Scotech News.

Bruce Herald, Volume IX, Issue 897, 13 April 1877, Page 3

Scotech News.

No fewer than seven British warahipe are being constructed on the Clyde. The total strength of the Glasgow Police force, including all departments, is 812. The epidemic aqiong horses in Edinburgh continues without jn virulence. The Wishaw Police Commissioners adjourned their monthly meeting to attend a coucert. A woman died at Wishaw from the effects of a fish bone stuck in her throat while at supper. The (Glasgow Bridge Trustees have resplved to widen Glasgow fridge at an estimated cost of £42,000, At the opening of the Glasgow "Bathstreet TJnited Presbyterian Church. The collection at f;he three diets was £1300. A temporary bridge is to be bpilt oyer the Ayr at a cost of £20QQ, the "New Brig " being at present in a state of dilapidation. A little girl fell froj# the tyindqw of 9 fourth flat in Wellington Street, Gjreenock, and escaped with a severe cut on the forehead. A member of the Glasgow police force was taken to one of the police offices the other morning in sijch a state of intoxication as to render it necessary that jpedu;al assistance should be procured.

There are only about 100 fewer deal and dumb people in Edinburgh than in Glasgow, though the population of the iatter is three times greater than that of the former. A man named Alexander Macrae has just died in the Western Infirmary, Glasgow, from the effects of being stabbed in the groin near tbe burgh of Govan on Hogmanay. William Waterson, a carter in Maryhill, Glasgow, was putting a waggon of coals into a woodyard, when a pile of wood fell upon him. He was found dead some time afterwards. He bad been suffocated. Tbe rainfall for January at Jedburgh has been 4.16. while the average of the same month during the last thirteen years has been 1.87 — an increase of 2 29. At Hamilton the other day a^woman 70 years of age, who had been laid out for dead, rose from her bed to meet the person who came to prepare her for her coffin. The following notice was lately published through Cockenzie and Prestonpans : Portedon Green There Will Be a Barrie Whilling on Old Hanlemouuday The First Prise is a Curring Lofe The Socent a Ham The Third a Curring Lofe at Ten Oelock in the Morning Wone Try of the Barrie is 3 pence. A movement has been set afoot for the erection of a Burns statue at Kilmarnock. Over £100 has already been received unsolicited in subscriptions. Over 1000 articles which had been stolen on Scotch railways, and which remain unclaimed, have been removed from the Edinburgh Police Chambers to those In Glasgow, where they will be exhibited for a week for the purpose of further identification. The Glasgow Town Council has agreed to make an addition of £1000 a-year to the salary of Mr Marwick, the Town Clerk. John Cairne, china merchant, Biggar, has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment for having, on the 17th September, 18/3, falsely represented to Mr Cassels, registrar, Lanark, that he was married to the mother of a child whose birth he was registering. The other day on a farm in Lauder a ewe waß dug out of the snow, having been buried lor twenty seven days. During the time the animal was out of sight it seems to have fed on moss. After being dug out it ate some grass, and it went off to the moor next morning with the other Bheep. It has been reported at a meeting of the Teviotdale Farmers' Club that the mice plague in that district is at an end, the little vermin having disappeared as mysteriously as they came. At the annual soiree of the deaf and dumb in Glasgow, on Friday, Dr Logan Aikman argued that there were no dumb people — they were deaf only, and might be learnt to speak. He promised to demonstrate this at a future meeting. Christina Lackie or M'Naught, residing at Dunbar, was severely burned in her house there, and from the effects of which Bbc has since died. It is believed that the deceased, who was a smoker, and kept her pipe in bed beside her, had by accident ignited the bedclothes with a match. The London correspondent of the 1 Glasgow Herald ' writes : — lt was reported in the city that all the grain dealers in Scotland have united themselves in one Company, and tbat something over half-a-million of capital will be represented in the undertaking. A good deal of importance Is attached to the movement, inasmuch as it will practically render competition impossible. The Anchor Line Royal mail steamship California, which arrived at Glasgow the other day, had in her refrigerators 1260 quarters of beef, weighing 250,0001 b ., and 200 sheep, weighing l_,ooolbs , which were landed in prime condition. The Anchoria also brought to Glasgow, from New York. 189,500 pounds of frpeh beef, and I^.ooo pounds of mutton, all landed as fresh as when shipped. For some time past Beveral shopkeepers in Greenock have been the victims of a rather clever eyeteni of swindling. A well dressed youDg man went the other day into a bookseller's shop in Hamiltonstreet, and presented a note to the keeper of it to the following effect : — " Please send two of your family Bibles for approval. If approved of, prompt cash.-*-Yours truly." (Signed hy a well r known merchant in town.) The Bibles were given to the poan, but neither the money nor the books were brought back, and op inquiry at the merchant }t y?aQ foijnd that he knew nothing of the matter. Several cases of a similiar nature have occurred of late. Messrs John Swan & Sons report : — There bave been about 300 quarters of American beef placed between and Cflasgow th'js week, which, proving by public agitation on the ' butchers' retail charges, is now quoted in quarters at as nearly as possible the top price of the primest Scotch beef, the beet hindquarters of which may be had at S|d, and the fprequarters {3|d per lb. 4 ttr apted by thp polity of beef at S|d to Sd per lb wholesale, we see the public competing wi^h thp bytcherSj the ree^lt heing to equalise the price of American with home beef, without regard to condition and quality of the latter, The trade will no doubt gradually right itself as thp season adyanpes. The 'London Freeman' says,— "The qaostobyious trapes of Moody and Stanley's work in Qreafc Britain & r e to be found in Spotland, and espepially in Glasgow, Jt is just three yeaes ago last wee|£ since the first noon prayerTmeeting in which Mr ]y|[oody took part in that northern city $rap held 5 and now in the January of }.§77 it continues tp he held daily." After describing thp work of the TJnited [Evangelistic Association, the • Freeman * Irejnarks?— "Op the whole, there pa© be.

no doubt that the memorial of Mr Moody's work at Glasgow is the most satisfactory . to be found in any of the cities of the old country visited by the Chicago evangelist. That such should be the case does not surprise us in the least. On the contrary, it corresponds with the impression made at the time. It was a genuine work of grace, and not a man made imitation,"