Glasgow Courier. — 1844-02-08 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

ANOTHER MANIAC APPREHENDED. and no greater boon can be conferred upon the trading in- i On Friday week. information having been lodged with the iSuperintendent of Police, Cupar, that Thomas Aitchison, tacksterests than such a settlement of the currency question, 1 man of Pilmuir Coalwork, residing at Hatton Cottages, near closely interwoven, of course, with the Bank _privileges, as • Largo, had on the previous day brutally assaulted his ii ifs b( nay protect them from the fluctuations and vicissitudes beating her on the head with a stick, and that he had threatened ascribed at least to that Muse during the last 25 years. to shoot some of his family, as well as other persons in the neighWhatever the result may be, a perfect confidence is felt that bourhood-being,as was believed, i n eane-a warrant for his spore.. hension was procured from the Sheriff. On Saturday the Supers justice will now be done to all parties.- Times. tendent went down, accompanied by an assistant, for the porno Will of Earl Feesera.-The will and three codi- pose of apprehending him; but learned that he had gone off cite of the Right Hon. Washington Earl Ferrers, and for Lundin-Mill, where he had taken lodgings, is order to lice Viscount Tamworth have recently been proved. In his separate tif,sartomAihteish fall& d aThee:uhp.ersieoltrenwdite:tt two tlohaede earnsisttioTse, will he appoints W. Matthews, Esq., sole executor ; but in learned from the information which he received of the state of the a codicil revokes that appointment, and names his Royal and,man's mind, had no doubt that he was prepared to murder any Highness the Duke oraussex (since dead) and P. S. Shir- one who would venture near him. On this, Mr. Adanisou, find. Ivy, Esq., executors, to whom he bequeaths £lOO each to lug that he had not sucient force wit& him, and that the utmost purchase a ring; to his grandson he gives £5OO ; to another precaution would be required to secure the madman, returned to a full-length portrait of himself; and directs his executors p.pawr,tr, d several f intit,eervcoalnLavtlinlegs rddiLarur:isengesmetenotust for meetto offer his library to his grandsons at a fair valuation, and, :lig 'monde'', morning for Largo. On orriling ' there a lad be_ m case they should not become purchasers, to sell the same longing to the place mar sent to Aitchison to tell his that a lay auction. His conservatory is to be pulled down, and gentleman from Edinburgh wished to speak with him about the disposed of in the same manner. To his late wife's sister, purchasing of some coals. It wee now, however, found that £100; to his adopted child, Eliza Davey, £1000; to two Aitchison had left the colliery, and he was traced by .way of Same Bridge over the hiiie to Pitleesie and through Springfield of his servants, legacies of ..E2OO, free of legacy duty. The to Cupar, w here he had just entered ' Mr. Dall's Inn abont a property is sworn under ..£30,000. From the effects of a quarter of an hour previously to the arrival of the police. The •paralytic stroke, the deceased was unable to sign his will, Superintendent and his men instantly went in upon him, and and made his mark instead; btit he appears to have re- seised him as he sat taking some refreshment, and took from his covered from its effects, for the codicils are signed " Fer- breast-pocket the two pistols, which they found to be loaded with rers," in a firm bold hand.-Britannia. ball and capped, and in every way ready for action, beteg apparently quite new. Ile was immediately lodged in Caper jail, in Importation of" Shoddy and Devil's Dust."-There are at the present time discharging in Hull docks one or two order to secure him till the question of his insanity be investigated by the proper authoritims-Fffeskire Journal. vessels loaded with "shoddy and devil's dust," or, in other words, ground rags, intended for the West aiding mann-