The Daily News Batavia, Genesee County, New York State Friday Evening, February 2-1883 Best 60-cent chewing tobacco in town at HEINTZ's Parlor cigar store, Jackson street. * Fine Stereoscopic Views of winter scenery at Niagara, for sale at Tallman's gallery. * Notice. Any person having an account against me is politely requested to present it between this date and Feb. 5th, 1883, and any person indebted to me is respectfully asked to call and settle by that date. C.F. RAND, M.D. * I am closing out my stock of knit worsted goods at wholesale prices. Now is the time to secure great bargains before our stock is broken. L.J. TOMPKINS, Cor. Main & Bank Sts. * Forty-five brands of smoking tobacco at the Parlor cigar store, Jackson street. * Bodices of velvet, whether plain or brocaded, are elegant and fashionable for afternoon, dinner, and reception toilet. * Hood's Sarsperilla cures biliousness. * Harvester Works Employes Brockport men, working in Batavia, have experienced much trouble in reaching this place on time on account of not making railroad connections in Rochester, and a correspondent of the Rochester 'Democrat' says they will doubtless be glad when they can take their families to Batavia. The moulding and the blacksmith shops of the Harvester works are still opening at Brockport, and will probably not be removed to Batavia before April or May. * Death of Moses Powers. Moses POWERS, an eccentric character whom everybody in Batavia knows, died at the County House, whither he and his mother were removed in December, last night. His age, he told Superintendent WAITE not long ago, was 56 years. * Horses for Sale. D.K. CHADDOCK has at his stables, on the Alexander road, thirty-four head of heavy draught horses, good road horses, etc. Any one desiring to purchase such horses will get a bargain by calling upon him. * Insurance Changes. The agency of the Aetna, Hartford, and Phoenix Insurance companies of Hartford, Conn., and the North-British-and-Mercantile-of-London, formerly represented by Bostwick, Clark & Cox, has been removed to the office of Dodgson, Bostwick & Co., No. 97 Main street, Batavia, N.Y., where Mr. BOSTWICK will be pleased to see his old friends and customers, who will be promptly and faithfully served. Dodgson, Bostwick, & Co. * The Roll of Honor. Roll of Honor of Batavia Union School for January, 1883: Secondary Department. Third Grade. Martell, Bertha Martell, F_me Miner, Pauline Sheffield, Florence Radley, Charley Tarbox, Russell Bannister, Grant H__d, Horace Linsey, Frank Parsons, Sherman Ramsdell, Harry Wak__, Willie Second Grade. Barnett, Jessie Frank, Kate Gibbs, Ada Lord, Fannie Morse, Louise Muntz, Anna Miller, Gussie Storms, Hattie Kibbe, Willie Lusk, Marcus New, Willie Ramsdell, Frank Stickle, Waldo Yates, Arthur Seaver, Francis First Grade. Lowe, May Perry, Florence Page, Millie Weed, Emma Plock, John Wilson, Walter Radley, Cora Primary Department Fourth Grade. Bull, Helen Casey, Theresa Delbridge, Bertha Keller, Emma Town, Susie Bull, Eddie Moll, Stephen Fix, Emma Nichol, Anna Third Grade. Adams, Fannie Carpenter, Bessie Em_a, May Fox, Grace Frank, Rose Harmon, Adell Hammond, Millie Moll, Lizzie Frank, John Osborn, Eddie Redshaw, Eddie Plock, George Perkins, Grace Russell, Lizzie Mayer, Rose Second Grade. Palmer, Etta Rupp, Julie Weigel, Libbie Barber, Seward Champion, Clifton Parmelee, Charles Salisbury, Henry * A New Sewing Machine. The Inventor Looking in Batavia for Capital The inventor and patentee of an improved sewing machine has been stopping at the St. James for a day or two and has endeavored to interest some capitalists of Batavia in its manufacture. The machine is deserving of attention and several of our citizens have inspected it in operation and have been pleased with its working. The inventor claims that its advantages are manifold. In the first place there are but forty-seven pieces in its construction, while in nearly every other machine there are over a hundred. In a simple manner the stitch can be changed from a lock stitch to a chain stitch, and the machine can be manufactured at half the cost of any now in use. The inventor says that it has met with favor wherever he has exhibited it, and that there is money in its manufacture providing that sufficient capital is invested. He believes that the industry, if located in Batavia, would be second only to the harvester works, and would be an immeasurable benefit to the town. It is not learned, however, that any Batavians have signified their intentions of taking hold of the matter. * Western New York Salt. Excitement in the Wyoming and Oatka Valleys. The attention of salt manufacturing from all points has been turned to the recent developments in the fields in the Wyoming and Oatka valleys, and many have visited them with an eye to speculation. Last evening's Rochester Post-Express says: "The Post Express has frequently referred to the developments of the salt fields in the Wyoming and Oatka valleys, and it now chronicles the commencement of a ___ which is causing salt manufacturers and speculators to flock to the fields. Last evening, W.C. Go__nlock, of Seaforth, Ontario, a large Canadian salt manufacturer, and the agent of a Canadian syndicate, arrived here, and this morning, with General Manager Merchant, went to Le Roy and Warsaw where he proposes investing in lands, sink wells, and manufacture salt. Mr. Go__nlock, has already made an examination of the products of the field and pronounces the salt the finest produced. He is very enthusiastic over the matter, and says the new field will throw all other districts into the shade and forgotten past. An Auburn syndicate has already visited the fields and made arrangements to establish "blocks" for the production of salt. The owners of large blocks in Syracuse have also visited the Warsaw wells, and they are now making preparations to sink a test well some fifteen or twenty miles south of Syracuse, on what is said to be a continuation of the Wyoming Valley vein. If they do not succeed in striking brine there they will abandon their Syracuse blocks and make extensive purchases in the Wyoming fields. Among the land owners of the Valley mentioned, there is much excitement, as they already have visions of great wealth from the sale of their broad acres. Capitalists are making contracts for the sinking of wells at the earliest possible moment. Test wells will be made in the immediate vicinity of Batavia also, as it is thought that the salt fields extends to that place." * submitted by Linda Schmidt *********************************************