Progressive Batavian Batavia, Genesee County, New York State November 19-1875 -part 2- Neighboring Counties. A Gowanda manufacturer turns out 150,000 cheese boxes annually. The banking house of C.C. HUGGINS in Marion, Wayne county, has failed. Buffalo Bill was scouting the Plains at Hornellsville Wednesday night last. JOHNSON's brewery at Westfield, was destroyed by fire a few nights since. The Medina 'Democrat' says that a new stone quarry has been opened at Medina. Frank GALE and "Zip" GOODRICH, of Wellsville, make $4 a day trapping minks and muskrats. Geo. R. COOLEY, Esq., of Angelica, is paying $10 a ton for flax, and $2 a bushel for flax seed. One hundred thousand crates of peaches were shipped from Niagara county during this season. Thieves are said to have taken twenty horses within the past two months from the vicinity of Palmyra. Rev. John K. FOWLER of Rochester was recently installed pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Caledonia. A lot of yearling cattle sold at auction at Portage, Wyoming Co., a few days since, brought about $18 per head. Sunday night, 8th inst., a valuable horse was stolen from a farmer south of Albion, and one also stolen from a farmer south of Millville. A crazy woman kicked a man to death at Westfield, Chautauqua county, the other day. She gave him one kick in the stomach, and he died from its effects. A farmer living near Canandaigua has raised a wonderful potato. It is of the peerless variety, weighs five pounds and one ounce, and is over eleven inches long. Rollin STILES, of Willing, cut his throat with a razor a few mornings since. He had been a long-time sick, and was probably tired of his "style" of life, and was "willing" to go. Recently the house of Mrs. GOODRICH, about a mile from Churchville was burglarized, and some $40 or $50 taken.--Chloroform was evidently used, as the odor from it was perceptible the next day and the lady showed some effects of having inhaled it, being quite sick. + Alexander.-Mr. Geo. KENDALL, who was taken to the county Insane Asylum from this place one week ago, died on Tuesday morning last. His remains were brought here for interment. Prof. MONROE, of Batavia, is to be at the district school house in this village on Tuesday evening 23d inst. for the purpose of organizing a singing school for the winter. Come one come all, or words to that effect. + Bergen.-Since last Thursday the principal topic of conversation has been the robbery of S.C. TULLEY's safe. The sleep of the good people of the village has been disturbed by dreams of burglars. Keep your money in an old stocking, and sleep in peace. Mr. TULLEY, offers a reward of $200 for the recovery of the stolen money and the conviction of the burglar. As yet there is no clew[sic] to the perpetrator. On Thursday night of last week a row occurred in the underground retreat kept by Albert CARD, of fragrant memory.--Blows were exchanged, window lights broken, and night made hideous generally. Probably had whisky was at the bottom of it. We should like to know how much longer this underground nuisance is to be permitted to exist. Where are the crusaders? Some one has been helping himself with potatoes for winter consumption from Southworth & Tone's cars, and with apples from Mr. WESTON's stock, without leave or license. W.M. SAGE and wife returned from Canada last Saturday evening, after an absence of seven weeks. Judging from their long stay, their visit must have been a pleasant one. The committee appointed by the Congregational church to examine the different hymn and tune books and recommend one for use in the church, have recommended the "Presbyterian Hymnal" as the most suitable. On Wednesday of this week Southworth & Tone loaded five cars with five hundred bushels of barley each. Considerable beer in that amount of barley. D.J. McPHERSON, after a four weeks' illness, is able to be out again. As the old ladies say, "He looks kind of peak-ed." Five street lamps now illuminate the path of the pedestrian in different parts of the village on a dark night, and there is room for five more. + Elba.--Messrs. FRENCH & RUGG are about to increase the motive power of their mill by putting in a new steam-boiler. School Dist. No. 4 is building a new school house. Messrs. BROCKWAY & RITTER of this place have the job. Our farmers are rejoicing in, and improving, the unusually fine weather of this season. + Other News. Rev. B.I. IVES, of Auburn, presents quite a busy record for the past year. He has traveled 22,000 miles, preached ninety-three sermons, delivered thirty-three lectures, dedicated and re-opened thirty churches, and raised $901,100 for new churches and old debts. As a boy in Utica was exercising a pony in some manner the rope by which the animal was fastened got around his neck,, the pony became frightened, and he was dragged along a considerable distance.--His skull was fractured and his body badly torn, but he is yet alive. In the town of Venice, Cayuga county, a few miles south of Auburn, is one of the largest burial grounds known in the country. On an extent of 200 acres, on the farm of Jonas WOOD and adjoining grounds, are thousands of Indian graves, supposed to be coeval with the Aborigines. The person arrested in India on his own confession, as Nena SAHIB, is, probably, not the man he pretended to be. The prisoner declares that he was drunk when he falsely confessed that he was Nena SAHIB. He states that he was arrested by mistake in 1864, and subsequently released, and claims that he has relatives who will recognize him. It is a curious fact that while business of every kind is depressed, and the wages of labor are being considerably reduced, the price of boots and billiards, and boiled chestnuts and show tickets, and horse hire and sleeve buttons, and deviled crabs and other necessaries of life, remain unchanged. This is probably owing to the grasshoppers plague in the west. Chas. P. THOMPSON, elected to Congress in BUTLER's district, was born in Braintree July 30th, 1827, was admitted to the Suffolk bar on motion of the Hon. B.F.HALLET, in whose office he studied. He has resided in Gloucester since 1857, and has twice represented that place in the Legislature. The Boston Journal says he is a man of ability, a good speaker, full of sharp wit, and honest. The Presbyterian Church at Waverly, Tioga county, N.Y. has discarded the use of alcoholic wines at its communion table. It has, however, an unfermented product of the "fruit of the vine," the method of preparation, we understand, being obtained from a Jew, who says that the Jews of old employed the same method in preparing for the passover.--Other churches would do well to follow the example of the Waverly church. A little girl, while playing on the railroad track at Holidaysburg, Pa., got her foot so wedged in a frog that she was held fast. Her mother saw the predicament and heard an approaching train. She ran to the rescue of her child, but could not extricate the foot. The train come on, and although the engineer applied the brakes, it was clear that it could not be stopped quick enough. The mother finding that the girl could not be less than maimed, held her as far off the track as she could while the cars went by. A foot was crushed, but a life was saved. + submitted by Linda Schmidt