Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-11-12

which ensued the mans throat was cut
with a razor. The woman fed, but was
arrested, and the man, after.walking to a
drugstore where,he had the wound dressed
returned to his room, sat down and died.
The cause of the trouble was whisky and
jealousy-two faithful sources of battle,
murder and sudden death, in almost
every community.
All the reporters arrested on election
day for plyiBg their patriotic trade at
the various polling places of the city,
were brought before Judge McCann yes
terday and politely discharged, on the
ground that they we're not guilty, and
that if they were, the police had no right
to arrest them. Last night there was
large meeting at the Union League club
rooms to consider the question of eleec'
ton frauds, and after listening to ad-
dresses from Horace Greeley, John jay
and others, the League resolved to call
upon John A. Griswold to contest the
election Of John I. Hoffman as Cover
nor Of the State.
Anna Dickinsen's lecture at the
Cooper Institute last night was great
success. She spoke to the working
women in her usual clear, logical way,
urging them to organize and claim their
rights, and gave rather scathing rebuke
to magnanimous man" for his per-
sistent obstinacy in refusing to recognize
women as component parts of our politi-
cal fabric. The lecture was ably re-
ported in the Tribune by young Meeker,
who declares that the subject chosen was
very appropriate one, as far as he was
concerned, for he found it to be almost
"a struggle for life" to get into the door
an hour before Miss Dickinson arrived.
Among the distinguished people now
in the city are General Schofeld, Secre-
tary of War; Marshal o. Jewell, the
Republican candidate for Governor OF
Connecticut in the last election; General
Fitzpatrick, who was lately challenged to
mortal combat by General Forrest; three
or four members of foreign legations /;
Mark Twain, of the Sandwich Islands
and elsewhere; and number of other
political, military and literary lights,
who have come on to study New York by
sunshine. The last named has nearly
finished his book, 1.-The New Pilgrim 8
Progress, ana is aOOut 10 starI ouS ou
his lecturing tour. He is going to tell
the people about the American Vandal
Abroad" who borrowed an umbrella from
a merchant at Jappa, was thrown from
an ass in the valley of Jehossaphat, and
astonished the dwellers in and around
Jerusalem by bringing the little animal
home on his shoulders by way of punish
meut for the beast and exercise for him
self. If Mark should fall ir the way OF
Josh Billings, who is now on his milk
route" there will be no rest for quiet peo-
pie in the neighborhood where they meet.
The application for laborers at Castle
Garden Labor Bureau is largely in excess
of the supply, averaging 81 80 day-the
greatest demand being for farm hands.
The cold winter is fast approaching, and
the suffering which always presses heav-
ilk upon the denizens of the large cities
will this year be unusually severe. There
is great dearth of working men and
women in the country, and it is to be
hoped that none who are now comfortably
situated on farms will be induced to look
for employment here until the bitter
weather is over. &.