Progressive Batavian Batavia, Genesee County, New York State April 11-1873 Easter Sunday day after to-morrow. Eggs-actly! Our County fair is to be held on the 17th and 18th of September. Henry LEDERER is requested to call at the Batavian Office. Business! Very many cellars in this town have been turned into water reservoirs recently. A North Parma farmer named Warren, has bought the farm of Abel PEASE, near Bergen. Nancy STEVENS, a colored woman, died at the County House a day or two since, aged 103 years. Noah PERRIN, of the town of Bergen, recently sold his farm of 320 acres to a gentleman from Rochester. Messrs. GIBBS & QUAYLE have been putting in a powerful new engine into their new planing mill at the depot this week. Farmers of this region, if in want of either plows, harrows, or cultivators, will find the best at Bradish & Co.'s foundry, Batavia. Opened.-As will be seen by an advertisement in another column, DAILEY has opened his new Furniture store. He has a fine stock. A fine new house is to be erected on State street for Mr. C. KIBBE, as soon as the weather will permit. C.D. MORGAN has the job. * Thomas MANNING, a Batavian, was, it is believed, one of the passengers saved from the ill fated Atlantic. Mr. MANNING went from here to Europe some months since, and was expected home about this time, and though he has not yet put in an appearance here, his friends are quite confident he is the Thomas MANNING mentioned in the report. * Man Killed Near Attica.-On Saturday last Mr. George SHAW, who resided in the south-east part of the town of Attica, was walking on their Erie Railway track, and as a train approached stepped from the track but did not get far enough away. He was struck by the bumper of the engine and killed. Mr. SHAW was some 88 years old. * Who is the Scoundrel.-On Monday night last the boys of Hose Co., No. 1, discovered that some rascal had gained entrance to the engine house, and removed, and hid, the nut hold on one of the wheels. It is lucky this piece of villainy was discovered in time. In case of a sudden call to a fire, the running off of the hose cart wheel might have resulted very disastrously to the property interests of our citizens. * Mud and Slush is the order of the day. An appreciative poet slashes at it thusly: O, the slush, the horrible slush, Muddy and dirty, and soft as mush; Flooding the gutters and pavements all, Drowning the poor who may happen to fall, Hurrying to graves the young and the old, Giving consumption by way of a cold, Terrible slush! you are not loved a bit, Angel of death, won't you get up and git? * Had His Leg Broken.-On Sunday night last, Mr. "Rock" WILSON, son of Alexander WILSON of this village, had his leg broken in three places by falling from the top of a freight train on which he was brakeman. The train was to take water at Byron but ran a little beyond the tank. Rock was standing with one foot on one car an one on another. The sudden jerk of the train, in backing to the tank, threw him to the ground and broke his leg as above stated. Dr. R. COTES attends. * Editor Batavian: In an item under the heading of Neighboring Counties, in reference to the appointment of Mrs. C.N. DRAKE, as P.M. at Westfield, the question is asked, "What became of Mr. Duck?" I will tell you. Col. J.C. DRAKE, the husband of Mrs. C.N. DRAKE, received a mortal wound while at the head of his brigade, (having been bravetted Brigadier) in the battle of the Wilderness. His widow has had charge of the Westfield post office for several years, and has given such general satisfaction that she has just been re-appointed. E.F. HUBBARD. Bergen, April 7th, 1873. * Fine Gold paper and decoration at Bowen's. * Neighboring Counties Small Pox is said to be raging in Orleans county. The "epizoot" is raging to an alarming extent in Dansville. A new iron bridge is being built by the Central rail road at Lockport. Supreme court commences in Geneseo on the fourth Monday of this month. Rev. T.B. HYDE, M.E. clergyman at Clyde, dropped dead in his pulpit, a few days since. Nunda is in raptures over a "sheet and pillow" masquerade, whatever that may be. Robert BEATTIE has been appointed postmaster at Caledonia, in place of Eliza BLAKESLEE, resigned. A new Catholic Church is to be erected at Canaseraga, Allegany county. Hon. W.M. WHITE donates the site. The American Hotel at Ellicottville, Cattaraugus county, was destroyed by fire on Saturday, March 29th. The debt of the City of Buffalo has now reached the enormous sum of $4,144,750.--Pleasant for tax payers. A Lockport man had his neck broken the other day by its being caught between a wheel and the corner of the building. The Sexton of the Presbyterian Church in Warsaw, fell dead recently while shoveling snow from the sidewalk--Heart disease. On Saturday last, in Buffalo, a little girl was left sitting in her father's wagon, when the horse started, she fell to the ground and broke her neck. The maple sugar season in Chautauqua and Cattaraugus counties promises to be the best ever known. New sugar is selling for fifteen cents per pound. Allegany is said to be a good country to live in, but some of them complain that there are a few days in the summer when the sleighing is not first class. A woman in Buffalo accidentally set fire to her chignon on Saturday night, and before the article could be detached from her head she was severely burned. Hornellsville claims to have a second Anna DICKINSON--Niagara Falls claims to have a second Henri APPY, not yet in his teens, and Batavia has an--honest D. SEAVER. Floods in the Ischua valley Catt. Co., tore away bridges and prevented the running of trains over a part of the Buffalo and Philadelphia railroad the first of this week. The "drunks" locked up in the Hornellsville Caliboose on Tuesday night and Wednesday last, numbered nine, and the 'Times' says "it was a poor day for drunks too." A Clarendon correspondent of the Holley 'Standard' crows because they have but one mud-hole in that town. Well, neither have we; but there isn't room in town for another. They seem to have had quite a lively time in Buffalo during a recent thunder storm--Lightning struck in several places in the city, and though none were killed, several received severe shocks. submitted by Linda Schmidt *********************************************