Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-02-20
WHISKY.
Iusus FIippIu's Bull Of ExoommunloalIoH.
This Women After the IHdge-Ths Ssn's
or Temperance RIss Up and Bless Hin.

The order Of Judge FIippin, tnstructng
the Sheriff to suffer no man serving on a
5urv in his court to take a drink, has
brought about manyuuanticipsted results
The Sheriff was curtly informed BY his
Honor that he would be sent to Jail II
the order were violated. Oae result has
been the collapse Of very many rotuAd
red faced iurymen. They enter upon
their duties in the bloom and hey-day Of
vigorous yiy4citT and yOUthfulness, and
as a trial proceeds, they wither, shrink
collapse, grow nervous and shaky, and
with fearful eyes listen TO lawyers elO-
quencs. Anxiety for relief from service
grows stronger ea"h hour as trials pro-
gress, and the speech Of the last lawyer
heard is always most touching, most ten
der, most eli, citing, and when the last
speech draws TO close, the lury-poX is
bathed in tears of delight sud gratitude.
The hours of psrching, burning thirst
grow brief, and there Is exquisite de-
light. when the last lawyer takes his seat,
written on the blanChed faces Of the
twelve good sud lawful men. There are
DO hung juries now il the Criminal Court.
With prCmp.ness never known before,
vsrdicts are rendered, and when the fore
man prOnOuuces il in open court, and the
words "ihs jury is discharged" are uttered,
there is q rush tor tle cellars HARDLY
which makes the rickety old livery fable,
above which swift Justice Is now mesed
Cus to knaves, shake to its foundation
stones. Rot only are results hssteued, ,
but all business ia dispatched more rap
idly and more iutelligenJly.
CONSOLATION TO THE sUDGE.
Itm4tters not how the appended letters
fell into our hsn5s, but their genuineness
is patent. Tusv show that Judge Flip
ss ia a "a
which he hardly contempt Ated. head
bsats and whisky heads avoid the pur-
lieus Of the criminal court with holy hOr-
Tor. Shyste ers find it difficult 10 secure The
services Of fJully corrupt WFetCAss who
used TO constitute the mass of lUrymeu
ssrviugiu our Old Bailey, and kuaYes and
crfmiG8Is Jr8mJl8 when they see no face
bloss0ming with whisky and sympathy
in the larry b~X. The court really
Tscouas terror 10 evil doers.
and more terrible to those accustomed d
through long years to morning cocktails
and steaming "night-cups." The follow
ing is one Of the letters to the Judge
No. - CAUsEY STREET,
MEMPHIS. February g, 1870. (
Dear JHdgs-Aiy husband hag been liv-
ing for many years by serving on juries,
and every night he has come staggering
hCins, druuker than Bacchus. l have
begged him, with tears in my eyes, to
quit the shameful business, bUG he SAYS
Ae can get nothing else to do. | see by
the papers that ySl have Grderea The
sheriff TO keep whisky from Jurymen, and
thank yOu, for my husband may aban-
don the business. If he does not, he viii
at least be sober while on duty. II you will
take him on the next case that will keep
him shut up for ten days or longer, my
ewes may be glsddeued once saJre by see
ing hil perfectly sober. he has been
swearing so long and in so many cases, ia
court, that when in drunken sleep
he goes through all the forms, ard the
only time he has kissed me for ten years
was " hen he dreamed lie Wss sticking his
biistered lips to the greasy old Bible
which 1 am told is in use in your court,
7 shuddered that even in dreams NY lips
should bs TOUCHED uy the hos breath OF
drunken perjury. 1 hope, since my hus-
band was acceptable when q sOt, hs may
not be discarded when you make him
sober. To his hanging about the courts /
owe his and my own degradation, and
surely mey ask the pouiEs 10 give him
the nsnenJ OF the process Of regeneration
which your iurymen must undergo.
Thanking you in my own behalf and in
behalf of a multitude of my sex, am ever
gratefully yours, LYDIA q. sfSs.
It Is hardly proper that we should pub
lish the signature to the above note, ana
therefore 8 fictitious one is given.
Another letter OF the same sort cells the
Judge thst husband who e comes reel
iug home drunk every night, invariably
states that he has been serving on the
Jury in the Criminal Court" and the
writer asks the Judge {" how is it that you
order the Sheriff to exclude whisky from
the iury-roOm and Jim is never soberP
We are inclined to believe that Jim Goes
not tote faif.H lie is doing Judge Flip
pin gross injustice, and should be imprts-
Oned for contempt of court. Jim swings
around the bar-rOoms all day, hears the
court gossip shOat, goes home hall drunk,
reeites 10 20 his weary, heart-slck wife,
and makes the poor woman believe that
he is rendering compulsory service to his
1t seems that Judge Flippln Is not only
reforming ths~ modes of administering
public Justice, but that he becomes the
great exponent of the temperance move
ment. II was proposed yesterday that the
Sons Of Temperance give the Distinguish
Cd gentleman a complimentary dinner;
that the bar be invited. There Is no honor
of which the excellen Judge is unworthy,
and when advocates no longer resort 10
the reprehensible practices Of shys-
ters, aud no more secure the ser
vices as jurymen Of peIjured wretches
and of muIderers, in ettectipZ tbs
scouittGl OF murderers, tho reign
of bloodshed and crime IN this city,
so accursed by the fame and deeds OF red
handed monsters viii be rs spotless as It
has beeu befCuled.