OFFICIAL DIRECTORY ■ ■Utl’. , . ivtiUW 1,1 date... ST AT IS. _. ....John M. Thaver .T. J. Major!* " .J. C. Allen ' .J. E. Hill George H. Hastings ,,,,.. ... .„ .Thomas 11. Hon ton si lie •V,'t u‘ lnd Bulling*..Soorgo Humphrey 0<:»- Instruction.A. K. Goudy UNIVERSITY. Leavitt Burnham, MoCook; George Morrill, Strouis ll<1 p'nlls'iin'iBullli '■"I"' VA,bile instruction. EGKNWSTATB l ii cJore, Lincoln: Uvron B Dftvii . Brighton; C'has. H Uni !>urir. CONGRESSIONAL. , riots. F. Mandersou, of Omaha; ‘'lir'',Vu Paddock, of Beatrice. \ 1 i_reri"1 u ■ - *.Myes—wm. Bryan, Lincoln; O, Broken Bow; Wm. Mclvel-h-,n. tied ( 111,(1 • COUNTY. nork ,,f the District Court.... Johit JuciitliiG ..E. M. Lowe ,iinl.ixe • • • .. .Barrett Scott Tirusurtt. .John S.Weeke9 .. G. C. llazelot clock .. ;.C.E. Butler I'l l11!/. .H. C. McEvony Si" "1;. .E. J. Mack setiiVols ..H. W. Dudley .t . ..Mrs. H. W. Dudley .distant. Dr. 0. E. Fort 1 .'..W. W. Page AtuirneyV.V.V.V.V.V.'.... E. W. Adams SUPERVISORS._. SAME < K M—Chm IIIt lum. W W Crow, Johr. ('niiger^L rU'velund B F r raw ford John rnmin Dan Duncan John Gray Robert liilson S Urritf James limlirkin II linniheek M V Howard 8 H !innterJ M lluiirh W B Haves W T .iilison L A Kelley l* Kline E l.. at Herman J Mullen J l* MeElhiineyW V Miller Howard Moss C W NulkiiinperWm IVrkius K E ParkerS Smith J R Smith C iVl Wine 11 0 TOWNSHIP Green Valley Fairview Deloit Cleveland Tnman Ewing Sand Creek Shields Chambers Verdigris Francis Rock Falla Haddock Dustin Grattan Willowdale Emmet Sheridan Stuart Scott Lake Turtle Creek Pleasnntview Steel Creek Atkinson Wyoming Saratoga McClure O’Neill Iowa Conley Swan Atkinson Inez Ewing Stuart Inman Ewing Atkinson O’Neill Chambers Page Atkinson Turner Leonia Badger O’Neill Minneola Atkinson Atkinson Stuart Scottville Bliss Grand Rapids Emmet Star Atkinson Amelia Turner Little O’Neill Lambert Harold Swan GRATTAN TO WN8HIP. Supervisor. S. B. Howard; Treasurer, J. 0. Haves; Clerk, N. Martin; Assessor, S. F. MeNiehols; Justices, M. Slatterly and Chas. imrersoll; Constables, Perkins Brooks and Will Stmnskie; Road overseer, dist. 26, Theo il, re Otto; dist. No. 4, P. Barrett, sr. CITY OF CTNEILL. Supervisor, Sanford Parker; Justices, J. J. Kingunn J. P. O’Donnell; Constables, John Luppan and W. F. Keeley. COUNCIIiMBN—FIRST WARD. Tor two years.—Ben DeYarman. For one year—David Stannard. SECOND WARD. For two years—Fred Gatz. For one year— II. Mullen. THIRD WARD. For two years—Barrett Scott. For one year -C. C. Millard. CITY OFFICERS. Mayor, 0. F. Biglin; Clerk,Thos. Campbell; Treasurer, David Adams; City Engineer, Sumner Adams; Police Judge, N. Martin; chief of Police, John Lappan; Attorney, Thos. Carlon; Weighmastor, Ed. M.Bride; Street Commissioner. O. E. Davidson. JUDICIARY. Chief Justice.Amasa Cobb Associates.. .Samuel Maxwell and T. L. Norval FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT. Judge.M. P. Klnkaid. of O’Neill kcr-orter.A. L. Warrick, of Ainsworth Judge.A. W. Criteg, of Chadron Reporter.H. L. Laird, of Chadron LAND OFFICES. O’NEILL. Register.B. S. Gillespie Receiver..A. L. Towle. KELIQH. Register.. .0. W. Robinson Receiver ’.W. B. Lambert SOLDIERS' RELIEF CGMNISSION. Regular meeting first Monday in Febru ary of each yem> and at such other times as is deemed necessary. Robt. Gallagher, Page, tluiirumn; Win. Bowen, Atkinson, secretary; A. K. Haskins, Cleveland. )tiT. PATRICK’S CATHOLIC CHURCH. ►-/ Services every Sabbath at 10 :B0 o'clock. y*ry Rev. Cassidy, Postor. Sabbath school immediately following services. \ 5 KTHODI9T CHURCH. Preaching idLevery Sunday at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. Sunday school at 12 m. Class Meeting ap 10:80 -i- ni. Tuesday—Young people’s meeting, 8 p. in. Wednesday—Children’s meeting, 4 p m. Prayer meeting, 8 p. m. Thursday—La ii:es aid society, 2 p. in. E. E. Wilson. Pas. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Services a every Sunday morning at 11 o’clock, suuday school at 10 a. in. Rev. N. S. Lowrik, Pastor. (i A-H-POST, NO. 86. The Gon. John , * 0 Neill Post, No. 86, Department of Ne braska G. A. R., will meet the first and third evening of each month in Masonic hull O'Neill. S. J. Smiih, Com. UUUIOKX VALIEY’LODGE.I. o. o i n ,,Meet8 every Wednesday evening ii i i1fellows’ hall. Visiting brothers cordiall; 111'7ted to attend. U'i, tA1 LTZ» St,c- A. H. Gorbett, N. G. t. II. Bentley. R. S. D. L. Dark. P. 8 E. II. Thompson, Treas. (JARFIELD CHAPTER, R. A. M „ ,°tn first and third Thursday of eac »» Masonic hall. JR Dobhs, See. J. C. Harnish, H, P K 9? ^HELMET LODGE. U. I ni in nK??11 every Monday at 8 oJclock i ™d!ul!y1nvite0d?W8' V,8ltlnS breth6r r v .. _ E. M. Ghady, C. C. fc-E. Evans, K. of li. and 8. ALLIANCE NO. 481 loiirtii a . Alliance moots every second an invherf S'1,tV,rafty « a p. m. Visiting membei memWo 1 K°od farmers urged to beoom Cha,^0«,«m*, 8eoJN°- Fallox’Pre8t’ 0 0’*oKALJJ ENCAMPMENT NO. 30. Krid,lY,• m®ets every second and four (i W* cach month in Odd Fellows’ Hr “-mai.evkland, S. S. Wolf, C. P lipVtFV Fr?°* 41’ UA.UC1HTE1 I'ridttvnf„ 1, KAH, meets every 1st and J 01 Cllch nionth in Odd Fellows’ Hall Ei.r , ,, Alice Adams, N. G ‘-‘•i.A iiAim. Secretary. Ulietnu^n !> JA>1»GJ£, NO.W5,P.,Vff^ MVAHD ^ec- U. Fellers, Pi REPUBLICAN ch 'Iruirsi,,. hre located over Morris & Ci uptfi.4,°“ Douglas street. The rooms i ’o visit '! tones. Republicans are invii >,hLii..ort'A vtp°;ns at any and all tiro "nki'tlui’"! ,elu the city are invited llusi.,,,"0 t'tub rooms their headquarU third s.^„"1.wth,sr of the club the first f •luirduy evening of cach month. '-,^:H>(;gs,Su4LJOW-E' Pre8lde POSTOFFICE DIRCETORY Arrival of Mails Everv rtj5,'. ® M- y. n. a.—fhom the east. Sunday Included ot.5:10 Svrrvs,,,. o the west. > <•>»>, Sunday Included at.9:3t Arriv,,, *‘a,iific shout line. hepar a day except Sunday at 9:00 8 •• “ 6:0( hsparla v,„°,NK'LL and CHELSEA. irruilSrjl'■ Wed- ani1 Fri. at... .7:00 C8 niesday, Thurs. and Sat. at.. ,4:0C Arrive. \ AND cdmminbville. Haru ''eh- Fridays at. ..11:00 Mon., Wed. and Friday at.1:« haunted. In that last hour -.vber.! w > stood, Day was gliding iiv.o night; With that tender, dying ;l.i;\ * From my soul wont all its light. Boses shivered in the breath Of the zephyr as it passed Borrow shrieked into my saui, “Parting time has oonio at last!’* You are with mo still, niv sweet, I am haunted, and will l,o, Till these tired eyos are closed « In death’s calm eternity. BURIED ALIVE. The guests filed slowly into the great dining hall of the hotol and sat down at their places. Tho waiters began their serving quito leisurely, in order to give tho belated ones time to arrive and to Bave themselves tho trouble of bringing back tho dishes; the old bathers, with whom tho season was far advanced, kept an alert watch upon the door each timo it was opened, hoping for the appearance of fresh face3. mere came only two, but very strange ones, those of a man and a woman—father and daughter. The gentleman was very tall and spare, slightly bent, with hair quite white, too white for his still young counte nance; there was in his earriago and about his person the serious air of austerity that bespeaks the Puritan. The daughter was, perhaps, about 24 or 25 years of age. She was small and emaciated, and her exceedingly fale face wore a languid, spiritless ex pression. We sometimes encounter people who appear too weak for the cares and demands of life, too feeble to move, to do the things we must do every day. ( This girl was pretty, with the transparent beauty of an appari tion; she ate with extreme slowness, as if she were almost incapable of moving her arms. It was she undoubtedly who came for the benefit of the waters. They happened to bo opposite me on the other side of the table, and I im mediately noticed that the father had a very singular nervous affliction. Whenever ho was about to reach for anything, his hand, with a quick jerk, described a sort of fluttering zigzag, before he was able to touch what he was after. In a few moments this motion annoyed me so much that I turned away my head in order not to see him. I also observed that the young girl kept a glove on her loft hand while she ate. After dinner I went out to take a turn in the park belonging to the water-curo establishment. It extend ed to the little station hidden in a gorge at the foot of a high mountain, from which runs so many bubbling springs, hot from the deep furnace of old volcanoes. Over there, beyond us, the domes, extinct craters, raised their mutilated heads above the long chain. Chatel-Guyon begins the land of “Domes.” Beyond the “domes” are two other distinct regions, the one of needle-Mke peaks and the other of abrupt precip itous mountains. It was very warm that evening. I was walking back and forth in the shady path, listening to the music pouring forth from the casino on a mound that overlooked the park. I perceived the father and daughter coming toward me with slow steps. I saluted them, as in watering places one salutes his hotel companions. The gentleman, stopping immediately, in quired of me: “Pardon me, sir; may I ask if you can direct us to a short, walk, easy and pretty, if possible?” I offered to conduct them myself, to the valley through which the slender river flows—a deep, narrow gorge be tween two great declivities, rocky and wooded. They accepted. And, naturally enough, we spoke of the virtues of the mineral waters. “Ah, yes,” said he, 'my daughter has a strange malady, the seat of which her physicians are unable to de termine. She suffers from incompre hensible nervous symptoms. Some times they think her afflicted with heart disease, sometimes with liver complaint, and sometimes with spinal difficulty. At present they attribute to the stomach, which is the great motor and prime regulator of the body, this Proteus-like malady of a thousand forms, a thousand modes of attack. That is why we are here. I am my self rather of the opinion that it is her nerves. In any case it is very sad.” That reminded me immediately of the violent jerking of the hand, and I asked: “But is not that hereditary? Are not your own nerves a little affected?” Tranquilly he answered: “Mine? Oh, no; I have always pos sessed very calm nerves.” Then suddenly, after a pause, he re marked: “Ah, yes! You refer to the action of my hand Whenever I reach for an object? That is the result of a terrible shock I once had. Imagine, sir, this child has been buried alive!” I could And nothing to say, except “Ah!” with emotion and surprise. He went on: Here is the story. It is simple. Juliette had for some time seemed subject to disordered action of the heart We were sure she suffered from some disease of this organ and expected the worst. One day she was brought in lifeless —dead. She had fallen dead whilo walking in the garden. The phy sician issued a certificate of death. I watched beside her for a day and two nights. I myself placed her in tho coffin, which I followed to the ceme tery, where she was laid in the family vault. It waif in tho country, in Lorraine. I had wished that sho should be buried with her jewels, bracelets, necklaces, ring#, all the presents that j i I had given her, and her lirst boll dress. You ci»h imagine the' state of my heart on returning home. She was ail I had, my wife having been dead for many years. Stunned and half mad, I shut myself alone in my room and fell into an armed-chair, almost senseloss, unable to move. I was merely a wretched, breathing wreck. My old valet, Prosper, who had helped mo place Juliette in her coffin and lay her away for her last rest, en tered noiselessly and asked: * ‘Monsieur, will you not oat some thing?" I shook my head, without speaking. He persisted: "Monsieur is wrong. This will make him ill. Would monsieur like me to put him to bed?” I answered: ‘ "No; let mo alone.” And he withdrew. How many hours may have passed I know not Oh! what a night! What a night! It was cold, my firo had burned out in the great fireplace, and the wind, a wintry gale, charged with ioy frost, was howling without and rapping at my window with a peculiarly sinister sound. Long hours rolled away. I sat there, wide-awake, prostrated and over whelmed, my eyes were open, but my body was nerveless, dead, and my soul was ingulfed in despair. Suddenly the great hall bell rang out. I gave such a start that my chair creaked under me. The slow, solemn sound vibrated in the empty house. I looked to see the hour by the clock. It was 2 in the morning. Who could be coming at such an hour? And, abruptly, the bell rang twice again. The servants, certainly, would not dare answer it. I took a candle and descended. I was about to de mand ■ “Who is there?” Then, ashamed of this weakness, I slowly drew back the heavy bolts. My heart throbbed; I was afraid. I open ed the door brusquely, and descried in the gloom a shape like a ph antom, dressed in white. I recoiled, impotent with anguish, and stammered: ‘Who—who—who are youP’ A voice answered: ‘It is I, father. ’ It was my daughter. Really I thought myself mad and I shrank away, retreating backward be fore the specter as it entered, gesticu lating with my hand, as if to ward oil the apparition. The gesture has never left me. The phantom spoke again: ‘Have no fear, papa; I was not dead. Some one has stolen my rings and has cut off my finger; the blood began to flow and that has revived me.’ And I observed, then, that she was covered with blood. I fell to my knees, gasping, sobbing hysterically. As soon as I had partly recovered my senses, so dazed still that I hardly comprehended the terrible happiness that had come to me, I made her go up to my room and placed her in my armchair; then I rang sharply for Prosper, that he might rekindle the Are, prepare a warm drink for her and summon a physician. The man entered, gazed at my daughter, opened his mouth with a spasm of fright and horror, then fell back, stark dead. It was ho who had opened the vault, Who had mutilated and then abandoned my child, for he could not efface the traces of his robbery; he had not even taken the pains to place the coffin back in its case, certain, moreover, of not being suspected by me, who trusted him fully. “You see, monsieur, that we are very unfortunate people. ” He was silent. ® Night had come on. shrouding with its gloom the sad and solitary little vale and a kind of mysterious dread seized me at finding myself alone with these uncanny beings—this corpse come to life and this father with his appalling gestures. I could find nothing to say, but stam mered: “What a horrible thing!'’ Then, after awhile, I added: “Let us return! The night hag grown chill.” And we walked back toward the hotel. P. I). A J. F. MULLEN, PROPRIETORS OP THE RED - FRON rn GOOD TEAMS, NEW RIGS Prices Reasonable. East of McCilfferto’s. O’NEILL, NEB. A SALOON Where the best WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS Can Always be Had Is located opposite Tint Itkm O’NEILL, PAT GIBBONS, Prop. Deyarman Brothers, l’KOHKIETORB OF TUB Cfiecker Livery, Feed&Sale Stable O’NEILL NEB Finest turnouts In theolty. Good, oare ful drivers when wanted. Also run the O’Neill Omnibus Line Commercial Trade a Specialty Have ohnrireo ot IMoCafTnrty's Hearse. All orders will roaolve careful and prompt attend R.R DICKSOi'J&CO.. 8UOOE88QR8 TO T. V. GOLDEN A CO., Title Abstracters/Conveyancers, TAXES PAID FOR NON-RESIDENTS. FARM LANDS • -i • /AND TOWN LOTS FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE. Farm Loans Necotlatcd on tho Most Reasonable Terms. musmmm mammmamsm wrnmm inii!!!gwiiiiiiiiiHi:;liin:KKiii!iiiii!aniiiiiiiifiHiiiiiii!W;ii!iiiMi{iiinii) A. H. CORBETT WILL ATTEND TO YOUH DENTISTRY IN FIUST-ClASS SHAPE. ® PHOTOGRAPHY® OP ALL KINDS Fromptlr and Satisfactorily Executed. Office end (fainry on Fourth stroet east orHolt County Dank. ... FRED C. GATZ HBSMMn OliaMHM * - 'DEALER IN— Fresh, Dried and Salt Meats, ~7T;T Sugar-cured Ham, 'Breakfast Bacon, Sides, Spice roll bacon, al i kinds of sausages, O'NEILL, NEB, Hotel Evans. FORMERLY EUROPEAN. Enlarg ed, Refurnish eel -AND REFITTED, Only First Class Hotel in City, W. T. EVANS, Prop. EMIL SNIGGS, Gensta! Blacksmith, , ,f)’NEILL, NEB* Wagon and Carriage Repair ing Done to Perfection. Plow Work and Horse Shoe* ing a Specialty. Hand Made Siioes Made to any Order We stop Interfering and suceesssully treat quarter Cracks and Contracting Feet, and cure Corns, where our directions are^strictly followed. Carry a Line of Carriage, Wagon and* lo stock. Work done on short, notice. XI-P32 DEAFNESS, IIS CSUSES BED GORE Scientifically treated by an surlst of world wide reputation. Deafness eradicated and en tirely cured, of from ‘20 to :sc years’ standing, 1 after all other treatments have failed. How , the difllculty Is reached and cause removed, fully explained In circulars, with allidavits and testimonials of cures from prominent people mailed free. DK. A. FONTAINE, 1 Tacoma, Wash. First National Bank. Authorised Capital, $100,000. TOAD. J BERMINQHAM, Prki. ED F. GALLAGHER. CAShiEK. J. P. MANN, Vick Piubs. FRED II. SWINGLEY, Asbt. Oashikb. Mone^ Loaned on Personal Security omtlie Most Favorable Terms. Issue* Time Certificates Bearing Interest. Buy and Sell Foreign «fe Domestic Exchange, j DIRECTORS: P. J. McManus M. Cayanauou. T. F. Bbrminoiiam. J. P. ManmI E. W. Montcomkiiy. Ed. F. Gallaohrii. Tuad. J. Brrminoiiau. :*!« O’NEILL • NEBRASKA. Paid-Up Capital. $60,000. Surplus, $2o,ooo. ; 4 Holt county bank, o’neill, Nebraska. DAVID ADAMS, President. D. L. DARR, Cashier. ♦ Wm, Adams, Asst. Cashier. A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS TRANSACTED. Agents for the Cunard, North German Lloyd. American and Rod Star lines of American Steamships. Buy and Bell drafts drawn on principal cltlesof Europe and America. Accounts of Arms and Individuals solicited. Collections Made and Remited on the Day ot Payment. JOHN J. McCAFFERTY. -=DEALER IN—— HARDWARE Tinware, Farm Implements, Furniture, Woodenware, Wagons, Corn-Shellers, Coffins and Undertaking Supplies,, O'NEILL, HOLT CO., NEB. MOSES CAMPBELL’S Sewing Machines and Organs. .M I keep constantly on hand the WHITE sewing machines, walnut, oak or mahogany. The new Rotary Shuttle is the lightest running, most noiseless and fastest sewer of any ma chine ever made. I have the ESFEY Organ always in stock. All mucicians know this to be one of the best Organs made by any manufacturers. If you want a Sewing Machine Or an Organ don’t let some traveling sharper take you in. He will * be sure to charge you two prices for inferior goods. No mat ter what guarantees he will give you they are not as good you can get from a permanent dealer in your own locality. I d-,.l will take orders for Pianos and give the very lowest prices and most liberal terms. 22-3mo MOSES CAMPBELL, OM Id P IONEER HARDWARE DEALER - ■(* % s A , •s.v I •! T ' K' I carry the largest stock of Hardware, Tinware, V-.-v' Copper &. Graniteware, In North ebraska, and make a specialty of Superior Barbed 'Wire. ■; \ ~v • . S't mm " I 1 | IN IMPLEMENTS I CARRY THE BEST MADE BRADLEY & CO. AND PERU CITY- PLOWS. Harrows, Challenge Planters, Flying Dutchman, • s SU LKY*PLOWS.*PERU * CITY*CULTI VATORS BLISTERS AND DRILLS.* Call and see me before you make your purchases aa 1' can ;s save you some money. NEIL BRENNAN, O’Neill Neb, il