Spirit of the Times Batavia, Genesee County, New York State November 12-1881 WHAT WE SEE, AND WHAT WE HEAR. The editor's turkey is being fatted. The Board of Supervisors will meet next Monday. There are five Tuesdays and five Wednesdays in this month. The merchants will now begin to advertise Christmas and Holiday Goods. Thursday, November 24th, Thanksgiving Day; see President's proclamation. Our Byron correspondent's favor of last week was received too late to be available. The loss by the failure of the cabbage crop on Long Island is estimated at $300,000. Mr. F. BLATTER has leased the E.B. MORGAN farm for a term of years; possession next spring. About President GARFIELD's grave are to be planted a weeping beach, a pyramidal oak, a buckeye, and a silver fir. Only 768 votes were polled in LeRoy, last Tuesday. In Batavia there were 1,515, three hundred short of a full vote. Chris. WARNER and John BANNISTER are preparing about a ton of ammunition for their annual squirrel hunt in Canada. The Oakfield stage will hereafter leave Batavia for the former place at 5:15 p.m., instead of 7 o'clock as heretofore. At a meeting of the Trustees of the Batavia Union School, Marcus L. Babcock was appointed clerk and A. HILLER, collector. A new stock company has been organized at Lockport for the manufacture of Venetian inside window shades and shutters. The courts of this state have decided that farmers have no right to use land between fence and highway for agricultural purposes. The "hoe brigade" are doing a fine piece of work in relieving Main street of the accumulation of mud. It was a much needed work. Rats gnawed their way through eight wooden cages containing canary birds, in a Lockport store, the other night, carrying off the birds. Diphtheria has made its appearance in Bergen. The little eight-year old daughter of Mr. W.P. MUNGER died on Monday last of this terrible disease. The Philadelphia 'Chronicle' suggests that those little stiff-rimmed hats the girls are going to wear this winter will make nice hanging baskets next summer. On Wednesday next A. HILLER, collector of Batavia Union School District No. 2, will commence to receive taxes at the Genesee County National Bank. A shipment of 8,000 heads of cabbage has been made to this country from Germany. Now let us send a ship load of coal to Newcastle and a cargo of tea to China. The cry of potato famine in this country has occasioned the importation of tons of potatoes from Ireland, and large quantities are being shipped from Canada to the States. Mr. C.J. MINER, who for the past two years has resided on the "BREWSTER farm," a mile west of this village, has leased the Dr. TOZIER farm, on the Alexander road, and has removed thereto. Mr. Herman SCHAFFER, who was for long the popular proprietor of the restaurant at the Central railroad depot, has purchased the fine BREWSTER farm of 121 acres about a mile west of the village. Price $85 per acres. Dr. SUTTERBY has purchased of the EVANS estate a strip of land on West Main street, between the iron bridge and the water works engine house, on which he is going to erect a horse infirmary, the foundation walls of which are now being built. "The corpse was elegantly clad by directions of his devoted wife, and his casket was made to conform as far as possible with the comforts he was wont to surround himself in the home he has left." In the way of an obituary this, from a Western paper, takes the palm. Last Saturday evening a large number of friends gathered to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore KELSEY, at their residence, two miles east of the village of Alexander. There were about eighty people present, Batavia, Attica, and neighboring towns being well represented, the presents were numerous and appropriate and a very pleasant evening was passed. The Governor has informed the president an directors of the Genesee Valley Canal Railroad Company and others concerned that certain portions of the lands in their possession are a public nuisance, and he orders that they be drained for the distance of twenty-nine miles, between Scottsville, in Monroe county, and Son Yea Creek, in the town of Groveland, Livingston county. The work must be performed before April 1, 1882. Mr. F.P. TERRY has leased the vacant store in the Opera House Block and will shortly remove his musical instruments, sewing machines, etc., to his new quarters. Mr. T. intends to keep an enlarged stock of music, books, etc. and, if we are correctly informed, he has purchased the stock of books, stationery, wall paper, etc., of M.J. MORSE, and will remove the same to his new store as soon as the same is fitted up and placed in order. Batavia is liberal in its support of educational interests. It already has an $80,000 public school building in successful operation. It has just taken steps to build a primary $6,000 building on the south side of the railroad tracks, where 400 children live, and by which action these children can be accommodated with a commodious house, without being obliged to cross a field of iron rails with its dangers. This seems to be a very commendable and liberal move. Peter BROADBROOKS, who recently purchased the Wm. H. BROWN property on Ellicott street, is making extensive alterations on his premises. He has removed his house to the north end of his lot, up to Exchange place, and is to have the rear end of the present blacksmith shop, 20x23, moved to the south-east corner of his lot, facing Ellicott street, which will be fitted up for a wagon shop, to be occupied by Albert SPAULDING. A barn now standing back of the German church will be added to the rear of the wagon shop for a storehouse. From the 'Le Roy Gazette' we learn that Rev. J.W. WEIBEL, of that village, when out riding with his wife last week, met with a serious accident while turning into the drive-way on his own grounds. It seems that by his careless driving, the carriage wheel struck the gate post, thereby frightening the horse which dashed wildly into the stable, entirely wrecking the vehicle and severely injuring both Mr. W. and wife. Our advice to the reverend gentleman is to be more careful in future how he "cuts a corner," or else dispense entirely with his front fence and gate posts, which has for years been done in all civilized communities. We see by the 'News' that Dr. POTTER is to remove to Buffalo, his wonderful talent not being appreciated in Batavia. Had he succeeded in mulcting us in $10,000 damages for which he sued to bolster up his waning finances, he might have kept the "wolf from the door" a few years longer and remained in Batavia, but by this change he may now find some newspaper man in Buffalo from whom he will be more successful in obtaining $10,000. We believe Dr. POTTTER's career in Mr. MORRIS, if the facts were brought to light, was not an over brilliant one, for he found it policy to get out of that town, just as he now finds that Batavia is not the place to appreciate his sordid and contemptible endeavor to obtain money from the editor of the 'Times' by suing him for $10,000. Exit Dr. POTTER with his treatise on rectum alimentation. PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. Chas. H. MONELL, holding the lucrative position of one of the Harbor Masters of the port of New York, has been spending a few days among friends in town. On Monday last Mr. W.H. BROWN left for New York, intending to take the steamer Algeria of the Cunard line for Liverpool on Wednesday. Mr. B. has gone to visit relatives in England whom he has not seen for many years. Mr. E.G. RICHMOND, who was called east by the critical illness of his brother, returned to Denver, Col., on Wednesday last. On Thursday, Mrs. RICHMOND and her daughter, Mrs. KENNEY, left for Atlantic City, New Jersey, to visit Mr. Alph RICHMOND who is in the last stage of consumption, his physicians considering his case entirely hopeless. Mr. C.A. THOMPSON, of Ridgely, Md., who has been visiting friends in Bethany for some time, returns to Maryland next week. Wm. DOWD, Esq., of New York, and his sons William and Joseph are expected in town this afternoon on their return from the west. They will undoubtedly make a short stay visiting relatives. ++ Great Slaughter on Main Street.--I shall commence this day slaughtering Ready-Made Clothing. Prices on all Clothing put down from 15 to 30 per cent. No Reserve. Come quick, while the stock is full and complete. Don't mistake the place, 58 Main street, corner of State. L. R. BAILEY. + "Reprehensible Conduct of Liverymen." Under the above caption we find the following entry very timely and sensible communication in the Le Roy 'Times,' on the inpropriety of converting the best livery hacks and carriages into hearses. The attention of liverymen everywhere is called to the subject: "The impropriety of converting the best hacks and carriages of our liverystables into hearses for the transportation of coffins containing the bodies of children who have died of contagious or infectious diseases is clear enough to any intelligent person. Yet it is often done. The family and near friends right from the house, with clothing filled with noxious germs of disease which may adhere to the cushions and drapery of the carriages, are unwittingly exposing the next occupants of the seats vacated by an hour before by themselves. Would these liverymen wish to usher their own wives and children into these same vehicles for a pleasure ride on a return from such a funeral? The golden rule is a good one for all of us. Let hearses always be used for the transportation of those who have died of scarlet fever, smallpox, diphtheria, or other dangerous disease, and so lessen the liability of spreading contagion. Private funerals and early burials are prudent and should be obligatory. "Prevention is better than cure." The remedy lies with the liverymen, who should refuse carriages for such purposes from purely benevolent considerations as well as economic ones, for who would hire a carriage with knowledge of such recent use? Medicus." ++ FATAL ACCIDENT. On Tuesday last a terrible accident occurred at the Lackawanna railroad excavation in Bethany, resulting in the death of one of the Italian laborers. It seems that in blasting the rock, a charge of powder had been placed in the hole and the fuse ignited by the Italian. He waited at a proper distance some time for the discharge, which failing to take place he approached the hold and was in the act of looking into it when the blast took place. The poor fellow's head and neck were horribly mutilated, and he was picked up in great agony. He was at once conveyed to his boarding place and Dr. CROFF, of Bethany, summoned, but little could be done for him so terribly was he injured. He lingered in great agony for some hours when death relieved him of his sufferings. Dr. TOZIER, the coroner, was summoned, who upon learning the particulars of the death, said it was purely accidental and therefore it was needless to hold an inquest. +++ OBITUARY. MOULTHROP. In Elba on the 2d inst., Mrs. Clarissa MOULTHROP, wife of Mr. M. Nelson MOULTHROP, aged 57 years. During the past summer it was seen that Mrs. MOULTHROP's general health was failing, and as the season advanced a chronic difficulty of her stomach and throat manifested greater virulence, until death terminated her sufferings. She was a daughter of the late Sherred PARKER, and was born at his old homestead in Elba, August 24th, 1824. November 12th, 1844, she united in marriage with Mr. MOULTHROP, and they spent several years in the west. Some 22 years ago they returned to Elba and settled on the farm where she passed the remainder of her days. Two sons survive her, Mr. S.P. MOULTHROP, who is principal of the 1st Division in the Western House of Refuge, Rochester, and Edwin MOULTHROP, of Stafford. Four brothers and sisters are living. Her religious life began at an early age, and has yielded the fruit of a genuine discipleship. A kind and faithful wife, an affectionate and careful mother, a sincere and earnest Christian, and an obliging and esteemed neighbor. Precious is the memory of the good. The bereaved husband, children, and relatives have the sympathy of a large circle of friends. ++ submitted by Linda C. Schmidt