The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-10-27
Maryland Affairs.

Miss Annie McCarty has been appointed
superintendent of the newly started orphans
home in Hagerstown.
The Christian Missionary Society at Mary
land and the District of Columbia will meet
in Rockville, October 80.
Over a gateway near Chestertown, is sign
bearing this inscription: "a private burial
ground for all agents
Some Chestertown parties are in cores
pondence with London agency for the pur-
pose of securing English servant girls.
The Mclhodists of Hagerstown have bought
what is known as the Mary Feigley property
in that town for 81, 500. on which to build
church.
1t is said that the money paid out for fer
tilizers in Hartford county this year would
have bought all the land in the county twenty
years ago.
Charles H Ensor, who was shot near the
line of the MARYLAND Central Railroad last
week by Mrs. Mary Jane Hundermark, died
Monday morning, about o'clock, from the
effects of his injuries.
Mrs. Christina Baumeister, wife of a we'll
known German citizen, of Baltimore, com
mitted suicide by hanging on Wednesday
morning On the 9th inst. her husband,
while intoxicated, nearly murdered her by
cutting her arm with a razor. She seems to
have been crazed by the fear that he would
make another attempt on her life and hung
herself to the bedpost by the bandages which
bound her old wound When dicovered she
had been dead long time.
The cloverseed yield in Sassafras Neck,
Cecil county, averages three bushels to
the acre. The Cecil Wing says: ''The lar
gest yield we have heard of yet was one farmer
who secured thirty-fve bushels from ten acres,
and the lowest, one who only got twenty
bushels from twenty-five or thirty acres.
The Easton Gazette says. More cloverseed
has been raised in Talbot county this year
than ever before. Several hullers have been
in operation the last two months, and some
of the machines have received as toll over two
hundred bushels.
On Saturday night Mr.. j. L. Miller, living
ON East Washington street, in Hagerstown,
was aroused from his sleep by some one as
eending ladder under his bedroom window.
Upon looking out of his window he discovered
a second ladder standing against the adjoining
house, placed in that position evidently by
some person for the purpose of gaining access
to the house through the attic window. There
was one man on each ladder and three men
on the pavement. As soon as the men found
they were discovered they beat a hasty retreat,
leaving the ladders.
A fire started at Annapolis Monday morn
ing at O clock in Lewis G. Clayton's grocery
store He kept coal oil lamp burning, and
it is supposed to have exploded. Another
explosion of coal oil, or powder, followed
that, awoke the neghborhood, and shook
houses two squares away. The Naval Acad-
envy steam FIRE engine, manned by sailors,
under Chief L. J. NJ. Boyd, rendered effect
i've service. Ten houses and nine storerooms
were destroyed. Two lives were lost, Charles
Legg and his aged aunt, Miss Lizzie Watkins,
whom Legg, after he was out of the house,
went back to save. The estimated losses are
as follows, Louis Clayton, $4,000 James
Legg, $500; Julius c. Hall, 1000; Joseph
S. NJ Basil, $4,000; VIM. I. Iglehart, S5,
600; Misses Sands, $1,000; Lewis II. REIN,
81. 900; Mrs. John Lindenborn $4,000.