The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-09-28

while 1t gave the SUBSTANCE OF IL ialrly;
was, we are convinced, liable to leave
fall Sc impression and therefore this ex-
PLANTATION.
The Trustees Of the Cairo City Prop
erty, when they gave to the Cairo & st.
Louis railroad company the right of way
over the Mississippi levee, bound that
company in an agreement to protect the
levcc from the encrOachments of the
river. The resident trustee, Col. Taylor,
several months ago notified the company
that certain work ought to be done under
this agreement. but the company did
nothing. Whether 1t intends to do any
thing we do not know. We have heard
that Mr.. Canda lad consulted a govern
ment official, and that the official who
has charge of river improvements above
Cairo on the Mississippi had promised to
visit this city and ascertain what work
ought to be done here. But the official
has not yet arrived, or. IL he has, some.
body has kept him carefully concealed /;
and, IL Mr.. Canda Is doing anything, in
formation OF the fact has not reached us.
Probably Mr.. Canda and the government
official believe that 1t Is impertinent In the
people Of Cairo to desire to know their
intentions but they should remember
that the people of Cairo have much inter-
est In their proposed action, and they
should. at least, give Us hint of their
intentions.
We attended the Sunday night lee
turc OF Wilson, the Spiritualist, who is
now talking and selling books and pa
pers to our people. We were very much
pleased with him. lie is the only Spirit
ual medium that has visited Cairo during
our residence in the city, who was not, IN
our opinion. both bore and a humbug.
All the rest have either talked the --LATEST
commonplace in the worst possible Ian.
guage. or else have INDUCED in tricks the
most transparent and called them spirit
ual manifestations. Wilson Is, "a all per-
sons must be who talk much on the
threadbare subject of religion, sometimes
weak In hisarguments, but he Is generally
an incisive and logical speaker, and is
not often embarrassing. lie is man Of
intellect. up in his business, and, as he
said on Sunday night. having the most
absolute confidence in himself. he would
not hesitate to tell the devil that Wilson
knows all about him and his ancestors.
After the lecture Mr.. Wilson undertook
to do, without touching the head of the
subject, all that phrenologist could do:
without touching the body, as definitely
describe its ailments as the most skillful
physician after careful examination could
do; and without either seeing, hearing
or knowing the person, tell events in his
lite, giving dates and details. What is
more, Wilson did what he undertook to
do in this regard. lie is as glib and accu-
rate phrenologist as Fowler; but,
then. DIR. Parker says phrenOlogy is a
humbug. He did diagnosis disease cor
rectly; and he did tell Of events that had
happened in the lives of several per-
sons In the room. or course
he is nothing but a good
gucsscr. who has studied human
nature thoroughly, and is helped out by
the possession Of that mysterious some
thing called clairvoyance. lie deals
greatly in gcneralities, intinatcs more
than he says and often blunders but,
upon the whole, he is remarkable in his
demonstrations of the possession Of a
wonderful power he calls spiritual me-
diumship, but which is-somelhing else.
lie is worth hearing; and nobody will
lose anything by seeing him, for he is a
fine looking old gentleman-one of
the oldcn school infected by modern
ismism.
Mr.. NJ. b. Harrell, IN his Gazette is
sued yesterday, makes the following true
remarks "Unimproyed town lots in the
city OF Cairo gre valued for purposes of
taxation. a. = higher figure than like
town lot, are valued in Chicago; twenty
five per cent. higher than they are in
Quincy or Peoria; sixty per cent. higher
than in Springfield and Bloomington, and
more than one hundred per cent. higher
than they are in any city of like popula-
ton in Illinois. These facts were brought
to the comprehension of our State Board
Of Equalization through the efforts OF our
eX-Mayor Wilson, and material reduc-
tons were made, in one instance as high
as fifty per cent. But rs fast as the Board
put the valuation down our county asses
sors put it up again, until finally our
august equalizers concluded that we
ought TO know what our own property is
worth, and then let our figures stand al
most unchanged. Meanwhile central and
northern Illinois profited by the intima-
tons thrown out by the Board, and put
their realty down, until they can, when
compared with Alexander county pro-
perry holders. scarcely be considered tax
payers at all"
The interest among the horsemen in
this section. in the coming races at
Charleston. Missouri, is unusually notice.
able. Some of the fastest and most noted
trotting, pacing aud running horses to be
found in Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky
and Tennessee, numbering between sew.
cnty and seventy.fvc head, had arrived
in the town on Sunday night, and more