(iHN’L OFFICIAL DIRECTORY STATE. Governor.;.Silas Holcomb Lieutenant Governor.B.K. Moore Secretary of State... .. J. A. Piper State Treasurer.J. 8. Bartley State Auditor.Eugene Moore Attorney General.A. 8. Churchill Com. Lands-and Buildings.0. H. Russell Sunt. Public Instruction. H. U. Corbett REGENTS STATE UNIVERSITY. Ghas. 11. Gere. Lincoln; Leavitt Burnham, Omaha; J M. Hiatt, Alma; E. P. Holmes, Pierce; J.T. Mallaleu, Kearney; M. J. Hull, Edgar. • CONGRESSIONAL. Senators—W. V. Allen, of Madison; John M. Thurston, of Omaha. Representatives—First District, J. B Strode Second, D H. Mercer; Third. Geo. D. Mlkel john; Fourth — llalner; Fifth, W. E. And rews; Sixth; O. M. Kem. JUDICIARY. Chief Justice......A.M. Post Associates...T.O. Harrison andT. L.Norvall FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT. Judge.M. P. Klnkald, of O’Neill Reporter.J. J. King of O'Neill Judge.W. H. Westover, of Rushville Reporter.John Maher, of Rushville. LAND OFFICES. o'tntnx. Register.. ..........John A. Harmon. Receiver..... ... .Elmer Williams. COUNTY. Judge.Geo McCutcheon Clerk of the District Court.John Skirving Deputy....O. M. Collins Treasurer.......P. Mullen Deputy.Sam Howard Clerk ..Bill Bethea Deputy....Mike McCarthy Sheriff..Chas H amilton Deputy. Chas O’Neill Supt. of Schools.W. H. Jackson Assistant.Mrs. W. R. Jaokson Coroner....Dr. Trueblood Surveyor. Attorney...H. B. Murphy SUPERVISORS. FIRST DISTRICT. Cleveland, Sand Creek. Dustin, Saratoga, ock Falls and Pleasantview—J. O. Blondln. SECOND DISTRICT. Shields, Paddock, Scott, Steel Creek, Wll lowdale and Iowa—J. H. Hopkins. THIRD DISTRICT. Grattan and O’Neill—E. J. Mack. FOURTH DISTRICT. Ewing, yerdlgrls and Delolt—L. C. Combs, FIFTH DISTRICT. Chambers, Conley, Lake, ICcClure and Inman—E. Stillwell. SIXTH DISTRICT. Swan, Wyoming, Fairvtew, Francis. Green Valley, Sheridan and Emmet—C. W. Moss. SEVENTH DISTRICT. Atkinson and Stuart—Frank Moore. CUT OF O'NEILL. Supervisor, E. J. Hack; Justtoes, B. H. Benedict and 8. M. Wagers; Constables) Ed. McBride and Perkins Brooks. * COUNCILMBN—FIRST WARD, For two years.—D, H. Cronin. For one year—H. O. MoEvony. BBOOND WARD. For two years—Alexander Marlow. For one year—Jake Pfund. THIRD WARD. For two years—Charles Davis. For one year—Elmer Merrlman.n CITT OFFICERS. Mayor, O. F. Blglin; Clerk, N. Martin; Treasurer, John McHugh; City Engineer John Horrlsky; Police Judge, H. Kautzman; Chief of Police, Charlie Hall; Attorney, Thos. Curlon; Welghmaster, Joe Miller. | GRATTAN TOWNSHIP. Supervisor, R. J. Hayes; Trearurer. Barney r McOreevr: Clerk, J. Sullivan; Assessor Ben Johring: Justices, M. Castello and Chas. Wilcox; Constables, John Horrlsky and Ed. McBride; Road overseer diet. Ik), Allen Brown dist. No. 4, John Enright. SOLDIERS’ RELIEF C0MNI8SI0N. Regular meeting first Monday in Febru ary of each year, and at suoh other times as Is deemed necessary. Robt. Gallagher, Page, chairman; Wm. Bowen, O'Neill, secretary; H. H. Clark Atkinson. StPATRICK’S CATHOLIC CHURCH. Services every Sabbath at 10:30 o'clock. Very Rev. Cassidy, Postor. Sabbath school Immediately following services. Methodist church, Sunday services—Preaching 10:30 A. M. add 8:00 p. m. Class No. 1 9:80 A, M. Class No. 2 (Ep worth League) 7:00 p. m. Class No. 3 (Child rens) 3:00 p. M. Mind-week services—General prayer meeting Thursday 7:30 p. x. All will be made welcome, especially strangers. B. T. GEORGE. Pastor. A. K. POST, NO. 86. The Gen. John tjr. O’Neill Post, No. 86, Department of Ne braska G. A. R., will meet the first and third Saturday evening of each month in Masonic hall O'Neill S. J. Ssiie, Com. Elkhorn valley LODGE, I. o. o. P. Meets every Wednesday evening in Odd Fellows’ hall, visiting brothers cordially invited to attend. W. H. Mason, N. G. O. L. Bright, Sec. Garfield chapter, r. a. m Meets on first and third Thursday of each month in Masonic hall. W. J. Dobbs Sec. J. 0. Harnish, H, P KOFP.—HELMET LODGE. U. D. . Convention every Monday at 8 o'clock p. m. in Odd Fellows’ hall. Visiting brethern cordially invited. J. P. Gillioan, C. C. - E. J. Mack. K. of R. and S. O’NEILL ENCAMPMENT NO. 80. I. O. O. F. meets every second and fourth Fridays of each month in Odd Fellows’ Hall. Chas. Bright, H. P. H. M. Tttlby, Scribe Eden lodge no. h, daughters OF REBEKAH, meets every 1st and 3d Friday of each month in Odd Fellows' Hall. Flo Bentley, N. G. Kittib Bright, Sec. Garfield lodge, no.os.f.&a.m. Regular communications Thursday nights on or before the full of the moon. J. J. King, W. M. O. O. Snyder, Sec. Holt-camp no. mo, m. w. op a. Meets on the first and third Tuesday in each month in the Masonic hall, C. W. Haoenbick, V. O. D. H. Cronin, Clerk AO, U. W. NO. 153. Meets second • and fourth Tudsday of each month in Masonic hall. 0. Bright, Uec. S. B. Howard, M, W. IN DEPENDENT WORKMEN OP AMEttICA, meet every first and third Friday of each month. Guo. McCutchan, N. M. J. H. WELTON, Sec. 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How do you make that out?" “Why, I have followed the sea, man and hoy for nigh onto fifty years, and many a night in the sixties have I slung my hammock aboard the old Kear&arge”—and he shook his head dubiously. It was noticeable that as the old sailor got engrossed in his sub ject he called the ship alternately “Kersargo” and “Kearsarge,” with a predilection for the latter pronuncia tion. “Well,” said the reporter,” what has that got to do with the suicide?” “Got to do!” replied the old sailOr. “Why it’s just this: The old ship, after the way she fit in the war, and after all the service she done, saw they wa’n’t nothin' more fer her to do but dilly-dally roun; and she give it up as a bad job, choosin’ death on Roncador rather than life under the’ circum stances. She done it herself. I know the old ship, and I’m snre she done it.” The idea was at least an original one, and as the reporter went away ha was half convinced that the old sailor was right. As he departed lie heard the old man singing softly to himself: “ ’Twas on a Sunday mornln; In the year c.f sixty-four. The Alabama she steamed ont Alone the Frenchman's shore Lone time she cruised about, Long time she lay, But now beneath the ocean. She lies oil Cherbourg bay.” HIGHEST TREES. they Are of the Eucalyptus Idts ot Gums and Are Found In Australia. In the Victorian state forest, on the slopes of the mountains dividing Glpps Land from the rest of the Australian colony of Victoria, grow the highest trees in the world, the noble gum trees of the genus eucalyptus. These trees range from 350 feet to 500 feet in height. One of the huge trees that had fallen was found, by actual measure ment with a tape, to be 433 feet from the roots to where the trunk had been broken off by the fall, and at that point the tree was 3 feet in diameter. A cedar tree recently felled near Ocosta, Wash., measured 467 feet in height and 70 feet in circumference. Dr. James gives some interesting particulars of these gum trees. The eucalyptus globulus grow 40 feet in height in four years, in Florida, with a stem a foot In diameter. Trees of the same species in Guatemala grew 120 feet in twelve years, and had a stem diameter of 9 feet. Other species also attain enormous sizes—eucalyptus diversicolor is known to grow 400 feet high, and trees have been measured 300 feet long without a branch. Boards 12 feet wide can frequently be obtained. In 1860. a monster petrified tree was found in Baker county, Oregon. It was just 666 feet long, and at Its butt was quite 60 feet in diameter. Amber-like beads of petrified gum adhered to the sides of the trunk for a distance of 100 feet or more. Tom Wolfe wafi sentenced to a term of two years three months In the peni tentiary by a Connersville, Ind., court the other day for burglary. The con viction of Wolfe depended largely on whether a man of his build could have crawled through a seven-inch transom. 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Then, after due considera tion, we go forth in spirit and, finding an imaginary American woman of the sort which writes to the newspapers, we take her gently by the unsubstan tial hand of hers and address her—po litely, we hope, but above all firmly. "Dearest madam,” we say, “you are not bad-looking, and it must be confessed yon have gone to one of the best mod istes in Paris tor your clothes. But you are not a lady—-the word is out ot fashion, but the thing never is—and It is to be feared that nothing could make you one. You are absolutely self-satis fied and you show It every mlnnte of your life, or, as you would say, ‘all the time.' Yomre quite without charm of manner, yet you think that all men warship you. Your education has been of the sort, that our board schools give our coachmen’s children at our expense. Your own comfort is the one thing you think of—sod hero is a piece of comfort' tor you. So long as you cover yourself with diamonds in the morning; so long as your voice can be heard from on' end of the Rue do la Paix to the other, so long as your one topic of conversa tion is your frock and what you gave tor it; so long as you sit about in the public rooms of a hotel in a gown in which you might go to court; so lets as you are not afraid to state en plela table d’hoto that the room was not stuffy and the women smelt that strong you’d have been sick right there; so long as you do all or any of these things, be lieve me, yea need have no fear of being taken Cor the only kind of English wo man worth considering.” ROQH—OH-f INFLUENCE. •M *U Mi AWmi Martlmr m Xm fipu li lnwk M. Roohefort ta known In as a Boulangiat, aa the edits* tad *sofslo tor of the Intransigeant newspaper, m the wild political agitator who opposed the government of Loula Napoleon fa the '60s aa bitterly aa he attacked th» actual republic at tbe close of the ’80s, says the Saturday Review. English* men can scarcely understand M. Roche fort’s position as a newspaper editor and agitator, and his power is to them almost incredible. Yet the signs of his Influence are not impalpable. The In transigeant has a larger circulation than any French newspaper except the Petit Journal. The truth is that there are only three or four men in France who have made their pen a whip, and so become objects of fear and respect, and of these M. Rochefort is the chief, for neither M. Cassagnac nor M. Dru mont can be compared with him in wit or power of vituperation. His reputa tion in this sort of journalism dates back to his youth (he is now a gray haired man), but was first established by the success of La Lanterne, the paper he published in Brussels when h« was exiled from France by Napoleot HI. Chicago Girls and Matrimony. I have no doubt that the remaining cause of the low marriage rate is that many men dislike intellectual women— whether because such women are really disagreeable or because man’s taste is at fault, I shall not try to determine. And even among those who like them as friends many feel ss the young man did who made this confession: ‘*1 never expected to marry the sort of s girl I did. You know I always be lieved in Intellectual equality and all that, and had good friendships with the college girls. But you see, you girls hadn’t any illusions about us. After you had seen us hanging at the board on problems you could work, and had taken, the same degree yourselves, you eouldn’t imagine us wonders just be cause we had gone through college, and when I met a dear little girl that thought I knew everything—why, it Just keeled me right over; it was a feel ing I had no idea of.”—Century. Costly Kntortolament for • Prince. The Prince of Wales recently paid t visit to Lily, Duchess of Marlborough. 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