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 ::::::::: ...cuas o-Nem ?.?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 urome/:::::::::.w Butler 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 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 < 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. 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