Saturday 21 Dec 1844 (p. 3, col. 2) FATAL ACCIDENT AT CANNOBIE COAL WORKS.-On the morning of Wednesday week, the 11th inst., a very melancholy accident occurred at one of the Cannobie coal pits, to a fine lad about 15 years of age, the son of a farm servant from near Hawick. The father, accompanied by the son, had come to the pit for coals, and having arrived about six o'clock in the morning, before it was light, the young man, who was unacquainted with the place, left his father for the purpose of going up to a large fire placed near the mouth of the pit, of which he was unaware, and approaching it too near, was precipitated to the bottom of the shaft, a height of 200 feet, and was taken up a lifeless corpse. We regret to announce the death, at Rome, on the 24th of Nevember [sic], of Miss Fanny THOMPSON, sister of the late George THOMPSON, Esq., of Sheriff Hutton, in Yorkshire. Miss THOMPSON was travelling with Lady Frederick BENTINCK, sister of the Earl of Lonsdale. The death of Miss THOMPSON will be a source of regret to a large circle of acquaintance. SHOCKING ACCIDENT.-On Sabbath last, while the wife of one of the ploughmen of Mr. BROWN of Ingleston, Irongray, near Dumfries, had gone out to draw water, leaving only an infant in the cradle, and a child of three years old, a brood sow entered the house, and seizing upon the infant, tore the greater part of the flesh, with the nose, from its face. The agonized mother, on her return, met the voracious animal carrying her poor babe in its mouth. Little hope is entertained of the infant's recovery.