The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-07-13
THEME OF INTEREST.

The Gar Alexander H., Il Ia said left
$25,000.0o0 on deposit ut London
banks.
A guarantee fund of $4,000 has
been subscribed for the Theodore
Thomas festival, to be held in New
York next year, and it has been agreed
TO raise $50, 900 more.
A wealthy citizen Of New York, in
celebrating the fftieth anniversary OF
his wedding, toasted his wife as "the
healthy old lady, who combines beauty
and durability"
DR.. McCosh, Of Princeton, will use
the revision Of the Bible in the college
chapel, but President Porter, of Yale,
.7ill tread from the old Bible for the
sake Of the association.
New York city is TO have grand mu-
steal festival next year, under the SUI
perintendence of Theodore Thomas
About $685. has already been raised
as a guarantee fund.
A letter dropped into Rhode Island
postoffice the other day was plainly adj
dressed to "VOlontonne Tennetigul-
cite" 1t was decided that it was in
tended for some town in Connecticut,
and the question is, what is the town.
PATHS rumored American engage
ment is "ofl" The American agent
who was endeavoring recently to ne
gotiate for tour of America by Patti,
says Nicolini was the stumbling block.
He demanded 1000, 900 francs for Patti
and himself 1t is believed Nicolni
will bring Patti to America Oh his own
account
Mr.. Sullivan, of "Pinafore" notorie-
ty. is coming to the United States in
October to bring out his principal ora
torios-the "Martyrs of Antioch "On
Shore and Sea-" ana the Light Of the
World" He intends to write during
the summer new comic opera, which
will be presented in America during
his visit and copyrighted.
NJ. Gambetta, the great liberal
statesman of France, is a firm believer
in the eligibility Of woman as teacher.
He declared himself convinced that in
the educational work Of the future the
women of France will honorably bear
their share as soon as the legislation of
the country enables them TO assert
their competency and authority.
A dispatch from Paris states that the
picture representing Christ Before Pr
late" the latest work of Munkacsy, the
Hungarian artist, is expected by French
critics to take rank as the Creates.
painting OF the decade. Crowds daily
stand in awe before it, and 200 000
francs has been offered for it when
completed.
The Kentucky Regulators are fire.
quently shown To be cowardly. They
are quick to lynch defenceless men and
women, but will always run when they
see armed resistance. A recent illustra-
ton was the mobbing of Billy Niskell,
who had incurred their displeasure by
giving information to the revenue au-
thorities about illicit distilers. Forty
men rode TO Billy's cabin in the night
to hang him. They surrounded the
hut, so that he might not escape, and
set up yell TO call him out. He did
not emerge covering and supplicating,
but with rifle across his shoulder aud
his head up. Tie Regulators fed pre-
| cipitately, few Of the more valiant
stopping for an instant TO kill bhly's
dog.
A little Cincinnati boy has been
| slowly wasting away with some unex-
| planned disease for several months.
| The German women Of The neighbor-
hood concluded that lie was victim of
witchcraft, and sent committee to in
form the parents, who did not accept
the explanation, but permitted an ex-
animation OF the bed There is Ger
man superstition that witches cause
feathers in 4 bed 10 weave themselves
into wreath, and that whoever sleeps
on it will become i'll, dying when the
ends of tie wreath come together.
Sure enough, the women found in the
boys bed what they declared was a
witches wreath. 1t was sprinkled
with salt and burned in accordance
with a traditional npthoj