Connecticut western news., 1878-01-10
THE NETWORK TRIBUNE
 FOR 1878.

THE NETWORK TRIBUNE FOR 1878.
 | The Tribune has long enjoyed the dis | tinction of the lar gest circulation among the best people. During the year 1878 it | will spend more labor and money than ev- CT before to deserve that preeminence. It secured, and means to retain 1t, by becom- Ing the medium of the best thought and l the voice of the best conscience of the time. by keeping abreast of the highest progress, favoripg the freest discussion. hearing all sides, appealing always to the best ir telligence and the .purest morality, | and refusing to cater to the tastes of the vile or the prejudices of the ignorant. The continued popular approval, and the con | stantly widening polIt influence 1t enI joys, are the best proofs that It IS still I faithful to these early secrets of It's | strength.
 The Tribune earnestly strove for the | election of President Hayes, and it gives | It's heartlest support to the nigh purposes | of his Administration. Dou5tlng the wls'. dom of methods sometimes taken by hls subordinates, and crltlclsing with entire freedom hIs occasional mistakes, 1t still thinks 1t the duty of the hour to hold to- gether and strengthen the party that elect' ed and alone sustains him. It believes the day of danger to the negro has passed, ane that of danger to the Tax Payer has come Ol every Rebel and Border State) sees its chance to get at the National Treasury, and get back what it lost by the war Only AZ Northern votes are needed. If then Indiana. or Connecticut and New Jersey, would suffice. The danger IS upon us and against 1t the old party of Free, dom, still the party of the Churches and the School Houses, is the only bulwark. It alone can keep the Solid South from graspiDg the National Government in 1880. | It alone can save us, eveu now, from the threatened Democratic abandonment of resumption and renewed dobasement of the currency which would heedlesslY and | most wlckedlv cDeck the revival of busI' ness, and treble the couutry's burdens. In | behalf of the old party. therefore, The Tri' | bune renews the old appeal to the Nation! al consclence, the National honor, and the l enlightened self'interest of the Tax Pay1 CTS.
 THE STRAWBERRY TRIBUNE Com pines many of the merits of both the Daily and Weekly issues. and is, in some | respects. the best, as well as the cheapest paper sent out from The Tribune Office. and domestic miscellany. and all the spe' cial articles prepared for the Weekly. It has besides nearly all the news of the Dall ly, and most of it's editorial articles not strictly local in their application. It has been enlarged, and changed to the new sixteen page form described below-a change which has long been asked by many of it's most intelligent patrons. THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE. This has been for third of century | the favorite paper for our substantial country population. A competent critic done more for the settlement and prosper1' tv Ot the Great West. and has made more good farmers and good citizens than any other single influence that ever existed in thls country" During the ensuing year it means not only to preserve all it's old mer' It's, but to take long stride ahead. By the introduction of $30.000 worth of new machinery. and by an enlargement of it's size making it the largest single sheet ls' sued by any newspaper in the country), It is enabled to glve subscribers what they have so long asked-their favorite paper Tn shape easier to read and convenient for binding. Each issue consists of sixteen pages, of the form and general appearance of Harper's Weekly, but With pages con. siderably larger, and with unusually large and clear type. All the old and standard features are carefully preserved, while the new form and additional slze enable us to- offer the following among many
 NOVEL AND SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS
 1. graphic serles of articles on Domes. tic Life and HanHs Abroad. by Bayard Taylor,
 II. A few papers on Current ToDlcs. from the Christian Minister PoInt of View, by the Rev. John Hall, D. D.
 III. Occasional contributions on Politi. cal Problems and Promises, by GaIi Hamll- ton.
 ". Northern Farmer on Southern Az rIculturc. by SoloD IobInson- V. Life apd Sights Tn New York, by Vet erams of the City Staff, These articles will not be mere repro, ducllons from tEe dlIlT naper. They will 1 Oe prepared expressly for The WeeEly Fri buao, aud Wlll ii st see the light III its col | umnS.
 FOR FARMERS.
 Tie Agricultural Departments of the | Weekly Irlh has alWayS been recOgnl- gel as beyond comparl on with that of any | rival. More good WOrk and 1.tre money are HOW spent upon It than ever before. Among leGnlar contributors to it are Pro- lessor James Law, inc couEuy's foremost | VeterludrV au isoIlTV; Professor l. B. Ar nuld. unequallrd as an II struct' r ln the lie ;Iri Q; ,iairvI 2; Professor c. C. CaId. | well, Ot NatIura' reputation as an agllcul. Jurll chs mist; PrO:us C. V. Riler. the | well known entnnuIO..iSt; Mr. J ,SIah Hooper. the horticultural authority, nd other agr.cultural specla!ists Ot the Algh est rank.
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