Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1875 — The Chicago Tribune for 1876. [ARTICLE]

The Chicago Tribune for 1876.

Among the leading Republican journals of the United States, none take higher rank than the Chicago Tribune. The coming year will be one of deep and absorbing political interest. For the first time since the days of Buchanan’s presidency the Democratic party has secured control of the House of Representatives, and will virtually be responsponsible for the legislation of Congress. A great presidential campaign will commence next spring, and the political issues will be shaped by the ensuing session of Congress. Every intelligent citizen will find such a journal as the Chicago Tribune indispensable for the political news and facts it will contain. The Tribune is a sound Republican paper, giving full and reliable information as to all public movements, measures and events, and discussing earnestly and fairly all questions, whether political, financial, industrial, agricultural, social, literary or scientific, which comes before the people. The political department is but one of the many excellent features of what the publishers propose to make the best and most useful family and home paper in the United States. this end, the news department second to that of no other paper, will he supplemented by extended personal and statistical comment and biographical and historical sketches. Thus will’be presented the fact or occurrence with full explanation and information to enable the reader to understand importance and bearing. The literary department, always of the highest character, will include the best stories, foreign correspondence, interesting personal and general sketches, reviews of books, art criticism, news and gossip. Articles on —health, — fashion, home construction and adornment will be prominent features, and a special effort will be made in behalf of the young people to entertain arid instruct them.

The agricultural department will be eminently practical, the matter always seasonable and suited to direct application to the every day home life of the farmer. In this connection household and economical topics will receive due attention. The Tribune market reports, embracing all the information concerning the price of, both what the farmer lias to sell and what he must buy, have always been the subject of most favorable comment, and the financial department takes high rank. The Weekly Tribune, a large eight-page sheet, clearly printed, is mailed to single subscribers at the low rate of §1.50 per year, postage paid, or in clubs of five, at the rate of §1.30, postage paid, in clubs of ten, at the rate of One Dollar, per year, the subscriber to iemit the postage, which is fifteen cents. A fretf copy is sent to the getter up of a club of twenty. The TnWeekly Tribune is mailed to subscribers at the rate of $6.50 yer year, postage paid, and the Daily Tribune at $13.00 per year, postage paid. \ Republicans are urged to form clubs for the Weekly. Specimen copies and posters will be sent free on application.

The graspipg avarice of railroads can be no better exemplified than by the fact that those lines running from Chicago to the Atlantic coast, now that navigation is abont closing, have advanced freight charges several cents on a hundred pounds. Such a condition of\things is one of the strongest arguments in favor of pushing the completion of the Chicago <fc South Atlantic as rapidly as possible. Nothing will break the railroad monopoly so completely as the building oi more roads that will run to the Atlantic coast some other direction than to'New York.— Lowell Star. A disastrous conflagration destroyed the entire business portion of Virginia City, Nevada, Tuesday, entailing a loss of nearly $2,000,000 and rendering 10,000 people homeless. Austin, Miss., met a similar fate. . 1