Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1874-03-18

A ROnlautic story.

Moore and his wife Mary. Inc
account Of the strange fortune that
happened these couples is so cir
cumstantial that it must be in the
main true. All the parties were
English, and were newly married
as above in England before they
came to the New World TO court
the goddess of fortune. Dick Din
gle and his wife were both blends,
and Bob Moore and his were
browns, and both women were
beauties of their respective types,
and all were young and adventur-
Gus. 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 Petro-
leum Center, Pa, with a capital OF
$4,000, which was soon sunk in
oil wells-all but $500. Dick di-
vided this sum with Phoebe, and
started out alone for the Argentine
Republic to retrieve his lost fortune
and make another. He struck a
good streak of mining luck, and
cleared $4,000 in the first two
wears, which he sent to Phpbe,
which she duly received. This
reconciled her TO her husbands
absence for the time, but she heard
no more of him for some years, and
she began TO regard him as dead.
The fact is, he was living wild sort
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 a comfortable capital when
they arrived 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 vi
sions. He promised TO write to
his wife soon, but never did, and
was not lucky in the Argentine
country. Finally Dick Dingle and
Bob Moore net, and both were
vagabonds-in a strange country
and with out money or friends.
They joined their fortunes, and
told each other the story Of their
lives. There was a remarkable
similarity between them. They
both had pictures of their wives,
and each went in 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 afterward. They
were fast friends and accumulated
some money, and began to behave
themselves better. 1t was seven
years since Dick Dingle had writ
ten to his wife, and one day in fl
of repentance he wrote her a letter
enclosing $1,000, and asking hel
to join him in South America a:
soon as possible. In the NEAR
time she had removed from Petro
leum Center to Philadelphia, bu'
the letter and the money found he
after long delay.
AS Dick had waited the prope
time and heard nothing from hi
wife, he began to feel uneasy, an
one day resolved to return to tn
United States to hunt her up. II
started from Panama on the Ems
glish steamer George Watts for tn
United States on Friday the 1t
day of June last, while his viii
sailed from New York for the a
gentine Republic the next da.
Saturday June 8. Dick went
Petroleum Center, thence to Phil
delphia, but could not find his wi
or hear anything of her. He tn,
went to New York, resolved to tai
the next packet for South Ameri
to join Bob Moore. But somethil
occurred to prevent the voyas
He got on little bit of q spree
New York and happened to stu
bic into a store in Broadway
buy some trifing article. The
behind the counter, he saw hal
some brunette whose face lool
charmingly familiar. He was
mistaken-it was she, and
picture he carried proved it.
acquaintance ripened. Mary
folght and obtained q dive
from Bob Moore for desertion,
was free and lovely and atill yor