Progressive Batavian Batavia, Genesee County, New York State June 25-1875 -part 2- Neighboring Counties. A nine pound pickerel was recently caught in Silver Lake. The 'Union' claims a population of ninety thousand for Rochester. It is rumored Attica is soon to have a knitting factory. In Livingston county they pay 35 to 36 cents per pound for wool. Rochester is to have a grand exhibition of roses on the 25th and 26th. A new school building is to be erected in Canandaigua at a cost of $36,000. The new female reformatory of the Western House of Refuge, Rochester, will be built in the Italian style, four stories high, and have frontage of 200 feet. It will cost $15,000, and will be completed by Jan. 1st. Mary PICKLES of Albion got into a sharp pickle by swallowing a pin recently. A Pike, Wyoming county, manufacturer is turning out 600 cheese boxes per day. There are five persons confined in the Cattaraugus Co. jail on charge of murder. Lockport is clamoring for a connecting link with the Lake Ontario Shore railroad. There are 150 men at work upon the new Portage Bridge--one pier up and others rising. Hugh McKITRICK, an old resident of Avon, poisoned himself with arsenic a few days since. SANDERS, of the Nunda 'News,' is building an elegant new house. How does he get credit? Abram LOZIER has received appointment as U.S. Revenue Collector in Livingston county. One of the Brockport ladies is studying law with the intention of engaging in the practice. Erotas WILDER, of Varysburg, broke his arm one day last week, while unloading cheese in Attica. + submitted by Linda C. Schmidt *********************************************