Glasgow Courier. — 1858-12-11 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

STRIA.  night,  someLow he when  the of how that  out went  „r ...ere hereofficer of the 'A Allender handkerCo. The  Newreto the  of cloth ) a  01:11111-7-•  dee little COLLBe •  Ad vices have been received from Lebanon to the 25th November. Notwithstanding the death of several of the insurree• tional chiefs and the submisaion of the Syrian tribes, di ante and disorder increase continually, and. the Inhabitants of Syria implore the protection of the European "sowers. A fight has taken place near Damascus, with a horri. slaughter of the Mutnalis (a Syrian tribe) by the oniades. .MILNGAVIE EXTENSIVE THEFT OF HANDKERCHIEFS, &c. Oil the night of Monday last, a delf -man and old othes dealer, named John Richardson, was brought to the Police Office, Maryhill, for protection, as he was uch the worse of liquor. While the operation of • king him was going on, before he was locked up, e eater observed part of a new handkerchief sticking - out of his breast, which he was astonished to find wrapt 'sound his body. This led to a further discovery of several „pima of new handkerchiefs which were concealed about Shim In the course of the after he had got sow what sobered, Mr Anderso^ made inquiry how Aid become possessed of handkerchiefs, whe lee denied all knowledge he had become ''. 'possessed of them, declaring ,ome one had rolled lhem about his person unknown to him. This did ' not satisfy Mr Anderson, who found where the prisoner resided in Glasgow, and to Richardson's • 'house in Seltmarket, and there recovered a good many , snore new handkerchiefs. By this time Mr Anderson had suspicion that the handkerchiefs recovered were the of Maws John Black & Co., calico printers, -=rtlie, and he proceeded thither, taking the tisri: ,eoner and the handkerchiefs with him. There he !: braved the assistance of Mr Campbell, the officer district, and of Mr Allan, the manager of the Printworks, who immediately identified the •• chiefs as the property of Messrs J. Black & ' by Sus tame became a little more communica: 're and made • clean breast of where be got them; and'hlr Cowbell and Mr Anderson proceeded to of James Campbell, bloctcutter, residing in where the prisoner stated he had '• th—erchiefs, and- OR the officers searching -kerne they came upon mammas quantity of goods --emend bandr.da of Mr Bleak'. handkerchiefs, re• 'several of them so new that the pattern had never the printlield for the market—a large quantity of c pima, measuring several yards in length; also a great many other things, among which there were about 351bs. ; al cochineal. The greater part of the handkerchiefs , were identified by Mr Black as his property.. as also a treat many of the pieces of cloth. Two of Campbell's augbten, Janet and Agnes, were workers in Allender Printfield, and they were apprehended and conveyed to Stirling, charged with the theft. The delf man states that ii. ham lost • good job of it; for the buit 12 or 18 r, months, he says, he had gone at least four or five times a week to Campbell's. and on every occasion he received from a dozen to three damn of new handkerchiefs, which he sold hi Paddy's Market. For the last twelvemonth the people about Milngavie never observed the delf man so rife of money, and on almost every occasion - • he went " roarin' fu' "to Glasgow, either on the , bus or on foot. SHOCKING SUICIDE 11`f A