The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-05-25

to l0c. None should fail to avail them
selves of this opportunity of seeing this col
lection Of specimens of fancy work produc-
ed by our home artists, and those who attend
will be surprised to find so much aud such
rare talent displayed
In the face of such illustrious exam
Piles as st. Louis presents, Cairo need not
feel in the least dlsheartened because, on
account of necessary extraordinary expen-
ditures, she has been compelled to antlcip-
ate her revenue little during the last year
or two, Only a few days ago St. LOUIS
made arrangements with the Fourth Ma
tional bank OF that city, for such temper.
airy loans as the city may require from time
time in anticipation of the revenue of 1888,
not 10 exceed 100000 in the aggregate.
Notes will be issued and dated as the
money is needed and payable on or before
January 10, 1881, as the city may elect, and
will bear interest at the rate of 40 per
cent. per aanum. The intest is payable
from date of note to date Of payment there
Of
The case of the Wabash railroad com.
pany against the people, in which the tax
leyee against the property of the road for
1882 is contested on the ground that said
property is properly and under the law
part of the company's right-of-way, was
to Fave been heard before County Judge
Robinson yesterday. But it assumed a
more serious phase, in that the city of Cairo
was represented by Counsellor Gilbert who
desired to be heard in the case on behalf of
the city. Thus the case has assumed tri-
angular form and three attorneys appear in
it. Counsellor Gilbert for the city, Mr.. S.
P. Wheeler for the railroad comp any, and
Mr.. George w. Hendricks (whom the court
has appointed to act as states attorney at
its present SESSION. for the county. 1t was
decided yesterday that the attorneys should
agree upon some day next week on which
to present their several sides of the case
to the court. Nothing of importance was
done by the court yesterday.
Some days ago we published synop-
sis of report made to the city council by
Comptroller Howley, in which it appeared
that the total income from all sources dur
ing the last fiscal year amounted to about
sec, 900 and that the amount needed for
the known general expenditures of the city
during the present fiscal year would reach
about $4,000. This statement created the
impression among some, that the city's
necessary expenditures would exceed the in
come by about $4,000, which is not the
case. The fact of the matter is, that the
comptroller's report embraced only the
amount received before the Both OF April,
and that since then between fifteen and
twenty thousand dollars was credited to the
city on account Of last years collections,
and more is still to come. All Of which,
when fully understood, will prove that the
city income is equal to its expenditures.
1t is apparent, and has been so through
all the Argus comments upon the Lnegar
bills, that Mr.. Potter and those who concur
with him in the matter, have attached con-
sidersbly more importance to sale bills
than they merit and have transformed them
into hidious scare-crows to Brighten the
people generally. If the passage of the
bills had had any paralyzng effect upon
this city, it has been aggravated, if not pro-
duced, by the comments Of awildly specu.
lative nature INDUCED in from time to time
by the Argus. The Argus has assumed
that the bills give the city council much
more power than it had before and that the
city council will forthwith use this power to
its fullest extent. And from these assumed
premises ii has reasoned extravsgantly, an
ticipating gigantic schemes of improve
ment or changes all over the city, which
"oulh Va 'hS P'NPS'J
holders. 1t has built up hidious straw
monsters, as it were, to terrify the people,
and then knocked them down again for its
own amusement and perhaps, the relief of
few lookers-on whom ii succeeded in
alarming by its wild flights of fancy. The
council always had the power to raise the
grade Of the city to level with the levees,
or any other level, and to order improvements
made accordingly by special assessment;
but citizens intending to build were not
heretofore detained from doing so in fear
or 10 hope that the council would do such
thing. Why there should be any fear on
this score now, and why such fear should
be the result of the passage of Mr.. Linegar's
bills which, If anything, would only make
the expense Of any improvements or chan
ges, such as spoken Of, easier to bear for the
. the property holders, is certainly problem
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