Fossil Remains
In the third week of February the fossil remains of an extinct animal were dragged up in a fisherman's trawl-net. They consisted of a tooth weighing 7lbs. and a huge semi-circular tusk or horn, 7 feet long. They were afterwards exhibited by Mr. Stephenson, at the Rising Sun inn.
Concerts and Entertainments
The African Minstrels gave the entertainment at the Music Hall on the 17th and 18th of February to not very large audiences. Some of their songs were pleasingly rendered, and their talkative powers were extremely funny, but they were certainly not equal to Christy's
The Rev. J. M. Bellew's second visit to Hastings on the 10th of February was hailed with delight by those who filled the Music Hall to hear him read - it might be said acted - choice extracts from the British Poets. His performance was an intellectual treat.
Mr. W. S. Woodin had a "full house" on the evening of Monday, Feb. 24th, at the Music Hall. His mimicry and his rapid and clever metamorphoses created as much surprise as delight.
A Sacred-music Concert was given in the Music Hall on the 26th of March, by the Mountfield Sacred Choral Society, the object of which was to assist in raising a fund for the fishermen's widows and children. Mr. Wiseman conducted and Mr. Thomson presided at the piano. The concert relised about £10 for the fund.
Also a Reading for the same object (and a very good one, but thinly attended) was given in the Music Hall by Mr. Butter, of Lewes, on the 24th of March. The surplus proceeds was nil.
Nautical Entertainment. On the evening of the 17th of March, Mr. Ransford appeared at the Music Hall in a novel entertainment, entitled "Tales of the Sea" with musical illustrations. The entertainment was of a coloquial character, interspersed with nautical ongs, the latter, 12 in number, so powerfully and melodiously rendered as to be applauded again and again.
Christy's Minstrels, the far-found "darkies" gave three entertainments at the Music Hall during the week which ended on the third of May, and to large and delighed audiences. As vocalists, instrumentalists and actors, their talents were of the first order of merit.
Fact and Fiction were successfully delineated by Madame Card (neé Miss Eagle) at the Music Hall on the 10th and 11th of May, when the performances of this lady were regarded as of an extrordinary character. She completely astonished and delighted the audiences boh in her feats of legerdemain and as a powerful manetic manipulator[1], having in the former her subject, and in the latter her subjects under almost superhuman control. The writer had known her before as a girl when she appeared at the Swan Assembly rooms as a clairvoyant.
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- ↑ legerdemain = sleight of hand; manetic manipulator = hypnosis - Transcriber
