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Mr Edward Thomas Sweetland, who has been connected for several years with Exeter newspapers, and was one of the originators, and has continued to be one of the proprietors, of the Devon Weekly Times, died on Saturday at the age of 34 years. As secretary of the Exeter Liberal Association, as well as in his professional duties, Mr Sweetland has been prominently before the Exeter public, and has earned a large measure of esteem by his abilities, his energy, his conscientiousness, and his urbanity. He leaves widow and six children and large circle of friends to mourn their loss.

SWEETLAND Edward Thomas.
23 June.
The Will with three Codicils of Edward Thomas Sweetland late of 3 St. John's-terrace in the Parish of St. Sidwell in the County of the City of Exeter Newspaper Proprietor and General Printer deceased who died 23 May 1868 at 3 St. John's-terrace aforesaid was proved at Exeter by the oaths of John Thomas Tucker of 243 High-street in the City aforesaid Jeweller and Laceman Robert Channon Johnson of St. Sidwell aforesaid Accountant and Sarah Ann Moxey Sweetland of 3 St. John's-terrace aforesaid Widow the Relict (during Widowhood) the Executors.

Effects under £3,000.
Resworn at the Stamp Office March 1873 under £1,500

[LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.]

THE BURIAL OF MR. E. T. SWEETLAND took place on Wednesday morning at the new Cemetery. Deceased was followed to the grave by a large number of mourners and friends. The procession left his residence, Paris-street, at half-past nine. The burial service was conducted by the Rev. J. L. Galton. Mr. Snook, of Paris-street, conducted the funeral arrangements.

[DEATHS.]

SWEETLAND. - May 23, at his residence, Paris-street, Mr. E. T. Sweetland, aged 33. Deceased was the hon. secretary of the Exeter Liberal Association, and was highly respected by a numerous circle of friends.

DEATH OF MR. E. T. SWEETLAND. - We regret to report the death of Mr. Sweetland, Honorary Secretary of the Exeter Liberal Association, and one of the proprietors of the Devon Weekly Times, after a protracted illness. He died on Saturday, between three and four a.m., at his residence in Exeter. He leaves a widow and six children to mourn the saddest bereavement that can overtake a young family.

Death of Mr. Sweetland.

It is our painful task to announce the death of Mr. E. T. SWEETLAND, one of the proprietors of this paper, at the age of 34. After the contested election between Mr. Coleridge and Lord Courtenay in 1864, in which Mr. Sweetland took a prominent and most active part, the health of the lamented deceased became impaired. By a few weeks sojourn at an hydropathic establishment near Bath, however, he recruited his health, and for some time after that he was able to attend to business, and to discharge the duties of Secretary to the Liberal Registration Association, in which he took a great interest. Some months ago he was again attacked with illness, and it was then discovered, after a careful examination, that organic disease had set in, from which he could not recover. After lingering in great pain for a long period, Mr. Sweetland closed his mortal life in peace at three o'clock this morning. He leaves a wife and six children to mourn an irreparable loss. The deceased was an enthusiastic Radical, and as Secretary to the Liberal Association he rendered essential service to the cause. His zealous efforts in the political contests that have taken place in this city during the last few years, in some measure injured his health, it is feared, but he was never weary of doing all in his power to promote the principles and interests of the Liberal party. For his services to that party he was sometime ago presented with a handsome testimonial. The deceased has been connected with journalism for many years, having served his apprenticeship in the office of the Western Times, and he has been connected with the Devon Weekly Times ever since its establishment. With the writer of this notice Mr. Sweetland has been associated from boyhood. The dream of their early life he lived to see realized - viz: the establishment of an independent Liberal journal in this city - but he has been cut off far too soon to see accomplished all the political work his busy mind had anticipated. That busy mind is now at rest. Death has drawn the curtain between the invisible - where no party or personal conflicts are - and the visible, where the normal condition of things, it would seem, is war and not peace; but the memory of the life that has been closed, at so early an age, will be cherished by many an earnest Liberal politician, and by many a warm friend.