Progressive Batavian Batavia, Genesee County, New York State November 14-1874 Local Record. Mr. Joshua HUDSON of North Bergen was married a few days since--aged 83 years. Dr. NILES & wife of Hornellsville addressed a large audience at Lemon's Hall, Attica, on Friday night last, upon the subject of temperance. C.J. BROWN, formerly resident at Cary in this county, has been elected to the Kansas Legislature from Blue Rapids. He will make a good legislator. Mr. James CLARK, a printer boy from this office, now "bosses" the printing office at the House of Refuge, Rochester. He turns out some very pretty work. Attica, with a population of nearly two thousand, has only 17 places where whisky and other creatur[sic] comforts are dispensed. How the people must suffer by drouth. Good Advice.[--Make your purchases at home. There is no need to go to Rochester or Buffalo. We have merchants and mechanics, our neighbors and friends, with whom we can get just as good bargains, and just as good goods and work as we can get elsewhere. Therefore buy your clothing, groceries, farming tools, everything you need at home. Spend your money with your friends and neighbors, and then all will get a benefit from it. It passes from one to another, paying debts and greatly helping everybody. Keep your money at home and you will build up your own town and grow in prosperity. Gone to the House of Refuge.-p-And now our well known townsman, Dwight PEASE, has been taken to the Rochester House of Refuge. He was taken there for--Gate Warden. Out Again.-We are glad to see that Mr. Nathaniel MOULTON, who was so badly hurt two or three weeks since, has so far recovered as to be able to be out again on Tuesday of this week. Dennis McCARTHY went to Rochester on Monday last, got drunk, and into the hands of the police, and into the papers. He represented that he was a Union Telegraph operator at Batavia. Guess he's a fraud--don't know of any such operator here. Our telegraph operators are sober men, and gentlemen. Mr. Gorton BENTLEY has sold another of his fine building lots for $800, to Jacob ERION, who is now building a very nice house on the same, for his own use. Mr. BENTLEY is building a good house, which will be for sale, on completion, on the corner of Evans and Bentley streets. It will be a great improvement in that part of the town. Accident to a Batavia Boy.-A few days since Mr. Frank HINMAN of this village, who works in one of the flouring mills at Rochester, was badly hurt by a fall caused by the breaking of a high step ladder on which he was standing. His injuries were of so serious a nature that he has been unable to leave his bed, or to help himself in the least since the accident. He is getting some better now, however. Practical Mathematics.-We are indebted to David E.E. MIX, Esq., for the present of a valuable work, entitled as above. Mr. Ebenezer MIX, father of the donor, was the author of the book. It was published in 1846, and contains illustrations and rules relative to the science upon which it treats which are direct, practical, and easily understood. The mathematical student finds in its pages essential aids in mastering the science. Mr. Marion L. NICHOLS, who, according to reports, was smoughed by the RAINES brothers of Rochester, (now Democratic State and County officers) out of $50,000, is a son-in-law of Mr. Wm. BOSWORTH of this town, was a former resident here and proprietor of the old "Sun Beam Gallery." According to the statement, a considerable part of the funds of which NICHOLS was swindled went to cover deficiencies of the State Treasurer. + Neighboring Counties Rochester has 90,000 population. The Orleans 'American' has a new and handsome dress. John HILTON, of Hornellsville, is shipping cider to Ireland. In Bath, Steuben county, the price of gas is $7 per 1,000 feet. A new atlas of Niagara and Orleans counties is being prepared. A girl in Clyde dug and hilled thirty-five bushels of potatoes in a day, recently. Mr. Hamilton SQUIRES, of Attica, was recently ordained as a Universalist minister. The International Hotel at Niagara Falls has been sold by Mr. FULTON for $250,000. Seven counterfeiters lately arrested in Lockport have been sent to State Prison for seven years. Buffalo has four file manufacturies, which turn out $50,000 worth of the ragged edge annually. Eat plenty of grapes--they are a strong food.--Orleans 'American.' All right! Send along the grapes! The Canisteo, Steuben county, Post-office was robbed a few nights since. Not much booty obtained, however. The Nunda 'News' says: "The dogs are killing off the sheep in this section by the dozens." Why don't you kill the dogs? Francis C. KING, a prominent forwarding merchant of Buffalo, committed suicide Tuesday by drowning himself in a cistern at his residence. According to the 'Mail' about twenty thousand barrels of apples have been purchased at Middleport this season, at prices ranging from $1.25 to $2. Dell MAGUIRE, formerly a conductor on the Central road between Rochester and Buffalo, was killed by the cars near Lafayette, Indiana, on Friday last. The Geneseoans were delighted with the lecture of Prof. HOPKINS, last week and he was engaged to come again. He is an eloquent and impressive speaker. Twenty cheese factories in Allegany made 29,883 boxes of cheese up to Oct. 1st this year, against 19,750 boxes in the same time last year, a gain of 60 per cent. Two Texas steers got loose in Buffalo on Monday last, and a little lad getting in their pathway was tossed and gored severely by one of them. The animal was shot. Wm. FRAZER of East Pike, Wyoming Co., fell into a threshing machine on Monday week[sic], and was so injured that he died in a short time. He formerly resided in York, Livingston Co. A few mornings since, William HILL, a blacksmith, formerly in the employ of the N.Y. Central, was found dead on the street near the N.Y.C. Depot at Suspension Bridge. An autopsy showed that the deceased died of apoplexy superinduced by hard and continued drinking. James HUTCHINS, of Addison, Steuben Co., recently exhumed two skeletons, evidently of Indians, while digging a cellar. They were in a sitting posture, and near them were found the remains of a stone cup or vessel of some kind which seems to have been quite highly ornamented. The Perry 'Star' says: "Mrs. Elnathan LACY of Perry, now in her 90th year, has cut and pieced sixty-one quilts since she was 85 years of age, each quilt contained 569 pieces, the last quilt was cut and pieced in less than ten days." Let's see---what was it somebody remarked about "The ruling passion strong in death?" A shocking accident occurred in Carlton, Orleans county, a few days ago. a little child named ANDERSON by some means fell into a boiler of hot water, which had just been taken from the stove. Before he could be lifted out he was terribly scalded--so badly that the flesh peeled from the bones when his clothes were taken off. He soon became unconscious, and died in a few hours. + submitted by Linda C. Schmidt *********************************************