Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-01-10
Total Depravity OF "A CoIored Boy.

| Total Depravity OF "A COlored Boy.
| WASHINGTON, January 9th.-A depraved, vicious
looking colored boy, named ElphOnse Kelly, Is years
of age was in the dock of Judge SHELLS Court this
| morning for committing atrocious deeds. He lives
with his uncle respectable colored man, who test
| fed that about the 20;h of last month the boy
bought box of Trough on rats " and quantity OF
arsenic. When he went home ne put the contents
in three quarts Of milk with the intention of poison
| ing the family, but failed in the attempt. The next
| day he renewed the attempt, putting poison in
| bucxet of water Beniamins eight children drank
| from the bucket and we're taken with violent pains
| in the stomach, but all recovered. He also gave
| arsenic to cattle. He sprinkled arsenic on Mrs.
| Benjamin's br, ad. She, however, discovered it.
| aud threw the bread away. He also attempted to
st fire to q barn, but the corn-shucks burned SO
slow that he thought he would be detected, and put
| out the fire Just before Christmas he attempted
10 cut the throat Of Il the children while she
WAS asleep, but she woke up just he had his hand
| raised to cut her. He built fire called his su1'
out to IT, and then threw handful OF c'Gtiitses
into the fire aud ran away, hoping that she would
be killed by the explosion. The boy stated that
while living in Baltimore he poisoned tis mother
! ard aunt who died from the effects, and time
attempted to set his mothers cl jthcs on fire He
| also sd that while in Baltimore he used to poison
persons and cattle for spite.
The Defeat of PeBdIetOn.
! WASHINGTON, January 9th-The defeat of Pen
deton OF Ohio, for reelection to the Senate, and
| the nomination of Henry b. PAYNE by the L emo
cratic caucus as his successor, has been the day s
/ subject of political gossip. The Mclean crowd
! beaten in the effort to elect Randall Speaker has
won q compeusating victory in the nomination of
! Payue and before long biz toom will be started
/ TO make the Cleveland millionaire the Democratic
candidate for Pref ent The Democratic Senators
| and representatives regard the success OF Payne,
| from plrty standpoint, with widely differing feel
| ings 1t is conceded that the defeat Of Pen
| dleton will be interpreted a repudiAtiCn of the
| civil service reform principles by the dominant
faction Of the party in Ohio; but the subj OF the
letter of Senator Thurman, defendi z Pendleton, it
| "a vi lD the Democrats the most harm.
! The contemptuous expressions regarding civil ser
vice used by Mr. Thurman in his letter will be read
from the stump by every Republican orator IN Ohio
! next fall. How such shrewd politician as Thur
| man could have committed such awkward blum
| der Is a mystery to the Democrats in Washington.
| Paynes connection with the odious Standard oil
monopoly, OF which he is Of the principal stock
holders, will also be urged against him. not only in
| Ohio, hut in other States where the burdeI
| imposed by this powerful corporation are
severely felt. On the other hand, Payne's barrel
will give the Mclean crowd practically bOttOmess
| treasury from which money can be drawn to cor
rupt voters, and EXP erience has proven that the
dollar bills not without value on election day in
| Ohio as veil as in lnciina Again, Payne Il pro
tectiOust and the manufacturing industries OF the
Buckeye State Will be safe in hls keeping as Pres
identid candidate Payne will be Tiiden's choice
| if the Sage of Gramercy, as henry Watterson in
! sists does not want the nomination himself. At
the Cincinnati Convention in 1850, Jilden gave the
vote OF New York to Payne uuti it was apparent
| that he could not be nominated The two men are
personal friends, and they have teen associated IN
business enterprises.
Destruction by Fire.
CoLuMBUs (Ga.), January 9th.-The Columbus Fe-
| male College was burned this morning. The by
drants were frozen and the iremen had difficulty 10
thaw them. All the inmates were arou ed in time
and escaped. Less, $4,000. The college was at
tended by l20 young ladies'.
Sr1LLwA,ER (Minn.) January 9h.-The fire last
night in the penitentary ward desr yed the engine
rooms and the cooper and blacksmith shops The
cause Of the fire is unknown but 1t Is supposed to
have been started by conyicts. The buildings
burned belonged to tine Northwestern Manufactur-
ing Company, of which D. NJ. Sabn Is President
The total loss to the Northwestern Manufacturing
Company is S115,O0O; to the State, $4,000, Total
insurance, $4,000.
Proposed National Autobiography and
Labor Party.
NEW YORK. January 9th.-Dele-ates from tae 6if-
ierent Labor Reform, Land, G-eenhack, anti.
Monopoly and Financial Reform organizations OF
this city leave fer Philadelphia Friday to attend
a conference Saturday III that city, TO agree on a
platform policy that wi unite all these elements
or organizations in grand Ant-MoBopJly and
Labor party Delegates from all sections Of the
country will be present. Should the conference be
harmonious, call will be issued for National Con
ventOn at which Presidential ticket will be placed
! in the field.
The Convent Catastrophe.
ST. LOUIS January 9th.-The last report from
| Bellevie is that one more victim OF the fire was
found to-day, but was not recognized. Three addl-
| tiOnal iuentlnCatl0nS nave Dten made GtfLI'ulS
| Schunck, of DEquoin, H.. Hilda Hsmmil, OF Tren-
ton, H., and Katie Orbana, Of Nandaia, III. The
inquest will be held open until all the bodies are re-
| covered
Harvard College.
| BosToS January 9th.-The annual report Of the
| President OF Harvard College shows considerable
| decrease in the number of students from the New
| England States and remarkable increase from
| the Middle States. The Treasurers report shows
the general investment to be S4,625,00O giving an
| income of S24S 900. Subscriptions TO found new
| funds or increase the old ones, made during the
year nearly S00000 while gifts for lmIuedlate
| use amounted to S6S000
| Fatal Result.
| NEw YORK January 9th.-Dr. Wakelee, of San
| Francisco who was injured by fall Broadway
Yesterday died at an early hour this morning.
A Family Poisoned.
GALvEsToS CTex.( January 9th.-A family of rine
| persons named Bird, renting farm near kaufman,
| Te1. has been made the victims Of a poisoner who
evidently placed the poison in the water bucket.
Nearly all of the family have died. Suspicion falls
upon aueighborinS farmer, who has oien threatened
| to haYs revenge.
Husband, wife and Six Children Burned
| 60 Rea.h.
RAIEIGH On. c. January 9th-Saturday night on
the plantation of w. G. Taylor, in Lenoir county,
entlre family OF negroes-Wm. Crook, wife and six
children-were burned to death. The weather that
night the coldest in twenty years. and it is sup
posed a large fire made before reJiring, and tie
house caught fire from the brands roliag on the
floor. No news reached the ncighbors iii room on
, | Sunday Then a ueirl bJr hO went To visit Tho