Gazette Of The United States And Daily Evening Advertiser

MARVELLOUS.

A few days ago, a Gentleman was amusing himself in shooting squirrels, about 5 miles from Salem, in Jersey state—after having discharged his gun at one of those animals, he was suddenly attacked by a furious black bear, which rushed from a thicket about ten yards from him, growling most hideously.

The Gentleman immediately sought his safety, by the nimbleness of his heels, having in his fright dropt his piece—the bear following him in a kind of a running dance, sometimes on his hind-feet. The sportsman almost petrified with fear, his course being stopped by a swamp, was obliged to retrograde—which gave him an opportunity of observing that the bear carried the gun he had in the first moment of fear left behind him—and, menacing him in an attitude which created suspicion it recalled the remnant of his reasoning faculties, and seizing a huge branch of a tree, he returned upon his antagonist.

At the first blow he brought the monster to the ground, which, after heaving a heavy groan, seemed to struggle as in the agonies of death.

Having soon after met with some countrymen, and relating the story they returned to the spot. On examining him, they found concealed in the most artful manner under a bruin's skin, a Human Being; weltering in his blood from the contusion he received on his head.—They raised him up, and with the assistance of a cordial, they brought him to himself.

It appears he is an unhappy maniac. who makes his periodical visits in this City and neighborhood, and that this was his first exploit in his new character.

We vouch for the authenticity of the above, says the writer, with that of some other stories, on the same authority, report.

See the account of a great scaly monster in the back country, whose breath destroys the human race—The bear that climbed up a tree after a man and eat his feet off—Or, the wonderful story of a lad who was attacked by six barn owls !!! &c. &c.