The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-05-11

| Ing that ihey or one W lutm viii uu Tue
workat the best figures offered aud con-
plcte the job within ten daysf
Mr.. Miles W. Parker, county treasurer,
and his assistant, Mr.. George E. Olmsted,
are still busily engaged in making the
assessment of real estate of the city for the
year 1882. Owing to the many improve
ments made in the city during the past
year, the aggregate will no doubt greatly
exceed that of 1881, but individuals will
suffer no material increase on their assess
ments of last year Mr.. Parker is paying
very particular attention to the equalization
of values his year. His wish being that
no one shall bear an unequal burden Of
taxation. Last year the total number of
lots in the city was 1916, OF which 174l
were improved, and 4G35 were vacant. The
tolal valuation was 81, 134,O27
"A strong wind was expected to pass
over the city Tuesday afternoon. The
barometer in the signal Office gave every
evidence of an approaching storm and Ser
geant Ray sent notice Of this fact to various
portions OF the city, Preparations were
made by many tc Guard as much as pos
siblc against damas' and then the wilma
was anxiously awaited. According to in
| dications it should have reached this city
about throe o'clock, but the boar passed,
the afternoon, evening and night and all
day yesterday passed without bringing the
much expected and dreaded aerial disturb
ance, 1t did not reach this city at all,
but it did reach other cities, both TAR and
near, where it did some terrible work. AT
McAllister, Indian Territory, eight people
were killed and fourty wounded, and at
various places nearer here, in Missouri,
more or less damage Was done,
An informal conference was held yes
terday between President Whitchouse and
Superintendent Hamilton, for the St. Louis
and Cairo railroad company, and Mr..
Wood Rittenhouse for the citizens com.
mittee OF five II was hastY conference
and there was no time TO call the commit
tee together, because the first named gen
tlemen had bu, little time to spare. The
result Of the consultation was that the
committees last proposition, vas not accept
81 Fro pew propositions were offered from
either SIDE, and thewhole matter left where
]! was three moBths ago, Tire committees
i..i proposition, it will be remembered.
was tie same previously made and ignored
by the officials named. 1t was originally
made ., the Instance Of Alderman Hall.
day, and offered 70 accept a proposition
which President Whitehouse had prom
isei to "yiew fayorably' and which pro
posed the building by the St. Louis and
Cairo and the Wabash companies, of an
embankment such as had been suggested
by the committee. Alderman Halliday
simply amended Mr.. Warehouses; propo-
sIton by substituting the city for the Wa
bash company. President Whitehouse
offers no explanation Of bis strangely in
CONSTANT action, but leaves the people Of
Cairo to judge for themselves what his
motives were in making an offer which evil
IDENTIFY he did not intend to stand by at
ell. Mr.. Ritteuhouse informed Messers.
Whitehouse aud Hamilton, that if they
did not accept the subcommittee propO-
sition, said committee would consider its
mission as mediator between the city
council and the st. Louis and Cairo
railroad company at an end. The com
pany is therefore now left to the tender
mcrcies Of the council and the latter remains
to be seen whether it will be sustained by
the courts above or whether it will be or
dcred to permit the railroad company TO
enter the city on the new right OF way
Internationally and forthwith. The com
mittee has done everything that any reason
able person could have expected. M has
sought earnestly to bring about an AMIGA
bic understanding between the council and
the company; it met the company more
than half way and its advances were not
always treated with due respect. While it
has succeeded in obtaining concessions
from all the othDr parties with whom it
negotiated, the St. Louis and Cairo com
pany has utterly refused to sbc reasonable.
The committee has done well; its failure
in this one instance is due to the noble
manner in which it refused to sacrifice the
city's interests, and to the stubborn stu
pdity of the company with which it had
to deal and which will, for second time,
discover too late that "key" without n
situation" is very useless thing.
"a Lover Of Justice" occupies nearly
column in last evenings paper with a bitter