Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1879 — A Human Otter. [ARTICLE]

A Human Otter.

Somebody writing from Reedy river, 8. C., to The Charleston News and Courier, t ays: 1 “Reedy river is a poor stream for fish. Perhaps by a whole day’s fishing the angler may be rewarded by one-half a dozen little catfish. We had a visit last week from the Raburn’s creek fishing otter, Wm. Vaughn. He said there was fish in the river, and be had come after them. It was amnalng to see him in the shoals, diving down under the rocks and bringing up the ads; sometimes he would come up witn one in each hand, and occasionally with three fish, one in bis month and one in each hand. After fishing the shooia he tried his hand on suckers and red horse in the deeper water, diving down under the banks and bringing up the fish in his hands. He e&ught about twenty-five suckers, weighing one, two and three pounds each. Vaughn has been known to catch as high as six suckers at one time in his hands. He says, when undo- the water he can rob a sucker on the aide and it will lie still as a pig when yon are scratching its side. I think we had better ship him down to the city and let you him a submarine diver. If he was on the sea coast, where fish are so plentiful, he would show something extraordinary in the fishing line.” At a party on Nelson street, the other evening, the conversation appeared to be dying out, when abillious man suddenly observed to a young lady on his right, “I don’t think they make (dlls as huge as they need to.’’ After that the conversation went on again. A profane upstart—The man who sits down on a bent ton.