped between the two men in time to receive the bullet in his breast. Lobell was hastily placed in a carriage and driven to the Missouri River, which he crossed in a skiff, and thence was transferred by a carriage to the Atlantic House, Omaha. The Robinson boys sent a man to take care of Lobdell, and gave a carte-blanche order for money for his necessities. . . .

Charles Whitney, who was an agent of O’Brien’s Circus this Spring, and left on account of an injured leg, had the leg amputated above the knee at the St. Joseph Hospital, Philadelphia a short time ago.

Miss Lottie Warner, the wife of William Warner the clown, committed suicide at Sierra City, Cal. on July 23, by taking poison. She had accompanied her husband en route to San Francisco with a circus, and on reaching Sierra City, was taken ill and left behind. She had nearly recovered from that illness when the fatal act was committed. Domestic trouble is alleged to have been the motive.

Robbins & Co.’s Menagerie and Circus performed at New Ulm, Minn. Sunday afternoon and night, Aug. 3, Garden City 4, Jamestown 5, Wanseco 6, Owatonna 7, Mentersville 8, St. Charles 9, and are to show at Chatfield 11, Preston 12, thence into Iowa.

The Great Eastern Circus, Museum and Menagerie performed at Scranton, Pa. Aug 6, Carbondale 7, Bloomsburg 8, Danville 9, and are to show at Sunbury 11, Milton 12, Williamsport 13, Tamaqua 14, Shamokin 15, Ashland 16, . . . Phoenixville 19, Norristown 20, Pottstown 21, Wilmington 22, Reading 23, Lancaster 25, Columbia 26, Lebanon 27, Harrisburg 28, Mechanicsburg 29, Carlisle 30, Shippenburg Sept. 1, Chambersburg 2, Greencastle 3, Hagerstown 4, Frederick, Md. 5, Westminster 6, Baltimore 8, 9, 10, Annapolis 11, Washington, D.C. 12, 13.

G. G. Grady’s American Circus and Menagerie is to show at Cedar Rapids, Ia. Aug. 14, Shellsburg 15, Vinton 16, La Port City 18, Waterloo 19, Shellrock 20, Clarksville 21, Butler Centre 22, Ackley 23, Eldora 25, Liscomb 26, Marshalltown 27, State Centre 28, Nevada 29, Roland 30, Ellsworth Sept. 1, Hamilton 2, Webster City 3, Fort Dodge 4, Sioux City 5, Lake City 6, New Jefferson 8, Scranton 9.

Forepaugh’s Circus and Menagerie exhibits at Bryan, Ohio August 11, Defiance 12, Napoleon 13, Maumee City 14, Perrysburgh 15, and Toledo 16. . . .

New York Clipper, September 06, 1873, p. 183. Not complete. Information should be checked with additional sources.

The International Circus is billed to exhibit at Cedar Rapids, Ia., during the State Fair, Sept. 8, 9, 10, 11, 12.

Ben Lusbie, the "lightning ticket-seller," with Barnum's Great Show, was presented by the company, while performing in Chicago, Ill., with a magnificent cluster diamond ring, said to be valued at some $500.

Leon and Laiscelle, gymnasts and bar performers, can be addressed care of this office by managers desiring to engage them.

The Keystone State Circus is reported as doing a good business in the oil regions of Pennsylvania. Billy Manson, the advertising agent, was recently presented by the members of the company with a diamond pin.

Cole & O'Neil's Circus is to show at Harriston, Canada, Sept. 2, Moxeter 3, Wingham 4, Lucknow 5, Kincardine 6, Walkerton 8, Paisley 9, Port Elgin 10, Tara 11, Owens Sound 12. George Ward is now the chief billposter, Oscar Rhan having left the company at Strathroy without giving the customary notice, and it is alleged that he served Dan Rice in a similar manner some time previously.

J. E. Warner's Great Pacific Museum, Menagerie and Circus were exhibited at Terre Haute, Ind., Aug. 25, Sullivan 26, Carlisle 27, Evansville 28, Hazelhurst 29, Vincennes 30, and are to show at Washington, Sept. 1, Loogootee 2, Mitchell 3, Brownstown 4, Seymour 5.

Howe's London Circus and Sanger's English Menagerie are to be exhibited at Upper Sandusky, O., Sept 5.

The Ben Abdallah Troupe of Bedouin Arabs, which can be addressed care of this office, will be at liberty to accept engagements after Oct. 20.

Haight's Great Eastern Aggregation is to appear at Baltimore, Md., on Sept. 8, 9. 10, Annapolis 11, and Washington, D.C. 12, 13.

Bailey's Circus and Menagerie encountered a severe stome at Melrose, Ia. The tent was blown down, and no performance was given. They are to show at Memphis, Mo., Sept. 3, Ottumwa, Ia., 6. The Orrin Brothers and Miss Lucia [Orrin], who are among the chief features of the circus . . .

New York Clipper, September 27, 1873, p. 207. Not complete. Information should be checked with additional sources.

Charles Parker, trapeze performer, has retired from the profession and gone into the drug business at Salisbury, Pa.

The license in North Carolina was increased by the last Legislature to $100 per day on circuses, and the county empowered to charge double the amount; thus, in some instances, making the State and county tax $300. At Goldsboro the State, country and corporation taxes amount to $370; and in Wilmington $250, which amount to prohibition. All other licenses have been proportionately increased. Shows coming this way should make inquiry about license before they get their “foot in it.” Of course corporations will follow the example of the State, now that shows are coming, and get all they can. All honor to Tarboro, which has thrown of [sic] all exhibition license, so thoroughly are its officers disgusted with the action of the Legislature and the greedy avarice of its county commissioners. so writes an occasional correspondent.

G. F. Bailey & Co.’s Menagerie and James Melville’s Australian Circus will visit Philadelphia, Pa. in the early part of October for a week’s season.

Cole’s New York and New Orleans Circus is billed to show at Milwaukee, Wis., Sept. 22, 23,2 4, Racine 25, Freeport, Ill. 26, Galena 27, LaCrosse, Wis. 29, Lansing, Ia. 30, McGregor, Oct. 1, Dubuque 2.

J. E. Warner’s Great Pacific Combination is to show at Ionia, Mich. Sept. 25, Stanton 26, Portland 27.

John A. Forepaugh was presented at Wilmington, O. with a diamond ring by the members of the company of Forepaugh’s Circus. J. W. Naylor made the presentation speech.

Lent’s New York Circus is billed to perform at Goldsboro, N.C. Oct. 11, Wilmington 13, Marion, S.C. 14, Columbia 15, thence to Charleston and Augusta, Ga.

The Great Eastern Show is billed ahead as follows: Norfolk, Va. Sept. 27, Portsmouth 29, Franklin 30, Weldon, N.C. Oct. 1, Henderson 2, Raleigh 3, Fayetteville 4, Enfield 6, Rocky Mount 7, Tarboro 8, Wilson 9, Goldsboro 10, Newbern 11, Kinston 13, Magnolia 14, Wilmington 15, Whitesville 16, Marion, S.C. 17, Florence 18, Sumter 20, Winnesboro 21, Charlotte, N.C. 22, Chester C. H., S.C. 23, Columbia 24, Augusta, Ga. 25.

J. C. Webb, master of the canvas with the Great Eastern Show, was presented at Baltimore, Md., on the evening of Sept. 9, with a gold-headed cane by the workingmen of that circus. John Evans made the presentation speech in the ring.

New York Clipper, October 18, 1873, p. 231. Not complete. Information should be checked with additional sources.

Henry Boswald, a musician who during the past nine years had been connected with Lent's New York Circus, died on Sept. 29 at the age of 27 years. . . .

The correct route of Howe's London Circus and Sanger's Menagerie is as follows: Bryan, O., Oct. 13, Butler, Ind. 14, Waterloo 15, Kendallville 16, Ligonier 17, Warsaw 18, Fort Wayne 20, Huntington 21, Wabash 22, Peru 23, Kokomo 24, Tipton 25, Noblesville 27, Pendleton 28, Knightstown 29, Connersville 30, going into winter quarters at the latter place.

The menagerie men attached to Barnum's Great Museum, Menagerie and Circus recently presented Prof. Charles White, who has charge of that department, with a pair of massive gold sleeve buttons, designed in the form of a lion with ruby eyes. Prof. White is considered to be one of the most successful trainers and tamers of wild animals now in this country.

Adam Forepaugh's Aggregation exhibited at Canton, O., Oct. 7, Masaillon 8, New Philadelphia 9, Urichsville 10, Cadiz 11, and is to show at Carrollton 13, Minerva 14,Alliance 15. The season will end at East Liberty, Pa., on Oct. 25. Hawley and Miacco, aerial performers, will join Lent's New York Circus Nov. 1. At Masillon, on the 8th, William Monroe, equestrian manager, was presented with an elegant gold watch and chain by the members of the company.

As an evidence of the good feeling existing between the various members of the company and the attachees of Barnum's Great Museum, Menagerie and Circus, it may be cited that during the past season they have raised among themselves the following amouns of money for the purposes hereinafter set forth: To assistant manager Luke Tilden, a gold watch and chain, $379; to ticket-seller Ben Lusbie, a diamond pin, valued at $312; to Dr. Asa C. Berry, a golden horse's head, $50; to Colonel Chas White, superintendent of the zoological department, golden sleve buttons, $35; to secretary C. S. McClellan, a gold watch and chain, $212; to the conductor of the palace sleeping car, and gold watch and chain, $116; to Mrs. A. Donavan, mistress of wardrobe, gold watch and chain, $189; to Mr. Geo. W. Coup, a diamond ring, valued at $400; to maintenance of 42 laborers hurt at work and left at different hospitals, $800; to expenses of funeral of a deceased member, $154; to ornament the grave of a member who was killed last year by being kicked by a horse, and for erecting a tombstone, $89; contributed to the Catholic Orphan Asylum, Rochester, N.Y., $85. Great praise is due the treasurer, S. H. Hurd, Esq., who not only did his share at each and every collection, but deemed it his special duty to send money received at once to its destination. He ordered in many cases by telegraph the payments thereof. In cases of sickness, Mr. S. H. Hurd telelgraphed forthwith to the relatives to the patient, and inquired whether they would like to have him sent home or to a hospital. In many cases it was desired that the patient should be forwarded to his family, and out of the moneys collected a perfect outfit was at once procured and a nurse sent with him to his home.

Circuses, New York Clipper, December 6, 1873. Not complete. Information should be checked with additional sources.

“Old” John Robinson’s Circus in a Fight. The telegraph informs that on Nov. 22 a crowd, with knives in hand, burst into the tent of “Old” John Robinson’s show at Jacksonville, Texas, when the circus men stopped the performance, tried to drive them off and load up their wagons to leave. A general fight ensued, during which knives and pistols were freely used. three of the roughs were killed and several wounded, while six of the circus employees were wounded. The wagons were finally loaded and driven off, but the Texans swear vengeance and will probably follow them. Robinson had telegraphed to Houston for ammunition.

Cooper & Bailey’s International Circus was to exhibit at Hazelhurst, Miss. Dec. 1. The show is on wheels, and has been doing a fair business. The Lee Family, who were reported killed by Indians, are traveling with this show at present.

William Morgan, hurdle rider, and Billy Burke, clown, late of Lent’s New York Circus, have joined the Great Eastern Circus.

Adam Forepaugh will hereafter dispense with the six-tent arrangement, and run but a single canvas, which is now being made by Martin of Boston. Its dimensions are something stupendous. Size of round top, two hundred feet, with four forty-foot middle pieces, and three sets of quarter poles, between which and the side poles the museum and menagerie will be exhibited, and in the centre the circus performances will take place. The Forepaugh show will positively exhibit in the city of New York next season.

The “Dan Rice’s Circus and Menagerie” of 1873 is now the property of John O’Brien, Dr. Spaulding and Ben Maginley. Mr. Maginley was at Frankford, Pa. on Nov. 25, inspecting the show, where it is in Winter quarters.

Concert, candy-stands and sideshow privileges with Adam Forepaugh’s Aggregation for the season of 1874 have been sold to the Pullman Brothers of Buffalo.

The Great Chicago Show is among the things of the past. The stock, canvas, wardrobe, etc., were sold at auction at Artesia, Miss. on Nov. 15, and the company have gone to their several homes. James Robinson and family left for Cincinnati, O. Nov. 22, and Painter and Durand for Mobile, Ala.

J. E. Warner’s show is in winter quarters at Lansing, Mich., and it is being reorganized for the season of 1874, to travel by wagons. . . .

George Wambold, wife and child, together with his trained dogs and monkeys, arrived in New York during the past week from St. Thomas, W.I., where they seceded from the North and South American Exhibition.

Billy Porter, who "clowned it" with L. B. Lent during the past summer, is profitably occupying the winter recess by keeping a restaurant at the corner of Twelfth and Callowhill streets, Philadelphia.

Emil Lingenfelser, lately a member of J. E. Warner's Circus band, died at Fort Wayne, Ind., his home, on Nov. 27, of typhoid fever.

New York Clipper, December 27, 1873. Not complete. Information should be checked with additional sources.

Fire. On Saturday night, Dec. 20 at 2 o’clock, George Hurst, night watchman at the winter quarters of Forepaugh’s Menagerie and Circus, situated on Dewey ave., Germantown, Pa., discovered fire issuing from a large ring-building, the upper portion being full of hay, which had just been put in. Owing to the combustibility of the building (which was of wood) and its contents, but a short time elapsed ere it was a mass of ruins. The fire spread to the harness, carpenter and wagon shops; and they, with the wagon store-house, were also completely destroyed. Owing to the isolated location of the buildings, no assistance could be secured, and consequently the loss was heavy - estimated at no less than $80,000, with insurance for about $40,000. Among the property destroyed were 19 cages, 12 baggage wagons, 120 sets of harness, the complete circus wardrobe, 30 lengths of seats with jacks and extras, 20 tons of hay, 1,000 bushels of oats, and much circus stuff, tools, ropes, chandeliers, as well as the beautiful band chariot, which had just been handsomely repainted. But four horses were burned, as the remainder are on Mr. Forepaugh’s farm for the Winter; no ‘animals’ were lost, as they are confined in a fire-proof stone building a hundred yards from the scene of the conflagration. In the matter of fires, Mr. Forepaugh is fast rivaling Mr. Barnum, this being the sixth fire that has visited the former gentleman, and by far the most disastrous. But fires don’t make any difference with him, and the Forepaugh Show will open in April “just as well and as hearty as ever it was.”

W. W. Durand has been engaged as general agent and writer for the Great Eastern circus for the tenting season of 1874. The show is to be greatly enlarged and entirely refitted. Charles Sivales [Sivalls?], H. J. Leech and W. Scott will be retained as agents, and George W. Stanhope will be added to the corps. The show is to exhibit at New Orleans, La., one week, commencing Jan. 9, 1874.

George S. Cole has been engaged for the coming season as treasurer with Montgomery Queen’s Circus.

A Georgia Circus. Mr. Boll [P. Bowles] Wootten, a livery stable keeper of Atlanta, Ga., and at one time partner of Mr. A. Haight of the Great Eastern Circus, has organized an old-fashioned circus at Atlanta, where he will give his first exhibition on Christmas day. His menagerie consists principally of the animals lately belonging to Lent’s New York Circus, with several additions. Wambold and his dogs and monkeys, the Davenport Brothers, the Whitney Brothers, Belmont, Billy Andrews, Prof. Hayden and others have been engaged. The show will travel by wagons and make a tour of all the small towns. Mr. George De Haven is connected with the management.

The following people have been engaged for the Queen Show next season: Nat. Austin, clown and equestrian director; Robert Johnson, Mollie Brown, Mme. Brown, riders; Miie. Lora Linn, female gymnast; . . . Leon Whettony, acrobat; Charles Burrows, stilt performer. All the privileges have been purchased by Harry Amler of Delavan, Wis. Mr. Queen is at the Commercial Hotel, Chicago, at present, in which city the show is wintering.

John Robinson’s Circus arrived in Cincinnati, O. from Texas on the 19th inst.

W. W. Cole’s Circus and Menagerie now in winter quarters at Quincy, Ill., is being completely over-hauled, repaired and repainted, and additions made for the coming season . . .

The Victorelli Brothers of L. B. Lent's Circus are at the Olympic, Philadelphia. They do a fine acrobatic act.

The Walhalla Brothers, the acrobats of Forepaugh's Circus, are passing the winter at Baltimore, practicing a new act on two bars, one above the other.

Adam Forepaugh last week received from Europe a remarkably small and pretty baby elephant. It has been named "Willie," in honor of the equestrian director of Forepaugh's Show. Our correspondent wishes to state "that this animal will not be broken in time to open with the show, and 'Our James' is respectfully informed that, in case any more jokes are perpetrated upon Mr. Monroe's horses, it would be judicious for 'O. J.' to seek some convenient spot whereon to end his earthly career, as the indications at present point to this as the approved conclusion of that individual's present hazardous course."