Glasgow Courier. — 1847-05-08 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

SCOTLAND.  The Bridge over the Tweed.—Extensive preparations are now making for commencing the construction of this stupendous work. During the last two or three weeks, two framed piling-maohines have been constantly at work, and a temporary bridge is now in course of erection, A steam. machine has also commenced working. It was tried Ae first time on Friday week, when a pile or log of wood, eighteen feet long, was driven into the ground in four minutes. ' The hammer of this machine is four tons weight, and strikes seventy blows in sixty seeonds.—Bertrick Warder. Trade in Kilmarnock.—ln the various manufactures of this town there is little change to report since the statement of last week. Scotch carpets are flat, but the demand for Brussels is good, and the workmen are working full time. —Kilmarnock Journal. Suicide.—On Saturday night last, John M`Lelland, joiner, Glenluce, put an end to his existence by throwing himself into the river Luce, somewhere about the bridge of Park. His body was got on Sabbath morning.—Wigtonshire Free Press. _ .  I for the •  Fatal Wager—On 26th ult., a young man of the name of Ewart, while drinking with some of his companions at Gatehead, offered a wager that he would drink five gills of whisky standing on one foot—three gills standing on the right, and two standing on the left. The wager being accepted, he gained it, with the loss of his life. He immediately after went home to bed, and died in about two hours, the victim of his own reckless and foolish conduct—Kilmarnock .lilurnal. Woman Drowned.—On Saturday last, a melancholy accident happened to a woman of the name of Maclean, from the heights of Dunvornie, Ferrintosh. It appears that the poor woman went to gather mussels on the sea-shore, below Ferrintosh, the tide beginning to flow at the time, by which she was entirely surrounded, and before any assistance could be rendered, she was drowned.—inverness Courier. Boy Drowned.—On Tuesday afternoon, during the prevalence of the late violent gale, as David Sinclair, a 'boy about 14 years of age, was, turning round the south-west corner of the warehouse at the West Protection Wall, occupied by the Edinburgh, Dundee and Leith Steam Packet Company, he was caught by a sudden gust of wind and precipitated over the pier. With a strong ebb tide, and a violent westerly gale, he was soon carried beyond the reach of those who were exerting themselves for his rescue. His flushed cheeks were now and then seen above the troubled waters, he being apparently reclining on his back, and beseechingly waiting for help; but alaid after the lapse of about eight minutes—during which time arope was got and thrown to him which alighted about two yards short of the place he was--he turned round on his face, and in two or three minutes thereafter went down above fifty feet from the Pier. •In consequence of the boisterous state of the river, those of the onlookers who could swim were afraid to venture in. One man, named Gibb, carpenter on board the Ferry steamer, who has been the means of saving several lives before, got a rope attached to his waist, and went down into the water, but by this time the boy was too far out for Gibb to hope to make up with him in time to render assistance, and he was drawn up again with the view of entering at another place. By this time, however, all assistance was in vain, the waters having closed over the unfortunate boy.—Dundee Courier.