****************** The Daily News Batavia, Genesee County, New York State October 27-1883 # 2 Ten Mile Crossing Of the play to be presented in Batavia next Tuesday evening the Albany 'Knickerbocker' says: "Mr. FORSBERG is cool and humorous, and possessed of that non-chalance which suits his part admirably. Mr. CHALFIN as Capt. Van Dorn acts his parts well; so does Miss EATON-CRANE as Helen. As to the play itself much could be written in its praise. It is on the whole a piece of great merit. The plot is good and the interest well sustained. Some of the scenic effects are admirable, not to say startling. The thunder storm the vivid flashes of lightning and the fire it causes, are grand beyond description. The play will be repeated to-night and we will be disappointed if there is not a packed house to witness it." * A Busy Week "This has been a busy week in town, " said a Batavian merchant, "the fall trade seeming to spring up all of a sudden. We have had every reason to feel gratified at our business for the week, and I have noticed that other stores have apparently had a good patronage. Trade will now probably continue brisk until after the Holidays." Main street is lined with teams to-day, and all branches of business seem to be attracting patrons. * A Festival in Prospect. A festival and entertainment will be given for the benefit of St. Joseph's parochial school at the school building on the evenings of November 7th and 8th. The ladies of the church are making arrangements to have the festival an occasion that will merit a large attendance. The object is worthy of a large patronage. * Wherein the "Times" Erred. The 'Spirit of the Times' says in a local item: "It is generally expressed to be a 'waste of thunder' for LeRoy merchants to attempt to draw trade from this locality by advertising 'closing out sales' in Batavia papers." We do not wonder at this error of judgment in the 'Times,' because it was not aware the Oldest Dry Goods House of the County is actually closing out its entire stock at Le Roy, at auction prices, preparatory to Mr. Chas. MORGAN's retirement from over half a century of active business. Batavians and people from this vicinity are going there because they can buy goods was below their worth. Even the goods that do not ordinarily enter into a close-out are selling wonderfully cheap: Standard prints are 2 and 3 cents a yard less than in Batavia; 7 1/2 cents buy a 9 cent sheeting; and the famous double Waterloo shawls go at $5.00 instead of $6.50 to $9.00. * A Strange Marine Animal. Whalers Encounter a Monster in the Pacific that looked Like a Horse. Panama.-Capt. D. SEYMOUR of the whaling bark Hope On, which anchored in the bay on the seventh from a four months cruise, with 400 barrels of humpback on board, reports having encountered a strange marine monster off St. Elmo. This is one of the Pearl Island group, situated between forty and fifty miles from this town. The boats were out, waiting signals from the vessel as to the direction the whales were heading. Suddenly the water broke at a short distance from the boat. Capt. SEYMOUR was steering, and he made ready to catch a whale. But to his surprise and that of the men in the boat, who ceased pulling and looked around when he shouted to them, an animal somewhat like a horse rose slowly out of the water and dived, apparently alarmed at the sight of the boat. None of those present had ever seen an animal like it before, although they are all old sailors, and they agree in saying, as do another boat's crew who saw it the following day, that it is an animal which has never been previously encountered. The glance which Capt. SEYMOUR obtained enables him to describe it as about twenty feet in length, with a handsome horse-like head, with two unicorn-shaped horns protruding from it, with four legs or double jointed fins, a brownish hide, profusely speckled with large black spots, and a tail which appeared to be divided into two parts. The animal was seen on two different days, and an effort would have been made to catch it had it not been that whales were about at that time. Capt. SEYMOUR and his officers agree in believing that the monster is peculiar to that locality, an that it could easily be killed with lances and bomb guns. Officers of the Pacific Mail Company say they have seen this animal on several occasions, although they never had the opportunity for close observation which was obtained by the Hope On. * submitted by Linda Schmidt *********************************************

Is anyone from this list also on the ny-rooters list? I haven't been able to send anything thru this week, they all come back, failed-- also, I cannot access the list-administrator either. <ny-rooters-owner@listserv.genexchange.com> Any one else with this difficulty? Linda