We have to record here the death, by a remarkable accident, of Mr. James Walker, of Arbroath. Mr. Walker had been in Montrose on business, and while returning in the evening on horseback, a vivid flash of lightning startled the animal when passing the bridge of Rossie Mills; and, after rearing and plunging for a moment, it sprung over the parapet-wall of the bridge into the den below. The fall, we are informed, is nearly thirty feet; and Mr. Walker survived the accident only a few minutes. The horse was killed on the spot.
This lamentable event threw a great gloom over the entire community of Arbroath. Mr. Walker was an active and enterprising merchant, and took a warm interest in every thing relating to the prosperity of the burgh.
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