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Show SAMUEL L. EWING. A very true man was Mr. Ewing; a most valued val-ued citizen. He had some excentricities, but down deep he had not a thought that was not an honest one, not a wish more selfish than that all men might be happier that they might be better. i He was a most upright and useful and public- ( spirited citizen. He was a most honest man. He wanted no advantages; what he had he wanted to feel he had honestly earned; he lived such a life before his fellow men that he never took self-reproaches with him to disturb his sleep at night. When such a man dies, it is a loss to a community; com-munity; to his immediate family and relatives his death is an unspeakable sorrow, for his love for them was intense, his kindnesses to them never-ending. never-ending. He was never rich, but he was a little providence provi-dence to many and many a poor miner, and from a thousand cabins out in the hills all hails and farewells fare-wells will follow his soul into the beyond. The sympathies of the city go out to his little family and relatives, and it was with a vast regret that the friends and neighbors who had known him so long gathered to pay their last respects to his dust, for he had lived a most useful and blameless life, and went to his rest with not one reproach left upon his honored name. |