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GLASGOW HERALD
14 JULY 1884

COURT OF SESSION – EMSLIE v. NEILSON, SHAW & MACGREGOR

Under a minute for the purser and reclaimer, the Court today allowed him to abandon this action on payment of expenses.

As will be remembered, the action was one in which the pursuer, a solicitor at Ardrossan, stated that he was on 13th February, 1882, dining in Ferguson & Forrester’s restaurant in Buchanan Street, Glasgow, when he was injured by a window cleaner falling upon him through the glass roof of the dining-room.

The defenders, whose counting-house windows the man was engaged in cleaning, were sued for £1000 damages, on the ground that they allowed him to stand on the glass roof of the respondent’s premises without their leave.

The Lord Ordinary dismissed the action as irrelevant, and the reclaiming note, now abandoned, was taken against that decision.

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GLASGOW HERALD
18 JULY 1882

Sir,

BURNS’S NEPHEW FUND

Would you kindly hand over enclosed Post Office Order, value 3s, to the fund being raised on behalf of the nephew of Robert Burns, now in Glasgow Poorhouse.

I am etc. T.C.

[Hughie]

We met another of Robert Burns' nephews in this topic https://www.threetowners.net/forum/view ... 49#p134949

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GLASGOW HERALD
26 JULY 1880

MAGISTRATES REFUSING TO SIT ON THE BENCH

On Saturday the minister of Trinity U.P. Church, Irvine, appeared at the Burgh Court to answer a charge of having allowed a pet dog to go about the streets unmuzzled in contravention of an order issued some time ago by the Magistrates.

The Clerk of the Court and the Procurator-Fiscal were present, but as no Magistrates put in an appearance, a policeman was despatched to endeavour to hunt one up.

The constable returned stating that he had asked two Magistrates whom he found reading newspapers in the Institute to come to Court, but on learning the nature of the case they refused to come, although he had informed these gentlemen that the third Magistrate was out of town.

It was then proposed to adjourn the case until Monday, but the clergyman pleaded a very important engagement, compelling him to leave town early in the morning, whereupon the Clerk informed him to his dismay, that a substitute could not appear on his behalf, and that possibly the magistrates might grant a warrant for his apprehension in the event of his failing to appear.

The minister then urged upon the officials to endeavour to have the case disposed of that day, and the Procurator-Fiscal volunteered to go and see if he could induce the Magistrates to come to Court, but by this time both had disappeared, and their whereabouts could not be ascertained.

As the Trinity U.P. minister is very popular in the town this singular treatment he has received at the hands of the Magistrates has caused a great deal of comment.

It is said that the Magistrates refused to act because of an article written in one of the local newspapers criticising their conduct in relation to the “dog raid,” and suggesting that in most cases a simple warning by the police would be sufficient, instead of summoning all and sundry to the Police Court.

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GLASGOW HERALD
27 JULY 1880

COLLAPSE OF THE DOG PROCEEDINGS

At the Burgh Court, Irvine, yesterday, about a dozen persons were brought before the Magistrates charged with having suffered their dogs to go at large unmuzzled.

Bailie Orr presided, and the two magistrates who refused to sit on the bench on Saturday were also present.

Mr Highet, solicitor, who appeared for himself and the other parties summoned, objected that the complaint was not in accordance with the General Police Act, upon which it was founded. The Magistrates repelled this objection.

Mr Highet then objected that the year 1880 was not libelled, and submitted that under the General Police Act it could not be amended.

The Fiscal withdrew the charges saying he would bring them up again; but the Magistrates requested him not to do so if the parties muzzled their dogs in future.

The charge against the minister of Trinity U.P. Church was withdrawn.

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GLASGOW HERALD
3 AUGUST 1888

SERIOUS ACCIDENT – KILWINNING

Last night about eight o’clock two boys, named ISAAC BABINGTON, aged 9, son of David Babington, miner, Corsehill, and WILLIAM MORGAN, son of Marion Lawson or Morgan, a widow, residing in Main Street, were hanging on behind a brake which was being driven along Main Street.

On leaving hold of the brake they both stepped in front of a fish cart from Saltcoats which was running rapidly in the opposite direction.

Both boys were knocked down, and Babington was found to have been rather dangerously injured. He was severely bruised both on the head and thighs; and Morgan was badly bruised on one thigh.

Doctor Gage was at once on the spot, and attended the sufferers.

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GLASGOW HERALD
12 AUGUST 1882

LORD EGLINTON

Lord Eglinton arrived at Eglinton Castle yesterday, in order to participate in the grouse shooting on the Twelfth.

The Countess and party are at present cruising on the Clyde in his Lordship’s fine new yacht ROVER.

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GLASGOW HERALD
19 AUGUST 1889

IRVINE – THE FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE HARBOUR

The remains of ARCHIBALD McARTHUR, of Skipness, master of the ELIZABETH, of Ardrossan, who was run over by a locomotive at the harbour on Friday, and who died the same day in Kilmarnock Infirmary, were brought back to Irvine, and lay coffined at the pilot-house on Saturday. They were conveyed on Saturday evening by the Irvine tug to Skipness.

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GLASGOW HERALD
22 AUGUST 1887

RANGERS FOOTBALL CLUB

The Rangers’ Football Club opened their new ground at Ibrox Park on Saturday by playing a friendly match with Preston North End.

The game which was witnessed by an immense crowd of people, resulted in favour of the strangers by eight goals to one.

[John Donnelly]

Hi PT.
I find it difficult to believe that the present magnificent stadium dates from 1887 ??

JD.

[exile]

I've always thought of the Highlands & Islands as somewhere "up there" to the North/Northwest, and England directly to the South. Following up after a wee present, I was surprised to find that Laphroaig distillery on Islay is just as far south as the 3Ts, and even further south than the very top corner of England.
Maybe others already knew this.

[Hughie]

Glasgow Herald August 31, 1892

Death of the Earl of Eglinton

The Right Hon. Archibald William Montgomerie, fourteenth Earl of Eglinton and Winton, died at Eglinton Castle last night. For several years the late Earl suffered greatly from the affection of the kidneys known as Bright's disease, and it was to that malady he succumbed.

The late Earl of Eglinton was born on 31 of December, 1841, and was thus in his 51st year. He is succeeded in the earldom by his brother, George Arnulph, born 1849, married in 1873 to Janet Lucretia, daughter of the late Mr Boyd Cunninghame. of Craigeads.

Three several baronial houses - namely, those of Montgomerie of Eaglesham, Renfrewshire; Eglinton of Eglinton; and Barclay of Ardrossan in the old baronial district of Cunningham are united in the noble family of Eglinton. The late John Fullarton of Overton, West Kilbride, in his historical memoir of the family of Eglinton and Winton (a book now out of print) begins his narrative by referring to the fact, and adds that all three are derived from the Anglo-Norman or Saxon races of England during the early part of the twelfth century. In more recent times the house of Eglinton, received, as Mr Fullarton somewhat grandiloquently puts it, "additional lustre by ??????ing to the representation of the ancient and princely race of the Setons, Earls of Winton." The Montgomeries are said to have accompanied the progenitor of the illustrious family of Stewart into Scotland; the Eglinton family to have settled in Ayrshire under De Morville, and the Ardrosan family to have had their descent from the powerful Norman de Berkeleys, of England.

Historians may find the rest of this very large article interesting.