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From: "Linda/Don" <>
Subject: [NYGENESE] Genesee co., July 23-1875
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 07:20:24 -0500

Progressive Batavian
Batavia, Genesee County, New York State
Friday, July 23-1875

Neighboring Counties.
Diptheria is raging in Brockport.

Medina has 700 scholars on its school rolls.

Canandaigua has a "colored" brass band.

Cuba, Allegany Co., is afflicted with the small pox.

In Geneseo they are disputing over the age of Noah.

Steuben county has 51 Methodist Episcopal churches.

There are about forty cheese factories in Wyoming county.

The Livingston Co. Shakers had a $5,000 fire a day or two since.

Work has been suspended at the Union Car Works at East Buffalo.

Wyoming county has a fund of $8,500 to build a soldiers' monument.

They have a man dress-maker in Buffalo. Can such things be--in America?

The population of Lockport, according to the census just taken, is
13,621.

The present population of Brockport is 3,452, which is 623 more than in
l870.

The jailer at Bath was visited by a burglar who carried off valuables
worth $300.

A boy 12 years old has been detected in purloining mail matter from the
Wellsville postoffice.

H.W. GARDNER's house, at Attica, was burglared of $45 and a suit of
clothes a few evenings since.

James BRICE, of York, Livingston county, had a horse killed by lightning
a few days since. Loss $200.

Geneseo clergymen have gone into the Sunday-open-air-meetings business.
The attendance is large.

Mrs. Wesley E. PASSAGE, of Nunda, swallowed a spoonful of Paris Green on
Tuesday, and died in a few hours.

A fire at Buffalo Sunday burned two shops belonging to the Buffalo and
Philadelphia R.R., valued at $5,500.

A female burglar was sentenced last Saturday in Buffalo to ten years
imprisonment in the Erie county penitentiary.

Canandaigua has 27 places licensed to sell liquor. The 'Messenger' of
that place says: "No wonder the jail is crowded."

A drunken man fell over the bank at Niagara on Tuesday, falling a
distance of over one hundred feet and came out alive.

A Kendall Mills, Monroe Co., man has sold his wife for five cents worth
of old iron. The purchaser got auphully cheated.

We learn from the Wyoming 'Democrat' that a man in Pike has been digging
for gold for some time past, and still believe he will find it.

An attempt was made by burglars a few nights since to blow open the safe
of one of the banks of Albion, Orleans Co. Result--failure.

Corporal CLARK of Addison, Steuben Co., had his clothes torn off and set
on fire by lightning, but he is likely to recover from the shock.

W. D. MINER has received appointment as postmaster at Warsaw in place of
Wm. H. MERRILL, resigned. Appointment to take effect August 15th.

The Lockport correspondent of the Buffalo 'Sunday News' takes a gloomy
view of the financial situation of the business community in the city of
Locks. He asserts "that with the exception of perhaps one or two instances
there is not a merchant on Main St. who is, or has been for the past two
months, paying their expenses."

The PEAK family Troupe, or some members of it, had quite a squabble at
Brockport recently. In the melee one of the Troupe named Halsted, stabbed
two of the members, not very seriously, however; and seriously wounded Miss
Fannie, who was trying to quell the disturbance. The fellow was whisky mad.

Miss Carrie A. BARRETT recently obtained a verdict of $3500 against the
trustees of the Gowanda, Catt. county, Union School for leaving the school
room floor in so dilapidated a condition that she, while attending to her
duties as a teacher, stepped into a hole in the floor and injured her knee
badly. Moral: Fix up your dilapidated old school houses.

An exchange says a stranger entered a church in Buffalo, Sunday evening,
and walked the entire length of the aisle without any person offering him a
seat, so he started out. As he neared the door a man arose and asked if he
wanted a seat. "No," replied the stranger, "I came in merely to look
around. I'm going home now," and he went.

On Friday last a little boy, son of Mr. WAITE, one of the proprietors of
the Belfast monumental works, came into his father's establishment, and in
playing around pulled out the prop which was under a heavy piece of marble.
The stone fell down catching the little fellow's head under it, crushing it
in a fearful manner the brains exuding through the skull.

The Niagara Falls 'Gazette' tells that a cat was thrown from the new
Suspension bridge into the river for the purpose of killing it--It struck
the water, 190 feet beneath with a thud, disappeared for a moment, beneath
the water, then rose and struck out for shore which it reached in safety,
apparently uninjured. The 'Gazette; makes this statement cat-egorically.

The Bath 'Advocate' says: "Col. C.A. CANFIELD has been appointed Chief
Engineer on the Attica & Arcade Railroad. It is 60 miles long, and connects
with Atlantic & Great Western at Salamanca. The Colonel has taken with him
his son Robert, and Frank CRUTTENDEN. Roberts acts as first Assistant
Engineer, and Frank is to perfect himself in Engineering.

William MARBLE, the Medina Indian doctor, of whom we recently made
mention, was tried a few days since for malpractice in the case of Mrs.
WILLIAMS, of Albion. Evidence against him was very clear and strong. The
jury returned a verdict of guilty of felony after a few moments'
consultation. He was sentenced to fifteen years of hard labor at Auburn
State prison.

There are a great many little boys in this village who may be seen in
our streets long after what should be their bed time. Most of them smoke,
chew and swear, and some of them drink and fight. We wish to call the
attention of their parents to the fact that these lads are fast developing
into loaferhood, and unless they are checked their career will be a bad
ne. - 'Orleans Republican'. Ditto Batavia.



submitted by
Linda Schmidt
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