Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1873-05-29
ROMANCE OF AL LIFE.

There IS little fXnce going the
rounds about Richard equahar Diurle
aud his wife Phoebe. 81 Robers Moore
and his wife Mary. { account of the
strange fortune that ha< ned these cou-
pies is so circumstantis}E HAT il must be
in the main true. Al he parties were
English. and were neF. karried as above
in England. before they ne to she New
World to. court the 60 rs Fortune
Dick Dingle and bis 5ife we're both
blondes. aud Bo6 Moo1 and his wife
browns. and both pnsn6 Sevn heausies q:
their respective type. 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 and his pretty wife went
to Petroleum Centre, Pennsylvania. with
a capital of $40, goo. which was soon sunk
in oil wells-all but s400. Dick divided
the sum with Phoebe aud started out alone
for the Argentine Republic to retrieve his
lost fortune and make another. lie struck
good streak Of mining look, and cleared
$4,000 in the first two years, which he
sent to Phoebe, and which she duly re-
ceivcd. This reconciled her to her hus-
bands absence for the time, but she heard
from him no more for some years. and she
began to regard him as dead. The fac:
Is he was living wild sort Of life in
South America aud had almost 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 prom
iscd to write to his wife soon. but never
did, and was not lucky in the Argentine
country. Finally Dick Dingle aud 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 remarkable similarity 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.
Ia a mad Freak vecabond Dick and vag-
abond Bob exchanged the pictures oftheir
wives, and some luck appeared to come to
them afterward. They we're fast friends
aud accumulated some money, and began
to behave themselves better. II was sew
cn years since Dick Dingle had written to
his wife, and one day in fit of repentance
he wrote ber letter enclosing 81, 900,
and asking her to Join him in South Amer
leo as soon as possible. In TIE meantime
she had removed from Petroleum Centre
to Philadelphia. but the letter and money
found her after 4 long delay.
As Dick had waited the pro7er time.
and heard nothing from his wife, he be-
gan to feel uneasy. and one day resolved
to return to the United States to hunt her
up. He started from Panama ON the Eng
lish steamer George Watts. for the Uni
ted States on Friday, the 7th day Of J unc
last. while his wife sailed from New York
for the Argentine Republic the mex. dav,
Saturday, June s. Dick went to Petro-
leum Centre, thence to Philadelphia, but
could not find his wife or hear ANYTHING
of her. lie then went to New York. re-
solved to take the next packet for South
America to Bob Moore. But something
occurred to prevent the voyage He got
on a little bi; of spree in New York and
happened to stumble into 4 store on Broad.
way to buy some triRing article.
There, behind the counter. he saw
handsome brunette. whose face looked
chaTmingly familiar. lie was not mista.
ken; it was she. and the picture he car
ried proved it. The acquaintance ripen-
ed. Mary had sought and obtained d.
yorce from Bob Moore, for desertion, and
was free and lovely, and still young
Dick Dingle told the story OF his wife's
disappearance. aud the couple resolved
that she must be dead. and so those two
got married. aud are now living happily
in Brooklyn.
ihebe Ding'c plowcd the deep to join
her recreant but rcpentant 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 Dick Dingle himself;
but he did not tell her the whole story.
In fact, it is uncertain what Bob did saw
to the beautiful woman who had come so
far to find husband and failed; but i. is
quite certain that those two got married
in very short time. and now live in good
style iu COrdoya city, Argentine Repub-
lie.