Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1880 — THE EVENT OF 1880. May Musical Festival at Cincinnati. [ARTICLE]

THE EVENT OF 1880.

May Musical Festival at Cincinnati.

This grand musical feast will be held in the great Music Hall, tit. Cincinnati. on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, May 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st, 1880. With Theodore Thomas as musical director, such soloists ;ts Miss Anna Louisa Cary, Miss Amy Sherwin, Miss Emma Crunch, Miss Annie B. Norton, Sig. lialo Campanini, Mi. Myron W. Whitnsy Mr. J. F. Rudolphsen and Mr. Fred. Harvey, Mr. Geo. E. Whiting as organist, an orchestra composed of 150 artists, a chorus of six hundred trained voices and the accompaniment of the great organ, the coming festival promises to excel in grandeur any previous effort.

It is confidently believed that no Musical Festival has ever taken place iu the world under such a combination of auspicious circumstances. In this connection the managers of the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railway (“Pan-Handle Route”), the direct and popular line to Cincinnati, take pleasure in announcing thatjthe sale of excursion tickets to Cincinnati for the great Festival will eointfience on Monday, May 17th, and continue un il Thursday, May 20th. Tickets will be good to return until Saturday, May 24th inclusive. Apply to Ticker Agonts for excursion tickets.

It is perhaps, needless to remind our readers that there are more frequent trains to and from Cincinnati via “Pan Handle Route” than by any other line.' It is the shortest, best constructed and most perfectly equip ped load leading to that city.