Glasgow Courier. — 1862-08-21 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

PERTH. —On Monday morning, an old man about eighty years of age, named Fleming, suddenly fell down upon the pavement, and died instantaneously. Disease of the heart is supposed to have been the  cause of death. . On Thursday evening, the body of a boy was found lying in the bottom of Mr Blackie's harbour, Wick, near the river mouth. It was that of Alexander Manson son of David Manson, fisherman, Louis. ,  burgh. A destructive fire has occurred in Perth Road, Dundee. Commencing in Bell's ropework, it extended to some numerously tenanted adjoining houses, and did much damage. Great difficulty was experienced by the fire brigade in getting water. We regret to state that a melancholy occumuce took place in a house at 19, Semple Street, Edinburgh, on Saturday night, which has resulted in the death of a young married woman, and the committal of her husband, named George Charles, on a charge of murder. On Friday morning, at Tour House, in the neighbourhood of Kilmaurs, Miss Adam, daughter of the late R. P. Adam, Esq., died very suddenly. She had been quite well on the previous evening. She was in the flower of youth, and her death is much  regretted. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Dr Lyon Playfair, C. 8., Thomas Henry Huxley, Esq., and Lieut. -Colonel Charles Francis Haxwell, to be her Majesty's Commissioners to inquire into the operation of the laws relating to trawling for herrings on the coasts of Scotland. The Perth and Inverness railway, which will prove so advantageous to the Highland district through which it passes, is being very rapidly proceeded with; but from its great extent, and the many contingencies which affect its formation, it is almost impossible to fix precisely any time at which it may be opened. On Wednesday Philip Brodie, a quarryman, lost his life at Knockheacl Quarry, in the parish of Galston. He was working with a lever on a ledge of rock at a considerableheight, when the rock•giving way be fell some ten or twelve feet, and was killed instantly. He was about 28 years of age. The schooner Miss Hunt of Carn arvon, which arrived here on Tuesday night from Newcastle with coals, reports the occurrence of a melancholy and fatal accident, by which the lives of two of her crew were lost by being washed overboard during a storm. The names of the missing men are John Edwards, mate, and James Wright, seaman—John o'Groat Journal. Mr Chambers, the land-steward on Cally estate, has, to the surprise of all who know the difficulty with which he had to contend, by the great mechanical power (all of his own contrivance) employed, disembogned from the moss on the farm of Rainton, in Girthon, an oak tree, which measures 154 feet in circumference, and which, he states, contains 353 feet in red wood alone.—Dumfries Courier. We understand that the plans and specifications of the new Sheriff Court-houses to be erected in Geo. IV. Bridge, along with estimates of the necessary expense, as prepared by Mr Bryce, the architect, have now been transmitted, in terms of section 11 of the Sheriff Court-houses (Scotland) Act, to the Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury for their approval, and so soon as this has been obtained, it is expected that the building will then be proceeded with. On Wednesday evening, the tenantry on the Cathlaw estate of Major Hamilton, M.P., for the county of Linlithgow, celebrated his marriage by a large bonfire on Garmyre Hill. The band of the Bathgate Volunteers was present during the evening, and the whole assemblage, amounting to about 300, were supplied with refreshments. Liberal gifts were also made to the dwellers on the estate and to the poor of the neighbourhood. The rejoicings passed off successfully, and without accident.