Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-02-15
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THE ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE AMI
VIRGINIA ADVERTISER will soon cele
brate its centennial year More than three
quarters of century ago it grew into life Gre
alton Of wants and needs Of the people of thi:
section of Virginia.
| During sll this period its prominent object ma:
| been to advance the interests of the people o.
whose life it is the daily chronicle. Its fortunes
| have been their fortunes; it has shared their
prosperity and suffered in their disasters. Its
inspiration has been the desire to forward the
| best interests of the community in which it is
located, and its own prosperity is. as it has been
purposely made, insepsrsble from that OF the
community it aims to represent. When they
| grow rich it hopes for reward commensurate
| with its labors. While they are poor it expects
to work with them and for them, expecting
make their success the measure of its own.
The past of the Gazette is offered as an index
promptly of all the improvements which come
with the greater growth and more extended eY-
perience of journalism. Every year NEW
FEATURES will be added.
THE GAZETTE MEANS TO BE THE
NEWSPAPER OF VIRGINIA. 1t will fur
nish daily complete account, with superhuties
only Topped away, of all the current news of the
world.
AS the interests of the people mainly centre a.
home, no pains will be spared to chronicle all
matters occurring in the city and neighborhood,
carefully excluding unseemly expressions or
gross narrative as unfit for journal that is
treasured at many thousand hearthstones OF
Virginia
Especial attention will be devoted to present
ing, as well from original sources of information
as from its exchanges, the news of Virginia, es-
pecially such as relate to the development Of the
resources of the State.
Its contiguity to Washington gives the Ga
zette an early precedence over all the journals
| of the State in intelligence of the operations OF
the General Government now of such vital i'm
portance to the people of the South. The pro-
ceedings OF Congress, seldom so interesting as
now, will be regularly reported in succinct form
for its columns, but sill matters of especial inter-
est in Virginia will be given in detail, and the
full text of all bills Of local interest will be given
From the State Capital it will receive early
and accurate accounts of the proceedings of the
General Assembly and of all the operations of
the State government likely to interest the peo-
Pile.
In its Commercial columns the especial fes.
ture will be plomptness and accuracy. The
farmers, drove1s and commercial people of tie
State know they MAY DEPEND upon the
Gazette.
Early and reliable reports of the Grain, Cattle,
Grocery and other Markets will be furnished,
and the prices and position of the stocks, which
are the subjects of business transactions in thi:
section of the country, carefully quoted
The continual favors of those who have once
used the Gazette as an advertising medium is 3
warrant for saying that it pays to advertise In its
columns. Never before did it pay 80 well to tell
the public what is for sale.
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