AN EAGLE ATTEMPTING TO CARRY OFF A GIRL.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 2211, 17 June 1874, Page 3

AN EAGLE ATTEMPTING TO CARRY OFF A GIRL.

Aw Alabama paper says— Qn Saturday, the 3rd February, a girl named Elizabeth Moore, daughter of Albert Moore, living in the north-east corner of Cleburne country, Alabama, was returning home from a neighbour's house, whither she had been sent on an errand, when she felt something heavy- strike npon her shoulders, and the next instant she was borne to the ground. She says that her first impression was that she bad been seized by a panther or some other wild beast, but soon felt the talons of what proved to be an eagle clutching her sides and arms, lacerating the flesh in a fearful manner, and with its beak pecking her on the head, she was carried some distance on thaground. Pretty soon the eagle, having secured bis prize, with claws and bill- firmly fixed, raised her from the ground and sailed along at from three to four feet above the earth for some distance. Occasionally she was dropped on the ground, but tho eagle would as often raise- her again, making new and serious wounds with his talons in her body, and his beak in her head, till at last he reached the height of ten feet, and attempted to light on the limb of a red oak tree on the roadside, when his hold again gave way, and the girl fell to the earth seriously stunned and hurt. She was ' unconscious for a time, then clambered over the fence near by into her father's orchard, and began making the best of her way to the house, near which she was met by her mother, who had been attracted by her screams and was hastening to her relief. The most remarkable part of the matter is that the girl did not see the eagle at all. A abawV which bad been securely fastened, nbont her head, so as to project over her face, hid her rude antagonist from hjfeview. The track along which she was dragged, however, was*plainly visible in the road. The girl Elizabeth is fourteen years of age, and 1 weighs abont eighty and ninety pounds. The eagle has been twice seen by the hunters, who nre making every effort, to kill or to captnre him.

Heir to Preserve Fencimo Posts. — Posts, raws, or any other timber, especially if out or s.-ilit from young trees, will last rouoh longer if before it is used it in soaked in water for a few days nntil water logged, and then thoroughly dried. The reason is this— the water penetrates the posts, and soaks out the albumen and vegetable acid, which would otherwise start tbo decay, bnt when driven out of fche timber f jrms a soam on the top of the pond or pool in which the wood is soaking, B?8 SriNoa. — A colonial doctor prescribes as tli« bast ouro for bee Btings, the application of 0 >»mon soil to the wound.