SUPERB NEW STYLES ARE NOW READY, SURPASSING previous productions in musical capacity and elegance of cases. One of these (Style 245) is in a new style of case, of Solid Black Walnut, having panels, raised surfaces, and some other parts finished in HIGHLY POLISHED JET, upon which are borders and graceful designs in GOLD BRONZE. It is also studded with jet and gold bronze beads and ornaments. With nine stops it is sold for Cash for $135. Other very beautiful new styles at corresponding rates.
PRICES REDUCED.—In accordance with decreased cost of manufacture, we HAVE REDUCED CATALOGUE PRICES $10 to $50 EACH on almost all styles. Five-Octave, Double-Reed Organs, $99 and upwards; with nine stops, $108 and upwards. Sold also for installments, or rented until rent pays for the Organ. Dealers often recommend and urge the sale of inferior organs, because they get larger discounts or commissions for selling them.
NEW ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUES and REDUCED PRICE LISTS (November, 1877) sent free. Any one sending for these is requested to give us, also, names of any other parties who might like catalogues. Address MASON & HAMLIN ORGAN CO., 250 Wabash Avenue, CHICAGO; 25 Union Square, NEW YORK; or 154 Tremont Street, BOSTON.
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The Tribune earnestly strove for the election of President Hayes, and it gives its heartiest support to the high purposes of his Administration. Doubting the wisdom of methods sometimes taken by his subordinates, and criticising with entire freedom his occasional mistakes, it still thinks it the duty of the hour to hold together and strengthen the party that elected and alone sustains him. It believes the day of danger to the negro has passed, and that of danger to the Tax-Payer has come. The Solid South (at last in full control of every Rebel and Border State) sees its chance to get at the National Treasury, and get back what it lost by the war. Only 47 Northern votes are needed. If Tammany Hall could furnish New York, then Indiana, or Connecticut and New Jersey, would suffice. The danger is upon us, and against it the old party of Freedom—still the party of the Churches and the School-houses—is the only bulwark. It alone can keep the Solid South from grasping the National Government in 1880. It alone can save us, even now, from the threatened Democratic abandonment of Resumption and renewed debasement of the currency which would needlessly and most wickedly check the revival of business, and treble the country’s burdens. In behalf of the old party, therefore, The Tribune renews the old appeal to the National conscience, the National honor, and the enlightened self-interest of the Tax Payers.
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