Progressive Batavian Batavia, Genesee County, New York State Friday, July 23-1875 Neighboring Counties. Diptheria is raging in Brockport. Medina has 700 scholars on its school rolls. Canandaigua has a "colored" brass band. Cuba, Allegany Co., is afflicted with the small pox. In Geneseo they are disputing over the age of Noah. Steuben county has 51 Methodist Episcopal churches. There are about forty cheese factories in Wyoming county. The Livingston Co. Shakers had a $5,000 fire a day or two since. Work has been suspended at the Union Car Works at East Buffalo. Wyoming county has a fund of $8,500 to build a soldiers' monument. They have a man dress-maker in Buffalo. Can such things be--in America? The population of Lockport, according to the census just taken, is 13,621. The present population of Brockport is 3,452, which is 623 more than in l870. The jailer at Bath was visited by a burglar who carried off valuables worth $300. A boy 12 years old has been detected in purloining mail matter from the Wellsville postoffice. H.W. GARDNER's house, at Attica, was burglared of $45 and a suit of clothes a few evenings since. James BRICE, of York, Livingston county, had a horse killed by lightning a few days since. Loss $200. Geneseo clergymen have gone into the Sunday-open-air-meetings business. The attendance is large. Mrs. Wesley E. PASSAGE, of Nunda, swallowed a spoonful of Paris Green on Tuesday, and died in a few hours. A fire at Buffalo Sunday burned two shops belonging to the Buffalo and Philadelphia R.R., valued at $5,500. A female burglar was sentenced last Saturday in Buffalo to ten years imprisonment in the Erie county penitentiary. Canandaigua has 27 places licensed to sell liquor. The 'Messenger' of that place says: "No wonder the jail is crowded." A drunken man fell over the bank at Niagara on Tuesday, falling a distance of over one hundred feet and came out alive. A Kendall Mills, Monroe Co., man has sold his wife for five cents worth of old iron. The purchaser got auphully cheated. We learn from the Wyoming 'Democrat' that a man in Pike has been digging for gold for some time past, and still believe he will find it. An attempt was made by burglars a few nights since to blow open the safe of one of the banks of Albion, Orleans Co. Result--failure. Corporal CLARK of Addison, Steuben Co., had his clothes torn off and set on fire by lightning, but he is likely to recover from the shock. W. D. MINER has received appointment as postmaster at Warsaw in place of Wm. H. MERRILL, resigned. Appointment to take effect August 15th. The Lockport correspondent of the Buffalo 'Sunday News' takes a gloomy view of the financial situation of the business community in the city of Locks. He asserts "that with the exception of perhaps one or two instances there is not a merchant on Main St. who is, or has been for the past two months, paying their expenses." The PEAK family Troupe, or some members of it, had quite a squabble at Brockport recently. In the melee one of the Troupe named Halsted, stabbed two of the members, not very seriously, however; and seriously wounded Miss Fannie, who was trying to quell the disturbance. The fellow was whisky mad. Miss Carrie A. BARRETT recently obtained a verdict of $3500 against the trustees of the Gowanda, Catt. county, Union School for leaving the school room floor in so dilapidated a condition that she, while attending to her duties as a teacher, stepped into a hole in the floor and injured her knee badly. Moral: Fix up your dilapidated old school houses. An exchange says a stranger entered a church in Buffalo, Sunday evening, and walked the entire length of the aisle without any person offering him a seat, so he started out. As he neared the door a man arose and asked if he wanted a seat. "No," replied the stranger, "I came in merely to look around. I'm going home now," and he went. On Friday last a little boy, son of Mr. WAITE, one of the proprietors of the Belfast monumental works, came into his father's establishment, and in playing around pulled out the prop which was under a heavy piece of marble. The stone fell down catching the little fellow's head under it, crushing it in a fearful manner the brains exuding through the skull. The Niagara Falls 'Gazette' tells that a cat was thrown from the new Suspension bridge into the river for the purpose of killing it--It struck the water, 190 feet beneath with a thud, disappeared for a moment, beneath the water, then rose and struck out for shore which it reached in safety, apparently uninjured. The 'Gazette; makes this statement cat-egorically. The Bath 'Advocate' says: "Col. C.A. CANFIELD has been appointed Chief Engineer on the Attica & Arcade Railroad. It is 60 miles long, and connects with Atlantic & Great Western at Salamanca. The Colonel has taken with him his son Robert, and Frank CRUTTENDEN. Roberts acts as first Assistant Engineer, and Frank is to perfect himself in Engineering. William MARBLE, the Medina Indian doctor, of whom we recently made mention, was tried a few days since for malpractice in the case of Mrs. WILLIAMS, of Albion. Evidence against him was very clear and strong. The jury returned a verdict of guilty of felony after a few moments' consultation. He was sentenced to fifteen years of hard labor at Auburn State prison. There are a great many little boys in this village who may be seen in our streets long after what should be their bed time. Most of them smoke, chew and swear, and some of them drink and fight. We wish to call the attention of their parents to the fact that these lads are fast developing into loaferhood, and unless they are checked their career will be a bad ne. - 'Orleans Republican'. Ditto Batavia. submitted by Linda Schmidt *********************************************