Female heroism.
--We glean the following account of female heroism from the Wetherford (Texas) News:‘ The party of Indians who passed through Jack Parker and Palo Pinto counties last week, marking their way with desolation, and striking terror to the stoutest hearts, drew up in front of the residence of Mr. Eubanks, in Palo Pinto county, and were holding a parley, and no doubt forming a plan to attack the house. There was not a man on the premises at the time. Mrs. Eubanks and her daughter, and several little children, were alone.
’ The yard was enclosed with pickets about 6 feet high. Miss Mary Eubanks, the daughter, with unequaled presence of mind, for one so young, seized a shot-gun, put on her brother's hat, and placed a bench near the picketing so as to peep over without exposing her body, and then deliberately fired at the party, which stratagem and heroic conduct doubtless saved her own life, and the lives of her mother and little brothers and sisters, as the cowardly scamps immediately fled, no doubt believing the house was defended by a body of armed men. For her brave conduct on the occasion, we think that Miss Eubanks should be presented with a fine shot-gun and a brace of pistols.
