[SPECIAL TO THE WORLD]

    NEW BRUNSWICK, Nov. 26—The thinly populated district known as the Great Bear Swamp, twelve miles west of New Brunswick, has a well-developed sensation on hand, which promises to make things interesting for the farmers.
    It appears that a misshapen monster, half human and half animal, has been devouring sheep, carrying off pigs and rending young cattle in the neighborhood.
    There are less than half a dozen people who have seen the monster, and each described him differently. One Thompson, who lost several head of sheep, believes the strange visitant to be is cross between a kangaroo and a panther. William Simpson, who had a pig taken out of a pen at the rear of his farm, found the half-munched bones of the porker lying in the woods next day. Nen the bones were huge tracks in the soft soil, indicating that the wonderful beast had been the thief. Farmer Peter Dolan claims to have seen the strange animal that startled the farmers in that section one year ago, and believes it to be the same beast on a return trip. Many of the neighbors have barricaded the doors of their houses, and now look their stock in the barns after nightfall.
    Gunning parties have searched in vain for the lair of the monster, whose tracks were plainly visible in the snow of yesterday and Sunday. The trail led to the soft swamp land and could not be followed. At a meeting of some of the bravest farmers yesterday it was decided to form a gunning party of fifty on Thanksgiving Day and surround the Great Bear Swamp to hunt the monster to his death.

From— The Evening World. (New York, N.Y.), 27 Nov. 1888. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.