Glasgow Courier. — 1863-01-01 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

FALKIRK. —A limier, named David Davidson, who met with s serious accident about two weeks ago in one of the pits at Clench Glen, died on Saturday from the effects of injuries he then received. The men who went down the river on Sunday in search of the crew of the sand-carrying boat, which was seen on Saturday, returned to Perth in the evening without having found any trace of the missing men. The Dundee Courier states that "on Saturday arrestments were served upon the Dundee Bank at the instance of the Presbytery upon all the funds belonging to the Town and the Hospital in the hands of the Trustees, and in the possession of the bank." To-day the new act to prevent women and children working in bleachfields will come into force. It is declared that, for the health and morals of the parties, they should not work between eight o'clock in the evening and six in the morning in bleachfields. A member of the Episcopal Church, who does not wish his name to be known, has placed at the sole disposal of the Bishop of Brechin for the time being stock to the value of £B3O, the interest of which is to be used for diocesan purposes at his diacretion. Montrose Standard. While a beech tree belonging to Mr A. Hean, wood turner, Willison Street, was being cut up, the saw came in contact with a stone embedded in the heart of the tree, which is about 14 inches in diameter, and came from the forests in Blair Atholl. The stone is between two and three inches in length, and fully an inch in thickness, and was situated in the tree about 10 feet from the root. —Northern Warder.  and  We are sorry to learn of a melancholy case of suicide that occurred early on Sunday morning at the farm-house of Whiteside, in the parish of Monklon. Agnes, aged 19, daughter of Mr Morton, farmer there, had been in her usual health up till the previous day, when something strange was observed in her demeanour, and she appeared to be in a very desponding state of mind. About six o'clock her lifeless body was found in the horse-pond, where there was only about two feet of water. On Saturday, Mr Walter Hood, ship-buildPr, Aberdeen, in company with Mr Herman Ganson, ship-insurance broker, and Mr John Ganson, shipmaster, were on board the ship Good Hope, and in coming ashore they had to cross over the Rosehall, which vessel lay next the quay. As Mr Hood was stopping ashore from the latter vessel, he mimed his footing and fell between it and the quay wall, disappearing almost immediately beneath the water. The body was not recovered till next morning. The Consul for the northern section of the American Confederacy in Dundee has for some time past kept the "stars and stripes" hoisted over his dwelling house. Whether this was to celebrate the achievements of a Butler, a Turchiu, or a M'Neil, or his own official importance, is not quite clear; but, be that as it may, the flag thus flaunted over our free soil with such questionable taste was rudely rent in twain by the storm that burst with such violence over Scotland ; and a horoacopial significance was given to this by the fact of the tear extending itself literally between "the stars," so as to divide them into sections of 13 and 11 respectively--the very numbers which correspond with the States in the two American Confederacies, as arranged and defined by Jeff. Davis. It need hardly be added that the flag, thus split, has been hauled down; and perhaps even a Yankee Consul will see in its diajecta membra "the hand of Fate," and admit, however reluctantly, that "coming events cast their shadows before."