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# Telegraphic Briefs.
Madrid. The shipment of 25,000 reinforcements to Cuba will begin early in November.
London. The Exchange Telegraph Company announces that the British Parliament will reassemble January 25th.
Washington, D. C.-Ex-Senator M. C. Butler, of South Carolina, was admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States.
Chattanooga, Tenn.-James Sanders, a farmer living near Daisy, Tenn., was killed by a charge from his own gun while on a squirrel hunt.
West Point, Ga.-W. C. & L. Lanier, bankers, assigned to E. F. Lanier, J. T. Zachary, and J. D. Johnson. Liabilities and assets not yet known.
Jacksonville, Fla. The steamer Three Friends arrived in port, with the gunner of the revenue cutter on board, but the cutter has not yet arrived.
Washington, D. C. The cruiser Raleigh finished coaling at Beaufort, S. C., and left for St. Augustine, to relleve the Newark of filibuster patrol duty.
Macon, Ga. Captain William Shivers Brantley, who was secretary and treasurer of the Southwestern Railroad Company from its organization until old age forced him to resign last spring, died.
New Orleans. The Bluefields Banana Company, whose headquarters are at Galveston, with a branch in New Orleans, made an assignment. Liabilities, about $60,000; assets valued at $25,000.
Charleston, S. C.-The twelfth annual conference of church workers among the colored people of the United States was opened, with an eloquent sermon from the Rev. H. C. Bishop, rector of St. Philip's church, New York.
Macon, Ga.-J. S. Brady, who is in jail in Dublin, Ga., was arrested last week on a charge of conspiracy to defraud insurance companies by committing arson. He was given a commitment trial and bound over to a higher court.
Madrid. A dispatch from Habana states that Maceo, the rebel leader, was wounded in a recent engagement with the Spanish troops. The dispatch adds that Captain-General Weyler denies the report that he intends to quit Cuba on leave of absence.
Constantinople. Mr. Luther Short, United States Consul-General, started for Smyrna. It is probable that Mr. Short will board the United States gunboat Bancroft at Smyrna, and that the gunboat will pass through the Dardanelles as an ordinary vessel.
Madrid. A dispatch from Habana says that in the recent fighting in Pinar del Rio province Maceo lost a number of officers, including his chief supporters. His men, the dispatch adds, are now split up and wandering about the country, without camps and without food.
Suffolk, Va.-C. W. Willoughby, a young white man of Ahoskie, N. C., was found dead seven miles from Suffolk on the Norfolk and Carolina railroad. His head was fearfully crushed. He is supposed to have fallen from the rear coach of a north-bound passenger train.
London. Lord Rosebery, speaking at a non-partisan banquet at Colchester, said that he fully agreed with Lord Salisbury in the Premier's Turkish policy; that he had a strong conviction that isolated interference in Turkey on the part of Great Britain would result in a great European war.
Grand Rapids, Mich.-General Alger's special car, bearing Generals Howard, Sickles, Marden, and Stewart, and Corporal Tanner, arrived, amid booming of cannon. After a parade of marching clubs, with 1,000 torches, a public meeting was held in Lockerby Hall, where the generals addressed an audience of 5,000 on the money question.
Montpeller, Vt. Both branches of the Legislature elected Hon. Justin S. Morrill as United States Senator to succeed himself for the full term of six years, beginning March 4 1897. The vote in the House was: Morrill, 217; Herbert F. Brigham (Democrat), 17. There being no Democrats in the Senate, Mr. Morrill's election by that branch was unanimous.
Kingston, Ja. The case against Captain Murphy, of the American steamer Laurada, who was arrested at Port Antonio, and held in £200 bail on the charge of having contraband of war on his vessel, has gone against the defendant, he not appearing when the case was called in court. A writ of execution against his body was issued. He will be taken into custody should he return to Jamaica.
Augusta, Me. An absolute divorce was granted to Mrs. Harriet Blaine Beale, from Truxton Beale, of Washington, D. C., by Judge Whitehouse, in the Supreme Judicial Court, upon a libel filed by her counsel, Leslie C. Cornish, of Augusta, upon the ground of non-support. The custody of the children was granted to the mother, but all claim to alimony was waived by her. The divorce was not contested.
Macon, Ga. The Daughters of the Confederacy of the State of Georgia are in sesssion. Hon. T. R. R. Cobb, of Atlanta, addressed the meeting. The following officers were elected: President, Mrs. Ida Eve, of Augusta; Vice-President, Mrs. R. E. Park, of Macon; Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. Randolph Ridgley, of Augusta; Recording Secretary, Mrs. Lula Kendall Rogers, of Barnesville; Treasurer, Mrs. James Moore, of Augusta.
London. The Bailey grand jury returned a true bill against Lady Tina Scott, the mother of Countess Russell, who was arrested on October 9th, at the instance of her son-in-law, Earl Russell, upon a charge of having criminally libelled him. True bills were also found against Frederick Kast, a groom, and John Cockerton, a marine engineer, who were also arrested and held for trial in connection with the case in the sum of £500 each.
"New York. Forty bishops, representing the house of Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States, met at the Church Mission House, Fourth avenue and Twenty-second street. The object of the meeting is to elect two bishops to preside over the new missionary jurisdictions of Duluth, Minn., and Western North Carolina. Prominent candidates mentioned are the Rev. Dr. I. McK. Pittinger, of Raleigh, N. C., for Western North Carolina, and Rev. A. W. Ryan, of Duluth, for Duluth. Nothing was done, beyond deciding not to elect a bishop for Western North Carolina at this time, because of the poor financial condition of the North Caroline Diocese. Nominations made for the bishopric of Duluth were referred to a committee of five, and this committee will report at a meeting to be held this (Wednesday) morning.
# Small Fire Early This Morning.
