Mrs. Susan M. Sweet, died at her residence, in Alfred, N. Y., September 19th, after a painful illness of three weeks, aged 72 years 4 months and 4 days. Mrs. Sweet was born at Alfred Centre. Her husband, Spencer Sweet, Jr., died a little more than a year and a half ago, since which time she has lived alone. Mrs. Sweet was a good mother, tender-hearted and very sensitive to unkindness. From her diary we learn that she suffered from grief and solitude, sometimes feeling that she could not endure it, but she cast her care on him, whose arm sustains us in every trial. Mrs. Sweet was a great Bible reader, having read the Old Testament through nearly every year for many years, and had reached the 44th chapter of Isaiah this year. The night before she died she was too weary to read, and so passed into rest. L. S. B.
