Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-10-12
Two SwOrd.fish Stories.

On saturday afternoon, about the time Tn a
I Iar hepuise was getting under way. a
RI rapidly approaching the bay. As he ueared
The reef he cleared it with one leap OF fully
200 feet, and skinned over the shallow water
inside, until he landed high and dry on the
sard beach, directly in front of Mr. J. w
Pfuger's seaside cottage. Here he was seiz-
ed by native, who, however was unable to
be Ia him, and the huge fish fioundered about
till he finally gOti to the water A crowd of
natives coralled him, and the water near
shore being too shallow to allow him to use
MS ms ms , 70 any advantage; they soon killed
the swOrd-hsh, measuring feet In length.
while his sword measures SO inches The
latter may be seen In our Office. He appears
to have been frightened by the Repulse and
shot like an arrow through the water and
over the reef with such extraordinary speed
mat ne could not stop till out of his native
element and high on land. Those who wit
ressed 1t say that 1T was a most exciting
scene. These sword fishes are very powerful.
We remember Capt. Stone tell ng of am Incl.
cent which occurred while he was running
the brig Josephine between this port and
Jarvis Island, about 1853 The brig was an
extraordinary sailer, and while going a. her
full speed, ten miles An hour, she was struck
directly under the stern counter with such a
shock as to jar the whole vessel and to
awaken the captain out of a sound Sleep who
supposed that the brig had struck a whale or
areeL Immediately the pumps were started,
but there was no water In the hold. On re-
turning TO port the brig was hove out to find
the cause OF the shock, when, near the stern
post, Embedded in the thick plank the blade
of sword was found fully twenty inches
In length. To have hit the brig under the
counter the fish must have been going in the
same direction as the vessel; and one NAV
Imagine the speed with which it moved To
have plunged its sword twenty inches
through the plank!ng. 1t must have been
going at the rate of twenty five miles an
hour, and evidently intended to hit the brig
supposlng IL to have been a whale. From
this one can get faint idea of the fights
which take place among the monsters of the
deep.-Ho'aot,au Gazette, Sept. I.
An Iowa paper reports that risky
youth of eightyfive and "a gushing maiden
OF the same age were married in Greene
county In that state, the other day, and ha We
bought house and gone to house keeping at
Old Rippey.
~A reporter being called to account for
The statement that a certain meeting "was
q large and respectable One," when only one
other person beside himself was present.
insisted that bis report was literally true;
for, said he, ~ was large and the other man
was respectable
~ If a bill is accepted under the belief that
the accompanying security is good, when in
fact 1t is worthless, this is not such a mis-
take OF fact as will entitle the drawee to re-
cover back the amount from the payee Such
is the decision of the supreme court of Mich.
igan.
~Thirteen cases in the superior court of
Detroit turn on the liability Of an indorser
TO pay paper OF his bankrupt principal. who
has made legal compost Ion with his credi-
tors, the holder OF the Endorsed paper not
consenting, but having received their per-
centage.