The Liberator

Melancholy Accident.—We learn from a friend that a lad, the son of Mr. John Andy, near Reading, while engaged on Saturday in gathering blackberries, dropped his hat into a small pond. He stepped into the water to regain the hat, but finding himself detained by the mud, into which he was sinking, he called out for help. Mrs. Andy, his mother, hearing the cry, rushed to his rescue, but found herself also unable to save the lad, or to aid herself. Her cries brought to her assistance her married daughter, Mrs. Boyer, who sprung into the water, but was unable to effect any good, and they all perished in the pond, mother, daughter, and son. The pond in which these persons were drowned is, perhaps, not more than twenty feet across, though the water and soft mud are fifteen feet deep.—U. S. Gaz.