The nows of the death of General A. E. Jones, the United States Consul at Chinkiang, was received in Shanghai yesterday morning with very: general regret the lowering of the consular ting to half-mast being the first intimation. General Jones, who was a native of Virginia, was about 65 years of age. During the Civil War he was an officer in the Southern army, and followed Lee in his campaign. After the war ho went td Mexico and served the ill-fated Emperor Maximilian, following which he was in the French army in Algeria, When 1 the amnesty was proclaimed he returned to America and took up his home in Minneota, In 1880 he was appointed Consul at Nagasaki, and six years Inter was transferred to Chinki He was always 5 prompt and efficient in the performance of his duties, Being retained in office successive administrations it remained for the present to remove him at a time when long and faithful service could well have been rewarded by his retention, and when impaired health and age would naturally have been more appreciative of the recognition due to loyalty. The General was a most genial companion and his occasional visits{to Shanghai were always a source of pleasure to his friends here. About two months ago he was in Shanghai. He was then looking feeble, but his unfailing viva city left his friends unprepared for the sad now which arrived yesterday. A warmhearted, generous man is dead, and he has only friends behind; friends who deep-sympathise with his widow.
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