TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

The government clerks at Washington are being sent home to vote.

The capital of the proposed Central Bank of Canada is to be $1,000,000, and its head office at Toronto.

The brother of one of the Jeannette victims has preferred grave charges of negligence against the leader of the expedition.

A temporary arrangement between the New York and the Western Associated Press has been made for two weeks, after which all connection between the two will cease.

Hon. Josiah Quincy died very suddenly at his residence in Quincy yesterday, at the age of 80 years 9 months. He graduated at Harvard in 1821, in the same class with Ralph Waldo Emerson.

THE WEATHER.WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 3, 1. A. M. For New England, colder, fair weather, northerly winds, stationary or higher temperature, rising followed by falling barometer.