The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1877-11-15
DEATH IN II BdTTEAU.'
From The Charleston Ne,ns AMI Courier.

| tsSoCo al Ou1 uttk UOI OIl S1uGlrQaY
night. On Saturday morning Mr.
VIM. Young, worthy citizen, who
for many years WAS employed in the
grocery establishment Of Khnck,
Wickc nberg & Co., procured tho
uso Of Il small battcau, and with his
yonug son, lad Of about fifteen
years Of age, went out into tho har-
bcr for days fishing sport. Tho
tide and wind being unfavorable for
fishing in deep water, Mr.. Young
STORED the little craft towards
James Island Cut, where anchor
was dropped. Towards evening
the wind refreshened, and the lido
being on the food, all efforts to
reach tho city proved unavailing.
Tho cold was very severe, and al
though suffering much from the OK
posuro, Mr.. Young and his son wero
compelled to drop anchor, and wait
for assistance. But mono came.
The shades of evening came 90, and
still no relief came. With night the
cold increased, and.the father, seoing
no chance of getting home, told his
son that they would be compelled
to stay in the boat all night, if, as
he expressed it, eve Go not die be-
fore morning" About 8 o'clock
tho son says biz father said ho was
sleepy, nnd laid his hoad in his lnp.
For many long and weary hours the
youth bore the cold and wind and
held his sleeping fathers head upon
his knee. Finally he could bear the
weight no longer, and removed his
fathers head to the seat, supposing
that he was still sleeping. Morn
ing duwned upon the lone watcher
still ut his post, stiff and almost un.-
conscious from hunger and cold.
All day long the boy looked in vain
Tor relief, and wondered much that
his father should be sleeping 80 long.
He little knew that his fathers soul
: had fled many hours before, and
that he was keeping watch over the
dead. About five O'clock yesterday
afternoon MIR. Robert Bee and SOW
oral colorod boat hands were coming
| from the Island to the city, and his
attention was attracted by the cries
and gesticulations of boy in q
small boat in James Island Gut.
They went immediately to the res-
cue, and thore found the dead body
of Mr.. Young stretched across the
seats and the boy in sitting
posture 80 stiff from the
cold that he could not move.
The negroes at first from supersti-
tious fears refused to touch tho,
body, but wanted to take the boy
away and leave the body in the boat.
But the son, still fondly believing
that his father slept, refused to 20
without him, saying, "No, if you.
leave my father here to die I will
stay and die too" The fears Of the
negroes were finally overcome, and
the boy and the body we're brought
to the city and landed at Moreland's.
wharf The family were i,nmediate-
ly notified, and Mr.. Young's brother
went down to the wharf, and after
the coroner had inspected the body
he conveyed the son and the de-
ceased to the family residence, in
, King street. DR.. Joseph Yates
made an autopsical examines
ton Of the body, and found that
death had resulted from congestion
of the brain superinduced by cold
and exposure. 1t appears from the
Testimony of the family that the
deceased had been subject to an
, affection of the head for some time
past. and it is surmised that being
overcome with fatigue and cold, he
died soon after placing his head on
, his sons knee. It is singular cir
cumstance that Mr.. Young should
have remained anchored out in tho,
river all night when he was within
a few hundred yards of the shore
where ho could have obtained food
and shelter. The almost s,nnoon-
scioua state Of tho boy whom res
; cued renders a moro complete ac-
count ut this time impossible. Tho
deceased was just fifty years of ago,
, and ne leaves d wife end five,
children.
The labor, grcenback ticket, in
Pennsylvania, waB supported by
twelve per cont. of the whole num-
bor Of votes polled there. Luzorno
county was completely capturod by
the new party, and the Pittsburg
-Leaaer says that "the moral effect