GEN’L OFFICIAL DIRECTORY jr STATE. Governor.Silas Holcomb Lieutenant Governor..V' ,!ur.„ Secretary of State...; ..- W ui. 1*. t ”i toi State Treasurer.!.John U Meservr Attorney General.... .,•••••*• il-Smythc Com. Lunds and Buildings. sunt. Public Instruction. WvH. Jackson REGENTS STATE UNIVERSITY. Chas. 11. Gere. Lincoln; Leavitt Burnbaiii. Omaha; J M. Hiatt, Alina; E. I\ Uolmes. Pierce; .1. T. Mallaiou. Kearney; M. .1. Hull, Edgar. Representatives First Ulsirb t. J. b Slrod1. Second. It. l>. Mereer, lbird. S. Maxwell, Fen rib. \V, L. Stark, Filth, it. *>• Sutherland. Sixth, W. L. Green. CONOKESSWA'A /.. Senators— A'. V. Allen, of Madison; Joiiu M. Thurston, of Omaha. JUDICIAL )’. .o: Harrison and T^. No^mi FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTKICT. Inrtire .M. P- Kinkaid, of O Neill Henorter.. . . ..7 J- J- King of O’Neill Judge "" .W. H. Westover.tjf Bushville Reporter .. .. .__ 'bn Malier. of Kushvillo. LAND OFFICES. O’XlItL Register.. Receiver... .John A. Harmon. ...Elmer Williams. COUNTY. .;.Geo McCutoheon c“er* oi the District Court • • J°h». Sklrvlng Deputy.. xfvii|eil Detmty181.1.""".".’.’.VV.Sam Howard 3 • ■ ■■. . .Chas O’Neill $ DeputyVw, H. Jackson Assistant .•• Mrh. W. B. Jackson nnniner .......Dr. Trueblood (jOron6r..tt<< «. Tjt TMnpt.on Supt. Anrvavnr .M. F. Norton ourvcyur.t... w ■> Hntier Attorney. ...w K* Kuuer SUPERVISORS. T1KS? DISTRICT. Cleveland, Sand Creek, Dustin, Saratoga, Bock Falls and Pleasantvlew:J. A. Bobertson SECOND DI8TBICT. Shields, Paddock, Scott, Steel Creek, W il owdale and Iowa—J. H, Hopkins. THIRD DISTRICT Grattan and O’Neill—Mosses Campbell. FOURTH DISTRICT. Ewing, Verdigris andDeloit—L. 0. Combs FIFTH DISTRICT, Chambers, Conlev, Lake, UoClure and I nman—S. L. Conger. . SIXTH DISTRICT. ' Swan. Wyoming, Fairvlew, Francis. Green Valley, Sheridan and Emrnet—U. W. Moss. SEVENTH DISTRICT. . Atkinson and Stuart—W. N. Coats. GUT OF or NEILL. Supervisor, E. J. Mack; Justices, E. H. Benedict and 8. M. Wagers; Constables, Ed. McBride and Perkins Brooks. CODNCIDMEN-IIRST WARD. For two years.—D. H. Cronin. For one year—C. W. Hagenslok. SECOND WARD. ' For two years—Alexander Marlow. For one year—W. T. Evans. THIRD WARD. . For two yearn—Charles Davis. For one year—E. J. Mack. CITY OINflOERS. Mayor, H. E. Murphy; Clerk, N. Martin, Treasurer,' John McHugh; City Engineer John Uorrisky; Police Juuge, H. Kautzman, .tulef of Police, P. J. Bigliu; Attorney, iXbos. Carlon; Weighmaster, D, Stanuard. Gil ATT AN TOWN SlllP: Supervisor, it. Jl Hayes; Treasurer. Barney McGreevy; Clerk, J. sulllvan; Assessor Be* Juhring: Justices, M. Costello and Chos. Wilcox; Constables, John H or risky and hd. McBride; Hoad overseer dist. sW* AJlen Brown uist. No- 4 John Upright, SOLDI EllS’ RELIEF COMNISSION: Uegular meeting first Monday in Febru ary^Ot each year, And at Such other times as fs Seenftd Jcesskry.- BobcBaUagher fagf,. efiairmnn; W lii . Bowen, U Neill, secretary, H , Hi Clark Atkinson. • ajT.PATRlfcK- 8 CATHOLIO®HlIKCH. B Services every- Sabbath at 10:BU o clook. Very Kev. Cassidy,'Postor.',,Sabbath school iintueiilatcly following services. w LKTHODI8T CHUltCU. Sunday services—Preaching 10:30 A. M. and HiUO e.M. Class Np. 1 0:30 A. M. Class No. 2 (Ep worth League) 7:0t) P, M. Class No. d I CblM rens) 3:00 p. m. Mind-week services—Gen*r*l prayer meeting Thursday 7:30 i\ m. All will ne made welcome, i 1 A. U. POST, NO. 86. The Gen. John VX. O’Neill Post, No. 86, department Dl Ne braska G. A. B., will meet the first and third Saturday eveuing of each month in Masonic hall O’Neill S- J• Smi 1H< Com* LUKHOBN VALLEY LODGE, I. O. O. EaF, Meets every Wednesday evening in Odd Fellows’ hall, visiting brothers cordially invited to attend. . ^ W. H. Mason. N. G. 0. L. Bright, 6>ec. C1ABF1KLB CIIAPTEB, R. A. M WMeets on first and third Thursday of each month In Masonic hall. W. J.Dobrs Sec. J. C. HARNiSH, li. P K OF P.—HELMET LODGE. V. D. X__*1_, nnnrv MnrtflRV at. H DC lock D. Convention every Monday at 8 cr clock p. In Odd Fellows’ nail. Visiting brethern cordially i*wlt«\RTHUR CoyKes]1AU„ c. C. E. J. Mack. K. of K. and 8. O-NEILL ENCAMPMENT NO. 30. L - O. O. F. meets every seoond and fourth Fridays of each month in Odd Fellows Hail. OHAsf Bright, H. P. H. M. Tttdey, scribe Eden lodge no. 41, daughters OF RBBEKAH, meets every 1st and 3d Friday of each month in Odd Fellows Hall. ’ AgnesT. Benti.ey. N. G. DORA Davidsof, Sec. /■'t ARF1KI.1) LODGE, N0.95,F.«fc A.M. Vx Regular communications Thursday nights on or before the full of theynoon.^^ w M O. O. Snyder, Sec. Holt-cam pko.it 10. m .w. ofa. Meets on tne first and third Tuesday In each month in the Masonic hall. Neil. Bkennan, V. C. D. 11. Cronin, Clerk AO. TJ. W. NO. 153. Meets second • and fourth Tudsday of each month In Masonic hall. „ . 0. Bbioht, Bee. 8. B. HOWARD, M. W. iNDEPKNDENT WORKMEN OF AMERICA, meet every first and third Friday of each month. Geo. McCutchan, N. M. J. H. Welton, Sec. POSTOFFICE D1RCETORY Arrival of Malls r.». a m. v. a. r.—from the bast. day,Sunday Included at. 9:40 p n> PROM THE WEST very day, Sunday included at... ...1C:04 am J PACiriC SHORT DINE. F Passenger-leaves 10:05a. m. Arrives 11:55 p.m. I Freight—leaves 9:07 P. M. Arrives 7:00 p. M. Dally except Sunday. O’NEltL AND CHELSEA. Departs Monday, Wed. and Friday at T :00 a m Arrives Tuesday, Thurs. and Sat. at..1:00pm O’NEILL AND PADDOCK. Departs Monday. Wed. and Friday at.. T :00 a m Arrives Tuesday, Thurs. and Sat. at..4:30p m O’NEILL AND NIOBRARA. Departs Monday. Wed. and Fri. at... .7:00 a m Arrives Tuesday, Thurs. and Sat. at...4:00p m O’NEILL AND CUMMIN8VILLS. Arrives Mon.,Wed. and Fridays a .. H :30 p.m Departs Bon., Wed. andFriday at i :00 p.m "■■.L'SxiS [Copyright, 1894, by J. B. Llppincott Company.] M, brain. Pardon me; lmve you a little brandy? or whisky?” “There isn’t a drop in the house,” said Miss Walton, piteously. “We had some, that had been in the cellar for years', that mother hid during the war; but—you—it was being stolen, or some thing—and she sold what was left.” Hums quickly left the room. When lie returned, a few minutes later, he held forth a little flask. Mrs. Walton still lay senseless, and her condition was alarming to.one and all. Lambert poured out a stiff dose. “Make her take it all, little .by little,” he whispered to Miss Wall on, and then, with calm de cision, stooped, and, encircling the slender waist of the younger girl with his arm, quickly lifted her to her feet. A tress of her rich, red-brown hair was ■ >a tight in his shoulder-strap, but neither noticed it'. Such was the patient’s prostration that for a moment even brandy failed of its stimulating effect. Not until several spoonfuls had been forced between her blue lips did there •onie that shivering sigh that tells of eviving consciousness. The white hands began feebly to pluck at her Iress and the heavy eyelids to open -lowly. “We will fall back,” whispered bamibert. “I’ll wait in the hall.” But- when he turned to tiptoe away, a very tousled, tangled, dishevelled, but Bore the limp shape Into the nearest room. pretty head bad'.to. come, too. There was too much of that fine, shining', shim mering tress to let. go. Hums was al ready creaking oilt into the dark pas sage. Miss Walton was absorbed in her mother’s face. Miss Katherine’s round ed check had flushed as red as the in valid’s was- white, and both her tiny hands were, madly tugging and pulling at the offending tendrils; butwhocouhl work to advantage with the back or side of one’s head practically clamped to the work bench ? Miss Katherine could not 1 ear herself loose except at the risk of carrying away a square inch or more of scalp, for t he strap would not yield, and its wearer could not help ro long as her own, hands were 1 tigging. There u as every likelihood, therefore, that the tableau on which Mme. Walton's open ing eyes-should gaze would be about Hie very lost she would care to see—the bonnie head of her precious child re posing, to all appearance, on a shoulder in Yankee blue—when Lambert, alive 1o the desperate nature of the situation, quickly gust loope the two or three buttons of the flannel sack coat then so much in vogue, and, slipping out of that and into the - ball, rejoined his imper turbable sergeant. “I hope the lieutenant will pardon my taking bis flask. I saw it in the tent this evening, sir, and the captain didn’t leave the key of the medical chest—with me. leastwise.” "You did right. That was some good cognac t.liey got for me in New Orleans. T hope it will revive her. Ought we not to send for Dr. Hand?” "No, sir,” whispered Bums. “She wouldn’t have him for one of her niggers —and be damned to them. I knownow ;vhere Riggs had been getting his liquor, and-where our coffee and sugar lias been going; He’s bribed these' thieving servants of hers to steal that I irt-cious bra ndy, and those damn scoun drels broke into the cellar to-night to get more.” “But they must have been drinking in the first place. Where could they have got that. liquor? Ilers was gone— sold.” “In t,o\vn,-somewhere. I’ll find out—” But here the lieutenantehecked him. A feeble voice was just audible in the ad joining room: "Have they gone? Have I been ill? Ksther—daughter, see that—No! I must see that young officer, at once.” “Not to-night, mother,” answered the cider girl, pleadingly. “Not to-night. To-morrow; you’ll be rested then.” “That may be too late. Whatever happens, there must, lie no court-mar tial. He said 1 should have* to testi I fy; so would you. You saw, Ksther, and if under oath we should have to I tell—” — “Quick! Come out of thip!” whis pered Lambert, hoarsely, and dragged the sergeant after him to the dark and wind-swept shadows of the yard. IX. Sunday morning came, gloomy, cloudy, with the wind still moaning among the’ almost leafless branches and whirling dust-clouds from the crooked rpad. After a night of so much excite ment camp slept late. Lambert was aroused somewhere about seven by a scratching at the tent flap, and Sergt. Hums, answering the summons to “come in,” poked his freshly shaved fact through a framing of white canvas to ask if he might send the lieutenant-some breakfast from the eook-flre. It was barely 24 hours since his arrival in camp, and so crowded had these hours been with event, experience and novelty that the young officer seemed to feel he had been a month on duty. There lay his blue flannel blouse at the foot of his cot. Unseen hands had tossed it from the window at which on his first appear ance t he previous night a slender, white robed form had been piteously crying for help. He drew it to him and searched the left shoulder strap. Yes! Even now three or four curlihg hairs were twining like the tendrils of a vine about its dead-gold border and across the field of sky-blue velvet—another vogue to the day. “She had time to dis entangle the mass, but could not see these fine filaments in so dim a light,” he laughed to himself. “Only fancy what my Merrimac madre would say if she were to hear that a pretty head—a southern girl’s head—had been resting on my shoulder the very first night I got here! Only fancy what the damsel herself would say, if she had a chance to say anything! And as her mamma— well, what- wouldn’t she say 7” Lambert had lots to think of as he made his soldier toilet and'came forth into the gloomy, moisture-laiden air, for the southeasterly wind was sweep ing the rain clouds up from the distant gulf, and nature looked bleak and dis mal. Two items occurred to give him comfort. No sooner had he stepped out into the open spade than the one sentry at the other end of the camp shouted: “Turn out the guard—commanding of ficer!’ which was unnecessary at the distance and under the circumstances, yet clearly proved that the disposition among the men was to “brace up” in recognition of the arrival of an officer who knew what discipline meant. And then, looking suspiciously as though he had been waiting for a chance to undo the ill effect of his blunder of the. previous day. there in 1 front of Burns’ tentstood Corporal Cunningham, company clerk; and the salute with which he honored the camp commander was as pregnant with good intent as it was clumsy in execution. Somebody had placed an empty clothing box by the side of the tent, covered it with can vas fly, and set this improvised table for one with the best tins the company mess afforded. Somebody else had carefully blacked the lieutenant’s boots and shoes, and presently up came a young German soldier bearing the lieutenant’s break fast on the .company cook’s breadboard, which was covered with a clean white towel. “Burns is one of the oaks, atany rate,” thought Lambert, as the sergeant fol lowed to see that all was in proper order. Ham and eggs, “soldier coffee,” a can of milk, corn-bread and hardtack, were set before him with pardonable pride and Burns explained that they bought eggs, milk, and corn-bread of an old darky who came over from the village almost every day. Then Lambert bethought him of his captured pail of butter, and brought it from the tent. “This does not belong to me,” he said. “It rolled out from the Walton hedge last evening. Do you know who their regular cus tomer is?” “I don’t, sir. Yet I know McBride and others sometimes had butter—good butter too, like this. The captain doesn’t buy any, and wouldn’t allow the company to buy any there. Not that he cared, sir; only the old lady was so up pish and made such a row when any of our fellows were seen even talking to her people that he gave regular orders forbidding it. No one from the Walton place dare set foot inside camp, and he’ll make it hot for Biggs when he gets back. Murphy is less to blame, but will have to go to Ship island all the same, 1 reckon.” “How are those two this morning?” “Biggs is stupid drunk yet, but Mur phy swears he’d only gone to try to get Biggs out of trouble; he’d hardly been drinking at all. He begs to see the lieu tenant, sir. He says he can explain the whole thing.” And so, later that morning, after Lambert had given his> men a further lesson by inspecting both company and camp and pointing out no end of things which could not, he said, be tolerated in future, Murphy was brought to his tent. His face and hands were badly cut in places, but his bruises were ol' little account. With the best inten tions in the world, the good lady hat! [ not. the strength for the trouncing the . fellow had deserved at her hands. The j story he told was hardly credible. Lam bert could have ordered him back with I sharp rebuke for his falsifications, but ! a glance at Burns’ war-worn face, clouded and perplexed, inode the young commander pause. “Do you really ex pect me to believe this?” he asked, and MuVpiiy answered: “Pm ready to make , oath to it before the praste, sorr." And this, in effect, was tin- Irishman's tale: llehadknown his “hunky"-—Biggs —only since that worthy’s enlistment in the company the previous winter, hilt this much of Biggs almost every body knew; that he had been a ser geant during the war days and was serving an enlistment in the regular cavalry when deprived, for persistent drinking, of his chevrons. The troop to which he wns attached had been sta tioned at Quitman and in this section of the south for a year or more, but was ordered to the Indian country just about the time of Riggs’ discharge by expiration of term of service. Then, after a protracted spree in New Or leans, he turned up at the barracks and “took on” again in the infantry, and in the very company which, oddly enough, was so soon ordered up to the region he knew so well. Indeed, Biggs claimed when drinking to have acquaintance not only with the Walton ladies, but with some of tlif most prominent, men in Quitman county, and frequently boasted of the good times he would have could he only get over there. Another thing abont Biggs: lie had twice got Murphy to go ns his substitute on cer tain detachment or posse dirty, offering as excuse that marching wore him oat, yet admitting to Murphy that there were other reasons. "There are men in this section who’d shoot me on sight— get the drop on me—pick me off from the woods or fences,” 'he had explained. Morphy believed him, and believed, too, his statement that he had powerful friends even amonjf officers and gentle men who had fought through the war on the southern side. “He got money when he needed it, and spent it like a gentleman,” said Murphy; which,-be ing interpreted, meant that he liberally squandered it oh his comrades. But lliggs had of late been out of money; he “couldn’t hear from his friends,” said Murphy, and was getting in trouble. lie owed poker debts in the company and liquor debts in town. He couldn’t, get a drink on trust and the men were shy of playing with him; but he Had always been liberal to Mur phy when in funds, and Murphy stood by him now. About nine o’clock, there fore, the previous evening, he noticed that Biggs was greatly excited when an old darky came shambling in and gave him a little note. The negro had oc casionally come before, and. did not seem to belong either in town or alt the Walton place. Riggs stole out to the road, despite Murphy’s warning, and came back in ten minutes, bidding Mur phy in eager whisper to be quick and come with him. It was evident even then that Riggs had had a drink or two. Murphy reminded him of the lieuten ant’s orders and begged him to run no risk; and then Riggs broke out and told him that, come what might, he'd simply got to go to town, and Murphy with him. He would explain when they got out of camp, but there wasn’t a minute to lose; and Murphy Went along, “just to keep him out of trouble.” Out in the darkness a stranger joined them, gave Riggs some low-toned orders, but refused to let him have another drink. They Wdre stealing along the road to gether, trying to dodge the dickering firelight, when it suddenly flared up and must have betrayed them, for a mo ment later they heard Burns shouting after them. Then the stranger “lept the fence" into the Walton place; Riggs darted away and ran like a streak, so he followed Riggs. When at safe distance from camp Riggs slowed up and told what he had. agreed to do. At Cohen’s store was a box containing some) expensive wine and cordials which had been prescribed for Mrs. Walton two weeks before by their old family physician, and ordered sent from New Orleans. It was one of the sad coses common in the south in those hard times. Miss Walton, who wrote the order without her mother’s knowledge, had no money to send, and the Arm had none to lose. She explained that the wine was needed at once, and the money would be at hand ini the course of ten days. The wine was sent, care of Clohen & Co., with instructions to collect first; and not until this night had there been money enough to pay for it. Now “a gentleman,” whom Riggs knew well, liad brought them help; but he himself could not go to Tugaloo because of certain past events with which he was intimately connected, and none, of the Walton servants dared go, because of the tremendous stories in cir culation concerning the events of the day. Tlia gentleman had come a long distance at big risk to see the lady, Riggs declared, and must getaway that night. In. this dilemma Riggs was called on for help. Hi* chivalric nature was aroused—presumably; or possibly “the tiger had tasted’ blood” and needed more. Riggs hud got the gentleman’s last drink, and the money for more was now in his hands. But the gentleman had stipulated that a reliable man must go with him to fetch the precious packet in case Riggs “got full;” and Murphy was the man. “We got the box, sorr, (To be continued.) Ballard’s Snow iniment. This wonderful liniment is known from Ike Atlantic to the Pacific and from the lakes to the gulf. 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