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DEWEY MAKES REQUEST FOR TWO
MORE WARSHIPS.
THE INSURGENTS GROWING BOLDER
Agulnaldo’s Fnroai In Pomntoa of En
tire Island of Luson Outside of
Manila and Gawlte.
Advices from Manila state that the
situation there is regarded as critical
and it is understood that Admiral
Dewey has asked (or an additional
erniser and a battleship.
The Spaniards assert that Gormany
will take a coaling station and declare
that Spain will retain 'the remainder
of the islands.
The insurgents are daily growing
more aggressive and their attitude to
ward the Americans is menacing.
■This aggressiveness, not to mention
the seoret efforts of the ecclesiastical
party to promote disturbances with the
intention of leading the revolutionary
government to oertaln ruin, has be
come so serious that troops are now
kept in barracks under arms, ready for
notion at a moment’s notice.
A feeling of insecurity and unrest
exists. Many native workmen are
leaving their employers with the open
intention of joining the rebels. Hnnd-
reds who are on strike in cigar faoto'
ries and other establishments are re-
oruiting Agninaldo's ranks.
The “dictator" made a triumphal en
try Into Malolos Saturday, formally
taking possession of the new capital
in the Saopaloc district.
The signal oorps is putting down a
cable from Cavite to Manila.
Island of Luson la Held.
The last Spanish garrisons at Uoooe
and Laguna have surrendered and the
whole island of Luzon is in the hands
of the insurgents except at Manila and
Cavite.
Aguinaldo went to Lelollos on Fri
day. He has announced his intention
of oouvening an assembly of the Filip
inos on September 10th in order to de
cide upon the policy to be adopted by
the insurgents.
The correspondent at Manila of the
Associated Press has had an interview
with Aguinaldo.
The insurgent lender pointed out
the whole population on the Philip
pine islands was willing to fight for
their independence.
It is undeniable that the action of
the insurgents in pursuing the cam
paign after an armistice was declared
bus caused much useless suffering and
destruction of property and lies anni
hilated their every claim to be con
sidered in nuy respect as the allies of
the Americans.
Their motive has been twofold.
First, an implacable hatred of the
Spanish, with an innate racial thirst
for revenge, and, secondly, their am
bition to place themselves on record
before the world as a successful revo
lutionary government, and as complete
masters of the Luzon provinces and ns
many adjacent islauds as they may
have time to occupy before the Philip
pines question has beon settled by the
Paris commission.
General Otis Shows Firmness.
General Otis has attaoked the com
plicated questions he inherited from
General Merritt, his predecessor, with
remarkable euorgy and decision, and
is rapidly establishing order in every
department where olmoB ruled before.
He has been fully occupied with
matters more intimately oonoeruing
tho military government of Manila,
and only receutly lias he been able
to study exhaustively the insurgent
question and to satisfy himself re
garding the equity of the insurgents'
claims, so as to solvo a problem prao
tically nnopproached heretofore.
Aguinnldo has persistently demand'
ed, in tjrrns not too polito, various im
possible concessions—for example, an
occupation of the governor general's
palace and other palaces, a written as
surance that the insurgents will be
permitted to occupy permautly their
military positions around Manila and
protection for the insurgent vessels by
the American fleet, with many other
claims, including an innooetit demand
for a share of the booty captured by
the Americans at Manila.
PORTO RICAN COMMISSION.
Spain’s Rapressntattves Ware Awaiting
Instructions at Time of Nesting.
A special from San Juan, Porto
Rico, snys: The first joint meeting of
the evacuation commissioners was held
in the council chamber of the palace
Saturday morning. It was exceed
ingly formal. Major General Brooke,
Rear Admiral Schley and Brigadier
General Gordon, accompanied by their
personal stall's, drove to the palace,
where they were formally presented tc
the Spanish commissioners. General
Ortega, Brigadier of Maroino Vnlle-
rino and Senor Agnila, auditor of war.
'Tho presentation was made by Captain
Gi neral Mncias.
Both commissions then rotired to
the spacious council chamber, where
credentials were exchanged.
The Spanish commissioners wore
most courteous.
They explained that their embar
rassment was due to the fact thnt their
instructions had fail to arrive, though
expeoted on the Alfonso XIII,overduo
since Friday, and suggested an ad
journment until Monday at 10 o'olock,
to which the Americun commissioners
promptly agreed.
The American* commission also
agreod to tho suggestion that the ses
sions of the commission should bo
-ecrot, so that if any questions of
diplomatic character should arise,
which if given publicity, might em
barrass the work.
•MILES VISITS PRESIDENT.
A Formal anil Brief Call to Pay Heaped,
to Chief Executive.
A Washington special says: General
Miles, accompanied by Oolonel Mioh-
ler, of his staff, called at the white
house Friday.
The meeting between the president
and the commanding general was com
parntively brief, lasting about five
minutes.
It was not in tho nature of a con
ference, in which questions relating
to the war were dismissed, but was the
formal call of respect usual on the re
turn of a high official. The confer
ence for more oxtended discussion of
war will doubtless come later.
ATLANTA MARKETS.
conascrsi) wsrki.t.—57
Groceries.
Rousted ooffoo #11.80, loss 50o per 100 tb
00.968. Oroon coffee choice 12; fair 10; prime
0. Hutfftr standard granulated 6%n.
Now Orleans white 6%c; do yollow 6%o ;
Hyrup, Now Orleans upon kettlo 25(5)4()<i.
mixed 12WJ0e; sugar house 20(5>35c.
Teas, black 30(5)050; green 20(5) 50* •.
Rico, head 7Wo; choice Balt, dai
ry sank* $1.26; do bills. 2.25; loo cream
♦ 1.00: common (J5(®70fl. Cheese, full cream
lOV^ll^c. Matches,66h 50e ; 200s #1.80<§>1.75;
800s $2.75. Boda, boxes 0o. Craokers, soda
flifo; cream 8o; glngeranans 8c. Candy com
mon stick (!••; fancy 12(g) 13o. Oysters, F. W.
1.05: L. W. 1.15.
Flour, Grain and Meal.
Flour, all wheat first patent, #5.00; second
patent, #4.25; straight, #8.75: fancy, #8.00:
extra family, #3.00. Corn, white, 40o; mixed,
45e. Oats, white 87o; mixed 85o; Texas rust
proof 87H- By®. Georgia Hfie. Hay No. 1 tim
othy large bales 85o; small bahts 80c; No. 2
timothy small bales 75c. Meal, plain 50.:;
bolted 45o. Wheat bran, largo sacks 78c;
small sacks 78c. Bhorts 90c. Btoek meal:
75c. Cotton seed meal 05c per 100 lbs; hulls
#0.50 per ton. Fens stock 60(8)850 per bushel:
common whlto #1.00; Lady #1.15(5)1.25.
Grits #2.70.
Country Prodnoe.
Eggs lfl(F»18c. Butter, wostorn cream
ery, 16(^180; fancy Tennessoo ll>^(a)12>^e;
choice 8o; Georgia 8(tf>10o. Live poul
try, chickens, hens 22){<5>25e; spring
chickens, large 18flj)20o; small 12t<(ft>lf)c.
Ducks, pudille, 17W#20e$ Peking 22>$(/e
25c. Irish potatoes, 60(£>70n per
'Ushel, Sweot potatoes, new crop 75(5)
80c per bu. Honey, strained 6@7o; In
tho comb 8(®0o; Onions, nsw crop, 00(5>
#1.00 per bu.; #3.00(5)8.25 por bbl.
Provisions.
Clear ribs boxed sidos 0o; clear sides
0o; Ice-cured bellies 7^0. Bugar-oured
hams UHfiDUa; California 7%oi breakfast
bn< on 12(5) 14c. Lard, best quality Go; sec
ond quality r>JH; compound 5%o.
Cotton.
Market closed quiot; middling 6%.
PLACES SELECTED
For Mustering Out Com pan les of the Sec
ond Georgia Regiment.
A Washington special snys: The
war department has received word
from Governor Atkinsou, of Goorgia,
regarding the mustering out of the
Second regiment. Company H has
been ordered to Borne aud companies
C aud E to Augusta. With the oxcep.
tiou of the companies named above,
the first battalion has been ordered to
Savannah aud the second aud third
bnttalious to Atlauta.
The quartermaster’s department will
furnish the necessary transportation
and supplies aud the members of the
regiment will be granted a thirty
days' furlough.
AGUINALDO RELEASES PRISONERS
A Large Number of. Captured Spun lards
Given Their Freedom By Insurgent
A special dispatch received at Houg
Kong from Manila from a Spanish
source says:
“Aguinaldo has liberated all tho
Spanish prisoners. The^Vmorieans in
violation of the terms of the capitula
tion have seized the public offices, de
stroyed the archives, disregarded the
municipal laws, ami aro collecting
overdue Spauish taxes."
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NEW CURE FOR POISONING.
linn tiled Almost to Death to Save His
Life.
Tho bleeding of a man almost to
leatli in order to save bis life seems
like a oontradiotion in terms,bat it is,
nevertheless, a (not, according to the
statement of tho obief of the medical
■taff of a London hospital The ouse
a common enough one, a poor
wretoh tired of life having taken a
largo dose of laudanum iu order to put
an effectual cud to his miseries.
As noon an he was taken to the hos
pital the physicians set to work with a
stomach pump and exhausted all the
usual methods^nown to the fraternity
in treating cases of poisoning, but to
no avail. The poison had passed from
the man’s stomach into his blood, and
in spite of everything he sank lower
nnd lower, until he was aotunlly breath
ing only flvo times in five minutes.
The patient, according to the
physioian, was practically dead, his
blood, wliioh was circulating slowly in
his body, beiug impregnated with the
poison, when suddenly, with a brill
iant inspiration, which it is believed
marks a new era in the treatment of
this form of poisoning, the physioian
deoided that tho only way to get the
poison out of the man’s body was to
remove the blood which contained it.
He knew as everybody knows, that
the body ordinarily is equal to any
demand made upon it, and will soon
mannfaotnre'blood for itself, provided
that the quantity of blood withdrawn
from the veins is made up by a corre
sponding quantity of a solntion of
salt and water of the same degree of
saltuoss as the blood itself.
The risk was, of conrBe, enormous,
but the ciroumBtanoes warranted the
taking of it, for such life ns there was
in the man’s body was good only for a
short time, and was hardly life at all,
Beeiug that consciousness had almost,
if not outiroly, vanished.
Accordingly,two pints of blood were
taken from the man, and it was found
to be “as black as ink." Two pints
of salt solution were then injeoted
into his veins, and in tho oourse of a
few minutes he began to breathe more
rapidly, and one by one the organs
Beemed to begin to resume the nor
mal exercise of their functions.
For days the man had to be care
fully treated, but now he’s thoroughly
well nnd without any suspicion of
having gone through the valley of the
shadow of death.
The Love Story of Bismarck’. Ufa, "
But while the pillars of the world
were shaking about him, Bismarok
himself was enjoying one of the few
intervals of quiet happiness whioh
oheokered his Btorrny life. Few
sweeter love Btories have ever been
told than that which' ended on the
28th of July, 1817, in tho union of
gentle Johanna voa Futtkammer with
the bold and bearded giant whoso
name was a by-word throughbut all
respectable Prussia. The courtship
had been a prolonged one, and the
letters written during its progress by
the anxious lover to his only sister,
Malvina (afterword the wife of one of
the famous Arnims), astounded the
world years later with the proof that
this grim man who could look un
flinchingly upon a world in arms was
as timid as a ohild in the presenoe of
the woman whom he loved. But
when onoe assured of her affeotion
there was little sign of timidity in the
slap-dash impetuosity with which he
rode roughshod in true Bismarokian
fashion over all the opposition of her
parents. There is something irre
sistibly comio in the vivid description
of poor Herr von Puttkammer’s horror
on discovering that his own daughter
had given her heart to the dreadlul
man who rode over hedge and ditch
like a demon, let loose foxes among
his lady cousins in the drawing room,
aud broke his beer mug in a publio
cafe upon the head of an nnluoky
Radical who had given his views a
little too freely upon “the right
divine of Kings to govern wrong.”
Himmell” cried the poor old gen
tleman, “I ieel as if I had been felled
with an axe!" But there was no re
sisting this masterful wooer, who,
bursting into the presenoe of his
future mother-in-law while the latter
was still trying to dissuade her daugh
ter from marrying him, olasped tho
blushing girl in a hng like that of a
polar bear, gavo her a kiss that might
have been heard across the road, and
shouted in tones that seemed to shake
the whole house, “Those whom God
hath united let no man put asunderl”
New York Times.
i WORDS OF WISDOM.
Blessed is the influence of one trne,
loving human soul on another.—George
Eliot.
He is bnt the connterfeit of a man
who has not the life of a man.—Shakes
peare.
One ungrateful man does an injury
to all who stand in need of aid.—Pub
lius Syrus.
The more we do the more we oan do;
the more busy we are, the more leisure
we have.—Hozlitt.
A trne and genuine impndence is
ever the effect of ignorance, without
the least sense of it.—Steele.
Good intentions are very mortal and
perishable things; like very mellow
and ehoice fruit they aro difficult to
keep.—Simmons. 'i-
There is certainly something of ex
quisite kindness and thoughtful be
nevolence in that rarest of gifts—fine
breeding.- -Bulwer.
Kind words prevent a good deal of
that perverseness whioh .rough and
imperious usage often produoes in gen
erous minds.—Loeke.
None so little enjoy themselves and
are such burdens to themselves as
those who have nothing to do. Only
the active have the true relish of life.
—Jay.
It is only imperfection that oom-
plains of what is imperfeet. The more
perfect we are, the more gentle and
qniet we become toward the defects of
others.—Fenelon.
Geeao In Ut.tnry.
Geese have at least twice merited a
page in reosrded history in times past
and a third now awaits the pen of the
ohronioler who shall read in the Ger
man press that the innooent birds are
the oause of a threatened war of cus
toms between Germany and Bussia.
A recent decree of the government of
William II. forbidding the introduc
tion of Russian geese aoross the fron
tier has led Russia to make reprisals
in nullifying concessions made in the
payment of duties on leather and cel
luloid goods. The agrarians in Ger
many are the instigators of the cru
sade against Russian geose on the
ground that they spread poultry chol
era, bnt they have traitors in their own
camp, the Germah taste for fatted
goose flesh being stronger than the
acceptance of modern quarantine
ideas. Concessions on both sides can
alone prevent a long contest.—New
York Herald.
An Economical Engine.
Henry Gilman, a Frenoh boat
builder of Rhodesville, Conn., is said
to have invented a marine engine to
furnish twenty-five horse-power for
ten hours with one bushel of coal.
After the Honors.
They eat on the beach, nnd he had
been talking to her very earnestly.
Now he was waiting for her to speak
She dug holes in the sand with her
parasol and blushed and hesitated.
"George," she ssid at lost, “yonr
attack has been almost irresistible,
and I feel that I mast surrender—
“Dearest!” he interrupted, nnd it
was evident then that tho mnoeuvring
was to be at close quarters.
“Provided," she went on, “that it
iB understood that I am to be aaoorded
all the honors of war.”
“Whioh are?” he said inquiringly.
“A diamond engagement ring,” she
replied.
Having agreed to this, the final de
tails of tho capitulation wer« soon
settled.—New York Journal.
A Modern Fable.
Once upon a time a Tramp wai
sorely in need of Something to eat and
approaohing a Farm-house he spoko
unto the Farmer, saying: “If you'will
give me the Wherewithal to satisfy the
Cravings of the inner Man, I will kill
all the Rats about the place."
“Agreed,” Baid the Tiller of the Soil,
and he ordered his Good Wife to give
the Tramp a Square meal. After the
Tramp had Devoured everything in
sight he went to the wood-pile and
selected a stoat Club, then seating
Himself on the Poroh he said to the
Farmer: “Now bring on your Rats.”
Moral—Always have the details
specified in a contract.—Chicago News.
* A Chinese Wedding.
The Chinese place a significance
npon every color, and in connection
with a wedding red obtains a doep-
rooted mysterious importance, the
next bridal oolor of value being gold.
At a betrothal, the bridegroom-elect
sends his sweetheart a pair of brace
lets, fastened together with a piece of
red ribbon or cord. The bride aud
bridegroom drain two wine cups nt
the wedding, whioh are also connected
by a red cord. In northern China the
attendants wear a tall felt hat, and
each hat has a red feather stuck up
right in it. The attendants also carry
tho wedding presents. A sedan chair
bears the bride herself. In south
China a sedan most wonderfully gilded
is used by tho wealthy classes, and it
is decorated with what appears at first
sight to bo brilliant inlaid stones, but
which are in reality the glossy feath
ers of the king-fisher. A handsome
doth of glowing red with trimmed
borders is also thrown over the chair.
In the case of the poorer classes red
is also the prevailing bridal color, and
a chair of ordinary carved wood,
painted a bright red, is used. Above
the door of the chair a kind of charm
is placarded or hung upon a red cloth.
The chair itself is sent by the bride
groom, accompanied by what corre
sponds to our best man. ThU funo;
tionary brings with him a letter writ
ten in yellow or gold upon red paper,
praying the lady to enter and take her
place. Men dressed all in red, and
carrying red parcels containing the
presents, fall into the procession.
Other bearers carry boards and ban
ners, inscribed in golden letters upon
a red ground. These banners tell the
pedigree of both parties.Behind the
bearers come other attendants with
long poles, on whioh are hang very
handsome lanterns. The bridal veil
is of bright' crimson hae, and her
dress regal gold and scarlet.—Wide
World Magazine.
Light Emplqjrtri.iii,
The Deutsche Zeitnng, Ban Paolo,
Brazil, give* tome shameful particu
lars of the “spoils”system as it pre
vails in that oountry. One story,
translated in the Literary Digost, bus
an amusing side.
Some time ago a general was sent to
one of the northern States to investi
gate the management of a Government
railroad. He belonged to the set of
men who have themselves obnoxious
by their endeavors in the service of re
form, and here are some of his ex
periences:
The very first day he found in one
of the rooms of a railroad station a
strong young man who was doing noth
ing. Thinking the young fellow had
come to see him he asked:
“Do you wish anything, my friend?”
“No, sir. I am employed here.”
“Sol What are-your duties?”
“I have to fill tho water jugs in the
offloe every day.”
>. The general was a little astonished.
In the next foomhe discovered another
able-bodied young man, smoking a
cigarette. “Are you an employe?” he
asked.
‘.‘Yes, sir. I am the assistant of the
gentleman in the next room. ”
Bnt that was nothing to what was to
dome. The general had already been
iniormed that the road employed eight
een engineers, while only eight were
working. He ordered that in future
these men should at least take tarn
about. The next day one of these
“engineers,” a beardless youth, came
to him and told him that he conld not
run a locomotive to save his life.
“Then how did you get cm the pay
roll?”
“Well, you see, general, it’s this
way: My family are poor, but I
wanted to study law. We’ve got some
pull, so I managed to get an appoint
ment as honorary engineer, to make a
living while I pursue my studies.”
A Literary Street.
Several Maine towns are well known
as literary centres; but perhaps none
is more interesting to strangers than
Brunswick, on whose main street may
bo seen the homesteads where Long
fellow wrote “Outre Mer,” his first
novel; Mrs. Stowe wrote “Unole Tom’s
Cabin;” J. O. Abbot oomposed his
“Life of Napoleon;”.Professor Cleve
land his “Mineralogy,” and Professor
Uphatn his “Moral and Mental Phil
osophy,” with several other popular
works.
Where He Would Be.
A story is told of a lord and a olergy-
mau who were once driving together,
and passed the city jail. The lord
turned to his companion and jokingly
said:
"Where would you be, sir, if that
jail had its due?"
Without a second's hesitation his
companion smilingly responded, “Rid
ing aloifte, I fear.”—Youth’s Com
panion.
A Long Time to Walt.
It has been computed that if the
sea were emptied of its waters, and
all the rivers of the earth were to
pour their present floods into the va
cant space, allowing nothing for evap
oration, 40,000 years would be re
quired to bring the water oT the ocean
up to its present level.
Potatoes, carrots, tnrnips, and cab
bage are cultivated in Iceland.
Steel-Hardened Glass.
Through persistent experimenting a
process has been discovered by which
glass can bo hardened to the consis
tency of steel and its first practical ap
plication is being given to the manu
facture of skates.