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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-03-07
Addition and Silence.

Binks was calling on the apple of his
eye. He picked up a volume of 'Lucille"
and ran across an inscription on fly
leaf.
"Ah! a PRESENT." he remarked.
eyes, from dear friend, oh, ever 30
long ago-seven or eight years."
$50 long as that2"
"Oh, yes. was quite little girl. ="
When three weeks had gone by without
the regular e. o. d. appearance of Binks,
and it began to look as though he really
meant it, she looked up the book and
found the explanation in the inscription.
1t read:
"To Miss Clara on her Goth birthday"
That fly leaf is torn out now Chicago
Mail
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-03-07
Recipes.

DELICIOUS RICE PUDDING.-Wash and
pick q cupful of rice; put into pudding
mold with one quart of milk; steam for
two hours. Eat with cream and sugar.
Boston BROWN BREAD STEAMED
Cut into slices q loaf of stale Boston
brown bread. Put kettle Of hot water
on the range. On it place the steamer,
put the slices in it, cover and steam lit.
teen minutes. When done butter quickly
and serve on hot plate.
BAKED CHEEsE.-Take one cup and q
half of finely chopped or grated cheese,
add half cup of bread crumbs, one cup
full of milk, one egg, beaten light, lit
tie red pepper and salt to taste. Put it
in q buttered dish and bake fifteen
minutes in quick oven. This is a good
way to use the last of piece OF cheese,
when it becomes too dry to be nice
alone.
PESR1TH PUDDING. thin slices of
bread and butter, spread them with
stewed cranberries. Make q custard by
mixing one pint of milk with two well
beaten eggs and four tablepoonfuls of
sugar. II this is not enough to cover the
bread and butter double the quantity.
Bake until the custard is set. This is a
good way to use stale bread. Serve the
pudding cold.
SWEET POTATOES SAUcE.-This is o
very fine way of utilizing left over
sweet pctatoes Fry a slice of onion in
pan; then remove it. Cut up two
boiled sweet potates into slices, then
into dice, and fry them lightly in the
pan. Shape them as you would an ome-
let, add salt and pepper and little
chopped parsley, and turn out on hot
dish. The onion favor removes the pc
culiar flavor OF the cold potatoes without
its own flavor being recognized. Ii the
onion is not objected to it CAN remain
and be mixed with the potatoes.
KIDNEY BEANS IN GRAVY The red
kidney bean, which is called the French
bean by some dealers, is very nutrl-
tious aud wholesome vegetable, and may
be cooked as our ordinary white bean,
hut with gravy it is more desirable, as
it NAV be served at almost any meal.
Put in the frying pan an ounce of but
ter, half teaspoonful of dry -four, and
q teaspoouful of minced onion, brown
slightly, and add half Il p MT of Ieel
gravy or rich soup stock; add the neces
sary salt and pepper. Now add quart
of cold boiled beans; simmer long
enough to heat them thoroughly: add Il
squeeze Of lemon juice, and they are
ready for the table. If the beans are
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-03-07
He Only Wanted to See.

Judge Gerald Cummings is a respected
resident of Fort Worth, Texas, notwith-
standing that he is immensely stout and
a member of the legal profession. He
tried many anti-fat remedies to reduce
his weight, but without any satisfactory
result. He finally went to the Hot
Springs in Arkansaw, and much to his
Joy he lost considerable adipose tissue,
and returned to Fort Worth in o most
happy frame of mind. He thought and
talked of nothing else except his loss Of
flesh.
He went to market one morning re-
Gently and said to the butcher:
"Cut me off twenty pounds of pork. /"
The request was complied with. The
Judge looked at the meat for some time
and then walked off.
"Shall l send the meat to your house,
judge? asked the butcher.
NO" was the reply, ~ don't want
it. l have fallen off just twenty pounds,
and I only wanted to see how much it
was.-7sras Sittiags.
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Onots Was Fooled.

In the basement Of Police Headquarters
is q room where the officers n charge of
the patrol wagon lounge about while
waiting for signal. To while away the
time a table aud box of dominoes
have been procured. Last evening
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-03-07

The debating club at Centralia, ILL.,,
recently discussed the proposition: eff
nv hen flies over into yrnr yard aud lays
an eug, and your hen ha;ches chicken
from it, which hen is the mother of the
chickeu;n
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-03-07

A letter from Versailles, Mo. announces
that tho post.oftice of that thriving burg
is decorated with q pla ard bearing
this strange device: Stamps, 2 cents;
stamps lie cd, 8 cents; stamps licked
and stuck, cents.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-03-07

One of the latest uses to which paper
has been put is the building of chimneys.
1t is ma lie il the form of blocks which
are joined with silicious cement.
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Some Simple Remedies.

For a sore throat cut slices of fat,
boneless bacon, pepper thickly, and tie
around the throat with a flannel CLOTH
When stung by bee or wasp, make q
paste of common earth and water, put
on the place at once and cover with a
cloth. For cold on the chest flannel
rag wrung cut in boiling water and
sprinkled with turpentine, laid on the
chest, gives the greatest relief. When
q felon first begins to make its appear
ance, take lemon, cut off one end, put
the finger in and the longer it is kept
there the better. For cough, boil one
ounce of faxseed in pint of water,
strain and aid little honey, one ounce
of rock candy, and the juice of three
lemons; mix and boil well. Drink as
hot as possible. Often after cooking a
meal person will feel tired aud have
no appetite. For this beat raw egg
until light stir in a little milk an sugar
and season with nutmeg. Drink half an
hour before eating. For burn or scald
make paste of common baking soda
and water, apply at once and cover with
a linen cloth. When the skin is broken
apply the white Of all egg with feather;
this gives instant relief, as it keeps the
air from the flesh. At the first signs of
a run-round, take cup of wood ashes,
put in pan with u quart Of cold water,
put the pan on the stove, put your finger
in the pan, keep it there until the water
begins to boil or as long as it can be
borne. Repeat once or twice if neces-
Good Housekeeping.
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-07-13

hillocks ~hich line the left bank OF PluQa
run. But Gems Ayres and Crawford,
Fifth corps, with Maj. McGilvery's reserve
artillery and part Of Gen. Slocum's corps,
drawn from Culp's HILL are soon In position;
and, outnumbering the Confederate troops
massed at this point, are enabled to render
futile any further attempt to seize the
Union vantage ground. With the dark.
ness the conflict ceases, leaving thousands OF
both sides on the field, wounded, dying and
dead
At the other end Of the line furious
attack had been made for the possession OF
Cemetery and Culp's Hills. just at sunset
the defenders of Cemetery Hill saw the Con-
federate brigades of Hays and Hoke with
the famous Louisiana Tigers, who had never
yet failed In a charge pressing forward over
the stone walls into the very heart OF the
Union troops. The widest confusion pre-
vailed, till friend and foe could scarcely be
distinguished from each other in the melee,
the men at the Union guns defending them
with spikes, hammers and even stones, Han
cocks unerring vigilance had foreseen this
attack, and he had sent CAROLS brigade to
the rescue. With wild shouts Of defiance
they hurled back the Tigers, who finally re-
treated with the loss Of 200 men, AT Culp's
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Ridge
Between the right of the First corps, on
Oak Ridge, and the left of the Eleventh corps,
on Carlisle road, was a gap Of a quarter OF q
mile, and here had been stationed a battery
commanding the positions both Of the First
and Eleventh corps. At the same time Early
advanced on the right Of the Eleventh corps
and doubled it up; then, as each Union di-
vision or brigade broke, it reiterated to the
town. The battle rolled on along Ewell's line
toward Doubleday, and he drew Robinson's
reserve division from the rear of the position
on Willoughby run and sent it north Of the
Chambersburg pike, to cover the gap in the
angle between the First and Eleventh corps.
Here, too, desperate fight ensued for the
battery on Oak fill commanded all that por-
ton of the field which the First corps was
attempting to hold, while the Confederate
infantry, under cover of its fire, advanced
boldly across Willoughby run, seized knoll
after knoll of the ridges along the Chambers
burg pike, and, when the Eleventh corps
failed to keep up the battle on the north,
Wadsworths troops had to face in both di-
rections in order to beat back the onrushing
columns of Ewell from the north and Hill
from the west. Many of Ewell's troops fol-
lowed the retreating Eleventh corps into the
town, to the very base of Cemetery Ridge,
where they were seeking shelter, thus getting
into the rear of Doubleday's command. Then
Doubleday fell back to Seminary Ridge, the
last ridge of the series, and one by one his
regiments withdrew to Cemetery Ridge fight
ing in many instances for their right of way
through the streets.
The first days battle was ended; the ap-
proaches to the north and west all lay open
to the Confederates, and the last outlying
knoll, with every piece of woods, the town,
with its brick and stone buildings and the
terraced walls of it's streets, all places of adj
vantage in battle, were in Lees possession.
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FIELD ON THE UNION LEFT-SECOND DAY.
ments of Longstreet's men could no longer
be concealed these opened fire upon the
neighboring woods of Warfield, receiving
speedy answer. Wilcox, of Anderson's
division (Confederate), and Graham (Union),
both send out skirmisEers, and the musketry
fire grows hotter and fercer and, as Hood
has advanced upon Ward, Birney's whole
force soon becomes actively engaged. Ward
fought bravely against Anderson's and
Bennings brigades, but his line was long and
weak, and being concealed by the nature Of
the ground, the enemy could concentrate at
any point With an eye to secure Round
Top, Hood now thrust his right, Laws
division and part of Robertson's, be-
tween Ward and that peak, and had Lee but
known the real condition of things at this
point of the ridge he might perhaps have
concentrated his whole force upon the Union
left At this time only thin curtain of
of men, the Ninety ninth Pennsylvania, hung
in front of the hill Gen. Warren, chief en-
gineer on Meades staff, had used the hill as
signal station, and arriving at this most OPP
perfume moment for he found the men in the
very act of rolling up their flags and prepar-
ing for hasty departure), he soon OWNED
had just passed to the front with Barnes di-
vision to the help of Sickles, ordered Col
Vincent, with his brigade and Hazlitt's bat
terry, to occupy the foot of Little Round Top
But the Confederate sharpshooters are al
ready climbing up among the rocks on its
western base Ordering the signal flags to
be kept flying in spite of the enemys fire,
Warren now secures Weeds brigade of the
e.,
with the One Hundred and Fortieth New
York, is scaling the hill on the north just as
Vincent reaches its southern extremity.
With a yell the Confederates rush upon
Vincent, while Hazlitt's battery, which has
been virtually carried to the top, directs its
fire upon the enemy. With dubbed
muskets and crossed bayonets, a close
and bloody hand to hand struggle en-
sues; the open spaces between the rocks
are filled with the bodies of the dying
and the dead; O'Rorke is killed; Gen. Weed,
who followed O'Rorke, lies dying upon the
ground, and the brave Hazlitt, while bend
ing over to receive his last words, meets with
like fate. But the Round Tops remain in
the possession of the Union forces The main
attack is now directed toward the orchard,
where the salient, the key note to Sickles'
p0SltlOn, mas dlItauy Deen UTOkeh III by the
raking fire of the enemys artillery. Ker-
shaw leaps upon Graham from the south,
Barksdale from the front, batteries are taken
and retaken; Graham is wounded and cap
tured; Sickles, with a shattered leg. is carried
off the field. Wright, Perry and Wilcox dis
lodge Humphreys in the center, Barnes, of
the Fifth corps, and Caldwell, of the Second,
who have been sent with divisions to Birneys
assistance on the Wheat Field, are driven
back. Cross and Zook, of Caldwells di-
vision. are killed and the Union troops, most
of them in disorder, fall back on the wooded
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THE THIRD DAY.

The morning of the Sd of July found the
two armies in the position in which they had
been left by the conflicts Of the day preced-
ing. Lees troops were in possession Of the
Devils Den and it's adjoining woods, and the
ridges along the Emmitsburg road, Ewell
still holding part Of the breastworks on
Culp's Hill, with an outlet to the Baltimore
pike; and Cemetery Ridge, Cemetery Hill
and the Round Tops remaining intact in the
hands of the UnioLists. With the hope that
victory might yet be in store for the army Of
northern Virginia, Johnson's force at Culp's
Hill had been considerably strengthened, but
before his preparations to advance there had
been completed, Slocum had organized an
attack upon johnson and opened terrific
fire, which elected as furious an one in re-
turn. After seven hours of contest the Con-
federates were driven out of the intrench-
ments they had thrown up on Culp's Hill,
and pushed back to the left bank of Rock
Creek, leaving three stands of colors and 500
prisoners in Slocum's hands. Ruger's and
Geary's divisions of the Twelfth corps, with
Shalers brigade of the Sixth corps, had
borne the brunt of this attack, aided by the
artillery on Powers and McAllister's Hills, a
little to the south of Culp's In the meantime
Fitzpatrick, with Merritt's and Farnsworth's
brigades of cavalry, has crossed Plum Run
south of the Round Tops, and just as john
son is retreating toward Rock Creek north
east of the ridge-11 q. m.-kilpatrick is
seen emerging into the open fields southwest,
threatening the Confederate supply trains
stored along the Emmetsburg road. Msr-
rift deployed on the left, where he became
engaged with Anderson's Georgia brigade;
while Farnsworth, with his First Vermont
regiment, charges upon the Fourth Alabama,
and after leaping the stone fences that hedge
his pathway, is killed in gallant attempt to
ride down the enemys guns. His regiment
was broken up and forced to retire in detach-
ments. Fitzpatrick soon afterward fell back,
and though he had failed in his original pur
pose, and had lost some very valuable men,
his movement had this important result-he
weakened Longstreet's force, and prevented
Lee from detaching any troops from this
part of the field to aid in assaults elsewhere.
The Confederate commander finally resolved
to make Ziegler's Grove, near the western
base of Cemetery Hill, the objective point of
a final attack. With this in view, the ridge
from which Humphreys and Graham had
been dislodged the day before, extending
from the Peach Orchard to the point COM
handing the Emmetsburg road, east OF the
Codori house, is armed with seventy-tive
pieces of artillery, while Hill has placed
sixty-three more in position along the pro-
longation of Seminary Ridge. The troops
which were to participate in the desperate
assault, under cover of these cannon, were in
position behind the ridges west OF the En-
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vision, First corps, was directed to hold the
Fairfield road, and to protect the flank of the
force fighting between that and the Cham
bersburg road; also to prevent the enemy
from getting between the First corps and the
supporting column of the Eleventh corps,
coming up from the south on the Emmets-
burg road, through the town. Screened by
the trees, the Confederates crossed Will
loughby run midway between the Cham
bersburg and Fairfield roads, The leading
brigade, Archer's, was captured; at a high
price, however, for here Reynolds was killed
by sharpshooter, while directing a counter
charge ON Archer. For several hours this
spot was the scene of conflict between the
Confederate divisions Of Heth and Fender,
and those of Doubleday and Wadsworth, of
the First corps. The command of the First
corps devolved upon Gen. Abner Doubleday
on the death of Reynolds. Doubleday de-
cided to continue the fight and hold the
ground, until he was driven back, or until
he should be recalled by superior orders
The remaining division Of the First CORPS
Robinson's, he put to constructing breast
works on high ground in the rear of the bat
tlefield toward Gettysburg. In the mean
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form straight line; In fact his line pro.
sented convex surface 70 the enemy, while
the latter overlnpped the TANKS Of the
Eleventh corps. Ewell then placed Early's
division across the right OF Towards line
and ut right angles it, His own extreme
right rested on the Johannesburg road, about
100 yards north OF the right Of the First
corps, where the road crosses Oak Ridge, the
very ridge that the First corps was defend
ing againt Hill. Planting battery on Oak
Hill, the highest point OF the ridge, he had
the opportunity OF sweeping the First corps
Gettysburg's first days battle, the battle Of
Oak Ridge, in favor OF the Confederates.
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Hill, where Greene has been left alone with
brigade to defend the Union lines 1.-THE other
brigades of the Twelfth corps having been
detached by Slocum to REINFORCE Sickles on
the left, johnson with Stonewall Jacksons
veterans is battling fiercely for a foothold.
He is driven back again and again, until,
finding it impossible either to break down or
dislodge Greene he pushes past the hill, and
is almost within reach of the Baltimore pike
and Meade's reserve artillery when night
sets in and he is obliged to halt. And so the
day closed-the Confederates bafiied, but
exultant on the left, partly victorious on the
right-Meade far from confident as to the
final result. Both commanders held councils
of war during the night, and found that
while neither side had gained much, both
had sustained heavy losses.
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THE FIRST DAY.

It is generally admitted by participants on
both sides that Gettysburg was field OF &C
cidents and mistakes. The reader of history,
who shall follow in detail the varying fort
unes of that battle, will find story, wherein
accident follows accident, and mistake is sue
ceeded by mistake, each chapter being filled
with remarkable happenings. To begin with,
1t was an accident, or something like it, that
caused the Confederate leader of the bold in
vasion north of the Potomac in the summer
of 1868 to be kept in ignorance of the move
The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1888-07-13
GETTYSBURG.
The Closely Contested Fight Of
July l, 2 and 3, 1868.
GEN. LEES LAST INVASION.
Imminent Danger Of the Wealthy Cities
Of the North.

Rapid March NOrthward Of the Army OF
the POtOmac-Seixure OF Gettysburg
Heights and the Death Of Gen. Rey-
Dolds-Defense Of Round Top, Cemetery
Hill, Culp's Hill and Cemetery Ridge.
How Pickett's Charge Was Repulsed
and Stuart's Cavalry Baffied.
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IShOWlng F1CkeIt CHaIgt
airy attack ON the Confederate right hank'J
mitsburg road. Pickett's division, OF
Longstreets corps. had arrived during
the night from Chambersburg, and as his
men had not been in either of the two days
battles, and were full of enthusiasm, the
honor of leading in the attack devolved upon
them They now lay between the Marfieid
Ridge and the Codori house, with Wllcoxs
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time Howard reached the town with his
Eleventh corps, while north Of Gettysburg
and ON the right rear of the First corps
line on Willoughby run, Ewell's advance
was skirmishing with Buford's cavalry. In
order to prevent this First corps line from
being completely turned by Ewell, Howard
advanced and deployed on both sides of the
Carlisle road, but he did not get so far as to
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-08-08
ASTRONOMICAL IT'D BITS.

Red pepper on almost everything is gas
tronomic "fad" for which there " no ex-
PLANTATION.
The infusion Of wine or brandy into water
melon is the fashionable thing at Newport
dinner parties.
Some idiot, claiming to be doctor, rises
in his insanity to say that macaroni is good
for dyspepsia. Nonsensel
However abundant sardines may be in
French waters this season, the price per box
will not 60 down III this country.
For bediamonded women who suck their
fingers at watering place hotel tables, finger
bowls are as unnecessary as elephants
The head carver at the watering place
hotel may not snub the people in the dining
room, but he gives them the ''cut direct"
They have way at the Virginia White
Sulphur Springs of baking eggs and serving
them with delicious herb sauce for break
fast.
One would think the summer hotel steaks
guilty of the toughest crimes to get the
pounding they do TO so in masquerading as
tenOeriOluSl
Waffles, corn fritters and sweetbread pat
ties, are, as of yore, gastronomic specialties
at Thayer's and at Tunnecliffe's, on Otsego
lake, Cooperstown.
Fish and gamo dinners, of which a spc-
cialty is made at the Point Lookout hotel
Long Beach, are pronounced equal to those
Of ''Taft's," in Boston harbor.
Midday lunch and Sunday night teas are
tho gastronomic rocks on which most Of the
summer hotels split, and no man could live
by those attenuated meals alone
Watermelons for the Christmas dinner are
not an impossibility. 1t is said that they
will keep perfectly if put away in NOW Of
well cured hay, free from dampness.
A Tampa, Fla, orange grower expert
mented in small way with packing oranges
in dry sand, and finds that some thus treated
the first of last December have kept as fresh
as if just picked
The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-08-08
improvements la Passenger Cars.

Chief among the new features IS promised
a place where thirsty and bibulous men may
drink nnoticcd 10y fair passengers. This Is
all right as far as masculinity IS concerned
But in this perfectiug Of the means OF
travelling the far sex should receive re-
membrance A car wherein women may
enjoy more privacy in the dressing room
is needed quite as much as a car that
holds the counterpart OF a hotel bar room.
Men love to drink unseen of women, 10 less
than women hope to fix up unseen Of men
to use brush and comb in place sacred to
their own sex. The average sleeping can
holds no such place, and the car perfect in
this respect has not yet appeared Dressing
at the rate of forty miles an hour possesses
for iemininity many emDalrassmenis not yet
eliminated by the ingenious designers and
builders of the modern railroad car.-Fitts-
burg Bulletin.
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Gen. Uazcn's Novel Idea,

A correspondent writes Of the old home OF
Gen Hazen, OF the signal service. 1t - three
miles north of GalTettsvillc, on the C.eve-
land and Mahoning railroad; the farm,
which is one Of the richest in the county
comprising tract Of ninety acres. Located
in the center, with the land sloping in each
direction, is villa of the southern style OF
architecture, it being a story and half, with
a large, roomy veranda running around the
entire structure. During the war Cen
Hazen was gallant soldier, and after com
ing home he purchased the country residence
and carried out novel idea by planting
trees in such u manner as to resemble an
army on the eve of battle. At one part AZ
pear half a dozen officers in council, Il,
another is seen the skirmish line, while to tie
rear of them arc the troops masSed i'll solii
column Cincinnati Enquirer