The Rhode Island Republican

Drowning.

On Thursday afternoon last, Miss Susan Jennison, of Cranston, Miss Mary Ann Winslow of this town, and Mr. James Smith, of Charleton, Mass. were unfortunately drowned while on a sailing party down the river, near Field's Point. Several other persons were in the boat. The two females were knocked overboard by the boom, and Mr. Smith lost his life in a vain attempt to rescue them.

The distressing calamities that have so often happened from the use of sail boats in our river, call loudly for some regulations respecting these dangerous vehicles of pleasure. It is agonizing to contemplate two interesting females in the midst of life thus plunged into a watery grave, and followed by a noble minded young man whose generosity led him beyond his strength in a vain attempt to rescue them from an untimely death. The bodies of the two females have since been found, and restored to their friends.--[Prov. Journal.