The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-05-18
The Death of Stanley.

The death OF Henry NJ Stanley
removes one who for consider
able period occupied large space
In the eyes of the civiliz I'd world
and whose achievements in adding
much to the area of geographical
knowledge aud in the matter OF
opening up Africa to civilization
will always cause him to be held
in remembrance He was a strik
ing example of what natural ability.
accompanied by dauntless energy.
oan accomplish in life which has
the hum blest beginnings. Losing
his father. John Rowlands, when
he was only about two years old
he was placed in the poorhouse OF
st Asaph, where he was fortunate
ly given a fair education during
the 10 years he was an inmate. Rt
left St. Assph's at l3 and became
teacher, and two years later left
his native Wales and shipped from
Liverpool as ships boy on a small
vessel bound for New Orleans. In
tn At city he found employment in
a large store, and his energy and
diligence SO commended him to his
employer that the latter adopted
him and the boy took his patrons
name Soon after his employer
died, and his relatives took all his
property. turning young Stanley
adrift. He went to Arkansas,
where he remained two years, when
the civil war breaking out, he en-
listed in the Confederate Lrmy.
On April 6, 1862, at the battle
of Shiloh, he was taken prisoner,
but contrived to escape by swimm-
ing the Tennessee river during the
night under fire of the sentries
He suddenly appeared in Wales
where his mother had gone 10 re.
side; but after brief stay return
ed to the United States, where he
was drafted into the Federal navy
At the end of month be was ap-
pointed clerk, and in less than q
year became secretary to the ad-
miral on board the flagship Ticon-
deroga. During an engagement
in which the flagship was under
fire he volunteered to swim off
distance of 500 yards and attach
hawser to a Confederate steamer,
and performed the audacious feat
with complete success The prizs
was drawn out of the harbor, and
Stanley was made an ensign. He
was in the attack on Ft Fisher
and after the war went with bis
vessel to Constantinople.
In 1867 Stanley went with the
expedition under General Hancock
to suppress the Indian outrages in
the far west, accompanying the
troops as correspondent of the
New York Tribune" and Mis-
souri, Democrat. His work at
tracted the attention of Mr.. Ben
nett, and led to his being sent by
the New YoIk "Hsarld" with the
British Abyssinian expedition
under Sir Robert Napier, which
was thoroughly successful. Then
followed Stsnley's great achieve
ments in fading Livingstone, in
completing the latter's unfinished
work and founding the Congo Free
State, and in rescuing Emin Pashs
His various journeys into Africs
excited the most intense and gen
eral interest, and his achievements
deserYedly brought him the high
est honors the scientific world had
to confer. His popularity was as
great on this side of the Atlantic
as on the other, for Americans just
ly felt that his stirring experiences
in this country and the advantages
which he enjoyed here. to say moth
ing of the fact that his chief EN-.
ployer in his great African work
was an American, justly entitled
them to claim particular share in
his fame-Pittsburg Post.
Paul Moore, Cleveland news