Morning journal and courier., 1882-04-25
Price Four Gents.


satisfaction on the part or the pubic with re- igious oyster ste~s. The truth is that the festival managers had been compelled to practice an economy in oysters to which the pubic mind and palate refused to be recon ciled. The well established rule in preparing stewed oysters for church festivals was that one oyster should be used with every quart of water, and that in serving customers half of an oyster only should be given to each one One quart of oysters, in accordance with this system, was expected to furnish sufficient food for one hundred people. and as the original quart rarely cost over fifty cents and each stew made from it was sold for thirty cents it followed that 8 clear prof 1t of nearly thirty dollars could be made from every quart of oysters Of course where church festival was attended by four or five hundred people the profits oE the oys- ter department were very large and. indeed, in most cases averaged double those of the ice cream department.
 While this system was financially a bril- liant success 1t was not satisfactory to hun gry people. It was complained, and with some show of justice, that while an oyster stew ought to preserve some little of the true oyster flavor. church stews tasted Of nothing but warm water and butter. Attempts were made by liberal and public-spirited church fiocers from time to time to time to remedy this fault by adding to church stews various favoring extracts, tine most popular of which was Smiths Ecclesiastical Oyster Es- sence." The attempts, however, were uni formly failures. The il vOring extracts did not plausibly initiate the flavor of the oyster, and in many instances complaints were meds that the church cooks had mixed ham or onions with their oysters, and that they uere simpl, bringing disgrace upon sacred cause.
 The invention of the church festival spoon at once put stop to all complaint This spoon, every one now knows, Is impreg- mated so thoroughly with the flavor of the oyster that the person who uses il in oOnnec- tion with any sort of food tastes nothing but the pure oyster flavor. During the past win ter those church festivals ct which ths ingeu- ious spoon WAS used were able totally to dis card oysters. Their oyster stews were made of nothing but warm water, little oleomar- garine, and sprinkling of salt and pepper, but when they were eaten with the church spoon the customers agreed with one voice that they had never tasted more delicious oyster stews in the whole course of their lives. The festival managers were thus enabled to save the cost of two or three quarts of oys- ters and to give complete satisfaction to ths public-a state of things without parallel in the memory of the oldest and most pious in- habitant.
 It WAS obvious that the conception of aa- vored spoon need not be confined to the mar row field of oysters. The soups prepared at most of our city restaurants bear close rela- ton to church festival stews in their compo- sition. They are made upon basi. Of warm water and oleomargarine, to which 3 few grains of rice, few sticks of TermlcelG, or scrap of bone added accor ing to the style of soup ordered by the customer In point of flavor they are all precisely alike, having nothing whatever except such ss is communicated by pepper and salt Now, the adaptation of the idea of the church festival IL l.. as soon as the success of the original spoon was established The public will, therefore. hardly be surprised to learn that 8 complete set of fsvoring spoons, designed for the gen eral market, has just been manufactured by well known chemist.
 In restaurants where these spoons are used all soup will consist of nothing but warm water with enough oleomargarine to furnish a slight greasy surface The customer may order any one of the twenty-five varieties of soup for which faVoriug spoons have so far been devised, and he will receive in every in- stance precisely the same soup Nevertheless, with the aid of the havoring spoon. he will enjoy what to his palate will present itself ss the sort of soup which he had ordered The simplicity ard cheapuess of this system will be apparent at glance, and it is thought that the receipts of an average down town restaurant will be increased ct least 30 per cent. by the use of the new havoripg spoons.
 Undoubtedly the grand ides Of imprisoning flavor in 8 spoon instead of an article of food is susceptible of still further expansion We may yet be able to convert potatoes into dozen different vegetables-so far as taste is concerned-by using faYoring spoons. and the system may even be applied to eever- ages. Certainly, the church festival spoon was one of the grRndest ideas of the age, and may yet sit down to 8 gorgeous bunqust the variety and charm of which wilI consist entirely in the careful selection and arrange ment of favoring spoons
 Confessing a Murder for ygnfen TsroI Iu-
 nocent Men Were Hanged.
 In March Bill Ludlow and Al WeissInger were privately executed at Selma, Ala. for the killing of Mir Weissinger. and their guilt (although up to the last moment they strongly asserted their innocence) WAS not questioned by anyone. so conclusive was the evidence against them. Since the hanging matters on the Weissinger plantations have not been altogether lovely" as it was be- lieved by many white people, which belief was largely shared by negroes that there were three besides the two who were hanged concerned in the crime and threats were freely made that it would go hard with any one who had assisted at the tragedy. Last Wednesday afternoon Henry Ivy, who has been haunted by thoughts of the execution and was suffering from bangs of conscience, made clear confession of the crime, pro nouncing himself as the man who really did the killing, and duplicating his brother. Porter Ivy, who received | life sentence for his share in the crime, and Tim Acoff who was then at large on the plantation. The confession was made without fear or com pufsion to seven intellizent white men. Ivy and Acoff were immediately arrested and taken before Squire Gwyuu, who held them to await the action Of the grand jury.
 When it became generally known on the neighboring plantations that Ivy had made a confession the negroes became greatly ex- cited, and it was only with great exertion on the part of the white people that they were kept from hanging the culprit then and there. Ivy was very unpopular with his own people. many of whom declared that he and his brother swore away the lives of Ludlow and Weissinger. After some trouble the prisoners were given in charge of three white guards, and were by them taken to & school house not far distant for safe keeping through the night At , o'clock in the morning while one of the guards was absent getting a drink of water, forty masked men tthought to be all whites} rode up to tho building. quickly overcame and bound and gagged the guards, and rode of with the 1 negroes, who in vain pleaded for mercy and just one more day" of life. This much of the story is known to be true, and what
 
 ! conjecture, though that, it seems in this case. | would be sufficient to show to what end the
 murderers came. An old and highly respee- | table citizen of Browns station is strongly
 suspected of (if not having had a leading | hand in the transactIon) knowing all the par | ticulars thereof. He refused to talk at length. | but said: ''If you tell your paper that the
 seoundrels were lynched you won't be far | wrong" at the same time producing the written confession of Ivy, which goes into | ali the horrible details of the old man Weis- ! singers murder, and explains many perplex- | ing questions that arose during the trial 4
 party of negroes passing through the woods | near the school house late Thursday evening | discovered the lifeless body of Ivy hanging l from the limb of a tree. AcofFs body has not | been found yet but that it wil be is highly 1 probable, as it Is nov known that the lynch l CTS were in earnest and did their work thor l ouphly and at the same time with great
 rapidity.
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 l is three times the man he WAS before he began ! using Wells Health Remover. Sl. Drug !