Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1878 — Attacked by an Eagle. [ARTICLE]

Attacked by an Eagle.

Now William had oft great cauw to rejoice. For the hour he had made sweet Alice his choice. And he blessed through the whole of a long useful The fate that had given him his dear little wife.

[Shreveport Times.] Recently United States deputy marshal Dewing and a party went up the river to investigate the cutting of logs from the public lands. On Black Lake they discovered an immense eagle’s n?st in the topmost branches of a large tree, and commenced cutting the tree down. There was a young eagle in the nest, and when the cutting commenced the parent birds made hostile demonstrations, swooping down upon the party. The female was shot and killed. The wing of the male was broken by a shot, and he was captured after falling in the water. He was with considerable difficulty taken into the boat, knocking one of the men in the boat overboard by’ a stroke of his wing. The young bird was killed by the falling of the tree. The nest was twelve feet in diameter, and was constructed of at least three quarters of a cord of wood, some of the pieces being four feet long and as large around as a man’s leg. The male was brought down alive. It measures seven feet and two inches from tip to tip.