Daily clarion and standard. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1866, 1866-08-04
ED.TaRrAI CORRESPONDENCE

ST. LOUIS. July 29, 1856.
! There were two deaths in the city
Yesterday. from sun stroke, and one
! from heat The day was hot and sui
try, but towards evening became
cooler, and this morning is quite
pleasant. Another incident, that oc
Cured Yesterday, was the suicide OF
beautiful Young lady, Miss Mena Bush
the daughter of a grocer, reported to
/ be worth 1905 900 dollars. 1t appears
/ that young man, Henry Fazer, and
/ Miss Mena. were engaged, in marriage
! but her father. Bush, refused his con
sent, and was very bitter and violent
in his opposition The lovers, unable
to meet at the house of Bush, had
stolen inters Jews, and Fazer, in sordel
that he might be near his beloved, oh
| tanned situation as bar tender in the
Star SGioon, next door TO theresidence
Of Bush. 4 few weeks since it was
reported that Fazer had been detected
in q Has0n with the servant girl Ehert
he worked-this, Bush circulated
every where, with such additions and
exaggeradons as his enmity suggested
Mena disbelieved the story, but il
greatly mortified Fazer, and made him
almost deranged. While in this state
Of mind, the lovers met in the city,
day before yesterday, and after pass
ing most of the day together, brooding
over their disappointment, mutually
agreed TO commit suicide Mena was to
take arsenic, Eager, laudanum. They
returned together, to near Bush house
and separated, with the expectation OF
meeting in another world. About
midnight the groans OF the girl aroused
her mother-she admitted taking poi
son. physicians we're called in, but too
Iate-she expired at yesterday morn
inc. Mena, before her death, informed
her parents of the double suicide, and
the police at once went TO Fazer' $
room, and found him suffering from the
effects of poison. He had swallowed
an ounce and a half Of laudanum. \
physician was summoned, remedies ap-
piled, and he is now out of danger
Fazel is il great distress, and declares
he viii yet put an end 70 his existence
The young lady is said to have been
very beautiful and interesting. Fazer
is harmless, inotfensive young man,
Of rather good appearance, certainly
with very weak head. They were
devotedlv attached to each other, as
the sequel proved. Altogether, it is a
most remarkable and melancholy case
The census of St. Louis, just taken,
shows a most remarkable increase Of
The total is 204, 327.-
There are white males over q, 53,5I2;
under q, 1865. White females over
81 45,84S; under u, 1924. White
1874, $50 Colored males
over y, 2,445; under 81, 1856. Col
orcd females over 81, 3,038; under
q, 2,538. Colored, in all, 9,S77-
The negroes, compared with the whites
in the city, are less than one in twenty
two. Nearly one half the inhabitants
are foreigners, and more than one half
the voters. The white native popula
ton is l0S,000, out of a total of 204.-
327 There are $4,000 Germans,
10000 Irish, and about TO- 900 of other
nationalities exclusive of the blacks
The proportion of naturalized voters
to native, is as 20 to Ii; while about
$4,000 foreigners over 81, are not
citizens. 1t will be seen row impor-
-ant an element in elections is the for
eign vote, and how completely it might
control the city, The Germans have
generally been Radicals, but great
changes have taken place recently and |
I is believed that at the November
election, the city will give large ms
ority tor the conservative Johnson
ticket. St. Louis is making rapid
strides in manufactures and commerce,
md if she can secure the trade Of the
ALLEY Of the Mississippi, will eventu-
'lly become next in Importance to New
York, With suspension bridge over
he Mississippi, trade worth millions
# dollars would spring from Illinois,
md St. Louis would become the great
.orn market, as Chicago is the great
wheat market, of the United States.