Daily News Batavia, Genesee County, New York State April 8-1881 MERE MENTION. The early bird can't catch many worms such weather as this. Lieut. Gov. HOSKINS is now convalescent with every prospect of a speedy recovery. Advertising, says an exchange, is like fishing--the more "lines" you put in, the more you can catch. The school teachers of Genesee county are anxiously awaiting their pay. By the 15th inst. it is believed the respective supervisors will have the public money in their custody. Mr. Chas. F. PENDILL, through KIBBE's Farm Advertising agency has sold his fine residence on Summit street, to H. Baldwin, for $5,000. This is the 53rd sale effected by the agency since November 5th, 1880, aggregating in amount over $300,000. By the will of the late Major-general UPTON, from the shock occasioned by whose death the people of Genesee county have not yet recovered, it is shown that the general, by judicious management and careful investment, had amassed a fine property, which is mainly bequeathed to relatives and friends. ++ PERSONALS. Miss HOUSE, of Byron, is visiting friends in town. Miss Eunice JONES, of Buffalo, is the guest of Miss Viola SEARLS. Harry C. FERREN, who has been managing the George Holland Comedy company for the past week, has returned home. He reports the troupe as doing a good business. B.J. HUMPHREY, of Fort Wayne, Ind., is registered at the Washburn House. ++ DEATHS. Miss Jennie A. MORSE, died at her home in Indian Falls, April 7th, aged 19 years. The funeral services were held to-day at 1 o'clock p.m. Mrs Emerline SHEDD, one of the old residents of Elba, died in that town yesterday, at the age of 68 years. Funeral Thursday, April 14th, at 12 o'clock m. The death of Daniel KINSILLA, occurred at Corfu yesterday, in his 15th year. Funeral to-morrow at 9 o'clock a.m. Stephen DILLINGHAM another old resident of Elba, passed away yesterday, at the ripe old age of 73 years. The funeral will take place from the house, Monday at 1 p.m. also from the church at 2 o'clock. RUGG--In Bethany, April 8th, Mrs. Nancy RUGG. ++ Ladies, if you wish to see the finest line of dry goods ever shown in Batavia, attend the grand opening of HEWITT Bros. Monday and Tuesday next. + E.B. PAGE Teacher of Piano, Organ and Voice Culture. Lessons given at Music Rooms, cor. State and Main streets, or at pupil's residence if desired. + Watch glasses 15 cents and clocks cleaned, for 50 cents. The lowest prices in town. Eugene THOMSON, at BOWEN's Crockery store. + A BIT OF HISTORY. It is a fact which I believe, is "within the memory of men still living," that I for years retailed School Books at wholesale prices. During those years I was frequently importuned to join a combination to sell at the regular retail prices; but this I steadily refused to do, not because I thought the narrow margin of profits fixed by the publishers--notoriously the most grasping set of monopolists in the country--for the retail trade, was too large, but because I was afraid that some one in the ever shifting procession of my competitors would be constantly seeking to create the impression that he could undersell me. Finally however, a written agreement, drawn up and signed by both my competitors, was presented to me and I signed under them. That agreement is still in existence, and the "high contracting parties" are all here present. But the object of this communication is to announce that the said agreement is now abrogated. I am impelled to this course, not by compunctions of conscience for having heretofore extorted from the public, but solely as a measure of self defense. I make this avowal under the belief that a candid admission of the truth will be quite as favorably received by a discriminating public as would be a transparently hypocritical pretence to be governed in the management of my business by a regard for the interests of others, On the third anniversary of my advent as a business man in Batavia, I wish to announce that, in the linen of School Books, and in all branches of my trade, I am fully determined not to be undersold, and that the man who succeeds permanently in making people believe that he can or will sell goods cheaper than I can, will need the assistance of the individual who is supplied by tradition with a cloven foot. A.D. TRYON. ++ NEW MILLINERY ROOMS. Mrs. J.B. HARMON has returned from Rochester where she has been purchasing a full line of millinery goods, which she is prepared to sell at a low price. Mrs. J. GARDNER will be pleased to see all her friends at the above rooms. No charge is made for showing goods. Rooms in Dellinger's new block, over S.A. DUSTIN's drug store. ++ submitted by Linda C. Schmidt