St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1881-11-18
A Greeting to Old and New Friends


The Boston Weekly Journal has long enjoyed the
deserved reputation of being the representative
Newspaper of its class in the New England States.
IL has "A constituency second to none in numbers
and Intelligence and 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 exten-
sivc sources of information, to the variety and
umeliness of its contents, and TO the acknowl-
edged honesty of its views. These qualities upon
which any newspaper must rely for permanent or
worthy success will characterize il in the future
as they have in the past and il is the confident
pectaiion of its managers that the year to come
WIN witness a better development of il than ever
before No pains or expense will be spared to
make II IN all respects newspaper which no man
in any degree removed from the great centres of
information can afford to do without.
ITS PECULIAR CHARACTERISTICs
The Weekly Journal aims to furnish those who
have not much time for reading with a full and
comprehensive digest of the events of the day Its
government politics and business, to present the
news of the day and show its tendencies, and to
give instructive facts and desirable information
With every resource known to modern journa lism
at its command it uuhesiaingy asserts its ability
To do this and invites an examination of its claims.
Year of Great Political Interest.
The coming year bids fair to he one of exception
al interest All citizens will look upon the condi-
ton of political affairs with intentness. and watch
their development with care. Some of the most
important questions of the day awaiting dis
CuSslOn ana solution. ana III The close balancing
political parties in Congress more than ordinary
concern in national affairs will be excited The
course of the new Administration will also attract
much attention, since n remarkable interest at
taches to President Arthur in view of the melan-
chOly fate of his predecessor. whose chair he was
suddenly called to fill Washington therefore
will for many months be a centre of gaze for Amer
leans and all will desire full and Intelligent &C
count of what tTanspires in it, The Weekly Journal
through its skillful and wellknOwn correspondents
"Perley" and Webb, =" will be supplied with the
most exhaustive and careful accounts of affairs
while the dispatches of the Associated Press will
supplement their labOrs. "Perley's" accounts of
social life in Washington, which are admitted to
be among the best furnished to the press from the
Capital viii also as heretofore be feature of the
paper. In the field of general news The Weekly
Journal will display a greater energy than ever
before
AGRICULTURAL AFFAIRS.
Special articles by the Young Farmer" will be
a marked feature of the coming year, and the mar
kets TOR produce in this city, together with the
condition of crops in all parts of the country will
be fully reported from time to time.
ITS POLITICAL CHARACTER.
Politically, The Journal will remain in earnest
support of the Republican party and its principles
crlticising measures freely irrespective of party
lines when occasion demands. but holding to the
processes and theories of government which for the
past twenty years have steadily improved their
claims to popular confidence. The paper will sup
port the principles of the freedom and integrity of
the ballot, the maintenance of the national credit
the protection OF American industries, practical
Civil Service system and sound system of finance,
believing that thus only the dignity and power
of the Government be upheld, the prosperity
upon which the country has entered be made per
manent.
THE WORLD ABROAD.
The Journal will also contain the valuable and
instructive discussion of foreign men and affairs
which Mr. Edward King has so long and ably
carried He is admitted to be the best of Euro
pean correspondents, and other is so much
quoted and commended.
NEW ENGLAND AFFAIRS,
And matters of interest in the sections in which
the paper circulates will be given special promi-
hence Correspondents from all important points
VIII contribute information. To which the tele-
graphic dispatches and the exchanges of The Jour
nal will add as occasion requires. Altogether, The
Weekly Journal will be better than before and
will commend itself TO the intelligence and taste Of
the reading public of New England.
Each issue of THE WEEKLY JONRNAL con-
tains
Thirty-six Long Columns.