TRAVERS.........................................G.W.  PARSONS GIPSY JOE..................................................M.  ISAACS ’ANNIBAL ’ORACE ’IGGINS................................BILLY BARKER TOMMY TIPPER.....................................Miss MAMIE SMITH PETE, the Man on the Dock................................SI HANCOCK Mrs. MALONE, the Old Woman in the Little House....  Mrs. K.Y.  BOOTH ROBERT BENNETT (aged five)......................Little ANNIE WATSON

    Act I.—­The Old Home.  Act II.—­Alone in the World.  Act III.—­The
    Frozen Gulf:  THE GREAT ICEBERG SENSATION.  Act IV.—­Wedding Bells.

    “Winona, the Child of the Prairie,” will be preceded by

    A FAVORITE FARCE,

    In which the great BILLY BARKER will appear in one of his most
    outrageously funny bits.

New Scenery......................by....................Q.Z.  Slocum

    Music by Professor Kiddoo’s Silver Bugle Brass Band and Philharmonic
    Orchestra.

    Chickway’s Grand Piano, lent by Schmidt, 2 Opera House Block.

    AFTER THE SHOW, GO TO HANKS’ AND SEE A MAN

    Pop Williams, the only legitimate Bill-Poster in New Centreville.

    (New Centreville Standard Print.)

DOCUMENT NO. 27.

Extract from the New Centreville [late Dead Horse] “Gazette and Courier of Civilization,” Dec. 24th, 1878:

A little while ago, in noting the arrival of Miss Nina Saville of the New Centreville Opera House we quoted rather extensively from our esteemed contemporary, the Mendocino Times and commented upon the quotation.  Shortly afterwards, it may also be remembered, we made a very direct and decided apology for the sceptical levity which inspired those remarks, and expressed our hearty sympathy with the honest, if somewhat effusive, enthusiasm with which the dramatic critic of Mendocino greeted the sweet and dainty little girl who threw over the dull, weary old business of the stage “sensation” the charm of a fresh and childlike beauty and originality, as rare and delicate as those strange, unreasonable little glimmers of spring sunsets that now and then light up for a brief moment the dull skies of winter evenings, and seem to have strayed into ungrateful January out of sheer pity for the sad earth.

Mendocino noticed the facts that form the basis of the above meteorological simile, and we believe we gave Mendocino full credit for it at the time.  We refer to the matter at this date only because in our remarks of a few days ago we had occasion to mention the fact of the existence of Mr. Zeke Kilburn, an advance agent, who called upon us at the time, to endeavor to induce us, by means apparently calculated more closely for the latitude of Mendocino, to extend to Miss Saville, before her appearance, the critical approbation which we gladly extended after.  This little item of interest we alluded to at the time, and furthermore intimated, with some vagueness, that there existed in Kilburn’s character a certain misdirected zeal combined with a too keen artistic appreciation, are apt to be rather dangerous stock-in trade for an advance agent.