The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1873-06-12
A Romantic story.

Moore and his wife Msry. Tho 40
count OF tho strange fortune tha
happened these couple is 30 circum
stautial that it must DO in the mail
true. All tho parties were English
before they came to tho new worl,
to court the goddess fortune. Dicl
Dinglo end his wife were both blon
DIES, and Bob Moore and his wifi,
browns and both women were beau
ties of their respoctives type ard al
were young and adventurous. Tn,
two couple didn't como over in th,
same ship. but they came about tn,
same time, aud they did not know
each other. Dick ningle and his
pretty wife went 10 Petroleum Centre
Pennsylvania, with q capital of $40
900, which was soon sunk in oil wells
all but S400. Dick divided this
sum with Phoebe, and which she duly
received. This reconciled her To her
husbands absence for the time, but
she heard of him no more for some
years, and she began to regard him
az dead. Tho fact is he was living q
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 o comfortable capital when
they arrived in this speculation.
Bob left Mary in Rochester. N. Y,
and went to South America full oi
golden visions. lie promised to
write TO his wife soon, but never did,
and was not lucky in the Argentine
country. Finally Dick Dingle and
Bob Moore met, and both were
vagabonds, in strange country and
without money or friends. They
joined their fortunes and told each
other the story Of their lives. There
was q remarkable similarity between
them. Thoy both had picturs of
their wives and, strange to say, each
went into raptures over the others
picture, and cared very little for his
own. In a mad freak vagabond Dick
and vagabond Bob exchanged the
pictures of their wives, and some
luck appeared to come to them after
wards. They we're fast friends, and
accumulated some money, and began
to behave themselves better. 1t was
seven years since Dick Dingle had
written to his wife, and one day in q
fit of repentance he wrote q letter
inclosing $1,000, and asking 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 a 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 return to the
United States to hunt her up. He
started from Panama on the English
steamer George Watts for tho United
States on Friday, tho 7th day of
June last, and his wife sailed from
New York for tho Argentine repub-
lie the next day, Saturday, June 8.
Dick went to Pretrolum Centre,
thence to Philadelphia, hut could not
find his wife or her anything of her.
He then went to Now York resolved
to take the next packet for South
America to join Bob Moore. But
occurred to prevent the
voyage. He got on a little bit of
spree in New York and happened to
stumble into a store on Broadway
10 buy some trihing article. There
behind the counter he saw q hand
some brunette whose face looked
,harmingly familiar He was not
mistaken it was she, and the picture
40 carried proved it, The accquaint-
.nce ripened. Mary had sought and
obtained a divorce from Bob Moore
'or desertion, and was free and love-
y and still young. Dick Dingle
old the story of his wife's disappear,
snce and the couple resolved that shs
must be dead, SO those two got mar.
led and arc now living happily in
Brooklyn.
Phoebe Dingle plowed the deep
20 Join her recreant but repentant
in the Argentine republic.
She was doomed to disappointment,
,ut ahe found Bob Moore, and Bob
showed her the picture which he had
'eceiyed from Dick Dingle himself,
,ut he did not tell her tho whole
'tory. In fact it is uncertain what
Bob did say to the beautiful woman
Who had come so far to find hus- {
,and and failed. but it is quite certain
hat these two got married in o very
hort time, and now live in good I
'tyle in Cordova city, Argentine re-
public. A real blonde is quite a {
variety down there, and she makes a {
ensation when she rides out every
vening on beautiful palfrey, tits, /
'erhaps, just as well as it has fallen {
'ut. These two singular couple are
90 far apart ever to interfere with 1
ach others happiness, and are much .
'etter satisfied as they are than they
vere. II