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SuIcIDE--At 81. Louis, on the morning Of the
18th inst, Jacob Fix, cooper, jumped from the
ferry boat into the river, while the boat was crossing
to the Illinois shore, and drowned. Before COM
mtting the rash act he stepped up to tho pilot and
asked him if he knew him. The pilot replied in the
affirmative. "We them" said he, this is the last
you will see of Fix" and he Iesped into the river
He to the surface once, and then sunk, his cap
was recovered and identified by his family In the
morning he had seized upon his rife and had intend
ed to kill himself but prevented by the servant
girl. The cause Of this sad affair is unknown. He
was respectable man, and doing very extensive
business in his trade, and was unembarrassed in his
pecuniary affairs.