Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1876 — THE WEEKLY SUN. [ARTICLE]

THE WEEKLY SUN.

1776. NEW YORK. 1870.

Eighteen hundred and seventy-sixMa the Centennial year. It is plso the veer in which an Opposition House of Representatives. the first since the war, will be ia power ’at Washington: and tfiKyear of the twenty-third election of a President of the United States. All of these events an sere to be of great interest and importance, especially the two latter; and all of them and everything connected with them will be fully and freshlv reported and expounded in The Son. The Opposition House of Representative#, taking up the line of inquiry opened years ago by The Sun, will sternly and diligently investigate the corruptions and misdeeds of Grant’s administration; and yill, it is to be hoped, lay the foundation for a new and better period in our national history. Of nil this The Sun will contain complete and accurate accounts, furnishing its readers faith early and trustworthy information upon these absorbing-topics. The twenty-third Presidential election, with the preparations for it. will be memorable as deciding upon Grant’s aspirations fora third terra ol power and plunder, and still more as deciding who shall be the candidate of the party of Reform, and as electing that candidate. Concerning all these subjects, those who read The Sun will have the constant means of being thoroughly well informed. The Weekly Sun, which has attained a circulation of over eighty thousand copies, already has its readers in every State and Territory, and we trust that the year 1876 will see their numbers doubled. It will continue to be a thorough newspaper. All the general news of the day will be found in it, condensed when unimportant, at full Uugth when of moment; and always, we trust, treated in a clear, interesting and instructive manner. It is our aim to make the Weekly Sun the best family newspaper in the world, and we shall continue to give in its columns a large amount of miscellaneous reading, such as stories, tales, poems, scientific intelligence and agricultural information, for which we are not able to make room in oar daily edition. The agricultural department especially is oife of its prorniuent features The fashions are also regularly reported in its columns; and so ard the markets of every kind. The Weekly Sun, eight pages with fiftysix, broad columns is only §1.20 a year, postage prepaid. As this price barely repays the cost of the paper, no discount cau be made from this rate to clubs, agents, Postmasters, or anyone. The Daily Sun, a large four page newspaper of twenty-eight columns, gives all the news for two cents a copy. Subscription , postage prepaid, 55c. a month or sti.so a year.- Sunday edition extra, sl.lO per year. We have no traveling agents. Address, THE SUN, New York City.