Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-01-01
Arexan6ria Ma2effe.

TIE ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE AND
VIRGINIA ADVERTISER will soon cello
brate its centennial year. More than three
quarters Of n century ago it grew into life Gre
alton of wants and needs of the people of this
section Of Vii ginis
During al this period its prominent object mas
been to advance the interests of the people of
whose life it is the daily chronicle. lis fortunes
have been their fortunes; it has shared their
pros perity and suffered in their disasters. Its
| inspiration has been the desire to forward the
bes. 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 il 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 to
make their success the measure of its own.
The past of the Gazette is offered rs an index
of It's future. 1t has never failed to avail itself
promptly Of AL the improvements which como
with the grcarer growth and moro extended OK
perience of Journalism. Every year NEW
FEATURES will be added.
TIE GAZETTE MEANS TO BE THE
NEWSPAPER OF VIRGINIA. 1t will fur
nish daily complete account, with supcrtultics
only Topped away, of ali the current news Of the
world.
AS the interests of the people mainly centre at
homo, no pains will be spared to chronicle all
matters occurring in tn city and neighborbood,
| carefully excluding unseemly expressions or
gross narrative rs unfit for q journal that is
| treasured at 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 MS relate to the development of tho
resources of the State
It's contiguity to Washington gives the Ga
zetto 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-
| 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 p1omptness and accuracy The
farmers, drovers 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 this
section of the country, carefully quoted
The continual favors of those who have once
used the Gazette rs an advertising medium is
warrant for saying that it pays to advertise in its
columns. Never before did il pay so well to tell
the public what is for sale.
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