Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-03-20
UNDER SENTENCE OF DEATH.
The Convicted Murderers In Jail-Re-
greet to Hear Of Another Homicide.

The killing Of Cora Hawkins in South WASH
ington last Thursday by her husband, Benja-
min Hawkins. a cart driver, created feeling
Of uneasiness in what is known rs ''Murderer's
row" at the District Jail. The Hawkins muir
der was committed late at night, bat 1t was
early the next morning when the news reached
the prisoner. Frederick Barber, the negro
who threw Agnes Watson into the canal in
Georgetown, was visibly affected by the receipt
of the news that there was another to be added
to their number. He expressed himself as
sorry that Hawkins did not wait until the court
had taken some action in his (Barbers) case.
He had expected favorable action and was con-
fident that his attorneys. Messrs Ferguson and
Cahill would succeed in their endeavors to OBJ
tain for him q new trial. but the fact that Hawk
ms killed his wife he thought would have bad
effect not only On his case, but also on the case
of the other prisoners convicted OF murder
Albert Dodson one of these, also expressed
the latest homicide. The three condemned
men-William Briggs, Nelson Colbert and Will
lam Green-are still making preparations for
their execution. Their cases are now pending
before the court in banc, where arguments are
to be heard on motions for new trials. In the
case of Briggs, his counsel, Mcdowell Caring
ton. expects a new trial. He says he does not
think that his client ought to be hanged, nor
has he any idea that he will be. Errors in the
trial and newly-discovered evidence are the
ground on which a motion for new trial is
asked. The cases of the other condemned men
will also be argued before the court in banc on
exceptions. The time for the executions, as
fixed by Judge Montgomery, is drawing near,
only sixteen days remaining in which counsel
can make moves to prolong the lives of their
clients. The cases must be argued and. decided
in that time unless there is a stay of execution.
1t ls generally supposed that the execution will
not take place on the day now fixed but that a
stay will be granted, and that perhaps one of
the prisoners may be granted a new trial.
JOhnny-Cake and Slap-Jacks.
To the Editor of THE EVENING STAR:
The article on '!Americanism," copied from
The Wisconsin,, must have been written by an
Englishman. Certainly the writer was never
in Virginia, or he would not have Numbered
into counfounding 'Johnny-cake" and "bat-
ter-bread." Both were as we'll known in the
Old Dominion q use the past tense), and are
distinct in character as hot rolls and waffies.
Johnny-cake is, fear, thing Of the past.
it had to be baked before an open fire, the
dough being stiff. as for hoe-cake, and baked
on a board set up edgewise before the fire.
place. Batter-bread is yet an institution in the
old state. and is made of corn-meal made into
thin batter, with milk and eggs (egg pone)
and baked in spider if an open-hearth fire is
used. or in deep tin-pan in the ordinary cook
ing stove. 1t should be from to 3 inches
deep, and Drowned well on the upper surface.
He is wrong. too, about the spider" Crying
pan" &c. A frying-pan isn't a spider nor a
skillet either. A spider has long legs, hence
the name. for the convenient elevation of the
cooking utensil above the Goals placed under
it, and is just the thing for baking the batter
bread The frying-pan is legless. and any yir
ginia cook would laugh at the idea of baking
anything in the latter utensil
1t is n dangerous thing for one not To the
manner born to venture into the calculation of
such abstruse mysteries. One of the most
ludcrous attempts of this sort remember was
made by DIR. Lethby, of England who under
took to describe our way of cooking Indian
corn. He said that 1.-The young corn. called
cob, was stewed in milk and eaten whole (the
entire affair / suppose. cob and alb. land that
if indulged in too freely it caused scaby erup-
tions on the skin" This is delightful reading.
but rather inaccurate. Equally so the Wis
he assumes to be synonyms for the batter
bread and Johnny-cake above mentioned.
fancy a cook making. not slaps, but ''slap-
jacks out of corn-meal only! Johnny-cake is
corn-meal simply and alone.
Ash cake. Did any of the young people of
THE STAR ever see that wonderful preparation
of corn-meal? The dough wrapped in cabbage
leaves and put in the hot ashes? It was tooth
some enough when was boy, but the bows
and don't know whether or not il would taste
good now. Solomon says ''stolen waters are
sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant"
and certain it is that the nights we stole out to
the quarter and ate the cracklin bread and
drank-horrible thought!-pot liquor, were
times to be envied. Oh, for the taste and the
digestion had then. J. B. HoDeKrN.