Glasgow Courier. — 1847-06-08 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

GLASGOW.  Suicide.—On Sunday afternoon, an elderly man, a pensioner, named Wright, residing in Parkhouse Lane committed i suicide, by hanging himself, n his own house, the absence of his family. It is said that the deceased had been drinking somewhat freely E übseq tient on the receipt of liis pension,and that he had committed the net of self-destruction in a fit of remorse. _  Attempted Suicide.—On Saturday afternoon an elderly woman went into the river, opposite Peat-boa, apparently for the purpose of drowning herself, but she was rescued by a young man who chanced to be passing at the time. She had left her son, a young boy, standing upon the bank; and destitution is said to have excited hue to the act.  On Saturday last, the dead body of a young woman, named Margaret Connor, was brought to the Gorbals Police Office in a cart. It akipeared that the deceased worked in a cotton factory at Eaglesham; but having fallen into bad health, the home-sickness came upon her, and her employer kindly provided a cart, by which she might be conveyed to Glasow, and from thence by steamer to her relations at Sligo. She died in the cart, however, before reaching the city. Shop-Lifting at Paisley.—On Friday two most respectablelooking young men entered a shop in High Street, ostensibly to purchase silk handkerchiefs. After looking a piece or two they went away, being unable to find what would suit them. They had not been a minuto out of the shop when it was noticed that a piece was amissinv.. The shopman gave immediate notice to the police, whAraced them to a shop in the High Street, about three hundred yards farther west, where they were busily engaged in looking some .pieces of handkerchiefs. On seeing the police officer, they began instantly to disgorge from their pockets and small clothes what they had stolen, but were instantly taken into custody. They were well-dressed, fresh-looking youths, with excellent countenances, and nothing of the blackguard about them. They had two accomplices with them, dressed in good moleskin, who got off with the first piece they had pilfered.7-Renfrewshire Advertiser.  Eaglesha m.—On Thursday last, a farm-servant, named Andrew Lang, was drowned in Picket-law darn, near Eaglesharn. It appears that the deceased had gone in to bathe, but unfortunately had sunk into the mud, and though some persons were present, he was not extricated. He was a sober man, about twenty-six years of age, and the principal stay of an aged mother. Infanticide.—The body of a newly-born male child, of full growth and well formed, was on Tuesday afternoon last found in the mouth of a drain in a field on the farm of Newlands, near the London Road, at the east end of the city. The child was partially covered with mud and dirt, one side of the head and face was much injured, as if from blows inflicted with some heavy instrument, there was a large stone put to the mouth of the drain, evidently with the intention to conceal the body, and it was accidentally discovered by the farmer's servant girl, while passing the spot with her master's cows. The matter having been reported to the Sheriff, two medical gentlemen were sent forthwith to inspect the body, and we understand, their opinion is, that death has undoubtedly been caused by violence, and that of a very serious description. Caledonian Railway.—lt has been resolved to open the first forty miles, from Carlisle to Beattock, on the Ist of August next. From the present state of the works there need be little difficulty in effecting the resolution. The Wishaw and Coltness, and Glasgow and Garnkirk lines will be opened simultaneously, and perhaps some half-dozen miles of the new line at the northern end, leaving only about 40 miles between London and Glasgow, which the public will be only too happy to travel by coach, provided they can go by rail the rest of the journey. The rest of the line will be opened on or about the following dates, viz.—frotu Beattock to say three miles north of Lanark, 39q miles, on the Ist of March 1848, at latest; and the Edinburgh branch 27ã miles, on the Ist of October, 1847.—Railway Chronicle.  ithe landlord Wettable, tlie tenant lies and evades. All Irish B