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Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 9, 3 September 1874, Page 4

Burns'-- It - garu for iii*. JJuty. — Walter Glover, known as a carrier between "Dum* fries and Edinburgh in the time of Burns, died latdy, in-his 104 th year, at F c rne\ sue, in his native pari.-h o! Liberton. When Burns was exei<t man at D'umfri s, rum was extensivcy imported there arid Glover was frequently employ? d to convey it to Edinburgh. The. permit, on. these occasions re quhed to be d^ntd by ihe pott, and, continent on the arrival of the vessels, these documents were often rt quired at a very late or a very earl*, hour. Glover was wont to state, as a prod of Burns'-* regularity and busii.ess habits, that sometimes when in- ust-d to apologise for dis'urbing him at t: e.-*e uutimeh h-.ni is, the poet, said, ' Walter i: is but mv duiy, and never h-.-it-.ie at any h *ur to call me to do it. " A judge, .wh. s. wig being a little awry, caus.d much laughter iv court, paid to Cut in— " Curran, do y>u see anything • idiculou-* in this wig ?' '.No.hiug but the head, my Lord,' said Curran. Handsome thing in' shawls— A pretty girl.