Progressive Batavian Batavia, Genesee County, New York State February 26-1875 Neighboring Counties. Attica has a "St. James Hotel." Auburn prison has 1,301 boarders. Andover, Allegany Co., is infected with the small pox. Ice on Lake Erie near Dunkirk is twenty-four inches thick. The Lockport papers are wrangling over the city expenditures. A man eighty-one years old is confined in the Erie jail for wife desertion. A pickeral weighing 38 lbs. was caught in Chautauqua lake the other day. John ORDNER, aged 60, committed suicide in Buffalo, Saturday, by hanging. One Fenton is about to start a paper at Livonia, Livingston Co. Can't be "Ed," can it? Fruit trees in the vicinity of Nunda are cracking open--probably because of the intense cold. Nunda, Livingston Co., is to have a new Bank of issue to be called First National Bank of Nunda. Rev. R.C.BROWNLEE received a donation visit from his Albion friends on Tuesday evening 23d inst. During one of the recent cold nights a Mr. HANLON, of Medina, had a horse frozen to death in his barn. R.C. TAYLOR, a Brockport man, has just invented a new reaping machine and a machine for pulling beans. Nathaniel PIERCE, Esq., of Allegany, Catt. Co., a confirmed opium eater, crazed by the habit, hung himself a few days since. An Attican who milked ten cows the past season realized $73.30 a head as his share of the dividend from the sale of cheese. The Buffalo Relief Society, during the month of January, distributed among the poor 8,307 loaves of bread, and 8,305 quarts of soup. The barn of Mr. Fay MILLER, a Canseraga, Allegany Co., was burned a few nights since with 120 sheep which were sheltered therein. Governor TILDEN has pardoned Patrick BURKE, sentenced from Erie county in February, 1872, for five years for robbery, on account of ill health. Rev. Israel CHAMBERLAIN, D.D., died on Saturday morning at Lyndonville, N.Y. * A Good Thing. Under the careful and efficient manipulation of M.L. BABCOCK, Esq., Surrogate's Clerk, the records and papers kept in the Surrogate's office in this county, are being so thoroughly and systemically arranged, boxed, numbered, and indexed, as to combine safety with the greatest convenience. When the work shall have been fully completed, any record or paper deposited in the Surrogate's office, can be found at a moment's notice. To insure that the boxes containing such records and papers shall not be disturbed by any, except on application to the proper authorities, a casing, with a net-work of wire has been placed in front of them, forming a handsome and sure protection. * submitted by Linda Schmidt *********************************************