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- ~s~Y-~ a ( _ UhE_ ____ _ __ _ irihurL _ ___ __ ___________ _________ ___ ____ ____ ) ____ VOL. XIXI PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1892. NO 37. 4 A TREMENDOUS WORD. POWER AND SIGNIFICANCE OF THI SINGLE WORD "SELAH." Dr. Talaigo Sasys ''13ah" la No Scrip tural Aclidout, at Unthinking Peonl Suppose-riarouaiI It oll the Thunder Iig Chariots of the Omni potent God. BROOKLYN, Miy 2.-Rcv. Dr. Tal mage today took for the subject of hi sermon a single word of frequen:, occut rence in the Bible and whose meanin Is but little underitood. From It h drew a profoundly impressive discriptioi of the varied and majestic purposes o certain parts of Scripture and a practica lesson for Christians generally. Th text was Psalms lxi, 4, "Selali." The majority of Bible readtr- loo upon this word of my text as of no in: portance. They consider it a IUpei finity, a incre fillitg in, a meningless ic terjection, a uselusi ref rain, an undilne echo. SelItli But I have to tell yo that it is no Scriptural accident. It o(c curs sev.entv-four nines in the book c Psalms and three tiues in the book c Habakkuk. You Ili ust not charge thi pertfect book:wit,h ! evety-seven triviali ties. SeAah! It is an enthroned word It, according to au old writer, som, words are battles, then this woid is Marathon, a Therinopylte, a Sedan, Waterloo. -It is a word decisive; somec times for poetic beauty, sometimes fo solemnity, sometimes for grandeur an sometimes for eternal import. Throug it roll the thundering chariots of th O.mipoten t God. I take this word] for my text becaus I am so often asked whatis its meanios or whether it has any menmn at all. I has an ocean of meaning, from which shall this morning dip up only four c tive bucketftla. I will speak to you, a tar as I have time. of the Selah of poet' significance, the Selah of inter.aissiot the Selah of emphasis and the Selah < perpetuity. Are you surprised that I speak of L Selah of poetic siguiticance? Sure] the God who sapphired the heavens an made the earth a Iosebud of beauty, wit oceans hanging to it like drops of mor, ing dew, would not make a iible wiLl out rhythm, without redolence, withot blank verse. God knew that eventual] the Bible would be i cad by great muajor ty of young people, for in this world i malaria and casualty an octogenarian exceptional, and as thirty years i3 moi than the average of hu nan life, if tl Bible is to be a successful book it mu be adapted to the young. IlIee tli prosody of the Bible-the drana of Jol the pastoral of Ruth, the epic of Judue the dithyrambic ofi Iabakkuk, tl threnody of Jeremiah, the lyric of So! mon's song, the oratorio of the Apo alypse, the id1, the strophe, and ani strophe and the Sel,dh of the L'salns. Wherever you find this word Selah means that you are to rouse up to gre stanza, that you are to open your so to great analogies, that you are to spret, the wing of your imagination for gre: flight. "I answered thee In the se: r place of thunder. I proved thee at tLi waters of' Meribah. Selah.'' "Ti earth and all the inhabitants thereof a dissolved. I bear up the pillars of i Selab.'" "Who is this king of glor The Lord of host, lie is the king glory. Se'ah." "Thou shalt compa me about with songs of deliveranI Selah." "Though the waters therc roar and be troublcd, thouAh the mou tains shake with the swelling thiere0 Selh. "'The Lord of hosts is with u the God of Jacob is our ref uge. Selah. "Thou hast given a banner to them thi fear thee, that it may he displ.tyed b, cause of the truth Selah.'' "I1 wi hide und(er thle covert of' thy wing Se'ah." "C), God, when thou wente forth before thy peopile, when thou (lid march through the wilderness. Selah. Wherever you find this wordl It is signal of warning hung out to tell yt to stand off the track while the rush ii Y train goes by with its imperial passel gers. Poetic word, charged with sunri: and sunset,4and temn pest and earl hiquak and resurrect,ions and millenniums, Next I come to speak of the Selah intermission. Gesenius, Th'luck, iIe getenberg and other writers ag'ree saying t,hat this word Selah nmeanis rest in music; what the Greeks call diapsalma, a pauseH(, a halt.in t,he eoleni march of cautillatiin. Every musicIan knows the imn port an of it. If you ever saw Julhena, the gre musical leader, stand before live thou aud singers and pilayers ' .m instr ments, and with onie stroke of' his b ton smite t,be multitudinous haflelul. into silence, and then, soon after vii another stitoke of his b.aton rouse up tI full orchestra to a ureaL, outbturst. of hn mony, then you kno>w the miighty elre of' a musical pause. 10 g.ives miot power to what went, before; 1I, gives m 9 power to what is to come af ter. S.) (< thrusts t,he Selah into his Bible antd in our lives, coinpelling us to stop) at think, stop and( consider, stop amnd ai mire, stop and pray, stop and irepeu stop and be sick, stop) and( die. It is ni the great number o1 times that we rei the Bible through that makes us intel gent'in the Scriptures. We must. paust What though it t ake an mr' laor oi word? WVhat though it tak~ ia week I * one verse? What th,ough it, ihough take a year for one chapter? We nmu pause and measure the height, t depth, the length, t.he bieadtht, the ml -verse, the eteruity of mecaning ini 0 verse. .1 should like to see somec one H around one little adverb) in the Bile, little adverb of two letteis, "hring 4i 4 Testament passage, "God so loved world." August.ine made a long paut after the verse "Putt ye on the La Jesus Christ," andl it converted hil Matthew Henry made a long pause ter the v"rac, "Open thou my lips, al my.mouth shall show forth thy praise and it converted him. WillIam Cowl: made a long pause after the v'erse, "1I ing freely juistified lby his grace," andC converted him. When Uil tells seventy-seven t,imee meditatively pause In reading two of the oooks of t Bible, he leaves to our common sen to decide how e.An we should pause reading the other sixty-four books of the Bible. We must pause and ask for more light. We must pause and weep over our sius. We must pause and absorb the strength of one promise. I some times hear people boasting about how many times they have read the Bible through, when they seem to know no o more aout It than a passenger would know about the state of Pennsylvania who should go through it in a St. Louis lightning express train and in a Pullman sleeper, the two characteristics of the journey, velocity and somnolence. It is not the number of times you go through the Bible, but the number of times the i Bible goes through you. Pausc; reflect. 1 Selah. So also on the scroll or your life and I mind. We go rushing on, in the song e of out prosperity, from note of joy to note of joy, and it is a long drawn out k legato, and tve become indifferent and iunappreiiative, whensuddenly we come .upon i blank in the muslc. There is nothing between those bars. A. pause. God will fill it up with a slekb-d, or a commercial disaster, or a grave. But, thumk God, it Is not a breaking down; it is only a pause. It helps us to appre elate the lessings that are gone; it gives us higher appreciation of the blessings that are to conic. The Selah of llabakkuk and David is a dividing line between two anthems. D David begins his book with the words, L "Blessed Is the man," and after seven ty-!our Selahs, he closes his book with r the words, "Praise ye the Lord." So El there are mercies behind us. It is good b for us that God halts us In our fortunes, and halts us with physical disti ess, and halt us at the graves of our dead. More e than once you and I have been halted by such a Selah. You wrung your hands and said: "I can't see any sense in this Providence; I can't see why r God gave me that child, if he is so soon o uoing to take it away. Oh, my desolate e home. Oh, my broken heart!" You , could not understand it. But it was not j a Selah of overthrow. It gave you grea ter appreciation of the blessings that e have gone; it will give you greater ap. y preciNtIon of the blessings that will d come. h When the iuguenots were being . very much persecuted in France, a father and mother were obliged to Ily it fromn the country, leaving their child in the possessioni of a comparativc y stranger. They did not know whethei they would ever return, or, returning if they would be able to recognize tbeii Schild. for by that time she might b( e grown. rhe mother was almost fren ie zied at the thought of leaving the child t and then, even if coming back again e not being able to know her. Befor4 they left., the father drew his sword an( he marked the wrist of that child wit[ e a deep cut. It must have been a grea D. exigency to make a father do that. D- Y ears of absence passed on, and afte - awhile the parents returned and thei 'irstanxiety was to find their lost child They looked up and down the land, ex it aminin": the wrists of the young peo it pie, when lo! after awhile the fathei a ioiuind a maiden with a scar upon hei d wrist. She knew him not, but lie knem it her. Aid oh, the joy of the reunion At So it is now. "Whom the Lord lovett ie he chasteneth." Ile cutteth, lie mark le eth, and when lie comes to claim hii ce own the Lord will know them that ar t his; know them by the scar of theil .2 trouble, know them by the stroke ol their desolation. Oh, it is good that the Lord some s times hafts us. David says: "Itisgooc that I Itave been aillicted. Ilefore ] was Milic ed I went astray, but noii - have I kept thy word." Indeed, wf -C inust~ all soon stop). Scientists havi s, imiproved humnan longevity, but nonw " of them have proposed to make terrent it life perpetual. But the Gospel makes 3. death only a Selah between two beati 11 tuides-i'etween dying triumph on 01u4 s, side of the grave and celestial escort. or: the other side of the grave. Going oul of this ii fe, to the unprepared, is a greal ,,horror. "Give me more laudanum," said dy a in,g Mirabeau; "give me more laud u~ anum, that I may not think of eternits gand what is to come." And dyini Li- Ilobbes said, "1 leave my body to thi Ie grave an d my soul to the great perhaps.' e, It was ihe discord of an infidel's lift break ing down Into the jargon of de ol spair; but the Gospel makes the deatl u. of the Christian ai Selaht between re in demiptioni and enthronement. "Alimosl a well ," s-u d dyiing Richard Baxter; "al amost well." "Play those notes ove: m again-t hose notes which have been S< great a delight and solace to me," salk the (lying Christian Mozart. "Noni se but Christ, none but Christ," excilme< it, dying Laiiibert. s. Richard Cameron, the Scotch coven n. anter, wvent Into the battle three time a- praying: "Lord, spare the green an Stake the ripe. Trhis is the day I hay ilonged for. This is the day 1 shall ge Smy crown. Come, let us fight It to Lh rlast. l'orward!" So you see there i only a shiort p)ause, a Selah of intermis et sion, bietween dying consolations o: i( the one side andl overtepping rapture re On the other. to My flesh shall slumber in the ground TIillI tie last trumpet's joyful sound; Th'len burst the chains wIth sweet surprise And in my Saviour's Image rise. I next speak of the Selah of empha j sis. Ewaild, the German orientalls .i and theologian, says that this wvorlt means to ascend; aiid wherever you find1( It, hie says, you must look after th< m'iIodnIiat.ion of the voice, and you mus Sput more f orce Into your utterance. I is. a. Selah of emphasis. Ah! my friends t you and I need to correct our eimphasie CWi' puit toou much emphasis on thi: n- world and niot enough on God and th, ne next world. People thliik these thhite air(oului us are so impiiortairlt, the thingi ulof the ni xt are iiot wort4iy of our con sideIraitioni. , 'I'he iirst need for some of us Is t4 nie change our empih)asisI. Look at Wretch :* edness on a throne. Napoleon, whlul lie yet emperor oft France. salt down de se jected, lis hianids ov'er his tace. A 1a4 rdcaine in with a tray of food and said ui. "Eat, it will (10 you good." T1he enm Al- peror looked up anid said: "You ar 5d irom the country ?" 'Thle lad replies ,"' "Y es," "Your father hans a cottage an '.r a few acres of grounid?" "Yes. e. "There Is happiness," saidl the dejectE it emperor. Ah! Napoleoii never put th us emphasis In the right place until hi to On thieother hand, look at Satisfat he tion amid the worst earthly disadvar seLage. "I never saw unitil 1 was blind In sma a C..atn- m. .IDOO kn what contentment was while I had m, eyesight as I know what content i now that I have lost my eyesight. afllrm, though few would credit it, tha I % ould not exchange my present posi tion and circumstances for my circum stances before I lost my eyesight. That man put the emphasis in the righ place. We want to put less stress upoj this world and more stress upon ou God as our everlasting port.ion. David had found out the nothingnes of this world and the all sulliciency o God. Notice how he interjects th Selahs. "Trust in the Lord at al times; 3e people, pour out your hear before him. God is a refuge for uf Selah." "Blessed be the Lord who dail loads us with benefits, even the God 0 our salvation. Selah." "The Lord shal count when he writeth up the peopl that this man was born there. Selah. Let the world have its honors and it riches and its pomp. Let me have th Lord for my light, my peace, my foi tress, my pardon, my hope,.my heaver What sinners value I resign; Lord!'tis enough that thou art mine. I shall behold thy blissful face, And stand complete in righteousines. This world is all an empty show. But the bright world to which I go Hath joys substantial and sincere; When shall I wake and find me there? 0 glorious hour! 0 blest abode! I shall be near and like my God, And sin and sense no more control The endless pleasures of my soul. But when I speak of the Selah of ei phasis 1 must notice it is a startling dramatic emphasis. It has in it L1 hark! the hist! of the drama. Tht wakening and arousing emphasis % who preach c r iistruct need to u. more frequently. The sleepiest aud ences in the world are religious and ences. You Sabbath school teachers oug to have more of the dramatic elemer in your instructions. By graphic Scril ture scene, by anecdote, by descriptiv gesture, by impersonation, urge you classes to right action. We want i all our schools and colleges and piayf meetings, and in all our attempts a reform, and in all our churches, to haN less of the style didactic and more the style dramatic. Fifty essays about the sorrows of 11 poor could not affect me as a litt drama of accident and suffering I sa one slippery morning in the streets < Philadelphia. Just ahead of me was lad, wretched in apparel, his limb au putated at the knee; from the pallor 4 the boy's cheek the amputation n4 long before. lie had a package 4 broken food under his arm-food I had begged, 1 suppose, at the doors. . he passed on over the slippery pay ment cautiously and carefully, I stea led him until his crutch slipped and I fell. I helped him up as well as I coul gathered up the fragments of the pac age as well as I could, put them unt one arm and the crutch under the oth arm, but when I saw the blood rt down his pale cheek I was complete overcome. Fifty essays about the su fering of the poor could not touch oi like that little drama of accident ar suffering. Oh, we want in all our different d partments of usefulness-and I addre hundreds of people who are trying 1 do good-we want more of tha drain tic element and less of the didacti The tendency in this day is to drot religion, to whine religion, to cant r ligion, to moan religion, to croak relil ion, to sepulchrize religion, when v ought to present it in animated ar spectacular manner. Sabbath morning by Sabbath mor ing I address many theological studeni who are preparing for the ministr They come in here from the differer institutions. I say to them this mnor lug: If you will go home anti look ove the history of the church you will fin that those men have brought moi souls to Christ who have been drama 10. Rowland ill, diramatic; Thomn: Chalmers, dramatic; Thomas Guthri dramatic; John Knox, dramatic; ilobei McCheyne, dramatic; Christmas E van dramatic; George WVhiteiid, dramatil Robert Ilall, dramatic; Robert SoutL .dramatic; Fenelon, dramatic; .Job Mason, dramatic; Dr. Nott, dramati< When you get into the "ninistry, if yc attempt to culture that element at try to wield it for God, you will met with mighty rebuff and caricature, at ecclesiastical council will take yoi case in charge, and they will try to pI you down, but the God who starts vo will help you through, and great 'wi be the eternal rewards for time assidt ouis and the plucky. What we want, ministers and Ias men, is to get our sermons and our ei hortations aiid our prayers out of tI 3 old rut. I see a great deal of discu sion in the religious papers about wi people do not come to church. Th4 .do not come because they are not Il terestedi. The old hackneyed reli gli i; phrases that come movimig dow Sthrough the centurite will never arre: the masses. What we want to-day, yc a In your sphere and I Ia my sphere, to freshen up. People do not want their sermons the sham flowers bongl at the millinery shop, but the japoi a cas wet with the morning dew; nor t] heavy bones of extinct megatheriu of past ages, but the living reinde caught last Augnst at the edge Schiroon lake. SWe want to drive out the drows and the prosaic, and the tedious, at the hnmdrum, and introduce LI t brightness and viva city and the ho sarcasm, and the sanctified wit, ai the epigrammuatic power and the bloc red earnestness, and thme lire of rel glous zeal, and 1 do not know of at t way of doing it as well as through LI ,dramatic. Attention! Behold! iIar] .Selah! Next I speak of the Selah of perp( t itiy. The Targum, which is the Bit> in in Chialdee, renders this word of rr text "forever." Many writers agree believing and stating that one meal ing of this word Is "forever." in thi very verse from wnich I Lake may Le: -Selah means that only poetic signil a cance and intermission and omphasi - but It meamns eternal reverberation I forever! God's government foreve ,God's goodness forever, the gladness -the righteous forever. Of course y< B andl I have niot surveyor's chain wit , enough links to measure that donmal .1 or meaning, in this world we must build ever; I thing on a small scale. A hundre e years are a great while. A tower II e hunndred feet is a great height. A jou ney four thousand miles is very Ioni -But eternmty! If the archangel hi -not strength of wing to fly acrors "but flutters and drops like a woundi r seagullt there is no need of our tryir r in the small shallow of human thought i to voyage across it. [ A skeptic desiring to show his con t tempt for the passing years, and to - show that he could build enduringly - had his own sepulcher made of the " finest and the hardest marble, and t then he had put oii the door the words, i "For time aud for eternity;" but it so r happened that the seed of a tree some how got into an unseen crevice of the s marble. That seed grew and enlarged f until it became a tree and split the e marble to pieces. There can he no 1 eternalization of anything earthly. t But forever! Will you arid I live as i. long as that? We are apt to think of y the grave as the terminus. We are f apt to think of the lieUrse as our last .1 vehicle. We are apt to think of seven n ty or eighty or ninety years, and then " a cessation. s Instead of that we find the marble e slab of the tomb is only a milestone, - marking the first mile, and that the L. great jouruey is beyond. We have only time enough in this world to put on the sandals and to clasp our girdle and to pick up our staff. We take our first step from cradle to grave, and then we open the door and start-great God, whither ? The clock strikes the passing away of time, but not the pas sing away of eternity. Measureless, measureless! This Selah of perpetuity makes earthly inequalities so insigniti cant, the difference between scepter and needle, between Alhambra and hut, between chariot and cart, between . throne an d curbstone, between Axmin a ster and bare floor, between satin and e sackcloth, very trivial. it This Selah of perpetuity makes our ,e getting ready so important. For such le prolongation of travel what outfit of i. guide books, of passports and of escort! I. Are we putting out on a desert, simoon swept and ghoul haunted, or into re it gions of sun lighted and spray sprinkled it gardens? Will It be Elvsium or Ge >. henna? Once started in the world, we 'e cannot stop. The current is so swift ir that once in no oar can resist it, no n helm can steer out of it, no herculean -r or titanic arm can batlle it. Hark to it the long resounding echo "forever!" -e Oh, wake up to the interest of your )f deathless spirit! Strike out for heaven. Rouse ye, men and women for whom ke Jesus died. Selah! Selab! Foreverl le Forever! w )f SPEEDY VENGEANCE. a I- The Murders of Sauuders Killed by a )t Sherift'd PoHNO. )f JACKsONVILLE, Fla.,. May 25.-A le Palatka special says: At about 12:30 to t8 day, a hatless negro staggered into the e- court house and said: "Come to Buffalc L Bluff-robbers." Deputy Sheriff Dy 1e son aroused his posse and a special d, train soon left with them. At 11:30 a. m., George Wurt z and F er I[. Wigg, a guard placed by the sheritf's er posse at, Buffalo Bluff bridge, saw thre mil men coming from the South on th( ly railroad track. As the first passe( f- three feet ahead of the others th( le guards called "1ands up!" and the first id one obeyed. The second and third drew their revolvers and the guardE e- knew that the desperate robbers were s facing them. The firing was begun by tO the robbers and a bullet grazed Wigg, a- Wurtz fired his shotgun loaded with c- buckshot and Williams fell. 'T-hie man ie in advance then ran toward Palatka e- the other man ran backward and was K shot in the leg by Wurtz. re An engine load of young men coin - d prised a special, and among them was Dr. Benjamin E. Morgan and Mr. Wil lard of the express company. This t special now arrived on the scene. The . big man of the robbers had taken to the swamp. They pursued hiu and suddenly a ball ripped thirough l)r. ~r Morgan's vest., lie saw the robber be hI ind a fallen tree and firedf a shotgun it loaded with buckshot and Saunders's - murderer had met his doom. Both iS bodies were laid on the bridge andl af terwards brought into town on a pass. At ing freight train. In the car lay the s ghastly bodies, accompanied by the y guards who had shot Williams, and t>y 'A Superintendent Myer, who hlappened at n the bridge about the time ot the shoot. -lig. u The big murderer's thoughts, as lie d heard the guards coming an:: knew that ihe was ab ou tto die, are interesting. d They were written on the back of' a "' map, as the culprit lay behind a tree. it "D)ear mother: The time has come Uthat you and I shall part, and1 I hope that you will not grieve after me, for I have no fear. [ would write more, but I have no time. Kiss the children for V- me, and tell them to do better than I C' have done, and they wfill live longer ie than I have. Farewell, dear mother. B- "Sendl this to Susan Bedgood, Aribi. iY Dooley County. Ga. I never expect to Ygive up a thinir, and I ask you to send me home at A ribi, Ga. So with this I iS close forever. Please send my body to n~ Aribi, Ga." st The' face of the murderer of Saunders was covered with blood and blackened is wih poder.Before he died he said wth being desperately wounded he it shot himself in the mouth with his pis 3- tol. A posse with (deer-hounds is pur ie suing the other man, and Superintend-. y tMyrs and a party are going on a er special train to their assistance. His cap)ture is aln>ost certain. huffalo bridge is on St. .John's Ilver, y, five miles south of Palatka. id - me Confederate Monumnent. ly KNOXVILL.:, May 19.--Today has id been generally observed as Con federate d decoration day. This afternoon a pro. .i- cession nearly a mile long mo'.2r LY through the principal streets of the 1e city to the Confederate cemeterv. It ! had been intendlerl to ur;veil dhe ihonu mnent, but the high wind of last night t- ble w t he coverings away, ;rd uhie beau le tifuil statute stood uin veiled in all of Iy its loveliness. I t is com posedl of ai a base, with proper inscriptions, and ai -solid column thirty live feet high, on] IS top of which stands a Con fereraite vet Ct eran at parade rest. TFhe money to ti- erect the monument was raise<d b,y the 5, Ladies' Memuorial Society of Anox. - villo. Around the base of the mionu r, ment the bodies of 1,600) Confederate at soldiers are buried. At the cemetery un United states Senator Bate de' ivared han address, and Gen. E. Kirby Smith n paId a beautiful tribute to thc noble work of the women ot the South dur V- Iig the war and since. eKilled for Fity Coun. r- RIUIIMONi), VA., May 20.--A JBig i. Stone Gap, Va., special says that in a is dispute of about lifty cents at a game t, of cards John IIall, a desperado, shot Mand killed his brother. Tihe murderei ig escaped across the Kentuctky lnn. TILE WESTERN DELUGE. fti 11 A CONTINUED STORY CF DEVASTA- N TION AND DEATH. ti b The Entire Country Iletween St. Louii 1 0 and Now OrleansThreatoned with Inun datlon--The Crescent City li Groat, Dnan- D i ger. Sioux Crry, la., May 19.-At the or dinary stage of water the Floyd liver t is as insignificant a stream as ever 1 meandered in pastoral insignificance. t BMit, swollen by the continued rains d until its never well-defined banks were M obliterated, it was in poor condition to 81 carry away the immense flood of water i hich fell in the cloudburst. d A wave moving as a solid wall of c water swept down the narrow valley 9 of the stream. The Floyd flows through a the centre of Sioux City, and along its 1 banks are the homes of thousands. To L these the flood brought death and de- f molition of their homes. One million : dollars will not cover the loss by flood to this city alone. The water in Floyd River receded rapidly last night, but s today is still outside of its banks, and a considerable portion of the bottom is still covered, but to no great depth, for I the most part. The scene which is disclosed by the 'l recession of the flood is one which beg gars description. Throughout the flooded district it is one story of de- i struction and damage. The flood at t its hight extended from Court street to l the Floyd bluffs, and from the suburb of Lynn to Lhe Missouri river. This t comprises a district four miles long and a mile and a half wide. For a dis tance of a mile and a half above the I mouth of the Floyd the bottom is t densely populated. A large portion of E the inhabitants are poor people, who C are employes of packing houses, rail- I roads, etc. There are a great many re- t tail shops throughout this region. There is a confused scene of desola tion. At the height of the flood the current struck straight through the residence streets. Among those near est to the river scores of dwellings were swept from their foundations and carried long distances and either i smashed or turned bottom side up. It is no uncommon sight to see a dwell ing turned over on its side or root. Many two-story buildings were swept away. The buildings which are twist ed, or carried short distances, are in numerable. It must be remembered that over all this area, for six or eight streets from the river, the water was far above second story windows, with a swift current and the wind blowing a hurricane. Every where, fences, outhouses, side walks, wooden pavements, railroad tit s and timbers are scattered about among the contorted and overturned dwell ings. Many of the streets are paved with cedar blocks, and the water lifted hundreds of thousands of them and car ried them away. In some places there are immense imasses of debris piled on top of houses. Several thousand peo pie closely followed the reccding flood to search for their homes and missing ones. Only a few on the outer edge of the flood will be able to occupy their hoines at present. The streets are an impassable mnire. Dooryards are filled with mnud and drift. What houses are not wrecked and carried a way will he almost uninhabitable. Furniture is destroyed and many things in the houses lost. The rescuing parties are hard at work today. One lady named Mrs. Keenl#-y, aged sixty-seven, was found it) to her c1in in water at7:30 this morning. She ha~d put a trunk on a table and sat on it fc r twenty-four hours. She will re cover. Bloats arec plying today over the floodl (ed territory, sear2hinig the houses re mainming for sick andi dead pleople and brmnging to shore the valuables of their poor occupants. TIhe water in the stream has fallen six feet, and by night it is hoped a large part of the flooded district may be out of water. A public meeting was held at the court house last even ing, which was attended by all the: wealthy men of the city. Committees of wvorkers were appointed for all feat-] uires of relief, and sutlicient money was subscri bed to meet i mmediate necessi - ties. According to the latest information the flood has been eveni more disastrous in its results than was at first antici piatedl. Th'le estiinates as to the loss of life vary from sixty to one hundred. No list can be given of the (leard. In fact, the terrifled people have sought ref uge in so many quarters that it is1 impossible to exactly figure what their nuimber on the death roll will be. At the manufacturing suburbs of Leeds, directly in the Floyd valley, nine persoins are known to lbe drowned. Four were dlrowned at Springdale, just below Leeds. Observers on the high bridge counted fifteen bodios that s wept under it. One man attempted to wade out, carrying two children, but was struzk by a floating timber and was so< hurt that lhe dropped one. Matt Roe,< an old sailor, sav-ed the lives of twenty eight piersonb Mrs. E. E. WVst was swept away and separated from her lit tie fIve year old girl, who was diowned. A woman who managedi to w&.dle to a box car was seizedi with labor pain and gave birth to a child and two hours ha ter was rescued. Aiwoman namedl Ilinm ton and three children were drowned in their own house. Two S;wedlish < Itamilies were swept away and drowned l before rescuers could reach them. The, gas works and electric light plant are under water and the city was in dark netss last night. Not less than sevenit'-hive houses have been carried into thle streets or into the river, and it is estimated that tue foundations and contents of 5>00 are ruinedl. .N ellie Westshield, Mrs Louise h orner andl two children aire khown to be lost, but so great is the con fusion and excitement that it is almost im p)ossible to obtain anything definite re garding the loss of life. ALAIMIlNG OUTLOOR AT NEW OIltLEANS. NEW ORILEANS, May 19-The river s now over seventeet; feet above low water mark, and has reached the high est point ever known. Several streets in the city are overflowed. Tihe .wharves are all under several inches of water. The Bonnett Carre crevasse is nearly 400 feet wide, arnd the engineers claim that it is impossible to close it The w ater is encroaching upon Kenner ville, ten miles above the city. Tihe lake also shows signs of the crevasse water, and is steadily rising. The city omniialsar rat work1 rasing th levees long the old and new basin to protect io rear portion of the city from over ow. All traflic on the Mississippi rilley road has been su,peided. Below the city reports come in today iat the lavees are giving away. Two reaks occurred last ni-ht at IHarlem. 'he crevasse at I lappy Point. has now btained a width ot forty feet and at toney's place the crevasse is wideniig. 'he damage so far from all crevasses i the St ate has reached the sum of 2,000,000. The situation is gloomy. MADISON, 3M., UNDEi1 WATER. ST. Louis, May 19.--At 10 o'clock bits morning the water broke over the .vee in the town of Madison and in wo hours the strcets were flooded to a epth of four feet. The inhabitants tere forced to leave their homes and eck shelter on higher ground. The people who were forced to aban on their homes in the lowlands adj:a. ent to East St. Lo'iis are already be ining to feel the pangs of hunger, and amine is now t hreateni ng. Wagons aded with meat and breadstids has een sent to them. Reports received rom Alton state that the city is com iletely cut otT from railway traliu. Che river at St. Loui-i steadil v rose to lay. ERIOUs IN TlE ExTItI:3IE A' K+ANSAS CITY. KANSAS CITV, Mo., May IO.-The ilissouri river is on a regular rampage gain. It rose a foot and a half today. 'he Kaw is also rising rapidly here ,nd above. The rise at Manhattan vas six and a half feet. All advices rom the uper Missouri show a con inued rise there. Great damage has ieen done at Plattsinouth and Miners 'ille, Neb. In Kansas City the situa ion is serious in the extreme. Till WOUST YET TO COME. ST. LOUIs, May I9.- -Midnight.-The veather report shows that a rise of hree feet is coming down the Missis ippi and Missouri rivers. This will ause the river here to rise one foot vithin a few days. This iueans that lie entire country from here to New rleans will be flooded, as the levees vill not be able to stand so great a boly >f water. ALEXANDRiA, IA., FLOODEID. Kl{u0K:i, la., May 19.-The Egyptian evee at Alexandria, on the Missouri iide of the river, broke early this inorn lg and the town and thousands of xcres of tertile land are covered with wvater. Canti,atign Mtuetings'. COLUMIA, S. C., May I8.-The Stat Democratic Executive Committee helt! a meeting last night at Carolina N tioiial Bank. Over half of the mnem bers were pre.sent. Chairmaii I rby lire sided. The following prograinme for mcani paign speeches was adoptt-d: .larnwell, ,lune 14. Ilaipton. .J1une 15. Bvaufort, ,Juno Wi. Colleton, Jime 17. Charleston, .1 te 21. Ierkeley,,lune 22. \'.'%iamuYsburg,.J,iine 23. Georgetown, , une 21. Ilorry, ,June 27. Marimn, ,tine 29. Florence, Juno :10. )arlington,.ily 1. Rtichland, .uy.1. Oranigouirg, .uly 5. Ai ke n, J uly 1). Edgefield, July 7. Lexington, ,iuly 8. Clarcuilon, .)lily 19. Sumter, Jl uly 211. Marlboro, ,uly 21. Cliesterfield. .1uly 23. Kershaw, ,lily 2i. Lancaster, .lily 2S. ('hester, ,1July 30). l"airlield, August 2. Un ion. Auiguist. -1 G reenville, August 9. P ickens, AuguIst 10,) Oconee. A ugust 11. Anderson, A tigust, 12. AX bbleville, August 1. Newberry, August 18. Laurenrs, August 20. 'Thils programnte of meetings was re ferred to l)r. P'ope, New berrv, (Gen..J. WV. Gray, G reenille, and Mir.'V. ('. W i loughby, Wiliatuisburg. 'i'te dlate for Miarlboro is not satisfactory as a big L,on federate ritiIohn will be hieldl in llennettaville ont the dlay ainited for the campaign meeting. Th'le conummit. Lee wvill change this dat e andI will make muchu other changes as may be n(ces tary. Th'ie Execuitivye Cominilttee has ar ranged so that the candlida~tes may have 1breathing spell. There will be an ini Lermission of eleven (lays betweeni the meetings at L4exinigton anid Clarendon. I'his resting spueli will refresh and rein vigorate the candidates. WVeli batid, D)r. MUyt.y. (IMAJIAW, NEn , Mav 18.--In the Slethiodist Episcopal GIeneral Confer mnco yesterday the committee on the utate of the Chiurch brouught in a report :alli[ng upjoni thim G overnmzient, State >tlicials, the Methodist Elpiscopatl Jhurchm and :all good citizens "'to arise n their miighit arnd abol01ish the indigni. ,ie's andl outrages that are put upon01 ~olored p)eopleC andl all white people vho Jove to work for tihe elevation of hie colored race ini the Southern tates." Tihe resolution dlechtired that the ~oloredl ple(il were treated shamefully >n railway trains andl at hotels, and in every way. They were shot (town, it wvas said , like dogs, anid the law of the and( was t rampied upo b)iiiy the people whio diespised the colored race. 'The resolution was the signal fot tremnen louis cheering. D)r. O)neal, D)r. P'ayne mnd others meade' vehemtent speeches 2alling upon thle Methodist Church tc stanid iirmily for the rights of the col ared race. D)r. Myley advised the Conference t< be moderate in the language employed "We are not p)erfect ourselves, breth ren, except in wvords," saidl Dr. Myley The report was adopted by a rising vote, every delegate ini the Conferenci rising to his feet. Great ital,iet Meeting. PIIILADELPIIIA, Pa., May 19.-Ti sesslins of the National lBaptist Con gress opened lhere thIs e."ening in thi First Baptist Church, and will con tinue for eleven days. T[he conigress lI one of the largest and most lmnportant religious gatherings that hias been hek in this city for a long time. In con nection with the congress the anniver sary and annual sessions of the differ ent Baptist societies will also be beld. TRUE TO THEIR TRUST. TRAIN ROBBERS FOILED BY GALLANT EXPRESSMEN. A 'ip,erate IaFight. In& a% Car---Moshenger sai Agent Unarnied Grappi e Two De poratdoos With 2Mvolvora-- One Man 11lti mi Another Woundel. .JAlStNV I L-:, Fl,A., MAy 21. Tic north bound train, No. 14, on the Jacksonville, Tampa & Key West rail road, was held up at a lonely hammock station live miles south of Sandford at 5 o'clock this m->rning by to ir masked robbers, who, in n desperate attempt, to secure the monies o. the Southern Ex press coptany, killed Express Messen ger Saunders and badly wounded Solicit ing Auent .1. M. Cox. The train was stopped by the wavin!g of a white sta tion lantern. Two robbets jumped on each side of the engine and compelled the engineer and fireman at the muzzles of revolvers to run down a trestle 200 yards distant. While this was being done, two other robbers entered the ex press car, and in an encounter with them Sauinders was killed and Cox was badly wounded in the face. The train hands came to the rescue, and the robbers beat a retreat, No money was sccured. A posse is in pursuit of the gang. There is no clue yet. Soliciting Agent .1. M. Cox, of the Southern E.-press company, reached this city this morning, and went direct to his home In Riverside, a suburb, where he told a rejporter the following story ok the murder and attempted rob hery: "1 was on t ain No. 1 I this morning, and when we had reached the little sta tion of' Monroe, just this side of Sand lord, the train was waved town by a man with a lantern who was supposed to be the aent. The man got on and we started ol' slowly, when I noticed a man standing; on the platform of the ex press car just outside of the door. Saun - ders and mysell were sitting close to gether on a trunk near the door, and on seeing the man I asked Saunders who It was. le threw open the door to see who it was when two men jumped in, cach with a revolvor, and ordered, - Ilands up!' As the comimiiand was 4ttercd Saunders grappled with the first .nan, and L with the other. Then a ter ribil encoutiter took place. The men bthll had pistols, an-I we were unarrued. Saiiders endeavored to get his pistol, but without.success. Firing commenced at the outset and they put it to us hot and Ieav v. We ield our own, however, w ith siuch odds a:gaist us anl' I sti:cecded ii throwm,- my man out and closing the door. Meaniwhile, Saunders had re ctive.I Iori:l wouldi and staggered ttrough I te car to the end where he fell. In the vxcitement I scarcely recognized that I h..i hIen woun)!deI.'' J. S. GOIhert, tHie baggge master, s that h ivald the shots and iinmmedl aiwly went !orward to see whal. was up. A t th froNt door StOod the fourth rob ,a medunm sized .man With a dark m ustache, who hadl on a narrow brim Iled elt hat pulled down over his eyes. The robber grabbed Gilbert by the coat with one lmnd, and thrust, a big pistol mi 1his hwe witi tLe other, saying. "Tlhere is one man hiymng deadi there .ind another in the en and if' you know what's hecal thy for yeu you will get in thle exptress car in a hurry."' Of course si ibert did its orderedct. Tbc expiress oflicials state t,hat there was probably si0,000 or* $20,000 in:the compIIany's safe, but the robbers did not get a penny of' it. The mall car was not attatcd, although dfoubitless there wvere registered letters in the mail containing a large aggregate amount. Wit,hin an hour fromi the attack, two posse's had been organized by the sheriff', and start edf to scour the woodhs in the neighblor food. T1here are :of' course threats of Ilynzchiing if' the murderers are caught. There is as . et no clue as to who the rob hers mare. d1 A'iusoN vi LEi, LA, Mtay 23.--Seve:i men in all are under arrest in Orange County on suspjicion of being connected with the miurdler of' Expressman Saund ers. There are rumors that onc man had such str'ounig suspicions arousedf against him that, his captors resorte<d to ph uysical tori ure in order to extort a con fessioni from him, btit the expedient fatiled . One of' the suspects at Orlando is believed to be weakening and there are mienictions that tie may turn State's evidence soon andf give the names a-'Id w hereab)outs of his accomplices. All tfhe meni under arrecst are raihroadl em ployee,.buit none of' them worked for the .Jacksonv ille, T1ampa antd Key' West Company, and all are qjm.at. JA cKsoNviL LE, FLA, May 23.-An Orlando special says: "'The &uthiorities have in the city jail here a man snunpect edt of' b)emg a train robber and murderer. lie was arrested on Satuirday afternoon in a bar ber shop, lIe came in on a train fromn Cam'tont andf bought a newspaper in which lie read a description of' himself. lie thien went to the barber shop l and ord(ered his beard shaved ceff. itL is said tha. lhe made a confession Sumn (lay implicating three others. A full description of' these has not been pub lished. Five suspects arrested at San.. ford were brought here this afternoon and taken b)efore the s'tuspect here al leged to have confessed. No reporters were admitted, but it is learned t.hat the suspect here declared t,hat these five iromi Sanford were not muilty men. Th'fe Orlando peole (10 not believe the nman In jail hero has con - fessed. TIheo autfioritics give no infor mation, lbut at Sanford a Mircular is be ing d'is!mibuted igiving a dlescription of the other men. Tme descriptions wore B securedh from the Orlando um1an Who us - said to have confe2ssed. ..Bloody Riot it Atlanuta,, AT LANTA, OA , May 23.--A drunk I ed row atmong the laborers at the I water.works last night resulted in the shooting ot three men. Kid Sanford was shot dead, Rob Taylor was fatal ly wouinded and William Taylor died of his wvounds to-day*