Morning journal and courier., 1891-08-13
TWO NOTED MEN DEAD.

Hon. James Russell Lowell and
 Editor George Jones-Short Sketch.
 es of Their Careers.
 BOSTON, August 12.-James Russell l Lowell died at his home at Cambridge at
 2:10 a. m. to-day. Death was caused by
 combination of diseases, gout, sciatic | hemorrhages and a severe type of liver disease.
 MT. Lowelrs health has been impaired ever since his return to this country in 1885, after concluding his diplomatic services of eight years, three at Madrid and five at the Court of St. James. The death of his wife in the midst of his social and diplomatic success in London as the representative of this country had an un- toward effect upon his health which was even then becoming broken.
 Mrs. Bennett, his only child, has been with him constantly.
 James Russell Lowell was born at Cam bridge, Mass, February 22, 1919. He was nineteen years old when he was grad uated from Harvard. In 1S40 he was ad- mitted to the bar. He succeeded Long Harvard university, in 1855, when he had earned a high literary reputation. His Legend of Britanny, which appeared in 1S44, was pronounced by Poe "the noblest poem which an American had yet writ ten."
 In 1848 he wrote the Bigelow Papers, per haps the most famous of his works. From 1857 to 1869 he was editor of the Atlantic Monthly and from 1863 to 1872 of the North American Review. In 1874 he re- ceived the degree of IL. D. from the Uni versity of Cambridge, England. MT. Lowell was appointed minister to Spain in 1877 and in 1879 to England, where he com handed great popularity.
 The funeral of James Russell Lowell will be held Friday at noon in Appleton chapel, Cambridge. It is probable that Bishop elect Phillips Brooks will oficiate.
 Death Of George Jones.
 NEW YORK, Aug. 12.-George Jones, proprietor of the New York Times, who died at o'clock this morning at Poland Springs, Me-, was born seventy-nine years ago at Poultney, Vt. It was in this village that MT. Jones first met Horace Greeley and where as boys they formed mutual friendship which lasted for nearly half 8, century.
 At that time the two lads were in the employ of the same man, Amos Bliss, who owned @ general country store and newspaper, the Vermont Spectator. Jones seems to have caught the liter ary or journalistic spirit equally with Greeley.
 At about fourteen years of age MT. Jones became an orphan, and thrown upon his own resources drifted from one thing to another until 1883, when he came to New York city. Here he fell in with MT. Greeley, who was earning his living as printer.
 The founder of the New York Tribune was older by some years than his Poultney friend, and when he started that newspa- per he offered @ partnership interest in the venture to him, but MT. Jones declined the offer. Later MT. Jones went to Albany, N. Y., and there tried the news agency business with such financial success that he branched into banking.
 In the fall of 1851 MT. Jones, in associs- tion with Henry J. Raymond and Edward B. Wesley, commenced the publication of the Times and issued four-page sheet at one cent a copy. It proved a success as regards circulation, but money was lost in the production. Then the price was raised to two cents, which had a depreciative effect at first upon the circulation, but in the course of year or so that recovered and the paper became 8 success.
 When MT. Raymond died, in 1869, the Times sustained severe blow, but MT. Jones never faltered in his course and soon it was apparent that his newspaper was as strong as ever. MT. Jones said on the death of Raymond that he would never part with the Times when alive. He was very proud of the new Times building erected two years ago. MT. Jones was a very fair and considerate employer. He believed in the maxim of "Live and let live"