Progressive Batavian Batavia, Genesee Co., NY Friday, September 1 1876 Local Briefs. Batavia Union School Fall Term commences on Monday next. The Potato Crop in this County will be light--scarcely more than a half crop. Rev. M. MACE of South Alabama, who has been on the sick list, is convalescing. The A.O. of U.W. of Batavia picnic at Caledonia Thursday, Sept. 14th. A gay time is anticipated. Day and Boarding School.--Miss E.G. THRALL's Day and Boarding School re-opens Monday, Sept. 18th. The Hon. Elbert TOWNSEND, of Pavilion, was selected as the Republican Presidential Elector for this district. Batavia Lodge No. 197 I.O.O.F. was represented by W.D. PALMER at the Grand Lodge held in Rochester last week. Rev. Dr. SUNDERLAND, of Washington, is to occupy the pulpit of the Presbyterian church of this village on Sunday, 3d inst. The Baptist Sunday School of this village picniced[sic] at Fisher's Pond on Tuesday of this week. A pleasant day and a happy time. Hay Fever is what bothers quite a number of our people just now. Is there any known alleviation or cure for this miserable disease? The Elba Presbyterian S.S. passed through our village last Saturday, in evergreen-trimmed wagons, and looking bright and happy. John DAZTAUER, an employe in MORGAN's planing-mill, had the first two fingers of his right hand clipped off by the machinery on Monday last. The Western New York Conference of the M.E. church will hold its next annual session at Le Roy commencing Wednesday October 4th. We learn that M.W. HEWITT, Esq., is a candidate for the office of County Treasurer. There are likely to be enough good and reliable candidates from whom to choose. The Baptist Society of this village are about to thoroughly repair and renovate their church building, several hundred dollars having been already raised for that purpose. Fifteen Car-Loads of horses from Canada passed through here on their way to the Centennial on Sunday last. The exhibition of horses, mules, and asses continues from the 1st to the 15th of September. Mr. Edward FINCH of West Batavia met with quite a serious accident in felling a tree a few days since. The tree in falling sprung back, hitting Mr. Finch's leg and so severely injuring it that he has been confined to the house since. Mrs. A.D. LORD, Superintendent o four Institute for the Blind, was elected Vice-President of "The World's Association of Instructors for the Blind" at its recent meeting in Philadelphia. The next meeting of this Association is to be held at Columbus, Ohio. The Wiard Plow Manufactory buildings are being pushed forward as rapidly as possible, and are much more extensive than had been generally anticipated by our citizens. The great brick and frame structures present quite an imposing appearance, and indicate an extensive business. The buildings will be completed and the works in full blast by or before the middle of November. A serious accident occurred at the Wiard Plow Manufactory buildings of this village on Wednesday morning of this week. The boss slater, Mr. Peter CASEY, slipped from the peak of the main building swiftly down the steep slate roof and was precipitated to the hard ground some distance from the building, making, really, a fall of some thirty feet. His collar bone was broken and he was badly injured internally. Dr. HUNTER has the case in charge. The Trial Test of the Fast-Mail Thresher, on Saturday last, at Mr. Levi OTIS's barn, demonstrated most clearly its excellence and superiority. Of barley and oats, two bushels per minute were threshed, as timed by witnesses. The work was cleanly, neatly, and satisfactorily done. These threshers are built by the Batavia Agricultural Steam-Engine Manufacturing Company.--With one of these threshers, and one of their excellent engines to run it, threshing can be accomplished satisfactorily and in much shorter order than by any other machine of which we have any knowledge. ******* DIED. SALSBURY.--In Darien, Aug. 18th, 1876, infant son of Nelson SALSBURY, aged ten months. ****** RUNAWAY ACCIDENT IN BETHANY. On Monday last the team of Mr. R. STEVENS, of Bethany, became frightened and ran away. The occupants, six in number, of the vehicle to which the horses were attached were all thrown out and more or less hurt, some of them quite seriously. Mrs. Laura STEVENS had her collar-bone broken, and Miss Maria STEVENS had one of her ribs dislocated, her hip badly bruised, and received severe internal injuries. The other members of the party were less injured. Dr. O.R. CROFF attends, and the patients are doing well. ******* ELBA. John K. PORTER died on the morning of the 28th of August, after an illness of but three days, aged 73 years. He was born in Mass. May 31st, 1803, and came to this State with his parents when about 12 years of age. For the last 30 years he has been an honored citizen of the town of Elba. Some 48 years ago he united in marriage with Miss D. HICKS, who survives him, with whom he happily passed nearly half a century in earnest endeavors and successful achievements. About 40 years of age he professed faith in Christ, and united with the M.E. church; and he has since endeavored to regulate his life by the principles of the Gospel. Mr. PORTER was a man highly esteemed by all who knew him. The Pine Hill German Evangelical Sunday School made a picnic excursion to Godfrey's Pond, Thursday 24th. All report a splendid time. This school is under the superintendancy of Peter WIEDRICH, who is deserving of great credit for his unsparing efforts to advance the interests of the school. The hum of the threshing machine is heard on every hand, and farmers are beginning to learn the amount of grain they are to have this season. The yield of wheat is generally beyond the expectations of last spring. Mr. Alva STATER gets 20 bushels per acre of fine quality of wheat. Oats are heavy straw, but light yield of grain. Christopher CRABB, whose farm consists of but ten acres, has two acres of corn that looks the best of any we have seen in town. His method of culture differs somewhat from the ordinary one, and doubtless many large farmers might learn of him, greatly to their advantage. That was a very mean trick, stealing that wood belonging to Mr. Samuel SCOFIELD, and the thief is doubtless not aware how much is known respecting the affair. Prudence and safety suggest that that the matter be speedily adjusted. Delay will but increase the danger. ******** EAST ELBA. The Sunday school of the Methodist Episcopal church at East Elba held its annual picnic on Wednesday, Aug. 23d. The day was all that could be desired-and the well-arranged programme was carried out in good order. L.S. McINTYRE, the excellent superintendent, presided on the occasion with admirable skill and fine tact. The cornet band from Pine Hill, led by Alva BABCOCK, Esq., was present, and discoursed delicious music, to the great satisfaction of all. This was their maiden effort, and their debut before the public was highly creditable to the band, and was fully appreciated by the fine audience present. This school had the rare good sense to picnic near home, where all could join in the occasion; and the beautiful grove of A.D. MILLS, Esq., furnishes an admirable place for such an entertainment. The selections for recitation by the scholars were well chosen and finely rendered, showing both talent and good training. The choir performed admirably; and where all did so well, it may seem invidious to particularize. But we think all will justify special mention of the fine rendering of a solo by Miss Almira SMITH, of Pine Hill. Miss SMITH sang at the earnest solicitation of friends, who were more than gratified at the result. She possesses a voice of unusual sweetness and power, and she is carefully cultivating it for the noblest of service--sacred song. Mrs. TERRY sang, by request, with charming effect. Short and familiar talks were listened to from the Rev. E.A. WHEAT of Pine Hill, Mr. W. ROWLEY of Byron, the Rev. L. ATWATER of Pine Hill, the Rev. E. ALLEN of Byron, and the Rev. M.W. RIPLEY, pastor of the M.E. church of East Elba. The almost unlimited store of good things upon the neatly spread tables were freely distributed among the multitude, all of whom seemed highly delighted with the entire entertainment. Three good swings and plenty of good seats afforded both exercise and rest as each one desired. Guest. ******* CORFU. Mrs. Riley ANDERSON has been summoned to the bedside of her dying father at Hennepin, Illinois. Dr. McPHERSON is recovering from a severe attack of quinsy. Our trio of young men, consisting of Chas. GRIFFITH, Frank EDWARDS, and Dan. BROWN, returned on Saturday from a trip to Philadelphia and Washington. A.H. BROWN left on Wednesday for the "Centennaile." The pulpit of the Presbyterian church is being very acceptably filled by Rev. BIGELOW of Buffalo. We understand he is a candidate for the pastorship. Those interested will be pleased to learn that there will be a harvest dance at Union Hall on Friday eve., Sept. 12th, and that BARNUM's band will discourse the melody by which to "to chase the hours with flying feet." The annual picnic of the Presbyterian Sunday school will be held at Taylor Park on Thursday of this week. A good time is anticipated. An extensive fire raged in the woods northwest of the village on Sunday, which did considerable damage by burning timber and fences, everything being as dry as tinder. ******* DARIEN CENTER. Oh, that we might have a good rain, is the expression in these parts. Picnics seem to be the order of the day, and to all appearances are thriving better than any other class of business, especially those picnics to Taylor Park gotten up by the Buffalo lager-beer vendors and drinkers. To tell it all, these worshippers of Bacchus have even come here on the Sabbath to desecrate the day and to trample on the rights of every citizen in Darien. We are informed by good authority that a week ago last Sabbath the Erie Railway Company brought such a picnic as we have described from Buffalo to Taylor Park. They had a gay time dancing, drinking, carousing, and fighting. The Erie Railway managers have been lauded to the skies as temperance men, but we say this is temperance with a vengeance, when they for gain permit such devilish doings on the Sabbath. Must we be over-run by this God-defying rabble from the city? Must the good name of our town be tarnished and our soil desecrated on the Sabbath or any other day? Must our town be converted into a debauched beer-garden, where the vile do congregate? Our citizens are awake on this subject, and we would warn all concerned in this nefarious work to desist. Darien will have her rights, and she knows how to obtain them. A word to the wise is sufficient. Law & Order. ******* PEMBROKE. Pursuant to call the Republicans of this place met Saturday evening, August 26th. James RUSSELL, Esq., was chosen Chairman and R.W. BOYD Secretary. After a full interchange of thought and opinion, it was decided to form an organization to be known as the "HAYES & WHEELER Campaign Club of Pembroke," and to do battle with the common enemy in behalf of our nobel standard-bearers. ****** BERGEN. The Rev. H.C. WOODS, of this place, preached Friday morning last at the Silver Lake camp-meeting. J.T. FEEZLEAR was the representative of Wardville Lodge, No. 198, I.O.O.F., at the Grand Lodge in Rochester last week. G.N. BUELL, one of our wide-awake grocers, proposes to inflate his currency by taking a car-load of butter, eggs, and poultry to New York next Tuesday. Success to the venture! Matilda RANDOLPH, formerly of Bergen, changed her name to COLLYER last week Wednesday at Lansing, Mich., where she will make it her home. We extend our congratulations. At last we are to have a piquenique, as the French would say. The Sunday-schools of the M.E., Baptist, and Congregational churches are to unite in a picnic-excursion to Charlotte soon. Expectation stands on stilts. The educational corps of our school is now complete. E.P. GREEN is Principal, and his assistants are Mrs. C.A. SHADER and Misses Augusta DEAN and Alice WILCOX. The young idea should "shoot" vigorously under such instructors. School will begin the 18th. The Rev. A.M. STOWE, financial agent of the Auburn Theological Seminary, occupied the pulpit of the Congregational church last Sunday morning, and in the evening the Rev. Dr. DEAN, Baptist missionary from Bangkok, addressed the united congregations of the M.E., Baptist, and Congregational churches. Dr. DEAN went to China in 1834, and it has been his privilege to organize seven churches and baptize 400 converts. His address was very interesting and was listened to with almost breathless attention. Last Tuesday morning the summons came for which she had so long been waiting, and the spirit of Florence Marion HAMLIN took its flight to be forever with the Lord. During the winter of '74 she was brought to a knowledge of Christ as her Saviour, and soon after united with the Congregational church. Through her last illness, which was long protracted and accompanied with intense suffering, she was sustained by her Christian faith, and though longing to depart and be with Christ, yet patience had in her its perfect work. We mourn her loss, but not as those who have no hope. Wide-Awake. ******* NEIGHBORING COUNTIES. A new Republican paper is talked of at Lockport. The grape crop in Monroe county will be unusually large this year. Bath has a lawyer by the name of OXX.--The OXX knoweth his clients' crib. A Steuben county farmer claims to have cut forty tons of hay from eleven acres. The daily receipts of the Sunday school assembly at Fair Point were about $500. The DAVENPORT farm in Bath, Steuben Co., yields 40 1/2 bushels of wheat to the acre. Yates county apple trees have been damaged considerably by blight, and the fruit is "specky." A ten-acre field of oats near Holley was burned over a few days since. A poor way to harvest grain. Dogs still make havoc with the sheep flocks of Avon. Last week fifteen were killed in one flock. Mr. Wm. WEBSTER, one of the first settlers of Warsaw, Wyoming co., died a few days since, aged 90 years. Mr. Enos FARNHAM, of Alma, Allegany Co., is the owner of a lamb 15 weeks old that weighs 205 pounds. A pile of three hundred cords of tan-bark at Jasper, Steuben co., caught fire and was consumed one day last week. The Mt. Morris Union says that the SWETT Brothers have commenced drying one hundred barrels of sweet corn. A little 14 months old child tumbled into a wash-tub of water at Hornellsville a day or two since and was drowned. A fire in East Lockport, a few nights since, consumed four buildings. The fire was the work of an incendiary. We are sorry to hear that the publisher of the Buffalo Post is in financial trouble, and hope he may come out all right. The drug store of Joseph S. NORTON, of Belmont, was recently burglarized and robbed of $2,500 worth of goods. Livingston county has in its Alms House 65 males and 43 females; and in the Insane Asylum, 27 males and 25 females. A couple of Brockport gentlemen are about opening a fruit drying establishment. The drying is to be done by hot air. Arthur ROBBINS, living near Albion, atttempted suicide by poisoning himself a few days since. His recovery is doubtful. The Lyons Republican says: The apple crop in Wayne county has never given better promise at this time of the year than now. According to the estimate of the Orleans Democrat, one-half of the Orleans farmers will have to purchase their potatoes this year. The residence of Jacob PFEILER, of Attica, together with much of his household goods, was entirely destroyed by fire one day last week. Mamie, daughter of Joseph CONE, of Geneseo, formerly of Pavilion, died on the 22d ult., after a lingering illness, aged nine years. Mr. Wm. BRADFORD, of Brockport, has invented a bean harvester which is reported to work splendidly. O, how the bean-pullers will bless him! Geo. CLARK, while threshing grain in Yates, Orleans co., last week, had his leg caught and so crushed in the machinery it had to be amputated. The dairies near Holland, Erie Co., are suffering from a new cattle disease. James STANTON lost six cows, and Benj. WHALEY eleven. Other dairies are affected. Several serious fires have taken place recently along the line of the Erie, between Mt. Morris and Geneseo. One large field of clover seed was entirely consumed. A party of twenty sportsmen residing in Albion and vicinity have chartered a sleeping and baggage car, and will leave about the 10th of Sept. for a two weeks' hunt in Iowa. John NOONAN suicided at Adams' Basin, Monroe Co., on Friday morning last by cutting his own throat and then jumping into the canal. Believed to be a case of whiskey insanity. Prof. J.W. WHITNEY swam from the dummy light-house, in Lake Erie, to Niagara View, on Friday last, a distance of fourteen miles, in two hours and forty minutes, winning one hundred dollars thereby. The shingle-mill, fruit-basket factory and head-lining works of Bacon & Wilder, at Tonawanda, were burned, in some unknown manner, Friday night last. The loss is estimated at $7,000, on which there is no insurance. On Saturday last a barn on the premises of a farmer named CLARK, residing about a mile southeast of Avon, caught fire from a spark sent up by a portable engine used for threshing, and was destroyed, together with its entire contents. The Directors of the new Railroad co., between Lockport and Tonawanda, have sold the one hundred thousand dollars' worth of Lockport City bonds for five and seven-tenths per cent. premium, and the building of the road will soon be commenced. Concerning crops in Niagara county, a correspondent of the Lockport Journal says: "Our peach crop is an entire failure. Apples are blighted extremely bad. Potatoes are badly eaten by bugs. Oats do not yield as was expected they would, and beans are filling poorly." Victor SMITH, the murderer of Mrs. BOORMAN, at Rochester, still remains in about the same condition. Capital punishment men are in an agony of fear that he will not live long enough to be hung; and that the divine injunction, "Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed," will thus be nullified. The store of Michael BRADY, of Brockport, was visited by burglars Monday night last. They succeeded in making away with $262. ****** Dr. W.W. POTTER, Physician and Surgeon. Office and Residence No. 152 main Street.-Office hours, until 10 a.m. and after 8 p.m. ** submitted by L.C. Schmidt