The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1871-07-12

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ness of life. Who is it that is fulfil
ling the object of his creation and
bestowing upon himself the benefits
of virtuous, unselfsh life. History
reason and experience answer, it is
the married man !-[New Orleans
Sunday Times.
Laura Fair. the Mur eres S.
Laura Fair was born in Alabama,
and through poverty and neglect
reached womanhood without know
ing the wholesome atmosphere of home.
The family removed to New Orleans
when Laura was sixteen, and here the
girl resolved to enter the world under
new circumstances. Bright in mind
and exceedingly comely in person, she
soon found full investment for her
capital. She caught q rich husband.
She was eighteen and he was eighty.
| His senile jealousy drove her to the
remedy of divorce ard while the &C
ton was pending the dotared died in
delirim tremens, and the adventures
found herself the mistress of an am
pie fortune. She married within
month, and in less than three was the
widow of suicide. With these SEM
blances of decent sorrow upon her,
she took another husband, Colonel
Fair, and the fortune of the first run
ming low, she en,egrated with this
one to Virginia City, Nevada, where
she set up holstery, styled the "Fair
House," Tho amiable Colonel made
way for some one else by blowing his
brains out, and the incorrigible widow,
with her matrimonial ventures. essay
ed fame and fortune on the San Fran
cisco stage. Here were the arts, howe
yer, which do not show to full advan-
tage on the mimic scene, and her first
appearance as Lady Teasle was also
her list. One conquest she made was
the aual cause of the present scandal
She captivated the susceptible heart of
A. P. Crittenden, an ex-Judge and an
eminent lawyer. Practicing all the
arts of a matchless cunning, she lured
him from his wife and home, robbing
him meantime of all she could GET
With his money she pensioned her
mother comfortable and rc-established
herself in the Fair House in Virginia
City. While still intriguing with
Crittenden she met some one else pos
+sessed of money and made herself his
wife. Without. identity or apparent
purpose this fourth husband fits aim
lessly across the hideous scene. It
suited the whim of Jazabel to remove
this Naboth that she might make her
way into a neighboring vineyard, SO
she shot him. This at any rate, was
) candid; but even Nevada justice
frowned at it, and the enchantress
brought to trial. She was defended by
Crttenden SO eloquently and ably that
the Judge seems to have forgotten the
, law, and the Jury the facts, for she
was triumphantly acquitted.
The favorite of fortune and favored
of justice supported her melancholy
widowhood few months, and in 1865
made new marriage feast, taking in
her arms man of doubtful. morals
but of undoubted wealth, named sny-
der: She looked upon snyder's money,
| as it was good she looked upon sny-
der, and thought that Crittenden was
! better. Tired of the sanguinary meth
cd, she gave Snyder the choice of a
, divorce, and he amiable man, furnished
a situation which, when brought into
court achieved a legal separation with
in month.
Crittenden, during these. matrinao-
: NAL transfagrations, still maintained
/; his fatuous devotion to the adventures
: He gave her something like $4,000
I altogether. At the time of the Snyder
episode he, however seemed to hav.
realized the part he was playing. HI
sent for his wife and family, and mean
time informed Mrs. Fair that he could
have nothing moro to do with her
She flooded him with letters and de,
: nunciations. She threatened an ex.
posure of his relations with her. Re
ceiving no answers to these rawlings
she thrust herself upon him in hi
. office and avowed herself his wife
u She dared him to cast her off. Tht
u next day she shot him dead, as he sa
e beside his wife and children.-[Ney
L York Tribune.
" 4 Few Words to the Ladies
IS Many ladies, particularly mother
a nursing, complain of a tired, listles
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