BFJTL OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
STATIC.
Governor.......Silas Holcomb
Lieutenant Governor......J. K .Harris
Secretary ot State.. F .Porter
State Treasurer.John B Meserve
State Auditor. . .John F. Cornell
Attorney General.C. J. Sniytbe
Own. Lands and Buildings.• ••J; Y' ",1,1 fe
sunt. Public Instruction.W. K. Jackson
REGENTS STATE UNIVERSITY.
Chas. 11. Gere, Lincoln: LeavittBurnham.
Uniuha; .1 M. Hiatt, Alma; E. P. Holmes.
Pierce; J.T. Mallaleu. Kearney; M. J. Hull,
Edgar.
RepieseututIves First District, J. B. Strode
See od, it. It. Jtteroer, lhlrd. S. Maxwell,
Kinirtli. W, L. Stark, Plitb, 10 i>. Sutherland,
Sixth, W. L. Green.
CONQRESSIONA I..
Senators— W. V. Allen, of Madison; John
M. Thurston, ot Omaha.
JUDWIAH F.
Chief Justice.:.•■•A-M. Post
associates...T.O. Harrison and T. L. Norvall
FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT.
Judge.M. P. Klnkald,of O’Neill
Reporter... .„. J. J. King of O’Neill
judge.W. H. Westover, of Rushvllle
Reporter.• 'in Maher, of Rushvllle.
LAN1) OFFICES.
o'nitt.
Register..
Receiver....
.John A. Harmon.
...Elmer Williams.
COUNTY.
judjnj.Geo McCutcheon
clerk oi the District Court .Johu Sklrvlng
Deputy.0. M. Collins
Treasurer...P* Mullen
Deputy.S,ys,*i?'r?rd
Deputy.Mike McCarthy
Sheriff...Chas Hamilton
Deputy.....Chas O Neill
Supt. of Schools.. W. R. Jaclfson
Assistant.Mrs. W. R. Jackson
Coroner.Dr. Trueblood
Surveyor.•'•••**. F. Norton
■ Attorney.,...W .R. Butler
SUPERVISORS.
FIRST DISTRICT.
Cleveland, Sand Creek, Dustin, Saratoga,
Rock Falls and Pleasantvlew :J ■ A. Robertson
SECOND DISTRICT.
Shields, Paddock, Scott, Steel Creek, W11
owdaleand Iowa—J. H. Hopkins.
THIRD DISTRICT.
Grattau and O'Neill—Mosses Campbell.
FOURTH DISTRICT.
Ewing, Verdigris and Delolt—L. 0. Combs
FIFTH DISTRICT.
Chambers, Conlev, Lake, laoClure and'
1 nman—S. L. Conger.
SIXTH DISTRICT.
Swan, Wyoming, Fairvlew, Francis. Green
Valley, Sheridan and Emmet—C. W. Moss.
SEVENTH DISTRICT.
Atkinson and Stuart—W. N. Coats.
Cll Y OF O’NEILL.
Supervisor, E. J. Mack; Justices, E. H.
Benedlot and 8. M. Wagers; Constables, Ed.
McBride and Perkins Brooks.
OOUHOILMEN—FIRST WARD.
For two years.—D. H. Cronin. For one
year—C. W. Hagenslek.
SECOND WARD.
For two years—Alexander Marlow. For
one year—W. T. Evans.
THIRD WARD.
For two years—Charles Davis. For one
vonr—PI. .T. Mack.
CITY UrriCKKS.
Mayor, H. K. Murpby; Clerk, N. Martin;
Treasurer, .loUn Alcnugb; City Engineer
juliu llorrlsky; Police Judge, H. Kaulzinun;
Chief of Police, P. .1. Blgllu, Attorney,
Thus. Oarlou; Welgbmaster, D. Stanuard.
rO RATTAN TOWN SUIT.
Supervisor, It. J. Hayes; Trearurer, Baruey
MoGreevy; Clerk, J. eullivan; Assessor Ueu
Jobriug: Justices, M. Castello and Cbas.
Wilcox; Constables, John llorrtsky and Ed.
McBride; Koad overseer dist. 2H. Allen Brown
:ist. No. 4 John Enright.
- ULRIKHS’ RELIEF C0MN1SS10N.
Regular meeting first Monday In Febru
ary of each year, and at suoh other times us
is deemed necessary. Bobt. Gallagher, Page,
chairman; Wm. llowen, O'Neill, secretary;
li. H. Clark Atkinson.
wT. PATRICK'S CATHOLIC CHURCH.
O Services every Sabbath at 10:90 o’clock,
v erv Rev. Cassidy, Postor. Sabbath school
immediately following services.
St EIHOU1ST CHURCH. Sunday
M. services—Preaching 10:90 A. M. and 8:U0
f. it. Class No. 1 0:30 a. M. Class No. 2 (Ep
worth League) 7:00 p. si. Class No. 9 (Child
rens) 9:00 p. M. Mind-week services—General
pruyer meeting Thursday 7:30 p. M. All will
be made welcome, especlallv strangers.
K. T. GEORGE. Pastor.
i I A. R. POsT.NO. 8«. The Gen. John
VX< O’Neill Post, No. 96, Department of Ne
braskaG. A. K., will meet the first and third
Saturday evening of each month in Masonic
hall O'Neil) S. J. Smi i H, Com.
ULKHORN VALLEY LODGE, I. O. O.
MU P. Meets every Wednesday evening In
Odd Fellows’ ball, visiting brothers oordlally
Invited to attend.
W. H. Mason, N. G. 0. L. Bright, Sec.
f
CT ARFIKLD CHAPTER, It. A. M
I Meets on first and third Thursday of each
month in Masonlo hall.
W. J. Dobhs. Sec. J. C. Harnish, H, P
KOPP.—HELMET LODGE. U. D.
• Convention every Monday at 8 o clock p.
m. In Odd Fellows' nail. Visiting brethern
oordlally Invited.
Arthur Ootkbndall. C. C.
E. J. Mack. K. of U. and S.
O’NEILL ENCAMPMENT NO. 30.1.
O. O. F. meets every seoond and fourth
Fridays of each month in Odd Fellows' Hall.
Ohas. Brioht, H. P. H. M. Tttlby, Scribe
Eden lodge no. 41, daughters
OF REBBKAH, meets every 1st and 9d
Friday of each month In Odd Fellows’ Hall,
Agnbs T. Bentley, N. G.
Dora Davidson, Sec.
Garfield lodge, no.bs.f.aa.m.
Regular communications Thursday nights
on or before the full of the moon.
J. J. Kino, W. U.
O. O. Snyder, Sec.
HOLT*OAMPNO. 1710, M.W. OF A.
Meets on the first and third Tuesday In
each month In the Masonic hall.
Neil. Bhennan, V. 0. D, H. Cronin, Clerk
AO) U. VV. NO. 158, Meets second
• and fourth Tudsday of each month in
Masonic hall.
0. Bright, Bee. S. B. Howard, M, W.
INDEPENDENT workmen of
A AMERICA, meet every first and third
Friday of each month.
Geo. McCctchan, N. M.
J. H. Welton, Sec.
P08T0FFICK DIRCBTORY
Arrival of Mails
V. E. A H. V. R. R.—FROM THE EAST,
day, Sunday included at.9:40 pm
FROM THE WEST
very day, Sunday included at.10:04 am
PACiriC 8HORT LIMB.
Passenger-leaves 10:0iA. M. Arrives 11:55 p.m.
Freight—leaves 0:0* p. M. Arrives 7:00 p. m.
Dally except Sunday.
O’NEILL AMD CHELSEA.
Departs Monday, Wed. and Friday at 7:00 am
Arrives Tuesday, Thurs. and Sat. at.,1:00pm
O’NEILL AND PADDOCK.
Departs Monday. Wed.and Friday at..7:00 am
Arrives Tuesday, Tburs. and Sat. at. .4:90 p m
O'NEILL AND NIOBRARA.
Departs Monday. Wed. and Fri. at—7:00 a m
Arrives Tuesday, Thurs. and Sat. at.. .4:00 p m
O'NEILL AND CDMMINSVILLB,
Arrives Mon.,Wed. and Fridays a ..11:30 p.m
Departs Mon., Wed. andFriday at.1:00 p.m
[Copyright, 1894, by J. B. Lippincott Company.]
an’ Riggs 'liio bottle of liquor, an* come
back all right, an’ we stole in there as
we were bid, an’ raised the cellar door,
an’ I carried down the box to the fut of
tliim slippery steps meself, for Higgs
was gettin’ noisy-like. An’ thin we
stole away, niver disturbin’ anybody,
sorr, only doin’ the poor leddy a kind
ness, as we were towld. We didn’t see
or hear annybody. It was aftlier it all
tbe throublc came.”
There was pathos in Murphy’s de
scription of the “throuble.” Their task
accomplished, Murphy sought to get
Riggs to his tlent, but the man had
drunk just enough to be rabid for more,
and in the struggle the bottle fell with
the gill or two remaining and was
smashed. This was indeed a catas
trophe. Riggs ’had that fearful craze
for alcohol which is satiated only when
the victim lapses into drunken stupor.
Murphy got him to the tent and to bed,
and thoughthe hod him safe, butawoke
later to find him gone—gone for more
iiquof; but where? None was to lie
had in camp, unless he broke into the
captain’s medical stores, which, Mur
phy argued, he wouldn’t dare attempt
with the lieutenant lying there along
side. All of a sudden it flashed over him
that his wretched “bunky,” after hav
ing faithfully acquitted himself of his
trust,before the fatal whisky-logging of
his moral sense, had now stolen off in
the darkness to rob the very household
for whose sake, or that of the bribing
liquor, he had braved punishment.
Riggs had gone back for that wine.
The Irish soldier had his faults, God
knows, but desertion of his fellow, even
in face of torture, is not one of them.
Murphy stole away, hoping it was not
too late to iccapture Riggs, and came
upon him, just as he feared, tugging at
something at the foot of those dark
udMi suppery slcjjh. i Ill'll came il strug
gle that, after at last he had borne his
fiercely battling' comrade up into the
night, left Murphy breathless and ex
hausted. And then came the rain of
blows that toppled him, crashing, into
the ruin of the hot-bed.
“She came upon me that sudden and
furious-like, sorr, I couldn’t explain;
an’ it was tryin’ to pacificate her I was,
backin’ off, an’ niver see the hot-bed be
hind me for the hot batin’ I was get
tin’ afront. An’ thin whin she had me
down on the flat of me back, an’ grasps
in’ at thim glass works, poor Biggs,
niver knowing what he was doin’, sorr,
only to help me, grappled with the ould
lady for the purpose of expostulatin',
an’ thin that naygur wench run screech
in’ into the house, an’ the young lady
.came shriekin’ to the windy, an’ the
stranger—the gentleman—lept to the
side door, an’ 1 a-callin’ to him to come
an’ square ine an’ Biggs, whom he got
into the scrape, an’ there was more
screamin’, an, he niver so much as axed
to shpake, but run fur his life when the
lieutenant jumped in an’ batthered
Biggs, who was only askin’ a chance to
explain.”
“Do you expect me to believe that any
gentleman stood there and saw Biggs
grapple that poor old lady and never
raised hand to stop it?” asked Lam
bert, almost angrily.
“It’s God’s thruth, sorr. He was
makin’ motions, crazy-like, but he niver
came outside that doorway until he
saw' the lieutenant, an’ then the lamp
wint out, wid him a-runnin’.”
The lieutenant pondered a moment.
Had Sergt. Burns ventured on an ex
HIV/ 1U VV.1 T IV TV v* UU1U
have come to an end at once, with Mur
phy in disgrace; but Burns looked full
of honest perplexity, and yet belief.
“You ought to have had sense enough
to know I should be glad to send to town
for anything Mrs. Walton needed,” said
Lambert. “Why didn’t Biggs ask per
mission?—or why didn’t you?”
Murphy was certainly frank. “Sure
we both knew it would be anybody but
Biggs the lieutenant would send. We
were guilty enough of going to town
without permission, an’ drinkin’; but
it was charity, not thavin’, sorr, that
we entered the garden for.”
> “You may send Murphy back, ser
geant. We’ll have to hold him until
Biggs can tell his story. Of course,”
said Lambert, as the Irishman was
led away, “if there’s anything in this
story about the stranger, it helps their
case materially. There was certainly
something queer about the agitated
words Mrs. Walton used just before we
came away—words about their testi
mony and preventing court-martial.
You heard, did you not?”
“Yes, sir—a little, anyway.”
“Can you imagine who the man is,
or account for his strange behavior?”
“I can’t sir. It might have been one
of those three or four that Mr. Parmelee
hauled in—one of the Potts crowd; but
the idea of his standing back and letting
the old lady have that tussle all to her
self! That couldn’t happen, sir, north
or south, unless—” And Burns stopped
short.
“Unless what?”
“Well, sir, unless there were reasons
he daren’t let her know he was there.”
At noon tnat Sunday it began to rain,
adding to the gloom of Lambert’s sur
roundings, and he sat listening to the
steady downpour drumming on the
tautened canvas of his tent, thinking
of the odd contrasts brought about by
army life. This was his first Sunday
with his company, and in every possible
way it was about as unlike every Sun
day of his previous life as it well could
be. He was trying to write to the
mother far away on the peaceful bonks
of the Merrimac, where the rolling hills
were by this time wearing their early
mantle of snow, and old and young, farm
hands and mill hands, a reverent popu
lace, had obeyed the summons of the
solemn bells that found no echo among
these dripping woods, these desolate
fields.
At intervals during -the moist and
chilly morning little squads of negroes
had hung about the westward end of
camp. Something of the events of the
previous night had been put in circula
tion with the dawn, and, growing as it
rolled, had attained huge proportions
by the time it reached the outlying
plantations five and ten miles away.
This, coupled with the tremendous story
of the jail delivery at Tugaloo, had been
sufficient to draw the bolder of their
number towards that center of interest,
the Yankee camp—though farther they
dared not go. At times there would be
some rude soldier chaff between, the
men at the guard'tent and these curi
"So you upset mo to bellsv* toot r'
ous visitors; and no matter how poor
>the wit, it never failed of its reward of
abundant guffaw. The southern negro
needs no visit to the Blarney stone;
his flattery is spontaneous.
I When Lambert bad finished his con*
ference with Burns, and, as in duty
bound, went over to the Walton place
to inquire how its chatelaine had passed
the night, he marched forth through a
little congregation of shining black
faces and obsequious and tattered
forms, and had to run the gauntlet of
a chorus of personal remarks, all in
high degree complimentary, as to the
style, and fit of his uniform, as well as
his general appearance. In less than
five minutes he returned, but with
such chagrin at heart that it must have
been reflected in his youthful face.
Serene in the consciousness that he was
doing a perfectly conventional and
proper thing, he had bounded lightly
up the broad wooden steps and knocked
at the door. It was opened almost in
stantly by the colored girl whom he
had seen the night before and beard
apostrophized as “You Elinor.” The
eager expression in her eyes gave way
at once to something of disappointment
and certainly of doubt.
“I thought—I thought it was Mars’r
Potts, .6uh,” she stammered. “I—I
don’t reckon the ladies can see you.”
“Will you say to Miss Walton- that
Mr. Lambert—Lieut. Lambert, if you
choose—has called to inquire how
Mrs. Walton is to-day, and that, if pos
sible, he would be glad to speak with
Miss Walton a moment?”
Elinor stood peering through about
one foot of gap, the door she had. so
promptly thrown wide open having
been as promptly closed to that limit.
Lambert could not but hear other doors
opening within—could almost swear he
heard the swish of feminine skirts, the
whisper of feminine voices, low and
eager. The fact that the girl stood
there, barring the entrance and ap
parently afraid to go, added to his the
ory that she was being prompted from
behind.
“Ah dunno, suh. Ah’U see,” she said
at last, slow and irresolute. “What,
mum?” she continued, involuntarily,
an instant later, turning her turbaned
head towards some invisible presence
in the hall beyond; and that settled the
matter in Lambert’s mind.
“Ye-assum,” and slowly now the yel
low-brown face returned to light.
“Mis’ Esther ain’t very well, euh, an’
she says—er rather—Mis’ Walton sends
her compliments to the gentleman and
i
begs he’ll 'scuse hep. Dey don't need
nqflin’,” she continued, in her own in
terpretation of messages telegraphed
from the dark interior: “Ye-nssum.
Mis’ Walton rested very well, consider
in’, an’s nil right to-day, but ahe don’t
want nullin', suh."
“I ,had hoped to be able to see Mrs.
Walton, if she were well enough, or else
Miss Walton," said Lambert, firmly, in
tending that his words should be their
own interpreter at the court within.
"There are matters of importance on
which I desire to speak.”
Again, Klinor, mute and irresolute,
turned to he* unseen mentor. There
wns evidently a moment of conference.
Then the girl was suddenly sweptoside,
tlie door was thrown wide open and
there, while other and younger forms
seemed to scurry away from both sight
and hearing, there with a gray shawl
thrown over her shoulders, calm und
dignified, her silvery hair fluttering
about her temples, and the lines of
care seeming even deeper in the sad,
clear-cut face, stood Mrs. Walton, lean
ing on the stout cane which had dealt
such trenchant blows the night before.
With a voice that trembled just a tr'fle
despite her effort at control, she slowly
spoke:
"You mean to be courteous, air, in
your inquiry, and for this I beg to
thank you—to renew my thanks for
your prompt service of last night. But
now may I say, onoe for all, that we
need, and can accept, no further as
sistance; and, if you are sincere inyour
desire to be courteous, you will not
again seek to enter my door.”
Lambert flushed to hie very brows.
“It is a more important matter than
you have perhaps thought, Mrs. Walton,
that has made me ask to see you. One
of the men who broke in here last
night—”
"I know what you would say,” she
promptly, firmly interposed, again up
lifting, with that almost imperious ges
ture, the fragile white hand, “t am
framing a letter to be delivered to your
commander upon his return to-night—
upon his return,” she quickly corrected
herself. “It will cover the cate so far
as we are concerned. Meantime I beg
to be excused from further aliusion to
it.” And the stately inclination with
which she accompanied the words was
unquestionably n dismissal.
Lambert stood speechless one instant.
Then, simply raising his forage cap, he
whirled about and left.
The boy was thinking of his own
mother when he tripped so lightly up
that worn old gravel path on has way
to inquire how he could be«of service
to one whose dignity and sorrow and
suffering had so impressed him. lie had
donned his best uniform for the mis
sion, and little dreamed how in so do
ing he .had rendered himself much the
more persona non grata. He, who could
not war upon women and children un
der any circumstances, had not begun
to learn how bitterly the recent v ar
had borne upon tlie women of the south,
or how, even so long after, they suffered
from its effects. He had gone to oiler
foe aid and protection of a loyal heart
and a strong arm, and had not realized
that it \v:us the very last succor a VVniton
would seek, so long as both heart and
arm were draped by the union blue.
Not ten minutes after his return, dis
comfited and dismayed, there rode up
the muddy, red bridlepath—fer it was
little more—a broad-faced young fellow
who was attired in the clumsiest of
“store clothing” nnd whose lean and
long-necked steed looked dejection it
self as his vigorous rider dismounted,
slung the reins over the gate post, and,
after one sharp and warning survey of
tlie silent negroes still hovering about,
swung cheerily up the walk. To him
tlie old doors opened wide without a
summons, and eager hands were thrust
forth in welcome.
Lambert, hearing the first, heavy
drops come thumping on his canvas
roof, thought it was the rain that so
quickly thinned the group of darkies
on tlie road. He could hear the mule
hoofs sputtering away through the mud
as the rain came quicker and faster, but
not until several hours later did further
explanation dawn upon him. Then he
It norrl Ril m & nnrl Wolf a ir\ nnnvpPQntinn
at the first sergeant’s tent.
“Did you see how the niggers kind o’
lit out when he came?’’ asked Bums.
“I haven’t seen him around here since
August. Beckon he knows captain’s
away. He hates him like poison ever
since cap interfered in that row he had
with Parmelee.M
“Looks likes pleasant enough fellow.
I'd rather back him than Parmelee r.ny
day, ’s far as ldtlks go. Whajfc’sJie doing
here?”
(To be continued.)
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