The Progressive Batavian Batavia, Genesee County, New York State May 21-1875 The World Under Canvas! The Greatest and Grandest Tented Exhibition every Organized. The World-Famous Great Forepaugh Show Now on its 9th Annual Tour, Will exhibit Afternoon and Evening at Batavia, Saturday, May 29th. 1,000 Men & Horses, 1,500 wild animals! 2,000 Rare Birds! 10,000 museum wonders! Room for 9,000 spectators under a combination of 8 centre-pole tents. More than a mile of Golden Chariots, Dens, and Cages, in the Grand Menagerie. The largest and finest living giraffe ever captured, also five trained elephants and a huge 8,000 lb rhinoceros and the wonderful South American Hippopotamus, eight monster lions! And in all 1,500 beasts and 2,000 birds in the Grand Museum. Giants, Dwarfs, Mechanical Automatic Statutary, Fossils, Fishes, Insects, Reptiles. An improved Stationery[sic] Steam Engine operates all the mechanical wonders, and a Fountain of Real Water. Behold the Great Double Circus and only Performing Wild Beast Show! on this continent. Trained horses, ponies, dogs, goats, and 4 performing Lions and Tigers, Constituting the largest and best circus now traveling, and combining all the attractive features of hippodrome and circus. Is held in a tent distantly removed from the Menagerie and Museum, in deference to those who would be pleased to attend our Mammoth Menagerie and Museum, but do not wish to patronize a Circus. Don't Fail to see the Grand & Gorgeous Dress Parade and Procession on the Morning of Exhibition Day, 5 elephants in harness, a drove of camels, 4 superb chariots, a double military band equal to Two Full Brass Bands. 200 Prettily Plumed Horses; The Golden Car of the Muses; the finest Chariot ever made; Banners and streamers of all the world, more than a mile of Chariot Cages, with 300 superb paintings, and adorned with life sized Statuary of Heroes, Philosophers, Statesmen, &c., of all periods of the world's history. Herr Darious Performing with Lions and Tigers, all exposed to view; Drivers uniformed; Automatic figures on the tops of the Cages; a full set of magnificent Musical Chime Bells, mingling with the music of the bands; 500 Novel Features, constituting the most Grand, Dazzling and Gigantic Show Parade ever presented to the public. Come in to town by 9 o'clock A.M., to see it; look at the procession; count the cages; visit the show ground and behold the mammoth tents, and if you don't think we've got a show worth looking at don't patronize it. Don't forget the name, "4 Paw!" Two Exhibitions Afternoon and Evening. Observe and remember, to all the Tents the admission is only 50 cents. Children under 9 years, 25 cents.--Doors open at 1 and 7 o'clock, P.M., performances commence at 2 and 8 P.M. Free Balloon Ascension. Every Forenoon of Exhibition Day, between 10 and 11 o'clock, or immediately at the close of the Street Parade, it will take place on the show grounds. Prof. Eliedon with his mammoth Air Ship Mercury starts for Cloudland, and as he ascends will be seen clinging to a Slender Bar, and performing a variety of blood-chilling acts, 1,000 feet in Mid-Air. This ascension can be witnessed by everybody Free of all Charge. Remember Forepaugh's Great Aggregation's a Great Overland Menagerie, Museum, Caravan and Circus, traveling with wagons over the highways, and all you can see, "as it goes marching on," that the Great Forepaugh Show is the largest in the World, and that it Never Divides. ++ The Albany 'Sunday News' has the following pen-portrait of our State Senator, Hon. D. COLE, of Albion. "The Hon. Daniel H. COLE, senator from the twenty-ninth district, has been a popular man in our city for many years. His genial, happy countenance attracts the attention of all meeting him. Born in 1814, his early youth received the seeds of patriotism, which now bring forth the legitimate fruit in loyalty, to the old flag, and heightened integrity. His father was one of the old-time physicians; his brother a prominent senator several years ago. Senator COLE has held numerous important public trusts during the past thirty-five years, which he has filled with such fidelity and honor as to command the respect of his fellow-citizens without distinction of party. As judge, surrogate, and member of the lower house of legislature, he made an admirable record, while in the position of senator he has won merited honors. Senator COLE is a clear headed, straightforward man--an excellent judge of human nature. As a speaker, he is deliberate and concise, stating his views, with clearness and excellent diction. As a legislator, he is an earnest worker, always at his post, and reliable in any emergency. His course in the senate has not only won the respect and esteem of his compeers upon the floor, but also of the people of the Empire state. He is a man of generous impulses, modest and retiring in his nature, and conservative, in his views. Such men are wanted in the halls of congress, where their counsels would prove a blessing to the nation. ++ Look out for New Styles.--Mr. J.B. HEWITT is now in New York buying an immense stock of Dry Goods. Don't fail to examine our new goods; prices will be lower than ever. ++ Adams, just as long as you sell the class of Teas that you now sell, at your prices, you can sell all you can buy. ++ submitted by Linda C. Schmidt *********************************************