Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-06-04
A Change of Pictures and of Wives.

A Change of Pictures and of Wives.
HERE IS a little romance going the
rounds about Richard Farquhar Dingle
and his wife Phoebe, and Robert Moore
and his wife Mary The account of the
strange fortune that happened these cou
| pies is SO circumstantial that it must be in
| the main true. All the parties were En-
| glish, and were newly married as above
in England before they came to the New
| World to court the goddess fortune Dick
| Dingle and his wife were both blondes,
and Bob Moore and his were browns, and
both women were beauties Of their re-
spective types, and all were young and
adventurous. The two couples didn't
come over in the same ship, but they came
about the same time, and they did not
know each other. Dick Dingle, together
with his pretty wife, proceeded to Petro-
leum Center, Pa with capital of $4,000,
which was soon sunk in oil Wells-all but
$400. Dick divided this sum with Phoebe,
and started out alone for the Argentine
Republic to retrieve his lost fortune and
make another. He struck a good streak
OF mining luck, and cleared $4,000 in the
first two years, which he sent to Phoebe
| and which she duly received This recon
ciled her to her husbands absence for the
time, but she heard no more of him for
some years, and she began to regard him
| as dead. The fact is, he was living wild
sort of life in South America, and had al
most forgotten his blonde wife, though he
carried her picture.
Bob Moore and his brunette wife had
also comfortable capital when they ar
rived in this country, and lost some of it
in unfortunate speculations Bob left
Mary in Rochester, N. Y, and went to
South America full Of golden visions He
promised to write to his wife soon, but
never did, and was not lucky in the Ar
and Bob Moore met, and both were vaga-
bonds-in a strange country and without
money or friends. They joined their for
tunes, and told each other the story of
their lives. There was remarkable SINH
larity between them. They both had pic
lures of their wives, and each went in
raptures over the others picture, and car
ed very little for his own In a mad freak
vagabond Dick and vagabond Bob eX-
changed the pictures of their wives, and
some luck appeared to come to them after
ward. They were fast friends, and &C
cumulated some money, and began to be-
have themselves better. It was seven
years since Dick Dingle had written to his
wife, and one day in a fit of repentance he
| wrote her letter inclosing 81 1000, and
asking her to join him in South America
as soon as possible. In the meantime she
had removed from Petroleum Center to
Philadelphia, but the letter and the money
found her after long delay.
AS Dick had waited the proper time
and heard nothing from his wife, he began
to feel uneasy and one day resolved to re-
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He started from Panama on the English
steamer George Watts on Friday, the 9TH
day of June last, while his wife sailed
from New York for the Argentine Repub-
lie the next day, Saturday, June s. Dick
went to Petroleum Center thence to Phila-
delphia, but could not find his wife or
hear anything of her. He then went to
New York, resolved to take the next
packet for South America to Join Bob
Moore. But something occurred to pre-
vent the voyage. He cotton little bit of
spree in New York and happened to STUN
BILE into store on Broadway to buy some
trif1ing article. There, behind the counter
he saw handsome brunette whose face
looked charmingly familiar He was not
mistaken-it was she, and the picture he
carried proved it. The acquaintance
ripened. Mary had sought and obtained
divorce from Bob Moore for desertion,
and was free, and lovely and still young.
Dick Dingle told the story of his wife's
disappearance, and the couple resolved
that she must be dead, so these two got
married and are now living happily in
Brooklyn.
Phoebe Dingle plowed the deep to join
her recreant but repentant husband in the
Argentine Republic. She was doomed to
disappointment, but she found Bob Moore,
and Bob showed her the picture which he
had received from the hands of Dick Din
gle himself, but he did not tell her the
whole story. In fact it is uncertain what
Bob did say to the beautiful woman who
had come so far to find her husband and
failed, but it is quite certain that those
two got married in very short time, and
now live in good style in Cordova City,
Argentine Republic. A real blonde is
quite variety down there and she makes
a sensation when she rides out every even
ing on beautiful palfrey. It is, perhaps,
just as well as it has fallen out. These
two singular couples are too far apart ever
to interfere with each others happiness,
and are much better satisfied as they are
than as they Were.-B0st07a Globe