Orange county, New York, is greatly excited about a mysterious beast which is said to make nocturnal raids around the neighborhood. There is only one person – a negro – who will swear he has seen the strange animal, but there are scores of persons who claim to have seen evidences of his depredations on adjoining farms, and to have heard his unearthly screams when startled by the approach of man. The negro says that he suddenly met with it at the mouth of a cave on the farm of a Mr. Green, and that it stood erect to height of seven or eight feet and screeched so loudly that frightened him so that he fainted. When he regained his senses the animal had gone. Parties have explored the mouth of the cave on Green’s farm, and while they claim to have discovered evidences of the whereabouts of some strange animal, they have failed to come up with it. It is said that a dead dog, with his back broken, was found near the mouth of the cave, and part of a sheep’s skin and entrails were also close to the entrance. A party is being organized to search for and kill the strange animal.
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