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Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-01-21
Wa DEPARTMENT,
" Ah DIT Ah WcN i
Washington City, May 4, ga

w dSBttS tO1 NaA5i NAeJ Z OE
SIR: have the honor TO submit TO
you report made TO this Department by
Colonel Hoffman, commissary general oil
prisoners in regard to the condition OF
Union soldiers who have until within q
few days been prisoners of war at Rich
mond, aud would respectfully request
that your committee Immediately pro-
ceed to Annapolis to take testimony
there and examine with their own eyes,
the condition of those who have been re-
turned from rebel captivity. The enor-
nifty of the crime committed by the reb-
els toward our prisoners for the last sew
eral months, is not known or realized by
our people. and cannot but fill with hor-
Tor The civilized world when the facts
are fully revealed. There appears to
have been deliberate system OF savage
ana barbarous. treatment aud starvation, /,
the result of which will be that few, If
any, of the prisoners that have been IN
their hands during the past winter will
ever again be in condition TO render
any service, or even to enjoy life.
Your obediend servant.
EDWIN NJ. STANTON,
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-01-21

No. Il runs daily and No. daily kum Sala
manca and Buffalo. I Meal Stations.
Ask for tickets by way Of Rrie Railway
For Sale at all the PRINCIPAL Ticket Ofices
JEo. N. ABBOTT. Gen. Pas. Agt, N. Y.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-01-21
Lots of Lots for Sale !
1ac1-A Acres,
Near LIS. &M.s. Round House. on ,,r,,vold
Street.
HOUSE d Lot

Corner Of East Street and Bank Alley. And
2tneE desirable property IN the Village and at
istlf EDWARD 4. FITCH
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JOB PRINTERS.

2. @. FORD, Manufacturer and Desler4p Sad
dies, Harness. Brides. Collars, TFunkS. Wnips,
&C.. opposite Fisk Hsase. Ashtahula Ohio i6iB
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HOTELS.

AsHFABUL& HOUSE. r. c. Warrington,
Prop. This House has Just been thoroughly rem
ovatai aud refurnished. Livery and Omnibus
line connected WITH the House. lS1l
RIsK HOUSR,-Ashtabula, lohio,-A. Field.
Proprietor. An Omnibus running 70 and Irom
every train cfc4rs. Also, goOd hEery-snOle
kept in connection with this house, 70 convey
passengers q any polnts lze1
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MANUFACTURES.

O. @. CUEhEYF Manufacturer Of hath,
siding, Mouldingss eheese Boxes &C. Plani1e.
Matching and Scrowl Saving done on The
shortest notice. Shop on Main street, Oppo-
site the Upper Park Aahtabula. Ohio. 40
aART UDY. Dealer in Gra4Itoand
Aarble Nonhments Grave Stenea, Tablets, Man.
tells, Crates, sc. BnildiRR stone. FlagginE and
Cnrhing cut to order. Yard op Center street
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DENTISTS.

- D, z. KELLEY, D. D. 5. successor
SD to G. W.NelsOn. Main street, AshteDu-
Ia Q. o
"a r, e, HAIL, Dentist. Ashtabula. o;
40ihce Center street, between Main ana
: Park. go lye9 :
= - w, T. WALLAOE. D. D. S.,
Anhtahula, O., is prepared TO attend
0fftE4 to al operations in his profession.
x S4l1J Once HEin ct. head Of Ct ntre. once
hoGFD nom 70 s. Residence, Elm st- lsol
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HARNESS MAKER.

>. 3. YATROUs, Painter. Glszier. and
Paper haEger. All work done with neslnesS
Anc us-DIscn. li6O
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-01-21

GxSRrR WILLARD, Dealer in Hard
ware. saadisry, Nails. Iron, Steel, Drugs, Aedi-
clues, Pasnta, Oils, DyeStuns, &C.. Main 81 ss,
t.hI MD - lO9o
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-01-21

.uAKclN REWBERRK. Druggist and
Apothecary. and general dealer in Drugs, Meoi-
clues, Einss and Liquors for medical purposes;
etseutre Aahtabula.
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PAINTERS.

A. y. e KLR, House sad Sign Painters.
araluing, Paper Hanging and Giazilg. RsIsom
ialng snd Wall Paintings speciality. 800 Wood
lsnd ave-, Cleveland. D. Ali orders promptly
at.enaed to.i-and work executed in the neatest
llaiines. 1907
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BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
MERUHANTS.

x. @. TO MBES & CO., (H. c. Tombes, L.
q Rockwell, 4 A. G. Tom6es.) Wholesale Hnd
Retail Dealers in Groceries and Provisions.
Fruits aud Grain Agents for American and
Union Express Companies, and Cleveland Her
AID Asia street. Ashtabula. l3Js
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1876-02-16
Pray More-Worry Less.

A lady correspondent inquiries if this is
not good text for an article, pray more
worry less" Yes, manifestly, and the text
"preaches ITSELF" scarcely needs an extend
ed homily for its illustration and enforce
ment. Worry is the bane of the times. 1t
is everywhere. 1t comes in a thousand
forms, and from ten thousand sources, and
it's iulets are wide open in the hearts of the
multitude. People fret, and fume, and chafe
themselves into disease and wretchedness,
and finally to hamilton and an untimely
grave. And our correspondent is right in
the suggestion that the true antidote to ex-
cessive worry is more prayer.
There is passage in the divine word
philippians iv: g of which burnt out
Chicago friend gave an impromptu and
almost inspired analysis, as with his family
he sat down in his hired residence on the
evening after the great fire: "Be careful for
nothing, but in every thing, by prayer and
with thanksgiving, let your re-
quests be known unto God" "There,"
said he, &" that means just this, that we must
be care burdened with nothing, that we must
be thankful for anything. Let us pray"
And he knelt down and poured out his heart
in the spirit of that exegesiS, and then went
to his rest calm and tranquil as lake IN
stirred by ripple. We commend the pre-
scription to everybody, for these times and
for all times. Exchange.
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Levites that bore" it, Il Chron. XIV: zo,)
they sacrificed "seven bullocks and seven
rams, complete offering. When they had
placed the ark in the tabernacle another
offering was made. The preparations for
music, both vocal and instrumental were on
a magnificent scale, Il Chron. XIV: 1929
Their entry into the city of Jerusalem, their
ascent of Mt. Zion, bringing the ark into the
new tabernacle, was triumphal march, per-
haps never surpassed in the history of the
city of the Great King, save when the King
himself entered it from the opposite gates,
amid the hosanuas of the throng, soon to un-
veil the true ark to every spiritual worship
per. The xiv Psalm is generally supposed
to have been prepared for this occasion, and
at least seems we'll adapted to have been
sung by this vast choir, as they brought the
King of glory (symbolically) within the gates
and everlasting doors of this ancient city
David on that day gave another Psalm OF
thanksgiving into the hands of Asaph and
his brethren, used, it seems, after the ark
was deposited. Il Chron. xvi 1860 The
cxxxii Psalm, from which the golden text is
taken, is by some referred to this occasion
But, whilst it commentaries the event, Ii
was not composed till after Gods covenant
with David, possibly not by him at all, and
long after his reign. Let these three Psalm'
be read and compared with the history.
The old tabernacle still remained in Glib
con; high priest was appointed for eact
tabernacle; and worship kept up in both, til
the erection of the temple. IL Chron. i : 3
~ Why the original one was not brought tt
Jerusalem We can only conjecture.
A feast followed these religious services
"Then David returned to bless his house
hold"
Remark.-Public worship, however i'm
portant and profitable, does not obviate tn
necessity of family worship.
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"We have shells sometimes for breakfas

I" We have shells sometimes for breakfast,
father; what are they; asked Ben.
They are the shells of these seeds, which
are separated by roasting them gently" said
his father. "They have the taste of cocoa,
as you know, though much weaker. The
seeds, when winnowed from the shells and
pressed, are called cracked cocoa, or cocoa
nibs, and this is the purest form of the ar
ticle. Other ingredients are added in max
ing it into chocolate aud cocoa paste"
81 wonder" said ETY., "who first found
out all these things ?"
I" can tell you. said h'r father, "who
found out the uses of cocoa. The ancient
Aztecs used to prepare chocolate from it
with great skill. The Spanish conquerorS
of Mexico were delighted with the beVer-
age; indeed, it was found so nourishing that
a single cup of it, they said, would support
man through days march. They in
troduced the article into Spain, where its
preparation was kept secret long afterwards.
"Well, l am glad it is not secret now,
said ETY., for l like plenty of it,"
"You would agree with Linn@ns in the
name he gave the tree" said her father,
laughing. He called it TheObrOma, which
siguifed food for gods "Well," he con-
tinued, {" l believe we have done breakfast
and l think my little girl will know the
difference now between cocoa and cocoa
nuts" > Youths Magazine
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ID edmond AND DANVILLE RAILROAD
n On and after JANUARY Goth, 1876, the
trains on this road will run daily as follows:
TRAIN No. S.-THRoUeH Matthew York to
the South-Leaves Richmond at $3.50 a. M; leaves
Burkeville at a. M; leaves Dundee at l:39 p. M;
leaves Danville at 1:43 p. m; leaves Greensboro
at 4S6 p m. leaves Salisbury at 1854 p. M. arrives
at Charlotte at 9:l5 p. m.
TRAIN No. 4-NEw YORK and New ORLEANS
EXPRESS, Eastward-Leaves Charlotte at 8. As a. m. ;
leaves Airline Junction at g. % q. M; leaves Sails.
bury ct $50 a. NJ; leaves Greensboro at 10. SO D.
M; leaves Danyille at 1:S4 p. m. leaves Dundee at
LAG p. NJ; leaves Burkevile at 6:51 p. m. arrives
at Richmond at 9:S6 p. m.
TRAIN No. 5.-LYNCHBURG ACCOMMODATION
Westward-Leaves Richmond at q. M; arrives at
Burkeville at 1886 p. M. leaves Burkeville at D.
M, arrives at Lynchburg at $40 p. m.
TRAIN No. 6.-LYNCHBURG ACCOMMoDATION.-
Eastward-Leaves Burkeville at l:20 p. M; arrives
at Richmond at 4:S4 p. m.
TRAIN No. LOCAL BURKEvILLE ACCoMMoDA.
TON daily Except Sunday, Westward-Leaves
Richmond at p. M; arrives at Burkevie at 1918
q. m.
TRAIN No. 10.-LooAL BURKEvILLE AccoMMo
DATIoN, Eastward-Leaves Burkeville at 5:5S a. M;
arrives at Richmond at II m.
Trains Nos and connect at Richmond with
the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad
Trains Nos. 8 and connect at Greensboro with
trains to and from Raleigh and Godsboro.
All through trains connect at Richmond and Dun.
dee with trains on the Richmond, Fredericksburg l.
Potomac railroad, and Washington City, Virginia
Midland and Great Southern railroad to and from
Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and N. York.
Trains Nos. s and connect at Charlotte with
trains on the Atlanta and Richmond Airline rail
road to and from Greenville, Atlanta Montgomery,
Mobile Pensacola. New Orleans, and ali South
western points, and with the Charlotte, Columbia
and Augusta railroad for Columbia, Augusta, savan
nah, Tallahassee, and all southern points.
Train No. 6 connects at Burkevile with the At
lantic Mississippi and Ohio railroad from Lynch
burg, Chattanooga, and all Southwestern points.
Tickets sold 10 all southern and southwestern
points, and baggage checked through.
Unbroken gauge from Richmond to New Orleans.
Pullman seepers run on all night trains.
Local tickets are good only for continuous pas
S ge to the points named on the ticket. No lay.
over checks will be given.
T. M. R. TALCOTT,
Engineer and Superintendent
J. R. MACMURDo, General Passenger Agent.
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Your Evenings, Boys?

We hope that no boy who reads this is
going in the direction which Joseph Clark
took. 1t is safe, however, to receive warn
ing.
Great boys and little boys, here is ques-
ton which concerns you all How do you
spend your evenings? If your parents or
guardians allow you to 60 from home in the
evening, where do you go, and how is the
time spent?
Joseph Clark was as fne-looking and
healthy lad as ever left the country to go
into city warehouse. His cheek was red
with health, his arm strong, and his step
quick. His master liked his looks, and
said, "That boy will get on. )"
He had been a clerk about six months,
when Mr.. Abbott observed change in 10.
seph. His cheek grew pale, his eye hollow,
and he always seemed sleepy. Mr.. Abbott
said nothing for while. At length, fad.
ing Joseph alone in the counting house one
day, he asked him if he was we'll.
"Pretty well, sir, answered Joseph.
"You have looked sickly of late, said
Mr.. Abbott.
81 have the headache sometimes, sir,
the young man replied.
"What gives you the headache p asked
the merchant.
81 do not know, sir"
"Do you go to bed in good time ?"
Joseph blushed. GAS early as most Of
the young men, sir, he said.
"And how do you spend your evenings,
Joseph p
ooh, sir, act as my piOus mother would
approve" answered the young man, tears
standing in his eyes.
"Joseph, said the old merchant, "your
character and all your future usefulness and
prosperity depend upon the way you pass
your evenings. Take my word for it, it is
a young mans evenings that make him or
break him. "-Sabbath School Messenger.
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The BEST SERMoN.-People are always
listening to the "best sermon they ever
heard" At an advanced age, still hearing
the chest" we might conclude that they
started on very poor ones for this superla-
tive did not, perhaps, express the opinion Of
some other person equally able to judge
But there are various kinds of sermons
There is the doctrinal one, the biographical,
logical, illustrative, and various other styles ;
and men speaking of the "best" will mean
the best of those several kinds, Then men
are in varying conditions for hearing. If
they are full of joy, the best one will be glad
and enthusiastic If they are borne down
with sorrow, their praises are only for the
consoling and sympathetic. Just in SO far
as the sermon is suited to the nearer, and is
blest to his edifcation by the Holy Spirit,
will be End it such as he will greatly praise.
The really good nearer will find something
helpful in all, and now and then he will be
flooded with happy emotion.-Selected.
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" Our Church.

The words should be uttered with q strong
emphasis, as there is great meaning in them.
Old Christians, as they draw nearer to heav-
en-, tell US its meaning seems to Increase
We were born in it; baptized in the Church;
reared in it; our associations are in it; we
were received into the communion OF the
whole Church of our Lord we were married
by the ministers of the Church it buried
our children, and will bury US; our honored
parents loved it, were in it; and many, many
others whom We loved lived in the Church,
and through it, went to the Church of the
Redeemed above. Often had they said:
"Our Church." How they loved it Be-
sides, our Lord himself loves it. Perhaps
we can say, "Our Church" with more affec.
ton than we ordinarily do. Wewill try and
see. There seems to be no danger of loving
it too much, of serving it too efficieDtly-of
trusting and obeying its Lord and Saviour
too warmly; of pushing on too earnestly all
its interests, or even of enjoying too heartily
all its privileges What fountain of bles-
sings it has been to myriads, now with our
Lord through His grace, the gateway to
heaven for them and what source of bles-
sings to ourselves We should endeavor to
take in the full meaning of the words I" Our
Church" with its Saviour, its Sanctier and
Sealer, its Atoning Blood, its Worship, its
Precious Bible, and its Heaven the Church
above.
And it is "Our Church" Its gates also
are open day and night to all sad, sin-sick,
hopeless souls, strangers, this worlds or
phans, who will say, "Thy people shall be
my people and thy God my God; )" enter the
enclosure and become one of the House
hold of Faith" Warm hearts will say,
"Come and welcome; be strangers no more!'
In higher, better sense, it becomes us
ever to remember, that we belong to the
Church; it has its claims, it's privileges and
its authority over us. it possesses US, and
we in it, owe to our Lord allegiance, holy
example, living faith and a love and ser
vice which will be felt. The Church should
be great matter to each one, well loved
and served Wells. W. Presbyterian.
THE TRIED Christian is the one to be
| crowned
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Train leaving Richmond at 100 A M, runs daily
Sunday excepted, stopping at all regular stations
Train leaving Richmond at 1910 runs
daily, stopping at Hanover, Louisa Gordonsville
Charlottesville, Ivy, Mediums River, Greenwood
Waynesboro, Stauntop, Goshen Millboro.' Coving
ton, and all regular stations west of Allegheny.
Accommodation train leaves Richmond for Cor
louisville and all intermediate stations daily lex
cept Sunday at P. M.
Sleeping car runs on 10 90 P M train between
Richmond and White Sulphur.
Trains arrive at Richmond as follows:
Express Train daily ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 45 A NJ
Mail Train daily Except Sunday all. 40 P NJ
Accom- on Train daily Except Sunday at $40 M
Trains coming into Richmond stop at stations as
above.
Trains make close connection with trains of the
Richmond and Danville and Richmond and Peters.
burg railroad, both to and from Richmond.
For through tickets rates, and information, apply
at 1876 Main street, or st the compsnys Office Broad
street near Sixteenth.
CONWAY R. HOWARD,
General Passenger and Ticket Agent
w. M. s. DUNN, Epgr and Supt Transportation.
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Central 4resbgttrlan,
GOING OUT WITH THE TIDE.


Raise me up in my bed, wife.
There's the sound of the sea in my ear;
And it sings to my soul in a music
That earth is not blessed to hear.
Open the little window, wife,
Then come and sit by my side;
Wen wait Gods sweet food water
To take me out with the tide
l see the hsrbor bar, wife,
And my dear little boat in the bay
But who shall be able to guide her
When her master hath passed away
1 know that her helm, so trusty,
VIII answer no other hand
As it answered mine, when | knew, wife,
You were waiting for me on the strand.
Our boys are all before US, wife,
Wee Jack is beneath the wave,
And blue-eyed Freddie sleeps, wife,
In yonder yew.bowed grave,
Where the early daises cluster,
Around his baby bed,
And the thrush sits chanting softer
In Won tree that shades the dead.
There chill that runs through our hearts, wlte'
When the harbor bar doth moan;
But darker grief viii be yours, wife,
When you're left in the cot alone;
But few more flows Of the sea, wife.
And few more Gibbs of the tide,
Then Gods sweet flood shall bring you
Again to your old mans side
The red sun is low in the west wife,
And the tide sinks down with the sun;
We will mart with each other in love, wife,
Forsweetly our lives have run.
Give me your hand, my own love,
As you gave it in days Of yore
We will clasp them, ne er to be sundered'
When we meet on the iar-OH shore
Chambers Journal
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The INFLUENCE OF CARLYLE's SINCERITY,
hatred of all shams and impostures, and the
simplicity of his honesty, as exemplifed in
his writings, is curiously illustrated by an
anecdote which we find related in the Chris
tian World, of London. The writer, re-
counting his reasons for gratefulness to Car
lyle, among other lessons derived from the
venerable thinker, says: owe are grateful
for the lessons of integrity and purity which
he has impressed on the hearts of thousands.
1t is told of tanner whose manufacture has
always been remarkable for excellence that,
talking to friend the other day, he said, If
had not read Carlyle should never have
made my leather SO good" This is a
thought which should encourage the virtu.
Gus in well-doing and right speaking. Even
though the results Of such course may not
be very conspicuous, yet if such an example
incites fellow man to be upright and ust
in his private calling-to make good honest
leather, mayhap-it will not have been fruit
less. There is perpetual truth and wisdom
in the saying of our Lord GA city that is
set on hill cannot be hid. Neither do men
light candle, and put it under bushe,
but on a candlestick and it giveth light
unto all that are in the house. Let your
light shine before men,
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The Coming Revival.

But is it coming? Are Gods people to
feel new life? Is Gods word to become
quick and powerful ? Are souls to be con-
verted in scores and hundreds We hope 80.
The churches seem to expect it. Wise men,
who study carefully the signs of the times,
encourage our hope. England has been
aroused as though beacon burned on every
hill, top, and thousands have found the Lord
Christians are hoping and praying that it
may be so here. Must we think that it may
not come? Indeed, it may not. But if 1t
do not, we are sure the fault is not with
God. He is ready and waiting to bless all
our churches, and all our souls. 1t will not
be because there is no need of it, for the
churches are cold, conversions few, and thou
sands daily perishing in their sins. On! we
need great revival
What shall we do to aid its comiDg?-
First, search our own hearts, and cast the
world and the devil out of them. Pray for
the Holy Ghost in our own hearts. Then
We must renew our vows to God, in our
closet, and before the people of the Lord,
and then We must testify for Christ. We
must carry the message of mercy to dying
men. We must not leave one thing belong,
ing in any way to US, to be done by some
body else. We must feel burdened for souls
by praying much for them. God alone can
truly revive His work, but we must pray for
it, and if Christian people will feel and act
thus, the revival will not alone be coming,
but will be already here.-SOwsr and Gospel
Field.
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Central 4rssbptuian,
Office ao. l0l6 Main street, nearly opposite
tho Post Office.
TIE r Ms.

Three Dollars year, payable in adodnes.
PAYMENTS may be made to local agents wherever
practicable; all ministers of our Church are author.
ised to act as SUCH Or by checks, Post.oce money
orders, or letters Registered by Postmaster Other.
wise IT MUST BIZ AT TEE RISK OF TIE PARTY surp
ING IT.
OsIruARIrs.- at ten cents line. The
party sending can make the estimate by countin,
eight words to line. Payment in aisanes.
CoNNUNIOATIoxs AND LKrTsRs Oh Bus1unssr
should be addressed to Central Presbyterian Boz
81 Richmond, w.