Glasgow Courier. — 1860-12-13 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

PAISLEY.  On Thursday, at a general meeting of the Statute Labour Trustees for the Abbey Pansh of Paisley Mr nobert Oliver, Collector of the Abbey Parisi poor Rates, wag unanimously elected Collector of the Funds of this Trust, in room of Mr A. Nair; resigned. Mr Donald Sutherland, of the Dumbarton Burgh Police, was on Thursday last, by a majority of the Parochial Board of the Abbey Parish, appointed Assistant-Inspector for that Board. Mr Sutherland has been selected out of a list of upwards of 70 candidates. On Thursday night, about seven o'clock, 'hawker named William W'Lusky, apparently about eixty years of age, was found drowned in the Pudzeocti, near to the ferry at Renfrew. The deceased, who belanged to Kilmarnock, was seen, shortly before his body was found, in the neighbourhood of the ferry. At that time be was much the worse of liquor. The body was conveyed to the Renfrew Police Office.  _ On aunday morning, between twelve and one o'clock, an affray tool plaee in Newton Street, Maxwellton, which has resulted in the death of a young man, named Pattison. Between eleven and twelve o'clock on Saturday night the deceased had gone to the house of an acquaintance, narued Greig, resident at 26,Ferguslie, and there, in company with a party of six or eight, had partaken of a share of half a mutchkin of whisky. On feaving Greig's house, about twelve o'clock, Pattison had requested the former (Greig) to accompany him home, which he agreed to do. Instead, however, of going straight home, Pattison, deres pretence of calling upon an acquaintance, went round by Newton Street, Max. welltort, and there called upon a .girl named Wilson, to whom of late he had been paying some attention. The girl, however (who resides with her mother), did not admit him to the house, and Pattison, who appears to have entertained some jealousy of Laving a rival in her affections, proceeded to the next close along with his companion Greig, and there lit his pipe, with the apparent intention of watching for some person. Shortly afterwards a young man, named Orr, who, it appears, had also been paying his addresses to the girl Wilson, came out of the house of the latter, and Pattison immediately chal. lenge(' him. After a few words had passed between them they came to blows, and Pattison was knocked to the ground, and while down it is alleged that Orr gave him a kick about the head. At all events he appeared incapable of rising to his feet, and with some difficulty his companion, Greig, succeeded in carrying him home to his father's house in Castle Street, and there he left him without making any explanation. About seven o'clock on Sunday morn. ing young Pattison died, and although no medical examination of the injuries he had sustained in the melee has yet been made, there can be little doubt but that these were the cause of his death. The kick which his companion Greig alleges he saw him sustain has apparently been inflicted immediately behind his ear, and to this, doubtless, is his death to be assigned. The deceased, who was a young man of about 23 years of age, was a confectioner to trade. and was in the employ of Mr Alex. Cairns, High Street. His father, Mr Pattison, smith, Castle Street, is well known in the west end of the town. Orr, the young man who has (perhaps unwittingly) been his murderer, is about twenty years of age, and was employed in the works of Messrs J. & P. Coats & Co., at Ferguslie.