Daily News Batavia, Genesee County, New York State Saturday Evening, October 1-1881 Price Two Cents. NEWS OF THE COUNTY. In Alexander hay is selling for $12 a ton in the stack. F.W. FOREMAN has bought the grocery stock of BOAK & Co., LeRoy, recently assigned. The recent winds have blown a great deal of fruit from trees in Alexander orchards. A horse driven by James DAVIS, LeRoy, dropped dead in the harness at Byron Center a few days ago. For participating in a drunken row in LeRoy last Saturday, George CARR was penitentiaried for ninety days. The Lackawanna railroad employes have so increased trade at East Bethany that another store has been established there. Rev. E.A. WHEAT, after a forty years' pastorate at the Methodist Protestant Church, Elba, has been returned for another year. James BOYD died at the County House last Sunday at an advanced age. The Byron town fair will take place next Tuesday and Wednesday, and as usual, it is expected it will be a success and well worth attending. A. JACKSON's store at East Pembroke was burglarized Monday evening. The safe was blown open with powder and $15 in bills taken, besides a few articles of merchandise. Rev. J.B. COUNTRYMAN, pastor of the M.E. Church, Bergen, will preach his farewell sermon to-morrow, though it is probably he will be returned to the charge by the Conference. It is stated that Richard SELDEN of LeRoy, is now directing a survey for the Hoosic Tunnel road. ++ FASHIONS IN STOCKINGS AND SHOES. >From the N.Y. 'Sun.' "Embroiderers for shoes wanted," was the advertisement which led an enquirer up a long flight of stairs in a tall building, through the room that was filled with shoes to an office, where sat a benevolent-faced gentleman, who said: "Shoes are embroidered for ladies. We have orders for a line of cloth-top shoes embroidered in chenille, and for low shoes embroidered at the instep. The embroidered stockings have become so popular that now embroidery is wanted on the shoes too. We have an artist who makes the patterns, and we expect to turn out some charming bits of art embroidery in shoes for next summer's wear. We had an order recently for embroidered white slippers for a bride, to match a pair of white silk stockings with Chantilly lace let in from the instep, and another pair of white silk embroidered with floss silk, the design being pale-blue forget-me-nots and pink roses. Clock stockings are now superseded by embroidered stockings. We follow the fashion in stockings, and shoes and stockings will next year be sold to match. Open work is getting popular. Black silk stockings are made with a plan stripe, and there are open work stripe with white feet, which shoes[sic/shows?] through open work in the shoes. There are now twelve hundred new designs in silk stockings, and we have to make shoes to suit the most popular styles. We make the tops of cloth or leather to match the color of the stocking embroidery, so that at a glance, the lady seems to have on Newport slippers with embroidered stockings. It will add about $2 a pair to shoes to embroider them, but we can make them to cost $50 a pair. Some of our up-town dames don't seem to mind what it costs to beautify their feet." ++ submitted by Linda C. Schmidt