Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-06-30
On the eve of the battle and in the face


On the eve of the battle and in the face
of the enemy the INTELLIGENCER can
find no better use for its columns than in
applauding the wise action of the Penn
sylvania delegation to Cincinnati in
pressing no one of her own citizens upon
the convention while accepting the invi-
tation of other states extended to Penn
sylvania candidate. If state delegations
would generally wait for demand for
one of their citizens to come from outside
their borders they would show a good
sense as commendable as their modesty.
THAT fractional and happy portion of
the population who are able to indulge
in summer vacation are just now cast
ing about for some favorable location
where they may while away the
cheated term" Reports from nearly all
the popular summer resorts indicate prep
arations for an unusually active season,
and it is probable the seaside and noun
tain bonifaces will reap full measure of
profit from the good times that have
come upon the country and set business
to booming so briskly in many directions.
MINOR TOPICS.
A PARIS dispatch to the London Daily
Neus says: "Prince Jerome Napoleon
intends to found newspaper organ of his
own.'
THE secretary of the navy expects to
close the business transactions of the cur
rent fiscal year to-day. He anticipates a
surplus in the last appropriation Of about
81, 500, 900.
IT is announced that the board of par
dons will hold its next meeting on Tues
day, July 6. In view of the liberality of
the board at the last meeting the list OF
applications for executive clemency is
large.
COLONEL FoRNEy promises to devote
this week issue of Progress, which appears
this afternoon, to Hancock and Gettysburg
He will give General Hancock's own his.
tory of the great battle, and will direct
attention to "the pledged debt of Phila
delphia to the men who saved Philadelphia
in July, 1862
Two valuable chapters of the the 1Imes''
the Annals of the War have been lost, fol
the season at least, by the presidential
nominations at Chicago and Cincinnati
General Garfield is under engagement tt
furnish an article on General George Ii
Thomas and General Hancock is down fol
a chapter on Gettysburg, but it will be
just like presidential candidates to pleat
the exigencies of the political campaign as
an excuse for withholding their important
contributions to the unwritten history OF
the war;
THE Petroleum World gets back at the
Oil City Derrick in the liveliest sort of way
and answer the latter's charge of its being
Standard organ in manner that is no
calculated to soothe the Derricks bruised
feelings. We incline to the opinion thai
the World has got the "dead wood" on it:
esteemed contemporary. Concerning the
source of the attacks that have been made
upon it since it's recent advent into the
oil field rs the avowed champion of the
producers interests the World says "Fol
this kind of opposition we tender grateful
thanks. We expect just such opposition
ana court it, from every morning paper
published in the oil region. We do moi
want these literary agents of the STANDARD
to even walk softly before the Lord. We
thank them for the occasion they have
given us to strip them Of their disguise and
leave the skeleton as bare as the Prophet
> saw in his vision of his Valley of Dry
Bones"