Daily Mississippi clarion and standard. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1866, 1866-08-04
ED.TnRrAL CoRREsPoNDENCE
ST.. LOUIS, July 90, 1866.

ST. LOUIS, July 20, 1866.
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 100000 dollars. 1t appears
that a 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 interV Jews, and Fazer, in lorder
that he might be near his beloved, OBJ
tanned situation as bartender in the
Star SELDOM, next door to the residence
of Bush. A few weeks since it was
reported that Fazer had been detected
in Lason with the servant girl where
he worked-this, Bush circulated
every where, with such additions and
exaggerations as his enmity suggested.
Mena disbelieved the story, but it
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 NEST of the day together, brooding
over their disappointment, mutually
agreed to commit suicide Mena was to
take arsenic, Eager, laudanum. They
returned together,t to near Bush's 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 were called in, but too
late-she expired at s yesterday morn
ing. Mena, before her death, informed
her parents Of the double suicide, and
the police at once went to Fazers
room, and found him suffering from the
effects of poison. He had swallowed
an ounce and half of laudanum. \
physician was summoned, remedies APP
piled, and he is now out of danger
tazel is i'll great distress, and declares
he will 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 "a 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 most remarkable increase Of
population. The total is 204 ,327.-
There are white males over 81, 53,5I2;
under u, $3.50 White females over
81 45,S4S under p, 4S,724. White
population l94,45O Colored males
over Il, 2,445; under 81, 1856. Col
orcd females over 81, 3,038; under
81, 2,53S. 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 los, 900, out of total of GOA
327. There are $4,000 Germans,
10000 Irish, and about 10, 900 of other
nationalities exclusive of the blacks
The proportion of naturalized voters
to native, is as 90 TO II; while about
10000 foreigners over 81, arc not
citizens 1t will be seen Row impor-
tant 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
it is believed that at the November
election, the city will give large ma
jority tor the conservative Johnson
ticket St Louis is making rapid
strides in manufactures and commerce,
and if she can secure the trade Of the
valley of the Mississippi, will eventu-
ally become next in Importance to New
York. With suspension bridge over
the Mississippi, trade worth millions
of dollars would spring from Illinois,
and St. Louis would become the great
corn market, as Chicago is the great
wheat market, of the United States.
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