The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-02-12
NEWS SUMMARY.
PERSONAL. AND POLFTICAL.


jules Favre, the eminent French states
man and Republican member of the Senate
for the Department of the Rhone, and also
member of the French Academy, died on the
18th, aged Il.
Representatives Rumberger, Petroof and
Clarke of the Pennsylvania Legislature, ex-
State Treasurer Kemble, and several other
prominent politicians and lobbyists of that
State have been indicted for bribery in con-
nection with the Riot Claims act.
Seth A. Terry, Secretary of the Territorial
Savings Building and Loan Association Of
Washington, D. c., has defaulted in $4,000.
Terry was for many years connected with
the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and
Abandoned Lands, under Gen. o. 0. How
ard. He lost heavily in specializing in Gov
crnment claims of various kinds.
Charles Stewart Parnell arrived at Indian
apOlis on the 21st, and spoke in the Grand
Opera house to an immense crowd, under
the auspices of the Mayor and other prOmi-
nent citizens, after which a liberal collection
was taken up for the destitute in ireland.
Arrangements have been made for Parnell
meetings in nearly all the principal cities and
towns of the West and South.
Gen. Randall L. Gibson, Democrat, has
been elected United Senator from Louisiana,
to succeed Senator Kellogg, whose term eX-
pires in 1888.
Gen. Grant and party, including Gen.
Sheridan and wife, arrived at Havana on the
22d. They were met upon their ar
rival by deputation of civil
and military officers, who rendered
them the hospitalities of the city. Gen.
Grant intends to spend about a month in
Cuba and adjacent islands, when he will re-
turn to the United States via Mexico.
Hon. j. Il. George, Democrat, has been
elected United States Senator from Mis-
sissippi, to succeed Senator Bruce, whose
term expires in 1881.
n committee of the National Woman.
Suffrage Association, consisting of Mrs.
Wallace of Indiana, Lucinda z. Chandler of
Peoria, H., Susan B. Anthony and others.
on the 23d had hearing before the Senate
Judiciary Committee on the subject of a
Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution
extending the franchise to women.
The Senate Committee on Privileges and
Elections on the 22d ordered the testimony
in the Kellogg case closed, and allowed
counsel two weeks in which to prepare
their arguments, to be submitted on printed
briefs.
Hon. Randall Lee Gibson of Louisiana
who is to succeed Mr.. Kellogg in the United
| States Senate, is a Kentuckian by birth and
| about At years of age. He graduated at Yale
! in 1858, and afterwards studied law. During
| the late War he was a division commander in
! the Confederate service, and at the close OF
the struggle resumed the practice of his pro-
fession. He Is now serving his third term il
the House of Representatives.
Judge George, who has been elected Unit.
ed States Senator from Mississippi, to sue.
ceed Senator Bruce, is a resident of jackson
and jurist of distinguished ability, having
had large experience upon the bench. IL,
is also known generally to the profession a
he compiler of several volumes of State re-
! ports.
Daniel Barrett, Supreme President of tn,
Catholic Mutual Benefit Association of tn,
United States and Canada, died suddenly il
! Medina, n. Y, on the 23d.