Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-11-21
Greeting to Old and New Friends.


The Boston Weekly Journal has long enjoyed the
deserved reputation of being the representative
paper of its class in the New England States 1t has
constituency second to none in numbers and intei-
gence, ana is each year commanding a wider field of
influence. Its success among the reading classes Of
New England has been due to the liberal policy of its
management, to the care and skill employed in its
preparation to its extensive sources of information TO
the variety and meliness of its contents, and to the
acknowledged honesty of its views. These qualities
upon which any newspaper must rely for permanent
worthy success, will characterize 1t In the future
they have in the past and is the confident expecta-
ton of its managers that the year to will witness
better development of it than before. No pains
expense will be spared to make it in all respects
newspaper WHICH NO MAN IN ANY DEGREE REMOVED
FROM GREAT CENTRES INFORMATION CAN AZ
FORD DO WITHOUT.
The Advantages TO the Reader.
1t has never been so well equipped as for the
securing and effective presentation OF the facts and
discussion of the tendencies of the times. With the
growth of the country and the increasing prosperity
which may reasonably be expected to accompany it, a
good newspaper becomes indispensable to the man
interesting the world large. welcouducted jour-
nal of the times gives men better knowledge, broader
and keener sympathies. and draws them out Of
the demands OF their individual lives upon a higher
plane of thought and feeling.
Its Peculiar Characteristics.
The Weekly Journal aims to furnish those who have
not much time for reading with full and comprehen-
sive digest the events of the day. Its purposes are
to inform upon the courses of government poll
tics and business to present the news of the day and
show its tendencies, aud to give instructive facts and
| modern journalism at its command it unhesitatingly
asserts its ability to do this, and invites examina
| ton of its claims.
A Year of Great Political Interest.
The coming year bids fair to be one of exceptional
interest All citizens will look upon the condition Of
political affairs with intentness, and watch their de
velopment with care Some OF the most important
questions OF the day are awaiting discussion and solu
ton. and in the close balancing Of political parties in
congress more than ordinary concern in national af
1 fairs will be excited. The course of the admins
tration will also attract much attention, since re
markabe interest attaches to President Arthur view
of the sad fate of his predecessor whose chair he has
| so suddenly been called to f Washington therefore
will for many months be a centre Of gaze for Ameri
cans. and all will desire full and intelligent account
of what ranspres in it The Weakly Jour NAL through
its skillfu and wel-known correspondents "Perley'
and "Webb will be supplied with the exhaustive
and careful accounts Of affairs while the dispatches
the Associated Press will supplement their labors
"Perleys accounts of social life in Washington which
are admitted to be among the best furnished to tn
press from the capital will also. as heretofore be
feature of the paper, In the field Of general news tn
Weekly Journal will display greater energy thai
| ever before. The general press dispatches will b
| supported by
Special Accounts of Matters of Wide Interes
And, especially. much space will be given to the ma
terial interests of the country. AS the paper has
large support among the farming community, particu
| lar attention will be gwen
J To Agricultural Affairs.
Special articles by the Young Farmer" will be
marked feature of the coming year. and the market
for produce In this city, together with the condition
crops in all parts of the country will be fully reporte
from time to time.
Its Political Character.
Politically, tine Journal will remain in earnest sur
port of the republican party and its principles, crit
csing freely irrespective of party lines whe
occasion demands but holding to the processes an
theories of government which for the past twenty
have steadily improved their claims to popular conf
dence The paper Will support the principles of tn
freedom and integrity OF the ballot the maintenance
the national credit, the protection of American indu
tries practical Civil Service system and sound sy
tenn of finance, believing that thus only the digni
and power Of the Government be upheld. the pro-
| perity upon which the country has entered be mad
permanent,
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The Journal will also continue the auahle and il
structIve discussion of foreign and affairs whic
| Mr.. EDWARD KING has so long and ably carried OIL
He is admitted the best Of European correspon
ents and none other is SO much quoted or commende
other Special Features
Will be "The Kennebeckers" entertaining description
of sea life and strange countries. IN E. BIS" IRAN
bling Talks" and other papers of literary merit besiC
which wide and careful selection will be made of Il
also be given to
New England Affairs,
And matters of interest in the sections In which IL
paper circulates will be gwen special promnenc
Correspondents from all important points will cont
ute information, to which the telegraphic dispatch
and the exchanges of the Journal will add as occasiC
requires Altogether, the Weekly Journal will be be
ter than ever before and will commend itself to Il
intelligence and taste of the reading public of Ne
4 | England.
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