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Show FRIGHTFUL DOMESTIC TRAG- ' EDY. San Francisco, 1. A dispatch from Austin, Ncv. to-night, gives tho particulars par-ticulars of a horrible tragedy in Smoky Valley. Chris. Eekstino li:id been for a long time jealous of his wife, on account of tho attentions paid her by a young man named Norton, anil they frequently quarreled about him. Yesterday n man mimed Osterhans wont to Eekstine's home and found the door closed, and there being no response to his knocks he opened tho door, and on thc'floor saw tho naked body of Mrs. Eckstine cut to pieces, and her :head spjit open. At her feet lay their two little girls, their heads nearly severed from their body's and near them wero the Mend bodies of Eckstine and young Norton, Rrap-plcd Rrap-plcd as if in ii death struggle. EckH-tine EckH-tine held a largo bowio knife, cov ered with blood in his right hand, and Norton a dragoon pistol with four chambers discharged. There is no living witness of tho terrible- allair. |