Huntsville gazette., 1892-03-19
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SOUTHERN GLEANlNGS.
Mrs. Raphael semmes.

Mrs Raphael Semmes.
Mrs. Annie L. Semmes, widow Of
Ra phael Semmes, admiral of the con-
federate states navy, died at Mobile,
Ala
[She was in her 74th year. One year ago she
began failing, but last summer attended the re-
union Of confederate veterans at Chattanooga
and like reunion later at Memphis, where,
owing to the unusual exertion she was pros
trated. She rallied after awhile and was taken
home early in December, but had been continu
ally confined to her room. All of her family
living gathered at her deathbed. Mrs. Semmes
was Miss Annie f. Spencer daughter of Oliver
NJ. Spencer pioneer Methodist minister OF
Ohio and first mayor OF Cincinnati, and married
Lieut.. Semmes. of the United States navy, in
Cincinnati in 1887. She contributed her husband
and three sons to the confederate cause. After
the war she founded the Confederate Memorial
association, which cared for the graves in Mo-
bile Of the confederate soldiers. She was also
president Of the Catholic orphan asylum at Mo-
bile. She was pronounced Catholic
Make Hangmen's Ropes.
There is in st. Louis firm of rope
makers and dealers, doing business on
North Main street, that has a side line
that 1T does not advertise. 1t is the
manufacture and preparation of hang
mems ropes. The firm sells as many as
100 of these ropes annually. Their
price of the rope, for the moose ready
for use. is five dollars. The ropes arc
hand made and of hemp, and one of the
employees of the firms North st. Louis
rope-walk ties the knot. A few weeks
since a sheriff who had man to hang,
bought rope that he thought would
answer the purpose. The tying of the
knot he found, however, to be more
difficult matter than he imagined, and
he went to st. Louis to have the knot
made The rope-maker charged him
81. so for tying the knot.
Tragedies In wen.
Edward Smart and several neighbors
undertook to clean ont well in Henry
county. Tenn. Smart went down into
the well, but in few minutes called
out to those above to haul him up.
They drew him up few feet, when lie
fell back into the water dead. Willis
Logging, a well-cleaner, was sent down
to rescue the dead mans body, and
when thirty feet down loudly called to
be drawn up. When few feet from
the top the rope broke, precipitating
the man to the bottom, breaking his
neck. 1t is supposed Smart died Of
heart disease. The well had not been
in use for some time.
Shot by an Officer.
Doc Hogue, a Crittenden county ARK
deputy sheriff. and the son of prUmi-
nent magistrate, shot and fatally
wounded Willis Thomas, a negro, at
Mound Landing, opposite Memphis.
Tenn. the other morning. lie then
turned his pistol on another negro and
would have killed him but for Capt.
Couch, Of the steamer Alice, who felled
him with a blow from his pistol.
Hogue was drunk, and the quarrel
arose over game of craps Capt
Couch turned him over to the authori-
ties, and he w as jailed at Marion, Ark.
Paralyzed In the Pulpit.
Rev. DIR. Christopher T. Bailey, editor
of the Biblical Record, the Baptist or
gan, was partially paralyzed in the pull
pit of the Third Baptist church at Ra-
leigh, N. c., and was believed beyond
recovery.
IDr Bailey is 52 years of age, and is native OF
Gloucester county, Va. He Is widely known
among the southern Baptists, and is a forceful
writer.l