Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-05-23

and murderous attack of the Indians with
meagre facilities of resistance. are read
with interest and call forth commiseration.
But they are associated with what has
been. Time has softened the poignancy
of their miseries and the greatness of
those regions now overshadows the early
defeats. In these later days the settler
makes his habitation secure through the
means of modern progression, the country
sees the savage foes of the earlier adven-
turers " sinking into the setting sun" and
congratulates itself. Now, however, peo.
pie stand appalled, at tho calamities un-
precedented in extent and intensity, that
almost daily overwhelm Western states,
and the results of which make a recital of
suffering, of almost impossible occurrences
and of death that vies with the most
thrilling tales of the early border horrors.
Storm clouds descend in portentous shape
to the earth and crush into tumultous
ruin populous towns, and the waters rush
from the mountains in Dakota territory
and hurl from their foundations half Of the
houses of thriving cities. These meteor.
illogical phenomena have certainly never
been surpassed, if equalled, in their
severity and disastrous results, and may
we'll tend to call the sympathies of the
people of the undisturbed parts of the
country to the sufferers and to incite the
scientists to discovery of the cause of
the unparalleled disturbances.
For those who delight in the sort of
gossip hashed up by Co., Howard" and
"Gath" for the Philadelphia Sunday
papers there ought to be rich treat II
store in the coming Lords day publica-
tions. Mr.. Sanford, of Freddie Gebhart's s
"set," surnamed the Amsterdam Pet,
after dining at Delmonico's the other
night was hailed by Freddie about the
hour when graveyards yawn and asked
where he and his hilarious friends were
going. When told that they were about
to call on some ladies F. G. made some re.
fiections on the character Of the ladies
who would receive them at that unseen.
ly hour. The Amsterdam Pct retor1ed
that they were as good as Freddie's friends
and that he'd probably cali on Mrs. Lang
try. Freddie promptly called him blank
liar and the words wero hardly spoken
until the Pride Of the Lily was laid low
and in a three round scriminags he was
quite used up. But this is the smallest
game that "Gath" and Howard" can
gun for. It seems that earlier in the even
ing Maud Harrison's big brother, Duncan.
met George Alfred Townsend {" Gath'')
at the Grand hotel and pounded him be-
cause he alleged Mr.. Townsend had writ.
ten in the Philadelphia Times something
to the disparagment Of Miss Maude Har
rison, who is not oaly al actress but a
sister of Mr.. Harrison himself, to which
Mr.. Townsend with duo caution, returned
an ambiguous reply. In Mr.. Townsend's
letter, speaking of the prevailing morals
in the Union Square theatre, he said:
A rising young actress there was living
with another man Of family, in open adul,
try, under her own parents roof.
1t happened that Maud Harrison was -:
rising young actress there y that she livet
"under her own parents roof" that sait
roof covered the house next door to where
George Alfred Townsend lived, that 10
Howard, whose late place on the Time
"Gath" now fills, has reason to know
what man of family he was driving at
Therefore if tho Times and Press New
York letters are not unusually variegatet
next Sunday it will be because their cor
respondents do not appreciate that wheI
tho goss;ps gossip about each other thei
gossip is especially gossipy.