The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-07-13

not be cartcd of, The only means by which
their power for evil can be paralyzed will
be found in liberal use of copperas, lime
or coal tar. If we can once make our civ
"smell to the heavens" of coal tar, we NAV
safely invite to the city, every refugee who
has left Memphis. To the work, then, of
thorough disinfection-not where 1t will
show; but where it is needed.
We saw circular yesterday that was
sent out by Messrs. Austin and Flagg, l0S
Adams Street, Chicago. NTessrs. A. and
F, claim that they are dealers in curious
relics, home and foreign Coins, etc. For
old Spanish milled dollars Of any date, they
offer 81 .40 for half dollars Of the coinage
of 1851 $1.75; for half dollars Of the coin
age Of 1854 $3.50, and for half dollars Of
the coinage of 1856 Sl.30. For one dollar
| legal tender notes, issued under the act of
1862, they offer to pay $3.50. The circular
embodies endorsements OF the responsibility
Of the firm, by the Chicago Tribune and
Inter Ocean, and refers to several we'll
known bankers. The circular is undoubt-
edly part of the machinery some villain
has devised to rope in the unwary-the
endorsements being nothing more than
brazen forgeries. The circulars are for cir
culaton abroad, of course, as single copy
found in the city, would expose the whole
swindle. 1t is entirely safe to assume that
no such firm as that named can be found at
l0S Adams Street, or anywhere else IN the
city of Chicago.
No taxpaying season has ever passed
in Alexander county, without bringing to
the front from half dozen to a half hun.
dred taxpayers who avow themselves sig
nally outraged in the value put upon their
property by the Assessor, Not few Of
them leave the Collectors Office in high
dudgeon declaring a purpose to resist the
payment of the tax; and in this humor they
remain until assured score of times, that
they have no remedy, and must pay the cX-
cessive tax, or permit sale or forfeiture Of
their property. One man is taxed for a
horse that has been dead year; another
is taxed for a piano that he sold six months
before and so on, But little inquiry will
develop the fact that the complaining par
ties paid no attention to the Assessors re-
peated calls for returns over their own sig
natures, and that, waiting until the last;
moment, that officer was compelled to make
up the returns himself from the best in
formation at hand, which is, usually, the
former years assessment. Inquiry viii
further disclose that the complaining par
ties had paid no attention whatever TO the
County, Clerks notice, of kind with that
which appears to-day in another column,
and that, therefore, they permitted the
chance for a revision of their assessments to
90 by unimproved Thus it will appear
that, although the payment of taxes on an
excessive valuation may seem great hard
ship, yet the fact Is undeniable that the
Outraged" parties have nobody TO blame
but themselves. It may be put down
as automatic, that the man who doesn't
look after his own interests will be very
apt TO discover that his interests have been
neglected. And now for the special read
ing Of the taxpayers Of whom we are
speaking we now write it down that, to-
morrow morning the Board OF County
Commissioners will meet IN the court house,
in this city, as Board of Equalization
The Board will probably remain in session
several days, the chief purpose being 20
hear the objections of those property owners
who may feel themselves aggrievcd by the
assessmentof 1879. If any property own
err doesn't know the figures at which he is
assessed, it might pay him to find out. The
Assessors Book will be in the hands of the
Board and subject TO the inspection Of
everybody, Parties who neglect this OPP
portunityt to "spcak out" might as well
"hold their peace" in the future, for all the
rant and exhibitions of ill-naturc in which
they can indulge will certainly avail them
nothing.