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Year: 1877




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good canoes for the party, Stanley concluded
that he could advance with better pros
pect of success than in any other way.


FIGHTING ON THE RIVER


Although he had q decided advantage
over the savages on the water Stanley
still found that each days advance was but
repetition Of the struggle of the day pre-
vious. 1t was desperate fighting all the
time while pushing down the river with
might and main. Fortunately it was still
the rifle against the bow, but then the bow
was covered by the dense woods and the
rifle was exposed in the open canoe.


THE CATARACTs OF THE LUALABA


In the midst Of these successive strug-
giles Stanley's journey on the river was
interrupted by series of great cataracts,
not far apart from each other and just
north and south of the equator. 10 pass
these obstacles he had to cut his way
through over thirteen miles Of dense forest
and drag his eighteen canoes and the
exploring boat Lady Alice overland.
This enormous labor entailed the most
exhausting efforts, and the men had fire.
quently to abandon the axe and drag-ropes
for their rifles to defend themselves against
the continuous assaults of the hostile
natives.


BREATHING SPELL.


After passing the cataracts Stanley and
his party had long breathing pause from
the toll of dragging their boats through the
forest. They were also comparatively se-
cure from attack and took measures to re-
cruit their exhausted strength before again
encountering the dangers of the journey
westward.


THE COURSE OF THE LUAIABA.


Although fighting his way continuously
Stanley did not neglect the objects of his
journey, and found opportunity to note all
the interesting changes and physical char
acteristics of the route. At two degrees
north latitude he found that the course of the
Great Lualaba swerved from it's almost direct
northerly direction to the northwestward,
to the westward and then to the southwest
ward, developing into broad stream, vary
ing in width from two to ten miles, and
choked with islands.


AVOIDING THE MAIN SHORES


In order to avoid tho struggles with the
tribes of desperate cannibals that inhabited
Stanloy's canoe feet, led by the Lady Alice,
padded along between the islands, taking
advantage of the cover they afforded as
protection from attack. In this way many
miles down the stream were made by the
expedition unmolested by the natives.


THREATENED STARVATION.


But this safety from attack was purchased
by much suffering. Cut off from supplies
in the middle of the great river, starvation
threatened to destroy the expedition. Tho
most extreme hunger was endured by the
party, which passed thrco entire days abso-
lntcly without any food.


DARING THE WORST.


This terrible state of things could not be
any longer endured, so Stanley resolved to
meet his fate on tho mainland rather than
by hunger on the river. He therefore
turned his course to the lett bank of the
Lualaba, and, with the singular good for
tune that has generally attended him,
reached the village of q tribe acquainted
with trade.
Year: 1877

the line he had first intended to follow
Stanley crossed the Lualaba and continued
his journey along the left bank Of the river,
passing through the district known as
northeast Ukusu. On this route he endeav-
ored to find an outlet westward, but the
jungle was so dense, and the tatigues of the
march so harassing that it seemed impossi-
BILE for him to succeed in passing the tre-
mendous barrier of the forest.


FIGHTING HIS WAY.


To add to the horrors of his position in
these Central African wildS Stanley found
himself opposed at every step by the hostile
cannibal natives. The savages filled the
woods and day and night poured flights of
poisoned arrows on his party, which killed
and fatally wounded many of his men.
From every tree and rock along the route
the deadly missiles winged their fatal
course, and the heavily laden bearers fell
dead under their loads in the dark forest.
Only now and then could Stanley and his
men reply to this silent fire with their rifles,
for the savages kept under the densest cover
and rarely exposed themselves.


DEADLY STRUGGLE.


Stanley's march through these cannibal
regions soon became almost hopeless. There
was no cessation to the fighting day or
night. An attempt at camping merely con-
centrated the savages and rendered their
fire more deadly. The advance was sue
cession Of charges in rude skirmishing
order by an advance guard, whose duty it
was to clear the road for the main body. A
treat, for, although advancing against one
enemy, the movement was o retreat from
another.


NO COMPROMISE.


All Stanley's efforts to appease the savages
were unavailing. They would listen to no
overtures, disregarded all signals of friend
ship and of mildness of intention and refused
to be pacifed with gifts. The patient be-
haviour OF Stanleys men they regarded as
cowardice, SO that no course remained open
to the explorer but to fight his way onward


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To render Stanley's position still more de-
plorable his escort of 14O natives, whom he
had engaged for the service ut Nyangwe, re-
fused to proceed further on the journey and
deserted him. Thoy were SO overawed by
tho terrors of the forest and the continuous
struggle that they believed destruction was
certain to overtake the whole party, and
prudently resolved not to be destroyed


GRAND ATTACK.


Finding that his ranks were thinned by
the desertion of the Nyangwe men the hos
tile natives concentrated for grand attack
Oh Stanley. with the object of completely
crushing him. 1t became necessary, there
fore, to organize desperate resistance,
which was happily successful SO far that it
repulscd the savages for the time being and
gave the explorer chance to reconsider his
plans and make arrangements to adapt them
to his trying situation.


ONLY ONE WAY TO ESCAPE


There was only one way to escape from
the hapless position in which Stanley now
found himself, unless he accepted tho alter
native of returning to Nyangwe and aban-
doning the grand work which no had under
taken. This was to make use of canoes.
With the Lady Alice as last reliance. and
Year: 1877

HOME CoNvERsATIoN.- Children hun.
ger perpetually for new ideas. They will
learn with pleasure from the lips Of pa.
rents what they deem it drudgery to
study in books; and even if they have
the misfortune to be deprived of many
educational advantages, they will grow
up intelligent if they enjoy in childhood
the privilege of listening daily to the
conversation of intelligent people. We
sometimes see parents, who are the life [ f
every company which they enter, dull,
silent and uninteresting at home among
their children. If they have not mental
activity and mental stores sufficient for
both, let them first use what they have
for their own households. A silent home
is dull place for young people, place
from which they will escapeif they can,
How much useful information, on the
other hand, is often given in pleasant
family conversation, and what uncon-
scious but excellent mental train
ing in lively social argument. Cultivate
to the utmost the graces Of home conver-
sation.
Year: 1877

A GRAVE magistrate was sitting at the
table between Two coxcombs, who took
it into their heads to attempt making
him the butt of their ridicule. Seen
tlemen," said he, II plainly perceive
your design; but to save unnecessary
trouble must beg leave to give you a
just idea of my character. Be it known
to you that am not precisely fool, nor
altogether knave, but (as you see) some.
thing between BOTH"
Year: 1877

A YOUNG lady in town who does not
pride herself particularly on being a po-
iitical economist, thinks the sooner green
backs reach "pa," the sooner she will be
able to invest in new fall bonnet.-Rut-
land Herald.
Year: 1877

BENEFIT OF A NAP.-To the busy wife
and mother, who has a multitude of duties
to perform every day of her life, a short
nap in the middle Of the day is invalu.
able. Drop all caf, steal away, just for
u little while, and give the weary muscles
and brain, and perhaps the unstrung
nerves, rest. Rest! the very thought Of
it is comfortable! How it does tighten
cares and facilitate the duties of the after.
noon How much more easily we can
carry the burdens that seem to accumu-
late as the day declines The little ones
are returning from school to mothers
attention. A dozen things must be at
tended to before nightfall. How fresh
we feel, and how willing to complete the
routine of The days duties Do
not say you cannot spare the
time, for you are gaining time
by it. You will surely last longer. You
will be spared longer to the loved ones
around you, if you only spare yourself.
They will need your care for many years
yet, and to this end you must be econom-
ical of your health and strength. Lay
in store sufficient vim by daily sleep to
balance daily waste, and so keep up the
average. A nice little nap is so refresh
ing! IL recuperates the exhausted ener-
gies, and the last half of the days duties
are as pleasant as the first,
Year: 1877

With this weeks issue Of the AR
GUS we are enabled, through favor
ing fortune and plenty of hard work,
to present our readers with an in
creased amount of reading matter.


Since coming to Port Townsend,
our chief concern has been, not to
get news, but to Gull and select that
most important and interesting for
the reading public; and above all to
condense so as to present as much
news as the limited space in our col
umns would permit. The business
men of our town-be it said to their
credit for enterprise and knowledge
of the potency of printers ink to
bring customers with $'s-have ad-
vertised quite literally, as the pages
of this paper will show, crowding the
reading matter into such small space
as to make it necessary, under live
management, to enlarge. But we
propose to find room for the most
comprehensive extension of our ad-
vertising patronage that the most
avaricious could wish for. A steadi-
ly increasing circulation among the
settlers of the lower Sound, besides
other evidences of increasing favor
among friends and patrons, have
already fully warranted this move
ment on our part; and, nothing un-
foreseen preventing, we propose to
keep the ARGUS growing in size and
value as its support increases. Res
idents of this Territory may rest
assured that every dollar paid in by
them, over and above the present
average support of this paper, will
be applied in increasing the amount
and worth of return made to them
for support.
Year: 1877

That was wise father who. on hearing


his little daughter request her brother to
drive few nails in the Woo!house for her
said he would teach her how to do it her
self. She was apt, and drove in all the
nails successfully. SO pleased was she
with her success, that she would have set a
double row around the shed il her father
h.d not concluded that these would ans
wcr for the present.


''There, that little lesson helps to make
you Independent, my girl" he said. ..Now
l will teach yOn some day to catch and
harness up a horse. You have already
learned to drive a gentle one. Learn TO
sharpen knife, and whittle, too. without
cutting your fingers. Don't let the doors
creak for the want OF an oiled feather. or
the little chiklren's boots get hard in the
winter for the want of little grease


Take a lesson from this, girls. You
ion't Know where yon will be cast away
some time during your life. The most
helpless people have ever met are those
Who can only do one kind of work. Learn /
o help yourselves, even if. sometimes, yout
rench upon boys work. t
Year: 1877

A shrewd old gentleman once said to his
daughter: BE sure. my dear, you never
marry poor man; but remember that the
poorest man in the world is one that has
money and nothing else.,
Year: 1877

New York, May l4,-Beecher 10 Civ
ing notice yesterday OF lecture by Prem
tic9 MuIsord upon the Chinese in Calitor-
MIA, said "We are 10 danger of repeating
toward the Chinese those errors. and mis-
takes, and cruelties we we've guilty Of
toward the African 1t is the spirit of the
lion aud the bear, that will not suffer any
thing to come near them without putting
upon it their paw, and it is the animal,
blooG-loving, tearing animal, among na-
tions that rends the weak and poor in their
neighborhood. Ii this great civilized and
Christian people cannot endure the con
tact and presence of the Mongolian race,
it is right they should lose their religion
and their civilization, and their vaunted
christianity is soap-bubble the sooner
pricLed and burst the better. But if it
be the wisdom of God and the power of
God unto salvation. we ought to abhor q
coWardice that attempts by violence tc
ward off from our shores heather nations
of every kind. We are very fond of ex-
porting the gospel to heather nations
but we do not seem to like to import
heather where the gospel ought to exist
in all its vigor. am not sure but that il
would be aIgood plan if We should export
some of our own heather and bring il
their place some of the heather of Other
lands
Year: 1877

Spring is a trying Indications Of sick
ness should at once be attended to- Fatal diseases
may be caused by allowing the bowels to become
constipated and the system to remain in disor-
dered condition Until the disorder has time to de-
velop itself. An ounce of prevention is worth q
pound Of cure, is an Old and truthful saying
Therefore, we advise all who troubled with The
complaints now very prevalent headache, indiges-
ton, disordered liver want of appetite nausea, OF
feverish skin, to. take, without delay, Schenck's
Mandrake Pills We know of no remedy so harm
less and decisive in its action. II at strikes
at the root OF the disease and produces healthy
tone to the system. People never need suffer from
any disease arising from a disordered condition OF
the liver If they would take this eXcellant medicine
when they feel the first indications of the maady.
Families leaving home for the summer months
should take three four boxes of these pills with
them. They have an almost instane0us effect
They VIII relieve the patient Of headache in one OF
two hours, and will rapidly cleanse the liver oi
surrounding bile, and will efectuAlly prevent q
bilious attack. They are sold by all Druggist.
Year: 1877

balsam and pine and the gums of the East too
well known 10 require description Their grateful,
healing, soothlng, and strengthening properties
are known to thousands When Combined in
accordance with late and important discoveries in
pharamaey their healing and strengthening prop
erties are Increased tenfold. In this respect our
Plaster is the beet in use without the aid of cleo
frieifY
Year: 1877

KEEP Your Mourn SHUT.-Blessed is the man
who knows enough to keep his mouth shut.
Some people live sixty years without learning
the art. Indeed, the older they grow the wider
their mouths open. A man or woman who is a
gabber at forty-fve is deadful affliction to a
house or church or community. There are two
things this age needs to learn-when to saw
nothing, and when to say any thing to say it
we'll " If any man among you seems to be re-
Ggious, and bridleth not his tongue, this man g
religion is vain. .'-Goldeq Rule
Year: 1877

OUR Oak Harbor correspondents con-
tributlon this week is a little out Of the
usual order of articles we wish to publish,
and may be returned unused. However,
we have not room this week for its inser-
ton. What we want In the way Of cor
respondence, is either collection of news
items, an impersonal and logical discus
sion of important local matters, or a racy,
cutting and pointed article upon some
LIVE issue of the times. 1t matters little
to our readers generally, what an obscure
and hobby-riding individuals ideas-ex-
positionally expressed-concerning love
and marriage, may amount to. We are
paid for NEWS, and expect to make fair
return for the money.
Year: 1877

William Day, son Of Mr.. Joseph Day, late
of this neighborhood. met with an accident
that might have been serious mishap. He
was driving one of his fathers wagons, help
ing TO move into Kent county, and in des-
cending the hill at Sassafras, the bits IN his
horses mouths parted and they thus being
unmanageable ran violently down the steep
place-not exactly into the sea, but into Geo.
Kennedy's saw logs and lumber lying out
about the saw mill, and played havoc With
the load on the wagon, smashing up things
generally. Had they gone a little further
they would have run into the mill race,
Year: 1877

Rev. DR.. Matlack slipped on the ice onThurs-
day of last week and fell, breaking his wrist


He has been confined TO bis room since his
accident and suffers much pain. This is par
ticularly unfortunate at this time as the Doc
tor is prevented from attending to the pro-
tracted meeting now in progress at his church.
Year: 1877

A SUICIDE, RAILWAY ACCIDENT AND AN


ELEVATOR CASUALTY


LEY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.


BALTIMORE Oct. IL, 1877.
Two shocking fatalities and a third casualty that
will end in death. occurred here to-day. Joseph
Mohr, a German, aged ffty-lwo. who had been scpa-
rated from his vile, entered her dwelling early this
morning and Expressed a desire Tor a reconciliation
She refused whcreupon he drank cup OF coffee and
asked permission to rest himself on lounge. To
this she assented and he threw himself in reclining
attitude. moment later pistol shot rang out and
tho unfortunate man was soon a corpse, he having
shot himself through the head.


SHOCKING RAILROAD ACCIDENT.


The second that OF William Miller,
a Baltimore and Ohio brakeman, who met a strange
and horrible death while tho front platform
Of a car beng driven along Pratt street. Tho
sudden swapping OF a stick released he brake and
hurled him IN front Of tho His head was wedged
tightly down between the wheel and frameworK and
his throat cut from 10 eur, and the body terri
bly, crushed Jack screws had TO be applied 70 the
to release the corpse.


CRUSHED AN ELEVATOR.


The third wus the irightful mangrg OF Jacob Sicer
He at work at tho bottom Of an area IN Hurst,
Purnell Co IS warehouse when elevator, heavily
loaded descended noIseIessy upon him. crushing his
SIX ul, breaking his Jaw bono aud otherwise manghng
him. He was taken to a hospital, where he will die.
Year: 1877

raised against the use of hotel cars has been
connected with the odors of the kitchen. As
we said before, this, in these cars, will be en-.
tirely obviated no person, no matter how
particular he or she may be, will have cause
to make any objections on this score. In the
dining car you merely get your meals, and as
soon as you are through eating you are
showed out and started for the coach or
sleeper, SO as to make room for some other
traveller who desires your place. While in
these hotel cars your berth will be secured
through, you will own it absolutely for the
length of your trip and 10 will be your own
for lounging, sitting, sleeping, and eating
purposes, % mach as yoar own seat in your
own house. As it is not generally knoHn.
dining cars are never ron over the entire
length of any ,ute; they are taken Oh and
set off Of the train at stated meal times, while
these hotel cars will be made part of the
train and run through in the same way as
the regular sleeping ear.


On the admirable steel rail that is now
laid on the Chicago & North Western Bail
way, these elegant, sixteen-wheeled hotel
ears will ride easy and with as little noise or
oscillation as balloon that floats serenely
through the air; and we believe it will be
found to be result that thousands will flock
to this pioneer Line" who have hitherto
gone by some other route


With these and other improvements the
people Of Cedar aapids are very largely in
terested and we believe will join with us in
congratuating the progressive management
of this great line in this its mos} advanced
step; and unite with US 10 saying, the
Chicago & North Western Railway has be-
come the foremost road in all the " est.


These hotel cars will be placed in service
about March lst. lS77.-Repu5lican, Dec. %
1876.
Year: 1877

The question "How was the nomination OF
Williams brought about at Portland? is upon
the lips of thousands of Democrats in Maine
every day. We do Lot wonder that the INQUIRY
is made, and that expressions of amazement
should be uttered, that man should be made
Democratic nominee for Governor who
declares in his letter of acceptance, that he has
had no connection with the Democratic party
for twenty years, and who insults that party BY
an impudent misinterpretation of their plat
form, and by a bold affirmation that Hayes
title TO the Presidency is valid.


The Democratic masses of Marie who were
not present at the Portland Convention, are en-
titled to frank statement as to the means and
methods by which this most extraordinary
nomination was effected, and they shall have
it.


1t is altogether probable that not one in ten
of the delegates, when they left their homes
for Portland, had ever dreamed of Mr..
Williams as possible candidate. Not one in
ten of the delegates had ever known or heard
OF him as a Democrat for twenty years. And
it is entirely safe to say, that had Mr.. Williams
himself been in the Convention, and then and
there given shis Interpretation of the 2nd
resolution OF the platform, as put forth in his
letter of acceptance, he could not have received
one-twentieth part of the votes of the
delegates.


How, then, was his nomination effected2
It was thus: so long ago as 1870 there was q
conspiracy formed to disband and dissolve the
Democratic party of Maine, SO the end that
there might be Peoples party formed out of
tne olsorganlzed democracy and certain dis
contented elements of the Republican party
with Gen. Chamberlain at its head. The con-
splracy came well nigh having successful
issue SO tar as the dissolution of the Democrat
lc party was concerned. The Democratic state
convention for that year was holden in Port
land. The motion of the conspirators was to
dissolve the convention sine die without NOM
NATION. Plausible arguments were urged in
its favor. The true Democratic delegates re-
sisted the cOnsummation of the Conspiracy.
The struggle was severe and lasted through the
entire day Under the lead of the gallant
Gen. Roberts, of this city, the consDlrators
were routed and an adjournment Of the con-
vention to Bangor was secured. The conspir-
acy aroused the Indignation of the masses Of
the party, and when the convention reconvened
in Norembega Hall month later there were no
vacant seats. The conspirators were abashed
IN tnat presence, and the proposal to disband
Gid not md an utterance from even a single
throat. AS a reward for his gallant and timely
service in rescuing the Democracy from dissolu-
ton the Convention with one voice demanded
that Gen. Roberts should take the standard
and bear it through the campaign. He
obeyed the summons and well nigh planted IL
on the very parapet of the enemy's works.


The Augusta clique who were at the head of