Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1887 — The Whangdoodles Mourneth. [ARTICLE]

The Whangdoodles Mourneth.

v 'hen, and by whom will General Circular Carnahan be tried? Maybe it was all a mistake; maybe the tally-sheets were not altered at all. —Indianapolis News. Oh, yes, . hey were; but if we mistake not one S. F. Perkins, government witnetß, says he did some of that work himself, with a little knife, acids, etc. - —■—»' Commissioner B 1 ck has learned that there is a bigger man than ne in the administration. Secretary Lamar has suspended his (Black’s) or er dismissing pension examiner Belile and insists that he shall be granted a hearing in his own behalf, which Com’r Black had peremptorily refused. —Honticello Herald. “The “hearing in his own b - half” has resulted in the revocation of suspension of the order of dismissal, and Belile is once more a. private citizen. General B’ack is on top.

O r neighbor of the Republican mourneth over the dismissal of pension examiner Behle, a disciple of great “curse-invoker” Fairchild. Behle was very anxious to hold to his place; had been indiscreet, didn’t mean it, would 'ake it all back, and so on. Ov.r dear friend, ex-consul Janies of the Mes age, mourneth over the “bouncing” of our personal friei d Art. Cole. Like Bro. James,‘Art was the recipient of position by the grace of Fraud Bayes. For all such Bro. James has a fellowfeeling, and on their deposition “mourneth, and refuseth to be comforted.”

Gen. Bernard G. Farrar, of St. Louis, who succeeded Gen. Tutile in the command of the department of Natchez in 1804, when Ger. Slocum removed Tuttle, say; that on the departure of Tuttle 1 y steamer from Natchez a 82,000 landau which had been confiscated was missing, and that a gunboat was sent after Tuttle's steamer, which was overhauled and the landau recovered. Gen. Farrar also says that he was instructed to investigate Tuttle’s conduct -while department commander, and found that many planters had been arbitrarily arrested, and as arbitrarily released on payment of money aggregating $74,000 to a St. Louis lawyer named Hart, who hung around Tuttle’s headquarters and claimed to have influence with Tuttle.

Counsel are now engaged in argument of the ‘election conspiracy’ case before the Federal Court at Indianapolis. The evidence tends to show that the mutilations were made in the interest of one or two cue didates; that they were made by one or more parties in individual interest, and not by direction of party officials for party success. As we understand the evidence but one individual is shown to have done the mutilation, and that is Perkins, by his own admission; other witnesses throw light on the motive which impelled him, and in material facts,[concerning others, he is contradicted by w fifteen or sixteen witnesses. In our judgment, the outcome of this trial wdl be the acquittal of the defendants; and Perkins, a State’6 evidence man, will go free virtue of an agreement, and having plead f.u-.ty ai.dhisc’se passed on by the Fede al Court.