New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-06-24

Az ACCENT TERRAPs TuRsmo UP.-T~enty-
seven years ago Robert Patterson found spon what Is
now the farm If hr. Beck, lying on Cssselmans Run,
between Bethany and West Alexander, land terra
pin He cut his upon it, sh.l, and the da'e and
dropped il down again Thirteen years sfterwari John
Beck found the old fellow doubled up near the spot.
lie ss1 cut bis and the date under that Of Mr..
Patterson and turned the tortoise hose. Last week
Fletcher Beck found the old thing again. within hun
dred feet Of where seen seventeen years ago,
and performed q similar operation upon its back. Mr..
John Beck who called upon yesterday, ssys the ter
rapln had not altered In appearance or VI size IN the
whole tweDyseyeD year,, and il is of course, impos
,be to tell bow old il when the boy Patterson drst
carved his name upon IL she'll lie may have crused
about in Noah Ark for all any tell. Anyhow,
the ttnapn is lopg-hyed, strange sort Of varmint,
that hides himself IN Winter and doubles himself up m
Summer, 20 as to look like small pumpkin than
anything else. Wheeling lntellgencer, June ~.
MURDER AND SuIcIDE AT Naturalization
R.itig "a respectable and well-todo farmer living
abou, eight niles from Milwaukee, on Thursday even
ing last murdered his vii, and then shot hmseli On
that morning be sent bis two sons away to neghbors
on sone Grand and at the same time directed his tive
daughters Ia 20 out and milk the cow. No sooner
had they got away from the house, than ksug seized
al AZ, and while his wifes back was turned she ct
teldir to some household work at the tne lie dealt
her dreadful blow ON the head breaking in her skull,
and knocking her seDseess - the foor. While thus
PROSTATE and bleeding before him, be placed the mus.
ze Of double. barel.d pktol against her side and
discharged IT, the bss gaDcing against To rib bones,
passed up under the shoulder BLAZE and came ont AZ
The top Of her head Not s.trfed with this, the
vretched man then took kettle " boiling water and
poured her from head to foot while she lived
and sbneked in torture worse than death lnls done,
Retiig then went out TO smoke. house In the yard
and taking an old rife which he lad previously left
there already loaded with long stick fsstsDed ~ the
trigger, placed the muLzle under bis chin, ana pew
his own brains out! Aud thus ended the bIo0dy
drama. RettDg was prudent farmer IN independents
circumstances, but recently seemed TO be- deranged on
the subject OF bis wifes fdeuy. lis Suspicious are
said 10 have been entirely grouDdless.
CoAcHys FOR RED KWxR.-Messrs. Burbank d.
Co. to-day dis patch for Breokinndge, on Rid River,
tv borre post coaches. Thi. the first attempt
at connecting St. Paul with the valley Of the Rcd
kiyer by regular land conveyance. Al Breoklnrdge
IA. coacbas l1opnect with the Arson Norhrup for
Pembns al Fort Gary. number Of passengers
20 Up to-day in tine coacher. and among them two
Scottish ladies' the Nls-es Sterling, who are eD roote
for Lake Athabsscs, 200 miles north of 81 Paul.
They have come from Scotland alone AMI val proceed
to Fort Gary by Burbank stage line aud The AnsOn
Nonhrup wher. they will take one Of the annual
trains sent by the Hudson- Bay Co from tnsi post u
Lake Athsbasca. But one train leaves Gary yearly
for that far-of locality To give romantic color "
the affair il Is only necessary 70 add, what we hear
the truth, that one Dan Cupid the moving cause OF
this long aid perIlous journey
The TyxAs BouspARY-Tze Austln IatellIge 4oer
has a letter from the camp VI the boundary Commis-
soners on the Pecos stating that the further pogers
Of the survey has been arrested by adticety 6st"esn
the Texas and United States Commissioners The Gal
rtst0H Aers says
ave hsue a private letter, direct from the same
camp, stating ths the work ha, IN consequence been
entirely so,pended and that vii not probably
ed for cone time, though Major Scany, who was at
III Ps.o hes been cent for. The survey has resched
The pou, OF intersection Of the sd parallel and the 1904
meridian or the South east corner VI New Mexico"
There j. a young in New.Orleans, named
Meredith Holland VINO Is endowed with supernatural
reant zee At mathematical calculations H.. has pre-
psr.d curious chart. and calendars, showing the days
81 the week Cd shch such or such date will fall fy~
q period of hundred years, and does many remark
able things which go 20 prove that machines ere
n better order than others.
sEyERE PUsisHsEsT.-At Wilming ton, n. c., last
week two men, FAMED Williams and kipe, were con
yict.d Of breaking into store and stealing knife .
gold lOcke., bulet-Inod, penclcase, and ersce.
The judgment Of the Court that they should esch
receive - lashes ana six months impnsonment iof
each orn-e making for the whole 49, Ashes ana Two
years imprisonment. 14'it f..