Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-01-06
News and Humors of the Mails.
MRs. CUNNINGHAM.

MRs. CUNNINGHAM.
1t is denied that Mrs. Cunningham, ol
Bu.dell murder no,oriety is living splen.
didly in New York. The wreicaed wo-
man, who is still as great an object of de-
testaiion as ever, resides in partially un-
furnished house. and lives in The poorest
and meanest style All he: money has
been spent in courts of law, andi she is now
almost destitute. Her daughther has not
married Southern planter, but only a
Young New Yorker, who depends upon his
daily earnings for support.
PRoGREss OF CHRIsTIANIrY.
The North Carolina conference has BY
a unanimous vote, cxpungcd from the gen
eral rules the one forbidding the buying
and selling of slaves.
MARRYING UNDER PROTEST.
Two foolish people opposed to the insti-
tuition OF marriage. made protest in six
sections, on being united in matrimony at
Hopedale, Massachusetts, a few days since.
They object, lst, to ''lnarriage in the dark, p
meaning one without an acquaintance Of
temperament or character; I'd, the annihi-
laiion of woman's personality; Sd, the
control, by herself Of the wife's "person,
property, children, place of fresidence," DC. /;
4th, the authority of legal and ecclesiastical
obligations; 9TH, protests against the '.idea
that marriage an. collabiIation are insepa-
rable;" 9th, opposes n union of me,e lust,
and commends q "divine" affinity, which
shall extend through earth into heaven.
LADIES LYNcHINe A CLERGYMAN. .
The pastor Of a German congregation,
III New Orleans, had given offense TO a
large number of his flock, and on attempt
ing to preach in defarcc of an injunction,
which they had procured to be issued to
the contrary, the tender ewes of his charge
fell upon him, rs he entered the church,
with eow-lides, salt, pepper, -four and
gympsum, handsomely laihering and pow
dering him, while their fathers and hus-
bands stood 10y, enjoying the fun.
In AUSTRALIA,
The question of peaceable separation
from the British government is beginning
10 be agitated.
"VENGEANcE AND V1cruALs."
Under this happy title the Warren TEL
egrnph comments upon the political dis
ordinations exercised by the President in
the selection of his guests at dinner; and
suggests the following form of card of
admission:
PRESIDENTIAL DINNER.-ADM1r THE
BEARER.-Good for this day only. Not
good to any Democratic member cf Con-
gress reelected against the Presidents
will. Lecompton members, rejected by
their constituencies, can obtain first-class
tickets on application at the State Depart
ment. No Anli-Leconlpton Democrat who
has not given in. allowed TO come in
Little Giants positively excluded. Canes,
bludgeons, aud other weapons TO be depos-
tied at the door, TO guard against accidents.
Reserved seats for those who appear in
coats of English manufacture f 60
Any excess of selt-respect beyond forty
grains 10 each person will be rated as extra.
Character at the sole risk of the owner.
No ticket genuine without the written
signature of JAMES BUCHANAN.
Dec. IA, 1858.
An ECCENTRIC.
A singular individual, physician, who
died recently in Montpelier, VI, has for the
last few years been possessed with curl
Gus mononania. He occupied all his lei
sure in making violins, and accumulated
one hundred and forty at the time of his
death. He set enormous prices on them,
has sold only two or three of them, and
evidently thought himself the Slradivarus
Of the new world.
A LUCKY INVENTOR.
1t is reported that Mr.. Rvcrson, the in
ventor of the recently patented diving bell,
which is raised or lowered by means of con-
densed air, and that is now used in remov-
ing D amond Rock, has sold the right 10
use his bell in the Northern lakes for the
sum of 0,000.-Mw York Sun.
FIFTY THOUSAND GLASSES OF LAGER.
Messrs. Editors: Having heard that Ger
mans drink lager beer on Sundays, 1 made
a brief tour of inspection in the Bowery
last Sunday evening. At the Volks Gar
den was assured by one of the pr pprie
tors that fifteen thousand glasses of lager
had been sold that evening at the single
bar where | stood, that the number of
glasses sold in the establishment, up to ten
clock, was not less than fifty thousand.
[ went home satisfied. LAGER.
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