The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1886-05-07


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u ta purse and Viii sSSn S'S Se past as s'Fhee
OF the jewc 1n u 1nne,oe ye oreatned ~ MS last
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These, wit tSHERMAN'S LUCK.
Fortunate thai -1-
ment is some Ftune Discovered By Young
that one dI Man in a Shark.
OF their sol
lry and spderH
he traveller h. Noung Southerner, who for some
in their web 1ls has been enjoying himself in
pr their waret is the hero of an odd freak of
ow-cases, nm he, and perhaps "fisherman's
9e I;tu Irillln4 has never been happily ex-
hese tbey Per Per flied than in his case. This is the
Pnes and catsT'
orth from un He young man-hs name is STAN
Ups from som4 Randolph-is native of South
ianaJ' ineral1s' fnflna, where his father had large
fonr us 10 LESSONS in Colleton. He served in
eive Some1 Confederate army during the last
pretty smal years of the war, though still two
mpt the purhg and when the war was over set
Ia 4 large emt at Pocotaligo, poor as a church
mo +,ay ey Use. His fathers estate was nearly
as indisnose, gone, and what still remained he
5, they Grad Plved should be religiously devoted
selling wbat fhe needs of his mother and sisters,
from foulA 10 were now living in Barnwell in
dollars fo,&y poor way. Young Stanhope Ran
wo hundreAph had capacity and industry, but
,rchants arefse were not sufficient to get him
EN- are con krk in State where all things were
ought tbeir pstrate He procured some odd jobs
with tben1 the railroad but these soon failed
time of them, and at last, in despair, he shipped
fore the mast in trading schooner
await tbo lat belonged to Machas Me-, and
0 if he has kade irregular voyages between Bos-
fortunatelvgn, Beaufort, S. c., Havana and
lrse do not9 Iket. IN tnree OF 1our years ne got
stakes arek be mate of the trader and finally the
absoIutevtvners began to promise him a vessel
genfine his own, one now building, if he
for from foud purchase an interest in her to the
kceeds ooIu fxtent of fifteen hundred dollars. His
nd twenfy Ewn savings amounted to nearly half
bies bern hat sum already and he took fur
ty dollars pugh from the schooner for the pur-
purcbaser pose of seeing his mother and some
es of tbo bther friends in order to try to get
inds. snch temporary loan of the balance needed
ones can Money, however, was hard to get
ents to a No one doubted the security, but they
at a nom fiid not have the money to spare. After
fe to GOV Several futile efforts young Stanhope
bought n Randolph was about to give up the pur-
bne tenth suit in despair when his mother be-
fterword Thought her of Colonel Jacob Euler, her
cousin, still living Port Royal and
Thought to be rather better off than the
rest of the connection. Stanhope RAN
dolph was only very slightly acquainted
with Colonel Euler, but his mother in
Ireland sisted that he should take letter from
her to her relative, and thus leave moth
er Press ing untried in matter which so in
oyv npb tlmateiy concerned the pushing of his
I" Puo- own fortunes.
"a 2,093 When Stanbone Randolnb arrival a.
VS.: En- his cousins place Port Royal sound
1,225- he found that the family We're not well
IRELAND / prepared to have visitors. In fact only
are al two nights before, the house-an old
land e brick mansion-had been burned down
l5 ditto to the ground, and the family were now
IN living in couple of tents pitched on
n thn the lawn in front of the ruins. Colonel
Ia: of Euler had lost everything the house
10 - | contained and was now down with an
n 1895 hgue, his daughter was i'll with Mysteries,
ulata5 \ and everything was in confusion and
m 1877 disorder. In fact, as Mrs. Euler pitt
nress fully told Stanhope Randolph, ''there's
.i,nleJ actually nothing to eat in the house-in
~ in the tent, mean, y she said with feeble
still Gaiii,, anu .iin ooiohei Is 700 Ill TO go
Tha Stanhope Randolph did not show his
otion letter nor mention its subject. On the
nnm' contrary, he tried to make him useful,
leo,d / gave Mr. Euler his dose of qunne
ntina taught Mrs Euler how to rig her tent
vansS sails in a safer and more comfortable
ents fashion, and then, taking small negro
st;an boy with him, launched the boat, hoisted
sail anc went fishing for the replenish-
Ing of poor Mrs. Euler's exhausted lard
a. er. Well acquainted with the sound and
,..:n !ne its fishing around, he soon caught quite
WIN sn mess of fish, and was beating back
iie again when startled cry of the negro
un III boy, who was by the mast, attracted his
ehe attention. The cause of the boys alarm
OF large shark between ten and
Ieas twelve feet long, which swan directly
lers in front of the boat and seemed prepared
ster to dispute its passage. The boat, as is
Prm common in those waters, carried small
ely, harpoon attached to long line for the
OF purpose of using upon the devi]-fisl
oe. frequently met there, and the chase and
are | = capture of which is favorite and excit-
zen ing sport of South Carolinians. Hastily
es' calling the boy to the helm and giving
on his lugger sheet plenty of play, Ran.
u dolph snatched the harpoon and line
81 sprang to the bow tossed large fish in
the water and, as the shark turned up tc
seize it. drove the harpoon into his bel2J
lg with SO true an aim and such fatal forc'
m that the huge fish only struggled few
n- minutes before expiring. He was MOI
in able to get his prize aboard, but deter
If mined not to lose such trophy of hi
pf arms strength, took it in tow behint
r his boat and was soon able to land hi
cargo and tow in safety near the burned
), mansion. s.k
= Securing his boat. Randolph now sen
off the boy for help to fetch away hi
fish, and amused himself by disembow
cling the monster. His iack-knifs
struck upon something hard and metal
lie in the viscera of the fish and, exam
lining II more closely, he brought IL
light square, fiat zine box, about tht
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