St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-12-14
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THE NETWORK TRIBUNE
FOR 1878,

The Tribune has long enjoyed the distinction OF
the largest circulation among the best people Dur
ing the year 1873 it will spend more labor and mon
ey than ever before to deserve that prominence
1t secured, and means to retain it. by becoming the
medium of the best thought and the voice of the
best conscience of the time by keeping abreast OF
the highest progress, favoring the freest discus
best intelligence and the purest morality, and re
fusing to cater to the tastes of the vile the
prejudices of the ignorant The continued popu
lar approval, and the constantly widening political
influence it enjoys are the best proofs that it is
still faithful to these early secrets of its strength
The Tribune earnestly strOve for the election Of
President Hayes, and it gives its heartiest support
to the high pun poses of his Administration Doubt
ing the wisdom of methods sometimes taken by his
subOrdinates, and criticising with entire freedom
his occasional mistakes it still thinks it the duty
of the hour 10 hold together and strengthen the
party that elected and alone sustains him. 1t be
heves the day of danger to the negro has passed
and that of danger to the Taxpayer has come
The Solid South lat last in full control of every
Rebel and Border STATED sees its chance to get al
the National Treasury and get back what it lost
by the war. Only Al Northern votes needed
If Tammany Hall could furnish New York, the1
Indiana or Connecticut and New Jersey, would
suffice. The danger is upon us; and against it the
old party of Freedom still the party of the Church
es and the School Houses, is the only bulwark. II
alone can keep the Solid South from grasping the
National Government in 1880. 1t alone can save
us, even now, from the threatened Democratic
abandonment of resumption and renewed debase
ment of the currency, which would heedlessly and
most wickedly check the revival of business, and
treble the country's burdens In behalf of the ole
party, therefore, The Tribune renews the old ap
peal to the National conscience, the National hon
or, and the enlightened self-interest of the Tax
THE SEMI-wEEKLY TRIBUNE
Combines many of the merits of both the Daily ant
Weekly issues, and is, in some respects, the best
Tribune Office. 1t contains all the literary, agri
cultural, and domestic miscellany, and all the
special articles prepared for The Weekly. 1t has
besides nearly all the news of The Daily and most
of its editorial articles not strictly local in thei
application. 1t has been enlarged, and changed t.
the new, sixteen-page form described bellows
change which has long been asked by many of it,
most intelligent patrons.
THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE.
This has been for a third of a century the favor
lite paper for our substantial country population
competent critic has said of it: THE Weekly
Tribune has done more for the settlement an6
prosperity of the Great West, and has made more
good farmers and good citizens than any Other
single influence that ever existed in this country.
During the ensuing year it means not only to pre-
serve all its old merits, but to take long strid,
ahead By the introduction of $4,000 worth O
new machinery, and by an enlargement of its siz,
(making it the largest single sheet issued by any
newspaper in the country, it is enabled to give
subscribers what they have so long asked-theil
favOrite paper in a shape easier to read and con
venient for binding Each Issue consists of sixteeI
pages, of the form and general appearance of HdT
pers Weekly, but with pages considerably larger
and with unusually large and clear type. All tn,
old and standard features are carefully preserved
while the new form and additional size enable III
NOVEL AND SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS:
l. A graphic series of articles on Domestic Lift
and Habits Abroad by Bayard Taylor.
II. A few papers on Current Topics from the
Christian Minister'S Point of View, by the Rev
III. Occasional contributions Political Prob
lens and Promises, by Gail Hamilton.
~. Northern Farmer on Southern Agricul
". Life and sights in New York, by Veterans o
the City Staff
These articles will not be mere reproductions
pressly for The Weekly Tribune and viii first Sc,
the light in its columns.
FOR FARMERS.
The Agricultural Department of The Week.,
Tribune has always been recognized as beyond
comparison with that of any rival. More soot
work and more money are now spent upon it thar
ever before. Among regular contributors to it ar,
Professor James Law, the country's foremost vet
Urinary authority; Professor L. B. Arnold un
equaled an instructor in the fine art of dairying
Professor G. C. Caldwell of National reputation
an agricultural chemist; Professor G. v. Riley
the well known entOmOlogist; Mr.. Josiah Hopes
the horticultural authority and other agriculture
specialists of the highest rank.
NO RIVALS TO COMPARE IT WITH.
The Weekly Tribune is now utterly unlike any
other weekly newspaper issued from the Cffice of
daily in New York, or in the cOuntry--larger, il
different and better form, in better type and filled
with matter prepared expressly for its readers
not with the stale news dumped in from the Daily
1t can only be compared with the three and foul
dollar weeklies, like Harpers and the great relig
ious and literary journals. while its pages are larg
er than in any of these. Its price, however, re
mains fixed at such low rates as to defy competi
ton, and the extraordinary premiums surpass
anything even in its own history
TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE.
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DAILY TRIBUNE year, SO OF
SEMIWEEKLY TRIBUNE, year. OF
Five copies, year, IA on
Eleven copies, year, % OF
WEEKLY TRIBUNE
One copy, year, 81 90 Ten copies year, S14 OF
Five copies, year, 25 20 copies, year, IS OF
Any number of copies above 20 at the same rate
Additions to clubs may be made at any time
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