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For th6 Ornette.* Xollircwnfil.EDiroii GazJPte Tlie statement, in yourfcpuo of lust week that \W', liam Meredith, of Murydcl, was drowned by lulling into a puddle ol water while in a gtate o| inioxj4p*tiou. jis untrue, and is an outrage upon tlie 1high and^liuncTablef.KfeMeridfth had lived, mn$ the 9ad, yetatiil honorable death .which he died.,Mr. Mcridith has lived among us all X life life, he has been u* constant and .1faithful. member lt;f the Babtlst * Church for upwards of forty years, and held out- lujthful till his death.* He ably represented tic* people of his county in the Legislature, and refused, wUile there to take a bribe of $10, 000 to vote for the Broudbent lottery bill, and hcucc he had the full conn* denee of all who krlcw him., 4 lie was nolorious as an honest and truth telling man, and yet because he refused to be mensrtred by the standard of Good tcmplctism’, some he, she, or ithaatlius ignoininiousv sought to laurels whichdwarf the laurels which hang over hie :. grave. How very uncharitable it is j in any one to thus further aitflict an I already afflicted family. Mr. Scott |; another of our close neighbors fell dead ,, iu an open lire only one day before lt;Meredith fell dead in a puddle of}1tK* wife pulled himwater. Mr. Scotts from the flicdead. XIucl Mr. Scott beefi alonoas was Mr. Meredith, some valorous pigmy of the pen would have Informed you that Mr. Scott fell in the tire while drunk, and was burned to death as he too was unmeasured by the aforesaid. But enough of thie Mr. Meredith Las gone to u brighter and better world, uud Las left * an example behind him, width, it followed by all men, would make us better In this and better lit us for the world to come, Ciiakitt.Petettsr.vno, Del , Dee. 21, 1974V II
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Wilmington Daily Gazette
Wilmington, Delaware, US
Wed, Dec 23, 1874
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