Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1873-05-10
Titusvillc Currier, April 20.
A Petroleum Centre Romance.

Petroleum Centre Romance.
A little romance is going the rounds
about one Richard Farquahr - n Ile and
his wife Phoebe, both of whom illulni-.
mated the busy haunts of Petroleum
Centre i'll its early and more q easy
days. Mixed up with the romance Oh
hlchard and Phoebe, are the names OF
Robert Moore and his vile Mary, who,
however, never lived i'll Petroleum Cen
tire. 1 he account Ot the strange fortune
that happened these couples Is so CIR
cumstantldl that it must be III the main
tone. All the parties were English and
were newly married i'll 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 respective types,
anu all were young and adventurous.
The two couples didn't come over i'll 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 with Il capital
OF $4,000, which was soon sunk i'll oil
wells-all but S4OO. Dick, like many
alother III; IL wLo invested his all III drills,
engines and pumps, never "struck lie,
got discouraged, and one fine morning,
" hen the sun was shining brightly over
the AlcCray hill, he kissed his rh9Ue,
and dividing the remnant OF his fortune
with her, started out alone to seek II
new fortune elsewhere. He turned ii
by flood and field, he brought up i'll the
Argentine Republic. lie struck a good
s,reak of mining luck, and cleared nine
thousand dollars i'll the first two years,
which he sent to Phoebe, and which she
duly received. This reconciled her TO
her husbands absence for the time, but
she heard from him no more for some
years, and she began to regard him as
dead. The fact is, he was living a wiiu
sort of lite in South America and hau
almost forgotten his blonde wife, though
ne carried her picture. Having thus
GOT Dlck and his wife PhGbe separated,
with states and seas between them, let
us now turn to the other al0n.attS per-
some of this veritablc history. Bob
Moore and his brunette wife, were also
well to do i'll this worlds goods ana
ready cash. They settled ut nochestcr,
where they turned their attention tu
raising peaches, premium potatoes, early
vegetables, and garden sass" generally
In tins Boz would have been successful,
and propably lived to green old age, ana
became the father of lot of talented
Rochester boys" but III an evil hour,
ne listened to the voice of the tempter,
and invested his all i'll Il farm near Pit
mole, which proved dry territory. Then
he store his hair and wept," and leaving
MS Mary i'll Rochester, and dividing hn
little all with her, he too bent his steps
10 South America, full of golden vIs
IONS. lie promised to write TO his wiit
soon, but never did, and was not lucky
III the Argentine country. Finally Dies
Dngle, OF Petroleum Centre, and Bot
Moore, of Roche ,ter, met, and both
were >agabonds-ln strange country
and without money or friends. They
,olncd their fortunes and told each othel
The story of their lives There was ;
remarkable similarity between them
they both had pictures of their wives
ana, strange to say, each went into rap
lures over the others picture, and care'
uut very little for his own. In mae
freak, vagabond Dick and vagabon,
bob exchanged the pictures OF the
wives, and some luck appeared to COM
20 them afterwards. 1hey were las
friends, and accumulated some money
and Logan to behave themselves better
1T was seven years since Dngle ha'
written to his vie, and one day, III n II
Of repentance he wrote her letter Ell
closing 81 900 and asking her to Jo.'
ann III south America as soon as possI
Die In the meantime she had remove'
from Petroleum Centre to Hhiladelphia
out the letter and money found her atte
long delay. AS Dick had waited
long time and heard nothing from hi
wi1e, he began to feel uneasy, and Oh
day resolved to return to the Unite
states and hunt her up. He started frol
Panama on the English steamer Georg
Watts for the United States, on Frida.
the 1th day Of June last, while his WI
sailed from New York Tor the Argentlr
! Aepublic, the next day, Saturday, Jun
, 8tn. Dick went to Petroleum Centr
thence Philadelphia, but could not lin
, mis- wife or hear anything of her. ii
then went to New York, resolved
take the next packet to for South Anne
lea to Join Bob Moore. But somethin
| occurred to prevent the voyage. 4
got on bit OF spree in New YorI
| and happened to stumble into store
r broadway to buy some tritilng articl
p There, behind the counter he saw
: handsome brunette, whose face locke
5 charmingly familiar. lie was not mi
> taken-it was she, and the picture
r carried proved it. The acqualntan
d ripened. Mary had sought and obtain'
q divorce from Bob Moore for desertio
n and was free, and lovely and still youn
# Dick Dingle told the story OF his wlt'
o disappearance, and the couple resoly'
e, that She must be dead, SO those two g
e married, and are now living happily
: BROOKLYN. Phoebe Dingle plowed q
; deep 70 Join her recreant but rspents