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Show About Stanley' Anteretlentx. Pittsburg, August 0. Special. The Dispatch this morning will publish a two column interview with the st"t -father of Henry M. tanky. If the records rec-ords in the wed-woru Weill Bible are authentic, the stoiy tiin-ws light on the early h'story and ongin of t ic explorer. ex-plorer. Watki'n James is i;i; step-lather. step-lather. He is a Welshman, sixtv-ihiee years old, and lives in Ins homestead with his fourth wife. Mr. Jau.cs came to America with his family in 187U. When asked why he did not write to Stanley and tell him who he was. he replied re-plied that Stanley had become a "leat man and he was afraid to bother him. "Mr. Stanleys correct name," said Mr. James, '"is Henry Rowlands. His mother was Eleaner .lames, anil his 1 father was Jacob Rowlands. iloth were bmn in Port Rees, near New-i castle, Emleyr, Cam rthensh re, South "'ales. Stanley was born in the same j town and is now between forty-nine and lifty years old. Stanleys father; was a book-binder bv trade, and a very I clever one. but a good-tor -nothing man. I When Stanley come to know all "about him, he had little respect for him. j Stanley's mother, whom I afterwards j married, was an intensely religious woman. Jacob Rowlands was not a good husband, and when Henry was about four years old, his parents separated, sep-arated, the "father taking the boy, and the mother the girl to raise. Shortly after this Rowlands sold Henry to a sea captain aud preacher Davis Cardigan j was a w itness the papers binding the : future explorer to the skipper. j Australian News .John L. 1VUI Di ink. j Sax Francisco, August 6. Austra i Han advices bv the steamer Almedai confirm the report of the defeat of Owen j Sullivan E. Barrie, champion of Aus- j tralu, in two rounds at the hands of; Joe Ohaynski, the California pugilist, j The Abneda passed the Maripasa at Auckland, New Zealand, July lStli. John L. Sullivan and his theatre troune were aboard the Mai ipasa on the wav to Sidney, It. i3 reported Sgiliva ) indulged in-dulged in liquor on his arrival at. Auckland Auck-land to such an extent that, Capt mi 1 Ilaywords, of the Maripasa, ha I been , constrained to order him confb.ed to his I cabin, |
