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New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 61, 27 June 1874, Page 13

An Alabama paper says : — A girl named Elizabeth Moore, daughter of Albert Moore, living in the north-east corner of Cleburne country, Alabama, was returning home from a neighbor's house, whither tbe had been sent on an errand, when she felt something heavy strike upon her shoulder, and the next instant she was borne to the ground. She says that her first impressiou was that she had 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 the ground. Pretty soon the eagle, having secured his 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 eoxne distance. Occasionally sbe was dropped on the ground, but the eagle would aa often rajse 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, add the girl fell to the earth seriously stunned and hurt. She was unconscious for a time, clumbered 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 shawl which bad been securely fastened about her head, bo as to project over her face, hid her rude antagonist from her view. The track along which she was dragged, however, was plainly risible in the road. lbe girl Elizabeth is fourteen years of age, and weighs between eighty and ninety pounds. The eagle has been twice seen by the hunters, who are making every effort to kill or to capture him.