Progressive Batavian Batavia, Genesee County, New York State June 25-1875 cont'd. #5 Bergen.--Mr. J. BEEBE has recently bo't land of Geo. SNYDER, of Riga, for $6,000. Last week Thursday Mr. W.M. SAGE left town for Toronto, Canada. Mr. A.S. FISHER and family left on Monday of this week for a visit to Coldwater, Mich. When licenses were granted, we expected to see drunken men on our streets, and we have not been disappointed. Mrs. WARD and her daughters returned to Bergen the first of the week, after a two-years sojourn in Le Roy. Their many friends will be glad to welcome them back. The excise commissioners have at last granted Mr. HOOPER a license, Dr. TOWNSEND and G.N. BUELL voting yes and Dr. MURRAY no., Now, why not grant Mr. GIFFORD a license? The Rev. J.L. FORSTER on Monday of this week removed from Mrs. WARD's house to Mr. MUNGER's house. As Mr. FORSTER is a Methodist minister, we presume he is used to moving, and doesn't mind it. Our school closed last Friday with very pleasing exercises. We regret to learn that Mr.C.V. HOOPER, who has conducted the school with such marked success for the past three years, will not take charge of it next year. His place will not be easily filled. + Oakfield.--The Rev. Bishop COX, attended confirmation at St. Michael's church of this place, in the Seminary Chapel, on the 9th inst., when eighteen were brought into full communion of the church. The impressive ceremonies were rendered in the characteristic earnestness of the Bishop, and were brought home to the hearts of the people by many noble sentiments pointing to a higher life. The past week has been filled with the usual excitement incident upon the closing of the school year of our Seminary. There was an added feature in the exercises of this year, by the Primary department's having a separate exhibition on Wednesday 16th inst., the day before the final close of the school. The little folks acquitted themselves nobly--showing thorough drill under their teacher, Miss Anna WHITMAN. A class in music and vocal training, of which Miss WHITMAN has had charge during the winter and spring, gave some of the finest part of the exhibition. On Thursday, came the grand exercises of the closing year. The students displayed the results of the thorough training and good scholarship, for which our seminary has been so long noted. In declamation, Mr. Henry R.S. KASSON, of Buffalo, bore off the prize. Mr. Wm. HARDING stood at the head of the school in scholarship. Before the awarding of prizes tot he best student of the different forms into which the school is divided, Rev. L. Van BOKKELEN, D.D., of Buffalo, delivered the closing address. Mr. KELLOGG has earned the merited praise of every patron of the school, for the efficient manner in which he has conducted it during the past year, fully sustaining the standard of scholarship, which has placed it in the front ranks of like institutions of the State. The I.O. of G.T. gave a public exhibition in the Presbyterian church on Friday evening last. They formed in their lodge room, over C.H. CHAMBERLIN's store, and marched to the church in uniform. The members had a number of dialogues, and declamations prepared which they presented to a full audience in excellent style. The lodge, under the leadership of Rev. Mr. BUCK, as W.C.T., is said to be in a flourishing condition, and constantly improving--waging a slow, but progressive war against the great evil of intemperance. + Pavilion.--Mr. Rufus HUTCHINSON has bought the GRAHAM place. Rev. E.J. WHITNEY, formerly of this place, now stationed at Parma, is visiting his friends here. He preached at the M.E. Church last Sabbath. Mr. Elijah PHELPS celebrated his 90th birthday one day last week, by walking from his home to Pearl Creek, a distance of 5 1/2 miles, and back. + Corfu.---Now plant your buckwheat. Croquet rages with unabated vigor. The Alden silver cornet band discoursed sweet music in our streets on Saturday last. Come again boys. Pembroke inquires for goats. Is it the scape-goat variety he wants? If so, we can spare a few. How much d'ye pay? The city fathers have prohibited ball playing in the streets, which the boys regard as a total subversion of their liberty. An indignation meeting was held in the rear of the Presbyterian church, the story of Gen. GAGE and the Boston boys reviewed, and suitable resolutions passed. It's a base innovation. The interior of the Presbyterian church has been restored to its pristine glory and beauty. The walls have been tastefully papered, the ceiling and cornice frescoes in delicate tints, and the pews newly grained and lettered. Outside, neat, modern steps have taken the place of the ancient pile of lumber which once adorned (?) the spot.--This transformation is mainly chargeable to the ladies, to whom great credit is due for their indefatigable zeal and executive ability. In these "evil times" we are judged not so much by what we really are as by the company we come. The uncultivated and refined mind, when properly controlled, longs to be in constant communication with the good, the true, and the beautiful. Moral purity is a sensitive thing. It is like a rare flower, with all its perfect characteristics, every tint and petal there, pure in quality, perfect in form. But should it become soiled or broken by rude touch, no power can restore that which is lost. "The world buds every year, But the heart just once; and when The blossom falls off sere, No new blossom comes again." Probably no other source is as fruitful of misery as the forming of unwise acquaintances. It behooves us to look well into the character of those we would have for companions and friends. Experience teaches that eternal vigilance must be the price of security in the respect. Girls, you cannot too carefully guard a reputation for purity of life and thought, nor too scrupulously avoid all appearance of evil. + submitted by Linda C. Schmidt *********************************************