Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-07-07
INHE ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE All
NlRGlNIA ADXERTISEk will soon eel.

rINHE ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE AAD
Il VIRGINIA ADVERTISERS will soon cell
brate its centennial year. More than three
quarters of a century ago it grew into lie . Gre
alton Of wants and needs OF the people OF TINS
section of VIII ginia.
During al this period its prominent object mas
been to advance the interests or the people Of
whose life it is the daily chronicle. Its fortunes
have been their fortunes; 1t has shared their
prosperity and suffered in their disasters. Its
inspiration has been the desire to forward the
best interests oil the community in which 1t Is
lUcAted, and its own prosperity is, as it has been
purposely made, inseparable from that of the
community it aims to represent. When they
with its labors. While they are poor it expects
to work with them and for them, expecting to
make their success the measure Of its own.
The past Of the Gazette is offered rs an index
Of its future. 1t hiss never failed to avail itself
promptly of all the improvements which come
with the greater growth and more extended ex-
perience of Journalism. Every year NEW
FEATURES will be added.
THE GAZETTE MEANS TO BE THE
NEWSPAPER OF VIRGINIA. 1t will fur
nish daily q complete account, with supertulties
only Topped away, OF all The current news OF the
world.
as the interests of the people mainly centre st
home, no pains will be spared to chronicle all
matters occurring in the city and neighbornood,
carefully excluding unsecmly expressions or
GROSS narT6LlVS rs uuuI ~. q JOolAo tuoI 10
treasured at many thousand hearthstones OF
Virginia
Especial attention will be devoted to present.
ing, as well from original sources Of
as from it's exchanges, the news Of Virgins, 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 gltsl I'M
portsnce 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 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 oil the
General Assembly and of ali the operations OF
the State government likely to interest the peo-
pie.
In its Commercial columns the especial fea-
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 BIO furnished,
and the prices and position Of the stocks, winch
are the subjects Of business transactions in this
ectioH, Of the country, carefully quoted.
The continuai tavors OF lose who have once
used the Gazette as an advertising medium is s.
warrant for saying that itpays to advertise inits
Columns. Never before did it pay so well to tell
tt, public what is for sale:
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