The Arizona sentinel., 1886-05-08
E'ISHERMAN'S LUCK.
A Fortune Discovered By Young
 Man in a Shark.

A young Southerner, who for some months has been enjoying himself in Paris, is the hero of an odd freak o1 fortune, and perhaps fisherman $ luck" has never been more happily ex- emplifed than in his case. This is the story:
 The young man-his name is Stan- hope Randolph-is native of South Carolina, where his father had large possessions in Colleton. He served in the Confederate army during the last two years of the war, though still two young, and when the war was over set tied at Pocotaligo, poor as church mouse His fathers estate was nearly all gone, and what still remained he resolved should be religiously devoted to the needs of his mother and sister S, who were now living in Barnwell in a very poor way. Young Stanhope Ran doiph had capacity and industry, but these were not sufficient to get him work ill a State where all things were prostrate. He procured some odd jobs on the railroad, but these soon failed him, and at last, in despair, he shipped before the mast in trading schooner that belonged to Machias, Me-, and made irregular voyages between Bos- ton, Beaufort, S. C., Havana and a market. In three or four years he got to be mate Of the trader, and finally the owners began to promise him vessel of his own, one now building, if he would purchase an interest in her to the extent of fifteen hundred dollars. His own savings amounted to nearly half that sum already, and he took a fur tough from the schooner for the pur- pose of seeing his mother and some other friends, in order to try to get a temporary loan of the balance needed.
 Money, however, was hard to get. No one doubted the security, but they did not have the money to spare. After several futile efforts young Stanhope Randolph was about to give up the pur- suit in despair when his mother be- thought her of Colonel Jacob Euler, her cousin, still living near Port Royal, and thought to be rather better of than the rest of the connection. Stanhope Ran dolph was only very slightly acquainted with Colonel Euler, but his mother in- sisted that he should take letter from her to her relative, and thus leave noth- ing untried in a matter which so in- timately concerned the pushing of his own fortunes.
 When Stanhope Randolp ph arrived at his cousins place on Port Royal sound he found that the family were not well prepared to have visitors. In fact, only two nights before, the house-an old brick mansion-had been burned down to the ground. and the family were now living in couple of tents pitched on the lawn in front of the ruins. Colonel Euler had lost everything the house contained and was now down with an ague, his daughter was i'll with mysteries, and everything was in confusion and disorder. In fact, as Mrs. Euler, pitt fully told Stanhope Randolph, "there' actually nothing to eat in the house-in the tent, I mean, she said, with feeble smile, ''and the Colonel is too ill to go fishing today
 Stanhope Randolph did not show his letter nor mention its subject On the contrary, he tried to make him useful, gave MT. Euler his dose of quinine, taught Mrs. Euler how to rig her tent sails in safer and more comfortable fashion, and then, taking small negro boy with him, launched the boat, hoisted sail and went fishing for the replenish- ing of poor Mrs. Euler's exhausted lard CT. Well acquainted with the sound and its fishing ground, he soon caught quite mess of fish, and was beating back again when a startled cry of the negro boy, who was by the mast, attracted his attention. The cause of the boys alarm was a large shark, between ten and twelve feet long, which swan directly in front of the boat and seemed prepared to dispute its passage. The boat, as is common in those waters, carried small harpoon attached to long line, for the purpose of using upon the devil-fish frequently met there, and the chase and capture of which is favorite and excit- ing sport of South Carolinians. Hastily calling the boy to the helm and giving his lugger sheet plenty of play, Ran dolph snatched the harpoon and line, sprang to the bow, tossed large fish in the water and, as the shark turned up to seize it, drove the harpoon into his belly with so true an aim and such fatal force that the huge fish only struggled few before expiring. He was not able to get his prize aboard, but deter mined not to lose such a trophy of his arms strength, took it in tow behind his boat and was soon able to land his cargo and tow in safety near the burned 
 Securing his boat, Randolph now sent off the boy for help to fetch away his fish, and amused himself by disembow- cling the monster. His iack-knife struck upon something hard and metal lie in the viscera of the fish and, exam ming it more closely, he brought to light square, flat zinc box, about the size of one-pound gunpowder can,