Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-05-25
rENHE ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE AND
i VIRGINIA ADVERTISER will soon cell

rrNHE ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE AND
i VIRGINIA ADVERTISER will soon cell
brate its centennial year More than three
quarters of century ago it grew into lie Gre
slion of wants and needs OF the people OF tnls
section of Virginia.
During all this period its prominen object mas
been to advance the interests of the people OF
whose life it is the daily chronicle. Its fortunes
have been their fortunes; 1t has shared tnelr
prosperity and suffered in their disasters. Its
inspiration has been the desire to forward the
best interests of the community in which 1t Is
10, ated and its own prosperity is as 1t has been
purposeIy made inseparable from that OF 1he
community it aims to represent. When tney
with its labors While they are poor 1t expects
to work with them and for them, expecting to
mako their success the measure OF Its own.
The past of the Gazette is offered rs an index
of its future. 1t has never failed to avail itself
promptly of all the improvements which come
with the greater growth and more extended eX.
perence of journalism. Every year NE
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THE GAZETTE MEANS TO BE THE
NEWSPAPER OF VIRGINIA. 1t will fur
nish daily complete account, with superhulties
only Topped away, of ali the current news ol the
world.
As the interests of the people mainly ceDtre at
home no pains will be spared to chronicle all
matters occurring in tho city and neigh borhood,
carefully excluding unseemly expl esslons or
gross narrative rs uUuL JOuAuo 1a0s &c
treasured ut many thousand hearthstones OF
Virginia
Especial attention will be devoted to present.
ing rs 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 contiguity to Washington gives the Ga
zette an early precedence over all the Journals
of the State in intelligence oi the operations OF
the General Government now OF such vital I'M
portance to the people Of the South. The pro-
cecdings of Congress, seldom so Interesting as
now, will be regularly reported IN succinct form
for its columns, but all 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-
pie.
In its Commercial columns the especial fea-
ture will be pIomptness and accuracy. Tho
farmers drovers and commercial people OF tie
State know they MAY DEP END upon the
Gazette.
EARLY and reliable reports of the Grain, Cattle,
Grocery and other Markets will be furnished
ard the prices and position of the stocks, which
are the subjects of business transactions in this
ection of the country, carefully quoted.
The continual 1avors of ttosewho have once
used the Gazette rs an advertising medium is a
warrant for saying that pays to advertise IN its
columns. Never before did it pay so well to tell
the public what is for sale.
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