Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-03-09
ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE.

THE ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE AND
VIRGINIA ADVERTISER will soon cele.
brate its. centennial year. More than three
quarters of a century ago it grew into life cre-
alton of wants and needs of the people of this
section of Virginia.
During all this period its prominent object mas
been to advance the interests of the people of
whose life it is the daily chronicle. Its fortunes
have been their fortunes; it has shared their
prosperity and suffered in their disasters It's
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, inseparable from that OF the
community it aims to represent When they
grow rich it hopes for reward commensurate
with its lsbors 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
of its future. 1t has never failed to avail itself
promptly of all the Improvements which come
,,ith the greater growth and more extended e1-
perience of jour ialism. Every year NEW
FEATURES will be added.
THE GAZETTE MEANS TO BE THE
NEWSPAPER OF VIRGINIA. 1t will fur
nish daily complete account, with superaut:es
IL "a ,f o11 III Df tha
world.
AS the interests of the people mainly ceDtrest
home no pains will be spared to chronicle all
matters occurring in the city and neighbornood,
carefully excluding unseemly exp essions or
gross narrative unfit for q journal that Is
treasured ut many thousand hesrthstones OF
Virginia.
Especial attention will be devoted to present
ing, as we'll 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 contiguty to Washington gives the Ga
zstte 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 ss
| low, will be regularly reported in succnctlorm
for it's columns, but sll matters of especial inter-
est in Virginia will be given in detail, and the
full text of ali bills of locslinterest 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
| pie.
| In its Commercial columns the especial fes-
| ture will be p1omptness and accuracy The
| farmers, drovels 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
| sre the subjects of business transactions in this
| section of the country. carefully quoted
The continual tavors of lose who have once
| used the Gazette as an advertising medium is a
| warrant for saying that it pays to advertise nIts
columns Never before did it pay so well to tell
| the public what is for SALE
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