Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-04-07
Vol. HTH---NO. &
Not Like a Novel-Vice
Rewarded and Virtue
Vice Versa
From the Louisville Courier.

Ihe remembrance OF the tel
rible disaster to the steamer Stone
wall near Neeley's Landing, o.
the Mississippi, in November last
is still fresh in the minds of man,
fof our readers. On that chill
November night the last act il
many a life drama and TRACED,
was played. Among the reported
lost by the st. Louis papers wa
"Mrs. Emma Fitch" of that city
The report was not contradicteC
land until recently was supposed
to be correct. This woman, "Mrs
Emma Fitch" as she called her
sell, was well known in this city
and many chapters in her event
iful history are familiar to many
OF our readers. She was the
daughter Of respectable citizen
of Louisville, now dead; hel
naiden name is Serena Talbot
When girl her parents almost
idoized her, and when, as she
was budding into womanhood, she
became the wife of cne OF OuT
wealthiest business men, it seemed
to her doting father that his dar.
ling child was being torn from him
forever. Petted and spoiled as
she was, and more a doll than a
wife, the husband loved her, and
did everything in his power to
promote her happiness. lie pur-
chased farm near the city, and
the young wife drove in her car
riage from her beautiful country
residence whenever she had occa-
sion to visit her parents. A foot
man and all the modern magnifi-
cence calculated to inspire pedes-
trian awe, accompanied the car
riage, and many an envious eye
turned that way whenever her
shimmering chariot-wheels sound
ed their genteel coming behind.
two spanking bays-or grays,
they might have been. She came
to the city often, and although
she seemed the happiest of wives,
her father, since her marriage,
had been the unhappiest of raen,
and it was not long before her
parents were urging her to aban-
don her husband and return to her
old home. Strange to say, they
at length succeeded in persuading
her TO return, and, to the infinite
astonishment of her husband, be
was obliged 10 give her up. The
singularity of the case attracted
a coed deal Of attention at the
time, and much sympathy was ex-
pressed for the husband, who was
highly esteemed as worthy as well
as "a wealthy gentleman. In or
der to be entirely free from him,
the capricious Serena went away
to Washington, whefe she re-
mained six months, in order to
obtain a divorce. She waited IN
vain at the Capitol, for the divorce
was refused Next she made a
pilgrimage TO Indiana, where the
divorce was finally granted, and,
thus healed of matrirpony, she
came home.
The divorced wife, in the course
Of time, fell a victim TO second
love, ard married ain actor by the
name Of Swift-of course much
against the will of her parents.
Swift, the story goes, was a fast
man, but strutted to the end of
his brief hour in this locality to
some advantage. The fair Sefe
ma as Mrs. Swift soon developed.
into an actress, but in making her
debut was hissed from the stage. /
and her theatrical career then and
there saw the beginning of its
end. Her dramatic associations
ruined her, and in .he course of |!
time she became separated from
ber second husband, from whom
she was finally divorced. Her
-.
father, it is said, died of a broken
heart after her second marriage.
Though fallen, she endeavored
to maintain a respectable name,