GEN’L OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
STATE.
Governor..*..Silas HoloOTato
Lieutenant Governor....J- E -{l*1™
Secretary of State.. ■ ??*i,Bort«r
State Treasurer.John B. Meserve
State Auditor.John t. Cornell
Attorney General.C. J' ®,1'J*h®
Com. Lands and Buildings.vu-L- Y■
Supt. Publio Instruction.W. K. Jackson
REGENTS STATE UNIVERSITY.
Chas. H. Gere. Lincoln; L«eavitt Surnha.m,
Omaha; J. M. Hiatt, Alma; E. P. Hol“e*'
Pierce; J. T. Mallaieu, Kearney; M. J. Hull,
Representatives First District. J. B. strode
Second. H. D. Mercer, Third. S. Maxwell,
pCSirth. VT, L. Stark, Fifth, R. D. Sutherland,
Sixth, W. L. Green.
’ CONGRESSIONAL.
Senators-W. V. Allen, of Madison; John
M. Thurston, of Omaha.
JUDICIARY.
A8SOclatS?!°/r.b. Harrison and T! ^.^Norvall
FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT.
Judge' .M. P. Kinkald, of O Neill
ttenSter .J- J- King of O’Neill
Jac!ge“ .'.‘.'.'...W. H. Westover, of Rushv lie
Reporter !.• >hn Maher, of Rushvllle.
LAND OFFICES.
o'HxnA.
Register..
Keoelver.
John A. Harmom
.'...Elmer Williams.
COUNTY.
.Geo McCutcheon
theft of the District Court.JohuSCoUins
Deputy ..j" p.‘ Mullen
rwSftv™..'.7.7....Sam Howard
rilfnnt'v.Mike McCarthy
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?.?St of Sohoola ’ ’.77.77.7.7.7.7.W.~K. Jackson
A^istont .—Mrs. W. R. Jackson
Assistant. .Dr. True blood
Surveyor.7 .7.7.'.'.’.Y..M. F. Norton
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SUPERVISORS.
FIRST DISTRICT.
Cleveland, Sand Creek, Dustin, Saratoga,
Hock Falls andPleasantvlew:J. A. Robertson
SECOND DISTRICT.
Shields, Paddock, Scott, Steel Creek, Wll
owdaie and Iowa—J. H. Hopkins.
THIRD DISTRICT.
Grattan and O’Neill—Mosses Campbell.
FOURTH DISTRICT.
Ewing, Verdigris and Delolt—L. O. Combs.
FIFTH DISTRICT,
Chambers, Conley, Lake, McClure and
Inman—S. L. Conger;_
SIXTH DISTRICT.
Swan. Wyoming, Fatrview, Francis. Green
Valley, Sheridan and Emmet—■€. W. Moss.
SEVENTH DISTRICT.
Atkinson and Stuart—W. N. Coats.
OUT OF <yNEILL.
Supervisor, E. J. Mack; JuaUom* •
Benedict and 8. M. Wagers; Constables, Ed.
MoBrlde and Perkins Brooks.
COUNOTLMEN—FIRST WARD.
For two years.—D. H. Cronin. For one
year—O. W. Hagenslck.
SECOND WARD. .
For two years—Alexander Marlow. For
one year—W. T. Evans.
THIRD WARD.
For two years—Charles Davis. For one
year—E. J. Mack.
CITY OFFICERS.
Mayor, H. E. Murphy; Clerk, N. Martin;
Treasurer, John McHugh; City Engineer
John Horrlsky; Police Judge, H. Kautzman;
Chief or Police, P. J. Bigllu; Attorney,
Thos. Oarlon; Welghmaster, D. Stanuard.
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GRATTAN TOWNSHIP.
Supervisor, R. J. Hayes; Treasurer. Barney
i JlcGreevv; Clerk, J. Sullivan; Assessor Ben
^Johring: Justioes, M. Castello and Clius.
Wilcox; Constables, John H orrlsky and Ed •
McBride; ltoad overseer dist. 86, Allen Brown
diet. No. 4 John Enright.
SOLDIERS* RELIEF G0MNI8SI0N.
Regular meeting first Monday in Febru
*ry of each year, and at suoh other times as
•s deemed necessary. Iiobt. Gallagher, Page,
ihairmau; Wm. llowen, O'Neill, secretary;
H. H. Clark Atkinson.
sJT. PATRICK’S CATHOLIC CHUKCH.
Services every Sabbath at 10:30 o clock.
> cry Hev. Cassidy, Postor. Sabbath school
i iniiiod lately following services._
.< KTHODIST CHURCH. Sunday
A1 services—Preaching 10:30 A. M. and «:0U
M. Clasn No. 1 0:30 A. M. Class No. 2 (Ep
worth League)7:00 P. M, Class No. 3 (child
rens) 3:00 P? m. Mlud-week services—General
prayer meeting Thursday 7:30 p. m. All will
te made welcome.
/ 1 A. R. POST, NO. 8«. The Gen. John
V.V. O'Neill Post, No. 66, Department of Ne
braskft G. A. K.t will meet the flrat and third
Saturday evening of eaoh M^2.nl°
hall O'Neill 8. J. Smii H. com.
ELKHORN VALLEY LODGE, I. O. O.
F. . Meeto every, Wednesday evening In
Odd Fellows’ hall.
Invited to attend.
W, H. Mason. N. G.
iry nwiwawu —
Visiting brothers oordlally
O. L. Bright, Sec.
Garfield chapter, r. a. m
Meets on first and third Thursday of eaoh
month in Masonic hall. „ „ p
W. J. Dobrs Sec. J. C. Harnibh, H, P
oordlally ‘“Vltod^^ C0YKENDALI„ c. c<
E. J. Mack. K. of H. and S.
O’NEIL I, ENCAMPMENT NO. 80.1.
0.0. F. meets every second and fourth
Fridays of each month in Odd Fellows Hall.
Chas: BRIGHT, H. P. H. M. Tttley, Scribe
T3DEN LODGE NO. 41, DAUGHTERS
Hj OF REBEKAH. meets every 1st and 3d
Friday of each month In Odd Fellows Hall,
Agnes T. Bentley, N. G.
Doha Davidson, Sec.
Garfield lodge, no.95,f.*a.m.
Regular communications Thursday nights
on or before the full of theJm£>j^ING w M
Habbv Dowling, Sec.
HOLT'CAMP NO. 17 lO, M. W. OF A.
. ._n—a anil aK1*<1 fpiinada v fn
J.Meets on the first and third Tuesday In
each month In the Masonic hall.
Neil Brennan, V. 0. D. H. Cronin, Clerk
AO, U. W. NO. 158. Meets second
• and fourth Tudsday of each month In
Masonic hall. __ ,,
0. Bright, Rec. S. B. Howard, M. W.
INDEPENDENT WORKMEN OF
AMERICA, meet every first and third
Friday of eaoh month.
Geo. McCutchan, N. M.
J. H. Welton, Sec.
POSTOFFICE OIRCETORY
Arrival of Malls
r, ■. a m. v. r. r.—from the bast.
day, Sunday Included at.9:40 pm
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FROM THE WEST
very day, Sunday Included at.10:04 am
PACIFIC SHORT LINE.
Passenger-leaves 10:01a. m. Arrives 11:56 p.m.
Freight—leaves9:07 p.m. Arrives 7:00 p. M.
Dally except Sunday.
O’NEILL AND CHBLBEA.
Departs Monday, Wed. and Friday at 7:00 am
Arrives Tuesday, Thurs. and Sit. At.. 1:00pin
O’NEILL AND PADDOCK.
Departs Monday. Wed. and Friday at. .7:00 a m
Arrives Tuesday, Thurs. and Sat. at. .4:30 p m
O’NEILL AND NIOBRARA.
Departs Monday. Wod. and Fri. at....7:(W a m
Arrives Tuesday, Thurs. and Sat. at...4:00p m
O’NEILL AND CtTMMINHVILLE.
Arrives Mon.,Wed. and Fridays a ..11:30 p.m
Departs Mon., Wed. andFriday at.1:00 p.m
hall. A light streamed forth from the
open room, and a woman’s walling,
shuddering cry followed t.lie tall power
ful form that came striding to the
front. With a look of horror in her
eyes. Mrs. Walton staggered, would
have fallen, but for the clasping arm
of her son, U)x>n whose breast she now
leaned, pant'rg for breath and glaring
at the newcomer, to whose side now
sprang Esther, her long black hair
streaming down the white wrapper in
which her tall figure was enveloped—Es
ther, who strove to drag the stranger
back from before her mother’s eyes.
“You here? You?” was Mrs. Wal
ton’s gasping cry. “And in—that
room?’’
“Mother!” walled the cider daughter,
throwing herself upon, her knees be
fore the fainting form—“mother, lis
ten. Oh. make her hear me, Floyd!
Mother, I am Walton’s wife.”
Cut the words fell on senseless ears.
The lady of Walton hall slipped swoon
ing, till they caught and bore her with
in the open doorway.
“Well,” said Close, a moment later,
“what do you want done with your
man—Walton Scroggs? One’s enough
for this night, I suppose.”
“One’s enough for me, as things have
turned out. Now, what are you going
to do with the other?”
“Leave him here, with his mother,
where he ought to be, of course. You’ve
got no cause to arresit him.”
“But you have, anyhow.”
“I! Whaf, I’d like to know?”
“Because he’s a deserter from the
United States army.”
XII.
The Christmas holidays were coming
on at Walton Hall, where, sore stricken,
its mistress lay hovering between life
and death. Two weeks had passed since
the eventful night of the arrests, and,
though no change had come over the
landscape, and days of sunshine were
few and far between, some odd altera
tions had taken place in and around
the old homestead. Of these the most
remarkable was the appearance three
times a day of a young officer in Yankee
uniform at the family board—a young
"I rsokoc, miU«m*oa rm tkimta you want."
officer who often prolonged his visit
until late in the evening. Mr. Isaac
Newton Lambert, though occupying hitf
tent in camp, had become otherwise an
inmate of the Walton establishment,
for, unknown to the beloved invalid,
her daughters were actually “taking
boarders.”
Another boarder, who had come and
moved a modest bachelor kit into one
of the upstairs rooms facing the east
and overlooking the little camp, was Mr.
Barton Potts, better known to all the
inmates as “Cousin Bart.” Indeed, it
was due in great measure to his advice
and influence that Mr. Lambert was ad
mitted. Impoverished as were the Wal
tons—in dire need, as it turned out,
now that the resolute woman who so
many years had managed the family
affairs was stricken down—nothing but
prompt action and the helping hands
of kinsfolk and friends stood between
them and starvation. Squire Potto—
“Old Man Potts,” as he was generally
called—had urged on Mrs. Walton in
November the propriety of her abandon
ing the place entirely and taking shel
ter for herself'and her daughters under
his roof. Even though in desperate
need, she had declined—for one reason,
because that would bring Esther and
Walton Scroggs together again; for an
other, because she could not* bear to
think of the old home becoming the
abiding-place of all the houseless, shift
less negroes in the neighborhood. She
had offered the house, garden and cot
ton-fields still remaining in her hands
to any purchaser at almost any price;
but who was there to invest in such
unprofitable estate at such a time?
In the midst of these cares and
troubles, which she could share with
her daughters, were others which she
could not. She durst not let them
know on how slender n thread her life
depended. Thnt was one secret, held
ns yet by their old family physician and
herself alone, because the knowledge
of it would bring such grief to ‘ the
girls." There was another, which she
prayed they might never know, because
its very existence brought such grief
and shame to her; Floyd, her youngest
son, her darling, who had fought so
bravely by his brother’s side through
the hottest battles of the war, had “ab
jured the faith of his fathers,” as she
bitterly expressed it—had become inti
mate with the federal officers and sol
diers, instead of sticking closely to
reading law in the office of her old
friend Judge Summers at Quitman.
And then, worse than all, she learned
through his own desperate letter that
he had enlisted in the cavalry. That
within a week thereafter, repenting of
his “mad folly,” he should have de
serted the service and fled the country,
was in the poor stricken woman’s eyes
no crime whatever. That he should
have enlisted, sworn to defend the flag
which was to her the emblem of in
solent triumph over the fallen fortunes
of the land she loved, the only land she
ever knew, the once happy, sunny
south—that was infamy.
Not until weeks after heir boy had
taken the step that made him a fugitive
from justice did she learn, or begin to
imagine the chain of circumstances
that led to it all. While occupying a
desk in the office of Summers & Todd,
attorneys and counselors at law, Floyd
also occupied a seat at the table of a
widowed relative who, left penniless
at the close of the war, had to struggle
hard to keep body and soul together.
The efforts of Judge Summers hud beer,
sufficient to save the house in which she
dwelt, and “taking boarders” became
her vocation. But paying boarder
were scarce, and even when her table
was crowded with homeless people her
■pockets were often empty. When
Sweet’s squadron of the —th U. S. cav
alry marched into town and took sta
tion there, the application of some of
the officers for “rations and quarters”
under her roof was coldly declined.
They went to a hotel, and suffered, as
they deserved, the pangs of indigestion.
Later it transpired that two of them
went to church, and this put, an un
looked-for factor into the problem of
how to treat these conquering but un
popular heroes. Kev. Mr. Pickett, of St
Paul’s might condone his parishioners’
refusal to supply them with bodily food,
but it was impossible to refuse to min
ister to their spiritual necessities.
Their religious faith was identical with
that of histlock; it was in political faith
that they differed. One might, decline
to sit at meet with them, but could
hardly decline, to sit with them at wor
ship. They could be forbidden to eat
with the elect, but the elect would not
forbid them to pray. Even in the sanc
tuary, however, only hostile or averted
looks were vouchsafed to Col. Sweet
and Capt. Vinton when first they sought
its doors; but in the course of a few
months the women found that their sol
diers—their husbands, brothers, or lov
ers, whom Ihe war had spared—were
actually fraternizing with the Yankee
invaders, and that between those who
had done hard and honest fighting on
either side there was springing up firm
and honest friendship. The irreooncil
ables were limited, apparently, to the
noncombatants. When the squadron
was ordered elsewhere after a six
months’ sojourn at Quitman, the popu
lace was astonished to find how much
the troopers were missed and really
needed; for even Yankee custom hni
been acceptable in the stores and Yan
kee contributions welcome in the
church. Business had brought Col.
Sweet to Summers’ office, and in the
course of frequent visits cordial rela
tions were established, and Floyd Wal
ton could hardly treat with disdain a
toldier and gentleman whom his
patrons welcomed, even had he long
retained the disposition to do so.
The command had not been gone a
week before men were unaccountably
wishing it back, and when it reap
peared, with certain additions, it was
actually welcomed by people who would
have scouted the possibility of such a
thing the year before. This time Col.
Sweet announced to the rector that his
wife and daughter would speedily fol
low, and were even then ip New Orleans,
awaiting his instructions to come. Th*
hotel was no place for ladies in those
rough days; the rector went to Mrs.
Tower, and Mrs. Tower no longer re
sisted the inevitable. Floyd Walton,
going to tea one hot June evening, was
astonished to find himself in the pres
ence of two ladies, one of them a pretty
girl of perhaps 18, and to be presented
to Mrs. and Miss Sweet. Within a
week the young fellow was spending his
evenings at the Towers’, and within the
month was hopelessly in love. Then
came trouble. He hadn’t a cent in the
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world. She was a soldier's daughter,
and presumably poor. Whether she
was poor or not, he, at least, had noth
ing to offer, and, having nothing, held
his tongue, though he could not hold
his peace. That was gone.
That was a wretched summer and
autumn. The Are raged along the gulf,
and cholera swooped upon the garrison.
Sweet got his wife and child away to
the mountains. They left suddenly,
(To be continued,)
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W. B. McNIDER.
Gen'l Pass. Agent. Sioux City.
Mr. Isaac Horner, proprietor of the
Burton House, Burton, W. Va., and one
of the most widely known men in the
state, was cured of rheumatism after
three years of suffering. He says: “I
have not sufficient command of lan
guage to convey any idea of what 1
suffered. My physicians told me that
nothing could be done for me, and my
friends were fully convinced that noth
ing but death would relieve me of my
suffering. In June, 1894, Mr. Evans,
then salesman for the Wheeling Drug
Co., recommended Chamberlain's Pain
Balm. At this time my foot and limb
were swolen to more than double their
normal size and it seemed to me my leg
would burst, but soon after I began
using the Pain Balm the swelling began
to decrease, the pain to leale, and now I
consider that I am entirely cured. For
sale by P. C. Corrigan .
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