New York Daily Tribune

HORRIBLE.—On Saturday evening, 11th ult. a tragedy occurred at Dubuque, Iowa, almost too horrible for belief. It seems that a young man named Arnold Harlin, employed as a clerk in Mr. Thedinga's drug store, on that evening called the attention of Mr. T. to a liquid which he was heating in a ladle at the stove. On Mr. Thedinga's looking up, Harlan dashed the contents in his face—the liquid was the oil of vitriol. George Strasser, a young man in Mr. Thedinga's employ, sprang forward between Harlan and his victim, when the ruffian dashed in his face the contents of a phial of the same burning liquid. At first it was supposed that the young man must have been laboring under a fit of insanity, but the discovery of his dead body next morning on a common near the town, with the following note upon his person, showed that the diabolical outrage perpetrated by him was premeditated. It is supposed that the wretched young man committed suicide by taking prussic acid:

January 11, 4 o'clock, P. M.—I request the reader of these lines to say to the good Catharine B——, in my name, farewell, and beg her to pardon me, at least after my death, for the heavy wrong I am about to do her. I wish her happy. I done it intentionally. How does it come that the persons I most love and respect I could hurt so much? The behavior of Thedinga and Strasser, in latter days, was such as I had to revenge. I cannot write more. Thedinga could have made everything right, if he had desired. I could stand misfortune, but not ignominy. Thedinga did not judge me right. But why say more? All will soon be settled.

Arnold Harlin.

Messrs. Thedinga and Strasser, though both severely injured, were doing well. It was thought the former would lose one of his eyes.