Daily News Batavia, Genesee County, New York State August 25-1887 Mere Mention. Dr. C.H. WOODARD of Batavia is said to be a candidate for Coroner. Forty tickets were sold at the Erie depot here this morning for the Excursion to Portage. The Richmond Hose Company and some of their friends are having a clambake down the creek. Prof. PILOT, of Buffalo, a teacher of the banjo,, guitar and zither, is endeavoring to organize a class in Batavia. Over 2,000 people attended the eleventh annual picnic of the Pioneer association of Niagara county at Olcott yesterday. Extensive repairs are soon to be made on the block occupied by Jerome GUITEAU and John F. KURTZ on Jackson street. Joseph C. DAVIS, a Medina business man, was drowned while bathing at South Beach, New Brighton, Staten Island, Tuesday. COMBS & KERSLAKE have a water motor in their grocery store on trial. If they conclude to keep it, it will be used to propel their coffee mills. A drunken employe of the gas company of Suspension Bridge fell off the bank Tuesday. He lodged in a clump of bushes, which saved his life. S.H. GOODMAN, the merchant, who was charged with arson in Holley, Orleans county, has been discharged, no case having been made against him. Boys on Summit street, who rattle house blinds and throw gravel on the porches, are liable to be arrested if they keep up the annoyance. The Rev. Charles S. ROBINSON, D.D., of New York city, will lecture in the Presbyterian church at Corfu next Wednesday evening, at 7:30 o'clock. Warsaw's base ball association is in debt about $300 to townspeople and an assessment of $1.50 a share has been levied. Many stockholders, however, refuse to pay it. + Deaths and Burials. Thomas McNULTY died at his home in the town of Stafford yesterday, aged 86 years. He had been ill but a short time. The funeral will be held from St. Joseph's church tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock. Mrs. Nicholas ALPAUGH of Castile, who used to live in Batavia, died early this week at her home in that town and was buried yesterday. Thomas McELROY, an inmate of the County House, died last week, aged 62 years. He had been confined to his bed three years. The funeral of Miss Mary KELLEY was held from the house on South Liberty street at 2 o'clock this afternoon. + Pat SLATTERY to Fight Again. Pat SLATTERY of Rochester, known in Batavia, and Eddie CONNERS of New York have signed articles to fight to a finish with skin gloves, between Rochester and Utica next Monday, for fifty dollars a side and the receipts. Both men are in good condition. + New Advertisements. The following new advertisements will be found in The Daily News to-day: Mrs. E.K. HOOKER--Park Place School. C.F. STARKS-House plants auction. W.D. SANFORD-Fall Style Hats. + The outfit for a voyage to Europe is incomplete without a dozen Skin-Success Soap. Sold by W.S. & J.J. PATTERSON. + submitted by Linda C. Schmidt