Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1873-06-07
ROMANCE OF REAL LIFE.

ExrRAoRDINARY SroRY--Two AD-
vENTuRERs MARRY EACH OTHERS
WIvEs.-There is little romance go
inc the rounds about Richard Farqua-
har Dingle and his wife, Phoebe, and
Robert Moore and his wife, Mary. The
account of the strange fortune that hap
pened to these couples is so circumstan-
tial that il must he in the main true
All the parties were English, and were
newlv-married as above in England, be
fore they came to the New World to
court the goddess Fortune. Dick Din
ole and his wife were both blondes, and
Bob Moore and his wife browns, and
both women were beauties of their re
spectiye 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, Pa, with capt
tai of $4,000, which was soon sunk IN
oil wells-all but s4O0, Dick divided
the sum with Phoebe and started out
alone for the Argentine Republic to re-
trieve his fortune and make another.
He struck 4 good streak Of mining luck,
and cleared $4,000 i'll the first two years,
which he sent to Phoebe, and which she
duly received. This reconciled her to
her husbands absence for time, but
she heard from him no more for some
wears. and she began to regard him as
dead. The fact is he was living a wild
sort of life III 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 it unfortunate speculations. Bob lett
Mary in Rochester, New York, 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
Argentine country Finally Dick Din
gle and Bob Moore met, and both were
yaeabonds, in strange country, and
without money or friends. They joined
their fortunes and told each other the
story of their lives. There was a re-
markable similarity between them.
They both had pictures Of their wives,
and strange to say, each went into rap
lures over the others picture and cared
very little for his own.
In mad freak vagabond Dick and
vagabond Bob exchanged the pictures
of their wives, and some luck appeared
to come to them afterwards. They were
fast friends and accumulated some mon
ey and began to behave themselves bet
ter. 1t was seven years since Dick
Dingle had written to his wife, and one
dav in fit of repentance he wrote her
a letter enclosing $1,000, and asked her
her to Join him in South America as
soon as possible. In the meantime she
had removed from Petroleum Centre to
Philadelphia, but the letter and money
found her after long delay.
AS Dick had waited the proper time,
and heard nothing from his wife, he be
can to feel 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 9TH
dav of June last, while his wife sailed
from New York for the Argentine Re
public the next day, Saturday, June s.
Dick went to Petroleum Centre, thence
to Philadelphia, 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 prevent the voyage. He got on
little bit of spree in New York and
happened to stumble into a store on
Broadway to buy some tifing article.
There, behind the counter, he saw
handsome brunette, whose face looked
charmingly familiar. lie was not mis-
taken, it was she, and the picture he
carried proved it. The acquaintance
lipened. Mary had sought and obtain
ed divorce from Bob Moore for de
sertion, 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, and so
these two got married, and are now liv-
ing happily at Brooklyn.
Phoebe Dingle plowed the deep to
Join her recreant but repentant husband
in the Argentine Republic. She was
doomed to disappointment, but found
Bob Moore, and Bob showed her the
picture which he had received from
Dick Dinele himself; but he did not tell
her the whole story. In fact, it Is un-
certain what Bob did say to the beanti-
full woman who had come so far to find
a husband and failed; but it is quite GER
tain that these two got married in a
very short time, and now live in good
style in Cardova city, Argentine Re
public. a real blonde is quite variety
down there, and she makes a sensation
when she rides out every evening on a
beautiful palfrey. 1t 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.
4 TouCH1NG INclDENT-A short
time since, in this city, brilliant and