On Monday, before Sheriff Rhind and a jury, Henry Fraser, game-keeper, Cumloden, Newton-Stewart, was tried by a jury for culpable homicide. On the 22d December, while at Newton-Stewart Railway Station with a pony and spring cart, for the purpose of sending off some game per train, he allowed tho horse to stand at the station without anyone in charge of it, and when the whistle of an engine sounded the pony took fright and bolted off in the direction of Newton-Stewart. Mr Irvine, tailor (married, and having a family), was near the corner of a street, and the horse, in taking the corner, caught him up between itself and one of the shafts, carrying or dragging him through several streets, He was ultimately dropped, and the wheel of the ma-hine went over him. He died from the injuries in three hours thereafter. Panel pleaded not guilty and was defended by Mr Walker. After the Sheriff, in summing up, had told the jury that the facts and circumstances of the case amounted in law to the crime of culpable homicide, the jury unanimously returned a verdict of not guilty, which was greeted with loud cheering in the Court.