Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-04-11

TNHE ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE AND
l. VIRGINIA ADVERTISER will soon cele-
brate its centennial year. More than three
quarters of century ago it grew into life q Gre
alton of wants and needs of the people of this
section of Virginia.
During al this period its prominent object mas
been to advance the interests of the people of
whose life it is the daily chronicle. Its fortune
hav g 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
purposey made, inseparsble 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 to
make their success the measure Of it's 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
with the greater growth and more extended cx-
e ~ be- aided Every year
THE GAZETTE MEANS TO BE THE
NEWSPAPER OF VIRGINIA.. 1t will fur
nlsh daily complete account, with superhuities
only Topped away, of all the current news OF the
world.
as the interests of the people mainly ceDtre at
home, no pains will be spared to chronicle all
matters occurring in the city and neghborhood,
carefully excluding unseemly e1pl esslons or
gross narrative as unfit for q journal that is
treasured at many thousand hearlhstones of
Virginia
Especial attention will be devoted to present
ing, as we'll from original sources ofinformstion
rs from its exchanges, the news of Virginia, es-
pecaly such rs relate to the development Of the
resources of the State.
Its contiguity to Washington gives the Ca
zetle an early precedence over all tho JOURNALS
of the State in intelligence of the operstions of
1 mo (sor. al Nfan M
portance to the people of the South. The pro- ,
ceedings oil Congress, seldom so interesting rs
now, will be regularly reported IN succlnct form
for its columns, but all matters OF especial inter-
est in Virginia will be given m detail and the
full text Of al. 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 al the operations Of
the State government likely to interest the peo-
pie.
In its Commercial columns the especial fca-
ture will be pIomptness and sccurscy. The
farmers, droveis 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 oil the stocks, which
are the subjects Of business transactions in this
section of the country carefully quoted
The continual tarOrs OF tt ose who have once
used the Gazette rs an advertising medium is 8
warrant tor saying that it pays to advertise IN its
columns. Never before did it pay 30 we'll to tell
the public what is for sale.
i. DAILY.
One year PC w
six months .................. Oh
rec mOnlhS...... w
Ole mon 10
TRI-WEEKLY.
one year. 20 w
Six months .... $1,000: ............ 2 50