Delaware Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1843-1874, 1873-06-02

A ROMANTIC SroRY.--Ihere is little ro-
nance going the rounds about Richard Farqlia-
har Dingle and his wife Phoebe, and Robert
Moore and his wife Mary. The account of the
strange fortune that happened these couple is
50 circilms,antial that it must be In the man
true. All the parties were English and were
newly married rs above in England, before they
canle to the new worldto court the goddess for
tune, Dick Dlngle and his wife were both
blondes and Bob Moore and his wife browns,
and both women were beauties Of their respec
tive type and all were young and adventurous.
The two couple didn't come over In the same
ship, but they came about the same time and
they did not know each other. Dick Dingle
and his pretty wife went to Petroleum Centre,
pennsylvania, with capital Of $4,000, which
was soon sunk in oil wells-all but $500. Dick
duly received. This reconcied her to her hus-
bands absence for the time, but she heard Of
him no more 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
almost forgotten his blonde wife, though he
carried her picture.
Bob Moore and his brunette wife had also a
comfortable capital when they arrived In this
country, and lost some Of 1t 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 Argen-
tine country. Finally Dick Dingle and Bob
Moore met, and both were vagabonds, in a
strange country and without money or friends.
| They Joined their fortunes and told each other
| the story of their lives. There was. remarka-
= BILE similarly between them. They both had
pictures of their wives, and, strange to say each
went into raptures over the others picture, and
cared very little for his own. In mad freak
vaaabond Dick and vagabond Bob exchanged
the pictures OF their wives, and some luck APP
p-ared to come to them afterwards. They were
fast friends, and accumulated some money and
| began to behave themselves better. II was
seven years since Dick Dingle had written 10
| his wife, and one day in fiji of repentance he
wrote letter incosing $1,000. aud asking her
to join him in South America as soon as pcssi.
| BILE. In the meantime she had removed from
Petroleum Centre to Philadelphia, but the let
ter and money found her after long delay
As Dick had waited the proper time, and
heard nothing from his wife he began to fee
uneasy, and one day resolved to return to the
United States to hunt her up. He started from
Panama on the English steamer George Watts
tor the United States on Friday, the 7th day ol
June last, and his wife sailed from New Yorb
for the Argentine republic the next day Satnr
day, June 3. Dick went to Petroleum Centre
thence 10 Philadelphia, bnt could not find hi:
! wife or hear anything Of her. He then wen
J to New FORK, resolved to take the next packe
for South America to join Bob Moore. Bu
! something occurred to prevent the voyage. HI
! got little bit Of spree in New York and hap
/ pened to stumbled into a store on Broadway I,
/ buy some trifing article. There behind the
, counter he saw handsome brunette whose fac
looked charmingly familiar. He was not mis-
! taken; If was she, and the picture he carries
. proved 1t. The acquaintance ripened Mar
I had sought and obtained divorce from Bo
! Moore for desertion, and was free and Lowell
and still young. Dick Dingle told the story c
his wife's disappearance and the couple resol'
, ed that she must be dead, SO those two got ma
y q led and are now living happily in Brooklyn.