A FIGHT BETWEEN A BULL AND A LIONESS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 168, 13 July 1878, Page 4

A FIGHT BETWEEN A BULL AND A LIONESS.

. It would seem that animals, ati well as men, do not fight well on ah bmpty stomach, if the following account of a ' fight between a lioness and a Texas • bull is correct. The contest is laid to . have taken place in a spacious amphitheatre erected for the piii?pos4 near theUown of San Antonio, in Texas.. "When the lioness was released frbmj j the iron cage in which she was cbiifined, i she fprang "upon the.ground : aß!:fchough v eag*e?fcr the encounter. Thaßuil eyed j hpr. suspiciously, hut :app¥a.TSrd , indif- : ferent to her presenqe, .u^til t^a lioni essy who had passed' befond him; siidj denly leaped upon his hauncnes and I endeavored to fasten her tebthaid claws . ; in his Bide,-wjhich, however, being thick and tough, resisted the attempt." This attajßk loused the rrcS^of the bull, who . turj^ed,an^ ru^hiagi^pon his antagonist,^ caiigh^ he'r;bn.his horns, and tossed her mthdalr. When she feir one 6f her : ■ ri*Bs f was evidently Hi-'bk'en/ add 1 ' growling she retreated. The biill 'followed, and, : jeatching, the lioness r ,agsin on t his horns, sent.hep *? Sailing through spaW' The spbclktoW who are said to have numbered 5000: now ,SEb4g4; and, cfiier^di Ifcha? Wildest enthusiam prevailing aa the bull, " cornering |' the lioness, pinned her to the floor; with his hopns. This efi'ded ihe /cpqiist; _the\iinhhjjpy lioness Being 'in such j a. sad, condition jaftef the bull's finfl eJQpprt as.npt ,to hav^si|fficient life •tfetriaihirig feven L groan. The fight laa|ed twelve minutes, and the defeat of ihe lionessj 'was attributed by her Yfecker^.to^e fact of her being " over- ' starved fdr Yhe'occasibh."