The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-08-19

est until some time ago, when MIR. French
Axley came to Mr.. Koehler and informed
him that the negro had offered to sell
him several boxes of cigars.
Mr.. Koehlers suspicious being aroused by
this, he counted the number Of boxes of
cigars he had in the saloon and marked
them in order that, il Ike should steal any
of them, the theft might easily be proven
on him. Having done this he purposely
left him alone in the saloon on Monday
morning, in order to give him a chance to
help himself to whatever he had mind to
take and upon returning found that two
boxes of cigars had disappeared. He was
now satisfied that Ike was thief and
after learning that he had been selling
cigars to several parties in town, employed
Constable Hogan who yesterday arrested
him. He was brought up for hearing,
but waived an examination and will now
pine in the county Jail until the next scs.
| SION vi the Circuit court.
President Hayes is about to have law
suit on his hands. II is known that he is
very close man, and holds the almighty
dollar with the grip Of death. Some time
ago Mrs. Hayes concluded that before she
left the White House she would like to
have set of china, and after thinking
| about the matter for month or two and
figuring on the cost, the president consented
to crafty her. The set was purchased, and
then Mrs. Hayes was suddenly conscious of
! another wish. She wanted something ma.
tional about the china, and decided to have
birds, fishes etc, of the kind found il
America, painted on appropriate dishes.
Theodore Davis. one of the artists of Harper
Brothers, did the work, and when it was
done it gave entire satisfaction. The presi.
dent thought that Davis would charge
nothing for his work-that, in fact he
would find his recompense in the thought
that he had done something patriotic.
Davis patriotism is of different kind,
however, and he came to the front promptly
with an astonishingly big bill. The presl.
dent was amazed at the cost of the set Of
china, with its fishes, birds, etc., and he de-
clned to settle with Davis. The artist,
however, intends to have his money, even
If he has to sue out an attachment against
the china.
Being very ambitious to fill this page
with reading matter of some kind and hav-
ing no news wherewith to do so we feel at
liberty to indulge in a few remarks con-
corning Sunday recreations, in general,
without combining ourself to this city.
Nothing is more marked, perhaps, in there
ligious world than the change which has
taken place in the manner OF observing the
Sabbath day. This change is, of course,
confined to those who profess the Protest.
ant form Of Christian religion. The Ro-
man Catholic and Greek churches, to which
by far the largest portion of the Christian
world yield allegiance, have never insisted
upon strict observance of the Sabbath.
They have always permitted an
amount of freedom on that
day, which is utterly at variance with the
notions held by those who are recognized
as Protestants. The Puritans and Cove
nanters, DESTROYS Of presenting as great
contrast as possible, in their religious prac-
tees as well as in their forms Of worship,
to the rest OF the Christian world, made a
strict observance of the Sabbath one of the
distinctive features of their faith. So sue
cessful were they in their Sabbatarianism
that two centuries have produced but a
slight modification in the way in which
they insisted the Sabbath should be ob.
served. These notifications have been
effected within the last fifteen or twenty
years. 1t is true that what are known as
the Blue Laws Of New England have
not been enforced for many years, but it
has not been a year since attempts were
made to stop steamboats, from running on
the Connecticut river on Sunday. In many
portions of the New England suites, at the
present time, Sunday commences at sun
down on Saturday night and terminates at
the setting of the sun on Sunday night.
During that time neither children nor
grown people are permitted to indulge in
any sort of recreation or amusement, or to
read secular literature of any kind.
Work that is not absolutely necessary,
is prohibited and cold dinner, cooked
on the previous day, is alone allowed.
| This strictness, however, is almost entirely
confined to the rural districts, and even
there Sabbatarianism is losing its hold. In
the town and cities the Sunday habits Of
the people are undergoing gradual, but a
marked change. The parks and beer gar