Progressive Batavian Batavia, Genesee County, New York State April 30-1875 Local Record Gen. Rock THOMPSON, with his street brigade, has been making successful war upon the mud and dirt accumulations of our principal streets, during the past few days. Three new houses on Bank street soon--one for L. TIMMONS, one for Geo. HUMPHREY, and one for Charles REED. Morgan has the Timmons job and is pushing it with vigor. George LAMPMAN, of this village, died at Livingston Co., on Saturday last of quick consumption, and was brought home for burial on Tuesday last. He was 22 years of age. William WOOD, of this village, did a very neat job of painting and lettering on Luke TAYLOR's Albion 'Bus recently, thus demonstrating him to be well qualified for his biz. Rev. Thos. McLEOD has received and accepted a call to the Presbyterian church of this village. We hear him highly commended as a preacher and an earnest christian worker. Mr. Arthur BARKER of North Bergen has just got up from a severe turn of diptheria, and his child is also just recovered from scarlet fever. So reports the Holley 'Standard.' Stone & Thomas are not behind their competitors in the Dry Goods trade, either in quality of stock or scale of prices. They will sell as good as the best and as cheap as the cheapest. The HEWITT Brothers are in market early, as usual, with an excellent stock of new spring goods. They are live merchants and pleasant dealers, and do the fair thing by all their customers. Miss Julia A. YOUNG of this village has been re-engaged as teacher of reading and elocution at the Starkey, Yates county, Seminary. Miss YOUNG is a competent teacher of those branches. Le Roy used to be called Bellona, for dietetic reasons we presume, but in 1813 the name was changed to Le Roy, in honor of Hermon Le Roy, one of the proprietors of the Triangle tract, upon which a portion of the town lay. Hon. E. TOWNSEND, of Pavilion, and ex-sheriff LUSK of Batavia, were in town on Thursday last. Mr. TOWNSEND was in quest of rams to fill a large order from Colorado. He is a large dealer in sheep and has this spring sold some high priced rams to go west. Within the last two weeks he has purchased in Vermont some of the famous Hammond stock. He will show some of his best at the sheep-shearing in Rochester on the 5th and 6th of May. Batavia Library-From the annual report of the President of the Batavia Library Association, we learn that during the past year there have been added to the library 338 volumes, and that the whole number of volumes now contained in the library is 2108. Number of members of the Association 150--average daily attendance 40--number of volumes drawn during the year 9400--total receipts from membership and sale of papers $417--total expenditures during year $1,199.32--net receipts from the lecture course $344.55--total balance in the treasury, April 7th, $$4,271.41. A very gratifying exhibit. * submitted by Linda Schmidt