Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-01-02

| n year d1O the oulIOF VI Tue tribune
promised to make this Journal durir g
1878 much more valuable and com.
plete newspaper than it had ever been
before. Its facilities for the collection
and transmission of intelligence from all
parts of the world had been largely IN
creased its staff of editors, correspond
ents, and reporters had been strengthen
ed by the engagement of some of the
ablest men in the profession; and the
editor was resolved to spare neither pains
nor money in the effort to make the
Tribune the very first newspaper in the
world.
1t points to the achievements of the
past twelve months with pardonable
pride. While the Tribune has retained
all the excellent features that made it
such favorite in former days, it has ex-
hibited an enterprise and acuteness in its
news department which have been the
wonder of all its old friends. Remem-
boring that the chief function of daily
journal is to give its readers the fullest,
the best arranged, the most attractive
and the most readable history of the oc-
currences of the time, it has devoted its
best energies to this business, and its
success has been universally recognized
and applauded. The year has been
fruitful of startling events, and every in
cident has found in the Tribune its
promptest, most accurate, and most per-
fectly equipped historian. A Tribune
correspondent was the only civilian who
witnessed the surrender of the Virginius,
and his picturesque description of that
transaction, transmitted by telegraph, is
the only account the public has yet seen
of an incident upon which depended for
many weeks the question of peace or
war. The Tribune published the only
full and exhaustive account by Atlantic
telegraph of the terrible Vile du Havre
disaster, giving all the incidents of that
catastrophe ten days before other jour
nails received them by the slow course of
the mails. 1t distanced all competitors
in its thrilling story by cable of, the adj
ventures of the Polaris castlways. 1t
anticipated every other paper in the
countrysand even the government itself,
by its graphic narratives of Clusters bat
ties on the Yellowstone. The elaborate
and deeply interesting letters of its
special correspondent in the West gave
the only complete account of the Farm
ers' Movement ever published in an
Eastern paper. The reports of the Trib-
une presented the important proceedings
of the Evangelical Alliance in this city,
with fullness and accuracy everywhere
the subject of enthusiastic praise. Dur
ing the panic its daily history of Wall
Street made it absolutely indispensable
to business men and its special CORES
pondents afterward described the condi-
ton of affairs in the manufacturing dis
tricts with an ability which no other pa
per seriously rivaled.
These are mere instances of the uniform in
the most important branch of journalism which has
steadily attended the Tribune throughout the year
and may therefore be fairly taken as earnest Of
what the Tribune is likely to do hereafter Its pur-
pose in 1874 is to surpass its previous record con-
stantly increasing the efficiency Of its organization
adding to its resources and keeping up its ancient
celebrity as organ of cultivated and thoughtful
men. and high authority in literature. science and
the arts, 1t will continue to devote especial atten-
ton to the proceedings of learned bodies to eduea
tion to scientific discoveries and explorations to
new inventions, TO agriculture to the promotion of
American industry. and to books, pictures, music
| and the drama. It's financial articles have won a
peculiarly high reputation and will still be prom
nent feature in its columns, Its reports of the mar
kets have long been distinguished for fulness and
accuracy and its quotations have been accepted as
standards in the CATTLE produce and provision trades
for many years: Its reports of local affairs are ac-
knowledged to be the most aecurate intelligent and
complete; its domestic correspondence is always
fresh and valuable and abroad it is served by the
ablest writers and keenest observers engaged upon
any American periodical.
While il never can be a neutral in politics. the
Tribune is entirely independent of all parties and
all partisans. 1t believes that the mere organ of
clique cannot be a thoroughly good newspaper and
cannot be trusted for impartial and just comment
upon current events. 1t maintains with the Old fer
vor and will always defend the Republican prine
pies Of equality and justice With which, under fhe
control Of its iiustrous founder Horace Greeley II
was Tor over thirty years identified But il vaines
parties solely as means for procuring honest govern
ment on sound principles. For the partisaps who
deplore exposures Of corruption or imbeciIitv II
n'sn piaces as hkeiy to hurt the party and hinder