Saturday 10 Aug 1844 (p. 2, col. 3-4) SUDDEN DEATH.-We are sorry to have to announce the sudden death of Joseph DIXON, Esq., of Broadwath, on Thursday morning last. Mr. DIXON has been declining in health for some weeks past, but not so much as to excite any alarm in the minds of his family. On the morning in question he was slightly indisposed, and did not leave his bedroom at his usual hour. At twelve o'clock he went down stairs, accompanied by his eldest son, aged four years, and had scarcely taken his seat in the dining room when he was suddenly seized with a vomiting of blood. He called for assistance, and Mrs. DIXON ran to him from an adjoining room; he had in the interval reached the lobby, where he sank upon the floor and died almost instantaneously. Mr. JAMES, surgeon, of Warwick Bridge, was called in, but on his arrival, in twenty minutes, life was extinct. An inquest was held the same evening before Mr. CARRICK, when the jury returned a verdict that Mr. DIXON died from the rupture of a blood-vessel in his chest. Mr. DIXON was 45 years of age. He was very highly respected in the county, and his death will be deeply lamented by a wide circle of friends as well as by all his neighbours. FATAL ACCIDENT.-On Wednesday morning, while the steamer Nithsdale was on her passage from Liverpool to Glencaple Quay, Dumfries, one of the crew, we regret to state, met with his death under the following circumstances:-Two o'clock was the hour appointed for the helmsman to be relieved from his post; but his successor not answering the summons of the bell, the mate went in quest of him. He had been observed about 10 minutes previous seated on the gangway, from which, it is supposed, having got drowsy, he had fallen, and his temple coming in contact with an iron bolt, he received such an injury, that death must have ensued. The deceased, who was much respected in his profession, was named Isaac MOSSOP, a native of Egremont, in this county. He was 30 years of age, and has left a widow and child to mourn their loss. SUICIDE.-On Wednesday week an inquest was held at Maryport, before W. LUMB, Esq., on view of the body of a poor man named John AIKETT, who was found in his bed-room on the preceding morning, suspended by a small rope from a crook in the ceiling, and quite dead. The unhappy man was a carpenter by trade, and had for some time past been in a low state of mind, though no immediate cause was alleged for so rash an act. On these circumstances being made known to the jury, they immediately returned a verdict of "Temporary Insanity." MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.-On Saturday week, the body of a female was seen floating on the surface of a deep pool in the stream of Avon, between the two bridges, immediately behind Beattock Inn, Moffat. The body was discovered to be that of a woman of the name of WEIR, who had been serving at an adjacent farm house. The deceased had gone out to fetch some water, from a well situated near the margin of the Avon, and though absent much longer than was necessary, no suspicion of her fate was entertained by any of her neighbour servants. SUDDEN DEATH.-A female named FARLES, landlady of the lodging-house in College Street, Maxwelltown, in which the murderer BRYCE was apprehended in January, died very suddenly on the evening of Friday, or morning of Saturday last. It appears that her husband, who is an old soldier, had drawn his pension on the Friday, and both had got intoxicated. On retiring to rest, the man observed his wife lying upon her face in bed, but thinking her asleep, did not disturb her. About five o'clock on the following morning, however, when her husband went to arouse the unfortunate woman, she was found to be quite dead.