The Minstrel troupe of the U: S. Oregon are worthy of this renowned battle. ship, and the perforraance which they gave at the Lyceum on Thursday evening was most heartily enjoyed by the large audience present, the proceeds being destined to the relief of the U. S. S. Oregon's Marines killed during the occupation of Peking. The performance was opened by a small but very competent orchestra composed of members of the battleship's crew. When the curtain drew up the picture was very striking, the interlocutor being in black dress clothes and the minstrels in bluosatin, all in knee breeches, with the two end men on each side in burnt cork and the traditional nigger minstrel costumes. The songs and jokes in the first part were very well received, nearly all of the songs being encored, Mr. E. Pollard's singing and dancing in the Last number, " My Hanna Lady," earning a well-deserved double encore," It is seldom that we seo so good a dancer in
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