A Kidnapping Panther

Laat Monday mörning a man and wife, who live about nine miles east of Willis, left home on business, leaving their house in charge of their eldest child, about twelve years of age. Toward noon the girl heard the infant, aged fourteen months, which had been laid while asleep on a bed in an adjoining room, utter a scream. She immediately rán to its relief, and imagine her feelings on opening the door to see a huge panther, with Üie babe in its mouth, leaping from an open window, immediately over the bed. She sprang upon the bed and then out of the window, screaming at the height of lier voioe, and, upon being joined by the other children about the house, pursued the panther at her utmost speed. They followed about forty rods, to a pair of bars whioh separated the clearing from the forest, at which place the girl says that she approached to within ftfteen or twenty feet of the panther, when it relinquished its hold öf the child, leaped the bars and made its way to the woods. The infant was picked up, much strangled by the grass and sancl, which had filled its mouth and eyes, but soon recovered,and is now well, save a few scratches about its tody, which have the appearance of having been made by the panther's teeth. These marks are very plain ; and there are several blood-blisters where the teeth in slipping carne in contact. The girl says that the panther dropped the child once before arriving at the fence and it is supposed the giving way of the clothes was the cause, as it was muoh torn. - Houston (Tex.) Herald.