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■X-fcLK WEEKLY CONSTITOTIONt ATLANTA, QA.. TUESDAY', SEPTEMBER 14, 1880.
■UaA SuNllIRSTIMI
SEPT. 24.
NAIL THE DATE!
SEPT. 24.
.24. TIEIT FAST!
WAII Jf'OR I WAIT FOB NOBODY! BAB! WHY AYAiT l THE ONLY 1110 SHOWS WILL BE HERE ON SEPTEMBER 24. YOU BET!
Not -even Smelling Opposition, Disdaining the very idea of Trashy Rivalry, Repudiating the Clarionet Blowers of windy, Insignificant Mouldy, Dew-eaten Humbugs’
THE W C COUP
IE W11 UNITED MONSTER SHOWS!
WITH A CORPS DE ARMEE OF THE BRIGHTEST CIRCUS STARS TO BE FOUND WITHIN ALL EARTH’Si BEWILDERING CIRCUMFERENCE!
A PROCLAMATION
GrBORGrlANTS !
DON’T BE DECEIVED! DON’T GET CONFUSED! I AM COMING TO YOU, WILL BE AMONG YOU, HEEE IN |
ATLANTA, ON THE 24TH DAY OF THIS MONTH, SEPTEMBEE, NO LATER, WITH ALL MY MAGNIFICENT, OVER
WHELMING, RIVAL-KILLING, COLOSSAL AND MIGHTY EXHIBITIONS, UNPARALLELED ON EARTH, FAMED
THROUGHOUT THE CIVILIZED GLOBE, GORGEOUS BEYOND BELIEF, FAIRLY MAKI G THE MASSIVE EARTH
TREMBLE WITH THEIR PONDEROSITY, GOLDEN WEIGHT, WEALTH OF AESOLUTE GRANDEUR AND TONNAGE OF
AMAZING SPLENDOR! MINE ARE POSITIVELY THE ONLY BIG SHOWS THAT YOU WILL SEE, THE ONLY BIG
SHOWS THAT WILL COME TO ATLANTA, THE ONLY BIG SHOWS THAT WILL TRAVEL THE SUNNY SOUTH
DURING THIS YEAR OF OUR LORD, 1880. IN THE NORTH I AM SUPREME ; IN THE EAST AND WEST MY REIGN
IS ABSOLUTE; HERE IN THE SOUTH I WILL BROOK NO RIVALRY, AND. AUDACIOUS INDEED IS HE WHO
WOULD DARE ATTEMPT CO-PETITION WITH ME OR M NE. I AM THE FIRST MAN TO BRIt G SUCH
FROM THE KING SHOWMAN!
STUPENDOUS EXHIBITIONS INTO THE SOUTHERN STATES, AND THAT MY PLUCK AND ENTERPRISE ARE
APPRECIATED MY IMMENSE CANVAS, PAOKED'TO SUFF0CAT1 fi DAY AND NIGHT EVERYWHERE S NCEI
CAME SOUTH, WIlL AMPLY TESTIFY. MY SHOWS ARE ESSENTIALLY CITY SHOWS, ARRANGED TO MEET
TENS (. F THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE DAILY. AND TO CHALLENGE THE ADMIRATION OF THE MOST CULTURED.
HAVE SET EVERY LARGE CITY IN THE UNION A LAZE WITH EXCITEMENT, WITH WONDER, WITH JOY,
AND I AM COMING HERE TO REPEAT THE TRIUMPHS OF CHICAGO, RICHMOND, WASHINGTON, LOUISVILLE
AND THE OTHER GREAT CENTRES OF CIVILIZATION, WEALTH AND CRITICAL TASTE. WE UNDERSTAND EACH
01 HER. I AM HONEST AND WILL GUARANTEE TO EXHIBIT EVERYTHING THAT I ADVERTISE, AS I ADVER
TISE IT, WITHOUT BOMBASTIC POWDER, VULGAR BRAGGADOCIO OR INGENIOUSLY CONTRIVED TRICKERY.
YOU MAY DEPEND ON ME.
"W. O. COUP,
RXSX> HOT SHOT £1X1.0. Will FIESE^CES
FIVE TIES LARGER THAN AIT SHOW EVER SEER HIE!
The most|elcquent tongue, the mightiest pen, would utterly fail to properly depict the fascinating grandeur, the limitless measurelses, boundless resources
of these unapproachable enterprises. They stagger the belief of man 1 . They petrify, they freeze the very soul with their unheard of immensity
Volumes of roseate writing would NOT convey even a tithe of the number of glittering and breath-taking attractions! The greatest minds of the country,
statesmen, senators, high Government officials, eminent scholars, famous authors, distinguished jurists, sculptors, artists, tragedy’s champions—all, have
Expressed their astonishment, their admiration, their curiosity. Ail, again, have vowed that human genius excelled itself in the organization of thi.*
Monster Combination, and human foresight could add nothing to the whole.
TjMIK. LISE THE SWEEP OF TIE OCEAN SWELL, 01 SEPT. 24.
It<s sties as ii aven’s Ughtobg! Forcible as the Hurricane! Bright as the Sul*!
A M3.um3.1tal Evidence of tie Inexhaustible Fertility cf the Human intellect, and a Convincing Proof of the Solidity of Human Vigor,
JAMS MELVILLE’S AUSTRALIA! CIRCUS!
Comprising more real, hi tuned artists tl on woe tvtr It.'ore seen in one ring, and having a comjiany of Riders, Juggler?, Aciot at? and Traj<ze Performer? Four Times Larg.
than any live Circuses traveling in America. The lovely Misses KATIE and EMMA STOKES. Supreme Queens of Horsiuaurbip, the
Champion Jockey ltider, the Greatest Leaders and Tumblers, and the most Renowned Juggers.
The Peerless James Melville, Earth’s Wonder’
Secured at a fabulous salary, and whose name is a household word wherever the English tongue is spoken, heads the gallant crew.
The Very Funniest Clowns Every Seen in a Ring!
The Croat flew York Aquarium!
The Big Shows!!
JUST ADDED! TWD MUNSTER RIVER HORSES!
Couinv nly c tiled HIPPOPOTAMI, from the Riv^r Nile ! A brace of water mammoths powerful enough to engulf a whole fleet of ships. Huge, towering, shembling, mountains
<f amphibious flesh, sweating crimson blood from every pore! CELEBRATED IN HOLY WRIT !
IMPRESSIVE TONS OP LIVING MUSCLE!
A Millionaire Fortune Expended for these Creatures!
They are already en route, will be with me on September 14tb, will be here on September 24th, witl cut fail.
Two Ponderous, Blood Ming, Immense Featnres!
Has Wen shorn of half its marvelous attractions t » furnish roe with features for my
Colossal Travelling . c hows.
Multitudinous Wonders from the Ocean's Deepest Depths!
Twelve Living Hellbender?, lirat and only time lliey were ever will) a travelling show,
and countless other Marine tuaive's.
IIS HUGE GLASS TANKS OK WHEELS!
Monster IDevil Fisb.
Captured ofl Nrwioundland, after a terrific battle, and now preserved in >p:nts, th.
same in ap|>eantuc« as when alive, in a tremendous tank.
NOT ONE MAN IN FIFTY TIIOl’SUND EVER RAW ONE!
Remember, Friday,'Sept H. Ouly!
Two tiorgeou** Porformnum at 1:30and 7:30. Doors open one hoar aoono
XEODPB OF BBISCSO QOHSES. S100,000
The grandest festuie within the memory of nun! This troupe of highly bred, s v acious, phenomenal, beaut if ul ami fpiiited animals are worth all other entire shows in the country. For fourteen consecutive weeks
they packed the G.'tit New York Aquiriu u l u Idinz rom floor to dome with the most fashionible people. 1 !i-*ir performances beggar description, surpass the telling. Unequalled for gracj and reasonin’' power,
THEY ACCOMPLISH THE MOST AMAZINGLY DIFFICULT THICKS!
%ith tbe <*nse and precision of intelligent mortals! Their extraordinary- performances have excited the wonder of the world and the interne jsalouiyof every oth*r rujtnagsr. They walk
through hoops of living, seething fire, find hidden objects, fire off huge pieces of crtillery, roll bjrie.s up and down an indued piaue. see-saw on a single plank, and
EXECUTE .A. IN ENTIRE, I IV r X' 5.2 ICAT JE
with the skill and sang'roid of veb
U j attempt
» s of the regnlsrarmy. NETTIE the undoubted champion leaping horse of the world* dears a five foot cate and six horses with the
HAS ANY ATTRA CTION LIKE THIS
on stilts (just think of it,) jump
MILI T A R Y 1> Si I Ij I. !
of a mocking bird. See them if you die in
Wood’s Famous New York Museum!
Supplied my Museum department with curiosities rar-i and costly, most of them
NOW TO BE SEEN FOR THE FIRST TIME!
An entire colbiclion of celebrated wo 1 ler*
TO UIG SEEN ONLY IK MY BIG- SHOWS!
Stone’s Genuine Endian Braves!
No other Show has any Indians at all. See these couragems heroes in
War Whoops, War Dances and War Paint!
Tielng an enemy to the stake, the rescue and escape. the Indian., fur; and kindred rnltlng acts.
>1J lueiupi i?uiiif.a uuvn c. u&a qd ui9i aauo uiwj aai ai ut.v li iu.v limj ixixc. j . WCJ ■ - . * ^ _ . »
NETTLE ALONE S WORTH MORE THAN § ENTIRE HERD OF ELEPHANTS «1H:™" re *
THE MIBHTY ELECTRIC BLAZE!
IT ALONE ILLUMINATES MY TREMENDOUS CANVAS!
No other Exlilion is tie W las Oie le it, so Look Ont!
1 paid thousands of dollars hr this grand illuminating agency, and I will show it to tLepeep'e of
Atlanta Only on Friday, Sept. 24=tli
It Transforms the Blackest Man into the Very Whitest
It like a ’carta lonccmnicd Suns! It tints ivory objrct on earth with theailvcrod bueajof Et« rnal Piradase, lringin» Heavenly visions to the Dream
of t'.c Drowsy and
Mesmerizing the very Soul of Man with Supreme Ecstaey!
1AIKRE, TI WHILftlD HIM RIDER!
Freezing the blood in your veins by his fiery, iitrepid feats of horsemanship!
A Dazzling and Monster Japanese Paper Chariot
The First and Only One Ever Exhibited in the United States.
NAPOLEON’S GREAT ROAD COACH, A MASS OF GLITTER AND GOLD!
A Precious Baby Sea-Lion !
THE ONLY ONE EVER BORN IN CAPTIVITY ANYWHERE !
. It is but a few weeks old and weighs just twenty-seven pounds !
A VIVACIOUS, PRECIOUS, INFINITESSIMAL MITE!
A Lsfiii Lil; si Lull Ala i AiittiMi!
An Ocean Sprite, cherming all beholJtr*, and causing the veriest cyni 2 to smile! Ladle* and children go Into ecntacy over it!
A WINSOME, WINNING, WONDERFUL WIGHT!
And worth all the attention that is berowed on it. Nowhere else in the world can you see such another.
They Almost Devoured their Keeper Alive in Winchester, Virginia,
For Proof of which Savage Attack I refer to all the Newspapers in the Country.
Countless M v r i a d s Of* M ind - A m a z ing N o ve 1 ti e s and Living W onder s!
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OLD! ROYAL JAPANESE CIRCUS!
fcpiendor, holding you spell-bound while it passes
Marvels from India! Marvels from Ava! Marvels item ibe Extremes of Earth to stagger the imagination and
RICH ELS it 1C. FLYING MACHINE! GEORGIA COLORED JUBILEE SINGERS! Congress of all Nations! Oi
before your eee» like the dnam c f a Fain,! A l the India: s! the wh*>!e Family of Japanese! Kings! Herald*! Nap-j _ - . __ _
THE BIGGEST SHOWS! THE CHEAPEST PRICES! ONE SINGLE TICKET TO WITNESS EVERYTHING!
U Admission to th? Circus, the Museum the Menagerie—to EVERYTHING. FIFTY CENTS: Children under nine, Half Price. Reserved Opera Chairs (with these Shows only) Twenty-Gve cents extra.
HALF FARE FOR THE ROUND TRIP ON ALL RAILROADS ON THIS DAY ONLY!
AT ATLAHTA, FRIDAY, SBFTDMBDt 24, Only-Watch I
WH T. ALSO BE 13V LaGltANGE, SEPTEMBER fSSth; COLU3IBUS, SEPTEMBER artlij OPELIKA, SEPTEMBER a8tL; MOKTGOJMEBY, SEPTEMBER, a»th.