Year: 1873

IL rounds about Richard Farquahar
Dingle and his wife Phoebe, and Robert
Moore and his wife Mary. The account Of
the strange fortune that happened these
couple is so circumstantial 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 fortune. Dick
Dingle and his wife were both blondes, and
Bob Moore and his wife browns, and both
women were beauties of their respective
type and all were young and adventurous.
The two couple 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
capital of $10 900, which was soon sunk in
oil wells-all but $400. Dick divided this
sum with Phoebe, and which she duly re-
ceived. This reconciled her to her hus-
bands absence for the time, but she heard
of him no more,f for some years, and she
began to regard him as dead The fact is
he was living 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 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
ised 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 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. In mad freak
vagabond Dick and vagabond Bob ex-
changed the pictures of their wives, and
some luck appeared to come to them after
wards They were fast friends, and accu-
mulated some money, and began to behave
themselves better. 1t was seven years
since Dick Dngle had written to his wife,
and one day in a fit of repentance he wrote
a letter inclosing $1,000, and asking her to
join him in South America as soon as pos
sible. Ia the meantime she had removed
from Petroleum Centre to Philadelphia, but
the letter and money found her after 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 the United
States ON Friday, the 7th day of June last,
while his wife sailed from New York for
the Argentine republic the next day, Sat
urday, June 8. Dick went to Petroleum
Centre, thence to Philadelphia, but could
not find his wife or hear anything Of her.
He then went to New York, resolved to
take the next packet for South America to
join Bob Moore. But something occurred
to prevent the voyage He got on a little
bit of q spree in New York and happened
to stumble into store on Broadway to
buy some trifing article. There behind
the counter he saw handsome brunette
whose face looked charmingly familiar.
He was not mistaken it was she, and the
picture he carried proved it. The acquaint-
ance ripened. Mary had sought and OBJ
tanned divorce from Bob Moore for de-
| nd nd lnxya1xr aud ptin
young. Dick Dingle told the story of his
wife's disappearance, and the couple re-


solved that she must be dead, so those two
got married and are now living happily in


Brooklyn.


Phoebe Dingle plowed the deep to join
her recreant but repentant 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 say to the beautiful woman who had


come 80 far to find husband and failed,


but it is quite certain that those two got


married in very short time, and now live


in good style in Cordova city, Argentine


republic. A real blonde Is quite variety


down there, and she makes sensation


when she rides out every evening on a
beautiful palfrey. II is, perhaps, just as
well as it has fallen out These two sim


gular couples are too far apart ever to in


terfere with each others happiness, and
are much better satisfied as they are than


they were-St. Louis Republican,