Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-05-09
FTUm IIlt bOslOll VIODc.
ABLONDEFORABRUNETTE
How two EngliShInGn Exchanged Pic
lures and Wives.
a Strange Series of Adven-
lures.
A ROMANTIC STORY.

There is a little romance going the
rounds about Richard Farquhar Din
gle and his wife Phoebe, and Robert
Moore and his wife Mary The ac-
count of the strange fortune that hap
pened to these couples is so circrm-
| stantial that it must be i'll the main
! true. All the parties We're English,
| and were new Y married as above in
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 We're
| brunettes, and both women were beau
| ties of their respective types, 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, together
with his pretty wife, proceeded TO
Petroleum Centre, PENNSYLVANIA, with
| a capital of $4,000, which was soon
sunk in oil wells-all but 800 Dick
divided this sum with Phoebe, and
started out alone for the Argentine
Republic to retrieve his lost fortune
and make another. He struck Il good
streak OF mining luck and cleared
$4,000 in the first two years, which lie
sent to Phoebe and which she duly re-
ceived. This reconciled her to her
husbands absence for the time. hut she
heard no more from him 10Y some
years, and she began to regard him as
dead. The fact is, he was living Il
wild sort of life III South America. and
had almost forgotten his blonde wife.
though he carried her picture.
GOLDEN VISIONS
Bob Moore and his brunette wife had
also comfortable capital when they
arrived In this country, and lost some
of it in unfortunate speculation Bob
left Mary i'll 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 i'll the Argentine coun-
try. Finally Dick Dingle and Bob |
Moore met, and both We're vagabOnds, |
in IL strange country and without |
money or friends. They joined their |
fortunes, and told each other the story |
of u.eiI Ev"s. There was a rcmarka- |
Bile r,liiIilarity bclw aesi til.L;, Tho y |
both had pictures OF their wives, and /
each went in raptrlres over the others |
picture, and cared very little for his |
own. In mad freak vagabond Dick |
and vagabond Bob exchanged the pic
lures Of theit wives. and some luck
appeared 10 come to them aiterSartl
They were fast friends, and accum1lla-
ted some money, and began to behave
themselves better. 1t was seven years
since Dick Hingle had written to his
wife, and one day III g fit Of repent-
ance he wrote her !, tetteF: enclosing
81, 900, and asking her to join him in
South AMERICA rs soon as possible
In the meantiInesna ttad ielHoNeil from
Petroleum Center to Phila1elphi.t, bnt
the letter and the money fnilnd her
after a long delay.
on THE WRONG TRACK.
the proper time
AS Dick had VALLEY. he
and heard nothing fto1ii his vile,
began to feel uneasy, and one Low 1"u &c;
solved to return to the United States
to hunt her up. He started from Pan
anna on the English steamer George
Watts for the United States on Friday,
the 18th day of June last, while his
wife sailed from New York for the .
Argentine Republic the next day,
Saturday, June 8. Dick went to Pc I
-roleum Centre, thenceto Philadelphia